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Ei"JTABLLSIIED 1865. NEWIERRY, S.C., FiIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1R0. TWICE A WEEK,.5090 A VPAI LIVE AND WORK FOR THE FUTURE. PricHItENTi MI,lt'S AI)VI'W 'O 11s8 FE,IOW NIt4AOCS. lie Preaches the Gospel of 0ood-wIll to tie White People of the South ntid Thinks that when all Sihe RiretImstaIea o Takenj Into Coneideration,11; Is a Mat ter of Uongratulatioen ,iat the White People aro DiAng sn Much for the Education and Uplifting of the Negroes-He Maye that the ite i,blican Party 18 blore to Blame for the Disfrauchtee anent of the Blacks than are the southern Whito People. (News and Courier.) Beaufort, S. C., Jan. L.--E manci pation Day was celebrated in great style in Beaufort. The grand mar shal of the day was Joseph Dais. There was a street parade of Iederal Veterans, colored militia, business men and citizens. Exercises were held at the school house, where the Emancipation Proclamation was read by Edward Mayers. The Rev. P. P. Watson was master of ceremonioe. Robert Smalls delivered a short ad dress, reviowing the first emancipa tion calebration which was held at Beaufort in 1863. Gen. Rufus Sax ton, who was present in Beaufort at the celebratien in '63, wired a mess age of congratulation, which was read by the Rev. Mr. Watson, who then introduced the orator of the day. President Thomas E. Miller, who spoke in part as follows: While in the State Senate one of the greatest compliments that was ever paid to the head, hand and heart of the American negro fell from the lips of that splendid Confederate chieftain, Mart Gary. Said he: "The negro is ignorant, but he is loyal to a cause, he is faithful to a trust and there is no body of men found any where who will follow a leader with more confidence, love and fidelity than the negro." "Give him leader. ship," said Gen. Gary, "and he be comes blind to everything other than to the call of duty." Yes, Mr. Chairman, our people have never betrayed a trust, whether at home, in the fields, in the work shops or on the battlefivid. History records him as never a c-arpILg hypo crite with foul treason ;n his heart. The speaker adverted briefly to the horrors of slavery. * * * Standing here amidst the very first moments of a new century. having been permitted to live during the last half of the century that has just passed away, I am unable to re call many events-some of which are recorded in history. And as I stand here and draw aside the curtain and peep down the vista of time I see the events as if with magic, passing, passing before my vision all the wvay down, down, the vista, portions of which are obscured on account of hoary age. (Jan I-must I-top for a moment and point out a few of the things we suffered previous to this the birthday of our deliverance? No, ohl no. Most of them are engraved upon our hearts as if burnt in by hot steel. N'evertheless this is not the time for me to.indulge in the temptation to recall them. There is another task a self-inflicted task-assigned me, and it is to deal brietly with present con dition,s and from and through -them take a reckoning so as to present to you a bird's-eye view of the blessings that are to be ours in the future A>blessings that must come if we can only coutinue to bear and forbear blessings that we will enjoy if we will only labor, prepare ourselves and wait for their coming. . Hence I have chosen for my sub ject "AT APES NON FRIAoTA;" translated literally my subject is "Nevertheless hope is not broken." At present our situation is not what we would like to have it. To one who sees an object superficially the outlook is gloomy, but after all the sun is still shining and the fog, the mist, must and will disappear. But, fellow citizens, we must lift .up our hands and execute-for no ~people has ever prosperea by wrating, usupinely waiting, for outside inter fference. .Where are we? Where aare the ten millions of negroes lo pated? We are principally In the slave-holding States and there we must and will roiain unless we fly from under the American flag to a land over which the American eagle spreads not its wings in majesty and power. THE NORTH DOES NOT WANT Us. Why, even the great State of Illi. nois, that furnished our emancipator, through its present Governor, (Tan ner,) tells us we must not come. Have you forgotten that