The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-07
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TO THE CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIER
Patrick Henry, the prophet orator of Virginia,
| whose lightning brain disclosed to our fathers
the perils of '76, and whose thundering tones
woke up the echoes Of Liberty throughout the
old dominion and her sister Colonies, with Chief
Justice Marshal, Yirginia's great Jurist,-
greater than Gamaliel or any other in History 8
long gsllery-have decided, MS we have said bes
fore, that there is no o0iigation upon us 10 pay
the bonds of the old PROSTATE State. Civil Lib
! erty and Civil Law, both proclaim aloud that
both the bonds aud the floating debts Of the late
usurpers and robbers, from Scott to Chamber
lain, never had any obligation, save the duress
of Grants bayonets. God of justice, then, for
bid that the upper Counties of South Carolina
ever should become the "centre of such liberal
ideas rs would make them voluntary slaves,
| and their children after them victims of such
infamous exactions. But, says the News and
Courier the Democratic Party is solemnly pledged
to pay to the last ce 1t, these bond and debts.
When, where aud how this pledge gwen,
and by whom. 1t was not in the consolidation
act, for that was republican act in conception
and adoption and had not the war already for
feted and abrogatcd the, payment of the old
bonds, and the usurpation by the republican par
ty of the State Government been without legal
or moral obligation, this consolidation act would
have been held by honest men and honest judges
q violation of contracts and reputation of
honest debts, because it expunged one-half the
old bonds, and more than half the new debts.
It. was not by the'convention called by Charles
ton and assembledtin Columbia, that the demo-
cratic party was pledged to any such illegal and
impossiblea contamination. For there ard then
not tithe of that party was represented, and
the farmers and producers and substantial tax
payers, who own and till the soil and man the
shops and drive the machinery Of the upper
Counties, scarce knew that thero was such a
convention, and probably the main object Of
Of or ot tha
News and Courier may better kaow-was to un-
load themselves of the heavy weight Of State
bonds which they were carrying. By the pledge
then and there given, burthens greveous to be
borne were rempv ved to the shoulders of Others
who went down under their weight, to lament
like all other victims of credulity. And it was
not the Wallace house, which could have made
any such pledge. They were struggling at the
points Of bayonet for their seats, and with them
pledges and laws of obligation, and
strategy not ethics, guided their efforts for VIC
tory. The Ubiquitous war swept away the SOW
It gave their dwellings TO the flames and slaked
their ashes in blood. Then came over this
stricken land, like vultuies and buzzards, to
pick what remained upon the carcass Of the
State. and to pierce and pull at its vi:als, this
so-called republican party; which left nothing
but its feshess bones and dried up sinews.
The divinity alone was left within people,
compared to what they had been: they have
nothing more to give up, they have survived all
these trials, and by hope supported and by God
inspired they can recover, If let alone and al
lowed but If again beset by their own friends,
and in the name of the democratic party to
yield their skeletons to Northern bond holders and
their southern allies. to consign their children
to the great curses Of humanity, poverty and
ignorance, they may have to submit, but ahould
never consent. The city of Columbia might rise
again from its ashes, and purify itself Of The
filth Of the vile creatures who so long made it
their camping ground and victim Of their spoil
iation. The City of Charleston, whose own cit
adel has for many years been the dwelling place
of its oppressors, whence Candy and Sicklss
proclaime ed martial edicts, closed heir Courts Of
justice, sienced the voice Of Liberty in their
midst, and excluded their helpless woman from
their streets, by protecting black savage rioters
there; and putting in possession of the City
government the remorseess plunderers of the
North, can only be restored by obiterating this
deadly incubus, the debt of the cormorants, by
wiping it out, in the way indicated above for
the State fhe labor Of our hands and heads
is ABOUT all that is left us; tie fruits of these
the Ne,os and Courier appeals to the democratic
party to take from us, and turn us out worse
than sons of Hagar, from the inheritance Of hu-
manity, right to the products Of our own labor
and yield them up to the destroyers Of our gov
ernment, the robbers Of our property the ene-
mics of our civilization, in contempt of natural
law and the eternal principles of justice and
set FORTH and settled by the truth LOVING labors of
Henry and of Marshall, and sustained by the
Judicial decision Of Jay and tredell. This sub
ject is grave and fruitful one. its treatment by
the last Legislature, will be the theme of my
concluding article in your next paper.
UP COUNTRY FARMER.
"EUREEA" is the sentiment of countless SUI