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BY HO YT & WALTERS. TERMS: TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF PEE AKNTJM, -,- lN^LXlXKU STATES-C.UJIKENCT. ? ... K.?^.. .'- ._"_>__,.-._ -j "? RATES OF , ADVERTISING^ AdTWTtiaements. ins'ertcdtat the-rates of One Dol-. tar per square of twelve lines for the first insertion and Fifty Cents for each* subsequent insertion. Liberal deductions made to those who'advertise "by the year. Jgfr For announcing a candidate, Five Dollars ? In advance. Ali Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, literature and General Intelligence. VOL. 3. ANDERSON, S. 0? WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1868. NO. 44. Tlie Intelligencer Job Office? "flavin? recently made considerable ailditions t this department, ?ve are prepared to execute irmz 01 ail zzi ! Iu the neatest style and on the most reasonable j terms. Legal Planks, Dill Hcadj, Poster*, Cards, j Handbills. Pamphlets, Lubels, and wi fact every i style of work usually dei*?* iu accrjutry Printing j Ol7:ce. I t-J" In ali cases, the mor^y will be required i npou delivery of the work. Orders, accompaLiid ! wish w.*]<., wj*| ivjecive prompt attention. - '*Froi*'iHc'Gi*eeiibiUe Enterprise; ? The Yankee :Negro Constitution. StCTipNriU, OhirovJt)oc|ariJiioii of Rights, gives Justices ot ??Peace jurisdiction of nil offences, less tl?:iii tt-ionv, ami in which tlio punishment does not exceed a fine of one hundred dollars, or imprisonment tor thirty days.. .'.This is a cross, invasion of that boast and-.bid-Aark' of Aiig'lo Sakoii liberty, thk TJMAbg uy *uiiy. * Any one may bo arrested and' "tried sumihaiily"' '/Jacfore a J ustice. of. a Pjeacc, or .Uher ojji "cer.'authorized1 by biwr'ou ifdbVnVation under oath, without indictment or inter vcigiou <;i' a-lii'ai.d J ury." Can anything be mpty; de'spj&ie or alarming, than the power ot -an i^jjotant. vicious negro J us tice to fine aiftfcvituprison any and every man in the Stifle'{ \ ShCl'ION %l^nablo*the Legislature to 1 authorize aUdx-.iipqvve^^iny one, a police j or militia ofijyvr. to suspend the laws of j the Statt; 'o^&b;.ex^.-Cutforj jtf'the laws!'] The C*?sj?tgiion ot . the^Tinited- Slates j limits nie's^^-nsi.iii,o^th^e'Vri-it ol habeas ' L't>r\>ViS^6^7^?^n^i^!^i^:iit eases oi iv- j .be^liw^'^^^^ioii^^ut- here the whole j 'laws of ifr??$patc, u); tinie of peace, may j J4^iv.pcivdj^^?y.- ^ojiw wor?iless tJiinio.u, j ?'u^bi^ij^^j^g'sbn ure ! . SECi'io.st^P?-uVi?M'izcs the General As ^8Sn>$y>;t$^^ martial Ian-, 'tK^KG$i|^^^i^'a9'tH^peita-lties of martial " wbe^vCr. they/think proper. This ^irffa'mous^wi'r isCtfiven- the Legislature '^^Sff^^^i^lM ^rV^'V-Uf A".personal -Tights. ]5p*se.ems to have been suggested - by fhe nTjry^rity of -the Supreme Court's - dissen f iiig/ropim.jii" in Mulligan's case.^ l They he^^'a^^C^o^gress cmuld-aut-hoi ize the \v\&*?$$iti$i\hy ?a-7?ili<tary court. ^^MSSS^^S^^^^^^^ not in ten d ^^deAv^^eS-leg^ donbtfubtn'this pifi'ticuhir. * ' . T'<; ' ^iSEori^^b,;Clv?Rly and distinVtiy. pm ^p6w-ta"s-?kid iintbonzes the Legislature to . keep upj?fhd .-main tain a si an ding army in time of.;^ace. '? 'This- alarming power, is l^y?U^W^m^j?'a^oT?y, under the pre tence^^^g armies being dangerous to Uber4^^^jit not. to he maintained in ^?iuero^p^ce^:^c?'^A(}k^ the consent of~the GeMmpAske.inbly !" The purpose of this tiectiof^^sio.-.eu'ableiitbe Legislature;-to f keep-^g^.-regular ft)rce of live or ten tbousji^^*tigi10-t.soldiers to suppress and -^eep_^^^6p^0'a. the white ,r;?ce, after j '"the" fJ^KiS^CKte* 1V)K-es are removed from j _Soutli'^m]in?i!l* The Constitution of the i .XJiiite(^Staties-.-expressly prohibits any State" peeping 'troops or ships of war iu I time ojr^eace.'^f' But this Couslitutiou de- j elArgg^^imy,:be.'dqne with the consent of the Ig^^i^&T. " St^fei^'iJguf.'AiWicle.4, Provides that j thoi.'^^g^pOt'tbe^^prenXo Court.shall be j e\ei^^for'Si.v'y^ttrs. and sec:ion IS of the | ?anf^?^??j??^.dai?s^f?at-^cireuit-Judges | sliaUf^olor/ii:eir.office for "a term of four %;6Yr^>tT?n&~of politicians.' In order to sc- J cure j:hyir re-election, llicy mti?t-!.c;->.;fnU ! - ?V^SSSSfe1)'" Legislature, by whom j tbey^Jtre to be re-elected. They will not dui'e;f^deeid'e an net. of the". Legislature j '^^B^^?8^lfl^^:^ill they venture to I i'^^^^^ui?l^^ -' vvi 11 io uuy \>"vu- ? ?Mh^i^^trv^rj'h '"iay 'be st. ecpiiig over j th^lt;ile.':*AVJt;lsL the J udges of England *toe?sTn 'Cirntni ssi o 11 d uri 11 a ti < e pi easii re , .of Wt?s Crown, they were always a ty- ! ? ta'nt's nVbnials. Heretofore the" Judiciary I _?f^liiis Slat?5 elf -led for life, have always j r'SeSn above reproach,, and their ermine j .' .has-never been siiilied wilha stain ol sits- i ?pj^On. Henceforth the J fidhHaiy of South i 'Car<dina wili be as corrupt and as subser- j ?vient as ibei?adieal Pany itself. .