The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, August 08, 1867, Image 1
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PRRber, and
nRwM their Mats fn
_ ... . . beeanee they were not
wTl If the Southern Stelea,
?alvtba reeoaptrgollon p*1^ ?' President
^ -Johoeon, |um| elected radloefe, 8iTen
may mir>H|H ,?f their adhesion U> ?"*'
party, no auaan eoppoee thatjhair r?prewentaUroe
tm4 hay b??a excluded frc m
Coogreaa. Iatbe fall of IBM, ono of the
Arei.things done by Cotfrees was to perge
. the Senate. and exclude Democrats enough
from that body to girl them a two thirda
majority. . m .
Tba qumHea ,wtH he lor the people of the
Southern Statea to decide, in the ooming
elections, whether they prefer to remain aa
they ere, or by railing eoorantlona, adopt
leg negro enflrage and *1 acting radiaala, go
book leto tha Union. What adrantaga to
tha South wH] U bo to ioaroaoo tbo Black
dtapnblUan majority la CoagroaoT Bow
? nan we ha banadttad' by atrongthening tha
: bands of oar oppraaaora I What interest
can we poorlbly hare In being represented
in Congreaa by tmitera to the South?men
arhoaa we mart Nan) eed daapiae ee Judas
Iaeariota in politleef It la e aed and rael?
ancholy reflaetion On haman nature, to see
n vm Inaugurated Ibt war, and were
getag to die la the laat diteb, now aeeklag
to go back into the Union, stripped of every
principle and right which they vowed to
defend, with Blank Republican collars
aronad their necks. How disgusting to ace
bear, unprincipled white men eeeking office
and position by hypocritically pandering to
the ignorant criminal and ruinoue prejudices
and aspirations of tits negro t I would
greatly prefer seeing every oflloe in the
State filled by the honest, intelligent negroes,
than by such unprincipled and shamelam
men.
I once said to Preeidcnt Johnson, in reply
to a deepateh eant me, about Union men
being excluded from oflloe under the Provisional
Government, thet I had made it a
rule through life to oonflde in the politics
of no one who was not morally honest and
trustworthy in private life, and that my experience
had taught ma the fact that a wan
who had no moral priaoiple, could have no
political prinolple. Hence it is thet w# ace
those whb ware foremost In secession, whilst
secession was In the ascendant and the rr ad
to honor and distinction, power and position,
iawi faurnini* af itia faaf nf llta r%nr\raw/tr
whllit tyranny and oppreeelon are all powerful.
They oara not whom they serve, or
wbet prineiples they advoesta. provided
they can promote their own selfish views.
But they would even have as believe that
Use great Interests of the eoontry were foremost
in their thoughts.
Immediately after it tree Icnown that
slavery would have to be abolished, I expressed
the opinion that it woold be wise
end prudent to permit negroes, who bed
acquired a property and educational qualification,
to vets In all the Southern States.?
I thought Ihta would be a safety valve for
poll Ileal eoeiety. It would gratify and appease
the intelligent end moat iaflnential of
thai diss, end snake them good eitlnens, inateed
of being disturbers of the peetee. It
would hold oat uu inducement to all, who
had any disposition or wish to riee above
the eemisB herdl And no evtt could re.
Milt (Tom It, as I suppoeed very few, comparatively.
Would ever be able to attaih the
privilege, end when they did, they wonld
- * - SLUL iL ^ Ll-t. .is .J
iwsjv tow who hi? iiignvr ?na u?u?r nml
?UtM. I dipNMed ilm<
Iter opinio* Majr jMn ego, in regard to
recapturing fugitive slaves. I thought it
well h* miety thet when * sieve hed *eeaeh
* love for freedom *e to prompt
him to flee to the Northern Steles, end possessed
lutelHgeues sufficient to roske his
i Sleep* he ought not to be brought back.?
la tUs we7, Iks bold, daring sod reckless?
thcp who were most likely to disturb the
11 '"^sWie poeao?would bo out of the country, I
had there would h* grsntsr safety from
those IsA behind.
