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ml* f* ' . ~ .. * -' * wEtr * ?>+ N . . * *" ' _ '. * ' . * 4. . . -??* '" - ' *>V Ij I. > "^V* ? '' I * ilf fcilrtt' ft . '7 ,r .-7 . '? ' VOLUME XIV. ?? ? ? G.F. TOWNES. EDITOR. * J. 0. BAILEY, Pro'r. and Associate Editor. \fi Adv*mi'kmist( Inserted at the rule* of one dollar per square of twel.ro Mlniop lines " BWh- ..' (this sired, type) Or lest for the Arst insertion, fifty cents each fbr the aceoud and third insertion*. and iwenty8ro . cents for subsequent insertions. Yesrfy^eientrbeta Will bo rondo. AH-advertisements must bnvo tho number . ??f insertions marked on them, or they will bo J Inserted till ortlsrod odt, arid chnrged for. 4 Unless orderod otherwise. Advertisements wilt ip variably " displayed." Obituary nonces, ana nil mnum inuring w . .to the benefit of any one, are regarded as Adv^rttsenkonts. . If Y* Should E erOet Married. If you should V'er get married, John, ill tell ypn what to do? G?> get a little tenement, r Just big enough tor two. And one apere room for conipnny. And one spare room within It? And if you'd begin love's life aright, YbtVd better thus begin U. Io future lie moderate. John, And let the stuffed ehalr* waitOne looking glare will do for both? # V s Yourself nn.1 lovicg mate. >?' And Brussels, ton, and other things " Whinh make a fine appewraace, If v?ti can well afford It, they . . Will better look a year hence Some think they must hnve pictures, John, Supe* b and costly, too: Yonr wife will be a picture, John, Let that suffice lor you. Remember how the wise man said ; A tent and love within it, Is better tban a splendid house, . ' " Willi bickering every minute. And one word aS to cooking, John, Your wife can tin thai best: ? 1 For love, to make the biscuit rise, It better far than yeast. No matter If each day you don't Bring turkey ta your table, Twlli better relLli l?y and bye, ; J ' * . WliirO you c re better able. For all yon buy pay money, John, t 7 Money that very day? If yon would have your life run emouth. j There 5* no better wey. * . A note to pay is en ugly thing, (If thing you pleaee t<? eel) It.) When it hangs o'er a man who line No money in his wall. t. And one Milng more rom< mber, John, To Veep aloof from strife, * ? ,, And never, urrer, nv.vkii apeak A cross word to yonr wife: . . But if yon cannot keep it. hack, And byrningt atil) reqnire it, ^ Go whiapef it into yonr gun. And then?go out and fire it! And now, when you are married. John, Don't try to ape the rich : It took them many a toilaome year To gain their envied niche; + > And if yoo gain the eummit, John, 2 Look well to your beginning, -And then wi)l all you win repay , ? Tlie care and toil of winnfi g. ?r Address of Gov. James L. Crr. Delivered before the Ilcoonatruction Convention, in. Charleston, on Friday evening, .* January (7, 1808 : Ma. Pareunia? aki> OssTtKasa or rna Coavaariow : I esteem the invitation which yon havo extended to mo to address this Convention, m a compliment paid to the existing executive* authority of tho Stat?, more than to tho individual who represents that authority ; therefore, In behalf of tho 8tutc for your kind ^ consideration, I tender you my thanks. 1 You are here In Convention to frame a Constitution for the people of South Carolina, and have been elected in conformity to the laws of J the Uai'.ed 81 stag. Unfortunately, In my judgment, for the host interests of the people of the lata Confederate States, serious differences h?vo nrlren between the President of the United States and the ' Congress ; in 1M), immediately after the purfl.nasal TMinut.xn lb* l>rnsl.lant ati. pointed Provisional Governors, and provided for tbo calling of Conventions in all of the Southern Ptales, The programme which he adopted was not in unison with the riewa of Congress, and, after very eonatderahlo delay, the Reconstruction Act* of March were passed. The Congress claimed that the power to reconstruct the 8outbern States whi-h were in rebellion against the authority of the United 8tnl*e, belonged to tbem and not to the President. . Hence, (Jtcy Ignored his sction. It ta due to frankness that I should say, that, In *?? Judgment,' the plon projected by tbo PreaWent, and whi^h baa bojn rarried Into stemlion in nil its details, except as . to the repre aentatives In Congress, was not only liberal, hut viae. With reference to the tatter point, however, Congress having teken a different view of the subject, determined that tbe Southern States shall not he adni'.Jted to r*precantation and to equal privileges In the Union upotf any other basis than thpt^Whkb has been prescribed. The acts passed go even further. Thev MSUtne that the H..nth, in relation id the Government,-* stands in the position of conquered provinces, and that us : eonquerer, it has A right to prescribe (ho I term* and conditions upon which the South is I to be admitted into the Union, , t , ItisunnevoMary.ua the present occasion, that I should discuss the constitutionality or" t wledom of tie Acta of Congress. Let it snf v V - I - I - ' K 4 % ? 