The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-06-17

Of candidates, but having full con
fdence in their prudence, patriot
ism, and judgement, this Conven
tion leaves them untrammelled b.
instructions.
Mr.. Rhett offered the following
resolutions, which were referred
to the Committee on Resolutions
l. Resolved, That there can b
no free government and no liberty
to people without fixed funda
mental laws, which the interests
and passions Of transient ruler:
cannot overthrow and when ad
ministrators Gas the majority in
! Congress,) seek to overthrow
them, they are usurpers and revo
lutionists-traitors to the Consti
tuition and enemies alike to the
people they assume to represent
and to free government in the
world.
2. Resolved, That when the late
struggle for independence ceased.
South Carolina was prepared in
good faith to resume her position
as one Of the States in the Union
Of the United States, and, when
rejected from this position, to
which she was invited, and mill
tary despotlsm was put over her,
she attributed it rather to the
policy of party using the unsub-
dued passions Of war than to the
sober convictions of justice and
craftsmanship and whilst suffer-
ing with some degree of tortitude
the tyranny put over her, she
looks to the people Of the North
to redeem the pledges which
brought the war to an end: and to
restore the Union in it's reality,
equity and peace.
g.. Resolred, That the United
States is Constitutional Govern
ment and a white mans Govern
ment; and that, by the decision of
the Supreme Court of the United
St:.tes, it is determined that South
Carolina is a State within. the
Union and under the Constitu-
ton and that the attempt Of a
party to control the elective fran
chise within State limits through
the general Government, with
the design of manufacturing polit-
ical power by lifting to suprema-
cy over the white population the
inferior black race lately slaves,
and thus to make the State a prey
to anarchy and strife, and forever
incapable of enjoying the privile-
ges and blessings of free govern
ment, is a revolutionary and de-
structive outrage, at war with the
prosperity and peace of the whole
country.
4. Reeozred, That the Demo-
cratic party has ever been the
party Of the Constitution-rccog-
nizing it's limitations in the pow
ers conferred on the general Gov
ernmcnt, and observing the inde-
pendencc and sovereignty of the
States in their reserved powers,
upon which alone, as a system,
rests the union, the peace and the
liberties of the people Of the Uni
ted States.
5. Reso7red, That it is with
great qualification we have wit
messed the course Of the Demo-
cratic party Of the North, in their
opposition to the despotism put
over the South-a despotism as
inconsistent with the Constitution
and free government in the coun-
try, as it is faithless to the plain
and explicit pledges Of Congress
and of the Government Of the
United States voluntarily put
forth to the Southern States as
the terms of reunion and peace.
6. Resolved, That in the opin-
ion of this Convention, the next
Presidential election is the most
important which has taken place
since the organization Of the Gov
ernment, because it will determine
whether free government or des-
potism, liberty or tyranny, is to
prevail over the people Of the