The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-08-28

up TO what ~ should be. The organ OF
no party, but the organ of the right, it's
warning notes of danger aud its clarion
peals of duty, ever the voice of wisdom
aud of truth. Not the record of peo-
ple's errors, but the monitor to point
them ever along the path of duty to the
goal of safety.
This standard for the Press may be
Utopian and unattainable, but it can be
aimed at, it can be approximated as near
as human effort attains perfection.
We know too we'll, that to be popular
u paper must take the popular side, must
say popular things; but such course is
gaining popularity Mt the expense of its
own selfrespect-the price of this popu-
larity is the sacrifice of its high object
aud mission.
For us, realizing our responsibility,
aud knowing our duty, we assume and
dare to perform them.
Could we recall the past, reverse the
unrolling of times panoramic sheet, and
fold away what has been revealed, could
the past before the angry war of revolu-
tion had howled over the broad earth
and left our social, agricultural ID po-
litlcai status, beauteous ruin, bright in
in its memorial beauty and destined
to stand in history's archievcs till
the records of our existence shall
all have been obliteratcd, inscribed,
"iosteritat,'! but doomed never to re-
live amid the ssthings of life" again.
could We recall the past, VIC would not.
A hand mighticr than mans is rolling
out their successive phases in our dcs-
tined course.
With all but its grand lessons and its
glorious associations, we have done with
the past! Turn We, turn we to our duty
now, as it has left us.
Results, not of our accomplishment,
nay against which we joined with this
great people in contcuding are upon us.
To do our duty under their existence
and to leave them with their cause, is
our part. Let us act it Who would
say, "Let us mourn forever over our
iate." Is he man who would give up.
and cease to hope, because this Union is
preserved and his slaves arc free, and
vote? No! take these as given the
data of our position, and still maintain
the prestige of our race and people.
High time it is, that our people were
awake to these facts and their dutr un-
der them. Let the cclored man vote.
Let him understand that you acknowl-
edge and would defend his right to vote
and he will vote as you advise him, will
vote for the honest and intelligent of our
race.
This is your duty to your State under
her existing political circumstances AS
civilized and a Christian people we
owe other duties to the colored race.
which we must meet For our sakes
as well as their own, they ought to be
educated. If Democrats 60 to the Legis-
laturc and oppose or ignore this duty, we
say omphatically they should not go
there. If the Christian Church neglects
this matter she fails miserably in her
duty in our new position
To talk about antagonism between the
two races is small, is insignifcantly
small. We owe these people, in their
new relation to ourselves and to the
States, duties as citizens and as christian
people, which VIC cannot evadc. The ac-
complishment of these things the Re-
publican platform in its purity insists
upon and is accomplishing. We dare
not oppose work of the graudest hu-
manity and heavcn-born charity, because