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COLUMBIA:. Saturday Morning, Aug. 26, 1866, * Conflict ?nd *'atc or tUe Race* rShivery has hitherto protected the negro from tue fate of the red man. "As a slave, he hod tl^e protection ot" .the stvperior, the white race. If was. made the interest of the latter to pro feet him. Kel?us?tt?rom slavery,' and that freedom itsserted for him which he could never himself assert,-he can j no longer claim or compel tho protec? tion of the white. In contact with J the superior race, he no longer chai- j lenges the sympathies or finds the guardianship of that people to whom he was so lately subject. Should lie .forbearall insolence, presumption and arrogance, i? his nev condition, he Still'offends by rivalry. As a compe? titor, having no capital but physical to oppose to intellectual strength, and to tlie various moral accumulations of the superior race-, he cannot hold his ground except as a subordinate. Will he be content with this inferior state in relation to the white race? Ho might,Aif let alone. But, jtimnlated by tho arts of faction, fmrty, and those destructive organizations of tho North/ which, for thirty years, haw boen bu8?y at work for his nun and .our own, he will hardly be content with any such position. He will be found fussily fishing at everj^oondi "tion or.privilege which he finds^in thu pos?se.ssio? of the wmte people. His idea of labor will -bo ?associated in? delibly with Ivis memory of former slavery. Ho will revolt at work. His "natural appetites as well as necessities wiH.promjpt him to the employment of all Ids, cunning, in order ?o procuro thoie luxuries, and satisfy those wants which he need*, and for which he' craves. Those^ who refuse to labor, having no res*trees of fortune, must swindle or steal. There is no escape for it. There is an inexorable) logic ?xi tho moral law which makes it inevi? table that all such must offend against all law and must ?-:r r tho penalty of offence. In absolute, propinquity with a white rica, and contending ->jibh itupn ecp^al terms, without any sort of guardianship, the negro's fate rn ist be that of tao red rmm-i. e., ii wo are to'assume what Judge Chase seems to deny, viz: that he is of infe? rior race., Tbe Chief Justice suetns resolved to make it tho superior. He announces, with a rare degree of sym? pathy for the black, and against his ?o.vn color, that, in the Smith, tho 'former must not only be the ruling but the aristocratic class. Tnis is in auch antagonism to all the ordinary opinions, feelings, tastes and preju? dices of .the white race, that public opinion may well suspect the speaker ot a desire that it should be sb, and of a determination to make it so, if this eau be achieved by thc operations ci a. party organization. Vree suffrage may be one* process for this end, but there is a.iother. Th*?re may be a cool caloidation of tho results of a physical conilict between tlie4 two races, in a region where the numbers of the two aro nearly equal; the in? ferior race being openly or se-cretly supplied with succour, arms and other helps by th.it party wiii.;htairo3 at his ascendency. And, with some two hundred thousand blacks in arms, and scattered throughout the South j hav? ing their regular organizations, and stationed in cemmancUng situations, it is not difficult to conceive, not only that the negro may be the ruling race, but that it will become the sole exist? ing race, especially when the whites aro denied arms and organizatipn equally. But, for some such interest? ing calculation of. the chances and inilaencos, it is difficiilt to'conceive of ! ?nnythjug more absurd than the speou- I lations of Justice Chase, as to the pos- 1 eibilities in the future destination of j his favorite color. According to the | well ftuown experience of all civilized i pdople,? tho negro as a freeman, let? alone, left simply to himself and his ! Own fate, must cease even to grow, in i contact with tho superior rice. Sta t; ;t.cs every where show, that their in Sease wal bear no comparison with at of the white races. Confiding | oar view to our own country, let us ? pee how the account stands. . Wo take ; the fAiowing details from Abolit^pn napers at tue Nortn, som=:' of which ; uenocrately ualciUate how short will . ?d cj3-pi/ij.l'r?.i ur0vl for tho negro .o die oat. At tua uni.