. "i'ilK ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF A MUTUAL
FLEOOE IN THE DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION.
The Winnsboro Hews and Herald, in
meeting an object ion made to the requirement
of a pledge from each voter that he
will support all Democratic nominations,
makes ihe annexed forcible argument:
This pledge is nothing more nor less than
*hc famous "eighth article" of the Anderson
constitution, adopted by many other
counties. The objection uow raised was
heard in most of the counties two years
ago, when the article in question evoked
more discussion and feeling than all the
other provisions of the constitution coin--Zmmr*hirers.
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kept a number of the worthiest citizens out
of the organization. Independence of
thought had become so general in South
Carolina that party dictation was viewed
with abhorrence. Every goood citizen constitute
d himself a committee of one to sec
that the State received no detriment, and
lie hesitated to bind himself to any party,
because he feared that others, through mistaken
zeal, might adopt a course injurious
to the public weal, and he would be powerless
to interpose a check. Hut, as time
wore oil, the absolute uoeessity of a mutual
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piuugu oceanic more apparent, until in lliose
counties, we believe, in which the practical
workings of the Democratic orgauiz itiqpT
were manifested, all objection to the eighth
article ooased. It is now recognized as a
necessity, the saving clause in the constitution
; and, in the language of quack adver-ti'iwffiwrtii
iimii |i I'rinlik
will ever consent to be without it."
Politics is a matter of business. It has
its emoluments and practical rewards which
provcut its asocudiug into the higher atmosphere
of sentiment. The Democratic
party in office differs from the Democratic
party out of oflice. It is a joint stock company
entrusted with the management of
the political and financial affairs of the
State. In common with other business associations,
it must have specific contracts
between its members?its mutual pledges.
Self-interest decs not always adjust the
wavering balance in favor of the public
good. Smith, or Drown, or Jones, as a
mere private in the Democratic ranks, with
no axe to grind, can well see that bis interest
demands the subservience of personal
? will of amairyitg.j^ut^he
samlV individual ns
cflicc, or as a friend of sueh, believing that
in some mysterious way he was juggled out
of the nomination, cannot always sec that
it is better to submit to the will of the majority
than cither to gather his clans lor an
independent contest oft else to sulk like
Achilles in his tent, while Agamemnon
grapples in unequal contest with liis foes.
Moreover, when ntf pledge is required,
the friends of any candidate may doubt the
sincerity of their opponents, and may bo
thus induced to look to outside influences to
an election ; for a nomination that will not
carry a solid party vote, is not worth the
seeking. Hut let it he known that every
member of the party stands pledged rn his
honor to abide by the will of the majority,
and perfect confidence will result. The
light will be made within the party, and
every effort will bSTmadff to perfect instead
pf to weaken party organization.
Wherever the experiment has been made,
it has been found expedient to adopt this
pledge. Without it, the organization is a
rope of sand. That some good men will
not pledge themselves is a matter of profound
regret; but there ever has existed
< >t tho obstinate twelfth juror. The effort
must ho made to bring him over, not to lead
the other eleven back to him. Let every
Democrat sign the pledge, and then work
man fully to secure the nomination of the
host men. Hut he must not he allowed to
abstain from supporting the party nominee
simply because his man was defeated, lie
* in'."ht do this if not pledged.
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No Di'Mocu.vr DisFit.vxoinsKi).?We do
not endorse ,'bat part of the plan which eoniwes
thu election ."'^tbe imininco.s entirely
to tbo club nioio *'crs the Democratic
party, but the object .'u doing so is not to
disfranchise those Domt)0.ra's who arc not
members, but to prevent part,<->s ?' doubtlul
political faith, mid political cii*M,,,C8i from
having a voice in determining the nominations.
As we can see no good reason why
any Democrat should refuse to join A'W
neighboring club, we would appeal tn the
common sense and patriotism of all those
who have heretofore held themselves aloof
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? " veiiiu i"i mini, vtiPiin^ ?*?> ?J hivjii |MV J U*
dices,if such it may bo, and enrolling; their
names, join, with us in selecting men for
candidates, who will bo acceptable representatives
to the majority of the entire pemocratic
party of our county.? [jc.rinytnu
J)rxjxttr/t.
