The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-11
In the Fold.

The greeting given by the Baltimore Con-
vention to the name OF South Carolina, when
the roll OF the States was called, is sting
ing rebuke to the short-sighted few who
stroye to hold the State aloof from the Ma
tional Reform movement. Four times the
name of the State fell upon the ears OF the
listening delegates, and each time the hearty
applause which thundered through the hall
was token that the Democratic Republi-
cans OF the Union sympathize with South
Carolina in her troubles, and remember her
as community where is urgently neces-
sary to restore personal freedom for the In
dividual, and Republican good for all. The
Convention know the weakness OF the South
Carolina Conservatives. In their plaudlts
there was nothing Of the shrewd calculation
which might lead them to shout Tor In
diana or the Keystone State Their marks
Of fraternal feeling were disinterested and
sincere; q voluntary expression OF thelr
hope that the State might, through the Re-
form movement, return to the dominion OF
intelligence and worth. For this there ls
ample cause. South Carolina has been
mark by which the progress OF centrallza-
tion and usurpation is known. More than
any other State, she suffers by the test oath,
by the suspension OF the habeas corpus, by
thieving government, by military despotlsm.
AS an outraged Commonwealth, plundered
without stint, as o State where Grantism
has upheld and maintained the most rascal
" crew the century has known, South Car
olina is pilied throughout the land. And
not with an idle pity. The cheering at Bal
timore on Tuesday broadly said that South
Carolina is the spot where reform shall
begin; 30 soon as, by Gods blessing.
Horace Greeley, the Peace President, be-
comes the Chief Magistrate OF united
people.
That this determination should fill the
minds of the delegates to the Patriot Con-
vention is due, in large measure, to the
good faith and prudence with which, in
some important respects, the white citizens
OF the State have acted. More than two
years ago they planted themselves upon the
Missouri platform, recognizing, in all seri'
ousness, the rights and privileges OF every
race and class Of people. Wherever the op-
portunlty was given, they showed in prac-
tice that they drew no sharp line between
whites and blacks. Something more was
needfu, and that was given when South
Carolina, the Cradle OF Secession, instantly
and iervently declared, by the voice OF her
white citizens, her desire to support Horace
Greeley, and clasp hands across the bloody
chasm which had too long divided the
people.
South Carolina is now absolutely identified
with the National Reform movement, and
stands in the serried line with Massachu-
setts and Illinois, as we'll as with her sister
States OF the South. This is what is gained
BY sending delegates from South Carolina to
the Democratic National Convention. In
stead OF occupying position Of sullen and
and selfish isolation, she is received into the
fellowship OF States-is welcomed. not as a
wayward sister, but as State which, as she
has been first In suffering and wrong, shall
5o tho foronoot to roop the benefit OF that
union OF Republicans and Democrats which
reached its completeness in Baltimore only
q few short hours ago.