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A PLEA FOB ?UR COUNTBY.
BIB. EDITOB: The heeding of thin
article would seem to indicate that our
country, our Stabs, mttrt be involved io
some great physical calamity, involving
a great deal of personal suffering, such
?uch as war, famine, pestilence. Do nui
be too hasty, kind reader. Thank God
none of these terrible scourges afflict any
portion of our common country ; arid the
little Palmetto State is peculiarly favored
in all these respect?. And yet the head,
ing of this article is peculiarly appropri
ate in the present financial condition of
our State. Debt, like a dark and lower
ing cloud, bongs over our people, ready
to burst at any moment in all ita fearful
consequences of bankruptcy and ruin.
That homestead and bankrupt laws may
in a thousand cases oomo in to the relief
of the debtor ciaos doesn't really mitigate
the fearful (rain of moral consequences
invariably resulting from a resort to these
doubtful expedients. Under tho old re
gime it was the proud boast of our littlo
State, and of our people as a community,
that we promptly paid our financial ob
ligations to the lost farthing. And we
were always able to do this beende it
-was a cardinal principle never to contract
a debt without a reasonable prospect of
prompt payment. Our rales of interest
were uniformally low, and our taxes
light. Our government and laws were
wholesome and invigorating to the entire
body politic. Our labor was the most
Htnble and reliable the world ever saw.
As a consequence of the war all these
necessary ingredients for a prosperous
State were completely overturned, and
our people left to the mercies of the piti
less storm, without rudder or compass to
guide them. With a bad government,
high taxes, high rates of interest and a
totally demoralized labor, no wonder that
to-day the farmers, thousands of them,
laborers and employees, find themselves
engulfed in the maelstrom of debt, una
ble to meet their obligations. The?*, in
??cir train, have involved hundreds of
our most liberal and patriotic merchants
?in tho same unfortunate predicament
nvitb themselves, and unless we are wise
Ibetimes utter financial ruin must over
whelm UH as a people.
We wish calmly to discuss the debt
question, without turning aside for a
moment to indulge in crimination or re
crimination. Indeed, we have no censure
for any class of our people in this unfor
tunate condition of affairs. None what
ever. While there may be an isolated
few in every community who care for
nobody but themselves, and care nut who
sink BO they swim, yet the great body of
our people, and especial^ all the leading
business classes sincerely desire the entire
prosperity of our State, andjuc nilling
to make great sacrifices to attain this
end. Creditor and debtor alike will
strive thereto. Tbe Legislature has
done all that ?fc can do, by giving us s.
?vholesouie usury law, such sn one as
stood on our statute booka during all the
years of our former prosperity. Our
representatives have shown, also, a de
termination to cut down expenses to'the
lowest possible minimum in amount, so
as to lighten the burden of taxation as
much os possible. By carrying out this
programme even to the verge of stingi
ness is what they ought to do, and is
what the people expect them to do. But
still there is a field of operations, the
most important of all, which the legisla
tor dare not enter, sacred only to the
cultivation of creditor and debtor. If
there ever was a time when compromise
and forbearance) between these parties
was necessary to enable our State safely
to pass the breakers ahead, that time is
the present With the enlivening pros
pect of a good government, with our
lc-or system gradually becoming more
and more systematized and productive,
it does seen that we have arrived st an
era in our financial history when it
would be'Vell to take soundings aud as
certain our exact condition financially.
In other words, let past indebtedness be
so adjusted between creditor and debtor
that' each may take courage, reasonably,
assured on the one hand that past in
debtedness will bs gradually but certain
ly liquidated, and on the other that tho
debtor will not be driven to the wall in
this his hour of extremity. Such a
course generally adopted, will ensure tho
old ship of State a safe passage through
the perils of the storm. This done, and
a very few year? will tell tho old, old
Bible truth, that tho road to prosperity,
for States os well as individuals, lies
through much tribulation. As aa illus
tration of the practical meaning of this
article, permit as *o recite thc terms cf
a settlement agreed upon nt Anderson
recently in a case of debt involving
thousands of dollars-probably a hun
dred thousand on tho creditor side, and
but two solvent debtors , on the other.
Tttn.i> KUliiJ.-,-1 ?V..S.....1. ?V.~!
-o-"-"~"---" t""t---r>
attorney to pay twenty-fire cents, on the
dollar, of past indebtedness, -^nd with a
representation of $38,?0O on tho creditor
side, '/ill present promptly decided to
accept the offer. One of these creditor
gentlemen, a farmer, told me th?twhe'4'
the proposition was made he reasoned
thus with himself : Give these debtors a
living chance; bear ye one another's
hui -throw, a ?rt */* MM U- of Christ
Take another. An old and highly ie
spec table merchant of this County-long
since dead-in his earlier commercial
history, fell in possession of tract after
tract of land from his neighbors, who
thoughtlessly. involved themselves so as
to force thom to give up even their
homesteads und migrate to frontier re
gions. After an experience of nearly
four score yearn, this gentleman declared
that it would have been better for him
to have compromised with them and
permitted them to remain in possession
of their homesteads, to still further con
tribute to his success as a merchant, and
to building up the country.
Of course, every CARO of indebtedness
I ha? its peculiar phase which rust cuter
j into the cou* {deration of a compromise ;
I hence, no oue but debtor and creditor
I can adjust it. Ltt our merchants always,
bj interest and iodination the fast, but
sometimes mistaken, friend of the tanner,
set th? ball in motion. It scarcely can
be denied by any observing man that the
direct cause of tho financial distress that
has overtaken us is the high rates of in
terest demanded first from tbs merchant
himself and next from the farmer. And
as these high rates of interest led to an
enormous disproportion between credit
and cash prices, eren a hundred percent,
in some cases, thus more and more erip?
piing the laboring classes, and increasing
at every step the hazards of the trade,
thus necessitating at every step an In
creased per cent to cover the risk; that
such a policy would ?srioualy result, as
it hes done, is not to be wondered at.
