Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jif iiW^BPr _ '^iX-. . ' ^ |b^^b58c^rau?jbcrt treated* a tender 5> wat. Address bf tyr. George If'. Bagbtjr fmtore the South Carolina Prtn As80&bt k& ' U010 the Delations of our Boyhood tcere Dispelled by $ht War? The Incurable of tho Cot ton tot?A Virginian' 8 Tribute to South Carolina?The Vista oJ> her Glorious Future. M&. President and Gentlemen of 'the pkess Association or South Caro lina : Permit me to congratulato you on \ho sestoration of your State Government. - , A bright day hus dawned after a long and cry dark night. Much of your recent triumph is due to your own stout hearts, but much more to th? disturbed ocudition of tho - country. Had t^e volume of business rc*"A - uiaincd ttnbrolwmfWS?fro Of" 'i&y&Tn, jtm would hrtve becnoru?Scd like an egg-shell, and tho nogro and tho carpet-bagger would have retained power indefinitely. This is a discordant note, but it is the truth, and by k tho truth wo must live. f You do not want, I am sure, the decorous namby-pamby and the job lots of damaged ndvicc which make up the staple of tho addresses generally given on occasions like this ; and if you did, could not get thorn from me, who know but little decorum and aw but a poor adviser. Extend to mo, therefore, I praj you, forbearance which is born of that highbred courtesy for which South k-< Carolinians have ever been distinguished. A protty showing, indeed, I should make were I to preach to the text chosen for mc. ^'Southern Journalism." Fancy mo with a Richmond paper in one hand, andtho average rural, paper of toy State in the othor, ooihirig here to instruct the editors of South Carolina ! Comparisons are odious, and 1 will not make them. Although I have been alternately the aceouoheur ana the undertakerjof newspapers in both town and country, aud although [ have been the correspondent of leading journals from Massachusetts to Texas. I confess to you frankly that I know nothing about Southern journalism. Yes, I do kuow one single thing. I know that if the money paid annually ovor the counters from Baltimore to Galveston for Northern gapers which abuse or, worse still, pity the outh, were paid to us we would all bo rich. Whereas the most of us, like English curates and American insurance agents, are but genteel paupers. Knowing this, I lay down the dictum that no pcoplo will over be free, or dosorvo to bo free, who do not support their homo papers in preference aud, if uccd be, to tho exclusion of all other papers whatsoever. IIow is that for sound and high political spieace, mud howgdoeaJt comport With yquride'aa of free traac? By your graefpakleave, thou, I will drop the subject of journalism and select for my thesis "The Southern Fool." That is quite iu my line of business. I am accustomed to handle that class of goods, and like a good husincss man I stick to mv last. Are sutor. you know. And it tnny turn out that the Southern Fool bears, I will not say a paternal relation to, but has a connection with. Southern journalism much less remote than we would have the public to believe. We , shall see. But first u digression. When a boy I was sent to school in Princeton, N. J The propriety of Aendinf a lad 400 miles away from home may well be questioned. Certainly it may bo doublet when the money expended for his educatior is noeded in the State of his nativity. Be fore the war, there might have been an ex cuso for indulging educational whims, bu what possible excuse is thero now ? Dr. McCosh says, there are 80 Southeri students at Princeton ; at 9400 apiece, tha is, $32,000 a year; enough almost to sup port the average Southern college. Ar thero any fools among us for the want o sense ? But we have no school equal to Nas ( sau Hall. By Northern coufession we hav a school better than that, and equal to on this continent. About my school days in Princoton I rc member many things, but this thing cspe cially?that the Southern boys there taugh me, a lad of ten, to look down upon the boy of tho North. Was that wisdom or folly and if folly was it confined to boys alone Are all suoh boys dead now ? Last fall I revisited New Jersey. It is lovely land. What land is not in October "This land," said t to myself, "is not morel tamed, it is civilized, it is enlightened in ii thorough culture." But I care not to liv '.in it. No. There are pcoplo who woul .leave Paradise to go to Orange Courthous .and I am one of them. Dwell in a count! twhere thero are no sassafras bushes, no si auac, nor any briar