The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 18, 1892, Image 1
t?Esumter Watchman, Established April, is50.
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TBE TS CE SO?THKON, Established Jane,
STJMTER, S. G., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1892.
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Sept 8 _
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?NEttUMBER Y ABB,
IBEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND
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located on the C. S. A N. R. R., just back of
say residence, is now in full operation, and I
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MACHINERY FOR SALE.
One 12-horse engine and boiler.
Ooe 45 Saw Gin and Condenser.
One Boss Cotton Pre?9.
One 20-inch Grist Mill.
Belting, Shafting and Fixtures.
The Gin, Press and Mill are almost new
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-THE
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WOULD RESPECTFULLY inform the
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and estimates on brick and wooden buildings
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Aug 19 0
Address of Rev. Ellison
Capers, D. D.
Delivered on Memorial Day May l\th
Ladies of the Memorial Association
aod Fellow-citizens : We are sum
moned to this scared spot this afternoon
to do honor to tbe character and mem*
ory of Confederate soldiers. It is
twenty-seven years since the surrender
of the armies to which they belonged?
how vividly do our memories revert to
the triumph of the armies and Tust re*
sources against which they hsd vainly
struggled, the end of the great contest
in which they freely gave their lives.
Onr Memorial Days eome to remind
os of that memorable time when onr
proud people were compelled, by ?. pow
er they could no longer resist, to give
up their arms and their government as
conquered trophies to the "notorious
armies which had successfully invaded
onr land and destroyed our resources.
Tbey come to recall the saddest griefs
and memories that most of us know,
and. despite their wreaths of bright
Sowers and gay garlands of fragrant
blossoms, they come, my friends, to
chasten our hearts with these sad mem
ories?to discipline our wills by the rec
olieotion of our disappointments, and if
we will so receive them like holy and
cherished angels, they come to teach us
of that overruling will, and wisdom,
and government, wiser and better and
greater than ours, aod best for us all.
In this spirit wc meet today at the
graves of our gallant dead, and we feel
them to be spots of earth most dear and
most hallowed. Tbey become most
dear to us who were comrades in the
mighty strife as time hastens us on to
the hour when we must lie by their side,
and j'dT$ too shall be the grave of the
Confederate soldier. Tbey are hal
lowed spots, my friends, because they
are the graves of our kindred, fathers,
brothers, husbands, sons.
There is a power in the claim which
tbe gallant death of our kindred makes
upon our devotion, whioh is as irresisti
ble in its demands upon us as it is uni
versally reverenced and respected.
Homer, in his immortal Epic, has illus
trated this truth in one of his roost im
pressive and graphic passages. The
venerable father of the heroic Hector
visits the remorseless Achilles and im
plores him to grant the body of his son
for honorable burial. The affecting
plea of the aged King that the man
gled body of bis gallant son be given
to a father's arms that a father's baod
might lay it to rest, the eloquent voice
of affliction, tbe pleading accents of the
broken hearted old King, the irrepress
ible outburst of grief, which bent the
body of the venerable Priam to the
very dust as he implored the victorious
slayer of his son to give him back his
mutilated corpse?all this mighty ap
peal of nature shakes Achilleus proud
spirit and movos bis hard heart to ten
derness and tears. Overmastered by
the grief and overborne by the pathetic
plea of his great enemy, when that ene
my stood before him as a broken-heart
ed father, Achilles is melted to tears,
aod grants the boon old Priam asks.
Dismissing his attendants aod refusing
the aid of others, he reverently lifts the
bleeding body of the "God-like Hec
tor, " and with his own hands lays it on
the car that is to carry it to the imper
illed home of the hero, where love anx
iously awaited it, and undying grati
tude laid it iu a patriotic soldier's
grave.
