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JT^ TALMAGE OX ANGUS.
H A SERMON RELATING TO SUPERNAL
K . EXISTENCE.Br
The Characteristics of the Celestial Beings,
a* Gathered from Statements in Holy
Writ.
I Dr. T aim age on Sunday announced
as his text Judges xiii, 19: "And
the angel did wondrously." Following
is a report ot his sermon:
Fire built on a rock. Manoah
and his "wife had there kindled the
flames for sacrifice in the praise of
God, and in honor of a guest whom
thev supposed to be a man. But as
the flfuaes rose up higher and higher
their stranger guest stepped into the
flame and by one red leap ascended
into the skies. Then they knew that j
1,a Anc?pl rvf the Lord. "The,1
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t angel did wondrously."
Two hundred and forty-eight times
does the Bible refer to the angels,
yet I never heard or read a sermon
on smgelology. The whole subject
is relegated to the realm mythical,
weird, spectral and unknown. Such
adjournment is unscriptural and
wicked. Of their life, their character,
their habits, their actions, their
velocities, the Bible gives us full
lenerth portraits, and why this pro
longed and absolute silence concerning
them? Angelology is my theme.
There are are two nations of angels,
and they are hostile to each other;
the nation of good angels and the nation
of bad angels. Of the former I
chiefly speak to-day. Their capital,
and their headquarters, their grand
rendezvous, is heaven, but their empire
is the universe. They are a distinct
race of creatures. No human
being can ever join their confraternity.
The little child who in the Sab
school sines, "I want to be an
[ angel," will never have her wish gratined.
They are superhuman; but
they are of different grades and
ranks, not at all on the same level, or
the same height. They have their
superiors and inferiors and equals.
I propose no guessing on this subject,
but take the Bible for my only authority.
Plato, the philosopher,
guessed, and divided the angels into
super-celestial, celestial and sub-celestial.
Dyonysius "the Areopagite,
guessed, and divided them into three
classes?the supreme,t)ie middle and
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the last?and eacn 01 tnese mw uuree
other classes, making nine in all.
Philo said that the angels were related
to God, as the rays to the sun.
Fulgentius said that they were composed
of body aijd spirit. Clement
said they were incorporeal. Augustine
said that they had been in danger
of falling, but now they are beyond
being tempted. But the only
authority on this subject that I re
spect says they are divided into cherubim,
seraphim, thrones, dominations,
principalities, powers. Their
commander-in-chief is Michael. Daniel
called him Michael, Si John called
hi Micheal. These supernal beings
are more thoroughly organized
than any army that ever marched-j
They are swifter than any c
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that ever swept tne. -?^ ?v
more radiant tha^***^ morning tnat
ever came do'trxl sky. They have
more to ^our destiny and
mine thf* being in the universe
e^c^T^tiod. May the Angel of the
(Covenant who is the Lord Je,
sus, open our eyes and touch our
tongue, and rouse our soul, while we
speak of their deathlessness, their intelligence,
their numbers, their
strength, their achievements.
Yes, deathless. They had a cradle,
but will never have a grave. The
Lord remembers when they were
born, but no one shall ever see their
eye extinguished, or their momentum
slow up, or this existence terminate, i
The oldest of them have not a wrinkle,
or a decreptitude, or a hindrance;
at? young after sis thousand yrftrs as
at the close of the first hou*-- Christ
said of the good in heaven, "Neither
can they die any mor^? for they are
equal unto the ans^ls." Yes, deathless
are these wonderful creatures of
whom I speak- They will see world
after woWo. go out,but there shall be
no failing of their own brilliance, j
Yea- after the last world has taken J
its last fiisrht they will be ready for J
the widest circuit through immensity.,
taking a quadrillion of miles at one
sweep as easy as a pigeon circles a
dovecot. They are never sick. They
are never exhausted. They need no
slee p, for they are never tired. At
God's command they smote with
death, in one night, one hundred and
eighty-live thousand of Sennacherib's
host, but no fatality can smite them.
Awake, agile, multipotent, deathless,
immortal! A further characteristic
of these radiant folk is intelligence.
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The woman of TeJ^oan was ngai
when she spoke to King David of the
wisdom of an angel.
There is only one thing that puts
them to their wits' end, and the Bible
says tL y have to study that. They
have been studying it all through the
ages, and yet I warrant they have not
" ?fully grasped at the wonders of redemption.
These wonders are so
high, so deep, so grand, so stupendous.
so magnificent that even the in+oiii\-?onr.p
of misrelhood is confounded
before it. The apostle says, ""Which
tilings the angels desire to look into."
That is a subject that excites inquisitiveness
on their part. That is a
theme that strains their faculties to
the utmost. That is higher than
they can climb, and deeper than they
can dive. They have a desire for
something too big for their comprehpnsion.
'-Which things the angels
de*?ire to look into." J
But that does not discredit their j
intelligence. No one but God him-!
self can fully understand the won-'
ders of redemption. If all heaven
should study it for fifty eternities
they would get any farther than the
A B C of that inexhaustible subject.
But nearly all other realms of knowledge
they have ransacked and ex
plored and compassed, jno one
but God can tell them anything
tliey cto not know. They have read
to the last word of the line of the
last page of the last volume of investigation.
And what delights me most
is that all their intelligence is to be
at our disposal, and coming into
their presence, they will tell us more
in five minutes than we can learn by
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one hundred years of earthly surmising.
A further characteristic of these
immortals is their velocity. This the
Bible puts sometimes under the rigure
of wrings, sometimes under the
? flr?Trir>< ewrnent. sometimes
oo y under
tlie figure of naked feet. As
these superhumans are without bodies
these expressions are of course
figurative, and mean swiftness. The
Bible tells us that Daniel was praying,
and Gabriel flew from heaven
and touched him before he got up
from his knees. How far, then, did
the angel Gabriel have to fly in those
moments of Daniel's prayer? Heaven
is thought to be the centre of the
i universe. Our sun and its planets
i only the rim of the wheel of worlds.
