,i?fui i t M V ?' " **. * La * fas Mssuifl ?asiai. *?g*B^" I II . .. ,. ? ? ... 4 - BY F. M. TRIMMIER Devoted to Education, Agricultural, ManufactuHng and Mechanical Arte. $2.00 IN ADVANCE VOL XXIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUN E 7, 18GC. NO. 19^ wgaa?? m?? - - 1 qp iabosjbba BMasMJ y THURSDAY MORNINO, AT rwo Dollars (Specie) in Advance. m mm RATES OF ADVERTISING. On* Square, First Insertion, 01; Subsequent Insertions, 75 oents. Correspondence of the London Times. The Tyraany off lie Rules ofthe Hsms ol'Representative*. Washington, April 13, 1866. * * * They (the Radicals) hare ererythin^ their own way at present, and the result is that Congress is under thq sway of tyranny which is unprecedented in the I.' a -!!!? J __a mi awurj ui civmzea government. xnero is .much Ulk everywhere of this being the country where greater freedom and liberty are found than in any part of the world ; but the history of this session helps to prove that there is no country where ma jorities rule so despotioally, or where the ? people submit to them so patiently, as in America. Freedom of debate is practical ly impossible here. Take what happened last Monday in the House of Represents tives as an example, and even Mr. Bright would probably find it hard to defend or gloss over suuh an example. A member of the Radical party, Mr. Wilson, moved that the Civil Rights Bill pass, and by previous arrangement with his leaders demanded the "previous question" upon that motioo. It was consequently not in order for any member to speak upon the resolution before the House, Now, there were several members belonging to the three different parties in the House, who were very anxious to say a few words upon the bill, or in explanation of the votes which they intended to give Some of these were like Mr. Wilson himself, Radicals. They went privately to him?I am repeating these facts trom their own lips, so that were can oo no raisuice aoout tneni?and begged him to waive his demand for the "previous question," so that they might be allowed to speak for a few minutes. Lie kept his position on the floor, and refused. The noise and exeitemcnt increased, and f members surrounded Mr. Wilson, beseeching him to loroeso important a bill to the , vote, under what is called the " gagging law"?that is the demand for the previous question. A judge of tho State of New York was one ot those who thus remonstrated with him, but Thaddeus Stevens x Was there to nrevent. Mr. Wilson divine* way, and he proved immovable. Some members urged thut out of respect to the , President's veto, they ought to be allowed time for discussion, but Mr. Wilson simply shook his bead. At last there was a general cry, "Give him an hour," but this re quest?and surely it was not an unreasonable one?was peremptorily refused like all the rest. Thus debate was more effectual ly stifled than has ever been seen in the French Legislature, and certainly such a strength of tyranny was never exercised befoie in an assembly of men boasting to be free. ?01110 members tusked me whether uoh a thing was possible in the House of Commons. Here was a bill which had f been declared by the Executive to be un constitutional to iu character and danger ous to the peaee of the country in its pro visions, aod no one man in tho House elected by the people wan suffered to say a single word upon it. ' What would Mr. Bright think ot our freedom if he saw this said one member tome. 1 think , that at least half of the House were thor- , oughly '-.shamed of what they were doing , ? for, of eourae, a majority had sustained the demand for the previous question Hut , "Thad Stevens" had smacked his whip, and his obedient followers gathered around , him, williog and subservient. Let the bill ! be wise or unwise, just or unjust, the manner in which it was hurried through the House would be a scandal to any assembly ot freemen. In leas than ten minutes the bill had been brought forward, and the vote upon it taken. i This U but one instanoe, and compared with which I could give you, a slight in < * stanoe, of the despotism which the Radical majority in Congress is exercising. They have filled every office in and about the oapitol, and their wonderful machinery of Committees (unknown in England) hastho whole business of the oountry in its grip. Foreign relations, domestio affairs, finan cial policy?everything is plaoed in the hands of Committees, and a majority in very Committee consists of Radioala, appointed by the Radieal Speaker of the House, or the equally Radical President of the Senate. It would be well if Mr. Bright and others who wished to " Americanize " English institutions oould