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* * ' v"1 ...... I ........ ~ " * "** * THE NEW # SOUTH. Vol. 5, No. 43. Beaufort, S. C., Saturday, August 25,1866. Whole No. 172. UtJinc JSouth. iKHtDCU EVKr.Y ISATUBDAY MORNING BY L. '1 Humpson, Ed.tor and Piopriitor. . PKICL: Fir* O n tn uxk uofi pKk UI XL.BED $4 50 TriMCiL AlOKXHN. U 50 Osk Yka* . v ..2 00 IN ADVANCE. Asvutxhkmexts.?Ten cento ? bne for ami iud?rtion ; Mibsoqucut insertions bj Agreement. TLK.M8 CASH. Office comer of X'uith ami B streets, adjointi?/ the Store of J. 0. Thompson d lb. |tg-Notice* of Mabiuauk* and Djuths inserted at :*) cento each. THE 1'HESIDENT ak1) His POLICY Washiaoton, Arignot 18. The New Hampshire delegation to the Plniade phiii Convention had hu iuiet lew with the President IukI evening, iu the course ol which, alluding to the Convent iou and hi lutuie policy, he said: "We liuve now a policy ..nd prin.-ipi. recognized und laid down by tire lliuSt intelligent, ttOlc ..? (Iduiut.v v t?i lueu tliut LuVf couvt-ueu since the D< cltii'Htiou of ludejrendeuce. A lectgui* lion of thin policy uiid principles Would be required of those ?Wio re. eive office and patrousge train the Government. it wiut A duty lite Aduiiuistruti >11 owed it* elf, that Strength and power should Ge giv.u to tuose who tua.uiaiued the principles declared by that great Italy of N?tioiial uien wuo met this we k iu Con- j TeUtioU at Philadelphia." Tftc MUX KEDIKUS OF TDK PHILADELPHIA; (?NT?m5 MUUlTrtt) TO TitS PKfcM EST?ills BUPLY. There was a great crowd at the White i House to-day, to hear the President in respouse to the H<>n. Keverdy Juimson, who preeented the official proceedings of the Convention. Gen. Grant was present on the occasion. -?* The President, referring with feeling to the soene re routed of South Caro tad Alsss iChUAetis euienu^ m? u<u? > veutiou togetftet, said Lhut he wan ov?r- J come, uud could not but conclude that < ?u overruling Providence wus directing | us arigbt. Our brave men hud performed | their duties iu the held, uud won laurel* j imperittuble; but, .turning to Gen.Grant, I he coutiuued, there ?ire greater and more! impotUnt duties to petloiw, *u<t while! we huvef had their uo-operaUou iu the! field. We now need their effort* to per-; petuute peace. [ Applause.J The Executive Department had tried to pour oil on the water* an 1 restore the Union, but it had not entirely succeeded. ! W* have ?e?u, he said, iu one department of the government every effort to prevent the restoration of peace unJ harmony^ in' the Union. ' We h-ve iwen, hanging < n :be verged the Government, ?m it were, u body exiled, or whiuii assumed U> be, the v ougreas of the United St>iU?, while, in fuct, it is a Congress ?,t oiilr part of the Mates. We have seen this Congress assume and preteud to be i for tue Union, wheu its every step and I set tended to perpetuaie disttuiou, andj make a disruption of the States iuevju- j We. Instead of promoting reconciliation I hud burmo.ij, its legislation has partaken.j nf iwoiui i..< I VI lllf ciliiriitiei v? t and reveng? This has l>eeii the course! and the policy of one jjortiou of \ our j verntnetit The humble iudividu .1 who ; Is now addressing you utauds us toe rep* representative of another department of the Government. Tin- tuaiiuei iu which lie wu? VAiUrl u4.o? to 9co\iy> Unit poni-' | tioo be will not ulludc to on this occasion; Uuffice it to aav that be in here under the I Constitution of tue country, and being | here by virtue of its provisions he takes bin stand upon that charter of our liber* ties as the great rampart of civil aud religions liberty. [Prolonged cheering.] Having been tanght in my early life to bold it sacred, and having practised upon it dniing my whole public career, 1 shall ever continue to reverence the Constitution of iny fathers and make it nty g :ii1e. [ff.-aity n| plause.] j The Pievident denied the charge that he had been tyruui ical or a dcsp< t, but \ said that such charges weie simply in-1 tended to deceive aud delude the public mind into the beliet that them is s??me <>ue in poser s ho is usurping and trampling npou the rights of the Constitution. It is doue by th >se who make inch charges for the purp<?M? of covering tht ir own acta. [That's so, and applause.] I have ielt it my duty, in vindication of principle and the Coustitntion of my c umry, to call the attention of my couuti ymen to these proceedings. When we Coine to examine who has been playing the tyrant, in whom do we find despotism exercised ? As to myself, the