The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-09-25
What we Are to Compromise, and
what we will Gain by Tt.

while the question ola new party was
being agitated among them, cried out in
the, stereotyped. Phraseology. of their
partly aWel will ll'never sacrifice our prin-
ciplcs /; nothing is to be made. by COM
promise. And numbers OF our people
were ready, with the accustomed formula
ofnresponse, to cry out "That'sl so!"'
and perhaps TO curse and swear about
it, g5nm sa3ibioe bna F9ga 81
Oh! how much at loss for politi-
cal opinion are they, who are thus ready
to adopt and respond to these expressions
Of ideas and hopes that have been, their
bane aud curse
Fif$ what are we called upon to sacri
flee :? Not principles, simply hopes for
what can never be; simply opiuions. To
pretend that our people cling to an idea,
or doctrine, because it is a principle is
merely ridiculous. Politics with them
means policy. interest. To pretend that
human slavery or the exclusion of the
black man from the right of citizens are
principles, is absurd. Aud the talk.
about tstruth crushed to earth, " is simply,
Democratic magniloqucncc. To accept
the results of the war and the political
facts that have been evolved since, is ~
sacrifice no principle. Our interest was @
opposed to emancipation o. pre]udice
to political equality. u'iese are then ali
that we are calle<dpon to sacrifice. And
what ,,or.. les the madness of our op-
,,..-rn TO these things is that it is USE
less. We are not fighting against recon
struction and negro suffrage; we are
simply protesting against them, now, af.
ter they ere irrevocably settled. We
may love to listen to these Democratic
expressions of bravado aud hope but
they are snares to deceive us forever.
We, are called upor simply 70 sacrifice,
then, that prejudice, that blindly opposes
US TO these facts. The Columbia Phonir
says that we must affiliate with this !
party at the North, and leave it to them
70 fix the name, (and we suppose, the
platform) of our party.
Now the Demoerao,,, ef NIass..el,usests
have euuneiated the new platform of
their party, and it accepts these issues as
settled, and takes them as political facts
to Start with. 1t does uss- the word
postpone" as to these questions; but
this is but as decoy for the Southern
Democrats. They know these questions
will not be reconsidered by the nation.
Now these are the questions between
the two great parties of the country in
which the South is particularly interest
ed Said an esteemed friend of ours
last fall, befnre the election Of President
Grant: '1f the negro question were out
the way, would be Republican"
The negro question is out of politics
now, it is settled we sacrifice no princi-
pies to be Republicans.
The Democratic party can never rule
at the South. Change its platform as it
may, accept issues as settled, until tits
identical with the Republican party, and
the colored man will still suspect that it
has but "postponed" its opposition to his
suffrage and to reconstruction. Admit
ting that this party may get never SO
many recruits ..at the North, it is power
less at the South.
Clinging to its name is clinging to its
weakness it is remaining without the
arena of political life and reality.
These then We are to sacrifice our
prejudice, our dear braggadocio, our
quixotic resistance to unchanged results,
our opposition to our true condition.
And what are we to gain by it? Our
country, our State, our own position to
axark nm inHnence for her GOOD orr