see this one in fall working. Snch a system for concentrating the power of Congrees in the hands of a few men, and for disarming independent members < f the slightest authori'y and inflaenoe, was never seen in a deliberate assembly before. The way in which it it worked is this: Let the Recoostruo tion Committee of FiReen be taken as an instance. In the first place, no step what ever can be taken in Congress, as a body, toward reconstruction, until it has been submitted to this Committee. It manages, controls, and directs all proceedings, from the smallest to the most important, in relation to this subject. Say that an independent member brings forward a resolution for the admission of Tennessee into Congress. A Radical member would get up and propose that it be referred to the Reconstruction Committee; the motion would be carried, and the resolution would go to the Committee, never to make its appear ance again. The Committee would simply burke" it. This ia no hypothetical case? the thing has been done over and over again this session. I have watched the process in scores of instances since last December. Nothing returns from these Committees which the Radicals disapprove. Consequently any man who throws himself against the Radical party destroys his in fluence and position, lie stands alone, as Mr. Raymond docs iu the Honse at this moment. Then the Committee meets together, in secret, and agrees upon a certain resolution. It is laid before the House or Senate ; a Radical majority is there strong enough to carry almost anything; the previous question is demanded, that no debate shall tuke place, and the public outside be kept in ignorance even of the bare fact that there were members who wished to speak agaiust the proposition, and a handful of men impose law upon the country. Cant the President be mistakon in believing that the people of the United Stales will rise against this dictatorship before long; that they would overthrow it now if hey did but properly understand it. Beauty on Eartli. "There is beauty enough on earth to make a home for angels." There is a strange proclivity in man to misapply or neglect altogether what was intended by the Creator ol man for lus comfort and profit. Those whom he has crowned with uuoomuion gifts of mind arc prone to abuse the trust by perverting into base uses, or to diui its lustre by indifference or excesses. Those whom lie has adorned villi peculiar cliariua of person are too apt to emolov those charms for unlink' nnrrm ^ ?- ? j r?rw ses. Those whom lie has gifted with the hallowed influences of poetry, who have the power to entrance their followers with a single sweep of the lyre, too often tune the bachanal uotc, and write lor the ball of revelry, rather than in praise of the King. Witness the case of Isabella, of Spain, of Byron, and tell us if these things are not so. "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" The Queen who sluggers under a load of jewels soon learns to despise the brilliant things, and count them as dross. The florists soou casts off the spell which his gorgeous array of blossoms first exerted, and regards them as mure matter of merchan dise Tho naturalist soon loses his admiration of the charms and wonders of the natural universe. And Man, walking in the light oi God's natural smile, surrounded by the loveliness that God has prepared, ??.i l.: r -i. _ i ? I *nu pt?i inning ut me uuuniica tnai UOU lias dispersed, soon becomes indifferent to tliom ail. Possession is want to become neglect Because we may enjoy the enchanting beau'ies of nature, without noney, without molestation, it coincs that they pall upon ; us and renders us restless and dissatisfied! ' Eveiything in nature is so much a matter j of course that we oigh for something novel, something superior, something more g >rge ous and absorbing. And yet, neglect as wc will, "There is beauty enough to rnuko a home for angels." We have thought that if men would but analyse and seek to appreciate the nttruc- : lions of earth thev would have quite enough to occupy their attcntioa, without searching after novelty. The morning, the noon and the night; the spring, the summer, the autumn and the winter; the bud* and the blossom* ; tho resurrection of the grass and the foliage, the career of their decay, the Bhooting of the blade and the ripening of the ear ; the babbling brook and the rushing of the river ; the hail, the rain, the vapor, the rainbow ; all these are the type and the substance of beauty and tho pledge of in struction. Tell us of theso, ye ingrutes, before ye clamor for a change. Because we will not remove the scales from our eyes, shall we therefore declare