The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, April 03, 1901, Image 5
^ - -- ?--- RELIGIOUS
REVIVALS
Dr. Talmage, In a Timely Discourse,
Declares His Belief in Them.
Sermon Adapted from tbe Story of
Simon and tbe t'libcri?(ireatc.t
Obstacle to Revivals la aa
Unconverted Ministry.
[Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.]
- Washington, March 24.
" ' This discourse of Dr. Talmage is
most pertinent at this time when a
widespread effort for religious nwak
ening U being made; text, Luke, verse
0: "They inclosed a great multitude
- * of Ashes and their net brake."
Simon and bis comrades had experienced
the night before what iishcrmen
call "poor luck." Christ steps on board
|lhe fishing smack and tells the suitors
.to pull away from the beach and direota
them again to sink the net. Sure
enough, very soon the net is full of
fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in.
80 largo a school of fishes was taken
that the hardy men began to look red
in the face ns they pull, and hardly
have they begun to rejoice at their success
when snap goes a threat of the
net, and snup goes anothsr thread, so
thsre is danger not ouly of losing the
fish, but of losing the net.
Without much care as to how much
the boat tilts or how much water is
splashed ou deck the fishermen rush
about, gathering up the broken meshes
of the net. Out yonder there is a ship
dancing on the wave, and they liail it:
*8hlp ahoy! Bear down this way!"
The ship comes, and both boats, both
fishing smacks, are filled with the
flbundering treasures.
"Ah," suys Rome one, "how much
better it would huvo been if they had
Btaid on.shore and fished with a hook
and line and taken one nt a time instead
of having this great excitement
" and the boat almost upset and the net
broken and having to call for help and
getting sopping wet with the sea!"
The church is the boat, the Gospel
Is the net, society is the sea, and a
.great revival is a whole school brought
In at one sweep of the net. 1 have admiration
for that man who goes out
with a hook and line to fish. I admire
the way he unwinds the reol and adjusts
the bait and drops the hook in a
quiet place ou a still afternoon and
here catches one and there one, but 1
like also a big boat and a large crew
fcnd a net a mile long and swift oars
nnt oa tic and u atl krnava nnd >
great multitude of souls brought?bo
great a multitude that you have got
to get help to draw it ashore, straining
the net to the utmost until it breaks
here and there, letting a few escape,
but bringing the great multitude into
eternal safety.
In other words, I believe in revivals.
The great work of saving men began
with 3,000 people joining the church in
one day, and it will close with 40 or a
y hundred million people saved in 24
^ hours when nations shall be born in a
B day. But there are objections to rer
rivals. People are opposed to them
because the net might get broken, and
If by the pressure of souls it does not
get broken, then they take their own
penknives and slit the net. "They inclosed
n great multitude of flslies, and
the net brake."
It is sometimes opposed to revivals
of religion that those who come into
L^" the church at such times do not hold
L out. As long as there Is a gale of blessthey
have their eails up. llut as
i-.H strong winds stop blowing
they drop into a dead calm. But
are the facts iu tho una? in all
our ohurches the vast majority of thv
useful people are those who arc
brought in under great awakenings
and they hold out. Who are the prominent
men in the United States iu
ohurches. in prayer meetings, in Sabbath
schools? For the most part the>
are the product of great awakenings.
I hare noticed that those who are
brought into the Kingdom of God
through revivals have more persistence
and more determination in the
Christian life than those who com?
in under a low state of religion. Peo
pie born in an icehouse may live, bul
they will never get over the cold the>
taught in the ioehouse. A cannon bal
depends upon the impn'se with whicl
It starts for how iar it shall go unc
how swiftly, and the greater the re
rival forco with which a soul is started
the more far-reaching and far-resound
ing will be the execution.
But It is sometimes objected to re
rivals that there is so much excitemenl
that people mistake hysteria for relig
ion. We admit that in every revival oi
religion there is either a suppressed oi
a demonstrated excitement. Indeed
if a man can go out of a state of con
demnation into a state of acceptance
with God or ace others go without anj
agitation of soul ho is in an unhealthy
morbid stata and ia an repulsive nnc
absurd as a man who should boast h<
saw a child snatched out from under <
horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, 01
saw a man rescued from the fourtl
story of a house on fire and felt no ac
celeration of the pulses.
Salvation from sin and death ant
hell into llfo and peace and Heaven for
ever is such a tremendous thing thai
if a man tails mc he can look on i'
without any agitation I doubt his
Christianity. The fact is that some
times excitement is the most impor
tant possible thing. In case of resus
citation from drowning or freezinf
the one idea is to excite animation
Before conversion we ure dead. It h
the business of the church to revive
arouse, awaken, resuscitate, starth
Into life. Excitement is had or gooi
aeoording to what it makes us do. I
it make un do that which is bad, it ii
bad excitement, but if it make us agi
tated about our eternal welfare, i,
it make us pray, if it make usattcm
upon Christian service, if it make ui
cry unto God for mercy, then ii is j
good excitement.
A Wrecked Life.
Corporal Harry K. Ycakley. aged HO
of iho Forty-third comDanv or coast ar
tillery, stationod at Fort Terry, Plum
inland, diod Thursday from the effoote
of a dose of wood Aloohol self administered.
