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t - - t - -- f- h - 1<r.- - - -t ~DVOTWDjTr4,-MOMATY-BDUCATION AND J0 T'E GENRAL INTE ST OF TH 00 T - 4. TACRSDAY, SEPTEMB U 2l 18T. TO OUR WA8HNGTOS LETTER. WA8HINSTIN, SepL. 12,,1.87O. T H SITU ATION. i4l returns trom Maine, followin thee from Vermont, should continw tile bemocracy that their-pon"y I-I coneetitrate their efforts on the Statei which give a reasonable poinise o victory for eVort, and to let ths hopp imte. Th at was, understood to b< the idoa at the conhencenent of tIh sonueok ilkie i4e*nodratic le .ders Iwert seduced into the beliet that many o the Republican strongholds could b< carried; and attempts were niade t< secure the vo'es of Maine, Iowa Michigan, Minnesota and oven ( Vermont and Massachusetts, for Til den and'Reformn. It is well that we h,avedflt beaten in Vermont and Maine and that-their majorities art so large as to convince us, beyond ti doubt, of the nece3sity of returininp to ou111 original 1rOgraine-Our fi,'o loves. Care, ca11ion and couragi will give us a United South -13 votes. The PLacifiiC States, 12 votes are certainly ours, if we bestow up.), thei halt as inuch attention as ha1 been uselessly expendod on Maine Vermont and s01110 of the Wester, Stites tit we have no sh1ow ot ca. Sii1' Aid Ti!dwi' pres-ige in 11h, E .istas ia retAwilrmer, wili gi as Con I-eeticlt, Nox Je8evrs aid4 his oW, great Sia'e ot New Ylrk. 50 voes il all1, if we only Ira Ithese States %% itt d-cent respect. The States atb(pvk 4-111 )JiIerwrA( ha%u u,j -.a *.. t i., 14,41eettil'i d C 1111 t.41*0 -15 ,.l-w I .. l.,e Electoral (O..1leg>- 15 mi''o ihan nee11 es8ary tv elect at Pisid.t. wVIlu Will IT' BK B Ith )Iies aro illow witing witl a g od datl Aif' aixit-ty Itor th 1 i.t1 11ati10n o a D4,mcUra ic caidida'e foi GU %rior ot N vw York wiicl c,e off ibis % week. Upon thiis ii.iminal ol . which *O*wil bk adviseCd by tel 4 egraph, he0 1r0 this lu er relteles you depen0td8, probabIslyl'1 upon the eleim ofi the necxt Pr'esidenit. I. is i.retta generally conicedIed by cltise calcubl. Sors on both sides that the Presiden tial candidate who gets the 33 electo ral votes~ of the E5'npire State will b< tihe Icculpanit of the White 'louse. 4 hr is sery little doubt that Mr Tiilden is strong enough to carry th State unaided by a p opuar nowme, tor:Oovernor, as hie beat General-Di;~ in '74 by a mn"jority of 50,318 votes but, as so muoh104is involved in the iE sue in Newv Y'trk this year, it wa highly desirable that Mr. Seymou sh'juld head the State ticket, as h carried New York against Grant ii 'i4, when the latter was, perhaps tb inost po1a nlar mnan in ti e Unitei States, especially wvith the jUion sol diers. As, however, Mr. Seymou has seen fit to decline, let us hop thuat his place on the ticket will b ilie'bya main who is not mixed u~ in the locial feuds of the party, am Sho wvill comm) and its entire vote. TrniE MONEjY QUESTION NOT AN 188U1k. Because M r. Tilden is, perhaps, thu most uncomnpromising. adoae&nt Unin ,f hrdmouey, some) ot hi fi, ends in the North, judging troni the course they are pursuing, in t.hei speeches anid their watings, think ti elect him onl that issue. This is grievous, and may be a fatal,' error The St. Loquis Convention did ntot at taoh primnal importance to the mnone, question is evident; or it w~ould no have placed upon the ticket Mt hendricks, whose proclivities ha Jontg been known, far and wide, to bi for' 1Jno reenbacks. F Democracy, thea, to en dleavor' to make the money questior nir iesne in this campaign is wors< ha nesele,'s. It is sim Itply at u pied .and a waste of' time and money; th< m80s when it is cone6idWeed that iiayes was elecled Go,vernor of' Ohkc as a hard 'rnoney man, when the * 2floney ques:ion was the chief one oj tle,icanpaign; Wd ghait- Wheeler -h alkae -been. *u i onk6poken ha money abjad; 'Tha BoMth Iwerrt as .unit:for Mr.. uniden'as a'Refonne and- it waenderAtded thstiIleol wi t' be the "tm:Den *dr d, ,7 dtiring the campaign. AWd it-boil Ma. TIDEN 2q(k1Xt'RD" Ag A bf There is antokher point tiIt S ,ut4 were very iisistpry upon pp vious to the poinaittion-; an1it well :that; Mr. Tilden'a. Norte friende and sopporters should be r moiudedsot iti-, The-4leadlirg.