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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889. NO. 13.
JOSEPH F. RHAME,
ATTL)RXEY AT LAW,
MANNING, S. C.
JOHN S. WILSON,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
MANNLNG, S. C.
,".? WILSON,
ISVRANCE AGEX,
MANNING. S. C.
ATTORNEY AT L AW,
MANNING. S. C.
Notary Public with seal.
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FORESTON, S. C.
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THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN
Sermon by the Rev. T. DeWit
Talmage, D. D.
He Rejolees at the Reception of 240 Nev
Members of His Flock, and Preache
About the Return of the Prod
igal Son-A Day of Jubilee.
A jubilee sermon was preached recentl,
by Rev. Dr. Talmage, the occasion being ai
especial communion reception of 240 net'
members, making the present communican
membership of the Brooklyn Tabernaci
4,408. Dr. Talmage took his text from the
fifteenth chapter of Luke, twenty-thiri
verse: "Bring hither the fatted calf ani
kill It." The eloquent preacher spoke as
follows:
Joy! Joy ! Joy I We banquet to-day over
this accession of a multitude of souls. Ir al
ages of the world it has been customary tc
celebrate joyful events by festivity-th(
signing of treaties, the proclamation o1
peace, the Christmas. the marriage. How
ever much on other days of the years our
table- may "have stinted abbply;6on Thanks
giving Day there must be something bount"
eous. And all the comfortable2 homes of
Christendom have at some time celebrated
joyful events by banquet and festivity.
Something has happened in the old home
stead greater tkan any thing that has ever
happened before. A favorite son, whom the
world supposed would become a vagabond
and outla* forever, has got tired of sight.
seeing and has returned to his father's
house. The world said he never would come
back. The old man always said his son
would come back. He had been looking for
him day after day and year after year. He
knew he would come back. Now, having
returned to his father's house, the father
proclaims celebration.
There is a calf in the paddock that has
been kept up and fed to utmost capacity so
as to be ready for some occasion of joy that
might come along. Ah! there never will
be a grander day on the old homestead than
this day. Let the butchers do their word,
and the housekeepers bring in to the table
the smoking meal. The musicians will take
their places, and, the' gay groups will move
up and down the floor. All the friends and
neighbors are gathered in, and extra supply
is sent out to the table of the servants. The
father presides at the table and says grace,
and thanks God that is-long absent boy is
home again. Oh! how they missed him;
how-glad they are to have him back! One
brother indeed stands pouting at the back
door and says: . "This is a great ado about
nothing; this bad boy should have been
ciastened instead of greeted; veal is too
good for him!" But the father says: "Noth
ing is too good, nothing is good enough."
There sits the young man, glad at the hearty
reception, but a shadow of sorrow flitting
across his brow at the remembrance of the
trouble be had seen. All ready now. Let
th covers lift. Music. He was dead and
he is alive again! He was lost and he Is
found! By such bold imagery does the
Bible set forth the merry-making when a
soul comes home to God.
L-First of all there is the new convert's
joy. It Is no tame thing to become a Chris
tian. The most tremendous moment in a
man's life is when he surrenders himself to
God. The grandest time in the father's
homstead is when the boy comes back.
Among the great throng who in the parlors
of this church professed 'Christ one night
was a young man who next morning rang
at my door bell and said, "Sir, I can not
contain myself with the joy I feel; I came
here to express it. I have found moredy
in five minutes in serving God than in all
the years of my prodigality, and 1 came to
say so."
You have peen, perhaps, a man running
for his physical liberty and the officers of
the law after him, and you saw him escape,
or afterward you heard the judge had par
doned him, and how great was the glee of
that rescued man; but it is a very tame
thing, that, compared with the running for
one's everlasting life--the terrors of the
law after him, but Christ coming in to par.
don and bless and rescue and save. You re.
member John Bunyan in his great story tells
how the Pilgrim put his fingers in his ears
and ran, crying: "Life,.,life; eternal life !"
A poor car-driver in this city~some years
ago, after having had a struggle to support
his family, suddenly was informed that .a
large inheritance was his, and there .was
joy amounting-to bewilderme1t',jbut that~is
a small thig oompared~ with the experience
of opie when he has put In his hands the title
deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors
of Heaven, and he can truly say: "Its man
sions are -mine, its temples are mine, its
songs are mine, its God Is mine!"