-?SkciioN.'Z^,.Gives Justice.-^ of the Peace j " jurisdiction, in cases of bastardy and all j C?Xi tracts a in] foHs'.-rs high as one hundred : ? d^llffr^.-Tbty-.will open the flood gates ^Alitign^o'r^l^rj. keep the people in con ""'' coiiimoiioii. Petti .W^gers*. w"iTi spring up all over the State ^> di.>l,u'rb^he pi'.'ii.-'- andtriiict ot the com tflru.uiiy^- Tgiioranct- ami prejudice will he I ^^Wing.in.judgtiieoi ..jj ihe rights and lih ^^ti'eiJtultlit: people. .. ^^^Siier^UiV 2G, Ueiiies.tbc Judges the right ' vSSr chaj^iiij^ Jhj ies 'in .respec^'io nialtersol '^^[gj^il^111oA cases tried in our Coiirls. ?T^ji^tM nlisiilnlely iiecessniy lor lluvJiudgc to ?.:4^?aiyAe>thc I'acts in oilier Inr the juries to ^^wip5^v.5irid'e4s|.?iiid thcih and give a'cor j $t-e'ct-^gjia/- ',Thi> will be more impera j ^tive-;;'i^r't?ti^.or!i\vin,.n our lornicr ^slaves I tt. ^hall'b^^irHfg'oii ;'l:c-e'jiiries. In a com- j !*.^?a'?^e^fvH^.casc. b.-f?nv a stupid, igno j?;?r.a;ij^yVn'?.der (bis rest He:ion, the trial ? ryitwiM. ?e a mockery of justice, l^'-.f Siccnox SS. Takes Jro'iii 'the Legislatjj're ! ir ::uti,^discretion as to liie adoption of tiie j ^y^proposeil ameiidnienl of the Federal Con j iS.^fcj tilt ion; difttranehising the people of V SiHttii Carolina. Xl'iis infamous amend I : ,^rfn^remtdiate(l by ?Km.: (wdiforni?,,' New Jersey and even M:tC<acS?iiseits. was! " submitted by Congress to il,,- several! State Legislatures for their adoption or > rejection.'as to them should seem proper. ^They were to judge of its merits and do-! eid?': f?if. themselves. But this section J swears them before hand to adopt it, i whether wise or unwise, just or unjust! | sSection 34, "Declares null and vohl all j contracts for the purchase of slaves, in j ; violation of the Constitution of the United i ... States,, which declares that no State shall i 'pass'any law impairing the obligation of Contracts. This section was intended as a frat:d ahd deception, a hrib", to" induce the people, owing such debts to vote for the Constitution.. It is a nullity, and will j be so declariid-by, the . "Federal Courts. But this will be after the cheat has had | its ofTecfs, and accomplished its. purpose, j ^ Suction 2 of AitXJCLE b", Enfranchises, every male negro ovor the age of twenty- \ one, whether a convict,felon or a pauper, I ao'd disfranchises every white man whoi baa&eld office in South Carolina. Intel Ii genoe, virtue and patriotism are to give' I place, l-n^all ?'election'-, to ignorance, stu " piility and vice. The superior rat e is to be made subservient, to the inferior. Tax? ation and representation are no longer to be united. They who own no properly are lo levy ail taxes, and make all appro? priations. The properly holders have . to pay these taxes, without having any j voice in levying them ! The consequences ; will be. in effect, confiscation. The ap ? propriatioiis to --support free schools for i the education of negro children, for the support of old negi-Oes in the poor houses. , and the vicious iu jails and the Peiielen liary, together witn a standing ai;my of negro soldiers, will be crushing and ut lej-ly ruiiiuus tu the State. Every; man's pivipeVfy "will have to be sold to pay hin taxes. Sl'CT'ON 8. Expressly prohibits the Leg? isla in re passing any law depriving a <on vict of larceny ol the right ol suffrage. It .was apprehended that in a lew years a iarge trrupori ion ol the negro voters might be convicted of'latcejiy, and the Radical ^larly tliercby.shorn ol' thvir strength iu all elections: But i-- it hoi mo.