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r.:^.1?-.'??X?: ' .? V-i". vrt.Vi 1 ^ \ FIRST oue HOMES; THEN OTJK STATE; FINALLY THE NATION; THESE CONSTITUTE OTJjR COUNTKfV^^ . . _ _ _,_. _ ??_i_,_ _ _ _ ._ _ ; ' ? ? r. _^ .V-a v VOLUME 2. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER IT, 1868. NUMBER 35. THE ORANGEBURG NEWS. PUBLISHED at orangeburg, S. C, Every Saturday Morning SAM UAL DIBBLE, Editor. T. it DIBBLE, Associate Editor. \ 9HARLES H> HALL, Pnblislur. TERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION. On a Copy for one year. $2.00 ?? ?? ?< Six Months...... 1.00 Any one lending TEN DOLLARS, for a Clnb of NoW Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA COPY foj? ONB YEAR, free of chnrge. Any ono Bending FITS DOLLARS, for a Club of New Subscribers, will Teceiva an EXTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS, frta et charge. ?:o:? RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Insertion. $1.00 ?.?. v ?* '. 2d s? . 70 A .Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or one inch ?f Advertising space. Administrator's Notices, if accompanied with the cash.$2 76 If not accompanied with the cosh.$5 00 Contract Advertisement]) iuserted upon the moat liberal terms. MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding one Square, inserted without charge. ?:o:? W- Terms Cash in Advance. fob 28 o 1J DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FOR PBE3IDF.NT, HORATIO SEYMOUR. OF NEW yqrk. -0 FOB VICE-rRESIDEST. FRANCIS P. BLAIR. OF MISSOURI. STATE ELECTORAL TICKET. . FOR TUK STATE AT LA It OK: G EN ER A L J p. K KNNEDY, OK K.EHSIIAW. COLONEL J. P. THOMAS, of RIClliiA.Nl?.'* FIRST COXGRESSIOXAL DISTRICT: COLONEL R. F. GRAHAM, op marion. , [SECOND 'CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: GENERAL B. II. Rl'TLEDGE, or cuarlkhtox. THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: UODONEL J. P. REAR, 'of andek80n. {FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT'i ... .^?&?SJS?. E. C. McLljitti, ?of c1ie8ter. V A Hit) ? tk SPEECHES OF ? <COI.ON.EL A, <C. KASKELT?, ?olOSEL D. WYATT AtKEN, At Wrti mass MKttiya in or a no ewu rq, of f october &>. ?--Cr*** sr-wron/pv colonel iiaskell. Mr. President, Ladies (end 'Gentlemen:: My friends and fellow-citizens, it requires many names to convoy the feelings which throb my ? breast, and to express tho sentiments which .. crowd upon me at the recollection of the home of my ancctors for three generations, and the ^>!ace where my childhood was moulded. 'Tis ihajffphicss Wicxpressiblo to breathe again the -?"sir"of Orangeburg, but immeasurably proud am I to breathe this atmosphere of patriotism. ; This is a time when we aro cailcd upon to do all we can in this great issue for our State, whose life is imperilled. (Col. ILiskcll was . quite hoarse from overwork, and begged in dulgence.) I am not hopeless though tears of pity may drop from angel's eyes over the scene , of ruin here, yet the God of right will lead us through, and we will win as sure as faith will lt\x& ''eternal happiness to the trusting soul." Thero is, notwithstanding nil the desolation which we meet on every hand, more hope for future prosperity and happiness at the South t&ah ih any other portion of this country, and I feel that the realization of that hopo is not far removed. An bid statesman said to me Jaat night, "Go on, younjj man, you aro right; but.before you accomplish your great work I ?ball be in the gravo.'' Tis encouraging to sec such a demonstra tio? of power and determination as is here ex pressed by yon ; your countenances reflect the noble intend of your souls, that duty demands your help and that help shall not be withheld. However glorious the past, however great its record of Yalor, the prcoont is even grcator; you are acting the part of true greatness. But what shall I any of woman? No flattering speech can pass my lips when adverting to n matter so serious. No; my feeble tributo to her magnanimity, as exhibited in all her suf ferings and trials, ie impotent to convey an idea of hor greatness. Men may create tho armies of a country?men may brave the shocks of grim visaged war?men may court danger and defy its threatcniiigs for their country's honor, but tho true glory of a nation is its virtuous womanhood. When tho shrill alarum burst upon tho seashore and re-echoed among the distant hills, waking Carolina's sons to duty, then woman with noblest resignation committed the jewels of homo to the eausc and bade thorn go; aud she it is whom Heaven selcetcd to "bring salvation to man." It is the womeu of our land who have saved us sinco the war from infamy and ignominy.? South Carolina shall yet bo saved, and on her banuer shall be inscribed the bodgo of woman hood. Treason is hardly found here; our dear old State is united. 