Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND 1O THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. PIOKENS,, S. C., THURSD 18 NO.3 TILE: -SENTIN L IS PUBLISIIED EVERY TIURSDI. BY D. F. BRADLEY & CO. Terms of Subseriptie One Year . . . . . . . . . . . .. .60 Six Monthis... . ........... '75 Advertising Rates. Advertisements inserted at the rate of 900 per square,- of (9) nine lines, OR LESS, fo 'he first insertion, and 60 cents for each a e quent insottion. Contracts made for TH1REr, six or TW Vg months, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the numb of insertions marked on them, will be publi ed until forbid and charged accordingly. These Oerms are so simple any child y understand them. Nine lines is a aqua one inch. In every instance we charge y the space occupied, as eight or ten lines n be made to occupy four or five squares, as e advertiser may wish, and is charged by e space. & Advertisers will please state the nu ber of squares they wish their advertiseme to make. & Business men who advertise to benefitted, will bear in mind that ti SENTINEL has a large and increasing el culation, and is taken by the very class persons whose trade they desire. The Last Night at Home. BY MARY N. KIRKE DILWORTH. Yes, Imust leave you all, dear ones, - Afy truest friends on earth, For childhood days and riper years Make plainer still your worth. Oh feeble, faint, and trembling still Are all (he words I say! When my full heart seems bursting, then For you, d.ar ones, I pray. Father! you're growing old. No more The free, firit foolstep's thine;; And en thy head, a gloricus crown, The t4ilvery lo kS now 8hine. F.ihur! thly daNifer loves thto well; Though erring oft, yet give 4 Thy blessing ere I leave tiy home, In a new home to live. Mother! with reverent lips I speak ' he holiest na-e I know Oh, thou art home, though all forsake Thy daughter here below! Mother, forgive the tears I've caused From thy rond eyes to flow, And with thy trewbling lips now bloss Thy Mary as 1 go. Sisters! I leave you all. And now A faithful memory brings Sone ltter memories back to we Upon her d:arkoned wings. I have not loved as you have loved, Forgive all the wrong, So gentle still, with all my faults, * You've loved me well and long. Brothers! upon life's stormy sea I've launched my trembling barque, Oh, let forgiveness from you all Make its dark waves less dark! It is a stormy sea Cod knows, And dark the clouds above;. Yet there are golden streaks that gild, These are-forgiveness-love. And now, it comes at last. Farewell, The loved and true of home; Though oft within your sacred walls You Mary still will come, Yet net as in the days gone by, As one of you to live; But give a kindly welcome still, And all the past forgive. Life's battle must be fought, and we The victory must win; Yet not with folded hands, but with Brave hearts the strife begin. Now horzoes we all must make, you know, And happy, if we will; Dy loving, working, we can all Our destiny fulfill. Farewell. My seat is vacant, now; Another bids me come, And, with a cheerful, loving heart Make light within his home. Yet know, I love you all. My heart Still clings to its first love; IIsve faith in God, and He will keep A home for all above. *An Ashe county man brought a drove of cattle through our no fence couvty, and the people wore after himt all along the road with sticks and rook because they would occasionally steal an oar of corn. He will return home and write a pice to the papers '. against 4bo stock law.--.Charlotte Oberver: An exchange says: "Morton don't die worth a cent." Perhaps heo has been honest, om made unfortu znate mnvestmente Hlaye started out to divide the Hampton's Address at Rockford. Governor Hampton, on Thursday, delivered the opening address at the Winnebago County, Illinois, Fair. The following extracts include the most interesting portions of his speech: Ma. PRESIDENT AND MY FELLOW orIINS OF ILLINOIS-If any evidence was needed to show the high appre ciation in which I hold the invitation which brings me here to-day, it would surely be found in the fact that I- have travelled more than one thousand miles that I make my ac knowledgments to you for the honor you have conferred in person. (Ap.. plause.) And let me say to you, and I say it with infinite pleasure, that had that journey been far longer, had its fatigues been far greater, the sight that meets me here to day and the cordiality of the welcome given by the people of Illinois would have amply compensated me. (Applause.) Under ordinary cirenmstances I hould scarcely have felt at liberty to ave left my official duties to partici. ate in an occasion of this sort, how.. ver gratifying to me the honor might ve been; but the invitation of the inuebago Agricultural Society car r with it such weight that it im p ed on me an obligation which I le I couldn't neglect. It was this so ety a year ago, before the politi ca spirit which h as now so happily su ided had abated, that was among the 'ret to inaugurate that spirit of rec iciliation which is now spreading witl such wholesome force over this Ian of ours. Therefore, when they mad a call on me, I as a Southern main elt that it was not only my plea re, but that it was my duty to go al I make a response to them in pero , and thank theni for their cours in the interest of harmony, and to ledge my cordial co-operation in th pa'riotic ai.d noble work. (Cheer ) If I comprehend the pur pose of 'onr invitation to