AUEN COFFIN, Editor. " t First the blade, tHen ;tlie ea,r, ?ft?r *h?t the full corn in.-..the ?ai\"-~Pati?. . f3?3 5 T. Kr e>3 !....' F01?E DOLLARS PER Vol. I: CHABLESTO??, SATURDAY BECEMB?H ?6f3358^ UravAint? III SOUTH SOOTH CAROLINA LEADER, PUBLISHED/OH; S?9^BBAT-S/, T. H?ELEY. & CO* Subscription Price :-Four Dollars a 3far, Inva riably in :..dvanc^. ^ rt ,A .. - 3 .. . Bates of Advertising: For one Square of Ten Lines, one insertion, $200; for each subsequent iosertioo, $1.00. ? liberal discount nia^c. to .yearly, half yearly, and quarterly a?r&ers ; A&erM>?eju conspicuously displayed by special agreement. POETRY. A RHYME F*>K THE PEOPLE* ^ CTTK a man his FRKETJO?, - .'? And tl.cn withhold Iiis RIGHTS ! T Ti.at*? a kin?! ot' Liberty Tuat wouldn't ?io for ty bites. ?"T > wc.I enough for Niters," Tl e si ame ess 'oiric reads : . _.\ow out upoii such sophistries, Mich anti-human creeds? rV.TUS-For Ys hlac't hand and white-hand Anti God made hoth-r . - . And the 1 ana that holds a-musket ls tit to hold a vote ; Tuev'vc he'?eil us conquer Treason, An i take it hy thc V nutt; An : the "and that !:o -is a musket ls tit to ho d a vote. Tl orr\-e : "raed t'ie?r h?ood iiVc water '?crsave fchc *x>tt:tfry*$-cause: < ^ - -? * \\{ vi t/rev WeVrcarne-? tire ngh* ' To'iie'p us mast th'e/Urwsi! For h;ow5 they've l*v ?s?t lis 0. ess. ag; j *..?.*? r. a:: for scar?*, v /?. t ns the . eart>m.ria*r, . "..> AI ?'. stairs I . . , ?? _.\ ?..':- ii . aa i a: i Vv'.te a::*!,etc. Thc sw? wt na : t;> : 0 aj?es j ts r tc r ..u>ky 1 ivw- i o , ; rot!-<.:>. *. et our . earls : t ?trytig Tu..o ?:.c:;:.jtM cc now ! j T > a : ti.cy KS! K>-?UH te !- j The .-itere ! : > r> o a!.: .- j . So o' a- w take .!.'-:' e tar y ri aaec To - o t.*c i ?. .-t wc ca ! - j Chora>-;? r'iis ?hack hand and-while ??nd,*iJc. j Tire:: herc's a r nek and white 1 ?'?C stiil'ra?;e o: the Free ! C.ioni$--For 'tis Mac*; hand aad wli.tc hand Ami (io?! a a-:C I Oth An ! the hand t;at ho hs a musket ls hr to ho d a vote : They've helped us conquer Treason, And take it Uv the taroat ; And t!ic hand that liok.s a musket Is ht "tO ho..i a vote. c. ?. M. - .1. 5. Standard. MISCELLANY. DESTINY OF AMERICA.-\Ve have been ac cused with setting up theputsutt of money, and following the acquisition of wealth, as the only thing worthy the attention of men ; of hi ing ex travagant and dissipated in public life, untrust worthy in pivate. That we are the devotees of gain, the scorners of all things inttdhetual. The last four years have Seih this epicurean people scattering th? ir wealth without stint; pouring out th- ir best blood like water, encoun tering fortune in public, and bereavements and sorrows in private, and exulting in the selt sacritices of the iriost grinding taxation ; ind "all for what ? And wt- would have encountered sacrifi?e* ten times, more sew-re for th.- >nke ed an idea. That idea is-that then s*hall be hut one great republic on this continent, whose grandeur should throw into eclipse even tra great ancient republics of Komi', and th?r w< should be sovereign among the powers of tia earth. That idea has been established. Wi have irresistible armies in the field. We have t r.avv, a march for thc combined navies of tht wot ld. What signifies the debt incurred bj these thmgs? Thc gold, the iron, the cotton, Coal, robacco, the oil. ?nd all the products that make us thc richest people on earth, will, soon fettle that. The idea ts being carried. The lion permits no rival in ;hc boundless forests which he selects for his home ; the eagle tolerates no companion in his Hight to the skies. So there can be no rival to this republic on the Amer can continent.-Prof. J. W. Draper-. DEATH OF TWO REPRESENTATIVE COLORED MEN.--Wc are pained lo announce that the rising Cause of coloreei-men rights has just lost twp of its ablest advocates. The first is Dr J. McCune Smith, of New York, one of the editors of the Anglo-African, and a writer and speaker of ability; whicit took place at Williamsburg, N. T., on Fri day last. The second is Capt. H. Ford Douglas. Of Cincinnati, an eloquent orator, and a brave and patriotic soldier, (who was in tho natioral service nearly the whole time of the rebellion,) which oc curred at Leavenworth, Kansas, ou Saturday morning weeV. Capt. Douglas lectured a few years ago in the Fraternity course in tins city. Boston Commonwealth. Atight-rcfpe dancer from Fishville, named T. H. Huntley, under twenty