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tpc glndcrson ?cliln Jlntelli^enrer, BY HOYT & WALTERS. TERM S: TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF FER ANNUM, IX ITXITUD STATKS Cl'URBSCY. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements inscrteil al tlie rates of One Dol? lar per square of twelve lines for ilic first insert ion and Fifty Cents for cadi subsequent insertion. Liberal deductions made i>' those wlin advertise by the year. frxf For announcing a candidate, Five Dollars in advance. political I Great Political Meeting in New York?Speech, of Kon. Dc.niel W. Vcorhees, cf Indiana. There was :i grand mass meeting in New York City on the ?lst nit., whieh is j described by the World as -'one of the ! grandest successes in the way of a heart? felt outpouring ol the people ever seen." Speeches were made by a number of lead? ing Democrats from the Xorth and West, ?among them lion. 1). W. Yo??nitKF.s, of*j Indiana. We would be delighted to fur? nish our readers the entire speech of this | eloquent gentleman, but a want of space forbids, and we are constrained to make! only the following extracts from the con? cluding portion. These extracts, howev? er, abundantly show the truthfulness and j ability with which the speaker dealt with j the question of reconstruction j,i u na? tional point of view. The election held | last week proves that tin- people id the great Empire State ;ire in unison with the seutrnciits expressed by the Western ora- j tor, and sire determined that the progress ? ? i of Radicalism shall be stayed. ami tlii>j country redeemed from the blighting in- j fiueiicc of negro supremacy in ten Slates : j By the act of reconstruction the entire black population of the South has been enfranchised and invested with the po>vcr <>f piditical control. Nearly the entire Nvhite population ot the South lias been disfranchised ami deprived of any voice in controlling the present or shaping the future. ThtisnLoutr-ix hundred thousand negro votes are ad-led to the strength ol the Radical party, and nearly a million oi i Weite Votes are Stricken out of existence. Thi* is the initial part of the Kadical recoil struction. and it was doubtless chiefly designed in the beginning as a gigantic partisan scheme to ensure future parts' triumphs; hut it lias rapidly arisen tar lievoud such ordinary dimensions, and now confronts ns as a question of national wnalth. civilization anil social philosophy, j The recent regist ration and elections in the j Soutli established in the lace of the world i the appalling fact thai from the waters ol j theChesapestke tothc mouthofthe Brazos. | from the tide-waters oj Virginia to the tar distant plains of Texas, the negro h ld> dominion, and is upheld in that dominion ! by the federal army. Where the white race outnumbered the black in the regis j trillion, as in Virginia and lieorgia, a fraudulent apportionment ol the basis ol ? representation changes the majority, and j the barbarian race, in all its repulsive an- j imal force, rises predominant, and salutes ; the Norl h as tin- undisputed governing e'e- ; tm-iit of the rich and inviting region* of ::!! the South. The ancient commonwealth. ; the home of the peerless Washington-, <d J the philosophic Jelierson, of Madison.! Marshal and Patrick ]J mry. ;< now given ? over t'? t he AI idean.a ud her hit are Ion unes j sre wholly iti his hands. The Carolina* bow \<> the same yoke, and beautiful Ala- ! bauia ami Louisiana, with Xew Orleans. I the natural commercial capitol ofthe val I ley of the *t1 ississippi. ami ;:!! ihe rest arc I to ha vet heir destinies shaped hereafter by the bra::! and enterprise <it the negro, j My. his vote they will be governed, ami : tiit* immediate results are plainly visible ? to even tie- mos? casual observer. The in- j slinctive separation which <i"d lias in:-: planted in dilierenl ittces for their parity J and preservation is already a;, work. The j races are arrayed against each other throughout the earth. K.a-h one. as is j natural, voles for its own color ; and the negroes are forming Vigilauce ('omttiii ice- J to enforce obedience to their opinions ami : submission to their views. As inevitably as that harvest follows seed time, so inev? itably wiil tin- negroes (ill ihe oliices ja these unhappy Stales. They are now en j gaged in framing their new Coustiiiiiiou.