Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-09
they conquered another nation, ralodit by arts

vince, the national character supplied Cicero to.
bring him to justice before legal tribunals, and
before the bar of enlightened public opinion. But
these robbers and plunderers seek to perpetuato
their rule by ruin, by cOnascaton, by tho subjec.
stion of character and worth to vilenoss and las
canty, by the subjugation of the Caucasian to the
African and the Scalawag.
And (spcaking of scalawags) these native
whites whose vieness and love Of plumber have
made them desert their State and race, should be
made to feel the just consequences of their ac-
ton. Your noble women should "pu! q whip
into the hands of every honest man to lash the
>rascals naked round the world"
But ycur subsection in South. Carolina is, and
can be, only temporary, You must win this bat
tle. Do not look At the numbers. Great battles
have always been won against great odds, from
the time of the immortal 300 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 nnd plunde-
,rcrap and they will rally to your rescue. 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 unpar
alleled condition of humiliation and the reign
of misrulo is and must be short Theyw hnv6
Fsown the wind shaH reap the whiriwind, and the
1 vengeance of heaven will soon overtake them.
4 And nothing shonld quench the fame of popular
Indignation whieh.wil then consume the. murde-
1
rsrs of private right. Your negroes have been
emnncipated, your towns have been laid in ashes
by Sherman, you are temporarily under suhjec-
tion; but freed now from all tho besetting temp
tations Of wealth, your devotion to liberty should
/ be purer and more conspicuous. -
+ Fswouid appeal to. your innate manhood to
"awakc, arise, or DO forever fallen" And this,
notwithstanding all the laudatiops which have
beon paid,to the great federal heroes. Granted
their yalor, their courage, their generalship;
granted that they have names with which the
heroes Of ancient and modern history but feetly
| compare granted that Leuctra, Salamis and
Marathon pale their Intellectual fires before the
transcendent gories 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 the chivalry,
whnt.nust have been the unconquerable 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 all the mercenaries of the world! You
owe it to the valor Of yournoble dead, you owe
it to their tombs.on every hillside and in every
valley, that you should, in this peaceful contest
vindicatc, by the success of the Democracy over
this crsw Of vandas, the immortal principles Of
liberty. And in this contest, tho 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, fjustas true, just s>gallant men; fight
in this grand contest, from the, ,ice- 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 arc 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-
lie. at the ballot box, for liberty.
have struggled for liberty forty years and
in the olden time you men of Edgefeld thought
I was too slow for you, that I ate dirt; which I
did too, to preserve peace, order and liberty. But
I now urge aud adjure you to come and stand by
i l.. g. al In phar
next with victory for Seymour Blair. Those
malignant slanderers, the Radical leaders and
politicians, say TINT your leaders do not net 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 preur chera-
Tier, the peerless gentleman, the warrior of un-
sullied fame, the pride Of your State, Wade
Hampton. But they fear and tremble at the
probability of being brought to their deserts be-
fore tho outraged American people; and hence
their groundless md unmeanipg SANDERS. q
But whit Ewant, what we all want, what the
South wants, is law, trder, the reign of tho Con-
s,itution, the peaceful victory of true statesman
ship the rescue Of the country from the beasts Of
|
peace which is peace indeed, not that peace which
"reigns in Warsaw" not peace 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 the ,ocs 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. ALDRIcR was presented to the meet
ing, by the Chairman, as one Of the Delegates Mt
large from South Carolina to the late Democratic
Convention in New York, u. one of the Canvas
sers a.lurge.for tho State, and us the Judge WHO
had reflected SO much honor upon South Carolina
by promptly refusing to violate his oath Of efice,
and to obey the unconstitutional order of mill
tary satrap. Judge ALDnicn's reception by the
audience was extremely hattOring. We cannot
undertake to report in fullthe excellent speech
deliveredby Judge ALDRIcH. Sufics il to say
that like ali of his addresses, itwas fulE forci-
BILE argument and telling appeals to the intelli-
gence and patriotism of his audience, and was
received by them with the livelicst satisfaction
Judge ALpnIcH said This was the first time
he had had tho pleasure of meeting tho people
of Edgefeld since he refused to obey the odious
| military order, for which he had been removed
from the rightfal functions of his office BY tho
satrnp of District No.. He had told the people
thcn that hO did not believe military tyruDny
could last or negro domination be portuated. llo
thea felt that he saw hopeful signs in the politi-
cal sky; and he advised them then that. it WAS
only necessary to be firm ard resolute in the