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Titers tf Statu Caroma. , " FELLOW-CITIZENS:-It ia made our duty to ?et forth in this form the claims of tho Union Reform party to your eon* fide nco and co operation, and we ask of you as our countrymen, children of the State, oar common mother, hering e common interest end oommon destiny, e patient hearing and ? deliberate end dispassionate judgment. The Secession ot the Sutes end the aeotional war which followed wrought a revolution in the principies of the government, end in the rights, powers and relations of the general end State governments, pertly changing their eharatter. The Stetes were shorn of their sovereign attributes, the Union rendered indissoluble! end the powers of the general government correspond? ingly enlarged. The people of Sooth Carolina, and those of her sister South? ern Statoa as well, accepted amnesty and civil organisation in 1805, thus condi? tioned, and ratified their adhesion to tho government thus ohanged in its character, by the solemnity of en emend? ed oath of allegiance administered to tho voters at the polia, end to all offioers upon their qualification. In 1807, the United States inaugurated whet is known aa the polioy ot reoonstruotion, which boa resulted in the restoration of South Caroline to the National Union, with a constitution based npon tho principles of universal suffrage. In 1868, the Democratic party arrayed it? self against the whole polioy of recon? struction, and declared the legislation of Congress upon that subject as "usur? pations, and unconstitutional, revolu? tionary ead void." Mainly upon thia issue, the Presidential oampaign was fought, and the people of the United States by overwhelming majorities, sus? tained the polioy of reoonstruotion. The fifteenth amendment to the constitution of tho United States, engrafting therein as fundamental law, the principio of universal suffrage, has boen proclaimed ratified by the requisite number of States and is received and acquicsed in aa lew in the praotioe of all the States of the Union. In tho moantime, the people of South Carolina find themselves in this condi? tion. With universal suffrage pre? vailing, two raoes compose the people, entrusted with the franchise. Circum? stances and the machinations of selfish and oorrupt political adventures heve created an antagonism between the races, and arrayed, practically, the whole of the one raoe ia politioal hostility to the whole of the other raoe. Nearly the entire landed property end other capitel of tho State are in the hands of the white race, end the power of the gov? ernment is controlled by the oolored, which famishes the ohiet lebor of the oountry. Property is the souroe of life to the State. From it the proprietor and the laborer alike derive sustenance. When property is made productive, wealth is inoreased, labor enobanced, employments multiplied, the country prospers, and the people are happy. To secure these results, co-operation be? tween labor and capital is essential Tho laborer and the capitalist ere in effect copartners, who divide among them, in proper proportions, the producta of the joint business. Legislation, aftei securing the mere personal rights of thc eitizon, has no other legitimate office than so to foster and conserve the right? of property that the whole people maj prosper. It is evident, tberofore, thal this antagonism of raees ia unnatural unwise, and deplorably injurious anc ruinona in its consequences to both. Under the induatrioua manipulations o this unhappy antagonism by the adven turers who created it, the people er? burthened and beggard, while they grov fat upon the means wrung from th? hard*earned products of the capital ant labor of the citizen. Not oontent, how ever, with the delusive enjoyment o multiplied salaried officers, fixed at t rato of compensation unprecedented ii extravagance, these wicked rulers hav< plungod into the wildest, most rookiest and most oorrupt profligacy, peculatioi and fraud in their dealings with th? people's money. Let the Reoord speak Tuxes, year ending September 80 18Q?. 8591,700.50; year ending Ooto ber 31,1866, ?419,668.78, not inolud in g interest on debt; texas, year en din ? October81,1869,11,263,259.09 ; count' tax for 1869, 8601, 097 32. . Kcfloot that this rapid inoroase o taxation has been enforced npon e peo plo struggling foratho necessaries of Hf? with two-thirds of their propert destroyed by war, muoh of what was lei produoiog nothing, end ell the eoou mutated capital ofthe State destroyed tho income of the people probably nc attaining one*third the amount of th year 1860. Total payments, current expensos Ste year ending Septembor 80,1860, 8549 251.09 : year ending Ootober 81,186( 8266,248.04 (exclusivo of interest o debt not paid) ; year ending Ootobor 81 1869,81,108,872.20. Comptroller's r< port page 77. Bear in mind in this connection th, jurors, constables end many other e; penses paid by the 8tute in 1860 ai now paid by the counties, end the publ treasury thus relieved of a very h oa\ amount ; and that an examination of tl conduct of the County Commissioos in many instances would show the sen profligacy in raiaiogand oxpendiog mi ney, where thousands have been extort? from the people by false estimates et assessments, end not one hour of lab bestowed upon the pabilo highways, ei scarce a dollar teaoy county improv mont. Shall we look for a high motive justify sneh inoroase of taxation up ! a pcoplo so ground down by poverty ours ? Shall we find the public d< greatly reduced, or tho pabilo awe ts gicatly increased io tho hands of thea? reckless financiers f Lei no se?. Public debt, September 30, 1860, $4. 