Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-08-14
[From the Union Times.]
0FaCe the MuSiC,N

Under this caption, the Charleston
daily News and C0u4aesconcurs with
the Greenville Republican, in saying
that the prosecution and CONVICTION
of one person. concerned in theiissue
Of fraudulent bonds, would be worth
more than any number, of speeches
to court, from which nothing is ask
ed and the Republican sneeringly
says, if the taxpayers anu bond-holsi
ders are really in earnest, this is
Intercourse to pursue. Have not
the taxpayers, on all possible occa-
sions, shown their earnestness, and
their impatience, too, to convict and
to punish the viilainous officials who
committed these and all other frauds
upon the taxpayers, and all he hon
est citizens OF the State, who are not
taxpayers? A Representative OF
your County-Union-a taxpayer,
and keenly alive to the swindles and
robberies CT the taxpayers, (after
waiting long for u Republican VINO
had promised to do SO, and failed, y
moved resolution, instructing the
Attorney-General to move forthwith
against all these notorious offenders,
and prosecute them as the civilized
world says they deserve. That reso-
luton passed both branches of the
Legislature unopposed. Ten days
thereafter, the partnership OF the At
torney- General with the ex-Attorney-
General Haunted in all the official
newspapers of the capital and the
State, and their office was publicly
opened in the State House, where
then sat the Legislature, which had
but just unanimously instructed The
Attorney-General as above; and the
Attorney General knew the persons
whom the press and the public charg
ed with the frauds which had been
committed, and he well knew that
the partner whom he had selected i'll
contempt OF the Legislature, in de-
tiancc Of decency and dignity, was
the arch-iiend whose malignant plot
tings lighted the way OF the shame
less crew to the plumber OF the citi-
zens and the degradation Of the SOW
ereigniy Of the State. But the Green
Vile Rcpubl;ran SAYS this Attorney
General F" has showna pluck and self
respect Which ara creditable to him,
and may be useful to political oppo-
nents her r.ailer.
The Acknowledgement knows the
guilty parties. 1t is his sworn duty,
independent of any instructions Of
the Legislature. to prosecute them to
condian punishment Has he done
it? VIII lie do it? VIII any law
yer ever relieve our downtrodden
tax-payers ? Never.
The farmers are gathering in the
West, in the East, in the South they
are organizing they are almighty !;
arA they are just, unambitious, vir-
tuonc, frugal. Cromwell was a far
lner. His resistless Ironsi1es were
farmers. They rose for right and
liberty and law. No enemy ever saw
their backs. They overthrew ;yrants,
corrupt rulers, tEiieving Legislatures,
ana !he whole combination, linked as
it Was in rings and robberies over 1t
ruined rea!m. This State, the South,
the whole broad republic, is owned
and supported by farmers. They ask
to be let alone. They are willing to
feed, and ciothe and educate the
world, TO pay the just taxes of the
Government, to support wise and just
laws-of their own making, though,
they must be hereafter Conven-
lions, and cliques, and Congresses
and Legislatures, have abused and
prosecuted them into action and re.
form and redress is their watch
word.