Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EK-Ar K 5 *.'' ■ViC £ "i‘-” KaUklhM My Ktfc, ISM. ^ DestrtyM bf Fir* D*ee*ber 16th, WM Re KsUUiithM Pabru# Hth, 18*1/ W. D. WOODS, Editor. One Dollar a Year. DARLINGTON. S. 0. Wednesday, Ootober, 5, 1892. ’ i DISGRACE TO TIE SOUTH Gen. Weaver’s letter, stating his reasons for retiring from the cam paign m Georgia, is a mortifying story of Southern intolerance ami rowdyism. Our people of the ex- slave holding territory are more to be pitied than blamed. They have had limited opportunities to learn either freedom of thought or speech and all difierences oi opinion on po litical questions are still looked upon as crimes. Had Gen. Weaver and Mrs. Lease continued their course through the whole South, they would have done a great work for our un fortunate people by showing th&n that there are two sides to political questions and that* women know something about political matters and can talk upon such questions as intelligently and forcibly as mm. We had hoped to see them in South Carolina, but People’s Party Mana ger, Bowden, says, “for good and sufficient reasons” they’ll not come here. Georgia has disgraced herself and discredited the entire South, by her conduct. The world had hoped “the poor South” had learned some thing by her experience oh the negro- slavery question. When it was at tempted to discuss that mighty sub ject and show the wisdom of abolish ing the institution by degrees, pay ing for the slaves and exporting them to some country which they might hold as their own, our South ern people would hear no discussion of the matter, wanted no light on it and would tolerate no “outside sug gestions.” A pretty mess was the result of this high-falutinism. Sla very was abolished by a stroke of the pen, without a dollar’s compensation for the slaves to the owners, and the Southern country devastated and del uged in blood, closing with a humili ating surrender of slavery to free dom, and is now covered with negroes, as might have been clearly foreseen by all reasonable beings. But we have learned nothing, it seems, by this very sad experience. We want more blood and destruction and crusting defeat We will surely get it too. If the remedy for the pres ent evil social condition is not found by discussion of the situation, and * that come with a desperate appeal to Vidjente; * Finum setree, -we wish to- hear Weaver, or any one else who has a plan of relief to offer which is a peaceful agency, that we may be saved the direful consequences of a resort to physical force. Calhoun in dying, said: “Oh! the South, the poor, poor South! What is to be come of the South?” When we saw that Weaver had been denied a hear ing in Georgia, these dying words of Carolina’s great statesman came forcibly to our mind.—Sumter Free man. Col. Dargan, during his career as a lawyer, politician and editor, has written and said some surprising things, but the editorial, quoted above, is well calculated to make any one wonder how a man of his intelligence could have penned* an article that is so manifestly unfair and such a gross libel on the people of Georgia and of the whole South. A little reflection would have shown Col. Dargan that it was not the po litical doctrines that Gen. Weaver taught, for they were the same that the Editor of the Freeman, and some of our ocher political fanatics, have been trying to cram down our throats for a good many months, but it was the man they did not wish to hear; and to have expected them to listen, with patience, to one who had made such cruel and inexcusable warfare on helpless citizens in Tenn., would be giving human nature credit for a sense of forgiveness and forgetfulness which it does not posess, and which, under the circumstances of the case, it would be degrading to exhibit. If we grant, for the sake of argument, that the howling down, as it is usual ly termed, was inexcusable, it would be well for Col. Dargan to bear in mind that the Georgia people learned their first lessons in this species of political warfare, from the men, in onr own State, who, a few mouths ago, were lauded by the Freemen as patriots and statesmen. The Southern people are ]terfectly able to get along without the politi cal teachings of such a political mountebank, ruffian, coward and tyrant as Gen. Wcwver, or the un appreciated sympathy and pity of the Freeman, and can dispense with all of it without any loss to them selves. The Freeman’s charge that there is great political ignorance in the South, is true to a oons'd treble ex tent, and were it not so, no one could be found to listen to the wild and utterly impracticable political views tangbt by the editor of that paper and by Gen. Weaver. If CoL Dargan is so ai.xious to hear women on the political plat- flora, he ought to leave the poor ig norant and intolerant State of S mtb in the more ge- of Kansi^pid with the ray highly advanced and culti vated people of that commonwealth, • broader field for the lissem- inatiou of views, that- are sub versive both to Civilisation and Christianity. We have no intention to enter into a discussion either as to the merits of demerits ot slavery, bnt only wish to say that the right to hold slaves, as every one knowr, was guaranteed by the Constitution, and the Southern States had a per fect right, if they so wished, to re sist, to the