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4 ara&wggggr • f fCi •rl '■ Rates ^ Ti J ■ Oa<1m,»rHfc»ti Hob . ; f i ^ ^ »ubM<|u«a» insertion, 60 cents Qiurtarly, temi-atinual or yearly conUracte iae t en liberal tcrnui. —- .— rCjWHfaixfewrtlnlaK to nnynbU Mdnesnf. insert ion unless otherwise sti^uwed. No eontimintcation will be publlshe.l u„. f tjm aonoiupnnted b> the nsmennd «MrM> of r the writer, net neceasurily for pubHcntioa butts* R u»r*.tjr of good faith. ■ ' Addreeht YU^ P|0ri,K, Barnwell C. H w S. C. TRE «RE4T l^iquiTT. l*rcaclio«l I» III. NO. 116. BARNWELL C. H.. 8. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1880. on 'A He Joh Ce Title ■ areV d’hnrcheM, the Reau< J»T llefurr the Rev. he k> ,0 7.1 ° r . ,h ® ‘••‘tck- t ChareJt, the Geor. anil HprI..ttio Wn and PuhllHlied at equeilt of the Latter thart-h. Ajni y e , in any wise (by all moans) keep yourselves from the acouraad t himr i rso) \ ve make ymirselves accu UK'> of the accursed thlnsr, and make “SmTl "r 1 * “ a U ''’ u ' ,te shsd ihinif, leot urSed, when yo the The “accursed thioR" meant in the text is avarice, and the reference Is to Achan’s wedge of gold. “The accur- , eed UHaf^-howswer, of which I shall'] Ult tbfiW W-aiy la wblikey, and whatever elawprodncee dronlcnBBP. to which. It wttl be doing no violence, tb apply .U* solemn word*of thereat. I * Rm «°log to pfeach against whiskey • ^ iPSJfl wr*th Istmt nrortrciegrly dhd hMMv threatenedasraiostany sin, than it la against drnnkenness. “Woeijnto h‘im that glvetb his nehrtthor drink, that putteth thw “^otlta tav htns.” “No drunkard^bi^li inherit the Kingdom of God * In tfkrile ^wo places, %n<] they not nU.1t it that botIf,ih*drookard ani the m that helps to make him a drunkard, hlthdr by gfvtuf orweHtog him whls^ key, are|n flaoarsr o# th» vengeenee of GW. I mn m^ved 4b preach onf the Ri^Ml^Ht this tifny, kofeever, mostly bjr the Oonalderatioo of tlie inoreMe df -Wphgdnes^ lasifaanaee and crltbr. htARQSuiaflf fhe ainul prime of nuifd^lta m* owu By^trell county, aatbJhMiHffoWf State. ^KVhilst. we arenas 4w house of ;^^P&od Xhis beautiful sprltiff mornlna. miRhtj^vicrent ait the year round I Aud now taking the ojther raUroad towns, the couniy site, and all the Flores and ehops scat tered over the county that- jSell whiukey, with all the "fl'iod gates up. Cbd pouring ^out thW Bary flafla, iudclng frotn yrhat is Sold town, It wilt he within rfte limits o! thdtruth to sny, that tfR Ieea than 8150.000 are spent nonually in Bnm- weil county, for Whiskey.. 150.000 dollars i what a magnlflcent iuncTi-that Would be for educational purposes, or enough to build a factory upaa opt of ou j splendid ntreaina that are now sending -their waters Idly,to' the ocean. And if 150,000 thousand dollars for whiskey, iu one county, the amount spentannually iu Southllafo- ttua iu simply appalling. What that amount U we have no means of as certaining, but it can hardly be I^-ss than jwo miHlma a year. A n d this when hbr ‘ancient 8cho(%|bat were on# her. glory 'ao4 hqy stwtgtg lire closed, her vast resources of trade and, agriculture undeveloped, her magnifleput water poker unutiila d, and she ulm 'st piteously calling for capital to etimfc'and seek investment within her borders',‘‘jvt spends rail-’ lions for whmkey. It lias been stated on very hiirli authority that the peo ple of the United States spend every year for .whiskey (700,000,000) seven hundred raiilim dollars, which If divided nut, would give to every rnan, woman and child, seventeen dollars. Kor wdnuwtion about two dollars per head are f pent, being eight times more for whiskey than eduektioh. and one dollar a’id el«ven cents nnrtrtvep per head lor thw support of the churches, being nearly seventeen times more Blit we fjr whiskey than leligton. are concerned mostly with the tyrant’s tax in Unmwel) county, which is nearly there 8ge In our cpnniv jail two voung ‘ ,r fully t"h:s fts much as the Ridlcxla m^n under sentence of death for hav-*ever unde q« And jet it ing alaln whilst drunk two of their fallow men. who but for #hiakev would be living w* d%v god thslr ninr- d««rers likely good, Uw-ahidlng 1 cHi *ena. As it is. two souls have been tent hurriedly into eternity, two mors are soon to follow, all covered with Innocent blood, and oh! sad to think of the poor old parents, brothers -and slateraof tbs RVdered and the mnr- dereta. Not to preach against wbla^ key and every man and every woman of us put forth every ef-wt and use everv means in our power to destroy it, ia disloyalty to God and Cain-Hko.. cruelty to man I We areenrti, -Ood. nor Father, has made It so —our bro ther’s keeper I ex pec*, men and breihetn, to epesk earnestly and with •Ttep feeling to you to-day ; tor I have never felt in all toe year- of mv min istry, the burden of % message m >re than that which I bring you this day. I wish, however, and shall endeavor to avoid .