The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, June 16, 1892, Image 4
'TIS GOOD TO FORGET.
DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON RIGHT
EOUS LAPSES OF MEMORY.
ForgetfuIlile8s in Curiini, VIasoi Is Dc.
clarcd to 1Ie On of the Siibllimeat At
tributon of the Doit.y---An Eloquent
Plea for Charity and Mercy.
I3RooK IN, June 5.-The cnorious
audience which thronged the Taberna
cle this morning had fresh evidence of
Dr. Talmage's originality. The value
of a retenti,ive nictliory every one knew
by experience anId had heard extolled
from their schoolday- up, but they
lentned fiom D)r. Talnage's sermon
that the art o[ lorg,etting is worth culti
vating, and that there is the highest pos
sible examplo for its exercise. His text
was Hebrews viii, 12, "Their sins and
their inmquities will 1 remember no
niore."1
The national flower of the Egyptians
is the heliotrope, e' the Assyrians is
the water lily, of' the Itinldoos is the
Imlarigolt, ol tle (iinese is the chrysan
themiun. We have no national flower,
but there is hardly any flower more sug
;estive 0 many of us than the orgetlme
not. We all like to be remembered,
andl(] one of our tiisfortunes iS that there
lire so many things we cannot remem
ber. Mnemnonics, or tle art of assist.ing
Ielmory, Is an imiportant art. It was
lirst siugested by siionides of Cos live
hundred years before Christ.
Persons who had blut little power to
recall vvent.s, or Put facts and natmes
and dates ill proper processions, have
through this art had their memory re
enforced to an almost incredible extent.
A good memory is an invaluable posse-.
sion. By V all Imeans cul tivate it. I had
tin aged friend who. detaied all night
at a iiserable tICdpot inl waiting for Ia
nil train iast i tihie snowhaiks, enter
Wiaied a group of boene ten or fifteen
cleigyruen likewise detained on their
way homiie Iroi a lleetinlg of presby
tery, first, with a piece of chalk, draw
itg out on the bhIck andi sooty walls of
the dupol.f. the c1.11Wtraci of Walter
Scott's; "Ma1 inalln," '' ni then recitini.
it,m nicmor:; the whole of that peoln
:, ono eighty Mae ilIne pIn11.
My ol Ifeld throllgll [.rcat a.e 14,st
his Iuemory, lvfhen I asked hii if
hm story o the railu.ul i"ot was Litic,
he said. "I <bi Ut. rc:nwher now, Ibi
it was list hike nw." "I.et me see.''
h lide () l,'hei L (Ver 'weln ol
b)elore" "\N s," I said, "you were Iny
guest la4;t nihh, and I was with you a
hiour aL.'' W hiat IIa awful 111-as inll
thalt. man lt ween the greatest nieln.r
. ever ,knew and. no0 mntoiury at a.i.
dt i st a >ll'. 1wit this -t 1, recol,
letioin, which I umoi, too liIhly ul).
"izu, I: nlie ilte as 1liportal't, ai yeI
I icver hearI il applulailA. I iliai tIh
art of orgctne,. Thr i , spleni
aculty ill that lirektioil that we all nwet
to cuiltivilt. ve mi;!Ilt tihronl-,i tha
lrocess be tin tilnt ha11111r mald mol
useful than we now are. W o have beei
told 1that forgetlluhIc is is a weaknweS Ilu(
oug it to be avoide'l by all sibl
Iluans. ) fir Ilolli a weakless, m)
tLI,t acribes it to Go(Id. . is the ver
top of otlilijOteice that (1d is able I
oilittrate a part C 1is ow Min Iemol y. I
we repent of sin and ri-iht1ly seek the Id
v ine for''iven ess, the ret oal Iof the inhi
behar ior Ii nit oniily Crilssed I l offLh
books, but G~od actually lets it plass oW
o miemnory.
"'Their sins5 andt their iniquities illf
rememiber 110 mlore."' T'> reiniembher ni
more1( is to for'get, aili you cannot mlak(
imiythfug else (lut o: it. Godf's piowe
ot forget tmIl is so great that if two tme1
aplpeaul to himii, and1( the~ one mani, after;
fife all right, ircts the sins of his heat
pardon;Ied, and the other matn, after:
lIfe of abomination gets pardoned, (i
rememubers no1 tiuore against one thai
ains1iIt tihe other. 'Thle entIre past, (
bo0th the~ moiurahst , with his imiperie
I ions, and tlhe prill igate, wvit Lis dhe
halulcherles, is as muchl oblfiterated ini thi
one1 case aii ill the other. Foirgotte,
io' ever antd forever. "T'1hieir sinis anii
thieit inli(uities will I rememb er ni
mnore.~
This sublimne aittribute of forget fulnes
on the part of Glod you aitalil i needl, i
our finite way, to imitate. You will dli
wvell to cast ouit of' your recollection al
of one's lifelie is sure to be mnisrepre
sentedi, to be lied about, to lie injulred
There are those who keep these thing
fresh by frequent rehlearsal. If thing
have afppearedl in prln t, they keep then
in their straphiook, for they cuit theso~
precious5 paral )~i irahs 0ou1 of ne wtSpapen)~l
or books, and at,leisure times look then
over, orI they have~' themi tied til in bun
dIles, or thirust in pigeonhioles, andl thiey
freqiientl y regale tflhmselves and then
friends bly an inlspetctionl of these ings,
these~ sarcasms, these fialsehioods. LIhese
cruel.1ties.
