The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-03-30
SATURDAY, MAR. sO,, 1S7s.. &

" FClyDoOS De.,sSHFGHUs
a'Tbe young men IF this dIy daIyy possess .s,s,
chances, for achieving honor and dis.
ttinossio5ifi, ttisii such as no other set ever have.
Old maxims and the old style are fast
passing away J" They have havSisSa few adyo..
Gates and slaves still; but the p present iia is
unlike any other period which, has ever ,ve;r
existed in our land. It is is weiighty il iin
its responsibilities aud the exeartion Of
exalted, manly efforts only will avail. ~
"Who is sufficient for these things?,.'
The young Of oar 7tand!9 The task . . q q
great one and only great endeavor will
accomplish il. They must not sianud
upon the ythcorrctEiicai value Of political
dogmas; they must not lot their con. On.
vistioas be contingent, on what others
may do or think, but, inspired with a
true love Of country, they must put tc to
the test any plan calculated 20 redeem
and disenthral the land from the chaios
Of ignorance and error. While this
work is che God given duty of every
Southron whose heart throbs with pa.
triotio beat it is binding, peculiarly, up.
on the yonng men Of South Carolina."
So says, the Democratic Abbeville
Medium. 1t is excellent advice and we
give it the benefit Of a sound Republi.
can endorsement. fsN ''' ',''''
But cai bono !!--"awotis the. use ?"'-
when SO many of our young men out
Herod Herod aud are moro oid.fogyishr
than their g,andfathers., Some of the
elder men of the old school arc; we be.
l,eye, really beginning to opsn their eyes
to the fact that something must be done,
and perhaps, in time, may SO Far over.
come their prejudices as to be willing to
do i, And, here aud there, even a
young man has the courage to speak out
and act as it his soul and body were
really his own and actually alive in
South Carolina in this year of grace
1872. But most of them believe that
thesw 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 a ray of Republican
light breaks ini upon the 4chau.ber of
mourning, v ith gnsshipg of teeth They
s=y .-.: :a.:. Ss;,,T u. 5va.v 10 az nonor.
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--randi
then they write poetry to "Carolipa"
and stick as close to the corpse as ever
But they never raise hand 10 aid their
dear old State in the one single, possible,
practical way u isa point of honor,
OF ,soainl duty, not to do that. 4 Aud SO,
as they say, everything goes from bad
to worse, and SO, rs everybody else
knows, the corpse il going from worse
to uOrst--and still they do. nothing.
They won't even bury the dead
We know that the dead haze claims
upon us G. and one of them is to be
buried decdntly, and in tine). But the
living also have claims. And it is
noithor sound in morals nor true in fsel-
ing, after the last Offices have been duly
performed, 70 waste time in grief forabd
departed when. those left With us are
crying for bread. - ~ "
If We must weep, why wo must and
will, but VIC must none the loss attend to,
the plain, pressing wants of hosdcly,
every day liGa al- - 10 9'@s