0, it is no tame thing to become a Chris
tian. It is a merry making. Is is the kill
lng of the- fatted calf. It Is jubilee. You
know the Bible never compares it to a funer
al, but always compares it to something
bright, It is more apt to be compared to a
banquet than anything else. It is compared
in the Bible to the water, bright, flashing
wvater; to the morning roseate, fireworked,
mountaintransfigured morning. 1 wish I
could to-day take all the Bible expressions
about pardon and peace, and Life, and com
fort, and hope, and Heaven, an~ twist them
into one garland, and put it on 'ah browof
the humblest child of God in this assem
blage, and cry: "Wear it, wear it now,
wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the
Lord God Almighty." 0, the joy of the
new convert! O, the gladness of the
Christian service.
You have seen- sometimes a man in a re
ligous assembly get up and give his experi
ence. Well, Pal1 gave his experience. He
arose in the presence of two churches, the
church on earth and the church in Heaven,
and he said: "I~ow this is my experience:
Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing-poor, .yet
maing many rich-having nothing, yet pos
sessing all things.'" If the people in this
house this morninsr knew the joys of the
Christian religion, they woulc' ::? pass ovet
Into the kingdom of God the next moment
When~ Daniel Sandeman was dying of cholers
his attendant said: "Have you much pain?'
"," he replied, "since I found the Lord)]
have never had any pain except sin." Theti
they said to him: "Would you like to send
a message to your friends?" "Yes, I would:
tell them that only last night the love oi
Jesus came rushing into my soul like the
surges of the sea, and I had to cry out
'Stop, Lord, it is enough; stop, Lord,
enough' " 0, the joys of this Christiante
ligion I
Just pass over from those tame joys its
which you are indulging--joys of this world
--into the raptures of the gospel. The world
can not satisfy you; you have found that
out-Alexander lornging for other worlds tc
conquer, and yet drowned in his own bottle:
Byron whipped'by disquietudes around the
world.; Voltaire cursing his own soul while
all the streets of Paris were applauding him
Henry IL. consuming with hatred agains
poor Thomas a Becket-all illustrations o:
the fact that this world can not make a mar
happy. The very man who poisoned thi
pommel of the saddle on which Queen Elis
abeth rode, shouted in the street: "o
save the Queen !" One moment the worli
applauds, and the next moment the worlk
anathematizes. 0, come over into thih
greater joy, this sublime solace, this reag
ncenbsatitude. The night after the bat
+ls af Rhiloh- and tnere wore thousands oa
wounded on the field, and the ambulances
had not come. Une Christian soldier lying
there a-dying under the starlight began to
sing:
"Tbece is a land of pure delight,"
and when he came to the next line there
were scores of voices uniting:
"Where saints immortal reign."
The song was caught up all through the
fields among the wounded, until it was said
there were at least ten thousand wounded
men reuniting their voices as they came to
the verse:
"There everlasting springabides,
And neverxwithering tiowers;
Death like a narrow stream divides
That Heavenly land from ours."
0, it is a great religion to live by, and it is
a great religion to die by. There is only
one heart-throb between you and that re
ligion this morning. Just look into the face
of your pardoning God and surrender your
self for time and for eternity and He is
yours, and Heaven is:yours, and all is yours.
Some of you, like the young man of the
text, have gone far astray. I know not the
history. but you know it, you know it.
When a young man went forth into life, the
legend says,. his guardian angel went forth
with him, and getting him into a field the
guardian angel swept a circle clear around
where the young man stood. Jt was a circle
of virtue and honor, and he must not step
beyond that circle. Armed foes came
down, but were obliged to halt at the
circle-they could not pass. But one day
a temptress with diamond hand stretched
forth and crossed that circle with the
hand, and the tempted soul took it, and
by that one fell grip was brought beyond
the circle and died. Some of you have
stepped beyond that circle. Would you not
like this day, by the grace of God, to step
back I This, I say to you. is your hour of
saivation. There was in the closing hours
of Queen Anne what is called the clock
scene. Flat down on the pillow, in helpless
sickness, she could not move her head or
move her hand. She was waiting for the
hour when the ministers of state should
gather in angry contest, and, worried and
worn out by the coming hour, and in the
momentary absence of the nurse, in the
power. the strange power which delirium
sometimes gives one, she arose and stood in
front of the clock, and stood there watching
the clock when the nurse returned. The
nurse said: "Do you see any thing peculiar
about that clockl" She made no answer,
but soon died. There is a clock scene in
every history. If some of you would rise
from the bed ofiethargy and come out from
your delirium of sin and look on the clock
of your destiny this morning, you would
see and hear something you have not seen
or heard before, and every tick of the min
ute, and every stroke of the hour, and every
swing of the pendulum would say: "Now,
now, now, now!" 0, come home to your
father's house. Come home, oh, prodigal,
from the wilderness. Come home, come
home.