elements of my nature aud the pursuits of my life, have not ma le my practice oppressive- My nature, on the contrary, is ia.her defensive iu its character; boil will any that, having taken my stand upon the br< ad principles of liberty anil the Constitution, there is not power enough on earth to drive me from it ? ~ * v l ^ TT . [Loud and prolonged applause, j unvmg placed myself upon that br.wkd platform, I have not been awed or distnuYed, or intnuid tied by either threats or encroach* uieuts,but have stood there with patriotic spirits sounding the tocsin ol'alai w.wben I deemed the citudel ol liberty iu danger. [Great applause.] * I said on a previous occasion and repeat it uow, that nl[ that was necessary in this great straggle against tyranny and dt-ep?>iism was that the struggle should be made audible lor the American pe?? pie to hear uud properly understand. They did hear and seeing what the C <n* testniits were and what the struggle was: about,they detei aiinad they ipould settle this question on (he side ot the Constitution and principle. I proclaim here to-1 day, as I have on previous occasions, that my faith is in the great mass of the i? oule. In the darkest h/ur of llii* strug* git-, when the clouds accused the most lowering, iny fuilb^ intend of giving way, loomed up through the cloud, be-. VoOi which I saw tu.it uli would be well iu the end. My countrymen, wo nil know 'fhat 1yr? utmv .iudjieapotisiu. in the language of i Jtff-r ou, citn be ?zeroised and exerted uiuie effectually by the many th.iu the one. Wo imve Been a Congress tisnt seemed to lorget that there wu* a limit to the sphere nud scope of legislation. W-.-have *e?-n u Congress in a minority H8.sa me tp exorcise power which, II ailowed to bo carried out, would result in j despotism or unorchy itself. T*.s is ti utn, and 1*00808(1 others, a* well as mysell, have seen proper to appeal to tb'e patriotism and republican telling of the country, we-have been denounced in the severest terms, $lauder and vituperntion of the most villuimna character have made their way througu the press. We have seen u Congress gradually enciOicti, step by step, and violate day alter day, and mouth alter month, constitutional rights and fundamental priu cip:es of the gnverimieut. >vimt, ?? lieuien iiAJi betsu your and my sin ?Wh.it iiits been the cause of our offeud.ng? 1 will toll you: Dam g to k't.uid i?y the Cjuatifuti >u ot our lathers. 1 ! cwusi.lcr the*proceedintja of this cottvouUou, sir. us more lOyortrut uj?ui liioso of any convention that aver assembled in the United States. When 1 look with my mind uport that collection of citizens comiu" together voluntarily and sitting together in t ouncil with ideas and principles commensiuate with all the States and co-extensive with the whole people, ~ 1 ??? ;*?.{*!. tka i?>lliif<linn i^firt?r_ HUH LXIUIIuai th mtu kuu 8on? who are* trying to de?tro> the country, I regard it as -inore important than any convention that Las sat since 1787. [Renewed applanse.] I think I may also sav that the declarations that there were made are equal to the Declaration of Independence itself, and I here pronounce them a second Declaration of Independenre. [Cries of *1 glorious, " prolonged 1 applause. ] < Your address and declarations are nothing l<ss than the re-afimnatidn of the Constitufion ? f the United States, i Yes, I will go farther, and say that the declarations yott have made and t # principles you have enunciated in your address are a second emancipation proclamation to the people, for in proela miog these great truths yon have laid down a Constitutional platform upon which all can make a common cause and stand united together for the restoration of the States, and the preservation of the government without refcreuce to party. The question only is the solvation of the j country, for our country rises above uii pai ty considerations or influence*. How many are there in the United States that nquire to be free? They havo the shackles on their limb* and are bound as rigidly as though they were in fnctiu littery. *1 repe.it, then, that your declaration i3 the second proclamation ol emancipation to the people ot the United Siates, and offers a common ground upon which all patriots can stand. [Applause.] Mr. Chairman and gentlemen:?Let me in this connexion, a*k what I h ive to gain more than tlie udv.uicement of the public welfare? I am as much opposed to the iudnlgence of egotism 4* any one, but here, in a conversational manner, formally receiving the p oceedmg* olth s Convention, I may be permitted again to ask what have I to gain, Consulting human ambition, more ihan I have gained, except in one thing ? My racs is nearly fan. I have held from the lowest to the l.?i.? ui ?u? iivov tiO'-iitinii to which a1 nilMVVt ^ r - ^ tu in may attain in our Government, .aid iutely, gentlemen, this should be enough to grjuty a vewouuble uuihitioU. Ii lj wanted authority, or it i wished to petpetuuto my own powar, how easily it wottld huvtj been to hold nod wit-Id thut vrbi. h wui placed in my hand* by the measure called the Jpr?