Indeed, it is the legitimste result of a
suicidal policy. Better at one single
blow utterly destroy the entire credit
system of our country, than to dream of
any Bubatar'ial prosperity for our 8tate,
under such a ruinous policy. So far as
agricultural advances are concerned, the
laws amply protect the creditor, so that
with low rates of interest he merchant
can afford to sell his merchandise at a
living rate to the consumer. Not buy a
pound of bacon at eight and nine cents,
and sell it on a credit for only a few
months at one hundred per cent. The
farmer, too, taking the cue from the mer
chant, at once advances the - price of his
corn from 75 cents per bushel, cash, iu
the spring, to 91.40 in the fall. Thus,
turning upon his o..i class, and extort*
ing ruinous rates o? interest from his
brother farmers, in the enhanced price,
simply because'it is common. And so
on ad infinitum. Where the laborer pros
pers, the laudlord will alike prosper, and
where the laborer and landlord both
prosper, tho merchant sees bis richest
and best trade.
T. H. B.
WOHA? IN ? ??ONRY.
An Address Dollvoro : iefore BScfclgad
Lodge, No. SO, Ancle ? (Tree and Accep
ted Masons, nt their ,*i Mlo Installation
In the City of Coramba., 8. C.. December
37. 1877, by Hon. T. J. Mackey.
WORSHIPFUL MASTER AND BRETH
REN OF THE MYSTIC TIE : We have as
sembled to commemorate in due form tho
installation of St. John the Evangelist
into the office of Grand Master of An
cient Free and Accepted Macons.. On
this anniversary, our brethren, wherever
they may dwell, whether amid the hum
tina stir of populous cities, or the quiet
af remote villages, gather around the
altar of our order to rekindle their Ma
sonic zeal at its holy and undying name,
while gratefully recalling the beloved
name and eminent services of our most
illustrious patron. From the frozen belt
of thc North, where nature glitters in her
robe of icy splendor, to the Indian isles
of balm, where the-palm tree waves its
feathery leaves above streams that flash'
in the fanlight of everlasting summer,
tba prayers and praises of Masons are,
??jcciidi?iK ?hi;, day to M.? Sup?e?iO Arch
itect of the Universe, without whose aid
the wisest designs of man are but as bub
bles upon a troubled ocean. The mystic
cord o! Masonry weds the islands and the
continents to-day I Men ot all races and
tongues are communing in its universal
Language,
"And round tho world ilia thought of all
ls as the thought of one."
Before pro. soding with the special sub
ject of this address,. I desire, as in har
mony with ita" purpose, to review briefly
the character and career of him whose
festival we here celebrate. The pages pf
sacred history, the traditions of Masonry
and of the Christian Church furnish the
sources of our information upon this in
teresting theme.
St. John the Evangelist was the son of
Zebedee and Salome, und . was born about
the year of our. Lord four or five. He
was the youngest of .the dizciplca. There
is a tradition in the church that he was
the bridegroom of the marrriage at Cane,
in Galilee, the occasion of tho first mira
cle performed by Christ, where "The
conscious water saw its God and blushed."
He was by occupation a fisherman. Wo
learn but little of him until near tho
close of the Saviour's ministry and Ute,
when he had conferred upon bim the
most lofty and benign distinction of
being "that disciple whom Jesus loved."
At tho last simper he war the disciple
who was "leaning on Jesus' bosom"-a
posture in tho ancient modo of reclining
at table that was considered as e??ark or
the highest respect and confidence. It
waa to him that Jesus In confiding friend-,
ship pointed out by a sign the disciple
who should betray him. His specially
confidential relation to his Divine Master
was evinced by the fact that when Christ
had said to his disciples, "Que of you
shall betray die," "Simon Pc-ie? beckoned
to him that he should ask who it should
be of whom he spake." . He was tho only
disciple who with the courage of faithful
love dared to titeud his beloved Master
to the cross,'and he it was to whom Jeans
referred when in his final agony he ad
dressed to hia mnthflr.thfl warda "Wo.
man, behold thy Son l" And lastly, he
was the first disciple to reach the sopnl- J
ch re after Mary.- Magdalen bad an
nounced that "they have taken away the
Lord out of the sepulohre, and wo know
not where they have laid him.". The
blended qualities of gentleness and cour
SKo CA?MU?VC? lu iuu cu or ?ever ut iuvt
apostle fur^jijn a striking illustration of
a fact often observed ia the battle field of
life-that
"The bravest are the tenderest, ..
Th? loving are the daring."
St, John tho Evangelist mas* have
been as pre-eminent among his compeere
for bis eloquence as bo was for the gen
tler virtues, since we are informed by
the apostle Mark that he, sod bis broth
er, james, tho Great, were entitieu by
th sir rnsste?, Bo???rgco, or "ino Sons ol
Thunder," to indicate their power aa
orators. " _
In the reign ot the Roman Emperor
Diocletian, about the year 92 of tho
Christian era, John was banished to the
Isle or Patmos. where he remained for
seven year?, and wrote that awfully^ sub
lime and mysterious work, tho Apoc
alypse or Book of Revelation".
Trom the building of tho first temple
of Jerusalem, one thousand years before
Christ, down to the Babylonish captivity,
Free Masons' lodges were dedicated So
rKing Solomon; from thence to the com
ing of the Messiah, they wei* dedicated
to Zcrubbabel. the builder of the second
temple; and from that ti too to the final
destruction of the temple by the EOAiau
General Titus, at tho fall of JcrusaWOi,
!? tho >c*r V3, they were abdicated to
??%. John tba Baptist 0wico t*> the
raanj massacres nod disorders which fol
lowed that appalling and memorable
event, Free Masonry Bunk'very much
into decay. Many lodges vcr? entirely
broken up, arid but few could meet in
sufficient numbers as required by the in
dent constitution of the order. At a
general meeting of the craft, ! eld at the
city of Benjamin, it was concluded that
the chief cause of the decline of Masonry
waa the want of a Grand Master to pre
side over the order. They therefore de
rated seven of their members to wait
upon 8t. John tho Evangelist, who wes
then Bishop of Ephesus, and request him
to accept the office of Grand Master.
He returned for answer, that although
well stricken in years, being upwards of
ninety, yet having been Initiated into
Masonry in early life, and being deeply
concerned for the welfare of tho order,
he would take upon himself that respon
sible office. He thus completed by nis
learning and noble example what the
other St. John had ?riectea by bis seal,
and thereby drew what Free Musons
term a "line parallel." Since Aat period
all Masonic lodges throughout Christen
dom are dedicated to St. John the Bap
tnt and St. John the Evangelist, by the
title of the "Holy Saints John."
