Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-06-10

would achieve the boon OF freedom for ourselves
and our posterity, we must sock her, if need DC,
in fields where men contend for empire, and bap-
tie her in the blood of the brave.
The noble men of the South must not repine,
must not become demoralized, at our sad condi-
ton. Let no such word be written in our vocab-
ulary, as "fail." 1t belongs to the coward and
the slave Liberty is nursed in the tompests lap,
and is child of the storm.
-"what though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield,
. And what is else not TO be overcome
That glory never shall his wrath or might
E1tort from me-"
Tho time has come when we mustenter the field
Of Politics with the freedmen; We must instruct
them in the great principles Of Government, and
We must prove to them that we are better friends
of theirs than the miserable hirelngs of the rabid
Radicals and Puritan,; who arc sent here to array
them against the whites, to imbue their minds
with contention, and SOW in their hearts the seeds
Of discord, which are designed to spring up and
ripon in harvest of blood.
"Our greatness will appear
Then most conspicuous, when great things Of amall
Useful Of hurtful, prosperous Of adverse,
We can create"
The Northern people have overcome rs in battle,
and as one Of the conditions of peace, they have
emancipated our negroes, and invested them with
equal political, civil, and so far as they can, by
their dire Vaccinations effect equal social rights
with ourselves. This ne must deem to be an &C.
complished fact, and not permit ourselves to be
lulled to sleep by the syren song of the Northern
Democracy, that this is white mans Govern
ment." The Northern Democracy have failed US
once, and if we be wise, they will never deceive
US again. If that great party, though, is truly
animated with genuine sympathy for the South
snfFrec. .n IN. ;rt.l;ecct, -c-.hs- era na"."ted
citizens OF the country, and will advance towards
US with that saving, that noble inscription upon
their banners, we will unfurl our own ensgns also,
and move forward to meet and embrace them as
brothers, though our union result in the disfran-
chisement of every freedman in the land. hate
lawless mob; abhor the "great unterrifed,'
and contemn pure Democracy, in which the
knave, the fool and tho felon, have the samc con-
troi, and the same right Of suffrage. that pertain
to the most virtuous citizens in the land. If the
Grand Council of Devils, assembled in Pandemo
mum, had designed to concoct system of Gov
ernment more suited to tho taste of the Arch
Fiend, than any other for the pcrpetuution Of
eternal discord and strife among the sons of Adam,
they could have performed the task no better,
than by presenting his Satanic Majesty with a
Constitution for the establishment of an uncheck-
I'd, unlimited, unwashed Democracy. I do not
have allusion here to that wing of the Northern
| Democracy to which I shall hereafter ask you to
ally yourselves, but to the Radical wing. We
will put implicit faith in party, though that has
aided in cleavirg down our libertieG, and in the
immolation of our sacred Constitution-the price,
less inheritance left by fathers; "but rather
sock our own good from ourselves, and from our
own, 1.-Two to ourselves" No party North of Ma
sons and DickSon's line, will ever risk its deal
popularity, for the sake of the suffering South, OF
if negro suffrage bO once fixed upon US, as it ap,
pears to bo ut this day, have the boldness and
magnanimity to relieve US Of it, if it threaten to
cost them single million of mency, or an ounce
of their precious blood. No, We have submitted
to the sentence of the conqueror, and our study
has beento sustain and bear our doom with the
hope, that
."Our Supreme Foe in time might much remit
His anger and perhaps, thus far removed,
Not mind no pot offendinO. satisfied
With what is punished"
But We have calculated without our host, and
the lion must now shake the dew-drops from hi,
mane, and bestjr himself for action. Let us re-
fresh strength, and renew our energies for the
encounter. Tho locks of Samson will grow
afresh, and the vigor of his arm return. As the
fate of the negro is somewhat united with our
own, and as our home, at any rate, is to be his
home, as Tong as he exists, let US cherish him,
snnoblo his nature, II possible, and make him nm
clement of strength, so that when We enter again
upon the great conflict for conservative and con-
stitutional government, we may have him ranged
under our banner, and may avail ourselves, not
only of his hardy muscle, bnt Of his cordial On
thusiastic nature, and of oil the wealth he may
have the luck, industry and forecast to accumulate
For the present, Wc must, for the sake Of our
offspring, for The sake Of the pOaCe of our dwell
ings, for the sake of free institutions, and for the
sake of our dear native State, contend with the
freedmen, for the ascendapcy at the ballot box,
for thoy have been doLauohed and corrupted by
the euomy, and are not now our friends. " The
Philistines haYo plougbed our heifer.' Are ne to
plume ourselves upon our white faces-wrap up
ourselves in our dignity, as We have heretofore
DONE and say, that We will not disgrace ourselves
by holding controversy with our former slaves
Is that tho part of wisdom, or is such the natural
course for men of sense to puraue2 What would
you think Of tho commander Of m army, who stood
with chosen band, on the borders Of his country,
to repel invasion, that would desiat from the con-
aict, and would retire from his position, thus un-
covering his native land TO the approaches of
savage Toe, bpaeugei forsOOsh, that foe was
Savage because ho was ignorant, fierce Fpd in
e1orable; because he would set the torch to the
abodes of women and children; because he would
butcher the men in cold blood, violate the.women,
desolato the fields, and wrap cities in aamos7 You
would eay, that General deserved death. And
you ! would applaud the yaEpg spipio, who q would
gather together the dover ana tie chlyairy of hs
land and swear them upon tho aitarss Sf their
country, by their household Gods, and BY the
graves of ihsir fathers, to maroh ageinst this
seourgc Of their nation, and Of the human rage.
Tto spite bin Zip and thigh" to fight hi@ in from