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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. The Independent Farmer. T.et pailors sing of thc wind*/ ?loop, Lot soldiers praise ( liri i- ur mor, Lot io my heart this toast I'll kee I - The Independent Karmt fa When first tlio rose ia roto' of groen Unfolds Its crimson lining. Aul round .his cottage porch is seen Tho honey.anekle twining; Whon banks of bloom their sweetness yield, To bees Unit gather honey. Ile drives his team across tho field, Where skies uro soft and sunny. The '<>] tkhird clucks buhl nd tho plow, Thc ?tnuil pipes loud and clearly. Yon di ehard hides behind Its hough Tho. homo ho loved so dearly ; Tho gray and old b iro doors unfold His ample store in measure. Wore rich til aa heaps of hoarded gold, A precious, blessed treasure ; While yonder in the porch lhere stands Jlis wife, tho lovely chnrmor. Thc sweetest roso ou alt his lands Tho Independent farmer. To him tho Spring comes danciligly, To him thc Summer blushes, Tiie Autumn smiles with yellow ray, His sleep nhl Winier hushes ; Ho cares not how tho world univ move, No doubts or fears confound him ; liiftlittlo flock are linked in love. And household angels round him ; Ho trusis to (tod and loves his wile, Nor griefs, hot* ills limy harm her. He** uni ure's nobleman in lile - Tho Independent Farmer. I? O T_J I T* I O .A. Hi . j . Letter from Ex Governor Perry. To the Kt ?(ont nf (?IA Columbia /'/to it ir : Thc people of South Carolina wore persua ded, six or Bovell years ago. that their on'y ! hope of maintaining African slavery was in tho destruction of too A uerienti Union and the formation of a Southern Confederacy. 1 did not think so, and mise 1 my warning voice or do .' Ihi* fut I delusion. I siid to thom that ida very w:o safer in thu Union than it c..nhl lc in ii separate confederacy. J (phi them ti?lit "the extinction of inc Tnion would he the death-knell of slavery. They spurned my ?OUnHc), und madly rushed into ti bloody civil War, which ended in tho abolition nf shivery. Kow they aro being persuaded, ngutu, that the only way to save their lands from thu coulis cation of Congress, ia in adopting the provis ions of the military bill, giving universal suf frage to thc negro, and disfranchising their leading public, tuen. lt is with a sud heall that I see indications, all over tho State of II preparation to adopt this second delusion, 1 which will prove more, fatal to the Stute than ? the lirst has boen. It is true, they lost, by j the first, their property in sl..v s, and involv ed their country in a long and bloody war, which desolated thc State and sacrificed thous ands of their most gallant sous ; it is true, nlso, that they were conquered, and h ive bei t placed undera military govern?imn . V?> j now they oro going-to sae ri lice their honor a j n people and lose their lands tutu tho bargain! I They ure going to en fm n eh iso lilt.DUO black j votes, and luirroiider lin' pol i lieu I power m j tho State into tlie hands nf tin- negroes ! The inevitable result, of this delusion ned criminal folly will t>e the establishment of tho most atrocious government and horrible state of so ciety that a civilized people were ever subjec ted to. Already tho negro watch-cry in Virgin's and elsewhere is, " Lands for tim landless!" " Homes for the houseless !" " Political equality to all men, regardless of caste or cul- i or!" What avail will 40,000 white votes have itt South Carolina, with this watch-cry ringing at the polls? lt is against natu e nrtd renseo to suppose that an ignonnt and debased majority will not pursue their own interest, regardless of right, and carry out their wicked purposes, whatever they may be. Jt is possible to restrain them at lirst, before they accpuiro concert, of action. Ilonco the ?importance of defeating tho eall of a conven tion at the first election, before this majority is organized and emboldened by agitation and ?vii counsels, lt cannot be controlled after wards, but will make South Carolina a politi cal and social pandemonium. Is thoreau in stance in the world's history of a class of men, invested with political power, who did not unite to promote their own interest ? Just assure as general suffrage is erivon to thc negro, in South Carolina, bc will feel his numerical strength, and sooner or Inter, under th? vile lead of Black Republican emissaries, j noi/.o thc political power of the State, and ex orcizo ittoopprcss and plunder the white race. "There arc thousands of unprincipled white ! men amongst us, who will unite their destiny | .with the negro for thc sake of spoils and pinn ?dor. They will easily be. persuaded, ona per suade