The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-08-21

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The knell Of che Democratic party
haa bean sounded. aud il 10 buried. The
phastsm " the ssbeilion, ia shadow af.
ssrshe substance Rzs departed, is has
gibhered, and deluaed, and has disap.
psassd: slifs5E
The ether, the great antsgonis.ic par
y 70 this il becoming aismsnbsred, the
corruption Of iss extreme wings is dis
gussingfshs more Intelligent .nd upright
Of les own members.
Joafuals which wsre the organs Of
that fasorise but anforsunass party, 30
dearto The conquered South, because IL
bore . sesemblance TO its own faded
hopes democratic Journals, noticing
shis disasmbesiing or old parties, advise
Democrats to rally now, in this their
faSosabis .opportenity aud revive their
patty organisation. Their advice in.
wolves two mistakes, one is that the Re.
pablican party 10 really being dismem-
bered; the other is to suppose that the
restoration Of the Democratic party. will
not ensure the restoration oe its antaoop-
isnf towhich q shust again succumb.
TIE Republican party il aos disorgan-
ICED; il is destined 10 secure to posterity
the grand results Of It's martial and DO
litical victories. Upon she field of bat
slsCthat party has saved and perpetuased
this Union. and as the ballot-box, and
by'ics craftsmanship it has revolution
ized Southern politics--sye! her very
civilization.
That party viii perpesuate itself in
perpetuating these its results.
The diBmenbetneut of this party,
now in progress, is but its renovation
and reorganization. zopping itself of
its neakness of disrspute at the South,
and Of its corruption, this party is ally
ing 10 itself the energies of Southern in
felligence and virtue, which has been
dormant since che war, and stripped Of
these weaknesses and arrayed in the
stsengts Of its new material and ele-
meuts, ills preparing to meet the new
questions that win arise from the change
that les own victories have produced.
The Democratic party, unless reorgan-
lied upon the basis Of these established
facts can never reliye America.
If organized upon this basis, it is a
metz party with an old name, and an un-
fortunate though favoEite name.
Indeed, it embodics in itself, the very
principles, and adopts the same facts as
daso, which the Conservative and new
element of the Republican party en-
bodies and adopts in it's reorganization
and % Is IS its basis.
0ur advice TO the people Of the State
IS 70 ssaive the petty prejudice to naa.e,
and 10 aceept the facts achieved by tho
Republican party; TO rcOrganiae beneath
its new and conservative renovation and
further their own material interests.
It seems as though ths were che last
chance left to'ths SoniherR people to
identify themselves with the advance
ment Of these iaeas which rnle the
world.
Admit that Your objections TO this
party is rather 10 It's corrupt representa-
tives, who fiR, to great degree, the
Offices Of our government.
Admit that It is our own fault that
Southazn men do not gil these places.
It Is romantic to cling to hopes aud to
ideas that are associated with the proud
history Of our State, but it is futile.
History notices these fond attachments
70 the impractisahlO with smile, or per-
haPs 9 tear, and moves on in lis grand,
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