not two years ago he forbade negro laborers entering in the State of Illinois to labor in the mines? He called us aliens and said if we persisted in coming there to work, not to vote; to labor in the mines-the lowest of labor--to earn broad by the sweat of our brow; if we persisted in coming there to labor and to work he would meet us on the border with Gatling guns and shoot us to death. Yes, friends, lie was so reported in the daily papers and I have never seen it contradicted. Nevertheless he is one of our Republican Gover nors. In every Republican convention up to the time Garfield was nominated something was said ir the platform favorable to the negro. But since then our great national Republican conventions have not had men in them who were loyal enough to us to place in the platform one word of hope and cheer for the negroes, who bad been faithful to them at all times and on all occasions. NEGLECTED EVEN BY MIKINLEY. The nation has just succeeded in electing a Republican President, William McKinley, and he has writ ten a long message to Congress. I know a negro preacher who goes frantic every time he sees the word negro printed with a little n, but on the night after President McKinley's recent message was printed I heard a negro lady exclaim: "I would have been thankful to President McKinley if he had been able to remember tie negro with a little n." The truth is, fellow citizens, he did not remember to write us with any kind of an n in his message. The truth is, the national Repub lican party, through its officere, have served notice on us that they have grown tired serving us, and that they do not intend to interfere with us or assist us. When President McKinley made his Southern tour he said in Georgia that "every Confederate grave was a monument to American patriotism." Fellow citizens, let me quote Presi dent McKinley again: "EFvery Con federate grave is a monument to American patriotism." Do you doubt it? If you are Republicans, which I know you are, you do not dare doubt it, for our Republican President, who is the oflicial mouth piece of the Republican party, said so and the party at the last election, endorsed it by reelecting him; hence it is true. DO NOT BE BLIND TO FACTSi It is useless to live if you intend to live is blindness. Every utterance of importance tailing from the lips of Northern Republicans, with very few exceptions. tends to show that the Republican party is getting in doubt on the subject of ,who- was right or who was wrong during the last war. What is a patriot? What is pr. triotism? Can the graves of men who were guilty of doing wrong be monuments to patriotism? No, fe; low citizens, we must accept William McKinley as authority on this sub ject. One of the sore subjects with us negroes of Beaufort County is the matter of our partial and temporary disfranchisement, and we blame the white people of South CJarolina for it. In part they are blamable, but only in a very small part. They have accomplished the act with, through and by the permission of the national Republicans of the North. If the North did not want it so the handful of white people in the South could not make it so. A Republican Supreme Court, by refusing to inter vene an.d assist us, has said that they were right in this act. The Repub lican Congress by refusing to seat Republican Congressmen from South Ctrolina has further emphasize,d the fact that the Whito people of South Carolina in this act have been right. The truth is but tho truth, and I am here to tell you tho whole truth, and it is this: The national Repuibli can party has abandoned is; they havo shiamefnilly desorted us, and with a very few except ic.ns t hiy show by their ut terances that they need the forgiveness of the Sc uth for ever having assisted us. We have a fow friends left, but they are in woful minority. Chandler, Mason, Allison, Ton Reed and Harrison are still with us, but where is their backing? When it comes to the negro they stand almost alone. NE011o A 1ONE OF CONTENTION. From time immemorial (as iea sured by the life of the American Republic) the negro has been the bone of political contention. In the early part of the century the fact of his being in the South, and thereby was counted by the South in its claim to and possession of political representation in the national coi.i ciI, was the cause of a long and tit ter