me, it was not tha should speak to you merely on agri iltural subjects, but that 1 should iscuiss those graver and broader sues which are distracting the coun -y. But, my friends, ini do, ing that, -on need not fear that I shall vio te the proprieties of the occasion y giving you a political speech. ,shall speak to you for no man, for no party, for no section, but for the 'hole country, (applanee;) and in loing that I shall strive truthfu5ll to sjik all men and parti sanship, and to plaice myself on the grand high lanUe where true patriotispi can be found. (Applause.) As I cor$true the motives of this mnoveme~ t, my friends, it is in the in terest of eace. Understanding it so, it was tI t brought me here;,and if by ant gthat I can say, I can in the slighfest degree assist those gen tioemen in the noble work that they have inaugurated, then, my friends, I shall feel that my mission has not altogether failed. The chief end I had in view in comning here wvas to promote a true and correct uniiderst andinug between the people of the Nor th and the South. Yon mus. admit that very many of the evils which have fallen on the condtry have come from the mniscon coption of the purposes each of the other. You remember there is a profound truth, as well as a knowl edge of human nature, embodied in the fable, where it is told that in the olden time a shield, white on one side and black on the other, was hung at the intersection of t wo roads, and t wo knights approaching in opposite di rections disputed as to the color of the shield. Finally their lances were put in rest, and they per'illed life, each to support, his own convictions. It has seemed to me, in look ing over all these questions, that somethinig of the same sort happened between the North and the South. The Constitu tion wvas the Bhield, viewed as it was from different points and construc tions. The dispute upon the points waxed warmer and warmer. The sword was called in, and under its red arbitrament many a brave, and true, and knightly soldier laid down his life in support of his conviction. What might have happened, .my friends, had )rudence and not passion ruled the hour, it is uselcBs for us to say now. The Ptatesmatin looks to the past perils of his country simply that he may guard against them, and the prayer and work of the patriot should tend to the same end. My friends, I speak for the South. We of the South have had not only enough, but too imuch* of war. (Laughter.) We seek peace. We come no.w to plead in the interest of peace, and it is for eacc that I am before you to-day. (Cheers ) Can you doubt, my frionds, that the South wants peace? Go look at her ruined fields, the misrule under which ehe has lived for twelve years, and you will doubt no longer. Do you men of Illinois doubt her sincer6. ity? She has been charged with faults, but among these tanits her worst enemies have never said she was hypocritical, or that she spoke with a double tongue. impetuous, rash, she may be, but, thank God, false, never. (Cheers.) Do you want proof ot her sinceri t0? Look at the recent past, and tell me, if you can find synlmathy more conclusive tIhan is given by her con duct. Ne-d I tell you to look back to those trying days when the Pres idential contest was nnse.tle ? What was the course of the South theni Governor 11ampton alluded to the possibility of a civil war, had not the South stood firm for peace, and said: I tell you nen of lilinois, and I speak not as a Denocrat-I doi't know and don't care whether I speak to Demociati or Republicans, I speak as an American to Americaus, and say to you, tooday, you owe a debt of credit to the people of the South (cheers) in Congress, to what somne of the N\orth have called the Confleder ate brigadiers. Th'Iey prevented fil, labustering, and stood by the result of the E ectoral Commuission's work. During the recent strikes and riots, too, she evinced her feeling by up holding the laws and standing con servativye. She has given bonds of late to preserve the peace, and shte wants peace. She wants you, people of tihe North, to understand her condlition. She wants you to realize pr'cCisely' what she accep)ts as8 the result of the war. She wants you to understand the motives which have actuated ber' not only before and during, b)ut since the war. I, for myself, my friends, have no concealmenits to make for the past. I have taken pare in the war, nor would your resp)ect for me be increased were I to offer any un manly ap)ol'gy for it. I did what you did. I obeyed tihe comimand of my own btato as you (lid yours; and you, men of the North, wvere guided by your own consciences, as we of tihe South were guidled by ours. And I say to you that up to the beginning of that war I used all my influence to preserve the Union. (Cheers.) I was a Union man. (Renewed cheers.) I did all I could t o preserve it. I did all I could to avoid a wvar, and when South Carolina called her sonts, as Illinois called hers, I obeyed her command. And, men of Illinois, I fought you as long and~ hard as I could, and I have no apologies to make for it. (Loud cheers and laugh ter'.) I remember especially that I fought th.e Eighth Illinois, and I thought it one of the best regiments in the Federal army. I fought them very hard indeed. (Great cheering and laughter.) Now,t my) fien*dS, we went into the war believing we were right; but when the war ended we surrenderu, and I want to impress that upon you. We surrendered in good faith, and