In a moment the angel Gabriel flew
from that centre to this periphery.
t~ ~ Vxri ^rinlr? instantly
O CM US tl/lU X CIC1 uu v
have sixty thousand angels present if :
he called for them. "What foot of antelope
or wing of albatross could
?qual that velocity? Law of gravita
tion, which grips all things else, has 1
no influence upon angelic-momentum. 1
Immensities before them open and
shut like a fan.. They are here is no
I reason why they should not be a
1 quintillion of miles hence the next
minute. Our bodies hinder us, but (
our minds can circle the earth in a }
minute. Angelic beings are bodiless i
: and have no limitation. God may '
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world in trouble oil the outmost lim- ^
its of creation, and instantly an an- <
gelic cohort are there to help it. Or
some celestial may be standing at the ,
furthermost outpost of immensity, ^
and God may say ;;Come!" and in- (
stantly it is in his bosom. AbralTam, ]
Elijah, Hagar, Joshua, Gideon, Ma- j
noah, PauL St. John, could tell of j
their unhindered locomotion. The j
red feet of summer lightning are slow ^
compared with their hegiras. This
doubles up and compresses infini- (
tudes into infinitesimals. This puts (
all the astronomical heavens into a f
^ A,-1,To va+flo
space iiixtf tilt? uitn? ui n ujjjuu. o i?tuv. ^
This mingles into one the Here and *
the There, the Novr and the Then, x
the Beyond and the Yonder. j
Another remark I have to make j
concerning these illustrious immor- ^
tals is that they are multitudinous. a
Then* census has never been taken g
and no one but Got knows how many ^
they are, but all the Bible accounts ^
suggest their immense numbers. a
Companies of them, regiments of r
them. armies of them. mountain tODS t
haloed by them, sides populous 'frith
them. John speaks of angels and ?
other beings round the throne as "c
ten thousand times ten thousand. ^
Now, according to my calculation, "c
ten thousand times ten thousand are j
one hundred million. But these are
only the angels in one place. David r
counted twenty thousand of them ^
rolling down the sky in chariots. r
When God came away from the riven ]_
rocks of Mount Sinai,the Bible says he c
hnri i-hArtfimmnionshi'Dof ten thousand
angels. 11. ^nk they are in every bat- ^
tie, in every exigency, at every birth. s
at every pillow, at every hour, at ev- t.
ery moment.The earth is full of thorn. ^
The heavens of them j
They out^^ber the human race in v
?i;s "world. They outnumber ran- a
somed spirits in glory. "When Abra- q
ham had his knife uplifted to slay ^
Isaac, it was an angel who arrested ^
the stroke, crying "Abraham! Abra- t
ham!" It was a stairway of angels
that Jacob saw when pillowed in the v
wilderness. "We are told that an an- ^
gel led the host of Israelites out of 0
.Egyptian serfdom. It will be an an- c
gel withe uplifted hand, sweats ^
that time shall be no longer. In the ?
great final harvest of th world the f(
reapers are the angels. Yea. the ,,
Lord shall be revealed from heaven ^
with mighty jmgels. Oh, the num- r
ber and the might and the glory of '
these papemals! Fleets of them!
Squa^ii'ons of them! Host beyond |]
b?rst! Rank above rank! Millions ^
on millions! And all on our side if ^
we will have them. n
This leads me to speak of the offices e
of tbese supernals. To cietena, to v
cheer, to rescue, to escort, to give 0
victory to the right, and to overthrow
the wrong; that is their business.
Just as alert today and efficient as u
when in Bible times they spread a
wing, or unsheathed sword, or rocked ^
down penitentiaries, or filled the
mountains with horses of fire hitched
to chariots of fire and driven by reinsmen
of fire. They have tinned your
steps a hundred times, and you knew "
it not You were on the way to do f
some wrong thing, and they changed a
your course. They brought some c
thought of christian parentage, or of ^
loyalty to your own home, and that *
arrested you. They arranged that 0
some one should meet you at that
crisis, and propose something honor- r
able jind elevatinsr, or they took from ,
your pocket some ticket to evil ^
amusement, a ticket that you never ;
found. It was an angel of God, and ?
perhaps the very one that guided you 1!
to this service, and that now waits e
to re]X>rt some holy impression to be s
this morning made upon your soul, S
tarrying with one foot upon the doorstep
of your immortal spirit, and the v
other foot lifted for ascent into the n
cl-ioK "Rv snmft rvraver detain him ;i
until he can tell of a repentant and 1
ransomed soul! Or you were some J
time borne down with trouble, be- ;
reavement, persecution, bankruptcy, r
sickness and. all manner of troubles c.
beating their discords in your heart 1
and life. You gave up; you said: "I 1
cannot stand it any longer. I believe 1
I will take my life. Where is the
railtrain, or the deep wave, or the t
precipice that will end this torment i
of earthly existence?" But suddenly j
your mind brightened. Corn-age
came surging into your heart like j
oceanic tides. You said: "God is on S
my side, and all these adversities he j
can mate turn out for my good." .
Suddenly you felt a peace, a deep
peace, ihe peace of God that passeth
all understanding. What made the
change? A sweet and mighty and !
conforting angel of the Lordmet vou.
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IJLIUIU iU-l. j
"What an incentive to purity and j
righteousness is this doctrine that I
i we are continual!}- under angelic ob-!
