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"TO THINE OWN SELF DB TUUK, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS Till BY KEITH, ?OVT & 00, WALHALLA, SOUTH CARO! INA, FRIDAY, AUttUST 20, 1870? VOLUME V_ Jprofessioiieul ??trd?w Tiros. M. WILKES, ATTORNEY AT LAW -AND Solicitor in Ecinity. -ALSO, United States Commissioner, fror tho Circuit ami District Conns of tho Uni ted Stales for South Carolina. a?y* oman I? THB cotfft? noose. AV ALU ALLA. S. C. July 22. 1870 40 ly i. 1!. WUITNKU. WUITNER SYilMES. WlllTNEir& S Y MMES, Attorneys at Law, WALHALLA, S. C. Office on thc Public Square. "?J February 1, 1870 1G tf S: MCGOWAN. it. A. THOMPSON, Abbeville:, S. C. Walhalla, S. 0. MCGOWAN ~? THOMPSON, ATTORNEYS A? LAW, WALHALLA, 8. C., Wili give prompt attention to ali business confided to tllrt.in in the Stoic, Comity, nod United Stales Courts. OFFICE LS' THE COU KT ItOUsM Tho jlitiior partner. Mu THOMPSON, will also practice in tho Courts of Pickens, (Jrccnvillo ttlld Anderson. January* lS70 tf JOSEPH J. NORTON, A "t corney &s% T.j sa. w. WilillAIJiA, S. All business for Pickens County left with J. E. 1IAGOOD, ESQ., PICKENS C. II., Wlhh UM PROMPTLY ATfEMi?b TO October 30, 1808 4 tf J. P. REED? \ ? W. C. KEITH, Anderson C. I?. j \ Walhalla. HEED &7(EIT1I( ATTORNEYS AT LAW ^olioitors in E3 equity, Huve renewed their Co-partnership in thc prac tico of Law, and extended it to all Civil and Criminal business in the Counties of Oconec Und Pickens. ALSO, ALI. ItUSfNfiSS !N TliK ?'.NI?ED STATUS COUUTS. ???r O?iicc on Public Square, Walhalla, S. C. July 18, 1800. 41 tf S. D. GOODLETT, Attorney at Law AND SOLICITOR Ii\ KOJUlTV, HAS LOCATED AT THU NEW TOWN OF PICKENS, S. C. Nov. 10, 18G8 7 tf EASLEY & McBEE, . Attorneys at Law, &,c., WILL PRACTICE IN TH IS Courts of tho Eighth Circuit. OFFICE AT NEW PICKKNS. W. K. EASLEY, I P. IL McBEE, Oroonville 0. 1J- ' Piokons (J. II. March 10,1 ROO 23 AL'X. S. ERWIN, I < ?. C. BENTLY Athens, Ga. J \ Clayton, Qa, ERWINTI?ENTLY, Attorneys at. Law, WILL PRACTICE IN PARTNERSHIP ?N THE COU N'T Y OF RAB UN, STATE OF OE OE G IA. Oct 6, 1809- 62 tf Medical JVotice. WWI under ignodhaving permanently cstabllslVcd 1 himself ot Walhalla, offers his Professional services to tho citizens and community nt largo, for tho pr? ,Hoe of Medicine In all of its brandies, fie will b< found all tltneB nt his offlq* st his #esldonoe, ..oar Dir. NormWi Drug Store, voady lind willina to give prompt attention to all calls ?uaw 8 ? JAMES M. BLOAN, M. D. IIMHUM, 0. C., Sept, lil, 1860. ?r-tf Lotter ii om Ju?i^o Orr COLUMBIA, S. C., August 15, 1870. To thc Editor of thc Guardian ; MY DEAR Silt : 1 enclose yuu herewith a tiommitnioutioti expressing my opinions of the present political situation in South Carolinn. I Thc publication of it would bc gratifying to mc, if you have space in your oolumus. 1 nm, very respectfully yours, etc., ?J A M EB L. OUR. Mu. EDITOR : In response to inquiries n b dressed to nie by friends in letters, and other wise, 1 shall proceed very briefly to state my opinions on tho political issues presented to thc people in thc canvass now progressing in this ??tate : 1. 1 shall vote for Scott und Hausier, Re publican nominees for Covernor and Licutctl antCovernor. 2. 1 cannot vote for the nominees of thc UuidU Reform party because, in my judg ment, thc purpose which they propose to ac complish is entirely impracticable, and the nominations made by their convention will not only accomplish no good results, but the consequences of tho nomination and canvass mast Lo pernicious. Thc avowed purpose of thc convention was to effect reforms itt thc administration of thc State government lu some of its departments retrenchment and re form is doubtless greatly needed-.some of its oflices arc lilied hy incompetent and corrupt men-who should bc driven from the places they occupy. More economy in thc appropri ations and disbursements of public money should bc practiced. How nrc those objects to bc attained? Thc only reforms in tho State government that can bc successfully accompli.?bcd-at least for many years to come-must bo by and through tho Republican party and its or ganizations. They have control of all thc de partments of thc State government, and have a majority ol'moro than il,OLIO voters to pro serve and perpetuate that control. So long us an opposing party, disavowing Republican ism, is organized in thc State to defeat and displace them, so long will patty machinery and appeals to party