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VOL. lx-x I ICK I'dNS S. ). IRSI)AY19 JUVLY 27, PS3 DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT CRAIG HEA) OF CLEMSON COLLEGE. On tile (ieui: DI 4ay,f tihat (rassld 11t14 81itutlo1 1-'le I T.; a-i S1. t fll l it iI A gricultv.-At CIlsl-'x4w A lily Sot Fo,rt.h. It iipossiblo to give the speuch in full, but thie following extracts will show what a grand oration it. was There is no miorft inspiring spectacle on earth timin that, of' life wrvetling with its foes. The bird rebiildingits storm-shattered nest, the spider recon striteting its brokon weh, and eveni tie tinfeeling tempest-torn oak tiriving deeper into the earth its tipt.urn roots, elicit our admiration, and intilcuate Ivi solls worthy of iilitation. Specially (1o lininan lt.gs struggling toI free them selves, and to walk ont into th. 1t4oad light of libert y. deserve the sympathy and admiration of t he brave antiI magna niniotis. It is not siliply in the hour of supreme and glorious triumph that nations or indiviitals deserve our ad intration, but it, is also in th,ne hour of darkness an( defeat, when the proit-.1 spirit, refusing to cower or whine, takes uip once more the load of life. No Iairel-crowned victor of the Olym pic ganies, chiettain homeward turn ing froin vIctoious )attle ever dtieservtI the hoimage due t,e him, who, though 4V defeated, recollects his latent strength and marches onca more into the coii Ilict. Germay was great when William I led his victorious legions under the trimuphal arch of Napoleon the first, but far grater was the (ermany of F'ichte, which, though conquerd by the Corsican, began to ponder ihe probhvin of translorining by the reconstruction of her schools that dIfeat into a grand and glorious victory. I-rE the last Frenchman had deserted the (;ermarn - capital, her statesimni and educators had on foot a plan for the foundation of a great national university, a uiii versity which was to permeate all Ger man li fe ait thight anI which is to (lay world- wide in fame and in iliueince. This was heroism I his was st atesnan ship. Three hundred years ago the city of Ley(ien was b(-sieg(tl by the Snaniards. For long and wearv iionths the I)ii Ich refise<'. to yieltl, althoigh st.arvation stared them in t,he face. So brave anJ heroic was the defense of Lvvden that when the Spaniards were at last re pulsed the states of I lolland grant ed to the city imitunity from txation. HIer citizens refuseI the oller, asking instead for a great schuol, a univi-rsit,y, which for tw9. hindred years wis le most famous in Euroine. That was hroisn. That was states manship. For a thousand years France has been a lanl rich in heroic deeds, in song and stor ; but, in all her inarvell ous history her s,.ne has niver shown more resplendlent than in that hour of degradation und defeat., when the whole nation arose as one ian and rolled off the incubus of her war debt, a debt amount ing to a thousand million dol lars. It was then that her statesmen and educators, realizing that it was the schools of' Germany that con(Itiered at. Sedan, th.t l-raice had been defeateai by Kant and 1'ichte, by (Got-the anti .%hiller, by 1l1muboldt and Hllemholtz and iaiss, as well as by Molkte andI William, tegan tho Work of liatilonal regeneration by organizing a complete syRtem of pubie inst rlt.ion begiilong with he 1111111mblust district, school anid rutining on up 1.0 her great inationial universit y. That was iroisn, that was stawtsmanship, a Fni -ranvo of to day is grea'er thain was Fratcv uinnder the Eimpire. Pint tI oret urn hoinie, tine Ni,rt li-rin army miarchiing hoimewanrd amid the beating oh drumsni aind t he waving oft victoious1 b)alnneis w~as a siLe tce less grand than thant (.r thle ragged a:ndt starving veterns ot I tt, whno withI situ and ac?hiing hearts ret ined( to th eil desolated liresidles alnd dhIsdaiin g 14 pnlin or wine rtebulilt t,heir rmIined homes, t ranst ornined blood-st ai net Ihati lIe groun rds inlt o w avinrg ibi lVs ofn gou den grain:. Th is wans hero' m,t hat heroism wh'iche has ever' (listinMiashd4the11( peole (ii Soui th Cartolinia, tht hnl.Iertoistin wii ' Ilay neC dlecI artt d ivinciblIt. t h at 114- 01sm which shnen, rtslninalni, upon0: tvery page of thIe lirst. seventi y years tif tiaro lina's hinst iii y, II hat he4rim l hlat in4?ee pail din g all the tin k Iness antI (ie solat-ion of tiur linng y ears of civil war that hetroism wVhicth, when'i the war was over, "maiude hr icks ti of xt raw' and4 "spre-ad sph-'ndoir" aniid thle rins- ot blackened Ihionestetad s, t.hat I he4ro ism that liashed- (alt again in ille4vent.y-six~ wh len a bnaind of Cart ih nilns, as br'avt as the Spnaritanns wvho guardn Iiftithe gati ofi Therm'iiopjylae, plaintted IthemisteIvt-s ini our State (a pitl and drtove i ronm lhe legislativte hallIs g ret-dy Inenri If ci'on 1it ible carpet- Iniggers ma bIntsotltn slavts. Tlhat wais her-xoie mi and ('rill uim fl ten 187t' wvas greatter aid ttrinir I han ii< Carolina tnt arnte-heu IlioIn das s. linit, iht work ot rectonstrunction a ntdi t r genieratio)n has not St ennded. lIed In anew ;eve:' anitw nhioiuld bte Ihe watch word oi a great. peoplhne. Asa lon as we biut SlItpan i at corittnt w itl tnur fat,b-rs' sto lt,ion ofil Ile great priob lems (it Iifet, so 14)ong is idt Ioltgre-ss im1 po'ssibtlte. 