046,640.16; November 27, I860, by Governor Orr's message, principal and Interest, excluding war debt, 15,205,? 227.74 : or, bj Comptroller's report, ex cludingiog war debt, $4,427,446.40; October tl, 1869, Comptroller's report, .6188,840.17. For a people whose ability to pay WM so reduced, it would seem that this wss a sufficiently reckless increase of debt to induce a caji for a strict accounting ;. bot, as usually Is the ease with default? ers, the result ?s worse than their ex parie showing. Items are ezolnded from this account, properly belonging to it, whioh present a fearful condition, and demonstrate that, unless this wanton profligacy and waste be oheoked, the people of this State, white and- colored, are to be relieved only by repudia? tion. The Comptroller reports the debt, October 81, 1869, $6,183,849.17: add Blue Ridge Railroad bondi, which the State is responsible for, and from whioh able, disinterested and honest manage? ment would scarce extricate her, $4,000 000 : bonds issued to Land Commission, $700,000 ; bonds issuod to redeem bills of tho Jauk of tho State, $1,250,000; bonds pawned by the Finanoial State Agent, $2,700,000; total, $14,838,849. 17. Mow, what value have the people for all this expenditure? Shall we be pointed to the friuts of the Land Com? mission ? Whore are they ? Who knows of any benefit to tho poor and worthy in this great "land to the land? less" sohemo ? Who doqs not know, spite of their efforts at concealment, that the fonds entrusted to this Commission have been used only to swell tho ill gotten gains of the administration and its friends ? Within the observation of almost every one, poor tracts of land have been bought at immense priocs, and, so far as this oommitteo have been able to learn, with no eye to the benefit of those whom this soheme was pro? fessedly intended to provide with land and homes. With tho partial exposures already made) the administration party (con sisting largely of individuals holding four or five paying offices each), ac. knowledgo that raform is neodecf, but insist that they must carry on the rc form ; that this icolf must bc tho nursing mother of our lamb. If their repentanoe is sinoere, they should pray to bo de? livered from temptation, not to be foreod to hold watch and ward over the tempting treasury. Let us see how the increased roooipts of the treasury have been and are to be expended : Salaries-1867, $">0,000; 1870, $167, 800. Contingent Funds-1867, $25,000 1870,854,300. Legislative Expenses-1367, $43, 000 ; 1870, $844, 790. Educational and Military-1867 836, 000 ; 1870, $125,000. Extraordinarv Exponscs-1870,8140, OOO. These are a few items from official sources, indicating the sufferings of our people, the faithlessness of unjust stewards who have gained eontrol and disposition of the affairs of tho State. But this is not all. In many of the oounties the eounty officers ana county funds are held by individuals irrespon? sible and notoriously oorrupt, and disposed of for the same illegitimate purposes. Add to this that large monopolies are passed the Legislature through the medium of opon and notorious bribery ; that franchise aro seldom obtained but by private purchase or for oorrupt and fraudulent onds ; that the commonest aots of justice requiring legislation most pay their passage ; that votes of members of the Legislature are brought and sold as morohandize ; that publio officers prostitute their po? sitions and even the legislation oi tho State to the purposes of stockjobbing and speculation ; that so stupendous a fraud is perpetrated as that whereby the Land Commission, aided by the Advisory Board, of which the Qovornor of the State is the official head, acquired $90,000 of the publio money in a singlo transaction : add, abovo all, that the administration of the State has not dragged to light and punishment even one of this infamous band ; and say whero, in all the catalogue of iniquity whioh disgraoes the history of fallen humanity, can be found a parallel to this pioture iainty but faithfully deli? neated? . This carnival of vico and corruption flowing from that pandemonium of ruin anti disgrace into whieh tho antagonism ofreces has converted the government of South Carolina, the question for you to deoide is : Shall theso thiers con? tinue so to be ? Is no effort to bo made to rescuo from utter ruin tho voat mate? rials of wealth and prosperity yet re? maining whioh require only good gov? ernment to make you a grand and happy people ? Will you continuo to bo tho slaves, the hewers of wood and drawors of water, of this abominable faotion of pluoderes who are sustained by your divisions ? If not, how then will you aohieve your emancipation ? It is evi. dent that ono of two things must be done. Either, first, universal suffrage must be abolished, er, second, the abso? lute and sharp antagonism of the races must be so far