Corporal Yoakloy was a physioian
having earned his degree at tho University
of Virginia, and had boen in the
enlisted servioo only a short time, his
object in entering the army having been
to put himself under rostrains of military
disoipline, which he believed would
bo bencfioial for habits he had acquired.
His body will bo shippod to tho family
homo in Winohostcr, Va , for burial.
Name Changed.
The name of tho villago of Sing Sing
has been changed to Ossirg. Tho ro
Bidonts found that whon they wont
away from homo and tohl that they
name from Sing Sing pooplo tuspeotod
they were ox convicts, because tho location
of the New York Stato prison
at that plaqo has been Sing Sing's only
olaim to fame- So'lhcy fctiticuicd for a
ohange. Thorp's somchting in a name
Lafter all Whon the namo is that of a
penitentiary site,?Columbia State.
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It la sometimes uld that during ra<
rivals of religion great multitudes oi
children and young peopla are brought
into the church, and they do not know
what they are about. It has been my
observation that the earlier people
come into the kingdom of Qod the more
useful they are. Robert Hall, the
prince of preachers, was converted at
12 years of age. It is likely he knew
what he was about. Matthew Henry,
the commentator, who did more than
any man of his century for increasing
the interest in the study of the Scriptures,
was converted nt 11 years of
agei Isabella Graham, immortal in the
Christian church, was converted at ten
years of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns
will be sung all down the ages, was
roilvrrt.rcl nt. iilno venrn of Air#* Jnnn.
thnn Edwards, perhaps the mightiest
intellect that the American pulpit
ever produced, was converted at seven
years of age, and that father' and
mother take an awful responsibility
when they tell their child at seven
years of age: "You are too young to
be a Christian," or "You are too young
to connect! yourself with the church."
That is a mistake as long as eternity.
If (luring a revival two persons present
themselves as candidates for tho
church and the one is ten years of age
and the other is 40 years of age. I will
have more confidence in the profession
of religion of the one ten years of ago
than the one 40 years of age. Why?
The one who professes at 40 years of
ago has 40 years of impulse in the
wrong direction to correct, and the
child has only ten years in the wrong
direction to correct. Four times ten
arc 40. Four times the religious prospect
for tho lad that comes into tho
kingdom of God and Into the church at
ten years of age than the man at 40.
I am very apt to look upon revivals
ns connected with certain men who
fostered them. People who in this
day do not like revivals nevertheless
have not words to express their admiration
for the revivalists of the past,
for they were revivalists?JonathanEdwards,
John Wesley"George Whitfield,
Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Osborne,
Knapp, Nottletou, Moody and
ninny others whose nafhes come to
my mind. The strength of their intellect
and the holiness of their lives
make me think they would not have
lind anything to do with that whloh
was ephetneral. Oh, it is easy to
talk against revivals!
A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I
[ like your sermons very much, but
the after meetings I despise. When
tho prayer meeting begins I always
go up into the gallery and look down,
an>1 T d? Miv.u ? ?I.I
Mr. Dawson, "the reason is you go
on the top of your neighbor's house
and look down his chimney to examine
his Are, and of course you get
only smoke In your eyes. Why don't
yeu come in the door and sit down
and warm?"
Oh, I am afraid to say anything
against revivals of religion or against
anything that looks like them, because
I think it may be a sin against
the Holy Ghost, and you know the
Eible says tiwit a sin against the Holy
Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither
in this world nor the world to come.
Now, if you are a painter and I speak
against your pictures, do I not speak
i against you? If you are an architect,
and I speak against a building
1 you put up, do I not speak against
you? If a revival be the work of tha
i Holy Ghost, and I speak against that
i revival, do I not speak against the
[ Holy Ghost? And whoso speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, says the
i Uiblc, he shall never be forgiven,
neither in this worjd nor in the world
to come. I thinks sometimes pernio
lmvo made a fatal inistake^H^jf^jdis
rection. \
\ Now I come to tho real, genuine
, cause of objection to revivals. That
is the coldnesn of the objector. It i?
i the secret and hidden but unmistak
able cause in every case, a low state
r of religion in tho heart. Wide awake
consecrated, useful Christians are
> never afraid of revivals. It is the
1 spiritually dead who are afraid of
having their sepulcher molested. Tho
t chief agents of tho devil during a
i great awakening are always uncon
verted professors of religion. As soon
t as Christ's work begins they begin
' to gossip against it and take a pall
I of water and try to put out this
i spark of religious influence, and they
I try to put out another spark. Do
they succeed? As well when Chicago
I was on fire miirlit some on* > ?**
pone out with a pardon writer pot
trj'inp to extinguish it.. The difficulty
- is that when a revival begins in a
t church it begins at so many points
that while you have doused one anxr
ious soul with a pail of cold water
there nre 500 other anxious souls on
, fire. Oh, how inuch better it would
- be to lay hold of the chariot of
5 Christ's Gospel and help pull it on
r rather than to fling ourselves in front
, of the wheels, trying to block their
1 progress. We will not stop the
i chariot, but we ourselves will be
i ground to powder.
r But I think, ufter all, the grentest
obstacle to revivals throughout
- Christendom is an unconverted ministry.
