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The Abbeville Press. -A.bbevillc, S. O. W. A. LEE, EDITOR. TERMS?Throo Dollars a year in advance ur No Subscriptions tukeu for a eliorte time than aix mouths. L: Friday, September 4, 1868. National Democratic Ticket. FOR I'ltESlDENT: | HORATIO SEYMOUR, Off New Yojik. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT: FRANK P. BLAIR, Of Missouri. State Electoral Ticket. For the State at Large: Gen. J. D. KENNEDY, of Kemliaw. Col. J. P. THOMAS, ?f IUclilaud. First Congressional District: Col. R- F. GRAHAM, of Marion. Second Congressional District: Cl?N. B. H. RUTDEDGE, of Charleston. Third Congressional District : Cot. A. 0. HASKELL, of Abbyvillo. Fourth Congressional District: Col. EL C. MoLURE, of Chester. g? 1 = Southern Reconstrction.?The South Carolina Legislature. For tho first timo in tho history of a froo peoplo, panporism, igtioraneo and vico havo boon mado ruling poivcra in tho Stato, and a government which is prosnmed to roprosont tho property, intelligonco and virtao of tho country is characterized hy tho absenco of ovory element which could mako it oithor decent or respeetablc. or ouablo it to fulfil a single purpose of its establishment. Southern Reconstruction is woreo than revolution itBolf, involving not merely a change , of rulers, but an uphoaval of the , foundations of socioty, a dissolution < of its dements, an inversion of its , established order, a violation of its . laws?repudiating every lesson of eago experience and outraging every , dictate of our common nature. "Wo have been accustomed to look upon the Legislative body, as tho reflection | of whutovor is exalted in talent, vir- , tao and public character, und as rej>reseuting all tho varied-interests j ( whieh iPfurnrnmiint: w ? ^ uw.-mn iv | tor aud protect. Cut this hti^ boon ] nil changed. Vlrtuo ha.-* bccoiuo vice and ovil, good, and tho^o high offices ' which wero once tho rewards of hon- , orod merit and distinguished public * Rcrvico, aro now tho prey of needy i adveuturora and faithle^ rcnogades, ^ until offleo iteolf han become a byeword of rcproach, a badgo of shame, ( as it ie tho prico of dishonor. What , shall wo say of a legislative body, j which representing neither tho property, intelligenco, nor rospoclability of tho country, but composed of itin- j erant carpet-baggers, recreant sen la- j wags, and newly enfranchised slaves, ( without tho intolligonco to discern, ^ oranymotivo to protect tho true in- . teresta of tho Stute, aro now presum- ^ ing to mako laws for tho government of thisonco great and noble common- ^ wealth?who without property I hem- ( selves aro presuming to tax your . property and my property, to bus lain a government which dishonors the namo and imrmira tlm i:? i x?- .I.M. .HI t povcrishea llic resources of the State. . Tho procoedings of tho *o-callod j South Carolina Lcgishituro are such t as might woll bosupposed to emanate j from a body, which in in itself ouo of j tho first fruits of univecsal suffrage j extended to tho nowly onfranchised t slaves?which cloctcd by thoso who ( wero tho ignorant dupes of tho art- ( ful and designing, rcproscuts tho cu- j pidity of tho alion, and tho rapacity of tho renegade ; who having no honor to savo and no character to lose, aro . carrying out thoir own unlfiul. j"" 1 rcb without compunction and without \ ?hamo? Tho proc?x?ding* havo been charactoriaod throughout by ovcry epooios of grosaness and indelicacy?by a violation of parliamentary law and decorum?and by an amount of folly and corruption, which wo suppose noTor boforo disgraced a logiBlativo body?ehamolosely practised and unbluslringly avowod. Bribery baa boen tho potont lever bj^ which office hafc been attained and taginlativo action secured, and tho bucccbb of measures havo boen mqdo to depend, not A*- -f? ? ' *' "" ' ' jijwii mwr ntnoBD to ^v^noo tUo in* teresta of tho State, hut upon iho .means at their command to buy up the patronage of individual numjjer*. * After two months eession, what > great measure of public utility has been inaugurated ? On the contrary, weeks have boon spent in tlio creation of offices, and in cauoaoses to fill them?in efforts to build up a party, ntifl AH it- ?-i_ uu viiu jiuuKvu) oyiis nocoy followers- Incondiary debates have I been held, exciting the- antipathies' 1 and kindling the animosities of race, I and a measure has been attempted to 1 t be hurried through, which w^ild pro- < voice endless antagonisms and. colli- i sions. Chartered rights >afei.'vested i interests are to be saeifficedm jn tho m -.c of the State Bank, tdSgrecdy \ % i > * " < \ r . - ^ i speculators, and 1 lio best interests of trade, as in the ease pi' U.10 Chatham bill, made to yield to selli^h and local claims, which come avowed with the all-polcut bribe. The most important bill of the KCHsion, that which regulates the assessment and collection of taxes, and which a 11 eels every interest in the community, is hurried through with a rapidity which is a mockery upon the lbrms of legislation. Characterized throughout by this I ; unseemly huslo and unwise inaction, > the Session has been protracted and J at the same time frittered away, with ! no other object than to build up and I securo tho success of a party, and j rnriL'ii uio pocicots of individuals. j And all this too at tlio oxpenso ol' others?the property holders ami taxpayers, who during the present session have already been saddled with a debt of $70,000, (o enahlo a set <?f carpet.