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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. The Whiskey Rebel lion Quelled. Governor Tillman Addresses tte Troops ano1 Citizens. ?SS?MES CONTROL OFPOLICE Threats to Kill the Governor. BAND-BOX SOLDIEES. White Wiusreil Peace Xow Hovers O'er the Scene-But the Law Must and Shall he Enforced. On Tuesday morning last, at 10 o'clock the State troops were march ed from their quarters in the peni tentiary grounds to the State capi tol, preparatory to dismissing them to their homes. When they had been drawn up in line in front of the capitol, the Governor spoke as follows : Citizen-soldiers, Volunteers, and Fellow Citizens : South Carolina to-day is attract ing the attention of the entire United States. The situation here is so grave and so anomalous that Tt is proper for a clear and official tatemftut to go forth, and that an analysis of the causes, which have brought it about should be given to the public. As the Governor of the entire people (for I have never sought to be anything else) that statement can best come from me. You all are familiar with the oc currences of the past four days the conflict between citizens anti officers of the law. You are aware of the contention made by those who are resisting the law-the dis pensary law-that it is an invasion of private liberty, that it is un constitutional and that it shall not be enforced. That contention should not be settled, as I have al ready said, by arms. THE PRIVATE HOUSE MATTER. Now let us look for a moment at the consequences. If the claim set forth that private residences shall not be searched for whiskey, is once admitted, it simply repeals the dispensary law, and it repeals it in an unconstitutional manner; for if whiskey can be sold from private residences, if a man's house can be turned into a saloon, if a private residence can be made a bar from which whiskey can bfi transmitted into pockets, or "hy other means to regular saloons, and we are not permitted to go in that private residence, search for and seize contraband goods, you can readily see it is useless !.o pretend to say that we have a dispensary law. It is a law, was enacted by the Legislature and it is on the Statute books. I, as chief execu tive, have sworn that the laws ol this State shall be obeyed and re spected ; and until the dispensary law is repealed legally SO HELP ME GOD I will exert all the powers I have tc see that all the laws are obeyed. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, we will not dis cuss the reasons, whys and where fores, and advantages and disad vantages of the dispensary law that will be a political issue in the coming campaign, and you, the sovereign people of South Caro lina, will pass on it at the ballot box. THE DARLINGTON AFFAIR. When, unfortunately, the colli sion occurred at Darlington t news was flashed from end of Sou Carolina to the other that an ar] ed mob (hundreds of men it w said) were mounted, in pursuit tho State's officers, charging the with having wantonly provok the conflict and murdered inuoce citizens. How do the facts be out the statement? The constabl had discharged their duty, and hi gone to the depot ; they had bei sent to Darlington because the s who were on the ground had bei nearly mobbed the first day, hi to desist from the execution warrants and return to their hote. and when the chief was orden here with reinforcements, tl mayor had allowed them to be i suited, abused, and cursed to the faces; an armed mob had brok? into tho armory and stolen tl guns of the military company, ai the spectacle was presented of cit zens seizing thc arms of the Sta for the purpose of shooting dow officers of the State. I ordered 01 the local company, and the capta; telegraghed me he had recoven thc guns; not trusting his cor maud I ordered the Sumter cor pany to go there ; when they r ported everything was quiet I o dered them to return home. Now when the constables got the depot, two boys, stripplings,g into a fight, ene got whipped ar ran off and got reinforcements ar came back with 25 or 50 men (u don't know now many), armed the teeth; they rushed down i the depot and picked a quarr with the constables; the collisic occurred, men were killed on bot sides, and tho fault cannot I clearly placed yet, if it is ev< clearly placed. Now the Mayor i Darlington said that the taking < the arras by the mob was fun the same kind of fun we have see s?sewhere in the State. The armj ries were broken into here and tl armory of Chester was broken inl and some of the militia, have bee in open mutiny against the Con monder-iu-chief and have refuse toohey orders; but, thank Goi enough were left to respond to tl call-enough of you old soldie boys to realize tho danger, au know that this govermeut is of tb people, by the people and for th people, and no oligarchy aha ever rule it again. You responde to the call of the Governor, an are here to uphold the la\ (Cheers.) THE MAYOR OF DARLIXGTOM this morning, in an address, trie to throw the blame elsewhere, say ing I claim and exercise power t other Governor or executive c officer of the United States eve