CAnn.voK Plants.?As soon as your
plants are lariro enough take up a dozen or
so at a time and take to the place where you
wish to set. Have a dish of water with
you?I prefer rain water?mako a hole and
put in your plant, fill in the dirt and press
it (irmly around the roots until tlm whole is
nearly full. Then turn in half a gill or
more of water, and haul fresh dirt upon
that, but don't press it. This will prevent
tlio ground from baking, and the plant is
almost suro to grow.
THE SOUTH AND MB. TILDEN
There is something nioro^iu tho foolish
attempt to go behind the finding of the
Electoral Commission, as conGruied by Congress,
than appears on the surface. The
agitation, of which Mr. lilair is the fifo and
the New York ?SUm is the drum, has a purpose
other than that which stnuds confessed.
In plain words, tho plan is to place Mr.
*TiIdcn on the track for the Democratic
nomination in 1880, as the only adequate
rccouipcuse for the wrong done him in
187G. As long as the public mind can be
kept alive to the fact that he was defrauded
of tho exalted office to which he was elected,
so long, it is expected, will the Deuio
emtio pnrtj be oonutnined io give Ute
people an opportunity to right tfic wrong,""
by electing him, over again, by a majority
that no single Southern State can affect,
and that no packed tribunal can impair.?
This is in keeping villi the subtlety and
indirectness which arc Mr. Tilden's strong
points. It is forgotten that the interests of
Mr. Tilden and the interests o*' the American
people are not necessarily ouc aud indivisible.
Tli3 Southern States control the Democratic
nomination lor President. Without
the South the Democratic party have no
electoral votes worth talking about. The
SouUxcro Democrats do not desire that a
SobithCrncr be nominated for-Prcsidout.? !
Their veto is final when they say that they
will not agree to the nomination of a particular
candidate. There arc some Democrats
with regard to whom the South initio!*
in i.yflryi*.* its right of exclusion, and ,
candor requires us to say"'that me iirs'ff^H1
these, a candidate who will not be accepted
on any terms, is Mr. Samuel J. Tilden.
The inclination of the South in 187G
was towards a Bayard or a Hancock.?
There was a general wish that a Democrat
of the highest type, one far above the arts
of the precinct politician, one inspired with
love of countrv slinnlil !./? I
nation at St. Louis. The South swallowed
Mr. Tilden, because the party magnates insisted
that no other candidate could carry ,
New York, and that, without New York. !
the Democratic candidates must he defeated.
There was no mere enthusiasm in tho South, ,
when the nomination was made, than there I
is in Mr. Tilden at any time. The South ,
bowed to the inevitable. Our whole duty (
was douQ 1 Every Southern State was carried ,
By the Emmier^Ll' n? pghpiC ".tVC H7T:tJ
Tilden all they could give him. Thoy
could uot endow him with boldness, decision
or nerve. The want of these qualities, not ,
the want of voles, cost him his office, and
made Mr. Hayes the President. During ,
the discussions preceding the agreement ,
for an Electoral Commission, Mr. Tilden ;
was as flabby as a summer oyster and as flat
as yesterday's champagne. It was his part
to be the loader of the "Democracy, to guide (
and direct, and, if need be, to command. ,
Where was ho? In the shady recesses of I
(Jramercy Park, explaining to casual visitors I .
that he was not in favor of the Electoral ! ,
Commission, but did uot object to it, because I ,
"our friends on the spot in Washington, j .
who ought to know best, think it is the
wisest tiling to do." This weakness, this ,
uncertainty, this abdication of bis position,
led to the sauvc qui pent which gave Louisiana
and South Carolina to the Democrats,
and leaves Mr. Tilden at home.
The National Democracy have been beaten
once by tho feebleness of their leader,
and the South says distinctly, and positively,
that it does not mean to be so beaten again.
