The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-17
The Dawn OF Day. :.

political horizon. Fortitude and patience,
| under humiliation and wrong, are slowly, II
surely, winning the victory over the pre)u-
dices and distrust which the war induced,
and which it has been the work Of the Radi-
cal Republicans to nourish and strengthen.
That this is strictly true cannot be doubted
by any one who ponders the events. OF the
last few weeks. The greeting given to the
South Carolina delegation at Baltimore, the
generous words OF Horace Greeley, the in
dignant ejaculation OF the staid journal OF
Commerce that what is wanted in South
Carolina is,s isa political revolution" the
lust and statesmanlike utterances Of the
repenerate Herald, the laudations OF the
shifty Forney, and even the awakening OF
our sluggish President to tardy realization
of the horrors OF the condition of things
| which he did most to establish and main
tain-thess are living evidences that South
Carolina is no longer to be treated as an
African satrapy, and that her people are no
longer to be held unworthy OF the rights
and privileges, as we'll as the responsible
ties, OF American citizenship.
It has taken years upon years to convince
our fellow-citzens Of the North and West
that the South accepts the results OF the
Confederate war, and receives, as final, that
settlement Of the political questions which
was it's necessary consequence. The compar-
alive promptitade with which the white citi-
zens of South Carolina affirmed the constltu-
tional amendments and the civil and pollti-
cal equality Of all classes OF citizens, was
shorn of it's influence by the wrong and I'M
polite conduct Of a few desperate men, who
made themselves Judges, juries and execu-
TONERS. This thrust back the day OF deliv-
erance. Nor had the South been able to
satisfy the North That. in the Southarn,
heart, secession was dead, and sectionallsm
dying fast-that sectional bitterness was
only kept alive by test-oaths, by proscriptiVe
legislation, by the operation OF bayonet-
bills, by the denial Of amnesty. But the
alacrity with which this State, 10 particular,
accepted the proposed nomination Of MIR.
Greeley, and the demeanor OF the South
ern delegates in the Democratic No
tional Convention, have put the graVest
doubts to rest, and have led the North
to believe that policy OF justice and
magnanimity will make these United States,
in very truth, contented and harmonious
people. This is the meaning of the ringing
declaration Of the Herald that it will hold
up to contempt and scora every Congress
man who favors any measure for the oppres-
sion of the white men OF the South, and that
it will regard an assault upon their liberties
and privileges as crime against the Re-
public.
And we can tell the people Of the North
what two or four years Of just and generous
treatment would bring forth. Sustained by
public opinion, and by the moral force OF
the Federal Administration, the white citi-
zens of South Carolina would be able to
scourge from Office the rogues who now
cheat whites and blacks alike. The blacks
would obtain, what they have never had,
full political and Industrial equality, as well
as an exemption from the plundering OF i'm.
ported rascals and native adyenturers.
Whites and blacks would stand as equals be.
fore the law and at the polls; but intelli-
gence a1d experience, without respect to
color, would control and rule the State.
And, the while, old sympathies and old
recollections, no longer hidden by the smoke
OF battle, would glow anew in every breast.
The North would honor bravery and SELF
sacrifice, wherever they were found; the
South would respect patriotism and perse-
verance., whatever the circumstances which
called them forth. Giving up nothing of
good, forgetting nothing worthy Of remem-
brance, the two sections would resolve them
selves into one grand country, guarding with
pious c are every act Of vaior and every deed
of honor which any of its children had done;
one COZ lntry, not in the laws binding States
and pet piles together, but in the possession
OF one flag, in speaking one language in
the consciousness Of q common destiny.
This is what will come, II the Northern peo-
ple follow to the end the path they now are
treating. The price is only this: That the