years of age; ?ost his life at Wilmington, N. C.. .On the 24th ult, while m the act of performing. He is said to have shown narvousness and self-distrust, yet persevered,-and When nearly across upon the rope the unhappy youth fell, and was terribly ?uitiated, dying immediately. fi;S experience was unequal in his undertaking. FKOM TH? PRESIDENT S MS SAGE. - Fellotc Citizens of the Senatt and House Representatives : To exp!ess gratitude to God, the name of the people, for the preservation the United States, is my first duty ir addressi you. Our thoughts next revert tb the death the late President by an act bf parricidal tn son. The grief of the nation is still, fresh; finds some solace in the consideration that lived to enjoy the highest proofs of its con dence by entering on the renewed term of t Chi-, f Magistracy, to which he had been electe that he brouy.hr the civil war substantially to lose ; that his loss was deplored in all parts the Union; ana that foreign nations have re dered janice to hi? memory. Iiis removal ct upon me a heavier weight of cares than ev j devolved upon any one of his predecessors. 1 fulfil my trust 1 need the support and con; l.dence ot ali who are associated with me in tl .various departments of government, and tl support and confidence of the people. There bur ene way in which I can hope to gain the mcessary aid; it is-to stat? with frank ne the principle? which guide my conduct, an ttn-ir application to the present state of affair well au are that the efficiency of my labors wil in a ?real measuie, depend on your and the undi vide? appiobaticn. Tl.*- Union of these United States of Amer ca was intended to last as long as the Statt ?hi mst Ives shall last. .?The Union shali b perpetual,*' are the words ?d' the Confederar toi ..To torm a more peifect Union." by an oid nance of the people ?.f the United States, is th dti lar. (i purpose ot the Constitution. Th hand ot divine Providence was never inor plain!} vi-ible than in the framing and adopt inj* ot Oral lustrun.eut. Tin fuji asset lion ot the powers of the Gen ?.rai Gov. rum? nf r- quires the holding of Circu? Couits ot the United Statis within the district where tin ir authority ha> been interrupted. Ii th? niesen' posture ot our public ciff.:ii>. strong oijcc'ions have been urgid *o the rnddini ot ttn se courts in any of the State ?hile the reb*Tli??n has exi>ted ; and i l as h> en ascertained, on enquiry, tha the Cu cuit Uoutt ?d' the United States wuui< ? not he h?ld within the district of Virginia dur j Sus? the autumn ot' carly winter, nor until Con !?ress should hav . .? an opportunity to considv land act on the whole suhle." T?> your deli j b' rations the restoration of this branch of th civil auttoorit.y of the United States is thee torc, necessarily n-ferred, with the hope thu cat ly provision wiH be made for the resumptioi of ?W \'s t?h'cti?ns. It is manifest that treason most flagrant in character, has been committed Persons who are charged wiih its commissioi should have fair and impartial trials in thi highest 'civil tiib'unals of the country, ih'ordw i that the tfonsiitution and the laws mav bc dill j vindicated ; the truth clearly established anc i * ?affirmed that treason is a crime, that traitor should be punished and the often ce made infa j tr.ous; and. ar tr.v same time, that the questior may he judicially settled, finally and forever that no S'ate, of its own will, has the right ti renounce its place in the Union. The relations of the General Government to wards the four millhons of inhabitants whom the war hhs called into freedom have engaged j nr.y most serious consideration. On the propri ety ?>f attempting; to rrmke the freedmen elect ors hy the proclamation of the Executive, I took for my counsel the Constitution itself, the interpr?tations of that instrument by HS f.U thors and their contemporaries, and recent leg's inthm by Congress; When, after die Erst move: j ment towards independence, the Congress of J the United States instructed the several States . to instate governments of their own, they left ? j to each State to decide for itself the conditions I for the enjoyment of rhe elective franchise. Dur 1 J the exigence of the Confederacy there coritittu I t d ro exist a ver.V great diversity in the quaiiri: I cations of electors in the several S'ates; and ?even within a Sta'e a distinction of qua'.i?ea ! tiot?s prevailed wirh regard to ihe officers