The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-05-26
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every month, and every year which
marks the dial with tho flight of time,
but contribute to indicate omens
moro impressive, and events more
convincing that the American Rcpub-
lie is developing itself into grand, a
gorgeous, sublime, yet sad and
deplorable failure. Grand in its
magnitude, gorgeous in its prowcss
and promise among nations Of the
earth, sublime in its incipient history,
and sad and doplorahlo in its down
fall because of what it was, and what
it might have been. Victimized by
dcmagogueism, the government which
was intended as shield and bless.
ing to the governed, is reduced to
tho pitcous spectacle Of being merely
held together as birds of prcy hold
tho carcass which lies in their centre
and satiatcs their sordd hungcr.-
What could be moro piteous to tho
statesman of any age, from tho crca-
tion to the ammo domoni of this writ
ing than the aspect of tho American
Republic even within the last decade
Of its history? Torn and Sacked by
sectional strife. Deeply dyed in all
the horrid horrors Of civil war, she
comes before the world covered with
the dust and disgust of domestic con-
ilct. Her own hands and her own
garments crimson with the rccking
blood of her own oilspring--thc chill
drens childron of her own founders,
and with all their blood upon her
hands, still holding the chains which
manaclc ten of her own household,
she lifts her maudlin voice, and like
! the praying cut-throat in the Opera
of Dinvolo muttcrs her maudlin pray
cr-"thc best government tho world
ever saw" What oaricaturo
| What a pitcous spectacle in the eyes
OF both God and man! Aud yet such
is but true picture of the spectacle
! we present as government before
God, man and the world to-day.
And emerging from all this shame,
as to time, nothing more, for eternity
and oceans could never wash away tho
guilt nor tho decd, but poeripg her
bloodshot oyos above all This, We be-
hold her laying aside hor statesmen,
she hus no use for craftsmanship, but
calls to her hief post Of honor n mill
tary BOBBY ,who happened to be in COM
mand Of her forces in tho fold when
her weaker children fell fainting at
hor fcot after four years of struggle,
to keep her in tho path Of duty, or
permit them to pursue it alone. She
calls this fortunate military chief to
her first post of civic trust, to sue
coed her Washingtons, her Jcilcrsons,
Madisons, and Monrocs which he's no
more capacitatcd to do than isa
spoechless jackal to supplant the
Holy Father at Rome. Bat he holds
the popular ear, and he is sufficient
tor the purposes of palty-party
rules the rotton country--party is
powcr--so is money-the country can
be made to produce money by being
we'll fed on laboring tax payers it is
controlled sfor tho money it can be
made to produce tho adherents of
party, and any man or monkey who
can loop the public button hole will
do for President, 80 he answers party
purposes by possessing tho essential
OF popular favor, no matter how that
favor is founded, if tho individual
can be elected any sort of 1ualiiica-
tion is n matter of the smallest consid
Grafton, and thus it 10 that the people
of the United States sec every day
more and moro how totally unfit for
the position he occupies, is tho man
chosen to rule over them, and how
very much sooner such choice must
hasten the coming of the speedy down
fall which surely awaits us.
Grants every official net tonds but
to strengthen tho estimate which the
rejecting men of this Continent had
previously placed upon him. His ap-
pointments to Office, his official papers
his published conversations and opin-
ionr, doings and saying, but tond to
convince even his own party of his
utter unfitness for tho place to which
he has been elevated, and already the
hand writing on tho wall prociaims
him "woighed and found wanting"
to an extent which by comparison,
would have made the Babylon ian king
n paragon of success even in tho great
ness of his failure.
Already Imperialism is advocated
in the metropolis of his domain with
; plauaibility and promise which
| would mako pure Republican blush
for his country, if lie had q country
worth the semblance Of blush. AS
it is, we Of tho South, with tho heel
of the carpct-baggcr and of the negro
steadily pressing our vitals, can but
patiently wait and look to tho coming
OF that day, which, if it brings not
delivelauce, thank God, can bring us
no fortune much worse than that we
are already cruelty made to bear.
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