Orangeburg times. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, February 26, 1874, Image 2
Orangeburg, s. 0., Feb. 26, 1374.
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY.
fo change Contract Advertisements, notice
3iiHt begiven before Monday noon.
Our frii'iuls wishing to hnve advertisement*
inserted iu the times, must, Imiul them in by
Tuesday morning, 10 o'clock.
ADVKRTISKMKNTS will be mn-rtcd nt
tbo rato of one dollar and n half per miliare
for the first insertion, nnd one dollar per sqnnre
for each Kubscquent insertion.
' Liberal terms ?"??Je with those who desiro
to ndvcrtl.?e for three, h!x jr twelve month*.
B?? Marriage notices and Obituaries not
exceeding One Squnrv, inserted free.
ULI'?- . - I.
IToncelbrtli, all I^c^al Ad
vertisements, of County
Interests whether notices
orotlters, will be piiblislx*
ed ibr the benefit ol'oitr
readers whether they are
paid For or not.
surscrirers
Will have their papers regularly
mailed. Bend us new names, build up
pur paper, aud let every household in
tlie County he a supporter ol our enter
prise.
the taxpayers' convention
Assembled at Columbia as by appoint
ment, and realizing the grave duties
involved, proceeded to business, conscious
of the right it represented,and hopeful of
a peaceful success. Years of waiting, but
added to years of degradation and pain.
One and another appeal has been made
by tho press, by the people, nnd by the
more moderate of tho Radical faction to
cheok the reign of unbridled and licen
tious power, yet in vain. "With cool,
defiant, sbauiclees arrogance its gang has
been intent on plunder, and sneered at
interference, backed ns it is with legisla
tive, executive, and judicial friends; until
the people resolved to teat the rights they
held as subjects of a state, paying allegi
ance to a government, which promises
equal rights, as it demands support from
all its citizens. Tho address of the Hon
Wm. I). Porter was a masterly produc
tion, and involved tbese-^~-h-c--"'*'
^vl1iaTTSeu"th Carolina being a State of
tho Uniou, the fundamental law of the
land, is hound to give her a government
where taxation, and representation shall
go together.". "That the preponderating
vote of non tax payers, is banded iu col
lusion with the rulers to oppress the tax
payers." "That the proprietary interest
of $170,000,000, is taxed ADI.IBITUM,
without its consent,by aud for the benefit
of those who feel no weight of taxation."
He recounted items of enormity in appro
priation, of unparalcllcd assessment, of
frauds in every department, that sum up
a picture of bankruptcy and ruin. His
more special advice was to ecourage im
migration, organize taxpayer's clubs for
the discovery of official misconduct, and
to memorialize Congress for relief. Col.
K. Lathers delivered a characteristic ad
dress worthy of the man, and full ofsage
counsel. Gen. M. C.Butler, f'ol. E. S.
Keitt; Col. C. W. Dudley nnd Mr Mau
rice of Williamsburg, all joined iu pro
tenting views of discreet judgement. The
appointments of special committees were
made with the following chairmen: Gen.
Chesnut of the executive committee, Col.
Simontou on taxation, Gen. Gary on
immigration, and Hon. A. Burt on the
momor nl to Congress. A resolution en
dorsing the notion of Treasurer Cardozo
for refusing to pay unvouched claims,was
offered by Mr. J. G. Thompson of Beau
fort, this resolution also requested the
State Treasurer to furnish the Convention
with copies of vouchers for printing bills
of lK7o amounting to $331,000. Mr.
Thompson proceeded to carry out his
appointment, but was "snubbed" by the
Treasurer who refused to exhibit his
vouchers. The effect of the Convention is
yet to be seen, nnd from it the people
may reasonably expect great good. Gen.
Kcrshaw prepared 'an address of great
force to the people of the State, recom
mending taxpayers to organize clubs
(a plan of which will be submitted here
after.) These clubs in force in every
county arc to perform a work, which is to
demand the co-operation of every tax
payer, white and colored, who wishes
reform. It is to put a ttop to unlawful
assessment, and fraudulent taxation. In
this work there is to be no load shifting
to any shoulders but those of the people
to be benefited. Let all then be prepared
in mind to assist the plan of work to be
published by the committee, and may we
before another year, be prepared to de
mand that the great steal shall stop.
A REPLY.
"Wo received the annexed charges of
Col. Higginson from some unknown
sourco, and reply to them that both views
may be seen. Tho status of the "South
ern women," needs no defense here against
the invidious contrast with "Northern
Ladies.'* ed.
Col. T. W. Higginson, in the Independent,
tells how the respectable Northern people
who went Fouth to settle, at the close of
the war, were driven away, leaving be
hind only those whom the people of that
section (the South) called "Carpet-bag
gers."