patches ? Never 1 S John Malcolm tells oi the astonishment an disgust of an old Persian woman athcaric there wcro no date trees in England. Lii thcref Wot sbo. ?o more couia l ??ve una a sky without a buzzard. I coulu not it - would, and would not if I could. Yes, 'lis a beautiful well husbanded lan and tho people who dwell in it are a gre people, not yet in their prime, mewing st a mighty youth?who that visited the K position can doubt it ? and with an inco coivablo destiny before them. We also the South are great?greater in defeat, the grandeur of self restraint, (as you Sou Carolinians have just proved to the confou ding of your enemies,; fttHftgmaater in <i feat than in war Why eeffHtotbc* t, peoples come together ifithout gush, fanfi OQ&de or mental reservation, ,nnd be frictu b.-s one people, absolutely. All good m< in both sections ardently desiro it. Th long.for it. There can be no peace, no pn poritv without it. Why cannot it be ? I not mow. Why is it that no houso is 1 epougV to held one family after tho sj and,daughters are grown? Why muM magnet hnvo two poles, und whnt is t manning of this "inevitable duality whi bisects all nature ?" A battery with c wire can do no mannor of work, and son why there ia an imperative necessity for t cannot to dono i without hatp oa well as love and as much of I one precisely as tho other ? Bab ! These i analogies are misleading?it's all stuff?the i jMftfp crazy. Say you so ? Then are we pre- ] ' "fWrcd to couic flat and plump to something i practical viz., the Southern fool. j The first Southern fool whom I shall no- < tico is the worst, for ho is more knnve than < fool, a hound whose hide I intend somo day i to tear off and hold his quivering carcass up < to stiuk in the nostrils of both sections. It i is he, who, having gone North and acquired < uioucy by hook or by crook, mainly by crook, . proceeds to take utuo himself all tho glory ! and the fame of tho South, disowus her 1 shame, evades her suffering, and over- I whelms us with his ndvice. His advice, i quotha ! Way docsu't lie couic down aud J put his shoulder to tho wheel ? Advico ! < Upon tnj nutOj g;i?% nkn'-UO"till- I vice from a fool of this sort is the acme of t all mcauness. It is tho vcryf inversion of generosity, which naught impoverishes the s giver, but makes us poor indeed. Will a ] beggar give mo a handful of his rags? The 1 figure is coarse, horribly coarse, but not so t conrsc as tho fact. t It was a shoal of this kind of cattle (is j that Irish enough for you ?) of these adviceSivcrs (Northern born though) who swooped Own upon us after the war to teach us how to grow cotton and tobacco with machinery aud free labor. They would hear nothing, for they knew all things. The last uiucompoop of them failed ignominiously, and in my State not a few of them discovered that in the simple matter of cheating any Virginia clodhopper was more than a match for the shrewdest Yankee, lie made him pay thrccpriccs for his worn-out farm, one third r in a yearor so took, back the farm for tho deferred payments. The more fool the Virginian for this goose-ripping policy, but nono tho less a fool the Yankee. Prior to tho war the Southern fool mado his wishes tho measure of political events, and scutimcnt served him in lieu of sense, lie believed in Bell and Everett (I voted for them?nono of my peoplo shall be big' ger foils than myself.) in Fillmore, John Cochrane, Butler, Sickles. Bah 1 As if the designs of an army could .b6>'die9qycred by the attitude of the chaplains,teamsters, sutlers and bummers in the rear, instead of ! by watching the movements of the vau- i guard. Is the Southern fool doing any better row ? Does cxperieuco teach anything ? Very little.to individuals, to nations nolhtog. When the war broke out the Southern fool begjm by underrating the strength of liis enemy, by looking down upon the Yan[_ ke?s us *e "Syu thorn, bays had done at Princeton. Coming to lUoUuio'ud alter tne battle of Manassas, with tho body of a dead comrade, I was told that a great Southern statcsmnc was in town. I hastened to him i at once, for I wanted to see ahead. "Mr. I X.," said I, "tho papers tell us that Lincoln has called for 200,000 men." lie i laughed a low laugh, lcaucd back a little, . and said cheerily. '"Oh, yos, tho Chinese , raised a million, with gongs and stinkpots i according, and ton thousnud allies marched ! straight to Pckin." 