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mm mm ffttesw. ELECTION OF ?86S. fur 1>5?bsi?>ext : ULYSSES S. G KANT, Or-ILUNOIS. fos vtce-i'uesimbnt : RSUBEN E. FENTON, NEW YORK. : :. >??:. the decision of the Cu?oa Ee ii I\?tt;oita? Convention, to be ?ielu at Chicago 02 tile -'.{?h Cay o?' Muy next. ?; This Government is a Republic where the Will o? the People is &a Lawoftbe band." U. S. GRANT. OUR STATI-, TICKET. for goverxok : GEN. It. K. SCOTT. [ON. LEMUEL BOOZER . . i: i;.J7. & in81*. GENERAL: F. J. MOSES. 3 . . 1 . . . , :> ! . n I ? r i . ? F. i.. CAllDOZA. :: COM?'TROL?.KR . : Dr. j. L. NEAGLE. yt)?l f-: ?; si! i; E!? : N. G. PARKER. y<)'? ATTORNEY general : D. II. CHAMBERLAIN. for SUPT. OF Bl>UCA?I03? : .i. K. JILLSON. FOR COXG&?S332 S ? : ?. F. Whit?emore, First District, C. Bowen, Second " Corfey, Third " .;. H. Goss, Fourth " .V. M. Epping, At lar?e Elias DlxoUj " 7vatss to CHICAGO c05vkstiok . ). <\ W hiiteniore, ^ . Muses. Jr.. First District; . E ?%ue, 3 v s.. ) apt. Smalls, \ Second District, J. EL Jenks, j v. ( ;. ] *uncan, . M. Wilder, Th:i-I i/;.;ak. W. B. Nash, \ tti. Jl*. itOSC V. .1. P. Owens, Fourth District. \\ iison \ ->ok, j Alternates. iOR the general ASSEMBLY, Charleston ( bounty : D T. Cmrbix, R. U. Cain. ?ni'SK Ob' REJ'R E.S EN TATI V KS, R. < . DeUr-e, A. J. Reinster, Thomknsou, W. li. \V. t?iay, A. Losemon, (*eon?*e \ . F. Jackson, J. Ii. Je?ks. U'm. MeKinky, F. ?!. -es, Jr., W*. J. [>rodiu, J. >. He nui.:', A. Smith. J. . Wright, Win. Jer voy, S. Johnson, '. ?nwu, Edward Mickey. ' Tin: Ajoult?ration uf Woman.? A soioy correspondent uf the Louisville Coltriti' relatos the matrimonial experi - aw! ? 'fue "Verdaut (ireen.' a friend ! >? 1. !.. . Verdun! had lived an unsophisticated j life until he had reached tlie iij>e yjic of j ' ;e?ty-??tte. About that time a nehzh- | r of V s father employed :t governess i Ir??!?? \ \ met :.<?: -it r?ic- I ?. a;v? -1 ?? v,;*> tlie ?rst lady be evor I '.\lt COlllu Ltiuki: him tccl ;'.t eiiSC !M ! r <:\--w he fc*Iviolently inWe with ! c: 'l'y oashfulness; Tinder the sUL- i - . ? . ' V . ? t i i * aWi?V. .? .'. ere ? * 11 ^ ?.' ' ^ eoiisent .?? ; ?? -?:..'.' ?rcr "iiue^room. lm ? . i ? :rty stt>- . r ! :'t ?i Ci?iC?nnati In?- i : :;!? :? vT manya weary Hour the : uio;*iet-ttous moment in a man's ? k Hfbarnvod for Vrerdant. (hi \w>) j ?'??:? u^spiloda r>yrauad of skirts,, et c.: | a?d rat ili s.ivlc near tlie head of the :';? . suiuished eye of Verdant be- ! \: ' .-i .hi which froze his ? ]<"?<.1 with ! 1? Tv sr. i ?eso were . I .-e calve:>. false Ih < ??Ipitat^rs and false hair. In .?;?.!>!. r of water was a iu?? set of ?ecthj from another a jr?ass eye j .??;>{ ::i the bcvviidercd bridegroom, t?.fiv ioniche s?;M'd. Verdant knoweth a L?ut alter a-while a hollow and ! ?. ;e von e from under the bed clothes | 1 " . ? . ~. . i \ .. ' c:i i.A:i (}Ml> V\ hv d\>h \ von come to ]><? . clear ?" I ;iSo I would, hut, by heavens, i uhm* ; know whether to uct into bed or on the labio." t >on'? Marry.?For the benefit of j aff?r?ig Deniocrat?c humanity, we pro- j icsrth?ti the ecdored ladies throughout | he country. shall draw up and siuii a j fe-ir? that under no cireuinstaces will | '?.? marry a Democrat. As soon as iii? h m ."j nplishe^L the harrowing ?ear hnt now ?csc?uiets the souls of the Dem ?i & v.iii be destroyed, and they will ? no other argument to advance . vii > toc recopjnit?on of equal politi vi hen a Democrat has ex .?.T! ed all his other arguments against ?' equality, he always yells out, a:U you have ine to marry a uisger?" liie colored -iris, then, will a - - ever to marry a Democrat, we will izuo more oftniscry, and there will , - ie ci.t.ur less to talk about during: I r.ext poetic?i campaign.?AV - i SATURDAY, APRIL 11, ?S63. SALMAGUNDI. R; ?..!* '?'?! What shall" we write about ? Q?r btrul and hands are all full. The wide, wide world is heaving and surging around us wir!) the pulsations of a vigorous and ac tive life, and everybody and everything seems to be going it on the double-qnick in pursuit of some unattained, and perchance unattainable object in the dim if not distant future. The battle of life waxes warm, and he ihat wins must wear the heavy harness and wield the ponderous blade in the thick ; esr fight. Young America b^pfthe inside track, and old fogyi: en is distanced on the first round. The reign of blood and birth and caste is now limbered among the things that were, and brains and muscle are tbe only legiti mate heirs to the vacant throne. The world m??ves, and Jupiter, Mars nor ti.e Mercury can't stop it. We have lately passed through a revolution, and revolution means change. The late