Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, - j? A M , - . - . " - ^XH?.of Ujlon and Suburbs Has , |-"|- |' T mi T / \ j* j * * JT /~^4 City of Union and Suburbs Has L*rgo Cotton Mille, One Knitting I B B BJ B ^^1 111 B B l^k / B J Five Graded Schools, Water Works, ^^ateftptopipg Mill with Dye Plant, OU 1 ml fl ml fl m/ 1 . Sewerage System, Electric Lights, Three IfflMB-INtniStnrel Manufacturing and M fl B' fl F fl fl I Vl I < J k 1 Banks with aggregate capital of *250,000, Lumber Yards, Female Seminary. Jfl B fl Bi M JL * -fl- V/ A 1 B i. V JL B M T^S 9 Electric Railway. Population 7,000. ?V0L. LIV. NO. 42. ONION, SOUTH CAR0UNA, FRlbAf, OCTOBER 14, 1904. #1.00 A YEAR: gatS/n -- -fl __ |T ===T i STRON jp: -\ Wl r .* Wni. A. NICHOLS! ffc Hove upon public dcriced by our loi I JjOW THEY STOLE w I OUR SLAVES | The Underground Rail Iood in "The Days Before the War." ashington, October 1.?Spec Should the Chesapeake an ) Canal, the waterway o ih George Washington wa founder, pass into othe is and be converted into ibed for a railway, it will b obliteration of one of th i lines of the old undergroun oad, a mysterious organiza which existed from 1838 ur mancipation, had no salarie ers; no meetings of stocl ers, no public reports, an ared no dividends. >r but one purpose only wa underground railroad orgai ?to assist fugitive slave; perfectly were the plans an purposes carried out that tl s and stations extended froi through nearly every Soutl State into Pennsylvania, Ne k, Indianna, Ohio, the Ne ;land States, and into Canad ^K^HMa^etpTiTa*" were TKe orig He nators, and they gave liberally Hp their time and money in makir B it a success. After the "systen I was thoroughly understood 1 the Abolitionists throughout t B country there was no difficulty securing all the money necessa B to pay every expense. Sami V Rhoades, a wealthy Philadelph I was the chief financier, and d i ing a visit to England he s ceeded in raising a large sum ? the underground. Charles W fD of Philadelphia, was treasui and had offices at rntn arra v JB} nut streets. He, too, was a n H and successful producer, I money rolled in, and-when B fugative slave law was passe 1 1850 there were sufficient f f to aid every runaway in e I section of the country. A l I lar force of trusted men I employed?not on salary, bu' I aticism?in engineering rur I expeditions for slaves. I THE CHIEF CONSPIRATOI J John Hunn was the chie! |HpV neer of the Southern end; uel Burriss, colored, gener f .. ductor; Levi Coffin and Needles president. These aprved without compensat t many years. There was I of directors or "vigilanc A mittee," composed of su I , as Nath&qjel Depee, J. C r Henry Gorfeon, Robert | William Whipper, Samue the Rev. W. H. Fui I 0 M. McKin, William jlioj riaon and others, not to a number of wealthy an ft* tial ladies who gave their money and time. CANAL OFFICERS BF Money was spent wh believed it would do good, and when it was b J captains or masters o1 \ a the C. and O. canal proachable" there ws lost in enlisting their ^;;ft consideration. Ther< H E , G HOLD ! tiich ! IN ft SON, Bankers, ; confidence is evirge and increasing . i idMNMHMppppnL' J * i i ' i i i 1 i danger of detection of fugitive \9 slaves on vessels than on trains 1 Or private conveyance. They ? - could be stored away in coal, hay, or whatever kind of cargo the ! boat might be laden. If there 1 was believed to be danger of be_ ing overtaken the slaves were A ^ put ashore and piloted to one of J f the stations not far removed from the canal, and there were a num- ( ' ber of these along the line in 1 ' Maryland and West Virginia e (then Virginia.) These stations e were simply the homes of fami- ( ^ lies either stockholders in the un- { ' derground or those' who had been * ^ paid liberally for utilizing their < ^ homes and premises for such pur- ^ poses. One of these stations is 1 ^ still in a fair state of preservation on the outskirts of Martin- 1 ville, West Virginia, while along 1 the line of the canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railway there j are a number of frame and log id . . . . . . - ie houses which are pointed o"(i as m underground railroad statiolii. k- HELPED TO STEAL 5,000 NEGROES w Levi Coffin, one of the presiw dents, who was a very wealthy man ,Vvigtl nt T?nnnf ' n /r* t tral station between the South and Canada. For a number of years Coffin was on duty at Cin1 cinnatti, Ohio, as a sentinel, and ky did effective work in aiding fu*}e gitive slaves. He left the manin agement of his home?central iry