The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, July 25, 1894, Image 4
SOME HEARTS.
Through days a-weary, anu scenes 30
dreary,
Some heart In the shadow must stay.
While the aching eyes scan gloomy skies
For a light in the far away.
Through the darkness deep, dread agonies
creep,
And steal the reluctant perfume
Of the flowers rare, that fate seemed to
dare,
On the grigf stricken soil to bloom.
Through the dismal years, of weeping and
fears,
Some hearts, with theii burden of woe.
On the grim highway, where no sun beams
play.
Through the blackness of night must go.
Some hearts mnst weep, while other hearts |
sleep.
Ne'er dreaming of pain or sorrow,
Some hearts are sighing,, some hearts are
crying
O'er visions of dread tomorrow.
Some hearts must kneel and the chast'niiig
fee!.
As hopes that were framed in the past
Fall into decay, and swift, pass away,
Too frail, through suffering, to last.
Some hearts are aching, and silently breaking,
While the lives of others are crowned
With rarest delight, that never takes flight,
Where despair's dark face never frowned.
LESSONS OF A LAUGH.
Ret. Dr. Talms^t'ii D?scuas<m Anoiher
Unique Subject.
Brooklyn, July 15.?Rev. Dr. Talmage,
who is now in Australia on his
round the world journey, has selected as
the subject for his sermon through the
press today "Laughter," the text being
taken from Faalm cxxvi, 2, "Then was
our mouth tilled with laughter," and
l'8aim 11, 4, "iiemai siuciu iu uic uwrens
shall laugh."
Thirty-eight times does the Bible make
reference to this configuration of the features
and quick expulsion of breath which
we call laughter. Sometimes it is born
of the sunshine and sometimes the midnight.
Sometimes it stirs the sympathies
of angels, and sometimes the cachinriation
of devii3. All healthy people
laugh. Whether it pleases the Lord or
displeases him, that depends upon when
we laugh and at what we laugh. My ;
theme today is the laughter of the Bible j
?namely, Sarah's laugh, or that of:
skepticism; David's laugh, or that ofj
spiritual exultation; the foci's laugh, or j
that of sinful merriment; God's laugh, j
or that of infinite condemnation; heaven's
laugh, or that of eternal triumph.
Scene, an oriental tent; the occupants,
old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrink
led and decrpit. Their three guests j
are three angels?the Lord Almighty I
one of them. In return for the hopitakty
shown by the old people God promises
Sarah that she shall become the ances- j
tress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah j
laughs in the face of God. She does not j
believe it. She is affirighted at what'
ah* haa rlrin* iih* rfcnifcs it. She SSVS.
"I didn't laugh." Then God retorted,
with an emphasis that silenced all disputation,
"But thou didst laugh!" My
Iriends, the laugh of skepticism; in all
ages, is only the echo of Sarah's
laughter. God says he will accomplish
a thiDg, and men say it cannot
be dene. A great multitude laugh
at the miracles. They say they are contrary
to the laws of nature. What is a
law of nature? It is God's way of doing
a thing. Ycu ordinarily cross a river at
one ferry. Tomorrow you change for
one day, and you go acrosc another ferry.
You made the rule. Have you not the
right tochange is? You ordinarily come
in at that door of the church. Suppose
that next Sabbath ycu should come in
at the other door? It is a habit you have!
Have you not a right to change your
habit? A law of nature is God's habit
?his way of doing things. If be makes
the law, has he not a right to change it
at any time he wants to change it? Ala3.
for the folly of those who laugh at God
when he says. "I will do a thing," they
responding, "You can't do it." God
says that the Bible is true?it is all true.
Bishop Colenso laughs; Herbert Spencer
laughs; Stuart Mill laughs; great German
universities laugb: Harvard laughs
?softly! A great many of the learned
Institution's, with long rows of profes
sors seated on the fence between Chris
tianity and infidelity, laugh soflv. They
say, "We didn't laugh."
That was Sarah's trick. God thunders
from the heavens, "But thou didstlaugh!
The garden of Eden was only a fable.
There never was any ark built, or if it
was built it was loo small to have two
of every kind. The pillar of fire by night
was only the nothern lights, the 10 pi a
gues of Egypt only a brilliant specimen
of jugglery. The sea parted because
the wind blew violently a great while
from oue direction. The sun and moon
did not put themselves out of the way
for Joshua. Jacob's ladder was only
horizontal and picturesque clouds. The
destroying angel smiting the the firstborn
in Egypt was only cholera infantume become
epidemic. The gullet of the
whale, by measurement, was too, J
small to swallow aprophet the
story of the immaculate conception
a shock to all decency. The1
lame, the dumb, the blind, the halt cured
by mere human surgery. The resurrec |
tion of Christ's friend only a beautiful
tableau. Christ and Lazarus and Mary
and Martha acting iheir parts well.
My friends, there is not a doctrine or
statement of God's holy word that has
not been derided by tne scepticism or(
the day. I take up this book of King
Jame3' translation. I consider it a
perfect Bible, but here are skeptics who
want it tern to pieces. And now, with ;
this Bible in my hand, let me tear out ;
all those portions which the skepticism
of this day demands shall be torn out.:
What shall go first? "Weil," says some
one in the audince, "take out all that
about creation and about the first settle
ment of the world." Away gce3 Genesis.
"Now," says someone, "take out all
that about the miraculous guidance of
the children of Israel in the wilderness."
Away goes Exodus. "Now," say3
some one else in the audience, "there
? ? ? J T~lAn 4-A y?An Am tt An/1 TiTl riffO
arc LUiUgo :u ijcutgiuuwmj auu
that are not fit to be read." Away go
Deuteronomy and the Kings. "Now,"
says some one, "the book of Job is a
fable that ought to came cut." Away
goes the book of Job. "Now," says
some one, "those passages in the New
Testament which imply the divinity of
Jesus Christ ought to come out." Away
go the Evangelists. "Now," says some
one, "the book of Revelation?how pre
posterous! It represents a man with
the moon under his feet and a sharp
sword in his hand." Away goes the
book of Revelation. Now there are a
few pieces left. What shall we do with
them? "Oh," says some man in the audi
ence, "I don't believe a word in the
.Bible, from one eDd to the other." Weil,
it is all gone. ;sow you nave put out
the last light for the nation. Now it i3
the pitch darkneess of eternal midnight.
How do you like it*
But I think, my friends, we had better
keep the Bible a little longer intac t.
