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Patriotism.

Patriotism, it is often said, begins at
home, like charity. In certain sense
it is true, inasmuch as it is justly found
ed ON a sentiment of self love. We
love our country because it is or coun-
try-the country of our ancestors, OF our
family, or friends, oar people. We
do not measure our affection for ances-
tors, family, friends or ccnntrymen, by
the value of their services to US. On
the contrary, Affections, infrmitv, weak
ness and poverty, while they deprive
us of substantial benefit from our
friends. always serve to intensity our
tenderness and affection for them. So
it is with love of country. In times
Of prosperity and peace, a good citizen
NAV leave his country and seek home
elsewhere. But in the day of .adversi-
tv and trial, when the State is bleed
ing at every pore, her true children
cling to her with the devotion of sons
to the heaving breast Of a dying moth
er, and would pour out their life blood
to secure her one hour of healthy ex-
istence. Genuine patriotism in times
like these, convert man, with all his
affections and resources, into living
sacrifice upon the altar Of his country
Such a man, when he dies, leaves a
name and an inheritance to his child
rem, illustrous, priceless and imperish'
able. His patriotism begins in sell
love, but it ends in god-like spirit o.
self sacrifice. Qui capt. Tile facit.
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From Illinois

We have been permitted to make
the following extract from letter re-
ceived by gentleman in Camden
from soldier in SHERMAN's army, who,
during the raid ofthat General passed
through this town:
'I received the papers you sent me,
and thank yon for them, will send you
more copies of the Chicago Times, 1t is
the paper I support. The Democratic
party Just here, are small, but we cal
culate to do all we can to elect SEY-
MouR and BLAIR this fall. We have q
Club Just organized of one hundred
and fifty members. The Democratic
party is gaining ground in this State
every day, and 1 believe we will carry
the State of Illinois in November by q
large majority. The Republican party
are doing their best to come out ahead
but I think thoy will fall far behind
We hope so, for they are becoming toe
corrupt to be in power. have never
/ voted with them, and never will, they
are think, that because | was in the
army. I ought to vote for GRANT, but
can't see it in that light. I have seer
enough of GRANT, not to vote for him
1 like him as a General, but to place
him at the head Of this government he
can never get my vote. l am not IL
favor of the Southern States being
ground under the iron heel of Despo
tism, nor all in favor of the almighty
negro, ruling the Southern States.
! The Republicans say you ought to bt
ruled by negroes, as the Southern poo
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GENERAL HOWARD IN MIssIssIp-
PA correspondent from Missisisip-
pi writes On Saturday, General 0.
o. Howard visited Jackson. The
General has a theory that the rising
generation of negroes, with all the
blessings of liberty, education and
the freedmen's bureau, must be rising
up far superior to their slave born
ancestors, and he is travelling to col
lect facts to support his theory. In
pursuance of this object, the General
waited upon the Mayor of Jackson,
who, being military appointee, it
was presumed would be found reliable
and Republican. That functionary
received the chief of the bureau with
all courtesy.
Il have called" said the General,
"for information as to the condition
of the freed people of this district
mean as to their morals and general
conduct"
"Bad, sir; very bad"
81 mean the younger people" re-
marked the General.
"Bad, sir; id bad," returned
the civil Falstaff.
''In what respect do you mean, Mr.
Mayor"
"The men are all thieves, and the
women are all no better than they
should be-"
"You mean the older women, dc
you not? asked the General, anxious
ly.
"No general, l don't. I NEAR
from twelve years old upwards.
General Howard. left by the mex
cars for Vicksburg. A mass meeting
was being gotten up for him by TIN
negro leaders, but he did not wal
for it.
There is one matter which Genera
Howard, with much advantage, nigh
have investigated, but which he li'
not touch. The malaria caused b,
recent heavy rains has given unusua
prevalence to malarial fevers in an,
around Jackson, and the disease ha
, assumed fatal congestivc type
Among the old and infrm negroes,
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The Elective Franchise.

