The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-06
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SSIR You have ed aad 81 ell llllcias
letter 70 6 asa. SiciIisa, In which yors
thank him, for his midiEtrati ion;
while ruiersof This State. This you
1 do on bsiia 4 OF those you repre-
tbens. Ny astonibhtnent at your
course is only exceeded by my fnortfs
fcation in finding. my State SO mis-
represented by you in your official
eapacity.s s. sIs & lls. I, ~ g., q s
Z would call your attention to the.
following public acts of General
Sickles, and ask whether: you CON
slider the nnthor OF them worthy of
connmend dation.
I Before che. Act of, July created,
| General Siekles military despot OF
the Carolinas, he on his own authori-
ty, enacted: ~ !. s,,,f
= That negroes should sit on
juries. IS sSS5
Q, That negroes should ride in
first class cars, and steamboat state
rooms. 49, >..I
8. That negroes should vote at all
elections. a.
4 That negroes should be eligible
to all Offices in the State, including
that which you now hold.
/ o. That no elections should be held
except with his imperial permission.
He also committed the following
acts:
Us !, He degraded both the United
States flag and the Charleston fire.
men, by forcing the latter, against
their uniform practice before the war,
to display and salute the former at u
purely civic procession.
2. BE refused to obey the ha6edS
corpus writ of the United States Court,
o process SO sacred to all Englishmen
and Americans.
8. He caused Capt. McNelty to
be tried by q Military Commission,
{uithough tine United States Supreme
Court had solemnly declared Military
Commissions illegal in time of peace
and fined him heavily for not allowing
q negress to crowd herself with the
ladies on his boat. .
4. He tried two youths of Column
bio, for assaulting two mischief-makers
from the North, by Military Commits
sion, and sentenced them to confine-
ment at hard labor in fort in an
other State, where, I understand,
they are now doing police duty and
cooking for negro troops.
B.. he removed an honest magis-
trate in Columbia, for not oue,'-doing
his duty in the above case and re-
placed him and degraded the Office
by appointing an ignorant negro.
= g. He interfered with our laws
generally; and concerning rent, Ii
censes, and the administration of
justice-thereby almost destroying
all credit.
z. He disfranchised naturalized
nitige.,s n =-::..aaoutS any authority from
Acts of Congress.
8. He disfranchissd military of
fcers, against the literal provision of
the July Act, as interpreted by itself.
6. He slandered one of the purest
Equity Judges of the States, and
several of our most respectable and
honorable lawyers.
Much eulogy has been lavished by
you on Gen. Sickles for Order No.
10. Whatever may have been the
temporary relief afforded to debtors
by this extraordinary order, all lovers
Of constitutional liberty have it fore
ed upon their reflection, that laws
similar have uniformly been pro-
nounced by the Supreme Court of
the United States to be unconstitu-
tional; and that law passed by our
Legislature, which by no means in
:terfered with the obligation of con-
tracts to the extent of Order No. 10,
was declared by the highest court in
the State, by ten judges against one,
to be violative of the Constitution of
the United States. Also, that the
Attorney-G General of the United States
in an argument that has not been,
and can not be, answered, has de-
clnred the issuing of this order to be
e despotic stretch of unauthorized
power. Finally, while temporary re-
lief has been afforded to debtors, we
have the fact forced upon us, that
large class of creditors, among whom
are numbered many now destitute
widows and orphans, have been great
sufferers thereby.
In this connection, I would ask if
you do not know that the application
of Order No. 10, to the Federal
Courts, was an after-thought on the
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