Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1871-11-23
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER, %. 1871,
Official Paper Of the State and County
Largest Circulation in the County.

ertheless has far wider bearing and ap-
plication. Looking at the struggle in its
broader sense, its reach assumes majestic
proportions. 1t arOuses the deepest and
most ioyful interest in all true lovers OF
righteousness, moral worth, and human
progress. 1t is inspiring to all who are
struggling to preserve intact our institu-
tions Of self-goyernment. 1t gives hope
and courage to the down. trodden, AID op-
pressed of Europe, as well as to those OF
them who ethink and act for the continuous
and extended progress of the human race,
as showing that the institutions of free
dom have. passed safely through another
tremendous crisis by virtue Of their own
Unborn vital force. Lastly, it is source
of sincere JOY to all lovers of right and
haters of wrong everywhere.
1t is glorious result Of bloodess con-
fict. It is victory of the moral powers,
over wrong, injustice, and robbery in high
places, most securely intrenched. By it
the whole human race takes mighty
step forward towards the realization of
the happiest ideals of peace, righteousness
and prosperity. 1t, together with the
treaty of Washington just made, should
stand high on the pedestals of immortal
fame, as glorious harblnger of the happy
day when war and brute force shall be no
longer necessary in controlling the destl-
MES of the human race, when the moral
force ofour nature shall come in full play,
when controversies shall be settled by rea-
son and equity combined, and all vice
shall stink into its den from the full: light
Of day.
The majestic beauty of the result can
not be drawn in language. The life blood
of the nation is not drawn upon; its no.
blest young men do not lie slain on the
battle field; no widow mourns the loss of
her protector and companion, no orphan,
war-made, cries for bread; there is none
of that moral degeneracy which follows
every conflict where the hand seizes the
throat of fellow-ci in mortal combat
from side to side, through all the land,
however necessary that conflict may be.
A struggle arises, equal in its momentous
importance, and in its far reaching results
to the great rebellion. 1t crisis of the
same fearful import. 1t has the same pre-
ventage. In either case, defeat would
have resulted in the ultimate breaking up
of Republican institutions. AS this crisis
approaches nearer, its fearful nature be
gan to be seen, portentOus, dreadful, de-
structive of the best interests of mankind.
Finally, the impudence, the audaeity, the
arrogance of vice in men of controlling
authority, has come to such pass, that
at last it has reached and reused the NOR
al sympathies Of the masses of the people.
They rise calmly, but with righteous in
digpation, to struggle as stern as that OF
the rebellion without its ferceness; as
earnest in its determination with which it
is carried on without its horrors. They
peacefully record it as their firm willard
not so much that the thieves and robbers
shall be ousted from their be-fouled offices,
as that their moral impulses are still
80 deep, and true, and vigorous, that such
vice and rascahty can no longer be borne,
aud they have expressed their will with
such force that these beasts Of prey have
taken the hint, and are skulking away to
cover. 1t is glorious fact that the firm
and determined expression of truth and
virtue always covers vice. But let US look
away from TWEED, SWEENEY, HALL
and CoNNELLY, and their vulture-kind,
to this most precious fact, that even in
New York city. with it's years of educa-
ton in moral degradation and corroding
vice, in it's whirl of selfish acquisition
sggrandizements and enjOyments, there
still remains, Notwithstanding it's mass
of degraded constituency, moral force, a
depth of moral impulse, core of sound
virtue, such Z" s has been able to crash by
legitimate and peaceful means, gang Of
the veriest villains that ever were allowed
to live; although, too, they had fortified
themselves in every direction, by all the
means that came to the hands Of unsCru-
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