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An Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence. ! VOL. 3. ANDERSON, S. 0, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1868. NO. 41. 8tft$ Swityrson $f?w?Rlg Jntylti^nccr, BY HOYT & WALTERS. TERMS: TWO .DOLLARS AND A HALF PEE ANNUM, IN UNITED STATES C?HKENCY. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements inserted at the rates cf One Dol? lar per square of twelve lines for the first insertion and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal deductions made to those who advertise by tho year. For announcing a candidate, Five Dollars j in advance. ? An Admirable Document. Robert Tyler, Esq.,. one ol' the Editors of tlie Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, has recently been on a visit to the Xurih, and on his return addressed an admirable letter to Gen. J. Lt. Clanton, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee for the State of Alabama, by whose authority he TraS authorized to represent that party in the Nati? nal Executive Committee of the Democracy at their recent meeting. From this let ter we make the following extracts, as-the results ui* close observation by an i inleiliircut aha discerning gentleman, .0/ the State of public opinion in the North : For t; considerable period, us }'Oti are . Uware, a bitter and uncompromising strug? gle has been going on between the Radi? cal party, represented by the Congress, and the Democratic or Conservative musses, represented, to a greater or less extent, by the Executive and Judicial de pari incuts of the Government. TY.e Radi? cal party is composed ot a minority of the Northern peopi who have lormcd a po? litical combination with the negroes and their lew white allies in the South, and the Democratic or Conservative part}" is composed ol a majority of the voters in the adhering Stales, and the nearly con? solidated white population of the South em " section. The parties to the contest in truth may be legitimately described as the Republican party (so-culled) on the one side, and the people of the Cm ted States Oil the other. The paramount issue, between the parties is perfectly well defined. The people of the United Slates demand the restoration of the political re? lations of the States, temporarily inter? rupted by the war, on correct principles. Thev demand the old Constitution?the old "Union?the old Laws?the old Flag ??and they demand State and Individual Liberty as it existed in this country for three-quarters of a century before the late civil conflict. On the other hand the Radical part}' demands fundamental .changes in the organic structure of the Government?that many (herisbed prin? cipled shall bo regarded as having become obsolete in the progress of the times? that the Legislative department, holding a two-thirds voto over the President's vetot shall be permitted to exercise Auto? cratic authority?that Slate Independence Khali be sacrificed to a powerful and un? checked centralization?and that the flag of the United Slates shall, in effect, he substituted by the banners of a semi-mili? tary system, existing under false and pre? tended Republican forms. In the atmosphere of Washington it w?.s apparent to me that all questions of commerce, of industry, ol finance, of pub? lic debt, of revenue, of bonds, of taxation, of Southern reconstruction, had become matters of subordinate importance?only the res gestae it were?the minor facts and circumstances connected with, and bear- j iug on, the main issue, as I have just stated it. But the very point and immi? nent peril of- the contest upon this issue, already grave and portentous enough, and soon most probably to agitate the country to its very centre, is to be found in the ?anomolous fact that the Radical party openly, and scriousl3r, claims the right to rule the nation on thegroundof "loyalty" in themselves, and for the additional rea? son that ail who oppose them are either "rebels/' or the friends of '?rebels," al? though their opponents undoubtedly cm brace a large majority of the people. The ominous significance of* such a pretension is evident. In England, France. Prussia, or in any other country where the gov? ernment rests upon popular sutlragCj-.those who are responsible for administration sedulously seek to conciliate the senti? ments of the people, and habitually shrink from assuming the arrogant attitude of coercing their constituents by a claim of unreasonable powers, and by insulting and unpopular measures. In lingland, particularly, no body of men representing the government in parliament would dare venture to stand nut persistently on a line of foreign or domestic policy, much less on a question ol a change ol institu? tions against the clearly expressed wishes ? of a large majority of the people ol the United States as -rebels," oras the friends of "rebels" and claiming right to rule on the assumption of their own "loyalty," liave apparently determined lo prosecute the contest they have