Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-15
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Jeining the Radicals

Jeining the, Radicals
Under the above. caption the Cam
den ,7osmnaz has most excellent ar
tiole. We believe it te be from q tht (
pen afsthat distinguished ssslddiiser Gen y
j. B. Kershaw. We publish it, fol
the benefit Of our young men:
!. We hear now: and then Of e. res.
! pectable young. man who has done
bis duty to.his race and country IN
the past, andFwhn, stiAIenjeysthe con.
fdence' and good will of his suffering
oounaymen, a more precious inheri'
tance than radical gold can buy, we
hear of such an one bartering his good
name and the grand ODD memories
4 and associations of the past, for. the
/. chances of lucre from the great Rad
I icaf mess chest. We have no emotion
but pity and regret for such as these.
We are sure they know notwhat they
lido when they take that fatal pledge.
They will not know until they have
forfeited it, the valhe Of a good name
among honorable men, and pure wo-
men. There is no such thing as Re
publicanism. AT the North there
are certain principles upon which
men may differ in opinion and which
honestly array respectsblelpeeple in
the Republican ranks. Here there
are no such principles. No Southern
white man can now become a South
rCarolina Radical and maintain the
respect of his people. If that time
ever was it has now passed. All
southern men, with one heart and
one mind, embraced the Southern
cause, honestly believing it the cause
Of truth, justice and right. They de-
Tended it with a heroiam. a self
sacrificing and, patriotic devotion
which will write their names, III
history as adding lustre to the Lu-
man race. A few years hence the
blind and senseless follies of the
present will have passed away. and
the world will awake as from dream.
The scales of venom, prejudice and
hate will fall from all eyes, the truth
will be made to appear, and the mem
ory of Lee and Jackson and the no.
BILE band which followed them in the
death struggle for freedom and the
right, will be held embalmed az ga
cred things. No richer legacy can
man leave his children than the un-
furnished fame of the faithful >oatll-
ernssoldier. For what does man
exchange it when he turns his hack
upon his race and kindred, and all
the gleries of the past?' Does he not
leave honor behind? Does he rot
give the lie to his past life? Does he
not defile the graves of his dead coul-
rades and pollaje and bring reproach
upon tn ir memories, when he joins
the party whose ~hola stock of nr:2
cip es consists in haired of the re
bellion and all connected with =?
Whose highest arguments consist o. o.
flhom fhs psealel with Ehom he las ,ssr Ga.il,
mate ambition is :have our childleli
pit upon and condemn the principles
for which their fathers fought and
died? But what can he gain by thus
degrading himself at this late day?
It IS too late now to make anything
by such a course. Thrift no longer
follows fawning. When the necessi-
ties of party required the Al. OF men
of brain, there were not wanting
those who were willing to listen to
their overtures for consideration,
and invariably they got their price
down, in hand as it were. Bit that
day has gone by. 'Placesare not now
so abundant as candidates, and the
long suffering and much abused rank
and file of the party, the colored peo-
pie, are beginning to lift up their
heads and think for themselves. They
can see no feaeon why they should
continue to truet these new converts,
and to reward them with fat Offices,
especially now that they see among
themselves many quite as competent
and likely to be more honest than
those who desert the friends and prin-
ciples Of a lifetime merely for office.
It will never pay. Weshall no long
er see mi1ionaires IKE Parker, Scott
& Co., springing up like mushrooms
and accumulating colossal fortunes
upon salaries greatly less than their
annual expenses. The people are
tired of being plundered and impov-
erished to enrich few carpet-bag-
gers, for let it be remembered no
acalawag has ever succeeded so we'll
in this business. :.
Let no Southern white man sup
pose that he can take this false part
without the loss of friends, character
and inward peace. If he is conscien-
Itious in the belief that the radical
rule in South Carolina is best for the
people, let him endeayor to convince
them and carry them with him, but
nothing that Earth can give can jus
tify his desertiQn of them. But there
cannot now be any excuse for 30 blind
and drivellingya fatuity as this. South
Carolina Radicalism has been mimi
cal not only (though chiefly to the
Southern whites. but destructive also
to the true interests of every honest
man of every parry, so despicable.
has it become, as to raise ciamor
for reform and pacifcation from eve
ry true Republican in the party. Let
US all aid to the extent Of our power
lin its reform, but let it not be by de-
scenGing into the abyss Of corruption
into which they have plunged. Let
onr young men be patient and true,
and all viii yet be we'll with them.
The South ia rapidly righting her
self. In many Of the States the gps-
pel of hate, still so rife here, falls on
unwilling ears. The american peo-
pie possess too many Of the elements
Of a manly, Christian character long
to couutensnee government and q