Iml~itaite the I iLrd ini my text itndl f'or
.t, at 1uall y 1(11get , subi~llily forget.
'lhereC is no hialpiniess foir youi1 in any
arotmdi~ you, ini the courehcf anid out (of thie
chur1h, disMo.sitjins a(eirb, mial!gni, c)mn
cal, pess ii e. 1): yu in io w how
ti? It wais biy the embl:Jllnnent of
Iave slpt i11 ifh of hejr ime ill eilligi.r
the roil (of al the rats thatl~u hav iiibll i
att their trelputatin. TJhiir soul is~ nga
li1 vultures. E.verythimig m lieu is ooi
(Ir imibittered. The tullkt litunai kind-l
hiels has1 bctrn eturdled. Th'fey ilo liii
belIeve il anlvhedfy or ivtlinle, if they
tec two peColeI t whieIn!, the v tink
it is about theimselves. IfI t hey see to
11eopl1 lauitheliy tinnk is a aboiii
t heiinsclv~es.
Where thiere is one sweet lIIippi inl
t heir orchard, there are fifty irah al ies,
'l'hey have neverC bteen ibthioLi forget.
Thiey doi not w.anit to forget. Tlhey nleveir
wdul tore eL. TIhiir w retc hiedness is su.
Iremne, for no one cani lbe hiappfy if het
carries peretuathly fn m1ind( thie men
things that hauve beeni done h i. Oni
the other hand, yon enni find here aiid
there a mami or woman (for there ire not
many of' them) whose disposition is gen
ial and summery. WVhi? Have the.y
always beeni treated well? Oh, -no.
Hard thincs have beeni said against
them. They have been charged with
efilciousness; and their generosities have
been set dlown to a desire for ia display,
and they' have many a time 'aeeni the
subject of tittle-tattle, and they have had
enough email assaults like gnats and
cnoughi great attacks lhke 1pons to have
mTadle them perpetually miserable, it
they would have consentIed to be miser
able, But they hlave hlad enough divine
philosophy to cast off the aunnoyances,
and they have kepL themselves in the
sunlight of God's favor and have real.
ized that these oppositions and hlndran
ces are a part of a mighty discIpline, by
which they are to be prepared for use
finess and heaven. The sacret of it
all is, they have by the help of the Eter
nal God learned how to forget.
Another practical thought: When our
faults are repented of let them go out
ofi mind. If God forgets them, we have
a right to forget them. IlavinL once re
peuted of our inelicities and misdemean
trs, there is no need of our repenting of
them again. Suppose I ow-j you a large
buin ofi money, and you are persuaded I
am incapacitated to pay, and you give
me acquittal from that obligetion. You
say: "I cancel that debt. All is right
now. Start again." And the next day
I come in aad say: "You know about
that big debt I owed you. I have come
in to get you to let me off. I fell so bad
about it I cannot rest. -Do let me oll'."
You reply with a little Impatience: "I
did let you oil'. Don't bother yourself
and bother me with any more of that
discuissikn."
'l'he following day I come in and say:
"My dear sir, about that debt. I can
never get over the fact that I owed you
that money. It is something that weighs
on my mind like a millstone. Do for
give ie that debt." This time you clear
lose your patience and say: "You are a
nuisance. What do you mean by this
reiteration of' that affair? I am almost
sorry I forgave you that debt. Do you
doubt, my veracity or do you not umiler
stand the plain language in which I told
you that debt was canceled?"
Well, my friends, there are many
Christians guilty of worse folly than
ti-it. While it is right that they repent
of new sins and of recent sins, what is
the use of bothering yoursell and insult
mr God by asking him to forgive sins
that long ago were forgiven God has
forgotten them. Why do you not for
get them? No; you drag ihe load on
with iou and 365 times a ycar, if you
pi a3 every day, you ask God to recall
o<currenccs which he has not only for
g'ven but torgotten. Quit this folly. I
do not ask you less to realize the turpi
tide of sin, but I ask you to a higher
ftidi in the promise of God andL the full
:leliverance of his mercy. IIe does not
give, a receipt for part payment or so
much received on account, but receipt,
!n full, God having for Christ's sake de
creed, "your sins anld your inui(tiiLies
will 1 remember no more."