removed as to enable tho good people ol both to combino for the purposes of good government. Let us examine these alternatives in their or? der. First, shall we undertake to abolish universal safir agc ? Where is the hope of success ? The prinoiplo of universal suffrage constitutes the basis of Domo oratio Republicanism throughout the world. It is the cornerstone of Ml ex? ?sting government in the Southern States. The Amerioan Demooraoy in 1868 warred opt against the principia, bat ooo tended only for th? right of the fl tat??' to control it. .The strongest D?mocratie Sutes of the Union have incorporate! it into their practice and their laws. The American- people in the last Presidential election bj large majorities pledged themselves to main? tain it in tue Sooth. The fifteenth amendment prohibiting ita abridgement by tpe United States or any of the States has assumed the form of law, and ia sustained and enforeed by the general government with all its {tower by the enaotmont of the strongest egal sanctions. The Executive, the Judiciary, the poop lo of the oountry, are well known to he in harmony with the measure. N o party has raised the standard of revolution or ropeal. Where then BbaH the orusade against a prinoi* pie thus fortified begin 7 Let him who will undertake the task. We push the argument to his own conclusion, and meet him thero. Assume that the teehmcal exceptions to the fifteenth amendment should be sustained ; that the Supremo Court of tho United States should deolare the reconstruction acts unconstitutional and void ; that the next President and the Congress to be eleoted with him, repre? senting any majority possiblo of the American people, should undertake to re organize thoso States to wrest the suffrage from the colored raoo ! Does any man doubt that the wholo country would then blaze with thu fires of a oivil war, fierce, bitter, bloodly and pro? tracted 7 What, in that caso, would be our oondition ? Imagination shrinks from tho conception, reason recoils from its contemplation, and horrified humanity revolts from tho spectacle-a doluge of blood, succeeded by an un? broken roign of ruin and desolation. We cannot toll what may bc tho pur? poses of the Ruler of tho Universo con? corning this question, but, as far ns thc light of human reason may guido us, it seems evident thru tho world is to pass under tho rulo of thc pcoplo in some form of Democratic government. That idea has boon germinating to its devel? opment for at least three coutures, and its march is still onward. Should a rc-action ever set in towards other forms of progross, it will bo when this gonoration aud ito vexatious temporary and aeoidontial local issues shall havo Eussod away. Let no man deceive imself Tho thought of revolutioniz? ing publio sentiment on this subject by moral forces is tho blindest aud most impotent fatuity. That of eradicating it from our system by force of arms would be more than madness or folly - it would bo wiokedness. Either move? ment would begin without hope and terminato io despair. Its advocates would be trampled out under the heel of popular progress, but no moro or-cst its march than a falling meteor looks the ircels of the universo. It follows that thc other alternative must be accep? ted. The absolute and sharp antagonism between the races must bc so far over? come as to enable the good people of both to combine for thc purpose of good gov? ernment. This is what the Union Reform party of South Carolina proposes to accom? plish for the State. It has already been demonstrated that this antagonism of races is as unnatural as it is pernicious in its effects. Its flames are fed and fanned by incendiaries, who, demon like, can only livo in its baleful fires. The fuel upon which it feeds is the de? nial of the legal status of the colored race as citizens. Eliminate this point from the polities of the day, and thero remains no just cause of difference be? tween the races. Their interests will then be identical at all points; tho pco pie will be united; harmony and peace will prevail ; the demagogue and tricks? ter will bo rendered powerless; an economical, honest and competent government will rovive industry and enterprise ; capital and immigration will flow into our borders ; employments will bo diversified ; profits inoreased ; wagos made compensative ; wealth will accu? mulate , oities, towns and villages mul? tiply ; manufactures and tho mechanic arts, sohoolcs, colleges and churches will attest a great, a growing, a prospe? rous, an enlightgnod and happy Chris? tian people ; and uuiversal suffrage, no longer a rod of oppression, will becomo a staff of strength and support to a great and glorious common wealth. The platform of this party, while it is historically truo, buries tho issues of tho past, and doals fairly, faithfully and wisely with tho vital, practical questions of the living present. It presents tho only possiblo basis of union to tho peo? ple of South Carolina, and holds out to them for tho first time thc olivo branch of peace, lt proposes a fair trial, and in tho only form in which a fair trial may bo had, of the oxporimcnt of uni? versai suffrage, undor tno most diflioult of all circumstances. If accepted by thc pcoplo, the experiment will havo proved tho triumphant