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- -._ -- Ig in"r _ _ _ _ __e 4 4 Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms--43.00 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. VI.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12,1871. [NO 3 THE FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUni.ISnED) WNKKLT BY DES1PORTES & WILLIAMS, Terme.-Tan IsamALn in published Weeks In the Town of Winnsboro, at $3.00 in. fareably its advance. AW All transient advertiseaents to be aid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per squaro. General KerAhaw's Letter. The following letter from that dis tinguished soldier and patriot, Ger. J. 13. Kershaw, appears in the last is sue of the Camden Journal. It is in the shape of an answer to the letter lately addressed to General Kershaw and others by Senator Robertson : CAMDrN, 8. C., March 25, 1871. Hon. T. J. Robertson, U. S. Senator: DRAR SIR:-I have the honor to u aeknowled ge the receipt of your favor t of the 18th instant, and after giving it that consideration which its grave a importance demands, proceed to an- a swer it. This I am compelled to do t without that conference with those 0 - gentlemen with whom you have asso r ciated me, in the add ress of your letter 0 which I would gladly have had, if it a had been practicable. d I need not assure you of my earnest 1 desire to secure peace and order, and 0 a just and faithful administration of I the laws in this nined and desolated I State. The sacrilices I have made of t time and labor, sentiment and feeling, and even of the regard of valued p friends to promote those ends, are e well known to you. Nor need 1 do 0 more to viudicate the earnest heart. a yearnings of our good people for p peace and security, than to point to t their unanimous support of a party d which sought, last year, a balm for the t( healing of the hideous diseases of so" e ciety, in a concession of legal efficacy t and obligation to the amendments of N the Constitution and the so-called re- s construction acts, asking in return but d an honest and just administration of Y affairs. t These concessions and all overtures y for peace were scornfully rejected by 0 the colored people and their leadrs. c Under the higb-sounding and proton U - hauianu title of "National Guarda," the negroes were armed and equipped with the deadliest and costliest wea- c pons and munitions of war, at the ex- p pense of the people. They were ex cited, incensed and infuriated by the speeches of false and unscrupulous demiagogues, who played upon their blind passions and prejudices as a skillful harper upon the passive and y obedient chords of his instrument, un- , til they were ready for a carnival of b blood at the bidding of their leaders. t The Commissioners, Managers and , Boards of Election were so selected, f and the election laws so cunningly I devised, as to aecure the result of the I ballot irrespective of the will of the n people. Thus by fraud, by force and , by ounning artifice, negro domination t was secured and the whites were prac tioally disfranchised. . The Legislature thus constituted, 0 many of the public officials openly, t notoriously and shamelessly plunder. - ed the peqple of the State, recklessly squandered the public money, e appropriating it to their own uses, , and selling their votes and their in fluenee for the passage of laws to r, open the treasury to corrupt specula- r tors. By these means the expendi- a tures of the State Government have i been increased to more than live times g the amount required before the war, * while the means of the .people have eorrespondingly dimimiehed. The e, taxes for two years, aggregating more a than four million. of dollars, are ox- a aeted in this year, a period of greater t financial distress than this people has , encountered since 1865. Swarms of high salaried offices have been created before unknown to us, and for the most part filed with Incompetent negroes, or malignant and corrupt white men, who seek to perpetuate the power by , fomenting discord between the races.t Under these corrupting Influences theI negrocs, in many places, have become violent, threatening and dangerous. MJurder, arson and pillage have stalk ed through the land almost unrebuked of justice, while every defensive act of the white victims has been magni fled into a; national crime. Now you desire my "aid inlarousing and concentrating the opinion of all good cliiens, in