The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-04-10
The Agricultural Society Democratic
Club.

fNoSiFs sup oSsuaSoh,s VIC gave the 6uVlce
Of our: ootemporary the Charleston Courier,
sndessirg ieas being the course advised and
commended by this paper. That course was
for the people of this State and of the South
'to accept the situation, to 60 TO wors our
selves 70 recuperate our wealth, to invite
Northern capital and labor to our section, by
guaranteeing to persons coming into our midst
Jsssdoa" and Indulgence IN their political e,i,.-
ions and convictions" rstsa 'tH
- This is the course, this paper advises in our
hanest. conviction, as. the best litically and
hsaaeaally to onr readers, and we appealed to
the honest men in our county, divested of their
pFsjudicss, and freed from the shackles of
local influences to bear: us out in our views.
Nov, it is good corollary from the propo-
ssion shat this is the best course for the South,
t.s.sall attention to the subject embodied in the
ieading of this article.
it nay not be known to all the farmers in
Che County, shat there has been futile and
sfbortiye effort made to organize the Agricultu-
raj Society of Orangcburg County-and that
the Democratic Club-that synonym of Qaix-
otic vulor and of ridiculous defeat, was to have
been tho basis of the Agricultural Society, the
nucleus a. aiound which it was to be formed and
organized.
~ Ehat this course was uuwise aud impolitic is
as'cyident as it is, that this was the cause Of
tsfailure. a45
An Agricultural Society from the nature of
its subject and its objects, is entirely foreign
tea political association.
To embody political and party purposes and
designs into such an organization is to intro
duce elements with which it has no sympathy,
and which are calculated to impair its useful
ness. and success. .,..f
-sIMore than this, to erect and form this So
ciety upon The basis of the Democratic Club,
is to found it upon the sand, to plant a germ
Of active and living usefulness in the worn out
soil 4of our effete civilization. The Democratic
Club has been unable to accomplish its own
Legitimate political objects. aud the misc,gena-
tion of its failure and weakness ir'> the Agri-
cultural Society, will certainly destine this
enterprise to like weakness and failure, will
bring down upon it the antagonism and oppo-
,sitim Of those who differ with the Democratic
Club in'political opinion, the opposition of
thOse who desire to have nothing to do with
politics at all.
.s These facts are SO so palpablc and evident,
that the question: must arise, what could have
eBeen the object of those who have made the
oabcrtive effort to organize the Agricultural
, Society, with these materials of weak
/, ness, and upon this weak and rotten founda.
stiop?a a t.a
's9' We judge no man, nor impugn the motives
OF any one, when We answer this question by
saying, that it is striking illustration of that
eneryating and paralixing conservatism that
yhas been the characteristic and the curse of
this State in the past, that the object in view,
was che pcrpetuation of prejudices that are
fatal to advancement and progress, but which
are bugged with blind and unreasonable in
,fatpatiou-that the object in view, was to have
.abasis, a rallying point where the influence of
individuals conld still live and whence it
could still emanatc and be felt-that the o.
iecs in yiev, was to engraft this dead and
sdeadening influence into new and great
idea, tecming with usefulness and life
This party aud individual influence is with
!, cred aud dead, no grating upon living ideas,
dno injection of vivifying influences can arouse
nit from its sleep, salvanic shock can put life
iase j. again, it is dead But tits also dead
s;ss5, aud while no contact with living things
unan make it live again, yet its contact with
new and living principles, will have the effect
Of numbing and paralzing with its eneryating