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THE DABLMTON IBiLD PUBLISHED WEEKLY aror 7l3L« 3 -BY- % TVBBEVILLE ft VltLMMS. WftLTlft B. WOODS, • E4l(tr. SUBMOftlPTIOH RATES: (I’AYAKI.E IN AUVAKCB.) One Ye«r .... fi.oo Six Month* M Three Month* ... .{3 ADVERTISING RATES: Tkansiknx Advertisements 75c. per square for flntt insertion, and 50c. per square lor eacn subsequent In sertion. Business Notices 10 cents per line for each insertion. Liherai. Discount made on contract or standing advertisements. Bu.iiS for transient advertisements will be promptly presented. Bn.i. kor Contract advertisements will be presented every three months. Remit by Express Money Order, Check Postoftice, Postal Note, or Registered Letter. •• / Address all ronimunlcations and re- mittanecs to THE DARLINGTON HERALD. Darlington, 8. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 181)f. In another column we- publish an article from the Abbeville Press and Banner on the Dispensary, and are my willing to leave the question where it is, so far as any farther dis cussion is concerned, even with those who have no other light to guide then than that which is furnished by oor contemporary. The Press and Banner has not met a single point we made, and leafing this entirely out of the question, its gloKng unfairness in trying to mis represent our position makes it im possible to continue the discussion. The sensational and misleuding head lines, which we quote below, furnish sufficient proof of the truth of our charge. The editor of the Frees and Banner is a veteran newspaper man violating one of the cardinal prin eipks of jonrnalism, and (hat U to hi absolutely fair in a controversy. Mr. Wilson is an anient advocate, in theory, of the observance of the amenities of journalum and a per sistent violator of them in practice. The nmnwlm,witlionl Hie leastshadow of a reason, questions the motives of another simply adyertises his own insincerity. “An erring brother claims not to farm* jar-rooms, bnt Is opposed to prohi- ’lion—would repeal all moral laws and let evil people be a law tin to themselves.” We have not space to |>iil>tish the editorial of tire Sumter Frecbirtn giving its reasons for making the charges against Judge Renet, and this being the case wo will not criticise it, bnt we think it a serious mistake on the part of onr contem porary to hare made the accnsation unless the evidence of his gambling had been of such a nature as to inake the charge susceptible of the clearest proof. Then loo it was Something of a descent, from the liigb plane on which it is usually Conducted, for the Freeman to make hae of what ita reporter had seen by looking through the window of a private residence. This kind of tork is verj close akin to that Which makes jhe Dispensary spies so- dkms in the estimation of all good people. . f When Jndgc Benet was a pri vate bitlSMi Tile lifcp.U.H was tinsparinp in it* briilcisms of his pul Hu wtler- tknets and his peridetetitoAke-seckihg MmI for this there is no regret and no retraction, but since his election to the judiciary be is |•ructi»tlly power less to defend himself, and should nut lie made the subject of attack, unless for some gross mid inexcusable neglect of official duly. We have beard the statement made, lime and again, that Judge Henet was an in veterate gambler, and have no reason to doubt it, but if after his election be resolved to put linhits of noture behind and sustain the purity and dignity of his uffiee, he ought by all means to lie given u chance to do so. It is one of the TIE CDMI.W W9W!!I. ! The above is the title of a sermon preached n week or two ago, in Smriter, by Bev. C. €. Brown, D. D., in which, under the bend of “Wo man as she need to be in the South,” he makes nse of the following lan guage, to which we mnst take exception, lielieving as we do that he unconsciously does gross injustice to the Bontbern women as they were before the war: Let me begin with this, and many of you will agree with me when I say that, up to the. war, women was a genuine aristocrat in these South ern States. An aristocrat is one who does nothing because he has nothing to do. That was woman. She was a sort of little qneen who ruled her servants and had her be hests obeyed. Eyerything was done for her comfort, and the head of the house found his pleasure in supply ing her wants, and satisfying her whims. In girlhood, she was sent to the best schools, no matter what the cost She was taught books, music and painting, aud the end iu view was to prepare her to fill the place of qneen in some happy home. She had from one to three servants awaiting her )call, and it was under stood that her hands were not to be stained with toil or hardened by labor. Her chief dutv was to issue orders, according to her own sweet will. Before, however, pointing out this injustice we beg to direct attention to his definition of an aristociat, as one who does nothing because he has nothing to do. With all respect to the well-known literary ability of Dr Brown we submit that he gives an entirely wrong meaning to the word, that is if it has anything like the meaning of the Greek word, .1 rixtoK, from which it is derived, which means grand .or noble. It is very true that there-is a sham and obntemptible aristocracy whose prin ciple object in life is to boost of something it does not possess, but this is something very different from that real aristocracy that is justly proud of its spotless recot d, ita high aims and its noble deeds. Some of the most useful, most unseliish and hardest working men of the present day are to bo found among the tilted nobility of England; men whose aim is to show themselves,.both in word aud act, worthy of their illns- trious lineage. Of course there are hundreds of men, of obscure birth who have made themselves distin guished, but this does not by any means prove tlwt it is not a great - ll*“*fe®?