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VOL. :->8. YOItTCYILLK, 8. P., TBfJRSDAY, MAY '24-. 1877. MO. ?>!,.
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Written lor tin- V??rkvillt? Kinjiiircr.
JULIAN JIOKYILLE'S BRIDE ;
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THE POWER OF LOVE.
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I.OVE KKEAKS TUUnt'CIl I'lilSitN IJAKS.
Kvelyn whs mow permitted access to her
husband's presence, regularly, twice a week, a
fact which greatly facilitated the accomplishment
of her design.
She had waited until, in concert with .John
Lindsay, she had securely arranged her plan
of action, before confiding to .Julian the measures
they were going to take.
Entering his cell one day, she surprised
him by the buoyancy of her step, and the
look of exultation with which she returned
his greeting. lie looked at her inquiringly,
anxiously, while his own heart began to beat
with an undefined hope.
"Kvelyn," he said eairnestly, as lie gazed
into her face, on which beamed a light that
f had not illumined it for many a past day,
"you have heard news of some sort, have vou
not ?"
"No, Julian, I have heard no news?yet I
have some news to tell you," she rejoined.
"It niu.-t be something favorable?at least,
I would think so, if it were possible that any
thing should happen in our favor now," he
said, doubtfully.
"It is possible?it can and will happen!"
she excitedly replied. "Listen, Julian;
would you consent to incur a small danger, a
slight risk, to regain your freedom ?"
"My freedom ! Lvelyn, you are not in
earnest; it would be vain to attempt such a
tiling."
"Vou say so because you do not know?you
have not heard. Listen, and you shall hear
my plan. < )n Thursday next I am coming to
wlcit v t tii iii tin? even in ir. instead of the morn
ing. Lindsay has promised to arrange this
for me. I am to leave jn>t before the hour
for closing up ; that is?you are to leave, in
ruv dress, and I shall remain here until the
following day."
Julian shook his head. "Impossible! A
wild scheme ? I should be detected; the attempt
would he worse than useless."
"You would not be detected, at that hour,
in the uncertain light, and in my dress. You
know how much we resemble each other.
Kven should your face be seen, there is no
danger. Julian, for Heaven's sake don't put
diliieulties in the way!" -She clasped her
hands with a look of entreaty as .-he spoke.
"I tell you it is all arranged. Lindsay is on
our side. He will help us,and with his aid it
will be easy to avoid discovery. The same
carriage that brings me here will take yon
away. You are to be driven to a certain place,
where friends will meet you, ami with them
you will travel at once to the coast, and embark
on a vessel lying in readiness for you.
Once on board, all fear is past. You will go
to San Diego, and wait there until 1 join you,
and then we will leave the country together?
go to Lngluml, France, Italy, anywhere you
will, where we shall he safe from pur-uit."
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"11 is easy iw wui\
Kvelyn ; Itnt what assurance have I I hat you
will lie pi-nnit'ed todoso? Do von tliink I
would daret?> leave you here, unprotected, :it
tin* mercv ofthv.se people? Not even to purchase
inv freedom would I pay so cosily a
price! The risk for myself I tlo not regard,
for even detection could bring upon me no
harder fate than is already in store for me ;
but for you?no, no, do not ask it. I can never
consent."
"Listen to me, Julian. There is not a person
here who would hurt a hair of my head.
Kverv one in this place has been kindness itself
tome, since lirst I commenced coming
here. What then, have I to ho afraid of?"
"My poor Kvelyn, you are so ignorant?so
inexperienced! Kvcti supposing that these
men etnploved in the jail are friendly in their
disposition toward you, you do not imagine
that they would tamely allow you to go away,
and thereby incur severe punishment at the
I. tj i.f tin. irnv-i-rniiient. for not detaining
" %,,v n ? --? w
von to answer for what you hu<i done?"
"I tell you 1 shall not he detained?my escape
will he easy enough when once you are
safe! 1 >ut supposing, for argument's sake, I
should he kept here for a time, what harm
would happen to me, even then ? The greatest
evil that could befall me would he the
prolonged separation from you, and if I knew
you were abroad, and in safety. 1 could endure
that. It would he far less painful than
the separation we had to hear so long, after
you were taken from me! You know, you
must know, that no one would inflict anv penalty
on me?how could they? There is nothing
for me to fear, Julian, nothing?it is only
your exaggerated anxiety about me that
makes you fancy there is any ri>k. He reasonable,
now, and look at it in the true light.
Dearest Julian, it is my only chance of happiness.
If you refuse my prayer, you will break
my heart!"
A n expression of deep pain rested on Julian's
face. He drew his wife closer to him,
and held her pressed in silence to his heart.
"Speak to me, Julian," she whispered, imploringly
; tell me that you consent."
"Kvelyn, do not urge me?I can nut leave
you here," he impetuously replied. "Life is
dear to me, very dear now, for your sake ; hut
there are other things dearer yet. I value
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^ your SlU'lV 1.11 Hion: mmi 10 i >>>,n. it ...j
safety cannot be purchased at a less costly
price, let it go. Alter all, it is only bringing
a little nearer the final moment which must
come to us all. Oh, my love, do not look at
me with such reproachful eves; I cannot hear
it ! You know how joyfully "I would eonsent
to your proposal, if 1 could !"'
"You can -you can; and you will not,"
she exclaimed, passionately, and breaking
from him. she walked hastily the length of
the apartment and hack. ".Julian !" she continued,
clasping him again in her arms, and
speaking in the- eager but suppressed tone
she bad used all along?for she knew that in
this case stone walls might easily have ears ?
".Julian, tlii~ is mere folly?it is total, child
ish folly ! You arc tampering with mv lifelong
happiness?you are trying to destroy
my la-t, lingering hope, the nly hope that
keeps mv heart from breaking! I >o you
think I could have lived through all these
fearful months, il my torture had not been
alleviated hv the thought that there was still
a chance of your escape, of my being an in
strument in effecting it. Ibis one precious
hope sustained me through everything, and
now that I see it so near fruition, it is y<>ur
hand that crushes it ! You are cruel, far
more cruel than 1 ever dreamed you could
be."
