The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-30
Greeting!
READERS or THE onANoEpuno News:

READERS or THE ORANGEBURG News:
The last issue Of your paper, announced to
you the fact Of the association of new Editor
in the conduct of the News us
He makes his first advance then this morn.
ing, and while bowling to you with formality
indicative of a profound respect, at the same
time extends his hand to you-frankly and
cordially---the right hand of an unfeigned
friendship and genuine good will
Amid the varied emotions, that arise SO nn-
turally upon such an occasion, assure you
that paramount of ALL is the desire that we
become friends.
You will remember the fable of the little
animals, contending for the prize to be bestow-
cd By the Princess, upon the one who ss.s"cnld
leap the afarthest. The frog first advanced
to the mark and made leap of prodigious
length, to the infinite admiration of the spec
tators. Next came the fea-who darting
away up in 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.
pectcd bound, Right into her lap:
thus defeating both his rivals and gained the
prize since at one stroke he attained tho high
est position in the kingdom, aud overcame the
vast distance which fornality placed between
himself and his beautiful patron.
In like manner my efforts-not wcarying
with tho, length of my effusions, nor attempt
ing to dazzlerwith the height of my "Aight Of
fancy"A-shall be to come homo to your hearths
and chat with you friend.
Our paper promises to be alive Journal
a reality. Now everything real aud material
is fallibie and human, and would avail myself
of this my introduction to you, when can af-
ford to be little egotistic, and to expect
great deaIof Indulgence, to remind you of this,
and to ask for myself that you
Sa.15e to my failings little blind,
.iBe to my virtues very kind"
With the prescntiment that you will meet
my advances this morning In the same spirit
in WHICH they are tmade-I feel that We shall
be frieuds. -7a
The'uoxt 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 brief Y
and honestly the political position of the pa
Individually and for myself I will be as
honest if not as brief
A participant in, and severe sufferer by
the result of the late war, 1 have mourned
with the fond pathos of youth at the grave of
"The Lost Cause mausoleum of per-
ished Idea, 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 grave-beholding its
furled banner, and its 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 were" And with the realization
that ID, with its hopes, its prejudces, its civil
zation was sdead forever" have turned to the
future, and realized the necessity of new effort.
Temporal nutontur nos ct mutumur IN Ills.
Amid the social disorganization, the fnan-
ciai and CONNIE reial prostration, the political
revolution, and the ruins, incident and nteg-
raj to- the results Of the war, a new civilization
has dawned, which despite ourselves must
achieve its denouement.
The alternative for the South, is either to
stand IN sullen and perhaps dignifed apathy,
and mourn over the change, or Phonix like
from her ashes accommodating her prejudices
TO her changed statutes, and submitting to the
fat Of her own chosen arbitrament, to rise in