_jf9 r 4U>*Fiwtion to a man to feel that he w cardinal ] mnst sustain the record of a line of noble ancestors. Who, for a moment, doubts that the recollection of the brave deeds of Light Horse Harry Lee did not nerve the aim and fire the heart of his illustrious son, UolK-rt K. Lee, when he met and hurled hack, for so iimnny times, the invading hosts of the Federal army. Was it not the consciousness that he bore a name that should not be allowed to die ingloriously that helped young Henry Clay, pierced and torn as his body was, by the Mexican sjieurs, to meet his fate with an intrepidity that even death conld not sknke ? And as regards Dr. Brown’s re marks about the indolence of the Southern women, before the war, we are sure that his assertions are not only misleading bnt entirely too ■weeping iu their scope. It is very true that his remarks do apply to some of oitf women, but a little in quiry would have shown Dr. Brown that a great many of the Sontbern matrons, even where there was inde pendent wealth, instead of leading aimless idle lives were, at most times very busy and had a large Measure of care and resjanisibility. it is true that they did not labor with their hnuds,ai the necessity for this did not exist, but the moral and social train ing of tbeiro'iildre’ the wants ulid welfare of her nnr.vrous slaves and the sociitl dutied devolving on ibt in, made their life,at times,one that was not specially to be eiivietk ' Dr. ■Urown has fallen into an error that is eiiiirely too prcvaleht-nnd otie that 1ms gone too long tiniinitradiutval. The most unanswerable argument, against his statement is furnishrd in the fact that no women, abuse i’vct were entirely aimless and idle could have given birth to, putting aside tiieir mental and moral training, the long line of illustrious wen, warriors, statesmen, |iatriots and divines, who have written some of the brightest )Mges of their nuiin- this! try’s history, ami have made the inline of South Carolina forever dis tinguished iu the annals of fame. Tln-re was nothing else, save in the subject itself, which was not a greatest misfortunes, of the present proper one, in our opinion fur the condition of affairs, that the habit pulpit that calls for any special of criticising the judiciary has be-^-criticism, us Dr. Brown is always come so coniinon. We are, however, choice in his language and never iu entire accord with the Freeman in descends to coarseness in the pulpit the belief that a judge who gambles We. of course, differ entirely from jiuvt lit fw bi< hiyb putittou. liiiot iu bin advocacy of womau’i rights, hut have not the time or space at prf-«iif to go into a di»- etission of llic sabj ut, Weuaiiyonl repeat, what we have before said, that the pulpit is not tin* place for the discussion of social or politivul problems, hut should la* entirely •acred to the div< initiation of the grand cardinal doctrines of Christi anity. If the minister is wi-<- *od has a proper conception of his iloty be will leave the settlement «f social and political matters to those who have made a special study of them, and who are just as anxhms to make the world better and brighter os he can possibly be. FRDliimDlTIB LICENSE. 8mm Waste Hae aad 8mm Waste Space Dereted te tie Limner Bnsliess. [From AhbevlUe Press anil Banner.] The Darlington Herald, a pa per which is opposed to Prohibition, and which in an editorial article, ad mits that it favors the open bars as against the Dispensary, takes us^to task. . We reply, knowing that, the time is thrown away, and without the slightest hope of convincing that paper of anything. When a man dotes on the beauty, morality and beneficent presence of a bar-room, it is useless to contend with him. Of course, any bar-room advocate feels competent to lecture any prohi bitionist on consistency or anything else. The prohibitionists do not ob ject to this, but when any man, whether lie be bar-room advocate or not, says “that a man can’t at the same time believe in prohibition and support the dispensary,” he simply makes a bald statement which be cannot prove. It seems to- ns that lie utters that statement merely to gratify » feeling which is not prompted by fairness >r justice. We do aot believe one word of any assertion that Dispensaries have been established in unwilling communi ties. Please give names and dates. There is absolutely and positively no proof to sustain the assertion that “every effort is made to increase their number and push their sales.” The presumption of a bar-room advocate in assuming to talk about instructing any prohibitionist in morals needs no answer, especially when he admits that the liquor ques tion is a moral question. Are not our law books full of moral laws? Isn’t it against the law to steal, to kill, to carry con cealed weapons ? The law is inten ded to deal esjieeialiy with jnst such ( tenons as disregard the public wel- are and ignore private morals. And we cannot see how a good citizen could wish to repeal any of those re straining laws any more than be would wish to repeal the restraining of laws which were delivered to Moses by the Almighty himself. We say that the Tlispensary is bet ter than tiie bar-rooms for many reasons, among /vliich we would mention: 1st. The liqiiur is belter. The price is lower and the measure is lionett. 