"Cruel, Kvelyn, and to you!" .Julian's
agitation nearly overpowered him. For a moment
he kept silence, uncertain what to say
next. At last, conquering his emotion by a
strong effort, he said in a gentle torn?
"Listen calmly to me for a few moments,
my own Kvelyn, and 1 will show you that it
is not caprice or obstinacy on my part that
makes me refuse to yield to your wishes. In
the first place, I do not believe, as you do,
that this attempt at escape would be successful
; and should it fail, as I have little doubt
it would, my treatment afterwards would be
fur more rigorous tlmn it is ai present. i
should probubly he denied the privilege of
seeing you, which is my one consoiatiou in my
solitary life ln-re. How much more forlorn
would my condition he, and yours also, if the
sweet comfort of your society were taken from
me! It would add tenfold to our unhappiness.
Kven were it possible, however, for me
to escape without discovery, do you think I
could act so unmanly a part as to fly in woman's
garb, and leave my wife to bear the
consequences of the act? Oh! Hvelyn, think
of it. Would it not he unworthy in me, unworthy
of your love, of your esteem, to show
myself such a coward ? Dearest love, urge
me no more. I f death is painful, dishonor and
disgrace are ten times harder to bear. Do not
distress me by vain entreaty, which pierces
my very soul, since I am forced to refuse it.
For your sake I would do much ; but this I
cannot do."
Kvelyn's head sank upon her bosom. Long
struggling sighs burst from her heart, while
she stood the very picture of despair. She
had exhausted argument; her prayers were
unavailing. What need then of any farther
attempt? She must submit to Julian's will,
give up her cherished hope, accept his doom
and hers, since he decreed it so. Her disap.......?,.r,
I,!((,.! ti ir t(MIP< lll>r ffl'll'f
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too profound for outward expression. I'as.-ivcly
she submitted to )Lilian's caresses, while in
teuderest words lie assured her of his unchanging
love, and strove to reconcile her to the
decision forced upon him. While he was trying
thus to console her and to convince her of
the necessity for acting as he did, the time allotted
for their interview expired, and weighed
down by this fresh sorrow, Lvclyn left the
cell and sought her solitary abode.
Ou the next afternoon ^he went, by appointment,
to meet John Lindsay, who had, in the
meantime, according to his word, completed
all the arrangements for Julian's Might.
"It is useless," she said, mournfully, as he
told her of his success. "All your labor, my
kind friend, has been in vain." And as briefly
as she could, she told him of her husband's
decision.
Lindsay pondered a moment, with a
thoughtful face. "I feared it would be so,"
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he presently replied, "and was not unprepared
for the emergency. Tell me, Mrs. .Morville,
have you >till courage to carry out your
scheme, in >pite of his opposition
"Conrace! I have courage for anything."
rejoined Kvelyn, "hut how is it possible that
that can lie dune ?"
"Listen," said Lindsay, "and I will till
yuli the expedient of which I thought."
Lone and earnest was their conversation,
and when Kvelyn parted from her confidant
and adviser, her step was almost as light,
and her expression as hopeful, as when sinhad
entered Julian's cell the previous day,
eager with the anticipations of success.
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Thursday evening eante.
( hitside the jail, just w ithin the courtyard
gate, two men were conversing. One was the
guard on duty, who stepped leisurely to and
fro on his heat, stopping each time lie passed
the gate to answer a question or make a remark,
while his companion, at present oil'duty,
lounged idly, with his hands in his pockets,
against the wall. The latter personage
was certainly not following the established
rule of the institution which employed his
services, in thus interfering with the other's
performance of his duty. Lot prison discipline
was a little lax just then, and none of
the higher otiicials were near, or likely to
discover the delinquency.
"l?y the by," said the idler, presently,
"Morville's wife has not been here as usual.
Tliis is luw tlav, isn't it
"Yes ; heard she was sick, or something of
the sort. I believe Lindsay said if she was
better she'd come this evening."
"Oil, that's it," said the other. " Thought
it must be something uncommon that kept
her away."
Scarcely had the words passed his lips,
when Kvelyn herself appeared. She wore a
louse cloak, and a silken hood was drawn
about her face, which was exceedingly pale.
As it was a cold evening, there was nothing
in this style of dress to excite surprise. IJoth
men raised their caps respectfully as she
passed.
"(mod evening, gentlemen," she said in
her sweet, silvery tones, as she bent her hoaii '
in resjionse to their greeting. And with a
swift step, she moved or ami disappeared beneath
the archway of the . .tier gate.
"Thai's the prettiest girl in California,"
said number one, in an admiring tone, when
she was out of hearing.
"And a plucky one, too, 1 take it," was
number two's rejoinder. "Ky.Jove! if I had
a wife like that to live Ibr, I don't reckon
these walls would hold me. long. I'd find some
way of cutting loose, sooner or later, he the
consequences what they might."
"Kasier said than done," laughed his friend.
"A fellow wouldn't care about jumping from
any of the windows, unless he was trying to
break his neck, and as to passing the gates?"
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in :i twinkling number two had disappeared,
ami number one, with ciict form ami solemn
face, was gravely pursuing his licaieii track,
as though notliintr coiihl ever tempt him to
deviate from it the length of an inch, or pause
an instant in his progress.
Meantime, Kvelyn was closeted with her
hushaml, and trying, though in a -tale of extreme
nervous anxiety, to conceal the appearance
of any unusual emotion, and converse
as naturally as wn< her wont. The Imur
passed, as it always did, all tootpiickly to afford
tlmm opportunity for what they had to
sav. 11 had hardy expired, when the expected
knock at the door was In-aid.
Kvelyn rose ipiieklv. "There is my summons,"
she exclaimed in a t remit Ions tone.
At the same moment, Lindsay entered, instead
of tlu* usual guard. .Julian looked up
in surprise.