favor of law and or der." You attribute to me, In om. mon with the other gentlomen whom you have addressed, "intelligence and good Intentions." Let me re mark, by the *ay, as Illustrating onet of the many. anomalies of the day, sot withstanrdleg the confidence tlinr ex pressed, tte wroet liberal amnesty Bill ye6 reported by your committee does not pops to place at the die popal o($e:8 einmay oioiak ta, s pgelfty, ttisc1lls *blih ydd e. a pose rate tom Uevettheless, t disfranchistd 4.n4 "unpardoned reb- t els" thaough we. 4e be, I, ,olams In i Sommot WIth bthaeiulI1tly uituaa 0 ted, to hratedieio te -t6 promote i . e and order 'In Seath, QMoliga, I Ian .a1i the; -sogalled- loyal people i within her borders. I am still "for I nesee-- laating pesa....anah s yon 4 rightly suppose can only be preserved :n any community, by a wholesome 'public opinion." My co-operation ball not be wanting in any feasible >lan for harmonizing society here. But to be perfectly candid with Fou, I must declare my settled con. riotion, that while I do not apprehend my further disturbances unless there )o fresh irritations, there can never >e that security which will ever pre iorve the peace of society, until some of the errors of the past be corrected, nd some of our ga ivances be remov. id. All class legislation should be epealed. Tax payers ought to be eoured a representation in the Leg. slature, adequate to their protection. Ionest, capable and competent men hould be placed in office. Accom. ilish these things, and this whole peo. ile will rise up and call you blessed. iese than this would leave the same ause at work which have produced he prevailing discord, and there could Lot be that seourity which constitutes he essential foundation of society. 'he white people of South Oarolina re now enslaved. by their former lave.. "Taxation without represen ation" was the battle guage iccept. d by our Revolutionary sires-un. Dprosented and politically disfran. hised, we are taxed for wanton and orrupt purposes beyond all prece ent and without even the poor privi. ge of protest or appeal. Cannot ur rulers understand that sooner or %ter, even our endurance must give ay under such a monstrous imposi ion? I propose to invite a meeting of rominent and influential men from mob county, to consider the condition r things, and to consult for the com Ion weal. If you, or any of your I olitical associates can propose any. aing that will tend to satisfy the omands and necessities of the case-. I i harmonize and to ameliorate the Dndition of the people, I doubt not iey will consider your suggestions ost carefully and respectfully. I iall be most happy to be the me iumt of any such communications as ou may desire to make them. I -ubt this proposed measure may meet our approval, as it accords with your wn suggestion. I shall invite the ).operation of the other gentlemen amed. -Appreciating the sincere and pat. otio purpose which indueed your >mmunication, and thanking you ersonally for your good opinions. I am very respectfully yours. J. B. KERSHAW. Greeley as a Liar. A correspondent, who does not ad the Tribune, is astonished that e should accuse Mr. Greeley of false ood, and asks for a specimen. For 2e satisfaction of our correspondent e select the following at random -om Tuesday's Tribuno, conscious lat it is doing injus ice to Mr. Gree. y's peculiar talent. Tuesday is ot his regular day for lying, and he as probably careless in elabora. ng: "There have been not lees than ve thousand negroes killed, because f their color and their politics, in ie rebel States since Gen. Grant's lection." We trust our correspondent Is itisfied. The specimen lie we have iven, while not in Mir. Greeley's best cin, Is infamous, and heartless, and ualioious enough' o have emanated md-hot from the father of lies him elf. Greeley knew when he penned that it was a wanton, a malicious, a agrant lie, and yet no doubt he roll d it as sweet morsel under his ton ue. It is a marvel that any set of eon who profess to be governed byf ny mnoral or religions restraints tonld allow themselves to be led by sis hoary-beaded old rillain.. 'avannah Ne. Here there has been been no or anised and threatening demonstra-. ion of the militia, who, though armed ave not, I am Informed, been fur.. Ished with ball and oartridges. O0 be other hand, I am *.atisfled there as never been in this oounty any pr anization corresponding in any way awhat is tenkedc the "1Ca Klti Elan," or any other unlawful assoola lon. I takd it that this condition of lings exits In, by. far, the larger ortbon of this State.