As far as possible let the disagree
ables of lite drop. We have einoiigh
Odhig m thIe plrcseint, and(] ther- vilt b>e
(w1CILh11 in il to r'! to distirb ut s, with.
out rut mng 1 *peeia trm iin into the great
t.le-by to fetch us as special freight
thmilgs left behind. Some ton years ago,
wlein there was a grea, railroad strike,
I reniniber seeing all along the route
Irom OmAha to Chiicago, and froni (ii.
ng) to New York, hundreds and thous.
anids of reight cars witched oil the silde
Iri'teks, thosv ear loaded with all kinds
Ol pri!ihle material, decaying id
neim1. A fter the strike was over did
the railr-oad comlpalietd bring aill tIat
p-rlidhed liatesrial doyil to the markets?
No, they threw it off wher,e it was des
rsled~, aid loaded up with smnelhing
e.t the 11vng tra in of your thoturgh.t.s
tin oll, the worse than useless treight
4)1 a1 -.rr ilad d eWtoyed past, and
l,111 op with gratitude and tait,h and
hilly e terlina ll!lt)il. ve dio not, pletise
GAod by the cult,ivation fthie iseram.11ble.
lIe would rat.her see us flappy than to
1see us depressed. ou wIuld rather
s-c y hui chiliren laugh;1 thanl to see thieni
crY, and your heavenly Father has no
to10.dns forIS 0 hysterics.
Not olyi forget your pardloned tranis
e .remoins, but allow others to forget
I iem. TIhe chief stock on hand of maniy
Peole~ is to recounit in prayer m)eet,ings
aind111 fulits what, big scoundrels they
onc:e were. They not only will not for
get their f'rgivein deficits, but, they seem
tbe decteininedl that, tile cnurch and
1the worldI shall not forget them. If you
waniIt to declare that you have heel)'tile
chief of sinners and extol the graice thait
coiuldl save such a wretch as you were,
do( so, b)ut, do not go into part,iculars.
D)o not tell how many times you got
h-ua~ok or to what, bad p)lcesy'ou went,,
or how many free rides you had il the
ilr'54)n van before you were converted.
I .3u P it, brother; give to us in bulk.
.It maiy be aLlpropriate ini a meeting of
reomd dunkards or r'eformledI debau
hesto qjuote for' those not, reformed
how tdesplerate andI nasty you once weire,
bult dto 110t drnive a scavenger's cart iato
asemlges of poe,the motof
whom have always been deccat, and r
spIectable. Uut I have beeni somietimies
fin great evaigelist.ie meet,ing where peo
ple V. t't 1into particulars abiout, tihe sins
that they (once committed so) mucli 80
..hat I felt like pu1ttinig miy hand on my
pocketbo'ok or calling for the pcohee lesL
these reformed mn miighit fail fi'om grace
1(1nt goI at their oldl business of' theft 01'
tdIrnlkennieMs or cultthiroatery. If v'our
sinsifhave been forgiven and yomii lif'e
prle,forget the waywardness of the
1past, mtal ahiow others to foirget it.
Buit whait I most, want in the light of
this text to impress upon my hearers
and't reatders is that we have a im forget
tinmg G;od. SuppJose thlat on the last
<ty- cailletd the last (lay because the sunO
ill n iever iagain I ise upjoni our earth,
utie eli th itsel hibe flhng inito liery de
to"ht on-suluios:cig thait oni that, last
da a '(roup of inifernal spirt'! tsho1uld
1.m ilIny get near' enouIlgh the cate of
bt a eni , a111nd Ihaleng;e our enitranice, andI
Ibotc-e c-tits into) the relm~!i of supern'ial
l.cd'em: Why3 they said a grealt inny
IliI4 tIley neverC1 (ighft, to ha:mve saidl,
a.1,d they idt a grea,t manuiy tin.lls they
IIn t n1evr to haviiLe dione . a ers areI
I t' ; sil.ners all.''
siter, h.e miiight. 'ay: "Y ~es, buit did not(I
nli only Son die for their ranismIly 1) id
bet not, pay tile price? Not 0114 tdrop t
4 i enervei~' oft his tha t was not v,.; in l
tile tortuire. lie took in his own botdy
moiil soull all the suffer-ing thait t.hose siln
litrl- tdeserve. Th'ley pleaded tha t salci..
tihit tok the ii ul:liadoni thalt I prionul sed
to aul whois, through.~i my)~ Son, earne1s:.t ly
illd tha i lt Lhe were'II''t offendersi'~. I ftoi
got al11 about it. Yes(1, 1 forgo)t ailh 1about,1
G od! Thait is clear heyond( and fat'
above a sill pard'(oninig God.
