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- ^jjpj 1 '' ' '-' I ' *: L. VOLUME XXV. CAMDEN. .30^1^.^ ^ ^ ^ XUMBEli 40... PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THOMAS W. PEGUES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Three Dollars a year Cash?Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. ItATKS or ADVEHTlSrXfi, PER SQUARE. For thefirst insertion. SI.50; for the second, Si.00: for the third. 75 cents: for each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Semi-monthly. Monthly and Quarterly advertisements, Si.50 eacli insertion. The space occupied by ten lines (solid, of this size type) constitutes a square. Payment, is. rctptircd in advance from transient advertisers, and as soon as the work is done, from regular customers Contracts made for yearly and half-yearly advertising (payable quarterly) made on moderate terms. m-TnrrnT v a tatttti/~\ttci JXU.OUJ^JLiXJ/1.1^ JEi V U O. AN EFFECTIVE SPEECH. Senator Wilson has found a lion in his path. At Montgomery, Ala., he challenged any Southern man to reply to him. The gage of battle was .. accepted by General Jas." Ii. Clanton, who, though taken by surprise, delivered a telling and eloquent sp ccch. HHft We. make room for the following ft extract H|ft "The Senatoi from Massachusetts, WBP who hasjust addressed you, and who lives several thousand miles distant, has explained to you the object of i his political pilgrimage South. Ifc j has challenged any one present to j meet him in discussion to-night, and j has offered to divide time with any j one who would accept. I was born I and raised in the South, and hope to he buried in her soil. I have met the brave men of the North on many fields; they outnumbered and over- < came us; and I certainly have no fear i of their politicians: But for my family, life would have but few charms i mn N^ifhor tlm fnov nf flin rrnl. i lows, the gibbet or the bayonet, will ; ever cause me to desert my people, i l^rsakc this bright Southern land < from the expression ofuiy honest sen- 1 timcnts under any circumstances. ] Some young Radicals, who have re- < ccntly addressed you, say that the < Sherman bill, which they arc advoca- i ting, would disfranchise them, and, 1 hence their efforts were purely un- 1 selfish, whilst at the time their appli- ; cations to be relieved from the disabilities of that measure arc pending ! at Washington, and they are doubt- ] Jes? expecting to call on you for your i votes at the next election for this ' State. * i I will here state my own position < briefly oi\this point. I believe that Bill is unconstitutional?I believe it is oppressive to a certain class of our best men. * As soon as that Bill passed Congress a high Federal official with the kiritlest feelings forme personally said ! to mc: "Iou were not ;in ongimu i secessionist. Congress will remove! your disabilities under the Sherman j Bill. You must send on an appiica-1 tion, and I will approve it, and help ) you to get through." I replied that the Republican party had no right under the Constitution to disfranchise mc, and I would never ask for relief at their hands, and that is my position tonight. The honorable Senator from Massachusetts has said some things which evince good feelings on his part, and which I approve. He has also said many things from which I must dissent, and made many asscrsions which the political history, and particularly that of our recent unfortunate war, proves to be untrue. . lie commences with the history of slavery in the South since lie came upon the stage of action, and endeavors to fix the responsibility of the existence of that institution upon the Southern people, with all of its -horrors as depicted by his vivid imagination. I will carry the gentleman back to the starting point of the institution on this continent, and before I take my scat I will prove to you that the North is ^responsible for the existence of slavery with whatever evils attached to at; and I am frank to say tjiat there xwere features in slavery whjefy were wrong. Many years ago, my friends, before the United States had an pxistence as a nation, your forefathers inhabited the homes of your race? Africa. The Northern people, who were then as now a commercial people, owning many ships, went to the coast of Africa and bought some, and and stole or kidnapped your grandfathers and mothers, placed them in the hold or their vessels in great numbers, and in chains, took some few to their Northern homes, and sent most of them to be sold to the Southern people for slaves. 