Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-09-04

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my friends, we must forget all this +
we forget or prove false to the rrin-
ciTles Tor which we fought. For my
sell time may instruct Inc low to
forgive; it can never teach Inc to
forget. Let me not be understood
while pleading earnestly and rever-
emily for our fallen. cause, and for
the men who have so nobly sustained
it in victory and in deIeat, as advo-
eating anything inconsistent with
those obligations we assumed when
we laid down our arms. Whatever
faith has heen kept with us-and il
has not been Il stainless one-we must
allow no blot to rest OIL our scutch
con. No charge of Punic faith must
tarnsh our record. If we can leave
nothing else TO our children. let US
at least hequ ath to them a fair fame
andan unbIemished honor. But while
We accept our defeat with the conse
quences that legitlmately' follow it,
it is our right to justify our cause,
vindicate our motives, to honor our
dead. This is not only II right, but
is a sacred duty. We owe it 10 our.
selves, to our children 10th. who
died in the effort to keep 10 free,
that we should cling with mistaken
fidelity to these principles which we
believe to be true. By no other
means under heaven can we main
tain our own respect or gain that OF
mankind. BY no other means can
we escape the doom that awaits the
conquered people who basely hug
their chains, who forfeit their own
virtues in adopting the vices Of their
conquerors,. and who are willing to
barter freedom for gilded servitude
A people qcho cannot be made to forget
IN their bondage that liberty is their
heritaoc, are not apt to remain: slares
forever. When the Norman overran
England, the sturdy Saxon preserved
his hardy virtues and England is to-
day free. When Prussia was reduc-
ed to the direst extremity, her peo-
pie gave their gold and silver and
Jewels in her defence, while they were
themselves content to use iron money,
and iron plate History tells US how
nobly she redeem ed her liberty, and
we have just seen her unite the whole
German people under her conquering
eagles in one grand German father
land. Three hundred years of vas
salage have not broken the spirit ol
Irshmen, and Irish nationality and
Irish independence are still the dear
est hope Of their hearts. Hungary
and Poland will NOT tamely acquiesc
in the decree that condemns them to
perpetual bondage, and even in these
unhappy lands the cry still goes up
for freedom -@'H =
"When some indignant breaks
} To prove that still she,lives."
But what has been the fate of the
| peoples who have. proved themselves
unworthy of liberty and incapable o.
struggling to maintain itg Turn tc
the records Of history, and on every
page you can read the sad story Of
their shame, their degradation, their
ruin. For the State. that sells her
birthright no day Of. redemption cap
ever dawp,;,gas.s ~ sss ..e.., i,
:, "She shall be bought
And sold. and be, an appanage to those
Who shall despise her: She shall stoOE
to be
A province for an empire, petty town.
In lieu, OF capital, with. slaves for senates
: Beggars for mobiles, panders for people
THY sons are in the lowest scale Of being
Slaves turned ever to the.vand duished by
the viotors,
Despised by towards for their greater
cowardice.'
If we wish to escape this fate that
surelycomes to every conquered people