appliances preserve its unity and supremacy. If wc want an illus tration of thc strength and constancy of party organization^ in scouring solf-perpctmilion, look to thc/Mutc of Vermont, for thirty year? prior to thy war. when it an ona! Iv J,nluid..nn Us 25,00.0/ or mo:o utility lof tho i\ big party, desoto nil thc efforts of tho Democra cy, aided most of thc timo hy Federal influ ence and patronage. When you attempt to reform a party by destroying it-which is the present mode of reform adopted- thc first law of nature, self preservation, appeals to to each member of that party to resist the 1 new movement und avert its destruction. Such un uutugouism hus another most baleful influence Thc most active, and oftentimes, the most Unscrupulous, partisans exaggerate tho importance of maintaining party usage and discipline, and thc great muss of thc hon est portioii of thc party aro (hus diverted from a careful examination into thc litness of those socking to represent them and from abuses and corruptions existing in thc party. Au antngonislic party muy bo organised with great effect, when there is a remote prospect of success in driving thc party in power, or its lenders who arc guilty of misrule, from their supremacy, but is there such a prospect in thc present canvass? Thc color ed vote is, and has been froto 1SG?, nearly a unit tor thc Republioan party, and, have they acted unwisely or unpatrioticitlly in their ardent devotion to the Republican party? Suppose our conditions, thc white race, Were reversed ; that wc and our ancestors had boon Slaves for 200 years-that ft party had mude war to give us a freedom-that it had succeeded-that thc same party hud periled its own supremacy by guaranteeing to us our civil rights, and ubove all, thc ballot-thc ef fectual weapon of preserving those rights lind been secured to us by solemn constitu tion^ enactment by tho same patty, und wc were, in the face of all this, appealed to by those who had opposed all those great boons, to join with them tn overthrowing the party ol our deliverance" and redemption, would ah) white man fora moment tolerate with patience any such a proposition ? Would it fiot bi most ungrateful for tho colored man lo rc non nee. such a party, when its very exUtenoi is now threatened? Some of his leaders wdiite and colored, may bc incompetent, cur rupt, treacherous; but ho would exhibit t strange obliviousness if ho would consent ti join an antagonistic organization to destroy his own party, even before be bad attcinptci to roforni it. Tho relativo population of white and color cd aro os thrco to four, and tho volo may bi assumed to bo thc same. Thc colored majori ty is moro than 25,OHO. Assuming that tl\> grcat mass of tho colored voters will sustaii tho Republican party nnd tho foregoing views confirmed by the cxpefienco of tho last fiv years, docs it not conclusively RIIOW, that i there is dishonesty and peculation in depart tncnts of tho Stute government, that it can not bo reformed by n Reform party ? Don' thc ligures show that tho votos aro too nuttier ous on tho other side? This view of 25,00 majority is on tho assumption that evef whito man in tho Stuto votes tho Re fort ticket j but whon tho ballots come to bo oust it will bo found that many whito Republioan in South Curolino, many moro whites wh will voto tho Republican than blacks who wi vote tho Reform ticket. If I have shown that reform cannot bo at ' compiished through ibo Reform party, it di volves on mo to ?how how not only reform i to be accomplished but how a largo infuaio i of the intelligenco and virtuoof the white rac ' ORO exercise it* just and legitimate influent, in tho consols of tho State. It must bo done in-rough tho organ iza tic of thu Republican party. Tho wiso and ox* poriouced in good faith must go into tho Rc publican party; acquiro a fair and legitiuinto influence j aid in selecting tho most compe tent and deserving men for official positions in thc Republican ranks and when confidence has been attained, by good faith and sinceri ty, then thc highest intelligence and virtuo will bo iuvoked by the Republican Convention for services iu thc offices cf trust and respon sibility. Tho greatest obstacle in accepting this sug gestion by many Conscientious men who have heretofore belonged to Democratic and other organizations was removed by tho nomina tions aud platform of tho Into Reform Convention. The distinguished nominee of that convention for Covernor is a Republi can j bis associate