According to Chrysostom, (the golden
mouthed,) who wrote in the latter part of
the 4th century, St. John tho Evangelist
died in the city of Ephesus, in tho year
of our Lord 126, at tue age of 120 years,
havinf survived all the other apostles
near'', fifty years, and performed bis
apostolic duties for almost a century
from the time that he became a disciple
at the age of 26. To this seemingly un
cultured fisherman the world is indebted
for the most simple, sublime and porfect
definition of Goa ever penned by mortal
hand. For thousands of years the attri
butes of Deity bad been the subject of
the prophet's deepest meditation and the
poet s grandest song. In tho beautiful
Theogomy of Hesiod, in the starry splen
dor of Homer's immortal pages, in the
teachings of the divine Plato, the lessons
taught oy the God-like Socrates, or the
treatises of the profound Aristotle, we
seek vainly for a definition of God which
at onco satisfies the judgment and the
heart of humanity. It remained for this
Galilean fisherman to syllable the unut
terable longing of the humas soul by
proclaiming that "God is love I"
There are moments in the life of every
man when he /eels himgeif nearer the
Great Spirit of the Universe, and in such
. moment must ' the Evangelist have
caught these words from voices of tbs
unseen land, that cat. ? to. him in the
still watches of the night, in the hushed
calm that brooded over his lonely boat aa
it rose and fell on the blue waters ol
Galilee, while tho starlight of Judea
gleamed bright on the hills of hci
becnty.
It may .well be asked, "why is it thal
an order which boasts such an exemptai
of its principles as St. John the Evangel
ist should rigidly exclude woman from itt
folds, and while inscribing the golder
words, faith, hope and charity, on -he
walls of its lodges, still denies all ap
preach to its altars to the sex which ic
iud Walks of daily life practically illus
trates those words in their highest Bonse'
The reason for this exclusion cannot bi
found in any supposed intellectual info
riority which unfits woman to rightly
understand the symbolic science of Ma
sonry, or in any known incapacity on he
part to practice its tenets. All histor]
and individual experience would alik<
rebuke such an erroneous assumption
From tho days of Semiramis, the re
nowned queen of Assyria, whose geniu
;?3au? Babylon the glory ot the East uni
adorned it with structures of euch ata
pendons magnificence as to? be* classer
among the wonders of tho world, womat
has attested her capacity to sway "th
rod of empire." ana to administer sue
cessfully the governments of mighty na
Lions. Tho Sictoric stsdsnt will rec?!
the triumphant r. gu ol Isabella of Cai
tile, the friend and liberal patroness c
Christopher Columbus; thc reign c
Queen Elizabeth, justly termed the go!
den age of England ; the reigns of tb
two Catharines of Russia, ano of Quto
Anne, while the English-speaking rac
are proudly beholding at this day tb
happy reign of the Empress-Queen, tb
good Victoria. In the realms of though
the broad field of letters and of art, w<
man- has gemmed her coronal with tl
most i brilliant achievements. Indee?
the cultured Greeks symbolized the
highest 'conception of mental power i
tho form of a woman, and Minerva wi
at once tue Goddess of Wisdom, of Sc
emilie War and of the Liberal Arts.
But it may be suggested that the e
elusion of woman troca the Mason
lodge is due to the supposed inability
her sex to keep a secret. This suppo;
tion is grossly erroneous, and unjust
impeaches both the sagacity of Maso
ana the honor of woman. - In all ag
woman baa been peculiarly distinguish
for her unswerving fidelity to every ho
orable trust, and tho annals of mankii
attest that no good cause ever met
betrayer io a woman.
"Not she with tralt'rous kiss her Savio
' Btung;
Not abo denied him with unholy tongi
She, whlla apostles shrank, could dane
brave;
Lsat at his cross, and earliest at his gravi
Women, indeed, are the secret-keep
of the world. Every woman's ear t
confessional, differing, however, from t
confessional of the Roman Catho
Church, in this, that while in the lat
the penitent confesses his sins, in t
former mau usually proclaims his virtu
real br affected. But woman has aires
been tested, and has proved herself as
_4_JI__ -if _..1--_. -
MunMTuutu va JUWDUUIV ocrcicm.
Two women have been initiated ii
Vie mysteries of ancient craft Mason
and by their characters and conduct
fleeted honor upon the order, whose m
sacred laws exclude them from ito rn?
bership. These two cases, howei
stand alone, and famish to Masoni
startling episode in the history of tl
order, whose inexorable aalic law \
thus violated. The circumstances un
which those initiations took place
stated by the highest Masonic anth
? tics to have been as follows:
In the year 1786, the Hon. Elltafa
St. Leger, the daughter of Visco
Doneraile, received the first and sec
degrees of Masonry in Lodge No. 44
Doneraile, in Ireland. The Lodgi
which she wss initiated was comrx
chieny of the nobility and most res]
table inhabitants of the country aro
Donersile. Its communications t
usually held in the town, bnt during
Mastership of Lord Doneraile. ui
whom his sister , was initiated, it mi
his Lordship's n?rfdence. During on
tho meetings of the Lodge at Donoi
House, Mb? St. LegeV, then 22 yea;
age. stationed herself in ? room adja
to the Lodge, ?md after removing a
tion of a brick ?rom the partition i
with a pair of seizors, she placed he
so as to command a full view of all
transpired in the Lodge, and adi
saw and heard all that was done or
ia the conferring of the first and ie
degrees in Masonry, which was tbi
tent of the proceedings on that n
Becoming aware fron? what she fa
that the brethren were about to sen?
She for the fini time folt tromVli
?lire to the awkwardness ead danger of
her situation, and began to consider how
she could retire without observation.
She ?-ecame nervous and agitated, and
nearly fainted, but so tar recovered her
self aa to be aware of ?be necessity of
withdrawing aa quickly as possible. In
the act of doing so, being in the dark,
she stumbled against end overthrew a
picic of furniture ; the crash was loud,
and the Tiler who stood on the lobby or
landing, guarding the entrance to the
Lodge, at once gave tho alarm, burst
open the door of toe room in which Mise
St. Leger was concealed, and with a light
in one hand and bis drawn sword in the
other, confronted the now terrified and
fainting lady. He was soon joined by
other members of the Lodge, and, it ts
asserted, that but for the prompt appear
ance of her brother. Lord Doncraife. and
other prudent members, she would nave
paid with her life the penalty of what
was then esteemed her great crime.
