The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-05-09
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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1868.
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Tho Dbdml5tritfc Party of Joangoburg Dis
'rie' Aas essidsa sis s IS sntsT arena boldly for
tho dnsuing, elsctieai. \, ticket has been
aomihated,s toHahich, none .onn object ;ifsr
10 oafJiaSsss aalcqcnfaidatas, NONE, ! hut our
most Woi4ssx oissx popular cltxc,is eana every
section fS h'hs il
upon is,iIi il ne c9nsFegaton Of Office
BY proeaasih,t, laschcs.wllq pnly desire to bleed
the publictpatsc, !und are Induced to enter pub
lie lifs 'Byfa aesiretof greedy gain it has on it
tho namp of no one, who has been bought by
tho lsve sd'f IF stths uego desert his principles
and Who Aas pbppqonfd The faith of his heart
to woisl.ip eqLpEN5 CALI, merely because it
is ofGoLpy there nre no .ulREL1SGs on that
tickdt,'a aud We rejJiceito say;it. 1t comes Be-
fore ! inen Of ssBurg for their votes as n
ticket IF dha tha olasn E5 tme, When Offices sought
tho ,Rep, and not the men, tho. Offices. AS
such,orefyiinlan who, observes to have vote
will vote fjr'it, and We arc happy to statc, that
We d. not despair of overcoming the seeming
odds, aPd of sqrao'wning. it With the laurel of
Nsf'tJ 'ads I'm. sItsr III,
Tolthis ondy det every man work with II will,
from'this tiihc forward to the worry day Of the
election '1f each c,hploycr would perform his
duty faily, ma instruct his employees properly
tSiHt 70 i,3ty1i3 iial}. .., Is /,
uponthso great questions which arc involved
in tlha,issAc, ,wc think that. thero would be no
doubt the success of tho right, in the
coming 'co.tcst.p 1t is nutter of no little mo-
.ncny 'Whiat co,,rsa tile colored people may take
in tfiis matter. III III tho st election, some allow
ance was to be made for their ignorance, some
allowance was to be made for the effect of i'm
positions practiccds upon them by unscrupulous
political a!lyc cnturcrs, some allowance Was to be
.i,,s ms
structed blythe white people of tho country as
to tho true issues before them. But now, it is
our. duty to remove all ground for such cx-
ouscs; Let US fully instruct the freedmen rs
to thaImeapipg q: their votes in this election.
l.ct- -tlicpl plaiplys know, that to vote the Rad-
cal'tickctmeai,s pure and full hostility to their
best fficnds. g There arc no questions ut issue
in tlissstrugglc. which even remotely affect
thqir rights IL the community fer no const-
tutional questions arc to be decided by their
ballqts-, They ,hRYe poltansd already, all that
their aaltooatcs hive claimed, for thewi; and
tlsyAte toldby their political lenders ofthc
past, that their rights frccmcn are complete
ly SinSisated, The ignorant black man mi.
perhaps bc paydenTtcdd d for voting blindly at the
bollest,of his League, when hc was told he was
voting to secure himsclf from slavery, and that
sueh'ikas The issltc before. llm But now, the
case is vastly different Upon -merc local
esssssiSa ; His yots t1ie interests Of
thu s1p 1pl. Y4e gives him employment by which
he supports hin,sclfan his family to assist
infostorins dponat,s as District officers, set
ofrolHichl ilmekstewniId needy adventurous
il %Roso Shlahds no public funds will be safe
and whose tffY"SSph i1s isths triumph Of pa'rer
iSmf oyer principle, this is to exceed the limit
ofavsdend',rancc, g, -7ths is for the colored man
to say that he cares not for the friendship Of
tflewliife mch ofItlc country
"And wes d, not believe that tho colorcd pco-
pie will SO grossly mistake mis-! their true position.
We look back upon. .their.aciion in the past,
aiid'wS sce TINT inr tho dhysiof the war, they
wcrc," III the mnn, l;itliful to their station and
their duties we see them since tho war,
mBliiAlea, itis trtqHesi but msled, because the
white .mep, of the South, stunned by tho disas-
ter Of unsuccessful struggles for liberty, were
in aa condition Of lethargic dispair; and be-
sapsa tho enemies qf Southern Rights actively
instillcd false principles into their ignorant
minls, Rfpt nqw, Yc can can observe, among the
Intelligent of tho race, spirit of anxious in
p,iry,,Mhieh. ..s, an omen Of good. Let. us
stimulate and encourage that spirit let us
show C ,eolored people TINT their true inter