The Carolina Spartan. (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, September 06, 1866, Image 4
of the United States was intended most
carefully to provide. We demand a strict
and steadfast adherence to its provisions.
In this, and in this alone, can wo find a
basis of permanent Union und peace.
Fourth. But it is alleged in justification
of the usurpation which wc ccndetuh, that
the condition of the Southern States and
peoplo is uot such as renders safe their re
admission to a share in the government of
the country; that they are still disloyal in
sentiment and purpose, and that neither
the honor, the credit nor the interests of
the nation would bo safo if they were readmitted
to a sharo in its councils. Wo
might reply to this:
1. That we have no right, for such reasons,
to deny to any portion of the States
or people, rights expressly conferred upon
them by the Conssitution of the United
States.
2. That so long as their acts aro tlioso
of loyalty?so long as they conform in all
their public couducitothc requirements of
the Constitution aud laws?we hove no
right to exact from them conformity in
their sentiments aud opinions to our own.
3. That we have no right to distrust the
furpo.se or the ability of tho people of the
Iniou to protect nnd defend, under all
contingencies aud by whatever means iuay
be required, its honor and its welfare.
Thrse would in our judgmcut, be full
and conclusive answers to tho pica thus
advanced for the exclusion ol these States
from the Union But we say further, that
this pica rests upon a complete misapprehension
or on unjust perversion of existing
facts.
Wc do not hesitate to affirm, that there
is no section of the country where the
Constitution and laws of the United States
find a more prompt and entire obedience
thau in those States and among those pcoplo
who were lately in arms against them;
or whero there is less purpose or danger of
any future attempt to overthrow their au
thority. It would seeui to bo both natural
and inevitable that, in States and sections
so recently swept by the whirlwind of war,
where all the ordinary modes and methods
of organized industry have been broken
up, and the bonds and influences that
guarantee social order have been destroyed?where
thousands and tens of thousands
of turbulent spirits have been suddenly
loosed from the discipline of war,
and throwu without resources or restraint
UDOU a disorefliuized and ehaotia sonietv.
and where the keea senso of defeat is I
added to the overthrow of ambition unl
hope, scenes of violence should defy for a
time the imporfect discipline of law, and
excite anew the fears and forebodings of
the patriotic and well disposed. It is unquestionably
true that local disturbances
of this kind, accompanied by more or less
of violence, do still occur. But they are
confined entirely to the cities aud larger
towns of the Southern Slates, where different
racesand iuteresta are brought most
closely in contact, and where passions and
resentments aro always most cosily led and
fanued into outbreak; aud evcu there, they
aro quite as much the fruit of untimely
and hurtful political agitatiou, as of any
hostility on the part of the people to the
authority of the uational government
But tho concurrent testimony of those
best acquainted with the condition of society
and the Slate of public sentiment in
the South?including that of its represen
tatives in this Convention?establishes tho
fact that the great mass of the Southern
people accept, with as full and sincere submission
as do the people of tho other States,
the re-established supremacy of the uutiou
al authority,and arc prepared, iu the most
loyal spirit, and with a zeal quickened alike
by their interest and their pride, to co-operate
with other States and sections in
whatever may be necessary to defend tlio ,
rights, maintain the honor, aud promote
tbo welfare of our common country. History
afiords no instance where a people so
powerful in numbers, in resources and public
spirit, after a war so long in its duration,
60 destructive in its progress, ard so
adverse in its issue, have accepted defeat
and its eonscquenecs with sumach of good
faith as has marked tne conduct of the pco
pic lately in insurrection against the United
States. Beyond ull question, this lias been
largely duo to tho wise generosity with
which their enforced surreuder was accepted
by the l'rcsideut of tho United States
and the generals iu immediate command
of their armies, and to the liberal measures
which were afterwards taken to restore order,
tranquility and law to the States where
all had lor the time been overthrown. \To
steps could have been better calculated to
command the respect, win the confidence,
revive the patriotism and secure tho permanent
and affectionate allegiance of the
Iicople ol the South to the Constitution and
aws of the Union than those which have
been so firmly taken and steadfastly pursued
by the President of tho United States.
