The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-14
ORANG EI,URG, 5. c.. MAY II. 1880.
Notes..

says it "isn't opposing Grants nomi-
nation," hat merely calls attention TO
the fact that he was the head of the
worst gang of ,hieves known in his
tory.
TO 20 back 10 Grant would be
for the Republican party to assert
that it made mistake when it nomi.
mated Hayes, that all its reform reso-
lutions we're false pretcnccs, and
that il wants return of the old times
when hummers were ut the front, and
jobbcry aourisbed.
-Mr: Hayes was once an obscure
member Of Congress, and it never
occurred to him when in Congress
that political riders were lmpropcr.
He voted for all that his party
brought forward while lie held q
seat in the House. But now such
riders are very vicious things in his
mind. lie has rcpudatcd his own
record in order TO help his party.
Our Republican, friends have now
n capital opportunity TO prove the
sincerity of their friendship for the
colored man and brother by giving
the colored Senator the second place
on the Presidential ticket. He
wants it--which is more than can be
said of some other Republican states
men-and as his race provides large
percentage ST the party's voters it is
only fair that hc should have it.
Eaton, q little town in Gibson
county, Tenn, boasts q citizen who is
postmaster, mayor, Justice of the
peace, Sunday-school superintendent,
newspaper correspondent, worshipful
master in the masonic lodge, elder in
the church, leader OF the choir, cotton
sreculator, extensive farmer, deals
largely in thoroughbred chickens,
imports fine grades of wheat, runs 81
reaper and tin esler, and is q proics-
slonal mule trader.
Florida is not too young to have
an utterly oblitcrated city. ST. DO
seph was once a thriving seaport, the
terminus Qfp railroad, shipping
p int for hundreds Of thousands oi
cotton bales annually, and the supply
depot for the western section of the
State. 1tlost ils commerce., dwin-
died rapidly in population, was swept
hy yellow fever, and finally 9 tornado
leveled the last of the houses. The
place is now q wilderness,
An investigation into tic inAu-
cnce Of females in The public service
of tile United States, il pressed into
personalities would be the biggest
scandal this country ever had. But
ihere is no fear of its taking place, and
when it comes TO be opened The defense
need only write against the wall in
large letters LET him who is with
out ofiense cast the fist stone," and
theic will never be full committee
,aiscd in that whole Congress and
Senate.
The New York IIcrold thinks .hat
unless his opponents spur up COM
tidcrably Grant cannot he headed off
at Chicago, while upli-Grant papers,
experiencing the delightful sensation
of having a candidate stuffed down
their thronts by negro rah,,cs in the
Southern States, bitterly suggest that
the Republican nomlna ion should be
lett to those States that will do the
voting. The Fifteenth Amendment
is coming home to roosL w!lh \ venec-
ance.
The "Confe,'cralc Brigadiers"
cheerfully vote millions annually out
of the pockets OF their own people to
pay pensions and arrearages and sup.
port homes for the soldiers who tri.
umpiIed over them in the war OF the
rebellion. But. when it is. proposed
TO pension the Mexican veterans the
Republican party solidly opposes the
proposition, because they fought in a
Democratic war, and for The fnrlher
reason that many Of them reside in
the South.
The South asks for Prcstlcn,
whose heart, il not in thorough SYM
pnthy with all the aspirations of her
people will contain warm place for
them. One who has raill. in their
professions of fidelity to the Constitu-
lion and the laws. One whc rccog
iizcs their equal rights" as citizens
Of the great republic, and respects
their preserved rights" rs citizens Of
their respective statcs--can the South
doubt that Baycrd, whose little bor-
der commonwealth is itself merged in
the communion Of The "Solid South"
will meet all these requirements!
Post Master General Key, who
erred from the Democratic faith and
accepted Cabinet appointment un-
der Mr. Hayes, has made II good
officer. He has been laughed at for
his attempted reforms in tile address
on letters, and the change in the
names of Cfliccs. But when one
thinks Of the Thousand and ten thous-
ands Of letters that miscarry, he will
y