war lias not left tilings exactly as it found tliem, and the ante-war States of this country can never i be reestablished, however much some pec j pie may desire i*. Jefferson raid that a rev j olution was necessary every twenty years. ! War has its blessings, and necessary evils ! sometimes d*good. The amputation nf a ! limb is painful, but it sometimes saves the life of the palien*. Bitter medicines are often the most effective, and in order to cure if is sometimes necesiary to aggravate the disease. The fruits of war are not always manifest on the return ol* peace. The roll of the sea that follows the track of the tem pest is almost as dangerous to the ship as the violence o? the storm. But- our craft is safe?the banner of the stars?the flag of the free, still clutters at the masthead, and freighted, as we are, with the dearest inter ests of humanity, we will outride the storm and reach the port in safety. The din of arms is over, and the sulphu rous canopy has been lilted fron? tbc last bloody field. The cause of hurnani'y tri umphed, but the war of ideas and princi ples Still prevails. The arena has been changed from the battlefield to the hustings. The (>cn is mightier than the sword an<i ink instead of blood is now being shed. The marshaled hosts of freedom will soon meet at the ballot-box, and the contest will not long be doubtful, and the principles which the war established will be s ristai eel at the polls. To your tents, oh Israel ! Your | country needs your service*. Heed the cry and come to the rescue. To the front, every j man of you, and victory shall be yours. The eyes of the nation are upon you, and ? country expects every man to do his duty. Trust in God and keepyour powder dry. THOSE I FJE AL RADICALS. One of the sublimest sights that we can conceive of, is a squad of whiskey scented F. F. of S. C., seated around a grug^ry s ore at the midnight hour bewailing the condition of the starving people of this State the vietimi'of Radical tyrany, when perhaps I their own families at home have had to ?jo ! ! to bed at dark to sleep off the hunger and do not know where food is to come from to ; supply the demands of the starving little ! ones. We pnblish this week on our first page, a speech made iu the Constitutional Conven tion, by I>. H. Chamberlain, Esq., delegate from Berkely, on t he ordinance invalidating what, was koown as "negro bonds." We think the argument conclusive, and the speech worthy of admiration, alike for its torce, diction and logic. Mr. Chamberlain is the candidate of the Republicans for At torney General, and will do credit to any position to which the suffrages of Ids fellow citizens may assign him. ? ?>?*- ? STAND BY VOTR STATE TICKET. Let every vote lie oast, on the 1 Ith, l th, ?''?7h, and help make such a majority as no j State tod t ever had in South Carolina. We i have th> best men, the best cause, and, if I we will but do our duty on those days, we will send such a voie?; to the loyai people of i this country a : will tell them that South Car olina is with the party of progress, of Lib erty, of Justice and o? Law. No?v is tiie time, go to work and let the lines be advanced, bring honesty to the I front and send knar cry to the rear ; make the* men who are striving to use you, to get control of the loares and fishes as they term the n?/rfs: of tin's Slate, take back seats and 1er all shout "Get thee behind me Satan !" we are for Scott and our new Constitution. Under what Constitution do the men who lately met in Columbia, find the office of Supt. of Education '! Not ike new o?/?, as j thfjf do noi rec?jnize that ! !N?s it must be j the o?d one. MASS MEETING. Liberty Hall was crowded on Wednesday evening by the loyal men of Charleston, to listen to able speeches from Gen. Scott, Gen ! Curacy, Hon. .lohn . Mushington, W. .). ! Wbipper and others: after singing "Our flag J is there " the audience dispersed. Vistees of South Carolina your time has come to vindicate your manhood and to do your duty te your children, your country and vourselves, will vou do it. Let Th?rs day night answer we hear* See that your tickets have the name of Gen. R. K. Scott upon them, the next Gov ernor of South Carolina. ftt-:?ikm urn to go to the polls next week and vote for your Constitution and your State officers. let no man forget his duty on the I i;h loth and lOta. t The most important issue which has been presented to the people of South Carolina for the whole period of her existence asa Siate, is to bo tried on the ?4th l th and lGth days of the present month. Kef people will be called on to say at the hallot-box whether they accept in good faith the