The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-03-11

And'now'the question comes, shall
the State, or its exponent of Justice,
the Law, hold! that man responsible
for the payment of another mans
debts,.when the debt was contracted,
and tho surety signed tho obligation
to pay, upon the basis of slave proper
ty q"
Now it so happens that tho State it.
self has expungedthat very property.
Havo the people now right to say
that, whilo no repudiation shall be
LOCALIZED, eyerythihga a man has shall
not be taken. away topay debts con-
tractcd or endorsed, before the war :?
Or, in other words, shall there be u
Homestead Law :
We arc decidedly of tho opinion
that there should be. Tho condition
OF tho people is a peculiar one. All
that they based credit upon has
been swept away, by the Statute law.
And to secure to- man, by law, u
homestead, is simply to avoid Che fool
isli mistake of killing the goose that
laysthc golden egg A. homestead is
simply a.nost-egg.
South Carolina as ittWas. and as It Is.
Being now upon the top of one Of
the lofty peaks of Revolution, we can
taEo a'retrospcctivc Wow of sohat'e0as,
and comparc'it with aohat'ts.
Tho time was when tho talent Of
South Carolina compared favorably
with that of every. other State;.in the
IIalls,of Congress-.
But there was another feature in
which this State hadtno superior and
that was in her credit. Paper prom
iscs to pay, with the genuine stamp Of
tho State upon them, were received
throughout the United States, and
even beyond their borders, for what
they promised. Bank bills of this
State were MS good as gold almost;
anywhere.
Shall we repeat what VIC have more
than once alluded to-that our system
Of tho administration of law has here
totorc boon superior to that of any
State in the whole Union 2?
But now, what have wo in store z
Why, & bench &C Judges to be elected
by the people. And who, pray, arc
the people Nothing more OF less
than majority of ignorant voters
who know as little of Judging of what
MI Official should be, as q pig knows
about preaching.
Who will be its next Governor L?
Who will next 60 to Congress 2 We
answer, some renegade Southern man,
or somo grasping. yankee who has.
como to tho State sihces:the war.
We have it fronp'the BEST aaShority,
that the three best dobators, and tho
smartest mon in tho Convention now
assembled in Charleston, arc throu
big black negroes educated in tho
North, and scttlod4in. the South since
the War. What would q. Kutlcdge,
or Pinckncy, or IIaync be in com
parison with such men And vet our
State is subjected to thc dircful pun
ishmcnt of subjcctioa to such dis
grace.
The mean and faithlcss, as we'll as
gold.bloatcd, men of Now England
those who sold tho old "daddics' of
tho very negroes they have sent down
South to be our. lawmakers, ore.
now working for tho mcancst and most
selfish purposes. Money they wor.
ship, and money they will have.
Look at Randolph, tho Rev. B. +.
Randolph, graduate of Obcrlih Col
lcge, i'll Ohio, and who made such
smooth-tongued speech in this place
Inst Jaby.. He is aspltndid specimen
of the grasping yankee politician. He
lives in { Charleston, represents Or
angcburg, and now demands mileage
pay from the latter. to tho formor
place.
Negroes from the faithicss North
arc now crowding into tho SSathcra
States to assume tho burden of States
manship. All the wants and nocessi-
tics they do know, arc those of their
own pockets. What care they for our
interests, if only theirs arc subservod?
Now this yankee Convention in
Charleston proposes radical changes
in our Judiciary. we are likely to
have Judges elected by tho people.
Woll, it is true that many Of our Sis
ter Southern States have long prac.