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Straps and Jacts. ?-Messrs. Garfield and Bingham, prominent Radicals of Ohio, express the deliberate opinion that the "negro must be thrown overboard.' It is represented by knowing financiers that the production of cotton in Brazil, India and Egypt, will be larger than ever the present year. In the coal mines of England and Wales about 330,000 men and boys are constantly employ ^ a Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, thinks t the North has insanely destroyed the cotton mo- r nopoly. His firm has lost over a million of dollars . on cotton. Hence these tears. "c A secret ojder has been instituted in New ( York, known as "The Brotherhood of the Black Crook," the ceremonies of which are described as even more disgusting than were those of the defunct Sons of Malta. Chicago possesses forty distilleries, twenty- ^ five large and fifteen small, makes twenty-five thou- z sand barrels of spirituous drinks a year, and has two thousand saloons, or one to every sixty mem- o hers of her adult population. v Captain Burgh, at Chicago, completed on r VT 17 * ? 1._ I _ A _/? Ti_: 4... ? new xear s aay, ms ieat ui w>uMng bcvcu^-uvc u miles in twenty-four hours, with a soldier's knap- tl sack and accoutrements. The stake was for $2,000. s He had forty-three minutes to spare. Z A contemporary devotes its attention to tJaC proper mode of cooking cabbage, and states that the oest most of doing it is to cut up the cabbage a and boil it in a bag. In this way it is said to be 0 made more palatable and tender. q ??Lovers of the sparkling bowl will be pleased ]? to learn that America manufactures eight hundred ^ thousand baskets of champagne more than the champagne districts of France arc able to produce. s So with madeira and with port. N ew York alone oi manufactures annually eight hundred thousand r< dollars worth of wines without a single grape. a The Newark sheriff gives as his reason for jc excluding New York reportors from a recentexe- 01 cution, that, on a previous occasion of that sort, w when the reporters were admitted before the pre~b-N arations haabeen made, one of the more enterpri- j sing woke the prisoner from a sound sleep and endeavored to get his confession exclusively for his paper. 01 The New York World continues to give ^ statistics of the number of workmen out of employ- C ment It recently stated that 50,000 wanted work F in New York city, and 10,000 in Brooklyn, and now says that the depression in New England throws out of work at least 1 GO,000 people?10,000 , in Maine, 20,000 in New. Hampshire, 30,000 in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and 100,000 in J( Massachusetts. ar According to the Mercury, one ol the wnite delegates to the Convention expressed himself to T an outsider tbusly: "I am in favor of the best man in the right place, regardless of party, and if jn everybody else in the State was of the same way tj( of thinking, not one of these delegates would be here." The outsider replied: 'Thatis true, not Jl one of you." re A Convention of Southern Railroad Presidents was held at Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday n( last They issued a circular proposing that whenever twenty roads shall agree to transport imrnigrants at one cent per mile and two cents per ton ^ per mile for baggage, or one hundred and fifty . pounds to each immigrant, those rates shall go into effect. Immigrants settling on the line of any co road, arc to be transported, with their effects, free te by that road. m A large number of the leading merchants, V] manufacturers and others of Philadelphia, have fu signed a memorial to Congress praying tnat the existing tax of two and a half cents per pound on cot- _( ton, of the crop of 1867^ be repealed. They say 1 they believe that, by the removal of this tax, it will at once bring the cotton into market, and thereby relieve not only all classes in the Southern pc States, but also all the merchantaof our great com- do merciai cities. pC The Mercury says that the first effort in the pc Convention at viva voce voting was ludicrous in ~in: the extreme. It was in the election of assistant sergeant-at-arms. Peter Miller was the favorite candidate and the changes rung on his name by nf rarip iwwgr in mnnnn * I ll 4U with the occasional centre , tempts ot a greeu member answering the clerk with sir, was too much for the visibles of those used to such proceedings, and before the election was concluded, the house was in an uproar of laughter. * ' The Methodist Church, for 18G7, reports 14,- ^ 473 preachers and 1,146,081 members, an increase gt of 1295 preachers and 118,897 members during the year. There are, also, 11,121 Methodist churches in the country, valued at $35,886,439, an increase during the year of 258 churches, and $6,292,435 by value. There are 15,341 Sunday schools, with 1,- rei 081,S91 scholars, and having 2,784,895 volumes in th( their libraries. The collections for benevolent purposes during the year were $2,784,895. _ # wc The Montgomery Mail of Friday last says: fcc "Laborers were hiring themselves yesterday at the tt Central Bank corner for fifty dollars, and even so low as twenty-five dollars for theyear. These were able-bodied field hands. Those who got five dol- th< lars per month last year hire themselves for food on and clothing. We hear from the country that the to best field hands arc hiring in some sections for for- . ty dollars per annum. A great many decline to , hire until after the election. Such poor deluded creatures will find themselves without a home, and M< will be nut to work by the Government on the public works with overseers over them. Such are tin some of the first fruits of Radicalism." ' Be A gentleman in Charlotte County, Va., thus t0 tested the comparative results of white and black ex iabor. He furnished thirteen negroes with mules Pr and implements and provisions to raise a crop, and at the same time furnished an outfit to two white a 1 men. The negroes raised 94 barrels of corn, 7 tio stacks oats, and 5000 pounds tobacco. The two m< white men, with a little negro girl to cook for them, ti1( raised 112* barrels of corn, 10 stacks of oats, and 8000 pounds of tobacco. The negroes ret urned the ^ mules in a poor, emaciated condition. The white men turned theirs overfat and sleek. The negroes re! worked four mules; the whites two. The gentle- un man referred to will, this year, work white men exclusively. To show the improvidence of the ne- jn, groes, he said the cart and mules were at their ser- . Vice to haul wood, yet they preferred to burn rails. | Tlie National Intelligencer, after discussing po at length the revolutionary unconstitutional bill introduced into the House Monday, wiping out the Executive and Judicial Departments of the Gov- uf ernment, concludes its article in the following sig- th nificant language: "It can come to nothing with- pr out the co-operation of the General of the Army. af It all rests on him. Whatever his retic nce, this jzj is a matter in which reticence might be misunderstood. At the first overtact, howeverslight?were an it but to orally promise to accent the functions of- m: tered in it, after such a bill hau been passed over th a veto?the General of the Army must be cast into tic jail to await his trial for treason