success of a great prin? cipio, and we will havo demonstrated our capacity to emancipate ourselves from tho thraldom of projudio, ignorance and corruption, and to exercise wisely and woll that groat privilcgo of tho froemsn-solf government. But if rejected, ours, is a sure progress of ruin and dooay, of vico and corruption, and, in tho end, almost inevitable a violent and bloody solution of the groat problem which we had not tho wisdom and tho virtuo to detormine upon juet, liboral and enlightened principles. May Al? mighty God, who rulos and governs tho affairs of nations and of mon, guido you to right conclusions on thoso momentous issues 1 Where suoh vital interest aro at stake, it matters tiitle who bears tho standard of the party, since our motto is, pre-eminently, "principles, not men ;" but we nfc most fortunate in being able to prosout to you as our can? didates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor two gentlomen who combined ' and represent most happily thoso ideas of harmon*, and union whioh constitute the au Urged catholicity, ; the symetry end propriety of the movement. The Hon. It. B. Carpenter atanda before yon aa a native of New England, trained and educated in Kentucky, a prominent member of the .Bar before the war, -nd a consistent and earnest Union Repub? lican throughout that memorable atm? gie, and at the present moment He atanda before you as a man who has laid aside the judicial robe, which ho . has gracefully and ably worn for the last two years, as the champion of jus* tice so faithfully and honorably admin? istered as to subdue all prejudice and olicit the unitod plaudits of that august and imposing hierarchy of talent and character, tho Bar of Charleston and of i the peoplo of that enlightened and venerablo oity without distinction of raco ? or party. A leadiog Repnblioan, he has 1 honorably borne the honors of his party from the organization of the now State i government to the present time with- i out fear and without reproaoh. Able, ! zealous and competont, he has stood eminently as a champion for the fame . and honor of tho Republican party, 1 against tho prejudice and corruption < which havo degraded it in South Caro i lina. The Hon. M. C. Butler, our candi? date for Lieutentnt Governor, bears a name honorable and distinguished in tho annals of American history from tho ? days of tho revolution. A name that i numbers its distinguished warriors and i statesman, ita martyrs to the cause of Amcricau freedom and tho honor of the . flag of tho country, as well as to that of tho "Lust Causo/' to which ho attested i tho sincerity of his dovotiou by giving i to it his labors, his fortunes and his j blood. Himself not the least distin- i guished of his noble raco, young, liberal, enlightened and talented, blending most happily tho prestige of tho past with tho progress of the present and i tho hopo of tho futuro, he is, all things . considered, a most fit and proper rep- < rcsentative man of young Carolina.- 1 rlaced bofoio thc people as the anani- i mous noiuinco of tho colored delegates i in tho Convcnton, and accepted by that body with acclamation and unanimity, < ho concentrates to himself the confi? dence und esteem of all tho good i people I To thc support of this ticket, men of ; Carolina, wo most earnestly invite you, in tho name ot that union and harmony which promises to our stricken, bleed ing, suffering peoplo, so much of happi- i ness and prosperity in n peaceful future Adopted by tho committee J. B. KERSHAW, Chairman. E. W. SEIRELS, Secretary. i Columbia, July 6,1870. Letter From Gen. Kershaw. To Thc Editor of Thc Banner cf The South : . i SIR : You have seen fit, in the ezcr- i oiso of tho rcsponsiblo position of a public journalist, to brand mo with ] tho imputation of deserting my prin? ] ciples for tho grocd of office. Your \ paper finds circulation chiefly among i those whoso good opinion I < value next to tho approval of my own < consoienco. i Hasty and uncharitable as has been i your attempt to degrade mo in tho csti- i mation of your readers, you cannot, as a < Christian, decline to give mo tho poor < privilege, wholly inadequate though t it bo, to repair the wrong you havo f done me, of recording in your paper j a simplo statement of the facts, that i my friouds may draw their own deduo- i tions. i There never has been an emotion of ? my heart, nor a thought of my mind not < entirely in accord with the principles < and opinions which caused mo to advo- j cato the secession of South Carolina in i 1850, to vote for it in 1SG0, and to oiler j my little all for its support, from April, i 18G1 to April, 1SG5. That it pleased Qod that I should survivo tho war, : indicated to mo that I had still dutios j to perform, and to them, as rcsponsiblo _ to II i m and not unto man, I havo been, j am now, and shall henceforward address > myself. I could seo but one object bo- i foro mo, and that was to alleviate, in \ any and every honorable way, tho suf- | ferings of my countrymen. It was this j sentiment which induced mo, in July, , 1805, to accept tho parolo of President , Johnson as a prisoner of war, and to i take, with my brother officers at Port j Warren, what is known as the "Amnesty - , Oath." This oath, whioh wa3 taken by ? every voter nod every