These fresh memorial blooms are the
tokens of our devotion to the memory
of heroes, and onr respect for their sac
rifices. While reverently laying them
on their tombs we give the world this
outward sign of our faith, that these
garlanded graves bold the ashes of true
men, who died, as we were willing to
die, in defence of their righ's, their
homes and their principles. The men
who sleep and rest here were not mer
cenary soldiers, hired to fight the bat
tles of ambitious kings. They were
not soldiers of fortune, risking their
lives for the conquest and ruin of au
enemy's territory and tbe phnder of
bis cities and towns ; tbey were not sol
diers of an unreasoning fanaticism,
called into the military service of their
country to impose their creed upon their
neighbors. These are the graves of
Southern men, whose lot it was to fight
the battles of their native land aod to
meet their death in a great shook of
arms, which all tbe wisdom and pa
triotism of their fathers could not prevent.
Whatsoever others may say of their
cause and their conduct we know thai
these heroic men died to make good for
themselves aod their posterity that whioh
all of us held in common to be our
chartered right and the heritage of a
free and united people. Their mis
fortunes endear their sacrifices and
embalm their history in tha reverent
love of th.-ir people. The battles they
fought with powder and shot had been
fought in the forum of their country by
the best aod greatest of our statesmen,
and fought in vain, for a just aod amica
ble settlement of differeuoes too broad
aud deep and conscientious to be put
down or evaded. More than forty
years of angry strife had fully exhausted
the force of argument and rendered
impotent the appeals of reason and
eloquence. The solemn and awful hour
had come in the history of our country
when the voice of reason was lost in the
tumult of passion, and filled with
apprehensions of danger to chartered
rights, and fired by a sense of her
wrongs, the South stood to arms and
summoned her sons to the field.
And here in this hallowed spot on
this Memoriel Day I declare for these
silent soldiers that never did men re
spond to so solemn a summons with a
higher, purer, nobler sense of their
duty than did the brave men whose
bodies rest in these garlanded graves
For them and for their companions in
arms I testify to their sublime cheer
fulness, their exalted courage, their
patient euduranoe and their willing sac
ri6ce.
If, my fellow-citizens, I have any
true and true and just conception of the
character of a patriot; if I know any
thing of the moral struggle through
which the mind and heart must pass in
resisting successfully temptations to an
unworthy self-indulgence, or an in
glorious immunity from danger or peril ;
if I have at all realized the cost, of self
sacrfice whioh must be paid to maintain
I manhood true, hooor untarnished, and
principles undefiled, then I bear my
bumble and earnest testimony to the
patriotism, the moral heroism, the self
sacriSciog devotion of the buried mar
tyrs of the Southern Confederacy.
"Their leaf has perished io the green,
And while we breathe beneath the sun,
The world, which credits what is;done,
Is cold to all that might bave been."
The brilliant orator who recently
addressed his fellow-citizens at the grave
of Gen. Grant, while paying a tribute to
the genius and character of Lee, affirms
that "it is the fate of the defeated side
in civil wars that one leader represents
the lost cause and all others are buried
io oblivion. The world," he continues,
"reckons little and remembers less those
who represent dead issues and disastrous
revolts."
"Yes, my friends, this be the fate of
our dead brothers, if we who survive
them aoeept the declaration that one
man, even one man so great and true a
man as Gen Lee, is alooe worthy of his
country's remembrance : and that the
tens of thoasands who were just as self
sacrificing, and just as patriotic, and
just as true and brave as was onr im
mortal Captain, are yet not worthy of
record in memory, aud must forever be
buried io the world's cold grave of
oblivion.
Ah! the elequent eulogist of the
great Northern general must come to
our Southern land, and come on Memo
rial Day, and read the inscription on
our soldiers' monuments, as they tell
story of the virtues and their valor,
writ down for all time in bronze and
marble. He must learn from our
memorial days bow millions of patriotic
hearts cherish the example and honor
the history of the Confederate soldier,
and mi-lions of tender hands hang im
! mortelles on his grave !
Washington Irving, in on of his
inimitable sketches describing the burial
of the German poet and dramatist.