~ But like catgses roduce ,like results, and, therefore ny demonstration .o# the part of the egroes, .and espelilly the armed llitia, which would render our peo. le apprtehensive of sa. attnok, would er rbbyindude otganisations >rdfesv orpreveti~ve opertod. ud posui~ lead to similar 4iedb~ rons cod $d~~ a ensued at' Lauten hd Ches~ei . .~~ Ialaue .eu the 4fedal SIde. *Mohd- Reese, ' .wilt. 6buo avd, one d tNot*24d' opstid r~uohU y Rega@t s D9UUaWI 4loyg emoa IW fondd IIfB e rate aidthat di~tu l~dS dtfht I a*1 ohn. - E A Northern View. With the restoration of the lIst o the rebel States to Congress, i o con neot ion with]thelestablishrment of equa olvil and political rights over tho length and breadth of the land, ro. gardless of race oroolor, we had sup. posed the great work of Southori reconstruction completed and a glo rious success. It appears, however from the recent Mesiage of the Presi dent to Congress on Southern affairs that, in those reconstructed States, from the terrorism of "unlawful com binations," neither life nor property is safe, and that the transportation o the United States mails and the collection of the internal revenue therein are dangerous em. ployments. Hence the detention ol Longress for the purpose of some speoial legislation in behalf ot' law and order. It appears, further, that b response to an application from he Governor of South Carolina, in the Lbsence of the State Legislature, Phe President has deemed it neces iary to give warning to the Ku Klux Klans of said State that if, after the ixpiration of twenty days, they have iot "quietly disperse to their respect. iive abodes," they will be dispersed by he United States Army. And now, n deference to the President's appeal md suggestions, we have a new bill, )repared by the select committee-on ,he subject of the House of Represen atives, which proposes to put these iforesaid "unlawful combinations" n the Southern States once more inder the stern discipline of the abre and the bayonet. The bill in question is entitled, 'A bill more fully to enforce the >rovisions of the fourteenth amend nent to the Constitution of the Uni. ed States, and for no other purpo. em." The first section provides for he prosecution in the United States Jourts of any person who shall in my way interfere in depriving any itizen of his equal civil rights under aid fourteenth amendment. The econd section provides that any ifeneo-such as murder, mayhem, obbery, perjury, arson, &e.--against hie rights, privileges and immunities f any citizen, by any two or more >ersons banded together for the pur ose, shall be deemed a felony liable o heavy penalties in a fine and im prisonment, and that a trial in any mass commenced in one United States udicial district and completed in lnother may be noted upon and the >ffender punished in eitber district. In other words, all the individuals of in unlawful conspiracy against the ights of citizens, if composed, for mample, of men from Mirsissippi and Uabaa, may be made answerable to he United States Court in. either state. The third section provides hat in all cases where insurrection, lomestie violence, or unlawful tom - iaations or conspiraces in any State ibaill so far obstruct or hinder the ixecution of the laws thereof as to leprive any portion or class of the 'eople of sueb State of any of their ighte,'privileges, &c., and the State tuthorities have been unable to re. Iress these wrongs, or have failed or 'efused to do so, the President, in behalf of law and order, ig authoriz id to interpose with the local militia >r the land and naval forces of thme United States. The fifth section pro' ides that extreme cases of unlawful sombinaations, armed and organized and overriding the constituted civil authorities, shall be deemed a rebel. lion against the government of the United States, and that In any such disaffected district, under' certain re stuietlons, the President is empower id to declare martial law and to sus.. pend the habea. corpus, first making proclamatIon commanding such Insur gents to disperse. The provisions of this seetlon, however, are to cease tc be In force from and after the lst lay of June, 1872. -- This is the substanoe of the bill wrhich the select committee of thme house of Representatives propose as a remedy for these Southern diso*.. lera. In justification