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i^^jrwau wm *^BaaBMaMBat;rtp|Bnrr - mi [ nil . |Mi-ii _ _ . . * BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1866. VOLUME XIV. NO. 23. r i i . . EVENIHO BOAT BONO. EDWIN noSSITEft J0IIX80N*. The shadows creep along the deep And up the silent river, "While softly through the central blue Faint rajs of starlight quiver. So fade lire's light, so falls its night, And mantles all in sadness, Till stars of love shine out above And fill the soul with gladness Tito homeward main we slowly gni'i With every oar stroke's cadence, And Icavo a shore nil peopled o'er With fairy men and maidens. 'Tisthus we glide on Tiina's dark tide, To Inbor's solemn measure. Death's shore to find, and leave behind The Flowery isles of pleasure. ^ ? ? A MIRROR, IN WHICH MANY PEOPLE HAY SEE THEMSELVES REFLECTED. BY SYLVANUS COBB, JR. 'Albert, I wish you would let me Lave seventy-five cents.' Kate Landman spoke very carefully, for sbe knew that her husband had not roach money to spare; yet she apoke earnestly, and there was a world of entreaty in her look. 'What do you want seventy-five cents for V asked Albert, not very pleasantly. 'I want to get some braid for my new dress.* 'I thought you had the materials all on band fbrthfet.' 'So I thought I had ; but Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Thompson both have a trimming of braid upoa theirs, and it looks very preltr. I* r?i.: Li. ?i . it is ?c?y mamuuiiiiiu. vnu nceriaiuiy aaus much to the dress.' Plague take these women's fashions! Your endless trimmings and thiug-a-magigs cost more than the dress is worth. It's nothing but shell out money when onco a woman thinks of a new dress.' 'Surely, Albert^! don't have many new dresses. I try to be as economical as I cin.' ........ 'It's a funny kind of economy, at all events. But il you must have it, I suppose you must.' - ; And Albert Landman took out hia wallet, and counted out the seventy five cents; but he gave it grudgingly, and when he put the wallet back into his pockct, he did it with an empliAais which seemed to say nini ug nuuiu'l l> UtKC lb OUC BgHW IOf B week. When Albert reached the outer door, on his way lo his work, he fouud the weather so threatening t'jat he concluded to go back and get.his umbrella, and upon re-entering'thd eitting-room he found bis wife in tears. {fte tried to hide the fact that she had been weeping, but she bad been caught in the act, and she was asked what it hieant. 'Good gracious!'"cried the husband. 'I should like to know if you are crying at what I s&id/about Jour dress !' wasn't crying at wbat you aaid, Albert,'replied Kate, tremulously; 'but you were so relactant to grant me the favor. I was thinlcing how hard I work--bow I am tied to. the house?how max\y_ little things X lTftve to perplex me; and then to ; O, pebavif! Wha( do you want to Wso fooliJi for 2' And away started Albert Landman a second time; but not to escape so easily. In tb9 ball be was met by bU - daughter Lizzie, a /bright^eyecj, rosy-cheekfd girl, ten years of age. O, papa, give mo fifteen cents.' .'WbattV ' ! 'O, I want fifteen cenla.. Do please give it to me,,' , 'WUaiiq't$}fr worfd do'yoti wwt of it! Are tbey changing echool?books again ?' lf0 ?Bet* I ?T- . * 47oown?e t u ff youwant a boop go upd get one off from an old barrel. J can't ?f> . Tleaie. papa.' T '. r - . H - *- - " JoS r ' ' , } " * vr: K-1 i* ?U?*i -wiw <0*ti itritk, Iwuw, ?nd ?nh<? cbitd'B sobbinff-brdlref atvooibk^^li&^&ed fro* ^.._ -<- '' ..... ...