Many ',ears ago a family, consiating of
tile husbandl and4 wife and little girl ot
two years, lived far out in a cabin on au
western pirairie. The husbaind took a
few cattle to mai ket. Before lie stalrtedf
his litt,le child asked hIm to buy for lher
a doll, and lhe plromised. le could, af
ter the sale of the cat,tle, Ihmchase
hiousehohld necessities, alnd certidn lly
wvould not forget the (loll lhe had p)romis
ed1. In the viilage to whIch 1he went lie
sold the catt,le and obtained the groceries
for hia househould ad the (doll f'or huis
litt,le darling. IIe started home along
tihe dismal road at nightfall.
As lhe went along on hiorseb)ack a
thunderstorm broke, and in tile most
lonely p)art of the road and in the heav
ies part of tile storm lhe heard a chld
cry. Robbers had been known to do
some bad work along that road, and It
was known that this herdsman had
inoney with him, the price of the cattle I
iold. The herdsman first thought it
vas a stratagem to have him halt and
)e despoIled of his treasures, but liOe
Aild's cry became more keen and rend
ng, and so he dismounted and felt
wound in the dairk,ess and all in vain,
nitil lie thoulit of a hollow that he re
ienbered near the road where the child
night be and for that lie start,ed, and sure
mough found a little one fagged out ind
drenched of the storm and almost dend.
lie wrapped it up as well as ie could,
and mounted his icrse und resumied his
journey honic.
CoiIIg iIn shit o1 his cabin, he saw it
all lighted up and supposed lit wifle had
kindled all these lights so as to guide
her husband through the darkness. But,
no. The house was Full of excitement
and the neighbors were gathered and
stood around the wife of the house, who
was insensible as from some great
cal niity. On inquiry the returned hus
band found that Lfie little child of that
cabin was gone. She had wandered out
to meet her fither and get the present
he had promised, and the child was lost.
Then the father unrollUd from the blank
et the child he had found in the fieds,
and lo! it was his own child and the lost
one of the praire home, and the cabin
quaked with the shout over the lost one
found.
How suggestive of the fact that, once
we were lost in the open fields, or among
the mountain crags, God's wandering
children, andl he found us, dying in .he1
tempest, and wrapped us in the mantle
of his love and fetched us home, glad
ness and congratulation bidding us wel
conic. The fact is that the world does
not know God, or they would all flock to
him. Through their own blindness, or
the lault of some rongh p 3reachin
that has got abroad in the centu
riesi many men and woien have
an i(ea that God is tyrant and olppressor,
an autocrat. a .Nian Sahtib, an Omniil)ot
cut Herod Antipas. It is a libel aganst
tie Almight,y; it is a sland,-r against. the
heavens; it is a detamation o1 the intini
ties.
I Couiinted il 1113 lible 304 times the
word "tinciy," single or compounded
with other words. I counted in ily
lBible 473 fimnes the word "love," single
or compounded with other werdN. Thenl
I ',W, tired coititiLiM,. Perhaps you
iigit count imore, belti better at fi
ures. lIut the li-brew and the
English, and the Greek languages
have heeni taxed till they cAnnot
lay aIIy more tribute to the love
and mercy and kinidneS and grace and
charity and teiderness and frienship anld
btnevvolence and syipathly ani boun
teouliesi and lathelfiliess and Iotherli
ness anid 1paience iod pardon ol' our
Gu.l.
There ai. c.taill name1ic, So m11anictie
that their prn)unchttiein thr'illS ail wl'
ICar it. Such is the name of the Italian
zuldier and liberator, Garibaldi. March
iii with his troops L me1Ct I 1h,efIlierd
who was ill reat <ituss because he
hiat, s8 a lanmbh. Garibaldi said to i:s
ioo*ps, "ot us help this poor shenerd
find his lamb." And so, with lanterns
:id torchtes4. they explored the mon
tanlis, hut <11 not find ti, lamihl), an([ a,
te-r an linsuccessil s:arh late at uight,
they wint, t.o their encampuent. The
necxt moiring G aribaldi w as lound asleep01
far on into the day, andf they wakened
fiin for some puirpose arnd found that he
had not given upI the search when the
soldiers dlid, but, had kept, on itila farther
into the night, and had foundi~ it, andi lie
jiulled down the blankets from his couch
andi( theire laiy tihe 11amb, wich1 Gal~oali
oideredl immnediatel y takeni to its owner'.
