The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-07


posing tho sovereignty Of the State,
either for notification or secession; bat
She remedy is by petition or remon.
STRANGE by reason, which sooner or la.
ter will overtake justice; by nil appeal
to the supreme judicial power of the
Union or by revolution, which, if un.
successful, is treason.
The decision was far more imposing
and obligatory than if it had been pro.
nounced by the Supreme Court Of the
United States. Had it been tried there,
an effortto reverse it might have been
made, because its members and opinions
often change. But the God of Battles
has pronounced an irreversible iudg.
ment, after long, desperate and san.
culinary struggle, and it would be neither
polite or patriotic ever again to invoke
anew trial of the fearful issue.
The clemency which President John.
son has so generously extended to
many OF our citizens, in granting full
and free pardon for participation in the
late revolution, does honor to his states.
manship and to his sense of justice.
He is the ruling power of great and
triumphant Government, and by his
policy will attach by cords stronger
than triple steel" the citizens of the
entire section of the Union to that
Government which he has so long and
so ably supp orted and maintained. He
was well acquainted with the South
with her politics and politicians, and
knew however erroneous in his iudg.
ment may have been their political prin.
ciples, that they honestly enter tanned
the sentiments which they professed.
and for which they periled their all
and after failing in their end, when thew
proposed to return to their loyalty, that
humanity and pelisy dictated that they
should not be hunted down for ignomin.
ious punishment.
shall give his policy of reconstruc.
ton an earnest and jealous support.
veay As should dbss'ala bss aSlaay yeaGaa End scbs M
exterminated in all the States of the
Union. The Convention of this State,
with singular unanimity and prompt.
ness, accepted the result OF the issue
made, and declared the fundamental law
"that slaves having been emancipated
by the action of the United States an.
thorlties, slavery should never be re-
established in this State"
The Legislature has followed up the
action 6fsthe Convention, by passing
the Constitutional amendment proposed
by the Federal Congress prohibiting
slavery everywhere in the United
States, and comforting on Congress pow.
er to carry the same into effect. Sla.
very in America IS, therefore, forever
extinct. The people Of South Carolina
have acquiesced in this sequence Of the
war with remarkable cheerfdlness,, es
Pecially when it is noted that her peo.
pie have been the staunchest defenders
OF the institution, on principle Of poll
cey. tor more than a century her
institution was greater, relatively, than
any of herlsisters, its cash value at the
beginning of the war being more than
two hundred millions Of dollars---and
that, from settled conviction, her two
great staples Of cotton and rice could
only be successfully cultivated by COM
pulsory labor. - i
The Convention and the Legislature,
both recently elected by tho people,
have no doubt faithfully represented the
sentiment Of their constituents on this
subject. and it cannot be doubted that,
since the slave is emancipated, 1t is the
hxed purpose Of the people to secure to-
him his rights Of person and property
ae a freedman--that q jnst rsmnnern.
tion shall be paid him for his labor, and
THAT he shall be pro. against the
fraud and violeBce 3. stle aytfnl and the
Ilawisss. The Importance Of your lekis.
lation, regulating the relative rights and
duties Of the whites and the freedmen,
at your present session. cannot be over.
estimated. The vital interests Of the
State, in my judgment, are aependent
solely upon the lava you may paAs with
reference to this peralatioR. They
must be restrained from theft, ialeness.
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