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?i..Wic ** WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear net-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, tee thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's Conneli lakMl Aug. 2, 1881.] StTMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1890. THE TRITE SO?*??tO?, Established J?W, #0*9 New Series?Toi. IX. ?fe. 4& N..- <*. OSTEBK, ; SUMTER. S. C. terms: - "iagsction...~.?-?* ^ tea of reapect will be STAOHTON UFTlSSfr NATION 6F WMHNM. Jt6B5CT ESTA3LISHED IN THIS CITT. oo toe natural premium plan, ?jttjents of prmi?Bi Fixed at t?eg*kr times. Reliable in ?S^M?^m^: Coarf**: snaeb iowfet tban l^?^Mrx iaMavMeV ' A safety fund reducing f;^e^^wfy?t S ?on lbs. Money saved by this, Sf^3?iWi^..?>?!t*t n**e to die to wia, oce-b&lf of j w *i iejibe?Uwcy. la seven years' u2?S wi*th? d*ia*s paid amounting to Hp*?*K - Alt fAid'?co pdy, ail pa** m ' no*, a liar an it or compromise in the ^tht.eotapaay. 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Usual rates of interest. Time?3 to 5 years. By arrangement with parties we represent costs and commissions have been greatly re duced and leans guaranteed within 30 days after application. INGRAM & MANNING, Attorneys at Law, Sumter, S. C. March 5 MANSION HOUSE. COR. LIBERTY AND HARVIX STREETS. Sumter, S. O. Regular and Transient Board, at reasonable rates. Comfortable Rooms... Good Table. '{ MRS. L0? A, BROWN, j, Jab* 22.?o Proprietress, ji i???? The Opening of the Cam paign at Greenville. We give below, as reported by th? Greenville News* the speeches of Col. Earle and Gen. Bratton made, at the opening meeting of the campaign at Greenville od the 10th. Speeches were also made at the same meeting by Captain Till man, Gen. Pope of Newberry, Mr. Hugh S. Far ley of Spartanburg. Mr. J. Q. Marshal of CohiBibia, W. D May field, of Green ville and Col. J. H. Rice, Comptroller Gen. Verner, and Col. E B. Gary. Capt. Ttllmah'esp?eeh was a repeti tion of his other speeches with the ad dition of a specially prepared statement about the Department of Agriculture, the length of which prevents its publica tion in this issue, but it will be given next week. col earle's speech. There .was some confusion as Colonel Earle advanced, caused partly by the exclamations and shouts of some per se ns in the crowd and partly by the efforts of those behind to make those in froot sit down. This continued at intervals but gradually lessened as the speech progressed until toward the close there was general silence and clo.-e at tention. Colonel E trie said he felt that be needed no introduction here ; he felt that he bad the right to speak to the peo ple of Greenville. He was upon his - native heath; this was bis own, his native land. He was born here, he was educated at the feet of that grand old man James Furman. After that as a poor boy he commenced the duties of life here supported, patronized and encouraged by Greenville's generous people. He felt it was right that they should hear him, though many there might differ from htm, for he Was a Greenville boy come back to Greenville. He proposed to discuss temperately and dispassionately, but positively, the issues, and matters now pending He was here as the representative of no convention, a member of no combina tion. He was here as a simple Demo crat to speak to Democrats It was right that they should come together. Knights aud tnonarchs ruled their sub jects with an iron hand. Those effete monarchies they had heard referred to sank because of the want of manhood and of proper agitation among their people. We belonged to a different class. Here the people were the mas ters, the officers the serrants. When a ' man came to them asking for their suf frages it was right that they should have the opportunity to look at bim and hear him and consider bis life and ser vices. 'We were all Democrats. We could remember the time when South Caro lina rose aud put down the rule of the alien and the robber. Since we had bad ? constitutional-government of our own, h? would like to have them study the history of the past. He would like to show them that all was .not rotten in Denmark (Cheers ) He did not ask them for their applause, but for their attention. Was tber ; anj^ corruption in the State government ? Had any been proven ? He aeked the man who was temperate and fair to consider and say if they had had any proof. Was the government extravagant? The people had the right to call on each servant for an account of his stewardship ; tb 3 right to examine, to admonish if they bad been guilty of wrong, to kick them ou'. The citizen ought not to be called on to pay a cent more than his proper portion of the expenses of a government honestly administered. North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware and Rhode. Island were the only four States of the Union in which the tax rate was lower than io South, Carolina. Only Alabama and North Carolina pay less than we do per head. Notwith standing this good- showing, however, ?f our government could be adminis tered more cheaply than it is it ought Gp be. He then briefiy reviewed the items of the State finance. The total income of the State government, he said, is $1,003.210 of which $730.000 was from direct tax. The total income, according to the census of 1880, was $1 00 a bead. The total direct tax was 70 cents a head. The expenses for the whole State "(Hurrah for Till ioan-?" A confusion of cries,) were eeven mills on the dollar of the $143. 