The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-01-22
pnocEIDINes OF THE coNvENTIoH.

The proceedings of The 6rsI-and second days Of
the so-caled Reconstruction Convention. now IN
ecssien in the city of Charleston, are published
upon our fret page. The third and fourth days
have also been received bu, the pressure upon our
columns prevents synopsis
The third day was taken UP with rambling dis
cussion, principally concerning The Charleston
Meycury, (which has been burlcsquing the Conven
iion,j and Gov ogE's views the reconstruction
scheme In the course of the debate on the latter
,poini-wiich was Introduced by resolution pro-
< posing to invite that gentleman anu others TO seals
in the Convention-,he no,orons Gercriy NASH. OF
Columbia, made furious onslaught upon lbe Gov
eTnor
The fourth day was consumed in the reception
of Committee reports. introduction OF resolutions
and other matter, ant, debate upon proposliio io'i
70 request Gen. CaNEY TO suspend collection Of
daL.s contracted prior TO the 3Dih Of June, 1853.
for the space of three months, until the Conven-
ton adopts further measures Of relief. The mat
ter was finally laid upon the table. An ordinance
was introduced and referred TO the proper commit
tee, declaring that each head Of family be allow
ed g. homestead of one hundred acres of land, with
dwelling and appuuenanccs not exceeding the
value of $1,000.
The Convention was not III session on Saturday.
The Convention on Monday occupied in re-
ceiyng resrlu ions, al Of which were referred to
Committees for action. The first business, proha-
bly, will be the report Of the Committee providing
for the payment of members and officers OF the
body. Among the resolutions, one proposes that
all State enthusiastically public schools
and Coliegcs-shall open their doors TO negroes
Another that negroes shall be admitted 10 all ho-
tells and places of entertainment Propositions are
abundant to relieve the people from indcb edness
alexander H. STEPHENS ON THE SITUATION
= dispatch to the New York Herald gives the
following: Alexander II. Stephens, in conversation
with friend who saw him recently in Philadcl-
ptia. took very desponden view of affairs in the
South he pronounced the future before that sec
ton Of the country fraGght with gloom and ds;,s-
ter, and can see nothing in the policy Of recunsiruc-
tion but the operation of fearful scheme. whose
ultimate result will be the destruction Of either the
black or the white race. Every day. hc says, il
becomes more planuily evident that the cstringe
ne the necroea from ihe effects Of such Instruction
ne teaches them 10 distrust and oppose 'ic whites,
ard on the part of the latter from an ahhorrence of
The negro leaders and an instructive aversion to he
raised and legisated for by Ignorance and semi
barbarisn. From what 9ell under lis own obser-
ration in Georgia he unablc 10 'iceci anything
like a spirit on either side tending TO mutual SYM
na,hv of sentiment and interest. Radical cmi.sa-
res from the North have sown The seeds OF evil dis
ssusiou with a terrible earneslness, and the dia-
metric opposition Of the races now visible all over
Inc South must in the very nature oil things ic"d'
ut some time or other to fearful collisions. Ihis
inevitable result, MIR. Stephens declares, rs ds-
passionate observer forces itself irrcsistiby on is
attention war Of races, desired BY some and
i1differently needed by others. is, TO bis minu,
consequence sure to happen, under the haulc'l
method of reconstruction, ii is impossible to
avoid If tue precedeuts OF history the impulses
that csptrsl hnMsE aasu"s 30 tslsn ins - ssesuat.