1 .., V;N , . . * ,; ,.r v- * >, . * v'1. - REFL E 1... ? J ' 1 1 11 -"WB :;.-v- .- ? hcen adopted in strict accordance with nil the I iVvHMtn it? ^ - J ?U..?! ? -# *1 1 jnvwuwro vj mo vunimumuu Ql toe United States, ami at a law-abiding cltiicn, not only now, but from the time of the passage of these Acta in March I ant, I am on* of thnao who believed that it waa not only the duty but the internet of the people of th? Southern Htotos, to go to work in carneat and carry them ioto operation. Ilenco, immediately after tbe passage of tho bill in March lent, I publicly advised the people of tho State, of all complexions, who wore entitled to register, to do no. and then go to tho ballot-box and vote for the very beat men possible, to frame n Constitution iivconformity with tho provisions of the AeU of Congress. My advice upon the subject ought, I think, to have been received as disinterested, sineo the execution of these laws excluded mo from all the privileges of a eitir.cn, beeauso I belonged to the disfranchised class. At tho extra session in Jnly, tbe Legislature made the restrictions even more stringent than thoy wore heforb, and this harshness on the part of Congress hns had much to do with the action of the whito people of South Carolina in refusing to go to the polls and participate in any respect whatever in the election, ?;f delegates to the Convention. In this, 1 think a great mistake has been committed by the great majority of whites of South Carolina. My judgment was, and is that every whito mnn who registered should have gone to the polls and voted. I oven go further. I think that tho whites, who have the intelligence to a very large extent, should, in convention or othorwise, hare submitted to the colored people oT the Stnte propositions ns to tbe privileges and (franchises which they are entirely willing to extend to them, now that tho whole of the race have been declared free not only hy Constitutional Amendment, but k? ullnn nt ll.. It., a Tbo hot cnnnot ha disguised, however, that the white population ha* almost unanimously abstained from exercising the privilege, and your Convention is, therofore, strictly speaking, the representatlva only of the colored population of Booth Carolina. This hcing the ease, it cannot be denied, that, the intelligence, refinement and wealth of tho Btato is not represented hy your body. Huncc, the very high duty is devolved upon you of discharging the important trust* confided to your care, in such a manner as to cointncnd your action to the confidence and support, not only of those by whom you were elected, hut of those who refused to go to tbo poll* and vote in the election. I say to you, very frankly, that I regard this body as Invested with the sovereign power of tho Btato, and that the Constitution which yon may adopt for tho people of South Carolina, Is one wtiieh will not only he ratified and accepted hy Congress, but ona under which all clnsscs in South Carolina will live for years to coma. Tho party which has passed tho Hceonstroe- I tion laws, has undisputed control of tho Gov. eminent in both Houses of Congress, and wilj retain it until tho 4th of March, 18119. Prior to that time a Presidential election will occur. The probability is that an individual roprelenting the Conservative and Democratic clainont in the North and West, will l>e cleMed President. It may be that a Conservative clement will largely preponderate In th^. next elecrion for members of the House o Representatives, on tho 4tb day of March' 1869, arc Conservative or Democratic, and opposed to the legislation that may hare been adopted ; it will be impossible to cfTuct a repeal of these Acts, obnoxious ss they are to the new party, prior to tbo 4th of March, 1871Confirmed as I am, thcrefora, in the cpiuinn that the legislation of the present and preceding Congress will remain ln/brca until the 4th of March, *'71. anil that any Constitution adopted by this Convention will continito continue to be of force until that time at leant, I have felt it to ha my duty n* the Executive of the State, and an an individual, to he present In riiarleeton during the session of your Convention, In the h?po that, throngh officio] if not peraonul influence, I may accomplish something in securing from the Convention, liberal, just and wise Constitution. tf sneh a Constitution is adopted, harmony, good feeling and prosperity will prevail. If, however, extreme views and measures ere engrafted upon that instrument, it will increase the Interest wliieb now exists between the two races, and force the whites of the State, who have the means to do so, to