The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-11

cation and forfeiture-it was always respeceeo:
The hattie of Manassas had demonstrated tnat
the rights of belI1gerents were tnelrs. iIhey
knew this, but they did not Know tnelr enemy.
Thev did not know that their love Of the
1Tnion lfor Union read almighty dollar was
stronger than their love of liberty. The people
of Beaufort, with few exceptions, were se-
cessfonists- honest, outspoken secessionists-
lovers of the Union according to the constitu-
ton, but lovers Of liberty rather than the con-
stitution or the Union. They held no Federal
Offices, and sought none, but they were not
the avar.cious spirit of New England. They
remembered the prophetic saying Of their
great statesman, William Lowndes, uttered
more than seventy years before, "7hdt the
Constitution of the United States uas Tatno'ls
to the liberties of america" therefore tney
watched ;ts operation. Certainly, among Inc
very first to warn the States 0: the danger Of
consolidation, they were not likely to be ia
vorites with the party which elected Mr.. Lin
coin to Office Their political influence was
not much, for their State was small and their
position isolated; but their honesty, vigilance
and great intelligence were MOTTO be desplsed.
Now, whether Dupont or his successors re-
to the people of Beaufort, ,s not known. Pro-
badly they did not But this is certain, tEat
upon no other portion Of the people OF the
State were the. disasters Of the war made to
fall so heavily. For more than three years
they were .eXiles, with scanty means, some OF
them in utter destitution and want; but all OF
them encouraged by the hope that at the end
of the war they would repossess themselves OF
that which was honestly their own. @ Ihey
sonal wealth, which Civilized and gener-
GUS enemy ought to have been glad to
save for them, had been, the most valu-
able part, their cotton, seized as confs.
Gated, and sent to swell the national treasury,
and the other part deliberately appropriated
by the negroes and Yankees, and their houses
and lands held by strangers under some pre-, pre-
never believed in. What had these people
done more than their felow-citizens, who
lived out of the Parish Of st. Helena? Was
secession or the advocacy OF secession, a
crime? Ifso, there are tens of Thousands who
have not yet had their eyes 80 opened as to
see it. And if a crime, whatever difference OF
opinion may exist on many points OF u constltu ensI
one ought to be punished for crime. even by
the coniscatiOn Of his property. until he has
been fairly tried and convicted. We're all
of these people equally guilty? We're they
guilty as individuals, or as political or mu-
nicipal corporation? Assuming them to have
equally punished? A very interesting ques-
tion. For the sake of convenience here end
my first chapter. In my next will continue
the subiect-"The wrongs of the plundered
exiles Of Saint Helena Parish, !" and perhaps
say few words to tie .sSn. +. a. Sawyer, who
renrsssSsin rsssS.s in the Senate oil the United States
the interest of New England in the little
Province of South Carolina. Messrs. Brisbane
and wording. United States direct tax COM
missioners al Beaufort, may come In TOR
" ord or two, out desire to deal VITA them
tenderly now. for I shall have use tor them
perhaps before another tribunal.
AsMoDEUs