The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-10
Another Way of Putting It.


1t may be difficult, says Sir Wiseacre, to
prove the wisdom OF the Do-Nothing policy
in the State elections but where is the use
OF putting up candidate to be defeated ?
| The people are OF cerulean hue already;
why tempt them to another disaster Z? They
were overcome two years ago; why should
they now be able to overthrow the enemy
l. We do not admit that candidate for
Governor, put forth by the Reform Conven-
tion, must Of necessity be defeated. What
are the indispensable conditions of success !?
The Refoym candidate must obtain enough
colored votes to overcome the colored voting
majority, as well as to make up for the votes
of those white men who vote with the Party
of Corruption. Twenty thousand colored
votes is all that we require to do this. And
to concede that sirty thousand white voters,
representing nearly all the property, nearly
all the experience, and nearly all the culture
and intelligence n the State, cannot control
t,centy thousand colored votes is to say that
there is not left in this poor land either pa
triotism, energy or pluck Mind you the
colored men are not asked to vote their
rights away. Their civil land political equal
ity is recognized and affirmed. No political
barrier divides the two races. The only issue is
between Honesty and Dishonesty, Fair-deal-
ing and Fraud. And if the white people OF
the State cannot convince taUenty thousand
colored voters that it is their interest, and
the interest Of every decent man, to support
the Reform party in preference to the Scott
party, the South Carolina whites have less
brains aud much less common sense than
we give them credit for. A number OF
whites will vote with the Scott party. Doubt
less, it will pay. But a colored vote counts
for as much at the polls as white vote. A
votei is vote, and we believe that we can
get almost Confederate prices in the voting
line-that is, three colored men to join us
for every one white man who abandons the
cause of purity and truth. Moreover, we
stand on stronger ground, in every way,
than we did two years ago. And five work
now as we worked then, we shall sweep the
State as Van Tronip swept the narrow seas
Scott and Winchester rifles to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
2. We had better thousand times go into
fight, even if we be defeated, than give up
the game without u struggle Any man can
see with half an eye that not to make
nomination is an acknowledgment that the
Opposition caNaot muster strength enough
to make show of resistance. Is this the
way that great causes are gained Look at
the history of this country, and see how mi
norities have fought themselves up to be
-majorities This is the history OF every
party, and it may be the history OF the move
ment for Reform. But an abandonment OF
the struggle has a double action. 1t cuts
both ways; it encourages our opponents and
discourages our own people. There were
men who, in April, 1865, dreamed OF guer-
rilla warfare in the mountains OF Virginia,
but the braves of the armies OF the Coincide
racy, the first agony passed, saw that all hope
was lost when the organized armies were
disbanded, when the cause had no longer u
hope or q head. And so with US. Guerrilla
warfare may enable q political aspirant to
make successful pot shot at public office;
but unless we have an organized army in
the field, with it's banners and forage teams,
its officers and general-in-chief, we cannot,
and will not, do any more than serve the in-
terests OF knot Of ambitious men, while we
crown the gloomy editice OF the shame and
ruin of our people.
We do not tempt the people to defeat.
We urge them to stand together. They can
make as much in the local elections, if the
party he thoroughly organized, as they can
possibly make upon the plan of 'save himself
"who can" And this one thing must not
be forgotten: The weak lean to the strong;
the small body gravitates towards the large.
And if the representatives Of the State, in
convention assembled, make no nomina-
thereby admitting that they have no
COnuueNCe III JuSllCS auu iIeohU, tlu' Ho HoPo
in rectitude and truth they will strengthen
and confirm train Of Thought Which, within
twelve months, may carry over majority OF
the white people OF the State to tue ranks OF
the Radical party. This is no bugbear; it is
q terrible truth. 1t points to a calamity,
q horror and shame, that the Convention
does not, cannot desire.
Trial Justices.