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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-04-01
From tho Omaha, Nebraska, Herald.
The Alabamians Coming.

Fleeing from oppression unbearable, and
from State crimes and tyrannies unparalleled
in history, the people of the South, that peo-
ME NJ WHO once made it great and powerful, are
Escaping from the outrages of barbarous
rnIe and from their desolated homes, as men
flee from famine and the pestilence: Hun
dreds and thousands, and thousands upon
thousands of these destroyed people, are ieav'
inc the sunny land of their hearts best aifec-
tons S and former hopes, to find rest, peace,
and security in the North. Among them'
LARGE numbers of gentlemen from Alabama,
are seeking homes in Nebraska. Their rep
resentatives are already among us, men OF the
hirLest character, victims of the damnable
md insufferable negro despotism which Purl'
tan hate and vengeance visit upon them oy
the merciless power of the bayonet.
We welcome the Alabamians. Nebraska
offers them home aud plenty, peace and Sc
curity. If despotic and barbarous tyrannies
drive them in ruin, poverty and distress from
the midst Of the objects Of Inherited affections
and hopes if the relentless sway ofarbitrary
mower mocks at their calamity and laughs at
The namcless woes Of which these things are
thc fruit, be it so. Generous hearts and just
minds representing millions of all sects and
narties in the North sympathise with their
misfortune and pray for their deliverance.
Tbev give him welcome to soil upon which
bavopets have ceased to rule and where they
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-04-01
IS Our Courtry,D

The New York Times-whicn is still oscil-
lating between Republicanisln and Dcmocra.
cy in its politics takes q very singular
exception 10 Mr.. Davis late letter in an
swer to some friends in Louisiana. 1t says:
"But he only wrote letter about 'our pco.
ple,' using that phrase to mran exclusively
the Southern portion of our people. Mr.. Da'
Wis has written comparatively few letters
since his release from Fort. Monroe, but we
do not remember one in which he did not sue
cced in dragging in, under some pretence,
the words our people, 'our friends, or 'our
country in such way Us to apply only to
the late Confederacy. Nor do We remember
a single letter in which one wish was uttered
by the spared President for the prosperity
or the Welfare of the whole country and peo-
pie, North and South, or the healing OF the
wounds Of war in every American BOSOM"
The Times forgets that we people here do
not constitute partof our country accord.
ing to act of Congress. 1t might have been
yery ungrateful in Mr.. Davis to feel other.
wise than fraternally and loyal; towards
the people and the government that enter.
tanned him so handsomely at Old Point Com.
fort for more than q year, but it would have
been exceedingly disloyal OF him to claim cit
izenship in the Republic that repudiates him
as citizen.
Do tell US, gentlemen, when and under
what circumstances we are to consider our.
selves in and when out of the Union. We
are humbly submissive to anything but We
find you hard to please.--Mobile Register.
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K.-K.-K.

The Tennessee Conservatives have deter
mined to fight the devil with fire. The long
series of wro ,gs and outrages which they have
suffered at the bands ofsecret Radical leagues
have taught them lesson and the ku hlux-
Klan, is the fantastic title of mystic organl-
zation, which has arisen, as it were, in SIN
gle night, and overspread the whole State,
melting out swift, sure and terrible punish
ment 10 the more desperate outlaws, and ter.
rityinr their ignorant and deluded followers
into fight or good behaviour. The klan pro-
fesses to be q mixed company of the living
and the dead, banded together in common
cause; its errands of vengeance are always
performed in the dead Of night and with such
weird accessories as invest them in the eyes
of the superstitious with peculiar horror and
the style OF its DEGREES, which are posted 5y
some mysterious agency in public places may
be Judged from the following:
tx: X: K:-WoLF HOLE, BLOODY MONTH,
Fair Moon, First liour.-General Order No.
l.-Shrouded Brothers Of Memphis, DirisiOn
No. G2: In hoe sigao x II. The Great Past
Grand Giant commands you. The dark and
lisms! hour draws nigh SOME LIVE TO-
DAY-TO MORROW DIE. THE BULLET
RED AND THE RIGHT ARE ouEsl To-day, the
Ilth OF the mortas month of March, you
will beain to scatter the clouds of the grave.
BIZ order Of GREAT GRAND CYcLors, q. U. l..
The whole West is agog over the doinsS OF
the Klan. The terror which it has every
where inspired among the Southern Radicals
i, .o,n nothins ludicrnns: and If the means
which it employs are little questionable,
the ends which it has so far accomplished
have been. in every instance, emincntly just
and commcndable.-Charlcston News.
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Concerning the Niger.

