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HIS FINAL WAIL. The Surrerderof the State House by the Racicals to THE HAMPTON DEMOCRATS. Hcw Charnbtrlain and his Sta's Officers Vih wed Matters When Their Latest Hope Was Actually Destroyed. A few weeks ago The Columbia State made an editorial comment upon a re cent article of Er Governer D. H. Chamberlain's in the Atlantic Month ly, in which the former Republican chief executive of South Carolina de nounced the reconstiuction measures that were inaugurated by his party in this State just after the war. This ar tiede of Gov. Chamberlain has aroused no little interests in this State on ac count of the fact that the writer was one of the prominent figures in the re construction era and although claiming to be a conservative Repulican he was nevertheless a participant in the work which the Republican party did during the 10 years following the close of the war. In connection with that article it will be interesting to read Gov. Cham berlain's farewell proclamation to the Republican party of Carolina, which was issued as he was turning over the office to Wade Hampton. This address was published in the Columbia Regis ter of April 11, 1877, and is reproduced from that paper along with the article of which it was a yart. It is as fol lows: A miserable drizzling rain fell yester day morning, and the sun refused to shine, as if ashamed of the part the national army and its gallant cfficers and men had been compelled, in the line of duty, to take in depriving the people of a sovereign S:ate to their rights and liberties as guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this State. The streets, notwithstanding the murky atmosphere and the "Lon don fog" which hung ever the city like a pall, locked a trifle lively, for the bright green, half-matured leaves from the scattering shade trees which here and there greet the eye along R'ch ardson street, relieved the sombre landscape beyond, as each anxious eye looked toward the capitol. There shone, too, from the eye of every honest man in the community, as they passed each other upon the main thoroughfare, a peculiarly bright and trumphant light -a light which can only gladden the hearts and cheer the souls cf men who feel that truth, and justice, and right have in their behalf at last triumphed over wrong, oppression and guilt. Precisely at 12 o'cleck-just as the sleepy sentinel who toils the city hal bell struck the bell the tenth time in making up his score of twelve-the south door of the capitol building opened wide, and a captain of the United States army, commanding about thirty men, filed out the building. As the order "Column left, march," (which order turned the faces of ti e 'boys in blue" towards the barracke) was given, a smile might have been seen up'on the face of every man in the command. If the people were joyous over the event, for various reasons the troops had occasion to be glad also. There was no demonstration of any kind upon the part of the peoplc. About one hundred and fifty men, a majority of whom were colored, were standing around the building,-who wit nessed the departure of the troops. Beyond this there was no indication that anything more than the usual guard had been relieved from duty for a8rg in South Carolina, and the scene we liave scribed was the closing one in the vile, unnatural and ungodly state cf affairs which has existed in this State for the last seven years-a state of affairs which has brought ruin, desolation and misery upou a brave people. Later in the day the buncombe fare well address of ex-Governor Chamber lain, announclng his abdiction, was promulgated. The following correspondence, which explains itself, was also had between Mr. Chamberlain and Gov. Hampton. State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia, S. C., April 10, 1877. Sir: Having learned that you now purpose to turn over to me the execu tive chamber, with the records and papers belonging to the executive office now in your possession, I beg to in form you that I will send a proper officer to receive the same at any hour you may indicate as most convenient to yourself. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) Wade Hampton, Governor. Eon. D. H. Chamberlain. State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia, S. C., April 10, 1877. Sir: Replying to your note of this date, I -have to say that my private secretary will meet such offier as you may designate at 12 meridian tomor row, at the executive chamber, for the purpose indicated in your note. Very respectfully, -(Signed) D. H. Chamberlain, Governor of South Carolina, Hon. Wade Hampton. ifollewing the correspondence are the views of the Radical claimants to the State offies, which are presented in the following document: Columbia, S. C., April10, 1877. His Excellency D. H, Chamberlain, Governor of South Carolina, Colum bia, S. C., Dear Sir: Recurring to the views severally expressed by us during the personal conference, which we had the honor, to hold with you yesterday, in regard to the political complications which have grown out of the late can vass in this State, we beg leave to ap prise you formally of the conclusions we have reached, after mature delib eration and the gravest reflection which we have been able to bestow upon the subject. Whilst we are no loss inspire d with admiration for the dignified and reso lute manner in which you have c yn sistenly maintained your claims to the Gubernatorial chair, by virtue of the. election held in November last, than we are solemnly imipressea with the validity of your title of the offie, we are unt timous in the belief that to prolong the contest, in the absence of that moral aid to which we feel our selves and our party justly entitled at the hands of a national admninistration, ins:alled, in large measure, through the same agencies which are now held to be insuffiient for our maintensnce, wilmb to incur,,. respnsibility of keeping alive partisan prejudices which are in the last degree detrimental to the best interests of the people of the State, and perhaps of precipitating a phys:cal cn f:ct that could have but one result to our defenseless consti tuency. We eannot affored to contrib ute, however indirectly, to such a catastrophe, even in the advocacy of what we know to be our rights. We are agreed, therefore, in counsel ing 3 on to discontir ue the struggle for the