exercised. I cannot undertake t go through all the charges or es planations he has made. I wi, briefly show just what the facti as stated from their own stanc point'prove. These troops. THESE BAND-BOX TROOPS who have refused to obey order i (laughter and cheers), these sol diers turned politicians, and in fluenced by political rancor an frenzy have, by their action, am the men in different places in thi State, who have sent word b Darlington offering assistante , bave convicted themselves in . th estimation of the world, and i cannot be disproved that they ar lynchers at heart. The informa hon sent forth was that these me] ? were to be hunted down and lynch ; ed, and not one to be left alive [ and when I ordered troops to g i lhere to &top insurrection, to sto] , this mob, restore law, protect lif and property, and "let the law re sumo its sway, they wouldn't obey ' The mayor said he had the righ ! to arrest; of course he did, but h . had no right to send out a mob . army undor no officer, without th sheriff, or some regularly constitu ted constable in charge of it. Let us look at. THE RIDICULOUS SIDE OF IT. In some respects it has the ap 1 pearance of a big April fool.but iba it occurred on the 30th of March I say these men were advertisiui . themselves to the world as lynch ere, and that they intended t( lynch these constables who wen in the woods; none of them guilt} of having started the row, they ' were galloping aud hurrahing ovei ? the country, sending for reinforce . ments and all bearing arms, bul . they have never fired a shot at ? single constable. They waylaic constables at the depots, but have never seen one since the first fire . (laughter), and it seems the^ ? miWIH IM- lill Bil IMMM - didu't want to find the constabl If they were lynchers,as they ? vertised themselves to be, w didn't they lynch the man \vb( they claimed originated the trc ble, and whom they had in tb power? They have slandered the: selves by proclaiming that th would lynch those who had caus it, but would not lynch the m whom they say did cause it. TAE SCENE IN 1876. Now, "gentlemen, it is proper f me to rocall the scenes witness here in 1876. Wehn South Cai lina learned that troops had seizi this State House, within two da time this whole encampment ba to the monument was black wi indignant citizens I. was arno them)., but they were all of o mind. We were all brothers, 1 were all friends and Carulinia and patriots. To-day we find t State divided into two hoati camps. Why? Simply because t the minority are not willing to 1 the majority govern. The bo< politic is disseased ; it is in a fev< Why? Because in this city ai in Charleston the people ha taken to their bosoms. A VIPER IN THE SHAPE OK A NE'\ PAPER. which distills day by day pois? into their system, and will not 1 the fever subside. They give r credit for nothing. In thc vocabulary Governor Tillman side of the ledger is all debit ai no credit. They try to stiug r personally by abuse slander ai misrepresentation. I wear a co of mail which they have nev pierced-that is an honest hen desirous of bettering the interoi of this State, and looking to tl welfare of the whole peeple. B fellow citizens this strained rel tionship between factions South Carlina must stop mu cease, it cannot go on wi tho precipitating civil war. We of the majority facii .n a NOT TO BLAME. I deny that we have done anythii except in accordance with the In and the constitution. These m< who have opposed us, and are sti opposing us must come to the senses and realize that if Dem cracy is to govern in this count] they have got to submit to the ru of the majorety. These two new papers are like a thorn in the fle? which continues to fester, Th? will not let the wound which wi caused in 1890 by the displac ment of the old order of thinj and the establishment of the ru the of people, heal. They. KEEP OFEN THE SORE, they pour poison in it, and UK are encouraged,to do it, aided ai abetted in doing it by thos?> wi are forever and eternally blamii 1 me with it. Well this patient like a maniac ; there is a powdi magazine not far off, he has lighted match and is straining a i his nerve to reach it. The collisio in Darlington produced a flam but it was gas aud not powde mostly newspaper lies, lt flashc abroad, flashed a light that i i luminated the State and the Unite States, based on falsehood. Tl people listened with bated breat i for a reverberation of the repo ; for the explosion expected to fo i low the civil war which was pr . dieted. It didn't come, and it wi not come ; it cannot come beean? . thc people aro in the saddle an will continue to remain tlier i , (Cheers.) These. MEN WOULD DESTROY THE STATE. . in their bitterness and anger, , thereby they could destroy me an ; through me the rule of the majori V j It has been sent abroad all ovo . this State and the Uuited S'ate ; that my life is daily threatens . that such and such men are off';: ing to go to Columbia to kill m One prominent citizen has ha the temerity, or rathor the folly t tell Mr. Ye Idell-of my ow ? county-he came to Columbia wit f a shot gun Friday. r TO KILL GOVERNOR TILLMAN. 