The false delicacy for which Americans are
noted and uu1cuIed Dy nsel1fgeur- -foTrfguerS
is not limited to prudish old maids, who
would faint to hear the genuine English pre-
nuncialion of the good old Saxon word leg.
The same disgusting afectation of refinement
is found extensively pervading large hocy
of American politicians, who persist in em-
ploying the Portuguese word negro, ard in
rejecting as vulgar the more expressive aneli.
cised Latin word nigger. The reason why
they Go this is worse, if possible, than that
which persuades the ancient spnister Of New
England to say limb when she means leg.
The original OF the word in question is the
Latin niger. The Latin pronunciation gives
the long sound of /. the soft sound OF O, and
places the accent on The first syllable.
In French, the orthography is changed to
negrc 1t is difficult to indicate the exact
French pronunciation by the ordinary charac-
tiers of the English alphabet Any ore, how
ever. who has been in the Southern States,
and has heard Southerner pronounce INC
word nigger, has heard very nearly the exact
French pronunciation of the word negTe. The
Soutberncr says ,ea9cr. The Frenchlnan also
says neggcr, arlicu. Ing the final so lightly
that it is next to ineudiblc.
In Portuguese, Spanish and italian, the word
assumes the form Of ncgo-au photography
which is further departure from the original
Latin than either negre or nigger.
The word niger is one Of very numerous
class Of Latin words that have come into the
English tongue through the French The
square Saxon pronunciation of niggcr, as
heard in the Northern and Western States,
is more in accordance with the innate vigor
of our grand and stately language oi ele-
quence" than the softer and more Frcnchited
neggcr of the Southern States.
But negro is not English, and cannot lie
made English by adoption. II is q bastard
from the Bay of Biscay that only some pru-
dish spinsters in anthropological nomencla-
ture have attempted to introduce in place Of
the more expressive Saxonized Latin tern,
Niger. 1t is an attempt at Innovation Of the
same character as that which essays 20 dis
guise the tolcrabiy well known fact that wc-
men have legs, and so on, by designating them
as limbs, and so on. 1t is an atfectat;ou Of
delicacy which is disgusting to well-bred peo.
pie in one case, and ought to be in the other.
Chicago Times.
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Is it True 7!

Rev JI. Bonner, editor fthc Associate
Reformed Presbyterian" in giving an account
of a recent trip to Ncwbcry, says !ha: upon
the railroad he met with DR.. NJ, a Professor
in the Southern Baptist Theological SemIna
ry, located at Greenyiile, sc. and DR.. NJ.
desired to know how it was that the people
of Due West cou'd board students ut twelve
dollars month, when they could not do it at
Greenville for less than fifteen or sixteen dol
lars. Our reply was, that we supposed the
good; people of;Due, West were satisfied with.
small profits, and were wiling to work for
the good of f1heir Institutions"
. Is it true that the people Of GreenviHe are
mot willing to do as much for our Institutions
there as people do in other places, or are they
speculating upon the patrons Of the lnstilu5
lions there in times like these? There Ger
.tainly can be nogood rcason,1 by board should
be from twenty five to thirty per cent: higher
in GreenvilIe than in Dac West, and if the
people at Due West make ssmall profit 7
then the people of Greenvile certainly realize
more profit than is entirely legitimate under
all the circumstances If this is difficulty
which ought to be removed, surely the inter
es,s of our Institutions at Greenville demand
that it should be done at once. Speculations
which peril the existence Of our Schools, SC
essential to our we'll being as. o denomina,
ton. should not.be tolerated.-S. G. Baptist
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From the Noble Register.
Colored People.