strife between the North and South. The Southern master iaid that though lie was a black slave he was human, and for that reason in sisted that he should be counted in the apportionment of political repro sentation between the States, andI they did succeed in having him count ed in part. On the other hand, the North said that, although he was a human being, he was only a chattel, hence in the political apportionment he should riot be counted at il and that only three white men could be counted. The subject of political represen tation for the negro agitated the na tion from its earliebt birth and was the chief and direct causo of the fir ing of the first shot at Fort Sumter and the surrender of that noble chief tain at Appomatox. It was a chief cause of the Em ancipation Proclamation that was that read here today, and to-day thirty-seven years after our emancipa tion-it is the bone of contention. THE SOUTH IN CONoRESS. The question that concerns us more than any other one question is the fifty Congressmen who are ac credited to the South on account of ten million negroes in the South. Nearly every negro preacher, nearly every thinking, well-meaning negro throughout this glorious Southland of ours, says that the South should lose those fifty Congressmen because of our partial and temporary dis franchisement. 'A prophet is not w,ithout honor save in his own coun try." And why so? Because he is a seer-one who un veils the future and shows to his f llow countrymen things that are for their l'est good, but seldom in ac cord with their thoughts or wishes. Fellow citizens, that is my position before you to day. -I have studied well this subject and, and, as I see it for my good, my country's good and especially th, good of my race. I feel that I am not in accord with the thoughtful of that race. But, oh, countrymen! negroes? Have patience; give mel your sympathy and hear me for the cause of negroes-yes negroes tin born. I am unalterably opposed to the cutting down of the South's repro sentation that is given her on ic count of ten million negroes within her confines. I am opposed to it first, because I am a Southern negro; third, because it is my expoctatu n to live and die here, and miy solen, n wish is that all who are connect. d with me as negroes should remain in this Southland, the best place in the world for negroes. TRUsT TIHE soUTJIERIN wHITES! Remain here and bear the oppres sion; remain here with a heart fn il of love for the oppressor; remain here doing the right; remain here making and saving money; remain with a purpose to better your condi tion regardless of the surroundings; remain here, clinging to the land, because it is our birthright; remain here, resting upon the promise of God, praying to God fr a better ay., asking God to openl the e3'o'; of outr f white citizens that they 1111y Soo hat, it is to their interest to assist uis inl v all our unidertakings, to un1ito with tis ini a purpose to imcako this South I land tho hooe of free men; romain r here until the day comes wle, I with the assi. 'an1co of the white poo r ple, the law ot tho land will Irive i out violence; relainl here until through and by the help of the whito t people the law will be stilicieitly admlinistOred that the h1m1blOst blafCk or white citizen will at any and all times be protected in his life, liberty and proprty, retaini hero in the Southland-that. by our preseitc e antid on account of our great iumbers Lreat poitical power will como to id reintill with th So1uth(. Yes, 1EN MC'..RADY SAYS, wVO came hero from Barbadoes, on year after the white man, with the v gun[ in our hand, protecting the life I ind property of our miasters; an I, with axe, pick and hoo in the ot h,r reclaiming and loaring the swai -p ind forests to miako this fino habiot Aon an ao:lo for freedom, peaco t mId h1appil'ess. 11 "At,- spet non fracta"--nevertho- c oss hope is not broken-and let is i rest upon the anchor of hopo for tle t lay when every right guaranteed to -itizentship by the Constitution will i be given to us by and through tho L white man of the South. i 3od can movo tlountains. We are f not any more iillicted in our citizen- c ihip and rights than have boon other v 3ations. I 1 have statEd that I am1 oppos( to v Lhe cutting down of tle representa v Lion of the South. Why am I opposed to it ?. Becauso it would be wrong, and if it is a wrong to temporarily dis franchise us, the taking away of the South's representation for that roa son would be a greator wrong. Two wrongs can never make a right. Have you ever stopped to count THE COST TO US NEo-OES 3hould the South lose her fifty Con- ii gressmen allottedc to her oil account > our presence here' ,If the repro. 