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GOD AND OUR NATIVE LAND. " ? ' CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1893. - _ * "l i : No. la State .jears. zero 28?;' The suffering 16.? The morning the coldest 16. ? Last one and the harbor is all crait. If once ^^?(1 of four m Oat. 16. ? Never | of the Central >South 80 much suffering from as at present Many and some abandoned inng crews. The mo9t ing prevalent among the The snow is from ten >e feet deep in Eastern id Western North (Jaro itern Kentucky, and all >r is suspended. lest for Thirty Yearn. ?lle, TenD., Jan. 16. ? Not ?tears has there been such Hther as now prevails in this k The thermometer is far be Ifcnd a dozen or more people Rrozen to death. Business of lis suspended, and the united Ithe city officials and church ?are being utilized to aid the Ell trains are late, and it is |o run them on anything near .time. Jitelow /.uro in Ashevilie. ille, Jan. 10. ? Last uight coldest recorded in maoy The thermometer registered as below zero, aud at 9 o'clock ning was 4? below, ing continues fine. A gen-jj who came in from Hot Springs ?rniDg reports that the snow six inches deep and that an e had formed in the French River, the blocks of ice being fourteen feet high. Another Afconnt. [EVILLE, Jan 16. ? A special [Hot Springs says that snow .to Jepth of six inches has fallen aud ice ?? has formed in the ;h Broad River for a distance ot le and a half. An ice gorge is ujf in the river to a height of err feet at the hotel bridge and 'entv feH high at the Western th Carolina Railroad Bridge. It ported that at Paint Rock, on the between North Carolina and Ten ee, the snow is nine inches deep that the thermometer dropped to \c below zero last night. What a Farmer Say*. . To the Editor of-the Neic* trier. Much is beiDg said by -83 an<i people about the jsary bill, but by far the most luted and mischievous and the dia un measure passed by the recent Legislature was the railroad law, because it is a direct blow at the constitutional rights of the people. The three departments of governing, with their intercessory [powers, were devised to secure every citizen in person and property, and VRen we deny to any man or class of men the right of appeal, as provided in tne Constitution, we strike at the foundation of our free institutions. Jdere we have a law which boWly denies this right of appeal to an in terest of infinite importance to the State, which gives employment to thousands of her people, and which is absolutely necessary to the industrial prosperijjf of all classes. Tillman declared in the last cam paign that "the issue boiled down was a tight against railroads and corpora tions," and in puresance of this policy the railroads are cut off from the Courts and placed at the mercy of three men, appointed by a power this confessedly inimical to them. I am a farmer atd all my interests are with them, but I can see nothing but evil in such arbitrary and unjuBt legislation. It not reform, out revolution, and like other conceptions of sham relormers, it was born in spite. ? We are now in the third year of j u Reform" rule. Excepting those who have feathefed their neits with an office it baa not put one dollar in a far- ; merY pocket; it has not given us bet- : ter schools or public roads, or in- j creased in the slightest degree the se curity, happiness and prosperity of the farming class. On the other Hand, it has increased our taxes, and this, J when there is no compensating outlay for the public good,3s a sure sign of j incompetent goverunieat. It has bred strife and distrust where there should be a community of interest, and it has earned ^r the farmers of South Carolina, as a class, the con tempt of wise and patriotic men, both at home and abroad. Floronc?, Jan. 9. j. s. J. Will be Embarrassing. The National Watchman , Peoples' party organ, makes the following in teresting announcement: "The Watckman has sent outj a large number of letters through the South asking for a statement of ^Dem ocratic election methods which wilj be printed as jthey come in. Our aim is to show the brethren of the West that the Southern brethren did their full duty, but were cheated out of the re sults." * This seems likely to bring matters to an embarrassing focus for the South ern brethren ? "at this time.? If they show that they "did their full duty" ? which means, we suppose, voting? for Weaver and Field ? they will 'appear rather awkwardly in the conte6& for offices and influence under a Demo cratic administration.