The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, February 26, 1880, Image 5
THE MIGNONETTE AND THE OAK
I {marked a clijpret\j";otn($ j -: f i
A gentle^liW-cyed thidg? 1 H
She sowed the scented mignonette
/>??* ciinnr il o V in Qtlpinff *
W|,fT k l,u,V '"V ? * I O
And while the tiny grains 6he sowed
The stream of thought thus sweetly flowed:
.<r c 'rw ^ ; i fc"
On this dear bed flie dew 'hall fall.
And yon bright sun shall shine ;
'Twill spring, and grow and blossom then,
And it will all be mine !" -i- . i . jj*
And the fair thing laughed in childish glee
To think whhf 'ti harvest hers should te.
* : ' j < T f. . ^ ! J I M j | ; I' j kJ
I saw a mart an ttcorn plnht'
l"pon the hillside bare: 1ii ?
No spreading branch, no shading rock
Lent friendly shelter ljjere ; -,M 1
And thus as o'er the spot he bow'd
I heard him, for lie tliouglit aloud :
; >. ;.rt j j f'-ji ; **.h ?d
" Frail thing 1 ere <flos"sy leaf shall grace
Thy wide and sturdy bough, . 7/.
I may be laid amid the dead
As low as thou art now; , ,
Yet will thou rise in rugged strength . I
And crown this barren height at length."
Each had a hope; the childish heajt
Looked to a summer's joy; g "
Thumanly thought, sjtrong &nd mtj Mired, ?
LboFed foTritiirlty.'"
Each trusts to nature's genial power;
He wants a forest, she a flower.
Who sows the seeds of heavenly truth,
And doubts Almighty power ?
Will years less surely bring the oak
Than months the summer flower?
Then sow, although no fruit you see,
God, "in due time," will raise the tree.
"Let Us Have Peace."
Mr. Editor : I love plain English
and if it must be interlarded, I like
Dice, clean-cut bits of French. .Latin.
Greek, or what you will, apPly used and
correctly spelled. But when learned
men use technical or foreign words
phonetically spelled and sealtered along
their pages like squelched berries and
flies throueh a very poor fruit cake, it
often taxes the patience of readers aod
puzzles the judgment of critics.
I was lead into this reflection by the
phrase, "lashes of teachers," used b\
your learned correspondent, J 11 M.,
of .Russell Place, whose gravity, I fear,
was irritated rather than amused by my
innoemt afforts to tickle him with a
joke. When I first observed the phrasrefcrred
to, I thought it a misprint, and
hastened to your printer to get the true
text; but there it was od the nicely
penned manuscript, plainly written
lashes in three several places. Then it
t.,_i
occurred to me tbai me -average suny-i
deacher" of a decade ago did probably
get'some lashes in the previous decade;
and 1 was about to apostrophise the
15th amendment, when it flashed upon
my rn'md that our learned friend had
used a French law term, and phoneticised
it?not misspelled it! But as I
am a plain man, writing for plain people,
I will venture to <luc?phnne" it
into the plain law French "/nc/jc," and
to render that into the plain English
*?AvoTfJ-, laa'rty, neglect or omissicm. So
that the "lashes of teachers." un-phoned
and translated for the benefit of your
unlearned readers, means simply the
laxity, neglect or omission of touchers
to use the proper means at the proper
.time to get their money.
J, 11. .M's. second paragraph, which
Contains fhc whole force or it is argument,
I Fill quote entire, pau-ing
/it intervals to coivct his errors of statement
and inferences :
Chap.*cr ***>*. section 1, of the revised
statutes oi* Soutli Carolina, makes every
school di-tric/ in 'he State, organized in
pursuance ther<.-,0,*? ft hody politic and corporate,
and may si."' anc' he sued, and be'
capable of contracting* 3U'' heing contracted
with. This statute does Hminhe power
f?f the trustees in con.,nMr'*n? 'he
extent of the funds in their ^"Session."
but the act of 1878 does so limit 'heir contracting
power; and section 40 of s xl'l
makes all contracts in excess of the lu'u<L#
apportioned to their district, void.