for Lieutenant Covernor, no less distinguished, was formerly a Democrat. Thc convention was composed mainly uf gen tlemen who formerly belonged to the Demo cratic party. The ulatfortn adopted; in its es BOni.ii?! feature, was Republican j it accepted and proposed to sustain the fifteen th constitu tional amendment, and made no political is sue with the Republican party, except reform. To vote for cither of tho nominees for Cov ernor is to vote for a Republican ; to sustain either of the plat forms ia to sustain thc load ing features of Republican principies. How, then, can a voter sustain the Reform party - its nominee and platform-and say his devo tion to principle precludes him from joining the Republican party? Before thu convention met, many persons objected to uniting with thc Republican par ty, because it involved an abandonment of political principle-Democratic or other. Such as went into thc convention, and such as now sustain its action, have broken down that barrier, and can very quietly and very conscientiously walk into thc Republican ranks - especially as every one of thc old anti war issues between thc Democratic and Republican parties have passed away or been settled. As no substantial difference exists in the principles of thc Republican and Reform par tics, bow much moro could have been accom plished through tho Republican organization, ut thc October election, to reform abuses, than will bo accomplished by thc Refrom party ! Suppose 100 of tho most intelligent white citizens in e?mh eqnot.u h;uL ?an?,..,in good rciif.li nru; vntu ira UK ,vrnT5uFTXyj into Ino Republican organization. Can it be doubted that their intelligence and moral strength would have secured honest nominees ? If members in thc lust Legislature woro corrupt, would not such nu inlluencc havo defeated their renomination? Who can doubt it? This would have been effective end practical reform, and it would have gone a great way to break down that distrust of thc colored Re publican felt towards tho native white-a dis trust which wns, at first, eveu natural, and which was greatly increased in 1808, (thc first election in which thc whites participated after reconstruction,) when thc blacks were attempted to be persuaded to vote for a party whose avowed principles looked to their dis franchisement. Is it strange that thc colored Republican should bc cautions, nnd adhere with pertiuacy to his? party ? Can wc justly hope to exercise that political influence over him which wc now constantly do in all thc other relutious and duties of life, until bc is convinced that we intend in good faith to protect him equally with the whiles, not only in bis personal prop erty, but ill all bis civil and political rights ? If the whiles of the .State, heretofore ad hering to tho Democratic party hu\o renoun ced its principles and consented to vote for a Republican fur Covornor, and for n Republi can platform, why should they allow men prejudice of tl party or name to keep (hem aloof from un organization in which, if they cuter, they can justly claim una enjoy thc confidence of thc colored man and effect th< reforms needed, and elevute into thc service of thc State men of thc highest iutelligonct and virtue ? Thc nominee of thc Republican party fi 1 Lieutenant Covernor isa colored n.a 1. Doe: not their number of voters entitle that mci to recognition in thc official positions of tin State, whetl they present, a tuan qualified ti fill tho position bc seeks? Is such A fiotniriu tion ita obnoxious ns that thc tiokct shouh j be rejected ? Wns not thc name af a eoloroi I man presented to tho Roforin Convention fo Lieutenant Covernor; and did not loadioj ! white delegates of that convention urge fir Humiliation of a colored man ? And w!i; i was a colored man not nominated ? The pro cccdings of the convention, show that it wa because thc name was withdrawn by a color cd lunn. My conclusion, therefore, is tba . thc intelligence of tho whito race in the Stat ' can hover bo mado of any avnil in influcnoinj : thc management of its go\ wnmental affairs i until it secures the confidence, politically, o ' the colored race. That tho colored ruco i I dovoted to tho Republican party unalterably j ond will continuo so as long as tho organiza ? tion exists, and that such devotion is the un i kural oiid ncces-wry result of tunny kindncssc ! to thom. That tho old issues between th ! Democratic- and Republican pnrttes are settle ! of superseded ; bank, tarilT, intcruul improve