Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-07-03


South will have laid out for her the path
that her chosen men shall think most
proper for her rpursue-the Convention
will have met In Baltimore and decided
for us the most feasible plan for us to
work for, political redemption. Every.
thing seems to, point out that if the Gin
cinnati nominations are not actively.
they will ut least passively be endorsed (:
and We hope that the former course will
he adopted. i@''27@
For the first, time since the war the
North has extended toward the South an
invitation for cooperation and it is our
duty to ourselves and those dependent
upon us that We should accept in the
spirit Of honest and earnest patriots the
hand of fellowship. Hitherto our fight
for salvation has been rs that Of the UNI
aided and disarmed prisoner, bound in
the chains of social and political disfran-
chisement against the headless and un-
curbed SCOTS Of sectional malignity and
political power, Now. daWns the day of
our redemption. Let us not come to the
days work encumbered with old preiu-
tlices. lWecan not carry them. If the
people of the North can cast aside the
NATURAL and almost legitimate arrogance
ofthe victor, there surely can be serviity
ascr;bed 80 such action OH our part rs
recognises the change which has been
wrought in the political situation of our
common country.
flour slaves are all cmancipatcd then
i, slavery indeed and in truth dead-if
negroes are enfranchised, then indeed and
in truth can colored men vote. These
are accomplished facts which it were
more manly to accept and deal with as
facts than longer to mutter "it should not
lie thus" @
# the supremacy Of the national Union
has been established through our inabiI-
ity to have it otherwise dccrccd, what
good can come of our muttcrings that
"we would not have it So" We have no
longer the privilege Of a choice. The
facts are these and are we not men enough
tn admit them and bravcly bear them
as we do all the other responsibilities Of
this life? Are the men of the South, who
before this sad reverse took hold upon us
even our very vitals, claimed civilization,
enlightenment second to none, and to
whom they were conceded, prepared to
risk opportunity after opportunity to the
redemption of themselves and their land
on adherence to the faith of an era that
is past? God forbid And is not this
simple burial dcfunct questions all that
is requested of us? Surely this is all.
And if, as we may call it. straight dem
ocratic ticket lis northumberland is of
men who arc known to have been life
long would they open the
campaign by claiming the right of scces-
sion and the existence of Slavery? Surely
no.. And why shouldany democrat with
hold his vote from Greeley; particularly
when his antagonist is the exponent of
Radicalism Grant, who devoid of one
clement of craftsmanship displays but
cne motive, self ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and but
one sentimental never satcd greed for
all he can get and all he cant get? To
MS the afiliation of political parties on
an issue SO vital as this is no more ,Sscr-
tion Of creed than tile association of vari-
Gus religious denominations for the sup
porting one pastor comfortably in pre-
ference TO starving too or three or the