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

shore to the mountains, voice comes
spontaneous from the people Of the State,
and it speakcth mighty things-thiugs
OF high import, and pregnant with
bright bone. The people of South Caro-
lima have repudiated Democracy. Sig
ni6cans omen! It's name aud its nation
al issues are relinquished. This is u
fact.
The colored man has o natural aud
constitutional right to his freedom and
his citizenship, and this right is really
and 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
the State, and who have exhibited the
intention and desiring of becoming her
good citizens. will unite, and 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, and will
secure the government to those who are
citizens and who are worthy.
Another grand effort is about to be or
ganized, 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
Disgusted as the colored people are
with the deception, and dishonesty of
the party, that has controlled his sympa-
thy and ballot for its own purposes of
robbery, thoy will hear with astonish-
ment that the people OF South Carolina
arc ready TO guarantee to him his right
of voting and holding office.
They do guarantee to him these rights.
s::d they ask him to use these rights to
purify, to redeem their State of which
they arc 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, and 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 ani the colorcd men of
South Carolina will make the effort to-
gether and honest men will be put in
Office. a
The intelligence, the elevation, the :
fnement which have ever been the char
acteristies OF the Southern people, and
the labor, the industry, of the colored
man, the best adapted to our climate and
to our, great product, united in COM
munity of the truest and deepest inte-
rest, hopes and destiny, present in their
union q ta5leou of hope in the future,
the brightest and most glorious of any
people.
We shall be as one. The same rigL is,
hopes, destiny belong to both. And in
its effulgence of brightness, the carpet
Dagger will skulk away. Yes he must
pack up! When honest men agree
aogues 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 ac-
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. Resolped, That this conference re-
eoguizes the legal right of all oitizens
of the State, irrespective of color, to
suffrage.
2. Resolred. That this conference re-
cognizes the legal right of all citizens
of the State, irrespective of color or
former condition, to Office, subject alone
to personal qualification and fitness.
3. Rssolred. That in the Judgment
Of this conference, a convention of the
people of the state opposed to Radical
ism, and in favor Of good and honest
government, should be held in the city
of Columbia, at some convenient time,
for the purpose of nominating State
ticket, which, while assuring equal and
exact justice to all, viii afford some de-
grso of security, prosperity and good
government.
4. Resotred. That this conference re-
speetfully suggests to the people of the