- On the other hand, if they confess that they did not "do their full duty" and that they are yet members and voters of the Demo cratic party ? how will they stand be fore their brethren of the West? We will await the answers toj the Watchman and the exposition^ of Southern Democratic frauds with com placent carioshy? Editorial G reenr ville Neics. i ? ? ' ? i- - * V - '*? r1 ! *? cf ARfc HILL AND MURPHY OUT? The Big End of the New York Machine Said to be Tired of Hill and Anxious lor Alliance with Cleveland. The little talk there was in the assembly chamber: the few sparks that flew there in the clash between Cleve land men and Murphy men were as nothing, however, to the talk that is heard around the corridors to night of a new fight ? "a coming tight right inside the State machine, a fight against further control of the party by David B. Hill. That seems now not so far away. Yesterday the first por tent came when Richard Croker, of ! Tammany Hall, looking at Senator Hill, said loud enough for all men : around to hear him: """That man should be in Washington attending to his senatorial business." Such words are never lightly uttered. They meau too much. So the firft question to day, when The World reached Albany and the story spread around, was: "What does it mean?" and then: "Is this the begining of the er\.<?D When old partners want to break a?ay from 1 each other they use such w^rds. Richard Croker would notspeak to night about this utterance of his yester day. He would not say even that he tad used the words, but contented himself with: "I have about made up my mind not say anything at"1- all on the subject." '?Do you deny having used them?" ?'I won't say anything on the sub ject " " . . . i Of course this is an admission that he did speak of David B. Hill as that man who ought to be in Washington. One of the Tammany leaders was ask ed to-night what it meant, and almost in Croker's presence he said: "Mr Croker said what he Yelt." One has not to go far to look for the cause of Mr Croker's feelings. He looks upon David B. Hill as perhaps the only man in the State who stands in the way of amalgamation of the Cleveland and the State Democrac}' interests. 'For some time past it is well known that Mr Croker has been seeking to arrange a peace with the president-elect. He has been to Daniel S. Lamont, who is again get ting to be recognized as Mr Cleve land's mpst trusted adviser, and he has taken pains to assure that gentle man that Mr Murphy has no antagon ism ? to Mr Cleveland, and that he would not seek to oppose the presi dent-elect's policy. Senator Hill's presence at Albany directing the Mur phy canvass seemed, perhapr,^ dis approve the good faith, of these utter ances, and then it was that Mr Croker wished that man was in Washington attending to his senatorial duties. Perhaps, too, inasmuch as -politics are great economists of energy, it may be that the State leaders have corned the conclusion that there is no further need of such a leader as Senator David B. Hill. When he was gover nor he had powe^knd with Tammany HalL In Erie County and Renselaer county he was well nigh unconquer- j able. Now, though, politicians say be brings no strength to the junta. , It used to be Hill, Croker, Murphy and Sheehan. Croker still rules Tam many, Sheeban is still powerful in Erie and Murphy still sways Reoselaer. But Hill sways nothing. Roswell P. Fiower is in his place, and is not j unambitious. Yesterday, when the electors paid the governor their re spects, Croker was by his side, and ; when the others* departed Croker lingered to whisper in his ear. To night Croker was the first to tele phone the news of his nomination to Murphy, but he never went near Hill to congratulate him that the opposi tion to Cleveland in the Senate had boen strengthened. So it is not sur prising that the fresh gossip is of a new^ tight, or rather of an ousting ? that has been sent to the rear J and that Croker, Flower, Murphy and Sheehan are the new retail firm, and i that they are not only willing, biit | very anxious, to do business with the j big wholesale house of Cleveland, | W hitnev, Lamont &? Co. ? X. Y. World . ' Bad in Every Respect. The law is a bad one in every re- j spect, absurd, impossible and injurous. ; It isj^horoughly impolitic and unwise ' for a Slate to embark in the liquor ! businesses South Carolina proposes to do, and