The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-20
The Line Drawn.

The declaration OF principles adopted
unanimously by the Union Reform Conven-
tion, in its own words, brings the people OF
South Carolina into entire harmony upon all
questions Of civil and political right. There
is no longer any irritating difference be-
tween the white race and the black race.
The accomplished changes in the constitu-
tions OF the States, and Of the United States,
are not defended upon grounds of either
necessity or expediency. They are simply
and frankly acknowledged as facts which
have undoubtedly acquired the sanctity, and
the force, and the obligation flaw. Upon the
broad basis of the established Jaw stand
white and black alike, and, within the pale
of the constitution, will begin and end the
great work of Reform. 1t was plain that
the oil wreck must be cleared away before
the reconstruction could commence, but now
there is no barrier to divide class from class,
or color from color, and all honest citizens,
in public affairs, stand upon an equal foot
iug, and labor in common cause. The
movement for Reform is popular move.
ment, in the truest sense of the word, for the
interest Of every citizen OF the State in that
movement is only limited by the property he
has acquired or the competence he hopes to
possess. Corruption and tyrannical taxa
,, ton hew down him who hopes TO hare, as
we'll as him who has; the laborer, as truly as
the capitalist, is concerned in the new effort
to secure Retrenchmeut and Reform.
The aims of the Union Reform party were
tersely and lucidly explained during the ses-
sion OF the Convention. The platform sets
forth the general fact that it is desired to
establish just, equal and faithful admins
tration of the State Government, in the in
terest OF no class or clique, but for the bene-
fit of the whole people. This is the begin
ming and the end OF the whole movement.
With national politics it has nothing to do.
AS General Butler said, the people of South
Carolina propose to take care of them
selves without reference to any party, but
looking solely to the interests Of the State.
Were President Grant himself citizen OF
South Carolina, his vote would be cast for Car
penter and Butler One months personal ex-
perience of South Carolina legislation and
South Carolina administration, under Gov
ernor r. X. Scott, would convert staunch-
er Republican than General Grant ever
hopes to be. The platform of the Reform
party is one to which no Radical can object
upon principle and which every Democrat
must recognize Us law. Whether his vote
be cast for Radical or Democrat in 1872, the
upright man OF lecency and sense must vote
for Carpenter and Butler at the elections Of
October next Self-intereSt and self-protec-
ftion require this to be done.
The speeches delivered in the Convention
on Thursday fully explained the details OF
the Reform movement. We ask the colored
people, said General Kershaw, to unite with
the whites in q fraternal effort to upheave
the old State of South Carolina, and place
her upon greater eminence than she ever
attained before We want, said General
Butler to place the government in the hands
of man who will perform his duty fearless
ly aud faithfully, who will see that the laws
are executed and our rights preserved. This
Convention has been held, said Dir. Jonas
Byrd, a colored delegate from Charleston,
for the purpose Of uniting all the friends of
good government in an effort to save the
old ship OF State which, in its present hands,
is likely to be wrecked. We do not demand,
said Colonel Thomas, that the Government