The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-07-14

| INTO Inc citizenship OF this State
the last, most potent legacy of
the war TO us-is u subject Of the
deepest and most anxious consc-
quence. 1t is here and we are
compelled 10 deal with lit be-
hoo7es Us, TO deal with it wisely.
10 deprive the colored man Of his
rights, legal or political, is chine
against the land ; but to permit
this or any other political acci-
dent to destroy the. civilization
which our ancestors have handed
down to US, wouid be q crime
against nature q crime against
the memory and labors OF the
men who redeemed this land from
the wilderness and the savage;
crime against their descendants
who preserved, improved, and il.
Iustrated that civilization for up
wards Of two hundred years q
crime against ourselves and our
posterity. The supremacy ofwhite
civilization should be the pole
star Of South Carolina politics be-
fore which all things else must
give way. Personal preferences,
individual claims and all else must
take a back place to secure har-
mony, unity, and concentrated
effort to preserve this vital, domi-
mating, impending necessity. 1t
was partly lost. 1t has been re-
covered. ltis much easier to hold
a fortress than to take it. If we
let it slip from our grasp, it will
oe through our own fault. If we
fall second time into that slough
OfdespoDd, it is likely we shall fall
like Lucifer-never to rise again
Such is the problem. Time, place,
and circumstance must dictate the
| mode Of resolving it.
Let us return 10. our subject.
Patrick Henry thought experience
the lamp by the light Of which
our actions aro best guided. Can
we derive any help from the les
sons Of the past? The life of this
State. sl:caking nationally, has
been fshort donation; and yet it
has passed through several trying
epochs. Locke the renowned meta
physician invented government
and tried it on the new province.
The people wore it for q while,
but it did not fit. The indepcn-
dence and sturdy individuality of
the early Carolinians did not brook
with patience a:bevy Of new
tangled second-rate nobility. Pal
atines, Landgravos, Cassiques and
| Barons could not take root in the
soil Of the new world-and in
l7l9 the people threw off tho
scientific garment. They assented
to the rule Of the Crown, aided by
the deliberations Of the Provincial
Assembly. 'Government is con-
trivance of human wisdom, to
provide for human wants. Locke's
government was not such an one.
A constitution must suit the peo-
! pie; you can not suit the people
to the constitution. AS Royal
Province South Carolina was very
happy, prosperous and wealthy.
But our difident and unobtrusive
New England sisters quarreled
with the mother country about d
taxlon tea, and South Carolina, Of
course, stood by the family on
principle. The result was that
in l7Td the united colonies set up
for themselves. Since then this
State as member Of the Union,
and for few years out of it, en-
countered various trials-the tariff
struggles Of '32, the cooperation
and secession contests Of al and
'52, the actual secession Of go, the
| desp crate conflict of arms which
shook the Union to the tap-root
and closed in 'G5,-the hiatus
from that date to the constitution
Of '60-the total eclipse Of eighs
years-and the great v0G poputi,
roI dej revolution Of 1876 thas
ended in her resurrection and re-
demption. You will observe that
{ throughout her history, on every
occasion of emergency she has az
ways had men wao represented
her faithfully and fully men who
were the moral and inteHeotu.
peers of any others. Her revolu-
tionary statesmen and soldiers
had no superiors-since the adop-
ton of tho constitution, up 10
the war of secession, she always
had great leader, sometimes sew
eral at the same time in the Fed
eral councils. In l776 it was the
victory Of Fort Moultrie that