The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-09-16
[For the Herald ]
Honor ct Patria,

1ue PioWlnehI question:, tne only one
which exists to-day, is the complete re-
turn, and without condition of the States
of the South to equality in the Union,
the abolition Of that part Of the laws
called the Reconstruction Acts, which
take off from these States part Ct their
constitutional sovereignty; and the re-
storation of federal rights and duties.
The lost cause is the lost cause? Let
the responsibility of it fall on those who,
by their selfishness and Indifference con-
tributed to it's loss. But, let US bestow
our praises and our respects upon the
memory of those who have fallen On the
battle field.
Slavery is dead Secession is dead !!
What we want to-day is programme
disengaged of hate, revengefulness or re-
taliation. We need principles to prevail
by means of the right and the constitu-
ton.
Let our rights and duties be deter
mined as follows: Fidelity to the Consti-
tuition; Union; States rights; liberty of
citizens, and the principles of a free gov
ernment.
All who will stick to these principles
are certain to see the success of justice
and humanity; consequently the neces-
sity to participate in the triumph of Dem
ocracy in the presidential election.
I can not recommend too actively,
my friends, the Democrats, to guide our
populations with coolness in the plain
road of duty as pointed out by the logic
OF events. 1t would be unfortunate that
recrimination ard perhaps threats, die
tated by confidence of success, or sug-
gested by the Union of the Democratic
party with the South, should raise sus.
picions among populations acting under
the pressure off quiet patriotism and
the strength of the right.
pray the sincere Democrats to re-
member all the attempts of our enemies
(Radicals), and those that they will try
to multiply in order to represent the
Democrats as ready to light the torch Of
civil war in the South. This election
trick is too plain to influence in any way
the impartial and rejecting mind; but,
unfortunately, the majority Of the hu-
man race is very easily deceived. 1t is
our duty to caution the public against
every political speculation, and, psrticu'
larly to not give any appearance of truth
to the interested accusations of our enc
mics. The boisterous and disorderly
conduct of the Radicals Of the South,
and the deeds Of violence tried or perpe
trated by them, form an astonishing con-
trast with the moderation Of the Demo
Gratis, notwithstanding all the provoca.
tions given them. 1t is impossible to
establish against the Democrats single
act of resistance against the constituted
authorities, or any riotous assembly !;
when we sec every day such acts perpe
trated by the Radicals. and such meet.
ings held by them.
In different States We see the Radicals
assaul,ing the negroes who declare them
selves Democrats, and numbering some
of them, with the hope to intimidate
those lately enfranchised, who, knowing
to-day their true interests, seem disposed
to abandon the Radicals to stand by the
Democratic flag.
These lamcntable crimes. are the con-
sequence Of the doctrines preached to
the enfranchised race by the contempti-
bic adventures who have tried to make
footstool of the poor ignorant negroes,
without any consideration for the disas-
trous result that they can bring upon
them. l am speaking of that gang that
our people call carpet-basgers, OF these
contemplate political adventures of the
North who came in crowds in the rcor-
ganized States, and who occupy all the
official positions under the shield Of the
military government, who brought them
at their back, and who constantly are
plotting against order and peace in order
to secure per fas ct nefas their usurped
power.
These adventures, to win the conf
dence Of the negroes, told them that they
were invested with every kind of rights,
and promised great things to them, but
they have been careful to not let them
know their duties they never learned
them that the first of all security, in
matters Of right, is respect to the rights
of others.
The Radical party really is the party
of disorder, and its tendency is to bring
about civil war. A great many of the
enfranchlsed who are endowed with nat
ural good intelligence begin to know
these treacherous and dangerous coun-
sellors and are eager to abandon them,
and to rally with the white population
and side with them in the interest of
order, liberty and prosperity to all.
Now is the struggle in favor of Demo
cracy against the anarchical tendencies of
the radical party, which IS nothing else
but party of plunderers and devasta-