= - -ifaOfa&fi* that household; for llio husband and wifo really loved each other devotedly, and wore, at lieai t, kind and forbearing. When Albert came to his dinner Kate greeted him with a hiss, and in a moment the sunshine came back ; and had tho lesson ended there the husband might have fane'ed that he had dono nothing wrong?that tho clond had been but the exhalation of a domestic ferment for which j no one was particularly responsible ; though bo might not have banished tho conviction that women's fashions wero a nuisance and I a humbug, as well as a frightful draft upon | husbands' pockets. After tea Albert did a few chores around tho house, and then ho lighted a cigar and walked out. lie had gone but a short1 distance when he mot Lizzie. In her right' band she dragged an old hoop, which had | been taken from a dilapidated flour-barrel, j wmie wun ner ieii sne was rubbing bur, red, swollen eye3. She was in deep grief, . for she was sobbing painfully. lie slopped his child and asked her what was the realtor. She answered, as well as her sobs would let her, that the other girls had laughed at her, and made fun of her old hoop. The}' had nice, pretty hoops, while hei\i was ugly and homely. 'Never mind,' said Albert, patting the little one upon the head,?for the child'B grief touched him,?'perhaps we'll havo a new hoop some time.' 'Mayn't I have one now ? Mr. Grant's got one left?O ! such a pretty one!' The Bobbin? bad ceased as the chil(? caught her father's hand eagerly. 'Not now, Lizzie?not now. I'll think of it.' soooing again llie child moved on towards home, dragging the old hoop after her. At ono of the stores Albert Landman met soma of his friends. 'Hallo, Albert, what's up ?' 'Nothing in particular.' 'What d'ye Bay to a game of billiards ?' 'Good ! I'm in for that.* And away went Albert to the billiard hall, where he had a glorious timo with his friends. He liked billia* Is. It was a healthy, pretty gatuo; and the keeper of ; the hall allowed 110 rough-ecuff upon his premises. They had played four games. Albert ( had won two, and his opponent had won , two. , 'That's two-and two,' cried Tom Piper. 'What d'ye say to saddling 'em off? 'All right?go in,' replied Albert, full of animation. , So they played the fifth game, and lie who lost was to pay for the five games. It was an exciting contest; both made capital rans; but in the end Albert was?beatten by just three points, and, with a light ( laugh, lie went up to settle the bill. Five games?twenty cents a game?just one dollar. Notmuoh that for such sport; and he paid out the money with a good grace, never once seeming to feel that he couldn't afford it. 'Have a cigar V said Tom. , Ye#.1" They lighted their cigars, and' then sauntered down the hall to watch other players. By and by Albert fonnd himself seated over against a table at which some of bis friends were playing, and close by him ftlnnil I.WA rrant lomnn ~ * ? ?..w gwubiviMHU UVIU OH ail^CAO LU bira?one of wborowras explaining to Ibe other tbe mysteries of the game. It is a healthy pastime,' said be wb*.\ bad been, making,-th'e^ explanation; 'and ceoUiifily^U-is oba irliioli can baveno evil tendency.' : Albert beard tbe^emarks very plainly, and be bad ? curiotnity to bear. what tbe other, who seemed unacquainted with billiards, would say. ' v . 1 cannot,- of course,, assert ? that puiy whiob Ufree A^.the. Attendant corse of gaming, is of itself an evil,' remarked the second gentleman. 'Such things aro only W'Ufa. M * game,' raid the first Bpealrc*. I fallow iintwo^' Fir?V: It ??o lead Mfc*oiTfciw?; and, S* l|K will .uuUmudao, t ?#nl4*<*?y *w? ? i > v. - .' - - ' \ * i ..' '/ ' . v .. ' . but whenever I visit a place of this kind I am led to reflect upon a most strange and promiuent weakuess of liumnn nature as developed in our sex. For instance, observe that young man who ia just now settling his bill at the desk. He looks like a mechanic; and I should sny,from his manner, anil from tho fact that he feels it his j duty to go home at this hour, that he has a | wife and children. I see bv his face that | ho is kind-hearted and generous, and I [should judge that he mcajit to do about as near right as ho can. He haB been beaten, and he pays one dollar and forty cents tor the recreation of some two hours' duration. If you obecrve, you will see that ho pays it freely, and pockets the loss with a sinile. Happy facility ! But how do you suppose it is in that young man's homo ? Suppose his wife had coino to him this morning and asked him for a dollar to spend for some trifling thing?some household ornameut, or some bit of jewelry for tho adornment of her person,?and suppose his litllo child had put in a plea for forty cents to buy paper dolls and picture-books with, what do you think would have been the result? What do you think he would have answered ? Of fifty men just like him would not five?and-fortv have der.lnr ed that they had not the money to ppare for any mch purpose? And, moreover, thoy would have said bo, filing that tliey wore telling llio truth. Atn I not right?' 