logi cal results of the late war. Th*y are now to say whether they were honest in faking the oath of allegiance to the United State? Government aft-er the surrender of Lee and Johnston, and mean to abide by the promise so sacredly and solemnly made then, or whether they took that oath with the men tal reservation to keep so much of it as should be agreeable to those ideas of the nature of the United States Government which produced the war and which the war was supposed to have exploded. They are now to say that the surrender meant a sur render of the theory of State Sovereignty taught by Southern politicians before the war: that the sui render meant an acquies cence in the doctrine that the United States are a nation whose sovereignty is in the national government, and not divided among thirty seven different local governments : or they are now to say that they cling still to the theories of Mr. Calhoun, and that no point which was supposed to be settled by the war, has really been decided. They are to say whether they will adopt and ratify a Constitution which is based on the doctrine of the equality of all men in political rights and thus secure for the State an organic law which shall be in conso nance with the. principles of the declaration of independence, or whet her they will re ject this Constitution and allow the State to remain for an indefinite period under mili tary rule. One of these alternatives must be accept ed, should the constitution fail of ratifica tion, showJd thi? people be blind enough to their .own interests to reject a constitution against the justice und equity of which no valid objection can prevail, a constitution which secures all to the citizens which any reasonable man can, in the right of past events, expect the common sence of the Con gress of the United States, the common sense of the great majority of the people of those portions of our country which haVe been untainted with the guilt of rebellion, will say that no rule but military rule is adapted to the state of things thus shown to exist in the State; and the national author ities will say and ordain that this people may wait still longer for restoration to their practical relations to the Union, wait, in deed, till returning reason and clearer sight will enable them to know th? ir true inter ests, and the just, and reasonable demands of the country are complied with. This is the issue. A government by our selves, for ourselves, with every local inter est guarded, with every national right and leyilhnatc Sf<tU right, secured, er a govern ment by the national arms, in which the will of one man is the law, and the life acd prop erty of all men at the disposal of military ' commission. Let no man cherish the 'nope that the Na tional Legislature, or the people who are behind the Legislature will waive one jot or tit tle of the system of safeguards to recon- ; st ruoti on which has been adopted. Even granting, what is very unlikely to happen, j namely, the election of a President and Congress who are opposed to the present, system of reconstruction, that Congress will never undo what has >>een done. No ('on i:r<?ss will take from the blacks the right to use the ballot,. No Congress will restore to these States, prior to t heir admission with jn the pale of the privileges of full national relations, the right regulate suffrage. ?he Congress of tue United States unques tionably had the right to carry on the war for the preservation of the life of the nation, ?i right inherant in the very nature of gov ernment itself, a right not requiring to be w lit ten in charter or statute, but one of which the nation could by no means dispos sess itself. If they had the right to strike the terrible blows which crushed the rebellion, if they had t he right to declare void and of no effect the so-called State Governments set up by rebellions hands in the South, then they clearly have the right to dictate and decide on what principles new and valid state gov ern medi s can be formed, the right to pre scribe such rules and regulations as hhall make the national victory effective and com plete. No constitutional power was ncces essary to defend the nation ; no constitution al provision is necessary to save from future dangers. The nation lives; therefore it has a right to live. It hasa right tolive ; there fore it has a right to take such steps as are in the wisdom of the Congress of the nation thought necessary to preserve its life. Away then with all quibbles and sophis tries about *.hc Constitutional regularity of the Reconstruction measures. The source of the power of Congress is higher than the Constitution. It is in the right of national existence. Give up bootless opposition and factious t waddle about oppression. Go and vote for the new Constitution, and preserve a record of the day of your vote, that your children may know when you contributed to the con summation of that work which shall re dound more to the fair fame of South Caro lina than any event in her history. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." To the voters then, throughout the State, it is only necessary to say, "be active, vigi lant and brave," in the approaching cam paign, do your whole duty, watch the ene my, stop your ears to their influences, keep your eyes on the Republican cause, and .cast your votes for the Constitution and jjh? Republican ticket. Colored men thin of this and vote right. "Our cause must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose bands are fiee, whose hearts are in the woik. who do care for the resuU." A. Lincoln. A A )| WIT?K)lJ REPBE?iNTA IS TYRANNY. 1 Hon. A. Burl complains that the new Con stitution provides that the pcrrsons who own the properly of the State shall pay alHhe taxes, and those who own no property ghalh have all the votes : in other words that the tax payers are rfwfranchised and the non-tax payers are enfranchised. Now, what are the facts? ?he new Con stitution disfranchises tke same classes as \ are disfranchised by the Reoonstrufetion acts and no more. The number of disfran chised persons in the State, who were for merly entitled to the right to vote and to hold office, can by no possibility exceed 3,000, and probably fal?s short of that figure. There are at least nine tenths of all the white men in the State on whom no disquali fication has been placed either by the acts of Congress or by the new Constitution. The d?sfranchisez?ent is the result of politi cal crime. The parties affected by it are those who would certainly be liable to be tried for their treason, had not the magna nimity of the National Government \vaived its clear prerogatives. They hold their prop erty [which was justly forfeited to the in jured nation] and they are protected in their personal rights. Their political rights alone have been taken away temporarily They have been allowed to print and talk in the spirit of treason, not merely during nos tili ties, but since they laid down arms and said they "accepted the situation." Now, it has never heretofore been thought insonsistent with the maxim at the head of this article, that the inmates of mad houses, jails aDd penitentiaries should be excluded from the right of suffrage. The convicts and unfortunates who dwell in those insti tutions do not elect their own representa tives, but since the community has been obliged to assume their guardianship and support, the community represents their interests in representing its own. So in this case these disfranchised parties h?ve by their own action been shown to be not only unsafe guardians of the public inter ests, unfaithful representatives of the will of the people, but unfit even to be charged with their own interests. The community at large will represent them, and will dis pense with their services as voters, or as public officers, till such time as they shall have abandoned the pernicious doctrines which have brought ruin not only to.them selves but. to the whole body politic. They . will be required to pay that, proportion of the taxes which is commensurate with their property, and should be very tbajfcful if a loyal government is satisfied with a tithe of that which disloyal traitors have been al lowed by that government, to retain. But is it a fact that the whole property of the State is held by those who are dis franchised ? If so, it shows to what a state of things these wise men had brought the people of South Carolina. Three thousand property holders, seven hundred thousand paupers ! Is that the result of the system of society and labor you have heard vaunted so much ? If so, "t ell it not in Gath, pub lish it not in the streets of Askolon." If that had been believed by the Congress of the United States, if they bad supposed that the wealth of South Carolina had been ex clusively in the hands of those who had turned traitors to the Government, what reasonable man could have blamed them if they had passed a sweeping act, declarin the forfeiture of every particle of that prop erty ? Confess that all the wealth of the State is in the hands of the enemies of the Government ; then reflect that that proper ty still remains in its original owners hands and say if you should not forever hereafter hold your peace, except, when you open your mouth in repentant gratitude for