station?to his wife, who receiv^ ed and cared for more than five ian thousand slaves. Coffin's home ur" was the meeting place for aboliuc" tionists in that section of the . or country, and today it is the one lse? point of historic interest in the ipid wjth large rooms and severa an^ good sized secret closets, and ? the haspment difficult to find one' ^ *n way out of. Then, too, the aiti unds fg go arranged that one not thoi !Very oughly familiar with the coi regu- struction of the house to eith< were enter or get out of. The- hou t fan- wag in 1828, five years V laway fore the organization of the v derground railroad, but Cof RS' . evidently had an idea of the p f engi- pGge which it would be ] ; Sam- wyien ha(j it constructed, al con- jg saj(j that it was in this ho that Eliza Harris, of Uncle To officers cakin fame was concealed ion f?r remained until she was enti a board restored to health. Frede e com- Doughs was several times a ch men jtor the central station, bi . White, iikewise visited other sta Purvis, an(j was 8iated as one of the 1 Rhoad- eraj supervisors, miss, J next in ineamy to brov rd Garri- perhaps next to John B ~ mention- g^ Concklin, a yuaner oi d influen- a(je]phia, was the most i freely of wor^er \n the cause of libe slaves. Like Brown, too, :ibed. ercised exceeding bad judj iere it was going to Alabama and sj the most away a negro woman an found that children, making a su< I boats on escape with them to Vin were "ap- Ind,, where he was arres is no time was afterwards found de aid for a ing been killed and place e was less water. ONE MAN GOT IIIS DESERT! Another sentinel who f sadly was S. A. Smith, he ng boxed tip a negro boy na ftenry Brown, at Richmond, ind sent him by express tc leadquarters in Philadelp rhe Richmond authorities j Smith seven years in the S penitentiary. About the s ;ime a negro named Jack CI Jan fell in with the undergrc igents and left his home ir Family of Ex-President T; Christian had. beeip^p^ wfilfe HdUSe during er's administration. Ano legro named William Jones shipped in a box from Baltir ;o Philadelphia, and he c lear losing his life, the bo> ng delayed in shipment and fugstive slave was three < vithout water or food. Cai lursing brought him around hen he went in the field t< >thers. VHY DID THEY NOT BUY T HONESTLY? Samuel Burris, the colored jral conductor, made a nai j. t ?ii - tr iscape at ijouisvine, ivy., v ;rying to help out some jtassi davki?e in getting freec He managed to escape to Cii nati and from there went to ver, Del., where he was cai red-handed in his work. A a, trial he was convicted and to prison, and then adven for safe. The officials were ] ed as to the general conduc predicament and sent a trus the guise of a slave trad* buy him. In this they were cessful, but the sum paid far in excess of the value < likely negro." UII" Tf UIIV l/I vii l*i ground railroad and its wo Maryland and Virginia th Capt. James Webster, wh< been the chief of police of andria, Va., for almost a century. He says: ABOLITIONISTS FOR REV ONLY. "I have a very distinct lection of the work of the i ground railroad, and esp< as it relates to the old C. < Canal. From 1830 to 18 1 coal trade was heavy ov ' Cinflb J-t bQinor b?ymo-Lf I sels for shipment to * ports. The undergroun 3 road officials soon realize c this canal offered exceptk *- vantages for smuggling North. These slaves 2r brought in from all poin se the canal on the boats i ,e- smuggled on the big ve in- ing North. So freqi slaves disappear that in ur~ Legislature passdd an put viding that all vessels If searched by officers i use for the purpose before m's this port. A major it an^ masters were abolitic rely We had considerable tr them. I can say, too, v's" of these abolitionists jt he btionists for revenge o tions smuggled away negro< gen- gold them again, vn severely with abolitio of them were nothinj rown, a lot of border rascal ! Phil- care a tinker's darn irdent negro. These out-: rating nue abolitionists w he ex- close corporation, jment, negro crossed the )iriting did so with full dii d three where to stop; w jcessful where and how to cennes, tions along the ited and Maryland ane Wes ad, hav- and into Pennsyl id in the they would be safe time these bord * \ 3. hadihingfl arranged so that the are(j negroes >vould be captured by hav- their co-workers. The genuine " abolitionist, the earnest, faithful med WOrk^irs in a very bad cause, had Va., a harp road to weed in steering ?the clear 6f these imposters. How>hia. ever> tkey managed to land high rave an<* ^hyiirany a slave by the old canal fpate. We were so near ltate the dea<# .line of freedom here ame that mou: of our slave holders firis- were kejt so constantly worried >und ahout th^ir slaves that they were the really when the emancipation procuration was issued. It yner. g0t to tlsiwpoint where it was ^the more t*p3Kle and more expense ifll lJ1 1 than he <;r 1 ther srrel^a^ferth. U was .The bwit|nderground railroad 'didv?