Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-06-18
The asituations
From thc New York 11a

Ihe Situation
From the New York Daf- Book
If Massachusetts, or ;Ney York, OF
Congress, or any power undeqIh can
enter the State of Virginia End change
the local status ofone man, oman, child
or negro there, whatever @es may call
Virginia, n province, satrapy, or depart
ment, it is allie and imposition on COM
mon sense to call it a State. 5for State,
TO exist at all, must have absolute charge
of the relations and status ofthe popula-
tion within its borders. Moreover, if this
thing is done, if any outside power has
entered Virginia and changed The legal
relations ofits people from supremacy to
equality with negroes, it has an equal
right and equal power not only to enact
the so-called Civil Rights bill, but to alb
solutely reverse the condition Of 1776-
1865, and force theipeople intkthe status
of the negro during that long and glori-
GUS PERIOD These propositions are abso-
lutely and unavoidably true; therefore,
if the so-called amendments are assented
to, the Federal Union, the American
system. the United States, that grand
fabric of freedom won by the blood and
heroism of the men of 1776, isaswreck, a
shape!ess ruin, and the man calling him
selfa Democrat who accepts the situa-
ton, is traitor to Americana liberty or
he is fool unfit for the duties Of citizen
ship. Meanwhile, it fact, a terrible if
not fatal fact, that al outside power, by
military violence, has forced the negro
element out of its normal condition, and
it is now running loose in Virginia, &c.
How shall the American Democracy deal
with this fact? They must remove that
military force-all external ferce-and
leave the people of Virginia TO adjust
their legal and social relations With the
negroes as God and nature and the ne
cessities of human society ordain, for to
Interfere, to restore the normal order,
would beas wrong i'll principle, though
as beneficient in practice MS thejinterfcr-
ence ofLincoln, Grant 81 Co. is s,,liti-social
and atrocious. And "to this coIplexion
it must arrive ut last" for a time must
come when the Northern producing
classes, unable to bear the taxation, to
continue this DEVILS dance after an i'm
aginary freedom for negroes, the IN orth-
crn collapse viii restore freedom to the
Southern people, and leave them to adjust
their relations to the surbordinate2rac as
best they may, and the necessities of
social order reign. Such, briefly, is the
Situation" the tremendous ncces-
isities wrarpod IN in ii. ana the en-
=perUre us is ms simple and obviousxis it is
protentious and tcrrible-if tncre be suf.
ticieht sense, virtue and manliness in the
Democracy to grappIc with it and make
the, direct issue in the fall elections of
hands off and Immediate restoration of
seltl6vcrnmcnt i'll the South, we shall
sweep the land like Il whirlwind; but if
;he old hugger muggering policy" of the
past twelve years prevails, all that has
been accomplished in the last twelve
months VII bs lost, and the country left
to drift into anarchies that may last for
half a century In view of a Situation"
50 si9fHc but charge5a with possibilities,
SO &idefeachil}gesnd horrible, what is If
7 be the poseioh of the gallant and indom-
ftabls 2dnocracy of Connecticut?