the sparing mercy of a magnanimous nation. But such is not the fact. The crimes of slavery and the administration of a slave holding oligarchy do not show so black a record as this. The wealth of this State is not wholly in disloyal hands; and the dis franchised Iwill not by any means pay the bulk of the taxes. Yet so far as they will pay them they do no more than it is right arid just that they should pay ; and the loyal people will see that that the disloyal and disfranchised arc represented in such away that, even they shall not be the subject of tyranny, however much they have sinned against the weal of the State in the past, however persistently they obstruct the right in the present. EX-GOV. PERRY AND MR. A. BURT. We hope the Republican party of the United States will, after the election of Gen. Grant to the Presidency, an event of which there is now no doubt, confer some reward on those who have served its cause so well as Ex-Provincial Governor Perry, Hon. A. Burt, and others of that ilk. It has become, the rule in American politics that "to the victors belong the spoils," and to him who has most largely contributed to the victory, justice requires that the largest reward should be given, provided it is consistent with the true interests of the country. While, therefore, we would not assert that B. F. Perry will be surely entitled to th? first prize under Gen. Grant's administra tion, since the consideration of the public good will form a chief element in the be stowal of patronage under his rule, yet we gratefully recognize Ex-Governor Perry's earnest efforts in our cause, and regret that his limited capacity should stand in the way of his more efficient aid. It may seem improper to some of our Re publican friends to thank thus publicly one who is reckoned a prominent opponent of our party opinions and party policy. But we do not desire to be narrow orilliberal in our views, and are willing to admit that good things can come out of Nazareth. Though it is perhaps certain that Mr. Perry as one of the instigators of the late Conven tion at Colombia, did ot intend to help the Republican cause, wefeel &tre that his effort is worth to us at least two thousand votes ; and if Mr;: Buri, with 14s sententious and polished rbetoFre-wou?^nsentto repeat in our principal towns his views of Ftate and National policy, he should not only receive thanks ^-inosex^ of th?rBepub?ican party of the Country. We regret exceedingly that Mr. Perry aft?Mr.'Burt could not have been sent to Connecticut as Campaign Speakers. Their very clear and satisfactory views of the true condition of the States of the South since the waT, their thorough appreciation of the logical results, of the revolution, and the amiable and tractable spirit in which they ?'accept the situation," with their willing ness to give to the negro a "qualified suf frage,'* their self-abnegation, their modes ty, their love of the constitution, (as they understand it) might have satisfied the voters of that perverse community, what the actual state of political sentiment really is, among the intelligent effete aristocracy of this ancient commonwealth at least it would harmonize with the Rev. Petroleum V. Nas by's views of sound poliey. But such is the obliquity of vision of the Republican party, that in their perverseness of heart they would be confirmed in their notions. They would eventhink that Messrs Perry and Bart were in their proper persons the best possible evidence in favor of retaining all test oaths, all disfranchising clauses in con stitutions, all penal provisions for disloyal ty. And, with that perversity of heart which Messrs Perry and Burt believe to permeate the Republican party, the j would have changed the majority in Connecticut from the Democratic to the Republican Vote. We regret that we are unable to give our special attention to various other members of th? late Convention, as they all deserve well of us. They are men for whom we have always entertained the highest personal re gard ; we now tender them our political gratitude. THE DEAD PAST. Solomon says the fashions of this world pssseth away. The Israelites, after they had fled from Egyptian bondage, when hard times pressed them in the wilderness, longed for the f??sh-pots of Egypt. Lot's wife looked back as she was escaping from lae burning plains of Sodom. Many at the present day are prone to look back and lin ger around the grave of some dead idol? some cherished child of memory?some blighted Eden of other days. Among other things- which met an un timely end ia the late rebellion, is ostra cism for opinions sake. A man can now be respected in South