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"FT " If ^ THEIEW^SOUTH. * h - >'* *' Vol 1, No. 19. PORT ROYAL, S. C., SATURDAY, DEC. 27,1802. Price Five Cents. ....... i i? i ? THE NEW SOUTH. Published every Saturday Morning by JOB. H. BKA1S, Proprietor. Prick : Five Cents Per Copy. Advertisements, one dollar a line, each insertion. Term.t: invariably auk. OFFICE: Post Office Building, Colon Square. POETEY. NOW. Arise, for the day is passing While yon lie dreaming on; Your brothers are eased in armor. \ And forlh tn Oia flcrlii im Tour place in the funks awatta you; Each man has a put to play; The peat and the future are nothing In the fee* of the stern to-day. Arise from the dreams of the future? Of gaining a hard fought held. Of storming the airy fortnea. Of bidding that giant yield; Tour life may hare deeds of glory, Of honor; God grant it may! But your arm will never be stronger, Or nodded aa now to-day. r? T - - No chains so unworthy to hold you A* thooe of rain regret; d or bright *be ia liftil? ever; Cftct her phantom im ftway, Nor look back, a*ve to toots the lesson. Of ? bOfeto strife to-doy. Arise! For the hoar is y?ting ; The sound that you dimly hear It your enemy marching to bottle ; Rise! rise! for the foe is near. Stay not to brighten your weapons, Or the hear will strike st tost. And from dreoaw of ft ootning bottle l'?t wiHwSkeaaA flndil yMft. Hit Cut Of the Sioux Indian*?Interesting letter from Bufcop Whipple is Begard to ithem. tftisfcop Whipple, of Jfianesota, has addressed tax able and earnest tetter to tbe e jiior of the St. Paul Pieteer, on the subject of tbe iste Indian ?mm ins hi that State, and the condemnation of Ahrae hundred of the savages to be hong for the aiurttera committed. It does aot seeas to be the .e^jeot of the Bishop to ask nrerey for the murderers. Be says: " There Is no man who does not rfsel'that the savages who committed these deeds <of lioleace must meet their doom. The law of ; -God And man dike require it. Tbe stem neeessittici of self-pro taction demand it. If oar own inefficient system had not permitted the Spirit Lake (murderers to go unpunished?if to* had not refuted Jo regard them at tubjects of lau>?we should not .have suffered as we have in this outbreak-" The ofegect of the Bishop appears to be, in the tflrst .place, to deprecate the mob violenee with which the prisoners have been threatened?to dia pel the popular frenzy th.it prevails in the State, .clamoring tor their execution in a spirit of blind vAMira*nr.e that mav e.isilv involve the innocent * ""t3 ? ? " firith the xuilty in the extreme penalty inroked The secondis to arraign the whole policy of the ' .General Government toward the Indians, which he .does.in a most able and effective manner, aid does ?not hesitate .to record his belief that the recent horrora.in Minnesota are owing to the errors and -wrongs of that policy. His emphatic language is, ".I believe God wiil hold the nation guilty.'* The only doubts raised by the Bishop of fha propriety of jmoisbing the entire lot of Ind/mk coutlctw, seems based on the possible innocence t of some of the individuals, Alii the present fury of passion which unfits a popular tribunal to deckle fairly on their cases. Ihe wqrda of the Bishop on this point are admirable and;weighty,and should go far to restore the people t>f Minnesota to the sway of reason. He says t " While we execute justice our consciousness I ot wrong should lead us to tc? strictest scrutiny, I lest we punish the innocent. ^Punishment loses its lesson where it is the venge^ace of a mob. The mistaken cry to take law into pur own hands, is the essence of rebellion itself, si* citizens we have the clear right to ask our rui&s to punish the guilty. 1'he State has the right*? arraign these men in her courts; but anything^jce a mob violence is subversive to all law." jfa. But passing from the meruSW this special case of Indun outrage and murdering, which we hope now to see brought to a peac,/ul and just solution, we think it worth while to oaf public attention to Bishop Whipple's indictmea'of the Nation itself, for its wrongs to the Indiana-wrongs not to the Sioux only, under this Adttji)ii*tratkm,but wrongs to all tribes and under all Administrations. Bat the relations of the GovernWnnt to the Sioux will do to Illustrate the whole. Here are the Bishop's cha *es That the Gov eminent regard* we inajau >-poe$ as "independent nations," not subject to I piled States laws? whereas they should be regarded as heathen w?Is of the nation, and govern erf,'Jn that relation, aad protected from their own int^taal violence sod barbarous practices. Our tta|M ? atipulatkma with the Indian tribes destroy tm independence of the ehiefs, who soon becosi# lh*( pliant tools of agents sod traders in schatwnto as 'idle the people. The tribal form of goreraattet f dng thus debauched -i gf. fords no other, and Hurt Ujktnceforth uo lavo la hold in dude the evil paeeio+s of bad men. No punishment is inflicted among them for theft, murder and violence. No effort is made to restrain the savage warfare the tribes wage on each other. On the contrary, says the Bishop: " They have murdered each other in our streets, fought beside our villages, even shaken their gory seaips in our faces, and we did not know that we were nursing passions since to break out in violence and blood. There was bo mark of condemnation upon their Pagan customs, for even high officials have paid them to bold heathen dances to amuse a crowd. The Government, instead of compelling these men to live by hoaest labor, has fostered idleness, encouraged savage life by payments of money, by purchases of beads, trinkets, *scalping luuves, and really given the weight of influence on the side of heathen life. The ssie of firewater