-*. under which we. are lo behold tin; wretch? ed farce of t icirndhtission into the Ijh. \ ion. State elections will soon loihiw. and j negro floveruors will deliver messages in negro Legislatures, and together they will assert supreme conn-"; over interest- j more vast liinu limse-of many of the leading nations of the world', lhcc.it j plantation slaves will take their seals as j members-of t'ougress. and in coin iiillcc ! and on the floor, give ibv-iding votes on the vita! tjiie.sii ms of iio.t .c ?. comm J and national progress. .Mr Samuel*, a I lew months agi?iin <m?<-n Senat??, sab' he hoped soon to welcome negro Senal?n*s as j his associates in legislating t?.r tin* coun? try. Wed in'iglit iie anticipate such an event; No power can prevent it under ihe present ??rgaiiixalhiu ol tin; South. Soon tiie negro will tili the senatorial scats once adorned hy VVelisier and Silas ; Wright, by Uiay and W.??dhury. Then is no escape trom lio^ loaihsniue conciu sion ro ihe scheine id reconstruction These are ii< certain and speedy results Are the people of New \<>\i< reud\ lor them '!' Tlie black vote of the Smith will elect twenty.-Senators. A n equal or sup-*- j rior vole in the Slate ol New Vork elected j two. Are your interests safe under such legislative influences'? 11 will send more than lifty members to the lower House. Vou send thirty-three. Thus the South? ern negro will possess more tlia.i twice the power which you yourselves possess over your own public allairs. Shall lit-! also dictate the election of President? llu j holds nearly a hundred electoral vote-. This is a fearful balance of power, and sub? jects the loftiest positions of the tiovcrn incnt t" Ihe doiniuation ofthe negro. It is the design of the Radical leaders to wield it in the coining contest. Who can look upon tliis portentous issue without the sa-tdesL foreboding? Are these vast j powers safe in the hands of rhis widely' alien and iitieiviSized race? I speak riot j with tho prejudice til cask'. All the works of Deity find syinp.illiy wiili inc. J would lighten 1110 burden of the oppressed, und help forward the lowly in the race of life. But does the well-known history of the I A'ricaii race warrant the statesman, the Christian, the philanthropist, in yielding to him the possession and guardianship of the political, moral, social and material ; prosperity, and progress of great and ..powerful Status? We hear of human I equality. The inalienable rights equally j helong to all. The right to secure the ! enjoyment of life, liherly,and properly J j would guarantee to all races, lint, with i the open-spread map of" the world before I us. who wishes the dusky empire of the j negro to rise and overshadow the fairest j portions <>t the Republic *' Where are the Testimonials of his capacity lorgnvcrn i m.-lit with which he has ornamented an? nals ol the human race!' Where is ihe ! land he has developed ami made to bloom by bis intelligent enterprise? Where i. I the nation be has crowned with glory? ' Where are the cities he has built ? Where i- the commerce he has established : Where are his inventions in behalf of in? dustrial advancements ? Where are his plows, his reapers, his steamboats, hi. railroads and his talking cables around the earth ? lie challenges the supremacy of the while race throughout one-third ol the boundaries of the Republic, and the Congress of the United States awards it to him. J.et ihc negro islands of the West Indies proclaim the fate ol the South. Withered, blighted and Masted, its n - s.mirees will speedily peri-h. The white man will be driven .North, or remain to grapple in the mo>i appalling and san? guinary war of r.:ees the wor|?. eversaw. lue negro, free to loliow ids native im pu'.-es. will soon appear the nrimitive bar? barian, as we find him wherever the sus tabling and civiiiziug inliiieiices of the while man has been withdrawn, or have never reached him. Am I told that he has not hail an equal chance with ihe oth? er races in the grand career of History, and hence the utter blank where his achievements should have been recorded ': lie has had ail I he earth before him where Iii choose from the beginning. Xo one has had more. All lields of action, ol wealth and renown have been alike open jo him. The same teeming lields which excited t he toil of ot her i';nr> likewise in vitcd him to amass agricultural stores and contribute to the granaries of the world. The rivers and the oceans, the common highways-of the earth, have for nil the ages since creation invited hi- ships ot commerce, and invited them in vain. The same continchis which other races how possess were open t<> Iiiin to discover, con? quer; people and adorn with Christian civilization, Ilm no step lorward has he taken, no history ha- he written. There lies Africa