-lying anything uuklQd or harsh, <*lther of those th it aetl or drink whiskey ; f-r manr of tltsfor- msr I kaow to b« honorable men. and tnanv or the latter, I know to be, save drinking whiskey, all that m*-n ought to bo la tbrir families. In the cm inanity and in the Church. But against Whiskey itself. I shall epesk j with on hesitating speech, without fwVur and withoiit fear, and shall try to prssdnt the truth concerning It so V>lately, and truthfully, that If any here Tlflrday don’t see It, It Is because thwy *#ht: *'«* It, and ao n »w nn I henceforth. Gad making me faithful, mvsklrawlll be dear n{ the great Iniquity. And oofp to eome to the subject. Pour jwatrs ago, or soon will i»c. the people *f South Osruhna rose up Withe ntrengtfT of a great canse and overthrew the worst govermti' ot •hat tbwu existed on the face of the ear'll and by ooe united and sublime effort, pnt away from -them, wa trust forever the accursed thing *f Ra il alts 1 o. There ts to-day Is South Carotina, a •'•tsa String —a mors ac cursed thing, la tbs full blast of Ita i gigantln power, and that, thing ia whiskey. The assertLdi to aoms will seem a tewkiees rww-, but havlug made it I r-el myself bound to prow#ir.nrelse to stand before ray cuauvmon a wUful andnelf-convicfed Mar. I affirm, and If I am wrong It will be easy to convict me, that there was not a charge brought against the Radical party fquf yearn ago that cannot oe brought with sb much truth, nod roofs, ngeinst the tyrant whiskey. And to ,tha poof. We ask your cart ful atten tion to the following Indictraeuts : 1. It was charged against th^ Kadi cals that they robbed us of our money by Illegal and oppressive taxation. The highest tux ever paid by the peu pie of Barnwell county to the Radi- cal party in one year, which was the last year of its reign, I hav *beeo told by one weH-infmrned Iu such matters, was about 880 000. Let us now look at the tax which whiskey Is levying upon our people which they are pay ing very cheerfully, but which makes it none the less u tax and a burden. Tbs meanest and the most degrading tyranny Is one which the people most willingly supp-Mt*—UmU which crush es their manhood the most effectually. Radicalism whs h vile th'ng, but there was this good in it. it drove us from Its arras and drew forth oar hatred and resistance against Its tyranny—but this tyrant whiskey has pun upon us and mads us lovw them From a carefully prepared statement made up from receipts on file in the Btackville depot, if appears that there were shipped t" and sold iirBlackville windti th- past twelve to •utbs’ 8000 gaTtons of Wnlsksi. ^ grejtt rt^al of this was sold at $4,00 by the gallon, that sold in the barhioms for as much or more, as it Is sold by the single drink and I, am told at ten cents a drink, but put f b-‘ 8000 gallons at $ a gallon which Is a "ery low ay and we have 8l6.0i»0—the aghj apeot for whiskey—the tyraetyfa*—-hi ooe of the towns of Bafnwr-U county. fy^ot Barnwell, look f»t away your eyes „ In Blackvfllv alone, much tonrieg Spent is appiopuated ao- nyalty for Vcbool pnrpoae* in UVe whole county—thv streama of kn ledgg dried np for bias JHontbv in t»4 year, aod the stream of whiskey, which means the strerm of poverty—Y<>all but them that veil it—ignorance, vice, crime and irreUglao, Aowiug ia a as t hh Vyrf •As, (bat ws ware addg$4 of our money, more than unv feeliogoTT 8tate pride, fhat irade ns thr »w off the Radlc J yoke, whilst we not only pay tbs tyrant whiskey V fj*x cheerfully, which is doubly greater, aod a hun dred fold more cruel, takinu in tnanv eases the very bread out the children's mouths, but many of us would actu ally light for Hie glorious privilege of doing so. Ortuiniy h makes a great deal of difference what tyiant oppress es us, for it is not tyanuy, but only • omo tyrants whom we hate. And this t remendous tax to whiskey,the people are paying at the very time they are cr>lug-out for economy and retrench ment iu the public service, for short scssl -os of the LegMantre. and not anenrmore fotmixwtttnin|i» abaci vt-iy necessary. But what is stMog-^: <d all ts. that whilst the Kadioals did give its a little of their heavy tax bn k In »ch"-d appropriati'-n*. this otb«r tyrant whUk>-y gives not a cent beck in all tbt thousands K Saksstro# u*. Every dollar spent for whiskey is that much taken from the productive capital of the country, fr -m the com forts of home, the education of our chIHren.and our ability to discharge our Just otdlgatioDfl, and Isas effect ually lost as If 4 rubber had k nocked us down and Taken it out of our pock et. Home, I know e-mlendtbat Iu the money recrived from granting licenses we get back a part of the mvopy It has taken from us. hut that Is like saying that a bog that has broken into my Held and copied up mycoru.tby'it has taken Bonaetbtng from me.itsi * pot a part book In rooting op the ground which U a gf-eatbelp toTt The harm it has done is very great, aod the good very questionable. R-venue Is a good thing, but money raised for revenue by granting lloeose to eel I whiskey. Is the prion of blood, and the Jews who n Jeoted the thirty pieces of silver, rightly ao regarded- it The* charge Is Just agitost whiskey—that it rob* tbs people of their money, and that in the matter of taxation, where Radicalism put Its little finger upon us. whiskey puts the weight of lu whole band. 2. A second Indictment