I challenge a man living to say that from that day to this I have violated in any degree the tenor of my parole, or done anything inconsistent with my honor as a soldier or a citizen. (Loud cheers.) When Isheathed my sword I renewed my allegiance to the United States government, and I pledged myself to support the Consti tutiotj of the United States. When I took rny oilicial oath the other day as Governor of South Carolina, I swore to uphold it as it now stands, and, so help me God, I intend to keep it. (L,ud cheers.) We sui rendered in good faith. We accepted the Constitution of the United States with the amendments, though we op., posed the latter. We accept thern ow, and propose to obey them, right or wrong; that the Constitution shall stnud equal for the protection of' Bouth Carolina and of Massachusetts, of Illinois and Louisiana; and we bave the right to ask that every cit izen in every State Should be equal before the law and under the Consti tution of the United States. (Cheers.) So much, my friends, for the views we entertain. Ihen we come, ap pealing to you for peace. We come appealing to you, because it is not only the highest wisdom to restore )CC, not only because it is states, manlike, not only because the theory of statesmanship and peace requires the restoration of peace, but we aps peal to you because it ia the very nai.spring of patriotism, and it there is anywhere the mainspring of pa, triotismn moving strong and perpetual, it is in the hearts of the people of II linuis. G1overnor 11ampton, alluding to I he story that he had been t reatened, treated the iatter jocosely, elicting Inuch m7irth, and read a letter stailin ihat one hundred veterans at Rock ford had constituted a committee to send him back from here in a box. The remainder of the speech was devoted to eulogistic allusion to the State of Illinois in regard t o its ag ricuitural advantages, to a prediction of a glorious destiny for the Mississi pi Valley, to a brief allusion to the labor question, and a plea for univer sal education. iIe concluded as ful lows: We are standing under one flag, obeying one Constitution, and it is for us to say what will be the future of this country. Give us your help, and we will give you our hearty cos opJerationl. We feel and knowv that, if this is done-if we can have a re storationm of fraternity, if we can umake the people of this country un der'stand each other-we feel then that there is a glorious future before the whole country. We can make it so We can make it so by each and all of us performing, in his allotted spheore, his duty; and having done that, leave the consequences to God. Ilaving perfoirmed our duty, looking back to the past only to gain wisdomn for the future, and using the pr1esent wisely, and looking to the future with hope and trust in God, I am sure that we may all say, iNorth and South, patraphurasing the wish of the p)oet, that our States may all be "distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea. (A p)platuse.) Carpetbagger vs. Carpetbagger. ChamnberlaLin, in ant inlterview with a reporter of thle Now York WVorid, denied emphalit icamlly Parker's con, feesion. Par ker, in a rej.oin der comes at Chamber'ain again, as fellows: "Gover..or Chamberlain has the advantage of me ini this, that he has not been indieted as yet, and conse quently there may be some peop)le who would take his word in perfer ence to mine. What I have samid, however, is susaceptible of proof, and if the pr'eent investigationi is pressed tatirly and thoromghly snilicienft facta will be brough to light to confi m my statement. All that I am afraid of is that this prosecution will be nipped in the bud by influence from Wash ington. Tho Republican managers are heartily offended by thoaction of the South Carolina grand jury, and they will throw as much cold water on1 it as they dare. I think it will be hardly possible fur them, however, to prevent the disclosure of acts wbich may shake even Mr. Cham berlain's confidence in his invulner ability. "I see that Chamberlain responds to most of my charges with the suf ficient declaration that they are old. rhat is true-a great many of them have been in circulation for the past rour years in South Carolina, though hey have not been so current in the North. Sme of them, though, only 3xisted as unsupported rumore until he appearnce of my statement. Dhamberlain might, up to this time, Lave said that they were the grounda e's isuspicions of outside persons people who had little opportunity of nforming themselves in regard to he-carefully guarded secrets of the Administration. When I declared hat they were true, however, and dded corroborating details, the face >f the case was changed. As one of the Ring, if you please, I had faci lties for knowing all that was going )n, and it was not likely that I should hiave bven blind or deceived in re gard to what was passing under n.y eyes. Granting then that the charges were old, what of thatl Can't they be old and true at the same timel I simply gave weight to old rumors by my personal attestation of what I had heard and seen. I think Chain berlain will find that these charges cannot be puffed away so easily. "As to the charge that I gave him $2,000, I repeat it again. It seems ho has forgotten it, but unilesa I am gi eatly mistaken I shall be able be fore long to refresh his memory. Even then he may deny that he ever received the money, but I think lie wvill rermiember the little