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k RATX8 HEASQSABLE. Marriage notices inserted free. JOB PEISTI.Vfi A SPEC1ALTV. ? 1 ? ?~ I Obituaries over ten line charged for at L VOL. XXIII. LEXINGTON. S. C? WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1893. NO. 12. i ????????~??? ? ?? ?M?BE??MBBMH?am? ??????? ft GHEAFESTj PLACE r%Q^ BUY o If. m FURNISHINGS, Trunks, > Valises, Satchels, Umbrellas, India Rubber | \ I Coats? Mcintosh Goods t Ot all grades, together with | a complete line of Boys' and Men's Overcoats. Also a mice line of Jerseys, Children / * | Suits, something nobby, from two and a half to six years, are offered at slaughter prices Xou can save money by callfc^on .- X V I 50 MAIN STREET. |H[ UNDER COLUMBIA HOTEL. tl COLUMBIA, ?. C. Scot, i ?tf OMNIBUS LINE. X&- T A Iv E ^ RTTSSES t UNION DEPOT, COLUMBIA On arrival of all trains, for hotels or winy part of the city. January ll-tf. F. W. HUSEMANNj N. Gun and Lock Smith, EE= { AND DEADES IS }> GUNS, PISTOLS, PISTOL CARTRIDGES. FISHING TACKLE, and all kinds of Sportsmen's Ai tides, which he has now on exhibition and for .sale at his store. J?ain Street. Sear the Central Bank, I Columbia, S. C. ' ^ JLo*kt ros Hazard Powdss Cohpa.vy. i ;^T* Repairing done at short Loticeite^ WHEELER t WILSON ^ TRIUMPHANT! At the Exposition Univorselle, Paris, j 1889, received tue only Grand Prize ; awarded for Sewing Machines. The No. 9 ??? nn. winal in raniditv and precision of i action, elegance of design. The most j Eg ample and durable Sewing Machine on ; the market. For prices, terms, etc.. ad- | drees, W. M. COR LEY. Agt. Broofcland, S. C. Sept 21?6m W LEXINGTON [ SAVINGS BANK.: j DEPOSITS RECEIVED SUBJECT TO CHECK. ( JULES JONES, PresidesU W. PrROOF, Cashier. K DIRECTORS: I . .Allen Jones. W P. Roof. C. M. Efird. IK. Hilton. Jas. is. lienanx. EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits of $1 and upwards received and J interest at 5 per cent, per annum allowed, payable April and October. Sept. 21?tf The best brands of cigars 2?, 5, i -and 10c. Sweet cheroots,cigarettes, pipes, smoking and chewing tobacco -ot all grades, at the Bazaar. t-' p. . '* PRINCIPLE VS. POLICY. | An Addres =5 B ivered Before Lexington County Farmers' Alliance by Ti T Tnn,1QwtT 1 3 1.903 ALL. X. A. uauu?j.j j.u, and Published by Resolution of That Body. The growth and character of the Alliance is, especially to its adherents, i a matter of serious concern. | As it grows older the studious members gain knowledge and be T^nl-inrr VianL* nvpr the I cuuic ?iaci. k/mvm. w . past we see where we might have done better; but taking all things into consideration as an organization we i have done well. Our order has been i a gratifving success in some reO * O spects; in others it has been par| tiallv a failure, because organized i plutocracy, with the United States j Congress and nearly the whole press behind it, has successfully kept us ; side tracked from the main issues in | which our best interests are involved, i | It had often been said that the time | would come when our fidelity to our | principles would be tested?that ! time is here. i The deeply laid schemes of shrewd j ; designing politicians are maturing j i and revealing themselves in such : i damaging forms as placing shackles j j on our hands through the primary | I plan, boycotting we few papers that | were once loyal to us, the persecution ! of our leaders, taunts and ridicule | 7 j heaped on us a body by our enemies j I ?all combined constituted a fierce j I devouring fire through which true j - . .1 i Alliancemen had to pass. Indeed j there have been times that have tried 1 ! men's souls. During such a crucial ! i | test some have ignored Alliance oh- j j ligations and flew into the arms of ! tt e treacherous old parties. Others ignored party fealty, sham primary I obligations and preserved their in- : I tegrity by voting our principles. Evidently we were between the devil and the deep blue sea, because both : obligations could not be filled. Now i we are much wiser than we were, 1 ' i and the sad lessons learned will be j profitable if we will^j^teed and Blnn- conThe jKat truth standi out in ! ? i bold relief, that scores of true men in our State and county, by their po j litical franchises, helped place the j crown on the head of the distin j guished anti free silver potentiate, j while at the same time conscience j J smote them and bade them vote for j "Katie