leave Its borders and seek ?omea in other communities. It will produre discontent and disquiet everywhere, und confidence, trade and enterprise will all bo paralixrd. As responsible duties are, tberofore, devolved upon you as were ever devolved npon a similar body of men in any State, the interest and prosperity of South Carolina depeuil not ooly upon law and a good Constitution, but upon thakind relations which are to be established between the two raoes. It is Idle to disguise the fact that the white and colored raoes, where they liaro been thrown together, with equal privileges, have rarely, if erer, bcou able to harmonise. The axperimeot of giring to the colored people of tbe South all of the privileges of the franchise is ? novel one, and time only can determine whether it is to be a success or a failure. On the one hand, it it said that the negro Is ntterly incapable of exercising tire rights and privileges of a citiscn. On tha other bind, It Is said thnt the "robe!"?the man who participated tn the war?should no* I he allowed to participate in tbe 'Ourermnent, Those of you who are to the manor born, know the fact that very few white men in South Carolina abstained from some participation in the Tata war. Yon know, further, that tbe intelligence, - wealth end virtue of Sbuth Carolina entered eagerly into that war, and that when it ke attempted Is ijiaflranehige or denounce these persona m unworthy of pahtte trust, it iitoexeiudo fbe real intelligence and eype * . c* x l ~ ' T V . . , ? " 1 , ' ???> ?e ' ? " ^ 'y; 2' ' - i? . ? OFvP( L _ . GKEENViLLE. SOUTH I.,I m gita .iL.U. P..J. oho of the r?Moni why to littlo experience Is to be found Ir. jrour body. To piipply this deficiency, U la the duly of the Convention to give to every question that may be enbioltted the gravcat nnd moat po tent consideration. When you appreciate the foot that the intelligence ol the whito population ia antagonized to yon; that all of your acta will bo looked npon with distrust; when yon remombcr that whatever yon do will bo snhjeeted to the severest scrutiny at home and nbrnad ; when you know that whatever errova are coinmitted here will ho reviewed with no friendly eye?the duty b? doubly incumbent upon you of framing a Constitution which will challenge the criticism and commendation of the most intelligent portion of the State. Believing, as I have said to yon, that you have nssombled here with proper motivca; that the Conalitntion framed by you, will bo the law under whkh tbo peopio of South Carolina will live for yeara to come, and occupying tbo position of Chief Executive of the State, I am hero to give to the members of your hony tbo bcncflt of whatever suggestions may occur to my mind, provided that I can do so without seaming to intrude. My earnest desire is that this Convention shall adopt a Constitution which shall meet with tho cordial support and approval of tho white as well as tho black raeo. If it bo just, wise and liberal, when the question comes upon its adoption, I shall cortainly recommend my friends to vote for it; if unwise or uqjust, I shall be equally free to urge its rejection. It is proper to say here, that in my judgment it was unfortannto that tho election of delegates to this Convention should have been influenced by tho polities'of tho day. Members should havo been chosen without reference to their opinions upon national politics. It was immaterial whether they wcro conscr* vatives, radicals or Democrats. The best men of each District, without reference to antcce. dents or to present political opinions, ought to have been selected for tbo purpose of framing a Constitution. This was my advice to the people of the State months ago. It was a matter of little consequence who was elected as representatives of the State in the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States, whether radical, moderate Republican or Democrat, as compared with tho important duty of framing a Constitution for a people i. I..i - ?? u? ii it?a 111 ingi lur jrnn. j no wiillvl in tbc Statu have abstained frrnn going to the polls, ami tlio blacks mainly bare boon controlled by tbo radical parly. Although thu* elected, let tlio luombcrs of the Convention remember that the Constitution which they adopt for the people of 8onth Carolina may. In nil probability, be tho Constitution of the State for the next twenty yenrt?when rudieal, Itcpubliran and Dcmoerutio parties may have |ms*ed utvny ond others have taken their place. Anything, therefore, which savors of | a partisan purpose, incorporated in the Constitution, may, in a very few years, find Hint it has out-lived its purpose, it supporters, and its portfjf. In framing a Constitution, tnnny Improvements may t>c made upon the existing laws ol the laud. I beg vury briefly to call you attention to some of them. If they are