This statute does, by irresistible implication,
limit the authority of trustees '
to contract to the funds at their disposal. 1
It provides that the county School Commissioner
shall be promptly iu- 1
formed by the Superintendent of Education
what amount is apportioned to J
his county, and that he shall promptly 1
inform the boards of trustees of the
several school districts what apportionment
is assigned to their respective
districts, and that he shall have power
< * ? ? i 1 . :r J U .
to snoricn me scnoot irrui, u uucu u<-.
so as to accommodate it to the funds at
his disposal. It, moreover, provides a
means by which the schools may be
continued in a school district after thfunds
assigned to it are exhausted; that
is to say, on the application of a certain
number of citizens of a school district
the trustees shall call a mooting of the
oitizens of the school district, which
meeting, if the citizens choose, may vota
tax upon their school district not to
exceed three dollars for each child in
the district between the ag?-s of six and
sixteen years. In the face of all this,
does the mere authority to "contract
and be contracted with" imply a power
to go beyond what th^y had the means
pay wit-h ? It is repugnant to the whnl
' ' - i .: : i eeo ..
spirit ot our legisiuwuu muvb
amendment of the Constitution, ratified
before that date, deprives even the Legislature
of the power to put the State in
debt without first submitting the proposition
to the people at a general election
and obtaining their approval. And
this great power, so jealously guarded
as to be witheld even from the Legisla
nulrori tn hplifve
lure, we an; ui?
was vested in Jim Edwards and Bill
Carter, or a school district board merely
because it is not expressly witheld from
litem. Can absurdity ever go further ?
But J. 11. M. proceeds :
(Section 38 mikes it the duty of the trustees
to employ teachers; section 41 makes
it the duty of the Clerk of the Board of
Trustees, on the filing of the teachers
monthly report, and its approval by saLi
Board, lo .draw an- ordgr ia jUtBUaaiftrtika
the coutat/^TrSatifiy wf--'thc
such tcacEtftft-ete dfiibw ordlrMJote^rfoF
represent a debt lawfully'contracted against
the county, then what does it represent?
Tha'' answer is simple- enough ; If
the school hoard had not exhausted the
amouat^T tho- apportionment to their
school district, their order thus
drawu and endorsed was a good fcnfcl
valkj'idfaft or'check on the county
treasury, aod the money should have
awaited its presentation there. But. .if
tfteyhad overdraw ht'heir a^'portiorKrieiU,
tbe^: their|ordrr. whether endorsed or
not, was a spurious draft drawn by, a
party hayingno authonty'rso to Hhik.
aod without funds to pay it, and like
all soetispuftous papci\; t&l.*^aTe
T&en taken ' immediately witfi'pOTesT '
back, for adjustment tu the party who
drew5 it, ana if that party failed to .
adjust it, i then.an appeal should bat?
bebh: made to the Court for redress;
and there is not a doubt but that such
an . appeal would have brought wdi^ga.
airiafnst. the malfeasant^ *bfther^.tkaii
malfeasant were I."the school -^dtdtrict*
board, as in the case hero supposed, or
the School Commissiner, or the Gounty
Treasurer. But if the party receiving
this order or draft, put it ioto.his pocket
and there let il sleep for years without
notice or protest of its non-pavment,
then by every rule of law or equity
governing such transactions, and by
- very principle ef common sense, and
simple natural justice, be did by such
/achc. or culpable neglect, lose and forfeit,
as he ought to have lost and forfeited,
every right which he might at first have
ne id unaer it. mis is me case or past
Hue school claims.
J R. Rl. complacently proceeds :
It evidently represents a debt. There
can be no doubt of its having been legally
contracted. The county, receiving the
benefit of the teacher's services, is the
debtor The School Commissioner is tne
agent of the county, who is selected by the I
voters of ihe county, and his endorsement
legally obtained upon these school claims
legally issued by the Board of trustees, is
certainly evidence of indebtedness of the
county. If, then, 'he debt was legally contracted,
the question of lathe* must be determined
by the statute of limitation. (
How far tho school district board
could legally contract with teachers, or
issue orders on the County Treasury,
uDd how far the School Commissioner
could legally endorse its order, I think
I have already proven to have depended
on whether the school district board had
exhausted their apportioned fund or
not. Neither could the one legally draw
nor" the other legally endorse, one cent
i 1 *L.i l! ? 1 *. TP T ^4.