To the People Of South Carolina:
It was referred to the State Central
Executive Committee, by the late Dem
ocratic Convention, to inquire into the
disabilities imposed, by reason Of the
war, upon portion of our people, re-
straining them from the exercise Of the
elective franchise in South Carolina
and to publish the conclusion attained,
for the information of the people Of the
State. The committee. in the discharge
Of that duty, announce that they have
examined the subject, and beg to state.
Q 1. That no such disabilities now ex-
ist by or under the Acts of Congress,
known as the Reconstruction Acts, the
State having been officially declared to
be in the Union.
.. That no such disabilities exist un-
der the so-called amendment, known
as the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, the
disabilities therein expressed having
reference to otfico-holding and not to
voting.
8. That no such disabilities exist by
the so-called State G Institution of 1868,
under which it is claimed that the State
has been reconstructed and restored to
the Union.
The undersigned, therefore, announce
that no such disabilities exist by force
ct anS law Or n sapp9assd sa 1aE or au4heE
erto disfranchised fellow-citizens, in
every part of the State, TO exercise their
right to vote at the coming election for
President and Vice President, of which
right they have been so long deprived
by Military power. BY order of the
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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The Suffrage Question.

This subject is much discussed in the
addresses made to the colored people,
during the present canvass, though in
truth, it is not directly, but only re-
motely involved in the issue. The po-
sition which we occupy is, that the
present government is the creature Of
unconstitutional enactments by Con-
gress, and therefore void, and of no
rightful authority, except so far as it
may be derived from the necessities
of the hour. This objection, if it be
we'll founded, will remain true and in
separable, whether the Radical paty,
or the Democratic party succeed in the
ensuing elections. The Radical party
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PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS. Spec
ulations upon the result of elections,
as well as other untranspired events,
are attended with more or less uncer-
tainty. We can only calculate with
any degree Of accuracy from what has
been, the causes which conspire to
certain results, where the same issues
are likely to produce the same effect
again.
The late elections in Vermont and
Maine are scarcely to be considered
as safe barometers of the November
storm: Outside of New England they
have no significance. For twelve
years the political sentiment Of that
section, with the exception of Con-
necticut, has been consolidated uni
ty almost against the Democratic
party. The November election will
be virtually settled by the action of
the three great States of Indiana,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania, in October.
With their iauence cast in the De-
mocratic scale, Seymour will sweep
the country like prairie fire. The
struggled waged in these States is a
desperate one. Both parties are con-
testing every point with view to its
influence in the general result.
Omitting the unreconstructed States
of Virginia, Texas and Mississippi,
the electoral vote is 294. Of this
number 149 ere necessary to choice.
New York 33, Connecticut 6, New
Jersey 7, Delaware 3, Pennsylvania
rs, Maryland 7, Kentucky II, In
diana 1S,, Ohio 81, Georgia 9, Ala>
bama 8, California S, supply the mum,
Der (149) necessary to choice
These States may be counted as al.
most certain for seymour. Others
are not less douBA y, among which
we subjoin Missouri ytrkansas s.
Wisconsin s, West - "a 5, Ore
gon 3, Nebraska 3, Nevada 8, Hi
nois 16. This would give Seymour
54 more than the number necessary
to an election. Dropping Illinois
which is perhaps the most doubtful
of the States named, he would stA
have SO more than enough to elect. Th
result will depend upon the energ.
with which the party every where ap
plies itself to the work before it
Every Democrat, from Maine to Cal
ifornia, should work as though tn
result depended on his own exertlon;
The prospect is certainly encoura
ging than it was in 1856 for Br
chanan.-Atlanta Constitution.
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If the Democrats in all the States
will only do as we'll in November as
their friends did in Vermont last
week, and the Radicals will do as
poorly, Seymour and Blair will be
triumphantly elected. But we ex-
pect even better than that.
NeW York World.
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The Land We Love,

For October, an excellent number,
contains seventeen articles.
The leading article, the Battle Of
Mansfield, is well written, and Of STIR
ring interest. The other prose articles
are, Chicago, Dancing under Shells,
Gen. Lee>at the Wilderness, Mary ASH
burton, Westminster Abbey, The Paio
Mouceapx, Orchards, Our Life in Books,
Mabel, The Future Of Young Africa,
Haversack, Editorial and Book No
tees.
The Poetry is by Mrs. Bellamy, Of
Alabama, Henry P. Parr, Of Memphis,
Tenn, &c.
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HAVE THE SLAVES THEMSELVES