Inaugurated re? gardless of consequences, and lliits to defy the people ami practically to subvert the government. They nave already taken fearful .steps towards this end They Imve endeavored, as you know, by their revolutionary meas.ivs. lo suppress the) voices ol six hundred tmvusaiid white voters in the Southern States?tix-y fiav? stripped the Executive department o: its constitutional powers?and they have finally presumed to summon, on the most frivolous charges, the President ol the United Slates to plead at their bar. as a political malefactor?they have assaulted the Supremo Court, and plainly intend, if permitted, to compel that hiliit-rio an gust tribunal to serve as a mere tool of their usurped authority?they have en ?acted law*, and then construed these laws in derogation of the judicial depart? ment, and executed them in derogation of tho Execi tivc Department. They Jiave attempted to seize upon the all fir age of tho Suites and sought to destroy the last remnant of State independence?and it is believed that they are now concert? ing measures by which they may coerce and terrorize a majority of the Northern I and "Western people to submit to their j power. You will thus perceive that the leaders of the Radical party have boldly commit-' ted themselves to a plan of revolution. If j they pause and -waver, they are lost. If! they shall procood further, I boliove that they will excite thc fury ol' the people, and bo positively overwhelmed. Wheth? er they shall determino to advance, or shall think it more prudent to surrender at the point they have reached, will bc indicated by the final vote of thc Se?ale on thc articles of impeachment. Should they depose the President, you may rest assured that they have resolved to carry out their de.-.i<rns at every hazard. But I think the Radicals have become, not only suspicious of General Grant's supposed popularity, but aro extremely doubtful whether the rank and file of the army will consent, in a day of trial, to bc used against the people. In thc recent New Hampshire election, General Grant's name does not appear to have exerted the slightest preemptible inlluencc upon the canvass. No doubt it would bo well, bo Ut for the Radical leaders themselves and for the country, if they could bc per? suaded to desist from their violent pro? ceedings. If the Presidential election were to take place during this mouth the Rad? ical part}' would nut receive seventy-five electorafvotesoutside thcSoulhern States. When it occurs in November next they will probably receive still fewer electoral votes, provided the election be fairlycon ducted. And should tin* Radical leaders be mad enough to persist in the revolu? tionary enterprise ol silencing or coercing thc ballots of the people, there will be an uprising in which they will bo Swept away like cl.tiff in the pul h of the hurri? cane. The people are perfectly confident in their strength, and of course desire lo effect redress (ir grievances if possible, in tho forms of the Constitution. They wish, tor every reason to avoid collision and public violence. Hut they will not permit an oligarchy of Congressional ty? rants to oppress them by substituting the will of ;i party for the Constitution and laws of the lamd. They will take what? ever measures that may be necessary to prevent it, and upon this, it is my opinion the people of Alabama ma}' rely. For? tunately, tf?o, an error of judgment in this respect can do no possible-harm. Consequently I trust that your commit? tee will advise our fellow-citizens lo sub? mit patiently, for a few months, to any evils they may be forced to bear. Let them protest against their oppressions and await a sure deliverance. In order to vindicate the Constitution the Demo? cratic or Conservative parly, when in? stalled in power, must swoop away every pretended govern ment, set up against the will of the people by bayonets, under lb ci present reconstruction laws of Congress. This mission ol' Democratic conservatism will be lb restore the old Constitution, the old Laws,-and the old Liberty, and to raise over uslhe true Hag of the Coiled Stares for our protection. And to reaeh this result the}' must, inevitably trample out these hideous evidences of Radical lawlessness. Let us do no act unworthy of our race or Slate?let us preserve our manhood, our honor?yield to neither threats nor bribes??uftbr uncomplaining? ly what weare compelled to endure?hut with the fixed determination at the first opportunity to reassert our constitutional rights in the Union in all their original vigor. Recipe fok Making Radica ls.?The following receipt, says au exchange, for making Radicals has been placed in our hands. For the benefit of all interested, wc give it a place in our columns : "Take a large amount of ignorance; a half-pint of corruption; one ounce of cow? ardice; one pound of hatred of intelligent white men ; one pound of negro flattery or deception. Put them all in the uncon? stitutional morl ar of contention ? bruise them well with the pestle of oppression, or Browhlow's military despotism. Then put the compound in the kettle of lyidnight plotters. Add a gallon of the essence^ of negro social equality. Roil it over the fire of confiscation, unt il you can perceive a I scum of falsehood risc to the top. Skim the scum off with the laflle of traitorism. Let it stand till it settles; then put it in the Freedman's Bureau jug. Take two tablespoons full every night and work it oil' in the morning with a small dose ol Revenue officer's oi' Collector's spoils, ll t he patient be much debilitated (as he will he very apt to be?if he has any symptoms of true constitutional government still re? maining in him) let him take two tea? spoons full of a dec. 