^sbing business for many nore ibfig wearer and it was not an iname frequent thing in the days be: be- f?re the war to hear people call I the and Ohio Canal the uhddrgrpqnd railroad." a fnui AN ATTEMPT 1 > aid TO MURDER. I hem Life Preservers Become c Life Destroyers. Deal- l gen- ers in Cork Guilty of h rrow Diabolic I ... f fhile v Blue The offi^3 of a company in t lorn. New Jer^y nUinufacturing cork c icin- for life preservers have been ar- r ' Do- rested by agents of the United e light States Government charged with a ifter having inserted iron bars in the \ sent cork in order to make it of stan- t tised dard weight. This is the tech- t post- nical statement of the case, but tor's any one who understands the t ty in consequences of thus "loading" c ar to life preservers understands that ( sue- the offica-s of ttje company really 1 was stand, charged with an attempt I >r "a to murder, s fj i _ The evidence, in the case is so < nuCt?T/aitnij ~ "ivi Uin?wv - ?o rk in responsibility of the accused j an is officers. They were furnishing ) has the cork on contract to a manuAlex facturer of life preservers. The i half manufacturer complained that the cork was under weight. enue The accused replied that they would remedy the matter by furrecol nishing heavier material. Indue jnder- course of time the heavier mateecially was delivered, and it aroused ind O. the suspicions of the workmen 60 our engaged aS 'awl and er the servers. , ;t contained some mtheni hard substance. The discovery T r?n was made known, and the manua rau" - ow .of.iatine: the enor 3d that tacturer, w >nal ad- mity of the offense, communinegroes cathd with the Government were The investigation was continue< ts along a?d the men were arrested. I ind then it had not been for the suspicion ssels go- ?f the workmen the cork woul lent did have gone into life preserver 1844 the and every man, woman or chi Act pro- who use^oqe of these preserve should be wou^ hfrve Ipjfcw-sent to tht b< appointed torn just about as quickly they left though so much iron were t y of the about their necks, mists and Such deception as this, si oubie with scoundrelism deserves not to that some covered up under a charge were abo- fraud merely, but to be plainly. They ed by its right designation, es and then attempt to murder. It is a v ginia dealt der that even men capable nists. Some such crime would undertak f more than commit it so soon after tho - - * - rihle Slocum accident in ~ * --J.. s and dian 11 for the poor York Harbor, and tne asu for-the-reve- j *n? revelations subsequ rorked as a made regarding the life pn and when a ers *n use on vessel. Potomac he a^most incredible that rections as to should be men engaged ii as told just cheapening of product at find the sta- tam cost ?f human life, line through edIy. honesty must have < ttern Virginia ec* ^rom business, and th ivania, where ?* money worked tremem . At the same evil> when men so hghtl :r abolitionists human life. F. M. FARR, President, T H Merchants and Plant Successfully Doing Busine mmm 18 tho OLDEST llank in Ui H K lias n capital and surplus o H B Is tho only NATIONAL lit P) has paid dividends nmou E S J>itys FOUR per cent, int R U is the only liank in ITnion Bj 9 has Ilurjrlar-Proof vault, i pays more tuxes than A LI WE EARNESTLY S^MC lesponsibility of ^ ? j" Parents to Children. fi If it is asked why there are so 0 iany drunkards and gamblers nd murderers in this country, cl r why our jails and peniteniaries are full to overflowing, or /hy our young men use profane inguage so freely, and desecrate ^ lod's day so freeiy, and indulge o freely in intoxicating drinks, p t may be replied that parents ^ lave not discharged their obliga- I ? TOnu1a%Shm^hildren-_ If they " >e furnished with good counsel"1- ^ ?rs, our churches with consistent c nemhers and efficient office-bear- * rs, our homes would be happy, ^ md our country prosperous. ^ Vhat must parents do in order t hat they may meet their obliga- f ion to their chijdren? * I. They mu^t set their children * he proper example. David was * leficient in this respect. He ^ committed murder and adultery, f