I servation! Eyes ever on you. so that i
| the most secret misdeed is committed j
! in the midst of an audience of irumor- j
! tals. No door is so bolted, no dark- i
j ness so Cimmerian, as to hinder that'
: supernal eyesight- Not critical eye- f
1 sight, not jealous eyesight, not baleful!
' eyesight, but friendly eyesight, sym.
pathetic eyesight, helpful eyesight.
Men and women of all circumstances,
only partly appreciated, or not
appreciated at all. never feel lonely
again or unregarded again! Angels
all around: angels to approve, angels
to heln. angels to remember. Yea,
while all the good angels are friends
of the good, there is one special angel
your bodyguard. This idea, until
this present study of angelology, I
supposed to be fanciful, but I find it
clearly stated in the Bible. "When
the disciples were praying for Peter's
deliverance from prison, and he appeared
at the door of the prayer
meeting, they caukl not beliv^ it was
Peter. They said: "It is his ^'
So these disciples, in special nearness
to Christ, evidently believed that
every worthy soul has an angel.
Jesus said of his followers: "-Their
angels behold the face of my Father.
Elsewhere it is said: "He shall give
his angels charge over thee, to keep
thee in all thy ways." Angel shielded,
angel protected, angel guarded, angel
canopied art thou. Xo wonder that
Charles "Wesley hymned these words:
Which of the petty kinss of earth
<'au boast a guard Uke ours,
Ku- ircled from our second oirth
With all th? henvenly powers?
Valerius and Rufinus were put to
ileath for Christ's sake in the year 287,
md, after the day when their bodies
iiad been whipped, and pouuded into
i jelly, in the night in prison, and before
the next day when they were to
be executed, they both thought they
saw angels standing with two glitterng
crowns saying: "Be of good cheer,
raliont soldiers of Jesus Christ! A little
more of battle and then these
jrown are yours." And I am glad to
mow that before many of those who
lave passed through great sufferings
n this life some angel of God has
leld a blazing coronet of eternal regard
Yea; we are to have such a guarlian
angel to take us upward when
>ur work is done. You know we are
;old an angel conducted Lazarus to
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ibranam s Dosom. imi shows ui?b
lone shall be so poor in dying lie canxot
afford augelic escort. It would
>e a long way to go alone, and up
xiths we have never trod, and amid
)lazing worlds swinging in unimagintble
momentum, out and 011 through
iuc-h distances and across such inliniudes
of space, we should shudder at <
he thought of going alone. But the :
mgelic escort will come to your lan- ;
ruishing pillow, or the place of youi* 1
atal accident, and says: "Hail, im
aortal one! AH is well; God hath 1
onf mo lol-o tah Vimnp-" <mr) with
>ut tremor or slightest sense of peril
ou will away and upward, further
>n and further on, until after awhile !
leaven heaves in sight, and the rum- :
)le of chariot wheels, and the roll of ]
night}- harmonies are heard in the 1
listance, and nearer you come, and ;
learer still, until the brightness is i
ike many mornings suffused into
>ne, and the gates lift aud you are j
aside the amethysine walls, and on 1
he banks of the jasper sea, forever j
afe, forever free, forever well, forever i
ested, forever united, forever happy. ]
Mothers, don't think your little chil- ]
[ren go alone when they quit this J
rorld. Out of your arms into angelic <
rrns. Out of sickness into health.
)ut of the cradle into a Saviour's <
>osoin. Xot an instant will the dar- j
ngs be alone between the two kisses, <
he last kiss of earth and the first
iss of heaven. "Now angels, do {
our workcried an expiii g chrisian.
Yes, a guardian angel for each i
ne oi you. .frit yourseit now nt ac L
ord with liim. Allien lie sugs^ts t
he right, follow it. When K- warns
ou against the wrong, sh^ it. Sent
Drth from God to h^P you in this
reat battle against sin and death, ii
ccept his deliverance. Paul had it f
ight whpii he said: "We wrestle not e
gainst flesh and blood, but against g
rincipalities, against powers, against t
ae rulers of the darkness of this g
orld, against spiritual wickedness "
1 high places." In that awful fight c
mv find qpnrl us Tnierhtv aneelic re- r
nforcement! "We want all their j
rings on our side, all tlieir chariots
n our side. c
Thank God that those who are for ^
s are mightier than those who are *
gainst us. And that tbeught makes 1
le jubilant as to the final triumph. 8
Jelgium, you know, was the battle *
round of England and France. Yea, 1
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>eigium more man once was uue uau- i
Le ground of opposing nations. It
o happens that this world is the Belium.
or battle ground, between the
ngelic nations, good and bad. Mihael,
the commander-in-chief on one 5
ide: Lucifer, as Byron calls him. or }
Iephistopheles, as Goethe calls him, :
r Satan, as the Bible calls him, the .
ommandcr-in-cliief on the other side. 1
J1 pure angelhood under the one '
sadership, and all abandoned angel- ,
iood under the other leadership. ,
lany a skirmish have the two armies ]
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iad, but tne great anci decisive oaxue
5 yet to be fought. Either from our 5
artlily homes or down from our
upemal residences, may we come in !
>n the right side; for on that side are J
5rod and heaven and victory. Mean- \
vhile the battle is being set in array, J
nd the forces celestial and demonical
ire confronting: each other. Hear
he boom of the great cannonade al- 1
eady opened! Cherubim, Seraphim, '
Chrones. Dominations, Principalities '
ind Powers are beginn ride in
lown their foes, and until the work
s completed, "Sun, stand thou still '
lpon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the
,-alley of AjalonF
?It is a singular fact that Professor
Max Miller, the eminent Orien
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mowing a single word of English.