'Ct ion of negro leagues, sweetened willi a hypocritical prayer, and he will be as con finned a Radical as ever polluted the South with his presence." - .? Radical- Admissions.?In a recent de? bute in the IIou.-c of Represen ta lives, two of the Radical leaders mude admissions t hal are worthy ol' record. Mr. Garfield," ol' Ohio, said that "the men who had lough I against the country iiiOftt honourably, were generally thc most reliable, and were entitled lo more confi? dence than ll.ose who had only given their spirit, bul not their hotly, to lire re? bellion." Mr Farnsworth, o? Illinois, expressed the opinion thal one ol' the greatest, ca? lamities lhat ever befell lin' eon lil ry would he --a black imin's party and a while man's prut}- in the South.'' Re said that when it shall coin? lo pass that "the people are divided into two parties based on color, thc black man's parly will go to the dust." - - -*> - ?A droll story ?m told ol an holiest old farmer, who in attempting io drive holnc ! a 'null, gol suddenly hoisted over lenee, i Recovering himself hu saw the animal ott the other sitie of thc rails sawing thu air' with his head ami tuck, ami pawiiitr tim ground. The good old man looked stead? ily at him a moment, and exclaimed :_ "Durn your appulogies. you needn't stand there bowin' anti scrapin', you taro el erit- j ter, you know yon did it a purpose, durn your ugly pictur," ? Congress on Jeff. Davis and An-1 drew Johnson?A Public Disgrace, i At the end of tho year I860, and in ! the early days 18(51, lite air of tho whole j South vibrated with the preparations for | war. It was war to bo waged against, j I the Union?war for the destruction of the Government of the United States. In those same days every stone in the Capi? tol echoed the valedictory eloquence Of tho Southern leaders, men leaving the very halls of the National Legislature to go and head the treasonable movement, insulting the common sense of the country with parade of the reasons that impelled them to strike at the nation's life. Promi? nent in the number ot these men was Jeff. Davis, lie, with his confederates, played this part of the drama with impudent de? fiance, lie went away denouncing the Constitution, and boasting what should be done to destroy it,?boasting in the way in which he would return. Cataline to the very letter. None stepped forward to impede his path. Nay, he went with tho approbation and encouragement of the men who becamo the great leaders of the Republican purl)-. He went with the applause of Horace Greelcy, the restless, vituperative, and inconsequent agitator of the Radical press; of Mr. Stanton, the oily-tongued plotter of power. All these men argued for tho right of Jeff. Duvis to go ami do what he might for the'destruc tion of the Government, as covered by ''the sacred right of revolution' against tyranny," claiming that to prevent or op? pose him would be inconsistent with the doctrines of tho Declaration of Indepen? dence. Davis, thus applauded,thus stimulated, thus encouraged to believe that ho was heading a movement as noble as that which made the colonies free, went out to organize and conduct the internal work. Davis went out thus, and every Southern man of political note went with him, save one. One man alone of the representa? tives of Southern constituencies "in the United Slates Congress did not sympa? thize with the purpose of the slaveholders to establish ttn aristocracy on the ruins of our freedom. One Southern man promi? nent in the wo: Id of politics adhered earnestly, unfalteringly, with all the in? tense fervor ol a positive nature, to the Cause of the Union; and this man was Andrew Johnson, one of the Senators from Tennessee. He denounced the whole treasonable attempt froili the first blow. No whisper of tolerance for it ever passed his lips. From the United States Senate he went to Tennessee?nearer to t ho rage of battle. He was made military gov? ernor, and ruled the Stale with uncon? querable will and unchangeable fidelity to the cause the nation had at heart. He was thus participating in the dangers and savage turmoil of tho struggle, while the Radical leaders were making plans at Niagara Fails lorsurrender to the enemy, plundering - the nation in the issue of ruinous contracts to political