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ITAJBLISJED 1865. -P c 147h i) NEWllE1\ S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1899. TWICE A WEEK. SOUTH CAROLINA'S OLD TIME SCRIBES ISCOIDS OF THE PA8r ItEVEAL IN TEusTING FACTS. Tho oniHom ouse of Asseaubly-Vt able Illoki 11rought to Light by hir. D D. wanace or Newberry. In searching for material on the cOastitutional history of South Caro lina, I discovered two very interest ing and still more valuable volumes. These are the original manuscripts of the records of the commons houseof assembly of South Carolina from September 2d, 1602, to August 27, 1702, and of the grand council from March 11, 1071, to October 10, 1674. These are doubtless the oldest writ ligs in South Carolina, as parts of them antedate by four years any competitor, and if, as is very prova ble, the competing Indian treaty is a copy, by a still greater time. Those volumes were found, after nuch climbing and digging and tugging, among a great deal of old papers and "boastly" quantity %f tho black est dust. They were resting high, right under the ceiling, above a tier of shelves, where they were thrown some years ago. Nearly all the contents of these two old curios were copied ito fine manuscript volumes in 1851, when all such records were; but there are a few pages of the council journal which seem to have been omit ted, so that the newly found volumio con tains the only copy in existence, un less the London public recor I office or some private papers contain a duplicate squt contemporaneouisly to England. If so, however, Mr. Saints bury and the commissioners of pub lie records in the epoch making work failed to discover them-a supposi tion hardly probable. So t hat we havO here absolutely the oldest docu ment written in South Carolina, and an unduplicated copy. There are many great gaps in both-- these vol umes, as is the case in our early re cords for the first few decades. They should, therefore, be prized the more. Perhaps it may not fail to be interesting to give some de scription of these ancient pap( ra, ex cept the ruins of Ribault's fort the oldest work of nin made in the State, executed in the dim times when Charleston was a mere hamlet of 200 people, and could claim, with out the least fear of successful con tradiction, to ombraco all the culture and education in South Carolina. The jour-nal of the commons house, or "general assem %&," as it is en titled, is much the larger of the two volumes, and is comp)osed of a num ber of smaller record blank hooks, or minutes, bound into one. At many places it presents a peculiar appear ance, as the right hand page reads S down and the left hand is inverted. This is because the scribe wvrote straight through the book on only one side of the pages, and then tur ed up side down and wrote from the back .to the beginning on the other side of the pages. A great variety of handwritings and quite a numer ous assortment of black inks are in evidence. Handwriting reformera who read this may say at thnir next teachers' association meetmng that, while some really beautiful hands, fancy beyond precedent, are bard to read, yet where a real specimon of the vertical system occurs, as it somnetimes does, in its greatest per fection, it can be read like juster (lay's newspaper-. The skill of the scribes in aidmiira ble. One, in particular, adorned his pages until they really rese mble a rose bush on a frame. They had a way of imitating signatures when copying documents into their books, which they carried to such p)erfection that we may here see practically facsimiles of the autographs of Liords Clarendon and Blerkeley arnd the Earl of Shaftesbury, and at a later date of Queen Car9line, or anybody whose name was signed to anything the scribe might copy. Many of the oldest dates are writ ten in strange Roman notation, im possible to understand, except by caroful comparative study. The fol lowing, however, is very plain, but interesting: "Die Sabati xxiii any th Jay." In