The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-11-09


their lands to immigrants and capitalists
from Europe and the North This will
increase the wealth and industry OF the
State, and render more valuable the lands
which remain unsold. 1t will also have
wholesome check one. the colored popala-
ton, and strengthen our security from in
surrections and violence. Three-fourths
of the State of South Carolina are uncul-
tivatcd. Instead of population of seven
hundred thousand, our territory is sufi-
cient to support one of seven millions, if
properly distributed in manufacturers,
commerce and agriculture. -
1t becomes your urgent duty, gentle
men, tie make immediate provision forthe
protection and government of the freed
men and colored people who have been SO
suddenly released from slavery in their
ignorance and destitution. This is alike
due to humanity and justice, as well as
the imperative necessities Of society. The
negro has. lost the protection of his mas
ter, and he must now be protected by the
law. This is expected of you by the Pre-
sident- and the Federal Congress, and will
remove all pretence for military rule in
the State, as we'll as facilitate your speedy
restoration to the Union and selfgovern-
ment. The negro is innocent of all that
he has gained and all that you have lost,
and he is entitled to your sympathy and
kindness, your protection and guidance.
The Convention ordered the Provisional
Governor to appoint Commission forthe
purpose of preparing and submitting to
the Legislature. for their adoption, q code
of laws for the protection and govern
ment of the freedmen and colored per-
sons. In obedience to their order have
appointed Judge Wardlaw and Mr.. Burt,
two Of the most eminent jurists in the
State, to compose this Commission. They
will, in duet time, report to you the result
of their l;lbors. The Convention also au-
thorized the Legislature to establish a
Court in each DESTRUCTION the trial of all
cases in which freedmen are conerned.
1t becomes your duty to see that Courts
are organized. ~
The election for Presidential electors
has herssDfore been made By the Legisla-
ture of South Carolina. contrary to the
true intent ana meaning of the Federal
Constitution, and against the usage in all
the othor States. An Ordinance was
passed by the Convention, expressive Of
their judgment in regard to this matter,
and directed the Pre- visional Governor to
communicate this Ordinance to the Legis-
.lature at its first session. In obedience
to their order, 1 herewith send youa copy
of the Ordinance, which you will, at once,
carry into effect, by providing a proper
mode of eIecting electors of President
and Vice President by the people.
should be provided for at as early day
as possible. It's amatter of the highest
Importance that our Representatives in
Congress should be in Washington, ready.
to take their seats, on the first Monday in
December BY Act Of Congress, passed
March, 1868, it is made the duty OF the
Clerk of the previous House of Reprcsens-
tatives to make a roll of the Represen-
tives elect; and place thereon the names
of all persons, and such persons sonly,
whose credentials show that they were
regularly elected in accordance with the
laws of their States respectively, or the
laws of the Uuited States" 1t is there
fore the imperative duty of the Clerk to.
call the roll Of the members.of the South
ern States, whose credentials have been
exhibited >to him, and shown that they
were regularly elected. He has no more
right, under this Act, to exclude the mem
bers elect from South Carolina than he