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BY ?TO THINE OWN SELF BK TUUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE IIOB'T. A. THOMPSON & CO. iummMmnmt?i?fm*?m)?mm i m j '-_ ^ M I I - - rn Milli II I I I I i i n II irn?ri?. m.mi mniii PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1801. NIGHT THE DAY, THOU NO. 5& POETRY. Chn?ty. More sword Hum oil n's which ni morn Arc Willied through thu sky, Sonni Cmuiiy's nore incens?, boroo From earth to Him ott high. It cnn tho woos of ol hors (on o, Ami bring ils own rewnril ; For wlnit wo give unto thc poor We leml unto thc bord. When (Jori looks from his throne nhovc No sight his oyo cnn scan Ho pleasing ns tho ?Iced of love Which binds m.- n more lo man. And nngols. whom they dwell secure, Those doods with jo record : For wlinj we give unto the poor Wo lend nulo I he Lord. Banquet in Charleston. . The Hoard of Trude of this city celebrated their hist anniversary last evening hy a grand bathiuet in the dining room of tho Charles ton Hotel. Thc walls of the room wore dec orated with Hags of thc United States, of Mouth Carolina, of Great Britain, and of nth er countries. The tables occupied throe sides, of the hall, and there were besides, several small tables in the. centre of thc root ll, the whole making as splendid a display of the kind ns it has ever been our good fortune to witness, The principal ornaments were mas ter works of confectionary, anti consisted nf I've pieces, ns follows : A steamship named the " George I'cabody," ill honor ol'the great benefactor of tie' S uth, n railroad train cross ing a bridge, ti pyramid of cotton bales, tier ees and casks of rice ami ears of corn, a pal metto tree on a pile of cotton bales, and a 1 cmple of Liberty. They were designed and manufactured hy Mr. John Mariun. nnd re flected great credit on his taste and skill. Th" dinner itself was thc result of tho gigantic exertions of the stnlf of the Charleston Ho tel, and was worthy of the great occasion in every respect. Messrs. White and Mixer fell the responsibility thrown upon them, and no bly did thoy sustain it. The corps of waiters Was activo and efficient, and thc chief, J ir, ?lohn (lin ter, in his care, attention, and ener gy seemed to make himself ubiquitous. The music for the occasion was supplied by thc band of thc Sixth I'nited Statis Infantry, and was, of course, superior to that usually beard nt dinner parties. President Hastie gave the first regular tons? : Thr Stair of Soil th ('u roi Inn. His MxoePonoy, Governor Orr, was intro duced and replied to the sentiment ns fol lows : Mr. President and Gentlemen of tho Hoard of Trade-I thank you for tito very flattering reception which you 'have been pleased lo give to the sentiment, " Thc State nf ?South Cur ulina." T receive that testimonial ?LS an indi cation of the respect, regard alni nllVclion which her sons entertained in ail times past, ?nd ? trust that the sime reaped will bc ex tended to her Kxecutives in thc future. I am glad to meet you upon the present oc casion. These meetings arc. calculated to promote the commercial prosperity of yon* city, and to that extent its interest mid thc ?>ro*pcrity of this State are promoted. But am glad to meet you with these surroun dings for another reason. I find around me herc tho high dignitaries and functionaries representing thc army and navy of the Uni ted States. (Cheers.) T find, also, the. civil officers of thc Government of tho United States. (Cheer?.) I find the chief officer of your city, lt is therefore thc first occasion which I have had tho opportunity of attend ing within the limits of South Carolina, since thc termination of our unfortunate war, whore there was substantial evidence that we were commencing lo reconstruct and nguiu reunite in?<he sanie sort of bonds of Union which ex isted previous to the war. 1 would be very glad, if it was in my power to indicate a means or plan by which the pros perity of Charleston-a city which not only enjoys the affections of your own people, bul those of thc people of the whole State of South Carolina to a degree which is not ex ceeded perhaps, by any other city upon the earth, oxeept Paris, in Franco, where Paris is France-oan bc. promoted, but I know of no other way in which thin cnn bc dono in tho present nppeet of our affairs, other than by thc introduction .if capital into your midst. "When T sec thc faces of those congregated herc, nnd recognize among you gentlemen of the highest character, intelligence and on terprisc, it cannot bc said that thc city of Charleston is lacking in the enterprise neces sary to make herns great, il not greater, than in former times. You need