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THE DALLY "Let oar Just Censures BY JULIAN A. SELBY. COLUMBIA, S. What It Will Do! rr will care all Impurities of the Blood; it will oure all Scrofulous Diseases; it will remove all Tetter Affections; it will cure Rheumatism and Gouty Affections; it will remove all manner of Sores; it will improve the Complexion; it will re? move all Pimples and Boils; it will cure aU Constitutional Disorders; it will eure Dicers, SweRings of the Glands; it will oure Cancer by removing the causo in the blood; it will give a Clear and Beau? tiful Skin; HEINITSH'S QUEEN'S DE? LIGHT will cure when other remedies fail. Let the afflicted try it. Ask for Heinith's Qneen's Delight. June 41 Millinery OF the LATEST STYLES ; also. Ladies' and Children's SUITS of all sizes and qual? ity. UNDERWEAR, COR? SETS, HAIR and FANCY GOODS. JuBt received, a large assortment of Wenck's PERFUMERY, at April 25 MR8. C. E. REED'S. Mackerel. CHOICE MESS MACKEREL. No. 1, 2 and 3 MACKEREL. 1 Just opened and for sale low, at retail, by JOHN AGNEW A SON. SIMMONS' REGULATOR The symptoms of Liver Complaint'aro uneasiness and pain in the side. Some? times the pain is in the shoulder, and is mistaken for rheumatism. The stomach k is affected with loss of appetite and sick Iness, bowels in general costive, and sometimes alternating with lax. The head is troubled with pain, and dull, heavy sensation, considerable loss of memory, accompanied with painful Sen? sation of having left undone something which ought to have been done. Often complaining of weakness, debility and low spirits. Sometimes many of the I above symptoms attend the disease, and ' at other times, very few of them; but the Liver is generally the organ most in? volved. SIMMONS' lTvER REGULATOR! For all Diseases Of the Liver, stomach and. Spleen ! ris evidently a Family Medicine, and by being kept ready for im? mediate resort, will save many an hour of suffering, and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. After forty years' trial, it is still receiving the most unqualified testi? monials of its virtues from persons of the highest character and re? sponsibility. Eminent physicians oommend it as the most EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC ! for Constipation, Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Dizziness, Sour Stomach, bad taste in the Month, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Pain in the .region of the Kidneys, Despondency, Gloom and ' forebodings of evil;' all of which are the offspring of a diseased Liver. If you feel Dull, Drowsy, Debilitated, have frequent headache, Mouth tastes badly, poor Appetite and Tongue Coated, you are suffer . ? ing from Torpid Liver, or "Biliousness," and nothing will cure you so speedily and permanently. ( Tho Liver, the largest organ in the body, is generally the seat of the . . ? disease, and if not Regulated in time, grent suffering, wretchedness . and DEATH will ensue. Armed with this ANTIDOTE, all climates and changes of water and food may be faced without fear. As a remedy in MALARIOUS FEVERS, BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTLESSNESS, JAUNDICE, NAUSEA, tho Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medicine in the Worldl ft "I have never seen or tried such a simple, efficacious, satisfactory and pleasant remedy in my life."?H. Haxneb, St. Louis, Mo. tfCoccasionally use, when my condition requires it, Dr. Simmons' Liver Regulator, with good effect."?Hon. Alex. H. Stevens. . i ?'. "Your Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am persuaded it is a valuable addition to the medical science."?Gov. J. Grtx, Shorter, Alabama. "I have used the Regulator in my family for the past seventeen years. I can safely recommend it to the world as the best medicine I have over used*for that class of diseases it purports to cure."?H. F. Thiopzn. ? i ; "Simmons' Lifer Regulator has proved a good and efficacious medi? cine. "-rrC. A. Nuttino, President of City Bank. ' "We have been acquainted with Dr. Simmons' Liver Medicino fer more than twenty years, and know it to be the best Liver Regulator offered to the public*"?M. R.' Lyon and IL L. Lyon, Druggists, Belle ion tain e, Ga. LIVER For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTiPATION, JAUNDICE, BILIOUS AT ' v TACKS, 8IOK HEADACHE, COLIC, DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS, SOUR STOMACH, HEART BURN, Ac, Ac, in ,.. Xt TTas No :EZQL*vi>?tl. t Is a faultless Family Medicine, Does not disarrange the system, ? ? * ? - Is sure to cure if taken regularly, Is no drastic- violent medicine, Does not interfere with business, Is no intoxicating beverave, Contains the simplest and best remedies. CAUTION?Buy no Powders or Prepared SIMMOyS' LIVER REGULATOB, unless in our engraved wrapper, with Trade Mark, Stamp and Signature unbroken. None other is genuine. Jan 30 twGmo J; H. ZEUJN & CO., Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia. . Thi Mmi doli Life insracs Company, of Motile! _ ? . '-o ? - C. E. THAMES, President; T.H. FOWLER, Secretary; Gen. S.D. LEE, Superintendent of Agencies. Assets ?750,000 in Gold. CAPITAL, STOCK 9200,000 GOLD-ALL PAID IN. -,-o-s SURPLUS AB TO POLICY-HOLDERS OVER $400,000 OOLD. GOLD OR CURRENCY POLICIES ISSUED ! ASOUTHERN COMPANY, keeps and lends its Money in the South. Since chartered, its dividends have varied from 17 to 27 per cent. May 15 W. Ii. GIBBES. Agent. BOSS'S HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. WM. E. ROSE, Proprietor. _ FIRST CLASS HOTEL. Fare $2} a day, including Omnibus ride. Situated near the Capitol and in centre of business part of :' the city. My Omnibus r will convey passengers to ? and from every train. The Ladies' Apartments are complete; en trance on As? sembly street. BILLI? ARD and BATH ROOMS are all new and in good order. Ap C C, SUNDAY MORNING, Jl Ex-Gov. Scott and the Colored People. Columbia, S. C, Jnne 12, 1875. 