of the aet, as m imperative necessity, 'it is said mhttelwesadalignant spirit amid element. of the late rebel lion mave again becbme rampant in most f the Southern States ; that the lives dppryof Northern men therein aeb h eo d are frequently serficeed to the vengence 'oft th se ialled1 E( Klu Klan's; -that 'the ntuinet pated 'bl*cke, for 'd o othmer ~tMike then thit of voting -the repulb ileth ticket or belonging to the Union Lea e, areshop, changed, dt'owhed or mcou gidand that this neonfgitig is lofn mes applied to the mero Mo' mlEO, with the ba.rhing of the hons of ike obuexious fatally ; tbaftnpmetoub 18h991 houtes~ gropriated t4 the ltidat1iz Qt the qmsgelpated blaoks ~ave.~.pa burned ; that g t.shdys 6 dleh'sel6dls'hatb# # t4 - oet to a B@&idtilt bar au1I era States 4V A sedt) E8 a' 44 -~o ' Nfa f4j thW to perjury, and so on to -the end of the horrible catalogue. Final f ly, it is charged that the objects of ali these Ku Klux Klans and their afilia. tions are, by a reign of terror, to ex. olude the Southern republicans, obief. ly the emancipated blecks, from the polls, and so to get complete control of the several States concerned, and then to render the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and eli ther. construction laws of Congress practi cally null and void through the elec. tion of a democratic Pro.ident and Congresd according to the Tammany national democratic platform of 1868. Now, admitting the fearful oata. logue of accusations against the "un lawful combinations" of the Southern States to be substantially true-and i when General Grunt officially de. clares them to be so, and desiressonie special legislation on the subject, they must, to a great extent, be true-the question recurs, is the remedy pro. posed the remedy required ? We think it does not reach the seat of the disease. We think the diffioulty and the remedy are to be found in the fourteenth amendment. The third section of this amendment declares that "no person alall be a Senator o0 Represenative in Congress, or eloctor of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having pre viously taken an Qath a4 a member of Congress, of as an officor of the Uni. ted States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an execu tivo or judicial officer of any State, to support the constitution of the Unl. ted States, shall have engaged in insur rectiou or rebellion against the same, or given aid or odmfort to the and. mies thereof." And then there is a disfranchisement law, extending to these and other parties conspicuous in the rebellion. Here, then, is the difficulty. .These parties so punish. ed are the leading white men in in. telligence, p')litic;Al experience, in. fluenec and property in the Southern States. Their late slaves may go to Congress, but these disabled whites still bear the brand of traitors. They have all the duties of submiasion im. posed upon them, but none of the per sonal benefits of a restoration to t'a Union. They are held responsible, under pains and penalties, for the crime of a whole people, and the whole people concerned sympathize with their suffering confederates, imany to the extremity of these "unlaw. ful combinations." Reach this diffi culty, and you reach the seat of this Southern disease of organized vio lence against the laws of the land. The remedy follows, in the four teenth amendment, it specified rebel disabilities, and it is in these simple words, referring to the particular disability of any individual-"but CongreaR may, by a vote of two-thirdo of each house, remove such disability." All, then, that is wanted to place the dominant and responsible white classes of the south in full rapport with the Government of the United State is to restore these mon to the full and equal condition of loyal citi. Zeno. They will trust you if you will trust them. . Try it. The ox perinment has been tried in scores of individual cases, and no failures, that we are aware of, have been reported among them. Tfry, then, a universal amnesty, as provided for In the four teenth amendment, such an amnesty as will make even Jeff Davis eligible again to the Presidency, and you will do more to disarm these Ku Klux Klans. than you can possibly accomplish by the em ploymien t of the army and the navy, and the United States courts and marshals, and the suspension of the habeas corpts wihtecontinuance of these rebel dlsaltltes. *Under .Rose disabilities It is no. teoou thbt the Southern men. b~est quaifi~,from education, experience and bis enpo, to assist in restoring low, oder ,ast harwonyjn the 8outh era Sta'es, are ruled out, and ignorant Southera whites- and blacks and un scrupulous Northernt adventurers knd spoqulatarq, aoming into power, have dewa.