Although at that time a mere youth,
ae was deeply versed in Scanscrit,
Hebrew and Arabic. Professor Miller
lives in Oxford in the house that
years ago Professor Goldwin Smith
built for himself. He rises early and.
leads tlie long, laborious day of the
devoted student. He is especially
proud of an invention of his which is
designed to support the right arm
when writing, and which by an ingenious
mechanical contrivance discounts
the probability of writers
cramp.
?A family in Whatcom. "Wash.,
not liking the taste of the water they
were drawing: from their ninety foot
deep well, sent a man down to inspect
its depth. The well was in
tolerably good condition, but a dead
Indian was hoisted out.
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["" PLAIN TALK.
L. F. LIVINGSTON TAKES THE STUMP IN
GEORGIA.
Sub-Treasury Plan?"VVliisKey Jien nave
Favor of Government?IVliy Not Farmers?
the Alliance in Politics.
At a recent mass-meeting of farmers
at Lawrenceville, Ga.. Hon. L. F.
Livingston. President of tlie Georgia
State Alliance, delivered a speech in
which he indulged in some very plain
talk. The following report of his remarks
is going the rounds of the
papers:
tTa said there are still in the minds
ojt many grave doubts as to the original
desiern and ultimate result of the
Alliance organization. The two years f
in which it had been in existence
should have been sufficient time for
all to have inquired into these things
and learned for themselves. But lie
regretted to say that they had not
done so. I am constrained to conclude
that this is due to two causes;
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organization will bring to the producing
classes benefits at their loss.
Second, an entire misconception of
the intent and operation of the
Alliance.
The purposes of the order are still
misunderstood and misconstrued.
No greater innovation in political
economy had been made since the
day of Adam Smith, than have been
introduced by the Farmers' Alliance.
It has wrought a revolution in that j
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science. iNecessity Jaas Deen cajueu.
the mother of invention, and these
new ideas in political economy had
grown out of the necessities of the
times.
This is not a political organization.
It has been said that it was conceived
in the political ling and brought forth '
amid political councils, and its de
sign is to capture all the political ;
offices. It has even been said that !
i-r-n <? ? ? Vi oi* o cmindf, law- !
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yers and merchants. This is all un- .
true. He could show, if any doubted, '
that the order has nobler aims.
The necessity for the Alliance is to
be found in the
IMPOVERISHED CONDITION" OF FARMERS.
Not in Georgia only, but in the entire
country. If you take a dozen farmers
in any county of Georgia and compare
their condition with that of a .
dozen fanners in Ohio or Illinois, you *
will find that it is about the same.
The dozen Georgia fanners will be no
.1 nc.
worst; ojUj pei'iutps iiuo ?<-? uau vu} ?*oi
the Northern or Western farmers.
Georgia farms are not mortgaged as *
heavily as the farms in Ohio or Illinois.
Everywhere the farmers are im- j
poverished. It is not a local trouble, !
though the press has for twenty '
rears made the mistake of supposing '
so. <
It can not be so much the fault of ^
i protective tariff, or the revenue sys- ,
tem of our government as just -hose J
industries receiving the largest ;
imount of protection. Thus1 the far- j
mers are more deeply ^ debt and j
.ess enable to protect themselves |
from mortgages snd their fore- (
closure. i
Wo "hovo ho^-n fold tiat the fanners
)f the South we <*> lazy to succeed,
ind now we o7*3 told that we need
liversified
Ohio invests twenty-seven crops
is^o better off than we.
Jf you are to lose money by farmag,
as you have done, the fewer crops
he better. Better lose only on one
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FARMERS ''MAKE*' NO PRICES. ]
The farmer makes 110 prices. There 1
sn't a farmer in this house that in l,
ifteen years has ever brought butter, ;
ggs or cotton to Lawrenceville and 1
?>t the price he asked. He must say
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o tne mercnant, "now rnucii wuu you
rive me for my butter?" and then,
how much will you take for your
:alico?" The merchant buys at the
)rice of another and sells at his own
nice. [Applause.]
No merchant or lawyer would
:arry on business as you fanners
lave been obliged to carry it on. The
raders and speculators have allowed
is to keep body and soul together,
md that's all, but we should be tnanK- \
ul that they have not treated us
vorse, as they had the power to do.
Applause.] (
1
CAUSE OF THIS POVERTY. f
What has caused this poverty? (
Not so much the want of industry c
m the part of our people. The very ]
arge increase in the products from :
;he soil, aimually, with a decrease in ^
;he number (in the South) engaged ,
n agriculture, set, this charge to one j
;ide. j
"NVvfc ?n innfli fhe want of a diversi- i
ied agriculture, as the statistics sliow, ]
ior just where diversity most obtains,
;here our people are more seriously :
uid extensively involved.
Not so much the want of economy,
is any observing man can see. Our ]
people are not extravagant in dress,
fliet, tools, and implements. Very j
few have means to indulge in the lux
ries, or attempt to do so.
Not so much on account of the
3alimg or business in -which we are
engaged, for if any one fact be clearly
established it is that agriculture and
its kindred industries are the basis of
wealth and prosperity in this country,
and from this fact, wish to make this
statement, that unhampered, with a
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lair ana equal cnance at uie iuaj.ii.eLs
of the country, with a currency that
would equally accomodate, and facilitate
the exchange of our products for
those we purchase, without that baneful
discrimination in transportation
in favor of large cities and against
small towns, and several sections, the
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larmers 01 Georgia wouiu xu lwo utr
cades be the wealthiest class in the
State.
The financial policy of the government,
the system established by
national legislation, is chiefly at faultIn
1860 the farmers owned seventy
per cent, of the property in Georgia,
and the farmers of the United States
owned 68 per cent, of the entire property
of the country.
Today only 28 per cent, of the people
own homes, and in Georgia only
24 per cent, of the property is held
*
oy iarmers.
