The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-26

| FARCE THAT SHOUDD DE CLOSED.
FoRr Mo1TE, S. c., Sept. 1G, 1879.
Editor OrangeJurg Democrat:
was pleased TO see that "Tlevel.
lyn' bes undertaken to show up this
place in its true light. I notice also
the aImes gives its readers an ink
Eng Of our black government. Mfr.
Editor, we are indeed to be pitied,
located as we are almost in the heart
Of swamps, mill ponds, mosquitoes,
gnats, hcas, filth, fever and bad
whiskcy, and above all black gov
ernment. You may ask why "this is
thus"' The answer is plain. There
are only few whi,e men here.
About onc-iourth the voters are
! white, and we poor dis have to
fight the wolf from our doors 80 hard
that we have not time 10 meet in de
council. There's where our black
nci9hbois holds The advantage OF us !;
besides, the way things bave been
managed here in the past deters any
body that has soll-repcct from Ginning
dc ban" 1t is sometimes very hard
10 get up ticket, but some avard of
the nation who did not improve each
golden hour in the halcyon days
Of Radical rule amt proiilgacy rises
TO the front and is just awakening to
see the murky clouds of Radicalism
low i'll the horizon. fast disappearing
never TO rise again, while the silver
lining of glorions Democracy skirts
the heavens around, and thus he com-
muucs within himself: "Now dars
dem times don gone, snd pears dat
dc dimicracks bout to take dis coun-
try, and don't got no offs nor nnllin
ye,;(4O acres and mule idea being
expiodcd) | b'lcvc l gwine for run for
mare or warden Oh dis town." Or
course he is 'lected-ro opposition,
he theu launches his little bark on
The surging sea Of town politics.
SO absorbed is he in the welfare Of
his subjects, and constituents, or to
make name, or at one great bound
to mount and collar The pinnacle OF
fame, or to swell the town-trcasury
that he at once rises TO ode notion"
that motion produces another motion,
soon there is great commotion and
the din that is raised somewhat re-
sembles the Confederate long-role-
this continues until one by one they
drop away sadder-but nary y bit the
wiser. he then imbihes lew gills
(gill is drink hcre) Of "kill round
the corner" aud quietly or otherwise,
sometimes slowly wcnds his way to
his domestic domicilc to know OF
Mariah Jane if she "is got dem greens
done yet, Il speak Of night meet.
ing J after he has satisfied the de-
mands of The inner man aud fed his
dorg, he lays him gently down to
sleep, But no, there is no sleep for
his wesry body; he tosscs from this
to that, and swaps ends of the bed
occasionally. His mind is wanler-
ing afar Off. lie is dclvins down the
dark shades of the past in quest of
knowledge of municipal economy;
pcrploXcd and bcwildercd he caut sec
the least glimmer of the coveted
knowledge. he feels like q gill, but
when he looks out-bchold the gill
place is closed and everything is ss
silent and dark as The shades Of
Hadcs, be comes at last 10 the con-
clusion that the road TO fame is rug
ged and uphill, and that he 10 no
more now than he Was q few weeks
ago when he got 1cctcd, and thus
night after night (when We his sub
jects are snugly wrapped in our little
beds, with naught to mar our dreamy
slumbcrs. All quiet without, all quiet
within, except stray flea now aud
then. Sometimes ti.nid moqrito
presents his bill. We settle, or let
him take his fill, (eHcusc our rhyme)
the same. Time steals space, and
his friends see with sorrow that
fatteling tread, that unsi eadv gaze
and down caat form. We know it is
the dire of sl.eplcssncss and the Ills
attendant on same; at last we miss
him from his haunts the crisis has
come, no more his manly form is seen
where once it vas wont 10 stand q
monument 10 his zeal life has lost its
charms for him, he feels that in the
eternal fitness Of things his race is