-much to .bting into general :die. repite these .reconstrueod .Southern St~ate goverpniente. ' Make it the in. terest of the Southern white men who give the tone arnd the publio sentiment to.8outhtern~ society, make it an ob jeel with therev to support the consti tution as I6 is and-.the administration andynu will-gain them. Jo a word, restore-: thoem. eo*pletely to the "right., privileges and, immunities" of Neitisen. of the UnIt4States and of the;8tate. in' which they - nalde// and you ,wil- waske friends -of enni mica and convert these ghsorri .Ku Klux Klaus into, law.absding men ; foud theie pi~eat tedupation will be gda Atth kiroeaial oft6ketuese& NN.l~6 Eferald8hbd I~~ lAbor., Tie :beat sh s- t dividnde are always lIbral. Affray Between Gen. Mabone and John Lyon, Esq. An affray occurred on Franklin street, near the Exchange Hotel, yes terday afternoon, which caused no lit. Lie excitement throughout the city in view of the prominence of the parties directly concerned in the railroad war just brought to a close in the General Assembly. These parties were Gon. Wm. Mahone, president of the Atlan. tio, Mississippi and Ohio railroad, and Capt. John, Lyon, a well-known lawyer of Ptersburg. The accounts given of the encoun ter are rather conflioting, and the de. tails cannot be given with accuracy until the witnebses have be-mn examin. ed in court. The statement of the friends of 0 en oral Mlahone is that he and a friend were standing on the Exchange Hotel corner talking, about half an hour after the bill about which there has been such a controversy passed the Senate. They saw Mr. Lyon and two other gentlemen coming down on the same side of the street towards the Exchange Hotel and from the di rections of the Capitol. Reaching the Exchange corner, they turned, and Captain Lyon said, "Good evening, General," or something to that effot as he approiched General Mahone replied, "Mr. Lyon, hereafter I don't wiah you to speak to me. You're a d-d scoundrel." Thereupon Captain Lyon struck the General a pretty severe blow on the head. It was re turned. A scuffle ensued. In the souffle a Derringer pistol in the hands of General Mahone went off. The parties were then separated by mu tuil friends. ON The friends of Captain Lyon differ from those who furnished the account just given in several respects. It is said by them, as by the othets, that General Mahone and his friend were standing on the Exchange lHotel corn er. The General was tapping the lamp-post lightly with his cane, when he saw Captain Lyon and friends com. ing down the street. They bowed to General Mahone and turned to. wards the 14th-street entrance of the Exchange, when the General beckon ed with his oane as if for Captain Lyon to return. He did so. Gen ral Mahone's first words were, Don4 fon ever speak to me again." Capt. Lyon promptly replied In the same tone that he never would. General Mahone immediately rejoined. "If you do, you damned scoundrel, I'll - ." Before the sentence was finished tho epithet was recented by a blow, which was quickly returned. Almost in a moment the parties clinched. General Mahone drew a Derringer pistol from his pocket, and seemed to be trying to cook it,--the muzzle being close to the breast of his opponent-whon his arm was seized by a bystander, and the pistol wis not fired until a :ninute or two later. They were then forcibly taketi apart, and eaoh escorted to his room by friends. All these are facta known to you. That in consequence there should be a disturbed condition of affairs in some localities, deplorable though it be, is not to be admired. Let us rath. or be thankful that it has been aon lined to the counties of La~urens, Union, Spartanburg, York and Ches ter. W e will consider these distur bances for a moment. *In Laurens and Chester there were collisions between armed militia, or national guards (negrosa,) aod1 the whites, in open daylight, the circum stakuces of which are well known to you. In the other counties disguised parties have, from time to time, with in the last three months, administered lynch law in certain eases. While tliese occurrences are greatly to be deplored, and some'of them merit, and have received