has been most unblushing when we knew that if it made drunkards of white men, it made red men devils. j ' The Bishop next gives, w jat we all know is too true, a sh ocking picture of the frauds, impostures, cruelties and robberies that tor time immemorial j hare been allowed under our Government to be perpetrated on the Indians by traders, who defy all laws, human and divine, to gain the eno.mous profits of their illicit commerce. The wrongs of these men bear their perennial fruit of blood. The following fact, stated by the Bishop, is enough for national humiliation: " Oantdi has not had an Indian war since the revolution; we have hardiy passed a year without one. The same tribes there are bound by ties of; aft'eetion to the English crown." Of the immediate cause of the outbreakand mas sacres of last Summer, the Bishop gives the following account: ? Four years ago the Sioux sold the Government about eight hundred thousand acres of land, Dejng | a part of their reservation. Of $96,000 due to the j Lower Sioux, they have never received a cent All has been absorbed in el dms except $880 58, which is to their credit on the books at Washington. Of tke portion belonging to the Upper Sioux $88,851 12 was also taken for cLiros. Of the large b dance doe the Upper Sioux neither the agents nor the Indians knew when or where it was to be in the advertisement for Indian supplies, this Fall, are 100 doaen scalping knives, 000 pounds : beads, 100 dozen butcher knives, 150 pounds of I paint. paid. For two yean the Indians have demanded to know what had become of their money, and again and again have threatened revenge unless they were satisfied. Softy this last Spiing, the traders informed the Indiana that the next payment would only be half of the nana! amount, because the Indian debts had been paid at Washington. ' They were in some instances refused credit on this account. It caused deep and wide-spread discontent. The agent was alarmed, and as early as may ! be, wrote to me that this new fVaud must bring a : harvest of sorrow, saying, " Qod only knows what i will be the result." In June, at the time fixed by custom, they came together for the payment. The agent could give no satisfactory reason for delay. There was none. Hie Indians waited at U? Agencies for two months, dissatisfied, turbulent, mad, hungry, and then came the outbreak, a tale of horrors, enough to curdle one's blood. The money reached Fort Kidgeley the day after the outbreak. A pait of the annuity had been taken for claims, and at the eleventh hour, aa the warrant on the Treasury shows, was made up from other funds to save an Indian war. It was too late! " It is not a hopeful prospect, we fesr, that the National Government will be able to reform a system which is productive of so much crime and i blood, but It is, at least the duty of all good cits- ? sens to give their eounsel and efforts in tiiat direction. N. Y. Timet. Rebel Overtures for Peace.?'I he Washington correspondent of the New York Tiibum gives ft somewhat detailed statement or tne erurrs 01 me leaders of the rebellion to correspond with influential men in the North, with a view to ..n amnesty snd a subsequent compromise. U is asserjed that the desperation of the rebets has induced"* iuKu To * ? ? this offer "provided the Government will allow !" them to do so and resume their old mastery in the | " counsels of the reunited nation.0 The Tribune t correspondent says on what he deems the most undoubted authority, that the matter has not only been brought before the federal government, but has been canvassed for upward of two weeks. He professes to know the precise state of the case between the confederate andUnionauthoritics, which he states thus: '< l>r. Rarnev a citisen of Baltimore, was recent ly taken by the rebel pickets near Centreville, and forwarded to Bichmond. He has since stated that he went in the way for the express purj>ose of being captured. While in Kichmond, where he has numerous acquaintances, be had frequent interviews with the members of the Confederate Cabinet, and was admitted into many of the secrets of the rebel programme. When the time arrived for his departure North, he was sent for by Judah P. Benj inun, who handed him letters addressed to Gov. Seymour of iTiw York, Fernando and Ben. Wood, Vallandigham, and Cox of Ohio, Senator Bayard of Delaware, Beverly Johnson of Maryland and a number of other noted democratic leaders hi the North and in the Border States. In the verbal cri v..n tn fir Hurnev no terras wero UliUl UVifVipil ? asked for. The Southerners toul him they would consent to no terms, that if not admitted into tho Union again as equals, they would not come in at all. What they ask is the granting of an amnesty to ail the military and civil leaders of the rebellion, so that an election for Members of Congress can be made during the coming winter, and that body be called together at least as early as A pril. With the heavy democratic gains in the 1 te elections, the Southerners see that they could control both the Senate and House, and they oti'er to let tho terms of settlement between the two sections bo made by that Congress. They say they will never consent to any terms that the republican party now in Dower can offer. A settlement, however, in which they will have a controlling voice, in thu next Congress, t ey are willing to abide by. " Dr, Barney had an interview with both S. eretary Seward and Preside ut Lincoln as soon as he returned to Washington and. aeourdiog tohisown st jry, those oflicials declined to eoesi er the matter in the shape in which he present* i it to them. He has since that time visited New York for tho purpose ct seeing and eonversiog with John Yan Buren, the Woods, and Gov. Seymour.? Bmto-n J)diIn JJwr.iur.