HAVE THE SLAVES THEMSELVES
BEEN BENEFITED BY EMANcIPA-
TIoN?-W. Richardson, Esq, one Of
the propoietors and editors of the
Galveston Daily Neaos, whose recent
visit to Charleston, and his adopted
State, has been before referred to by
us, writes as follows concerning the
effects of emancipation on the negroes
themselves, in one of his letters writ
ten during his sojourn in our city :
But while e"fhc whole country has
suffered so much from the sudden
emancipation of nearly four millions
of slaves have the slaves themselves
been benefited ? For if they have, this
might be some justification for
measure so unprecedented in the his
tory of the world. But instead of
being benefSxed it is universally ad-
mitted, even by Northern men who
knew anything of their former con-
dition, that they are at this moment
much worse off than when slaves, not
only physically but morally I have
made enquiries in every place where
I have stopped, and the answer given
me is always tho same, namely: that
the freedmen are suffering for want of
food, clothing, and shelter; and also
when sick for want of proper medi-
cines and care, while the old and de-
crepid,.. and their helpless children,
owing to neglect, are dying to an ex-
tent heretofore unknown. In all the
towns where mortuary reports are
published, the mortality among them
is always much greater than among
the whites, and often two or three
times as great in proportion to num-
bers. In this city the deaths
among the colored people as
reported officially, have been, some
weeks, five times as many as among
the white population, and thisis rea-
Oily explained to any one who will
take the trouble to examine through
the portions and suburbs of the city,
and witness the miserable and filthy
condition in which they live. But
without going into details, it is suffi-
cient to say that the evidences Of the
suffering and degraded condition of
the freedmen are so abundant that I
believe no respectable man pretends
to deny it, nor is it denied that the
whole raceis rapidly diminishing in
numbers from year to year, while in
the condition ofslavery their increase
was considerably greater than the
whites, and far greater than any 9TH
er laboring class in the world. This,
| believe, is shown by the statistics Of
the country. So much for the physi-
cal condition of the freedmen; and as
regards their moral condition l find
have been, namely: that whatever
may be the religious professions OF
the freedmen, they seem to think it
perfectly right for them to take the
property of their former masters
whenever they can do so. The pros
titution among their females is noto-
riously ten fold worse than it was
ever known in the time of slavery
Indeed, there is scarcely a town in
the South, wherever / have been,
where this demoralized' condition Of
the colored females is not subject
of common complaint.
Charleston Courier.
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pie are not capable Of ruling themselves
I have seen as intelligent men South,
as ever saw North, and just as good
men, as they proved themselves to be-
in the war,
We must do our best, in the North,
and you of the South have no cause to-
be discouraged. We will come out
victorious"
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State Electoral Ticket.
Of MARLBOROUGH.

For Stale at Large-J..P. Thomas, o
Rlchland; J. D. Kennedy, of Kershaw
First Congressional Dish7et-R. F
Graham, Of Marion.
Second Congressional Distrft-B. FL
Rutledge, of Charleston.
Third Congressional DisTiet-A. @
Haskell, Of Abbeville.
Fourth Congressional Dishfet-E. G
Mcclure, of Chester.
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A Curiosity.

DICK Pr1cE, freedman has left at
our office, quite curiosity. 1t consists
of an ear of corn of good size, surround
ed by seven smaller ones, each ear hav-
ing its own cob, with grains perfectly
matured.
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TeFnsend, the
e5i'jgwas made
'ownsend,it

