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: ({wu "f jr? CBC rt ^ftm*m**i** . ^^>ft*ill?' urifl^lUu W>-??fcf,i? lM't'l?'ntI ? SiJPgl? ? I^MIJOV?"*^??*????*1?1'"1' ? ??*>*? Add to Your Peace of Mind With a Nice, Cool Two-Piece Suit .. . - -.- - * . ?*..?? ? . *- ?. . * ? V^^^T?**?**? VIII'?fo^'?*';*!^*^ ? f^f^fy ^jy-'-'^r - ?.?t* Two-Piece Suit time is here-novel fabrics as well as the good old stand-bys. > The suits are here now-the hot spell is here now. The new fabrics will hold their shape and look trim and crisp. Serges, Mohairs, ) aim Beach, Linen, Etc. Other nice, fancy Worsteds of all kinds, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00. Isaac Hamberger I R ^ ^?j^ g ft ~|^,|^; j |^^f*fi|| f^llff Simes ! & Sons Clothing , T>?-??> I ..*-*..'T*-?J;<T"BS*-#^. r-irr***?!*^ :- i , . ^ $20 $22.50 $251_?^ Lp=ToW? C?omifeT? $4.00 $4.50 $5.00 I' ' ' -:- AlNLItKbUIN, ?. K,.-' Davis Opposed Clay's Compromise Measure Because He Didn't** Propose to Place XJpoit Posterity ? Fight That He Ought to Make Himself;' J" El F* F* EJ -Rfc. *^ ^"^^^ - '..": ??^5;"-'; Toombs, the First Secretary'of the Con -m- . - ,;? ? - AND : ' '-^jflflg?'1 S' SK^P I?. B6 |? T 'T O IV1 l^^^j- federacK? Was /Kot a Fire-Eater, as ._ - ?r";- ^ III.,, g^^ife- ' i: Popularly Sudsed, But- Safe and i Some Notable Instances ^:^:_,;s,_,, Confess --W^fflW^: J; j the Careers of These Two 1 - ?niiwme*^ oi ins ..^ CautKTJS :^<%W|s!. Great Men. Public Men ter, MosfcffftBC^ |. 15 -1_ -??---.--"v^llili: : - i lill 'ir j- "r ' i r---; Written for Tita Qbaereer. Jefferson Gayla and Robert Toomba were two. of tl? o most ^distinguished' men who acted their part in the great dmr.:? of public af fa?VB during the last fifty years.' Ita * iW suexmer of 1870, I' taw these two men'St'thc Greenbriar i White Sulphur Springs and'h>:?rd thom . talk, and I waa faiciuated . hy tho courtliness of D?^tliind tac brliliaooy of the conversation''hf TocJdbs.,. Davis was sf* feet'high and would weigh about ISO poonda, with a closely] cropped beard over" his face, with a ruddy complexion iiifllcatlve of good health and with, the, djlost honest, ?n<] open expression 0?.c0unter(c,ce that I aver saw on a hum>n fnpK Be walked with a ' proud st?p and .biartlal mtcM)" end with a bfcsrlfig as.graceful,ns tba hounding deer. Indeed as ht- walked , . from me witfciifr wl> as.''springy asl an Indian bra*? his tpe .warpath.'' i said to myself; J "He ?s trhe.BnQRt groc t'ul man I liat| evar sjwfc;$tcspt Edwin Booth on the sthngo V?B Romeo. Ho was not as stately, as grand, and jos I majestic as^Xee. bht mpre ., ? natural, mare,gr??{ ful and moro <-,il_ turod. His, heart ?as ht? 'tender omi uym pathetic as. a Wh?h?dra^ T& ''eye?. could with toara on a fi?dddn ?lli he waa as resolc?^"at?d" fearless as a . lion and vrlfl?jMt?BW borage, ?uni no danger ^bul^ RWU ' 1 I remembaj^^^^Muni Ju Mn. car riage tn Se^dnjefc ,W^> 'pre?a ring, to take tho n ala for ? trip to Europ'.v The gucHts . pf the ,- hotel gath-red around the carriage, to hld hjhi. farer; well. 1 nev^r ^sw H^h, affertlon man ifested for tty: ;ni(tk|i9 ws^;a1jr^i?t Mr. Davis. As th* W.rrisgei was a bout to move oft !ifBK?3?'fcoran' lnl, ri(h bulker from VVaihjn^toh city, thou and grasped fils tytods and. said; "Why Mr. Davis yo? like*, tb b>ve bepn gop', and ! did not huye ?h^jRWgftof ?la ding you goed-d?**)bless you." Tho tears stfeAhied^M^Mf.. Davis' cheeks. Iffc? a' ^??SBLm\\\T^m in th?# ihrn??'?A*0!