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THO DHJMOCHAT7C TICKET. For Pr?sidera, W HORATIO SEYMOUR, OF % Y. For vice-President, GEN. P. P. BLAIR, og MISSOURI, REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. First Congressional District-Harris Covington. Second Congressional District.-A. P. Aldrich. Third Congressional District.-J. P. i T?-* - . Fourth Congressional District.-W. D. Simpson. V' ' : . f STATE ELECTORAL TICKET. For State at Large-J. P. Thomas, of Richland; J. D. Kennedy, of Ker? shaw. First Congressiorud District-R. F. Graham, of Marion. Saxind Congressional District-B. H. Rutledge, of Charleston. Third Congressional District-A. C. Haskell, of Abbeville, Fourth Congressional District-E. O. McLuro, of Chester. COLUMBIA. Tuesday Morning, October 13, 1868, Tile New York Sleeting. LETTER FROM GOV. FERRY. The following letter from Hon. B. F. Perry, of this State, was read at tho monster Democratic meeting in New York, on Monday night lost: GREENVILLE, S. C., October 1. Douglas Taylor, Ssa., Chairman, ?tc. DEAR Sm: I received, this evening, your kind invitation to be with you on the 5th instant, and address your "grand mass meeting." Ith?nkyou most sinoerely for tbis honor, and bo assured that nothing could give me greater pleasure than to be present at ''the enthusiastic gathering af the people whioh will then be convened in Tammany Hall." But, although it' is impossible for me to be with you in person, my heart and soul will unito with you in all your efforts to elevate to the Pre? sidency your distinguished states? man, Horatio Seymour. I believe that the salvation of the country and tho existence of our republican form of Government depend on his elec? tion. If the radicals should carry this olection, I have no idea that tho American people will over have an opportunity of electing a constitu? tional President of these United St at 03. I am justified iu thia conclusion by tho usurpations, oppressions, tyran? ny and extravagance of tho radical porty in Congress. Thoy have al? ready, in utter disregard of tho Fede? ral Constitution, stripped the Presi? dent of his highest and most legiti? mate prerogatives and conferred them on tho Commanding General of the army-their candidato for tho Presi? dency. They have denied tho Pre? sident tho power of selecting his own Cabinet, or dismissing from office those who havo proved recreant and betrayed their trusts. They have en? croached on the Judiciary Depart? ment of tho Government, and refused to lot the Supreme Court of the United States decido on the consti? tutionality of their legislation. They have struck down, at ono blow, ten sovereign States of this Union, and hold them under military despotism. They havo disfranchised the white race in tho Southern States and en? franchised tho negroes. I feel assured that if the Northern people could only'see, or .be made Hcnsible of tho miserable condition of their fellow-citizens and kinsmen of the South, they would not sustain a party in power who had brought tais great calamity of negro supre? macy On one-third of the republic lu the Legislature of South Carolina there are eighty negroes and only forty white members in the House of Representatives. Tho greater part of these forty white legislators are tho lowest and worst of mon, without property, intelligence or character, and were, elected by the negroes. Their legislation has been wild, extra? vagant and atrocious. Paying no taxes themselves, and their constitu? ency, by whom they were elected, paying nothing into the State Trea Hurv, they have made appropriations and levied taxes whioh bankrupt the State. But their legislation in othor re? spects is still worse and more alarm? ing. They have authorized the sus? pension of tbat bulwark of Anglo Saxon liberty, the writ of habeas cor 2ms, and havo authorized the raising of a standing force of negro troops, in violation of the Constitution of thc United States, whioh forbids a State keeping a' stending army. Un? der those laws, this negro Govern? ment will have the power of impri? soning any citizen without warrant or accusation as long aa they please, whilst a negro force will be left to insult and outrage his family, and plunder and destroy L*?v property. In tho meantime, the State will be, as the whole South iiust be, ut? terly impoverished and desolated. Instead of being an advanfrtge to tho North, as the Southern States for? merly woro, they will bo an expense -au incubus on their industry, euer Sy, and enterprise. We are paying ttl? Or nothing towards tho support of the Federal Government, and wo are unable Lo pay as long aa the ne? gro role continues. We are without capital to cultivate oar landa, and capital will not come here for invest? ment whilst thia negro government CQutinuesJ 'There is ho security