The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, March 07, 1879, Image 4
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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, ^
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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