1 learn that there ishardly|a scalawag to bo found here, no native scalawag at least. There are three, not more, in my native district of twelve thousand inhabi tants. Visit the concentrated scoru of every man, woman und child upon the wretches. I sec bofore mo the boys' banner?"Wo expect to bo men." Boys, your duty is to emulate the example of your fathers; you must verify thut emblem iu your every act, aud despise the hateful, traitorous scalawags, who would fet ter your young souls, while they debase your mothers aud fathers. I believe that the ap proachiug election can be carried. By arith metical calculation there is a plain Democratic majority, and if we work, as work we must, we can win it iu South Carolina. I say this to cheer 3*011 all on. What incentives impel you to work? Home, mother, wile, children, liberty and life. Your duty involves every feeling of patriotism and sacrifice. Better, far better, had we fullcu on the field of battle, thau been spared to see our country under the perfidious rule of Radicalism. A government not securing life, liberty uud protection of, property to. its citizens is an oppres sion ; it breaks the heart of its people. Such taxation us it would lay upon us insults, while it breaks down the energy of the people. Mou too immoral, too gross, too debased, are to-day occupying the loftiest places in our State.? Moses, that vile man, whom his State would honor, as in her generous heart she always did her anpirinjg sous?how can we sutliciently hold him up to the hutting execrations of pos terity ? His own people, whose history is re splendent and scriptural, denounce and di*. card him. Whon a murder, of a fiendish na ture, was recently committed at Columbia, und the constable in discharge of his duty attempt ed the arrest of the perpetrators, he was told that, under the Constitution -of the State which was framed a few months since in Char leston, "a member could not be arrested when the Legislature was in session," and the offender was bailed iu the paltry sum ol 81000, with securities ?ot worth a dollar, and is now at largo. We will breuk down this government, by making it die its own death The creation of a now office is a constancy sc long as tbere is a huugry carpet-bagger with out one. You are burtheued more and mor< every dt<y with taxes to keep up this destrue tive oppression. Look at the depreciation o land ; see the sales made under tho auction eers hammer; and if they who are now ii power succeed, they will, by their cttnnmj plans, tax -until yo? are compelled to sell, ant their cominibsioncrs, in conjunction with spec ulators from tho North, will buy in and owm your patrimony. This I denounce as a schema of robbery. There are citizens of South CaM olina, not yet termed scalawags, who havfl helped this legislation. Any body of men dB corporation who assist them iu any wise shoulfl be denounced as enemies to the people. ThtS body which sat iu Columbia could not effete the loan of u dollar. The State would not ufl sist thent; the Radicals did not assist thcifl The only support they received was from! company in North Carolina, which bought! charter from thorn for $80,000- 1 have oH ways said in my speeches, publicly, nud wH continue to assert it, that the action of tH Blue Ridge Railroad, in going before thH body, was neither wise nor patriotic. Whfl tho Domocracy succeed, we will sweep awfl this government und put ours iu its stead. H General Grant was the most acceptable H our people for a candidate, until he violates his solemn promises to the Southern arnfl when they laid down their arms, but to-day H is iu our eyes most despicable. I want youfl the balloL box to make war; not a war of bio JE God forbid! but a war of power. You cinsgS be defeated. If you rise in your strength y^ur success will be complete; You have propc-ty. superiority of intelligence, virtue; and, believe we, you can win. Uulcss you rise to conned for the right, the past will pale before the Ilor_ rible future. Better that the spear of [thuriel which disclosed the naked deformity of our first parent's siu, should pierce the nations' hoart than that we should live to wear the chains of galling infamy which awa'.t ua in de feat. Traitorous would we be to the memory of our dead, whose bones whiten an hundred fields, if we did not go on with the ranks of the Democratic party. Power and fanati cism arc uot restrained by a party usurping con stitutional principles. Our oppression will never die until we make it die. I would address a few words to the colored people who have the mnnliuess to be here, not (withstauding I hear the shouts of a Radical jcrcw yonder in procession. I fear, colored mon, for your race, not for mine; we are the white race, und will prevail, as we have ever done. What can three millions of your race effect against thirty-six millions of white mon. What bliudncss in you to supposo you can suc ceed. What folly to oppose our doJtSrmination. Grant and Colfax both say that if eiccted, 3'ou Bhall not vote. Let them win and you aro cast aside. Come over, for if we lose, you will be swopt away. I mean no threat, but no matter who wins make friends of your old masters. I am brought up an honest man nud cannot cheat you; my duty to my God forbids it. Stand by us, and j'ou'll be a free, happy and prosperous people. They tell you that we wish to re-euslavc you. 