000,000 of property. It was right to keep nothing of the peoples affairs out of their sight. Had Capt. Tillman shown them how the government can be run for less than now '! (A voice : "The farmers can do it.") Where could they cut down ? If they could get good men to do their work for less than was now paid they should do it by all means. The work on the State House could be stopped: If South Carolinians were willing to let the State House stand as it is the peo ple had the right to say so. Would they abolish the South Carolina Univer sity ? They had the right to say so and do it. What was all this fuss about? (A voice, Tillman.'") You are right. That's what it is." (Oheers for Tillman ) A voice?' You never made any corn.'* Col. Earle?"I've grown more corn to the acre than you ever did and I have plowed straighter furrows than you ever will." The voice: "Not lately." "No, not la'ely." Was'ut the organ ization of the Democratic party good snough for all Democrats to work* in. When tbey redeemed their State in 1876 did they not promise to stand together? Isthat promise kept when nne faction of the party creates its own executive committee, calls its own coa ventioo and puts out its own candidate ? There were many things he approved :>f io the platform of the Mireh Con tention Where was the necessity to Forming a separate organization to sup port them ? Nobody could tell him that the farmers of the State had not the manhood, determination and intel ligence to say as ito '76, these things ire proper, right and must be done It looks as if designing politicians wished to make much of little for their jwn advantage. Was it necessary to call a convention j for that platform ? He, the speaker, { advocated as strongly as be could some ?i..Wic ** WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear net-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, tee thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's Conneli lakMl Aug. 2, 1881.] StTMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1890. THE TRITE SO?*??tO?, Established J?W, #0*9 New Series?Toi. IX. ?fe. 4& DO special - class particularly. Wheo the people rose io '76 they did not ask each other of their avocations. They felt then that they had common interests and a common Cause and they stood all together, all classes and employments. There was no independent man. The j most independent man was be who loved God and obeyed Bis laws and did his duty to his fellow-man, and he was the most dependent of all and most ready and constant in acknowledging his dependence. There was talk of an oligarchy. If there had ever been one he had never known it. He had never appealed to it or received its votes. When he was Honored by the people of his county or of his State it was by ail classes of them. He had never been in any combination or ring and was not in one even in this election, "Mark that" He advised them, in voting for men in the county to select independent men, men who had opinions and were not afraid to express them, who did not follow the name or orders of any man, and to elect them to place. Where was the aristocracy? Money didn't make it; family didn't. An honest father and a good mother were no disgrace to a man ; but it was a dis grace if he failed to use the opportuni ties given him and to follow the good example of those who had gone before him. But tbe road to honor in this State was open to all. Virtue was not bought io the market place and was not the exclusive possession of any class or faction or element. The road was open alike to rich and poor. The true, the truthful, the brave man was the aristo crat cf our country ; might we never have any aristocracy here but one of brain and merit. He had no objection to 'the proposed system of primaries. He wished it were possible, and had said so four years ago, to have every officer of the State elected by primary. If he could not get office by the vote of the people he did not want it. Without regard to what the State committee did, if it was iu accord with the constitution to have a primary he did not object. Let the people say, and whatever they might decide would satisfy him. He did not know what had been done with the money handled by the Depart ment of Agriculture but the character of the gentlemen who composed it guaranteed that it bad been honestly spent. He would not undertake to an swer for them. Each man must answer for himself. The Department was con trolled by farmers. It was established by and for them. He thought it had done good and would do in tbe future as much good as the Olemson College. He was opposed to transferring it to the college because that would introduce politics into the college, put it in the management of politicians and work its ruin. ' He then spoke of the Pacific Guano case. He had not appeared io it, be said, because it was begun before the law gave the Attorney-General power to represent