And if that confidence and loyalty have
beeD since impaired; if the people of the
South are today less cordial in their alle
giance than they were immediately upon
the close of the war, we believe it is due
to the changed tono of tho legislative department
of tho general government towards
them ; to the action by which Con?;reoa
has endeavored to supplant and decat
the President's wise and beneficent,
policy of restoration; to thoir exclusion
from all participation in our common government;
to the withdrawal lrom them ol
rights conferred and guaranteed by the
Constitntion, and to the evident purpose of
Congress. In the cxeicisc of a usurped
"and unlawful authority, to reduco them
from tho rank of fico and equal member;
of ft ropuhlic of States, with rights and
dignities unimpaired, to the condition ol
conquered provincos nud ? conquered peo
pie, in all things subordinate and subject
to the will of their conquerors; free only
to obey laws in making which they are not
allowed to sharo.
No people has ever yet existed whoso
loyalty and fhith such treatment long continued
would not alienate and impair. And
the ten millions of Americans who live in
the South would be unworthy citizens of a
free country, degenerate sons of an heroio
ancestry, unfit ever to become guardians of
tho rights and liberties bequeathed to us by
the fathers and founders of this republic,
if they could accept, with uncomplaining
submissive!) ess, the humiliations thus
sought to be imposed upon them. Resentment
of injustice is always and everywhere
essential to freedom; and the spirit which
prompts the States and people lately in insurrection,
but insurgent now no longer, to
protest against the imposition of unjust and
degrading conditions, makes them all the
more worthy to share iu the government of
a frco cominonweath, and gives still firmer
assurance to tho future power and freedom
of tho republic. For whatever responsibility
the Southern people may have incurred
in resisting the authority of the
national government and in taking up arms
for its overthrow, they may be held to answer,
as individuals, before the judicial
tribunals of the land, and for that '-onduct,
no wnnintioc nr??1
uvwtwkiVU uii'A U1 pU 1116UU VUUJUlUliltlUnj
they have already ] aid the most fearful
penalties that cau fall on offending States,
in the losses, the suflciings and humiliations
of unsuccessful war. But whatever
may be the guilt or the punishment of the
conscious authors of the insurrection, candor
and common justice demand the concession
that th"J great mass of those who
became involved in its responsibility acted
upon what they believed to he their duty,
in deienco of what they had bceu taught
t? believe their rights, or uudor a compulsion,
physical and moral, which they were
powerless to resist. Nor can it be amiss
to remember that, terrible as have been the
losses and bereavements of this war, they
have fallen exclusively upon neither section
and upon neither parly?that they
have fallen, indeed, with fur greater weight
upon those with whom the war began ; that
in the death of relatives and friends, the
dispersion of families, the disruption of
social systems and social ties, the overthrow
of governments, of law and of order,
the destruction of property and of forms
and modes and means of industry; the
loss of political, commercial, and mural influence,
in every shape and form which
great calamities can assume, th c States and
pcoplo which engaged in the war against
the government of the United States, have
suffered tenfold more than those who remained
iu allegiauco to its Constitution
and laws.
These considerations may not, as they cer
taialy do not jusiify the action of tho people !
of the insurgent Stales, but no just or generous j
mind will refuso to theiu very considerable I
weight in determining the line of conduct
which the government of the United States
should pursue towards them.
They accept, if not with alacrity, certainly
without sullen resentment, the defeat and overthrow
they have sustained. They acknowledge
aud acquiesce in the results to themselves
nud the country which that defeat involves.
They no longer claim for any State the right
to secede from the Union; they no longer assert
for any Stato an allegiance paramount to
that which is due to the general government.
They have accepted the destruction of slavery,
abolished it by their State constitutions, ami
concurred with the States nnd people of the
whole Uniou iu prohibiting its existence forever
upon the soil or within the jurisdiction of 1
the Uuitcd States. They indicate and evince i
their purpose just so fast as tuay be possible
aud safe to adapt tlicir domestic laws to tho
changed condition of their society, nnd to secure
by the law and its tribunals equul nnd
impartial justico to all classes of their inhabitants.
