, 1865-07-11

Barbecue---Pienic to the Veterans
I'd, SC. 49, :


from tbs le!shbor1ng towns, assembled to
the nunl btr OF ten thousand In Buelrs Grove
near the city. The procession, headed by
Col: .Magil1, included in addition . to the
usual coucolrec Of citizens and officials,
Union car containing ttirty-sIr young ladies',
presided over BY the Goddess Of Liberty, ill
Of which Was superinteAded With taste and
produced . fine effect. 4 bods Of Veterans,
Hcme Guards, the Nte Depar: ment, T1ades,
Odd Fellows, and othsr associations followed.
"A cavalry masquerade In motley costume
styled "Sherman's bummers," formed the
numerous feature Of the d.y. On the grounds
IN exteneive barbecue had been prepared, by
the slaughter Of some twenty head Of teeyes,
hogs and sheep.
The free tables furnished by the Odd Eel
lows were so ample as to accommodate two
thousand at sitting md were several times
cleared. Many, also pic-nickea, bringing
their private. co1lations, while q dozen tenn
porary booths, erected In the grove, assisted
In furnishing Refreshments to: tho crowds.
Delegations had poured in from The neignbor-
ing. towns, and the assemb1age was larger.
than, On any former occasion. A brass baud
and choir were in attendance at ths speakers
Stand. Mayor Rice presided. After brief
address by, the. Mayor, prayer by Rev. Mr
StaIkweather, and the reading of the Dec
1aratlon by Captain Green, intersperscd with
music by the band and choir, the oration
WINS delivered BY Van Bnren Denslow, ESQ,
Of Chicago, one Of the editors Of the .T11-
BuSR.. 1t occupied two hours and twenty.
minutes, and was listened to with unabated
attention to Tho close. We publish the por-
ton Of the address bearing upon the .4ues-
LIZ MS Ct Reconstruction md negro suffrage,
Which met With tho hearty endorsement Of.
the people assembled: -.
1t Is our duty In view Of these lessons Of
tho war, to see TO 1t that eyery rebel State,
when reconstructed, has net only abolished
Blhyery-but irreyocab1y established fiee
schools, Tree speech, and Gec press, and
Eiytn the Federal Government power to en-
sure education and protect freedom within
Wand Beecher, or whoever may be thc man
In the north most obnoxious to the slave.
ut ldcrs, May freely speak to whomeoeVer
may drslre 10 hear, in the msaucst hamlet
IN the south, without being suppressed eithcr
, BY siate laEs.. lawful courts, public. mobs or
individual Williams.
This, with the extension of the right Of yo.
ling to all. black or white, who have served
IN our a,mics, who can rend and write, and
Who a1e selfsuppo1ting, will give US, Ii not
Indemnity for the past, at least security for
And This susgests-n naturally brings US to
consider. what We have to fear in the future.
And first let nc say that NC are not to
fear anything that fs unavoidable and 1t Is
unavoidable that the. whole white rebel mop.
u14tiou Of tho South must vote. The wofd
"loyal" In President Johnsou's proclama.
lions Of reconstruction. defining who shall
yote, is meaningless. There wetc ten Saints
In a6dom to oneloyal white man In tue South.
In all our var, has enc Southern soldier fred
high Iather than XIII Uptnpist! None
but tie black regiment at Richm md. In al
our marches, has one Southern white vel.
coined our flag with joys Has any whit.
man rescued our prisoners from rebel pris-
ons, end helped them on their way at the
brought US information of the eneny. OF In
| any other way shown his loyalty, Than to
c1mc' forward when whipped. take tho oath
| vi Allegiance, and ask .tor Federal rations
ard q Federal office: Except In East Ten
nesEcc, there arc. hut two Union men in
| made one Of them Governor ot Tennessee
| sDt the otlor wc made Fice-P President Of the
| tue Unitsd States. You know, alas! what
made him President.
It is because tho whites are al ulsIoyal,
| that 10 distinction can be dIaHn except be-
tween these who will take the oath and those
Who will Eot. ard here there IL no distinc-
tion, fer thcy will all .tase the oath. George
| s:ndt5s, the sllc remaiuing representative ol
| the Couffceracy, tells them to, md whom
else Should they follow Hence, they will all
| vote.
voting are deceptive, ehort-llvcd, hypocriti-
| cal ehams. The lrst and only act for which
Gov. Peirp; Int called together his Virginia
Legislature. Was TO amend the Constitution,
| framed BY elssen men q! Alexandria, so that
rtlels might vote.
