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Policy of the President.
Better than the declaration of princi
ples or address of the national Union Con
vention; better than all the promises of
parties and predictions of the press, bet
ter, indeed, than any evidence we have
had of the will and power of the North
is the following speech which we to-day
give to the public from the President of
the United States. The remarks were
made on Saturday last in response to the
presentation of the proceedings of the
Convention by Hon. Reverdy Johnson,
as the Chairman of the Committee ap
pointed for the purpose. Gen. Grant
was present on the occasien, and it may
be regarded as a significant endorsement
of the policy of Andrew Johnson that he
was not less warm in his greetings and
congratulations to the many members of
the several delegations present, than his
great chief. The language of Mr. John
son means peace to a distracted country,
the restoration of civil power, and the
determination at all bazards to put down
Radical power.
Mr. President: We are before you, a
committee of the National Union Con
vention which met at Philadelphia on
Tue;sday, the 14th instant, charged with
the duty of presenting you with an au
thentic copy of its proceedings. Before
placing it into your hands you will per
mit us to congratulate you that, in the
object for which the Convention was
called; in the enthusiasm with which, in
every State and Territory, the call was
responded to; in the unbroken harmony
of its deliberations; in the unanimity
with which the principles it has declared
were adopted ; and more especially, in
the patriotic and constitutional charac
ter of the principles themselves, we are
confident that you and the country will
find gratifiying and cheeuing evidence
that there exist among the people a pub
lie sentiment which renders an early and
complete restoration of the Union, as es
tablished by the Constitution, certain
and inevitable.
Party faction, seeking the continuance
of its misrule, may momentarily delay it,
but thte principle of political liberty for
which our fathers successfully contended,
and to secure which they adopted the
Constitution, are so glaringly inconsis
tent with the condition in which the
country has been placed by such misrule,
that it will not be permitted a much
longer duration.
We wish, Mr. President, you could
have personally witnessed the spirit of
concord and brotherly affection which
aimated every member of the Conven
tion.
Great as your confidence has ever been
in the in telligence and patriotism of your
fellow-citizens, in their deep devotion to
the Union, and in their presentdetermin
ation to reinstate and maintain it, that
confidence would have been a positive
conviction if you could have seen and
heard all that was done and said upon
the occasion ; every heart wvas evidently
full of joy ; every eye beamed with pa
triotic animation ; despondency gave place
to assurance that our late civil strife end
ed, the blissful reign of peace,'under the
protection, not of arms, but of the Con
stitution and laws, to be in every part of
our land cheerfully acknowledged, and
in perfect faith obeyed-you would not
have doubted that the recurrence of dan
gerous domestic insurrection in the fu
ture is not to be apprehended. If you
could have seen, sir, the men of South
Carolina and Massachusetts comning into
the Convention on~ the first day of its
meeting, hand in hand, with the raptu
rous applause of the whole body, awak
ened by heartfelt gra,tification at the
event, filling the eyes of thousands with
tears of joy, which they neither could
nor desired to suppress, you would have
felt as persons present felt, that the time
had arrived when all sectional and other
perilous dissensions had ceased, and that
nothing would be heard in the future but
the voice of harmony, proclaiming devo
tion to a common cou ntry-oK pride of
being bound together by a common
Un:ion, existing and protected by forms
of Government proved by experience to
be eminently fitted for the exigencies of
either war or peace.
In the principles announced by the
Conveution, and in tihe feeling there
manifested, we have every assurance that
harmony throughout our land will soon
prevail. We know that in former days,
as was eloquently declared by Webster,
the nation's most gifted statesman, Mas
sachusetts and South Carolina went
"shoulder to shoulder through the Revo
lution and stood hand and hand round
the administration of Washington, and
felt his own great arm lean on them for
support." So will they again with like
unanimity, devotion, and power stand
round your administration, and cause
you to feel that you may also lean on
them for suppcrt. In the proceedings,
Mr. President, which we are to place in
your hands, you will find that the Con
vention performed the graceful task im
posed upon them by their knowledge of
your "devotion to the Constitution, the
laws, and interest of your country," as
illustrated by your entire Presidential
career, of declaring that in you they "re
organize a Chief Magistrate worthy of
the nation, and equal to the great crisis
upon which his lot is cast." And in this
declaration it gives us unmixed pleasure
to add we are confident that the Conven
tion have but spoken the intelligent and
patriotic sentiments of the country.
