The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-05-29
the News, that "many intelligent aud
influential y,een',A;p (sranoohuro Co,nfy

fuEAsS aHphiWpu {SenSe FFeWss}
ftsr s caEofulI sonsideratio d 9fthe
pr9fessiou of political creed made by the
NEsssA weefe uaable 70 arrive at any.
other conclusion than that the News
does not deny being Radical, but some-
how dislikes to be SO called.
Now we call attention to the fact that
the attack--a very spiteful one-comes
fiom the Reporter; we are simply upon
the defensive, we would also ask our
readers to notice the very unfair manner
lip which tie Rsposte'4 trestsa uslES That
critical paper docs not publish the arti-
cs in the SGWs, il il its columns slh and
then criticize israaIssr Dc does not quote Or
copy oneisipslei sentence Of oprr article.
Tdocsonotl cVenssayi once, in its c,liqnel
what il tbsPafticle, that is under oits aAi,.,
n.sshe Treatments. 50 fsDhlya tells its read
ers in its own words and in nniittssoa? its OH way
what the News says, and even says
something's for the News, and thon crit
icizcs and abuses us. smo< -. .oJuiisl
Now for the Treqacrs Of the Ra,oytes,
who,i; we. can imagine, must be very
much amused and edited by such mode
Of presenting to their notice Discus
sion, criticism, ora q'to,+el, in which
their valiant little paper has SO boldly
aud n lrsassh,ly engaged itself. We have
only to say to them, that if the Reporter
would only publish the article which it
crticizes, we would be assured of our
vffndication.f If the Reposse, would do
this, insert our article and then criticize
it: its readers could see the truth of the
matter and would, no doubt, agree with
us, that while the Reporter is a very
'good little paper" in its way, to pub
lish local matters, aud copy from and
endorse the pieces in the Charleston ma.
pcrs, when it "ussun,es Merole of the
critic" it makes a very poor ;'out" of it.
If our own readers, who must admit
that We have taken f,irer method of
treating the matter, aud one better cal
culated to let them see what is the
mnttcr,' we ask indulgence while we no
tice this onslaught of the Reporter.
Our readers hare seen the article cnti
tied "THE ORANGEBuRG NEWS" in our
paper of May Sth. This is the article
which the Reporter is prating about. In
it VIC embodied the political creed of our
paper. We said that VIC had accepted
the situation" that is ''fIccdom and citi
zenship of the colorcd man," and
thought that this was the only way in
which the evils, under which the people
of the State now groan, could be met
and removed. Unless acc accepted the
situation, men whom perhaps we would
like less than those who had common
sense now to do so, would come from
abroad and occupy the places of power
This is our belief MS to the political con-
dition of our State. For this expression
of our opinion, the Reporter calls the
News Radical" and goes on to abuse
NC i'll langungc as near "hifalutcn" as We
suppose that paper can ascend.
The Reporter says: THE ORANGE
BURG NEWS in announcing its political
creed claims that communications and
editorial articles stands upon one foot
ng," aud that editorial matter should
be exempt from criticism" and sno con-
clusions as to its political convictions
should bo based upon them" Three
distinct statements, which the Reporter
makes for us. The ORAHGEBuRO News
in the article of May sth, says: while
we open our columns to communica-
tions of whatever political complex
ion, VIC reserve to our editorial col.
umns the privilege accorded to all
others, that of writing what we think"