-i hTi.iiiielid, ihat in lbrruinga-Coilslitulioii. care should he taken to prevent rogues from being rhsfr-nchiscd, whilst the Kttne caution is ?exercised?tO'fv-'in;^ t'ne-niosi-iia?'lligi'iit. virtuous and patriotic from the right of suffrage! It would seem that the purpose of'tlie fianuis of lid's i'Onstitution was to found a community ol rogues and pa liners in South Carolina! And so astute have they been iu earn ing- out. their.' purpose that they provide in Section 1- thai all who havealreadv been convicted uifcloiiy shall be allowed to vote! Sj.ction-2 Of - Akmcu: 9, Prohibits the Legislature from levying a poll lax of more than one dollar on each pers.' it, and declares that this tax shall he applied ex eliisiveiy to the public school iund ! And no adilitional poll tax shall be icvied by | any municipal cbrpiu-afiofi!! In other j words, the property n.usl pay ail tin-taxes j of the.government, and persons;shall pay nothing for their protection of life and j liberty. The idea is that the vagrant* j and rogues are to be a sort oY noMcSit.. ex- j 'empt from taxation, as was the 'cafic ol ! the aristocracy in France previous lo the French Revolution. Jn order to secure the school fund, Sec? tion 15, Authorises the f.egisiai uro to punish those who may embezzle it by de? claring them disqualified for holding any lifiice of honor f>r emolument in thisStato. But, then, true to their purpose of voting all political power in the hands of such persons, it provides in the same section, that the (?enerul Assembly, '? by a two-; third vote, may remove the disability ! upon payment in lull id the principal -? n? j interest of the sum embez/ led !" il a man has stolen money from ibc public he 1 m?y'Vfill hold oflii-e imJer the Uovern ment if he will - give up like a gentle? man the money stolen !' Section 10. Provides that no deb: con-! traded by this Slate iu behalf of the late rebellion, in whole or in part, shall ever j be \iii\d: ~ 'Why should the non-property holding negroes, vim Wees ami Southern renegades in the Convention prohibit the property holder from paying their debts it they see proper to do'so. and preserve untarnished the honor of- their .State. Thi-? war deb! was contracted with hon? est creditors. many ot them widows ami orphans, and why should it not be paid ': The property holders, who assembled in Convention in lS(i5. and who would have to pay ibis debt, never I bought of repiidi-; siting it. St-'crioN of Akticlk 10, Establishes a uniform Bysiein of freu public schools through, tit. the State, and provides for the division of lite Slate into school districts^ This will 'lo wry well i:i Mew hhi^laud, where they li?ve""a dense population, b it is wliollv iliisuilcd to tb-- sparse popula? tion'Ol South Carolina*. In many id tic/ School Districts, lour miles square, t here j will not be a child lo be educated, in aj majority ot them there will not be td.il- ! dren enough lo.makea respectable school j The expense of such a system will by at j least one million of dollars. It content--! plates and forces the edneariou ol j white and black Children in the same ! Kchool. This, no one. who has any j gard ior tlie morals, manners and fut ure i respectability oi his children. \\ il! lolerale j They who nre able inny employ private j lutors f??r ilti.'ir sons and daughters, bin the poor children will have no alternative but to go to those schools or be uiiediica i led. I SKCTI?N 4, Makes it compulsory tor all I children between the ages ol six and -ix-j I een to attend school for two years. Tills | compulsory system may suit, the genius! of a despotic government like Prussia, but is at war wilii the spirit ot our free institutions. There are many parents I wh?? are not able to.-pare the services of their children at home, and many others | whti' a're not in a c<?nditioirto fhruish the'r j children with suitableeh thes aud books, j lor their attendance at these rchools. At least a parent should be permitted in a tree republican country logo- sm hi-own household and dc.lcrmine Ho hit.-. ? .1 >> hat is best lor him to do. In order lo support these schools, a poll tax ol one dollar per head is to be levied, which might... raise otic* hundred thousand dollars. This would leave nine hundred thousand dollars to be paid by taxation ol property. Section- 8. P-r;.v-idy*4?r-^s establish? ment of S'.ate reform schools for juvenile ofloiidors. This is a new system to levin-' I rod need in South Carolina, and of very doubtful policy. It will certainly add hundreds of thousands of'dollars in our taxation". All thejmbljtj scli >'-!s, colleges; and universities in the State are. by Sec? tion 10 to be free and open to all the children, without regard to race or color. There seems to bo a studied design throughout all the provisions of this most infamous Constitution to degrade tho white rac* and elevate the black raoe-; tb j force upon us social as well as political i equality und bring about an amalgama ! lion of races. i Section ? or akt[pli 11, Forces each . County to provide for tho support of tho ' aged, iutivin and unfortunate. It does j not require" children to support their ! aged, infirm or unfortunate parents, hoi" j parents lo provide for their children, but I this heavy and most enormous burden is ? to be thrown on the pubiic and provided for by taxation. Heretofore South Carolina has pursued a wise policy in refusing all divorces.? 