The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-09-02


the State. Our province is to council
peace, and order. mud good government
Tho dar whom sbese shall bless ns
will only be prolonged by outrage and
wrongs We haye talked with stme Of
Ethc caimcst minds in this County, and
they thoroughly agreed with us. And
now We ask: Will not every good oiti.
zen rally to she cry Of peace! Will not
our leading mon of both parties put
their heads together and try to devise
some plan to avert the dread catastrophe.
which will as surely follow any acts. Of
iawlessness that are perpctnted in this
County, as night follows day. We, are
in for peace, aud every endeayor OF ours
shall be spent in the work of bringing
it about. Here is the article FROM tho
Union. 1t is written by one who has
the authority of knowing. We ask our
well-thinking men to ponder it:
Every person who has read this
journal during the past six months can
bear testimony to our efforts TO preserve
the peace of the State, and bring to jus
tice those guilty of offending against its
laws. We huye never been sparing in
our denunciations Of the lawlessness and
violence which have prevailed in many
sections of the State, nor have we shown
favors to political friends when guilty of
any misdemeanor or infringement Of tho
law Yet all our efforts have proved
fruitless, the opposition press often ac-
cusing us of printing accounts of out
rases solely for the purpose OF stirring
up strife.
We believe in implicit obedience to
law and authority, even though these
may be obnoxious to us, and totally re-
pugnant to our ideas of right and JUS
tice; yet being laws they should be
obeycd the same as if they met with our
heartiest approval Not so, however,
with those who have brought all this
trouble upon us. Rather than live un-
der laws which they do not approve, aud
conform to rules and usages laid down
by legislature not of their choice, they
would see everything 60 to ruin, the
lives and property Of citizens put in
jeopardy, business stagnated, aud every
industry, except such as shall pass their
Judgment, blighted and driven out of
the State. This is the state of affairs
which many of our Democratic Journals
would like to see, if We may judge by
the stuff which appears in their columns
weekly. If an outrage occurs in any
portion Of the State, forthwith these
partisan newspapers begin to beat about
for an excuse for the parties guilty of
the crime. Instead of rallying to the
support of law and order, and condemn
ing crime by whoever it may be commit
ted, they seek to palliatc it, and to shield
he guilty cuipriis from punishment. If
white Democrat abuses, whips, or mnr-
ders n poor colorcd man, it is deemed
the height Of persecution to bring the
offender to justice, but let eolored man
so much as even insult white Demo.
crat, and his life pays the penalty
This is called justice. Let negro
steal pound of seed cotton, and six
years in the penitentiary is not deemed
too great punishment. The Demo
cratic Journals would never tire Of talk
ing of the ernormity of such crime,
but midnight murder by a band of
niasked villains is not of sufficient i'm
portance to call for even a passing word
Of condemnation. When band of an
hundred or more of disguised men ride
into town, warn the public officers to re-
sign their places, and merchants to close
up their affairs and leave the State, these
yirtuous journals have nothing to say
against such high.handed proceedings,
but if two disguised burglars should
break into house at the North, forth.
with their columns would tcem with ac-
counts OF "Ku Klux at the North" and
such like trach.
The difference between the conduct Of
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ais of the North is very apparent.
Whenever an outrage against law occurs