1 was greatly comforted. i This Chinese idea prevailed at Montgomj cry, where, I am told, the first order fbr I arms was for nino thousand, possibly ten I thousand stand. Passing over the minor i follies of retaining proved incompetents at - the head of grand armies and elsewhere, passing over Leo's extreme weakuess in not t holding his lieutenants up to the sternest accountability, I come to tho capital mistake i of tho war. It was natural the Southern t fool should mako it. A handsome gontle man?I can see him now; wo all remember o him ; above tho medium height; a suit of f black broadcloth, black satin vest, felt hat, gold fob chnin, gold headed cane'and higho heal, high top boots?a gentlemnn who did f nothing with his hands and a good deal with his tongue, thoreby making himself very > agreeable to himself. But thero was one !- redeemiug quality about the fellow?he t wouldn't take the lie, and he would fight? s would snuff out your eephalio wick at ten ? paces, or fight you with anything from a ? toothpick to a columbiad. A fight to him was a five minutes' Affair, aud if onough life a was left in himself or his enemy to shake ? hands, he was ready to mako friends, and y thers an end on't. What more uatural than ts that he should believe that war meant fight'O ing. ,d It waij a fatal mistake, the cardinnl error s, of the whole strugglo. War?nine-tenths - *- ? - ? I* C*. 1_ ._!J .4 y ot it, at least, as aicx. n. oicpncns suiu at a- the time?is business, the plainest possible ir matter of fact business, just such busiuctg id as is dono every day hofe on your wharves ig and streets, only with more energy. Did ro any of you enter the Yankeo lines at the er close of the war ? I did, and what did [ sec? I I saw in succession a team of mouse colored mules, a team of creaui-colorcd mules, and a d, team of snow-white mules, six to a team, and at all seal fat,(specimens of the train) tho wagill ons brand now, and the wagon oloths a x- deal cleaner than the shirt I was then wearn ing. A little farther on 1 saw a corps of of 20,000 negroes, whose camp was like a May in ground When Merrie England was iu its th prime. Why, gentlemen, war to this peon pie was pastime, it was msthotics and poetry; Is- and I can readily believe what, has often wo been coo4VW ir- would gladly bare paid tne expenses of both Is, sides in order to prolong the war indefiniteen ly. ov Ah ! but they had the money.' Yes, tne va mltAKAAS WA Yvciil OF tV. A t tinnllll I/O* J/41J/VI | ITUV1COO nu uau ?IIV ^ VH? B?H|/IV? do which wero absolute values, only-wo did not >ig havo tlw business sen so to use them. ns What is the relevancy.of all tRis ? What t u is the use of raking up tho ashes of the de'^i] he past? The war is nil over?long, long ago eh Say you so, nnd think you so? Thatiswhnt >no ails you now. The wars of powder and shol no- arc to the warfare of life what the fow houn wo of fighting are to the long uionths of pre jPHtlStf* wtifch make or mar a campaign ; v and in this iifc-warfare, as in the noisier and I; briefer wars, you are to be saved by your a strong, hard business common sense, and n that alone. The end of the struggle at Ap- 11 pouiatlox was but the beginning of another y and much more desperate struggle?tho oh- tl jeet of which is the conquest of your most it cherished ideas in politics, religion and so- h cial order?tho rearrangement of the very h molecules of your brain?the facing about t< }f your inmost soul?no less. This is tho d new "irrepressible conflict," which, like the u )ld, will bring us all to grief, years hence, c A twine of two-threads, scarlet and sable, c State rights and slavery, was involved in c 'h j iate "rebellion," as our cousidcrate Yan- t< kce frieuds love to miscall it. Ouc was ft severed completely, and, States rights man li is I am, I would to God sometimes thnt the f; )thcr had been definitely cleft in twain, for ^icu wu tmt v* UCUU ca?vu vsvcvuiti^ i* .rouble in time to come. b Tlio noYt. fnrni nf Smitliorn fnnl which I o shall consider is tho agricultural fool; what t< [ should call in Virgiuia the tobacco worm, n jut iu this State the Cottontot. Gentlemen, p here arc Hottentots and there arc Cotton- u ;ots. The oxides of years lie upon my goo- h graphic memory, and I am a little confused o is to Hottentots and Putagonians. I only 1: iuow that they arc extreme Southern pco- ti pic, and that imither are famous as yet for ft ntelligencc. The Cottontpt belongs to tho w lame category. A Cottontot I take to be a I person who, growing nothing but cotton, has J: X) buy every earthly thing that he uses or tl jousumcs; consequently