The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, April 05, 1901, Image 4
pt. Tftlmago, in a Timoly Dlscourso,
i Doclnres H?s'Bdlief lu Them,
V Sermon Adapted from U\o Story ol
I Simon raul tko Kluhom-Urotitont
UUlliaoio IO-, ?OY?VM?I?? ?rn ?T.
IJiiuunviHtoil Mhil?U)'.
(Copyright, iOOI, by lioula Klopsoh, N. T.]
Washington, March ti.
! Thia tllscourao of Dr. Talraago is
mo?% pertinent at this'tlino when a
(widespread effort foi? religious awak
ening U bolug ruado; text, Luke, verse
0: "They inclosed a great inultltudo
?of fishes and their.not broke."
: Simon, and his ooinrudcs had experi
enced tho night beforo what fishermen
ioall ?;poor iuok." Christ steps on board
{the fishing smook and tells tho sailors
Ito pull, away from the beaoh and di
rects thom again to sink tho net. Suro
enough, very soon the not is full of
'dishes, and tho sailors begin to haul in.
flo largo a sohool of fishes was taken
?that tho hardy men began to look red
jiu tho face as they pull, and hardly
havo they begun to rojolco nt their suo
fceas when snap goes a threnl of tho
H6t, and snap gao? another thread, so
there is danger nqt only of losing tho
fish; but of losing tho net. -
Without much caro as to how muoh
?tho boat tilts or how much water, ls
upi a rched on dook the fishermen rush
about, gathering up the broken meshes
Of the not. Out yonder thoro io a ship
dancing 'on tho wave, and thoy hnll it:
"Ship ahoyl Bear down this wnyl"
Tho ship comos, nnd both bonts, both
fishing smaoks, nre filled with tho
floundering tl'ensures.
"Ah," says somo one, "how much
bettor it would havo boon if they hnd
staid on shoro and fished with n hook
and Uno nnd taken one at a time In
stoad of having this great excitement
and the boat almost upsot and the not
broken and having to call for help and
getting sopping wet with the seal"
The church ls tho tfoat, the Gospel
ls tho net, society ls the sea, ami a
great revival ls a whole school brought
u at ono sweep of the not. I have ad
miration for that man who goes out
with a hook and lino to fish. I admiro
tho way ho unwinds the reel and ad
justs tu? bait and drops the hook In a
quiet plnoo on a Btill afternoon and
hero oatohes one and lho? 6 one, but I
like also a big boat and a largo crew
Und a not a milo long and swift oars
and ri tout n al Ifs and a otitY breo zo and a
great multltudo of souls brought-so
groat a multltudo that you havo got
to got holp to draw it ashore, straining
tho net to tho utmost,until it breaks
horO and thoro, letting a few esoope,
but bringing the great multltudo into
eternal safety.
In other words, I belloye In revivals,
/bio great work of Saving men began
With 8,000 peoplo joining tho church in
ono day, and it will close with 40 dr a
hundred million people saved In 84
hours when nations shall bo born in a
day. But there are objeotions to re
vivals. Peoplo are opposed to them
beoauso the net might get broken, and
If by tho pressure of souls it does not
got broken, then they take their own
penknives and silt the net. "They in
olosed a great multitude of fishes, and
tho net brako."
I*, ls sometimes opposed to revivals
of religion that those who como Into
tho church at such times do not hold
out. As long ns thoro is a gale of bless
ing they haye their sails up. But as
poon'as 'strong" winds Stop- blowing
then they drop Into a dead calm. But
What arb tho foots In tho case? In all
Jour ohurohes tho vast majority of the
. Useful. people are those who oro
brought in under great awakenings,
and they hold out. Who aro tho prom
inent mon in tho United States in
ohurohes, in prayer meetings,, in ?
bath sohdola? Fer the most part tt??y
aro tho product ci great awakenings.
. I havo noticed that those who aro
brought into tho Kingdom of God
through' revivals have moro per
plstenoe and moro determination in the
Ohrletian life than those who como
in under n low state of religion. Peo
ple born In an Icehouse moy live, but
.they will, nover got over the cold they
pought In tho ioohouse. A cannon boll
?depends upon tho Impulse with which
lt starts for how far it shall go and
how swiftly, and tho greater the re
vival force with-which a soul ls started
the moro far-reaching and far-resound
ing will, be the execution.
But it is sometimes objected to re
vivals that thore is so muoh excitement
that people mistake hysteria for relig
ion. We admit that In every revival of
religion there lo either a suppressed or
a demonstrated excitement. Indeed,
if a man oon go out of a state of con
demnation into a state of acceptance
with God or ser others go without any
agitation of soul he ls in an unhealthy,
morbid ?tate and is as repulsive and
absurd, as a man who should boast he
saw a child snatched out from under a
horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or
saw a man rescued from tho fourth
?tory of a house on fire and felt no ac
celeration of the pulses.
Salvation from sin and death and
hell into life and peace and Heaven for
ever io finch a tremendous thing that
if a man tells mo he can look on it
without any agitation I doubt his
Christianity. Tho fact is that some
times excitement ls the most impor
tant possible thing. In case of resus
citation from drowning or freezing
the one idea is to excite animation.
Before conversion we oro dead. It is
tho business of the church to revive,
arduno, awaken, resuscitate, startlo
into lifo. Excitement is bad or good
according to what lt makes MB do. If
it make us do that which ls bad, lt ls
bad excitement, but if lt make us agi
tated about our eternal welfare, if
it make us pray, If it make its attend
upon Christian service, if lt make us
ory unto God for mercy, then it io n
good oxoltemcnt.
ikWreokod Lifo.