there is nothing that can be ! imagined more dangerous than State bar rooms, run by State officials. It i will be especially severe on all who j have embarked in the liquor business, ; who will be absolutely crushed out ' and ruined by it It is seedless to * say that alaw of this kin'dr will, from its very - excess and absurdity, prove a failure. They tried one very much like it in Massachusetts one year. It resulted in a great deal of sickness, or at least the applications for whiskey showed that nearly every man in the State needed it for ^medicinal purposes. The whole matter was so absurd ? | and more than absurd, for it encourag ed hypocrisy and lying ? that the peo ple of Massachusetts took the first opportunity otfered them U> repeal it. And so will the people of South Caro lina as soon as they have tried their new law a short time. ? The New Orleans Timez- Democrat. Now they Ajre Rigtt. Charleston, Jan. 10. ? The City Council at its meeting to night passed a bill amending the license ordinance, so as ta^rovide for the issuing of liquor licenses for six months only. Dealers ^^KHiave taken out licenses for the year will have $50 of tie 'j?oney refunded to the;:: . 1% is gen erally thought that the council have been bulldozed by lie Governor, ? Cor. the Age ij %'? i-~. ' ? i ? ? . - . -r.i' t - ?' * . - ?!.- * ' I .. ???? ?v WAGE-EARNERS AROUSED. a BROAD AND STRONG PlATFORM ADOPTED. An Address to Patriots ? Call for a March j Convention? The Committee Meet* ? Its Addreas. The war is on! The wa^e earners of South Carolina i . ? are up id arms. The workingmen's movement lias i been started, and'* it is destined to overshadow the farmer's movement that began, a few years ago and swept ' the entire Stiite. This movement is started in the I ? line of real reform, aud there are no men in it who are there for the pur-*; pose of seeking office. During the last date of the Legisla ture this movement wasStarted, at a mass meeting attended by represents- ! : tives from various portions of the ! State and held iu the Richland county , ; court house.! At that meeting a com i mittee of earnest workers, representing . the various branches of labor was : pointed to draft an address, platform of principles, plan of organization, as j well as to call a convention. The i I committee waited till the holidays were over, each member deciding to draw up his own plan for presentation when the committee met again. Last night the committee met in Hotel Jerome. Alter quite a long session at which all the plans pre sented were discussed, the paper, with the issuance of which the movement is inaugurated, was prepared and made i public. A full plan of organization, com- 1 plete to the smallest detail, was drawn j up and adopted, but for the present it will not be published^ ft-is tersely outlined in the following paper: THE ADDRESS To\hE PEOPLE. Fellow Wage Workefs-and Sympa thizing Fellow-Citizens: Your co mittee having been appointed formulate a plaur upon the basis which an organization, capable of Cj recting the evils of which we o plain might be effected, feel that t cannot do better than preface plan agreed upon with a few rerna calling attention to. the grounds upon which we seek to justify our action. speaking of the possibility of oppo sition to the iniquitous laws enacted at the recent session of the legislature, ^ it has been said, "Your head is in^the j mouth of the Reform lion and so long j as the lion don't close his jaws, it is j policy to keep quiet and not enrage it ? to crush you; such opposition would j enrage and embitter the triumphant taction and you would bring down | upon the corporations and towns per- 1 haps stricter laws than those which they seek to escape. It would be political suicide to every ambitious man enlisted on the side of the mi- i nority." - . . ; _ J In this manner does the triumph- ; ant faction seek to freeze the manhood j in the veins of those who might under take to oppose its unhallowed course! Thus is the vaunted intellectual j civilization of the nineteenth century resolved again into the kiDgdom of brute force! So has it been decreed that we shall bow down in homage to the edicts of this political Nebuchad nezzar! j But surely the God of Hosts, who ? delivered Daniel out of the den of j lions, will deliver us, aUo, who have v the courage to declare our manhood, j out of the mouth of this ''Reform j Lion!" How, then, shall the Scrip tures be fulfilled, if, in the sequel, there be not "weeping and gnashing of teeth?"