The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-09
What the South Requires!

What the South Requires!
The Southern States, since the war, have
been the prey Of beggarls adVenturers, who
have done their best to bring the whites and
blacks into active hostility, and under
whose influence the public debt and taxation
have been enormously increased, and the
trade and commerce OF the South have sick
ened and lost their natural growth. These
Adventures, in every Southern State, have
been propped up and justified by the Nation
al Government; which policy has had the
effect OF aggravating sectional dislike, by
persuading the impoverished southerpers
| that the Executive is in sympathy with
thieves and vagabonds, whose only claim
upon his sympathy is that they call them
selves Republicans. The Southern people,
white as we'll ss black, want fair play.
They know that their natural vigor and fer
tile soil will enable them to repair the raw
ages OF war, and reorgsnize their social and
industrial system, to their own profit and
that OF the whole Unien,' if the National
Government will hold its hands and recog-
nize, as theirs, the rights and immunitles
which are freely accorded to the dema-
gogues who consume our substance and
make a true reunion impossible. 1t is the
supreme necessity OF the South that man
he elected President OF the United States
who will whip the rogue wherever he may
find him, and will as jealousy guard the
liberties OF the white race as Of their col
ored iellow-citizens. Such man, Horace
Greeley is known to be. AL have conf
dence in his uprightness and his unequivo-
cal honesty, and from Virginia to the Gulf
the conservative people OF the South have
shouted their approTal OF his nomination.
It is evident to them that Mr.. Greeley can
be elected, if the Democratic party throw
no obstacle in the way. The nomination OF
Democratic candidate against Horace
Greeley would make the reelection OF Grant
certainty; which reelection would ruin
the South by continuing in force, for period
Of four years longer, the vindictive aud tyran-
nlcal practices which have been the one
insuperable barrier in the way of Southern
improvement, and which threatens to per-
manently ALLEVIATE the South from the
North.
This is, in brief, the position Of the South
ern people, as we understand their feelings
and desires. They accept the constitution
as it is. They demand Universal Amnesty,
as the complement Of Usiversal Suffrage,
They require that the National Executive
appoint only capable and honest men to
Office, and that there be no interference with
the right OF local self-government, except in
such emergencies as are contemplated and
provided for in the Federal Constitution.
They look upon Horace Greeley as the one
man, capable OF election, who viii give them
security aud peace, and make this, in truth,
united people, And they require that the
Democracy OF the North shall not throw
Horace Greeley overheard, and insure his
defeat, for the sake OF personal interests or
because OF the wrong g-headedness OF the
Bourbons who have largely helped to make
US what we are.
These are the views which, we desire to
impress upon the National Democracy. We
know them TO be the opinions OF all
but the Radical office-holders in South Caro-
lima, and We believe them to be the opin-
ions of the large majority OF the people Of
the South.