The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-02-12
Debts Due for Slaves.

Su"o VIZ SphNOll llou puSoCo lllC
ordinance rendering null and void all
contracts, Judgments and docrces
made or ontored upon, whore tho con-
sidcration was for the purchase of
slaves.
Wcarc very glad to SEQ that our
only white representative, Mr.. j. NJ.
Rutland, opposed the adoption of this
ordinance.
Tic has been a perfectly consistent
Union man, and was so through all
the war. We respect his sentiments
moro than those of amy other member
Of the generally ignorant Convention
which now sits in Charleston. On the
subject Of the ropudiation which the
Convention has passed 80 generally,
Mr.. Rutland stands right upon the
record, and VIC arc glad to announce
It.
We know that citizens of our Dis
trct will suilcr by this ordinance.
There are many who hold notes and
bonds for the value Of slaves sold to
others. But are they to suffer So
gays that ignorant crew that obcys the
nod Of tho Radical rule that prevails
in Washington. Lot them obey.
Let tho we'll paid crowd now assem-
bled IN Charleston get all they can
from the down-troddcn people of the
State who have not lost their respect
ibility. The day Of rctribution will
come. Even Mr.. Rutland may say,
with all his legal and Constitutional
= talent, az he is reported to have said, :,
that "ho never did believe ono man
chad the right to mako property of an.
othcr.n
But TINS does not destroy tho great
truth Of Sacred Scripture, that slaves
were G. c. the possession Of ono man
by anothcr,) common among that
pcoplo whom tho Creator of Man and
the World he iuhabits, was the ''pccu-
liar people" of His caro-.
What arc We to think of the man
who says that n slavc was not property,
before the war
Ic is either for us or against us.
If he say, that tho uso Of slavery was
ahnana. wo h""...lJ "o..u Win
him. But when he says that it was
not right, or not legal, or not Consti-
tutional to "makc propcrty' of that
which the Bible and the Constitution
Of the Untcd States, and of South
Carolina, clearly sanctioned as pro-
rcrty, then We must say with the ut
most respect (Which We have towards
Mr.. Rutland) that he is entirely mis-
taken.
But there is one thing we do give
Mr., Rutland great credit for. IIo
does respect the laws. IIo is too in.
tclligcnt man not to take this ground
III opposition to the unjust and OPP
pressivc ordinance to which we alludc.
Mr.. Rutland, as ow Representative,
knows the injustice which is to bo in
hlctcd on tho country by the passage
ofthc unjust ordinance which ho no.
bly, fought. 1t "wipcs" out all
claims FOR even services rendered by
those whose whole time belonged to
others.
We can sec, however, how it is that
the Convention now asse mblcd in
Charleston can adopt this extreme
measure. That body is under orders
orders issued by the mean and con-
tcmrtiblc Radicals of tho North.
Have they not induced the bold and
bulldog Grant to tell q lic9 Did
they not suhorn Conovor aHas Dan
ham, to swear falsely At what
point do they moan to stopl
We know, or rather wc arc sure,
that the spirit that keeps boast like
IS. +. Butler in position, at tho North,
is perfectly willing, and would be do
lighted, to have and see the uMte
population of our dear old State bu-
ricd i'll "dust and ashes"
And in passing the ordinance in the
Convention, ignoring all obligations
for debts contracted tor slave property
that body has only obeycd the behests
of that same Radical clement.
Human nature rcvolts against it..
Not against the emancipation of slave
ry. But against the unlawful abuse
of power by thoscswho once recogniz-
cd slavery, and whose ancestors sold
all tho slaves they possessed to those
whom they would now destroy.
Men of tho South, Ito what tribu.
nal are you to appeal ito tho Great
God who rules the Universe to Him
wo can leave the issue.
immortality and traa cherv aro ,,born