to-day a- dark, lorhiddiugnud dense in its barbarism as ii was in the I wi lighl morning of tie' world. Kvcn the combined benevolent efforts of all the civ? ilized nations have tailed to inspire her with lite oi" motion. Xm'docs the ex-peri incut of Siberia relieve the sombre nig.hl which there prevails. A haifol aceiiturv of attempted sell-government, upheld l>v ail the Christian powers ot tin- earth, has (borne m?t a single fruit, or developed ;i single elemeiil ol national greatness. I ll;e reason of sail this a mystery in the philosophy of find's creation ? Is the in? equality ol races a new wonder of the nine? teenth eentury ? Xo more than that II.? \ who made the sllll in its ma jest ic st reu gl 11 and splendor made also the lesser |i^'.!> which move in their subordinate sphere through the realms of space. Xo more t hau that lie who made the lion, made also I he creeping mole. No more than th.it He who made the eagle to scale the Line empyrean, also made the moping owl to inhabit i he darkened grove. While trie Saxon, the Celtic, the I eiitonic races have bounded lorward on a!! the great avenues of human progress. I lie African, the Ma lay. tic .Mongolian, and all the various in!".?and kindreds winch er iwd Ilse siil* located plains ol the almost illimitable Ka-l have slept through thousands of year's in ja stale of torpid lethargy. To as has - been given dominion and power because io our race was given the ten lalenis \ We have founded empires and engrailed l.nii them iheseicm.I free government. We wrought out Miiijmi t'imi'lii. achieved ihe writ of //./'<(./.< t'lii'/tiis, and aeeniii ! plisficd the revolution ..| I 77*?- Wc have carried the cross into ihe wilderness, the i.-.-r'.. and I In* l':i"r oil" islands of fhe sen; We have poured the sunlight o| civili /.at ion into tie- dark parts n| the e.-.ri !i. aiel '?.in--.I art.lite:r;it lire and science to Ibn-ri-h like the grace- in immortal hcaIII v. These are some of I be aebievi men is of thai race which Congress say- siiall give way to the rule aiid supremacy of the lowest Iii.'-; in lie chain id huiuaii being. J) >c- hale in si tire ibis pidiev as a punishment to the people ol' t.ltt* South ? I'ause. my fellow citizens, aid un-wcr me? V\ Ivbse coun? try i- lids? Who lOughl 10 preserve the Soul hern State- to the I ,* 111 < ? 11 ' Virginia is your Slate and mine. The Carolinas are oars..?hu.'all the rest. Our country is not divided by sections. it :- all ours to protect and save from ruin. <'an we per? mit our most fertile ami productive patri? mony to be dragged to perdition ami the hopeless depths of :, horrid barbarism ? This is the question lor the North to con sider. Will we suffer our countrv to be changed into tin- liken.?>., ,,| |.)?ilniinv*'? Shall thi- black and stagnant border en eircfc all our Southern boundaries, where, on shall be written for every white man and woman "whoever'enters this dolelul realm leaves hope behind.'' Shall Vir giiiin. our close neighbor, become a Saint Domingo, Georgia a Jamaica, and Loiiisj. ana a llayli? This is no mere Southern question. It is local In your interests as well, and is supremely national in all ii< bearings. ,f ask the people o( New York to nigh I what they will do with these ten Stales that belong equally to yon as well ' as to all other American citizens'' Shall their inexhaustible productiveness goto , decay ? I might here deal in statistics of their agricultural wealth before ihe war. 1 might show t lie mighty revenues which, ! in prosperity, they can contribute to the : national rollers. Can commerce give up \ the produce of Southern soil ? Can our j financial condition afford to let richer j j mines than those of gold and precious I stones lie barren and idle!'' When the I Radical insanity ol' the hour makes the j negro the ruler pi the South it s'rikes a i vital blow at. trade ami commerce, ami l poisons forever one of the sweetest ami j most copious fountains of national wealth. ; Kven now what value attaches there to j proper!