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THE FAIRFTED HERALD WINNSBURG, 8. C. Wednesday Morning, Sep. 30, 1068. Desportos, Williams Os 0 Props UNION AND PEACH, Vor President, HON. HORMMO SEYMOUR, OF NEW YORK, For Vice-President, HON. PRAM P. BLAIR, OF MISSOURI. PUBLICLy A call meeting of the CENTRAL DEMO CRATIC CLUB, of Frirfield Distriel, will be held in the Saturday, the 1701 of October, Matters of Hours House at Winnsboro, on Importance will be considered, and a gene ral attendance of the citizens in earnestly requested, W. IL ROBERTSON, President, MN. Wernins, Secretary, The Federal Guarantee, NC. To the lovers of peace, order and liber ty, when they look upon the condition of Tennessee, Arkansas, and other States now cursed with bad govern ment, search anxiously in the Consti tution of the United States for a reme dy for the present condition of affairs. They are disposed to accept the per petuity of the Union, if it can be made a Constitutional Union of free and sovereign States, but they shrink from a national unity that will prove the germ of ceaseless revolutions in the future. Such a remedy has fortu nately been provided in the Constitu tion, and the occasion of its applica tion, for the first time in the history of the country, has arisen. ‘There is a clause In the Great Charter of American Liberty, which the Radi cals have perverted, as they do every thing in the Constitution and out of it to its Worst use, but which clearly provides any faithful servant of the people and sincere student of the Sue promo Law of the land with all that he could wish in the way of direction. Here it is, Ark, LV. See, 4. “he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of C Government.” Fairly interpreted, this clause meanns that the Federal Government in all of its three (Legislative, Judi cial and Executive) branches, shall do nothing and allow nothing to be done to destroy the Republican form of Covernment Henceisting in the thir teen Stites, and shall admit no new] States which are now similarly Repub lican in form. The rights which in 1787 belonged to the States and were then exercised by them, are thoeal which entitled them to be called re publican in form, and were not to be interfered with by the Federal Gov ernment, nor to be allowed by it to be interfered with by any other power. 1. The whole constitution implies the impossibility of the United States im pairing the Republican form of Gov ernment in any State, so long as the United States conformed to its char ter. If therefore, any party in pos session of one or more or of all of the departments of the United States Gov ernment, were to impair paid form, it would be a plain case for the applica tion of the Federal guarantee, so sdon as the government passed from the control of such usurping faction into the hands of those who would admin ister it according to their oath to sup port the Constitution. Now the right of controlling ouf frage within its own borders, in 1787 existed in each State, was reserved by each to itself, and guaranteed to each: by the change of the Constitution under discussion. Usurping parties, calling the medivea the U. S. Congrese, have taxen this right from ten States, four of them belonging to the original thirteen, [tis the duty of the Uni ted States to overthrow this tyrannical ‘agurpation, and to make sure a right awhich in essential to a Republican form of Government and is fuarans d to doory. State of thin Union? aS: We copent, of the Uni t of Congress, for Con ‘and of the Govern. THE FAIR FIEL OM BRALN 'iment of the United States, Gohan would call attention to the matters by resolution, but it in the duty of the Supreme Court to adjudicate the question of right, as between a usurp ing faction and the ten states, and then the duty of the Executive to ap ply the remedy. It is a matter of which the Legislative Department has no control, under the Constitution, and consequently the question of a Demo cratic Senate is inapplicable to the discussion, it does not require the consent of the Senate. It simply re quires a minority of Democrats in the House large enough to prevent the impeachment of the President, and then a President conscientiously true to duty, whether Grant or Seymour is a matter of no consequence, to execute the decree of the Court. Euch is the peaceful procedure marked out in the Constitution. — May Seymour or rant be guided by it, 1t is the only road to peace. No. 1 We repent, a faction calling itself the Congress of the United States, having got control of the Govern ment temporarily, have committed the gross wrong, which the constitution seems to have viewed as almost im possible, of impairing the Republican form of government in ten of the States of this Union. By anti-repub lican tost ontha required by them