So the C2ominan'ier of all the hosts of
hemaven turned asidle from his glorious
anid Victorious march t.brough the ccen
turies of heven and said, "I will go aind
recover that lost world, and that, rae
of wom Adami was the priogemnitor, and(
let all who will accompaniy me.'' And
trough the niighit they canme, but I do
not see that, the angelic escort camiie any
father thaii the clouds, burt t,heir miost,
ilustrious leader cai ne all the w ay3 down,
and by the irme his erraiiid Is done our
little world, our wandlering and( lost
worldl, our wvoild fleecy with the hiirht,
w ill be founid in the biosom of the Great
Shepherd, and then all heaven ilil take
up t,be canitata and sinig, "Thfe 1o- t shee p)
toLmd."'
.So I set openi the witfe gate of muy text,
inviting you all to conie into tie inercy
and1( pairden of God; yea, stidl further,
imnto thle ruins of the place where once
was kept, the knowledge of yotur iniqui
tiels. The placs has been torn down
and the records destroyed, and you will
flid the ruins inore dielapidat ed andu
bmrokeni and prostrate than the iruins of
Melrose or Kenilwort,h, lor from thiesei
last ruins you cani pick up sonic frag
menit of a sculptured stonec OF 30ou canl
se'e the curve of' some broken arch, but
alter your repenitanice ail your forgive
ness youi canniot Iin liin all the memory
of' God a fragmieint of' all your p)ardoned
Sas so large as a ineedlie's poinmt.
"Thecir sins and theair i niquitie's will II
remermber 1n0 incre.'
And mioie of that wilIf surprise von if
youi Will cliimbI to t hei top) ofa luff back
oft .JQerusalem (it took 11s only five or ten
li mites1 to e'limbii it). amih see what
went onl wheni thle plateau of liestonei
was shi ak en b y ai parioxy sinm that set the
rocks, i wichI ha l een u mi ipright , mc-lantt,
andE on thle I ieb mbhg er'osspieces oi the (
spl)1it 11umb er hun g the (iive1'r in g form
of him whose life was thrust out by
meitaflie pointis of' 'ruelt y that sickenied
the n)oiidty siin till it fainted and11 fell
back 0on e bhik lou1nge~ oft the .* udean
mnidnighit.
Six differenit kinids ofI sounlds wiere
he1'rdl oin tha luL iahit wichI was inter.
jected into the dayilight of C hrist's I
issasxsinat ion: Ift i neigh,ingi of' thle wva r
hors'es, foir tomeui of theIl sioldiers wire inl
hie saddlie, waIs one( SounlIi; th e ibang ofj
he fii hauners was a s9econd( sound;l the
et r o)f mlu:hgnants wvas a third sounid;
he weeping of I iriends and( ('oadl jltors.
was a fourlthi soundI; thie splas. iof bloomf
in thle rocks was a flfth sound; tihe
niroan of the expiri ng J iord wvas a sixthi
ioun d. And thiey all comm inlinliig inito
mle sadniiess. Ov) er a ph111in mt olssiau
bvhiire wvolve iMwere prisuiing a laid of' 1
uravelers and to save themt a si rvant o
Iyranlg fr'om the sle.f into the months 'l
)f the wiki beast anld was dtevoulred, ti
md1( thereby the other lives were saved, Il
ire inscribed t he word(: "Greatter love
ath nio man thlan this t hat, a mani lay l,
Iown his life for his friends." I
Many a surgeon in our owni timue has ti
ni trachiiotomny with hIs own lips ,
.irawn from the wVidpipe of a diph11
theritic patient that wichlo cired the ~
patient and shewi thte surgeon, and al1l -
halve honored t,he self sacrifIce. Btt all
athier scenes of sacriice Pass before
Lthis most illustrions martyr of all timie
ind all eternity. Afler thiat agonizing a
spectacle in behalf or our fahien racet
nothing about the sin forgetting God h
is too stupendous f or muy faith, and I d
aecept ,the promise, a ..1 will you hot b
mall accept it '"heir sins and their a
infonitima winl I remmbe no -o-. f
BLAINE'S SENSATION.
-E RESIGNS A8 SECRETARY OF STATE
IN THE HARRISON CABINET.
:1o Democrats Delighted and the Repub
licant Blue Otr the lAction of the
111uned Kuiaht--Exciting Scen i When
the News Was Received.
\VASHINUTON, June 4. --The follow.
i, correspondence explahns itself:
DEPArMENT OF STATE,
\VASHINGTON, June 4, 1892.
,'o the President:
I respectfully beg leave to submit my
esiguation of the office of Secretary of
state of the United States to which I
Nas appointed by you on March 5, 1889.
rhe cohdition of public business in the
Department of State justifies me in re
'luestiag that my resignation may be ac
epted immediately. I have the honor
to be, very respectfully, your obedient
Servant, JAMES G. BLAINE.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WASH[INUTON, June 4, 1892.
