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

ask no favor of you; petition no mer-
cy. Tine mighty Democracy O: the North
the whole Northwest; the commercial pow
er oflhe great central cities; the laboring
classes Of the North East, have risen in over
whelming numbers to break down this stu
4pendeus system Of fraud and extorton which
tsis sapping The life blood of the nation; have
4 risen to destroy the vampire; to subject the
Ifbond holders to equity to release the white
|'laboferfromr slavery ; and annihilate, with
one fell stroke, this African Supremacy by
which the radicals are depressing tbeipeople.
J. Their campaign cry is down with the negro
vote. and away with radical taxation" The
I.whole white race of the South, 100000, to
-3,5Q0,0M of your race, more than two to
one,willjon hands with the whiteDemocracy
ieof tile North; 34,Ooo,OO0, of whites will be
thrown $in antagonism against 100000
! blacks: Crushed to the wall, or drowned in
.thegnlf your race will be swept off the con
tineat Of America. The brave red men Of
! theaerest were here before you, free and
towners of the soil; they held out the hand
I of friendship to the white man /; they gave
thefwhite man land; they smoked with him
The 'pSpeof peace. Where IS he nowf TIE
white came, in slowly increasing numbers /;
Sgradual:y he pushed the Indian back; then
Ecams war and blood and the miserable rem
5hant. Of the red mans race--that noble race
fthat would be free OF die-huddcda now in
the @ild regions of the Rocky Mountains :
driven To the extreme corner of America I;
are now dying to man in the fatal conflict
with the armies of Sherman and Sheridan.
This il the white mans country, and so
] shallsiteyer be. Become the white mans
enemy, and >yoa are gone, aud more swiftly
J than ,sthe Indian. The white man of the
South, your old master, has been your friend:
YousstiIl are useful; you still have claim
upon him; he still holds out to you the hand
ofspeacej he still tries to convince you of
the ruin which is hanging over you if you
follow the mischievous advice Of the unprin-
cipled, radical emmissaries. He holds out to
you the same security Of "lile, liberty and
property" which he claims for himself; he
promises to you qualified suffrage right
for educated or property holding colored men
td vote; not because it is your right, but be-
cause be is willing to give you encourage
nept and reward. II you have sense in your
heads; it you can take the truth and be
warned, come away, Il tell you, from the
| Union Leagues those vile secret organiza-
tons; framed for evil and fraught with ruin 10
your race. Come back with confidence and
lstrust to your old masters If you feel like
I 9sns will vote. vote with them; if you
,cannot do this, keep away from the polls;
drop politics have nothing to do with them.
For, if yu persist in radicalisnl and cling to
Union Leagues, and continue to vote for
ScalawGes and Carpet-Baggers, then God
help you, for your chance of future happi.
ness is SMALL
The radicals tell you to vote for "Consti-
tutional Liberty" I advise you to vote for
peace, and quiet and happiness; for q home ;
fol- meat ana for bread to keep away from
these things you know not what. We would
not have you slaves again at any price. That
defeated. us in the last war. We had the
whole world against us, because white men
envied the Aris,ocracy" Of tue South, and
wanted the | nd that the negro titled for the
aristocrat. They freed you, not to save you,
Jut to ruin US. They have. done good deal
Of it, but not all. They will ruin you next,
and then take the land for themselves. If
! your men, Grant & Culfax, are elected, they
will drop you Ikea hot brick, the moment
they go into CiIicc,9 and employ tue next four
years to wiu over the S,O0O,OO0 while men.
who will be worth more than 2,0oo,O 900 black
men. They would have dropped ytu long
ago il we would have gone TO them as some
of the sagacious politicians urged. But thank
Cod he held our people right. The memo
ry of our dead kept out from US that corrupt
tempting policy (; and we will yet come out
wearing the laurel of a political victory in
the cause of manly right. Then You poor
creatures, who have been fishing with radical
bait, will meet old Ncd's unhappy fate. He
went to fish for Constitutional Liberty; and
went to sleep with tie line wrapped round
the calf of his leg. Liberty came along IN
the shape of,a fish; aud grabbed his bait.
The hool: took tue fish in his upper jaw ; he
jirked away in burst of wrath, capslzed
the boat and drowned old Ned.
"And tho fishermen found them side By side,
In comm on death, and together bound,
| In the line that crc;ed them round and round,
SO looped and tangled togetbor,
That their lato was involved in n dark mystery
AS to Itch was the Catcher and which The Ca'chee
For the feb was hooked hard and fast by tho gill;
And the darkcy was lassosd around the heel,
E,And each had died by the other!
| And the fishermen thoughtit could never DC known
After all their thinking and figuring,
Whether the niger fishing hnd gone
Or the FISH had gone out lingering"
When the Emperor or Dictator Grant gees
into power; when the Constitution is dead j;
Beast Butler will find yon dead by its side,
and as he turns you over with the spoon, the
grave dubitation will be lyingly uttered by
him,
"whotber the uigger fishing had goRe,
Or the fish hnd gone outa nigsor'ns'
But they know already; that is is their
design, and that is your inevitable fate if
you stand against the white men OF the