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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-23
STATE CONVENTION.
Friday, september 90, 1865. :

GIAnhys SCpGCnAOcG 49, ASOJs
The President took the Chair, and
the proceedings were opened with
prayer
The sdiseussioa of the representa,
ton question: was continued, and sun
dry amendments were ordered to be
laid on the table. Il.
The report of the Committee on
Amendments to the Constitution was
ordered to lie on the table.
The report of the Committee on the
Legislative Department was taken up
for consideration. was discussed and
was finally agreed to. :.
The report of the Committee on the
Legislative Department., on a resolu-
tion as to the qualification of voters,
was recommitted.
The SSiUTHERN STATESMEN AND THE
N1eGEREEADs.-It is very evident
that the negro worshippers of the
North estimate the Southern eharac-
tor BY their avn standard. They are
constantly charging them with hypo-
crisy, and with nuanifesting desire
to return to the Union only for the
purpose of deceiving the North and
then secure an opportunity to carry
out their secession dogmas. It is
web known that the niggerheads of
the North are, rs public men, the
most unreliable in the country. They
are constantly protesting one thing
one hour and doing the very reverse
the next There is no reliance what
ever to be placed upon their pro
fessionS
Bnt''in basing their Judgment of
the Southern people upon their own
standard, they fall very short of the
known character of those people. It
is we'll understood that the South
ern men are open and above board
with their deeds. Long before the
war commenced they Informed us
that they intended to break up this
Union They made no secresy of this
fact, nor the least attempt to conceal
1t. on the stump, in their own State
legislative halls, and u both houses
of Congress, it was proelaimed with
out any effort or desire to disguise it.
w Az tsA 1Au'o OCCu, Gllt
was that the Northern people would
not believe them. Now that the war
is over they are equally,bold in pro-
claiming their determination and will
hngness to abide by the result and
come back and be good and faithful
men to the Constitution and Union.
accepting nil the consequences of the
war. : This they are just as honest
and earnest in as they were in their
assertions to break up the Union
when the war commenced. But the
radical negro worshippers know that
they themselves are full of hypocrisy,
and. Judge everybody else by their
own standard. The President, VIII O
was brought up among the Southern
people and fully understands their
character, does not view them in that
light, but, on the other hand, assures
them that he is satisfied that what
ever they promise they will do. The
public believe the President is the
best Judge, and prefer to follow him
rather than the niggerheads.
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BILL OF MORTALITY BY the report
of deaths sent us by the CITY
Registrar, we find that there have
been during the past week thirteen
whites and thirty-tive blacks and
colored who have died. OF these,
There were eight cases of fever-tthree
whites, twoo of them children, and
i've. black adults; of dropsy, five
blacks-four adults and one child:
and of commissions, five children
one white and four blacks. 1t will bo
observed, also, that the black adults
who have died are over three times
the number of the whites, and the
black children are more than double
the white. The rest of the deaths
appear to be Of. general diseases. and
IN the same ratio as of former years
at this season, and we must still be
thankful for the extraordinary health.
which has blessed our city.
. Charleston Ne,cs.
Bigotry murders religion and fright
ems fools.e
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RESUMPTION OF CIVIL AUTHORITY.
Our readers will be pleased to learn
that civil authority is now fact ac-
complished. Gen. Bennett and John
r. Carew. Esq, Sheriff of the Dis
trict, visited the jail together yester-
day, when the charge thereof, to-
gether with the prisoners, was turned
over to the civil officers. Possession
of the court house has also been de-
livered, and the Sheriff, Clerk and
Magistrates enter on their several
offices, as we mentioned in our notice
OF Gen. Gillmore's orders. 1t is not
probable there will'be Judges to pre-
side in the Courts-for some time yet,
but che Clerk viii issue writs and the
Sheriff will execute them as of yore,
and all the entertainment to be found,
III the Light literature of initiatory
judicial proceedings, is now open to
the public. In conversation with
Col. Carew yesterday, he remarked,
and we are pleased to record it, that
Gen. Bennett has acted towards him,
in his official capacity, with cour-
tesy and consideration which was ex-
ceedingly grateful, and he entertains
the hope that he Will find, in the au-
thority under that officer, relief from
many Of the embarrassments which
he is likely to experience in entering
so unprepared, and with such def
cheney of means, upon the discharge
of his official duties. The number Of
prisoners is large, and it will not be
an easy matter at once to take charge
of them. Charleston Neecs.