'Tis false. Though shot and battered iu the last war, I would go into war again to oppose slavery. It whipped us before, because only the white men of our Southern country did. the lighting. .Audi would warn you that you cannot expect put rounge and support from us if you vote to de stroy our property. Labor cau be had from abroad, aud if one white man discharges labor from his place, all will do it. Do wise, and withdraw your confidence from strangers nud enemies. I am truly delighted to learn of the com plete organization of your Orangeburg Central Club ; it is better matured than anywhere iu the State. De united, and your enemies will scatter before you. us the leaves before tli3 winds of autumn. Unite, and no disgrace will atteud you. Let there not be a single Aristidemus here to disgrace the heroes, and you, like the immortal band of Thermopylae shall sweep away the hosts who rise against right and against your God. Go on ; defend your State by your vote, aud when the great day comes, and at the Court of Heaven you stand, and wheu asked how have you done ? your duty, answer; done as should be done. Work, my friends, for tho memory of the un sullied past, for your living dead, for your coun ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |P M Hr ?0 psSgl?l -vv,'? -: '"?'<"^l:M': ; '-:*3 , > V>' -^(ff' |HI|?|?1Itffpl %llll^^^^^^^^^^Bo ?| IflS |1 ||| 1 S^Sl Ii -B-'f |||| ^^^^^^^^^^^^Sot Bo Hn Bc He. - - . Hie WWT^W#f^iai^pjBHBB^BBBBBBBB/jppj| yl the legal tender currency being forty-five per cent, below gold value, and showed the bank ruptcy of the government.] Who in this S. ite, said he, arc the Radicals who seek to oppress you? I answer, the negroes. Far mers? I am a farmer?and 1 counsel you to ' Bee to it that theac negroes pay their propor- j tick of the taxes. Don't let them work your lands unless tlioy do pay their taxes ; and if | yujn do attend to this we'll see what will become ot Randolph and the rest of the crowd of scoundrels. Don't huve any more partner ship planting with the negro, it will not do ; thiy ore au inferior race and you degrade yourselves to their level by such an arrunge mcnt. [Kx-GoYernor Orr received a genteel dressing, and Judge Moses, the renegade, had his career fitly reviewed. The Colonel illus trated graphically the results aimed at by the mongrel hordo now in power; the onerous,, school system bijl, involving such n fearful expenditure of public funds; and warned his hearers that if they remained from the polls on the 3d of next November they would be to blame for the degradation of the .State, lie was particularly opposed to fence riders, and would be one to treat any fence rider to a full share of his hobby, namely, a single rail, and ride him to death. The boys' banner, '?^Vo expect to be men," caught his eye.] Buys, said ho. learn to work. Away with that sickly sentimentality, "Oau't work, let the negro do it." Detter eat a crust, the result of your own labor, than a feast worked for by tho negro. Dring into action your muscle, show the world and the uegro that you can work, rise to the duty of men, and this land v-?ll be freed from Africanism and tyranny, i ?The speech of Colonel Aiken was replete with excellent praeticul suggestions, and was didivercd with great vigor, terseness and ejegance of diction, but the rain interfered with j'our reporter's arrangements, and he regrets to be compelled to give so brief an outline. -??? [From tho Abbeville Haulier.] Our Muss-meeting. ? OitANOClIUlUI, October 3, 1808. Mil. KlUTOR : This has becu a glorious day f??r the Democracy of this District. Early morn came and with it the drizzling miu peculiar to our Fall. This did not, however, - f^tM uxU the congregating of hundreds of tho yeomanry of the District, accompanied by their wives, daughters, .