rarely if ever saves tl tuything, and finds himself at the end of f< :hc year the property of his commission tl merchant?himself the property of the si Northern man, for you'll look in vain to find tl i business which docs not have a Southern ti noodle at ouc end playing drudge for a smart d Yankee at the other. The cottontot, I say, ti Snds himself tho property of his commission a merchant, who don't want him?wont have u him at auy price, and yet can't get rid of s; him without bankrupting himself. A prct- ti ty exemplification of the vicious business n circle all round, isn't it? b My friends, during the twelve years that t; have elapsed since the war, at least thirty- t six millions bales (threo millions a year) of b cotton have been grown at the South. At a 850 a bale, a low estimate, this amounts to 1 sixteen hundred millious of dollars. What t has become of this-enormous amount of L money ? What benefit have we derived from ? it, and where has it all goue ? Thanks to o the Cottontot, it has goue precisely whero" c it cauic from, and beyond a mere support; we have derived no benefit from it. Is this t to go on luicycr/ YCS, as long as the t.'ot- i tontot politf?tyflnftho attendant. Because " cotton is"thfrnTrotmy*xjro|y-ieTra tflfcauso woii have virtual^ driven East India cotton out ti of the market?M. Rivctt-Carnac, late cot- c ton coimiiissioner, having been forced for t lack of cotton business to go into the holy J opium trade?the Cottoutot is again ex- I claiming "Cotton is King." Has he heard 1 qf the new Egyptian cotton plant, the "Ba- t tnia M he, and if he heard lie would i not heed. Well, Cotton is King, in a sense. So is .tobacco, so is tar, provided you have I enough of either, and it will fetch a good | price. ^I?tor was two dollars a gallon, and < I held a million barrels, tar would be king, aud I would bo a prince; but if tar ruled at 1 that price, there would be a corner in tar < in New York, and you and i and other Cottontots would not owu enough to grease a i cart wheel. The Cottontot is a fool iu various other j ways?in the mode, for example, of buyiug . b^goods. There can he no plainer busi- < 4lCT!rpropo'sUibn than this?that when a man has chested and deceived you repeatedly, common senco requires that you shall drop him instantly and deal with him no more forever. Duty to yourself and your family demands that you should ucver forget and never forgive iu this ease. And what is true in business is equally truo in politics, is it not? Your political liio depends on your answer to this question. But what docs your Cottoutot do? Coming to town aud iiudiug some adventurer with a lot of auction goods or a compromise stock, he quits the old established houses, well-known to him, and spends the very money due to these houses in bnyiDg traah and shoddy from this adventurer. Finding himself cheated again, he simply laughs, and says, "I tell you theso chaps arc smart, they are keencrs, they arebut if the old estabKnl.a/1 Iiahma oa ntimK no /lionnr\Ainf liim ha linilUU livuou ou n/uuu mo >i ?? j nv damns it as "an internal unprincipled Yankee concern." * An exceptional ^rar comes and the Cottontot actually saves money. What does ho do with it?lend it to his poor and needy neighbors? Bless you, no. lie is a fool.but not quite big enough fool for that. He wants his money where he can lay his hands on it at any moment. Timo was when a man's word was as good as his bond,but now utmost all bonds are tlireo times worse than any man's word. So tho Cottontot wisely carries this money to bunk, where he encounters another Southern fool, who pays him 6 per cent, for his money, and then lends itat 10 or 12 percent., well knowing Ji#n hn lands it that he is killimr the busi DM8 of the borrower. For What is u bank, I rightly conducted ? It is simply a heart, a pump, an aeiuic ram for receiviug and forwarding the circulation. Aud what a fool of * that heart would be which would dohWately engorge itself, producing valvular difftaac, hypertrophy and aneurism at the etpdpfte of tho atrophy cf the rest of tho ' body I Yet that ia precisely wh t so many banVa are doiug ou a small scale and that greatest of all human dolts, the North, the banker of the nation, hns been doing on a grand scale. Ever sinca tho war it has been I stuffing itself with circulation, taxing Vir, ginia, with her three millions of blinking t capital, seven millions annually, nnd New t England, with one hdndred And sixty mik i lions, only five millions a year, viewing ril - the while its withciing Southern extreuaitiw riilr complacency and cvcu delight, uutil at ist engorgement has produced staguatiou nd paralysis. To that and to that alone, lot to any sympathy for your troubles or admiration for your heroic endurance, you owo our prescut release from bondage worse linu death. If uow, iu true Southern fashmo, you go about to gush because the iron and is lifted for a moment, to fancy that uuinii nuturo can become angelic in a day, > abandon common sense and common pruence, to forget the past, and to efface from lemory the impressions which suffering has ountcr-sunk in it, and which should remain lean-edged and bright for at least half a cutury?if you do this, then are you Cotmntots indeed. Hut you arc not going to mrgct. They will not let you forget. You ttle comprehend the drift of events if you incy otherwise. Ah ! but tho millennium is corn in''?is 1 ,,avu u ?unier of millenniums in my time. They revr last tm, and rarely seven years. Thanks ) the President, who has done his duty, othing more, an era of good feeling apcars to he setting in, and so long as his icasures are just and impartial he ought to ;?vc, anu ucuducss win nave, me 1 . j;j votes f the solid South as often as he wants them. !ut if in return for his aets of simple juslee Mr. Hayes asks us to break ranks bc>re 1880, 1 say emphatically, Nay! Hut it 'ould be just like the Democracy to do it. 'hey split in 18G0 between Douglas and Ircckiuriugc, nud through the crevasse lius formed cauie the rail-splitter to deluge liis land with blood. Will we repeat that illy ? '-I shouldn't wonder." Ilappily in he absence of the blows from the Radical ledgc-hainu:er whioh have hitherto welded lie South together, making it uiore and lore solid every year, wo have that at our oors which will keep us in close order for jany, many years to come. This perverse lid stupid generation requires a sign, and 1 ill give it to them. It is this : When Masnchusctts shall have voted the Democratic ickot for five successive years, then, and ot till then, will the color line be really roken ; then, and not till then, may genleuien vote the Republican ticket; and for he South to divide before that tiuic would ic the madness of the moon itself. This ttcmpt to revive the Whig party is, as the 'opular Science Monthly says of Plcasanon's blue-glass book, the "ghastliest rub>ish'" of the century; and when 1 see a Southern paper sucking a little thin postffice advertisement pap, I am at loss whethir to laugh or to weep. To come back to the Cotton tot. The fori lifters bo buys in Charleston almost double he value of his crop. "Aha !" he exclaims, they have stuffed the bags for mc^hoping [fft*, uu* mil |uitc smart enough for me. I've got you his time, and the next time you catch uic .^,..'11 Lnmir if " I \r tirwrl.mf i 11 ir Ilia ornn " ""V" "Vfc.VV.M.,, V,V,'I 10 i9 tlisnppoiii(eil in his fertilizer; while lis neighbors, using precisely the same ariclc, and giving due attention to their Holds norc than realize their fondest expectations iVherenl the Cotlontot swears luudly thai tis neighbors have been favored at his ex uensc, and that he has been grossly swin lied. Ilere, then, is the source of nearly all oui woes?this C'ottontot devotion to a singh ;rop and the accompanying over-smartness The cure is plain cuougli; and it has bccu idmirably formulated by o.ic of your city papers in the aphorism, "Jircarf and mea first', cotton last." The mission ofSouthcrr journalism is to put this motto at the heat of every paper from Norfolk to Galvestot and to kc?p it there. 1 would print it it indelible in! k on the foreheads, tattoo it it the arms, pud brand it in the palms of tlx Cottontots. But the press has not beet idle in thin good cause, for already we sci the effect of its labors. Mr. .John Ott, cm of the ablest, and certainly one of the uios useful, men iu Virginia, furnishes us wit! this most cheering fact, viz: "In 1870, th West packed 104.915,BUT pounds less por! than it did in 1875. This is the reason at signed by Western journals: 'The provis ion trade, owing to falling prices durin most of the year, proved less proHtablc tha usual ;-aud, on account of the political con plications in the Southern States, the d( mand for distribution has been for sever; mnnilia interferred with.'" Oho ' M; West, your excuse mclhinks is somcwht thin j wo are raising our own pork ; that i tho wholo secret. Hut will the euro jut indicated suffice ? I doubt. It is a fac which the Press will do well