Year: 1868

S 'o'"'o VI ~ Siiio, OoloA


the war ard since-the Peters.
burg Erpress, in very pointed


article, declares-has been sicken.


ed nigh unto death by politics


and this declaration is equally ap.


plicable to South Carolina. Nearly


the whole press of the State is


not only wasting time and brains,


but is unintentionally doing great


harm, BY their incessant political


TRADES and thread-bsre essays on


"unconstitutional" rights. The


powers that be, deaf to reason


and swayed by intense passion,


are no more affected towards our


good by anything we say or write,


than the fish in the sea are. They
! don't even listen to those Of their
own section who endeaVor to rea-


son with them. They don't pro-
fess to act by and under the au-


thority Of the constitution but


distinctly aTow that they act IN


dependently Of it, and in accor-


dance only with their conceited


purposes. They will not, cannot


listen to any one not Of them,
even though he rose from the


dead. All that we can say serves


only to irritate and incite them to


deeds Of greater crue!ty. There


fore, all talk is utterly useless


nay, it does us harm. All and the


best we can do is to keep cool and


quiet, and act as one man, when
ever the occasion requires, with


the determination to resist by all
lawful means what We know to be
wrong, and to do what we know
to be right. Passion will in, time
subside, and reason resume. as
much sway as she ever had under
a free .suffrage;system. We ought
suot to aspire to have, finger in.
the -Governmeur-PE Pio lee.st =:aa,,- .:
til the pieis fit to be: served. z All.
that we need now is a Government
Of any form and administered by
any man or set Of men, which
will simply secure the right to
life and property. For just that
little politics have We any stom-
ach now-and none but fends
would grant us less. The duty of
the present hour is to direct all
our energies earnestly, unceasing-
ly, to but one object the material
advancement Of the State. 1t is
true that no people can attain the
height Of prosperity until they
have good government. But are
we to starve and die in waiting
for good government If so, we
might as well lay down the SHOW
ell and the hoe right here for we
will never have good government
as long as the predominant spirit
of the world is that Of evil-as
long as there are more bad men
than good-never, until the mil
.lenium. We say, therefore, that
the speediest and, surest road to
peace and prosperity, is to unite
in persistent effort to develop the
agricultural interest Of the State.
This can be done only by dividing
the surplus lands, and selling oat
to those who can and will culti-
vate them. 1t is the plain inter-
est Of the land-holder TO do this.
No business will flourish in this
State, until the uncultivated lands
are titled. It is not worth while
to seek and expect business in the
cities and towns, while the coun-
try is idle. Plain as these propo-
sitions are, people are slow to
realize them. They can see the
truth but they can't feel it yet.
eve are ready to do anything"
says the land-holder; to get out of
the pressure, but We can't see any
mode Of escape. We would sell
willingly, but we can't find the |
purchaser" and with that he |
lights his pipe and hopes that
somehow or other, in the course Of
time, somebody will come along
and pay him ten, twenty OF fifty
dollars per acre, in cash gold, for
land which he can't sell now for
one-fourth the price. The land
holder must wake up from his