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TiJB Conservative Convent ion. COLUMBIA, NOV. 7. 1SG7. Agreeably to the published call, the dele gates of the peovle of South Carolina assem bled i:: sj.'..v iuiiun y???erday evening at s wen o'clock, in the Hall of Nickcrson's Hotel. Tho Convention was called to order hy Janus G. Gibbes, Esq., on whose motion, Hon. Wm. P. DeSaussure was chosen tem porary Chairman, and Messrs. F. G. d? Fon tiite and ,i. 'i'. Si-j^n wore appointed Secre tarios. T:.e ROY. Win. Martin then opened thc proceedings with prayer. Tho Chairiuau tailed upoti the delegates to enroll their names, and tho following gentle m "n responded : Anderson-John Ii. Sit ton. B. F. Whittier. . JJ .rnwell-Judge A. P. Aldrich, Augustus Eaves. Junina Bla'rk, J. B. Bates, S. T. Dun bar. R'jhert Aldrich, Gen. Johnson Hagood. }', ?;.'foll-Joseph Daniel Pope. CJis-ita-.-Dr. A. P. Wylie, A. II. Davega, J. ll Cu'p, S. i\ Hamilton. CUenUrJUW-JuJ^e J ihn A. ?tor?s. Colletou-II. \V. U CL?. W. S. Harley. Kdjefield-R. W. Addison, Lexis Jones, E. W. SeibleS, Thoains J.mes. Fair/idd-W. J. Alston, Dr. John Wal lace, G-iner.il John Bratten, G. N. Rev it.-id-, ll. C. Davis, T. W. Woodward, B. E. Eiki i. Oreen ric-.-Ex-Governor 1!. F. Perry, G. I*. T ivfuoH, J. Grady, Davis W. Hodges, ;.. p. Haiiun.'i;, J. V/. Morse. K-.rxh'UC-li.'ii' r.l James Chesnut, Gen est J. D. Kennedy, W. L. DePasst, A. D. Goodwyn. Urangtburg-A. G. Sal^ey, F. M. Wunna makcr, W. F. Barios, J. R. Milhouse. Tkeurens-M. M. Hutiter, X. S. Harris. James W Walt?, Williams Wright, George Anderson. Lexington-Henry A. Mcetze. F. S. Lewi.*. Jobn H. C Colonel John B. Palmer. Mrlioiq.-J. A. Peterkin. A"< tcha m-Simeon Fair. Picken*-?.. F. L-wis, J. W. Crawford, D. Li :m J.J. Norton. IihJtlaiui- Genend Wada Hampton, W. F. l;.-:-vi:i<.<uri:, F. W. McMastcr, El J. Scott, J rh;i S. Grwjn. P. G. DeF-?ntaine, Janies G. Gtbbes .J dill Watta, F. W. Pickling. Colo r?-?! .J >>. Ti omits, John T. Slusn, William Wallace, :j..h.i English. I). W. Rn-, \V. Adams, Hut. E. .!. A ; mr. Hon. Theodore Stark, General John S. Preston, !.. D. Childs, W, B. Stau!*}', T. W. R>idcl:fi>. A. R. Taylor, S. W. Melton, W. ll. Talley, D. B. DcSaa*Mire, Ile..ry I Caagutnnn, James Dougla', J. H. KinsKr. Sumter-A. A. Gilbert. J. D. Blandina, J. S. Richardson, Dr. Mark Reynolds. York-James F. Hart, General E. M. Law, R. G McCaw. U-.u'on-B. II. Rice. S. M. Rico. It will be obst rved that twenty Districts are represented. On motion of James G. G:b;j-.s, a Commit tee ol' enc from each Congressional District was appointed to nominate ollicers for a per maucnt organizition. Tue folio.vit,g are tho n imo? of the Committee: Messrs. Gibbes, A'd-ich, Richardson, Peterkinaud Whitner. These gentleman re'ire 3. .?.r.d after consid eration, made the following report,, which was adapted : For President-Gen. James Chcstiut. For Vice President-Gen. Wade Harnp t >n, Ex G JV. B. F. Perry, Chancellor John A. Inglis, Judge A. P. Aldrich, Gen. John D. Kennedy, Gen. John Bratten, Simeon Fair, Esq., Jos. Daniel Pope, Esq. For Secretaries-F. G. de Fontaine, Esq., JobnT. Sh an, Esq. The President, on taking the Chair, deliv ered a short and eloquent address. Gen. Wade Hampton moved that a Com mittee of one from each District be appointed to take into consideration ail resolutions, re ports, d?C, and report thereon to the Conven tion. The motion was agreed to. Col. E. W. McMaster,Hon. F. W. Ficklin?, Hon. J. D. Pope, Hon. G. F. Townes and H?m, Jas. G. Gibbes offered sundry TLSJIU . fcions and suggestions, when the??Couveation adionrnnvl tn mt^-^- -?- -- COLUMBIA, Nov. S. The Convention met pursuant to adjourn ment, in tho Hall of Nickcrson's Hotel, yes terday, at 12 o'clock, Hou. Jame3 Chesnut in the Chair. Judge Inglis, from the Committee on Busi ness, reported two papers-one an address to the people of the State, thc othor a remon strance setting forth existing evils. Both papers were read to the Convention, and on motion of A. A. Gilbert. Esq., of Sumter, taken up ic '.he cider in which they were read. Ex-Governor Perry moved that the address be adopted. The President of the Conven tion, resigning the chair to Hon. W. F. De Sau>sure, opposed the motion, on the ground that it was inexpedient at the present time for thq State to take any action. He thought the document ably prepared and fully expres sive of its purpose, but believed that it might do more harm than good. Ex Governor Perry replied, and the debate became genera!. Messrs. Reynolds and Gil bert, of Sumter, Hamilton, of Chester, and McMaster, of Columbia, took sides with Gen eral Chesnut. They were opposed by Messrs. Bknding. Townes, Ray, Addison, Pope, Judge Aldrich, Judge Inglis and General Hampton. Thc address was finally adopted unani mously, and about live o'clock, after passing a vote of thanks to General Chesnut for the admirable manner in which he presided over the deliberations of the body, and to the su perialftcdeut of Nickcrson's Hotel for his courtesy in providing so convenient and pleas ant a place of meeting, the Convention ad journed sine die.-Columbia Chronicle, 8th instant. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A Protest Against Negro Suffrage, ?kc. To the People of South Carolina : FXLI.OW-CJTIZK.VS: In times of great pub lic danger} the instinct of self-preservation prompts a peopio to assemble and confer to gether upon the issues that thc stern logic of events forces upon their attention. The citi zens of South Carolina stand to-day in this position. It becomes our duty, therefore, to take counsel together, and to announce our conclusions temperately, but firmly and fear lesaly, to the public. In performing this duty, we shall avoid all terms ot animadversion upon men, parties or sections. The vice of misrepresentation aud detraction has become the order of the day, and both North and South have suffered from the evils which had their origin in this fruitful source of mischief. The Northern people, flushed with victory, have not been solicitons to ascertain the tem per of the Southern mind ; and the Southern people, crushed by thc loss of their cause and their most cherished hopes, have been alike indifferent to events for which they do not feel themselves responsible, and over which they have not the power of control. In the meantime, wicked and designing men, both at the North and at the South, have not been wanting, to keep alive the fires of sec tional hate, until now they threaten to in volve the whole country in misrule and an archy. Of thc 'ate war, it is not our purpose now to speak-the sanguinary fact will stand forth forever in the history of these American States. Our duty now is with present evils, and tiieir future consequence?. The emanci pation policy of the Government was and is the great fountain-head from which springs, and will continue to sprir.g, thc thousand . evils by which wo are environed. ? What but disaster could foliow in the foot- I steps of the hasty and inconsiderate policy, g by which 4,000,000 of slaves, without educa- c tion, and without the least preparation for t the change, were turned adrift from the dis- F cipline and interested care of the master to t provide for themselves ? Must it not be self- C evident to any thinking man, no matter what t his prejudices, that nothing he can now pro- c pose will be able to oonvert an idle, roving, si thriftless/ree negro population into the steady,' o healthy, laboring population (hat we formerly g employed tn cur fields at the South. But, n gloomy as the prospect may be, the people at j oi the Sooth must regard this disastrous result s< M BOW food ?nd fettled beyond real), j el i-n?---j a----gag Slavery ia at an end. Wc do not propo; hat what bas been done should be andoni jut we do propose to th ow that, with tl srescnt fee negro labor, the industrial r sources ol tho South arc in no condition I ?ontributc tc the prosperity of thc ?roun.tr [t is tho part bl wi-d on to lock our rnisf i tunes in thc Tace. We should not deed1 jurselvr.s, either at thc North or at thc Scut Three years o? experience, by both Nort ern and Southern men, attest the fact th; the cultivation of both rice and cotton-tl great staples of thc Sooth-is, under tl present pys'cm of free negro ?ab r, '.he mo uncertain, the least remunerative, and li most harrassing employment in the worl Hod a gradual system of emancipation be< adopted, men w.