Year: 1874

fairs. Nothing but premeditated villainy,
blind ignorance or total depravity, can pre-
vent this selfevident truth from controlling
the government. Our work is to meet and
overcome every influence that would bar its
recognition. Public opinion is created by
agitation, and no community can long resist
pressure of a great truth, constantly, earnestly
and honestly urged TO do this, association
is essential The individual is as powerless as
single twig in the faggot, but nothing can
resist the great power Of combination. Let
the honest and well-meaning citizens, one by
one, be brought into the Taxpayers Union,
and made to work for the cause of good gov
ernment, until the State is redeemed. The
ecIat that attends the clash Of arms is wanting
to such struggle, but no cause can be more
worthy of the earnest, faithful and patient Ia
Dor of one who loves his people and his State.
A triumph like this is not to be won by a
single decisive battle, nor, it may be, by many
toilsome campaigns, but patient, enduring and
honest work, sooner or later, will bring victory
to your standards. No laurel wreaths may
crown the victor's brow, but ransomed and
redeemed Carolina, free, prosperous and
happy people, will attest to future generations,
that worthy of your ancestry and true as they
to duty and honor, you have taken up the
fight in the darkest hour of adversely, and
faithfully and successfully fought it out to vic
tory. We conjure you, then, at once to or.
ganize, compact and work up the Tax.Payers'
Union, until you anchor the State safe in the
harbor of assured peace and prosperity.


In connection with this great movement, it
is desired to appeal to our fellow-ctizens, who,
despairing of relief, are contemplating the
thought Of abandoning the homes OF their
childhood and the graves of their fathers, to
seek in other lands and among strangers a
more hopeful future. Stand by the old State.
Desert not your people in their extremity.
Leave not the field while the battle RACES.
Take new courage and try again. We be-
lieve this to be the very turning point in the
fortunes ofthe State. Stay with us and share
the coming good. The same energy, labor
and means that would suffice to establish the
emigrant in new home, would rehabilitate
the old in abundant blessings.


1t appears to us that duty and patriotism
alike demand that the citizen remain at his
post, unless called away by more important
and exceptional considerations. Whenever
it can be done, we urge the people to offer
such aid and assistance to any citizen whose
necessities may impel him to leave the State
as may induce him to remain among US. 10
retain our old citizens is of more value than
to introduce new. Every effort should be
made to this end. Those who have left the
State in these latter years of adversely and
trial have not generally prospered. Many
have returned to their old homes, poorer than
when they went away, and many, disappolnt-
ed and ruined, look back in vain regret upon
fatal mistake. Let US remain at home and
be buried in the tomb of our ancestors. A
fertile soil, salubrious climate valuable staples
and mines and water powers, kind and hos.
pitable people, commercial facilities, railroads
and telegraphs, and vast areas of unutilized
and most valuable lands, cleared and ready
for the plow, at prices greatly less than the
cost of clearing the primitive forests, present
here the most inviting field ever offered to the
immigrant. Our people yearn for the coming
stranger of every land and nation. We will
introduce him on his arrival into the midst OF
an advanced Christian civilization, with an
assured return for industry and thrift.


This convention has instituted certain
modes by which your earnest desire to attract
hither the people of America and Europe
may most readily be grati6ed. From these
and other agencies to be established, the hap
piest results may be expected. Let your hear
ty and liberal support of these schemes be
constantly accorded, and South Carolina will
soon achieve a career Of prosperity utterly
unprecedented in her history


This convention has not taken counsel from
despair, nor needed that voice of the past
that would awake the passions and preudices
engendered amid the storm of contending
issues buried on fields of blood, which stand
as monuments of American valor, devotion
and faith. Whatever may have been the
range of its discussions, its results are before
you, evincing spirit of selfrestraint, forbear..
ance and conservatism to the emulation of
which they would earnestly commend you.
They have left nothing undone that promised
relief or that any could say should have been
done. While they have memorialized Con-
gress on the subject Of your wrongs, in Ian.
guage of simple but burning eloquence and
emphasis, they have not omitted proper ap-
peal to the State Government for necessary
reform. In this they feel assured that they
will stand justified by your approval and the
enlightened opinion Of the world. We shall
not in detail attempt to recapitulate the entire
action of this body, but earnestly invoke your
attention to all the measures proposed, and
united action in their support, from the noun
tains to the sea.


In conclusion, imploring Almighty God to
bestow upon all the people His best blessing,
His wisdom to guide and His strength to
achieve, We commend you to this noble work
of duty and patriotism.


J. B. KERSHAW, Chm'n, Kershaw.


G.. r. MILES, Charleston.


JOHN BRATTON, Fairfield.


JOHN S. RICHARDSON, Sumter


F. A. CONNER, Abbeville.


IREDELL JONES, York.


A. B. WOODRUFF, Spartanburg. II


LATE AT CHURcH-One of the papers tells
the story Of man coming into church after
the sermon had begun, whereupon the preach.


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