3 ? I will not give his name, because ? do not care to advertise him bi 5 can do it when ^necessary. Th real - ened men live longest ; a barkin ' dog does not always bite. Ther never has been one moment whe . I felt the least uneasiness for m ; personal safety. My life is no i worth much to me, hut is worth a [ much as any other matt's and rath i er than deseit ray post to m; i enemies by leaving the executiv . Mansion where ycu had placed m , I would bave gone out of it a ? corpse. (Cheers.) Who is doing all this? THE BLAZING ELEMENT. the match which is trying to reach the powder, is the barroom men, the whiskey men and those who are egging them on, encouraging them are the rulers of the old oligarchy whom we overthrew in 1890 at the ballot box. This row which has broken forth is a politi cal frenzy ; the blood that has been splilt is an offering to the Moloch of whiskey; they claim and declare Uiat the State shall not i control the whiskey traffics, that they will resume their iniquitous trade, debauch our households, ; destroy lives, furnish poison to : the people and make them kill : one another, and they will repeal i the dispensary law by saying they ! can seli whiskey from their resi : deuces. Shall this demon who : has already had four or five vietims ; have any more? One negro at Spurtanburg a white mau at Well ford and three men at Darlington, 1 killed. I do not intend for him i to have any more If I can help it he has had enough. In God's name as a statesmen and as a ? leader of enlightened public opinion I SHALLNOT BUDGE ONE INCH ' from tho position I take that this is the people's government and ' the people shall rule it. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, you may imagine in asserting this, that I j am going to aggravate the trouble , that in claiming the right to search privare residences I will ? cause an outbreak. I will tell you what I am going to do. ? IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE. t I am going to tell the State to . morrow in a proclamation-the re > vised statutes of South Carolina ' are a mine of strength, wealth, and t wisdom for a Governor who will search^ thorn..^.ujLeu/prAft-^them; ? What would I have been able to do if I had not been able to con trol the railroads and telegraph, ' preventing them from reinforcing the insurgents and sending abroad I lies to inflame the people? There is r ANOTHER SWORD OF DAMOCLES - which the law places in my hand f to suspend over those insurgents 3 or people who are pressing for this - law to be annulled without proces? i by the Legislature; and to-morrow f I shall cut the thread which hoi (IR 3 that in suspension and use it, and - that is section 519, which gives me 3 power in an emergency to take 3 charge of the police. We have had the spectacle presented of the offi cers of the law opposing officers of the law; those who have been >r sworn to support the constitution ' and the laws, disobey them, and 3 aid others in disobeying them. Il * the mayors and city councils dc 9 not make the police do their duty. r I intend to see that the police dc 1 their duty or I will discharge the ' last man of them. (Cheers.) A 1 voice: That's the way to do them !' I intend, as I say, to control thc ' State in the interest of law and " order ; I 1 WILL NOT SURRENDER '10 ANY MOI R or any whiskey element. If the 2 dispensary law is good and proper 1 and the people want it, they shal] . have it, and those who don't want . it must, take it. (Cheers.) 1 Until the result of the new move 3 is seen I shall confine tho duties oi \ the constables to watching the rail }< roads and seizing contraband whis key, and to watching the police seeing that they do their duty, anc report to me whether they are do f ing. If they don't obey my ordert ?1 strictly, if the authorities of the _ towns don't co-operate, then I shal! r call the Legislature of South Caro 3 lina together, and I will have the [ power given the Executive to re .. move these men and appoint othen i# in their stead who will obey the I law and enforce it. (Cheers.) We 0 will continue to search private ?j houses where contraband liquors h are supposed to be, with warrants when necessary. We are obliged to do this as long as it is the law : it is the law until repealed. 1 A voice : Why don't you obej t the law yourself? Gov. Tillman : In what rospeel g have I not obeyet it? e Cries of "Shoot him," "Shu! a up." y Gov. Tillman : Silence men, and t koop quiet. It is true if the Legis s laturo is assembled in extra 6ost>ior, - it will cost moue}', but money is nc y object when the rights and the lib o ertiesof the peop'o aro involved, D So there is an extra session in sight to enact a metropolitan police bill for all cities and towns unless they co-operate with the executive and remove this trouble. In conclusion I will say TO THOSE "WHO ARE OPPOSED to this - law to submit, to quit, to cease their opposition ; they must cease it. We are not going to sur render a good law because they are opposed to it. I propose to uphold the law. I have never done any thing to aggravate tho situation; I never; will. I cannot, I will not, I dare not allow the minority