Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-15
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- NAoshS% oho &Soh yhS, SPSStoNaSs r
John C. Harriso Edgefeld confessing
Democracy before the nameless and re-
gionless editor Of the Columbia tnioh!
All these ~retehed cafpet-baggefs go by
names, to be sure, and hail from points
known In Geography; but who knows
that they have any right to the names
they bear, Of that they were ever'seeh or
heard of at the said points? The Edge
field Adcertiser is gigantic Nordecai in
he:gate Of the Union editor. So much
more to the credit of the a Adrertiser! He
hates it with fearful venom. He watches
it and pecks at it,without sleep orslum-
ber. The last sample of his pecking, isr
that we he-and that we write like we.
were g,1H,k. That we tell lies on John
C. Harris Well, perhaps we 'Oere drunk;
but as to our telling lies on any one, and
especially on so, execrable alknave as the
God-forsaken Heck Harris, we hope it
isn't'so. The Union copjess. pgj! 81, eHrass':"''-
upon ugonw the man referred to, testified in
~ NV ,reserfce. before the commissioner,
Uua ...at t.o had drawn up. articles in the in
terest of the Democratic party, for mutual
protection. If either the Edgetield Ad-
rertise,. man or the witness say he didn't,
they lie. And there is where is the milk
in the cocoanut.
I" If either the EtigefeM -lduertiscr man
or the acitness sQV he, Gidnt, they lie. And
there is ,Dhcrc, is the milk in the cocoamut."
Now, which is to be most admired in
those two sentences-theg grammar or The
style? We fear the poor Union editor
had but few advantages of education in
early life; or he might have been drunk
when he penned that paragraph. And
as to the cocoanut. No decent white man
in South Carolina has Il cocoanut now,
with or without milk. Such carpet-baS-
gers aus the Union editor hayc stolen al
our cocoanuts-milk and all-leaving u
not even dry and empty shell. NJ:
the milk in the cocoanut-a;, Ie''st IA.
of it's doubtless now to bc found III
the handsome house and lot OF the Uaicn
editor, in Columbia.
The editor of the Union, foiled III The
evidentattempt ofhis party. through this
man Harris, one of Ills masters (Scotrs)
tools, to bring certain Of our citizens "
der indictment as Ku Klux. has suifercI
his rage and animosity to get the bettcE
of the commonest Judgment and tho
commoncst politeness.
But theo we are not astonished at any
thing the editor. of the Union may say
or write. And if our readers will but
listen to the startling rsuord of two or
three years of this mans life, hereto APP
pended, they too will bear us out in
the assertion that he is capable of doing
anything that is mean and contemptible,,
from, ,stealiNg spittoons from the State
House to robbing the Lunatic Asylum
of its winters supply of coal, :,
IN 1870, lie was a. pauper ink-slinger.
In 1872, he is wealthy publisher and
property holder. He is the pet and
cham pion of the Scott Ring-their hired
and paid apologist, although fully cogn.i-
zalnt of their systematic stealing from
the good people of South Carolina. He
is the proprietor of the Grant Ku Klux
reporter DC for South Carolina-willfully'
and maliciously misrepresenting every
disiculty between the whites and blacks,
always defending the negro, and al
ways detarning the whiteman. Athen1e,
i'm Yankeedom, hewas, in all probability,
the Teriest OF the riff f-ratt; and he has
been importedinto South Carolina to up
hold the Scott Ring, and to Willy and
iSbase the white people Of the Slater Hs
| is verify a maggot bloated,on tire eorrup-
tion.rof this vile Ring-a vampire W:ail7
deril:g up and down the earth; sucking
the very lite-blood OF honest; people,
.snivelling .yagabond of a bummer-a
Ebl6t and incubussupon honest Republi
| canism-a base fellow..with apparently
bat Two .objects, to damn tho white men
of the State, and grow, rich ON money
stolen from an oppressed and. payonet-
ridden people. ,aest
/ as to Harris having drawn up articles
IN theinterest .of the Democracy, we 90
moi, pretend to say. We know nothing
about it; care nothing, about it. If he
did, however, it only makes his subse.
qnent apostasyi the. more infamous and N
disgusting. . -.