The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-01-09
ORANGEBURG, S. c.. JANUARY 0, 1880.
The Grant Boom.

Hc, OfaIll DOUIH.
The feature Of Americanism is love
Of office. 1t is not confined to Wash
ington or Columbia, but belongs pri-
marily TO the American. The ultimu
thulc Of the ncwsboy (if slightly out
Of doors i'll the line Of shoes, or wav-
ing flags Of truce from preached
brccches) is to aspire TO the last
Fourth Of July fanfaronadc open TO
all ficcborn, libcrty-brcathing citi-
zcns, and be President, Governor,
Sheriff, Tax Collector, Scrgeart-at-
arms, or something, bearing the mag
Recommending stamp--O0cc. What
is inherited if q weakness, is cxcusa-
bic SO We excuse the Inherent love
of wanting office. TO give away a
kingdom was bagatellc yet man
was vain enough TO excite the curl
osity Of an admircr by such trifling
heQucst. "What have you left2" en-
quired Perdiccus ''Famc," was the
answer. The gift bearing Greeks
had not tainted his soul. Office now
is Il genus polypi; it reaches out its
relentless tcntaclcs and takes all it
can get. This preface is induced
from two thoughts. One, tho greed
for cfllcc the other the chronic weak
ness Of slavish adulntion to officials.
A ncbuious spot on the great earth
in its American blaze, appeared in
1861 at Galena. 1t grew, shone, and
today Eliminates the world. The
freedom Of Dublin, or the jungles of
Eirnah, the chateauX of France, or
The club stands Of England, all fell
under the light Of The great American
luininary 10 make the Grant "boom."
There is rcdccming feature in This !;
it lacks since ri;y. 1t is morbid
scntimentalism that on the spur
would hurrah for Cctawnyo and his
forty wives, rs soon rs it would for
The Czarowitch or any human butch
CT. Gen. Grant is the conquercr OF
the South. The South was the con
scrvativc balance of "thc Constitu-
;ion." In ,conqIcring lie destroyed
the wo.k Of Washington and JcfFcr-
son. Tie South in lSGC-5 was the
hreakwalcr 10 nationalism. That has
been swept away. She Is now de-
rcndcncy OF the nation. 10 pay
court 10 Gen: Grant at the South is
to accept the past struggle as mis-.
AXE, q crime. 10 treat him rs
guest is TO vindicate The hospitality
Of Soathcrn society. If hc was con-
'sricnlious III all that he did, we must
give him credit for his dogged pcrsis-
'cncy. His hammer blows blunlcd,
ncnt and slivercd the mntchlcss IA.
pier OF the great Lee, II was force
against skill, power against principle.
The change S for the present, the ap-
probation Of if it for a new genera
ton. They who remain within the
blinds as tho conqut ror rides by, may
he Bourbons in all its tortured sense.
They ask merely to be allowed to
hold so much o. The past as will ex.
cusc their want OF appreciation-if
CONDEMNED. TO those who shout
"Fivat Rex" let the era in which they
i've be epitaphed with Dyrons coup
let. "'Tis Greece ; but living Greece
no more" If it was possible to sub:
due the selfish and material to the
:nolal and grand, Newton's advice, to
lhc country at large were in place
".Sh'Ae out error, you cannot shovcl
II out A calm obedience to law, a
firm adherence to integrity, regard
FOR honesty in putlic and private life,
Il contempt for t,licc- seeking and
seekers, then an influence Of worth,
sectional or general, will scorn the
.3sorc Of stupid man worship, and the
!oIly Of trumretiny the living will be
4'a;ed for the better ancient and
iH2i CT. "lnfelir," OF the mighty dead
i"id up TO yenetation, or the time
serving left TO rest in charity. Our
'GoCuI" is tquivocal but sincere.
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Democratic Union.