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a ~~~~FOR THE DISSEMITIONAlp UISEFUL INTELLIGENCEIIVRABYNAV
WENSA MORXING, M. 2
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1 -4m,(~ ~ . .* .
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"Neither is it, .Peebles- and I'm
fired glad. you dropped 'in.
ow's de od man ?.
M*rdier igeTher, Bi aid
n esparing confusion,
mn ni intono yOU' 'that*
iftAg 'e.*ddedpiYd Arbf16ne
I a*e been engaged' to
er slok,sdbesto* all,ny
mnedgJeenial eaterprg" .pon
n greuretw be a
49tawinatio-to be good--for a
.posfe i asil, 4hat is
Amste-M.Mtieher itt
-ung-ow
n4Anhn iniit may. Look
hei-e PeeyoWa'd "better Jay
dob Aqrs'ebaethi
hi~e sweatig lik- lbur
age,
iri~vathe air unttey
& nig Tor6o to pioeeute
mIe weom yoa ean el a h-friend
for mneiaagtemane, but
w~eiA 'ywe're-ik:d
an mrss otre'saw
ti hl vor n e hfourse
afr 'f adhe mtter
mwW-a"bis ak&onw nftwn
.. vi
ap seted lveldsa
Lr. -w"e=Meler
p#~cai ?t ehv
- ~-6
l~ek
x b 4to t ca that
a sp go for eemieisio
gi4 aliafftdie
-alesoq o an ekiet."
ba oatad him-%to 4be
insbt~AlQomiegoiis atroorty
EsnoOrd YcaQele io'Wced th
66n oePe$e tolieid his&~
ihat were- 1ing arouidl frthe
t aBeiin e yelled
$hAo an 4e
inamehMad adtltli frwent. io
atr&ten bii-erieron. Peebks
p*tfip%he-ad~ a chanoe-tot lift a
rogauj and thei'e sh :a seientifie
i~fgbywith odds zndavor~o
fae e? ,.v%n thea nPe1bls
oe.griped like ,sa-elamp orr t
bid 4spp i4qiisd og
~LPebbhs ealf, aix& Peebles- werrt
owialf*ponnd:iighter, while
Keriweather asserts tQ this day
that they had- to draw all'-the
dog's teeth;to get the flesh out of
b'ie nioush, "for he had an awful
holt forneb a small? animal."
Of cetareeerriweather's daugh
ter hearabont itand she was so
mad tatshe ,ner save the old
agiany peace until ~he went
tround:theneixt day o see
bles *oit it. Peebies looked. pale
as a: glwst-frQ.IOss'Of'blod, a,nd
Ieef, and he had a*fhole ~piece of
muslin wrapped rounct his of
leI Merathsai4:
dPeb.,IXtni sorry. aboat. that
~bveae a ightbgye dian
i*lostrilneer saw nehb a'dellFI
erate ass since I was7born. What's
the &eaniing of it, anyway ?"
"I-was only tryin' to ask you
to let. me marry your daughter,"
groaned Peebles.
"Great-wh at?-yo'u didn't
mban to say-well, I hope I may
be sliot. Well, if you ain't a reg
filar old wooden-headed idiot-I
thought your mind was wander
ing. Why didn't you say it right
out? Why, o course .you can
have her.. I'm glad to get rid_ of
her. Take her, my boy; go it, go
it and I'll throw a lot of Arst
classlessings into the baigain.
And Peebles looked -uefully at
his defetive leg and -iehed, he
hadn't'Ieen a a fo, but he
went -out and marrie4 -the-girl
and-lived happily: witbr 'fr
iabout tw6 Miaths, and- at the end
of that time hetold a -confideutial
friend that-1 he would --willingly
pke.mire toub e and ndergo a
rioe4dogbites to get.-rid
oi!.her.
