The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-10-07

in that speech? On the contrary,
everybody admits that Governor
Seymour, by accepting the nomi-
nation, yielded whatever in his
previous views did not fully accord
with the platform. The same
reasoning applies to General Blair.
He is bound by precisely the same
obligations of personal honor. If
there is anything in his Broad
head letter inconsistent with the
platform, he renounced it in &C
cepting the nomination, just as
Mr.. Seymour made a similar re-
nunciation if there was anything
inconsistent with the platform in
his financial speech. The candi-
dates of a great political party
stand in a representative capacity,
Their honor, which forbids them
to accept the nomination of the
party unless they have previously
agreed with it in essentials, binds
them to sink minor differences.
Whatever the Times may think Of
the ethics of such matters, it can
not be permitted to make a diff
ferent rule for the. two candidates
of the Democratic party. Our
cotemporary must either hold that
the Democratic party is pledged
to all the previous views Of Mr..
Seymour, or else admit the party
is not pledged to all the views ex-
pressed by General Blair previous
to /; his nomination. The Times
may take which hornof this dilem-
ma it pleases, but We shall force it
upon one Of them. d..
In our opinion, the contingency
contemplated 6y General Blair in
his Broa.laead letter is asuer likely
to arise. The example of Georgia
demonstrates that everything de-
sirable can be accomplishe d
through, the agency of the new
State governments. hefactthat,
in the greater part of the South,
the white citizens are majority,
and that they monopolize the prop
erty, the education, the social in
fuenee, and the political ex-
perince oftheirsection proves that,
iflet alone, they can mould, their
institutions into any form they
please. There aUiH be no need Of
dispensing the aae'0 governments By
force, because they can so easily
be made the agents Of their own
reformation. Encouraged and sup
ported By the public opinion OF the
whole country, as the Southern
whites will be by the election of
the Democratic candidates, they
will have no difficulty in revising
the present constitutions BY meth
DDS so free from legal question,
| that no federal interference aol0 be
possible to thvart and none neces-
sary to aid them.
We are confirmed in this view
by the fact that theingenuity ofthe
Times itself can descry no other
remedy than a refusal to admit
senators and representatives from
the States which thus transform
their governments. In an aftlcle
on the 18th inst, upon the ex-
pulsion of the negroes from the
Georgia Legislature, the Times
said:
How the wrong may beremedied
is a question we are not disposed to
| answer with the same degree o1
! confidence. 1t is a difficult anc
delicate question. The House has
| a right to decide upon the election
and qualification of it's members
and no State Court has Jurisdiction
over it. An adverse judgement
may be announced, but the pro
minent advocates of expulsion
have announced their intention tt
disregard it. They claim to bt
Judges of law as wellas of fact, ane
will heed no opinion or decision a
/ variance with their action. VIA
! then, can Congress dog NAY no
the Senate and House in turn osser
their supreme control ouer elections
ang qualifications, and respectively
refuse to admit the senators and rep
rpseatotfres avhom Georqid a0iU SEM