Oopporal Harry K. Yoakloy. agod 30,
**-tjttho Forty-third company of ooast ar
tillery, stationod at Fort Torry, Plum
inland, diod Thursday from tho effoots
of a (IOHO of wood Alcohol solf adminis
tered. Corporal Yoakloy was a physician
having oarnod his degree at tho Uni
versity of Virginia, and had boen in tho
enlisted sorvioo only a short time, his
obj cot in encoring tho army having hoon
to put himself under restrains of mili
tary disciplino, whioh ho believed would
he bonofloial for habits ho had acquired.
His body will bo shippod to tho family
home in Winchester, Va., for burial.
Name Changed.
Tho narno of tho viii ago of Sing Sing
has boon ohangod to Ossing. Thoro*
indents found that whon thoy wont
away from hem o and told that thoy
came from Sing* Sing pooplo euspootod
thoy ?oro ox oonviots, hooauno tho lo
cation of tho Now York Stato prison
at thai plaeo has boon Sing Sing's only
olalw to famo. So they petitioned for a
ohango. TJieroV,. s?mehti .ig in a ?amo
after all whon tho namoi;; that of a
penitentiary sito?--?:Oolurabia State.
i ti ik s?tiraos' nala1 that during" f4*
rivals t>f religion gre^t multitudes of
chi ld von and young people uro brought
Into tho ohuroh, and tho y do not knpvr
what they aro about, it has boon my
observation that the earlier pooplo
como Into tho kingdom of God tho moro
useful they ore. Robert Hall, the
prince of preachers, was converted at
.13 years of ago. It ls likely he knew
.what ho was about. Matth?w Henry,
tno couiuicututor, who moro than
any mon of his contury for increasing
the interost In tho study of tho Scrip
tures, wo? convertod ot ll years of
age; iBabolla Graham, Immortal In tho
Christian church, was converted at ten
years of age; Dr. Watts, whoso hymns
will be sung all down tho ages, was
converted ot niuo years of ago. Jona?
?than Edwards, porhaps the mightiest
intellect that tho American pulpit
ovor produced, was convorted at seven
years of agc, and that father t?,nd
mother take an awful responsibility
when they tell their child at seven
years of age: "You aro too young to
be a Christian," or "You are too young
to connect! yourself with the church."
That is a mlstako as long as eternity.
If during a revival two pensons pre
sent themselves as candidatos for the
church and the ono is ten years of age
and tho other is 40 yearB of agc, I will
havo moro confldenco In the profession
of religion of th? ono ton years of ago
than tho ono 40 years of age. Why?
Tho ono who professes at 40 years of
ago has 4Q years of impulse in tho
wrong direction to correct, and the
child has only ten years in the wrong
direction to correct. Four times ton
aro 40. Tour times tho religious pros
pect for tho lad that comes into tho
kingdom of Qod and into tho church at
ten yean of ago than the man at 40.
I am very apt to look upon revival?
as connected with certain mon who
fostered them. Pooplo who in this
day do not like reviv?la novortholess
have not words to express their admi
ration for the revivalists of tho past,
for they woro revivallsts-iJonathan
Edwards, John Wesley, Georgo Whit
field, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Os
borne, Knapp, Nettloton, Moody and
many others whoso names como to
my mind. Tho strength of their in
tellect and tho holiness of their llvco
mako mo think they would not have
had anything to do with that whloh
was ephemeral. Oh, it is easy to
talk nguiu nt revivals I
A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I
like your sermons very muoh, but
tho after meetings I despise. When
tho prayer meeting begins, 1 always
go up into the gallery and look down,
and I am disgusted." "Well," said
Mr. Dawson, "tho reason is you go
on the top of your neighbor's house
and look down his chimney to exam
ino Iiis fire, and of course yqu got
only smoke in your eyoB. Why don't
you come in tho door and sit down
and warm?"
Oh, ,1 am afraid to say anything
against rovlvals of religion or against
anything that looks Uko them, be
cause I think it may bo a sin against
tho Holy GhoBt, and you know tho
Bible says that a sin against tho Holy
Ghost shall never bo forgiven, neithor
in this world nor tho world to come.
Now, if you aro a painter and I speak
against your piotures, do I not speak
against you? If you aro on archi
tect, and I speak against a building
you put up, do I not speak against
you? If a revival bo the work of the
Holy Ghost, and I spoak against that
revival, do I not ?peak against the
Holy Ohost? And whoso speaketh
against tho Holy Ghost, says the
Bible-, ho shall never bo forgiven,
neither in this world nor In the world
to oomc. I think sometimes pooplo
have made a fatal mistake In this di
rection.
Now I come to tho real, gonulno
caose of objection to revivals. That
is the coldness of the objector It is
the secret and hidden but unmistak
able cause in every case, a low state
of religion in the heart. Wido awake,
consecrated, useful Christians aro
never afraid of revivals. It is thq
spiritually dead who ar? afraid of
having their sepulcher molested. Tho
chief ageritB of the dovil during a
great awakening aro always uncon
verted professors of religion. As soon
as Christ's work begins they begin
to gossip against it and tako a pail
of water and try to put out thia
spark of religious Influence, and they
try to p\it out another spark. Do
they succeed? As well when Chicago
was on Aro might somo ono havo
gone out with a garden water pot
trying to extinguish it. The diluoulty
la that when a revival begins in a
church it begins at so many points
that whilo you have doused one anx
ious soul with a pail of. cold water
there aro 500 other anxious souls on
fire. Oh, how mxich better it would
be to lay hold of tho chariot of
Christ's Gospel and help pull lt on
rathex- than to fling ourselves in front
of tho wheels, trying to block their
progress. Wo will not stop the
chariot, but wo ourselves will be
ground to powder.