They admit the invalidity of all acts of
resistance to the untional authority, and ot all
debts incurred iu attempting its overthrow.
They avow their willingness to share the Liu
dens nud discharge all the duties and obligations
which lest upuit them iu common with
other Stales and other sections of tlie Union; i
and they renew, through their representatives
in this Convention, by all ?t>cir public c >nduct,
in every way and by the most solemn act-, by |
which States and societies can pledge their i
! faith, their engagement to bear true faith and
allegiance, through all time to come, to the
Constitution of the United States, and to all
laws that may he made in ptmuunre thereof. |
? - . ?' ? >1 - '
] i viiun-uuuiiiij mm ; II ? C.II1 upon you, in |
! full reliance upon your intelligence and your !
! patriotism, to accept, with generous ami tingrudgiug
oontidence. this lull surrender on the
part of those lately iu arms against your nu
thority, and to share villi them tlio honor and
renown that await those who bring back peace
and concord to jarring Mate?. The war just '
closed, with all its sorrows nml disasters, has '
opencil a new cureer of glory to the nation it
has saved. It has swept away the hostilities
of soniiment and of interest which were a
standing nienaco to its peace. It. has destroyed
the institution of slavery, always a cause of
sectional agitation and stiifc, and has opened
for our country the way to unity of interest,
of principle and of action through all tiino to
' conic. It has developed in both sections a military
capacity?a a aptitude for achievements
of war, both by sea and land, before unknown
even to ourselves, ami destined to exercise
hereafter, under united councils, an important
influence upon the cluuacler and destiny
of the continent and the world. And while it
has thus rcvcalq^, disciplined and compacted
our power, it litis proved to us beyond controversy
or doubt, by the course pursued towards
both contending sections by foreign powers,
that we must bo the guardians of our own independence,
and that the principles of rcpub
lican freedom we represent < an find among the
nations of the earth no friends or defenders
but ourselves.
We call upou you, therefore, by every conniderulioii
of your own diguily und safety, and
in the name of liberty throughout the world, to
complete the work of restoration and peace
which the President of the United States lias
1 so well begun, and which tlio policy adopted
i by tho present Cougress nlonc obstruct. Tlio
, time is close at hand when members of a now
I Congress are to be elected. If that Congress
shall perpetuate this policy, and by excluding
* loyal States anil people from i(-presentation in
its halls, shall continue the usurpation by
which th< 'giaUtire powers of the government:
re now ?rciaed, common prudence compels
us to ant pate augmented discontent, sullen .
withdravqfrom the duties and obligations of 5
the Fedcrt government, internal disscntlons
and a gedul collissionof sentiments and pretensions,
>hich may renew, in a still more
fearful sh|e, the civil war from which we have
just euiersi. Wc call upon you to interpose ,
your pow|to prevent the recurrence of so
transcend* a calamity. We call upon you iu *
every Conjessional district of every State, to
secure tho(eclion of members, who, whatever
ditfercncctiuy characterize their political ac- 1
tiou, willjmiie iu recognizing the right of I
every Stntjof tho Union to representation in
Congress,pd who will admit to scats in either
branch cvty loynl representative from every
State in tegiunce to the governincut, who
may be fo^d by each house, iu the exercise
of the po*r conferred upon it by the Constitution,
to fve been duly elected, returned,
and qualilil for a scat therein.
When th shall have been done the government
will Vvc been restored to its iutcgrity,
tho Constiition of the United States will have
rc-cstablifcld in its full supremacy, and the
American limn will have n train become what
it whs de.siped to be by those who formed it,
a povcrcigiiation, composed of separate States
each like itplf, moving in a distinct and independent
spkrc, exercising powers defined and
reserved by* common Constitution, and resting
upou tfc assent, the confidence and cooperation
o all the States and all the people
subject to Is authority. Thus re organized
and restore', to their constitutional relations,
the States wd the general government can
cuter, in a faternal spirit, with a common purpose
and a oinmon interest upon whatever reforms
the s<iurity of personal rights, the enlargement
o' popular liberty and the perfection
of our repuUican institutions may demand.