> Has it not been written that "the zeal of mine house hath eaten me up? And have they not testified to the zeal of both Houses in doing, as well j as in leaving undone? Witness how salaries have been cut down! Be-^ hold the reduction of taxes! Mark j how the rum trust was defeated! Oh, [ Prohibition, reyuie*cat in pace, for "when I have a more convenient , season I will call for thee!" See how "justice to all sides" has been meted out. Whai matters the might of ten thousand a^inst the might of fifty 1 "Daintf" Wherefore should corpora- ; tioos^nffThe dwellers in cities and j towns object to being legislated "against!" Why should druggists, keepers of hotels, saloons, restaurants, and places of public amusement com plain because exempt from this new j dispensation! Under such conditions it is "policy to keep quiet?" Shall the fear of "em- : bittering the triumphant faction per mit the sword of lii>erty to rust in its sheath, or the shadows oi "political suicide" cause the hand to tremble, as it is drawn from its scabbard? Friends, let us not "strain at gnats and swallow camels;" pious expletives j are not issu^^-of vital importance to ; the people of t^is State. Let them j damn on to t\&r hearts' content, so . long as thev shall not undertake to ? damn the sacred stream of individual ! liberty, by denying equal rights lo all; i bv grunting ?j>ecial privileges to any: or by challenging the right of judicial appeal, a right which has been to a free people as "the shadow of a great j rock in a weary land." It is, how ever. the violation oi'f not one, but all I of these, which causes us to take ; council wi th. each other. ' We are in a minority, yet why should that discourage us? I>et us go | forth like David, with naught but the ! stoue of honest purpose in our sling, j and so Shall we have strength to fight iX&mh Goliath and his Philistines in defense of the heritage of free men. We are sot, and must not be i C03UE, a CLASS. Let welcome to i our and our comfort the J . j . : I ? ! " ? farmer ami the mechanic, the opera- j live aud the laborer: tor our cause is a common cause. W^are a miuority j of the people of South Carolina, but, like the woman of Macfcdona who ap- ; pealed "to Philip in his sober senses," i we claim the attention and challenge ? the reason of the majority o?our fellow-citizens. I^et us begin now to educate our selves so that we may judge between the wise and the unwise, the evil aud the good; for in no other way can we hope to have our efforts crowned with success, conclusive of the integrity of our purposes. ? ! . Your committee recommend the or ganization of an Industrial and Wage Workers' Democratic League, which shall consist of a State,, league, with subordinate counfy and district leagues; and, in connection with the State league, the establish ment of a Bureau1 of Information; and finally, when the objects sought ' by the organization of the Industrial ? and Wage Workers'' Democratic! League shall have been attained, /through the enactment of just j aud equitable laws, in which the right of every individual citizen, howsoever humble, shall have been duly consid ered, your committee recommend that we di^baud, so that we may not be come a political machine in, the hands ef'designiug men, to the detriment of the interests of /this State and its citi zens. Your committee will appoint an organizing committee in each county, with instructions to organize couLty. municipal township and ward leagues, and to arrange to send delegates there from to a convention to be held in the city of Columbia, March the 15th, 1893, for the purpose of electing offi cers, adopting a plan of organization, and ratifying or amending the follow ing draft_submitted j&sl l>p??RATIONT OF THE PrINCILES OF the Industrial AND f AGE Workers' Democratic League. i ] The Constitution of the States* and the United States guarantee e<|a?l rights to all, and prohibits special privileges to any* of its citizens. It is therefore the duty of those who may feel themselves aggrieved through the enactment of unjust laws, the effect <5 which is to deprive some of their con\ stitutional rights, while bestowing up on others unlawful privileges, to as semble and protest against such unjust, inequitable and Unlawful legislation arid to take measure-to accomplish its repeal. More especially is this a duty when, from the decision of par tisan officials