selves or by so-called Lagisturas of their creation, they have passed both bills of pains and penalties, and ex post facto laws, which are expressly for bidden to be done, and have created a favored class, a grasé nobility, or qua sé aristocracy, in the shape of a tyra nical fiction, in Tennessee, Arkansan, and other States. ‘They have also es tablished in South Carolina an igno rant mothocracy of alien and semi barbarous Africans, by violating the right of controlling suffrage within her own borders, and bestowing the right to vote upon our lately emanei- As all hypocrites com mlest outrages of persecu tion in the name of religion, so they have destroyed freedom in the name of liberty, and claim, with bold affronte ry, to have perpetuated their tyran nies under destination of the very clause of the constitution that forbids them. «The United States,” says the con stitution, “shall guarantee a Republi ean form of Government.” ‘To guar antee is to protect and make sure what already existed in 1787, and has never ceased, since then, to exist in four of the original thirteen States. Not so, say these charlatans, Congress (not “the United States” with its three branches of Government, but Congress alone, is first to settle what a Republican form of Government, af ter the lapse of a century, now means, wnd by legislation, is to force thee up on the ten subjugated States, and af terwards (look to the consequence, yo men of the North, either it a present or some other future notion of what con stitutes a Republican form of Govern ment, upon all of the States. And this through the army, at the point of the bayonet ! Tn the development of this there of interpretation, the Radical faction have Unitat upon seven States constitutions disapproved of by all of their legal gut fragans, constitutions, which admit of a white oligarchy, as in ‘enneasoe, or of a Black metocracy as in South Caroli na, and which are altogether anti-Re publican in form, according to the only meaning that the Constitution can have intended. Not only go, but they keep Mississippi, Virginia and Texas, under military despotiams, in order to compel those once proud States to consent to the prostitution of their liberties that the Radical faction propose. Thus does Despotiam, Oligarchy, and foul mobo cracy equally comport with their pre tended desire to guarantee Republican ism to the States. ‘The worst feature of their faithlessness and corruption is its foul hypocracy. All that we have stated demands a ‘comedy at the hands of the United States. ‘The Judiciary and the Execu tive must do their duty. The punish ment of crimes, ay, even of the crime of rebellion, so fiercely charged, 20 feebly proved, belongs to them, after trial, conviction and sentence, and not to Congress, much less to the fiction claiming to be Congress. An upright ‘Supreme Court and a consciencious Executive and a people ready to sustain them, are all that the country needs to ex tricate it from its calamiting. ,God grant tom quickly. oe fonatal Grant's conservation, ‘The Radical party are playing off pon the country a trump card. for ‘gleatio nooting purposes under the above title. But ateo triurophant in the canvass, and we will hear no more of it from them, for they then hope to continue, as horatofore, to rule and run. Doubtless, ‘that are conservative seetbers in the Republican party, but is the party under their control ? Has it not got beyond the influence of the wisdom and honesty of its sin cerest men? And when its numbers are increased by twenty Senators and seventy. Representatives from the so- called reconstructed States, men of desperate and rapacious character, is it likely that there will be a change for the bettor in its measures or its, designs too, and General Grant, will be an powerless ad Andrew John son today, to check the excesses of Radicalism. Ihis previous record would lead us to believe that there is truth at the bottom of these rumors of General Grant's conservatism. To is and the truth is, the whole Radical party also are opposed at heart to negro suf frage, though willing to make use of it for party purposes and for purposes of vengeance. ‘The course upon which they have entered, however, admits of no halt, and if the Southern States cannot manage to control the negroes, so as to hang Haman on his own gal lows, and defeat radicat ascendency. We see no possible issue except one of fores to this question of races Such may not be the intention of Republi can conservatives in acting with the radical wing of this party, but such will be the result. ‘They must leave their party and cooperate with the Democrats, or revolution will come. Far from their policy being peace, it means nothing but continual war! This is so palpable, that we look an iously to the October elections, and