themselves, that it is right and proper that the lands of the State should be divided yyut equally amongst all of her citizens. Kv? ory one should have a home-the poor freed man ns well as his former rieh master. Ilnv dng the power in their hands, with this bolief, rit'is folly and stupidity to suppose they will not 'oxecuto it. They must servo on juries and hold-office, rido with you and your wives and daughter* in tho ears, and eat with yon at thc ihotal, and sit with you at church. All this, jfind ten timos moro, you must enduro from your .black political masters. And can it bo \ tho pride of (Ju roi inn lins sunk so low, mid boon so degraded as to vote for all this voluii tnrily, for the purpose of getting back into that Union which her. citizens professed to hate and despise so cordially a few years (tinco? Are they willing to go to the polls and east their vote for a convenci?n, with this destiny staring them in the taco, in order to save their lands from confiscation ? No. They will be voting the ultimate confiscation of their lands and their political rights ns surely ns they ?re voting away their honor as men and Carolin ians. There are in thc State only ton Districts out of the thirty in which the white voters are in the majority, ami these Districts are tho smallest-consequently two thirds and moro of the convention may be negroes or Mack Republicans. Tho Legislature will be similarly composed. ])o the people of South Carolina really think of these consequences, or are they prepared to accept them ? Better a thousand times let Congress confiscate your lands, than entail such degradation and mise ry on yourselves and posterity. Do yt ur du ty, und leav?; the. consequences lo Cod. Act like men and Carolinians. Deelare, hy voting against a convention, that you will never volun tarily yield thc right of sell*government, ?nd place yourselves under the control of your for mer slaves. Hotter-far better-to remain ?s you are, under the military rule of your conquerors, and await their returning si use of justice. I feel assured that nothing but a mis taken appen! tobase fear, and that dastardly virtue, called prudence, could have, wrought so wonderful n change, in thc public sentiment of South Carolina. And it is melancholy to see thc people-a prom!, gallant people seared into their own ruin end degradation by the false cry of confiscation, liku thc consump tive lunatic, who bad snell II terror of death (lint be butted bis brains out airains! the walls of his cells to avoid it. In order to save our lands from Congressional confiscation, we ?re persuaded to let the negroes parcel I> < in otlt amongst themselves. Lot no one charge ire willi disloyally lo the American Union, or infer from wind I have .said, that I nip not in favor of reconstructing the Union of thc Stntes. Mv whole political )U'n b.a.v keen snout, in fighting for thc Union, and trying to ward oh that fell sp?l?? of dis union which bas brought all those unnumber ed woes upon South Carolina. I wish to see the Union restored under the Constitution.-** I know the. Amerieen people never c" ho free and happy, grout am! prosperous, without the Federal Union; hut 1 will nt vcr degrade myself, or my State, or surrender my consti tutional rights or Republican principles, to get back into the Unieii. 1 will live, under military government, no mutter how absolute and despotic it may be, and bequeath it to my children, so"i*<'r than vote a negro govern ment for South Carolina, which every mun will do who votes for n convention. It*, is a source of proud satisfaction to mc to pee such Union men ns Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, Governor .Jenkins, of G corgis, Gov. Worth, of North Carolina, and Gov. V, rvili, of Florida, who never ceased I heir .(.position to the spirit of disunion till thc Union ce-sed to exist, standing firmly, and breasting thc storm of tyranny,oppression and degradation which has been hurled at them, whilst leading secessionists nm! disuuionistf are comic' ling thc people to their own degri dation and destruction, fm* tho purpose of get ting bael; into ibo Union; and. in order ti *C00IHplisil their purposes, holding up totheii view thc " raw head and bloody bones" o confiscation Such counsel conies with a hal grace from those who boasted, at the begin liing of our civil or sectional w.;r, that thei had drawn their swords and thrown away tin scabbards, determined to die or live separat (Vom the vile, accursed Yankee nation. Let. no one charge me. either, with unkind ness to the African race. I have always bcci their friend and protector, and 'is they slim themselves capable of exercising the right 0 suffrage, by their intelligence and property I am willing to concede the right to them. Hut I am not willing in their present debase and degraded condition, to throw the politici power of thc State into their hands. 