?* iM my opinio* thra aapw waaad wit d*
* qmwwri by ihsm wIm wn mw ?rgiii( onit?wwN*t(allNf*
fcf th* itgm, or ti Uu( U
> rowtfwf th* Mil of * aonwaatioa. by wbiah
* oatramal a??vo suffrage talob*established,
b | >b?4w>d*iuliil,?* th* mo?? time, th*
propriety *4 permitting wiffiit to giro
'< UiltMW^ la all MIM la Mr court* of joe"
to*. Thla, too, wo ateraly naiwtad by
those who aro mow willing to confer on th*
nrgro th* right of-holding office, to gc t haek
lata tb*"gtoio?s Uaioo," wbiah they oa??
Ititl wrf drtfiied tttanHtllj. %
*ff* lb Mff of hap-ftaeloas eemtnoaleatUo*,
TWMM that hiitaa Agwoti bad proven
lotMblyAHMit aegm war at as Into- I
(hoe to "that of (ha wtrtto roan, and bad
*Vh. ** iu^i>f*r this, i Mrm
" iwrtl * Uriah-1 did, that oad wo-lt
Wbli.tthtli^' Mwallai tbo whit* Mil
father. Th?y ar* certainly boj^ ajfatioe#
*r
'if ii. ?:' '0\
?L. REFLI
MPPV Alailfltltjr hemL They .re
HRPiWOf too, equally under the protection
fl^Slmlghty, and equally dear to him
ijPtheix reepectlve epheree?apherea in
THiioh he placed them and for whieh he made
lb tea. The hone and the jackaea are both
alike the creations of God. He did qot oraate
then ot the tame type, or make them one
and the earn* animaL He gave to one
beanty of form end ayrameiry, eplrit and
fleetneee; end to tha other at reogth, end nr.
nnea and ether valuable quelitlee. Bo he
haa diaUnguiahad between the negro and
white man. To the former ha haa given a
blaek akin and a wooly . bead, greater
atrength and laaa brain. Ha haa adapted
him to labor, and given hia poraa whieh
defy malarlee and fevera. Ta tha other ha
haa given n white akin and a head of hair,
leaa atrength and larger braia, adapted to
higher thought* and greater intellectual improvements.
Bat God lovee hia whole creation equally,
and it ia ta b? preaamcd that-he haa the
aama regard for tha owl that hfehaa for the
eagle, and ae with the hone aad the jackaaa,
the white man aad the n eg re, provided,
always, that tha one ia aa faithful in the
dieebarge of hie miction on earth aa the
other. It ia by no mean# a orima or fault
en tha part of tha jaekaaa. that ha eannot
mo aa awiftly aa tha bone. He- waa aot
created for euch fleetneee; aad eerwUh the
negro ; he baa net bean endowed by Qod
with the Mm* volume of Wii(|hnt the
white men hee, and ha la net to llbme for
being unable to compete with htm la eetence
and knowledge. He la an inferlot animal
to tha white man. Ood made him^tuch as
he is for wise purposes, as ha made the ass
inferior to the horse. It Is as folBsh to
think of making poets, artists and aUtftemen
out of negroes as it would be to mak^a race
horse or a spirited charger io battle fut of
a jackass. Ton easy give the ntgt? the
right of suffrage and the right to hold 01lee,
and aiaka him a legislator, and aeyou
may enter the aee for a four mile heatvith
the blooded horse, or you may mouothim
in battle for a eh ergs on the enemy ; hut
both would be equally nnwlae and disss
trous, for you are attempting to pefnrt
nature and the law* of Ood. '
Professor Agaeeif, of Harvard Colhge,
Massachusetts, the most learned and edlsntifio
naturalist the world has ever produtefl,
deolatee most confidently, after a fifetime
of thought and observation on the
subject, " That lbs negro and tha white
ware erc&ted as specifically different at the
owl and the eagle. They were designed te
fill different Dlacee in the avetem of nttoM
The negro is no more a negro by sccidsat
or misfortune then the owl ie the kind of
bird be ie by aecidsnt or misfortune. TV
negro U no more tbe white men's brother
then the owl ie the sieter of the eegle, or
then the see is the brother of the horee.ee
'There are,' Mye the seme great authority,
'over one hundred epeeifle differene*/oe
tween the bonel end nervous system of the
white men and the negro. Indeed, their
forme are alike in no particular. There ie
not a bone in the negro's body relatively of
the seme shape, slse, articulation, or chem*
tcally of the same composition, aa that of
the white man. The flegro'sbonee contains
a far greater per oentage of oaleareone salts
than those of the white man. Keen the negro's
blood is ehemioally a very different
fluid from that which courses in the ve'ns
of the white man. Hie whole physioel or.
ganlution of tlie negro differs quite aa
much from the white man aa it does from
that of the ehimpaunee?that ie, in hie
bones, muscles, nerve and flbrea The
ehlmpansee has not muoh further to progress
to become a negro, than the nenro
has to beeotna a white men. This fact
science lneahorably demonstrates.'"