to come forward and say this is a bad law; w? dont want it and will not obey it; you cannot enforce it. If this law is thus annulled, then any law can.be similarly abrogated by a minority, and all law become a farce. We have thousands of other good men besides yourselves who are ready to respond. The people of South Carolina must govern the State, and those who are in rebel lion must get out of the road, be cause the train is on the track; I have go? the throttle in my hand as Governor; I am going in on time, so help me God. (Cheers.) EVANS READS AN ORDER. j At theicon^usion of his address Gov. Tillman turned and entered the capitol. Col. Mixon brought the troops to a carry, and the judge advocate general then proceeded to read as follows: GENERAL ORDER NO. 10. The emergency requiring the as sembling'of hoops at the capital no longer exists and the colonel commanding will return them to their homes by the nearest practi cable route on the first outgoing train. The commander of each company of militia and volunteers will give a certificate to the rail road conductors of the number of men transported and the point to which they;.go, which wi'l be a voucher to the railroads for pay mander-in-Chief in the name of the State extends thanks to the gallant and patriotic soldiers and citizens, who at a moment's notice, dropped their various avocations and pursuits to respond to his call. Their action is a stinging rebuke to those companies which failed to do their duty [in this crisis when civil war and anarchy seemed to stare us in the face. It shows to the world, however, when the masses of the people uphold tho government treachery and mutiny cannot overthrow it. B. R. TILLMAN, Govern'r and Commander-in-Chief. Governor Tillman during the ? afternoon issued the following proclamation which speaks for it self and will become operative to-day. ; PROCLAMATION. i STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. > I Columbia, S. C., April 3, 1894. ) WHEREAS, Section 519 of the General Statutes of this State de clares that "The Governor shall have authority, whenever in his i jndgment it shall be necessary, tc arm the constabulary and in anj emergency to assume the sole con ' trol of the whole or any part ol ! the municipal police in cities and i incorporated towns, and to author ' ize the chief constable of the State : or any deputy chief constable tc command assistance in the execu ! tion of process, suppressing rio tt : and in preserving peace." and. Whereas, it is made the dut) . of and the powor is given said > police to enforoe the statute knowe I as the "dispensary law," but thal . instead of obej ing thc require 1 me nts of said law, the said police . except in a very few towns, have 1 been an obstruction and are ae . tive abettors of those who arc ! defying the law ; whereas, undei ? the same statute the Governor ie ; given power to appoint State con ! stales for thc purpose of its enforce ? ment; and whereas, the rcbelious 1 and lawless element of society have 1 hounded and insulted these ofiicen 'land sedulously educated the pub' i lie mind to resistance, causing I several encounters, resulting it bloodshed between constables anc ' illicit whiskey sellers, producing intense excitement and danger tc : the peace and welfare of the State. Now thareforo. I, Benjamin R Tillman, Governor of the State ol South Carolina, do issue thia mv ' proclamation giving full ant: . official notice to tho municipal au 1 thorities of every city and incor . porated town in the State of Soutl: ' Carolina and to the police au ci marshals thereof, that under the i powers given me by said Sectios 519, the emergeecy contemplated baa arisen and does now exist, and that I do hereby assume sole con trol of the whole force of muni cipal police and marshal? ot the several cities and incorporated towns of the State.. They are here by ordered to enforce all laws on the statate books, together with all municipal authorities not incon sistent with the purposes of the proclamation. As soon as the emergency which is now upon us shall no longer exist I will re linquish control and restore the former status. By the Governor. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor. J. E. TINDAL, Sec of State. A Xotablc Accession. At the Aiken county comference of reformers held last week, Sheriff Holley, hitherto a conservative, gave in his adherence to the re formers. He was introduced by Dr. R. H. Timmerman, a worthy son of a worthy sire Hon W. H. Timmerman. The following is Mr. Holley's speech : Mr. Holley was greeted with ap plause. He said in substance: I have been a farmer since I was big enough to crawl. I have been associated with the people of Aiken county many years, and I have lived pleasantly with them and they have honored me, though I have differed with them somewhat. Believing that records are interes ting, I haye preserved a copy of the ticket I voted ou the 30th of August 1S92. I voted for the list of delegates beaded by D. S. Henderson-the Sheppard ticket; for Congress, Robert Aldrich, for Solicitor G. D. Bellinger; for Senator, John Gary Evans. The balance of Mr. Holley's