Year: 1866


you and, by the bye, I see that three OF
the johnson papers do not print this
telegram, for no reason that I can see,
except that it don't agree with the eighth
article in the Philadelphia resolutions.


The whole North was aroused 5y the
New Orleans massacre, following up, as it
did, the Memphis riot President John
SON telegraphs to General Sheridan,
nutting what lawyers call leading ques-
tions to him to draw out favorable ans
wer. He don't send on to General SheI-
idan, saying, "Come, tell US all about the
riot"


Now, my friends, have read to you,
as you see, the testimony unwllhngiy
drawn out in answer, giving a gloss over
the tenor of the dispatch. The Presl-
dents dispatch asked for as kindly re-
port as possible of the affair. have
read to you the testimony of one who IS
opposed to the Republican party, but
whose loyalty to the country IS unques-
toned, wherein he tells you that this
was a massacre and murder, that the
police shot down men even while prison
ers. They are but Thugs and murder
ers, and they are the johnson men IN
good standing for coming back into the
Union. When the President asked Gen.
Sheridan if the civil power Is sufficient
to take care Of these men, he answers -
81 should say emphatieally that they are
not" This is after the President has Is
sued his proclamation of the 18th OF
August that peace reigned and civil au-
thority is sufficient protection for all eltI-
zens. l am sorry to see that IN the face
of all the facts-Horton the clergyman,
Dostie the pure patriot, Hyer and others
are dead, and wounded men are coming
North, with the testimony of all unaYen-
ged, with Northern people unprotected
so that they are obliged to leave New
Orleans, that the President has issued
his proclamation that peace has been OBJ
tanned throughout 2ll the land and the
civil courts are ample to protect hte and
liberty. And in face of General Sherl-
dams emphatic iisaVowal OF the AFFINITY
of the civil authorities to protect thecltl-
zons, the President on the 18th OF Au-
gust turns over every Union man IN the
South to the mercies of the Thugs aEsas-
sins and murderers of Lincoln and Dos
tie. Are you ready to say that these men
shall sit in Congress, make laws for you,
have power to say that your debts shall
be paid or go unpaid, whether bounties
shall be paid to yoar soldiers, pensions to
your widows, or whether the dag OF the
United States shall be upheld /? To have
a portion of the country in government
tai relations to the country where no 10y
al men can assemble l have had some
private documents from another portion
of the Union. 1t was because Texas had
concluded to come into the Union that
this proclamation of peace was issued
A gentleman born in town in this coun-
ty-formerly serving upon my staH-was
sent upon an inspection tour to Iexas'
and he made his report, and was tortn-
with ordered home, because he reported
what he saw, and in what condition ne
saw things. Among other things, what
do YOU think he saw in Houston, the
Capital of Texas? A fremen's process
sion bearing Confederate flag reversed,
and leading a figure of Goddess OF LlD-
erty, persOnated by q young girl dressed
in black and white, with chains about her
wrist and about her ankles. The Goddess
of Liberty was in chains in Texas! When
the procession came to the house OF a
United States officer, where the nag OF
the United States was flying, they saluted
him with groans and misses, and hurled
all manner of contumely upon him and
that procession of our reconstructed broth
ers passed on, and for some reason-some
blur over that officers eyes-he allowed
his flag to be insulted. All volunteer
officers of the army are discharged, but l
undertake to say that there we're volun-
teer officers in the army that would have
put an end to that procession--aye, more,
never have allowed it to start IN the hrst
kaH that
average of one fifth of our territory, ABOUT
ten murders day were committed since
the war that they had list OF ABOUT
twelve hundred, and they found sKele-
tons of some of them hanging upon the
trees every morning. And this hau
from a gentleman whose character fof
truth stands as good as any IN TINS COM
munity. No United States officer can go
in that portion of the country without an
escort-and these men are to come back
into the government now declare my
own feelings and belief that, if this state
of feeling continues, it is not peace, out
war, and the worst kind of war for u IS
war upon unarmed men, women and chill
dren; and, if no other remedy for TINS
state of things can be found, if this state
of things can not be altered, we Will
march once more, and woe to him VINO


What is the difference between the
President and Congress, or between the
Philadelphia Convention and Congress
Because / believe now we are to look 10
that as an exponent of his feeling. Con
gress saws these men shall not come back
until they pass the Constitutional Amend
ment. And what is there IN the Constr
tutional Amendment that fault should
be found with it? The first section, and
1 thought it was in the Constitution al
ready, I is that every citizen of every State;
in other words, that any one here shall walk
in peace in South Carolina the same as
a citizen of South Carolina can now walk
in Massachusetts,; as Couch and Orr
walked arm in arm in Philadelphia.


The second section provides that the
United States debt never shall be repu-
dated. That is where the Convention
agree with US, only we want Southern
men to put it on paper. And that the
Confederate debt shall be forever repudl-
ated. because Mr.. Alexander II. stephens
saws they are not bound by what was
done in their absence, and therefore tney
are not bound by the national debt, and
the moment they get back we shalI nave
a motion not to pay interest on the ma
tional debt, but a movement to pay the
Confederate debt-and succeeding, under
these circumstances, what would your
Seven -thirties be worth


The next section is that representation
at the South shall be in proportion to the
population, precisely as it is IN the Nortn,
not counting those persons who are NOT
allowed to vote. Under our Constltu-
ton the negro was counted as three
ffths, and the master was allowed to rep
resent his slaVes-three-hftas OF themI
as persons. Now there are no slaves, ana
having got rid of slavery, they CLAIM ee.,ll 70
represent them not only as three httns'
but as a whole; and that leaves the Soutn
with about two-thirds as many votes IN
a proportionately equal population. l do
not mean to give the proportion exactly,
but it is about that. Now we say you
shall not have your population &c o9unsea 1heu
until you allow them to vote, ana then
Won NAV have them counted just as we
do at The North. Is not that fair and