The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, April 05, 1901, Image 6
Dr, Talmagc, in a Tiwoly Dlgcourso,
j Declares His BoHef in Them.
?ormon Adapted from tl?? Storr ot
; Simon ?na tho V AsherM-Greatest
????iss?? ?vr, ;?CT?VI??? in an
? . Cm: o ?wo ri o cl Mlnlntiy,
[Copyright, 1001, by Louis Klopsen, N. T.]
Washington, March 24.
? This discourse ol Dr. Talinage Ks
moat pertinent at thin time when n
hvldeapread effort for religious awak
ening ls being wade; taxi, Luke, verse
bi "They inolosed ? great inultitudo
?ol fishes and their net brake."
?iin?n and his oom vadea had experi
onos'd tho night before what fishermen
?cali (;poor luok." Christ steps on board
?tho fishing amaok and tells tho sailors
.to pull away from the bcaoh and di
Jreeta them again to sink the not. Suro
?hough, very soon the net is full of
'fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in.
Bo large a school of fishes was taken
?that th? hardy men bogan to look ved
jin tho face as they pull, and hardly
lhavo they begun to rejoice at their sue
bess when snap goeB a threal of the
net, and snap goos another thread, so
there is danger not only of losing thia
fish, but of losing tho net.
Without much caro as to how much
?tho boat tilts or how much water is
?plashed on dook the fishermen rush
o-b'out, gathering up tho brokon meshes
Of tho net. (hit yonder there is a ship
dousing on the wave, and thoy hail it:
"Bhip ahoy? Bear down this wayl"
Who ship comes, and both boats, both
fishing smacks, are filled with tho
floundering treasures.
"Ah." says somo one, "how much
better it would have boen if thoy had
ntftld on shore and fished with a hook
and line and taken one at a timo in
stead of having this great excitement
and tho boat almost upset and the net
broken ahd having to call for help and
getting sopping wet with the seal "
The church is tho boat, the Gospel
is the not, society is tho sea, ami a
Crroat revival is a whole school brought
n at ono sweep of the not. I have ad
miration for that man -who goes out
with a hook and lino to fish. I admire
the way ho unwinds the reel and ad
justs tho bait and drops the hook in n
quiet plaoo on a still afternoon and
here catches one and there one, but I
like also a big boat and a largo crew
lind a net a mile long and swift oars
and stout"sails and a stiff breozo and a
great inultitudo of souls brought-so
great a multitudo that you havo got
to get holp to draw it ashore, straining
tho not to tho ut mont until lt breaks
here and there, letting a few esoape,
but bringing tho great multitude into
sternal safety.
In other words, I beliove in revivals.
Tho great work of saving men began
With 3,000 pooplo joining tho church in
one 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 objections to re
vivals. Peoplo are opposed to them
beoause tho net might get broken, and
If by tho pressure of souls lt does not
pet broken, then they take their own
penknives and slit the not. "They in
closed a great multitude of fishes, and
the net brake."
It ls somotimes opposed to revivals
of religion that those who oomo into
the church at such times do not hold
out. As long as there is a gale of bless
ing thoy have their .sails up. But as
. goon 'an "strong*" winds stop blowing
then they drop into a dead caira. But
what aro tho faots in the oaso? In all
our ohurohes the vast majority of the
useful people are those who are
brought In under great awakenings,
And they hold out. Who are the prom
inent men in the United States in
iohurohes, in prayer meetings, in Sab
bath soho ola? For tho most part they
are the product o? great awakenings.
. I have noticed that those who are
brought into tho Kingdom of God
through revivals have moro per
sistence and more determination in the
Christian life than those who como
tn under o low state of religion. Peo
ule born In an icehouse may live, but
?hey will, never get over the cold they
taught In the icehouse. A cannon ball
depends upon tho impulse with which
lt starts for how far it shall go and
how swiftly, and the greater the re
vival force with which a soul ls started
the more far-reaching and far-resound
ing will be the execution.
. Put it is sometimes objected to re
vivals that thore is so much excitement
that people mistako hysteria for relig
ion. We admit that in every revival of
religion tUoro is either a suppressed or
a demonstrated excitement. Indeed,
if a man oan go out of a state of con
demnation into a state of ncceptanoe
with God or see others go without any
agitation of soul he ls in an unhealthy,
morbid state and is as repulsive and
ab mu d ns a man who Bhould boast he
saw a child snatched out from under a
horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or
saw a man rescued from the fourth
?tory of ? house on fire and felt no ac
celeration of tho pulses.
Salvation from sin and death and
hell into life and peaoe and Heaven for
ever is such a tremendous thing that
if a man tells mc he can look on it
without any agitation I doubt his
Christianity. Tho faot is that some
timos excitement ls tho most impor
tant possible thing. In case of resus
citation from drowning or freezing
the one idea is to excite animation.
Before conversion we aro dead. It ia
"tho business of the church to revive,
arouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle
Into life. Excitement is bad or good
aeoording to what it inakcB us do. Ii
lt make us do that which is bad, lt is
bad exoltemont, but if it make us agi
tated about our eternal welfare, ii
it make us pray, if it make UB attend
upon Christian service, if it make us
ory unto God for mercy, then it is n
good excitement.
A^Wr?okod Lifo.