"(lood evening, Mr. Morville," said Lindsay,
pleasantly. "I am taking my turn here,
to-night, you see?Johnson has gone oil'for a
couple of hours. Wait a moment, will you,
Mrs. Morville? I just want your husband
to look at something before you go."
lie unfolded a paper which he drew out of
his pocket, and setting a candle on the table,
placed a chair before it. "Head that, will you,
sir?" he said, addressing Julian, who immediately
sat down.
The light was dim, and the writing obscure,
and not easy to decipher. Julian bent low
over it, while Lindsay stood behind him, and
Kvelvn close at his side. The two last ex
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changed a meaning glance. Lindsay stooped
over the prisoner's shoulder, and made some
trilling remark, at thcsame tirnoquietly holding
a handkerchief near his face, nn perceived.
A subtle odor, emanating from it, suddenly
Seemed to penetrate his sense.
"What is that?" he qnicklv asked, turning
his head. It was the opportunity Lindsay
wanted. In an instant the handkerchief was
pressed closely upon .Julian's face, while confused
and astonished, he made an ineffectual
struggle to free himself. Soon his struggles
ceased, and his eyes closed?the chloroform
had done its work.
"(^uiek I" said Lindsay to Kvelyn, who
trembling and excited, was looking on half
in terror at the result of the experiment; "is
everything ready ?"
"Yes," said Kvelyn, at the same time unfolding
a long, loose dress of some dark material,
which she had brought in under her
cloak. This was hastily thrown upon the unconscious
Julian, and over it her cloak, completely
concealing his figure. Lindsay drew
off his hoots, substituting a pair of light walking
shoes, similar to those which Kvelyn wore;
then the silken hood was tied about his face,
which in its pallor and with the eves closed
was more like a woman's than a man's.
"Stand well out of sight as I pass through
the door," said Lindsay: and lilting .Julian
in his arms he bore hiiu quickly out, only
pausing to turn the key alter him, in the closed
door which made Kvelyn a prisoner.
"What's the matter?" asked one of the
guards as he passed. "She's fainted," was
the brief answer. "Stand back, stand back,"
and successfully passing every barrier, he
reached the carriage which stood in waiting,
placed his senseless burden in the arms of a
person waiting to receive it, and watched them
as they were driven rapidly away.
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^Uscrllanrotts iUailint).
' Tin: so i;t m: it x fool."
Vthlress by Dr. Ceorue W. Daaby before the
South Carolina Press Association.
Mr. President and (icnllcmcn of the Pre *?
Association ol Sooth ('uroitmi:?lYnnit me to
congratulate you on the restoration of voor
State goveintneiit. A bright day has dawned
iifu r a imig ami very dark night. .Much oi
your recent !t i 11 in|?li is due to your own stout
lii-arts, lull iniich inoiv to tin; disiurhcd condition
of tin- country. Had tin: volume of
business r< niaitii d unbroken, as from '(> > to
'7.'!. you would have been crushed like an eggshell.
and the negro and the carpet-bagger
would have relaiiieil power indefinitely. This
i> a discordant note, but it is the truth, and
by the truth we must live.
,l mi do not want, 1 am sure, the decorous
namby-pamby and the job lots of damaged
advice which make up the staple of the ad
dresses generally given on occasions like this;
and if you did, could not get them from me,
who know but little decorum and am but a
pool adviser. Kxlctnl tome, therefore, I pray
vou, the forbearance which is born of that
highbred courtesy for which South Carolinians
have been distinguished.
A pretty showing, indeed, I should make
were I to preach to the text chosen for me,
''Southern Journalism.'' Fancy me with a
Kichmond paper in one hand, and the average
rural paper ofniy State in the other, coining
lu-re to instruct the editors id South Carolina!
Comparisons arc odious, and 1 will
not make them. Although I have been alternately
the accoucheur and the undertaker
of newspapers in both town and country, and
although I have been the correspondent of
leading journals from Massachusetts to Texas,
1 confess to you frankly that I know nothing
about Southern jminialism. Yes, I do know
one single thing. 1 know that if the money
paid annually over the counters from Baltimore
to (ialvcstoii lor Northern papers which
abuse, or worse still, pity the Smith, were paid
to us we would all lie rich. Whereas the most
of us, like Hnglish curates and American insurance
agents, are but genteel paupers.
Knowing this, I lay down the dictum that no
people will ever he free, or deserve to be free,
who do hot support tln-ir home papers in preference,
and if need he, to the exclusion of all
otlu-r pa tiers whatsoever. How is that for
sound and high political science, and how
doi-s it coin port with your ideas of free trade?
11 v your gt acinus leave, then, I will drop
the subject of jotirnali^-tn and select Idr my
thesis " The Southern Foul." That is (juite in
my line of business. I am accu.-tomed to
handle that class of floods, and like a good
business man I stick to my last. Xe tutor,
'you know. And it may turn out that the
Southern Fool bears, I will not say a paternal
relation to, but has a connection with Southern
journalism much less remote than we
would have the public to believe. We shall
see. I Jut lirst a digression.
When a bov I was s?-nt to school in Princeton,
N. .1. The propriety of sending a lad
100 miles away from home niav well be ijueslioi.i
d. Certainly it may be doubted when
the money expended for his education is needed
in the State of his nativity, lb-fore Iowa
r, there might have been an excuse for indulging
educational whims, but what possible
excuse i- tlo re now ?
Dr. MeCosh says tlu-re are 80 Southern
-tod-nt- at Princeton; at Si00 apiece, that is,
Sd'2,000 a year; enough alnio.-t to support the
average Southern college. Are there any
tools aiiiuii^ us lor tiu> want of sense? lint
wo have no school equal In Nassau Hail. I>v
Northern eonf. ,-sioii we have a school heller
111si*i that, ami equal to any <>n this continent.
A hotti mv school davs in Princeton, 1 re
ineinher main liiines, hill this tiling csjiecialiv
? that tin- Soiithern hoys there taught
me, a hoi ot ten, to look ihnvn 11 j>? 11 the hovs
ot' the North. Was that wisdom or tolly'!
ami it lolly, was it eonlincii to liovs alone?