that wo cannot see 7 Because we do not, or cannot appreciate the boauty of earth, shall we say that the earth has no beauty 7 Let this truth shamo us into new experiments, that although wo have not found it, yet "There is beauty enough on earth to make a home for angels." The past is disolosed ; the future oon caaled in doubt. And yet human natnr* is headless of the past and fearful of tho future, regarding not the tcienoe mud expo- j lionce that past ages have unravelled. I From the LaCross (Wisconsin) Democrat. A Political General'! Soliloquy. Whi-r-r r 7 How like a rocket I went op, terrifying the innocent. Spat! How like a stick falling in the mod did I couic down ! When tho rebellion began, I did not amount to enough to add up and give one to carry. I was a sort of a second rate loafer, begging tobacco, standing around saloons and bar-rootus, waiting to be treated by liberal strangers. 1 had no rlonn stocking!?no neat hoiue?no money saved ?no credit?no fine food, and but little coarse. 14 Hut suddenly a star fell !" Brave men were wanted--I bad peddled whiskey at the pells to elect uien on the God and morality, rctrenchmcntuud-refonn ticket ?1 could tell a bigger lie and stick to it closer than any hungry politician in the country, and the late administration?noble administration?gave me rich reward. I was made a captain, and like a blue tailed bottle?fly 1 strutted about my native town. Guess I wastft old style, in white gloves, and stripes up my legs. Guess 1 did'ut support the Government, lieckon 1 didn't get trusted to httlo things at stores, and when a man wouldn't trust me, guess I wouldn't iucitc mobs on such Copperheads. And 1 was put in commaud of a hundred men. Egad! that was a joke. Why, Lord blcts you, I didn't kuow as much about war as a dog knows of his grandfather?but I had political influence-? could absorb large quantities of whiskey, and could steal. Or liko .Tolm llrmirn ? Or like Duller. Or liko any other house robber. And I went to war. And I hired cor- j respondents to mention ray brave exploits in Republican papers. And I stole wines from hospitals, and treated ray friends. And I read army letters which 1 hired written and which poor fools printed for political friends. And 1 kept out of the way of bullets and such?and I stole piles of househ jld goods, from rat traps to pianos ?from silk elastics to linen intended tor inlants yet unborn, and I so on in the eyes of the lute administration proved my tit ncss for higher position. Ami L was made n ll-igndier General. Hig thing. Nearly every iool in the arraywas a Hrigadier General. While brave men fought I stole spoons and such While other men were at war, 1 was punishing Democrats, issuing petty orders, ' taking ! toll" from Union iarincrs, and sending j canes, chairs, tables, bcdH and bedding, pictures, books, spoons, knives and forks, ' nut crackers, glass and silver ware, mirrors, sideboards, parlor ornaments, ladies' silks and ladies' underclothes, stolen from private drawers, trunks and bureaus, up North ai vjuveruiuciu expense, to let people know that 1 was saving my salary to beautify my home. Cunning cuss ! And 1 denounced Democrats, thereby winning promotion aud good opinions train Hepubiiean papers. And 1 spent my salary for whiskey, except what went lor? nothing now, not much at first. And 1 went on raid*, cantured im.-toiniirv I.hm.Ij of enemies, reported by the papers as real Ami being an unscrupulous knave, intent only on money, I was hired by the administration oi the late lamented to go up and down the country tor and in behalf of uc? grues?aud Abolitionists?par ncbilr fratrum. And I sent Democrats to the front and they were shot down like dogs, or dragged hack wounded to die in hospitals, or swear allegiance to Abraham. And 1 stuffed election returns?und 1 stole cotton where ever it could be found; mules ditto; Government stoics, ditto; and other things, ditto, till I became rich. And what a lot of men who believed we were fighting to subdue tho rebellion. That was a good joke. Twas merely a pleasant little murderous crusade for cotton und negroes? the cotton for the rich, the negroes lor the poor tax payers to support. The war was a God send to me. It took me from the gutter, or a stool in some saloon, and made a great man of me It lifted mo by the waistbands right upalongA?* W?ill.n?l?n A I > ? V.MV v* >i wMiu^iuiif ?i|>uiv:uii, ;i irjkaiiillT, Washington, Jackson, Grant, Sherman, und'othcr great men. Ami didn't I atrut ? Ann didn't 1 tall back upon my dignity? And didn't I snub those whose servants 1 was?and win the contempt of every sen t-iblo man in the land ? And didn't negro wenches fall in love with tm ? And didn't ! 