<Doiporal Harry K. Yoakloy. agod 30,
^nnSue Forty-third company or ooast ar
iillory, stationed at Fort Torry, Plum
island, diqd Thursday from tho offoote
of a doso of wood Aloohol solf adminis
tered. Corporal Yoakloy was a physician
having,earned his degroo at tho Uni
versity of Virginia, and had boon in the
onlistod sorvioo only a short time, hie
object inontoring tho army having boon
to put hirasolf under restrains of mili
tary discipline, whiohho bo lie ved would
bo benofloial for habits ho had acquired,
His body will bo shipped to tho family
homo in Winohostor, Va., for burial.
Name Changed.
Tho name of tho villago of Bing Sii.g
has been ohangod to Owing. Tho ro
sidonts found that whon thoy wont
away from homo and told that they
carno from Bing' Sing pooplo ?uspootod
(hoy w oro ox-eon vio ts, booauso th** lo
cation of tho j New York Stato * c?0o?
at ihal place has boen Sing Sing's only
olaim to fabio. Bo they potitionod for a
ohimgo. Thor?V Homchting in n namo
after all when tho name is that of a
penitentiary site,-Oolumbia Stato.
' ii ?s BOmetim?? fl?ld that durlntf f?
vivait- ?f religion great multitude? ol
children and young people uro brough,*
into tho oh?roh, and they do not know
what they oro about. It has been ruy
observation that the earlier people
como into the kingdom o? God tho moto
UBeful they are. ?tobert Hall, the
prince ot prfcaohers, waa converted wt
18 years of age. Ii la likely he knew
.what he was about. Matthew Henry,
tho commentator, who did moro than
any mon ol his century for increasing
the interest In the study of the Scrip*
tures, was converted ot ll years of
aget Isabolla Graham, immortal in tho
Christian church, waB converted ot ten
years of ago; Dr. Watts, whoso hymns
will be sung all down tho ogoB, was
converted at niuo years of ago. Jona
than Edwards, perhaps the mightiest
intellect that tho American pulpit
over produced, was convorted at seven
years of agc, and that' father and
mother take an awful responsibility
when they tell their ohild at seven
years of age: "You aro too young to
be a Christian," or "You are too young
to connect* yourself with the ohuroh."
Tl mt is a mistako as long as eternity.
If during a rovival two persons pre
sent themselves as candidates for the
church and tho ono is ten years of ago
and the other is 40 years of ago, I will
have more confldenco in the profession
of religion of tho ono ton years of ago
than tho ono 40 years of age. Why?
Tho ono who professes at 40 years of
ago has 40 years of impulso in tho
wrong direction to correct, and tho
child has only ten yearn in the wrong
direction to correot. Four times ton
are 40. Four times tho religious pros
peot for tho lad that comes into tho
kingdom of Qod and into tho church at
ten years of ago than the man nt 40.
I am very apt to look upon rovlvnla
as connected with certain m'en who
fostered them. Pooplo who in this
doy do not Uko revivals novortheless
have not words to oxprcss their admi
ration for tho revivalists of tho paBt,
for they woro revivalists-^Jonathan
Edwards, John Wesloy, Georgo Whit
field, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Os
borne, Knapp, Nettleton, Moody and
many others whoso natnes come to
my mind. Tho strength of their in
tellect and tho holinosB of their lives
mako mo think they would not have
had anything to do with that whioh
was ephemeral. Oh, it is easy to
tnlk against revivals!
A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I
like your sermons very muoh. but
tho aitor meetings I despise. When
tho prayer meeting begins, I always
go up into tho gallery and look down,
and I am disgusted." "Well," Bald
Mr. Dawson, "tho reason is you go
on tho top of your neighbor's house
and look down his chimney to exam
ino his firo, and of courso yqu get
only smoke in your eyoB. Why don't
you oome in the door and sit down
and warm?"
Oh, ,1 am afraid to say anything
against revivals of religion or against
anything that looks liko them, be
cause I think it may bo a sin against
tho Holy Ghost, and you know tho
Eiblo says that a sin against tho Holy
Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither
in this world nor the world to come,
Now, if you aro cv painter and I speak
against your pioturcB, do I not speak
against you? If you aro an archi
tect, and I speak against a building
you put up, do I not speak against
you? \l a revival be tho work of the
Holy Giiost, and I spoalc against that
rovival, do I not speak against the
Holy Ghost? And whoso speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, says tho
Biblo, ho shall never bo forgiven,
neither in this world nor in the world
to oome. I think sometimes peoplo
have made a fatal mistako in this di
rection.
Now I come to tho real, genuino
cause of objection to royivals. That
is the coldness of the objeotor. It is
the secret and hidden but unmistak
able cause in every ease,.a low state
of religion in tho heart. Wido awake,
consecrated, useful Christians aro ':
never afraid of revivals. It is the
spiritually dead who are afraid of
having their sepulcher molested. Tho
chief agentB of the devil during a
great awakening are always uncon
verted professors of religion. As soon
as Christ's work begins they begin
to gossip against it and take a pail
of water and try to put out this
spark of religious influence, and they
try to put out another spark. Do
they succeed? As well when Chicago
was on Aro might somo ono havo
gone out with a garden water pot
tvying to extinguish it. The difficulty
is that when a revival begins In a
church it begins nt so many 'points
that while you have doused one anx
ious soul with a pail of. cold water
thero are 500.other anxious souls on
Uro, Oh, how much better it would
be to lay hold of tho charlot of
Christ's Gospel and help pull it on
rather than to fling ourselves in front
of tho wheels, trying to block their
progress. YVo will not stop the
charlot, but wo ourselves will be
ground to powder.
