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T LE SENTINEL D. F. BRADLEY. Editor. PICKENS 0. II., S. C.: IRSDAY, MARCH 17, 1881. T1ERMNS: tubseription, $1.50 per annum, for six , 75 cents; strictly in advance. rtiiemenuts inserted at one dollar per of one inch or less for the first inser. d fifty cents for each subsequent in Liberal discount made to merchants hers advertising for six months or by ir. sary Notices and Tributes of Respect d for as adlvertisements. muOing Candtidates five dollars, in * e. Vetoed. of the last. official acts of Hayes was to te three per cent refunding bill. The al banks which are owned by the Repub party or which owns the Republican it, is hard to tell which, bulldozed him . The bill would have saved millions tax payers of the country annually, but ney power which runs this government :h the Republican party was not willing taxation reduced by losing a high rate --rest on their bonds, and they put their t it. An extra session of Coegress will be the resa!t nf it. Garfild's Inaugural. i sident Garfield wats innoigurated on the inst an t., amidst the pomp and splendor litary and civic organizations from nearly section of the Union. Gen, Hancock I additional honor to the occasion by his nce, and was the recipient of as much, i'ore attention tliai the President himself. id's inaugural has been highly com !ed by nearly all the papers in the coun, egardless of politics. It contains some patriotic utt erances, and advanccs the that, sectionalism, so long fanned and alive by I lie ladical part-y, of whclh he a central figure, may be banished from )olities of the country, and that in tie e a man may be measured by his man I and worth and not by the section of Itry of which lie may be a citizen. Such mitnents as these will meet with a hearty >0onse from every patriotic breast in the on; but whecn he proclaimns that this is a Na , and that the Constitution and laws of *United St ates are supreme over the Consti on and laws of any State, in all things, lie o vers the real idea and purposes of the lical party and leaves nothing for thre *m ls of constitutional government to hang ir hiopes upon. All the acts of the Repub rn party since its ascendency to power has ded to centralization and imperial 'i. This is the leading political idea ad * 'cedl in Mr. Garfield's address, and so long it. is practically carried out, we can not pe for that freedom from political turmoil estenitial to the peace and prosperity of 3 country. We do not hope f or much from ~rtield's admiinist rat ion, and shall reserve *r plaudits uint il ho his demonstrated by his * a rather than his words that lhe deserves * m. Secretary Winidomn refuses the application *the nat ional banks to return their legal ten rs that. they gave in to withdraw their cir lation when bulldozing Hayes into vetoing e funding bill, and the financiers are hoist th their own potard. The Democrats in the Senate have backed unre down in the matter of organization, d after dilly-dallying around have asked r Republicans to be graciously pleased to in iinte when it will suit them to organize. [vid Davis declines the chairmanship of the lici ary committee proffered him by the Dem ats, and says he'll remain neutral. Ma ne acts with the Republicans, Chis wvill give the Republicans the organi ion of the Senate, and give themi once more i trol of all the dlepartments of the govern% ' ent. Democrat timiidity is responsible for it. The Wrong Sow. Sheriff Gitreath says: Tho Pickeons hV:NTINEL has got the wrong Pow b~y io ce ar suro," in attributing to him toewarmness in his search for the rvorend' Burries, or Burroughs; his Roverend'' goes by tho name of Wmn. ymies and him he expects to hoar "n very shortly, as ho has, with a (lay or two, boen notified that he in Georgia, where a card of invita-' n will bo0 handed to him to visit e'convillo, which ho does not think e will bo able to decline.-Oroenville Sheriff Gilroath is mistaken ab.out our "attributing to him lukawarmness o his search for' the Reverend Barris r'Borroughs." We only suggested hait some one should swear out a warrant, send it over here and hajve him arrestod. if wo have "the wrong sow by the oar" it is no faiult of ours, b;ut rather that of our esteemed con tormporary the, News,friom wvhom we obltained our information. But if we really have "the wrong sow by the ar"we propose to let loose and take itold of the right one, and will say for -sheriff Gilreath's information, that bould his'searoh in Georgia prove fu,. tle, ho might have better luck by turn og his vision across the North Car'o, ma line, and when he spells the name, 2ommence with a C instead of a G, anrd say that he is the son of .a Rev (,roId, instead of being a "Re verend'' biaself. This is our latest grapevine dispatch. The Pending Political Problem SENATOR BUTLER'S VIxw8 OF THE SOLID SOUTH, AND WHAT SHE WANTS. The American of Saturday