Iff land, quotes from B right's travels in
low Hungary this passage. ' When I
was.io Berlin I followed the celebrated
ISIaod to the grave. Mingled with
pomp, you might trace much
real feeling. In the midst of the
ceremony my attention was attracted by
a young woman, who stood on a mound
of earth newly covered with turf, which
she anxiouisly protected from the feet
of the passing erowd. It was the tomb
of ber parent, andVthe figure of this
affeotionate daughter' presented to my
mind a monument more striking than
the most costly work of art." It ?as
love and duty shielding the grave from
desecration. It was kindred blood
obeying the purest instincts of the heart.
It was filial affection loyal to the dead.
Aye, my friends, and filial affection and
love and duty will everguard and shield
and honor the grave of the humblest
Confederate soldier, who gave his life
for his county.
Your dead soldies forgotten ! Buried
in . oblivion ? Never ! While our
women live ! Never while country
endures aod men of character, courage
and manhood are respected among their
fellow-meo.
The great soldier who sleeps on the
banks of the Hudson would not allow
his army to fire a salute at the surrender
of Lee, and refused to ride at the bead
of hi* victorious col urns, as they
marched into Richmond, because, be
nobly said, "these people are now, and
will be hereafeer, our brethren and
fellow-citi?en8, and they must not be
humiliated."
The frank and manly introduc
tion to that most charming rxfek,
"The Life and Letters of Stone
wall Jackson," just published by
Mrs. Jackson as a wife's tribute to
her country and her husband, is
written by a distinguished North
ern divine, who did not sympa
thize with us in our great struggle
for independence, and who, writ
ing as a Northern man, uses this
language : "Why do we recall the
j memories of a war that is past
and ended ? Because out of that
past comes the living present. A
great war cannot be forgotten. *
* * Men who are honest and
brave have nothing to be ashamed
of and nothing to conceal, and the
better they know each other the
more they will be drawn together
by the mutual attraction of noble
characters. * * * Besides (he
continues) the four years of our
civil war were, in some respects,
the grandest since the nation was
born. Awful, terribble, it is true,
but magnificent and sublime.
There, for the first time, the
American people learned what
stuff they were made of. For the
development of character, those
four years were better than a hun
dred years of unbroken prosperity.
Better than all the summor, sun
shine on ripening harvests were
the thunders and lightnings that
woke a nation to life, and gave it
the full consciousness of its power.
Never did our countrymen rise to
such heights of devotion and cour
age. Never did they perform such
deeds or make euch sacrifices. We
must be sunk low indeed if we are
capable of forgetting the most
splendid period of American his
tory. Aud so we read the story of
Lee and Jackson with no wish to
depreciate their greatness, but
claiming it as belonging to us,
since if they were Soufhorners,
they were also Americans, and
their illustrious names are a part
of our common inheritance of
glory. Therefore it is we welcome
a tale which may be said to be
told in the interests of peace, as it
describes a career that illustrates
pome of the noblest qualities of
human charaet'T.1'
Such is the spirit and language
of ;i distinguished Northern gen
tleman who counts it a privilege
to take part in a tribute to the
character and worth of (ten. Jack
son. I rejoice to believe that the
fast coming years will illustrate
the just sentiments of Dr. Field
and Gen Grant, aud future genera
tions of American freemen from
every section of our great country
will point with pride to the me
morials of our heroic struggle and
read in the testimony ol impartial]
witnesses
men who
the true story of the
"Did deeds of which
This land, though rich,
In histories may boast.
And tiie sage's book and the poet's lay,
Teem with the deeds of the men in
gray."
The roses broug-ht to this silent yard
Are red and white; behold.
They tell how wars fora kingly crown,
In the blood of England's best writ
down,
Left Britain a story whose moral old,
Is fit to be graven in text of gold.
The moral is, that when battles cease,
The ramparts smile in the bloom of
peace,
For flowers to-day are often brought
By the gallant men who against us
fought.