-outbe Democrats Insisted that the reandide presonled by-the North..fu the suffrages, sho.ild havo been, f through the war,.an active, outspo en Uniln man. They kndw ve well t4oin past political defoats, a iron personal intercourse with t peopie ut the North of all shades polities, that it is i66 soon fo al party to hope to elect a Pret ide whose record as a Union man durii the N ar is not unassailable. The tii for that has not yet come. Tlat wi perhaPe, the very first consideratii with the Sontlhern leadeis in casti about f6r a candidate. And it wI chie' bee Luse they believed Mr.'. don't war record to be good, ti hey 'wade up their Iinds to sipp hinm at St. Lois. Iistead, tletI, xig uon our candida' ,it tilfinance, wo ld ii niot 1' i ,e for his i ojy*- itattiac triem to) dA oiel 11pon his3 ref".-tnfatory A'i e(IOMIlic measures iti Newv Yti aid their resui e; antdl to retute t F ist Chat es IWw brtiliglit 11g l himu by the Rkepublictis (A havi 6IreIased to t-igtn a tcall for a U.i Imee-i n at ILL tile Co111101tc-i , 3ut (4 1 Wa;" < f ha infg "reuid o col,i bu e a cei,t to uarry ont t1pe w-ur, whi Ils Imu. -0-i 'ell %wore C p inl ti-eir e-41rsi to aid the (Jover, met;' of Iavilig "discouragiAd 1istnient8 and triud uimwisu to ei barass the govertimetil;" and, final Ias Chati mian of the Conunirnce l Cieoluios of the N4ationil i n ti.'n whicainmomainated MceClellan, hravinig "ud'ered and advocated ai~ bolutioni dieclaing the war a tailn Sand demnuditng that it should cas -1* view ot thne fact that the abt .and bimuilar infamnous lies are bei Swidely circulated all over the Por ' in newspapers and pamphlets, wot it ntot t.e well for the f.jinds oX 3 ; Tilden, thans whom no man not taall.y in the field has a muore brilli4 a war record, and who contribui r manuificently to the support of I 3 Union cantee, to prepar e a camnpai Sdocument setting fortn his services ' the coutry during the rebecllion, I thtus forever silence is vile slatlde -1 Tat is what is nreeded now--i r treatiseses on uinance. (Afriend a my elbow informs me that sueh a document is ini course of pr'eparati< )Good.) A FREsE WORShIP LiAGUE. An organiziitien with the ..abg r,ame hars been commenced in Wat 3 inigton, intended to ho ntational, a the purpose of' co-op)eratinig with a similar organization in Engla formed f r thte purpose of securi to Protestant residents of Spain I a privilege of establishing Pr'otedtr churches anid schoolis in that counti -It appear's that the Spanish Minis (4o the Interior has recentl*y torder Sthe~ removali of the placards, not ic tetc., hro:n the exterior of all P'rote -tant schools and places of worshi) the K(ingdomn, and that tire resi SProtestan,t clergymen have co plaiped to the U: iit Legation a inlehd to follow up the matter'. It lias been already sttedc h lti, the chamflpion female trae of the worlId," lately tell andc dislo< ted her hip in Dahblin. The atter ing ph)ysician~ discovered that Li is a man! t ' fftWa inncotrd'#Ith 'S6d4tat-y inMerafIc vtes, fk$ to tHe -sb of tWera l idii by 'he Mar6fale and tdieir delts. yt t Iuaglishi 40 T a inffinois cirular' 8rman D- In;tr opcers tlat ibey. ws tot jtd 49 fqx. ..hselves, whet er' rI- the.Prv %lce required of hen is lawful, e necesiy ble ith their r1 kdi,iry, .rtilMary; daes.. f possible, Oe eery . application for .Aid by the r Marshals or dloputies, must be re u ferred to the President for his pr-. k% dors, and in aR1 oases the higbest of ry fleets who can be reached, will alone id assume the responeibility of action. le' 'This i hardly what Tafft and his, 1o inhtigatots dotftehiplated, --and is 31 doubtless far below the anticipations tit of Radic 116liticihns in the South. ig We shall see. e In the meantime the New York is, S;n expounds the law for the bene 31. lit of all concerned, in the following 11g lucid and emphatic fashion: 'as The only. point in relation to the il Attorney General's circular that is of at the:slightest consequence is whether rt the President can lawfully authorize (i or instruct the Marshals of the United e' S:a'es, or their deputies, to preserve be what he calls "the peace of the United ., States" at the polls when Federal nd officer's are to be chosen, by employ rk,t ing tho troops of the United