1 The mrrriage contract is riot like that of any other, which ihe parlies may rescind j at pleasure, without injury lo society. There is a third party, innocent and helpless children, who are deeply inter? ested in nil divorces. Moreover, it tends to demoralize every community where it i is allowed or tolerated. But Section 4 gives the Courts power to grant, divorces. I This section was intended, perhaps, for [the especial benefit of the negroes. Iii ought also to have legalized polygamy; which Ims likewise ?jroai Iii vor will? this class of pcopie. The settlement of a wile"s property. J provided lor in section 8, might, have been j left lo the discretion aud wisdom of the j Legislature. Il is an experiment, and il j found mischievous or unwise, the Legis- ] hit ure onu'lii to have the power of cluing-! ing or altering the law. But ihis ordinary i act of legislation has been incorporated in the Constitution as a lundamental law, not to be repealed. Attached to this Constitution, are seve;-] al ordinances, and amongst them one) which repudiates all pledges of faith aud | credit, on the other part of the State, to I any corporation or private individual, j made since "I8U0. The honor and credit ] of South Carolina, her good faith ami most solemn pledges, are the treated as of no consideration whatever. But this or? dinance is on a par with that dishonor, despotism, and unscrupulous ext ravagance, which pervade the whole Constitution, and are worthy of the infamous source j whence the instrument has its origin. The ordinance to create a Board of Land j Commissioners, authorises the purchase of j lands for the purpose of selling them out in.small tracts to purchasers on a credit. This wild and ruinous scheme is. likewise, for the negroes, and is likely to benefit no one, e'x.eept the land commissioners and their friends. State slocks are to he is? sued for tiie purpose of purchasing t hese lauft?. They may he sold, but the pur chaners will never pay for them, and the loss will ultimately fall upon the Stale, j Did any one ever before hear of so many j effective provisions for squandering public j money, when the whole State, ami all the people-in it, are reduced to bankruptcy and poverty";? Well may those, who have nothing and pay no taxis, provide for these vast.expenditures oi* pubiic funds, after appropriating to themselves eleven i dollars per day and mileage, and dividing out all the offices of the Slate. They have appropriated to themselves every office except that of Governor, which they gen erously bestowed on a citizen of Ohio. Some are to be United Slates Senators, Members of Congress, Secretary ol* State Adjutant and Inspector General, &v., tfce., others are to liil District offices, and the remainder become members ot the Legis? lature. If this Constitution was all that virtue, intelligence and patriotism could desire, no sensible and honest man could vote for it, on account of the usurped and polluted, source whence it springs. Without ex ception, the Convention was composed ol renegade Southern whites, yaukee adven? turers ami negroes, representing only the colored population of the Slate. It must remain in all time to come, a badge ol South Carolina's dishonor and degradation, and especially the dishonor and infamy ol everv one Avho votes for its ratification, it will be a b-and of infamy which will slick tii his descendants iu tlie third ami fourth generation. We should not despair, however, al? though iliis Mack Constitution may he saddled on ik, It is impossible that such a govcrr.??.v::r can continue, and the day must come, when l be Stale, wiii be redeem- j ed from IJadiealism by the virtue, intelli | genre, patriotism and manhood ofdiers^us. ! 13. F. PJiUiiY. - - - ? Tim: Sptkst ov rMMOjsrwi.rrv.?In Tal fount's drama ofi Ion, when the young j Greek was doomed to death; when he was taking leave <>! his ocloved Clcmuthe and i preparing to look Iiis last upon this bright beautiful world, the fair Vplt/g ".ill asked, | iu an a irony of grief, but Willi all a wo man's yearning instincts of immortality. "Shall vvc not meet again It'' The answer w.!