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confidence of the people that they
acquiesced in
| n,,r .cr1oN oE roNcDEss

acquiesced in
THE ACTION OF CONGRESS,
niggcr suffrage and everything, ant
counselled submission, and there
would be no more outragcs to bt
reported. But why should they
do it? 1t is nothing to them
They don't suffer. 1t is a difficulty
the carpet baggers made for them
selves, and they must bear it. Sir
the way the State is now run i:
awful. The people are robbed
right and left, and are being ruin
. ed completely by the swarm oI
| Northern locusts that have settled
down in their midst. 1t is lament.
able that outrages should be com-
mitted by the citizeus; but the
provocation is indeed great. We
have now a nigyer majority of 50,-
600, and against this we are pow
crlcss, as at present organized.
They rule and ruin as they please,
because we are stupid enough to
insist on being recognized as DEM
ocrats.
Reporter. You are a Republican,
Governor, are you not?
Mr.. Orr. Well-yes; that is, l
am kind Of a Republican. The
ouly hope 1 see for the State of
South Carolina is for all hands to
declare themselves Republicans.
AS matters now stand the carpet
bagyers and niggcrs have every.
thing their own way. At election
time, when Il good man sincerely
desirous of SUI porting the govern
mcut, healing the bitterness
of the hour and restor.
ing the State to her proper c"ndi-
ton, offers himself us candidate
for office on the. Democratic ticket,
he is immediately put down by
SOME ACCCRsED sCALAWAG
or field hand, the tool of the scala
wag, in this fashion: "Who eman-
cipatcd you? The niggers! WHO
entranchiSed you? Who enabled
YOU to exercise your unalicnable
right to ride on the cars with the
white folks? Who shed their
blood for you and stand by you to-
day? The Republicans! Who
fought against you in the war to
keep you in slavery? Who want
to annul the emancipation pro-
clamation and the laws of Con-
gross made toryou by your friends?
Who want to re-enslave yon? The
Democrats. So the Democratic
gentleman has t, take q oack seat,
the thirty thousand black minority
is rolled up for the scaIawag, car
ret-bagger and negro candidates,
aud we arc as before. If our people,
sir, had the sense to go in with the
niggcrs, declare themselves re-
solved to support the amendments
to the; constitution and the recon-
struction acts of Congress, and
that hencetorward they wonld be
Republicans, it would be all NJ
with the carpet t-baggers; the pnh:
lie offices would be filled with men
of responsibility and intelligence,
ard the State would speedily
recover. That is my policy for
South Carolina. We don't care
anything down there for Federal
politics; our ardent desire is to
ecovcr the State from the scoun-
dre!s Who arc now running it.
Reporter. But suppose the Dem
ocratic party wins
TIE PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT.
would not hat triumph bo Of benefit
to South Carolina?
Mr. Orr. Not at all. There is
that 10000 nigser majority; we have
rot to get rid of that somehow. No
matter what party wins in the in the
national election it will make no diff
ference tu US. Should the Rcpuhli-
cans win we will be as we arc. Per-
hans, indeed, we would have another
,rmv of uncousc;onaklc Radical ruff
;ians quarlered upon us. If the Dem
ocrats win they cannot help US, for
the nalIificalion Of the amendments
is ont Of the question; the iniernal
10000 nigger majority will be there
worse than ever. No sir; we must
all become Republicans, and so take
the wind out Of the sails Of the car
pet-baggcrs.
Reporter. Yours is bad pred'ca'
ment, Governor. What about the
other st tes..?
Mr.. Orr OF the other States of
the Soath and their condition l am
not very well Informed. They are
however, better off than we are
Ours is the only State where the nlE:
rers outnumbcrcd the whites. l
| have ceased to be politician outside
Of my own State. i am phi!oso-
pher-
a POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER.
| if you like.
Reporter. Governor, I am glat
you told me that. An American pollt
ical philosopher who does not care
.hout q fairs outside Of his own STATE