1111unan ile is as b at-rt-n m Sahara of fr rlit. Th'!e gel.teratio tom menIli- are, as ati Iloniier puts it, hike tine leavt's tof Liii tre-s whtich fall antd rt-netw 1.hem selves wit hnolt amliior'at ito nor chiangej II ector rt f tn g hnnle frtom tint tinuilt tof battle In bi lai laist arewyell toa And iomanche is ton nit the mnos1 touch-ling andt inspir iiLniture ini an. cienlt l iteratn ure. i a) inig ansitde Ine inofta pnlumei, ithat grimnly ilnl(ddn lium ib horse-hair t'r at, I lectir, tine kinight list souil of' li I het (st-i-ks, ttotk up~ his iln fant bey and dalgling iml in his arml: pranyed t.huis to , ovo an ail ihe ti godis: "Oh J1ove and anl y34 gootds, graint I. ihat this my soin imay be bn etti r- thn i I tart hner was." May t his, lmy I rie-nds. De tIne prayer of ever'y t i uc Cartolii :n ii'!ose son thnalI joitn tiur raniks. G rant that t hiis my son ilay he better thin his farthe-r was, antd when-i ht' rturin I rom Cle-mson Colt ge ilt-en rn ot willi 51po11s of comt itsi, 11ni rich ini k now ledge, in wistdoml and1 ini manly virtur-s may his mothe r's he(ari r-joice. I am mlyself an1 ml punist,. I hayte tic faith in thnose whno pi ne anti w hinte fnr the gtood uld liii es long past, whot fry to r'c-oinstruict tine f .st anit bring bac-k thte lilte aind tI ines ouir tam theitr live-d aintd saw. It cain never I -" dome. We ma:i remove mlounit:riins aind stay the onward marc,h of mintyt rivern, but we non never recoistrticti a civilization that has forever departed. Let meo not IeI mistinuerstood. There was imich ini the civilizationl of the Od South that, must, win the adiration ot good lilel in all climes and times. Let 1s Ch righ thet good and forget the bad inl the life our fathers and grandiathiers ived. The manly man anid Lite wo manly woinat. no matter imler wi at. skies they d well, imist ever despise the I the iman who, ignoring the virtties, parades Ohe Vices of the his fathers. t I he North can have no respect, the e civilized world c in have no respect, the coitiug generat ion anit have ito respect j l'or tie mlan oriwoman who born %nd bred i beneih these skies is inot proti to gar- 1 land te graves of our heroic dead. Let ist not i ttlle the old men 1l the Sot., who, "silt ig in the dismantled t porches ot their homes into which dis lionor has never entered, to which dis ceourtesy is a stranger," somtimnes look 1 wistilly back to the days that are gone. ,ivling, as they believe in ai grosser an(d more material civilization I ihan that which their hands were build- I itng, let, them look back with regretful I loliginlg to that which Northern thrift and cunning never bring, that old. fash i0l.edI So,tiuthern hospitality, generosity and courtesy, that chivalry which chose honor rather than riches, which pre ferred poverty to meanness. ];It we of a younger generation inust I lace the issues of the present. A great work lies before the South. ern people. What we have already ic( coinplished is insignificant in compari son with that which yet remains to be U done. ur vast fUrests, our exhaust- I less mines, our lertile soil offer tintold riches to those who have the pluck and the sk ill and brain to d-velop theii. It is with Its a 4iitestion of lile and death. We must coiituer or be coniertd. I Since the war, inillions of dollars have gone from the improverished South to keep tip perision soldier.s at. the North, ji millimis o, dollars have been wrtng t froi the down-trolden people of the 1 South for high protect.ve tariffs, this's swelling the already overilowing cofeIs i1 o tthe nabobs of the North. To save i otirselv,es from intellectua and materi al bondage will reIire ii the united el fort ot the most, cinvalrotis ititi the Ilost imaln'taluniious people oil thel Am-ricart continent. There is not a t great magazine in the South, there is t not a great publishing house in the s Smtith, there is not a great universit.y In the South tl.tL could for one ioimnt coimpare with Yale or 11 irvard or Y Michigan. There are no great, i4raries S in the South, no great collection of ' p int ings, no great g.tileries of sculp ture. I say this not in a spirit of dep - reciation, but, it posi-btle, to do somne thing to arouse the people of South Carolina to a sense of their intellectual and material bondage. It is high time < Uor the Southern people to assert tht.m- - selves, to shake olf 0hie dust and i humiiation of defeat. Never, while the South su Ters her history to be read C through the distorted spectacles of the historians at the N orth, never while sht' is dependent. upon Northern pfriodi cats for a hearimg, never while she is coinpellfe to senet her sons and (uigh ters Nor,,iward for a university educa tion; iiever while she puts into th I hands of her chiliren histoires written by mnitn without, symiiipathy for her in) stitutions, never while she is compelled I to go t i the N orth for skilled lahor and to the West for coimodit ies that can i ht ht i.eir prodiced mtdr her own skies and inl Ihe.r own lieils--liever agailn wlile silt' sibiits to this "cart ste wear tie lotty look o eons-.