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???? ???mmmmm ?? THE BOSARY 07 MT YEARS. BY FATHER BYAH. Some may reckon their ago by years, Sooie reckon their life by act? But some tell their days by the flow of their tears, And their life by the moans of thoir heart. The dials of earth may show The length not depth of years ; Few or many they come?few or mftny they go? But our time is best measured by tears. v Ah ! not by the silvery gray That creeps thro; the sunny hair, And not by the scenes that wo pass on our way? And not by the furrows, tho fingers of care, On tlio forehead and face have made; Not so do wo count our years ; Not by the sun of the earth?but the sliado Of our souls, and tho fall of our tours. For tho young arc oft-times old, Tho' their brow be bright and fair ; While their blood beats warm their heart lies cold? O'er theui the spring-time?but winter is there. And the old arc oft-times young. When their heir U thin and white ,* And they sing in age as in youth they sung, And they laugh, for their cross was light. But boad by bead 1 (ell The rosary of my years : From a cross to a cross they lend?'tis well, And thcy'ro blessed with a blessing of tears. Better & day of strife Than a centuty of sleep ; Give me instead of a long stream of life, The tempest uud tears of tho deep. A thousand joys may foam On the billows of all the years ; But never a foam brings the bark back home ; It reaches the heaven through tears. .?. HAMPTON ON THE COLORED KAN AND HIS RELATI0N8 TO THE COUNTRY. In discussing the question upon which my viows arc asked, the limits prescribed me in the invitation prevent anything more than a mere statement of opiniou. Eveu wore this otherwise, my present condition forbids uiu to enter into any extended or elaborate argument. Mine must be, therefore, simply a presentation in crudo form of the views I entertain, and have entertained for some years, upou the grave questions submitted for consideration. I shall endeavor to write in a spirit free from all partisanship or sectionalism, with the sole purpose of promoting the cause of truth and tho welfare of tho whole country. The first question is, "Should the negro be disfranchised ?" There has been much agitation of this subject recently?chiefly at the North?and many who have hitherto been the most earnest advocates of ucgro suffrage begin to think that tho bestowal of this privilege upon him has resulted iu failure. Those who thus think suppose that the withdrawal of tho right or suffrage would at onco restore tho ancient aud normal condition of things in the country; would re-establish friendly relations between the races of the South ; and in so fur as it would diminish representation would lessen the influence of that section in national affairs. This latter argument, I regret to see, has had most weight with a largo class, though it is inconsistent with a true aud catholic patriotism?a patriotism which looks to the good of the whole republic, and not to that of a limited section. But, whatever may be the motives of those who desire the disfranchisement of the negro, the accomplishment of such a result has been rendered impossible by the action of the national and State governments.? Great and startling as have been the political mutations of the last few years, the disfranchisement of the negro at this or any subsequent period would be more surprising than any political event in our past history. The question, therefore, docs not belong to practical politics, and is a mere speculative one. Considering it in the latter aspect, I do not hesitate to auswer in the negative. Whatever may have beeD the policy of conferring the right of voting upon the negro, ignorant and incompetent as ho was to comprehend the high responsibility thrust upon him, and whatever may have been the reasons which dictated this dangerous experiment, the deed has been done, and it is irrevocable. It is now the part of true statesmanship to give it, as far as possible, that direction which will be most beneficial or least hurtful to the body politic. How is this to bo accomplished ? My answer would be, by educating the negro until ho comprehends the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. By "education" I do not mean the mere acquisition of learning, but I apply the term in its broadest sense. Tho possesion of the rudiments of education?tnc mere mental training that this implies?so far from being always bcucficial to its possessor, is ottcn harmful.? Many of our lately enfranchised citizens make the first use of their newly acquired ability to read and write by oouimilliug forgery, and here, at least, they have manifested a wonderful aptitude, lly educating them 1 mean that their moral uature