^ one of .rare poetic beauty: " I have asked thai dread It'll question ol the hills that look eternal?of the clear stream^ that How forever?of the stars, among whose fields of azure my spirit hat h walked iu glory. All were silent! I>ut whii I gaze upon thy living face, I feel that there is something in the love that mantles through its beauty that cannot wholly perish. We shall meet again, Cleinant he !" - How to Use a Ccokino Stove Pkopei: i.y.? See that the stove has a perfect draft ?lo scenic which you oftcii have to close up the lire place, or change the pipe that runs tint on lb* r*i M hoiivc to an up? right pipe which runs through tlie roof. In baking, sec that the bottom of the oven j is hot enough to fry water before putting in the food; to do this the damper must be ! turned upv Flat top stoves should have | the Hues under the oven cleaned out every j week, *n.; in :m case should I ig! it wood be [ used in a cooking stove. Stove pans, pots, j and all cooking utensils used about a< stove should be kept perfectly clean, as no si ovo operates well with dirty cooking u ton .si Is, North Carolina. The following admirable editorial from the National InlcUitjencer contains so much j truth, and is alike applicable to the con? dition of affairs in this State, that we copy entire : We have before us copies of the consti? tutions funned iu six of the Sou thorn Stales hy the Conventions which were lately held there. These Conventions, il is well known, did not reflect the senti? ments of the white population ot these Slates, but rested mainly upon the negro clement, reinforced, inspired, and con? trolled by as base an element as ever walked the earth?the carpel-bag adven? turers who have gone to the South to make profit by the ruin of the people. Examine ali these constitutions, and you find one key nolc pervading each one? negro equality, political and social. This idea goes through them all. We have seen how one Slate after another at. the. North, even those most, ultra Radical. Ohio. Kansas, and others, have rejected negro suffrage, and now, to crown the list, we h"av? Radical -Michigan, which usually gives .that parly titteeti to twenty thousand majority, now refusing by a large majority the principle of negro suf? frage. Such are the instincts of race in a Stale where the ncgroe.'j over twenty one years number only some J.SGb votes, as against l??,0U? whites. In Michigan I I he question is hardly practical, save as the assertion of a principle which white men will not suffer to be compromised. Hut there is no community in Michigan, not even the smallest county, nor ward, nor viliagc. where ihc while population would not have the power lo protect themselves against negro rule. Contrast this with the condition of the Southern States, in live ol which the negroes regis? tered preponderate largely over the reg? istered whiles; and in others, though in a minority in the State, control huge sec? tions, and a number of the most fertile eon n i ies. North Carolina is a State of this last description, in the eastern counties,ami I not a lew or the middle counties, the ne? groes are largely in the ascendant. Ne? gro local government and negro taxation J in the*e counties is inevitable. The qttes lion comes home to ihe.-e people in the' most practical und direct iorm, ami can wo wonder that they arc excited ai the? prospect of a rum that will he irre trio va-J hie, and a degradation such as the while ! race has never suffered iu the history ol j mankind ! This constitution of North Carolina is. to bo voted on upon the -Ist of this month. As we remarked before, the in? strument does not emanate from the white population of North Carolina. 11 is the work of negroes and alien adven? turers, and was expressly designed to perpetuate their ascendancy. Every ne? gro, therefore, is allowed to vole. Even crime is no disqualification. And every negro voter is eligible to the jury box. This doctrine of negro equality runs through the Constitution; and under il the races are lo bo commingled at ihe public schools, at the State University, in chinches, public, hotels and assemblage.'