In 1842 Charles Dickens said a
tramp in this country would be as
strange a sight1 as a flaming sword at
midday in the heavens. In 1868, not
a tramp was ta-'be found in this'
i
country. In 1879 there were 3.000,000
tramps in tlie United States.
The towns and cities of Georgia
have grown at the expense of the
country. In ten years the property
in towns and cities has increased
?60,000,000. while in rural districts it
lias decreased $50,000,000.
The monetary system of this country
is the child of the war between
the States, enacted when the United
States were trembling in the face of
an advancing and injured foe. The
government was threatened by tlieCoufedate
forces, with the ;i-ebel yell"
distinctly heard from the capitol of
the notion.
At the instance of Mr. Lincoln
after his indignant visit to Wall street
xur LLLUiieV, LLLe gUV eiJLLJUieULb UC^OLL tii.c
issue of Greenbacks. (July 1861, and
Feb. 1862), "the people's money,v
non-interest bearing. To cii*cumvent
tliis currency, that left gold (the
money of kings and autocrats) in the
hands of those that had hoarded it for
the purpose of forcing from the people
and the government, their own
rates of interest and prices for the
n' ocssities of war. The money kings
of that day, (1863,) induced Congress
to enact the national banking system.
'rr t ,i j il- *j....
u iitier iuis system tney were aiw;rwards
enabled to force Congress to
in Act, (1866,) the contraction law.
"The strength crediting Act.;' "The
refunding Act.v "The demonetiza;ion
of silver and the resumption Act"
ill of which were in their interest and
against the people. Thus the government.
as a war measure, when they
could not call their souls their own,
were thrown into the hands of their
relentless and avaricious, money
kings, and there both government and
people remain to-day.
THE EVILS OF "CONTRACTION.
In 1866 the Congress passed the
famous contraction Act. It was not
rigidly enforced, however, until 1868.
[n 1866 the total circulation was
81,673,379,753, amounting to $52 per
capita. In ten years the circulation
:ell to ?466,549,097, and the money in
circulation was reduced to ?5.45 per
japita.
In eleven years there was lost by
-contractoin" of the currency a total
f ?10,149,687,415, shared by the
>eople as follows:
x ii ?. Oi on< rr.1
jjosl oy ousmess men, tux,.17.
Lost by fanners, $3,044,936,267.
Lost by laboring classes, $4,800,)00;000.
HOW IT HURT THE FARMER.
In 1868, a certain farmer in Geor- :
jia came to town with a 500 pound .
jale of cotton lie and lxis wife had
aised. He sold it for 30 cents a :
jound, getting $150 for the bale. He ;
jaid his taxes $40; bought a. cooking j
stove, $35; a suit of clothes, $15; a
Iress for his wife $5; a barrel of |
lour for $12; 100 pounds of meat for ,
$18; and had $30 in clear cash left. i
In 1877, nine years later, the same <
'armer caiiied a 500 pound bale to
.he saiQ^ market and sold it for
He paid his taxes, 840, and ,
lad $2.34 left. This so demoralized
lim that lie got *Ieu.cl vlniuL. uinl ilt-.iui
jroke. The price fer his cotton had
lontracted, but taxes and other things
ladn't. [Laughter.]
The National Alliance at St. Louis
idopted the sub-treasury plan as the ,
inancial remedy for the "Pondora
)0X,V and the evils that flow from it. :
hat so burdens the producing and
aboring classes of this country. We .
ling this system before the world,
;o take it, examine it, adopt it, or give
is something better, this we will
orce you to do, one or the other.
Ridicule -will not do, there is too
nuch involved; our people are too
nuch in earnest to be intimidated by
-his child's play method of meeting
'acts.
ENCOURAGING TRUSTS.
This plan has been ridiculed by the
jolumbus paper, which ealls it "Mr.
Livingston's plan,"' and says it is not
)ased on good business sense. It is '
lot my plan. That paper does me
;oo much honor. I was one of the j
;ommiltee of five that formulated the
3lan at St. Louis at the meeting of
;he National Alliance. I want to say
;hat so honorable a man as Zeb Vance
las introduced this plan in a bill be'ore
Congress.
Our plan is this:
We do not ask a change in the government
plan. It is not a revolution.
\Ye merely want the plan enlarged,
rhey allow me to deposit bonds as
evidence of indebtedness, and draw
)0 per cent, of their face value, and
jank on these bonds. Tlie government
pays the holder interest on
:hese bonds, and taxes the people to
?et money to pay this interest. And
;he government, besides taxing the
people, d: iiminates against them
ay not allowing the banks to loan
money on real estate, while it allows
the merchant to get money on his
... 1 _
mexcnanuise.
Whiskey men can put green -whiskey
in bonded warehouses, valued at one
dollar per gallon. The moment it
is considered worth S3 a gallon, because
it is worth more as it ages, and
they get S3 on their whiskey.
WHY NOT THE FARMER?
"Why not give the farmers the benefit
of bonding their cotton and other
produce"? "Why should he not have
the same favor as is shown the whi&1
*1 XI- _ 1 1 o
Key man ana xne ou-niier?
The sub-treasury plan would require
the building up of warehouses
in every county. This would cost
?50,000,000. Some will say that big
sum will kill the plan. If it was
$50,000,000 for pensions, or rivers and
harbors, it wouldn't be too much, but
it is too much to give the farmers of
the United States!
You can get the ?50,000,000 out of
the ?100,000,000 surplus left to redeem
the treasury notes which Congress
has declared are not to be redeemed,
and these millions are lying
_-.n_ TOw. Co
lLUtJ 1X1 tilt: liliuis. jlucic oic yiu.000,000
in fractional currency, which
the bankers won't handle, because it
is too small. Give us the fragmentary.
and ragged currency. [Ap- j
plause.]