and the Baby," or not vote : at all. Hundreds that voted for the rdmmnion tariL reformer wished at the time from the depths of their j hearts that he would be defeated. It has been confidently asserted bv * v some of our "Lone Roman soldiers'' i that "revolutions never go backward," but it is now very plain that j the Alliance has advanced for the j past twelve months. Our Order is J non partizan, we admit, but the sol 1 emn obligations that bind us that | we cannot now get rid of or shake j off, implies that we are morally j bound to stand by our principles un- j del* all circumstances, and the ballot i box, instead of being an exception, is the most important of all. The very fact that the Alliance is non partizan in pomica xiiiiu.es. u. i very plain lhat it is the members duty to never hesitate a moment, under any and all circumstances, to step across party lines vote our principles whenever we cannot vote them inside. If our party ignores our principles it is cur duty j to repudiate the party. If Alliance principles are good j sound doctrine in time of peace, j they are doubly so in time of war; j but if we are to be Alliancemen du- j ring the interim between elections j ^and blind partizans when the criticai^m^ment arrives and vote against j our dearest interests, we greatly fear ; ? i?i. 1. -r,:n i tiiat disintegration is ul huia. not the trying ordeal through which \ we have just passed" convince every | one of lis that we have very little ! liberty, and that, so fr.r as so c?"ed | liberty is expressed by a free ballot i and a fair count, is it not a glaring I farce? Well, we have some liberties j left in the primaries, some think, but I in order to have that opportunity to ! exercise that privilege we have I been compelled to swallow an iron- ! clad oath that we will with our votes ; aid in the grand coronation to crown Viim lord of all whomsoever Wall | street distates. and they never fail to dictate those who will make pliant ! willing tools in their hands, and by j tIieir power help to fasten more ; (irmly the shackles that are surely : making us slaves. Brethren, as sure as God's sun will rise tomorrow, so sure the oil in our political lamps is burning low. The flame of our liberty flickers and will j soon be extinguished forever unless we speedily replenish the oil in the j bowl. The greatest and most serious question that ever confronted us is, will we again allow ourselves to be j T 3?J ~ />o Ivl n f A\U ! IlOOCl WlLlKtU. iliiU ? n u vu.yn, i/v ?? around our necks, as tbe ox is led to j the slaughter, suffer ourselves led ; into the enemy's^ camp and there be i compelled to do the bidding of the 1 crafty, scheming henchmen of plu:~] tocracy in order that, the select few j can reap the rich spoils of office? i These, my friends, are momentous j questions for us to answer, upon ; which hansr the destinv, not onlv of j ? -' i the Farmers' Alliance, but of the i whole nation. Such questions must be answered by each one of us sepa- ! lately and individually. If we answer in the affirmative we shall at ! once throw off the garb or habili- j ments of Alliancemen, as many ; weak kneed brethren have already done, and work openly and above j board in the future for our task mas- j ters. But if we answer in the negative, then it behooves us as men and j as patriots to buckle on our armor, i ^ i * ?i?-.1 I VOW to our Urou impiorilJg ms ueip, j vow to country, family and consci- j ence that we will be free men in the j future in fact as well as in name, or I vow that we will grow gray in the j service and die in the harness. "We have often been tauted with the jeer, "I thought the Alliance wasnon political.'' Well, yes; but our thoughts j often leads us in forbidden paths, ; the only thing about the Alliance I that its enemies dread is its independent politics. The very first and j * 1 3 1 most important ot our aemanas i ?the abolition of National banks? bears the imprint on its face, as well as all the others, that the order is intensely political. Would not a company of sensible men be considered ' chumps' indeed if they expected or dreamed that there was any other way to abolish National banks besides crushing them at the ballot box? The fact that Alliancemen did not vote at the last national election lor cue aooiuiiou ox xmtxuuai uauno makes it doubly sure that our country will continue to be cursed with National banks until another national election rolls around