The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-02-19
!. sibbered and beckoncd before the
South, and We have followed it danger

South, and we have followed it Danger
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have followed it's bcckoning Until the
rule Of usnfpasion ,edfrppriSn, igaotapce
|lis' 'shhost made absolute until we have
lived Itomitness scenes enacted in South
Carolina which are enough TO quake thc
deep earth and rouse the sleeping dead !;
until our high and holy places reek with
the debauchcry of corruption; until our
homes aud our women are threatcd, with
social equality aud misccgcnation.
Truly this pale phantom has led us to
the summit of the cliff that bubles, DER
the chasm of most hcrrid ruin. iicD1
But it seems that ut last the ghost is
laid; the phantom of hope has departed !;
and freed from its mystic influence, we
are left to ''resume the sovereignty of
reason" aud to pursue, a course of ac
tion which is more in accordance with Tn,
facts of the present, which has buried
tie past and laid its phantoms. and which
hasa bright ray of promise the future.
The DaRy Ne,es, in an article in it's
issue of Feb 9th. on Party Policy, has
the following: There can be no qucs.
tion thut he Constitutional amendments
will stand. Aud VIC can accomplish
nothing, but renewed defeat, by coutcnd.
ing with the inevitable. Nay, there are
high considerations of expcdicncy which
require the cheerful acquiescence On our
part in the political euiranchisement of
the colorcd people, and their equality
with the whites before the law" and in
another place He the colurcd man would
:otc with the Southern whites to day i,
he were snre that iu So doing, his en-
franchisemcnt would not be cndaurcr,d
We must not ask from the coIorcd
man sacriiic, which We would refuse
to make were We in his place. Such
an assurance from us would concilinte
the cUiored vote, and restore peace to
the Stutc."
Do you not remember that when IN,
ORANGEBrRG News, said these things
one year ago to day, you hooted it down
as Il radical paper.
But to &" on with the laying of the
ghost.
The Daily Mc,es, Feb. 7th in an
article on the Coming Party, says:
We insist upon full AID frank rccog
nitlon OF the civil aud political ri. hts of
the negro; we insist upon a submission
to the inevitable necessities of the poli.
tlcai situation" If any of our pcople
white or colored, are repellcd, by an old
party name it is high time to choose
ncm name, which shall have no mast
The truth is We cannot afforcd to lose
votes for the sake of abstract ideas" and
delnsive Ihamtoms
This was the position taken by the
ORANGEBuRG News, months ago, and
the whole press and particularly the
DAILY Ne,cs, roared out against the
party" Compromises of prin.
ciple etc. And now the Daily .Nems,
assumes the right to lay down the plat
form of the party, and lays down .our"
platform. Verify THE .Hauntuia has
copie ti .Mhomet :"
We arc glad to give to our big brother
Of the Ncms family all the credit and
praise tie deserves, but VIC think that we
have claim to place in the fight.
This is all en- p"ssant, and in good
llumoi Retmmors nos moutons. let us
return to our subjcct-thc ghost The
past which the Southern people so m,tur-
ally aud so foudly fingered over, aud
which they could never entirely bury,
sent forth its restless ghost.
doomed tor certain terra to walk the
night"
and this phantom was the xncne