Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1874-08-20
For the Advertiser.
OAK GROVE, Golfers Township,

MEssRs. EDIToRs,-The people OF the
State OF South Carolina remind me very
much, in their managementof of the affairs
of the State, of medical man who in
the management, or treatment rather,
of intermittent fever, waits until par-
oxysn comes on before he commences
to administer his blue pills or calomel,
ard ouinine. The elections are the par
oxysms of the State. The, disease
should have stated first is diagnosed TO
be Radicalisn,, negroism, misrule, ana
thigh Taxes. We the citizens are tho at-
tending medical gentleman. Aparoxysm
is at hand, and very little if anything to
ward it off has been done during the in
terval, the most opportune time Tor
treatment in this disease. The disease is
still making rapid progress to fatal
termination, and still no decided stand
in tho treatment has been taken. The
trne friends OF the State are growing
anxious about her safety, and are heard
to say relief must bo had if it costs us
our all. If tie united heads of the medl-
cal profession OF the State can't save the
State,s,et usinpitc about twenty or thirty
thousand brother Medicoes fromacros
the water and see what their reading and
skill can accomplish. 7 say, Messsrs.
Editors, No have. allowsd an interval of
two long years to pass by without our
taking any decided stand in the treat
ment of the disease which has been prey
ing upon the vitals of the State for the
last seven or eight years. 1t is very
true few palliative pills have been CIV
en-, arda few complaints have beep<
through the papers, ofItne unnatural
God dncuer-imtepaeass state of affairs in
which we And ourselves today.
The humblest of us, intellectually,
could see plainly several years since,
that South Carolina had swallowed q
deadly poison i'll the shape Of Radicalism,
misrule, negroism, high taxes &c. And
yet we have done comparatively nothing
to relieve the State of these evils. Upon
whom does the blame rest? Why, upon
the shoulders of the good, true and ma
tive born citizens OF South Carolina, who
have all this while been in possession Of
the proper remedy. Indeed the Materia
Medica has been lying wide open ever
since the last election, begging to be con-
suited by the good citizens of the State;
and at the top of the first page and at the
head of the list of 4AntiGotes might have
been seen written In legible characters
Immigration, Immigration. We want a
house on the top of every hill in South
Carolina and hitefamily in each house.
Yes. Messrs. Editors, let US see to il
that before another election rolls around
after thesone in November next, that
South Carolina takes @ big dose of the,
Let us do all Nc can III TIC c0uErusS
election in November next, to find relief
for our State, but if we fail let us, as one
man, swear by all that is high and holy,
that the Antidote to be found in In,aRt-
grafton shall be administered, in a big
dose at that, in the next two years after
the next election, if it costs us one half
the land we possess and the last dollar
we may have.
Let us spend no more valuable ui-~ in
reasoning with 4 people who are perfect
ly void of reason; in preaching high
Taxes to people who pay 20 taxes; in
attempting to convince Il race of people
of the necessity and Importance OF re-
form in our present State government,
who are slaves to a set Of thieves, and
are not open to conviction, and who eX-
pect to be made rich by the government.
I repeat, let us spend no more valuable
time in spasmodic, futile efforts to ac-
complish impossibilities; but let us unite
for the great work that is just ahead Of
us-decide as to the means to be used
and let us, as one man. act accordingly.
HOPEFUL.