'In this work they had valuable, co-laborers in the English and Spanish. By thi? traffic in human flesh- they made large sums of money. . The Southern people, as a general rule, were opposed to the slave trade, and when the Colonies, threw off the yoke of Great Britian, the Southern Colonies amongst them, and one of principal reasons which they published to the world in justification of their Cause, was that the mother country had imposed slavery and the slave trade upon them against their wishes. When our independence was acknowledged and we formed a Union of the Colonics, the South was still opposed to the slave trade, "and it j would have been declared piracy, and half of your race in the United States would not *havc been here now, but in Africa; but the Northern men encased iu the trade found it to be so i O O ^ profitable, and so entirely free from < any consciencious scruples were they, < that they insisted that their pious op- s orations should continue twenty years i longer, and the South yielded. These ; slave traders invested their, money in j lands, houses and other property ? North, which made many of their 1 grand Murert or great grand cliil- 1 drcn rich, and some of whom are r.c\v leading Republicans. c The slaveholders of- the Northern c States did the same thrng in most in- c stances by sending their slaves to ] Virginia and other Southern States :t and selling them when their slave .la- c bor became less profitable in a cold' J climate than white -labor, and have; g since amused themselves by abusing t the Southern people as slave drivers? y and the Senator, the descendant of o these men, is here to-night reminding <] you of the wrongs you have received t it the hands of your former owners, ii md advising you to avoid puli trial he fltnuice^fnTIT^our friends an J ncfgh-" "a jors, and to seek an alliance with peo- a dIo in distant States, the llcpubli- '1 ;ans of the North. I repeat, that the f jonsciencious scruples of the North rj .vas not seen cropping out until they o md your race in their pockets, where f ;hcy have taken good care to keep ti )rou ever since. 'J There arc many good people at the t North who are your friends, and .who f have never engaged in tHrrslave'tradc, v Dwned slaves or approved of slavery, n The same can'be said of the South, i and if let alone by the North that c class would have been much larger r in the South. More slaves have been c freed by the act of their owners in the t South than at the North'.' George r Washington owned about one thous- c and, which lie freed at his death. Mr. > Randolph did the same. General j t Oglethorpe opposed slavery in Gcor- j gin. There is a man on this stage i who knows that I had an angry con- i trovcrsy many years ago in this city i for endorsing llcnry uiay s emancipation scheme for Kentucky. ITc 1 was my political leader, I never knew ] him to do wrong, but I fear we will 1 never look upon his like again. ] The gentleman from Massaclrusetts i gays you ought to identify yourself with the Radical party of the North, because they have waded through a bloody war of four years to set you free, to give you the right to sit upon juries, to ride on railroads, testify as witnesses in courts, and much else.? I deny every assertion he has made on these points, and challcggc him to the proof. He who says that this war was commenced by the North to set you free and confer on you the rights which you now enjoy, falsifies the history of the country; not intentionally, I hope. The Government of the United States, during the war, again and again declared most sol? O emnly that this war was not commenced or being waged for conquest, or with a view of interfering withvmr property in slaves in the States.? Mr. Lincoln urged us to return to the Union, pledging the Government to receive us most cordially, and give slavery its protection in the Stats. We were threatened emancipation if we did not come back. In -one hand the Government offered us "Union and Slavery," and in the other was "rebellion and emancipation." Having gone to war on principle, the South chose the latter. No man knows this better than the honorable Senator. Nor will he or General Swayne, who is on the stand, deny the assertion that I am now going to make, that we could have gone back in the Union and held you as our slaves to-day. You are not indebted to the North or the South for your freedom, but to God. Instead of abusing us you ought to remember that this rebellion-which you are taught to dispise, by your enemies .and ours, who only come ampngst you for your votes, was an instrument in the hands -vof God for your deliverance, so far as mortal eye can divine the purposes of the Creator. The Southern people do not envy you your freedom. They would pot restore you to bondage if tbey couldv They have your well being at heart. I did not fire a gun for slavey. M'ore than half the Southern army never owned a slave. Hardee, Cleburne, and many others signed a petition long before the war closed, for your freedom and to afford you an opportunity to volunteer and assist your white friends of the South in achieving Southern independence. President Davis recommended this, OUlliai'j iltLl 11 A, ill tliU lllUcLti U) ill UI1S 3ii3r, endorsed his policy in the prcs2nce of a very large assembly, and stated that I would take great pleasure in. commanding colored troops. You icted' well your part during that uniortunate struggle, for which you do- . serve, and have, the gratitude of every Southern man and woman in our nidsf. > The gentleman says that the Mc~'- i :an war was brought on and advocat- ] id by Mr. Calhoun for the purpose t >f increasing the area of slavery.? O So man ought to know better than i he honored representative of Mnssa- i ihusctts that {he statement is untrue. J jr. Calhoun and also*Mr. Clay, the J ;reatest "Southern [giants alive at the [ imc, opposed the war. Mr. Calhoun ras to the last the bitterest opponent "j f that war?predicting as he did the f isastrous results upon the peticc of ( he country.. Instead of that war be- ] ig waged for slavery it was very t v'iden t,_ as tU& . results proved, -.Xhat TTy territory W cquired would be free territory.? 