The.Cotton Conventiom'
.At the -recent 'Cotthn conven
tiI 1 eMd in Tew York, pf Whicfi
( 4 e.ton -3ew4 gives, anqn
Testing accint,n ons*er6
xted-tOe one handred-and&two
eorporatione-a4 irns In t'e8at
ofM York;yt*enty-ninieien
lefeeyf onsudredMd ieig' Y
Lwd in Pefinsylvaia,;fien
D$aIre% tweity-tLbin dty
n6Nitif Caolina;I gIhNN Sih
rinna; forty- i Georgaai
-;e Jienn esgee..oneA
ent4eky.; ine ig-Mae'oei.;-4*o
0 Yrn0 ..
ar frTa~ co~ngiei uot erey
ioiod 66-M for o6b.e ts*
g eipfam from adm
arganr especially ri':the
4V.t4f e tety the e
eatioimas cedfljTia eEse~
or iatig, anfm-xit ofThele
'inginteestfdin faning
rennr to.their wiin tGnna~
$i~tng as ixed en the lastMWed
isay-of June,- the firstof wichF
giri occui- neit year.'.'Itis hoped
~hat before that time a'uxiliary so
~ietes:will hae sprung"ipif Ihe
antinStates,.so tliet a -good
adestanding -and 'eo-operati.
~rbieh -ahal Et 'muitualIy ad van
agn a >be eistablished be
ee the growers and manufac
eirfo the staple.
~To~AD0 NEAR. GEORGETQWN,
C. .-Ones of the most violent
inds that ever: visited ..that re
pin, was experined-onthe Black
dPedee 'Riiers,: uet abord
leorgetony between two- and
hree d'tlook Pr M: on Thursday
ast. It' ipparastty ftrst struck a
pont at Or ndar the plantations of
D~r.GAmrAn and~Mr. REsE Foun
x2the'Black River, doing some in.
rury to buildings. at- one or both
af these places, and passing fr'oin
liire in'avein aboit'fie hundred
yards wide, struck the plantation
of Dre FIansraNE on Pedee, where
it demnolished soine thirty email
buildings out of thirty-four literal
ty bi-eaking them. into- fragments,
md .killing -three and 'severely
wounding several colored persons,
md doing considerable damage to
other property on the place. In
its course it broke and tore up
trees, in some' cases lifting them
everal hundred feet. .from the
ground and leveling every object
i its~ immediate track. It was so
iolent and destructive that further
reports of the damage arising from
it may be looked for.* Fortuiately
Lt took -place at an. hour- when
mist persons were. out pf their
ouses, or a more serious :loss of
fq would, perhaps, have tak~en
lace
The'Mobile e#ine.. a Radical
p.~rhas usnadad aiiation
Remarks of Co. J. P. Thomas,
Chairman of tie Committee in
Charge of thi South Carolina
emonsttance japer before the
Reconstruction -Committee of the
House of Reprentatives:
Ma. CAIRAM"AND GENzMlmz
O' THE COMMrr* Give us leave
to thank you fot the courtesy of
this hearing, w1ch will be the
more highly apgeciated by the
people whom we ,epresent because
it was unexpecte4. We were told
thatwe would nobe heard before
your Committteeuf we are grati
fied to fid that ve were not mis
taken in assumingthat'your body
would surelynot rfuse to receive
such truthful representations as
we might-submitron the sbjeet of
our mission Co
-Weare, here,s ---Committee. -on
behalf of the corsenative people
of ogir tate, to rustrate and to
record a protest V*inst the-impo
fition upon our people of the new
Constitution proposed for- South
Carolina. And fist -allow us to
call your attentid -to the ehiraeter
and attainments f-tbe -men who
frtied thit Constitution. The
wkdover, fundatental laws 'for
free States have Uaen the work of
thh le42epUres and the wisest
ot their ciiot so with us.
etk4, bid,Ue seversty of
traco, aiu%notte-iadon ofSlon.