II.-But I notice that when the prodigal
came there was the father's joy. He did not
greet him with any formal "How do you
do?" He did not come out and say: "You
are unfit to enter; go out and wash in the
trough by the well, and then you can come
in; we have had enough trouble with you."
Ah I no. When the proprieter of that es
tate proclaimed festival, it was an outburst
of a father's love and a father's joy. God is
your father. I have not much sympathy
with that description of God I sometimes
hear, as though he were a Turkish Sultan,
hard and unsympathetic, and listening not
to the cry of his subjects. A man told me
he saw in one of the Eastern lands a king
riding along, and two men were in alterca
tion, and one charged the other with having
eaten his rice, and the ktig said: "Then
slay the man, and by post-mortem examina
tion find whether he has, eaten -the rice."
And he was slain. Ah ! the cruelty of a
scene like that.. Our God I not a sultan,
not a czar, not a despot. but a father-kind,
loving, forgiving, and He makes all heaven
ring again when a prodigal vomes back. "I
have no pleasure," he says, "in the death of
him that dieth."
If a man does not get to Leaven it is be
cause he will not go there No difference
the color, no difference the history, no dif
ference the antecedents, rto difference the
surroundings, no difference the sin. When
the white horses of Christ's victory are
brought out to celebrate the eternal tri
umph you may ride one of them, and as
God is greater than all, His joy Is greater,
and when a soul comes back there is in His
heart the surging of an infinite ocean of
gladness, and to -express that gladness it
takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the
thrones of pomp, and all the ages of eterni
ty.. It is a joy deeper than all depths, and
higher., than all height, and wider thasn all
width, and vaster than all Immensity. It
overtops, it undergirds, it outweighs all the
united splendor and joy of the universe.
Who can tell what God's joy is?
You remember reading the story of the
a'ng who on some great day of festivity
scattei ,,, silver and gold among the people,
and sent valuable presents to his courtiers;
but methinks when a soul comnea back, God is
so glad that to expreab his joy he flings out
new worlds into space, and kindles up new
suns, and rolls among the white-robed an
thems of the redeemed a greater hallelujah,
while with a voice that reverberates among
the mountains of frankiucense and is
echoed back fren , he everlasting gates, he
cries: "This, my son. was dead, and he is
alive again."
At the opening of the Exposition in New
Orleans I saw a Mexican flutist, and he
played the solo, and then afterward the
eight or ten bands of music, accompanied
by the great organ, came In; but the sound
of iat one flute as compared with all the
orchestra was greater than all the combined
joy of the universe when compared with
the resounding heart of Almighty God.
For ten years a father went three times a
day to the depot. His son went off in aggra
ating circumstances, but the father said:
"He will come back." The strain was too
much and his ind parted. and three times
a day the father went. In the early morn
ing he watched the train, its arrival, the
stepping out of the passengers. and then
the departure of the train. At noon he went
there again watching the advance of the
train, wvatohing the departure. At night,
there again; watching the coming, watching
the going for ten years. He was sure his
son would come back. God has been watch
ing and waiting for some of you, my broth
ers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years,
forty years, perhaps fifty years-waiting,
watching; and if this morning the prodigal
shuld comehome, what a scene of gladnesn
and festivity, and how the great Father's
heart would rejoice at your coming home.
You will come, some of you, will you not?
You will, you will I
III.-I notice also that when a prodigal
comes home there is the joy of the minis
ters of relIgion. 0, it is a grand thing to
preach this gospel! I-know there has been
a great deal said about the trials and hard
ships of the Christian ministry. Since I
entered the profession I have seen more of
the goodness of God than I will be able to
celebrate in all eternity. I know some boast
about their equilibrium, and they do not
rise into enthusiasm, and they do not break
down with emotion; but I confess to you
plainlythat when I Isee a man coming to
God, and giving up his sin, 1 feel in body,
mid and soul a transport- When I see a.
pan wh'o Is bound hand and foot In evil
though it were my own emancipation.
