The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-05-25
JOB PRINTING
It'll NEATNESS AND DISPATCH
TERMS CASH.

fair count, and he used this uufor-
tunate expression:
All, it is easy to shoot labor when
it has been ground down for q hun
dred years by slavery
He said that the civilization of the
South was founded upon barbarism,
and the civilization of the North
(meaning l SUPPOSE New Englandl
was founded upon the Bible, and the
school-book, &C. that there we're 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 'barbarisn' and want of
civilization; that We had been con-
quered; and he 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 say this:
She needs no defense at my hands.
Her records under democratic govern
uent answer the calumnies against
her and confidently refer to them.
| wish | had time to run through the
catalogue of crimes under the rule of
his 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 millions more Wrung
from impoverished people, stolen,
squandered, wasted; race conflicts,
riots, lawlessness, ballot-box stuff
ing, crime, confusion, disorder, an
archy; public officials holding high
carnival 10 debauchery, proaigacy,
robbery, conspiracy. I could show all
this. I could show that in one year
the republican Legislature spent for
public printing s3S5,OO0. The dem
ocratic Legislature spent only s6,l7S
for the same purpose. The republi-
can Legislature spent for legislative
expenses in one year 81, 1854, and
in four years s4,lS7,573. The dem.
ocratic administration for the sane
purpose spent in one year but S84,-
O96, and so on through the list. But
| have not the time.
Now, under democratic rule the
expenses for the public service are 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 one
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
fattened (ap1 fed) on the vulgar
viands Of radical debauchery. No,
sir, we want no more of it, and We will
not have it. I refer the Senator to
any twenty of the most respectable,
intelligent, patriotic republicans in
that State, ay to any 10000, and let
him ask them if they would have the
State remsnded to republican hands
such as controlled it in the flush days
Of radical rule. Let him ask them if
it would be good thing for them, for
the State, for the whole country, to
exchange the present democratic gov
verument for any that the republi-
cans could organize. BY their answer
| will abide, aud this is my answer to
his assault upon South Carolina.
* x x X
And is this eternal, everlasting, in
satiate, Unsuitable, crusade upon the
South never to stop? If secession
was a crime aud mistake, oh, how
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,
a stop to tantalizing, misrepresenting,
calumDiating people who have had
problem to deal with that no people
have ever had since civilization dawn
ed on the earth-such a problem, [
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 aud truthfully, and in
accordance with that love Of cousti-
tutional liberty and republican free
dom which was born with them. It
seems to me that, instead of helping
US to solve it, the republican party
have thrown obstacles in our way, and
then curse and anatheulatize and
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