But I think, after all, the greatest
obstaelo to revivals throughout
Christendom is an unconverted minis
try. We must believe that the vast
majority of thoso who offlolate at
sacred altars are regenerated, but I
suppose there may float into the
ministry of all tho denominations of
Christians men whoso hearts have
never been changed by grace. They
ave all antagonists to revivals. How
did they got fnto tho ministry? Per
haps some of them chose lt as a re
spectable profession. Perhaps some
of them wore sincere, but wore rals
I taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he
had been many years preaching the
Gospel before his heart had been
! changed, and as many ministers of
i the Gospel declare they were preach
ing and had been ordained to Adored
1 orders years and years before their
I hearts were regenerated. Graolous
i God, what a solemn thought for thoso
i of us who minister at the altarl
With the present ministry in the
Sorgt. Jasper's Company.
Tho Columbia State says in tho valu
able "rubbish" at tho State houao thoro
has rooently boen found tho original
company roll of tho company of whioh
Sorgt. Jasper of Fort Moultrie famo was
a mom ber. Tho roll not onlygivos tho
namo of oaoh commissioned offioor but
of oaoh private in tho company. It alco
givos tho dato of enlistment and dis
charge, and has oomploto marginal notos.
This is rogar dod as ono of tho most valu
able finds among tho Stato's revolution
ary reoords yet mado.
A Good Suggestion.
Tho Atlanta Journal says in Rhode
Island thero is an avorago of ono di
vorce for evory eight marriages, A good
doal of usoloss formality and exponr
might bo savod by moroly adopting u
sort of probationary system whereby
couple? oan tako each other, not for hot
tor or for worse, but until they oan
find out tho difforcnoo- on trial, as it
wore-without oalling for the snoia
raont of marrlago until thoy aro suro
about it. Certainly tho poroentago of
"sticks" could not bo any less than un
der tho present comeoasy-goeasy sys*
tem.
fjfM?Mi'temperatura .?* piety, tMa
fand trill toey?r bb etivelop.?d-withre
viv?la. Whllo th? pews oit ono sida
tho altar ory for morey, tho pulpit?
on tho other .alda-of'tho ojtar must
Minister? trying to pull cooli ojthor
down. Ministers struggling for eccle
siastical place. Ministers, lctharglo
with wholo congr?gations dying on
their hands. What a spectacle I
During our civil war the president
of the United States mndo proclama
tion for 75,000 troops. Sonic of you
remember the big stir. But tho King
of tho universo to-day asks for
1,300,000,000 moro troops than, aro en
listed, and wo want it dono softly,
Imperceptibly, no excitement, ono by
one. You aro n dry goods merchant
on a largo scale, and I am a merchant
on a ?mall scale, aud I como to you
and want to buy 1,000 yards ot cloth.
Do you say: ?'Thank you. I'll ?ell
you 1,000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow
and 20 the next day, ond If it takes
me six months I'll sell you the whole
thousand yards. You will want a?
long as that to examino the goods,
and I'll want as long as that to exam
ino the orcdlt, and besides that 1,000
yards of cloth is too muoh to sell nil
at once?" No; you do not say that.
You tako mo into the counting-room,
and in ten minutes the whole transac
tion is consummated. 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 stroko the next
Sabbath in church will stroko ? his
beard and wonder whether it w?j*ld
hot bo better for a thousand nonie 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 rae a telegraph chart
of tho world. On that chart tho wires
crossing the continents and tho cables
tinder tho sea looked like veins red
with blood. On that chart I seo that
tho headquarters of thc lightnings aro
in Great Britain and tho United
States. In London and Now York
tho lightnings aro stabled, waiting
to bo harnessed for some quick dis
patch. That shows you that tho tel
egraph is in tho possession of Chris
tianity.
It is a significant fact that the man
who invented tho telegraph, was an
old-fashioned Christian, Prof. Morse,
and that the man, who put tho tele
graph under tho sea was an old-iash
ioncd Christian, Cyrus W.'Field, and
that tho president of Iho most fa
mous of tho telegraph companion of
this country was an old-fashioned
Christian, William Orton, going from
tho communion table on earth
straight to his home in Heaven. Vf hat
does all that mean?
I do not suppose that tho telograph
waa Invented morely to let us know
whether flour ia up or down or which
horso won the race at tho Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
contest. I suppose the telegraph was
inventen and built to call tho world
to God.
In nomo of the attributes of the
Lord wo seem to sharo on a small
neale. For instance, in His love and
His kindness. But until of late fore
knowledge, omniscience, omnipres
ence, omnipotence, seem to have been
.excluslvoly God's possession. God", de?
airing to make tho race Uko Himself,
glvoB us a species of foreknowledge
in tho weather probabilities, givcB us
a species of omnisclenao in telegraphy,
gives us a species of omnipresence lu
the telephone, 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, tell you what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movomont. Next,
tho end of war. Next, tho crash of
despotism. Noxt, the world's expurga
tion. Next, tho Christlike dominion.