brought against the Radical party was. that It rage, Think of it. pe at It and turo from behi'ldtfli th?re ts trffee f for wbfskny, plied ap ao enormous public d*.bt upon Mf the pimple. But whlskav plies private debt upon them, and what Is a public debt, which everybody has to pay. compared with personal debts, which every man muft’pny himself? It is from private debts that the country Is suff rluc to-day. and a large propor tion <>f these whiskey, had a share In making. Whiskey has sold many a man out o? house and home for debt contracted la groat measure for whis key, by leading to neglect of business, which a drinking habit always does, and by riCKlessoess in buying while under Its Influence. When a man has once entered upon a career of whiskey drinking, be is in the road to bank ruptcy and ruin, and no one knows this better than the mao who sells him the whisxey. He knows full well that the pwy in whiskey is selling, not drinking it—putting thie bottle to an other’s mouth but keeping it from his own. - — 3. It was brought against tbs Radi cal party, that R pwraiy«ed loduatry- ao'i destroyed the business of the country. But whiskey does this, be cause It destroys both capital an ebatra j labor ami is subversive of that ilon of society—law, order, m thrift, bonflHetico—jp whicjtf, as in a good soil, trade flourishes, manufac tories spring up, capital ventures out, and business putsjon its boll-lay garb. N 'tiling else flourishes where whiskey flourishes. II ia like tb** mistletoe the greenest thing on the tree upon whlidHI-bfts fast-ned itself, its life isdljc death of all that makes a coun ty truly prosperousu. " 4. Another chayge agalnet the Radi- bal paity was, ,that by Its corruption it had broughttliirfibnor upon the fair name oj v the State and kept capital add labor from coming into tbe State. South Carolltm I* suffering abroad in her reputation from tbs too general UH*. of’ whiskey by lier phople, and whiskey aqd - pistols art doubtless keeping mahy fVofn eoraiog amongst us. We are not the bad people our tfs have represeuted to U) he, but whlbkey and pistols s« bad things and thefe are morfe of both In South Carolina tnqn there ought to be. Ball* osilam is not keeping money and im- migrauts from coming now. Again. It was chargtid upon the Radical partJ,\*hAt under tw Totr crime had Inerjeased-abd 4*aat It en- coitragsd-crime* and was responsible fbg4t. But the exploits of RadlpalIsm, Spttttoradjrith whiskey, iq encoytAg- Inffli mUiis—are as the expolts of a pigmy, compared with those of a giant it) his strength and recklessness. I will bot-say even of whiskey, what John Wesley said of slavery, that “It is the sum of ail villanies,” but will say that th£fe are few “villanies,” which It does not encourage, and to. which it does not ^directly lead. That It encourages murder, and does mur der, the -people of this county, alas! hate recently had a sad experience. And that which leads a m^n to take the Hfe of a fellow-tnan, what won't it make him do? As-long ago, perhaps, as 'seventy-five years, old Judge Burke, holding court in Jack- aonboro, then the county site of Colle ton District, in charging the Jury In the case of a man who had committed a petty larceny, whilst drunk, said to tbe.jury : “Gentlemen of the jury, be very light on the' prlsprer. H« was drunk on bad whiskey, and.bad whis key wllljnnke a man do anything that is bad and mean. I myself, since hold ing court here, under the Influence of a drink bf b id whiskey, put a lady’s silver spoon Into my pocket-—wby It tried to make the Judge steal.” I have related the anecdote to call attention to a distinction, which is frequently made, and mostly by those who drink whiskey, from Judges down, between bad and good whiskey, which is a very convenient, but certainly a very mis chievous ons. All whiskey Is bad, and to talk about bad and good whiskey is the e-ime as talking abonr bad and .good la'tlesnakes. That terribis thing “that'hiteth Hke an adder,”so graphi cally described by Rotomon, and against which there are so tunny •warnings in the Bible, was not the pr-IsoheifstnlTbr The gfOg ShiNpe, but what some would call good whiskey. 6 But the worst chares ever brought against the Radical party was, that it was conscienceless; that It Inflicted cruel wrongs and sufferings ■upon a helpless people, and lanahM and gloated In the mischief It was do ing,maklo? allttle tblogof conscience, worng, and the h*pptne*>a of a whole people, compared with the mousy and offices upon which It was fattening. An i whiskey Is conscienceless. It secs the mischief It ts doing, the crimes it is producing, the hearts It is break ing, tbe live*, characters and sonls It is destroying, but indifferent alike to argument, to entreaty, to pRy, to the U1 aT 111 r 11 v«j , . f i t u ■">■»».» . «■<..««.-» clkowx/x “•Pk 11»lljlIV X7J VwB |PI IMHIIV !| VVV1VI VW DlV^tUU itsgl?. It goes right straight on willing to break hearts and destroy souls, and all this and mags—Just to think, for money. ' 7. It was charged affalnst the Rvil- cal party, that Jt was a ijng, a well- rounded, solid andonmplets organist- tlon to push the interests of office- holders aod office-seekers agaiost • he Interest* of ths country at large.