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I, I I .1,-111?J Li 1 1 l.L ! !_ 1 J .. -I ... _ , THE PICKENS SENTINEL. I DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIIE GENERAL INTEREST OF TIIE COUNTRY. Vol. v. pickens, s. c., Thursday, February it, me. no. ui From tho Qrocnvllle Nowa. The Railroad BondsMr. Editor: I see from the columns * - - ui your jmper mac mo question re-1 garding tho liability of the Railroad 1 bonds Ib undergoing discussion. Ins ^ asmuch as tho subject involves questions of very great importance to the public, I proposo to make a few observations upon it. Your corres uondont <kTaxr>avor" stronuouslv nr/r a - * - * D C8 tho iniportanco of our own citizens becoming tho holders of tho bonds. Ho considers it ft sufo and judicious investment for tho two following ? roasons, viz: tho legality of tho security and tho ability of the peoplo to puy n. Jiiuru Civil DO HO CTOUDl A3 tO tbo second reason he assigns, as an inducement to invest in the bonds. It is certainly a very strong one, and if tbo securities bo legal, it is of course in all other respects perfectly ? good. But "Taxpayor" seems to take for granted tbo first and most important question that should weigh in determining upon the safety of the investment, lie assumes that tho security is perfectly legal, and it is upon this point that I would respectfully dissent. After having 4 given the subject a full and thorough consideration, I am constrained to pronounce the security. 60 far as it regards the liability of a certain class of taxpayers, aa wholly and entirely illegal. And in undertaking to establish my position upon this question, I would say at tho outset, that I do not propose to discuss it from u constitutional standpoint', because in ??. view of all tho surrounding circumstances, and the governing principles ol law to which tho question must nccoesarily givo riso, I am fully satisfied thai tho position, I have taken, can ho unstained without the aid of any constitutional provision. It rests upon tiio broad principles of justicc ifBolf. Tho right of government t<? low taxp.rt fOk* tha iiiii-niiftn n( nHvnno. ^ , .... ! --- , lug tho wealth of private corporations cannot survive tho tost of judicial scrutiny. When wo pauso to contemplate tho true theory of govern* ment, wo cannot fail to bo solemnly impressed with the fact, that this power, with which it id vested, to impose taxes upon the property of (ho citizcns, grows out of tin ostabx lished and well dofined principle, pointing out the great and ultimato object, for which it wns originally designed, tho obligation of the citizen to respect this right, is manifest, for without it tho government would be nothing more than a falacy, a more nominal thing, utterly incapablo of acting for the ends and purposes of ite creation. Society would bo left unprotected, and mankind blindly degenerate into a Btato of anarchy, discord and confusion. Government being bo absolutely essential to tbo Wf.11 hninc nf anoint!<>a la tlm ulriimr. ? ?) ? " in est and tho weightiest argument that could bo advanced vindicating its right to sustain itself by means of taxation, but whilst this is truo, there ^ is another question presenting itsolf for consideration, that givoa ns a deeper and broador insight into tho subject, and demonstrates more fully tho truth of that principle, that trov* eminent was intondod to protect tlio citizcn against any unlawful invasion of hia rights. It cannot cxorcise its high prerogative without a pure regard for those rights. The very fact nmi u is vcBioa witn tins power boing bo strikingly illustrative of the true object of government, goes far towards provi"^ tbat it can only bo exercise'* ror its own ends and purposes. Therefore, wo cannot escape tho conviction tbat any attempt to divest tbo citizen of his property without tbo authority of law would bo in contravontion of ovory prin* piplo of juatico, and consequently antagonistic to the great ends of {government ittjelf, whether such ati i tempt be flagrantly unlawful or boar the eemblanco ot legality. Viewing the subject in this light, we cannot it.