Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A^/ f r- r ~-Y ^ ^ . ' i " ; T^tl ^ r * She ISimcrsfcr ledger. AiwwpMpy t #ter<5? ^wa<to^^^ii'^>moa4 /Ww^n^ 4fNnAnol?B>'vh'HMrru':!! JSaft ruro | - ^5^^ SK tfLWEBKLY. LANCASTER S. 0. OCTOBER 21 1103 ~ ~ ESTABLISHED 1852 I i II OUR . Stx>r>] m: fall 1dr thurs And t( Ladies IGenerj SEE tl WE KNOV Tha ronage I the goc = Lanc. II net TO 10 ANNUAL [SPliAY ,0 [L LINER < AND WII ESS G0( ON * **. ?. & ,*. >' iday, Oct. ) Invite AI i and the ally to con lese Lines, j YOU W!LL BE I inking you for yoi ! and asking yon t * \ >d work up, we ai * Respectful ftSTER Kercantii ... Com + * * I . * , V / * . ' /- *> t ALii <| ?Fo< U Y. I "ITER | >DS | 4 <tfi AO I 1, ItfUO, LJj the ^ Public J tie and PLEASED. J iir pat- 1 o keep | e J. ly' 1 JE 1 n n \i\t *8 ran K Tho Crime of Lexingl n. j The Stuto, 16th inst. i '11m execution of ,lames 11. 1 Tillman ior tho ussassination ^ f " N. (i (io.i/.ales would huvo carried ^ no comfort to Iho relative of the \ martyred editor of The Slate; ( . would not hnvA : - - ,HV M Mil 11 I sense of personal loss or cause-1 one loss sorrowing hour. 'The s taking of a hundred such lives ^ would not atone in any degree for the loss of the one; a hundred' s years in tho penitentiary, anotornity in tho hell of a lost soul would not compensate for tho absence of ^ him who was so foully done to j death just nine months ago. That ^ is their personal viewpoint. But every citizen or South Car- j( olina, worthy of exercising citizenship, had a citizen's interest in the verdict of a jury in a case in which tho State of South Caro- ^ Una was tho [prosecutor. Every pan, woman and child who beleves that laws are made to be ^ obeyed and not to bo violated was V {Concerned in the result of the trial h |of J. H. Tillman if they were , !concerned iu the good name and o honor of the State in which they tyvo. Every? citizen of South i u Carolina who daily road each word . uttered in the court room at Lex- 11 iogton is competent to find a ver- ' diet. Oil one point these renders 11 of evidence have been ut disadvantage; they could not test the * witnesses by their appearance and h demeanor _>n the stand, but their N failure to do so was entirely in 'l fayor of iho defense, the men and 11 women who testified fm- tfin *?rr?a c ecution being admittedly unim- 8 peachable. The citizens of Soutli C .i dinu 1 who read have beard the cvi lenco a and the arguments. Tbcy 'nave seen the defense abandon the ground of self-defense; tbcy bave * seen them leave the only position 1 which migh shield the inanslayer 1 from the charge of murder, a ban- v donins it because it was untenable and then, practically admitting the malice and the assassination, 1 they seen them appeal to the low est passions and political hatreds as tbe sole ground for saving a 1 life forfeited by the laws of God and man! There is just one important piece of information possessed by the Lexington jury which has beon withheld from the groat body of citizens who have hoard the testimony. The Lexington jurors knev^ that before the trial began the inclinations of almost every man on the panel hud been secured and that when the case was entered ?pon a majority of tbe 12 men who swore they were impartial and had neve Expressed an opinion were partisans for the defense. That tho jury would uot convict under any circumstances was a foregone conclusion; it would not have found tho defendant guilty had no testimony been offered or no arguments been made in his behalf. And the county of Lexington must forever bear the shame of a monstrous crime committed against our sysa. - * ? ioui oi government. ^ But what is the verdict of the <public jury, the freo and unpur- 1 chasable opinion of the intelligence < of South Carolina* In.expi osing our convictions as u citizen, we i believe the views of that portion I of the public tif which reference 1 is made are given voice. This newspaper has repeatedly called i i attention to the miscarriage of' Ubticc in this Stat*.1: it lias often onti teeu evidence t?f lutnpcring " ith one ut ies ami of sharp practice l>v at tr m oiT.e\s, the cmplovm nt of anv o-.-e aid every nu\>ns t?> s <iuo tlv i< ease of the I i ietli . ill lit - I",! ragged the j ublio t ? hoi d it iiel earnings so .. i> i - i..> hi lie lirst ti>iri .Instn h i> I. en ? 1 nv;od in mil courts hut never u \v. ore so sliiiim h ssly, rover Ik lore j :r> - o brazenly, in tin? full light of my, ay, have the imnswon t ?guard, vic-I o shield and to honor that repre the I entation of public virtue holding boa he scales of jus-tico, so delilcd, are orrupted, debauched her. South sess Carolina is the victim, ravished of pcrj or honor by unnatural offspring. as i Veil may the worthy sons and wo aughtcrs bow their heads in ub - Sou act shame! flag ^ - ? 