capital mid mon ey. Mow is it to bo procured ? Previous to thc commencement of thc war you lind a bank capital in the city of Charleston alone amounting to fourteen million dollars. You have now n bank oapital of four hundred thousand dollars. Unnk nt tho contrast of four hundred thousand dollars ns compared with fourteen millions. And you have need ed during tho proscnt Benson, thc fourteen millions moro than you ever needed them, when you shipped from tho port of Charles ton 000,000 bales of cotton. You havo made during tho your past in your whole State about ono hundred thousand bab's, and if you trev- ; ol over th? State you will find that the crop to be gathered in thc State in the next fall will . be materially reduced. Why K Because you as, ' merchants, ami factors, and agents, have not been able to extend the usual facilities for cul tivating thc broad acres which are now lying idle and waste but would have been cultiva ted if you could have commanded capital. How then arc these difficulties to be cured? As an individual 1 have tried the past year to cure them in thc way itidieated by the F,x ccutivc of the United States, but that cure has proved unnvailling. Within thc last thirty days alter having done all that was re quired on the part of thc Federal F.xeeutivo, Congress comes forward r.nd says-Congress and not the President bas tho right to declare and dictate the terms upon which the roeon- > sti ne! hm of the Covernmeut is tn b" effected, i They have piasod the Hill M .! ?? Sher- \ : man Hill." ami other know. -'. !.>,'.. i mental.Hill." The next qti . ? . to the people of South Cambo wed j nil (he people of tho Southern Staler b : Shall I i wo come forward and accept the t d' ... Hill ami go to Wort: honestly and cari 'iv tn carry timm out, or fold our arms in ap 111v'V I That is tho question. \ 1 proposo to vindicate to you my opinions ? as to the course to be pursued by South Car olino. .1 do not propose to thrust, my opie- I ions upon the unwilling. If my counsels are I not good reject them. I propose to show that i all your material inlcroi-ts will remain pnrab ; yzed until you secure representation at Wash- i ington. When theconstitutioual amendment I was proposed lons as States by Congress, and i wo were left, to our own volition, I counselled ? its rejection. That is passed HOW ; Congress i has assumed (bat this country and that they , have a right lo dictate terms. The power i. I i in tho Congress to dictate.' those terms, ami < that power is at least secured to them for the. } next two years. When the party in power I bas fairly and squarely pul itself on this phd- 1 form 1, for one, do not propose to go to the Supreme Court, or any where else, for the pur- .< pose of disputing this. I propose, humih'n- < ting ns the terms may be, lo act upon them I fairly and squarely. Those terms are, in t many respects, I think, ungenerous and un- ? just. 1 think it is our interest to submit to < their power. T happen to be of that class of < persons disfranchised now, henceforward am1 I and forevermore. I have not the privilege i of enrolling myself as a voter, or of going to , thc ballot box. 1 have, not thc privilege of I becoming a candidate for (lie humblest office. ! My counsel ou tritt, therefore to be' regarded, i by even those who liavo heretofore been in i the habit of distrusting nie. as unselfish.- I The disfranchising clause was, I think, tin I ii n fort ti tilde one. I According to an analysts by myself in the I limits of the District of Anderson, about one- I eighteenth of the population will be excluded < from voting. I presume this will bc a fair I average of the. whole State. Many of these i excluded persons enjoy the unbounded confi dence of their fcl'ow-citizens. There arc i many of them needed to carry on the opera tions of the Government. Many of them will c be ncc led in your ( Convention. Their absence will b . a misfortune; their wisdom would en- ! able I hom to give such a formation to the new ? Constitution as to make it more acceptable than it is likely t?