i ment, ?V.o., nie no longer living issues, an ! that affiliation with tho Ropublioai? parfy o existing issues involves no sacrifico of princi pies. That if tliia groat question was doubt fu before, tho platform and nominees of tho lat Reform Convention removes every obstaol in tho way of thoso who '.vero delegates an now supports its action in South Carolina. That having practically adopted its princ pies, wisdom admonishes, espcoially tho whit ! raoo, to ontor and affiliafo with tho Ropubl oan partly, acquire i nfl no nw? with itsmomboi. and tlvvoivgdi them- oofreoti abuses and- perfot -.! L]:':'-Cl-' , 1 ,, ? ; ..T; rolorn.s. That tho antagonistic position of tho Reform p iity, not only to tho ullcgcd cor ruptions and abuses of tho Republicans, but to tho cxistcQCj) of tho party itself, not only precludes allhopo of culisting its members under this banner, but forces thom in their campaign to.'Ai*Sk more to sol f-preservation than to any oj?r);uption 01 mismanagement of its menibcis, *4?'A to that .';?'?".' [? PCV:.JUS i nj ?try to thc hcatc. That notwithstanding tho tact that just cause of complaint may exist against Um Re publican party for sins of omission and com mission, they have done much to ameliorate tho condition ol' the white people of ibo State ; ameliorations which thc Legislature of thc State, io 1803 and 1800, refused to grant. That party has scoured a homestead to thc head of every family. Thousands of women and children, in this State would have been houseless, nuked und .starved, but for thc bcneGccnt provisions of the homestead enact ment, lively voter thus protected should re member, when bc conies to Cast his vote, who furnishes a theiler, in sunshine and storm, over tho heads of his wife and children, despite the Atalo claims of heartless creditors. That this sae.e party has protected idl debtors iii their constitution from paying debts con tracted for slave property. That this same party has been ccfunl to thc human'progress of the u?e in abolishing i inprison mont for debt. That this same par ty, whatever may have been its extravagance or improvidence, hus raised thc market value of thc bonds of thc Stale from 20 cents in january, 1R0S, to about 00 couta ut 'bc pre sent .imo. If good and true mon will courent lo accept thc Reconstruction Acts of Congress, and the legislation, ..'"Vdural und State, necessarily growing out. of. them j if they will accept thc new conditions surrounding us ; if they will nlliliuto with tho Republican organization cs pccially in this State, we will profit largely by what they have done correctly, and much cnn bc accomplished to correct abuse und innlfcusance't'naf may have grown up in thc anomalous state of affairs surrounding us. j Relieving no good result can How from tho Reform movement, 1 shall vole for tho nomi nees of the Republican party. Very respectfully, JAMES L. ORR. I From thc Southern Guardian, 'Mic l?olliScut Situation UM Viewed by Judge Orr. When in March last Judge Orr came out in on elaborate letter with his views of pub lie policy, and advised our people frankly to acquiesce in thc amendments to thc Konstitu tion of thc United StutCS which secured thc right of suffrage und of holding office to tho bluck and colored mee, and to harmonize their political relations with the colored po pulution of thia State, in order that they might secure their aid in voting for sound measures, as well us in working their fields; when, in scornful and opprobrious terms bc branded the adventurers who by chicanery, fraud and corruption had installed themselves in strong-holds of power aud trust; and when he pointed ont the lamentable need of good government aud urgent necessity for reform, we promptly extended to him the right bund of approval, and thc meed ol' our .cotnmeud I ntion. Wc thought him patriotic und right; ! we believed tittil to bo in thc path of duty. lindon a linc of action which would result in great public good. Wc hesitated not, there fore, to commend Judge Orr's course, nnd to recommend to our people lo listen to his ad vice ?ind heed his suggestions. Time hus rolled on, the tide of corruption and misrule hus swollen into a wide ?ind de vastating St reit ttl, deluging the laud and pois oniug the very air wc breath?'