1 keep abandoned women at Wndquartors, | on money 1 stolo from my blinding ooun try ? To be sure I did. Thit was the acme of " loyalty." That wn?\ known as Lincoln patriotism. That style was the style that paid. That strle made popularity with the Abolitionists at home. And didn't I drive Southern roosters from watch ing the nest? And didn't I go into that business tor theiu ? And didn't 1 go into the patent bleaching business on joint account, hi If for myself ami half for the Government ? There were some good men in the army, some fine officers?some gentletuauly, patriotic officers?but they were in hard luck and took lower seats. And didn't I get promoted for being caught out at nights i roaming over the country, poaching on i some negro or white man's domain in behalf of my Government ? And wasn't I sorry 1 when wo stole the South poor and were I obliged to close the war ? The occupation ' of Othello was poni> T ' 0 * *V?UI uvu IIUU1C | 1 People did not make speeches and welcome ! me back as they did when I left. I strut- , ted around with the blue tailed plumage till it looked slumpy, and people began to take in clothes from the lines in my neighborhood when it became kuown that 1 was a politcal General, whose best hold was stealing und endorsing abolitionism. No one cares for me now. A hunting dog is i more petted now. A buck negro is of more account in the eyes of Congress and the i people. People whisper strange things about that Stonewall Jackson song of? " Whose pin here ?" etc. 1 am not half so popular as I was when in the army. In fact, I believe I am about played out. Why can't we have another war ? Lots of fellows have come cut of State prisons since the war ended; and there is plenty material for more of these i political array officers, who could draw beer | better than blood. Never mind; "I'll put iuc money 1 stole in Government bonds? there is no taxes to pay on them. I'll sit around and draw my interest on them, live in idleness, and be supported by the poor < fools who have bonds, but who pay taxes ; while I do not, and who pay me for being a thief and living in idleness. You seo I am one of the .supporters of this Government. 1 can put my money in bonds? somebody pays tho taxes of this country, and pays me interest, but it is not us bondholders. Oh, dear ! Suppose the people should repudiate these bonds, as they sure ly will, if they are not taxed?what will become of me ? I'll have to work the same as other men, or go to the poor house with liberated negroes, for lax paying white men to support Higher Higher! it is a word ot noble meaning ?the inspiration of all great deeds?the sympathetic chain that leads, link by link, the mi passioned soul to its zenith of srlorv. and still holds its mysterious object stand ing and glittering among the stars. Higher! lisps the infant that clasps its mother's knees, and makes its feeble essayto rise from the door?it is the first inspiration of childhood?to burst the narrow confines of the cradle, in which the sweetest moments are passed forever. Higher! laughs the proud school boy at bis swing, or as lie climbs tho tallest tree of the forest, that he may look down upon | his less adventurous companions with a al- I. - l% 1? * iiuMi ui cxunuuon, ana unroaa over the I Gelds, the meadows, anl hid native village. ( Ho never saw so extended a prospect before. Higher! earnestly breathes the student of philosophy and nature; he has a host of rivals but ho must eclipse them all. The midnight oil bums dim, but he finds light and knowledge in the lumps of heaven, and i his soul is never weary when the last of them is hid behind the curtains of morning. And higher! his voice thunders forth, when the diguity of manhood has iuvested his form, and the multitude is listening with delight to his oracles, burning with eloquence, and ringing like true steel in the cause of freedom and the right. And when time has chunged his locks to silver, : and world wide is his renown; when the I maiden Catherine Unworn r> o "J and the boy in the field, bow in reverence as he passes, and peasants look to hiui with , honor, can he breathe forth from his heart the fond wish of the post ? Higher yet ! He has reached the apex 1 of earthly honor, yet his spirit burns as warm us in youth, though with steadier and paler light, and it would even borrow wings and sore up to high heaven, leaving its tenement to moulder among the laurels he he has wound around it, ior the never ending glory to be reached only iu the prcscnco of the Most High. FIDELITY.?Never forsake a friend. When enemies gather around?when sickness falls on the heart?when tho world is ! I dark and < becrless?is the time to try true , friendship. They who turn from the scene of distress betray their hypocrisy, and ' prove 'hat interest only moves them. If you have a friend who loves you and Btud- | icj your interest and happiness?be sure to sustain him in adversity. Let hiui feel that his former kiudness is appreciated,1 and that his love was not thrown away. , Ileal fidelity may be rare, but it exists in i the heart. Who has not seen and felt its power ? They only deny its worth and power who have never loved a friend or : lihnrftfl In mnl ? ? r.