-ious rlepet. enice." tit I he latiguage of 'rent iss. "I'br-j. Iingi sha.1me sitil s;-l its seal upon her tbrow, h it when her proli soins go fortih e Othtl' lanids tiy will oweir benieati th witheriig Itoik ci the strange Lo.1k bl r,ad (iverkf this citry IkI i I s' euow l.meni,'hle ise th le cI:lit trn cit -. i ericuliit ul chie. It, is a teett, Iithoghi the cause m ay lee nard to t ind.l tthat agicu'ilt.iral lite is at a dliscot.i i Ne ver' biettie ii lie istory cof the wo)rldt hias thecre tbeent su ch ani iih iix irtti the toetitry to t.he cit,y as 1.he las.t, Ltwen y Iiv y' ears thave wvi t e'ssed(. tlhe g,reatt. city is hertin'tg croiwdeet, thet ctuetry depopuiiiatedi. In rilt earty hiistory ruiral life lead a fascinion ie oler .he0 Antie-ici.ini peoiple. Ini 180 tt-I . oI Icl ciiir loietiuiatioin livce.i ini Cit te s ect litoi'c pc'rwas no- sto the cihelen iimeis. Wt'.tshiigiton, .lelII'rsoni, (Xtalhoin, aiiiti Claiy, aind t.he vast liiij ritya the lii great iineii ile ciit eai IV tilstoiry, liveill frenil bcet i po~ lie fairiii. T'eoda.y it, is noct, simpjly S'inat oers aetel ('eongress- I iini, I Lie rich ii great, bt,ti ll c'lassces, hiighi aiiil low1, rich auiii pooitr. air'edriven i as by~ soe irresis,table lingiuilse te leer saike lie far in. ti'rgeftc, briitiny youniig ien, as sooni as theiy reach t.heir i iniujo rity, b)iittinrg ol ieu' t.o thir aged hat hiecrs and mothler, fo rsaike t it e pea(ce fl purtsuiits cit thle fairm :uiii pilunrge in-< to thte miaddeiing strife cit cit.y life, some to sa it serniely upi on the aldveni-1 itiios sea ofi spi'eulat ion, but, the vast. majit; iiy toc siniik ftore ver b e'neath its I tijllows. Wcll-tc do p--ieic, thicse whoe cti live witouit hitutor, e'itting thieiir pltitii at itlis, iii tlurning LIleini cver I n nie'grcis. Itlock Iinto thle cities atni bri ng ing tip tcir ethildreni in iellenes atnd lia cdotlen cc', swell Itihe cns-t ant I y incetreaisin Ii dane'r ofi ourii city pliliationc. 'Theu pocore'cr t'elSses, e'speendtly it se who are 1ii contiettu wvit hi a mierel y an imali ex isle rncte I orsake thiir catbins andcii urt g ige I homiietd andio Ilock into factoiries, any w he'rc, anywheri'e, Lt,.ze't awa .y iromil tth" farm. N ow whIiat are thc' c'aue eel the sad stat e into which agrietilt uiral piirsiits hiave flIlent ? There is no dicisgis iing t,he tact .1 speak as a stuedemnt, ct hh t.ics line noitt as a part isan o cr pol iticiani - thatt the tide has beeni aginst ag r a cul tutiral lifte. Specu laticon, gamb tel i, dteatng in futures, controilliing thle manrk't.s by unliawvtill methoeds, t.Iic't cii a grand scale, robibery and rascality heave use.ripedl thes place oft holiest, gaini. In thter dIa.s men looked wit h wv(ict'er uponii : ('.icmieror as lie ret urned lad ened withi t.he spoils of for. igi eo <pe sts; let ut today the Iols ot die peoi lte ar mt Ih nere wVho in ai f ew years fatbledt wealth cit kings of oither datys whto Io rini graind conititlnations to con. tro'el the iniarkets and thus wring from Lihe mil emlon beirers of the laned tribute sucht as neo king ini the darkest cdays ot tendcla lim wou ilet have cdared to levy! Wheni our faftuteri, with a heroism Icor wvhich we shldc tie eternially grateful, cdeclared Lnat all juist, governmienit de' rived pocwer from the conlsent cit the goverrneed id tha;t the biest gotuernment, Is that which cot: fers the greatest good unmon the greatest niumimr. little ,id well i its bright. Thle lonliness, th -moot.ony. t lie lack of genial comnpan ionship, of social and literary circle is ninkig farm life sad mstid dreary an replIsi v#-. It, does not meet the- crav ing of Lhe human heart, for compny: ionship, for intellecti-ill and social liftj Is it any wonder, then, iat tiht risini generat ion lie the farm as a huise to bidmot ? Iifore thi war, the cas was differet. The plant,er gathere( arounid hil a colmly of slaves. II kopt.opl n house. Ill- had leistire. 