-haters and scalawags, and deluded blacks, to indulge (lie expen- j sive luxury of ruiningtho Stale. In view of theso facts, wo have this ! chief consolation, that the very enorinity of the evils which are inherent in the system, must bring about us flpccdy overthrow?that no such overgrown monstrosity can long survive. Tho clay of vcngennco?of just rccomponac?only lingeroth. Tlie Presidential Prospects Tho Round Table, a Itopublican journal of high charactor, after an impartial and intelligent eurvoy of tho position of partioB arrive at tho conclusion that tho prospocts of Seymour and Blair are brightening, and that , tho Domocratio tickets will bo success < iul in tho noxt election. It makos the < following estimate of results in rouiu of tho States: ThoStato elections will probably to , a COtlsidorabln ov?<%n? ???? V ?>a? UWIIVV VUVll j oilier, tho floating voto nhvaj'S run- ' ning moro or loss with tho prevalent ' tido, but an tho succession happens to ; lull, oncoura^oment is likely to bo prot- j ly evenly distributed. Thus, tho first I Stato election?that of Vermont, Sep- 1 lombor I?will of courso bo a Ropub- 1 lican buccobs. California, on tho fol , lowing day, will aa certaiuly show a , triumph for tho Democrats. Tho ' Maine election, Septembor 11, will bo ' much moro iutcrcstin" and si-rnificant ' a -> I because it cannot bo counted as a | pjrogone conclusion. Tho Republican t majority of 27,?3u0 in 1S'?C> was rc- j ? Juco.I hv Ifi film ion? " < - : : -J V .viva 111 HVI, XI LllU | process of reduction is Etill going cn j ?and this Democratic lea.lora san;uinoly hope and strenuously claim? the Republicans may find their last reur's majority of 11,GOO entirely dissipated in Nnvombcr. Aitor the Vlaino election comes a month wbiuh vill doubtless witness the hardest .vork of the canvass. The four Stales >f Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa hold their elections on October 13th, tho same day. Iowa will, with>ut doubt, go for tho Republican tiekst, but Indiana is uncertain. Mr. londricks* strength is very groat, but 10 has a majority to overcome?that t )f tho last election of T>(>?of 11,001). Jn tho othor hand, Mr. Lincoln's tna? ority in 'Gl was J} I;000, and it remains o bo scon how far tho rc-aclion has >roceeded horo ns w-.ll as elsewhere. ! \ \ ? ' *? in rcgurus wnio, opinions nro natu- j f ally very much divided. Tho wish, j * n political mattorn no potontially lath- j 1 >r to tho thought, produces dccidcd j [ :onviotions that aro highly antagonw-1 v lie. T-> tho impartial observer it j 1 coma naggosUvo onough to porcoivo !l hat tho Republican majority of 00,0'iG j1 n l$Gl wild loss than 30,000 in ,] mil had dwindled to 2,000 in 1S07. 1 l?Yom proBont appoarancoH tho cloction ' n Pennsylvania, will bo donor than in | iny other State. As to .Now York, j carcoly any bat strong partisans now 1 juostion that sho will go tor tho L>om- f Iftmt ift /?n n #Ti 11 n * Aa I ? - ?.v, VJ u UUUVJ' IllllJOr? lY- ' ' 5 *. t Park*' Crkbk I)emocratio Or.ur.. i ?Tho L'arkfj' Crook Democratic Club J wafl-orgapi/od on Saturday lant, tlio ( 2tSd Ao^UHt inHt. Tlio following is j tho list of ofTicorfi and mciubora. Ah v it contain*! the natnM of only a por- t tirtn of tho wbilo rfiOfi of tbo ncigb*- < borhood, additional uamea- will bo 1 gladly rccoWod. > ! Profiident, J. T. JilDUEbb. ' Vico President, Tl. M. WJNN,- \ Socrotnry, KID WIN WILSON. Treaaurqr, C. W. J>KN1>Y. 1 Robfc. Orawfuvd, J. 1;. Miller, 1 U. Coloman, B. |?\ McAlislor, < J. B. Clamp, T. 1\ MeClellan, ' \ B: A. Bowie, - Frank liortry, < R. 11. Winu, . \Yui. jNovro.l), v ' J G. W. Cochran, T3dwfn Cater, t W H. Sharp, W. O, Winn, ^ J J Tho*. ytftTo nsonr -\Y mv M<?Com bs, j JatflfB Conningham. . e.. | Democratic at iiownt>i^k ' vn,fce.~ We aro requested to anoounoe { that the Democratic Cleb-of Loj*nQdea?. j vtile and citizens of that- vieinitjf will be addvoased on tho 4tii .Saturday ol'.h " "t i September irtst., by the Hon. Thoinag J Thomson, and CM. It. A* ffair, and 1 that our foUowoitieens generally arc \ invited to attend. The distinguished t sbaractet x>t these sgentleiqon and * their ability aod eloqnenco, together 8 with the mAraoatoas iaauea whioh are sow ?kstako %ill no doubt eneor* Lhera a lange<fadieoce. -'-V- * > ,."* .*? . ' ' . ; .r * * . j Leltere of Gov. Perry and Hon. James . . 