and we Let us now take a peep at other labor organizations. The Knights of Labor has survived the storms of twenty two years, and it has all this time been non political. What has it accomplished d-ying its long life to compare with m youngest sister, the Farmers' Alliance? It has succeeded in retaining its identity and O V * /v? holding together a membership sutocient to prolong its existence, but it is powerless, within itself, to successfully grapple with the master issues affecting the destiny of our nation as well as the welfare of thousands of its poorest members who worst of all need relief. The most that it is competent, within itself, to do is through strikes and boycotts. It ? * sometimes, very rarely, obtains and keeps up fair wages for first class journeymen mechanics, a class sufficiently able to take care of themselves. The lvights of Labor, Amalga mated Association oi iron ana steel Workers, Locomotive Engineers' Union, Long Shoremen, etc., when they feel aggrieved can, through their officers, order a strike. After much idleness, confusion, often blood shed and the loss of thousands of dollars in wages, they can order the strike off. Sometimes, very rarely though, their demands are acceded to for le3S hours per day, more wages, or a reduction prevented; but in a great majoirty of cases labor comes out loses. But the poor wo men and children who have no organization to demand eight hours for them and no one to plead their cause, toil on in the New England mills twelve and half to fourteen hours per day, and a check on the manufacturing company's store on Saturday night is their wages. Or, worse still, hundreds of others in large cities who are compelled to make one dozen men's draws for forty cents or starve. That class never has nor never will receive any substantial benefit from such labor organizations unless the organizations change their tactics. Instead of ordering strikes and contending- for O o ten hours per day for eight hours work, if they would educate their members to vote for measures, regardless of party, that would briug financial relief to the whole country, I as we propose to do in the future, there would be some hope. All labor organizations are sisters to ours, the members are our brothers and should be treated as such; we, therefore, should leave no honorable methods untried to educate and persuade them to ignore past party affiliations .1 1 ~ ?,^4-Vk n.. t/\v 1 | ana >01*; ?iui u.-> iui *. when we learn to vote for principle ourselves. The sooner labor organizations learn that there can never beany permanent good accomplished by strikes, the better. History proves that labor generally gets tbe worst of a strike. Ordering an advance w hen a commander knows that his army will be defeated and cut to pieces, shows bad generalship; but ^-ordering a strike that everybody kuowj^^fail is the same principle. The ballot lfkthe laborer's only weapon to fight with. It is the magic wand with which we can defend our liberties. Judiciously and intelligently used, it is the*^>ap.acea for the ills, the oppression of the sons of fnil Tf. ic r>ntpnt_ it is amole i. e. if , x we do Dot sleep too loDg on cur rights and by our lethargy lose our liberty and hope as the five foolish virgins did. If we fail at the ballot box, then all our efforts, and. all labor organizations are vain and our case is hopeless. Has the work of the Alliance been a failure in the past? Most eiu peatically do. JLhe Alliance nas accomplish more during its short life than any similar organization in history. "What has it done? It has successfully bridged the bloody chasm between the cotton planter of the South and the grain farmer of the West. It brought a gigantic jute trust to terms and is keeping it there. It retired John J. Ingalls of Kansas, to the shades of private life as well as several others who voted in Congress against free bagging for the cotton farmers of the South. It elected Col. W. A. Harris, an exConfederate solder, Congressman at large from Kansas, once a rabid Ke publican State, over ex-Governor George T Anthony, said to be one of the brainiest Republicans in that State. It has redeemed Kansas and four other Northwestern States from Republican ^oligarchy. It has divested Benjamin Harrison of the Presidential crown, which is the beginning of the end of the Republican party. It laid a solid foundation for a great political party that was born on the 4th day of July, 