to his country, un- s0 less the Chief Magistrate of that country is false to . the trust of the people and his oath of office.'' It is a noteworthy fact thatall the New York papers, the Radical journals included, denounce the new Reconstruction measure in the bitterest terms. The Herald closes a long article in the fol- i lowing words: "Let the people of the North reflect on the unquestionable fact that the danger in w this matter is to their own liberties, not to those P of the Southern people; for the South is so beaten re down now that it is out of fortuue's power; there re is hardly a depth of political degraduation that its at people have not sounded under Radical military p rule, and they seem to feel that any change may rtAuoiklir VVA Vr\r? tkn Tko /Innnnv 10 fA 4kACO TC WV iVl IUU JL ug UUIIqUI 10 IV LUUOU who are still free. The danger is that as we grow in daily in anarchy, as we grow bad to worse under /; the misgoverninent of a Congress that forgets its plain duty to the nation in the pursuit of partisan ca schemes, the people by and by may grow to envy a'r even those who live under the tranquility of a des- vt potism, and may look on with satisfaction when j.( the commander of an army posted to keep down the Southern people (perhaps recruited to a great ^ extent in the Southern States) shall suddenly march t0 to Washington, seize the Capitol and disperse that ce chattering, jabbering, corrupt and contemptible w rabble, the Congress of the Lnited States." he The Mississippi Convention has appointed a re' committee to memoralize Congress to empower the Convention to vacate all civil offices, ' 'and appoint ti\ men of approved loyalty." The Georgia Conven- W( tion has been considering a similar proposition. Unquestionably these Conventions are stepping th quite beyond their prerogatives. They were not So assembled to turn State officers out, or to turn oth- H er people in. They were convoked to frame Con- of stitutions. The duty of removing objectionable ofl State officers has been already vested in the mili- th taiy commanders established by Congress at the sei South. If there was no other difficulty in the liv . * way, the practical one of a conflict of authority between the military commander and the Convention en yould be fatal. If the power of removing and reippointing were left to tne commander, in conjunc:ion with the Convention, he would be verycertain lot to agree in opinion with them. Should it be aken from him and given to these motly collections )f delegates representing so many different views, he Southern States would obviously be thrown ino chaos immediately on vacating these offices. We lope Congress will have nothing to do with such nemorials, or, if any notice be taken of them, that t will consist in giving the petitioners a sharp reninder to attend to their legitimate work. Most >f them do not find it so trifling a job to make fit nd acceptable Constitutions, that they can take ipon themselves additional labors of the sort they iow contemplate.?1Veto York Times. Ihr (grnqtiiwr. YORKVILLE* S. C.; PHURSDAY MORNING, JAN, 23, 1868. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that ur terms for subscription, advertising andjobrork, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expiation of the time for which payment has been lade. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark on hn wrannpr or marcin of his naner. will under tand thaf the time paid for has*expired. ^ ? THE CONVENTION. > To the exclusion of our usual variety, we devote large part of to-day's paper to the proceedings f the mongrel Convention, now in session at 'harleston. We are aware of the fact that the irge majority of our readers do not sympathize itli the Convention or its purposes, yet we are itisfied that they are curious to know something f its doings. For the reports we furnish our iaders, we are indebted to the Courier, Mercury nd Metes. On Friday last, the Convention adturned over to Monday. The failure of the mail n Tuesday, leaves us without information as to hat was done on Monday. HE NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTION^ The North Carolina Convention was organized i the 15th instant C. J. Cowles, Esq., of filkes, was elected President; T. J. Burns, of utnberland, principal clerk; J. H. Boner, of orsyth, assistant; James H. Jones, negro, of fake, principal door-keeper, and John D. Ball, hite, assistant?allKadicals. The principal doorleper, Jones, was an original free negro?was jff. Davis' body servant during the Confederacy, >d was captured with him. nE REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR JENKINS. It appears from a correspondence which we find the Georgia papers, that General Mead's acjn in removing Governor Jenkins, and the reasurer of Georgia, was based solely upon the fusal of the Governor and Treasurer to defray, om the Treasury, the expenses of the convention >w sitting in Atlanta. A private dispatch received at Augusta, from dledgeville, says that "General ituger and Uapin Rockyille have taken charge of the execute and treasury departments of Georgia, in acrdance with Gen. Meade's orders, and have enred on the duties of their respective departents. The dispatch adds that Captain Rock[lle has taken charge of an empty treasury, the nds having been previously removed." On the 10th instant?just previous to his susinsion?Governor Jenkins issued an order susmding the collection of all State taxes up to the ith of May. The old law authorized such susinsion, and the Convention, by a resolution a pted in December last, requested him to use his >wer for that purpose. The effect of this susmsion will be to forbid the collection of the tax iposed by the Convention for the payment of- its penses. Governor Jenkins is expected to arrive at Au.uta in o few rlm CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. ' In the Senate, on the 14th instant, a resolution ' idually reducing the army; a Bill to removing ' litical disabilities from Governor Patton, of Ala- | ma; and a Bill restoring lands confiscated by ates lately in rebellion, were introduced. In the House, the Committee of Ways and i eans reported the Cotton Tax Bill as amended , the Senate, with a Resolution of non-concur- 1 ice. The report was adopted. This necessitates 1 ^consideration of the points of difference between 3 two bodies by a Committee of Conference, and j i presume some compromise will be speedily ef- j :ted between the two propositions, that of the ( >use contemplating the unqualified repeal of the ] c, commencing with the crop of this year, whilst i 3 Senate's amendment simply suspends the tax ' cotton grown this year, and reserves the right j renew it hereafter. ( PViP Siwvil-pr renrl n ertmmtinieniinn from Gene- -I Grant, covering the following from General s cade: ] "Unless the pending Bill in Congress directing ! c Military Commanders to fill the offices in their apartments recinds the test oath, in the provision : select qualified voters, I am informed that its 1 ecution in this Department will be entirely im- J acticable." In the Senate, on the 15th, the chair presented ! nemorial from the Mississippi Board of Rcgistra-.; n, setting forth the general destitution. The . cmorial says that if something is not done soon, < c government must provide a large burying 1 