Next, tho judgment. What becomes
of tho world after that I caro not.
It will have suffered and achieved
enough for ono world. Day it up in
the dryd?cks of eternity, Uko an Old
man of war gono out of service, or flt
it up like a Constellation to carry
bread of rcliof to some other suffering
planet or let it be demolished. Fare
well, dear old world, that bogan with
paradlso and ended with judgment
conflagration..
Last summer I stood on tho Isla of
Wight, and I had pointed out to mo
the place where tho Eurydico sank
witlf200 or 3Q0 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.
Tho Atalanta, gone down with all on
board. By order of her majesty's gov
ernment vossols went cruising up and
down tho Atlantic trying to And that
lost training ship in Which thero were
so many young men preparing for
the British navy. Alas, for the lost
Atalanta! Oh, my friends, this world
is only a training ship I On it we are
training for Heaven. Tho old ?hip
sails up and down the ocean of im
mensity, now through the dark waves
of midnight, now through the goldon
crested wavo of the 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:
"Whore ls that earth where Christ
died and the human race was emanci
pated? Send, out fleets of angels to
find the missing craft." Let them sail
up and down, cruise up and down the
oaean of eternity, and they will catch
not ono glimpse of her mountain mast?
or her topgallants of floating cloud.
Gone down! The training ship of a
world perished in tho last tornado.
' Oh? let it not be that BIIO goes down
with all on board, but rather may it be
said of her passengor?, AB lt was said
of the drenched passengers of the Al
exandrian corn fillip that crashed into
tho breakers ?f Melita: "They all as
caped safe to land I"
A Horrible Grime.
A horrible orimo carno to tho light
Thursday whoa John Favalona and his
daughtor, Annie, woro disoovorod oold
in death in .hoir homo on Ferdito
stroot, New Orloans. Both had boon
murdered by burglars during Wodnos
day night. Tho burglars rnnnnokod tho
promises after killing thoir viotims.
Favalona kopt a grooery and fruit stand
and olosod up his plnoo about 10 o'olook
Wednesday night. When ho did not
opon Thursday morning noighbors
forced thoir way in and disoovorcd tho
orimo.
A True Girl.
Dollie ?3. Wilkins, tho adopted
daughtor of Mrs. Sarah E. Wilkins, a
rioh and eooontrio widow living near
Atohison, Kansas, losos an. estato
valued at $75,000 booauao sho married
tho man sho loved. She was married a
row days ago to Gtoorge Woods, ?tho son
of Jamos Woods, a farmer, against, tho
wishes of Mrs. Wilkins, and tho widow
now announoos ?that her adopted
daughtor, who was her solo heir, will
not reooivo a penny of hor fortune. Tho
girl is 20 and her husband is 20 years
hor senior. i
Brough: to Memory by tho Death
of Judg? Wallach
?N ?XC?T?NO PERIOD.
The Stirring Events of 1876 Rom?
Inesoenoe*. ef th? Wallace
Mouse Hampton's Trib
ute to Wall?? ce.
Tho Columbia State says no tributo
to the memory of Goo. Wallaoo could
bo moro gratifying to his loved ones
than tho kind expressions from G on.
Wado Hampton, who wat ohed Goa.
Wallace's oarcor in tho war and who
was Govornor at the timo that Judge
Wallaoo was lcador of tho Democratic
?I0U60 of Representativos in 1876 To
a representativo of Tho Statb Gen.
Bampton expressed his regret at tho
death of Gon. Wallaoc. Ho said that
"Gen Wallace's groat soldierly quali
ties wero testified to by bis rapid and
deserved promotion; that his eminence
as a legislator is a mattor of biitory
and th At his broad judioia) mind quali
ficd 1 tm to presido in tho dignified,
ablo ) J turner whioh characterized his
long, true and faithful sotvioo on tho
bonoh. I sinooroly rcgrot his death,"
concluded Gen. Hampton.
Gen. Robert ll Homphill, of Ahbo
ville, who was a member of tho Wal
lt oiHoufeo, speko thus of Judgo Wal
lace: "My iirrt aoquaintanoo with
Judgo Wallaoo was in 1876 wron bo
bpoauao Spoaker of tho historic
HOUBO of Representativos whioh has
nineo that timo boon known as tho Wal
laoo Hou o Ho was tho right man for
that cntioal timo. His oourago, judg
ment and discretion saved tho State
from many evils. If ho had not boen
perfectly sel'-posseBOod svhon tho Stato
Ho uso was. Grat entered a COL ll io t would
havo ensued and &ll our poople would
havo bo?omo inv lvcd. Tho samo is
tiuo of tho limo whon tho Houso was
oom pilled to quit tho Stato House.
Ho was an excellent prosiding ofiioov.
impartial in his rulings and quiok in
his decisions. Thoao who sorvod with
him will hoar of his death . with pro
found sorrow. Ho was a bravo and
patriotic soldier, a learned lawyer, an
honorablo counsellor and a just judgo*.
Tho Stato has lost ono of her noblest
sons."