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local Items.

| We have been requested fe state that tho
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, D. D., will preach in the
Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning,
at 10t o'clock, and in the afternoon, at Al
o'clock.
| Mr.. T. G. Pollock has just opened an es-
tablishment, near Main street. opposite the
| old jail, where the best brands Of wines,
| liquors, ETC., can be obtained. The thirsty.
! can give him q call, with the assurance
that their wants viii be fully satisfied.
BY reference to our advertising columns,
| it will be seen that Mr. C. S. Jenkins has
removed his store to Eew building on AS
sembly street., near Washington. His stock
is varied and well worthy tho attention of
purchasers.
Mr. Patrick Walshe, who is connected
with the New York Metropolitan Record, is
here as the agent of tR.t paper, Of the New
York Day Book, F-eenaan's Journal, New
York Ne,cs snd several other Journals
OF which we believe to BE of the Democratic
order. Our people know the character of
some Of these. journals-possibly of all.
Mr.. Walshe is to be found at Nickerson's
Hotel, where those who dcsir6 to have
journal from New York may find him and
procure it. r1
The Posr oEF1cE.-Mr. Janney tells'us
that he will open the ps-t Office on Monday,
having received his Commission as post
master. Somedelay has been occasioned
by the difficulty Of finding proper quarters
for the department. When opened, the
mails will be made up for Charleston, New
berry, Winnsbofo, Augusta ands all routes
severally connected with these places. We
then trust that tho embarrassmeuts Of the
mail will cease, even though the transmits
sion of letters be slow. The Grcenville
cars arc now running daily. We hopo that
Mr.. Janney viii procure promptly an nde-
quate supply of post-stamps, the lack Of
which is greatly felt in Columbia now.
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. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS is cali
ed to the following advertisements, which
are published for the first time this morn
ing:
Gen. Richardson-General Orders No. 1. :
Lumsden& McGee-Com. Merchants.
7. c. Polock-Wincs, Liquors, Mc
Resumption OF Exercises S. C. College.
{. s. Jenkins--Neiv and Choice Goods
g Flour
Richard Caldwell-Groc-ries, &c
7. d. Lec--Mules for Sale.
VIM. Hitchcock Building Lot for Sale
Apply al this Office-Planing Machine.
L. 5. Mood-"atchcs, Clocks, Sc
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COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, Sept. 23, 1865.

When the armies of the Confede-
rate States were retreating before
those of Sherman, they burned the
railroad bridges as they retired, thus
doing the very thing which Sherman
had principally set forth to do. Sher-
man was very grateful: They saved
him time and trouble. The question
was, why our troops should do this
thing and thus save theinvader all the
labor and loss of time They could
not be pursued over these bridges,
which were useless without the roll
ing stock and the usual connec-
tons So we lost the bridges over
the Edisto and Congaree. They did
not know what else to do, and when
folks are greatly worried or badly
scared, they have a notion that some
thing should be done, that y are
expected to do something, il enly to
keep themselves busy, and SO they do
mischief. We appear to be Carrying
this insane military policy into our
Legislature, and law-givers, with the
desire to be doing something, and
perhaps little bewildered as to what
should be done, are about to do the
very things which our political an
tagonists are proposing to themselves
to do for us. The excellent Generals
Sehenck and Cox, of Ohio; have de-
clared themselves for denying, to the
people of the South any represensS-
ton Of the negro population in tie
Congress of the United States and
they avow, as their reasonHfor it, the
necessity Of stripping the South of all
possible political power. They are
now busted in teaching this doctrine
and desire, and upon, this one mea-
sure they indicate the organization of
a party. We are an accomplishing
people. We take our cues from
Wheeler's cavalry, and save d&r po-
itical enemies the labor. We burn
the bridges for them which they lave
set forth to burn. We help their en-
deavors, and in our eagerness to OBJ
tain exclusive power in certain local
sections, at the expense of others in
the State, we cut the sinews of the
State itself. We strip it of half its
power in the Union, and reduce it's
representation to a thing purely
nominal, destined to be as great an
ahsurdity as that shadow OF repre-
sentation which the Colonies in 1775
enjoyed in the British Parliament.