~ l i -j x_- ii - uuiibiuur mo uu ioviou IOI" mo ])H1'? poso of discharging tho indebtedness incurred upon tho Railroad bonds as legal, and tho dissenting taxpayer is not bound thereby; and thero remains but one question to bo inquired into, and it servos as tho strongest and, most eftectivo test in determining his liability: unl tho right to levy tho I tax oxist previous to tho time that tho pooplo incurred this obligation by voting for the subscription, or was it acquired by virtue of a contract? It it originally existed, tliero could havo boon no necessity to liavo sub-. mittcd it to a voto, because the pows er to lovy the tax would have been an acknowledged fact, and besides right; lienco wo aro bound to conclude tluit it had its inception in a contract, and must bo regarded to all intents and purposes as such. it is ft woll known and long established principle of law that in order to constitute a contract, thoro must bo an assont of tho parties thereto. It is tho first great and essential requisite upon which hangs its legal valiflitV_ Without tliia o nnnti-onf utmil#! not have oven the color of legality. Then, is not tho proposition that tbo dissenting taxpayer cannot bo hold responsible under a contract entered into without his knowledge or cons sent, a reasonable one, and ono to which evi'rv roiiRonnhln num mnat accede. I venture the assertion that lie can successfully resist it in a court of jnstico. As I liavo already said that I do not propose to treat tho quostion in u constitutional point of view, I a n, however, willing tor its constitutionality to undergo a freo and impartial test. Lot it he analyzed and dissected in all its features. I entertain no apprehension as to tho result. On tho contrary, I rest in tho lull assurance i 11 n', u wui oniy cuntrioiue 10 sircngncon my position in a matter of such weighty and paramount importance to tlio people throughout the Slate and country. Jubtiok. ? The State Normal School,?Tho Charleston Nows and Courier Bays: Thoro in a Stato Normal School fiomo^ whoro in Columbia. Should 3'ou ask ovory man you might chanco to moot on Alain stroct in tho courso of any given day if thoro ho such an institution, ninety and nino residents of tho city would most probably toll you that thoy havo novor heard of it, wlulo somo professor or othor atrangor would most cortftinly assuro you that such a school is really in oporatioo there?somewhere. Who are the pupils or teachers no body knows. It is only suspoctcd to bo in oxiatenco from tho fact that it costs money. It is known by its wants, and its voice in <? UUllkllll .llUVUIlillU 1>LI # 1! (II I VMi, Who is Mr. Warron? Ho is tho Prinoipal ol tho State Normal School. Mr. Warron now wants tho State to provide for needy young oitizons (all colored) who havon't tho means of defraying their own expenses while at tho Stato Normal School, and the State will probably havo to do so.? TIjo Stato provides profossors for tho University, at salarios which nono of thorn could command nnywhcro cIho undor tho sun, and tho Stato providos pupils lor tho profossors. Tho Stato has provided Mr. Warron for tho Normal School, and that gontloman now vory reasonably wantssomobdy whom ho can touch. Thoso who aro ablo to pay htivo no idoa of coming to him to bo taught, whoroforo ho wishoo sorao inducomont to bo hold out to tho impocunious. Walk up, young gontlomon! Tuition is froo, and two hun~ drod dollars oaoh is now asked for to assist you. Only whito Carolinians nood not apply. Tho track is opon to tho rost of tho world. Mon who mako monoy onsily, find groat difficulty in spending it profitably. Bill Whipper's History. Tho following is Irora a corro8r>on?. dent of tho New York Sun: Milan, Mich., January 25.?Tho people of this region tako great interest in reading about W.J. Whippor, tho dusky politician who was recently elected a iudgo in South I Carolina, because beonco lived hero for a short time. lie was not a judge then, unless a judgo of whiskey, nor was he culled in those days tho lion W. J. Whipper, but simply Bill Whipper, or moro commonly "Nigger Whipper." ? rrrt i.:~ - uiov hihmu mo JiJ'JJCill tlHCO !l? mong ub aa u farm lnboror, in tho service of n farmer living a short distanco North oi this village. He enlisted tho sympathy ot his employ-* or, wlio hoi pod liitn to buy or got soiiio shadow of title to 1G0 acres of f i mlinrn.fi Iftnrl W liinnm* nm/ln ?? V? % >?>.?