The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-04-02
Coming Into Line.

hidS ouuurSeu tue reSOiutlOnS OIL the Press
Conference. The sentiment of the Press
i i, unanimous.
The plan proposed is simply this /:
Upon thcifu!l and unreseryed recogni-
tion of the civil rights of the colored
people of the State, an effort is to be
made to aSitss ! all tho 6itizahs in the en-.
deavor to secure honest and good men as
our rulers, and Representatives; A meet
ing of the citizens is to be called in, each
County of black and white, Democrat
and Republican,. That meeting is to en-
dorse the. policy recommended by the
unanimous Press, and to select delegates
to represent the County at the Conven-
ticn- of citizens to be held in Columbia
on the 18th of June. The day for these
Comfy meetings will be suggested and
recommended by tho Press. It is the
sentiment aud suggestion of the
Press, and they utter the voice of the
people, that 'cclored men shall be chosen
as delegates from each County as we'll as
white. eae iairl"
In some Counties this great movement
y
will be "a success. The day will
have eome'when the colored citizens will
reason together with the white citizens
and take counsel as to the best men and
best measures for the good of their com
'mon country. ,,
Heavnnggrant that this may be in
Orangebdrg In order that this shall
DE the case in our County, there is
vital and pressing necessity that our citi-
gems should each one do his part.
We have printed in these columns ap-
peals tKat have come from our heart (,
The course of action and the policy that
seems to actnate, the great heart of this
people now, was ours from the first. We
ask youIl men of Orsngeburg whether
this one! conscientious course has not
guided the suggestions aud characterized
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the "yoice of the people, the voice of
God," has endorsed and ratified our ad
vice. n -.
Our;uppeal to renounce buried past,
and to 'forego the phantom delusions and
ghosts of hopes that fingered to deceive
us; our counsel unset, to o. "accept the situa-
ton" and to recognize facts that were
irrevosably fixed and settled; our advice
to cease the 'bootless protest against the
inevitable, these have all met with favor
at the. hands.of our readers. We felt
cheered in advocating course, at first
and revolving to our preju-
dices and blighting to our hopes from
the conciousness of feeling that we were
honest and earnest; we are more abun-
dainty iaand more richly cheered now that
the voice of this great people have rati-
fed our policy and corroborated our
heartfelt sense of duty.
Men Of Oraageburg, yoa knew that
the course advocated by the Press is the
only one that has one shadow of promise
of success, We appeal to you now, in
no vague and eloquent generality, to be
more practicable, and to accept facts
which your opposition cannot change
but we appeal to you for the sake. of
honesty, purity, for the sake of your
State, your altars, homes and little ones
TO iavor, TO work for this movement.
Away with the lethargy of despair Say
not to yourselves, we have made so many
efforts and they have failed, therefore we
shall make no other You have never
yet made sensible practical effort upon
the basis of fact.
This is the first one which is being in-
augurated now by the people of Caro-
lima. OIL let none stand off nor shrink,
from the performance Of lis part in this
grand effort.
Upon this practical and reasonable
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