11 eljov.1 .i t societ.v of fric-nds an To the (obll (Ireeks, especially th Athenians, ,th lonely farimi house wa altmost mnktiown. They lived ill vil I,lt-es and1 fmiund minfailing pleastiret ii thle SOciNt l riedh. We mi list. destro the barreiiesi ant monotony ol COIIIIt tIrv life. ()ur civiliz-ition will be a failiIre as loing r it igilol es the 1l-,irn ing of Ith iitelle(.t,. the (IIItNivititO 0 I the Ieart . We inist, make life on th ti ar torli at ract t-, Ioro happy, mIIor tjy)Yftli, more initelleetital. A 14 hov >11hal1 if be done? Hlow Ols(! bult by edl I "Cating the farmer, by teaching him to - love tihe bealit ifu'l, t.o love books, to (An jOY thet COm paioniship1 of O,he chojo spirits of other ages and other climo.4 to revel i le gloriots a1hiev( menits I lt' past, to iiickein i iint.erest in til great. inovetinents of our rte, to) appI to :lgIriltural ptuits tiLe di iscoverit 0I scieince, tle ilivenitiois of art, C.o pt hlMn ini citrol ()f the mmti l.i force of r1t-1t re, to give him bet.ter food anc hlet ter homes and better books and bet ter S(,.hlo)ls. Th( IinaNefatulrinig 10wer. of tho, Worli, It is saId doubled by I Ie aid o1 iiichinery (Avery stvii years. Shal I .i Ws illht v fors which weri- the bil diig of ian to crush aud eislave in Stend of l1beratinIg alld elevatirig him Shal we not s!t' that day of which h1.11 poet silgs: TIe 114h0hty inwy pmwer., 11thar wdIil Iin earth and It) aI- i 1t ai.r Shal ti r-l,ss varly t(pil aml lat i i 0mr n-nlial hillrdoAnsba. Their ir a Ati f t ti ltleltir h--, Till mnly arl -.1a141scienle he Tim belot of lou tnice ,o te e MFIt Clem on C411lege t trform le art, in te i-s great work. To give frile l lpettis to agricutiural piirstits, t o dig nlit.y labor, especially t,h Itiost, health 1111 atild inldel)VIdenI,Lof a',1 labor - -(in thlt hirill in inl the lields-, t) swell thls 1;t'ober :)f ri-al prodiwers, of tho muer w lo the bread they eat alId till raiment wherl wii they are vlothed "t'll is fihe niii Ceti5son Colleg( Tlh Proi esiois s !Llll,d are over e.d. eA haeal;v- to mnany lawyer hr w>Ilally politicianls, too llnatly middlo. Ilell, tU) Illay shtopkieers, in shor to, 1Many lW11n I.rylllg to ekt. jtIt 'til kexlst alice Ily solle ottheer Ilethod thiln thaj W ii liest i l. Wh iiever th't ims. bin)VCilll ilnt illgentl, whlte14-ve.r they (cn prehend ti;i'r o.I lieeis anll kn1i their owii Irientds, tilt (liy of ti demnagogiies, oi the chrbta , tj, swinirtit, of the Itsles4 iiddleten, i t1(th milltonirv, will be forever at a eniid. We inial lihar ni more talk of th poor, ilorant, farmer. I'll tei] yoill 1th !reli who otihlt to be Lhe lord-i of tt land the sAl. of' t,i earth, are the mne Who, mif. Iin lilt opel conitry, undt Gtod's bWill c.tinopy, earn their bread b; hliest labor. The lnwii %who pr lined I his college arI luterminied th' atr it shall bu Ilo mnean af I ait I t veryl hing h:ts bi.kenl laid out o 144) 1 411l1, i ,11 t4 'I.'V'llil i 1) 1 l ilb-ii nt scale. It is ( ot, to iN ovrlu.(4adowed, -it similar school: eiVV , by lth- StaItU I nlliversit.y. i H i'not i) h e' tilrne-d ilto At pu ely liter I I' i list it tit imn. Otr bo ysare h avIMe , 40Ac1 aild co'lnplOt. tra iieiv inl theil 4 rclniheiir 1- t:,nest'il h!1o taliht,il to ieh 1t i-ii ml w hi tir ci,ss:iry to :ldk res .hi ilyligri; ih( il et11 i -v I t l e di p ill 11i1-v will h avet'lL r CInllc tial trii g at oI 1111' hithest order (Ihe ill.'Ig' to prep.nr y yhirtant h d-f ini.i I. aen ijsto a bu een ti ui af.is,te bub.s -v ter'e wohii I ,leveloplit< i; trIs Tyi I y a di sint ismn vastly iore oppreSsi vI Lhan that, aga'st which they rebelie.l. 'Taxatimon withomil, rellresen11talionl." Aley said "was I ranyn;" yet, witlhin . ient tirv aPer that declaration thq Nall s'reet kings were wringing t rib. I'Les of imillions aii inillions of dhlair' rotin I he A -nericani people. It. is idit o Ialk of 1iberty and tiiality wlii e in man owns an vightevinth 1p irt of hie nationi's wealt h.I Thell lovo of, mou-. y i-t preparing l tr is a dtespotism 'astly ltlorie oppressiv#e than ever v 'u.iar or Napoleon ii poilSI. We ar l1aKing NNI I Illon1 oll- got I au l th m11 Ilill ionaire our i<aol. It, is well for its who live inl the Ne k ;ltith to take ei-d to otiuselves. Not itAl the alien and cleariva-aild, ii 'old-liemted. s1weilators I romi till \'orth 1 :in' SItithward, stretchintig heir nets for the loaves anti tishik vero til mass (f' I lie Soit hern peopit ri thet race f'-r Wealth. Ilow t.iliv: ave clcnged! Never before in C.hi south was such an imptilsf given 4t hat. coarse antI selfish litiltaiairmnlisi %hich has sprea<d like leprosy over till 'ortl aant West, if1sing the seids 0 lath into all their I rve instiittions Ne aire( tryiniz to ott strip each other, lot in t Ihle nobl r vi rt ues, I li sweet harities and rinemieients of social ite Le sacred claiins of' t lie lire'sid and lie home, of prixriotisin and reilion mtt in the crazy greed I'or gai. What tinals it whell a tdistiliguisl'.1 com nenceient lrator tels ie gradIuaitig fas: " omng mlen, pilt, miony in your iocket.s. A, mnan wit h mnonvy is a king; vitholut, .1 iginy ?"\\hat, Inveinsit viii-n111"-lof wealth atill not0,1m.-nof, iraiins are the inigihty Il1n in 1 the 'uiin''; chaiihlers of thet ti2tt tonl ?