The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-04-17

6'me but 6penlJ and Gal it by it.
true name-a matter Of stealing
! [Continued apblause and laughter
SINE riien pretended, to 6nd a
eiiiilarity between the doctrines of
!! tho old Whig party and Radioalism.
i There never, vas . greator mistake.
there is no Whiggery Ia any of these
violations Of the Constitution aud
out,ages upon civil libefty that l
! have mentioned. light Is not more
widely separated from darkness than
are the principles which distinguished
these two pa,ties. Just imag,ns. if
YOU cati, Henry Clay wallowing in
the same bed with Billy Holden, the
H"n. Cnffy Mayo, and Windy Billy
Har1srsen, aud Daniel W.bster stir
l.uH uHhtsr.1 IrepeaE, If you have any
ihkling Tor the q sh.pots Of Egypt
Say 40, and be dooe with 1t. Ba Ike
the girl whou her baslifdl sweetheart,
ashamed to opeak bis mind, Sat and
swallowed his spittie in stupid embar-
rassn'ent, aud kcrt pceSding her foot
With his under the 1able: She Hual.
> exclaimed "Johu, if you love me,
why cun'ty you say so, like u mqii, and
quit dirtying my Glest stGckings.' y
Great laughter.
Look also at the political pcrBeou-
tion TO which they are shbjtcting our
people in the Federal courts under
this Infamous Unconstitutional kuklu8
act. have heard it Stated That there
were 5000 defendants indiUted aid
to be tried at Raldigh, no doubt be-
fore packed jury of Radicals, as
others have been tried, no one Of
whom is charged with taking life or
for any other offence #liioli &Buld
amount to no more in our State 6oirts
than an assault and battery Or foroi
BILE trespass. l have seen I've Or dix
bundled psssing through Cliarlbtte 1t
one time, of men, women; ond G6il-
dren, going two hundred and fifty
miles from home to attend court,
some with their rations tied up In
rags, leaving their farms to iiegleet
and ruin, with little or no iii3neY, aid
compelled for want Of means to cdtbp
out in crowds without shelter over
their heaSs, for weeks at title.
How sucli a(sight docs lill ME With love
aud admiration for the government
The object of all this is apparent
enough. One of thoir most distins
guished men had the iiHpudence to
tell me that they intended to rub
enough of our citizens away by ku-
klux prosecutions to carry the State
in the next elections. I told him, if
you undertake to do tliat | will Issue
a proclamation telling them all to
como back. Laughter and applause. !
| ouly tell you what l had from the
mouths of their own ledders. Still
some men pretend that they are not
satisfied with the progress that the
Democracy are making to restore q
proper rule to the country; and they
make thousand objections to con-
tiuuing in the Conservative ranks.
Look at Old Virginia, who had tho
good sense, some how or other, to get
control Of her own affairs aud keep
her government in the hands Of her
own citiz ms. You hcar of no kukiu3
there. Sumo carpet:baggets we're
there, but they sang very low; and
what stealing was done, wus dono very
quietly. I.ook at Missouri; Mary
land, aud Kentucky In many por.
,irns Of thrse States thero was a
southern sentiment and sympathy
quite as s'roug as any that existed
elsewhere in the South, but their
g"vernmtnls were in the hnnds OF
their own p"nple, and peace and
pros:'erit, have been the general rule
Fhcy have been treated as Write peo.
lie ought to he treated, aud there has
been NJ disorder there.