> be. Hut it is better that i they should be excluded Shan that they should refuso to accept, the terms proposed, when there is n reasonable certainty that if you do not accept them, more extreme measures will bc imposed. Therefore, looking to tho inter ests fd" the great mnsses of the people of South Carolina, believing that thc threats of coulis- i cation wi?l not be carried ont, if thc people execute in good1 faith thc provisions of the i Hill, 1 think it is the highest dictate of wis dom to accept the terms of thc " Sherman " and " Supplemental Hills." I would there fore say to every man in South Carolin?, who is not disfranchised, when the erdVorfa b snell by the proper military authority for registra tion, h-t every voter, white and colored, ?zo and register, and when the da3' of election conies vote for the best men that can be se lected to form n Constitution nd ( ?overiiment under which ?hey and th< i> pniti idly tuny live. I think Conuivss . ..!.' istnke when they extended the IV it rt m I niltcly to the. colored populado Congress will realize, the mistake, Before that Ww passed 1 was in favor of giving io such of the colored race a:* could re l and write, or owned two hundred and fifty dollars in property the deetive franchise. This, for two reasons, First, Universal suffrage opens tho door for demagogues-to operate upon thc ignorant and those who may bc misled. If re stricted to those who could rend and write, you would have a guarantee that when fallacious nrgiiinents were presented to them, they would have thc capacity to reject (them. Secondly, As in reference to thc colored man himself-if Congress had extended the franchise to those ninon who could read and write, or owned property, every colored man, who has thc ca pacity to learn, would in live 3'ea rs have so learned. Now that universal suffrage has been granted, ho has not that inducement to qualify himself. It is our interest, however, to ele vate him. They aro pc.haps in a majority in this State. If you elevate Uh J educate him, you make him a better citizen and bo will un derstand better his obligations to society. It is our interest to clcvato him, not only intel lectually, but to instil principles of economy und thrift) if you do not ?nd they goon, squandering: their comings they become a ohnrgo upon tho Parish, lt is your interest for thc black man to vote with you in thc coining election. I hear a great deal said of the control of the vote of ?he black man. If it. is to he supposed that that vote is con trolled hy merely offices of kindness to the black man against his convictions, yon arc mistaken. That vote is to he controlled not merely hy personal considerations, hut by fouling to the black man, not so much in pub lic meetings, as hy conversation, and showing him that the white man's interest is his inter est 1 think I could show to the black mau in ten minutes that it is his interest to vote with you in preference to the man from Mas sachusetts. Is it to be supposed that because Die black man for ages past, has been in thc (rendition of servitude, that, so scam as thc -hackles are removed from him, he will in -tautly fly off and become the enemy of the white man ? And for what ? Il is said that .u< friends Noil h have sot him free. The ir*t year nf thc war that object was not pro ; -I nor in the .-croud, and not in the third until they were railed Iii go into the Army. The success of tho Northern people has set hem free. Tiny occupy ll CW positions to Annis us and we towards them. What then ire tlicir material, their social and their per sonal interests. 1 suppose there are many in el Ilgen t colored men in tho city of Charles on, free prior to the war, who are able to cite nstnnees of porsorlal kindness and pecuniary u'd to them from thc white men. A flourish ng condition of the State is as much the in crcst of thc black as thc white man. ls it int more sn to the tuan who guides thc phmyh ind wields the hoe. than the landowner. When sn Act of Congress imposes a tax of three .cuts a pound upon cotton, how much have he colored people in South Carolina been nilled upon to contribute '( Look at the hist I renr's short crop of only one bundled thousand ?ales cotton in South Carolina, and wo have men heavily taxed upon that. What proportion of that has gone in thc ihapc of taxation-, while one million two hun Ired thousand dollars which has been litend y rung from this people, in thc shape of taxa ion, not one dollar was levied upon the wheat iiowcr in Ohio or tho corn in Kentucky ov dh-eudiofi) Do not tell me th' o o.-* ?v.^'o^t ired people of t!ii?f country have not thc intel ligence to understand it. Thf}/ med repro 'ciitufion in Congress ns mn'cli an We do. 