*, and in the militia. All this is mailer ol law ami obligation, according to the prin? ciples ot this constitution. Such are the abhorrent features of this government, which it is proposed to fasten oh the whites of North Carolina. Have we any right to expect social order, peace.; or sub? mission to the authority of d'overnmeui when such degradation is inflicted upon the population 'i il there was any doubt as to the intent ofthis coiistil.til.iiMi. il is supplied by the voi.es of the Convention which framed il. We find thai il was proposed that white ami black children should not go lo the I same schools ; i hat they should not inter? marry; that whites ami blacks should no! I muster in the same companies, and that black officers should not command while men; that poor while children should not be bound lo negroes ; I bat marriages be? tween whiles and blacks should always remain void; but all these propositions were contempt iloiisly rejected. The great ambition of the negro is. to '? of complete social equality wiih the while ra'-e. and they insisted upon these conditions. This constitution we may hereafter ex? amine more in detail. The above are ils more salient iniquities. Its aim is entire eq ality for the negro, amalgamation, in? timacy id- the children, negro olliee hold crs. juror.';, magistral'.**, sherills, police, ami lax assessors, 'i here i.-. nothing that j makes lil'e valuable that is not to be held subject to the degrading comae1 or op-j pi'csHou of ihe African race. It is ahold ami daring conspiracy against the pmper ty. lhe intelligence, and the manhood of this people. As a measure ol malignity", these constitutions, such as we have seen framed iu Arkansas!; Alabama, and North Carolina, surpass anything that could be expected Iro.m fiends. And yet we are t"ld by the Radical'! ?papers that there is discontent, "disloyal? ly'' in the South; the whites are "rebel? lious,''So. They I ret and are restive at the prospect, nay. al the actual infliction of Ibis ruin, shame, and unutterable bu uiilialion of negro equality and negro rule. Is it strange?ibis spirit, of resis ;.o.. r to r..';"": ? la11 not //<-?? iu.<iind j of white blood stronger than an r?yoa-; Struct! ?Ii laws; stronger I ban R -publican! platforms; stronger than the bayonets which are used to enforce this cruel wrong-, ami bondage? Ii is exactly the sam ? j spirit which li.i.dc the white race in New j York defeat the lb-publican party by i nearly li'.'ry thousand votes, because it was j rotten on the question of negro suffrage ; i which lias made the Republican Jjcgisla-.j tivr'e in Pennsylvania refuse even to sub-' *nit th* matter trd a vote of the people, J i ?ml which lias lotfmJ voice and expression I in Kansas, in Ohio, in Michigan?in every jjN'orthern Slule where the '-.-people have j been called upon to endure this infamy. [Can we wonder that the South, even in the presence of bayonets, resents to the last this scourge. Lei it be noted that all through that '. broad land there is not a man who has a j thought or purpose of disunion. There is not one who docs not accept as linal and irrevocable the Union of the Slates. It is against negro government and negro ! equality, and not against tho Union or iho I flag that they agitate, and if you please, j conspire and resist. Well, against t his I proposition nature itself revolts, and ex | termination is your only remedy. The people of Alabama and the South ask only the same institutions as those which exist in Pennsylvania. Ohio, and New York. Their offence hath that extent? no more. There is not a just, or humane man who will not pronounce that tu threaten them with the sword, because ' they refuse :0 obey a negro dynasty, is a suggestion lit only lor monsters in human shape. Tho people of the country see that tiie policy of iiauicalism is not peace, but the sword. Their policy conducts 10 violence, to a war of rares, to further ruin and misery anil bloodshed, loa repudiation of the national debt, to retrogression in eve? rything that goes to make a nation great. It lives only by strife. To vote down this vile conspiracy for power?whose menus are negro equality, bloodshed, and civil war?is the tust duty ot' the hour. and no man is excusable who hesitates to do .bis part in this good a::d necessary work. Tho War of Races in ths South. Many months ago we warned the Rad? icals that they were sowing a fearful har? vest in I lie South. Wo toki them thai 'be measiiies they were adopting would inevitably result in a conflict between the two races. Heedless ot the solemn I es ??ms widen history teaches, and utterly regardless ot the laws of nature, our Uadical riders forced their policy upon the South, and already are we beginning lo see wiu.l the consequence* will be. Froliri ail appearance.-, a war of raced in that unhappy .-.-ctioti o! the Union is rap? idly approaching. The first seeds of dis tru.