2. Because we liaye only some sixty odd dispensaries. We had one thousand barrooms under the license system. Those bar-rooms were kept open anywhere from fifteen to twen ty hours out of the twenty-four, and the tiock doors were closed on Sunday. T iimvb liquor, and Jpive giiiuhlrrs, drinkers, and I'therVvil-diier* as much chance to exercistM heir pleas ure in their respective vues, they would not oppose the tarAButos it is, ail that class are opposed to t'lc Dispensary. The moral clement are standing to the^ Dlspetwnty os against, the bars, prohibition piirtv, liars or DUpeiuwn. Every good man should choose the hss of two evils. Instead of having a thousand InHis»s hi this State devoted to tin sale ofvvhlskev, and five thousand M SElR<ill\G OF noisix PRIVATE FImtcmc 8# Declare DarRagtaa, aid Santer. in another column we mentioned the arriva' ef the spies, twelve in There is now mi j nmnlier. on the morning train, and j It is either open I the feeling of indignation was pretty ~ high a lien it was known that they; were all armed with Wiiiclietter! rifles, its it was coneluded that it | Was an attempt to intimidate our' jwople. and it is very hard to tell j | what cvmiI'1 have lam tin: object, mi- j not always 3. The Dispensary gives ns abso lute prohibition from six o'clock in the evening until eight o’clock in the morning, every night in the week, aud from Wurday at six o’clock until Monday at eight o’clock. 4. Under the Dispensary system the drunkenness has been so reduced that the arrests for that cause i» not one-third of the number in this town us under the license system. But one Sunday has been desecrated by drunkenness when there was a single arrest. That cose of drunkenness was caused by free liquor- which some oue had bronght here off the railroad. At night the streets of bur town are quiet and the drunken ness, and all the forms of gross im- morality that usually follows druuk- enucfs, have been greatly reduced, 5. The habit of treating baa been doue away with. 0. The places of temptation to vice have been closed, aud allure ments are no louge held out to our young men, to assemble, where the immoral aud yicious were most prone to congregate. 7. In some instances where men. were not willing to put their labor and their capital into lawful and (fl-oductDe business they have gone to other State*. To be rid of such men is n vast gain for morality. I’robil itiouists and other* who have the good of the country at heart, may well have not hing to regret be cause of their departure. If men are not willing to place themselves on tlie mural tide and the preduc- tiye side, speaking for the Press and Banner, we are glad to bear of tbeir going elsewhere. 8. Minors and known drunkards are not enticed into dis|a*nsarics. 9. The fact that cash is required for liquor lias a restraining effect 10. The fact that no credit is given aud no collaterals are taken is also a point in its favor. 11. But there is one more e vidence that should convince every temper ance uihu that tlie Dispensary is liettcr tliun the bare, anti that evi dence is found iu the deep-seated and unreasonable opposition which eyery auti-prohibitiouist lias for the law, If the Dispensary let ont m men plnced on I be tlis rnctlve side, nearly all; that iiuuibcr of lovtue* j I,-** it, were this. They were marched and men are now on the productive | ,„ the residence of Sheriff S^rlsirn. j ®^ e * ** land remained there all dat. The We haye no argument with a miWijeimf .-pv. (i ,ilbird, assured the who would erase the moral nr re- \(„\,,| dial In- had no intention of •training Ihws from Mr stotnle; Aeqiv».iiig private Iioiima. Tlie Mayor books, and it would be nseless for us to talk to a man who favors the bar rooms. ,. ! . The manLdrho proMpses to believe in moraTiflknd would remoye the moral lawafrom oar books has no just conoeption of what he is talking about. Taking oar brother's piece from baginning to ending, it seems to ns that he -mittt be wandering in his mind. A man that will attack the morals of^toje, and favor the in discriminate MUe of liquor is acting strangely. If a Man would encourage per sonal liberty to the extent or laying down all moral restraint, except that which the chnrch would exercise, he certainly has not enough of seal for the Master’s cause to be mentioned. We presume if onr good brother, •aw evil going on, instead of getting a policeman to stop the nefarious work, he would ran off after a slack twisted deacon who believed os he does, that the cnnrch is sufficient, and organize a prayer-meeting to re strain the evil doer. We have a town in. this comity whose inhabitants ore about as moral and as pious os the world will be during the millennium, and yet that little commnnity had to apply to the Legislature to restrain the sale of liquor within its corporate limits. This was necessary to preserve their colleges. The same petition was made and granted to every town in this county, and yet our friend talks of the chnrch; The Frees and Ban ner believes that men who wonld throw on the church the onus of re straining evil doers has no more right to apeak for the church, than a bar-room advocate has to speak lor the prohibitionista. The prohibi tionists do not want and do not need moral training from any such source and we believe the church member who thinks that the church is suffi cient to deal with' gross immorality is either lacking in intelligence or has no zeal for the public good which might be worth speaking of. in* Is This! Something unique even in these days of mkiimoth premium offers, is the latest effort of Stafford’s Maga zine, a Mew York monthly of home and general reading. Tlie proposition is to send the the told llim th«*l I lu re W:»» not slightest ilui gef of iin otilLrc.tk mi \ less the allruipt u.niTnle in search; residences, but il at ht 1 iluit aer*-, done there would be serious iroui-b . Later in the day a spet i.