The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-24

sSnpainV anu our ana 10 the Natlonal
Government, the refusal Of Congress to
treat with descent respect the men
whom We had sent to aid in the recon.
struction OF the Government upon prin.
ciples sanctioned by the North, shirercd
the influence of that magnet, and baaish.
ed the hopes and expectations (I will
not say the purposes) Of the South, and
left US paralyzed, if not disaiTected
people. You, Sir, may wash your
hands Of this great transgression. The
blood Of a murdefed nation will not be
upon you and your posterity. untar.
nlshcd will stand the statue OF your
fame in the inches of impartial history.
During the whole Of last summer
those who had only recently been
found in arms against the United States
Government, not to destroy it. but to
abandon it, were .unconscously found TO
be landing the power and prestige of
that Government. Old associations had
begun to be revived. Anticipations as
pleasing as apprehensions had been
doleful, began to prevail throughout the
South. Business was resumed with
chccriulness, and recreation spiced with
hopetulncss. But that dream has van
ished like the ETHEREAL mists. OF sum.
mer's morn. "'rhe winter Of tiScontcDt"
extends over our whole land in the
place OF which there might have been
the serenity Of the summer Of peace.
Indifference las succeeded plant choice.
The wounds which oblivion had begun
to heal have been savagely irritated,
and their fostering secrdNons may, lead
to consequences appalling to mention.
You will not think, Sir, that opposition
to faction is disloyalty to Government.
The radicals would have us believe,
and you believe, that their nostrums are
panaceas for every political disease.
But we of the South solemnly admonish
Messrs. Sumner and Stevens that the
tendency Of their course is to destroy
every vestige Of the Union they seem
30 jealous to uphold. For myself ]
deprecate any further bloody issues.
But | do solemnly and sincerely warn
those gentlemen that the position they
hold, however it may aggrandize the
ephe neral power { party, vi in the
end result only in anarchy, bloodshcl and
ruin. We are treated AZ madmen
Will it be surprising If we doport our,
selves rs such2 y
Why mince matters (? Why not
come to the issue at once 2 Mr.. Sum.
nrr, and those of his way Of thinking,
have received their political education
in section where slavery has long ago
been abolished. The views which ho
to-day would force upon us are ,u:h as
he was years adopting. With creative
power whioh none but Omnistience and
Omnipotcnce would dare exert, he pro.
poses to recreate political sentiment in
the South, Let him do lit, IL hs can.
The results of war would make such
condition desirable. But let h;m know
that lIc whispers against tornadoes when
he attempts to remould, in the lwinkling
OF an eye, the sentiment Of the South
The bountics Of fortune which he and
his co.adjdtors now enjoy from the
profits ofthe slave trade, should shame
him into silence. But, like aidcrs and
nbettors Of criminal act, shame is not
acknowledged in his vocabulary.
write, Sir, in sight OF the armed SOL.
der who is here to enforce the princi
pies inculca.cd by the radical party
North. Had your policy been the
ground of action on the part Of Con
gress, no exponent Of military power
would have been seen to day in these
streets to impress upon us that we are a
conquered people. The acknowledge ent
OF that fact was foregone conclusion
twelve months ago. That soldier is an
evidence that we not only stand before
the North as conquered people, bnt
that we are perjured people. They
demanded our oaths, We give them.
That soldier stands there the very ex.
ponent of Northern doubt, and that
doubt is, the honesty of the Southern
people IN taking that oath. We may
be regarded as having made virtue Of
! necessity when we suhscribed That ooIh