It la agreed, by all seisntiflo men who have
turned their attention to thia subject, Uat
" the capacity, by measurement, of the ikull
of tho white man la ninety-seven cubio inches,
that is. the avaram tit ana thousand. ?e hit
greater number of skalis. The negro has fix.
ty-six eublo inehss; tho North American In.
dlan hu sixty-three oablo inchea; the native
Australian baa fifty-six cubic inches.'' Bir
Char lea Lyell, than whom there can be no
higher authority, aaya the feet and handr, the
arms and legs of the white man and negro are
unlike in measurement. The hand of the tie*
gro ia one-twelfth larger, and one-tenth broader,
than the hand of the white man ; his foot
'a one-eighth longer, and ene-nlnth broader,
than the white man's; his fore-arm ia onetenth
shorter; and the same is true of the
hones from the knee to the ankle. The skeleton
is unlike in the whole in weight and measurement,
and unlike in every bone of it.
In the meet admirable speech of the
Hon. W. Alungeo, of Ohio, lately delivered in
Oongreee, (and to whieh I am greatly indebt d
for much Umil kav? ?nid.\ It (i hcMlw mm
mted, ob the authority of wUntiflo man, that
tha world doaa not afford an inatance of a
melatto la tha fifth generation. The hybrid
raeo hooonaoe extinct, after the fourth generaIlea,
ueleee the/ hare intermixed with one 01
the other of the original race*. Be it le with
all animal*. The male doe* not breed at all.
The wolf and Jackal, the dog and fox, har<
produced hybrid" which hare alwayi lM?n<
extinct la the third generation. Theae animela,
Jihe the negro end white mah, wen
regarded, at One time, aa only different
rarietiee of the enme epeelee. Bet expert
ment ehewt them te have been different area
Lioni, M It doefc the negro and whlu maw.
I repeat what I hare told iff a former arti
fit, that T hare ertr been the friemfi and prelector
of tb? negro through life. Th4? n?y
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**' * '? l*.i t : >t.;-?.1 ?44 <f.i i>^ ,{n$mt
greenville. south c,i
an'!1 'gggmeaaii <i'iMni>MBtttttt
I former claree %U1 reueii fw me. My boaeo- J
paWrMita, eight or Wr U atuM, hart aeear
.... ?, muix are MtM Mir tog villi. in* m the
(urn* t#rmi the? did whilst .Urea. It ia bes
o.naa I wiak wall to Ma negro, that I am unwilling
taiwhla ptaeed ia a fala* position.? n
Ha ia unfit to exercise the right of suffrage^ 0
and will baaoai the dope and tool of base and .
designing men. A war ef ram* will eo.ae, g
aoA the negro, being the weaker and leM intelligent,
will he extermtnsted in aneh a war.
Extinction will he the remit of this great been P
bestowed on them for the tola pnrpoee of k
strengthening the rad leal party I General "
BtoJMM 1. Better raid to me eighteen month* 11
ago, that all the radical party wished was, to ?
hare " impartial suffrage." He said that we 1
might declare that ifb one should rote, nnleaa u
be Was a graduate of the Booth Carolina Col- b
lege. All that the radical* then tbogght of I tl
waa equality between the race*. But now, .1
they are determined to bare the negro rote, ai
in order to radidallae the Booth. |t
In tbe negro convention wbioh .at the other g,
day, in Colombia, it waa alabned that, in the a
rtexl Preeidential election, there ahould be
placed on the radical tiehot a negro, either for ^
President or Vloe-President. It was contended,
too, that the lands should be derided into
small farms, so that ssch head of a family ^
might get a homestead. If the land-owners ^
refused this division, then their lands ahould be
taxed so heavily as to force them to part with
them. Thoro is considerable Ingenuity in this B1
scheme of confiscation. Tbe whites who rot* *'
tor conrention, to aroid confiscation on the
part of Congress, will find themselves nicely
caugbtby tbe negroes ia convention. As I have R
already said they will find that, after sacriflo- di
ing their honor, the rights of the State, and "
the principles of self government and consti- tuticnal
liberty, they hare lost their lands into
the bargain. Another scheme of the ne- n,
I groes, promulgated in their recent convention,
| is to bare nothing taxed but property. This ^
] will release tho negroes flrom all taxes, as they . (
! itn nnl " **1 i1l- ? ?