hope to be able to assure our readers that it matters not a great deal, whether Grant be conservative or not, for he will not be elected by the peo ple. ‘Their candidates are’ Seymour and Blair: Demoocratic Meeting in Winnsboro, The regular monthly meeting of the Central Democratic rub of Fairfield District, convened in the Court House, at Winnsboro, on the 5th inst. Judge W.R. Robertson, President of the Club, and delegate to the State Central Club, submitted the action of that body, at its meeting on the 29th of September, ‘The report embraced many potata of interest, won and realily. [ed as information by the Club, On motion of Mr. Corley, Resolved, That bhia meeting cordially [endarge the notion of its Chairman, in reference to his action in the recommen dation of Commissioners of section for Dairfield district. On motion of J. H. Rion, Resolved, That the Si ry of this meeting be instructed to communicate with Gov. Zebulon B. Vance, of North Carolina, inviting him to address the caions of Mairfield District, at such time as he may designate, subsequent to the 20th inst. Only J Resolved, That the rotary of the Central Club be require! to call the roll by Clubs, at each meeting, and to note ‘those Clubs which are represented, in motion of 1. 1H. Viking, Resolved, Vat Col. 1. 1. Rion, be requested to address the Central Club ,at its next meeting on the 17th inst. The following vesod by the State Central Club, on the 29th, instant, received the cordial approval of the meeting, viz: “Whereas, It is important that the officers of Commissioners and mana gens of Election, Magistrates and Con stables should be filled by intelligent, prudent men, we recommend the citi zens of the State, to accept these po sitions, for the purpose of securing peace and relieving our citizens of hardships, which would be entailed upon the State if ignorant and un principled men filled them,? On motion, the meeting adjostiing to the 17th instant, W. BR. ROBERTSON, President, M. Winnens, Scon try. ——— Mr. Editor: Twill be much obliged to you if you will allow men small space in your columns for the purpose of correating the grows falyo hooils in irpulation about my policies, and for the purpose of pulling myself right be fore the good people of this community. A short trie after the “Union League’ was established.in this place, 1 was solicited by a very particular colored friend of mine to join it—assuring me that there was no harm in it, and Unt it was a good thing. 1 joined it and remained a member until some time during the past summer, when, becoming satisfied that there was no good Unity and that it was well calculated to pro duce animosity and bitterness between the unspectable white people and the colored population, and was gotten ap by, and for the benefit of the moan (apallawaga’t and Modrpat-baggora,” “I determined to quit it, and have nothing more to do with it, and consequently I have not been near one of their meetings since, I am now determin ‘ed to have nothing to do with “Loyal Loa. Buors,” scallawags or carpet-baggers, and advine all all colored “fioods to the same gourie, Tothem Fotamber that our dea ling is with the white pusele of this coun try, end dt ig not only our duty bet our the forest to live with them and among them on terms of kindness and friendship. We can lw of servive to them and joy of servive Lo ve; whilst on the other hand the scalla- Woxwand carpet-baggera have nothing for us but to get on votes to put them Into of fices, and in that way to make money out of us, tts much betty for us, and docid ellyo our interest, to cultivate the friends ship of those white people with whom we have been raised and known all our lives, than It ia o disregard them and reject their counsel and advice, and eek the counsel and advice of those Northern atrangers who use us for their base and mean purpose. The Southern white people are our reat friends, and we should by all means stick to Hom. ‘They are thy ones who are going to help We when we are in need and dis tress, and not those of live hunters. Let us have less to do with politics, and often move to such duties as will enable us to live honest not industrious lives. Let us one rust the making of Iowa and the govern ment of our country to the sensible white men whom we have known all our lives. And not to these low swallawags and North orn carpet-baggers, ‘These are the senti ments of your colored friend ANK STARK. [communicaren. | Mr. Exciitor ; Tonelose you a copy letter sent by a friend, purporting to have been written from Cleveland Springs, N. C., and published in the Standard at Raleigh ; a paper recognized as hav ing already established (under Mald en rule); A fame which characterizes it as the vilest Madical organ in the South, the author of this villainous repistle