*I ^...1 1 ? | ? ?>.?V < nivuu . It is often extremely difficult in the ' mixed things of this world to act truly and i kindly too, but therein lief one of the great j trials of a man that his sincerity should have kiuduess in it, and his kindness truth.' Brick Dust Tor Sore Hetdl. This reminds as of a little story 1 Say, you radical, niggcr-loring, Anoa Dickinson, Fred. Douglass, Ben. Baticr style of republioans. how do vou like Johnson* How do you like going oat of the Union for a President ? You men who preach that God is controlling events political aa well as eternal ? How do yon tike Tennessee statesmanship 7 How does it com* pare with the flat boat style ? And God raid let there be light, and there was light! This is Bible. " And being in torment, they lifted up their eyes and saw" not Abraham in the bosom of Lazarus, but Andrew Johnson in the White House. Pretty pieture isn't it, you freedom shrieking, press mobbing, democrat bunging, cotton stealing, woman robbing, plunder loving, prison advocating, democrat abusing, ballot box stalling, office holding sepulchres full of nigger's bones. How do you like the new President T?? Wouldn't you choke gently on Booth's windpipe if he were still alive 7 How do you like this going into the Demoorotio Durtv for a horso tn hi?r>h no wiiti mule 7 The aocd of white men shall bruise the head of republicauism, and Johnson shall be next President. Verily we say unto you now is the time to repent! it is a bad time for you fellows to swap horsea when crossing a stream ! Why don't you republican wench hugging, freedom shntfc* ing. law breaking, union hating, members of the only treasonable party in the union, get drunk and parade with torches ? Stand by the President 1 The President is the government, you know! Blessed doctrine thought divine But this President dodge is ftae t He who speaks against the President is a traitor. Let traitors be hong! Why don't you get druok, burn printing offices, murder a few democrats, throw a few print* ing presses into the stroet, stop your newspaper, hold prayer meetings in barns, and o A t_ 1- - gut uruuB. us owis, as you aia wnen tae other President spoke ? " Who's pin hare since I'sh pin gone ? 'Who elected Johnson T Why in the thander don't you got oat the Wide Awakes, burn demoorats in effigy, shoot at them as they go around corners, waylay them in poet offices, shoot 'rah for Link?Johnson, and hold fast to the prise tou found down South. " w?j down South, in U>? land of Dixie. Ain't that a pretty little soog f How do you like this "expediency" dodge? Why don't you cackle when your President lays an egg ? Why don't you oe!ebrate, jubilate, investigate as you used to ' once ? "Come ye sinners, poor and needy. Weak and wounded, sick and sore," Johnson ready stands to save you, Now this cruel war is o'er! don't, rnn InnoVi omila *?tir .. -J J to- ""?l ""J something, if it is not so alfired smart ?? Gracious, but you fellows are btay about now ? This is your President. God gave him to you. You selected and elected him ! What's the trouble in your camp? Oh, but you are a sweet set of roosters ! Well, never mind. We shan't hurt you. ?Wc won't mob you?prison you?hang you?abuse you?harass you in business? malign you?insult you?rob you and use you as you havo for five years used us. You need't look scarry like when you see a rope, a prison or a gun 1 Get out the Wide Awakes. Call out the loyal 'eagues! Get some Osnitary Fairs. Appoint a few Brigadier Generals, liaise some oolored troops. Turn your prayer meetings into electioneering booths. Tamper with election returns. Control the telegraph. Lie to tho nation. Open your moutbs and gufiaw when the President speaks. Be sociable. Don't act like wandering drops from a grand funeral prooession. Why you looked pleasedly good, joy struok, happy, angelio when Lioootn Hir?nmnnroil fo ? ? ? t >v ?nv rt itj jruu iwfc UWW I l'oor republicans?how dreadfully grief wears on you !?La CYom Democrat. Eveei of Tiike.?A sad story is connected with the name of the writer of the beautiful song u Kvor of Thee," which has been tung aa