The Greenville enterprise. (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, August 07, 1872, Image 4
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My dwratt daok, my gweetne* ytrl,
X 1?*? yea meat aiooerely |
I'd z*U>?r own thia aunny curl
n?* wiu ft fortune yearly |
Thia littl* hand, ao eoft and white,
Waa oaly made for kiaaeat
Thia little form, ao frail and lifht,
Waa aaade for you ay driaan 1 > >
111 keep, my Kale, a span of gtAja,
A eamage and a pony 5
111 go with her t* balls and plays,
And never spank of money j
For bar I'll bay romances new,
Attending to her pleasure,
And poems, boand in gold end blue,
I'll order for my treasure.
Oar lives shall be but ono sweet dream
Of love and sunny weather.
No adverse wave shall cross the stream
Or wedded bliss forever !
AVTBR MARRIAOR.
Von always talk of plays and balls;
Ton are forever flirting,
And scribbling rhymes, and Banking calls
And never making shirting j
You smile In every whiskered fhce,
You chase all silly fashions ;
1'ou load with jewels, flaunt in lace,
And ahow your angry passions !
The baby's left to cry and moan,
I've ne'er a decent dinner {
You drag mo out, you oall me down?
T .n, . !> >?
An abject slave?I tell you so !
Madam ; your folly's ended;
You shall not flirt?and go?and go?
I'm weary and offended ;
I'm going to a reading room?
I'll join a olub thereafter?
60?mend your manners?stay at home,
And dry your eyes with laughter!
LADY BEFORE MARRIAGE.
I feel a very solemn sense
Of all a woman's duty,
To keep within tho door yard fenco,
Unmindful of her beauty ;
To sbnrc her husband's griefs and cares,
And, in his shadow walking,
Content to mind her own affairs,
Be reverent when he's talking!
'Tis plain, our Maker did design
That women should be bumble;
Not give to look, nor dressing fine,
Which makes them fret and grumble.
Those novels are pernicious things
To feed imagination;
All filled with angels shorn of wings?
To mo they are vexation.
Dear William, as your weddod wife,
I never mean to tcaze you;
My aim and pride through all my life
Shall only be to please you !
AFTER MARRIAGE.
Bill! come down stairs ; I know you can);
The baby has the colio;
Tho way you shirk your duties, man.
Is truly diabolic;
Tho nurse has such a blundering way
She cannot stop its crying,
And as for mo, I'm housed all day
Till I am almost dying!
Ann 1 run and bring my velvet saquo,
My parasol and bonnet;
I'm going to the Messrs. Black,
The printers, with a sonnet!
I have no tiino to write nor read?
But while he tends tho baby.
You, Sarah, take this book with speed
Across to Mrs. Maybe;
Ask her to loan mo Hugo's last
In change for Love's Dilemma
Thero Bill?don't rock so horrid fast?
You'll wake my darling Emma 1
HUMOROUS.
The Horse Swap
? A Kentuckian and a Yankee
were once riding along through the
woods, the former on a fino black
horse, and the latter on an inferior
animal. Tho latter wanted to
make a " swap," but he did not
see how he was to do it. At last
he conceived of a plan. Iiis
horse hod bcon taught to sit down
like a dog whenever he was touch
ed by the spurs. Seeing a wild
turkey, the Yankee made his
horse perform his trick, and asserted
he was pointing game, as
was his custom. Tho Kentuckian
rode in the direction indicated by
the horse's nose, and up rose a
turkey. TLat settled the matter ;
the trade was made, and saddles
and horses were changed. After
a time they came to a deep and
rapid stream, over which tho
black horse carried his rider with
easo. But the Kentuckian, on
the Yankee's old beast, found great
difficulty in getting over, and when
bo bad reached the middle of the
stream he was afraid the horse
would allow himself to bo carried
away, and bo endeavored to spur
bitfi op to more vigorous action.?
Down sat the old horse on his
haunches.
" Look a here f" shonted tho
enraged and partially submerged
Kentuckian to the Yankee on the
other side of the stream, What
docs all this mean ?"
" I want you to know, stranger,"
cried the Yankee, preparing
to ride away, " that that there
hoes will pint tlah jist as wall as
ho will fowl."
a reverend gentleman, addressing
a school concert, recent*
ly, was trying to enforco the idea
that the hearts of the little ones
were sinful and needed regulating.
Taking bis 'watch and holding it
up, hq said : " Now, here i6 my
watch ; suppose it don't keep good
time?now ov>p.h too fant and now
too slow?what shall I do with
it?" Sell it 1" shouted a young,
ster.
The grandma of a little fonr
year old had been telling her one |
day not to say that people lied, bat
rather that they wore mistaken.? (
Her grandma, to amuse her, told
her a bear story, which was a
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had tlnlsM4b* lit tie girl look*A
up into her faoe, ami exclaimed,
* Grandma, that is the biggest
mistaken 1 ever heard.?
A certain grocer on Washington
street la Peoria, has a placard
near*the doer,-oh which.is printed
in large letters, "N. O. Molasses."
