Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-06-29
[lFrom Pon,eroy's Deu,ocrat.]
freedom Of Speech Denied.

-Ffoms Pomeroy's Deuaocrat.]
freedom Of Speech Denied.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has spoker
upon the great questions of the day
and especially upon that vital ques
ton Of forcing the Democratic party
under the banners of the Republican
Democratic papers have attacked
him for his utterances, as if he hao
no right to speak his thoughts in 8
free country.
Mr.. Davis has; forfeited no right oi
opinion, and it is as decorous for him
| to give counsel to his Southern breth-
eren as for Mr.. Greeley to deliver at
Galveston an essay upon the present
duties and past crimes of the South
ern people.
Mr.. Greeley, who could not even
by his presence startle Ku-Klux
| from it's ambush, stood bail for Mr..
Davis when he was to be tried for
high treason, and the spectacle IS ra-
|-ther' singular one Of Mr.. Davis, the
released prisoner, and Mr.. Greeley,
the releaser, raising their voices. in
the section over which the former
presided during period of military
revolution, and which the latter seems
willing to serve in the Presidential
chair during period of revolution
lied peace. i
The Democratic papers, especially
of New. York--papers ftfully indul-
ging in hilarious antics of Democracy
at one time and instantly shutting
into the trace of Republicanism-
attack MIR. Davis because he will not
proclaim himself what a Federal
Court failed to designate him, a trai-
tor, and because he has with wonder
full wisdom and characteristic cour-
age, informed the Southern people
that nothing of political right. was
settled by these bloody mouth pieces
of force, the cannon Of Northern ar
mics.
Mr.. Davis goes no further on the
question of State rights than Massa-
chusetts would go to-day, and hss
gone in days gone by, or ex-Govern:
or Seymour threatened when he de-
clared that no citizen of New York
Should pass the LIMIT Of the State In
violence to Federal draft.
He goes no further in 'yindicating
the sovereignty Of the, States than
did the Democratic convention which
nominated Governor Seymour for the
Presidency in opposition to General
/ Grant. =.
BE goes no further than. General
Blair, whose speeches have been pub
lished as electioneering documents in
New Hampshire and Connecticut.
The favorite neophyte of these
Democratic journals, Carl Schurz,
stands upon the same ground occu-
pied by Mr.. Davis with reference to
State rights, and nc word other than
of praise is bestowed upon him. :,
Greeley yhimself-ultra in all things;
even to self politicalstultifca in
1861 and long before upheld a more
rigid Interpretation of State rights
than Mr.. Davis now ventures to as
sert, and every Legislature of the
Northern States-and there was only
one exception-proclaimed their SOW
ereignty to the verge Of civil war in
their personal liberty bills, wherein
they solemny entered their opposition
to the enactments of the Federal Con-
Mr.. Davis simply says that the
situation to which this country was
conducted by force is not a political
philosophical result but a base, bold
catastrophe Of superior against a
weaker.physical power.
But ne advises no resistance by
force to what he considers the unjust
Interpretation of the results of the
war, and urges nothing in behalf Of
the South that is not urged day by
day by Northern papers for the
| North. Some Of those papers threat:
| ened to drive The troops stationed
here at the last election into the bay
of New York. Now, the presence Of
those troops, so fatal to liberty il
time of peace, was a natural result
of the war, one Of the tainted ex
crescences Of the dead. issues, .ane
when it's noxious vapors became un
pleasant to. Democratic nostnls here
they were for making it o cause o
violent collision with the Govern
ment. =
But:if a Southern statesman, pr 4;
free journal of the North speak
against allowing other equally noxiou
. dead issues to remain upon the bod.
polite; they are assailsd by that spe
!. ccies OF Billingsgate which spring
from an intimate connection Wit
things that puffy in the marke
!. place,
What Mr.. Davis was and what h
is, is matter Of history, and no ma
can point to a solitary stain upon h
personal character, or to a word ths
can be misconstucted into .treaso
t against constitutional liberty, howeve
offensive it may be to party hacf
/. whetting. their appetites for unboul