The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-06-03

SplEs.,-Thirty odd years ago, says tho
Now York Express, when news came to this
country Of tho system of espionage in open
ing private letters, praoticed in the post
Offices of Italy, and onco in the British post
oilico, the whole country denounced such
conduct as infamous. But there are worse
practices going on in Washington to-day
The telegraph Offices of Baltimore aud Wash
ingtOn are ransaoked for private kilograms,
and the managers consent to obey the sum.
mons of u committee constituted by a party
and for the worse of party purposes. No bu-
siness, no message, no lcttor, no iinner table,
no bed room, no library, no kitchen even,
is sacred from the intrusion of these vaga.
bond impcachers, set on by Ben Butler
His detectives, paid for by the g vcrnment,
arc in New York to-day, as they are in
Washington city and elsewhere. They uso
not only the post Offices of the country, but
all it's machinery. They demand that Sena-
tors shall be nrraigned, and sock to destroy
their good names by holding them up as
capable of corruption. No wonder that
Bingham is sick. IF ho had in him parti-
Gle Of manhood he would hang hie head in
very shame, it, indeed, like Judas, he did
not even hang himself
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AN ELOQUENT Observation-Disclosures of.
ter generation" says fine writer, .'have
felt as we now feel, and their lives were as
active rs OUR own. They passed like va
por, whilo nature wore tho same aspect of
beauty rs when her Creator commanded her
to DO. Tho heavens shall DO as bright over
our graves as they now are around our
paths. The world will have The same at-
fractions for our Offspring yot unborn as
she had once for our ohillren. Yet lit.
tie while, and all will have happened. The
throhbing heart will be stifled, and all will
be at rest. Our funeral will wind its way.
and prayers will bo said, and then we shall
be left alone in silence and darkness for the
worms And, it may DC, for short time we
shall DC spoken of, but the things of life
will creep in, and our names will soon be
forgotten. Days will continue to movo on.
and laughter and song will bo heard in the
room in which We died and the eye that
mourncd for us will be dried and glisten
again wihjoy and even our children will
cease TO think of us, and will not remember
TO lisp our names"
DEMOCRATIC BADGES. Tho District Gem
trail Executive Committee here of the Demo-
cratic party have adopted plan, excellent
in itself and worthy of imitation elsewhere.
They have prepared handsome certificate,
to DO issued to all oolorcd mnmbors of the
Richland Democratic Club. Tho certificate
is headed with tho emblematical bird of tho
country, rising from the flames of war, and
reads thus:
"This is TO certify. that ----------------
belongs o.thc Rohland Democratic Club,
and we recommend him to tho public.
"(Signed,) ". B.SrANLEY,
"Prcsidcnt.
"A. IL. PHILLIps, Attest"
The District Central Committee have .,
| tablished the headquarters of this move
ment at MIR. a. II. Phillips store, former.
| y Mr.. TolleSon's, where the names of col
orea disposed to join the Democratic Club
will be entered and tho badges delivered.
In Savannah, this system has been adopted
with great success. Every colorcd man
| showing this certificate will not be out of
employment. Wo will sustain those who
sustain us says the voice of tho white pco .
pic everywhere, North and South. Phocnix.
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Every atop tho negroes take, seems to be
tho one that leads most directly towards
their utter destruction. In tho friendship of
the white man, South, they had one chance
OF respectable exisIance but they spurnod
1t with scorn. In industry they had re-
f"ge from ruin; but they neglected it with
contemptuous scorn, and will staryc. In
many ways, salvation for thcirrace has been
within their reach (; but thcy have rejected
every one with high hand and an ont
stretched arm.
They have rejected the proffcred co-opcra.
ton of The white racc-have lain idle IN
work timc--havo neglected schools have
insulteL their only friopds-have demanded
power and and peaoe-have reoeiveladyioe
from their cnemies-have folded their urms
and waited for the promised for:y-acres-
and-a-mule, and have playci. tic fool IN
everything.
What romans Of them now? It is easv
to see. Annihilation. It IS a melancholy
conviction 10 record, but wc bolieve that it
is The solemn truth. 1t is possible, even
yet, for them to save themselves from this
fate, by falling into line promptly with tho
conservative whites, and acting with thej
Democratic party against the radicals But
oHthey? No. What then2 Then--annil
hilation.-- rorkpile ENQUIRER.
POLITICIANS PRoGRAMME IA model
politician writes to Western paper.
law ought to be passed compelling all
railroads to build fences on either side of
their tracks, or olse compelling those who
own abuting lands to build the fonces
You see am politician, and want the
squire 8 Office in our toWnshinnot avail,