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THE DARLINGTON NEWS, pUBLI3HBI> EVBRYTHURSDAY MORNING X3. D. EVA.3STS, PROPRIETOR. rERKS**$3 Per Annum in Adrance. One Square, #rst insertion $1.60 One Square, second insertion 1.00 Brer; subseqent insertion 60 Contract advertisements inserted upon the most reasonab'e terms. Marriage Notices and Obituaries, not exceeding six lines, inserted free. THE DARLINGTON NEWS. I “FOR US PRINCIPLE IS PRINCIPLE—RIGHT IS RIGHT—YESTERDAY, TO-D.IY. TO MORROW, FOREVER.’* VOL. xn. NO 14. DARLINGTON, S. 0.. THURSDAY, APRIL 8,1886. WHOLE NO 587. A Land of Gladness. How softly flow, among Sonoma’s bills, The ice-cold springs, the merry Leaned rills; Fragrance of pine my wandering fancy thrills, Till, even through the city’s noise built walls, I hear the chant of sudden waterfalls, Once more, through cedar boughs the black bird calls. There are wild cliffs on Mendocino’s shore, And well 1 know the seaweed on the floor Of bidden caves, and many a marvel more. Pacific’s heart hath legends wise and old; Go thou, and wait in voices manifold When storms are loose, to bear the story told. Again I see gray mountains purely clad With gleaming snow, vast peaks forever clad— Such heights as these the elder singers bad. Again one hails the sunlight’s burst of foam On Lassen’s peaks, on Shasta’s snowy dome, Where lilies blocm beneath the glacier’s home. But best the redwood shade, the peace it brin .s, Where fancies rise as crystal mountain epriuge Beneath tall trees ; and dear each bird that sings In rainless summers ; dear (he ferns which grow By cool Navarro, where sea-breexes blow And while azaleas touch lue river’s flow. —Charles Howard Shinn, in tae Century for February. flfdfb Ston). A Soldier’s Trust. BY DAVID LOWRY. “How we will live Heaven only knows! All is dark now.” Mrs. Paine sat down suddenly and lilted a band to her eyes. Her daughter, Caroline, a blight, pretty girl of seventeen, noted among her associates lor her energy and re solution, caught her breath sudden ly. She was going to cry, but re solved not to yield now when her mother was overcome with dread ot the luture The world Lad been the average world to ISIlen Paine. She had eu joyed its sweets till the war came and robbed her ot her husband for years. There were some j'dts in life’s journey when he came home. He was not as strong as when lie went away —lost time, and «jf choice changed bis vocation Sti 1 con tent sweetened the tilings the gods provided the Paines through sick ness and idleness; the increasing family and growing responsibilities all were accepted cheerfully till one day the sun seemed to drop out ol the firmament. Andrew Paine was brought home nncouscioas, a ter rible accident bad happened; in twenty-lour hours M.s. Paine was a widow. % Time uiovetT on. Providence raised a friend to her in her broth er-in-law, who found work for his nephew, and thus kept the roof over Mrs. Paiuefa head. But death claimed the son. and then the bur den began to fall on Caroline. The mother strove to lighten it—to make the girl’s life as joyous as she could. It was a dull life at best; the griud began when she fell ill with rheumatism. The fu ture looked dark, but the uncle still turned the cloud aside until the silver lining shone again. Suddenly trade stopfied. Then it really seemed as if all the world stopped, so tar as Mrs. Paine and ber daughter were concerned. The establishment where Caroline work ed ceased operations unexpectedly. Mrs. Paine was unable to move a band that month. Would they ever, eveu if work offered again, be able to catch op—to repay what they owed f These were queries mother and daughter asked them selves an hundred times. Before the question was answer ed, fate—remorseless fate—swept away their last hope. The ancle, Arthur Paine, was summoned to his final account with more swift ness than his brother. The two women—one suffering in broken health; the other hungering tor joys she saw herself forever shut out of—looked at each other fear fully. They did udt dare to breathe their fears. The mother’s heart ached for ber child, the daughter’s for her mother. But the world wrings answers from all. The day came when the mother and daughter had to *|>eak plaiuly, and when it came, it fouod the mother aa a babe. “Mother, there may be a way,” said Caroline Paine, hopefully. Mrs. Paine shook ber head, still keeping her eyes covered. “I’m sure mother—wait until Mr. Brooks comes home. Then I will tell you what I mean.” Mr. Brooks.wss well up in years —an old bachelor who roomed on the same floor with the Paines. He was a clerk, with a