should bo cultivatedparipassu, with their intellect. Thia moral ouueation is of far greater importance than an intellectual one. A man is not necessarily a better citizen because he can read and write, nor does tho possession of these acquirements mnko him, as a matter of coarse, more competent to understand and discharge the duties of oitizenship. I doub*/ whether the citjxens of that 6tato which makes its boast that more of its poople can read and write than in any other government, are equal in art, in culturo, and in statesmanship to the Athenians in their palmiest days, who were, without any of these accomplishments, tho most intelligent and critical of political constituencies. As tho stability of our institutions dopends on the intelligence and virtue of our citizens, it is the duty of every patriot to promoto the cause of tptffc education. Especially is this the case with regard to that ? Ill ? ... I. ? ? I III i.l ULIIAFW unfortunate peoplo who, after centuries of servitude, wcm-suddenly called to oxercise the high duties of freemen. They came to the discharge of these duties utterly iguo-i rant, with the prejudices, the habits nud the evils inculcated by a life of slavery; nfc-rely children of a largor growth, aud, liko all children, full of credulity. It- is , uct to be wondered at, then that thoy were oasily misled by the wioked and* designing men who flocked to theflouth wheu she was prostrato. But, in spito of the ovil advice they have so constantly received, they have, on the whole, behaved hotter than any other people similarly situated would have dono, and the whites of the South have no roason to cherish any ill-will toward tho blacks.? Nor do thoy; and the timo is rapidly approaching when tho colored people will find their best friuuds among the thoughtful aud cousiderate whites of the South?a class by no menns small at present, and which is growing larger aud slrougej^ every hour. But this digression leads uie from the discussion of tho questiou under consideration, aud uiy purpose, as declared at rllA All fjnf irna Anlif trv ntntsi ?v> t* nniiiiAtia vuv uuwvij r? ho imiij tu nunu injr vjnuuniii, uot to cuter iuto argument to establish them. Froui the remarks already made, my' answer, to the puestiou submitted is easily anticipated. It would bo almost impossible to disfranchise the ucgro, and if possible, it would uot be carried into effect. The South docs uo desire to sec this done, and with out her aid it can never bo accomplished. The negro contributes not only to the wealth of tho South, but to her political power, and she is indisposed to deprive herself of any of her advantages. As the ucgro becomes more intelligent ho nhturally allies himself with the more conservative of tho whites, for his observation nud experience both show him that his interests are identified with thoso of the white race here. This is tho inevitable tendency of things as they now stand at the South, and no oxtraueous pressuro cah chatigo a result which is as sure and fixed as any other natural law. The opinions which are announced above have not been hastily formed or only recently entertained. They arc the result of very earnest and long reflection, aud as au evidence of this it muy not be improper, even at tho risk of appearing to touch too closely on personal mutters, to stato the positiou that I have occupied in regard to these questions since the close of the war. In 1805, even before I had received my parole, 1 spoke, and was the first man at the South who did so, to a large audience of uegrocs upon the changed relations between the two races, and 1 gave to them the same advice that I have given from that dry to this, lu 1807, in the city of Columbia, at the earnest invitation of the colored people i themselves, I spoko to them ngaiu, aud upon that occasion advocated qualified suf* I frage. It must be borne in mind that at the tiuic this was done some of the most , prominent leaders of the .Republican party had taken decided ground against giving the right of suffrage to the negro. It is unnecessary to give all the reasons that induced me to take this course ; it is sufficient to say that I fully realized that when a man had been made a citizen of the United State? he could net be debarred the right of voting on account of his color. Such exclusion would be opposed to the entire theory of Republican institutions, and I foresaw that, unl.