empowered to execute and enforce such laws, the right of appeal to the courts is denied; a right wisely guaranteed by the fundamental law of the land, and recognized as one of the cardinal principles of Democracy; a right which experience has proven to be a shield of safety to the weak against the strong, to a few against the mauy; a right which has been, and which must be, cherished among the dearest principles of a free people. We condemn- the vicious class legislation attempted and enacted by the legislature at its recent session and endorsed and . approved by the Governor of this State; the pernicious ; effects of which will be to put to haz- i ard all industries dependent upon cor porate capital, to lessen the volume of currency, to increase the cost of credit, and to render uncertain and precari ous the occupation of all wage work- ! ers within the State. We denounce the inconsistency of j the so-called Reform Party which, pro claiming salaries too large, omits to I reduce them; declaring taxes too high, increases them; professing opj>osition j to monopoly, conspires to make the State a monopoly; preaching prohibi tion, legislates the State itself into a rum- seller. We declare our principles to be em bodied in the simple but sound Demo cratic doctrine of "Equal rights to ?ij, special privileges to none," and our purpose, to repeal and oppose all 1 legislation inconsistent therewith. We acknowledge agriculture to be, the master wheel of industrial mechaa-/ ism, but we declare tha^n the enact* ment and execution of just aud wholesome laws it is essential to con sider that the quantity and quality of the products depend upon the har monious working of the whole ma chine; and that upon no industry more than agriculture will fall the injur? just principle. We believe the interests, #f capital aud labor to be the same, and we as sert that a blow aimed at one will fall upon both; and that le<yslaiion duct ed "against"' either w^ll react upon the people ofcthe who^f Stat*. We recognize the /rropriefy of just | lara restraining tbf abuse of rightd an3 privileges granted to individuals; but we condemn all laws tending to unrighteously lessen the inducements to capital to invest in the develop ment of legitimate industries within* the State. ' j , ' We assert the necessity of main taining the independence and high standard of the judiciary, and con demn any and all attempt to curtail the one or lower#the other of these safeguards to the enjoyment of indi vidual rights. Adhering strictly to the sound prin ' ciples of Democracy, living within their limitation, and believing that "a people is best governed which is least governed," we shall undertake to ; maintain to the higest standard the , financial credit and political dignity j of the State. In conclusion, we beg leave to hope i that "'the principles which we have j ous effects of a departure suggested may meet with the appro bation and endorsement of our fellow- ; citizens, to the end that a glorious success may crown our righteous efforts. [Signed]* H. A. Williams, Chm'n. J. J. Jenkioga. Jno G. Hoffman, J. M. Brawler. ' James P. CafiW, T. W. Bollmai h W. T. Martin, L. W. Warren, R. G. Ward, J. P. Darbv, J. P. Meehan, J. T. Hideout ? The State. ! DEATH OF SENATOR KENNA. The End Welcomed an a Relief from Pro tracted Sufferinc Washington, D. C:, Jau. 11. ? Senator John E. Kenna, of West Virginia,, died at .3 o'clock this morn ing of heart disease, from which he had been for some years an acute sufierer, so much so that for a long interval be had been compelled to abandon bis duties as Senator and to forego all mental exertion. Two sum mers ago, with the view of diverting his mind from physical ailment, he established an amateur boat builders' shop and busied himself in the me chanical operation of conducting boats. He partially recovered and resumed his seat in the Senate and made one memorable speech, which was remarkable' both\for its length and its vigor, but soon suffered a re lapse from which he hever rallied.