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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Iidustry and Literature Tnn.--(3 .0 n a vance. VOL.11. WINNSBO()O, S. C., WE)N ESDIA Y M(N N JN 7 52 TI.1 *FAIRFIELD HER ALD 18 'UI.ISnii.na WiEKKIY IBY DESPORTES, WILLIAMS & (0. Terns.-Tnx IlanALII is pithilherd wek ty In the Town of Winnsboro, it 83.00 in. vareably in advance. ai- 'All t,ransiont advertisements to he paid in atdvance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. Selected Poetry. AGAIN. 1. Oh, sweet and fair! oh, rich anid rare ''hat day so long *go. The aulunin suin3hLoe everywhere, The heather all aglow, The ferns were clad in cloth of gold, The waves sang on the thore; Such suns will shine, such waves will sing, For ever, evermore. 11. Oh, tit and few o oh, tried and true The friends who met that. day, Rich one the otier's spirit knew And so in earnest }play The hour; flew past, untit at Inst The twilight kiss'd the shoet We said, "Mucli days shall conioo again For ever, ever iore." ill. 'One day again, no cloud of pain A shaiow o'er us Cast, And yet we strove in vain, in vain, To conjure up the pa:'t. Like, but. unlike,t.lie sun th _t snone, The waves that heat the uhot e, The words we said. the songs we sung., Like--unlike-evermore. Iv. For ghosts unseen crept in lietweet, And, when our songs flew free, sang discord's in an undert one, And marred le harinonv. 'The past is ours, not yours", they sail, -Tho waves that beat the shore, T4hough like the siae. are not the same, 'Oh ! never, never more !" ( lrozcr's laya.zi Th3 Late Demooratio Oonvention---Its True Position Stated. lon. A. P. Aidtrich--Du . : S t f .have noticed Sour colnintiiitlon to Ihe 'Charleston .Mercur'y, of tll( 27 thI in ott i. As you .appear to misunderstandt he ,rinciples advanced by the I'noecratie Convention that assembled in Cohnnlbma in April last, .I ask .leave, with all prop. er respect, to expl'ai t.he poitlion taken by that Convention, ai to vindicate the principles on which that lody deemed it wise and just to rest the fit ture policy of the Stata. A nd throuigh you I hope to read the minds of tl.e pe~plo of. South Carolina. I have no right to object to anv man or any journal's taking position against "the Colncessioni to tih colored man of a $ goalified suf'rage. (entlemen and 1 journals, worthy of all respect nid con sideration, have assumed that ground. thclu I o object to and protest aigatnst. the misrepresentatio, of the principles andiolicy of the gentlemen who coin. posed the Democratic Convention of A pril .last. This misrepresentation - we will not nay it is intentional-has come again and again from that able, ut-sp'ken and once in-fuontial paper the Charleston Merecury--.to which you have addressed your note. I anbmit, now, this statement, and t1 ust tihat th: i candid men everywhero ill thc S~ato wvill understaind the poinits made: WhVien the April Convenition recog 'nized the colored populaition of the State as an element of the body poiiic,j it meant to say, that when tihe slaves in this State were etuiancipiated by the Ace of the Stato Convention-or rather, whlen tiho Convention for the State ac. 'knowledged their .emancipation-tho colored people became, ipofacto, in. vested with civil righta, as a part of tho body politic. What, now is the body politic ? Itisd(teie, ' A. nat ion or .community, as conistiturT.ed untder a gv ,ertnment or polity.". Now, ceasinig to 1)e slaves, those persons became free being dletached (rom a condition of sla very they feil logica'lly into a condition of tree cituzenbhip, and as such, entitled Ato all civil rights. .As the Hoen. B. 11. Wll says: '"n nll society or government are rf& sto Ibe enjoyed, burdens to 'be ,bornio, andstrnsts to be discharged. "Among the rights are the right of property ; the right of loacon lotion ; the right to atppropriato and (dispose of the proceeds of onr ownl labor ; tihe right Ito .worship accordinigto .conscience ; and the right'to protection froml Rociety in the enjoyment (of till these rights, and 4he right to have all the legal processes .and remedtes provided to make this protection eff'ectual. These are called ,civil rights; andI when we speak of civil .eqtuality, weo monnthatetheoorights be S lotng alike andl egnally to all citizens, to all classes, to all colors, to all sexes, to all Ages, and to atll grades of intelleot, society and worth. Those rights neces sardly attach to andi become conditions of free citizeniship, The negro is eti. tied to all these rights. Aind being now deprived of thia.protection which, as a .slave, hie received from his owner, all ,good men ought to rejoice that ho can I still be safes under the protection of the law ; and being'timacustomed to assort -h 'ig rights-a worik which was formerly Sperformed by his master-all truo men Sought, to be ready to aid him in tat as 4'~eertion," I now .ask you to observe that the 4oin of .iepavent.oo goes 97) to lend flI't:r, tha t :t slt' a d _'~ Iive Liweii l'e.i *ed aitl :diliu oJ by b. ''rvt JOHN . 'FLI1UOM \ ti. [i t 11 Il 1Itr'tt11 I olarier. Tat. we are i I at pall. ando zIlli4iav 1011,is iiit:ili' 'irrer (vi'v daiv. 1"!: if ouir lcIt'"- I;:(\'(, doi1 :*a-8', ad:it Iii i lClUCne on' :1,, odered by tielli! 1;1\v ii )erliapis, wi'ttimat giiiiaibhiigfr 1,1i wad4; tilLt t liii g toi;ill 11 it ill ,'{1'-Ii''a, I), hey I a I l Ii hd~ 'tiat. 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Nwberr 8, 1 14n, idnier' 10 Jan p 1. )1113, 11(11 -- shore' 204, \idt illiamt [s 1an. ,'> say, for itself, what. it miiany by tsiog that the colored peoplo are n.eiobers of the "bodv politic," for, after adhnitting I the connecion of tIe colored people I with the body politic, it add---"An as such, it!person a nd -l, ( nutled(111C( t.> ( full anti egual prti.tn unrthov the MSial( (nttution. and l i'.'' Can anything be plainer ? But tlis is n)t all: th voierV declari. ton. of which comiplaint h:s een made, is sti!! more gutarded. Ack nowleiging the d;i;:tWlion that exist., between rights and truas--b e Wetn civil rights prope1, 011id su1ffraige andl office hohhlng, which hatter a net included in the sum mary of cvil rights, the resoltttion intimate:. the qualified nature of this body-politic ship, by de'lating 4:b^t as :t ciis of South Caroliin, we doelare our wiling insS, wVhteni We beVte pth tj'owe'. ito g':1u. thel, inlder iproper (uialifications as t) property and ititolligence, the right ot stliirage.' As I on. l II. 1ili in another pLcu riniiris ---and it will apply to Sunth Carolina also--"Tle negroes of (cor gia are cit tiS of Ger ia'':1. They are Free and l:rve equi riQ , and shail injoy themo . Tit''' wil ( r tited to bear the b 1uiensonl m pt'rop'rtion to i it) ii l ,'' ca 5e 'it. lie \\ ill b)e ke .m apoWa i . . 1 to discliar ie' the tt , wChen ti me 0'.. ai ?xponh-s !i h they 'ar ea pahle an. wtitsiiihyad the g~o.>d) of t. eio-tV will b( promlotetd th;rehr ; and tihs 1d G eorgia ,gill determline for her:sef, and not. to please e1nmies or to keep t -nitors Whtirl\ oer"\len, now, the ,l rcuryi ntala Clot. Drr's f81at l omisionts idiemical wv.:h the adissions of th late bitConvention, we (skC if it, doues noat m1isrepresenlt 1..e C.on vention? This a! c'ert ainlv d'~s. W\e {( make Io admision phat, n\roes are the sovereignlity of the State ; and1 such ad miss0 iodes1 not f',low fromt any propo." itutin of thint Cony n- 1': tn. '1tle al.krcury, says: "\\'e ar.