To the Secretary of State:
Your letter of this date tendering your
resignation o the ofiice of Secretary of
State of the United States has been re
ceived. The ternis'in which you state
your desites are such its to leave me no
choice but to accede to your wishes at
once. Your resignation is therefore ac.
cepted. Very respectfully yours,
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
The news of the resignation of Blaine
created a profound sensation at the Cap
itol. The Senate was not In session,
but the House was in the throes of 1Iii
bustering agfainst the anti-option bill.
The effect of the reception of the Asso
ciated Press bulletin atnnouucing the
event was magical. The telegram was
read by the Speaker and by Represen
tative Dingly and almost instantly the
news spread over the hall like a wave
of sound.
Within two minutes the space in front
of the desk was filled by a thrtng of
ReIpresentatives struggling to get a
glimpse of the bit of yellow paper which
was snatched from one hand to another.
The Speaker left the chair temporari
lV, dele--aliug his duties to Representa
Live Johnson (l South Carolina, and the
latter soon found that lie had assumed
an almost impossible task in endeavor
ing to keep oider in the House, while it
labored tunder the storm of excitement.
The clerks were calling the roll on
sine motion to take a recess until some
unreasonitble hour ini the evening, but
their voices could searcely be' heard over
aid above the hum of consultation and
the tones of' e.iacuhtlon. The effect
was discouragitwl to liei pendiig busi
ness. Then canie a comparison of
views, Democrats andI Republicans
qathering in knots in the rear of the
seats and putting their heads together
Im consultation.
"What does it, mnean?" was the ques
tion in every mouth. It did not take
the Democrats long to decide what view
to take of the mlatter -As to the initial
stage. It means that Blaine is stand
i4h for nominatioln, said one and all.
Nearly all of the Democrats were of
one mind on another point and that was
exp:essed by a speaker who said that
the re6ignation meant war to the knife
between the adminif3tration and anti
adiniiistration fiactions.
'rhe newe set, the Republicans think
ing hard and1( they did not manifest any
thing like the exhilaration that was ex
hibited by the Democrats.
D)ockery of Missouri said: "Fate is
with us. 11, means that Blaine is the
uimnlilee and1( Blaine cait never be elect
cd."
Sayers of Texas: "Set it dIown that
Bhuane will be the nomimee and will be
beaten.'"
saidl McKinney. represening the New
England Democracy, his face fairly in
diant: "We have got thenm. B3laine
will be nominated and, of course, we
will nominate Cleveland. Hie beat
Blame once and1( can (1o it,again.''
Wih-on of WVest, Virgzinia remarked:
"'It mecans a rup)ture in the RtepublIcan
party, andl that, means a D)emocratic
victory."'
.O'Ferrall of Virginia is confident that
it mneta Blame's nomination and that
nomination makes doub)ly sure the nomn
iniation of Cleveland at, Chi'rago-a nom.
imition of which lie never had the slight
e-st doubt.
Watson, the Farmers' Alliancemnan
from Georgia, saidl that its the Syracuse
Convention hlad split the Democratic
pairt,y Into thet,ions so would Blaine's ac
t,ion result, in a division of the Republi
catns. Then would ie the opplortunity
of the third party; and it would take adl
vantage of it, and a wedge would be mn
serted.
Eniloe of TIennessee thought it meant
Biaine's nomination. But Bllaine, aic
cordling to Enloe, '"is carri ing diplomlacy
to at I omt, which in cur section of' the
counltry w~ ould be called i-quare lyilig."
It, was d1 isplomnacy like that, Practicedl by
Mimuter I'a&rin.
IPieceu of Tennessee was of the opin
ion that Bjlaine was sha~rp) enough to see
.he hands of' his opp)onents before lie
tende r( dI h is resigniation.
Fellows of New York could see no0
reason lor' Blainie's r( signationi other
Ibamn that he~ wanted the nomination.
The action of Bhlane, Fellows thought,
wvouldl weauken himt in some quarters.
li s cceneral observatiou w as that, Blaine
'oul be willing to fake the nomination
ftendered him.
.1 mst as Colonel Fellows finished
pea~ikintg, a New York liep ublicani Rep
esentat,ive Curtis caine up and Fellows
aid to him : "'Whaimt do .you Jiepubli
ans me.lli'"
( urtis , resp)oded: "'It, will tiake the
(lta matton onit of indhm.i bt, iBlaine
ill not get, it.'
8oatne~r of' Lou1isianai said it meant,
Ihiine is a str'aichlt(t, canididat,e for t,he
101 ionnation. It is the best ti ng that
oub1( happen ifor the Demnocrat ic party.
J lamd of' Mdissouri sid lie sulpposed it
icans war' between Unrrison and Blaine
nid others, it may recsui t In the dlelent,
I both and in the selection of' some
thuer :mdidate. It seems to he goodh
olicy for the Republecans to name some1
ther pmersoni than Bllaine or IIarrison.
