The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-10-17

record of yalor, the present is even greater;
you are acting the part ftrue greatness. But
what shall say of woman? No fattering
speech can pass my lips when adverting to u
matter so serious. No; my feeble tribute to
her magnanimity, as exhibited in oil her suf-
ferings and trials, is impotcnt to convey an
idea of her greatness. Men may create tho
armies of a country-men may brave the
shocks of grim visaged war-mcn may court
danger and defy its threatenings for their
country's honor, but the true glory of nation
is it's yirtuous womanhood. When the shrill
alarum burst upon the scashorc and rc-echocd
among the distant hills, waking Cardinals sons
to duty, then woman with noblest resignation
committed the jewels of home to tho cause and
bade them go and she it is whom Heaven
selected to 'bring salvation to man." 1t is
the women of our land who have saved us
since the war from ir fanny and ignominy.-
South Carolina shall yet be saved, and on her
banner shall be inscribed the badge of woman
hood. Treason is hardly found hero; our
dear old State is united. l learn that there
is hardlyIa scalawag to be found here, no native
scalawag at least. There are three, not more,
In my native district Of twelve thousand inhabi-
tants. Visit the concentrated scorn of every
man, woman md child upon the wretches. l
see before me the boys banner-"We expect
to bo men," Boys, your duty is to emulatc
the example Of your fathers you must verify
that emblem in your every act, and dcspise the
hateful, traitorous scalawags, who would fet-
ter your young souls, while they dcbasc your
mothers aud fathers. l believe that the ap.
preaching election can he carried. BY arith-
mctical calculation there is II plain Democratic
majority, and il VIC work, US work we must,
We can win it i'll South Carolina I say this
to cheer you all on. What incentives impcl
you to work Home, mother, wife, children,
liberty and life. Your duty involves every
feeling of patriotism and sacrifice Better,
far better. had We fallen on the field Of buttlc.
than been spared to see our country under the
pcrfdions rule of Radicalsm. a government
not securing life, liberty and protection
Of, property to its citixens is un oppres.
sion; it breaks the heart of its people Such
taxation as it-would lay upon us insults, while
it breaks down the energy of the people Men
COO immoral, too gross, too dcbascd, arc to-day
occupying the lofticst places in our State
Noses, that vile man, whom his State ,coul,l
honor, as i'll her generous heart she always
dld her aspiring sons-how can We sufficiently
hold him up to the iaating cxccrations of pos
terlty? His own people, whose history is re.
splentcnt and scriptural, dcnounce aud dis.
card him. When murder, of Gendish ma.
ture, was recently committed at Columbia, and
the. constable in discharge Of his duty attempt
cd the arrest of the perpetrators, he was told
that, under the Constitution of the State
which was framed few months since in Char.
lcston,f ga member could not be arrested
when the Legislature was in session. and
the offender was bailed in the paltry sum Of
$1,000, with securities not worth a dollar. and
is now at large. We will break down this
government, by making it die its own death.
The creation of now Office is q constancy sd
long as there is hungry carpet-bagger with
out one. You are burthened more and mord
every day with taxes to keep up this dcstrucl
tive oppression. Look at the depreciation oI
land; see the sales made under the auction
eers hammer; and if they who are now i'll
power succeed, they will, by their cunnin /
plans, tax until you are compelled to SELL and
their commissioners, in conjunction with spccS
ulators from the North, will buy in and Owl
your patrimony. This denounce as a schema
of robbery. There arc citizens of South Can
olina, not yet termed scalawags, who hav
helped this legislation. Any body of mon d
corporation who assist them in any wise shoulB B
be denounced as enemies to the people. Th,&
body which sat i'll Columbia could not effed
the loan of dollar. The State would not al2
sist them; the Radicals did not assist the,s 3
The only support they received was from IS
company in North Carolina, which bought E
charter from them for 100000 have
ways said in my speeches, publicly, aud W
continue to assert it, that tile action of tE
Blue Ridge Railroad, in going before til @
body, was neither wise nor patriotic VIII IS
the Democracy succeed, we will sweep aw4
this governments and put ours in its stead |
General Grant was the most acceptablc E
our people for candidate, until he violat H|
his solemn promises to the Southern arm &zf
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