It has done pretty well for a good many
vears. Then there are old people who
find it a comfort to have it on their laps, !
and children like the stories in it. Let
us keep it for a curiosity. If the Bible
is to be thrown out of the school and
out of the court room, so that men no
more swear by it, and it is to be put in a
dark corridor of the city library, the
Koran on one side and the writings of
Confucius on the other, then let us each
keep a copy for himself, for we might
have trouble, and we would want to be
under the delusions of its consolations,
and we might die, and we would want
the delusion <>f the exalted residence of
God's rgh! ' which it. mentions.
Oh, what an asvfui thiug it ir- to laugh m
God's face and htul Ins Revelation back
atbim. After awhile the day will come
when they will say they did not laugh.
Then all the b\p::rcriiic:sms, all the
carica'ures .vail uli the learned sneers
la the qua1 terly reviews will^be brought
to judgment, aud amid the rocklug
of everything'beneath, and amid the
lliming of everything above. God will
thunder, "But thou didst laugh!" I
thick the mobt fascmating laughter at
Christraniiy I ever remember * as a man
in New England. lie made the word of
God stem ridiculous, and ho laughed on
at our holy religion until he came to die
and then lie said, "Mv life ha* been u
failure?a failure domestically?1 have
no children; a failure socially, for 1 am
treated on the streets 'ike a pirate; a
failure professionaliv because 1 know
tut ore minister that has adopted ray
sentiments,*' For a quart' r ot a century
he laughed at Christianity, mid ever
since Christianity has been laughing at
him. Now, K i- a rj'.au thing to go into
- i - i .. i
a man's house sn?J m? ..oo?:s, : ui
I tell you the moil gigantic burglary
ever invented is the proposition io steal
these treasures of our holy relhii.n.
The meanest lau^h ever ulU-red is the
laugh cf the skeptic.
The next laughter mentioned iu the
B.ble 13 David's laughter, or t!\.e expre38ion
of spiritual exultation. "Then was
our raouih tilled with laughter." He got
very much down sometimes, but there
j are other chapters where for four lime3
[ he cails upon the people to praise and exult.
It was not a mere twitch of the
lips. It was a demonstration that took
I hold of his whole physical nature.
"Then was cur mouth filled with laughter."
My friends, this world will never
be converted to God until Christians cry
less and laugh and sing more. The
horrors are a poor bait. If people are
j to be persuaded to adopt our holy religion,
it will be because they have made
up their minds ft is a happy religion.
They don't like a morbid i hristiauity.
I know there are morbid people who
enjoy a funeral. They come early to
see the the friends take leave cf the
corpse, and they steal a ride to the
cemetery, but all healthy people enjoy
a wedding better than they do a burial.
Now, you make the religion of Christ
sepulchral and hearselike, and ycu make
if. r*r>nl.<a?ve. T sav nlant the rose of
Sharon along the church walks and columbine
to clamhsr over the church wall
and have a smile on the lip and have
the mouth tillec1 with holy laughter.
There is no man in the world, except
the Christian, that has a right to feel an
uatrammeled glee. He is promised everything
to be for the best here, and he
13 on the way to a delight which will
take all the processions with palm
branches, and ail the orchestras harped
and cymballed and trumpeted toexprep3
"Oh," vou say, UI have so much
trouble.1" Have ycu more thau Paul
had? What does he saj? "Sorrowful,
yet always rejoicing. Poor, yet making
many rich. Having nothing, yet posees3sing
all things." Tne merriest laugh
I think I ever heard has been in the sick
room of God's dear children.
When Theodosiu3 was put upon the
rack, he suffered very great torture at
the first. Somebody asked him how he
endured all that pain on the rack. He
replied. "When I was first put on the
rack, I suffered a great deal, but \-3iy
scon a ycuog man in white stood by my
side, and with a soft and comfortable
handkerchief he wiped the sweat from
my brow, and my pains were relieved.
It was a punishment for me to get from
the rack, because when the pain was all
gone the angel was gone." Oh, rejoice
evermore. You know how it is in the
army?an army m encampment. It
today news comes (hat our side has had
defeat, and tomorrow another portion
of the tidings coace3, 3aying we have had
another defeat, it demoraf^ss all the
host. But if the news comes of victory
j today and victory tomorrow the whole
! army is impassioned for the contest.
| Xow, in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus
| Christ report fewer defeats. Tell us
I the victories?victory over sin and death
and hell, ltejoice evermore, and again
I say rejoice. I believe there is more
religion in a laugh than in a groan.
Anybody can groan, but to laugh in the
midst of banishment and persecution and
indescribable trial, that required a David
a Daniel, a Paul, a modern heroine.
The next laughter mentioned in the
Bible that I shall speak of is the fool's
laughter or the expression of sinful merriment.
Solomon was very quick at
simile. When he makes a comparison,
we all catch it. What is the laughter
of a fool like? lie says, 'Tt is the crackling
of thorns under a pot." The kettle
is swung, a bunch of brambles is put
under it, and the torch is applied to it,
and there is a great noise, and a big
bls^e, and a sputter, and a quick extinguishment.
Theu it is darker lhau it
was before. Fools' laughter.
The most miserable thing on earth's
a bad man's fun. There they are?10
men in a barroom, they have at home
wives, mothers, daughters. The impure
jest starts atone corner of the barroom,
and crackle, crackle, crackle, it goes ail
around. In 500 such guffaws there is
uot one item of happiness. They all
eel bemeaned, it they have any conscience
left. Have nothing to do with
men or women who tell immoral stories.
Ihaee no conlldence either in their
Christian character or morality. So all
menmeot that springs out of the defects
of others?caricature of a lame foot, or
a curved spine, or a blind eye, or a deaf
ear?will be met with the judgments of
God either upon you or upon your children.
Twenty years ago I knew a man who
was particularly skillful in imitating the
lameness of a neighbor. Not long ago
a son of the skillful mimic had his leg
amputated for the very defect which his
father had mimicked year3 before. 1 do
not say it was a judgment of God. I
leave you to make your ovrn inference.
So all merriment oorn of dissipation,
that wh.ch starts at the counter of the
drinking restaurant or from the wineglass
in the home circle, the maudlin
simper, the meaningless joke, the satur
nalian gibberish, the paroxysm 01 mirth
about nothing which you sometimes oee
ia the fashionable clubroom or the exquisite
parlor at 12 o'clock at night, are
the crackling of thorns under a pot.
