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^ MONEY IN POLITICS.
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a Qunuus itjlcuua.c vu bite .existence
of the Republic.
Washington, Nov. 22.---The evils
of money in uoliiios are becoming so
potent us to threaten danger to the
republic. The burning truth cannot
he quenched by the sneers of the venal
nor the indifference of tho cureless.
In thoughtful and conserva^
tive circles here this subject has been
much discussed in connection with
the lesson of tho Presidential election
just closed. It is not worth
while to mince words. There can be
no doubt whatever that tho Republican
majority in New York and I mlin??u
louc h<nwrltf tviflt un tnnit.
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oy. Tho reason why the Republican
Committee made such an accurate estimate
of the majority in rural Now
York, which they were to bring down
to tho citv below Ilarlom bridge,
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was simply because they had blocked
off all the honest votes thev could
rely upon, "spotted" the purchasable
votes, and then made tho most systematic
arrangements to negotiate
with the latter clement. Those who
^ >? -are experienced in this system of obtaining
an expression of the popular
will estimate that at h>ast 20,000
votes were cast in New York State
by men who had high tariff "fat" in
their pockets in consideration tlierex>*^r.
In Indiana five times as many
votBhwere l)il'(l f?r ils made up the
majority {or Harrison. Anv member
of the lhV,8? Representatives
who it could be^W^'/Wed his election
to such methods as were slVC''"ss"
fill 011 tho 0th day of the month could
not help being deprived of his seat.
Public sentiment would bo so indignant
niwl nn tHookcii tlmt nnrtisn.ii
cousideiatinns would weigh no morel
than a feather. It seems strange thatf
what would not be tolerated in the
case of one of the 325 members of
the lower branch of Congress is net
only passed over without even ry
monstrance whore the Presidency r
K concorned, but that those who are rt9
sponsible for it actually, in confidential
moments, gloat over their wop;
and are the recipients of the highlit
meed of praise.
HISTORY UKPEATS ITSHLF.
This is the second time that /lie
corrupt uso of money lias decided
who shall rule this great century/ In
1880, the outright buying of 1 ml/ana
at the October election was conijucted
just as openly as the recent ^per
^ ations of a similar character id that
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otJiiti mm new lorK, 11, nanpcn
ed, those who did this work in'Indiana
in 1880 never individually pro.fitted
by it, for the men whole they
elevated soon made of them outcasts.
Perhaps a similar fate may a*ait the
B , dispensers of the corruption fund in
I this instance.
Bl* AftUaB CORRUPTION rise.
r It was said hero to-day by one
i? whose relations with Republican
" managers are such as to give credit
that the campaign fund which poured
V into the coffers of the National Republican
Committee amounted to $1,500,000.
Just think of it! At the
most exaggerated estimate not moro
than one-tenth of this sum could have
been applied to what pass for legitimate
expenses. Tho remainder of
this ra?\t amount, much of which was
contributed by men who are pillars
of the church and of society, went to |
I debauch tho political opinions of
their fellow-citizens. It is true that
the Democratic managers of campaigns
are not one whit hotter than
those of the opposite^ party. Tho
bulk of their fund is also used purely
for corruption purposes. What operated
against them is that the other
8ido nad more. The Democratic
, . fund was much larger than ever this
I year, but it was very far below that
L of the Republicans. It was enough,
Bhm however, for them to send $50,000
8 -into Maine prior to the September
If election, a sum greatly in excess of
\ that sent into Indiana, and many
\ thousands into Michigan and Wis"*Vnsin,
in the vain hope of converting
^^^B^ "NStates. The almoners of the
Vn funds of both parties
-^tenuously deny some of
\ts, but coulj) not
cht^ip otherwise, and de^^^^^^^^bouHntercot
to o(
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core in theif political opinions, will
be interested in knowing the manner |
of operations of these national committees
during campaigns. They biro
a big house in a convenient, location,
and lit up a lot of rooms for ollioes
themselves and such satellites as they
gather around them. From the day
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they take p( 8session tliey look wise
and tell every one who comes in and
every one that is written to that everything
is lovely and their candidate is
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sure to be elected. They engage
fine quarters for themselves at fashionable
hotels, and their staff of employees
are also provided with quarters
according to their relative rank
and importance. All tnis is paid for
out of the campaign fund. In certain
cases employees arc paid salaries,
and then meet their own expenses.