1892, at the sametime fourteen hundred determined delegates, fresh from the people, embodied ever^^M^f : "t Q v ,! ft t*q) I form, virtually estabHsmrog^a second declaration of indenendence. It now holds the balance of power in the United States Senate, "With only nine faithful Congressmen, it made itself felt during the first session of the 52d, or billion and a quarter dollar Congress. With double the number of Representatives and five Senators it will be able to make itself felt more forcibly in the Fifty-third Congress. It made itself felt in the last general election and was the sole cause of a general landslide from one corrupt political party to one slightly less corrupt. It i i _ ?_1 would require a vuiume iu icwiu what the Farmers' Alliance and its allies have accomplished inside the last four years. But what we have already said is sufficient for our present purpose. Can you wonder that both plutocrat and politician alike were alarmed last fall and broadcasted millions of dollars in many of the States to purchase votes to defeat our principles and retain their hold upon the government. Had the lines been fairly drawn, the last campaign in South Carolina, as in Alabama, today there would be two hundred thousand dollars more money (boodle) among our people. In face of the fact that millions of dollars were used to corrupt our people and Lire them to vote against their best interests, the mosi fierce and bitter opposition ever waged against any organization, six States by their electoral votes have ratified its righteous demands. In many more the same i principles have made themselves seriously felt and have taken root in the hearts of the people. . Take, for instance Indiana. Mr. Cleveland's clackers claim a glorious victory in that State. But what are the facts? The Alliance sentiment took twenty-two thousand votes from Harrison, and that was the cause r* i.1- - -l?i???l mat gave urover iuc ueuwitti wio in that State. In many other States the cause for the landslide can be traced to the power and influence of the Alliance. It is said that "retribution though sometimes slow is always sure."' Can any one doubt but what the demands formulated and passed at Ocala, Fla., in the fall of 1890, have taken deep root and are making themselves felt in national j politics? The very fact that the Or- | der meets with so much bitter oppo- j sitition is incontestible proof that 1 the Alliance has been one of the j I fin 4- for?f avg m a/lnnatinri I iliuot l/UtCUU lUVVVlQ AU lUU v,v*vivi*v*u *-+ , of the people in the science of economic government in modern times. By education it has already so deeply planted its principles in the hearts ) of the people that if even designing h demagogues in their haste and greed h for office do succeed in selling cut d the order, tearing it to shreds and fi scattering it to the -four winds of a: .-v heaven, its principles are bound to n live on in the hearts of the people j w -3 1 wviirtona ' O UL1CI UC U cuuuuuai uacucn-t iu putui.^ racy, until the people are heard and e; our rights restored. ' : ai Brethren will we now at the very : a best and most auspicious moment, | w when our enemy is fighting, grab- i s< bing and scratching for the spoils, fc re-form our lines, renew the fight I it . , I and perpetuate an organization tnar i has now all the vantage ground j ir necessary to accomplish a great j ^ victory. We have a far better pros- r( pect of getting some of our demands S1 enacted into law now than at any e: time previous. If we do not press *c forward now and win^the victory the fault is ours and a life of servitude 01 and poverty will be the working 01 man's portion in the future * * I l" Briefly, we will try* and give you cl soine very pertinent reasons why we w should not now relax our hold, but n< press on to final completion. We admit that in some sections ** our cause has suffered ignominious 8* defeat,J^^^Jiat_ defeat may be a < bles?^HV> ruise, if you will but ! P1 3an^'a^e(^ past| ^ 3MjF;, ^.experience arm and w eq^^^^^es for the future. Can wa hundred per cent. clearer through the financial and ai ^ - - - - ti: political situation to day tnan we could six months ago? Another good reason why it would be suicidal ec to think of dissolving now is that we ^ have somVof the elements of war, ^ enough lpr a big battle twenty re months he^e. We have, a few P1 thousand dAirs in our State treas- ^ ury, a few ^^dred in our county ln treasury and^^^y of the subs have ^ small amountBl^W money judici- ^1 ously used a?