never to foi get that the increase in our provision cro is due much more to the low price of cotto than to the wisdom of tho Cottontots, an if cotton agaiu touches 20 cents, he wi drop corn instauter. So would it be i Virginia if the lo / grades of tobacco shoul accidentally double in value. There is, i I well know personally, no cure for folly.Bray a cottontot or a humorist in a morta he will be a cottontot or a humorist still. Gentlemen, we want to bo friends wit tho North ; we want to win back, 1 will m say their love?grown men care little f each other's love?but we do want to w back their respect; and there is but 01 way under heaven to do it. ''Ilcvengt Timotheus cries." and I am for vengenc immediate and dire. I would not rob the of their money as tkey robbed us of 01 slaves; T would not have them suffer at be ftrong as we have suffered and are stron nif fn'iiwl fn ho utrnntrnr but I would i t..... ? p?J # ; flict upon them that suffering which brie not strength but weakness, namely the si fcriug of impotent envy. I would snat the Ml inan of them bald headed from ta and go into the wig business to-morri morning, I would make every one of (he guash out every tooth in his upper and lo er maxillarios, so that I might forthwith . canonized by dentiste the North over as I f dumbo in Fra False-set-o. This slan<i . detestable, hut do you know I like it. 81a , docs so pierce and grieve the small soul? k purists?those jmtite maitrrs of literature, with whom Shakespeare and myself, who closely resemble each other, never had and never can have any patience. My friends, we arc to win back the,respect of the North just as the respect of every other people is won, and that is by regaining our lost wealth. Less cotton and more meat first, and, second, manufacturing our own cottcu. That is the solution oi* the whole difficulty. Tho first two pages of Adam $milh tell what advantage there is in manufacturing raw material, and, if you consult Col. Chilton, at Columbus, (ja., or Col. Palmer, at Columbia, S. C., lie will irivn vnn nvinl nfnnnittnifA in nnr (*?* onf over the New F.nglund manufacturers.? Against their seven month; of consumption and five months of production wc have eleven mouths of work and only one, if that, of WteLU^Wpo^i & KlUlVfUWMtf: ital, the thrift, skill, energy and daring of New Kngland, we will be but repeating the lolly of a certain boy at school in Princeton. Aruflum numrn abest si sit prtulrniin. Wc cannot possibly be too wary in this life-anddeath industrial struggle with a people whose capitalists arc at this moment mapping out cotton and iron mill sites iu the South as minutely as the Prussians mapped out France previous to the late war. Hut supposing wo get rich, euormously rich, as wc ought to do, and in time most certainly will, what then? Why every man of us will pull up stakes as soon as the s immcr begins and spend every surplus cent in New York, Saratoga, Long Hranch and Newport. And who shall blame us, seeing how frightfully dull our own watering places are ? Nevertheless, nothing is more certain than that Georgia and South Carolina are destined to be enormously rich. It is written in the book of fate that this uoble commonwealth shall have recompense fur her unparulcllcd afflictions. And when you get rich I want you to come to Virginia. Do you ever think of the good old State? I hope so. Your brothers sleep under her sod, and from that sod many of you that arc now living have looked up night after night to the uuanswering stars, wondering where you tvould be on the morrow. Yes, you remember Virginia; you can never forget her. Iler men are much too prone to claim all glory for themselves and their State; but her women, have you no tender rccollectious of thcui in the hospital and the home? Well, then, get rich quick and come back to old Virginia's shore. We have trot there the. prettiest and sweetest girls in tlio habitable world. This I say in a tone so low that only the long male cars of this audience can hear nic Hut it is so. We have got also a full liuc of the most bewitching widows l.?