The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-16

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Hark! the insulting Provost's cry;
Lot mo front them ere T die.
Now no more mid desolation Ks.
',aA Shnn my name contention swell
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.sPUBLIC OPINION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.'' -
We publish to-day another letter from the New
York Earazd on Public Opinion in South Carolina
We have dons so, however, with some hesitation
not SO much on account Of the minor personal al
lusions, which, although not in very good tasto,
pardonable enough, and pointed enough to
amuse, but on account Of tho very bitter attack on
Governor ORR We think it scarcely just that one
who has endeavored faithfully to serve his State
under very trying and difficult circumstances,
should be subjected to this sort of interruptions
denunciation. But Governor ORR has equanimity
of temper enough not to be- disturbed by such
warfare and if the writer of these communications
does represent any influences which are endeavor-
ing to direct opinion in this State it is as well for
the people to know it. We do not think that those
who at al familiar with the personal political
history Of the State, will misunderstood the drift
and purpose of these letters. l45
To the Editor Of the Herald: a.
CHARLESTON, April 3.-South Carolina woke up
this morning amazed at finding herself at the half
way house the broad turnpike Leading to the in
yiting fields Of diluted radicalsm. The letters on
.tPubGc Opinion in South Carolina" recently pub
ished in the Herald, seem to have been the i'm
mediate cause OF these most astounding political
was no SURPRISE as the city has been full for some
days of sman-fry politicians nervously anxious,
sthke greyhounds IN the slip, straining upon the
start, Z which start was to be made at the annual
banquet Of the Charleston Board of Trade last
evening. But we are too fast. Before we proceed
to recount the oracular at this great po-
YVnY1c
that may thread OF political manauvring which
had been IN progress for a.Teek before in tho pr-
TG,ks F,orly Weatherly late sCommissioner. or
Minister Plenipotentiary from our State Senate
to--Well 70: any and everybody he might find in
cember, went to the Capital, and returned to Col
tion as If he had read . late copy of the Herald;
the amiable Mullins, vino claimed promotion, It
was reported, to the rank Of Brigadier- General.
G. 8. A., for capturing the badly scared ELY (M
81 after the battle of Bull Bull Bun Treseott the
troll the negro vote" By rhetorical orishes in that
paper, making appeals to the beclouded intellect
new chime Of bells. But Africa may probabiv not
see it ii this light. And last, though not least,
his 4axceleney Governor James l. Orr, who for
leader Of thenatonal Democracy in South Carroll
na "a who for two years has, to use his own words
to settle the Rsasa af the
all of which, upon trial, have proved lamentably
1udicrons failures. E31. = B"
This quartette OF politicians have been st some
pains to do something--no perhaps SO much ; for
their country for the purpose OF finding some
thing by which their rapidly falling political for
took about week to decide upon q plan, and il
finally came to this that Orr, who had enjoyed the
highest honors of the great Democratic party, was
to make 9 bolt and join Senator Campbelps side,
which had shown a decided strength by eIectine
thus mere lawyer to the United States Senate at
the last session by o vote Of four to one. As YOU
nd h11r1 fo,1,1 o%k |fo.-
ernor w1fggled TREMENDOUSLY to be forced on this
ani-Democrahc platform four months after it had
We cannot wonder at the Governors Eepidation
tor IN the face Of his past record this little mole
billy 9ia %as very Alp His great prominence in the
ruled by his influence, where he didsnot have the
agacty tand it seemed to require but ttle) to see
that the emancipation Of the negro meant his full
and enfre freedom, which needs must be followed
by 3ts logical results, civil and political equality
with the white man. But the Governor was too
4btqse TO perceive that the sweeping power Of
gro free would also see to it that tile freedmen of
the South should at least enjoy the same rights
Northsuch, for instance, as the right to be repre-
eented to hold equal status in the courts of ms
tce, the right to testify and be governed by the
man. And he was furthermore too blind to scc--a
Democratic film doubtless obs ;uring his mental
yisien-that at least qualified suffrage would be q
All these things should have suggested them
selves to wise and far-seeing statesman: and pnb
lie RoeX reaused that the men in political power
preaching inevitable necessity but have been pre-
pared 10 accept it with composure, without the
ts could not see it.. The convention LOOKING M
TO him as q leader, followed him ini. populeriz-
ing" the constitution, by insisting most strenuous
lima ghonld heneefcrth exclusively be the white:
population. If, }" said Governor Or, g the negro
could no longer be represented as property, be
n T7aa tn ff1nrn
But be was to I b taxed PopgelzstRon 81 paRna
therefore in Governor Orr's lexicon edition 1861
meant taxation without representation and as i
even this were not enough, additional stupidity
was grated upon it, in the shape Of ssnegro
CODE This, doubtless was designed BY his E1-
4eeesssra 1senay as e rea e lss
the gullets Of his constituency. But we have adj
verted to the negro code" already in one OF our
this time of this pet scheme Of our Governor. =
Then there was that Philadelphia Convention
'a % a ugiy bit Of history to get over How
1aee again after shat ssiumphai entry, % arm II in IN
arm, "south Caroliua and Massachusetts,n &C..
e. And g even en- here at home how could raea
demeeratic fth-and this no further back = than ham
Ah, it was trying moment up in that Mills
the eef the great Board Of Trade dinner when en-
his excenency, after feasting with the Hachems
had retired with I'VE have good reason to know
an old and long tried friend of decidedly radical
proc1vites. The scene was dramatic in the
highest sense. Oh for the pencil Of o Ieech. or
even q Mast, to portray it to the life. The Cover
nor, heart-broken at his political infsrmities and
3d,rI pas, in q Eenzy CT despair fell into blank
verse; n. Turning to his quondam friend but nov
would dical leader, he burst forth
sSf; can,st thou minister to mind diseased
qfuck from the memory rooted sorrow @ " ~ n
Rave ont the written troubles OF The brain
9, sS& And, with eone sweet obivious antidoie. g
Cleanse the stuffed bosom Of that periloua stu n
q Which weighs upon the heart. s 5
@ He asked not in vain. His friend the doctor was
ready with the cup Of Lethe.s With face uDtnrninv
and sympathetic tears, IN consoLng accents he re,
Piled Join our partyl stand on our cradical)
platform" :" IS t:s .si ss4s n sI95g -, ,..'I
The die is cast. Gov. Orr was to .lip the leaah
tear asuFder the Democratic bonds and at .
single leap, place himself within speaking dis.
tance of the much constitutional majority.
an acrobatc feat that might have daunted q Han,
Ion, but which proved o. mere; bagatelle to That
more experienced yaulter, Gov. Orr, The train
WAS laid. i The Governor was nervous and reatiyh
during the entre first part of the interesting ear
sises OF the evening. But thanks to his GOOD or
evil star, Gt isto0 soon yet to determine which. .1
all restrictions were removed, and tho portJy pub-
ernatorisi frame expanded, and once more drew q
long ard free BREATH .Of the dinner, the mate
rial FEAST W. C. not: propose toEspeak. IT was
given at the Charleston Hotel and was one Of. ihe
handsmest ever given in this. city, where great
dinners are neither few nor far between. IT We
were To- oontine .onr labore purely tol 4
chronicle OF the speeches, set and inpromptu,
public and private, thebe dinner parties siYs birth
to- your readers would have a fair insight into the
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