_The Warning_
If there be anything wanting to the argument we have persistently
urged upon the Republicans of this State, it is contained in the
following extract from an editorial in _The New York Times_,
General Grant's especial organ. In speaking of what General Grant
has said about South Carolina, the _Times_ says: "He (General
Grant) further added that unless a true reform was begun at once
in South Carolina, the Republican party would this fall repudiate
the so-called Republicans of the State. In fact, this is what the
Republicans of the North have already done. The Triumph of Moses
and his gang would be only the triumph of corruption, and that
the people of this country will not stand.
If we do not heed this warning in time, there will not be enough
left of our organization next year to make a respectable ward
meeting. We cannot fight the Democrats here, General Grant and
the whole country beside. We cannot afford to commit political
suicide, and we are not going.