Year: 1865

The south Made war-Nt did not


rebel-against Potential but not


an Actual Tyranny.


In the South Carolina Convention, Mr..
Hammond introduced the following resolu-
tions, which were referred to the Committee
on Ordinances and Resolutions:


Inasmuch as fundamental difference Of
opinion in reference to the character, powers,
and policy of the Government Of the United
States and of the State governments, which
existed in the Convention which framed the
Constitution, and, after more than three.
quarters Of q century Of political contest, re-
suited in bloody and exhausting war; and
whereas, when people draw the sword, ap-
pealing to the last and highest tribunal
known to man, they should abide by its de-
cisions in good faith; and whereas it is neither
wise nor polite in the people OF the South to
continue any longer contest in which they
have been twice defeated-once by political
majorites and once by the sword therefore,
we, the people of South Carolina, in conven-
tion assembled, accept as the results Of the
war the principles embraced in the following
resolutions, and will sustain them fully and
faithfully as q national policy:


|. ReS0iUed, That the Union is the FIRST
and paramount consideration of the Ameri-
can people


2. Resolved, That sovereignty q unit ab-
solute and indiyisible, which, in oil nations,
must exist somewhere, resides in the Ameri-
can people, and its authorized representative
within the limits Of the organic law-the
Constitution-is the Federal Government.


3. Res0iUed That il is an incontroverti-
bic fact that slavery has ceased to exist
through the exercise Of the military power of
the Federal Government, and that any at
tempt by us to revive it would be impOlitic
unwise, and not only futile, but disastrous.


4. Resolved That it is the true policy of
the American people to confne the General
Government strictly within the limits of the
Constitution, and to acknowledge the inal-
ienable right of each State to regulate its
own affairs in its own way.


s. Resolved, That the late war was not
one of an oppressed people against tyranny,
but arose from an apprehension, on the part
Of the weaker section, of oppression and
tyranny in the future, and was carried on un-
der an honest conviction, coexisting among
statesmen in every part of the country, with
the adoption of the Constitution itself, that
a State had the reserved right to revoke the
powers it had delegated to the General Gov
ernment, whenever, in the judgment of such
State, there might be danger that those pow



war, therefore, not having been strictly in
the nature Of rebellion or insurreotion, we
most respectfully suggest to his Excelleney,
the President, the justice and wisdom of not
enforcing the pains and penalties affixed to
those crimes by the laws Of the United States


The Sweet Note Of the Assassin,s


Pistol.


We learn from a gentleman just returned
from Habersham county, in this State, that a
few days since band Of men, some twelve
or fourteen in number, went to the residence
Of a young man in Clarke county, whose
name we did not learn, and took him out
and shot him several times, leaving him for
dead. The sister Of the young man went
out to his assistance, and finding him still
alive dressed his wounds. His murderers re-
turning shortly after to see il they had Of.
fectually accomplished their purpose, found
their helpless victim sitting in the lap of his
sister, who was ministering to him. when
they again shot him, and departed, leaving
him dead. The Federal officer in command
of the district having been informed of the
intention Of the murderers, sent two parties
of soldiers to intercept them, who succeeded
in capturall but two Of the party.-SaUan-
nall Herald, Sept 10.


dramatically Jerked."


We copy the following from the Norfolk
old Dominion for the sake of its confusion
of metaphors. The writer has evidently put
on his "commotion hat"


These dark clouds, or "political dema.
gogues," are not satisfied with things rs they
are but would trample the principles of self
government in the dust for the sake of secu-
ring party power. While we do not believe
that their efforts to put off the day Of recon-
struction for years to come will succeed, we
still call them the dark spots upon our polt-
ical horizon.


As Americans, it is with these teachers
among men that we have to do; and 1t is our
duty to avert any and every blow which they
may strike at the principles of true De-



Here's another from the same source:


Men like Gen. Butler, whose ambition
leads them to make the attempt to ostracise
the people of the South until they surrender
the principle of sell: government, for the sake
Ofpeace, may be harmless, but they are also
dangerous. In his late speech before the
Republican State Convention, he said, &c.


Bad for those BUTLER


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