The first care of the. brethren present
was to resuscitate the unfortunate lady
without alarming the household, and en?
deavor to procure from her an explana
tion of what had occurred. Having done
so, they placed ber under guard of the
Tiler and another member in the room
where she was discovered. The mem
bers re-assembled in tbe Lodge and de?
liberated as to what, under the circum
stances, was to be done, and for two long
hours she could hear the angry discus
sion upon a motion deliberately made and
seconded that she should be put to death.
At length the good sense of the majority
succeeded in calming the angry and irri
tated feelings of tho members, when,
after much had been said and many
things proposed, it was resolved to give
hor tho option of submitting to the aim*
sonic ordeal to the extent she had wit
nessed, and if she refused the brethren
were again, to consult. Being waited on
to decide, Miss St. Leger unhesitatingly
accepted tho offer, and she was accord
ingly initiated, and the degrees of En
tered Apprentice and Fellow Craft were
conferred upon her. She subsequently
married Richard Aldwortb, Esq., of New
Market, and waa .known and designated
among Masons as "Sister Aldwortb.'' In
a memoir of this lady, published at Cork,
in the year 1807, it is stated that, "placed
as she was by her marriage with Mr. Aid
worth at the head of a very large for
tuna, the poor in general, and the Ma?
essie poor in particular, had good reason
to record her numerous and bountiful
acts of kindness. Nor was her charity
accompanied with ostentation-far from
it; it bas been remarked of her that ber
custom was to seek out bashful misery
and retiring poverty, and with a well di
rected liberality to eootbe many a bleed
ing heart,"
The only other instance of the initia
tion of a woman into Free Masonry is
recorded by that distinguished Masonic
writer, Clavel, in his admirable work,
the History of French Masonry. In the
year 1796, in the city of Paris, a Masonio
Lodge, presided over by Brother Cuvelicr
do Trie as MssiO?-, having ope&sd in the
first degree, among the visitors who
waited in the. ante-chamber and desired
admission was a youthful officer ic the
uniform.of a captain of cavalry. His
Masdaic diploma or certificate was re?
quested of him by the member deputed
to examine visitors for the purpose ol
having it inspected by the Lodge. Aller
some little hesitation, the military
stranger banded the member a folded
paper, which was immediately carried
to the Orator of thc Lodge, who, on open
ing it. dir covered that it was the com
mission of an aid-de-camp, which bad
beon issued by the French Directory to
the wife of General de Xantrailles, a
lady of the highest culture and refine
ment, who, like many of her sex In that
revolutionary period, had donned tbe
masculine attire ana bad won military
{?referment at the point of the sword on
he field of battle. When the B&cfe ci
the ?uppo11^ Masonic diploma was mode
known to the Lodge, great, indeed, was
the surprise expressed.' But the mem
bers were Frenchmen-they were exci
table and they were gallant, and, conse
quently, in a sudden and exalted fit ol
enthusiasm.- which, as Masons, we can
not excuse, they unanimously deter
mined to confer the first degree of Ma
son ry on the brave roman who had sc
often exhibited every manly virtue enc
to whom her country, on more than one
important occasion, had committed trust;
requiring tho greatest discretion and th)
loftiest courage. Madame de Xantrailles
was at once made acquainted with thi
resolution of the Lodge, and hh? r-?pl'ed
"I have been a man for my country, an<
will again be a mon for my brethren.1
She was forthwith 'introduced and initia
ted as an Entered Apprentice, and re
pea ted ly afterwards assisted the Lodge ii
ita labors in the first degree.
The reason, then, for the exclusion a
woman from the Masonic Lodge canna
be found in any supposed want of ia
tellectunl fitness or iuability to preserv
inviolate secrecy on her part. It mut
be sought for where alone it can b
found, in tho origin and primitive chm
actor and design of Masonry itself, an
just1'ce to our order demands that j
should be fully, theoga ?grvLfullj
made known. Women are exclude
from the precincts of our lodges, nut bc
cause we" would, but because wo mus
As masons we recognise the nobility <
her nature, and honer her. lofty virtue
not only while wo are assembled in tb
seclusion of the lodge, behind the myst]
veil which conceals from the eyes of th
profane that "Hieroglyphic bright wbic
none but craftsmen ever saw," but in th
world's great arena,
"Where manhood struggles for the sake
of mother, sister, daughter, wife,
The graces and loves w?tch make
The music of the march of life;
And woman, in her daily round
Of duty, walks on holy ground."
Our ancient landmarks, however, ii
oxorably deny us the privilege of belt
associated with her in the labors of tl
lodge. These landmarks are the ni
written or common law of Masonry, d
rived from the ancient customs of M
sons and the decisions of the highest M
sonic tribunals, which, like "the laws
the Medea and Persians, change not."
It is declared in one of our most vent
able landmarks, which forms a part
the irrepealable organic law of Masoni
that "the persons admitted members
a lodge must be good and true men,
mature as?, free born, no bondmen,
woman, and under the tongue of go
report." This exclusion of worn
sprang D*turally fros: the fact that il
sonic lodges were at their origin coi
posed exclusively of operative masoi
practical mechanics.
We are informed by the most reliai
writers on the history and traditions
tbe order that it originated at the hui
ing of King Solomon's temple? wh<
183,000 workmen were employed
seven years In tho construction of tl
magnificent edifice, dedicated to the wi
ship of Jehova. These woef.raen wi
drawn from macy nations, and were ii
separated from each other by their ?ur
customs and languages. They were
under tho supervision and direction
Hy ram of Tyre, the widow's son, a gr
and good man, illustrious alike for
virtues and wisdom, who, we are told
Holy Writ, was "Tb? eon of a womat
?;.?;> - ? . ': - '.:."'//"'?
tho daughters cf Dan, whose father was
a Tyrian, who kuoweth how to work ia
gold and in silver, io brass and in iroo,
and in marble, and in timber, in purple
also, and violet, and silk and ?cari rt, and
who k&oweth to grave all aorta of grav
ing."
A large proportion of the skilled work?
men were also Tyrian*. Tyre was then
io the meridian of her imperial splendor,
whoa "her merchants were princes" and
ber daughters the queens of the earth.
She was at that time the chief seat of the
Dyouyaian mysteries, whose leading fea
tures were the commemoration of tho
death and r?surrection of Bacchus.