who I were to be chosen. The Constitution of thi United States recognizes these diversities when lit enjoins, in the choice of members of the ! House of Representatives of the United State?, j the electors in each State shall have the Qua lifications irtquisite for electors of the most i numerous branch of the State Legislature." After the formation of the Constitution-, if re mained, as before, the uniform usage of each State to enlarge the body of its electors, ac cording to its judgment ; and, under this sys tem, one State, after another, has proceed?d to increase the number of its electors, until now universal suffrage, or something; very'near if, is. the general rule. So fixed was this reservation of potter ih the habits of the people, and so unquestioned has been the interpretation of the Constitution, that, during the civil war, the late, President never harbored the purpose^ J certainly never avowed the purpose - ot dis regarding it ; and in the acts of Congress dur ing that period, nothing can be found which'. ; during the continuance of hostilities, much less after their closf, would .have sanctioned any de-, pa rt ure by the Executive from a policy which has so uniformly crbtaine'd.: Moreover, a con cession of the elective franchise to t?'e freedmen by the ?ct of the President of the United States must have been extended to all coiored. men, wherever found, and so must, have established a. change of suffrage in the Western, Middle, and. Northern States, not less than in the Southern and South-A^estirn, Such an act Woulc created a new blass of voters, ajad wouk been an assumption of power by tMe P'rei which nothing in tile Constitution br U the United States wbdid have warranted the other hand1 every danger of conti avoided when the settlement of the quest referred to the several States. They ca-n, for itself, decide pn the measure^and whet is to be td opted at once and absolute! introduced gradually and with condition.' my opinion the freedmen, if they show pa and manly virtues, will sooner (xbt?in a p? pu rion of the elective franchise thi the Stares thari throUgi! the Ge Government, even if it had pbwe intervene. When the tumult of emotions had been raised by the suddenness of the ? change shall have subsided, it may prove they will receive the kindliest usage f'om ?f those on whom they have heretofore closely depended. But, while I have no doubt that now, the close of the wat, it is not competent fa General Government to extend the eic franchise in the several States, it is eqi clear that ?ood faith requires the security o rreeduien in th; ir liberty and their prop their right to labor and their right to claim just return of their labdr. -I cair'h^rt<)'^s'Tr& uige the disjxassirmaffr treatment of this feet; which should carefully be kept ? from all party stnfe. \Ve must equally a all hasty assumption of* thb natural tmfposib for the two races to live side by side iii a s ot mutual btnefit and good will. The exj ment involves us iii no inconsistency. Let iht-n, go forward and make that 'ex per i men good faith, and no< be easily dislieurtened. country.is-in need of labor, and the freed ire in need of employment, culture, and pre fcfon. While their ruiht of volunrarv migra and eipata laiiou is not to be qtftstionei would not advice ihtir forced removal.and ?mzati?ti. Let us rather encourage them honorable and useful industry, where it ma) beiitifici?i to ihemsilves and to the count and, instead ot ha>ty anticipations of certainty of their-i'aitaie, let there be thing uHitting to the fair trial of the exp nient. Tue chance in their condition is .substitution ot labor by contract ter the stu of slavery. The freedman ban hitit lat? ly be cosed ot unwillingness*- to woik, so longs doubt remains about his freedom of ehoici las pursuits, and the-Certainty of his recover his stipulated wages. In this tn? ingres ts pf employer and the employed coincide. The t ployer desires in his workmen spirit and alai ty, and these can be permanently secured in other way. And if the one ought to be able enforce the contract, so ought the other. 1 public interest w ill be best promoted, if the S' eral State? will provide adequate protection a remedies for the freedmen. Until this is, some way, accomplished; there is no chance the advantageous use of their labor; and t blame ot ill-success will not rest on them. I know that sincere philaiithjophy.is e?rr?i for the immediate realization of its lemon aims ; but time is always an element ia refur It is one of the greatest acts on record lo ha Drought four millions of people into freedo! The ca ree r d!" fre? i?