, ? ? l?r"V * ?> ?, mo pru|?jriy
of the But* i? to b? taxed, to establish free
schools and college* all orer the State, for *
the education of their children, without
| expense to the nogrees ! Again, they Jc- 81
elare in eonrention, and haro mad# it a part
of th?ir platform, that the old negroes, and ^
infirm negroes and pauper*, are to be support- *r
ed hy the property of the white men, instead
of taking oare of their own agod parents and
pauper kindred. , lc
In the twelfth article adopted by this radi- a I
eal negro convention, they avow openly their v
pnrpose of disfranchising all who hare served t j
in the Confederate army, or aided and abetted n
the war. They are disposed to tako a step, Q
and a wido one, beyond the radicals in Con- n
gress. The white radicals hare disfranchise ^
ed only those who have filled public offices j
but the blaoh radicals aro determined to cx
tend it to all who were in the army, which includes
almost the entire white population.? w
Tl.!_ _!l 1 I ll-l-l I- .1-. .. e
jluio win uo accuiapusncu in mm convenuon "
which the white people ere going to rote for? "
a convention to disfranchise themselves, d
confiscate their property, nn<l pinco tbo'Stat* ^
absolutely under the control of tlie ncgroos.? tl
Was there ever such folly and madness heard b
of before, in the civilised world? Tn sack- ti
clotb and asbes, they will have to repent of e
their stupidity and dishonor. h
This negro radical convention further de- y
mands a revision of our laws and tho re-orga- j,
1 nisation of our courts. They, a set of pau- ^
pers, ignorant and debased, are to govern
the State, and the white men, who own all the
property, are to pay tho expenses of the State,
they speak of building railroads ! No doubt v
a thousand schemes will be concocted for ?
Mending the white man's money, for the bene- (l
t of the negro, before they procaad to take it
from him by foroe or ffadulent legislation.? T.
Horrible, most horrible, is the futuro of our I
P*r State and degraded people. No one o
Moss to realise our true situation. It is now h
el it was in the days of seoosaion, We are <1
steading, like idiots, on a magasino of pow- *
dsr, Nourishing in our bands a fire-brand, and '
laaghing at the bsantifnl ring of ribbon it ?
makes la the dark. The explosion will eome, *
mast eome, sooner or later, and bring with it *
unlrarsal death and destruction to the people >
anf property of the State. '
la Liberia, where there la a nation of negroes,
sent from the United States, and where, f
they lave f irmed a Government, no White ?
m*a Is allowed to bold ofilce, er vote at any s
election for any office. This Is wise and prop- I
er; tad thoy have thought it nseasaary to make tl
this exclusion Tat their own peaee and pros- o
pcrity* Have not ths white men the same I
right It exclude the negro from the right ef a
suffrage, when they know that the negroes h
"?'w Ijor.bj in mo rjiaio, auu irui boiicidb t
Ooverntaent of th? Slate, If permitted to el
vote? ' b
It ii Idle folly to Ull the people of South
Carolina. that capital ud immigrant* will o
flow inte Uie State, wlieu reeonetruoted on the 8
Black Repablioau platform. On th# contrary, a* e
i (oon a* tbl* negro government la organiied, b
every dellu of foreign capital in South Caro- a
Una will bo withdrawn, and not one eent will tl
come hare aeeking in. v*tment. Nor will any p
foreignene move here to eeUle, under negro ?]