Ever inaccessible to the low influences
which often control the mere partizan,
governed by an honest Opinion of consti
t'tional obiioins and reght: -md of the
duty of looking solely to the true inter
ests, safety, arrd honor of the nation, such
a class is incapable of resorting to any
stale bait for popularity at the expense
of the public good.
In the measure which you have adopted
for the restoration of the Union the Con
vention seems only a continuance of the
policy which, for the same purpose, was
inaugurated by your immediate pre
decessor. In his re-election by the
people, after that policy had been fully
indicated, and had been made one of the
issues of the contest, those of his political
friends who are now assailing you for
stoutly pursuing it are forgetful or re
gardless of the opinions which their sup
port of his re-election necessarily in
volved. Being upon the same ticket of
that much lamented public servant,
whose foul assasination touched the heart
of the civilized world with grief and
horror, you would have been oblivious to
duty if you had not endeavored to carry
out the same policy. And judging now
by the opposite one which Congress has
pursued, its wisdom and patriotism are
vindicated by the fact that that of Con
gress has but continued a broken Union
by keeping ten of the States in which at
one time the insurrection existed, and as
far as they could accomplish it, in the
condition of subjugated pre;inces, deny
ing to them the right to be represented,
whilst subjecting their people to every
species of legislation, including that of
taxation. That such a state of things is
at war with the very genius of our gov
ernment, inconsistent with every idea of
political freedom, and most perilous to
the peace and safety of the country, no
reflecting man can fail to believe. We
hope, sir, that the proceedings of the
Convention will cause you to adhere, if
possible, with even greater firmness, to
the course which you are pursuing, by
satisfying you that the people are with
you, and that the wish which lies nearest
to their hearts is, that a perfect restora
tion of the Union at the earliest possible
moment be attained, and that result can
only be accomplished by the measures
which you are pursuing ; and in the dis
charge of the duties which these impose
upon you, we, as did every member of
the Convention, again, for ourselves,
individually tender you ."our profound
respects and assurance of our cordial and
sincere support."
With a reunited Union, with no foot
ut that of a freeman treading or per
rittedl to tread our soil, with industry
enewed, with a nation's faith pledged
forever to strict observance of all its Ou
igations, with kindness and fraternal
ove everywhere prevailing, the desol a
ions of war will soon be removed ; its
acrifices of life, sad as they have been,
ill, with Christian resignation, be re
ferred to a Providential puipose of fix
ng our beloved country on a firm and
dmirable basis which will forever place
ur liberty and happiness beyond the
each of human pieril.
Then,'too, and forever, will our govern
ent challenge the admiration and re
ieve the respect of the nations of the
orld, and we in no danger of any effort
V impair our rights or to impeach our
:onor. And permit me, sir, in conclu
~io,to say, that, great as is your solici
ude for the restoration of our domestic
eace, and your labors to that end, we
ejoice that you have also a watchful
~ye to the rights of the nation, and that
nry attempt by any assumed or actual
~oreign power to enforce an illegal block
~de "against the Government or citizens
f the United States," to use your own
ild and expressive words, "will be dis
egarded." In this determination I am
ure you will receive the unanimous ap
roval of your fellow- citizens. Now,
sir, as the chairman of this committee
ho are now in your presence, and in
ehalf of the Convention, I have the
ionor to present you with an authenti
ated copy of its proceedings.
sPE.ECH OF THE BREsIDENT.
Ir. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Coinmrittee:
Language is inadequate to express the
mrotions and feelings produced by this
ccasion. Perhaps I could express more
y permitting silence to'speak and you
o infer what I ought to say. I confess
hat, notwithstanding the experience I
ae had in public life and the audiences
have addressed, this occasion and this
sseblage are calculated to, and do
~verwhehu me. As I have said, I have
ot language to convey adequately my
resent feelings and emotions.
In listening to the address which your
oquent and distinguished chairman
as just delivered, the proceedings of
the Convention, as they transpired, re
~urred to my mind. Seemingly, I par
ook of the inspiration that prevailed in
the Convention when I received a dis
atch, sent by two of its distinguished
embers, conveying in terms the scene
hich has just been described, of South
arolina and Massachusetts, arm in arm,
arning into that vast assemblage, and
hus giving evidence that the two ex
tremes had come together again, and
that for the future they were united,.
a they had been in the past, for the
reservation of the Union. When I
as thus informed that in that vast body
f men, distinguished for intellect and
isdom, every eye was suffused with
tears on beholding the scene, I could
otnish reading the dispatch to one
ssociated with me in my office, for my
wn feelings overcame me. [Applause.]
think we may justly conclude that
we are acting under a proper inspira
tion, aud that we need not be mistaken
tat the fnger of. anorruling and un
erring Providence is in this great move
ment.