The writer for the Independent "knew
many of the northern men who remained
South after the war, or went there to
settle As a rule there never went a
better class of emigrants. The South
needed in the colonels ideas," an infusion
of new energy, practical education, and
capital, many of the emigrants had the
requisites, and lost nil they had of capital
by coming South." Besides this "they
lost health, and time." He knew "gen
tlemen of high character and cultivation,
who took Southern plantations, went to
reside on them. n.*id- -i~?i?.?vy
branded with social ostracism, as if they
had committed a crime." "Ladies with
their husbands were avoided by Southern
women infinitely their inferiors in all the
refinements of life, who refused to eat at
the same tables, and drew aside their
skirts to avoid contact" &c, &c, very
insolcut.
i The fact will go permanently into his
tory that ns soon as the war was over a
i healthy stream of emigration began to
pour from the North into the South.
Those who went, rich or poor, found
themselves socially ostracized, however
carefully tliey held their tongues about
the issue of the war. If they opened their
lips, as they had a perfect rjgjh?jt&4i>?..
theyn wasgotten. .nffrf<^~Ttifr"excitoment of
The Ku-L-lux persecution. A few months
or years of of this were enough. The tide
turned and the better part of the North
ern emigration receded, leaving the worst
part behind. No scoundrel was driven
out by this policy; no mean man suffered
Such men lived und throve, like, Shake
spare's Shylock, comforting themselves
by cheating their tormentors. "I hah not
a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands? . .
If you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
The only persons who were banisbedwero
those whom the. South absolutely needed
to retain?men of character, cultivation
and public spirit. It may have been very
natural in the late secessionists to adopt
tins course. I know too well?even from
the sorrows of my own kindred?what
they suffered who risked their all for the
wrong and lost it. But truth is truth;
and 1 only point out that two and two
make four, and that those who allowed
themselves to engage in this work of so
cial ostracism have thereby made them
selves responsible for the carpet baggers.
For the peace of the two sections, lately
far removed by the hand of bloody war;
a war brought about by malignant perse
cution, and jealous prejudices, it would
have been well if Col. Higginson had
suggested a remedy for the ills the South
iH enduring by being overrun by "carpet
baggers" rather than pander to tho pas
sions, ns he has done with a most "self
righteous complacency" on his part and
that of his friends, in attempt inj; to infuse
new energy &e, to the South. The South
ern women, and men, claim no more
human mature, than that possessed by
the people of the North, and Burn's re
buke "to see ourselves ns others see us"
is a good lotion for the writer so wrapt in
self, to tho exclusion of tho natural re
pugnance cherished by an oppressed peo
ple for their oppressors. "Wo need not
refer to the army of adventurers, specu
lators, and others who came down like
"wolves on the fold" after the war, to
infuse new energy, by buying up cor.fi?
catcd homes, and vitalize tho South, by
hugging the negro, and poisoniug his
mind with the ml:, that thcy,and not the
Southerners woro bis tritd and true friouds.
It is only necessary to point to tho bleed
ing State, stricken in her woes, wasted
in her struggle", and shackled with a
cursed negro rule, and ask tho Colonel;
who did it? and if his people, his govern
ment, as he must admit, then shall we be
base enough to thank you ti it. It is
not our desire to tear open to wound,
nay let time heal it, and let g< d will re
turn between us, but so long i? ye who
claim that tho "Union must art shall be
preserved" would degrado jmt race
beneath the foot of the negro]
so long
must we charge you with being f t enemy,
and the gesture of contempt is c cusable.
We know even so late as last lummer,
where the pulpit in New Hampshire, was
used by a Rev. D. D., to iusultlhe feel
ings of a lady from Charleston v 10 went
on the Sabbath to hear the Wo fl. We
know of Northern ministers \ 10 have
been compelled to abandon tt t sacred
desk,1 ather than make it an eiectun buck
storage for the ruling party. "Vie know
and feel that our race has been degraded,
our liberties taken away, and our tiropor
ty confiscated by tho will of the rathern
people; what we have for long yerjja felt,
they now begin faintly to see, nnc to cry
out against, Shame Shame; The tone of
northern sentiment is putting on a more
kindly hue, and we rejoice in it. We did
not expect the gulf of nniraositw to be
bridged at the bidding of a partyAor to
be healed except with time. "Sat tho
North has much to undo, ami asnauch
to do; her part is to be magnanimity, we
are the conquered; the band of friendship
will never be spurned by men whbVo re
cord on the field, was as gencroui to a
foe, ns it wns unflinching. Thntlsoine
came after the war to settle wo admit;
that they lost money we know, but
due to their egotism in soppo?dnj?that
tney could "infuse new onorgy" '{fy0 nn
inanimate people, and underlet.-;?.