.. Its noisome stencil has reached distant States, and thc press of the North and Northwest have stig unitized thc Radical party in South Carolim ns a nuisance which must be speedily abated a putrid excrescence which must be prompt ly lopped ofl\ Thc true Republican party o the country feels subject toa disco?nt OU itt good halbe und respectability on account o thc doings of its disgusting representatives it this State. Iis connection with thievery jobs, plunder, bribery, filching and profligacy its utter want, in fact, of intelligence, chante tc, public and private decency-arc thing not demoed here except in a faint way, nm are tro'tf known and keenly felt North, b; men of all parties. This rotten concern i on trial for high Climes and misdemeanors. A movement born partly of thc good ant honest words of Judge Orr himself in rcbuk of tho general corruption hus been made i this Stnto with tho object of wresting th government out of these iuoompetcut, reek less and plundering bunds, of thc endeavoi ing to mu Icc lifo and sooiety tolerable her once moro. It has grown into tho Unio Reform party, adopted a platform, and nomi outed candidates for Gol jrnor and Limiter, ant Governor. Theo candidates havo gon forth'.ainong thc people btvenuously ndvocatin economy in expenditures, diminution of tax [jus, responsibility of ofli?o holders, and otho measures of rofortn, They havo called th corrupt Stnto govornment to stern nooouti! nnd aroused tho publie indignation again; its flagrant excesses, and its hideous eli mci Tho people, whito and blaok, havo givo them n wann reception. They oagorly drin in their words of truth and soborness, and ar ohecreu with tho hopo ond prospeot of speedy dolivoranco Tho prejudices wilie attended tho inception of the movement nt fast dying oit6, opposition to it is daily dimit Ashing, and the good and truo men of a classer*, parries and colors aro ir ratified Co fin themselves in accord in its objects. It is moment of supreme interest to its frioadar I it is one of stern and rigid accountability to tho miserable aud bloated wretches whom it arraigns. At this critical juncture, Judge Orr again appears upon the scone in a letter in which 1 o uvows his purpoee to support Scott for Governor and Hausier for Lieutenant Gov ernor. This is, in our view <n most lame .and impo tent ccnclueion, resting upon statement's und reasoning Utterly Untellable; au'J as little cre ditable to the sagacity and consistency ai to thc sensibilities of the writer. Bat a few months ago, he denounced the Radical lead ers, "men who do not and never did enjoy public confidence; men who arc ignorant, cor rupt, dishonest, and unfit, by reason of their carly associations, for decent society." "By employing all thc arts of thc demagogue," he said, "and an unscrupulous use of disgraceful agencies, they succeeded in being elected to thc most important offices in the State." These bc strong words, and, if they meant anything when uttered, cannot be made to day to square with u support of these same leaders, glutted with six months' additional plunder; aftfj gtiilty of a thousand lidded crimes. We aro not stlrpr ?ed ti> fiud that, as Judge Orr has concluded to assist them to foist themselves into important office again, he ?S ?Ow quito mild and merciful towards their iniquities, aud accordingly tones down thc language used a half year since to suit his new relations to them. ?nc? as he must needs place thc task and burden of reform, for many years to conic, solely upon the Re publican party and it?organization, he was in duty bound to make light. Otherwise, they might have been compelled to exclaim: "My burdci \i more than 1 can bear." In undoavoring to turn the guns of thc Union Reform party against themselves, Judge Orr makes several mis statements of facts, or perverts thom to suit his own pur pose; ns, for instance, that no substantial dif terence exists in thc principles of the Repub lican and Reform parties in thi.s State. To accept and sustain the Fifteenth Constitu tional A mend nient no moro makes a man a Republican-mid, least of all, 6 South Caro lina Radical Republican - (hu flt thc surrender ut Appomattox Court House made Southerners Yankees. At? that surrender made ?on com batants of those who before wore soldier.