/d?stry must be fairly op to tin rn; and then their iuture pro.-peiity.aj condition must, after all, rest mainly on ther selves. If they fail, and so perish av*ay, let be careful that the failure'shalt nut be attribu able to any denial of justice. In all that rt lat to the destiny of the freedmen, we need noe I to? anxiou> to read the future; many inciden \vhich from a speculative point' of view, mig raise alarm., will (?uietly settle themselves. Now that slavery is : at ?n end, or near i end, the greatness ot"'?its evil, in the point view of public economy, becomes more ari more apparent. Slavery was essentially a trio! bpoly of labor? and as such locked the Stat'i where it prevailed against the Incoming of fr< industry. Where labor was the property .of tl: capitalist, t??e white rr?an wis excluded Tfbi employment, or had but the second best chane ot rinding it ; and the toreign emigrant turne away from the region where his conditio would be so precarious. With the'destructio j of the monopoly, fr< ? la?or will hasten from a i part? of (he civilized world to assist Ul develop :ing various ?nd immeasurable resources whie have hitherto lain dormant. The eight or nin States nearer the Gulf of Mexico have ? soil c exhuberant.fertiliity, a climate friendly *b lon: Ute, and caa sustain.a-dtosei-population than i found as yet in any part of our country. -Ant the future influx of population to them will h mainly from the North, or Ijom the most culti vated nations in Europe. Prom the suffering? t?at have attended thtm during our late str?g gie, let us look away to the future, which i.< sure to be laden for.them with greater prosper ity. than, has ever before beer, known; The re moval of the monopoly of slave labor is a pledge that those regious will be peop?ed b^ a ndmer ??ls ?rid enterprising pcpuIationV.which will .vie with any in the Unionin compactness, invent ive genius,, wealth, and industiy. Our Government springs from and wes m?de for the people-not the people for the Govern merit. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must def i ve its courage, ?trengtn; and wisdom'. But, whif? the. (rovernment is thus bound to defer to th'e^ people, from whom it derives its ex istence, it . should, from the very consideration of its origin, be strong in its power of resistance to the establishment pi ine.^ualt? 7 perpetuities, and class legislation* ar^cantrar the genius of free government. ar?-Wfit not cUovxd. Herethere is-na. room far fevered, cl j es or monopolies, the principle of our Gorma is that of equal laxes and freedom of indus j Wherever d monopoly Wains a foothold, it ?:*. to *e a source of danger, d&cofrl, and trouble. '?hall but f?lfi! our nuties as legislators by cording " equal and exact justice to all me special privileges to none. The t?overntner subordinate to the people ; but, as the a:g and representative of the people, it must birt superior'to monopolies, which, in themed* ought never ro be granted; and which, wr they exist, must be subordinate anet yield to Government. *. ' ? ' -The Constitution r/onfers on' Congress right to regulate commerce among the sev* States. It is of the first necessity, for the ma tenance of the Union, that that commence sho be free and unobstructed. "No State can justified in any device to tax the transit of tra and co.nmerce between States. .Thepositior many States are such that, if they were allov to take advantage of it for purposes of lo revenue', the commerce between States might injuriously burdened, or even virtually prohi ted. It is best, while the country is still yous and while the tendency to dangerous mono| .ties of this kind is still feeble, to use the pov of Congress so as to prevent any selfish impe> ment to the free circulation of men and merchi dise. A tax on travel and merchandise, in th transit, constitutes one or the worst forms monopoly, and the evil is increased if conp! with a denial of the choice of route. When 1 vast extent of our country is considered, it pirti? that every obstacle to the free circulation commerce between the -States ought to be sten gaamed against by appropriate legislation,, wi in the limits of the Constitution. The lamenta] events ot the last ?ur years; aiid the sacrifie