The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-11-18
From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Mississippi and South Carolina,

The splendid victory won by the
mississippi Democracy is held up as
an example for the imitation of tho
Conservative Democracy of South
Carolina, who are told that, if thoy
will, they likewise can rout tho Rad
icals at the next State election. We
wish that we could think so; but South
Carolina is not in the desperate plight
OF Mississippi, and the negro majority
is far larger. There is not the motive
here to mako the sacrifices which woro
made in Mississippi. Thoro money
was poured out like water, and tho
whites wero determined to carry tho
election at any cost. Some planters
in Mississippi gavo ono half of tho
proceeds of their cotton crop to the
election fund. There was no holding
back. Can wo eXpoct such opon
handed giving in South Carolina? Will
the Carolinians undertake to carry
the elections by forco, knowing be-
tore hand that the whole election ma.
ohinery will bo in tho hands of tho
Radicals, who have thirty thousand
negro majority at their back? 1t is
we'll that we look before wo leap; that
we reason together; that wo boar in
mind what has actually boon gained;
that we count the cost of defeat as
we'll as tho fruits of victory. We be,
lieye that tho running of Straight out
Democratic ticket in South Carolina
would set the State back ten years,
and We know that such ticket, and
such fight, is just what tho Radical
thieves will egg us on to, if they can.
Charleston Nows and Courier
Our Charleston contemporary has
always despaired Of the possibility of
a Democratic triumph in South Car
olina. We are not astonished that
it gazes in astonisbment upon tho
glorious victory in Mississippi, and
doubts and foars for Carolina. We
are afraid that this spirit has had
much to do with tho political troubles
which have overwhelmed that State.
The Democrats havo lot ~ dare not
wait upon L would" year after year
until now alone of all tho Southern
States South Carolina is still in the
tolls of Radicalism. We state those
things not as n reproach, but as an
illustration. We know Carolinians
to be noble and gallant people, who
have neglected no opportunity to froo
their State from tho disgrace of Re
publican rule and it's attendant infa-
mics of misgovernment and corrup-
ton. But we believe experience has
fully shown that theirpolicy has boon
unwise and suicidal, and that it is now
time for them to discard it altoghor.
We claim right to speak, for tho
Chronicle and Sentinel is South Car:
olina as we'll as Georgia newspaper,
and we believe that may CaroIlni-
ans will endorse tho correctness ofour
views.
The News and Courier says that
South Carolina is not in tho dospor~
ate plight of Mississippi; and that
there is not the motive thorc to mako
the sacrifices which woro made in
mississippi. We know something of
tho condition Of both States, and if
there has been timo during tho past
ton years when South Carolina was
not as bad off politically as Mississippi
we should like to bo informed Of the
date. The debt of South Carolina is
treble that of Mississippi; taxation is
higher, and tho profigacy and corrup-
ton Of the State government has been
greater. But be the result Of tho
comparison what it may thore are few
Carolinians who will not readily ad-
NIT that tho "plight' of their State is
desperate enough to warrant tho
strongest measures for it's redemption
Two years ago Mississippi sont Lamar
TO the House of Representatives; what
respectable ctizon has represented
South Carolina in Congress since
1897 If the South Carollnians have
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