Such laughter and such sin end in death.
When 1 was a lad a book came out
entitled "Dow Junior's Patent Sermons."
It made a great stir?a very
wide laugh?all over the country, that
book did. It was a caricature of- the
Christian ministry, and of the word of
riftfl onr? r\f /lar? r.f inr?<rmari+ OS
UUUf C4LAV4 vuv V4C*J[ Vi j ^ V/Ut? v?*^
we had a great laugh. The commentary
on the whole thing is that the author
of that book died In poverty, shame
debauchery, kicked out of society and
cursed of Almighty God. The laughter
of such men is the echo of their own
damnation.
The next laughter that I shall mention
as being in the Bible is the laugh
of God's condemnation, 'Tie that sitteih
in the heavens shall laugh." Again
"The Lord will laugh at him." Agaiu,
"I will laugh at his calamity." With
such demonstration will God greet every
kind of great sin and wickeduess. But
men build up villanies higher and higher
Good men almost pity God because
he is schemed against by
men. Suddenly a pin drops out
of the machinery of wickedness, or a
secret is revealed, and the foundation be
gins to rock. Finally ihe whole thing
! is demolished. What ia the matter? I
will tell you what the matter is. That
crash of ruin is only the reverberation of
God's laughter.
lit the money market there are a great
mmmaaeBiammm^^xaaaaiim Tr ?ease??a?
many good meo and a great meny traudu
lent men. A fraudulent man there says,
"I mean to haT~ my million." He. goc3
to worK reckless of honesty, and he gefs
his lirst $100,000. lie gets after awhile
his $200,000. After awhile he gets Ins
$500,000. "Now," he says, "I have
only one more move to make, and I
shall have my million." lie gathers up
all his resources, lie makes that one last
grand move, he tails and loses all, and
he has not enough money of his own left
to piv the cost of the car to his home.
I People eiunot understand mis gpasuiumu
I revuision. Some sa;d it was a sudden
turn in Krie railway stock, or :n Western
Union, or in Illinois Central. Some
sah! one thin? anal some another. They
a!! guessed wrong. I will tell you what
it was, ,lHe that siiteth in the heavens
laughed."
A man in New York said he would
he the richest man in the eitv. He leit
his honest work as a mechanic and got
into the city councils some way and 111
10 years stole $15,000 000 from the cilv
government. Fit teen million dollars!
He had the legislature of the slate of
New York in the grip of his right hand.
Suspicions were aroused. The grand
jury presented indictments. The whole
land stood aghast. The man who expected
to put half the city in his vest
pocket goes to Black well's island, goes
to Ludlow Street jail, breaks prison and
goes across the sea, is reanested and
brought back and again remanded to jail.
Why? "lie that sitlelh in the heavens
laughed."
Home was a great empire; she had
Horace and Virgil among her poets;
she had Augus us and (Jonsfantine
among her emperors. But what mean
the defaced Pantheon, and the Forum
truncu into a cattle market, and the broken
vralled Coliseum, and the architectural
skelton of her great aqueducts? What
was that thunder? "Ob!" you say, "that
was the roar ol the battering rams against
her walls." No. What*was that quive:?
' Oh!" you say, "that was the
tramp of hostile legions." jso. The
quiver and the roar were the outburst
of omnipotent laughter from the defied
and insulted heavens. Home detled God,
and he laughed her. down. Thobcs defied
God. and he laughed her down.
Nineveh defied God, and he laughed her
down. Babylon defied God, and he
laughed her down.
There is a great difference between
God's laugh and hi3 smile. His smile is
eternal beatitude. He soiled when
-David sang, and Miriam clapped the
cymbals, and llaunah made garments
tor her sou, Paul preached, and John
kindled with apocalyptic vision, and
when any man has anything to do and
doe3 it well. His smile! Why, it is the
15th, of May, the apple orchads in full
bloom; it is morning breaking on a rippling
sea; it is heaven at high noon, all the
bells beating the marriage peal. But
his laughter?may it never fall on u?! It
is a condemnation for our sin; it is a
wasting away. We may let the satirist
laugh at u?, aud all our companions
may laugh at us, and ws may be made
the target for the merriment of earth and
hell, but God forbid that we sould ever
come to the fulfillment ol the prophesy
against the rejectors of the truth, "I will
laugh at your calamity."
But, mv friends, all of us who reject
Christ and the pardon of the gospel
must come UDder tbat'tremendous bombardment.
God wants us all to repent.
He counsels, he coaxe3, he importunes,
and he dies for us. He comes down out
of heaven. He puts all the world's sin
on one shoulder, he puts all world's sorrow
od the other shoulder, and then with
that Alp on one side and that Himalaya
on the other he starts up the hill back
of Jerusalem to achieve our salvatipn.
lie puts the palm of his right foot on one
long spike, and he puts the palm of his
leit foot on another long spike, and then,
with his hands spotted with his own blood
Ho orp<afimijitfvn savins: "Look. look and
live! With the crimson veil of my sacrifice
I will cover up all your sins. With
my dying groan I will swallow up all
your groans. Look! Live!" But a
thousand of you turn your back on that
and then this voice of invitation turns to
a tone divinly ominous, that sobs like a
simoom through the first chapter of Proverbs:
"Uecause I hive called and ye
refused, 1 have stretched out rav right
hand and no man reegarded, but ye have
set at naught all my counsel and would
none of my reproof, 1 also will ladgh at
yoor calamity." Oh, what a laugh that
is?a deep laugh, a long, reverberating
laugh; au overwhelming laugh; God
grant we may never hear it. But in
this day of merciful visitation yield your
heart to Christ that you may spend all
your life un earth under his smile and
escape forever the thunder of the laugh
of God'3 indignation.
The other laughter mentioned in trie
Bible?the only one 1 shall speak of?
Vienvat.'j lon.iliicr or (!if ovnrpssjiriri
li? litavcil O if*U^UWV>i^ VI v??|/i.vwv?r?
of eternal triumph. Christ said to his
disciples, "Blessed are ye that weep
uow, for ye shall laugh." That makes
me know positively thai we are not to
spend our days in heaven singing long
meter psalms. The fornialislic aud
still* notions of heaven that some people
have would make me miserable. 1 am
glad to know that tho heaven of the Bible
is not only a place of holy worship,
but of magnificent sociality.