11 'l'ho Tcstim liv of lVijurers. stri| plat 'he State, 10th inst. -^ell To those acquainted with the sWO ersonel of some the witnesses on ,ni1^ rhich leliance was placed by coun st'cl el to save Tillman's neck from 'n ho halter; to those familiar with ('CC( ho life, habits and characteristics mut f N. G. Gonzales, it is amazing s,!in hat intelligent attorneys should avc put them upon the stand. It ^ni * not eonecivahle that they ex- ')'n etced twelve honest men to accept s truth what was so manifestly scllt arefaccd perjury. It -is imposihle to credit the defense with " ubmilting in good faith testimony u 110 vhich it would he an alTront to * sk men of unbiased judgment ^ nd ordinary sound sense to ac:ept. ihe only explanation which cou1 coins reasonable is that, assured f the "fixedness*' of several of inst he jurors, they made the bold Pe<> nd seemingly desperate play, i'lio class of men on whom the! Icfcnse mainly depended for ius- i ^ illation of lillnian scruno would ' i i i .. i sulb iot dare show their facts as v. it com ,esses m ; c<urt in any Mite|ai,,i vhore human life is held sacred] hut il l wlrue criminals fear th 1 : - f' encc of a stern judge. \\ hid a lt ravesty on justice that reprt-en j atives of the lowest walks of l'lcji; ti, hould be given credence \vh a K; ] hey conic into the temple, with or e inclean hands, to testify in behalf l,,:' f vice! | for; and "Eye of newt and toe of frog, oOc, Vool of bat and tongue of dog, Lddei's fork and blind-worm's >ting, , . . ji/.zuril'd leg and owlet's wing, ''or a charm of powerful trouble, tike a hell broth boil and babbie.'' | Its stench reeks in the nostrils ^ if decent people. ! 11 .1uon One outrage upon decency is {inn hat blacklegs, thieves and thugs, (,f t tave been dragged from theii nail taunts by the defense and indue- cott id to cat) their other crimes with mi t'u> lenury. Iliese creatures swore J J cuiii vitb leprous lips that the dead t|10 ;ontloman used them coarse, bias- ^]ul| ihemous lunguago that his inti- i)C , nates are sis confident never pass- p, j( id his lips as that water will not' low up hill. Nature does not S ihange and a knowledge of his 1 taturo is all suflicient to damn as inn? lar those witnesses who, common o the core, could not even nianu-. j ^ acinic in momns or enort a con cl. , rersation with a man of modesty, life lohcaoy and refinement without cry caving the brand of fraud stamp- j 311,1 !'t on their words. 1 and And who were they, these vital pc< witnesses who heard M:\ (ion/.a- cas, es speak violent threats or saw cry lini make a hostile motion against, car Pill limn f Docs the public real /,e who they are, what they are? ^ We have not their records in their' (jer iictv yet, hut wo know that is i.-tcpcr of a divo, another a Hikr who is said to havo killed v n n 1 who in his home i i 1 us utterly diare* i!!;cr has been pub i ::-i? ?i for theft, another - tvi-pecVublo nei^h i ! '.ml morals and on..I'iief on o.'itti?1?? gih?~ "w > i 1. i iu man to kill an enoi roi,.iring to swtur that tbo im m.ulc the attack. That is character of the alleged threat oi s and eye-witnesses. There some others. Wo aro in posion of conclusive proof of the jury of three witnesses rated mportant for the dofenso?and believe that never before in th Carolina was there such i ant. wholesale false swearing, t was on this stroaked and [>ed gang that reliance was ed t > establish the ploa of -defense ? some of these men re to hearing Mr. Gonzales e t'u eats: two of them to tig him shove his hand down is pocket. Not ono strata of ?ncy was represented in that 1 wall of defense built to withd the strength ef evidence? sistiblo to honest minds? led against it by Senator TalI, Representative Dowling, Adams, Mr Lyles, Kepreutivc Gause, Mrs. MeltoD, Lido and, a host in itself, the ig declaration of the man so life was j^'iuled by tbo Star 'ruth. lie employment of such pariu tho courts?defiling by lamination the temple of jus?is a fearful blow at the one lint ion standing between the pie and anarchy. >N FES-IONS OF A PRIEST, lev. Jno. S. Cox, of Wake, writes. "For 12 years 1 erod from Yellow Jaundice. I ?u:.i I a number of physicians t "cd ;.!! sorts of medicines, t n > i lief. Then 1 began ?! of Kectrice Bitters and i: 1 am now cured of a die1 it had me in its grasp for \v yi u-s.*' If you want a re!v medicine for Liver and v trouble, stomach disofdor mm.ml debility, got Electric . It's guaranteed by Craw1 Eros' J. F. Mackev & Co. T. K. Fundcrburk's. Only Lou King Says Tbat tho Price of Cotton Will Stay Up. lea' Orleans, Oct. IS. ?W. P \vn, the cotton king, returned ic today from Now York. He ouncod the complete success lie bull campaign, which acty handled 300,000 bales of on. lie admitted that French itnl wasdaigelv interested in corner and claimed that tho , i H?;u^u woiiui perjnantiy raise price of cotton. Tho fact t a corner would successfully lceoniplished preventing low ;c> in the future. A V KS TWO FROM DEATH. 'Our little daughter had an al >t fatal attack ot whooping gh and bronthities," writes s. \V. K. Ilaviland, of Arnk, N. V., "but, when all othrcmedios failed, we saved her with Dr. King's New DiscovOur niece, who had Comlption in an advanced stage, l !1 -iod thia vurtmlnt-fiil ? AUI IIIUVIIV/IIIU , t oday sho is perfectly woll." 'pernio throat ami lung dise yie'.d to Dr. King's Discov* to no other medicine on th. Infalliblo for Coughs and ds. 50c and $1.00 bottles iranteod by Crawford llros' J. Mackoy ?fe Co. and T. E. Funburk's. Trial bottles freo.