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

vince, the national character supplied Cicero TO 4
bring him to justice before legal tribunals, and
before the bnr of enlightened public opinion. But
these robbers and plunderers seek to perpetuate
their rule by ruin, by conGscaton, by the subjec-
tion of character and worth to vileness and las
cafity, by the subjugation of the Caucasian to the
African and the Scaawag.
And Speaking of scalawags) these native
whites whose vileness and love of plumber have
made them desert their State and race, should be
made to feel the just consequences of their ac-
tion. Your noble women should "put whip
into the hands of every honest man to lash the
rascals naked round the world"
But your subsection in South. Carolina is, and
can be, only temporary, You must win this bat
tie. Do not look at the numbers. Great battles
have always been won against great odds, from
the time Of the immortal 800 at Thermopylae
through all contests for freedom. Do not go to
the ballot box with arms. Go with ballots, Of
yourselves and Of all.who can vote. The negroes
,havs been deceived by the robbers and plunde-
,rerss and they will rally to your rescue.s The
true men of the North will stand BY you. heart
and soul; the great heart of the North and West
is with you in sympathy in your present uhpar-
alleled condition of humiliation; and the reign
of misrulo is and must be short Theywho have
isown the wind shaH reap the whirlwind, and the
vengeance of heaven will soon overtake them.
And nothing shonld qusnch tho fame Of popular
ind, tinn tp,lI han fha nnrdo
rers of private right Your negroes have been
emancipated, your towns have been laid in ashes
by Sherman, you are temporarily under suhjec-
ton but freed now from all tho besetting temp
tstions Of wealth, your devotion to liberty should
be purer and more conspicuous. ~
: r would appeal to. your, innate manhood to
:" awake, arise, or be forever fallen" And this,
notwithstanding all the laudations which have
been paid to the great federal heroes. Granted
their .yalor, their courage, their generalship;
granted that they have names with which tho
heroes of ancient and modern history but feebly
compare; granted that Leuctra, Salamis and
Marathon pale their Intellectual fires before the
transceudent glories Of Sharpsburg. And oil
this freely grant. But if it be SO, then what
must have been the valor, what must have been
the. .valor, what must have been tho chivnlry,
what-must have been the unconqucrable will and
indomitable resolution of those brave Confederate
soldiers, who, in blockaded country, and with
such heroes, backed by such odds, such wealth,
and by oil the mercenaries Of the world! YOU
owe it to the valor of your noble dead, you owe
1t to their tombs- on every hillside and in every
valley, that you should, in this peaceful contest
Yindicate, by the success of the Democracy over
this crew of vandals, tho immortal principles Of
liberty. And in this contest, the noble men who
met you in the late disastrous war, will be your
allies and, from Maine to California, you will
have the true men shoulder to shoulder with you
in this struggle for Constitutional liberty. Just
as noble, fjustia true, just as gallant mon, fight
in this grand contest, from thcico-bound regions
of the-North, as in tho sunny land of the. South.
The heart of that distinguished gentleman from
Connecticut Tom Seymour, beats as much in
unison with the music of Constitutional liberty,
as that of the proudcst Southron. The good men
and true Of the Union are With you
You have complied with the -requisition to free
your negroes, to repudiate your Confederate debt,
and to eat dirt; and now your hope is in strug-
gle, the ballot box, for liberty.
I have struggled for liberty forty years; and
in the oden time you men of Edgefeld thought
I was too slow for you, that ate dirt; which 7
did too, to preserve peace, order and liberty. But
now I urge aud adjure You to come and stand by
tho side Of Georgia at the election in November
next, with victory for Seymour & Blair. Those
malignant slanderers, the Radical leaders and
politicians, say TINT your leaders do not oct in
good faith, that they mediate another war. This
they say Of my distinguished friend on the stand,
Gov. Bonham this they say of the prenr chera-
Tier, the peerless gentleman, the warrior of un-
sullied fame, the pride Of your State, Wade
Hampton. But they fear and tremble at ths
probability of being brought to their deserts be.
fore the outraged American people; and hence
their groundleas nnd unmeaniDg SANDERS. 81
But what E,want, what We all want, what the
South wants, is law, rder, the reign of the Con;
stituion, the peaceful victory of true statesman
ship, the rescue Of the country from the beasts of
prey who now fatten and gorge on its vitals;
peace which is peace indeed. not that peace which
"reigns in Warsaw" notpeace in chains!
Nerve your efforts for victory in this impor-
tant contest do not be dismayed by arithmetic
and numbers; vote and peacefully get votes for
the standard-bcarers of Constitutional liberty.
And the sun that goes down on the next Prcsi-
Dental election, will be succeeded by brighter
and more glorious day.
At the conclusion of Gen. TooMDs' speech,
Judge A. P. ALDnIcH was presented to the meet
ing, by the Chairman, as one of the Delegates at
large from South Carolina to the late Democratic
Convention in New York, u, one of the Canvas
sers at large-for tho State, and us the Judge who
had reflected SO much honor upon South Carolina.
by promptly refusing to violate his oath Of otiice,
and to obey the unconstitutional order of mill.
tary satrap. Judge ALDRlcn's reception by the
audience was extremely hattcring. We cannot
undertake to report in fullthe excellent speech
delvered.by Judge ALDBIcH. Suffice il to say
that like ai of his addresses, twas fuh0f forci
bic argument,and telling appeals to tho intelli-
gence and patriotism of his audience. and was
received by thom with the .livelicst satisfaction
Judge ALDnIcH said ,Thisswas the first time
be had had tho pleasure of meeting tho people
of Edgefeld since he refused to obey tho odious
military order, for which he had been removed
from the rightful functions of his office BY tho
satrnp of District No.2. He had told the people
thcn that hc did not believe military tyrunny
could last, or negro domination be portuated. IIs
thea felt that he saw hopeful signs in the poiti-
cal sky; anl he advised them then that. it WAS
only necessary to be firm and rcsolute in the