13. Campbell. Wc take pleasure in laying before our l'oatlors t!io follow-in.*;; letter* from theno distinguished gonlloineii, who had boon invited to address the great Oeinoeratie Mufe* Meeting here, on the 20th nit. Ghfxxvii.i.b, S. C., August 2:J, 1808. Jinn. A. Dart, C'hitirin tn, etc. My 1)kau Km: 1 luul tl:o honor of receiving your kiiK.I lettor last evening, re- I questing mo to .vhlress "a mass mooting" j at Ahbovillo Couit House, on llio 20tli inst. | coining couui givo mo gieattr pleasure than to be with you on that occasion, but I liiiir il will bo impossible tor me to attend, as tlio Federal court is now in session at ! this placo. Let mo assure tho good pooplo of Abbovillo that I am heartily with thorn and the Democracy of the United Slates in the cil'ort they arc now making to hurl from power and placo tho most infamously oppressive, usurping, despotic and damnable party, that ever disgraced tho annals of bib lory in any age or country. Fight years ago this audaciously wicked and criminal Radical party came into power by an unfortunate division in the.Democratic ranks, and what dire calamities have befallen tho country within that Lri. l' period ! For years and years tlicso United Stales had prospered, grown great and powerful, under Democratic rule, as no other people ever did on tho faco of the earth. They had incieused from three millions to thirty inillious of people from thirteen Stales to thirty-three St.ite?. and all wore happy, prosperous and free uudcr our Republican form of (Jovernment. Tho American Republic was tho admiration of tho world, and a standing proof of uiau'a ability to govern himself. But in an ovil hour, ns I liavo said, tho Radical party got possession of tho govern mont, nid by refusing all compromises or concessions to the Southern States, involved the country in a most unnatural ;ruel nnd bloody war for four long years ! la this war were slaughtered and sacrificod tcnn of thousands of American citizens, gallant brave inonl Seven thousand millions of lollnr* \v.ir.? 1 - *' " __ - ~ v^i'uuuoi uy mu reUerai Tovctnmonl in proMjoutiug this war! And tivo thousand tnillions by I'm Confederate ^ovorumcnt in defending tho sacred ri^ht >f every per>j>lo to govern themselves ! The itauth was ruined and the North impoverished ! Commerce, agriculture and manuactures paralyzed ! The national debt of ho United States lias been increased to hreo billions of dollar'', arid is still increasing ! The people liavo paid in taxes, iil?ce the war, only three years, fifteen hunJiod millions! Tho annual expenditures of ho government, in tiiuo of peace, have increased, under Radical tyranny and reck ?s9 prodigality, from eighty millions to !vo hundred millions. A stauding army las been kept up contrary to tho spirit and ;enius of our Republican institutions, at an .spenao of hundreds of millions of dollars umually. A Freedmcu's Bureau lias been organized, nt an expense of fifty millions, o stir up atnl prejudice the freednien of ho South against tln.ir - ? . ?.VIU11I u? nurs. I Liogues and thieves have been placed in lower, and the I'rosident forbidden lo renove them. lint onu of these high olli:ia!s, C'ulLcol, we'l known in Sontli C.iroina as a cotton thief, under the Radical jovernuient, was sent to the Penitentialv ho other day by thrj courts of Now York or his roguery. Tha UaJical Congress have, for three rears past, prevented a restoration of the Jnion. They struck down, at ono fell | iwoop ten sovereign States of this Union ! I L'liey abolished tin; Statu governments, and uhstituled a military despotism in' their dace. Military commissions wore Bubbtintod for courts of Justice and trials by Uirr. The bnyonet took tlio place of the vrit of hithras coi'/ws. Innocent men, in lountkss numbers, havo been arrested in ho bosom of thoir families, and dragged to he dungeon Cell.i to be condemn* d and ixociited 5 I havo recently seen I "resident lohnson's pardon of three of these poor, u>i? ortunato men, who wuro condemned lo bo xecutcd by that n/torioualy infamous sarap Hicklc-t, tiiu murderer of hid wife's , ...i .1--. i - ' - .......i..11., iuil mill, iic cartii lor the pollii' | ion of h's l?c?!, but on the Lacfdcmonioti j irtuc of not concealing her crime from the j >ublic. One won IJ have supposed that these >oor men, who were chutgud with shooting l negro for brutally violating a young lady, night have found sympathy in his black, Ichauchcd heart 1 1 >tit tlioy should ronumber that iio took to his bosom again lis polluted spouse ! (lencral C'anby, anither military satrap, who was supposed to io n gentleman, but proved himsolf a io:n llcsa tyrant in South Oamliua, eomuiu ed the sonloncc of tlieso unfortunate hici rom death to fifteen years' imprisonment! Regardless of iho Constitution which hey Jiad sworn to support, and wrecklewsly loturmiiied to porputuato their infamous ytauny, the lladiual CongroHS utrippod the .'rosident of his highest pnimiifniJonol >rorogutive3, fmd placed the commanding ienornt of ilio army, their candidate for ho Presidency, over and above liini! ,?ocau*<j President J.ohnpon resisted their jsurpations ntid Blood by tho conotitulion, bey impeached him of high crimes and mislomieanorB 1 In oldon litnoh.'lt requiredt is wo are Informed by holy writ; tep ighteoua men to ?av? a city, but tbreo ?sg of jiul lladicals, wero enough in the ' rial of thi* fmpoachinent to uvo. tho K<i-- . mbbc from ctornal dishonor. liut satisfied "with usurping tho excontivo cowers, the Radical Congress determined to incroach on tho Judiciary and paused-& law hat there should h<* no appeal lo Ihe Supremo 'onrt, in order tor test tho validity of their unsonstituiioual, tyrannical and oppressive nets ! n>?<y were determined to couceutrato in tjicii >wn hands oM tho powers of the government, cgislative, executive and judiciary, .with >l>j:dicnl tool at tho.hc'ad of the army. Although here ar*? several' vacancies on the Suprctye *neh--4hoy wity not prevont them to be Dllcd [ >y nomination of in* i _ . .vniuvui. uicy.mu?tT>e' v?>|>t open till thoy have a Radical Fre'sTrtunt. in ofdor 10 parp^HiMo Uioir power in tlm Siuih-. rrQ StMtfs, the KfftHcal^Cotig'J'es'f bavo tUsfrnnr shittfd Uwueand* and lmn<Jr#d* of tbourtapd.a of rirfuoiw, intelligent ftn/1 nAtrWic wbitt- inon, MtfT enfranchised" WTetf *or Vgjit' htmflraj' 4tputan4 ignorant^$*.aifcr?Atjtga nogrbos! lb his wny Uiej Lavo placet all tbe Southern jiates nndot mj^ro 8npf?mafeyo!?" y An4 doi.yet aattefi*4 with tlwur. wlskednee*,' bey baye it ia o.<wJ*mpUtf<yi.to. ariu ?b*ao ouranchum! Trecdmen In order to tFArry tblfe Sieeion> ne*l full by f?n*ca bayonet. In Florida and Alabama they,base caused tlieir xigus.legislatures to take the blcetiou of I'rosi- . ..U.I. uic ine ppojilc.inil Appoint hem themaclvcn J It mu?t b? remembered, too, t )>afUiU pretended legislature .of Alabama was t fraud on the rccoitfll ruction acta and olectod ; lolcljr by U>? Radicals. - > , } Kndi$?l p#ciy U%WB^Jikewi8p deol*rej?, ; Iiat wbiUt tjjo poifc man,' the t#iKapicr tWJ 1fer?!in?it, Mi? farmer snd-pfanUjr/ar* ? 0 tU? earth trl< (* ttio i>ii<en ^40*1*1^0^. ^ * y < . ? . ' . * . 7 r ' 1 4 >*.'," j tnxos, Ibo rich bondholder aud inilliQimiro io | public funds shall pay no taxes at all or Ills im- j uieuse ill-gotten wealth ! Thay hUTO declared that there shall bo one currency in gold for the rich boiullioMer, ami another'currency in deI reciatcd paper for the scMior, mechanic and laborer! Is it possiblo that the American peoplo dovoted to republican principles and coustitatioual liberty, as 1 believe they arc, will continue in power such a party, "whoso fntricidal crimes and atrocious wrongs, <irc uuatoued for, and arc still crying to Heaven for vengeance ! Never! never! never! Two years nf;o these black and hellish designs were concealed from I lie peoplo of the North. They did not daro then to declare universal uegro suffrage, nud pnytuonl of bonds in gold. They caused tho elections I then to turn on llio adoption of the consliluI tional amendment. lint emboldened by their Mirci'ss. thov nnt'nlv -1 Jl' , j -i v..v .tiuucuu mmr [iiuiKM'lll, and have had nothing but disaster and defeat in all the Stales and municipal elections since. Towns, villages, cities and States, one alter another, liavo abandoned tlio Radical.parly iitul wheeled into ihu Democratic lines. Tho glorious little Stale of Connecticut, overwhelmed as wo thought with abolitionism and radicalism, rose up like a strong man and was (he lirst to hold aloft tho Democratic banner. The great empire Statu of New York followed, and ;xavo a Democratic majority of fifty thousand ! The keystone Stale was next in order, and nho trampled a radical majority of thousands: the year before, in I he dusi, and clocted n Democratic Chief Justice. Ohio, tlio empire State of tho West, theii came forward, and roled down uuivorul negro suill'age with a majority of lifty thousand! New Jersey, about tho same time, trailed in the dust her radical flag. The golden State of tho i'acitic followed suit. Aud her sister Oregon came immediately after into llio Democratic fohl. Little Montana and Idaho, not yet grown to be Slates, have recently changed their colors, and hoisted the Demo nag. x lie uouio old common wealth of Kentucky li:ul tlio honor of fiving the first Democratic gnu alter the nomination of Seymour and liluir. It was a big one, ami produced great coustrenation all over the Kadical kingdom. Tho carpel-baggers trembled aud thought of "hum." Tlio scalawags began lo dream of the Ku Klux Klan, and some rawheads, and bloody bones! Ninety?five thousand Democratic majority in "old Kcntuck!" Indiana only wauts au opportunity to display her Democratic banner with "fifty thouutnd majority" emblazoned on its amplo folds. In truth tliero is reason to believe, that tho whole North-West will be Democratic in November next. Tliero is no lolling wh?re this Democratic revolution will end- Massachusetts is not safe! Four thousand Democrats met. tho other day in old Fanueil Hull, aud had a glorious "rousilication" in "Mm rrmltn n? ty I" Ueorgo 11. l'endlcion, tho Napoleon of tho Wc^i, has gone to Maine to secure that yt:?