The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-22
The City Election.

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The City Election.
The nomination of General John A. Wag-
ener, as candidate for Mayor, by the most
respectable citizens of Charleston, is just
tribute to gentleman Of large comprehen-
sion, liberal spirit, and varied and persis-
Ftent energy-to the leader in the recent
movement Of German immigration to the
patron of the only plan by which our State
can be redeemed-to the father OF Walhalla.
i Ournumerous and enlargipg German popu-
lation will regard the nomination as COM
pliment were it simply rendered TO General
WAGNER. as q representative man-as the
leader in campaign which, depended large
ly for it's success upon the power OF this
hearty and valiant race. And we are sure
that they will exercise their just influence
here; they will lift above the captured chas-
sepots OF France the redeemed civic ensigns
Of Charleston. For the trophies assignedto
their guardianship by the Emperor OF Ger:
many are not more precious than the prize
proposed to their ambition by '1he ses-born
lscity..n The one proclaims that they have
the blood Of Hermann the other will test
the proud pretension that they breathe his
spirit and Inherit his better life.
The grand thing that speaks to us most
| Iimperiously while we write, and while we
think Of that antique past, is just this: that
life is worth nothing il it is not free from the
| rule oi the stranger. It was not the brute
instinct OF seli-protection which threw across
the Roman march the mighty buiwark which
was at once honored and travestied under.
the name Of Armipius. That great hero was
.he genius Of civic deieuce--that broad shield !I
defended the tribes, the consecrated groves,
the free municipalities extending from the
Danube sources to the Baltic Sea. he kept
the insolent Roman from smearing every sa-
cred oak-for in those days every oak stood
up for the chastity OF woman and the hour
of man, for private right and for public law.
The alien in those days cared for neither, as
he cares for neither BOW.
L6a.,r Carmsn lAllaru-o oi.;-~.- -~--~ '-~~---t ~
be the mos thriving class amongst US. They
have the finest stores, the most pretentious
church, the most elegant, hall, the most
popular and generous pleasure ground IN
Charleston. Their liberal displays OF iwealth
at once give them influence and invite ag-
gression. The Radicals intend to tax their
sales aud their purchases, their parsonages
and. their halls, their pleasures and their
busfnesses their cradles and their collins.
Under the present rkainse man, has only to
gather property, in order to invite taxation.
If his face shows blood, a thousand gnats
settle upon it. In such contest as Is now
inaugarated, the thrifty German has only;
one side to stand upon, and one evil to fear.
The defeat of General Wagner will legalize
the spollation. of store and stock, farm and
crop, shelf and purse, by host OF merciless
vagabonds.
But the present conflict appeals not sim
ply to one race or one order Of society. 1t
comprehends the interests OF all The men
who nov aim at the sway OF Charleston are
not only demanding social equality-a doc
trine repudiated by all the world beside-but
are surreptitiously, yet efectually, establish
ing Communicable equality Of goods-a
doctrine destructive Of enterprise and indus
try, Upas beneath whose poisonous sha-
dow all life dies. or what use is 1t to make.
money when o rascally Radicalism is pre-.
pairing to pick it out Of the till, tear it out OF
tile pocket, squeeze it, like blood, out OF the
threshold and the hearth? Those men who
are willing to let others live and yet are re-
solved TO live themselves, have only one re-
sort. Every interest, moral and pecuniary,
forbids that they should vote for Lesisla-
| ture which preys upon the State, a superin-
Itehdent who shuts up the schools, triaf
Justice who befriends criminals, and Mayor
who sacrifices the city.
Let US have change, We say The whole
world around US is moving Why are we
standing still? The citizen Of Charleston
cannot go anywhere abroad without encoun-
tering free, rich, hopeful life which he is
here unconscious of-the. general. blessing
Of the Republic, which is here shut off bya
clique OF worthless political tricksters. ''The
''Union League" which is power amongst
us, is theme Of laughter in Illinois, where
it habits origin. The leading Republicans
mock at it. The friends OF Abraham Lin
coin wonder that thing "played out" so
many years ago has been reproduced by q
ring OF Southern scoundrels. Our situation
is most peculiar. We are contending for the
dearest political and personal rights, and We
are fighting with shadows.
Lesson OF the New York Riet.
The telegram published in our columns a
\ aov or tUo ooo in roforanca to the New York