But I think, after all, the greatest
obstacle to revivals throughout
Christendom is an unconverted minis
try. We must believo that tho vast
majority of those who offloiate at
sacred altars aro regenerated, but I
suppose there moy float Into the
ministry of all tho denominations of
Christians men whoso In art rv hove
never been changed by grace. They
are ali antagonistic to revivals. How
did they get into tho ministry? Per
haps some of them chose lt as a re
spectable profession. Perhaps some
of them were sincere, but were mis
taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he
had been many years preaching the
Gospel before his heart had been
changed, and ns many ministers of
the Gospel declare they were preach
ing and had been ordained to s?ored
orders years and years before their
hearts were regenerated. Qraoioua
God, what a solemn thought for those
of us who minister at the altar!
With tho present ministry ia tho
Sergt. Jasper's Company.
Tho Columbia Stato flays in tho valu
ablo "rubbish" at tho Stato bous o thorn
has roocrtly boon found tho original
oompany roll of tho company of whioh
Sorgt. J asper of Fort Moult rio fame was
a.mombor. Tho roll not only gives tho
namo of oaoh commissioned officer but
of oaoh private in tho oompany. It also
givos tho dato of onlistmont arid dis
charge, and has oompleto marginal notes.
This ia regarded as ono of tho most valu
able finds among tho Stato's revolution
ary rcoords yot mado.
A Good Suggestion,
Tho Atlanta Journal says in Ithodo
Island there is an avorago of ono di
voroo for o very eight marriages. A good
doal of usoloss formality and oxpense
might bo savod by moroly adopting a
oort of probationary ss stem whereby
oonplos oan tako eaoh other, not for bet
tor or for worse, bub until they oan
find out tho difforonoo-on trial, as it
wero-without oalling for tho saora
mont of marrlago until they aro sure
about it. Certainly tho poroentago of
"sticks" could not bo any loss than un
der the present oomo-oasy-go-easy sys
tom.
?mun% 't?mperatw'i'O -o? piety, thia
and will uovtjr.bo enveloped with re
vivals. Whllo the pews on ono side
th\i altar dry foi* tnoroy, tho pulpits
on tho other ?Ido of tho alt.ar muni
cry for moroyi ' Minister? quarreling,
Minis ter ? trying to pull oaoh d?hor
down. Ministers struggling for eccle
siastical pluoo. Ministem, lethurglo
with Whole congregations dying .on
their hands. What a spectacle!
During our civil war tho president
of the United ?tates ??udo p*uu?t? wa
tton for 75,000 troops. Somo of you
remember the big stir. But tho King
of tho u^lvorse to-day asks for
1,800,000,000.moro troops than aro en
listed, and wo want it dono softly,
imperceptibly, no excitement, ono by
one. You aro a dry goods merchant
on a largo scale, and I am a merchant
on a small scale, and I como to you
and want to buy 1,000 yards ox cloth,
Do you say: ''Thank you. I'll tell
you 1,000 yards of cloth, but I'll ?ell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow
and 20 the next day, and if it takes
nae six months I'll sell you the whole
thousand yards. You will want ns
long as that to examine the goods,
and I'll want as long as that to exam
ine the credit, and besides that 1,000
yards of cloth 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 transac
tion is oonsummnted. Tho fact is wo
cannot afford to bo fools in anything
but religion.
That very merchant who on Satur
day afternoon sold me the thousand
yards of cloth at one stroke the next
Sabbath in church will stroke " his
beard and wonder whether it w?sdd
not bo better for a thousand souls to
como straggling along for ten years
Instead of bolting in at one service.
It seems to mo as if Qod is prepar
ing tho world for some quick and
universal movement. A celebrated
electrician gavo mo a telegraph chart
of the world. On that chart the wires
crossing the continents nnd tho cnblcs
under thc sea looked Uko veins red
with blood. On that chart I seo that
tho headquarters of thc lightnings aro
in Great Britain and the United
State's. In London and New York
tho lightnings aro stabled, waiting
to be harnessed for some quick dis
patch. That shows you that the tel
egraph is in tho possession of Chris
tianity.
It is a significant fact that the man
who invented tho telegraph was on
old-fashlonod Christian, Prof. Morse,
and that the man, who put tho tele
graph under tho sea was an oid-rash
ioned Christian, Cyrus W.'Meld, and
that t?-o president of Iho most fa
mous of tho telegraph companies of
this country was an old-fashioned
Christian, William Orton, going from
the communion table on cur th
straight to his homo in ITcavun. What
dees all that mean?
I do not supposo that tho telegraph
was invented morely to let us know
whether flour is up or down or which
horse won the raco at tho Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
contest. I supposo tho telegraph was
Invented and built to call tho world
to God.
In Borne of the attributes of the
Lord wo Becm to share on a Binall
soalo. For instanoo, in His love and
His kindness. But until of Into fore
knowledge, omniscience, omnipres
ence, omnipotence, seem to have been
exclusively God's possession. God, do
siring to make tho race like Himself,
gives us a spooics of foreknowledge
lu tho weather probabilities, gives us
a species of omniscience in telegraphy,
gives us a specios of omnipresence In
tho telephono, gives us a species of
omnipotence in tho steam power. Dis
coveries and inventions all around
about us, people aro asking what next?