-ss the States, while they had the right of regulating the elective franchise, prescribed the qualifications of their voters, the uutioual government would intervene, and we should have universal suffrage forced upon us. My object, then, was, by Gxing an educational qualification as a prerequisite for voting, to allow the most intelligent of tho colored people to vote at ouce, and this would have been an iuduccuieut to the rest of the race to endeavor to qualify themselves for the attainment uud exercise of this privilege by securing the necessary education. The admission of the limited namber who would thus have been allowed to vote at first would have produced no confusion in the machinery of the State governments, and the relations between the two races would have been r_: ii? i t. ? . -? inuu'iiv aim Harmonious ; uui tno course that I recuDiDiondcd was not adopted, and vfo of the South have boon subjected to all the humiliation and crime brought about by reconstruction. As the uegro is now acquiring education and property, he is becoming tnoro conservative, and naturally desires to assist in the establishment and maintenance of good government and home rule. I have endeavored?and I think uot without success?to teach him here how to use the vote for his own good, and the benefit of the political society in which ho lives and with which his future prosperity is identified. Tho result has boon shown in tho last two general elections iu this State, where thousands of negroes have voted with their white friends; and if any doubt is entertained of the sincerity of these voters, and nnv impartial visitor from tho North will take the pains to inquire throughout tho State, I will venturo the assertion that in every locality he will fiud as rmriiPrtt. or nntivn and aa rnnaiatont ocrats among tho colored peoplo a? among the whites, and these colored Democrats . arc generally among tho more intelligent of their race. Under these circumstances, as tho negro is endeavoring very generally to qualify himself for the duties of citisenship, the wrong of disfranchising him would bo as great as that iuflictcd upon us in tho firft instance, when universal suffrage was given to hiui while he was yet utterly unprepared to exercise it. The second question to which my attention has Leon invited is, "ought the negro to have bcon enfranchised It uiay seem inconsistent with tho views ] have exprossod iu the first part of this article to say that I ' * il io Dot Vbink he should have boon enfranchised at tho tiino and in tho uiauncr io which iV was done. My first objection is, tbst the^fcodo that was pursued, if not directly unfeouttitutionul, was certainly extra coaHtUtttiQitol, uod 1 nin utterly opposed to uDY Y&lunS, direct or indirect, to that iiMCTarijetfEfe Whenever a political party thiul^lnlm^L^essary, in order to secure its supremacy,;to act'outsido of tho coustitu-' tion, and this is permitted by the people without rebuke, we may be suro that we have entered upon that dowuward plane which every previous republic has traveled to destruction. Tho ouly hope of main* taiuiug our iustitutians in their integrity is by a strict observance of tho constitution, and no party should bo allowed to remain s moment in power which countenances in any manner any violation of its sacred provisions. My ncjk objection to conferring suffrage on the negro, immediately upou his emancipation, was that ho was totally incompetent to exercise or oven to understand tho rights conferred upon him. The injection of such a mass of iguorant and uutruiucd votcjfs into the body politic was the most perilous strain to which our institutions have ever been subjected, aud the danger arising from this experiment lias uot yet passed. It was a crime against the whites of the South to disfranchise them iu large part whilo cufranchisiug tho negro, and thus practically placiog all the rights of the former at tho mercy of newly emancipated slaves. All these difficulties might have been avoided had partial suffrage been adopted in the first iustnnc, aud the relations between the two races becu allowed .wli.iat fliAmcnlttna lie r ?. bU MUjUOb illUIIIOCI TV.O KfJ I liu UIIIUIJJCUl'U UL"* tiou of uatural laws. This courso would have been infinitely better for the negro himself, as it would gradually have trained him in the exereisc of the rights of lYoouicu, and would have prevented that antagonism betweon the two races which has resulted, in so many instances, to the iujury of the ucgro. Those who assert that the negro should have been enfranchised have not hesitated to declare that tho Indians, the native freemen of America, and tho Chinese, who have sought our shores in such numbers, should be debarred that right. There seems to bo some inconsistency in these views, and the advocates of negro enfranchisement should be called ou to show why the privilege should be granted to him, the newly emancipated slave, and yet denied to men who huve always been free and who possess more intelligence. When the negro was made a citizen, it followed as a logical