>u;d, by degrees, have acor inedited themselves to the gradual chang and the industry of'.he country would ha received no such shock as now prostrates tl South and overwhelms her in despair. Up< the agriculture of the country mainly dopen the wealth and prosperity of the country. But a few years ago, tl.c cotton export from the Jailed States controlled foreign e change, and held the monopoly ill loreij markets. Uow is it to-Jay, ami how will bein the fitere? Instead ol 5.000,000 bales, sont forward to exercise the former i Quince upon trade, we have not more tb? one-third ?if the crop of iSo'J, coming in market, and that a la pi iee per pound, in cu renctj-thc revenue lax considered-very li tlc, if anything, in advance of what was r alized per pound lor the largo crops of form years, paid in gold. Why is this? it may I asked. The lands are the same-the seasoi are the same-the e'.imate is the same-wh then, the diU'eronce ? Wc answer, the labor not the sante. Instead of industry, we ha* idleness; instead of system, we have diso der; and instead of profits, wc have losse Shall we be able to drive out competition the future, as we have ?a the past? Sure not. But a few years before the war, one our most intelligent pia-iters represented th State ul iL? World's Exhibition, in Pari: and, upon Lis return, reported that, he sa upon exhibition tb ?re, the cottons from A gier? and from the Hast, which were in ever way pqu?? lo the Guest productions of ii United States. He ?.>!:. d, why cannot the cottons ctn pete with thc American colton? The answer was, because we cannot produt thc article for the same prion; we are cou pe vd !.. hire ihe lab-.?r which yon own-oui ii unreliable, idle a;.d cstly, while yours under control, steady and cheap. Pur thei reasons, }ou \*id always ho able to drive i out of the m:rket. li.it what nov.- U th condition of the Southern planter? Hi labor is much more costly than that of A giers or the East, equally unsteady, and, pr? b?blv. less under his control ; and he hY.r! himself now, after an exhausting war, drive from the market by prices which his forme compstitors caa afford to take. The preset! law t rice of cotton is but the evidence of tb canses already stated. And it nny be thu in a few years, we shall b: importing ott. and rice into the United States, instead c exporting these great commodities. We ar now eating, in the interior of South Caroliut rice imported from China, and we have bed credibly informed tl.at East Indian cotto has leen imported into New York. Hoi soon tbe Stale craft of Groat Britain ma; find it expedient to impose an import dut upon Anicricau cottons, who can tell ? But it may be asked, is there io reniedj for these calamities to the Southern people We answer, most probably no imm?diat retoedy. Time is the great master of th situation. If our people will give up the dc Iusive hope of growing rich by the cultiva tion of cotton-thereby probably workin; their utter ruin-if they will cultivate les cottou and more bread-tuffs ; raise for thei own use and for sale, horses, mules and stool of all kinds ; cure their own hay, make theil own butter, and sell the surplus : il they wil labor to lill the land with plenty, they will in a short time, realize a change for the btttci in their own coudition and the condition o the South-at least, the.' shall cot bav< debts and disappointments added to theil other calamities. And in raising our owr food and supplies at the South, we shook ment3 upon our own soil. There can be nc more auspicious moment than the present tc begin in, at the South, the manufacture o: goods from our own raw material. This wai done to a great extent during the war. Nc matter on how small a scale, let the work begin. To be successful, we must begin at the beginning, and work upward, as ourpopu latiou and wealth increase. We repeat, that we would not now re-establish slavery at thc South. It is too late to correct the error ol its sudden extinction. It is to our interest to make thc most of the circumstances bv which we are surrounded. We cannot recall the p3"t. "Let the dead past bury its dead." But. let us not be entirely hopeless of the future. Little more than half a century ago, the great commodity exported Horn this State was indigo. It ceased to be profitable herc, because it could bc n ore cheaply cultivated elsewhere. Coton waa introduced in its stead, and wa3 cultivated with unparalleled success. Tobacco and rice contributed to increase thc wealth of the South. If these staples cease to be as remunerative iu the future as they have been in the past, we still have a great country left to us, and, with something like good government, our neces sities will give rise to new expedients. To conquer our difficulties, we must meet them with patience, fortitude and courage. But shall we have good government? That, is the great question presented in thc next point that we propose to consider, To admit as a fact, as has been assumed to be the result o' the war, that thc Govern ment of the United States is supreme, and that the States have no rights ; or if they have rights, that they are subordinate to thc Government of the United States ; or, which is thc same thing, subordinate to the will of \ majority having control of the Governmc-Dt, is to admit the abrogation of the Constitu tion, and to ignore the facts of history. In 3ther words, it is to acknowledge that we have i Government of absolute powers, instead of i Government of limited and deb gated pow* jrs. It is admitted, that any Government, jowover limited, may lor a time usurp all lower. A single man may rise up and say, . I am thc State." Any assembly of men nay, fu.- a season, arrogate to themselves all power-executive, legislas've and ju&siaL But he ques tion recurs, is this law, or u this isurpation? Is this food government, or ls t revolt'tion ? Mere physical force is not aw. Il may comp? obedience, but it cannot jive to its acts the sanction of law ; unless it )e in those countros where the will of au ibsolutc despot is the recognized law of the and. To admit that the war has established iuch a power in thc United States, is to ad nit that all constitutional government is at in end, and that as States, or as individuals, Te hold our life, liberty and property at the rvill and pleasure of any majority, which, for .he time bein?, may hold the power. Such, :o-day, may be practically the coudition of .en States of the American Union. But are we prepared to endorse these proceedings and ingraft so monstrous a proposition into our ;overnrni;ntal polity? That is tho question ;hat the pooplc of the North, as well as of the South, are called upon to consider! The ' jreat object of laws, ot constitutions, and of jovcrnmont, is to proteot the weak against :he strong-to shield minorities against the mcroachmenta of majoiitics. It is a politi cal aphorism that a majority can protect it "elf. Acting by the sheer exercise cf arbitra- ? .y power, a majority may, for a time, set at i iau?ht all Jaws within these States-it may ' mforco an obedience to military decrees, from ] vhich lhere is no appeal-it may administer i i purely military government according to | ts own will, and as such it must be obeyed, j Jut when we are called upon to sanction such < joveriiment as being in accordance with tho t onsiitution and the laws, we have a right to < est thc question according to thc rule pr?- | j tosed ai.d to withhold our assent. We admit, i 1 he jacl that martial law exists in South | t ?arolina, but wc do not admit thc principle j 1 hit martial law has tho right to impesc a ! e ivil government upon us without our con- I n sm. Far bo it from us to raiso a factious j e pposition to the Reconstruction Acts cf Con | ( ress. Wo believe that those acts and thc .' ti icasure3 th.