3entation were taken away it would mean absolute and total (i8franchise ment of the people who had no re presentation in the General Govern- 9 ment. For a time the white people would itffer; but if the representation were taken away from the South the no gro would be politically killed for Dne hundred years. Some go so far as to say that they Jo not care what happens to us no groes so long as the South loses her lifty representatives; but let 118 stop rind count the cost to us before we join in the hue and cry: "Gilt dlown the representation! Cut down tile South's representation !" It is argued that it is of no use to trave a thing that you cannot use; a right that you canlnot enjoy. But bhat does not hold good in all cases. THlE CHILDREN OF IsRIAEL, were given the Ark of the Covenant aind aftor they had crossed thle Jor :lan the3 forgot the teachings of MIoses and the Ark of the Covenant lost its power; hilt it was tIle insignia of Jehovah's promise. It failed to JO service for the sinful Israelities 1111( tile Canaanites carried it awvay aind placed it in their temple, in the midst of their idols,'-to make it a thing of derision in it.shelplobsnessin Lhat temple of blindness, wickedness aind sin; but whlen they went back to 1 Lok at it in derision, surroundled by; the idols of Baal, whlat did they b)e hold ? Why, all of their idols had tumblee to the ground arnd were erushed, and in that sight thle beathlon saw thlat tIle Ark of the Covenant, which was the mnagnai charter of thlet Jews, had in it the strength of pro tection to tile Jows. Lot our right to vote be locked1 up temporarily in the temple of proju-r judice, but do not sock to destroy it by asking Congress to cut down thle representation of tile South, which was given 0n account of our presence bere. A right once given should never bet annihlilated. And shlo'ld the South tose the representation given on ac count of our presence we will bis ranichised forever. W, and not tho i vlito mn11, will bo tho sufferer for .11 tinmo if tho ict is porpot untedl. No, fellow citizoln, lot tho South I ivo her roprest'itat ion, although tho t ight. is lockod up1) inl ito tomplo of ' >lind prejuidieo; but, if tho right, ro- i 11i11 tho tiito will coie, and como I t' iist, whle tho whito mll of the F ;outI wi ill invito us to enjoy it, with I hvpill. LET ITs PREPABE OURsELVy S or its eilj)ymont, for it, will coio Mack to os in its fuliess and inl its aight. Ijvt uH resolvo to us() it wilh 1ur1 whito neighbors for tho bonolit, f ourselves aid otir whito noighbors; et us resolvo to lit oursolvvs educa ioIally, spirit ult N m(] lilaterial IV 1 or its uso0 and enl.joyiilent. I Il shol t, lot us look to tho South, 11 bsolutoly to tiho South, and ask tho I dhiio men of tho South to assist us t i tho enjoyment of overy right that. s v!ongs to freo citizenship. If they s lo not givo it to ti; the North will t (vor intor foro or assist, us to got, it. r Wo havo beenl tho bolo of con- r 'ition botweoen the two sections too mng. It is tim) for us to educto t urslves that wo may see the truo t aIwardloss or mlotivo of this political 11 gYit lit ion. Thilt Jews have boon disfranchised I ai Iurop! for hundreds of yoars, r ut. they ronmained a virtuous, aspir- I 1g, achieving, neighbor loving, God- I oaring poople, anld today, on account t f their intelligence, I igh moral (1o. 1 elopmend, intogrity and Woalth, theoy ictat( almost any terms of peaco or ,ar to tho crownod heads of the ' d is God, and right, is right: lu"tive. like at volcanic fire, lia.y leep, suppressed awhile, but can not ex pi re. Live right, do right.. God is not oen(. At spvs non f ract a. Wo must possoss ourselves of techni al education, commercial ducation, Uidustrial education. WVo must prepare ourselves to oc- 1 upy overy avenue of thrift,nd legit -1 maluto gain. l1 PUT MONEY IN IlY PURISE. (lot ionoy, but get it hionostly. C.opp money, but do not hoard it. Coop it to atsist You in dovoloping ho Southland. Keep monoy to as ist you inl bottoring your