Two men, driving down
the afreet the other day holding a
jog, one of them was heard to exclaim,
" There's no use going
there for it, Bill, for don't you see
that sign there' says they hain't
got any molasses 1"
South Carolina Under Grant's
Carpet-baggers.?The holders of
South Carolina bonds in this oity
who are dieamx>inted in nnt ? *?
ceiving the interest doe upon
tliem may be interested in learn*
ing what Jjidgo Orr, a Republican,
says about the taxes- which
have been collected in that State
during the last four years. He
says that the theives in Columbia
hare bad an income daring that
time of at least sixteen million
dollars, and now they have not a
dollar in the treasury. For this
enormous amount of money they
have not a single public improve*
ment to show. Not one mile of
railroad or canal, upi one dollar's
worth of legitimate expenditure
on the public buildiugs?nothing
at all except a few acres of swamp
lands aud sand hills bought by the
Land Commissioner at from two
to ton times their value, and
which aro now going begging for
purchasers ou eight years time at
six per cent, interest.
The deaf and dumb asylum at
Spartauburg has been closed and
its inmates sent borne, because no
money is to bo had from the treas......
mi.?' ?i-i?- --?
auo puunc scnoois nave
been shut up, and the teachers diecharged
unpaid. The penitentiary
and lunatic asylum have to
resort to all sorte of shifts fo obtain
food for their inmates.
Judge Orreaye he has not received
a cent of pay tor nine
months. This is Republican evidence
to the state of affairs exist"
ing where the people are paying
higher taxes than in any State in
the Uuion. And to keep in power
the infamous thieves who have
brought South Carolina to this
condition Grant proclaimed martial
law in nine counties where
complete quiet existed, and filled
prison after prison with unfortunates
arrested with process of law.
Those who wish to see such a con
dition of affairs continued in the
South should vote in November
for Grant, the car-bagger's friend.
[New York Sun.
The Medical College of South
Carolina.?The Charleston News
of Saturday, 13th, says: "The
forty fourth course of lectures given
by this time-honored institution
will commence on the 15th of
October next, and terminate on
tho 15th of March following.?
Some important changes will be
made in its management and conduct.
There has been an increase
in the length of the term of study
and the number of professional
chairs. Dr.F. Peyre Porcher has
accepted the chair of clinical medicine,
and Dr. J F. Prioleau that
of the principles and practice of obstetrics.
Tho faculty have also de
f 11) t? f t In fiffni- trio/I inot r,f " n
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complete course of free lectures
during the coming season, leaving
only those charges which are necessary
lor the maintenance of the
collego, such us fees for mutricula
tion, graduation, &c., amounting
in all to fifty dollars. The annual
announcement of the trustees and
faculty will be issued in a few
days."
The PuultbyYakd.?Those best
able to judge, say that a flock of
fowlsof the usual sizekeptpu farms,
if well cared for, will yield as much
value annually ha'is oqofvalent to
the milk of one cow. For this reason
it pays to keep a flock of fowls,
and give them careful attention.?
It is easy to keep them in good
condition, if any thought is be
atnwad unrm fiiAm
It"
id necessary to change tho
cocks yearly in order to keep up(
the vigor and valoo of the progeny.
They must be kept in a clean
and dry roost, and as far as uossi- j
ble on dry, or at least well Grained
rango. To secure clcauliness
and freedom from insects, the henhouse
must be frequently cleaned
out, the floors supplied with iresh
earth, which is the best disinfectant,
and the roost brushed down,
or submitted to the fumes of burning
sulphur.
Fowls are omnivcrons, eating
every thing that other animals will!
and in fact thriving better on a
mixture of animal, vegetable, and
grain food, than if ted on a single
articlo. This fact makes them a
kind of general scavenger about
the farmhouse.? Carolina Farmer.
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A oorrnepondent of the Wilmington Jour-,
not, writing from N?wton. N C., report*
<1.., n~_ it u i.L- *?*
uvT, i utn ni>i(i mat * iis nau oeeu informed
by Mr. Reverdj Johnson nod Montgomery
Blair that the Supreme Court ol the
United Steles bet) deoided the KuKlux lew
iineonstitutional ie one of the South Caroline
cases, and that the opinion of the court
tree purpoeely withheld until after the elew*
ion." ,
Sunday-School Convention* are to ke held
a Laurens and Edgefield Counties.
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?oiTfwi OR?tljW^<? gar^frmsr.
The Confederate Dead.
Mr. Editor: The poo(. Confederate soldiers
buried within this City MSha IfmfcaUFWC
gotten. Not even a head-stone marks their
last resCMf plade. Theymaj Ha rate nsbeied
by kind parents, loving hives and alsteri,hnt'
no one seems to take any interest in hendfa^
down to posterity the named of the iMtftf
who died for their country ; no memorial a**
sociatioa to meat onoe a year In commeknorat
tion of their gallant deeds.
la passing a graveyard not long since, I
aw a beautiful lady bowed over the grave of
her husband, killed iu the war at the WilderMM'
I went near her, and saw the briny
tears rolling down her beautiful oheeka. She
exolaimed; " ThU is my husband, killed long,
long yoars ago," and patted the sod with her
snowy white baud. " His memory and my
love for him will never cease to be the stralfc
of my thoughts; it will ever be so, so, so,"
and she sank down upon the little mound of
elay. Is it iiot touobing? "Woman's love
will ever'liVe. She is all that Is left to man
of the beautiful Paradise from which he has
wandered, and to which he must return. It
is she who elevates man above the brute creation,
and stamps him with the pale semblance
of Ood. In this world she is his goddess,
and the power which elevates, and guides, and
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ioauo ulUI VU |U IUO UttlUrUl KDQ rtllQIllI COU
summation of hi* creation and miuion. Of
all the joys of earth?it* wealth, R? pleasure*,
it* ambition*, it* tinseled gloria* and seared
ploaanre*?there 1* nothing so doar to the heart
a* woman'* love. Blot out from oar sight forerer
the beautiful world ; darken our path to
midnigh^ gloom; ourto as vitV affliction*
mountain high ; take from us every flower of
the earth ; despoil us of manhood, feature and
form?but gi>e mo the love of a true and loving
woman." Though seven long year* bad
passed, she sit* by tho grave of her poor slain
husband, heart-broken and distressed.
| Ladies, will you evor coasefto keep the memories
of those dead heroes fresh before you ?
