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One 50 S aw, ami One 45 Saw TAYLOR GIN. A Ojift 4'2'Saw, NKltLETT ? GOODRICH GIN. UlIBBKll ?KLTJNG fnrhinhed nl Agent's prices. J, A. HAMILTON. ^ 10,1873 21 if Speech of Capt. Hi G. Sheridan bet?re the Survivors Association. Little moro than a half score of years ago, the people of South Carolina and qT the Southern Seat'cs, were un?cquinteu with occasions of this character. From our earliest recollection, ib is true, that families and communities met to shed a , tear of sympathy, and to pay the last jtributo^of/rcsjiectaud love to the memory of the dead. States, too, in a congregated capacity have eulogized those honored I servants, who by n lifo of faithful'.und i devoted labor for the public good, had Von for themselves the love and merited the .well-done of those they served. The death of a McDUflio brfa Colhoun, of a, Clay or a Webster aroused the great pub lit'heart of the nation; and :t iinitbd but. stricken people met in solemn assemblies: to deplore their ioss, and to perpetuate, their memories. Monumental piles hayo been creeled all over this laud bearing upon their fttces the testimony ofapco-". pie's memory of the sainted dead. Hearts - have, indeed, shed great tears of love,but the bereaved ones mourned not without hope?their grief was ten percd by a family Siincl a State pride. We felt and believed, when the grave received their sacred remains, that they hud lived in the service of a country, which 'would remain to us and to our children a perpetual inheritance; that they had died iu the defence of a goverment, whose principles of States, rights und States soveignty would forever be a bulwark of defense to ours and our ihihlren's rights. Consign ing them with mourning, to the mother, dust, we returned to homes to study the lessons taught us by their lives, to prize the purity of their^characters and to love the kindred, the homes and the govern ment they had left us. We believe that the fanio of tho dead was the glory bflho living, and the history of tho public ser vant was the history ofthc count ry; there fo^o wc hpwdpil submissively to all the dispensations ofT'rovidoueo. But to-day wheroare nur homes? Where our kindred? and where is our government? There is nothing left save the precious memories of the past, the bitterness of to-day, and an anxious looking forward to the events Of to-morrow. ' And in this dark hour of our calamity we. :.:e Met t in or with disappointed hopes as the survivors not only of our brave comrade."?, who fell upon the battle field, and lie moulding in their grave.-, but of the principles,soi iu],.political and religions the\ dien to'defend. The mem ory of these like them, is consecrated to immortal gratitude; because in the graves of the defenders lie juried the principles they defended. As the one can never again physically aid us, so the oilier can never morally protect us: with tho old love is buried the old faiths. Were it possible for one, ignorant of the events ol the last dozen years, to visit this country ami see the hoinesonec pros perous, now demolished or decaying; towns and cities onco alivo with thrift and trade, now in nsbes or delaprdntch a country once green and ripe to the harvest with a united and contented pop ulation', now seared, and blighted, and ravished with one race pulndcring an other; and a government once adminis tered by honesty and intelligence, now with ignorance enthroned and rascality rampant?a nation of thieves where an honest people had been; he would nuju rally conclude that, some terrible political convulsion had happened to break town the spirits and destroy the energies of the people,? or, that a long and bloody war of extermination had devastated tho fields, burnt *hc homes,-depopulated the j cities and left the country to plundcrand j repine. But what are the facts? It is true a political revolution did occur; but it was for the establishment of inalienable right, and might bavo been avoided by honesty and'fair dealing. It is'equally true that a bloody war passed over the land; yet the restoration of peaeo and an equal, government would bavo returd the people to prosperity and to-day its lines might have been obliterated. These ter rible results bavo been due, from fiist to last, to a wilful?a wicked?a revengeful spirit of misrepresenting the motives and the character of tho people of the South, persisted in by tho press of the North ; and, consequent upon this, the adoption of a policy of reconstruction by the (leu ?,-???,-;! ??