-isters and loves. The harder it rained the more determined did they appear to waive triumphantly the beauti ful banners of Democracy. At nine o'clock a procession of at least one thousand men was formed at tho Depot, and divided into five Divisions; each Division was lr>*RTi by a wagou handsomely decorated (with all sorts of festoonery of roses and ever greens, and drawn by six mules or horses 1 more handsomely caparisoned, ridden poBtill . ion by Democrat negroes, and each wagon 1 filled, with tho loveliest of fair maidens bearing ' beautiful bauners. The whole procession was headed by a magnificent floral car, carrying a band of musicians from Charleston, whusc exquisite airs hushed for the momcut all op position to our cause. In that prccsston were seventy eight color ed Democrats, and near one hundred boys, the latter bearing a beautiful banner on whose folds wore inscribed?,-we expect to be men." Ou_ arriving ut the stand the head of the column halted; the Marshall formed close column by Division on -first Division ; the wa gons Were driven to the scats aud emptied of their precious loads, and the closed Divisions parted nnd marched up to the front of the i stand. The maneouvoring and tramp of those men showed they had not forgotten the lessons offdays not ltfng since gone by. The s'tawd was quite as "elegantly ornamen ted with Festoonery as the wagons, and filled with more than thirty chairs. Judge Glover presided, und after a few appropriate remarks introduced Judge Aldrieh, who was followed by Ooi. II ask ell ami he in turn by the can vasser, while the Honorable J. P. Iteed closed the list of white speakers. Goode from Colum bia, and Francis from Charleston represented the colored democracy on the occasion. Doubt less each speaker thought he did himself and the glorious cause justice, and the patient, at tentivo, splendid audience weat hered it through to the last, occasionally rending the air with their shouts of applause as a good point was made or a funny anecdote told. The ladies, God bless thorn, showed their adherence and devotion to our cause by remaining on tho ground amid all the rain until the last speaker finished, and then went one and all to the tables of viands that were abundantly spread, a table of two hundred feet being allotted to each division. Dauners were everywhere suspended, flags floated in the air. while mottoes such as ''our rights,-- and "our liberties" were everywhere to> be seen, and cheerful laces of earnest, energetic, men commingled with the loveliest smiles of the prettiest, women I ever saw. Nothing, not even the constant rain cheeked tho enthusiasm ot the day nnd every one assured us it was nothing to the assurance all felt in securing ou the 3d of November next a radical decrease of at least one thousand, if not u positive majority for the Democratic party. Would that Abbeville were us much in earnest!! If we were,' our Democratic majority would more thau counterbalance any defeat Orange burg may have. During the first two hours of the sp .ak.ing two white villiniiH, and probably the hyena Randolph, called about three hundred negroes ] in the streets and attempted to deafeu the audience by their hideous shrieks. Dut as they would not be noticed the leaders shouted themselves hoarse nnd the poor deluded ne groes slunked away in disgust. What a pity lt. K. Scott and his canine protege?Dckuight ?could uot have been there j they might have manufactured a case of manslaughter to send North us radical capital. Truly, D. W V ATT AI KEN. - .iii-nn fi - The New York Journal of Commerce, a highly temperate and uble paper, holds the following opinions on the subject of negro suffrage: "No law in creation can fix negro suffrage into n permanency. It is but an experiment. If it works well, contrary to the experience of mankind up to this date, it will remain incor porated in the constitutions of the Southern States. If it proves to be a lamentable failure, degrading in its effect upon whites and blacks alike, the sturdy good sense of the Saxon race will throw it off, like an}- other fetter which hiudeis its progress. No law of Congress, no Constitution of any State, no amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is unrepeal ible. Congress has already shown to mankind with what facility the most sacred charters, the most solemn compacts, maj' be rent to pieces, when party interests require it. At some time not far distant, perhaps, the Conservatives may have the supreme power, ns the Radicals now have it. It will be their duty to revise and correct errors of Radical legislation. One of the first questions that will come before them will be that of the repeal of all negro suffrage enactments and provisos. Unqualified negro suffrage will then have been tried upon its merits, on the large scale. If, on the whole, it is a good thing, it will uot be molested. But if it is a clearly apparent evil nud nuisance, nothing can save it fro u being sponged out of cxis teuce." How a Pock of Cora Meal is Taxed. The GalKpolis Dispatch, in auswer to the charge that because a man is poor he cannot be taxed, thus shows how even a peck of meal, purchased by a poor man to aid in feeding his family of Kttlo children, is taxed, to aid in paying the interest on the untnxed bonds. .