, role, and the eenfnaien and diaturbaneo which d
i it will give rlaa te in the State, llr. Calhoun It
predicted, yearn ago, that If the negro wai aet ii
' free, the Northern people would inaiat on hi* tl
i right of aafcnge, and if allowed, the negroe* a
wonld tela* the (loverement, and the white 1
, people hev? to Jeave the State! He j,
further (aid, that the former owner* would
' loee all iudneuoo over their freedmon, who*# "
ympathiee and partialitie* would he for *
i Northern nt and rile emtaaariea aant here to a
j eoolrol tbetn, I think it ie pretty generally _
acknowledge^, even now, that all control of
" the negro, nthe coming eleotlon, It already n
gone from their former me*tern. Om. Hemp- tl
tow and hlfeflhewda had Juet a* well try to
aontrl a herd of wild huffaloee In the vaat prairiei
of the Veet, a* the negro vote of Coinm- ,
bia. B. F. FBBnr. ^
>! OrttavriilB, ?. C,. July 27,19U. ^ r
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+ t>* v-mm ft-* aft iia^V S?? j
u* biei, ^ r.JJ '
uif, ana are then marohed around a
srkened room, and welcomed by the
Good Chairman," in the following aorde:
The good and true aie always welcome."
You have now marched round the room
ad are placed before an altar on wbioh is
>read the American Flag. Here also Ufb
pen a Bible, and a book with the old orig
ial, unaltered Constitution of the United
Late?, gift of our father*, as it was, is, and
rer should be, unchanged.
There, too, lie oroaaed two common
vords, such a* are worn by army surgeons,
et ween the point* i* a mysterious looking
ronze chalice, tilled with something, the
nell of which reminds you of " Old Rob.
rteon,"
On your right, at a small altar, stands
>ng, lsnk, lean " Forty Acres behind you
t another desk or alter, stands a once Pro
ost Marshal. Around this long, d irk, dirf
room, sit the Loyal Leagucra, some black
nd some white, and among them some of
ur most worthy citizens There sre also
ot a few whoso " copper " sticks out
trough the whitewash given by this Loyal
tongue.
The gas is darkened, " Forty Acres,'?
rith eyes upturned like a "duck in a thunerstorm,"
his lean hands onened out to
'nr<U llcaven, mumbles out a prayer I This
one, the Cliairmaii (the jolly, good natured,
ind looking miller, not of " Mansfield,-'
bough quite as portly) steps forward with
ook and match in hand, and fires the mys
eiioua looking cup. which darts up a flickring
blue flame, such as is represented an
urning in the " Eternal Hades." With
our right hand on the book, and tho left
11 the air, you now take the '* oath of allowance,"
known to all, and are most parties
larly required " to defend the Const Union
of the United States," (unaltered) on
rhicli your hand rests, and the Constitution
f the State of Tennessee. What Is the latrr
Constitution T Who can tell you?
Youaro also sworn to keep the secret of the
.osguc, " to rola for none but loyal men, " Ac.
n that long, dark, dirty room, on tho right
f which stood one hundred old rusty muskets
a such presence, beforo the flickering blue
lame, which but made " darkness visible,'i
rith the nasal twang of "F< ity Acres' " voice
a prayer st 11 sounding in my cars, I was with
then made a Loyal Leaguer. Surrounded
rith parapbornaiia of humbug, we were sworn
lso, as before said, to do oven uato death all
n our power to make liberty eternal, " to vote
or none but loyal men," Ac.
We wore ne*t initiated into tho signs and
lass words, Ac. Let one suffico; but if you
vish, you can hare them all. To pass yourelf
Leaguor, whou questioned, give the "Foui
,'s"?as follows : right hand raised to llearon,
bumb and third finger touching their endi
ver the palm, and pronounce " Liberty."?
(ringing the hand down in a line With the
boulder, pronounce " Lincoln." Dropping the
sod open at you* i, proaonnoo " Loyal."
i'itb your hand t . ungors downward in the
boat, the thumb thrust into tha vest or waistand,
across tha body, pronounce " League."
There is a groat deal of other " torn fooling'
f the saute character, unworthy of plaoe hereuffi:o
it to say that such is the oharacter of a
omblnation which bids fair to rebaptise un
appy Fouthern souls with blood??och is the
'illlng or dupod sentiments ready to carry (nil
be will of our modern Jeffreys and Dalrymles,
Masters of Stair, Olenlyons and Lindleys*?such
are the Loyal Leagues, which in
arkened rooms, before blue, mysterious
wklog fires, cross swords and psalm-sing>g
humbugs hare sworn in " about forty-fire
kousaod" simple freedtnen, and take from
aeh a miserable half dollar fee of initiation,
'hose poor creatures hare stood beforo that
lue flame and all the other grim paraphorna1a
of this dark room humbug, with a supsrtitious
awe, mingled with (ear. To them it
'as the " Carloo Pitliaa" of their native Jun los,
the " Obi Man," with his polsonod eocosut.