> ~M V.TVl. '?' oral Government which lins becu distruo' tivc to every interest of our people. Siu?e the .war no, legislative act of the South' has been rigidly construed; no.iuotj.yfe, ever correctly.uudcrstood ; and no policy*1 over correctly cntcrposcd. But e\cry act und almost every word has been distorted^, und twisted, aud forced into sbapo )bp -suit the vyill of her traducers. From 1865 to the present day we:.ha.yc' beard it, and bavo scou it in tho public prints of the North, that- tho Northern* men, who como among us, arc rcniortdj; lessly ostracised from society and brand,!!?5 as carpet-bagger, or political adven turers; and thut the Southern, man, wffc"?' dares to change his political opiniotis,;?s* denounced" as, a. Scalawag,, or renegade and persecuted by the ponunuuity. There* never was a fouler sla?(|cr.. perpetrated upon a people. Let tho honest am; U dustripus man come among us from what quarter he may?from north, cast, south or west wo want him, and if satisfied hi is a gentleman, will welcome him to our hearth circles and homo hospitalities. But wo wish the North to know, and tho world to know that tho carpet-bagger a is a peculiar species of man with distinc tive characteristics that mark bis identity, und wo have no excuse to give for tho ineffable contempt and scorn in which Ira is held at the South, and especially in South Carolina. AVith regard to the very few lending Southern men, who have abandoned the old principles for the new which we believo to be unconstitutional and ruinous to our interests, all I have to say is, that, in almost every case, tlj? change of -sentiment has beep accom panied by ciieumstiinces that left..no doubt, on tho public n.ind of dishonest ami .venal piolives. The. man. who suDs himself, oan expect .nothing but condem nation at the hands of the South. Wbllest an honest change of sentiment, based upon convictions of right, is us min i; respected here as elsewhere; tho bartering*" of principle f?f nnaiey, is us mm ifr'Tns1"^ pised at the South as elsewhere. It has been asserted, and that assertion repented by every fanatic at the North, that we hopj yet to renpw the conflict and wreak n say ago yeugpanoo on our oppressors. Such a belief could not for one moment be entertained by a single honest man who would visit the. country nnd sec our utter physical prostrati.m, and witness our almost inordinate anxiety for a per manent, peace and restoration of an equal government. It can only exist, in the mind whose aim it is to create prejudices, to excite strife and to perpetuate enmity between the sections. The restoration of tho institution of shivery has been charged to the South. This imputation in the face of our own legislative acts to abolish it and to confer civil rights upon the negro, is too base to be answered. It is the offspring of :in imagination bent upon the perpetual estrangement of the races inhabiting our country, and finds lodgings only among dishonest ad venturers and paid scalawags who circul'ito it during election seasons that they inav ride intj office upon its back! These, and other malicious misrepre sentations by the nothern press and the persistent misunderstandings nnd conse quent oppressson on the part of the government, will fill n page in the history of the Caucasian race that will consign their authors to an immortality of infamy. For before God I .solemnly believe; it and. in the presence of this audience I assert it, that the alienation existing between the North and the South, the prejudices? between the white man and the negro, the broken fortunes, the prostituted govern ment, and the almost universal ruin of this fair Southern land, are due directly und indirectly to the misrepresentations of the. northern press, aud to the opressivc reconstruction policy, inaugurated and pursitcd by the general government to ward the South. They arc not thelegiti mate results of the war,uor,at this distant day, its indirect effects. Our people went into the contest of 18?l with honest convictions that the principles of government, tbey assayed to maintain by the sword, were sound and constitutional?in perfect accord with tho spirit, and intentions of the authors of this government. To accomplish .nun ends wo expended money and blood as long as there was a h?pe of,success; and our de t?kl tjy '?rner'e,1ijh,^ichV(if6rc?'