Important Order from the FueedMEn's
Buikau.?The following order was
issued on Tiurstlay by Gen. O. 0, Howard,
Commissioner of the Frecdmeu's Bureau :
War Department,
Bureau oi Refugees, Freldmen and
Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Aug. 22, I860.
Circular No. 10.
In accordance with tlic instructions oi
the Secretary ot War, it is ordered that on
and alter the 1st day ot October next the
issue of rations be discontinued, except to
the sick in regularly organized hospitals,
and to the orphan asylums for refugees and
frcedmcn already existing, and that the
State official who may be responsible lor
the care of the poor be carefully notified
of this order, so that they may assume the
charge of such indigent refugees and freedrnen
as ere not embraced in the above exceptions.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major General, Commissioner.
jl ne loiiowtng is mc nutnoeroi destitute l
whites and lrecduicii inmates of hospitals
and asylums throughout the South : Yir~
ginia, 569; District of Columbia, 1120; South
Carolina, 221; North Carolina, 215; Alabama,
287; Georgia, 474; Mississippi, 100;
Florida, 88; Louisiana, 41S; Arkansas, 128;
Kentucky, 87. Total number of Government
dependents, 2,703.
Hugging.?An editor in Iowa lias been
fined ,two hundred dollars for hugging a
girl in church.? Exchange.
Cheap enough! Wc once hugged a
girl in church sonic ten years ago, and it
has cost us a thousand a year ever since
? Young America.
That's nothing ! We hugged a girl in
school some twenty five years ago, and had
to support her and the family ever since.
? Tioga Democrat.
Conic to Salem, Oregon, hoys! Conic
to Salem, Oregon; we have hugired a dozen,
and it hain't cost a cent.?Democratic
Review.
Wc hug, and like to hug, and darn the
expenses; feliers. if you enjoy luxuries,
you must pay fur them.?Dog Book.
A Saratoga correspondent says: In con.-c
qucnce of die quarrel existing between Morr smy
and the lintel keepers, the former intends
to creel in Saratoga the largest hotel in America.
It will ost one million of dollars. Among
the stockholders are Comodore Vunderbill and
John Davidson. The former subscribes for
3-00.Ot)t) worth of stock, and the latter for
5100,000. To puiish the Lelnnds und other
hotel keepers the rates for hoard are to be fixed
at two dollars per day instead of five dollars,
the pros t.t price.
* ?
Pnr.sEXT To Gen. It L. L?.e.?A splendid
saddle was recently forwarded from ' *:'vf
per National Kspross, to lien. It. I a
present from the Hon. Mr. Conne ,
who was a frequent guest ot the Get.
ring the war. The saddle is of-'
Horse Guard pattern, with holsti.
pockets for writing materials, ind a
shabrack of wool, bound with r- t clot:
bridle and bruaUstrap are specimens of ..Mini
ruble workmanship; the whole forming a useful
and worthy present. ?Carolinian.
Large Snakk.?A rattlesnake watt killed
near Bellvillc, Texas, reeently, which was
fourteen feet long, six incites thick, and had
forty-two rattles. Three men, armed with
fence rails, hud a desperate combat with tt.
Dr. r.ltitu Toland, formerly of Edgefield
District, was lately indicted, in Gadsden, Flor
ida, for bigamy. He plead guilty and was
fined one thousand dollars and costs.
m ? i ? -? ?
"I'm glad that this coffee dou't owe mt
1 any thing,'' said Brown to a boarder at break
1'hsL "Why?" asked Smith. "Because 1 don'
believe it would ever settle."
Col. James Monroe, of Bouth Carolina, bni
been killed in San Louis Polosi, Mexico, In
a drunken purty whoui he wan endeavoring ti
quiet.
Mayor Monroe, of New Oilcans, is again ii
the full exercise of all his functions, with n
; actual interference on the part of the militar
authorities.
