The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1866-08-01
IT. Public Meeting,

The Proceedings of the public meet
ing will be found elsewhere officially
reported. We think it due to large
number of the citizons present to give
a series ofrcsclutions which expressed
what they thought to be the proper
course of the State in regard to the
Philadelphia Convention. When the
vote was taken OH the preamble and
resolutions below, as to whether they
should be substituted for those submit
ted by the committee of five, it stood
23 against the substitution and 10 for
it. Thus it will appear that the issue
was fairly and squarcly madc-ought
we to be represented in the National
Convcntion-and it was decided by a
small majority that we should be.
1t was stated by gentlemen that the
meeting was not as fully attended as
it was desirable it should be, consider
ing tho very important issue before tho
citizens Of the District, and not as full
ly as it would have been had not the
nature Of the call boon somewhat mis-
understood.
The matter Of sending delegates to
Columbia is now among the past is
sues. We have no more to say upon
that, except that the arguments of the
friends Of tho National Convention, as
to why We should be represented in
philadelphia, were not at all conclu-
sivo. The only forciblc argument was
tho forciblc manner in which they clos
cd their eyes to the premises of tho call
upon which they acted
But thorc is still another point up
on which VIC raiso note Of warning
and that is, we hopo our State Con-
vontion will decline sending delegates
to Philadelphia. Our voice is focblc,
we feel deeply, rs deeply Interested as
my man in this State for tho dignity
and welfare of the State. The State,
if slc enter that Convention, does it
with n knowledge of tho breakers be-
fore her. Tho resolution relative to
Hon. Jefferson Davis found in the Off
cial report Of the meeting, will meet
with Il universal response throughout
hA South.
But here are the resolutions alluded
10 above
Whereas a Convention is called to
meet in Philadelphia on the llth of
August next, to be composed Of dole
gates from all the States and Terrific
rics, said delegates to bo chosen upon
certain prescribed conditions
And whereas those conditions arc
such rs to preclude tho possibility of
tho late Confederate Statos sending
delegates without committing thcm-
selves to n a'courso Numerically oppos-
od to their idea of what was tho true
charnctor of tho late civil war, and
Whoroas, tho demand of those who
originated this Convention is retro
spectivo its character, and pro-
nouncc %ment in advance upon our
distinguished Statesman, Jefferson Da-
Wis, who never has compromised the
dignity of tho South, therefore be It
|. Resolved, That We, tho Citizens
of Fairfield District, S. c., doprccatc
any step on the part of tho South that
will involve her in creator difficulties
than those which now surround her.
#, 2. Resolved, That, while wo do not
object to uniting with any party at the
North which will extend its aid in our
behalf, IN securing for us equality in
the Union under tho Constitution, and
the seats of our representatives elect
in the Congress Of tho United States,
still wcbclicve it to bo moro con-
formablc with our interest and self
respect not to commit ourselves to the
condemnation of Jefferson Davis mere
ly for the sake of party aifiliation as
in .condomning him wo condemn our
selves.
3. Resolved, That we, too, cordial
ly endorse tho restoration policy of
President johnson.
Il. Resolved, That we are now ar
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States under the Constitution of the
United States that wo ignore tho
remedy Of secession, and that wo deny
the power of the General Government,
under the Constitution, to exclude
State from tho Union, or to govern it
as q territory.
8. Resolved, That We will anxious
ly await the developments of fthc poll
10y determined upon in the Convention
to meet in. Philadelphia, and will cor
daily umitc with taat policy in cvory
particular in which it shall promise an
early solution Of tho oppressive and
anomalous, difficulties of our present
situation, upon a basis consistent with
the oaths we have taken to support the
Constitution and the Union thcrcun-
der, as we'll as with the plain and une.
quivocal terms of the Constitution
with all its ratified amendments.
6. Resolved, That we exceedingly rc-'