consc(|uanco, under the theory of our institutions, that he must become a voter. My objection to his enfranchisement, therefore, is confined to tho time when and the mode in which this privilege was conferred upon him. ?answered those question with entire frankness, iu tho hopo that such a discussion, free from political acrimony and partisan misconceptions, would encourage a calm and coucicntious consideration of the whole subject.?Wade IIa.mi ton, in Xorth American Review. Borrowers.? Where one of these nuisances is located in the uoighborh >od of an iudustrious furuior, he will cause more loss and annoyance than the llessian fly or the potato jcctlo. Probably farmers suffer uiorc from borrowers than any other plass of people do. Not only arc many farm implements costly, and generally returned in a dilapidated state, but at tho very time when tho farmer and his men are about to uso scythe >r horsc-rako the article will be missing, bis neighbor having forgottcu to return it. By the time its owner can lay hands on it and sharpen the dullest blade or supply broken teeth, serious loss may be caused. Wagons and carriages arc borrowed and scut home covered with mud aud minus a bolt, or nut, or with possibly a broken spoke. When a farmer cares enough for his business to take agricultural papers, he genu.tally likes to preserve thcui, but iu steps his borrowiug fricud aud carries off his last copy which will never be returned. For all this there is but ono remedy?be brave enough to refuse Say honestly that you do not intend to lend. Show that you pratioc what you preach, and never borrow. Tho most persistent will soou stop troubling you under such treatment. Of course there are people <o whom it is a ploasure to lend, who take good euro of what thoy borrow, but such persons are not habitual borrowers. Almost every 0110 has had some experience with the chocrful, careless, "easy going sort," who will ask fur the ureal from your table and the bread from your oven to feed unexpected visitors. Wo have only to call ou our memory to prove that the latter instance is not exaggerated, nod wo blush to confess that we were actually weuk enough to givo up our Sunday dinner at the demand of an improvident neighbor. It is bard to suy no the first time, but say it once and you will never lear to repeat it.?AT. Y. Herald. Drunkenness no Palm atio.n.--It is more than thirteen centuries ago when Belisarius on his way to Africa, gibbeted two of * . e a _ * ? Vipffuiuiuit JUT UII ilUV UJ VlUlt'UUO. And WHCI) this summary punishment aroused souio mutiny among the comrades of the executed men, the Goncral explained that tho orinj^slnno might not have been visited by this terrible retribution if it had not bccu aggravated by tho faot that the porpetrators were drunk. This is pretty sound law to-day. Surely a man will not bo held lest guilty of crime because ho deliberately preEaros himself for it by 6tifling all that is umnn in his naturo, and stimulating all that is brutal. Ho should rather be held morally responsible for all the other possible crimes which tho alcohol ho swallows would drive him to commit if opportunity offered. ' \ i-J ! Ji..* "O . . LL1 W! They havo uovftl Christinas trocs out in tho Black Hills. News has coma of oue which tho Dc&dwood pcoplo enjoyed this season. Oue gentleman, as his. imiuo was called, stepped forward and received as his present, a huugmau's uoosc with a card attached, whereon was tho legend, "twentyfour hours to git outcn the towu." Ho found that the titno allowed him was tinplo. Ere long tho mcllow joloy Spring?Rochester Ei' pre**. Will gambol liitherward and bring?Graphic. tho violet's breath and early greens?burling, ton llawkeye. And Boston's next year's crop of beans. "Darn a fool," 6ays Harkius, who was vexed, to his wifo. "So mote it bo," said Mrs. H., flourishing a needle, "whereabouts are you woru out V llarkins said some people were too smart to live longAn Illinois man writing to the Clerk o tho Supreme Court of tho State for a li ccuso to practice luw, said : "If you havi two sizes send mo (he largest one." - We saw a young man with two heads 01 his shoulders the other day, but didn't con sidcr it much of a (juriosity?otic belongct to his girl.? College Argus. James H. Rodgei ?DEALER IX? GROCERIES, HARDWARE HOOTS AM> SHOES. MANUFACTURER OF TIN WARE, STOVE PIPE AM) SIIEE' IRON PANS. ROOFING, GUTTERING AND REPAIRING DONE AT SHORT NOTICE. :o: I II AVE just received a large lot of Grocerici consisting of Sugars, Coffee, Tea, Molasses and Syrups, Paeon, I.nrd and Salt, Flour, Hice and Grists. Cheese and Cauncd Goods. ALSO A COMPLETE STOCK OP BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS II A II I> W ARE. In tliia line 1 have everything