the State in litigation of that kind, and when the law was passed it contained a provision specially forbid diog him from taking part in the litigation then pending. He had at tended to all tbe business of tbe State that came within bis jurisdiction and appeared in behalf of the State before the United States Supreme Court and other tribunals and had never lost a case on the civil side. They said he had nothing to do; he only hoped that whichever of the distinguished gentle men ^behind him, Colonel Gary or General Pope, succeeded him he would have less work than had fallen to his share. But why could not all of these mat ters have been attended to under the regular party organization ? The peo ple bad the right to go to their club meetings and elect men who would execute their will. Captain Tillman told them as soon as a man was started to Coluoibia to a convention he became an aristocrat and an office seeker, but by the same rule Captain Tillman was an aristocrat and an office seeker himself last March. There was nothing dis honorable io being an office seeker ; if they thought Captain Tillman could do more for them than any other man they should vote for him. Let every man do according to his conscience. Bat we were standing on dangerous ground. What he said primarily, and repeated now, was that whenever a man was abused because he happened to repre sent them they should call for the proof against him and not be carried away to do injustice and wrong by any cry of class. It was with them. They could consider the facts and vote for Captain Tillman. the grand old soldier who sat there (Bratton) or him (Eirle.) Bat they should keep in view that the Republicans of the national Congress arc putting their heads together creat ing schemes to rule our State, using the power they had without scruple. They should remember that the ignorant class of the State is crowding the registration tdnjes, and what for? (A voice: "To vote for Tillman ") Colonel Eirle: "You went off half cocked that tune, my friend. That's one trouble about being too ready with your BlOCth." C<?1. E?rlo closed with a 6nal exhorta tion to remember that the white people of the State can not afford to he divided in bitterness, to abuse each other, to be rent asunder ; but that such cons?quen ces wouid surely follow if they allowed themselves to believe all the insinua tions and reckless, unproved charged that might be made against their fellow Democrats and the officers who repre sented their party. CES. .70HN URATTOX'S SPKKC?. The i-iiuatiou demands the earnest and thoughtful consideration of the people of this entire country, and par ticularly of tlie people of this State, the j voters on whom, at 1-st, more than upon the mere personnel of their offi cials dcpeiivS not merely the policies of an administration of Government, but the character of the institutions under which we live. Although my life has been spent rather iu thinking and doing, to the neglect of that cultivation of the gift of speech which euables men to ex press clearly, forcibly and attractively their thoughts and ideas, I am here to , coutiihute as best I may, to that agita- 1 tion which will aid us in performing iu- ! teJlt^Dtly. ou.r dutv as ?Uifteus. ?ufc were I possessed of the fiery eloquence of McDuffie, or the cultured rhetoric and elocution of Preston, they would be devoted, as my humble effort will be on this occasion, to that fair and frank statement which will tend to divest the minds of my countrymen of all preju dice and passion, and enable them to look the situation clearly in the face. For the past eight or ten years, we have been subjected to the evils of oue party control, again&t which not even the increased responsibility and danger incurred by the f?ct that it is also one race control could guard us The aspiring talent of a party whose nomination is election, finds the ac quirement of political methods more im portant, certainly as a first step, than the mastery of political principles ; and once in that field, pride of opinion, de sire for success and the beat of conflict lead to excesses not dreamed of when it entered. The result is that we have made great progress in political methods and, ab sorbed in personal contention and par tizan strife, arc losingfsigbt of the great purpose of our organization, and drift ing away from its cardinal principles. Unable to find a way to combat the evils which seem inherent in one party power, I was content as long as it was confined to conventions of politicians, to enter the silent protest of haviog nothing to do with these combinations, relying on the solid array of our people, which enabled them to defy and cor rect the use of perverted power by ad verse administrations of government to easily enforce respect for the authority of our constitution by our own officials. This partizan strife and contention which up to this time has been confined to contests between temporary combina tions for special or personal purposes, has made a decided step of progress in political methods by the organization within the party of a permanent polit ical combination for not only specific but general political pirposes?the prin ciples, methods and purposes of this