-y propose nre de-?ruetive, not d oly to our constitutional rights, but to tur j o >cial peace. With us it is not a quesi:on j h f party, nor pf political power. We caro J Q lothiug for these things. "We are quite wili ng that others should enjoy all the honors ; til thc emoluments of office ; all the pomp nid circumstance of place. What we desire 3 peace-not Um semblance of peace, but he substance of p?ace-peace at our own i>e sid's and throughout all our borders. We ?caire peace '.o enable us ti? build up our ?aste places, our temples of worship, our 'ticked and ruined cities ?ow lying in ashes, Mir dismantled dwellings and our prostrate L-redit. Wo desire* peace fur its own sake ; for its holy Christian influence, and for thc civilization and refinement which spring up in its path. Do the Recoils1 ruction Acts of Congress propose to give us thia peace? No, they give us war and anarchy, rather. They sow the seeds of discord in our midst, and placo the best interests of society into thc hands of an iguorant mob. They disfran chise the white citizen and enfranchise the newly emancipated tdavc. The slave of yes terday, who knew no law, but the will of the muster, is to-day about to be invested v iiu the control of the Government. Ia Ul popu lar Governments, the two gi eat sources of pow*r may bo traci-d: 1st. To the exercise, of the ballot. 2J. Ti the frai.chise of thc jary.b-ix. Invest an)- people with these two ^rc:it powers, and they buve at ouce thc gov ernment of the country in their hands. By the Keconstruciion Acts of Congress, these powers are conferred upon the negro-he can make and unmake the Constitution and the laws, which he will administer according to thc dictates of others, or his own caprice. Weare uot unfriendly to thc negro ; on the contrary, we know that we are his best friends. While he occupied the position of a slave, he ivas protecteil by tt>0 laws, according to his condition in life. And now, that he has been mad ; free, we are not only willing to confer up<;n bini every civil right, hut to pro tect him i:i the full and free enjoyment of ihoiO rights. In his property, in his lif.*, and in his person, wo are willing that the hluck mau and the white man, shall stand together upon the same platform, and bc shielded by thc same ;qual laws. Wc venture the opin ion, that the people ofSoath dro?ua are prc paredjto adopt aa their own, the Constitution of any New England, or oilier Northern State, wherein it is supposed that the civil rights of the negro nie most fully and amply secured. Dui upon a question involving such grave and momentous issues, we should be tiutrue lo ourselves, and uti fair to our opponents, were wc to withhold the frank and full ex pression of our opi-ions. We, therefore, reeling tuc responsibility of the subject and the occasion, enter our most solemn protest against the policy of investing the negro with political rights. The black man is what God and nature and circumstances have made him. That he is not fit to be invested with these important tights, may be no fault of bis. But thc fact is pateut to all, that the negro is utterly unfitted to exercise the bigh? e*t functions of the citizen. The government <>f the country ahou'd nut bo permitted to pass from tho banda of thc while man into the hands of the negro. The enforcement of the Reconstruction Acts by military power, under the guise ot negro voters and negro conventions, cannot lawfully re-establish civil government Iii South Carolina. It may for a ti .ie hold us in subjection lo a quasi civil government, backed by military force, but it cm do no more. A? citizens of the United Statis, we should not consent to live under negro supremacy, nor should we acquiesce in negro equality. Not for ourselves only, but on behalf of thc Anglo Saxon race and blood in this country, do we protest against this subversion of thc great social law, whereby an ignorant and depraved race is placed in power and influence above the virtuous, the educated and the refined. By these Acts of Congress, intelligence sud virtue arc put un di r tout, while ignorance and vice are lifted i;<to power. In South Carolina, the negro majority, un der the Reconstruction Act?, is much more than two to one. In most of the other South ern States, the negro majorities, if Dpt so great, arc alniott as decided. In those Stat where the white vote ia in the ascendant, the election districts have been so arranged, as neuro vote. What, then, is the inevitable result ? It in vests the negro with absolute political power in each of the ten Southern States, and at tho same time, inve>ta him with the balance of power in thc United States. Nor ts this all-the reconstruction scheme closes the ballot-box agaitist the best informed and edu cated classes in the community, and opeus it. to the negro, of whom not more than ouc in a hundred can read a word, and not more than OHC in live hundred can write Lia name j and multitudes of whom are so profoundly ignorant, as lo Oe unable to remember the names by which they have been registered. Verily, this seems to be converting a popular Government, of which we have been so just ly proud, into a popular farce; and we would be content so to consider it, if it did not in volve the issue ol life and death to the form of Government established by our fathers for the benefit ol themselves and their posterity. If the object of the framers cf the Recon struction Acts was to degrade tho Southern people, it u time for them to consider whether the degradation may not be brought to their own doors-whether the poisoned cup may not be returned to their own lips. But it may be asked, why do not the. Southern peo ple accept thc situation ar.d control the negro element? This question is much more easily asked than answered. In tho first place, it may be said that the influence of the corrupt and intriguing demagogue, who will appeal to passion and prejudice, has always been found to be more powerful with the excited and ignorant mob, than thc wisest counsels of the best friends. Besides, the foundaiion stone upon which Republican Government rests is, that the election frauchise is to he exercised by a free, intelligent and unbiassed judgment; and whenever it is admitted that this franchise is to be controlled, or, in other words, to be made the suljcct of undue in (hence and of bribes, theu, too, it must be admitted that Republican Government is at m end, and must, sooner or later, give way to such other Government as may be forced upon a depraved and already corrupted people But if it ?3 proposed in advance to place the enfranchised negro uuder control, why con fer the franchise at all? Surely, the part of wise government is to prevent the evil, nnd aot open the door to the mischief which jthcra are admonished they must be prepared, i>y trick or management, to avert. But why ares* the subject further? It is onough for is to know /hat this wild and reckless experi ment comes home to the hearth-stone of every citizen, and involves family and property, lociely, liberty, and even life itself. Nor is his all. The courts of justice are dragged nto the mire from their high position ; our nost intelligent white citizens are excluded rom the jury, while the ignorant negro is devated to that responsible position ; the jury ista are made up from the INts of registered rolers, which, as wc have said, are moro than wo to one in favor of thc negro. Not cmlj', ie it remembered, is the negro admitted to ho jury-box, but the white man 13 excluded hcrefrora. Think you that when thc great nasters of the common law of England pro lounced their encomium upon tho trial by ur}*, that they contemplated for a moment uch an instrument as an ignoraut negio ? niel ? Think you, that when tho framers of he Constitution of the United States iucor .orated into that instrument the provision hat the trial by jury should always be held ?violate, that they intended to engraft upon t such an enormity as negro jurymen, fresh rom the cotton and rice fields of the South ? L'hink you, that when John Rutledge and iis illustrious compeers signed that instru