KM?? V ?> -* I n < tv TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. )? VOLUME T. GOD TV^O OUR CO TRY. ?{ ALWAYS IN ADVANCE SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1873. _._ NUMBER 5 THE ORANGEBURG NEWS ?:o:? PUBLISHED AT OT7 AT^OTT!"B TT "R C4 Every Saturday Morning. BY TTIK ?JRANGEIHJRG NEWS COMPANY ?:n:? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ??? Capy for one rear. $2.00 ', only to scatter a few flowers, about the mein orios of our dead. The causes, of the Reb' llion, as it is t'-rmed nro in general too familiar, to us all, to require any further elucidation at the present time, and as to the gigun tic struggle itself th^rc aro too man. fingerboards, throughout our land, point ing us backward to its fearful character Hut, although such is the case, I feel that it is necessary, in the course of in remarks, to ?lanco briefly, at the ciu-es of the war, for, if we igm-re thciu, we ennnut fu'ly me<.t tho dema d of the occasion ?>n which we haTe assembled h) rc to day. The first duty, that we owe to our ? vea, is to justify our course. Leave ihat undone, and we must fail to send down, to coming noes, a spotless record of the achievmenta of our heroes Pur, they slei p not in unsullied glory, who have died tu establish au u irightOOUs : cause. Master spirits, indeed, may ri.-e and lower uud soar, on the wings of nonius ' to giddy heights of gr--alu sh and ?e in wii, but, if tho e, thut ur^es them upwnrd, bo ?u unholy ambition, then shall the brightest fl .wers wither in the crowns they win. ? .\\r>. hut:.an aspiration in itsaiarcJi for glory^ may scale tho very el-jud-, ) but, hitman virtue alone can bright.n . tl e stars beyond. t h ! then, let our object be to s'iow not ouly thiil our heroes "Fought 1 ;e l.r.ve uicu, Imrj and v.\!i.' but also, thut ti u r glue u.s cause th y fill. Ibis aloue cau rob the Word Rebel of its oduiiu, when applied to us, and place ti e people of the South, in the ranks, of'those who have b^en foun 1 ready and willing to lay the full, unstinted offering of their all, at the shrine of their devo lion to principle. And to do tili-?, let us inscribe in characters of living light, ami lift nrxin nyf f.??-???.. our :::::;::; tains, the only safeguard which tin- I South htia ever been willing to throw ! about her liberties?tho only demand she bus ever been arrogant enough to make ? the ouly crime of which she ha ever been guilty?and all these are embraced, in devotion to the Constitu tion of our Fathers* If that be treason, then were tho people of the South, truitorr*?if that be rebellion, then, were people of the South, rebels. But. if that be treasou, then putriot'iMn is no longer, eloquent?than virtue, itself, i* uo longer, eloquent. If it be not treason, then do we pro test, with nil the power of outraged innocence, against that verdict, which hinds the names of our Jackson and our ?Johnsen and our Lee, in the same cat it logue with the bla eke tied names of th m who have lifted in rderuus baud to Mo io their country's heart. Traitors ! such us diese, the names of traitors?deeds like theirs, the deeds, of traitors?virtues like theirs, the virtue** of traitors?nucrifico.1 like theirs, the oAuings of traitors?the noblc.-t, purest, grandest R< uiuus, of them all. traitors ! Shame! tdinme ! uluioat enough, njethink**, to render the bones of Wash iiigtou, uneasy in the grave. Oh ! thut the true luauho d of tin North, could but rise, iu its majesty, high above its passions and its prejutdi ccs, and in a spirit of true mug uaiiimi ty and greatness, join in swelling tho voice of the South, as, even in her deso lation, she hurls back the charge oi | tn aaou from her sous, and b iws her head in gri-f, above her martyred de id, I to lift n prayer, to lleavou? ??My children. Father, thy forgiveness need ; Alas! their hearts have only piaoe tor tears! Pcrgive them, Father, e\ery wrongful deed And cv'ry sin of those four bloody years, And givti them strength to bear their bound less 1o?8, And from their beard take every thought of hale And while they climb their Calvary, with their cross Oh! help them. Father, to endure ita weight Forgive my tons?lhay know not whit they do? Forgive tlioin all the tears they made me shed ; Forgive them, though my noblest sous thoy sli'W, And hle.?