officer under tho provisional Governments established in tho States by President Johnson, pled? ged the affiant, thenceforth, "faithfully to support and defond tho Constitution, of tho United States and tho Union of tho Statcs|thoroundcr," and in like man? ner to "abido by and faithfully support all laws and proclations which havo been tuado during tho existing rebellion, with refcrenco to the emancipation ol slaves." Whoa I had taken that oath, I rogardod, that as a citizen, duty re? quired mo to doal with emancipation aud tho surrender of tho right of se? cession, "as accomplished facts, having tho forco and obligation of law." When tho reconstruction acts im? posed Negro suffrago upon tho peo? ple of tho South, I believed that it would bo fastened upon us as a perma? nent, featuro of the American Constitu? tion, whioh required (hat, to bring thom in harmony with the Republicanism of other lands. Believing that, I then ad? vocated the polioy of acquiescing in tho inevitable, and socking to direct tho newly eroatcd power, toto just and pro? per ohannols, to bring it in harmony with tho social and material interests of society as then existing, rather than to stand idly by nnd see it perverted to the most malignant antagonism, and tho vilest purpoAs of political corruption, by foroigu adventurers, now far I was right or wrong, let tho Scott dynasty iu Sovth Carolina, reeling ?loon tjpou the j rot?? of th? AJxioaay dealer*, :? ; 4 gross ot the rsjeoostraction acta. They 1 son tented themselves with debouncing t their iniquity and their unconatitution ?lity. Alas 1 alaa 1 this baa not arrested i their progress. An appeal waa made 1 igaiust thom to the people of the Uni* i ted States, in the late Presidential oleo? lion. In common with other Dem?crata, < [ appealed to the colored people to vote i for their own disfranchisement, but, ead ' to tell, they wouldn't do it. Thoy had j not yet reached that point of aumbli- j mated magnanimity. The majority of 1 the whito people of the country, too, i loaf to the appeals to their pride or < prejudice of race, affirmed the policy < iud principles of the reconstruction note, i rho Supreme Court recognised them t ia law, and all the South ?'accepted tho t lituation." The Ffteenth Amendment i io the Constitution, however adopted, i lias acquired the form of law-hos been 1 icceptod as law in the practico of all 1 ;he States, and can never bb reversed c wt by revolution or repeal. To which t >f these measures do you, eif, invite ns, is means of maintaining the "Princi? ples of Right, of Justice, of Truth, tvhioh wo practiced and upheld ia the peat?" What were those principles ? Tho , 'ight of secession ? Undoubtedly it oas a right, but wo lost it by the war, ind surrendered it when we acoepted life, property, and oivil law, conditioned t with the amended oath of allegiance. < Tho justice of self-government under \ he constitution and laws of our fathers, < ts construed by Calhoun ? When the t perfection of human reason is attained 1 n tho age of millenial glory, I beliove t we may hope for a restoration of that t us tico. J The Truth that human slavery is con- v listent with Christian morality f By the institutional enactments ot the Peoplo t >f South Carolina, in Convention nsscm- c >lcd, in 18C5, that has been rocdorcd a t nore abstraction, whioh I oare not to t 1?80USS. t ? I know of no party in tho South ? whoso banner is inscribed with the t watchwords "Rcpoal or Revolution," c ind because I seo no hopo for South t Jaro?na to escapo from grovelling ruin, i poverty and despair, in any other way, c ? havo aided in olovating the bloodless a janncr of "Union and Iteform," and t lave at my side thank God ! tho best ind bravest of those who upbore the c Jon quered banner until God and reason t sade them furl it. That my friends v ibroad may judge of thc justico of your t criticism, I have traced my though*? in r sounoction with thc events of the past i few years, that they may comprehend ? ny course iu the lato Convention. My t friends here know that I went into that i :onvertion to tuko no leading part, but v to aid m preserving tho ancient land- v narks, while promoting the proposed t reform. ? In order to do so tho more advisedly, t [ had endeavored to put in writing what ? [ believed to bo tho principles upon which thoso who approached the subject c Protn our standpoint could invite tho co- a operation of the oolored peoplo, without r whoso assistance the whole movement s iras an impracticable absurdity. These ] resolutions were forocd out in the ooo- c rention by circumstances. Thoy did t create some "sensation" when read, jhieily, I have reason to believe, because i ?hoy chanced to embody, in guarded lan- \ ;uagc, what all believed to be the pur- \ pose of the convention. Be that as it nay, the fact is they were reported by , ho Committee, unanimously adopted by y ho Convention, (with ono exception ) } md have received sufficient of friendly < jritioisni from the Press of this State, to t ?ratify any petty vanity whioh their au- t :lior may have foltin his bantling. Ho is at least willing that his friends should ? judge him by them. These are the reso- ? lutions : \ "This Convention, representing eiti- | sens of South Carolina, irrespective of t party, assembled to