The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-05-11
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Wednesday Morning, May II. 1870.
fsN'he Sage of EatrRcld.N

"Fhe Sage of Fafrfeld.''
The Charleston Ne,us takes the al.
ways dangerous liberty of ridiculing,
though we confess with good humor,
cotemporary's peculiarities. Under
tho title of "tho sage Of Fairfeld.'
! it slaps at that self.assertion and
cgoism that runs through our compo.
sitions, and which is the rcaction from
the timidity, seusitivcncss and suffer.
ing Of our boyhood for, since man.
hood, We have cndeavorcd to bo just
what VIC might happen to be, and
take the consequences. We had in
tended to reply to this liberty Of tho
Ne'Ds seriously, and possibly, severely;
aud with the feeling of Saint, ac.
tuated, however, no doubt, by tho in.
spiration Of tho Devil, our thoughts
reverted to Matthew, seventh chapter
and fifth verse, when our good angel,
the Apollo of free press, touched US
on the ear, and said "Let it pass
DO you not perceive that Hn READ,
YOUR PAPER REGULAnLYl and, 0, thou
| Qutntts Horat'Ws fiuccus Of the South
Carolina press, how can hc do so, even
though SO mo"hat tlightly siuncr, and
not become pious believer in your
new National Constitutional party as
the true Federal policy of the South
and West Lot him alone, for thcro
is hope of him even before 1874, tho
liberal period Of time that you have
generously allowed to your more sober
and steady ncighbor, the Columbia
Phen'r"
"You, my FRIEND" continued the
Yates Apollo, care to me a favoritc
son, because of your genuine affection
for the afflicted and dcsponlcnt, but
great and glorious people of tho
South. TO your eyes, therefore, have
I revealed their imperial destiny
Even now the earth shakes with the
heavy tramp of an advancing and tri-
umphant political host, and above the
din of political conflict, tho all-com.
manding Southern genius, as great in
the future as in the past, presides, and
the voice Of Southern statesmen
can be hoard cloud as trumpet
with silver sound" In the persons
of Charles Pinckney and James Madi.
SOD, the South gave the Constitution
of the United States to the world, and
in those of Thomas Jefferson, George
Washington and Alexander Hamilton,
she gave the States Rights theory upon
which it could bo bost administered
in the oarly condition Of the country
as we'll as the Democratic ideas and
consolidation theory which, in duo
season, have overthrown the suprema.
oy of law for timo. But do not des.
pair. Tho reaction has begun. Soon
the two parties in tho womb Of tho
present Republican party, the merely
Radical, aud a National Constitution
al party, will como to birth, and Whe
elder shall servo the younger" This,
the great party of the future, of the
South and the West, the party Of In.
tornsl Improvement, Free Trade, I1n-
migration, Industrial Development
and Territorial Exp ,nsion, the party
In brief, Of the Imperial Republic, will
first show it's power and its grandeur
to wondering world in 1874. And
then, the heroic character and tower
ing intellect Of the South will begin
to rise and rule onca moro. Go, tell
your people this. Let the faint.heart-
cd aud tho craven, the subjugated in
spirit, and not simply' IN body, fyaI
from their native soil. But lss As'l