1 kno the result will be disastrous, both to them un the white nice. It will omi in a bloody cot test of extermination to one race or thc otite In very few of the Northern States, aro tl negroes allowed to vote, where they have on a few, and they far superior to those in tl Southern States. Tt is monstrous, that tl i;qiresentatives of those States, in Congres should attempt to force us to yield the rig of universal suflVnge to the negro, whon tin refuse it to bim themselves. There is no danger of confisention hy Co gross. Thc members of that body may n be superior to the negro in honesty, but th have not the same motive to vote a division the land. They will get none of them, man is not so likely to rob or steal foranotl ns lor himself. Hut ?a it not better to ho r< i bcd and plundered by Congress than hy a O? volition of South Ott roi i na ? As wicked Congress is, tho members may have somo gard for tho opinion of the world. Thoy mi too, have some apprehension of agrnriani at home. I greatly fear there aro many white porBi in South Carolina who will vote for a conv tion, under tho hope of its repudiating indebtedness of tho Stuio. This class n influence tho negro voto to unite with tin and then, in return, thoy cnn unito with J negro in parcelling out tho landa of thc St Ono stop lends to another. Stay laWH first-? repudiation next ; and thon lollows a division of lauds and an equal apportionment of prop erty amongst ail persons. And lust of all, the honest, hardworking, industrious and pru dent class must support tim idle, dissipated, extravagant ?mil roguish chins. Who t'-iros tn Im ropri'Nonti'd in Onnttr?'ss hy negroes, lil: ok Republican* or perjured Southerners? All nth ors arc excluded by " thc iron chid oath." And this is thc great hoon South Carolina is to receive for her vol untary abandonment of honor, and principle, and constitutional liberty ! Weare to bc rep resented in Congress by men Whom wo do Rpise, and who will only increase, th? Blank Republican majority in that body ; whilst nt homo wc shall havo a Legislature composed of negroes and their vilo represen tut ives ! Congress has loft it discretionary with the people of South Carolina whether to oulla convention or not. They hit ve ordered a reg istration of voters and an election, and author ized every ono to endorse on his ticket " Con vention" or " No Convention." Therefore, let every mau who is not distrait oh ?sed, as lu? values his life, and I nhor, and property, und the peace of society, go forward ami register his natue, and then vote at tho election, en dorsing oti his ticket " No Convention." In this way alone can wc maintain our honor, preserve thc peace of society, prevent black SU tirage and a division of lands amongst the negroes. ll F. PKUIIY* [From (he Columbia Pheonix.] Convention or no Convention, Wo published \osterdav m t ' or loller trim ox (??'Vernor li. I". Ferry, ?hiebt . couts?.?, will he generiilly tend : but. ut the saine time, we oust he p'i mitti tl to scud forth with lt I? our re.iuots - ur own convictions in reteli<?i le th?' question discussed and thenrunmenta the writer hus brought forward to sustain his po sittoti. We take issue with him, both ns rc> gards his arguments and thc conclusions de dueod therefrom. Wc sincerely regret that (Jov. Perry has felt it tobe his duty, as a mar prominent in tho councils of this State foi many years, to alten,pt to make this issue, bc fore thc people. Wc considci Jt Uf}f(i\ t?nate in eieTy it'Sfwat, ?it?i nucdi un issue shou'd be inado nt a timo when it is utterly futile.-tiri issue which, even if seriously considered and ibo position of its originator endorsed by a portion of tho people, cnn only l^' productive if a useless and damaging discord, where per fect unity is desirable. As matters now stand in t his State, as far iii* our observation extends, the people seem determined to comply with he provisions of thc bil! commonly called thc Reconstruction Act, and which, until its pm visions are complied with, subjects them to r military government. We will pass over the Governor's reitera inn of his own consistency io political "fe ill admit it ; and although that uniform itrnight-forward course thron?Inuit was in? stl\ it variance with the political tenets of tin leoph* ol'South Carolina and the teachings ol i or prent lenders, yet his remarkable udhi sioi ?i his heterodox opinions, "so nailed." al way i ittraeted general attention ii' tn t admiration We will also forbear