"What," sav you, "will the ringing
laugh go around the circle, of the saved?"
1 say yes, pure laughter, cheering laughter,
holy laughter. It will be a laugh
of congratulation. Wheu we meet a
. friend who ha3 suddenly come to a for,
luue or who has got over some dire sickness,
do we not shake hands, do we not
laugh with him? And when we get to
heaven and see our friends there, aome
cf them having come up out of great tribulation,
why, we will say to one of
1 them, "The last time I saw you you
had been sufiering tor six weeks under a
a low intermittent fever," or to another
we will say: "You for 10 years were
limping with the rheumatism, and you
were full of complaints when we saw you
last. I congratulate you on this eternal
recovery.
We shall laugh. Yes, wc shall congratulate
all these who have come cut
of great financial embarrassments in
this world because they have become
millionaires in Heaven, l e snail iaugn.
It shall be a laugh of reassoclation. It
Is just as natural for us to laugh when
we meet a friend we have not seen for
10 years as anytkiDg is possible to be
natural. When we meet cur friends
from whom we have been parted 10 or
20 or 30 years, will it not be with infinite
congratulation? (Jar perception quickened,
our knowledge improved, we will
know each other at a hash. We will
have to talk over all that has happened
since we have been separated, the one
that ha3 been 10 years in heaven telling
U3 all that has happened in the 10 years
of his heavenly residence, and we telling
him in return all that has happened during
the 10 years of his absence irom
poH'n Vp fthnll lnnc/h
1 think George Whitelield and John
Wesley will have a iaugh ol contempt
for their earthly collisions, and Toplady
ami Charles Wesley will have a iaugh of
contempt lor their earthly misunderstandings,
and the two farmers, who
were in the lawsuit all their days, will
have a laugh of contempt over their
earthly disturbance about a line fence.
Exemption from all annovance. Immersion
in all gladness. Ye shall laugh.
Christ says so. Ye shall laugh. Yes,
it will be a laugh of liiumph. Oh! what
a pleasant tiling it will he to stand on
the wall of heaven, and look down at
satau and hurl at him dttunce, and see
him caged and chained, and we forever
free !rom his clutches. Aha! Yes, it wil
he a laugh of royal greeting.
1 You know how the Frenchmen cheered
when Napoleon came I-nek from Elba. ]
Von know f 10vv the English cheered
when Wellington came back from
Waterloo. You know how Americans
cheered when Kossuth arrived from Hungary.
Yen remember how Home cheered
when Horn;*ev come baik victor over
900 citie.. Every cheer was a laugh.
But, oli, the mightie- greeting, the gladder
greeting, -hen the snow white cavalry
troop of heaven shall go through
the streets, and, according to the book
ofBevelation, Christ, in the redcoat, lite
crimson coal, on a white horse, and all
the armies of heaven following on white
horses! Oil, when we see and hear that
cavalcade, we snail cheer, we shall
laugh. Does not your heart brat quickly
at the thou:hi o! great jubilee upon
which we are scon to enter?
I pray Cod that when we get through
with this world and are going out of it we
may have some such vision as the dying
Christian had when he saw written all j
over the clouds io the sky the letter j
"'AY' and they asked, standing, by
his side, what he thought that letter
"w mean... * U:i." ne sain, "mat
8lands lor welcome." And so may if
he when we quit this world. "W" on
on the ga!e, k*W" on the door of the
mansion, liW" on the throne. Welcome!
Welcome! Welcome! 1 have
preached this sermon with live prayerful
wishes that you might see what a mean
thing is the laugh of skepticism, what a
bright thing is the laugh of spiritual exultation,
what a hollow thing is the laugh
of siutul merriment, what an awful thing
is the laugh of condemnation, what a
radiant, rubicund thing is the laugh of
eternal triumph. Avoid the ill. Choose
the r'ght. lis comforted, "lllessed are
ye that weep now?ye shall laugh, \e
shall laugh."
NO AGREEMENT POSSIBLE.
The I i on so Will lusiot?Wh*t Dltterent
Leaders Havs to Say.
Washington", -inly 18.?The Democratic
conferees on the tariff bill held
a brief session today, and adjourned
before 12 o'clock. They made another
effort to reach an agreement, but it
proved ineffectual. The meeting adjourned
with the understanding that a
full conference of the committee, to begin
at 2 o'clock, would report a disagreement.
The report will be made to
the House, but probably not before tomorrow.
The Republican members
will make no opposition to this course.
The conferees met again at 2 o'clock.
Within a very few minutes afterwards
Voorhee3 announced that it was apparent
that the two houses were unable
to agree, and it had been decided to
report a general disagreement. The
.Senate Republicans stood up for the
Senate bill, as did the Democrats, while
the House held out for their bill; and
it was formally decided that the disagreement
should be reported to their
respective houses.
.Before this was done Wilson, chairman
of the committee on ways and
means, stated that if they could get together
on coal, iron ore and sugar, he
believed they could lix up an agreement
that would be satisfactory to
both houses. No proposition looking tc
this end was made, and the action already
indicated was taken. The whole
thine: was over in a very few minutes.
Wilson stated after the conference that
he would make the report to the House
tomorrow morning.
Drrring the formal discussion in the
committee room he was asked by Senator
Jones how long the House would
probably keep the bill, whereupon Wilson
replied that he thought the conferees
would be instructed to insist
upon the House bill, and the conferees
would be sent back within two hours.
The same question was then put to
Senator Jones, and he said that the action
of the Senate would depend upon
the action of the House. If the House
insisted upon heaping coals of lire on
the heads of the Senate, conferees and
assailing them it would be very likeiy
that the Senate, when the bill came
back, would in like manner debate the
bill. It Is beiieved, however, that the
bill will be again in confererce by Sat
uruay at tne latest.
Although the report shows a general
disagreement on all items this is not
technically correct, for the reason that
agreements have been made in many
item?, but it was deemed best not to
include them until a conclusion had
been reached on the whole bill. Wilson
says the report of the conferees will be
a verbal one and will simply state that
the conference cjmmittet-, of the two
houses has failed to reach an agreement.
The committee on rules will
probably meet tomorrow and report a
special order limiting the time during
which the debate upon the report may
continue.
Speaker Crisp could not say today
how long the debate on the conference
report tomorrow would be permited
to^continue in the house but it is un
derstood that it will be limited to two
hours, one hour on each side. Wilson
will occupy a part if not all the time
oat ?>ii9rf. far the Dprnnrrat?! if he is
physicaly able to speak, and Reed and
Burrows will probably be spokesmen
for the liepubiicans.