-t were sown by the Freed men's ihi reau. which, aithon. j; under the patronage i of the Ueueral Government, was mos! j shamefully r.sed by the i-ijdieal parly to poison the minds of the ignorant blacks! against their former ir.asters. At a later j day. the bureau not being an secret a con ! eem as was desirable. LnVai League clubs [ wi re formed from the Potomac to the !'io j t.I-raiide. These'organizations were com? posed almost entirely ot negroes ; they became so powerful in numbers and polit? ical importance that eventually their members assumed to be the rulers and masters of the whites. So long as they were permitted to display their arrogance and asscri their usurped power, so long was tiie danger averted. But the logical result of two years of despotism lies now before us in the fact of a counter action on the part of the whiles. From one end oj the Soil I'll to tiie oilier a new secret socie? ty, known as the "kit Klux Klar,"' has been organized in opposition to universal licgro suffrage and negro rule. The aims and purposes of the association are hot concealed H orn the world. The Southern whites have declared that they will no longer tolerate a policy which .-inks then, into servitude, and makes a selui-biirba rous race their masters. Thus we now have iwo intensely hostile elements or? ganized and organizing, and lacing each other?the Kit Klux Klan, or secret so? ciety of while men. on the one hand, and (he bar, al League Association, or Score: society Of negroes, on the other, eaei; struggling.lor supremacy, and each of a rare alien in civilization anil ideas to the oilier. How hu g will it be before such antagonistic elements pass the bounds ot political warfare, and engage iu a contest of bloodshed and desolation? We aro no alarmists, but we cannot ig? nore the fact that nothing can be done now to prevent a war of races. And ;;. aciir.n oi the H:;;;:.'v.*::1? niusi be ascribed ibis terrible prospect for the South. They and their emissaries have inflamed the minds of the neg:des with ideas which cannot be obliterated except by the stern and bloody experiences of the battle Tick!. They have goaded the Southern whites into desperation ? forced them, as a means of preserving I Loir race, to imitate the example of their black aid agonist* by organizing a powerful secret society, ami j they have planted the seeds oi the mos: | learllil Conflict that tills - ,V- ? witnessed. Unfortunately, lb-' races arc j neatly balanced, numbering, as they do. some six millions of whii.es to over four j millions ol biacks A war between them | will he much worse than any of tho in j siirrerli'Uis in Si. Ihimiimo or .Jamaica. In the South the whiles are im morons ; liiey ]iosncss superior inlelieclt:.*:! powers, j ami Ir.lVO won a worldwide ivpuiatiot: for valor. foist they hive t'? eonlni..! j againsl a horde ot semi savages, backed up by the entire power of the Radical | pari v. and hall .-raze I by lite pernscious ! tcaeiiings they have .received. An army! rusting 'three hundred millions perannum ? mil no! suilicc l? krrp !?!:? p?:irt ! elwecii j tlie two races. The ip.llexil'iiily of the whiles, and the dogged doleruiiiia!jon of! the blacks never to s:;i:;v.l; tc each 'other's7 rule, appear to render in ndvaCcu any at- i tempt at a reconciliation or rest oral ion ol kindly feeling utlerly imp !c-ni. The Situation in the South is a sad one; the tiil.nre oilers not hing heiler than iu ternecinc war. In the "black bells." as J I hey wore. called, of {lie dilt'eroi.! Sou th ; ern Slates, those whiles who can gel aw.-iy are already leaving tin- home- Ol ih-Mr. nativity and seeking safety eiwwherr J Ilicv uro fortunate in beingable to leave; for those who tire compelled to remain will have to bear tho brunt of tue Storni: and for this impending conflict?for this cm-lain aauihiiation of one. and possible destruction both races?the Radicals are alone resprm-ible. They attempted to overthrow the laws of nature", t* striko down the barriers which God bad placed between the white man and the negro, and to elevate the inferior race into the position of ruler of the superior. That this attempt 'must eventually fail, we firmly believe; but before its impos.sibili ty of success has 'neon demonstrated, tho wretched people of the South wilihavcto confront another and mere terrible Strug? gle, and another and greater hecatomb of graves must he reared from the Poto? mac to the Bio Grande. Such will be tho results of a Radical policy of reconstruc? tion ; and wc claim no remarkable pre? science in seeing it. Tho Radical party, in the effort to perpetuate their pov.