Those mysteries were chiefly celeb rat od
by an organization known then, and even
down to the sixth century of the Chris
tian era, as "The Society of Dyoolsiao
Architects." That society was doubtless
the prototype of the order of Free Ma
sons;
To blend in one harmonious whole the
varied and diverse elements that com
posed the vast multitude engaged in
building tbe temple, and thus more effi
ciently to direct their labors to the same
common end, as well as for purposes of
moral government and mutual instruc
tion, and to perpetuate in after years
social ties that had their birth among
men long associated in the construction
ofthe grandest monument of human skill
tho world had ever known. Hiram insti
tuted Masonry and the Masonic lodge,
and was its first Grand Master. Upon
the tragic death of the Master, soon after
the completion of the temple and beforo
its dedication, King Solomon was elected
Grand Master, and he invested the work
ing implements of the operative mason
with their present character as mond
symbols. These implements, for pur
poses of symbolic instruction, TTS rs
termed jewels. The order, however, re
tained its operative character, ana as
there were no women among the ancient
architects, and as the gentler sex were
unfitted by tbe delicacy of their structure
from performing the severe labors uf tho
operative mason, woman was necessarily
excluded from the original organization.
The rule which required that exclusion
then operates with undiminished force
now, as it is irrepealsble, and Masonry,
as a symbolic institution, must continue
to obey the law of its being derived from
the operative art. Masons, however, are
taught' to cherish profound respect and
tender regard for woman ic all the rela
tions of life, and the mother, wife, sister
and daughter of the Mason are' the sub
{eels of their special care and moat kind
y guardianship. We esteem it as a pri
vation that our lodges are not brightened
by the halo of woman's nameless graces,
and that her presence, which would add
uew lustre to our jewels, is not permitted
to cheer our weary workmen in their
labors or to give exquisite zest to their
hours of refreshment.
I have said, Worshipful Master, that
woman, in the walks of daily life, sym
bolizes the divine idea of charity, that
holiest principle of human action, by
wbich all considerations of self are sub
ordinated to the benign purpose of siding
the poor and needy, and relieving ? the
sorrows of the suffering. No more beau
tiful exemplification of this noble princi
piabas been furnished in our time than
is illustrated by tbe beneficent institution
In whose behalf Richland Lodge. No. 39,
invokes the aid of the charitable, and
liberally gives its own through this pub
lic installation of its officers.
The Palmetto Orpht.n Home is hot t
Masonic institution, but it nobly illus
trated t st charity which is the keystone
oi the Masonic arch. Founded a fee
years ago, by a few ladies of exalted
worth tin the city of Columbia, it hai
been sustained through their unceasing
efforts by private contributions, sough
and obtained by them in the midst o
public calamity fros our citizens. Ii
sprang fros* a dire necessity wbich de
mended that instant relief which privat?
charity then alone remained to give. Ii
the streets of the capital and in our vii
leges were seen wandering the unbouset
children of the dead Confederate soldier
the sky of heaven only above their an
co >red heads, and the public highwa;
alca beneath their travel-worn foot.
"Homeless near a thousand homes the;
stood.
And near a thousand tables pined fo
food."
Their fathers went forth in obedienc
to the precepts of the Stace, and died ii
defense of its honor. They fell on field
shot-sown, sud bladed thick with steel
They planted the palmetto flsg cf S?6?
Carolina on many a hostile battery'
Brooking guns, and have left nothing be
bind them but hocorablo memories, an
these tender plants that sprung up nen
the farrows made by the red ploughshat
of war.
The Palmetto Orphan Home furnishe
to-day tho only sheltering roof for man
of these children of our unforgotten deac
It has clothed, fed and educated fifty-or
of these orphans during the past fh
years, consisting of thirty-seven girlann
fourteen boys. There aro now two nt;
three inmates bf the Home. On arri vin
at a suitable age, the boys ara bound (
trades, and proper homes and avocatloi
.are obtained for the ?iris. Many mo
deserving applications fe; 1
the Horneare necessarily refused tbrout
.sheer want of means to support any ado
donal number of inmates. The distil
guished superintendent of the Home, E
J. W. parker, the eminent physician. Il
Tetley, thc worthy treasurer, t't. B. ]
j Bryan, antkthe noble matron, Mr.? Lyne
! all serve without pecuniary campeos
? don. It is not s merely local institude
I for Chester bas furnished twelve of tl
inmates, Barnwell si?, Fairfield six, Ne'
berry five, lancaster three, Lexingt<
one. Union one, and Richland seventec
while the contribution for its suppc
have been derived, mainly from citizc
of Columbia.
In this, the hour of its greatest nee
th? friends of the Palmetto Ofohan Hm
appeal to the Sta te for aid tb maints
its present inmates, and to enable it
extend its sheltering care over mai
other needy applicants of the same cl?
who require speedy succor. Shall tb
appeal in vain ? Shall it be truly sa
that twelve years after the war, wh
Wada Hampton rated in redeemed Sou
Carolina-Hampton, the Sir Philip 0
ney : of America, tbs "??celltis cf t
Sute-the orphan children of the m
who followed where the plume of Han
ton led in the path of honor, vainly 1
peal to the State to furnish them w
one mansion,: beneath whose roof tl
may be sheltered and trained during 1
Sender years of their infancy ? Shall <
home be denied to the orphans of tb
who Buffered or who died to save.)
homes of all? .
Pile,-if you will, memorial granits ;
marble to do well deserved honor to
Confederate dead. Let your menura
tal shafts sentinel the white sands el 4
coast 1 Let them greet from afar the
of the mariner in the fading rays of
setting san, and blush with the firet 1
of morning, but wbilo thees celebrate
fitt'ogly your gratltudo to the d<
neglect not to give some worthy tokei
your charity for the. living! If tl
orphans of our Confederate dead sr<
appeal in vain to the P?ate for the
they so greatly need, then may. they 1
exclaim in tbe language of Scripture,
white viewing the lofty columns that
commemorate the causa !s which their
fathers struck and died, "We asked for
bread, and'ye gave usa atone." "But
South Carolina is free" again, 1
"Free as the winds that winnow
Her shrublesa hills of sand,
i Free as the waves that batter
Along her yielding land."
And in tbe garments of her beauty
thero will surely be found some fold in
which to shelter these helpless orphans
of the State.
SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1877.
Notable Event? In the Stat? buring- th?
Past Year.
Frvmx lae ChorUtitm Nnc4 and Owrie*, Jitmtary lit
JANUARY.
2d. Governor Hampton issued his proc
lamation calling for a payment of ten
per cent. ?n the taxes.
