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The Protective Tariff.
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LUMBER TRUST ACTIVE
In a Tetter to One of His Constituents
the (/onKi'CNNinnn Tells Why
He Opposes the Doctrine and
I'oints Out Who Profits by the
Timber Duty.
Congressman Joseph T. Johnson
of South Carolina states that he has
recently received a number of letters
from various sources in his district,
suggesting that he use his influence
to induce tho Democratic
majority in the house to "go slow"
in its handling of tho tariff question
* The following letter, written by
him to one of his constituents and
friends, shows how he stands on the
subject:
"I have your favor of the 21st, in
which you state that before the tariff
question is agitated very much
and before I commit myself, you
would like to say some things to
me relative to the manufacturing interests
of the South, and in the
* North as well.
"I have committed myself 20
years ago on that question, and so
has the Democratic party. I do not
believe in the doctrine of nrotoction.
The Democratic party haa always
contended that the government haa
110 right to levy a tax, except for
the purpose of raiaing revenue to defray
the expenses of the government.
The other political party contends
that the government has the right
to levy taxes not for the purpose
of raising revenue, but for the purpose
of protecting American manuacturers
from competing with the
manufacturers of other countries.
It is unfortunate that many people
in this country have actually come to
believe that business prosperity is
dependent upon laws that give certain
classes special privileges.
"During all the last week we were
engaged in considering the Canadian
reciprocity bill. All speakers in
opposition to that measure professed
their belief that the American farmer
would he ruined if Canadian products
were permitted to come into
this country free of duty. I do not
believe it. The statement made oftener
than any other against permitting
the importation of Canadian
products was that land was cheaper
in Canada than it is in Minnesota
and other States in that section of
the Union, and that the farmer on
high-priced land could not compete
^ with the farmer on cheaper land.
"This proposition won't bear analysis.
The lands in every State in
the Union vary in value. The lands
in every county in every State in the
Union vary in value, and yet all
farmers compete with ono another.
There are farming lands in every
county of the Fourth congressional
district of South Carolina that readily
sell for $100 per acre, and in every
case within ten miles there are
lands equally as productive that'sell
for $20 per acre. The arguments
that I have heard in favor of protec*
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par with the one above suggested.
Southern farmers have no protection
upon their products, but we sell cotton
in Liverpool in competition with
the low-priced labor of Egpyt and
. India. As a matter of truth, the
Northern farmer has no protection.
It is true that the tariff law levies '
a duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat,
and similar duties upon corn, barley
and various products of the farm;
but those duties are put there for
the purpos2 of fooling the farmer
and getting him to vote the Republican
ticket. The Northern farmers '
not only make all the wheat we can <
consume in the United States, but 1
they make a surplus of many, many 1
millions of bushels, which is export- .
ed and sold in the markets of the 1
world in competition with the i
wheat that Is grown in Russia and I'
in other wheat growing countries. |<
"The most active opponent of r
Canadian reciprocity was the lumber
trust; but the lumber trust never
shows its own hand. It spent Its
energies in trying to get the farmers
and others to protest against
Canadian reciprocity; but the real
object of Its activities was in order
that the great timber lords
might hold up the American peopl".
There are three holders of timber in
the United States who have S8.0O0,000
acres of standing timber ? an
area nearly three times as large as
all the cotton llelds of the Southern
States. These three holders own
timber enough to build a cottage
for every family in the United States
The lumber on the land at its present
prices is worth 10, 20 and 50
times what they paid for the land,
and the land after tho timber is cut
off is worth many times what they
paid for it. And these powerful influences
have put every agency in
operation to kill tariff revision?not
because they care anything about
the farmer's wheat or his buckwheat
or his barley?but because they
want still further to be able to multiply
their almost countless millions
by holding up our people 011 the
price of lumber.