adopted| in iny Judgment, when the i|Uestiun is presented to tho people of the Statu to ratify or reject the Constitution, you will bo sblc to command In Its faror a much litrgvr vote than was polled in the election of delegates to the Convention. First. Upon tho question of the electivo franchise, 1 desire most earnestly to recommend that you incorporate no disability whatever in it; that you allow every man in thu Stato, even those who have been disfranchised undor the Constitutional Amendment, to oxer-, cisu tho right of suffrage, and of holding oftieo, with the restrictions that no ono shall exercise that franchise unless ho may he able to rend nud write, or bus a properly qualification such us you tuay determine. In voting upon the ratification of the Constitution you may adopt, all registered votcri trill of oourso be included, which will ot cours< secure its adoption. With the view of carrying out fully thu views of the Convention, tho firs Legislature to bo elected under the Constitil tion may bo elected by nil tnalo rotors ovei twenty-one years of age, but after that time if UOt before. I urventlv recommend ?li?? ' " n? ' / *"' * 'I""1 iflod suffrage, to all classes and races, be pro videdfor in the Constitution. A man vrhi goes to tho polls after January I, 1870, wheth er be be while or black* who la cot able t< read or write, should be ezclndcd from lb< privileges of ? rotor. Representing as you do, almost exclusivh the colored element of South Carolina, yoi are not invisible to the fact, and to its loglti mate results, that very many of the voters win have sent yott here bare not that Intelligent with reference t > men and measures which shonld entitle them to east a rote. You knoa that thousands of them are utterly incoinpo* tent to exercise this high prerogative. Tou may think that to perpetuate yom power, and to preserve yottr organisation, it it necessary to continue the franobieo to thi( class of persons, but orentually you will find that you bare been sadly mistaken. Many of the colorod men of (lie State hare an intelligence whiob entitle# them, in their new relationa, to the privilcgee of citizens; hot very many are luoompcteitt to exercise them with discretion or judgment. Those will become the prey of evil, vicious and indisposed men. When an election is (o occur with such voters, the bad will gat their votes and not the good. In view of the fact that the colored population have ?large majority in this State, end that the bwlk of ibsm are to he controlled by these ev|l Influences, what kin if of judges, leg. isla'ors and axoeutire officers can yon hope forT 1s rioo and ignorance to eleet your jndgos ? Are the represcn tat ires of rice and tgnomnee to elect yottr legislators t If any what security hark you for the rights of )i(e> y ..*> 4MM* Hi'r-d^v-- v1" s? ' j# 3P?XJLJVI1 v ; -. **.*<* :-.i ??-),jj /,-' ?'*VJV CAROLINA. JANUARY 29 tho responsibility before ur, and in all probability in antagonism to the sentiments a very largo majority of this body, recommend earnestly, that in flaming that feature of the constitution conferring tbe elective franchise, you establish an educational qualification for tho voter, but?not being able to read or write?that you establish a property qualification. Second. If you doslro tbat this Convention should comintfud itself to the favorable consideration of tho people of the State, whito and colored, I recommend that you adopt in the Constitution a provision for a liberal homestead law?that you wake it applicable to all tboso who now own a homestead, and protect them against antecedent debts. The disasters resulting from tbe war, tho abolition of slave, ry, and, thereby, tho wiping out of tho for. tunes of tho very many of thoso who were wealthy prior to tho war, as a matter of humanity, demands that you shunld protect them as to tho past by a liberal homestead law, and sceuring that homo to i's owner in the futuro. Tbe homestead law which guarantees to a family fifty dollars, or 100 acres in the country, and a town lot or house' in tho city, is not only humane, but patriotic. In tbe country, where the head of a family knows that his homestead Is protected, ho goes to work to beautify and adorn the same. He plants his orchard and his vineyard. He arccts bis buildings, decorates his dwelling, and makes all of his surroundings comfortably and invites happiness and coutcnt to his hearth. Perhaps ono of tho greatest troubles in Amcrioon legislation has been In not protecting the homestead. It has made tho American people almost as great wanderers as tho Arabs. When a father planted an orchard or a viueyard, he had no assurance that, five years thereafter, the result of his care and labor would not pass into tho hands of strangers. Grant, therefore, a liberal homestead law, providing against past and future debts, so