*nku?u'<t Burenit Bill. [Laughter and applause.j Wiih.au urniy which'it placed at "Qi-ScKtion, I could have remained at-the W*pi at ot the n itiou,und with titty o^* sixty uiilli n* of appropriation at my disposal, with the j inarchiuery to be Wa.ked'by my satraps and dependents in every town und Tillage, j and then, with the Civil Eight* Bill fol* 1u? unvil(t\pt> .'latiflrhtarl in con I IU?IU(J ?a mu v J # uectiou witU nil the other appliances of thrt (JKivwinment, I coaM bate proclaim* ed ?ny?rlt' dictator. Bat# gentlemen, my pride uud my ambition have been to occupy that position Wai :b retuiua all power in the h aid* Of the people. It is upon that I have always relied. It is upon that i'rety, and I repeat th it neither the tauuts uor the jeera of Congress, noi vsubsidized, calumniating press can drive me from iny purpose, [threat ap"i-"* 1 no suoenoi- ex* - ? eept wy God, tae Author of my existence, and the ptQpifi_y( the ''JJinted skates." I Prolonged and enthusiastic cueering.] For the one, I try to obey his counsel#, i Hi oent I ou;j, compatible with ray poor ; humanity; for the other, the high oeauats ! of tne people Lave #1 way be?u lespevted i atU Obeyed by tu.-.' Items. ?Efforts are being made to export beef and other meat from Texas, without salting, drying, or hermetically sealing, and in a perfectly good and fresh state, by a newly discovered English process. ?The yacht Alice, 28 tons, Captain Clark, arrived at Isle of Wight nineteen days from Nahant, Mass., July 29. A son of professor Longfellow was on board the gallaut little craft. ?The cabinet of President Johnson nowconsit-ts of the fallowing elements of old politisal parties; Secretary of State, whig; Secretary of Interior, whig; ittnrnor-General whie: Postmaster General, whig; Secretary of War, democrat; Secretary of the Navy, democrat. I ?A special dispatch from Kalcigh gives the vote of 15 counties with a total of 4,U07 in favor of the Constitutional Amendment, and 4,004 against it. This is very close, but there is reason to * hope that it is adopted by the State. / ? The dispatch of Governor Erownlow, in which he designated the President of the United States as a deceased quadruped of the canine species, is all the more mortifying frem the fact that (as Senator Cowan admits) it was designed &3 an offset to a certai* remark of tho President which will probably live as long as ho does, and which was to the effect that the Secretary of the United States Senate was a "deadda^:." The worst feature 1 u:i)tri#nru>r*ifinTl i? that VI 111 in HUUU^^a^V ?4?W|rv.?.w? ? iwhen Presidents indulge in it, leseer officials will imitate it, while nil officials should avoid it.* ??Gcii. Bobicson, commanding is North Carolina, has ordered that all judical cases wherein freedmen are interested are to be hereafter tried by th9 Stats co arte instead of the Bureau courts, ex* cept in the adjudication of contracts. . - The French Academy pays its tribute to the increasing importance of the Uuited States, by selecting 03 the 3ubjeot for its prize poem of next year * Ths death of President. Lincoln." v : , ?' ' . ? Certain eitjr.n:;3 of Oxford, iliss., inI ' * V J *** ' * " [ oluding-^vdisucpilor, tw^^rofe-tfors and. it ti-uat?-e of the Ui?iv*?rdg? o* M?s.tan,i two prominent members of tho local bftr. bave united in ?n addr<*.*3 to the people of the Stnt* concerning the education of the tT?cu^Dcn. Tr>?y 3?t fortU thelf^ duties to'tho colored race on the ground of the Divine'Hyucotinn to ?fprc&d tho gospal to atery creature, aud of human gratitude for past sortioe* Xbej propose to su3tuin. e Sondty-^ch^ol for oral and other instruction, and bars already or* gftuited one with a huadxed scholars and and tweiee teachers. -Dowager-Queen Snsa, of iheSaad* vrich Island*, ana arrived in New Yoxk ircitn England. She come* 09 a r?iigioua mtoileu." Secretary Seward bfts invited tor co be the guwt of the xuUou. , * -"Every one of the nine CongrettcfM I^-U4 iswA ate wav'.xwia.