Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-10-09

they delight TO call themselves .h
great party "moral ideas" Th
most wicked combination Of bad me
over known in tho history Of tn
country, tho hypocritos wish to hay,
1t believed that they aro tho God an,
Morality party. Whilst tho mcasur
ct this wickcdnoss is full, and the,
arc already ripe for tho perdition
which certainly awaits them in No.
vembcr, they prctond that their con-
tlnuarce in power is necessary for tn,
peace and prosperity of the country
and that fair election which result.
IN their overthrow, will bo such al
outrage as to amount to revolution
10 tho long list of their othcl
crimes against tho laws of God and
man-aSainst history, humanity and
Their own raco, they add tho infsmy
OF hypocrisy, "tho tribute which vic,
pays to virtue"
Tho uso which the Radicals make
ofthe word "loysl,y," is amongat the most
striking of their hypocrisics. "Loyalty j.
agood word, but this faction has so appro
pr'ated it and made such frequent and i'm
proper use Of it, that they havo made i
STINK IN tue nostri's of every honest man
hey say that the people o: the late Con-
federate States arc diSioyul, because they
went into the Confederate army. Dis!oyal
TO what They were ever loyal to the
Consultation, and their States only sourh,
10 retire from tho Uhicn, when, in thci,
opinion, the Constitution had been over
thrown. They believed that the States
i'au the right to scccte, and that after &C.
cesslor, their obedience was duo to thai,
ota'es only. But whether they indivilu-
ally believed believed in TIC right of Sc
csss!on or not, The States did pass the ordi.
''auces OF Secession. They had the organ.
''ms Of States. They were, at all events.
|"de Jacto" governments, and it was ne,
c''"a'naI in the citizen to obey them. They
mad the power 10 enforce Obedience and
| blackstone says it is not criminal to bear
arms for de fucio government. 1t was SO
declared by Statute, after the great civil
war of the loses. In any view that can
he taken, conflicting obligations were i'm
posed upon the citizcus, from which, ,leci.I.
as ho would, l'c couil no, escape. TLeu is
1t not clearly wrong il poIilies-wrcnc IN
law and wrong in morality, to charge
"p'" the citizens of the South, dtslcyulfy,
and without conviction, punish a whole
nation by sec post t;,cto' laws, which,
passed i'll bad faith, con;ouud all in tho
same overwhelming ruin! Is it not a
remarkable fact that there has been no
single instance Of conviction for treason in
The late war? NVirlz was murdered bv a
'n'illh;y tribunal, but it was not a)Jee ell
even BY that court, that he had commil,e,l
treason. President Davis, will never lie
tired, or if tried, mast be acquitted. Lis
defense against the charge of treason, is as
patent as the uoon-day sun!
But apart from tho technical pol,;cal
offence WAS, there any moral guilt in the
citizen going Into the army in obedience to
the command Of his State There was no
ats(oyoi:y in it. His faith to the United
States had, as lie supposed, been Withdraw n
bis people were in the fi.ld-his State
commandcd-his rights and his property
were assa'lel.and his family to lie defended
ile was not, therefore, untrue to anr
p''ghted faith, but was loyol 10 his highest
obligations, wife, children and friend-. to
his State and country. It is a poryersion
OF all sentiment and a solecism in language
10 call that disloyalty. Patriotism is made
up OF bundle Of sentiments conmenc;no
at the hearth-stone. 1 cannot understand
that vagrant allegiance of the citizen.
which deserts home, and seeks its exercise
in far of regions, sgains: the bosom of his
family. 1t is safe to say that ninety-nine
out Of every hundred Of those who crowded
the field in the late war were not actna,c,,
by sentiment Of loyalty to the Union,
hnt by wholesome dread of gun-powdcr.
Those who went in and did their whole
duty with humanity, we're patriots. 10 the
highest sense Of tbs torn !; yet the Radicals
declare that they are to be punished as
criminals and forever to be excluded from
The rights Of citizenship, whist the skulk-
ing dastards are to be dragged from their
holes and hiding places-Lonored for tlei,
cowardce and foisled into high Office:
which they disgrace on account of tbeil
loyalty!
The Radicals make another dishones
use Of tie word ''Ioyalty."' They persist
emily declare that whilst I'll The whites O
the South were dis!oysl, al the nesroe.
were loyal and upon this false assumption
they found their wicked design of putting
the Southern States with all their whit,
people and their property, under the domi
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