'They .ced I he tax to bo taken.oil' thc productions of hen labor. Not only is the production of ?Ninth Carolina, but the tobacco of North Car dilla and Virginia is ns wrongfully taxed. It s not then by intimidation, by browbeating, ay wronging the people, that we are to eon rol their votes, but show them that it. is to I heir interest to vote with us, and I nndortnki ' lo say that tho great mass of them-certainly J hose who can read and write-will co operate ? with ns when thc contest comes. They will j lie found shoulder to shoulder, with the white nan and standing upon thc same platform. [t is to he expected that the sympathies of the .olorod people will bc appealed to against us. If muy he supposed that designing men will ?0ntC and say to t hom " those people have been your taskmasters and >our oppressors." Hut let this be true. They were in a condition ot servitude, which was believed to he best for them. Now this relation is changed, and ev ery dollar earned by the labor of a black niau precisely as every dollar earned by a white lunn goes into his por.kof. Our interests, nt least thc agricultural one, must ho the same for years to come, all over South Carolina. T desire to make a remark or two directly for the consideration of the black men. When emissaries come here from Massachusetts, Connccticutt or New Jersey, for the purpose of trying to hitch them to this or that pnrty. und say to them that the white people here ure not to he trusted, I want them to say to these emissaries ti nt, under thc new lnw in South Carolina,- no matter by whom pas-ol, every colored mun of the noe cf twenty ono years is entitled to vote, while in yodr States be is not allowed to exercise that privilege unless he can read and write. Say to the man from Ohio, who conics here to give direc tions ns lo how you shall vote, " go bael' and enlighten the heathen in your own States, be fore y u eoino herc to tell us what the black nj a II is to do." One month Ins not elapsed since the States of New Jersey Ohio and Michigan refused to give the Colored irton thisriubt ; but the Hep resent a ti ves i Congress of these States voted I ir this Hill to give universal suffrage in the Southern States In those three States thc L?gislatures in solemn conclave resolved that thc black mau should not vote under any cir cumstances whatever. Lot tho colored mon tell these emissaries to "go back and remove the beam from the eyes of their fellow-citizens before they como hero nod attempt te take the mote from our eyes ? I hnve seen indications in various localities in South Carolina of efforts to orgnni/.e tho colored people, sonic white people participa ting in what they call. I believe, a National Union Republican pnrty. T think it is wise not only for tho people of South Carolina, white ami colored, but for thc people of all these unreconstructed States, whilst they nre in thc process of reconstruction, to turn their attention to their State Constitution; and when we get representation in Congress, I would send men there not pledged feo tho- Republi can Union party, or to tho Denme patio party, but men who would say to thc great pnrtics at Washington " wo will stand by that party ! which will ??vc us equal rights, justice nuil j laws under the Constitution of this country." ' I know there is a widespread apprehension at thc North, that with thc reorganization and reenlist ruction of thc Southern States they Would at once fall into the arms of their former I allies and associates, the D?mocratie party. 1 should give no such pledge. 1 was identifica during the ten years of my public career, as a Representative in Congress from one of ?he Districts of South Carolina, with that party, andmy distinguished friend, the Comuiand ing Genend of this District, will testify, I njt only enjoyed itu confidence, but its highest honors. 1 h ive, therefore, reason to respect it, and I have yearned for many weeks and i i years, almost, to see it reinstated in power, ! j ami repossess thc Government. But thc j I dream is past. We have accounts to settle j with it before I. for one, at least, will ever : again consent to affiliate with it. Governor Orr then proceeded lo recount the treachery of thu Democratic party, first in in ducing the South lo believe that if war fol lowed tho secession nf the Southern Slates that mi!' ncoplc would b< supported Ly the Demo crats at the Sonh, and lenco kid that he was o1' the d liberate opinion that, hu' tor this hope, no Shite c.\<cpl South Carolina would I have ?on? out nf the Union. S corni, in thal tho Democrats who had par ticinated in thc Convention held in Philadel phia in August last, upon ti broad National basis capable of embracing every conservative man North and South, endeavored, as soon as they discovered that they possessed that op- I portunity, to characterize it as the Democratic ! party and thus defeated its object and useful ness. hird, that when the constitutional amend ment was presented for the acceptance of the South, that neirly every Democratic paper and orator used their best exertions to per suade the South to reject its provisions as humiliating, und said that they would soon re pos.