?* *
I The Bank of France now (Aug. 8d.) hold
j in its vaults about ?-8,000,000 of specie. Th
| Bank of England has about ?14,000,OOO
HUNT Ac BHO.
Shipping, Commission & Forwarding
Merchants,
Accommodation Wliarf,
f. H. hunt, Jr. } Charleston, 8- C.
(Formerly o/XEWBERR Y, S. C.)
:o.
Promptly forward all Merchandise consigned
to us arriving in the City from
V ; (IT HEX 0 FOE rax POTS
TT'e will give strict attention to Sale and Purchase,
of Cotton, Rtce, Flour, <J"C.
Liberal Advances on Consignments.
References.?O. W. Williams & Co., Charleston,
S. C.; Kussel it Ellis, Wilmington, N.
C.; Biglow & Sargent, Baltimore,; Lathbury,
Wickersham & Co., Philadelphia,, N. L. McCrcady
& Co., New York ; Ray & Walter, Boston
; G. W. Gnrmany, SavannJ:, Ga ; G. 11
Wilson, esq*, Norfolk, Vu.
Mch 1 5 Cm
WILLIS & CLIISOLM,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AXD
suMm.YG aGJEjvrs,
Will attend to the purchase, sale and shipment
to Foreign and Domestic Ports, of Cotton, Rice,
Lumber and Naval Stores.
Atlantic Wharf, Charleston, S. 0.
E. WILLIS, ALEX. R, CHISOLM.
Mch 1 5 tf
J. AT HEN'NEMAN
A^'l) JEWELLER.
Spartanburg O. II., So. Ca.
HAS JUST RECEIVED
A select assortment of
WATCIIES, JEWELRY,
mns iM!
AND
Fancy Groods.
also
a new lot of eight-day and twentyfour
hour i" l.OCKS, a first-rate
TICLE.
AV AR RENTED
TWO YE3AHS.
Spectacles for all Eyes and Ages.
WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY
neatly repaired, and warranted.
J. A. 11ENNEMAN,
At the Old Place on .Vain-Street.
Feb 22 4 if
W. I?. aiilster
Respectfully announces to the public,
th at lie litis again commenced tlio
Titining Business,
and fiels himself well prepared and qualified
to do till kinds of work in his line, with neatness
and dispatch. Ho has a large stock on
hand, of every thing usually found in an establishment
of this kind. All articles of TIN
WAKE, will be kept on hund, thereby rendering
himself able to supply the wants of any who
may call on him.
11c is prepared to do such work as ROOFINil,
GUTTERING AND REPAIRING. He
will work and sell, wholesale or retail, LOW
l'OK CASH. All work warranted.
SHOP NEAR THE SPARTAN OFFICE.
Feb 1 1 tf
C. C. HUG GINS
TAIIi O R.
Having returned to the town of
Spartanburg, lie takes occasion to inform
his It tends that I he is prepared to do work with
neatness and dispatch. He respectfully asks
a share of public patronage, and pledges his
best endeavors to give satisfaction to his cus,
turners.
lie may be found at his Shop in rear of J.
15 ARCHER'S STORE, where his customers
' w ill find plates of the latest fashions.
Feb 1 1 tf
TAILORING.
HAYING just returned from a trip North
and West, lakes this method of informing
Ms former Patrons and Friends, that he is now
,>ared fo till all orders with neatness and
! .tch in the very LATEST STYLES, as
tp as a-y one for Cash or Barter.
' "liop is over the store of FOSTER A
i' S, opposite the Court House,
e latest SPRING FASHIONS hare jusi
;i received. WM. LOCKWOOD.
Feb 1 1 tf
farrow & duncan,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
and
Solicitors in Equity,
' j 8ta>'"OiIke in Brick Building, upstairs, ove:
' former Oflice of James Farrow.
1 James Farrow. D. R. Duncan.
April 15 11 ly
; willmms, evins <fc choice
attorney s at law,
SPARTANBURG, S. C.
Geo. W. Williams. Yorkville, S. C.