many places all except the ferrie. components of the ink have vanished and loft a streak of iron rust, while in the places whore the fancy penman brandished his quill around in great flourishes, the writ ing ink has eaten the paper out and left a long burnt qfreak. These old records shov that early Carolinians enjoyed pretty much the 'samO forms of solf-government that we do, except for vexatious and arbi trary vetoes from the proprietors on their salutory laws, which it is harl now to think of freemen enduring. Writs of election issued in the name, e. g., of "John, Earle of Bath, Palatine," etc., and "Robt. Gibbes, Esqr., High Sherilt," and we find as one result Ralph Izard received"127 voute"-out of the whole State of South Carolina only 127 votes! Ah, friend, say not, Poor Ralph Izard! for hq led thc voto at this 1698 olec tion, together with others, with his honorable unanimous "127 voates." These were a kind of itinerant as semblies, meeting around at various members' houses, which, perhaps, accounts in part for so miany vario ties of good and bad ink, and t he fading out of a few pages. Perhaps comparatively few people Inow to what an extont the State of South Carolinn has neglected prop orly to preserve its early records. While other States have published theirs in handsome volumes, pro claiming to the world all their great history, we have actutlly neglected to put into print a single or page of the records of the foundation andde volopment, of one of the noblest, most engaging, an(, withal, impor tant colouies and States in America. For my own part I must confess that I had no conception of the t rue char acter of the colony of South Caro lina, nor of its early Statehood, un til I went to the original manuscript sources. There has been much grandiloquent, aid eloquent, talk about Souath Carolina's glorious his tory; but no just or adequate view has ever been given of her rightful place in American history. We re fuse to publish our records; our citi zens will not, and outsiders cannot write our history; so that neither our own citizens nor the country at large know of the noble history we should cherish as our dearest birth right. Gen. McCrady has done well by the colony's fi-st 50 years; valu able manuscripts have been gotten from England, and army rolls com p)iled. But there is a gr6at Kiondike of tre'asure in the records of the com. muons house and council firom 1071 to beyond the RevolutionL that wvaits to be made available for the histo ians of the whole countr-y. The records of the comn mons house of assembly and -thle council before the Revolution, anmd of the logkis ture of the State to about 1830 have never b)een printed. These records, of which there is but one copy in existence, aire in manuscript, the writmng of which iis, in many in stances, fading into illogibilit3 . Per ' ans it is niot realized that when .,in many instances far advanced process of fadinig is complete, the hiistor-y of our State will he lost for ever. Perhanps our legislature and p)eople do not know that for many years several of these irreplacable, unbuyable volumes have been lost, and that any thief, any carelessness, any accident might aiiy day bring the same fate to other volumes. The State of Tennessee, with tenfold less occasion, has years sinrco aippuropr-iait ed an annual sum of $5,000) to pay a learned man's salary in part, arnd b)e used( to publish historical (d acumenits. But in early history Tennessee is a neophyte beside South Carolina. Here there were a great commou wealth, a highly developed society and a regular transplanted English government hefore the white man ever built his cabin on the WVatauga. South Carolina'saspirit of freedom, her growth into a State, wvhich wvas, for.0 years, to wild the greatest power, perhaps, to its size, of any State in the Union, are locked upl in those b)rowVn manuscript volumes in t,he State honse. No one but t.he historical snecialist amind ofths only a few, can know that glorious story niutil the State