'lie resignation p uts IBlaine in the at,ti
1(de of' opposition to the nomination of
.arrison.
Rockwell of' New York said that the
rogrammo for the last, ten days had
~en that, flaine should be kept out of
me race tup to this p)oint, andl the pro
camme had1( been made(1 with his aissent
1(d assistance. lie did not think that
t,ber Blaine or Tlarison could be nom
ted. It had to be a light, l,etween
aii'son and( anti-Haimrrison pe ple, and
haine, he lhon It, wou)ld lend his as.
st ar'ce to Qua3 td Paatt, in the effort
'(defeast ilaurri sn. Bllaine felt that he
Id not, been tated rhth y the Presm
snt, and besides there was known to
S a sor,ial feud between Mrs. IIarrison
nd Mrs. Blane that must have its of.
iet on the Secretary.
Wilcox of Connecticut said he thought
Blaine had intended to be a candidate
for some time. The contest between
Harrison and Blaine would be very'close
but Blaine was now convinced that he
would be nominated, otherwise he would
hardly have resigned.
Bran of Nebraska, thought the
Blaine und Harrison forces would fight
it out in the convention, and whichever
was nominated his chances of election
would have been weakened.
Cummings of New York: "It settles
the question. It means Blaine's nomina
tion at Minneapolis and the livest kind
of a campaign."
THE PARDONING POWER.
h1r. Brooker Protests Against Condemna
tion of the Executives.
COLUMBIA, S. C., June 6.-Editor
Register: Much has been said of late
comdemning what is purported to be a
too free exercise of the pardoning power
by Governor Tillman. I beg to sai
that in my judgment it would be better
for the press of the State to abandon
that subject as a weapon of warfare in
this hot political contest, becaue:
First, I (0 not think an Executive
ought to be interfered with in the exer
cise of this right, wisely given him by
the Constitution of the State, in any do
srce whatever, unless it is shown that
such power is being indiscreetl$ used.
It is a question which involves the lives
and the liberties of human beings, and
hence is too important as affecting hu
man liberty to be trifled with. Seco'd,
The Executive of a State is made re
sponsible, and only he occupies the pro
per position to know when, by the pro
per investigation, such power should be
exerc;sed, and where it is done it should
be presumed. without proof to the con
trary. that there exists good reasons
why it should be done, more especially
when there can be discovered no under
lying base motive in so doing, which in
this case Is Impossible to be se imagined.
Third, In the peculiar condition of our
convict system, the nature and the com
plexion of the prison population, the
uncertainty and ambiguity which in
volves the correctness of many of the
convictions in our State, and in some
cases the severity of the ,untences on
account of political feeling and prejudice,
and which may sometimes be inflicted
by a peevish. impatient Judge, may be
in a moment of passion. It demands,
on the part of the Executive, the most
riiid, careful and labored investigation
ot each Individual case, and becomes
the grave duty of the Governor of a
State to look well to the matter; and in
the discharge of this sacred obligation
lie should be free from bias or fear of
any person or persons, or of conse
quence or consequences. And he should
be upheld and not condemned where it
is seen that he is fearlessly moving in
the discharge of this sacred duty.
I am willing to hear oonplaints and
condemnat,ions against Governor Till
man or any other Governor when the
proofs are submitted tha., he has acted
indiscreetly, but until such proofs are
submitted, in the name of liberty and
justice, of mercy and Christianity, I beg
to enter my most solemn protest against
wreckless charges in this regard. Let
the Iight be made upon some other line
or submit the proof and don't let iiui
bers be taken as proof.
Governor Richardson w.is condemned
for the liberal use of the pardoning
power, I defended him, for I knew
whereof I spoke. I was chairman o1
the board of directors of' the Penit.en
tiary andI committee on pardons during
his administration, and recommended
much that lie did, and I never knew a
case in which he acted1 unwisely in my
judgment. Upon this same p)rinciple I
uphold the present administration and
will continue to uphold it until it is
shown to be wr.ong.
I remember to have saidl to Governor
T!lIman upon my retirement from the
work, that [t.hought there were at least
a hundred convict.s in the p'rison that de
eerved clemency, and 1 feel today that
if lie has pardoned as many and the pro
per subjects, the number is not too
large. I am equally sure that be has
not acted upon my suggestion, but upon
his own judigment, for soon after his in
auguration I submitted in person an ap
plication for clemency in a case which
I had fully investigated and was satis
fied as to it.s merits and which was high
ly endorsed, which lie flatly refused. I
could1 not make him see it as I saw it
and knew it to be. And that convict is
now serving out an unjust se'itence in
the Penitentiary. This is not a politi
cal letter, but written in the name of
justice andl humaity. God save the
liberties and the lives of t.he innocent
human be.ies w'ho arc made to suff'er and
die in our State prisons.