'ha t war gave to the North, Caliornia, Utah and New Mexico. ' 'hough only a boy, I followed the s Id flag through that war, with many [ housand good and true men from [ ij section who'only regarded tire 1 National honor of our common coun- 1 ry. Again as to how* you became 1 rce. The North aided to free you 1 nth bayonet and by Military Procln- ( nations only as they believed it would ' njurc us and raise you up a hostile j lenient in our midst; and seemingly , nalcing your welfare a secondary :onsidciation. To render this act of 5 heirs valid and constitutional, it was J icccssary that wc should act. We ailed together our Conventions and ! vithout hesitation made y.o'u consti- 1 utionally free forever. We also gave ;ou the right to testify in cases where 1 roil were interested, arid I advocated ! n this State House your right to ' :estify in all cases. You now enjoy many privileges lore not enjoyed by your race in the Northern States. As the gentleman . i ? _ i i. ;,y. has congratuiaieu you upon yum improved condition here, and created still greater expectations for your future political and .social relations in the South, let me tell you what great blessings the North "has conferred upon your race even in his own State. First, until very recently, although your race at the North are free, and have the advantages of tko free school system of which he boasts, and few in numbers, yet whilst your numbers ragidly increased as slaves in tho hands/of cruel masters referred to by him, yet with him at the North they have /diminished, your ra .e have been and,are still excluded from Northern libels, steaniboat cabins, rail road cars,/and places of amusement They havebeen frequently expelled from such jyaces, and sometimes mobbed for claimyig the rights of white people. Arid what has been the result of every effort ot their +<-> nVitnin rpdress and c/tablish I"" U r their rights by law. They nave in every instance, (unless it be tery re-: cently), signally failed. The Courts of the country were against theih. I saw in Northern Newspapers, and I believe it to be true, for I liave no There seen it contradicted, that about the last of 1866, or the first of the present year, Frederick Douglas, a mulatto of New York, who is said to be a /highly educated and polished man, vho conducts himself with great propriety everywhere, traveled as far West as St. Louis and was there and everywhere on his route refused admission into the first class hotels of the Nortk and West.-? Nearly every Northern State has discriminated against them as jurors, witnesses, and heretofoi'e at the ballot-box. Thoy no where at the North enjoy, in j t fit,' /ill the rights of white people, and in rhqsfr States North they are by local la '8 denied. political equality at the jj^sent time. One or more States Tent sottar as to deny them settlement withnijtheif boundaries altogether. Sou have been reminded by the gentleinftb. of pecuniary favors conferred ; thfsupplies voted you by his parry, nnj the Bureau under General Swayne in klabama, as another reason why you shodd act with the Republicans. I belllije Gen. Swayne to be a friend of yoo%, ?I believe the gentleman who has [list addressed you is also a friend,, for ney have no cause to be otherwise; but ao better friend than I am and manj other Southern men. Many of us hie.been educated by your labor, and jhope I shall livo long enough to pay jpubnck with compound interest in pbmoting education a'mong you, which I tell you is the only hope of your race. 1 . . I r^uestcd that General Swayne be continaed over us; for although we see. things'from different stand points, yet, I belieta he wants to do right, and I j i. J *. r_ 1 O f- ? 1 I never ninK-iess 01 any one ior an nonost difference of opinion merely. But hoTrevcr worthy the motive1 of the act on the part of the Gdvernment in'assisting yon through -the Bureau, and for vhich the Senator, amongst other reasons, claims your votes for the : Republicaa party, it is an undeniable 5 fact ihat tie same party discriminates ' against you in theway of taxes on cot- j ton, and lii this way "wring from the j J sweat of your brow one hundred, d 1- 1 tars to every one received: by you i through llie some Bureau. i With fheso facts staring you in.the < face, which the honorable Senator will | iot dony, what is the obvious object of , lis visit South ? It is this, my friends :j ^ [lis party is in power, and ho is here' ,| riding to keep theiu so. He is hereto ^ brm a political alliance with yoiv.Jind . .vliat few whites can be induced lo join ] lim. They want office, they wanfc'spoils,- ' md they want to retain powelv It is ] luite pleasant and profitable to them. < 't is not becaftSfckthey love you: better 5 ban otlier i)eOple. I warn yon against i V - m a. southern conservatiim At this time of all others, a spirit )f moderation and conservatism diould possess our people. The trials md dangers of a military governncnt arc so great that, in the defer- . chi liope ot constitutional remedies, pany may be willing to sacrifice eve y doctrine to which they formerly, , ^lung, and in despair be prepared to ' ulopt measures to which twelve ( nonths ago tlicy would have been 