The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-08

Of counsel, encouragement and deepest
kindly feeling. Our people knew that it
was to the interest Of the freedmen to be
the friends of the whites, as it was to the
interest of the whites to educate and i'm
prove the freedmen. They have acted upon
their knowledge, and have established, by
their own conduct, the important fact that
the South has been, is, and will be, the only
true friend of the freedman.
And if the words of the South have been
bold and Straightforward, upon the subject
of the present and future relations Of the
white and colored races, they have also
been candid and sincere in their cry for a
lasting peace. When the Southern soldiers
laid down their arms, they swore to support
the Constitution of the United States. They
did this without evasion or mental reserva-
ton. They had fought and had been con-
quered. They accepted the terms of sur
render and have abided by them. They
did not, however, give up their every right
as freemen and white citizens In their
paroles they were promised protection
under the laws, and when they had renewed
their oath of allegiance, when they had
complied with all the conditions which were
imposed upon them, they believed them
selves to be ectitled to all theirtimmunities
and privileges under the Union and consti-
tuition They sheathed their swords that
peace might ceme; they destroyed, with
their own hands, chattels to the value OF
three hundred million of dollars that peace
might come. This was not all. When Con-
gress, with the banner of revolution wsv-
ing over its head, pressed forward to de-
stroy the liberties of the whole country
when it deprived of his birthright every
prominent man of honor in the South
when it ruled US by the sword, imprisoned
our chieftains, deposed our judges, an
nulled our laws and insulted our women
the Southern people suffered in silence, still
praying for peace. They did not look for
peace by the fundamentally of ignorant
negroes and vicious white vagabonds; they
did not look for peace by o destruction of
the constitution; they did not look for peace
by the acts Of q usurping and corrupt ma
tional legislature. They demanded peace
as they demand it now, that they might re-
build their ruined cities, make bright their
waters with the sails of commerce, hear
oroe more the hum of trade in crowded
streets. For peace the South, now and
ever, will give up all save honor.
But the North would not be satisfied, and
now to the declarations of the Southern
people-by their own voice, by the public
press, by three years of magnanimous for
bearance-that they will employ and pro-
tect the freedmen, that they only ask for a
restoration of their rights under The con-
and that, when the right of self
government is given to them, they will be
devotedly loyal to the constitution of their
country, and fulfil every duty incumbent on
peaceful citizens, are added the words Of
such men as BEAUREGARD and LEE. The
rank and file of the South had already spo-
ken; now their leaders, led by the man upon
whose truth and integrity the North has
cast no stain, speak out to vindicate and
explain the purposes of themselves and
Of their peopls. If the North has not be-
lieved the words of the millions of men, it
may still believe the words of those whom
it has regarded as our master-minds and
our advisers. The name of LEE will have
its wonted effect, and although we are op-
posed to talking too often and saying too
much, we still believe that, under the cir
the now famous RosEcRANs
mission will 60 far to convince the people
Of the North and West that they have been
by a bugbear, and that the South
Is the friend of the freedman, the friend of
peace, and, although the foe of Radicalism,
1 steady supporter of the Union under the
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