comments on l lb iniplici egotism, in the assumption that he ft ir esa V iud predicted all the ?lire evils which fol lowe? secession ; for that Ibo results of thc late, con [Itot happened te givohhna right to tho olaiti if a true prophet ol' evil, cannot ho denied Rut suppose these results had been otherwis -suppose the South had been tilde to success fully maintain Ci'' cause she sn manfully e> pnuscd, .i? il 1 o'i, : M those evils, bo's n property in slaves, tito absorption Of dost'.Ut lion of other property, and a thousand otb? iils whieii ibo desolating storm of war beano upon her-what then ? lt was a supposahl imsc, and had thc supposition been v?rifi?e wo imagine we. would have heard nothing c the Governor's untoward prophecy. As tm)/hi have been thou, so is it now, only a li tie. more so. 77icn men who were possessc of that dastardly virtue called prudence, (we use Governor Perry's own words.") in tl discretion which that virtue teaches and ci joins, clearly saw that the United States wi ti great nation, with boundless resources Iv mo and abroad ; and that-using a home phrase-the. poor South stood no chanc? in struggle with her-therefore, their course, ai therefore thoir gloomy prognostications. Ar? when all their prognostications have been fi filled; now, when the South, through, pc haps, that same " dastardly virtue "-but \ won't say what cause.-feels that she ninth mistake, and her prominent leaders confi that she. did make a grand mistake, arni cf sequcntly urge upon her to retrace her ste] and take thc only COU nc left her to rettie her error-they* aro told that their coutts aro "appeals to baso four"-such men Generala Lee, Henorcgnrd, Longstreet am host o' -di.ors can afford to stand that, how? cv-"ml the policy they commend dcnottlW as <? criminal folly," "delusion," kc. y appeal from Governor Perry, invested as is with a life, long devotion to tho (rnion. tho people of South ('anilina, and- iisk then there in any just cause for such denunciati of the counsels of their tried and trusted lc era, who, after doing all-with thc gallant operation of their pcoplo-that men could to maintain tho cause they had espoused, i i failed, now advise them to return to theil j legianco to that Government which they renounced, mid to that Union they had va clayed to dissolve. No ! The counsels are 1 those of innnhood, courageous endurance, mid i vre univ add, under our present poiiticnl eon- I j dition, of statesmanship j whilst the other' course-fruitless carping, cavilling and snarl ing, and the policy urged, i nacl ?un-lend to hut one in?vitable result, thc utter nnuihiU J Moil nf the ?latus of South (JurotiuH as a SUto. th? entire disfranchisement of ber people, and il may be and probably will be-not tho figu rative spectre of " the raw head and bloody lames " of confiscation introduced by the Gov oi'nor-but the actual fact, brought, in the most indisputable mode, to thc homestead and plantation or farm of every man in the State. I A calm review of the legislation of thc major ity in Congress, for the past two years, will sustain us in this conviction, if the people re fuse, or negatively reject, by inaction, the terms of reconstruction proposed to them. lint we pass on to the so-called arguments of the writer nf this extraordinary letter, which lie adduces to sustain bis position. The spe cious and, at one time, very popular appeals to the State pride, etc., of Carolinians-at that time, however, very much decried by Governor Perry and his few followers in this State-nre not arguments, and ure scarcely worthy of attention. When Gov. Terry tells the citizens of this Style that, by complying with the requirements of a law they have no |. power to resist, " they oro going to sacrifice their honor as n people j" when bc asks this question of the people, while acting under these requirements, " can it be, that the pride of Ca roi i un has sunk so low and been so de graded?" and when he tells tin m that, hy so doing, I hey ari' " voting away their honor cs o i n timi Carolinians," wi" are bewildered, if i.ol astounded, for the momeut, mid begin to think v.e are viong, and that our counsel and exhortai inns ; re mischievous, if not traitorous io (bc Stale. Hut when we turn to the con duct of such a mun as Robert K. Lee, when he surrendered his gallant army ; and when we reflect on his course and the authenticated expression of his opinions on the political sit uation since ; when we read the deliberate nnd stntesmnii-liko views of such tried men as Generals Beauregard, Hampton, Longstreet and many tither of the military lenders of the Southern people, who have been tried and not .' found wanting;" ami when, in addition te V.tc?