the did not understand, bom the
of the soil and the negro, they pt
penalty of being overwisc. Then tooHthcy
hod the aid of the agitators of thojpirre
pressible conflict" to help them, anllf that
completed the disaster. We who! were
robbed of everything, aud hud nolvoice
of protest, being unable to help oursMyes,
could scarcely have been expected^ to
help even our friends. Col. IligginsXn is
on the wrong side of the question, at?^as
a soldier, should not aim at a folk
'^5ui?fftW?r*^8"""ffivTne* TJet him \lrop
the probe, uud try the salve of "fellow
feeling" and we will assure him that all
true men and women from the North,
who eschew polities will find a safe and
welcome home among us. Napoleon tight
ened his grip because the Prussians re
fused to illuminate their cities on his
approach. Poms demanded of Alexan
der to be treated as bin equal, aud we
claim only and justly the terms of Lee
and Grant at Appomatox.
[For the TlMKS.]
A Fine Opportunity.
Mr. Editoii:?I was surprised to learn,
at a late meeting of the stockholders of
the Orangeburg Agricultural, and Me
chanical Association, that the stock had
not been all taken. Surely the matter
must have escaped the attention of such
of our citizens as have capital to invest.
How otherwise can we account for the
fact, that such shrewd men of business as
we know many of them to be, have allowed
such an opportunity to remain unim
proved. This stock must certainly prove
an excellent investment. No one who
reads the highly satisfactory Report of
the President und Directors, for the past
year, can doubt that handsome dividends
must soon be realized. The receipts of
the first Fair were very considerable,
tho' that Fair was held during the worst
period of a financial panic, which par
alyzed the business of ?bo entire country,
and rendered read)* cash almost unattain
able even by men of large means. It
cannot bo doubted then, that in any ordi
nary time the income from that source
will be much larger, and lender the stock
very profitable as an investment, and
few investments are as safe. The value
of the Land owned by the Association
within the corporate limits of one of the
flourishing Towns in the State, would,
even if Unimproved, bo sufficient to secure
the safety of the investment. And how
much is that security increased by the
enhanced value of tho laud from tho
new Fair Building upon it, tho finest, it
is said, in the State?a handsome, well
planned, and substantially built structure
the rentals from which during the inter
vals between tho annual Fair, already
constitute an additional .source of income
to tho Association. And the value of
this property, already so considerable, is
increasing every day.
Tho business affairs of the Association
have been most admirably managed.
Its able, aud most estmablo President
Dr. W. F. Barton, whose sterling quali
ties of mind and heart have impressed
all who know him, as a host in himself;
and he has hcen ably supported by an
efficient and zealous board of Directors.
The Association has been made a success,
Oraugcburg is justly proud of it; aud
the President and Directors, at the late
anuual meeting of the Stockholders re
ceived, as they deserved, a hearty vote of
thunks.and were unauimously reelected to
office.
So far, I havo appealed only to the
self interest of our Citizens in a marely
pecuniary point of view. An appeal on
higher grounds may be made, to which
as good citizens, those who are able, will
respond. The Institution is promotive
of great good. Besides the stimulus it
furnishes to Agriculture and the Me
chanic arts, its main object, and sufficient
of itself, to entitle it to the heartiest sup
port, it is highly promotive of the most
kindly social feeling, aud neighborly
good will among our people. This is
trnctosuchan extent, that if it were
productive of no other result it would bo
worth all its costs.
Here is an opportunity then, to all
good citizens, who have the means, to
promote, at one and the same time, their
individual pecuniary interests, and the
moral go< d of the community in which
they live. H.
Tins white people of South Carolina
have at last hit upon the only scheme
which promises to relieve them from ne
gro domination; that is, to invito immi
grants into the State by such inducements
that they can not decline them. There
are now in South Carolina about 350,000
negroes and 200,000 whites. Many of
'he negroes are emigrating South. As
tho hind in the State is now almost worth
*"s from the excessive taxation imposed
by uegroes, the whites can aHbrd even
to give avy? muchof it in order t:> obtain
political allies >South Carolina has about
the same extent ?*icrritory as Ireland,
and can abundantly su.^;u lmlfasuiaiiy
millions of people upon hei ?,0jj M 8j,e
now has hundreds of thousands, \yhite
immigration is the only thing needful i.r
South Carolina. It is the only sure rem
edy for her political ills.?Cincinnati
Weekly Enquirer.
IHK PHOENIX IRON WORKS HAVE
for sah? the following ENGINES, BOIL
ERS nod MACHINERY. Will be sold cheap
for cash:
1 New Eight-Horse 1'owcr Portable EN
GINE and Boiler, (Cylinder 6 by 12,) mounted
on wheel*, complete for steam.
