The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-07-05

Union, and then, wien they had tri-
umphed, refusing 10 let them take
those places, denying them the rights
OF self go'ernusens and representation
in Congress, putting them uuder bsvo.
net rule, and aherward reoons,ruc,iup
mem by uprooting all the foundation,
Of their society, disqusliyiug all men
Of intelligence and property from hold.
ing office or voting, and placing their
governments in the hands Of iguorau.
and vicious. He spoke Of the Repub-
'cans as Jacobins without eon,c;snc.
or consistency, whose purpose was to.
establish centralized, despo,io govern
mens and to destroy the liberties Of tho
people. All Of The reconstruction leo.
i'l",ion of Congress he believed 70 he
unconstitutional. fraudent and void
lhe Alil'h amendment he admitted
70 be valid, because 1t had been ra,if;ey
oy the righ,fai government. of ,ba
southern States-tbe government. de
'are, and not the governments de faeto
aherward established By bayone,,-
Inc AlVthe and XVIII amendments
he claimed were no part of the con.,;:.
tuition, because their pretended ra,ific..
''on had been effected by force and
and fraud. They were not re.ul,, ~
the war, A. the Radical IA.d~-- -e,-..
was over, As part Of the scheme OF
csntralizatiou which those leaders had
conceived to keep themselves in power
He did not hold the XVIII amendments
to be invalid because he opposed negro
suffrage, but because Of the usurpa,ion,
and outrages upon the constitution by
which 1t was wIongfully adopted. lie
did not believe the ballot would ever
be taken from the negro il the XVIII
amendment was declared void, and the
control Of the suffrage placed where i,
righ,fully belonged, under the exclusive
Jurisdiction Of the States. In such a
case should Il be proposed to. deprive
the negroes Of the franchise the white
man would divide into two parties up
on the question, and the one that op-
posed The measure, with the aid of the
votes Of the negros, would carry tho day.
But the fact that universal suffrage WAS
so firmly established did not, he said,
lessen the duty Of all lovers of coasi.
tutional liberty to oppose the XVIII
amendment. This usurpation should
never be permitted to pass without pro-
per rebuke and condemnation, even by
those who favor the object aimed at
BY it. The de jure governments Of
tho Southern States, he said, are still
in condition Of repression, and he de-
clared that the history Of no country
shows grosser Of more palpable usurpa.
ton' OF power, or more glaring acts of
wrong, violence, haud and perfidy on
the part of those in authority than were
committed BY the Republican party in
the passage of the SO. called amends
men:s and the reconstruction laws.
A SICK WEDDING PARTY.-The
sickest wedding party on record
was at Fort Dodge, Iowa, the 9th .
er evening. About two hundred
persons had been invited to cele.
brate the nuptials of a happy cou-
pie belonging to the F. F. VS.
About nine o'clock they all eat down
to a sumptuous repast, of which ice
cream was one Of the features
Nearly all partook of the cream,
and in about an hour afterwards,
three-fourths of the two hundred
had to he carried home in intense
agony, the town was aroused, all
the doctors summoned, and con.
sternation was depicted on every
countenance. The bride and
groom were 80 sick they did not
e,joy any more nuptials that night.
Groans and moaning were heard
in every household, and it was evi.
dent that they had all been poison.
ed. 1t turned out that the confec.
TONER, in making the cream, used
copper refrigerator which he
had failed to clean properly, and
that, doubtless, caused all the trou.
BILE. The condition of many of the
victims was very precarious at last
accounts.
The PEAcH CRoP.-The New
York Daily Bulletin OF the 18th,
says:
The first lot OF peaches this sea
son in this market came in last
week from South Carolina. They
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