adherents, and breaking down the barriers that guarded popular rights by arbitrary ar? rests of inoffensive persons. Such were the relative positions of men through the terrible lour years, until the soldiers and sailors?the men of the nation?making their own generals and admirals, ended the war; and the attempt that Davis had led, that. Chase. Greeley, Stanton, and Gerrit Smith had encouraged?an attempt that came nearer success than overdid such a revolt before?ended in failure, thanks to the people, to the man of the apple tree, and to the "hero in thushrouds.'' Peace came, and the country breathed free in tho anticipation of returning hap? piness and prosperity. Over the whole land men had tho sumo hope, indulged tho same rejoicing that tho trouble was over. Wisely generous, the people would have shaken hands with the South at.once, and taken it without reserve into full fel? lowship, conscious that tho men who had felt the war in their homos, ami the bit? terness of the failure in tlieir hearts, needed only their own memories to keep them Itoui renewing the great attempt l>:it as there are over righteous men. so there arc men who have more than the normal quantity of patriotic spirit; and both classes ate very nico on particulars. It turned out there were.a number ol' su? perabundantly patriotic men to be heard when it came to settling terms. They were the men who had helped Davis to inako the war?the extravagant aboli? tionists who couhi yet so sympathise with slaver}' as to justify its revolt on texts Irom the Declaration of independence. These men had not been the absolute and earnest enemies of the Southern effort till it ' had failed beyond redemption, and then their enmity blazed out all the fiercer for being so new and coining so late. These men wou ld not hear ol pence on the terms the people declared for. They made difficulties, insisted on condi? tions, and mado the nigger tho basis of all propositions; ami thus they have kept up, till now we have a reign of anarchy. tint even yet they will not consent to the punishment of the greatest criminal of tho age, and Jell'. Davis is now at large with I he names ol Horace Greelcy and Gerrit Smith?the types und symbols of Radicalism?on his bail bond; yet these men seem to recognize the natural neces? sity that some man should suffer, that some great trial and punishment should signalize the close of the war. On whom should the blow fall? Strangest piece of satanic irony, 1 hey have chosen fur the j I victim thai one faithful Southern Senator. The one man who adhered to the Union when all tho Southern Senators beside went out with tho encouragement of Rad-1 ical leaders?the man who stood up stout-j I'y for the cause when those same leaders were compromised in corrupt plots of every sort?that man is now tried as an j enemy to the nation, while thoso same j 1 Radical leaders stand between Jeff. Davis and justice. Did Mcphistophelos ever] fool his poor victim to such a startling result? Will not this story forever damn the justice of tho Republic as the synonym of,all that is most pitiable and contempti? ble in human remembrance? Is it not diabolical, atrocious, past all patience to contemplate, that these impudently cor? rupt wretches can pervert justice to this degree, and so foul the name and fair re? pute of a great party ? and that, worse than the rest, if possible, they dare threaten that they will make chaos at the capital if their attempt against the Presi? dent shall fail 1?Ncw York Herald. -e A Glowing Tribute to the South. Tho name of Father RYA2C, author of the "Conquered Banner," is familiar to the cars of a people in whose hearts that beautiful song awakened a responsive echo. This gentleman has recently re" moved to Augusta, Geo., and has become the editor of a new paper entitled The Banner of the South. The following ex? tracts from an editorial in the first number glow with tho fire of patriotism, eloquence and principle, and will bo read with an absorbing interest by all with whom the Lost Cause was dear and its memories arc kept sacred : i;By birth and sentiment we are of the South. Dearer than all other interests, ot this world, to us, are those of our own land. Over these interests wo shall watch. Firmly and faithfully we shall defend them, and more so now than ever when th?sls interests are in such sore need of bravo defence and true defenders. Believ? ing, as we do, that the South had right, and reason, and principle on her side in the late war, we feel that we should not let the traditions and memories and glo? ries of the struggle pass into oblivion.? Wo must keep them alive and aglow?we must, pass them down?we must make our children proud ot them. There is not a day nor a deed of the struggle of which we may leel ashamed. Wo owo it to tho past to preserve the story of our struggle, and the future will not forgive us it wo fail to record it. And in recording wo must not use the words of apology, as though we doubled of the righteousness of our