The nation is in peril. We have
just passed through a mighty, a "bloody,
a momentous ordeal, and yet do not
find ourselves free from the difficulties
and dangers that at first surrounded us.
While our brave soldiers, both officers
and men (turning to General Grant,
who stood at his right,) have by their
heorism won laurels imperishable, there
are still greater and more important
duties to perform; and while we have
had their co-operation in the field, now
that they have returned to civil pursuits
we need their support in our efforts to
restore the Government and perpetuate
peace. [Applause.] So far as the Exe
cutive department of the Government
is concerned, the effort has been made
to restore the Union, to tieal the breach,
to pour oil into the wounds which were
consequent upon the struggle, and (to
speak in common phrase,) to prepare,
as the learned and wise physician would
a plaster, healing in character and co
extensive with the wound. (Applause.)
We thought, and we think, that we had
partially succeeded ; but as the work
progresses, as reconciliation seemed to
be taking place, and the country was
becoming re-united, we found a disturb
ing and marring element opposing us.
In alluding to the element I shall go
no further than your Convention and
the distinguished gentleman who has
delivered to me the report of its pro
ceedings. I shall make no reference
to it that I do not believe the time and
the occasion justify.
We have witnessed in one department of
the Government every endeavor to prevent
the restoration of peace, harmony and Union.
We have seen hanging upon the verge of the
Government, as it were, a body called, or
which assumes to be the "Congress of the
United States," while in fact it is a Congress
of only part of the States. We have seen
this Congress pretend to be for the Union,
when its every step and act tended to per
petuate disunion, and make a disruption of
the States inevitable. Instead of promoting
reconciliation and harmony, its legislation
has partaken of the character of penalties,
retaliation and revenge. This has been the
course and the policy of one portion of your
Government. The humble individuai who
is now addressing you stands as the repre,
sentative of another department of the Gov%
ernent. The manner in which he was
called upon to occupy that position I shall
not allude to on this occasion. Suffice it to
say that he is here under the Constitution of
the country, and being here by virtue of its
provisions, he takes his stand upon that
charter of our liberties as the great rampart
of' civil and religious liberty. [Prolonged
cheering.] Having been taught in my early
life to hold it sacred, and having done so
during my whole public career, I shall ever
continue to reverence the Constitution of
my fathers, and to make it my guide. [Hearty
applause.]
I know it has been said (and I must be
permitted to indulge in the remark) that the
Executive Department of the Government
has been despotic and tyrannical. Let me
ask this audience of distinguished gentlemen
to point to a vote I ever gave, to a speech I
ever made, to a single act of my whole pub,
lic life that has not been against tyranny and
despotism. What position have I ever oc
cupied-what ground have I ever assumed
where it can be truthfully charged that I
failed to advocate the amelioration and eles
vation of the great masses of my country
men?~ [Cries of "Never," and great ap
plause. J
So far .as charges of this kind are cons
cerned, they are simply intended to delude
the public mind into the belief that it is not
the designing men whIo make such accusa,
tions, but some one else in power, who is
usurping and trampling upon the rights and
perverting the principles of the Constitution.
It is done by them for the purpose. of covers
ing their own acts-[That's so and applause]
-and I have felt it my duty, in vindicatiou
of principles, to call the attention of my
countrymen to their proceedings. When we
ome to examine who has been playing the
part of the tyrant, by whom do we find des
potism exercised? As to myself, the ele
ments of my nature, the pursuits of my life,
have not made me, either in my feelings
r in my practice, oppressive. My nature,
on the contrary, is rather defensive in its
haracter. But having taken my stand upon
e broad principles of liberty and the Con
stitution, there is not power enough on earth
o drive me from it ! [Loud and prolonged
applause.) Having placed myself upon that
road platform, I have not been awed or
ismayed, or intimidated by either threats
r encroachments; but have stood there in
onjunction with patriotic spirits, sounding
he tocsin of alarm when I deemed the cita
el of Liberty in danger. (Great ap%
;lause.)
I said on a previous occasion, and repeat
ow, that all that was necessary in this great
ontest against tyranny and despotism was
hat the struggle should be sufficiently audis
le for the American people to hear and
roperly understand the issues it involved.