* ?? Ml p|/Ul HUiUV i* very (small paymont on the land) came to this place, act up for a capitalist, got a eaw mill built for him, and then hiring a gang of colored brethren and a number of teams, ho made expeditious work in getting the valuable timber oil the land of which ho had become the . nominal nroorietor fit slight expenso. This tirabor ho converted into money, which ho put in his pockot, when ho quietly step-* ped out, leaving his colored brethren* the real land owner, the mill owner, land various other creditors to deplore his untimely taking off. It was hardest on the colored brethren, as many of them were just from the South, and very poor. To use an ex prossion in vogue hereabouts, lie "whipped" the negroes the worst of any of his creditors, and il was owing to this, more than his color, that ho rtcquired tho cognomen of l'Niggor" Wnijtper. Tho iudfo hn.il nl>t;iiiiP(l mnnnv nn.l - *i n - - "*,"V,,VJ %*,,V4 credit at various places, in amounts varying from ten to live hundred dollars, on the representation that ho owned 1G0 acres of laud, a saw mill and large amount of personal proper ty, when his total cash investment could not haveoxcecded $200. Sev oral warrants for fraud and one for stealing bolting from the mill in the night tunc were swnrn out against him, but he managed to olude ser^ vice for a time. At last, closo prossod by tho oilicoiM of juatieo, ho enlistod in a colored rcgimont in Deo 1?1! - I nun. jKvuii iinur hub uu who urrw ted and 1?. ckotl up in jail in Ann Arbor, but military authority being paramount at that time, ho was released. Ilia subsequent career is better known in South Carolina than here. Wo havo heard he roso to be a ma jor general in that blato aa well aa a judge and commissioner of the 6inlcs ing fund. Ilia numerous acquaintances hero would bo glad to boo him onco more; but if ho can't pay them a vibit il ho would send thorn all his pnoiogrnpu u wouia uo uotter tiian nothing. 1 have made careful inquiries and have no doubt that tlio VV. J. Whippor, who "whipped" his colored friends here eo unmercifully, ia tlie Biiino VV. J. Whippor. who ia figuring so exiensiveiy in oouin uaroima poi itics. Ad to tlio truth of all tlio statements made in this communication any number of affidavits can bo procured from responsible citizens in Alii an. It may possibly bo a caso of mistaken identity, but it is not like 13' unit two persons ooanng tho unusual immo of W. J. Whippor, both colored, and both (lisp)dying such rc^ markablo characteristics, could exist in cno country at tho same time. w.s. 8ovving is taught in tho Boston puuno hcdooih, Ana a committoo o? thirty compotont ladios rocommond Hint tho nybtom Bhallbo oxtondod. Hilling says: "I don't rooolock now oi over hearing of two dogn fighting nnloHHlhoro was a man or two alwaya around." i Dodging Out of a DilemmaWo arc not favorably impressed with Wbittomore's bill tor dodging out ot the dilemma in which the Radicel party are placed hy tho bocullud olcction of Whippor and Moses. There aro now eight Circuity, and tho plan of tho bill is to assign to other Circuits tho Counties com posing the Circuits (tho First and Third) to which Whipper and Moses claim to have been elected. This, il practicable, will rulo out two Judges and thoso two are intended to bu Whipper and Moso ; but how is it intended to oxcludc those two in the place of any other two? There is no uso in attempting to dodge tho question. It must, soon or late, be squarely met. Whippetand Moses are not Judges; because there was no existing vacancy, the constitutional- term of Judges Ileod and Shaw not expiring until after an other general election, and after the timo whon tlin form of Mnana nntl Whippor was oxpccted to begin.? That is tlio constitutionaljand insurmountable obstaclo in tlio way of tlio two persons whom tlio General Ass 60tnbly undertook to put upon the Bench. Wo have no objoction to Judge Carpenter. The Charleston Bar know him, and have a high opin1AM /if* lila \y\itr\ i? t\f ? ??rl / * ?-* *#! v.. VI * I^VI ) J/I Vlllj/tllUUU auu ability. This is, however, a matter of principle, and we cannot consent to waivo it. The constitutional ground ot opposition to Muses and Whippor was iirat expounded in the News and Courier. It was rediculed at firat; it is now accepted as gospel. We aland on that ground, and will not budge an inch. When tha1 ground is cut from under our feet, and not beforo, wo shall support any and ovory other means of keeping tno uoiauiter anu tno doDaueiiee Irom dotiling tho bench by their presence. ?Charleston Nowa & Courier. Tho old saying that murder will out is roeciving illustration in tho great Iiubcnstcin trial, who is before the i.... ii.~ ~i -c ?