Almost invariably there are
twice as many employed as are necessary,
for such "soft snaps'1 are
much sought after. In the last campaign
the Republican ('ommiltee bad I
a smaller staff than usual, for Mr. :
Quay diil not want any but workers
around him. The Democratic Committee
had a perfect battalion, scarce.ly
ono of whom was worth his salt.
A considerable amount of inonev is
spent in printing campaign documents,
speeches, etc. Such expenditures
as this come properly under the
head of "legitimate," but, as a rule,
it is money thrown away, for in these
days of universal newspaper reading
I it is only those who abide in the most
| remote and out-of-the-way localities
| who do not throw this kind of
| stuff aside for waste paper. Anoth]
er "legitimate" expenditure is paying
the expense of stump speakers,
j ,bioMCRvel from one S;ate to another.
Y'he com'ffi'tto<,1 i,r<> frequently imJtortuned
by speakers whom they do
(hot want for engagements and at
times it is extremely difficult to get
rid of them. There is scarcely a day
during a Presidential campaign that
either a crank or an adventurer does
not walk into ono or another of the
political headquarters with some marvelous
scheme to benefit the party t0
which ho applies, and for which, of
course, he always demands a consideration.
In some cases these people'
manage to wheedle money out of the
committees, as occasionally their propositions
are remarkably plausible,
but as a rule they are put olT. Then
the leaders of local factions in doubt- i
ful States, particularly in Now York, I
are constantly coming with artful
appeal for money. All this naturally
calls for a good deal of money, hut
the reserve fund for the solid work?
the buying of votes?is always the
biggest pile, and is always kept in- ;
tact. i
A CIIANOE IX METHODS DEMANDED.
The National Committees have no !
responsibility for tho disposition of
the immenso funds committed to 1
their keeping. It would maJko a line
sensation and he more than a nine 1
days' wonder if the two committees
which have just wound up their op- 1
orations could he compelled to sub- j
mit a detailed statement of receipts 1
and expenditures. Machine politi- 1
cians, local and national, would cry (
out against it, and venal voters 1
vvnnlil mourn, rtnf ? rfixnultn ulrtlu
- > Ol.
toward purity of olections and an '
honest expressions of popular wiil 1
could bo effected by the abolition of 1
campaign committees. They sub* 1
serre no useful purpose that could
not be accomplished by other methods.
and their whole influence is vicious
and bad. Senator Gorman
spoke gospel truth the other day whon
he said "this government can bo ad- 1
ministered only through and with
the assistance of parties"- parties 1
composed of conscientious members,
whoso interest in government and
good society in unselfish and patriotic,
and who are not swayed by
thoughts of spoils and place. The
last campaign was a campaign of education,
as said, to a great degree,
and the gootl effects wore plainly
visible in all localities where the
temptation of gold was absent. The
campaign committees had little to do
with this task of education, for their^
campaign literature mostly went to
the waste basket. It was the great
independent press of this country,
the most powerful engine in moulding
public opinion, which contributed
the inost to the education of the
voter 011 the issues oftho campaign.
t)\e press was ably supplemented by
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ON WAY, S. ( .,
the able and intelligent speakers who
went from end to end of the land,
and, vet, who after all, would have
had a limited constituency, eon lined
only to their immediate hearers but
for the dissemination of their views
by the pro-s. Lot the campaign
committees go to the rear hereafter,
and let ail political issues be determined
by the intelligent decision of
people, unbiased by bribes or offer
of bribes. Let the State pnv for the
tickets and pay for all else that is
necessary, if there be anything else.
It would be cheap did it cost a thousand
times as much as it possibly can.
Til K KNiil.ISII ELECTION SYSTEM.
Tho most exciting popular elections
in the world are held in (treat
Britian and its dependencies. In
Australia, and perhaps in other British
colonies, tickets or voters are provided
at epense, and in no part of the
British dominions is there such a
tiling known as a campaign fund as
wo understand it. In Croat Britian
the candidates pay all the expenses
of their campaigns, which are frequently
exceedingly heavy. But
these expenses c une of illuminations,
entertainments &e? and not bribery.
There was a time in Knglish politics
when noble Indies bought votes with
kisses, and noblemen bought them
with guineas. That is all over now.
The bribery laws of Kngland are so
stringent and comprehensive t Suit
money pushed for votes would subject
both giver and taker to penalties
to be shrunken at.
WIIAT CONCItKSS MIOIIT DO.