-a them, though they carse my poor, ? lear dead ! ! But, until tlic passions and prejudices, etilen.lere I by unr fratricidal strife, shall have been softened and purified by the balancing agencies of time, this can not bo. And yet, to hasten the consummation of this grand moral triumph, there uro solemn duties devolving upon the North and npnii thu SoutVt?duties, which it were again fratricidal to ignore, and worse than idiotic to neglect. Every principal of humanity and every Bcutiuieut of fraternity demand moderation, and justice and tusgnuiui mity, on the. part of the victorious North, and every consideration of common scu^e and of reason and of interest dem-iud the severest xereise of prud ??nee and forbearance and patience, on the part .if the vanquished South. True greatness, on the one hand ? true wisdom, on the other. And let these but uu'le. and work together iu harmony of purpose, under the Const it u tion and the flag, of our Fathers, and nations may well look in woder, upon he structure they shall rear. ilud tluse agencies, been 'brown into the breach, when the last battle was end. d. the animosities of the B'.rife should have long since hern assuaged, and cite an^cl of desolation, would have l?ui^r since reaped to hold l.er carnival, among the ruin.- of mir 1 iiid. But, although, pcrh tps, no people have ever l ad so graud an npport' nitJT, for the display of these high impulses, which elevate und render human nature glorious, yet. none, perhaps, ha~e ever fallen so far short, of.a just appreciation ol it, us have the people of the North. Aud this assertion is hot tha oTipi'ing of prejudice, or of animosity, towards that people, but of conviction, founded on the ti.istken policy pursued by thorn, towards th ? Rou'.h, r'af l><; it, fro ii my purpose to n't.* one 5C"ti:neiit, which sli >ll lend lo kind lu againj feelings ol bitterness, between the se.tions, of our Country. Hither, far, be it our province, to hod up those ghtstly no nils which h re been tor i by unscrupulous hands, iuto the very heart of our Union. But, this stricken laud, ofour?, has many grievances, and it were folly, in deed, for u* to remain silent, and expect thoir causes In vanish, like a cluit 1 IV uu the face of the sun, and leave us agiin. a brighter laud. i iiey must he removed by our own exertion, and it is only by ci'tn, deliber ate and generous discussion, thai thi< can be accomplish ? 1. If those em. auce on the heritage wo leave thuiu, and to secure this, we must uot o inceal, but, eradicato the vory roots of til Heciuso.s which have heaped calamities upon us. The fostering sores of this age, must not be healed, on the surface onlj, while tho poison, on which (hey feed; is left to canker ..tri rankle, iu the huurls ofour children's children, as they rise up, >u their woe, to curse us, for our fully. And now, upon what arc the griov unccs of the South, founded ? Iu the first placo, I shall venture the assertion, and allow it, without debate, to rest, ou its own merits, that the South was not responsible for the existence of slavery on this Coutiuont. Even, then, if tho war was waged, on the one baud, to abolish, aad on the other to perpetuate slavery, t^fl, the South, not being respousiblc for the one, cannot be charged, with tho responsibili ty, for the other, with all its terrible results. H it, I shall take the bold ground that such was not tho object of the war, either in the one caseyor tho other. Slavery Jwas not, as is the o.?tn moo opinion, the causu of the War, but the popular pretext for it Can we believe that that wir would not have been waue 1 against thn, > we iidor d '.t not. It- ,!