The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-25
NEW PARTIES.
From the Orangssurg News. |


The knell Of the Democratic party has been
sounded, and it is buried. The phantom ol
the rebellion, its shadow after the substance
| has departed. 1t has gibbered, and dcluded
and has disappeared.
The ether, the great antagonistic party to
this, is becoming dismembered; the corruption
of it's extreme wings is disgusting the more
intelligent and upright OF lis Own members.
Journals which were the organs of that favo-
rite but unfortunate party, 80 dear to the con.
quered South, becauf g it bore resem blance
| to it's owp faded hopes, Democratic journals,
noticing this dismemberIng Of old parties. ad:
vise,D Democrats 10 rally now in this their IA.
vorable opportunity and revive their party or.
ganization. Their advice involves two mis-.
takes-one is that the Republican party is real.
| " being dismembered; the other Is to suppose
| that the restoration OF the Depocratic party
| will not ensure the restoration OF its antagon.
| ism to which it must again succumb.
The Republican party is not disorganized; il
| is destined to secure to posterlty the grand re-
suits OF it's martial and political victories. Upon
the field OF battle that party has saved and
perpetusted this Union: and at the ballot-bo1
and by its craftsmanship it has revolutionlzed
Southern politioe-ayei her very civilization.
That party will perpetuate itself in perpetu-
| ating these it's results -
The ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of this party now in
progress, Is but it's rem ovation and reorgaDlza-
| tion. Looping itself Of it's weakness OF dlare-
pute at the South, and OF its corruption. this
party is allylng to itself the energies of South
eru intelligence and virtue, which has been
dormant since the war; and stripped OF thes,
weaknesses. and arrayed 10 the strength OF its
new material and elements, it is preparing to
meet the new questions that Will srlse from the
change that it's own victories have produced.
The Democratic party, unless reorganized
upon the basis Of these established facts, Cal
never relieve America.
II organized upon This basis, it ls new
party with an old name, and an unfortunate
though favorite name.
Iudeed. II embodies in itself, the very prin-
ciples, and adopts the same fscts a. data,
which the conservative and new clement OF The
Republican party embodies and adopts in its
reorganization and as its basis.
Our advice to the people OF the State ls 70
waive the petty prejudice to name, and to &C.
cept the facts achieved by the Republican
party, to reorganize beneath its new and con-
seryative renovation, and further their own
material interests.
Il seems ss though this were the last chance
lett to the Southern people to identify them
selves With the advancement OF these ideas
which rule the world.
Admit that your objections to this party is
rather to its corrupt representatives, who I'LL,
10 great degree, the Offices of our govern.
ment
Admit that it is our own fault that South
ern men do not fill these places.
It is romantic to cling TO hopes and to ideas
that are associated with the proud history OF
our State. but it is futile. History notices
these fond attachments to the impracticable
with smile, or perhaps tear, and moves on
in it's grand, majestic progress.
Events rush on and become the fixed facts
in the record OF truth. We cannot imeede
this progress. Shall their graves be all that
remains OF the chivalrous and mighty South
ern peeple2 mol This people belong to the
living realities Of the present, aud q glorious
destiny yet awaits them in The future.
Identified with tho facts OF to-day, let the
Southern people take them as the basis OF
their political course and hopes. Principles
of liberty broader and grander than were
known to our naughty exclusion, underlie
these facts-the achievements OF thu Repubi-
can party. This party is q moral force which
is almost Irresistible. augmented BY the latent
intelligence OF our State, at last resigned to
their mighty change, let this party be organ
lied in South Carolina. We ask you not to
affiliate with Radical corruption, but to iptro-
can ranks and fright d,oay with the dignity OF
purity these elements OF weakness and vice.
It will not stain Confederate record nor an
ancestral name to join the onward march OF
progress 1t is but meeting the duties OF the
houri Better, manier this. than to cling with
idolatrous devotion TO hopes which arc dead,
and in whose grave you would bury every as
plratiol, every sense Of imperative duty