York and Lancaster, grey and blue,
Each to himself and the other true;
And so I say
Our men in grey
Have left to the South and the North a
tale,
Which none of the glories of earth can
pale."
This is the true significance of
these memorial ceremonies. If
they did not commemorate virtue
the virtuous could not participate
in them. If they could not be
held by faithful citizens of our
reunited country, no ex-Confeder
ate soldier, who gave his arms in
a hopeless struggle, would violate
a soldier's honor by being a party
to them. If they fostered the
spirit of discontent, or kept alive
the ashes of burnt-out passions,
the faithful followers of our
Divine Master could not assemble
as to a patrictic convocation, and
with prayer and hymn of praise
commemorate the heroism and
the fall of these true men. We
feel it good to be here ; there is an
odor of sancity about this spot
which both humbles and exalts
our spirits, and sends us back to
our duties and responsibilities
with a deeper feeling of the undy
ing truth that sacrifices made in
the cause of a recognized duty,
even the sacrifice of our lives, can
not be made in vain. The essence
of "their worth is in their moral
valor,.and not in the prizes for
which they are made. The prize
may he lost or torn from the grasp
of the enfeebled hand ; or it may
be apprize denied by the will and
wisdom of ?rod, still, the willing
hands and hearts' that strove and
struggled and died ; ah ! they live
in memoryr tbjey live in history,
they live in the lives of men, to
refine our selfishness, to purify
our ambitions, to chasten our im
patience, to exalt our courage, and
to consecrate our hopes. I count
it among the dearest experiences
of my life that I knew these men
and had the honor of being a fel
low-soldier with them ; that I wit
nessed their cheerfulness in camp
and their splendid courage in the
field; that I learned from them
some of the best lessons of my
life as I saw them poorly clad, and
poorly fed, and poorly paid march
willingly to their hard tasks and
fight their unequal battles. It
was an inspiration and strength
to the greatest and best to see
men die in this high spirit, and
his must be a sordid lieart that
can feel no exaltation of his
nature from companionship with
these heroes.
"Buried in oblivion!" Aye,
thousands of them are reposing in
unmarked and unknown graves,
my gallant brother among the
number, but to-day their names
are on the lips of their country
men, their memories are stirring
our hearts, and their examples are
speaking to us from their obliter
ated and unknown tombs, speak
ing to us of the transcendent duty
we owe to our convictions of the
right, the duty we owe to our
mother State, and the sacred, duty
we owe to one another, as brothers
of these martyred heroes. They
have done all they could do for us
and for South Carolina; they
have given their Jives for us; and
all that we can now do for them,
is to take the lessons of their high
examples and honor forever their
cherished memories.
But, my fellow-citizens, there is
a duty we ought most gladly to
discharge?a duty which lies be
fore every community, every town,
every city in our State. Wherever
there is a Confederate soldiers
widow now growing old and poor
and suffering who needs kindness
and sj'mpathy and help ; wherever
there survives a man, broken down
in health or worn with age, unable
to work and unequal to the tasks
of life, if that man stood in the
Confederate ranks and did his duty
it is our highest duty and our
most sacred and bounden trust to
extend a brother's, a sister's hand
to cheer, to soothe, to comfort.and
to help. Memorial garlands and
granite monuments and statues in
bronze and marble for our dead
brothers and love and sympathy
and Christian charity for the Jiv
ing.
