The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1882-12-08

tion Of the babeas corpus and trial by
JuricS impartially selected. These princi.
pies form the bright constellation which has
gone bct'rc us aud guided our steps through
an age ofrcvo.ution an | reformation. The
wisdom ofour saScs and blood Of our heroes
have been devoted to their attainment.
They should be the creed Of our political
faith, the text Of civil instruction, the touch.
stone by which to try the services Of those
We trust and should &c wander from them
in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten
to rctracc our steps aud to regain the road
which alone leads to peace, liberty and
safety"
a more forciblc exposition of Democratic
principles is no where to be found. When
ever aud wherever they have been the guide
otthc party the par,yhas been successful, and
its success has been honorable to itself and
useful aud advantageous to the country.
In the judgment of the State committee,
the active organization of the party in this
State should be continued, in order that the
Democratic clubs may be in full vigor when
the time shall come for entering upon a new
political campaign. The Democratic clubs
can now be made POLITICAL schools, 80 to
speak, in which the principles ofthc Demo
cratic party in thor practical application
shall be taught and explained. A genera
tion ofSouth Carolinians has grown up since
the secession of this State, and those who
had not seen the light when the first gun of
the war was fired in Charleston I1arbor arc
now Of full age and capable Of casting
their Ssvotc at popular elections. They
have grown up in the midst of turmoil and
excitement. War was their cradle, re-
construction their nursery, revolution the
attendant of their early youth. For them,
as for many who are older, the name of
Democrat has no special significance, be-
yond its local and limited meaning as the
designation of those who possess the intclh
gcncc, the experience and the property in
the State. 1t is Indispensable to the wol-
fare of tho Democratic party in South Car
oina and paramount necessity for the
maintenance Of good government, that the
young people of the State, and the older
men besides, shall become familiar with the
Democratic faith as taught Dy the Fathers
of the Republic, and shall see in the Dem.
ocratic party something more than an agen-
cy for preventing miSrue and for securing
decent government in the State. The whole
people should DO made to understand that
only by the assertion and supremacy of
Democratic principles can the United States
be maintained as the Republic ofRepublics,
and that only through and by the Demo-
cratic party, which has been from the be-
ginning the party of the people, can repub-
lican institutions in tn ir full vigor and
efficiency be maintained and preserved.
There arc many complex questions that
must be decided by tn, people at the next
election and the next, and it is nccdful that
the people shall pass upon them deliberate
ly and intclligcntly. The State Committee
hope, therefore, that the Democratic clubs
throughout the State viii be made means
of instructing the people, so that every good
voter, by the discussion in which he shall
participate and the cxspositions he shall
hear, will be instructed as to his own rights
and the rights of his neighbors, his obliSa-
ton to himself and those around him, his du,
ties to the State, and his duty to the Union
which our fathers in the original thir-
teen States formed and ccmentcd with their
blood Union which, under Democratic
guidance. shall be the home of liberty and
progress AMI of comfort for all those who
by birth or by choice, have the privilege to
be called Americans and irccmrn.
JAMES f. IZLlR, Chairman.
G. ID. BRIAN. J. OrEY REED.