\". and who will send means there j I'M- investment to he at the mercy of the I Alrican lawmaker'/ The events of the j last 'ew week-have placed a gull between I Northern capital and the inviting ami pro ; litic Hehls of l he South. We stand aghast I and recoil with horror from l he fearful up | pnritioii which has suddenly arisen in that j aillictcil region. It seems no longer our ? country, but given over to the orgies of the savage and the dominion ot animal ; force and brutal lust.. Shall wc reclaim it? j Shall this priceless heritage remain to as J and oar children according to the devise ol out'lathers? Shall it he open to the emigration and enterprise id your posleri j ly there to live under the blessings o* j free government and civilization? These I are the great ami momentous questions of ! the day. and they now demand your an? swer. Who can doubt the popular ver? dict on such an issne ? Heitel' for that j section of our one,, happy country that lire from Heaven had engulphed it with ; fiie cities of the plain than the fate with which political madness, ambition and I vengeance has overwhelmed it. Reach j forth your hands to the rescue next Tues ! day. Let your voice arise, mingling with ' ihe voices oi' Connecticut. .Maine, t'nlilbr i nia. Ohio and lYnii.-yIvatiia. uiilil all the j hinders of the Republic are tilled wit!; tin j sound ol its deliverance. Ladies and gen I i lernen, there are other themes which in I vile discussion, hut there are many distill guished gentlemen here to discuss them. I 1 have dwelt upon hut one. and that 1 ; conceive to he of supreme importance. : The immediate picture to my eye is en? veloped in da: kiiessaml uncertainly. The ! approaching I 'ongress. will mark an eveii'. j mi era in American history. Unc deparl I menl alone-.f the Iiovei'innciil seeks to j withstand tic Radical carnival ol destruc [ lion The casllc.'ol tin- Kxecillive. though I closely besieged, has mil yet been storm led and sacked; The President, in the j midst <>t perils and surrounded by tieach ! <Tv and deception, has been true to prim cipic: and lipon the lofty ability, purity, j and soundness of bis Stale papers, he will ! enter the portals ol history a- the pccroi ! I lie wisest .ind truest who ever held Ins iiigh place hclore him. ll lor thi- iin ' \ ieblihg devotion to the Constitution, this I lai'ihfiil performance ol 'inly. Andrew I Johnson is in In- assailed by an infamous , impeachment, may the people on whom i In- has ever relied not desert him in that I trying hoar. I:' the moneyed interest ol ! ilie country, the bondholder and the hank i er. can ri-k the convulsions which will j follow the ijisphfccnienj id the Kxeeuiive and the inauguration of Mr. Wade, so I also can the laboring men. Tins issue i ? one o| the, iiuuiediale incidents of the II 'ougicssioiial policy of reconstruct ion. [ and as site.'i lei the people pass in con j deinnation upon it. Citizens oi New ? Vork. in all your dealings with the results j of the dreadful civil war which I ram pied with the Heiy bool of destruction the j naked and bleeding breast ol the South, i I'eineii.hei' that you are prosperous, happv j and -real ; and that nothing will -o he ] come such :i j.pie a- the bright jewel ol iiiagiianiuiilv. To power belongs the sweet prerogative o| mercy. The North > is omnipotent, and in such an hour it is only in ..in souls that thirst for vengeance. I I'ake lite South by tic hand in her lallen i estatir. Ii'! her up and sustain her. Say i lo her: "Ii is true we have Warred, hut j we are |<b di'cd. born of the sanie mother, ?ami we will he friends." Lei the Lethe ? .m water- of oblivion wash awav ah hit ! lei* memories. The brightest names in I history, I lial shine loivvei' like -in.'-- in I he . clear lirmaim lit. are of those w ho. in the '? i.our oi 11iumpii, loi'gavc their prostrate j iocs. Scipio was. geiieroiis, IVrides wa I merciful. \\ .????liinglon was magnanimous, ?and Ihe lustre o| these heavenly virtues '? far outshine, on (he pages of history, the j brillaint fame of their warlike deed-. ? Amii' sly i.- an attribute of ihe blessed Nazareiic. lie extended ii from ihe cross I lo a ruined world that slew him Chnri j ly i- ol celestial origin, an inhahilaul o| hthe (.'lirisiian jieaveii. I invoke ji?, pres I eti.ee in all ihe thoughts, purposes, and ac? tions of i he >?>? ranged and alienated A uier ican j.pie. Ii pi-ads lor a union of love and not of bale and lor,-,.. || brings with jil an inspiration from ihe region per? petual peace. Those who lollow its eon ll sei- will be known in both worlds as hu? man heucfactors. The Radical leader of the day ha- no such counsellor, and draws no such inspiration. Tiberius and Calig? ula. Ilyder. Ah and Alario. Rohespicrre i and .Mural are ihe examples ol his eon duct; and hate and revenge, and all ihe ruthless furies conspire below to inspire) his motives. All the moral influence of the universe arc at w ar with him. The virtuous living and the sainted dead cry out against hi-spirit id vengeance. Those who fell on the battle-fields from boih sections, who now sleep soft ly side by side in distant graves, appeal from their