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TfIURSDAf MORLNG 8, ,1Q901 Mr. P. A. AvuLH will accept our thanksfor lAte otew Yolk Herad. * Mr. 'DAtr Jovuz,' of the Southern rpros Cornp4 has placed us under. obligapons ftor any fatoks in the news paper line. Messs. xMAnT & Wpvst*. have ciiieinced business next to' the Post Office by opening a stock of goods, etc., for the attention of the gentlemen and. ladies of our town and vicinity. Thosewho may give -this new 'store their patronage, will -not be, allowed to. WAer by any inattention, but..will be fwaited upon with 8mart-nees -by its ,proprietois. Success to the enterprise. For the past two or three days the at mosphere has been warm-almost to suffocation. Rain is very much needed to give a cool breath of air, and to in vigorate our parchinggardens. In fact, it so hot that we are completely'inca pacitated from attending properly to our business. Our readers, will, therefore, excuse the small amount of editorial mat. tqin to day's paper. The New York Commi-cial says that the terms on which the whole Southern army surrendered were those prescribed by GRANT to LEE, and the Governtiient being a party to these stipulations, we ,-do not suppose Gen. LEE or any of his soldiers can be arrested withot viola, v ting a solemn compact, and our national fkith nmd honor. 'They would not have surrendered ha anticipation of an arrest .ad rhIl 'for trason. If the terms of - agreetient'afe tepi'diated,'ths insurgents will %regard thetietltee ii jrelieved from Ahbir -obligations and agein 'raise the statidard of rvbellion, The case of NET^ aet6the Bourbons of France is cited as a Manly Sentiments. 'We.commead to our readers the fol. lowing extract from the speech of Judge Cq*nIss Ji. JaNtns,.eohairrman of a Union aud Recoustructioan meeting held inMigmsta, 4th u -We agree with Q at we ought to sottid1er o -conquered, hut,4vbtpeyIi' 4'You will ry,.drbe coming, to P )Tea as at 'the foottoo . An -autocrat might demand this huml 'ation of rebel hiou subjects, who sted hib au thority ; but surely, free gov, heat, after even 4f ,d origina thi ins antagonittio theoie, a fmank,. digI~Id nd giaMhtl yielding of the contest, should he'satisfactory to the powers that be. As you will speak without mental reservations, so, I am persuaded 'you'willeschew abject oring-. * ~ ing or servile adulation.' Youir 'Ives will be the uttetances of men be n in. fight by overwlelming numbers, tnot debsed in spirit;i of men as -uthful, and as relihble' in pieace, as tPy are - vajiant in war--utterances Aitl Jddress eto men, and to Danthbi -who spumning sycopmhany, wgould a %ciate a becomingelirespect, and manly bear sMgr as an eamest pf uia eity, and a gupragty afbidiig pe. * -~ns~ua~au - The Whiigt~m correspondent of. i ewo r 2iuies the foll9w * n accountof tlgprison life of the INon July.- Davus a A Jtigfort, a eutire osoaufte.coompri. in~w *mk, was asepart for his us. ven ppt aa the] l. $. Within the Iois at oce - on ut, - ~ who, 4hu-the tiaeheuing is neaalowedt to Gave the 4eihWkES1aOWIosue and who hol ne o* th.4por of the tcauiate.Ietn ir, t(po sentinels in the *neeesoaretwo oth ate a '144oeto (kl eine at lena, S/4 cannot tus be 1 uighat of for a moment. day ot- night . The win. A't o etwoom isof' tt e bsement, lo 'o at fte rbid: of the fort, b-e yond lot 'sentiels o rthe embrate. Te prisoner is jrvidea with feqd froza that prepared for the guard furnusg the above' details. ]ge has as much in quantity.as he pleases, but no other rations' than ; those of the soldiers, whose presence sostifes to him the po*er of the government he has. so long defied. He ja in continualhuinter ruptd silence. It he makes a request, it is written down and forwarded to the military commandant, who returns a brief answer in writing, granting or denfing the favor. He is -furnished with a Bible, and with that only, and thus for the time at least. he is left in solemn, communion with his eonscience and his God. [From the Columbia Phonix.] Pulio eeting in Laurens. LAUR:NS C. R., June 27, 1865. In pursuance of previous notice, a highly respectable meeting of the citi zens of Laurens District was held this day at 12 M., to take into consideration the State of the country. On motion of J. Ward Motte, C. P. Sullivan, Esq., was called to tho chair, and A.