aund. In tiie House, the Committee on Public Lands ( ported adversely on the bill giving negroes land der the homestead law. Mr. Butler gave notice of an amendment dcclar- < ; all offices vacant, and authorizes the conven- J ins to fill them, and making it the duty of the 1 strict Commanders to install the conventions ap- [ intees. On the 16th, in the Senate, the cotton tax catne > for consideration. A motion was made that e Senate recede from its amendments and insert a oviso exempting the imported article from duty ter July, which was postponed. A bill reorganng the Treasury Department was introduced, id referred to the Finance Committee. Several attcrs of minor importance were discussed, when e deficiency appropriation bill for the Rcconslruc>n acts, etc., was taken up and passed, with me amendments. After an ineffectual attempt resume the consideration of the cotton tax. the mate adjourned. THE PRESIDENT AND STANTON. In our issue of last week, we published the resution of the Senate, adopted on Monday of last eck, refusing to concur in the suspension by resident Johnson, of E. M. Stanton, the See tary of War. Shortly after the passage of the solution, certified copies of the action of the Sone in reference to the matter were furnished the resident, General Grant and Stanton. Stan>N took possession of the War Office, on Tuesday orning, which is thus described by the National iteUigencer : "At nine o'clock on Tuesday last, General Grant me to the War Department as usual, and, after raflging some papers, locked the door of the priite office of the Secretary of War, and, taking the :y with him, proceeded to the Headquarters of e Army, nearly opposite to the War Department, bout half past 10 o'clock. Mr. Edwin M. Stann appeared at the War Department, aud proeded immediately to the office usually occupied r the Secretary of War. Finding the door locked s took a seat in the ante-room, where he was the cipient of many warm congratulations from Senors and members of the House of lteprescntares, who had assembled apparently to see what )uld take place. Upon the arrival of Mr. Stanton, Gen. Dent, e Acting Adjutant-General of General Grant as cretary of War ad interim, hurried over to the eadqnartcrs of the Army to inform Gen. Grant the fact, and to obtain the key to the Secretary's ice. In a few minutes he returned, and placed c key in the hands of Adjutant-General Townnd, who, in a sort of "present arms" style, deered it up to Secretary Stanton. As soon as the re-instated Secretary was fairly sconced in his office, the Radical members of the < Tennessee delegation in Congress waited upon him in a body to present their congratulations, and to l ask him to use his influence to continue the operations of the Freedmen's Bureau in the States of i Tennessee and Kentucky after the 15th of February next, at which time, by order of the President, it ceases in those States. Mr. Stanton replied, that 60 long as he had any power, he would use it to protect the weak, ana would do liis best to have the reauest earned out He further stated that it would be a few days before matters would commence to run right in his office. As the Tennessee delegation were withdrawing, they were met by General Grant in the hall. Alter exchanging salutations with them and General Howard, who was present and expressing satisfaction at the action of the Senate in restoring Mr. Stanton, he walked towards the Secretary's office, when the latter appeared at the door and shook the General warmly by the hand, and both passed in. It is understood that General Grant, and Mr. Stanton were closeted together on Monda y evening, after the passage of the Senate resolution. During the interview between General Giant and Mr. Stanton, General Dent transferee! his desk to Gen. Pelouze, who had occupied it during the latter part of Mr. Stanton's former administration of the Department, and General Hardio gave up his position to General Shriver. At a few minutes past three o'clock an order was iaonort hv Mr Stantnn. infnrminp the Ginnlovees of thenar Department that he, Mr. S., had again taken possession of the portfolio cf the War I)ffice." \ It is understood that the President in no way recognizes Mr. Stanton, and it is confidentially staccd that charges of insubordination hang over Grant. WASHINGTON ITEMS. Washington, January 18.?All is quiet at the J War Department. The Senate's adjournment from Thursday to Monday, discourages the extremists, and the apathy of that body is denounced. It is almost eerthin that the bills changing the Supreme'Court am? degrading Gen. Hancock will fail of a two tjnrds vote in the Senate. Letters fro m soldiers Tn all parts of the countiy are pouring in, protesting against the degradation of Hancock. The bill mustering out General Hancock will probably die in the House. Mr. Greene of the Boston Post telegraphs to his correspondent in Washington that the excitement throughout New England is intense. General Grant strongly advises against a reduction of the army. He said that over half the army was in the unreconstructed States, and in Tennessee and Kentucky. There was a serious lack of men both in the South and on the frontiers. In the Department of the Lakes barely enough men had beeu left to take the proper care of the forts. MEIIE-MENTION. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has received fifteen thousand dollars from the sale of the life of her husband. Robert Tyler, son of ex-President Tyler, is said to be editing the Montgomery (Alabama,) Advertiser, and his daughter sotting type in the office. The publishers of the Memphis Ledger have been arrested by Judge Heister for commenting on his official acts. "Tudge Thurman, who was, last fall, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, has been elected to the linked States Senate from that State. He succeeds Ben. Wade. A bill to provide for paying the national debt in greenbacks has been introduced in Congress. Dr. Bellows says marriages between Jews and Christians are becoming quite common.'" "The library of John C. Calhoun, i as we see by an advertisement in the Pickens Cou- ' rier, is to be sold at auction, as forming part of the | estate of the late Andrew P. Calhoun. It is announced that the owners of the large cotton factories in Massachusetts, are arranging for a general reduction of wages. The shock of an earthquake was distinctly felt, at Atlanta and. : Griffin, Georgia, on the morning of the 3th. A Chicago lady owus the residence of the first Napoleon at St. Helena. 