* His sufferings during the last few months of his life from heart spasms were so poignant that, to himself as well as to his family, death must have been looked upon as almost welcome. r ~ " * - . John Edward Kenna was bora in Yalcoiilon ' W est Viiginia, April 10, 1848. After working on a. farm he entered the Confederate army us a /private, served chiefly in Missouri, was wounded in ] 864, and surrender ed "$t Shreveport, La., in i 865. He afterj^rd attended St Vincent's Col-'1 lege,, afc Wheeling, studied law at Jpbaneion, West Virginia, nnd was Jdinittei to the Bar in June, 1&70. i$e was prosecuting attorney for Kana wha County in 1873-7, and in 1875 was elected by the Bar, under statu tory provision, to hold the Circuit Courts of Lincoln and Wayne coun ties. He was chosen to Congress us a Democrat, serving from Ootcber, 1877, until March, 1883, and had been re-elected when he was elected .United 'States Senator to succeed Henry G. Davis. Ilis abilities were so distinguished and his services so conspicuous that he was re-elected to the Senate for the .term expiring March, 1895. < "The Saloons Must Go.*' So far as we can gather from the ! utterances of those prohibitionists ! wbo tavor the Evans dispensary bill their hostility is not to liquor or to the ; sale or use of it, but to the saloons/ It is very plain that if the Evans ! bill is successful the consumption of liquor will not be decreased. It is : equally plain that if the sale of liquor ' by the State yields a large revenue and diminishes the burden of taxation prohibition will be impossible; for every tax payer in the State who does j not use liquor will have a direct pecuniary interest in continuing its sale and making his liquor using \ neighbors pay his taxes for him. Brought to its last analysis, the Evans I bill is simply a new State tax laid on users of liquor and the State would have precisely the same right to lay an extra tax on consumers of tobacco j and drugs. We jnust conclude, therefore, that , ?the alleged prohibitionists who favor the^JKvans bill are not prohibitionists, j They do not hate liquor; they do not want to remove its evils. They want to rivet it upon the State with the en during rivets of self interest. What they really hate is the saloon and the ?saloon keeper. That is tbeonly logical deduction from what they say. To destroy the saloon ? to cl ;se a certain number of business houses, to i make a certain number of dwellings ! \tenantless, to obliterate a certain | amount of property and-drive a :aum- j ijer ot citizens out o? the State? they propose to create a State mouapoly in liquor selling and to levy a new in direct tax on the people. That seems i6 be the sum and substance of it? -the j whole meauing of the fcry thai "the saloon must go" in connection with \ the Evans bill. I If the bill is upheld by the courts | and the saloons go, the blind tigers will come, as they have come in Maine and Iowa and Athens and everywhere j else. Instead of saloons under police | supervision and regulation and con i ducted under the responsibility of 'heavy bond?, we will have dark closets and cellars and holes in walls where mean Jiquor will be served out by irresponsible and unseen hands without check or regulation. But that, we suppose, will be all right it the saloons are shut. ? Greenville 1 Neics. - Senator .Jno. G. Carlisle, of Ken tucky, having, accepted the tender ? made him by Mr Cleveland, of the Secretaryship of the Treasury, has sent to the Governor of Kentucky his resignation of the office of United j States Senator. . rU J l ? s ? BENJAMIN' F- BUTLER DEAD" SUDDEN END OF A REMARKABLE 5 CAREER. i . % The Famous Politician Die* of Heart Failure, Superinduced by an Attack of Pneumonia? Sketdi or His Life. \ ? Washington, Jan. 11. ? Gen. j Benjamin F. Butler died at 1.30 o'clock this morning, of heart failure. J superinduced by an attack of j pneumonia. He retired at 11 o'clock ! last night, and soon after midnight, ' his colored body servant, West, who* slept in an adjoining room, heard him coughing violently. He went to the General's room, and found that he had gone to the bath room adjoining, j He followed him there, and offered ! his assistance. The General mentioned ! that4iis expectoration had been dis colored with blood, but did not ap pear to think seriously of the matter. West assisted him to bed, and he ap parently went asleep. He died soon afterwards. N Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfie\d, N. H., November 5, 1818. Aiter receiving a liberal education, he was admitted to the bar 4 in 1840, began practice at Lowell, Mass., and alwajfc maintained ji high reputation as a lawyer, especmlly in criminal cases. Htf early entered politics, as a Democrat. In 1860 he . was a delegate to the Democratic national convention that met in Charleston. When a 1 portion of the delegates reassembled at Baltimore, Mr Butler, after taking part in the opening debates and votes, announced that a majority of the delegates from Massachusetts would not further participate in the deliberations of the convention, on the ground that there had been a ! withdrawal in part of the majority of the States, and further, upon the ! ground, as he alleged, that tlie J African slave trade was approvingly ^advocated, :A j At the outbreak of the war he. marched to Annapolis with the Eighth Massachusetts regiment. On May 13, 1861, he entered Baltimore at the head of 900 men and occupied the city.