vaiied experi ence. To Caroline he was a walk ing encyclopedia. An hour later, Mr. Brooks, in response to Caro line’s request, stepped noiseless y into the room the Paines occupi ed. » “Mr. Brooks,” said Caroline briskly, “I want to ask you about soldiers claims. You know what soldiers are entitled to T” “I ought to. I was chief clerk for a claim agent eight years, and five years in the Pension Ofifice here.” Mr. Brooks wasted no words. He sat down, looking inquiringly at the earnest face before him. “Then yon ean help us, Mr. Brooks. I want you to sell the laud my father—or my mother is entitled to. Father never sold it, did he, mother f” Mrs. Paine looked bewildered. “What land t” “Why, the 160 acres I used to hear father say was lying out West waiting for him.” “O!” said Mr. Brooks—“that’-* all a”—here he checked himself. The girl’s face fell. Why not soften the disappointment. “You see— there really neve r was anything in that. 1 mean—” “You don’t mean father sold bis claim f” Mr. Brooks couldn’t invent a lie, or he would have done it. He blurted out the truth: “I’ve no doubt your father thought he was entitled to the laud—” “W T hy, Mr. Brooks, I’ve heard him say, time and again, the Gov ernment owed him the land; that be would sell bis claim when the time came if be ever was—was as we are now—hard pressed.” “I remember now ; so he did ” said Mrs. Paine. “Caroline is right.” Mrs. Paine spoke cheer fully. “The truth is the Government never really promised the land.” “Why, Mr. Brooks, I’ve heard of soldiersselling their laud warrants,” said Caroline. ‘•So they did. Miss; that’s just where ihe mistake was made. You see, before the civil war, the Gov ernment gave soldiers land war rants; the volunteers were led to believe they’d get the same.” “Yes, and pay in gold,” said Mrs. Paine “Yes—pay in gold. But they were paid in paper money, worth forty to sixty cents on the dollar, when gold seesawed up and down. It was a swindle on the soldier, but a big thing it has proved tor the bondholder.” “And mother has no claim to any thing !” ‘ Not an inch ot land ” Caroline thorn ht rapidly. “Then, since you know the law, she is entitled to pension money. Every body knows my talher lost his health in the army.” “Did he ever apply for a pen sion t” “He was top independent to do that,” said Mrs. Paine, wearily. “Well, if there never was any thing done about it, it'i.s too late now. Is his doctor living T” “Dr Hamilton is dead—he was our physician for twenty years.” “No case,” said Brooks. “Is there no way—no hope in any direction t” Br<oks pondeied. It was disa greeable, but the truth was best in this case. “I don’t see a glimmer of hope. Miss Paine—only disap pointment. If yuur father bad been wounded—lost an arm or leg —but, you see, dying so long after the war—making no sign—doctors dead —it’s a case debarred, as I might say.” Caroline’s brows contracted in voluntarily. She looked at Brooks steadily, revolving new thoughts in her mind. “It a man lost an arm, and is in good health ; ud can clerk just as well as ever he could—’’ Brooks anticipated her. “If he has an income of ten thousand a year, and only had his big toe hart, be gets a pension. I know people who draw pensions tor less.” “But a man whose health wasbro ken—who couldu’t show any wound —and—” “Precisely, Miss Paine. A coin- plication of diseases carries a man off. It don’t matter if he went into the army as healthy as any man who never had a p>ti n or uche, or never was in bed a day in his life— it the doctors were sure the service ruined bis health, there’s lots of cases where its hard to prove it— they uou’t prove i: in such cases, as a rule. If there was any doctor who could swear to the facts—" Mrs. Paine and ber daughter shook their beads slowly. “Thank you, Mr Brooks” How Brooks managed to get out of the room he never knew himself. The picture the mother and daugh ter presented at that moment was stain |ied on his memory forever. He thought so much abont them that, instead of going to the theatre, be went to a oivar store where he was in the habit of meeting some friends, and, iu a very discreet man ner, set about collecting a litlet money “for a very worthy object.” The uext day, at noon, a tap sounded on Paine’s door. Caroline opened it on the instant, and, see ing Mr. Brooks, blushed. He spoke quickly, as if he bad a great press of business on baud, “Miss Paine, a few friends—of your father’s, I mean—they knew him very well, sent me with this and their compliments.” Here he broke down Caroline’s eyes seemed to read his very soul. Brooks wanted to back out. In- stead he advanced