1 * < BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. < Unilw fw>?1 i>l?gufl gwuwliud nip < Striped," the Mercury is publishing racy sketches 1 Df the members composing the Convention, now in session in Charleston. For the information of our 1 many readers in Chester, we publish "No. 4" of < the series, which is devoted to the delegation from 1 that District: 1 1. Sancho Sanders?sometimes, but 'erroneous- 1 !y, called Sancho Panza Sanders, negro, headed the ticket. He is about sixty years of age, and by \ profession a preacher (Baptist.) He formerly be- ( onged to the late Rev. Juuics Lowry, of Chester District In "slavery times" Sancho officiated as xirriagc driver for his master, and as preacher for * ill who chose to listen to _ him. Like most negro 1 preachers, he was a wolf in sheep's clothing, and lid not hesitate, when opportunity presented, to t prostitute his calling to the prosecution of most y jnworthy ends. The most signal blot on his charlcter is an event which occurred over twenty years , igo, when the Reverend Sanclm was prosecuted lor stealing a Hog trom a neignDor. Jtiis master compounded for the offence by paying the owner f for the hog. And the neighbors adminisistered a , sound flogging upon his back. Since his eraanci- j [>ation he has continued to live ou the fat of the land, by preaching to his misguided followers, the Word, mixed considerably with the torch and the sword. He was elected by so large a vol e from the fact that the Baptists made a nomination of a tick- ' ?t, at the head of which was Sancho, followed by i the names of some of his brother Baptists. Now j the blacks in that section are nearly all Baptists or Methodists. The Methodist desiring to be repre- : sented in the great copvcntion, nominated a ticket, it the head of which, from policy, they put Sancho, and the two other Methodists, and that ticket c was elected. i 2. Barney Crenshaw alias Burton, a native of , York District; and formerly the slave of Dr. E. A. Crenshaw. He also is a preacher (Methodist.)? Barney has only been in Chester since the war. He is said, by those who know him, to be more defi- i cient in mental endowments than our colored pub- { lie men usually are, and but for his ecclesiastical , character, it is thought, he could not have procured the nomination and election to his present distinguished position in the State. lie cannot do much harm, being too dull even for mischief. Bar;,' ncy is about forty years of age. / 3. Purvis Alexander was born in Chester Dis- ( trict, and is about twenty-seven years old, a "like- ] ly" fine looking mulatto. He was owned by ,the late It. E. Kennedy. Purvis is a blacksmith by trade, and before he went into the constitution- ' making business, enjoyed a character for honesty J and industry. He professes to be a "Conserva- i tive," and doubtless, is so, a's far as is _ compatible , with his color and his ambition. He is decidedly < the most respectable member of the Chester delegation. He has been in the North and West since the war, and has learned considerably. lie cx- ( presses himself in favor of sharing the government with the whites, and denounces that policy which ] would exclude them from all part in it. His character, we believe, has always been good. Affairs in Mississippi.?Jackson, JauuarylS. , The Convention to-day adopted a resolution com- ] mending the United States Senate for their action in re-instating Stanton. A resolution was passed enacting that there shall | be no enforcement for the collection of any debt , contracted prior to the ] st of January 1861, and that all sucn debts be suspended until the year j nineteen hundred. An ordinance was passed invalidating all trans- ' actions of executors, administrators and guardians 1 for widows and orphans, where Confederate securities was the consideration?granting t he right to parties thus wronged to seek redress through the courts. That the State take possession of all lands , and tenements disposed of as above, and that a > right of action shall lie at law against such executors, administrators, and guardians, or their secu- . rities, for damages. An ordinance was passed levying a tax on all 1 property of the State to defray the expenses of the ' Convention. > ? ( Affairs in Georgia.? Atlanta, Jan. ^*8^= Gen. Meade has issued an order validating the relief ordinance of the convention, with the exeep tion that execution is not to be stayed in cases of taxes or laborers' wages. Advices from Milledgeville state that Governor Jenkins, beiug called upon at the Executive Man- ' sion, made a speech, in the course of which he I said that the funds of the State had been removed ] to New York, and he would fight for them before , the Supreme Court. Brooks, the State Treasurer, , cannot he found, and the postmaster and ex-agents refused to deliver over to Captain Rockwell?Gen. * Meade's appointee?the packages and letters ad- ' dressed to John J ones, Treasurer of Georgia. I LOCAL ITEMS. FEW ADVERTI8EMEFT8. J. I. Bonner, President?Duo Woet Female Col lege. York Drug Store?Selling Off at Cost. 44 44 ?Estolla, or Star Oil. Dr. John May?Positive Notice. Joseph Herndon?Flour and Corn Mills. J. N. Robson?Guano. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Rio Coffee. " 44 . ? ?Yarn. 14 44 44 ?Bacon. 44 44 44 ?Sugars. 44 44 44 ?Lard. 44 44 44 ?Oysters. 44 4* 44 ?Corn, Oats and Peas. 44 44 44 ?Coffee Mills. 44 44 44 ?If you Want. 44 44 44 ?Remember That. . Cowardin A Ellyson?Richmond Weekly Dis patch. APPOIFTMENT OF A KAGI8TEATE. General Canby, by Special Order No. 11, ha! appointed Mr. Michael O'Connell, of For Mills, as a Magistrate for York District. GOLD IF YORK. We were shown, a few days ago, by Mr. J. W Seacbest, two lumps of gold, the product of th< 4'Broad River Gold Mine," in this District. Thf specimens shown us weigh eighty pennyweights and ore represented to be of the finest quality. GUAN08. The reader's attention is directed to the advertisement of<Mr. J.-.N. Robson, of Charleston, in reference to guanos. Mr. Robson is well known to us, and we can vouch for the truth of whatevei statements he makes with reference to the fertilizers which he proposes to sell HERNDOFB MILLS. Mr. Joseph Herndon has recently erected, two miles west of Yorkville, a new wheat and com mill, and is now ready & accommodate all who may desire com or wheat ground. The mills are fitted up with the latest and most improved machinery, and everything is in first rate order. See advertisement. RELIGIOUB NOTICE. In accordance with the recommendation of the Presbyterian General Assembly, to-morrow, the 24th instant, will be observed as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, by the Presbyterian Congregation. Services, appropriate to the day, may be expected at the usual hours. On the following Friday, the 31st, the sendees of a Sacramental Meeting will commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. In these services the Pastor will be assisted by the Rev. G. R. Brackett, of Winnsboro'. ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. We learn that Rev. J. M. Cline, a Methodist minister, who has been stationed at Rock Hill, in this District, for several years, while removing his family on Wednesday night, of last week, from his recent charge to the neighborhood of Pineville, attempted to cross Steel Creek, which had become much swollen from the recent rains. He was traveling in a buggy drawn by a mule, and was accompanied by his little daughter and a small negro irirl. The mule entered the creek and immediate ty got beyond its depth, the buggy sunk under the water, and the little'girl, the servant and the mule, were all drowned. Mr. Cline only escaped the same fate with great difficulty. CHESTER OONTRIBUTORIAL. 