.Senator Jones, of Arkansas, after an
ineffectual meeting of the Democratic
tariif conferees this morning, drove
staignttothe White House and had
over an hour's conference with Treisdent
Cleveland. It is said he- reported
to the President that all movements
looking to concession by the Senate to
the House conferees bad been blocked
by the imluence of Senator Gorman of
Maryland, representing a groop of socailed
conservative Senators. It is also
said that Senator Jones informed the
1'resident that this announcement
would probably be made to the House
tomorrow, on the part of the House
courerees, it being the intention of the
House conferees to let the country
know where the responsibility for failure
to agree rested.
The House conferees had con3ultanffornz-.An
rrrihh slr?OOLrnr
LIUlJ. LlliO CXL ICi L.UUU n uu
before going to the fall conference and
they came away convinced that they
were pursuing the right course in insisting
on the essential features of the
House bill. Wilson, if hi3 health enables
him to stand the strain, wiil make
a report to the House tomorrow when
the tariff bill comes back from the conference.
iPiOS Times Hard cl
Ions p"o"Lo"|
< inly |90 for a Superb Mason a cg
gkg H amlin Organ. 4 set* Cp
sfg and $.S?monthly. Reduced C<?j
Eg from $115. W hitk Us. Cm
k?3 KfAatifnlSTEKi.rNG Mirror Top Cil
only$60. H set* Reeds, 11 Stops. Cfl
I? Wkitk Uk.
mX I/jvely New styles at $65 and
575. Whits Ls. f|
S5 1.levant N'pw Pianos on!y |22f>. Cg
?3 W ONDKRytJL at the PRICK. C?
Sd& Writs US. Ct3
R# Tremendous bargains in nearly ?jj|
BJ new Pianos and Organs, used
a trifle only. Writ* Us. 5S
Kg If you want a Piano or Organ
Sjg now is the time to buy It g!p!
Bg right. Writs Us. gj3
B| WrlU u* anyhow. Trade 1* C^3
iJK > doll and yon ^ant n>k more C^3
? 1 question* about llanos and Cia
g I Organs than we want tc an- affl
gt l swer. Try it, please. (a
&S i n n~in li II H
wen a is mi y
Eg J ? SAVANNAH, GA. SB
laflgWwvi nww rv^-ai
gg?OTS8B6^$>iiiplipfSr?r ttgrw [r i^t^dfoljpifrdfcili pi !,->
peacnncs.?wii^ nil i i ? ? ii?iii icaeaeacccjMi
EXCITING SCENES. >
PISTOLS DRAWN AT THE EDGEFIELD
1
CAMPAIGN MEETING. <
r
i
Tlie Hhin!>iire Allidavlt IVodnced l?y Senator
ICntler and (loffmor Tillman In- ^
troUuces a Counter Allid?.vK? At fine
Time a Riot v.as In Sight.
0
Hdgei ikt.p.S. 0., July 11).?The same c
Providence which has before prevent- s
ed the shedding of fclood at campaign
meetings in this State interposed again j
today. With eyes glaring like tigers t
with hands on pistols and with open
dirks and knives ready for deadly exe- e
cution, it lacked only one overt act, r.
only one blow, to have precipitated a c
battle which would have left a hundred
dead and wounded men on the platform c
and grounds of Academy drove. Inno- \
cent, women and children would have t
suffered and the consequences would f
have been horrible.
1 have seen trouble in crowds before I
1 have seen the eyes of men dance and 1
the muscles quiver. 1 have seen the r
hand go to the pistol pocket, the glim- r
uier of the bright weapon and the
smoke clear away alter the trigger
was pulled, but 1 have never seen wild- v
er or more ferocious expressions in the c
eyes of human beings than was exhibited
here today. 1 looked at any mo- t
ment to see a shot fired and to see the
fray commence.
The scene of the trouble was on the 1
speaker's stand. Right here it is well i
to remark that the lives of every pub- .
lie man are endangered by permitting *
anybody on the stand but those enti- "
tied to be there. With a packed stand
and every man possessing a pistol few .
bullets will go astray. At the first in
tlmation of trouble desperate men
crowd on the stand to be in the heat
of the fray. If everybody was forced ,
to stay on the ground the danger ,
would* not be so great. In case of a ,
row there would be room and opportunity
for innocent people to get out of
harm's way.
m ^ ... .1 ; 4-v,^. f
XLiC IUW C'UUUIICU JU5L UC1LUC LUC
closing of the meeting and during .Senator
Butler's speech, it was precipitated
by the uncalled for remark of a
man to Senator Butler. It would have
come, however, with almost anything
or any remark. It was in the air, and
nothing was needed to cause the explosion.
Senator Butler did not intend it,
but if he had not lost his temper to
some extent the trouble might not
have been so intense. The veteran of
battles and bullets let passion get the
better of him for a few minutes. He
not only called a man a liar who had
insulted him, but repeated it two or
three times. He had become exasperated
by the cheering for Tillman ana
was in a mood to vent his anger on
any man.
The crowd numbered 1,200 people and
was made up of the most peaceble and
the most desperate men in Ejgeheld
County. Governor Tillman had the
majority of the crowd by several hundred.
although Butler supporters were
to be seen in all directions. As the interest
to the public will centre in the
speeches of the Senatorial candidates r
and in the trouble which was the but- I
growth ot those speeches, I will only t
give them. 1 will simply give the facts
and let the public make up its mind as t
it sees lit.
During the speeches Governor Till- ?
man sat toward the b.Tk of the stand, I
talking with friends and listening to 2
the candidates. lie has changed his f
white helmet to a dingy yellow one of 2
the same style. Senator Jlutler sat ?
near the front of the stand. He wore
the old straw hat which has crowned 1
his head from the lirst day at itock I
Hill until now. In his rigiit hand he 1
held the long walking cane which some
friends gave him and which he 1
cherishes.
ttii.b OYKR TILLMAN.
Governor Tillman was greeted when s
he advanced to the front withatu- (
mult of applause, wild cheering and a *
waviDg of hats. His partisans ro:se to 1
their leet, and jumped in the air and
yelled. 1
1 have known Governor Tillman for c
years and have reported many a *
speech of his, but 1 never saw a tear in -c
his eye until today, it came when he
opened his speech by saying that his
heart wjiq filled with cratitiidfi to the <
people of Edgelield, to home people, j(
those who had stood by him on every 11
occasion. lie talked of his previous
campaigns and what he has done for 1
the people.
