The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-25

For il the South ever rises from its ruins, North
ern capital and genius and energy must be the in
struments employed in its resuscitaton. At pres
ent they are all driven away b. tho cold rocoptloI
that has been extended to them heretofore. All that
they want is hearty Welcome, and they will come
but not otherwise; and that welcome they ought
to have. We arc homogeneous peoTlc-th joint
heirs of the Same heritage OF national greatness
and glory. The people OF tho North have already
distinguished themselves in all the walks of sci
! ence, civilization end progress-their commerce
whitens every ocean, and their locomotives arc now
dashing overland through the homo OF tho buffalo
and the Indian to scale the peaks of the Rocky
Mountains and bestow the vitality of arterial cir
culation alko upon Maine and upon California.
Who is there that is not willing to unite his dos
tiny with the future of such people and to claim
all tho extraordinary powers thoy have displayed,
! both in peace and in war; as their own?
| Now, for such as arc willing to seize the oppor-
| tunity as it passes, the timo has como. If you
have lost much, you will only lose moro by oon-
!nual growl. Awake to tho realities Of tho times,
ard conform yourselves to the situation which you
cannot escape President Johnsons revolution
will reach you, first, for you arc hero without
friends and without arms, and will attract the
hostile notice of those who may think it necessary
to remove the allies as well as attack the enemy.
Turn which way you WILL tho power OF tho Repub-
lican party has to be confrontcd-at this power
tho whole nation has stood appalled-but 1t is
yours, if you will have it. Choose now, for the
last time, whether we shall all march onwards to-
gethor us friends and brothers to glorious desti-
ny in the future or turn once moro to the busi-
ness of wholesale butchery On tho ono hand
peace, happiness and prosperity invite; on the
other, starvation, death and suffering await you.
Which will you choose2
Finally, the writer does not despair that the
force of thes, considerations will reach the minds
Of some who will particularly examine them.
Much has appeared in tho public prints calculated
to excite the mind against the Convention now
about to be held, whilst very few have been willing
to encourage the people in tho adoption OF
policy the advocacy Of which is calculated to at
tract odium. If there be any truth in the views
here presented which the people ought to know,
whatever odium may be excited in the attempts to
place it before them, is matter Of very small con-
sequence. They ought to know precisely where
this vote will place them. If they could lave
1OunQ u ITleUu Ill iOUU WHO hOuiu uaNo VIII liOih
frankly where secession would place them, they
would havo been saved all the tolls and suffering
they havo since endured. The revorso Of the pic
ture was never shown to them-all such matter
being excluded from the press-and they were led
on. step by step, to tho precipice, blindfolded,
and then pitched over The very same thing is
about being enacted over again. If the people can
remember tho past, surely they will be wisc for
the future Unless they have the power to ''force"
the Republican party from the plan Of reconstruc-
ton, then, upon every reason that ought to infiu-
ence sensible men, they should 60 with it, and re-
storo the State to the Union; and this can only be
done by voting for Conventionl
True, there is much in the plan proposed which
is unpleasant to the Southern people, and it is but
natural that many OF them should express them
selves in strong terms and no ono would expect
them to "writhe with grace, or groan melodiously."
For these the greatest charity will be demanded,
and should be allowed, whilst others, who may
respect the sentiments, will not acknowledge it as
a rule Of action, but prefer to be guided by those
convictions Of tho understanding which demand
reasons and not impulses as their governing prin
ciples. c. W. DUDLEY.
BENNErTsvnLE, g. c., October %, 1867