The person who prevented the Democracy
from enjoying the fruits of victory in 1S77
will not bo allowed to play the same came
over again four years later. Mr. Tilden is
not entered for the race. The South bars
him. It is distinction enough for Mr. Tilden
to be the only person elected President,
since the foundation of the Republic, who
did not obtain his office. This position is (
unique, like Mr. Tilden, and it is not proposed
to compromise his dignity by allowing 1
him to becoino President. The South will
not have Mr. Tilden.?AVirs and Courier.
A fi F.N EH Al? Suit I'll IKK.?We cull the 1
following from an article in Seribncr, cnti- 1
tied "Deer Hunting on the An Sable ?
The next evening one of the dogs, footsore J
and worn out, remained in the woods. His j :
master and ono other sallied out into the !
inky darkness to look for him at points near 1
which they deemed it prob;ibio ho would 1
have lain clown They took a lantern, without
which it would have hoon impossible to
waiiv,.'nd after si fruitless search, extending i
to a distsir.'C of throe miles or so, turned
hack. Sudu'Jiily they hoard 1 iirht foot falls
in?tote-road, ami with two or three
beautilui bounds, si young doe alighted
within the eiicle i11;ii??ii?:itt el by the lantern,
approached it in wide-eyed wonder and almost
touched it with her nose. A young
spike-horn buck followed her and both stared
at the light, their nostrils dilated and quivering.
and every limb trembling with mingled
excitement and fear. There was an
exclamation that could not he suppresed, a
vain elfort to shoot, and the doer were gone
like a flash into the darkness. It was curious
to hear hoth gentlemen, on returning to
camp, protesting that to shoot deer under
si.eh circumstances would have been wholly
unsportsmanlike.
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Difficulty is the spur of love.
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THE UP COUNTRY 07 SOUTH CAROLINA.
\Yc publish this morning copious extracts
from a South Carolina letter to the S pringfield
influential indci uident
Republican journal pf New England The
letter is writtef'iroui Charleston, an 1 gives
the writer's impression of the politi :al situation
in our mster State. There is 1 ut one
portion of this letter that calls for any present
notice atJOttr hands. The wrifet says :
"Tho fact'is that there arc two strongly
opposing elements in the Democratic pa~ty,
which divide a good deal ou tho geographical
line of the 'up couutrv' and the 'low
country/ the latter including tho counties
along the coast, with Charleston as the
great cgmir).mi? tftoi*np ecu?/ t' the
remoto parts of t hc^"dc,Tlr?mlfft)g -We
mountain counties and such ig^Victs as
Edgefield, where (Jury, the leadji J Hampton's
opponents in the Legislates, lives.?
Rroadly speaking tho wealfthrSnd intelligence
of the State are m the 'loir country';
the ignorance and poverty in thl 'up country.'
As a natural consequent}! liberalism
has its headquarters in the 'lorn.chuntry;'
Rourbonisui iu the 'up country.*" f
We have nothing to say concerning tho
divisions in the Democratic party of South
Carolina. We earo nothing abftut the differences
that arc said to exist between General
llauinton and General fl-nvv U?' ? "
think that the sneers of this Charleston
correspondent, who probably drew his inspiration
from his surroundings, at 'jho upcountry
of South Carolina should not be
allowed to pass unuoticed. Wo shall not
dispute the justice of his compliment to the
wealth and Intel licence afPttiVufralisni of
Charleston. It is well deserved. Hut
when'tho correspondent speaks of the upcountry
as the home of "ignorance" he
simply displays either prejudice or a woful
want of information. The people of the
country may bo poorer than the people of
Charleston, for they have suflorcd much
and havo had to earn their bread in the
sweat of their brows, but there is just as
much of education, just aa much of intelligence,
of culture and refiucmcnt in their
section of the State as in the favored region
of tho coast. Who says otherwise
proves himself either grossly ignorant or
is gross a slanderer. Charleston uiay be
the homo of liberalism ai d tho up country
A' Hourbouisni; we shall not quarrel about
fiul whoevcTTnovRf "any I hits* W
litical history of South Carolina knows that
the plane and the axe lie idle in tho shop ;
the court house is closed ; and every place
of merchandise is still ; human life has refloated
Ironi its contest. Men omcrgo from
the doorway of homo only to visit the house
of (Jod, and then return to cotnmune with
the Invisible at the domestic altar, and to
rest. Here and now the heart gathers all
its treasures together, and estimates them
by a standard of values that funis its definition
in such words as God and holiness,
eternity and heaven. Thus home and the
Sabbath belong to each other. There can
lie no home in the highest meaning of the
word, with >ut the Sabbath ; and without
the family and the home there could scarcely
he a Sabbath at all upon the earth.