We have steadily warned the coored men
of the South that the carpet baggers from the
North were their worst enemies, tor the worst
OF all enemies are those who come in the dis
ruisc of friends, who get nearest to the con.
lidiHp heart and into the innermost secrets OIL
thr men they mean to use and then betray.
We have told the colorcd men that the hadl-
cal, aili carpet -baS:":ers court and blarney
hem because they want 10 get their money
and their votes, and they have never intended
to give tic negro anything but the paltnest
Offices, appropriating all the good and lat ones
to themselves.
We lave case in point. Not long ago a
delegation of co'orcd men went from Charles
ion. i. c., To Washington to confer With the
Radicals in Congress on the subject OF send
in, co' or,,l r. prescntatircs from that Stale to
Corrrcss. Tie delegation has returned to
Charleston. and they bring back the answer,
when is that the f" Ramp" Radicals do MOI %,
,cant negro ConpeSsnea sent from SCUM
Carolina. 49,
A Congressman's Pay for the term OF two
years. including mileage and allowances, is
abcu. SlG, 900. This is q large fortune ioF
anv Southern colcred man, and not counting
tn. honorable pleasures of sitting in the velvet
cushioned chairs Of the National Legislature
and the satisfaction of dining with Charles
sumner and sleeping with Thad. Stevens, II
;s cnouah 10 set him up and make him lnde'
neudcnL for life. But the Washington Rad'
cnnno, afford 10 give so good thing TO tne
nerro-oman and brother as heis, the e4ua
and peer of the best, according to kadlca
theory, vet it is TOO good for him and he mus
stand back while his white masters least a
the table and toss him the crumbs
In this connection the following opinion o
.Fred Douglass" the best educated anS aS
most talented negro iii the country, IS wOrIl
In reply to the statement Of q friend re
Gently coaycrsing with him, Fred. Douglass
said, very clearly and pointedly, that slavery
was destroyed not from principle, but irou
poiicy, and that all that the negroes have tt
be grateful Tor is the emergency that create,
the necessity Of freeing them. II the 6,ac,
man can trust any one, that one is surely Fred
Douglass AMI the negroes would find 1t NOR
to their interest to heed this opinion OF tn
(" foremost mano of their own race than con
flc IN the dcmagogucs who shout N tn
Southern State conventions, simply hecaus
they cant earn days pay by any othe
| means
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The Love Bird.

The maple is flushing in crimson spray,
The cold ana the winter have passed away.
A little bird sits in the buds at play,
And he sings apd whistles tho live-long day
One constant strain in tinkling swell,
Like fairy's touch on silver bell. -
I know not if others can read so well
The story his gurgling MARBLES tell .s
Now pealing loud and now sinking low,
Now bursting and swelling with liquid fow;
But each ripping note,
From his mellow throat,
As it floats along,
Sings this sweet song:
love you, love you, love you
Way down in my heart a little bird sings,
With golden plumage and scarlet wings;
His voice is clear as the crystal springs,
And his notes, like pattering of pearls he filings
A gentle thing is that bosom bird,
With the tenderest tone you ever heard,
His strain is by softened memories stirred,
And its key note is struck from one sweet word
His lay begins with the earliest morn, ~
Yet cen in my dreams it goes ringing on;
And that your heart beat. time
To the silvery chime,
Pealing back the same
In tone Of flame;
love you, l love you, love you.
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ESTABLISHED 1902.
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Of fortune and time, it has been Literally sup
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In furtherancc of this purpose we now issue
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unnum respectively.
Our purpose is to furnish first class paper
upon the most reasonable living prices.
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EEA very worthy negro preacher Of At
lanta was called upon some weeks ago. an 2
suburban. locality, to unite in matrlmonys. a
very black negro and a white female. Upon
reaching the spot, aud discovering the mon
strosity of the proceeding, he very properly
Iv refused to perform the ceremony.
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g A scandalous pamphlet has been published
in Paris, asserting that the Empress Eugenic had
an illegitimate child before marrying the Empe-
ror; that this child is in England, in she hands
of persons who are constantly lsvying black mail
on her Majesty, and that her famous trip to Ers
land was solely caused by her desire to hush up
the clamor of the above mentioned persons.
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BUCHANAN, G. B. COUNTRY,
January 10th, 1868.


