The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1866-09-26

Editorial Correspondence.
COLUMBIA, Sept. l8. 1866.

You little Printers devil, you little
big old humbug, you but never
mind, [ won't quarrel with you now,
but don't you do me SO again.
Look at.thc lSth's issue. Where you
say Especial with here and there
courting sccnc," [ said ssspicod" &c.
Where you said "rcscinacd and pass
cd with amendments" I said recon-
sidercd" &c.
In the Senate yesterday the Bill to
establish Districts Courts was again
taken and passed without opposition,
after being amended. 1t was an
nounccd in the course of tho discus
sion upon it, that there was the high
est authority for stating that if the
General \sscmbly asscd this Bill,
the Provost Courts would be abolish
cd throughout the State within two
weeks after these Courts shall go into
operation. Nondcr f''is so :
All the measures before the IIousc
smacking of Stay Law principle were
yesterday laid on the table. 1t is
likely that to-day the Bill from the
Senate, suspcnding action in certain
cases before the Courts, will come up
before tho House.
1t san evil omen that so many Leg
islators arc counselling reputation
of tho highest judiciary in the State,
and trying by subterfugcs to cvado
the letter of Stay Law while they
enact a law of that kind in spirit and
in fact. We have for months been
charging the Federal Legislative de-
partmcnt with gross violations of their
Constitution, and now wc ignore our
own.
What is the country coming to Z
While the elements of discord, aye,
of civil war, are gaining in strength
every day in tho North, apples of dis
cord arc lavishly strcwn in our midst.
In Missouri, what is tho exact state
Of political disturbance Z Gather. it
from the appeals, not of Radical jour
nails, but of tho Conservative ones.
"Gct" say these journals to their par
ty-"yct caps and guns and ammuni-
tion, and DO ready for tho conflict"
10 my mind it is a foregono conclu-
sion that such a conflict will take
place North. SEQ the declarations of
the Now York; Herald, paper which
never had fixed principle, but the
best. weather-cock for indicating the
direction Of tho popular breeze, to be
found in tho whole North. In it's is
sue of Friday last, it declares that tho
success of the, Radicals in Maine is but
tho >ground-swoll that will sweep tho
North sand it adds, which is prce-
nant!y significant, eve bow to tho de-
oision Of the mighty North"
We then of the South should preserve
q calm and united body, not that we
can do anything for the benefit of our
friends in the so,called loyal States,
but chat wc may not aggravate the
evils incident to our present political
status, by admitting and cherishing
domestic disturbing elements.
Those two savage wild beasts, dcs-
potic power and democratic ambition,
ms Alison dcnominates them, arc ram
pant now, they arc broken loose from
tho confines Of conservatism, and arc
seeking whatever they may devour.
The womb Of tho future is filled with
horrors for this country. before which
tho bloody record of the Fronch Reign
of Terror may turn pale.
AS for my longer hope ola return to
first principles on the part of the poo
pie of tho United States, there is not
q particle of ground for it. A bloody
civil commotion is now inevitable, and
whom its howls and shrieks aro passed,
will arise a repetition Of the scones Of
the last days of Bone aud Of the vari-
Gus experiments by France to estab-
lish government throc-quarters Of a
century ago. I pity the sanguine
spirit than oan look at the facts now
staring us in the face, and say that all
this is tho wall of alarmist. He
will DO most wofully disappointed.
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