They will never forget that blue flame,
bose crossed swards, the wild upheld eye ol
Forty Acree," with ominously uplifted finer
of the worthy " miller," as be prouounees
ha " Anathema MaganaLka" on all who so?<le
or break tba terrible pledge. IV jj, ?? ?J
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A. R,
jttmi ' ffi'i <*?H| ,Wt? l*'*.-'#' -i
HOBHRnsBnann;
ROLINA. AUGUST 8. IP
i Loyal League Shown up by an
a. .-n-A mm *
u)mu<iu uemouT
NAfiiviLt*. ??uly 9. 1B#7.
To thi Edit or i of the fraahvilte Gazette :
Many of your readers will doubtlhsa ro
iMnbtr 'my letter, published in the Gazette
f the 13th, which wee largely circulated
y the preee of this sod other cities of our
late. If there Is one aentenoe therein not
t accordance with law aod the true princh
les of liberty and huroau rights, I don't
now what constitutes tbosa safeguards of
tea, and 1 have beea " raised a fool." For
rrltieg sad publishing that letter 1 was at
nee - sxp died " from Loyal League No.
where 1 had been sworn " to do area
nto death," all in my power to " keep ever
uming on the altar of the American heart
ic sacred flame of Liberty." Let the world
t in judgment on my life of sixty-flee yean,
nd particularly on the part of It embraced
i the paet ecren years. I court its inresti
ition, and will abide cheerfully by its
ward. Indifferent alike to flattery or
t>use, I shall do my duty even though asses
ray, aud dogs snap and howl.
Expelled from the Loyal Leagna I Now,
rutlemen, permit me to introduce you in>
the sanetnni sanctorum of this political
umbng. 1 promised this, I'll do it.
At the flret door you give two light tops
sd whisper through a hole therein, "LoyI
Men." The door opens. Yon move on
i a second door and give two taps A
op hole is opened. You whieper"Muet
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EVENTS
owO '-fiH a*. fr>?T*>?>?t -arf m*** ->vf
yV>W |I^W<??XWI ?*4f RKi eamtapaw. ',
5 J ' - ' ~' '
J>la, wroogad irwtuai f.?Io the wild etorma ef
midnight, when the bias lightning thrueU iU
fingers through the etonn tuaaed elouda, their
imagination win bring out, clothed with tor*
ror, that darkened room, that myateriows flame,
the upturned ?ye of "Forty Aerea," and the
" So Modi'i of the mixed multitude.
Gentlemen, fellow cftfteaa, freemen?took at
thia munmery?Ihtt political hrfmbug, and
think that men of rank, of atandlng, of 'flno
intellect and kind tieafM, are there. How oaa
you aeeount for it, In tfala nineteenth century j
What doee it mean T Haa the Lord our Qod
foreakenua? Are we a people f Haa he made
us unna tdm out ruin may be mora sure??
Leaguers andmadmen, bow*re! Lib* blind
bainpson, you now ait b*a**th the to war, net
of oppression, but of human rights. .
You are madly grasping the law and the
ballot box?the suro columns of liberty. lf
you bow yourselves as he did, the beautiful
structure will fall, and you and your children
will perish unwept under its ruins. Leaguers,
beware! A day of retribution is coming.?
Blind guides leading the blind, bow can you
escape T Every aet of your own and of your
leaders Is calculated to provoke blood. Yon
know this. Bo yon tblnk to grind the Anglo
Saxon rase beneath the heel of yoar deceived
colored dupes? You thrust them oaee Into
tbe fiery furneoe of war to save your own
ohildren. You emancipated them as a military
necessity. As tbe last hope of our tottering
Government to save yoursclvea, you and
your party laid violent hands on the " colored
clement," and now you say that it was all for
lovo of that eloment.
Let us look at Mr. Lincoln's letter to A. 0.
Hodges, Esq., of Frankfort, Ky., dated April
4th,1804:
" I believed the Indispensable necessity for
emancipation and arming the blacks would
come. It came, and I was, in my best Judgment,
driven to the alternative of either surrendering
the Union, and with it tbe Constitu"
tion, or of laying strong bands on the colored
element and arming it. I chose tbe latter."