1 jitterly and upon principle opposed. This must not be. Excessive revulsions of feeling are ever to be dread( O # j 3d, and as much harm may be done , bv excessive and unreasoning concesuons, as by dogged obstinacy and an utterly unyielding spirit. The condition of our affairs is in ( some respects plain and readily comprehensible. An effort has been made , to test in the Supreme Court the eortitutionalitv of the Military acts.? There is no doubt that if the question is decided at all, it will bedecided in ; ci -ii :?i?..,! ravoroi me eoum aim iigiimcst mu iwuical party. The unconstitutionality of the Military law is as clear as thelight of the sun, but the question cannot , now come up until December next. It is certain then that until that month there is no hope pf relief from the Supreme Court, and before tliaff time, in all probability, steps will be taken in this State for the registration of voters and the election of. delegates under the Sherman law. In all States where the whites have the ma- ( jority, it is clearly the part of wise and sober men to vote against a convention, and remain under military rule in preference to self condemnation and self-stulification. It would be their duty and their policy. But , when in a State where the colored el-, ement is largely in the majority, a registration of voters and a convention ? is ordered, it is equally the duty and policy of the people of that State to meet the issue at once, and, under silent protest, turn to the best account the agepcies which are intended to:' destroy all Conservative ideas and .es? tablish every violent itaaicai pnnciple. From every party, as a party, the people of this State should stand aloof. With no party, as a party, can we have any immediate affiliation or fraternization. Our party must be a simple conservative organization, whose object shall be, while obeying the law as a law in fact though not a law in right,?to prevent the inauguration of violence or turbulence, and exert every possible influence to prevent the organic change wrought by force in our institutiOnsirom working 1 our own utter ruin and that of the country. t * This great Conservative party may include-men of every former political opinion and doctrine. No man in it should-be tabooed or proscribed, but all who have order and peace at heart,' should combine as good 'and honest citizens, in one powerful Conservative organization, every Southerner, every secessionist will find place,, and in it the n ass of thfc Union party will find roomt Neither must repel the other, by any attempt to revive in malice old issues and dead distinctions. There must be a true and pandid oblivion of old disputes and older controversies. The labor and work of each one is needed, and they will be given by every man, who, whatever . his policy or principle, had only looked to the well-being and stability of the country in which he lived. In the Conservative organization I. of this State,'there must be leaders, 1 and- while these leaders should be chosen indiscriminately from all the various parties which have existed, tbey must- be, as far as 'is practicable, men who will command the respect and confidence of all classes of their fellow-citizens.. They must 'be men who will work- for our one common object?to save; the State from political liacks and unprmoiplcd agitators, ^'ho would be willing,-for profit* tb destroy the very life of 'Carolina, and who would be willing,- for profit, to'p'anJcr to any one class that would raise them ..to a temporary ciainence of unenviable -- notoriety. No man in the Conservative party should be outlawed'or ^ostracized. - There should 36 one dest, and one alone,?and that is that the whole party should work sedulously to maintain order and law in our midst, and to avoid everything zalculated to engender a war of races, which must end in making the country exceedingly uncomfortable to all g^<^t?ucttV,e to^oho'T?eei'l; Cf~' Charleston Mercury. General Burton.?In the general rejoicing over the restoration of Mr. Davis to the free air of Heaven, the press has/^poken in kind and cordial terms of several gentlemen, -whose names arc not always associated with the most pleasant recollections. In ( the universal gush of amiability wc ( see evidences of an approach.to a bet- 1 ter understanding between the two ] sections, and trust that the intercourse 1 between Mr. Grccly and other promi- * nerit members of the Northern press with their newspaper cotempoaries of 1 the South may bring good fruits.? ! These gentlemen of the "grey goose ijuill" have just enjoyed themscl/es in a very festive manner. On Monday night Messrs. Carrington and Ford, ^ of the Exchange, as wc see by our ,j Richmond exchanges, gave tbem a j sumptous supper, on which occasion 1 Mr. Grccly presided. t The Enquirer informs us n itsrc- ( port that "many a bumper was '< drained in honor of General Burton-, ] Horace Grecly and Jefferson Davis" j ?a curious trio, all will admit, to be ^ thus associated, and yet the kindly sentiments expressed meet.with gen- ( oral approval. We accredit Mr. Grecly with the ( purest motives in the course he has ( taken, and fully understand the prac- j tical value of having our friend, the i( philosopher, on Mr. Davis'bail bond. . But, next to the heatlh of the great ^ chief of the lato