* of tho lor oation ot me Constitution of the Jutted Seater tao blao?s were about iuijifbl oftue pooalat?on: Tuey do, I Ul.-?_ ,i ? mimmm not, at this day, nnmber molt) than one-tenth; Here follow tho tablas, showiag the respective increase of tho two riscos, .??cording to the regular census, for the terni of seventy.years: Slaves <? Tet?*. ? l, \ Wh?es. F. CtCd. 1790..}.".....?.80.73 19.27 1800...?.T- .81.13 18.87 1S10-... .?0.97 19.03 1820.B1.57 18.43 1830:.--..i...81.90 18.10 184?).83.17 16.83 1850..8-1.31 15.69 I860-.85.8b 14.12 The foliowing table gives the rate of increase,of the two races: Certs aa WliUe Increase $.??? F. lacr?ate i ?* of Pop'n. per cent. C. Pop'n. per cunt. 1790. .3,172.484 . 737,363 - 180%. 4,304,489 35.G8 1,001, KW .r>2.2o hS*. .5,802,004 36.13 1,377,610 37.58 1820 . 7,861 ,?W7 34.12 1,771,562 28.58 1830 10,537,37S 34.03 2.328,042 31.41 1840.14,195,695 34.72 2,873,758 23.41 1850.19,553.068 37.74 3,6:13,702 26.6^ 18*50.2(5,975,575 37.97 4.441,73o 22.07 j Their employment o?? soldiers in wai has not increased their longevity-has j fiot tended to make them Vioro pro ! litic. Our calculation is that the c?mi j nution of the black raee,'duriug thc vicissitudes of the las? four years, will bc at least one million. '. In unothei j year, fanxiut;, irregularity of food anti i life, excess of all sorts, uiinientiouabh j diseases immedicable, or lacking ?nedi i cid aid, will do the work more, effeciu j ally even than war. And what if tin j caprices, impatience, desperation o! l tiie negroes, shall precipitate that con I flict which Justice Cause and his i c infrerety perhaps, only looking for, ir a convenient progress of time. Tiu whites of the South, with their hand.' tied behind them, may perish; thor? may be a more general wreck and ruii even thon prevails now-annihilation ?miy follow *reck-but how will th? conquering blacks ye permitted t< : survive? The North, ?vs a whole, wil I then avenge upon a faction, those ter rible crimes, and that ruin of State and Empires, which, bu? for* tin one lachesse, \?ould never have beei suffered to possess any capacity to; harm. ' - --?i - . We learn, by letters from. Washing ton^ that Pr?sident Johnson will rio succumb to the insolence of the radical much longer, and that, while his Ca binet is not exactly* what Andrei Jackson required his to be. "an unit, tiieir differences of sect and opinioi wi il nft make him budge ono ste frooi the resolution ho has taken, o the subject of reconstruction. Briefly he will not surrender tho So-.-.th t the tender sujroies o? the* Abolitio faction, who, ndt content with takiu the negro out of bombine, would er, dow him with powers, in?Goverruties and society, to which it is mere impoi tiaence to hold him equal, and for th proper exercise of which, on*che pal of any people, there requires tho soch training of more than, ahundred^yoan of an individual exercise and exp? rience in a state at least of compar* tivo civilization. Wu take for grunter that, in order to maintain himself i the course be has adopted, the Pres deut will need not merely ,the recoi struction of the Union, but th? recoi struction of his own Cabinet. That ht been sufficiently indulged, hitherto but we greatly inisti&e the man if 1 submits to dictation one hour long? than an obvious policy requires. Ye may look for changes in the politic moon, which shall subject hungry