Voice: "IIoa' Is it that taxes are *
higher?" 1
Tillman: "They are not and you (
know it." 1
(Governor Tillman said that the peo- 1
pie are divided, but it was through no 1
fault of his. He said that iiutier now *
spoke of the antis and the uncles. lie
told how the uncles had been imposed
on for years until they rebelled. Ihit
ler is hustling to get the votes of the 1
uncles, but will not get them, if ever 1
a man tried to ride two horses my 1
friend, the General, is that man. He |
has lost the love and respect of the i
men who supported Sheppard. but they '
are goiug to support hiia because they I
hate me.
One of the produest days cf his life, Governor
Tillrnas said, was when the
Edgelield Hides came to his assistance u
ring the Darlington trouble and were
followed on the next train bvthe Edgeiield
Ilussars. Irrespective of political
fuolinrr Mio nru?n of I'dfrllplri UTf*rP SOl- 1
v">- ? ?? -'-ft I
diers. 1
A literal volcano of applause fol- <
lowed the Governor's remarks on this <
subject.
Mr. Tindai advises, said Governor
Tillman, that the uncle3 allow the an- 1
lis to come back into the family. I i
don't object if they are penitent and 1
honest, aud if they no longer claim to i
be the best people on earth. For God's 1
sake let's have peace if these people I
really want it." i
The Governor turned lii3 attention <
to national politics and said that a
shaking up of the antis is needed in ]
Washington. (Laughter and applause.) <
Taking a silver dollar from his pocket, ]
Governor Tillman said: ''The Xews j
and Courier and those other little lice i
dogs say this is a dishonest dollar." J
foice: "Hand it over here; I will i
take it."
About fifteen minutes was given to
national affairs and Governor Tillman i
ended his speech by saying to Jlutltr: 1
"I want to notify you that unless you t
withdraw your accusation that I ran i
at Hamburg I am prepared to prove (
that the men who make that charge
are liars." The Governor said this in i
the most dramatic manner imaginable
and set down amid a whirlwind of ap- y
piause, and a waving of hats which was
almost blinding. \
Senator Hutler who was sitting in '
his chair, turned to Tillman and hand- (
ed him the certificate which appears i
elsewhere. '
Tillman told him to read it when his 1
time came and he (Tillman) would read \
the one he had. 1
Four or five beautiful bouquets were 1
handed Governor Tillman.
1SUTLEU'S INTRODUCTION.
Jbitier was received wiia siruug npplause.
He said that there was appre- i
hension all over the State that the men l
of Edgelield would get the devil in them }
today but he believed there would r
be good order. With pathos in his t
words, Eutler said he was glad to see 1
so many of the fair daughters of Edge- r
Held present. {
J hitler made a fervent appeal for c
peace and for the cessation of bickering t
and strife. t
(leneral Hutler said that he endorsed \
the noble sentiments of Mr. Tindal. I
He endorsed every word and believed i
that Tindal's advice could be accepted ,v
by every man of every faction. s
Tillman, (leneral JIutler said, accused e
him ol ridding two horses. If he (Jbit- f
ler) was any judge Tillman is riding c
four. i:
Tillman: "Jiut keeping in the mid- 'J
die of the road." v
Eutler; "Yes. but allow yourself A
ly of margin on each side."
"How much sugar has lie put in yor.r
fourd?" asked Cutler of the audience. (
Voice: "How much have you put in
here during eighteen years in the
Senate?" (Counter cheers and Bp?iause.)
.Cutler- "oust Keep quiet now. I ^
;novv I am bitting you in sore places I
iut you must take it." J
Cutler jumped on Tillman harder (j
han ho has tor dajs and accused him
if being stingy and penurious. He
harged Tillman with not paying his :i
Vior>ri rst i at) 1 a :j 1 ? e.f arm rvjnnr I
The yells and applause for Tillman ^
>artially drowned Sutler's voice and
ho noise was terrific.
When it was over JluUer said that ^
verv time he hit Tillman the (lover- c;
tor's supporters wince and try to drown c
mt his voice by cheering. .
1 hitler said that ho had been riding
mly one horse since 18T?? and that horse 1
vas the deliverance of the people, ile a
old what he had done in 187*1 and of 1
lis participation in the Hamburg riot.
While speaking of the Hamburg liot
l.Townes asked JJulter if his (Hut- ;
er's) house had not been burned by i
legroes because he took part in the c
iot.
"Ves," answed Hutler. j
J. O. Atkinson, a Tillrnanite, who j
vas standing on the stand to the right w
if Hutler, said: t
'Ves, but you denied it in Washing- ?
on." t
Hutler turned like a panther and (pick t
is lightening said: "That is a lie; an t
nfernai lie." If he had stopped at this r
here might not have been any trouble f
it that time, but ho repeated what, he 1
aid two or three times. e
Men began to surge toward the stand ]
vhile Hutler continued his denunciaion.
In an instant Charles Hammond t
umped upon the stand, followed by II. s
I. Townes, each with his hand resting ?
>n the butt of a pistol in his hip ponket.
t was then that the desperate men of 'j
joth sides jumped upon the stand and c
hose cf less courage moved off. 1
Hammond and Townes got behind i
hitler, and Tillman's friends crowded t
iround mm. I he antagonists began to \
plare at each other and to talk in strong I
anguage to each other. Pistols were t
:hanged from one pocket another to be r
:onvenient for quick use. v
It was a squally time. The excite- i
nent is beyond discription.
Atkinson did not move one inch r
rom where he had been standing. lie p
var, surrounded by excited men. t
General Butler quickly removed his s
vits and worked masterfully to check a
he riot which seemed imminant. Till- p
nan aid likewise. Each appeared to L
nen of both sides to stop jowering. r
fhey begged these trying to get on the t
itand to stay oil and those who were al i:
eady on to "get off. a
Among some of the men toying with v
heir pistols were several known to p
lave been in thrilling affrays and noted c
or coolness. i
The uproar continued for what ap- t
leared to be tin minutes. During this 1
ime the hundreds of men who had re- c
nained on the stand had gotten ready i
'or action. I
I know ic to a feet that almost every e
nan had singled out a target for his t
)isto and merely awaited the signal J
o turn loose.
