The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-07-17
e" Mr.. Ell. BtalwoN, the father
OF newspapersls on u visitto our town.
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OF newspapers'ls' on u vlsitrto our town
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81 The American Patriot and Cur Position
- The Pat.iot of the 18th .animadxcrtA
upon brief editorial copied from the
News, and basis its presumption of
what our position is, upon that arti-
Gle. ''F ~ %' 'f"7 /,
I'VE have advocated in the colu M n
of the Rotriot the representation of the
South, by delegates, in the National
Convention on the l4th Of August
/. prox,, believing it to be the. duty, to
b say nothing of the interest, of the poo-
pie of the South to seize upon every
opportunity to recover, at least, some
Of the liberties they enjoyed before
the war; some of the freedom of
speech that characterized the Ameri-
can people, and of the liberty ofthG
press. But our WimSboro' friend
wants none of these. He is yet for
standing aloof !; resting upau his dig
nifty refusing every overture for his
welfare and thereby damaging porSon-
al as we'll as public interests. Is This
polite :
The above extract we'clip from the
Patriot. Unfortunately, the Pahfat,
like every other paper that has come to
MS advocating our representation in the
Convention, advances its idea Of the
nature of tho call for the Convention,
based upon its Imagination, and then
goes into a homily upon that idea.
The Petriot may see q ''duty" and
an ''intcrest" in our accepting the in
'vitation to 60 to Philadelphia, but for
tho oflIfc us we cannot. Aud as for Gre
fusing every overture for his (our)
wclfare," we assure the Ratriot that
wc'demur to so broad an application
: OF its idca'of the imitation to attend
that Convention. AS to "some" of
that freedom and liberty of which the
Patriot speaks, we assure our contcm-
porary that we desire all of it we can
get.
We will submit to the candid con-
sidcration of the Patriot onr reasons
for opposing, not tho Convention, but
our sending any delegates there, and
we ask that paper to give those rca-
sons calm consideration before charg-
ing us with "rcjccting every over
turc."
|. The first fact is that Conycn-
tion has been called to meet III Phila-
dclphia on the 18th of August.
2. The second is that We have Ind
promulgated to us, of South Carolina,
four official papers in reference to said
Convention. Q.) The Official 'Call!
(2.) The Address Of the Democratic
Congressman. (3.) The PLATFORM of
the National Union Club. a. The
Address Of Vice. President ORR to the
People Of South Carolina.
After the announcement of these
facts, tho first thing to notice is, who
are invited We confess when we be-.
gan to read the Official Call, and had
finished the second paragraph, We did
feelrcjoicedthat steps were about to
be taken to unite the masses Of tic
North and South in sober delibera-
tion Here Is the second paragraph
of that Cali ,r. n.. yl pHr
"Such delegates. will lie chosen BY
sthe, electors of the several States Who
sssustain the Administration in main
Claiming unbrokcn the Union of the
Estates under the Constitution which
"our fathers established"
Whata broad magnanimous ground
upon which to cxtond an invitation