The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-18

fact is recognized by oil the leading Republi-
can newspapers of the North, excepting al
ways the Neu York Tribune and Forney's
Chronicle and Press. They say distinctly
that Scott and his fellows would kill any
party, and they deny all responsibility for
the hideous crimes committed in South Car
olina in the name Of National Republican
ISM. Upon every occasion the Scott Ring
have repudiated and rejected the few respec-
table Republicans who might have curbed
their extravaganza and made stealing odious
They reject Sawyer and hug Whittemore
to their bosom. All this is no news to
Judge Orr. He is well aware that the Re-
formers wage war against theft and igno-
rance, and not against Republicanism. He
is well aware that neither he, nor q thousand
like him, can cause the dissolution OF the
Union Reform Party That is all Of the
question. A contest there will be, and a
fierce one, whatever the result. But Judge
Orr solemnly says that the very existence OF
the Reform party will ''force them (the Be
'publicans) in their campaign to look more
$50 selt:preserration than to any cor7'tl'tonS
cor niSmanageneent Of its members, anu TO
sthat extent is a serious injury to the State F"
Mark this Judge Orr, in effect, declares
that the reform of abuses and the self-preser-
walton of the Scott Ring cannot co-exlst
tits evident that in his opinion any attempt
by the Scott Ring to reform the abuses
which, he acknowledges, do exist would
weaken their chances and jeopardize their ex-
pected victory. Can there be more scan-
dalous admission than this? For the sake
of self-preservation, the Scott Ring must con-
tinue the system of extravaganza, ignorance
and corruption which in two years have
made the State Government very sink OF
iniquity. And, knowing this, and admitting
its truth, Judge Orr chooses this moment for
the announcement that he will vote ''for the
'snominees" of what he calls ''the Republi-
stcan party" We are forced to believe that
he will be more at home, cheek by jowl
with Ransier, " .emore and Scott, than
side by side with Carpenter, Kershaw,.
Hampton, Conner Perry, and the host O.
good men and true who, sinking all minor
differences, band themselves together for the
redemption Of the State.
One famous argument made use OF by
Judge Orr deserves notice for its Ingenious
falsity. This is, that the State Of Vermont,
rolling up for thirty years its twenty-five
thousand Whig majority, is fit illustration
of the struggle and constancy OF party Or
ganization in securing self-perpetuation.
The answer to this is plain. Vermont was
never cursed with government like that Of
South Carolina. The people knew that,
which ever party won, they would have an
honest State Government, and full protec-
tion for life and property. There was no
reason why Whiga and Democrat should work
together They had no common object to
obtain, no common dangert to avert. But in
South Carolina the Democrat and the Re-
publican the white man and the black, are
equally interested in the overthrow OF Scott,
Orr & Co. Outside OF the office-holding
class, there is not man in the State who is
not impelIed by the instincts Of self-preser-
yation to work with the Reform party. The
conditions are wholly different. What could
not be done in Vermont can be done, and
will be DONE in South Carolina. Nor is the
task so difficult as Judge Orr would make
the people believe. In 1865 the Republican
majority in South Carolina was bare Ii, 900.
All the freedmen were then casting a vote
for their own enfranchisement. There was
something to hope for from the new admin
istration. Now the enfranchisement Of the
colored people is secured beyond doubt, and,
as Judge Orr tells US, we have nothing to
expect from Scott and his Ring but repeti-
ton of sickening story of brigandage,
prohigacy and wholesale public plunder.
With the exception OF Judge Orr himself,
there is not prominent man in South Caro-
luu MuO Udo JOlueu luS ESOlt polls. 4Not
will his example tempt others to make the
same fatal leap. Voltaire said Of Admiral
Byng that the English hung him pour en-
courager les autres. In this sense the po-
iitical Hart-Kari of Judge Orr may do some
good.
The whole State is united on the side Of
Reform, whatever Judge Orr may say. He
cannot make or mar our fortunes. The goal
OF his ambition is well known. and before
the year is out, whatever the result of the
October elections, Judge Orr will realize
acutely that the ingratitude of Republics is
nothing to the deliberate faithlessness of
Scott and his colleague. Judas did receive
the thirty pieces of silver. As much will not
be written OF James L. Orr
SThe Fourth Congressional District.
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