Very resp)ectfully,
N. WV. BRooKER.
'They Buy Siave.
N nw Yoni(. ,June 2.-The bark Libe
ri a, Capt. Itogers, which arrived today
from Monrovia, and Sierra Leone, com
pletedl the round trip in the unparallel
ed time of seventy-five days. This in
cludes the time of discharging and
taking oni cargo at two West African
ports. Among the Liberia's passen
gers wvere the Rev. A. McCullough, of
the International Missionary Society,
and his wife, whose ill-health Induced
him to return to MAnrica. He spent
titlteen mionths In Sierra Leone. He has
not aicquiredl a high opinion of either
the American nearo or the -educated
African there. Several of the Liberia's
colored steerage p)assengers are native
Africans coming here to be edt'cated,
anid four are returning Americans. Mr.
McCullough says that muich rum is im
ported into Sierra Leone, and that, as
the natives absorb It with the doctrines
of the missionaries, the results of the
conversions are not always agreeable
to conftemplate. Many of the colored
Americans who si.ay in Sierra Leone
called t hemselvyes Europeans, andi when
t-hey get prosperous buy slaves to in
crease their wvealth. The P'ortuiguese
alnd the colored Americans treat their
sla ves with greater harshness than any
oilier slave owners. Thle natives At
rican ii salmly spoiled b)y a European
eiduciition,. Tihe 1Lberia brought sev
eral boxes of pyt hons and monkeys.
The Chiet Villain.
PowT .JERiVzs, N. Y., .June 3.-P. J
Foley, a young Irishman suspected of
complicity in the outrage for which a
negro was lynchd yesterday, was arrest
ed to-day and it took all the force the
authorities could muster to save him
f rom lynching long enough to smuggle
tiim on the train for a transfer to
[loshen jil. It is charged that he in
~ited the negro to the act and invited
,he girl to take a walk and left her at a
place agreed upon with the negro. He
vas seen in her company only a few
ninutes before the out.rage at the spot
wvhere the deed was commnitte&d.
Swept by a Tornado.
PilILADELPHIIA June 4.-i a. m.--A
report, has reache thiscy thta tr
mado swept over Reading, P'a, tonagt
dillng several peratons and destroyin
a vast amount of property. Tehegra
wires are down and details are as yet
anobtainable.
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E6yahoed I New York.
FORT JERVIS, N. Y., June 2.-A
negro named Bob Jackson outraged a
Young white girl named Lena Mc.
Mahon on the outskirts of this village
to-day in the presence of a number of
young girls and of two )oung negroes,
who were kept at bay by Jaokson's re
volver. The girl's injuries will probably
kill her. Jackson fled, but was pursued
and captured nine miles from Port
Jarvis and brought back. Jackson con
fessed the crime and implicated Wil.
Ham Foley, a white man, who he
claimed was in a conspiracy to ruin
Miss McMahon. Foley had been pay
ing attentions to the girl contrary to
the wishes of her parents. Jackson
was placed in the village lockup and a
large crowd gathered outside. Some
person raised a cry "inch him," and it
was promptly done. The village police
were powerless to protect him. The
noose was adjusted about his neck and
he was strung to a neighboring tree in
the presence of a howling mob of over
a thousand people. For over an hour
the body hung suspended from the tree,
where it was viewed by crowds of eo.
ple. Jackson was about 22 years of age
and had resided in Port Jervis about a
. His parents live in Paterson,
small PoX Rage.
PAUKEWSBUDG, W.Va., June 3 -The
reports of the smallpox in a violent
form in Pomeroy, Mason City and
Setart, have abundant foundation. It
was reported yesterday that there were
twenty-six cases at l'omerov with four
deaths, and dozen cases at Mason City,
with several deaths. The disease
is spreading rapidly down the river.
Business is at a stand still on account
of the prevalence of the disp se in the
Ohio Valley between the Bil .nd Little
Kanawah rivers. Pomero' in Ohio
and Mason City, Litart, and ther towns
in West Virginia are q tarantined.
The sixth smallpox case of the season
has been reported in this city and taken
to the hospital. Alarm is felt, especi
ally as this is the third casefrom a very
thickly populated neighborhood.
Not lis Plan to Talk.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-J ust as Sec.
retary Blame was leaving the White
House this afternoon, he was approach
ed by a representative of the Associat
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that in case he had any further com
munication to make in regard to the
political situation the Associated Press
would like to have it. The Secretary
smiled and without seeming to atta.h
any importance to what lie was saying,
remarked: "That's all right, but there
won't be any more communications."
He then changed the subject of conver
sation and courteously averted any
further reference to it.
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