p' litieians to cloudy skies and weepir eyes, especially araoi^jg thc wisc nw of the Bast. The agitation upon whic New England has kept herself aliv and been fed, for thirty years, w not be suffered much longer to tux tl country with constant strife and in tatton ^and the danger of perpetu change and wai?. They have broug about.all. the mischief of the nast will they be suffered to sow the see Vf incessant future discords? We Uote.tb.at Governor Perry's prt ence is eagerly and freely called fe in various portions of the State, ai his approaching arrival even a nounccd, leading tb frequent dise p?intment iu certain sections. B the Governor", for obnous reasons, 1 made Greenville, his own residcn< his Hcadqxierters, and thero ^stt* and visitors may reach him with lit more cost and difficulty than if th sought him ni Columbia. The sources of the Provisional Governor tl lis or any oilier Stale, at presei will not suffice to enable him to wt der where he will, And endure I severe exactions of any hotel in any our cities. Carriage ana travel, al are by no meanf* pleasant* easy or t '?TA? ; ... . .> .V' .*-'... ' . ' . '.. ' .-~b?"*.'* '<* ... ?% ?. 'T'. . ???".-I? ?*?...?.? v*? -. ? ._ .. .? . ' expensive; Arid, briefly, to sum up all, what business, the Governor has ut present to do, can be aa well aud mach inore cheaply done in Greenville than either at Charleston or Columbia. Our private advices in??rui us, iudeed, that the Governor has Iiis hands full of hrtsines and has been doing a great deal. His work is incessant, and he tells us that his official patronage is entirely exhausted, already-an assur? ance which must prove monstrous dis? tressing to many still hungry persons, j The Governor writes us cheerfully as j to the future of the State-assures u.s j that the curtain is gradually uplifting ! before our vision-that the President j holds forth the most favoring aspects, j and his given his sanction to what he I-has been doing. We presume that i the Governor will so time it as to be j present at the assemblage of the Con i vention; and with his papera so-pre? pared as to render necessary no delays in the proper prosecution of business. Engaged in this, wo do not soe any prospect of his visiting Columbia, or any other part of the State until thc I period assigned for, tho assembling of the Convention. He would np doubt be quite pleased to gratify the curi? osity of all parties, in ail places but obfeys the rule which puts "Busi 1 ness," the wheel horse, before "Pleas? ure," the fancy pad. TIic Oath. The Charleston Courier reminds its readers of thc oath ?efore the election and what oath is necessary. We 'Ar: the following from that paper, and re? peat the counsel to those desirous of voting to take the amnesty oflth. and make themselves sure'of the right ol suffrage, if they deem that privilege desirable : I *T,-, solemnly-that ? have carefully read the Amnesty i'roclauia tion issued hy Andrew Jon ?ison, Pre? sident of thc united Statos^>f Ame? rica, on May ^2J, lo?io, ai al tTiat 1 anj not excepted from the benefits ol that proclamation by any ono of the four, teen exceptions therein made, exccpS "Sworn to," ?to. "I,-, of the County of ?-, am" State of-, do solemnly - -, in th?. presence of Almighty God, that ? wi] h ?reafter faithfully support and define ute Constitution of tn .- United States. and tho union of the States there under, and that I will, in like manner abide by and faithfi?ly support al laws an I proclamations which hav< ? been made during the existing rebel lion with reference to the emancipa tiou of slaves. So help me God. . "Sworn to," &c. ^ CORKliSPOSDENC't:. GEN. HATPII: ls it necessary, in or der to qualify a voter, that he sliouh have taken both ol the within oaths Many are under the impres>iou thu tho second is sufficient, although th ^2i),(HK) clause deprives any of th right to vote except by procuring ? special pardon. Respcctiullv, ' _ W. T. BENNETT. Upon which Gen. H.t'ch endorsee the following reply: "Respectfully returned. This ?