Year: 1878

is great deal of unnecessary and
uncalled for apprehension among the
people concerning the political condi
ton of our country do, therefore,, as
one who has endeavored to keep
posted on the general tenor of affairs
during the time between this and the
last election, beg leave to present the
following to their notice. AS one
who has at heart tire interests and the
welfare of the people of not only the
Old Pal'uetto State, but the whole
country, shall be compelled 10 say
we, as a State, are in critical posi-
ton, politically and socially speaking,
for the eyes Of the WHOLE country are
turned npon us, and to great ex-
tent we possess the salvation of the
Democratic party; therefore it is in
dispensible with us that we give
them no room or possible grounds
for political criicism. The revenue
cases of the mountains has already
gained notoriety throughout the
6nion, and the Northern journals (as
have before said) al le busily engaged
in manufacturing and and flooding
the country with shameful descrip-
tions of the 80 called resistance, by
the people of South Carolina, of Fed
erat law; they stand aghast at the
hearing of our new deeds, and often,
We might add, the timid Republican
editor falls to the floor sbrieking and
wrestling with mis- bloody recitals ct
our crimes. Now, whilo all of this
uncalled for and malicious distur-
bance is going on, / think it expedi-
ent and Lighly necessary for some to
act the part of reconciliatore, and to
give the whole people people q II ue
and just representation of affairs as
they are.


There has been heretofore two simi
lar cases to that which has just trans.
Pired i'll this county, one in our sis
ter State, North Carolina, and ono in
Delewares where the state of affairs
were identical; "a 80 called c. nf1ct
between State and National law.)-
And still we have all ofthe anathe-
mas and blame to bear Of til Q styled
conflict. We have went no further
in the prosecution of our rights &C
cording to constitutional authority
than they, yet the demoDiacal journals
Of Republicanism have the audacity
and boldnees to attempt TO raise the
hue and cry Of, the spirit of sixty
is down there yet. If it is in our
midst we know hot of is existence,
and all we have done or attempted to
do is granted and protected under the
color and by authority of the consti-
tuition of this State and the constitu-
ton Of the United States Of A America.
those rights which are as sacred as
the men that made them, and as
eternal as nature itself, we bave act
ed under and have been guided by.
We know no North, no South, no
East, or West, hut one grand Union
of all, and the rights end immunities
granted by that noble, grand and i'm.
mortal old documentnwe intend to
stand by and claim it's protection.-
No bayonet rule shall ever crush it
out of us; we may be oVerpowered, or
even inundated, but never, while we
own the name Of our ancestors, will
we give over or consent that wrong
is right.


1he South has laid aisle her arms,
her sword is sheathed, we want no
dissention, but peace we desire; our
struggles have ended, the war has,
closed on our part years ago, and we
ere in the Union nee more and there
we intend to stay so long as the
name Of Union is to be fo0nd, or it's
spirit exists. Never again will we
err, if it were error, nomore will the
war cry resoand in our ears raised
by our own people The dead of the