The -Oir.tittiolfe opfose was
tke o6bi ofighern adven
-tarers,e ioexpe ced Southefn
whites and ofeg esg a tive and
foreig,.some of1Riom' wete t
teffige"rt, ibul6te aort e
tremely ignorant utterl un
.fitnedfr the dutyftheir osi
Co i t possessed-the-.ne
fiA spirit, thetigh statesmawdhip,
e , 1pIg .xperienpe,h h phil
eoph'iica1-cast of mi'nd essentiali
the jegislatg- abolutely -.ee
saty tose-.upon whom., & de
VoLvec the task-ihe elevated aind
delitAte task-klf f6hmiig for Qon
man wealthisa an gw.h
Vitgrguird ne"'to the-,ob
ctiors.td~ this,proposed- instru;
mieet,swe do- met Oesiga to eon
sder them -indetail. Tli has
been done in the.dremonstrance
presented in tbe' Ebe of e'per
~senaives and: referred' to your
henoraleCmmittee. There arc,
however, two pets to which we
that stand out in bold relief. We
-re fei to tiilimited negrQ diffrage
and the taxation proviions. As
to the former,.according to the
p'roposed -Constitution, many of
the best and purest of:the whites
are. disfranchissd, whilst every
naI negro over theage of twenty
one yearaiinvestedI with suffrage.
The -negroes being in'a large ma
jority in .our Stat,, the result-is,
that uegro supremcyy, for -a time
at least, is establelied,in: Southi
Ogfolina. .This is lisaatroas in.its
tendeneies and pwrticularly in
jurious in its ultiniate Jestits. to
the black race. lTader such ~a
state of things, thg negro grows~
arrogant and the white. man- bit
ter. The consequece is,you pro
-dice ill-feeliag beti'een the faces.
In. sach an event, jhe blaek~ man
must safer most alid if the intag
oliism is made sirp and perk
moanent, it must:sesl hisi doom as.
a people. As to tfr white man,
he will take 'care o.' MIiself, and
will hold or regain his own. The
fact is, all history, 11l experience,
proclaims that whey two rac-es are
brought together in conflict, the
weaker and less hardy must such
cumb. "This is the law of power
-this is- the deerfe :of tlie Al
mighty Rulei- of the Universe, and
no human arrangeznmt- can avert
the inevitable resuli-the logical
sequene.. In the Olympic chariotG
course of nationalitis-of conten:
ding peoples-it is blood, it is race,
thaf wins the goal ndenjoys the
prize. .Hence the Southern whites,
in the faitIhof the ~proud rae t<
which-they-.bplong- feel confidenft
and aLona- and no 4onbta as toi
their future come seriously to dis
turb their well-founded equanim
ity. But the ex-slaveholder of
the South-though slavery be for
ever gone-is not.disposed to dis
turb the harmony which should
exist between the races at the
South. Acknowledging the fi
delity and the services ofthe negro
in the past, he feels that he is the
colored man's best friend, his na.
taral guide and protector. In fine,
he desires and advocates a policy
that will secure the black man's
enduring good, and make-him a
valuable' element in the land.
Nor are the whites inclined to re
fAse to him anything of civil and
political status, that he in reason.
may claim. We have said that we
are willing to concede to him all,
of civil rights, and to give him, ac
cording to- his fitness, the high
trust of suffrage. Let s deal *ith
this question, as of right-it is 4urs
so to do, and we wilI.throwa'round
fhe friedman-freed by South
Carolina's own law-the protec
ting power of all'that remains of
the State. The colored inan is
taught,by demagogues and false
teachers to look North for his
safety and his future; and- yet, we
tonfidently affirm, that there exists
Nortd a -far greater prejudice
against his color thani in the South.
lasr, as we believe, is the day far
distant- when, on the'floor of some
national body, the. Southern man
will be found pleading for the just
rights of his torner slave. Thus
MIuh feor the rat:ions between
the two. clases of the people at the
South.
A its regards, now, the powers
is ons e- V.'6tsttu6li'-ifiaw
review, we contend that they -are
unjust, dangerous,' unreasonable,
iiay, -oatrageous.
Tothis point, we would direct
the specia -attention of the Re
construetion.Committee, who are
to-ps.uponAhese grave matters.
