Year: 1871




Sometimes when seriously rejecting
apon the situation of our native land
itsrapid advance in ruin and decay, and
finally to bankruptcy-untler the rule
Of mercenary demagogues and the ia
natica1 negro, we become impatient and
restless. But when we turn and reflect
that there is a God who holdeth the
nations in the hollow of His hand who
the sparrows that fiutter in
the whirlwind; who numbers the very
hairs of our head one who careth for
US; we become perfectly confident that
the time is not long when we shall
emerge from the weight of oppression
and wrong brought on by carpet-bag
rule, and in time see those wicked dem
agogues crushed beneath the wheel of
their own creation.


1t is natural for the proud Southern
heart to become impatient under the
bold, open and defiant frauds practiced
upon them, but to conquer this noble
impulse, we have only to reflect that it
takes time to effect great changes in
human government not only time,
but self-government, ,self-possession and
cool consideration. When men loose
confidence, they become reckless and
deeds Of rashness follow.


1t is our privilege at this dark hour
in the history of this revolution to ex-
hort our readers to confidence and pa
tience. Our own folly since the surren-
der has had much to do in bringing the
enemy into power; for however just
and right may have been our action,
yet it was magnified into Il gigantic
wrong, and turned the frowns of the
government upon us. Just at this period
in the great drama, the continuance of
the enemy In power is dependent upon
the rashness of Southern blood. The
so-cal1ed Ku-Klux in the South is worth
a million of dollars in the election of
1872 to the Radical party. Where they
can find one, a thousand will rise in
the vision of the North. So anxious
are they that Ku-Klux should exist in
the South, they manufacture them out
of negroes and carpet-baggers. Their
hope of spoils hang upon this one thing.


This being true, what is our duty as
prudent men, watching for the hour of
our deliverance? Let us be patient un-
der the evils that surround us, and re-
member that where sin abounds grace
will much more abound,-that as in
Radicalism we are all dead, SO, in the
living Democracy of 1872, shall we all
be made alive! Let us confidently hope
and with patience wait for it. The in
heritance is ours and our children's. II
will come; the time is not long. The
great American heart is now pulsating
for freedom from fraud and corruption
and wickedness in high places.


Let us be content to live under the
cloud for time. Let us smother our
raging Indignation and master our eve
ry moment. Let all these ungodly ad-
venturers and base deserters of early
manhood, walk up and down the high
way of Southern honors, gathering by
wholesale the earnings of an honest and
virtuous people. Still let us be patient
in endurance, looking confidently to
the hour when the reapers and their


money will perish together, leaving a
name of shame and disgrace.


But while we exhort to peace and
quiet all over our land, we would not
have the people forget that the contest
of 1872 will, if we do our duty, bring us
the long DELAYED deliyerance. We
would not excite popular passions, en-
revenge, nor treasure hatred
none of these-but we would have the
people prepare for battle. Get ready in
heart, mind and preparation. Put on
the whole armor. Pull back the de-
serter; strengthen the weak and falter-
ing; embrace the fallen and raise him
from the mire. Then with patience let
US wait in confidence for the conflict
and for victory.