ticket was mainly made up of Re formers. I endorsed the_call to get a^car> didarcn^irm? did what I promised. The time Tillman first spoke here I was one of a committee to meet him. I found I had a little prejudice against him-thought he was sim ply after au office. I was not en tirely sure I was right in opposing him. I never told any man not to vote for him. I have five boys, and they all voted for him. I believe Governor Tillman has made some mistakes, but no man has ever encountered the the op position he has and done so much under so many difficulties. I have followed his career closely because I wanted to find out if I was right i in my course. It is the hardest ? thing for a man to confess being in the wrong. That is the trouble with this country. I believe all should come up and acknowledge. I have not been badly wrong after all. I have not flopped. 1 balieve I am on the right side uow. , Yes, I was prejudiced against Tillman, but I am here to say he I was right and I was wrong-here to say he can always be found true , to what he says. Ben Tillman has not stirred up a hornets' nest but a nest of yel I low jackets. Mr. Holley then made many pointed, sensible observations or , matters of finance, covering j mortgages, etc. He said he favored a dog tax of $1, which should gc ? to the public schools. He believed there was unfairness in theexemp , tiou of certain enterprises from I taxation. He had heard of cotton , factories being exempted, bul never of sawmills; he was verj glad tho railroads had been com pelled to pay their taxes ; he said , the abuse of tho officers of the law known as "spies" was abominable ? No human language was too vile tc . apply to these constables. The ? good people are not in sympathy with this abuse. Tho Dispensary law is one of thc , best laws ever put on the books > I have watched its operations ; closely and am thoroughly con vinced. I hope I shall never live r to see open barrooms again. Thif , expression was tremendous!) I cheered. I am not hunting office. I have ) good friends, many friends on the otherside. They aro prejudiced. I believe I am right becuase 1 ? believe Tillman has done us sr . much good. I The chairman said: Sherifl . Holley, are you with the Reform . movement, heart, soul and body?' , Sheriff Holley; -'I am with 1 them for all I am worth." Then there was tremendous ap i plauso. BUTLER IN DARLINGTON. SOME SAPIENT REFLEC TIONS BUT VERY ILLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS. A Very Startling Position for a Military Man to Take. FLORENCE, April 3.-Senator Butler says : "I have come down from Dar lington where I have been the past twenty-four hours. As far as I could learn everything is perfectly quiet and the civil authorities pre pared to discharge their duty. It seems that a number of State con stables or spies ae they are called, had been to Darlington for the pur pose of ascertaining if there was any contraband whiskey. In the search they made, they were sup ported by the mayor and civil au thorities of Darlington, as there was not the slightest resistance to this enforcement of the dispensary law; on the contrary the people of Darlington co-operated with the enforcement. This was prior to Thursday, March 29. It appears the forc^ of constables or spies was increased on that day, by a re inforcement of about eighteen men, armed with Winchester rifles and pistols. Why this reinforce ment of armed men should be sent into a peaceable, law-abiding com munity where there had been no resistance to law, I cannot under stand, and I think the authorities will have difficulty in explaining it. It also appears that this armed band were about to retire from that community where they had .not .been .mole s ted-or disturbed,... wjben a personal difficulty arose between two young men at the railroad sta tion where these spies were. This difficulty, from what I can learn, was an entirely personal matter be tweeu the parties engaged and in no way connected with the execution of or resistance to the dispensary law. "One of these armed constables, McClendon by name interfered in this private difficulty. A citizen, Mr. Norment, at the depot on busi ness, made some remark, and there was an inter-change of epithets be tween him and this,man whereupon the constable opened fire upon Mr. Norment, with the remark, 'G-d d-n it, boys, let her roll.' The firing then became general be tween the armed constables and the few persons who appear to have been at the station by accident or on business. The result of this firing was that two unoffending citizens were slain, one constable killed and this man McClendon badly wounded, and several oth( r citizens, among them the chief of police, who was trying to preserve order, were several times wounded. "The people of Darlington, natur ally indignant at the extraordinary and violent measures adopted by the authorities of tho State, were outraged, and upon the informa tion of this emute at the station they set out and pursued the men who they rightly thought had com mitted a wanton and unprovoked murder upon two of their best citi zens. They pursued these men, I take it, as long