you may wan from a Cambric Needle to a liroad Axe. Cooking and Heating Stovef NEVER SO CHEAP BEFORE I invite nn examination of my Stock, knot ing tlint I can please in quality, quantity ai price. Do You Want Tin Ware? I manufacture my own Tin Ware, Stove I*i| nn<l Sheet Iron Pans, which I warrant to bo tlio Very best quality, ROOFING, GUTTERING and REPAIRIX DONE PROMPTLY AND WELL. Castings for Stoves furnished at tlio,Shorte Notice. DOXT NEGLECT TO CALL OX J. If. RODGER. Nov 29 48 If ~B7F. ItAWFH, DEALER IN CmOCEllIES, HARDWARE, RRL'CJS, Al NO. 1, EAST UNION. LOGWOOD, MA DOER, COPER AS, R OS I XL', FOR COUGH AND CONSUMPTIO: Wild Cherry and Tar, Cod Liver Oil?Pure, Cud Liver Oil with Wild Cherry and Limetiialew good. ^ Cod Liver Oil with Lime, Fill ITS! Fill'ITS I ORAXGLS, RAISINS, CURRANTS, ALMONDS. COCO A NUTS. rreimi ramncH, a mil AKftArinieiil, Don't forget to call at No 1, Km>l Union. Dec 13 60 If " "OILS, UNSEED, KEROSENE, HARNESS, MACIIIN] SWEET, O.fSTOR, AND TURPENTINE, Hold Ohetfp by H. P. RAWIX. Nor. 16 4ft If PAINTS AND VARNISHES. PAINT I1RU8HES, DRUOS AND MEDICINE8, CIGARS, SNUFF, CHEWING* AND KMflplNG TOBACCOS A FINE iOT OF CROCKERY, JUST IN. TINWARE, WOODENWARE, HARDWARE, JUGS, JARS AC. For sole very low by II. F.RAHLS. . ? ". . *> . i -i . 1 1 ;,u uiiit a | ^ ,4 , .US. w; Porters NEW STOCK! LO^ X?JL?.iOJK?-i'; ; , ? OR CASH ONLTt THE CHEAPEST i DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, ! GENT'S HATS, ! READY-MADE CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, 1 HAUDWAKB ?AND? x GROCERRIES, Cftn be had ntS. W. Tortcr's Cheap Storo,?far CASH ONLY. Please don't nsk for credit,' on it is very nnplensnnt to refuse it; but 1 sell too cheap to al. low a day's credit to my best fricudC S. W. POUTER. Sept 27 30 tf " UNION HOTEL r Reopened nnd Furnished Throughout with NEW FURNITURE. :o: THE Subscriber has the pleasure of announcing to the public that he has lensed the Union Hotel nnd fitted it up with new Furnituro ^ nnd every other convenience for the comfort of the traveling public. THE TABLE n shall be provided with tho best of everything nnd servud iu the best style, to suit the tastes of \ Hli. ' \ Attentive nnd obliging Servants will be ,t found nt all hours to respond to the calls of the patrons of the bouse. A First Clnm Burr in the basement, whore gentlemen enn always , find the choicest of all kinds of until aud spiri- * i. tuous liquors, served in ull styles. ? Having determined to make tho Union Ilotol equal to nny Ilotol in the State, in nil respects, % 1 hope to receive the patronago ef the public. II. J. THOMPSON. Spartanburg Herald nnd Carolina Spartan copy three months. , >ec C - 49 tf > Fine Brands of Chewing Tobacco: Ll'CY 1IIXTOX, G OL It KX J'll'l'KX, PIG TAIL TWIST, , FIXE CUT, TlX TAG NAVY, NICKEL, FLU A AND QUID PRO QUO, For Sale by B. F. BAWLS, No. 1, East Union. Dee '20 61 tf Trusses, Trusses. ^ V LARGE assortment, for Sale Chenp, by B. F. BAWLS. tj ?. Dec '20 61 If . 'Ji v- Greenville and Columbia R. R. "l CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. IsSUS * BPTTxl tt 'If HrrZ.rff ?m'l Passenger Trains run daily, Sundays excepted, connecting with Night Trains on South Car,e olina Railroad up and down. On and after uf MOND.\^f, ^Jay 29th, tho following will bo tl)e schedule: - ' ' * ?* (4 vr- ? Leave Columbia at 7.46 a m Leave Alston 9.80 a in n, Leave Newberry 10.60 a m st Leave Cokesbury 2.17 p m Leave llelton., 4.00 p m Arrive at Greenville 6.36 p m down. Leave Greenville at 8.06 a m Leave Helton 9.66 a ni Leave Cokesbury 11.88 a m Leave Newberry '. 2.40 p m I.eave Alston 4.20 p tr. Arrive nt Columbia 6.66 p m ANDEUSON 11 RANCH AND BLUE RIDGE _ DIVISION. down. vr. Leave Walhalla. ...6.1* a tn Arrive 7.16 p m Leave Perryville.,.7.00 a m Arrive 6.40 p m I.eave l'endleton...7.60 a ni Arrive 6.00 p m jsj Leave Anderson...8.60 a ni Arrive 6.00 p m Arrive at Bclton-ALIO a ni Leave 4.00 p m THOMAS DODAMEAD, General Superintendent, ~~ J\nrz Nohton, Jk., General Ticket Agent. June 9, 1876. '23 <f I'Ion cor Paper Manufacturing Company* MANUFACTURERS of Book, News and wrapping TAPKK. John W Iflcholnon, Agent, Athene, G? For seinplo of News, ace this sheet. Nov 22 45 tf _ ~ FAMILY GROCEBIEI. A 1IAMS AND MIDDLINGS, j MACKEREL, ^ . *J[HH CORN MEAL AND MOLASSEN/^HH jjj Said cheaper than evcr.hjr^^ at No. 1, East Union, ^ Nov 15 4U tf Jk ;d Miss Rdid's School. THE exercise* of M)m C. M. Hold's olmoijffl wiil be resumed on Monday Jon. Cth 187ff, fjj in lb* building occupied leet year by Towneend, as a School Uonse, next door lo Copt. .? M F. M. Farr'e residence. j The course of study will embrnoe all the ~ branches of o thorough English education. /1 Instruotion in CelisLhenlce glten. j9 Terms, current prices. <H