publishes the manlriptti. If the procesm of loavon falling out, volumes getting lost, ink fading goes on many more years it will be fo ever too la(e. Let thie legi-laturo a))ro)riatW kVenU HO small a fum is $2,000 a year, or even $1,000, to be donated to publishipg these 100 pro. revoluntiolary volumes and about 100 post-revolutionary. That it is not done is a shano to a State that need not bido its his. tory; it is injustice to ourselves, to posterity, and to the men who worn South Carolina from the wilderness, the savage and the Spaniard, and gave her a character distinct and tu. paralleled in the country's history. D. D. WALLACE. UNBA LANCED DIY OtIEF. voluog Ltdy, i Secolnil Comiku of Ad6mil'ral schley, suIlids. Baltimore, Jan. 15.---Miss AL.na Mary Houko Schley, 25 years of age, daughter of the lato Col. William Louis Schloy, poet, lawyer and vot oran of two wars, and second cousin of Rear Admiral Schley, committed suicide today in her home, No. 717 West saratoga street. Since the death of her father, to whom she was much attliched, just a month ago to day, Miss Schley has been incon. solable. A week since her mental condition became alarming to her friends, and attendants wore con stantly at her bedsido. This afternoon, her sister, whq had been chatting with her, wenL. below stairs for a few minutes, and ,when she returned found Miss Schley lying on her bed with a bullet hold in her left breast. She had shot herself through the heart w'th one of hor fatber's revolvers. The two letters which she had written to friends indicated that she labored un der the hallucination that sbe anid her family wero being purstied by some phantom. WALT wiiTAIAN NKVtClt itI8ES. lHe RlOlMR s40n1 of 1i1 Brliulat Metective Work In rei E01erb., sanid Annountteces That hoe Will Iun, as juail, for Gov. raor. To the Editor of the News and Courier:-Whon it was first an nounced that Ellerbo had sold out, sub r-osa, to the Local optionists. N. G. Gonzales, president, L wrote to The News and Courier advising the .tat(i exoetivo vommittee to in ve'.tiglto the matter, mind, if reports were true, to pronounce Ellerbe's nomination nulla bona and of none effect on the ground of fraud. The; News and Courier did not. publish. 'Will you lelase take it from the waste basket and let it see the light of (day: T1hme announcoment that I wouldi re tire from polhtics, after twenty months, has been misunderstanding, I have reconsidered and announce my candidacy for Governor - at t he next primary, and if I get all the votes of those who give me credit for always being right I will get where I can do the people good. G. Walt Whitman. Jone4ville, January 16. . SEcAnDAl) D D EA L UIPiEm,D,. Mr. .l(jan's Atl'anspt to. En,j slin the sale of Stock Defenuuied. [Telegram to The Daily News.] Baltimore, Md., Jan. 16.- Judges Wyk< s and Stockbridge todlay do. nied the i njunction recently asked for in the Mary land cir-cuit court by Thomas F. Ryans, of Newv Yorki, in. which the petitioners sought to re. strain the transfer of 8,000 sharm of the stock of the Seaboard gir Line held by trustees uder a p)oolingI agreement. The petiti on was dismissed .anc Mr. Ryan was ordered to pay th< costs. The stocls in question we. recently sold to a syndicate hmonder by John S'kolton Wulliams, of Rich mnond, and its transfer involves con trol of the Seaboard system. it is understood that the purchasr have agreed to pay $200 perA ebar< for the stock which Mr. Ry-an'olaimi had been previously sold to hint foi $l25 por shar(,. The action of the cour in denying the injunction clearn the way to a transer of the rond go ita new owners. STIRRING DAYS OF 1876, HOW A. li. WILL,A,IS ONCEs LAI IN WAIT TIt TOM MIlLIIt. Ver-y Interestillg intminations o , Ia liril ilantt Iteposter Who volleewed' Killi wVorkt<i for iipnaen- ,x,tr.or4iins airy Claiges'W ilteit jwoat;, !.vo Iteen lave Wrooght to Fafnt ticl tilat-k -*.