Carolina, and choose his own side in politics. ?hough some feeble attempts from the force of habit, may still be made to apply the political thumb-screw, and iron bedstead, yet it will fail most sig nally. Bowie was killed by his own knife, and the man who invented the guillotine lost his own head by it, and let the would-bc tyrants of the present day profit by their ex ample. The effort to make the word "Rad ical" synonimous with rogue, rascal and renegade, will not be altogether as success ful in the present as in the past. The blows of proscription for opinions sake will re bound fearfully upon the heads of those who may strive to inflict them. The public mind and conscience and faith have heen eman cipated, and a man can now read, judge and act for himself without the fear of mobs, dark lanterns or vigilance committees. Po litical monopolies lie in dust and ashee among the wreck and ruin of the dead and buried past, and can never be revived. The star-chamber is abolished, and the seces sionists, the Democrats and the Devil, with all their powers combined, can never bring it up from the deep, dark grave to which the unfettered will of a free people has con signed it. forever. The country is redeemed, and the man hood of humanity is asserted and vindica ted. We can now sit under our own politi* cal vine and fig tree, and no one dare to hin der, molest or make us afraid. The success of no political party, be it Whig, Democrat, Copperhead or Republican, can ever resu rect the dead past, or bring back the ante bellum ssatum of South Carolina. It has gone and gone forever, glimmering through the dream ef things that were. Richard of fered hi kingdom for a horse, but a vote now is worth more than a horse as the bone and sinew can walk so the polls especially ?n the eve of an election, the opinions of the Mercuri/ and the Police Gazette to the con trary notwithstanding, par nobile fratum. Shakespeare fallacy is exploded?the civili zation of the age, and the march of mind have wiped out the footprints it left on the sands of time. There is something in a name, and a rose, by any other name, would not smell so sweet, especially on the eve of an election. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, and the cohorts of freedom are march ing on to victory by the music of the spheres, set to the tune of "Rally round the flag boys. We want something grand, gloomy and pecu liar, especially on the eve of an election, and we are going to have it, so mote it be. Already your leaders have driven away all capital and credit from the South, and while they draw eleven dollars a day, thou sands among you are thrown out of employ ment, and starve, simply, for want of work "As the natural consequence, we find theii industry paralyzed, their credit destroyed, confidence gone, property worthless, hostile feeling engendered between races, and po litical chaos, reigning in the place of order and security."?Extract from Mr. W. D. Kellys speech in the condition of the South. It is proper that I should admit that something of this depression is due to the resistance leading men of the South present to her constitutional restoration to the Union and the hostility the baser sort of her neo ple exhibit toward northern settlers. CORRESPONDES C/. Darlington. April . 1868. To the Editor of the Free Pressait was rc good fortune to be present on the 8th ins:, at Kingstree at one of the largest gather ings of the Republicans of Williamsburg that has yet assembled. Mr. S. A. Swails pre sided at the meeting in a very happy and able manner, and introduced as the first speaker Mr. E. W.M. Mackey of Charleston who in a few brief remarks enjoined upon every voter to do his whole duty in the ap proaching election. Mr. M?s remarks were very well received, and he was succeeded by Mr. Sawyer of Charleston who held the attention of the rast audience enchained for over an hour by a lucid, logical and bril liant exposition of the complete power of Congress over the whole subject of recon struction, closing with an earnest and im passioned appeal to all right thinking men to come forward and join in the glorious work of placing the State where she could resume her proper place in the" Union and begin a career of prosperity and civilizat ion without parallel in her history. There was quite an assemblage of the old states-rights pro-slavery element on the out-skirts of the crowd who listened with profound attention and who evidently felt that the speaker told some home truths, which though unwelcome to their ears may yet give them food for in quiry as to whether they are not making a mistake in clinging so tenaciously to