occujarcy of the Gubernatorial chair, convinced as we are that, in view of the disastrous odds to which its maintenance has been kul jected by the action cf the national acministra-ion, ycur retirement will involve no sur render of principle, nor its motive be .aisap1r hended by the great body of that political party to which, in com mon with ourselves, you are attached, and 'hcse success in the past in this State has been ennob'ei by your in tellig nt and useful Eervicee. We have the icnor to be, very restectfully, ycuro, Robert B. Elliott, Attorney General. Thomas C. Dann, Comptroller General. F. L. Cardozo, Treasurer. H. E. Hayne, Secretary of State. John R. Tolbert, Superintendent of Education. James Kennedy, Ad jutant and Insy ector General. The following is the address of Mr. Chambe rlain: To tho Republican of South Carolina: By your will I was made governor of this State in 1874 At the election on the 7 th of November last I was again by your votes, elected to the same cffice. My title to the office, upon ever;' legal and moral ground, is today clear and perfect. By the recent do cision and action of the pres-dent of the United States I find myself unable longt:r to maintain my cfficial rights with the prospects of final sucess, and I henby announce to you that I am unwilling to I rolong a struggle which can only bring further suffering upon thou who engage in it. In announcing this conclusion, it is my .uty to say for you that the Repub licans of South Carolina entered upon their recent political struggle for the main tenance of their political and civil right.F. Constituting, beyond question, a lare majority of the lawful voters of the State, you al'ied yourselves with that political party whose central and inspiring principles has hitherto been the civil and political freedom of all men under tie constitution and laws of ornr country. By heroic efforts and sacrifices which the just verdict of his tory will rescue from the cowardly scorn now cast upon them by political placemen and traders, you secured the electoral vote of South Carolina for Hayse and Wheeler. In acoimplishing this result you became the victims of ever form of persecution and injury. From authentic evidence it is shown that not less than one hundred of your number were murdered because they were faithful to their principles and exercised rights solemnly guaranteed to them by the nation. You were do. nied empleyment, driven from your homes, robbed of the earnings of years of honest industry, hunted for your livee like wild beasts, your families outraged and scattered, for no offense except your peaceful and firm deter mination to exercise your political rights. You trusted, as you had a righ; to trust, that if by such cffjrts you established the lawful supremacy of your political party in the nation, the government of the United States, in the discharge of its constitutional duty, would protect the lawful government of the S:ate from overthrow at the hands of your political enemies. From causes, patent to all men and questioned by none who regard truth, you have been unable to'overcome the unlawful com bination and obstacles wnich have op posed the practical supremacy of the government which your votes have established. For many weary months you have waited for your deliverance. Whilete-ony~ruggl fior the .presi dency wras in progress y ou weie exhort ed by every representative and organ of the national Republican party to keep your allegiance true to that party in order that your deliverance from the hands of your -oppressors might be cer tain and complete. Not the faintest whisper of the possibility of disappoint ment in these hopes and promises ever reached you while the struggle was pending. Today, April 10, 1877, by the order of the president whom your votes alone rescued from overwhelming defeat, the government of the United States abandons you; deliberately with draws from you its support, with the full knowledge that the lawful govern ment of the State will be speedily over thrown. By a new interoretation of the con stitution of the United State., at vari ance alike with the previous practice of the government and with the decis ions of the supreme court, the execu tive of the United States evades the duty of ascertaining which of two rival State governments is the lawfal one and by the withdrawal of troops now protecting the State from domestic violence abandons the lawful State gov emnent to a struggle with insurrec tionary forces too powerful to be re sisted. The grounds of policy upon which such action is defended are star tling. It is said that the north is weary of the long southern troubles. It was weary, too, of the long troubles which sprutng from the stupendous crime -of chattel slavery and longed for repose. It sought to cover them from sight by wicked compromises with the wrong which disturbed its peace, but Godi held it to its duty, until through a conflict which rocked and agonized the nation, the great crime was put away and free dom was ordained for all. It is said that if a majority of the people of a State are unable by physi cal foree to maintain their rights, they. must be left to political servitude. Is. this a doctrine ever before heard in our history? If it shall prevail, its con sequences will not long be confined to South Carolina or Louisiana. It i's said that a Democratic house of representatives will refuse an appro priation for the army of the United States if the lawful government or South Carolina is maintained by the ' military forces. Submission to such coercion marks the degeneracy of the political party or people which endures it. A governmment worth the name, a political party fit to wield power, never befre blanched at such a threat. But the edict has gone forth. No C arguments or consideration which your friends conli present have sufficed to t avert the disaster. No effective means of resistance to the consummation of Y the wrong are left. The struggle can 9 be prolonged. My strict legal rights fl are of course wholly unaffected by the a acio'n of the president. No court of Y the State ha! jurisdiction to pass upon I the title to my cffire. No lawful legis- r lature can be convened except upon my I( all. If the use of these powers promised ultimate sucessa to our cause, Ip sthould not shrink from any sacrifices p THE JOY Or REL=10 Dr. Talmage Urges All to Try It Uplifting Power. He Characterizes