When to-day in our communion service such
throngs of young and old stand at these al
tars, and in the presence of heaven and
earth and hell attest their allegiance to
Jesus Christ, I feel a joy something akin to
that which the apostle describes when he
says: "Whether in the body I can not tell,
or out of the body I can not tell; God
knoweth."
0, have not ministers a right to rejoice
when a prodigal comes home? They blew
the trumpet, and ought they not to be glad
of the gathering of the host? They pointed
to the full supply, and ought they not to re
joice when souls pant as the hart for the
waterbrooks! They came forth saying : "All
things are now ready;" ought they not to
rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the
banquet?
Life insurance men will all tell you that
ministers of religioteas a class live longer
than any other. It i confirmed by. the sta
tistics of all those who calculate upon human
longevity. Why is it? There is more draft
upon the nervous system than in any other
profession, and their toil is most exhausting.
I have seen ministers kept on miserable sti
pends by parsimonious congregations who
wondered at the dullness of the sermon,
when the men of God were perplexed al
most to death by questions of livelihood,
and had not enough nutritious food to
keep any fire in their temperament. No
fuel, no fire. I have sometimes seen the in
side of the life of many of the American
clergymen-never a:cepting their hospital
ity, because they can not afford it; but I
have seen them struggle on with salaries of
five and six hundred dollars a year-the
average less than that-their struggle well
depicted by the Western missionary who
says in a letter: "Thank you for your last
remittance. Until it came we had not any
meat in our house for one year, and all last
winter, although it was a severe winter,
our children wore their summer olothes."
And these men of God I find in different
parts of the land, struggling against annoy
ances and exasperations innumerable; some
of them week after week entertaining
agent.! who have maps to sell, and submit
ing to all styles of annoyance, and yet with
out complaint, and cheerful of soul. How
do you account for the fact that these life
insurance men tell us that ministers as a
class live longer than any others? It is be
cause of the joy of their work, the joy of
the harvest field, the joy of greeting prodi
gals home to their father's house.
0. we are in sympathy with all innocent
hilarities. We can enjoy a hearty song, and
we can be merry with the merriest: but
those of us who have toiled in the service are
ready to testify that all these joys are tame
compared with the satisfaction of seeing
men enter the kingdom of God. The great
eras of every minister are the outpouring
of the Holy Ghost, and 1 thank God I have
seen eighteen of them. Thank God, thank
God!
IV.-I notice also when the prodigal comes
back, all earnest Christians rejoice. If you
stood on Montauk Point and there was a
hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward
the shore, and a vessel crashed into the
rocks and you saw people get ashore in the
life-boats and the very last man got on the
rocks in safety, you could not control your
joy. And it is a glad tihne when the church
of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean
of their sins plant their feet on the rock
Christ Jesus.
0, when prodigals come home just hear
those Christians sing. Just bear those Chris
tians pray. It is not a stereotyped suppli
cation we have heard over and over again
for twenty years, but a putting of the case
in the hands of God with an importunate
pleading. No long prayers. Men never
pray at great length unless they have noth
ing to say and their hearts are hard and
cold. All the prayers in the Bible that were
answered were short prayers. "God be
merciful to me a sinner." "Lord, that I may
receive my sight." "Lord, save me or I
perish." The longest prayer, Solomon's
prayer at the dedication of the temple, less
than eight minutes in length, accor dig to
the ordinary rate of enunciation.
And just hear them pray now that the
prodigals are comifng home. Just see them
shake hands. No putting forth the four tips
f the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty
grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem
to clench the fingers of one hand around the
ter band. And then see those Christian
faces, how Illuminated they are. And see
tbat old man get up, and with the same
voice that he sang fity years ago in the old
ountry meeting house, say: "Now, Lord,
lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for
mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." There
as a man of Keith .who was hurled into
prison in time of persecution, and one day
e got off his shackles and he came and
stood by the prison door, and when the jailer
was opening the door with one stroke he
struck down the man who had incarcerated
him. Passing along the streets of London
e wondered where his family wvas. He did
not dare ask lest he excite suspicion, but,
passing along a little way from the prison,
he saw a Keith tankard, a cup thate beonged
to the fam'ily trom generation to generation
-he saw !t in a window. His family, hop
ing that some ay he would get clear, came
and lived as n air as they could to the prison
house, and they set that Keith tankard in
the window, hoping he would see it; and he
came along and saw 4z, and knocked at the
door, and wvent in, and t-he long-absent famn
ilv were all together again. O,'if you would
strt far the kingdom of God to-day. I think
some of you would find nearly all y'our
friends and nearly all your families around
the holy tankar'i of the holy communion
fathers. mothers, brothers, sisters around
that sacred tankard which commemorates
the love of Jesus Christ our Lord. 0, it
will be a great commun ion day when your
whole family sits around the sacred tank
ard. One on earth, one in heaven.
