The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-07-11
QRANGEBURG, S. c., JULY IL, 1870.
-Webater and Straker's Resolutions

~ - ~ "aNo' heSoiutIONS.
We publish by request set of res
olutions passed by the Webster meet
l'g on Friday last, purporting to be
IN endorsement Of the sentiment en-
pressed in the Tribune letter, but in
reality .iu .no'hing more than a repeti-
lion Of the ideas-the same old meat
mashed over. BY the report of the
meeting found elsewhere, prepared
Tor the DEsrocRAT by reliable color
ed man, il will be seen there was
great dissatisfaction and bu. little in
1erest taken in the meeting by the
voters" OF the county present
Moreover it is asserted in Resolution
l, that the Tribune letter expressed
Tic 'just ard correct sentiments of
;ihe colorcd people of Orsngeburs
County yet there was not onc-ten,h
tI Lie colored people of the county in
attendance. At tho highest estimate
There was not more than few hun
'red Of lean and hungry men, women
anil children enticed by promises
,lj'rangh the pulpit OF "4th of July
diuner." i
Resolution 9, rccog DR.. Web.
stcr rs "a friend and faithful worker
in the ministry of the Gospel" DR..
Webster on every convenient. occasion
;n'kcs politics with his Gospel, wheth-
"r it be by his epistolary correspond
f"c'. conversation around the family
circle or cif"rts in the pulpit. This
was not tie manner Of CHRIST or any OF
'ils faithful apostles. No man mani
Tests Ills educational interest for a
people by making every opposition to
'tl1e success of the only institution of
learning of high grade in the State
i"E't''c colored race. Such has been
he tes:'tion TO Giatin University and
DR.: Cooke, and the institution has
Teen injured more or less by it. Such
conduct makes him anything else but
a minister, and stamps him as the
FRINGE Of the "Double- faced" nobility.
Resolution 8, looks upon him as
"a we'll " ishcr Of the Southern peo- !
j'ic' ,Gl:1ck and white" IF there ever
was man whose life has been poi-
son TO people, whose influence has
been pregnan: Of evil, and whose
Writings haSe kept alive the prciu-
n'"rs Of race and the hatred founded
on the relationship Of master and
slave, that man is DR.. Alonzo Web
ster. The mistake of DR.. Webster's
life has been an ctfor: to bring the
Southern people over to his way of
'pinh'ng, instead of adapting himself
to theirs.
resolution 4 asserts that there are
comparatively few white persons who
advocate adequate conn ensation for
our labor, and those few arc snbicct
20 MHssopal ostracism in their bust
hess !.s: !9na 2ocial living" Leaving DR..
thenster and his kind ont of the ques-
ti"n' because it is commonly said he
Will take advantage of colorcd labor
!hrs in the payment of wages, we
%o.nlEl ask that individual cases Of
!ostraclsm he speciGcd and that the
"h'te men who refuse adequate COM
Pchsatlon to colored laborers be
named ; simple denial is worthless
we want facts and their proof. Let
us have them.
dissolution 8, says the colored peo.|
i'lt are not satisfied with the wages
Paid for their labor, price of repts
"hd OF goods they purchase on credit.
We know that the price paid for Ia
Dor Is low, but there is no discrimi
nation made between white and black
laborers. This is matter to be reg
nlated exclusively by the laws of sup
ply and demand, and not by legisla-
si0n'&h nd combination. The same NAV
pe'sHiT If reference to the purchase
Of fsuppliep apd rent of lands.
The last resolution sets forth mild
ly that this condition Of affairs is not
calcnlated toinspirc the confidence
Of ting colored people in those who