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FLORENCE, 8. C., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1895
No. 106
DEMAND PROTECTION.
Armenians Petition
to Right Their
American
Congress
Wrongs.
Mr. Walker (Rep. of Massachu
setts) offered a resolution from
the naturalized Armenians of the
United States, nine-tenths of
whom, he said, lived in his dis
trict, and requested that it be
printed in the Record. The reso
lution reads as follows:
“Whereas there are many natu
ralized American citizens of Ar
menian birth now resident in the,
•United States, and
“Whereas the Turkish govern
ment continues unjustly and forci
bly to collect personal taxes of
such naturalized American citi
zens by imprisoning and other
wise oppressing their relatives,
and
“Whereas the Turkish govern
ment neither permits such natural
ized American citizens to re-enter
its territory or to visit their fami
lies, nor, on the other hand, al
lows these families to come to this
country, and
“Whereas such wives and child
ren having the rights of American
citizens, by virtue of the natural
ization of the head of the family,
having been and are exposed to
outrage and destruction in the
cities which have lately been given
over to massacre and plunder;
therefore, be it
“Resolved, That the people of
the United States, through their
representatives in Congress assem
bled, hereby express their deepest
abhorrence and condemnation of
the outrages thus committed on
their American fellow citizens, as
well as on other Christian subjects
of Turkey.
“Resolved, That this House,
composed of the immediate repre
sentatives of the American people,
pledge its support to the govern
ment in every measure justified by
international law and a common
humanity to vindicate the rights
of our fellow citizens or their fam
ilies in Turkey, and to hinder and
prevent, as fur as practicable, the
continuance of the outrages and
massacres in that land/’
Mr. Turner (Dem. of Georgia)
(objected to printing the petition,
and it was referred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, after which,
at 12 30, the House adjourned un
til Monday.
APPEAL TO AMERICA.
Rev. M. V. Deroonian, D. D.,
who is the representative of the
Armenian Patriarchs at Constan
tinople, has come to Washington
as the bearer of a petition to Con
gress prepared at a mass meeting
of the Armenians of New England
held at Worcester, Mass., on
Thanksgiving day.
The petition asks that vigorous
measures be recommended to the
President for putting a stop to the
ma8sacres v of Armenians and con
tinues :
“The sword of Islam is un
sheathed and unless Europe and
America step between fanaticism
and its helpless victims, Armenia,
once a vineyard, must inevitably
become a desert and a tomb. With
in a year there have been wantonly
murdered at least 50,000 of our
people, while hundreds of thous
ands have been reduced to starva
tion. Yet the massacres still go
on, while the warships of the
earth’s favored nations swing at
anchor in Turkish waters. Blinded
by mutual jealousy the powers of
Europe refuse to move.
“Therefore, turning our eyes to
the United States, we look to Con
gress for words of encouragement
and the? warning note that will
stay the bloody arm of our oppress
ors.
“We appeal to you, uot as aliens,
but in the name of 10,000 law-
abiding Armenians, now residents
in the United States and who are
rapidly giving it their allegiance.”
TILLMAN & EVANS CONDEMNED
To the Patrons of the Graded
School*
The Florence graded school will
close on Dec. 20 for the Christmas
holidays. I deem it very impor
tant that every pupil shall be at
the school every day until it will
close, and that every pupil shall
be promptly present the day the
echo'd will open. I take the lib
erty therefore of appealing to the
parents and friends of the pupils
to co-operate earnestly with me in
keeping the attendance of the
school as near the enrollment as
possible. Absence at this time
will be seriously detrimental to
the progress of any pupil anti may
peril the position of the absentee
in his or her grade. The board
have given a sufficiently long vaca
tion and both the superintendent
and the board are sincerely anx
ious to have all the pupils present
on every day of the term.
Junius E. Leigh, Supt.
Full stock of fresh fish, oysters
and mullet ro® at Walton’s.
Resolutions Passed byth® Expo
sition Exhibitors' Association.