No ; woman could not be so untson- 'Twas on
tho tilth of December, ISflO, South Carolina
flung to tho breczo her bonnio blue flag, and
undar Its folds soon gathered thirteen eister
States. On tho 12th of April, 1801, the first
guns were fired at Fort Sumter. Then war,
with its dreadful alarms, its olash of arms,
burning trophies, and streaming blood save
upon ns.
We flung onr banners to the air,
Wo fought as brave men fight.
Our battle cry rang through the land,
llume ! liberty ! and right !
Fonr long years the contest lasted, Tho
sword of tho South mowed down the iuvadors.
Fresh hordes thronged tho shores. On the
0th of April, 13A6, after fighting the combined
world, thereby earning the lasting love and
gratitude of our country men and the admiration
of mankind, tho star of our young Confederacy
went out iu darkness and in gloom
behind tho hills of Appomattox, and that
tried, true and noble chieftain, Robert ?. Lee,
sheathed bis sword and folded that banner we
o much loved, forevef. We bad loat our immortal
T. J. Jackaon. lland in band the two
great generals stood ; hand in hand they have
&6C#nded on high; their bodies rest in the
soil of Virginia, the land they so dearly loved.
I love the memory of euoh illustrious men,
and drop a tear of gratitude as tho sweetest
offering.
L&dies, can you ever ccaso to think of theso
poor dead Confederate soldiers ? It was they
who manifested such deep interest in their
country's welfare. It was they who loved it
with such devotion as to defend it and its interests
with their lives. Does not their patriotism
demand from you recollections of nobio
deeds? We did not expect you to tread
tho battlo field aud return wearing a wreath
of victory or clasped in the icy arms oi death,
defending our country's rights. No. Nobly
yon did your part. You have sacrificed upon
your country's altar fathers, husbands, sons
and brothers. Can you now, at this early day,
nsglect to pay ho mo attention to their graves ?
No monumental .than shaped by the sculptor's
hand marks tho graves of our lallcn brave;
but they have in you, ladies, and in your
guidance of tho little children of tho Confederacy
a monument more durable than brass,
which neither rain, wind, seasons nor years
can destroy. Revive your Memorial Associa*
tions, and meet one dny in every year, and
says
Softly, slowly, onward tread,
Low in reverence bow the head,
Deck with flowers each hallowed grave
Where sleeps the unforgotten brave,
Where tho winds float softly and slow
O'er their couches, grcon and low.
Let us come with solemn tread,
Bringing tributes to our dead.
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I. 0. O. F?Tnz R. W. Ghand Loi>gb
or tub Statb ok South Carolina.?Most
Worthy Giand Master, A. J. Mime, left our
city, yesterday, for Columbia, on official
duty connected with the intereat of the order
in this jurisdiction, llie visit in the
country, we feel satisfied, will be a source
of much pleasure to all the lodges in the
State, that he may have an opportunity of
exemplifying the work of this noble order.
The known energy and z'al which has
characterized Orand Master Mima since hie
elevation to so high a position, his aeknowod
qualifications in all tha various degrees
of Odd Fellowship, places him in the front
rank io competency, to illustrate the prin>
ciples upon wbieli this beautiful order
rezte, their oorner stone of " Friendship
I Love and Truth." W? wish him a pleaes
ant time witli hie country friends and a
safe return home ? ChnrUtlnn
Plaiv Talk from tiik Niw York Hkram>.
" The Herald, in iia issue of the 17tb, says:
The people of the Northern States havo
made up their minds that whatever may
be the resnll of the Presidential election,
the next administration shall give peace and
entire freedom to the white citizens of the
South, an?l shall extend the protection of
the constitution ever the whole Union.?
They will no longer suffer the Southern
States to be paralyzed and their white citizens
to be degraded to help any political
party. If the President, recognizing this (
faot, would rid himself of hie present politieal
advisers?stump orator*, oarpel-bag ,
gsrs, office holders and all?and adopt toward
the South suoh a generous and noble i
policy as lie pursued toward the fanquish- 1
ed soldier* of Lee's army and foreshadowed I
in hie famoue report to President Johnson, '
he would not only ensure the suceaes of the i
Republican State ticket In North-Carolina '
next month, but wotrtd sweep the whole
Southern States in Nevember. Such n tris
umph would be mors valuable then any
victory won by political trickery or by tM 11
dangerous expedient of oreating a hoelila
foaling between tho white men and the no*
groee of the Sooth." / - j
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Tho award* by the Geneva Arbitration hi t
the eaaea of the prlrateeri Florida and Ala- (
hama, will together amount to f f
juhi'J JM m'nuuu.m'm I
Mr. of A#oopt**c*
The following ia Mr. Greeley'a letter, ao?
eeptieg the Baltimore nomination, in reply to
Aftdgof pointed to notify
him thereof:
, . ? Naw Youk, July 18, J878.
