The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-15

part to the luet and avarice OF the rest of hu-
man kind.
Our religious teachers had forgotten to preach
| tho wrong of withholding the hire OF labor trad
lbR In tine bodies and souls OF our fellow men, of
separating husbands and wives, parents and chill
dren, ana sending them to returnless distance
from each other, and from tho homes Of their iiy-
ing and tho graves OF their dead; and had become
with some worthy and glorious exceptions, PAN
derers and apolosists OF tho lust and violence of
the master, who IN return for their services were
willing to fced tlcm on tho fat OF the land Our
legislators, instead Of following tho Christian law
requiring much whero much is given, aud pro-
Port1onlng accountability to the gifts and talents
OF nature, had established the reyerso enact
mtents' lnt' furnishing the ignorant and uneducatod,
whom 1t was ma.e crime to enlighten, with
death for many offences, which, whom committed
by the educated and privileged, wore satisfied
with fino or imprisonment.
Our courts OF justice had proclaimed tho in
famous doctrine that dusky men had no rights
which white men were bound to respect; and into
dragged as IL criminal for an act which might ai-
most invite an archsngel to come down from the
mansions OF tho blest-for teaching the poor chill
dren OF oppression and Of licensed wrong to read
the Bible and the laws made not to govern them
msnity. r..r' - ''
the prostitution OF our homes, the very heart and
seat Of domestic purity, the poisoning OF which +,
fatal to all moralvitalAy and death to public and
private happiness. The sunection OF the women
Of one complexion TO the wild fury OF unbridled
licentiousness, and, as consequence, DENYING to
the women OF our own complexion the holy rites
OF marriage, or making, in thousands Of cases
those rites as much mockery as q conscious
traitors oath. were proclaimed on every plants-
tion In the bleached faces Of the children OF the
slave women, beached by the blood Of the first
families. until hardly half our births were of law
full wedlock, and until it would eeem that msscu-
line virtue must be nearly extinct in the proud
circles OF the chivalric aristocracy of the State
Your duties under these circpmstances are
both difficult and dangerous, for you are called
upon to oppose tho worst passions of very des-
perate men, who will make vigorous efforts to
verify their often repeated predictions that free
dom would bring ruin and determination upon the
colored people, and it is possible that you may
your duties, az one Of the Last Grand Jury has al
ready done. But better, a thous and times better
to fall by the hand OF the assassn as Lincoln and
Dixon have fallen, or die under the mockery Of
pretended forms OF law, as our Saviour did in the
cause OF freedom and humanity, than to ehrink
Ike towards from our public trusts, in order to
filling unh honored graves.
The laws of Congress, which will guido your
action, are instinct with equity and are ample, il
fearlessly administered to checK and humble the
most defiant, differing essentially in this respect
from tho lave of our State Legislature, which
like those OF an ancient heathen nation, seem
permit the strong to break through them" Yours
Is the rough pioneer work of removing the great
obstruction of crime and violence from our midst
so that education, intellectual, moral and relir-
ious. education very different in kind and degree
from the past, may come to cure the OWLS under
which we suffer. .
norance TO be enlightened and misery to be allev-
ated, We hope the teacher and tho missionary viii
come, and that culture and refinement will vet
be seen approaching that which now blesses Mas
sachusetts and New England; and that the time
may be hastened when our people shall feel and
act like brethren OF the came blood, children Of
the same Almighty Benefactor who permits all
alike to range the same earth, breathe the same
air, bask in the same sunshine, and dwell under
the same celestial canopy, thus teaching our duty
When joining in Efforts for mutual aid, we shall
forget the terrible past and the gloomy present;
the bitter fruits Of ages OF violence and oppres.
sion on our side, and Of misery, ignorance and
degradation on the other. Since the adjournment
OF the last Grand Jury, the attention of the Court
has been particularly called to our dsloyal Press
by the highest military authority in the country,
with view to the Punishment Of it's treason snd
excitement Ct rebellion.
. While concnrring entirely with the Lieutenant
plished lawyer who commands the Department
OF virginia, in the propriety Of abating BY military
power such papers during the supremacy of mar
tial law, and recognizing the distinction between
liberty and RIGHTEOUSNESS, after mature reflection
we doubt tho policy Of suppressing by the Courts
papers treasonable as any even in this state.
dom OF the press, it is submitted that the cause
OF good government may gain more by tho expo
sure OF treasonabe designs through the most dis
loyal press than it would by punishment and sup
preston. BY restraint the disease would not be
cured, but would only become concealed, and
more dangerous by conceament.
The vanity. egotism and hearlessness Of our
disloya editors can, with their limited circulation
do little harm except to themselves and their
friends. Their attacks upon good men only dis
play their own malignity, and greatly endear
those they assail to the hearts and sympathies of
the true friends Of freedom and the country 1t -
not intended to urge these views, and thew are
submitted with great difidence since they seem to
conflict with such eminent patriotism and high
authority. - -,
Your attention ia called to the laws aeainst
counterfeiting and passing the counterfeit cur
renoy OF the United States and also to violations
OF the revenue and postal laws Of the United
States, with the hope that you will be troubled
with few cases under them, and after q short ses-
sion be permitted to return to your homes, con-
duties.
After the Judge concluded the charge, ]. Gil
lipgham, Foreman OF the Jury, arose, and after
making few remarks explanatory OF his calling,
"as man OF peace and goodwill to all men," he
respectfully requested the Judge to excuse him
from serving upon the Jury, he felt himself TO-
tally incompetent 70 handle the tools spoken of in
the charge. "He did not know how to use them I"
The Judge held the request under advisement.
Proceedings I'm Congress on tho uth.
In the Senate the joint resolution of the House
TO provide for carrying into immediate effect the
Bill for the better organization of the Pay Depart
ment OF the Navy was passed. Mr.. Chandler
called up the resolution to prevent the introduc-
tion OF cholera into the United States, which was
discussed by Me8Brs. Sumner, Morrill, and John.