If a self-respecting people are
honored by the public sentiment
of an enlightened world for the
reverence they pay to the memory
of the dead who defended their
honor, character, let us remember,
my fellow-citizens, the same en
lightened sentiment will look for
the obligations which grati
tude and honor demand to be
shown to the surviving soldiers of
the same great contest. We who
bring "words of reverent praise"
and wreaths of immortelles to the
graves of heroes, let us not fail in
deeds of kindness to those who
fought by their side. Let no poor
and needy ex-Confederate, whose
life the God of battles has spared
to his country, ever lack for the
old-time sympathy, and the old
time faith, and the old-time hon
or, which yon freely gave him
when he stood between yon and
the invader of your fair land and
homes. As we cherish his gai- ;
]ant service and honor his faithful
record as a soldier, true and tried,
let his old age be dear to us, and
his sorrows and sufferings meet a
deserved consideration at our
behalf, for us and our cause, he
went forth from his humble home
to give all man can give for his
fellow-man, and now if he needs
something from our basket or some
thing from our hearts let the need
plead his merits and his wants
command our aid. Peace to his
declining years, and may the good
angels, Love and Charity, attend
his footsteps to an honored grave !
To you, true women of Sumter,
the faithful representatives of your
Southern sisters, the Confederate
soldier owes the grateful tribute
of an undying admiration and re
spect. Your prayers sustained
him in the field, your sympathies
and kindness soothed him in the
hospital, your devoted attention to
his wants made him comfortable
in camp, your patient endurance
at home aud your unfaltering faith
in his efforts made him strong for
the fight.
Whatever the future may bring
to the ex-Confederate soldier,
whatever "the changes and chances
of this mortal life" may have in
store for him, there is one thing I
feel as confident of as I am of my
own being?the future will be with
you what the past has ever been ;
it will bear your testimony of re
spect and honor; it will record
your unaltered faith ; it will bear
its faithful witness to your unal
terable gratitude.
Here on this monument you
have written with iron pen, in the
native rock of our State, the names
of four hundred and thirteen men
of Sumter, who were "faithful in
life" and "glorious in death." It
is most becoming their memories
that you should have raised this
noble memorial on the very spot
of ground which South Carolina
of old granted to her gallant son,
in recognition of his services m
that* first great struggle which se
cured us our independence, and in
which your gallant Sumter was
the companion in arms of Marion
and Pickens and Hampton, and
Hammond and Maham and James,
and the true men who won the
liberties of South Carolina with
their swords !
The examples of our Revolu
tionary soldiers have ever been an
inspiration to the State, and their
names and memories dear to her
people. Their spirits lived in the
hearts of these Confederate mar
tyrs, and great as were their sac
rifices on the altar of American In
dependence they were not made
more freely, more generously, more
patriotically or more nobly than
were the offerings which these
dead soldiers gave when they laid
down their lives for the independ
ence and the honor of the Confed
eracy.
Why the Press and Banner
Does not Support Tillman.
Editor Wilson, of the Abbeville
Press and Banner, is a just and fair
minded man, as was evidenced by the
impartial report of his County meeting,
and the frank confession that Tillman's
strength over the State had increased
rather than diminished. We want
Brother Wilson to come over on the
side of the people in this fight, and we
believe he will do so. He is too good
and true a man to lend his talent and
influence to further the spleen aod re
sentment of a hopeless faction, whose
patriotism only extends to the limit of
defeating the man who led the people
to victory in 1890, and an insatiate
thirst for office. No earthly power can
defeat Tillman's re-election, for, as the
Press and Banner confesses, he is the
undoubted choice of the people. Ma
jority rule is the fundamental principle
of Democracy, and it now becomes bis
duty to yield personal preference on the
shrine of unity and harmony, aod help
cement our party aod draw all faction?
together. It wiil be a ooble and praise
worthy act oo the part of Editor Wil
soo, aod we koow him to be a mao
with the honesty and courage to take
such a step when duty and his party
commands.?Columbia Register.
to so far as our brother speaks of our
impartial report of the meeting at Ab
beville last Saleday, we thank him.
He correctly estimates us when he
seems to think that we desire to be fair
aod honest. As far as this editor
kuows himself be has no other guide
or ambition than to do the right.