Religion as God' Daughter - Sermon from the Text, "Her Ways Are Ways of Pleasantness." [Copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. Y Washington, April 14. In this discourse Dr. Talmage set forth religion as an exhilaration, an urges all people to try its upliftin power; text, Proverbs 3, 17: "He ways are ways of pleasantness." You have all heard of God's onl: begotten Son. Have you heard o God's daughter? She was corn i: Heaven? She came down over th hills of our world. She had queenl; step. On her brow was celestia radiance. Her voice was music. He nam 's Meligion. My text intrc duces her. "Her ways are ways o pleasantness, and all her paths ar peace." But what is religion? Th fact is that theological study has ha a different effect upon me from th effect sometimes produced. Ever; year I tear out another leaf fror my theology, until I have only thre or four leaves left-in other word: a very brief and plain statement C Christian belief. An aged Christian minister said "When I was a young man, I kne, everything. When I got to be 3 years of age, in my creed I had only hundred doctrines of religion. Whe: I got to be 60 years of age, I ha only 50 doctrines of religion. Whe I got to be 60 years of age I ,ha only ten doctrines of religion, an now I am dying at 75 years of ag and there is only one thing I know and that is that Christ Jesus cam Into the world to save sinners." An so Ihave noticed in the study of God word and in my contemplation of th character of God and of tho eterna world that it is necessary for me t drop this part of my belief and tha part of my belief as being nonessex tial,while I cling to the one greatdoc rine that man is a sinner and Chris Is his Almighty and Divine Saviour. Now I take these three or fou leaves of my theology, and I find tha in the first place and dominant abov ll others is the sunshine of religion When I go into a room, I have a pas sion for throwing open all the shut ters. That is what I want to do thi morning. We are apt to throw si much of the sepulchral into our re ligion and to close the shutters any to pull down the blinds that it is onl; through here and there a crevice tha the light streams. The religion o the Lord Jesus Christ is a religion o oy indescribable and unutterable herever I can find a bell I mean' t ring it. If there are any In this house thi morning who are disposed to hold o to their melancholy and gloom, le them depart this service before th fairest and the brightest and the mosn radiant being of all the universe came in. God's Son has left our world, bu sod's daughter is here. Give her roan Eail, princess of Heaven! Hail, daugh ter of the Lord Almighty! Come il and make this house thy throneroon In setting forth this idea the domi. :aant theory of religion is one of sun shine. I hardly know where to begir for there are so many thoughts the rush upon my soul. A mother saw he ittle child seated on the floor in tha unshine and with a spoon in her hand She said: "My darling, what are yo, doing there?" "Oh," replied the child "I am getting a spoonful of thi~s sun shine." Would God that to-day. might present you with a gleamini ihalice of this glorious, everlastini Cospel sunshine! First of all, I find a great deal o sunshine in Christian society. I di not know of anything more crolefu than the companionship of the mer funmakers of the world-the Thoma Eoods, the Charles .Lamba,- --t Charles Mfathewses of the world-tb men whose entire business it Is ti make sport. They make others laugi: but if you will examine their aute biography or biography you will fin that down in their soul there was terrifio disquietude. Laughter is n sign of happiness. The mania taughs. The hyena laughs. The 1oo among the Adirondacks laughs. Tb irunkard, dashing his decante against the wall, laughs. There is a terrible reaction from al sinful amusement and sinful merri mont. Such men are eross thes nex Say. They unap at you on exchang r they pass you, not recognizirng yoi Eong ago I quit mere worldly e ociet; !or the reason it was so dull, so inan and so stupid. My nature is voraciou sf joy. I must have it. I always walk on the sunny side o the street, and Vor that reason I hay rossed over into Christian society. like their mode of repartee better. ike their style of amusement bette: They live longer. Christian people, ometimes notice, live on when by al natural law they ought to hava diei [ have known persons who have cor tnued in their existence when tb docto said they ought to hays bee: dead ten years. Every day o:! thei existence was a defiance of the law~ of anatomy and physiology, bct the; had this supernatural vivacity of tb Gospel in their soul, and that kep them alive. Put 10 or 12 Christian people in room for Christian conversation, an you will from eight to ten o'cloc hear more resounding glee, see mor bright strokes of wit and find mor thought and profound satisfactio: than In any merely worldly part: Now, when I say a "worldly party" mean that to which you are invite because under all the circumstance of the case it is the best for you t be invited, and to which you go be a which, by the light of reason an< onscience, a man might well lay dow: is life. But, to my mind, my presen esponsibility involves the considera ion of the effect of my action upo: hose whose representative I am.] ave hitherto been willing to ask you tepublicans of South Carolina, to risi 11 dargars and endure all hacdship .til relief should come from the gav rment of the United 8tates. Tha elief will never come. I cannot as] ou to follow me further. In my best udgment, I can no longer serve you b urther resistance to the impending alamity. When gratitude to God for the mes re of endurancs with which He har itherto inspired me, with gratitude t< ou for your boundless confience in me ith profound admiration for youa ~achless fidelity to the cause in whici e have struggled, I now announce tc ou and to the people of the State that shall no longer actively assert my ght to the office of governor of Sauth arolina. The motives and purposes of the resident of the Uneci 9ates in the olicy which compels me to my present museanre nqnstionable honorab1a eatiaa undef all eircumstatises of thd r ease it is better that you go, and, leaving the shawls on the second S floor, you go to the parlor to give for mal salutation to the host and the hostess and +hen move around, spend ing the whole