utmost, any infringement of this or any other right There was no humiliation in the surrender when its power of resistance was gone. What Col. Dargan means by saying that we want more blood, de struction and crushing defeat, ve confess ourselves unable to un derstand, unless he means that po litical opinions at variance with our own are to be forced upon ns at the point of the bayonet, and that unless we submit, we are to be shot down without mercy. Would he like to see another bloody war inaugurated gust simply because, according to his veiwsj we are intolerant and ignorant? This is, to nse the mildest term, strange and incendiary language, and could only have been penned by one who cares more for the propogation of his own political vagaries than for the peace and prosperity of his State and section. We can bnt regard such utterances as mischievous and dangerous, and feeble as onr protest may . be, we will not allow each an article as this to go unnoticed, be lieving, as we - do, that in calling at tention to it, and in repelling this unjust and inexcusable slander on our people, we but express the sentiments of every true son of the South. Our people are poor, and they may be, on some questions, ignorant, bnt hold their honor in too high es teem to support a man who is so ut terly lacking in all the true at tributes of manhood and who, by his alectod Also. This vast and easily manipulated army of officials would, within itself, contain such strength that no party organization, no matter how strong, coaid hope to stand np against it Every telegraph operator, every express agent and every rail road employee, from the brakesmen to the general managers, would, if those demands were laws, be. bnt the minions of President Hamsoa and the Republican party. This coupled with the Force Bill, which coaid be very easily passed, would make Russia a land of freedom as compared with the Booth, and give the President more real power than is exercised by any monarch in Europe, and that too without the least responsibility as to the future fate of the Republic. AN APPEAL. The Hebald proposes to'inaugu rate a ceaseless warfare against car rying concealed weapons, and the non enforcement of the law against mur der, and to this end we appeal to all good citizens to give ns their support and sympathy. The reputation and good name of our State is being seriously injured by the appalling number of murders, committed in our midst, and by the almost abso lute ^failure of onr coarts and jorfee to mete out to these murderers the punishment that their crimes deserve. In the rare cases where juries convict, new trials are appealed for and very often granted on the most flimsy pre texts, and for technicalities that do not in the remotest degree affect the fairness of the trial. Even when a murder case has run the gauntlet of the jury and an appeal, and the mur derer sentenced, a great many mis takenly sympathetic and weak mind ed people make the Governor’s life burden to him by sending in petitions for the reprieve or pardon of the criminal. No man’s life is safe un- conduct, forfeited the respect of his; der such a disgraceful and deplorable brother officers. TAXING TO TIE RAILROADS DEATH. The Tillman Administration has persistently endeavored to increase the vacations of railroad property I rei niirk that the"law"'agai^Tt !. n _tlu« State f°r«x ft t.on, and hssl murder in ^ Uorolina r ^ g condition of affairs, and unless there is a very great change for the better in public sentiment, we may soOn ex pect to see an era of lawlessness, which it will be extremely difficult to suppress. A prominent lawyer has done so as far as it coaid. Gover: at T. liman and Comptroller General Eller be earnestly assert that the as sessments they hare made or pro- cared to be made are not only equal and uniform as compared with other property in the State, but are abso- Ltely equitable and just. One method of testing their claim is a comparison with the assessments of similar property-in other-States.... _ The Lonisville and Nashville Rail road is known to be one of the most prosperous and valuable railroads in the South. Its main stem lies al most entirely in the State of Ken tacky. The greater part of the main stem is stone-ballasted, has new iron bridges and 70-pound rails, and *18 doable tracked on a considerable part of its route. The mileage of the stem is 140 miles and the total as sessment of the main stem for 1390 was $5,722,140, and for 1891 $5,- 988,810, ora trifle over $4,000 per mile. Or take another test: The gross earnings of the Lonisville and Nash ville main stem were in 1801 $2,738,- 875, or $19,563 39 per mile. The assessment for taxation of the South Carolina Bailway for 1890 was $16,000 per mile, and the -proposed valuation for 1861 is the same. The gross earnings of the South Carolina Bailway for the same year were $1,771,159,61, or $5,383 per mile. By this comparison it appears that the Lonisville and Nashville Bail- road, a vastly more valuable road in every physical respect, earning near ly fonr times as much per mile, is as sessed for taxation at only one-fonrth as much as the Sonth Carolina Bail way. Comment is unnecessary.