"Our New Bedford friends, who
have evidently written to you, are
not concerned about Southern mills,
but they want you to pull the chestnuts
out of the tire for them; and
if I could reach the ear of every busI
1 r\ r\ I ? hn C^aii t h m if ocl iri/io
liiunn ijiciu *11 mi/ kjv/ii lii , iuj tivt ? iv\>
to him would be to watch for the
hands that dare not show their motives
and not allow thein to work
upon the fears of our people. The
South has never gotten anything out
of the doctrine of protection. It Is
the law that has enabled the steel
trust, the rubber trust and the paint
trust, the sugar trust, the lumber
trust the rubber trust and the meat
trust to garner their millions at the
expense of all the people. They don't
want tills great privilege cut off, but
they dare not come out in the open
and plead that they should be allowed
to continue their exploitations,
and consequently they resort
to bring pressure to bear upon their
representative In congress to prevent
them legislating In the interest of
all the people.
"The ways and means committee
of the present congress is composed
of careful, painstaking, conscientious
men. They have no desire, and
the members of congress have no
desire, to do anything that will injure
or hinder legitimate business.
We realize perfectly that the country
has been operating upon a false
foundation and upon a false doctrine,
and that however vicious that
system may be, we must destroy it
gradually, conservatively and cautiously.
The house is Democratic,
but the senate is Republican and
the president is a Republican; so our
tariff legislation must of necessity he
moderate, or it could not pass a Republican
president. I realize fully
that it is possible for these great influences
to cause depression in business
just as I know a man may create
a stampede in a theatre by shouting
"Fire!" when there is 110 fire.
Hut what I want to warn you and
fill my friends in the South against
is permitting yourselves to be stampepded
by these peopple, who do not
wish to come out in tlie open, but
who are crying "Fire!" and business
depression in order to create alarm
throughout the country and try to
stampede congress from doing what
the people want it to do, and what is
right." P. H. McGo.
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TWKLVK PKIfilSHKO.
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More People Were Killed in Wreck
Than Thought.
One more teachers, Miss Margaret
Jones, 4 5 Eagle street, IJtica, is reported
among the missing, and it is
assumed she perished in the wreck
of \f orHn'o P rnol/ P/\n n Hn <r \Hto
fi i i*A ill tin vyi vv;n. v.uuin 111/^ ?uico
.lones dead, the total of the disaster
at this time is 12, eight Uticans, and
four railroad men.
All of the injured at the Kaston
hospital are recovering, those most
seriously hurt showing marked improvement.
The only victim of the
wreck who has been identified is
Miss Louisa Lindaman of Ut.ic.a. She
was identified by the buttons on her
cuffs, which were not destroyed in
the lire.
All the bodies of the unidentified
will be shipped to Utica tomorrow
in a special train over the Pennsylvania
and Delaware, Lackawanna
western railroad.
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Wants Everybody Pardoned.
Following the unusual number of
pardons, paroles and commutations,
the governor of South Carolina lias
received a letter, written in an uneducated
tone asking that he pardon
all of the convicts in the State penitentiary
next Thanksgiving Day. The
letter has been taken under considedation
by the chief executive. Over
100 prisoners have been liberated by
the present governor in three
months.
Holland Is Acquitted.
Tn general sessions court at Greenville
Judge Sease directed a verdict
of not guilty in the case of Lee Holland,*
intendant of the town of Maudlin,
charged with killing Robert McAbee
of Rnoree in a street duel last February.
The shooting of Robert j
McAbee occurred after McAbee had
Lried to "shoot-up" the town of Maul- <
Tin, and in the skirmish in which he i
was shot Holland was also wounded.
GAVE A GOOD TALK
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MILLER CITES SOME FACTS ON
THE XEOltO COLLEGE.
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ReviewH History of Institution, its
lfar<l Fight for Existence and the
Success Attained.
In bidding farewell to Orangeburg
and the State Colored College, Wed'
nesday, President Thos. E. Miller,
who has been its efficient President
since its establishment, reviewed
briefly his connection with the College,
his efforts to secure its establishment
and the struggle he has encountered
in the administration of
the president's office.
In the course of his address he
cites some facts that will be of general
interest to the people of both
races. It is recalled that R. S. Wilkinson
was recently elected to succeed
Miller. The full text of President's
Miller's address is as follows:
"Sixteen years ago the Constitu
tlonai convention met tor tne purpose
of disfranchising the negroes.