-ess the Government and do away with the necessity for such legislation. The result of their (Cachings in part, said he, may be found in the passage of the Sherman and Supple mental Bills, the most odious features in whi .di were incorporated by the votes of the Dctno craM in connection with tho extreme Radi 1'''ivl'?nded bv Tin d. Stevena, under the pre text that it was p,w-i;.?..i..^. -.?,.-j- id^ot.. ed for the purpose of procuring thc defeat of these Bills in ?he Senate. This, said be, might have been inadmissible as parliamenta ry strategy if the Democrats bad felt assured that it would accomplish that end. The Sen ate, however, passed thc Bills in the main, and on their return to thc 11 ouse for its con currence, they were adopted by that body, lorry live Democrats voting aye upon their passage. To cap the climax, as soon as these measures becauin laws,every oroof tin sc Dem oemtio papers and members are found urging tho So.ith to accept the terms which they have so zealously striven to make odious and to reorganize under them. lt was time, said he, for the South to seek now friends and new alliantes, and that be was opposed to any party that would seek to affiliate with the democratic or any other party now, and particularly with any party that would place a tax of two and a half cents a pound upon cotton without taxing the corn and wheat of Indiana or any other Northern States. Our representatives should go to Washington unfettered and say that they were prepared to join only that party that was ready to do justice to us. livery effort to organize any party in South Carolina at this time with the view of hitching it on to the Democratic, Republican or any other party, was. if not un patriotic, nt least very short-sighted policy, j After referring to thc fact that he was one of the disfranchised, ho said that be boped i that his remarks would be accepted as those of one Uninfluenced by selfish considerations, and again earnestly and eloquently appealed for the energetic co-operation of his auditors in the work of reconstruction under thc Sher ? mari and Supplemental Bills. H tit IDF. AN, CT., March 20.-A colored man was to-day admitted to registry ns a freeman by the Republican Board of Registers of this town, and declared to be entitled to vote. There is much consternation in consequence among the Republicans. K.W.Ur.ll. N C., March 20.-Tho Union Convention met on Wednesday, nt which bf ly-two I'mimics wore represented - half white . tul half bi.iel; which adjourned after a ses sibil of two days. lt adopt Wi'thc llepublic/in asa party, in name ami rone. The resolutions were radical. ST. LOUIS, April 1.-The Linden Hotel was burned to-day. Loss $1,500,000. - M4 ? - - NRW Youit, April \ .-The iron wnr steam er Oon. McCulloni, designed for the Liberals, sailed yesterday for Tampico, Mexico with full batteries of artillery, 10,000 stands of small arms, four tons of powder, and a quantity ol fixed animunition, She oarried several Liberal office rsi jfy.V storm in a village of "Bolivia des troyed 20 houses and 100 lives. A SlMl'l.F. looking freedman reoontly p-o flouted' himself nt the " Bureau" in a South ern State, and expressed a desire to bc mar ried. " All right, fetch your swecthcar aloug," was thc reply ; *' dey tole mc it wa your bis'ness to find mo ono." What Shall We Do? The following Itl'ti ol CS fruin two of the lead- . ing daily papers of Charleston, are published j for the informs lion of all concerned. They should be carefully read and studied : [Fron? tlio Charleston MorbiVry.] . OU ll NKOKSSARY COU KSK. . I lt is now perfectly plain, (hat under the guidance of a few white people, thc attempt is to be made to organize the black population, i against'tho white population of the Southern States, on the ground that there arc antago nist interests betwcein them. Wc regret this ; but our regrets cannot niter facts. They are ' probably what most men expected, under thc domination of tliu.su who passed the Military act. The question is. what course should all irood citizens of the. * States pursue, to avoid if possible, the antagonism meditated, and to ; protect themselves from thc evils it must pro duce ? Thc Military Commander over this State, : will doubtless before long, take measures to have the naines nf all who arc entitled to vote Dil the question, whether lt convention of the Mate shall be held, duly registered. According to the terms of the Military act, the names of all who .shall take the oath it prescribes, shall be registered. The net gives no power to the register orto any military of lieials to reject any one; but it provides, thal my one who shall swear falsely, shall bc amen' iblo to punishment by thc criminal courts of ?he country, and " on conviction " shall be punished as having committed perjury. Thc great point of exclusion, is that thc . iffiunt shall swear, that he has not committed , ' treason" ur " rebellion" against the United "States. Thc whole scope, intention and effect ; d* tho act is that the people of thc Southern ; Slates are conquered belligerents, to bo dealt erith accordingly. If wc are conquered bel- j ligereuts, wc ure not traitors or rebels. Wheth- , cir, therefore, any .secessionist believes that he . lins eonimi tod treason or r?bellion against thc United States j or whether beean take the inth, affirming that he has not done so, is a ? matter for his conscientious convictions, sub- . ieot to tho judgment of a jury of his fellow- : citizens if indicted on a trial for perjury. . ? IVut without going into the question, of who ??ilj hold himself excluded from rr-iristrv bv the law, it is piuiu, - *.r." v ,r to prepare themselves to meet its requirements. The destiny of South Carolina, lor the time being at least, passes into the hands of thc registered voters, of thc State. lt appears lo us, that all means ought tn be speedily used, tobring forth into practical ac tivity, the whole conservative element, white and black, in the States; organization, must prevail over desultory, - individual efforts. Combinations, must bc met by combinations. To secure any earnestness' or success in ac tion, men must move together. Wo rcecommend, therefore, that prompt and decisive measures should he taken by tho people of Carolina, of Charleston, to meet the di Hi cu I ti es and dangers Indore us. They cnn be overcome, to the salvation of thc best in terests and welfare of thc State. [From the Charleston Daily Nows.] WHY SHOULD CAROLINIANS DIFFER. With the luve of the soil on which he was born, Cod has associated beyond thc possibili ty of separation, thc strongest, thc purest, mid the holiest of human impulse?- ? nd if there is one feeling tu which the heart of ev ery Carolinian responds it is to thc love of his native State. And ought not thc calamity that weighs upon her heavily now to strength en thc love which was so true and devoted in the day of her prosperity and her pride ? Like a great sorrow ina common home, might it not to draw closer together the children of thc same motlier? If relief or safety can bo found anywhere, it must bc in our mutual good will? our united action. If com mon ef fort is to be broken by even honest difference of opinion on minor prints, then we cnn ex pect only universal irremediable ruin, and thc State we profess to love will find her last and bitterest woe in tho angry strife of the chil dren she has left her. For it is clear as thc sunlight that though upon a thousand minor points of opinion we may diflcr, there is for ! ns the same direct, imperative, pressing duty. ! What is that duty? To secure the cloe-j timi to the Convention Which will meet this | year to reorganize the State of South Car- j olitia, of thc best, wisest and most virtu- j ons mon, who are not exclu led from election hy thc law. If thc future South Carolina is j to bea great ?md prosperous State, tho founda tions which are to be laid this year must be laid ill strict justice to all. The structure we seek to ruine most be ?he habitation, thc home, the defence of all thc children of South Carolina, blnok and white. We must feel that wc are all bound to her by ties of duty as strong ns destiny, and that the tie which hinds us to her must, if we arelo find safety and peuce, unite us to each other. To drop nil metaphor and speak ns plainly ns we cnn, thc tusk set hofore us Involving all our duty and all our hope, is the Reconstruc tion of the Stato And this work devolves properly upon those who live and expect to live here. Their's is the duty, their's the re sponsibility, their's the consequences of suc cess or failure. No interference of outside in fluences cnn bc for good. Wo must, if wc can. prevent all outside influence. What wc want iWWM-MjgMiWM------I ???? 