publish% ed the South Carolina contributions to its sympOsium. It says: "When we reach South Carolina, we got at the very heart of the South, er:a question. Here is the State whose great men preached the gospel of so cession through so many years, and made converts of the whole South; which was one of the last to lay down her arms; which was. more than other States, despoiled by the conqueror; which was crushed in the dust tinder the car of reconstruction; whose lands were sown in salt by the carpetsbag, gor; whose wrath or woo gave birth to the Ku-Klux, and which, only within the last four years of twenty that have passed since the election of A braham Lincoln, has presented even a semblance of peace or order and equal rights. * * * It was with sick hearts that the people, broken in spir, it and iml)overished in store, address, ed themselves to the task of building up their wasto places. Little wonder is it that for a while they sat down idlo, in gloomy contemplation of their ruined fortunes, and that while they hesitated the Onemy sowed tar-es. A few voices, Wado Hampton's among them, were raised in an attempt to make the real people of the State be, stir themselves, but they fell oU list less ear's. The carpet. baggers and no groos formed an alliance, offensive and defensive, and, under the shadow of Federal authority, entered the land to 1)080 it. * * * The re-admis. sion of the Stato into the Union prov ed only the opening of new vials of wrath upon tihe people of South Caro lina. The State government thiough several administrations was corrupt to the core. Venality was the rule in every department of official life. The negroes, illiterate and ignorant, ensi ly imbibed the precepts of profligaicy and vied with their' pr'ceptI)ors, tl e carpotsbagger's, in plu ndering the pec pIe and making a vulgar an~d offecnsive display of their ill~gotton go~ns. With very few exceptions, office proved do,~ structive to the morality of the negro, and if he resisted temnptation for a -- wvhile, the carpetabaggers deli berat ely set to work to seduce him. So far' as South Carolina was concerned, hones ty seemed to havo vanished from the face of the earth. Tho~ history of the administrations of Scott and Moses will be for'evor at stfech to the nostrilsI of this nation. The reaction camne at length, but it came slowly anid with many attendant evils. The~ first stepls taken by the intelligent, property holding people to recover the right of self-govern ment were mistaken, be, cause violent and revolutionary. They shed. * * * Stung' to madness they took into their own hands the vindication- of the right to life, liber, ty and the pursuit of happiness. In doing so, as was inevitable, they re sorted to measures which were la wless. The whole negro race suffered for the crimes of its officeo-holding class. Out rage was met by outrage, robbery by bloodshed; and outrage and bloodshed were accepted by the Federal govern, mont, on the representation of the carpet-baggers, as manifestatione of disloyalty and a disposition to deprive the colored man of his rights. There was wrong, grievous wrong on both sides, and it wvas a long while before the ~North was made to see that the truth lay on middle ground. WVhen it did, the losser evil was chosen, and the North looked the other way while the white people, by means com mendable, to say the least, resumed the reins of government. The new era began with the election of Wade Hampton to the Governorship in 1876. Into the manner of' that election it was not thought wise to inquire too closely. We do not believe that the election was fair, and we know that the incidents of the campaign wore not peaceable, but we recognmze that the result was for the good of South Carolina, and that the new Governor and the new Legislature did more to restore material prosperity to South Carolina and to bring about pleasant relations betwoon th( races than all of the other Governors and Legislat ures that the State had in the preced, ing 11 years. Son th Carolina has sin.. ned much, has suffered more, but it is to) be hoj edi that II e perfect day of her deliverance is at band." After tIhi gencial introduction tI o American presents the ans~wers to its questions given by Gen. M1. C. Butler, with a personail prelude-. - "General M. 0. Butler is, naext to Wade Hampton, the most widely known South Carolinian of the present day. He gained distinction in the war between the States, as a Confederate cavalryman, entered the service as a Captain in the famous Hampton Le gion, and becoming a Major-General Aftcr the war he resumed the prac tice of the profession of law, which he had abandoned to become a soldier, and also took an active part in poli tics. In 1866 he was a memberof the Legislature, in 1870 was an unsuccess., lul candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, and in 1876 was elected to the Senate as the successor