It was composed of not less than
one hundred and sixty members, all
of whom save six were of the white
race, Smalls, Whipper, Wigg, Reid,
Anderson and myself were the Republican
members. The six of us
managed, by a brave and bold fight
to secure for the negro race this
College.
"About eighteen years previous
two nogres, Bruce Williams and Thos.
E. Miller, made it possible, by their
votes and voice, for the South Carolina
College and the grand old Citadel
to be restored to the white youths
of the State. That was a bitter fight
between the Hampton faction and the
other Democratic faction. The opposition
to those two colleges had
a majority of two in the State senate.
It required the votes of Senator
Bruce Williams and myself to make
it a tie. The tie was secured, and
that grand commoner, Gen Kennedy,
voted with us; the tie was broken
and these institutions were once
more made the shrine of learning to
and for the white youths of the State.
At that time the faction led by Gen.
Hampton promised us this College,
but it was more than eighteen years
before I was able to force the white
people of South Carolina to redeem
that pledge. Soifie day I will give
the people of our State a full history
of how I won this College in the
Constitutional Convention for my
people.
"I had no intention of becoming
president, but I could not have secured
the school for my people without
leaving active political life. I made
the sacrifice; we have had the College
these fifteen years. The past of
its existence is secure; the verdict
of our people is that we have done
well; we have made good in this
College. We have matriculated more
than 10,000 students; we have grad
uateci more tnan < ui?, ami inose wno
have attended here have gone out in
the world industrious, prudent, successful
citizens. We never left God
out of the equation in the management
of this school. The College's
motto is: "The Glory of God and the
Good of Man.' 'Hv the sweat of
thy brow thou shalt eat bread is
the command of God, and our aim
here has been, and is my fervent
hope ever will be, to inculcate into
every and all of our students moral
rectitude, lofty idea of patriotism,
thrift, obedience, frugality and a
clinging devotion to the Golden Rule.
"Very many presidents have only
to look to the government and management
of the College, and their
task should be easy; but mine has
been a duplex administration. When
1 came here some of the white people
of the State were against the
higher education of the negroes. The
negro denominational colleges were
fighting us and the one across the
fence, through its president, vowed
our annihlation. Hence, it became |
my lot to so act and speak as to I
show to the white people of this |?
State, that it was, and is their duty to i
plant, support, protect and maintain <
this institution for the negro youth.
I had to prove to the negro that the 1
best school in South Carolina is this s
school. Then, again, I was surround- <
ed in the beginning by a cabal of \
preachers on my faculty, who had 1
little or no experience as educators, t
who were against Industrial educa- 1
tion, and they permitted no oppor- t
tunity to escape, one and all of them, i
in their endeavor to destroy my ad- 1
ministration and break up this College.
If they had been hired by the 1
people across the fence instead of I
by the State of South Carolina, they I
could not have been more persist- t
ent in their efforts of the destruc- t
tion of my administration and this t
College. t
"Those of us who have been here t
i u ^ i ...ill. i
lur iiiu jmtsi ten yums, wiin very iuw i
exceptions, have been faithful to ev- ?
ery trust, and we have done all that I
man can do for the good of South t
Carolina by instructing, faithfully
instructing, all who have come with- t
in our gate. Hence, I leave this in- p
stitution with the best wishes and t
esteem of all the white people of 1
this town. Words are not mine with t
which to thank them all for the en- v
couragement and support they have
given me during the fifteen years I
have been here. The best certificate "
of success that I carry from here is ii
the high regard my work and myself c
are held by these very excellent cit- v
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izens of Orangeburg town and county.
I have but one personal regret
In leaving, and It is this: That these
good white people will cease to be
my neighbors, but I shall ever remember
them, and prove by my labor
wherever I may go, that I have been
and will remain worthy of their confidence.
"Students, the best and greatest
asset of a State or nation is her
labor. The Slate whose labor ?
profligate, the State whose labor is
immoral, the State whose labor is
ignorant, is doomed to poverty. Hear
me, the motto of South Carolina is:
'Prepared in mind and in wealth.
