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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
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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,
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*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
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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
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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<l admired by so many in this
country and in Europe.
Foley Hall was a gentleman by birth
and education. Wealthy in his own right,
with large expectations, he led a heedless
life, not choosing his associates, bat allowing
himself to be drawn into the society
of the vicious. His property soon disappeared,
and he was left without resouross
sufficient to buy his daily bread. His
musical talents had been highly cultivated,
but as he never needed them, he scarcely
knew to what degree they oould be made
available. In his distress, however, he
wrote his charming soutr. " Ever nf Tl?~? "
A London publisher gave him oue hundred
dollars for it, but that amount, with such
a spendthrift, would not last long. He
wrote other songs, but the money not oo?
ing as fast as he wished, in a weak moment
he forged the name of his publisher, aid
although every effort was made, even by
tho publisher, to save him, it was all ao
use, and poor Foley Hall went to Newgate
and died broken-hearted before his trial
came ou.
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