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

| 'f NooNihf w SuuTH CAROLINA
We publish this morning copious extracts
from South Carolina letter to the s pring-
field Republican,. IN influential independent
Republican Journal of New England The
letter is writteHfrom Charleston, AMI gives
the writer's oppression of the politRal sit
uation in our SISTER State. There is hut one
portion of this letter that calls for AMI pres
ent notice atsour hands. The writef saws :
"The fact'is that there are two strongly
opposing elements in the Democratic party.
which divide good deal on the geograthi
cal line of the up country and the low
country the latter including tho counties
along the coast, with Charleston as the
-ssrcas centrc,saues .ur r.ccuss.s, the spo-s
remote parts of the State, fne9aiiDs tfre
mountain counties and such tskfficts as
Edgeheld, where Gary, the leaddpf Hamp.
tons opponents in the LcgislatSks, lives
Broadly speaking the wealthInd intelli
gcnce of the State arc In the 'lok country;
the Ignorance and poverty in thu 'up coun.
try As natural consequence liberalism
has its headquarters in the 'loN chuntry;'
Bourbonlsm in the up countrya"r
We have nothing to say concerning the
divisions in the Democratic party of South
Carolina. We care nothing abbut the diff
ferenees that are said to exist between Gen
eral Hampton ana General Gary. But we
think that tho sneers of this Charleston
correspondent, who probably drew his in
splratlon from his surroundings, at ssle up.
country of South Carolina should not be
allowed to pass unnotced. 4 We shall not
2dispate the justice Of his compliment to the
wealth and intclligcNce 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 Just as
much Of education, just as much of intelli.
Scncc, Of culture and refinement in their
section of the State as in the favored re-
glon 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
But who ever Knows anythiSg Il tng 30
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-
ton OF its advocats) rivctcd its chains. 1t
was ilbcralisgu that gave South Carolina
Scott, and Moses, and Chamberlain, and
Elliott, and Whippcr, and Whittemorc and
Wright and Bowen. 1t was Bourbonsm
(born of the Ignorance and poverty" of the
up country that gave the State Hampton,
and lIagood, and Haskell, and Lipscomb,
and Butler, and Aldrich and Gary. Libcr>
aliSm would have made terms with the
spoilcr. Bourbonism would make no com
promise with corruption. Liberalism
would have abandoned the fight against
fraud in despair and been conteht with
the smallest crumbs of power ,hst 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 State.
put Wade Hampton in his place and deliver.
ed the whole Of Carolina from tho power of
the plundorerand opprcssor. With such a
record Bourbonism and the up country can
afford to treat with contempt the silly sncers
OF Ignorance or of malice -Iugrsfu CEr0.
ntc(c oad CORStiutiOnuiiSt