I will toll you what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end of war. Next, tho crash of
despotism. Noxt, the world's expurga
tion. Next, the Christlike dominion,
Next, tho judgment. What becomes
of tho world after that I care not.
It will have suffered and achieved
enough for ono world. Lay it up in
the dryd?cks of eternity, like an old
man of war gone out of service, or flt
it up like a Constellation to carry
bread of reliof to some other suffering
planet or left it bo demolished. Fare
well, dear old world, that began with
paradise and ended with judgmont
conflagration.
Last summer I stood on the Islo of
Wight, and I had pointed out to me
the place whoro tho Eurydice sank
with* 200 or 300 young men who wore
In training for tho British navy. You
remember when that training ship
went down there was a thrill of horror
all over the world. Since then thoro
was another training ship missing.
The Atalanta, gone down with all on
board. By order of hor majesty's gov
ernment vossols wont cruising wp and
down tho Atlantlo trying to And that
lost training ship in Which thero were
BO many young men preparing for
the British navy. Alas, for the lost
Atalantal Oh, my friends, this world
ls only a training shipt On it we are
tmining for Heaven. The old ship
sails up and down tho ocean of im
mensity, now through the dark waves
of midnight, now through the golden
crested wavo .of tho morn,' but sails
on and sails on. After awhile hor
work will be done, and the inhabitants
of Heaven will look out and And a
world missing. The cry will be:
"Whoro is that earth where Christ
died and the human race was emanci
pated? Send, out floats of angels to
find the missing craft." Let them sail
up and down, orulse up Mid down the
ocean of eternity, and they will catoh
not ono glimpse of her mountain masts
or her topgallants of floating cloud.
Gone downl The training ship of a
world perished in tho last tornado.
' Oh, let it not be that she goes down
with all on board, but rather may it bo
said of her passengers, fte it was said
of tho drenched passengers of the Al
exandrian corp ship that ornnhed into
the breakers ?f Molltat "They all
cay eil Hafe to land I"
A Horrible Crime.
A honiblo orimo oamo to tho light
Thursday whon John tfavalona and bis
daughter, Annie, wore discovered oold
in death In thoir homo on Pordito
otroot, Now Orkans. Both had boon
murdered by burglars during Wodnos
day night. Tho burglar? ransacked tho
promisos after killing thoir viotimn.
Favalona kopt a grooery and fruit stand
' and olosod up his plaoo about 10 o'otook
Wodnosday night. Whon ho did not
opon Thursday morning noighbors
forood thoir way in and dlsoovorod tho
orimo.
A True Girl.
Dollio 10. Wilkins, tho adopted
daughtor of Mrs. Sarah 10. Wilkins, a
rioh and oooontrlo widow living noar
Atohiflon, Kansas, lone? an enlato
valued at $75,000 booause sho married
tho man sho loved. Bho was married a
few days ago to Georgo Woods, the s. n
of Jamos woods, a farmer, agaln?t tho
wishes of Mrs. Wilkins, and tho widow
now announce ? 'that her adopted
daughtor, who was her solo heir, will
not rnooivo a ponny of hor fortune. Tho
girl ls 20 and hor husband is 20 years
her senior,
SOME PAST HISTORY
Brought to rVlomory by tho Death
cf Judge Wallace
mm
AN IXOITINO PERIOD.
Tno ??rring Evenia o? i87o Rum
(nascences of th? Wallace
House. Hamp Wa Trib
ute to Waiko*.
Tho Columbia StatO onyo DO tributo
to the memory cf Goo. Wallaeo could
bo moro gratifying to his loved ones
than tho kind expressions from G on.
Wado Hampton, who wai ohed Gon.
Wallaoo's caroor in the war and who
was Govornor at tho timo that Judge
Walli oo was leader of tho Dc mo oratio
Houso of Representatives in 1876 To
a ropreoontativo of Tho Stato GOD.
Hampton expressed his regret at thc !
death of Goo. Wallace. Ho said that
4,Gon Wallace's groat floldierly quail
tic? woro tc a uiieu to by his rapid and
deserved promotion; that his eminence
aa a legislator ia a matior of history
and that his broad judioial mind quail
lied him to preside in tho dignified,
ablo manner whioh oharaotorized his
long, truo and faithful oomoo OH tho
bonoh. 1 ?inooioly regrot his death,"
concluded Gen. Hampton.
GOD. Bobe rt ll Homphill, of Abbo
ville, who was a mombor of tho Wal
lt o i Houso, speko thus of Judgo Wal
laoo: "My firct acquaintance with
Judgo Wallaoo was in 1876 when ho
beoarao Spoakor of tho historic
Houso of IteproBontativos which hae
din co that timo boon known as tho Wal
laoo Hou.o Ho was tho right man for
that cruioal (imo. HIB oourago, judg
mont and diforotion eavod tho State
from many evils. If ho had not boen
porftotly m r-poanceood when tho State
Houso waa firat entered a coi iliot would
havo onBucd and all our peoplo would
havo booomo irv lvcd. Tho samo is
tiuo of tho time whon tho HoUao was
compelled to quit tho State House
Ho waB an excellent prosidiDg o iii o jr,
impartial in bio rulings and quick in
hi? deoiBions. Thoao who Borve'd with
him will hear of^hia death with pro
found Borrow. Ho waa a brave and
patriot io sol dior, a learned lawyer, an
honorable counsellor and a juat Juago*.
Tho Stato has loBt ono of hor noblest
BODS."