evening in the discus sion of the weather and in apology for treading on long trains and in effort to keep the corners of the mouth up to the sign of pleasure, and going around with an idiotic he-he about nothing until the collation Is 3 served, and then, after the collation is served, going back into the parlor to resume the weather, and then at s the close going at a-very late hour to the host and hostess and assuring them that you have had a most de r lightful evening, and then passing down off the front steps, the slam of Y the door the cnly satisfaction of the ' evening. C I know there is a great deal of talk e about the self-denials of the Chris T tian. I have to tell you that where .1 the Christian has one self-denial the r man of the world has a thousand ' self-denials. The Christian is not f commanded to surrender anything t that is worth keeping. But what e does a man deny himself who de d nies himself the religion of Christ? e He denies himself pardon for sin, Y he denies himself peace of conscience, a he denies himself the joy of the Holy e Ghost, he denies himself a comfort ' able death pillow, he denies himself f the glory of Heaven. Do not talk to me about the self-denial of the Christian life. Where there is one 7 in the Christian life there is a. thou 5 sand in the life of the world. "Her a ways are ways of pleasantness." a Again, I find a great deal of re d ligious sunshine in Christian and di a vine explanation. To a great many a people life is an inexplicable tangle. d Things turn out differently from , what was supposed. There is a use - less woman in perfect health. There e is an industrious and consecrated 1 woman a complete invalid. Explain s that. There is a bad man with $30, e 000 of income. There is a good man ,1 with $800 of income. Why is that? D There is a foe of society who lives on, t doing all the damage he can, to 75 years of age, and here is a Christian father, faithful in every department t of life, at 35 years of agetaken away by death, his family left helpless. r Explain that. Oh, there is no sen t tence that oftener drops from your e lips than this: "I cannot understand i. it. I cannot understand it." Well, now religion comes in just at - that point with its illumination and s its explanation. There is a business 3 man who has lost his entire fortune. The week before he lost his fortune I there were 20 carriages that stopped Y .at the door of his mansion. The t week after he lost his fortune all f the carriages you could count on one f finger. The week before financial .trouble began people all took oi a their hats to him as he passed down the street. The week his financial s prospects were under discussion peo. a ple just touched their hats without t anywise bending the rim. The weelt e that he was pronounced insolveni t people just jolted their heads as a they passed, not tipping their hats t at all, and the weekc the sheriff sold L. him out all his friends were looking -in the store windows as they weni a down past him. . Now, while the world goes away -from a man while he is in financial -distress, the religion of Christ comes , to him and says: "You are sick, and t your sickness is to be moral purifi r cation; you are bereaved. God s wanted in some way to take your L. family to Heaven, and He must begin a somewhere, and so He took ithe one 1, that was most beautiful and was -most ready to go." I do rot say I that religion explains everything in i this life, but I do say it lays down r certain principles which are grandly consolatory. You know business men f often telegraph in cipher. The mer n ghant in Sa - Francisco telegraphs tc (1 the merchant in New York certain e information .in- ciplier ~which no other s man in-th~t line of business can un derstand, but the merchant in San S Francisco has the key to the cipher, o and the merchant in New York has L the key to the cipher, and on that information transmitted there are I enterprises Involving hundreds ol ' thousands of dollars. Now, the provi. * dences of life sometimes seem to be 0 a senseless rigmarole, a mysterious a cipher; but God has a key to thai e cipher atnd the Christian a key tc r that cipbher, and, though he may hardly be able to spell out the mean* 1 ing, he gets enough of the meaning -to understand that it is for the best, t Now, is there not snnshine in thati~ e Is there not pleasure in that? Far ' beyond laughter, It is nearer the V fopntain of tears than boisterous Sdemonstration. Have you never cried - -for joy? There are tears which are eternal rapture in distillation. I There are hundreds of people whc *are walking day by day in the sub' Ilime satisfaction that all Is for the Sbest, all things working together for -- good for their soul. How a man car "get along through this life withoui the explanation is to me a mystery LWhat! Is that child gone foreveri Are you never to get It back? Is eyour property gone forever? Have a you no explanation, no Christian ex r planation, and yet not a maniaci aBut when you have the religion ol ' .Tesus Christ in your soul It explains e everything so far as It Is best for Syou to understand. You look of i life, and your soul is full of thankua a giving to God that you are so mue d better off than you might be. A mar k passed down the street without an3 e shoes and said: "I have no shoes e Isn't It. a hardship that I have nc nshoes? Other people have shoes!' -until he saw a man who had no feet Then he learned a lesson. You oughi d to thank God for what He does in sstead of grumbling for what He does not. God arranges all the weather Sin this world-the spiritual weather and patriotic I devoutly pray that ievents may vindicate the wisdom of t his action, and that peace, justice, free -dom and prosperity may hereafter be the portion of every citizen of South [Carolina, D. H. Champerlain, ,Governor of South Carolina. SEditorially The Register commented SEa. follows on the proclamation: HIC0 JACET. Chamberlain published an address to his fellow Republicans, which is a com pcund of bitter maledictions leveled at the head. of President Hayes, and of malicious libel upon the good people of South Carolina. It is a Parthian arrow, steeped in venom to the very feather. Happily, however, it can be termed "Chamberlain's farewell lie!" It will be answered hereafter by an abler pea than ours, with incontestible proofs by showing up Chamberlain's entire criminal reord since his advent in South Carolina politics, and expos inig the dark ways by which this polish ed interloper in the ranks of honorable~ men has acq-iired the vast wealth which he holds today, wrueg during the past, eight years from the sad contributions f the rnhlic caamimy. the moral weather, as well u the natural weather. "What kind of weather will it be to-day?" said Il some one to a farmer. The farmer replied: "It will be such weather as I like." "What do you mean by that?" asked the other. "Well," said h the farmer, "it will be such weather b as pleases the Lord, and what pleases the Lord pleases me." Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of 6 Christian explanation! Here is some one bending over the grave of the dead. What is going to be the consola tion? The flowers you strew upon the C tomb? Oh, no. The services read at t] the grave? Oh, no. The chief consola- II Lion on that grave is what falls from p the throne of God. Sunshine, glorious V sunshine! Resurrection sunshine! p Sometimes you wish you could make t) :ho tour of the whole earth; going iround as others have gone, but you o have not the means. You will make 81 the tour yet, during one musical pause y tn the eternal anthem. I say these p things for the comfort of those people h who are abridged in their opportuni- n ties, those people to whom life is hum- a drum, who toil and work and aspire y after knowledge, but have no time to get =t, and say: "If I had the oppor- e tunities which other people have, how a t would fill my mind and soul with grand thoughts!" Be not discouraged, b miy friends. You are going to the uni- f versity yet. Death will only matricu late you into the royal college of the aniverse. Besides that, we shall have all the r pleasures of association. We will go R right up in the front of God without any fright. All our sins gone, there will be nothing to be frightened about. There our old Christian friends will troop around us. Just as now one of your sick friends goes away to Florida, :he land of flowers, or the south of France, and you will not see him for A a long while, and after awhile you meet him, and the hollows under the E eyes are all filled and the appetite has 0 come back and the crutch has been r thrown away, and he is so changed you p hardly know him. You say: "Why, I C never saw you-look so well." He says: "I couldn't help but be well. I have 5 been sailing these rivers and climbing t these mountains, and that's how I got E this elasticity. I never was so well." Oh, my friends, your departed loved S ones are only away for their health in a a better climate, and when you meet t: them they will be so changed, and f after awhile, when you are assured t that they are your friends, your de- b parted friends, you will say: "Why, 1 where Is that cough? W re is that t paralysis? Where is that: eumonia? t Where is that consumptie. ." And he b will say: "Oh, I am entirely well. There are no sick ones in this country. I have been ranging these hills, and 1 hence this elasticity. I have been here now 20 years, and not one sick one have t I seen. We are all well in this cli mate." And then I stand at the gate of the Celestial city to see the processions come out, and I see a long procession 1 of little children, with their arms full of flowers, and then I see a procession of kings and priests moving in Celes tial pageantry-a long procession, but no black tasseled vehicle, no mourning group, and I say: "How strange it Is! t Where Is your Greenwood? Where is C your Laurel Hill? Where Is your West-. minster abbey?" - And they shall cry: "There are no graves here." And then 1 listen for the tolling of the old belfries r of Heaven, the old belfries of eternity. f I listen to hear them toll for the dead. f They only strike up a silvery chime, t tower to tower, east gate to west gate, C as they ring out: "They shall hunger B no mord, neither thirst any more, 11 neither shall the sun light on them nord any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to I living fountains of water, and God r shall wipe away all tears from their t eyes." Oh, unglove your hand and give it to me in congratulation on that Bcene! I feel as If I could shout.- -I will shout. 'I Dear Lord, forgive me that I ever com plained about anything. If all this is before us, who cares fer anything but God and Heaven agternal brother- C hood? Take the crape og..the door- C bell.. Your loved ones are only'~* y for their health in a land ambrosial. 9 Come, Lowell Mason; come, Isaac 9 Watts. Give us your best hymn about t joy celestial. What is the use of postponing our I Heaven any longer? Let It begin now, and whosoever hath a harp let him 'I thrum It, and whosoever hath a trum- c pet let him blow It, and whosoever a hath an organ let him give us a full a diapason. They crowd down the air, y spirits blessed, moving in cavalcade of $ triumph. Their chariot wheels whirl 3 In the Sabbath sunlight. They come! a Halt, armies of Godl Halt until we are I ready to join the battalion of pleas- r ures that never die! Oh, my friends, It would take a ser- ( mon as long as eternity to tell the joys t that are coming to us. I just met open a the sunshiny door. Come in, all ye dis iples of the world who have found the e world a mockery. Come in, all ye dis ciples of the dance, and see the bound ing feet of this aeavenly gladness. r Come in, ye disciples of worldly amuse ment, and see the stage where kings a are the actors and burning words the footlights and thrones the spectacular. Arise, ye dead in sin, for this 13 the morning of resurrection. The joys of Heaven submerge our soul. I pull out E the trumpet stop. In thy presence there is a fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Blest are the saints beloved of God;: -Washed are their robes in Jesus' blood, t Brighter than angels. 1*, they shine. e Their glorien splendid and sublime? -My soul anticipates the day, Would stretch her wings and soar away: To a1d the song, the palm to bear, D And bow, the chief of sinners, there. Oh, the sunshine, the glorious sun- r -shine, the everlasting sunshine? "What a secretie fellow your book-d keeper Is!" "Yes,his own wife has never learned hisu middle name."