They did hear, and looking on and seeing
ho the contestants were and what the strug
le was about, determined that they would
ettle this question on the side of the Consti
ution and of principle. (Cries of "That's
o," and applause.) I proclaim he.re to-day,
s I have on previous occasions, that my
fath is in the great mass of the people. In
the darkest moment of this struggle, when
he clouds Eeemed to be most lowering, -my
faith, instead of giving way, loomed up
hrough their groom; for, beyond, I saw that
al would be well in the end. My country
en, we all know that, in, the language of
homas Jefferson, tyranny and despotism
an be exercised and exerted more effectually
y the many than the one. WVe have seen
ongress gradually eucroach step by step 1
pon constitutional rights, and violate, day
after day and month after month, funda
mental principles of the Government.-( Cries
f "That's so," and applause.) We have
een a Congress that seemed to forget that 1
tere was a limit to the sphere and scope of
egislation. We have seen a Congress in a 1
inority assume the exercise power which,
f allowed to be consummated, would result
n despotism or monarchy itself. (Enthusi,
stic applause.) This is truth; and because
thers, as well as myself, have seen proper
o appeal to the patriotism and republican
feeling of the country, we have been de
>ounced in the severest terms. Blander up'
on slander, vituperation upon vituperation, 1
f the most virulent character, has made its4
ay through the press. What, gentleman, i
ias been your and my sin? What has been
th aca of' my nofending? [wil tell +y1u.~
Daring to stand by the Constitutton of our
fathers!
Mr. Chairman, I consider the proceedings
of this Convention equal to, if not more im%
portant than those of any Convention that
ever assembled in she United states. (Great
applause.) When I look upon that colleetion,
of citizens coming together voluntarily, and
sitting in council with ideas, with principles
and views commensurate with all the States,
and coNextensive with the whole people, and
contrast it with a Congress whose policy,
if persisted in, will destroy the country, I
regard it as more important than any Con
vention that has sat-at least since 1787.
(Renewed applause.) I think I may also say
that the declarations that were there made
are equal to those contained in the Declara
tion of Independence. (Cries of "Glorious,"
and most enthusiastic and prolonged ap,
plause.) Your address and declarations are
nothing more or less than a re-affirmation of
the Constitution of the United States. (Cries
of "Good," and applause.)
Yes, I will go fa3rther and say that the
declarations you have made, that the prin
ciples you have enunciated in yar address,
are a second proclamation of emancipation
to the people of the United States. IRe
newed applause.{ For in proclaiming and
re-proclaiming there great truths, you have
laid down a constitutional platform on which
all, without reterence to party, can make
common cause. engage in a common effort
to break rhe tyranny which the dominant
party in Congress has so relentlessly exer
cised, and stand united together for the re
storation of the States and the preservation
of the government.
The question only is the salvatior of the
country; for our coun-y rises above all party
considerations c influences. (Cries of
"Good," and applause.) How many are
there in the United States that now require
to be free? They have the shackles upon
their limbs, and are bound as rigidly by the
behests of party le.ders in the National Con
gress as though they were in fact in slavery.
I repeat, then, that your declaration is the
second proclamation of emancipation to the
people of the United States, and offers a
common ground upon which all patriots can
stand. (Applause.)
In this connection, Mr. Chairman and
gentlemen, let me ask what have I to gain
more than the advancement of the public
welfare? I am as * much opposed to the
indulgence of egotism as auy one; but here,
in a conversational manner, while formally
receiving the proceedings of this Convention,
I may be permitted ag:iin to inquire what
have I to gain consulting human ambition
more than I have gained, except one thing
-the consummation of the great work of
restoration? My race is nearly run. I have
been placed in the high office which I occupy
by the Constitution of the country, and I
may say that I have held from lowest to the
highest, almost every station to wvhichl a man
may atta!n in our Government. I have
passed through every position, f:ocm alders
man of a village to the Presidency of the
United States. And surely, gentlemen, this
should be enough to gratify a reasonable
ambition.
If I had wanted authority, or if I had
wished to perpetuate my own power, how
easily could I have held and wielded that
which was placed in my hands by the
measure called the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
(Laughter and applause.) - With an army
which it placed at my discretion, I could have
remained at the capital of the nation, and,
with fifty or sixty millions of appropriations
at my disposal, with the machinery to be
unlocked by my own hands, with my satraps
and dependents in every town and village,
with the civil rights bill following as an
auxiliary, (laughter,) and with the patronage
and other appliances of the Gevernment, I
could have proclaimed myself dictator.
("That's truelI" and appleuse.)
But, gentlemen, my pride and my ambition
have been to occupy that position which
retains all power in the hands of the people.