8d. Unusually cold weather. Ther
mometer down to 22 degrees
4th. The State Senate compromise
committee met, and failed to agree on a
Slan for the settlement of the political
faculties..The third unsuccessful at
tempt made to burn the town of Darling
ton.
6thf?The tax-payers of Colletpn inaugu
rate a series of mass meetings, subse
quently held in avery county, pledging
support and payment of taxes to the
Hampton Government.
8th. Emancipation celebration in
Charleston......Mass meetiegs of tax
payers throughout the State pledge sup
port to Hampton.
9th. The collection of the 10 per cent,
tax assessment begun.
10th. Democratic ticket elected in
Port Royal.
ll. Governor Hampton anuounces bis
appointments of collectors of the 10 per
cent, assessment.
12th. Riot in Marion, caused by an at
tack on a colored Democrat-several per
sons wounded.
18th. The Lowndesvillo murderers con
victed at Abbeville by a partially colored
jury.
26th. The motion made bcfoio the Su
Ereme Court for au injunction restraining
lardoso and Dunn from paying out the
State's money, which, waa subsequently
grausoa.
20th. The quo tcarranto against the
Hayes Electors for thia State dismissed
by the Supreme Court.
29th. Judge R.B. Carpenter's famous
decision declaring Chamberlain Governor
defacto died.
28th. Holloway, a colored Radical trial
?ustice, shot and Killed at Timmonsville
>y unknown parties.
GOth. Governor Hampton issued a par
don, which was subsequently recognized
by Judge Mackey, to a prisoner in Ches
ter jail.A prisoner released by the
sheriff of Aiken.on Governor Hampton's
pardon.
FEBRUARY.
2d. Governor Hampton removed the
Chamberlain coi? tty auditors and treasu
rers.
6th. Judge Carpenter grants injunction
restraining Cardoso from paying out State
funds.
7th. State Grange meets.
8th. Ex-Solicitor Runkle blows his
brains out at Columbia. . .
9th. Martin Farquhar Tupper lectures
in Charleston.
10th. Goveruur Hampton gives $1,000
to relieve the colored Orphan Asvlnm,
nth. Longshoremen's* riot in Charles
ton. Several persons injuicd.Gov.
Hampton commissioned his first militia
officer.
16th. Senator Cochran acquitted of the
murder of young Dent at Columbia.
20th. Grant's order issued forbidding
the South Carolina militia to parade in
honor of Washington's *>Irthaay, and
Gover?o.' Hampton issue* rs proclama
tion relativo thcieto.
21st. Grant burned in effigy at Sum
merville.
22d. Annual raceMng of the Washing
ton Light Infantry, " jd reception of the
visiting committee from the Clinch Rifles
of Augusta......United States flags dis
played at half-mast and in ' mourning in
Columbia......Chief Justice Moses strick
en with paralysis.
27tb. Fifty thousaud dollar fire in
Camden.Associate _ Justice Wright
signed order releasing Tiida Norris under
Hampton's pardon.
28tn. Riot by negroes on Combahee.
BJotera subsequently captured by militia.
il ARCH.
1st. Wright attempts to recant his ac
tion in the Tilda Norris case.
2d. Associate Justice Willard decides
that Wright's recantation is illegal, and
Tilda Norris is released. Wright myste
riously disappears. Judge Mackey form
ally recognises Hampton as Governor.
6th. Receipts of the Hampton govern
ment published, amounting to $120,
Ki.77.
7th. Judge Shaw officially recognizes
Governor Hampton.
8th. One hundred and .?'ly thouiaud
dollar fire at Newberry.
18th. Tutige Reed orders the jailer of
'Charleston County to receive a prisoner
o idsr tbeecsur.itmentof R. Chisolm, Jr.,
one of Governor Hampton's trial justices,
the jailer having previously refused to do
so.
14th. Thomas J. Counts, Democratic
nominee for State Senator from Barnwell
County, elected.......Associate Justice
Wright reappears in Columbia.
16th. Adam Joh naen, N-dson Brown,
Lucius Thomas and John R?:nry Dennis,
the Hausmann-Portman murdera-a. hnne
at Aiken.Governor Hampton begins
thc organization of the State constabula
ry.
20th. Judge Reed decides that Hamp
ton is Governor, and the Chamberlain
trial justices collapse.
2?tb. Two incendiary fires, destroying
much valuable property in Greenville.
Loas?w^?uo.
27th. Governor Hampton leaves Co
lumbia for Washington to confer with
the President by bis invitation, and is
accompanied by the Charleston Commit
tee. Grand receptions are accorded him
at Wilmington and Richmond.
29th. Gov. Hampton and the Charles
ton Committee arrive in Washington.
80th. Tho reinterment of the body of
Gen. John A. Wogener tikes place.
APRIL.
zd. Order issued by ino President re
moving the troop? ?rom tho South Caro
lina State House. Gov. Hampton's tele
gram received . in Columbia saying:
"Everything is satisfactorily and hon
orably settled."
8d. The ordeT for tho removal of the
troops is published to take cflbct on tho
lOthV
4th. The location of the Lutheran Col
lege is awarded to N ^wherry.
6th. Gov. Hampton arrives in Colum
bia, and ia received^ with great demon
strations of rejoicings.
10th. The troops v?sate tho State
House, arid Chamberlain gives up the
contest
11th. The formal transfer of .the State
House to Gor. Hampton takes place.
13th. Great storm of wind and rain,
doing great damage to rico und ether
crops and injuring much property **? thia
-- ; " 1 ; 1 11 ; ???'
city..Governor Hampton iss?es bia
proclamation convening tho Legislature,
j ICth. Gov. Hampton vleiU Charleston,
and is received with unprecedented cn
1 thuairurns: a grand military parade and
I review takes place, and theauaual celo
i bration of the Washington Lischt Xnfan
I try is held in the Academy of Music at
night......The State officers? offices iu the
State House are sealed up by order of
Governor Hampton pending the action
of tho courts.
lOth. Gleavee gives up tho contest for
the .Lieutenant-Governorship.'
20vh. Steve Anderson, the Issi of the
tlan'jrnann-Portman murderers, is execu
ted at Aiken.
23d. Dublin J, Walker. Republican
State Senator, is arrested at Chester
charged wf'h issuing false certificate?.
.Gibson ?nd Byrd, colored P?r?r>n*
Uti ve? from Fairfield, resign.