(c. Kx-President I'icrcc may redeem tlic granito Stato. 12x-l'resident Fillmore has placed himself on the Democratic platform, lladical cloctora arc taking ilie situnp for tn-yinour ur.tl Ulair. And ii is fernvely said in the Xali'UKii /ntiUiijinnr that Grant himself is about lo withdraw from tlie canvans, and leave the Radicals with the bag to hold. It. is not improbable. llis itoiiiimtiioti has fallen stillborn before the American people and has excited no enthusiasm anywhere, The kindred and fricuds of his hundred thousand soldiers butchered in Virginia fcol no interest in his election. Tho Andersonvillc piisou?ra whom he refused to have exchanged cannot l'cel any enthusiasm for Itiui. The men of honor at the North cannot rr.,.L-? o~ S.I..I -.? ? :? .... .?<> ui nun ituur his ireacnory ami falsehoods to tho President. The men ol' sense nil know that (.Irani id no statesman, anil will he the mere puny tool of his faction if elected. The nomination of Seymour and illair hus been met with tho greatest enthusiasm from one end of ilie Kcpublic to tho other. Uulilientiou meetings havo been held in almost erery couniv, tuwri and village in every Stale of the Union. Torchlight processions, with banner.-1, tings, trnnrpuroiieies and suitable uiul appropriate inotios, have greeted the spectators everywhere. The people seem run mad with enthusiasm, and with the hope ot reselling the liepublic lYou the tcvrific domination of iliulieal rule. This Presidential election nl tbo North is a question of liberty or despotism. Uut at the Suiith, iny friomls, it i.s a question of life or ! it' tbo Radicals succeed, a war of races in the South ensues inevitably. Frightful will be the cousequenccs for a time, but tho result is certain. The inferior race will bo extin guishcd or driven from the country. They will go as tl;c Indian hus gone when ho made w?r on the while man. As deep an iiilcrect us the North may fuel in this canvass, the Jroul)i should li'cl u Mill deeper. We must tell them plainly that the^c curpct-bnggcrs au-l renegade bcalawags arc no friends of thiers. Their only purpose is to get cliiccs aud position by means of the colored voters; and if danger comes they will tleo the country and leave their poor deluded victims to their fate ! Tho freeilmcn ought to see aud know that their former owners and friends aro their best protectors, ati'l that they cau derive 110 beuulit or a>lvautagc from the carpet-baggers and renegaile whites. They havo uolhiug to givo them but lies for their votes. V?"e musi explain to tho colored people that lliPV '.r? fi< <* '>*? !..?!? 1 ?* 1 - - J ...v.. vniMTia ?nu nui tty the Itadiralft. Tli-'is, un will protect tlicni in their freedom find in t lie onjoyincnl. of ull I heir riguls, and life, liberty aud properly. When I hoy arc qualified by intelligence anil properly, \vc will extend to them the rij;ht of sulfroge likewise. At present (hey ought lo know Uiat Ihey are not i}iialiOed lo govern the Shilo. ami cannot do so. This is a whilo man's government and must ever reuniin ?o. Let them bo told ih.it we aro mutually dependent on each other. They wnnl 0115 land* to cultivate, and we want their labor. If we grow rich and prosperous, lliey must sliAio if. If wo arc poor mid wretched, they will t>0 still moro poor and more wretched. Our interests aro their interests. lint if they will not act with us, h>it agninst us, we must diconrd them. No one is bouud to umploy his enemy in his household, or on his land.-", and should not do 90. If wc refuse to employ them, they caunot get employment from their political friends, for I hey have uonc to givo. Wo ought tobhow them that tho mon ihov o*n #V\1 t--1 ? * 1 " j ...? .uiiuirmg ?j iisii men, mid leu I (heiu tUnL it id u sliiuuo they fhould bo votiug tor rojjiics and worthlosa vrhito mon iustoad of voting for gentlenion and honest good men. If we nro taxed hoavily, they uiust pay their pioporlion sit' iboso laxoa wlicn tlieir crops are gathered. T eannol conclude withont paying a cnnipliwent to tho ladies 'who I kuow will attend your meeting. I have ever found them more patriotic art<t self-eaerifieing and more spifjted than the geullomrn. 