made by the gallant men of Our Army and ? vy, have s wei I ed the. rot ords of Ute Pei-sion ? reuutuan uiipiX'Ce,dented extent. On the 3( day of June last the total number of pensione was 85,986, requiring for their annual pi exclusive of expenses, the suta of $8,023,4 Tnc number of applications that Juive been lowed since that date will require a large iucres of luis amount tor the next fiscal year. T means for the payment of the stipends due, u der existing laws, io our disabled soldiers ai sailors, and to the families of such as have pc ished in the service of fcif? country, will no dou be cheerfully and promptly granted. A giatef people will not hesitate, to sanctum any measur having for their object the relief of soldiers m tilatcd and familie s made fatherless in the effo to preserve Our national existence. . . When, on the organization of our Goveri ment, under the Constitution, the President the United States delivered his. inaugural a< dress to the two Houses of Congress, he said I them, and, through them, to the country and l mankind, that " the preservation of the sacr'c fire of liberty ahd the destiny of the republics model oif government aire justly considered i deeply, perhaps as finally, staked in the exper I ment intrusted to the American people." An j the House of Representatives answered VVasl I ingi?h; throiigh the voice of Madison \ adore the invisible hand which lias led tr j American people through so many difiicultie to cherish a conscious responsibility for th destiny, of republican liberty." More tba j seventj-six years have glided away since the? j words were spoken ; the United States ha\ ?passed through severer trials'than were for? [seen ; and now; at this new epoch in our exisl j ehce as ohe nation, with bur Union purified b i sorrows and strengthened bj'-conflict, and es I tablished by the vii tue bf the people; thegre?t j ness of the occasion invites us once inore; wit ! solemnity, to repeat the pledges of our rather j tb hold ouselyes answerable "before our fellow ! men Fpr "the success bf the republican form c government. Experience has proven its suffi i cien cy Tn peace and in wat; it has vindicate jits authority through dangers and afflictions am js?dden and dangerous emergencies, . whicl j would have.crushed any system, less firmly fixe< j in the heart of the people; . . THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE DISTRICT o? j COLUMBIA. - There are now in operation ir ! Washington City twenty-five colored schools j with nfty-m?e' teachers, and thirty-two pupils; ( in Georgetown t?ere ?r? fo?r schools, with 383 ?pupils; in Alexandria ?0 schools, with4 ? i pupils ; and in the. fieedmen's: .village or I Arlington Hights two schools.: with 302 pupils, j All of these schools are in a flourishing condi ; tion, and are supported by' the voluntary cort? j.tributions of Northern benevolent societies. ?The City Council has passed an ordinance pro j viding that in the event of a bill being intro jduced in Congress for.the admission of the j colored men cf that c?y. to the right of suf. . frage? a special election shall be held to ascer I tain the sentiments of the people on the sub Ijeer. VTe thin.k Congress; had better take the. j management of this, semi-rebe???ous and' contu j macious city into its own hands. CongfessiOn ?al administration of its affiirs cannot be worse : than how.-Commonwealth. h - ? i.- - - . . An expcriencecl southern planter who has tried the experiment of paying cash to the negroes for their labor, says ;,it works like a charm*." An other man says : -'They won't work-(hey won't work-unless .you pay 'them cash every "four ; weeks'!*' ; . ; MORRIS ISLAND, S. C.,* - DEC. 10, 1865. T)?i? LEADER : It !s with much pride and 'gre?t'compl?cency that I send you' the enclosed .Resolutions of the l?gislature of my glorious old State {of Vermont), and which were unani mously adopted at their late session.' t cannot in th?9 connection refrain from ' noticing; that colored men have always voted in Vermont, without detriment to trie interest of the com monwealth ; and when some years since a thief Of the " divine institution" essayed to capture and claim Ms property" [in man] the judge be fore whom the case was brought informed the ciaimant'that if he could "show him a bill of sale from God Almighty, you can have the man; otherwise he is free* and a mari for a" that ! She is the onl}; one of the "original thirteen" States, out what held slaves. " They touch her soils And thvir shackles fall ! " . I wonld advisetne Commission, soon to pro ceed to Washington, to make the acquaintance of the noble men from Vt., who grace, in their legislative capacity, the national halls. las sure the Commission they will meet with a cor dial reception.