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

mas been sounded, and it Is buried. The
phantep Of the rebellion, its shadow af-
ter the substance has Departed, it has
gibbered, and deluded, and mas disap-
peassa. fIStf
The other, the great antagonistic par
ty to this is becoming dismembered, the
corruption Of its extreme wings is dis
.gusting the more intelligent and upright
Of its own members.
Journals which were che organs Of
that favorite but unfortunate party, SO
desr-so the conquered South, because it
bore resemblance to its own faded
hopes, democratic Journals, noticing
this dismembering OF old parties, advise
Democrats to rally now in this their
favorable opportunity aud revive their
party organization. Their advice iu-
wolves two mistakes, one is that the Re-
publican party is really being dismem-
bered; the other is to suppose that the
restoration of the Democratic party, will
not ensure the restoration of its antagon-
isui to which Il must again succumb.
The Republican party ia not disorgan-
lied; it is destined to secure to posterity
the grand results Of it's martial and DO
iitical victories. Upon the field of bat
sle'that party has saved and perpetuated
this Union, and at the ballot box. and
byits craftsmanship it has revolution
ized Southern politics--aye! her very
civilization.
That party will perpetuate itself in
perpetuating these its results.
The dismembermeat of this party,
now in progress, is but its renovation
and reorganization. Looping itself of
it's weakness of disrepute at the South,
and of its corruption, this party is ally
ing te itself the energies of Southern in
telligence and virtue, which has been
dormant since the war, and stripped of
these weaknesses aud arrayed in the
strength of its new material and ele,
ments, it Is preparing to meet the new
questions that will nrise from the change
that its own victories have produced.
The Democratic party, unless reorgan-
lied upon the basis of these established
facts can never relive America.
IF organized upon this basis, it is a
new party with an old name, and an un-
fortunate though favorite name.
Indeed, it embodics in itself, the very
principles, and adopts the same facts as
data, which the Conservative and new
element Of the Republican party en-
bodies and adopts in iss reorganization
and as its basis.
Our advice to the people of the State
is 70 waive the petty prejudice to a naase,
and TO accept the facts achieved by the
Republican party; to reorganize beneath
its new and conservative renovation and
. further their own material interests.
It seems as though this we're the last
chance left to'the Southern people to
identify themselves with tina advance
ment Of these ideas which rule the
world.
Admit that your objections to this
party is rather to It's corrupt representa-
tives, who Gil, to q great degree, the
Offices of our government.
Admit that it is our own fault that
Southern men do not Fill these places
1t 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
to the impracaiaabls with a smile, OF per-
haps . tear, and moves on in its grand,
majestic progress.
Events rush on and become che fixed
facts iu the record of truth. We can.