The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-03-19
THE PRESS IN CONVENTION.
There is Hope for the State!

Tho sentiment Of the people Of South
Carolina 10 unanimous. From the sea.
shore to the mountains, voice comes
spontaneoas from the people Of the State,
and it speakcth mighty things-things
OF high import, and pregnant with
bright hope. The people Of South Caro-
lima have repudipted Democracy. Sig.
ni6cant omen! It's name and it's nation
al issues are relinquished. This is q
fact. r
The colored man has o natural aud
constitutional right to his freedom aud
his citizenship, and this right is really
aud heartily admitted and recognized by
the white people of the State,
Great things must come from this.
There is hope for the State! Hope that
the honest men, those who are citizens of
tho State, and who have exhibited the
intention and desiring of becoming her
good citizens. will unite, aud that their
concert of action and community of in.
terest will result in breaking up the
"ring of corruption" the nest of rob-
bers that have settled upon us, aud will
secure the government to those who are
citizens and who are worthy.
Another grand effort is about to be Or
sanized, and it is to be made upon the
basis of fact; upon the fact that the
colored man is our fellow citizen and our
equal in civil and political rights.
Disguised as the colored people are
with the deception, and dishonesty of
tho party, that has controlled his sympa-
thy and ballot for its own purposes of
robbery, thoy will hear with astonish-
ment tha- the people OF South Carolina
are ready 10 guarantee to him his right
of voting and holding office.
They do guarantee to him these rights.
and they ask him to use these rights to
purify, to redeem their State of which
they are citizens, and in which they have
the deepest and truest interest.
And we believe that they will respond
to this movement. They will free them
selves from the calling shackles of the
party, that has ruled them, aud will ex-
ercise their rights in favor of the honest
and worthy Of her citizens, white and
black. \
There is hope for the State! With
community of rights and of interests,
the white men aud the eolorcd men of
South Carolina will make the effort to-
gether and honest men will be put in
Office.
The intelligence, the elevation, the r ;
finement which have ever been the char
acteristies OF the Southern people, and
the labor, the industry, of the colored
men, the best adapted 10 our climate and
TO our great product, united in CON-
munity of the truest and deepest inte-
rest, hopes and destiny, present in their
union . tableau of hope in the future,
the brightest and most glorious of any
people.
We shall be as one. The same rights,
hopes, destiny belong to both. And in |
its effulgence of brightness, the carpet
kssGggss: kssGGggss:: ==ill skulk away. Yes he must 4,
pack up! When honest men agree
logues must clear out. That tho people
of South Carolina have resolved to make
this grand effort, upon this grand effort,
upon this true basis, is shown by the &C.
tion of the Press, at their late conference
at Columbia.
These gentlemen consulted with their
patrons, and have expressed their senti-
ments. And this is what they say:
I. Resofped, That this conference re-
cognizes the legal right of all oitixens
of the State, irrespective Of color, to
suffrage.
2. Resoived That this conference re-
cegnizes the legal right of all citizens
Of the State, irrespective of color or
former condition, to Office, subject alone
to psrsonal qualification and ftness.
3. Resotred. That in the Judgment
Of this conference, convention of the
poople of the state opposed to Radical
ism, and in favor Of good and honest
government, should be held in the city
of Columbis, at some convenient time,
for the purpose Of nominating State
ticket, which, while assuring equal and
exact justice to all, viii afford some de-