The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-03-30
SATURDAY, MAR. so,, ls7s'.. g. :

Ulysses S. Grant. .
"The young men of this day ;dq,y5 ! possess s s,
chances, for achieving hoaor and dis.
tinction, such as no other set ever ever have.
Old maxims and the old style are fast
passing away. They have few advo..
Gates and slaves still; but the present l;a is
unlike any other period which. has ever ,ys.
existed in our land. It is weighty in
its responsibilities and the exertiou of
exalted, manly efforts only will avail
"Who is sufficient for these things ?,,'
The young cfonr 1and! The task iis Is a a
great one and only great endeayor will
accomplish it. They must not stand
upon the theoretical value Of political
dogmas; they must not Let their con.
vietiOns be contingent on what others
may do or think, but, inspired with a
true love Of country, they must put to
the test any plan calculated 10 redeem
and disenthral the land from the chains
of ignorance and error. While this
work is che God given duty of every
Southrou whose heart throbs with pa.
triotic beat it is binding, peculiarly, up.
on the yoang men Of South Caroliua." !"
So says the Democratic Abbeville
Medium. 1t is excellent advice and we
give it the benefit of sound Republi..
can endorsement. g" '"0 "''>
But cai bono !!-""wot's the use ~
when so many of our young men out
Herod Herod aud are more oid.fogyidh
than their g,andfathers. Some of the
elder men of the old school arc, we be-
l.eye, really beginning to opep their eyes
to the fact that something must be done,
and perhaps, in time, may 80 far over.
come their prejudices as to be willing to
do il, And, here aud there, even
young man has the courage to speak out
and act as if his soul and body were
really his OWL and actually alive in
South Carolina in this year of grace
1872. But most of them believe that
the word Democracy sums up everything
that is good and true and worth having
They worship the bare name of Domo-
cracy. They love it more dearly than
anything else under heaven. The party
is dead and they know It, but they hang
around the corpse with weeping and
wailing-and, when ray of Republican
light breaks in upon the chau,ber of
mourning, with gnashing Of teeth They
esy .h=+ .h=: @ a.:, -: :Sv...- 10 urnonur-
ed ; but they stick by the corpse. They
say that the dear old State is bankrupt
but they stick by the corpse. They
say that even worse is to come--and,
then they write poetry to "Carolipa"
and stick as close to the corpse as ever
But they never raise hand TO aid their
dear old State in the one single, possible,
practical way, It isa point Of, honor,
OF sooial duty, not to do that. Aud so,
as they say, everything goes from bad
to worse, and so, as everybody else
knows, the corpse is going from worse
to Sorst--and still they do. nothing.
They won't even bury the dead.
We know that tho dead have claims
upon US - and one of them is to bo
buried decently, and in tiine). But tho
living also have claims. And it is
noithor sound in morals nor true in feel
ing, after the last Offices have been duly
performed, to waste time in grief for thd
departed when those left With us are
crying for bread. 49, 0';, ?"
If We must weep, why VIC must and
will, but VIC must none the loss attend to
the plain, pressing wants of ho.ncly,