tbat the white man who has his homo nowj and tbe black trinn who may secure a homo by industry and economy, hereafter, can feci that it is secured to hiui, and you will find, not only an increase in tho prosperity nt>d happiness of tho State, but you will stimulate a patriotism which has not heretofore cxistod.? Wherever you identify a man and his household with the soil upon which be lives, you make that man, if Irom no higher considerations of love of country, a defender of tho country when it is assailed, bcenuso the assnult is upon his individual household. Third. I urge you to provide tor tho abol ishinvnt of imprisonment for debt. I havc always considered the incnrcehiHon of a bunion being for debt as senseless and cruel, except in cases of positive fraud. It is advocated that imprisonment for debt is right, for tho purpose o< assuring creditors in their doinnnds, and that it curtails the capacity of an individual to secure credit, where this right is denied. In these views I do not Concur.? Tn l.<. n?,a*lU r...,V -III. T "v """n * i iiiv mm the universal credit extended to or rlniincd by a community in n great misfortune to tliat community, and if tbo homestead ami exemp tiou law, utul tlie abolition of imprisonment for debt will reduce the temptation to men to ask crodlt, and curtail the disposition of those who hold fluids of goods to extend credit, it will bo a blessing to our people. To the fanning interest especially, the credit system is a curse, nud the sooner that And nil other interests, except perhaps the mercantile Interest dispense with it, the better wilt It ba for the general prosperity of tlic State. Fourth. It is very important that this body should adopt some ordinance to proVldo relict to debtors prior to the war. The temporary orders of tbo Military Commandant t extend to debts contracted during the war.? All debts now existing, where the eonsidora. tion is for the purchase of slaves, should be absolutely wiped out by the Convention. If thcec debts arc rceognlied, it is a recognition of tbat institution, of its propriety, its justice and morality. Most of the debts contracted prior to the war were Upon the faith and pos* session of proporty in slaves. That property has been destroyed, and a lihoral provision should be utado by this body in reference to dobtofj?the amount and time when they may ' make payment of the same. Do this and you will eommend your Constitution, under tho most favorable auspices, to the consideration of that chwa in South Carolina who have not participated in tho election of delegates to this Convention. ' Fifth. Education Is tintv the great desideratum of all the colored people of South Car" Una. For ebvlous reasons. It was the policy 1 of tlio Stnte, previous to emancipation, to ex* elude the slave population from tho beneAts ' and advantages of education. I will not die' cuss the?e reasons. Dili the relations of that ' population to the State aro no* materially r changed. IIcure, it ia of tbo utmost importaneo that the largest intelligence possible shall ho communicated to that class. Man of r intelligence have many more opportunities, through their reading and observation, of , learning and appreciating tbo moral la* and I its requirements. Profound ignorance almost ' universally eouplos with it crime and vice.? Hence, the education of tho I.lack population . ?and, I am sorry to say, of many of tho white popolntion of tho State?should comi mnnd the oarnosf attention of this body. 1 In providing for it, I beg to guard yon against attempting to levy taxes exclusively upon property. There is no tax >tion which is so universal, jn*t and equitable, as Ihn* upon the person or poll, fur educational purposes, since *11 are interested in having an intelligent and virtuous population. Sixth. With reference to the conduct of the State, I have only IA any to you, that the treasury ia emjrty. The tax bill adopted by the laet legislature has failed, by #800,000, to produce the amount of tnxe, c I L We have, therefore, beau j -A,. ' f* X . ;.. ; %*'. ? - f ' ' >0. ^'A* *V \ * #* EVENTS ^.-LL ' . " ',", , ..1868. wmptllfid to rely upon urhat are known ? ' the " hills receivable." issued by authority of the Legislature, to pay all nffiuets and claims against the State. The great depreciation of property, and the general Impoverishment of the State, has reduced the amount of taxes anticipated by the Legislature very materially, and consequently the financial condition ot lli? a.intl> I. ?.?U? embarrassed. But it is very important that you should, in your deliberations, by ordi. nance or otherwise, declare ?and nothing can more commend yonr body to tbc confi den je of the people of tjie State, who represented its wealth?that nil of the obligations of the State, all the bonds ol the Slate created prior to the war, and all the obli. gations