'Upon my soul,' responded the man who understood billiard*, 'you speak to the point. I know that young man who has just paid his bill, and you hare not misjudged bim in a single particular. And, what 13 more, I happen to have a fact at hand to illustrate your charge. We have a club for nn excellent literary paper ir. our village, and last year that young man ~ e 1 mi wuo uiie ui me uuomjriuers. j.uis year ne felt obliged to discontinue it. His wife was very anxious to take it for it bad become a genial companion to lier in ber leisure moments ; but he could not afford it. The club-rate was one dollar and fifty cents per year.' 'Aye?and so it goes,' said the other gentleman. 'Well that man's wife may at this very moment bo wishing that Bbe had her paper to read, he is paying almost its full price fcr a year ?for what? And yet see how btniling he does iu Ah ! these poor, s3'mpalhizing wives 1 Dow many /i 'jfl-nn imnn f? **** l - wMinvu u|;vu kUUMI IIUIU IUO UlUWH of their husbands when they ask for trifling iuma of money, and how grudgingly the mite Is handed over when it is given. What perfect floods of joy might that dollar and forty cents havo poured upon the children of the unsuccessful billiard-player. Ah ! it is well for such wives and children that they do not know whero all the money goes 1 The game had finished at the nearest table; the two gentlemen moved on; and Albert Landman arose'from bU seat and loft the ball. Never before had be buch thoughts as now possessed him. He bad never dwelt upon the same grouping of ideas. That very morning his own true, faithful, loving wife had been sad and heart* sick Decause be had UarahJy and unkindly met her request for a small sum of money. And his sweet Lizzie had crept away to her home almost broken-Hearted for tbe want of a simple toy such aa hW mates possessed. And yet the sum of both their wants amounted not to so much as he bad paid away that evening for billiard-playing. Albert Landman wanted to be an honest husband and father, and the lesson was not lost upon him. On his way home he stopped at Mr. GrAnt>, apd purchased the best and prettiest hoop to be found, with a driving-stick painted red and white and blue, and in tbe morning, when be beheld his child's delight. and bad received ber grateful, happy kiss, the question came to hi* ?- .u. v?. ? ^ * ...... - .. Uivu nM I LSD UtSDl HHU ncp- | pleat result?this, or the five games it Bil~ liardB* The hoop h ad coat tlliHjf c^=? He copM play, two game* lees. At billia rd*, and be the aba olate miner of ten oentl by ;&U* morningi, t|<Wr tbi?MAlbert UOH from the breakout table, he A&ttnd sn abeaay, wistful took ^ufcon jbk wlWi &04. j ,.V'. ' . . ^ lex this morning.' ,& ,tmimiv I <G*fcfoJy< mf U**. Anything in n>< _ ?? * a?r.jA' .r4*>'--m L*? . ... y?p WJ* Ana om WM the waDct, ?ad the tnooef Ml b*6d?d iftfeM Wwitpowt^ Xs . iv. . 1 .