Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
From the Unionville Times.
"Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows, that walk by us STILL"

FROM Cll6 OIIOuflllO ILLUS.
!, "Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows, that walk by us STILL
Last week our opinion of Lawyers
as they were and as they are, was
!; published by the FINES.
In the first Legislature of carpet
T baggers, scallawags and sona6re glo'z.
osls blessings upon South Carolina
; were three sombre, two carpet bag
!, and one scallawag lawyers, who have
adopted the "Cods Of Procedu Ire
under which we a;e destroyed in
twenty days, and that without remedy
: Of court Of jury. drawn into the
green bags and there made to leave
ten-fold more than was allowed, or
even asked or expected, when Cal
houn, Cheves, Preston, Harper, Le-
care and others 'hade laws, which
; have all been abolished by Corbin,
and Wright, and Whpper, and Mont
gomery, and their accessary adventures
and thieves NINETY Of whom are ne
groes, and some Of them actually
caught stealing the, carpets from the
floors on which they sat to concoct
1.-THE robber code BY which homes
and industry are pillaged. !.
| We see the hideous purpose Of
these demons. They have multiplied
offices, and raised an army of Office
holders, and enlisted them, like the
Sepoys of India, against their own
country and countrymen, against
themselves and their children. Now,
to this fearful power they have added,
or sought to add, The lawyers, that
class Of intellect and eloquence, whose
sceptre has swayed this ! nd-whether
for its veal or not-from our first
revolution down, and aspires to the
dominion Of the whole Union-nay,
it is supreme in the Congress of the
| United States, and in the Legislatures
oftmost of the States.
By the Fee Bill of their Code. this
ravenous party hold up their bounty
to the lawyers, and invite them into
the ranks of the oppressors of their
agricultural and industrial fellow
citizens, now reduced as they are to
forlorn hope, and with bare auf fl
cheney left from their toilsome earn
ings, to feed and clothe themselves
and families. Many Of them, this
season, will not have enough. IN the
crisis of the season of sfela-orops,
from the I'd of July to the 23dI of
August, ffty-two days, there has been
no rain on many of their farms.
Heaven, for purpose, and a good
one, no doubt, has withheld the
blessed showers. How can these liv ve?
How pay ten-fold to the Radicals,
and other ten-fold to the lawyers
Agriculture is diminishing here and
everywhere. Manufactures increase,
merchandise increases, idleness in
creases, vice and crime increase,
swindling and stealing increase-the
great towns and cities grow rapidly
IN 'pulation, and the small ones fill
up with idlers, loafers and vagabonds.
The prudent and patriotic Of every
community are seriously discussing
the questions, chow long is this to
continue "Is there no remedy?'
There is remedy, and but one.
The farmers and a.aJoring meh Of the
whole country must use the right to
claim and control the earnings Of
their own hands. It is theirs. They
have the power. the numbers, eighty
out of every hundred. Justice re-
quires them to do it-honesty calls
them to the -self-preservation
imperatively demands 1.-THE re-
proaches Of their offspring, sinking
as they are into poverty, wretched I
ness and degradation, mova them by
every vibration Of nature to it.
Tie organs Of our oppressors call
us fogies and fossils and they claim
10 be the advocates Of progress. 1t
is the progress which prevails in
Northern circles and cities, where
education and intellect hold up the
Aamen of equality and fraternity,
and ignore morality and honesty.
They are unsafe teachers and leaders
of society. The condition OF North
ern cities-the dark and depraved
deeds of daily occurrences there
the total eclipse of moral sense and
moral worth-show the horrible abyss
into which these leaders of progress
have conducted their followers. Look
at the recent and present condition
of Paris, the worlds focus of fashion
and refinement, of science and intel
lect, of euphuism and optimism las
vivid picture of hell as can be seen
outside Of the Internal regions, has
for months existed and now exists in
that paragon city of the elegance and
intelligence of the world.
And there is another pandemonium
at Washington city, when the Con-
gress of The United States is there,
composed as it is largely of lawyers,
most of them trained as we'll to advo-
cate the false as the true. And we
of the South not only see with our
eyes, but feel in our souls, the NIGH
ty wrongs and deep affections they
have brought upon This country and
that intellect must be combined with
moral culture and religious convic-
ton, or it is not fit to conduct the
affairs of mankind.
The lawyers of South Carolina,
who are notcarpet-baggers nor SCALA
wags, will despise the temptation,
Eiust such as was made by the evil one
of old, from the high mountain.
The people of Ul.on appointed a
Board Of Arbitration two years ago,
as remedy, if necessary. T he
citizens Of Greenville recently moved
in the same direction, but decided to
petition the Legislature to repeal the
Act, and withdraw the hateful bribe.
We will see. At all events, the tax
PAYERS of the State must take care Of
themselves, as far s they are able.
no ADMIRER.