Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1876-10-19
Gen. Gary's Ridge speech--Continued
from Ist Pare.


that we intended to put them back into
slavery has been the hackneyed lie Of the
carpet-bagger for the last eight years;
their presence here is like an irritating
cancer upon the body polite of the State.
The second grand mistake that our lead
ers before the war committed, was the re-
fusal to accept the proposition made by
the North, of gradual emancipation with
compensation. This compromise would
have been carrying out Mr.. Calhoun's
theory Of concurrent majorties when there
was difference Of interest involved. 1t
would seem that he had the genius to
evolve the rule, but not the practical Wis
dom to apply it. 1t is a remarkable fact
that ncne Of the great leaders of the
South ever discussed the difference be-
tween free laboraad slave, labor in regard
to its proitablenessi they seemed to limit
their inquiries to It's moral, religious and
constitutional relationsto society and the
government.
Inaspeech of Mr.. Stephsns, Of Georgia
he declared that African slavery was the
cornerstone of the Southern Gonicdegacy,
when the enlightened public Npinih of
The world had proclaimed its doom,
But, if our great leaders mado mistakes
before the war, the leaders of the North
have made blunders since, that Ear sur
passes them. Truthfully has Fouchc said,
"that a political fault, is more than a
crime"
By suddenly striking the shackles from
four million slaves at once clothing them
with all Of the rights and privileges of
citizenship, making them the equals OF
fleemen of the Caucasian race q race
superior in physical, moral, religious and
intellectual development: race the God
created in his own image. and gave to
them the dominion Of the air, sea and
earth. They have, from the earliest dawn
of the world, b;en the champions of liber-
tv, and the standard bearers of progress
slve civilization.
! The dogma of Jefferson, that all men
are created free and equal, was adopted
from the licentious political philosophy
that obtained in France about the time Of
the Declaration of the Independence Oh
America. 1t has no truth III observation
or the laws Of nature. In France their
idea OF liberty is universal equality. Be-
fore the law all citizens should enjoy
equality, but not equality Of position and
condition in society.
In the order Of creation there is no
equality. The Caucasian, Mongol an,
Malay, Indian, Esquimaux and negro
ere each superior in the order in which
they are named, and each dissimilar in ap-
pearance and nature. The lion, tiger, bear,
leopard, wolf and fox are different and
unequal. The leviathan, whale, porpuise,
and sturgeon are dissimilar. The eagle,
pelican and hawk are unlike If we look
to the sun, moon and stars, we see "that
one star difiereth from another star in
glory"
Tie sands OF the sea, the leaves Of the
forest, are all diverse, The rose bud OF
Postum whose bloom never dies, is differ
ent from the rose of Sharon, whose bloom
fades, withers and pcrishes forever. Thus
it appears that inequality, dissimilarity
and difference are IN conformity to the
laws OF nature. Why God made the Cau-
casian the ruler Of races, the lion Of the
forest, the eagle of the fowls Of the air.
the lev;athan OF the sea, is beyond the
ken CT man, il IS hidden in The beautiful
mystery Of creation.
Liberty when forced upon people un-
fiji ior it, invariably proves curse. rather
than blessing. No people can long en-
JOY more liberty than that to which their
situation, education, morality, virtue and
intelligence entitle them any attempt
to force upon them greater amount, must
in its inevitable re-actio2 evcniuaie in
confusion, disorder and anarchy Liberty,
though a great boon, intended fol the ad-
yarcement and development Of mankind,
is inferior in It's influence upon the destl-
MES Of q people 10 the great principle Of
| protection that undel'ies the formation Of
all : -vernmenis.
The protection OF lie liberty and prop
erty is the crown-lewol in the diadem Of
every constitution, whether written upon
parchment OF tie hearts OF citizens 1t
is this great constitutional principle Shat
throws lis broaA&nd strong shield around
the veal: and powerful, the rich and poor
the white and black, the Radical and
| Democrat. Ii is inscribed upon the sLand-
arcs C; iilden and Rendric&s, OF Hamp-
ton and Simpson it is The grand mono
gram of good government It Is such
protection will restore peace in !he
hearts OF those who have been cNGaged
in great civil war. Il is such protection
taat w!ll establish the bands Of friendship
between former slaves an;l masters Il Is
such protection that vii enable The people
OF the Union 10 develop the resources oi
this great country, and cause them to per-
fec; and perpetuatc the principles Of self
government.
Ii will make The United States, in fact,
what it claims to be in theory, the land Of
the free and the home OF the brave. The
second grand mistake Of the would-b
statesmen Of the North, was overlooking
the fact that was proclaimed. by the men
who formed the Constitution; that they
made this government = white mans gov
eminent The original Constitution ex-
cluded negroes and Indians from becoming
part of the body polite, thus making it
q homogeneous governme t.
The wisdom that they exhibited in this
exclusion Of inferior races is shown by
contrast with the opposite action OF those
who, in the year 1924, framed the Consti-
tuition Of the Republic OF the United
States CT Mexico.
At that time Mexico was the equal OF
the United States, in all of The elements
Of National greatness and prosperity !;
with q territory bounded by the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, stretching from the
Sabine River to the Equator, with coast
on the Pacific nearly four thousand miles
long, with a climate Of great saIubrity,
with soil fruitful in the production OF
cotton, coffee, sugar, corn, wheat, oats
and all Of the tropical fruits. A land
where whispering hopes" were breathcd
by the high bred Castillian to the dark
eyed maiden Of his choice, amidst orange
groves and lemon bowers; where, too, the
Indian wooed the belle Of the forest, in
the misty mases Of the war-dance, and
the sooty breasted negro, mated with the
dark daughters Of Africa, without the
formal and irksome bonds of matric:ony.
Under the shadows Of mellow moon
light they breatbed an air perfumed by
the rose and magnolia, whose sensuous