We must believe that the vast
1 majority of those who officiate at
- sacred altars are regenerated, but I
t suppose there may float into the
t ministry of nil the denominations of
s Christians men whose hearts have
- never been changed by grace. They
- are all antagonistic to revivals. How
- did they get Into the ministry? Per?
haps some of thein chose It as n re.
spcctable profession. Perhaps some
u of them were sincere, but were rnls,
taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he
j had been many yer.rs preaching the
i Gospel before his heart had been
f changed, and ns many ministers of
a the Gospel declare they were preaching
and had been ordained to aacred
f orders years and years before their
1 hearts were regenerated. Gracious
j God, what a solemn thought for thoao
i of us who minister at the altar!
With the present ministry in the
Sergt. .Jasper's Company.
The Columbia Stato says in tho valu'
ablo "rubbish" at tho Stato house thoro
has rooently bcon found tho original
i oompany roll of tho oompany of whiob
Sorgt. .Jasper of Fort Moultrie famo wan
! a member. Tho roll not only gives the
' namo of oaoh commissioned officer but
of oaoh privato in tho company, it also
| givoH the dato of enlistment and discharge,
and has oomploto marginal notos.
This is rogardod asoco of the most valu
ablo finds among tho Stato's revolutionary
rcoords yot made.
A Good Suggestion.
The Atlanta Journal says in llhodo
Island there is an avorago of ono divoroo
for every eight marriagos. A good
doal of useless formality and expense
might ho savod by morely adopting a
sort of probationary system whereby
couples oan tako oaoh other, not for bettor
or for worse, but until they can
find out tho difforenoo? on trial, as it
were?without oalling for tho sacrament
of marriago until they are sure
about it. Certainly tho perocntago of
"sticks" oould not bo any loss than under
tho present oomo easy go easy system.
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(maial temperature of piety, this ^
fond will never be enraloped with re- '
vivsla. While the pewe on one eide
the alter cry for mercy, the pulpits
on the other eide of the altur muat E
cry for meroy. Ministers quarreling'.
Ministers trying to pull each other
down. Ministers struggling for ecclesiastical
place. Ministers, lethurgio
with whole congregations dying on
their hands. What a spectacle!
During our civil war-the president
of the~Unlted States made proclaraa- "\
tion for 75,000 troops. Some of you
remember the big stir. But the King
of the universo to-day asks for
1,200,000,000 more troops than are enlisted,
and wo want it done softly,
imperceptibly, no excitement, one bjr
one. You are a dry goods merchaht
on a largo scale, and I am u merchant
on a small scale, and I como to you t
and want to buy 1,000 yards ot cloth. j
L?o you say: "Thank yon. I'll sell
you 1,000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow ^
and 20 the next day, and if it takes }
me six months I'll sell you the whole ^
thousand yards. You will want as
long as that to examine the goods,
and I'll want us long as that to exam- 1
ine the credit, and besides that 1,000 (
yards of oloth is too much to sell all ]
at once?" No; you do not say that. <
You take mo into the counting-room, <
and in ten minutes the whole trunsac- y
tion is consummated. The fact is we (
cannot afford to be fools in anything (
but religion.
That very merchant who on Satur- j
day afternoon sold- me the thousand
yarns 01 cioin at one stroke tne next j
Sabbath in church will stroke his j
beard and wonder whether it would
not bo better for a thousand souls to (
como strangling- along for ten years
Instead of bolting in at one service.
It seems to me as if Ood Is preparing
the world for some quick and
universal movement. A celebrated *
electrician gave me a telegraph chart
of the world. On that chart the wires '
crossing the continents aud the cables '
under the sea looked like veins red '
with blood. On that chart I see that '
the headquarters of the lightnings are 1
In Great llritain and the United '
States. In London and New York 1
the lightnings are stabled, waiting
to be harnessed for some quick dispatch.
That shows you that the tel- I
egraph is in the possession of Chris- I
tlanlty. i
It is a significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an i
old-fashioned Christian, Prof. Morse, j
and that the man who put the tele- ]
graph under the sea was an old-fash- |
ioned Christian, Cyrus W. Field, and
that the president of the most fa- j
mous of the telegraph companies of '
this country was an old-fashioned |
Christian, William Orton, going from
the communion table on earth
straight to his home in Heaven. YTbat
does all that mean?
I do not suppose that tho telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether flour Is up or down or which
horse won the race at the Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
aontest. I suppose the telegraph was
invented and built to call tho world
to God.
In some of the attributes of the
Lord we seem to share on a small
scale. For instance, in Ilia love and
His" kindness. But until of late foreknowledge,
omnlsoience, omnipresence,
omnipotence, seem to have been
exclusively God's possession. God, desiring
to inako the raac like Himself, .
gives us a species of foreknowledge
in the weather probabilities, gives uq
a species of omniscience in telegraphy,
gives us a species of omnipresenco in
the telephonej{jl^^^^Aa8pecie^of__
iilHW
about us, }>eople are asking wffatnext ?
1 will toll you what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end of war. Next," the crash of
despotism. Next, the world's expurgation.
Next, the Christlike dominion.
Next, the judgment. What becomes
of the world after that I care not.
It will have suffered and achieved
enough for one world. Lay it np in
the drydocka of eternity, like an old
man of war gone out of service, or fit
it up like a Constellation to carry
hrsad of relief to soma other suffering
planet or l<rt it be demolished. Farewell,
dear old world, that began with
paradise nnd ended with Judgment
conflagration.