When the crops are harvested you
could take them to these warehouses
and store them, pay the actual ex n
/-\-P TJtcnvo-n^n ntr* T'lio
pCJJLOC VI iiiotuwjaw* vu\.. .A.
agent would then issue 80 per cent,
advance upon the value of the produce,
and still leave 20 per cent, for
future use.
The moment your cotton goes into
the warehouse it is impossible for the
speculators to get hold of it. This
-would keep prices more equally
steady. It would be there for twelve
months, and -within that time the
farmer would be brought face to face
with the consumer, and it -would keep
him out of the hands of the speculators.
It would at once put an end to
comers, combinations and trusts.
[Clieers.]
We have been asked, what if we
don't sell in twelve months'? Then
the agent would sell and settle with
us.
This currency put in circulation
would make about S50 per capita and
put us back to the good times in
1868.
The crops are stored in the ware
' ' 1* _ -L _ _
nouses. tiie agent issues cenincaies. i
"When they are sold out the certificates
arc burned. This would make
the currency flexible, giving us money
with which to handle 'each crop and
retiring some when not needed
TROUBLE AT TRYON.
South Carolinians Invade North ^rollua
and Rcscne a tiegrofmn Custody.
Tryon city, on the Asheville &
Spartanburg road just over the line
in North Carolina, was the scene of a
riot last Sunday. The trouble is
saicl to have started with the arrest
and imprisonment in the town lockup
on Saturday evening, of Holland
Durham, a notorious negro and reputed
desperate character. Durham
was locked up for disorderly conduct.
On Sunday a party, friends of the
imprisoned negro from Greenville
county, entered Tryon with the announced
determination to rescue
Durham. They were fully armed and
succeeded in their purpose, bearing (
the prisoner off in triumph after bat- .
tering down the guard liouse. There .
were nine or ten men in the rescuing '
party and their names are given as .
follows: William Durham, "Warren J
Durham. Luther Durham, Mark
Durham. Babe Durham, Babe Pace, ]
Jim Durham, Hugh Rodgers and 1
John A. Gibson. Against this force :
was opposed John S. Fisher, who
acting in the place of the town mar- j
shal, B. G. Poole, of this city, and j
William Weaver. The three men .
were fully armed, but they did not j
succeed in baffling the rescuers. On
their way out of town, the raiding (
party fired recklessly into a church }
by the roadside. , ]
The people of Tryon are highly j
wrought up over the matter and are \
anxious to run the lawbreakers down
if possible. Requisition lias been
made for the men and as soon as the
papers are returned active efforts
will be made to capture them. The
affair calis attention to the condition
in which the town of Tryon is placed
by its peculiar situation near the
State line. Criminals and law breakers
of both States make bold to earnon
outrageous exploits, like the res- ]
cue of the negro. Durham, -in the cer- {
fcainty that they have only to get over '
the line to escape the clutches of the ,
imictM s. ,
Holland Durham, tlie negro who ]
vra~s> rcstraci hy the white men, is ,
said to be a bud character:"
shot two man and having escaped ^
from custody after conviction of high- j
way robbery. W. M. Durham, the <
alleged leader of the rescuers, who j
lives in the upper part of this county, i
is said to have killed two men already, j
one in Pickens and one in Greenville. .
?Greenville News. ]
Ex-Priest Boyle Acquitted.
A special dispatch to the Baltimore ]
Sun says: "Ex-Priest J. J. Boyle, of i
the Church of the Sacred Heart, j
Raleigh, F. C., was acquitted Satur- (
day night of a charge of assaulting i
Miss Geneva "Whitaker, aged seven- ]
teen years, a member of the congre- i
gation of which Boyle was assistant f
pastor. This was the second trial of
tne case, in tne nrst one jsoyie was
found guilty and was sentenced to be 1
hanged. He appealed to the Supreme ]
Court of North Carolina, and was 1
granted the trial which ended in a i
verdict of not guilty. Evidence was ]
introduced Saturday tending to show ]
that cries for help from a person in X
Boyle's room could be heard in the 1
church. Miss Alice Upchurch testi- i
fied that she was in the church while ]
Miss "Whitaker was in Boyle's room, 3
and that she heard no calls for help. 1
There was a great audience in the 1
court room. Boyle was calm and 1
collected and employed much of his s
time reading newspapers. Messrs. <
T. C. Fuller, George H. Snow and 1
R. H. Battle presented the case for 1
the defense, while Solicitor Argo 1
closed for the State. The Jjury retired
shortly before ten o'clock, and after i
two hours' deliberation returned the <
verdict 'Not guilty.' In spite of the ]
judge's order there was a wild burst <
of applause from hundreds of throats :
in the crowded court room at the an- :
nouncement of the verdict, and this
was icept up lor nve minutes Jf eopie
crowded around Boyle and congratulated
liim heartily.- Then they began
to call on him for a speech, but
his leading attorney mounted a table
and loudly announced that Boyle
would not make a speech. He went
immediately back to jail, where he
remained till Father Charles, of the
Church of the Sacred Heart, came for
him in a carriage and took him to the
rectory as his guest."
"The Old North State."
A spirit of enterprise seems to be
abroad in North Carolina. We hear
more of the old JNortli state in me
newspapers now than formerly; some
of the smallest and most insignificent
towns are looming up and compelling
recognition by their push and pluck,
and an industrial boom is visible
everywhere. The resources of the
State are vast and inexhaustible, and
they are now being utilized in the
most practicable way to her advancement.