as there was a pros pect of arresting them, and, we must assume, bringing them to justice for what they considered an unprovoked homicide. As a proof of their conservatism, the wounded man, Mr. McClendon, who had shot Mr. Norment, was taken to the jail and there protected from further injury, although the people of that town were greatly infuriated at his conduct. "I think it may be safely asser ted that there is not a more law abiding, inteligent community anywhere in the United States than the two counties of Darling ton and Florence. Now. it does seem to me that if I had been Governor of the State of South Carolina I would have felt it to be my duty, upon being informed of the occurrences at Darlington, have gone promptly to the scene of the disturbance aud assured the people of that hitherto law-abiding community that they should have fair play. I think if Governor Tillman had done this matters could have been composed in 24 [lours, and whoever should Been proven to be in fault would have been made amenable to the law. In stead of that he issued a proclama tion denouncing thc good people Df these two counties as insurgents and insurrectionists and ordered the military of the State to camp upon them. During my stay at Darlington I vas deeply impressed with the anxiety of both the citizens and the military to keep within the limits of the law. I advised as far as I had the right to advise, that under our form of government the military be subordinate to the civil power, and the use of the military arm was only justifiable when the civil authority was prov ed to be powerless and paralyzed and, I think, if Governor Tillman had or could recognize this Con- ' etitutional relation of the two powers of our goveanment, he would avoid many of Jthe blunders which he has made. There are two ways to execute any law. The one by wisdom and conservatism and fairness, and the other by harshness, violence, and au over bearing diregard of the citizens. I need not now express any opinion in regard to the dispen-. sary law, but I may say that, in my judgement, the Governor is attempting to enforce it in a harsh violent and ill-advised manner. He ought to know that the Anglo Saxon race, particularly in our day and generation, will not sub mit, beyond a certain point to be harried and repressed and pursued. The Constitution of the United States and of the State gurantees the citizen against unreasonable searches,and is nothing there in the dispensarylaw that I know of,which justifies an invasion of this sa cred right. Governor Tillman must not imagine from the patrotic submission of the people in the city of Charleston, where he seems to have practically unchallenged sway in the harsh execution of this law, that the people outside of that city, less accustomed to the res triauts of municipal government, will quietly submit to invasion of their righ ts and it would be prud ent on his part to go slow in the rigid enforcement of a \ery un popular law. "I should not be understood as encouragingjin the slightest degree lawlessness or resistance in any form to lawful authority. The peo ple of Darlington and Florence, as a rule, have not resisted the lawful authority. There may be exception al instances, as there are in every community, but they do not justify the wholesale denunciation which he seems to have put upon them. From what I observe in both these counties there has not been the least excuse or justification for ordering the military to these points. He has done so at an enormous expen se to the taxpayers of the State,and of course, he will have to look out for that. "While in Darlington, I advised, as far as I had the right to advise, that] the friends of the deceased who were killed in the emute at the railroad station, go before the trial jvstice, make affidavit charg ing the accused parties of the offence which they thought they were guilty of. demand the issu ance of a warrant, let the same be placed in the hands of a duly au thorized constable or citizen, or where the accused has fled the juris diction of a warrant, that it be sent to the sheriff of the county where they are found,endorsed and served by him, so that the parties might be arrested according to law, required to appear, give bond and answer to the charges in the due course of judicial administration. If resistance should be made to the constable of the trial justice, and he should fail to make the ar rest, he should be required to en dorse such failure on the warrant, and then, and then only, the civil authorities should call on the mili tary to act as a posse for the arrest of the accused. "I see by tho papers that Gov ernor Tillman, in a note to Capt. McCaughrin of the military company, has stated that'the duty of the soldiers, and thc militia are soldiers, when called into servive is blind obedience to orders from his superior, and not to question them in any way,' To my mind this proposition is simply mon strous, and is not true. No officer is bound to obey the orders of his superior when thc order issued is illegal. Nothing is better settled in military law than that. Suppose CONTINUED ON SECOND^PAGE,