< rieb on the <>nc hau l, will ey< ;? r main the common heritage of (he Nertb i.tid of the South, its shame on on the ntl er bei ngs not to the South. I The hi ttnry of* the former has ultcady I been written, that of the latter must be i loft to the coming historian, who shall I be able, with unbiased mind, to tell the ; story of the mighty struggle of the ? South, for constitutional freedom, and 1 ol the North for political supremacy. With him the vindication of the 1 S?rth may safely rest. Hut there is something wlnoli we cannot leave with him alone, and that the memory of our dead. This at least is the peculiar heritage 1 of the South: Here at least no dastard 1 hand can ris wintry hl ist, and buried under the frosts and the snow. Now nnd then suns moons and stars glitter and glimmer, and gleam in all their wonted splendor and loveliness, only perhaps to intensify the gloom, when a pall rises from tho politi cal horizon, to blot them from the sky. And yet in that very gloom there is life, there is light, there is beauty, aye, there is glory there. Let but one little spark of life remain, nud one little ray of hope will linger with it. Let but ooe little star, peep through a rift in the clouds and we are ready to exehvm, how beautiful! Bus let the full splend rs of Orion's bands surround it aud none will be so poor in do it rove. jnoj. The very clouds that overshadow the earth, do hut heighten the glories of the skies while they are bearing life and strcugth, and beauty to the flowers. And what shall we learn from such lessons as those which have been left by history aud by naturo for our guidance) and iustructiun '{ Above all lespair not. However deep the glaom that surround*, us let us remember that other sun's than that of the South have gone doom in gloom, and yet cuiuc forth again in glory, that other peoples than ours, havo been bowed down in woe and yet come forth again to rejoice. -. mi i ?, ? Oh ! la ui labor to P?rgeMhj bitter ness nnd forgive the wrongs of the pa?t to overlook, even the injuries of the present, and with patience reach forward to the glories of that day, wheat ihs returning reason of the North, shall tear down the barrers which now divide our Country, as with hand ?j-ton .lei accross the chasm, she shouts in tones which sha'l shake the World, traitors aud rebels no more I Americans, froemeo 1 all! away, away, ye powers of darkutws, which hare desecrated the temple of our freedom aud atai.ied it with fraternal blood! away, away ! the spirits of our Fathers, command you awaj I Oh there is life in the "Old Land," yet. Our mo no tains, and our valleys, our forests, our plains uud our streams, are teeming with wealth and power, aud they are waiting only for those strong arms,and ready hsjt-ds, which shall some day come, to build up the waste places ot our sunny laud, aud make them once again to bloom as tbe rose. Oh ! then let us hope on, hoping ever, with our eyes upon the prise. The road's exceeding long, that never tarns, And Vesta's fire still on the altar burns Hope en?forever those sacred fires shall wave As things should b ?, so shall th?j be again. Aye, even now, there is a rift in the clouds?the master-spirits, of the North have at lost turned their broosts to the storm, whi-jh has so long beaten upon tho South, and ere long, the two sections of our land, shall see each other jo more, "through a glass darkly," but in the broad sunlight of the open day, animated by one grand impulse, stand shoulder, to shoulder, to work ont to* gether the glories of a common dcitiny. Then shall we feel indeed thet. This is the land of the pool's song, The patriot's proudest theme. Then indeed shall we make a new soug of glory, and send it sounding down the ages, to make glad the hearts of our children's children, as they rise up, with rejoicing, to bless us for onr wisdom?and ah! me thinks the very stai? themselves will take up the swell* ing aotes of our refrain and boar them still onward and upward, to the spirits of our heroes in the only brighter Und. A Quod Si-kllk*.?A Michigan schoolmaster aayt( "I still spell any man, wonmo or child in tho hull Stare for a dickshuoary, or kaah pries of one hundred dollars aside, the money to be awarded by a kommittc of clergymen or sknol directors. There has boeu a darn* ed sight blown about my speliiu; oow I want them to put lue up Xtx to shet up. I wont be put down by a pa?a