The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-09-07
The Necessity of Organization.

Our respectcdcotcmporary the Keo~ee
Courier joins hands with the Ne'cs, in
, deprecating organization this year. We
will add few words to what we have
already written on this subject. If we
intend to keep up the Democratic party
in this State, We must keep ourselves in
accord with its movements. We are
now totally ydisorganizcd and have been
80 since tho dissolution of the Union Re
form party last Fall: We have not even
Z a committee which could take the initia-
tory steps Ito re-organize the p"rtN' or
with which the National committee could
confer, even upon the most vital and i'm
portant exigency. We suppose that the
party organizations are never allowed to
expire in other States, for there is al
y, WAYS Iwerk to be done. PcShaps no
+ where is there so much to be done as in
South Carolina. Our opponents never
slumbcr nor sleep. Have they more need
. ef.vigilapt and perscvcring effort than
we? Have they the promise of more
::and greater rewards than we, to induce
their steadfastness ? We do not agree
that our people are only capable of
, sudden and emotional effort in behalf of
their liberties they arc incapable
of earnest and sustained labor when a
proper patriotic task is laid before them.
They are not impulsivc and impressible.
On the contrary, they are stoical, slow
to take position, and not readily aroused
to action. There must be good cause
to enlist their energies, and it must be
.slong presented with the constant persis-
tencv of earnestness and truth, before
they lay hold of it, but when they do,
you may trust them foraan impetuous,
determined and self-sacriGcing devotion
: and constancy to the cause. Ihcy VINO
took the responsibility of inaugurating
the Reform party last year, are response
BILE also for the dissolution of the Demo
cratic party Of this State. When they
dissolved their temporary substitute, they
left nothing behind but political anarchy,
in the face of disciplined and trium-
phant foe. An effort was then made to
effect compact organization, which by
this time might, We believe, have held in
its hand the political destinies of this
State, but that failed in obedience to
that procrastinating appeal now urged
against organization. We have not only
to unite our people, but. to gain, by this
time next year, ten thousand votes, or
We are doomed to ruinous defeat. The
votes We gain are to be won, not by agi-
tation or public appeals to popular assem-
blies, but by a concentration of assidu-
Gus efforts upon individuals. In our
opinion, the most of this work is to be
done in the first months of next year, if
We propose to gather the Autumn fruits.
We repeat, let us organize county and
precinct clubs of prudent and thoughtful
men, and an efficient executive committee,
active. and energetic, Who will quietly
aud cficiently-#ork out the results OF
their own counsels. A delay until next
year, we fear, will be fatal to our hopes.
1t is worthy of consideration too, that
the experience of our Charleston friends
cannot be rcsortcd to, to dcduce rule
Of action for the State. Their circum-
stances are entirely different. They
operate upon different sort of people
altogether, and by different means
Their work may perhaps be more ell
GENTLY done in week or two, than in a
longer period. IN the rural districts we
must operate according to our own ex-
perience of the requirements of the work.
We commend this subject most earnestly
to the consideration Of the people. If
We had the ear of the thoughtful, we
feel sure VIC could impress upon them at
least portion of our deep convictions of
the vital necessity of rallying and organ
izing our forces for the victory which
may there be rendered possible. Much,
of course, of its value and expediency
would depend upon the use made Of the
organization when effected. 1t would
not be proper here to anticipate what
might be the forms and modes OF efhclent