- He was then made a major general and assigned to the command of Fort Monroe. In August he cap tured Forts Hatteras and Clark op the North Carolina coast. He then returned to Massachusetts to recruit an expedition for the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi. On April 17 the expedition went up the Mississippi. The fleet under ! I'arragut having previously passed the forts and virtually captured New Orleans, Gen. Butler took possession i of the city on May 1st. His 1 administration of affairs was marked ' with great harshness and tyranny. He instituted strict sanitary ' regulation, armed the free negroes, and compelled the rich people of the 1 city to contribute to the support of > the poor. His course in hanging Wm. Mumford for hauling down the United : States flag from the mint, and in issuing his infamous "Order No. 28," j alleged to be to prevent women from insulting soldiers, excited strong resentment, not only in the South, but in the North, and abroad, and in ( December, 1862, President Jefferson Davis issued a proclamation declar- , ing him an outlaw In May, Gen. Butler seized about 8800,000 which had been deposited in ^ the office of the Dutch consul, claiming that arms for the Confederacy were to be bought with it. This action was protested against by all the foreign consuls, aud the Govern- ' rnent at Washington, after an in vestigation. ordered the return of the! money. In December of the same year, Gen Butler was recalled, as he be'lieved, at the instigation of Louis Napoleon, j who supposed Butler to be hostile to M8 ^e*ican schemes. Near the close of I860 he was placed in command of the department of Virginia and North ! Carolina. In October, 1804, there be ing apprehensions of trouble in New ^ ork during the election, Butler was sent there with a force to insure (juiet. In December he conducted an in--? effectual expedition against Fort ! Fisher, near Wilmington, and ^soon afterwards was removed from com mand by Gen. (iraut. He then re turned to his home in Massachusetts. In 18f5(j he### elected to Congress by the Kepubfeans where he remained until 1879,jfith the exception of the of 1875 77. He was the most active of the managers appointed in 1868 for the imjteachment of President Johnson. He was the unsuccessful j Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in 1871; and in 1S78 and 18*9, having changed his politics j again, was the candidate of the lu idependent Greenback party and of one jwfng of the Democrats for the same ? office, but was airain defeated. In 1882 the Democrats united up on him as their candidate, and he was elected, though the rest of the State i ticket was defeated. In 1 *>.',! he was nominated, but wa> defeated. In 18*4 he was the candidate of the j Greenback and anti-nonopolist p&feties for the Presidency, and received 10H./ 825 votes. \ n Hr'3 * ,iau?h<" ?f Dr Israel Hildreth of Lowell, died jn 1M7 ? ,8e. >WaS, 0n the from 183< to 1842, when she married Gen Butler and retired. Their daughter j mamed Gen. Adelbert Ames of the j Lnited States Arm v. THE STATE AMD Col Robert Alrfrlch'? F amdJthesal h'* Forcible Pk oo!N. m . the Erans whUkey Law* 4 ! j To the .Editor of The Nttas and j | Courier. I have a U.f outside Act wee' oOik no; considered the legal questions iAvol* red in the recent Act of the Legislature, commonly known as the Dispensary Law; They arc delicate and impcrtnnt, and l have c been too busy in the cloeifrgof the old and opening of the new year to gift study to auy questions office. Whether tie stitutionally passed c r not, how tkr it interferes with inter State oom etc, are questions tbut will arise tad will be settled by ti e Courts. Then are, however, glarin ; objections to the Act, which strike' the mind at a glance. ? />'' *3 To start with, w< tahold th of our love and pridi i cifcarlv em in the whiskey busii less. MLt is of the province of a Stat? Qovsmmet. to engage in any ki ad of business, for obvious reasons. 