The State papers contain
more industrial news than any other,
^ An+OVA/l ir?f A O
U. LIU StJCUU W JUUilC cuttivu V.
compact to foster every enterprise
that is started?no matter where,
and to keep North Carolina well before
the world. This is right. She
is simply keeping in line with the
industrial procession, the march of
the South in this era of progress; the
South shares in her prosperity and
f[congratulates her peojDle oiithe^ranT
Itliev have aeeomplisked.^J2^Mfc^
Ibusy people and
bright one. There
North State!?AtlgB
LOUISVILLE DISASTER.
LESS TERRIBLE THAN AT FIRST SUPPOSED.
Fuller Accounts of the Cyclone?Only a
Hundred Killed.
The cyclone of last Thursday was
one of the most destructive in the
history of this country. It swept
through the States of Tennessee.
Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.
Great damage was done to property
and many lives were lost. The greatest
destruction occurred in Louisaille,
the first accounts of which were
appalling. Tlie following paragraphs
are culled from the telegraphic accounts
of the terrible storm, and give
some idea of its extent and destructiveness:
The cyclone struck Louisville at
7.30 p. m. It entered the southeastern
portion of the city at 18th street
and swept a path five blocks wide
diagonally, reaching in a ragged line
to 7th street, leveling every building
m its patii. Un Market street tne
Falls City Hall, a four-story building
was blown down while several Masonic
and Knights of Honor lodges
were in session and one hundred men
and women were buried in the ruins.
The district laid waste comprises an
area of the city three miles long and
nearly half a mile -wide. Outside of
clearly-defined limits the citizens
biew only of a heavy rain, accompanied
by a high wind. But soon came
alarms of fire from different stations,
and the horrors of the calamity began
1 J-1 1 - TT
co aawn onxnepeuijie. xiuuses, juliuis
of amusements, railroad stations, all
went down before the mighty of the
air. ilore than two hundred houses
were destroyed and many were damaged.
A telegram dated Satin-day
says: "Up to this writing the total
aumber killed at all places where
bodies have been recovered and of
the missing and of those whom it is
reasonably certain are dead is 80.
En addition to these there are above
i dozen so badly injured that deathmay
ensue. From 150 to 200 persons ;
ire injured to an extent worth noting
md probably hard on to 1,000 have
trery slight bruises or scratches that :
io not inconvenience them." Referring
to the wreck of the Falls City ,
Hall, the account says: ''Ten women,
.ocked in each other's arms, were
Irawn out of the debris. James Har- :
ison, whose wife had been at a lodge
neeting, was foremost in the work, :
md the first person whom he drew
5ut of the rained building was his ;
.vife, who died in his aims. He laid
ler by the side of others who were
lead and continued to work for the
" TP "1 il- - -^L 1 XT. '?J.
ivmg. jmsiae 01 wie next nour unity
nen and women were drawn out
lead, but with no wounds on their
todies, and it is thought that they
ill met their death from suffocation,
rhe gas pipes had been broken,
ivhich caused the lights to go out,
md which saved the ruins from fire
:or a time, but flooded the debris
svith vapor almost as deadly as fire
wght. iiaxo- prprr-rL,^ Ways were
pierced into the ruins aSKTTlie ~vic-T
;ims were drawn out dead and dying.
3ne pail of the building was reserved
W fhp but the wounded were
:aken into stores and houses on the
opposite side of the street, where
physicians and priests administered
X) their souls and bodies.''
The board of trade meeting held
Friday morning authorized the statenent
that there would be no call for
lid from outside. The lowest estinate
puts the property loss at 81,)00,000;
the highest at 83,000,000, and
:he least, founded upon the facts
4-TVIQn&ri of. so nrViPVA
JJi V4.J WU V^JVVVJW" j-ja.v*'si
almost no insurance. Parkland,
i suburb, is swept away.
At the Union depot, at the foot of
rth street, a Chesapeake and Ohio
Tain was just stalling out filled with
passengers. The building was pros;rated,
crashing down on the train,
yi the passengers, however, were
rescued except one newsboy. A dispatch
from Louisville dated March
51st says: ':The water supply is runling
very low. Every effort is being
xiade to complete a temporary standpipe
to be finished by "Wednesday.
iVifif. t.imp. nrnbsiblv bv to
light, the city will be almost entirely
.vitliout water. Strong appeals are
jeing made for all to observe the
strictest economy in its use. but they
:lo not seem to be effective. Enough
svater will be reserved as a protec;ion
against fire. The total subscription
now amounts to S4S.000. This
idded to $22,000 from the city makes
570.000 at the disposal of the relief
committee. The ruins are still under
~ All OVA TJAir
[JUiiCC gUiiJUA. XU-L OU VI. 1UV uun
open and the electric cars are running.
Business everywhere will be
resumed to-day.
The tornado struck the town of
Bowling Green. Ivy., and completely
wiped it out. Bowling Green has a
population of about 5,000 inhabitants
and the loss of life is conjectured to
be correspondingly large.
only 93 killf.d ix louisn'ille.
Louisville,JKy., April 1.?The total
number killed here by the tornado of
-? Vx r_ /\r? Ti ? J
luesaay nigm is vo. xi is ieaicu
that R. R. Barton, of Pittsburg, is
dead in tlie ruins. So far about 150
badly wounded persons have been
found. Several of these who were
hurt are at the hospital hi a dying
condition.
The State Legislature this afternoon
appropriated $30,000 for :. lief
UA LJLIC OUJJL^A^JLO WJ COO.C VJ VAVUV#
Henderson*, Ivy., Apiil 1.?The
total of tlie killed in Webster county
is 40 and of wounded SO.
?"Owing to the crowded state of
our columns this week." apologizes a
Texan editor, ' we are compelled
either to abridge our European dispatches
or omit altogether the account
of the exciting cock fight at
Grizzly Short's ranch last Wednesday.