7b the Hon. Richard H. Gleavea, Lieu? tenant-Governor of South Carolina?Dear Sin: In reply to your request that I will express my views on tho subject of the future of the colored man in the South, accompanied by your suggestion thnt my intimate connection with the recon? struction of this State has given nie many advantages in forming a correct Judgment on the subject, I have the lonor to say that I take great pleasure in complying, and trust you will not be disappointed if I present a picture that does not altogether meet your hopes. In doing so, however, I am compelled to take up the subject, to somo extent, from the beginning of the war, and will try to be correct in whatever I state and just in any conclusions I draw. I I am obliged to say, at the outset, thnt ? the colored man in the South, and, per? haps, all over the country, has been too confident in the belief that there is a party or a considerable class of men who are ready to sustain him purely on the kiO??u of color, or in consequence of his people having been so long enslaved in this country. Ton will remember that when the war began, there was no organized party in favor of the uncon? ditional abolition of slavery. There were a few of the old abolitionists who favored an emancipation polioy, without regard to its results to the country. But there was not a State convention, nor a County or town meeting at the North, within my knowledge, that did not adopt resolutions declaring to the South that, in their desire to coerce the seceding States into submission to the National Government, they had no desire to in? terfere with the institution of slavery. Many leading abolitionists were ready to permit the perpetuation of shivery by consenting to a dissolution of the Union, leaving the South entire power over slavery, and only demanding that they themselves should not be held responsi? ble for its continued existence. As the war progressed it was found that the slave property of the South was the most valuable of any in supplying tho Confederate army with the necessary means for carrying on tho war. The proclamation of emancipation, and the consequent encumbrance of immense numbers of emancipated slaves, caused their organization into an armed force. That is to say, the immense numbers of emancipated slaves fleeing into the Union lines could not well be provided for as private citizens; and, as it was necessary to furnish them with some means of subsistence, they were en? rolled as soldiers. I look- upon the passage of the lie construction Acts at that early day as a serious mistake. I believe that the true policy of the Government would have been to organize governments in the Southern States with an Executive appointed by the President, and that that form of government should have ?continued, perhaps, up to the present day. I? the National Government really felt a deep interest in the welfare of the Southern States, it was its duty to give the people of those States tho cheapest form of government that was practicable, and to organize and maintain amongst them a system of schools, provid^pg the means of education for all classes of people who had been deprived of the means of obtaining it, and especially for the oolored man, it he was to become a citizen, that he might be better fitted for the duties of citizenship and better pre- J pared for the responsibility of organizing . governments and maintaining and sup? porting them. But, instead ot pursuing ! this liberal policy, and doing whatever I else they might to develop the resources and encourage the industry of the recon? structed States, and relieving the people of those States, as far as possible, from the burdens of taxation, the National Go? vernment unjustly and unequally taxed the main industry of the South to an ex? tent that was unfair to all classes, hut especially unfair to the colored element, because they were the producers of the only staple on which the land-holder I could hope to rebuild his fallen for-! tunes. The National Government taxed the production of ootton three cents a pound, which took from this State alone more money in one year than has been collected in any one year to meet the en? tire expenses of the State Government If it was just to tax cotton, the great staple of the South, why were not wheat and corn, the main staples of the North and West, taxed also? Why was this unjust and unequal discrimination made against the South? The National Government having re? cognized, maintained and protected the institution of slavery during the whole period of its existence, was as clearly re? sponsible for the ignorance of your race in the South as were the slave-holders themselves. It should have boon well known to the National Government that the war had destroyed the entire wealth of the people of the South, leaving them only their broad acres of lands with no means to cultivate, them, and that the late master was wholly unable to provide