The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-06-24
Immigration and Minority Repro.
sentatiOn.

fellow citizen of this County. The
questions discussed in it will repay peru.
sal. Speaking Of immigration, our cor
respondent says, "No one who considers
the vast acreage of land lying idle in
our State, can deny the necessity for
the introduction of honest and indus
trious farmers from the North and from
Europe. No intelligent citizen of South
Carolina would withhold from them the
heartiest welcome. We need Just such
men TO assist US in developing our latent
resources, aud making our homes, in
S=e.yy >++e-y respect, p!essss. and happy. Does
any one ask what party they will affiliate
With when they come here He who
stoops TO consider such questions, allows
9 narrow, petty spirit Of partizanship to
supersede and smother the purer aud
broader principles of patriotism"
IF every Democrat iu South Carolina
could persuade himself to believe the
truth Of the extract quoted above, our
great necessity for immigration of hon
est Northern and European laborers and
fsTr;;sssssTss, ffsTr;;ssssTs We would .soon be better aud
more prosperous Commonwealth. Os-
ftracism on account of political opinions,
I has done more TO retard and turn the
tide Of Immigration from our shores,
than anything else. This is eminently a
free country, and if man cannot exer-
else freely his political opinions one
place, he can in another. The North
western States have taken advantage of
the narrowncss of our prejudices, and
Treatment toward immisrants-s and oonse-
quentiy, RECEIVES SO per racoHt OF the i'm
migration into their own borders, that
were we liberal, and offered the same
welcome that they do to strangers, would
aow to our shores and settle '.ron our
coil
It is time that this persecution for
opinions sake should be done away with
Let's not be babies any longer. Let us be
men, and grapple manfnlly with the new
and live issues of today Let this
mean, narrow and petty spirit of preju.
dice, that SO terribly curses our land,
be hisscd and accrued down. Let
wider and more christian like feeling
take possession of us. 1t is time that
the love of exploded and absolete senti.
ments and ideas were, III the arena of the
thought of the statesman, discarded. A
new set of politicians must, ere long.
take possession of and shape the future
destiny of this country. Young, brave
and. vigorous thought will assert its indie
pendence, and put to shame the puny
and sickly sentiments that the old fosies
IN the expiring throes of their reign, are
trying to indoctrinate in the youth of to-
day.
We do not agree With our correspon-
dent that things are worse now 'than in
the beginning of the new regime" We
admit tnaJ there are indivtdual Instances
Of blacker corruption than was to be
seen then. For this the Repub-
lican party is not responsible. There
are some black sheep in every fock, but
it does not follow that the whole fock
must be condemned for the nature of the
few bad ones in it. True. there are
more of them in the Republican party
than are to be found in the ranks of any
other, but We are slowly riddng our
selves of them. Our correspondent will
doubtleFs agree with us, that affairs are
better now than they were two years ago,
if he will carefully read his own Ian
guage. Speaking of minority represen-
tation, he says, "our next ray of hope is
10 be found in the prominence which the
subject Of minority representation has
attained. First ogitated by an able and