The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-11-12

SOUTh CAROLINA POLITICS..

Especial to Louisville Courier-Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-Infornation
received to-day from South Carolina,
states that an important conference OF
the representatives of the Reform party
will be held at Columbia next week, to
take into consideration, as the call
states, "the dangers of the body polite,
and for adopting such measures as may
seem best calculated to insure the pro-
lection of society and the political re-
demption of the State" This call pro-
cee(ls as follows:
ain our anxiety to cOnciliate the COL
ored man we have gone just as far as
dignity and honesty permit. We have
accorded to the freedmen full recog-
milton of all their public and private
rights, and from that recognition we
cannot and do not rccedc, yet no inn
preston of moment has been made
upon the negroes, and, as race, they
as bitterly oppose the efforts of the
whites to reform the Government as
they did two years ago. They arc in
capable of conviction by reason, or they
are satisfied that Il continuance of Rad
ical rule will confiscate to their uses,
under the forms of law, the lands and
the homestead which they are taught
to believe belong of right to that race.
There is too much reason to fear that
the cOlOred man cannot be won by
Cancellation and forbcarance, and while
we do not withdraw one syllable OF our
acquiescencc in his status as q citizen,
the white people of the State cannot
pander to his passions, nor allow him
| to make the white race his political and
| social interiors. We cannot live as we
are. The time is approaching when we
| abandon, cn11nfPV It.
The time has come when the white peO-
pie of the State should be fully organ
lied, politically and socially, in them
terests of decency, security and peace. "
The extent to which the white poo
pie of South Carolina went, in their
recent election, to obtain the Negroes
support, was greater than that to which
the Democracy of this State went but
our South Carolina friends getting on
the tack first, they will likely be abreast
with Louisiana in the effort which will
now be made all over tho South to
build up party upon principles alone
and which will command, rather than
beg for the support of every decent and
virtuous citizen Of the country. We
even to surrendering the Democratic
organization to Third Party quacks
and Conservative nurses, and we find
the result mortifying defeat. With
such experiments the TELEGRAPH is
done, and henccforth its object will be
the maintenance, not the compromise,
Of principle.
The people OF South Carolina have
started in the right direction, and we
have no doubt Louisiana Democrats
will advance upon the enemies Of the
Constitution by a parallel route. They
are heartily sick of so much useless
concession and feel that they have been
defiled. From this position they will
atlUa,.ce, not retreat, to that abandoned
, when they set out in search of victory
under the leadership of deud men, whose
remains, happily, will now be finally
inferred. We, therefore, hail the move
lnent in South Carolina as an suspicious
beginning, and as about the only wise
step taken by her prominent men since
the meeting of the Charleston Convcn
ton in 1860. 1t will, if carried out
place the white people in the position
accorded them by the Deity, tho posi-
ton due to intellect and inherited from
n noble ancestry, and the weaker and
inferior members of the body polite
will come to them as naturally as stcc
is drawn to the magnet.