The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-10

luctuate or go back. In spite OF the terrible
disasters Of the past season amongst oul
friends-the planters-they have still found
to retain the amass t1e
wants that invest them. Their sturdy fidelity
in all issues has ever been powerful in mould
ing the actions and general thought OF the
State. They haze ever adorned lts history,
from the days of Rutledge and Marion to those
of Calhoun and Hampton. Their support Oh
the Mercury has always been warm, and Is
now equally cordial.
Within the city, our subscription list has
steadily advanced in numbers. To inteshgent
business men, whether merchants, lawyers or
tradesmen, it is all important, not merely that
news should be given, but that an intelligent
analysis of the momentous events now daily
transpiring should be placed before them.
For by these not only are the general interests
of the country peculiarly and materially af-
fected, but their direct operation upon busl-
ness Of every sort, in the present and in pros
pect, is of the last Importance. 1t ls very
silly, contracted and shortsighted view OF
business to suppose that it can be disconnected
from the great events that rock the foundation
upon which the country itself and all within 1T
stands, or can be unmoyed amid the storms OF
commotion, violence and change, which
threaten every interest and effect every trans
action.
The Charleston Mercury from the time of it's
erection, has always under the influence OF the
great minds of this State been pre-eminently
the practical daily e9pounder OF the great ideas
which have governed and directed the course
of this State and Of all the Southern States.
Prior to the war, in the hands Of it's present
editors, we believe that it maintained lts lnt1u-
ence, and did not lose its prestige. Its clrcu-
| lation from Carolina to Wisconsin and Iexas,
was wider and larger than that Of any paper
south of Richmond and east Of New Orleans
ho reOn6n.
ing Of the Mercury, we have under all
issues lent our strenuous efforts to sustain
the State against false advisers at home and
reckless violence and illegal legislation from
abroad. Many months back, when the South
was rocking in doubt and cropping in blind
darkness, with much Of the press and many OF
our public men urging the State to come for-
ward with her own voice and make legitimately
her own tho mongrel bastard OF Northern IA
natlcism and negro miscegepatlon, we urged
and implored the people OF the State to De
silent. When others advised them to stretch
their own doom to eternal degradation and IT.
reclaimable ruin, we begged them, with every
argument that time has sustained, to be still,
and not to touch the foul thing. Foremost, We
advised the very policy by which the negro con-
stitution Of Alabama was defeated, and had
our advice been followed in this State) by which
the menagerie at the Club House might never
have been collected together.
We found public opinion in the State and in
the South confused and desponde IT. We tried
to blaze out the path of duty and safety. We
found the constitution ignored throughout the
the land. We tried to LIT it up and again give
it respect and vitality. Amidst the despair OF
friends, and the scofs of mercenary penny.a-
liners, we steadily appealed to its grand au-
thority, until the North rose up gradually to
the solemn conviction that il the constitution
was lost all was lost Steadily the Radicals fell
away. Steadily their Congress has been forced
into more and more lawlessness in the effort to
carry out their scheme Of subversion and
Africanization. Steadily the policy of the
has been daily more and more clearly VIM
dicated, and its judgment sustained, until at
this dav the whole Democratic and Conserve
tive party of the North stands fixed and reso-
lutte upon the identical platform announced by
the Charleston Mercury fifteen months ago.
And to-day the South is nearer to her redemp-
tion than at any period since the battle OF
Bonneville. Deeper and deeper with each effort
is sinking in the slough Of lawless violence and
revolution the many-headed monster OF Black
Repubicapism, whilst from the dust and clouds
of war is rising up, with more and more clear
ness and power, the Intelligence OF the North,
for the salvation of their endangered interests
and liberties.
In the Name OF the Prophet-Brhg!
The Mercury is very funny and does not
know it, Nowit takes to task one of its modest
contemporaries for describing, with native
simplicity the brilliancy of it's fortunes or the
fruits OF it's own ''unaided enterprise, now
it hurls its paralytic thunderbolts at all who
dare to deny that the World is great and the
Mercury is it's prophet. It fumes, and frets,
and ruf1es its feathers In very "dem'd moist,
unpleasant" way, and when it has lectured its
rivals sufficiently upon the duty of being dumb
to their own glory, bursts out with a cooK-A-
DoopLE-Doo which would put the Herald to
shame aud bring sigh of envy to the lips
Of the virtuous Forney. The Mercury crows
Justify, and its brag is unlimited. 1t brags OF
the fact that it has lost no subscribers except
those who we're hard up, and it might be very
good thing for our jocuIar neighbor if it would
strike from its rolls all it's subscribers who
cannot pay. It brags that the Mercury has
been retained amidst the wreck of fallen for
tunes, and leads one to the inference that ruin
and the Mercury are in some sort synony
I. brags of the Rutlcdges and Hamptons, and
throws Up its hat for the idol OF their heart
the Mercury. 1t brags of its city subscription,
and suggests that politics is busines a. its own
business is politics. 1t brags with IlInlble
drollery ofthe great minds which have ilfu-
enced it, and boasts with queer diffdence that
in the hands Of its present editorsit maintain
ed its influence and did not lose it's prestige.
It launches out into a recapitulatlon OF its own
doughty achievements, and hints that If the
State hath hearkened to it's counsel the Club
House Convention would never have been held.
It alludes to it's appeals to the constitution,
and fnally-witha great Tipping Of wings
crows that the policy Of the Mercury has been
adopted by the whole country, and that the
whole Of the United States are, in fact, 20
thing more than the tin kettle which clatters
at the heels of the Mercury, as it runs up and
down every lane and alley Of the great HAS
been.'
All this is O good JOKE but We submit TO our
contemporary that this warm weather is hardly
fit time to kill one with laughter. or course,
it is admitted that the Mercury is very decent
average newspaper, but when it leaps at one
bound into the heavens of biggest crculatlo9,
it must expect to be taken at Its word and chal-
lenged to the proof.
The Mercury says: "We have now no
hesitation in saying that we have tho larg-
est number of permanent annual and SEMI
annual subscribers Of any journal IN South |
Carolina" This is very foggy. What does
it mean? Does it mean that the Mercury has
D larger daily circulation than any other paper
in South Carolina? II 30, il had better not try
to count chips with The CHARLESTON DAILY
News. Again what does it mean by oond
ttde circulation? The NEWS understands a |
bona .fde circulation to be-THE NUMBER OF
COPIES ISSUED DAILY FOR CASH, OR TO SUB |
sCRIBERs WHO HAVE PAID IN ADVANCE, accord
ing to the published terms OF the Charleston
II this be the way our funny |
neighbor understands it, THE NEWS denies