their old notions. Hon. B. F. Wittemore, candidate for Con gress from this District then took up the ar gument and explained with great force and clearness many of the provisions of the new Constitution. Mr. Wittemore is a capital stump speaker, and was very effective with i his audience. Besides he is on the right ?side; and if elected to Congress, as he un idoubtedly will be, will show that it does not necessarily require a native Carolinian to .represent truly and faithfully the iateres.ts !ef South Carolina in that body. Considerable commotion was produced in jthe village by the speeches, though there iwae no disturbance, and the best order pre jvailcd. But after the close of the Republi can meeting, Gen. Harllee, once a Hebel jLiet. Governor of Sonth Carolina held forth for the cause of Democracy from the Court jHouse steps toa small crowd of sympathi zers with those enlightened patriots Vallan dingham, Fernando Wood and Andrew Johnson. But be up hill was word. The numbers are on our side, the argument is on our side, humanity is on ourside, and God is on our side. R. W. E. Florexcr, S. C. April 8, 1868. Mr. Editor.?The Republicai s of this place held a larged and enthusiastic meeting last evening. They are alive and awake to the importance of the work which is to be done next week. Fi very man is up and doing. They were pretty thoroughly aroused before, but a strong, sensible and logical speech made last ^ight by F. A. Sawyer, Esq., of ? your city, has given them renewed cour age and determination and you may expect to hear good news from us on the days of election. God speed the right. EDWARD LUCAS, President. James Stebbens Secretary. A correspondent of the Bucks county, Pa., Intelligencer, writing from Germany, gives the following picture of the lower classes in that country. He says : The peasantry of the Continent have any thing but an easy life compared with the in telligent laboring classes in our own happy country. With us improved machinery lightens the toil of field labor, and tends to elevate the man, while his consciousness of being an integral part of the body politic, gives him an individual improvement which leads to self-improvement. In Europe, on> the other hand, agricultural laborers are not much more than serfs of the soil, with out education or ordinary intelligence, and without prospect, or apparent desire, to be other than what they are. I have p.een them toiling with poorly constructed mattocks or. grubbing-hoes chopping up the surface of broad fields, because of the want of a plough or spade. And incredible as it may appear the use of the spade, or of one so construc ted as to be of any value, is entirely un known in many districts, its place being supplied by a sort of heavy hoe. Of course this remark does not apply to England, nor the "green isle," where the spade is the emblem of an Irishman, and efficiently and usefully does he wield it be he where he may. It is by reason of the great number of small landholders, and consequently poor ones, that approved agricultural machinery has not been widely introduced upon the Continent, as it is in England and wirh u;. Yet even in default of this the product of ail crops in Germany is greater per'acre, tak ing all things in consideration, than in ei ther England or America. The German peasantry when at their work are dressed in the style of bygone days?the men in knee-breeches, black stockings, wooden shoes, and, ifin cold weather, in long black coats reaching to the ground. The women in stiff bodices, skirts falling to the knee, and black stockings, if any, but generally without, and with wooden shoes like the men. They are coarse and earthy in all things, yet arc happ^in their way, as it is easy to perceive by their love of music and dancing, which they gratify to the fullest on all occasions ; assembling in the towns and hamlets with gay, flaunting ribbons, garlands of flowers, branches of trees, any thing and everything to make a change from everyday life. We in America do n?c see the lowest classes among the emigrant* from the different countries in Europe, for they, the lower classes, are so ignorant, poor and ambition?ess that they remain where they are, vegetate during lifo an~ die onry to make room for successors of similar type. I have never seen half the ig norance at home among the new arrivals from Ireland that I have seen in the boutn ern portion of that unfortunate and discon tented island, and the German emigrant* in Western Pennsylvania and the Western States, whom we sometimes hear spoken o as thick-headed Dutchmen, are philosophers compared with the masses in centra. aD Southern Germany.