quickly to a small table, where Mrs. Paine was seated, deposited a bank note on the table, and, bowing to Caroline, withdrew so quickly she hud not time to intercept the movement. Mrs. Paine turned to look after him. Her elbow swept the bank note off tbe table. The draught caused by the quickly closed door Brooks palled to after him swept the note under tbe open grate Caroline sprang forward with a smothered cry. She was not a mo meut too quick. A live coal ignited the note. She had tbe presence of mind to crush it in her hand, at tbe risk of a broad blister. When she opened ber baud slowly, one-half tbe note bad disappeared. The half iu her hand showed that it had been a ten-dollar note. She burst into tears. It seemed as if mislor tunes would never end. “What, is it, Caroline T” “He gave us ten dollars, and it is lost.” She wept passionately. “It would have paid what we owe in the store, a mot tb’s rent, and left us two dollars.” “Burned—burned, Caroline f” - There was a world of anxiety, of dread, in Mrs Paine’s voice. Caro line extended her burned palm, on which lay the half of the note. “It is not all lost. I read of ways to get money made right, I’m sure, somewhere. You can get five lor it, may be ” “Yes; but that would just pay tbe store bill. And then what could we do T But we’ll see.” She dried her eyes bravely, laid the burned note carefully away, and resolved to make the most ot it the next morning. She was dressed, and on her way to the office of the “Customs of the Port,” whither she had been direct ed, long before the office was open ed. Alter walking an hour on tbe street, she returned, to be told that it was a legal holiday, so no busi ness would be done that day. As she turned away, she stuiutded upon Mr. Brooks Would she tell him* Not lor herself—but her mother. In ten words Brooks had the story. He expressed regret, re flected, bid her wait at a drug store, and hastened to “a friend,” be said. He was absent fifteen or twenty minutes. Wbeu he returned, he hande" her a crisp $5 uote, talked about the weather ; everything but money, got the burned uote, and bade her good-day iu his brisk way. Caroline returned home, calling at a grocer’s on the way, and put- chasing a few necessities—enough to keep body and soul together a little longer. As, from that hour their fortunes improved, somehow work came to her, and a physician kindly interested himself in Mis. Paine’s case, to a degree that re stored her health. My story has no more to do with them, further than to state that the Grand Army of the Republic did for them what the Government should have done. I will follow Brooks ard tbe burned uote. The next day Brooks dropped into tbe U. S.—the great United States Depository, delitierately re cited so much of the facts as con cerned the gentlemanly clerk, and was told tbe uote, tbe whole note, would be replaced. He bad Miss Caroline Paine make affidavit to the fact, the bnrued note was for warded, and in two weeks Brooks carried to her another $5; thus the Paines had the benefit of tbe entire amount the little knot at the cigar store made np for ner. Tne incident made a deep im pression on Brooks. He pond* red over it, and pondered until he got to talking about It. From t Iking to bis trieuds, be got to talking about it iu the Post. Finally he was inspired—I can think of no other as fitting—to write a lecture, which he has been delivering with mnch earnestness and unequivocal success all over tbe State. He be gins with Paine’s voluntary toar years service, exposes the swindle involved iu tbe silence concerning tbe laud warrants when men signed muster-rolls, recites tbe slow pay day experiences, calls up mouths of waiting by wives and children, compares tbe purchaoing power of tbe soldiers’ pay with the purchas ing (tower of a silver dollar to-day, burns—singes the bondholders un til there is nothing left of them, and winds op with the incident ot tbe burnt uote which the Government was honest enough to replace. He makes out very clearly—proves to every man within sound ot bis voice or logic, that tbe system—the financial system—tbe Government has pursued, is exactly as if every note given in payment to a soldier had been burned at one end— burned a quarter, third, half or five- eighths, as tbe price oi gold went up and down. What is very curious, although some people say behind bis back that Brooks is a blatherskite, no body has ever bad the coni age to tackle him face to face. Free Tuition and the S. C. College. A REPLY TO OBJECTIONS. [W. J. Alexabder in Baptist Courier.] 