Tho doath of Gon. Wa laoo r,o?lls
vividly to tho minds of not a few tho
exoiting soenes euaotod while South
Oaroliaa was in tho hands of a dual
govornmont. Mr. John S. Vernor,
maator of Richland County, was a
mt mb or of tho Wallaoo Houso, ropro
Booting Ooonee County. Ho ph ya a
high tributo to tho oharaotor of J nd go
Wallaoo. "That gontlcmtn, ho says,
waa mo of tho moat ovon tempered
men thin Stato produced in tho ol cuing
years of tho last oontury. In ?ll tho
(xoi'omont, when tragedy brooded
o vor tho law-making aBs?mblicsl Gon,
Wallaoo was cool, dotcrminod and in
full po sae ?sion of tho situation. " lt of er
ring io tho injidonts of that time, Mr.
Vornor gave a running statomont as to
tho pnnoipal happoninga.
In tho general c loot ion of 1876 tho
Demoorats oloctod a largo number of
representatives to tho Gohoral Aotom
bly, whioh had formerly hoon ovorv
wholtningly Ropublioan. Tho olootion l
of tho delegations from Er1 go Acid and.
Lamons oouotios was contested, how*
ever. Tho Stato Do nu oratio oxeoutivo
oommittco urged tho D?mocratie mom
bors ole ot to roport to Columbia prompt
ly. Tb ju was dono and tho night be
foro tho afsombling of tho Logiuloturo
tho Democratic ropresontativos mot in
Clark's hall aldin oauoui nominated
tho following ticket: W. H. Wallaoo,
Un.un, Spoakcr* Jno.T. Sloan, Hr ,Rich
land, olork ; W. B. Williams, of Yolk,
reading oleark; and John Brown, Barn
well, Borgeant at arms.
Tho negro soorotary of State, Hayne,
had in tho moantime refuBod to grant
certificates of election to tho Domo
oraotio COD leo teen from Edge field and
Laurons. Tho Bopublioans gathered
in tho Stato capitol tho day tho Gen
eral Assembly wes called to order and
dieted E W. Maokoy, of Charleston,
Sioaker. Tho Demcorats in a body,
headed by tho Elgofiold au*1 Laurons
d?l?gations marohod to tho ato capi
tal, but wore rofuscd .. mission.
Whereupon John C. Sheppard, of
Edgeflold, delivered a protest. Tho
capitol building was iu nhargo of Fed
eral troops oommandod by Gen. Buger,
Tho Dornoorats then marohod back to
tho Carolina hall, whioh IB now stand
ing, in tho roar of Riohland County
oouit houso and behind tho stores on
Main street. This building is historio
in many ways, having boen bnilt of
briok still hot from the smoking ruins
of Columbia in 1865. In this hall tbo
Demooratio mombors, constituting a
quotum (though not a mt Jority) of tho
General Assembly, prooocdod to oleot
tho tiokot nominated in cauous tho
night before. The Sonato, whioh wes
oonoedod to bo llopublioan, was noti
fied of the organ!lation at Carolina
hal), but took no notioo of tho body
and recognized the llopublioan HOUBO,
whioh was in session at tho Stato oe.yi
tol.
From this tho Demooratio Houso
brought notion in tho Stato supromo
court to maudamus Hayno, tho seoro
tary of Stato, to issuo olootion oortifi
oatos to tho Dornoorats from Edgoflold
and Laurens. Thc Dornoorats won
their point. Then at tho suggestion of
tho Stato Democratic oxooutivo.commit
tee tho Wallaoo Houso dooided to get
control of tho hall of tho Houso of Bop
roBontativos.
Gon. Rugor agrood to intorposo no
martial intorferonoe if tho Dornoorats
would oonduot themselves peaceably.
Howovor, although admission to tho
building was obtained, it was nooos
sary to pass tho portals of tho legisla
tive hall. Stratogy and f oreo woro both
brought into play.
Tho Badioal Houso was to assomblo
at noon on Thursday. Tho Dornoorats,
singly and by baok streots, made thoir
way to tho Stato capitol and obtained
admission. Tho Bad io als woro not ex
peoting this movomont. However, tho
negro sorgoant at-arms, a burly fellow,
attempted to prevent ontr?noo at tho
swinging doors of groon baizo. Col.
James h. Ott, of Anderson, thrust
bim to ono side. In tho soufllo Mr.
John 8. Vernor soramblod through tho
logs of tho combatants and snatohod tho
door opon. Tho Dornoorats thou filed
in and Gon. Wallaoo took tho spoaker'e
ohair
This was a few minutes boforo 12
o'olook. Whon tho hour of noon ar
rivod tho llopublioan Houso offioials
attempted to got thoir soats. but woro
refused. Thoy obtained chairs, how
iver, and (at boBido the Domooratio om
oors. From Thursday until Monday at
noon tho dual govornmont continued
thus, two Speakers, two olorks, two of
ovory ofnoo?. Dining that timo no
If
omoorftt loft tho hall fot fear that ho
ould not gain roaouilssion. Food wa?
wrought hy friends, and tho Demo
crat i o logislatois slopt'in tho hall.
\ I( a Democrat would riso to ai drees
Speaker Wallaoo a lUdioal would ad*
dross Spoakor Maokoy, and both mom*
hors would speak at tho same timo,
eaoh trying to drown out tho other. No
businoBS was transacted or attempted.
? lu tho mcautimo four negroes carno
over to tho Demooratio standard,
Kniuiiton apd Myer'1, nf Beaufort;
WoStberry, of Sumter; Boston, of New
berry, and anothor from Fairfield.