for life or property. The newspapers are filled with houses and barns burnt, property stolen and persona murdered. In time of peace we see all over the South. Federal troops, kept up at an enormous expense, to keep the white race in subjugation to negro government-i-a government which, if continued, will moke the whole South a Hayti or San Domingo. We have, too, n Freedman's Bureau throughout the Southern States, whose sole pur? pose is to prejudice the freedmen against their former masters, and unite them to the radical party. This Bureau is paid for by the North, and costa the Government ten or fif? teen millions annually. Why should the white people of the Northern States pay enormous and crushing taxes to establish negro governments over their own ruco throughout tho South? Why bhould they keep up a standing army, here, for the purpose of maintaining those governments? The only purpose which the radi? cal party have in creating and con? tinuing this unnatural despotism is to perpetuate their own progress as a party. In order to maintain their ill gotten authority, and keep control of the Government, they are willing to make one-third of the Republic an Ireland or a Poland. Peace there never can be, at the South, while negro supremacy is maintained here by Federal bayonets. It is impossi? ble that a brave, intelligent, and patriotic people can willingly submit to such degradation and tyranny. H is not human nature to do so. ?s an old Union man, I can say, with truth, that the Southern people accepted in good faith tho results oi the war, and would have been as loya to the Federal Government as Nevi York "or Massachusetts, if they hac been restored to the Union under th< Constitution. They abolished slave ry, and were determined to givo theil formor slaves equal protection witl themselves in the enjoyment of al their civil rights. When the freed men showed themselves capable o: exercising political rights, they wcr< willing to confer them also. But a present they know, and tho uegn knows, that he is incapable of exer cising prudently and wisoiy tho poli tical rights of a citizen. Hence th carpet-baggers, who have como her from the North to tako chargo of th negroes and assume tho governmen of the country. Tho freedmen ar now as milch political slaves to thos carpet-baggers as they formerly wer domestic slaves of their former OWL ors. Instead of meeting fairly tho issue involved in this Presidentiul canvas! and defending their usurpation tyranny and piodigal cxtravagauci tho radical party are trying to mal; the election turn on the past issue of the war. lu order to do this thc appeal to the prejudices of the Nort against the l-ebel.s of the South. A tho same time they aro receiving int full fellowship and hugging to the bosom tho meanest and vilest ( thoso rebels who havo joined the party. In a recent Act of this rad cal Congress they removed tho disi bilities of ten or fifteen hundre "red-handed rebels," and declare them worthy of holding office, bi ca HBO they had joined the radio party. Such men as Gov. Holdei of North Carolina, and Gov. Browi of Georgia, who were, at the bogil niug of tho war, the fiercest aud ino, uncompromising secessionists, hay '>eeu made loyal citizens, whilst Go Worth, of North Caroliua, Go Jenkins, of Georgia, and niy.se] who wero always Union men, are r pudiated because we will not give oi adhesion to tho radical party. I who betrays his raco, his couutr his principles, and his God, is wo thy of office in tho radical party, at no longer "a red-handed rebel." I am happy to inform you that tl Deinocrucy of the South, tho o Union men, and all the secessionis of principle and honor, Rep?blica: by birth and education, and lovers tho Federal Constitution, aro up at doing. Wo shall carry, for Seymo: and Blair, beyond a doubt, the Stat of North Carolina, Georgia, Alab ma, Mississippi, Texas and Virgini We are making a great effort ?b car; South Carolina, also. The colon people aro losing confidence in th? carpet-baggers and scalawags, wi have told them nothing but lies, ai have fulfilled no promises ma them. Thousands of the color people in South Carolina will vc with their formor owners, and a mu larger number will not vote at all the Presidential eloction. At the North this eloction is a co test between liberty and despotis but at the South it is a question life or death, and we so regard Yours truly, ?tc, B. F. PERRY. LETTER FROM GENERAL M'CIJHIIIIAN It having been by some expect that Gen. McClellan would prosit the following letter, in explanati of his absence, was read : NEW YORK, October 5, 1868. To Douglas Taylor, Esq., Chairmi ? &c. Mr DEAR SIR: I havo tho ploost to acknowledge the r?coipi of your invitation to preside over the Demo? cratic meeting on Monday next. I have long since determined