(Great cheering.) It is upon them I have
always relied; it is upon them I rely now,
(A voice, and the people will not disappoint
you,) and I repeat that neither the taunts
nor jeers of Congress nor of a subsidized,
calumniating press can drive me from my
purpose. (Great applause.) I acknowledge
no superior except my God, the author of
my existence, and the people of the United
States. (Prolonged and enthdsiastic cheer,
ing.) The commands of the one I try to obey
as best I can, compatible with poor hun
inanity. As to the other, in a political and
representative sense, the high behests of the
people have always been and ever will be
respected and obeyed by me. (Applause.)
Mr. Chairman,.[ have said more than I
intended to say. For tbe kind allusion to
myself, contained in your address, I thank
you. In this crisis and at the.present period
of my public life, I hold above all price and
shall evet recur with feelings of profound
gratification to the resolution containing the
endorsement of a Convention emanating
spontaneously from the great mass of the
people. With conscientious. convic.tion as
my courage, the Constitution as my guide,
and my faith in the people, I trust and hope
that my future action may be such that you
and the Convention you represent may not
regret the assurance of confidence you have
so generously expressed. ("We are sure of
it.")
Before separating, my friends, one and all,
please accept my heartfelt thanks for the
kind manifestations of respect you have
exhibited on this occasion.
Sow TuRNwPs.-We find the following
good advice in a country exchange: The
scarcity of grain this winter will evidently
be great, as a result of the great drought this
mummer. This may be remedied in part, if
sach farmer will sow several acres of his best
and in turnips. They make excellent food
for stock, and may furnish substance to a
large class of persons who may not be able
;o obtain other food. Don't neglect this.
'he matter is important enough to claim the
mmnediate attention of every farmer. Five
inndred bushels of turnips fed to stock are
~qual to three hundred and fifty bushels of
~orn. Cut down the withered corn stalks,
nanure carefully, and sow ruta bagas. The
rield will provide amply for the deficiepov
n grain, if carefully managed. Try it, t .
1pon our word you will be repaid for your
abor.
THE NoETH'MEsTERN- CORN CROP.
should no serious change ih season occur
)etween this and harvest, the yield of corn
n the North-west, will be the largest ever
mown in the history of this country. The
~stimate is 1,039,000,000-over one thousand
nillions of bushels! What a labyrinth of:
igures-what an ocean of corn! The Ohio
mud Missouri valleys are the great corn gra
laries of the West. Ohio will produce over
10,000,000 bushels. Growing corn depends
)n a combination of warmth, humidity and
imestone, which is no where so happily
>lended as in the Ohio valley. The alluval
leposit is so great in some sections that fr mn
'rty to'sixty bushels per acre is the annual
rield. An acre of land in Ohio has produced
180 hmh els of cnrn.-Clncinnati aette.
Arrest and Confessions of the Murderers of Mr
A. D. Walker.
The obscurity which has for several weeks
enveloped the persons concerned In ther
murder of our fellow,citizen, Mr. A. D..
Walker, has at length been satisfactorily
dissipated. The freight train, of the 1Sth'
inst., brought up from Columbia two negro,
men, Belton Cline, alias Williams and Lon
don Jones, alias Adams, the former of whorn?
has been arrested in Petersburg, Va., and
the latter in Columbia, S. C., on suspicion
of having been implicated in the above mur
der. On the 19th inst., they were brought
before the jury of inquest and there made
the following voluntary confession. although.
warned that the evidence would be made use'
of against them on their trial :
On Sunday, July 22, they met a white
man, one Bill Morris, alias Charles Derem,
alias Wylie Morris, with whom they had
been acquainted, who asked them to accom
pany him to Chester the same night to as
sist in some "job," from which they would
probably each realize $500 or 1,000. They
arrived in Chester by the evening train, pur,
chased a bottle of whiskey and set out for'
Walker's residence, which they reached
about ten o'clock. Morris then prepared:
some strings, telling the negroes that Mr.
Walker had charged him with horse stealipg,
and that he intended to tie him up, whip him'
and leave him tied all night. He also sta
ted that there were $30,000 In the house.
In the meantime, Morris, who was known
by the deceased, had disguised himself by
blacking his face.' As previously relatede
Mr. Walker was induced, by the representa
tions. of London, to visit the supposed sick
man, in company with Mr. Estes. The par
ty were joined on the road by Belton, Morris:
being concealed in the bushes. At a given
signalfrom Morris, London seized Mr. Wal
ker, while Belton attempted to grask Mr.