The excitement gradually subsided, J
>ut was really opposed.
Puller resumed his speech to try to s
ret the addience back in its former dis- r
iosition. lie gradually gre v salty again
ind there was another outbreak of 1
sheering tor Tillman. Jiutler got mad ?
igain and said there was an attempt tp 2
Irown his voice with their braying. (
'Any common jackass," he said vehe- i
neatly, "may bray, but 1 do not pro>cse
to he stopped in free speech by a s
ot af blatant jackasses. I can not bef
rightened. 1 have seen too much o c
eal danger to be intimidated. *
"Governor Tillman says L am not in
,his race. lie says he will beat me. 1
lay if he will leave out his rings and
jive me a separate box 1 will beat him
;hree to one in Meriwether township,
where both of us live."
llutler charged Tillman with being a
ing and caucus man and said it was
ibarged that there is a ring controlling
he Gubernatorial race. Tillman, he
iaid, has not denied this charge.
Turning to Tillman Butler exclaimed
'1 dare you -1 dare von, sir, to give me
i primary. You will never do it be;ause
you are afraid. Even ring
won't saye you."
liutler attacked Tillman for his delimitation
of Cleveland.
Jiutler took from his pocket the certificate
relating to Tillman at Hammrc
Up <?airf that hp had not r*r>n<?id- *
?red it a master of much importance
md had not intended to refer to it
'.gain, but as Tillman had demanded It
le would give it. The certificate is as
followsTHAT
CKRTM ICATK.
"This is to certify that at II am berg,
July, 1876, we, the undersigned, were
present and that Mr. J>. It. Tillman was
sot seen by any one of us when the
iring began. That we were in the
:iiickest of it from start to linish, and
f he had been there we should have
>een him, and certainly did not after
;he firing began.
(Signed) VV. II. Hammond. T. T.
Hammond, L. V. Storm, II. D. Storm,
JohnM. Kightower, G. W. Walker,
Jos. JJ. McKie, John A. lintier."
The readlDg of the certificate finished
flutler sat down.
The Governor waited a few seconds
ind walked to the front. His eyes
were dashing. He read the following
certificate refuting tiie charges of the
ethers:
"South Carolina?Aiken County.
il Pa oil r\n nr\y*r> 'Phto i a + r\ i t t* r
xu an c/uu-i ncu. i mo u ovt/?tu > i
.hat on the night of the Hamburg riot, '
in 187b, we, the undersigned, were in i
ihe town of Hamburg lrom the begin- t
ling to the ending cf said riot, and t
;hat we know of our own knowledge i
ihat H. 11. Tillman stayed in said town t
md did his whole duty until the ending t
if the said riot. (
(Signed) "Henry Gitzen, L. \V. (
lieese, .J. O. Holder, W. II. H. Jlutler. t
J. C. Hammond, F. b). ThurmoD, L. I> i
lieese, G. W. Medlock J. F. Atkins, 6- c
L5. Mays, T. A. Hays, J. A. Timmer- i
man, IS. W. Miller, W. F. lioper, J.C- i
Lanham, .J. A. White, T. N. Timmer. s
man, W. F. Dobey."
(Some of these men are Jiutlerites.) c
As the Governor read each name he i
isked the signers if they were not with j
lim and they answered in the aflirma- t
:ive. Another row was expected at I
my minute during the reading of the *
jertilicate, but it did not materialize. 1
A large number of men who had i
lot signed the certificate shouted to t
L'illman: "Yes, you were there. We r
were with you and saw you/' i
The Hamburg riot incident was c
wound up by the following from Gov. t
rillman: "If any man doubts that c
rAforrinor fn frm nprfilinatp) |pf. him i
neet me oil the public square." While t
rill man v,-as reading, ten or fifteen of i
lis friends surrounded him. A whirlvind
of applause followed him and a i
liindred of his admirers warmly shook
lis hand. i
Musical Uotnei are Happy \
Have you ever noticed it? Call to t
nind the homes of your friends who t
lave a good Piano or Organ in the a
louse. Are they not brighter and c
nore attractive than those where the f
livine art of music never enters? To 1
ie sure it costs to buy a good instru- nent,
but it lasts many years, and will 1:
>ay its costs many a thousand times J
>ver by interesting the young folks in f
heir homes. Don't make the mistake, r
hough, of investing haphazard. J'ost t
rourself thoroughly by writing Ludden h
c Hates Southern Music House, Savah- t
iah, (ia., the great music house of the a
iouth, established in 187<>. Th^y have a
upplied 50,000 instruments to South r
rn homes, and have a reputation for p
air prices ami honorable treatment ol v
ustomerami thev represent the lead- c
ng pianos and organs of America h
["hey take pleasure in corresponding ri
pit,h you, sending free catalogues, etc r
Vritethein. ii
'HT BOND Q'JFSTON. II
n
iovprmr Tillman's Keply to Senn'or ^
l?ntler> (/h-iTCH. tl
WALTKiiConno, S. C., July 13,?liov. u
rillmun at the meeting hero today re- tc
>lied to the questions asked by Senator tl
hitler at Charleston about the state 01
lebt. ile prefaced his speech by say- ^
ng that llut'er had pranced forward o
it Charleston, telling those people how t!
le loved them, and warned the Colle- ^
on people not to lie fed out of Cutler's
poon, but to spir it, out, as it had Has- :ellite
quinine in it. Butler out the j
[uestions in a decent way, and he congratulated
him on the improvement in
lis manners since the Chester meeting.
Io had put his fuse to his little bomb
md nothing but lizzie resulted. llepb
og to the question he said. "I have
lever hesitated or expected to lind fault
vith any criticism of requests for in
ormation concerning any official act
if mine, and 1 will cheerfully make
inch reply to (Jen. Dutler's questions as
' can, away from theollicial documents
n Columbia. First, as to the 80,030.15
charged in the treasurer's Dooks
o the redemption of Drown consols
'xpenses, the larger portion of this was
xud for the engraving and printing of
he bonds themselves. The balance was
he expenses incurred by l)r. Dates and ,
nyself, when we went to New York
or two weeks, begging up and down Wall
street and every item, with vouchts,
can be had in the treasurer's office.
I'hi3 is what was spent of the 68.(XX).
To the second question, how mucn of
he funds of the sicking fund commision
were expended, and for what. 1
inswer, not one cent.
