Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-09

| Some have shown apathy some have hidden
their heads to escape the storm. They re-
mind me ofthe Buffalo calf, that sees the Indian
hunter coming, aud seeks concealment BY
sticking its nose in tuft Of grass, and, shnt-
ting its eyes, imagines itself secure until the
passing hunter sends his arrow through its
body.
Some think that the man Scott, called Gov.
ernor, may be reduced to the poverty pic
turcd by Valandigham, and be forced to re-
tire as pauper, and demand support of the
County Of Henry, in Ohio, at the public
charge. That may be, my friends, and be-
fore many years, but not before the last crust
OF bread has been snatched from the hand OF
your starving child. ,-4ss
The idea has occurred to some credulous
persons that the scalawag and vagabond judi
ciary may be electrically touched with sense
of honesty, and be inlused with equity, when
they take their seats upon the timc-bonored
wool-sack which we have Inherited from our
British falher,-and the dignity of which we
have we'll maintained, as the memory of your
Butler aud Wardlav will testify. But such
persons of liberal and gentle mind are much
mistaken, and if they will respect my coun-
sci, go and whisper spiritual advice to mad
dog-they would have more hope for success
and be much les badly bitten. had q
Jet black kitten when l was a little boy; 9th.
,ers said he was the I" devil )" but / said that
vas cruel; and manned him Moses. But ex-
perience proved me wrong,- and Nose was
thrown into burning 6re,-the red hot cosls
round which we boys were playing the Christ
mas Games, late at night. throw this out
as a fact which did occur, and only to show
that tits no use to try to make good out OF
black cat, and that evil will meet its reward.
Besides, the fact that these Courts viii COM
nit the atrocity of sitting in violation of the
law, their villaiuy will not be so inactive:
They fairly promise to do homer to their
parentage, and be active in the prosecution of
virtue-the Indictment Of honesty, and the
protection of crime. The scene las been>fe-
Gently enacted that ver6es my statement A
young man in Columbia, murdered in cold
blood by a member, of the so called Leglsla-
ture. The murderer is arrested by The mu-
nicipal police; he is released by his fellow
members under the asseveration that the Con-
stitation of South Carolina cxempts mem
Der of the Genera! Assembly from being ar
rested while attending to his legislative func-
tions. This being exposed as a falschood, by
the documents OF their own mongrel crew,
the guilty party is. arrested after some delay,
is marked for indictment, and taken before
one of these creatures who darcS to peddle'
with the law he is bailed for the petty sum
OF one thousand dollars, aEd.Iiow sits as the
"colored man of honor" in tie pest hall
where ssealagc and hate arc being enacted.
We have lat;crcd ourselves that these
scalawag, carpct-baggsrs and Africans might
be starved cut. The treasury has been emp
tied by the depredatons of the, convention,
and the credit of this august body and their
"boss" the SPECIALIZED Governor (who by the
way did make faint effort of bis veto prlvi-
lege to save their discrcdit from the public
view has so ANONYMOUSLY perishcd, that no
radical friend would lend money! no negro.
lov would give dollar to give bread to
those poor Africans and the hungry dogs that
sit with their colored superiors. Permit
me always to except tho lew tue hearted
men who sit there to check the atrocities Of
the scalawags, &C., to ~hom we are all in
debted.)
But we see that the possession Of power,
however fraudulently obtained, will procure
followers and we are told that the wants tf
the hungry are satisfied; thata Rail Road
corporation that desires to run ii Railroad
through South Carolina, loans $50, ,OOOto this
Assembly, and iu returns geto charter. i
value enterprise and energy, but may.the
wrath of an injured people tall with terrible
force upon any body Of men that dares, in
violation of evers law of right and humanity,
to foster, to give actual suslenance to The men
who are eliminating the. ruin of this lol.g
suffering community.
So you sec that this Executive, Judiciary
and Legislative combination is going on. 4" 1t
rcver dies" 1t has to be made to die.
But you may say that ! present only vague
and intlirec: Affections. None yet upon you,
quietly conducting the affairs of life and at
tending to your business. Let me call to
your attention a few points. Remember that
Ordinance Of the so. called Convention which
directs the Legislature 10 appoint salared
Commissioners of which the so. called Comp
trol!er General Is to be ole, to buy up land
at public and private safes, 10 buy up the land
levied on for taxes, to pay fer the land in the
Stocks Of the State to be issued by this seal
awag herd and then to sell it out on credit
of three years to such men as the said Com
mis- toner's may see fit. That is to say, my
frmer friends, that you are to be taxed for
the money which is to buy your lands, to be
taken from you and given nout at the polls for
radical votes. And you see the Legislature
proceeding to Carry this design iuto effect,
all sell the lands, for themselves, il the Rail
lRoad friends can't give them sufficient for
G ,mfoltab'e support. In the next place, you
zee the Bill which constitutes Paid Police
Force Of 1900 radical loafers, who are to