*V we tftitt? T-pn\\Vff?iatf ?-??M . sel ufa large number of distinguished leaders in the field ol' Southern politics, men of talent and experience, we ure consoled by thc reli?e tion that wo ure in good company, and that, if we tue " counseling the people to their own degradation and ruin," (thc Governor's words again,) we are doing so in concert with som* of the bravest and purest men, whom not only thc South, but the whole country cnn honst of Hut, before we leave this flippant talk-wt use the word with due respect-about sacrifici of honor, voluntary degradation nod nil that w hich thc " no-convention " men so glibly in dulgo in, we beg leave to call the attention ol Gov. Perry, and all those who think with bim to a single paragraph from a letter just writ ton by Gov. T li rock morton, of Texas, lt ii this : "lt i*3 neither wise mir patriotic to be sui ! e. and indifferent, to invite additional trout) i. . ami lo Contribute by such nets ns to in .Hie?; thc further confusion and disaster thfl will surely follow hy delay. On the ollie band, there is every incentive to action. PoiicC, with her many attendants of prosperi ty, happiness ?md good will, invite it. l'ratei nal accord, with the renewal of respect an esteem among countrymen, suggest it Th perpetuity of the Government of our fathen disenthralled from sectional animosities, an unembarrassed by fanaticism, demnnd it. Tho ucnins id" thc founders of American lil orly, implores it. 'I he renewal of nation) greatness upon *tu enduring basis, requires i Thc sail condition of thousands of our suffe ing, starving country women and orphan chi dren and disabled heroes, plead for it. Ot own powetless and helpless condition di tates it. Then let us not hesitate, but marr boldly to the work before us. Hy compliant with the terms of Congress, wc no more e press our approval of the law than wc d when we. complied with the terms of tl President's proclamation by abolishing slave and repudiating our public debt. We h lost the. prize foi which we fought. We mn that sacrifice ns an earnest for our desire to restored to our rights in the Union. Tin I was no sacrifi?e of honor involved then-tin I is none now." There is more forcible truth in this pn grnpb, brief ns it is, and more real sound gtitnent which should weigh with tho Sou orn people nt this time, than in all the va] declamation about, and ill-timed appeals State pride, honor, &c. And now for another point. Oov. Pe may consider it a source of proud satisfact that Governors Sharkey, Jenkins nnd otb j (original Union men) S tm ml (irmly " in bro; ! ing the storm of tyranny and degradation t I has been burled at them "--by this, we \ sumo, meanilic; thc appeal to the Supn Court, but on this point, we again take lo toonil his attention ro another distingu?s Southern jurist, with whom, perhaps, h acquainted, ?Iso a strong Union man-Ju J'olw A). Campbell, of Alabama. Ile has written^ a leWer on thc situation, in whiol says : " Ten States arc now submissive to a 1 of Government unknown to tho Constitu of the United States. Tho judiciary pow the Union is depondent for its organic omi distribution upon Congress. It is quito : fair to conclude tbnt no arrangement of the judicial power would bc suffered to remain, j that seriously incommoded the enforcement of those measures. Nor um 1 aide to perceive that the judicial power under its present or gauiiatiou is adequate to afford substantial re- : lief iu the existing emergency, eren if the opiuiou of the courts were us favorable a* uiight be desired. "I regard it osan inexorable fact, that there is no constitutional opposition thut can bo made to the military bills, that will have any other operation than to increase the exist ing anarchy. ''These military billa nth.rd tb the people of the States, with large exceptions, thc means of restoring the supremacy of civil order, and terminate the domination of military rule. I may grant that the conditions are harsh and rigorous; that they s date tho fundamental law of thc United States ; and that they prom ise for the future much of insecurity und in stability. Hut these admissions do not change thc aspect of the question, as now presented, nor do they lessen the obligations of our nco? pie to take the measures open to them that will best promote thc common weal." There is wisdom as well as patriotism in the above extract, and we again recommend its suggestions to Governor Perry, and to tho careful consideration of all eur readers. J udge Campbell, in continuation, counsels the peo ple to exercise every right, exercise every fac ulty, and employ every power that these mil itary hills allow, with an undaunted