cause; but, plainly and fearlessly, true to ourselves, to our cause, to our country?true to I ho dust of the dead at our feet?true to the spirits of those who were so true to us?true to the living and their terrible loss?true to the Future which is coining down to ask of us the vindication ol our course and the story ol our past?we must declare, and still de? clare, and never cease declaring, in words as brave as our warriors were, lliat in the dread struggle in which our Flag went down with not a stain of dishonor on the virgin purity of its folds, Justice stood on the side of the men who wore the Grey, And Justice has not changed sides because we have been defeated. Unconqucred und unconquerable, Justice is slid with tho conquered. The success of our cause has been lost?not its right, lor failure can never make right wrong; nor can success transform the iniquity of wrong into the sacrudness of right. Brute fore* goes down into battlefields not to test tho right fulness .. of causes, but to try the strength of combatants. The success ot the sword is no argument in favor ol the cause for which it has been unsheathed. Tho surrender of the sword is no argu? ment against the cause which drew it from tho scabbard. Shot and shell do not reason?the}" slaughter?and slaughter, be it more or less, is only slaughter?it is no argument for or against tho rights ol those who kill or tire killed. Bullets may mangle flesh?spill blood?slay men?but they can never reach tho vital principles for which men contend. These principles aro beyond the range of musket and can? non. Battle fields may be the burial places of men, never of rights. Above the smoke and storm and shock of battles, unaffected by victory or defeat, calm and immovable, Justice sits on her eternal throne, and in her eyes right, is right for? ever?wrong is eternally wrong?and trampled right is grander than trium? phant wrung. From tho decisions given against us in the court of battle, we there? fore appeal; and these decisions we carry up to tho high tribunal of Justice, for re? versal. This, and this alone was settled by battle?that wo were tho weaker par? ty. We had less brute force on our side, and wo were obliged to yield to the su? perior strength ot our assailants. The armies and government of the Confedera? cy were but tho mortal flesh and blood of an immortal cause. They aro gone?it is living. Nor steel, nor lead, could touch its life or take if away, li is living in the loves of Southern hearts?it is living in the memories ol the Southern dead?it is living in the stories which Southern moth I era are telling their little children?it is living in the sorrows of our widows and orphans. And we shall keep it alive. The right ol our cause did not fall with Richmond. Jt exists to-day as clearly as it did when the. first boom of our guns sounded across tho Carolina waters, and when tho Palmetto flag?mid the ringing of bells, and the rapture of gladdened hearts, and the sounding of cheers which I ho shore sent over the sea?waved in triumph over Samt er. And on that April day when Loo gave up his sword, bright and unblemished as when he first girded it ott, he yielded merely, and only, tho policy of further resistance?not the prin? ciple which bad lifted that resistance? not tho principle which had lilted that re? sistance into a right ami sanetiliod it as a duly. Right began our struggle ; right justified and ennobled iL; right, animated our soldiers; right made them strong to suffer, strong to endure ; right made them brave to dare, and, bravest of all. to die; right marohed with them, step by step, into every gory .field; right flashed i sheen o? their swords, and. thunder the boom of their cannons in every right wreathed a glory around their ners wherever their banners were b< right consecrated their victories, an( soled them in their defeats; right! j their liearta thc Hames rn" that bei ; which blazed out into deathless di j right nerved them to every sacrifice ! made, to every hardship they endt right lit beacon-lires of glory on plains of Manassas, on tho heigh Fredericksburg. in. the swamps o Chickahominy, in tho trenches ar Richmond, on the mountain pea! Ten nessee, in tho battle places ol tuck}*, on the soil ot Georgia, on tb* board of the Carolinas, in the wild: youd the Mississippi ; and, iiqw, : stands amid our ruins and graves, pointing to thc glories of our cause, waiting in hepo for the terrible ret tion of thc future, lilt towards tho 1 ens the manacled hands, which, thei least, have never pleaded in vain, ant emnly protest against tho oppressio victorious wrong; and we, lor one. now and always in the protest. Wes by the Past pt our country and cause wo accept no Future which will not cept that Past. There are men who ! their principles belore tho bayonet. T are mon who desert the altars of ! Cause round which they once stood the blood in their hearts panting for tion, and who kneel to offer honing tho allais of successful wrong. T are men base enough to lill up t hands