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VO7L.B1]EALEYE S 7oZCA4R FRfcIA 12Y, JUYTOO 11,f1Z84(EN. VOL. 1.] EASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1884.0N. 0 Jhe fnsley jessenger. Ente4ed at the Postofice at Easley S. C., as Second Class Matter. J. R. HAG00D, Editor and Prop'r. TERMS OF SUnSCRIPTTON. One year, strictly in advance......$1.00 Six months " " ...... 65 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One sqjuaire (1 inch) 1 insertion......75e E'achi suhseqinent Iinsertion...........40e! Liberal disconut on contraets or by the columin, half or. (ularter column.111. AMarriage'c niotices free Ind solicited.1 Obituaries overI 12 lines chargm(ed for. Corre'spondeits,. to insure atten t.ion, nut.st give their full addiress. We. are n resonsible for the opin !oiu of Our' Correspouiets. All commnications for the paper) m1ust be addressed to tho Editor; buslines let.ters to the Publis1her of the MNESSENM-n?, Eatsley, S. C. FOR ME ONLY. I was' eliminig atfter ai ros)elnul That grew a little too high. Tho ugh I Stood on tiptoe to re:nth it, Wt len I hIeaird him passing by. H~e heb1d inl his h1:114 ;1 lilv. lie stopped and gave it to Ime, Blint I t houglit o) (he roselbld hnIanginog Moigh up on the trellis tre. So I only took it a moennit, Aml presse-d its petal~s a part. I h111alingy olle brea't h of tIh flanit - Tha-t lay inl it-s golden heart. Thlen, I , a7v( it black aga:in, ~v saying "-Look there, where my1V neighbl ,or Waitinig for il't sne1(h aI pilaything1 To hol inl ler thint v hnis." lie tunied an1d weit froi mc slowl v, Like on silently giv And all the greeni I:h bhhind him Wa1: st.rewn\ 1 with white iil lveh. ARP ON POLITICS. He Thinks the Nation is Safje 1 it her WVay. [From Atlanta,, Constituition.] Politics is on a boom1. Fj fyt v il Iions of people are goiniig to choose a President, and it looks like most everybody is ini a good huowr a hout it. 1 amfl, so are my unbo)rs. There has~n't been a time sin1ce the war that the peoplI)e lelt so ealsy abhout an election as they (10 now. The nation is safe. Both of the greaft parllties will puit upl thieir1 best mlen andl there is not much(1 of' pin (eiple 0!r policy to dIi vide thema. The country is pro'speroushi. We are all doing prtetty well, better t han -.inv other notion of people oni the globei. Thiere is a god, humble, old-fash ioned( pr'eacher' not far' away who( always prays~', "WerV thank thee, oh, Lord(l! that weVt live ini a land~ of fr'eedomi, where the gospel is dis Jpensed with. We thank Thee that we ha~ve a piat and1 grant and ai c'lear' chaini of' ti tles to at fiel in the nmmlfisemi la~dl " Wal we know what the old man means, and it is all right. I wish we all could read our titles clear to mansions in the skies. Land is cheap enough (ldown here on the top side of this green earth, but I'm afraid we will find it ve)y dear up yonder. This is a blessed country for the poor. We can't realize how bless ed until we read about the old world and talk to )eople who have travele(l there. Just think of land renting for $60 an acre in England and $40 in Germany. Just think of the average laborer working 12 hours for forty cents and boarding hiimself. No wonder they keep coming over here here, and they would choose the South instehd of the North and West. if they were not fooled b those agents who arr paid to work for the railroads an(A get settlers for their lands. TFhe South has got no agents. We tried to establish ageIcies of i. i 111igration and we had pam1( Iphlets pr-inted tellingl) all about our cli mate and4 pimrodlIctions an1d the fi rst thiing we kiew%, them fellows III North had gre:at big 111ps prilted and,14 stuck uI ever Ywhere slowrig the Dismanl samviup to extend froirm Virgi in a To ens. Nearly all of (G1eorg)ia is covierel with it. Well, our folks (oindI't make thie for eign1ers believe but that it wN as all sO :1nd they NNwuldn't comet. 'Tho-se Northernl ras1 cals have. been swin. 11i i s h,)r a IIunIdred years liv :1l1 sorts o trick and deViCeS. 'But IwC Will e(t ev(n11 with thei after a wh ile--se if w don't. Thei time was henivi ve had statesImen of' principle for' our lPresident Ild C:binets. Who ever hear(d of a President )lIun1(erilng the goveri ment 11or being milixed upI in any 1on0llxyeP(d Scheire before the var? The W,ar' seem)) s to have (orruped the whole yankeenaition d made stealing' r-espectable. H1ow e.-nme all these harges against Grant. (Gartfield atd Hayes anl Arthur, aili :111 those Chs coincted with the Credit-obilier, the railroatd sub1)sidies and the star roite trans net ions? ' hIerIe were no S.u ter I -n mlen) in t hose sc'hemles. But what surpi ises meW now is to see a big lot of themi fellows up) there't splitting off fromn the party andl saying they wont supp)Iort bi ine been use he pluinderedl the treansiir1v. Wh len did( Mr. Bee('her andu .Mr. AdamHIs andi' t hoeI Harp~ers and Judge Tourguee and1( the ot her edlit ors take thlis nrew departur iey? When'i (lid they reformr? Th'ley have sup~por'ted t he whole Rep'lubIlican1 shebang f'or twenty' years and~ j ust now begin to prieach politien'al mor ality. 