neut on the part of South Carolina, that hey intended to forge a chain which, in a leriod no longer than an ordinary life-time, rould drag their grand-children (who were hen playing around their knees, and some f whom are now living,) for trial before a jry of their own slaves? Talk of additional umiliation, talk of confiscation, complain of leniency to rebels, after this ! God forbid I 'he Government of tho United States has nforced against the Southern people the lost stupendous act of confiscation that has ver been enforced in thc history of nations; :o\r property in slaves has boen confiscated j un i the amount of three thousand millions of I ^" oliara ; other personal property, ?ti the shape n' I cotton, provision-, stock, plate and money, j Ch as been captured or destroyed, to the value we f one thousand millions of dollars ; and J he bi an Bi Cl im Di as th ur sh Di th cn th i th SU om these causes their land has deteriorated i tho extent of one thousand millions of dlars-making in the aggregate the enor 0 is sum of fi ve thousand millions of dollars. hese overwhelming losses fall exclusively pou the Southern people. The political dis complained of will, of course, fall chiefly pon tbc people of the South, but not ex'clu vcly upon ihein. Fasten negro supremacy pon the South, and it must bc felt through ,1 of her relations with the North-whether Dmtuercial, political or social. Should a Northern mar.-and how often must such ecessarily be thc case-be brought to trial 1 the State or Federal courts at the South, is life or liberty must be passed upon by morant negro jurors. Should the most ifficult and complicated questions of pr?per f arise in Southern courts-aud how often mst such be the case, arising from inter ?arriage, inheritance or trade-the cause of ie Northern man must bo decided by the ame ignorant tribuual. Nor is this yet all. 'ho highest prerogative of government is lie taxiug power, and the efforts of the wisest talesmen have been expended to guard this teat power against abuiC. No power has icen more jealously watched than this. No lower lias given rise to so much strife and iloodshed in the history of the world. The ontcst between the mother country and the olonies originated in her assumption of thc ight to tax without representation. By the leconstruction Acts of Congress, the taxing lower is placed in the hands of those who iwn no property, and is taken away from hose who hold the propeny and must pay he tuxes. The war that has ni ways ex ited between capital and labor ia decided in avor of tho latter, and tho wealth of the ountry is prostrated at the feet of those who lave nothing at stake but their daily wages .nd their daily bread. How will this power ie exercised ? Can it be supposed for a mo nent that it will be exercised in any other fay than to impose such burdens upon the ax-payers as will amount, in thc end, to .Tactical confiscation of the small remaining ubstance of our people ? But we must for ?ear. Such arc some of the immediate con equences of the Reconstruction Acts upon he people of the South and upon the whole lountry. We have said, and we repeat, that we de lire pc.*.cc ; but thc policy now proposed can lot give us peace. It is contrary to tho voice if reason and the law of nature. Instead of teace, under the Reconstruction Acts, we hall have strife and bitterness. Instead of he S'mth recovering from her poverty, and :onlributing her share to the common wealth md prosperity ofthe country, she will be :ome inure and more impoverished. I Tue ?light of misrule will cut short her harvests ind dry up her resources. The law of vio enee, which*h. s prevailed for more thau two ears in reconstructed Tennessee, will extend ts sway througl out the entire South, and we hall reap, like her, the harvest of crime and >!ood multiplied two fold. We have shown thut free negro labor, un ler thc sudden emancipation policy of the government, is a disaster from which, under he most favorable circumstances, it will re illira years to recover. Add to this the poli :y which thc Reconstruction Acts propose to ?uforec, and you place the South, politically md socially, under the heel of tho negro; hese itdl'Janeescombined would dmg to hope, ess ruin thc tno?>t prosperous community in he world. What do these Reconstruction Vets propose ? Not negro equality, merely, mt negro supremacy. In the name, then, of lomani ty to both races-in thc name of eft? enship under the Constitution-in the name >f a common history in the past-in the name if our Anglo-Saxon race and blood-in the tame ofthe civilization of the nineteenth cen ury-in tbe nume of magnanimity and thc loble instincts ot manhood-in the name ol 3od and nature, wc protest agaicst these Acts is destructive to the peace of society, the ?rospcrily of the country, and thc greatness .nd grandeur of our common future. The peor'. of the South are powerless to "p"? ?v .inpaneling ruin. We havo been .. ?ruorne ; aud the responsibility to p?stcri y and to the world bas passed iatojother fHE ADVERTISER. JAMES T. BACON, EDIT OE. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 18G7. Our Clrab Hates. Wo arc now furnishing tho ADVERTISER to Hubs at thc following very low rates: Two Cupic3 ono Year, $5.50. Five Copies ono Yoar, 12 50. Ten Copies ono Year, 22.50. Twonty Copies ono Year, 40.00. No Clubs received for a loss poriod than one oar,-and in all cases thc Cash will bo required i advance. The names of the cntiro Club must o sent at one tirao. J^gTTo Capt. LKWIS JOSES WO aro especially idebtod for lato New York, Columbia and Au usta papers, for which favor ho haa our thanks. lES^Wc are this week reluotantly compelled > defer our various noticos of new advertise lents, Le. Shall all appear in our next. ?3*Collector CANNON authorizes us to an ounce that thc ?alo of tho Hall Land, as advor sed by him, has beon postponed until further otico. f??~A communication signed "W." has just con handed us, which bears dato 1st Octoher. To regret that lt did not reach us earlier. It is nnsccssary to publish this article now. -? -?- ? The Election Next Week. On Tuesday, tho 19th inst., will begin that lost wretched and pitiablo burlesque, tho voting pon thc question of Convention, and for Dele ites to thc samo. In Edgcficld District, wc arc rou! to say that thc whites have no candidates, he negroes, however, if wo arc not misinformed, wc thc quota-seven. And, verily, these sevon ay .?deep upon their pillows without fear of op jsition or defeat. This week wo will not ourselves again exhort ir pooplc, one and all, to koep away from tho ills. Instead, we point them to the earnest ox >rtation of our popular fellow-citiicn, and State ?iiator, (whon wo hst had one) Hon. G. D. [LU?AN, from whom thoro appears in this iasuo, communication worth tho attention of all. Wo .y with him, ly all you hold ??icrod, touch not, tndlo nut, the unclean thing. roc ce din ss and Address ofthe Colum bia Convention. We present to our ceaders this week the pro cdlngs and Address of tho Consorvativo COJ mtion which met in Columbia on Wednesday st. It will bo soon that very many of the wisost id bcit mon of our State wero present as dogates. And whatever may bc thc difference opinion as to the wisdom of holding this Con ntion, tho Addross, j>er ne, undoubtedly dc ands universal respect for its wisdom, inodora >n and high tone. Visit to Our Town ol Very Kev. Dr. Bermingham. During tho past wcok, his many warm frionds Edgcficld woro delighted to once moro greet, id welcome to their midst, the Vory Rov. Dr. VRMINCIIAM, tho author and builder of that lurch which is tho greatest architoctural orna snt of our town. And apropos, we congratulate r. BEUMINGU-IM upon finding tho sacred edifico polid, as clean, as bright, ns beautiful, as on u day when the artistic Qothic Cross first rented ion its tower. Though at first intending to make only a vory ort visit, yet, at thc solicitation of many friends, \ BjtRUINOnAX rcmaiaod over Sunday; and ot at day prenched to a largo and cultivated audi ce, and administered tho rito of baptism tc ree childron. Tho subject of his