of T. J. Roborston, and the colleague of his o!d military commander, Wade Hampton. Sena, tor Butler has two reputations-to the average newspaper reader on this side of the Potomac he appoara as an un repentont rebel, unpleasantly immor, talized as the instigator of the Ham, burg massacro; at home a nd to those who have met him on the floor of Con. gress, he is recognized as one of the most temperate of Southern Demo crats, genial, intelligent, progressive, thoroughly reconstructed, as innocent as a babo of any connection with the Hamburg affair (except as to his share in quiating the disorderly elements,) and radical only in his worship of hi5 native State. Senator Butler says: "Surcly ev ery good citizen of the country ought to join in that "stron; desire" which you say, "the bettor elomonts of the Republican party of the North" have for "obliterating the cause of section al suggestions and baneful dividing lines, known as the SlAid South." You say further that the North is sincere in this." I am rejoiced that this is so. The South is perfectly sincoro in a de siro to come to a cordial understand ing with people in all parts of the country, and establish kindly relations with them, socially, politically, com mercia113 ind materiallv. She will meet the North more than half way in that dlirection, anid enter into as dhipassionato aI( discui 5on of the d ivi ding questions as humiian nature isea pablo of. Y[ou ask me: " Ians the enlrpet- bag influence beeni huritful or' helpful in yourl State? and in what way as re gardls ed ucationai~l, p-d'it ic'l, social and comner.erIcial prospority?"' I diislike to revive a di-icussion of' theo carpet-ba', regime in South Camro - lina. It was eio full of official dereic,. ion a nd governmental scandal, so f'raught. witm dlisaster to overy in torest of the Stamte, "educational, poh tical , so cial anld commtfOrciaml,"' so "hurtful" to evoly3body and. overythig, that I can not in this man ner con vey to you a corect idea of how mV11uch harm tihe carpet- bagger did do my State." 2. You ask "Ihow fat hasi t-his car, peOt bag influence bon34n opploseId or fos-. tered by State Legislation and publbc opinion?'' During the eight years of Republi can rule in South Carolina, the most flagrant crimos and wrongs were not only not punished, but excused and covered up by every department in the government--Judicial, Legisla tive and Executive. There were some honest men in all the departments; but, as a rule, wvhat I have said is true. Of course, they were op~posed to the better class of both races, but so com pletely did they contrmol all the gov, erning powers of the State, and so complete was the carp~et bag Republi., can ring, that the opposition was powerloss. 3. "Have thae carpet baggers had a fair chance to be honest, and are the troubles which have arisen traceable to weakness of'charactor in the car'pet baggers?" Nothing 'proven ted their being hon. est that I am aware of. They had absolute con trole of the Statoe govern-, ment. They had behind thoem a solid pl)Oitical party, principally of negroes, it is true, obedient to their leadroship to the last degree, and willing, I be ieve, to sustain an honest adminis. tration of affaies; and I am therefore led to conclude that they were more wicked than weak. 4. "Is the tarpet bag influence~ with you on the wane, or waxing; and why?" I think it is on the wane, because most of thorn have fled from the pen-. itentiary, where, no doubt, their Con sciences admonished thorn their crimes would consign them. Some left the State voluntarily. A few are remain ing who might, leave the country of their adoption for their country's good, living ther'e as they do on poli tics, stirring up the worot passions of the negroes against the evhites, and disturbinir the nence ot bocniay that they may thrive on the confusion. 5. "Are the Northern Democrats a help or V hindruncre toa Southern po, littoal prosperity. .'If so, what is the remedy?" They have been a "help" to the "political prosperity" of the South.. When we were under the ban of the worst State government the world over saw; when the South was so'idly Repuslican, staggering under the weight of the direst humiliations and afflictions, that ever cursed any cit. ilized people in any civilized country since the world began-no sign of rol of, no word of sympathy, no effort of power, no hand of help, came from anybody, or any source, but the North ern Democrats. lt appeared to us the Northern Republicans rejoiced in the afflictions, spoliations, wrongs, humiliations, that their party allies in the South were heaping upon us. Up to 1874 they controlled the entire ma chinery of the National Government, and, at an early period, every officer from Governor to constable in the Southern States; and if ever there was a word of remonstrance against the corruption and misrule by a Re publican at the North, in power or out of power, so pateit to everybody. I do not recall it. It one single act, by one single body of Republicans at the North, was done to correct or re. form the abuses of their party, during those long years of disgraceful mis governmont in the South, it has es. caped me. Are you surprised, then, that I should tell you, "the Northern Democrats have been a help to the political prosperity of the South?" 