The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-04-27

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siousl District you represent. This he
accepted and allowed him 70 give Tor
the purpose Of building school houses,
30 and the money had oil been thus
applied. conscientious and honest.1
There wers so many applicants that
he determined to ask Eve hundred dol
lars for tho Naval Appointment, to be
applied in the same way. Before he
left Darlington for his late trip North,
the people came to him in great num-
bers, providing bis doors, asking assis-
tanoe, and none of them we're sent away
empty. He placed $4l0 in the hands
Of o colored man to be distributed among
the needy. He realized $500 from the
Naval appointment which was thus ex-
pepded.
Speaking Of his great charities a
Darlington, he said that more than six
teen hundred dollars had been given
away by himself and his wife; and that
ladies who had been wealthy and had
held prominent positions in this State
ladies-who had been deserted
by thoir husbands, had come, closely
veiled, to his doors, begging assistance,
and they too had been relieved.
He charged that the Military Com~
mittee did not give him fair hearing
that he did no. know what was in
testimony against him, and was not al
lowed to speak. That whilst he was
on his feet advocating bill for the re.
lief Of the disabilities of Southern men,
he was informed that the Committee
had determined to report unanimously
in favor of his expulsion. That when
the report was made, Gen. Logan was
determined to drive him to the wall,
and not allow him hearing or time to
prepare his defence. He was found
guilty in Committee, when he knew not
what had been testified againot him
and was not allowed hearing on the
floor of the House. He denounced the
whole thing as conspiracy-deep,
dark and damnable-on the part of
Gen: Logan, the .Committe and the
House, in league with Northern
Democrats, to disgrace him forever.
He reviewed his experience on his
rounds through tho Congressional Dis
trict-"N1r. Whittemore" had been re-
ceived with warm welcome, the women
aud children finging their bonnets and
hats in the air as they shouted his
praises and declared that he should go
back to Congress. lie mentioned the
difficulties in getting hearing at
Cheraw, but he had returned there,
with friends, and with arms, and thus
obtained audience. He told them, at
the conclusion Of this review, that he
was going back to Congress, and asked
if his hearers would vote to send hin
back, to which there was strong
Affirmative response.
The speech, which was three or four
hours in length, teclned, throughout
with sickeniug selflaudation. He gave
himself sanity oharactcr-immaculate
purity, unbounded charity and sympa
thy for the poor, philanthropic labors
which knew no wearincss, and honesty
and truth to the line aud plummet. Fa!-
len man has rarely attained like degree
of perfection. The tale Of his suffering
and wrongs, too-ofhs injured innocence,
was pitcous and agonizing. The bias.
phemy was shocking, and brought some
seriousness even to the excited mass of
colored people, when he declared that
he had been crusiied, but had now
risen again.
He threatened Raincy, Fcritcr, and
all who dared oppose him, SAID he had
from Herod to Caesar, and
wanted no convention Of trickstcrs to
decide his case. lie intended to go
before the masses Of the colo, ed people
lie was followed by w. Il. johnson
(colored) who had heard for the first
time from Mr.. Wittcmore that there
would be no convention, Il. j. Coghlan,
Fludd, (colored) bigger, Fcritcr and
others, as indicated in tho heading, and
to whose remarks want of space does
not permit US to make moro particular
allusion.
THE IMMIGRATION CONVENTION.
The question ofsupplying the South
crn country with white population has
occupied tho minds OF all interested in
her welfare ever since the abolition of
slavery. So far, however, nothing
T. Ia.