-Yours &c, . L. S. LANGLEY, Sergt. Major, 33rd. tl. S. C. 1. Joint Resolutions tn relation to the recon r? 6 true tion of the States recently in rebellion agaiust the United States. "Resolved, That it is the sense cf trie (reneral Assembly of this State, that in the reconstruc tion of the Governments of the States-,ietely tn . Rebellion .against the government ?and author ity of the United States, the moral power and legal authority vested in the 'Federal ?overn- ' ment shoujfi be exercised to secure equal rights without respect to color, to all citizens residing in those States, including herein the right of elective franchise. Resolved, That the Secretary.of State is hereby instructed to transmit a copy of these rospl u tion s .to the Pres iden t.of,tJjte United States; arid also a copy to each of our Senators and Representa tatives in Congress, who are hereby requested ' to present the same" to both Houses in Con- ' gress.- ?*"." . '??* . _ ? i j ? 1 ' ABOUT NEGRO I???RRECTIONS. Felix Grundy of Tennessee Once wisely re marked, that the way to ensure the peace of a state is so to legislate-as to make it to thc inter est of all its honest inhabitants to keepuhe peace'. Secure the rights of all, he said, and all will support and maintain the laws. Those people in Louisiana and elsewhere who are fearful of. a negro insurrection: will do: welL to . bear in mind this speech of a Southern mah,: Mn ch has been said about the recent.out break in Jamaica, ami people speak as though negro insurrections were new there, and had only occurred since the .blacks became free- ' Bot the facts are otherwise; While slavery ex - ist eds m Jamaica there was a constant insurrec tion there. For forty years the maroons? mu tinous and fugitive slaves, held the mountain fastness, of the bland, and carried on a war with tht whites* and the government was at last forced to make a treaty of peace with them. In 17G0, in 1795, and in 1832 there were special and formidable insurrections of thc slaves, sub dued with great difficulty. But when freedom was dcclaied these insurrections ceased, and from the year 1S33, when thc slaves of Jamaica wtre set free, to the last month, lhere has been 4 no ou break. Thus merely frei-ing the slaves was the most : effective ?F peace measures. But the oppression of th? ; . p.'Ci class continued, and lasts this day, t riiowed, in part, a few days ago. The form of government is ingeniously adapted to encourage this class oppression in an island where the blacks are,io the whites as forty to one; where, in fact, they are almost the whole 1 of." the people." . The governor is appointed by tiie .Crown, and is paid a salary of ??,0.00, of which ?.1^500 is paid by the island and, the remainder by. the British Government. The Privy Council? or Cabinet, is appointed by, the Governor. Th? Legislative Council of seventeen members forms the upper house of the colonial legislature, and is also appointed by-the Governor. The par ishes are also presided over by a -magistrate called a ckstos roHtfcrum, who is appointed bv the Governor' for life. The only branch of the - Government in which the people bay?, any voice whatever is the lower branch Of the legis-' latujie, which consists Of two.members elected from each parish, with an. additional one for . Spanish Town, Kingston, and Port Royal, .making forty-seven; in aft:; Th ese; are elected by: freeholders of the ann upvalue of six poundi rental, which redueea-the entire number of vot ers on the island to three thousand* .-or-, one in one hundred and thirty of the population, -j * No white man,' speaking the English lan guage, standing in the same relations to a small minority bf wealthy aristocrats, would have borne this 6tate of ifiinf? as patiently .as these Jamaica Negroes'have.-^V. Y. M?ft;To?Tribs, w?o has been 'concealed . Tor^rhoritl?? m ?He of tft? : :*djat^f^?ttht?esj has1 ?'? eluded his pursuers, esci?*cd aer?se the'eosriTry. and made his safe ?sit from' the pon-?r?Kew~ O?eans for ' foreign |teri$.c ..: . U v>i : . r Siffig ..h:"*':i? ~; . -.? ? pm -'^?'