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

supremacy arc al inspired by ro.is ~,
and favored Of Heaven aud hone,
they delight to call themselves th,
great party Of "moral idoas." Th,
most wicked combination Of bad mo,
over known in tho history of tn.
country, tho hypocritos wish to have
it beloved that they; arc tho God and
Morality parry. Whilst tho measur.
of this wickednoss is full, and they
are already ripe for the perdition
which certainly awaits thom in No
vc'nbcr, they prctond that their con-
tinuaLco in power is necessary for til,
peace and prosperity Of the country
and that a fair election which. results
in their overthrow, will DO such ~,
outrage Rs TO amount to revolution
| 10 tho long list OF: their other
crimes against tho laws OF God and
man-aSainst history, humanity and
their own raco, they add tho infamy
OF hypocrisy, "tho tribute which vie
pays to virtue"
The use which tho Radicals make
Of the word loyalty" is amongs, the most
striking Of their lypocri,ies. Loyalty is
good word, but this faction has so appro
pr'a;ed it and made such frequent and i'm
proper use Of il, that they have made it
stink in the nostrls Of every honest man
They say that the people of the late Con-
'edcrate States are disioyal, because thew
went into the Confederate army. Dis!oyai
to what? They were ever loyal 10 the
Constitution, and their States only sought
to retire from the U..ion, when, in their
opinion, the Constitution Lad been over
thrown. They believed that tue States
had the right to eecede, and that after Sc
cesslou, their obedience was due to their
States only. But whether they indiyi,lu-
ally believed believed in the right of Sc
cess'on or not, the States did pass the ordi
nances of Secession. They had the organ
'sms Of States. They were, at all eveuts,
'de Jucto" governments, and it was moi,
cr'n'tnaI in the citizen to obey them. They
had the power TO enforce obedience, and
Blackstone says it is not criminal 10 bear
arms for de facto government. 1t was 20
declared by Statute, afior the great civil!
war of the Roses. In any view that eau
be taken, conflicting obligations were i'm
posed upon the ci,izeus, from wl:icL, deci,,
as he would, lie could not escape. Tteu j.
1t not clearly wrong in politics-w.onp il
law, and wrong in morality, 10 charoe
upon the citizens of the sOu:h, disloyaliy
and without conviction, punish a Who'll,
uation 10y see post .Jacto' laos. which
PASSED III bad faith, copcoand all in the
same overwhelming Rim! Is it not .
remarkable fact the. there has been nc
single Instance Of conviction for treason ;r
Tue late war2 NVirtz was murdered by {
o'ihtary tribunal, but it was not alleged
eVe:i by that court, that lie had committe,
treason. President Davis, will never /,
tried, or.if tried, mast be acquitted. Lii
detonse against the charge Of treason, is a.
patent as the noon-day sunl
But apart from tho technical poli,ica
offence WIS, there any moral guilt in til,
citizen going into the army in obedience te
tic command of his State There was Il,
disloyoity in it. His faith to The Uutce
States had, as lie supposed, been withdraw,
Ibis people were in the feld-Lis Stat,
coninanded-his rights and Ibis propert,
were assaicd and his family to he defended
ilo was not, therefore, untrue to any
plighted faith, but WAS loyol 10 his hiELcs
obligations, wife, children and friends, t,
has Stale aud country. 1t is a peryersior
Of all sentiment and solecism IN language
to call that dHloyalty. Patriotism is mad,
up OF bundle Of sentiments commencipe
at the heartll-stone. l cannot understan.
that vagrapt allegiance Of the citizen
which deserts home, and seeks It's exercis,
in far off regions, agains: the bosom of hi.
family. 1t is safe to say that ninety
out Of every hundred Of those who crowded
the field in the late war were not actua,e,
by sentiment Of loyalty TO the Union
but by wholesome dread Of gun-powder
Those who went in and did their whole
duty With humanity, we're patriots. 10 tn
highest sense Of ths term yet the Radical
declare that they arc 10 he punished a
criminals and forever to be excluded from
the rights OF citizenship, whilst the sku'k
ling daslards are 10 be dragged from thei
} holes and hiding places-honorsd for tLei
} cowardqe and foisted into high Office
, which they disgrace on account Of thei
: loyalty
, The Radicals make another disbonei
] use of tie word "loyalty."' They persist
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