almost universal conrdemtiation, the collisions in Laur ens and Chester, by far the most eeribus of them all, are regarded by the best men whq knows the facts, as go~censary and justisable, act. of self def'ence on the pa: t of the whites, 1t Is very generally believed that their protnpt action prtmvented that gene~. ral war of races,. which thoughtiful uen Jhave regarded eminent for some years past. While these things have occutred in' the 'counties mentioned which are all nowe quieted by the disarming of the militia, in other counties, pro. fpund. peace has prevailed. Here for iunstavtoe, we l1-ave enjoyed an Un ro ken reign of quiet and ordet, ei'O was, at the last Court of Sesslouta, not one of act, violene demanding inveiti. gatlen, a eit'eumstanee whicb *lilted thle ,opngratulations of the presiding 4Vadge, Babies aid Needits, e~r Cooke extracted -from,th~e .eas 9~A a eedie wbish .had.oke ow,~p into te flesb. ' i oo ehay to. out.a de kash which caused snuch pain to 'tbe bii4 and all by reon pol f a6ea esiss ISel giving bok res. s fallow's sistei. A Confession, The Lancaster Ledger contains the followiug confession of Edom [Hawn. mood, who had bee: convicted of the murder of Mr. David Kirkpatrick, in December last : STATK or SOUTH CARO LINA, JJAICA6TatR COUNTY. March 25, 1871. 1, Edom Hammond, prisoner in jail, make the following confession, freely and voluntary, as to the part I took in the murder of Mr. David Kirkpatrick, on the night of the l'7th of Decenber 1870 : I Confess that I killed David Kirkpatrick. I went to his house a while after dark-wont in and got his gun. There was bLo one in the house when I went in,.-to. get the gun. I think Mr. Kirkps,6, rick was somewhere about the Stable. Mrs. Kirkpatrick was inl the kitchen. I was in the yard with the gun uotil the deed was committed. Mrs Kirk. patrick know I was there, but I did: not speak to her that night. . She asked me to kill Mr. Kirkpatrick - she asked me a good many times to kill him. She insisted on no f~ r several months previous to the 'ati, to kill him. I was at her house the, day that L killed Mr. Kirkpatrick.. Went there to got some olothes.. She spoke to me about the matter and urged me to kill him that night. She told me that she had heard ta at Mr. Kirkpatrick had threatened me. I was on the most intimate terms with Mrs. Kirkpatrick for about eight months previous to the killing of fi r. Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Kirkpatrick, k6ew I was . to kill Mr. Kirkpatrick the night t committed the deed. After, supper, Mr. Kirkpatrick came into the house from the kitchen. I was in the back yard at the time, but went round to the front door. I said, "hello " Mr. Kirkpatrick came to the door and asked, "who is that ?' I answered "Win. Reid." He then opened the door and came out in the yard three or four steps from the pI asia door. I immediately raised the gun and fred both barrels-one just after the other. The last shot nooi. dental, as I had in my excitement cocked both barrels. As soon as I shot, Mr. Kirkpatriek wheeled and ran into the houao. I l. r .'II 1...ii. ately for the village, taking 1a4 keeping the main public road. I took the gun with me and hid it in the woods, at the same place where the sheriff found it by ny directions. Mrs. Kirkpatrick told me to be sure and put the gun back into the, house after I had killed Mr. Kirk. patrick. Mrs. Kirkpatrick made all the plans for killing ber husband. I was to live with Mrs. Kirkpatrick after I had killed her husband. I had no bad feeling toward Mr. Kirk patriek. He always treated met kindly. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatriok did not live together agreeably. I am between seventeen and eighteen years of age. No one knew of the plans to kill Mr. Kirkpatrick beside rs. Kirkpatrick and myself, as I know of. I have had a fair trial' un der the law and am satisfied with the verdict of the jury, Rolden. We find theo followisig notice of the self exiled Ex-Gov. of North Caroling, In the last N'ew York Democrat : Governor Ilolden is ira Washington and afraid to return to North Uaroll na, where -he is liable to suits for damages for his illegal arrest and hIgh-handed course. This affords a curious commentary on the stories of Southern disorders, and places the of protecting a erimi nal. Governor Hold en has been droSpoed by the Re publican leaders in disgust, and no measures *111 be taken to reinstate him. But he is