Otntleme*: Upon mature deliberation, It
Me ma fit that I ahoald give your letter of the
> 10th inatant route further and taller reaponae
-than the baaty, unpremeditated worda in which
PI acknowledged and aooepted your nominae
tlon at our meeting on the 18th InaL
That your Convention aaw fit to aooord ita
higheat honor to one who bad been prominent
ly and pointedly oppoaad to your party In (to
earnest and sometimes angry controversies of
the laet forty years is essentially noteworthy.
That many of yon Liberal Republicans should
present another candidate for President, and
wonld more rapidly have united with us in the
support of Adams or Trumbull, Davis or
Brown, is well known. I owe my adoption at
Baltimore wholly to the fact that I had al<
ready been nominated at Cincinnati, and that
a coneontratien of foreos upon'ady new man
had boen proved impracticable. Gratified as
I am at yoor concurrence in the Cincinnati
nomination, and certain as I am that you
would not have thus concurred had you not
deemed me upright and capable, I found no.thing
in the circumstances calculated to in-,
flame vanity or nourish self-conceit But that
your Convention saw fit to reaffirm the Oincin*
nati platform is to mo a source of the pro*
fouodest satisfaction. That body was con
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.ua>?>a >? > >? luID i?|l UJ UU pin/ nCCCSsity,
real or aapposed. It might bare accepted
tl|e candidates of the Liherul Republicans
upon grounds entirely lis own, or might
have presented them as the first Whig Convention
did Harrison and -Tyler, without
adopting any platform whatever. ?
That it choso to plant itself deliberately,
by a vote nearly unanimous, upon the fullest
and clearest enunciation of principles which
are at onee inoontostably Republican and emphatically
Democratic, gives trustworthy assurance
that a now and more auspicious ora is
dpw^ing upjn our long-distractod country.
Some of tho bast years and best effort* of my
life were devoted to a struggle against chattel
slavery, a struggle none the less earnest and
ar<luoua because respect for constitutional ob- I
jections constrained mo to actfor the most I
part on the defensive in resistance to the diffusion,
rather than in direct efforts for the ix
tinetion of ^uman bondage. Throughout
most of these years my vision was uncheored,
my exertions wero rarely animated by even
so much as a hopo that I should live to see
icy country peopled by frccdmen alono. The
affirmation by yopr Convention of tho Cincinnati
platform is a most conclusive proof that
not morely is slavery abolished, but that its
spirit is extinct; that despite the protests of
a respectable but isolated few. thero remains
among us no party and no formidable interest
which regrets the overthrow or desires tho reestablishment
of human bondage, whother in
letter or in spirit. I am thereby justified in
my hope and trust that the first century of
American iudepondenoa will not close before
|tbc grand elemental truths on whieh its rightfulness
was based by Jefferson and the Continental
Congress of '76 will no longer be regarded
as glittering generalities, but will have
become tho universally accepted and honored
foundations of our political fabric. I demand
the prompt application of those principles to
our existing condition.
Having done what I could for tho complete
emancipation of the blacks, I now insist on
too mil cnirancuisemcnt ot all iny white countrymen.
Let dodo say that the ban has just
been removed from all bnt a few hundred eldorly
gentlemen, to whom eligibility to office
can be of little eonecqucnce. My view eon*
templates not tho hundreds proscribed, but
the millions who are denied the right to be
ruled and represented by men of their own
unfettered choice. Proscription were absurd,
if theso did not wish to elect tbo very men
whom tbey are forbidden to cboose.
I bare a profound regard for tho people of
that part of New England wherein I was born,
in whose common schools I was taught. I
rank no people with them in intelligence, capacity
and moral worth ; but while thoy do
many things well, and some admirably, thero
is one thing tbey cannot safely or wisely undertake,
and that is tho selection for States
remote from and unlike their own, of tho persons
by whom theso States shall be represent.,
cd in Congress, if tbey could do this to good
purpose, then Republican institutions are unfit,
and aristocracy the only tiuo political system.
Tet, what have we recently witnessed t Z. B.
Vance, the unquestioned choice of a large
Majority of the present Legislature of North
Carolina, a majority backed by a majority of
tho people who voted at its eleotion, refused
tho scat in tbo Federal Senate to which be
was chosen, and tho Lcgislaturo thus constrained
to cboose another in his place, or
leavfi the Stete unrpnFo?anl<ttl f<*r voovj
The votes of New England thus deprived
North Carolina of the Senator of her choice,
and compelled her to send another in his
stead?another, who, in our late contest, was>
like Vance, a rebel, and a fighting rebel, but
had not served in Congress before the war, as
Vance bad, though the latter remained faithful
to the Union till after the close of his term.
I protest against the disfranchisement of a
State, presumptively of a number of States,
on ground so narrow and technical as this.
Tbo faot that the same Senate whioh refused
his seat proceeded to remove bis disabilities
after that seat had been filled by another, on*
ly serves to place in a stronger light the indignity
to North Carolina, and the arbitrary,
capricious tyranny which dictated it.