4. The fourth objection is the that free tuition in the State College is unjust to tbe denominational nolle g> s. Tbe denominational colleges (it is urged) cannot compete with tbe State College so long as the lat ter furnishes tuition tree, and it is unjust to give the State College any advantage over the denominational colleges in the race for competition. Put tbe State College on the same tooting with the other colleges, it is said, and a considerable number of students now attending the former will then attend the latter. Of all the objections to free tui tion in the State College this has most strength in the minds of the objectors The constitational ques tion is simply a breast work behind which they are try ing to carry on the battle; it is m ttbe real issun of the battle. The objections to free tuition previously mentioned are merely auxiliaries. Here is the real objection, as any one with only half an eye can see. It involves two points, which must be carefully dis tingnished from each other and considered apart: I. That free tui tion in the State College is an in- ju*tice to the denominational col leges. 2. That the abolition of free tuition in the State College would increase the number of students in the denominational colleges; or, as I am writing especially for Baptists, iu Furman University. As to the first (mint: I cannot see that the State has given our de nominational college any vested rights by virtue of which it can charge the State with injustice it it comes into competition with it. When Furman University ''as char tered, di I the State bind itself to charge the same tuition fees as Furman University, so as to pre vent the State from having any ad vantage T Ifso.it must have had (lie same tacit understanding with Erskine. But Erskine charges only $2U for tuition and Furman charges S60. Suppose that Wofford should charge only ¥10, or suppose that Furman stioutd return to her policy of giving tuition free,—what is the State to do! Dane.' perpetually to the fiddle of the denominational col lege t Does any one seriously be lieve that there was any agreement, either tacit or avowed, between the State and the denominational colle ges when they were charteied that the State College should always keep its tuition tees equal, or about iqual, to those of denominational colleges! Who will dare to affirm this f But suppose there was no such agreement, still, it may be said, i: is but ngbt and fair that the State should do this, and it is therefore demanded that it should be done. One of the best ways to expose a fallacy is to compel) its perpetrators to state Ihe principle on which their conclusion is based. The mere statement ot this principle will ot ten expose the fallacy at once and make it glaring. For this principle is generally suppressed by one who is aware that his aigumeui is un sound Now, I ask on what priuci pie it is affirmed that it is wrong for the State to give education more cheaply than it can be given by the denominational colleges! The on ly principle that will warrant such an inference is that whenever the State charters an institution it must never i udertake to do the same kind of work a’ lens cost than the chartered institntion can do it tor. He who can make good this principle mny very properly con elude that it is wrong for the State to give cheaper education than tbe denominational colleges can give. But who will dare to maintain this principle! Suppose a State that chartered a number of railroads should discover that by opening some nver she could greatly reduce the freight on cotton and other commoditieg, as well as make trav el much le«s expensive to her citi- zens. Would it be wrong for her to do so! Tbe railroad men would cry down such a measure. Why! On patriotic or on selfish grounds! Not on patriotic but on oelfisb grounds. And if the State should decline to open the 8Qppo*eil river on the ground that it would take away some ot the profits ot the char tered railroads, would not tbe citi zens of the State rise up iu indigna tion at the idea that tbe gereral good of tbe citizens ot tbe State was to be sacrificed to the interests ot one or two corporations. In tbe same way, when the State finds that the deiiominational colleges are not giving higher education cheaply enough to ber youth, shall she re frain from providing this cheaper education because a few chartered institutions cry out that their pro fits will be thereby lessened f Wnat! Is the education of the poor youth of the State to be sacrifieed to the financial interests of two other cor- poratious! To me it is simply amazing that our denominational Uurjob dtpartmsot tssupplied with every facility