'WK WW-? is a .State government that slial! command the confidence of all our people, of '?ur white people and nur black people: Wo want a Constitution thal shall respect thc tights of all and open to every mun a sphere for the de velopment of whatever gifts of strength or wisdom God has given him: ft Constitution which shall secure, as far as paper Constitu tions can, that we shall be governed by our wisest and best men tn our perplexed nnd critical condition, to'form sucha Constitu tion, will require a Convention of calm, grave, couse'.: ntous. men ; not sf politicians seeking ?he triumph of this or that party, the eleva tion of this or that man. Now, how eau wo secure thc election of such a Convention ''. lt will bo hard to do. It is difficult pothf.j s to say how it can certainly be done, but it is very easy to say how it can surely bo preven ted. Wc have but to engage in party strife, to exaggerate our di floren ces of opinion, to impugn each other's motives, to distort each unguarded word, .md tho work is done. The doom we will h?vo brought upon ourselves will be dark enough to satisfy thc hatred of our most malignant foe. "Wc maj accomplish de panie end with almost equal certain fy in another way. Wo have but to fold our arms and stand still, to drift to the f?ame ruin. There are those who Beck to divide that they may destiny us. lia rn est, unceasing, and skillful efforts will be mode tb array the blacks against the whites, nnd those efforts must be counteracted by equal earnestness, persistency, and skill. lt there is to be an union of thc races io South Carolina, for thc sake of their own good and the good of thc State, the initiative n;u:-t be taken by tho*" who are superior in informa tion, in training, and in position^ They must l.ibour to convince the blacks thr.t they tue their tiue and most faithful friends, and they must ?nove themselves so in this work. There is not a good man in South Carolina who luis not an important part to piny, lt wi,1.1 net do to say, this cannot bedone. lt MT ST be done, and it CAN be done. The first step is to bo just. Let us clear our hearts of old prcjudL ces, let us honestly and thorougly recognize every right with which the black man bas been invested it: the new order of things, and agree to provide fairly for the recognition and maintenance of these light?, and <v. peal to him will bc irrc&istublc-with como ? n interests, common hopes and a conni..' u ?';' . f??ro ; 'winy ^dtM?^u?^ w' Letter from General Beauregard NEW ORLEANS, LA., March 23, 1807. ll??. //. C. King, Editor of thc New Times, New Orleans, La. : DEAU Sit! : Von have done mc thc honor to call for my opinion relativo to thc action of the South under the Military bill. Hav ing seldom taken any part ir. politics, 1 do not feel well qualified to advise on so momen tous a question ; nevertheless, ns the same desire to obtain my views-has been manifested from various quarters, 1 shall not shrink from the responsibility of expressing tlfem in thc hope that they tuny tend to quiet thc public mind, so justly alarmed nt this moment. In my humble opinion, we have but ono of two things to do-resist or subm it J the first is inadmissible in our painfully exhausted condition. Four years of a desperate war have taught us that the " argument of tho sword" can no longer bc resorted to Ly us to redress our greivnnccs. Wo must, therefore submit ; bul with that calm dignity becoming our manhood and our lost independence. Having been overpowered in the late strug gle, we can submit to the harsh and ungene rous conditions of our conquerors without dis honor, and we must adopt tho least of two evils ; a futile resistance would only causo our rivets to be driven closer ; we must thou acquiesce or leave the country. But WO lovo too dearly thc land of our birth to abandon it in its hour of severest trial. Wo should avoid also, bringing it, by internal dissensions, to the condition of poor Mexico, and thc un fortunate South American Republics. With regard to thc suffrage of the freed men, however objectionable it may be at pres ent, it is titi clement of strength for thc future. If properly handled and directed, wc shall de feat our adversaries with their own weapon. The negro is Southern . born ; with a little education and some property qualifications, he cnn be tunde to take sufficient interests in the affairs nnd prosperity of the South to in sure an intelligent vote on his part. Ii. our future political contest with tho North, on protective tariffs, internai improve ments, etc., thc freedmen of thc South will side with the whites of the South and of tho West, and they will thus contributo to give us bank the influence we formerly had in tho councils of tho nation. Our people should understand that thc Tine* icals eon remian in power only so Tong as tho public excitement is kobi up } ns with tim turbid waters of tho Mississippi river, tho sedimentary particles arc kept up nt tho sur face only so long as thc waters are in motion; the instant the current is checked those par t?eles full to the bottom. Thus it will bo with thc Radicals, when peace nnd quiet arc re stored to tho country; the Conservatives will then take thc reins in their own hands, nnd constitutional laws of thc land will onoo moro prevail. 1 remain, von rs respectfully. G. T. RK AU R?GARD. - if