P.irpi iut's a,lcyed'reason WAS. that IS nine
teen-twen.ictts of the people wc1s reb il, It
was so far right hut had he gone step far
| thcs, md said, that ns half the pr ople were
blacks, 1t was equally absurd to exclude them,
he would have had whole truth. L half
truth Is alwa} q e lie.
Gov. Holden, OF North Carolina, was rcb-
| shc1man's army Waa within cau. Though Of
tie Political party opposed to Davis, he held
| the oi!ice OF State printer during the Conted-
c.acy.. He took, therefore, and kept the oath
tn support The Coniederacy, and was as good
| a Confederate rebel as Gen. Johnston Or a.
Il. stcphens,. who were also politically op-
| posed 10 Davis.
Gov. Parsons, Of. Alabama, is heavy
Shareholder Of the samc class. So Is Gov.
Eharkey, Of Mississippi, who was, like Ho-
den, Ccnfedesate otfice.holder. They are
@srs 1 1oSgss tesa 9stss becsu,s @ tn:y
fcred in politics with the macs Of the North
ern ptople. ALI three Of them are excluded
from c{ernency By President Johnson's am
nesty pre- clamation. It rebels are mate Gov
eino5e, n.e Cd We any further proof that they
We do not complain Of these appoint
nents. The President is not to blame for
| tudtl Z no doves In flock q Crows, and no
p:ckctcl In horse pond.
But NC do complain that, seeing that all the
Whites trcbels) must rotc, he did not counter
act the danger thus involved by allowing the
bln:ks (Cnionist=}, uhdes proper limitations,
| to vote Rlnn.
We hold that the President ought, and
Congress sill ought, to let In. to use The
lhngrage Of our late President, Lincoln, at
least the very Intelligent and those who h.rc
i borne a.ms in our Defense" to vote, as IN
otIset to the rebels who must vote.
l. We believe, with Mr.. Lincoln, that they
|, would probably Le1p. in some trytn. ttrae to
come, TO ke.p the Jewel of Liberty In the
family Of Freedom"
And we regard the dlscns=ion Of this mat
ter rs appropriate to this day, because every
prIucIple for which NO contend is contained
in the Declaration of Independence. Ger.
tainly those who hare met to commem orate
those principles will not object to an honest
practical application Of them, to the meas.
nrcs OF our day-especIauJ when the hllrre
to do so heretofore, has 90 recently cost
at least ten thousand millions OF dollars
The Declaration Of Independence Is mede uT
Of three cardinal principles, aud as each O.
them contains tho other two the three art
one:
=. Government should derive Its powert
froc, the consent OF the governed.
8. Taxation and representation arc irscpa
rable.
All these principles are violated By de-
/ p1ivinE the negro Of bis vote. They say t
us plainly The negro has the right to be
politically our equal, therefore be should
vote. The negroes are to he governed
taxed. utnce they should vote.
But It Ia said ''the President had no power
to decide who should vote. he must leave II
to the people Of the Statcs.'' If this be true
then his decision that the blacks shall moi
vote, was nsurpatlon and wholly void. Tht
"people Of tue States," since emanclpa .Ior
includes the negroes, for 1t must incluce al
citizens Of the United States residing within
those States. Has the President submitted tht
question Of suffrage to them: Only as ths
Yankee gave the Indlan his choice between
the turkey md the crow. he saya shal
| whites vote aud blacks be excluded, or shal
blackB be excluded and whites vote. I'll
never says vote to the negro. Is this leaving
the qurstfon to "the dear people" from
ourth to two.thIrds Of whom IN the rariou!
Southern States are negroes?
But 1t Is said the President WIS bound Il
be guided By the former constitution Of eacl
State, In force prior to secession: The Presf
dent is bound by nothing but the law. II th,
former constitution Of Mississippi Is Law to
day, then the President has no right to up
point governor for that State In mauifes
violation Of ihat constitution, which require;
the governor to be elected by the people. AMI
us consequence excludes oil others excep
one so elected from acting as governor. /
the President can mako lawful Eoverno
Of one whom the old constitution excludes
can he not make lawful voter of ore exclud
ed by the esme constitution. If On the othe
band the former constitution Is not law to
day, and the President admits it Is not, b,
referring to 1t in his proclamation not as /,
fores NOS, tut Ms having hcen in force lmuc
diately piior to the ordinances Of secession
. then what right had tho President to dis
! At nntn1. A.-k~ H.