The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-10-07

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eats OF tho country. The scales fall
from their eyes, their judgments are
enlightened and they are led to con.
denn their past blindness. No one
can deny but party zeal blinds tho
Judgment and chains the will, vir.
tnaiiy depriving men of perfect free,
dom OF acting and voting. Has not
all this begun to take place in South
Carolina Has not our present con.
dition been improved, and has not
our future prospects grown brighter 2
has not the colorod man grown moro
mallcablos Is hc not moro az.
proachable with sound reasoning,
and has he not grown moro indo>
pendent in his actions, and begun to
feel himself responsible to public
opinion z Gould this have been &C.
oomplishcd with an organized Demo
cratic party in oxistcncc2 1t may be
said that in the Northern Sta,es the
party has kept up it's organization in
the face Of greater odds, and are now
about to regain their ascendency, but
we have a different state of things
here. In tho Northern States the
two parties arc equally intelligent, of
the same race, and of eqnal integrity,
pcrhaps. Here our political element
is mixed, tho negro being in the
ascendant. We had to reach him
before We could instruct him, and to
do this wo had to reintv tho fears
and prejudicos; both of which were
kept alive by the very narno of De-
mocracy. The first result of nom
organization was division among tho
Republicans, then double ticket.
whereby the whites secured, by CO.
operating with one wing ofthe party, ,
substantial advantages. Thus acting
together, tho fears and prcjudices of
the colored race have been quieted, i,
and there is a general feeling among
large portion Of that race now to
am'!e with the whites in a war
against corruption and in All effort to
secure just and economical govern
ment. This state of things could
only have resulted from the passive
policy OF tho whites. We have now
arrived at a period when there is a
fair prospect Of uniting tho better
portion OF both races and parties in
a common work of bettering the
gov ernment. We can reach the
colorcd man. We can instruct him.
and he has acted with us in some in.
stances, snd is now better informed,
be may bo led to join us in some ore
ganization which will insuro success
and better government. We oan say
to him we live in the same State, our
interests lie in the same plane, we
mnet live under the Same laws, our
political, industrial and material ruin
or development, as the case may be,
must bo one and the same. We are
now suffering a common misfortune
bad government; and we need a
common blessing good government.
Let us dismiss past discussions, and
let every honest man, forgetting his
race and party, unite to savo the
State. An organization Of this char
actcr we do not oppose. On the con-
trary, we invite it, and regard it as
the only movement which is likely to
result in such success. Men here,
tofore Of both parties, would be Yun
for office, and better state of things
would result. Suppose this is done
and the Democratic party is re or.
ganized, will not the Republican
party re-organizo and oppose ns with
a solid front ? Are they less wise
or lcss provident? Shall We peril
tho fruits Of four years of wise forN
boaranco and rc,arouSo the bitterness
which has chiefly passed away,
because, iorsootn, in some Of the
Northern States tho Democratic
party has made large gains ? If the
North was to-day as strongly Rcpub.