The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-08-28
The Charleston Daily News OIL the
Compromise Of Parties.

10Th instant, headed, "I'he Proposed
Third Party" which is chiefly in reply
to our leader of last week, OH "Now
PARTIES"
The Nees agrees with us us to com.
promise, but says that our idea of union
between the respectable men Of both
parties in the State upon the basis of the
success and irrepressible power of the
Republican party, sis shrewdly con-
ceived, but Mahomet must come to the
mountain, for the mountain will not
go to NIahomet."
Now the question is which is Mahomct
and which the mountain. Truly the
Democratic party, with its superstitiious
aeeotiomt to faded hopes and protest against
settled issues, is well typifed by the great
Father of pagan superstition: while the
Republican party, the cmbodimcut of
ideas which govern the world, the great
lever of political progress, may we'll be
compared to the mountain whose mighty
shadow stretches over this vast CONT
nent, and towers above its pigmy oppo-
ncnts.
The 4Ne'cs says that the colorcd voters
ofthc State will never vote with this
Conservative party, we ask whether
they will ever vote Dcmor,utic Ticket.
They have already throughout the State
in the Township elections, united with
the whites in clccting cnmpromisc tick
ct. The respectable colorod men are
alike disgustcd with Radical corrup-
tion and deception, but to Republican
triumphs they owe the priceless boons of
their freedom aud their suffrage. VIII
'"'y, We "sh, c'cf 'olc Wllh party
whose prcjudices arc opposed to both
these boous, and who see in the dclusive
prospective of their own wishes the time
when they shall be deprived of them.
No. compromise upon this Repub.
lican basis is ohc only feasible and hope
ful one. Such a compromise is no
"shrcwdly conceived" idea of ours. but
its experiment has been success in Vir-
einia, i'll Tennessee and it is the ruling
party in North Carolina and Mississippi.
The Acrs asks us ''to pause and think
what this name, Rcpublcanism, means
i'll the ears of every Carolinian" 1t is,
it says. identified with every insult put
upon our people by tl'e mailed hand of
authority; with every wrong We have
been forced to endure !; with our every
disappointed hope ; with every blackcncd
home, and devastated field with every
sorrowing daughter and every martyred
son. Here our contemporary mistakes
parties again 1t is our Democratic resist
ance to an irresistible fate that is ident-
fled with our melancholy defeat and its
train of disasters and humiliation. To
this old party, with its Quixotic valor and
dciusivc hopes, do we owe all our losses.
our ruins, our graves. The Netcs asks us
to leave our position, and ally with the
party, whose prestige is failure, and
whose fate is disappointment. No the
reaction, IN the minds of our people,
after the woful and complete overthrow
of the Democratic party, last fall, was
too deep to be removed by this the "old
story of its supporters.
With all charity for the Charleston
Nc'cs, we see no hope for its cherished
party. We see no hope for the redemp-
tion of our State from the vandal horde
who prey upon. her heart, by Democratic
effort.
This Union-loving American people
will fight, will legislate down this party
again, the colorcd people will as solid
unit oppose it, 1t cannot live again in
the South.