\'tt lict is thu-re aiioig its or let ters. for r't, to' ul miire, for social distiticion, i1perb ienital elidowilient, whithe liflionaire, 1.11, p:ltenlt lutdivine# mla'), het nviker (df loilet soap-4, thi- railroad 1gnarlt-. the irvat, ttuiopolists, are At high above tihe poet.. the itOt.er, he scullptor, t ile sItataffsilali, the tevaher i t h1e f'arilifr (;<d grant, th it I t- I! . Ith whl ).e I,v ry foot of soil is iallow,-t lv Ihe loo.1 I brave inen, here, where iiatir' has Mite hir het -where ski' as "4ol, as v1Se of I1ally are tuing inl beautifl .misp:irency above. and g!ory fike a uimimer's ilream lI1ts o'er th- rich -ndscapt'--tl granit t.hal, this (O.A -tth, "rich ill Ute 11n -111 Wry of' bvygonet ears, Ionr glowing sun-Ohine, tivilal ol Ith- wit its sigh, wit, miisic friend hip, all tthat life lveneats,'"i Iv keel o ever from her Ierrit ory t E-' List eI' iabot>s, who how at no shrine Favt IalilIioIi'S; who woild, it tht'y coul nonopoliz- the very air, bot tle the stii liine an I dew, torner tlie rains thal p'iich the li irst of' wit iering il wer; tid Nidas-like, would turn to main Imll'i In , it. g(lv: rob,?s of dylili, lay! Well dil \'irgil say: "Accuirsec iavting fIr gold, witt dlost thoi no Irive inortal breasts to do?" what hm! iiaimon ever tione f'or mai ? Corroil ng the heart,dr\ itig up the fiintains (i feet cioi, eradicating th e love ol ieauty, of' honor aii of' triith, thot ist taught. him how to b ceiliiing, tc iliage, to p1tinder and to slay, hit ho hiast, not given himi ont high an d l i g .aolight., has never inoitedt in to tlie tinst'llish act., to o f1ie iiau alltilOils iiIIpose. What 4toes thu oI011 mwe t) C'rwiii-, to Na-as, tc rassius.or)I to G;oijH? Thll, eie at "lhose sh riin'.- ilimatiiiTy wol ship, t ht it lleet ndi uul inl-iterial savillits 4t i t ne, it i>et, h it'i ist, I h eat cier in thi Illissimiary, lit. t 01uh havc i ed "ililt 'Tiit' etut iis vhoi tiv'Iii olui I )111. th lt it' . t t<t.lw o lie:e i iies -i. ritlh'l by Lire prenc; yli ii 1-l! is 4sC i ld e it t 'itl,ill S til, f lilirttlih iilts t hit o his illiIIl' ii titoli(. ' 011 alb iii thI 5111 Iic th'I -h I irt wthatei '5iihl. peri tntu Icrge iiin bels' 1i10i liv't neve- l'iowr.a l tIll Shakespearie,o it N111 it hr rfso nIVrIn fus,I wirotiI is ra ni!s, no' hay l10ry, tiiia t'u m;tk lihle wahitI IwtI ir bin ihe fba triof A iivaa,' 111 t.n "myi;li tindd"<ns inutlVC li. i suh-i" litkes I liare thatit "ilweet. I 0'' itgeniil git l ; It I-tivtti byaltioknwhlu feir t' ~ iwior ts io i (' l,t ' y,':tm : foing ian he' ittn.treW,t <e htill tIn' in l.lt' vig >r'of h.iscI hve anlinv tde lIS' uesion oifi hi amaingt'i 'lilt 10i', re ir'g Wh ro t.h sIenes it Iis flie ir rl2i2uph aond ri;th i 'Itelus n h ;ltive townix l'liy iepat. auid lti')t ude dt'ha oft aitl touil w11ih a11 t it<t wlooke Io i tye Itus t h- ti t ho vereI knwthat It an~ itmdrta sil SEN ATOIR IRBY SHOWS I HIS CONNLCTION WITH IHE DAVE PORT-FULLER AFFAIR. Silitee1ent14 Ir-MI All Pve-nn 'I.eorielei I r. Ft e oi 41 I lt-elwd % it I Is o 1 t;Mt u e idtle it h It 1 ae:ml it I I nte Ell.eier I frontm somae l.'etarene ('ili. tIn LAt'U .:N-. -S. C., .1111y 16. TO I. E'itor t itotisreeville News: ()n hi Satirda.y your pape- r patlcmitained ani ar - chli on ite Davelpiti-ullo-' Sealnial i this coutlly,'sigiled "Carolinli;ll." Iti aim not ilisiaken ti as to ill- true alt tie it. wohil hIot hive lfeln 1nn1lectess,ary h Ilit* or ally ()I(* else i. h Iis colioi t v m. i I leiimont section to aiswer it Ioir I is knowii of' all men. ie first, (if last. week, witllmil knowingor c:mrinig abi it, S itnn.I \ Ptiller, the uIshai.ct it I e' woman Co cerned in thi scatithl, sent f'r -iw- at saiil t htt, as t here were so iany Ii beinr tol alboiit t hi a l;tir er I thought, it bst,I' for all I Ie p:irt iv-; c cei'ned that lie shouill iake a w itII Staleinlenti tio I.h! public; and askei' toI) pil suitbitle langliage his i(l.-a what ha-I really octirred. IlI- iwa his statement,, anti I wrote mll wh was puIblished. I read it over to hi atn lie made several eratisures and ce rt et.lons to stiit hims-1'e. A'ter tlle co)rretionis. lie m:aid it. was exactly lie wainteld it. I thI1t sail to him: " this is jist a4 you want, it., sign it the presetice ()I If IesI4 gei t lemlieli" ai lie signed it inl the presence of I.%% men, well kiow ci t.izeins. A t.4 * r1 a I said: "O fe muore (I tiest ion. hefore v separate, which I wisi you to answ ill the presence of these gent lellie "D)id I try to illllence youI ord<ictal inl) of this article to pill ?" fit a swered; ''on did not." Ilo Jist,ic- I other ilieil, who have bieei (Irtwl in this inat"er, I ask, .\ r. E,lit.r. t hal. yo piblish the' follo'wiing 41:11vi eit ai . w. i11i.I.r:1. I voillitarily iake !ls st ilemenit 1 Mir. IIIgIILeis ill rI4-ely tO vriticismli the airt icle t hat I wrotl e: ' Yi oi p bli word for word wiat, I asked ymu I write, and as it appears in I he Iuireii ville Iferail liver iy siviignaltiue, I i clare it to be' I lie t r'it Ii atid t he w ie tritth of the inat.ter." I have ie i-i ot writi tg any pien t.