Unde thoworkings of the-new
Constitution, it will result that
those who a~v.no property are to
impose taxes uOit those who hold
all the prope4-ty..- he legislator, in
laying taxesupon othIer; is usua
ly-restrai'ed by the consideration
that the tax iosed-will fall alike
upon his own proporty, and that
o~f his n eighbor ; and tbis is a pow
erful element in keeping one fromr
arbitrary excesses. But here Ino
sud~ restr~Aning principle would
operate ; no'-such conservative in
fuence moderate the delicate pow
er of taxation the non-tax-payer
may lay ilmost any burden upon
thie tax-paying and property-hoJd
ing. The power exists, and the
probability is.that.the power will
be abused. The consequence is,
that we may have under the new
Consitution, taxation.to the deathi
of all-enterprise, of all prosperity,
f all the 8tate's material-interests
.-taxation even - to- confiscation.
l3ur further-the whites or prop.
erty-lders being virtually uin
rpresented in the State Legisla
ure, there will'be, and that, too,
i its most' oppressive form, taxa
tinwithout repre.sentation U pon
this point-upon this great wrong
-our forefathers went into the
Revolution of 1776, and yet it is
proposed to enthrone fthis odius
principle even in the Constitution
fr South Carolina ! South Caroli
na, one of the "Old Thirteen,"
that fought the battle for human
rights in the infancy of this Re
pUblicr
But .your Chairman asks me
hoGit would answer to insert in
the new Constitution a provision
to the effect that the non-tax-psy
e-s be idebarred fNiin vqting pn
questioiN of taxation on property.
I answer; that were that, prac.tica
ble, and e:ld it be carried out, it
woud- relieve the Constitution
somewhat of its exceptionable
features'and t hope your commit
tee mayyrevise it in this, as well.
as in other respects. In addition,
nOW? to what has been saidf on
this subject of taxation, let us say,
Mr. Chairman, that it is estimated
that, under the taxing provision
of the new Constitution for our
State, the sum of two millions of
dollars may be raised annually in
the way of taxes; and yet, in the
palmiest days of South Carolina,
the State, it was thought, could
not well bear a tax of more than
three hundred and fifty or four.
hundred thousand dollars per an
num. Of this large sum, except
ing the small smount to be. reali
zed from the poll tax on the ne
groes, and excepting the smaller-,
.sum to be derived from the prop
erty held by that class, all will
come from the whites of the State.
Further-of this $2,000,000 alluded
to, it is estimated that nearly- one
million of dollars would be devoted
to tle educational fund. Now ob-.
serve that nearly all of this suri
will be derived from the whites,
und yet the e'dscational advan teges
will accie to the iacis lone.
And for this 'reason-e-the )ublic.
schools "stablisbedby he'Consti?
tution, although open to both
races, in view of the tastes and
sentiment of the whites wITh be
enjoyed only bythe blacks. Thus
the white will be taxed, Ald most
heavily taxe^d, for tbe educaZion of
the blaks alone. We are anxious
to provide for the adaeAtioa of all
clisses of ourpeople, and we de
sir3 to elevate the colored PLople
placed in our inidst by Providence.'
,tut we denounce the. system-Pro
posdd, and protest agaist -this
enormity being foisted 'Uponus, .or is
It only to'educate all Africa inour. milt
that we' are azed, 'but we ~are~ to be
.tuicted for the estblih,wt of State
Reform-Schools and each Dist6ctis
and unfurtunate:-rrgfeviag, the chilsOren'
of these partie et their prober responIA
"biliy, and throwing the burdipon
the-pbliej"or which it4biOsdhee tbing;
upiu- the -whites. -Can xoup oceive,
gentlemen.of the Cotmmitte*, of a system
of taxation more rUinous ai oppressive
than this; A think ftj- tha't*seh -an
iupositio will be tameily B6irne il
la t redlecting uzpintfieresulethat Iows.
from Unqualid-.- negPo ,sufrgp and
white di6franc-bisement, and from the
poaers of taxatiWp as -onitained in the
'onstktior" - uusi co4ideration, we
*old.depair of o0i-fat'e, if it' wai
deemuea possit;Te for the grder off things
establishcd' undpr '.e, recoritQucjion
of*.tgress, to.la for any1 e or
siderablk tit. B3ut we Teljou that it
cannot endptre. It will provu a.. failure. -
-Uaderi- ifthere can be no enduring settle
,Det-nIoe-no prosp,erity j,- .the
Soth The negr~o is miade. dominant.
