Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-04-11

9 do so. Political parties are not organized
7 in day, and as the Liberal Republican
3 party has yet to be organized in South
Carolina, time is precious to the Democ
, racy.
1t does not require even District o.
State Conventions to pledge the Demoe
racy to. Passiyism. 1t can bedone by the
Press, and by every Democrat or Union
J Reformer constituting himself com.
} mittee of one to encourage every Radical
to try for an office, and to discourage ev-
cry Democrat from doing so. From the
extract published above, it may be seen
that the State Central Democratic Com
mittee of Missouri pledged the Democ-
racy of that State to Passivism in 1870
tast, by refusing to name any time or
place for assembling State Convention
of their party; and second, by publish
ing an address that the Democracy would
not contest the State officers with the
Radicals.
South Carolina had a State Central
Democratic Committee in 1868, and as no
State Democratic Conception. has been
held since that year, why should this
Committee be jlnctus o1icio in South
Carolina now any more than the similar
Committee of which Mr. Armstrong is
at present Chairman in Missouri?. The
Democratic party of South Carolina is
not quite dead, and the last State Central
Committee appointed should take some
action.
But If said Committee will do nothing,
then let the people do for themselves
The pIghted word of a South Carolina
gentleman will be taken by any Radical
office-seeker, and to. start .interneeene
strife in the Radical ranks, few hun
| dred Of our leading Democrats or Re-
formers have only to announce seriously
in private conversation that the Radicals
shall have the field all to themselves at
the next election. Ye gods! will it not
be a glorious sight to see the hyenas de-
your each ether? 'Passivism will give
them some of the "peace" which Grant
ism has given Us.
The times look auspicious forthe over
throw of Grant next November, and
Gratz Brown, Of Missouri, seems to be
the coming man. To-day Iwould rather
have his chance to succeed Grant, than
that Of any man-than thatof even Grant
10 succeed himself. Brown has gigan-
ticintellect- an ablelawyer-a finished
scholar, and Is, perhaps, as good manip-
ulator Of men as Thomas Jefferson.
With al, This private character is above
reproach, and he exercises q magnetic
influence over all men with whom he
comes in contact. Like his near rela-
tive, Frank Blair, he fought the South.
during the war, but like him, also, since
the war, he has contended manfulIy for
her Constitutional rights. Although a
Republican, he must bea gentleman, or
he could not be so popular as he is with
both Republicans.and Democrats.in the
Northwest. His late annual message
to the Legislature of Missouri, take 1t all
and all, is probably the most mastery
State paper of the kind ever written in
this country.
= IL -.-sln hnad of the Liberal Repnb-
lican movement, and is marshalling his
forces for the Presidential contest with .
skill That causes qualling at Washington.
The Democracy Of the North. West are
almost as unanimously for Brown and
Passivism now, as they were for Pendle-
ton and Democracy in 1868. The Ger
mans OF the North West constituting
| about one-liith of the voters, are also
equally enthusiastic for him. Hereto
lore, while the Irish have voted with the
Democracy, the Germans have generally
voted in solid column with the Radicals,
but now for the first time the Germans
are rolling for low tariff, and for ma
king white foreigner as eligible to the
Presidency as negro is under the late
spurious amendments to the Constitu-
ton. The Radical Congress refused to
grant this boon 10 foreigners, and the
Germans of this country, guided by their
great idol Carl shurz,-sGrant's implaca-
ble Oc-are keeping their powder dry to
fight Radicalism next November.
In Wow of tho Passivism of Dcmocra-
cy and tho prospect of getting Office un-
der Brown, or some other Liberal Re-
publican, ull the disappointed Radical
ofliee-scekers in tile land, are gathering
to tho support of the nominee Of the
Cincinnati Convention. Then again,
| the honest patriotic Radicals at the North,
and they are numerous, who love good
government and desire peace and harmo
ny with the South, are also looking to-
ward Cincinnati. The. Radicals Of the
agricultural North West areas outspoke n
for reduction of the tariff as the Demo-
Gratis of that section are, and the old alli-
ance between the North West and South
| on finance seems about to be revived.
cannot close without aprotcst against
the new movement in South Carolina to
re-assemblc tho Taxpayers Convention
for the purpose Of petitioning Congress,
or the President, or both, to take militia
ry possession of South Carolina in order
to supercede the odious civil authorities
I'of the State If such petition were
made it's prayer might be granted, so as
to guard against the possibility of South
Carolina being lost to Radicalism in the
Presidential election by tho cooperation
CT liberal Republicans and Democrats,
The same precedent, for the same pur-
pose, might likewise be followedin some
other over-ta1ed, badly-govcrned South
ern State. Let US meet the Tax question
in some other way, and perhaps the best
is to be passive on that too by letting the
Radicals do their worst in selling US out.
This writing cannot better be ended
thar by quotation from speech lately
delivered before the Legislature of Mis-
souri, by Gen. Frank Blair, on the Pas
sivo Policy in the Presidential election:
II believe that this policy is the only
one by which we can succeed. The new
departure has brought no triumph; we
disgraced ourselves without any reward
Of victory; we simply abandoned our
principles, for think that was an aban-
Comment of principles, and lido not think
the people of the country. gave us credit
for honesty in doing 1t, although think
that the gentlemen who urged that policy
were honest in their convictions as to its
nronriety: at any rate it effected