against thc very rights for w they once uplifted swords. We aro such. For us. principle is principle.r is right?yesterday?lo day?to-morn forever. ?Submission to might is nut render of right. Wo yield to the ot but shall never yield up to tho other. -o Andrew Johnson. The following article is copied fro recent number of thc Chronicle and S nd, and clearly expresses thc sen ti nu of the Southern people : We are not the apologists of And Johnson, neither do wc intend to ass thc position of a defender of his adm tration. On principle we could do neil In reviewing his career since he assn the Executive Chair made vacant bv assassination of Mr. Lincoln, we find m more to condemn than wo can over prove. If we examine his course w the war was in progress, we inn to . cover a single act or sentiment don? spoken by him which docs not prove to have been a bitter partisan and de; enemy to everything which wo of South considered necessary for the ] tection of our honor or the security of interests. When General Johnson surrenderee General Sherman in April. 1SG?, Johnsen had il in his power then to h secured the neeoplance.jSfld ratilicatioi the terms of the Convention enlercd i between those distinguished officers. 'J whole country. North ami South, w li red of war and strife, and yearned peace. Tho North in that Convent secured all that, up to that time, I been claimed by them as thc object which tho war was waged?the pres va tion ot tho Union. Tho question slavery they would willingly, nay, glac have left to bo decided under the pvo\ ions of thc Constitution of the Unit States as it then stood. Peaco and a stored Union?tho renewal of the aile ance ol' the Southern people to tho Fi , eral Government was fully secured that Convention, and if thu puoplo oft North had been permitted to act direel upon the Hillsborough Convention won with great unanimity, haved ratified a approved it. President Johnson felt a personal h teri)ess arid hatred toward the respectab intelligent and more wealthy citizens the South. Kc determined to gratify tl feelings of resentment which he bore t ward us. lie opposed the rehabilit.ltii of the Southern States and the rostorath of their ancient relations to the Govor meut unless upon terms fixed hy h i msc Ho undertook, without warrant or a thorily of law, to set ii j ? Provisional Go ernmenlsin thc seceded Statesand claii ed, that as Executive ot the Nation, 1 had the right to compel the States t accept such terms as ho might dictate. The results which have (lowed froi this illegal conduct of the President ar plaiulj* marked in" the exclusive and r< vengeful legislation of the Federal Go\ eminent toward tho South for thc pas three years. When the President sa^ that Congress, emboldened by his ow injudicious and illegal conduct: was dis posed to go a step in advance bf his owi programme of exclusion, he began lo lak the alarm, and desired to arrest thei revolutionary legislation. Congress rc fused to bo controlled by tho views of tin President and a rupture followed. When the several excluded State formed their new governments, und. mulei thc demand of Mr. Johnson, ratified th? Constitutional Amendment, abolishing slaven*?repudiated (heir debts created (luring the war, ami passed necessary ! laws For tho protection ol' thc person and j properly of their late slaves.Mr. Johnson j demanded that they should bo restored I m their former relations to tho Federal 1 Government. Congress then took a step in advance, and refused tu recognize tho validity of those acts done by the exclu? ded States which might benefit their con? dition, and admitted the validity of those acts alone, which worein accord aneo with tho Radical programme. Since the summer of 1SGG Mr. Johnson has been, in our judgment, earnestly de? sirous for the admission of Southern rep? resentativos in the National Councils, and The Intelligencer Job Office. Having recently made considerable addition* to this department, we arc prepared to execute sm weis m mi khhids In the neatest style and on "the most reasonable terms. Legal Blanks, 13111 Heads, rosters, Cards, Handbills. Pamphlets, Labels, and in fact every style of work usually done in a country Printing Office. In all case.?, the money will be required upon delivery of the work. Orders, accompanied with the cash, will receive prompt attention. has labored to procure their recognition and admittance. While, therefore, Mr. Johnson cannot and ought not to expect the South to ap provo all his acta since he has been in the Executive chair, ho has a right to claim their thank's and gratitude lor the firm and manly stand which ho has taken against Congress in regard to the milita? ry governments which tho latter, in defi? ance of bin veto and the Constitution of the United Slates, have set up in eur' midst, and for his bold and decided oppo? sition to their scheme for negro suprema? cy,'which they were intended to establish. The South can afford to overlook, for the present at least, his opposition to us