Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1878-08-15
A Reformer.ln'Who There IS
No Guile
Butler and Gar Pledge Cham.
berlain in Honsyel words
MIGHTY MULATTo MEN WHO
LAUGH on THE OTHER SIDE
OE THEIR MOUTH!
Blue Eyed Peace Rovers Unchange-
ably Ger the Scene!
From the Edgefeld Advertiser Of Az
oust 18th. lS76.l


gust 18th, 1851
On Saturday last, the Radicals o
Edgefeld again essayed to open an
election campsiga--a campaign which
they hope, is to.give them a new lease
of poxer over the lives, liberties and
pockets of white men. On that day
their triumph uas to bud again-tc
bloom g~orgeously in November next.
Their magnates came, and I'll wa:
rsady-Chamberlain, Mackey, smalls
Hayne, Ellison. The local magnatei
bowed low before the great visitors
The arrival was az flash Of light
Mig. The gods had had eowc down
froa Olympus. Bel&nges drove
Chamberlain. Bouey drove MacKey.
Jesse Jones drove Smalls. Harris
drove JiIlsoa. Cain drove Hayne.
And the dipped an1 benishted negroes
poured in from every point OF the
/. gosapass. Before the sur was sopr
hlours in the heavens, not less V4Sn
one thousand were upon u streets.
But bark What means that yell
1t. is The arrival OF y hundred
mounted white men from the banks
Us SaIuda. They come with no esd
intent, but simply t. watch Their
liberties. Eight years bitter eXpe-
rience has taught them that they
must so watch, or be eternally rqlned.
Aad now they come from every
Township in our broad County. We
have thirty Democratic Clubs, and
s e demand Of our Executive Com
uittee was that each Club should be
represented on tlis day by % mem
bers. ntounted. And noble was the
response. Many Clubs came entire,
and none were laggard. Seven hun
drad mounted men ere soon among
,us-cool and peaceful, cut determln-
led. All our business places, G what
eyer Character, are closed-as is ais1
fne case at Pine House and at John
.zton-and our entire population gives
itself up to co~nscientiSqs Democratic
work. Our County must SO redeem
ed, and no man any longer thinks 81
himself alone.
Meanwhile the Radical host is
steadily swelling, and by noon two
Thousand souls and a Thousand horses
.swarm the streets and envir9ns Ct
D5dgefeld. Tie meeting is to be
held ia the Academy greTe, and the
preparations are unon IN imposing
scale. The negroes have a baad from
Aiken, and their procession is huge
and shcwy. They form a half mile
Ga of town, on the Pine House road,
and march ostentatiously through
our streets. And nos only they march,
but they remarch and cSuntermarch.
Tie Cain pageant Of 1871, with
Chamberlain sacred person to make
np for the absence Of arms, is to be
;oeated. But as We have already
said. the white men Of the soil ar
determined that no such dangerous
insult shall ever again be perpeSyateu.
A. the Radical cavalcade is about
II. Lave the streets and turn into the
read that leads, BY the BaptissC RSseb
TO the academy grove, they are met
bv seven hundred mounted white
man, headed by Generals Gary and
Butller, who c&lmly order them to
bsIr end let the white mea pass first.
Thew halt. And the ciubs Gle in
ront-reach the grove
land quietly occupy two sides OF the
sneakers platIorm-having first al,
9xe6 certain OF their banners TO tht
same. The Radical procession and
4be Radical host follow, and take
isbeir placez on the remaining two
sides. Gen. Gary, as Chairman 9
4he County Cluo, IS MARSHAL Of the
democratic forces. He orders certain
5of bis young men in front to try she
ulatform and see whether III WltlbolC
Representatives Of both parties The
test is made, and the platform, like
most negro work, falls to the eartl
like 4 structure Of straws. Bat stoGi
3Demoeratic arms soon set 1t up, ane
simultaneously Gov. chamberlain
Judge Maekey, Gen. Butler and Gen
Gary mount it. Jillson, Cain ane
Bouey stand upon the extreme edg2
but they soon yacate their marrow
foothold. smalls and Hayne reiaaii
modestly among the band. Cham
ber1ain looks as if had been Gu
down from the gallows. J:dg'
Mackey, the Democratic lion dis
'9uiaed as a Radical sheep deg, has al
Expression OF face that reminds On,
a the lameated Fox IN the panto
NINE of HnmpsgD ampty The stu
atom is Iudicrous IN ihe extreme
enough to make a dead man in4hl