Congress under the Constitution
does not appear to have any control
>ver the manner of clioosini/ Tresi
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'M il I Mil IJIUl IUIO, J ll.il 1 III III!' :
^tate Legislatures. I >ut ('oi.y res- j
lias' U10 mos* ahsolut- |io\vor over the
election of member-: of the ii '.ih "
Representatives, and can, if so disposed,
remove all semblance of State
supervision in connection there with.
Some here have, in the last few days,
suggested the propriety of adopting
this course as a move toward securing
fairer elections for the Mouse.
'J'hero may, in all probability would
be, differences of opinion as to this,
although it, is believed the proposition
will bo brought forward in the
next Congress. It is perfectly competent
for Congress to do one thing,
however, in the matter, both in the
election of Presidential electors and
of members of the Mouse of Representatives,
and-its action in this ros- :
pect Could not fail to meet the approval
of the good men of all parties, i
who are overwhelmingly in the majority.
It can pass laws so worded
as to admit of no loopholo of escape, (
imposing condign punishment on all
persons giving or receiving bribes ;
intended to influence voters for Pros- i
ider.tial electors or representatives in ,
Congress on such a question as this.
With proper bribery laws campaign
com m it toes would dwindle. And
what is to prevent the Chandlers
and the Hoars, who asked a Con- i
wressional investigation of every lit- <
tie local election in tlio South, from
instituting an investigation, the operations
of which shall ho directed to
ascertain how much money was disI
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uursuu u) 11) (i i v id mi i voters in mo rural
districts of Now York and Indiana
on November 0, an 1 the few
days proceeding, jo corruptly influ- ]
Bnce their ballots. i
III,'YIN<? SKATS INCOXORKSS. <
Before passing from this subject it
may bo mentioned as another fact of
the campaign history of 1888 that i
briliery fully as shameful as in the
caso of Presidential electors was re- i
sorted to for the benefit of Kepubli- \
can candidates for Congress in various
districts. The instances were i
decidedly more numerous than would
make up a majority three times in
excess of the wildest Republican
claims. Sums raised in this city
were sent directly into into the fifth
and sixth districts of Maryland, in
addition to contributions from the
National Committee's corruption
fund. This fund was also largely
drawn upon for close districts in the
South and in the Northwest.
The Journalist of New Y<>rk, is
authority for the statement that Miss
Daisy Ilumpton, daughter of Senator
Wade Hampton, is writing a novel
to be entitled, "Slave Days in Dixie,"
which will appear in the early
spring, bearing the well-known iipprint
of ,Hamper Brptu* _ ^
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GOOD ADVICK TO FARMERS.
Address ofE. H. Stafford, Before
Hope Alliance, Nov. 10, 1888.
Tne Pee Doe Alliance,
Bkktiikkn': 1 would stnto for the
benefit of the younger members tlmt
this llopo Alliance Xo. 7(5, was organized
April tli3 !30th, 1888, with a
membership of 11. Since that time
we have steadily increased until now
our membership numbers lift\\ Our
meetings have been well attended,
and we have been personally benefitted
thereby, especially in social
unci moral relations to each other.
The sick in our neighborhood have
boon better looked after and eared
for than they wore before the Alliance
was organized; oi.r unfortunato
brethren, who through sickness or
other causes fell behind with their
crops have been promptly assisted by
the members of our order, all differences,
discord and bad feelings which
under ordinary circumstances inioht
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have arisen between man and man,
under the genial influences ol the social
features of our order have been
almost entirely dispelled, and certainly
averted. We are being gradually
elevated from a careless, selfish state
of unconcern to a more thoughtful,
n
prudent, generous and intellectual
j'Kinv, luaiiAinw i IHTJ i i # y mr |Mranuic
of making luippv not onlv ourselves,
hut also our families, our neighbors
and our friends, !>v our cheerfulness
and hospitality.