* ?imr lialUMioit ln(l "innt nn. tin." Alav, n\j Iiuto onn? (Smralto lUt avo not so pretty. We do nothing by halves in Virginia, and when we set about producing an ugly woman we put upon the market an : acute, penetrating, diffusive, pervasive, acrid . and altogether nuimonincal variety of hid, cousness that nothing earthly can touch.? Hut for pretty girls and widows you can't t go amiss. They are so thick in Richmond that if you venture 011 the street with an umbrella under your arm, and turn around suddenly, you will kuock do.fn two 01 three r of them. They have been waiting with the j sweetest patieuce for the kings and princes . of Europe to come over and marry them, i but the fools over there have gone to iightf ing, and I aui afraid their patience and their t few good clothes will wear out together.? i And when I think of their bright eyes dim1 uiing, and the roses in their checks fading i in old-maidenhood, it almost kills me. I 1 can't marry them all?would to goodness j that I could?I have done all that the law 2 allowed me to do in this matter, and now I i want you to quit playing Cottontot, get rich e quick, and come to Old Virginia and help e me out iu the matrimonial line. We have t a fine set of young men growing up and alli ready grown, plenty old enough to marry? e blooded fellows?that have gouo to work, k and, like racehorses at the plough, intend to i- break the traces, burst their hearts or make 5. a deep furrow in this hard old work-day g world. They would not object to marrying u any man's rich sister, but of all men's they i- would prefer a South Carolinian's. Come, then, to the Old Dominion?a fair exchange il is no robbery?and, by the g ds! the next r. generation or two will see a race of men it compared with whom Washington and Calls houn, Jefferson and Pinckney were but teeit tot urns and mumble-pegs. t There is ouc other weakling to whom I r- would like to pay my respects. I mean the p Southern politician, wh fancies he can boil come a statesman by rejecting the acquisid tions of modern science, the application par11 ticularly of biology to social problems, and, n confining himself to the old ruts, hopes to d make a little ill-digested history and the is speeches of a few eminent men ol'a by-gone ? age servo in the stead of those general laws, r, which, embracing matter and mind alike enable us to forecast the fuluro and to fore h see not what we thiuk wo ought to be, bul In iKa M itiirn nf tiling mutii inovit or ably be. Time will not permit uic to ck in inorc than allude to this subject; but. com ie ing down to iuuncdiate matters, I shouk i! say that the supreme Southern political foo e, is ho who, in this critical moment for hii m section, places confidence in any promise ur whatever mado by his party foes, id In conclusion, let me thank you for in g, viting mo to address you. No oomplimcn n- is more grateful to a Virginian than om gs that comes from the people of Carolina, fo if- hero ho finds a passionate devotion to th ch State which rivals if it docs not surplus hi w, own Slate pride and lovo. Carolinians 1 d jw you love your mother ? Does a mother lov in, her ufHietcd and stricken son ? Does a so w- love the invalid mother for whom he sacr bo fees his time, his pleasures and his hard wo St. earnings? Lovelier? Ho would die ft ; is her. Yea more, he would live for he tig would "lend her half his powers to eke h< i of living out." And when the painful nigl watches arc all over ami the patient sufferer is laid in that narrow bed where there is no more suffering, the son comes hack from the grave, bearing with hiui an amulet that no uiau may ever sec but which will keep him unharmed through life. Nay, henceforth a newer and more elevated life, hallowed by self-sacrifice,is his. So with you, Carolinians. You have suffered as no cultured people in modern limes have suffered, and, so sure as Iluavcn, the steadfast love you have shown to your murdered mother will bring its exceeding great reward. You hnvc trodden the wine press alone. Here fell the utmost fury of your enemies, and here came the least sympathy of your friends, for was it not. said (the idiots have not yet stopped saying it) that you "brought on the war?" The wine press ! Your State was the wine press and your souls the grapes on which for twelve :>i. i? um/w \?i jvci uij. uv/i iir-. uiuuncu itihi tAvwm ui HiMiu-C aim ^mir, UUIia'U IU HID derisive laughter of halt the nation.? Twelve years, four thousand days and nights of torture, of shame, of humiliation, for yourselves, your wives, your daughters, your tender children. Four thousand days and nights, and to the proud and sensitive nature smarting under indignity, every moment is an age. Hurler and l'itt lifted their voices in behalf of the oppressed Colonies ; the "loud cry of trampled Ilindoston" awakened the eloquence of Sheridan, but the Poland of America? "Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe. Strength