Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-05-04
VOLUME XXXY.-ko. 10.

irritate the people Of the Middle and
Southern States. Gross and exag-
gerated charges of disorder and vio-
lence owe their origin to the mis-
chievous minds of potential managers
in the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, to which the Executive
has, we regret to say, lent his aid,
and thus helped to inhame the pcpu-
lar feeling. In all this course Of
hostile legislation and harsh resent
ment, no word of conciliation, Of kind
encouragement or fraternal feeling
has ever been spoken by the Presi-
dent or Congress to the people Of
the Southern States. They havebeen
addressed only iii the language of
prescription. We earnestly entreat
our feliow-citizens, in all parts of the
Union, 20 spare no efforts to maintain
peace and order; to carefully protect
the rights of every citizen; to pre-
serve kindly relations among allmen,
and to odiscountenancc and discourage
any violation of the rights of any
Fportion of the people secured under
the Constitution or any Of its amend
ments; and in conclusion, we earnest
ly beg Of you not to give aid to the
present attempt of Radical partisans
to stir up strife in the land; to re-
new the issues of war, or to obstruct
the return of peace and prosperity
to the Southern States, because it Is
thus that they seek 10 divert the at
tention OF the country from the cor
ruption and extravagance in their
administration of public affairs and
the dangerous and prohigate attempt
they are making towards the creation
Of centralized military government.
In the five years of peace follow
inc the war the Radical admin;stra-
tions have expended ,20o,oco,o0o
for ordinary purposes alone, beirS
within S2OO000,000 of the aggregate
amount spent for the same purposes
in war and in peace duringthe seven
ty-o lie years preceding June 80, 1861,
not including in either case the sum
paid upon principal or interest OF
the public debt. 1t is triAing with
the intelligence Of the people for
the Radical leaders to pretend that
this vast sum has been honestly ex-
pended. Hundreds Of millions Of it
have been wantonly squandered. The
| expenditures of the Government Ior
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861,
were only $62,000,000, while for
precisely tho same purposes-civil
list, array, navy, pension and Indians
I-S1G4 100000 were expended du-
ring the fiscal year ending June so,
1910. No Indignation can be too
stern and no scorn too severe for the
assertions by INSCRIPTIONS Radical
leaders that the great Democratic
and conservative party of the Union
has or can have sympathy with dis.
orders or violence in any part of the
country, or in the deprivation of any
man OF his rights under the Constitu-
ton. 1t is to protect and perpetuate
the rights which every freeman cher
isles; to revive in all hearts the
feeling of friendship, affection and
harmony which are the best guaran-
tees OF law and order, and to throw
around the hnlnbcst citizen, where
ever he may be, the protecting agls
of these safeguards CT personal libc"-
tv which the fundamental laws OF
the land assure, that we invoke ill.,
aid oil all good men in the work OF
peace and reconciliation. We invite
their generous cooperation, irrespect-
i've Of all former differences Of opin-
ion, so that The harsh voice of discord
NAV be relieved, that new and
dangerous sectional agitation may be
checked; that the burdens Of taxa
ton, direct OF Indirect, may be re-
duced to the l,west point consistent
with GOOD faith to every just national
Obligation, and with Il strictly eco
nomical administration OF the Gov
ernmcnt; and that the States may
be restored in their integrity and
true relations TO onr Federal Union.
CAEpET-BAGGEEs vs.. ScALAwAGs.--|
The present editor OF tie Washington
C2uonilcc is Northern man, who1
came South after The var, and pub
lish Republican paperin South Caro-
lima, from whence he removed to take
CHARGE of the CAa'onjcle. lie doubtless
learned a great deal while in the Pal
metto State about the politicians
and thus defends the carpet-bag fra-1
ternitv-of which he was one-by
contrasting them with the native
born Radicals, whom he handles with
out gloves:
because some infamous scamps
have come to the surface in the polit-
ical reconstruction Of the South, and
a few Of them are Northern men, the
total rascalitv Of the new govern
men;.. indefinitely exaggerated, isl
heaped OIL the heads of 'carpet-bas-
gers.
:" The i.;ct is, that among the mean
est aal Il e worst Of scoundrels inl
public liz in all the Southern States
are na;ive-born Southern men. For]
this We can vouch in North Crrolina}
and in South Carolina. We aver it,
too, from personal knowledge and
with personal adherence. We know
the men and despise them" =
There now What have our paE
tliotic fellow-citizens, sometimes de
nomii tie "scalawags," to say
that !. Will they not resent the i4
suit t.ius offered them, by declarin
war ul.on the carpct-bagsers ?-Col
stitutionahst.
Poor little Ames It's bad enoug
to be carpet-bag Senator and q sol
in-law OF Ben Butler. But to NAL
an indecent speech, and to have Il
most obscene and only noticeable pa