The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-09-09
MISCELLANY.
GREAT SPEECH AT EDGEFIELD
COURT HOUSE.

Itappcars that "Judge Hoge," break
Ing his long silence, has made aspeech'
The matter is now settled. The ex-
Judge can make speech. If he kept
his mouth on the bench-not so on the
hustings. He appears in new charac-
Ter. He makes his formal debut at
Edge6eld Court House, and in their
yery den he boards the lions of Edge
field, and tells them beware. Whether
"seditious lawyers or incendlary edl-
tors"-let them beware! The eye OF
the Executive is upon them, and "these
men are all perfectly known" We
have said that Mr.. Hogc has made
speech. Let us enquire what kind OF a
speech this was.
La the first place, the Judge states
that he speaks by authority-he has
converssd both with General Grant and
Gov. :Scott-what, therefore, he has to
say is by order; twill be authoritative
because 10 harmony with the views OF
both the State and National Govern
ments," and therefore, as the orator
adds, "will be of interest to all both
white and colored, not only in this coun-
sy. but in the counties all along the Sa-
yannah River"-observe this "aH along
the Savannah Riuer." He then goes
on to tell how magnanimous-how con-
siiderate-how impartial his Excellency
has been in his administration. But
all this has been of no avail, particular
Ey in Edgefeld. And, therefore, be is
commissioned to say that the majesty OF
the law must and shall be vindicated-
martial law will be proclaimed-and
then let seditious lawyers and incen-
diary editors" look out. One thing the
ex.Judge will say for himself, and that
is "if any more of those border rufhans
of Georgia come into the State to pill
lage and outrage peaceable citizens,
catch them and hang them to the first
pine limb you come to-"
But he wants peace. The mission
of the Executive organ to Edge6eld
was zone of peace" Particularly does
he expect ex. Confederatcs to keep their
pearole and to keep the peace. But if
they do not, let them bear this in mind,
"the power which subdued the great
rebellion of all the Southern States can
take care Of Edge6eld County" The
orator then in his discursiVe and heter-
eseneoas style speaks Of the magnanim-
ity of the radical party in its course to-
wards the South, and in few lines dis
poses of the Chinese. He "has seen
thousands of them in California" They
are a miserable class, and ''these are the
eeople this wise and progressive Demo
cratic party hope to food the county
with; FIRST, to crush you out, and secondly,
that they may establish slavery"
The colored man now votes-that is
settled-but he has another glittering
bait to hold out to the colored people.
awe are now moving" says the speak
er, "to other questions and measures of
vital importance to the people, and
drominent among these is the effort and
determination to secure farms for the
poor" In few years-say four or five
every voter, white and black, will be
on farms of their own, and then follows
a poetical picture of an Aracadian state
of society, where every black man will
sit under his own vine and fg,tree, and
where "the sorrows of the past will be
forgotten in the joys of the present, and
the land will bud and blossom and bring
forth its fruits for you, and pour its
treasures into your laps" [Cries of
HAuen, thank Goo" >"
Que thought more, aud the great
orator closes. The Democrs is accuse us
of being in favor of social equality. To
meet this, he tells his hearers, in vein
of humor, Of apsoposed bill to be passed
at the next session of the. Legislature,
of which the following is the title: can
Act entitled an Act to amend an Act
of God" And now comes the perora-
ton. He wishes his hearers peace and
prosperity, and quoting from another
says: l-.
"Although there are scenes which
have been burned into our memories as
with letters ofliviug fire, we should try
TO treat them as visions of a distemper.
ed dream. Great intellect expand, but