Hamilton was tho first to mako a
break. Ho is said to havo boon a negro
of intelligence and moans. Ho walkod
into tho hall fruitlessly attired ID
broadolotb. Laying his beaver hat
and gold-hoadcd oano on his doak, and
displaying his rcvolvor, whioh ho also
laid OIOBO at band, ho addressed Judgo
Wallaco as "Mr. 8poaker." Tho no
groos orowded around him enraged.
Tho white men also aurgod up towards
his desk. "Whom did ho mean to ad
drossas ?Mr. Speakot?' " Tolling tho
negroes to stand baok, Hamilton kept
thom at bay with bis pistol and said
that as Boon as quiet was rostorod ho
would explain whom ho moant. The
eager crowd foll baok and tho nogro
then proolaimcd why ho would uphold
tho dcoont political party and would
align himsolf with tho Demoorats.
Tho following Monday at noon on tho
advioo of Judgo Wallaoo tho Domo
oratio Houso abandonod tho hall of tho
House of It?jrosontativts and wont
baok to Carolina hall. This was dono
for a rca non tbat no good oould bo ac
complished by remaining .md it was
feared tl at tho torriblo atrain on tho
pooplo would bo followed by diaastor
unless tho tension bo rolaxed.
Having now, with thonegrorooruits,
a olear majority as well as a quorum, tho
Wallaoo Houso elected Goo. M. 0. But
lar to bo United Sutes Senator. A
stand was built in front of Carolina
hall, thoro boing no buildings between
that erot and Main Street, and thoro
Gen. Hampton was inaugurated Gover
nor, tho oath boing administered by J.
Q Marshall, a Democratic trial juatioo,
now Senator from Riohland oounty.
j Tho Republicans oleotod D. T. Cor
bin to tho United States Senate. Cor
bin was an alion, but a very oapablo
lawyer. No business was transacted,
no laws enacted. Resolutions wovo
disouBsed by tho tbroo several branohos
of tho Gouoral Assombly meeting daily.
Dr. James Woodrow voluntarily did the
iptinting of tho Wallaoo Hauso, but wau
afterwards repaid. Just before Christ
mas tho Radical Houso adjourned and
tho Wallaoo Houso followed suit. Tho
oxpensos of tho Wallaoo Houso wore
met by voluntary sorviooB of tho mem
bers and by voluntar y contributions
(from patriots.
; Tho next spring affaits wore ohaotio.
Tho Domoorats rofusod to pay taxes to
(Ridioal oounty ofiioials, but mado a
contribution to tho Hampton govorn
[mont. Whoo Rutherford B. Hayes
bobino President Maroh 4th, ho with
drow tbo United States troops from
South Carolina and tho baokbone of tho
Radical party was gone. H. H. Cham
berlain, Ri publican Governor, abdicvt
ed, and Wado Hampton, tho bcro and
idol of tho Demoorats, occupied tho
exeoutivo offioo at the Stato oapitol. A
special tunion of tho General A- nombi y
iwaa called, and aa there wm no funds
for tho expenses of tho Ridioalu, tho
Mackey House was dissipated, Ho?
over, thoro wore many Republioan no
.groes who sat in tho Logi^laturo after
'tho Wallaoo Houso gained full control,
bcoauso tho oouhtics whioh thoy
"^presented woro undoubtedly Republi
can.;
, W. D. Simpson, Of Lmrena, had al
roady boon sworn in as Lieutenant
Governor. Whon Chamberlain gavo
way to Hampton. Greaves, tho nogro
Lieutenant Governor, gavo way lo Mr.
Simpson. Greaves tried to foroo Gov.
Simpson to to take tho oath of offioo.
Gov. Simpson, s/rolling with indigna
lion, replied: "Tho Senato will o o rn o
to order. I havo takon tho oath of
iffioo onoo, and no powor on oarth can
mako mo tako it again."
Thoro was no dramalio scone after
this an noun co m ont, but quiet was after
some d ifii oui ty restored and Gov. Simp
son did not tako tho oath as proposod
by tho nogro. Gon. Mart W. Gary was
a membor of tho Senato and defied the
nogro Senators to disputo Gov. Simp
son's rigbt to tho cfiiao.
Gov. Simpson was elected ohiof jus
tioo of tho Stat? supremo court and
Joter, of Union, bcoamo Lioutonant
Governor. Gen. Wallaoo, tho presid
ing offioor of tbo Houso, was aho from
Union. Whon Gen. Wallaoo the pre
siding officorof the Houso, was olovatod
to tho oirouit bonoh tn 1877, John C.
Shoppard, after an interesting oontest
with Jas. L. Orr, booamo Speakor of
tho Houso. Mr. Sheppard afterwards
marriod Gen. Wallaoo's daughter.
None but a man of highest attain
monto, dolioato taot, supremo courage
and indomitable wiil oould havo boon
Speaker of tho Democratic) Houso of
1876 and such a man W. H. Wallaoo is
deolared by all who served with him.
Committed Suicido.
A dispatoh from St. Goorgos to Tho
Stato Bays "a tragedy has ooounod in
our midst, and ono whioh, undor tho
par ti oui av cir o um s tann os by whioh it
was occasioned, oausos the sympathy
of tho ontiro community to bo extondod
to the boroavod ones. It was a suioido,
Mr. Carney Gaskins, an old and ro
spootod citizoo, precipitated tho ond of
his cxietonoo of his own volition Wed
nesday aftornoon about 5 o'clock. Mr.
Gaakins was just oonvalosoont from a
protracted spoil of sovoro illness. On
the aftornoon of tho suicido was tho
first timo that ho dared vonturo out of
doors for months. Ho managed to
mako his way to a s toro nearby his pis co
j of roBider.co, and from its proprietor
prcoured a pistol undor tho protonso
tint, ho dosirod to kill a dog or oat
whioh was annoying him at his homo.