Some perhaps have joined the Alliance
with the expectation of a sudden
revolution in our financial system,
but m\ brethren this cannot be
doiio in a day, a week, or even in a
year. It requires time, patience, and
perseverance. The farmers organizations
of tin South are making
their sir^igt&dWUl detenniig '?? f"ljL
in certain channels for instance j
against the Jute Magging Trust, the
most gigantic swindle that was ever
instituted, to oxtort and wrinir inon
oy from the honest, hard working
cotton producers of tho great South, j
It was a swindlo intended to extort ;
millions of hard-earned money from
planters of tho South, hut in some'
measure by the united action of the]
Alliance, tho expoction of the Trust |
Imvo boon defeated, Our plantors
acted almost as a unit, resolving not
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to purchase or uso jute bagging from
tho hands of the Trust, and tho consoquenco
is that some of their factories
have collapsed, and tho members
of tho firm of Warren, Jones & Grut/.v,
of St. Louis, the manipulators of
the Hugging Trust, have been indicted
by tha Grand .lury, charged
with conspiracy to obtain control of
all tho^agging material in order to
advance the prices to double their
original value. This is but a beginning.
While we have done our
wnolo duty to ourselves, our county,
State, and tho National Allianco
in this matter, yet thero remains for
each and every one of us a groat
question to consider, viz: tho question
or work of general reform in our
individual affairs. We may join
farmers associations every day until j
wo aro as old as Mathusuleh, it will
profit us nothing so long as wo cling
to our present system of business.
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Tell mo how the common farmer or j
renter is to continue raising cotton
alone, at tho low price of 0 and 8
cents per pound (which does not pay
tho prioo of producing it) anil buy all
tho meat he uses from Chicago, all
tho flour from Minneapolis, at $0 and
$8 per bbl., all his corn from Haitimore
at $1.2o per bushel, his molas
ses from other markets at a high
price. How cnti ho expect to live
and continue such folly. All these
things cnii^md oitgHt to he raised at
home. If you can tell mo l.ovr you
nan expect to derive great finanoial
benefit under the present system, I
will have my curiosity gratified. No,
the system won't work; you have
tried it sufficiently! We must first
produco what we consume at home,
such as wheat, corn, oats, molasses,
meat and othor hecessaribs, or as
nearly as we can, then we will have
little need to raiso much cotton to
pay expenses. Take for example a
one-horse farm of thirty or thirty-five
acres, and plant four acres in wheat.
This will under ordinary circumstances
yield ten bushels per acre?forty
busheW?which will turn out 8 barrels
of fl^ur, enough to do the ordi?
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nary family. Then |>lunt ton or
twelve in corn, four or fivo in oats,
and you have ton to fifteen acres I* ft
for cotton which ought 'to pay rent
and guano hills, and leave enough to
buy clothes, sn<>?r and coffee and
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Other necessary articles. The corn
will raise your meat, the oats will
feed your horse, uiul you can raise
your cow peas, ^wage, &o., ou the
same laud you take the wheat Mid
oats from, lu short, you can live at
homo on a one horse rented farm if
you will give hulf the attention to the
raising of the necessaries of life that
you give to cotton. All the farmers
organization under the sun cannot
control the prices on tho necessaries
of life when the farmers all have
them to buy. The law of supply and
demand controls this matter. If we
demand vpore meat than tho producers
of meat can supply, tho price will
I go up, and so with everything else.
Another thing 1 would call your
| attention to, and that is tho matter of
I fertilizers. Wo have been in the
niiDii oi ouying any and all kinds of
so-called fertilizers, at any and all
kinds of prices, regardless of their
ijuality or merit, and I am persuaded
!>y a little experience of my own, and
a great deal of observation, that the
most of these fertilizers are not worth
the hauling home and the trouble of
putting out. ()ur groat trouble is
that wo want to buy as much or a
little more than our neighbors -to
plant as much or a little more cotton
than our neighbor, and the consequence
is that we have literaly covered
our soil with high-priced, yet
worthless manures, overstocked our
crop with cotton, and at tho end of
the year como out in debt, with no
money, no supplies, nothing, simply
to carry out a foolish whim of keeping
up appearances^ -ik*kflJvos us
firotliren, to look well to our individual
expenses. Lot ns 'consider
well how we may best economize.
Not how much wo can buy on a credit
at any price, but how little we can
get along with, and how much cash
wo can pay on that. Until we do
tlris 1 can't see how wo can oxpect
great financial results from the Alliance
or any other source.
I now have one more request to
make. it is tins: If any one of us
think of sponding a dollar within the
next twelve months for whiskey, take
that dollar and pay for a good Alliance
paper?read it, or hoar it read,
study it well, and tell moat the end
of that time if it hasn't boon a profitable
investment.
Brain Not Essential to Life.