necessary to enable us (o compete both as toprioe and quality of work, wiib eves thoae el the oitiea, and we guarantee satit. faction in every particular or charge aoihing for our work. Wo are always prepared te fill orders at short notice for Blaaka, BUI Heads, Letter Heads. Cards, Hand Bills Posters, Circulars, Pamphlets, 4c. All job work must be paid for Oash on Delivery. colleges cats have the effrontery to say to the State, “No, you shall u<>t provide cheap higher education for your poor sous. If they cannot pay as much as ¥50 tuition, let them go without education. We cannot sup ply higher education at less than that, and you shall not.” Is South Carolina to lag behind her sister States iu providing tne great bless ing of free education for all her sons! Is the clamor of two or three corporations that they will, by the bestowmeut of such a blessing, lose a few students and a few dollars to frighten South » aroliua to thereat! Let her dare these clamors, and step abreast of her sister States in the blessed work of maintaining an institution of higher learning which shall be “free ttnd open” to all her sons. Let patriotism trium|>b over sectarian and sectional narrowness, and let not tbe matter of a tew dol lars and cents lost to the denomin ational colleges shut •fl.be door of ho|>e upon the poor bu’ aspiring youth of the land The second point involved iu the objection I am considering deserves especial attention, not because there is much in it, but b* cause there is very little iu it. It is te- lieved by the enemies of free tuition iu the Slate College that, it it were abolished, one of the chief difficul ties iu the way of the prosperity of Furman University would tie there by removed. It is just here that 1 think that a great mistake is being made, and that a hope is cherished w bi b is doomed to a bitter disap poiutmeut. Abolish free tuition in the Slate College, and you will send home some 50 or 60 young men, deprived of higher education, hut you will not send a half-dozen young men to Furman Uuiversitv wh > would otherwise have gone to the State College. This is my be lief, and 1 think it is justified by the tollowing tacts. It is well known that there are many Baptists who prefer sending their sons to a State College. In every State this is true, and it is true iu South Carolina. The reason why they preler to do so, and why they ought to prefer to do no, iu order “to give them great er Baptist working-power,” I shall set forth iu a future article. We have in the Slate College 33 Bap tist fstnilies represented, and only 20 students who are mem iters of Baptist churches Most of these are here because their parents pre fer that they should be educated in a college where they will come iu contact with young men of all tie nominations and Irom all parts of the State. They would be here if they had to pay as much, or even more, tuition than is charged at Furman University. It is not a question of money, but of prefer ence. There are numerous advan tages arising from such contact, and intelligent patents appreciate these advantages No amount of denominational clamor will mdnee them to forego them. Why did not Furman University have a large in crease iu numbers when she oflered free tuition a tew years ago ! The State College was not then iu com petition with her. Why did she not prosper ! Why did her num bers not swell! Hard times, you will probably reply. But the times are hard now. No, Hard Tiines is an obliging beast, and has to car- rv many burdens, but this can not properly be put upon him. He who will answei these questions cor rectly will understand w hat I mean when I say that the high hopes drawn from the abolition ot free tui tioi< iu the State College are des lined to a bitter disappointment. But it may be asked, “Why, then, are tbe trustees of the State Col lege so ardent iu opposing tbe aboli tion of free tuition if they do in t be lieve that the dumber of students in the State College will be dimin ished !” The answer is that they not only do believe but they know that the number will be diminished. They know, as do the faculty, that most of our Htndeu> are poor, and that a large numner are so poor that tbe abolition of free tuition would send them away—not to the denominational or other colleges but to their homes. They know that this large number of young men would by each a measure be deprived altogether of that higher education on which they have set their hearts, and to secure which they are making such a heroic struggle with poverty. It is for this reason, I believe, and this alone, that the trustees have fought for free