'A'Iib instinct* of woman's heart are always true aud patripiio. After the passage of tb? RecbiMtrOttlton Acts, the St At* aeeured ppftic-alrickefi and paralyzed, There was out a newspaper in South Carolina thut opposed thfcm, hor Vfoadihg nw'n. "1 eommt'Oeed my aerie* of t?Uer? against those infamous measures, and (hey were denounced by the preaa.' Some refused to publit-h them; while! others gave thorp a pla?? in their ool.uiuaa only to criticise and abuse . ibara. " Ono newspaper only?the Kingatree War?dared endorse thenr. Jlut every wlioro, jktjd on jail occasions, live soft, sweet voice of woman cheered rha on, aai] every niftil T rao-Jurt'l * - 1 "* ' . .w?t>vu n jruci i%viii lauirn wuuill J "OU never known, giving me encouragement. They B?id it the spirit of the men of Carolina wad broken and crashed, that of the tariiea was not. And they bid mo go ow iu my patriotic labor*, and said their pyyrqra were offered jjp for ni* and my emit*. Tbdir prAyer* w'eie noai'd, and now ereVy-decent man in1 Skmtb Carolina is heartily ojiposed to tfieae iufamoys Keconstractioh Acta. They Will be swipt onC of <"*fsteijoe by the .alecjion cff. Bn>inoyr>niJd lllnic, and the whole South will aland redeemed,\ ragenorated aitd disenthralled. * > B.'?, PEltRY*.' B X inrf rf . tl - V r' : f. 4*J u . Cy^iii^ESTox, 22(1 Angttst, 18G8.--? - ArnijtjJ^aj Buri, Sv-Me^ : ArVi '" *** - '? ' " v.-. i-oi'vin, jt. A. Fair, WV A. Xecr AbboviUo C. II., S.C. ' . " '" " ? ukntlk.mf.n ::?i in rocoipt'gf, your valuotl invitation lo aClciul and, wKlrc?a a mass mpcting of tho Dcfaac,- . ra<\>' of Al^ibviUo District on tho 20j4* luul hoped to l^V?j-h? auclT anJ oogwioii, liatyiftc <;iffcrout jjiroc ''*:*"'>?*. v.- ' ' msr - tion next week, and I am compelled to forego tlio acceptance of your invitation. There are personal reasons to make aw opportunity to meet Hie people o: Abbeville especially agreeable to nu> Their representatives, ,ou moro thai one occasion? indeed, I think upon ev cry opportunity*?have given mo theil consideration and confidenoo far ii advance of mv merits. I shall novm I bo unmindful t?l* this, and I regret t< miss the chance to say so. 1 never attempt to write or speal in the great contest now ponding that I do not feel oppressed by a can lion and anxiety like that of ono win watches the tr< nib ling of the balanc when the turn of it tells tho issue o life or death. Tho work of the campaign, whiel falls upon us at tho South, is restrict ed to a very narrow scope, but it i of the gravest importance to us am our character, that it shall be per formed manfully, fearlessly and truth fully, leaving us nothing to regret o be ashamed of in victory, and with out self reproaches to take from ui the consolation of a part well ant honorably acted if defeat sliould be fall us. Our platform is national in all it parts, sectional in none of them, am for tliat reason doubly satisfactory t< (ho South. Every respectable \vhit< man of our own State, ivho is nol controlled by somo special or persona reason, is with uhj and tho other: would not depart from their wicked ness, if like tho sinner of Tarsus thej were arretted on their way by divim liyht, unless divino jtoiocr wcro ala< applied to their case. Wo are therefore discharged fron all vain efforts to conviuco them. T5ui wo havo a yreat and responsible dut> j to perform to another class of oui ' population?to the colored voters. Il [ is our duty?and the chief duly oi the canvass?to omit no honorahh and truthful effort (o convince them <>f their error iu following the men who are now leading them. It h deshablo and essential to our success in this State to convince them of this but it is of even greater importance than present success that this shall hi done by nothing that is not truthful either in representations or in promises. The long future, which is sure is not to he forgotten or neglected un der the pressure and exigencies o the brief present. In our zealous el' forts for the present and the appro* incite future, wo must not damage the hopes of tlcit long future which is to follow to-morrow ami the day? and months ami years that are tc come after. In political afYJlirs a* well as in the higher purposes of 'ifi the anxieties ami struggles of tin present must not hut my us from t!_??. contemplation of the fuluro life, oi our State and our Nation. It will teach us above all things to stand steadfast hy principles, and to prae tice justiuo and truth to all persons This is especially due from us to tin colored people, because they are weak and for the most part uneducated We are strong and liavo all the ad vantage which education gives. Wt are their natural friends, bound tt them hy the strong bonds of hubil and self-interest. We are not to b< separated from them unless they d( it. That credulity which naturally follows ignorance and want of educa tion subjects them to be imposed up oil and led astray by tho designing men who arousing them to their ulti mate ruin. They arc told that wc w? ?uld return t hem to slavery?to line qnal laws?unequal legal rights?am nil the hardships ami wrongs that un equal laws might inflict upon them !! From the days when tying deina gogues taught tho people whom Got had delivered from tho Egyptians tc discard him and Bet up graven images and a golden calf and to accept them fcelvea in tile place of their faithfu friends, thcro never haa been a won abominable falsehood taught to the oredidouH and ignorant. I would have this proved to tho col orud peoplo. This can bo safely dom becauso it can bo proved that "wt woro a wiUinir and nccossiuw nartv U making them freo. . TJbo Badicals an<] their. Congross have declared that the abolition of. elavory was. "illegally' tfOne. *Tney insist ^ipon it. "Wo denj it, TTo say it wiiflawfolly "dorio and, tho great iysuo now beforo th< country is whothortho Southornijeg islaturos which made the colored jnar frco 'worp lawftil or nnlawfnl bodies They say thewo Legislatures wort uliIafrAtl, and alleging this they have failed to proiide for tho emancipation of tho colored man by flioSo Ijegiela fur'es which thty say are lawful. 