-puablicata sa tid L*11C Ited Mstort 11e0s,W&rata - Prool dt Mste ler's E x (Greenville News, Jantlary S-) Thomas E. Miller, 'professor and president of the State Uollego for (!olored sttldents at - Orangeburg, Imaude a gpeech ait the Emancipation D.f t;lebrated at Spartanburg yes. thrday, and it was a good speech. It is the utterance of a very clear and cool headed and loyal colored man. Roading the speech over, vo. are moved to marvel over thIle changes the yeaid bring. Hero is Tom Mil lor advising his pellAe to a policy of conciliation and submission. He was a member of the Republican Legislature of 1875. Lord bless us, that was twenty-two years ago, and men who wero' not born then are voters now, and wo men who wore not thought of are mothers of growing families, and the universities and colleges are full of boys and girls who did not arrive in this world until years after that. Tom Miller woro in those days a light woo)ln suit, with a sack coat,. inlthe pockets of whichli he carried hikbhnds most of the time. , ery likly le had a- revolver in hs;df then. The editorKot(11A* 6env i1b News sat for two days and a nighi with a pistol trainod gn Tuk-. Millee and learned to knoW hinu well. It was probably -the most 0normluS pis. tol ever mado-the barrel of a Rem ington rifle sawed off'and its look fit ted to a pistol butt. It carried but one ball, and the editor of the Ni0een ville News, then reporter for a Char leston newspaper, which died long ago, .djuNsted it in the drawer of his desk, at the head of the ma'i aisle, and by mathematical diagram and calculation and. an improvised range flider fastened it-with pins and cock. ed it, so thaton opening the drawer to a certain pencil mark and turning it loose it would inovitably "fetch" the Hon. Thomas E. Miller, then a member from Beaufort, who all un conscious of what was waiting for him, was up and down overy minute or so, apparently doing his best to bring on a row. During t hose n.r~v-trying thirty six hours the editor of the (r-enu. ville News. studied end contem plated the memb6t- -from B6anfort, and speculated as~ lo how lhe wvould look. and feel aA the RemingtQn ---bullet took him in the space beneath his wish bone, antd surmised that lhe would smile a' kind of sickly .smile and curl up on,the floor, and that tile subsequent proceedinrgs would interest him no more; which the same editor- of the GIreenvillo .News, after a very few of the long seconds whichl drag their slowv length along while fighting is in progress, and a gent is in rnbmont.ary expectation of being plngged; for hIe saa immediate ly beneath -Ed Mack.ey and Judge Wallace, the rival speakers, and knew well that the shots of the enthusiasts on both sides would be concentrated in that direction and that so,mnebody wvould shoot im. But it all past ad of? and nobody was hurt; anid nowv the rantankerous cavorting, red hot and. no0 com pro mise member from Beonufort rides about in a frock coat with.. high silk hat in car-riages and speaks of concili ation and subnission. The Ring talled Roarer, from the Santee, who threatened a rowv every minute, is dlead1, we belheve; Oliver P. Morton, the great wielder of the bloody shirt in the United S'tates, whom we all used to hAte so bitterly, is dead arid almost forgottohythe black ineon diary from Orangeiburg, whose nime we forgot 'bas passed out of sight; SEd Mackey is dead, Dan Chamber lain is ouir very good friend, the Hion. John Sam Verner, who was a wild man~ from tto mountains and used( to jump on his desk and wave his a rms about, is a peaceful and do corous ottizen; the Hon. J. Lawreuce Orr, who led the atorming party and defied the torgentit-at.arins, the State constabulary and the United States, and 8mashed in a green blaize door and incidentally an Irish guard with tuo bucdrod piounds of weight reinforced by a six-shooter, is now so law -abiding that he ovon rot.urns i incomo tax, The Hion. John C. Shoppard, who regularly kicked his way in and out of tho halil of tho HIots of RepresenatitifveH with t he tid oif two large revolvors, is nowi a man of peace, who deprecates vio