the means for the education of his recent slaves, evon if he had the disposi? tion to do so. I undertake to say that no civilized government in the world would have conferred upon white men, who had been held for the same period Attend the True Event." JNE 13, 1875. ' VO in slavery, and who had suffered oil tho disabilities that that condition in life entails upon men, tho responsibility of organizing governments for their bwn protection, against the will and influence of as large a minority as we had in this State, who possessed nearly all the. intel? ligence, and certainly all that was left of the wealth of the State, and who hod but recently passed through a struggle in which they had shown a courage and de? termination in the accomplishment of their purpose which had never been sur? passed in the history of nations. It required, in my judgment, but little wisdom to have foreseen that reconstruc? tion under such circumstances would be likely to be attended with the most serious mistakes. And, in looking over the past, I must express my surprise at the measure of success that has attended the organization and maintenance of governments in tho reconstructed States. You will remember that, in 1866, tho National Government provided a plan for organizing governments in the States which had seceded from the Union, by which the whole political power in those Slates wan to be in the hands of the white people, whilo your race was to he ex? cluded from tho exercise of all political power whatever?which plan was accom? panied with the proviso that thoy them? selves should disfranchise a largo ele? ment, including their most experienced and influential men. This they very naturally refused to do, claiming thnt if their leaders in the scheme of secession were guilty of any crime, they them? selves were equally guilty; for secession, they said, was the act of the people and not of their leaders. What was the re? sult? Not as a matter of justice to the negro, nor because ho was believed to be able and competent to organize and maintain governments in the seceded States, but as much, perhaps, for the purpose of punishing the white men who had refused to accede to the plan firoposed, as for the purpose of maintain - ng Republican supremacy in the seceded States, Congress passed another law of reconstruction, enfranchising the negro in the seceded States, and conferring upon him tho power of organizing go? vernments under which all classes wero to live?the wholo based upon the as? sumption that the white men would quietly acquiesce in having their recent slaves placed over them as Taw-mnkers. It was then clear to my mind that tho men who owned all the property, and possessed tho largest intelligence, would never quietly submit to this mode of es? tablishing governments; nor could I conceive of any intelligent class of men who would not hove given to such a modo of establishing governments amongst them perhaps as violent oppo? sition ns did the white men of the recon? structed States. An additional wrong was perpetrated by this act upon the few native Union white men and the few Northern white men who were left here j by the results of the war, as the respon? sibility of organizing these governments was forced in a great measure upon them. The whole scheme j of reconstruction would have been a failure without their aid. Indeed, an election conld not hare been held had it not been for their aid and tho aid of the officers of the army; for ' the white men refused to take part in the organization of these governments, or to accept office or perform any other duty which would tend to make recoustruc tion a success, believing that it was all A stupendous farce, and that sooner or i later these governments would fail for the want of intelligence and tho means of maintaining themselves, But Con? gress did not stop to consider that fact, ' Nor did Congress sceni to care whether i these governments were successful or not. It seemed to inc. indeed, that Con press regarded it as* a problem so difficult of solution, that it mattered little to them whether the individuals entrusted with the duties of reconstruction were sus? tained or sacrificed. They recalled the troops from this SUite when they knew that the people scarcely considered the ?aor ended: for, from 18(15 up to that time, the lives of citizens were safe j in scarcely any portion of the State. ' They had been compelled to keep troops to arrest violators of the law, und the country was over-run with bush- ' whackers. Gov. Orr, during his adnii nistrstion from the close of the war ? up to 18C8, found the aid of the military absolutely essential in enforcing the 1 law and maintaining order, and even j the troops themselves were threatened ? and the Government property taken i from their very camps. And yet Con- I gress seemed to expect that I, with the ! simple machinery of a civil government. | and with no class of sufficient experience \ to maintain and enforce its authority, I would be able to execute the law and 1 protect the rights of the people. The re? sult was what intelligent men might have expected, and what I knew must come. The ?ntire white people of the State, with the power of the press at their back, kept up their opposition to tho govern? ment, made every species of charge against its officers, magnified every mis? take into a crime and eventually united with them the very men who had been instrumental in' the