* bl* ?ryS'A neaseyr ?ry eye^aapirtS&'Wtft. jjtj j r^niorae?osS of wit,and ga'crnsm meekness, vu? w?Sf|v ?BO rage which he nore bl* imprisonment without a ?ingle ?vr??ur wa*;a$'.nE his y% ? . : ' ' ' '' .'. h0 .Mfa?, a herq, a_natrlot an? a great man. ' Oaring the many conversations I heard front Toombo, while he waa bit ter and fiery in his denunciation of men and measures, yet I never beard him say an unkind .ward of Mr. Davis. During the Mexicali %a|V'JMr. Davis was upiunel of a regiment ?pi M?HH?JJS?II pl rifle?. Henry C, tileyJr.. a son ot the great commoner, and a graduate of Wost Point and tho pet and prld? ot bis distinguished farhe?, waaf a member or his regiment. Yoong Clay waa fascinated by the manly bear ing end soldierly qualities ot Davis, that every letter he wrote to hts fathr er was full pf pralso of thia great man. Lieutenant . Clay, was killed at Beuna' Vista. After the War Davis was appointed Senator to fill the uti. expired terni of General Jesse Speight; who died, Speight was from Green county, thia. State,i hnd hod hean s meihber/ or Congres? before emlgrattn? to Mississippi and a luemnet* bf tue constitutional, convention, pt. lftff., I baye heard my father, Council Wooten, who waa a member of that conven tion, .say that General Speight was a fine specimen of manhood;.Ult, hand *omo and stately in bia appearance endjtb?t Andrew Jackspj* said that he w? one qf the few mea be ever **w that lu? never tired of'looking nt. in lK4t? and 185o, darlugthe ut?? cf, a ?.lavery question, which, threaten ed to break dyer: the. country lik-v a s;torm and d?stroy tho Volon. Clay, Calhoun and Webster, who had been in retirement, wore returned to the Senate. ?Ojthot thc country could bav ?he bondit of their counsel in that niergency. Clay introduced hi l romprotnire measures to parlfv the cotiatry. Davis opposed them. Not withstanding Davis ?'as an extreme Statoa right Demoprat of the, Calhoun school bsd Clay was a coirsaryntlve bid Hnq Whig, thoro waa a warm at tachment between thora caused by the rt'MftWtton, of young Clay for Davis. 1occasion, as Davfojea*. pasa rongh the capitol grounds, .Clay ?Ctter, of Goorala. Wera ta?kih?. nay ttejlled Davis andi Mid: "*Oo>n> jmumWR*? friend. ana-tfjj-wUh ns and Pas* the c^mprolnlsc;)fflP5V?Wi,' a"d. ^?m'Berrler. saki: "It wilt save r-riion for our day, but our young friend Davis will be bore to fight lt " Clay said ''Davis knows when ! ci? him my ,' yonoR friend. Tor there Is a tl? that fu&wip; da-^tbat nothing but death can sever." Davis replied: "Mr. Cray, Ito know whatyou* gay ta trug, tmt-t don't IT? prcpose to ptacerupon posterity a tight h that I ought to make "myself." Were L thur3 evej:,, nobler or more generous e words spoken? No. sage of antiquity 1 ever uttered, a grander sentiment and 1 if they had- spoken before Shakes- s l?caf-?ia. day/ h a" w* '.it have put that" y sentiment tn the mouth of nome great- t actor and lt would have thrilled tho- a world. As a writer n?na ?var sur*? -ti passed him in affluent and exuberant ti rhetoric and gracofr . diction and roon, M dca period?. . HU? wu waa like. Hugo ? said of Vol torte " bad the lightness r or th? wind wtyh I e force of a thun der bolt." r Toomba, in or :f his fiery phJJUlpics against him dur ; the war, 8aid.lt the I Confederacy, wis ed a rhetorician 'For> >j President, a t who could write floe; ? Piate papers .othec) in classic lan-- f -guage, and b< Uful imagery and wno ^ could play i 3 