l hatred hang over them like
the malaria of their own rice lowlands, so long South Carolina
will be a prostrate State, crying for sympathy and help. Let us
trust that the time has come for the people to help themselves,
and in doing so, raise their Commonwealth to a pinacle of
grandeur and prosperity such as even its proud history has never
known.

"REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLE" AND THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT

The burden of the song of the Chamberlain Ring and their organs
is that the integrity of "the party" is of more consequence than
honest government, and that any Republican who votes for Green
and Delaney is a traitor to the Republican party and false to
Republican principles. In all humility we beg leave to suggest
that the persons who are candidates for office in the interest of
a corrupt Ring, and the few newspapers which live and move and
have their being by and in that Ring, are hardly the
disinterested and unselfish counsellors that they claim to be. It
is safer to go outside of the charmed circle, and ascertain what
is advised by Republicans whose honesty is as great as their
integrity, who were Republicans when Democracy was in the
ascendant, and who are as true now to Republicanism as they were
while slavery existed and most of the South Carolina white
Republicans were red-hot Democrats in the South or obscure
demagogues in the North. Their opinions are entitled to weight,
and for that reason they are carefully excluded from the columns
of the organs of the Chamberlain Ring. It is in our power,
however, to lay these opinions before the public, and we mean to
do it.

1. _The New York Times_ is known everywhere as a powerful
Republican newspaper; it advocates Republican principles in
season and out of season. This paper heartily approves of the
Independent Republican movement, and says that, whatever may be
the immediate result, "The final effect cannot be good." It says,
further, that, in the organization of the Independent Republican
movement, the colored people have made "a long step forward."

2. _The New York Evening Post_, a Republican newspaper which
circulates among the upper-ten, declares that "the political
signs from South Carolina are favorable"; and that it has very
gratifying assurances that "the col