( correct i0, 1 cause I hiave ailre-%Iy tiiid what I I ileved to be true. S. W. I i-1.1..:i SEN.\T(W 11.11%n ST.\TEMEI-NT. In Friday I wo or three weeks a2t happeied t o be at, Col. .1. 1). Slau six miles in the ctl,itry. Abti)It o'(-lock a. in. Wilitani S. liiejamni, I tather, and -i;uel Ftiller, the liisla of the woman coinlected wit.h t)venport scandAl, cane up and c.l P out Ol. Shaw. Ater talking awl ' Col. Shaw came to the lioulse and ast tile t jain in t.he coifterence bet w% them. I did so, w11i1n they iun1fil their grievances and charge.s agai e Mr. 1)avenport. Thev maid they w ol t ie Way to see MIr. Divenport r find out what lie meaut by instltj Mrs. Fuller. A f'teri going over in tail her statenent Wf Iact, Col. Sh proposed to sent for Mr. I)avenp and have a talk over the whole inati fin the presence of soine neighborS a relat iv.-s of the woman. NJr. ieijam and Mir. Plil,er invited nie t) c<i <h>wn with Ir. I).veniport, that. a1 t noon. III I he afterio about 3 ecm .\Mr. I.iveniort came. ain lie aid 0 Shaw asked io- te go down withI lii. 1'pmn asseleinlling ierv were pres,' .\mrs. Mrsjaiiun, NIrs. Plifer, Wa ofi eie'- l'aeinet, whh-hie' I'ife' < iii.teriallty e int raelie'tc'I by NI\Ir. lIIiv. e'itt wasi of thle oplitiiin ctuat. t heire wv 1no rap' or inite.it to comtiiiit, ai ra lIulli is. l ler. I staIteI , .as a I i ici .ed botli partieS, [hat, the e11inent rapie 40' t itnyit. 1 tae was atbs.9liie waint.ing ac'cerdiiig t.o thle stait e'iin. boet hi part les ande Ilitit t lhey wehl ft ti dto h neeof tv w I ihinsx: h.i thter oi e'euiit of the irelt.iei.tihip by bleoite e 3.1isut let wc'e-i S;iinnet t"ulle's wai ainl NIr. i)ave'ipIr.'e c1hilire'n. I cclir, frienl NIrI. I );vet icert, er pcreen4'te hi ini t he cmurts ioran assaul. of atn In c'r, husiicaiid eof I ie' aiggr'ieve'l womia. elid that,1 he wasi willingIve to i b-ae'i i 114 'r'I t ihe horseM4 let, 1111 we're go feel tent 1 inities :licl the'l catlh'I I ainil sai et hat. the le'vht agr e' Ilb it. N l)'aven poirt, shlolI luay Sio l and iie Iii tuhl thlie'i (At.it, it. wvas clue Cl Itic h kI ccl casies thial, Cicfii't. be sc',A htl wvI Iinoniev, iriot that, it. wouild bec a ICIin pl ilise el t tie girl as well ax oIf hie whf, taly,l aliel I advised against ta;kluig t hat l.'ey wov:~,ul no ite st istied wi anyeting bult. ltloney ari e'allet I (ecfci haw, 1whole ix a niehicw ol NI r. Ilev porit , ani tohel hiinii that I.hev weoe hav e toe have Slan. C of. Shiaw si ha. he couhin'. give thleln ally 111on btei.i NI Air I).venpjort wocutel twIuh t.hat, lhe wld (b loan hun the uney vI I iflihe coulI d gel. it. eip. S;un i Ici MC''Iined te e hiigtlfy pleaseed wit hIi r set eine it, esxeioalv tie 114ione y ol it, whleni I acivis-e i hto t hat lie ou r not,1.1 ti( aceplt. mocil-y el this surt. h)avenpoilCrt give Nir. '-hIiw lis note C' miaul I r. ShawiI pa:idf I"ulb-ri MS.e ilid gte hiin(hs not, e'ietor9ed1 by iiiyxef , I cin lnore~ ini sixty clays. I dlre'w an deir on (I I. ,i T!aecnysion, signiede hv 3 SI)aveniport., foIr thle hcahmicee of what t ounitt y owIedl him i (I )av'e por ) as sch,~ Comtnlilissioer, in favor oef Col. ."hae Thiis19 ill that11 I knowe~ abouitl it; adevise , as 1 hadl lieeni inviteel by ba. Spairt.Is, anid, fior eel he'r rea;ionrs, r hit N I)avenprtii'ts life shioeubl be takl-l. miay 'say, inleienItally here, t hat most'- exa.gger'atCi ed cauntx elf wvI \Irs. I 'ulle'r said have been ini circoi tiltini ts lhii neighibrlhcood. I (N'guied ) .1 \N. h3. NI. I n a y Co.. .1. I). NI. SliA w, Y a I have carefeully3 read Sentaloi'r rh e, st1atelnlen'.,e o tis mxiatter and pr' ooti eI'ivery. word of it.I tr t.h. (Sighed) .I. I ). NI. Su .a w .jll N lt. Fr' i . i.u;:n. - iMr. E"lller, the father of S. WC. F"ulli I sa'.ys that I he sublject of money wax mon'ttIntuael Ill,tal -after he and.W wm V nt.im I went into tlie horse lot anil hadl agroeet that 51(t:) ought to be paifl. ie theli called Senator Irby an<l Mr. N- lien jamin <1id the talking, telling Irhy that they thought Mr. IDavenport ought, to pay Saiin (S. W. -'tller) S1019. Sena. tor I rby repliedf to its that this was not a muoney case, and that he coildn'r, a<d vise ihe use of Imloley ini it. Iilly Ben .jaii ( W. S. B ('li -I ii) said that noth - ing but. nlionvy woild satisfy Sam; that lhe kiew S-i1 Wolild have to 4do some timnr. Siator Irhy also sai<I in the ho ist, I lt, w wohid(I have to do one of Iwo thina-m: E'-I her Jist drop it on ac cint of the rel:ttionship between Mr. ItvvnIport's childiren anid Ihe H:oly inl 1 vol vei r ir uo wit t. hin. l'ron what I hearil I did not, t hink I hat, thero was .141IN N an rpe' ori atlte4Iint to) rape - in it. i l, t W . ('I " N N IN, I M.\A M. Iheigoin slat fIIII-It was read to ine alit I tll I it I I'll ais to what to,ik im.v n tilhe hli'. w;s present, and k liw %v t fiat .Seluit 1or I rby adivisit agaiinst takling mlont-Y. IL . VIIId I \%. 