'lhere is somiething peenliar about this. Thie t.uth is Arthur had au slate and these fel low's were OH it. 1They wer1e all i nter'lestedI in somew wayV in tha ~t rin~g, and1 now they beginj 1 to hollo1w wolf. why Mr. Blaine is about the best man they have got. He is the best statesman, and has got the big gest brain, and the grandest way of doing things. Why, even when he steals there is nothing little about it, and he divides liberally and tells on nobody. I never ex pected any respectable Republican to find fault with him for plunder ing the government. They have all been doing it so long that we thought it was a plink in their platform. If we have got to take a Republican for President we want Mr. Blaine. le has got enough and won't want any more and he will put a stop to the bus iness. le is no little trickster. le wouldn't stoop to put a darkey in as chairman of the great Re publican Convention that was to noinnate a President-not himin. I heard a Blaine man say the oth er- day that he had a letter fromn him since his nomination and( if he was elected he would make a clean sweep o() eveiy darkey that was in office. But Mr. Cleveland is a reformer sure 1I enough. le comes from tha o iUlzz that kind of stock. Ie li-As got a South Mrn name And a Southern pedigree. His ancestors caime fromrin a. (1' i. ('leveland is a Carolina name. They were the old cavaliers and woiluldn't stoo1p to do a mean thing. The Clevelands are all about in iarolina now, and still the same proud and tioble stock. Whien G rrover Cleveilnd gets to be P'res idenIt lie will clean up things gen 1 era llY. le is following inl Mr. Tilden's lead and will wear' his mantle when the old man is gone. I'm 1 free to say that I believe Mr. Blaiine is the sinartest man, the graidest maii, but Clevel and is the .afest an( 1ost reliable. When Ben Hill whipped out Blahie inl. the Ander'sonvillhe miat ter, Blainie (1 idnit S()f' and Iout and plot revenge, but he gave it up nobly and went over an11d con gratu lated Mr. lill an1d they became warmi personal friends, and could be seen together arm in arm walking on Pennsyl vania avenue. I like that. It did meW good. And( when we wanlted to build a mnonumient to Mr. H-ill he wvas amonig the firist to send( dlownI a libhera1 'ontribution. But he has gotten a man tied on to him that wouldni' t hiave (lone that. Loganl is a dead weighit. Hie is a hal' JIndian--that is. he has got an Indian's hatred wit hout his~ love, lie has beenC~ waving the bloody shirt ever since the war. lie will do some dirty work it' he get in pllower'. I hav1 e al conitemp 1t for)1 him i. Hie shiouldn'11t Come) in my house, He shouldn't st.op in) the big" roadL( and1( say hiowdy. HIe) has never sa id One kind wo0rd about the South andl woutld put us all in chains anml h)ominoe it' he old. He is a turbulent disturber of the public tranquility. He is no gen tieman, and I'll bet ten dollars Mr. Blaine feels handicapped )y hav ing him on his ticket. But such is politics. That was the way with Garfield. They tied Arthur on to him. He was nothing but a ward politician bumming around among the brothels of New York. Iisto ry is still repeated. The great men of the nation who won't stoop to meanness can't be made Iresi - dents. It all goes by favors and by rings for plunder and office. Blaine is a great man and I was hopeful of' the sign but the respect able Republicans are against hiim. The 'Tribune' is for him and that is the leading paper, but y.ou1 see the 'Tribune ' was onl his slate. Whitelaw Reed is to be minister to Englan(d and that is all right. Ile will make a good one. lie is smart, an11d bold and hais got m1lonIev eniou1gh to do imUU and his chii dren. so let him go. Well, We Can't please everyybody, and so if We can't get 0111 manl, let'..; take Blaie, and he thankful that we live in a land where the gospel is dispensed with. I heard a good man say the other day that, Ie knew Blaine was a good man for he wias a Presbyterian. r1hith shows our prejudice, and its all right . We get our religion f'omi our. fathers. You couldn't make that man believe that Blaine is t bad manl. We are all very selfish and we enn't help it-not so selfish lboit miioniev, but about honors an1(d ofice and the like. Well, we are ti rough r ll. 1har vest. The wheat shiocks stand t hiek in the field, and are a solid comnfort to look at. I'm looking at them now. Next tiing is the i "traveling t h rash,'' and I shi all sit dlowin by it with a piece of soft pine il my hand and (-tit a notch for every meastire as it is poured in the savk. hlre is no polities about tha'It, anld everything is c'1h and serene. Cobe is hopeful and holds his iead up. Whien I asked him last summixer abou)It his ero~ip, lhe said: "'Major, it's about nuill1 and voidl, and1( if the weathat' don't adutl terate very soon1 it will b e muller and voidler."' But lie will biscuit soon1 and be happy. ITA Aniw. -A drunken fellow p)assin~g thr'ough a gat eway in the dark, hit his nose against ai post. "'I wish tat p~ot was in hell ," said he. "Beotter wish it somewhere else, said a bystander. "Ylou mighit ruin against it again.'' -- "Eter'nity, p~ast andi~ future, flashed before my eyes," he said, doom began andl endled.'' This was his experience the first time a base hallI struck him n in thn stown:eh