33 Y WM. H. BRAWLEY. chester, s. c., january 21,18g8. LOCAL ITEM8. Our town has been like a 'doserted village,' during the past week. The weather has been splenlid for staying in-doors, the streets muddy and jmpty, and business stagnant The freedmen seem Sown. Some sensation has been created by the reported carriage of a young girl (white) who is respectably jonnected, with a colored man. The details of vbich are too revolting for public exposure. We lave fallen upon evil times when such things are possible. As the result of the litigation alluded to last veek, Mr. W. M. McDonald succeeds Mr. Nichjlson as landlord of the Rail Road Hotel. Mr. W. R. Reid, an experienced mill-wright, ha3 aken charge of the Steam Mill known as "Kilians." We were in error last week in announcing the Dis;rict Court for the 4th Monday in January. It vill be held on the first Monday in February. No time yet has been fixed for the tournament. 'Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." Our "Chester delegation" does not make much igure in the convention. They have had sense elough to keep their mouths shut We notice that ?ervis Alexander is among the 'missing.' * LEPPINOOTTS MAGAZINE. We are indebted to Mr. Allen for a copy of this lew Magazine, which the Lippincotts, following n the wake of the other great publishers, have ust launched. It is well gotten up, and in typographical execution superior to any -magazine in he country. We have not had time to do more than glance iver it?have found some of the lighter articles rery pleasant, and judge from the table of contents, vhich is very attractive, that it will be a good adiition to the periodical literature of the country. Mr. Allen, at the Post Office, is the Agent for ill of Lippincott's publications, and those who ire fond of reading?and in these times it is alnost the only pleasure left us?will find him always ready to supply any books that may be desired. -REMARKABLE GAME OF MARBLES^ Honorable S. K. Mallory, Ex-Secretary of the Confederate Navy, has recently published in a Florida paper, a series of "Pen and Ink Sketches" )f the days of the Southern Confederacy. He mentions an interesting incident, connected with the retreat southward of Mr. Davis and his Cabinet, ifter the capitulation of General Johnston, which jccurred at the-residence of Colonel A. Baxter Springs, in this District. The writer says: "The party had stopped, by invitation, for rest, it the residence of a gentleman, not far from the Oatawba River. His dwelling, beautifully situated md surrounded by ornate and cultivated grounds, tvas reached about four o'clock P. M., and the jharming lady of the mansion, with thtft earnest sympathy and generous kindness which Mr- Davis in misfortune never failed to receive from'Southern women, soon made every man of the party forcet his cares and feel, for a time at least, "o'er all the ills of life victorious." After such slight renovation and changes of their travel-soilea toilets as circumstances permitted, and an hour of refreshing rest, it was a novel sight to see Mr. Davis and Mr. Reagan, with a little son of their kind host as their ally, playing an animated and well contested game of marbles against his second son, a boy of some ten years, supported by General Breckinridge and another Cabinet officer. The game lasted nearly an hour; and notwithstanding tne skill of his opponents, Breckinridge, who plays the best game of marbles of any leading public man since Judge Marshall, and who had his usual good luck, came off victorious. The jroungsters, two bright, intelligent Southern boys, will never forget that ardently disputed game nf marbles with Mr. Davis, who, to their infinite delight, seemed as much at home with all the words of caution and command, from "knuckle down at taw" to "roundings," as themselves." Expected Proclamation by the PnEsiDtertC' The Washington Star of Wednesday evening says: 'It is currently rumored to-day that the President will issue his proclamation to-morrow or next day, directing that no business shall be transacted with the War Department, and refusing to recognize Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War. Secretary Seward, Attorney-General Stanberry, and General Grant each had long interviews with the President during the day. It is said that his business with Secretary Seward and the Attorney-General related to the forthcoming proclamation." ? " COLUMBIA CONTRIBUTORIAL MY JA8. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA, 80PTH0AB0LnrA, 21BT JAOTJABY, 1868. At the University. The regular weekly Lecture at the University, before the public, for last Thursday, was delivered by Professor Talley of the Medical Department His subject was the Impediments to the Progress of Medical Science. The performance was able, finished, replete with learning and research, and eminently well-put The auditory was good, notwithstanding the muddy and dark streets; and the audience was highly flattering to the Lecturer. The next Lecture will be delivered by Professor John LeConte on the Activities in the Stellar Universe. There will hardly be a better lecture in the 8 course than this promises to be, Dr. LeConte being 1 one of the best lecturers in the South. Personals. The degree of LL. D. was conferred by the University of S. C., at its last meeting, on Professor j Charles S. V enable, formerly of the South Caroli; na College, but now Professor of Mathematics in the University of Virginia. 1 Hon. James Farrow, of the Confederate Congress, from South Carolina, was recently married to Miss Sue Savage of Richmond, Virginia. The name that General Gr&nt received at bap, tism is Hiram Ulysses Grant; but the Congressi men that recommended him to West Point forgot his name and mentioned him as Ulysses S. Grant; - the students called him Uncle Sam Grant; and thus it is that his name became Ulysses Samuel Grant We once heard a Major General of the Confederate Army speak of him as Old Sam. 1 Grant 1 Belle Boyd has recently been divorced by the 1 Court of New York. The Annie Thomas?a non de plume?that writes such charming novels, is Mrs. Pender Cud1 lip. Beverly Nash thinks Governor Orr is like a flying squirrel?shifts from tree to tree with great agility. A Mr. Whippet?negro?thinks that Beverly Nash is like Governor Orr, only more so. We think that Whipper?negro?came out of that joke the best of the three. Ariel and the Negro. The discussions upon the status of the negro, opened by Ariel and kept up by a number of clerical gentlemen, have created a good deal of interest. Ariel undertakes to prove from the Bible and concurrent history, that the negro is a beast?a beast with reason and speech to be sure, but without a soul. He maintains his proposition with a great deal of ingenuity and some degree of plausibility. When one has read through Ariel's argu. 1 . i j. 1 . _ 1J1. . 