Are all such hoys dead now?
List tail I rcvLiieil New Jersey. It is a
lovely lai?iI. What, iami is nut in October?
"This Iami," said I to myself, "is not merely
lane. <1, it is < i vilizeii, it is ? nliehteneil in its
tin roiiyh en 11 n re." Hut I care not to live in
it. No. '1 here are people who would leave
Paradise to yo to Orange ('oilrlhouse, and 1
am one o|' them. I'well in a eounlrv where
tln ie ate no -as-alia- hushes, no sumac, nor
any hrhr patches? Never! Sir Julin Mai
colm tells of the astonishment and disgust of
an old I'ersian woman at hearing there were
no date trees in England. Live there? Not
she. No more could I live under a sky without
a buzzard. I could not if I would, and
would not if I could.
Yes, 'tis a beautiful well husbanded land,
and the people who dwell in it are a great
people, not yet in their prime, mewing still a
mighty youth?who that visited the Exposition
can doubt it? and with an inconceivable
destiny before them. We also of the .South
tire great?greater in defeat, in the grandeur
of self-restraint, (as you South Carolinians
have just proved to the confounding of your
enemies,) we are greater in defeat than in war.
Why cannot these two peoples come together
without gush, fanfaronade or mental reservation,
and be friends, be one people, absolutely.
All good men in both sections ardently desire
it. They long for it. There can lie no peace,
no prosperity, without it. Why cannot it be?
I do not know. Whv is it that no house is
big enough to hold one family after the eons
and daughters are grown ? Why must a
magnet have two poles,and what is the meaning
of this "inevitable quality which disects
all nature?'' A battery with one wire can do
no manner of work, and somewhy there is an
imperative necessity for two opposing electricities.
Just heaven ! can it be that the
world's work cannot be done without hate as
well as love and as much of one precisely as
the other? Bah ! These analogies are misleading?it's
all stud?the man's crazy. Say
you so? Then are we prepared to come flat
and plump to something practical, viz.: the
Southern fool?
The first Southern fool whom I shall notice
is the worst, for he is more knave than fool, a
hound whose hide I intend some clay to tear
off and hold his quivering carcass up to stink
in the nostrils of both sections. It is he, who,
having gone North and acquired money by
hook or by crook, mainly by crook, proceeds
to take unto himself all the glory and the
fame of the South, disowns her shame, evades
her suffering, and overwhelms us with his advice.
His advice, quotlm! Why doesn't he
comedown and put his shoulder to the wheel?
Advice! Upon inv word,gentlemen, gratuitous
advice: from a fool of this sort is the acme
of all meanness. It is the very inversion of
generosity, which naught impoverishes the
giver, but makes us poor indeed. m a
beggar give mo a handful of his rags? The
ligure is coarse, horribly coarse, hut not so
coarse as the fact.
It was a shoal of this kind of cattle (is that
Irish enough for you?; of these advice-givers
(Northern horn, though,) who swooped down
upon us after the war to teach us how to grow
cotton ami tobacco with machinery and free
labor. Tliey would hear nothing, for they
knew all things. The last nincompoop of
them failed ignominiously, and in my State
not a few of them discovered that in the simple
matter of cheating, any Virginia clodhopper
was more than a match for the shrewdest
Yankee. He made him pay three prices for
his worn-out farm, one third cash, and in a
year or so he took back the farm for the deferred
payments. The more the fool the Vir
ginian for this goose-ripping policy, but none
, the less a fool the Yankee.
; Prior to the war the Southern fool made his
wishes the measure of political events, and
sentiment served him in lieu of sense, lie
j believed in Hell and Kvorett (I voted for
| them ? none of my people shall be bigger fools
than myself,) in Fillmore, .John t oclirane,
Huller, Sickles. Hall! As it' the designs of
an army *11 I lj.. disco vend !iy ilw :t11i>11<11*
of |lie eh.iplains, tin; teamsters, sutlers and
hummers in the rear, instead of by watching
the movements of the vanguard. Is the
S Southern fool doing any better now ? Does
experience teach anything? Very little to
individuals, to nations nothing.
When the war broke nut, the Southern fool
b. gati by underrating the strength of his enemy,
by looking down upon the Yankees as
.lie Southern boys bad done at l'rineetou.
('omiiig to iiieiimoml alter the battle of Manassas,
with the body of a dead comrade, I
was told that a great Southern statesman was
in town. I hastened to him at once, for I
wanted to see ahead. "Mr. X.," said I, "the
papers tell us that Lincoln has called for 'J00,()H0
men." lie laughed a low laugh, leaned
hack a little, and said cheerily: "Oh! yes;
the Chinese raised a million, with gongs and
stink pots according, and ten thousand allies
marched straight to I'okm. l was greatly
comforted.