Bourbonisin freed the State from the most
^alliiig tyranny while the policy of liberalism
would have (no matter what the intention
of its advocats) riveted its chains. It
was liberalism that gave South Carolina
Scott, and Moses, and Chamberlain, and
Klliott, and Whippcr, and Whitletnoro, and
Wright, and Bowen. It was Bourbonisin
(born of the "ignorance and poverty" of the
up country) that gave the State Hampton,
and llagoou, and llaskell, and Lipscomb,
and Butler, and Aldrich, and Gary. Liberalism
would have made terms with the
-potior. Bourbonisin would make no compromise
with corruption. Liberalism
would have abandoned the fight against
fraud in despair and bccj^ contHit with
the smallest crumbs of pofter tlul fell
from the Radical table. Bourbonisin. "ignorant
and poor," was determined to have
liberty and honest government any cost.
In brief, liberalism soughPfouiake Chamberlain
Governor a second time ; Bourbonisin
drove the corrupt, usurper from the State,
put Wade Hampton in bis place and delivered
the whole of Carolina from tho power of
the plundorcrand oppressor. With such a
record Bourbonisin and the up country can
aiioni to treat with contempt the silly sneers
r?f* ignorance or of innlicc.?Awjv.sfa Ch.ronirlc
and Con.ih'ltifioiHtlist.
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Disiiop Maitvix (in Tim S vitr.atii.?
These two institutions?the family and the
Sabbath?came out of the twites of l'Meu
linked together; they cannot be disjointed,
in the family the Sabbath has its chief ux
pression, even more than in the house of
11 od ; for in the sanctuary there is often,on
occasion, the same worship on other days
as on that; but in the home there is no day
like this one. No birthday nor holiday resembles
it. It is an uuseon but felt presence
in every chamber and upon every heart;
its touch is upon every face, and its tone in
every voice; its light is purer than the
light of common days, as if celestial beams
were braided in with the rays that stream
through the window or lie upon the threshold.
The man-servant and the maid-servant
rest; and even the horse and the ox
roam in the pasture or sleep in the stall ;
KILLING GRASS NOT CULTIVATION.
Many farmers in this section plaut as
uiany acres as they possibly can keep the
grass down on, under the mistaken notion
that if the grass is kept down tho crop is
all right. They ought to bo called "grass
killers." If there is no grass, there is no
cultivation, lor they let the field of corn or
cotton stand until the grass springs up,
though otherwise much in need of the plow.
The number of acres they can keep clear of
grass is assumed to be the uutnbcr they can
cultivate with their force, and thus overplanting
goes on from year to year, wffTIc
poor cultivation cripples the land, reduces
the yield and disheartens the tanner.
liiwi ? ii ik?> i ilm? fm??M ? ? ?> m>t
thnit Bfcads *h?fc ool*m>tUn> means
stirring the soil as well as killing tho grass?
They argue that in killing grass of course
they stir the soil ; and so they do, after a
fashion, but they forget in this argument
I that in most cases the implements they use
are designed not for the best cultivation, but
for the best grass killing. Lot them reverse
this object, and wo think the result will be
satisfactory. Have your plows made for
the very best cultivation, aud let the grass
killing be incidental. There will not be
much grass i( the field is well cultivated;
but in order to do this your calculation of
thirty to forty acres to the horse must be
upset. One horse or mule cannot cul'.ivnte
so uiueh laud well, and if he seeuis to have
done so on a former occasiou, reduce it now
to twenty or twenty-five ; cultivato better,
stir the soil oftoner, and you will he convinced
by the difference in the yield that you
W# been overworked for uo corresponding
profit. Twenty acres of land well cultivated
will certainly yield more than thirty
acres poorly cultivated. Many of these
"grass farmers," if not all of them, by
thorough cultivation could dispense with
one-third of their horses, plows and boos,
and produce better crops. It. is difficult to
baeak off oid habits, we know, but it is better
to break bad habits than never.