But we confess to a degree of morti
fication when the Editor of the Regis
ter as?uoies to think that we could be
induced to support Mr. Tillmsn. Our
inborn nature would not allow us to do
so, and if we violated our ooovictions
we would sacrifice our own personal
self-respect. Mr. Tillman's followers
would lose respect for us if we joined
in this unholy crusade against the de
cency and respectability of South Caro
lina, aod supported his administration
in the unjust, unfair aod iniquitous
effort to extort from the banks and the
railroads more than their just propor
tion of the burdens of the Government
We feel that the most violent or most
intolerant supporters of Mr. Tillmao's
administration regard this editor with
at least some degree of respect for hon
esty of purpose, aod because of their
good opinion we would not, if for no
other reason, join in and give our en
couragement to an administration when
doing what tho more intelligent of their
number know to be morally wrong.
We flatter ourselves in thinking that
Mr. Tillman's supporters in this county
think better of un than to believe we
would do what we know to be unjust.
We excuse the editor of the Regis
er for his suggestion, because he does
not know us, and for the further reason,
that the methods of warfare which
have been practiced upon Governor
Tillman have been so distateful to us,
that wc have refused to join in doing
what we believed to be unfair. Whilo |
being ourself a pronounced "anti,'' yet :
wc have at times felt like protestiug 1
j against tbe manners aod methods of
j our own wing of the Democratic party
in its treatment of Mr. Tillmao.
We bare sometimes felt like remon
strating with oar friends for covering
up what seemed to us tbe Governor's
best intentions by his errors or doubtful
acts of proceedure.
As a matter of fact, we believe Gov
ernor Tillman is honest. W?* believe
that he is a man of ability, and we be
lieve in his official correspondence he
has done himself and the State credit.
But, in spite of all this, we cannot
support Governor Tillman in too pri
mary election, and we presume it would
not be amiss to state some of our rea
sons for not sapporting him :
First?He seems not to aspire to be
Governor of the whole people, but
rather to use his official position to irri
tate and aggravate those who are not
his supporters. As one evidence of
this fact see article copied from tbe
Florence Messenger.
Second?As Governor he should not
seek to array one class against another,
but should strive to briog harmony
among the people over whose interests
be presides. He is too dictatorial in
his own office, and presumes too near
I to an assumption of tbe powers of the
judiciary, while attempting, for spiteful
reasons, to bring the judges into public
contempt.
? Third?The Governor, like the Pres
ident, is at tbe head of society in his
sphere, and because of this fact, he
should observe the common and well
established laws of polite society. For
instance: When be is approached by
any citizen, either socially or officially,
he should not, as Governor, give vent
to passion or fire a volley of ill-man
nered oaths at his petitioner. The
humblest citizen, as well as the highest,
is entitled to a respectful hearing, aod
the Governor's proper regard for his
own position should restrain him from
coarse profanity in tbe presence of
tho*e who come in respect, or it may
be in humility.
Fourth?The Governor's utter and
absolute disregard for the religious feel
ings of bis people is evidenced in his
using profane language when speaking
to a mixed andieocc of ladies and gen
tlemen. Tbe ruler of a Christian peo
ple should respect their religious con
victions. A disregard of things which
I any people bold sacred is violative of
good manners and renders such person
unfit for their ruler.
Fifth?Governor Tillmao's influence
in promoting profanity aod in lowering
the standard of morals among the peo
ple has been so great that it may be
said that the combined efforts of ail tbe
preachers in the land will be insufficient
to correct his evil influence in the next
five years.
Sixth?No man who corrupts tbe
manners of tbe people, and encourages
open profanity, aod a general disregard
of sacred things, comes up to our .deal
of a proper Governor of a Christian
people, aod therefore we cannot support
him.
Seventh?The Governor of a great
State should not fly into a passion, and
utter disrespectful language in refer
ence to those citizens who are opposed
to bim. When he goes on the stump,
he does so in a double capacity?as
Governor and as candidate for re-elec
tion?and he should not insult aey class
of people, with the idea of thereby ap
pealing to the prejudice of another class.
