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/ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE J,* Ottofetr M, 1IM B> SPECTATOR ... COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS V In this Rood year d oar Lord, rno thousand nine hundred and si*-: i% it is a far cry for a Southern man to cite Abraham Lincoln as worthy of emulation by our national, government , This is the 100th aniversary of Sooth Carolina's secession, an act has*! on Mr Lincoln's attitude Mr Lincoln, however, steadily re fused to endorse the rabid foes of the South: he maintained his posi-! lion with calmness and dignity. I say it gladly, because Mr. Lincoln would be horrified by the national government's attitude today. Hear Mr Lincoln, along with some remarks by E. F. Hutton, remarks very - pertinent today: “As 1960 is the 100th anniversary of the election of the first Re publican President — Lincoln by name, it will be interesting to read the touching references to him that - CATCH THE CURE * _ j; x—J A* oM cookbook gives the cure for asthma, ‘TMm me mm of a muskrat—fur side nut to the body— over the longs " C ertain rekrf was assured h i com fort** to know that we have more reliable methods today In recent years medical science has achieved ■catcutaNc improvements in the care and treatment of ittnew. Your physician can tell you about the effective medications available Seek his professional advice when you’re ill. Then, if he recommend* medwatior come to us for quality fvcscnpuooa. HOWARD’S PHARMACY VOI R REXAM, DRIT. STORE ’On the Square*’ Phone 101 wiU be made in the GOP platform, and by their keynote orator “There is mighty little of Lincoln left in the GOP. Just as Jefferson has been didcanM by the Demo cratic Party. “The Democrats have long since stopped saying that they are fol lowing Jefferson in anything they do today But the GOPs enn't disre gard the fact that this is a Centen nial year They’ve got to say some thing nice about Mr Lincoln, but what? They wfll not say that Lincoln said: “ The maintenace inviolate of the rights of the States and espec ially of the right of each state to or- der and control its own domestic in stitutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection of our political fab ric depends 'They will not say that this prin ciple was violated by the Supreme Court in the school integration case. They will not tell that Lincoln strongly condemned the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case be cause it would not recognize the law <.>f Illinois “They will not repeat the words of the Republieap platform of 1M0 I which viewed with lerm the reck less extravagance 1 which pervades every department of the fedral gov- erument'.’* Ckn Northern Cftetxfc may not know the real reibih for the deep feeling of resentment feh by the South; they may think this resent- men: is based on abolition of slav ery I doubt that The South paid i an enormous price for the institu tion of slavery. The Emancipation of the slaves was an act of military necessity, whether legal or imag ined: it did not abolish slavery in ■some border States The feeling of the South might be warm and fnendly if the spirit of Lincoln and Grant had prevailed. The South having honorably fought and honorably surrendered was not readmitted to the family as we have acted toward Ithaly, Germany ' and even Japan!! The South was stripped clean, ut terly exhausted but ready to make a new start. What happened'* The yinuu people of the South and the North know nothing about Recon struction in the South Read Corinthians 15:20-26 Aad what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead. (Ephesians 1:19-20) In his play, ‘The Trial of Jesus,” John Masefield describes a scene be tween Pilate’s wife and the Roman soldier who reported that the tomb of Jesus was empty. Excitedly she asked him, “Do you think He is dead?** “No. lady, 1 dont,” he replied. •'Then where is He?” she inquired. "Loose in the world,” he answered. “Where no one can stop His truth." This is God's declaration to all the forces of evil. Jesus of Naza reth has broken out of earth's prison Christ has triumphed over sin, death, and the grave! He lives today' The resurrection message brings hope to the Christian in this dark day Christ’s mighty power within us makes us conquerors over every temptation, sorrow, or loss in this present world Moreover, He gives us immortality* PRAYER Full us, O Father, with Thy mighty power so that we may be more than conquerors through Illy love. Help us to recog- niae Tby constant nearness to encourage and guide us always. Hake us triumpaat. through the power of our living Lord, in His name. Amen. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY We find comfort and challenge in the words of the nsen Christ. "Lo, 1 am with you alway” Laura S. Emerson (Indiana) World-wide Bible Reading—Genesis 37:1-36 alarmnlg degree In Umrtrtiia the public- debt me from ten to fifty million dollars to the 1 few years of carpetbag government; in Ala- lion: in Georgia nearly fifty mil lion; in Georgia nearly flfyt mil lion. These are but samples of all. The increase indicated no public improvements — only theft. Taxes rose to a point beyond the ability of the people to pay. In Mississippi six hundred and forty thousand acres, one-fifth of the state, were forfeited for taxes. In South Caro lina twenty-six hundred pieces of land were sold for taxes in one county in a single year. The negro voters were easily led into cor rupt business, but the carpetbagger always managed to get the lion’s share. Here and there an ex-Con- federate would join the thieving gang for the plunder there was in it. Such were called ‘scalawags.’ “The better class of whites stood aghast and helpless at the further impoverishment of their already bankrupt states. Many kept a sul len, bitter silence; but the more vicious class formed a secret or ganization known as the ‘Ku Klux Klan.’ “The carpetbag governments dis appeared with the withdrawal of the troop#, and the state govern ments immediately passed again to the hands of the white men. And this was most natural. Nothing else could possibly have been ex pected. The white race had labored for centuris to attain slf-govern ment It paid more than 90 per cent of the taxes. Could it be possible that the government of these great communities should be turned over to a landless, penniless, homeless, illiterate race that knew not the first principles of self-government? Such a spectacle is unknown in the world’s history. Where the brains and property are on the one side and most of the ignorance and pov erty on the other, the former will rule at any cost. The cost in this case was too often violence and fraud; but under the same con ditions the same results must have followed in the North, or anywhere else. ‘The rule of the white man is es sential to southern progress. Can it be said, on general principles, or on the basis of the carpetbag gov ernments, jjtat the black race could have developed the South as it has been developed since the war? The writer of this volume believes him self to be as Marly wfcfcMt nee prejumc* rs r nornisj wnfic flMCl can be; but he believes that all thoughtful people will Hurt the great development of tbe South since the war—in art, in science, literature, education, and In mate rial resources—could not have been, except under die domination of the white race. “Then arises the question, Why do not the two races blend and cooperate in matters of govern ment? This brings up the so-ceiled race problem, the moot serious and menacing question before the Amer ican people today. In two respects the two races have refused to blend —politically and socially. Nor is h possible to coerce them. It is folly to attempt by legislative acts, or by moral pressure, to force wmat- ural relations between therg^ Na ture seems to have drawn a line be tween the races that naan has power to obliterate. In matters of business the two races may have and do have the most cordial rela tions; but in politics and in the social circle there is a gulf between them, almost as wide now as at! the close of the war.’' Jefferson School of Commerce < HARI.OTTESX II.I E. VA. Is Happy To Announce to the CUNTON-LAURENS AREA Plans For OUR SECOND CLASS - OFFERING — Secretarial General Business Shorthand. Gregc «*r A-B-C T> pe» riling BuMnw* English tUtfikkrt-pint: (Optional) Filing ( leriral Practice- T> pewriting Husines* English Accounting I Accounting II and III Filiaff Clerical Practices PKACTIt AL COI USES DESIGNED TO QI ALIFY THE STl DENT FOR OFFICE POSITIONS WITH MINIMI M COST AND TIME Free Placement Service To Graduates Who Can Enrol] ( mir-e- Are Open to Both Men and Women. Age I- No Barrier. A High School Diploma I- NOT Necessity. . Training Will NOT Interfere With Your Job or Holiday Activities. Classes W ill lie Held At Night. 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Name St. Addres* City Slate Phone, If Rural Resident List Directions Japan snick us a foul Wow; we lost fine ships of war. hundreds of our sailors and then followed a bloody era in which thousands of young men died in Asia and the adjacont waters Tbe billions of dollars spent in complete loss may not count today, but thousands of mothers and widows and sweet hearts still mourn their heavy loss es. And when it was over what do we find - * America rebuilding Japan. America rebuilding Germany'! What happened in the South’' Hear Elson. an Ohio scholar whose history deals with facts: “Congressional reconstruction was thorough, drastic, merciless; a study of it enlists our sympathies with the South The governments it set up were all temporary, and during their short existence the most corrupt in the annals of the United States Had it not been for the summary negro laws made by some of the Southern states in 1666. and the abusive violence of Presi dent Johnson, public opinion at the North would not have sustained Congress in its methods of proce dure It is true that something more was necessary to be done for the Mack men than merely set him free It seemed needful that he be protected, for a time at least, by the national arm This was effected by congressional reconstruction and the result was a senes at milder negro laws in the Southern states and the adoption at the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the national Constitution Aside from this, congreasional reconstruction left no permanent results, and the expediency of adopting the two amendments is at this day serious ly questioned and whatever their merits, they have practically ceas ed to be operative in the South. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, it will be remember ed, deal onlv with the states and i do not protect the individual voter: from local violence while casting his ballot. For such protection the negro must still depend solely on the state in which he resides If it refuses to protect him. he has no re dress. “The governments set up during those days were scandalous beyond precedent The old political leaders were not yet permitted to take part in the suite governments Tbe new ly enfranchised freedmen were ut terly unfit to take the lead, and the I result was that a class of unscrupu-1 lous adventurers from the North, packing up their goods in carpet hag. as it was said, went to the South, won the negro voters by their blandishments, and soon had the state governments under their control The state treasuries were plundered and bonds were issued increasing the state debts to an T HEAR TENNESSEE 1%I »#F FORD OVER WLBG MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY 1:15 — 1:30 SPONSORED BY BALDWIN MOTOR CO Your FORD-MERCURY-FALCON Dealer Very, Very Soon FM At 100.5 Meg. 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