transaction. I can only say at present that it was in some way connected with the land commission, but I do not care to state it more fuIl)y. "Chamberlain (lees not present the story oIf the suit against me in a just light. I was sued fur the recovery of $450,000, alth ough Ladd, my cle.rk in his testimony only mentioned the suLfi of $300,000 in conpons. The faict is that Owens was also charged with having funded $300,000 in) COu ponls fraud ulentmly, and it was nioto, riouas that like coupons lad been funded in quantities by a number of p)arties, among them) Solomon's B3ank, which claimed to have received the coupouns in the regular course of bu siness from New York. We1J, I was the only one whom they thought fit to prosecute, and so, as a matter of con venience, .they saddled me with as many frandulent coupons as pos sible, regardless of the fact that the testimony of my clerk, upon which I was :convict ed, covered a loss amou nt than $300,000 in coupons. Ladd swore thie I told him 1 re ceivcd coupons11 fr'om Kimpljton, and that, after' funding thema, I gave $50,000 to Scott, $50,000 to Neagle arnd $50,000 to Kimnpton, as well as an additional su m, wvith tbe under standinig that it was to go to Chamn berlain. As I was stued for $450,000, Fand the evidence was to the effect that I had fundned $300,000, where was the scnse or justice of finding a judgment against rne for $75,000? Ik)nds were r'Cquiredl to the excessive amuount ot $250,000, whi ch I was, of sourse, unot preparedl to furnish. I was coimmitted to jail, but immediate. ly released u ponl a habeas c~orpums roum Jnudge Mackey, who told the Sher iLY tLat lhe woulId commit him or' contempt ii he served uny other >roees up;on i'me inl the samei. mne-. ter. Shortly afterwarde I lett the State. 'One day in 1874 lie invitod n to come to his house, and told me that his friends were pressing him to write a letter disavowing his connee tion with the issue of conversion bonds directly, It was during the canvass before his elect ion as Govern. or, and Rainey, Melton, Elliott and others were urging him strongly to do so in order to ptzt him self right if poosible before the public on this question, Judge Carpenter and other friends of his did not see the necessity of his maklig this state. inent, but he told me that he had been driven to the wall by the first party. 'But,' I anid to him, 'you can't do thip; Scott will never snler it. He would cono out with a denial of its truth immediately.' 'Vell,' said he, 'I thjink 1 can fix it with Scott if you will undertake to shoulder the main responsibility. If you will do so I wiTl see to it that you shall never suffor from any prosecution while I aim in office because of your avowa', and I will take measures to have that $150,000 due bill which Kimp-o ton presented for andit paid by the treasury and the proceeds divided.* "As I know that certain facts 1n my possession would at any time clear me, if published, I consented to tho appearance of a letter throwing the greater share of the blame in the matter of the Conversion bonda upon my shoulders. Scott assontod to this arrangement, and Chamberlain's lot. tor was given to the publio. Now, I had in my possession the written opinion of Chamberlain, advising tho Financial Board to issuo these bonds and, holding this, I felt safo, was willing to assume a little additional odium. That written opinion was among the documents which my at, torney, Max well, sold to Comptroller Goneral Dunn, and, if I am not great ly mistakon, Dunn has it yet. Por haps it will be forthooming in the courso of the Ring trials, and then Mr. Chamberlain will have a chanco to blow this away also." Ex%Financial Agont II. II. Kimp.. ton was found in his office by a World reporter, to whom ho said that ho <tid not desire to make any reply to the charges of Mr. Parker, at least for the present. Revenue Officials. On last Friday morning a party of Revenue officors v'isitod the store of Messrs Smith & Sloan, of Pondleton, and at tho timo of their entry both of tho p)roprietors werc absent, and their clerk had gone into a back roomk with a customer for sorne mcal. WVhen the clerk returned, the officers asked to examine the tobacco boxes, which was granted, and they wore found to be properly stamped. The proprie tor's had by this timo roturned, and the officers asked to see their licenso to sell tobacco. Upon looking in their show case, where it was kept, they found the license gone. It could not be found anywhere. The license was seon in the show case the day before by several customers, and the suspicion that it was removed by the detectives is very generally indulged at Pondlo ton. The gentlemen composing the firm of Smith & Sloan stand as high as any in the State, and no person will doubt for an istant their statement of the watter, besides which is the state nmnt or some of their customers who n)oticed the license there the day be-, fore. The circumstances of the trans, action are all against the dotectives, who ought to bo indicted in the Stato Courts for larceny. The Revenuo oflicers of South Carolina are generally of a class of men who are a disgrace to the publie service of any State. If President lifayes wvishes to iungratiato himself' into the people's faivor in' South Carolina, ho can do so mlore speedily by removing tho inhfamouis gang of Revenue officials and deLos tives who havo worriod and op)prUessed ouri peop)le, than by any otheri dinle act.-Anderson Intelliacucer.