The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-11-04
In the District of South Carolina

One Company of 9Th Inft'y, to Chester.
s. One Company of 9th Unity, to Laurensville.
One Company Of Sth Inft'y, to AbbeVille.
One Company of S;h nifty, to Newberry.
One Company of Sth Inft'y, to Edgefeld.
One Company of 9th nifty, to Beaufort.
One Company of 9th Inft'y, to Georgetown.
One Company Of 9th Unity, to Florence
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VIII. District commanders will ia-
struct post commanders in. their duties,
and the relative position of The civil and
military powers: They will furnish
them with copies of the circulars from
these Headquarters, of August 25th, and
October 1st, ultimo, (the latter of which
was forwarded September :l5th, to Dis
trict commanders, in which the instruc.
tions of the War Department are set
forth in full. They will impress on post
commanders that they are TO actin aid
and cooperation, and in subordina;ion
to the civil authorities a; that they are to
exercise. discretion and Judgment, un-
biased by political or other prcjadices !;
that their object should be exclusively to
preserve the peace and uphold lew and
order, and they must be satisfied such is
the object of the civil officer calling on
them for aid that they must, in all
cases where time will permit, apply for
instruction to superior authority: but
tbev must at all hazards preserve the
peace, and not be restrained by techni-
cal points, when, in their conscientious
judgement under the rules above set
forth. 1t is their duty to act. Post COM
nanders, on being notified of the pro-
posed holding of political meetings, may
send an officer, and if necessary a de-
tachment, to watch the proceedings and
see that the peace is preserved.
TX. To the people Of the several States
composing the Department, TIE Major
General commanding appeals that they
will cooperate with him and the civil
authorities in sustaining law, ard order,
in preserving the peace and avoiding
those scenes of riot and bloodshed, and
the wanton destruction of property and
life, which has already, in some instan-
ces, been enacted in the Department.
He urges abstinence from all inflamma-
tory and incendiary appeals to the pas
sions; discountenancing the keeping
open of;lieuor shops on days of political
meetings and Of election the abstaining
from carrying arms, aud asserting the
individual right of-eonstruiRg laws by
force of arms. No;just cause is ever ad-
vanced By resort to violence. Let there
be charity and forbearance among politi-
cal opponents, whatever may be the re-
suit; let each good citizen determine
that all who, under the law, have. the
right'to ballot, shall exercise it undis-
turbed. If there are, disputed points of
law, let them be referred to the courts,
and let not mobs or political clubs, or
other irresponsible bedies, censtrue and
undertake to execute the law. This ap
peal is made in the earnest hope that the
Major General commanding can rely on
the good sense and the correct judgment
of the mass Of the people, and that he
viii not be compelled TO resort to the ex-
ercise of the power. with which he is in
trusted, and which he will most reluc-
tantly employ. But he thinks it his
duty 10 make known, that so far as the
power under his command will admit, he
will not permit the peace to be broken,
and that he will not be restrained in the
conscientious discharge Of his duty by
teebnicallties of laws made when the
present anomalous condition of affairs
were neither anticipated or provided for.
By Order Of Major General Meade:
r. G. DRUM,
..5sistant Adjutant General.