Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-12-18
From Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, December II.

The Advertiser of this morning contains a
preamble and resolutions adopted By the
Montgomery Council of the "Union Loyal
League" denouncing the new Constitution,
and calling on the colored leaguers to aid in
defeating it declaring that delegates to the
Convention went far beyond the purvicw Of
their duties and instructions, and framed q
Constitution disfranchisipg and prescribing q
large portion Of the most intelligent and law
abiding citizens of Alabama, and characteriz-
ed, in every feature, by iendish motive OF
revenge and hatred, and
Resolced, 1st, That, in the opinion of this
Council, the said Constitution is an Infamous
fraud upon the rights of the people of this
State, and will, if ratified, inevitably result in
the debaaement of the white race and destruc.
ton of the black.
2ld. That wecannot, consistently with our
obligations as members of the Union Loya.
League" of America, give aid or support, in
any manner whatever, to this nefarious scheme
to destroy, at one fell swoop, the peace, hap,
piness and prosperity, for oil time to come,
of the whole people of the State of Ala
bama.
Sd. That we, as Union Republicans, and
as members of the Montgomery Council OF
America, call on all law-abiding and Union
loving colorcd men of Alabama to unite with
US in our efforts to defeat the adoption of this
Constitution, which em6odies principles dan
gerous to constitutional liberty, promotiyc
Of civil war between the two races, apd de-
structive of all the ends Of good govern
ment.
.4th. That We 'denounce, as contemplate,
an effort on the part Of few of the members
ofthis Council, who are mere political adven'
turors, to break up the same because they
have filled to make it subservient to their
vile political schemes.
The above resolutions ere put forth by
authority of the League as true copy OF the
minutes Of the Council and signed by the Sec
retsy: -. :,
taking place in other SECTIONS of the State.
The Advertiser of tomorrow will contain a
statement substantially, and from the author
ty of citizens of Autaugd county, that color
ed loyal leagues have been irreconcilably
| split because of the Objectionable features Of
the Constitution framed by the Convention
and the members of the Conyentionwho nom
mated for the State Offices all whites and
nearly all members of the Convention, ieay.
| ing the blacks out in the cold.
At the county site Of Kingston but two
loyal leaguers are left-hoth white men.
So far as heard from split off the leagu
ers has also taken place in Bullock, Pike and
Barbour counties from the same causes.
The Conservatives are organizing clubs
throughout the State to defeat the Constitu-
ton at the coming election, and, in certain
sections, receiving large -accessions of the
colored element. At Prattyille, Autauga
county, on Saturday, over fifty colored men
Joined the Conservative club, uniting with the
whites in denouncing the Constitution.
A call signed by colored men for the for
nation of colored Conservative club here,
declares its object shall be: lst, The cult.
vation OF a spirit of mutual confidence and
good feeling between the two races South,
without which there can be neither peace.
prosperity, or repose to either. I'd, To sup
port, in the approaching election, the policy
ofour own tried people-neighbors and friends
Whose capital furnishes US employment and
whose roofs shelter US in preference to that
inaugurated by strangers and their allies. Sd,
To discourage, by all means in our power,
that war OF races which evil counsels and ig-
norance seem to be Fastening and which,
once iuaugurated, will result in our certain
and speedy destruction.
Messrs. Henry @. Sempls, of Montgomery,
Jos. Fl. Speed, of Perry, and eleven other
Conservative Republican members oithe Re-
construction Convention, protested against the
Constitution. The protest is an able vindica.
ton of their position.
MONTGOMERY, December 13.
Gen. Pope's political axe is still swinging.
Nine judicial and ministerial officers have
recently been removed to give place to loyal
Republicans. Five of Gen. Pope's appointeos
were extreme Republicans, members OF the
late reconstruction convention.
A Conservative colored meeting last night
organized Conservative Club. The whole
affair was managed1by blacks. The colored
speakers denounced the so-called carpet-bag
members of the reconstruction convention,
and declared that the colored people we're
enemies to themselves if they any longer re
fused to heed the advice and counsel Of their
true and tried friends and the old inhabitants
of the South. -
Resolutions were. adopted which declare, in
strong terms, against the ratification of the
constitution.