>ri of oath is only used by those applyjuj for pardon." This oflicinl correspondence, wine hos been kindly furnished us by th Provost Marshal, Maj. Steuben, wu directed the inquiries at our suj?? tion, will definitely settle tho !a> question which ran be misc;! as to th efficacy of tho amnesty oath in estai lishing tho right of suffrage to cac individual, and lends to the foUowin conclusions: 1st. That the oath of amnesty, i prescribed by President Johnson, i \ his proclamation of May 29, 1S<>5, < j itself re-establishes the right of cit zenship, and entitles the party takin j it to vote, provided he docs not coir. I within any of the fourteen exceptio: I therein named. j 2d. That said oath entitle.-* tho.? ! who are who are within the except) i classes to vote, provided they ha*. received special pardons from ti President. 3d. Thur, for the purpose of obtaii ing such pardon, it is necessary f< ! the applicant to take both the oatl ! above indicated. I 4th. That the first oath is only n j oessary to parties who are applican ; for special pardon. I otu. That, in any ??vent, it is aiwa; necessary that a party shall bc a. leg voter under the Constitution as ; stood prior to -the secession if tl State, before ho will be entitled vote at thc ensirioK election. Poor is the educat ion w hich neglec the muscles wilie it tries to inform t mind; the highe/Jt lifo is over the a perfection of the two-tho shrine eon! eet fair it tho temp!-", flf body .( ? -'ii!-J*t. V v ?j. ->0 ?' - "' ' ? v- :. - *?1 .' " ? ? *..v * "* ' '.. v- ? v> j**' .... " V . i Coorrai RIVER ATTFA?BS.-A state? ment of Acting Master Mantell, com? manding TL S. steamer Potomska, contains the following passages, which may bo of some interest to Cooper River proprietors, planters and refu? gees. 4He says: . . "While on duty, with the 'Potomska on Cooper Uiver, myself and crew wore constantly employed night and day* in removing the 'deserted women and children to this city; giving aid and j assistance to persons in need : keeping .the negroes at work and on the plan? tations; preventing destruction of pro? perty and, putting down unruly and insubordinate persons; sending to f town-abandoned provisions to feed j the starving and destitute; providing j medical aid and comforts for those in need; and wherever it was needed, j rations were issued from the Potonis I ka j officers and men sent miles away ! from any comm, iud on errands of n\er I cy, and in one instance were ambushed I and captured. j I deem it proper to say tirnt I hold ! certificates and receipts for all aban? doned grain, and furniture, &e., ve I moved from Cooper Uiver, also my or? ders for so doing; ?nd ? again repeat, iii justice to myself :iud crew, that we aro 'willing and able to? meet any charges that moy ever be brought against us. that may tend to lessen the respect aud confidence of our Govern mont and superior <>dicer.--. DEATH UP COU SKI ULES.-We are pained, iays tin: Montgomery 3/??7. in record th-"death thia morning of ono of our oldest, most talented and most prominent ?iti7.e::s. Col. J. J. SeltAds is no more! He-expired at his rosi dcuer ie. i h if :*.? at lf'l._. a. m. yester? day, o? inii??iunation of tho stomach, from the effect <H which he"had been suffering for several .lay*. He wa* a native of South Carolina, und tva* aged about titty years. Col. Seibels was one o? cur most pforninent citizen*, ami h:?l bein frequently honored by the. people oi his adopted State, am*the> Government of the United Suites. -He was Ministra to fhe court of Belgium uad?r th? administration of President Pierco, which position he rilled with diguitj and honor to Ilia C?overnme?i und with credit tobinisoliJ lo I?S-lS! '30 