The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-09-09
To His Bxcellency Andrew johnson,
President of the United States

fully exhibit to your Excellency our de.
sire to intercede in behalf of Mr.. Jeffer.
son Davis, the President of the late Con.
federate States. We have heard with
much satisfaction that petitions of like
natHre have been addressed to your Elk.
cellency from other portions of the coun.
try, and we entertain the hope that these
united appeals for mercy will not fall
unheeded upon the ears of your Excel.
lency.
In any event, it will be grateful to us
to have thus testified our feelings for one
whose. faults, in our Judgment at least,
have not been past forgiveness. Called
from the retirement of his home to a
position which he did not solicit, but
which his manhood forbade him to de.
cline, illustrating by his conduct the
highest devotion to principles, which
were maintained with marked unanimity
by his people, temperate in the hours Of
triumph, dignified and calm in the days
OF defeat, always just always generous
always brave, we.sce in his conduct
everything to evoke sympathy, and
nothing to merit the extreme punishment
with which he is threatened The same
firmness and calm views of policy which,
on repeated occasions, he displayed in
resisting the cries which, in his region,
were raised for sanguinary retaliation,
we hope will now be exhibited, in dis.
regard ofthe unfcelng agitation which
seeks his life. We hope there will be
q merciful remembrance of his poor wife,
plundered and insultcd after being torn
away from his prison, and Of his
young children, whose prospects in
life have been so terribly blighted.
Impelled by the feelings of our ma.
ture-which are ever excited by the
misfortunes Of the brave and the good,
which have in all ages characterized our
sex, which moved Martyrs to be the
last at the Cross and the first at the
grave-we earnestly beseech your Elk.
cellency 10 exercise, in behalf of Mr..
Davis, all Executive clemency.
Grant our petition, and, beside find.
ing in your own breast the reward
which attends every vrtuous deed, we
sincerely believe that you may expect
increase of yom own renown, and of the
honorable character which forms the
strength of your country. For our.
selves we will say we will hold in
grateful remembrance this act of gener
osity to the unfortunate, and viii teach
our children "to rise up and call you
blessed"
ABBEvILLE. August %, 1865.
We are pleased, says the Columbia
PhGniD of the. 5th inst, to report that,
after an amicable conference between
Gov. Perry and the Generals Meade
and Gilmore, all impediments to the pro.
per re.establishmemt of the civil au.
thority within the State have been
withdrawn by the military. The courts
of justice and the magistracy will re.
sumo their functions, and the provost
courts will DE limited in their Jurisdiction
to those cases only in which the freed
negroes shall be parties. But we refer
the reader to the proclamation of his
Excellency, Gov. Perry. 1t also pleases
ns to add that the negro troops are to be
withdrawn promptly from the interior
of the State, and to be ) concentrated il
garrisons along the coast. This infor
nation will be gratefully received by the
whole body Of our people, to whom theil
presence is annoyance and offence. The
necessity for their removal, however
has been made terribly apparent in tho
shocking crimes which have'been lately
committed, the full evidence of which
has been furnished by the Governor tc
the United States Generals, who have
pledged themselves to the prompt ex
animation and punishment Of the crimi
nails. Even apart from the actua
commission Of crime, it is enough t.
know that the whole experiment in fre,
negro labor has been, mischievousl,
impaired, ifnot wholly defeated, in al
those regions where the black troop
made their appearance in propinquity
with thelaborers. The effect was mos