Further quotation is unnecessary, comment
useless; and now, dear Leaguers, remember,
wheu you toll the-poor freedman that it was
your lovo that made him free, you speak not
tho truth; wheu you tell him jrou gave him
tbo right of suffrage on tho umo account,
when 'twas to save your bacon, and that you
can do no more for the poor freedtr.an than
Balsam did for the poor bruto which refused
to carry him.
Finally, " Loyal League 3To. 1," I beg leave
to say to you, when you are about to turn a
member out without cause, as Paul said to the
jailor, "do thyself no harm." There Was no1
ono sentence in my letter which merits the act
of " Expulsion." You kicked a bole in the
wall, and let the world in* Sure of the approbation
of bonest men, and regardless of all
your threats,
I am, respectfully yours,
WILLIAM DRIVER.
** .yf Moravlay'* JTa**aere of GTrneoe.?
Head and tremble, for the ijiirit ii here !
A Home 8 inks Into the (Ground.
On Friday afternoon, 10th tilt., a singular
and startling accident happened near Girardville,
at the fool of Mahanoy Plane,
about si* milea from Mahanoy Cit}*, Schuylkill
Co., Penn. It seenia that at that point
a "breast" of the Boston and Mahanoy
Coal Company's eolliery had been worked
to w'thin about 20 feet of the surface of the
earth, and that looated just abova It stood a
two story frame building, occupied by Mr.
Thos. T. Myers, a breaker boas at the colliery,
and his family. lie also had n number
of boarders, whose clothing, Ac., were
in the house.
About 8 o'clock on Friday afternoon, as
Mrs. Morris Robinson, of this borough, wife
of the superintendent of the eolliery, who
was on a visit to the house, and Mrs. Myers
were in the kitchen, they felt the house
moving, and lushed in haste into the open
air. Two minutes had hardly elapsed after
they left the house, before it sank with a
snrgia?, swaying motion into a hngs chasm,
, to ths depth of about eighty fact. Largs
masses of earth and rock from the sides of
I the chssm, immediately cloeed in upon the
I house, hnrying It almoet completely from
view. The crash when it went down was
r tremendous. The complete entombment ot
, the dwelling, which was about thirty five
i feet long, may b? imagined, uya Miner'a
Journal, when wo stale that the chasm
' formed by sinking of the tniao would readily
1 have admitted a building over one hundred
feet in length. Fortunately the startling
occurrence was not attended with the loss
of human life. flad it taken plane at night,
tea Uvea might have bean loat. But it took
plaee at an hour when some of Mr. Myer'a
children had gone to eehool, while the ethers
were playing onUide.
Dttraon a Cokorkssmas Elect.?Flake's
(Galveston, Texas,) Bulletin, of the 10th Inst.,
ays :
We have intelligence that the lion. Claib
HubbarJ, member of Congress elect from this
State, was killed at Columbus, in a baf-room
fight, by a man named Spoor*, who wu alio
killed by the guard, while endeavoring to make
hie eeeape. The deoeaaed had loag been a
prominent politician j bad been a member of
both the United States aad Confederate Congrata.
FacsmavT Joii.vso* baa received from Mr.
Win. M. Lodley, of Richmond, the present
of a comfortable arm chair made of s'rsw. It
ata ccmatrnoted entirely by colored men in
Mr. Ledlcy'a employ.
tr Who Is the taxi est man t The furniture
dealer; ha keeps chslrs and lounga*
about all (be tlm*.
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fTha Spartanburg Spirt an, (aaja tba An(fprinn
Infalll.r ? -? ' x - -* *
?in an aruole mildly
rebuking no w- mikJ votemporary for pronouncing
lbs 1 mt war ? " revolt" upon our
part, thus correctty iUUi the condition of
things AC tbe ftnure historian will riew
them : _ J>1'
" To aoy tint the South revolted from the
Oovermsent of the United States, is not
correct. "Hie equality of all the States forming
that Oovernmerft, had never been disputed
; and If all the States were Mvsrsign
alike, there was as much sovereignty in the
eleven seceded States as there was In the
greater number, from which they hed attempted
peaceably to withdraw. If the
States were equal in all their rights and attributes,
individually or collectively, how
is it possible to make out a case of revolt.