courtier aid charm c the social c ls, Qatylw was Ute right .? injin, ?but li.? ?..'ai nbt .ptftsttoat- enough, < to manage great r?volution. s It may 1 true that Davis lacked the i vigor o' intellect, the scope and the i great practical sense oi Tooiihs to i grapple, with great problems , but no t Soo can ever question hts patriotism i ad devotion to what ho believed a 1 just Cause. He was one of the' fe* * mon Who. ifjt .had brea necessary, < could baveigone to tho scaffold with I unhinnchad. cheek and w. th a brm i frond I,A b martyr in uorcnae of what < be believed was right. Would that we 1 had more of such men and rewer of tue demagogues! lie wei thoroughly i honest and connelentlouB and was al- ' ways actuated by the loftiest sent?- i monta of/the unsullied statesmen in dealing wjth question? of State .and was a atrancar to the art? of ibo. po litical t debater ami nonthing dcnin g?*?e. In ..the summer .of 185? -he vlBltod Portland. Me., to get the bene fit os* tho salubrity, ot that bracing ell. (mate'TW^8w^Splg^hM^tpf his health, j 4??i?*apon80 to a norensde from Ibo j ritfx<.au. of .that"locality; ho ? lB^wh^sWa>^tt^'or the flbe%tfnp>cl* ?nens of glowing .rvctorie ?nd .chg|ftj ' 4tM&?i*|t\I[ h'aVi ever. rea.). V wai eW^anilful bouquet of fra^prgdt I Power?, a rich c;i?k n of ?0T9?HWR<m?f and pregnant !Sith cVtsstc *.?ste in ov_ eo' eenteuce and *parkW:d with dew drops of thrnicM. thc rc: y ui-?i'aw^o* ? poetry. !?.<?..?.'. ? '?:< < Modo? . '.<?? gant ornate, .?*>d .-holarly co ?po? tica. Willie Mr. lMvi ? ?>i not.*? ( t.BUinmate a vet l:rar? - .?vW?.-^^^! A profound .? mnU-phyal*tan -a*, -Cal-. oun. aa rea ly a debater as Douglas i a a rough pad r'-.mtile dfeeossloh, ?is 1 lonuent un orator as Preston or i 'remiss or as skilj?ul a genera,! an l JOO or- the two Johnstons, yet* hp. poB essed thc <;ualit|C3 of all thesm. (m?n < a a r amarkLJie degree and some, that i hey did not have, so take httu us an 1 U rounded man-as orator, ?tates, i nan, scholar and ?o?dle?-there bau eon none Other Uko him. I weigh my fords when I say this. Gpd never made but one" such man i .nd broke His dye In casting HeVldon.'' While m prison af tor : the war. the patience, the heroic courage whttb vhlch he endured his imprisonment las never been .surpassed. Even the ?reat Napoleon when at St. Heien?1 hated under the restraint t\n&. paced its prison bqunds Uko, a caged. lion. iVbHe some of his own people at. thu '.loftp of tho war,. smartir?..undc ief?at, hurled their crueV.'ehatts. bf * 'rinbum at kim. yet hemwmij'ffd no* ind struck not back, and thc subUtnc noekness ^fth which he bore it, was' ilmost God-like. He was K perfect { nlrror of chivalry, the whitest flower unong American statesmen and thc airest typ/* of thc i'hrlattao hero that rlstory furn lah cs. Ho waa tho skillful iheri*ruv that was to Kulde H State "whirling dizzily throughcoii uiing ebaos" and direct :tht> fiery steeds to the goal of 'local aclf-gov srnment which ls tho lifo blood ot them.' ' , -MJr, .'.<'? The annals of roankinft^pr.eeent the nanle ot no man who. was distlngulsh Bd for a moro romantic gallantry, for ?i more chivalric courage, for a more unbounded generosity, for a moro,un wavering integrity, for. a loftier patri otism and for every noble nod. gen erous virtue.that can adorn and. om belllon- human character than thia illustrious maa. The ?erasoj* ft^fn?