If she ceases to bo prepared in intellect.,
she will cease to be prepared
in wealth. 'A fool and his money
soon parts.' Whether it be individual
or State. Therefore, my parting
word to you is this, lie up! lrp and
doing with a resolution to become
educated in the arts of thrift and
frugality, morals and industry and
devotion to South Carolina! Let
these principles become a part of every
portion of you, and then South
Carolina will never have cause to
regret the money, let the amount be
large or small, she spends upon this
institution and upon you.
"To my people, the negroes, who
have sent their children here to us,
I have not words with which to thank
them for their loyalty to me and
this College, and T assure them that
I have been a father to their children
at all times. The humblest and
most needy have received my strongest
love and best devotion. It is
my prayer that they will give my
successor their undivided support in
the future.
"Professors, instructors, teachers,
I leave here with the best wishes for
this institution and for you. 1 pray
God that all of you shall see your
duty and discharge it. Do not remain
here only for the money you
are getting, but do all in your power
to prove to the enemies and friends
of this institution that it is the best
place in South Carolina for negroes
to send their children. He faithful
to every trust, be true to each other,
be loyal to your president. For him
to be successful he needs untiring
service from you, he needs your confidence,
he needs your loyalty, and
South Carolina demands the fullest
discharge of every duty intrusted to
you. Here is your new president;
on the 30th of June the keys to this
College will be handed him by me,
with them my burdens will fall upon
him. May God give him prudence,
patience, health, strength, and above
all, fidelity to every trust, and the
wisdom of Solomon to execute the
task.
Honorable trustees and devoted
friends, how can I say to you faiewell?
I have been here serving you
and South Carolina for fifteen years,
and I have never been associated
with or under better men. The superior
of our hoard of trustees is not
to be found in the State. Governor
Evans permitted me to name the
trustees of this School in the beginning,
and I selected Bradham,
Floyd, Brlce, Kibler, Lowman, men
of-honor and integrity and patriotism.
And as soon as some of them
have dropped out they have been
succeeded by Mrssrs. Dukes, White,
Sawyer, each and every one of whom
have proven the equal of their predecessors.
Hut the future only will
reveal the fact if South Carolina has
in her confines the equal of Major
D. .1. Bradham. He has been the
devoted, trusty, I say the fathers of
the board in patience, prudence and
devotion to the task assigned him in
the management of this school. He
is now succeeded by Mr. Hodge.
The name j.s a good one, the Hodges
of America have been the leaders in
part lot ism and educated thought, I
pray for him eminent success in the
management of this school. All of
you gentlemen know why 1 have
been forced to leave you; I opposed
the election of our Governor.
I have never said an unkind word
about him: I wrote and spoke
the truth. I uttered only facts.
God forbid that I should ever
publicly or privately slander any
man, yet I can thank my God
enough for having given me courage
to speak the truth, let its cost he ever
so dear.
"My task here has been heavy. I
have given fifteen years of devoted
service, my very best of manly existence.
Governor 1 Mease has emancipated
me from the heavy burden.
Words are not mine with which to
hank him for my freedom. I leave
lere with a heart full of gratitude ,
o Governor HI ease for my emancipation.
He is a gited young man;
lis enemies are praying to sum up
his administration when he shall '
lave finished it, and truthfully place ;
liim in the class of Franklin J.
doses, Jr. But my prayers are for
he good of South Carolina and him,
hat God may direct him, protect him
ind keep him from wrong, that when *
he impartial historian shall take up '
he pen to write his administration,
le will bo classed in truth; with '
doultrie, Rut ledge, Pinckney and McJuflle,
and last but not least, with
he immortal Wade Hampton.
"Only one more word, and I am
hrough. Teachers, my successor, 1
it u uent 8 lot all of you rem ember
hat 'In union there Is strength.' <
fence take unto yourselves this mot- 1
o, "We are Many In Oiie.' Fare- 1
veil." <
It seems to he Impossible to bury ?
'that Lor/.mer matter." The case 1
s sb black that whitewash enough s
an not be put on to make It look <
vhlte. c
P
HA BY ONLY TRAGEDY WITNESS.
Athens, Go., Man Kills Wife, then
Commits Suicide.
