Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-20

SesiA 4Ah0 I ooA oho SAAoo3 Ia W.
are persuaded that no such perse-
cutions as theirssawai you:
P. B. LANHAM, Sec'ty.
TillmaH and Cromwell
Charleston Sun.
1t is the characteristic of popular
revolutions against ong-entren-
ched rule that in their earlier
stages the governments set up by
them become for the time being
more tyrannical than. that which.
is overthrown. The truth is that
it is never the crowned monarch
merely that is overtbroWn, but it
is system-a social structure
which must necessarily grow up
around any government without
some alteration being made in
which the revolution is failure,
however much The personality of
the rules may be changed. Revolu-
tions, we doubt not, although
seemingly only partially success
ful, always effect some appreciable
good in modifying the forms "f
government and in striking down,
however blindly, some conspicuous
abuse which has grown upon the
elder system, however good, COM
paratively speaking, it may be.
3 fisPfoyid I psrha that
EreYol lutions are sell dom or never en-
tirely successful in. prosecuting
their avowed purposes, for anarchy
must necessarily follow the sudden
overthrow of any social structure
of long standing since tits not
within human power, however
good the intention, Immediately to
replace it with an entirely new and
necessarily unaccustomed code Of
laws and uaages. 1t is, then, in
this juncture of popular contempt
for and distrust of old things and
popular helplessness to establish
new that the individuality of the
revolutionary leader, be he de-
magogue or patriot, is magni6ed.
and his will becomes for the time
being the new law and order. Louis
the.weakling gives way to Napo-
leon, the worlds conqueror and
tyrant; Charles's stubbornly inn
perious and autocratic head falls
into the basket by decree of Par
Lament to make way for Cromwell
a greater autocrat than he and the
despiser Of Parliaments.
But after the strong man comes
the. restoration. The people breathe
aslittle freezer; there is a certain
increment of improvement in their
condition to show for the tribula-
ton they have undergone; but
society falls back much into the
same old ruts, it's structure chan
ged but little, but that little we
must believe, for the better.
Cromwell who beheaded Charles
for disregarding Parliament lived
to repeatedly dissolve and drive
out Parliment. Tillman, who over
threw regiment on the charge of
.ring-rule and "bamboozling" the
Legislature, has SO impressed his
Twill on the Legislature as to cause
it to become law, and at his frown
it is now claimed the Supreme
Court Judges tremble and their
decisions are liable to be suspected
as the outcome of fear rather then
the result of undisturbed judicial
judgment.
But after Tillman what will be-
ONE of his masterly and dominant
schemes? Aftsr Oliver Cromwell
came Richard Cromwell, and after
Tillman will come-who2
No one fitted 10 or capable of
carrying on his schemes Of govern
mont. But We doubt mot the State
will have been benefited even
tually for having been ruled for
a time with the road of Tillman,
the strong man. as we believe that
Providence directs and overrles
such human events for good eLds.
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