1 would' show1 him thin, and that woj and not tho Radicals, aToirroVognb^ boutodTin honor, by law, and' b?jmi own unchanging inclination, to a$$oro him perjKjtttal- froedbM, i^i^otaal onjoyroont of eipjal law?/ eQuaV lpgal rights) equal fthffrttrtidU administration' of Iffw^lwd jQfltico, and aft th^ blowing*;-ofr liberty, property, and ^ ^ap .socprt}, ji^t^n jliq^vi??yay and Just*** folly bo. Bocurcd to JgJUh, J?U? ajid kipdly, .but, ^ifooii^tikelcaefc rc?orv^oj .o^^votft^oRrr^fe^ Ho can QQt ftu^^^V^y^^nrabTo political and ^ovotimioiato! fe^^ro?Elacy.v Ho * '* . ^t- ^t*^ ? : ' \ u *" * '' p ' , . r i1 u , ij? i'uii.ii1 ...i.. 1 cannot govern this country. Hecan not. make its} Presidents; op through hip* Bona tors, as thty have, threatened, > unmako a President. It is our eounI' try, not his. Tlic Supremo Judicial . .Department of tbo Government lnid i onco said so- It was about to say so - again when its voice was stifled by a r corrupt Congress* 1 If we discharge our duties to him r and ho still pursues the way of ruin, j it will be his great irrevocable misfortune, and not our fault. The future c I will be safo tons, ruinous to him Vmt it will bo to us without reproach ami without shaiuo or guilt for his mislbr3 tunes. c Again expressing my regrets that 1 (' cannot ho with you, I am Your friend an?l obd't serv't , JAS. B. CAMPBELL. s FOJl TIIE AmiEVILT.E PRESS. I Mk. Enrrou : Will you allow me to saj - through tho columns of your paper, to the - citizens of Abbovillo District, that as Can r va??8or for this Congressional District, in - behalf of the Democratic party, I will ad n dress the various Democratic Clubs and the 1 citizens generally, agreeably to the follow. ing appointments ? At Agnew's Store, 10 o'clock A. M., or s Tuesday, the 8th inaUnt. 1 At Scuflletown, 3 o'clock P. M. of sam< ^ day. At Duo West, 10 o'clock A. M., oc k Wednesday, tho Olh insl. I At Ceutreviilo, 3 o'clock P. M. of sam< h d?y. At Lowndesvillo, 10 o'olook A. M., or - Thursdny, 10th instant. e At Mt. Cannel, 10 o'clock A. M., or ) Friday, tbe lllh inat. At Bordoaux, S o'clock P. M. of aara? i d*yt. At Bradley's, 10 o'clock A. M., on Sat urday, tbe 12th instant. At White llall, 3 o'clock P. M. of saint t, Jayp Tlio DonnnlJsvillo Club aro rospectfull) . invited to meet me at Due WeBt, Union L Academy Club at CentreviUe, Monterey , Club at Lowndeaville, Warrenton and Cal ; houn'a Mills Clubs at Mt. Cannel, Willing , ton Club at Bordeaux, Moseley'a Club at Bradley's, aud the Mill Way Club at White . Hull. Jiespcetfulty, 1). WYATT AIKEN. I *? Prompt Payment.?It always given t us pleasure to commend a good insti lution of any kind, and, wo are sure, r all our readers will agree with us that - the following act of generosity dein. onstrates clearly that the Piedmont > Life Insurance Company is one of the ! very bCBt Institutions of the kind in < the land. Last week we published^, > notice of the death of John C. Mauck, ; of this place, who had his life insured ? for 81,000, a few mouths since, hy Mr. < 11. II. Siratton, Agent for this Coin> panv. f The President of tho Company, W. I C. Carringtou, and tho Agont, Mr. I ?Stration, were on their way to the - Valley when they heard of Mr, . Mautk's death, and since arriving } here have given a check for the : amount ot the msuranco, $1,000, to . Air. Muuck's friends, but according to . 'tho laws of tho Company they were > not obliged to pay tho money until > tho expiration of ninety days. L This act of promptness upon tho 3 part of tho Piedmont Life Insurance > Company will no doubt bo of acrvieo r to the Company in procuring a num. ber of policies from among our citi. zona, and as there is no question as to r tho reliability of the Company, wc . hope they may succeed iu securing a j great many. This is a Southern Company, and i thero is no use in paying money to . .Northern companies when wo have ! prompt and responsible companies of - our own.? Commonwealth, Harrisonburg I Virginia. i Democratic Mass Meetino at Nike tv-Six.?Wo learn that there will bo a 1 grand mass mooting of the Democracy at > Ninety-Six, on Friday, the 18ih inst. Oon. ) S. McGowan, Hon. Robt. Toombs and Hon. B. U.IIill, of Georgia, and other dis tinguiabed speakers, have been invited to > attend aud address tbo people on that oci caaion. > From tbo ontorpriso and publlo I spirit of tho citizens of that noigh> borhopd and thd onorgy and enthaai [ asm which they h?vo, manifested in r the oontoat, wo expect to see a ; grand demonstration on tho ooc&Bion. B6r A rousing mooting 'of the D?fl mflcracp was helcf at Cokosbofy dtr . Saturday laSt. ^ Abltf arid ea?nc8t'ad> dresBoa v?qro delivered byColSJ. "S > 1 Cothran, Ccrf. T>. W. "Atlcon artdothi ors. Tho pooplo of that taction -arc freely alivo? to the interests at. stakd, C and tho Bomo'cracj are deceiving con, rtant acc&iftfbns. "? '> ' Sunday SCHOOL ,Ojft.E#R4fio*.