lence. A liopiblican President. Ias ome down among u11 a1 setU H all o huritahing with kindly words of he Southern people and the confed 3rato soldiers, and we, who have in )ur time sworn great oaths of von. Manc and propetual hate, respon ively when the stars and Stripos are iois ted. All of us have cooler )oo th in ve had twenty-two years a1go, and iopo, aounder mon to liston to us. >erhaps we did not liston as carofully md respectfully as we should have lone in thos: days whih sooni such I little, -while ago, but twenty-two ears have passed, nid that is a long ime. Prof. Miller'hai Itarned and all of is have learned. Io is giving his )eoplo good advice -for the prosot -bo only advie that can be given by vikktled man to any race that is any vhioro - in ,contact any compet(ition ivith thq: whito' rae . As' lie says, lie Pbarqh on-'0.thorno knows n Jooi ' i' g 4drry -out he 5impilb ,'io J gV b. !orrUNVWItfrum tIi he -i{ earnings l1<.jWltimd gold. We do noL inow. whither these arte tb 4 tiro, noant to be tAken Jitilly. T4hey may bo not >ntly. b.ptory Ad troplhecy. 'Th1e noe gro is borrovitg fini the' hite mntan botte ild more valuable things Lhan-gold-.-aduention;ilizat,ion, a1m bition, the spirit of thrift, the power of push, the strength of purposo. Let him tako till these and( gird up his loins, and with staff in his hand and bread leavened or unleavonod, go forth to some promised land, where lie may be his own man and regulate his own affairs and work out his own sal vation. Submission is a present necessity, as it, was with the children of Isreal in Eygpt, and has boon with the same great race in sd many countries, through so nny weary conturies si.nce, but it cannot remain as a per muanent policy for people who intend to rice. ST.i rEMli ENTs FR(OM 000)1. N EA. I. Hie Vt Wi i.ka One unsa 1.u.n alla rtI,;onent ,inn Watrraants II. [The Stato, 17.] It is stated that as soon as Col. Neal is able to transact any business the $ 10,000) promised by the pent tentiary board of directors will 1)e pamid into the State t reasury. Drs. Taylor and P'opo think that within the next three or four dlays lhe will b)e able to receive visitors, lIe htas informed a report.er that as soon as lie is able, lhe will makeo a statemett for the pub)lic in regard to somte things that have transpiredl since he hats been confinedl to his b)ed. EV'I0TIN(t MLlL 11 6N 1s. Ugly WVork Ilogun at Augus,ta limt IIatt4(t Augusta, Ga., .Jan. 16.-Thie first evicting from the mill houses of striking operatives was mnade today. Th is is the seventh week of t he striking an. uhe operatives and1( 0oper ars are as far apart as ever. TIhte op)eratives ask oppIerators of otl er cities not to come to Augusta at this time. The evictions were hal ted after one family had been put ont because a cold, dIrizz//ling rain began falling. NO lMOtE TlOOPts TO ('t hA. Pamrty I.eaving Cha.ritenu saie to be, thet I,nat~ ofr te inmter. Chau leston, Jan. 1 7.--The steamer Saratoga saile'd from here for Mon tanzas, Cuba, at nmoon todlay with Iti battalion of the 10th Indiana vol unteers andl a ctargo of provisiont andi camp equipage. I und(erstoodl that the government will sendl no more troops to Cuba jui now. So this is possibly the last ex pedition to sail fromt here this win ter. OUR SOLDIER BOYS IN CUBA.I MANY EN''TRANVINa V*110wm VltoH CA,11' COL.i'MIIA. lie't.. Aii11,1V Eakilium ltie Over ie Hile of tho Cms,il of the secovid Rtegillient. Eve ry Tent wan ist lI,oen .at . lm- - d.tey-lh atil- al11 f ont -*iho States" (NiwS and Courier.) .lvladquar.erm 2nd Sonth Carolic it Vollunt evr8, Cam'p Coliimbia, Ha11vIIIn, (Cuba, Th'uirsday, Jainuary 1 2. Special: Tl regiimen-ti tisii i1s n4w( v caimp tolnight.. E'trly this mloring I hit w ( soils blglinl hall I lig (1w bit". "1a1 4 an1d tonltH, ando by :1 (1'cloc!k ovterytlinilg waH onl til) groliud that is nlow occupiod )) tho pitchod tontp. I,very tent is in1 htce, aid tih only t t.hig nedptd to miko Ihii a co). plot camp11 is clari ng off tiho coM paly