-mi war ui junwuu un inu uimrgu 01 Killing Sum Aloxandor, the Jewess. Taking his victim to a (iold in tho country, bohind a stack of corn husks, ho did hiH foul work. Thero was a struggle and tho shawl of tho girl was tornNo oyo soomod to witnoss the deedBut husks of corn followed the porpotrator and woro idontifiod as similar to those of tho stack whoro tho body was found. Tho soil thatelung to his shoos, subjected to a minute analysis, was found to bo the sumo as the noil at tlio spot, and to it woolon fibres wore found adhoring, which wore identified as of the same material of tlio murdored woman's shawl. Exports also testified that tlio bloods stains found on bis clothing were mado from human blood. In roforf.n l.hn lnff.Ai' linint r/irnnl rw inonts havo proven that tho blood of Homo animals cannot bo distinguished from buman blood in the stains which thoy make, although tho opposite theory was hold previously. It is still furthor allegod that oyo witnosscs to uio ucou prove enough lo lead to conviction. Tlio wholo history in a thrilling ono and is a terriblo warning to the shoddor o? human blood that will cry out against him and bring him to punishment.?Atlanta Herald 4^ OoMJMnus, Ohio, February 4.?CJon Sherman writos: "1 nevor havo boon> am not now, and novor ahall bo a candidato for tho hitrh oftlco of l'rosi dent of tho United Statos boJoro any Covontiou or tho pooplo." JIc alludes favorably to Govornor ffayes. ilo says: "My wif'o and family uro strong Catholics, but I am not. That, howovor, is no body's businoss." t Tho man who loavos tho door opon in winter is tho samo porson who invariably closod it in summor. Ar raugomonls aro now being porfoctod whoroby a bounty will bo paid for bin scalp. A Colored Delegate's Speech in the V1 Qcri n o T.nf*iolnfnf? AJvgiQiamic In tho dcbato this morning in tho Legislature on tho Centennial appropriation, Bays tho .Richmond Evening Journal, Petor J. Cartor, tho colored deloirato from Nni?l.htiiv>hni-I?n?i ty aroso, and urged on by Uio cries of "Hear him. hear him! sounded in tlio well known voicos of cx*Govs. Smith and Lctchor, finally Hilenced another niomhni* W1 \ (\ wrou n/li?Artnl Kill .. i.?/ HIIU itUVUViltlll^ tllVJ Ulll, and with a rapidity of articulation licrotoforo unkown, proccodod to speak. Tlio noiso and confusion prevented hin first remarks from being heard, hut when order was restored his voicc in clavion poals rang through tho hall, sounding death to (ho Cont f-1 milium: Whorcforo is it, ami why I'm axin', novor; no aah. What! ton thousand dollars fur to bo giv' away to Philadelphia. [Lctchor "Good." Smith "Hoar him."] Olo Fagin ucbor tiro. [Chcoi'8.] Whar's (lis thing guyin to end? Lot 'cm go to see do show, but you hears my voico eayin' still, proximato your own expenses. Ajuuit in uiaisiaiuary ot liinral Washington. Look at Clay, Calhoun.? What is their lust thought? Yob, sah. Do boy fttood on do burnin' dock.? [Applau?o and crios from Lctchcr and Smith, "Go on."J Logan is do friend of tho white man. Mr. Logan is down on do black man. Stop and consti* tuto dis oxponsivo tiin. Ticket t.o Baltimore 87.00. Supper, lodging and breakfast $2 moro. Tickol to Philadelphia ?2.GO. Admission to tho show and sido show at lost 75 cents. Mulplifying of this by fivo, count up do boxes, eurostics, trunks, polieios, carpot bugs. [Irumenso cheers.] Look at dc treasury, look at do money dc Governor hov spent in postago stamps a fixin' fur this oceassion. "Old Mother Ilubbard she went to do cupboard fur to git a poor dog ft bone," when fiho come back tho dog wur olopod. Joss so?it will institution on or or.? No, sah, I'm talkin' straight Amorican languago. JBunkum Hill, (jcorgo Washington, John Brown, whar is you? lliso from 3Tour seats?say is | i rignt?say is l jostice, truth, and jostico again. Ex-sGovornor Lctchor (rising from his scat)?Mr. SpoaUor, I movo a medal bo awardod to Virginia's son? tho good, tho groat, the glorious Car- I lor. Socondod bv Smith. The motion wan earned and tho Logislaturo adjourned for drinks. A Sea Monsthk.?An extraordinary monster was seen a fow days ago at Fodora, noar Loophoad Lighthouse, which is situated on the most western point of tho County Clare, in Ireland. It is thus described : Its head and neck l'osombio a horse, and are of rodish hue; it has a .short, round cars and flowing mano, and from tho poll ex-' tend two branching horns like those ui u ?ui^, uuuorncain winch woro c5'cn glearing unci protruding. It mado dircclly for the narrator, who was on the side of the stoop 'ock. IIo at once ran out of reach oi mc nion ster, whoso approach looked anything but friondiy. J t then arose high out