Stat%s b1 -In nart of the I-l(e c amitninia. W hat ost the A!Iorncy (eneral means by the tg "peace of the United S:ates," as dis ' tinguished from the peaca of a State, 1o it would be dificult.to tel. The S - preio Coutirt of the United States has ilo said it cannot be claimed that the IY- Uiited.S-ates have the power or are required to do mere police duty iii l- the States. But assuming that.at R Federal elections "the United States," IY t use tle Attorniey General's ]an Oignaige, have the right to "seure a voters against whatever in general of hinders or prevents them from a free e'exercise of the elective franchise" re, which by the way is not true unless a-" the vot4rs are molested or .interfered IVI. nithi on account of their 'color--the "ig question is whether the Marshals, in h,preventing such molestation, can, id se at the polls the army of the 'United States. '. Section 2,024 of the Revised Stat ltutes, title, "The Elective Franchise," ed undoubtedly empowers the Marshal, he when he is by violence, threats,'or1 gi" menaces, prevented from executing 'to his duties or from arresting auy per% uid san who has committed any offence fse* for which the Marshal is anthorized l to make arrest, ato summon and call at to his aid the bystanders or posse I a comnitatus of his district," Thiequio .tation whbich the Attorney General umakes from the opinion of his pre decessoi-, Mr. Oushing, to the effect ye th.at military bodies may be included byr ini the posse comtatus when the ex for eenilioni of process Is resisted, has a nothing whiatever to do with the law nid lulniess of stationing troops at the le the commissiota MI 6ffences, or to mit make arr'ests without process. Mr. ry. Cuahing's opinion was given in 1854, er' with reference to the executioni ot od process under the Fugitive Slave e, law; and it was a true opinion with s- reference to the execution of that and in, all other processoa. But in 1865 an 3 t act of Congress was passed, unow re m. enacted in the Revised Statutes, sec.. td tion 5,528, making it a highly penal uffenice for any officer of the army, or othier' person in the civil or mili )w tary service of' the United States, to ~ist older, bring, keep or have utder his authorcity 0or control, any troops 01' d amed mnetn at any place where a genetial or special election is held in dat aniy State, unles such force be ne Ses8sar'y to repel armed enemies of the United States or to kep-the at the polls. The sante provs. ion also stands In section %002 of the Revised Statutes, at the head of the title, "The Elective Franchaise." We'hare already pointed ont, In our issue of Monday, 8eptevb, # w4y the exception of k9eping the peace at the polls, so far ae the use of nilitary power is concerned, can exist only when thp State 16"'unable tQ kqep its own peace, has called on the President of the United States for aid. The la which sternly prohibits even the presence of mili tary forces at the place of an'election necessarily excludes them from the posse comitatus which the Marshal is authorized, without any action by the State, to summon and call to his aid for the purposes set forth in the law of 1865 was to prevent offilers of the army from stationing troops at any place where an election Is held, excepting when they are acting, not under a Marshal of the United States, but under the executive authority of the State after a call on'the President which has resulted in a detail of United States forces to act under the orders of the State authorities. This circular, therefore, of the At torney General will utterly niislead the Marshals and their deputies as well as officers of the army, if it in duces them to believe that a Marshal under pretext of keeping "the peace of the Uni-ed States at the polls to aid him in the discharge of his duties in re(yard to the protection of the ,elctivn franchiie. 