*, so we have ceased to agttate't!:e issue settled by it. Thc panic is the Case with other obi issues padded away, nettled and forgotten. It is thc newly invented issues of the ingenious and saintly Wllittomore and his colleagues, and more especially their peculiar practice in Laud, Commission swindles, cudctship sales, stock jobbing operations, bribery, and the like, which make a world of difference between them and Us. While, therefore, honest Re publicans can very well stand upon the plat form of the Union Reform organization, only a mun of thc mettle and sang froid of Judge Orr cati complacently mount that constructed by the priestly political architect of thc South Carolina Radicals. Judge Orr affects to seo in the opposition of thc Reform party to thc Radicals a motive aud justification for thc employ tuent of party machinery, and appeals to party appliances to preserve their supremacy. Tho honest por tion of thc Radical party will, bc says, be diverted from a duo examination into thc fitness of those aspiring to represent them, and it will follow that all thought or concern for abuses and corruption will lo swamped in tho effort which it must make, so attacked, to preserve its party life. This reminds u. ofMr. Seward's "little bell," and bastilcs, and suspension of habeas corpus in order tc preserve "the life of the nation." Wc maj say, wi passant, that wc should suppose thc Radicals must have been already subject tc heavy antagonism, if their abuses and cor ruptions furnish its measure and pressure And yet our Judge has demonstrated to hil own satisfaction that the platforms of the tv>< parties in this State arc not essentially ditter eut, and itt fact, with thc aid of our Carpen ter, bc bas reduced thom to tho samo level They arc really thc same, bc would have u bcliot-e, except that in one, there is found sort of spiteful antipathy to tho other. Novi if we concede to Judge Orr tl-.it ho is corree ni iheso positions, ho must concede to us tba a petty antipathy of the kimi bc means mus necessarily yield in a short time to large con siderations, and bo eliminated. And whoi that is done, there will bo nothing in tho wa_ of thc supposed Ltrtdionl tendencies to refont and to tho correction of abuses. As thc dil ficultics vanish, the argument unfortunate! fulls to tho ground. It ts not true that th opposition of parties to each other, promote corruption. In their strifes and collisions, ii their discussions and debates, light is st rae out, and in tho exposures each makes of th other tho oausc of truth is advanced, ?iud befen hor fly error, falsobood, Wrong, trickery, ooi ruption and abuses. We hovo aotuo of thor on tho wing now in this very Radical parij and our battue has but just commOnood. Figures trouble Judge Orr vcrv much, an wo fear that, if they do not lie, they ofto doccivo those who swear by thom. Tho vot is as three to four, and tho colored majorit is more than 25,000, ho says, und triumphani ly asks, "do not thc figures show that th votes aro too numerous on the othor sido? Certainly thoy do, if you have them corree and if chango is impossible. But wo coal givo you ?vidences ofohango already, pYool plenty as blackberries, that light and noun knowledge, discussion ?nd exposure aro pr< ducing theh* legitimate effects. It is to oom tenet these that thin letter itself has mad ita appearance ill the interests of hurd presse (now) friends of Judge Orr. ll) signalizi his zeal as a now con vor t is bound to do, I bespattering them and their party with fu uomo oulogtos. Ho makofi insidious oppoa in their belmlf to tho poor blacks, for whose freedom, ho says, they fought, and to the poor whites, whose homesteads their legislation1 lias saved. It ifould take us too far to uri dertako to discuss these measures with Judgo Orr. Wc cannot, however, permit, the state ment as to the war for the liberation 6f ibo" blacks to pass unchallenged. It is not go; it was exclusively a war measure; and we . appeal fiom tho decision of Judgo Orton thc bench and a red hot political partisan to Colonel Orr in tho field, a Confederate officer, at thc head of his troops. Judge Orr advuuees a singular idea, for which wc must allow him, not thc credit of originality, but tho merit of a uicc, new and popular setting, although grotesque enough to those who look beyond tho surface. Ho substantially maintains that the Republican majority in this State is unalterable. Tbi?