- '. * scenes on his part, Ibnt so pimple an act ol loving kindne&s thus affected hor ? How many games of billiards would be required to give such satisfaction as Albert Landman carried with him on that morning to his shop? A very simple 6tory, is it not? But how many may gain lasting profit by giving liced to the Icseon ? SPEECH OF MR. HA8KEL. Mr. Haskki.?The legislative authority the pxpmilivn nnilmriin nn^ M.IV..VI??J Ullli bliu JUUI^Itt power?tho branches forming our government, arc vested in Iho General Assembly the Governor, and superior and infciiot courts of law and equity. The one tc frame, another to execute, and the third tc determine the law, and the three intended to act in concert, to furnish, sustain and balance their co-ordinate powers, and ont lias not the right, in the spirit of our Constitution, to intrude the letter of its powei upon tho other, to distort its figure and de' IrtTT Ua mi- I Ml I upoianuii. i no out now brought beforo llio House introduces this Radical usurpation of power for the suppression ol equal and co existent authority. Upon the Legislature was originally imposed the duly to elect the Governor and to frame the court. Would it not have been revolution and tho Legislature in the first instance deemed it expedient to delay the performance of these duties ? Is it not equally a violation of tho Constitution to suspend tho operation of an existing power ? A Stay Lnw has been passed. Under tho iaw it was brought before the Judicial power, contained in a body of men who are placed by the wisdom of our Constitution nlin*n tlio loini nf ?t _ .mm * ?>! ? vi pumiuni (JOirupilOD, who are chozen by reason of the integrity of their character, the power of their intel? lcot and their high legal attainment. By this body it was pronounced unconstitutional ; and we thought that the subject was exhausted. But Mr. Speaker, a popular clamor has beon raised ; a spirit of party and of individual interest prevails, and has b ought before this House a bill, the immediate effect of which is to violate the balancing strength of a Republican power; to cause ihfl Legislature to usurD the authority nf and to chain and fetter its compeer; a bill whose ultimate results is injury beyond our power to realize. Sir, the subject has been exhausted, llie decision of the Court of Errors lies before us balanced by the solitary voice of one dissent. If that decision has not produced conviction, it is vain for one of my crude and unlearned mind to lay hasty and all-digested arguments before this House. But something called popular feeling is driving us forward to a new form of action equally unconstitutional in a direct legal point of view, and ten times more disastrous in the political revolution to wbicb it gives birth. Not only does this bill impair the obligation of contracts ; not only does it annul, by suspending the enforcement of obligation of contracts, the fundamental principle by wbicb i .1 : - ...... - uau ia uuuuu iii (Bouiai lies wiin Dta teliow creatures And constantly reminded that law exista and tbat penalty will be inflicted ; not only does it tbaa foster crime and impair justice; bat in addition to all this it grosely violates tbe Constitution by a subterfuge ; it assumes control and direction of tbe judicial power, and under cover of tbe letter it evades tbe spirit. I said tbat we are told that popular feeling drives ua forward. But I say that the feeling has been excited by previous unwise legislation, has been developed by ingenious ma? clunation, and baa bean wrrmerlit t/? ?<?? WV ?? highest pitchby some who came forward as its representative*, who gave aid to its creation and then fall back upon It for support. To meet and refute this sentiment is all that I can do. To declare the Constitution with the breath drawn from the tils* tory of its founders, bus been donet btft fasts (ailed to jftoduce calmiug effect upon Radical Slay Law legi?latore. Tbey hare indulged in a mere \ form,of argument, and tfaatforf^Valctfflhe jrtfe spirit rnanlwa> cry b*en rataed. The first who brought, fonrard.this anesliofl. (he mntU man fromNewWry,-hue di*cWm*d bia re'S5sE?SSS [ toow. tte feMBltofcf fttf i lo**d oid?r U|? cover of a?JMfc *hre*t?