The Fairfield Herald

The Election Protested. - A number of property-holding and tax-paying citizens of Columbia have entered a formal protest against the declaration of the late election for Mayor and Aldermen, on account of many illegalities, chief among which are the following:

That persons residing in the territory recently added to the city have been allowed to vote, though only forty days resident in the city limits, instead of sixty.

That the managers refused to define the limits of the several wards, thus preventing many from voting.

That many persons were warned by the managers that they could not register without perjury, while others in like circumstances were allowed to vote.

That while withholding information necessary to persons who desired to register correctly, the managers refused to them permission to swear according to their knowledge and belief.

That numbers of voters were received from plantations several miles distant.

That the managers were intimidated and controlled in the discharge of their duty.

That no legal notice of time and place was given.

That the Act authorizing the election is itself unconstitutional.

On those grounds the protestants pray that the matter shall be investigated at a time to be appointed by the acting Council.

The Citizens' Party, composed of the people of the soil, have invited to their ranks all, of whatever race or party, who are in favor of good government. They have acknowledged in the most complete and solemn manner, the political and social rights of all, whether as to suffrage or office. All they ask is a government under which we can live, and where rights and liberty will be secure.

So far as the State is concerned, it is not a question of Republican or Democratic. A Northern and Republican journal has declared "there is no dispute among observers that the Legislature of South Carolina, which has just adjourned, was one of the most corrupt assemblages that ever legislated for a State." It well adds: "There is need enough that South Carolina should get a new Government." And this new Government we desire to obtain, not upon party grounds, but as a matter of necessity and life, for the general welfare and the future of the Commonwealth. - Charleston Courier