Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-05-22
Let ell in Favor of the Motion
Stand Up.

assert your right to have and exercise
your own political ideas. live stand by
and allow. ourselves tobe induced by men,
because they happen to have been born
n few years before us, to that course which
cannot promise eitherdignity or success,
it is criminal in the extrcme, and We
alone are the criminals. The next Presi-
dental election offers our last desperate
chance at redemption The question is
can we act with dignity and with fore
sight.
Mr.. Stephens says that to endorse
Greeley is to worship Baal. Now, leaving
out the question as to whether Mr..
Stephens has n right to use his influence
to the restriction of others actions and
all argument rs to the policy of Mr..
Stephens carrying out his own eugges-
tions; it is plain that what might be very
good for Georgia may not be at MI 50 for
South Carolina. Georgia has almost
established better governmcntsince the
war than she had before she went into it.
She can curb the carpet-bag robbery, by
which we are ovcrrun; she can displace
her dishonest Governors. We cannot
even get up an impeachment.
She has developed within herself
domestic resources to give an impetus to
returning prosperity, and she can take
care of herself against the most Radical
kind of regime at Washington, d. c. But
with us it is different. 1t isat Washing
ton that we must try to establish such
kind of government ms will lend help
ing hand to us in our domestic struggle
against the highway piracy that is prac-
tised upon ds, from capital to cross
roads. t. l1n! A5a, f'5r
General kershaw says that we ought
not to take any hand in the nlattcr-that
is .eap all the benefit we can by not act
ing as party, and take none of the re-
sponsibility. We think that if we full to
werk openly and earnestly together for
our own redemption, we shall not merit
success. Whereas if we do recognize cas-
n party" what course it is best to pur.
sue and exert all our individual and
party influence. to induce Others actively
to adopt that course, then and then only
shall SIC merit success, and with justice
put in q claim at Washington for relief
from hayonets and robbery. Moreover,
1t is due to the rank and file of the party
that they shall not be turned loose by
their leaders in this crisis-that they
should be called together and instructed
as to how and why they must go about
the political redemption Of the State.
We sincerely hope that the reprcscn-
tation at the Democratic Convention to
meet ton the 18th of next June in Colum-
bia will be full, and that their action
will be energetic; that the delegates who
are sent thence to the Baltimore Convcn-
tion will 60 to exert an active influence
to the full extent of their number.
-zo-e-os-
A small trip in the country during the
last week brought to light the effect of
energetic and prompt action OH the part
of our farmers towards making up for
the backward season. We saw no large
cotton, but we saw plenty of fine and
pretty small cotton in beautiful condition;
and of corn large proportion of the
crops through which we rode consisted.
This for the most part was large, uxu-
RANT ard in fine keep. The weather
for the last fortnight has not been cn.
tirely unpropitious, and MS in the first ten
days of this Spring, with the leaves of the
trees which seemed magically to unfold
to their full dimension, so with the
seed which has teen sowed in the earth
but recently. 1t seems in rapid advance
to be as eager MS the busy husbandman
for the recovery of the days spent by
winter
1t has been mooted by some super
stitious people that Van Tasscl, our
rOunfx, A u5;tor bo, loon