or ganization and its effect on our common party and the great common interests of the people are matters on which there is a difference of opinion. For myself, I think that in this headlong career of progress we have reached the danger line. Before I utter one word, it is doubt less known that the Farmers' Move ment which did not command the ap proval of my judgment in its incipien cy when it preseuted itself in its most inviting shape of an organization of the most independent of my fellow citizens, the owners and tillers of the soil?a band of private citizens who had no favors to ask but rights to demand? can not command it now after its recent culmination into a fully equipped polit ical organization, pushing its campaign as independently of our common organ ization as an opposing party could. Such a proceeding is better calculated to command the approval of our dire op ponents?the Radicals?than of those Democrats who organized their party to promote and guard their dearest in terests, and regard its sound integrity as of more consequence than the elec tion of any man or set of men to office. The spirit in which it is entered upon affords material aid and comfort to our old enemies. The charges of corrup tion sweeping, not specified, but made with recklessness unprecedented in our history do not simply please, but actu ally strengthen our opponents and ac tually weaken us. Now I do not propose to assume the role of special champion of the admin istration of our party or State. They need none so far as I know. But if they do, it might be presumption in one who has had so little to do with either, and again, [ desire to divest as far as practicable my discussion of the situa tion of any personal consideration what ever, and direct it to its bearings on our common interests. I will, in this line, however, ask bow oven if the charges are true, can this clamor which has been raised and caught up by oui euemies and rung from end to end of this broad land, possibly conduce to our common iuterest? Is the tendency to reform, to purify or elevate us or is it the reverse? Is is not inflicting on us all, already the innocent sufferers by the evil doing, if it ha3 done, the pains and penalties that should be visited upon the evil doers? Is it not a polit ical error that involves a fearful perver sion of justice? No, my friends, if our officials have wilfully violated the law regulating the conduct of their offices they are guilty of high crimes before the baseness of which, any violation of a statute by a private citizen wouid pale into white innocence, and it would be the part of wisdom, plain practical sense, simple justice and our dtfty as Democrats to arraign them before the courts instituted for such purposes. But these random shots fired into the multitude that strike inuocent parties, are audaciously reckless and danger ous to the public welfare, although they may be intended merely as shrewd political devices for the attainment of personal ends. But I would ask your attention to one charge, because it takes us back to first, principles, to which we can not recur too often in periods of difficulty aud doubt. The charge is so sweeping as to involve us all of the white race, and our anccsto'-s to the third and fourth generation, in thcd irkness of Ethiopian ignorance, of a vile conspiracy against our own rights. It is the charge that we have not, aud never have had, a ' Republican government in Sou h j 1 Carolina. This has a familiar sound to ' those of us who are old enough to recall | the experiences of the days of "destruc- ? tion and reconstruction," when reckless | Radicalism, fury, and hate had full ! } sway. The charge then was that we ? had never bad a Republican form of 1 government, and tho consequential in- < feren< e was that some power outside of ; ) ourselves was necessary to give it to us, ? and arbitraay power was used to pro- t vide us for the first time with that bless- 1 M To give life and force to this reform j a baud of reformers and progressionists | were sent among us, and by appeals of class prejudice, vague, unintelligible as- i v sumptions of benefits and advantages i ? over other classes to accrue to them and j c a strong infusion of the dangers lurking j ' in the hearts and presence of all who j. were opposed to their id,***, a?4 4euwi-11 ciatioo of all such &n "bourbons, aristo? crats and tyrants," they succeeded to arraying the numerically strougest class of our citizens and gaining possession of the government and we experienced the practical operation of a govern ment of the people by a class. To sj?y nothing of the bitterness engendered by tbe "progressive" career of these "reformers," the evils of which can not be remedied in generations, if ever, the result was, what it must ever be when such violation of the theory of our government is practiced?lawless confusion and chaos, infiictiog fearful in jury on all, but greatest on tbe class for whose special benefit and advantage it was ostensibly and so unwisely attemp ted. While it is not for me ?o judge of the motives of any man. not even of these carpet bag "reformers," whose actions we should and do justly execrate I would say that if their purpose was to