Last summer I stood on the Isle of
Wight, nnd I had pointed out to me
the place where the Eurydiee sank
witlf 200 or 300 young men who were
in training for the British navy. You
remember when that training ship
went down there was a thrill of horror
all over the world. Since then there
was another training ship missing.
The Atalanta, gone down with all on
board. By order of her majesty's government
vessels went cruising up and
down tho Atlantlo trying to And that
lost training snip in wnicn thero were
wit many young men preparing for
the British nary. Aiua, for the lost
Ataianta! Oh, my friends, this world
is only a training.ship! On it we are
training for Heaven. The old ship
sails np and down the ocean of ini- 1
mensity, now thiough the dark waves
of midnight, now through the golden 1
crested wave of the morn, but sails '
on and sails on. After awhile her 1
work will be done, and the inhabitants i
of Heaven will look out and find a i
world missing. The cry will be:
"Where is that earth where Christ
died and the human race was emanci- I
pated? Send out fleets of ADgels to
find the missing craft." Let them sail I
up and down, cruise up and down the
ocean of eternity, and they will catch j
not one gliiuj^e of her mountain masts (
or her topgallants of floating cloud.
Gone down! The training ship of a
world perished in the last tornado.
Oh, let it not be that she goes down
with all on board, but rather may it be (
aald of ber passengers, as it wan said
of the drenched passengers of the Alexandrian
corn ship that crashed into (
tlia breakers of Melitai "They all as- 1
raped safe to landl"
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A Ilorriblo Crime. ]
A horrible crime camo to tho light I
Thursday when John Kavatona and his i
daughter, Annie, were discovered oold I
in doath in thoir homo on Pordito I
street, Now Orleans. Both had been
murdered by burglars during Wodnos i
day night. Tho burglars rannaoked tho i
premisos after killing thoir viotims. 1
Kavalona kept a gropsry and fruit stand i
and olosed up his plaoo about 10 o'olook ]
Wednesday night. When he did not i
open Thursday morning neighbors ?
forocd thoir way in and discovered tho <
crime. >
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A True Girl.
Djllio K. Wilkins, tho adopted '
daughter of Mrs. Sarah E. Wilkins, a {
rich and ocoontrio widow living near 1
Atchison, Kansas, loses an estate c
valued at $75,000 beoauso sho married
tho man sho loved. She was married a c
few days ago to Qcorge Woods, tho son 1
of Jamos Woods, a farmer, against the 1
wishes of Mrs. Wilkins, and the widow r
now announces -that her adopted G
daughter, who was her sole heir, will 0
not rooeive a penny of her fortune. Tbe 1
girl is 20 and her husband is 20 years *
her senior. *
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>OMRPASi HiirpRY
Brought to Memory by )6aih
tf JUCfga W
AN (XCITINO PE^Sr
rn? Stirring Events o!
inetcences cf the Hd^cs
House. Hampton'sVd V
ute to WaibctwJ>
The Columbia State says 'tribute
o the memory cf Gen. WalSu could
>o more gratifying to his 1 Re d ones
han the kind expressions Gen.
TVade Hampton, who wat<S^ Gen.
^allaoe's career in the wtj 1 who
?aa Governor at the time ^B^*udgo
Wallace was leader of the ^^^^atior
louse of Representatives i^V~, To
k representative of The QCn.
Jamptoo txprcssed his reflet the
leath of Gen. Wallace. that
Gen Walla Va great sol^H uali
ies were Uglified to by b^K and
lebcrved promotion; that lHtf ienoe
ks a legislator is a m*Uei^B iev ,tory
kod thai his broad judioiai^Hn aquali
icd him to prebido in th^K unified,
kble manner whioh oharaA /red his
ong, trne and faithful senBu on the
jonoh. 1 sinoeiely regret T\a death,"
oncluded Gen. Hampton ..[
Gen. Robert R Hempbyl, of Abbo
rille, ahj was a member *| the Walt
c > IIoumj, hp? ko llius of Judge Wal
aoe: "My (irtt acquain'%uoo with
Judge Wallace was inl87tiwlen ho
r-ecamo Speaker of th<j hiet< rio
House of Kep'esentativos whioh has
linoe that time been known tu tho Walaoe
Hou o Ho was the rifcfct man for
that trilioal time 11.s oouAm, judg
ment and discretion savcd^fc State
from many ?vls. If he hi^Hot been
[lerfictly s T-posscesed whe^ke State
House was first enteicd a col^B would
have onsucd and all our peop^j would
havo bcoome inv lved. Ihejsame is
Ltue of tho time when the H(use was
somptlied to quit the State 'House.
He was an excellent presiding' tfficar,
impartial in hiB rulings and r^uiok in
bis decisions. Those who served with
him wi.l hear of his death with protonnd
sorrow. Ho was a brt vo and
patriotio soldier, a learned lawyer, an
honorable orunicllor and a jus. judge.
Tho State has lost one of hor noblest
tons "
The death of Gea^^^^^^km oalls
vividly to tl.o mindN^HHQMt tho
exciting scenes enao^^^wliijj) South
Carolina was ia tho bands o' a dual
tovernment. Mr. John S. t Vt-rnor,
master of Rich'and County, was a
member of the Wallace House; repro
Eenting Oconee County. Ho p ye a
high tribute to the obaraotcr of Judge
Wallace. "That gcoiltnim, h0 says,
was me of the most evoQ tempered
men this State produeod in tho closing
years of tho last ocntnry. In all tie
ixciement, wh? n tragedy Lroodod
over tho law-making aseeuibliy. Gen.
