The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-06-03
WHAT IS LOYALTY.

WHAT Is LOYALTY.
There is supreme and Intensely re-
f;eshing 1impudencs in. e,<afr with
which we hear the members Of that
sclf.ria ahtenrs, but actually rotten, OF
ganizati"n, the radical party, prate Of
'.'loyaIty ,"-a-4ealty to the sGoyeEunent
which they claim qloneIto possess. We
hear lheh ask every hour in the day,
aud yet not 50 continually as formerly,
is % d SO tIoyaI?" Was he "luyal"
during thc war? Is this vile OF lhat the
wife of a loyal living hu,boD.l, and
thu widow nr- that the widow Of g ,.hy:,
al dead rn.., In all cas- IS, they speak
Iowa ward, as from pinnacle OF supes
riorii,y, tile sell.cnnstitutcd Judges %
what To-, ally is, and tic self:appmussS
cru>vrs and cuDlemiDrs, of, what In
their big.nry, in olerance and in>ocnt
prctcn>rons, II is not. If the future his,
iurian, when le come. 10 set forth the
characteristics Of these times, aud to
draw The moral lincameuts of fthr, radi7
cal parry.. looks .ab, ut hin, for a name
6y which to characterize it, he might
/! aptly describe and baFzc it as the par
ty vi tic Phaliscrs. Nothing so pharisai-
al in politics. and nothing more phar-
isairulin anything else has ever existed
since tile time when the self-righte"us
Pharisecs of old, as the self-righteous
radio lplrty douow thanked God they
were not as other men. There is no
liberation in them for difference OF o.
pinion. Every one who does not think
as they d. is fit subject for the stake,
the cross, the prison house, or .scourg;
ings of any kind. Had they lived when
s.. Stephen WIS stoncd'to death, they
wnu.d have been in their element among
the s,nners. Had they been by at the
court Of Plate among the Jews, when
the Holy One was given over to cruel.
6xion, and a maleIactor was spared
because he agreed with the Jews in
opinion, they would have done as the
Jews did, and been ampng those. who
cried cruelty him-lpr ppinian's sake;
and let louse thousand malefactUrs,
for no other reason than that they
thought as they did. o., iGo| '.2 y
What is loyalty. and what does true
loyalty mean? The highest notion that
these men can get out Of it is loyalty TO
every idea, new or old, false or true and
ever, scheme, however wild, or rrevolu-
tinnary, or wrong, Of the radical party
rhi, is their test and definition of loyal
iy; and all who do not come up 10 it arc,
according to them, disloyal. When we
contrast this ,!cGnitipn, n"thlRsaseal be
more "IIouS anu uSuTLa'ious and abonr.
innblc tn IN the Iigh, in which the raIi-
cal party appears. " hat, then, does
loyalty really signify among u.s.? To
what are VIC required, as go'd and faith
full citizens of one common country, to
be loyal? Certainly not to any political
party, good or bad for this would lead
inevitably to the conclusion, as we have
always at least two parties am"ng us,
that all the members of at least one of
them must be disloyal-a gross ab,ur-
dity, though not more gro:s than the
now dominant party have been guilty
Of Ccrtainly not to any one man, for
that would be an auiocratcal despotis,n
"a something TO which we have not,
thus far, at least, claimed to owe ale
glance. If, then, it is not to one man,
nor to many men, what rs it that we
are bousd to be loyal to? TO this--the
government Of the United States, as
defined and limited in the Constitution
of the United States. To this or no.
thing. This is cur political solar sys-
TEN. IF We maintain it, we maintain
thar round which our duties, by the law
If our political existence, reyolye, and
by which the machinery Of our institu-
tiuns is kept in its place. If We do not
maintain it, we are recrcant To our duty,
essentially disloyal to the Government,
no lnatterio what party we may belong
and though we may shout our own
loyalty from all the hill tops, and grow
black in the face in denunciatory decla-
rarions of the disloyalty ofour neiehbors.
BY this, the only true criterion, do the
radical party-thc party of the Phari-
sees-Stand-c Condemned, notw,hstand-
ing their loud aud labered preteLtions
to loyalty and vir'ur. by this, too, do
all who have upheld the Constitution,
tho gh scourged for political opinions
sake, stand justified, and will appear so
in due time, notwithstanding The oblo.
qny which they have been obliged to
end ndIre.-Nutioual Mtellige Ger.
The New York HraM sees the clouds
rising, the heavens bllckening, and hears
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