'ol, ho was the editor of zi\r, MoiVtg??rnei>' A'iveriizer and. CtizeU*: and during;ti:?j Presidential canvass oi 1800, he ?dit?e thc Confederation, a strong Douglai o-isran. lu 1861, on the secession of Alabam? he accepted the position of Adjutant General o? the. State; and dorina: th? first year of the war he was electo? Colonel of tho Otb .Alu. Infantry; urn wrtut with that Regiment to Virginia where ho remained twelve months when he resigned his position am returned to his home in* this city where ho has quietly remained :w : private citizen, ui> to the hour of hi death. Col. Seibela was a gentleman o fine, commanding persona' appearanc -a man of exalte?! legal and liter*>r attainments, and higblv esteemed b; .'1 who knew him intimately. As ; iitLsen, he w'as quiet and unassuming anjl as a husband and fafher, kind an? 'indulgent. His den th will bo sorel; lamen L? I by a larg? ciaclc of persona imd polit?.vil friends, not rudy in Ala bama, but throughout the Souther) States. To i .<? afflicted family we olfe our sincere condolence. TH2 COT?KET>EUA?E VlO?-PRt-SipEN Sr:r.>:i".N-s A?O POSTMASTER-GENEUAI REAGAN AT Four WARBEN.-There ar now but five prisoners at F?>rt War ron. vice-PresidentSfcrph'etis, forth last tea days, ha< been released fron close confinement, and is permitted b walk wherever he pleesos in the fort between nrveiiie and au?l retreat, an? even ascend the ramparts. He i always unguarde*!, and seems to ap oroidute his relief from his dungeon ^Tiother prisoner is Mr. Reagan, tin bat Cf nlerat.- Po dmnstir-General A third is Charlies'Cheshire, one o the sirperVisors of Brooklyn, Ne\ York, who in in dose confinement fo Roihi? frauds.perpf-f rated ih the recruit ing department* his sentence beim six months imprisonment and a fine o $2,000. His eel] is so situated that li can see from bis, wintlow the whole ex torior of the fort, abd he Was soon re cognized by ac quain truces of the Sr veuty-first. A fourth prisoner is . British captain- a blockade nirniPT an ri a fifth party who refused to- talc the oath of allegiance. Reagan is al lowed to take an hour's walk each daj attended by a guard. . .mt '- -. . No man ought to enjoy "what is to good for him; he should make himse worthj- ot it, and rife to its level. Keep the hoiYops at arms' lengtl Jiover turn a biasing ronnd to SK wbefher it. han vi. ?ir rf* fide to rt I Local Item?. j TO insure inset t ion, adWtiaersj ere r? ! crated to hand in their notioca before 1 J o'clock p. m. j FORT EoTar it.'?xBc^^t?ckaoldew in I this rallrosd arc counselled to note the pur- . j'port cf tho advertisement in inspect to it I And thom, s.3 contained hi thia dav's paper. In our advertising columns, this morning, wiii be found one from our eutorprising citrZ?U) E. E. Jackson, who oners a very de? sirable lot of hardware and building mate ri?is. Wo would advise i?t&t of ont noter* t?nate friends, who wish to Keep ja bbers out .of tueir awrea, to exami^m Jackson's ?toce, of ?ne door-locks especially.. Our lady ac? quaintances ?will examine with pleasure lui varieties of worsteds and cheiitse?, to say nothing of many other commodities, useful in boudoir and at th? todvt. Fto? DE Aatutpo.-Cohen will be tho death of us-Melvin Cohen, we mean. He has sent us a nice little present, done up in purple paper, of choice and genuine Havana cigar?. One puff is enough for us. Will it be enough for him? sieh itS aroulal After siaolAg tho su Vdu Florid* and Bonton ci? gars tor four yvars, to nave a r?ngale of the genuine Spanish, ia enough to make one co?tent to puff out his last breath. Tue cruel boy .will tue lbs death of usl And think of the name-Flor de "Amando-Spanish dower of love, we suppose. Woll, our first ti wee their t w? named Amanda. Is tlierc anything in tins coincidence? She waa an oluisii girl-sha j?ted us-'and, what was the result? Where is Amanda? There in no oue to answer. If you ever wander to the old cemetery, at the plantation- of Cy? press Grove, you will bud .an answer. Poor, I T.car, ',aprioior.s, lovely, silly Amanda! There biie lies, and hero are we puning a-Jirst-ratu Cuban cigar, having an approximation to her name. Tenxpws fwjit! Oh! Tiiae, what years have passed! What conditions'. Sh?? sleeps we?