We hold it to be certain that Messrs.
Schenck and Cox and their associ-
ates will be baAled-that, a census
being taken, the representation of.the
negroes of the South, as elements of
its population, will be insisted upon
by the ab6litionists themselves. In
deed, it is the inevitable law&of the
land. It would then be seen, the
curious anomaly. of negro represen-
tation in Congress, when the same
population is denied recognition at
home. No longer chattel, we deny
that negroes are persons-are por-
ton of the people, the Inhabitants Of
the country. We do not say citiz z--ls
such they. are not, and under the
laws of the United States, and the
ruling of the Courts, sAh they can
not be. But to deny them 70 be peo-
pie and inhabitants, is to fly in the
face of fixed fact. There they are,
four hundred thousand Of them,
more os less, multitude in compari-
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our way cautiously along thc sound
in.gs- these should be our present
rules of conduct. = Zeal, however pa
triotic and generous, shofld not be
allowed, at such time, to seize upon
the helm and take, command. Good
senses and great prudence are the
essentials of command, and these are
to be. confined to the one object OF
bringing the ship Of State safely into
port.
We are greatly relieved to find,thass 1
our excellent friend, the Hen. J.. &.
Orr, has had his pardon issued under
the great seal of State. He. is now
secure. His head is safe on it's shoul-
ders. He is in no danger in the fu-
ture for his deadly SINS in the past
More than once, during the session
of the Convention, while he has been
laundering and lightning as he had
been wont to do in Washington, we
trembled lest the Provost Marshal
should walk in, cut him off in the
midst OF his finest passages. tuck him
under his arm, walk him out in front of
the Convention Hall, decapitate him,
and leave his head stuck up in te,vo7ena
to all future rebels, at the junction of
Plain street with Main, looking up at
the Capitol. The idea was source
of continual apprehension. We had
enjoyed the honor of serving with
MIR. Orr, some twenty years ago, in
the Legislature we had travelled to-
gether in search of the picturesque;
had placed our knees under his ma
hogany; had hob-a-nobbed with him
in Washington; and our associations
had always been SO pleasantsthat. the
idea of his head, stuck upon pole
in the streets of Columbia, looking
still toward the Capitol, kept us from
goodly sleep more than one midnight.
We rejoice that he is safe, that he still
retains the integrity of his head, and
trust that he will continue to do so,
Just SO long as he is able to pay the
capitation tax, setting good example
OF patriotism to the population at
large, white, blaelr. colo-ea and eq,u-
vocal. Amen!
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US, we snail foster with our lnStitu-
tions, protect by our laws, shield and
teach under our guardianship, race
whose very existence in our country
we deny in our legislation. The pre-
text for this. denial is a mere social
bugbear. Representation does not
imply citizenship or the right of suf-
frage, nor, can the latter follow, unless
it be that, in despair, slsorn of all
political power in the State, the
regions of country into which these
people viii naturally crowd, being
crowded now,s shall insist for their
security on according the inferior
race those privileges which are essen
tial to the safety of their owns4 Des-
perate measures are all that are left to
men In desperate situations: The negro
at the North is represented as an inte-
grail of the community, is subject to
taxation, yet denied suffrage. There
is no political or social wrong done to
him in assigning him this inferior
status since it is the very same which
we assign, and fer 4 like reason, to
our wpmensand children. They are,
from certain peculiArities of constitu-
ton, condition and character, held in
minority and under guardianship: In
the case of the negro, he is creature
necessarily of perpetual guardianship,
as the Freedman's Bureau will proba-
bly, discover fast enough, as soon as
the Government of the United States
shall deprive their officials of fat sala-
ries and a grateful exercise of autho-
rity. We turn once more to the bust
ness OF. our legislation. Mr.. Aldrich
was only half right when he sought,
by his amendment, to accord three
ffths representation to the negro.
