Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Potash is a necessary and important ingredient of complete fertilizers. Crops of all kinds require a properly balanced manure. The best Fertilizers j contain a high percentage' of Potash. All about Potash?the result* of it. use by actual expertinent on the lies! I.irnis in tin l"nito>l S'atrs ?i> ' I. 1 .. i little book whi> i tve publish .. t.l will gladly J until fno to any farm : in V i t . .. v.' I ? ^,'j GERMAN KAI I WOf. KS ' / yj Nassau bt.. New Voj*. "JEFFERSOX SUM, LI it ^ IIV HON. WI'.iilAM .IKNMNtiS IIIIVVN, OK N KI!11.\SK \. It is sutlieiently difficult In speak out ol' doors under (he most favorable circumstance s, and when one's voire shows the efleet of constant use, the >?ptak er is obliged to rely largely upon the epiiet of his auditors. I esteem it a great honor tc> be : permitted to take part in the couimenoement exercises of this great I'niversity founded by Thomas Jellerson ; and the pleasure which il gives me to take putt 1 in these exercises is enhanced hecause 1 come under the auspices of the societ ies of Washington and Jefferson. I am here as their guests to address the students. In a high and broad sense we are all students and should endeavor to add to the store of our knowledge and to increase our means of usefulness. I shall not ho able to clothe my thoughts in the graceful language which you have often heard from those who have addressed you on former occasions. I am not given time to think of nice ways in which to say things. I am kept saying things so much that I have to content myself with expressing iilpiie in uncti 1 r? ?i #vi i ? i??-? I romo to mo at Urn time. Students are passing through an important period of life when preparation is being mole for the: work that lie.- before tie in. To some extent we are not able to mark out our destiny. We are born without our volition. We do not choose our parentage, and if we come blessed with inherited strength, we also come lettered 1 >y inlieri' 1 1 *U.. 1 he language which we use. n< t >f our own choosing. The time and the ,<^e 4ii which we ,, i.; a. .. . have n<? control. And yet within j certain limit we are responsible ; ^ witliin < im '..tin limits we do carve| I'Ii'-mii:- out our own destiny;, within certain limitswe do ^ determine whether our lives j shall lo carried on that we, may ourselves enjoy the ot , life and bring the greatest j welfare on society, or he so ear tied on a- to make our own ox istence a curse to ourselves and fellow-; as well. Within this limit j it is our dutv to strive. Within .... Uiis limit if is'onrduty to achieve, j Because when you once give a man an implement ol warfare and make 11iin ;iMc to defend the right, you also make him aide to advance the wrong if he takes i that side. J i It is true that they shoot highest who aim at the stars. In other words, those whose ideals are highest will make the greatest progress, and nothing is more important than than that high ideals and high aims shall be set before the young men and young women of our country. Service is the test of greatness and lie will be remembered longest who does the most to advance the interest of mankind. (Jo to the monuments that mark the resting places of the dead, go to! the eulogies of those who have given time and lite to their conn try and what do you find in scribed there? Not what they I have received, but what they have jiiven to the world. It is not what the world gives us that makes us great but what we bestow upon others that makes the impress. There are some questions which i concern particular professions or{ pursuits, and I would interest j that class if I should especially a<ldress mvself to it. There are three questions that! appeal to all mankind. IIolv Writ furnishes one great question. "It a , man die shall he live again ?" lie-! ligion touches us all. It makes a ' great difference on our lives here whether we think that the grave is the final end of man or the door through which he enters into a larger estate. Social questions appeal to all. We are horn into society, are surrounded by it all our lives ; we receive from it blessing and owe to it duties, and ! anything that concerns society at large must concern each one of us as members of that society onrir i> *#nt* ^iriii ciiu mi which ; nil must look?that is to the! elevation <>f the level of humanity.. The purpose of all society is to make humanity camp on a little higher ground every generation. ' There arc other questions which | hind us together?political (pies- j tions?not in a partisan sense,! hut in flu* sense which politics is j the science of government. There is not a citizen so high or so low that he should ignore the claims of the government upon everv citizen who lives in a land like this, where every citizen is a sov- ! ereiirn and no one eares to wear a crown. Questions of government we meet at every hand. We cannot he indifferent to them. The question is whether the govern ment shall he ?rood or had. <>ur form of jroverntneni i? th.?? hest lorm of Government ever oonreiv ed hy the mind of man, not he cause it is perfect in all its details, hut because it permits the people to have as Good a Government as they themselves deserve Som< times a graduating . !.i-> will have a composite photograph combining the features of all the class, ;md so Government is a eoneosite of all those who li\e under it. If the Government ihad it becomes the citizens to look upon his own features to see if tin- f;inils witli him. I want to call your attention to the fundamental principf%s which underlie our government. We are here in >i^ht of the second Sinai, here surrounded l>y the memories' ! led hy the modern law jjivor. lie it was who comprehended more clearly than any of his as sociates the principles which underlie free "ovcromont. lie ? I t was who understood belter ( than those with him the capacity of the people for sell government and at thes ame ? time knew their weakness and knew how to make restrictions that would enable them to serve the general weal. He understood the aspirations of the human heart and laid down principles of the government which instead of eradicating from human nature that which Clod had placed there sought to direct it toward the common weal. I was impressed hv the epitaph s ug?ested by Jefferson himselt. Mr. I'rvan then pictured Mr. Jefferson, looking hack over his life of great achievements in for get fulness of them and seeing what he regarded as the three greatest achievements of his life. These were the Declaration of American Indepemlance, which gave freedom to men; the statute of religious liberty, which made man responsible for his life totiod. and the rnivorsity of of Virginia, the rap stone of the system devised by JelVeson, and iit "my .judgoment. the best that was ever devised l?y any man. This system enables the son of the carpenter to take the honors, if he can. from the son who in hersts wealth and fame. It teaches that honor comes from worth not wealth, that honor comes not Iroin honor, hut from merit. I am not surprised that Jefferson, looking back over '.lis work, recognized this system with the Diversity as its climax, as one of the greatest acts of his life. I believe that the state university which the people control is the greatest university of the future." In every subject there is an underlying principle. Jellerson stated the wonderful principles that underlies our form of government, when he said that all men were created equal, not equal physically or intellectually, tmt equal whenever government comes in contact with the people : whenever the law touches them. If that is true, what follows from it!1 If all men are created equal, no citizen has a natural right to injure any other citizen, and I may go lurther and say that no good citizen desires to injure any another. I fall men are created it fnl lows as *i ennKAri that no government should onsi ble or permit one citizen to in .jure another citizen. This is applying togovernment what ('hri.st tauirht when He said. \ 11 ve are brethern. \\? do not diller so mil' ' in j-rin<*ipies as in their application. Von i' umot find any one who will .-t.md up and say that he h; - t superior ri/ht belore I lie law. !?ut the trouble is that we come to frame government and make law- W'p sometimes allow o ,r \ u ll'i h interest j to lead ns to the support o! policies . i i . i i: . . i . .i i i m i? : i > Ml . : i 111 ' II: " i - (li J^< ?\ t-i'iiment, which arc antagonistic to the principle which we all ad\ ocalc i it I lie :11?->t racl. The more you study govern 111 ? 111. the more # !?? i ly do you 11 i dor<t.tii<I 11111 the art ol govern moil I is simply I ho art of l?oin<j honest. If von will analyze 1 islation, you will ho surprised to se<* how oasilyj you may measure it liv that rulo. W o all recognize that tho people should eoutrihuto to tho sup port of tho government in propor lion to the homdit roroivod tioin it. Unjust taxation is robbery under tho law. It is grand larceny. If the government frames its ta* laws in such a way as to overbur den some and relieve others ol burdens, the government simply takes one man's money and gives it to another, and he who resorts to law to take his neighbors prop erty, has all the characteristics ol the highwayman except his courage. . Hut it may be that the law at written is just, but that its en 1 forcemeat is unjust. I wliiuli wo i<niilil < 1111 i \- ! ( i > public conscience which would i make (ho oilizen as ashame<l H ! injure the government ami rheal it out of its just dues as lie would lie to cheat his next door neigh I hot. The mistakes we often make as legislators is that, we heed tlie few individuals who are ovei present, and neglect the silen masses, who simply hend t.heii backs in order to bear a hcaviei ' load. The money question will neve be settled until ir is settled In J recognition of the principal whicl j deals justly with every litimai being. When it is so