24tb. The extra session of the General
Assembly begins. The Democrats cap
ture tho Senate, and Lieutenant Gover
nor Simpson takes the chair..A saluto
is fired by the Washington Artillery in
honor of the redemption of Louisiana
from bayonet rule.'
26th. The Governor's first message sent
in, The members of the defunct Mackey
House aro required by tho House of Rep*
reecntatives to purg themselves of their
contempt.
28tb. The Chamberlain State officials
give up the contest. A motion is raado
to impeach Wright.
MAY-.'-.
2d. Tho Senate investigating commit
tee is appointed.
Sd. Tho formal transfer of the Stoic
officials' offices and record? is made..
The inauguration ball takes place in Co
lumbia.
4th. Wightman Allen, John Alien,
and Jenkins Whittier, three of the negro
Lowndcsvillo murderers, nrov hung at
Abbeville, the Governor having commu
ted the punishment of tho others,
9th. Wbittemore's theft of the fund
for providing pictures of Lincoln and
Sumner for the State is exposed by the
Newa and Oourier.
10th. Stoto Press Association meets in
Charleston. Annual Begaus begins.
Memorial day in Charleston.
11th. The Episcopal Diocesan Conven
tion moots in Charleston.Mr. J. Evans
Edings, Jr., is murdered and robbed by
negroes near Charleston.
13th. Bishop Moore is connccrated
Bishop of St. Augustine.
14th. Two Democratic Reproontativet
are elected Sxavn Fairfield County.
15tb. Just! ie Willard is nominated bj
tho Democratic caucus for Chief Justice
and subsequently elected.......Cheston
elects a Democratic State Senator..
The Ellenton trials begin in the United
Sutes Court at Charleston.
17th. Western excursion of busiL.es
men arrive here.Whittctnore's fiigh
is announced.Judge Mciver uu?hi
moualy elected Assoomte Justice to fil
the place of Justice Willard, promoted
18th. Appropriation bili pu js#afte
long struggle.Jack Burgoon, negro
hung at Marion for the to un rr of Mi
Gregg.
21et. Information ia filed at Orange
burg* against Solicitor Butts of this CSE
cuit.
24th. A day of thanksgiving and pray
er is celebrated throughout the Stotel,
accordance with the Governor's prods
matlon.The first revelation of th
contente of Woodruff's famous "llttl
book" are made in the News and Ob?riet
?Gib. The report of the committee c
privileges ana elections ousting th
Mackey delegation lc presented in th
House and subsequently adopted.
28th. Whittemore's resignation as Sec
ator is presented.
30th. The Democratic nominee fe
Representativo from Orangeburg is cle<
tedf.
?3d. A f100,000 fire occurs in Unioi
..The jury in the Ellenton cases fal
to agreo and ls discharged.
5th. Wright; is impeached for drunl
enness.
7th. Judge Kershaw elected to fill ?
B. Carpenter's place.
8tb. The General Assembly adjourn
Gth. E. J. Scott's bank in Columb
suspends.
19th. Tho Democrats elect their ca
didato for probate judge in Richland, i
20th. Gov. Hampton arrives at A
burn, N. Y., and ls; enthusiastically i
calved.
26th. The D?mocrate of Chariest
and Darlington elect their LogifllatI
tickets without opposition.......?.Lot
O'Brien killed in Queen street by t
grce?.
27th. L. C. Carpenter arrested in C
lumbla for forgery, and bailed.
28th. The Fort Moultrie Monument
the Battery unveiled. ' >
JOLY.
4th. First mass nesting of the adi
cates of the LlborLn Exodus.
7tb, Destructive hailstorm in Mar]
County.Largo r?conciliation meet!
of whites and blacks at Ellenton. '
13tb. Execution of David Pearce a
George Stevens, Charleston County j
; yard, for tho murder of Mr. Edings.
16th. Inaugural'.on of the fest tb. roi
schedule by the S nth Carolins Balta
from Charleston to Greenville.
21st Arrest of Cardozo.
22nd. Promotion >f Lieut. Col. 1
dolph Siegllng to the command of
old Fourth Brigade of South Carol
Volunteers.
23rd. Arrest of F. J. Moses, Jr..
24th. Arrest of A. O. Jou<-" in Char
ton, and Samuel J. Lee ii. Chester..
Flight of Josephus vvoodrtin on
steamer Virginia for Philadelphia.,
Flight of Ex-Liautenaot : Govcj
Cleaves from Beaufort.Newbt
County redeemed hy the election <
full county ticket, and Hon. Y. J. P
to the House of Representatives..
Woodruff recaptured.
Auuucrr.
8th. Meeting of the Stete Orange
Stoto Agricultural and Mechanical
sociation at Anderson Court House.
29th. Kershaw County redeemed.
80th. Woodruff. Jones, Owens. Pal
soo. Scott, Lee * Co., indicted by
Richland grand jury.
SKPTEHBRX.
1st Execution of Cash Harrie
Edgefield, for the murder of Mr. H
?rd. Arrest of the Orangeburg Co
officials for fraud and breach of tna
office.
4th. Fairfield redeemed.
fitb. Flight of Van Tacssll and i
from Orangeburg.
Otb. First bale of Carolina K\ ii
cotton received.
22nd. Governor Hampton's rctui
Columbia, after his Wee torn tour
President Hayes.
25tb. Appointment W Judge 1
Northrop as U- S. District Adorne
Sonth Carolina. '
27th. The terrible explosion a
Charleston Mining and Manufact
?Company's works.
OCTOBER.
?th: This poisonine of the Gr
j family.Cardozo togged InJ&U.
J Gth. Arrest of Senator ratler?
r:**! Settlement*. fi?* ta?*rtte&8 . ' .'? SAC
' TV msMJt8roirpmt&-~1n artic- to ro??I? : ^
' .> We aro not responsible ft?* the *-lew?r.tl?
optnlod? of Qure?rreepoMeftte.
. AU eomrauiUc?Jlue?i1v)uM lrtf4dr.w?to,,K?i?
Itu? InWUgtmetr." ead eJIcijet?i-, irs??.
orders, 4*>, sltoald be tasde pe??lile to ?le order
?f . E. 8. ?4IJERAT ?k^?.,
? ? Andeselo, 8? C.
Washington, D. C., on.a requisition from
Goy?ruor Hampton.
lOtb. Miles G. Parker's retara to tad
home of his adoption.
80tl?. Pardoning of thc Ccmbahee
rioters by Governor Hampton.
K0VEHB9B.