*e:\ have -organized heil in the South." When the fruits of their measures have bloomed, they must prepare to receive front the entire people that eternal infa? my their own acts will have brought up? on themselves, and to sink into oblivion amid the execrations of the thousands iu the South whose kindred will have been murdered, and whose homes will have been desolated through an iusnne attempt; t-? compass an- impossibility.?jVeu> York Herald. Ashley Asrpso the Gekmaxs.? Or: Monday evening, after the speech-making at the Club House, Ashley and ilackey. finding that the mountain (in the shape of white men) would not come to Mahomet, determined that; Mahomet would go to tho inountian. They accordingly made a de? scent upon a party of our German citizens, who, in the Joost private manner, were with their wives and sweethearts enjoying the pleasures of Terpsichore at a select ball in their Turnverein Hall, on King street. Greatly astonished at this rude invasion, and perhaps perplexed at the lack of courtesy which led a party of men to break unbidden into their entertaiment, one of the Germans inquired what they wanted. Ashley said they wanted to make a speech on the political issues of the day; and intimated that he was very" fond of Germans, and death on Bologna sausages. One of the managers of the ball inti? mated back that the ambrosial impcacher had cyideutiy got into the wrong hotel, aud they "did if J want no sich."' Mr. Ash? ley was further informed that the Germans of Charleston ivere white men. aud uot in the habit of being intruded upon in their private entertainments by peregrinating politicians. The malingers then turned their backs upon the party and left them to their own reflections. On receiving litis very emphatic snub, it i; stated that the "iiinstrions 31. C. looked as if he had been "bottled up" and Wanted n:r, which he speedily found by putting himself vehemently down stairs. Mr.tAshiey is truly tin fortunate. A few months ago lie loomed up iikc a lighthouse. The newspapers advertised him free of charge all over the country. Then the Washington correspondents began lo skin him alive, and didn't leave enough of his corporosity, politically, to make a respect? able funeral. The impeaching process be? gan, and lie was left out in the cold. When the iovely Jj'ii'tlcr tool: his place, Ashley took ti.e siump. He turns up iu South* Carolina. The whites won't hear him ; the colored eoplc only applaud when he makes faces, r.nd his audiences "grow small by degrees and beautifully less." He intrudes on a German ball to make a speech, and is told ihforentinlly that although he may be the immortal .kerns .V'arsh-..i Ashley, a Virgiuian so ealled, nanied after one of our big rivers, a v< rv polite sort of member of Congress aud ail that, they nevertheless prefer te select their company, and in doing so in? variably choose- a white man.? Charleston News. ' Mi:. T\vomui.ey*s Mi.vi aki:.?Mr. Thom? as Twombley had drank but six glasses of brandy and water, when, being a man ot discretion, he rclnrned koine nt the season? able of 1 o'clock a. m., r.nd went sober:v to bed. .Mrs. Thomas Twombir/ was too well arl-nsiomcd to the comings an I "-ohm's of said Thomas to be disturbed bv ihe lritling noise he made on retiring; bitt wliejt she;'discovered that lie h?u his boots on, she ri-tp.iesied him to remove them or keep his feet out of the. bed. "My dear," said Mr. Twomhley, in an ap'oli gctie tone, ''skuse me: How I came to"foiget the uooi.s i can't conceive, for I m ::;st as sober as ever I was in my lite." Mr. 'J Wombly sat on tho side of the bed and made au effort to pull off his right boot. T: e attempt was successful, ihough il m;!.i hint to the iloor. On regaining his I eel, Mr. Twombley thought he saw the door open. As he was sure ho shut the ih or on coming in, he was astonished, and, dark as it was iu the room, he could not bp mistaken, he felt certain. Mr. Twombley staggered toward the door to dose it, v. hen to Iiis great surprise, he saw a Hgnre approach from beyond. Twom? bley stopped: theifigurcslopped. Twom? bley advanced again, and the figure did the s;;:::o. Tw?imhlev raised his liaud ; the figure raised !cu. uWhosu ii.cri roared Twombley, bo gmuiv.g lo be frightened. The object made "no rcpiy. Twombley raised his boot in a menacing attitude; the figure defied i l::'. by snaking a similar object. "IXv Lor!'' cried Twombley. "1'}! find out w b" you bo. you sneakjn' enss! [fe hurled his I o.-t full at the l ead of ?' * mvsierious ohjt-cl. w h.--n?cra-h! went the looking gl;is:: whicSi, Twcmbiey had mis? taken ?'? .? ,: ??: dtvor. ? Be euro you're rig1 t-i tbea ?0 ahead.