Confederacy, we , should . have done honor to General , Burton. s We cordially detested Mr. Miles, "( whose genius was the order of the ( turnkey rather than the soldier, and ( wc are honest in our respect for his successor. General Burton had a < task of peculiar delicacy to perform, r and discharged his duty in a manner 1 becoming his profession. ( The contrast between his conduct j and that of Mr. Miles is at once stri- . king and instructive. It shotvs us < the* difference between an educated ( soldier and a drill-master, with polit- j ical affinities, and constitutes in it- ( self a strong argument against those progressive philosophers who arc in favor of abolishing West Point, in order to increase the patronage of 1 Congress. ; These reflections, however arc a- i side from our purpose. We simply ] desire to say that the people of Vir- < ginia and of the South understand ( the conduct of General Burton, and i while under the present condiiton of i affairs, we arc caucious in praise of i those wlioare set above us, lost our 1 honest expression should betray the im- i press of a servile and unmanly, effort to conciliate favor, still,tin his casewe fear not misconstruction, when we say that the behavior of General Burton to Mr. Davis entitles him to our kindest regard and earnest commendation. . "In this we believe we give utterance to the unanimous voice-ofthe v Southern people, and we trust that ^ the instructive lesson of his example will not be lost on his profession. ' Norfolk Virginiaiu. . ' " . A July Session of Congress.? The Washington National Republu can is now of opinion that the 5th of' July will be sure to bring a sufficient number of members of Congress to*, form a quorum,, and that there may he a session of several weeks. The demand for the.extra session, says the Republican, does not grow out of any supposition that the impeachment question is likely to beconsidered. There is no probability that anything of that sort "will be attempted. The question that will ^assemble Congress in July, if it assemble at all at that time, is the financial. " condition of the government. We bave been going on swimmingly,, and ire had began to flatter ourselves that even the national debt would soon bo paid, or so far reduced as to render tof very little account; but within a rerr Trccka-tl>o unrlrlpn njui rapid decline of the receipts at th<T Internal?- ? Revenue Bureau has materially changed the aspfcet of affairsin fchtrt lirection. Instead of being able to* cancel any further portion-of the pubic debt, we may actually be obliged :o increase it to meet the absolute d"er nands upon the treasury. * * * * . We must not be surprised there&re should Mr. McCulloch find his strongs cox suddenly depleted to meet the lemand for the <mrrent expenses of ;he government and the payment of :he accruing interest upon the na'"""1 rlnV.fc f'nnm-nca * then. mUV Emd it necessary to 'come* together^ that ways and means may be deviled to replenish the national treasury,, rhis, then, and not the impeachment question, may bring Congress together in July, and their session may ic protracted for some time. Sooner or later, Congress will bo jompellcd to acknowledge that th'ere jannot be prosperity for the North vhilo.efforts are' made to insure the mlih'ral nnfl-finn-m-iJ South. Figures and facts are already naking this evident; and partisan* ' 'ecling and sectional rule must be ibolished if general fortune and general security are desired to be estabished and maintaiilcd. Circular Relative to Intemperance Among the Frcedmcn.?Maj.-Gene'al Howard, commissioner of the Frcedmcnrs Bureau, announces that n formation has been received from. Virginia and South Carolina that >ncmperance among the freedmen is. )n the increase. General. Howard1 * i i ^ j_ * n states tfiat already a movement j? u?. ibot in this city having in view a ;horough organization, so as to enable ;he colored people to exert all the power possible to prevent the evil in question. The Sons ofifempcrance,. n their Grand Divisions, retain Jhe Did bigotry, and decline to extend their order to save men of dark skins "rom drunkenness, except it he upen mnditioTi that there shall be complete ind enforced separation. Ho there'ore expresses a hope that the officers . md ngonts of this iDureau and thp igents of the different benevolent a?* jociations working for the elevation )f the colored people will take immeiiate measures to organize associa:ions of colored people (never excludng the white) under the name of 'The Lincoln Temperance Society." There is great appropriateness in the lame, from the well known character >f Mr. Lincoln, and from the loye the freedmcn bear him: General Howlrd instructs the assistant commissioners to have the names of officers Dr agents of the bureau who may bo intemperate men immediately report sd to his ofhce.?Exchange. How. to be Fresii a^d Healthy, ?The New York Evening Gazette tells young ladies that if they would have a fresh, healthy and youthful appearance, they must beware of late hours, large crinoline, tight corsets, confectionery, hot bread, cold draughts, pastry, decollette dress, modern novels, furnace regulators, r-asy carriages, late suppers, thin shoes, fear of knowledge, nibbling between meals, ill-temper, haste to marry and dread of growing old.