*/ when analyzed, certainly means that the vo ters are blind, and will always vote blindly for party measures. And, by the way, this view of their voters ns dependent creatures crops out very frequently in the specohea aria talk of thc Radicals. They think themselves* safe for a long tenure of power, the chief re liance being upou the ignorance and immo vableness of their supporters. It is thc first time in political warfare that we ever beard of a necessary, unchangeable, stereotype ma jority. Arc men supposed to stand still fixed to thc spot-incapable of moving, think ing and acting for themselves ? We assure you, Judge Orr, that the colored people can appreciate argument, cnn sift statem?uts, catt examine and ponder the miserable fallacies which have so long deceived them. They desire now-hundreds and thousands of them; to break away from those who would keep them in lending strings forever. They feel, keenly, thc cursed slavory of tho Let?g?'co/ mid know they are the pens w'lier? (htj ar? prepared, and, it moy be, adorned, for politi cal sacrifice. Thc black clement in tho Ra dical party in this State is now, lo a large ex tent, a great, seething mass of discontent. They know their leaders-native as Well aa* Yankee, scalawags, carpet-baggers and all have grossly deceived and plundered theu?. The have hoard-though not from Governor Orr-of thc great swindle of the age-the Land Commission frauds-au outrage in which (hey arc moro concerned than any^ ot'.or. 1 J: r. v j--. A.-,-L-!_LX. ii--..ir--^t. to demoralize and corrupt thom, ruling thom' by their necessities nud through their weak nesses, and would sell the souls of every ono of them, iu thc twinkling of nu eye, into' eternal ruin for a pitiful piece of silver, lt is a mistake, a fatal mistake, and a heinous' wrong, to say that thc negro is a mere block head, to bc perpetually turned about and manipulated to suit thc pcrsoual and party views of those who aspire always to manag? him. Let him, we say, como out from tho' Leagues, hear and weigh argument, assert his freedom nud bis manhood, and vote for whom and for what mensures he may plcn60. j Wc have no fear for the result, if this b?' I done. Ile will seek, like all other good mon, to reform abuses, to check corruption, t?' drive out of office those who disgrace it, and'; in general, will act sensibly, peaceably arid quietly, and will endeavor to restore tho country to prosperity and happiness. He ia", not to remain a stereotype, musty edition of rank, blind, unreasoning Radicalism. Wc have now to take our leave of Judgo" Orr. Wc have treated him with courtesy.-' We deeply regret his letter, for hts own sake' and for thc sake of our good old mother Stato': It isa weak thing, and a very wrong thing. It is a letter against his couutry and bis countrymen. Just when Radicalism has' reached its acme of corruption, and when men, no longer able to stomaoh or stand it, aro looking about for the undertaker, Judge Orr comes along with his battery and seeks to galvanise it into life. He may give it some spasms more, it may kick a while longer," but its day of doom is fixed, decomposition' has begun, and all thc letters and pronuncia tncutoes of its old adherents and its now oap tivesand converts injeoted into its miserable; rotten caroass cannot do moro for it than ip> crcuse thc agonies and contortions of its dis solution. THE PLAIN Ttitmr.-Tho overwhelming' defeat of General Grant's administration iii North Carolina foreshadows its dowofull in alf tho former slavoholding States, Ifor a tun*' oftor thc war tho rule of thc Carpet-baggers in the South was a matter of necessity. Tr*Q old dominant class did not take kindly to tho' new order of things' which sprang from the' success of the Union anus. The inroad of a' governing elomont from tho North was tho natural res ".lt ; and fiat it should bring inf its train a L?'dy of adventurers Was ?lniost a' thing of courso. . . . , j Tho fruits of thc oarpct-bag reign ot In* ! last fivo years aro what might havo been ex j pected. The world may bo searched in vain i for government's so immoral, sb sha?nel?iwiy j corrupt, so nopolosaly rotten, as those now prevailing in tho South. Politically they may bo changed ; btft this cannot cure ono of, de' sorest of the Cvils already ipffi'ctedt These scamps have run tho States they1 rulo" ruinously into debt. The Legislatures con trolled by them hliVO pledged tho States to the dischargo of pecuniary" Obligation? of crashing woight; to tho futuro r?demption o? an enormous umount of bonds, una to tho imposition of onerous taxes throng?/ a series of years. This bas boon doric in fnrtboranc'Q' of all surt? of ?homes whereby thc autn?r? fopp prctfotif wealth arid- anticipate lo?g? gn?us td tho immediate' fut?r?. These burder rt huve already seriously .embarrassed1 ft'H'! ?r those States, and well nigh bankrupted corr.a of them ; and to ?nv? them fr?ni ruin, thu ro'gn of the carlet bag robbers must be speedy ily brougbt t?o'ari e?d.-J\rcio York Sun.