* "propaganda? rfand would work welders Dur State. I ^ An additional D^QtfO copies of our 01 organ, the CottonA Plant, scattered among the poorer^farmers of our m State would be an^Aincible power. ai Can that idle money rbe used for a $ better purpose? Ifit cannot, then ri it is our duty to agfc^eand discuss & this matte^mi^do^^Bfc^*^* ^ n.f#?d hv W^^eere I at sea without piloFor rudder. The truth is many of |s did not then w know where we w^re at. Some ap- ^ plied for initiation Ihrough curiosity, 01 some wanted offic^pthers wanted to r "bust" the merchants, still there 1E were others that flopped in for the loaves and fishes, confidently hoping *r and believing that they would be P' rich in very short time. Many of Ui the last named class were sadly and ^ sorely disappointed and soon flopped sc out. Now the wire edge is worn off, P^ the boom has ceased to roar and n< * g* most assuredly we all know "where wo ?ro of. '' All whn n.r#? aboard af this time certainly mean business ^ and will surely slick to the old ship ^ until she either ^oes down or saf( ty e arrives in port. ?J If we ever expect to accomplish |c anything permanent and preserve 11 our God given liberty through the ^ instrumentality : of our order, we 1C must vo'42 our principles though we w be compelled to step beyond the e] narrow confines of party lines to do z< it. ' ^ As an organize4 class, we should, 1E by truth and argument, educate the a< masses tc vote our principles with u us. In order to educate them it will S( be necessary for us to have some sys tematic plan at once. But before or ai while that plan is maturing it is expedient to note one very conspicuous fact. Of course it would be worse than folly to spend our efforts and substance "Casting our pearls before p swine" trying to educate those who 01 are hide bound, those who have been h in the muddy partisan pool so long a1 that the moss has grown thickly and ^ covered their backs, like Ephriam of old, joined to their idols, in regard to such we advise, let them alone. But q when a candid honest independent H seeker after truth can be induced to a' read and think, he must necessarily al learn, and by learning a change oc curs. tl si Wise men ofter change their opininnH?fmls never do. Gladstone, one i ai of the most enlightened statesmen v> f of this or any other age, has changed 1 his opinion, on vital questions, many ?J times. Compare him with John J. 01 Ingalls if you want to know the difference between a statesman and a ^ mossback. Luther changed his opinion and at the risk of his life vigorously protested against the licentiousness and corruption in the church in in which he had been brought up. a: Campare him with the wicked, licen- tl tious and bigoted priests of his time, s< if you would comprehend the differ- a v -i ~ i e ? ? fi ence ueiweeu a uuc inwma aiiu a j *? ide bound mossbaek. Though it as been asserted that "an indepenent is worse than a radical,'' vet tha ict is, that the independent thinkers nd voters are the only hope of this atiou. They are the ones to whom 'e should direct our attention: betuse truly they are the salt of the wtb, one of them properly educated nd convinced by the truth, is worth thousand hide bound partisans, ho idiotically boast that they never Hatched [a ticket and would vote >r a "yaller" dog if their party nornlated him. If my po itical party nominates a lan that I know to be an enemy to iy principles I will scratch him and ?fuse to vote for him under any conderations. I never have and never <pect to compromise niv puucipies >r fanatical partisanisin. The inependent conservative class are the ily ones that any sect, organization j : party works to secure. If everyody was of the mossback persuasion, yed in the wool partisans there ould be no use for organization, swspapers or public speakers, hose partisans who would vote for le yellow dog need no literature or lump speaking to educate and enghten them; because their blind irtizan prejudice will neither let lein see or learn, they too are edded to their idols and should be t alone. They neither deserve or at any credit from those who fatten id roll in luxury on their blind parzan stupidity. Had the Republican party confcain1 all Simon pure mossbacks, and none ho had the wisdom to think for lemselves or the manhood ipudiate the most corrupt political irty of modern times the