Tho doath of Gon. Wa laco r.eilis
vividly to tho minds of not a'fow tho
oxoiting soonos enaotod while South
Carolina was in tho bands of a dual
government. Mr. John, S. Vernor,
master of Rushland County, was a
mimbor of tho Wallaoo House, - repre
senting Goonoo County. He pt-y s a
high tributo to tho oharaotor of Judgo
Wallaoo. "That go ti tlc mm, ho says,
was ono of tho most oven tem pored
men this Stato produced in tho closing
years of tho last oontury. In all the
(xoi'.omont, when tragedy .' brooded
ovor tho law-making assemblies, Gon.
Wallaoo was oool, determined and in
full possession of tho situation." Itofer
ring to tho injidonts of that time, Air.
Vorner gavo a running statomont cs to
tho pnnoipal happenings.
In tho general cleotion of 1876 tho
Dem?crata elected a largo numbov of
representatives lo tho Gonerai Assem
bly, whioh had formerly hoon ovor-J
whelmiugly ltepublionn. Tho oleotion
of tho delegations from Er'gefiold and
Laurons bounties was oontostod, how
ever. Tho Stato Dornt oratio oxeoutivo
oommittco urged tho Democratic mem
bers ol cot to roport to Columbia prompt
ly. This was dono and tho night bo
lero tho assembling of tho Legislation
tho Dcmooratio representativos mot in
Clark's hall atdinoauom nominated
tho following ticket: W. H. Wallaoo,.
Union,Spoaker; Jno.T. Sloan, Sr Rich
land, olork; W. B. Williams, of Yoik,
reading oleark; and John Brown, Barn
well, sorgoant at arms.
Tho negro seorotary of State, Hayno,
had in the meantimo refused to grant
oortifioatos of oleotion to tho Domo
oraotio COD tosteos from Edge field and
Lamons. Tho Republicans gathozod
in tho Stato capitol tho day tho Gen
eral Assembly was called to order and
ole ot ed JO W. Maokoy, of ?b arl est ou,
Spoaker. Tho Dtmcorats in a body,
headed by the Elgofield and Laurons
d?l?gations marohed to tko Stato capi
tal, but woro rofused admission.
Whereupon John C. Sheppard, of
Edge fiold, delivered a protest. Tho
oapitol building was in ohargo of Fed
eral troops oemmandod hy Gen, Buger.
Tho Democrats then marohod baok to
tho Carolina hall, whioh is now stand
ing, in the roar of Richland County
oouit house and behind tho stores on
Main streot. This building is historio
in many ways, having boen built of
briok still hot from tho smoking rains
of Colombia in 1865, In this hall tbe
Dcmooratio members, constituting a
quotum (though not a mt-Jority) of the
General Assembly, procoedod to elect
tho ticket nominated in oauous tho
night beforo. Tho Sonato, whioh was
oonoeded to bo Ropubltoan, was noti
fied of tho organisation at Carolina
hall, but took no notioo of tho body
and reoognized th? Ropublioan Houso,
whioh was in session at the Stato oapi
tol.
From this tho Dcmooratio Houso
brought notion in tho Stato supremo
oourt to mandamus Hayno, tho soore
tary of Stato, to iesuo oleotion oortift
oates to the Domoorats from Edgoflold
I and Laurens. The Domoorats won
i their point. Thon at tho suggestion of
tho Stato Domooratio oxeoutivo.oornmlt
too tho Wallaoo House deolded to get
oontroi of tho hall of tho Houso of Rep
resentativos.
Gon. Huger agreed to intorposo no
martial intorferonoo if tho Domoorats
would oonduot themselves peaceably.
Howovor, although admission to tho
building was obtained, it was neoos
sary to pass tho portals of tho legisla
tivo hall. Strategy and for co wore both
brought into play.
Tho Radical Houso was to nsnomblo
at noon on Thursday. Tho Domoorats,
singly and by baok streots, made thoir
way to tho Stato oapitol and obtained
admission. Tho Radioals were not ex
pecting this movement. Howovor. tho
negro sorgoant at-arms, a burly fellow,
attempted to provont entrance at tho
swinging doors of green baizo. Col.
Jamos T.. Orr, of Anderson, thrust
him to ono sido. In tho soufilo Mr.
John 8. Vernor soramblod through the
logs of tho combatants and snatched tho
door opon. Tho Domoorats ' thou filed
In and Gon. Wallaoo took tho spo&ker's
ohal?
This was a fow minutes boforo 12
o'olook. When tho hour of noon ar?
rivod tho Ropublioan Houso of?lolals
attomptod to got their floats, but were
refusod. They obtained onairs, how
over, and eat beside thu Domooratio ofli
cora. From Thursday until Monday at
hoon the dual goYornmont . oontinucd
thus, two Bp cakora, twoolorks, two of
ovory omeo?, Dating that timo no
bei?oorot loft tho hall fot fear that ho
tibold,not gain roaoraisBion. Food .waa:
brought by friends, and tho Demo
cratic legislators slept in tho hall.
.Ka Domoorat would rho to address
Speaker Wallaoo a Radical would ad
dress Speak er Mackey, and both mern
hors would speak at tho samo time,
*??h tryirg drown out thu other. No
businoss was tranaaoiod or attempted?
?In tho menu ti mo four negroes carno
over to tho Democratic standard,
Hamilton and Myers, of Beaufort;
Wostborry, of Sumter; Boston, of New
berry, and anothor from Fairfield.
