The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-14

States have refused to unite in be concerned IN
that issue, and have used, as they are still using,
restoration OF these States according to the re-
ouirements Of the act Of Congress.
In the next place, it is well also that it should be
understood that between the Commanding General
Of this military department and the Governors OF
The two States Of which it is composed there is ac-
cord in sentiment and concert in purpose. And
surely no more perfect and gratifying evidence OF
this can be found than III the conference between
them which has recently taken place. In that con-
ference everything tended to confirm the respect
and strengthen the confidence they mutually en-
tertained
stood tnat the circumstances which rendered
NECESSARY the Orders No. 10 were Of the gravest
fnd.a population in the midst Of which was
starvation, and added to the horrors OF which was
the aggrayaion OF severe enforcement OF the
remedies Of the creditOr 30 severe that 1t hao al
ready affected the sense of private obligation, ana @
oyerthrow, Of public order. ,,n
M ia uroper also that it should be well under
atosod that this condificn Of the people OF the
State was not exceptional; that it was not tne e1
tESnth ss to the general condition Of the p?ula-
Zion. the existence and intensity OF which was 30
positively and clearly produced before the Com
msndine General that he could not reject the evi-
dance, and receTving the evidence, to have pos,
sessed the power by which it could be relieved and
to every suggestion Of humanity, and been untrue
to the duty with which he WAS charged-.the high
ca of public duties, 10 save, and not to destroy,
the people for whose government ne had been Be-
lected
,It is proper, also, that it should be we'll under
stood that by the constituted authorities, and by
the people OF these States, the orders which are
challenged as an act OF wrong and oppression havo
been accepted as measures stamped wltn penevo-
lence and saving people from intense suffering.
And thisis abundantly shown in the marked approx
~ which has been given to these orders by those
who are in authority in these States, Dy the Ian.
guage Of the press in these States, ana sun more
meetings Of the people which have yet been held;
51 rs Hfs pruper, also that it should be understood
that this manifestation OF the temper ana purpose
with which and for which the great power gwen to
the Commanding General has been exercised has
secred for the measures proposed by the Congress-
Tor the restoration Of these States prompt and
ready acquiescence and support which, under the
circumstances, might haye bean delayed; ana that
whom. under the influence OF such orders, restora-
lions r. accomplished, not only in words but IN TACT;
when by the exercise Of the power OF the Com,
msnding General, the past becomes forgotten, and
haia able to say to the people of the United States
These two States are now 1T TO be restored-most
happily restored, when gu ahenaaon on Is nov now re- re-
messures Of Congress- as. the tests by which they
are TO bo tried in their fitness for restoration, and
to thEt teet the people have submitted; and In 30
? doiMSe have proved their fitness; the Commanding
Geueral wifi have done to his whole country SER
Via tliin which none could be more honorable.
The good and wise men within the limits Of this
department fully appreciate tho labors and diff
cufties OF his position and the good and wise
within the same limits VII gave alt al the % aaa sney
What be 80 much desires. 1t may do TOR those
eiho are at distance and at ease to criticise the
degree of heroism which they are not obliged t.
fiInStrate, and speculate upon the performance OF
81 Ro,. yuh
whom the administrators Of the highest public trust
Is conscious to himself OF the recStude OF his pur-
nose. and the people affected by, its exercise are
not only satisfied, but thankful for and approve
would seem, st best, but 9 very gratuitous and
Gnixntic beneyoience to find cause for sorrow in
f6at which gives peace to the land, protection to
persons, and security for property.
have been SO freely indu1ged in concerning the
Of the orders, and the uncertainty
Thich ia pretended as to the meaning and intent
OF the several sections Of the orders, we are not
pretation Of statutes and ordinances is not the
most familiar Of the pursuits OF the writer whose
eassy is before u.s. and that his attempt to expose
tSe defects Of another have only tended to the
more perfect Development OF hls own inaccuracies.
Hsd the writer in the National IntelGgencer been
fsnifiar with the reading. Of the statutes, as
mart and parcel OF which these orders are
30 be considered, he, perhaps, would have
found that the language USED these
existence employed for the purpose OF expressing
tha same thing to which General Sickles has re-
farred. Moreover, If the study Of these same law
yers can be commended to the writer in the Intel
ieencer, he may then discover that General
Gckles, before he became soldier, had been
trained and educated aywer and thatin his case the
learning Of the courts had been too deeply and
thoroughly impressed to be efaced or affected by
fhosa Services In the field which are too conspicu
oas TO be referred to by those who have read the
history Of this country in the events Of the last
Ave- or sx years. and in the services OF those who
In that memorable period have so well earned
the gratitude Of their countrymen. The desire,
matter now referred to, induced criticism which
certainly has not tended to expose the ina ,curaces
of General Sickles, however much it may have es-
tablished that OF the writer; but tho same temper
and the like i'll success have 6een manifested mamie, IN
fion brought upon contracts for the purchase OF
neeroes, and suspended the prosecution OF them.
It would not be unreasonable II it were pracucable
TO enquire whether the critical writer OF ths ar1
ole has personal interest in any such contract!
II there is no private feeling in the matter, with
what does he find fault? Is it the language of the
orderp II 80, it may give him comfort to know that
the highest court in the State OF South Carolina has
very sufficiently understood this order, precisely
In the same sense in which General Sickles intend
ed, and in the same sense In which every one LII
the State and out OF it also, excepting The writer
IN the Inteligencer, has accepted it. Docs tho
writer Of the article in the Intelhgencer question
the policy Of suspending decision in these cases
unsil there shall be judiciary created under the
new political organization of the State, according
to the requirements Of Congress? Does he intend
to urge with hot haste the consideration of ques-
ton which involves in it's final determination O
great variety Of circumstances growing out Of u
number Of cases, and to the final decision of which
are to be applied rules Of public law which havo
not been generally discussed in these United
States, and IN relation to which, if dis
cussion Of the like questions havo been had
In the courts Of Great Britain, few who have
studied these decisions will not admit that they
leave the real question in these cases not conclu
ayely presented, and far from conclusrely settled?
IN there is any one question concerning which,
hy common consent, all parties have acauesceo in
tTe 1Jropriety OF suspending for the present the
incal consideration Of it, it is that which General
Eclles has thus suspended. 1t may be q matter
S;cfIes had not been made, the courts would not
have fet it proper to postpone OF their own motion
+Lo consideration OF such cases. 1t is, however
matter of no doubt that the courts and the people
TeJi understood what the orders meant, for they
coud not misunderstood it, and that these orders
have been accepted as measure of rehef, timely
applied and judiciously devised.
''ne Iast specific exception which ID made to
these orders is the criticism expended upon that
nortion of them which enforces the acts OF Con-
aress in relation to the currency OF the Onlteu
8tatee Had the writer in the Intelhgencer been
Tmld have seen, upon careful reading Of the
orders, that General Sickles plainly required ana
omIy directed that whatever Congress had de-
clsred to be legal tender should be accepted by
the States in the military department over which
be was placed.
Had the writer in the lntelhgencer been con-
ceEned to inquire under what circumstances this