The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-05-15
EHE ORANGEBURG NEWS
SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1859. :,
THAD. c. ANDREWS, Editor. y
MALCOLM L. BROWNING, .4ssooiass.
IT. FIELDER MEYERS, Assoeiate. SSH
To the Readers Of the News
Greeting.

Euitor OF the ORANGEBURG NEWS,
am not isnoraptEof fhe paef that 1 as.
sumo also part of its responsibilities,
but these responsibilities I take upon
myself with frm-and settled intention OF
carrying out fsofar as is practicable, the
views already held out through its col
umns. 70 "9f ,'o''"
In short, my position may be defined
by the tonelwhich it has maintained
from time to. time, yet a more specific
definition Il afforded In it's motto, Con
AND OUR Country. t1 '-'i
That it is worse than useless to bewail
the issues OF the dead past is a foregone
conclusion in my mind, and that this is
the honest conviction of nine men out of
every ten who are not slaves to the men,
ory, and monstrous prejudices of the
past institutions of the South, 1 also be-
ieye, and as we have but very recently
emerged from the desolating ravages of
an Improbable and fruitless struggle for
independence, does it not become us to
submit ourselves whipped, and go to
work to build up and recuperate our i'm
poyerished land.
Now is no time for wasting labor upon
that which cannot profit us, and we
should divest ourselves of this party feel
ing and party prejudice which seems to
hold such adespotic victory over the minds
and actions of some men. Sectarianism
and sectarian views are disastrous in
their effects, and as we are living in an
age of progress, let us do away with
everything that is retrogressive in its ma
ture, and seize only upon these things
which are calculated to promote our well
fare and that of our country.
The days of Democracy are forever
gone-this is evident, as evident as the
monstroeity Of its absurd doctFihesa<its
lastknell has been tolled, and is only heard
now in the far off echoes of the past,
and as was said in the last issue of the
News, the ridiculous awkwardness of
the defeat of its former devotees to regen.
crate it in thelate Presidential campaign
is an illustration of the fact, that any
like effort in future will meet with
more signal and ludicrous failure.
We all live in one common country,
and here we have to work out together
our salvation, here write our biographies,
and shall they be made up of party strife
and discord for those who come after us
to seal with curses and jeers upon our
heads? Would there not be more wis
dom in spending our endeavors to bring
together, and cement the shattered par
ticles of our Government, to make it
more stronger and invincible, ourselves
richer, than to be eternally sowing and
cultivating the seeds of discord and dis.
sention for our children to reap the bitter
results of, and bemoan unavailingly our
folly2
1t is nonsense to hug to our breasts
the delusions. of. the past, or cherish
democratic memories, for these, all these
have passed away, and no matter how
sweet to euphony the sound democracy
may be, its effects are delcterious, its in
auences upon the best interests of our
country destructive. For our individual
freedom is now recognized throughout
the civilized world, and justice is being
disposed, if not strictly in accordance
with the hobby notions of selfish little
minds, per force under the law.
Yet, we have some nephss ultra ultras,
some soi distant wise theorists who think
in the conceit of their own opinion that
no theory of Government is right but
that entertained by themselves, or adyo-
Gated by men whose notions might have
suited the times one hundred years ago. |