mute I and narrow beds to every hearthstone in the land in favor of mctvv. charity and j love Their heroic spirits, thai have met! on ih,< perpetual plains of immortality, I ?.vie re :i" stritt: i-vel" coincs, are whisper- 1 injf through all the air, over the niouu-' tains and the valleys, and up ami down the busy rivers and along the shores of the two oceans, saying to the angry ami | restless hearts of their living country men, j , '-Peace, be sti.l.'' j J Mr. Voorhees' speech was interrupted , and followed bv applause. -- '? - -? Address to the People. The address of the Conservative Con-! vention to the people of South Carolina is an important and well-considered docu? ment. We regret that limited space pre-1 vents its publication entire in this issue. The address begins with a reference to j the necessity for counsel among the peo? ple at this time, and alludes to the evil of I misrepresentation North and South. It I then proceeds to show that the emancipa? tion policy of the (.iovernment is the Pan? dora's bnjc from whence springs the limy. I sand evils by which wo are environed, and ' j declares that the cultivation of tot ton and J j rice, uic'er the present system ol labor, is I the most uncertain, the least remitnera-! live and most, harrassing employment ol j the world. The exports of cotton and its j controlling influence on foreign markets, j prior to the war, is eon trusted with the .. . condition of things now, when the compe? tition from East India counterbalances ! i the importance of American cot ton. Kor all this there is probably no immediate remedy, but the address urges the people to give up the delusive hope of growing rich by the cultivation of cotton : advises the raising of hreadslnffs, more attention to stock of all kinds, and every other ef? fort In till the land with plenty.and i 11:111-1 gurale a new system ol agriculture.? ' Manufactures will follow, and to be sue- j eessful, tve must begin at the beginning. I and work upward, as our population and ! wealth increase. The declaration is then made that the people ?1 the South would not now re-establish slavery, ami while we cannot and would not recall the past. ?"let the dead past bury its dead.'*?hut let US not be entirely hopeless of the III 111 re. With something like good govern? ment, our necessities will give rise lo new expedients, and lo Conquer our difficul? ties, we must meet them with patience, fortitude and courage. The great ques? tion ol government is next eon-.'deren', and the address proceeds as follows: To admit as a fact, a- has been assumed in be the result of the war. that tint liov crnmcnt of the Culled States is supreme, ami that the Slates have no right-: or if [hey have rights, that they are subordi? nate to lire liovcrnmchl of the l* idled State-; nr. which is the same thing, sub? ordinate to the will of a majority having control ol the ('ovcrnuicnt. is 10 admit the abrogation 01 1 he ( oust itu lion, and t< ignore the laels ol history. In other words, it i- to acknowledge tlct We have a (ioverunieiit of <//?.<??/f//< powers, instead of a tioVeruhiehl of limited and delegated powers. It is admitted, that any tiovern iiielit. however limited, may tor a time usurp all power. A single man may rise up ami say. "\ am the State.*' Any as? sembly of inch may. for a season, arrogate !?> themselves all power?executive, legis? lative ami judicial. Hut the ipieslioii re? curs, js this law. or is this usurpation ? Is this government, or is it revolution? Mere physical ton e is not law. It may compel obedience, but it cannot give to its nets the sanction ol law; unless it be in lhose countries where the will ot an absolute despot i.- tlu* recognized law of the land. To admit thai the war ha- established such a power in Ihe I'nitcd States, i- to admit that all constitution:.! government is at an end. and that as Ssafes. or a- in? dividuals, we hold our lite, liberty ami property at the will and pleasure of any majoriiv. which, lor ihe time being, may ho:d the power. Such, 10-day, may be practically the condili >n of ten State- id tlie American I'hinn. Bui are we pre? pared to endorse these proceedings ami engrail so monstrous a proposition into oiii- government polity? That i.- the question that the people ol the North, as well a- of the South, are called upon In consider! The great object ol lav.-. id constitution.-, and of government, is to. protect the weak against the strong ?to Mhield minorities against the en croaehmeiits ol majorities. If is a politi- j eaI aplmrism that a majority can protect j itself. Acting by ihe sheet exercise ol ! arbitrary power, a majority may. lor a lime .