The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-03-31
Grant and South Carolina.

Among the visitors who called on
the President on Tuesday morning,
were Hon. j. p. Reed and Hon. w.
D. Simpson, of South Carolina, who
were presented by the Hon. Thomas
l.. Jones, of Kentucky. During the
interview Mr.. Reed read, for himself
and Mr.. Simpson, the following paper
in relation to the condition of affairs
in their State:
We have called, Mr.. President, as
members elect from the old Common
wealth of South Carolina to the For
ty-frst Congress Of the United States,
to tender for ourselves and the people
we have been chosen to represent, our
congratulations upon your auspicious
assumption of tho office of Chief Ma
gistrate of the American Union. We
are, sir, natives of tho State from
whence we come, and claim, as repre-
sentative men of it's ancient popula.
tion, to be familiar with their politi
cal and material condition, their sem
timents and aspirations for the future.
Politically, in addition to the loss
OF nearly all their pecuniary resources
they have by the results Of tho war
been practically excluded, for more
than three years, from the family of
States and the blessings of civil gov
ornment, but having been recently re-
stored to their original position in the
onion, upon the plan which the Con
gress in its wisdom saw fit to adopt,
without concurring in the manner of
their restoration, they have accepted
the accomplished fact in good faith,
and arc as loyal to the government of
common country as any other equal
number OF the American people.
Their condition socially is and has
been one of profound peace, and aside
from few isolated acts of personal
violence that have occasionally been
committed in different parts of the
State, such as are unfortunately of
common occurrence in all sections of
the Union, good order has prevailed,
and tho laws, State and Federal, en-
acted for their government by bodies
in which they were unrepresented, :,
have been respected, obeyed and en-
forced, without the slightest tendency
to tumult or violence.
Materially the abundant harvests
that have been vouchsafed to them,
and the high prices at which their
leading staples have ruled, have re-
lievod them in o great measure from
their embarrassments, and opened up
to their imaginations the dawn of
prosperity, so entirely unexpected as
to leave them to hope that events
which were deemed the most crushing
evils may turn out to have been in
deed BLESSINGS in Disguise"
In sentiment, whilst almost the en-
tire native white, and large number
OF the coioTea population, have affili-
ated and been identified with the ma
tional Democratic party, their fetters
are not of such controlling strength
as to induce or permit faoticious op-
position to the party in power, or him
der them from yielding hearty sup
port to all such measures of your ad-
ministration as will, in the judgment,
tend to dovelepe tho resources and
promote the interests of common
country.
Their hopes and aspirations for the
future are, that their State NAV
henceforth occupy precisely tho same
relations to the government under o
common constitution and laws that is
occupied by the other States of the
Union; and to this end that the laws
imposing burdens and comforting ben
efits On the people may be uniformly
enforced, persons and property pro-
tected, the peace preserved inviolate,
the unity and perpetuity of the gov
ernmcnt maintained, and that unin-
terrupted fraternity, prosperity and
happiness may attend the whole Amer.
loan people, East, West, North and
South, without regard to race, color,
or previous condition. And such, sir,
are the sentiments of the hearts Of
ourselves and our people.
In response to which, the President
remarked; '"Gentlemen- The senti-
ments expressed in that paper should
meet tho appreciation of every law
abiding and Union loving citizen of
tho country"