organizo tho good < peoplo of tho State, in an effort to re? j Form the present ineompotcnt, extra- | ragout, prcjudieod and corrupt admin- , istration of the State Government, and ( to establish just and equal laws, order, harmony, and eoonomy in public ex- ( pondituros, a strict accountability of j [>ffioo holders; and tho election to office f Duly of men of known honesty and in- j tegrity-both dcolaro and announoo the following principios, upon whioh mon { of all parties may unite for tho purposo , aforesaid : I "1. The Fifteenth Amondmcnt of tho Constitution of thc United States, hav? ing boon by tho proper authorities | proclaimed ratified by tho requisite number of States, and having been ro , ooived and acquicsod in as law in ul! tho Statos of tho Union, ought to be fairly administered and faithfully obcyod as fundamental law. "2. Ti'0 vast changos lu our system of Government, wrought by tho interna? tional war between tho two sections of tho country, and following in its train, are so far incorporated into the Con? stitutions and Laws of the States and of tho United State*, as to require that they be regarded as verities, having tho fqreo and obligation of law. "3. This solemn and oomplote recog? nition of existing taws brings tho peoplo of South Carolina into entire harmony upon all questions of oivil and political right, ana should unito nil honest men in an oarnost and determined effort to establish a just, equal, and faithful administration of the Government, in ho interest of no olaas or cl ?quo, bot for the benefit of a unitod people. If I know what truth is, tbeso dcola? rations embody truth, and thus boiiev i ng neither tho tonguo of alan dor, mia construction, tho falling away of friends, the vituperation of onotuies, the gibbet or the stake, oau make mo unsay them. To theso resolutions as offered by mo la th? Convention, was appooded the roUowiog, which wa* slr?cheu oat by iheCfommUteei * "*a order farther to promote tho barmowy and aocoeea of this1 movement >f reform, . .? L . ?fteto?vtd, That this Contention nominate for offioo only members of th? Republican Party, now so largely in the majority in this Sute." ron, air, can find in.those resolutions mat which justifies yon inf oro conscien? ce, in imputing to me a conscious de? lertion of principles, impelled by "the rreed of offioo. Will yon hare the {Oodness to explain to your readers how j?t greed of ornoo was to be sattiated by t resolution, which, by ita terms, looked >nly to the exclusion from offioo, not >nly of myself, but of all who held sim lar opinions ? When yon hare done ?hat to your own satisfaction, I beg you o consider, with what oomplaoenoy you nay, that your pen hos plumed the most nalignant shaft'that ever rankled in the josom of as true, as consistent, as faith Ill, as disinterested, aa devoted a soo >f the South, as any who has endured he agony of her subjugation. > . J. 1$. KERSHAW. Camden, & C., June 2S(h 1870. LIFE AND D Ii ATM* SemuUfal Sketch by ciiarlce Dieken?. There waa once a obild, and bc itrolled about a good deal, and thought >f a number of things. He had a sister, f ho was a chitd too, and his constant tompanion. These two used to wander ill day long. They wondored at the leight and depth of the bright water ; hey wondered at the beautiful-flowers ; hey wondored at the goodness and >owcr of Qod, who made the lovely rorld. i They used to say to one another some im os, 'Suppose ali the children on the tarth were to die, would the flowers and he water and tho ?ky be jorry ?" They lelioved they would bs sorry. For, said hey, the buds are the children of the lowers, and the little playful streams hat gambol down the hillsides are the thildren of the water, and tho smallest iright spcoks playing at hide and seek n the sky all night must surely be the Uildrcn of the stars ; and they would ll be grieved to see their . playmates, he ehildren ot men, no more. There was one olear star that used to ome out in the sky before tho rest, near he church spires, about the graves. It ros largor and moro beautiful, thoy hought, than all the others, and every tight they watched for it, standing hand n hand at tho window. Whoever saw it irst cried out, "I soo tho star/' And of en they cried out both together, know ?g so well wheo it would rise, end f herc. So they grew to be suoh friends pith it that before lying down in their teds they looked out once again to bid t good night ; and when thoy were urning round to sleep they would say ?God bloss the star." But while she was still very young, .h, very, vory young, the sister drooped, ud oamo to bo so weak that she oould io longer stand in tho window at night ; md then tho ohild looked sadly out by limself, and when he saw the star, tum? id round to the patient, pale face on ho bcd : "I see the star !" and then a smile rould como upon his faco, and a little, rouk voice uied to say : "Qod bless my ?rother and tho star I" Aud so the time .came all too soon, ivheu the ohild looked out alone, and vhen there was no face on the bed ; and ?hen there was a little grave among the ?raves, not there before; and when tho (tar mado long roys towards him, as ho mw it through his tears. Now, these mys wero bright, and they teemed to make suoh a beautiful, shin ng way from earth to beaven