-Chicag@ Becord. b The Insurance Business. t The official statement of the business a done in South Carolina during the year a 1900 by the life insurance companies t. licensed to do business in the State was e Wednesday completed in the office tf 'the comptroller general. The state- rt met is a very complete one, made up b from the reports filed by the companies tl as required by law. The statement si show that the companies received in ai premiums the sum of $1,510,419,33, t] and the Mutual Life of New York heads a -the list in this respect, having collected el $299,323 91; the New York Life coming ai next with $219,302.61, and the Equit- ti able taking third place with $187,172.- w 98. The statement as to premiums lr shows a surprising incresse in the buui- tU nes of small life companies. The rc total of the losses sustained by all the companies doing business in the State was $526,016.89. The heaviest losses were sustained by the Equitable, the d mount being 499,371. The total of d< the new Dolicies issued during the year 11 is $12,423,313 25, and the total of all 0 policies carried in this State on Dec. c; 1 is an3~O4,3999na on DIVINE BEALING. r Brimm Holds to His Views. Pres bytery's Action. The Charleston presbytery, which as been in session at Walterboro, has een having more trouble about the iews of Dr. Brimm of Columbia on the ibject of divine healing. It will be :called tba' Dr. Brimm resigned his hair at the theological seminary be mse of his views on this subject, and sere were other proceedings in the Latter by the presbytery. The corres andent of The News and Courier at falterboro thus relates what took lace at the presbytery's session about ie case: "The most important matter which ame before the presbytery for con ideration was the case of Dr. Brimm, rho, on account of his peculiar views ith reference to the doctrine of divine ealing, has become unacceptable as a sinister to the presbytery. Dr. Brimm anounced his position last year. His iews not being in acord with the 'resbyterian ideas, he resigned the hair which he held in the theological )minary at Columbia and addressed letter to the fall meeting of the pres j tery asking that his name be dropped om the roll of me mbers of that body. 'he matter was very gene rally discussed t that meeting, as the readers of The [ews and Courier will remember. The tault was that Dr. Brimm's request ras refused and he was enjained from remulgating his pecaiiai views. "Upon assembling this week, the resbytery was put in possession of no:her letter addressed to it by Dr. rimm, dated April 4, in which he gain state d his position at d informed hat body that he weuld refuse after Lpril 12 to obey the ir junotion placed pon him. The letter is a very warm r.e. and mould mike very interesting eding, but the presbytery refused to ermit this correspondent to have a opy for publication. -Practically two days were con amed in discussing the cage. Finally he following resolution, of ared by Dr. mith, was adopted: "Resolved, That the presbytery re rets very sincerely and deeply the iew that Dr. Brimm takes of the ae ion of the body at its meeting last all; that the pre-bytery regards the arms which Dr. Brimm has allowed imself to use in the letter of April 4, 901, now before this body, entirely uwarranted by anything in the rela ions between the writer and this pres ytery, or in the course pursued by bie body in their dealings with him "The presbytery desires to remind )r. Brimm that Charleston presbytery ; not less sincere in its convictions of ruth than is he himself, and that bese convictions are just as decided nd just as unalterable as are his own 'he presbytery therefore solemnly and arnestly reiterates its previous- de verance as to the unscriptural and rconstitutional character of these iews. With this conviction of the harter of the views maintained and efended by Dr. Brimmn, the presby try, with all kindness, but with equal ader, informs Dr. Birmm that it can ot consent that a minister under its ariadiction stlall teach or publish them i any way ; the presbytery therefore peats with emphasis the iniunction it lt obliged to place upon him at the ll meeting. with the hope and expe ation than Dr 3rimm will respect the onvictions and authority of this court a long as he remains a member of it s accordance with section 4 of his or ination vow. "The section to which reference is e'e made is to the effect that he shall emain in subjection to his brethern in he Lord." GROSS CORRUPrION. he Glorious Spread of Anglo Saxon Civilizntion ina. A dispatch from Manila says the trial f commiseary Sergeant John Meston haiged with complicity in the com iissary frauds is finished. No verdict g...announced, and Meston's con ition'is uncer ' Ot....Qher trials of bose implicated will fo w.--Caph. ames C. Reed, formerly depot com iisary at Manila has been arrested. It is alleged that entries upon the ocks of Evans & Co., government ontractors, indicame that the ecmais - ionary cfcers received the following um-: Mlaj. George B. Dovies up-. rards of $1,000; Capt. James C. Read, 1,000; Capt. Frank H:. Lawton. $750; r. B. Tremaine, Cal. Woodruifrs hief ochrk, $700. It also appears that vans & Co furnished the handsome esidence cf Col. Woodruff. Harold Mi. Pitt, manager of Evans & o.; whois now under arrest was no riously lavish in entertaining com issary and other officers while the de ot commissary a, frequenter of the 'enderlion district," occasionally spent ays at Pitt's house in questionable aciety. Pitt's house is a bacchanalian end zvous, and prominent officers fre ently visited it, drinking champagne nd playing carde. Women of doubt al reputation hava often been known a be there. In is always alleged that itt had the inside track in securing overnment contracts and it is also as red that he was prime mover in the heme to reestablish cockpits in ania. Mrs. Laria being subsidized in euring a cockpit. It is asserted that he commissary department unauthoriz d purchases of quantities of chain agne. Pitt sold some. In addition to that the transports brought, the corn issary imported 200 gallons in 'ebruary and a like amount in March. 'he commissary and the commissary rgeant kept private carriages and in ulged in other extravagances. Robbers Robbed. Two men, with drawn revolvers rob. ed Ben Marsh's gambling house at [emphis Wednesday. They spent Iree minutes in the place and secured ver $3,000. No clue has been secured to their identity. Marsh and his aistants were balancing the cash after ie night's play when the robbers rush i into the room. A purse on the table mtained $2,500 while Marsh held $500 Shis hands. The four men in the som were ordered to lie on the floor or e killed. They quickly obeyed and ie robbers statched the money in ght. Then the robbers ordered Marsh id the others to stand up and went rough their pockets. The gamblers ado no resistance as they were threat ed with instant death. Onuly a small nount was found in the pockets of be victims andr.