tuition and will continue to fight for it. What possible (tersou- at interest can the trustees of the State College have tor maintaining free tuition ! It is easy to see what motives of a selfish nature might lead our denominational college to oppose it; but wbat motive ean be conceived as actuating tbe trustees of tbe State College except tbe good of tbe State at large f They cannot take care of tbe interests of corporations: they were not appointed for any such puritosc. These gentlemen have put themselves to tbe trouble to ac quaint themselves with the condi tion of tbe young men of tbe State; and if thoae who are now so clam orous for more expensive higher ed ucation oomd miugle with out stu dents, and see wbat many of them arc doing and eudnring to educate themselves, they would no longer have the heart to say. as they are now saying, “Make education more expensive to these young men. W? cannot educate them so cheaply, and the State shall not.” This is conspicuously the po r man’s college. I will mt be deter red from saving this by the fear lest some one >qay say that 1 am employ ing the roie of tbe demagogue. In m.y uext article I shall have some- thina to say of the rightsof the rich Here I (dead tbe cause of the poor. The rich man’s son can go to col lege aoy where; but the (xtor man’s son must either go where education is free, or, if the State refuses to provide free education, must give up. in despair, his noble effort to prepare himself for higher duties ot life Shall the sous ot Carolina be driven to such despair! Capt. B. B. Tillman’s Reply to Secre tary of State Lipscomb. Since the publication of my re cent “open letter to the farmers cf the State” I have been the recipient of many courtesies from the news- papers and their correspondents. I am like King Lear. “The little dogs and and all, Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart. See! they bark at me ” I have been accused of near ly every sin mentioned iu the deca logue, and many others besides, and doubt if ever a column of plain and Iu ‘id Euglisb has been so va riously construed or had so many different interpretations put upon it. There has certainly been a “ring” firing at me, whether there be a political “ring” iu South Caro lina or not—and I seem to have pinched many peoples toes of whom I was not eveu thinking. Such a broadside from politicians and pap suckers has not been heard in the St :te in many a long day. We far mers can now locate the enemy and govern ourselves accordingly. But I feel under lasting obligations to the gentlemen ot the press for so liberally advertising “a farmer’s convention” gratis. “The agitation of thought is the beginning of wis dom ” Farmers need only to think, to wake up. and all will be well. They are doing this, I hope and believe, and I am therefore more than satisfied with the situation. The firing has almost died away and things are growing quiet. But hush, hark I What deep b tom mg sound is it that breaks the stillness at this late hour of the bombard ment! “Hamburg Moses,“Moses Tillman,” “slanderer,” “crank,” “dreamer” and “demagogue,” w ho somehow feels uneasy at being the innocent cause of all this turmoil, and who is try ittg to make oat why a simple suggestion to the farmers to organize and demand a redress of grievances, should create such a commotion. “Moses” pick* himself up, shakes, feels for his head, and finding he is not hurt looks around to see by whom this “air gun” was fired. There was no bullet in it, or certainly Edgefield would have had a funeral on her hands. A burly form as fat as a porker on official pap, and as red with impotent rage as a turkey -gobbler, stands ready to claim that he killed “Cock Uob- iu. ” “Moses” has been begging with tears iu bis eyes for some “Ricbmoud” from the agricultural bureau to answer his arguments ami disprove his facts; but our be lated warrior who at this late day appears upon the sceue and flies the guu it has taken him three mouths to load, ignores argument, pays no attention to facts, dishes out abusive epithets like a fish wife, clattEs to be the only original and possible “Agricultural Moses,” ami winds up with a pitiful appeal to farmers and people not to punish him because be refuses to accept “Moses Tillman as a leader.” Oh bow these teen who are sucking the public teat begin to squeal when they feel or fear they are about to lose their hold I It is heart rend ing. Colonel Lipscomb has been nursing his wrath to keep it warm aud it is certainly very hot, bat it does not burn “Moses,” because be has only told tbe truth, ami Col. Lipscomb must disprove the