Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-05-15
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From the Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian.
A Peoples Despair. m

The devil's-work of Graatism, Of
/ Radicalism. ip the South, is ALMOST
done. For eight long, dark and ter
ribls years, her noble people have
striysn hsroically against the fate, to
which yankaedom and force bad fore
doomed them. Their State censtitu-
aons have been torn to tatters, and
thrown to the winds Their ystate,
oapitols have been polluted by mobs
Of fhh-sweating orsng-oatangs aud
Cape-Cod bHmmers and thieves ma
king laws for the sons Of the men
who founded the repablic IN their
blood. Their true men have been
branded as traitors and ontcasts; and
acne but their vilest renegades have
been permitted d voice in their gov
ernmental affairs. Polecat- favored
Voodoo sayages have been thrust
into all their highest statiohs,-.as
Legislators, Governors, United States
Senators, and Supreme Judges. Han:
dreds Of their SONS have been seized
BY the armed myrmidons Of despo-e
tisn tried before. juries Of griinning
ck-baboons, and4- shipped to far
northern prisons. = Their sfeasuries
have been pillagedD of millionsa and
tees of millions, BY devil-smazing
.lsnd.piratesriike Bullock, Scott, Pow
ers Jack Davis and Reed. Their
homes have been burned and their
citizens outraged and murdered By
Gdiiaths in crime, damnation eclip4
sing, monsttous bandits, like Clayton,
Haley. ,ffnieiitr Beautiful cities have
been swept BY freebooter artillery,
and pgtrolled by. niger cavalfy.
Hades has puked itself EMPTY upon
the horror -smitten, ang1ished land.
step by step they have resisted,
prayed, entreated, plead in the name
OF Ged and common humanity, agsin,t
these unheard-of ini9sities, atrocities
and thames. But all in vain. And
now, behold the change.l All over
their wretched territories. a cry is |
tor decent despotism, a
respectable empire, dicsatorship,-
iundeyleaven, inprefsreaoe
to the hldeaus sum Of all Jvillainies,
which they, have endured and still |
endure. Under the name ot Yepubh-
canism.,
Six years ago, we were derided as
a madman, denounced as an incendi. |
airy, for declaring that this country
couldn't remain, nigger-satrapcies in
the South, and a white republic in
the North that, If the men of the
North stood tamely by and permitted
all the horrid hellionisms Of bayonet
reconstruction and niger supremacy
10 be fastened upon US Of the South,
we would, in desperation, turn and
avenge ourselves by aiding in plant
ing the heel Of the game accurs d ty-
rapny upon their necks,-tbat the
whole land was. bound to stand or
fall together that, "-All Republic
or all Despotisln" should be the rally.
lng-cry. Of the suhjugated South
They laughed US to scorn for such
in '66-7-8. Who mocks
to-day? Who dues not feel in his
lnmost soul, if he has a soul, that
such policy would be just, such
revenge sweet? And who denies
that such a revolution is not only
possible, but highly probable The
leading papers OF all the Southern
states suggest it. Mass meetings of
The down-tredden citizens of Louisi-
INA indotse it. And in the Arkansas
Senate, on Monday of last week, Mr..
Ratclitfe presented memorial to
Congress, praying Z" that Arkansas be
granted a good republican govern
nent, a good monarchy, or good
lespotlc power.
Men of the South The wall of {
despair is rising, swelling, widening,
deepening all over the tyfanny-tram-
lied, MISUNDERSTANDING 8
Southern Satrapes, mo,v. Hear j
heir cries. Heed their appeals. Or j
s surely as there is heaven for op-
ressed Christians or a hell for evil t
:oers, the day is not far distant when s
he South will be ready, as one man,
0 spring to arms, to aid any iptelli.
ent and ambitious usurper in thrust t
1g upon your nccks the same ac. a
ursed, brutal yoke that gals their =
wn! What's sauce for the Southern t
agile must be, will be, sooner or later,
ass for the Northern buzzard.. God t
osed the day when the whole coan- Z
~ shall be,a' White Republic, or a i
lonsrel Empire with,s Guinea Buck y
r an educated. Monarch on the t
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