The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-30

AesAuSsSS of THE OhANGEbURG NEWS: 80
The Inst ,issne e Of your paper, announced to
you the face OF the association of a new Editor
in the conduct of the News. saiA,5.9 al;
He makes his first advance then this morn
ing, and while bowing to you with formality
indicative Of a profound respect, at tie same
time extends his hand to you-frankly and
eordially+--the right hand of an unfeigned
friendship aud genuine good will. ed
Amid the varied emotions, that arise so ma
turally upon such an occasion, assure you
that paramount ann m Of all is the desire that we
become friends.
You will remember the fable Of the little
animals, ,eontending for the prize to be bestow-
ed BY the, Princess, upon the one who ss.s."enld
leap thesfarthest.. The frog first advanced
to the niafk and made q leap of prodigious
length, q the infinite admiration of tho spec
tators. Next came the Aea--who darting
away upuin the air., excelled in height the
wonderful achievement of the frog in length.
But last Of all came the cricket, who placing
himself In front Of the Princess-at one unex-
pected bound, leaped tight into her lap:
thus defeating both his rivals and gained the
prize, since Mt one stroke he attained tho high
eaf rnnsitihn in the Kingdom, and overcame the
vast distaiee which formality placed between
himself and his beautiful patron. ;7 1,aa+
In Ike R Rpanner my eforts--not wcarying
with the, length of my effusions, nor attempt
ing to dazsieMith the height of my aaight of
fancy" a-shall be to come homo to your hearths
and chat with you as q friend.
Our paper promises to be .'ilive journal -
realitye Now everything real and material,
ia falliblS and human, and would avail myself
of this h1y introduction to you, when can af.
ford to be little egotis.ic, and to expect a
great dfeaIof Indulgence, to remind you of this,
and to ask for myself that you
sa1Beto my failings a little blind,
,iBdto my virtues very kind"
With the prescntiment that you will meet
my advances this morning in the same spirit
in WHICH the, are made--I feel that We shall
be friends.} s1ota4i.a ,fs.a Il! 5. u-
Thesnezt subject to be treated---and au i'm
portant one--is "our" politics.
You have seen the salutatory in the New
Years, issue of the NEWS, which tells briefly
and honestly the political position of the pa
per. .di7oa ,.l# ,oa <.us..
Individually aud for myself I will be as
honest If not as brief.
A participant in, and severe sufferer by
the result of the late war, have mourned
with the fond .pathos of youth at the grave of
"The Lost Cause mausoleum of per-
ished Idea, a,---arouhd which were clustered,
amid the grand drapery of its funeral cypress
and the perennial laurels Of its glory--the
buds and flowers of my own hearts hopes
But standing at its graye-behoiding its
furled banner, and It's arms "grounded" for
ever, hare realized that it "belonged to the
Past, With its heroism, its romance. its mighty
disappointment, "gone glimmering with the
things that we're" And with the realization
that IL with its hopes, its prejudices, its civii-
cation was sdead forever" have turned to the
future, and realized the necessity of new effort.
Tempora n,utantu; nos et n,ntumur IN Ills.
Amid the social dsorganization, the inan-
ciai and CONNIE reial prostration, the political
revolution, aud the ruins, incident and integ-
raj to the results of the war, new civilization
has dawned, which despite ourselves must
achieve its deaoaen,ent.
The alternative for the South, is either to
r.apdlia sullen and perhaps digni6ed apathy,
and mourn Over the change, or Ph@nix like
from her ashes, accommodating her prejudices
to her changed statutes, and submitting to the
fat Of her own chosen arbitrament, to rise in