The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-08-24
THE TRUE POLICY.

Vh& TRUE ROLICYs
The Louisville Courier Journal is
dealing some valiant blows just now for
the right, and if the great national
Democratic aud Conservative party is
not victorious all over tho country iu
Novsmberit it may be attributed to the
failure Of Southern impraoticables to
follow .the,Mise councils of the Courier
Journal, and other newspapers of SINH
lar tone. TheCourier Journal has been
taken to task by the Mobile Register,
the leader of the Alabama Burbous, and
comes back upon it in this nnanswera-
BILE manner:
The Register talks good deal about
"prinoiple" and "truth" and Ga white
mans party" What does it mean,
nothing : ..ItitMfaps som ething, what
is that something Z If it.means no thing,
why the agitation which it deprecates /?
The editor'o the Register, who ought
to know wh at he isabout, must lay aside
his gen eralities and emotions and tell
us plainly aud precisely what he does
really mean, and tosimplify tho matter;
and help him along with His answer, we
will put tho following questions, viz:
1st. Do you propose to organize Ca
white mans party" for the express pur.
pose of repeating or otherwise setting
aside the Fifteenth Amendment, com.
pelling it's entire policy, as we'll as its
fundamental purpose to look solcly to
that result7
I'd. In the event of success in repell.
ing the Fifteenth Amendment, disfran.
chising the half million voters created
under it, and obtaining possession of the
General Government, do you propose to
repeal the Thirteenth Amendment and
to remand the negroes back to state Of
slavery?
3rd. In either event, what do you
expect to secure by the intermediate
agitation, the excitement incident to
the arraying of class against class and
race against race, with the consequent
division of public sentiment and the
certain action ofthe Federal Govern.
ment?
You say that if tho press would but
stand firm but for six months, we should
"sweep radicalism from the face of the
land" Stand firm for what, and against
what' Stand firm for the repeal Of the
Fifteenth Amendment aud against the
validity of its ratification? Did the press
not stand firm against it up to the hour
when it was declared part Of the Con
stitution of the United States {? Has it
not stood firm against all tho radical
measures Reconstruction for five years,
and is it not still standing firm against
each of the radical measures that ap
pears ? Has this prevented the practical
realization ofnegro suffrage? Whatever
may be its legal source, is it not an ac.
tual fact put upon us in spite of our
firmest opposition And who is to set
it aside !! How arc you going to secure
its overthrow ? BY Congress, or by the
Supreme Court, or by revolution? ? 1t by
Congress, when ? There is no likelihood
of changing the present complexion of
prsme Court? W We when 'h' Is that a
tribune not hopelcssly Republican for
at least dozen years? Come, give us
your plan; what it rests on; what are
its hopes and expectations; how you
expect to carry it out, and all about it,
You claim to be Democratic organ,
and yet you seem to hold, the Democrat.
ic organization rather lightly, as light.
ly, if it does not square itself by your
foot rule, Gas pipeful Of, Kentucky
tobacco" Is there no question then in
this conntry, but the negro question !?
Is there nothing else to light for? Are
we gotten so poor off for, issues that we
must break up the great National Dem
ocratic organization in order to form a
"White Mau's party" with one lonely
and added idea, rattling like q rotten
egg in foul nest until it bursts its she'll
and stalks forth once moro full fedged
demon of war, arraying blacks against
the whites, and the whites against the
blacks, and convulsing our whole social
and industrial system in its inccssant
and endless moil Is this our duty to
"truth 2" Is this the cardinal "princia
pie" which should underlie and direct
Che movements of the party Of the future
soaring its mission of peace with blood,
and turning all its noble purposes Of
natural freedom and rest into miserable
Dead Sea fruit?
The great national Democratic organ.
nization, as represented through the
ablest of its leaders and the most inau.
entail of its journals, presents q more
cheerful, moro wholesome, a fairer
prospect for the allurement and the en-.
couragement of the American people.
It holds out hand of peace to all men.
1t urges the Abandonment of oil minor
differences. It proposes to deal with
present facts and to ignore, as far as
may be, disturbing antecodents and
warlike possibilities. There must be q
line somewhere. The people of the
North have decided, in spite Of every