Physiologists speak of death as occurring
through tho cessation of the
action of either tho brain or tho heart
or the lungs. But tho brain cannot
bo rei/ardcd as an ortran absolutely
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essential to lifo, however necessary it
may ho to its regular and svstomatic
course. The ontiro organ may ho
removed from certain kinds of animals,
and yet life goes almost as perfectly
for a tiino as through it were
still thero to dominate tho rost, of the
body. The heart bents, the lungs
respire, the stomach digests and the
several glands continue to elaborate
the secretions proper to them' and
not only all this, hut actions are performed
which are well calculated to
excite astonishment in thoso who see
them tho idea that all intelligence
resides in tho brain.
Thus for instance, if tho brain be
entirely removed from tho head of a
frog and the web between tho toes be
pinched, the limb is immediately
withdrawn; if the shoulder bo scratched
with a needle the hind foot of tho
samo side raised to remove tho instrument;
if tho animal is held up by
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one i?g I- struggles; if placed on its
back- a position to which frogs have
a great antipathy it immedfately
turns over on its holly; if one foot be
held firmly with a pair of forceps the
frog endeavors J.o draw it away; if
unsuccessful, it places the other
foot against the instrument and pushes
firmly in the effort to remove it;
still not succeeding, it writhes the
body from side and makes a movement
forward. Ihaveseeiva rattlesnako
strike after its head was cul
off, and a viper has been known tc
crawl straight for its hole in the wal
after suffering like mutilation.
Norareanoh excitements the onh
I evidence that we have that life ma;
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persist though the brain bo absent. I
, It sometimes happen* that indiviiln-1
als of tin* linmiin species are born
without brains. In one instance of
i tlio kind life was present for six
months. Thoundi vrv feeble this
bein?f had the faculty of > icUin<r and
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nun i no several ruilCllOUS or HlO hod)
j seemed to bo well performod. Its,
eyes clearly perceived the light
during tho night it cried if the can- i
Idle was allowed to go out. After
j death the cranium was opened and
there was found to he an entire absence
of the cerebrum. In another
case that of a male infant which live 1
eighteen hours, there was found after
death 1.0 vestige of a brain, nevertheless
respiration was established;
the pupils contracted to light; bitter
jnico put into the inounth was immediately
rejected and loud noised
movements of the bod v. In another
case in which the cranium was eni
tiroly empty life continued ror four
' days, yet this being opened and shut
| its eyes, cried, sucked and even ate
j broth. W. A. Hammond.
Can Flowers Win A Heart?
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I mean 1 ?y that a lasting affection,
beyond even the storms of life. I low
these fragrant mossouirers come to us
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at various periods of cur lives, touching
us deeply for friendship's sake,
or pleading their causo with us.
It was of the winning of love by
means of expensive exotics that I was
going to speak. I
The other day I saw a box of rare
, flowers fresh from iho "rem house.
Lily of the valley, carnations, A
, creamy rosebuds a!! henyy with' per-)
fume laid out unttt cotton in a wil-j
hjw box.
hkxquisitely beautiful; in a financial
voiw they signified several dollars.
It was a young girl in the
humble walks of life, earning lior |
daily bread, that held the box to
ward mo and with a face full of innocent
pleasure, exclaimed. "See my
treasures.,,
"Oh!11! said, "some one is paving
the way to your heart 1 fancy?',
A deer) blush was tier only answer,
but it spoke plainer than words.
She bent over her desk again ami resumed
her work, but I could not take
my eyes from her.
If thero had been^mo or two roses
or a pansy1 to brighten her daily
work, it would have proved the
givers love, better oven than this
expensive offering and been moro in
keeping with her walk in life. Was
ho wealthy that ho lavished this upon
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her, or wus ho spending money that |
ho had hotter bo saving to buy coal
and flour, when tho ho.no altift- shall
ho built.
My mind wandered away to various
homos whore the wife was won
through the medium of hot house
flowers, and a prayer rose to mv lips
that no more wives should ho won
that way,'for in every easo tho husband,
(no longer a lover) failed to 1
bring them homo, oven on the an- J
niversary of their marriage. They
woro simply, puschnse money to buy
tho wife, and oh! what a shame it is
when these sweet emblems can
mean so much.
I remember a case when jack roses
came in huge bunches and by the
basket full, they awakened a sentiment
that tho girl mistook for love;
she pledged herself to bo his wife
and carried to the altar at least JjtlO
worth of flowers, but her cheek |
burned with shame and mortification ,
to find the husband had no home
provided for her and no steady busi
noss by which to support.