-ei at naught all laws within these Stales?it may enforce an obedience to i military decree.-, from which there i- no appeal ? it may administer a purely mili- | larv governmeiil according to its own will,! and a> xm?7i it. must be obeyed. But when I we are called upon to sttndwii such gov j eminent as being in accordance with (he i eonslilulioli and the law.-, we have a right ! tote*! the question according to the fitlr j proposed ami to withhold our assent. We 1 admit the M<7 that martial law exists m South Candida, but we do not admit the principle that martial law has the right tn impose a civil government upon 11 wilhotil nur consent. Kar be it from 11 to raise a factions opposition to tin- bV consfrucliou .Acts ol Congress. \Vc hi*, lieve thai those acts and ihe measures ihey propose are destructive, not only to our constitutional rights, but to our social peace. With us it is not a question or parly, nor of political power We care rnothing for these things. We are qiiite willing ..ilia I others should enjoy till the j honors; all the cucdiiineuls o| o|liee ;a!l toe pomp aid . ?'. r? - u msl a I >??>? ot' | ? i ss What) nedesjrtj is peace?not the eem bianco til peace, but the substance of peace?peace at oar own firesides atnl | throughout all our borders. W ; desire . peace to enable ti* in build up our waste places, our temples ol' worship, our sacked and ruined cities now lying in ashes, our dismantled dwelling.-: and our prostrate: credit. We desire peace lor its own sake ; ' for its holy Christian influence, and lor the civilization and refinement winch i spring up in its path. Do the .Reeonstnie- I tion .Acts of Congress propose to give as, this peace ? No, they give us war and anarchy, rather. They sow the seed ol ?? discord in oiir midst, and place the best interests of society into the hands of an j ignorant mob. They disfranchise the | white citizen and enfranchise the newly j emancipated slave. The slave id yester- I day. who knew no law. but the will ol the j master, is to-day about to he it vested ? with the control of the (Jovernment. in j all popular (.ioveruiueiils. the two great I sources of power may be traced : 1st. To | the exercise of the ballot. 2d. To the I franchise of the jury box. Invest any ? people with these two great powers, and i they have at once the government ol the country in their hands. J!y the JJceon siruction Acts of Congress, these powers are conferred upon the negro?he can make sind unmake the Constitution and the laws, which he will administer accor? ding to the dictates of others, or his own caprice. We are not Unfriendly to the negro; on the contrary, wo know that wc arc his! host friends. While he occupied the po-1 silion of a slave, he was protected by the j laws, according to his condition in lite. j And now. that he has been made Iree.; we are not only willing to conler upon j him every civil right, but to protect him in the lull and Iree enjoym? tit of those rights, in his properly, in his life, ami j in his person, we are willing that the I black man and the white man. shall stand together upon the same platform, ami he shielded by the same equal laws. We venture the opinion, thai, the people oi ; South Carolina are prepared to adopt as i their own. the Const 11 u i ion of any New ; Kiiglaiid; or other .Northern Slate, when - i in it i- supposed that the civil rights o. j ihe negm are most fully and amply so ! cured. l!iit upon a question involving ! -;;:!> -rave and momentous issues. w? ' should he untrue to ourselves, ami lilifaii Ito oar opponents, were we to withhold I the frank and lull expression id' our opin j ion-. We. therefore, leeiing the responsi j bility of the subject and the occasion. I enter our most solemn protest against the j policy id' investing the negro with polit* lent rights. The black man is what Ii od ami nature and circumstances have made j him. That he is not tit to be invested with ; these important lights may be no fault ol ibis. j IJut the/./'.'