This Cliiiieso idea prevailed at Montgomery,
where, I am fold, the first order tor arms
was for nine thousand, possibly ten thousand
stand. Passing over the minor follies of re
taining incompetents at the head of grand
armies and elsewhere, passing over Lee's extreme
weakness in not holding his lieutenants
up to the sternest accountability, I come to
the capital mistake of the war. It was natural
the Southern fool should make it. A
handsome gentleman ? I can see him now; we
all remember him ; above the medium height;
a suit of black broadcloth, black satin vest,
felt hat, gold fob chain, gold-headed cane and
high-heel, high-top boots?a gentleman who
did nothing with his hands, and a good deal
with his tongue, thereby making himself Very
agreeable to himself. Hut there was one redeeming
quality about the fellow?he would
not take the lie?and he would light?would
snuff out your cephalic wick at ten paces, or
light you with anything from a toothpick to a
Columhiad. A fight to him was a five minutes'
affair, and if enough life was left in himself
or his enemy to shake hands, he was
ready to make friends, and there was an end
oii't. What was more natural than that lie
1.J LJi.om flint ?coe mnonf flcrlttitwr
."IM'UIU ??l III. **- UHU Mill I (I V ik 1 I l>
Ii was a fatal mistake, the cardinal error of
the whole struggle. War?nine-tenths of it,
at least, as Alex. II. Stephens said at the
time?is business, the plainest possible matter
of fact business?just such business as is done
every day bore on your wharves and streets,
only wit 11 more energy. Did any of you enter
the Yankee lines at the close of the war? I
did, and what did I see? I saw in succession a
team of mouse colored mules, a team id'creamcolored
mules, and a team ofsnow white mules,
six to a team, and all seal fat, (specimens of
the train, (the wagons brand new, and the
wagon cloths a deal cleaner than the shirt I
was then wearing. A little further on I saw
a corps of 20.(Hit) negroes, whose camp was
like a May ground when Merrie Kngh.nd was
in its prime. Why, gentlemen, war to this
people was pastime, it was orthotics and poetry
; and I can readily believe what has often
linen asserted, that the Yankee contractors
Would gladly have paid the expenses of both
sides in order to prolong the war indefinitely.
Ah! but they had the money. Yes, the
* i . " . . i .! : I
I>;i|u*r, whereas, we nan inc greaisiapics which
were absolute values, only we <1 i< 1 not have
the business sense to use them.
What is the relevancy of all this ? What
is the ii.-e cit' raking up the ashes of the dead
past? The war is all over?long, long ago.
Say you so, ami think you so? That is what
ails you siow. The wars of powder and shot
are in the warfare of life what the few hours
of lighting are to the long months of preparation
which make or mar a campaign ; and in
this life-warfare, as in the noisier and briefer
wars, you are to he saved by your strong,
hard business common sense, and that alone.
The end of the struggle at Appomattox was
hut. the beginning of another and much more
desperate struggle?the object of which is the
compicst of your most cherished ideas in politics,
religion and social order?the rearrangement
of the very molecules of your brain?
the facing about of your inmost soul?no loss, t
This is the new "irrepressible conllict, which, t
, like the ohl, will bring us all to grief, years i
hence. A twine of two-threads, scarlet and i
sable, State rights and slavery, was involved \
in the late "rebellion," as our considerate .
Yankee friends love to miscall it. One was t
severed completely, and, States rights man as \
I am, I would to (Sod sometimes that theoth- t
er had been definitely cleft in twain, for then 1
would we have been saved exceeding trouble
in time to come. t
The next form of Southern fool which 1 t
shall consider is the agricultural fool; what '
: I should call in Virginia, the tobacco worm, <
but in this State the Cottontot. (Jentlenien, f
there are Hottentots and there are ('ottontots. s
The oxides of years lie upon my geographic :i
memory, anil 1 am a little confused as to i
Hottentots and Tatagonians. 1 only know e
that they are extreme Southern people, and ]
that neither are famous as yet for intelli- t
gence. The Cottontot belongs to the same t
category. A Cotton tot 1 t ake to Do a person s
who, growing nothing but cotton, has to buy t
every earthly thing that he uses or consumes: <.
consequently rarely if ever saves anything,
and finds himself, at the end of the year, the x
property of his commission merchant?him- ?
self the property of the Northern man, for t
you'll look in vain to find a business which
does not have a Southern noodle at one end j
playing drudge for a smart Yankee at the /
other. The Cotton tot, I say, finds himself (
the property of his commission merchant, who f
don't want him?wont have him at any price, ,
and yet can't get rid of him without bank- t
rupting himself. A pretty exemplification j
of the vicious business circle all round, isn't ,
it? J
My friends, during the twelve years that ,
have elapsed since the war, at least thirty-six <
million bales (three millions a year i of cotton t
have been grown at the South. At 800 a t
bale, a low estimate, this amounts to sixteen t.
hundred millions of dollars. What has be- <
come of this enormous amount of money ? t
What benefit have we derived from it, and t
where has it all gone ? Thanks to the Cot- u
tontot, it has gone precisely where it came j
from, and beyond a mere support, we have I
derived no benefit from it. Is this to go on \
forever? Yes, as long as the C'ottontot policy t
is in the ascendant. J3ecause cotton is our f
money crop and because we liuve virtually t
driven East India cotton out of the market? i
M. Kivett Carnac, late cotton commissioner, |
having been forced, for lack of cotton busi- j
ness, to go into the holy opium trade. The t
Cottontot is again exclaiming "Cotton is t
King." Has he heard of the new Egyptian <
cotton plant, the "Hamia?" Not he, and if j
he heard he would not heed. Well, Cotton t
is King, in a sense. So is tobacco, so is tar, [
provided you have enough of either and it t
will fetch a good price. If tar was two dol- ;i
larsa gallon, and I held a million barrels, tar
would be king, and I would be a prince. But >
| if tar ruled at that price, there would be a t
j corner in tar in New York, and you and 1 ,
and other Cottontots would not own enough ,
to grease a cart wheel. |
The Cottontot is a lbol in various other <
ways?in the mode, for example, of buying ;i
his goods. There can be no plainer business (
proposition than this?that when a man has i
cheated and deceived you repeatedly, com- s
mon sense requires that you snail urop mm s
instantly and deal with hi in no more forever. >
Duty to yourself and your family demands i
that you should never forget and never for- I
give in this ease. And what is true in husi- [
Mi-f'g i? equally true in politico, i.< it not '? 1 ?ur ,
political life depends on your answer to this i
question. Hut what does your Cottoiitot do ? t
Coming to town and finding some ad venturer t
with a lot id' auction goods or a compromise <
stock, he quits tin; old established houses, s
well-known to him, and spends the very mon- .*
ey due to these houses, in buying trash and -i
shoddy from this adventurer. Finding him- t
self cheated again, he simply laughs, and (
says, "1 tell you these chaps are smart, they i
are kecners, they are;" hut if the old estah
lished lKiuse should so much as disappoint mm, ,
lie damns it as "an infernal unprincipled f
Yankee concern," ,
A n exceptional year comes and (lie ('niton- t
tot actually saves money. What does lie do t
with it?lend it to his poor and needy neigh- i
bors? Bless you, no. He is a Ibid, hut not .s
quite big enough fool for that. He wants his I
money where lie can lay his hands on it at (
any moment. Time was when a man's word ?
was as good as his bond, but now almost all ?
bonds are three times worse than any man's I
| word. So the Cottontot wisely carries this i
i money to bank, where he encounters another |
Southern fool, who pays him (J per cent, for :i
his money, and then lends it at 10 or 1- per I
cent , well knowing when he lends it that he |
is killing the business of the borrower. For c
what is a bank, rightly conducted? Ii is I
simply a heart, a pump, an aunie ram for re- s
.ceiving and forwarding the circulation. And *
...i...# .. < .. i ..r.. 1,1 i?. .
