The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-03
THE ROSECRANS' MISSION.
Am Expose of its Objects and Intended
Effects, by Governor Pickens.

Am Expose of its objects and Intended
Effects, by Governor Pickens.
A correspondent, writing from White Sulphur
Springs, Aug. 81, says:-
If the following substance of conversation
that occurred at the portico of the hotel here
between General Rosecraps and Governor
the arrival of the former and before the cor
respondenCe was consummated, is ofimportance,
give 1t for what 1t is worth. Certain it is that
the greatest Importance Is attached to the views
OF Pickens, and they may be regarded as in
connection with this very mysterious mission.
In answer to General hosecrans, General
Pickens said that he thought the Generals
objects were wise and patriotic; that if Seymour
and Blair were elected by decided majority 1t
would add much to the restoration OF sincere
peace, and that the negroes would be more
justly protected in all their rights by mutual
interest between the races capital and labor
adjusting more properly their relations than
could be done by any regular force, and kind
feelings would soon be entirely restored If those
who were interested in offices and bad designing
men who wanted to use the negroes for their
own vile purposes were removed or not sus-
tanned by the Freedmens Bureau. At least,
said the Governor, such is the case in South
Carolina.
Unless these men we're removed, aud the un-
principled governments created by them were
checked and destroyed, and that very soon, they
would destroy all confidence in the future and
derange all peaceable organization Of labor and
productive industry. The consequence would
be there would in very few years be compare
lively none of those productions from the South
which entered so largely into our exports and
aided in adjusting the balance of trade so as to
prevent heavy shipments of specie. Without
these exports the Government banks could not
sustain themselves and public bondholders
would be deeply injured in the depression
of all foreign credit and public funds. In fact
tine public debt could not be paid without the
establishment of real peace and just law in the
South, The basis OF permanent peace was lust
law wisely administered. A system that re-
quired bayonets to support IL was always dan
gerous in any country educated and trained up
under free institutions. All society in the South
was now as an inverted cone with the apex
down and base up, and such system could
not stand even propped up by bayonets, was
death 10 all enterprise and industry, and would
finally end in the destruction Of all credit and
we would see Government bonds burnt,
as the French assignats were burnt In
Paris. Therefore the election of CON
seryative men was step towards the res
toration of law and towards the security of
public credit. 1t would be a great point
gained in the preservation of the Government,
and a check against the tendency OF things
towards change from republic into an en-
pire. In Europe they appeal to revolution aud
arms for settlement and adjustment of funda.
mental systems; here onr theory is to appeal to
discussions and conventions Let that wisdom
be appealed 10 now. The old articles OF con-