*# [ weight. Bui, Mr. Speaker, I cannot cast my vote against this bill without expressi ing my abhorrence of its nature and roak? ing one effort to ward off the harm which ; would result from its passage. Tlio chairman of the Special Commmittee declares that he looks not to individual ; cases but to the condition of the State, and this he strive?, as we should strive, to amend. His principle is correct, but his , estimates are wrong. Ind' iduals have [ lost proporly to the amount of several hundred millioni; but it is a blunder in , I>uiivi\>iii tvwuumjr uj a?v tlini IIIU OIB10 1188 lost beyond the amount of military rnvai ges and the disorder of its laboring power ? produced by material change in political I and domestic relations. What is the wealth of a State ? It is its productive > power, and that in our Southern State do ponds upon the soil and tho labor. The r soil remains the same, tho material for la bor remains, the possession of labor having 1 passed from the whito master to the colorI ed frcedman, and if the government is rcr storod the strongest intellect and the great est energy will control the labor. But by i interruption nod revolution, and the wastoi ful spirit or expenditure engendered and sustained by the Stay Law, our people now stand without Ibe means requisite to coni duct our wort. To get this, the country mast bave credit, and to obtain credit, tbe creditor must know that the obligations ef a contract can be enforced, and more tbau that, thnt he lends to a creditable people who are not Imbitunied to look to repudiation and stay as tbe result of indebtedness. When tbe gentleman speaks in the name of the people he must look to the interest of the State?for that constitutes the public weal, he must restore credit by denying the Stay Law and restore our oro ductive power by the capital which credit will invite. If he is true to the State, as we know bim to be, her welfare mustovercome individual claims. Our present condition is the result of an honorable effort to sustain our constitution. Did he not incite ua to the steps which led to the war ? And now can he bewail its results instead of enduring them, and vainly endeavor correction bv abandoning the great spirit of our law wntoh has for nearly a century psst made our credit intangible by slander and all powerful in our need ? Is it an argument to us to evade the Constitution, to cite that it has been violated by others; to quote from the gentleman's speech, "that a Republican President by tbe stroke of his pen has destroyed our properly?" Does this example qualify this legislative body to violate tbe Constitution, in whose support our great patriots have died, leaving us here a remnant, feeble id hand, but strong in heart I trust, to 1 preserve, inviolate that portion of the Con stitution which tbe rude victor has left unsullied t And I would remind the gen- 1 tleman that tbe gift of a patriot's labor 1 was not to ba offered mile whilo iIia < lasted, but should be now and after it as j was then, and that its object never dies. 1 Tbe war was for what we deemed the ' spirit of the Constitution, and against what 1 we deemed evasion of that spirit The 1 same spirit of the people should survive our loss or we may well be told that tho intemperance of prosperity led us to rash war, and that fortitude in adversilv doea not adorn our virtues. To retain our vir* I tue ia our only hope; pass this bill which < tends to destroy it and we are doomed. Before the Stay Law was again passed in 1865,1 heard no citizen ef my constituent cy advocate repudiation of private debtsu ?ince that time it is urged by men who one year ago would have loathed auch an insult to law and morality. N?w their conscience is relieved by legislative action, and repudiation ia their cry. It ! is true that the gentlemen who, carried the Stay Last brought forward ' resolution most honorably aud broadly denouncing repudi m* ' x : r!$?t i f of that which delays the eqforociaeni of ; worthy when the tl^ptioMO? *i 4he(.aft- ' ' ihi-'p&tfh?' W? *1 t*M be?n Ibe acU&a of $H ? ? H?i- ' u fc- ^ ^ 1 mTu'J"u 7T ! ud waipm^ot. M.mi. Ml ,<#** J Oooftfor tfa? f ra??at; bat wfcm } +mm fee wUlukaaow, Mr* It tfa* to 4 noon* ^ R*K*1 < Oohtrt*. * ;<*v' '"**.?<( ?.***? V.?>*Kv'? na ' & I'*.. 'i ??! ,')*?;; ?ii j't..;,v;^'', ... . u-t ? " .</ -V'W&Zi > '.'' -.