\> mil ii IIJIII Ul U LIMIL lirai I u W?n?. in ?
which would deliberately engorge itself, pro- v
(hieing vulvular disease, hypertrophy and i
aneurism at the expense uf the atrophy of the s
rest of the body ! Vet that is precisely what >
so many hanks are doing on a small scale and v
that greatest of all human dolts, the North, r
the hanker of the nation, has been doing on a t
grand scale. Kvcr since the war it has been n
stulling itself with circulation, taxing Virgin- 1
ia, with her three millions of hanking capital, v
seven millions annually, and New Knglaml,
with one hundred and sixty millions, only f
live millions a year, viewing all the while its e
withering Southern extremities with coinpla- (
cency and even delight, until at last engorge- I
merit has produced stagnation and paralysis. <:
To that and to that alone, not to any syntpa- I
thy for your troubles or admiration for your t
heroic endurance you owe your present release c
from bondage worse than death. Ii' now, in ><
true Southern fashion, you go about to gush s
because the iron hand is lifted for a moment, (
to fancy that human nature can become an- i
gelie in a day, to abandon common sense and v
common prudence, to forget the past, and to i
efface from memory the impressions which i
suffering has counter-sunk in it, and which |
should remain clean-edged and bright for at t
least half a century?if you do this, then are
you Cot ton tots indeed. J?ut you are not go- i
ing to forget. They will not let you forget. <
You little comprehend the drift of events if ?i
you fancy otherwise. t
Ah ! but the millenium is coming?is nlrea- 1
dy here. Oh ! yes, I have seen a number of d
millenniums in my time. They never last Ji
ten, and rarely seven years. Thanks to the v
President, who has done his duty, nothing "
more, an era of good feeling appears to be t
setting in, and so long as bis measures arc just I
and impartial lie ought to have, and doubt- |
less will have, the 1 H~> votes of the solid South
as often as he wants them. Put if in return *
for his arts of simple justice. Mr. Hayes asks r
us to break ranks before 1<S.S0, I say emphat- t
icnllv.nay! Hat it would be just like the <'
iv....* 'pi..... oi.i!i in iai:n i?>. >
i'UliJih i ui;> t?i hi; ii, i in > ?*17111 nt iwvj\, ?/v
tween Douglas and Hn-ekinand through n
the crevasse thus formed came the rail-splitter s
to deluge this laud with hluod. Will we re- o
peat that lolly ? "I shouldn't wonder." Hap- s
pi I v in the absence of the blows from the I
Radical sledge-hammer which have hitherto t
welded the South together, making it more a
and more solid everv year, we have that at our g
doors which will keep us in close order for v
many, many years to come. This perverse a
and stupid generation requires a sign, and I i
will give it to them. It is this: When .Mas- i
saehwselts shall have voted the Democratic c
ticket for live successive! years, then, and not r
i till then, will the color lino he really broken ; 1 t
hen, and not till then, may gentlemen vote
he lb-publican ticket; and for the South to i
livide he Id re that time would he tin? madiess
of the nuioii itself. This attempt to renve
the Whig party is, as the Popular Science ,
Monthly says of I'lensnnton's blue-glass hook,
he "ghastliest rubbish" of the century; and
vhen I see a Southern paper sucking a little
hiu postoliice advertisement pap, I am at a
oss whether to laugh or to weep.
To come hack to the Cottontot. The ferili/.ers
he buys in Charleston, almost double :
lie value of his crop. "Aba !" he exclaims, i
'they have stuffed the bags for me, hoping to
ateli me again. No you don't, Mr. Manuacturer,
you are mighty smart, but not quite
mart enough for inc. I've got you this time
md the next time you catch me you will know
t." < >r, neglecting his crop, he is disappoint*
(1 in his fertilizer; while his neighbors, using ,
irecisely the same article, and giving due at- j
entioti to their fields, more than realize their i
Miiiliwf pTMi'ftsitions. Whereat the Cottontot
wears loudly that his neighbors have been j
avored at his expense, and that he has been
;rossly swindled.
