The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-05-03
THE UP COUNTRY OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

THE UP COUNTRY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
we publish this morning copious extract.
from South Carolina letter to the Sprino
held RcpuLiican, m influential indeauden,
Republican Journal of New England The
letter is wrttehifrom Charleston. anil aivcs
the writer's oppression of the political sit
uation In our sister State. There is hut ono
portion of this letter that calls for AMI pres.
ent notice attour hands. The writei saws
The fact'is that there are two strongly
opposing elements in the Democratic party
which divide good deal on the ceograthi
cal line OF the up country and the low
country the latter including tho counties
along the coast, with Charleston rs the
great centrc,seud .us couot.y tho ,po-.
remote parts of the State, iHc6safDc 4tYic
mountain counties and such iisfTicts ms
Edgeheld, where Gary the leada of Hamp.
ton opponents in tho Lcgislat e. lives
Broadly speaking the wealth tlxiptell;.
gence OF the State arc in the 'lqk c5antry';
the Ignorance and poverty in thj up couu.
try AS natural consequently liberalism
has its headquarters in the 'lod countr,;'
Bourbonism in the up countryA"b
we have nothing to say CONCERNING the
divisions in the Democratic partt of South
Carolina. We care nothing abbut the diff.
terences that are said to exist between Cen
aerai Hampton AND General Gary. But We
think that the sneers of this Charleston
correspondent, who probably drew his in
splration from his surroundings, at the IN.
country OF South Carolina should not be
allowed to pass unnoticed. .NWe shall not
zalxRAte; the justice of his compliment to the
wealth and intellIsoHce ana liberalism of
Charleston. 1t is we'll deserved. But
when the correspondent speaks of the up.
country as the home of Ignorance" he
SIMPLY displays either prejudice or woful
want OF information. The people of the
country may be poorer than the people of
Charleston, for they have suffered much
and have had to earn their bread in the
sweat OF their brows, but there is lust rs
much OF education, just as much of intclli.
gencc, OF culture and refinement in their
section of the State as in the Favored rc.
g'on OF the coast. Who says otherwise
proves himself either grossly ignorant or
as gross slandcrer. Charleston may be
the home of liberalism ard the up country
OF Bourbonism we shall not quarrel about
terps, ;. 49,. ,.:.spt
litical history of South Carolina knows that
Bourbonism freed the State from the most
calling tyranny while the policy of liberal
ism would have (no matter what the intcn
tion of its advocats) riveted its chains. 1t
was liberalism that gave South Carolina
Scott, and Moses, and Chamberlain, and
Elliott, and Whipper, and Whittemorc, and
Wright and Bowen. 1t was Bourbonism
(born of the Ignorance and poverty" of the
up country that gave the State Hampton,
and Hagood, and Haskell, and Lipscomb,
and Butler, and Aldrich. and Gary. Liber>
alism would have made terms with the
spoller Bourbonism would make no COM
promise with corruption. liberalism
would have abandoned the fight against
fraud in despair and been contSht with
the smallest crumbs Of power. thst fell
from the Radical table, Bourbonism. Gig.
norant and poor," was determined to have
liberty and honest government at any cost.
In brief, liberalism soughsto make Chamber
lain Governor second time; Bourbonism
drove the corrupt usurper from the Stale,
put Wade Hampton in his place and deliver
ed the whole Of Carolina from the power of
the plundorerand oppressor. With such a
record Bourbonism aud the up country can
afford to treat with contempt the silly snoers
or Ignorance or of malice -Iug,,stu Ckro.
ntcic and Constitutionalist.