I thank you, gentlemen, that my name is to
be oonspieuously assooiated with yours in a
determined effort to render amnesty complete
and universal in spirit as well as in letter. (
Even defeat in such a case wonld leave no
sting, wbllo triumph would rank with those
victories whioh no blood reddens, and which
evoke no tears but those of gratitude and joy. j
Gentlemen, your .platform, which is also mine,
ssnres me thsrt d+usoerney U not beAoeforth
to stand for one thing and republicanism for
inuiivr j mu? micvo mi ino nig HJ uiu?u ill |>U1- (
itica, ae they always meant in the dictionary,
lubatantially on* and Iho lame thing,, namoly,
equal righU, rogardlcaa of creed, or ojiine, or
odlor. I hail thia aa a genuine new departure
from outworn fenda and meaningless contention*
in the direction o( progress and Tyform. (
Whether I ehall he found worthy Id bear
the atandard of the greet Liberal Btopemont
trhk-h the American people here Inangifrated,
la to be determined not ay worda, bet deeds? '
With me, if I ateadily advance( orer me, if I
Halter. Ite grand array oa to achieve | I
lur ou^ooamr/ nw |wriu|MiifiCf?qen)D|r,
I renaie, geatletaen, jtwiH <
IfOUAQJI OmMLKY. I
Fo Hon. Janet &. Dooljttle, Chairata^of the |
Convention, and Metirt. P. W. Brest, ,
Jorm 0. Maciu, and otberi, Committee. ,
The foMowiag myttevioue advertisement ap- '
Mared la a late ioeaeof (lio Charleston AVir? ? '
rA?t Gfcaripctyne l?I paid eoaelderablo 90 lt( C
tad got nothing of it. How h that for high,
Japtain 1 26?31?3?. HORfiE AND
iADDLE. * ?
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gujnner Slays Chra&t.
r.: Aiwuff ?.i?
Senator Suuancr to-day completed hi* letter ,
of adrioo to tho colored people of tbe United
State*, In reply to a loiter adroaeod to hia by
a number of Bohtbarn eotortd me*- He addreMOf
hi* oorrespondeitiu " gentlemen end
follow-eftlsens," and *ay* be delayed answering
that he might reflect and freely inform
blmaelf. He baa liatoned to much from both
sidee, but hia beat judgment Is now in harmony
with bis early oonolualou. He is touched
by the appeal his correspondents make. He
has been the friend of their race, and is glad
they consider him the special advocate of
their rights. - they do him ample justioe
when they believe that -hi* oeunotl, at *ts
critical juncture, would be free from personal
or partisan prqjudioe.
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uauiuTi VVIWHII lot I WO OUdidktM.
Greeley wu born In poverty, and ednoated
himself in a printing office. Grant, fortunato
in early patronage, became a cadet at Weat
Point, and was educated at the pablio expense.
One started with nothing but industry and
charaoter; the other with a military ooauaiaslon.
One was trained as a civilian; the other
as a soldier. Horaoe Oreeley stood forth
as a Reformer and an Abolitionist. President
Grant enlisted as a Pro-Slavery Democrat,
and at the election of James Buchanan fortified
by his vote all the preteosions of slavery,
even the Dred Seott decision. Greeley, from
early life, was earnest and ooastanl against
slavery, fall of sympathy with the colored
raoe, and alwajs foremost In the great battle
for their rights. President Grant, exoept as
a soldier summoned by the terrible accident
of war, never did anything against slavery,
nor has he at any time shown any sympathy
with the colored race. Horace Greeley earnestly
desired that colored citisens should vote,
and able championed impartial suffrage ; but
President Grant was on the other side. Beyond
these contrasts, which are marked, it
cannot be forgotten that Horace Greeley is a
person of largo heart and large understanding,
trained to support human rights. Mr.
Groelcy's industry, general knowlodgo, available
nature, aud, above all, honesty, which no
suspicion has touohed, are mentioned. If these
things appear in President Grant, his great
sucoess in war cannot change his record toward
the colored peoplo; whilo there are antecedents
showing that, in the prosecution of
bis plans, bo cared nothing for tbe colored
race. Mr. Sumner, prefacing that tbe story
is painful but it must bo fold, gives the bisto
ry of Saint Domingo and ilayti, where Grant
outraged eight hundred thousand blacks who
were engaged in the great experiment ot selfgovernment.
Hero follows the history of attempt
at annexation. Ho noxt alludes to the
disrespect with which Grant treated Fred
Douglass, who, by bis invitation, was one of
the Saint Domingo commissioners. Grant, he
says, has little capacity or industry in protecting
the colored people, and assuring peace
at the South. After violating the constitution
and international law to insult the black
Republic, and setting an example of insubordination,
bo is not in a condition to rebuke
the law-breakers. Mr. Sumner then considers
the present position of tbe two candidatesEach
was nominated by a Republican Convention.
He lauds the material composing
the Cincinnati Convention, comparing tbo
character of the supporters of the two candi'
dates. Ho says the country knows too well
the military Ring, the senatorial Ring, the
custom house Ring, through which the President
acts. 8uch supporters ore a very poor
recommendation. He says it is idle to say
that Uoraoo Uroe'.ey and the Republicans who
nominated him at Cineinnati are any less Republicans
because the Democrats unite with
them in support ot their cherished principle,
and the candidato who represents theiu. Mr.