* of numbers. WdW^oW us t?WTOl?rs'oV tflose principle Sv'tetig. 1 The'North did rill'tRiit foHyTor her-to expect''tiic'Sdutliorn pec pic to confers a ft'tote ov toutU knbv^cdge:fche (ibsouno^ess^ oi'thcir^dause:' PthtH'rfiuS^ 1)6 dcih?iti? todV'other ltetm?i that of: the swWc Nor lias sHrj stutlicd huhiHn^iaturValill ir'i^icfttl'ilud IbvdiVg fc?W&at^m^ ?oftfltefeiiW fcnigWsfcV?&lc,' to [Wta^lv*ro3tIfite?ii,{ed1 in' iW'in'fdst of | ^i^)f?c1^,3lilirBsiilJfl.n '^lli^?iM'il ever to be reconstructed i ' r'dc6Vi cil fali'dn'1 cflect?d;'1 it !?y'otWr'Vficltn^^Tuin' thd ever to be reconstructed and a complete WteA&^MyiuaKtJtu.ft m{)st' bc i f;ollC idse on trial now. ing?esteem is not begoitcti of forVe^ Schlier'can the oppressive policy of the goyernmeilt'inakc'thc South love itr"1"' j . There was a titnn after the war when tne'Southern people would have yielded .every thing save, honor, ami the liisCory of the 'past. Had the t promises] made thein timing the war .by the United States Congress, been kept inviolable, tbo Stipulations of peace at. the surrender been sacredly observed and a true inag-j nanimity marked the policy of the victors during flic process of reconstruction, the hnrrowings of war would have passed a.w'ny; tlic broken fortunes would havo been re paired "and the North and South tb-drty would hnvc been one hi sentiment ?one in affection?one in interest. The laws of human affections are every where the same; they control the action of na tions as well1 as' those of individuals., -is < ' '?it.' ? >A>.?td: t i >'V">a'??,*[ Kc-inovo the cause.! of division and strife j will end; .substit.sto love for hatred and friendship .wfili be irest\>red\ und the con 'trary effects wrd result if the opposite V^uise !.<? pursn'ed.' C Am tin tied- and pro voked insult and injury can cndandcr nothing but estrangement, bitterness and strife betwe -n nations as well ns individ uals. Tho stud)' of these principles I would commend to both sections of our country that a basis dl reconstruction might yet bb adopted which will unito our who!-- people in friedship, So that together they may put forth even' ?:?brt to build up again the prosperity and promote '.he glory of'our common country It lias generally bceii conceded by Amer ican statesmen, at least, that, the consti tution of 1787] under wliicfi tliti Federal Govciiinicnt began its cxistance, was as near perfection as human government could bo. made. It was indorsed in the h: ginning by tlie first minds of the nation; 'and, depending the scries of years pro ceeding the late war, it came not only indorsed but do'ended by all the living statesmen of every period ami from all sections of the land. Yet three.fourths ol a century only has verified the predic tion of Alexander 1 Iuinihom thai "The constitution of 17^7" that p&rfection of'| human government "is a frail and worth less fabric." The frainei's ofthat instru ment believed, they had accomplished their whole purpose when they delegated certain powers to lite general government, and reserved all the rest to the States. They believed that these reserved powers would prove a sufficient check against any ejl'drl toward the consolidation of [powers, and was also an ample protection for the individatil rights of tlic States. Their purpose would have indeed been accomplished', had hot two single omis sions been made: One was tlie failure, to a-seit explicitly and difinitely that the instrument itself was a contract subject to tho" laws of contracts, that the general government was not a party to it but simply a creature?an agent to fulfill its stipulations and do the bidding of the original parties. The other was the in excusable blunder of making ho ndiquate provision lor protecting the rights of minorities against tho crushing powor of majorities. Not only these failures ; but Mr. Jefferson, commenting upon the principles ofthat constitution, makes the omniissions. abtust criminal by saying that ono of tho foundation stones of our future Hopes was .that "an absolute ac quiescence in thenecissity of the majority was the vital principle of republics from which ihOrb was no appeal but to force." ."VI.) 