Wallace was cool, determined! knd in
full possesbion of tho situation.', Referring
?c the incidents of that tiiie, Mr.
-?- ? J
. uui. 5?io m iuuuiu^ ob?u^a;?ql &8 10
the puniipal bap(cniag*.
Id the general clociiou of IbiG the
Democrats elcotod a largo Dutabor of
lepreseotatives to the General AstemL1
which had fotmjfly h^en over
?n< IjiJ" R aa?l
>?f thodelegations from Ec'gealld and
Laurens counties was conteateJ, Lowover.
The State Doim critic executive
committee urged the Democratic members
elect to report to Columbia prompt
ly. This was done and the night before
the assembling of the Logiala?ute
the Democratic representatives met in
Clark's hall a d in caucus nominated
the following ticket: W. 11. Wallaoe,
Union, Speaker; J no. T. Sloan, Sr .Highland.
clerk; W. B. Williams, of Yotk,
reading oleark; and John Brown, Barnwell,
sergeant at arms.
The negro scoretary of Slate, Hayne,
had in tho meantime refused to grant
certificates of election to the Demooraolio
cor (esters from Edgefield r.cd
Laurens. Tho llcpublioans gathered
in the State capitol tho day the Geniral
As-embly was called to o:der and
circled E W. Mackoy, of Charhston,
Speaker. The DiUKcrats in a body,
headed by the Elgefield ? jd Laurens
delegation maroked to the Sia'e oapitrl,
lut were refused admusioo.
Whereupon John C. Shcpjaro, of
Edgt field, delivered a protest. The
oap:tol building was in ohargo of Fed
oral troops commanded by Gen. Rugcr.
Tho Democrats then marched baok to
the Carolina hall, whioh is now standing,
in tho rear of ltiohlacd County
court house and behind the stores on
Main street. This bmldmg is historic
in many ways, having been built of
briok still hot from the smoking ruina
of Columbia in 18t>5. la this hall the
Democratic members, constituting a
r{Uorum (though not a me jority) of the
General Assembly, procoeded to elect
the ticket nominated in oaucus the
night before. Tho Senate, which was
oonc:ded to be Republican, was notified
of the organization at Carolina
hall, but took no notioo of tho body
and reoognized thr Kopublioan Hou*c,
whieh was in sessiou at tho State oapitol.
From this the Dimooratio House
brought aolion in the State supremo
sourt to mandamus Hayne, tno sacre
tary of State, to issuo election oertifioatos
to tho Demoorata from Kdgcfiold
and Laurens. The Democrats won
their point- Then at tho suggestion of
the State Democratic executive commit
too tho W allace House decided to get
sontrol of the hall of the House of Representatives.
Gen. linger agreed to interpose no
martial interference if the Demoora'.s
would conduot themselves peaceably.
Howevor, although admission to the
building was obtained, it was nooosiary
to pass tho portals of tho legislative
hall. Stratogy and force were both
brought into play.
The Radical House was to assemble
it noon on Thursday. The Demoorats,
singly and by lack streets, madu thoir
way to tho Stato oapitol and obtained
tdmission. The Radicals wnrn not t t
peatiLg thia movoment. However, the
negro aergcant at-arma, a burly fellow,
ittompted to prevent entranoo at the
twiDg ng doora of green baiso. Col.
James L. Oir, of Aodoraon, thrust
aim to ono aide. In the souflle Mr.
John S. Verner scrambled through the
ega of the oomkatants and snatohed the
ioor opon. The Democrats then filod
n and Qcn. Wallaoo took the speaker's
ihair
This was a few minutea before 12
t'olook. Whon tho hour of nooa arived
tho Kopubliean House officials
attempted to get their seats, but wore
ofusod. They obtained ohaira, howler,
and eat beaido thu Democratic offi
icra. From Thursday until Monday at
toon tho dual government oontinucd
hua, two Bpoakers, two oloiks, two of
very offioo. Duiing that time no
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Democrat left the hell fot fear that he
could not gain reaemisaion. Pood was :
brought by friends, and the Democratic
legislators alept in the hall.
If a Democrat would rise to address '
Speaker Wallace a Radical would ad
dreBS Speaker Maokoy, and both iuembors
would speak at the eaioe time, |J
taoh trying to drown out tho other. No
business was transacted or attempted.
Id (ho mcantimo four negroes,came
ovrr to the Dtmooratio standard,
Hamilton and Myers, of Beaofort;
Wostberry, of Sumter; Bosthn, of Newberry,
and another fiom FaitfielcLHamilton
was the first to make a
break. He is said to have beenamegro .
of intelligence and means. Jig walked
into the hall faultlessly attirod in
broadoloth. Laying his beaver hat
and gold-headed oano on his derk, and
displaying his revolver, whioh ho also
laid close at hand, ho addressed Judge
Wallace as "Mr. Speaker;"? The ne,
roes crowded arcuni J 'm enraged.
