The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-16

the insinuation conveys the idea successfully
continued, but for false and fraudulent means.
1t is not 50. 1t ceased because its continuance
would have been Ga crime"
We consider it due to our people, to the
broken fortunes, the ruined hopes of those who
have survived, that their passions should not
be revived, their prejudices renewed, by such
artful appeals as lead them to the belief that
they could have averted their present condition
by prolonging the war. They can best decide
what they are to do now, by remembering
what they then knew to be their condition
In the length and breadth of these States,
there did not live single man who did not
see and feel, and know, that the contest had
been prosecuted to its utmost limit; that the
Government they had attempted to overthrow
that they had no alternative but to submit to
Whatever it decreed. They had manifested by
their 'braveryAeven still more by their endur-
ance-how strong were the convictions that
had animated them in that eventful struggle.
And when Mr.. HILL refers to the reso-
lutions of the Congress of the United
States, in relation to the purpose which
influenced it in the prosecution of the war, as
an inducement held out by Congress, and
accepted by the people of these States, as the
condition of the surrender; does Mr.. HILL find
anything to justify that statement in the Con-
vention between General GRANT and General
LEE, or General JOHNSTON and General SHER-
MAN? Does he find it in the directions to
General GRANT from the War Department OF
the United States, previous to the Convention
with General LEE? Does he find it in tho re-
lection by the Government of the United States,
of the terms, as first agreed upon between
General JOHNSTON and General SHERMAN?
Does he find it in the rejection of the terms
which were understood as proposed by the
authorities of the United States at the con-
ference at Hampton Roads? Do not all these
|'plainly disprove the statement Of Mr.. HILL!
The people of this State, the people of Geor-
gia, and Of all the other States which had
united with them, knew, as was plainly stated
to them by Governor PERRY, that they would
not be restored to the full rights of citizenship
until they had complied with certain con-
ditions which were imposed upon them.
Whether Governor PERRY was authorized to
say that the conditions he referred to were all
that would be required, it is not necessary now
to inquire. 1t is enough, however, to show
that Mr. HILL's statement is not correct
Bad as may be our condition, let it not be
aggravated by producing the belief that, If we
had added more to the list of those who fell IN
the struggle, we would have averted single
consequence which we now endure. 1t is not
so. We will reach most speedily, and we be-
lieye will only reach the solution of the dlffl-
culties which surround us and af1ict US, when
we look the truth resolutely in the face, and de-
lude ourselves Nith no fanciful suggestions OF
what was in the past, or what will be in the
future. But dealing with the facts of our case,
so direct our conduct as will enable US to over
come the difficulties which are before US, and
regain the prosperity we have lost, by securing
once again a lasting peace. That, however,
We shall never accomplish by such suggestions
as Mr. HILL has made. Tremendous applause
may follow such utterances, but tremendous
mischief will follow the adoption of his advice.
We will not say that Mr.. HILL knows it to be
so. But we will say that we do not see how Mr..
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We have opposed, and we will oppose, negro
asccndancy, negro domination, negro tyranny
negro government, quite as much as Mr.. HILL
or Mr.. PERRY. But we have opposed these
evils, and we shall continue to oppose them, in
manner which will make that opposition sue
cessful. We shall oppose them as inconsistent
with the true interest and meaning of the Acts
of Congress We shall oppose them as leading
to that internal disorder and ceaseless strife,
which we shall hold that the Acts of Congress
were intended to prevent We shall refuse to
recognize the legislation of the United States,
as intended to place the negro over the white
man. We shall refuse to consider the Recon-
struction Acts of Congress rs intended to
establish any such result. And we shall re-
fuse, in resisting the one, to be considered, or
to herald ourselves as opposing the other. In
this view we shall honestly urge upon the peo-
pie the adoption Of the measures proposed by
Congress for the reconstruction of the State.
We believe that no change in the present dis
tribution of political power in the States now
represented in Congress will bring with it, if
it should occur, the repeal of any portion of
that legislation which has been adopted. And
we believe TINT nothing will more tend to re-
tard that amnesty which is SO much desired,
and is so much required, than the use which
has been made of its protection by those, or
aome of those who have received il.