Whereas. The public expression
of representative men who have
visited the Atlanta exposition have
been of a conciliatory character,
marked by evidence of the broad
est patriotism and the most sin
cere fraternity, and
Whereas, This characteristic has
been true regarding the expres
sions of distinguished visitors,
whether those visitors came from
the north, the east, the west or the
south, and
Whereas, The friends ami pro
motors of the Atlanta fair, by rea
son of the many fraternal expres-
sions their enterprise had pro- \
yoked from patriots of all parts of
the Union, had begun to regard 1
the more friendly relations be
tween the different sections of our
common country as one of the
best and most gratifying results
likely to grow out of their stu
pendous enterprise; therefore be it
Resolved, By the Exhibitors’
association of said Atlanta expo
sition. a body composed largely of
American citizens and represent
ing all parts of the Union and all
shades of political opinion, that
we deeply deplore the one marked
flagrant exception to the hereto
fore prevailing expressions of fra
ternity. brotherly love, patriotism
and loyalty, that was made mani
fest at this exposition on South
Carolina day, and in which the
ex-governor of that state, Ben Till
man, and the present governor,
John Gary Evans, were the offend
ers.
Resolved, That we know, from
our contact and intercourse for
the past few months with south
ern people, that in their disloyal
and inflammatory utterances those
two ranting demagogues are a libel
on the better class of southerners
and do not give voice to the pre
vailing southern sentiment.
Resolved, That we sympathize
with the Southern States ot our
Union in the affliction which com
pels them to endure such blots on
their inner worth and such clogs
to their merited progress; and we
especially sympathize with the ig
norance that must yet prevail in
South Carolina to make it possi
ble for such scum to rise to the
surface.
Resolved, That for the fame and
guild name of the Atlanta exposi
tion, at wnich these men were un
fortunately permitted to apeak.
we denounce their speeches as
being devoid of reason, sense and
patriotism, and we repudiate the
speakers. In this wo feel confi
dent we are but voicing the sense
of our country and the earnest
feelings of the better people of all
the Southern States.
Resolved, That we sympathize
also with the management of this
exposition that under the cloak of
temporary authority two such
fanatics should have been able
to intrude their utterances upon
the otherwise healthy and satis
factory proceedings that have
clnmielerizrd this enterprise. But
while dismissing the utterances
of these nnn as unworthy of
further notice from our associa
tion < r the country, we do not
forget that in the general economy
of nature mankind must have its
troubles and communities their
afflictions. It is not many years
since California was. greatly an
noyed by a brace of bandits known
as Evans and Sontag, and the ex
hibition witnessed here on the
28th of November is but an evi
dence that South Carolina in its
turn is enduring, through its own
indiscretions, a season of torment
from its Tillman and Evans.
Committee for association: J.
A. Filcher, California, chairman;
J. W. Ports, Maryland : \V. F. An
thony, Virginia; Bennett, Tennes
see; C. H. Robbins, Boston.
Approved: George Johnson,
president exhibitor’s association.
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Foot Ball.
A match game of foot ball will
be played Tuesday, D-?c. 10, lie-
tween the first and second teams
of this place. Admissma to the
public is free. Ladies are espec
ially invited to attend.
FIRST 1 BAM. SK' OSD TKAM.
Sautters Lull back .Morgan
Bray night half back —Abbott
Kyle Lcfi halfback ....Bruiuton
Uogcts Quarter back .UtiM
Wilcox ..: Right end .Houston
Hankie Left end ..Morgan
Sn ilh Right tackle ......Btjggd
Stauurd Left tackle ».Whitton
Sudlow Right guard — McOlanagnan
Burch lieft guard .-.Wright
Turbcville (.'enter rush
SUBSTITUTES.
FIRST TEAM.- SECOKD I BAM
Welsh ...Hcpbnm
Clayton .Odlorne
Josey
Game called at 3:30 p. m.
\V. H. Kyle, General Manager.
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Strayed or Stolen-
A red and while spotted o]
largo butt head. A reward will be
paid for its return to Anna Melvii
Ches. McCall’s place.
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