bury us in tbe ashes of our rains, under the weight of an organized majority, who were known to have no conception whatever of Republican government, but reasonably expected to sympathize in vengeful bate and act with reckless passion, the gracious consideration of providing us with a Republican govern ment was moat diabolically adapted to its accomplishment. Then we were suffering the pangs of defeat in war, scattered and helpless and at the mercy of lawless force, but. contrary to expectation tbe maimed and mutilated -fragments of unsuccessful war, with that inbred tenacity to liber ty which I trust will ever characterize us as a people, gathered themselves to gether and with the aid of their 90ns and1 the encouragement of their wives and daughters, lifted the load, stormed the old fortress occupied by freebooters and desnoilers, and planted on it their standard of constitutional liberty and established in it constitutional government. This is the only type of government that affords guarantee to the liberty of the people, for as l<?ng as they have the intelligence and manhood to maintain and enforce their constitu tion, all the liberty to which they are entitled under it is absolutely secure. The agency which enabled us to estab lish aod maintain such a government is the organization of the Democratic party, pronounced Bourbons and aristo crats. The * Republican form of government" dodge was use<J to sup press aod prevent its organization. The charge now is practically the same, though it implies what tbe other did not?bad faith in our management under the Republican form of govern ment that has been given us. With this addition, it embraces the. same allegation and tbe same consequential inference, that some power other than that at present organized by us must be invoked to consummate our blessings io that line. Tbe same methods are used. The only difference consists in tbe source from which tbe charge emanates, the band of reformers and progression ists spring, and the class of our citi zens to be arrayed, taken. They are all from the ranks of the "Bourbons/* "aristocrats" and "tyrants." And although I know that no such results are expected or intended, yet when we put the same causes to work, how are we to avoid tbe same or similar results? If the purpose were, and I know it ,annoi: be, the disintegration and fioal destruction of our party, our friends who have called it up again might be congratulated, on its aptness for tbe business, for by fair construction, it is a simple and plain argument, not simply of its methods, but of tbe party aod its principles, as a cheat and a fraud, which never have given and do not now give us what we are entitled to?this Republican government. But I cannot attribute such a pur pose to any sons of South Carolina, particularly those who are proud of the noble services rendered by them to their party, and the prominent part taken by 'hem in its conflicts and triumphs. In ?.he excitement of partisan strife, it is an unconscious fling at the bridge that has given us safe passage thus far, and which has a tendency to weaken and impair its efficiency. But I call your atteotioo to this charge particularly, ; because it takes us back to first princi ples, a due consideration of which will throw some light on -the question as to what sort of government we are en- i titled to, and enable us to form an opiniou as to whether we have it or not. When our ancestors determined to exercise the sovereignty which* always and everywhere abides in the people, they deemed i? best in order to secure its untramelled exercise to cast off every , semblance of personal or arbitrary power. Tney accomplished this by enter ing into a compact which they framed and solemnly enacted into law. This law, the embodiment of their sover eignty?the Constitution?was en throned as the ruler of the government established by them. Provision was made for the conduct of this govern ment, for the appointment of the va rious officials prescribed by law, and also rules and regulations for the con duct of each and every office Power was couferred really on the office, not on the individual occupying it, for one moment before he enters an office he is a private citizen, and one moment after he leaves it he is the same, but the power and authority of the office con tinue. It will be seen that so long as the offices are conducted in accordance with these rules and regulations the govern ment thus administered is the sort of government to which we are entitled, :all it what you may, and actually is a joverument of the people, by the peo ple, for the people, aod that is the sort )f government that our fathers fought for aod won the right to establish?the ?ort of government that was maintained i>y the party of the Constitution in South Carolina for nearly a century, j. be sort of government we fought for iu '* he late civil war, the sort of govern- J nent we lost when tbe blessings of a Republican form of government was , or the ?rst time bestowed on us. It is ( he sort of government we regained ' vhen in the depths of our adversity, we J >loughboys, Bjurbons and aristocrats 5 f South Carolioa arrayed ourselves on i he lioes of the Constitution and