The white men also sorgea up towards
his disk "Whom did he mean to ad
dress as'Mr Sp< aher?' " Tolling the
negroes to stand baok, Hamilton kept
them at bay' with His pistol aod eaid
that as Boon as quiet was restored he
wou'd explain whom he meant. J ho
eagtr.-r'owd fell baok and the negro
tl on proclaimed why be would uphold* tho
decent political patty "and would
align himself with the Democrats.
The following Monday at noon on the
advice of Judgo Wallaoo the Democratic
House abandoned the ball of the
House of Rrj resent atives and woDt
baok to Carolina hall. TLis was. done
for a reason that no good could be ao
comphstud by remaining and it was
feared tl at the terrible strain .-on *}t\c
people would bo followqd by. ^disaster
unless the tension bo relaxed.
Having now, with the*n-gro rcoruitB,
a oh ar majority as well as a quorum, the
Wallaoo Hou-e elected God. MC. Butlar
to be United States Senator. A
stand was built in front of Carolina
hall, there being ) buildings boiweeb
that tqot aod Main Street, and there
Gen. Hampton was iDauguiatcd Gover
nor, the oath being administered by J.
(J Marshall, a Democratic (rial justiod,
now Senator from Hiohlaud oounty. ? 1
The Kepublloans ele cted D. T. Corbin
to tho United S.atcs Senato. Corbin
was an alioD, but a very capable
lawyer. No business was transacted,
no laws enacted. Resolutions word
disousscd by the three several branches
of tho General Assembly meeting dailv.
Dr. James Woodrow voluntarily did the
printing of tho Wallaoe llause, but wai
afterwards repaid Just before Christ
maa the Radical Houre adjourned and
the Wallaoe House followed suit. The
expenses of tho Wallaoe House - were
met ty voluntary services of tho-nnm
hers and ty voluntaiy contributions
from patriots.
The next spring affairs were chaotic.'
The Democrats refutod to pay taxes to
Radical oounty officials, tut made a
contribution to the Hampton govern
mont. When Rutherford H. Hayes
beiauie President March 4th, ho with
drew the United States troops from
South Carolina and tho backbone of the
Radical party was gone. D. H, Chamberlain,
R? publioan Governor, abdio.t
ed, and Wade Hampton, the hero and
idol of the Demcorats, oocupied tho
exeoutivo office at the State eapitol A
spcoial b< Biion of the General A sembly
was called, and as there w?r> no funds
fur tho expenses of the Radicals, the
Mackuy House was d.ssipati'd, Hovovor,
thero were many Republican ne
groes who sat in the Logi ia'urc 'after
the Wallaoe House gained full control,
btoause Ute/v.TOAYta whiih. they
re und :ubu dly R.publiW.
D Simp,ion, of L urens, had al
ready been sworn in as Liotuonant
Governor. When" Cnambtrlain ?gave
way to Hampton GrtavvS, the negro
Lieutenant Governor, gave way to Mr.
Simpson. Greaves tried to fqreo . Gov.
Simpson to to lake the oath of < flics.
Gov. SimpsoD, s veiling with indigna
lion, replied: ''l'he Senate will Come
to order. I have taken the oa.h of
iffioe once, and no power on earth can
make me take it again."
Thero w?b no dramatic . soeno after
this announcement, but quiet was after
some difficulty restored and Gov. Simpsou
did not take tho oath as proposed
by the nogro. Gen. Mart W. Gary was
a member of the Sonato and defied the
: legre Senators to dispute Gov. Siffi'p>iOO
s right to the office.
Gov. Simpson was eicoted oLicf jus
lice of the State supieme oourt and
Jeter, of Union, became Lieutenant'
Governor. Gen. Waltaoe, me presiding
officer of tLe lloubo, vias alto from
Union. When Gen. Wall&co the presiding
offieerof the House, was elevated
to tho eirouit beech in 1877, John C.
Sbepj ard, after an interesting contest
with J as. L. Orr, bccamo Speaker of
tho blouse. Mr. Sheppard afterwards
married Gen. Wallace's daughter.
Nono but a man of highest attainments.
delioato taot, supreme courage
and indomitable will oould have bcou
Speaker of the Democratic House of
1876 and 6Uoh a man W. 11. Wallace is<
declared by all who served with him.
0 f
Committed Suicide.
A dispatch from St Goorgos to The
State says <aa tragedy has occurred in
our midst, and odc which, under the
particular oircumstanoos by which it
was occasioned, causes the sympathy
of the entire community to be extendod
to the bereaved ones. It was a suioido,
Mr. Carney Gaoirins, an old aod rospooted
cilitoa, precipitated the end of
his existence of his own vjlitiou Wod
nesday afternoon about f> o'clock. Mr.
Gaekins was just onvalescout from a
protracted spell of severo illness. On
tho afternoon of tho suic.do was the
first time that ho dared vontnro' oat of
doors for months. Ho managed to
make his way to a store nearby his plaoj
of rcsidoLco, and from its proprietor
prtcurod a pistol under tho protonso
that bo dosirod to kill a dog or oat
which was annoying hiui at his homo.