Eighth?We cannot support the pres
ent administration, because of its une
qual, unjust and malicious execution
of the tax laws No politictan ever
had a better motto than "equal rights
to all and special privileges to none."
We endorse that sentiment unreserved
ly. But we deprecate the unfairness,
the maliciousness and the extortion
which has been practiced under that
banner. We have good reason to be
lieve that Governor Tillman returns bis
own individual property for taxation at
from thirtj to fifty per cent, of its real
value. For this act we have nothing
to charge against him. The return is
as good as that of thousands of others
?including possibly our own.
But the moral wrong and the ap
proach to a disreputable act on the
part of this Government lies in the fact
that the officers under Governor Till
man 's admsnistration are trying to nse
their official power to assess the corpo
rations,?if not at more than the
actual worth of their property, certain
ly at a rate greatly in excess of that at
which tbe property of private citizens
is returned, including the Governor
himself. With our present convic
tions, highway robbery is just as hon
orable as the using of official power to
extort unjust taxation from one cla!?s of
citizens, while allowing another class to
dodge Believing that the machinery
of the law has been used to oppress
corporations, while the officers them
selves have dodged a fair taxation, we
would lose our claim to a deceot integri
ty, and would ourself be a party to the
act, if we supported the perpetrators of
the crime. How any man acquainted
with the facts and claiming common
honesty, can endorse this official war of
extermination agaiost the corporations
is more than we can understand. We
believe in "equal rights to all and
special privileges to none," and will
forever protest agains? any act which
has the tendency to confiscate one man's
property while allowing another to
escape a just proportion of the burdens
of the Government.
Ninth?We have not forgiven this
administration for the calamity which it
has inflicted on this people in tbe estab
lishment of Clemson College. We had
no sufficient need for that College, and
it will be for all time to come a heavy
burden on the people, without giving
in return a fair equivalent. We bad
enough colleges already. Although
the college is not open, is there not
to-day a corps of professors in the
pay of the Government? If so, why is
v so?
Whatever political differences may
arise between u.? we shall not on our
part, allow any feeling to enter. We
are not convinced that there is enough
in this campaign to briog about excite
ment or alienation between neighbors.
This State has bad some pretty rough
experiences in the past, and it can
likely stand whatever is in store for it
in the future. The candidates are both
Kdgefield men. and tbey are both men
of ability, bal lu fact neither has
much power for official good er official
ev?h
PersoisalFy,. it matters- fitt?e to ns?
who draws the salary and issue* the
pardons to the penitentiary crowd.
Bat as between Tillman and Shep*
pard\ we wrll vote for Stveppard in fh?
primary, and will cast oar ballot io
November for the nominee.
We think Sheppard would be more
I likely to f?ror "ecrnar rrghrt*to all and
special privileges to none.** For this
reason, we support bief?Abbeville
Press and Banner
Tbe Peabody Scholarships;
Sapermtenrtent of Education May
field yesterday received the i.ev/
annual eircuJar giving the rules and
regrflatjon* governing the Peabody
scholarships m the ftoraeal college at
Nashville, Tenn, and m them there is
considerable change which all who
intend competing fur the scholar
ships 6ho?ld observe.
The examinations of applicants for
the scholarship* will be held in this
city [ColumbiaJ on the sec?>?d day
of the annual session of the State
Teachers' Association, which will
meet on the lOthofJnly next, and
already the nnmber of applicants is
much larger than has ever been
known
One of the principal changes made
in the regulations is that heretofore
the scholarship was worth $200 with
the students paying their own ex
penses to and from Nashville. Tbe
uew arrangements are as follows- :
"A Peabody scholarship is worth
$ 100 a year and tbe student's rail
road fare from his borne to Nashville
and return, and is good for two years.
The college year consists of eight
months, beginning on the first
Wednesday in October and closing on
the last Wednesday in May, and
scholarship students receive from the
president of the college $25 on tbe
last days of October, December,
February and April."
