Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-08-12
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cast his !gots3for Seymour aud Blair. And though
Federal bayoncts are there to deter him,-exhib-
iting the same unfinching devotion to principle
which, has ever characterized our noble Southern
pe0ple,-cast the vote at all hazards, and leave
the result to that GLd who presides over the des-
tinies of pations.
Rest assured that the Radicals arc standing in
"fear. end trembling" They have selected Grant
as the,great Champion of their party. This alone
convinces me that they are getting nervous. If
net, why did they not select man from their
party whose pastcareer as politician, as well as
legislator, has given him prominence among them;
why not taken Wade, or Stevens, or Chandler, or
some other big gun" of their party. No.. Sir,
they'must needs seize upon Grant as a last hope,
ands.depending upon his. popularity asa. great
military lender, they thrust hin before the people
And,he( Grant, poor weak-minded man, consents
to become tho tool (for he is nothing else) inthe
hands. of o political party who dare not bring one
of their o,yn stripe before tie people,-and call
upon them to sustain him, and their grossly out
rageous unconstitutional acts. The Radicaparty
knew that in view of the records Of past legisla-
ton in the Halls of Congress, and the tyrannical
usufpatiohs Of power by tha.b body, they dare not
.bringSforward one man who bad taken any part
in the promulgation of these hellish principles,
and the establishment, under military rut-, Of the
maedaest government the ,uorld erer sac" They
bring out man without past experience. without
o single act Of sta.esmanship, and uJOce ereiy-
thing else Objectionable, man WITHOUT ANY POL
1cYwH4TEFER UNDER THE suN,-an avowel which
he himself has made, equivalent to the positive
assertion " haze no policy"
Z unhesitaiingly believe that if Lincoln were
alive to day he would have carried out the exact
programme of the Democratic party. My opinion
is that he had the good o. this ,eholc continent at
heart. And his policy having been adopted and
carried out by his successor, Mr.. johnson, and
denounced by the very party who elected him,
have no doubt that Lincoln himself would have
been denounced by them, and branded as traitor.
tell you Sir, zoe dare friends here in the North.
Men who know the grievances to which We have
submitted ;rthey know that the good and truemen
of the South by requirement Of en- act of Con-
gress, called constitutional conventions, framed
new onstitutions-repudiated Confederate debts
give freedom 10 toSlves-repcaled the Ordinance
of Seeessio and actually assumed their portion
ofthe enormous, debt of the General Government
Of the Uni,cdyStatcs and although impoverished
BY the bloody struggle through which she had
passed, ,thsg glorious chivalrous old South paysup
eresy-doilar demanded from the pockets of her
spns,wilh nm .ssalacrity unsurpassed in the histo
z rry ~ OF finances" They know how that the South,
il compliance with n requirement Of Congress,
plased the negroes on an equality before tho law
with the whites, and simply because the Southern
States did not give the black "ignoramuses" of
the So2th the right Of the ballot box Something
by the way which large majority Of the North
representation in Congress, and actually inauSu-
rated ! Government based upon the same tyrani-
cal principles for which our fsresathers reJetfed"
against the ,vernment of England. The word
"REcoSsrRUcr" took the place of 6 RESTORE,
having ayowed by every act, dariny the cur, that
their. only purpose was to RESTORE THE UNIoS,-
and by ignoring this;ruth they virtually acknowl-
= edge the right of State to secede. Without con-
sulting the will Of the people, they establish
military rule from the Potomac to the Rio Grande,
---unde: the entire control of who: Why U. S.
Grant Thew know that the Government Of tie
60 to work and dsfrauchise almost every good
w.1ite sciiizensof the Seuth and reader stbe best
men IN the land Ineligible to hold Office, and thus
swarm the whole South with set Of ''roughs'
freln tbs East, who; half starved go "deown
South" because they are driven from respectable
society in their own land, and de, med unworthy
of association with decent uien-to seek office ar
the hands Of their snperiors, the negroes
repeat, our friends up here knoo that these
adyeninrers-s unknown to,foriune or to fame
save as pickpockets and loafers,-who swarm the
South rs the Locusts of Egypt-do not possess,
one, dollars .sorth of real estate-are not even
citizens of the State they SO to the Legislatures
to Icgislate for; and whose o. ly property cou-
tai1ea in change of clothing, a razor and sircp,
pewter backed looking glass, and an old worn
out black oii cloth CARPET BAG. Gois, how my
soul kindles, whom thini, of the complete devas-
tatioD, and almost hopelessly PROSTATE condition
: of my own Sunny South.
- But, Sir, we hayegfriends, and they are not
asleep either.
: ! In addition to the grievances g the South,
look at the high handed measures of Congress il
reference to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Actually forbidiiag this Court the right
to decide in reference to the eopstitutionaity or
unconstitutioaalityof their acts. Look at the as
sumption Of power in References to individual
Statcs,--of -natters which concern the States
alone, and the citizens of these States, as in the
ease Of Ohio, (Which you will remember spoke
OF in my last.) Look at the aelpless condition Of
Andrew johnson, whose Executive power is taken
away, although guaranteed 20 him as the Chief
Executive, by the iCoustitu,ion of the United
States eas-s
- NV our Northern friends know that thessusur-
pations Of power; if allowed to run rampant, will
gradually extend from the South to the West
thence to the North and East until the whole
country siail5e under the complete control and
power Of men without principle, and as corrupt
as it is possible for lnen to b,. God save US from
such !. terrible calamity. eg4s.
fhe weather for the past month haa been ex-
tremey hct: tie heat far more oppressive 'thnn !
have eyer felt tslown Suu:h. The weather Z. W
i, howeysr is pheasant. | trust you h' W IN abur-
a dancsrof. fuit by this time.
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