/ is puttnt to all. that the 1 negro i- utterly unfilled to exercise the highest fund ions ol ihccilizoli. Thegov I eminent of the country should not be I permitted to pass in m the hands of the ' while man into the hands of the ? negro; The enforcement of the Ueeon tstriictiou Acts by military power, under the guise oi negro voters ami negro con I veiiliotis. cannot lawfully re-e-tal'iish civ I il government in South Carolina, ll may ! ii-ra lime Icld u- in subjection to a qiOts> : civil government, hacked by immun ' torce. hut it can do m> more. As citizens I ol tin- United .States, we should not con 1 sc til to live under negro supremacy, nor I should we acquiesce in negro equality. ; Not for OUrselv.es only, bill on behalf ol : ihe Anglo-Saxon race and blood iii this i count rv. do we protest against this sub ! version ol the great social law. wheieiy ; an ignorant and depraved race is placet! i in power and influence above the virtu j on-, the educated and the reiined. li\ ! these Ads of Congress, intelligence ami ! virtue are put under loot, while ignorance ; and vice are lilted into power, j In South Carolina, the negro majority, hinder the Reconstruction Acts, is much more than two to one. In most ol the other Southern States, the negro majori? ties, it not so great, are almost as decided. In those State- where the while Vote i-m j the ascendant, the election districts have i heeii so arranged, as Id lake the political ' power from the white vote and cast it in j favor ol l he negro vole W hat, then, is I the inevitable result ? It invests the ne ! gro with absolute political power in each I ol the ten Southern State-, and at the j same iime invests him with the balance of .power in the I idled Slates. Nor is j this all?the reconstruction scheme closes I the ballot-box against I lie best inlormed and ethical??d classes in llu: eommunilv, ! a in! open - it lot he iiogro.of v liom not more ', than one in a hundred can read a word, ami hot more than one in live hundred j can write his name; ami multitudes ot whom are so profoundly ignorant, as to he unable lo reinembe?' the names hv which they have registered. Verily, ihfs -eein- to be con verting a popular liovcrn iiieiit. of which we have been so jusil\ proud, into a popular farce ; and we would be content so to consider it. it it did not involve ihe issue of Iii.' and death to the /../?;/i of govcrumeul estahlishe?l by nur fathers lor ihe hem-lit of themselves and their posterity. If the object of the framcr- oi the Uccouslructioii Acts was Iii degrade the Southern people, it i.- lime for i hem to consider whether the degra? dation may md be brought 10 their own doors?whet her i he poisoue<] en|i ma v not be returiied to their own lips Ihn ii may he a-ked. why do not ihe Soillheru peiqile accept the -il nation and <?0Htf<>l ihe negro clement ? This question i- mm h more easily asked than answered. In the lirst place-, it may be said that the influence of the corrupt and intriguing demagogue, who will appeal to pa.-sioii and pn i.id.ee. h i- a 1 m ay- bet-ii found be tin-re o.>w . r!ul w-ilrir the ??\eit ed ami I. ' .-I .:it bin?*. I'm i i:e u tse-l e.*ti!is?.|. .1 i . ho ; :? !> :??' 1'eHidcs the foundation smiic upon which' The Intelligencer Job Office. flavin? recently made considerable additions to lIiis department, we are prepared to esccutu 2UZ "Zb'liZ Iff LH &3IED3 Id the neatest style and on ilio most reasonable renn?. Legal IJlanks, Hill Heads, Posters, Cards, Handbills, l'a in pit lets, babels, and in fact every siyle of work usually done in a country Printing Office. ?Js?f In all cases, ilie money will be required iipun delivery <>t the work. Orders, accompanied with tli" rnj.li. will receivi- prompt attention. Republican Government rests is, that the election franchise* i> to he exercised l>v a frei*, intelligent, ami unbiassed judgment; ami whenever it isailniiited tliattliis/rtJ'/t rli'-i' i> to by C6ntfolliil.t>r, in other words, to Ik.1 made tli<* subject ft undue inllucnce ami of bribes, then, too. it must he admit? ted that Republican Government is. at an end. and must, sooner or later, give way to such other Government as may be forced upon a depraved and already corrupt' ol people, lint if it is proposed in ad? vance to place- the enfranchised negro un* der control, why confer the franchise at all? Surely, the part ol" wise government is to prevent the evil, and not open the doorfo the mischief which others arc admonished they must lie prepared, by trick or man ageiuent, to avert. Hut why press the subject.further V It is enough lor us to know that this wild and reckless experi? ment conies home to the hearth-stone of eery citizen, ami involves family and pro? perty, society, liberty, ami even life itself. Nor i< thi> all. The courts of justice are dragged into the- mire from their high po? sition; (Mir most intelligent white citizens are exclude'.1 from the jury, while the ig iiorant negro is elevated to thai responsi? ble position; the jury lists are made tip Irom the lists of registered voters, which, as we have said, are more than two to one in favor of the negro. "Not only, be it remembered, is the negro admitted *.o the jury-box, but the white man is excluded therefrom. Think you that when the ?Teai masters ot the common law of Eng? land pronounced their encomium upon the trial by jury, that they contemplated for a moment such an instrument as an ignorant ! negro panel ? Think you, that when the i trainers of the Constitution of the United I Mate.