1- . J ment ne is apt to Dem a Binguiar muacue ; neaoes not agree with Ariel, but cannot answer the argument In this state of mind the reader is prepared to enjoy the floundering of those who have written or preached Replies to Ariel. These Replies have, in general, been singularly unfortunate. They appear to have been written by clergyman, and partake largely of the arrogance and ill-temper too often found in polemic literature ; or else they are flippant and rhetorical. A western divine, named Young, wrote a Reply to Ariel that was flimsey, sophomorical, and feeble to a painful degree?painful to any man honestly in search of truth and expecting to find it in such a medley of wish-washy and bluster. That so poor a thing could be written in reply to Ariel is the strongestargument in Ariel's favor that we reraem- < ber to have seen. He sets out with a flourish of trumpets to prove that Ariel is a fool, and one is likely to "reach the end of his rigmarole with a suspicion that there are two fools in the case and may |JU "" 11 The Rev. Dr. Howe, of Columbia, is said to have demolished Ariel in a single column of the Southern Presbyterian. This Reply, however, is not a general one; but takes up the question so far only as it is a question of philology; and as far as it goes, is by far the most able and satisfactory answer that has appeared. But it is not the philological aspect of the discussion that has impressed itself most vividly upon the public mind. The Rev. Mr. Girardeau has delivered, in Charleston, and probably has published a Reply to Ariel; ] but we have not read it' We judge somewhat of its tenor by the stated fact that Mr. Girardeau pur- 1 sues the same line of argument as Optician has done. We have read Optician. i The last Reply to Ariel that we have seen is entitled Speculum by Optician. The writer?a young , clergyman, it is said, of the upper portion of this State?is not wanting in self-reliance; but enters ' upon his task with full assurance of victory, and his tone from the outset is that of contempt for a victim. This over-confidence is rather a misfor- . tune in the general issue. Optician scorns to argue " against his opponents propositions, but ridicules and berates them; and uses parity of reasoning to ' illustrate their absurdity. Argument would have I satisfied a thinking mind better. < Optician makes a grand flourish which is meant ? to utterly annhilate Ariel, in citing the case of the Eunuch treasurer of the Ethiopian Queen Candace whom Phillip converted, as told in the 8th chapter , of Acts. Optician assumes that the Eunuch was a I negro, because he came from Ethiopia; and, claims < that the instance of a soul-owning negro annihilates ] Ariel's opinion to the contrary. He waxes faceti- I ous, satirical, ironical, rhetorical; and remarks > (showing his estimate of the point just made) that j "It would seem a work of supererogation to go any farther into the examination of this pamphlet 11 j Long live Optician! But Optician has come to grief upon this pet an- i inhalation point ( Everybody knows?and Ariel since his pamph- J let was issued has published the fact?that this j same Ethiopian Treasurer was a Hebrew, and not a ( negro at all; because this Treasurer had gone up ( to Jerusalem "for to worship," and none but Jews 1 had any right to go up to worship at Jerusalem 1 < The discomfiture of Optician upon this point is j complete. I Wc believe Dr. Winkler, Mr. Girardeau and Op- , tician, all made this same point. They all laid < heavy stress upon it. They all exulted over it. < They were in great travail about it, and have all ' hrniiffht fnrtli the wind. As to the rest of the arguments used against Ariel, they are, for the most part, made under theasassuraption that- Ariel is running counter to the 1 Bible; whereas the true issue is about the negro. The Bible can stand for itself. Our idea is that these divines are putting up a straw man in order to achieve an easy conquest, ignoring the essential ( position of Ariel. f Ariel gives notice that he is preparing a new < edition of his book ; and then, doubtless, we shall have more comic illustrations of going it blind. We desire to state distinctly that we do not endorse Avici's proposition that the negro lias no soul. We believe the contrary?that the negro ( has a souL And a better one it is, too, than some ( white men have. t Affairs in Louisiana.?New Orleans, Jan- i nary 18.? Judge Cooley addressed a letter to Gen. t Hancock, inquiring whether he would enforce any ordinance which the convention may adopt staying i executions on all judgments by the State courts c uptil the 1 st January, 1870, except judgements /or taxes and wages for laborers. The General, in i reply, calls attention to the fourth and eighth sec- c tions of the act of March 3d, 1867, denning the power of the conventions, and says"from these s provisions it is clear the convention is clothed with the extraordinary power of framing a constitution- a al and civil government, and that it possesses no 1 authority to deal with subjects of ordinary legislation except to levy taxes to compensate its members, officers, etc.; and, as, the ordinance to which e you refer in your letter is entirely foreign to the s framing of a constitution and civil government it appears to the Major-General commanding tnat i such an ordinance, if passed by the convention, t would be without any validity." proceedings op the . RECONSTRUCTION CONVENTION. The Convention, elected under the provisions o the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, assembled a the "Club House," in Meeting street, Charleston on Tuesday of last week, the 14th instant first day. Tuesday, January 14.?The Convention wai called to order by Mr. Timothy Hurley, a dele rate from Berkeley District, who moved thai Mr. T. J. Robertson, of Richland, be requested to act as temporary Chairman. The motion was carried without one dissenting voice. Mr. Robertson, on taking the Chair, addressee the Convention as follows: Gentlemen of the Convention:?We, the delegates of the loyal people of South Carolina, arc assembled here for the purpose of restoring om State to her proper relations in the Federal Union. It becomes us to frame a just and liberal Consti tution that will guarantee equal rights to all, re gardless of race, color or previous condition?? Constitution which will comply with the Recon 8tructiou Acts of Congress, thereby insuring oui speedy admission into the Union. I trust there will be no class legislation here. ] hope we will act harmoniously, promptly, judi ciously, aud in such a manner as will reflect credit on ourselves, and secure the confidence of the peo Ele of the State, whom we represent By youi ind assistance I hope to speedily organize thii Convention. The President announced the next business ii order to be the appointment of a temporary Secretary. Mr. Parker nominated Mr. E. W. M. Mackey of Charleston.. _ . Mr. Whittemore nominated W. J. McKinlay (colored) of Orangeburg, who was unanimously elected. The Secretary then read the official Order o General Canby calling the Convention together ii Charleston, on Tuesday, 14th January. 1868. The roll of the delegates was called by Distriots when the following answered to their names: Abbeville. ?Hutson J. Lorn ax (colored,) Nelsoi Joiner, (colored.) John A: Hunter, (white,) Thos Williamson, (colored.) # Anderson.?William Perry, (white,) Dr. N. J Newell, (white.) Samuel Johnson, (colored.) BarnxcelL?Charles P. Leslie, (white,) Niles G Parker, (white,) James N. Hayne, (colored,) A braham Middleton, (colored.) Berkeley.?Joseph H. Jenks, (white,) W. H W. Gray, (colored,) Georee Lee, (colored,) A. C Richmond, (white.) D. H. Chamberlin, (white,' Timothy Hurley, (white) M. F. Becke, (colored, Benjamin Byas. (colored.) Beavjort.?F. E. Wilder, (white,) James D Bell, (white,) Robert Smalls, (colored,) J. J Wright, (colored,) R. G. Holmes, (white,) W. J Whiuper, (colored,) L. S. Langslev, (colored.) Charleston,?A. G. Mackey, (white,) A. J, Ransier, (colored) William McKinlay, (colored,' Robert C. DeLarge, (colored,) Francis L. Cardo za, (colored,) Gilbert Pillsbury, (white,) C. C Bowen, (white) Richard H. Cain, (colored,) Chester.?Sancho Sanders and JB. Burton, (colored.) Clarendon.?Elias Dickson, (white,) Willian Nelson, (colored). Colleton.?Wm. M. Thomas, Wm. Driffle, Wm. M. Viney, (colored,) Jesse S. Craig, (white.) Chesterfield.?H. L Shrewsbury, (colored.) Darlington.?Jordan Long, (colored,) B. F. Whittemore, (white,) Isaac Brockinton, (colored,] Richard Humhird, (colored.) Edgefield,?R. B. Elliott, Prince R Rivers, JohnBonum, David Harris, (colored,) Frank Arnim, (white.) Fairfield,? Henry Jacobs, (colored,) James M. Rutland, (white,) H. D. Edwards, (colored.) Georgetown.?Franklin F. Milier, Henry W. Webb, (white,) Joseph H. Rainey, (colored.) . Greenville.?William B. Johnson, James M. Allen, John M. Runion, (white,) Wilson Cook, (colored.) Horry.?Henry Jones, (colored.) Kerthaw.