The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-08-21


Kill the men, Cut The throAts Of the women,
and dash out the braiuS Of the infants sleep.
ing in their cradles and then. for fear mcm
women and children, might lingcr through
tho masacro or recover from The carnage
burn tho houses oeer their heads that their
gore and gashcs might be licked with the
tongue OF lame or consumed with is breath:
and then con!scatc. Such were the terri
bic hiaSphcmics which greeted the message
from lIcnvcn.
Sir did time pcrmi., ! should ask attcn.
ton to words Of wisdom from others who in
the past and present have pleaded fo- mn.
ital good viii, forgiveness and rcconcilia-
ton; from George Washington, from An
dre" Jackson, Andrew johnson, Horace
Grccly and others, who, "with malice TO
wards none, with charity for all," wo"id
bind up the nations wounds and contra -
them with those who in the Jncohin column,
with Hrcwnlow at their head and call hell
following Ill the rear" are shouting ''kill
bnrn and survey. impcach and coniiscatc,
and when The South asks for restoration
give them the pcmitcntary of he'll"
Sir, We have been playing political thin
b,erig with the South, and who can call un-
der which thin,hic the little joker which will
secure restoration is to b. found? The
lower the South has bent the knee The moro
intolcrablc have become the terms of par-
don; kindly words from n friend of llc
South were answered with greater indigni
ty, till finally conditions arc oxactcd which
none but bullics would demand or cravcns
Yiold, for ''thc knee that il forced had been
better unbcut." But there is hopo ahool
In after years, from common bond of love.
beneath common flag, from II common
brotherhood, born of our Northern children.
mlnS!ng in holy family ties with The chill
drcn OF the South, men will look back aud
rondcr that there was wickcIncSs enough
in the world to iniict such injuries anon
ono another: but will bless thc peace max
crS among their ancestors and curse the
miscrcants who famed 50 long the flame Of
discord. Nay, shall live to SEQ that dav
and shall not be ashamed to look my chill.
drcn in the face and TO say that there was
one who fought the Con!odcrAtcs through,
ont thc~rcbcllion, but when thA war was
over pleaded for forgiveness, believed in
Southern honor, and voted as hc tcicvcd !:
who never attempted "he futures portal
with the pasts blood ru5ted kcy:' who
would rather grasp the bloody hand OF an
open foe tiian touch The Shiny finger Of the
coward that si;ulkcd from danger; who
never kicked tho undcrmost dog nor struck,
u fallen foe
"Whcn The foe has knocked under to tread
on him then
By The fist Of my fathcr, blush for thoo
Ben!
Let nc say q closing word for my fellow
citizens of the South. | cannt forget that
they too, have sorrows that might well arouse
revenge There arc vacant chairs around
many n lonely Southern hearth There
arc lmaddenimg memories, which matched
against our own and shriokcd into each
others ears would keep us forever apart.
They have hearts to feel and eyes 10 weep
for loved ones lost, for husbands buricl on
distant hattciirld#, fathers slaughtered in
mountain passes, and sons taken away by
early death, all buried in namelcss and un-
known graves. They fought gallantly bat
they arc down and he the hand that smitcs
the fallen. long to sec them back into the
Union that they and We forgivins and fer
getting the past, and girdug up our ioina
Tor the magnificent future, may enter upon
the career OF greatness and glory which
stretches away before us.
| have sought TO elevate my own minl
above the vengeance OF n divided present,
and have looked TO the bright cning ilag OF
a united future, as the inheritance Of glory
for n common postcrity. In days gone by
! learned my creed from Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster, John NJ. Clayton and John
J. Crittcndcn stand by tho record and
refuse the teaching Of brow nlow and Phil.
Gps.
see in ihc future an ocean bound rtpub-
he; in the future n hundred millions Of her
united people. Where but few stars
iickcrcd in her sky [ see conscientious blnz
ing; tho iluttcr Of her flag is reflected on
every sea, the splash OF her propeller vcx,
q 20 Il 10 hat f,,t, I
back our brethren Of The South; for with
out them success would be q failure, and
our glory would bc but shame.
80 would thou wort near me, nv Southern
brother,
| love thee rs dear as the son of my moth
cr:
[ nm lonely and sad sinco tho day that We
parted,
My lips have the tone Of maid broken
hearted; ~ '>N
But come, from The future fresh flowers we'll
and sing the sweet songs Of Tho Union TO-
gcthcr.
COTTON PRosrECTs.-- correspondent Of
tho Louisville Journal writes from New
Orleans, after making trip down the Mis-
sissppi ns Follows
In coming down The river made il my
special business to obtain information in
reference to the crops and the Freedmen, az
we'll rs the situation generally, and the
result is moro favorable than L had antici.
palcd. Tho corn crop was everywhere
represented as'yiftuaily secured and to bc
There is a single field of this
valuable cereal in Bolivar county Miss, Of
six thousand acres. Cotton was looking
well, but in some localities the grass was
growing, aud the rains sinco must have
made it worse. The cotton crop depends Of
course upon the part Of The season yet fll-
tnrc. II is admitted on all hands that,
should the weather prove favorable, half n
crop, is compared with that Of 1860, will DO
made, which mt present or prices, likely to
rule, will bring as much as n whole crop
did before tho war. The hopes Of the
Southern reopic arc. .suspcndcd,so 10 speak,
upon fair cotton crop As the prospect
for this grows bright or gloomy, so will tho
hearts of tho tilicrs Of the soil swell with
or sink into something akin TO
to despair. On somo plantations that foe
to tho crop, The worm, has appeared, and
his ravages are dreaded Tho worm nour-
lshes Tho most vigorously in cold wet sea-
sons.
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