--An v lritoreBting 'fetfliday-'srcfiooi Geicbra JSj?> - .i- -1 >? . - non 'wasiyya ?voniyTD!KODttreM"ne** I Lovf ndestffftoj <m Saturday * IaAt> :i?* . Sanday-Bchocrts of Smynwf^ f Sfrtlc&ttnd Bidgo obaroho* - Appropirlsto-add^c# were toM&b<t bf X*vr Br. 'WtaHefb*!B&POk'm Wofford tJot Feg?, S91P. H^eoDf IWvr tlrlt. B*w* borate* ^Daniel Aftdo&ora/tfnd jbTiaefrdfektibutetf to tim pftpffe efHtofeh CBbMls^ TberC was^ A' ljrg?; ?.tie**difcr?o?o? cm ttae occaai6D)4md *?* * of ? "" terjtftorcMrtin#dhhrt^foK * ? ir t ?';.**? '? !-*' ?/" .- .< ,, *?\ -.y> y,-1- .< V. s '%^jf -.. v * ; 'J-LJi ! J?J "Li-" A largo 4ld enthusiastic moot' ing of tho Abbeville Democratic Club, was held in tho Courthoaso, on Saturday evening last. According to provious announcement, a vory ablo, oari nest, and iotorosting address was doi livercd by the Kov. W. C. DuBoso, tho rognlar appoinloo, and ho was fallowed by Gen. 9. McG-owan in an ad drosB of an hoar ia longth, characterized by ovon more than bis usual . ability and oloquonce. Tho next reg* i ular appointees are the JRev. Dr. Tilrc ; ner, and Edward Noblo, Esq. We invite attention to tho Card of Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, in an* . other column, in which ho publishes a number ol bis appointments as Canvassor of this Congressional District. Col. Aikon is a vory able and effecting spoakor, and wo invoke on his behalf a largo and enthusiastic turn out of r the Domocracy. BQL. Ex-Governor Bonham has addressed a lotter to Governor Scott, ' r.?u;.w. -ii?i!? - * uw unuauon 10 uio critical 4 relations of tho whito and colorcd raccs in tho State, urging tho necessity of his interposing hia authority to V i prevent collisiou. , - J ^ m . Tbo Charleston papors an5 nouueo tho doath of Mr. James Tappor luto Master in Equity, and ono of ' hor most prominent citizons. , % > BSy Wo would direct attontion to tho advertisement of Dr. B. Parker, ' who has on hand and for tale, a largo and complete assortment of Drugs and' 1 Mediciucs, and also a largo lot of School Books, &c. i ^ * * * M&- Tho nogroea ai'e about being . declared inelegiblo to hold Beats in the Georgia Legitjlaturo. s ~ 1 * CONSIGNEES VVIi* liftra freight remaining in Uo Sepot 1 at Abbeville: ' Freight.?Doreey A Thornton, ABC Dor. sey, Iter Dr Tnrner, J Devlin, A Boggs, J Kuox . ?fc Co, W D Mars A Co, T Lyon, Titos Sim a, Josiah Hereford, J A Ran ey, D Jordau. Exprcta.?E L Tattoo, Mra H M Bryan, 1 Mrs W R Matthews, W C Wardlaw, Mrs O L Parker, W D Mara ?fc Co, Maj D T Sims, J J Wardlaw, Mrs J R Cheves. D R. SONDLEY, Aeut. ffHiminis, Alcohol, Gain Camphor, Husband's Piaster, Ext. Logwood iu lib Boxes, * -r?_a a? \r t Ir.Ai.rui:L? T Biiccm, Extract Lemon, Coticli Varuiah, Copal Vuruiali, Black Leallmr Varnish, Annetto, Cnpitules. Creosote, Pill Boxes, Senna Lea#e?, Ileilgeuiait'a Kllr, Bulk aud Iron, Com position, Pulverized Elui, Philotoken, Septannrin. Iodine, Babbet's Yeast Toirderfl, Deuaon'a Worm Confections, Mustang Liuiineul, Glue, Gum Tragaeinth, Corrosive Sublimit*, Villits Pro. To. Cur. Iron, McMuns Elixr., White Wax, Large Corks for Juga, Pummica Stone, . C' Tee Gelatine, ? Cox's Gelatine, Whiting, Sewing Machin* Oil, Copperas, Black Drop, Chrome Yellow, Ippecac. SSannfords Liver InvigoratdT, Cinnamon, Brown's Valerian, Oxygenated Bitters, Scotch Itoh Ointment, Hehubold Buohu, Chloride of Soda Froneh, Mre, Winslowa Syrup, Oil Bergauiot, Reflecting Speoulums, Peteanig Concave, Tooih I'icke, . . Military Soap, Hey ncn's TruaSea Wood Padded, Chloroform, Iodede Patash French, Browndo do; da Gl$es Female Seyrauges, >_ Metal, do. do. Tooth Brushes 'English, Tooth Brush** uablwAej^-. . - , Perew Toilet Soap, Cologne, 438'Smiths, j*'* \ ' Cologne, 342 Strause, I Hang, Jiang, (Kimmele,). Harps Bell?Extracts 7o< thfe fisndkerchfels most Fuhiad*. Jiopn frwcdL. s .. Qan PotMh, r , Srth TodHTTiC f, Faint ffcfuafe** Now O-fcndj|, . * . Marking . ...s /. ? . '. "V^rojdh do., No. 0 arid \ I . ; Syr op Rhubarb, !* , y. t Oil- Olevac, < 'V v . > Twa Mur#U Iron, s- , . If?ym*ai Pfclent Truam, Roololbtt* Toilet Bo*p.- -t ; 600K& : ? . M i Fowler?fcArjU?m?tica .. s-^ ~ . Blank Bpoks, ^ f'i jfe /' $ i tif&L - ^ 3 4400 ibs. jiE^S^8. ?ou?, H' W^ v<^^W94IWmNW '- . ' <w?, ** * ~ ? - *-, ?.*v *?. >fyjii#r -> ' - * * '