to abstain from farther participation in political lifo, and therefore find myself compelled to decline the honor you prone* me. I should, however, be glad to attend the meeting as a pri? vate citizen, did not engagements of a domestic nature, rendered impera? tive by my long absence from tho country, detain me from the city upon the day in question. I gladly avail myself of this opportunity to express my continued hearty sympa? thy with tho Democratic cause, anrl in y ardent wishes for the success of those constitutional principles for which the recent war was undertaken by the North. Separated as I thus am from the distinguished soldier who has been chosen as the leader of our opponents, I know that you will agree with me in the highest respeot for the services ho has rendered our country; but it is my conviction that the measures of tho party which has placed him in nomination are but continuations of strife, and can never restore peace or constitutional supre? macy, and thus complete the work which ho and other bravo soldiers so ably commenced. The war was only tho first epoch in the history of the struggle in which we have been so long engaged. Tho work of the sol? diers, is, I trust, forever ended, and it remains for tho people to fulfill tho great objects for which they or their sons and brothers were called to tho field. A restored Union of States and hearts, an invigorated Constitu? tion to be firmly and faithfully sup? ported, the maintenance of the na? tional credit inviolate, a re-establish? ment of national and Stato rights in all their integrity, and thus true har? mony and a lasting peace. These aro the objects for which every citizen should now strive, and bolieviug these to rest in the success of the Democratic cause by the elec? tion of the eminent statesman select? ed to represent that party, it is my intention to sustain that cause as a private citizen. With the reqnuest that you will convey to the gentlemen of the com? mittee, and my other friends for whom you act, my sincere thanks for tho compliment they have paid me, I am most truly, yours, GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN. Address of Hon. J. tl. Adams. MY FELLOW-CITIZENS OF SOUTH CAROLINA: I have come to speak to you hero to-day, from my distant home in Massachusetts, at tho earn? est request of your State Central Executive Committee, to consult with yon upon thc living principles of our free institutions, and in tho hope that our meeting may in some degree, however small, tend to promote a better understanding, a kinder feel? ing and ultimate harmony between the mass of white people hero and a very largo portion of tho people of tho North, and especially of my own State. And I am here, also, to learn from your own lips, your wishes and intentions upon questions of public policy whioh most nearly affect you. Yon, also, have perhaps been told, that I ara a grand-son of one of the earliest opponents of your peculiar institution, and I will tell you that 1 was an ardent, though humble sup? porter of Mr. Lincoln, a hearty friend of his administration; always in favor of an onergotie prosecution of tho war while it lasted, and that I hailed with profound gratitude the abolition of slavery. I had long re? garded it aa a most dangerous ele? ment in our Federal polity, and cer? tain, at some timo or other, to jeo? pardize tho existence of tho Union and the authority of tho Constitu? tion. Soouer or later, tho coulliet botween tho two systems of labor, tho free labor of tho North abd tho slave labor of tho South, was ?uro to come. It did come and has passed away, with terrible suffering and con? vulsion, and now tho South, cast down, bleeding, faint, and almost despairing, looks vainly for the sign of promise in her dark horizon. You usk each other, in vain, what nindi we do? where can we go? whence com? eth our salvation? I will tell you, frankly, my friends, at the outset, that I believo that your redemption must bo by your own aot; that your fate is in your own hands, at last. I do not mean to deny that yonr con? dition, from time to timo, may bo favorably or injuriously influenced by tho fluctuations of tho political fight at the North, but I suspect that your permanent welfare will mainly depend upon the power you may de? velop now to grasp firmly and em? brace sincerely the fondamental prin? cipio of our Govornment, as settlod by the war-a constitutional Demo oraoy. That principle seems to me a recognition of the equal rights of all men under - the law, or, stated as broadly as possible, the right of every man to think, speak and act as he wishes, provided he does, not, by so doing, in fringe,the equal rights of his neighbor. I do not regard political privileges as rights in this sense, at all. The general welfare of tho com? munity