The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-14
OH Ar LIE S T O n
TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST IA. 1866.
0UR FRS. .ANNIVERSARY.

Such of the many readers of The DAILY
News as have followed NJ fron the COM
mencement Of eur enterprise, nay possibly
remember that this is the FIRST anniversary Of
the commencement Of its pablisation.
The occurrence is to us Of interest. We
are forced on this occasion to remember the
gloomy prospects Of one year ago, and the
feelings Of painful solicitude with which we
entered upon our unpromising career. We
were then in the utmost severlsiss OF suoJu-
CATION. Our real estate was in the hands OF
the Freedmen's Bureau, with no assurance
Of its restoration; our personal property was
at the mercy Of military marauders, who
heard with incredulity and contempt our
claims of ownership; our colsred popula-
tion were industriodsly stirred by FRENCH,
REnpATH, P1LLsBuRY and others, to every
form of outrage upon social and civil law.
The Republican party were in unquestioned
political ascendenoy; the military meu and
agents of the Frsedmen's Bureau aeknowl.
edged no authority but ia the dictates of
that party the President of the United
States had not yentured then to indicate his
purpose to restore, if it were possible, the
torms Of eur broken Union; business was
suspended; our fields were waste and wild !;
cultivation was everywhere abandoned the
negroes from the rural districts, men, wo-
men and children, had rushed in tens of
thousands to the town, and, feeding on cap
tured stores, infested our thoroughfares, and
were thrust into our finest residences.
Adventaring under such inauspicious oir-
cumstances to enter upon the publication
Of this journal, We had to dance attendance,
oap-in-hand, upon General HATCH and Gene :
raj GILMORE for the privilege to do SO,
which was only accorded upon condition that
we should observe a respectful Difference and
subservience to the military power. Under
such circumstances it is not matter Of sur
prise, nor perhaps Of objection to US, that we
should have been modest in our announce
msnt. We promised to present little but a
record Of events, and such suggestions as
might occur upon the problem of social re.
construction, which was the paramount labor
then before US; and in turning to the record
of the year we venture to assume that We
have at least accomplished as much as we
proposed; and though We are conscious thai
there is much we have failed to do-though
there has been much Of arbitrary power
which we have failed to characterize, as
among q people conscious of liberty, il
should have been; and though We have failed
to present solution to the great political
problem in which We have been working
and forced to realize that We were not su
juris upon the subject Of our fortunes, WE
have yentured to suggest no aggressive meas
ure, and have been forced to accept "the stu
ation;p the chief condition Of which was thu
necessity to await results which we had NJ
agency to control; I've hayeyet done what, il
consistence with these conditions, was reason
ably within the range Of achievement. W.
have seized upon political events asthey have
occurred, and without fear or favor have pre-
septed them in their true conditions; from nj
consideration of interest have we uttered
sentiment unbeooning the spirit of ou1
ruined cause, and have endeavored, and VIZ
venture to hope have to some extent succeed
ed, in presenting the character and bearing