dow could he expect anything r setter of his children? Was not * \bsalom soon walking in his foot- s >teps? Young people will not * ^uage, desecrate a indulge in strong drink, they will J do likewise. If their parents neglect God's word and his house, and give little of their means towards the promotion of his cause, they will not do any better. Unless people banish their children from their presence, they will exert an influence j over them either for good or for evil. This influence is a mighty say anything tnal Ciw.ueract it If young people tell you that their parents have given their consent for them to do a thing . for which you have reprovec - them, and that their parents d( . that thing, you may as well clos. 1 your mouth. . , f II. They must exercise tn lS proper control over their childrei 1 n?? exercise no contr a collie ? s, whatever over their childre Id They let them do as they pleas rs Their children would be as w 3t- off, as far as their highest int< as est is concerned, if they had ied parents. Again, there are parents v ach endeavor in a feeble way to c be trol their children, but they m of a mistake in that instead of c ird- manding obedience as did fs an ful Abraham, they remonst von- with them, as did unhappy i of "If you do that again, I e to thrash you" is the kind of hor- guage they use, but they d< Mow nut their threat into execi * -MJ? | X- >und They thus teach their cnuui iently distrust '^them, If they 3serv- them at all, they do so th It is ' fear. They reprove them there j verely that they regard th 1 such | tyrants, rather than as so cer- parents. They have so Assur- | failed to put their threat iepart- execution that what they e love them makes no impress lendous them. It can be safely si y value harsh words or means are if ever, necessary in the J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. E ers National Bank, iss at the "Old Stand." nion. f $100,000, ink in Union, nting to $&)0,400. orcst on deposits, inspected by an ofliccr. tnul Safe with Time-Lock, the Matiks in Union combined. ;iT YOUR BUSlNggg I The most essential thing is rmness. When children are ommanded to do a thing they hould be made to do it. If kind fords are not sufficient to the ccomplishment of that end, the 3d should be used, not in a fit of nger, but in a spirit of kindness. III. They must give their chilren religious training. Many arents fail to mppt thpir nWirro ions to their children in this repect. Family worship is sadly eglected. How can people who ejectedLaJ_ altar to God _ ?f their children to be saved? Vherever Abraham cast his tent ie erected an altar to God, and Jod blessed him and his seed afer him. If parents wonld faithully instruct their children in he principles of the religeon of Jhrist, they would not come so ar short of discharging their luty to them. How few com>aratively do this! They spare 10 effort to cultivate their minds, >ut their spiritual interest is iomething that they scarcely ,hink of. They are anxious for vation of their souls. They turn over the religious training of their children to their pastor and Sabbath school teacher. One excuse they make for failing to give religious instruction to their children is that they have not time to do so. If they were sufficiently interested in the salvation of the souls of their childuties and a fath ner iiuu^cnuiU er his business in order to give . their children religious instruc[ tion, let them do so. 3 Many parents make a mistake e in not giving their children religious instruction early in their e lives. When a lady asked 1 Charles Wesley, when she should 0| begin to train her child, he asked n her how old it was. When she e replied that it was six months ep old, he said, "Madame, you have 3r_ lost six months." It is when no children are young that impressions are the most easily made yh0 upon them. They are then as >on_ wax in the hands of their parake ents to be molded, and the imom pressions that are then made uplith on their hearts are as lasting as rate marble.?Rev. A. H. Atkins, in g|j the Christian Observer. will lan- The War. 3 not ition, We bemoan the Japanese war, 1 vQQt d^struc en to ag we reau ui mc ?key tion, of the waste of treasures so se- anc* an(* yet a^ history em as teaches us that out of just such loving waste and clash, God has brought often the world to better administrate into ^on an(j better living. The war saj to js a revelation, as it brings ion on . . lid that our vlslon a new nation, born seldom, *n a day high ambitions and govern- of heroic endeavor.