of tho wator and plunged with such force as to eauso the water to fly so far and in such quantities as to drench tho obsorver to tho skin, ho standing forty feot hack from the wator at the time. It romainod near thirty or forty minutes, nevor disappearing a momont from view, but roaring its hugo body partly out of tho wator, and giving a chanco for further observation. It was observed to have tho tail of a porpoiso and two largo fins from tho shoulders, and on tho breast woro two largo fatty lumps, which shook with ovory motion of tlio mons htor. It then shaped its courso worLs ward, still kcoping its hoad and nock woll clovatod. Us hulk far oxcocded thai of tlio largost porpoifio ovor soon on tlio coast, A middlo aged gontlomen, dooply intorcstod in tho Centonnial, n.skcd h miss ot awect sixteen if ftho know what important ovont 1870 would ho noted for, and blie proinj tly rcHpymled ' Leap year." Leslie Expand and Sinking Fund Commissioner C. 1'. Jjoslie has thought tho matter OVnr Arif? tn H./? ? . ?? ww?v uv niv V/*~M IV/1 14"** sion that, in point of fact, ho is not so anxious for an investigation as ho thought ho was. An investigation of Radicals by .Radicals is all vory well ?quito tho correct thing?and altogether a very good thing m its way but investigation of a Radical, and uiat a KaiMcixl himself, by Democrats is quito another affair. Besides, lie itf now older by a week, unci wisor at loast by a yoar, than be was. If that Democratic Committee bad but contented thcimolvoB witb iu sing in such IioIch or barking up such trees as bo pointed out. bo bad n i-misnnnhln presumption n Inn favor that thoy would not find in 111, or any traces of him,oithor in tho ono or tip tho other, but, when thoy so far forget thorns selves, and what was duo to him in consideration of tho compliment of their selection, as to go boating about on loose scouts on their own account, ho felt that bo could not safely bo rosponsiblo for tho conscquoncos, and it woro botlor, on tho whole, and in viow ol possible* aecidonts, to cnll off tho hunt "on genoral prineipels." Playing haro is a vory pretty game, and a profitable one undor certain restrictions, but it Iosoh rapidly in inter* oat?to tho haro?ns soon an tho doga gui, in onrnest.? Charleston News and Courier. Wish I had that Money NewTho Vickeburg Herald Bayp: A very intelligent old darkoy was mot by an antc-?bolliim Iriond tho other day for Hi/% *1 v..w inob biinu Binuu mo war, and tho old man's delight at scoing ono of Massa's tickler friends of old timoa was unbounded. After a hoarty hand shaking and protractod laugh peou liar to tho Southern darkey, tho gentloinan U3kcd: "Well, Uncle Joe, how arc you gets ting along in tho world?" "Sorter slow, Mar.se Wilson, boon had rheuinaliz right smart I:\t0l3-, and things ain't gone 'zactly right no how," replied tho darkey. I "ji great many changes have taken J placo sinco I last saw you, uncle Joe. Death has takon your old master away, the family are suattorod ubout I tiie four quartors of tho globe, tho farm is divided up and strangers occupy tho old house. It makes ono fool right sad, undo Joe, to think of tho chances that lvnvn hnnn wiT>nr?i?* 0 WM6"u by old FiiLhor Tiino. "Yubs," undo Joe, "You member wbon I was a slave I worked hard at? odd times, and made money'miff to buy myself. I paid old Massa 61,000 for my freedom." "Yes," said Mr. Wilson, "I remember." "Wish 1 had dat money now," mused the old darkey. "Woll, yess," replied Mr. Wilson, "it would be quite a fortune for you." ' Lots 'o fortune, sar,'' Ha id the old man mournfully, "and every time L think about it 1 kinder rue de bargain. Nigger was wulf a thousand dollars then, but now bo ain't wufl a dam Mighty changes in dis world." A somewhat simple woman was aBUcci whothcr her huslmnti loarod Clod, and replied, "1 guoss ho doos, for lie novcr goes out on Sunday without hi.s gun with him." "Shrouds!" exclaimed an old lady who was listening to an old sea captain's story; "What do you havo them at woa for?" To bury dead calms in, madam." A bashful young clergyman roccnlly rising to prcnch for tlio first timo, mndo ji torriblo mix, oC it, ami announcod his toxt in this wiso: "And immediately tbo cock wopt, and Peter wont out and crow bitterly." A Hubscriber to a MonthweHtorn newspaper (lied recently, leaving four yearn subscription unpaid. Tlio odi* f At* ni^nn'ii'n/l ?! f ?>>><! ",l" "lT"n ' ilod in tho collin a palm loaf Ian. a linon coat, ami a tlici monictoi.