* If this constitutes a ring, then whis key has a ring, for there are few who will deny that tbs mee who thrive by whiskey, tbs country don’t thrive by them. I hav* never seen a mao foolhardy enough to claim th"t he wan benefiting other people by selling wblskry. It is for tbe fsw agaiost the many, which Is tbe very essence of all rings whether found In poli'ios. religion, or whiskey. The real and to bs dfeaded whh key ring Is not the ops formed to cheat a rich government out of Its rsrsnne, but that ahlcb ofteneet takes from the poor their hard earnings, and makes Itself rich by making ths country poor. 8 Lastly. It was charged against tbe Radical party that having once got possession of tbs State, In order th se cure their continuance Iq power they went to work to pass laws to tie the bands of the people and prevent them from striking down their oppret sor. And ths same is irne of whiskey, “which frametb mischief by » law”— the striking language of Holy Writ— and that law a part of the law of South Oarollna. the Indulgence law, whereby In conrideration for money paid to the civil authorities, permission Is given to certain men 1o perpetrate “mla- chiof" against society, and society is rendered powerless to help Itself, be cause tbe “mischief” is “framed by a law ” ' Speaking ^p-duy to fiouth Carolinl* ana, It. seems that It would bo enough to arouse tbeir Indignation against whiskey, to show that it just savored of Radicalism, but I have shown more --that the same obarges brought against Radicalism can fairly be btouglU agaiost iriilskey. And I will,- now show that charges can be brought against whiskey that—were jrever brought against the Radical party- charges that in their awful truthful ness constitute the peculiar devilish- ness of whiskey. y' And first! bring "the charge agaiust it, and indict it as the cruel and relent less fi>e| of woman. Oh the women, mothers,'8istirs, daughters and wives, tbat-this demon whiskey has tramplod ^thcifusrl .If there is ons object worst ovn mm, oeo m< hib former self, #*ble aohleyetoe himself, to h's fai her, and we tolerate and help It, not that we respect women 1cm, but love whiskey more. ' Second. I Indict It as the polluter and destroyer of the paritv Aod hap piness of our homes. Ih day of Radicalism. ~wh tion was like a noisome over the land, we could retire Into our homes, and thank God that there was one place where Its pollution was not felt, one altar not bnrnipg with fire to tbe strange God. Be ,|k said to the credit of Radicalism that It never pre sumed to enter Into Carolina homes and defile them. But this is wbatwbls- key does. Radicalism, llkfe the Igyfr tian plagues, was tbe flies, the frogs and ths lies upon our fields, whiskey Is the files, the froge aod tbe lice in oor homes. And Into bow few homes has whiskey not come, hdW few faml-' lies has It not cursed. Aod how un mistakable Its presence. The look of despair, of a elleot, brooding sorrow that, cannot be hidden, o| mortified Jirlde, of hearts cruelly wronged, of desolation, As when frost has fallen on the fields and nipped their verdure.fs tbe plctpre of what quif b0 called whisky wretchedness, a picture recog nized wherever seen, and seen alas! too often In what ought to be homes lo troth, as writ a« tn n*t<M. Third. I Indict It as the'destroyer of the Intellect aod manhood of our peo ple, Rome and Athena w«re some* times wont to send their b-wt ettizsns into exile, and the Radical party did a meaner thing when It droVe from ths public service tbe best aqd moat pa triotic men in the Stafp into private life, bnt Athens and Rooik’* bafilahed cltffrs, sod nur owq proscribed citi zens carried their vlrtues^helr talents and their hondr with thdm Into exile sod private Hfe It fsrefsrved fnwthe Ingenuity and dsvilfehned* of wblekiv, to exile men’s talents, honor and use fulness wltbopt exiling tvs men them- sstves. Whfctcv la the true iMHah, Into whosw lap. If » very.Sanason, fsr Intellectual aod moral grlitnesa, ones put his head, be is effectaatlf shorn of the locks of bla strength, mads ths * lave of .cruel passions that tyrants* 1 over him, bee mes the mere sport of and is Tost, so fsr as achievement Is concerned, to family, to‘hls country, and to bis Qod. And Booth Oarollna, over (he ruin of many of her ncble sons, sptendl i rising tsolDtee. dashed to th* ground ere they had reached thslr fair and grand proportions, oonld well taka up, as her own. the nobis wail of Lord Byron over the gifted Kirks Whits : “phiwhatjwbte sonhi werstbes wYMhme, Wher^raroHA’s self Ooetreyed hsrfavor- Yea. she to# —ah ladsltod thslr Sho bow.M the seed and sbs is reaping ths fruit.” TTT. wr "VTBMB* her sons, not by tndulgtng th*-lr fond pursolt of solsooe, bat by Jndulg- log thslr fond pursuit of wMajtjtf, by what ought properly to bo called bsr Isdulgenoe whiskey Uw. I repost U, Houth Carolina has sowed whiskey and la reaping whiskey In the distroo- tlon of her youth *0'* manhood, in tbe crimes that stalk over ths Und, and In tbs ignorance and Impoverishment of tier people. And