Hamilton was tho first to mako a
break. He is said to havo boon a negro
of intelligenoo and moans. Ho walked
into tho hall faultlessly attired in
broadcloth. Laying his beaver hat
and gold headed oano on his desk, and
displaying his revolvor, whioh ho abm
laid olos? at hand, he addressed Judgo
Wallaco as uMr. Speaker." Tho no
grooB orowded around him enraged.
Tho whito men also surged up towards
his de ak. "Whom did ho moan to nd
drossas'Mr. Socakor?' " Tolling tho
negroes to stand baok, Hamilton kept
thom at bay with bis pistol and said
that as aoon as quiet was rostorod bo
would explain whom ho moant. Tho
cager crowd fell baok and tho nogro
tbon proclaimed why ho would uphold
tho deoont political party and would
align himself with tho Democrats.
Tho following Monday at noon on tho
ad vi co of Judgo Walla co tho Domo
orat io Houso abandonod tho hall of tho
Houso of ?lei rosen? nt ive s and wont
baok to Carolina hall. This was dono
for a reason that no good oould bo ac
complished by remaining and it was
feared tl at tho torriblo strain on tho
poopto would bo followed by disaster
unless tho tension bo relaxed.
Having now, with tho njgrenrooruits,
a olear majority as well as a quorum, tho
'Wallaoo Houso olooted Gon. M. C. But
lar to ho United Su to a Senator. A
stand was built in front of Carolina
hall, thoro boing n 3 buildings botweon
that spot and Main Street, and thoro
Gon. Hampton was inaugurated Govcr
nor, tho oath boing administered by J.
Q Marshall, a Demooratio trial justice,
now Senator from Richland oounty.
Tho Republicans oleotod D. T. Cor
bin to tho United States Sonato. Cor
bin was an alion, but a vory oapablo
lawyer. No business waa transacted,
no laws onaotod. Resolutions woro
discussed by tho threo several branches
of thc General Assembly meeting daily.
Dr. James Woodrow voluntarily did tho
/'printing of tho Wallaco Hauso, but was
afterwards repaid. Just boforo Christ
'mas tho Radioal Hcuso adjourned and
tho Wallaoo Houso followed suit. Tho
oxpciiEos of tho Wallaoo Houso woro
met by voluntary SCTV?OOS of tho mom
hors and by voluntary contributions
(from patriots.
} Tho next spring affairs woro ohaotio.
'The Domoorats rofusod lo pay taxes to
(Lladioal oounty oflioials, but mado a
contribution to tho Hampton govorn
mont. When Rutherford B. Hayes
bo limo President Mardi 4th, ho with
drow tho United States troops from
South Carolina and tho backbone of tho
Radioal party waa gono. D. H. Cham
berlain, Re publican Governor, abdio.it
ed, and Wado Hampton, tbo bero and
idol of the Demoorats, oooupied tho
exooutivo office at the Stato oapitol. A
special session of tho Goneral A'sombly
>wnn oallcd, and as there wen no funds
(for tho cXponocs of tho Radicals, the
Mackey Houso vt ai dissipated, Ho ff
ovor, thoro woro many Republican no
igroos who aat in tho Loghlaturo after
/tho Wallace Houso gained full eontrol,
bcoauso tho oountics whioh they
:??proBonted woro undoubtedly Republi
can..
W. D. Simpson, Of Luirons, had al
ready boon ?worn in as Lioutonant
Governor. Whon Chamberlain gave
way to Hampton. Greaves, tho nogro
Lioutonant Governor, gavo way to Mr.
Simpson. Groaves tried to foroo Gov.
Simpson to to take tho oath of offioo.
Gov. Simpson, H veiling with indigna
lion, rcpliod: "Tho Senato will oorao
to order. I havo taken tho oath of
e fuco onoo, and no power on oarth can
make mo tako it again."
Thoro was no dramatic scono after
this announooment, but quiot was after
some difficulty rostorod and Gov. Simp
son did not tako tho oath as proposod
by the nogro. Gen. Mart W. Gary was
a member of the Sonato and defiod tho
nogro Senators to disputo Gov. Simp
son's rigbt to tho office.
Gov. Simpson was elootod ohiof jus
tico of the Stat? supremo oourt and
Jotor, of Union, bcoamo Lioutonant
Governor. Gon. Wallaoo, tho presid
ing offioor of tbo Houso, was oho from
Union. Whon Gen. wallaoo tho pre
siding officorof the Houso, was olovatod
to tho oirouit bon oh in 1877, John C.
Sheppard, after an interesting contest
with Jas. L. Orr, booamo Sp0akor of
tho Houso. Mr. Sheppard afterwards
marriod Gon. Wallace's daughtor.
None but a man of highest attain
ments, dolioato taot. supremo oourago
and indomitable will oould havo bcon
Speaker of tho Demooratio Houso of
1876 and such a man W. H. Wallaoo is
dcolarod by all who served with him.
Committed Suicido.
A dispatch from St. Goorgcs to Tho
Stato says "a tragedy has boourrod in
our midst, and ono whioh, undor tho
particular circumstances by whioh it
was occasioned, oauaos tho sympathy
of tho ontire community tobo extondod
to the boroavod onos. It was a suioido,
Mr. Carnoy Gaskins, an old and re
speotod ci ti/on, precipitated the end of
hisoxistonoo of his own volition Wed
nesday afternoon about 5 o'olook. Mr.