1'. C'I N N IN ,i . I N. ..S. I;I'N I.\\Nl I N. NI1f . W . .S. I t-',j;Ii tIIl , 4,i F ltb1 . Ifi Il ily i I it- case, sa -i : " I b:t-v heardi rlil th.. ' taitq.l t t a lovv o .of, i l I V'l1-r ; Id c liy t t t ut, stat viiet IS e: rl4'e ;114 tr u ) t % ()iVw k1oty I l s ' W . . i'i,:N I.\ ANIIN. Nvws: \\v, tilt' viti/eii- ()I ().i.kville collill'u1,ut V, ;1 ; 11b 1tillIt (0 lies ill .Sal - I Ird;a i s Iss, ' 11 t . l - ,I-I s i i l ' ';Lr.o '0 linla l.- \ We think wt ki >w the li l le eur. W ' do 1 ot no rp)p, . I-> reply t.o his lies. W 1 ,l Imt st-. h w ai a t.N ru'11 CAr-diiiian c idb iillish suih ki, af . homt i s lit IIis at p id i':if design. I ' i 1i-ft ii? . I l -b I; :, il fli fI'roi M ouilt I'lia. till . fl 1 s lt I Ies ite Illim hvr (nv. W . Inve thlie . v i .' () o lr W -1" ill we ar.' leivers 4t 1 ri' i . M r. -Lii % ir, we demand his irn-t' lo b' sent, t1. . ('t ill'fIlii , I ',ir Il 1.. il lia. 4. iiul I I w%Ill show)% Il.11 1p1 t 1h l ofoh ' ou r t W I a s irue 'ii ' (a 1 ro t th Iin IIk 11.0, t t 11it11' t new%SprlL p-. hiari wi-re sllpp .l tL was vvry lilgi-n1.1vin thly ill ;-my fillm tt) IeporI t a liveiting blw his s 1i' it 4.1 i m il'. ()lr c-mnty I;pl,rs will g 'if 111 ki-" ill t 1 . W v LI' It.-1.1 4,1f ef 1' lrv i If he e . Weiyt e tI lal vt . wI A .lrtd by th. ttillt,g puppy piev'.. I 't- is - senii I la i t- at -'i , i ( iin ng u L. 1..\ ,- itn e W I Wi lison,rvv. Ii I. ts Ilint i iv A..el. irby,.~ al t \d :.. f ly, i - ( W illi ull-;, . . C.',i i ) i ite , .ohl"n 11 10 1 liv A 11 11ill i t oh-Lt COIiV-1 " t (ro ini.u " li vcv, ph.-ast. v >ply this. a . s (iit in 44 w4i. h "; troli i alli-e I('d I L I) iit )ct srrucIt th li' that, i;kye f i c ell cir la') te ) V S ij, I \vrit Ier. The nT ilet I'ti wa4Y% IvitiCalletI .I I t th rpose of to proteeuing ihe llicaLnal interetAs of IITour cminty ani to appoint a comimit 1 tee to Ilivestigahts the 11:11ter, and the V re inrt . 1 tiht c 144 ittee w as -sit -te wr%as Ilo I li i i-i ij Intenli althoiugh the con<tit. of* .\r. i.iveiport wa4 I moi l to 1 v iltitc h11 as the gol .t-11p e totfI h,i' (0111y coultd I .l er.i t. Thev lanurensvi ll' fi. rah will give t1h1 1 1*144 .k C. 'NNINIilA.\I1. n.Weather C'rtoli Mihllitie. i .\ m vi.\, S. C ., iily '). .T j e I I . 1.vinw_r is Ht.h wvvathervi crop repmrt fromu I- li i ( n' dill a hi5 il () Ile If)v lilt 111.i t kf~4 %i .....4 I 41 . . .~ .1 11 1 .- -i -'. --) * 4 ltiii44 ine i if.griclt re: Thei tenlii 5 r-14 1)1 att re duing t.1 4 i' 44 sevenfI f 4lavs has s ithfl'L' i ' 1;,t iii , i, IIIL 4' ns le 11. Iut ( llt. we44 t';-s 1 rops toii hitirn co rbi '9 i i'aly. 41.\i'' ri)n f.i veii'f been i'4 loc l in ut 54, u tr.m-r, itt whe ihey4iL ocei r re v'i.1 ly 4444r |i-t s 1i fluo1441 iit. l on 11e i'v r. y| 1|| still se i'i itigs lie l'i s we' 14 t' e Jr 'li 1. The 0 he iis fIll occ' rr. i i n'i ihe 1411 i iiit' N ' iti us th il.| taiyli 'till ies of Il ll1. ItI.Il, ('li i iN, si)4()r;t4ge il blirg.t hi' r;'tif fi 11 a p.'4ii f .otglitb'ri th-y f - illtr uis is ilt.ie y b ;y ( I4] i(' .L Ili irii iht u i t to will fi di v orin-o tr 4' i l t.h t' 41 -Vil t-~'il et 14. \\'ff l li ids i\;ff toIT'I ivg!ti 1144' strikrevgi444tS hem-' gtillo'iliig (r,':bilrg Weilt'ity, j41 fiy pi I ( hI i No ti ' s li ress I -XIoiig t t . '|'hes 1.1v\ Ii ;~tilelii hen to his11 w rk.b v ligNe t ~ Ie g i4.'fi, I)ii, 2whii-i1. nuinot' w r; e [ t ho'li wfy| .\iitiylo r ert arit' to rturnt o I e l i. mt ly thbiy t'a rtil f,li re;t,aiilie tilliLt' ;read jof w ith 11 raw lilti ' t. vhe i n i rcfie ; i i t b the. Q1 liig Ilear ''ihe tils, li,;jir, beigiele -ot gF1L)fnyi fniok 1.or(t i5- o, t ,h t tghori S. ith ida i(s os ts |''lili.t I iw "DUE'" MEETZC LYNCHED IN LEXING TON COUNTY. S11"lpec'e(I ofiltirnoing iilm(pj 1wn1onsewn 1"'hl Hi W110 M11r1 Two Chiledren siept - -Thtreat 4 A,-a IinsPt Other P'ermonim liciddledl With 1'.u11tM. COI,X.MBIA, S. U.,.il It ._]V e at the hand of' a muob. Anothier lyneihina has been wided to the record 01 Lexin ton Cmiuity. Earlyyesterday morning news reached Coluiml.a that "Dub"l Mee!z i had baen hunted down and Iynched by a mob between 9 and 10 ('04lock Sunty night at his old home in Luxington County, about seven miles From( Columbia. About a year ago a wariant was issued against Meetze in this C'tinty I-)r forgery and one in Lex Inl-Lonl ('otil, for horse-etealing. Ie was captured in Florida and brought I)ick and put in jail. The cases against h111m Were comI1111prolised and dropped S1)'11 e x' VNpresR condition that he would leave the SLatO* frever. le wats released it-t went away. 