'V.--Once I remarked that when the prodi
gal gets back the inhabitants of Heaven
keep festivaL. I am very certain of it. If
you have never seen a telegraphic chart,
you have no idea how many cities are con
nected together and how many lands.
Nearly all the neighborhoods of the
earth seem articulated, and- news flies
from city to city, and from continent
to continent. But more rapidly go the
tidings from earth to Heaven, and when
a prodigal retuzrns it is announced before
the throne of God. And if these souls this
morning should enter the kingdom there
would be some one in the Hea-enly king
domn to say: "That's my father," "'That's
my mother," "That's my sonl." "That's my
daughter." "That's my friend." "That's the
one li used to pray for," "'That's the ono for
whom I wept so many tears," and one soul
would say, "Hosanna!I" and another soul
would say, "Hallelujah !"
"Pleased wit". the news the saints below
In songs their tongues employ;
Beyond the skies the tidings go,
And Heaven is filled with joy.
Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindled wi*h new ilre-:
The sinner l-ast is found. they sig
And strike the sounlding& lyre."
At the banquet of Lucullus sat Cicero the
orator, at the Macedonian festal sat Philip
the conquerer, at tae Grecian banquet sat
Socrates the philosopher. but at our:
Father's table sit all the returned prodigal,
more than conquerors. The table Is so
wide its leaves reach across seas and across
lands. Its guests are the redeemed of earth
and the glorified of heaven. The ring of
God's forgiveness on every hand, the robe
of a Saviour's righteousness adroop from
every shoulder. The wine that glows in the
cups is from the bowls of ten thousand
sacraments. Let all the redeemed of earth,
and all the gloritied of heaven rise, and,
with gleaming chalice drink to the return
of a thousand prodigals. Sing ! Sing ! sing I
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to re
cive blessings and riches and honoer and
g.1-or an oar world without end I
HOT TALK IN THE HOUSE
KENNEDY. OF OHIO, BREAKS LOOSE ALL
OF A SUDDEN.
An Old Time Bloody-Shirt Whoop.-Car
lisle Denounced as a Robber and Crisp
as a Fraud--Lee, Beauregard and'Rosser
Should have been Hanged.
From theiAssociated Press dispatches
to the Columbia Register is taken the
following account of a part of the pro
ceedings in the House :
The House then went into committee
of the whole on the Indian appropria
tion bill.
Kennedy of Ohio referred to the
speech upon Southern elections made
by him in July last. No answer to that
speech had been made until a few days
ago, when Crisp of Georgia had alluded
to the speech of a man whose
name he believed was Kennedy.
The gentleman from Georgia had
said that he (Kennedy) had been
mistaken when he said that the com
mittee on elections had been appointed
by the Speaker. If the selection of the
gentleman from Georgia for the chair
manship of that committee had been an
insult to the House and to the intelli
gence of the people of the United States,
was it not as much an outrage if he was
selected by a Democratic caucus as if he
was appointed by the Speaker? The
records of the Forty-Eighth and Forty
Ninth Congresses showed that the
Speaker had appointed as chairman of
the committee on elections Turner of
Georgia-a gentleman elected by the
same sort of fraud and in famy which
lad returned Crisp to this floor. If it
was an infamy to appoint Crisp, was
it not an infamy to appoint
Turner, In the Fiftieth Congress Tur
ner did not desire to continue at the
head of that committee, and asked the
Speaker to relieve him. He was trans
ferred to the committee on ways and
means. The people of the United States
had been insulted and outraged by the
selection of a man whose election was
challenged by every sense of decency
and honor. The committee had been
appointed f6r a purpose. With undue
haste the committee had reported the
case of-John G. Carlisle to the House.
At this point Taulbee broke in with
the exclamation that the gentleman from
Ohio had selected i. good time for his
speech, Mr. Carlisle oeing.absent.
Bland then denounced it as unfair for
the gentleman to make his speech, and
raised the point of order that the gen
tleman must confine his remarks to the
Indian bill.
At firat the Chair was inclined to the
belief that the point was well taken, and
directed the gentleman from Ohio to
proceed in order.