Gaskins was just omvalosoont from a
protracted spoil of sovoro illnoBS. On
tho aftornoon of tho suioido was tho
first time that ho darod vonturo out of
doors for months. Ho managed to
mako his way to a s toro nearby his pla 00
of rosidor.co, and from its propriotor
proourod a pistol undor tho protonso
that ho donirod to kill a dog or oat
whioh was annoying him at his homo.
His wifo, becoming alarmod at his
longthy abner, oj from tho houso, insti
tuted a soaroh and found him in ono
of tho outhouse? in tho roar of thoir
rosidonoa, with lifo oxtinot, with a
wound in tho hoad, infioitod by a re
volver, * whioh was grasped tightly in
tho loft hand. Tho ball enterod on tho
left aldo of tho faoo, a littlo aboyo tho
tempi 1. passing through tho head and
embedding itself in a bundlo of foddor
wh'oh was boncath his head. It io pre
sumed that he was driven to tho daring
and rash ?ot from dospondonoy, pro
duood by protraotod suffering from a
chronic disease. The nnoxpootod co
eur ro?o 0 has proved almost fatal to
Gaskin's wifo, and she has boon at tho
point of death from nervous prostration
ovor sinoe. ' ;. ". ', .
Murdered*a Little Boy.
Near Six Milo, W. Va,. Thursday
Charles' Coro, 20 voars old, shot and
killed a 7-yoar-old son of John Hagar
and sorionsly woundod tho fathor be
oaunQ some ono had stoned his horno,
Ho osoapod to Kontuokv.
A BEAUTIFUL POEM.
.Bivouac of the Dead/' Groat* et
Martial Eulogy Ever Written.
IT? ADAPTION WORLD-WIDE.
Written by Theodore O'Hara In
Comm?moration of the Gal
lantry of the. Ken
tucky Soldiery. .
I Liku Provldenop, La , Bannor? Demoorat. J
Having latoly soon a bosutifnl trib
ute to Theodoro O'Hara, author of tho
immortal poora, "Tho Bivouao of tho
Dead," and aa O Hara was my personal
friend and assistant in tho Adjutant
Gcnrral'H (fBoo of tho Kcntuoky di
vision, oommar,dod by Me jor Gonoral
Brocket ridgo, I take plcasuro in send
ing you an extract from tho article
with tho full poom, whioh I havo car,
ried in my notebook ovorsinoo tho war.
It is worthy of rooord that thia son
of tho oouth produced tho ono perfect
and universal martial eulogy that tho
world hts known and that tho couth
has been absolutely unmindful of this
faot. Tho first of thoso atatemonts is
provon by tho faot that without any
advertisement or exploitations, tho
wondorful words have, in tho fifty
years nineo thoy woro wi itt on, per
meated tho wholo world, and boon laid
hold on by English-speaking pooplo
overywhoro, to oslebrato thoir honored
dead who passed away in battlo. Upon
(Ji i me au battlefields, tho. renting plaoo
of Eoglhh boreen is marked hy a great
monument, on whioh chinos O Dara's
matohless words, and yot Eoglaad did
not know from whom sho borrowed
I when sho wroto them:
"On /arno's eternal camping ground
Thoir eilont tents aro aproad,
And glory guards, with no'onm round,
Thc bivouao of tho doad."
Perhaps tho anonymous oharaet-er of
tho poom. was a blousing, nineo it is
doubtful if tho Fcdoral gove rom mt of
tho United States would havo usod tho
lines in mol? lavish fashion in im
mortalizing tho dead of tho Union
Army, had they boen recognized aa tho
produot of tho genius of a soldior and
officer of tho otbor sido. In any oaso,
tboy did not know, and ovory national
oomotery in America has gainod .thoro
by, mimo thoy aro not only tho most
approx riato but tho only appropriate
linos for such a purpose.
Over tho ga to way bf tho national
oomotery at Washington tho famous
first stanza io engraved, and thoro, au
at Antietam and other national oome
terics tho cntiro poem is roproduocd,
stanza by stanza, on Blabs plaocd along
tho driveway.
O'Hara lies in tho burying ground at
Frankafort, Ky., with only tho uno in
tiuu en a simple Blab of marblo which
Bays:
Thoodoro O Hara,
Mojor A. D 0.
Died Juno 6, 1867
Btlow is a oopy of his poem ia full,
written on oooasion of the , removal ot
tho Kentucky doad from Mexioo to
their native Stato aft<r tho war with
that country. Johu A. Buck nor.
THE DIVOUA0 OV THE DE AU
(Writton by Thoodoro O'Hara in 1847.)
Tho muffled drum's ead roll bas boat
Tho soldier's last tattoo;
No ni oro on lifo' n parade nh all meot
That bravo and fallon fow
On famo's e ornal camping ground
Their eilont tonte aro apron i,
And glory guards, with Bolemu round,
Tho bivouao of the dead.
No rumor of tho foe's a I vaneo,
Now swells upon tho wind:
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of lovod ones left behind;
No vieion of tho morro n's strifo
Tho warrior's dream alarms:
No braying horn nor soroaming fifo
At dawn shvll oall to arms.
Thoir shivered swords are red with nut,
Their plumed hoads aro bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in duet,
' ls now thoir martial shroud,
And plonleous funeral tears havo washed
The rod etaina from oaoh brow,
And tho proud forms, by batt'o gashed,
Are froo from anguish now.
