The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-08-29
An nl.Tlmed Proposition.

people to be held, in order to give such
an expression of their loyalty to the
Union as will satisfy the Government
and the North that they have no desire
or intention to o'interpose the slightest oh.
stacle or difficulty in the way of that full
and complete restoration of the old ties,
political commercial and social, to the
accomplishment Of which end the states
manship Of the country is now anxiously
directed. We have never had any
faith in conventional machinery. Itbas
been the source Of infinite public mis-.
Chief and we have yet to know what
really good purpose it has subserved,
+, that could not just as we'll have been
subservcd without it. The people of the
South at present are not in condition
to give their attention to unnecessary
convocations OF it. They have enough
to do to watch over their troubled and
confused pecuniary affairs, and cannot
afford to indulge in such political luxu.
rics as Conventions, except such as are.
indispensably necessary to adapt the
constitution of their respective States to
the changed order ofthings at the South.
We do not believe that this is the way
10 convince the northern radicals, who
are the only assailants of the southern
people. we might hold fifty conYen-
tons and they might pass unanimously
a thousand resolutions declaratnry of
our loyal dispositions and intentions,
without making our sincerity q whit
more credib!y by the ultra agitators of
the Phillips school. What we can do
through convention we can much more
effectually do by ueting right in the
elections that are to come off for Con.
gress and State Legislatures. These
will open to us n straight and broad and.
smooth road to the confidence OF the
federal government, and of all the hon.
est and right.minded people ofthe north.
1t is in vain for us to seek to propitiate
the favor of the Radicals. They would
not believe the avowals of a, convention
any mora than they believe III the rep,
reservations of the southern press,
which daily meet their eyes, We are
not opposed to the object of the suggest.
ed Convention, which we should re,
joice 10 see effected. Bnt we object to
the Convention process. because we con.
scientiously believe that it wonld bo
abortiye. AS we said before. we can
much more easily and effectualiy attain
the desired end by our votes IN the rlec.
(tionst for Congress and the Legislatures,
sagltsn they come on than in any other
way. Yet stillif shonld please ma
jority ofour people to try the virtue of a
Convention we should interpose no OBJ
atacle to this method of gratifying their
swishes--however persuaded we might
lbe within ourselvhs of its inefficscy.
a<f Petersburg Erpress.
~, CHANGED.--De Bow, of De Bows
late ReUis'o is in Richmond, and an ap-
iplicant for pardon. He was one of the
committee appointed by the press of that
city to make arrangements for the recep.
,tion of President johnson when, he
visits Richmond, In the June 1861.
number Of his ReyieW De Bow says -.
.,r Bal Apaericaa, dug. '23.
The army of the North is as remarka,
BILE for its base material as ours for its
high morality. Respectable man do not
60 a.rogucing (this is Mr.. DeBow's
own word, spelled exactly as he wrote
it, and the attack on the South is avoyy-
edly a rogue's expedition. The North.
ern troops are, with very few excsr
tions, paupers, thieves, ignorant foreign
ers, murderers, bpllies and criminals of
every description. They are not halfs
well informed as our negroes, and it
add much to the indignation and ,exaspe-
ration of our troops that they have to
meetthese nemadic scoundrelsI
The Washington Union is severe on
the gentleman from Lowell. IT says,
"If Ben Butler had been in Heaven dur
ing the rebellion there, he would have
stolen all the gold of thenew Jerusalem,
and fiia away with the silver ofthe Ark
ofthe Covenant