-X. McGillivray was requested to act as Secretary. The Chairman .having briefly stated the objects of the meeting, J. Ward Motto, Esq., moved that a committee of three be appointed to draft resolutions declaratdry of the sense of the meeting. Upon which the following committee was appointed : J. Ward Motte, H. C. Young, W. D. Simpton, Esqrs., who reported the following: Resolved, That inasmuch as the lae war between the States of the North and the States of the South has termina ted unfavorably to the Southern States, we deem it to-be the duty of the people of the South to accept,'and to acquiesce in the result, and to submit in good faith to the authority of the United States Government. Resolved, That we earnestly desire the restoration of law and order, and the return of our people to their acoustomed peaceable pursuits ; and to this end, we, the citizens of Lauretis bore assembled, respectfully request His Excellency, President Johnson, to take such steps as may be necessary for the re-establish. ment of the State and Federal civil au thorities in our midst, by providing for the odIganitation of the State and its re turn to its former position as a member of the United States' Government, under the provisions of the Federal Constitu tion. at as early a day as practicable. B480 'That a Committee of be a by the -chair to make ku r action, to the Federal au' to co-operate for this pu WsBitch other committees as havee appointed by other portions of the people of this State, assembled as we have in their previous assemblies. The resolutions having been read by ,the chair, were unanimously adopted : Mr.A. McCarley moved thAt five be the number of the committee proposed in the third resolution.- Adopted When the chair appointed the follow. ingas the'committee : Rev. Ferdinan4 Jacob, . R. Todd, Esq., J. Ward Motte, Esq., Alex. Mc~arley,. Esq., and Dr. J. W. Simpson. On spotiont of-.Mr. J. . Hoyt, it was resolyedt that the nam of the presiding q4oor of this meeting be added to the comntittee as chairman of the same. *Dr. J. W. Simpson moved that the proceedings of this meeting be published in one or more papers of the State. Adopted. .After which the meeting adjourned. C, P. SuLivA~in, Ch'n. A. C. McGrLLivRa'w, Seo'f. The Meetinag iRn&ik 8, 10, Arwx 8. O,, Yune 27(h, 865. - In purnptane of )l, publionmeet ia of the eiies k S .a t 10t4sughseat ?he dhA aus. ~hth jfeto e~ 1.n hOIJ4IJ~i~9 peonle fBtI.D &0la; and whereatb. ui pA*nent constitute at piellet the. ho e01lo'1" &r th renie Uo.T fi 4 dt1-'ere-, .i.ess o0 wrong--. l t iI oviousTly very zpe ii that early day citil-gov. e-nier should be rein oted in the exer cise of its regular functions, and the peo. e allowed and induced to enga as frmry in their eaceful pursutand avoeatio~ns, undet the protection. of ea tablished laws. -Be it therefore, Aqolved, By tile citizens of Aiken, and the surrouuding vicinity, that we now recognize the Constitution of the United States and all laws made in pur suance thereof, as the supreme law of the land, and hereby express our willing noes to submit to the authority as such -freely acknowledging that we owe to the ,government which protects us the correlative duty of obqdience. Resolved, That in the existing unset tied .condition of the country, the peace and good order of society, as well.as our present and future happiness and welfare, alike require that the authority of civil governtnent should be re-established at the earliest period-and we would, there fore, respectfully petition that initiatory steps be at once taken by the Goveri. ment of the United States to reorganize, as heretoford, the framework of Govern ment in' thefull exercise of its regular functions, I istive, executive, ind judi cial, within he limits ot South Caro lina. Resolved, f'lint a copy of the aforesaid preamble and resolutions, signed by the Chairman aird countersigned by the Sec retary, be transmitted to Brig. Gen. Mol. lineux, in mmand of this District, with the reques hat the same be -forwarded to the Pre tt of the United States. Resolve liat tjie thanks of this meet ing be te d Brig. Gen. Molineux, for his uni courtesy, shown the peo ple of this ce since he has4een in command is District. 40 The sen f the meeting being taken, the Pream and Resolutions as submit ted, were i animously adopted. On motion of Mr. B. T. Rogers it was Resolved, That a copy of the proceed ings of this neeting be sent to the Au gusta papers for publication. On motion the meeting adjurned. EIWAnD SMITH, Ch'n, A. SYrnINY SlUT, Sec'y. The President's Proclamation. BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED ' STATES oF AMNRICA. Whereas, by the proclamation of the Presideut, of the 15th and 27th of April, 1861, a blockade of certain ports of the United States was set on foot ; but, whereas, the reasons for that measure have ceased to exist : Now, therefore. be it known, that T, Andrew Johnson, Piesident of the Tnis ted States, do hereby declare and pro claim the blockade aforesaid to