Tho neighing troop, tho flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast;
Tho obargo, the dreadful cannonade,
Tho diu and shout, aro passed; '
Nor war's wild noto nor glory's poal
thall thrill with fierce delight
These breasts that nevermore may fool
The rapture of the fight.
Like tho fierce, northorn-hurrlcane
That Bwoeps his groat plateau,
Flushed with tho triumph yet to gain,
Came down the sorriod foo.
Who hoard the thunder of tho fray
Droak o'or tho field boneath,
Know woll tho watchword of that day
Was "viotory or death."
Lui g had tho doubtful con iliot ragod
0 or all the itiiok.cn plain,
For novor fioroor fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spoin;
And still the storm of battle blew, .
Still Bwolled the gory (ide;
Not long our stout old ohioftala knew
Buoh odds his strength could bide.
'Twa? in that hour this stern command
Called to a martyr's gravo
Tho flower of hia beloved land,
Theiiation's flag to savo.
Dy rivers of thoir fathers' gore
' ill? first born laurels grew,
And well ho deemed tho BOOB would pour
Thoir lives for glory, too.
Full many a norther's breath hos swept
O'er Angostura's plain
And long tho pitying sky has wept
Abovo Ito mouldered slain.
Thc raven's, soretun er eagle's flight,
Or shepherd's ponalvo lay
Alone awakes oaoh sullen height
That frowned o'or that dread fray ful.
Sons of tho da.-k and bloody ground,
Yo must not slumber thore, '
Where stranger stops and tongues resound
Along the heedless air. -.
Your own proud land's heroic Boil
Shall bo your fitter grav?;
Oho olaims from war his riohost spoil
The ashes of her brave.
Thus 'neath their par ont turf thoy rest,
Far from the gory fi old,
Homo to a Spartan mother's breast
On many a bloody shield j
The sunshine of thoir native sky
Smiloi sadly on them boro,
And kindred o jr cu and houls watoh by
Tho horoeV sopulohre.
liest on, embalmed and sainted dead j
Dear as the blood we gave}
No impious foot ?topo here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nov shall your glory bo forgot
While famo ber record keops;
Or honor paint tho hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sloops;
Yon marblo ndnnlrol'n voloetoSB stone
In deathless tong shall tell,
When many a vanished ago hath flown,
Tho ?tory how ye fell.
Nor wreck, nor ohango, nor winter's bl
Nor time's rotnoraolcs? doom,
Shall dint one ray of glory's light
That glides your deathless tomb.
"THOU L?Mfi OF CALVARY."
How ft Qreat Hymn Wa? Mad? by ?
Youppr Man of Yole,
Ono d?y duriug tho wintor'of 1830 a
young nun, s graduate fro ra Y???, ??t
down in his room Sn ibo oity of Now
Ycrkand with 03 cs'fillcd with toar? wro'o
in Ms pocket m<!!!?randuni*book font
simple eUnzRS, whiob, ho aaid, "wcro
born - of ray own soul." Two yoara la
ter, Dr. Lowoll Mason composed for
thoso ntnc/.aa tho beautiful tuno Olivet
lo which tho hymn is still sung, and it
ia oortainly ono of tho mcnt piooious
oontrihutions which Amaioau goniuB
has mudo to tho hymnology cf tho
Christian;ohuroh. lt reads thus:
.?My hlth looks to Theo,
Thou Lamb of Cn!vary,
Saviour Divine:
Now hoar mo whilo I pray,
Take all my guilt away,
0 let n o from thia day
ll? wholly Thine."
Thia hymn of redemption, which
sprung from a devout soul, begins in
ponitonco, but ends in praise, and
With a glorious assurai, 00 of hep?; and
how many a penitent, whilo hearing or
uttering thoso word?, has found pardon
and poaooin bolkvingl Bowing boforo
a ?ruo'fiod Saviour and kok to Him
alono, bia cry io:
"Tftko all my s'ns away,"
and
"U lot mo from thU day
Be wholly Thine."
;.? ';.' . .; '?? ' ?. ,..'":\> ,ii;{v'> ?I
Tho oar nc ?In CHI of that ory of faith
fiada a roepomu in tho bosom of ii.finito
mcroy, aiid tho praying soul obtains
strength. He ia inspired with a puro,
warm, aod changeless love for tho lt )
dcemoi-"a living fire."
Then, looking forward, ho sees that
Gethsemane boura aro boforo him, when
tho cup t-f bitterness niait bo pressed
(0 hid lips, and whilo t-u roan lod with
clouds of dLouragetnont and tempta
tion ho pr?yn:
"Bo Thou my guide;
Bid darkuoas iura t d*y,
Wipo sorrow's toara away,
Nor let mo over siray
From Theo asido."
Yet thero is ono moro valley, darker
than any passed before, lt it tho ono
in which tnds lifo's transient dream,
and through which rolla death's cold,
Billion sircom; and as his littlo baiquo
is born swiftly toward tho "whito anita
eternity," bis last tiiumphant words
aro:
"B'osod Saviour, then, in love,
Foar And distrust remove;
O boar mo aafo above->
. A ranaamed soull"
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Little hid been tl.roateniog to kill his
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Oilbora woio aummonod, andas Elliott
steppod in tho door ho was shot in tho
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