passage of tho Re? construction Acts against the creatures of their own creation. Ambitions men of the North, who were glad to make fair weather with the politicians of the LUME XI?NUMBER 7^, South, and old abolitionists of the North, who hnd been for a quarter of a century urging the Government to Borne revolu? tionary measure by which slavery should be immediately extinguished, turned their Hympathy from your race to the white people, and, when their news? paper correspondents Were sent South to investigate the state of affairs here,' they immediately Rought information of that class of men who had been opposed to the whole policy of reconstruction, and would do everything in their power to prevent its success. These- parties in the North turned upon the men they had enconrged and urged into accepting positions here, and united their denun? ciations with those of the Southern press. The result has been, that, instead of the Republican party being a success in the South, it has been a failure here, and has made the Republican party a failure all over the country. For Congress, after being urged on by the Northern press to adopt an unjustifiable and un? wise policy, would not sustain its own work. It would not even look to the appointment of proper Federal officials. Nine out of ten of those who were ap? pointed were opposed to tho State go? vernments that had been organized. In the Custom House and in all other places under tho control of the National Government, a clr?T of men were ap? pointed who immediately made war upon the State governments. So the National Government had two elements who were fighting the State governments, and whose complaints it was compelled to listen to. One was the almost entire native white population of the South, and the other was the Federal office? holders, who Were anxious to get con? trol, and who were simply petty politi? cians, willing to sacrifice everything for their own success. In addition to the foregoing, sir, let me call your attention to the fact that there is a very largo class of politicians who have claimed to be Republicans, and yet who have never failed, when an official position gave weight to their opinions, to use their influenco against your people. Indeed, their opposition arises from a deep-seated prejudice against your race enjoying the rights of citizenship in this country. In other words, they believe that this is "a white man's Government." If these ele? ments of opposition can bo organized, and sink their petty differences of opi? nion in other respects, you will find a party in the United State's sufficiently strong to eliminate the colored man en? tirely from any part or influenco in politics. Another evidence of the prejudice that exists against your face may be cited in the tardiness with which Congress passed the bill giving to vour people any share of civil rights. Although you had fur? nished soldiers to the National Govern? ment, although voU had members sitting in Congress, ultuongb you had controlled State Governments and some of your people were clothed in the judicial robes of the State, yet a Republican Congress, with a nearly two-thirds majority, took six rears to determine what measure of civil rights your people should have And even then, the Act was passed only when the country had'overwhelmingly defeated the Republican party at the ballot-box, and sent a class of men to tho next Congress who, although they are not your declared friends, wilL per? haps, do no more Jiarm to your people than those who professed to be your friends were ready to do. Had n railroad company been asking for a subsidy of millions of acres of land it would have been granted in a single session of Con? gress. At the (dose of the war I repeatedly urged npou the lending white men of this State the policy of adopting .0 course of kindness und moderation toward your race, whereby they themselves, instead of being an outside and powerless ele? ment in political affairs, would be- able to influence your political action; but they failed to appreciate the wisdom or importance of what I urged upon them. I have, however, been very much grati? fied at the course pursued by the Demo? cratic members of Congress during the Sast winter. In their address to the OUtltern people they advised them to a course of moderation;they advised them to treat their former slaves kindly; they advised them to avoid turbulence and vio? lence, because that would be magnified into rebellion. This line of policy has been adopted almost universally in the South, and its wisdom has been already felt by the Southern people; nnd I feel s perfect confidence that, after it has been carried out for a year or two, they will all sec tho justice and propriety of it. They will see that there is more to be gained by a just and friendly course to? ward the colored man than by one of violent opposition; and they will thus accomplish what they should have ac? complished six years ugo. Now, sir, your true policy is to culti? vate fraternal relations with all classes'of men. and to break down their prejudices by convincing them that you yourselves are not bound up in a prejudice that may not ho laid aside when you are satisfied that you have nothing to fear from the opposition of your white fellow-citizens, with whom you are associated in the ma? terial prosperity or destruction of a com? mon country. The laying aside of all prejudices that grow out of your former