courage, unwearied in duty, and au undisturbed tran nudity of soul, to terminate the existing con dition of disorder. Ile says our people have shown a magnanimity, a heroism, a capability for self-sacrifice, under the demands of duty, that will he recognized and rewarded ; 11 and a sid.mission to untoward errants does not im ply a surrender oj*these great jtrinriptes." - Now, people of South Carolina, which is the right course to pursue-tbnt indicated hy Governor Th rock toort on and .Judge Campbell, or that advised and urged by ex-Governor Perry? Which exhibits the most manhood and noble endurance, to say nothing of mere policy or interest, that of coming up to the work of reconstruction like tuen, and muking the best of a bad business, or that of bidlou IxJiSLn - tdbhkaSS??l beVega,rf|fiLa?LC<lMUL macy by those who had, and still nave, the power to dictate terms, und by giving heed to very inappropriate and ill-timed adjurations not to sacrifice our honor as a people, sulkily but surely invite evils of greater magnitude than those you have yet experienced? Are the people of South (hi roi i ti a prepared for an act of self-immolation, by taking counsel from passionate appeals to a mere seiitiuient-very injudiciously, if not mischievously, put forth to a helpless people, suffering from want, de privation of means, and cut off from all source? of recuperation-and not only self-immolation nt the present, hut the entailment of all these dire evils upon those who come sfter them ? Let them rellect, and come to s decision, be fore, like the madman quoted by Gov. Perry, they butt out their brains against a wall, and hasten their doom, and irrevocably fasten their awn fate ujon their posterity. There is one more argument advanced bj Governor Perry, which, in our humble judg nient, with all the lights before us, is the men vision of a disordered imagination ; and thai is a sort of black agrarianism. Ile quotes th? cry of a few stupid negroes iu Virginia, undo th? teachings of such vile dernngogues an< charlatans as Iluunicutt, as the watchword o the whole race. Hut, to be brief, we rofe him to all the publie meetings of the coloro* people in this State, ?he speeches of the intel ligent among them, the resolutions that bav been adopted at all such meetings, end to med inga elsewhere, a reference to which we mad in an editorial in yesterday's issue, and respcc! fully ask bim where is " the shade of t. shat ow" of foundation for these visionary . pprt (tensions, and we must add, unjust'allegation! against the race alluded to? Political righi and privileges have been conferred upon th late slaves of the South, but, at the most, has been in very few exceptionable cases tin have intimated, by word or declared inten any action of the kind,so injudiciously brougl to their notice in this letter. On thc contr ry. as all we have published in this Jouru goes to prove, the freedmen understand thc Into position, appreciate their newly sequin political rights, but in almost every instant have declined to step beyond the line of d mareation, either in a political or social poi if view, which their own good sense bas d tinctly defined. Nor will they ever tirai gress in this respeot, unless such teachings that of llunnieutt and men of that stripe ti allowed to have full sway ; or unless unw suggestions and the expression of unfound apprehehsions may instil a different feelii and evoko the very action which these si gestions would naturally awaken and lead in the minds of thc class referred to. 1 i this dreaded result, as we have already it i mated, we believe to be only the mere shad of fancied coining evil, which will never realized in substance, as wo have endeavo to givo evidence of by unmista"? able deni strations. Wo come to the conclusion, th that it ia Governor Perry, and not we or tVi who think with ns, who has conjured ti " raw hoad and bloody bones " to " ?cai tho peoplo u into their own ruin and degn tion." Tho fosr expressed by Governor Terry < there sre many whit* psrsons in South C Hun vlio will volo for a convention under tho hope of its repudiating ibo indebtedness of the Stale, is. equally unfounded as tho apprehen sion we have just alluded to. Gov. Pajrry may have helter means of information tba we possess, hut our sincere conviction in, thu not one out of ten of tho white people of South Carolina ever thought of euch a disgraceful measure, and we donut believe that oue-tentb of this tenth-if there be so many-would tempt to " influence thc negro vote to unit? with them " in carrying out such a project; and still less do we believe that any portion of thc whit o citizens of this State .w^mjd, in re turn for this action. " unit/witlt tqo in pan cling (.ut the hinds of thc StJtfo"." Wo speak plainly when we say that this intimida-' ting counsel to induce the people to vote tin convention," is only a Kcare-erow ; but, at th saine lime, we conceive il to be a si andero allegation against the citizens of South Ca lina, which is unwarranted in fact, and publication ol which is to be deeply regret We might pursue the subject matte Governor 1'erry's letter frtill further, bu limited space forbids it. We entertain Iber personal nor political hostility to Ferry ; but we tell it to bc our duty to e press our dissent tu the views he has expresse and the issue which these views suggest no prompt to our people, .