HiB wifo, beoomiog alarmed at his
lengthy absotcj from the -house,' instituted
a searoh and found him in one
of tho cuthouseB in tho rear of their
residency with life extinot, with a
wound in the hoad, intlcited by a to ,
volvor, which was grasped tightly in
tho left hand. Tho ball cn'torod on tho;
left aide of the faoo, a little above tho
tomplo, passing through tho hoad and
embedding itself in a bundle of fodder
wh.ch was beneath his hoad. It is preBurned
that ho was driven to tho dsjring
and rash act from despondonpy, produced
by protracted suffering frofii a
chronic disease. Tho unexposed cccurronoo
has proved almost fatal to
Gaskin's wifo, and she has been at tho
point of death from nervour prostration
ever sinoo.
Murdered a Little Hoy.
Noar Six Mile, W. Va., Thursday
Charles Core, 20 years old, shot and
killed a 7-year-old son of John llagar
and seriously wounded the father because
some ono had stoned his horao.
He eaoaped to Kontuoky.
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? - - - -' - ? - ? - - - A
BEAUTIFUL POEM.
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' B vouac cf the Dead," Or?at?et
Martial Eulogy Ever W?t?t?n.
ITS ADAPTION WORLD-WIDE.
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Written by Theodore O'Hara In
ConnhriernorAtlon of the Oal-'
. u.vi tki V...
-" at ? / wi iiiv rvi r, '
lucky Soldiery.
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[Like Providence, La , Banner-Democrat.]
Having [aJely s^cn a beautiful tribu'e
to Tbcpdorc O'Hata, author of the
immortal poem, "Tho Bivouao of the
Dead," and as O Hara waa'my ptrsonal
friend and assistant in the Adjutant
Gen< rat's 1 ffioo of the Kentucky divition,
commanded by Mr jor General
Breckei ridge, I take pleaserj in Bond
ing you an extract from ibo irtiolo.
with the fyll poem, which I haver rar,
rir'd in my notebook ever-sinoc the w?r.
It is worthy of reoc-rd that this eon
of tho .south produoed tbo ono perfect
and universal martial eulogy that the
world known and1 thai the south
has been absolutely unmind'ul of this
fact. Tho first of these statements is
proven by the fact that without any
advertisement or exploitations, the
wonderful words have, in the fif*y
years sibtfo thoy wero written, permeated
the wh<lo world, and been laid
hold on by Koglibh speaking people
cverywhere^to c.lebraie their honored
dead whp passid away in batilo. Upon
Orion an battlefields, the renting place
of Eoglirh heroes is marked by a great
monument, en which bhinos, O llara's
maiobless words, and yot Ecjilahd Mid
not koow from -whom she' borrowed
when bhc-wrote them:
"On fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards, with so emn round, .
'* The BlvoUic of the dead."
Forha'ps tfio anonymous ohnraotcr of
tke poem-was 'a blestiog, since it ip
di ubtf.ul if tho Federal govirom nt of
the Unitrd Slates would have used the
lines in s-uoh lavish fashion in im
moria.liz. og tho. dead . of fhe ' Union
Army, i>ad t^oy.-baca reoogn aad as the.
product of tho genius of a soldier and
effioer of the other bide, In any case,
>1 j: j 1 i- --'j - 1
mux u>u ?ui kuuw, sou; every nauorai
eemoiery in America has gained thereby,
biuoo the) arc not only tho moat
appioiriate but the only appropriate
lines for BUth a purpoeo.
Over.the gateway of "life rational
cemetery at Washington the famous
first b fact a is cd graved, and. there, as
at Atitietam.aol other national cometcr'wrs
tho 'entire poem is reproduced,
starza by stansa, on blibs placed along
tho xiiivoway. '
O H-ara Iks in the bUTjicg grou id at
..KranWort, K.y , with otly the lh'icip
tion cn a birnplo slab of marblo which
says:
Tfoodoro O Hara,'
Mcjcr A. D C
Ditd June 6. 1867
B 1 iw is a copy of h a poem in fuli,'
wrifeo cd ' ooasion of the r? moval ?t
the Kentucky dead from Mexico to
tKeir natjve. Sta'.a i(t>r the war with
that Q^untry.. Joho A Buoitier"
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" TUK BlVOUAO OX T1IK I)EAO
("Written by Xhoodoco O'Hara-rn lS-lr)
fTbe ipnflbd drum's end'roll has be it
The Soulier s last.tattoo;
"No more on life s parade shall meet . i
\' That brave and fallen few t, ,
.Vs fame's c erual ramping ground
Their bilent tents are sprea 1,
A'nd gtory guards, with solemn round;
The bivouac of the dead.
a * '
No rumorofthe foe's alvance,
Now swells upon the wind:
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No. vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms:
No Graying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn sh-ll call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rutt,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in duet,
l? now their martial shroud.
And pleuleouafuueral tear.*have washed
The red ruins ffom each bro*; J
And Ihe proud forms, by hatt'e gashed; '
Are free 'rom anguish now. n
Thc.peighing troop* the flushing blaJe,
The bugle's stirring blast.
Tho charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din aud shout, ate passed;
Nor war's wild note nor glory* s peal
t-hatl thrill with'fierce delight !
i Thi se breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture oftho buhl.
Like the fierce northern hurricaue
That sweeps hi* great plateau,
Flushed witn the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe. ,
Who heard ihq ihitaderof the fray
break o'er the field beneath,
Knew ipell tbd wat? hword of that day
Was "victory or death."'