Estes, who succeeded in escaping. Belton
then returned to the assistance of London
and held Mr. Walker until Morris emergAd
from the woods and shot the deceased
throughEthe head. London, in the meantime,.
had pursued Mr. Estes as far as Mr. Walv
ker's house. After the perpetration of the
murder, Morris told Belton to go up to the
house and, with London, secure the money,
while he would return, cut the telegraph
wire and meet them at Cornwell's Station.
This Belton did and, together, they broke
open the door, London discharging his pis
tol at Mrs. Walker who was sitting up in
bed alarmed by the noise. They then ran
sacked the house at their leisure, uttering
threats and abusive language, and after re.
maining three-quarters of an hour, with,
drew, warning Mrs. Walker and Mr. Estes
not to leave the building, as guards had
been stationed around the premises. On
their return they searched the corpse and dis
covered two dollnrs and a pocket book cons
taning papers. On reaching the depot, they
secreted themselves under a car until the.ar,
rival of the train for Columbia. They were
joined by Morris at Cornwell's Station, and
a division of the plunder was made, Morris
giving to the negroes a gold watch and
chain, which he had removed from the body
of Mr. Walker. Two or three days after,
wards, Morris proposed to the prisoners a
trip to Newberry, to assist in another "job;"
w~hich resulted in the murder of Mr. Lane, of'
that District. This the prisoners declined to
(10; since which time, according to their
statement, they have seen nothinr' more of
Morris. Shortly after they went to Peters
burg, Va., and after a few days stay, London
returned to Columbia, where he was arrested
last week by Mr. Green, the efficient chief of
po'lice, with Mr. Walker's watch hi' his
possession. Belton remained in Petersburg,
spending money lavishly, and was arrested
by the son of Mr. Lane, on suspicion of
baving been concerned in his father's mutder.
Belton had a large trunk fild with new and
valuable clothing, and was to have been
married the day after his arrest to a negro
girl in Petersburg, to whom he had presented
several handsome silk dresses.
According to their own admission, these
negroes have been concerned in no less than
three murders within the last two months,
and rumor connects them with crimes even
of' a darker character. We hope that every
effort will be made to effect the arrest
of Morris, who is said to be the- leeder of a
band of desperadoes. 4 full and accurate
description of' this miscreant will be found in
our advertis'ng columns.
The two prisoners have been consigned to
the charge of the civil authojitties. They
were both born and raised in the town 'of
Newberry, S. C. Morris passed two months
in this District last spring, and, to add to the
enormity of his guilt, had frequently enjoyed
the hospitalities of his victim.
The jury of inquest found a verdict in
accordance with the above facts.-Chester
Standard.
The late speech of the President in re
sponse to the resolutions of the Philadelphia
Convention and his proclamatian, restoring
peace, order, tranquillity and civil rule
throughout the land, may well be regarded
as most important events in the poli?Ieal
history of the country. They are the natural
results of the harmonious action of the late
great conference of the delegates of the peo%
ple.
The reaction in the public sentimnt of the
North is deep and progressive. The truth is
beginning to assert its sway and to have free
course among all classes. The eyes of many,
heretofore blinded by passion and prejudiee,
are being opened, and to perceive with clear
vision, that "the nation is In peril," and
that the Congress in power Is, in reality, htt
the Congress of a section, whose' mission Is
the revolution of the Government and the
verthrow of the Constitution.
The manly words of the President and his
proclamation of henceforth peace, have been
received with joy. He had prepared.public
pinion for its willing reception He had by
iis previous course educated the publIe
mind for the proper appreciation of the great
truths there announced.
Military domination Is at an end. The
athority of law is supreme. The writ of
abeas Corpus is virtually restored. The
Commonwealth of the South are reinstated
to every constitutional right, save -that of
representation. The President has done all
n his power. And the broad and simple
uestion before the Country is now reduced
t> this: Shall the Commonwealth .of the
South be held as States In the Union for
very other purpose, save that inlienable
ight 'of representation? On this single
oint the contest will be foug&it.
(Cor. Char. Courier.
EARLY Conzs.-The Edgefield Advertiser
ays that Messrs. Smith & Clemens, of Mount
intage, nine miles below this place, on
onday last sent a load of corn of this year's
grwth, to that village for sale, and readily
btained for the same $1.80 per bushel. It
as of the Pennsylvania gourd seed variety,
nd dry and fine. This species of corn is
ertainly entitied to the consideration of our
eople, as It produces a fine yield, and
iatures before the drought generally comes
n. Another year we hope many of our
,'a-er wil ive it a thormngh tes+