must regulate their distribu? tion. This is all vory well, you will say; but it offers no prosent and practical solution of oar difficulties. It is very m nob like telling a niau who is suffer? ing terribly from intemperance, that his only permanent euro munt como from an adherence to the lawn of health. And I agree to that viet? of it. Wo are Buffering now terribly, both North and South, from political intemperance. You wero guilty, of it when you did all in your pcrrr to rupture the Union by for \ because you would not trust the question of slavery tc tho people under the Con? stitution; and we aro guilty of it now when we will not restore the Union nuder the Constitution, because we distrust the people. What is needed, in the first place, is moderation, calmness and a habit of patience in politic*". We ?rc inclined to be im? pulsive, headlong, desperate in our devices. Waiting and watching, relying upon slow but sure processes, has never been very popular with any people of our race, urn! is pecu? liarly distasteful to us. But, my fellow-citizens, this disagreeable dis? cipline is, in my judgment, precisely the training we are, all of us, most in need of, and I think it esscntiul to your happy delivoran se. Let us come down to the actual facts of your case, and try to look at them together, calmly, dispassionately and without prejudice. It is always foolish to deceive ourselves, and in your case, to mislead you knowingly, would bo a crime. I shall, therefore, spoak with perfect frankness and plainuess. Yon began tho war down hore at Sumter, under o claim of right to defend yourselves as an independent State, which had exercised n reserved right to seoede from tho Union; and I take it that no ono denies that tho cause of that action was the appre? hended danger to slavery, from the result of the election of 1860. You fought for your side of the contro? versy for four years, with a desperate determination and courage, until at last you were compelled by the fate of battle to surrender. Yon had allied yourselves with other seceded States and formed a Confederacy, which claimed an equal rank among the nations. Yon proclaimed slavery its corner-stone. In the stress of conflict, as a wur measure, justified by the emergency, and as a means of distressing you, your slaves were proclaimed free. Tho North insisted that no State could secede under the Constitution, and that the whole proceeding, on tho part of the State, was an insurrection of a portion of tho people of the seceding States. It is far from my intention to revive old controversies, or re-open settled disputes. But I must state the facts, to bring us to our present position. You claimed to bo a sovereign State, and on your own showing were, by tho laws of war, subject tu any terms the victor might impose. It did not lio in your mouths, there? fore, to domand" any rights in thc Union yon had broken, or any im? munity from the consequences ol your own acts under the Constitution you had renounced. If wc wero tc accept your own theory of action, you were alien enemies and youl lund conquered territory, and so sub ject to the naked laws of war alone But the North had always denice every ono of 3*our positions; had in? sisted that you were never out of tbl Union; that your resolutions of se cession were simply void; that yoi could not cease to bo citizens of tin United States by any such process and that, of course, you were liable when taken, to the pains aud penal ties of perjury. To bo sure, thi theory waa necessarily infringed i little in praotice, as in respect to tin exchange of prisoners and the ob servance of the same laws of warfar that obtain between iudepeudon States. Still, this was tho accepte? faith. The war was to subdue an in surrection, not to conquer a nation You wore defeated rebels, not van quished alien enemies, and the Unioi was re-established, not extended ove your territory. It was upon thi theory that tho Governmeut of th United States proceeded at first t renew what wore called the practice, rotations of tho States to tho Union and you gladly accepted this viow c tho case, and did all in your powe to resumo your vacant place. Now it has always seemed to m that you, by your acts, at that time gave all tho pi oof in your power thu yon abandoned the principio fe which you fought, accepted tho dc cisi?n of your wngor of battle, au bowed to the supremacy of the Coi stitution. You wero offered and yo ratified an amendment to that iustri mont absolutely and forever abolis! ing slavery. You manifested, so fi as I have ever been ablo to see, a di position to take us on our own tera and ronounce all you had fought io: and pay in full the stake for wilie you had played and lost. To bo sui you had no choico, and you could nc then have complained if you ha boen