en orced its authority against overwhelm Dg odds. Thus was our sosietv or- 3 gaoized into a State. One State joined other States ro another compact estab lishing another government subject f9 the s?ie or similar roles and regula tions f namely, the government of the United States. The only material point of difference in tbe eondoet of these governments is in the mode 4$ providing for their maintenance. S ) far as the conduct of the officiate is concerned, they are equally subject to the supreme law, and whefr adtefic istered in strict accordance with if, er* equally governments of the people, trf the people, for the people. "Oar present troubles are attributable to* mal administration in the Federal gOT* em men t. Its long continued control by the republican party, which baa never been capable of operating s ce# 8titutional govrnmeut, has resulted in progressive encroachments on the sover eignty to which it owes allegiance. If was in its incipiency intended to be 9 sectional party, and the administrations furnished by it were from the first wide departures from the track of the Constitution, and Were in fact the government of the whole people by a section for a section. But the progres sive spirit of which it beasts, did not long rest there. It bas made another stride in the conversion of coostiro*ioa al power into personal or arbitrary force, and degraded even the govern" ment by a section into a government by a fraction of that section. It bas* ceased to represent or enforce even the will of a section of people of all classes, but is controlled by the money power of that section which it has concentrated into the hands of a few, by its iniquitous restrictions, not on the production of wealth by our people, but on its just distribution. We are in danger of having an oligarchy fastened on us, ao aristocracy through the instrumental ity of the Federal government, not the State, which is in very deed the only protecting shield of our iodivkiaal lib* erties against the encroach Stents of un lawful power. These measures of restriction opotr the just distribution of wealth are tfcs key to the stronghold of the enemy. They are exerting all their skill, stretching to the utmost limit the power of the government to fortify and! strengthen it on the one band, and to distract the assault which we are ar ranging against it on the other. They are increasing pensions to as e&orstfty to invite our attack 00 tbat point, and at the same time arraying the Grand Army of the Republic Qo their dis grace) for its defence. They are dis tracting our producers from the truer path to relief by promises of ware- , bouses. At this point General Bratton said a* there were many speakers to follow h\m be would not loager tas frfs ?esrefB> and retired. At Lanre?s. The Till ma nit es Run the Meetiflg to Suit Themselves. Li?RENT8,~Jone 12.?The campaign opened here lively to-day. Between* 1,200 and 1,500' persoae were present. The Tillman men were armsually de monstrative, and long before the meet ing opened the Captain was drag get} from the Clerk's ofice by a balf a dozen enthusiasts and was given a r?de around the solare on the sboslders of his friends. The Till man men wore badges, ami if by this distinction we are to judg*e his strength, the farmers present were about equally divrded. The speaking, took place m the grote at the Male Academy, and Was opened! by Gen. l?r?ttotr. Bis appearance wa? the srgoal for ?oed and long sheafs for Tillman, and after Vainly eiroeavorhig* to be heard for some time, be was- com pelled to stop Captain's Shell and Tiffmatr eaefc en deavored to gain a hearing for General Bratton, but the violence at those rar mediateJy around tbe stand drowned hkf words. Gen. Bratton finished bis speech de spite the jeers, which Was ro sobstancer the same as defivered at Spartanburg. Capt. Tilrman spoke next, bet pre sented nothing new. After speak rag for about an hour a terrible wind and rats storm threatened and the crowd began fo reave, so he closed. After the raiu the crowd assembled in the court" bouse fo bear Gen. Earte, The disorderly conduct of the ?rs& meeting was continued, and Captais Tillman was compelled to call od lite followers to liste* to the speaker, He said the idea woald go ont that his side would not tolerate a fair discussion. Gen. Earle spoke of the secret ctr cnlar recently issued by Captain Shell, in which he urged his followers to or ganize Democratic clubs and see 'hafc" none were allowed to pass unless prop* erly vouched for. General Boo h am made a telling speech, which, though short, was pro nounced one of the best of the cam paign. He took a firm stand, and the people listened with rapt attention. Col. K. B Gary was Vebei?e?t iff ul* demands, and abused the present ad ministration without leaking any speci fic charge. Gen. ?*. J. Pope also spoke, bat having sacrificed his voice at Spartan burg, could hardly be beard, Taking all in al), '.he meeting ap? peared to be for Til?man, a?fhoagfc many farmers have unhesitatingly ex pressed a cbange since they bave heard both sides. -? . -:-. **;rftto' Moosiers, Wm. Trmrrons, Postmaster of M.-'V?l?e', ?mt.e writes: "Efectri? 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