The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-01

and expectation Of obtaining just as much pay
for eight hours work as now for ten hours
work. Explode this idea, and it would find
but few advocates.
southern Sentiment on the RecOnstruc-
tiOn Bill.
The excellent effects of the Military Recon-
tion bill are every day becoming more mani
fest. 1t has broken up the apathy and
despair into which portion of the Southern
people were plunging. 1t has set them to
thinking, to discussing, and to acting. 1t has
opened their eyes to the true relations which
ought to exist between the various races who
inhabit the South They now see and aclxnow-
ledge that the blacks and the whites must live
together, and that mutual amity and goodwill
depend upon the enjoyment of equal rights.
These are great lessons for a people to learn
who have hitherto been standing to one
another in the relation of master and slave.
But they are most hopeful evidences of their
capacity to form useful civil society.
As showing the changed tone of sentiment
induced by this great reconstruction measure,
we quote the following from series of reso-
lutions adopted by public meeting held at
the Court House of the Pickens District,
South Carolina, on the 18th ultimo. The
meeting was composed of persons irrespective
of color and was addressed by Colonel R. A.
Thomson, and the following resolutions were
reported by committee of sixteen, with
Major J. NJ. Adams as Chairman
RESOLVED, By us, the people of Pickens District.
AT m nC Lad
that in good faith, and without reservation, we
accept the plan of reconstruction laid down by
Congress in the sherman bill and the bill sup
Elementary thereto.
2. That 1t is the duty OF every good citizen to
come forward, and in good faith lend his assist
ance to the reconstruction OF the State under
the Sherman bill, and thus put an end to the
evils of our present condition.
3. That we will jointly and severally use our
best exertions to enforce the laws and TO secure
TO all persons irrespective Of race color, or pre-
viooS condition. J"H protection Jor life, liberty and
4. That every respectable Northern man. or
foreigner t0ho brings physical strength or capital
into South ,yshomd De received as friend
5. That in future, no qualification for office from
the lo0eSt to the highest I0tH be erdcted among u.s.
6. That the security of our political institu-
tions demands that the highest facilities for
securing elementary education to the masses
of the people be guaranteed by constitutional
7. That constitutional provision should be
stead from levy and sale, that our population
may become fixed and permanent to the soil.
The resolutions further declare that i'm
prisonment for debt should be abolished, ex-
press confidence in General Sickles, and
pledge him support and cooperation and give
utterance to the prayer 'that we may once
more be able to utter with truth and fervor,
the sentiment dear to every true American
heart-Liberty and Union, now and forever,
one and inseparable.' "
Now, how long does any intelligent man
suppose it would have been under the conser-
vative, or President Johnson's, scheme of re-
construction, before such series of resolutions
would have been adopted by public meeting
in South Carolina, presided over and ad-
dressed by, and composed in good part of late
Rebels Cannot the most blind and preju.
diced see that this much abused Reconstruc-
tion law is really working as a measure Of
peace and goodwill among the Southern peo-
pie? There has been nothing like it in the
whole previous history of this great struggle
The people seem suddenly to have escaped
from the whole nightmare brood of pro-slavery
fallacies and falsehoOds in which they had
been educated, and at one bound to have taker
their stand upon the simple and grand princi
pie of republican government and society, o
equal rights to all.
And it is to overthrow work already pro
ducing such good results and promising Sc
much for the future, that the Jenkinses and
Sharkeys, and their Northern CopperheaG
allies, are now combined They would arrest
the tide of progress and turn it back. They
would break up the harmony which is begin
ming to prevail among the people of the South
and remand them to furious and perhaps
bloody struggle of races. Can this be the
work of patriotism or philanthropy? Will il
conduce to the peace of the country? Will il
promote business and build up our languish
ing industry To ask these questions is tt
answer them.
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