'It'is tr\feutlieTo is nn appeal from the. House of Representative^ to the'?Senate, and should both houses, concern in a! measure of oppressions, tnat decision,may-, -feft/QWtrpRed-by tho veto of tho Presi-i dent: should both houses and the Prosi-< 'dcnt-*?gTei?rtho'S?preme "Court,1 iirrhc exercise of^lfs^ bbnsiitVit^ional authority, rrm^sVinkrihb' doinbiulul d'eWion' o{ the limti,. tjlie,1! Senate1 and "the l^rt?des^ imweVlcss'ut ifsfcet: ,; Yet thelilfftor^of ;of'the'govbrnment proves thai'h'ot 'Cv*en this dwisjon of powers is not_B?rH:Meait. for^e^ot^ctionof-the, iciuprity against the .tyranny of .the majority. !'? TO Vdi.&s?bfcf w'fcei. tfre'generaT' go vr ? crW?Wt lihlt tli^Sfat^s 'iirstf,deVel6p,eld,> it-1 se)f iw thei'e'nnctment of 'the- Aliotl "nnd i %dilipi>0T^vs,;aJHl,j ga^hfiriOgTiStrengib . from tyfa Jcirei-sonj'ftrdftct^ lute acquiescence in the'decision of the nin jonty, it established the famous Pro.;ee-. ting sysicm. !Tn:l832 Aiitf S'?bseqiienliy ?iiillS??-?ri-beld^tirl^?esiiolTc Vvns ^that in :ijciil.y until the found ill ion ? stones r.'of SlatCjSoverejgh^Y; -wei^i/^i&keootOi^heir very, centers. . At^yery^ step $10, cputest crew more violent and determined until if. it bi : I ? tip ... ! k lV j'Tw it overcame ever}' barrier and reached ns clinia* hi the electi^o^?rl'llhico'lif to ? the Prosidency;'?'A^ul* tliiis'the^'idajortty ifif the people's; will'!lathrowT the nation into,a war, the results of ..which have swept away every vestige ofStates Kiglits. anil left the government in the bands,of -. ..' io *?.??? ???vi iOi,?l.u;diui let Vila ! a majority which' has destroyed i's- an cient'dignity ami plunged 1 the Sod ill1 into an abyss of corruptioii-iand1 'o'riftto' that fiuds its parallel only iii;the dovfnfnJlt-of a 9re9ccTor.a Romei.pr the .beggaryltof an Ireland. ' 0 , The fatal crroV,!if FtrVnyTi?'al loWed61 fo charge our'fathers! Xvith 'a1 wroiig-doing, (qons^ts.in placing.- the. fttpreme., pow^i in the hands of the people.onthpp^ j&fljh0? law. They trusted in the purity of man,' remembering1 not that, in a' collective", Capacity, m'air invested 'with"' power'??8j nristotle's wild beast, \yWeh in the lierce m-.-j of it.-; rage .tore proud Athens in 'fragments?thpt-soi^ed upon the vitals of Koine and left, that proud,, "mistrrfss of the world" but a mangled carcass among the nations of the earth. The history of governionts plainly show that the people once possessed of sUprcnio power, arc never in?ucuecd .by the. nobler instincts of humanity, but by the love of domiu ion and th: greed of gain; and tho majori ty of this people in the exercise of its sovrrign will is ever a cruel and remorse less tyrant that respects neither the rights of God nor man. So it is and will ever be iu these nomimiHy United States! Until the. decay of this putrefying carcass of a government shall be completed; and the filthy worms, that feed upon it, shall perish. : . * - i d. The fabric of a- government, that Was the pride of a Washington and the,boast of every good and great man in tho years tbai are passed, is. tattered, and torn, ami disorganized with scarcely a vestige of its former liberty remaining. The blind rage of a cruel majority bus done it because power was invested in tho people and not in the law., This power broke through the feeble barriers ot the equsti t'ution, invaded the legislative, executive and jlihicary departments of the govern inent, destroyed, the rights of the States, and burst asunder the bands that hohl tho nation together. It is[jdark io.duy. politically, but, if this majority, rulpcpp, tinues, there may be deeper depths of misery ror the South than those she suf fers nbw.i! In this contest for power bo twoen the general government and the states, selfishness was.one of the cboif incentives, and the le^vcf and fishes,, the grand oljcct of pursuit. Now since the dominant party has made, sure of power, we hear it ?riulusliingiy utter the in fa mOus maxim: "To the victors belong the spoils" Their boasted polit ical virtue has been eclipsed by the brighter pros pQCfeof plunder; public libeity has been' forgotten in the memory oI self, and cor ruptioti stands cnthrouod in the land of Washington. Without a constitution ? without law, tho country is controlled by the will of tho majority, and that majori ty on iguornut rabble, i Let us, my fellow comradse, turn with disgust and loathing from present sur roundings. Forgetting if we can the j political principles of our fathers-reman beriyg only their .virtious lives, let us, look Jorwnrd with faith in God to the 'coming.ofipu'rcr1 princiiilei;1n'rid' institu 1Uou3^iii^?vcrifniont"l>eltcr,'\ulaptcd to ithoinittiiratmid wantsofanan. rTh(r past it w true, is-(full oiH'eftr nfombVres*; wo*'can treasure It hem; the -pr?