The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-08
CH A RL.ES TON
SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8. 1863
What Are We Coming Tos

What Are we COmlhS 10 sr,-.-.
If any. additional proof were needed to
establish the positionitaken: by the Demo-
cratic Convention; that our State govern
ment is unconstitutional, revolutionary and
void, the demand is being supplied daily
iby the crazy Legislators who are fussing
and Illuminating OF Columbia. ae - - - =;
As in the last days Of the Roman Empire, ll,e4,
Offices of State are here aecessiblee to the
highest bidder. And for the convenience
Of the purchaser, WIN may be creature
living by his wits and finding it impossible
to pay in advance, the settlement of the
Glittle transaction" may he postponed, until
he is indicted into Office and gets; control
Of the public funds And further, should
the credit Of the officer elect be Insufficient
to secure the required bondsmen, he is al
lowed to qualify upon the guarantee Of pau.
pers and bankrupts: The Legislature; SO
called flowers the bonds and refuses to pun
lab the fraudulent securities upon them;
Henesforth the only qualification for Office
in South Carolina is, that q man should be
aErenegsde, an adventurer or o negro. This
is the msgiatrsoy which Republican wisdom
has forced upon thspeopls of q coequal
statsSf the american Union. 80 -.
We esllths attention of pstriotal every
-xhsrss to q the monstsquy moekery Of govern
| ment which noT, Launches, it's edicts from
Janney's Hs1IiHn Columbia By their recent
I vacation il I'll iof Offices they have displaced
every magistrate q, character in .;i''uq South
Carolina. ii They give US over to q rule 90
base and mean, so contemplate in intellect.
iandsoldsgradsdin morals, that the Tyranny
of o Dictator would, in comparison; boa
blessing: = '1 =. a;... ...T .la, 70 n.i.
Their lie recent conduct in regsrdto Charlss-
ton shows what We may expect hereafter,
anybody drifting into ths city, and remain
ling hare tsn1iaya,. is allowed toi4yotas8 for
municipal officers. The: design ofthispro+
z Vision is pateht::sit isto bring shiftless,
mesesnary multitude from the. whole vicihhi-
aga Df. Chsrleatons from ISLAND cabins and
squatting piaeesUnthe mainy and,inundafe
the bahot t.box; With i1fh alien votes. The more
Intelligent colored people in the city are
beginning to,sbapdon the. Radical poll
itioians, who,= therefore, resolve that they
will SD ninnon the country to the rescue.
The city is, to be denied the privilege Of
for its own officers. BY Legislative
acti 1,sit is given over to the control of
s"handa" from the rice swamps and the
cotton laelds, ana Goths and vandais from
ths:woods-r What prosperity, what secu-
xity; what public order can we. hope for,
under circumstances Ike these7 TX il
We look viii blank amazement on the
tragic.comedy Of government which Repub-
lieanism has invented for US; and which the
bayonets Of the United States uphold among
US. What will'bee tie result OF al this. folly
and knavery to which We, are required to.
submit The moneyos the State viii dis
appear, Of cudrse-and theccarpet.bags
Wei msy even hope tnhaar, after. awhile,,s
that Mosssvamosss, finding theerminel top,
hot for tits lstitude q But what are we to
do, with. this. anarchy of legislation; with
the nsm rights and, the new wrongs spring
ing up every dsyi; with rival, constitutions
and ths conflicting preeedents established
By them; with provisional acts which in
vads the ad interim constitution, and also
neatralise each other ?? Since ConBrH- left
there IS 10 one at handto keep the legisla-
hon in Janney's Hall IN order. Confusion
is worse sonfounded. The ship Of State is
.ruddsrlsss, and floats at the mercy Of winds
and waves upon q stormy sea-hererew dis
armed and bound, and set Of .vilfanous
piratss. caropsing in. her cabin as she labors
oh. Is it 10 be imagined that he.will drift
by chance into haven't .-"' =:
LET THOSE Of our colored people who dis
trust the advice of their Southern friends
listen to the words Of that bitter. but able
and 'optspoken Republican journal, the New.
York Times. That paper, in its issue Of
Tuesday last, frankly says: "We have never
s.for moment doubted the permanent po-
s.litical supremacy Of the white race over.
"the whole vast and fertile surface Of our
sSouthsrn States. The oolored mans party
.'has lately gained success in some elections
s'in the South; but while the white race has
Con its side numbers; development. intelli-
sigence, property and organic superiority,
ssit is impossible for 9 people far behind
s.thsm, in all these points to retain, for any
'slsngthof time, even show Of dcminaney;
stAfter the settlement .of all the affairs Of
-"the Southern States, we expect to see 3
J'tIafge white immigration there.zaAnd the
.sSouth will become strong and energetic,
ssand free, and rich, and attractive, and
.'more sunny than ever"
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The Radicals may falsify good many of
their acts but they cannot deny that what