ReS0tUed, Inats - 3de Selecti0h OF =
o candidate for Congress Tor the first
Congressional District, each Judicial
District. be allowed to cast. as many
votes as it is entitled toih the, most
numerous branch of the Legislature.
DR.. Ingram then renewed bis nor.
ton for recess.
On motion of Mr.. Townsend, the,
votes on DR.. Ingram's motion were,
taken by Districts. with the following.
result, viz: Yeas 15-Nays 5; where.
upon the Convention receded from;
business.
The. Convention again met at z,
o'clock P. M. and was called to order
by the Chairman.
Mr.. S. J. Townsend then made.
the following motion, viz:
Reso1ued, That in the selection Of
nominee for Congressional District
that the selection be confined to q,
man not distranchised by the Con-
stitutional Amendment called the 18th
Article.
This motion caused considerable,
discussion, and was steadily opposed
by the Clarendon, portion of thet
Marion and the Georgetown delega-.
ton, but was finally adopted.
Mr.. Harvin then moved that q,
committee of one from each Judicial
District be appointed to. nominate a,
candidate from first Congressional
District.
On motion ofMr. Gilbert. 1.-The fol-
lowing was substituted for MIR. Har-.
vim S motion, viz:
That the Convention proceed to.
elect a candidate, the meeting voting:
by Districts, uaua voce.
The names of the following gentle.
men were put in nomination: Messrs.
F. F. Marley, Darlington, A. A.
Gilbert of Sumter, Harris Covington
of Marlboro and Gen. John D. Ken.
of Kershaw.
After the first ballot, Mr.. A. A.
Gilbert's name was withdrawn by.
reason of his incligibility under MIR.
Townsend's resolution.
On the fourth ballot Mr.. Harris:
Covington of Marlboro was elected.
On motion of DR.. j. E. Byrd, the.
election was made unanimous.
On motion of Col. Waring it was,
made the duty of the nominee of this.
/ Convention to canvass every District
of the Congressional District.
On motion of Mr.. Townsend, it
was
Resozred, That at all meetings in
this Congressional District, persons
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The Boston

E 4 + q |}8 Z z : < - S.-Ine boston
counted on twenty
Thousand majority in
Ave got eigheen instead.
eckon as clear gain of
ousand on last yar's majori-
which was upwar6 of eleven
dsand. But we arenot so sud-
enly to forget that hey have all
, through the canvass insited that last
years reduced majority, reduced
from the 27,000 of 1876, was not a
fair test of their strength, because
OF the local question O. prohibition.
After the result of last years election
became known; there vas q general
disclaimer on their partof the figures
as indicative of the party strength; it
being maintained that tae prohibitory
issue scattered their ranks and conf
fused strict party lines. Get that
issue out of tie way, they said, and
we will sh9w our full strength, We
Willingly yaccede to their proposal now
and~accept the standard they have
s@ up. This is a Cong, essional year,
and so was that of 1856; let the re-
suits of these two years, therefore, be
compared.
If we hold up the eighteen thou
sand Radical majority this year be-
fore the. twenty>seven. thousand Radi-
cal majority of 1866, when the cleo
tion was general and party lines were
strictly drawn, the difference is very
perceptible. No local causes disturb
ed the canvass, but the struggle was
an open and fair one between the
party in power and the Democrats
and their Conservative allies. The
advantage in such contest might
fairly be regarced as permanent
one. 1t amounts to a fixed Demo
cratic gain of eight or nine thousand
votes. This result, too, has been
achieved only by hand to hand
fight with an organization that is ma
king desperate struggle for exis-
tence, which stands condemned by
the public conscience and by its own
extorted confessions, and in whose
behalf have been exerted the ener-
gies and efforts of the ablest leaders
it could throw into the field. Per-
sistent defamation, daily drumming,
the lavish and corrupt expenditure of
money, bribery on the one hand and
threats on the other, appeals to pas
sions that had been slumbering in the
ashes of the past, and a profuse en-
ployment of both State and Federal
patronage, have combined to evoke
from the contest no larger MAORI
ty than the returns this morning
indicate, which in comparison with
the Radical maiarity of 1890 -Aan-
striking evidences of the fact that the
Democracy of Maine has come out OF
this fight with glory.
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Thanks.