7rom its kiperior })osition all of its titiiens competing ' with the State in, the same fine of . I business are at a disadvantage, and ! naturally regard th 3 State as a rival and oppressor, impiiring their means of support, while the State should be ' the common mother end guardian of I all its citizens alike. In the eye un der consideration t le State will be not j only qpgaged !n a business, but j monopolize it, thereby 1 large class of its people _ i their living out of a lucrative heretofore legitime e trade. Utothing could be more undemocratic or mora m p* n$ a: rati re ana .. !? tyrannical. Government monopolies Europe to a large ii j ? prevailed in extent ages gone by, but with the adlauce of civilixiUion and the growth of: liberal idlas the? were discontinued as long ego at House of Commons, anew The the demand of t)ie people, this mqch-abused prerogative &. King, and it has been known in Eng~ land no more sincethat time. In fact, tyrannical Rsssia alone rable dojjBl extent, and political thinkaa) in exist to any consi in the carnation m it is, of all the hateful features of tut I iron-bound despotism, the most hate* ful. Russia derires a large portion of her revenues from monopolies. I South Carolina, it seems, will make . j an etfort to imitate her. bat it wiU I not be much ofjan etfort after all. | This taking away from the people at 1 large the means iof livelihood in any department is the quintessence of j tyranny, and will be tolerated bp a | free people no "longer than it will ^ke to wipe it otf the statute boo! ?? It is disappointing to those hoped for relief for the people the efforts of the Farmers* i organized to con bat monopolies every form and shape, witnessing^ Legislature, elected largely by creating by law in South Carolina __ monopoly that would be a reproach to the Czar of Russia. 'Hi! I am do advoqate of intemperanot. | la fact, the contention of the aavoeata^:! , of this law ia thats more liquor will b* \ , '? consumed under; its operation than j : , ^ before; since it will be better liqnor n | aod cheaper, jmd.at the same time the' treasury is to "be enriched ^.&p<Haxes 1 | i ? reduced, io ottoet words, they debauch , j; I the morals of the people aod take away their rights, but justify the t^in iniquity by the assertion that we ere paid for it. A;, , Was ever greater insult offered to self-respecting freemen? No: to enact a prohibition law with the vjew of elevating public morali is one thin?,V but to engraft a despotic feature upon . f the goverment of a free ^te is a very . different thing, and Nthe people will find a way of showing that when they ! voted to give up their liquor they did ;.( / not intend to give up their libertiea Mistakes rarely go singly, and along with the promulgation of(his> legislative blunder we hear threats of the most drastic measures for its en* forcement The people of South Caro lina don't belong to anyboayyet. charters of cities and towns ara^ taken away, and military force is employed: chaoiand bloodshed replace peace and order. The this bombast and bluster is the better for the reputations who .employ it. ' lii On the other hand we Bear of a , widespread purpose and intention of ! i evading thejaw. This, i?ta culpable, ; ? is far more \}ingerous? As long Mj >. tjiis statute igbCftro' it must be, I obeyed and nesni&id as law. JSToj greater calamity tan wi^a people" ; than to fall int6 a disrespectlfec law. To disregard ainy law is the first towards contempt lor all law, aqd is auarchy. ? / By all means, ^then, until dispensary law shall be decl inoperative by the Courts, or repe. by the legislature, one or the o of which must come soon, every man who holds the honor and dignity o(j his State above his personal views and1 opinions will rise to the patriotic duty oi' obeying the law. Robt AUpch. Wa^eigtohj, January 13. ? Invite* tions have to day been sent out through Col H. C. Corbin, United States army, to the Governors of all- . :$j the States, inviting them and their "? staffs to participate in the inaugnra*jl tton ceremonies. The inauguration ' V committee request that all civio , organizations from the various. sections > of the country who intend to partici pate in the inauguration ceremonies j will notify the committee' on civic j i organization, Wm Dickson, chairman. 4 1 ! , . "I fT. % ? 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