New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-29
SOUTH CAROLINA AND HER MORAL.

An election occurred III South Carolina
on the nineteenth Of October, Just ten
days ago, and we are still IN the dark
about the figures, although it IS known
that the Republicans carried the State
South Carolina is one of the Oldest laem-
beers of the Union. She Was settled by
Cavaliers principally, with mixture of
the Huguenots. The aristocrats from
England and the Protestants From France
managed to agree, because the first had
no particular religious prefernces, and
the latter were not averse to royalty
Under their conduct Charleston was at
one time the most prosperous commercial
centre on this continent, but through
some bad management she lost her
position to New York and Boston. South
Carolina engaged in the elegant and easy
business Of living off Of slave labor,
while her more northern sisters got rid Of
it, not, as IS commonly believed, because
it did not pay the individual owners OF the
chattles, but because it was a drawback
as political institution. The trade
seemed to be mutually agreeable, for the
North never regretted that she was with
out slavery, and South Carolina took con-
siderable stock in a big fight in order to
perpetuate the peculiar institution. This
ought to be good evidence that she was
friendly to its continuance, and was salts
fed with her part Of the Old trade.
Since South Carolina was organized,
twenty-five or more States have been
formed and admitted to an equality withs
her in the Union. All the communities
west Of the Allegheny mountains are new,
compared to the Palmetto constituent Of
the Union, And Yet, if an election is held
tomorrow in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Iowa, California or Indiana, We might
safely calculate on having the footings Of
the vote before shutdown Of the succeed
ing day. God knows how long il will re-
quire to obtain the returns from the out
side counties IL South Carolina. Why
Because she is twenty years behind the
age. She has 10 telegraph poles reaching
to the remote corners of her territory.
She has but few good roads even in coun-
ties where nature does not furnish the
road bed. She has but little light. A few
aristocratic residences are scattered about
the country, with a villa here and there, but
the great mass Of thepeople are stagnant.
One OF two comfortably easy newspapers
lazeaway their time in explaining profound
political theories to the landed proprietors.
Nothing fervid, except the sun, burns in
South Carolina She has been suren-
dered for eighty years to the du.ce jar
ntcnte.
The result OF the election about which
we are making this lecture promises to
assist in putting South Carolina IN
motion. She has been two years strug-
Cling to break the chains of her sluggish
existence, and there are some strangers
in the State who are helping her as the
strangers helped nature in the West TO
throw off the tOrpor of savage sloth.
They are elected to continue their efforts
for two years longer Governor Scott and
the Republicans will hold power Tor a
while longer. They promise relief from
the sluggishness Of the past. Let Us con-
graduate them that they are successful IN
the name Of the Republican party il
Louisiana; and let us hope that when.
they are called upon to account to the
world and to progress for what they have
done, that they will point to the election
returns and say that what it once took
twenty days to obtain in 1868 can now be
done in twenty hours.