With a little wide-eyed baby girl,
the only witness, R. W. McKinney,
until recently of Newport, Tenn.,
shot and killed his wife and then
himself at 9.3 0 o'clock Monday night,
within earshot of a revival, which
was progressing at the Young Harris
Memorial Methodist Church, at Athens,
Qa. It was at first believed that
the two people had been murdered
by a third party, but a careful examination
of the ground and room in
which they were found by the police
served to convince them that the
man had first shot his wife and then
himself. No cause for the shooting
is known.
EDITOR GETS A PEACE.
Another South Carolina!) Also Finds
a Good Jol>.
Mr. \V. n. Bradford, of Fort Mill,
S. C., who has had years of experience
as a practical newspaper man,
and also in the Government printing
oflice, has been appointed assistant
clerk to the joint printing investigation
committee of Congress. This
Is an important position. The committee
will have a great deal of work
to do and has been actuated by the
ut'sire iu Bt'i uie ex|i?n unMouuivt' in
its labors. iMr. Bradford is now the
publisher of the Fort Mill Times.
Mr. William II. Barron, of Chester,
S. C., will be messenger to the
House committee on postoflices and
post roads.
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A Quality That Needs Cultivating.
The Santa Fe railroad has done a
good thing in issuing a circular enjoining
its conductors and other officials
to exercise courtesy toward
passengers. Not that the subordinate
ofllcials of that road are sinners
above others in their demeanor
toward the public. As a rule the
men employed in responsible positions
on all the railroads are considerate
and obliging, yet there is
room for improvement, not only on
railroad and steamboat lines, but also
in all concerns where employes come
into contact with the public. In the
police force of some of our cities
there is oftentimes a painful lack
of civility, to say nothing of courtesy.
It is admitted that the patience of
many ofllcials is often sorely tried by
the foolish questions frequently put
| to them and by the fussiness which
many people show. At the same
time it. must, be remembered that
what seem foolish questions to the
initiated do not seem foolish to the
people putting them. It would be
well for every public servant in discharging
his duties to bear in mind
that it is well to put oneself in the
other person's place. This would result
in a greater forbearance and
courtesy in dealing with others.
If by courtesy is meant the giving
to others what is their due and
giving it in kindly spirit, then it is
a quality which may well be practiced
more widely than at present. In
the mad rush that characterizes this
age many people are not sumcienuy
considerate of the rights and feelings
of others. There is too frequently a
brusquesness of speech and manner
which hurts. The old fashioned
courtesy of our forefathers may have
been a little too elaborate, but some
return of it would be welcome.
Those Wicked Democrats.
The New York Sun exposes a hideous
conspiracy among the wicked
Democrats in Congress to "do nothing
to spoil the chance of electing
a President" and to "leave nothing
undone to promote the success of
their part^ in the election next year."
To this despicable end "they are going
to put revision up to President
Taft and the Republican Senate, and
in a way that makes co-operation
impossible; and then they propose to
go to the country and say, 'We have
done our best to revise the tariff,
but we have failed because wo do
not control the Government.' "
The New York World says this
miserable plot is enough to raise
goose-pimples on the skin of every
Republican patriot, but it can be
thwarted. Suppose Mr. Taft and the
Republican Senate were to allow
those godforsaken Democrats to
have their own way about tariff revision.
If the revision were unsatisfactory
to the country the blame 1
could be thrown upon the Democrat- <
Ic party, which would be sternly re- i
buked at the polls in IP 12. If it I
wore satisfactory the Republicans '
would share in the glory. We find 1
nothing in this Democratic program I
of tariff revision which "makes cooperation
impossible'' on the part of
Republicans who sincerely desire to
eliminate the abuses of the Payne- j
A Id rich schedules. I
Pastor in Trouble. j
George Nowland, who is pastor of ]
two churcheH, according to G. R. I
Randolph, United States revenue 1
commissioner, will be tried at Anniston,
Ala., Monday on the charge of
Mowland was capturedserg.e ,9|Ae
operating a moonshine distillery. <
Mowland was captured near the Kb- I
^nezer church, said to bo one of <
tiis charges, last Sunday when a big s
still of which he was the alleged j
>wner was destroyed by the ruiding 1
>fficers. t 1
THEY MUST BE TRUE
THK PEOPLE OF UNITED STATES
IAX>K TO TIIE DEMOCRATS.