gives full vent to his political feelings, by pouring out a stream of indiscriminate saliva, intended to bury in oblivion, all the visitors, from every portion of the States, but more especially, the few who were from South Carolina. He says “they are traitors of the most malignant type’that our sionists, (does he mean the patri otic citizens of the Old North States) are perfect gentlemen, compared with the South Carolina breeds? “That he would give a liberal sum to have a n oil? man to talk with ; that they tend to commit fraud, force, intimida tion, or assassination on the eve of the election,” with such like epithets, as you will perceive, on reference to his communication, to those, who were contaminated with his presence dur ing the past summer; on reading the above, it will be very clear to recog nize the author ; there was but one solitary individual present, from No. Ca., who could possibly be guilty of such abominable misrepresentations, and his focus in quo? can be easily spot ted—Sufice it to say, he was an ap propriate and qualified Delegate of his party; a low down sneak of the Jaco bin tribe, whose physical man, indica ted the very quintasence of everything low, grovelling, and base ; he curses the Springs as a hwabug, because the waters were not like those of Abanar and Parphar, capable of purifying and reloansing his bodily corrup tion; and his mind necessarily, contaminated by those vile principles which have characterized him for l years past, and which are well calcu lated to make him, in the presence of respectable people, an object of scorn land contempt, “diseased, dejected, de famed, despised.” Who would desire the association of such a reptile ? even apart from his political opinions, there was nothing about him to command respect; the gentlemen avoided his his presence, and more than one of them refused an introduction, and he knew it; the ladies turned aside from his putrid carcass, relinquishing at times, the pleasures of innocent amuse ment, least he might attempt to intro duce his filthy presence ; one of them personally manifesting a spirit of dis dain, which made every Carolinian pre sent proud of the noble women of the South; for it is the nature of every one of her sex, of refined cultivation, now and over, to spurn and abhor, the low, and ignoble Southern renegade, who panders to the vile prejudices, which charapterizes the party now in power. But “Why extenuate—nor do I set down aught in malice.” This beauti ful specimen of humanity overheard conversation,and perhaps heard many other things equally disagreeable) “that the South Carolinians were al ready preparing to arm themselves with an improved kind of gun, that “would kill twenty-one Radicals at a single shot,” and as they intended to use them in case the Madical party was successful in the Presidential election, this frightened disciple of Holden, believing ‘discretion the better part of valor” like the war horoo scuffing powder, in the distance, thought it pru dent to fire off his hot-shot, in his vile epistle and left immediately, for the grand Pow-wow, held at Raleigh on the 16th, where he could bark, like a mangy dog, in his own kennol, with out fear of being molested. But enough of this, Iam says, The whole tonor of this letter is characteristic of human; nor would the weiter condezcend to have, not in adity were it not intended as a loose slander,apon the Carolinians, who visited the Springs; no one of whom, he well know would perhaps ever see a copy of the scurrilous paper in which it was intended to be published. Communi cations of similar character are being manufactured for party purposes, and whilst they may afford’ a secret grati fication to those who pen them, they are only calculated to keep alive the prejudices.that now, and must, always exist, between the ‘Radical and the Statesman ; the patriot and the pol troon; the sealawag and the gentle man. Viator, Wilson's Strixas, Chuavitaxan Co, N.G, Sept. 11, 1868.—Dear Sir—I have concluded to write you a few lines. My health has not much improved and I have about come to the conclusion that, going to the springs to get cured is a humbug imp pasion with me very slowly. “L have no papers to read and no one to talk with, I expect to be in Raleigh on the 16th inst. LT would give a liberal sum to have a loyal man to talk with. The visitors here are all seces sion viaitors of the most malignant type, and of the very worst kind. I thought we had some mem secessionists in one section of the state, but our secessioniste are perfect gentlemen compared with the South Carola breed at the Springs at this time. There are not so many of them here now, 'welve or fifteen of them left on yesterday, Thad nothing to say to them, Theard then: talk to each other. ‘They say that when they got into