11P. may undoubt. edly use the whole of what consti tutes the posse comitatus in the dis charge of. his duty at the polis, ex copting that he must take exceeding good care that he does not employ the troops of the United States as part of that posse comitatne. If he does, no circular of any Attorney Getieral that ever lived wi!l afford him the least protection. We have no doubt whatever that, the distinction on which we now in si8t will heroafter be held .by the judiciary to be correct. Upon any other construction of the prov isions of the Revised Statues, it would fulw low that any United State3 Marshal, in any St ate, upon his own judgment and discretion, without any action of the State authoriticia, without there having been any call by the State Executive for the aid of the United States in protecting the State against Democratic violence, and when no process of the United States is to be executed, may place troops of the United States at the polls to act tnder his orders, and do whatever he may judge necessary. Our liberties are not in such a desperate condition, as all Marshals, Attorney Generals, and all other officers will find when, this election is over. Dragoongthe South. The Washington correspondent of the Newv York World, in his dispatch of the 4th, says: The long expected letter of the At torney General, :ntended to influen'ce the Southern elections, which has been awaiting the President's approv al, camne back from Long Branch to day with his endorsement. Judge Taft, who has been running to the War Department a great deal of late, instantly repaired to Mr. Cameron's office, where a consultation w'as at once had by the Republican leaders and officials assembled for the puir pose0. These we Secretaries, Came r'on, Robeson and Chandler, General Sherman, the carpet-bag Senator John J. Patterson and Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina. Mr. Tiaift is simply an instrument in this business to carry out the plans of party p)olicy which have been devised by Messrs. Patterson, Cameron anid Chandler to establish bay onet rule at the South. The circular, whuieb is vney ftly dalted*ab oiryes at cdCe'Fiven to A the "pre4, The marshals and their , doputies at the South, will be very thi quiok to use the. enormous powers tv o6nferred upon them- by the etreaar. Xt is undestood that the mode adop- to ted by the War Departmpqt of carry. kg out tboew:polay will be to send ihe opinion to the army officers in the en Both for their information and guid r an e. They will then be, t the beck .r and call o e infamue class of per-, ed sons now filling the offles of United as States Marshals at the South, and the pr deputies they miky . glect, and may tb be usO to any-eotent thaW partyex igencies may require. The machin% ery being now ready, the carpet-bag i gers will incite the more vicious class of negroes to outrages to white men an and ladies at the Soutih, so as to bring 1 about race conflicts, which they will use tA the pretext for an extensive system of arreets by the soldiery. In he ibis way they hope to carry four or W five Southern States. Secretary D Cameron will now leave for Pennysi- in vania and his Western trip. sa CHAMBERLAIN DgMoRALIzED.-The on Washington correspondent of the i Baltimore Sun, after mentioning the presence of Chamberlain and Patter d son at the Cabinet council the other q day, says: It is rumored that at the sugges tion of these two latter one of the A first things that the Marshal of South 1 Carolina will be prompted to do is to ti break up by force the practice of the a South Carolina Conservatives of ap- 6 pearing at public meetings and dis- ' cussing political questions with the e Republicano. The practice of orators C of the different political parties en- e gaging in mutual disenssions before the people. bas long' prevailed all over the Union. Tiore certainly is nothing in tho Enforcement act that t can even by Radical ingenuity be P tortured into a probibitiou of this 1 practice in South Carolina and a sanction of it in other States. Bitt the South Carolina Radicals are un. willing that the -negroes whom they 4' hate so long edntrolled to their own hurt sball be enlightened, and there, h fore the majesty of the polver of the a United States Government is to be a invoked to fetter free speech. Gen. 0 Ruger left here to night to take com a mand of the Department of thq %outh. r Gov. Obamtberlain also lef t for South a Carolina, and it is understood that LI troops will be furnished immediately ti to assist the Marshd i of South Caro- f lina in preventing the Counservative r speakers from puting their side,. of the question before the negroes of South Carolina. The European powers have taken p fle matter' of peace negotiations into hi their own hands without reference to ti Turkey or Servia. 