inniietnsely rich. The close of the war fonnid him a misbra' ble poor secession editor. Now ho is a disgraced Radical Governor anid is. enormously wealthy. C. The tUdiomVille Tlliee, of thb 8st ult.,, ha.' the follo~ing: - We -sagcestj'tbereferone ofitwgw plans to brnng the 'inorel power" og the State to bear upfon . gongrgpsad the President i. e., let th~e people each eounlty heid a Oonat~ 'OonVe a tion, at once, andl elect oie 6f its bebt and ablest men as a delegate to vists Washington for the porpose of repres fnthe sol~ true .flg nvd, ,~teo Presieetsd" Ooa ress ; 6f,'te Genieril -- K6rshawr anj the othe* uienqned U Gep.er.l brenvisit Waqhingtn 't on tps that puirpode. No men 'cn jb selected who '4d1 a$dW'the 1: 6eete tha piefpo oth Oavollet ab kIA fePr ,togip Thi d 4 th a' e Oasadn ba. Another Manifesto. The following manifesto came Into our possession in such a. way as to in. duco the convio1on that it Is a - U un emanation from the iYetrtPrIouI (yot no longer to be disputedpQwer-' fu)) or -anition known, ia the K, Klux A lan': "K. K. k." IhADqVARTR5a, 54ri Diosiou , We have been misrepresented, I must stop. Once for all, it i a!" nounced.L I. Tha$ the Union League gave,us birth. It. 'that taxatiqu without re resen. tation fad an nurtured us during our weakness, and infanoy. 111. 'hab the vicosAn eonormIVs of our rulers and legislator--thir. ignorance, their recklesness, their degpravity, their corruption, $hale vioiousness-gave us strength, IV. The determinati n of t4 09 vernor to agoompliah our deatostiton and thq ruin of ouiielso, nn4 gOr! familieas sho , y. his ,rm t, negroes .suad diuarning the w At" gave us,deternin atjon. V, We canno live longer. under t6ii misrule an4 theso.enormities, and we are 4etermined to right theo perish in the effort. VI. The, goodand glrtuous e nothing to fear from us, ; we are tkelVt friends. Lot the vile and-iclous be. ware ; we are their enemies. . VII. We strike in self-def9nse, and for equal rights and jNstice to all. By order of the Gru4 Chief. K.D., Scretary. The Old Soldiers. Concern'ng the law grpnting . pen. sions to soldiers of the war of 1812, the Lynchburg Newsoopies (editori. klly) an article which first appeared in a western pa per, and which con ainus the follovwing paragraph : "It may be generally understood tat all enlisted or drafted men who. served for sixty 4aya or upwards are entitled to $8 per month ; but if it is, then that general understanding is L general mistake. At least nine. tenths of the soldiers of the war of 1812 who live south of the Potomae mro denied the benefit of the .aotr lEcry soldier is required to tah~4aae bun-olad oath before he can obtain the pension. Ho is required to. swear not only thati ho gavs no,. aid mud comfort, to the 'rebellion,' bu that he had no spmpathy for its cause." Wo do not so understand the law. It xoludes only those who aided and %betted the rebellion ; and that aiding md abetting must have been of a ractioal nature. The Lauronsville Herald givesithe' 'ollowing account of a little game, mow being played by one of the leot : . . . NathauA .Frteetan, of fassaohu. etts, was appointed to the Auditor'* place for this County. Mr. Freeman remained hmong us sfor some two (ears, and we had begun to~look vpon, him as rather mere- than a mere ad. rentarer--asOhe 0h' aspired toe414i A senship. In this, ho*eter, we were mis baken. Some two or thro, phs age Nir.. rgemapft this lapQ rot Wash Lngton,. and. we ar, Inforpaqed s, p mow holds a Clerks apoeation 'a t h Pension office. Esaving gee io Washington with no Jntention qtre. tuing, and having nocoed 'a neW. position in tha4 :Qity, sucila course, >f Itself, was supposed to'render Va. mant his position ofa Anditor. -As a. sonsequence, good and worthy men. have applied for t14t positiqu, aq ioubt setting forth jag , supposed vacancy, and ith as been a souroe qtf mrprise to na all that no appoils. naont has been made. TJhe Cquity Treasurer flapmbpgkei received a letter froin Mfr. Yreman, whjob gives us light spop the *ubego dunfolds a little ltaiical gatse bleh is 1.Sng layqd in our Rnidet lthough .,, otsn of t e ntow te r. pry anka oe the - nin A449r fprhi 9',quty,4e duth et9ert taiot thk, g ts atby 4n pibpo ~e 4 ~respnt bI. ep .n Isot f 4ound t1 son5flwhy a Q eO g~cs msap ha t lrau.qcne q the p Atrege upon th . qiti~s e by aad g ,to s erS. Iipe hide ,6un y, aniweoi t ~j polntment enust-b.eeocliedou lelay, and1 al b1E1464h46 oounty Thedra t~h *he' wM M