power they intend to hang the carpet-baggers and sealhuwage, meaning the Union men, they frequently make offensive remarks in my presence, which if they were gentlemen or had any principles of a gentlemen they would not do. They say that South Carolina will not submit to have matters as they now stand; that she will take some ac tion soon. Some of them are advocate ing the buying of the improved kind of guns that shoot thirteen or twenty-one times; that they think those who have the money should purchase for those Who have not the means to buy with— These men, in my opinion, will resort to any mans to carry their point, fraud, force, intimidation or assassination, think that Republicans should make every effort on the next election and leave nothing undone which tends to victory. To do not believe that the “Lord of Heaven and Earth who has all power to control the destiny of na tions, will ever permit these bad traitors to have the power in their hands again to murder and oppress men, from what men learn these men do not want the North to know what they intend for fear that it will insure the facefivea camidatus in the Northern States. im fret I heard some of them adait that they held back on that. ac count, I think on the eve of the elec tion when too late to get to the Nuri ent they will commit many outrages. Our party should send men to the North ern States to let me know what these oraiors intend for Leannot believe that if the people of these Stes could know the facts, that these candidates would receive the electoral vote of a single State that was opposed to the rebel lion, tee ADEE Cotton REED.—We take the gooxtrack from Wa P, Wright W. York Cotton Circular of a recent Van fallow Co.'s 3 date Foster Gwyn Co., sold on Monday to 8. Munn, Son Co., one bale cotton at 67 cents, for shipment to Havge, ‘This cotton wan raised by John J. Green, Esq, Carroll Parish, Li, fom Pedor good. The ample is extra Teng, and very fine. This variety of cotton (a single plant) was discovered by Mr. Pedler on his plantation in Issaquona county, Miss., about fifteen years ago ; since, then he has been devoting much time in cultivating and bringing it to perfection. The quality is nearly equal (opea Island, t eam this it will be eco how important it is to plant seed of the best varieties, Mesars, Foster, Quyn Co, write to Messrs. Polk, Boswell Co., of this city, that they believe, they can sell the Vector cotton at 40 cents per pound ormoring the entire reason for any further information on the sect, call on the latter named house. Since arrangements have been made for a through rate of freight to New York, it might be well for one merchants to try that market in cotton shipped away from this place.— Vicksburg Times. Tn connection with the above, we would announce, that Mesays, 2, McFarlane Co., have arrangements, by whichhey will go on the Able to furnish the planters of Rankin and adjoining ‘counties, with the Podor 'eced, in consideration ‘of the high price which this cotton always commands, plant ord will at onoo woe the great advantage Which thos who raise it poagosa. The plannter who has the Peder dolton reape Nearly twice as much profit, from the same Amownt of labor. ‘This i no humbug, a Curd—A fine to Ma, Suwann. It is reported that revolutionary symptoms have broken out in “the over faithful island” of Cuba. If they have not as yet, they will al most certainly be made ‘manifest boture flomm, with the infusio into the beloud of the contagion from the mother country. In View of this contingency, there, may be within a month or two or 9 Week, or five, 0 fine opportunity for Mr. Seward to secure that valuable place of property, this aforo nid “over faithful island,” at much ac tion cost, Queen Isabella is short of funds and in great danger, and so even now she may be inclines to sell out all her right, title d interest i Cuba and Porto Koo ‘very. cheap for gash; Tam Lath Gen. fioman,—Gen. Thomas Hindman, who was assassinatod at his resi dence in Arkansas, a few nights ago, was born in Ponneauoe in 1818, served ay a. 40 cond lieutenant of Misalasipyi volunteers in the Mexicen war, and was a Democratic Re preventative in the ‘Thirty-six Congress from the First Distro of Arkanans, Hel was re-eleated to the hinty seventh Con arvas, but when the war broke out he enter ed the Confederate service and became a Major General. He served tnhe army of Tennessee down to the fall of Atlantac—« General Hindman was a member of the Charleston Convention of 1860,” I bare no notice that the Disunion: papery. 1180 the torm “Confederate’ army when spon ing of regronal Southern men who worved in fe Htivistie torqgbov?atiny when the ox officnen arg forint, Where they belong in the lane of Seymoor ant Blair,
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