Kennedy proceeded, but his first re
mark was in line with his previous re
marks, and again brought Bland to his
feet with the declaration that the gentle
man was in emphatic contempt of the
rules of the House.
Utterly ignoring Bland's interruption,
Kennedy said that he desired to show
that the gentleman from Georgia, at the
head of the elections committee, did
not treat the Carlisle election case
with the same precision and exactness
with which-he treated the case of Robert
Smalls of South Carolina. Eleven
months after the Carlisle case had been
considered the case of Robert Smalls
had been brought into the House.
Again Bland interrupted with a point
of order and demanded that Keunedy
should be kept to a strict observance of
the rules governing debate. His point
was overruled by Dockery (in the chair).
Bland appealed, and the House sus
taied the ruling of the Chair.
Kennedy said that by his reference to
the Smalls case he wished to show that
the D~emocratie party never had done
and never would do jus ice to the black
man.
Bland again raised a point of order,
was overrttled, and appealed, and the
vote resulting 125 to 20 in favor of sus
taning the ruling, raised the point no
quorum. A call of the committee was1
ordered, a quorum answered, the ruling
was sustained, and Kennedy iesmamed,
only to be interrupted by Bland.
After three or four times repeating
this programme, Kennedy was allowed
to proceed. He contrasted the Butter
worth case in 1879 and the action of the
Democratic House upon it with the
action of Democratic House in the Car
lisle case. The Speaker, he said, had
remained as silent as a Sphinx. Never
but once in the history of the govern
ment had there been such a proceeding.
He would not mention any names, but
the gentleman would go out to private
life condemned by his political asso
ciates and despised by his political
enemies, without society, save that only
which ill-gotten gains could purchase1
him, too low for pity, and be
nath contempt. Was it any
wonder that the. contestee stands, after
ihe vote, covered with humiliation
and shame ? Was it any wonder that
he left the exhilarating effects of Wash
ington society and sought the breezes of
Old Point Comfort to restore him' to his
mental and morai equilibrium ? He
(Kennedy) left him to himself, his
country and the people of Kentucky.
Hisses on the Democratic side.j The
gentleman from Georgia had said that
he (Kennedy,) knew nothing about
Georgia. If in 1863 the gentleman had
not been moving so swiftly to the South, a
he might have made his acquaintance in
Georgia. His (Kennedy's) standing
might not be as high in Georgia as thes
gentleman from Georgia, because
that. gentleman had worn the
Confederate grey and he (Kennedy)
the Union blue in the great contest. ie
ad no desire to compare records with
the gentlem'an from Georgia; but he be
lieved that in the estimation of every
loyal man ini the country his record
was as high above the gentleman's in
that great conflict as the angels of light
were above the angels of darkness.
~Applause on the Republican side and 1
rieisive laughter on the Democratic
side.]
Kennedy then referred to the speech
recently miade by Gov. Lee of Virginia, b
in which he declared that the country
wanted a white man's government; he
(Kennedy) wanted an honest man's gov- h
,rnment. He wonld rather have an honest a
aek ma gernment in this eoantry b
than a dishonest white man's govern
ment. While the beringed and bejew
elled ngers of the Southern aristocracy
had been endeavoring to pull down the
nation, not a single instance could be
cited where the black people had not
been loyal to the Constitution and de
voted to the flag. History would forever
record the fact that a black m-mo had run
boats past Fort Moultrie and that a
black arm had sustained the flag of the
Union on top of Fort Pillow. [Applause
on the Republican side. 1
In Arkansas, only last week, four
members of the Legislature had resigned
because they had been elected by fraud,
intimidation and violence. The same
election which returned them to the
Legislature had returned a member to
this House who had not yet handed in
his resignation.
He then quoted General Rosser's de
elaration that a Southern gentleman
could whip a Yankee every time, and
suggested that at the point of the bayo
nets and the end of the sabre and in
800 battlefields the North had punched
that idea out of the South. If Lee
and Beauregard and Rosser had
been hung at the gibbet. as
they ought to have been hung,
after the contest was over, they would
not now be teaching rebellion and
treason to the young men of the South.
(eneral Bradley .Jo:':son had said that
the government was controlled by the
Uonfederates. He thanked God that
that control was passing away, and that
the Confederates would be compelled to
take back seats. He congratulated the
2ountry that the other side of the cham
jer would be free from the dictation to
hich it had been subjected--a dictation
which had been hun ilating not only to
the House but to the entire laud.