--overing the inm ates ith revolvers, the robbers backed om the room and escaped. So far e police have found no. clue to the bbrs._________ A NEW York young man was sken to the asylum the other y who is suffering from the lusion that every pretty wo an he sees is in love with him. rangeburg county has a few llow youths who are suffering om the ame complaint. HE HITS BACK. Senator McLaurin Expresses His Views of Senator Tillman. DECLINES A CONTROVERSY For Benefit - of Senior Senator's Candidate. His Reason f.or Favoring Certain Measures. Senator McLaurin came back at Sens. tor Tillman Saturday in an interview with a Charleston reporter he says: "I have only this to say in reference to Senator Tillman's interview. So far as his personal attack on me is con cerned, the public prints are not the place to reply. I neither court nor de sire his friendship or good opinion. Nor do I propose for the benefit of someone else to be drawn into a cntroversy with him. I am ready to do my own fighting and want other people to do the same." Concerning his vote -on the Paris treaty, Senator MeLaurin sail: "I did intend to vote with the major i y of the Demo3rats against the rati fication of the treaty, for reasons purely of party considerson. I never said anything to Senator Tillman or any one else to give him the right to rufa.lly say that I was "bitterly opposed" to its ratification. It is and has been in tensely unpleasant for me to diffe, from so many of my party associates. I had just been through a campaign full of bitterness and desired if possi ble to avid further differences. The appeal was made to me to defeat the treaty and secure the tactics: advant age of defeating the administration and; forcing them to call an extra session. It is a pretty low 'plane of action, but for the sake of peace and- to avoid just whathas occurred since, eoneladed' to vote for the rejction of the treaty.'; It nas with this .idea that I wid home Saturday night. Sanday after noon sitting in my dining raom, hesa a newsboy cailing extras and sent:, out and'got cue. I saw thai the na tives had opened fire on our troops and when I road the account made up my mind at once that the treaty should bed ratified so as to ix the s-atus of the Ua ted States in a foreign war alreadyon. It made the people on our troops rebels, and not as intruders. Tbe 3.) days. lacking before an extraseson couldbe called might. be produe:1 of untold harm. ~ I have never seen the day sinot when I was not glad that I "did have the strength to vote as I thought right. Idid so freely and with no promnise or pledge from any man. "Immediately it was published tothe world that I had been promised Jirdgs Simonton's place. A more infameusly false and cruel slander was never per petrated. "Tnere .hsn's been a time in five years when I haven't wished sthat I could decently and honorably get out of public life. When resident~ M3. Kinley offered me the placi intended for a Dem'eerst on the Philippine corn mission I d c ined and told him that>I never wanted anything for myself as his hands, but that if thiraugh mn, e cou'd help Bouth Carolina I wanted him to doit. This is all l ever desire or expet, and iflIdid not feel thas was helping and could help my 8Sate nothing on earth could induee me to submit one hour longertosuea visuper ation ud abuse. "It is no new role," c )ntinued 'the1 Senator, "fcr Senator Tilbnan; He be san his career by abusing and slander ing better men. I have naught buh contempt for an intelle'eta buity anid shamek sa pretender masquerading as a statesman, a moral pigmy posing as the champion of honesty." Concerning the charge of plagiarism MoLaurin said: "So far as plagiarising Dr. Vai' Dyke's sermon is concerned, it' was largely die to accident.- I was much struck with its beauty of thought and~ diction. I had a borrowed copy and dictated from it three ot four sentences. to my stenographer, and in the original which any one can see, are the words 'parophrasing the recent utterances of a distinguished divine,' etc. They were left out the eopy. After makig the speech I went South on the next train and never saw the speech again until it was in print. My secretary did not notice it, and had distribuk d sev eral thousand befo.-e my attention was called to it." Ohn conclusion Senator McLaurin made this caustin comment: "I sincerely regret the mortification to the sen:tive,delicate and refined nature of my colleague. Honors are easy, however, fox, I can assure him that I have experienced similar pangs at some of the 'pitchicrk tunes' which he plays to the disgast of the senate and the delectation of the gallery loafers." The Convenient PistoL The Atlanta Constitution says an other terrible tragedy must be scored to the account of the convenient pistoL. Two men, both good citizens, men of peace and apparently on the best of terms with each other, were together. Just what occurred does not seem lear because of the confilcting state. .ments; but one of them now lies dead, and the other is in jail charged with kihiing a fellow man. It is unneces sary to discuss the details further thana to say if there would have been no pis tol at hand there would have been no killing; the life of a splendid fellow would have been spread; the great sor row which has come to the other and to those dear to him would have been averted. There might have been a quarrel and even a fight, bit there would have been no killing. The pres ence of the pistol is to blame for it all. Another tragedy must be charged to its secount. THE British Chancellor of the. Exchequer admits that the Boor war has "brought the country to the verge of ruin," but, as :he said, this is a fact which needs no official confirmation. JHe stated that "this small war has cost E151,000,000"-$750,00,O00 -which is enough to bring any country to "the verge of ruin," as the State says. OLD Paul Kruger knew what he was talking about when he declared at the beginning of hos tilities that before Great Britain conquered the two little Boer re publics she would be made to "pay a price that would stagger humanity," England has alt ready paid that price and yet the little republics are not yet coin THE COLUMBIA MAY FESTIVAL. Farther Facts About the Coming ;Musical Event. Columbia, April 20.