-J. K. Jillson. S. G. W.Dili, (white) John A. Chestnut, (colored.) Lexington.?Simeon Corley,(white.) Lancaster.?Albert Clinton, Charles Jones, (colored. ) Laurens.?Joseph Crews, (white.) Marlboro1?Calvin Stubbs, (colored,) George ffaeknon, (wlnte.r Marian.?W. S. Collins, (white,) H E. Haynes, Beni. A. Thomoson. J. W. Thomnson. (colored. 1 ftewberru.? Lee Nance, (colored.)' B. Odel] Duncan, (white,) James Henderson, (colored.) Orangeburg.?E. W. M. Mackey, (white,) F. C. Cain. Benjamin F. Randolph, T. K. Sasportas, W. J. McKinlav, (colored.) PicJcens.?Dr. L. B. Johnson, (white.) Richland.?Wm. B. Nash, Charles M. Wilder, Samuel B. Thompson, (colored) Thomas J. Robertson, (white.) Spartanburg.?John P. F. Camp, (white,) Rice Foster, Coy "VVingo, (colored.) Sumter.?T. J. Cooglan, (white,) W. E. Johnson, Samuel Lee, (colored.) Union.? James H. Goss, (white.) Williamsburg.?C. M. Olsen, (white,) S. A. Swails, William Darrington, (colored.) York-W. E. Rose, Dr. J. L. Neagle, (white,) J. H. White, John W. Mead, (colored.) Ninety-two delegates having answered, the President announced a quorum present, ana the Conrention ready for business. On motion, the Chair appointed a Committee on Credentials, consisting of one member from each District, as follows: Abbeville, John A. Hunter; Anderson, Dr. N. J. Newell; Barnwell, James N. Hayne: Berkley, Joseph H. Jenks; Beaufort, W. J. Whipper; Charleston, F. L. Cardoza; Chester, B. Burton; Clarendon, Elias Dickson; Chesterfield, H. C. Shrewsbury; Darlington, B. F. Whittemore; Edgefield, Frank Arnim; Fairfield, Jas. M. Hutana; Georgetown, Joseph H. Rainey; Greenville, James M. Allen; Horry, Henry Jones; Kershaw, J. K. Jillson; Lexington, S. Gorley; Lancaster, Chas. Jones; Laurens, Joseph Crews; Marlboro', Calvin Stubbs; Marion, H. E. Havnes; Newberry, B. Odell Duncan; Orangeburg, T. & Sasportas; Pickens, Dr. L. B. Johnson; Richland, Chas. M. Wilder; Spartanburg, J. F. P. Camp: Sumter, r. J. Coghlan ; Union, James H. Goss; Williamsburg, S. A. Swails; York, John W. Mead. The Committee then retired and the Convention iook a recess for three quarters of an hour. . On re-assembling. Mr. Duncan, Chairman, made r verbal report of the Committee on Credentials, stating that the Committee examined first the crelentials of each of its own members, and appointed i Chairman and Secretary. Finding their credenials correct, they then called in the delegates from jther districts, examined their credentials, which. >n being proved, were signed by the Chairman ana Secretary underneath the official signature of Geniral Canby. This signature, on being shown to :he doorkeeper, to be taken as evidence that the nearer is a member, and entitled to admission in :he Convention. Any member arriving afterwards nust be identified by the Chairman and Secretary )f the Committee, which proposed to continue its jrganization until all the members had arrived, or ;here was no further necessity for their services. On motion of delegate Barnes the report of the Committee was adopted. Ou motion, the Convention adjourned, to meet it 12 o'clock to-morrow. second day. Wednesday, January 15.?The convention was ailed to order at 12 o'clock by Colonel T. J. Robertson, the temporary chairman. Prayer was offered by Rev. B. F. Randolph, delegate from Orangeburg. The roll of delegates being called, one hundred tnd nine responded to their names?seventeen more >eing present than on the preceding dav. The Secretary read the proceedings of yesterday. B. 0. Duncan, white, of Newberry?I now move hat we proceed to a ballot for permanent officers >f the Convention, the balloting to beat large, and hat two tellers be appointed to the purpose. 11. C. DeLarge, colored, I move that we comnence with an informal ballot, so that we may get be sense of the house. A white delegate, I move that the''two highest" nen balloted for be declared the candidates of the invention. Another white delegate, I move to amend by equiring a majority of all the votes present to be sast. The Chairman?The chair presumes he understands his duties on that question. The several motions were more or less agreed to, ind the chair appointed B. 0. Duncan, white, ana P. K. Sasportns, colored, to act as tellers. [Confusion in the ball.] J. J. "Wright, colored, Beaufort?I move that very person take his seat except those whose biliiness it is to count votes. The chair would explain that gentlemen are pernitted to move about for the purpose of preparing heir ballots. * J. J. Wright?Then I move the appointment of a committee of six to wait upon the delegates and to distribute paper for ballots. I make this motion to keep down confusion. A white delegate?I move that the convention f take a recess for fifteen minutes to prepare their t ballots. B. 0. Duncan?I move to amend by naming five ' minutes. B. F. Whittemore, white. Darlington?I do not understand the question before . . j W. G. Whipper, colored, Beaufort?I rise to a . point of order. A motion has been made to adt journ, and it is not debatable. I The question then being taken, was decided in the affirmative, and the convention took a recess of I fifteen minutes. On being called to order, balloting commenced 1 for the election of permanent President, which being concluded, the chairman announced the result as - follows: i Dr. A. G. "Mackey 74 votes. r B. F. Whittemore, 34 " , T. J. Robertson, 1- " . James M. Rutland, 1 " i Total 113 Gilbert Pillsbury, white, Charleston?I now p move that the convention declare Dr. Mackey to. be unanimously elected President j [ B. F. Whittemore?Will the gentleman with-* draw his motion ? Mr. Pillsbury assented. t B. F. Whittemore?1 understand that the bal loting thus far has been simply an informal exr pression of the sense of this convention; and it 3 appears that as regardcrthe two higher candidates here named, it is favorably- disposed towards Dr. t Mackey ana mvself. F ottttinly appreciate the - kindness which nas been engdea to me by those who have bestowed their votes upon me. I am aa?4aim1?t Vam 4Vm? nnwmnoA ^Vinn 4a aocnof j wi uttuij uuc iui uv vwnta ^ui tuuu vv aooiow in the harmonious organisation of this convention, , having been, itrho iHSfcaHoe, an aspirant for this 7 position. I desire simply. to be left to represent my constituents upon the floor, and do the busif ness that may come before us for consideration i either here or in some humble part upon some committee, and to this end I move. that this body , unanimously declare Dr. A. G. Mickey the President of this convention. ) The