Third, who received the 8124.101,65?
this should be 8118,12*, the 2 1-4 per
:ent. serai-annual interest on the new
)onds. I answer that I do not know.
Ye did not, as everybody knows, fund f
he bonds in New York, because we ?
rnro ontorrAnivQrl I ^ xr tho I 1 r I^iuf nn
)anks, and the feeling there appeared
o be for a gold bond, which we were \
lot authorized to issue, and which I i
vas unwilling to have the State issue.
\ftercur failure to do anything in New *
fork, we authorized Mr. Rhind to e
legoliate the loan of 85,225,000 of 4 12 "
>er cent, bonds at par, and expressly inormed
him that if he could sell them
o as to get any commission it would be
ill right, but that the State would not
iay him one cent. So far as Mr. Rhind's ,
inancial standing was concerned it did (
lot concern us. We were dealing with
tim as a broker who apseared to know
us business, and who had discretion
md judgmentt His associates in the >
vork with the syndicate, aDd who got ^
iart of whatever commission he re- a
:eived, were Messrs. Lancaster and *
rVilliams, of Richmond. 1 say this, J
lowever: That Lancaster, Williams,
ihind, or any other man, has ever paid i
me cent, of his commission to anybody 4
n 8outh Carolina that I know of. and
. defy anybody on earth, under the
artii, or anywhere else, to trace any of
his mony to South Carolina, or say that
iates or 1 got one dollar of it.
A Voice?Are you a Populist or
democrat?
The Governor?I am a white man
tnd a Democrat, but you are a white
nan with a black heart. (Laughter.)
1 wish you people had oeen at Chareston
lost nignt, and seen,'me spit lire
Lt those hounds, Chico and Cantini and
S'olte. The present aristocracy of
Jharhston were out with their underings,
but I salted them down good.
Voice? What about, the dispensary
iho'rtage ?
The Governor?I told (Jen. JJutier he
:ould examine the b oks if he was hon
-st in that matter, and we will send
,*ou along to wash the spittoon. (Laugher.
)
In regard to Gen. Gatler'a statement ?
,hat the times were favorable to fundng
thedelt, and that Georgia funded
lers at 3 per cent., I say that, while v
he candidates for Governor and others r
vho had been members of the lleform '
party. boasted of the refunding of the !
lebt at a reduced interest as an achieve- f
nent worthy of praise, J have never :s
pened my mouth about, it. I know liocv t
iillicult the operation was, and how c
maasy Dr. Gates and myselef were lest f,
he scheme should faii through. In r
act, early in .June, the nervous strain
m Dr. Gates was so great that he left a
tic ' he whole burden to bear, and went
,o :he springs, being completely pros- j
.rated. During the time he was absent P
he stringency in the money markets j'
md the impossibility of obtaining curency
wa.s so great that the last week
n June money on call in New York
jommanded tfO per cent, interest, and y
)ut for the fact that we had a bonus of
$150,000 as a forfeit should the Galtinore
Trust Company f ail to take the
ponds, and but for the furtner tact that
L assumed the responsibility of shipping
the bonds C. O. 1). by express, so
,.hat they could be deposited as collateal
upon which to b prrow the money to
jay for them, there would have been a
ailure to complete the transaction,
ien. Sutler's lamentable ignorance of
,he linancial condition unler which
he transaction was completed shows
hat he i3n*t even lit to go to tht I^gisature.
Georgia's State debt is much smaller ^
;han ours, she is twice a3 large and
ler assessed value is over ?425,000,000,
vhile South Carolina is assessed at
?170,000,000, Georgia has a white ma
ority ensuring a continuation of good
jovernment, while we have 40,000 negro
rotes in excess of the whites. This
neans that under certain conditions
which have at times appeared immilent
there might be a struggle between
:he white factions which would make
;he negro vote the arbiter that would
nevitably bring a return of the condi:ion
of affairs which caused .lohn I'at,erson
to say there were live more years I
)f good stealing in South Carolina,
ieorgia owns the Western and Atlan;ic
railroad worth ?0,000,000,and wliich
ents for ?450,OOo, an asset nearly
iouble her entire public debt so that
my comparison of the linancial standng
and credit of the t wo States is
limply farcical. /
I say it in no boasting spirit that we
;unsummated the Linest financial deal
;ver made by a "farmer and a clodhopn
U af oa n r? H mnr Cormnr ( 1 o
jk:l i7i. i auu j v;ui iniui^i u v ? | ^
crnor?in reducing tne annual charge fi
jy .$80,000 and every man of any charicter
or honesty in the State whose
leart is not gangrened with political
renorn gives us credit for it. As to
he veiled charge or insinuation that 1
eceived any ot the commission, 1 delounce
as a malicious slander and 1
can only say that those who are ready
,o make the charge only display the
corruption of their hearts and confess
ndirectly what they would have done
lad they been entrusted with this iaiDortaxit
and delicate matter.
Far,her, John C. Haskell is on record
n a speech before the Legislature as
not believing South Carolina could
loat a lour per cent bond and he had
ntroduced in the General Assembly
vhich authorized the issue of the4l?
>er cent bonds, a joint resolution coninning
the interest on the State debt
it ?> per cent. 1 or three years. I he only ^
>fTer we ever received from Charleston *?
or any bonds at all was made by Mr. fc
'ringle who offered 07 per cent, tor ?*'
'250,ObO. If Col. Haskell's proposition 1!l
lad received the endorsement of the
>egi3lature it would have been a con- SF
ession that the State was unable to j|
efund her debt, while the interest for It
he three years would have entailed a fe
mrden on the taxpayers of S2M.00O, in
wice the commission which we paid, st
n<! then there would have been no or
uarantee that the debt could have been A
efunded at I 12 or 1 percent, without at
laying just as much commission as
re paid. Such large blocks of bonds
an't*be handled in any but strong s
ouses and such men do not work for ;
iOthing. I happen to Know, having a,
eceived the information from a banker
a Baltimore, that many of the weaker ;;;
lembers of the syndicate lost money by
iivson of the enormous interest they
ad to pay for the currency to meet
oeir obligations and take the bonds on
me.
The Governor declared that there
as a ring forming in Colleton county
> send some feliow to Congress and
le people must see that he was not
ne of Cleveland's "me-too's." If there
'as a reform ring in South Carolina he
mst be in it for he was the centre
f the clock, the lynch pin upon which
tie hands of reform have revolved for
our years and the people were the
alance of the ring.
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