B~ut he-cannot hold his own. tIl needs
tbernerve mecesary to preserr society
and-scure the public safty Te reins.
thust be takenr frnin his Kandsl, or-the fate
of Phaeton eill be..hi-Phatoft-that
*zhled character, who, contrary to Ap
pallo's entreaties, nndertook to drive for ]
('he day~ the chariot of the, sio, het who;
driving reckesty anid uunskillfully on,.
left the golden'mean of his. course, en
veloped -Heaven and earthi in- Banes, andi
for this ofience was strucwk out of the
chariot .by Jupiter, anid- thfvo*n .into the
Po. The moral of.the fable . isfor him,
for ydtr and far us. But iin saying that
the reconstruction scheme if a failure,
and wakes an -arrangement whicek will
be changed or broken up, tthe member I
of-the committee from -Wisconsin, 4Gen.
Paine,) asks me if I mean to say thaub te
Union will be dissbieid-or br'oken'up. I
answer, that as 'to' wheTher- the -Union
will stend or not, thiR is a specutntive
question for the future to determine,.and
one -which I shall not undiertake toset tie. I
But I can say to the gentlema.n, that It
did not say what he attributes to me.
But I will, explain more fully the thought ~
meant to be conlveyedi.-. I .mean to say t
that in the. political and. moral:worhi, 3
just as in the material world, there are
unseen principies, quiet agencies; ever I
at work ; logical and-regular processes of I
divine arrangemnent, w'uich tend always -
to a normal state of things, to. the order
of the universe.' That, unuder the recon- I
struction.plan, there is an abornvd state f
of society produced; an irregular, an un
usual arrangemeit, a violationi of .the
Heaven-established laws for men in so- t
ciety, and that this could not be expect g
ed long to last. And, in addition to this,
it may be said that the white people will ~
contribute, in every logitimate way, to f
settle things aright. They will help on
the national workings referred ;o, ansd re
lieve themselves, as soon as possible, of
an unreasonable sway. But the gentle- o
man has also inquired of mue, when I
claimed that the whites of the South C
have inherited certain rights,; if the "re- t
belliona" in which they engaged did nota
work a forfeiture of those rights. I an
swer no, anid I will add that, as'I con
ceive ht, their embarking in the late war
did not effect a sacrifice of,.their political
inheritance-there was no lapse of their
rights. -
Further, Mr. Chairman, seinesire to- e
repeat the language of the remnonstrance e
paper, and'affirm that there is no-gr-ound g,.
apon which to base your'treatment of
the State we represcnt, and the Sorrth. at
arse. . We are called disloyal, and yet ti
ae deand the oharpa, anA aset that in- 8
the rightful acceptanon of that abused
term, -there d %ells not within the limits
of the Union, a more loyal, a trer pep
ple than they of South.Oarolins.a hd
South in general. But give me leaeAo
add tbat, loyal as they-are to^eirg 4t
ed faith anidW toth COnsWttiitialws
of the land, ytu expetd614e of theet'
wher you calf-upon them -itehalese6
in the rule. you have,' -by -aRms4. estab
lihed over them. The blood tW". Ooes
in our veins is the same thaf"',W
youri, and such blood nat need -
faster at the thought of negro -4mWv
tion. To this domination we -*A--46
quietly submit. [n it, we will neer W
quiesce. True, -e do not. mean'resist'
ance by ai's. We acknowledge%ft
this great problem t the South bIx
be worked out in peace 4t tle
afena, by . material -instrit am l4
At last, we, the *hites and
tives of the South, standing upon -
abie-ground,do iaot invite anV
solution. But we do ifttend to afiosn
our purpose to resist "bi suprema
the black i ace, by every ueans left -
ander the Consttipp aid kwa.. B
potical oaniittim, ywise -conbin
tions, iy "truthful ypeals t te cn-.