treated for what you claimed t be, alien enemies; but you might ha\ been sullen and refused to do an; thing. You did tho beBt you coul do, as I have always thought; and think the North would havo done tl: very best that she could have done, I have taken yon back in the fine ten fier in which Gen. Grant reported li ound you at that time. I do ni know; your people hore may bo di ferent from any poople I have evi seen, or known, or read of; but think it would have boen best to hai thou taken you cordially by tho ham told you that we believed your pr mino?, aocepted your word or bono and that by-gone* should bo b; jones. Besides, I think wo were in good, faith bound, after youhad acceded to oar own terms, and noted apon them, when offered by an authority whioh yen believed, and I still believe, was adequate to not bindingly in the pre? mises-to complete the transaction. Much as yon were interested in our doing so, I think tho North was oven more so. I think it would have re? stored the Union with the least shock to its frame-work, and with the least possible strain to tho Constitution. Congress, however, interfered; toro asunder^onco more tho knitting frac? ture, because they averred the euro would never be fair and sound by that process, and adopted another. Their first attempt was tho fourteenth amendment, whioh they offered yon as a dose preparatory to re-adjust? ment; but it was not stated to be final, and there is much controversy at the North as to your reasons for rejecting it. If it was the suffrage clause which checked your action, I think, locking at it from your posi? tion, you were wrong. If you could not swallow tho clause requiring you to disqualify your leaders, my heart tells me you were right. I hope I shall never lisp one word of reproach against any mau who refused to go back from his chosen foremost men at such a time. But, at any rate, its submission to you at all showed that thus far Congress stuck to tho North? ern theory of the contest. But next came an entire chango of base and Congress abandoned tho Northern view of matters entirely, nnd thus late in the day came over to the camp you bad been beaton out of, as the more tenable position of the two. Tbej took up your old ground and insisted that you were, after all, alien ene mies; your country conquered terri tory; yourselves prisoners of wai and your rights ot every kind for? feited. This is", at bottom, the mean ing of tho Reconstruction Acts undei which you now live. They are basel on conquest, and the right of tin victor in international warfare. I d( not think that this was, upon a com prehensive view of the general an( permanent welfare of the whole peo plo, a generous, a wise, or a cousti tutionnl coarse to take. But it hm been taken, and nov/ we come to tin difficulties of our position. As thing do, in fact, stand, what is it best fo us to do? How caa we best modif; or remedy existing evils? Tho cas< would be puzzling enough, at best but the addition of tho elemeut o universal negro suffrage, perplexes i ten-fold. Thea, it is complicated b; a multitude of conflicting theories prejudices and passions here, as wei as at the North, and the circum stances of peculiar political excite meat attending a Presidential elec tion, in which this very question c your proper status is tho vital issue render it well nigh impossible to ai rive at satisfactory conclusions. The best consideration, however which I have been able to give to th subject, has led mo to somo conch sions which I offer with great difl] dence, but in entire good faith, proposo to try to escape from our di Acuities by reversing the proc?s that brought us into them. Whe you appealed to arms to decide disputed question of constitution! construction and set the fate of slav? ry upon the ordeal of battle, yo took, as it seems to mo, the first irr< vocable false step. You refused t abide by tho tribunal provided b the Constitution, and you would n< accept the verdict of the people rei dered under the constitutional ford when adverse to you. The barrie: which had been provided for ju such an omergency, you, in heat an impatience, threw down. No writte Constitution can possibly be mae strong enough, in itself, to restrai tho people, unless they themselv aro calm and wise enough to se even in their hottest moments, cv< when the temptation to grasp a e< veted object, or secure a threatnne oud, is most overwhelming, that the long ruu and upon a balanco contingencies, they will be happi by observing scrupulously their sc imposed limits. They may havo lose or defer a cherished hope th they rnaynot, by-aud-by, bo oblige to suffer a dreaded ill. But the pt sions which the slavery agitatii eauscd, were too fierce for argumoi too impatient for tho tedious pr cesses of law. CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT. The Abbeville Press says: All t circumstances oonnected with t murder of the white man Con and negro, which we announced our last issue as having been comm ted at Lowndesville, go to show tl the deed was done by strangers the community. Suspicious char! ters, who were unknown. in tl neighborhood, wore seen oa the d and night of the murder, and w< said to have crossed tho river so after with the stolen males. RESIGNATION OF THE' COLORA: SENATORS.