condition ,nd securing homes. Keep money or a rainy day. Koop up your hurches, support your schools, teach our girls to work at home and by so loing you will strengthen t heir rnorality. Arid lot us niot forgot that we owe duty, first, t.o South Carolina; soc 'id, to the nation ; third, to our (31ves, arid latst, but not least, to From tho report of Supe)rinitendeot ticMahan we soc that more negroes han whites attendi the puli chools. It ix true t hat wo get less than no-t hird of tho money ap)propriated1 or theo public schools of the Stato; mut, whon we considor who the rul - ng classes are and1( are remnind(ed of ho pol1it ical arntagorn im that has ex st od betwooni the t wo races, 1 am11 '(ally surprised, edified0( and gratti ind1 to 800 that our p)oliticaLl antag. >nists have treatedl us so well and( tre spendlinig as much as they (1o pond1( onl the negro for the purposes >f ec' ication. My subject, "At, spe non fra1cta," x the MoTTO'( OF TPilE nOPE FAMI LY, mot their coat of armsir is more strik nig than the motto. If I had the - >oAer of a great artist I would throw hant groat coat of armsx on canvia hat you imaiy behold it; but as I lannot dra-w, 1 will present you a >Onl picture of it: At the b)ottom of he picturo is a rep)resentattion of our vord1-the globo on which we live mOt it is cracked noarly in half. On( ach01 side of tie yawnimg abyss, sepai atedl by tho chasm, are the two IIoi o< isters, each one of them wvith the nd of a chain, thrown over the shoul: lor, that is rinlg-b)oIted b- the earth; 1 mnd at the ot her 01nd of tihe chains ire anchors that are held aloft by ho igfht handi( of each sister. Oneo >f them is the picture of desapair, but I heo countenance of tihe other beams Nit.h smiles, a 81ha points to thn rent I in tho earth that mvpatrattes thm, and he caists her eyes aia oil' to the 10, thit. is just. rising abovo tihe iorizon, and vxclims, ats shio hohlohim Iho light of diy, the Ski1l of promise, At, spe4 non fractii." You (-an1 rmtd nI lier coulnitenan1eo the firthr ex. >ression of her hielrt, "Clst ol' your idness, sistor, becauilso the suln of >IMIliso is julst rising. Do not iloaln i accomutt fhis IwIlinig ibyss hat svpaiittes us, for nevertheless 10po is not brokenl, anlid inl (Iod'm owl) ino the st rength of the nstillighit will losE tho brollacl inl our1 sphere and Ve will be united again." ANid, ohi fol 1l1W CitiZ018, 1.31r US -rA: cou.Au: uId possesm (alrelvos of ti faiith of L)raham11111, tih i ollni.lco of Dalniel (d Nolmiiih, thlit som i diy, some Ow, oIly inl G'od'm own time, will hI.( tiilight, of liberal eduication, t he ulight of loving forboalrance, the unlignt of detern inition nad pa iolce, drivo--yos, drivo--away the incor and prejudico that. divido our itco from tho whito r. Yes, if wo live right, give and take, bio dalty will Como when the gilf hat Heparate-H us will bo bridged cross. Then let u1s look to the outhorn white peoplo for holp; atsk heml) , by our life, to help us to closo P the rnt t,hit nlow eXistm in our olitical spheore; and until it comeivi At 11 rot forgot this bellutifful luot j : tA, spo [10n friacita" - nevert he. m8s hopo is not broken. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, [he Kind You Have Always Bought Boears the 3igiiature of Fe,w Onllcies t) I 1lld. If the Presidenlt, contiles in the amino framo of mind t he 1has for 0m110 timo there will bo fov import nt changes in th e as,t ar-lily of of co holders after March .1. The 'residont holds the viow tliat the flice holders bolitvo they woro "ro lmcted" when t iho November elect ions ntainod tihe chif oxecitivo ad his arty. They are all looking forward >) four moro years ind do 1ot, ox. oct 0' ho molostod. Thore is il oady somne demand o the Presidont r diplomatic, consular and other ood places in the government Hor ice, but the Prosidmit is giving no neol ralgemlent1 to tile friends of ap licants. On th oher011 handi(, lie is athser discouraging in his~ romairksn. c111a8 given severail staitesna to ndelrstand1( that unlos(s8 vaicancies eur in thle 1usual1 way there will he .o opn1in1gs filr can1didates. It, is robabile t.hat the Presidlent would ke to give places to som1e warm3f riends and1( (earhinst sulpore, but 0 canniiot (1o so when 1he has1 nothiung 0 give. Thioro is n lomo(,int of thie 01)publ1ic n ht u1rges thatL tlho who a3vo lied four years in the