The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-07-26
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Wednesday Morning, July 20, 1871.
Dead and Live Is.
sues.

Negro suffrage is now pronounced,
and apparently conceded by all poll.
ticians, to be doAd issue, thing,
that is, settled, and not to 10 debated.
Now We do not SO regard it at all,
though wc wish 1t removed, by being
allowed to take It's ohauocs aud strup-
gle for its life, from tho arena Of ma.
tipns', or rather sectional politics.
The thing is grand politico social, hu-
manitarian experiment, grounded upon
a far.roaohing philosophy, which,
however plausible it may seem, we
believe to be faleo and rutten Mt tho
core, and which time alone can verify
or disprovc. Wo care very little for
the fifteenth amendment on this sub
jcct. Slavery was in tho constitu-
ton, and 80 now, tho equality Of
races is in the constitution. Yet
slavery is dead, and so race equality
may die bofore the expiration of thir-
ty years, the fifteenth amendment to
the contrary Notwithstanding. The
issue is dead, so far as there is a,y
sense in trying to change the opinions
of the present generation Of fanuticIl
and triumphant yankees is concerned,
for they have got into tho habit of
believing negro suffrage s'lhc fruits of
the war : but it is alive, just as mz-
zlctoo on an oak tree is alive, and
may have to bo dealt with and out
away in similar manner.
Education, on tho contrary, Is pro-
nounced live issue. We only wish
that we could believe it. 1t perhap,
ought to bo, but is it 7 IL it not very
nearly dead one2 How many de-
Gently organized schools, p,blic or
private, are there in South Carolina 7
How many really accomplished tench.
eis Z Where is that interest in this
subj ,ct Of education to be natural,
expected of civilized rcorlc J
Among the Radicals, the pretended
interest in education is pure hypocri.
oy; and amongst others, it is the
mc'est talk Of the Indifferent, content
to fauer the profession of teaching,
for which they entertain no genuine
respect
Emigration, too, is called live is.
sue. "Why don't you editors stir up
the people moro on emigration 7
That's the subject for tho times"
Why don't We 7 Tho reason is plain.
Despite tho solemn protest of "Fair.
field" on tho subject, We believe that
n tolcrable description Of dung-hill
cock fight would interest our reader,
more; and those interesting squibs
our local gets off upon swhiskey" arc
certainly considered more spirited
General Butler seems to comprehend
| s"''3 "hN EoSaS-Voutb luo naubcO0S Dill
of Immigration with lottery scheme,
the Academy uf Music, and two thous.
and other prizes. Bah When will
people learn to discriminate between
what is, aud what ought to be : Edi-
tors and pot.bouso politicians write
aud talk Of dead issues and 1.-Two is-
sues, as If Is ties can be mrde or un.
mado as rapidly US a French political
constitution. Nevertheless, tho vol
goes on as heretofore, nature refusing
to be changed according to political
convenience, and what is bred in the
character coming out in the lifc. EL,-
tors aud politicians are thus often like
that busy fly that bSzzcd about the
horses and the coachman, and beliey.
Cd that it controlled tho motions aud
the progress Of the coach Issues
neither 1.-Two nor die to their order.