* will never "bo dimmed by the 'ensor u?l'y? Of revolving years or buried in tb-?] WaVea of succeeding chan|tt?k/?H^H e>eat name will at""4 Jm&Jfa.jjbTi caying lustre ss the most'.q'oh?pici?oiis ? ?o In history, of her?jo courage, and undying devotion to Ute ?fnh country end as lita true. rt^^H ?&ent of that,immortal ?cni: , : Vail his ends weT bis, oount-fo-'s^hf?j Gods and truth'?" T!ie tttpa*' WUtl <wde when he will oo -tonner he.nllf^ in;iii,rd ?? ? "ji-Apojee?. *.rsitor foul contending"* reb?l," but .he will J take ids proper place in 'ilst^ry b^dy? iucb, names as ^^^l^i^^^^^i^. factor of the burean^a^p ap^^S^ ittunch defender ;pf ??e?t.>M<?e| ales of constUupoaal Ube?:t>", . . May the m^mofo? oit Jeffejr^iffiwn ?ver. remain imjhorb?J and iwr.petual,* ?ho ticarts ot taa-.pe??WimJovea s weil and to those, no devo lien prime of .his manhood dava.. Robert Tomba.,.w4?. bvt-r si high and weighed about'?200 oria noonda with broad shoulder**.-* Ul tie Inclined to stoop by carrying hi hoad^dowh as, If In- deep; thought, who ha wa*, walking, with a hea\. of ha... with .a massive browan feature? which in repose,.nt\d wi?^e| my, thoughtful, .caste, but who^anluw lcd Iii convers?t lon Jila,. fnce? waa ? radiant lt fairly- coruscated, pliyskliv wan splendid, waJas'tjUgM grand, waa, remarkably banoon; he WAS the most superb looking ??SR ever sgV. vSo,me. ?ne has said pt: bin ..'Genius pat Upon bia -brow,, j^^H ev?^ were aa black;. n,s. deai.il, a?ii .n big as an ox's.",; In bl?. y wunger, dW Tombs wds, a '?BVhlg and whoKOHB CO rears old, in 1.340 during 4$?^? rlson campaign of "log cabin, har cider and coen skln?" memory he? weii into South Carnllua to, meet QeWg McDuflle the dctnoci&^iejfa styled Uta eagle orator, styl?d by.sotu "harassed" lightning." Tomb's argju incuts we're ..so convincing,, his .love* lives eb fiery and his eloquence ? tioke and m^t niirgess^^hode ??b^n but thia ; old Georgian Is ,e Mara beau." Rut tho mont remarkable even in the life or: TotohSj and'th. derful exhibits of ?hyslosl ?n? Intel tactual power, waa when he ntade M dfae?rd speech in .1849 when thp hoya was organized and tn a Wran ?ie o Ve the election of 8p*aVcr. 1<* sueeest lullr subdued a tnntnttonf crewd au B?d an 'tnrnriatMl eJseUilMls gs an unwilling . audleno^itajf?a spreclr. It Vas so splendt? an quent- that mewt?va- forant thel r and clart? vigorously, tfia; as present and hearo^Ew?eiOT| f?r,o.?s words as they fell frein, .the lip cf ibis vigorous tteuteasn^ w*??,tl flickest of the fight in days pr. followed Wa flag With. ^D>v f nil h and with a loyalty thal-WWI) i>nv?? finn? hnnnr io iin; kuluin ii' til Middle A/K?<\ must have lost-hop Jjjd" jibe nroservHtlon of tho t'nlon, ?? Wombs had been popularly r?gard-; I ffidflte a flre-ealer, as a prince of that I HH|k, -but it- le a libel- Upon hnr^bfir .o?^-^^:jTOW /wie. i behind him,-with a dreamy? heavy look on hbi; face he,.turned ta- Mfc<Dsprbv i and said,, "Mr. Preideat, at thia timo i it. is suicide end will lose us"every t-. friend in the South, You will' certainty i, ?tr?e a hornet's .ftes}, whlcju 'afc -, tends from mountain to ocean and .. l?gions now .quiet, will ?warm out ead r, sting, us to death; It 1B unnecessary; o' lt.puta ps |n the wrongj.it is fatal." g Toeae words were indeed., prophetic. I and the? don't read much like the lan. i guage of a Are eater. ,,Wlven engaged $ H| .conversation or macing a - speech, h no,.u?ed u great niony,eg^raaa>-ftn that H MMvfd extremo and extravagant just y ,1|S7?