Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-11-06
ssDamn the Constitution.n

From the Louisville courier.Journal.
The Rev. Mr. Beecher, one warm Sun.
day morning, ascended the pulpit steps,
drew forth delicate cambric handkerchief
brushed away the beads of Precipitation
from off his intellectual brow, and calmly
gazing upon The expectant throng before
him, remarked, a It is damned hot" and
thereupon MI. Beecher proceeded to preach
a.sermon from this text, that had been
dropped from Che irreverent lips of q pro-
fame young man at the church door, and
warned his hearers that it would be a
damned sight hotter hereafter if they did
not mend their ways and leave off swear
ing. Some people thought the preacher
was himself profane in his discourse, eve J..
ry one was shocked by the text, but the
oath thus made conspicuous became cele-
brated all over the country, and has prob
ably checked more than one cuss word
rising to the lips Of irreverent youth.
., When Mr., Andy Johnson was serenaded
the other, night in Washington, be remark
ed that there was o time when all parties
agreed on one fact-namely, that there
was a C Constitution with some limitations
upon the power of the Government, but
that, within the last four or five years,
when measure was brought up in Con-
gress, and its constitutionaGty was ques-
TONED, the reply would be, damn. the
Constitution" Some persons may think,
in recalling all the incidents of Mr.. John
sons Presidential career, that his limita-
tion on this anathema of the Constitution
is too short, but all will agree that the
practlce Of damnlng the Constitution out
Of the way has been greatly on the in
crease Of late. . In the political measures
affecting the Southern States alone, the
early upbraidings of the Radical conscience
we're satisfied by the excuse that the South
began. the profane work, but, just as the
mind can become habituated to any vice,
they soon ceased to regard the prickings
Of conscience, and damned the Constitu.
tion right and left wherever it thrust it.
self in their way. There is SO little hope
of moral reform in the Radical party that
if they. had kept their evil practices to
themselves we would have been inclined
to leave them to their idols with the char
liable prayer that st. Paul offered up in
behalf Of Alexander the coppersmith. but
the evil communications Of the Radicals
have corrupted the good manners of other
people, and we are glad to see Andy John
son coming to the front, swabbing up the
beads of sweat with red bandanna, and
emphasizing the great vice of the country
BY shouting out his text: Damn the
Constitution s,g ~ ~ Tr@#
OF cour. e,the Radicals will keep on in
their wicked ways, but when we hear our
Farmers Oranges and our farmers oon-
ventions, instituted and assembled to
check political degeneration and obring
back our people to the pristine days Of
honesty and: fidelity to the country, call
ing on the General Government to exer-
else powers that are at the least question.
able under the limitations Of the Consti-
tuition, without any reservation as to their
and when we hear as stal1nch
strict constructionist and as sound q iurlst
&c pt2..cs'lsH Johnson ndvisinq the Presi.