In this emergency we have
? " 1 1 1 L
cieciueu 10 iea\e oui a puiuun ui mu
name of Bismarck's successor as
German cliancellor. It will appear
in full next week if it bursts every
chase in tlie office."
?Iaiheformation of a single locothere
are nearly
MM^gether. and
Wcoxateiy put
^^^ wafech.
M
| A STUDENT DEMONSTRATION.
Unfortunate Occurence?"What the Students
Say?Action of the University CoundEL
Columbia, S. C., ilareh 29.?The
S
following letter appears in today's
Register:
"Dr. McBryde, President of the
South Carolina University: Dear Sir?
"During the farmers' convention
liere numbers of the students of the
University "were present, and during
the progress of the proceedings,
speakers who were in favor of nominations
were hissed and treated in
a rough manner. After the proceedings
were over a large crowd of students
was an organized mob, singing
CATifTC o-nrl QYvrkltrrnor oil mnonmaf
of opprobrious epithets to the leaders
of this movement, and followed Capt.
Tillman around, even to his hotel,
and insulted him by applying all
manner of disgraceful terms to him,
and threatening to do personal violence
to his person.
' "We desire respectfully to call your
attention to these proceedings. A
public expression of opinion from you ,
concerning this will oblige us. Very
respectfully.
"J. H. Counts. L. E. Parker. J. L.
M. Irby, W.- P. Snelgrove. A. C. Lattimer.
Geo. B. Dean."
ACTION OF THE STUDENTSThe
Register of the 30th gives the
following:
The University students held a
meeting at 2.30 o'clock yesterday af- -1?~^
temoon to consider the charges recently
made as to the action of Certain
of their number during and after
the adjournment of the Farmers' ^
Convention. A committee of nine
was was appointed to draft resolutions
in reference to the matter.
This committee made a report to a
second meeting of the students held
at eleven o'clock last night, after the
public debate of the Euphradian So
ciety. The resolutions reported by
the committee were adopted by the
meeting with certain amendments,
and were submitted to President Mo
Bryde, who consented to their publication.
The resolutions are as
follows:
Whereas it has been brought to the -7"
notice of the students of the South
Carolina University that certain vJimaging
statements have been circulated
in regard to the actions of some of . . -/'
the students on the night of the 27th
instant, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the following statements
are false: (a) that a body of ,
students tonowea uaptam Tinman 10
his hotel; (b) that they sang "vile"
songs; (c) that they threatened "to
do personal violence to his person."
That immediately after the convention
adjourned a number of students
were in a crowd together, with delegates
and others, and indulged in a
demonstration more boisterous than < i
politic; 'that the students intended
no disrespect whatever to the con- ?
vention.
That the account published in The
News and Courier of March 29th is
complete and true in every defcaiL
That these resolutions be published
LETOie'lea^u
*cr r"rm'n 1 * *'" *" ??-T
W Simncnn T?. T?, i w/v>t .T
v - it* ku* aj> wvmj v
R. Coggesall, Geo. S. Legare, Samuel
McGowan, G. M.Pinckney, H. L.
Elliott, Jr., S. P. Verner, 0. R.
Withers, committee.
The University council met at noon
yesterday and remained in session
two hours investigating the matter
referred to above. The. council met
again at six o'clock last evening but
adjourned without taking action, its
sessions thus far having been devoted
to investigating the matter with a
view of ascertaining what portion of
current reports were correct and what
exaggerated or false.
The names of a number of students,
*-* ? -? t i < . _ j 1 1
said to oe acorn; iorty, nave Deen
submitted to the council as having
been participants in the demonstration.
On Monday separate cases will
be investigated, to arrive at the jndividual
responsibility of the students
concerned. / j
President McBryde has never received
any communication on the
subject from Captain Tillman and
those who signed the open letter,
but will communicate with them after
the council takes action.
WHAT WAS DONE WITH THE STUDENTS.
After being in session three days _and
heaiing fifty witnesses on the
anti-TiHman demonstration the University
council yesterday summoned
and individually reprimanded each of
the twenty-three students involved.
Fifteen of the twenty-three students
are from the country, eleven
being sons of farmers.
?
The Xegro in the Church.
Charleston, S. C., April 2.?The
war in the Episcopal Church here
J. j-i. - ?
IIUOUL Uie miiuiftsiuxxui. mr^iwo iaj ujc
Diocesan Convention is waxing hot
The elections of delegates to the Dior
cesan Convention are held on Monday
next, and most of the congregations
are divided into negro and antinegro
parties. A circular issued today
nominates a ticket for delegates
to represent St. Philips' Church
who are pledged to the absolute sepowifirtn
flui voc>o<; ir> top "Flnisfonftl
CUtfctiVJa v* WMv a wiw?v ^ ? x'*
Church. The compromise party are
seeking to admit the Rev. J. H. il.
Pollard. the colored rector of St.
Marks Church, and to draw the line
there. The slogan of the straight
out party is "no negroes need apply."
A Decaying Community.
The North Star, of Danville, Ver?
i. nv* 1 CAn V>oo onon?r^/l_
11 mil In luuuucu jlu xyvvj uofo o
ed publication. Several months ago
both the town and the paper suffered
a stunning blow from fire, and business
was prostrated. Danville, on?
of the towns in the northern part of
the State, has fallen behind in recent
j years in population and business; it
| is chiefly a farming community, and
many of its farms have been abanI
Tnf> Srrnnorfiplfl Ttenuhlicftn
regards the suspension as significant,
and inquires: "Shall vre go from
abandoned farms to deserted villages?"
?The largest jind heaviest locomotive
ever constricted-was made bv
S the BaldwinJWBj
ItheXo^j
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