Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-07-10
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The Charleston Daily News, our very
ably edited contemporary publishes in
its last Saturday issue conversation held
by Judge Orr and the special correspond
cnt Of the News. That paper speaks unc
quivocally of Judge Orr ns the ablest
man in the radical ranks. If this be so
then Republican Reform has u better
chance than Carpenter Reform and there
is another breathing space to be here
rcapcd for rndicalism. Which we sim
cercly hope may not be the case, but
that Judge Orr may find himself mis-
taken, as any other man will be who
thinks that any one can preach Grant
ism and reform for honesty together,
with truth ofintent. Judge Orrmay have
brains but his political honesty may well
be doubted. Hc says he holds his Office
only from compulsion through his famly's
necessities. May not the same reason
compel him equally successfully toacccpt
another office either here or elsewhere?
We think so, and no doubt many others
will agree with us.
Judge Orr pitches roundly into the
state radicals and tells us that they near
ly were the cause of ruin to the whole
national republican party; would have
been such were it not for similar frauds
III the democratic party of New York.
Is the preservation of radicalism then
based upon the villairy of its opponents?
Our very able Judge says that any reform
in State affairs must be accomplished by
the Radical party. Iftlscrc is any desire
OH the part ofany known party of the Re
publican party to be particularly honest,
We havcnot yet heard of him. The expert
mcnt of Republican reform Nas tried two
years ago by Judge Carpenter, when Scott
had already mauguratcd hissystem ofrad
ical plmdcring and it was for the time be-
ing failure. We donot see why the cXpcr-
iment should be any more successful un-
der the auspices of Judge Orr or whom
socvcr he may propose to manipulate for
The Judge says that the eolorcd masses
all l;r,ncol TO 20, ;,,t t1,n
administration because they have had as
laborcrs to bear the burden oftaxation and
political prohigacy. Now on this point
there is no reason why the Judge should
not know as well as any one else what we
MI know to be the case; viz than no other
class of voters feel less the burden of tax.
alton and other state burdens than do
these colorcd laborcrs Of South Carolina
in the mass. That the cxorbiant taxa
tion has rendered the renting of his land
by the planter compulsory whenever he
could, and he has had to take anything
lie can get, and i'll by far the majority Of
cases he does not get the value of his tax
cS. The necessities Of his case have been
such that he has been glad to get II few
DAYS labor III his field as rental for more
land than the negro aud his family can
plant, and found it very hard to get this
promise, small as it is, regularly fulfilled.
This is the irresponsible condition into
which labor has been brought through
the state, through the agency Of rcpubli-
canism and its loyal leagues
Being an entirely agricultural people,
and bcrcft Of capital, we have been ground
between the neither and upper millstoncs
otgovcrnmcnt hostility andnew1y eniran.
chised slaves: each by the other stimula-
ted to DO their dammcaestto complete our
ruin. They care not to reform so long as
upheld by national bayoncts. What does
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