-Special: The arrangements for the .entertainments of the Columbia Festival Association are now complete in all details. There will be three concerts-one in the evening of May 6, one in the afternoon of May 7 and one in the evening of May 7. The list of soloists has already been given in this correspondence, but is repeated here: Sig. Gniseppe- Companani, Baritone. Mrs. Marie Kunkel Z:mmerman, Soprane. liss Fielding Roselle, Contralto. Miss Marie Nichols, Solo Violinist. Mr. Glenn Hall, Tenor. Mr. Govlym Mades, Baritone. There are other fine voices that will be heard. The names above are of artists each of whom comes from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Each ranks high in the musical pro fession, and each may be expected to sustain the reputation already achitved. The Boston Festival Orchestra, com prising 50 musicians, under Emil Mol lenhauer as conductor, will furnish mutio of a class never yet heard in Columbia-the only bands thus far visiting our city, of a siz 3 to compare at all with this 'great orchestra from Boston, having been on the order of strictly military bands. Of course the mui, of the orchestra will present altogether different fatures-as enjoy able surely as they will be novel. 1'he grand otorus of 200 voices is rapidly approaching the stage which will make itf music attractive in the bighest possible degree. These singers, residents of Columbia, are under the training of Prof. Geo.. S. Kittredge, director of music in the Presbyterian College for Women, this city-an in stitution, by the way, which- has done mu, h indeed to ouluvate and broaden the musical taste of the community. The prices of season tickets to the festival are as follows: For two per sons $5.00; for one person $3.00. Single tickets will be sold at $1.50 each. The railroads have agreed to make a rate of one fare for the round trip. The concerts will be given in Colum bia's new theatre which is conceded to be in all respects one of the very best in the entire South. It is generally expected that a large number of people will come from dif ferent parts of South Carolina. Any further information may be ob-airel on application to the Colum bia Festival Association, this city. THE VALUE OF VACCINATION. Proof 'of Its Efficacy That is Con vincing to All The CLicago Record-Herald states that an editorial commending smallpox which was recently I u'lished in that paper "has been the subject of vehem ent pro'ests on the part of correspond ents, who ask whether it is based upon idle opinion merely or upon proof." As a sample of the demands made by in credulous correspondents it is stated that one of them inquired if the editor "knew of a single case wherein vac cination had prevented smallpox?' To this The Record Herald aptly replies that 'if this question is presented as an argument we can only say that there w'ould be need of more than human in telliger es to swear in any particular case that contagion had been prevented by vaccination." The question is there fore dismissed as "dieingenuous' and The IRe->rd Huald proceeds to make a convincing reference to "the history of the disease tbrough a period of years." For this iu--p se it had eon sulted the Chicago health department, from which the following figures for the last five months were obtamned: Out of the total 171ecases of smallpox found in Chicago between Nov. 30, 1900, and April 10, 1901-the period of the present epidemic-140 had never been vaccinated. Of the remaining 31 cases, 29 were adulte showing faint, poor or iragular irus claimed to be evidence of att'mpe..vccination in infancy or early childhod-tli most recent beine 23 years old. Ocly two out of the 171, cases exhibited typical scars of sucessiful vaicination. Of these one was 35 years old-"vaccinated when a child;' revaccination attempted three years ago, without result; vaccine lymph probably inert. The other was 40 years old, also successfully vacci nated in childhood, but never revacci nated. Thene are the only two cases of the total 171 upon whom vaccination was ever sucoessfully attemped, and the most recent of these was more than thirty years ago. These facts should be convincing enough to dissipate the doubts of the most skeptical. They are, howt Ter, not isolated instances, for the history of every otber smallpox epidemic reveals the same circumstancee. There is nothiag else in the realm of medical experence so iodisputably demon strated as the efficacy of vaccination against smalipor. Not only do the histories of epidemics prov, its value but the absence of epidemics proves it. For instance. The Record Hera!d goes on to Eay: Since vaccination was made compul sory in the schools smallpox has van ished from them. The requirement was first put into effect in 1867, and from that year until 1891 there were only sevntien cases all told of smallpox and varioloid. It is the opinion of the health department that these may be explained by the imperfect inaugura tion of the compulsory system, and it is certainly remirkable that as it con tinued in operation the disease dis appeared entirely. For twenty years the schools were immune, and four cases which were reported last winter simply serve to strengthen belief in the efficacy of vaccination. The patients were pupils who had been let in on fraudulent certificates and who had never been vaeoinated. They were the exception which proves the rule. Fin ally, since vaccination has been uni versally practiced in the Chicago police department the officers have been free from smallpox, and that is a fact of much significance. Policemen go every where, arrong all sorts of people, so that they are exceptionally liable to exposure. Can it be a mere chiance blat, though tui is true and they are everal theusand in number, they en iy perfect immunity from the disease? rhere will always be a few mirguided people who believe with the late 9,ev. Elr Jasper that the sun do move. An Act of Justice. A pension of $8 a month tcday was ~rante d to Mrs. JdLn C. Breckidridge, idow of the former vice president of he Unitd Stater. M'r. Breekinridge nze maj wr of the Third Kentncky volun eers in the M1exican war. The persion arries arrers ameu'iting to $1,350.