be re scinded ansto all the ports aforesaid, in. cluding ttat of Galveston and other ports west of the Mississippi river, which ports will be open to foreign commerce on the first of July next, on the terms and conditions set forth in my proclamation of the 22d of May last. It is to be understood, however, ' that the blockdde thus resinded was an interna tional measure for the purpose of pro. tecting the sovereign rights of the Uni ed States. The greater or t he less sub version of the civil authority .i the re gion to which it applied, a-ad the im practicability of at once reetoring that in due efficiency may for a sea son make it advisable to employ the arm y and navy of the United States towards carrying the laws into effe rver .such ein ploymnentn m In testi~ h~ye hqee unto set m csed Lhe.sed of the ti io' )Done at ) f, Washingt*n, this 231 E, in 'the year. of our Lord Q ud eight hundresd and :sizty of the independence ofI the States of America 'thr1 -eigth -Ith.. - A~Moeuw JOHN5Gif.. Bythe'Pessident . - ' .uHtn~an Aiaing~eot'y of iltste d " R~oh*4duntff'n* SotTtf Cnora.r A.-ThlEP#taVIing' been th's firat ~tdthe nV rnpauit iriebllion, will ~robablyV6bleb46've the bydE. *utberrgM -N'l,4 ort be~h hde ei2 na illeie : *b1 o pante 1 eteag as, hoe fa d nain The LaAtNll~ WhVt. T e I itr trat4ia There 'was n, considerable meeting the other day-in Feneuil Hall, Boston, on the "reor|anization of the rebel States," and in behalf of the right of suffcage to I the emancipated blacks in this work, as the vital question of the present crisis. The resolutions and the speakers - on the 'occasion wero built upon this text I and addressed to this object. From these and other proceedings of a similar character in other'parts of the coantry, we can understand very 'well what is coming. The republican radicals against President Johnson are organizing upon their old platform of rule or ruin,. and negro suffrage in the -rebel States is the issue upon - which they expect to con- I trol him now, or- to supersede hist in 1868. Mr. Theohilus Parsons, chairnan of this Bostqn meeting, opened the ball in favor of negro suffrage in this business of Southern reorganization upon this ground-first, that unless the suffrage be given tq the loyal blacks, the disloyal whites of every rebel State will have it all their own way; that thus the Aouth ern States, looking, to the repudiation of their lebel debts, and to the federal war debt as a debt incurred in their sub jugation, will form themselves into a solid phalanx to repudiate it likewise, and will be supported in this movement by their old party associates of tho North, and that thus the mest disgraceful and ruiniousi consequences to the country may well'be apprehended. Mr. Parsons next contended that without the power of self-protection, which the right to vote will give them. the Southern blacks, nominally free, will soon be reduced again practically to a state of abject slavery under the white race, and shorn of all the rights of freemen. Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., lowever, was the prominent orator of the. day. His speech was the great speech ef' the meeting. He discupsed several proposi. tiOns in support Qf the suffrage to the Southern blacks. He contended, first, that towards the rebel States we stand upon the ground of var, and have the right to exercise the powers of tho. victo rious party over the subjugated enemy; that "we have tile right to hold the reb els in the grasp. of war until we have se cured whatever we have the right to require." Secondly, that we have thus the right, and it is our duty to the South ern blacks, to require that they shall have the right to hold land, the right to testify in the State courts, the tight to bear arms, and the right to 'vote.. He demands this upon the principle tlat the right to vote slhonld bo decided b "the greatest good of the greatest 'tumnber," and upon the ground of the publie faith and the public safety. He maintains, too, that "if we do not secure this right now, in the time of revolution, it can never be socured except by a new revo. lution." A t thb last resort, be says, from the war polvers which the rebelion has given us, we hbld "the politieel Systein of the rebel States at the disertion of the republic." Thus the argument of Mr. Dana resolves itself into this single concliiaon : that the republic will hold the rebel States in the grasp of war un til they have made constitutioins satisfac tory to the repul~hic, including the con tession ef all these aforesaid rights to the blacks. Tihie Rev. -Henry Ward Beecher was the next -speaker; He rsped-the .Massachusettu Puritang for their class legislation upon the . tight of suffrege, whereby it is restrioted to male cititens oter twenty-one years'of ae who.e nd and writ.' JHe wag ,' n nit' stRge withouzt distindtltn of cbk, an4, *lthout svitinh for the schoulmlaster and he believe thast Anre Johnson was spn. upon this qu~ . 