1 New Six-Horse Power Portable Engine
and Boiler, (Cylinder o by 10,) complete for
steam, but no wheels
1 New Twcntv-Horse Power Horizontal En
gine, (Cylinder 10 by 18 )
1 New Kight-Horsc Power Portable Boiler,
(Locomotive.)
1 New Steam Winch to hoist 1,000 pound*.
1 New Saw Mill, Wood Frame, with <r)0-ineh
Saw, 25 feet Carragc, and 50 feet of Track, with
1 Head Bloeks,(a great bargain.)
2 New Eightcun-iiH'h Circular Saw Benches
with Saw.
An inepectionsolicited, when information as
to price will be given on application at this
office. P1HKNIX IRON WORKS,
Charleston, S. C.
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ACADEMY
FOlt
BOYS andGIRLfl
!M THE BASEMENT OF
DUKES HOTEL
BY
Stiles R. DZellichamp.
English, French, Latin, Greek and
Music taught
Hooks from 0 A. M. to 2J P. M.
B@r?urvovbig will be strictly confined to
Snterdny, and tho afternoons, after oo'eloek.
S It. M.
ORANGEBUllG ACADEMY
for
GrlUJ^S and BOYS
AT THE NEW FAIK BUILDING.
TERMS PER MONTH.
Primary Department. $1.50
Intermediate.$2.00
English.$3.00
English with classics.$1.00
Music Extra.
james s. heyward,
Principal.
MISS E. FOG ARTIE,
Music Teacher.
Jan 8 1874 tf
NOTICE OF COPARTNERSHIP.
THE undersigned have this dar cr.tereu into
Copartnership under the name and style of
DEM A US & WOLFE, to carry on the Retail
Liquor business and Milliard Table* at the ''En
terprise Club Rooms" Orangeburg, S. C.
F. DEM ARS,
Z. M. WOLFE.
January 1, 1874. Sltf.
JOHN A HAMILTON,
HAS JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF
EARLY ROSE
s
Yellow Pink Eye SEED potatoes,
red spring oats
&
3
PL.
Over One Hundred varieties of faesh Garden
Seeds, among which are Beet, Oaulifldwer,Cab
bage; Onion, L?ttuec, Turnip, Squash, Tomato,
Radish, Collarda,. Melon, Beans, Peas, Celery
&c, &v. ALSO,
A variety of Garden lluwcr .-cods.
ALSO
IS prepearcd to buy Rice, Peas ?Sa-., at higheM
u-?rkct rates.
JOHN A. HAMILTON
May 20, Ifr.-i 15 tf
The Subscriber offers for sale the
well-known, Plantation "McCunt's
Villa, situated in Ornngoburg County,
filfeen miles due east of the Court House,
on the live notch Road, containing seven
hundred and fifty-seven acres, more or
less, with the privilege of two hundred
acres more, recently conveyed to my son.
The latter place having on it a single
story dwelling, four rooms, one fire-place,
kitchen, stable, barn, Ac., and about
twelve or fifteen acres cleared land.
On the larger place is
a
j two story
dwelling,
eight rooms]
FIRE-PLACE in each,
gin house,
screw,
blacksmith
shop,
And every other building necessary
on a well-settled plantation; Fencing hi
very good condition. For further par
ticulars apply either to Messrs. Izlar A
Dibble, Orangeburg c. h., S. c, or to
the undersigned at McCaut's Villa, Or
angeburg County, S. 0.
j. c. edwards.
March G, 1873 3 lamOm
A Souther it House.
CHBO S HACKER'S
DOORS, SASH .And
Blind Factory,
King, Opposite Cannon Streit,
Charleston, S. C.
The only house of the kind in this City owned
and managed by a Carolinian.
A Largo Stock always on hand, and sold
at 20 per cent, less than Northern prices.
ADDRESS,
Geo. S. Hacker
Charleston, S. C.
P. O. BOX 170. Oct. 30? ly
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The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes
by the English Government proved
the superiority of Alum Filling. No
other Safes filled with
Alum and Plaster-of-Faris,
265 Broadway, N. Y.f
721 Chestnut St., Phila.
H. C. STOLL. Agt.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Dry Goods,
AT Till: OLD STAND,
287 KING STREET.
HAVING^ made arrangements to continue
the business lately conduced by the firm
of STOLL. WERB A;C?., 1 respoctfuly inform
my friends and customers of Omngeburg
county fhat I have now in store a largo assort
ment of goods, bought for cash, during the
Panic, which I am offering as low ns any
House in the city. Thenking my friends and
customers for the patronage so liberally be
stowed upon the old linn. I hope by strict at
tention to business to merit a continuance oe
the same. I n il! adhere ttrirtly to the one pricC
tuttem. Respectfully,
IL C. STOLL, Agent,
Successor to Siedl, Webb <fe Cq.^ 287 King
Street, Charleston, S C.
Nov. 13, 1873 30 3m.