outlook to ly for the South would be gloomy deed. But that thousands of them [d, in a very practicable and forci is manner, prostest against the aud corruption and rascality of leir corrupt party at the ballot box . i the 8th of last November is a ipeful sign that our government ay yet be resorted to the people, id in return restore to us the rights oerties and property, tnat nave been ? ithlessly torn from us in the South, i would be well f or good national emocrats to discern and rightly l^-pret the hand writing on the Another stroc^reason wny we lould not yet abandon the work? e were in cold earnest once. With a :tle reasoning and determination on lr part we will reform our lines, new our efforts and be, oollectively t dead earnest again. It is very ue that while we plowed theindusious, perservering, indefatigable flitician planned, therefore, he beat 5 out, he got there and we didn't, ut now all his well laid plans and :hemes are laid bare and are as Lain as A. B. C.; therefore, we will Dt be so easily run off on the vitch in the future. Friends and brothers, in conclusion e will add, as long as there is life lere is hope and we have abundant ridence that there is life yet?plenty [ it. The flame has only burned >w, there is fervent fire beneath the mocent looking pile of ashes. All lat the embers need is a little stirr ig and some dry fuel added in the ay of fresh, patriotic, truthful litrature, and fanned by the gentle ?phyrs of enthusiastic lecturers and le fires will soon blaze again, ernittig both light and heat. Agitate! gitate!! agitate!!! and we shall live ) conquer and finish the grand work ) nobly begun. Now, brethren, if 3u are all willing we'll try it again ad be convinced. m* ** J $1UU XVBWcWii SPJLWW. The readers of this paper will be leased to learn that there is at least ae dreaded disease that science has een able to cure in all its stages, ad that Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh ure is the only positive cure known > the medical fraternity. Catarrh eing a constitutional disease, reuires a constitutional treatment, [all's Catarrh Cure is taken internlly, acting directly upon the blood ad mucous surfaces of the system, lereby destroying the foundation of le disease, and giving the patient ;rength building up the constitution ad assisting nature in doing its crk. The proprietors have so much .ith in its curative powers, that they fter One Hundred Dollars for any ise that it fails to cure. Send for st of testimonials, ddress, F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. aT'Sold by Druggists, 75c. 14. i ??*?? Perfumery of all kinds, Hoyt's i ud Taylor's cologne, bay rum for j le hair, pomade, hair oil, sweet I 3ap, toilet and tooth powder, hair j ad tooth brushes, combs, etc., at tie Bazaar. Eulogy on Col. Stackkouss. I ] "Washington, D. C., Januray 29.-- , 1 This afternoon, in the House, was i 1 devoted to eulogies over the late : Congressman Stackhouse, of South ? t Carolina, Tom Watson was one of J the eulogists. Young Mr. McLaurin i of South Carolina, was another. Af ! ter payiDg a tribute to the memory j of Mr. Stackliouse he made some elo- ' quent remarks about the down trod? den farmers: declaring in favor of a j ? ' ? "free ballot and a fair count," affirm- j ing his belief in equal lights and ! 1 privileges to white and black pro- } ducers alike. He dech.r d thate:ght 1 ? millions of human beings, negroes, i c just because they wi hed to * help the Third party in making a ! a protest against discrimination against j 1 the producing class were not allowed J ^ to vote freely or to have their votes ! ^ fairlv counted. Mr Watson 1 v talked for some twenty or thirty 1 minutes and in closing his remarks, k paid a pretty tribute to General 1 Oi. .1.1 1 oiachuoust;. i 1 M LAURIN* S SPEECH. t Mr. McLauriu's speech was his maiden effort which was a fairly ^ good one. He spoke of the State having been controlled by an aristo- g cracy before the war and said that ^ the abolition of slavery had given the ^ working people and the farmers an < opportunity to assert their rghts. He described the leading men in j. South Carolina before the war as an r /laflonf on/1 nnrnmnrisinp 4LIV4V4GUV, V?t4ic*^u O jj set of tyrants. Bat the war removed 0 the shackles of caste and the artificial distinction of classes had been abrogated. The farmers and work ing men had claimed their God-given rights and boldly and defiantly entered the political