91Jf~ he seems slow to act," ald grtle abet, "~you are to. reme,~st iata'Norke. is, pastur% without hkraue, een 4 thn that a herse '~ 6 ect j otread wgtaobuj eaa But the ta hd like oan or ggi 'sn indlogl, cam ,7 e' fMtpre ofh is eh asthis~.. t * hwedip 4hs agiso 9 leeD r, L who, in, by Jef ren .and a I9II bringing the first suit u i ay' addition to all these speec dottez6 wete read, nursuing the s.a na. of at.1. aOpat A_ of J Da~na,_ from Gov. r lButlerand o* ~tqari'the pro bhge ended with tIlR 4ption- nf, the tsolution in -ftvor'of' gro i , d ige in the reorganiationof~ he rebel States. ga Now, according to Mr. Parsons, ibjh nan of this meeting, this negro * s ggr - a necessary to save the obu 'tt roa hI rpediition Of-the- wationals. t--ak varIgg %whieh -Wdudell Philhips -ha= yven us in another 'shape. Aecordlagt ;o the hints thbown out by 31r. Damy ;here will be a fght in Congress by the radicals against the rec gnition -of any rebel State reorganiation 'which slall xolude the blacks from the rights of ,uffrage; and it is possible that this fight, nay last, for two or thrge'years to come. n both houses. According to 'the ap. 3ologies from all those speakers in behalf )f Andrew Johnson, they intend to sup. )ort him; but according to the geweral. Irift of their speeches and letters they" nean to rule or ruin him wi-th the fierce arty oxcitements of anothe violent agi. ation of the negro question, which iqbody dreamed of six months ago, as ,he next thing in order after the collapse af the rebellion.. We hold that the President is acting wisely in declining to assume the power >ver this question of negro suffrage in, Lhe lato rebel States. it is a subject which expressly belongs to the States&. The new era upon which we have en tered, however, demands a ne* and un iforn regulation of this right of suffrage in an amendnient of.the federal eonstitu. Lion, and it ought to he made so, as to give an extra vote or two in% certain Dases, according to the meaare of the laxation of this or that individual. This should be done in accQrdance. with that rundamental privple- of our federal. kvstem whereby representaimn and' direct taxation $o together. The-subject. is too broad, and the modifications de manded in.this matter of suffrage, North as will asSouth. are too vast to be un. dertaken except in the anendivient ot Lhe federal constitution first, andlof all the State constitutions to the ame extent afterwards. .President Johnson is doing the best that he can do -quietly and peaceably to. put the States, prostrated by the tebel. lion on their feet egain, and as the States loyal to the Union. With an, bnd to slavery it was hoped there -woild be an O~nd of the negro agitation. The country wants peace. and for.-the sake of peace and quiet, President Johnson is carefully feeling his way. Huonest, har. abiding, peace-loving men, therefore. must combine in his- support.when. ri dical-disorganizers and agitase- begin tooombine againskt h im. * PaJCrrAL r, xPA.'ur.--%ere are* great many people who e.xpr1es I ynMg thy for the poor arldier* whoa are nowtin our nidst avid. ib want. Mangy o( thea are paroled prisoners of the vebel ariy who are. endeayoring .to get to. thi r homes in the South, but are withut &e means to do so. Rebels in arms'atione time-we know -not by what necqsty -they are now returning homse . o, 'Union men. . As an evidence ot ptit cal sYnathy with this unfortunteclhs of men we have received the following letter, w~h gts substantial enclosure; . NKf W YORK, Jun. 23, 1885. JA1tke.GoMwoll BmRN i7'1: .RysKoRD Sin-The - columns of ydepaerar ever opent toa ssof pub. ty torggest, that a subscription list be opened for thme benefit of the prisoners of wa~r who have beeta released ihd are now daily Arriving in our cety', Nxwhiting transportation to their South bm h~me NMostt~f th9s9 Jaga are here witlje one *lagle pnt'im tlleir pockets- )lv del. ll $1f asech J be of 'mev di 5 th u mir, t h eit ihno "of', n five hundred at any other 5fim9 ill, o ement~, J~gstp riidte countr ~T'fmen 'aubt~ enrytown the oth, af1 M hi shown to. themnow w' dly apg 5a by the' ,whlo,nad was ntbe felt by oe4tpops 'to 'ive e. dollars esch to Uheqg onudestitute 't hrn,mandi will *fakk bdsd of Totomdt.Wg-te~d wewk nd enclosed Aen ola.I dou not that i de 4r itizens wpot wi ,tWet swdgges .$ 1#1o0 pb thubjee# th.i -~ ohar~yi~ J'1