Crisp said that be 'ore he would char
acterize the gentleman's remarks as they
leserved to be characterized, he would
expose to the House and to the country
heir deliberate and wilful inaccuracies.
ho charge had been made by the gen
leman in a speech delivered in July
ast-a charge that he could not'erade
)y prating about his loyalty. No as
sault had been made upon that; no in
imation had been made that the gen
lefan was not a true loyal soldier; and
.t was entifely out of place for a
gentleman, when charged with delib
;rate inaccuracies, to say that he Was
a soldier in the army of the Union. The
gentleman had charged that the commit
;ee on elections had been appointed by the
speaker. This he (Crisp) had denied,
mnd he now quoted from the Record to
show that the committtee had had been
lected by the House. The only charge
ie had made against the gentleman
'rom Ohio was the arge of ignorance,
ad he left it to the~ouse if he had not
submitted proof sufficient to convict the
tentleman before any jury on God's
:arth. The gentleman, from his re
narks to-day, seemed 'o be willing to
ly from the position. of ignorance and
assume that of malicious defamation. He
Crisp) said that with a full knowledge
)f the meaning of words, malicious de
amation of the Speaker of the House
gentleman who ha@ had no contro
ersy with the gentleman from Ohio, a
gentleman who stood before the House
nd the country as an honorable and
ligh-toned man. The gentleman from
)hio had come in here and made a
tatement in direct contravention of the
Record, so that he might say malicious
hi ngs of a man who occupied a high
>osition in the Democratic party-things
hich he had absolutely failed to sus
ain. The gentleman had cited the case
)f Thoebe vs. Carlisle. In, justice to the
~ommittee on elections and in
ustice to Mr. Carlisle, he would
av that the committee had
oi'med a docket for tbc trial-of these
~ases, and that that docket had met the
pproval of every Republican member
f the committee.
The' gentleman had eriticised his
mall vote in Georgia, anid he called at-.
ention to the fact that there had been
lo opposition. The object of the gentle
nan in referring to his district seemed
o be to justify the Republican party in
ome outrageous conduct which was t'o
ome in the future. He would not. fol
ow the gentleman into a criticism of his
ar record. There was nothing in his
Crisp's) record that he was ashamed
if, nor had he any regrets to express.
'he gentleman had spoken about
tonesty, and had assumed a
igh moral position. When the
entleman' assumed a high position
af honesty, the inqluiry was natural
rhether there was anything in his char
cter or past life which would lead the
sublic to accept his statenments. He
hen referred to the well known pro
eedngs which took place in the Ohio
tate Senate, when Kennedy, as Lieu
enant Governor, presided over it, stat
g that but with seventeen of thirty
1 members present the gentleman had
ntertained a motion to turn out four
)emocrats and seat four Republicans,
nd ad refusagl to permit the Demo
ratic members of the Senate upon their
eturn to place on the journal their pro
est against the injustice and iniquity of
uch a ruling. This was a circumstance
v which gentlemen could determine
hat value could be placed on the opin
n of the gentleman from Ohio on the
tuestion of honesty. [Applause on the
)emocratic side.] When it came to
olities the gentleman figured that 17
ras the half of 36. [Laughter.] That
ras the kind of gentleman who put him
elf on the high pinnacle of honesty and.
aid that he was the friend off the South
nd that he wanted honesty and fair
ealing down there. [Laughter.] The
outh had suffered many ills
ince the war. She had strug
-led through poverty and hard
imes and oppression; but he thanked
iod that it had not fallen so low that it
ould like to have the support of such
riends as the gentleman from Ohio.
Laughter and applause.]
Breckinridge of Arkansas and Turner
Georgia also replied briefly and tem
erately to Kennedy.
The reading of the bill by sections
as then entered upon, but in a few
ioments the committee rose, and the
louse, at 5:30, took a recess until 8
clock-the evening session for the con
ideration of the Indian appropriation
-Considerable guano has been
andled in Aiken CoZunty this season
ad many of the farmiers hare yet to
an1 thains home.
THE FOUR NEW STATES.
An Interesting Study-The Growth of the
Great Northwest.
Tlihe four new States -North Dakota,
South Dakota. Montana and Washing
ton-which have just been admitted to
the Union make a very interesting
study.