- Says the Dispatch%. '?The corn from which tha't peck' vf meal was made was raised on taxed laud, plowed by a taxed plow, drawn by taxed horses, hitched with taxed gears. It was hoed with a taxed hoe, cultivated with taxed implements, gather ed with a taxed Wirgwv, drawn With taxed horses, thrown into a taxed crib, shelled on a taxed machine, measured in a taxed measure, taken in a taxed sack und ground on a taxed mill, sieved with & taxed sieve, mixed in a taxed pan, stirred with a taxed spoon, salted with taxed salt, put into a taxed bake pan, baked in a taxed stove, laid out on taxed plate, cut with a taxed kuifc, and lastly eaten by a pretty heavily taxed man. "If it were not for the taxes you could buy a bushel of meal for what that peck cost you| Resides, it is not on that alone that you arc taxed, but upon everything you have to buy. A pound of sugar costs only 3 or 4 conts, but you have to pay from It? to lit). A pound of coffee only costs 10 cents but you have to pay 30, and if it costs you three hundred dollars a year to support your family, you may safely say one half of this is tax. Now, is4t any wonder that times are hard and that you find it difficult to live'/" Tkn Good ltur.ks.?Choose the path of virtue, and imitate a high pattern. . Do all the good in thy power, and let every action be useful. Cultivate thy mind carefully?it will be a store of pleasing reflection. Be diligent' in thy business, and strictly upright in thy dealings. Investigate affairs closely, and engage in them cautiously. Lay thy plans with prudence, and be pro pared with emergencies. In all difficulties be patient, and overcome them by perseverance. Do that which needs doing most. Have a place for everything and everything in its place. In all things be economical without mean ness, and combine utility with elegance. Boston is abandoning the check-rein on horses, Item*. Sweet potatoes axe plenty, in New X0*^ / Donner pays $10 apiece foT | copied. tot Minnesota votes on negro suffrage Novem ber 3d. ^ f v A 450 pound beat was ki^? fcilleS& IM Hampshire. Snow fell at St. Paul, Minn., Wedne*fc?' last. Laud is plenty in Arkansas at 3 to 5 cen's nn acre. Frost bos uot yet damaged the Kentucky crops. The potato crop of New York is 25,000,000 bushels. ???".t?- t i\itt if tf : A bushel of bogus nickels - has been found in St. Louis. A new club for English reformers is about to be started. In Milwaukee they call a harness maker a "horse milliner." Vienna has a female orchestra which eon ccrtizes successfully. They have a female Grant club out west. Motto "Match us." A woman in New York shines with $309, 000 worth of diamonds. The carpet-baggers are build.ng a hotel at Jacksonville Florida. Nashville has a population, of 23,304? 19,939 whites, and 3,365 blacks. The military works at Point Levi, Canada, have suspended operations. llice will soon be cultivated by coolie labor in the Cape Fear region. "The "Champion Female Walker of the World" is astonishing London. The French Fishery off Newfoundland has been a bud failure this year. Apples arc selling at 25 cents a bushel at tho cider mills in. Connecticut. . Twelve thousand cans of sweet corn are daily [ scaled at one factory in Maine. A Jersey City German has tried~fofflSM4?~ to ruu away with bis wife's sister. Ohio ha* one hundred and seventy-two wool en mills. Two-story cars to accommodate one hundred persons arc being tried in Germany. \< - *? Yale College has rejected ]3l applicants, for admission this year, sottto conditionally. The Oil Creek and Aitcghaoy oil wells turn ed out 12,235 barrels a day last mouth. . An establishment at Key port, N. J., ?ans 500,000 bushels of tomatoes in a aeaaon. The annual yield of wine in the Ohio Val ley uloue, now averages over 700,000 gallon,*. The Quebec Legislature will meet for tho dispatch of business the last part of October. The total pay from the British treasury to the royal family amounts to $2,500,000 ra gold. M* Large asguciations of wine growers from Southern Franco are coming to America. & grow grapes-. Over 200,000 foreigners have sought a Some in the United States since the termination o|> the war. mm mum . , State Elections.?Tho following ?tate elections occur this year: West Virginia, October 22. New York, November 3? New Jersey, November 3. Delaware. November 3* Maryland. November 3. Illinois, November 3. Michigan, November 3? Wisconsin, November 3? ? .Minnesota, November 3% Missouri, November 3. Kansas, November 3? Nevada, November 3* Massachusetts, November 3. The Presidential election ocenrg &u tho 34 of November. -1. ? "Come, hero, sissy, said a young gentleman to a little girl, to. whose sister ho wan paying his addresses, "You ere the sweotwiv thing- on earth." 4 "No 1 ain't, oithcr," she repliod; "sister says yon are the sweotest," Gent)..nan popped tho question next day, ? The water cure's no new invention/' paid old Mrs. Smith, when she was advised to try the remedy; "it's as old as the deluge, and even then it killed more than it cured." ???????-- ? ?. Running off with another man's wife, is styled larceny in St. Louts. Potty (coat) larceny probably.