The following are the new.require*
ments governing the examination for
admission into the college :
"The miuirnun literary qualifications
for securing a scholarship are the
following : The ability to read
fluently, to write a fair hand, to spell
correctly, and to express thoughts in
grammatical English ; to solve pro
blems of moderate difficulty under all
the ordiuary rules of arithmetic, and
to demonstrate any ordiuary arithme
tical principle ; to locate the principal
cities, livers and mountains of tbe
world, and to give the boundaries of
any specified State in the Union ; to
parse the words of any ordinary
English sentence, and to correct
ungrammatical English ; to solve
equations of two uukuown quantities ;
to describe the leading events io the
history of the United States. The
standard for entrance will be raised
from year to year. Students who
propose to take the degree of Bache
lor of Arts should come with one
year's preparation in Latin."
Miraculous Escape.
Wilmington, Del., May 10.?A
freight train composed of ten cars,
some which were loaded with powder,
was wrecked at Greenville, on the
Centmore branch of the Wilmington
& Northern railroad, this evening.
The train was on its way from Dupont's
Powder Works to the main line of
railroad, when the accident occurred.
The powder consignment comprised
between eight hundred and a thous
and kegs, each keg containing ten or
twelve pounds, a total of nearly five
tons. At Greenville the train
collided with the west bouud freight
The powder train was thrown from
the track, and engine aod cars rolled
down an embankment. The cars
were completely wrecked, and every
keg of powder broken open, but for
tunately there was no explosion. The
locomotive was dismantled, but the
engineer and fireman escaped with
but few slight bruises. The failure
of the powder to explode is regarded
almost miraculous. Had it exploded,
loss of life and destruction of property
would undoubtedly have resulted.
The damage amounts to about $8,000.
A Leader,
Since its first introduction, B'ectrtc Bitters
has gained rapidly in popular favor, ?seil aow
it is cleariy in tbe lead am ng pure m?dicinal
tonics and alteratives?containing nothing
whiob permits it; use a* a beverage or intoxi
cant, it is recognized as the best and pare*,
medicine for all ailments of Stomach, Lirer er
Kidneys.?It will cure Sick Headache, Indiges
lion. Constipation, and drive Malaria from the
system. Satisfaction guaranteed with each
botile or the ui>ney will be refunded. Price
..nly 5?c. per buttl?. Sold by J. F. W. De.
1 orme. 2
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We truly believe De Witt s Little Early
Risers to be the mon natural, most effective,
most prompt and economical pit! for btlieos
hess, indigestion and inactive liver. J. S.
Hughson & Co.
Itch on human and horses and all animals
enrrd in 30 minutes by Weolford's Sanitary
Lotion. This never fails. Seid by A. J.
China, Druggist, Sumter, 8. C.
Bright people are the quickest to recognize
a good thing and buy it. We sell lots of
bright people the Little Early Risers." If you
are not bright these pills will make yon to.
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for Catarrh, Diphtheria, Canker mouth, and
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charge. Price 50c. Sold by A J. Chi na
Sumter S. C. 3
Mrs. L. R Patton, Rockford, 111., writes :
"From personal experience I can recommend
De Witt's Sareapnrilla, a cure for impure
blood aud general debility." J. S. Hughson
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We authorize our advertised druggirt to sell
Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If yott
are ?fflicted with a Cough, Cold or any Lung,
Throat ?>r Chest trouble, s.nd will use this rem
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rience ho benefit, y?u may return lb* bottle and
h.ivo your money refunded. We could not
make this offer did we not know that Dr. King's
New Discovery conld be relied on. It nevef
disappoints. Trials bottles free at J. F. W.
DeL<?rme's Drug Store. Large bottlei SCo.
and $t.00. _ 3
For Over Fifty Years.
Mr3. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teething. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain, caret
wind colic, and iB the best remedy fcf
Diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle.
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Many Persons are broken
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Brown's Iron Bitters KebrdMsthe
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