flood cultivation requires watchfulness
over the crops aud frequent close inspections
as to their true condition and needs, and
when it is perceived that the earth has been
repacked from heavy rains or long standing,
or the surface baked or crusted from the
same causes, as so often happens in our climate,
be assured the plow is uccdod, and
every dav it is delayed brings loss to the
Tarrifei. "nncp trie nivm iwmwm-n
and avoid turning it over as much as possible.
Stirring the soil don't mean turning
it bottom up. In dry seasons, especially,
your crop will need all the moisture in the
soil, and if you turn it up you rolcaso the
moisture to the sunshine and winds. We
use too many turn plows in summer. In
fact, they should be used only in winter in
breaking up when moisture is abundant.?
If you do not use patent cultivators, long,
narrow scooters are best to side with when
the crops are young, and also to keep the
middles loose; to make time, two, three and
even four of them may be attached to a
single stock, while shallow running swoops
are incomparable for skimming tlio snrfaco
to destroy grass.?L. C. 1J. in Savannah
Ncics.
Tragic Result of a Girl's Elopement
with a Negro.?A special to the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat from Houston,
Texas, states that three years ago a farmer
named McGuire, living in Walker County,
and head of a very respectable family, hired
a young negro man named Walker Honing
to work on his farm. McGuire has three
daughters, one of them, Miss Fannie MeGuiro,
a handsome young girl of 17, and
who stood well iu society. Recently Miss
Fannie eloped with this negro from her
father's house at dead of night and in a
wagon They escaped to the railroad depot,
and thence to Houston, last Thursday, taking
up their abode in a uolto hut mi flic
: . ,c
outskirts. Miss .?!< (luirc's brother started
in pursuit, and on Sunday last, by the aid
of a detective, found them. The Houston
authorities arrested the negro, who was
placed in an unoccupied, house, with a trace
chain around his neck and locked to a staple
in the floor. Towards midnight on Tuesday
a mob of twenty men on horseback, armed
with double-barreled shot-guns, rode into
Riverside to the house where Dotting was,
and began shouting. At every shot Dotting
screamed and cried for help, tili the last
four shots, when hi- voice was still. Two
pounds of shot was left in bis body. A
whole load of buckshot was put into bis
heart. The mob then remounted their horses
and rode away in the moonlight. The
corpse was left lying with its faco to the
floor.
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Heaps of corn, the Nebraska luirmw
says, are nearly as common in the yards ol
that State as wood piles at tlio Kast, and
lor the same purpose, to-wit: for fuel. It
is on record that Kansas farmers have
Snirncil corn, and six months afterwards paid
seventy-live cents a bushel for corn to feed
their stock. And a^aiu, that within one
year from the tiuie when o< rn in that State
w.is a drujj at sown cents per bushel in the
field there was ready market for it at ninetylive
cents. The easy lesson of which is
that in years of plenty it is the part ol
wisdom to provide ?for possible famine?as
Joseph did in Kirypt?anu not t-iio ^o.'n >11
i the kitchen fire.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SENTENCE BY A
JUDGE.
