The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-05-29

ing it a hiss and seoff in the eyes of res
,pectable and decent people,"
Ard this is the choicest bit ofan:
Tho disgracefuL exhibitions or pertor-I
mapces Of the City Council of Charleston
are ap essr!ass.s:::a &; disgrace to the Repub-
licans and citizens OF Charleston. Such
men must be kept out of Office. Such
disgraceful scenes. brought about by low
bred scoundrcls who have worked them
selves into position in the Republican
party, mast be stopped, and the sooner
the better for all concerned. We think
that poor Charleston has suffered trem
endously and she has our sincere SYM
pathy. If she can possibly bear this last
horrible afiiiction, p brighter day will yet
dawn for her. Such scamps as now dis
grace her City Council are short-lived,
aud we hopc their end will be the hal
ter" 49,,
This is brave talking, but the News
will soon learn that it will not be per-
mitted to hold with the hare and run
with the hounds; or in other words to
be Radical paper aud expose the "cor-
ruption, dishonesty and fraud" of the
Radical party. 1ttmust either take Rad
icalisn with all its faults, or come over
to the side, not Of Democracy, perhaps.
but of honest, straightforward opposition
to the party which is doing its best to
ruin our people aud the State. Which
course does the News prefer?
The caption of the above article is put
to us i'll the form of query, intended
to elicit, or extract from us IL declaration
which VIC never expect 10 make, viz !;
that We will advocate the worn out and
jadcd principles Of Demooiacy. But if
the Charleston Daily -Icrs above quoted
from, is really dcsirous to know whether
it is our intention to belong to the Re-
publican party and thus to dcnouncc the
dishonesty and indecencics which may
occur in it, or whether we intend to
throw vail, or covering over any thing
thtt partak>s of dishonesty, every thing
from which honest men would rccoil with
disgust, horror and repugnance, we do
without any hcsitancy whatever, pro
nouncc the former to be our determined
course. But before We e, further with
this-wc might say scorn-extorted
definitions of the policy and politics of
our papcr--we rcpudiatc and I,ny the
cpithct Radical being in any wise ap-
plicablc to or characteristic of the
views entertained by Athe&ditors of the
OnANGEBunG NEws.. elh,rc is a
ulneronoe, ..-, a.ns s...,a am
porary knows it, striking dissimi-
larity between R,dicAlism and Rcpubl-
canism. lhcfe is no approximatiny of
the two terms, and while we profess aud
publish, that we are Republicans. and
intend to advocate Conservative Repub-
lican principles, We shrink nerv,usly
from the idea of ever allyng ourselves to
the principles or doctrines inculcatcd
by extreme Radicals, by men who have
nothing in view but an inordinatc desire
for gain, for the means by which to live
with little or no regard to the mode and
means i'll which il is obtained. No, VIC
consider it on. high. duty and priv:
'ege to expose, and make an open cxhi-
bition of every thing that could be pre-
judicial to Tie public interest and welfare
OF our country. Aud this is more than
any Democratic journal has ever had the
boldness or honesty to do, with the evi-
dent frauds perpetratcd by that party ;
there is not upon record single instance
where Il democratic newspaper ever
damned its party by stripping it of
its mask of conventional dcusions by
attempting to expose any of the corrup-
tious, certainly known to have occurred
in the democratic party, while this
course OF straight forward honesty, and