The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-05-25

talr count and he used this unfor-
tunate expression:
Alb, it is easy to shoot labor when
it has been ground down for hun
dred years by slavery
He said that the civilization of the
South was founded upon barbarism,
and the civilization Of the North
(meaning I suppose New England)
was founded upon the Bible, aud the
school-book, &c. D.; that there were two
civilizations in this country; there
had been an 'irrepressible conflict be-
tween slave labor and free labor,
and he arraigned the entire South
for her 'barbarism' and want of
civilization; that we had been con-
quered and be ratified the raw-head
and bloody-bones Of war aud famine
and revolution at Us with terrible
significance. So far as my own State
is concerned I would simply cay this:
She needs no defense at my hands.
Her records under democratic govern
uent answer the calumnies against
her and I confidently refer to them.
| wish had time to run through the
catalogue Of crimes under the rule of
bis friends in that State from 1868 to
1876. I could show her debt in
creased from about FIVE to twenty
million dollars; taxes amounting
to about ten nillions more wrung
from Impoverished people, stolen,
squandered, wasted; race conflicts, s
riots, lawlessness, ballot-box stuff
ing, crime, confusion, disorder, an.
archy; public officials holding high
carnival 10 debauchery, profigacy,
robbery, conspiracy. [ could sbor all
this. I could show that in one year
the republican Legislature spent for
public printing $685., 900. The dem
ocratic Legislature spent only S6,l7S
for the same purpose. The republi-
can Legislature spent for legislative
expenses iu one year S., ,533, ,574, and
in four years s4,1S7,57s. The dem
ocratic administration for the same
purpose spent in one year but SS4,-
O96, and so on through the list. But
I have not the time.
Now, under democratic rule the
expenses for the public service ase re-
duced to the minimum of economy
and are about one.fourth of the radi-
| cal expenses. Peace, quiet, order,
prosperity, progress, good feeling pre-
vail throughout the State.
The Senator would invite US to-
another republican feast like the enc
which broke up in confusion, terror,
flight, in 1876. I shall decline the
invitation. The whole people of the
State decline, except the vampires who
fatteued (and fed) on the vulgar
yiands Of radical debauchery. No,
sir, we want no more of il, and we viii
not have it. l refer the Senator to
any twenty of the most respectable,
intelligent, patriotic republicans ia
that State, ay to any 10000, and let
him ask them if they would have the
State remauded to republican hands
such as controlled it in the fush days,
Of radical rnle. Let hin ask them If
it would be a good thing for them, for
the State, for the whole country, to
exchange the present democratic gov
verpueut for any that the republic
cans could organize. BY their answer
l will abide, aud this is my answer to-
his assault upon South Carolina.
X *
And is this eternal, everlasting, In
satiate, Unsuitable, crusade upon the
South never to stop? If secession.
was a crime aud mistake, oh, hcw.
egregiously has the South suffered for
it! If maintaining slavery in her
midst was a crime, how the revenges
of time have settled With her for It !!
Is there then never to be cessation,
: stop to tantalizing, misrepreseuting,
} calumpiating a people who have bad
, problem to deal with that no people
have ever bad since civilization dawn
| ed on the earth-such problem, I
say, as 20 people have ever had to
: solve. They have been and are doing
the best they can to solve it, fairly
and honestly and truthfu!ly, and in
accordance with that love of coDsti-
tutional liberty and republican free
dom which was born with them. It
f seems to me that, instead of helping
r US to solve it, the republican patty
have thrown obstacles in our way, and
then curse and apathematize and
abuse and misreprescut Us because we
; act with the northern democracy. In
ell those dark 1av. in all those davs