servative elernentR, b1sek and O Ie1
Dnwearied effrts by-eety right
us by Heaven or leftto as by onoft
we-willearry owthis rightAous- enetTMt,
uti.we recov the ,.con-tol Whj' h -
right, belbigs to mental si4pf
virtuous influence.' We-stanil
iock. This is our high -a*dnavrE
resolee, to. which we stid'cdlit:
tlhehts of hone, and,-*t. ...
friends-by the trfditori
Past,by-the hopes of a osip s AuA
Witfient a.og - w;
pet. this lid -
tle. aliea aid the
-rwhite.
Big, Mr. Caraghr'ifd
restoring 'tle peace indeity bt de
land--a moe of,reconsto(e r
&nd e%caeiqPa and not jrh"_
Le freedom0 andj"uh
e Of our people. Gi've
r fconeition:. "Let the dea
Lte dead." - Offer t*tid.' W
you the ciliaet of .peace
States or,ijnst.&nd-a libeta . jfals
ks Grant a d hehasuggst4.
elose of the war;. thea. will,the'
problemx ofdiendy b .giisea
pe es'd toperltrof ~
werid. 'TN6e SOPER h!i
Confederate baner, xub):h -
st war,soawQtkiisi- p
will resum.e ber dtion to th
mageeountr And Mat
iaed bsfotb.e~ssn del thd
sublilne epivd:sfei&siriie hat
;randlypv a Lolb "lonteanse~~
roU neet6r rlo%eple ~)J
intinity, aoii icobrd
rights to ich ey deed
W h i e
Incon eration Viters
ng Democratin getleme4~
b'e> ind that The desifseffet~
jarolinias taief
ate Demnocratimovenient, isl~
y approved andwithpQat ezoeptig
~ommen4ed, it~ i8 deiiif:-h
mnly praeticabaed practifaTrais
f' action that is befort Ii%D n ~
e ideal wich bonme Ofodl
rve; that odr coneeriative omges -
~n negro suffrage ia bl&ik$et 4o ~
amage the Detnodratin' jala
oprth, isedeemnedwtterly utnfo:gn
d4. Wy are told tilat thb* Demei
ratic Convention -startei! ost i
he rigift. direction, -andil tIedi4e
Ls go on as .the corede.ae
ated to give us sikee8t$6d.'i
l the-dause N?-th:
'The great objsetive pintVbefore
~he South, is success in thie JYsi
Len tial canvass next fall. T6.thieg
et the Sout hern -people addresa --
hemselves inall ear etriess. Itt
hemn not fail -tosesk bt b
be colored element on teDm
rgtic side. Show the ooIored
ieople where thli- true interests
le , deal with tisein kindly,-faMeydA
ruthfullyi and they will be fo~uod
eady to votO with stheir aricit
rie)d.s and natural -protector~A
Ve have arourid us, as a ~rac4s
hing, negro. voting elemelts.j
uch being the' case,- an4 driRga
s we must, with accomp1ish d
rets-ccomplished thoughte
ay be for a time- only-let the
'outhern people oonaolidate their
egro elements into one Demo
ratic mass, infuse into that mass
lie spirit of Democratic principles,
nd use the power. thus obtaiined
wr the good of both races and the
dbd of the coumntry at large.
.gains~t the ariny of .radicaHisn
re must-bring every column, w
an gets and it matters not wheehh
rthese column, be 049ao
tir Saxdasor dusky .Ethie~.
fe want vietory, for a eduntry i~
> be saved, and.constituti'op!Ji
rty iaat4tSklr