Mr. Taos. B. LEE, will please accept
our thanks for the New York Daily Ex-
press, two days in advance of the MAIL
from which we obtain valuable informa-
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has proved very fatal, for lack Of
proper remedies. They are too poor
to buy medicine. The claims on the
charity of the local druggists have
been. SO excessive, that they have
beef compelled to refuse further
gratuitous supplies. Meanwhile the
Freedmen's Bureau, which Congress
for political purpose continued, raises
not finger in their behalf.
"Why don't you 60 to the Bureau
dactor!' 1 asked an old woman, whom
want and fever had reduced to liv-
ing skeleton.
''De boorao amt no good to me, !"
she said. "Dey only cares for dem
dat ken take care of demselves."
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can never make that lawful, which is
unconstitutional, and the Democratic
party cannot make that unconstitution-
al, which is lawful. So, however, this
canvass may terminate, the present
government of South Carolina only
awaits the decision of a competent
court to declare its unconstitu tionality
to vanish into nothingness. With it
falls negro suffrage, and the State re-
verts to its lawful and rightful propri-
etors, the white man, whose it is by
occupation, conquest, treaty and law.
When the government shall thus be
restored to the lawful citizens of the
State, the question will come up, what
shall be the status ofthe colored people?
Shall they be admitted to any political
privileges? IF to any, towhat and upon
what terms? q? These questions are now
eagerly asked by the intelligent colored
man, and hence the suffrage question
is frequently brought under discussion,
at this time. The answer is to be found
in the resolutions of the Democracy
adopted in the convention organizing
the party in April last. They have
said, the colored people shall be recog-
nized as a part Of the body polite, and
that they shall be admitted to suffrage,
upon proper qualifications of property
and intelligence. 1t is objected by
some Of them, that this will introduce
discrimination against the colored peo-
pie, because we require qualifications
Of them, which are not required of the
white man. 1t is his by descent of
generations, acquired by his blood and
treasure, and God alone can ever re-
quire him to surrender it. Being his,
the colored race ask him, the white
man, who alone can grant the great
boon desired, to admit the colored man
to, share with him, in this Cod-gifted
inheritance, by becoming voter. We
have the right and we alone, to bestow
or to withhold it. We therefore have the
right to impose terms upon any and
all seeking admission to citizenship
We impose terms upon the foreign-born
white man. Why should we not i'm
pose them upon the colored man, who
asks for this great privilege? Selffo-
lection demands that we grant only a
limited suffrage. We are now endu-
ring state ofruin and anarchy brought
upon US by universal negro suffrage
The first use made Of this power, un-
lawfully conferred, was to lay it at the
ding it is blindly welded to our injury
and the utter ruin of the colored peo-
pie. With this experience before them,
the citizens of this State would be mad
men, to grant more to the present gen.
Grafton of colored men, than what the
April convention offered, a qualified and
limited right Of suffrage. AS this is
the only form in which they can law
fully receive this right, they can choose
between this and total exclusion,
when tie lawless dream of carpet-bag
ascendency shall have been swept away
by the breath of constitutional law.
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The Grant tanners of Chicago have
refused to employ negroes.
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PROCEEDINGS OF coNvENT1oN
HELD At FLORENCE, SEPT: is,

11S'o al shosa1iN0H, SHfti 10,
1868.
The meeting convened at half past
II o'clock A. NJ, and was tempora-
rily organized by calling G. d. Evans.
ESQ.,, of Marion, to the chair, and re-
questing Joseph +. Rhame, Of Clar-
endon, to act as Secretary.
The Chairman briefly explained
that the object Of the Convention was
to select suitable person as candi-
date for Representative for the first
Congressional District.
On motion call was made for the,
Delegates from the different Districts
tocomeforward and enroll thernames..
Under that call the following Dele:
gates came forward and enrolled their
names:
Chesterfeld.-T. w. Duyal.
Marlboro-S. j. Townsend, Harris
Covington, r. j. Tatum and IA.
Drake.
Sumter-Col. Thomas 3. Fraser,
W. j. Durant, R. M. English, H. D.
Green; sntl A Gilbert.
Iafcad John j. Ingram.
AsthNg fsfsi sgph d. Rhame,. II
and y ia eiaap
s. vans, E. II. Price.
a,ss! }s II &
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manfully. He worked well and assid-
uously, and happening to come under
the notice Of Erlanger, he made favor
able impression, and became, in a small
way, the protege of that financier. By
him he was put in the way of doing a
good thing, in fact several good things /;
and, by the help of the banker, rose
quickly to thepossession of a competency
in hand, and the prospect of more than
that if he keeps on. But, to come to the
close of this story, the fruition of this
faithful pair is nearly at hand. The
stern father has succumbed to what he
sees to be necessity, and next month
the quondam rebel now French banker
will be here to take his bride from the
same house in..which he won her hear rt as
young student.-Boston Correspondence
Chicago Times.