this U not all. I hold that the execution of every man for murder, committed In a state of is toxical ion, Is nothing mors nor less, than Judicial murder. I am farfrem bolding that drunkenness is any ex- cote for murder—I hold drunkenness Itself to be a great crime—but I bold that a county, qs thoroughly satur ated with whiskey as this county Is — lo ths law which governs It, In tbe courts which administer that law, In ths public sentiment which upholds tbe law—cannot bang a mao for a murder committed whilst drunk, without, itself bring guilty of murder. The man who tsmpts, or ts in any way tbe willful cause of ooo man’i mur dering another Is held by tbs law. to be particeps crimlnis, and what is true of mao, la true of that combination of men, called ths Bute. Poor Bates! he had sinned greatly against his country, but bis country had sinned greatly agalnet him. His day of reckoning came, and a Just God will not hold those guiltless, who are la any way, responsible for his awful crime—How ever bard It may be for us to trace out that responsibility. God can and will. I believe that every murderer ought to be hanged, but I maintain that the law which hangs him, ought to be clean, at, least of the crime for which he Is banged. Fourth. I Indict whiskey as the po inter and destroyer of the churches. The Kingdom of Christ ‘1* not this 'World,” but it Is the ark which carries the highest hopes of humanity for this world and tho world to come. What ever, therefore, breaks down tbe churches, and destroys their lnflu«i»ce for good upon tbe world, ts a crime against religion, r nd against sodetv. And this is what whiskey does. We are far from asserting that whiskey is tbe only thing from which 'the churches suffer; alas ( there are many others; but we do assert that from nothing have they suffered more, if so Intel usefullnesB and I iMt nno morwfl Ithls, that It [struotlo^o^the pllect.hls cha for ti foink his re is tbaa all and then the tbe eternal de- ranM. - With God’s word de “No drunkards .idora of God.” In these charges which I hare brought agalnet whiskey I have not allowed myself to indulge in plot urss of the InmgfnatJoa- pictures are tame compared with ths awful reality. I hardly know whether it le mors trim figuratively or lltersliy. to say that whiskey has made rivers •of tears to flow, and tbe world a Qol- tba—no not a place of skulls, but of j, brokCb^awtil, J And now can this tyrant whiskey, this enemy and destroyer himself be 7 I say can he be ovenrown, tbafhe ought to bo overthrown, I all. with few 'exceptions, are agreed. If the people want to get rid of wbUtkey but oao’t, then shame upon tbe drilixatioo and Christianity of the age! But If they can rid themselves of it and wbut do it, wfca* shall we say of suoh civilization and Christianity as that? In this event their civilisation needs to be ChristianiE<*d and thefr Christianity to be civilised. Christi anity lo her youth was a queen, re spected and feared, Because she bad power to attack and eradicate wrong, crime aod wickedness, Is her aim pa ralyzed, and is she cow only a fair captive chained to the triumphal car of whiskey in its conquering march over the land ? If the people want to get rid of the tyranny of whiskey the theans of doing so, are within their reach, aod some of these I will now point out. And first, The same means that over throw Radicalism will overthrow Whis key. Wc voted ons to death, sod wc can vote tbe other to death. I believe in tbe ballot-box as a remedy tor whiskey, ts much u tbo remedy tor Radicaflsta, and there ti no more rcav>n why we should vote against one tb an there is why we should not vow against tbe other We must have e South Carolina liquor Uw. “The throne of iniquity - ’ has framed “mischief” by a Uw, and the destruction of Ur “misehieP must be ‘framed by « Uw.” Whiskey has draws the sword of the law, and by the sword sf the Uw it must pariah. Reli gion and her noble alius bare been because lbs. both a come for deriiold of wrestling with whiskey a long thne. and it Bust be confessed that whiskey has bean doing most of tbs throwing, rim pi) I Uu. lav bar givua to whi uder holds. Tho time, lue t Christianity to have lbs f sf &s Uw, Mad thus ths ha aliag, wretched spectaeW, sqesAae •dibs w ™ YEAR. don’t put drunkards, or any bad, it it a Special Requeftta. M ■ ^ fc . “ > to I "C 1. Ta vyiting fa (hi* nfi#cm hflaldLs at k "•r. givr frTtt* nsm« *n<l Vast OffirSMStoM. ‘ t. ifa»inw Ufawr aaAaofawiiairati—t# . k* publUAsd thmid b* wriiua op •aysasis anil ths a^rrf of rlenaly iiUl* cr'el bj netwnary nofa retjnirvd. ’ \r* Ides for rmhllcstlan rhould be wiii* tfB Id A.cl«»r, IrzJblt h»ni, »nd oa oalr oas side of tho pag*. . <d. 4. Ill changer rtsch us on friday. In aiTVFrtfWditta Bait moral man In office, because toaf and putting him where his example will the most jtyggljpfu. Ifj to ntlllimUM greet Tovar of office by to the account of temperance and morality, and the best interests of tho people, to make ths offices ftrssau of blessing, and not of coning. How can we tell the noble sod ambitious youth of the land that the way to have honor of God ami honor of