Sumner savs the hardihood of nniut?.i
hood reaches its extreme point, when it is asserted
that under Greeley the freciluien will
bo re-enslaved, or that the colored people will,
in any way, suffer in their e<iual rights. On
the contrary, they hare, in his election, not
only the promise of the platform, but also the
spleudid example for a full generation, during
which he has never wavered in .the assertion
of their rights. To supposo that Horace
Greeley, when placed whero he can do the
most good, will depart from the rule of bis
honest life, is an insult to reason.
It is none tho less idle to suppose that Democrats
supporting lioraco Greeley expected or
desire that he should depart from those principles
which are the glory of his character.?
Tboy have accepted the Cincinnati platform
with its two fold promises, and intended in
good faith to maintain it. " Gentleman, in
thus answering your two inquiries, I hare
shown why you, as colored foltow-citisens, and
also, all who would nplioh! your rights and
save the colored race from indignity, should
.v.?o? w muciiuu mo re-eiecuon 01 tbo President
and put your trust in Horace Greeley.
I ought to add that with him will be assoelated
as Vice-President Gratx Brown,
whom I haro known for years as a most determined
Abolitionist. The two together will
carry into the national government an unswerving
devotion to yonr rights, not to be
disturbed by partisan dictation or sectional
prejudice. Besides all this, which may fitly
guide you in determining between the two
candidates, it is my duty to remind you that
as citizens of the Unitdd States and part of
tho country, your welfare is indissolubly associated
with that of tho whole country.?
Therefore, while justly careful of your own
rights, you cannot be indifferent to the blessings
of good government. It is lor you to ,
consider whetbor the tims has not eomo for
something hotter than the sword j and whethor
a character like llnnM fl*!/? -
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give stronger uiurtnw oi good gorernmsnt
than oan be found in the inaulter of tho eolor. (
ed race, already famous for tho ring* about ;
bius and hi* plain inaptitudo for olril life.?. ,
Spooking now for myself, I havo to say that i
my vote will bo giron for Horace Qrooley, ,
but in firing it I do not go to the Democrat*
io party, nor am I any loai a Republican.? |
On the contrary J am so much of a Republi- |
can that I cannot support a candidate whose \
conduct in ciril life shows an incapacity io {
appreciate Republican principles, and whose
administration is marked by aets of delin* ]
(uenoy, especially toward the colored race, by y
the side of which the allegations on tha Im- |
peaohment of Andrew Jobnaon ware technical j
end trivial." >
8?uth Carolina ClcaVkd Out.?If noth- '
ng more in atolen from the South Carolina >
lYeaaury, U will be broauee there ia actually
nothing left to ateal. The State govern
nent ia paralysed, the finanftea era exhauit- (
id, end the eyetem of publie Intimation U '
wrought to a (tend still, for the leak fT J
'unde. The earpet bagger#, many of whom (
ire epeeiQed by name in eorreapondanoe t
coantly pabliahed by the New York TrU ,
>nn?, have otoally "cleaned out" the State, j
tnd it fa a noticeable fact that ell sf the i
lerpet-beggera are for Trepidant Grant r
' A loj end girl were recently carried oret '
flagera Fell*, end wnre drewrted.
Conititutional Amendment to b?
Yotod upon at N?xt Election.
. By Join* Resolution# of the U#l Legialature
South Carolina, lb? fallowing Conatitutldoal
Amendments are to ba voted opoo
at {he next election:
Wret; to ehange Article II, See lion 11,
whleh requirea a general election to be held
every two jeare on tbe third Wednesday
in Qoiober, so aa to makW ijie general else*
tion nil on tbe first Wednesday after tbe
fira^. lfoodey in November, every eeoond
year, foae^neb aa the Preeidentlal JEleotioo
take* place oo tbat day every* fourth year.
Thoee who voto for this ineainre must
bavs upon their ballota, "Constitutional
Aneadment?Yea." Altai net it. "Conititus
tionsl Amendment?No "
Seoond, to add Artiele XVI to the Coo*
titotioo, which ie In the following worde:
"To the end that the public debt of South
Carolina may not hereafter be Inereaeed
without the due coneldeiatfoa aod free con*
cent of the people of the State, the Oeneral
Assembly ie hereby forbidden to create any
further debt or obligation, either by the
loan of the credit ol the Stale, by guaran*
ty, eadotcement or otherwise, except for the
ordinary and current business of the State,
without first tu! milting the question as to
the creation of any auoh new debt, guarans
ty, endorsement or loan of its credit, to the
people of this State at a geoeral Slate election;
aod, unless two thirds of the qualified
voters of this State, voting os tbe question,
shall be In favor of a furthsr debt, guaranty,
endorsement or loan of lt? credit, none
euch shall ba created or made.
"That the question of adopting this
amendment shall bs submitted to the eleotore
as follows: Those io favor of ths
amendment shall dsposlt a ballot, with the
following words written or printed thereon
: " Constitutional Amendment, Artiele
XVI?Yes." Those opposed to the amendment
sbsll oast a ballot, with the folio wing
words written or printed thereon : "Constitutional
Amendment, Artiele XVI?
No." "
Palmetto Orphan Home.
AN EARNEST APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.
Dear Friendt and Countrymen :?Having
open emrusieu witn me Denevolent work
of providing a Home for the Orphan* and
other equally unfortunate children in South
Carolina, we thos make an earnest appeal
for help in this great work.
The l'almelto Orphan Home was organ*
ized last April, and is now progressing with
encouraging prospects.