3 A rifle club, "Hampton Legion Company, D." was organized at Wil liameton on last Friday evening, with the following officers: W. P. Cannon, a Captain; R. V. Acker', 1st. Lieuten ant; Lewis Johnson, 2nd Lieutenant;h J. W. Dacus, 3d Lieutenant. The club numbers fifty four members al, ' ready. c Mr. S. G. Herndon, a highly re spected citizen of OconeB County, died last week. He was tax collec-1 tor of Pickens District for a term. The first bale of new cotton wasi receivedJat Greenville on Wednesday c from Cokesbury, raised by W. A. t Moore, and was sold to the Camnper, s kown Mills at 11 cents. Belknap's Mills in Laconia, N. HI., which have been idle three years, , will resume operations sooni under c the name of Laconia Mills.i Whoso koepoth his mouth and hisa tonguo keepeth his soul fromi any e troubles. Projected Raid on-MSth Ua. Eh ewho ar eot.a 194td wIsh v, time ohafacter 4f .Ohtdwberia(mi ronii.t 'ba Pi eIr"of'6igtbk lear ,th~at he IsAb. miost aeyys et Republican politicians who at. ging the GovinbienttWisnd Fed. il troops into the Sonth Inbider to imidaw YQteMq ,o wa Ioeiy pofted s-denying that he had swkou for troops in gouth Carolind and' expressing the beliet that the'. esence would not be necessary ugh he was doubtles seoretely king for sQldiers, while he was puT. rventn. - Mtany rate, he-mob.. Irmdeinnt voU hi9(1wMse&>)uoW4 d odrday he very t sgey-ex kined t6'anowsp*per oori4yondent i reas--R.sa ,AolAnge oirnt. "T40itnlatiou in South Oalina," saif1"W.hs canged as in a- hounr, hen Iwas. here a month ago tho )mocrats in South Carolina were clined to srpport me, and had even Id that they would nominate no e In opposition to me. The State Republican by a majority of at ist twenty thousand, and they had termined, for the sake of peace and 116nas 1o7ndorma mo;Ibub-eGavod . U. Butler and Gary, and men of at type, captured the convention id d4ded upon putting up W,ud9 Laipton. Since that tine the all re situation has changed." These *e Chamberlain's own wdrds; having ,iled in his plais to run both politi %l par'ies for his own personal ben, fit, lie throws off the mask and rush. a to Washington to.beg tor an arm. d invasi6t f the State: 'ivei *hich e donineors. In the convprpatioi referred to bove, Chamberlain complained that ie Democrats come to all the Re ublican political ineetinge asnd in at upon discussing with the Repub can speakers the questioqs at issue. I would not object to this," lie said )il thi were all; but,it is not. They m oour nidetidgs3ftrmed and ounted." IIe neglected to say, owever, that thie negroes also go rmed to such gatherings, and that few days ago, at a meeting on one I the Sea Islands, where it had been rranged that both parties should be ipresented on the speakers'' stand, nd where the blacks outnumbered ne whites probaibly a lbundred to one, uose of the negroes who had no rear me came armed with scythes, azors, pitchforks and axes.-. The truth is that under the vile iinous rufle of Chamberlain and bia nmnediate pr'edecesrs in office, iere has been no seeinrity for life or roperty in South .Carolina; and it as become 'a matter of necessity for nwhites to go armed for self pro. arvation in those counties whore thos Wepublicans are in a mnajority.. Ini nother column, we publish a few, iets, hastily gathered from various uthentic sources that fully show the 2ocking condition of socty i n the tate whichn Chamberlain wishes to ave put under military supervision, order that he and his kind may antinue to fatten upon the misfor-~ anos of its people. Now t4at this unaerupulous dema ogue has shown himself once more ri his true colore, we trust that tho )emocrats of South Carolina will ake special pains to disappoint him. ra his expectations of race disturban' os. Trheir deliverance depends uponi bie most complete forbearance arid Alf control on their part.-Now ork Sun, 6th. Cline's workshops, in Greenville, ere destroyed by an incendiary fire, n Thursday last. Loss $8,000. No asu rance. "My bark is on the sea,"as the cur did when the captain throw him over