Tho silk hat and cane were a do- !
iuhioii, anu mo laundry bundle was
retained to cover a debt of longstanding.
, For weeks she lay very near to
( death's door, a long lingering illness,
' but no flowers waro brought to
i brighten her sick room, not oven a
spray of forget-me-not Months later
when the tiny baby lay cold - and
white in its casket, this same husband
hnd father had no money for even a
, simple rosebud for its hand but said
t scornfnllv, "Oh! pooh! that's all fool>
ishness."
11 Give mo a plain ^
I wooing, and a heart
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NO 21.
Nobody's Business.
('olumhln Heginter.
The Spartanburg l[er<ihl of last
week sa\s it is reported that two of
the Professors at the South Carolina
I 'ollege walked up to tiio polls of
November Oth and deposited two Ropublicnn
ticKets, much to the disgust
and indignation of the students under
them. Is it true? This is a free
country, where every man is entitled
to his opinions. It is a free country,
also where people can employ whom
they prefer to teaeh their sons. There
are many good men who are Republicans
and patriots to the union. But
in South Carolina, where Republican
success is fiaught with such menace
to all our civilization and welfare, no
South Carolinian can at the same time
bo a Republican and a patriot to
South < Carolina. A man has a right to
his opinion; and he may hold it here *
Ill 'mull A . .11 ?111 1121 viiuium 1111111 ril urn
or harm, hut his opinions aro a part of
him and may, if ho asks our favor,
prove him unworthy of our confidence
(Jrtrnf/1'bm'i/ '/'imc* fin<l Democrat.
Tin li'ri/istM' does not know it to
ho a fact that two of tho professors of
the Stato I 'Diversity voted tho Harrison
ticket. Yet if they did, they exercised
tho plain right of freemen in
so doing. 77k liny inter is recognized
wherever it is known ns#an uncompromising
Democratic journal,
hut it can not lend itself to milking
slaves of the free citizens of South
Carolina. The day of slavery is < ver
in this commonwealth, and tho (JtJifHW*-est
of all is political It is
j true, faT.fY>i? As stated, that it
vvould have heon more comfortuhlo
for these two prefer sors to have voted
t(,u i lomoeratic ticket, hut if they
could not conscientiously do so, and
felt it a public duty to vote for Harrison,
they acted like brave men in
doing it openly.
If they aro competent and elliciont
teachers, they till every requirement
asked of them. They did not sell their
souls to tho trustees or the people of
South Carolina because they accepted
the position offered in tho State University.
Don't let us forget that.
Admitting tho fact that these citizens
voted as is alleged, wo also reeojfniz.e
the fact that thoso freemen,
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professors in the State University,
were not brought here to vote the
Democratic ticket. The trustees
i twliwl ni? ruction to
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thorn i/hother the} were Republicans
or Democrats. They were brought
hero to teach our boys those branches
of learning in which they had reputaion
as men of scientific lore.
Pointed and Pungent.
N. C. Presbyterian.
Wo place tho Mill-Continent atop
for wit that is sharply pointed and
exquisitely pungent.
Wo cannot account for tho bitterness
and venom with which somo'professod
Christian brethren write, in
the excitement of theological controversy,
except by that passage, which
says, "There came a viper out of
the heat and fastened on his hand."
In that there is both bit and wis
(loin. Hero is another:
(The Mhl-dontiwnt quotes from
an exchange.)
In Russia, it seems, they do not
allow congrational singing. A quartette
all the chanting and hymning,
and the congregation sits in silence.
(And comments.)
Aftoi reading this, Russia doeft not
seem far away,^>tit it does seem just
as cold.
Could anything he more exquisitely
and keenly penetrative?
"Age Cannot Wither Her,"
remarked an old gentleman, as ho
ga/.ed fondly upon tho comely little
woman by his side; "but frankly, "ho
| continued," at ono timo I was afraid
cosmetics would." The sillv little
woman, in order to appear youthful,
plastered her face with different varieties
of whitewash, yclept "balms,"
"creams," "lotions," &c. "Yes," interrupted
the little woman, "I did, until
my skin became like parchment, and
so pimply and coarse.' "Well," "said
the listener, "what do you use now"?
"I'se," was the reply, "nothing but
common sense, and l5r. Pierce1^
en Medical Discovery,? 'V, '*
Lincoln
sense told mo if inliver
regulated *bde by
the outv Burroughs fit Colling
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