-ii :ruin| arrived with the Sumter Light In fantry, which command had been ordered here to protect the spies from molestation. Along with them came a large nnmber of private citi zens. In addition to this there was a large number of onr Florence neighbors who pnt in an appearance. These visitors, with a large nnmber of onr own citizens, held a meeting In the court house, at which the fol lowing resolutions were unanimously passed: Resolved, that it is the sense of this meeting: , 1. That a man’s home is his castle and that he is expected to defend the same against all unreasonable searches. 2. That m the counties of Dar lington, Florence aud Sumter search ing of private residences, private rooms and private a|mrtments used by their owners as their dwellings, and not as places of trade, shall be neither tolerated or permitted, and we hereby pledge ourselves to resist all such unlawful depredations. .3. That the citizens of Darling ton, Florence and Sumter hereby mutually pledge themselves to sup port each other iu resistance to all such unlawfnl acts, aud we inyite the co-operation of all other law- abiding aad liberty-loving citizens. These resolutions were short bnt to the point, and leave no doubt to their meaning, which is that’the three towns will suppprt eabh other in resisting any attempt to search private residences. ‘ The issue is clearly mode and’‘the citizens of these three towns have, in an open and unmistakable way, declared that they'fill nofsnbmif to the tyranny and indignity of having the privacy of their homes violated, and any at tempt to ignore or override these res- olntiofis will produce bloodshed for Which Tillman should be held re sponsible; While we regard such a condition of affairs as truly deplorable and have ever advocated Implicit obe dience to law, yet we sar without the least hesitation and with all possible emphasis that we believe that the Magazine One year for one dollar, the citizens who held this meeting, be- regular subscription price, and in ad- 1 lieving us they did that the issuc dition to tend each subscriber fifty- 1 was to be forced U|»n the j>eople, two conipiete novels A ring the, were right twelve months; oue each week. Think of R. You receive a new WOODS *t CO. Wc take pleasure iti Aiitioittieing to our ♦HcihIs that wc have# for their inspection, the liest selected and most lieantifiri Stock of Dros Goods. tlW we have ever handled, whiel* will he sold at |»riee> that are astonishingly low. We have also everything in the way of 11, L£ as, h \ s A large stock of Ladies’ Underwear can always be found, besides everything else to please the fancy of the ladies. • In every department our stock will lie found complete and the wants of the Gentlemen have not been forgotten, as they will find everything they need in the way of wealing apparel. In The Grocery Store can be found everything in the eating line, both in staple and fancy groceries. s. a. Woods & eo. and complete novel, by moil, post paid, every week for fifty-two weeks, and in addition you get the maga zine once a month for twelve months, all for one dollar, it is an offer which the publishers can only afford to make in the confident expectation, of getting a hundred thousand new subscribers. Among the authors iu the comin series are, Wilkie Collins, Walter Renault, Mrs. Oliphant, Mary Cecil Hay/ Florence Marryat, An thony Trollope, A. Conan Doyle, Mise Bmddon, Captain Marryat, Miss Thackery and Jules Verne. If you wish to take advantage of this uunsnal opportunity, send one dollar for Stafford’s Magasine, one year. Your first copy of the magasine, and your first nnmber of the fifty-two novel* (one each week) which you are to receive during the year will be sent you by return mail. Remit by P. O. order, registered letter or ex press. Stafford Pibushing Co, Publishery of Stafford’s Magazine, P. O. box '42U4, New York, K. V. Please mention this paper. iere rign .Obedience to law is the duty of every good citizen but when any law clearly and unmistakably infringes npnn bis personal liberty and the rights of the Anglo-Saxon race, then he is not only justi fied in resisting it with all the means at his command, bnt it be comes an imperative dnty for him to do so, unless he is ready to slavhhly surrender principles that cost a great deal of blood to secure. If Gov. Tillman insists on sowing the wind then he should not com plain if he is made to reap the whirl wind. It is very easy for Gov. Till man. without in the least neglecting his auty, to put an end to allof this excitement, and the question is, will he do it? FIRE! 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