discourse on is occasion was Auiicular Confossion ; and in iad of assuming a controversial tono, he calmly d loarnedly -'-owed tho reason why Roman tholies boliovo and practico this doctrine. Dr. ?RMIiionAV, wlmso homo is ot present in arlos'on, is well belovol in Ed?ofiold, and will, fuel assured, no vcr lack a kindly welcome from r citizens. i Roaring of the Whirlwind ! Of tho whirlwind which will noxt year shatter tho fabric of Radicalism in ono completo wreck ! A roaring most harmonious to Southern cars ! On Tuesday the 5th inst, elections took place in the State? of New York, New Jersoy, Massa chusetts, Mnrjland, Kansai, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minuosota. In the great State of New Yurk, whoso voice is so powerful in the affairs of this nation, the Dem?crata have triumphed magnificently; their majority is 40,000. New Jersoy has gone Democratic in every bolo and corner. Missouti has elected a Democratic candidate to Congress-tho only contest of import*nce which carno o!f in that State. In Kansas, negro-suffrage has boon defoated by 10,000 mnjority ! In Maryland, the new Consti tution doing away with every vestige of Radical rule, han been triumphantly adopted by a majori ty of over 24,000. In Minnesota, tho poople have, by a large ma jority, refused to strike tho word " white" out of their State Constitution, and tho Conservatives have had large gains throughout the State. In Wisconsin, the Republican candidate for Governor has been olocted, hut by a reduced ma jority; and although tho Conservatives have gained largely, still the Republicans carried a majority of tho Legislature, which fact unfortu nately puts an end to all hopa of the re-election of a good man, Sana'or Doolittle. And lastly, in Massachusetts, the home of the faithful, although John Q. Adams, tho Democratic oai.didato for Governor, hus been defeated, still Boston has been carried for tho Conservativo ticket, and throughout the rural districts the Radical majorities have been terribly cut down. This week wo have an unusual press of matter, but next week wo will lay before our reader! more tn externa the results of these important elections. Suffice it to say at present that the signs are as suredly most hopeful. Look out, then, for the good timo coming, when the voice of the people shall prevail ! Blossoming as thc Rose. Literally blossoming as tho Pua:! We mean tho lovely farden of our tasteful friend Capt. J. C. BROOKS. On Monday-think of it !-4th of wintry November!-he kindly laid upon our ta - bio the most glorious ai d glowing banquet of Roses our eyes over beheld. A bouquet of fully fifty varieties. We are fond of flourers, and we thank him for affording us a most refined gratia cation. The Episcopal Orgau of the Sooth. Wo are extremely gratified to enroll among our exchanges Th>. Southern Churchman, which for threo and thirty years has been fighting the "good fight;" striving for three and thirty years to thc graud and mighty end of educating and infurmiug the people in religious, moral, and in tellectual truth. The Churchman ii published nt Alexandrin, Ya. Terms, $4 a year, in advance We rccommind it warmly to all Episcopalians to all Christians. Petersons' Philadelphia Counterfeit Detector. This periodical, which is a regular safe-guard in Banks, Office?, Counting-hou.es and Stores, is issued on the 1st and 15th of each month, and has bocome a necessity to all business men. Some few people think that a Detector is not of any usc now, as wo hare nearly all National Bank cur rency. This is a great mistake, as to-day there are more counterfeits, and broken bank notes in circulation than there ever was; so you see that Petersons' Detector is actually ft greater necessity to all Bankors, Merchants and Stor 'keepers, and wo would advise all our Readers to subscribe to it at once. Terms of subscription to PETERSONS' COUNTER rEiT DETECTOR, corrected by Drexel k Co., Bank ers, is, for tho Monthly issue, (per annum) $1 50; Semi-monthly (per annum) $3 00; single number?, IS /innis. Til n?u.tc tina Viunrlr*^ MK?M]M Subscriptions may commence with a>y month, and aro payable in advance Address T. B. Pe terson k Brothers, Philadelphia, Po. Masonic. R. S. BRDHS, Esq., Grand Secrotary, gives no tico that tho Annual Communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Ma n?os of South Carolina, will bo held at Charles ton on Tuesday, the 19th November. ^^*Tho Court of Appeals will meet in Colum bia on the 4th Monday in this month. J?3r~k boiler exploded at Pittsburg, Pa., on la3t Saturday, and killed twenty persons. ^^.The Alabama Radical Negro Reconstruc tion Convention assembled in Montgomery on thc 5th. Comment unnecessary. jg?" Tho material and good will of the South ern Cultivator will bo sold, at publie outcry, on the ?Oth of November, 1867, nt tho book store, on the corner of Collego Avenuo and Main street, Athens, Ga. Sale commences at 10, a. m. We regard this a first-claFS opportunity for a profita ble investment. Look out-somebody's going to get a bargain. 53jr A full meeting of tho Cincinnatti Cham ber of Commorco, nine hundrod presont, unani mously adopted a report praying Congross to take off tho Cotton and Sugar tax. ?fS" In a reported conversation, Senator Wado is ropresentod as saying that Congrosa would nover modify tho reconstruction laws but would make them harder if the South did not behave better; he is sorry about tho Republican disposi tion to run Grant. Wade says let him como out like a man and show his principles. Ile charac terizes Stevens' confiscation bills as unwise. PAT Ur_The Charleston News, of Tues day, says : " Thc moneyed obligations of our mercbauts, which have been pressing heavily fur some time, are being met, wo learn, with that promp titude and good faith which has always char acterized our business men. The payments for factors' acceptance have lately been par ticularly largo, and it was mentioned yester day, that the amount of paper payable on that day would sum up about $500,000. Our planters would do well to forward their crops and sustain their credit, as they may fiud that tho prompt meeting of their liabilities, even at some sacrifice, will in the future be of important service to themselves. Pi NEGRO TOWN* COUNCIL FOR WALTERBOUO. -The Charleston Mercury says that a private letter received in that city from Walterburo states that the term of the Mayor and Town Council having expired, Gen. Cunby has ap pointed u stranger from New England to succeed the former, and four negroes to serve j lot on the latter. I all no re: as eic ort Th A negro woman waa butchored by anothor in tho most shocking manner on a plantation near Memphis, a few days ago. Tho murdoress was jealous of her victim, and entering her cabin, struck bor repeatedly with an axe, crushing ber skull and face to a jelly. OBITUARY. DIED, on tho 10th of Sept., at his residence, nen: Chappell Hill, Toxas, of Yellow Fovcr, oftor a.i illness of two day?, Dr. JOHN LARK, in the 42nd year of his ago. Tho deceased was born in Edgefield District, S. C. and emigrated to tho western frontiers short ly nftor graduating in tho profession of medicine. He leaves a wife, tho daughter of A. L. LARK, of Newberry District, joined bj numerous frionds, to mourn his loss. COMMERCIAL. AUGUSTA, Nor 9. GOLD-Brokers aro buying at 140 and selling at 142. COTTON.-Thero has boen a fair demand to day for classes of New York Middling ?nd above on a basis of 16@lfii cents for Now Middling. Lower grades aro unsaleable. Sales 637 bales. Receipts 552 bales. WHEAT.-Red at $2 50@2 80, White at $3 00 @330. BACON.-Shoulders 15J, B. B. Sides 17J cents, C. R. Sides 18J.- C. Sides 18J cent?, and can rasaod Hams 32@25c. CORN.