-and, Cy the time that we have j smoked ou* these turee remaining Caballos ? -the gilt of Cohen-we, too, shall sleep, j And in tiiat sleep what dreams shall come? Shall we dream of Almtuda? Wc havii L thought of he:. Foolish, giril W,hy .did j .she j'dtUH." She was pretty, playful, |dea ! saut-very perniciously pleasant, and-anj ! thing but wise, But wo were captured, i nevertheless. Mic eould have dotie ?vita u.i i what she pleased. But she was-Qot wisc'. ? Alas! bow few there arc who aro wise enough j for their own happiness. Tuc subject is u ' melancholy "one. Lnoette, another of Co? hen's cigars, and ?tu Mumttlt. Wo will .? rite an elegy on Amanda. NKW ADVKKTISEiicsTt-Attention is called to tho following advertisements, which axe published for thu lirst time thia morning: Sleeting of Stockholders Port Royal ll. It. Extva Communication Acaciiu uodgtv^, E. E. Jackson- L-t-y Gooda. . .. --. Drugs and Medicines? *' ?." -Perfumery,* Soapa, ?ic. " --Hardware. Gen. GUhiiore-General Orders Ko. ti). j" OBrf?/V??--Wc have to record the pro I maturo death ol' Mr. Charles il. Silcox, a j private of the 2?th Ohio Beglment, on duly at this station, Mr. Sdoox ^jy.s tho victim of a casualty, being shut whirs at a pleasure party, ailee b: ing.released from duty in tho ! morning, lie .d'e^d on the evening" of tho 2;ld, between4 ando orelock, andw-.ia burie?l witU due ros"pect by his comrades o;i tho j ?lay following... He yr-*s between twanty-fivo land twenty-six yearJ .of age; from Linen I County, liead Township, Ohio. Ho was a ii cod soldier, and had been promotedurom a. private J,y tho riiuV of duty sergeant. He ioaves many dear rchitivoa aau friends to mourn ids loss,. It was tho lJfclaucboly pri? vilege of the frieud who ^ites this brief memorial to behold a gentlewoman shed? ding t?..us upon his eouin, and laying a beautiful wreath ot dowers upon it. 'lwo other wreathe wen? iaid upon it also by other fair women. They weep for him stiii, but ho o'leepe at peace. E. S. 1I0NE0E, Private. Tar. CHOLERA.-The Bremen's ad? vices tarnish dates from Cuiro, Egypt, to tho 17th of Jilly. A commission hud boen sent out to stop the pilgrims p.o'.v on th<dr journey from Mocea to Egy pt by land itt some march?s the other ."ide of Suez. Should there bi; appearance bf cholera among" then., they vfill hp. detained at a ?nfe distance from ?Stn?v. until the disease leaves their camp. Th?"? great, cholera which de? vastated Europe in 1832-3 brok?: out in July, which would correspond with the period of the return of the pilgrim* in theise years. The course of the disease at Jedduh is spoken of as most heart-rending. People were stricken down in the street.-., where, ns strangers; they lay and perished by hundreds for want of assistance. Mr. Calvert, the British consul there, is reported to have exerted himself heroically during tho fatal visitation. By the Litest ac? counts th? disease lied cawed at Sna kin.. From Constantinople we learn that a panie ^hns consequently seised the mort? wealthy, who have fled from the.infected city to establish them? selves on thc slio?c of the Bosphoriis aud the Isle of the Princes. . In some parte of Hhunboul this panic hus at? tained suclt dimensions, Ihox* accord? ing to a eorre.soudent of the Ind?pen? dante, it impossible to WP Ik tnrougL. whole streets and see no one" save per? haps omj or two poor persons, whoso means wilt not permit them to emi? grate, QUIDDITIES.-A tea party without scandal ia like a knife withotvt a/ hs.adie. % '