Here, then, is the source of nearly all our
voes?this Cottontot devotion to a single crop
ind the accompanying over-smartness. The j
ure is plain enough ; and it has been adrni- i
ably formulated by one of your city papers
n the aphorism, "Hrcud and meat first; cotton
ast." The mission of Southern journalism is
o put this motto at the head of every paper j
rom Norfolk to (Jalveston, and to keep it
here. I would print it in indellible ink on
he foreheads, tattoo it in the arms, and brand
tin the palms of the Cottontots. Hut the,
iress has not been idle in this good cause, for j
11 ready we see the effect of its labors. Mr. j
lohn Ott, one of the ablest, and certainly one j
if the most useful, men in Virginia, furnishes
is with this most cheering fact, viz.: "In 1876, I
he West packed 104,1)10,867 pounds less pork
ban it did in 1875. This is the reason asigneil
by Western journals: 'The provision
rade, owing to failing prices during most of
he year, proved less profitable than usual;
ind, on account of the political complications
n the Southern States, the demand for distri-,
jution has been for several months interfered
vitli.'" Oho! Mr. West, your excuse mehinks
is somewhat thin ; we are raising our
?wti pork ; that is the whole secret. Hut will
he cure just indicated suffice? I doubt. It
sa fact which the Press will do well never to
bigot that tiie increase in our provision crop
'? ' ? ?t._ i ? ,.e
S uue lUUCU mure iu nit; inw |m it;t; ui luuuu
li:in to the wisdom of the C'ottontot, and if
:otton again touch I'J) cents, he will drop
orn instanter. So would it be in Virginia j
f the low grades of tobacco should accidentally
double in value. There is, as I well j
mow personally, no cure for folly. 11 ray a
:ottontot or a humorist in a mortar, he will be
l cottontot or a humorist still. i
Cientlemen, we want to be friends with the
S'orth ; we want to win back, I will not say
heir love?grown men care little for each
titer's love?but we do want to win back
heir respect; and there is but one way under
uaven to do it. "Revenge! Tiniot belts
t ies," and I am for vengeance, immediate j
likI dire. 1 would not rob them of their mon-1
v as they robbed us of our slaves ; I would
tot have them suffer and be strong as we have
offered and are strong, and intend to be
trnnger, but I would inflict upon them that;
offering which brings not strength but weaktess,
namely the suffering of impotent envy. :
would snatch the last man of them baldtended
from taw, and go into the wig busings
to morrow morning. I would make evev
one of them gnash out every tooth in his
tpper aij< 1 lower maxillaries, so that I might
brlhwith lie canonized by dentists the North
"" i* ir> Sit Kr i I?\?i -n. This I
Ian.' is detestable, but do you know I like it. j
dang docs so pierce and grieve the small j
on Is of purists?the.-o pel He ma it res of litem-1
tire, with whom Shakespeiire and myself, who |
losoly resemble each other, never had and '
lever can have any patience.
M v friends, we are to win hack the respect
if the North just as the respect of every oth r
people is won, and that is by regaining !
ur lost wealth. Less cotton and more meat I
irst, and, second, manufacturing our own j
lotion. That is the solution of the whole
liflieulty. The first two pages of Adam i
Miiitli tell what advantage there is in manuaciuring
raw material, and, if you consult
'ol. Chilton, at Columbus, (Ja., or Col. I'alrnr,
at Columbia, S. ('., lie will give you the!
xaet percentage in our favor over the New
England inanufaeturers. Against their seven
notiths of consumption and live months of
induction, we have eleven months of work
mil only one, if that, of enforced idleness; |
iut if, on that account, we underrate the ;
lower of accumulated capital, the thrift, skill,!
nergy and daring of New England, we will
>e hut repeating the folly of a certain hoy at '
chool in Princeton. Xullum numen uient si
./ \\ it ofliin.d noaaililvr I ir? (nn i
IL jt! Ill IL ffltU. 1! t \.UillM/b |/</C0M'i| ?/v fcwv
vary in this life aud-deuth itiilnstrial struggle
villi a people whose capitalists are at this j
nomeiiI mapping out cotton and iron mill ;
ites in the South as minutely as the I'rusians
mapped out France previous to the late
vur. I>111 supposing we get rich, enormously
ich, as we ought to do, and in time most ceraitily
will, what then? Why every man of
is will pull up stakes as soon as the summer
it-gins and spend every surplus cent in Now
fork, Saratoga, Long Lranch and Newport.
Vnd who shall blame us, seeing how frightuliy
dull our own watering places are? Nevrtheloss,
nothing is more certain than that
icorgia and South Carolina are destined to
?e enormously rich. It is written in the book
>f fate that this noble commonwealth shall
lave recompense fur lier unparalleled aiilicituis.
And when you get rich I want you to
mnc to Virginia. I)o you ever think of the
;ood old State? 1 hope so. Your brothers ,
leop under her sod, and from that sod many
if you that are now living have looked up,
light after night, to the unanswering stars,
youdcring where you would he on the morow.
Yes, you remember Virginia ; you can
icver forget her. iter men are much too
rone to claim all glory for themselves and
heir State ; lint her women, have you no tcnlor
recollections of them in the hospital and
he home? Well, then, get rich quick and
mm! hack to old Virginia's shore. We have
;ot there the prettiest and sweetest girls in
he habitable world. This I say in a tone so
ow that only the long male ears of this aulience
can hear me. l?ut it is so. We have
;ot also a full line of the most bewitching
ridows that ever lightened mourning and
'took notice." Also, we have some females
hat are not so pretty. We do nothing by
in Ives in Virginia, and when we set about
reducing an ugly woman we put upon the
narkot an acute, penetrating, diffusive, per
asive, acrid and altogether ummoniacal vaiety
of hidcnusncss that nothing earthly can
otieh. Hut for pretty girls and widows you
an't go amiss. Thev are so thick in Ivich*
uoiid that, if you venture on the street with
n umbrella under your arm, and turn around
uddenly, you will knock down two or three .
f them. They have been waiting with the
weetest patience for the kings and princes of
hirope to come over and marry them, hut
he fools over there have gone to fighting,
nd I am afraid their patience and their few
food clothes will wear out together. And
thru 1 think of their bright eyes dimming,
.nd the roses in their nhoeks fading in old*
uaideiihood, it alnioat kills me. I can't
narry them ull-**would to goodness that I
oulit ? 1 have done all that the law allowed
no to do in this matter, and now I want you
o fjuil playing ('oltontot, get rich ipiick, and ;
come to Old Virginia and help me out in the
matrimonial line. We have a fine set of
young men growing lip and already grown,
plenty old enough to marry?blooded fellows?
that have gone to work, and, like rarehorses
at the plough, intend to break the
traces, hurst their hearts or make a deep furrow
in this hard old work-day world. They
would not object to marrying any man's rich
sister, but of all men's they would prefer a
South Carolinian's. Come, then, to the Old
Dominion?a fair exchange is no robbery?
and, by the gods ! the next generation or two
will see a race of men compared with whom
Washington and Calhoun, .Jefferson and
I'inckney were but teetotums ami murableI*g9
There is one other weakling to whom I
would like to pay my respects. I mean the
Southern politician, who fancies that he can
become a statesman by rejecting the acquisitions
of modern science, the application particularly
of biology to social problems, and,
confining himself to the old ruts, hopes to
make a little ill-digested history and the
speeches of a few eminent men of a bv-gone
age, serve in the stead of those general laws,
which, embracing matter and mind alike, enable
us to forecast the future and to foresee
not what we think we ought to be, but what,
in the nature of things, must inevitably be.
