The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-10-28
MISCELLANEOUS,

! HAVANA, Oct. 2l.-Captain General Lersund ISSUED
a proclamation to-day ordering trial by court martha
Of all persons engaged in the recent instruction in h
interior, and of all those who gave aid countenanc
to the attempt by cutting telegraph wires destroying
nails or in any other way.
/ Arrangements have been made for line Of steam
ers between New York and New Orleans, via San Do
mingo.
/ CHARLESTON, S. G., Oct 2l.-The Daily News thi.
morning publishes letter from Wade Hampton in re
ply to Wisconsin lawyer who requested him. in view
| of the wide spread misrepresentation of bis course
to define his position the issues results and con
| sequences OF the Hampton says: "The main
issues involved in the war; secession and slavery
the first the primary one the latter brought in at later
period. In regard to these, adoPtfuiiv, without
serve, the principles announced by the late Dem,
ocratie convention in New York and in the words oil
1.-THE platform promulgated there, l consider these
questions settled forever. accept this the result
accomplished by the war. and its logical and lpgit
innate consequences. This have done from the day
the closed and l hare counseled our people to
look upon it in the same light strongly III favor
of the action taken by this State comforting the
the negro equal civil rights with the white man. and
more than year ago advocated the policy of giving
to him. as soon had the power to do so legitnl-
atey suffrage based qualification. The Democratic
convention had here in April last recognised him as
integral part of the body polite and declared that
it would when our party came into power grant him
partial suffrage The State Central Club has Just re-
affirmed this declaration, and have no doubt but that
this declaration is sustained by majority of the
white citizens of the State We regard the reconstruc-
ton acts as Unconstitutional, but we look for their
overthrow not through violence but, in the language
Of the resolution unanimously adopted BY the Demo
cratic party in convention assembled to constitutional
agencies and peaceful remedies alone. We invoke a
decision on the constitatlonatF of these by the
only tribunal competent To pronounce them, the SUI
preme Court of the United States, and prepared
in good faith to abide BY that decision.
1T may not be inappropriate here to correct mis-
apprehension, wide spread by Radical papers, about
matters touching these acts In these have been
charged with having dictated that portion of the Dem
ocratc platform relating reconstruction This charge
Il have more than once denied and do again most
emphatcay The sense in which smoke of the
wrongs, unconstitutional, revolutionary and void, as
being nv plank in the platform referred TO them
constituting the plank to which T. as well as any other
Southern man, clung for safety.
The letter coneIuaes as follows ss f the people Of
the North wish to build up strong aud lasting Union,
let them be nlagnannous and generous 10 the South.
Let them eonide more fully than they have done 70
the honor of our people, and they will meet cordial
and heartfelt response. The future destiny of the
action it depends whether there is again to bea Union
based on fratertiaI feeling, held together by tile
iron band of military rule
MEMPHIS Oct. 2I.-The Democratic Executive Com
mitee have issued address, replying to GiaFton's
dispatch to the President disaEowng any apprehension
Of danger unless the Governor succeeds in creating
disturbances.
NEWARK, Nj, Oct 2i-NeH and old Presbyterian
Synols in session here bad union prayer meeting
tonight Seven eminent PresbYterians Of both schools
spoke WARMLY of advantages following the healing Of