in Iter arms, nor mercy in Iter woe!"' * * * -* * * * "Naked and desolate she stands, Her name a by-word in all lands." No man of commanding genius in either branch of the National Legislature stepped forth to plead her cause in words that might have shaken both Continents and be quoted for all time. Not ouc of the Northern poets ?those gentle beings whose hearts bleed at every wrong from Tartary to Timbuctoo? could pen a line for Carolina Gordon, of Georgia, was your lricnd, good and true ; and at the last your advocate and champion was that press which men aforetime loved to call satauic?the New York Herald? and the poet who sang your wrongs were of your own rearing. Yes, Carolinians you have been tried as by fire, and by that fire the dross has been purged away, leaving metal of proof only. I look to see here a race of men nobler than any that have gone before. Already from the flames emerges a figure, calm, contained majestic as an antique bronze?a form to which all eyes were lately turued in admiration, and in gratitude that outweighed aduiiratiou, for he had saved his country from civil war?Anuxunthon Agamemnon, Wade Hampton, King of Men ! llappy !' ? tlpt claims b?u? ?o her Ohicf 51niTleirnfo. ?ronnv fhc Nation if be were but. 4 its ruler. Having suncred an iuin^s, ."o would see that no section, no State suffered needlessly. Having braved all things, lie fears nothing; and having endured all things, he would brook with equal patience the malice of his foes and the deadlier flattery of his friends. Is it too much to hope that he will take the place in Washington for which he is so well fitted? It may never be ; but the day that sees him or some such Southern man installed in power will be the dawn of peace, the end of the war. Hut stay ; I am told that near at hand there is somewhat to eat and drink withal. C >uic, let us sacrifice the bird dear to Minerva. let us boil the owl in Falcrnian or tho Cmcuban vintage, and, having dined on fools, we will sup on concentrated wisdom. Sowing Grass Skki?s.?The following directions for sowing grass seeds will be found useful at the present time:?In sowing we advise, for obvious reasons, that tho soil should be clean, in good condition?the surface made level and firm and perfectly pulverized by harrowing and rolling. A calm, still day, when rain is approaching, is most suitable for the work. After sowing, the surface should be only lightly harrowed and rolled. A firm seed bed and a denth of covering of a quarter to half an inch is most favorable for the vegetation of small seeds. If covered deeply they do not grow at all,or in very small proportions; if notcov1 ered, many of the seeds are picked up by small birds, and the vegetation of those that ' escape depends upon their being washed into the soil by rain. Young grasses arc injured by frost. The proper season, therefore, for sowing extends from March to September ; the spring months are preferable. If the land works unkindly, seeds will not vegetate well and a larger quantity must be sown to obtain a stand, (Irass seeds may be sown with or upon land already planted with wheat, barley or oats, as a regular crop, with every cliaucc of success? 1 except in cases where the cereal crops are over abundant and lodged. When sown ! without a crop?for the safe protection of 1 the finer grasses and to increase the produce ' of the first year?it is advisable to add to the quantity 01 grass sown ana iiiso a dumici ' of oats or barley per acre. ' Thk East or Dani ft..?The usurper Daniel II. Chamberlain, lias gone ; no one regrets this; lie 1 left in a lmrry and under a black cloud. His ] ill-gotten effects were all that was left of hiui, and these follow. Yesterday there arrived on the train from Columbia 108 packages directed s to D. II. C., New York. These contained furniture and other baggage, and was transported by - the Enterprise ltailroad to the steamship City of I Atlanta for New York. This severs his connecHon with South Carolina forever and loaves nothing behind but his notorious name.?Journal of r Commerce. c . s Voudooistn is oil the increase among the o negroes in Nashville. Frequently, when o arrested and searched at the police office, n their pock its arc found to contain several i- human fingers, a piece of load-stone, a lock n of hair, and other prophylactics against bo>r ing conjured. The St. Louis Republican r, thinks it is no wonder the Republican pucr pers are admitting that the extension of lit suffrage wae a mistake.