Dear Madam IL am happy to inform you
that am well and have been we'll ever since
left home, as have been oil my family. L
am very we'll satisfied with the country-bet.
ter satisfied than ever was in all the days of
nv life. l thought was free in America,
but was not until stepped ashore in Libe-
ria and l thank God that | can now declare
nv freedom withoutany fear 1t was twenty
nine days after we left Charleston before We
saw any land, and the first land we saw was
Cape Verde, inhabited BY the Portuguese; the
next was Monrovia, and ;ten we Landed at
our station-Grand Bapa Country; and of
all lands that have never seen before | have
seen in this country and all the trouble you
have in getting your land is to walk about
and pick it out for yourself landed here
ON the 4th day of January, and caiue ashore
on the 9th of January, and on the Bin went
out to inspect land, and found it good. On
the 9th l went out again and picked cut my
lard between two towns-one mile from each.
OF all the fruits I found on the land my
tongue is unable to explain, but I will give
YOU the names of some. First, field of
thirty acres of coffee. Second-Cocoanut
trees in any quantity. Third-Lemons by
the bushel. Fourth-the great palm tree
the most important and precious tree in the
country, from which we get nice oil, cabbage,
butter, then the kernel, shingles, then cord
and thread. And then, best of all, We can
get wine of it to drink. All of these wehave
on OF the farm. Tell my brother Washington
that this is the country to come to. will
now close by saying / remain yours.
HENRY LEWIS.
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ARTICLE VI.
EMINENT DOMAIN.

SEc:1 The State shall have concurrent ju.
risdictlon on all rivers bordering on this State,
so far as such rivers shall form q common
boundary to this and any other State bounded
BY the same; and they, together with all
other navigabe waters within the limitf OF
the State, shall be common highways, and
forever free, as we'll to the Inhabitants of this
State as to the citizens Of the United States
without any tax or impost therefor, unless
the same be expressly provided for by the
General Assembly.
SEC. 2. The title to all lands and other
property which have heretofore accrued to
this State by grant, gift, purchase, forfeiture,
escheats, CT otherwise, shall vest in the State
of South Carolina the same as though no
change had taken place.
SEC.,3 The people of the State are de-
c!arcd to possess the ultimate property in and
to all Glands within the jurisdiction Of the
State = and all lands, the title to which shall
fail from defect of heirs, shall revert or es-
cheat to the people.
hDTTnT E-VIT
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The Charleston Courier very wisely tells the
people of the South that tue problem OF re-,
generation and recuperation must be solved
by the labor of their own hands, ana no. m
through reliance upon legislation. Whatever
laws may be passed, or whatever plan OF re. re-
construction may prevail, the heavy marx
left upon our section by the iron heel OF war
can be obliterated only by industry and toll.
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REEF. MARKET.

7 w111, CONTINUE 10 FURNISH GOOD
pEEF and MUTTON to the people of Edgefe.ld
on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday mornings
st ~ reason able prices, but STRICTLY FOR CASH :,
Al A.. A. GLOVER, Agent.
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ARTICLE-vII.
IMPEAcHMENTs.