Time will not permit me to do more than
allude to this subject; but coming down to
immediate matters, I should say that the supreme
.Southern political fool is he who, in
fliia oKitmnl mnmnnf liic anettntl Tilni*t>4
confidence in any promises whatever made by
his party foes.
In conclusion, let mc tliank you for inviting
me to address you. No compliment is
more grateful to a Virginian than one that
comes from the people of Carolina, for here
he finds a passionate devotion to the State
which rivals, if it does not surpass, his own
State pride and love. Carolinians! do you
love your mother ? Docs a mother love her
aiHicted and stricken son ? Does a son love
the invalid mother, for whom lie sacrifices his
time, his pleasure and his hard-won earnings ?
Love her? He would die for her. Yea
more, he would live for her, would "lend her
half his powers to eke her living out.'* And
when the painful night watches are all over
and the patient sufferer is laid in that narrow
bed where there is no more suffering, the son
comes back from the grave, bearing with him
an amulet that no man may ever see, but
which will keep him unharmed through life.
Nay, henceforth a newer and more elevated
life, hallowed by self-sacrifice, is his. .So with
you, Carolinians. You have suffered as no
cultured people in modern times have suffered,
and, so sure as heaven, the steadfast love you
have shown to your murdered mother will
bring its exceeding great reward. You have
trodden the wine press alone. Ilere fell the
utmost fury of your enemies, and here came
the least sympathy of your friends, for was it
not said (the idiots have not yet stopped saying
it) that you "brought on the war?" The
wine press! Your State was the wine press
and your souls the grapes on which, for twelve
years, a mob of jeering devils, drunken with
excess of malice and of hate, danced to the
derisive laughter of half the nation. Twelve
years, four thousand days and nights of torture,
of shame, of humiliation for yourselves,
your wives, your daughters, your tender children.
Four thousand days and nights, and
to the proud and sensitive nature smarting
under indignity, every moment is an age.
linrke and I'itt lifted their voices in behalf of
the oppressed Colonies : the "loud cry of
trampled Hindustan" awakened the eloquence
of Sheridan, hut the Poland of America?
"Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe.
Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe !"
"Naked and desolate she stands,
Her name a h.v-word in all lands."
No man of commanding genius in either
branch of the National Legislature stepped
forth to plead her cause in words that might
have shaken both Continents and he quoted
for all time. Not one of the Northern poets?
those gentle beings whose hearts bleed at every
wrong from Tartar)* to Timhucloo?could
pen a line for Carolina. Gordon, of (ieorgia,
was your friend, good and true; and at the
last your advocate and champion was that
press which men aforetime loved to call Satanic?the
New York llcrnld?and the poets
who sang your wrongs were of your own
rearing.
Yes, Carolinians, you have been tried as by
fire, and by that fire the dross has been purged
away, leaving metal of proof only. I look to
see here a race of men nobler than any that
have gone before. Already from the llatnes
emerges a figure, calm, contained, majestic as
an antique bronze?a form to which all eyes
were lately turned in admiration, and in gratitude
that outweighed admiration, for he had
saved his country from civil war?Anaxandron
Agumenon, Wade Hampton, King of Men!
Happy the land that claims him as her Chief
Magistrate. Happy the Nation if he were
but its ruler. Having suffered all things, he
would see that no section, no State sutiered
needlessly. Having braved all tilings, lie
fears nothing; and having endured all things,
he would brook with equal patience the raahco
of his foes and the deadlier flattery of his
friends. Is it too much to hope that he will
take the place in Washington for which he is
so well fitted ? It may never be ; but the day
that sees him or some such Southern man installed
in power will bo the dawn of peace,
the end of the war.
Hut stay ; I am told that near at baud there
is somewhat to eat and drink withal. Come,
let us sacrifice the bird dear to Minerva, let
us boil the owl in Falernian or the Ctecuban
vintage, and, having dined on fools, we will
sup on concentrated wisdom.
A Floor of Silvfil?On the closing up
of a silver plating concern in New Haven,
preparatory to its removal to Meriden, the
floor of the plating-room was taken up, burned,
and the ashes analyzed, with the result of
procuring pure silver to the amount of 6981.
This result is not so strange as it appears at
first sight. The precious metals are capable
of extreme volatilization under heat, becoming
mere vapors, which may be condensed, resulting
in the nroduetion of the metal in a
r> i
pure form. But, even without heat, the particles
of gold and silver are made so exceedingly
tine in the process of the manufacture
of gold and silver goods, whether solid or
plated, that no devices for saving the material
abraded or thrown off in the various manipulations
arc entirely effectual. Kveu in
the government assay ollices. the soot deposited
in the chimneys from the melting of the
crude metal is valuable; and in most manufactories
of articles of gold and silver the
proprietors do not allow their workmen to
retain their work clothes when worn out, but
pay for them a price generally sullicient to
procure new garments?an old tattered vest
belonging to a bench workman sometimes being
valued by the employers, even when in
rags, at twenty dollars.
teaT1 Business in New Orleans already feels the
stimulus of present and prospective peace in
the State. The New Orleans Times, describing
the new condition of affairs, says : "A notable
feature in the new order of things is a
disposition on the part of nearly every one to
pay his debts, and recently extremely praiseworthy
efforts have been made in this diro?tion.
The building interest was perhaps the
lirst to feel the reaction, and the sales of slates,
building hardware and lumber and glaziers'
implements during the present week, would
compare favorably with any week in years."