men, is to fear God aod keep I!is commandments, to b« so sober ami conscientious, when they can UekfWHadLxod point to tbo public offices, filled^ ! too often by men who hayc not the fear of God before them, and make religion, and the samd beliefs of ChristImi people, subjects for jeat nod ridicule? An old stump afire in the ground sends its sparks but a little distance around- .An old piAe Ml a&rto howerer, because the fire h higher up, will send iSs sparks to a great dhtawee and bum up the country. Let us see to it that the tress planted iu our public offices arc goodly cedars, and not rotten pine trees, to scatter far and wide the I arks that burn—not men’s houses, but sir souls. • ~ ' -i j -dj. And thirdly. We roust not boy whis key or anything else from men who sell whiskey. The argument is m Strong against putting dollars into the pockcU oi men who sell whiskey as It b against putting meft into office who drink* wblw key. When ths respectability, morality, religion and wore pot on t than all, the money of tbo country are against whit - ksy, whiskey selling wi’l u surely stop, at a wheel will stop when the current of water that tarns it is cut aff. Asdit is sad to think that for ths most part, k is the money of sober. Christian nun jM jls Ms 4rtfjj whether other (faspls do thel.s or not It wont d<i?o wtK ffif trover work,, Water IS move is s Men are , just like i^ater w' •ti det- for any great tot is heated. fire does wt break IHtbwiBy add •H.sfflE once, hut the minute pa/ticlss nearest the fire becoming heated succemively diffuse themselves among all, the particles, md being heated, and soon the whole nuws is heated and ■■■■Eycrv groat rcrolution or re- [iorrnition eomesln fku Way and is tk« mull of indiyldualism—dne mind heAri inf another, and that another, tad ao on ustil all are heated. Wc are rejoicieg ~ jfeiday in llic blessings which haveeonxj — ,u. oveflliroV of Radical^— j# iqd sad give to tour pecuniary but Afti grtfltcr Messing thrtf Won come to us front 4lw*#B*rthrow of tbe tyrant whiskey* I will not trust myself to fpeak. Theu, indeed, would prosperi ty be m <rur owfi frihees'Staff pHIcb n throughout ouf floMsfe^® — now I have preteutM t» pimtf truthfully as I know boW, the facts emin^^rifiskdy, its true <fli»fa«ler, the mischief it is doing and tMe means of It. In ootfrinsiorf, pbr- what sre you whig to Pssimtbcnevhsd mihiitod one of bis powerful oratioos against Philip, laying opsv, with tbe bawdhf a master, tbs designs of tbe crafty Mace donian upon the Hherties Of Hie AibShk I ans, the latter ware so stirred aod in* ceo'"! bythe revslaliss,tbet they want ruiolHgaNtay, stefy man erring sot to his fellow l “Let us fight Pbiffp 1 Iri us ^ %M Philip !’ # Jtit* mdj I yeuturu to hopt(b«t the MnBl#. . f * c,a iTlk ' ■hsl! mots than compensate tbs lack of Ufa orator, adi that ysV «ll! go back to. •■I round otksm think is as oiflaiij wronc- If it is Wrong for s church member to sell whiskey it street, Cato, Um age must be destroyed, the deal met too orCar* nolle i make : “C.rthaj msaning that thsrge was ths otdy thing that a Roman mn»g for ons who Ir not a church I tAink about or talk abmit, and mbertoseU it. Ws szereas our idea ! whiskey must be destroyed, sho'Ud bs of tb. wrong don. to . IZZtty, by a ^ patriot and dhweb member who sells BraUH withdrawing from him our Christian all the pHv a humao soul cao give, It is a nrdrle woman whiskey cursed. Does sbe smUe ? it is ooly a moment ary flash out of a black night,or only an eff urt to be cheerful and hide her grief, or to give pleasure to others which her ogu aauj knows not, hope gone from her heart, her li'e a bitter diesp- pointment, aud to bet, worse than alt, the feeling that it has been a failure. There are women upon moke than any other that deseryes much, than they hare from whiskey. There ai tidfe thousands have hern spent, for tbeir piety, intelligence and character, flt to be the wives of princes, instead of drunkards, and nobis women in humble life, who would rather die than live. And this in Barnwell coun ty. As a people we boast of our chivalry, aod we Bouth Carolinians claim It a specialty. We give to wo men «be first pieces at our feant, pay them a thousand little atteotloqs, and would knock down tbe vlUaio that should dare to insult ooe, but what dose all this ehesp and cerstDontal r*> spect amount to when whiskey strikes bet as If she were a felon, starves her, stings her pride, degrades her, put* lo rags, breaks her heart and kills It is “the accursed thing’’ which hath made the armies of the living God to turn their backs before their enemies, and the “wild boae” that doth waste the vine that God hath planted in the earth. Ths Injury inflicted upon the churches of ths land by whiskey, and the injury Inflicted upon the land, by tbe eburobe* not putting away from themselves “the accursed thing” will hose educa- not be known until the disclosures of the last day. “My House,” said the Saviour in the temple, “shall be call ed tbs bouse of prayer, but ye—money changers ard sellers of doves—have made k a den of thieve*.” Alas 1 whis key has made 'on many of His church es’ dearer to Him than tbe Jerusalem Temple, dens of drunkards. It is tbe great temple profaner—the temple of Christs body—the church—ami tbe temples of the Holy Spirit, the bodies of his people. Aod last and yrqrse, I indict K as the destroyer of souls. “Sin no mors,’ said Christ to tbe man whoa be bad healed, “lest a wr’-sc 'hing come onto thee.” And can whiskey do a worse thing to A man than to deatroy his an* kemin* that tow U .mure, at least not as oAsn, of a church member flat on his back and the villain whiskey set raddle of fcla. Bat some fearful souls say k Vent do td talk about taking tbs vuderkoM of ths few—that from sreading that would sarry os to fight ing—and that ths palpi^^Ks Ptvss. and the tetnpcraoe* Societies,, sna tks wo men of the ooastry «a»t do tho best they an. ’ Well, such talk is about like os* saan’s helping another to load a gas kill a third mas, and when tbe gun is lifted up and punted at#r man No. 3, by tke man No. 2, the nstn Xo. I sorry for dint he has done, runs and throws a feather before Ufa mass!* of tbe gas, to intercept tbs balk Now tbe lari, and •be law is only tbs txprsswon of tks Bnud of the peonlc, hss loaded the goo, with which whiskey is doing its work of destruction, sod against the Uw, tho support and connteaance of th* law, proaebiocthe presn and pukli* Matiaent are alsaost as inofeotive ss s feftber against a ball. The only sensible coarse is to drew the load—to wipe out the Indulgence law and to pot another in its stead—that it shall fee as wuch a crime to desUoy men with whiskey, a* w.th shot* and powder. But is tho mean! line until we can get an anti-wbiskey Uw, there are other means that we can bse and use with good effect,one of which ri: Secondly, Tc put only sober men in office, and that sobriety the effect of correct moral priueiples- To do this, we hold, U not political proscription, but a sacred right of society and a duty which it owes to itself. Public sentiment fa the only whip with which siciety can punish offenders against its peace and iu purity and exclusion from ths public office.-', for drunkenness, and other offences against morality and public Vir tue, would be the cracker to the whip, that hurts the most and does the most good. The soul of s. devout Islamite does not turn more constantly and long ingly to the Holy City, Mecca, than do the souls of most men turn to the public offices, and it fa easy to ses what the effect would be, if oece it were well un derstood, that oily sober men, and men whose lives are unspotted by those immoralities, such to Fabbalh-breaking, gambling, and lechery, that sap the very whiskey, by lUwshtyii fagt* ve tot, to be eoDsfet- enft, Is vrpress eur idea of ths wrong rl'ine to tbe oomtnwnity byes* who eeib whiskey and fa set a member of tbe trvnagi-and pecuniary support? 1 be replied to this that UttrcH business i* orw thin<r, tod » mtn’t prints Vori- nsss, to bay where he pleases, soot bsr thtn^, thus, I reply, thtt selling whis key u s man’s private business, aud that vs have do right, accur Jin* to tbe orgs- ■tot,toQsatotlMfrivsuj h«iaf*«fl our brethren and tie tbeir band*, and loses the hand* of others against them.] I eeraoi but think that hi At lugMk*’ thM sf tbs eoantvy to Kmit the mOs of wkiekey ♦ and the treat moot of whiskey by ear churches have bees productive jar more lens than good, ee audt ao as tltooattehwk IBhin wlaMk Ifeiia Mh ^■to vhiriwt aa peanMa.‘Bad. hair Iway working of a grttoy crop, only sofa otft Ufa grsai, given it a at ranger hold ia tbs ground, and makes it greener and mere vigorous. Ia fact, balf-sorking fa working the gras*. And U seems to me that the legWothwi of the country aod the eoafae pursed by tb* eberchr* is reference to whiskey have worked whia- key, instead of having had any tendency ■■^■roy it. rsfWwvChnflP «40l ttoUHO M SOtiTH < ABOLI.V A WfeaP gfiIjCautbs KhtoSucaw w vuw el 8iatk Thus* tmf. FooWEaaac WistoX 4. Psgpav Vto Till (Mfearp Ms*. to to destroy Foorthfy. The rhurclies Must purge llfamsehes of whi key. : Religion in the oommuBfey fa like cotton in the market, when it goes op, it eorrias everything ion put into those offices. There bowiicberv in office The Radical out of office we despised, the Radical that was in office, the Govemoiy we feasted, and whiskied and vied iu our attention* to him, when he gave u* the privilege of doing so. The cry fa frequently beard, pet none but tried and true Democrat* in office. What does this cry mean ? If it means only this, that when ths Radicals h*d tbe State, they would not divide the offices with as, aud now we have got the State, and we wont divide with them, then it nonly the old ery, to the victors belong the corns nobody but tb* office seekers or spoil-hunters. If tbe ery means any good for the people, it means that to put gen- sine Radicals in office would be to es- IM ]pt It where if coaid bs ioflaentki for mfaekiaf to the coast ry. Now ws same Bto sf elm up vith it, and when it goes down, it tarries everything down with ih Let the churches rise to a higher poaftl I and better practice against whiskey ai they will carry up with them, as by a natural fag, tbe law »f