A province may revclt or rebel againet the
government of Its aoverelgn, and subjects
may revolt againet their prince. But ours
is a very different case. The Ineqnality in
the nnmber and strength of the States en.
gaged on each tide. In the late war (not revolt)
was begun and fought to tha bitter end
for self-government, and not alone for
slavery and States^ rights in the abstract.?
No, no 1 there was no abstraction abont it.
The Sooth wanted peace and security at
home, which she could not obtain in the
Union. The parties to the war were belligerent*,
(not rsvolterv,) as acknowledged
by all the world, as well as by the govern
ment at Washington. Equality and independence
were as much attributes of the
South as the North. We deny being Insurgents,
rebels, revolters, traitors or deserters
We were eltnply belligerents In a war for
the defenee of onr rights, tn the failure of
our arms, the Phoenix, only now, like Congress,
has discovered thst the late war was
nothing more than a revolt on onr pert.?
We don't like the Word, because it conveys
i censors on ssvsn millions of m?n who
risked their nil in defeoe# of their
rights. We don't want our children
to remember ne only as self confessed
insurgents, revoltera or insurrectionists.?>
We-want to Stand In the eye of coming
generations as patriots, in a war for independence?but
in which we unhappily failed.?
We believed that, however oppreeeite and odious
the Union bad been, circumstances have
now made it desirable that tbe Union should
be restored. Then, as we can do no better, we
give our submission to tbe reconstruction laws
of Congress, and will continue to labor faithfully
to restore tbe Union on that line, hoping
that peace and prosperity may fblloW. The
war and its results bare left onr country poor
indeed; but there is no shame or disgrace fcttscbed
to the South by her action in tiie latd
war. We havo no consciousness of guilt or
shame. Obsequious flattery, or oringiog servility
to the arrogant pretensions and Usurpation
of tbe Radical party of the North, can
do us no good. Time and patience, and firmness
and self-respect, will dispel the darkness
and gloom of tho times?will drive sway and
soatter our on amies?will restore prosperity
and happiness to our land, and the South will
be free from her present bondage. A Word
more. Tbe men of the South, who stood
shoulder to shoulder In the Lost Cause, until
the last Confederate sword was sheathed, and
tho starry Cross was lowered to a bloody and
.?lii > ? * ' ' * * *
...... .vm.vi;?wnt not DC oranaeu, WfMA
history is written, as Insurrectionists and re?
Tollers. Oh, no?they will take their place fa
the annals of time, with the heroes ef Tbermopylse."
FiJt.* roa Earlt Mabbiaoks ?The Rev.
Henry Morgan lectured a few evening*
srnee, Ui Boston, upon " Young Men aad
Early Marriagea" The Herald, at that
city, the next morning, gave the following
elaborate report of it:
"Text, Prov. 18:22, 'Whoeo findeth a
wife, findeth a good thing, and obtaiueth
favor of the Lord.' Said the speaker: 'Nature,
history and revelation declare, It is
not good that man should be aloae.' He
needs a helpmeet; a wife is the balance*
wheel, the regulator, the gnardisn angel of
a hatband's trust, confidence and prosperity.
Politically socially, morally and spiritually,
man requires a wife. Man needs a
homo. The Romans gars baehelora no
legacies. Corinth denied them sepulture;
Athenians scourged them. To Plato's commonwealth,
at the age of thirty five, they
were fined. Man is but half a man without
a wife. In all your gettinge, get a wife,
and never rest from gstting till you get
married. Better live In an attle under the
hallowed influence of a wife than revsl in
a palace of dissipation. Man needs a home.
AtAPriBCA Si tKo luaUlmata
Krmwtw VI |C1IUine
home. Look at the deplorable condition
of the young men of thia city without
home*. Boarding houses hare no elevating
aoeiety of women, no hiiM influence*, no
plaoe of mental or moral improvement, no
altar of prayer, no angel of love. In Philadelphia,
there are more home* in proportion
to its population then in Roe ton ; hence
Boaton hes an nnrqnal eon teat in the battle
of morals."
Twelve old ladiea mat at a tea party in Palmyra
(New York) the ether day. The aggregate
age was 890 years; the average seventy one.
The eldest was ninety-three.
la Cleveland, n negro baby fall eat of g
window nnd nearly killed a gentlemen gassing
along the street. An exchange thinks ha had
nigger on the braiu.
Or Philadelphia aaasssnrs ?y that Phil
advlphia is worth $840,000,000.
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