1 say this, not because I am a Demo.. crat and they are Democrats; but bo, cause they helped to secure honest, local goverrment. That is all. 0. "What is tho condition of thu negro party, and what is its future?" Some of the negroes have joined the whites in an effort to maintain good govorrlnmenrt. A majority of them, however, are susceptible, like all ig nloran t peop)lo, to ap~peails to their pas siens and rac prejurdices, by bad and unip:triotrc men, and4 may be easiily indu1ced to) array themselves against thte whitaLoy whenaever their passiorns and preju'dicees area' appealed to. 11 yon wure to go into thre South, and 'rndeavor to sal isfy their judgmenat, b'y in telligent argume rnt, and reason, that they ought to voto for good, cmpo tent men for oficee, and for none other; and a bad wbito or colored man, whoI) nmay hrave embhraced Repu1ibliennrism the day bef o, perchance, shoulId st unula to thei r raice prej ud ices, arouise tIhoirI passions or pantdor to their ig nor'ance, and advise them to vote for thre worst man in South Carolina, they would fllow hris advice and not yours. Many of them have acquired intelli., genrco anid experience enough niot to do this, and haovo joined the whites on the side of good government. "Whlat is the future of the negro party?" I confess I can no more answer than I can tell you what will be the future of the Indian or the Chinnaman. All three are very difficult pr'oblems, and we must see luther along before we can speak affirmatively. If the no gro population could be distributed over the North-the maflsses of popu lation broken-I think it would be the best thing for the negro, and for the wvhites alsao. If they are to be left in the South, the Southern people had better be left to settle their rela-. tions with them. The Southern peo ple kn6w the negro, and understand his characteristics, his wants, his pos. sibilities, anid the Northern people do not; arid, if left to themselves, the Southern people would deal mnore kindly and more fairly by them, than the Northern people. 7. "Has the time come, or is it near at hand, when the white people of' your State will seek affiliation with new parties?" There is no 'new party' with whichi the white people of the South can af filiate. No man in the South can ally himself with the Republican party as it is known and organized in my State, and maintain his~ self~respect, or the respect of his neighbors. Thoise who organized the Republican party in Southr Carolina made it so odious, committed so many crimes, and did so many wrongs in the name of Re pubbecanism, that no respectable man could join it. My opinion is that many people in any part of the coun try are beld to party by a very slight tenure. It is ini the South, anid if the Republican party could be made re-. spectable in South Carolina, I think it not unlikely that good white men would join it. So log as the present Rennblican leaders ini aonnh n.ao oontinue their party organization on thp. rao 11es, and make it a negro patty, therby erepin-g alive the im, poiding menace of negro dimination, and all the evils growing out of It, just so long Wvill the white people remain solidly Dmoeratio." In respose to several questions, as to the errors of the Northern power, and the wishes, noods and orpecta tions of the South, Senator Butler answers: J "One of the errors committed by the North was the immediate enfran, chisement of the negroes. The con temporaneous disfranohisemen t of the leading white men of the South ag gravated the evil, opened the door for adventurers, camp-followers, bad men -yolept carpet baggers-to step in between the races, produce estrange, ment, stimulate animosities, and make possible the long train of evils which followed in the wake of carpet-bag, negro supremacy. The summary ex ecutiou of the prominent leaders of the Rebellio'h and absolute immunity to the survivors, would have been much more humane and wisor than the plan of reconstruction that was adopted, and which placed the late slave over his late master. This was the first error; and 1 think the second was not prom)tly arresting the car nival of misrule in the South, which flowed as logically from this sudden enfranchisemei t and disfranchisement, as effect from cause. And the third error was in attempting to reconstruct the Southern States without the as sistanco of' the intelligent and expe rienced part of the population. Thcse, I think, were some of the fundamen tal mistakes. The first thing they want