Uw eosntry and spriest ys teyy suRgCis M.jwouf able combination against their conynon enemy. And lastly, as has been shown and eloquently urged by the leading secular paper of the State, tbe women of tbe country miut come forwaid and take their places in the front ranks in the fight Sgtintt whiskey. Let every woman make strict sobriety tli* passport to her society, to her hand aad to her heart, and she will hare struck a blow Oov day 'ast wefar a rt-portwr Of Grrseviltr New* twtervLweti MsJ Jh. Marie 00 LAs polKtoal si M*J ffi»rle ia one rf th* few afrifte iUdteato hi tbe Miats, and hi described as being a mui of bisln* and charac- Iff* After th* aublect of National politics WS* of ’hsNcws (raw cxlrasfadiih* IwUewlws vtews, touch- K.r Ing tbe BUHS enuvass 1 " ^Th* News muo ihirreri Bsppttedqhs tsssits ,by ask Mini Ms groeTKf, oh ohskfasr would be a Ithts Uekst orl lectors! ticket run i y MW Stats! the Republicans to this H'ate H s victim rnaponded 1 hat he did not think « sru-sa Wou. 1 prestiS ruttrst F^aUv ■ aetlvs csrr p-i<^n, he IBM# ftM Mhstj Imoas a rsfaMMM moot of Hsiuhuig ssd EUcaton, but It would dtwixof ib. pre^*’nt barmoni- SSMTlKaCfeysf Cas ^ and toad to >r less of vioienoe. Re added, ancones of any ticket whieti could poeslMy be n- mlnated by tho Republican party under It* present organization would be a oatesdunteo fesrful for calm oousiJeratlun. WbHet It Is true that tbe ouliot is bat defcrt ifrtto In ths hands of the 0‘Wt<\ aed Jscwr uue that Wirt a aort of cblvaJrlo r'aiUcrnesa, aud ihto Justice Is sdmloUtwed to him with uisch raofe mercy than to the race of larger oppnruu>it5e*. To this ths next most imporuat thing to th* negro ia that the school money shall not be stolen, and he knows now that It is not only honestly, but Justly and wlaw- ly expended. HugooT* election ought to, and will give general satisfaction, aod It will t>« far better for the color ed poo pit that this election sboaldufa p;utb over without acrimony. The wel fare of sfartcry, as well as the material * Interests of the Buts, demand kbwo-»W lutely that this campaign should he as free aa possible from agitation. ' “ Then,” was ths next cheerful qwes-M** tion, "you regard the paity defunct «ffk* organization fa absolutely In hands that must strangi# It. It Is not. best (or any party to bo without oppo sition, nor ts It best for a State that It should bo without two poHtioal parties 9 to watch and cheek each other, storesifab the success of one would be ruinous. No doubt when the present Repnbll* HU oro’HDfZnloa in this Butte ts wbol4*» ly disintegrated, a new one with msrw vlg r and i-. w-t will spring up, but to succeed. It triost draw chiefly for Its said, tiau. in me nanna o» tr« n<yr*' he has oeased absoiutaly to be a , in DoVtML Yet!’ Mequ villv uui before the eoert* be to treated 1 loundatious of Stole and society, will be jured off—cutting will have tol>e clone. fa a strange and cutting Starts both him ssfh a* poly aa# csp »OTte>j. J Jpfiese moans, if used, will rid us of the bated tyrant, and by these ovly can we put anyTron. ^ thing. They are severe remedies, but only such will reach the disease, ’ifffer! key is a cancer that has fastened itself upon tbe body politics, aud not ene of the sort than can be talked away, or eon mg hurt* both him vho cuts, and him who is cut. Bat the skillful and tender hearted sargeou knows hfa duty and does it. By these very mesne ws overthrew the Radical party and if we refuse u> use them to overthrow a worse tyrant, bedause they are severe aud will hurt, we shall expose ouroelres to the charge of hating Radicalism more than whiakey, of straining out s goat tad StfaBlviag » flteBWr. ^ , And further if by these means, whleh are honorable and right, wc can rid the I land of the etme of whiskey snd don't do fa, we make oarselvcs reapaasHifa for the crimes, tbe mischief and tfae ruin of which whiskey is the caaac. Meroz was cursed, not becjiue she rsel'a enemies, but because IA iH «I ft n IA most leaders from those of pobluoti. r/tr r lu present op* htLA. snimpKii “ ■Mfe helpe'! wmUbHIh Iwtsl in tufa dfat ! n-»| i>n<thiitty | Butter, Cheese, Milk. ; The value of the land nod stock em- ll] ployed in furnishing milk. buUer and cheese iu ibc ^ at 11,300,000,000. Over 3,000 factories . are engaged in the manufacture of these articles, besides the tens of thousands private dairfeB One • mitsulhetaiwr in Westers New York baa over thirty fac tories. Others in different part of (ho country have from five to thirty each. There are several firms In N*w York city which handle from $2 BOO,000 to $3,<H)O,0gO wdrth of butter sad theme annually. The zaitaal pood nation of cheuac in the United Palates ia rati mat'd at 1150,000,000 pounds, aud of butter helped Is- 1 1,500,000 000 pounds. Tho ralneoftlio she could | two fa about $8.>0,0ff0,000, mors than th« w heat emp, more tbas tfa* hay crop, ooe-tbii are followisx the I personal It fastary ‘•a'’ a duty 10 re* . than tb* cotton crop ind only nae-Afefe 1 saws ■ msKa**, savs* «•> w I JW>MNMS«as Istsi mltaM tlsss :i - 1 > 1 . it... S we Hjlsognizc his share of Um /ospouaiUhtj j less Uul Ijc com crop.