The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-07-08

drep a ssoord or shoaldsred ss usket
for u, or ever you'd have done 30. L,
began, WAS continued, and (fyr the good
oI The whois country at large, il Is to
he hopecl Will end with the lawiess, dis
gushing aud disgracefal rump assembly
that has usurped the authority Of the
whole Go, ernment Of the United States,
and has attempted to subvert the char.
ter OF the peopls's hberties--the con
siitu,icn ITSELF. 's '.'' -f. ..
] have chosen to reply thus in gene.
rM to the position assumed by the
Times, and others here. The Times be-
ing very warm Democrat, takes grea.
interest in tho success or the party
tery! Yesterday Il did me the honor
in its leader TO quote from the letter I
sent yon few days since a paragraph
on the Democratic Platform. In doing
30, II took occasion, in a. paternal wav.
70 make my remarks The basis Of q Low.
ing lecture 20 myself and the Democrat.
ic party OF the Sonth, and the Demo-
cratic party Of the North. The imag
inalion Of the Times discovers dragon's
teeth in that letter. sown like Wild osts
over all the land. Its apples Of discord
nre a. large n pumpkins. and as plen-
liful as blackberties. May not the wish
with the Times be father to the thought {;
or Is il only family anxieiyi
The Times refers % the convention
OF 1900. We beg the Times, and all
Others, not to forget the fac,s Of The
convention Of 1850. will a, the same
time commend TO the Times the old fa
bic OF the wolf and the lamb. aud the
stream Of water-nothing is new under
the sun. The Times in its democratic
solicitude, points with an awful sHnke
Of the head TO the frigh,ful folly Of the
South in that criminal convention, and
With the hand of a ghost motions TO US
back back, ] presume il means.
into what Edgar Poe would have called
" the Platonian shores" With the
other hand, it ruffles up ,he hair and
alternately pats the back Of the North
ern Democracy, and tells them not to
be bullied hy the Southern Democrats
mo, 20 be craven" but to be
"plucky not TO lie plant" but to
l'e strong willed," not TO be "slain," :"
but TO be master" Flingiug down
the bone Of contention in the midst, il
promises jolly row to the bys,anders {;
and then endeavors TO urgs and 10 irri
tate by terms, all whom !, can get TO
follow its suggestions. II wants anoth
er Douglas split, and kindly suggests IL.
Had the Democratic party Of the
North in 1850 stood firm upon the
long avowed principles Of the party, by
yindicatihg the constitution il would
have elected It's candidate, and would
have saved the trouble Of five years
.evers hghting-and some money
The party has never deviated from its
principles, but il has failed. The Times
wants it to f~il. and urge. il to abandon
the very last firm plank il has 10 stand
on. Let the party cut, itself loose from
"the rights Of the States and the
principle that tl,is Is not 4 mougrel
Mexican-Caucasiah--Negro - Indian
Chinese republic, but d government,
of the white race Of the wotld-a ma
tion If ichite naen--and it il swept of
forever into the vast Sea Of new. idea.:
new governments. new powers, hew
rights, new wrongs. new combinations
aud new liberties. Aud IN this change
Il vii! sink into the deeps Of fo,getful.
ness and contempt. with less effect upon
the affairs Of tho world. than the pad.
die al a steamboat upon tho beaving,
,umbling bosom Of the storm io.sed
dcean and no iiiah will be found so
po : to do II reverence"
But why this melancholy piping Of
the Times upon the negro suffrage
questioni II IL because negro suffrage
has utterly failed 10 the Northern
States and has already lifed Up the
Democratic party from the very dust,
and ighiened the Radicals at Chicago
Is the Times frightened ,ooi Keep
cool. aid keep your powder dry, until
Il is in danger Of being blown up, and
then roll in into the water.
Our people st the South want the
Democratic party 10 hoe. And we
want il TO live on tire only real live
issnes now before the American peo.
pie. The rights Of the Sistesa-a white
mans government, and no mongreIixa-
characterization Of faxes. and economS :
in their expenditure ; all other issues
are but by play. Close no the ranks.
m.n, Worth and South
shoulder TO Notwithstanding
let Ia storm this negro den Of fanatics,
fevolu,ionists and thieves! And Han
cock will lead US. and save our consiitu
iion and liberties. The liberties of the
land. EDMUND RHErT.