- incorporated into that instrument I the provision that the trial by jury should ; always be held inviolate,that they intend? ed lo engrail upon it such an enormity as negro jurymen, fresh from the cotton and rice lieids*of the ."outh? Think you, that when John K tit ledge and his illustrious I compeers signed that instrument on the ! part of South Carolina, that they intended I to lorge a chain which in a period nolong I er than an ordinary life-lime, would drag j their grand-children nvho were then plny j ing around their km c-, and some ot whom ate now hving.) for trial before a jury ot their own slaves? Talk of additional hu? miliation, talk of confiscation, complain of clemency to rebels, after this! God for I hid ! 'I he Go\ eminent ot the United ! Slates has enforced against the Southern : people the most stupendous act of eonfit ! cation that has ever been enforced in the i history of nations; their property in slaves j has been confiscated to the amount of j three thousand millions of dollars; other i personal property, in the shape ot cotton, ! provisions, slock, plate and money, has j been captured or destroyed, to the value ! of one thousand millions of dollars ; and j from these causes their land has deteriora j ted to the extent of one thousand millions i ol' dollars?making in the aggregate the enormous sum of live thousand millions of (dollars. These overwhelming pecuniary j losses lall exclusively upon the Southern j people. The political evils complained of ! will, (d eour.-e. tall chiclly upon the peo j pie of the >ouih, but ma exclusively upon J them. I'Vislen negro supremacy upon the i South, and it musi lie lelt through all of i la-r relations with the North?whether j commercial, political t>r social. Should a I Northern man?and how often must Stich ? necessarily be the ease?be brought to i trial in the Mate or f ederal courts at the j >oiith, his life or liberty must be passed 1 upon by ignorant negro jurors. Should i the most dilliciiit and complicated ques I turns of property arise in Southern courts, ! ami how ?lten must such be the ease, j ari.-mg from inter-marriage, inheritance or j iradi?the cause of the Northern man I must be decided by the same ignorant tri? bunal. Nor is this yet all. The highest prerogative of government is the taxing po.ver, and the efforts of the wisest states I men have been expended lo guard this I ? ? v- * I I great pow er against abuse. >\ o [tower has i heeu more jealously watched than this. ! .\o power has giien rise lo so much strife and nloodshed in the history of ihe world. ; the contest between ihe mother countrv i and the colonies originated in her assutup ! lion ot the right to tax without reptvsen ! tattoii. i'% the Reconstruction Acts ot I v ongtess, the taxing power is placed in ; tbe band- uf those who own no property, J and is taken away from those who hold the property and must pay the laws. The j wir thai has always existed between cap | Hal and labor is decided in favor of the j latter, and the wealth ol' the country is prostrated at the leel ot those who have nothing at -take but iheir daily wages and their daily bread. Now will this power be exercised ? Can it be. supposed for a moment thai it will be exercised in anv other way than to impose such burdens upon the lax payer- a- will amount.in the end. to practical confiscation of the small remaining substance ol oui people V l?ut. we tiitisl forbear. .Mich are some of the immediate consequences ol tin- Reconstruc? tion A.-is upon me people of the South and up) >n t ne u hole eounl re. We have said, and we repeat, thai wc desire peace; but ihe polic\ now pro? posed cam...it e!w. u- peace It is contra? ry to me voice of reason and the law ?l nature. Instead of peace, under the Ke i.viisum-ion Ads wc shall have st rife and bitterness. Instead of the South recovor ihg from her poverty, an.) ceuiiibutinghor share tin* <?. mtuon wealth and prosper in ot ihe countrv, -la- w ili In conic tm-rc ami more imp..* dished. Tic blight, ol nie u .il cut shoi l hei harvests ami dry ?., |,er rc.s.Mirees. The law of violence, wnicli has prevailed Cr mere than two timb-r the surhleu emancipation policy o?f