'Iie circumstances of Ids traitui end, as -athered by a Register reporter yestcrday rom citizens of the nighborhood, are as f*ollows.: Meetze had Ilade threat.s to burn his own house anud the houses ot several people Who inl'ormItled a1--atinlst hitu in the hiorse-.4waling matter andl( hadl threaten NI also to kill others. IIe had gone twity, however, aini the counllill ity felt t ease. A letv flays ago it was rumored that lw bhil cw-it. b:iek and was hiding ronild I., I'mo n ' hood. The cIt ens were at l-i, . -t iid to a fe"eling of I l suspellsu', 1. wmg at what [ime it hutise would I)- oarned or somie wily killed firo it anibush. L t,L Wednes. I ly niIhit Mevtz's nouse Was barned lown andl his wil'e ail(I two children nar rmy e"e:tped bwin- burned to :eath. The ltar- (it the coimun-ty were still 1urtr aroused by this and every one it,1 vet-Ltin that It was Meetze's work, alid questimll Was Whose loUSe WOUld be lteXL. ''lhe peoj,le then began to look 411t 1>r M %e.- Sanl ty i >rm il, While the I ngregation was at service at /41 Church, a colored girl went there ii a si e-11 c. ilsider-lible exuitemenit and Lol the )U >)e that she had seen Meetzb in the Wor)(Is nlear tho house ol' \lr. An Irw3(1 irik, Whose houscie was includedl i t e t114 ol thom, thlre1ttene(-d to be burneld. Tiht .C)pi at 4e resiolveil to Insh uLe an da z:d searc For Neetze. wo1111 Lhev re-,,arded ats anl1 outlaw aid 01, whom they were afrail. They sent Ir Shi Dl Dralts and the search began at once. Alter searching until about 9 o'l+Ok withomt avail, the p)sse stopped tor the ih1101t, i.oiing to their homes. .ril i rai.s was at Mr. Lxrick's hotie, and Wirtl v alterwards he and Mir. I,-)rick heard Romec shootin,g over in the tirect.ion of' Meetz3's house, which had beenl burned. In company with Mr. L-rick, the Sherill went to the place and look,--d around, but no one v'a1s to be seen. A groan was heard. They asked who it wats and(] the reply came Lhatt it was Meetze. Going in the (iree Lion ol the groan, they came upoi Mee(ze lying a fFew yardi froml the barn in the agomws ofi1t a1earflil denta.lh. There lie lay in the dark niglit, with no one near. 1is shivers 1f1d lIed. Who they were, 3it) IM knew. Meelz wa- able to talk a litfe and14 beg or' Wat.er, bt . 1d not say wiho sholt, hhn11. 1ie is r'eportedi i) have 5 144 thait hC <hid not, 'urn his house 444 M m iay nigght. In a liti L w1Ic~ hile lhe brl-atheld his last. The repor',er was uinable to liearn I roml any sounrce whether t hie.e wajs an yprooftil,at, Meetze Durned his hoiaise bIo hyli1is threat and the con. so' lientI susp icioni that restedi upon him. li'om all1 that co1013id be learned COnl eer1'!ntg his triiiC 0end, it appears evi dletit t iat, lie dIied itt the halnds of' the 344 'ileC amnIllg whlomi 1he Was raised, be 4'-iuise they fearedl him , iandl it is 83a34 tha there. is nlo w a feechng ol relief inl that coni41nulnitV that he is daad. As lie lay 4)n theC ground inl his ownl b)00lio e p resentede a : satd sp)cltacle indeedC(. IIis r|4 ilhes weire rat.med and thie ibottoms of his shIo4I' 'Vere wo)rn ofl. Yesterday mriniIiIji' a cro'(wd ol' his forme.' neigvh Il >rs were giathlered ahou t him11 as he lay Chi and34 still in deiithi. His body was '( 'ornier wvas not.i Iled a1t10 a jury of' in *I4'p4 Its smummned13(. Dir. L~eaihart, 343:441 the4 pos)~t mor)itest.i exanmination. .i Th leIst ser3ious5 wouind was ini his rIh sal it, 1331was initieted with a shot un A inumbehr ol shot, also passed( throuih h4is right,I hand, which appeared to4 hav been 1411 aginitst, hia side whien the wooniii waIs made. T1here was a wound mi the stom1achl a11 0310eim thIe left Min 44ubler'. A 3)it,>l b:til split his scalp) mII 0 ihe Jlt side of his face was filled withI shtil. Alter tile inry had viewed 311 he~ )boy 1m314 thle ost, mortem examina 1t)1 11on 1 )had 1 benmade, the body was turne o314~ver1 to his bilrothler, Mr. .J. H. Mi! 't', will 2:1r3 iell it, 1.o his home at .4 Xingtonm Court llouse. Th'ie inry of m,p1iest Spenit some)1 timel ini myes',igating the case5(, bt,t secutred 1no evidence on which to) reach11 ai lonchtsion1 and1( their v:rl'4i4t wias that, ''Dub'' Meetze came to llas deait,h by lunIshIot, wounhds att the hands41 ol Personls tunknIown. TJhe bumeralI services will be held1( to dhay and( the0 remamllts will be0 bulried at l'tler's ChIurchl, a iewv miles above Lex mlg tonm. " I )ub'' Meetz,e will ha remem bered ias tile m)anj who was mnixed upl in the l toule which resultedl in Jatmes I. (lark beinlg killed in Columbia b)y W. 1B. Meetze.-Itegist,er. 314ad MaI 4134 031 ai Muscile. pre'cuhiar assault, Was commilted 4)n the be ach11 here. Catin A brahamltl) Baiker, 01ne of' the t.est known cottagers here, sirick n iiiollensive youngl man11 in) tile faice. In explaining his at,ion, Capmmn Bkker says thait he is a11man3 of unuslSll vigor and vitahity and thait, weiaker men are drawn toward hlim, and that lie can not, r'esist the0 Leml,tation to 1)unch1 theIr heads1.. 'Thle cata1linI says , liat hie Is no lunatic, bu1t, that lie is simply ahead of' times41. Ile cilaimes to iiave killed 16 menCi in hiis life, and says lhe will sboot thie first man wf o att empts to arrest hii n.