that, vhen the child wont to bis solitary bed, io drcamod about the star ; and dreamed hat, lying whoroho was, he saw a train )f people taken up that shinning road jy angels. And the star opening, showed lim a groat world of light, whore many nore such uugcls waited to receive bora. And theso angels who wore waiting .urned their beaming eyes upon the loople who were carried up into tho uar ; and somo came out from tho long ?ows iu which they stood and fell upon tho people's necks and kissed them tenderly, aud went awny with them low ii avenue? of light, and were so ?nippy in their oompany that, lying in tho bcd, he wept for joy. But there wore ninny angels who did not go with thom, and among them ono he knew. The patient faco that had Dnoe lain upon the bcd wns glorified and radiant, but his heart found out his sister among all tho host. His sister's angel lingered near the outrance of the star, and said to the leader among thoso who had brought tho people thither .'ls ruy brother come ?" And ho .said, "No." She was turning hopefully away when tho child strotohod out his arms aud said "Oh, sister, I am hero ! tuke rae 1" And then sho turned hor beaming eyes upon him, and it was night ; aud the star was shining into the room, making long rays down toward him as he saw it through his tears. From that hour forth tho ohild looked out upon tho star as ou tho homo he was to go, when his timo should come, and he thought he did not belong to earth alone, but to tho star too beoauso of his sister's angel gone bc foro. There was a baby boro to bo a brother to tho ohild ; aud whilo he was so little that he had never yet spuken a word he stretohed his tiny form out on the bcd and died. Agaiu the ohild dreamed of tho oponed alar, of the company of angels, aud tho train of people ; uud all the rows ol ?jageU ??b theiv beaming eyes ?ll tamed orjoo thoao people's fane*. Said his suter Ia . angel to th?, lcador : '?limy brother come?'' . Arni he ?std, ?not that one, but another." As the child beheld his brother's angol io ber ?rms, he cried, Oh, sister, I am bore? . Take mo ! Anti ano turned ?od ?tatted upon him, sod the star waa' shining. Hs grow to be s yoong usn, ?nd was busy at bia book when so old servant caine to him ?nd said : * <iThy motbe'r is no more. I bring ber blessiog on her darling eon." Again at night he saw the stat, and all that for m or company. Said his sis? ter's angel to the loader : '.Is my bro th cr como ?" And ho said, "Thy mother." A mighty cry of joy wont forth through all the stars because the mother was reunited to her two children. And ho stretehed out his arms and or led : "Oh. mother, sister and brother, I am here ! Take me I" And they answered : "Not yet," the etsr was shining. Ile grew to bo ? mao whoso hair was turning gray, and ho was sitting in his chair by tho fireside, heavy with grief, and his ince bedewed with tears, when tho star opened once again. Said his sister's angel to the loader, ?Is my brothor come ?" Ana ho said "Nay, but his maiden daughtor." And the man who had been a child saw his daughter, newly lost to him, a oolestial oreature among those three, and ho said, "My daughter's hoad is on my mother's bosom, and her arm is around my mother's nook, and at her feet thcro is the baby of old timo, and I oan hear tho parting from her, God bo praised I" And the star was sbiniug. Thus the child oame to be an old man and his once smooth face was wrinklod, and his stops slow and feeble, and bis baok bent. And ono night aa ho lay upon his bed, his children standing around him, be cried as ho oriod so long ago: "I seo tho star :" They whispered to ono another, "He is dying." And ho said, "I am. My ago is fall ing from mo like a garment, and I movo toward tho star as a child. And O, my Father, now I thunk Theo that it has so often opened to receive thoso who await mel" And tho star was shining ; and it shines upon his grave. A BIB A fJTIFIIlL PICTURE. The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by tho law of the land in which ho lives-by tho laws of civ? ilized nations-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which ho tills, is, by tho constitution of our nature, undor a wholesome influence, not cosily imbibed from any other source Ho feels, other thiogs being equal, more strongly than another tho character of n man as tho lord of au inaniuiato worll Of this great and wonderful sphere which, fashioned by thc hand of God, and upheld by his power, is rolling through heavens, a part is his-his from the oontro to the sky. lt is tho apace on which thc generation moves in its round Of. duties, and ho (ocls himself oonncoted by a visible link with those who follow him, and to whom ho is to transmit a home. Perhaps his farm has como down to him from his fathers; but ho can trace their footsteps over tho scenes of his labors. Tho roof which shelters him was reared by those to whom he owes his being. Some inter osting domcstio tradition is oonueotcd with overy onolosuro. Tho favorite troe was planted by his father's hand He sported in boyhood beside the brook whioh still winds through the meadows Through thc field lies tho path to the village sohool of early days. He still hears from his window thc voice of the Subbath bell which culled his father to tho houso of God ; and near nt hand is the spot where his parents ure laid dowu to rest, and where, when his timo hap come, ho shall bu laid by his children These are the feelings of the owners of tho soil. Worlds cannot buy (hem they flow out of tho deepest fountains of thc heart; they arc life springs of t fresh, hoalthy aird generous natioua character.