Lcr.g had the doubtful confliot raged
O er all the micken plain,
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the stofm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide;
I Not long our stout old chieftain knew
Such odds bis strength could bide.
I 'Twas in that hour this stern command
I Called to a martyr's grave
| The flower of his beloved land, *
The nation's tlsg to save,
by rivers-of their fathers' gore
iiia first born laurels grew,
And well .he deemed the sons woftld pour
Their lives for glory, too. .
Full many a northeV'e breath has swept
O'er Angostura'S;plain?
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above itfe mouldered slain. .
The raven's scream er eagle's (light,
Or shepherd's pensive lay
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o et that dread frayful.
Sons of the dstk and bloody ground,'
Ye must hot slumber there,
Where stranger eteps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air.
Y'our own proud land's heroio soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
duo claim* irom war niB ricnesl spoil? . '
The ashes of her brave. .. .. . \
Thus 'neftth theit parent turf they rest,
Far from rh" gory field,
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
. Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hems watch by
The heroes' sepulchre.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear as the blood we gave;
No impions footsteps here shall tread
'the herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
i While fame her record keeps;
Or honor paint thi hallowed'spot
Where valor proudly sleeps. ? . .
Yon marbfe minstrel's voiceloss stpnt
In deathless sing shall tell, ?
When many a vanished age hath tlown, t
The story how, ye. fill. ' '
'Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,
Nor timels remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That glides your deathless tomb.
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- THOU LABBJjrCALVAEY.'' Saw Millg
How a Oroat Hymn Was Xad? by a /^ . -m jr 11
Corn Mills, Wj
One d?y daring the winter of 1830 a Cane Mills, mi
young man, a graduate from Yale, eat 7
down in bin room in the oity of New TJiwaw* E-l iillnwo I
Yirkcnd witbc) esfi!ltd with tears wro.e XXlill"JTOj
in bis pookot mi in >randum-book four w-w w 11
bimplo stansts, whioK he said, '"were j_ 0ft XJl111i01*S? m
born of my own soul." Two years la- # ' j
ter. Dr. Lowell Mason composed for Ivrinri tiacj
.t.r.il .v.- ??.. #ui~* Alillfcc 1 Ilr!?l,
to wbioh the hymn is still sung, and it "n *i
is certainly one of the mo*t p.eoioui X301161TSa
contributions whioh Am rioan genius
has made to the hymnology of the Planprfl fill/I 1
Christian churoh. Itr ads thu : ltWlvI O tlllU
My ruth looks to Thee, Matchers, I
Thou Lamb of CeWary, 7 B
?ii.iprV, Swing Saws, J
Take all my guill away, "Ta ri ?
U let ue troiu ibts day |-f 1Stl WG
B. wholly Thine." XVI |J C5ll>\ Sj
?... , f j ii l and all other kinds of wood
This iiyniii of recomplioo, which , . w
sprung from a dtvout bouI, begins in working Uiacniiiory. My 8erpenitence,
but rods in praise, and geant Log Leant Saw mill is
with a glorious assuratco of bep ; and the heaviest, strongest, and
how many a penitent, while hearing or mo8t efficient mill for the
uttering those words, has ft uud pardon _____ ? . . 1
and peace in bcluvingl Uowing before money on th? market, quick,
a oiuc hod 8. vitur and Uok to Him accnrate. State Ag^nt for II.
alone, his ory is: B. Smith Machine Company
? ? ? wood working machinery,
^ e a. m; s ns away, pojp jjigfc g|?ade engiues, plain
\o let me from ihi. day slide valve?-Automatic, and
u-wnoiiy rbiue. Corliss, write me: Atlas,
The earnestness of that o-y of faith and
finds a respen-c in the boB< ui of infinite and Wells,
mi rev, aad the prayiig soul obtains V. C. BADHAM,
strength. He is mspired with a puro, ]326 Main St., Colombia, 8. C.
warm, a d changeless levj for the R; .
dernre;?' a livmg fire." c7ArP
Tnen. looking forward, ho stos that <?*** tyh.
Gothsi inane hours are before him, when .-" y *
the tup * f bitterness ma t be pressed V <t&
to his lips, and whilo ru rauoled wil l
olcuda of di oiuragemout and tempt* ^ ( P\ T?' - -/' /
io. h, pi.,.:
"lie Thou my gui le; ^
llid iJ.'irki.i'Hi iura I d?y, ragog mam?
tt ipe Burrow's tears a way, j' ' V '
Nor let me e*tr stray ^
From Thee aside." CS 0 ^K'
? . . OLD NORTH STATE OINT
let there ib one more valley, da kcr UVWni *v. m . ..
than any passed before. Iti< the one M.BNT, the Great Antiseptic
in which cuds life's transient dream, Healer, cures Piles, Eczema,
and thrcugh wh ch jo is drath's oilo, Sore Eyes, Gianulated Eyelids,
fcu len btieaii)aud as his l.ule baiqae Carbuncles, Boils, Cuts, Bruisis
born swiftly toward the ' white calm Gld SoreB Burns, Corns,
eternity, lis last tnumphaoi words . T x m
are. Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails,
Inflammatory Rheumatism, ^
b escti saviour, then, in love, Aches and Pains, Chapped
Fear and distrust remove; TT ? j r i i? , I
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