-r:. The chairman of the Special Committee from which this bill has emanated, who will perhaps permit me to jecognize him * as the able leader of the Stay Law faction, has called upon this assembly to listen to the demands of the people. I appeal to the samo, tbe sovereign power of the peo- * pie, of whose government wo are con tinent part, and whoso will, as represented in their Constitution, wo are bound to.obey. lie refwrs to popular clamor, I, to the great voice of the whole people. This is the Constitution of the State, and the power yielded to enter the United States. In both it iB forbidden "to pas* an ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." I do not enter hero into legal discussion, and only look .to history to in? terpret. Tho time was, shortly after the war of the Revolution,circumstances much the same as now exibt, and it iB clearly shown by the simple referenco made by tho Court of Errors, to tho opinions of L. Mar tin, Davie, Madison and Pinckney, that this section was meant to prohibit to the pcoplo the right to yield for a moment to inr.niilaA or niifForinrr tn mh. ?? l?<? ? ?v a ion ttuivjU delays, suspends or dimmish^ the power which the law promised, to enforce r^'Sa" tion. A learned chief justice says : "Thd evil which the Constitution intended to guard against?was not the act of passingtho law, but the effect incident to the operation of such a law." The first effect is plain; it will be tho annihilation of publichonor, and the impairment of private honesty which will force the continuance of this. delay. No gentleman will deny that the> absolute suspension of the action of the Court would be unconstitutional, and, if * for one terns, why not for two, and why not indefinitely, and bow does this not im pair ?fae obligation of the contraot? 1 aak uow if it is not cruel, if it is not unfair, and . if it is not dangerous to advocate a course and frame a law which will make our peo- pie wish and attempt to do that whioh they hare no right to do, and which 'was surrendered to the United Staes, and by the i United States, nnder whose govrernment we exist. 1 eay dangerous, because it ia fraught with evil which the gentleman . may not have contemplated. The bill bus* pends the action of courts in civil cases (except perhapa^cases of tort, why not tort.) The President of the Uuited States has issued proclamations which remove milita- ry government for the reason expressly * slated tint the civil government has been -< * restored, and is now in operation. Can a stronger contradiction be thrown before bim tbnn the absence of power to enforce the obligation of a contract f Sir, the gen* tleman closes our court. The first and plain effect is to make rapid transfer of all debts over $500, bevond the State, to be brought before tbo United States Court. The next may be to revive the worst form of military government to suppresa domestic revolution, and place a blue coat in our courts, to be called the administrator of justice. The Civil Rights Act and Freedman's Bureau together will afford adjudication to the negro and ho will be rnnde the medium through whom the white man may strive to obtain bis rights, Sec. 4 . aw Tv nf t.-.' >un I > Ml tug vuuotlkUUUU Ui Witt . UDlMd States. - x " VThe United States aball guarantee to every State in tint Union ^Republican form of Government." 8ec. 8 Art. VI. in directing the oath of office $ be taken by the constituent parte of the Republican form of government in each States does not say simply all the offioers of the government, but says, "The members of the several State Legislatures, and all execu-*?;?a ?4 -e iv_ <?u juuiuim uiuuflu ui me wnru State# shall hp, Soupd byoaih tion, to rapport tb.if CoBftiUition^ w, A Radical l?d?rbM r?*nUy Jadtfed tbati if Bbod*'Ulsi^ fight of valua M *** vonia d*prfea4*Mptopfe of ? Jfc^Hfeui 4jN*Him*ni,' *b* tfcatOotfgiafc would inUf$ow?Uod?tlwI^C*mu fMhu iMf *>*rl?t fattridti* rhuifti gimthwa *? vguemt; *w?k tfffltterfcftpc Ioom to tmali irtilch ft* *&*?* ('j i iit t?V?l ?xv &>itf* ->-,$ $* ?m >je*v;o? '