Tito following extract is taken from a
scotenco recently pronounced by -Judge
Heading, of Chicago, upon tho liquor dealers
who have violated tho law by selling it
to minors. It will pay a careful perusal :
"By tho law you may sell it to men and
women, if they will buy it. You havo
given your bond and paid your liccnso to
sell to them, and no one has a right to molest
you in your legal business. No matter
what tho consequence may be, no matter
what poverty and destitution are produced
by your selling according to law, you havo
paid your money for this privilege, aud you
are licensed to pursue your calling. No
Giwwwr spjpwtw Ui H I j -
(JpfrfcdlrrlMernble; 110 matter what wive? ara
treated with violence, what children starve
'or mourn over the degradation of a parent
?your business is legalized, and no ono
may interfere with you for it. No matter
what mother may agonize over the loss of a
son, or a sister blush at tho shame of a
brother, you have a right to disregard thcui
all and pursue your legal calling?you aro
licensed. You may fit up your lawful plaeo
of business in the most enticing and captivating
form; you may furnish it with tho
most costly and elegant equipments for your
own lawful trade; you may till it with tho
allurements of amusements ; you may use
all arts to allure visitors; you may skillfully
arrungo and expose to view your choico
wines and captivating beverages; you may
induce thirst by all contrivances to produce
a raging appetite for drink, and then you
may supply that appetite to tho lull, beeauso
it is lawful; you have paid lor it?you havo
a license. You may allow boys and children
to frequent your saloon, that they may witness
the apparent satisfaction with which
their scuiors quaff the iparkling glass; you
may be schooling and training them for thcr
period of twenty-one, when they too cart
participate, for all this is lawful. You may
hold (he cup to (heir lips, but you must not
let them drink?that is unlawful. For
while you have all these privileges for tho
money you pay, this poor privilege of selling
to children is dcuicd you. Here parents
have the right to say, Leave my son to
mo until the law gives you a right to destroy
him. Do not anticipate that torriblc
moment when 1 can assert for hiui no further
rights of protection. That will bo
to sec him take tho road to death. Hivo
him to us in his childhood at least. Let us
have a few hours of his youth in which we
cau enjoy his innocence, to repay us iu some
small degree for tho care and love we have
lavished upon him.
"This is something which you who now
stand prisoners at the bar have not paid for;
this is not embraced in your lic?nsc. For
this offense the court sentences you to ten
days' imprisonment in the county jail, and
that you pay a fine of 875 and costs; and
that you stand committed until the fine and
costs of this prosecution are paid."
We have not heard from any so irec, such
an arraignment of the license law as this.
Modern Definitions of Commercial
Terms.?Bankrupt?A man who gives
everything to a lawyer so that his creditors
will not get it.
Assignee?ft is the chap who has tho
deal and gives himself lour aces.
A Dank?Is the place where people put
their money so it will be handy when other
folks want it.
A Depo iter?Ts a man who don't know
how to spend his money and gets the cashier
to show him.
President?Ts the big fat man who promises
to boss the job and afterwards sublets it.
A Director?Is one of those that accepts
a trust that don't involve either the use of
his ryes or his cars.
Cashier?Is often a man who undertakes
to support a wile, six children and a brown
stone front, 011 forty dollars a mouth and be
honest.
A? ??: : *
v/.oMiicamn anu U'ltaill prices Ul piipCT
as good as gold, duo and payable on 1st day
of April.
Assets?Usually consists of five cliairs
and an old stove, to tlieso may be added a
spittoon, if the 'bust.' ain't a bad one.
Inabilities?Arc usually a big 'blind'
that tlie assets won't 'see' nor 'raise.*
A Note?A promise to do an impossible
thing at an impossible time.
An Kudorser?Is a man who signs a
commercial philupcna with a friend and
gets caught.
Rf.MKDY FOIt 11UKUM ATIKM.?Take a
pint of spirits of turpentine, to which add
an ounce of champhor. Let it stand until
the champhor is dissolved ; then rub it on
the part affected, and it will never fail of
removing the complaint. Flannel should
be applied after the part is well fomented
with turpentine. Repeat the application
morning and evening. It is said to be
eouallv avfiilnl ! ? linr Vim no unnt.L i ??
j -?j - - . ? ?- - .v. .v* ?/* ? ?i.7j nvu ivjo, ui u int:?
and sprains, never failing of success. Cut
tliis out, it is the host remedy going.
Inebriate?"Now look here ; what I say
i is, what's the use of riches? 'Spose a man's
a Roth?you know?a Rothehild's bank,
i eh? Well, what's the good of it ? IIo
i can't tret no more druuk thuu I cau?uow.
can be ?"