-Otf White 1 ?Qf?l 60, Now $1 10 $129. pai ott rcs Po sol am wo the mu eat not ] wh hoi vin to] the pOB wai nie< the swn Ste Ml For tho Advertiser. WOODLAWN, S. C., 9th Nov., 1S67. ? the Editor of the Edgcficld Adcertiter. I have just learned from a private, but reliai urce, that thcro was a Public Meeting at Edi ld Court House, on Saleday lagt, which resulte J rainating Delegates (inysolf among tho nnmb< attend a Conservative, Slate Caucus which w have met in Columbia, Wednesday Gtb inst. I received no notice of cither the District ato Caucus, until both occasions had passed, ason of my rosidenco being in a secluded c< ir of Edgcficld, which ha3 no mail facilities, a cut off from the Villago by an unfurdal ream, without an accessible bridge or flat Tl :planation is due alike to myself and to th< iends who thought fit to came mo as ono of th ci?gate.-, aod hero perhaps I ought to stop, a lvo neither timo nor inclinaron to write a poli d lettor, but as I disap^.ove entirely of the < ct had in view, by holding either Caucus, I VN ) a itcp larther, and stato some of the rcasor In tho present crisis of Governmental affairs ie United States, the Southern people are utto jwerless to improvo their political status exci y assuming an unalterable attitude of paisi ldurancc aud dignified silence-rofusing cit! i assent or consent to self-degradation. Thi ro many occasions in the career of every indiv al or nation, when silence, simplo silence, inch more eloquent and effectivo than tho mi chored speech, and such is the situation now rory Southern State,-abovo all, of South Carolii Tho whites are in a more hopeless minori ere, when compared with the blacks, than in a ther Confederate State. Tho negroes out-coi i moro than tn o to ooo under the disfranchise .oconstruction Acts. They aro being drilled ate against UJ like a flock of sheep marched ic shambles. Will such pooplo listen to t oice of reason, when they are promised Lai evenge, and Dominion in tho Ballot and Ju ox, by those who have already given thom fri om ? For a South Carolinian to persuade a i ro not to vote at all, or to rote thc Conservati ickct, would bo as idle watte of words, as rguo with the howling ?corm to change its cour ben why should ne attempt un impossibilit, r'by hold a Cuucus, nominate a candidate or ci ballot? It could be only to embolden thc neg; y giving him an easy victory ; o dy to urgo hi n to new triumphs over the whito race, by rcco ising his right to suffrage, in contesting the pi ?tb bia j only to loso thc great moral power ' et have over him as Ibo master race, as well ie vast physical power wo still possess in heil ie property-holders ; only to raise bim from ondilion of conscious inferiority to ono of insu ig equaliiy; ab, to one of domineering ?njjcriorit But if we ab.taia from caucusing or addre3sii 10 negro,-if we stay away from thc ballotii iree shortly to be held, and treat tho whole n ro, military proceeding with silent contcmj lien we may, and I believe will, yet proser ?ueh of our wonted ascendency over Cuflee, p{ aps uniil thc reaction at thc North shall ha ccomplL'hed its work. But, if we would pre.-ii Bte a war of races-if wc would evacuate un ii rcgnablo position tu take up one that is weak < 11 sides, both without and within,-if we wou trcngthon thc Radicals at tho North, and e ourage them to proceed with their devilish wo: n Congress, we have only to scramble with Saial ir the honor of a seat in hit Convention, or f ho pleasure of a vote on Ai'* Constitution. Instinct alone lcd all thc decent and reflectii topic of Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia to 1 lambo and thc Military havo their elections all bomsolvcs, and I cannot iasult our pcoplo by e tressing nny fear that they, except thoughtlessl rill do otherwise. While every dictate of rrisdo irompts us to this course, thcro is also u sonsid a'?en of sentiment which urges it. South Car ina led tho way into tho Wilderness of Kovol ion, with principio for her guide, and liberty f 1er goal, counting no odds. Her sister Southe] ?tates, heroically followed that loud through loi ong years of war, blood and devastation. Up na nour Ol surrotiao?, ~~- ? - M^-OWWI lutarnished, and can we now, if we would, act i . manner different from the other Cotton State 0 as to make thtin uihauicd of their leader,-i ,s to make us ashamed of ourselves. Ought v tot rather still to conduct ourselves on every o< ?sion, no ma'.tcr how trying or oxacting, so as I ustify their ancient faith in us,-so as I till to ci hie them proudly to say to us, as Demosthent id to thc Athenians after Stat? Rights and Civ ?iborty had been overthrown forever in Jroeci y tho Northern States of their Confederation Never, never, can you havo dono wrong, O Aihc ians, in undertaking tho battlo for tho frccdor. nd safety of all." After the sublime physical courage which ou tato has exhibited, should she bo found wantinj 1 her past boundless morai courage? Even i reckless counsels are Still to prevail in Congress ven if fratricidal war at thc North, and a war o ices at tho South, arc to devastate thc whoh van try ; oven if annihilation itself awaits us, lc 9 luke no action whatovcr, unless we can do i morally ; and, if need be, die with dignity, tiki icsar folding his robes about him when he san is fate was inevitable. Then no caucusing, nc Idressing, no voting with negroes in theil cctions. Nor aro wo in a situation to argue any moro tcccssfully with the craiy whito radical of th? ortb, than the wild negro of tho South. At mes ia a Republic, especially in its infancy, hen the pooplo are poor, and beforo wealth akos them ready for chains and ?lavery, groat id patriotic leaders can form and guide great id patriotic parties, solely for the good of tho :ato; but ordinarily the lovo of money soon 'ercomes tho love of country in any Government, hero universal ?uffnigo and rotation in office 'evail, because as tho people increase in numbers td wealth, offices are multiplied and salaries are ?sed, until "thc cohesive power of public p'.un ir" becomes tho strou?ost ligament to bind gctber any political party in sucha Government, enco it is that party is every thing st the North iw, while tho wolfurc of the wholo country is ithing; the Federal Government everything, lile thc State Governments aro nothing; tho gro everything, while the vhiteiman is nothing; e North everything, wbilo the South is nothing; B Un io'j, onco everything, but now nothing.. The South has always formed tho back bono of o D?mocratie party, and whon thc Southern ates seceded from the party in 1S60, it gave nlrol of the Federal spoils to tho Radicals, for e first time Binco tho days of tho younger Ad is. Forty years of hunger for official pap and alaye had malo thom wolfish in their debiro to oy upon not only tho countr}', but also upon sir old enemies, tho Democrats. Sinco they vo been in power, they havo made up for all it time. During thc war the Union was all in , becauso that cry contralled tho spoils; but w it is nothing, because a restored Union would itore tho Democratic party to power and spoils, when uuitcd that party has always had suffi nt principle, patriotism und rogardfor tho gen ii welfare to carry tho majority in cloctions. 0 Federal Consolidation, Abolition, Radical rty (for it has borne all those names, and many lers to decoivo the pooplo,) has never ';ad any pcctablo number of adherents South of the tomac: and after conquering the South, con flating thc Government, abolishing slavery, 1 ruining tho wholo country, they know it is rse than folly to hopo fur many followers of dr creed in the land of the Sun. Hence they st, not for tho good of tho country, but for tho ;o of the spoils, mako a party here, out of ig ont, debased ncgroos and meaner white men. 1 [f such bo their object, and such their aims, ? y should we undertako the bootless task of ( ding Caucuses and writing Addresses to con- , co mon who will not bo convinced ; to appeal ( patriotism and justice, when how best to secure ^ ? poils is the only principle upon which they act. ? for lot us stultify ourselves by changing our < ?lion, ai they havo done theirs. During tho ? wo claimed to bo out of tho Union ; they do- r d it. Since the war, they say wo did go out of B Union, shall we lately deny it ? Shall we g ,p positions with Charles Sumner and Thad. I r rons ? Never, nover, Almighty God so help t uv children would disown ns, Ute wholo 11 living world would scorn us, and thc spirits of tho myriads wbo "Prising their honor, met