The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-08-23

IpCaIeS Or Ice peOple tieieoI, anu athohS |
the rights thus reserved to the States is
the right to prescribe qualifications for
the elective franchise therein, with
which right Congress cannot interfere.
No State or Convention ofStates has
the right 20 withdraw from the Union,
or to exclude, through their action in
Congress or otherwise, any State or
States from the Union. The Union of
these States is perpetual, and the au,
thority of its Government is supreme
within the limitations and restrictions OF
the Constitution N,',i h~ T'n#a.a
Sixth-Such amendments to the Con.
stitut,ou Of the United States may be
made by the people thereof as they may
deem expedient, but only in the mode
pointed out byits provisions, andiin
proposing such amendments whetherby
| Congress or by a Convention, and in
ratfying the same all the States of The
Union have. An equal aud an iudefeasi 1
BILE right to a voice and a vote thereon.
Seventh Slavery is abolished and
forever prohibited, and there is neither
desire nor purpose on the part Of the
Southern States that it should ever be
re established, upon the soil or within
! the Jurisdiction of the United Sta,os;
and the enfranchised slave in all the.
States of'the Union should receive, in
common with all their inhabitants, equal
protection in every right of person and
property. 7aap.,e loa 5,do7F t0U
Eighl-Whi we regard as utterly
invalid, and never to be assumed or
made of binding for ce, any obligation
incurred or undertaken ii making war
against the United States, weaholal.h'i
debt Of the Nation to be sacred and IN
violable, and we proclaim our purposein
discharging this, as In, performing all
other national obligations, IA to maintain
unimpared and ,unimpeached The honor
and the faith of the Republic ~, ,5s,.t
Ninth-It is the duty ,oflhe National
Government to recognize the services OF
the Federal soldiers and sailors in the
contestjust closed by meeting promptly
and fully all their just and rightfnl claims
for the services they has rendered the
nation, and by extending to those of
them who have survived, and to the
widows and orphans ofthose who have
fallen, the most generous and consider.
ate care. ig,ruirlgv m1,R
Tenth--In Andrew johnson, Presi-
dent Of the United States, who in his
; great office has proved steadfast in his
devotion to tie Constitution and the
flaws and interests ofhis country, unmow.
ed by persecution and undeserved re-
, proach, having faith unasailable in the
people and in the free governments we
recognize Chief Magistrate worthy yo
s the nation and equal to the great crisi:
. upon which his lot is cast and, wetendel
:. to him in the discharge of his high anr
t responsible duties our profound respect
and assurances Of our cordial and sin
8 cerra support. MN s.y,gj ,
ri I" These resolutions were received, a
i. each was read, with great applause; an'
they we're adopted by the nhanimou.
!. vote Of the Convention, followed 10.
e loud an long continued cheers. 5.aoE
v The hail storm in northern Illinois las
q week was yery destructive and the hail
;, stones in size were beyond precedent. On
u was picked up pin Lahark three and a hal
l. inches in circumference and one inch thick
- A peck was gathered up Of nearly that siz
v in Lanark Owe" four thousand lights {
q glass were broken out Mt Bla ,kberry Station
. Hardly whole light of glass was left ]
~ town. In Elgip several thousand lights {
LEI glass were emaabedI the hailstoncs4 bein
ID seven inches ir ciropmference, In Il
of track Of the storm which was about mi