His wife, booomlng alarmod at his
lon g thy absoio J from tho houso, insti
tuted a searoh and found him in ono
of tho outhouses in tho roar of thoir
residen O?, with lifo ex ti not, frith a
wound in tbo hoad, infloitod by a ro*
volver. * whioh was grasped tightly in
the left hand. Tho ball entorodon tho
loft eldo of tho fooo, a littlo ahovo tho
temple, passing through tho hoad and
embedding itself in a bundlo of foddor
wir'oh was beneath his head. It is pre
sumed that ho was drivon to tho daring
and rash ?ot from despondonoy, pro
duced by protraotod suffering from a
chronic discaso. The unoxpootod co
ourronoo has proved almost fatal to
Gaskin's wife, and sho has boon at tho
point of doath from nervous prostration
ovor einoo.
Murdered'a Little Boy.
Near Six Milo. W. Va,. Thursday
Charles Cor?, 20 years old, shot and
killed a 7-year-old son Of John Hagar
and seriously wounded tho father be
cause somo ono had stoned hin horno.
Ho osoapod to Kontuoky.
? ' ' ' ! ' '?' . ; .-'?>! . ? ?, '
. ' .;. '.(-,. .".J.'.;* * *** *i '"
A BEAUTIFUL POEM
''Bivouac of the Dead," Greatest
Martial Eulogy k"vor Wfltten.
ITS ADAPTION WORLD WIDE,
- ? . , ; -y
Written bv Theodore O'Hara lr?
Commemoration of th? Gal
lar try of th?, Ken
tucky Soldiery.
[Lake Provldonoo, La , Banner-Dernoorat.]
Having latoly Boon a beautiful trib
uto to Theodore O'Il aro, author of tho
iinmortal poem, "Tho Bivouao of tho
Dead," and aa O Hara WA? my pt rsonal
friend and assistant in tho Adjutant'
General's t?fico of tho Kentucky di
vision, oommandod by MfjorGeneral
Brooker ridge, I take pleasure in scud
ing you an extract from tho article
with tho full poom, which I havo car,
ried in roy notebook o vor sin oo tho war.
lt ia worthy of rooord that thia son
of tho south pro duo od tho ono perfcot
and universal martial eulogy that tho
world hts known and that tho south
has been absolutely unmindful of this
faot. Tho first of thoso statements ia
proven by thc faot that without auy
advertisement or exploitations, tho
wondorful words have, in the fifty
years nineo thoy woro wiitton, per?
mettled tho wholo world, and boon laid
hold on by Eogii?h-Bpoeking pooplo
ovorywhoro, to celebrate their honored
doftd who passed away in battle Upon
Ut imo an battlefields, tho. renting pl ?oe
of English bo roes is marked by a great
monumont, on whioh shines O Raw's
matchless words, and yet England did
not know from whom she borrowed
when she wroto thom:
"On dunc'o eternal camping ground
Their Bilont tents are Bproad,
And glory guarde, with so'omn round,
Thc bivouao of the dead."
Porhaps tho anonymous oharaotor of
thc poem was a blessing, einoo it is
doubtful if tho Federal gove rom int ot
tho United States would havo unod the
lincH in tuoh lavish fashion io im
mortalizing tho dead of tho Union
Army, had they boen rooogniaou ns thc
produot of tho gonius of a soldier and
officer of tho other sido. In any caso,
thoy did not know, nnd evory national
oomotory in America has gainod .there
by, sinoo they aro not only tho most
appropriato but tho only appropriate
lines for suoh a purpose
Over tho gateway of tho national
oomotory at Washington tho famous
first stanza is ongravod, and thoro, aa
at Antiotam and other national ceme
teries tho cniiro poem ia roproduotd,
stanza by stanza, on slabs plaoed along
tho driveway.
O'Hara lies in tho burying ground at
Frankefort, Ky., with only tho ?ntorip
tion on a Bim plo Blab of marblo whioh
aays:
Theodoro O'Hara,
Mojor A. D C.
Died Juno 6, 1867
Btlow is a copy of his poem in full,
written on oooasion of tho removal of
the Kentucky doad from Mtxioo to
thoir native Stato af uv tho war wifch
that country. John A. Buokuor.
THE BIVOUAO OV THE DEAD
(Written by Theodore O'Hara in 1847.)
Tho mufllf d drum'o ead roll has boat
Tho soldier's last tattoo;
No more on lifo'a parado shall moot
That brave and fallon fow
On famo's e ernal camping ground
Their silent tonts aro spreai,
And glory guarro, with solemn round,
Tho bivouao of the dead.
No rumor of tho foe's aivanoe,
Now swells upon tho wind:
No troubled thought at midnight haunt)
Of loved ones loft behind;
No vision of tho morro ir's strifo
Tho warrior's dream alarms:
No braying horn nor soreaming fifo
At dawn shvll oall to arms.
Their shlvorod swords are red with nut,
Their plumed heads are bowod;
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
ls now ihoir martial shroud,
And plenteous funeral toara have washed
Tho rod stains from each brow,
And tho proud forms, by batt1 o gashed,
Are freo from anguish now.
Tho neighing troop, tho flashing blade,
Tho bugle's stirring blast;
Tho charge, the dreadful cannonade.
Tho diu and shout, are passed; '
Nor war's wild noto nor glory's peal
Miall thrill With fierce delight
Thcso breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.