&nl is ?prcg-rVa'ut with fearful (a?itierp??ii5h#lMif 5ttfeyV' cbme .'. vre rrj'usl)'6ndureJtWein'; <thO fu'ttfreHlioUgh dodbthft iaJnil ihdt' brtrigs-dHYip^HW^Uie heart; Jett us;- 'lHorelore! address' b?rsel ?v'cs to the only;legitinimb ^rufk4 of inc'nriics, (tbafcofimaintaining'-those !land^nial;ks',of character whicWiWnil? -us^tt disliuctivo .^0^6.11^6' pticfclW'repu'tntion, bequea thed; us lryloqi^bvtnHfutlverB^ltnd defen dbd:i>y W. fail^ttiCfm?'ade^ii? niitder'M i dottbly^ideniiiuntoi^'flnd ifths'ti'bb prescr irqediTtdrfh ripU Jegfefly' ate life hopes fit enspireVarc n^imposiWe ^irio* - glory 'of jtlidicdanteiq*W^ftV^n?VeY' bb ante'1'to increase its!lusfcfoV" but>?l?P^?>i?^Iit .tliacjioaet of buwi^nH^vef^dlhf^isli'it. In'thaipast ill .wnslrtb'd %efmltffitt5*nnd faiidiciiaraeter ?rifiiotfr ^Wa?lliiYglbtt^Hihl Madison, of oiir C-idhoi/d'tt'nd '?ltty,rthat dbrmcd the Wa-Vpand {Wboff'df* ?mtfrieUn history... In'tho future^ If '^vi"H-J?tio:s the ?reputation and 'oharaetirr-ol'tHlr'defidillee tundiilackson, of 4fnr living'^Toliri??ilTVind Hampton that Mia 11 lend addit'toual ? dig l?liyi to the'record Vrf^His^doHijihent.'1: - 'Perliapsiirtera"j3,"4o!toioflcliftrl/a6r that distinguishes us'as"Wllz6hs of 'aStifte morc'lKem frSnt? of IoVc Tor bur natiVcTflnd. ?We :may and do feel proud of the brcfo'd Appelat!on,l!ah A mcri'cVjV-^prouder ' kill I ttfUbe<'?ldnous title'/ai Sobfhcrner?but ' ttie-prohdest -cmoti'dns -'touch' ' tlic heart ? whbn we can claim ? to be ti'South Caroli ^'rauVJv?hc^^o?F%id?icrr hero We' first r^re?^hed;ihb breafdi of lifo^anb'hcr'rtcbes Sf^hed'ud tb ma^horJdjWe; '-ashes of our ?ttthors^'ntf'llit?V?ni?s0Ajr'bur: comrades nVo'hei<ft -"No ncMer flitst "mingVea \Vith he^oH'ii tne'^m?k'^licyecl^ reiaft?hs*,'rjf Intmnt ltfereV?Stcr ar?tMid'^iVs?enles^tlf? cbnipttiti?nslli?s ^f'childhood?the Triend "ships r#yonthdi-'tlftlifrW-ami the: stern realities 6f manho'od?all are bohfls-'HlnVt bftid us to+eonth Carolina and make her ^ our hbnic-^-oui' native land. And now irt tins hour of distress and bitler trou bls let no Carolinian " abahdbn* his mo ther; If there was one thing that uelohg ed to and peculiarly'1 markedif ta',(ns citizens of a eoirrnTbn tounfry, tho South in the past, it was d higlfsenso of honor, including in its composition jiistiQe. to all men, a polite sociability with others, and a love for'virtue, "^his g'ave a {polish to Southern ina'nn1;rs^baVm;idc us a dis tinctive people ilnd "attracted tho admira tion of the, world. Tho corruption, politi cal, social and religious, incident'' io tho varied; and often. OOMiUcJ.ing .elements which cnicred. .inLo . thoicomposition of other sections of our.qw.nCountry ond of other nationalities, was unknown,i,afc the South; hence our character as a peqplo Was iiilliiei^cd in its foi ini'^iou by ,a sin gle clement, and that -was .a. unity,, of interest. Essentially a peculiar pcoplo from our institutions and with a single interest we had timd to practice virtue and'measure-flour dealing'? with others by a high'.standard of' lioin.v. .Hut tho spirit of selfishness i nflisod into our com mon life,by tho loss ofourteanso'-and' the importation'of corrupt elements from the Nortli,. has sowhI the seeds of pestilence that have demoralised tho country and well night destroyed our distinguishing features. Lik-; a subtle spirit it h?s underinined the - foundation' of South ern character, ami the .grand buildiiig, that lias been the admiration of tho world, is about to topple to tho ground. SeltVn^esS^smia'ly, materiali.'-m a'.ul pVostilmHmJ,ptdilic::!lv, are rampant i i .tlioHktid:i;T;,? dnnfgcf% elctmmti luivu?'OiiTcreiTHilCti* llfeP common life and arc controlling the daily trr.n.va^t'K.'ns of our people. I SollUhncs.^ ia;soi inflncncing the pursuits a/d : warping't our interests until our bou^lvid tsdciidAlity j.exist, only in name. Muterhllism has entered tho pulpits and sdllrtols' of tb.o Houth,tcaching and instilling its dangevous doctrines in thohoartaof^ojtl and young ui.uil vcrturois scare. !y recognized us the leading char acteristic, of southern society. The most . glaring ciinv.-s^iic ^tj|yjbet|ig justified on religion- [.i'o.riplcs. . l'olitical p!uuiion has seized upon cyc.-v departmeut of the government, from th? ii'.:ib.vi ma.-.i.-lnUe. who tits upon his scat ;.i the lowest, nunial that grovel, at hi focj. Corti\W'lj>i Secondly ; * ' ' *' ?