tho doom of death," would shun us in tbs world to come. Tho Ghost of State Sovereignty will yet'shako its gory locks ut thousands who have helped to murder its living Tenement. The Radicals have bankrupted iho whole United States, and nearly every one, both North and South, will soon bo poor enough to be comparatively honest once moro in politics, as in days of yore. Three Thousand Millions of public debts, to say nothing of tho countless millions of private ones, will shortly dispel tho illusion that Government poper-raga ore wealth, not debts. Then let us bold our heads np like men, and frankly admit that ibo Radicals having conquer ed us, they have tho right, according to our theo ry of State Sovroignty, to proscribo terms of re construction. Bat let us also contend that we have tho reserved right either to accept their " torms," or silently to submit to what we cannot prevent. So far wo have accepted Emancipation and Common Law Civil Rights to tho negro, in good fa'.th, and by -that acceptance havo made fast friends ci tho [President and a majority of tho Northern people. Let us do no.more. If worse must como let us protest in silence, and compel our enemies to thrust it upon us, to be pitiently borne only until the Conservatives at tho North can get into power. By gracefully complying with tho two una voidable exactions of Emancipation and Civil Rights to thc negro, we havo gratified the pride and appeased tho anger of tho North. It has given our allies there a firm ?round on which to stand and do battle for ns. Without the aid of those allies, secured -os stated, what would bavo bcon our condition heretofore, what would be would be our condition now, what would bo our condition hereafter, let thoso conjecture, if they ever think, who still affect to believe that the Southern pcoplo themselves abolished slave ry after tho surrender, and that but for our fear* then, emancipation would never taken place, cr eep t with compensation. Talk of compensation for four millions of negroes, when tho very debt which was contracted to conquer tho Southern whites will itself be repudiated; talk of a hand full of men in Convention, by a conquered con stituency, being ablo to save slavery, when the whole South, with arms in their hands, after four years of hard fighting could cot save it! But I digress. Mr. Seward, who is universally acknowledged to bo '.?the wisest, brightest, meanest of man kind" in the Unitod States,-who is more res ponsible than any other human for thc late war, and who can do more to defeat thc Radicals than any man in America, and doubtless is doing more to accomplish that end, was approached in 1S66, by a distinguished Southerner, tc ascertain what the Rebel Statos must do to sccuro reconstruc tion. The '. Little Pell" responded in substance, if not in these identical words, " Do nothing moro than you havo already dono. Whenever you oil cease to try to holp yourselves then your friends at the North can and will help you, but not before." Let us take this advice, given in sinccreity, even from tho arch-fiend who raised and guided tho Storm that has wrecked us all. Although once our deadliest foe, he is now our political friend, becnuso he cannot help it Tho logic of events drives him to it. Really wo can havo no voice in the mighty quarrel pending at tho North. Nearly all par tum there esteem us as great criminals on trial and awaiting sentence. They they think it is our duty, like that of all criminal.', to submit to the sentence-not nrguo with the Judge. In fact, thc undetermined ?entence covers tho wholo ques tion, cither as to ourselves, as to our friends, or as to our foes at the North. Wc aro obliged to ?ubmtt, whether wo approve or not. Tho only freedom nllowcd us ls to proservc our self-respect, and tho respect of an impartial world, by refusing voluntarily to embrace ignominious terms. The Northern people arc as a mass only divided about th? tcverity of our pending sentence. Tho Con servatives mero aro content" wita Emancipation aol Civil Right.? to the negro, but the Radicals arc for " Organizing Hell in the Rebel States," to appropriate thc energetic language of Senator Doolittle. As I before said, tho Rudiculs caro nothing for the country, North or South. They merely want a party hero to neutralizo the Democratic forces in the South, and to get such a party herc, in or der still to control the spoils, they would enfran chise even our Tadpoles. These Radicals hove the power to pa?s any act they please, until th? 4th March 1S6P, and think you they will listen either to Southern Caucuses or Southern Memo rials. It was tho Philadelphia Caucus and its ad dressee, mostly a Southern affair, that partly and mostly gave the Radicals their tremendous ma jority in the present Congress. That Caucus and its Proceedings wero resented throughout thc North, ns Southern impertinence, and yet we aro asked now to repeat tho blunder on a smaller scale in the cradle of the Rebellion. South Caro lina send a memorial ti Thad Stevens praying for mercy ! The very thought ought not only to in fluence tho indignation of thc living, but rekindle thc ashes of thc dead. Ob, but for one hour of | Muley Oreg;; t-j speak to his people on euch a prop osition ! ? It is bad tiste, and worse judgment even, for an innocent man to talk when his ILteners d > not care to bear him, but what shall be said of tho criminal who assumes to adviso his Judges how to try him, and what sentence to pass upon him? I ins st upon it that we should be mere spectators of the high debate raging at tho North. Say or do what wo may, a majority of our con-1 j qucrors will cctermine our political fate at last. It is no quarrel of oura. Let tho happy family settle their own disputes, and say what must bc r. dono with the prodigal Sister States of tho South, b I predict that the fatted enif will yet be killed to p celebrate our return in less than eighteen months, b Thcro aro abundant signs that a largo majority h o!" thc Northern people will shortly bo willing to aJmit our Representatives into Congress upon no Q other terms than thoso with which wo have al- p ready complied. Tho Conservatives there oro ^ every whore alarmed at tho Radical attorapt to u onforco Negro and Chin?ese suffrage upon tho j Northern States, and they aro still more alarmed at thu hideous prospect of having nogro Senators and Representatives from tho South to vote in Qj making Federal Laws for Northern people tolivo j under. Tho Conservatives there havo likewise | ^ become greatly concerned about Taxation, and even somo old R.idicala are beginning to realize that Greenbacks and National Hank Bills, so far Ct from being evidences of National and individual ' e woalth, are really so many ugly tokens of Na tional Debt and National Taxation. Tho Tax gatheror is very frequently reminding them of J tbis, as well as thc existence of cortain wagon loads of Bonds, whose interest must bo paid, and tho principle one day redeemed. \0 The price of all imported articles is enormously fo aigb, made so by a prohibitory Tariff that must at io paid in gold, and to that extent is a bonus to m :ho Homo Manufacturer. Tho prico of every o' mmmodity whatever has adapted itself to thc rast quantity of papor currency in circulation, as brmorly occurred hero with Confederate Treasury tfotea. Ship Building hns boen destroyed at thc iiorth. Every branch of Industry has been crip )lcd, except Manufacturing, and even that lan ruishos because tho consumers aro unable to buy. Ul thoso causes combined, aud a long list of oth TS that might bo enumerated, aro rapidly bring qg tho lately besotted masses to their sonsos. But | ho Tax Collector is our best fricad. He is thc iraelo to write our addressos to Northorn Judges. Io is thc Ccrborus to guordoar righU He is tho Icntincl on tho Watch Tower to tell what of tho ;loomy night that is brooding ovor tho whole coun ry. Ho has got every Northern Judgo now by he throat, and is choking monoy out of gaunt locket books for the Radicals to spend in divors oolish ways; among others, in putting niggers j J? vcr white men. There, too, alargo class of our Northorn Judges re deeply in dobt, causid by tho extravagance, , poculation, and fluctuation in values nlways con- \ equent upon tho over issue of unoonvortiblo pa- j g., er money, but caused abovo all by the total dis ruption of the " credit system" throughout t e ratted States, 1st, by the probability of a credi- j jr having to uko his pay in depreciated curren y; 2d, By thc perfidious Radical Congress onoct ?g a law.to bolster up thoir worthless paper tra. h o tho effect, that man's money-Greenback pap ;r ags, shall bc a Legal Tender for all privat? d*v Li, o matter what the date of the contract, no matter n what language or from what fact the contract lay call for God's money-specie. 