-Edward Everett. .1 ?I 1 dc III OUR HANDS.-Tho human hand is so beautifully formed, it has so Gue a sensi bility, that sensibility governs its motions so correctly, o very effort of thc will is answored so instautly ns if thc baud itself wcro tho scat ofthat will its actions aro so free, so poworful and yet SO delicate, that it scorns to posses a quality instinct in itself, und wo us it as wu draw our breath, unconsciously and havo lost recollection of tho feeble and ill directed elf n ts of its first exercise by which it hus been perfected. In th bunds .aro twenty- niuo bones, in th mechanism of which result strengt I mobility and elasticity. On tho length strength, freo lateral motion, uni) perfect mobility uf tho thumb, depends th whole power uf tho hand, its strengt hoing" equal to that of all tho fingers Without tho fleshy ball of tho thumb tho power of thc fingers would ava" nothing; and, ucoordingty, tho lurg bull formed by tho mas?los of the thurn' is tho distinguishing character ot th human band. A FllRNClI gardener finding a piece { of woolen cloth, which hod lodged in a tree, covered with oatorpillors, neted upon thc idea suggested, nod placed woolen rags in several trocs Every rooming bc found thom cevored with caterpiller,!, which ho easily removed. -mfr .?fhifUi ? . - ' " .' It is stated that by allowing articles coated with iron rust to remain a short limo ill korOftOIIQ oil, tho rust can he readily removed by afterwards rubbing for a few m oates with a cork. .uv - fl EVERY DBSCRJPTMlia ;; ? ? > - 1 PROMPTLY EXHCCrtK? &T THB; .< ;i . X)FWQ1 OP ., vt *?- ??m? The Sumter ^tchin^i Mgpest Stylo of tlio AftJ . .*<^ i'V. - - ii ,M V ? WM ....?:''.*.. ;t %??*ja ?Qu.100 x??rssjveoorot^*?* - .~?/?*/-.?y?*? .A. .C aro? a? by ?agio-r . u.--N'?&jM J?^?l?P90 petaopfl tw?iyv a^B* P?ip% w?ouo4i, ?qd s?ua'yriofi?i^? %: ' oonao-* ??."" tufa: * . v . vi ''??M . a?r Phyaio?ua? uso und r coy mme od^J| BOT 85*00 pots ordered dui ly -fur hospitals and pnblic inkiltutiyns . iu. all parts of thc U. S. .-.?.J all Cut*, Bum*, Brul/es,' Soros, if^wT.'.J Canoes, Boro Nipple?, ?rt,!>Ur< fcou UfensU, ?fl Chopped Lips and Hands,> Eruptibn?,'Cbil blain?, Bitas, osyStlogs of Inpocis, ?to. ,. v ; ? jfcS*. A WONDERFUL CURE FqB* BI^RS.,' S 'ut, up In 50o. slaoe1 (and $1 pott "fovr.!famiUoe.? >?2 ill Druggists everywhere tell lt.' ' DON'T B^ P?WC3P#^ ' J Without it in theHotffo. \:i ^sjavaaw .'??:; ' Bk, Is> i^^AuirlS sW^U * 11'lilllifc WM? 33?1 " tf?laii_iL?i liaise .' . ?COSTAR'S'^ 1> fri* I standard Pr?parations .1 |j CostarV Raf j'Rouch/^.'EitcjriuIna tors. ...".* ' ' ' ; . Costar's" (liquid) Tied Bog Erter. CostarV (only pufo) Insect " Powder. CostarV (only sato remedy) , ?Mrn Solvent. . . SOLD everywhere. Ask for "COSTAR'S" (tako no nthor.) $1, $2, (3, nqd $4 altes, order from COSTAR CO., 13 Uoword.SL> N, Y. 3OODRI0n, W1NEMAN & CO;, Yv'hoicsaio . Agents, M CHARLESTON, S. C. Moy 4 ' ,. -ly ? WARBLE If ARD HUE undersigned .would most rosprotfully L announce to the poople of Sumter aqd sur tinding country has he huvo just received a SPLENDID LOT OF . . Marale? d is now prepared to receive and oxoouto or? rs of all kinds in his line, with noatnoss.and jpatoh. ION RAILING FURNISHED TO ORDER. W. P. SMITH, SUMTER, S. 0. Nvo- 17_: tf . ALTIMORE AND WILMINGTON Weekly Steamship Line. COMPOSED Ol' 'ho First Class Steamships Lucille, (H. L. HALL, Commuudcr.) lebecca C1y de, (D. C. CHILDS, (hunmandcr.) no of the above S?cinii<hfp?1wiH ?*Mv? DALT! MOKE and WILMINGTON ovury-' SATURDAY, >rnilng a Regular WU IS KL Y L IN IC, . nd tho only authorized through connection with rMImingtun A Manchester Railroad. COTTON and other Produce aorislfr?eil t?> ?ur uro will bo shipped to BALTIMORE by first tc.unor . PRICE OK COMMISSION. Having covered Wharves in WILMINGTON tul RALTLMOKK, good? eau bu reotivud ul nil iiuoA and bo properly pmtcclud. A. ll SIIEI'I'EKSON A CO., Agis, Nod. Il and 12 Norili Wa loi Sir?ot. AprilI 27 Wllmingt'on.- N. C. BUPKftINTENDENT*3 OJ&'FIGE s or? Ii Easloril Railroad Oompitiiy. CHARLESTON, S.O., July 1. I.-70. rI^IIE ?uttontiiin of tho iMiblic in r?S|ieotf?ll, J_ culled lo tho lolloWlug ll?DVO?O RAT KS -OF-r THROUGH FREIGHT, BETWEEN 311 ARLESTON AND SUMTER, MAYE3 . VILLE, LYNCIJBUICG. TIMMO.W^ VII.L1C, M A ll 8 BLUFF, l'tl?ffitik/ DKI? und MARION". 1 To go into effect ' ii tho lOtb July. '870*: I.?t class por 100 lbs....%.$| 00 Ind blast pur .100 lbs...;. 80 3rd class por loo Ili's.I. C.? Ith claes por MO Ihn. H? itli ?'hiss pur 100 lb.s.4.,/ ?.?. SO This clusKinotiiun lr flu' ^?uuc m ihm lu uso' by tho W. A M. R. RV 'i ft. 3.-SOLOMONS, July ft St.pi V H. j> lt. SITUATION W'?EiT A youn^ htd.v, ivh-i cnn ?fliT Ibo l o l refer /\_ qnOOSi Willies a - nuil .IL i- T.-.. lui- ur K?Mll|,<trui>8 ill I i.rllliil lan il ^Mi ll.u ..ii ??' Sonner, gr In ?ho loimiiy ?TII-UM?. -\ . I . t ?-. - - * ...\|if?. I?. F. II., Ch ?. le-i-ii, HIM? ..I M.. G. Il timbi c." staun ; lorms .uni *M?9? . .