gren 1e1d1 of pl)Oiticali life sholOd give aiy to ot.,hors who haeve worked for 'ear for thle party and3( its cainldidtw s it hout reeiving anry rerd. Th'is~ oh. monert, however, lias little to hope for. dl of tiho1e1( hdinig ofi 11 uder the 'resident aire, with few exceptione, st competent men, reflecting credit IPOn thems1ielves and3 thei(ir govern Liont, and3( thle P'rCeiet will take :o hances in making nooudless cha1ngoe; t aniy rato, lhe will avoid doing 80 imply to give pa.sitions to pers1ons 'hio banker aIfter govern menit slervice. -Wasrhingtoun Ster, Dec. 1 9. Ioare th Ih8 Kind You havo AlWay 80ughl ilgnaturo of 330 Wias iii mnd. From t.he Now York Evening Sun1.) A merchant whod lives n th(le liv s >n the upper west silde of (lie city vas awakoned lat 2 d'e1ock the other norning by the conitinuled ringing of is front door bell. Hfe triedt to ao o sleep diespite thie noise, but had to Lbanidon (lie attempt when a series f shouts coming from the street in rout of his house assailed his ears. hlingled with the shouts ho hleard he voices of maen [ageml i a war. of words. J uPing out of bed he ran to a wiidow, throw it opn and lianil out. Therm woro fivo mion on tho street, an( so,. ing him they be gai to yoll with reuwed vigor. ",Whiat is wvroni-"' sihoutod tho the uvrelrant. Tho livo tried to reply at tho Banio timo ai(n the only word tho nior chant understood was "Firo." "What is wrong?" ho s3houted again. One of tho fivo got his voico b(iforc tiho others. "Your storo has bturiied out," ho screamed, "ad1 (1 I'll givo you $5 mor than aiybody else for tho privilego of )Istinlg hillS on tho front of your builditig. 0 .1. 9!!9 TX CO I. X.1.. Bears the Thu Kind You Havo Always Bought Bigmaturo of TII M 1 t 5EN 11 VL1D. A florribit i Itntrop,iti l Conservatlive 0Old Abheevilh'. (Greonvillo Daily Now.q.) Abbovillo, S. C., Dec. 30.-Last, nlight about 10.030 o'clock Sheriff J. lobt. Kennedy and Deputy United States Marshal John t. Dansby lost their lives whilo the former was at teipting to arrest the latter for hav ing mortally wounded Wi. Kyle of Ludlow, Mass., bosti carpontor it the Abbovillti cottoa milks. Sherill Kcio y wasg at donId-gaino young man, an11d had only beon in oflico ninotoon days. Ho Wii assist ing Polico Oflicers Joe L. Johnson and W'm. A. (YBryant to make the arrest, when Diansby fired on1 him with a -U- CAlibrO Colt's pistol, the ball going clear through tho body in the region of tho heart, Causing death about an hour lator. Dansby was woundod t% -o and (diol itdaout, the sama time in the county jail. Ho wasi a deslporate charActer, and was given to gamb ling. Ho leaves a wifo and a bright littl bov. "13ob1" Konnedy Wias a most popu lar man. H lo loaves at wife and one child. Tiht two iemn and their wives were reared in tho sameo community and all woro friends. Dansby had mortally woundod Wm. Kylo in the oflico of the Carolina hotol about 9.30 o'clock. The latter is a most inoffonsivo gentleman and his life now hangs by a thread. DEATH OF Mit. KYL-FUNERAI, OF SHER IFF KENNEDY. A bbeville, S. C., Dec. 31.-Mr. William Kyle, wh-> was shot by D)ansby on Saturday night, dlied yOE tordlay art ernoon about 2 o'clock. His body will bo shipped by express today to Ludlow, Mass., his home. Sheriff KennedIc(y's fnneral occurred this morning in the Associate Re formod Presbyterian church, of which he was a member. Thei intormont wats at bower Long Cane. Dansby's renmal in wvill also ho interred in the saime cometery. Bears the I4 hu Kind You llave Always Bought Bignaturo of When They Meet In Society. "A unique featuire of recenmt so cial eniterta inmnats in v'arious MIis mori towns has beeni an idecntif'ica tion card," '.says the Kansas City J ournal. " Each guest on arri val is presented with a card on which is p)rinlted, '\ho arc you?Y I am 'FThe cardl, wvith the nlamei wrii tten ini, is theni conspic uoly worn, anmd everybody knlows everyb)ody else and1( acts according. 0 .A. O T _O_a .*. Bears theo l ho Kind You llave Always Baight Signature of the test of' the flower is beauty, and tihe tcst of the bird that it soars andl( sings, so the test of the children of 1God( is ra diant joy, tranquil gladness and that inspiring atmiospheire that betrays trust in God's all-loving p)rovidence. Thant which is easy for a blossom and a bird ought not to be hard for a man wvho bears God's imae."