|u.usn aqd entertain i h(s audience, you would uko a. metaphor or a ?gf I-! ur* in. rhetoric to ?lake the speech I moro, striking. H? TA? a, brlgadier Mgeneral in the Confederate.army and > also ? mejsr^r. ,of OopgSree?. ! During first yW_ of the wp> a bill was i, pending 1n - Congress auihpntihg.'Uta * government to issue bondh . foi- the - buVcltase-of cotton from planters. Du i. r|ng the debat? <m tho bill Toomba . walked in' tho hall. "He was beaut? * falto Stired in. ? black suit; with a i military, cloaV thrown over one slmul, . dor aud a military hat in bia^Wfl t>a>.a." - ; .Drawing himself up he said: "Mr. r> Speak or. wo have been told that cot a ton was king, thai ho Will . find, his P way to the vaults of the bonkers of r the Old World, (hat hs raq .march ap . to tho throne of the mighty poten ?? **tP* *?d drag-from the arsenals of [1 armed,.nations the dogs of war,.that a^ibe can reopen all the ports and. fly d, our yoting fi*? on ali the seas. And ri yet before the first autumnat ftsjt Wi V*bK?Jfh'fed a loaf, he comes to this hall ;r f k nremlfHag mendicant and 'kaya, 'give sjtito a drink, Tltlnlus, or 1 perlah.! I e- have never Beeb a more H pl en did spec, d'} Imen of rhetoric or sarcasm than the ir.1 tbf;ro "--sage. '** ll** ?*?*kftK Sj-ptfftTc. ; t would h?ve^ given a, good *rmiw! w iift'? itUti? ut?Vi V?t?C-r tijvmi ? j elofiUfrui .words. They weald k*rc ; rif?me during my whole .life. Ou one occasion during; the war he rode to the tent cf Gen. J, E. Johnston Who Waa;commanding the Army of North-' ern Virginia and ur raided him in his" vigorous style as only Toomba rlgade surgeon, who had been d. When , ho had returned to his' era bj? narrated the clrcumstan rai&to his life-long friend. Dr. Steiner, j his, ^brigade surpeon, ' who had been ? In the Mexican war and know ?bmo OLD BURT HOUSE IN ABBEVILLE i ( -.tf'.r ; ?j?'J"- i'v4^-*??r? f '''" , (Continued from Pago 21.) _______.-:_?_-, i .?-,, ' * ates in hin efforts to redeem South Carolina Gen. Hampton Invited the confer- . ence to mwi at the Burt hour<e. und it . was held lhere that night Gen. Toomba was the guest of Gen. Mc? Gowan, ancflhe laaer was on the ei ootoral ticket which brought . Toomba to the conference. The facta/ralaling to. the. efforts made to open cotnmunl- . cation with the national , committee,, weijt laid beTDre thc conforcucp am: there was n>uch indignation at the non . action ot the Tilden manager;!. Dep. Toonibs asked the privilege of mak ing n proposition, which whanto with draw, thc TJldep. ?clactorai ticket alto gether*which hod boen- aubin it'<-il da an alternative in the last resort by tho. representative,;.nt the State executive committee sind'which hsi* tteen favon.i by.,the othersfir Gen. Tonmbs ?oupplc manted his br?posltlou with an offer io ??j^rih? l?P.OOO to ot.* cqmpshfa f^Bd. and Pl?dglng.hlms?lf to pay Ute money , whenever tho executive rom mftee tiotlfled htm that th;; electoral llckrt b?a ?been withdrawn. The ?fe1 cusslon resulted in the adept ion of a request to'Gen.. Hampton Gmt ho w'ritn a oersonel letter to'?Abram 3. Hefeltt, dotal ting tho progress of. the campaign end requesting that Ute tioaal commute* empress nt ont : to-whether South Carolina.nltnuld haul down, tho electoral ticket arid rhake the ,light Opon the State Issues ?ld??J?' In a week, "after tho confe?i*nce .<6|j* heat?qiiarteVa tn Ct lumbla begun to be < foodedi ^..qspatgn literature from >? ...ray -mx^yrt Ht^Ut^ v??!?!?<t llho; eVpWK*?? of ?hf? campaign in Gila