Why this arbitrary assumption that
the negro had not his full physical
proportions-that he was minus
right arm and right leg? The arbi-
trary d1smemberment of him, as it
occurred in the manned and halting
compromise between the States at the
junction of the bond of Union, was a
oonr1ssion l,y the South to t1.e, eo1s-
ishness and prejudice of the North,
and should never have been made.
The South should not have entered.
the Union unless with full recogni-
ton of her population guarantees.
But. even this was based upon the
idea that the negro was o. chattel-
was property. He is so no longer.
Neither the Congress of the United
States, as. in relation to the States,
nor the districts or counties of q
State, as in relation @ each other,
should be permitted to. enter within
the sectional bound, and arbitrarily
prescribe and declare the status of it's
classes. They should know us re-
spectively only by our totals, as sworn
to under the State or National census.
We trust that all this legislation will
be scrutinized with great care before
step is taken. We should not be such
blockheads as to burn down our own
BRIDGES with orr own hands thus
facilitating the, objects of ourpoiticai
or military opponents. Let them do
it if they will or can; but let us, if we
cannot find betterowork to do, go, in
the language oA Hamlet, and be idle.
When we know not exactly what to
do-when God has dropped the cur
tain SO closely before our eye and at
our feet, that Reason is compelled to
silent, and Conjecture alone ven
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We have been requested t9 state that the
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, D. D., will preach in the
Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning,
at 101 O'Clock, and in the afternoon, at Al
O'clock
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-02
CONGREGATIONAL.
WAsuINGrON March


SENATE A bill IN relation to tho Pa
citic railroad was passed
The Conference committee on Disagree
ing on the amendment to the legislative
appropriation hill, by which the House
makes an appropriation for an increase
of the salaries of its employees reported
unable to agree
Recess till o'clock
HOUSE. The House resumed the ron-
sideration Of the amendatory tariff bill
An unsuccessful attempt WAS made To
strike out the additional duty Of IL cent,
on 100 pounds of railroad iron
The bill as originally reported was
amended, but in no respect reducing any
of the duties, and then passed
Mr Washburne, of Illinois made re-
port showing the frauds and disloyalty
arising from the trade with the rebellious
States, accompanied 10y bill to repeal
So much of the law regulating such trade
AS authorizes tho appointment of agents
for tho purpose of purchasing products.
The bill was passed
The House then took up and conalde
cd tho civil appropriation bill. ..
Without coming to conclusion on
the bill the House took recess till 7:D
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-02
GENERAL SHERMAN.
The Latest Rebel Items.
Surgeons and Nurses for sherman's
Army-Tbe RumOred Junction Be-
tween sherman and Sch0fieId

New YORK, March The fines
Washington special says: In anticipa-
tion of battle between Sherman and
Johnston, of wlichwe may receive in
telligence at any moment, the War De
partment has despatched well-appoint-
ed corps of surgeons and nurses to Will
mington, from which point they will be
sent forw ard to Sherman's army. They
are amply provided with hospital stores
and everything necessary to the care OF
the sick and wounded.
The rumor that Schotield has formed q
junction with Sherman is regarded here
as altogether probable, but the govern
ment is confident of ShernaD's ability,
even without Schoield's forces, TO take
care of himself aud manage any force
the enemy may send against him. Still,
as Lee will undoubtedly exhaust every
available resource III the effort to check
Sherman's advance, this speedy junction
of the two armies is desirable, as making
assurance doubly sure.
Deserters from the rebel army come
in steady stream. Many OF them be-
fore they leave our lines are separately
examined, and their testimony for the
past few days is to the effect that A +.
Hills corps has left for the South 10 aid
in resisting Sherman. II this should
prove true, it is deemed absolutely nee
essary that Lee must strengthen his
lines, which necessity is the only ground
for the rumored evacuation OF Peters
burg.