arena. The old aristocracy had held negro domina ^ tion perpetually before the people as ' inevitable result of division. For a n time,-by these means, they had held c the people in check, but at last, like ? some mighty giant, the people arose v from their lethargy and elected Ben- i jamin R. Tillman as Governor in 1890. His speech was eulogistic of a the Tillmanites. ? - * i M LAURIN S EXACT LANGUAGE. G The following is the verbatim respeech.. It is Aiter pronouncing his eulogy on Col. Stackhouse, he said: "Born and bred in old South Carolina, yet he was a true representative 5 of new South Carolina, typical Caro- r linian of the new faith and new v school born of the civil revolution of c 1861-'6o, which wrought wonderful * changes in the social, political and 1 industrial condition of the State. ^ Had that revolution never occurred I * hazard little in saying that the de ceased would never have represented South Carolina in this body. The condition of affairs in the State before that revolution was peculiar, re- ^ sultiner from the idea3 of the Old World transplanted in the new and i the attempt to ingraft them in the J society and policy of the colony. "In the course of time an aristo < cracy based on a slaveocracy domi- ] nated old South Carolina and com- i pletely controlled her social, political i and industrial destinies. This neces- 1 sarily created two classes as distinct j as the Patrician and Plebeain orders of Rome. The large slave-owners j became the rulers and office-holders, ; and the masses of the people were r C regarded as unfit to govern. It was j an intolerant, defiant and uncompromising tyranny, suppressing free ^ ?k f ~ o n <1 inf1or>?>rt speecu, ucc iiiuugui, ulju dence of action.' There was no irrepressible conflict then, because from force of habit, education, and a dis- ( Q inclination to assert their sovereignty, the middle class succumbed. * ''Nullification and secession were the legitimate fruitr of this condi tion of things. This is a true pic * ture of old South Carolina, of which ? Hayne, Calhoun and Rhett were true representatives. The abolition of * slavery was the destruction of this 1 system. The rich and poweiful of ? the old became the poor and weak of r the new. The workiugraan of the y old regime became the enterprising and successful citizen of the new. The shackles of caste were removed and the artificial distinction of classes 1 abrogated. The farmer and work- * in" man claimed their God-given 1 0 o rights and boldly and defiantly en- 1 tered the political arena. This < changed condition did bring about < an irrepressible conflict between the z the reconstructed orders of society. 1 "During Federal reconstruction < there was a truce between the old '< 1 ' -1 - iiiaca 7 political icautia auu iwoc ucwucu by the new order of things. In ] 187G, by the united and patriotic efforts of both, harmonized for a time by the common instinct of self-pres- ; ^ ervation. the infamous carpetbag ; f government, pinned to our backs by j ' Federal bayonets, was overthown, md the State rescued from the alien md the spoiler. As soon as this evolution was accomplished the old mte bellum leaders sought to re-es:ablish their autocratic sway. Poli ical devices of various kinds were idopted to delude the poeple and irive them into their old time supinmess. Negro domination was perpetually held up as the inevitable remit of agitation. For a time the spirit of reform and the latent desire ind determination of the people to ule was kept in check. ' But at last, like some mighty yionl liicf. arniicait fr> o y>Aiic/>mncnoco >f his power by repeated injuries, he people aroused from their lethirgy, aud, trusting in their own night, determined to be sovereign. Hie election of 33. R. Tillman as 3-overnor in 1890, accomplished by he general uprising of the people mder the leadership of Tillman, Jtackhouse and others, was the culnination of this great social and t . l 1 i 1 / i 1 )oiiucai revolution ana one 01 tne egitimate results of the reconstrucive and evolutionary effects of the var of 18G1.. The economic condiions prevailing elsewhere of course lso played their part. This irreponsible conflict has, however, we ope. about ended. In this brief ticture of new Scrath Carolina, Col itackhouse occupies-* a conspicuous >lace in the work of reform and renliilitolinn A a nno f\t flio 1\onr\lo .(?iUA41l/ai'iV/U? 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