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SOUTH CAROLINA. 



SPAIN. 



6. We simply ask that we shall be recognized as 

 men ; that there be no obstructions placed in our 

 way ; that the same laws which govern white men 

 shall govern black men ; that we have the right of 

 trial by a jury of our peers ; that schools be estab- 

 lished for the education of colored children as well as 

 white, and that the advantages of both colors shall, in 

 this respect, be equal ; that no impediments be put 

 in the way of our acquiring homesteads for ourselves 

 and our people ; that, in short, we be dealt with as 

 others are in equity and justice. 



7. We claim that we deserve the confidence and 

 good will of all classes of men. We ask that the 

 same opportunities be extended to us that freemen 

 have a right to demand at the hands of their fellow- 

 citizens. We desire the growth and prosperity of 

 this State, and the well-being of all men, ana we 

 would be found ever struggling to elevate ourselves 

 and add to the glory of the national character. We 

 trust that the day is not far distant when you will 

 acknowledge that our progress in social, intellectual, 

 moral, and religious development entitles us to the 

 highest commendation and respect, and that we shall 

 be worthy to occupy, with the Dest in the land, posi- 

 tions of trust and power; when we shall realize the 

 great truth that "all men are endowed by their 

 Creator with certain inalienable rights," and that, 

 although complexions may differ, " a man's a man for 

 a' that." 



Signed per order, and in behalf of the Convention, 



THOMAS M. HOLMES, President. 

 JOHN C. DBS VEBNET, Secretary. 



In the regulation of the internal affairs of the 

 State the local militia were early organized as 

 a police force, as in the other Southern States. 

 On December 25th the Provisional Governor 

 was relieved, and the authority in the . State 

 restored to the officers elected by the people. 

 The Governor thus responded to these orders 

 from Washington : 



COLUMBIA 8. C., December 23, 1365. 



The Legislature adjourned yesterday nt noon. 

 Oov. Perry has returned to his home in Greenville. 

 Yonr despatch has been forwarded to him by mail. 



It will be very gratifying to the people of South 

 Carolina that her Government has been intrusted to 

 officers of their own selection. In their name I thank 

 you for the tender of cooperation of the Government 

 of the United States when found necessary in effect- 

 ing the early restoration and permanent prosperity 

 and welfare of the State. 



You may be assured of my unalterable purpose to 

 aid in upholding the supremacy of the laws of the 

 United States, and in advancing the honor, inter- 

 est, and prosperity of a common country. 



JAMES L. ORR, Governor of South Carolina. 



On April 14th, the evacuation of Fort Sum- 

 ter on the same day, four years previous, was 

 celebrated by raising the same flag on the fort 

 by Maj.-Gen. Anderson in presence of other 

 officers of the army, and many of the clergy 

 of New York and Brooklyn. 



The following petition, indicating the degree 

 of interest felt in the welfare of Jefferson Da- 

 vis, was sent to President Johnson : 



ABBEVILLE, August 23, 1S65. 



Hon. Andrew Johnton, President of the United States : 

 We, the undersigned, ladies of Abbeville District, 

 South Carolina, respectfully exbibH to^our Excel- 

 lency our desire to intercede in beuulf m Mr. Jeffer- 

 son Davis, the President of the late Confederate 

 States. We have beard with much satisfaction that 

 petitions of a like nature have been addressed to your 

 Excellency from other portions of the country, and 

 we entertain the hope that these united appeals for 



mercy will not fall unheeded upon the ears of youi 

 Excellency. 



In any event, it will be grateful to us to have 

 thus testified our feelings for one whose faults, in 

 our judgment at least, have not been past forgive- 

 ness. Called from the retirement of his home to a 

 position which he did not solicit, but which his man- 

 hood forbade him to decline ; illustrating by his con- 

 duct the highest devotion to principles, which were 

 maintained with marked unanimity by his people; 

 temperate in the hours of triumph, dignified and 

 calm in the days of defeat, always just, always gen- 

 erous, always brave, we see in "his conduct every 

 thing to evoke sympathy, and nothing to merit the 

 extreme punishment with which he is threatened. 

 The same firmness and calm views of policy which, 

 on repeated occasions, he displayed in resisting the 

 cries which, iu his region, were raised for sangui- 

 nary retaliation, we hope will now be exhibited, in dis- 

 regard of the unfeeling agitation which seeks his life. 

 We hope there will be a merciful remembrance of 

 his poor wife, plundered and insulted after being 

 torn away from his prison, and of his young children, 

 whose prospects in life have been so terribly blighted. 



Impelled by the feelings of our nature which are 

 ever excited by the misfortunes of the brave and the 

 good, which have in all ages characterized our sex, 

 which moved the Marys to DC the last at the cross and 

 the first at the grave we earnestly beseech your 

 Excellency to exercise, in behalf of Mr. Davis, all 

 Executive clemency. 



Grant our petition, and, besides finding in your 

 own breast the reward which attends every virtuous 

 deed, we sincerely believe that you may expect in- 

 crease of your own renown, and of the honorable 

 character which forms the strength of your country. 

 For ourselves we will say, we will hold in grateful 

 remembrance this act of 'generosity to the unfortu- 

 nate, and will teach our children " to rise up and 

 call you blessed." 



SPAIN, a kingdom in Europe. Queen, Isa- 

 bella II., born October 10, 1830 ; succeeded her 

 father on September 29, 1833. Heir apparent, 

 Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, born, November 

 28, 1857. The area of Spain (inclusive of the 

 Balearic and Canary Islands) is 182,758 square 

 miles. The population (inclusive of the above 

 islands and of the Spanish population in Tetuan, 

 on the coast of Africa) was estimated, in 1864, 

 at 16,301,851. The Spanish dominions in 

 America contain 1,032,062 inhabitants; those 

 in Asia and Oceanica, 2,679,500 ; those in Afri- 

 ca, 17,071. In the "Budget" of the financial 

 year 1865 (July 1st) to 1866 the expenditures 

 were estimated at 2,747,332,370 reals; the or- 

 dinary receipts at 2,186,983,330, and the extra- 

 ordinary receipts at 562,376,960 reals.* The 

 public debt, on March 1, 1865, amounted to 

 16,392,747,190 reals. The army numbered, in 

 18fi3, 234,261 men. The navy, at the close of 

 1864, consisted of 118 armed vessels, of 1,298 

 cannon. 



The imports, in 1862, were valued at 1,679,- 

 312,703, and the exports at 1,110,532,270 reals. 



The merchant navy, in 1863, consisted of 

 4,859 vessels, carrying a burden of 395,270 

 tons. 



Minister of the United States in Madrid, John 

 P. Hale, appointed in 1865 ; Spanish minister 

 in Washington, Gabriel Garcia y Tassara, ap- 

 pointed in 1865. 



* One hundred reals are equal to $4.03. 