dur? ing tho war, and his subsequent refusal to recognize.us as component parts cf tho Union, uuless we would accede to his terms aud conditions, while he is strug? gling with the Radicals upon issues grow? ing out of the refusal of Congress to re? cognize us as States, and their attempt to degrade the white race and set up through ! out the South so-called governments ! formed by and in tho interest of the nc jgroes. The South can never forget those mas? terly productions of his pen, the creation of his great intellect, in which he declared that the Sherman-Shellabarger Bill and all its supplements and amendments were "unjust, oppressive, illegal and unconstitu? tional. The South must also hold in grateful rememberanco his efforts to so? on re as dictators over us the best men which the material at his command would afford; and, lastly, the South must and does heartily sjrmpathiso with and cor? dially endorse and support him in the trying situation in which he is placed by the Jacobins in Congress, growing out of his attempt to displace the infamous dog Stan ton. Wo.believe that the people of the South, with almost complete unanimity, approve and justify his action for the last ten days. They believe that while it may liavc been better to have removed Stanton several months, or as for that, years ago, yet they fail to perceive that his failure to do what they think they ought to have done months ago, makes his action now ill timed and inconsiderate. -^ Organize. If one half the effort were made to save [ South Carolina from radical rule that was made to carry her out of tho Union, our State would be redeemed. Surely our . statesmen, oavpatriots, have not abandon ' ed the ship because we seem to bo hopc [ Iessly in the breakers! Where are the men that once counselled and guided the , masses? Where are our leaders? Are they, now that wc need the force of their counsels and influence, hiding away from the storm that sweeps over us ? It is well enough to talk of dignity, and hide behind the trenches of stoical, dignified endurance of wrong, if we were really disarmed and powerless, but while our oppressors allow1 . us a single weapon with which to fight and while there is the remotest chance ot success, ought we not to use that one* weapon, act upon that remote chanco? To supinely rest upon our backs,, is to al? low our chains to be riveted upon us; if, after resistance they arc riveted there, wo shall feel as the soldier overpowered Irr battle, and not like the one who surren . ders at sight of a powerful foe. Surely wo of South Carolina, will not succumb with? out a struggle to the radical host now threatening us. Wo should organize as a conservative party. We can and ought to defeat a party which has imported yan tteos to rule Carolinians. The intelligent negro?Carolina negro?would blush to see his Slate loo poor in men of intelli? gence to afford a Carolina Governor. The" radical yankec is making a tool of the ig? norant black man, to cut and carve his own fortune. Many of them will see this, and instead ol selling their State toayan kee Bureau General, would vole for a . Carolinian forGovernor. Who would not ?white or black?rather sec Rainoy, of Georgetown, Congressman, than Whitle more. a Northern political parson, in that position ? li the black man has not sworn aicay Id's newfound liberty cud become the iM/v of party leaders, if he be truly free to cote as he pleases, he will, in many instan? ces, as a true Carolinian with State pride in his heart, refuse to elevate himself and his fellows, men who would not bo hero to-day if l hoy did not hope to make mon? ey out of the negro, by political ledgerde inain. Wo need a conservative party into I whose ranks may be gathered Carolinians, white and black, to defeat these yankees and galvaninized Southern men, who could not hold a fifth rale office and could not do it here, but by mounting the bent backs of the ignorant African, and making him carry them up to honor and money. Let the question of constitution or no constitution alone for the present. Vo lQV}t?eonserative voters may voto lor that instrument. Some?perhaps many will; hut. whether we vole for or against it, let us vole for Carolina men and measures. J.et us organize and sustain our Stale; aud have it said that Carolinians rule Carolin.1. Let every man who loves his Stale awake to his true interest: and let us have the Constitution discussed that men may vote understandingly, and let us have a conservative ticket in every District of the State.?Marion Crescent. The following letter is a perfect modol in its way. Wo certainly hope it is a unique specimen: "Dear Brother?I've got one of tho handsomest farms in the State, and have it nearly paid for. Crops are good?prices never were better. We have had a glorious revival of religion in our church, and both of our children (the Lord bo praised) are converted. Father got 10 be rather an i neu m bra nee. and last, week I took him to the poor house. Your affectionate brothor."