The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-04-18

respectability shall rulo; but it is not
right that even this good end should
bo accomplished by overriding the
popular will by congressional iatcrfer.
eenoe!( No such dangerous precvdeut
should be set, oven for good purpose /;
and il such precedent already exists,
it should not be followed If this plan
is adopted in South Carolina, it would
seem to justify not few of the politi-
cal crimes which have made the Repub.
lican party, as it exists in some 9th or
Southern States, odious in the eyes of
the world, 1t will not do. Special
legislation is not the proper remedy for
political wrongs. If the distressed
people of South Carolina ask What,
then, shall we do ? We answer, in the
language of Gov. X Kempcr, that 'thcre
can be no security for liberty bat in an
ihmovable adherence to fundame n,al
principles PRESIDENTS of tho kind
which ascribc unlimited power to a
legislative body and assume that it may
subvert the dearest principles of liberty
ut will are but bloody Instructions,
which, being taught, return to plague
tho inventor. Abandon party alliances;
strive for ZION ofhonest men irrespec
tive of their nativity, color or previo us
condition; neglect no opportunity Of
exposing the rsscality Of your present
rulers show the nation that you are not
lighting on dead issues, but for living
principles for good government, honesty
in high places, an | equal rights b,roro
tho law; purge your registration lists
and keep the ballot .box free at any
cost. " ith sush policy aul by tho
use of such means you must succeed
though patience may be necessary to
await the day Of Jour victory. In the
meantime know that opprcssed South
Carolina has the sympathy Of all friends
of good government, and that the batlo
now going on everywhere between
honesty on the one hand and corruption
on the other cannot but red,und to
your advantage.
4, .cs Wat TO Do!
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. I
The story of the PROSTATE Statc has
been told too often an too fully in these
columns to noed another retclling. 1t
Is q pitiful story, shameful story. 1t
has about it something at once Of the
hideous unrcality and the sickening
oppressiveness yof the nightmare. l.,
does not soeu possible, Wa can hardy
bring onrselys k.te. beliave. th,. apli. a
story eau be trVfhiully told Of an Am.ri
can CommcnWea one of the Old
Thirteen, theorS Stical,y tn, sis.or and
equal of MASSACHUSETTS. Ths evidence
however, is too volumin,us, c,h .rent
and cumulative to admit of d ,ubt. TO
all tho other proofs, fresh and couvinc.
ing one is now added in the spectacle OF
the white citizens Of the State, the ex.
Shareholders and ex-rebes, begging at
the hands of Republican President
and Republican Congress the boon
OF Federal Intervention These mon
not SO very long since, were the ierces.
s'icklers for State rights to be found in
the country, as their fathers and grand.
tathers had been before theu. Thew
would have goH to the death aoonor
than tolerate any intermedding on the
part of the general government in tho
intornsl affairs OF South Carolina. Now
they invite and even implore it. Tho
fact is more eloquent than anything in
their memorial. X The appeal
to the Federal authority having proved
failure, the question recurs, What to
do? Two couues are open to these
South Carolina taxpayers. We assume
that an armed rising against the existing
State Governmen; is out of the question.
The first of thee courses is, to organize
passive, peaceablo rebellion in other
words, to refuse to pay their taxes, after
the Louisiana PRECEDENT. Some Of tho
delegates are quoted .s having told the
House committee that this plan would
be tried, unles, relief WIS speedily forth
coming. Tho idaa is, Of course, o
coerce Congress into doing what it wi
not do voluntarily The adoption #
this piaa would, Of necessity, caus
great confusion and excitement in til
State it might easily lead to bIoodsh ed