charge of incompeteuoe, extravagance aud inattention to duty made against tbe Board of Agriculture before be can injure “Moses” by flinging mud. I shall not descend into the gutter aud fight this doughty granger with his chosen weapon. A negro can beat ns both on that line I prefer decency aud courtesy, altbough I am accused of ‘‘outraging” both. Col. Lipscomb must prove these charges ere they will harm me. i have been severe bat pariimeetary, and have always attacked the offi cial acta of men and not the men themselves; aud, although my words were thus interpreted by many, I have never said anything about tbe State officers eso-.pt tbe Agricultural Bureau and their ad ministration of their trusts. They are not the “hug” to which I allud ed but may, aud donbtieae do, form a part of it, and Ool. Lipscomb’s ready anger at the mere suggestion of such a thing makes one Mispect that hi! conscience accuses him ‘‘The wicked flee when no man pur. WSBSSH sueth, but the righteous is bold as a lion.” 1 voted for Col. Lipscomb for Secretary of State in the State con vention in 1882, and have never de nted that his motives are pure. Bat the possession of office has strange, ly emasculated aud silenced the sturdy advocate who was wout to make the welkin hug while he tie- pioted the wrongs and abuses heap ed on larmuis. He spoke for my resolutions at Beunettsville, but it was with bated breath and in gen eral let ms. Ho was mild, very mild; and wl ile I have written uothiag since which was as severe as that sjteech, no farmer enjoyed it more or complimented it so highly as be did Let him deny this if he cau aud explain w hy he has siuoechang ed front, I said little there about the Board of Agriculture and only sought to enlarge it and increase Us usefulness. That is what 1 pro pose now, and my efforts are not bent towards “pulling down and destroying everything and every body,” &c., but towards bnildiug up, encouraging and protecting our ag ricultural Interests. We want a real agricultural college. We want a large aud representative board of agriculture, composed of live, pro gressive farmers’ institutes to teach our people how to do better aud In crease tbe general prosperity. We want fewer laws and better ones; want a government of the people, by the people and for the people ; ami as the jteople are, by a large majority, fanr t-rs have a right, it is their duty to govern the State, aud “if this be treason make the most ot it.” Such a government does not by any means intpiy that only far mers ought to hold office or that other classes are to be excluded al together or imposed upon. Only a dreamer or idiot would imagine snub a thing, aud only a narrow- minded, selfish bigot would want it The assumption that this move ment lias any such object is entire ly gratuitous and o ily emanates from those who seek to bambooz'c farmers and obscure the real issue. “Divide to conquer” has ever been the tactics of our cuemies, aud the same old dodge is being tried now. It may succeed, but I hope for bit ter things. Col. Lipscomb felt obliged to ac knowledge that a farmers’ conven tion is a right and proper thing aud advocates it, but he objects to it be cause he did not suggest it and can not “boss it,” and is silly enough to say it will be calle l and controlled, appointed aud organized by Mr. B. It. Tillman. He does me too much honor. I have called the conven tion iu common with those who en dorsed the idea and sent me their names It will assemble anil choose its own officers and wil, I trust, re sult in great goo I to the State aud entire people. I will endeavor to get it to adopt some measures whl h I deem highly important to our wel fare as farmers : only this and noth ing more, and the idea that it will be composed of puppets to be “boss ed” by anybody, will I think, be only too clearly disproveu when it assembles. It will be no joint summer meet ings of politicians to “make a stale.” Tnere will be no “free passes,” and lacking these two familiar features, p wimps Col. Lipscomb does well to turn his back on us. ’Tis a pity, but I suppose we common people must perforce do witbout him. L't the farmers of this Bute see that good ami true men, not politicians or office seekers, are sent to this convention aud it will mirk an epoch in the history of South Caro lina. If any eoun'y can find a bet ter man who is not a farmer than it can among tanners, by all means let Ihe farmers of that conuty send him. We want the btaitis and pa triotism and honesty of ihe State to come together and take charge ot it. B. K. Tillman. 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