Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-10-07
a Red-Pepper Speech From Ex-
Governor Vance.

a Red Pepper speech from EX-
4. Governor Vance.
- The Milton On. C) Chronicle of the
17th gives the following sketch Of a
speech recently delivered at Rufin by
Ex-Governor Vance: -
LADIES AND FELEow-C1TIzENs,:: / am
exceedingly obliged to you for this kind
reception, and more than happy to meet
soImany of my fellow-ciitiizens together
Aigreat many things give us cause to be
thankful. I am thankful that amid so
much ruin, we are still left the freedom
ofispcechs; the freedom to denounce ty-
raialy; and the freedom to meet together
fora free exchange{of our political opin-
ions.
THE RADICAL PARTY.
The Fountain Head and author of it
wasThaddeus .Stevens--who has lately
.goRe To his long home--or to the Red
Sulphur Springs for thesummer, as some
fellow up. here phrases it. Thad laughed
ca of the instruction acts
ION which this p;tr y Is bi.socl), 5esns l5Tessans
constitutional or ''e4Tra constitutions"
he declared they were Outside the
constitution and men of sense should
not debate aboutterms. -. =
THE CHAP IN LINCOLN. g
Imet up the other day with a fellow
in Lincoln county, He got up and
made e speech. Said heabhorred radi-
calism and was opposed toits te ets, but
he meant 10 vote for Grant and Colfax.
He was one Of your radical Democrats
"a heavenly he'll Of a felloY, who was
entirely opposed to all the sdoings OF
hell, but nightly in favor of the devil
himself. He didn't think the acts of
Congress were exactly constitutional,
but they were as near the Constitution
as any acts could be in suclLa case; that
the Southern States, we're out OF the
Union, and these measures had to be
adopted in order to put them back.
Right here l shut my ty-trap down on
him. How did these States get OUT L
asked = :;
q Why, they got out by war, hereplied.
!. How in. the devil is that, because they
got whippedP -,
= Well, said he, their relations got
changed. Like the fellows pig-didnt
exactly die, it-gin out. = F"
OUR STATUS IN THE UNION.
1t reminds me, fcllow-citize9ins, of the
lumber jjohnnies your boys have seen in
the shows" now you see me" now
YOU don It." We are first in-then we
are out. We are in, whenever they
wish to oppress us; and whenever we
claim their protection, we are out.
al LOYALTY AND JOE BROWN. g
A respectable term can be;made use
of till itbccomes the synonym of every
thing contemplate and dirty Come all
We ends of the earth and repent in favor
Of the Chicago platform and the woody
head of the negro to the straight hair OF
this white man-and though your. sins
be as scarlet they shall be as white as
snow--loyal white Joe Brown Of Geor-
aia-who was he? An old original lie
sSecessionist. When the war was first
got to be talked about he was SO hungry
for fighting that he took a,snack before
breakfast and seized Fort Pulaski. In
1860 and 81 if you had thrown him
into branch you might have heard ]hiilmq him
siizzlc three miles During the war he
ate fire till he was as hot as black
smiths furnaceMand since the, war he
has eat dirt till by virtue Of it he has
become freeholder:5o ~ I;sI,: fss AZ
HOW TO BECOME LOYAL. IL
Just GO for Grant and-lo !!-you are
|iloysl. / could make loyal man out Of
l'myyself ina few seconds by simply tele-
graphing that Iawould support the Grant
and Coifax ticket. My sins would be
forgiven and they would tell me to ode
part in peace"4likc q buncombe magis-
ttrate Of my town, the other day. A
couple presented themselves before him
TO be married. He was a pompous sort
of ignoramus and was slnartly bothered
chow to do it," as crowd Of town boys
had collected to see the fun. After he
had battle-whanged them through and
tied them as man and wife, there vas a
kind of pause: The couple didn't know
sit was all. over" So, Strengthening
himself up, one arm a-kimbo, my
friends, - said he, "depart in: peace and
sin no more. 90 ~.
= TAXES.
Did you ever hear of such, a. thing as
taxes? You have had q doseyin- youi
: llfieeighborhood, hav,nt you? The great
: mass mi OF the radical party pay no taxes
and they can tunderstand,why we should
object paying them forrthem. This car