— News and Courier. The above shows very plainly the very heavy bnrdcns that have been placed cn the railroads in this State, and it is a matter that should be im mediately rectified. We believe that the railroads and all other corpora tions ought to be fairly assessed, and then made to pay to the last cent, bnt forcing them to pay more than their proportion of the taxes, is sim ple robbery, and no power confered on the State officials can make it any thing else. The very high asssess- ments were placed on the corpora tions, for the purpose of blinding the people, and with the vain hope that it might look like reducing the taxes of the private individual. Whatever the intention, however, it was an ontragerons piece of imposi tion, and we do not hesitate to de nounce it as sneh. about the same attention as the old Blue Laws of Connecticut IT WILL IE Rf II. Such well known Republican leaders as Wolcott Teller, Wash burn, Platt, Fuseett and Warner Miller openly charged daring the progress of the convention that the trne Republican sentiment of the country was being stifled by the federal officeholding regime which was bent on nominating Harrison even at the risk of disrupting the party. They succeeded in their rule or ruin purpose.—Lansing (Mich) Journal. If the above be true, which it un- qmstionably is, it will be well for the advocates of the Ocala demands to consider the very much greater dan ger that will ensue from the great mnltipfication of federal qfflcehold* THE MCSWEEN MURDER CASE. Ever since the commission of this murder by Mr. McSween, we have felt the utmost sympathy for his friends, and believe too in justice be ing tempered with mercy, but we fail to see either the consistency of the verdict or the sentence of the Judge. If Mr. McSweeu’s mind hyd become affected by his habits, and if he was insane at the time of the murder, he ought to be in the Asylum, where he could be properly treated, and possi bly cured, and not incarcerated in the Jail where it is probable his mal ady may be aggravated. No nu who is subject to fits of temporary insanity should be aleowed to go at large, and when a man in this condi tion commits an act of violence, his friends, if they are cognizant of his condition, are, in some degree at least, to blame for his irresponsible acts, for it is clearly their duty to see that he is placed where he cannot injure himself or any one else. It most be remembered that Mr. McSwcen’s mental condition was the resnlt of the indulgence in habits from which he could have abstained, and it would certainly have been more in his favor if his temporary aberation had arisen from causes besond his control. If he deserved any punish ment, the Penitentiary is the place for him, and if was mentally irre sponsible, at time of the murder, he ought to be in the Asylum. When bis term of imprisonment expires, what guaranteed there that he may not, while temporarily insane, com mit another act of violence? NOT AMENDABLE TO THE LAW. Poor white and colored men are being fined and imprisoned for vio lating the law in regard to earrying concealed weapons, bnt the Attorney General of South Carolina drops a pistol from his pocket in the Conrt House at Bennettsville, and that toe while the Court is in session, and no notice is taken of it The law is no respecter of persons, but this pretty clearly demonstrates that those who are entrusted with the enforcement of the law, do respect persons, for if they did not, why was not Mr. Mc- L&urin arrested for violating the law which he has sworn to enforce? He should have been immedkfoly arrest ed, and not fined, as this would have been no punishment, and imprisoned for a few days in the county Jail This would have not only been a well merited punishment, bnt would have caused a great many people to aban don this cowardly and inexcusable custom, which savors more of border rnfftrainism than of good citizenship. How are we to expect any improie- ment in the matter of carrying con cealed weapons, when we elect men to office who have no reuect for the law? Yonmans, Farley and Me- Lanrin ought all to have been sentenced to a weeks imprisonment Leri Shell was sentenoed.fo the Penitentiary for twelve metths aid Bill Blanton for nine months, for carrying concealed weapons. The two were tried together,-but Judge Izlar made a distinction in the Beat en % because £ h ill had a razor con- c -aled while Blanton had a pistol. T ic Jndge remarked that a man who carried a pistol might retain aoms little respectability, but that there was no possible excuse for the hem-* ona ofience of going armed with a 1 razor.—News and Courier. Nice distinction this, of Judge Izlar, between a pistol “toter” and a razor “toter.” One, we confess, we utterly fail to appreciate. Bnt abbot this we are comparatively little con cerned. The consideration which s ire onr indignation to the bottom is that these poor, ignorant men, who have had such limited opportunities to learn how to behave properly in c t ilized society are taken up and pat into the penitentiary, one for 12 months and another for 9 months for the commission of the very «*mA crime (c&i rylng concealed deadly weapons) committed openly and de fiantly by our Attorney Genera], by oar Adjutant and Ins] eotor Genera 1 and by a large figure on the recent “Conservative” ticket for Secretary o? State. The poor, helpless mem bers of onr society are punished by cmfinement in the Penitentiary for doing the very thing that the big and powerful o ficere and candidates