of the State ?itiee the war, shall he fully and faithfully redeemed. An ordinance announcing the validity of the obligations of the State, passed by you, will at once rnpidly and largely appreciate the value of the bond*, now held n't such low figures. The great discount upon the State bonds in the markets, here anil elsewhere, grows out r vant of confidence in tho will and del ition of the new Government to rcdee m. This you should set at rest. And t, you may with propriety repudiate all o?,..gntiona contracted by the State for war purpos-e. the croiit of the State for other obligations should not be tarnished, either by repudiation or a setn. blnnoe of repudiation. In framing your Constitution, I eannol too earnestly commend to yr 'orahle consideration the Importance nnving the disability from all the white population of this State When you look to the judiciary. I am very sure you can have ro rea? sonnble giound of complaint against their fairness or impartiality. _ Under the Constitutional Amendment, m?st, or nearly all, are excluded from continuing In their pnsi tion. Have you in the State members of the bar who are competent to discharge these higli and important trusts with the ability or even the satisfaction to yourselves of those who would be required to retire from the public service, unless you make a modification retaining them In I heir present position ? Is there any reasonable ground of complaint against your Appeal Court) tbc Judges of your Criminal Court, or your Chancellors? AVhile, under the Constitution, you may vacate these offices and subject all the parties to the ordeal of an election before the Legislature, will it not he eminently wise omi prudent for you to place the judiciary in a position where, if mi' i.tgisinrnre eieo?.;u un-ter your Comii tution think it expolient, they mny.re eloet sticli i>f the Judges and Chancellors as,' in their judgment, ore Worthy to be contiuued in these positions? Tills brings me to say that in South Curo. linn, at least, '.here is no renson why ant* man, wliitc or colored, eh mid lie exclude 1 from the privilege of voting or holding office. You are aware that the disfranchisement in the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, excludes the intelligence and wealth of the State. In one of the Districts of the State, I know that the colored people waitci upon certain gentlemen and requested them to become candidates for the Convention, Jint they were constrained to dcoline, because they were disfranchised.? This is an lllnstration oMhe condition of affairs which exists in all the Districts of South Carolina?the most intelligent men being excluded. In starting a new Oovem inent, alt <?f this intelligence and experience should uoi he Ignored. The State cnntiot afford to give it up She is entitled to the counsels of such tnen and to tlielr services. The doctrine of State rights, its taught in South Carolina, lias been exploded by the war. The allegiance of the citizen, according to the results of that controvcny, is due to the Government of the United States, snd not to the State. I recognize this doctrine to the fullest extent, and in my inaugural message as Oovemor of ths State, I announced my judgment, that hereafter the supremacy nt the United States Govern' ment over the State, was undisputed and indisputable. I am aware that many of my contemporaries <teny the proposition, hut il T can property comprehend I lie legitimate scqucncca of war, no other reenlt presents Itself to my mind. Gentlemen of the Convention, I have merely ont-llned some of the subjects which, in my judgment, should command your earnest attention. As I have indicated, yotlr body here, is not the representatives of the intelligence of the Slate. Your ?c lion, therefore, must he your passport to publie favor, and while the great majority of the white population have faih-d to cast their votes in electing delegates, il will be your duty to adopt such a Constitution as will commend itself not only to the lilnek people, bnt to the White people of South Carolina. Aa the Executive of the State during the trying times through which wa have passed. I have earnestly endeavored to do equal and cxaet justice to all of our citiaene. fa the performance of my duties, I have knowu no diatinotien between race or color. When I have been raffed upon to exercise the high prerogative of Executive clemency in favor of those who have violated the laws, the reoords of my office will ahow that 1 have made reaaorable allowance f..r the frailty and ignorance ??f the colored population, and that the commutations and par dona extended to Hum exceed those extend * ' m J - v ' ' , > .{ .'' ? VT-.* *% & .^\.i?3^'vi','v .?{' ' .a _j <. .