solved i ( may not be solved my way. W< must all recognize the possibility I ol error. Hut whan it is solved i ; may be in compliance with tin I principle that the best dollar i the one whose purchasing powe is steadiest and which alwav guarantees to men the fruit o , t heir labor. There is no inheritance whicl j parents can leave to child equa : to a good government which guar I antees to him tho proceeds of hi jtoil. There is no sentiment s< I deep down in the heart as th< j sense of justice The flood Bool iteils us that when .loseoh re Iceived Ins coat of many colors a ( i an evidence that his father lovc< | him better than his other sons his brethren hated him. and \vi know that resentment against fa voritism and partiality is as groa to-day as when the shepherd watched their lloeks at Dorpatli Ideas revolutionize human so cietv. < >ne of our g.oat writei has said, k,lt is an epoch in socio ty when <iod lets loose a thinkc (in the world." (Jood idea- hav< I upon them the stamp of truth There is nothing omnipotent bu i truth, nothing irresistable but ' go< >d idea. You may impede it until it get enougn <>i momentum i?iit at las , il will ridi? over the person wlr cets in it> way. I believe that much of failun h:?< come to young men Iron wrong ideas upon this -ul.jet ! Let young men attach theimolve to a great idea The idea won' prosper necessarily la-cause yoi advocate it hut you will pro-pe because you advocate it. Tin person who is willing to lose him ?o|f for an idea will find undo success there the man who make things subservient to hi> own in terests. I once got an idea from miiiii hogs whYh were rooting in a field i It carried me hack to the litre of tnv boyhood when we lived 01 a farm and put rings in the no-ei of the hogs, not to keep then from getting fat, because we wer< :-.4 .4^.1 *1?4 <i it iiiwht mn-n'MTti in im;ii i rum iiii'v hnt in nrdor flint whilo golfing fal iflmv would not destroy inor< property than they worn worth. Tutt's Pills * Cure All ; Liver Ills. , Twenty Years Proof. ; Tutt's Liver Pills keep the bow els in natural motion and cleanse r the system of all impuritic ; An absolute cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, con? stipation and kir.drcd diseases. * "Can't jo vncMPi lfiem'; R. P. Smith, Chilcsburg, Va. 1 writes I don't I: o - v how could do without t! : .. r have liad ( Liver disease for over twenty j years. Am now entirely cured. Tutt's Liver Pills and I thought what is govern 1 l input. 1 >ut putting rini:s in the ' I noses of human hojis We re r all selfish and hojruish. We are r all aj>t to want more than our share. In our best moments we r are willing to put rings in our ,* noses to restrain ns from injuring i'others. Jefferson said that one 1 of the duties of government is to t restrain men from injuring one ^ another, and I helieve there was - never a time in the history of the t J human race when it, was more ?l necessary to enact rest railing leg s islation than now. Corporations r are created for the public fgood P s and the people should so control f them as to prevent them from violating the powers under which , they exist. There should bo no 1 corporation greater than the pow . or that created. Never before was s it as important as it is to-day to r, restrain men from injuring one B another. In these days when - corporate wealth is banded to. gether. you will find special need s for the laws protecting humbler \ citizens. , Jefferson not only declared u that all men were created equal - but that they were endowed with t inalienable rights?-rights which s government does not give to take . I away, and we shall never reach a I time when these principles will j 8 j be sullieient to measure all forms of government, r 'hi I at the time when the cl b dor Adams was passing away ho i. gave utterance to a phrase which A t ' llfl? i<\ til!. llrtl' ..Tlx-.,...... ' , | ..... .... ..... ... . u .1 i . i iiutiian ;i ,l..|r,T<OII -I ill live-." If WIS HOt 1 trill* in tlio sense in flu' sense in ? s 1 which lie spoke it.because at that I moment Jefferson was dead as far . 'as 1 lie liodv WI- conee/jO'd.lnit in I I . 1 a higher sense :f was true. "Jet' L. I'erson s.jll lives." He lives to , day. Jefler-on wi" live hundreds 1 :?n<l 1 housands of years after wo s ri<e j'niii!, It was the idea of j ' .lellersnn that made him immortal , and we meet 1o lay to eommem .. morale the name of .lell'erson, not ' the Jefferson who died and sane i litied the soil o| Montieello. hut ' .f offer-"' n t lie philosopher, whose s philosophy wUl never die while 'people love free government. In | my humble opinion the name of Jefferson will outlive th?? names I of today. When the names of J military heroes are forgotten,chil, Idren will -till lisp the name of f J Je!lerson, and freedom will give ,'due j?r:ii- to ! 'ai who filled the .I kneeling abject with hope and 'hade him stand erect a sovereign t1 among his peers. ; We do oni duty if as hest we , | can we advance utir government