}* j fcc j The whow?ivi?i?? world ?owraee?? torba troubled with the ?ervant question, ^wrikall weget^ood aervanfcs,, and. how ahaH...W* fcaer? them? are the ino[airie* that are. being ^iscusaed -* too often in vaia-in thousands-,?fhouae holds not only in Botton and ?jew Xork^^t in London, Paris, Tiering and Berlin... itfc?pr ow? cities nov teilHa?*- reformatory ;rc>^e* have been initiated? and we are obliged, aa crur late President said of the. prosecution of.the war at.a very d:srnal period, j- to keep, pegging; away " in thfc old unsatisfactory style. Oati c otherside of.the w*ter relief ha* been; sought in a new agency, which pledgee itseif to furajsh rlrst-class servants of any special qualincauoiis which may be required. Bat it is another thing to keep them after younger them, for even "an endless* chain" .of - first-class servants through one'* house would not bc a.desirable? result, ; -. j* . > . v In thia stage of the general question, thc State Df South Carolina, having disposed of the lit tle matter of secession, comes forward as an in structive law-giver ou the subject pf the entira relations and management of servants. That State never does anything by. halves, and the :ode to which; we refer,'passed rsceatly by her Legislature, is a .moral of thoroughness., which aught to have ? good moral effect, atJ.eastr: on. ill servants. In the first place, tji:rc must I regular contract between master un,J servant with tlie wages to be fixed, .oa application^ of the parties, by the district judge or magistrate\ There woulcf seem to be no need of .a certificate of character^ -for ths. law says J* the,-, servan th miist obey all lawful orders and be honeetv truthful, ; sober, civil, aud diligent." . Wfca* housholder in. Boston would not eheerfu?lv submit to an increase of even his present.taxes to sustain such a law as thac r\ Bat to guard against all possible shortcomings in practice., the law-makers of South Carolina add : M The master may moderately correct a servant under eighteen years of age. , . t .. . As to the specific duties of servants in South Carolina, it-is provided that, in the country, ''Servants must rise at dawn, feed, water," and care for the animals, etc., and begin regular work by sunrise/' Ia the city and in house holds the same general regulations prevail^so far as is applicable, with this modification : They must obey calls at all hours of the".day and night, on all days of the week ; and it is heir duty to be especially civil and polite' to. their masters, their families.'and their gu?s ts/r Tu case these ideal qualifications are not real ized in any particular case, the servant m^y ,-be discharged. -Bot (here agarin note tire vigilance of South Carolina for practical contingencies) ?? if the master does.no: wish to. discharge ?he servant he may co-n plain tu the judge, who maycause to' be infiictei? Ort the servant suit able corporeal puni>hrn^nt,.or impose fines.** But says thc reader, this is slavery." , Docs he not know that slavery ls abashed m South Carolina with the proviso that Congress s?railino* hereafter legislate for t!ie negro? S :iath 'Caro lina will take care of that. She wilt have' no more slaves but she will have u servants," ano we see above how she proposes to manage them< Qi vc her free rein for a few rears, and. wherein* ~wi li the new system fall behind thS old ia seven tv, in despotism,, in litter willfulness? The'nam? wiUdiave gone, but the thing will haye, revived, more hateful than ever. Weare inclined to think that South Car dina has been a little too hasty in her ambitious attempt to enlighten the, world on ^ie duties of servants, and that she will be taught that an amendment of the Constitution .of, the Drifted Stares must be respected to the last letter.' - Boston Journal. . RADICALS THE SAVI-.HTVS.-SH;,- The.Jladi-. cals originally awoke the nation ta the bin and , w ?,? j..; * tiffi evil of lavery. They have since kept it awaked and prepared , ir, in every stage, to.'contend against opp rt-s> j o a., r ..I.....?? f ?j. .. ~ , T . . . s . When President Lincoln doubted,* hesitated.* faltered. the v Radicals, under God, showed the' t^rajr, pushed him toward, and are the prime Source of.much of thc. renown with which' his name is now upborne. Who does not remember the. bitter times wherein Mr. Lmccin superseded *>9nTnt t?"^*id" everv other true man, in either branch of Con gf?ss-and' nptwithstandin? tho l*imt\ .. 'r i ) . z: .i".*-1