(e n0t. i are o n y htw :;\ or any\ 1 i I:l:1:e Co t tin1:i"n which0 ha~s un0ole n..groert'. a . nortion1 of the 1.lllj A>,/y y /J inl a b (A r-tt'l- It(' >hna." \'-t hn:wr that, as w. have :o tr b th te'rmn (' body finliic," : - wasI' not ,ny\ la1w tha;1 t madE thle m-gr 1oes in elemn t . there1'of, ha.s 1,: . ; h b 1en( of h!w-the absence of' :a special miactllent betaring on the point.. 13ut, nrther, is it fai' for any one to detach he lnu quoted ron the context Id dri Iis inferences accordingly ? s All expression?, I submit, are properly 0 be cotrutt'ed in ct'Onction with th'e I ontext-withi what, goes belmoi and uvi:.h what follows. You will observe Imt theo Me1rce ry. in its strictuires inponi lhe action of the De:mocratic Convention, cos not al!ow this established rul; of 'oustructioni, and, therefore, subjects tse!f to the charga of special pleading 1indl verbal quibbling in a grave issue of State policy. Once for all, we ask leave low distinctly to declare: 1. That we maintain, "whi1 Presi lent Johnson and the whole Democratic party North," that the whole reconstruc ,ion programme enacted ant to be nacted under the Military Bill of Con ress, ie tu nconstitutional, - illegal and properly unil and void. 2. That we, therefore, repudiate the admissiots made by Gov. Orr, in his ad' dress to the so-called Constitutional Con voition, wherein Ie acknowledged the legality of that body. 3. That wo maintain, that to the States be'long the qiuestioni of riegr'o sur frage. A nd futrt hr, that, bel1('ievig an aflir'mativo declaration on this subject expedielrt andh essenttiail to party vitality, and a movo iln the dlirectioni of justcee anid lair dealing, we deem it becoming atnd right niow to say whlat, int onr sove reignmty, we would be willing to coni. cede to thle colored~ elemnc~t. And further, ithe negro element in our midst being a lar'ge one, we deem it statesman ship) not 1to ignor)teit. 4. W'e aippreciate., as fully as any, the dignity and claims eof thIe white race, aund contend that their pioliticalI control of' thia Stato, iand the countty at large, is a right never to be given up. This mtust b)e, atnd shall be, par excellcnce, a whole mant's govetrnment. 5. But, at the same time, confident and strontg in te knowledge of the white man's power, influence and re.. solve, we. hold it magnuantimoni, just and right?, to givei the colored mnan a fair shlowing, and to set a premium upon in. dnstry, intelligence anid wvorth, whenu'v. er thteset elemnents are .found in him. We' would ext end no consiglerationi to theo black moan's radhical ad visera from thec North, nlor to hish rentegade adherents South ;but as respects the great miass of the colored people themselve.s, in cont sideratiotn of' theoir own inioxfperienice, antd t he influnences to wvhiich they have b~een subjected, we are disposed to itt dulge them yet loniger. "IBe to theta fautta a little blind: P'o to their virites a little kind; And put a padlock on our mninds As to the past." I have thtus declared what I conceive to be the views 'and principles of the Democratio party of this State, as nowv organizedl under the auspices of the A pril Convention, And, in concluislon, Ilhavo only to express the hope that, when these views anid p,.ircuples are called in question, that they may be met in a spirlt of fair discussion, ' and in a spirit, too, which deplores anty division among the conservative peoplo of the i$tate, atnd which reabtses, that,. for us, at this time, moderation, tunion and' bar-, mony are all essential. A. .for wIhef, .I helievto that .the priDn o - }i(} 22l."l : 21},! } .. : 1' ..!:2 ,1:' 'f :1.'(1 i'. ,11 '~tU i r . ," r ." '2 1,l1 . . - . '. ' ,2 " .1 .' '2'' I l ;I Iit f ,1 1 l !. 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