3d, By tho acilo Supremo Court of tho United States, unan moutly declaring such a monstrous act to be con titutionaL This abolition of the credit system, >y the means indicated, has made creditors every there clamorous for the speedy adjustment of old core?, before tho day of wrath, and the lawyer? iro now hunting up every poor devil of a debtor it the North, with aa keen a scent as I dread they nay, before many moon?, be pursuing thc same dass at the South, made so in too many cases by io fault of their own, but by discharging duty to bo living and thc,duad, or by engaging in honest egitimato cr-,v* business always incident to slavo nstitutions a-a the pursuit of agriculture. From Maine to Texas it is now a fast race of diligence )ctwcen debtor and creditor to try which shall jain tho most or lo:o tho least by the "coming, :oming, coming" crash of the Greenback Balloon, mmpared to which, the collapses of the South Sea Scheme and the Mississippi Bubble wero but tri ling affairs. Real estate is bringing unheard of prices ovon in sterile New England, so anxious ire Greenback holders to secure something before tho general smash-up. Snch was once the coso berc, when Mr. Mcmmingcr's kites rose and fell, ind it was not long thereafter before they fell to rUa no moro. Greenbacks will never likely become as worth less aa Confederate paper, bat they aro bound to ;o far down tho scale toward zero. It has been the fate of all large unconvertible-issues in tho past, whether Governmental, Corporative or Indi vidual, and must bc in tho future, os all such pa per monty is merely the Philosopher's Stone of Modern Alchemy, a science, which will never" sense to flourish in America, with periodical jut incalculable injury, until the Usury Laws ?hall have been repealed here, as in Europe. All prudent men at the North are hoarding gold now, :o remedy as far as possible tho evils they bave brought upon themselves by heeding the Alche mists. Tho sac;e precious metal is likewise being heavily shipped abroad to pay interest on the American Bonds held there. The drain of coin in that direction, as well as into the coffers of hoarders, is deeply and widely undermining all American Industry and Finance, so that tbore is distrust, fear and trembling for the pecuniary fu ture, en every hand. Tho exhausting taxes, amounting often to robbery, and in some cases to prohibition, that aro levied by the United States, in their attempt to "carry" the public debt, bas sadly reduced not only our borne trade, but also our foreign commerce, greatly to thc disturbance of commercial exchanges throughout the civilized world. Many occupations hero have ceased to pay at all, while private incomes and government resources arc diminishing tl i'y, yet the Tax Col lector (God bless bim!) is move industrious than ever in each nook and corner from Maine to Oregon-from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande. Tho Democrats among our Judges have taken advantage of this state of matter.?, and as tho Radicals forced the issue of universal Cbincso and Negro suffrage, so oar ancient allies have shrewdly tendered tho issuo of Repudiation to tho extent of either Taxing thc Federal Bonds heavi ly, (they being wholly ex-mpt from Taxation, now,) or redeeming the Bonds with Greenbacks, so as to do away with all necessity for what are called Internal Revenue Taxes, and at the same time repudiate private debts to tho extent Of giv ing debtors an opportunity to pay what they owe ia a currency that would be depreciated ultimate ly by such a proceeding to perhaps ten for one as compared with Gold. Upon these two issues of suffrage and repudiation, tho late canvass at tin North was mainly conducted, and "Down with tho Nigger,"-" Up with Repudiation," are now the triumphant and swelling shouts of increasing majorities every where among the judges. Much more might bo said, as in very truth, the argument is cxhaustless, against our taking any parc in the Military Elections. Warming with tho subject, I have written far moro than I bad iatended. To close, I counsel our people to have nothing whatever to do with caucuses, addresses, candidacies, or votings, in negro elections; except perhaps hereafter to vote for negroes as Congress nun. Let everyone attend energetically to mend ing his broken fortunes while the Yankees and Quashecs aro mending our politics. Day is break ing and i: will not be long before the fun will shine high and brightly over this sorely afflicted people. Things cavnot go on much longer as they do at present. There must bo a solution, and that spco iily. Tho Radicals cannot stand still. They must jove forward with renewed desperation, or Uko steps backward. In cither event they march to thc certain destruction of their party. If their fumier pliant tool, Lincoln, occupied the Presi lential Cb-ir, I should seriously apprehend anoth ir civil war caused by Radical attacks upon the Northern State Governments, and by inciting tho logr?os against thc whites at thc South; but for ;unatcly thc present Executive thinks snd acts ror himself. At tho worst, we cannot occupy our >xisting painful and anomalous condition longer han March 1S69, and I confidently anticipate re ief at a much earlier day. President Johnson ia3 emphatically declared that he will sustain tho Jivil Court.-, and I look for some bold decision in i Federal Court ero .long that will npheavo tho deconstruction Acts liko the explosion of a volca 10. Nor would I be surprised shortly after Con gress meets to find one Radical member after .nother going over to tho Conservative side, until . majority even of tho Menagerie, called a Con fess, shall havo grown "as harmless as doves," iccauso they havo hitherto been "as wiso as ser lents." Even rats leave a drowning ship, and ut few men care to spit against the wind that cars spoils on its wings. Confiscation is idle nonsense, if wo bo true to ursolvcs. Thc President has pardoned, or will ardon every rebel, and evon if he had not, or 'ould not, beforo any land could bc confiscated, s owner would first have to bo convicted of reason by a unanimous jury of his neighbors, hich could never bo done, and if so convicted, mfiscation could only take place for the lifo time : the present owner. Bat the Pardon or the iry shields evory body's land, which is all tho ?opcrty left to us. Then away with tho unfounded fear of confis ttion ! And lot my countrymen bo of good leer, if they have any confidence ia this hastily ritten, but deliberately formed, opinion of G. D. TILLMAN. Edgcfield Female College. Thc Trustees of this Institution were requested meet on Monday, thc 4th of November. Only ur wero present. Thc undersigned, Trustees id Subscribers to the Stook, are requested to ect on Saturday, tho 23d of November, nt 10 clock, at tho offico of W. W. ADAMS, Esq. It is a matter of importance to all interested. L. R. Gwaltney, R. B. Watson, Dr. E. J. Min?, Martin McCarty, G. A. Addison, Rev. Wm. Gaines, B. C. Bryau, T. S. Wright, W. W. Adams, M. Stevens, John Huiet, W. Perry, A. H. Morton, IL Holstein, N. Henderson, T. H. Clarke, A. J. Rountree, A.. A. Otb vor. Eugone Burt, J. H. Wideman, Dr. John Lake, Dr. A. J. Devore. Nov ll 2t 46 JONES & NORRIS, Attorneys at Law,. AND S0LICIT0B8 IN EQUITY, Vi LL PRACTICE in the Courts of this ile and of tho United States. Particular attention giren to cues in Bank' ?tcy. I ?TOT 5 Sa* U&