The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-24

| State. We're they TO pc 0Deyeut 1unlon-
INERT for any violation Of them was provided
in1lhe statutes, and imposed by the courts. J.
Could opposition to them avail' The most .s.
ingenious sophist could not cheat even HIM
self with the least suggestion OF how he
co uld oppose them. Did studied indifference
to them, and disregard of their operations
afford any refuge? When, by these measures
the powers Of The State Government were
| large enough to affect life, liberty and prop
erty, to be unconcerned about the proper
exercise Of these powers was to be indiffer-
ent to the great objects concerning which
these powers could be exercised.
1t was with these grave questions before
them, than which few grayer questions have
ever been submitted to any body, that the
members Of the convention met in Columbia
to consider, and, so far as they could, decide,
OF, at least, recommend to the people OF the
State, what should be cone.
To satisfy all, they lid not expect. To be
able to do anything which would unite all
classes, was too much even for their hopes
They who have yielded themselves to their
prejudices- they who are welded to opinions
which they choose to entertain, and even
refuse to subject them to the test of their
practical adaptation to things as they really
exist-can, never be reached by the opinions
OF others, And there is another class, not
to be mentioned in the same connection
with those just referred to, who are also un-
affected by appeal or argument. We mean
that base, sordid, selfish portion! of our, and
of every population, whose cares and
thoughts and purposes in life are ever ex.
clusiveIy directed to acquire that which graft
fes their lust and love for money or power.
And for this qualification they would make a
holocaust OF every manly, generous virtue
which ennobles our race.
But, with these exceptions, there still re:
manned the large mass Of our people
who, with reverence be it spoken, from all
quarters OF the State, asked, ''What shall
sswei do to be'saYed?" And to them the
members OF that convention spoke in the
admirable address they presented.
| In that address they said to the people OF
the State: The laws as they are written and
promulgated we obey. The rights and privl-
leges given by these. laws. We respect and
will support; without. distinction Of caste,
color orprevious condition, We invite all to
join in an earnest effort to secure the bless
ing OF a good government government
in which the laws will find every sanction
and support 10: the fair. and impartial adj
ministration OF them-a government under
which those guarantees may and will be
given for the protection OF capital that will
induce its investment in all Of those modes,
which, already existing, or only being now
developed, promise to it ample returns-a
government that will give dignity to honest
labor without Discrimination open wide the
sources through which it will secure its re-
wards, and give To- 1t the education apd en-
lish:eument which will elevate it, and make
it the great lever by which the highest in
terests OF humanity are secured. :,
In this exposition, the honor Of those BY
whom it was adopted, and who sustained it
in the late election stood sponsor for the
honesty with, which it was made Success
could have added nothing to that honesty.
Defeat cannot take from it any portion OF its
obligation. 1t was the political faith Of the
Reform party before the election; it is the
political faith OF the Reform party. after the
ELECTION, It gives their rights to all. Ittakes
away nothing7from any, And it rests upon
those great principles :ef obedience to law
and Justice to all, That are as certain to se-
cure its ultimate success as that the great
and best interests OF all are involved in that
success. -. fs-,!*f F:-.5''s'' - ,l..''.' :
To thousands and tens of thousands in
our State. the sentiments and principles Of
the Reform party, within Q few weeks, have
for:tbe first time been known. But these
sentiments and these principles have not
been heard but once, never to be; repeated.
They will be heard again, and again, and
again: 81 The Ignorant and deluded who have
been cheated and led to believesthati they
were to be betrayed will be uudeceiTed. And
they wlll.learn that the needy proligates who
pretend to be their friends are their worst and
most uncompromising enemies. With the
most firm reliance upon the success OF our
cause, we look without doubt, and full Of hope,
to the day when our State will be freed from
the grasp OF those whose sole effort it Is
to 'grow fat" upon the suffering OF all
classes; and the happiness and the well
fare of its, whole population lie in the hands
of those whose lives, fortunes and honor are
inseparably and forever connected with the
welfare and enjoyment of equal rights by all
classes Of it's population.
To assist in the accomplishment Of this
great good, to secure this great end, we will
INCREASINGLY and without stint devote all the
capacity We have. We have every reason to
knew that the men who fought this fight
stand to their colors. And that the infanry
oithosse against whom the Reform party has
contended will be established, in the recog-
milton ofthe TRUTH the Justice and the honor
OF those who. in the convention at Colum-,
bia, gave those pledges which they viii never