for high offices do with perfect impunity. How can McLaurin, Yonmans, and Farley rest in peace on their pillows at night, when they know that while they sleep in comfort at their homes, hnmble men following their example, are locked up in dark and comfort less prisons, separated from their homes and families and disgraced in the eyes of the world? They are honored by the State and paid liber al salaries from her treasury, while the unfortunate illiterate whites and blacks are toiling in shame, under the prison lash, for the commission of the very deed that-they committed and acknowledged without an ex pnssion of regret to have been guilty of repeatedly. High honors and big salaries for one set of criminals, severe pnnishmeut and dark shame f it another. For those utterly with out excuses are made. For those for whom many excuses could be made none are allowed. Oh! God, where is thy justice? Truly its face is tam ed away from Sonth Carolina.—Snm- ter Freeman. It is not often that we can endorse the views erf the Freeman, bnt what it says in the above article will meet the approbation of every good citi zen. his motives ’/i making the contest A. C. Haskell is one of the truest men in the State, and is without one stain on . his-record either in public ot private life. He can be perfectly in- different to the attacks of such a drmagogue and political trickster as Senator Irby, alnan who has, by a political revolution, been elevated to a position for which he is notorions- lyonfit, and. one to which, but for the present anomalous condition of affaire, he would never have dreamed of aspiring. Himself conspicuous ly licking in all that is true, nn- •elfish and noble in humeti nature, it is not to be supposed that he can give even such a man as A. C. Haskell credit for possessing any of them. The Sumter Freeman professes to give both sides of a question, but is mighty careful uot to publish any of Gen. Weaver’s war record. Neither does it make any effort to disprove the grave charges that have been made against him. Every honorable Federal soldier has always been treated with the utmost respect in the Sonth, and no one thought leas of them for having fought bravely, and however much we may have op posed their politics, their war record was never brought forward against them. Grant, Logan, Garfield Hayes and Harrison were #11 Federal gen erals and no part of their record as soldiers has ever been mentioned but with the utmost respect. They were upright gentlemen and brave sol diers, and fought against an armed foe, bnt never against defenselesi citisens. Our own convictions are, that about the only issue involved in the recent campaign was the offices.— Abbeville Press and Banner. Well i this is trne so, v by in the name of common sense didn’t yon say so in the beginning of the cam paign, and thereby save all the other editors from such a terrible amount of hard work. It is too bad, and it is reprehensible, in the highest de gree that Bro. Wilson allowed ns all to make snch a big fight for noth ing. He ought to have a reeolation of censure passed against him by the Press Association. He is jnst as bad astheJndge who allowed two lawyers to jrrangle, for two whole days, over the construction of a cer tain statute, and then quietly told them that it had been repealed at the last session of the Legislature/ The next time we feel tempted to pnt on onr war paint and sally forth with onr tomahawk, we will first ask Bro. Wilson if there is anything to fight about Gov. Tillman has done a patriotic act in appointing the 21st of October, the fonr hnndreth anniversary of the discovery of America' as a public holiday and requesting all the peo ple of the State toobserve it as suen. Every place of business ought to be closed and the occasion made one of rejoicing. The progress of this conn- try, in population and wealth, has been without a parallel in history, and despite some serious defects in our constitution, which however are incident to everything of human ori gin, is a marvellous record of what can be accomplished by an energetic people under a Republican form of government The day will be cele brated in every section of the conn- try, and we ought to do our part in the general rejoicing. We hope that some of our leading citizens will take charge of the matter and arrange a programme for the day. The Monroe, N. C., Enquirer is devoting a large portion of its space to the expoenre of Weaver’s infa mous war record, and is making things uncomfortable generally for the adherents j»( the Third party. If Weaver gets any votes in the sec tion where the Enquirer circulates, then the people who support him will do so from pure viciouanees and not from ignorance. We only exchange with a few North Carolina, papers, but if they are all edited with the fearlessness and ability of the Enquirer, the Yadkin Valley News and the Wades- boro Messenger and Intelligencer, then onr tar heel friends are cer tainly fortunate in possessing news papers that are conducted with snch courage and ability. “The Independent-sorehead-negro- Radical ticket headed by Alexander C. Haskell.”—J. L. M. Irby If it were granted, for the sake of argument, that the Haskell move ment was a political mistake, no fair minded man can deny thepnrily of Woods and Woods. 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