The board of Trustees hays adopted a
Constitution and By-I,aws which define the
natural design and mode of operation of
this Institution. Its direct management is
to he hy a Local Board consisting of niue
Ecroon*, in the city of Columbia, which
ioard is to be subject to the direction of a
General Board consisting of two persons
from each County in the Stale, which is to
be called to meot annually in Columbia, at
such time aa the Local Board may appulnt.
In the choice of persons to act on these
Boards, and of the officers of the Inslitution,
no partiality ia to be allowed orf ac?
eount of the religious sect to which perrons
belong; but all appointments are to be
made on the broad principles of humanity
and charily.
The Constitution doea not limit the ng*s
at which children shall he received ; hut
Laves that at the discretion of the Board,
who arc to decide from the nature of each
ease as described in the application.
The Board are deairous of purchasing
suitable and valuable property, now for
sale at low figures, for the looat ion of the
Hon e. We are, therefore, confident that
our appeal to the generous people of South
Carolina will at once bring many liberal
donations and pledges to effect the perraa
nent establishment of the Palmetto Orphan
Home, which will be the best monument to
the memory of our dead we could possibly
rear in our State.
The Board have appointed Tilinnn R.
A ! ?l l r?
V .. . .. vu v> vmviui u^niv ?v vi gmilliti aiu* v>'iu^
miltees and to miie funds for the Home;
and the Board will taka pleasure in acknowledging
?U amounts paid to him, or
ant direotly to us, at Columbia. Donations
may be made in money, provision*,
clothing and anything that can be made
useful.
All applications for entering 'cliildien
mast be made to the Board.
d Iresa, Da. J. W. PARKER,
Cbaitman. Columbia, S. C.
By order of the Board of Trustees.
J B. Rzkll, Secretary.
The Air-Line Railroad Picnic
By the kindness of M^j. Wetlford and Capt.
Allen, of tke Air-Line Railroad, a number of
ladies and gentlemen enjoyed a ride on the
Air-Line Road to Whetstone Mountain. 28
miles from Charlotte. The passenger coaoh
was furnished by Mr. W. W. Pegram, Agent
of the C. C. A A. R. R. Mr. Manning, the
Engineer, managed the *' machine " admirably
that pushed the train out and palled it back.
Railroad engineers are indeed great men, and
not half appreciated, for they " run " more
by faith than sight. ^
Tbo baskst dinner, prepared by the ladies
of tbo party, (and served out and superintended
by Judge D. and Colonels 0., McA., M.,
W., and officers of lower grade,) was equal to
any of the first- class boarding houses, sometimes
called " hotels j" it was elegant.
The road is completed to Whetstone Mountain
on this side, and asveral mllea from Spar
innourg towards in# mountain. Within eight
or tea day* the passage through the mountain
will be finished, and then a speedy connection
with our friends at Spartanburg will take
plaoe.
The blasting through the mountain has been
going on for fourteen weeks unJer the direction
of CapL W. T. Dickinson, Superintend*
snt of the work, a gentleman of great perse*
reranoe and energy, and who shows by his
work t' st be understands his business.
The road passes through a section heretofore
almost inaccessible to markets, but eapa?lo
of selling a large amount of produoe,
Which will b? largely increased ly the building
of the read.
When ? oonneetlnn is mads between Charlotte
and Atlanta, tba people of the two oltiee
will join hands and celebrate the union by a
general jollification at some ptaee to be fixed
>7 those ooneefned.
When the excursion part7 returned, three
iheers were given for Major Wellford, Capt.
Mien, Col. MeAdeO, and the Air-Line Kali*
oad generalI7.?Charlotte Democrat.
- ? ? * ? 1 -M
leading Bepnblieaa, mji the Charleston
Jonrler, has la preparation, and wW shortly
sene, a pamphlet showing up the rssealities
>ractieed in.earryiag through sundry Bills in
ha legislature. The parts the different State
lAcial took in the matter will be detailed, and
.uvir uauica girtn j Alio, WDM NI(M And
unounte fin uf?d to malt* ineoaeaftal iundry
iijuitom aneaaurea. The author expreaaea
limaelf M heartily aiek and diaguated at the
aacalitjr that haa been going on, and U deten
otued te enpoea it. Ye ohoaen onea, aUnd
rotn under, there'a a heary blow coming thia
into.
'"W . ? I
'mmrnmmmmmmmmmm-,
LATE CLI WING 3.
Ex- Poetaaeter->Genoral Randall U dead. . T
Will lam Ford murdered George OrNimli
at Cheater, on the 88th alt
The Preaident and hia Cabinet havo been
Invited to vlelt Chattanooga, Tannetaee.
Hone. Joaepb 1. Brown and Robert Tootabe
of Georgia are about to fight a duel.
A North Carolina man adrertiaea for four
hundred thonaand buahela of blaek barrier.
VII|UMH M VWU^ pivpVWO IV MM MM
one dollar a head on their wives, for the benefit
of tbo poor.
The death of Juares, Preeldont of Mexico,
la oonfirmod, and Lerdo da Tqjada inaugurated
in hia plaoa.
A country editor, tor dearth of nawa, bewaila
the " winter of ita discontent," with the
mercury at ninety-five In the (bade.
A geod newapaper doei more towards build'
lag up a town and county than any other
public institution, and gets low for it.
Prominent metropolitan fkmllios have sent
gifts.to Miss Nilsson, in view of her forthcoming
marriage with Monsieur Rousand.
