The Morning herald., 1876-10-28
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
THEmARCH or ANARCHY.

Poets have welded the woes OF Ireland
and Poland to immortal verse. Ireland
and Poland have become synonyms Of ma
tional wrong. The evils resulting from
oppression in these lands, bad as they were,
were endurable, compared with those now
agonizing the hearts Of the white people Of
Sonth Carolina and Louisiana. There is
not upon the face of the globe at this hour,
so infamously governed country as either
Of these unfortunate States. The night
of brutal violence in Ireland under VIII.
liam, Anne, and the two first Georges was
bright compared to that which as pail,
enwraps the Commonwealth named. The
condition of morals shocks the feelings of
the most licentious Of our people. HUI
man life is of the same value as in Com
masse-not half as sacred as it is in Tim.
bucto, or upon the waters Of the Nyanza
Never in the history Of civilized man has
a country been so rapidly reduced to the
threshold of barbarism. This is strong
expression. Is it true? We will try to
present it by comparison. Delaware con-
tanned in 1860, according to the census,
6,O63 farms enclosing 956, IA acres Of land.
Ofthis amount $50, 1862 acres We're improved.
The value Of these farms in cash, was SIS.
8S0,031, or about $ll IS per acre. We
would naturally feel that an awful calami-
ty had fallen upon our State if one-third
Of this land with the buildings thereon,
were to be reduced in value to 100000 !!
Millions swept away before our eyes as if
by the breath Of a destroying angel. Con-
ceive for a moment the strong mans agony
the woman's wall that would fill every
Granny in the State, if such stunning
blow had struck US. In the year of our
Lord, 1876, a calamity as terrible rests
upon South Carolina, and neither war,
famine or pestilence have passed over the
land.
Listen, good reader, to the plant Of the
Good and Holy; Scholar and Merchant
Jew and Gentle, presented to the people
of this land:
CHARLESTON, s. c., Oct. 25.-The Presi-
ident of the Cham Der of Commerce has
united with the Methodist, Ca hoic and
Episcopal Bishops, and the leading Presby
ter'an, Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish min
listers, and the presidents OF all the nationa
and other banks In Charleston, In the 'ol
lowing address on the condition OF South
Carolina
To the People of the United States:-Wel
founded apprebensions that the civilization
of our State is in danger of being utterl,
overthrowp, and an overruliDg sense OF duty
to ourselves and posterity, and The country
at large, impel us to make an autt teDtIt
Abatement Of our actual condition to th'
American people, In the hope lhat it will in
duce them to extend to US their syn'path.
and aid in this distressing exigency OF ou
Affairs, There Is so much at sake that W,
cannot afford to be silent, to withhold an.
effort that may possibly be of avail. Fo
ten long weary years the white people o
South Carolina have endured a condition o
things which any Northern State woul(
have been tempted to throw off intwo years
at the point of the bayonet, If 1t could hav'
been done IN no other way. They bore ant
forebore iu the hope that some returning
sense of justice or happy stroke OF for
tune would bring relief; but no such sens
ofjustice or happy stroke came e,s, TO tns,r re
their hearts. At last they determined, a
by common impulse and natural and ur
controllasle inspiration Of free lom, to MAX
one supreme effort for their redemption, bu
to make 1t under and within the law. Ihos
Who hold authority here having, throus
party afilation, access to the highest OIL
political in the eGqPy co 1o a
ssn newspaper press, have subjected thi
people to The vilest misrepresentation ar
the most cruel ISLANDERS. Some OF these "
desire to correct.
This tells its own tale. Is it to fall upoi
unworthy ears, and cause thgob in Auma'