Senator O'Gornian Says Public Ha*
Put Its Trust in Party Which Opposes
Tariff Crab.
In an address Wednesday evening
at a dinner -given in his honor by
the National Democratic Club, of
New York, James A. O'Gorman the
newly elected Senator to the United
States Senate, said in part:
"Today the American people are
looking hopefully to the Democratic
party for redress against economic
and political conditions which weigh
heavily upon them and which can not
be successfully defended. There is a
growing and widespread public sentiment
that the American consumer
must be relieved from unjust and unnecessary
tribute.
"The house of representatives,
Democratic for the first time In 16
years, has set a splendid example of
advancing necessary legislation during
the last month. The pledges of
the party have been kept and the
record of the house is one of achievement.
"In our own State the Democratic
majority intends, during this session,
to enact laws which will maJce for
economy and efficiency in government
and thus lighten the burden of"
the citizens of the State. In NowJersey,
under the inspiring leadership
of Gcv. Wilson, the Democratic
party 1n one session of the legislature
has redeemed all the pledges of
constructive legislation. These are
a few of the achievements of the
Democratic party in 1011.
"I believe the people of the land
want an immediate downward revision
of the tariff. They demand a
parcels post. They demand that the
Panama canal he fortified. They demand
the election of United States
senators by direct vote, and they demand
that the reserved rights of the
States be jealously guarded against
federal usurpation. I shall support
these and all similar measures as
! they arise."
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Makes Ua<l Break.
Tho Spartanburg Herald thinks
that former Secretary of the Treasury,
Leslie f.Yf. Shaw, will have to
learn to control himself a little bettor
if he expects to continue to receive
the invitations to make speeches
to alumni associations. The fact that
the other night at such a gathering
in New York, Mr. Shaw saw fit to
denounce the so-called "Progressive"
tendencies in politics at the present
time, and in the course of his remarks
to denounce the course of
Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey,
fully warrants tho Herald in
saying what it does. The rebuke Mr.
Shaw got from those present will
never bo forgotten by him. After
denouncing Gov. Wilson's course,
Shaw mentioned the Jersey executive's
doings, the diners cheered Gov.
Wilson, with such shouts as, "Wilson
will be our next President." and
the like. Mr. Shaw utterly disgusted
with the turn of affairs sat down,
and, so far as the newspaper reports
indicate, he never did finish his
speech. He was "very sore" over tho
action of the diners, whose guest of
honor he was. Put, as the Herald
says, Mr. Shaw should have known
better than to speak dispariugly of
any prominent character at a nonpartisan
gathering, such as an alumni
dinner necessarily is, and it seems
that he has no 0110 but himself to
blame for the turn that was taken In
the evening's proceedings.
\V here Was Jobn ?
A San Francisco wort) an whose
husband had been dead some years
went to a medium, who produced the
spirit of her dead husband.
"My dear John," said the widow
to the spirit, "are you happy now?"
"I am very happy," John replied.
"Happier than you were on earth
with me?" she asked
"Yes," was the answer: "I am far
happier now than I was on earth
with you."
"Tell me. John, what is it like in
heaven ?"
"Heaven!" said John. "I'm not in
heaven."
Fight. About Money.
At Walter, Ala., Monday afternoon
F. W. Hosey shot and killed William
Mack, a well known citizen.
Dne of Hlack'8 sons took the gun
from Hosey and shot him, and when
Hosey s son interfered, shot him also,
rhe fight grew out of a debt, which
Hosey owed Mack and for which
IUr?i>h tnnV hint I ft
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Crow of Fight
All hope of finding member of
:ho crew of the schooner Emma Hawkins,
eight negroes, alive has been
abandoned after 12 hours search
in the vicinity of the wreck in Lake
Ponchartrain. The Hawkins wan
found bottom side up four miles
rrom Poss Manchanc, La.
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Illcrts in Columbia.
Following a conference between
?ren. R. H. Teague and iMayor Glbbs,
t was announced that the reunion
if the Confederate veterans of the
date will be held in Columbia on
\ugust 9 and 10. The Red Shirts
net in Columbia on August 11 and
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