Sth. Marlboro' redeemed by tho elec
tion of Col. O. S. McCall, (Dem.) to the
State Senate.
7th. Cardozo convicted at Columbia.
11th. Congressman Smalls convicted
of bribery at Columbia.
18th. L. Cass Carpenter convicted at
Columbia..Opening of the 8tato Fair
nt Columbia.
14tb. Yance and Hampton at Colum
bia.
l?th. Military prize drill at Columbia.
The Governor's Guards victorious.
16>.h. The Hon. H. P. Kimball, tho
Winnebago orator, at Columbia.
i?th. non, a. u. Campbell elected
State Senator from Charleston.
. 28rd. Fearful accident on tho Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
.near Rock Hill, S. O.
26th. Cardozo, Smalls and Carpenter
sentenced by Judgo Townsend at Co
lumbia.
27th. General Assembly met at Co
lumbia.
28th. Hampton's message to tbe Gen
eral Assembly. Election of Col. Farrow
os clerk of the Senate.
DECEMBER.
1st, Gen. M. O. i Butler, sworn' in as
United States Senator.
4th. Attorney-General Janies Conner's
letter of resignation submitted to the
General Assembly. _
6tb. Election of : Judge wallace, JUB- ?
tice. Haskell and Attorney General L. Z\
8th. Mr. J. C. Sheppard elected
Speaker.
lltb. Fassage of th. -"nury .bill.
Water obtained at the new ?.rk?j.'nn welt.
17th, Mayor Salo and hU board of
Aldermen sworn in.."'..WiHiam8burg re-,
deemed by the olectioh Of Cel. Mc
Cutchon as State Senator.
20th. Educational amendment to the
Constitution ratified hy the General As
sembly.Adjournment of the Legisla
ture for tho Christmas holidays.
Some days ago the Hegiakr drew a con
trast between tho expenditures of the
Hampton and Chamberlain administra
tions, and showed a difference in favor of
the Democratic rule amounting in round
numbers to $450,000, which was effected
in tho first year, under serious disadvan
tages. The comparison we instituted war.
based upon the reports of tito State Trouu
urers, and only included the actual out
lay of money collected during the respect
tivo years. There was no p.;jcount taken
of '-he ouoimous deficiencies cf ?ie Cham
berlain administration, a portion of which
baa been met by the Democrats during
tho present year. A gentleman who is
thoroughly cutWcitaut wita ino nnnncir.t ?
history of South Carolina, occupying a
place of great importance, bas furnished
tu with his statement of the actual re
form accomplished by tho Democrats, to
which we invite attention. The aggregate
figures are as follows .
Tax levy 1876-6 under Cham
berlain, ll milla, on basis of
$120,000,000 as the total tax
able property of \heSt?te.?...$l,82d,000
Deficiencies' under Chamber
Iain for .OT?-W....... 460,000
Total amount expended ander
Chamberlain for 1876-'76.....$1,770,000
Tax levy 1877 auder Hampton;
7 mi.ts, on basia of $120,000,
000..,. $840,000
Amount In tho'Stato Treasury
at the end of Bul fiscal year
under HamntoQ remsinisg
unexpended.'..... 116,000
Total amount expended by
Hampton's government....... $725,000
Thc difference r?tweentbe expendi
tures under Chamberlain anti Hampton
amounts to $1,045,000.
Them were ao deficiencies under the
Hampton government but every dollar
appropriated by the Legislature waa paid.
'?ho mass of floating indebtedness which
neT confronts the tax-payers W?? accu
mulated mainly in deficiencies, by ap
propriating moro money than was levied
ana collected. This Was a favorito de
vico of tho Radicals, and was practiced
every year. Indeed, if the tax levies bad
always.beon equal to tho appropriation?,
the patience and endurance of the tax
payers would have been exhausted y caro
So, and the movement which swept
?se .planteareis from high positions
Sould h?ve : been; inaugurated earlier,
ut the pretended reform of Chamber
I Iain stifled the denfanda of an oppressed,
people for a abort time, and it waa not
until the hypocrisy, aaa deceitfulness of
hie professions wero exposed, that tho op
portunity of creating deficiencies was for
ever annulled.
^?h? figures we have given are from.
cereM estimates of an experienced legis
lator, in.regard; to tho deficiencies. **
may be interestlngj however, to enter
moro into detail. r.na show the different
items of expenditure' on which there ba*
boen such an immense r?duction within
a ningle year of honest and capable gov
ernment. A goodly portion of theos
item? aro permanont reforms, . accom- 1
plisiiCd by the Legislature daring ita se%> .
sion las*spring, and for Which the mem
bers are enU?ed to the approval of their
constituents. In some instances, perhaps
-notably tho nublio school*-tba ex
penditure for thecotniog year will be
Seater, but the satisfaction is had that
era will be corresponding benefit de
rived from the increased appropriations.
Among other reductions in expenses, tho
following are Included in the statement
already given: ? ~
Swto University, $14,000; Stat* Nor
tom cchoois, w?jWO ; Uiaflin University,
$4,000; Stato Orphan Asvlum, $8,000;
Publjo 8choolst $860,000 ;' County Treas
urers and Auditors, $120,000: Legfcla
tlvo Expenses, $106,(H^rPublio Print
ing, $40,000; Penitentiary, $luM0;
LoBatioAaylum,Ar3,000; School Com
misa?oners, $28,000 ; Salaries, $10,000;
Stationary, $18,000.
These items Aggregate the sum of
$768,000, and sulficiently * explain the
character of the redaction m?.?to by the
belonge to tho'denfodeW, and ia regard
to tho different--* r^pecting the cpendl
lure for public echools, the advautago
belongs to tho Democrats, for there was
a large amount ostensibly given by the
Radicals for the support of pub'ic schools
which never bcaofitted teachers and pu
pttt, but belongs to the inevitable defi
ciencies. The TJeraocralA on th? other
hand, ha*? paid out evsry cent appropri
ated fer thia puipese. :'.
Tbs exhibit is *raly gratifying and ea
coaraging to tho iaa-payer, and ?lu
prevean incentive of the strone** taod,
(omalnuiu tho supremacy gaio^tlvrwigh
organised effort on tiso nari of th? I?a>
ocrata. it washy unitedand harmonious
counsels that wo ruccseded hut year, and.
tb?> preservation of that uaity^anq fcar*
mbny w'/U maintain tho scale <.? ~"
and reform which hr
laaugunfod.