The wool ellp of Texas this year, la e*peet<
ed to be by far the heaviest in both quantity
and quality ever produced in that State.
The Georgia Legislature is now in session/
and they talk of removing the State capital
baok to MUledgevlile. Oh, that never wilt
do.
In Matamoras, Mexico, on the fifitb, business
houses wei*e closed and t)age placed a*
half mast, la honor of President Juares'd
death.
Rev. John II. Boeock, D. D., a distinguish?
ed Presbyterian clergyman, died at Lexington,
Va., on the 18th instant, in the 00th year
of his age.
A Detroit lover in trying to kiss his nn willing
fair, was ao badly bitten that his check
has bad to be oauterixed and treated the lame
aa tor hydrophobia.
Speak kindly at nlgbt, for it may be beforo
the dawn aotne lored one may flniah bia or her
apaoe of lile for thia world, and it will be too
late to aak forgiveness.
The Wilmington Journal has a cut of the
"old white hat" at the bead of ita column*,
endorsed aa " the old icAil* hat in the old
cAit* house." Pretty good.
An Irish editor of the Wast mildly wishes
for a " hundred and sixty acre lot of Spitsbergen
frigidity, and an icc?gomtned grotto in
the basement story of tbo Aurora Boreallis.'*
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred
last week, by Erskine College, of Due
West, 8. C., on the distinguished President
of Newberry College, the Rev. J. P. Smoltter,
A. M.
An old Democrat of Pennsylvania declares
the growing sentiment in favor of Greeley to
be " like a prairio tornado that swoops ovor
the oountry, coming from no one knows
where."
" Hallo Tom," said ono friend to another on
the streets one day, "are you for Grant t"
"Yes," replied his friend, "I'm for Grant-ing
Greeley my vote on the first Thursday in November.
There ia a man in Berko county, a rather
faeeuoua fellow, whoae nama is New. He
named his first child something; it was Something
New. The next child was Nothing ; it
being Nothing Now.
It was a brilliant Fon-du-Lao boy who, seeing
a dog with a muzzio on (or the first time,
exclaimed. " Mamma, mamma, I bet fire
cents, tho dogs are going to wear hoopskirts ;
there goes a dog with one on his nose."
The boll and army worm aro ruining the
erops in Alabnma. One plantation which
I three days ago would hare nutdo 100 bales,
will now make only 50. There is great depression
among the planters, who eonsider
themselves ruined. 2,500,00b boles Is now the
outside estimate of the cropAdvices
from North Carolina represent that
tho oatnpaign has become so bitter and personal
that a duel is likely to result from it between
Mcrrimon, the Democratic candidate
for Qortrnor, and Senator Pool. A challenge
has already passed, and both are known as,
fighting mon, eaoh having horctoforo fought
duels.
Approving of ex-Senator Uendrieks' sentiment
of "just laws and publio virtue," tho
New York Tribune says ; " We shall neves reform
the civil service, never restore n bealthy
tone to publio morals, never drive out thieves
from 'public places, never bring back confidence
and unity among the States, until we
refuse to be distracted by past issues and com*
bine for good government aud just laws."
The damage by the late floods in Alabama
has reached $6,000,000. The waters
in Central Alabama were higher than ever
known at this season. Aeoessible houses
along tba streams were swept away by
scores; cotton and corn on highlands are
bedly damaged by the heavy rains. The
cotton crop of Alabama has been eut 40,*
000 bales short
J. Duncan Allen, of Barnwell, once Senator
from that eounty, and a standing candi
date, for many years, for gubernatorial honors,
has gone orer, eorpnlenlly and mentally*
to the Radical party. We are sorry tbkt Mr,
Allon has forgotten the advice Rufue Cheat*
once gave him in Boston, when a colored mam
of that oity told the "Senator from Barnwell"
to go to the place where thieves and robbers
will eventually be eookod. Instead of heeding
Cboate's advice, hs baa deliberately taken
tho very road that will surely lead him into
, the fiery furnace.
Fiooaas Doa'r Lis.?Hon. D. T. Corbln
1 Republican, in his speech at Greenville, on J
the 4th lost., said ; 4
" Governor Orr retired from ofiee, leaving
the bonded debt of the State about five million
dollar*, end the floeting debt one mils
lion five hundred Ihoneend dollars, perhaps.
"The bounded debt of the State now is
sixteen million dollars, end the floating
debt from four to six millions.
"Tho Legialetore only authorised the lean#
of flvo hundred thousand dollars to re
d?ttn the "bill* reoeirable" leaued in ] 86ft,
one or ooo and one-half million* more to
redeem bUk of lb* Dank of tho State. one
million to roliare ike Treaaury, and reran
hondred thooaand dollara for the Land pom*
miaeioacr, making throe milliooe and mean
hundred thooaand dollara, added to the
bonded debt."
The "Ring," Scott, Vaagle, 1 arker A Co.,
here added from aeree to eight milliona to
the bonded debt, and from four to aiz mil*
llona of dollara to the floating debt.
[Marion Star, 17/A ult.
A Liberal Repnblieao Club area termed
on Prlday night, 19th loot., at Laaeaater,
oompoeed entirely oi colored man. The
Club numbere about twenty, with a proapeet
of rapid ieereaae. They awcar againet
the preaent corrupt efflee boldeiA