motion was agreed to amid applause A. J. Ransier (colored) from Charleston, moved that a committee of three be appointed to wait up- . on the president elect,' apprise mm of the event, and wait upon him to the chains F, J. Moses, Jr., (white) of Sumter, moved as . an amendment, that a committfifcpf two,to consist ofB. F. Whittemore andJL,^ SieLarge, beap. pointed for the puroose. A. J. Ransier declining to ttdept the amend) inent, Mr. Moses propoiseJ tWlftSo name of A. J. ) Ransier shouldjbe added totne'tismmittee, and the * motion was then agreed to. On motion of N. G. Parker, the convention took . a recess for fnfceen minutes, at the expiration of . which time the body was called to order, the committee escorted the President to the chair, and . he was formally presented tor -the convention by ) Colonel Robertson, the temponuy chairman. In assuming the duties of bitfpffioe, Dr. Mackey . addressed the body as follows:, >' Gentlemen of the Conventioiy:,|?hile I .return you my thanks for the hohorttiot you have conferred on me, by selecting me-toLpreside over your i deliberations, I confess that -I 'assume the chair with great diffidence as to my-..capability to discbarge its duties. I can, boweiref, safely promise a determination to perform the important task with the strictest impartiality, and with all the judgment m my power.- ; r I The position in which yoptr loudness has placed me, will necessarily preclude me from a general participation in the debates of the- house, and will condemn me to" silence on ;many questions, on which, if I were on the floorrlwoula wish to be heard. You will, perhap^' therefore pardon' me, if I take the present occasion, once for all, to define ray position and to express my sentiments on some of the great topics which are now agitating our country. The convention in which we are now sitting is a marked by two peculiarities, which have distinguished no other convention that has preceded it in South Carolina?peculiarities which demand for it thecommendation of every lover of liberty and respecter of hnman rights. Convened, as I contend it hffl been?for else I had not been hero?by competent legal authority, it is th^firetaaMtitutio^lcog^^on inthbState, made accessible to every man who was not disquali ified by legal or political crime. In the call for the 1 five South Carolina Convections which have proceeded it, and which were held in 1776, in 1777, in 1790, in 1860, and in 1865, but a portion of the people wefe permitted to exercise the elective franchise, because slavery, that vile relic of barbarism, had thrown its blighted influence upon the minds of the people, and, for the noble doctrine that governments were constituted for the good ofthe whole was substituted that anti-republican one, that tbey were intended only for the benefit of one class at the expense of another. Bat in the call for this body, every true man who could labor for the support or fight for the defence of the Commonwealth , has been invited to a representation. Manhood suffrage has, for the first dine, been invoked to convene a body which is to make the fundamental law for alL This is, then,. truly and emphatically, - * a ncooZe*1 convention?a convention hv the renm. sentatives of all who have minds to tfcnk?ancl to : think for themselves, or muscle to work?and to work for themselves. Again. In the five constitutional conventions held in the State, to which I have already alluded, the fundamental law therein framed was made a finality. The people were ignored as a part of the body politic by the convention, which declared itself as possessed of despotic and irresponsible au-s . thority, aud, in every instance, refosea to submit f its proceedings, and the constitution which it had framed, to the people fojr- their' ratification. This was but a natural and necessary result of the influences of the political fsentiment that then prevailed. It was but consistent that those who deemed one-half of their fellow-citizens to be chattels should forget or overlook' the. manhood of the other half But we, who in these days, when the rising beams of political truth, promise, after so much storm, a brighter sky for tne Republic, we who are emerging from that cloud of false opinion into the full sunshine of that truth, know and claim ourselves to be only the representatives of the people. We arrogantly assume no fiqal action, no irresponsible power, recognizing the rights of all men, of all races, the poor as well as the rich, the ignorant as well as the wise?of all men who make the State their home and identify themselves with its interests. We dare not present to them an organic law for their government, as something with which they have nothing to do but to hear and obey. Our work here is not to be considered as completed until the people shall have reviewed it and ratified it Not we, ourselves, but they who sent us here, are to say whether we deserve the reward of a "well done, good and faithful servants." For the first time in the history of South Carolina will the people be recognized as the true framers of their own organic law. Of such a convention, organized on the great acknowledged principles of Democratic Republicanism, I am proud to be a member; far more proud to sit here beneath the folds of that beloved flag which is this day floating from our roof, than I should have been in that other body which met in this city in i860, with no such lovnl symbol to protect it, but which rather sought to tear its stripes to tatters and to dash its stars to the earth. "* Yielding to none in sentiments of devotion for , that flag of my fathers, and an abhorrence of every sentiment of disloyalty and treason to that government, to which 1 owe a paramount allegiance, I yet have no vindictive feelings towards those of my fellow-citizens who were lea by the abstractions to their political leaders, to entertain different and 4 opposing sentiments?sentiments which I deemed errors, but which they believed to be truths. I grant to them that liberty of thought which I demand for myself Hence, I profess myself to be a moderate man. I am opposed to all confiscations of property, because the confiscation of all the lands of rebel owners in the State can have no effect in promoting the welfare of that State, in elevating its political condition or advancing its commercial ana agricultural prosperity. I am opposed to any general disfranchisement of the masses of people. It is too late now to disfranchise as a punishment for treason. Punishment should be inflicted for the sake of reform. To inflict it now would be only to gratify revenge. I want no more disfranchisement, either as to number of persons, or as to duration of time, than is absolutely necessary to secure the safety of the nation, and if that can he , secured by none at all, then would I favor a general amnesty. T ~.ll A.i . i j. tau VJUU IU witness, mat in rating my scat ID this august body, I do so only because I desire to contribute what little abilities or influence I may have to the restoration of peace and harmony, ana for the establishment of such a constitution or form of government for my native State as will secure to every man in the commonwealth an equal share of political rights, will protect us in the future from < the errors which have led to our present-unhappy