The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-02

~ come braid o Garland ere the leaves
Fali IN the Blasting fRains'
| kams will be recolleoted as a partner Of
MCDANIEL in the torpedo business.
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Letter from Ex-Governor Magrath.
The following letter from x.Goyern.
or MAGRATH appears in the New York
Herald, Of the 23d inst
FoRr PULASKI, Nov. s, 1855.
l. my DEAR------ 1t costs me an effor.
to seat mysslfand write yo,,, because the
subject of my letter is always matter
OF great consequence to me, and al the
same time OF great trouble to nv friend,
who are able to do anything for me.
And the thought that the sight of INV
handwriting brings annoyance to nv
friends IS tom source of inexpressibie
pain. Still, my condition here is so tor.
turing to me, that, instigated by the let.
ters which my fellow prisoners have re.
ceived to-day, | am forced to write YOU
and ask ifit is not possible to accomplish
my Liberation +? Every other Govern or
OF q reconstructed Safe is atlarge, Ev
cry other Judge of the Confederate
States Sat large. Every other Judge
OF the URited States who resigned is at
large. Why should l be detained ?
What have l done 2 Who strove, in
f!ba, siste more earnestly than did. for
years, to avert q Separation !? W no
was held more responsible than l for hay.
ing stayed the action of the State ? And
when l did resign what other course
could l pursue than that which / did
pursueaj ajn resigning at onte, that sue.
cessor might be. appointed ? Would
this be condemned II so, what was
the alternative ? Was it to continue.
and either thwart the action of the Gov.
ernment Or renounce opinions whichI
honestly entertained 2 II this be true
what is my offence but in having such
opinions 2 And can that be censu,able
when with me the conclusion was not
matter Of choice, but OF necessity. be.
cause the convictions / had2 / could
60 further for you know that because
OF an adherence to the like, copyictions
became obnoxious to the Gottslfhment
at Richmond. The opinion had Of that
Government had excluded me irsfn i,s
confidence and deprived me 81 its- s-fayor
certainly, IN the, enterteiRpent Of my
opinions and in tie ,adoPtion of my con
clnsions I have sbASn that I was en-. |
d!eayoring. to- ssk the truth, and in
.Es ~ 's'fs maintained aonsiatsn,
Y i lylppfdges'is opposed to me, it can
o1S pc from some private pique. To
taMf Seward Lam wholly unknown, and
what can Judge -haye against me /
Can ! not point to my course during the
time that ] held the commission ofths
United States, anI ask him, or any
and and All else, 70 say in what is there
wrong7 ',, ,s 1.''
AM not entitled to claim that I met
the Court ofthc United States in South
Carolina, an effets institution, little
known oryrespectedl and,that under my
auspices and dIdrection it had riser, to as
great consseqpenc .and enjoyed as much
respect and confidence, as any other
court nithe States as ii not known
TO all thatsih the increase. .af.its business
tbe. road was opened for the LAWYER oil
South Carolina to the Supreme Conf.
whore but few before had ayer found
thslr way, and that the unhappy con,
yilssiion " hicehl shook the country alone
that more extended inter.
cot,Eas from whichso much good waa
expected Or will it, be said fbntii