~assf~mmtame NO. 36. <><1 to the #hite race, whom opportunities for obtaining Intelligence did not commend them with the same force to rnjr judgment and sympathies. An a elt'xen of South Carolina, bora and raited on her soil, and desiring to lay my bone* in this home of my father*, I do aot vuh to see a Constitution adopted obnox* ion? to our people. If the Instrument whieh you may adopt. He wise end just, as I trust it will be, I shall feel it to be a duty to ecommend its adoption to my people. But if, on the other hand, it bears upon its face evidences of hostility to the true interests of the State, U will be calculated to ereate antagonisms, the results of which will be most deplorable, and I for one, will pull up my stakes, and wi*h my household, remove a/tma aI Una * ? ? -* - * i^iviun ui ine country. I presume that opposition will be made to those who favor this Convention There will he opposition to yon and opposition to me, but I have been too long in political life to be afraid of the email thuader which may he directed against me by newspaper#I have reached a period of indifference upon that question. If I know my own conscience, and if what I say la not true. ( trust that that over ruling Providence whiek guides and controls u?, will smite ma for the falsehood?I have this day no other or higher motive, I care not whether it be public or private, no other political aspiration, than to promote the interests of the people of South Carolina. 1 believe I said to some of my colored friends some montha ago, that I was tired of pdities, and desired to embark in some business that would enable me to support those who ara dependent on me. I now go further and say to you, I am disgusted with polities. I know of no position. State or Federal, that I would seek, if it coat me the passage of a single step. Let me tell you, that a man who embarks in political life, if he la honest, will he poor as. long as be remain# in it, and the sooner lie gets out of it, the lietter it will he for his wife, children and self. I intend to do it, I wish to go Into retirement, and there is no office that your recommendation or votes could confer upon me, that I would accept. I nsk yon, then to have confidence in the atatementa that I have made. In conclusion, I desire you to adopt A i liberal and wise Constitution, under which I lie white and the black man can live together; a Constitution which will nwu the great interests of the Slate, and restore it to a degree of pro?p'?r'.ty not Iieretofore enjoyed ; a Constitution that will dispel that dis'rust which unfortunately now prevails. You have a grenl prohlem to solve, such an one na haa rarely been given In man ; you aro to undertake ah experiment which has not thus far in tha experience of mankind been successful. That experience shows that, when placed upon terms of equality, the races have not harmonised.?* It is for you to demonstrate to the contrary. Heing hopeful myself, I believe that, with proper discretion and wisdom, yon may form such a Const it Ul ion as Will rr?tnoto harmony, peace anil pood will, and enlarge the prosperity of our State. And In the utmost sincerity, gcnllgmen of I he Convention, I invoke the blessings of tteaVen upon your deliberations, and trust that an overruling Providence may give you stioh wisdom as will eccUre peace and concord Jfl. this people. ??? It is a curious fact, that if a msi^is jtffk in the woods and continues wslkinriffl^hr will invariably go round in a cirole/qta;.. stantly veering to the left. band. It ts'dgh cause tIre right side of every human body (except in the ease of left-handed people) 1? more developed than the l?ft. Consequently the muscles on that side are strongest, and tend to gradually throw the whola body rouhd. Unless the sim Is directed to some particular roiht. A Roman CA-niotib manuel in Connecticut, wna beloved by li Wotostsnt youth, and loved in returrt, tthereaa her parents arranged for her Inking the veil. Having the bridal rather ihan the conventual veil in view, she ran t-fF in Hartford the day before thai srfar.pbd for her farewell to the world, nml is now ?i;)>{u>?ed to be happy. A Few Ha?i> Timnus?Ftroerencs and observation have taught men that it is? Hard to quit rhev log tobacco. Hard to keep fri tri enting to? much. Hard to drink Jiq* i?r and not be intern* per ate. Herd to pay out debt* I In i d to believe a man when you know him to1)? a liar. Hard to turn the other cheek when we are struck. Hard to boirow money from triei.ds when we ne*d it. Hard to lovo our enemies. ClIJSr&K S*KVANT8.? BixflOp 5*ttTlf> son, in a recent lecture, prnlie cd. that in a verv few yearn, here in Boston, wo | would have Chinese servants in our li?>u?es. l'Hlerfcmilias referred to this at the breakfwt IsMe this morning, when little Minnie, after aw bile came t?> bis chair snd whispered. " Oh. |>? won't it be nice! W? shall have a Chines* servant, and *he will cat all the rats, so I we keep cay