SEC. l. TIE House of Representatives shall
have the sole power of impeachment. A vote
of two-thirds of all the members elected shall
be required for an impeachment and any Off
Ger inpeached shall thereby be suspended
from Office until judgment in the case shall
have been pronounced.
SEC. 2, All impeachmcnts shall be tried BY
the Senate, and, when sitting for that purpose,
they shall be under oath or affirmation. No
person shall be convicted except by vote OF
two thirds Of all the members elected. When
tie Governor is impeached the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court or the senior judge
shall preside, with casting vote in all pre-
limindry questions.
Sec. 8. The Governor and all other execu-
tive and judicial o.lcers shall be liable to I'm:
peachment; but judgment in such cases shall
not extend further than removal from Office.
The persons convicted shall, nevertheless, be
liable to indictment, trial, and punishment
according to law
SEC. 4. Fer any wilful neglect of duty or
other trcasonabie cause, which shall rot be
sufficient ground Of impeachment, the Cover.
nor she'll remove any executive or Judicial
officerson the address of twotbirds of each
,IIouse.of the General Assembly; PROVIDED,
Tsat:sne cause or causes for which said-re-
-ruuY5s.smay be required shall ha statAd at
leagiT IN such address and entered on the
Journals OF each House and prorided .JWNerr,
That the officer intended t. be removed shall
b, nouGed Of such cause or causes, and shall
be admitted to hearing in his own defence,
before any vote for such address; and in all
cases the tote shall be taken by yeas and
nays, AMI be entered on the journals of each
House respectively.
The following article also received its third
reading, ard was declared anintegral portion
Of The Constitution:
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this State.
SEC. 4. That all contracts, whether under
seal or not the consideration Of which was
the purchase of slaves, are hereby declared
null and void and of no effect, and no suit,
either at law or in equity shall be commenced
or prosecuted for the enforcement of such
contracts; and all proceedings to enforce sat
isfaction or payment of judgment on DEGREES,
recorded, enrolled or entered upon such con-
tracts in any court of this State, are hereby
prohibited, and all orders heretofore made in
any courts OF this State in relation to such
contracts, whereby property is held subject to
decision as to the validity of such contracts,
are hereby declared null and void and of no
effect.
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Notice.! Notice !

IT, psrsons indebted to the late Firm of
a TEAGUE & cARWILE will make imme-
80 n,vnent to either of the parties. Ali BiHs
unnaid by January 3lzt, 1868, willsbe placed IN
an Attorneys hands with Instructions to sue as
once. Pay up and savs costs.
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JURISPRUDESCE,

SEC. l. The General Assembly shall pass
such. laws as may be necessary and proper, to
decide differences by arbitrators to be aap-
pointed by the parties who may choose that
summary mode of adjustment.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the General
Assembly to pass the necessary laws for tho
change Of venue in all cases, civil and crimi- r,!
nal. over Which the Circuit Courts have orlsl'
nal Jurisdiction, upon proper showing, sup,
ported By affidavit, that fair and impartial
trial cannot be had in the county where such
trial or prosecution was commenced.
SIC. 8. The General Assembly, at its first
session after the adoption Of this constitution,
shall make provision TO revise, digest, and ar
range, under proper heads, the body of our
laws, civil and criminal, and form penal
code, founded upon principles Of reformation,
and have the same promulgated in such man
ner as they may direct; and q like revision,
digest and PRONUNCIATION shall be made within
every subsequent period Of ten years. That
Justice shall be administered in uniform
mode of pleading, without distinction between
law and equity, they shall provide for abolish.
ing the distinct forms Of action, and for that
purpose shall appoint some suitable person Or
persons, whose duty it shall be to revise, sim
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From Liberia.

The following letter is taken from the Co.
lumbus (Ga.) Sun and Times. tits evidently
written by an intelligent and observing freed
man, and we commend it to the careful peru
sal of this class of people. Liberia is the
country for the freedmen. 1t is theirs by ma
ture aud adoption, and they should seek there
what they can never find in America-politi-
cal and social equality:
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plify, and ,abridgc the rules, practice, plead
ings, and forms Of the court now in use in