\s unwise in conceptio: and daugcrous to our future welfare as a peo pie. Our limits to-day preclude, much fur thor comment upon this extraordinary letter, and WP may refer to it again ; but if our fee ble \oice could rciich every household and 0 erv voter in South Carolina, wc weuld soy each and to all, ll.nt our only Lope fur safe -our only tangible reliance for restoration our rights aud thc retrieval of our shattere fortune.-is in s prompt compliance with th law? of Congress. The people of South Ca ulina are peculiarly liable to the slanders 0 thus.e who are opposed to them, wheo denounce them ns impenitent rebels; 1 not, therefore, by a foolish contutuaoy,strc en their hands or give any cause for false allegations. Thc whole purport and; or of ex-Governor Perry's letter wc deeim^H wai ranted in fact, and docs nut rcflcot tho ings ur sentiments of the people nf South ulina at the present crisis in flit ir affairs. "SSL* sMi-o -.-^U?? r.U>|-??ri??g^" District Attorney Chandler nriu ii attorney. Mr. O'Connor, are in tbiu cily7for] the purpose of consulting Attorney Generali ^tanberry regarding habeas corpus for MrJ Davis. If the government obeys the writ] which is probable, bail will be tendered ai thc prisoner' discharged. I Inri.-K.J. Walker addressed thc Suprct Court in bi half of the induction prayed for the State of Mississippi, to prevent theoxcoL., lion of the roconstrution acts. His speech WL&' a nitihterly effort He said constitutional lib| .rty and ..elf-govonin.ent are now on a filial trial, and that it is about to be decided foi posterity ami all the world whether written] constitutions were parchment scrolls; words written in sand to be swept away by thc first I ingry surge of popular passion ; whether they cnn Le evaded by technical issues or plea of | tvanl of jurisdiction. A broader bill of it-, tawnier and pains nnd penalties had never been passed, reducing ten millions of loyall md disloyal people to territorial bondage, andi -ubslituting the gleaming sword and bristling1 bayonet for constitutional guards and court? nf law. The ease is to be continued to Mon day, when Attorney General Sttniberry will *A'JC.I>TA, May G-Poster Blodgett ha? been appointed Mayor by Gen. Pope. Tho Mayor and new council were inaugurated to dty, in the presence of a large number of elt i/i ns. The appointments arc satisfactory. Pu IM THE NORTH.-Hie editor of tho " Fredericksburg (Va.) Recorder'' has just returned from a visit to thc North. Ile snys : " Thc sentiment whiel\ everywhere greeted us was to th? effect that the Northeru masses regard the Reconstruction Act as n finality, and that upon the acceptance of its provis, ions by the South, re-admission to Congres?1 would follow. Business men said to us that? confiscation would not bc resorted to, buttha* the North earnestly desired the building Op of the South, and our consequent prosperity. Assurances were freely offered, that upon the rchabiliation of thc States, capital and immi gration would flow in upon us, if we would take some pains to open channels for both. In a word, we felt satisfied that thc temper of the Northern mind, which, on cur visit in November last, wc found nt white heat, had now cooled to a degree which assures us that reconstruction under the Military Act if. meant in good faith by the people, however it may have been intended by the party leaders." LAWLESSNESS TN EHOEFIF.LD.-The "Au gusta Constitutionalist " says : " Wc learned, yesterday, that two United States soldiers bad been hung in Edgeficld District, S, C., by ft posse of citizens. Our informant could Uofc ascertain on what pretext this outrage waft committed. Ho further informs no thftt, tn route for this city, bc met an officer of tho air my with a guard on their way to investigate the matter." .'. I-i- is wi iiifiioult tc live," said, a H\t?P willi sc\en girls, all in genteel poverty. "You must husband your timo," said ^ fft[ << I had rather husband ?oreo cf '.ny dit] tors," said the poor lady."