The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-25
CH HARLEs S T o N.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST IS, 1863
tn. Proposed Third Party.

We have already noticed the fact that the
Ofangeburg News, the only respectable
Radical paper in the State, is so far dis
gustsd with the corruption and iniquity".
Of the Radical party that it is willing to
support any organization ahiot pledges
itself to universal suffrsge and universal
amnesty. By this our Orsageburg oontem
porary did not mean that It was inclined to
allow the Light. OF. its oountenance to fall
upon the averted faces Of the. Democrats Of
the State. On tho contrary, it said that
whss it meant rk universal. suffrage was
that sverybod should be permitted "to
"vote and hold Office" This was Radical
enough for penitent Republican; but the
Orsngeburg News hes slightly changed its
direction, and in its Last issue prints q
stirring appeal on the subject Of the pro
posed "Third Party The article to which
We refer will be found in another column.
1t is cry to the Democrats Of South Caro-
linsito reorgsnixs a Ia Conservative Repub:
illcan party, 90 tsds the virtue Of Caroline may
81 istrodyeed qiato TIC Republican ranks and
'.sRfaHr AWAY WITH TIN DIGNITY OF PURITY
SITS sLlHlErs OF, WBAKHRss AID yIol "
Our Orsngeburg contemporary is IS en-
phatic as could be desired In oondemning
"the corrupt (Rsdicsl) representatives, who
cell, to q, great degree. the offices Of our
government" And yet it urges the pso
pie of the State to form benestb the Repub
liosn banner, and $50 further their own
''msterisl interests" In other words, the
Democracy Of the State sre to act as o deo
dorizsr OF disinfectant to keep Radicalism
and iesoorrup,ien from sinking longer in the
nostfils Of honest men. They are to fur
ther their material interests by joining q
party which has done Its best to ruin our
people, and which, unless we shore 1t up,
will soon tumble to the ground.
1t will, We presume, hardly be denied.
even by the thorough paced Radicals, thai
ninety.nine .hundredths Of the South
Carolina white. men are Democrats or anti
Radicals. This is the important element to
be considered in all "Tuird Party" oslcu
lations. Upon the negroes Conservative
movement would produce little effect.
Throughout the State the machinery Of the
Union League would be employed to drive
the oolored people to the polls and to pre-
vent them from tampsring with the com
promise par y. The out-and out Radicals
would bid far higher than tho boasted Re
publicans could do, and when election dsy
came it would be found that the mass Of the
oolored men voted with the whites who had
stopped most nearly to the negro level A
large number Of oolored men would vote
the Conservative ticket; but they would do
so out Of the abundance Of their confidence
in the white Democrats who were connected
with 1t, and not because it was oompro.
mise or coalition These very oolored men
would vote strsighttorvea Democratic
ticket as readily ss they would sate the new
nondesoript offered to them 1t seems
then, 10 us, that In aiming at the found.
tion Of third party the chief object Of the
Orsngeburg News and tn ose who think with
II, is to effect an union Of the white Demo
crats and respectable Republicans.
As We have said, there is but handful
Of respectable white Republicans in South
Carolina. In what way are they SO strong
that they can reasonably ask so 600 white
Democrats to abandon their political allie
glance, and become members Of the party
against which they have been fighting for
eight long years We confess that we do
not see single stout plank in the platform
of Conservative Republicsnism. The rea
Simon pure Radicals are strong. They
have Numbers, organization, money, pa.
tronsge, and impudencs uubounded. But
the respectable Republicans have no
strength--in their. party or out Of it. The
Orangeburg News, which We treat now as
he representative Of the small squad of
decent Republicans, admits that the Rsdi,
cal party is disorgsnixing in consequence
Of the kasvery and ignorance Of its mem
bars. Il admits that the Radical party cam
not be reformed without tho healing pres
enoe Of the white Democrats. And it be
lieves, we are inclined TO think, that no
matter how ssrens the infusion Of white
there will still be large
party, which, refusing to be made rsgene.
rate, will struggle, tooth aud nail, against
which is not concentrated Rsdi
cslism The tru' b is that the respectable Re
publioans in the State fad that they will be
disgrsoed if they remain in connection with
our SCOTS and Mackeys and Bowens; but
they know that they cin do nothing unless
they oan cozsn the D ,mocracy into mak,ug
common Cause with Them This is SIRE wdly
conceived; but we say that Mahtmet mus,
cume TO the mountain, tor the mountain
will not 60 to M .nsnst. We appreciate The
glories Of Republicanism; but it is an sb
,urdity for. one man to ask ninety nine of
ais political opponsnts to become converts
o his creed, because if they do not tais
'olitsry warrior will De ruined and undone