Llko tho horco northern.hnrrloano
That Bweops his groat plateau,
Flushed with tho triumph yet to galu,
Came down the Borrlod foe.
Who hoard tho thunder of tho fray
Break o'er tho field beneath,
Knew woll the watchword of that day
Was "victory or doath."
Lc ng had tho doubtful oou?iot raged
O or all tho ?ti ioken plain,
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battlo blew, ?
Still swelled the gory tide;
Not long our stout old ohioftain knevr
Suoh odds his strength could bide.
'Twas in that hour thia stern comnwul
Galled to a martyr's grave
The flower of his beloved land,
Tito.nation's flag to Bave.
Hy rivors of their fathers' gore
' ill? first born laurels grow,
And woll ho deemed tho sons would pour
Thoir lives for glory, too.
Full many a norther's breath hos swept
O'or Angostura's plain
And long tho pitying sky has wept
Above its mouldered slain.
The raven's.soream or eaglo's flight,
Or shepherd's ponaivo lay
Alone awakes eaoh sullen height
That frowned o'er that dread fray fut.
Sons of the dark and bloody ground,
Yo must not slumbor thoro,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the hoedless air. -.
Your own proud land's hovolo soil
Shall bo your fitter grave;
Sho claims from war hts richest spoil
The ashes of her brave.
Thus 'neath their parent turf tho/rest,
Far from the gory field,
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles wully on them hero,
And kindred eyes and ho uta waloh by
The horoea' sepulchre.
Rest on, embalmod and sainted dead!
Dear aa the ble 1 wo gave;
No impious footaU here shall (read
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame hov record keeps;
Or honor paint tho hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sloops. ? ,
Yon marble minstrels voiceless ttone
In doathltna song shall toll,
When many a vanished ago hath flown,
Tho etory how ye fell.
Nor wreok, nor change, nor w!n{or,*s bl
Nor time's remorseless doora,''
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That glides your deathless tof.ib.
J
"THOU l?M? OP CALVARY."
How a Great Hymn Wa? Mad? by a
Your) ff Man of Yale
Ono day during tho wintor'of 1830 a
young man, a graduato from Yalo, sat
down in his room in tho oifcy of Now
Ye rkaud with 03 cs'fi'.kd with tears wro'o
in his pookot mcmirandum-book four
simple stanzas, wbiob, ho said, "wero
born of my own soul." Two yoars la
to?. Dr.* Lowell .Mason .ooniposooV for
thouo stanzas tho beaut* lui tuno Ol? vu i
to whioh tho hymn is still sung, and it
is uer tai nly ono of the mo*t piooiou?
contributions whioh Am?-rloan genius
has Miado to tho hymnologv of tho
Christian ohuroh. lt reads thus:
??My f*lth looks to Theo,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour Divine;
Now hoar wo while I pray,
Take all my guilt away,
O lei no from tb lu day
ll? wholly Thia?."
This hymn of redemption, whioh
sprung from a devout soul, begins in
ponitcneo, but ends in praise, and
with a glorious assurance of hep.*; and
hew many a penitent, whilo hearing or
uttorlng tbono words, has found pardon
and poaoo in belie vinni Bowing boforo
a ?ruo'fiod Saviour and lcok to Him
alone, his ory ?B:
"Tftko all mj a'na away,"
and
"O let me from till? day
Bo wholly rhino."
Tho earnestness of that ory of faith
Hods a responso in tho bosom of ir. fl ni to
meroy, and tho praying soul obtains
etrongih. Ho is inspired with a puro,
warm, aod ohangcloss lovo for tho Br.
dooinot-*'a living Aro."
Thou, looking forward, ho sees that
Go thsc niano hour.* aro boforo him, wheo
tho cup of bitterness mad bo prebscd
to his lipj, and whilo tu rounlod with
olouds of dnomragemont and tempta
tion ho pr?ys:
? ' : . / W-i?&?,
"Bo Thou my guide;
Bid darkness turu l day,
Wjpo Borrow*8 toara away,
Nor let mo over Bivny
From Thoo neldo."
Yet thoro is ono moro v alloy, da:ker
than any passed before, lt ii tho ono
in which ends life's transient dream,
and through which rolla death's cold,
sullen stream; and ns his ltttlo baiquo
is born swiftly toward tho "whito calm
eternity," bis iast triumphant words
aro
"B'csod Saviour, then, in lovo,
Foar and distrust remove;
0 boar mo eafo above-f
. A ransomed soull"
Thcro is moro Catarrh in this neotion
of tho oouotry. than all other diseases
put together, and until tho last few
yoars was supposed to bo incurable
For a groat many years dootoro pro
nounood it a looal disoase, and prof crib
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failing to ouro with looal treat mont,
pronounced it inourablo. So'ooeo has
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disca 0, and tborcforc requires constitu
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
minufaolurod by F. J Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, ia tho only constitutional
ouro on tho matkot. It is takon inter
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A Tragedy.
At Columbus, Qa , Jim LU* lc, a no
?ro, shot, and inf antly killod Foli?n
Iff?ocr Mllt?tt and was hiimolf shot and
killed Thursday by Officer Woods.
Littlo htd been tl roatoning to kill his
wife, and started to carry out his threat.
0 fluors wo/o summoned, andas Elliott
stoppod in tho door ho was shot in tho
breast. Wood, who was following, shot
tho nogro throo timos, killing .him in
H taut ly.
Tho farmers of tho South, says tho
Columbus Enquirer,, havo their destiny
in their osvn ha?dp, and no ono (IBO
o?n woik it out for th? m Tho im
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bales of cotton at a haudsomo profit, or
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