The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-02-12
The Problem for South Carolina.

Ahg feature OF TINS remarkable phase of
ourhistofy, the utterinability Of our people
10 realize the significance of the eveats
shich are tsapspiriug and. to suggest
remedy for theirleyilresults
at issa fact that a change, such as rev.
olution seldomieFec.s, has passed upon
us.
Genla the I gentlemen Of 51776 be re-
susreeteds4and could they look upon
that asse6rbly' y'thue Legislators for ns, COM
posed ofitlle. foreign adycnturer and the
inferior race, astonishent would whiten
iheirfaccs with as gllastly pallor as
death itHelesa Could, John G.. Calhoun.
live again. aud read the reconstruction
acts, anu sthesamendments to the Consti-
tuition; the'would fain confess that State
Rf-'ts was as dead as he is'himself
{ tseenis tolsus4 that if these dead
WORTHLESS could be revived, and revisit.
thcseeses of their lives, they would re-
sosi.ize iniIiioFvisage first cplored
man .E'ey met, the history of his mighty
change. ia bes ta5
That tliee change is startling, and
-n,ightyin our whole fabric OF govern
nient, civilization and society, need not
bsicbntendeds
SIafthistchange, there are elements of
bencisand blessing to our people at
large l=s Sc, and there arc some incidental re
suits of disadvantage and danger.
Interest. prejudice. and pride, only
can contend that u change, which has
'prostrated the bnlwarked barriers to
universal elevation and prosperity, bar
ricrs which cpufncd the boons of educa-
tion, society comfort, wealth, aspiration
to a very sitAtll class, and which actually
excluded aali others, "the great unyash-
ed. out tgofltlte pale of civilization, that
% change that has done this is beneficial
to our State, to the lnujority of our pso-
pie, to the cause of progress and liberty.
iAfehange which has torn from labor
the contumcly with which false aud
silly pride had clothed it, and which in
'eleyating the condition, and prospects,
aud rights of the laborer, hns placed
labor itself, upon its normal basis of dig
nifty and honor, aud arraycd it in its own
hera ldic vestments Of nobility, placed
..sshegc ma ~ oti.---ssvi. a
change IS ;oiie ffits5iit Gfiii with good
a change which has removed from
this fair land the system of slavery,
moral evil III itself, aud dark incubus,
md .bodyiof death," upon our advance
ment, is a change for the better.
A change which has opened the field
of aspiration, sand the road to happiness
and wealth, to all alike, and which has
removed the superstition that only to
some was it given, as i birthright, to
live ihe eiegant refinement, to be book
learned, to study the professions to be the
ruling class sociully and politically, is
great. aud mighty change for man.
s,rhcscare elements in the change that
has comic upon us, and they arc beneficial
and advantageous
Incidental to these changes for good,
and among the means by which they are
being consummated and secured, is the
sudden eufrauchisement OF the colored
mar, and his inyestiture with the right
OF holding Office; and the influx of a
inord y of adyenturers, who really have no
politics at all, hut, who seeing the chance
before them, seeing the apathy of the
Southern people, and their unwilling
ness to'submit TO the change in the con-
dition of the colored man, have consti-
t6ted themselves tho tools and agents Of
the great Northern party, which has con-
qucred and changed us, aud have won
the confidence, and votes of the colored
man and rule and live ON the State.
= This is the posture of affairs in South
Oareiiua to-day, aud these the incidental
results in our change, which are iraught
With harm aud danger
There is harm and danger in this pos
tdre of affairs, for the true interest and
intelligence of tho State have excluded
themseives from the arena OF reality and
duty, and the care of the commonwealth,
in its strange and untried career is left
to the foreigner and the ignorant.
The great benefits which have resulted
from our revolution are in danger of be-
ing lost or prostitutcd by these inciden-
tai results.
Now it is palpablc, that these inciden~
tai results, this loss of the confidence