-Messrs. John Evans a: J. B. Chaffee, of Colorado Torritoi who, about a year ago, were elect to tho Uuited States Senate, have i Bigued their oommissious. Oongn not having as yet admitted the Ter tory in the Union, they resiga order to allow tho people to consi( the question of admission or uou-i mission, free from personal consi< rations. -.! .I 1 - .?. Bocal Items, General Meade arrived in Colum bia, Saturday afternoon, and quar- w tered at Nickeiaon's. He departed for Raleigh, yesterday afternoon. The Smart Children-who are par? ticularly smart-give an entertain? ment this evening, in Gregg's Hall. It will, doubtless, prove a pleasing affair, to all who feel interested in the little rues. An RESTED.-A white boy named Parker and a colored boy named John, were arrested, on Sunday, in Lexington, charged with the robbery of Mr. Bonlware, on Thursday last, in Ridgeway, Fairfield District. A portion of the money was recovered. The youthful robbers aro in charge of Chief Radcliffe. LOWANDE'S CIRCUS.-This troupe performed yesterday afternoon and again last night, but to meagre audi? ences, owing to the very inclement weather. Those who were present expressed themselves highly gratified. Lowando is certainly one of tho best bare-back riders who has visited this quarter of the globe. Miss Clarinda reverses tho usual order of things, and balances a man on her head, shoulders, etc. The Georgia. clown is very witty, and the trick pony hard to beat. There are many 'ether . at? tractions, and those wishing to know further, should go and Bee for them selves._^ THE SPEAKING LAST NIGHT-ADAMS AND HAMPTON.-As announced in Sunday's Phoenix, the Hon. J. Q. Adams addressed the citizens of Co? lumbia last night, in Carolina Hall. His remarks were w?ll received, and the orator was frequently applauded. We expected to publish Mr. Adams' speech in full, this morning, but owing to unforeseen circumstances, we have been compelled to defer the greater portion of it until to-morrow. Gen. Hampton followed, in a.short address, and, of course, wrought his hearers up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. HIGHWAY RORREBY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.-On Thursday night last, as Mr. Joseph Keller was on his way from Columbia to his home in Fair? field District, and when near Little River, he stopped for tho night. While he and his driver (a colored boy) wero asleep, a party of negroes mado an attack on them, knocked Mr. Keller senseless and severely in? jured the driver, who succeeded, however, in making bis escape. Mr. Keller was robbed of his pocket? book, containing nearly $200, and his overcoat. The owner of the team and the driver were Democrats/ and it is not known whether the intention was for robbery or meroly political antagonism. The wagon and team were not disturbed. At last accounts, the wounded men were improving. ' NUTMEGS.-Nutmegs are the fruit of a beautiful tree whioh grows in the Molucca Islands, and in thc other parts of the East. All the parts of tho tree aro aromatic, but only those portions of tho fruit called mace and nutmeg oro marketable. The entire fruit is of an oval form, about the size of a peach. Tho nut? meg is the innermost kernel. It is surrounded by a skin, which, peeled off, constitutes the mace of com? merce. Tho tree yields annually three crops. ^_ MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.- The post office open during the week from 8)2 a. m. to 7 p. m. On Sundays, from 4 to 5 p. m. Tho Charleston and Western mails are open for dolivery at 5 p. m., and closo at 8)i P- m- Charleston night mail open 8>? a. m., close 4M p. rn. Northern-Open for delivery at 8'.-; a. m., closes at 2.45 p. m. Greenville-Open for delivery 5 p. m., doses at 8% p. m. NEW ADVERTIBKMBNTS. -Special at tention is called to the following ad* vertisoments, published for tho first time this morning : Mrs. C. E. Reed-Millinery. Horses and Mules for Sale. E. & G. D. Hope-Cheese, Sec. J. English-To Rent. Entertainment by Smart Children. Moses Goldsmith & Son-Wool. P. F. Frazeo-Sheriff's Sale. D. C. Peixotto Sc Son-Auotiou. Election Noticed Hardy Solomon-Something Fine. R. C. Shiver-Goods Down. -. ?-???? Whero thoro ia so much smoke there must bo some fivo; ?ppropy?, while so many buyers aro rushing to Shiver, thoro must be pretty oud cheap goods.