The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-11-20

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plate of the demagogue and the shield
of the villain. As an illustration OF
this fact, you have but to cast your
eeys back. How incumbent it is upon
the coutry, North, South, East and
West, where such grand results are in-
volved, aud such dangerous sequences
are sporting upon the hazard Of the
die, to establish such arrangements as
will ensure a moral tone among over
the desert waste, through which YOU
have just passed-fu!l Of sircccos with
out an oaaes; when after long aud
bloody conflict, in which the North
had t:iumphod, as it would be supposed,
had glutted their revenge by tho manu-.
mission Of our slaves. In the stead,
when they had given them the right Of
suffrage, leaving them and US to work
our own destinies, they sent down upon
us horde of land-piratcs and robbers,
who seized upon the passions, prejadices
and supcrstitions Of the Ignorant aud
untulored African, worked him up into
material Of discord and ruin, arrayed
him on the side of theft, robbery aud
arson, encouraged batrcd to education,
culture and property, elevated ignorance
above intelligence, falsehood and crime
above honesty and obedience to the
laws, levied anu exacted upon an i'm
povcrished people an erroneous and op'
pressive taxation, without representation
and held US under tyranny and bon
dage more Calling than that OF the Car
of Russia, or even the Sultan ofTurkey
Aud this under the free inspiration Of
the constitution. for which our fathers
fought, bled and died, and in view of
the sculptured form of the Goddess Of
Liberty; the limbs of which our fathers
helped to chisel. Not satisfied with
this, they ordered the armies of tho
nation to enforce this great wrong. and
this gring outrage, with the bayouct,
upon an unarmed and deteDceless peo-
pie.
NY fellow.citizens, Gen. Grant can
never take bis place BY the side Of the
great men Of this nation. True, ut an
immense sacrifice Of life, he led armies
successfully to battle. He has shown
nerve, firmness and resolve; but by the
side of his great antagonist, Lee in all
the manly virtues, he sinks into iusig-
nifcance-whether We view them
through The glasses that look deep down
into the human heart and draw out the
fbres of its great pulse, o.sin the strut
egy Of managing and leading armies OF
men to successful issues. If the picture
had been reversed, what change the
world would have witnessed? Now,
while the one is travelling acrosS the
Atlantic, fetcd and honored by the
potewate and ,yrant, the other is
calmly sleeping "his last sleep" be-
meath the willows OF Lexington. His
great heart is broken and silent, but
his memory will live forever, presenting
in character and in worth of all Aricri-
cans, the pearest approach to the father
of his country.
The campaign of 1876, both national
and state, will ever he designated as
the most memorable the world has ever
witnessed. 1t carried within its I'M
mense bosom the materials of war as
well as of peace. The tendency Of for
eign wars is 20 cement people but it
appears as one Of the inscrutable facts
OF nature and Of life that no nation has
ever escapcd those internal convusions
which find their parallel only in the
volcanic upheavings Of mother earth,
whose gathering fires deep within her
womb belches forth as If all the angry
passions and maddcued furies were dis
titled within her. The splendid and
beautiful forms Of Greece and Rome
were torn INTO bleeding aud maug'ed
carcasscs by their fiery sons. Germany
dragged her heavy and turbulent exist'
ence through war Of thirty years.
England has felt the horrors Of a
doomsday book and the war OF the
roses. France, revolutionary Franco,
the land of the vine and the dance, mas
seen her terrors Of blood. Can We ex-
pect to pass unscathed and unscorcfed
along the drcary and bloodstained path
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A government whose vitality does not
lift itself superior to the throes Of revo-
luton and is wanting in hearts laden
with the fruits of patriotism, cannot live.
The 9TH of last November witnessed
the sublime sight Of the citizens OF this
immense government assembling at their
various election precincts to deposit
their votes for President and Vice
President. Two great parties, Demo.
cratic and Republican, were arraycd
against each other. The great ques-
ton of national interference with the
internal affairs of the States was
then undergoing solution. The par
ties struggling for power, by an ex'
traordinary incident which may not
occur again IN all the history of the re-
public, were so equally divided that
Congress settled the question-big with
such momentous issues to us-by the
appointment of commission whose de-
cision should be final. The Republican
marty of which Gen. Grant had been
the great exponent, represented op-
pression and interference with the rights
Of the States. The commission decided
in favor Of Hayes and Wheeler
Whether this dcclsion was just or not
!, :. :, not our nnrnnsn 10 innuire bul