from the President elect, is to al)l)oint reputable, honest, upright men to the Federal offices in the South -men who are patriotic, who love their whole country-men who will not array tIe negro on solid race lilies against the whites in political canvases-meon who w~ ill not appeal to the negro's passions, prejudices, fears, but to his reason, intelligence, anid muamhooid, anid will not ad.is~e l.im to vote for bad, dishonest, incompe, tent men to oflice, anrd mislead and dleceive himi?. This, 1 hay, is thie first thing tbe Southi wants from the Pro sident elect, and if lhe will give us this, the 'Solid Soruth"O will bo a thing of the pas~t-aL resclCtale Opposition party. I mn n, "'Opposition?" to t he solhid Demoero*t ic party will be built up in the South. lIbn e will no0 longer he arrayed aiga inst race. Y~ a nk mo " What the South expects from the Noruhern politicians, the Republican party arnd the Presiden)t eleet?" She expects very little. Hecr expecta&tions~ are not great. She is just as able to take care of hcrself as any other see tion of the Union-quito as able and willing. Hecr population is not homo genieous. Her position has boon and is difficult, anomalous, abnormal. Four muillicns of' freshly emancipated enfranchised, citizenized slaves were poured out upon her suddenly, '.vhilst she was unprepared, exhausted, im, poverished, chagrined. Then came the carpet bagger and camp-follower, to make "contusion worse conf'oind% ed"-and ight well did they succeed. How could you expect the same de.. gree of social order, law, forbearance, to prevail in a community like this, as in a community whore the population was homogeneous-with newly en franchised elaves, no upheaval of social conditions? It was folly to have ex., pected it; and yet the Republican party did expect it, and made matters worse by a faulty diagnosis of the trouble and clumsy interference. If the Souther'n popjle had been left to themselves, th~ey would have brought order out of this choas much more promptly. Mistakes would have been made. Mistakes were made grievous mistakes. Nevertheless, those mistakes would have been corrected; would have corrected themselves. Wrongs against the negro would have been comnmitted-wrongs were com mitted-but they, too, would -have been remedied, and the Southern problem much more satisfactorily solved, if they had been let alone, and the people of' that section much more effectually brought into ready adap tation to the new or'der of things. But that was not done, and we must now deal with the present and fu ture. The white people of the South are, [ believe, sincerely desirous of carry.. ing out in letter and spirit the Four. Leonith and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, as they are of every other provision of that instrument.- 1 They can not give np the Uaupaslan ceiiiation again for that of the Afri,~ can, any more than can the white people of the Pac4i, coast surrender the Caucasian supremacy to the dom, Ination of the Obinaaan. It is un natural toexp'ec it, and the people of the North ought iot to expect it. The South then would "like to have:" 1st. Honost, reputable, liberal mind. ed men appointed to the Federal or... Bces in the South (let them be Repub, cans if yon choose): and 2d. The. reorganization of the Re-. publiodo party In the South upor a basia of intelligence and honesty, de. coney and respectability." Garfield's Cabinet. "Secretary of State.-J. G. Blaine of Maine. Secretary of the Treasury-Wm. Windom of Minnesota. Attornoy-General-Waynn MoVengh of Pennsylvania. Postmaster-Gcneral-Thomas L. Jamob of NOw York. Secretary of the Interior-S. J. Kirk wood ot Iowa. Secretary of War-R. F. Lincoln of Illinois. Secrotary of the Navy-Win. H. Hunt of Louisiana. TO CLOBI OUT?1 0 The balance of our stock of WINTER CLOTHi.NG will be closed out at ex actly NEW YORK COST, to make room for our immense stock of Spring and Summer Goods TO ARRIVE SOON ! Just received and ready for inspec, tion, a large and attractive aesortment of sanmples for FINE SUITS, TO BE MAD)E TO ORDER. FIT GUARANTEED. IF. W. Ion & Co. dec 23, 1880 14 S Notice. ANOTE given to E. 8. Griffin by T. N. AHunter and Job Smith, for Two Hun fred Dollars, dated February the 6th, 1880, bias been misplaced or lost. All persons are hereby forewarned not to trade for said Note. 9 march 8, 1881 48 8 IFN L ANDR E THS' l'70ASEE9S & BEST 10 Grwr.0. A Uere m TEXAS LANDS. )AnAAA ACRESpui'GOOD LAND3FO 4U. UUU Sale, from $1 00, $2.00, and 8.00 per acre. Apply to 0. A. PiCKLE, Palestine, Anderson County, Texas. march 8, 1881 24 4 Notice to Treachers. FOR the convenience of all concerned,. I Ihereb give notice that I will ho Inny )ffie at P ckens Court House on each SALE )AY and 8d SATURDAY In every month. Che short time remaining in which to vIsi, he schools during the Spring Session, pro. ents my being there more feQ entli feb 24, 1881 Sco2Coui8inr