stroets, which w,rk %%ill be don to morrow. Tho ground here is COVONrd With I rockI rlngintg in HiZO froin itt of' ia smal bird Ogg to lhigo pioces wteighing hundredii of pounids. Tl) views presetit-d from onr preseit, location itro simply grand. Away in and direction iro ton mount11ai, it ti fiot. f which o cu1rre1d tho tkirisil ill whicl Mlaooo Wlli killed. Wo are siirromi.114ld b bills of maurvollons beawil y, % %hilo bv. tWOI 1110HO ill four- l4aces tli svt i Oln thstitly. At. smi, o 'ming to or goilng from t110 islIId. Tho rolliig hills, covervId with fresh, greon vtgelitin, cotiges and (14e'gallt dwellings svil (ln thw hill sides in tho disitnce, I Io litt It irint flowing thoir surpentino courr.oe-, Ile beatutiful troes, ti galdons pvculiar to tioical climates, all go () 1111tkV u1p thIe imost. bviauitifil scenes that ever the mortal boh. Id. Tho camp is pitched twiy from all the other regiieniits uiponi a knoll from which bauiitifl vi0WH aPo p snted inl ovory diectiou. We are off from th road about, a quar11.or of a mile, just in th rear' of at (Ilitillf, old 1eidenlco built, in ti heIr prv dominaiting old (mrciain M1s1t of architecturo. Along one sid(o of tho camp is it fiOld inl WhiCh Corn11 is tIssI'linlg; Oil itnother sido is built a fort Which, is strilligO tO say3', is dowl in a villey; it ston( fonlso 1un11s Ilong Ilm nothern1 bo11er of tIm (a11111 soparating our lld from thitt own ed by aiotill r purly. ''.lia feoce run-i aliug ov4r hils, i rough dul anld vatlmos, 1.11r.ning tist wily anld thait, i, fair as tin nuy% cone . On thle ot her sido or it, to the righ1t,i aro fields of' sulgari catn1 neair ing matu11riity, a1way3 to the left is a valley03 used a18 a paSturef, covered0( wvith greeni grass and1( preotty3 shrnllh bory: theo hill s on one sido beling nearly perpendicuilar'. Awaty to the wesHt wo s00 thoi suni set behind a body13 slopped0( work 1long1 eniough to look it. thle soine, wich olwas granhdly indescribln)o. An old1 order, reqiiring ih comf tmaindinig oflicer of o1veryCl company to sulbmlit ini wriitmg daily a3 rep1olrt of inspIect ion of compan)tly's mess81, waIs overlooked by mantIy of' onri (aptatins thos08 cap 1t ins11 receiv Vt a Itotic like11 this fr. m Li iguio headurloillr: llembp luutte rs i.nd hltgad, lot Di vision, 7'ih ArmIIy Corp os, Camnip Colnumia, llavanta Cuba, Jannaliry I 1, 1 8 I-Conu mainilllg O)llicer of Comipni , 2nd( SonithI Carolia ThIo brtigadtier generl'. 'ommtlanlding wrinting for your Ia ilurez to sni'imit to the~ regimiental oflicer' of till (day for Jaualiry 10 and1( 1 1, 1 $Ai. Very rrIspec fully you1r obed'1 0int sI'rivant, Adljultantut Ootneraul. anly oflice'r gi 18 win-'n ho happqenis to fail to et mply)I u,it hi < w I y hilt <f ini. struictionis, hlowever II111 mnte. IAoult. ('ox (cmneI t t t llana v"stori (lay on1 the hiospit:tI ip issouri and1( iined theo 1rgne:.t todaly. Wonowv haveo a il iy mauil system. Theli Plant systemo of boat1' b -ing the' mail fromI Porit 'ITampa three0 tion's 'a wVook, andi thre boats1)11 fromn imi 11 rnrnhcl Havn aVle' weot. e,gresman)z I,eHltoir id the oreenwomd - rooubio-1. 4:1pntt.pt witio Totr-.Irt. (Special to Newt and Cot'lr.) Wah ington, J1anuary 8 --R eprese. Utive Latitiimr has boon notilled that ls seat in thle iltxt, Congress will be hYre.- by Ril. 'Volbert,. U-iformu hitely for NI r. Tlb1rt, ho 1111 not, 10t - >)iOd With) thle LaW In 11iin his8 n)Ot 0 >f con,tv,.t, iand i ma have to plead Or at 'pvvial Act of Conlirve" to have Ils Case conmideel. The law rC(ulit 8 hait, at notive of concest musklt be filed vithl the conlte.tZ11 within Liirt,y (11ys ,fter ue ollivlda 1e11urn11 of thet( election se delr Tho result of the lIst ofig r.4-Ssiolitil (dection iI South Carc hia was- annitomnced Novomber 26. jIdel the ltw Nil. Tolbert.should havo VeICd n0t.ieC Oil ir. IAati l)3r not litter hia IDoember 261. As it mat,ter of fao t Is lotioo wits not, deliverled to Mr. 1t.itnetr unil Deemiber, 28, just, two Ity o t f'o It Io comeio W Iit in the pro isions of tite latW on, the stkject. ()n his wiay back to Wiashingtoll, \I r. 