B
P Jno. 11. Evins,
a William Choice.
June 14 20 6m
law copartnership7~
y TTAVINO associated C. J. ELFORD, c
,| J_ Greenville, S. C , with mo in the praclic
of law for Spartanburg District, under the nam
and etyle of ELFORD A EI.FORD; all hustnet
8 entrusted to my care will receive the prom]
? and faithful attention of said firm.
J. M. BLFORD.
April & 10 Omoa
f n-a in
DRY GOODS STORE
Teppe Ac Smyth
WOULD respectfully inform the LADIES
that they are now receiving their
SPRING STOCK,,
CONSISTING OP
White Long Cloth, Brown Shirtings and Sheetings,
White and Brown Linens, Merrimack,
Amoskeag, Schwabe and American CALICOS,
warranted fast colors. Jaconets, Cambrics and
Victoria Lawns.
A complete and choice assortment of NeedleWOKK
and Linen 8ctt?, Needles, Spool Cotton,.
Working Cotton and Thread in every variety.. 4
ALSO, a great assortment of
DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, Liens and!
Hosiery, Bonnet and Lute-String, Ribbons,
Thread and Cotton LACE8 and EDGINGS.
Having been connected for a long time with
the Dry Goods business, we are confident of
giving satisfaction
ALSO, on hand a general assortment of
BOOTS and SHOES, Tin Were, Hats and Cape,
and a general assortment of GROCERIES, at
the UP TOWN STORE.
FREDK. TEPPE, ALEX. H. SMYTH.
N. B. State Money Bought.
April 26 13 tf^
NEW SPRING GODDS.
0 ' j
WE HAVE just received from Charleston, a
fresh supply of
BOOTS, SHOES, PRINTS, ^
and many other articles too numerous to mention,
which we offer at cheap rates.
CALL AND SEE US.
B it. J. L. WOFFORD,
No i opposite Court House.
April 3 10 If
NEW GOODS.
WE arc now receiving a capital assortment
of GOODS, selected by a member of our
firm iu the Northern market.
GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES
DKEHS GOODS,
LATEST STYLES OF
<
LADIES' HATS,
S EC O S S,
TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS,
??-CALL AND KNOW OCR TRICES.^J&f
1ANDIVER, BLAKE & CO.,
Mi*y 24 17 ?f
ew Enterprise !
south ernImporting
AND
MANUFACTURING DRUG HOUSE,
PRATT, WILSON & BROS.,
IVo. SCtS Kinp Hrect,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
o
Tho Proprietors are Native
Southerners*
1 Xo such enterprise South of Philadelphia. Will
Southern Houses give us their Patronage t
WE OFFER AT RATES THAT COMPARE
FAVORABLY WITH NEW
1 YORK PRICES. ALL DRUGS,
CHEMICALS, MEDICINES,
SPICES. Ac.. THAT LEGITI
MATELY BELONG TO
OUR LINE OF BUSINESS,
AND
; KEEP ON
HAND
1 ONLY THP3 BUST
. vir Packages put up to suit
Country Trade,
1 Is. A.PRATT, Chemist to late C. 8., Niter and
Mining Bureau, L. W. WILSON,
P. B. WILSON, Chemist to late C. 8., Or
Department.
April 11 6 1 j
Merchants Hotel.
(C?lh&iril3S$3>:Sl, So (So
r Cheapest and Lest Hotel in the State.
Transient Board $8.00 %) day.
Weekly " 14.00%) week.
March 1 5 if
" A. ILLING,
Millinery and Fancy Goods,
AT NEW YORK PRICES.
262 KINO STREET,
Opposite Bufain Street,
CHARLESTON, SO. CA.
March 1 5
DBS. B. & J. L. W0FF0RD
> y"xFFER THEIR PROFESSIONAL SERVIio
CES to the citizens of the Village and
e surrounding country. One or both of ue will
is be found conetantly in the offiee at the 8T0RS,
>t during the day, and at our Residence, opposite
Wofford College (Church Street) a* night.
Peb 1$ 8 - if