oeyona itiai num. n jl am uuncvi iu
this, then all this ingenious deduction
of J R. is sheer nonsense. He labors
under a strange hallucination with re>
spect to tho responsibility of the people
lor the conduct of their officers, and
sterns to think that if they elect an
officer they are responsible for all that
he may di, even if he were to steal a
horse, This is not so. The State is
only regpousible (or the conduct of its
agents or officers in so far as it has invested
tlieui with legal authority. When
they exceed their legal authority, they
are individually liable for their conduct,
hut the State is not. Docs not ?/. 11,
M know this ? If he does uot, he
should not assume to instruct the most
ignorant of his countrymen in matters
pertaining to law and public economy;
if he does know this, he should write
with more candor than is exhibited in
rhia last and preceding quotations. This
dilemma is of his own raising. I have
merely drawn it out into clear iight for
Mm. ?nd he can take it by either horn.
It is ur.nece-sary that I should go
through the rest of his article, as this
paragraph contains the gist of the whole.
S^I have our learned friend to his
meditations on the "Revised Statutes,"
acknowledging his supremacy there.
LRat when he rises out of this special
iotn <i'u his ,0 intfrpret thp sentiments
which should exist between
'Taxpayer and "ChtiZ' n and the high
toned gentleu?eD whose public conduct
has been, and he, the subject of
their animadversion, f exclaim with the
indignant sculptor of o.'^> %l^c tutor
ultra trepidant."
Mr. Editor, I see no U6e in paracrine
furthur this controversy with J. R.
M. If the people of Kershaw cunty,
for whom I write, are not convinced of
the iniquity and enormity of this school
claim crab upon their property and re*
'Ourc-s, I should write in vain until
dooms day to convince them. I, therefore.
beg you to make my respectful and
final adieus to yonr learned and ingenious
correspondent. I fear to await
his "coming, lest he may bring one of
those sharpened axes of his, and want
to chop me with it as he sometimes
chop3 the "Revised Statutes."
Citizen.
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Also,
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DeKalb House,
CAMDEN, S. C.
S. H. BLODGETT, Prop'r.
TRANSIENT RATES, $2 PER DAY.
Having rented the DeKalb House, I have
)pened it for the accommodation of guests,
[t is the most centrally located house in
Camden, and the accommdations are ununsurpassed.
FREE HAOK TO to the DeKalb House.
REMOr> ELED
AND .
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Latham House,
CAMDE9T, S. C.
(Teajisient Boaed, $1.50 pee dat.)
g^"*Ample accommodations. Tables supdied
with the best the Markets afford. Eve y
attention paid to the comfort of Guests.
JgyConnected with the house is a first
lass Bar, which is looated separately from
he house, and orderly kept.
BQk,Haok to and from the depot at 25
lents each way.
ggk-Feed and Livery Stables on the
>remises. S. B. LATHAM, Proprietor.
Jkee Hack From the Depot
rHE OSTEEN HOUSE,
CAIIDEN, S. C.
Transient rates $1.50 per day. Speoial
jrangemcnts for board by the week or
#nth. t \J
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ionvenient to business.
Accommodations or tne
10 paius spared to make guests ^comT3tta-T
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he CHOICEST Household and Fam
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HA MP and BACON,
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)YSTERS and PICKLES,
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CANDIES and SWEETVIE
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TOYS,
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE,
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Gall and examine the stock at once.
Sold as cheap for the cash as can be
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Goods delivered free of charge to
any house in Camden.
decll-3m T. J. BARFIELD.
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AND DEALERS IN
FERTILIZERS,
CHARLESTON,S. 0.
Robson's Cotton and Corn Fertilizers,
Robson's Compound Acid Phosphate. These '
Fertilizers are compounded of the purest
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under the supervision of Dr. St. J. Ravenel.
We offer these Fertilizers to punters on the
most favorable terms. Those ordering immediately
will be allowed to the 1st of
April to decide which they prefer, cash or
time. An order for a car load of eight tons
will be sent free of drayage, but for a less
amount SI per ton will be charged.
On orders for large lots trom Grangers
or dealers a liberal discount will be allowed.
We take this occasion to return our
thanks to those who have so largely patronized
the fertilizers offered by us, and in
soliciting their continuance, we pledge our
best efforts to keep the highest standard of
fertilizers adapted to corn and cotton.