'It.lii rt oppvd itt (rotn wood to make personial inlves.tigattionl of the t4it ion there, I'rowing out, of the recent voithio overt thm 'vouhwrt, fammly, He t,teIled II aI VI IIlt' Ilei tti - 1 IIh ld at rveenlwood, whlvh wa's ealed to alIlow he leading p.ople of that. vicinity to niloulnve to the worl titu t.hey io posed to IawIVssnOsS and ot.her bru ILI i es, whi h it'la%'111it e rcent'11 b I 11eI l3tLl'ed up aaiist, th1 Citizens of that (omtnliitv M, N r !at imer said h'e made sp'ech to .the peoplo, ill which Ito oartily upin-oved the sentimenolits ex resstfl inl thw r1e4sohlt,ions adflopted, set ilg for-I It ht [lmt it is he 1 108', anI(d it: ntionl of th'. I11.41p1le of Greenwood to ee the vigit's of all citizenls (.nforced If( law and or-di.r linminltainmi, withouit egatrd It) t hie col11or fi te o lendersi. Ni1F.LI'd 10 1 lit!' ('(1lot lif ou 1,11 01 1OMIN-S ir ,tatimur saiid he foundi at very 01eeral feelIng ap s ilo it,h 010Tolberts it, I'eenIWOOd, bil the is a dispost0ti o wrmit1.h1uim to vet.ill home prc ided t,he' are0 Willlng to1 neCe)t I," mi1 0 Sal voerdicl, InI itt section to I'he Aoelt, that, whlit. people finnist miuh. ;amllo of i I i miemilers of t,he Tolhei t amily have necvpled t.ho ftittlonl and J1re lack in Ilheir formler. homes, well (411diVed anId re1-pect%.d by 0heir nICghl iors. Nit. Liatlinte says he holoees he other Tolherts will be lloweti4- . -etllurn if they are disposed to ma11ko it leCIltin011 to the elfIet, that they at-o >repared t.otsiiit, to wite mnan'st rutlo it that, Sectionl. Mr. Latimer says there is inlother, a.use for ISCOntIenlt anid '11MarraSS nient, not at,Uribumt.blo t,o t,hloTolber-tF. I'ivre itrit ertatiin men who sevie to lim formiled a combinlationl to drive Ill .It CIoored labor. from 1.ha1t, set,ion (if .1h11 cotiit.r1y. (hVing to the dri-vinlg mf t >f tih' colored htIhor, ih, owtie's Of t,.o IarIInS IIu-0 unable L.O 1iSC t,beir' VrOlw, benee Itl. hiands bevomle atlmlost vainc ess anIld Lho aiL1-coloredL lthor collbillo tes to get possession Of the dicrded landS aL] t i rIIn- . iwbeiow tieir rel valu e. Some well-known eiLizens In lau1 t. v i ci li ty are4 said( Lto b)e. inter'est.edI ii11( (1h11combine1 1a1m4 the sit.ution is fll If dailg, r' t.o t hie int.erest,s5L .>f t,he mo1re work1 11 t,hi farmts. NI r. 12at,imet.r says$ 1he. 1s 1as m11h op pIosedI to negro't dIomtinalt,as 11 y man~lul! it' 1 CaroIli lina, but,/4.) lhle realizes( ILbat, I ('eided1( di sad vanIt tagel iI nt (1 estit.ion11 oIf t.he na31ltiona11311I atoritLies ait, Washing .on b t,bL Iind 111isc(reet 113ion 1 o3(f cer3ta'n3 menl in the St,ate, who tare (1eeavoringl t.o div e tbe (colorIed hlor (t o (f the .t,LL. I'xaiggeratedO( reports of these ,aatl'1 ionI(Is are( broughlt, to Wasxhin31g t,on) and1 pour1ed into L.he (ars (If menI. ber1s (If Li Ith lillhtian Admltinlistratiior, atll (If whlih arei u1(Ised .0 t,he d Iitadvant aLge (If LIh lie presnt,a 1 it.ive VinSIl4.~ Cogre1ss dletrim ten oIL(f te 'itLizn o3 $(f the Stat, , who are 'l inlterested13 in t.h e growt.h ano11 I t Iii der'stoodi thati the 1Preide0 t, haIs received aL Innl b (rIf c1Illommunie. - tionls from, thte viciity of (reenwot d0 ( (Il this sllij2Clt, and( 1b4. ihas e'x1Iressed1( 1 des'ir to Lhai lve tile sub lject full1y inveti gat-t((d. AIlr. jLt' ner2 Stopped1(3 att,Greet-. wVIood IIprposely to1 inform himIselIf as8 (o Lthe t.rnel (conlditionsL tithere4, for it. is3 his1 I 'rcs11 idet on thi s 1 subjet,. AIlr. Lat1i 1m10r 8ays lie real1iztes thlat 1.,h3 s11bjc(t, is (oIne that,t shloultl b1e hanldled wIth great carlry (lit, Lthe spir3it, set fort.h in t,ho be mad oh tak1. La 1(11 1clarer and a mot o saltisfact1ory:1 view (If 1,he. sItiltion, If you ar0 dowln with thet b)1ros, road tho 27ith Psalm. If you feel lonosomeo and unpro I f you aret ot of sots, road( 1.1 o 12th chaipIt'r of lHobrows. If youI dion't kniow whtere to look or thtoult.h)'s rent,I roaid the 37th I1'abten