No other government in any part of.
the world can have the experience.which
we are now passing through. The sense
of growth and increasing strength which
we enjoy is extremely exhilarating. One
by one these great stretches of territory
lying in the Northwest, the West' and
the Southwest are being populated by
pioneers of our own blood and 'nation
ality. Physicians, tradesmen, lawyers,
preachers and artisans who found no
outlet for their energies in the. crowded
and suffocating cities have poured over
the millions of acres beyond the Mis
sissippi, formed governments, knocked
at the door of the republic and been
admitted to equal State privileges with
ourselves.
First. as to area. The two Dakotas
cover very nearly fifty million acres
each. South Dakota is larger than New
York, New Hampshire and Massachu
setts. There is enough more to,, make
six or eight Rhode Islands out of."
Montana is one of the gigantic States.
She is bigger than New York ani the
whole of New England, with New Jer
sey, Delkware, Maryland and North
Carolina tihrown in.
Washington is about the size; of each
of the two Dakotas, half the size of'Mon
tana, and has an acreage that would
cover Maine, New Hampshire, Massa
chusetts, Vermont and New Jersey.
At the end of the last century a
famoas Englishman visited this country,
and on his return wrote a book about us,
as nearly every foreigner does. He de
clared that the Alleghany. Mountains'
would forever bar our progress. They
were a wall that must always keep our
population on the seaboard. The West,
he declared. would remain an uuidevel-.
oped territory. What would he-day if
he could return?
Second, as to. population. Tidal
waves have been sweeping Westward
during the last twenty years.. In. 1860
the two.Dakotas had 4,837 inhabitants;
in 1870, 14,181;' in 1880, :135,177; in
1887, 600,000. Such an increase is well
nigh incredible. Montana had within
her borders eight years ago 39,159 per
sons; her estimated population at the
present time is 175,000. Washington
had in 1880 75,116, and eight .years
later 160,000. -
The West is clearly the field for en-.
terprise. With shrewdness, energy,
genius, hardihood, these four States
have carved out their own magnificent
fortunes and have not yet exhausted
themselves by any means.. Their future
is grander than the prophets of earlier
days ever dared to dream.-New York
Herald.
THE BROTHER IN BLACK.
The Conference of the Episcopal Dio
cesan Committee and Colered Dele
gates Has Meagre Results.
At the St. Luke's Episcopal Church
yesterday morning was held the confer
ence, notice of which has been exolus
ively given in THE REGISTER between
the commission appointed by the Epis
copal Diocesan Convention. at Anderson,
and the vestries of St. Mark's and Cal
vary churches of Charleston, St. Luke's
of Columbia, and the Church of. the
Epiphany of Summerville, and the
lergy of those churches.:
The object of the conference, as has
een several times stated in these col
mns, was to arrange,if possible,' for a.
eparate organization of these, colored
hurches under the Bishop.
Bishop W. B. W. Howe presided and
r. J. P. K. Bryan of Charleston, a
ember of the commission, 'acted as
secretary. There were present of the
ommission besides Mr..' Bryan, the
Rev. Ellison Capers and'R. W. Shand,
Esq., of this city.
Rev. A. Toonmer Porter, a member,
was prevented by illness from being
resent, and the Rev. John Kershaw,
nother member, was absent having
gone to Florida with his father.
The colored delegates p resent included
he following: A. M. Wallace, N. Eugene
Lwis and J. H. Bryant from St. Luke's;
orman Montgomery from St. Mark's;
ay delegates, Rev. J. H. M. Pollard,
Rctor of St. Mark's; Rev. E. N. Hol
igs of Charleston, antT Rev. Mr.
Quarles of ~ Edgefield County, of the
lergy,representinlg the various church a
bove named.
The result of the conference as given
ut to the press is: "That all the colored
lergymen and the vestries of St. Mark's
ad Calvary Churches and the vestries
f Church of the Epiphany were found
pposed, and St. Lukes of Columbia
as in favor of a convocation of col
red churches as recommended by the
ommission."
It is further understood that the ves
ry of St. Luke's was not in favor of an
ntirely separate organization of the
olored churches, and the convention
eferred to as favored by them is an ar
angement similar to that of the quar
terly conferences held in the Methodist
hurch.
The commission will therefore be
bliged, apparently, to report the mat
ter back to the next Diocesan Conven
tion, which will be held in Aiken on
ay 10th, leaving the condition of af
fairs, which has caused the dtscussion,
bout as heretofore.-Colurnbia Daily
eiter, February 2W.
Reform that Suoceeded.
Among the officials who will probably
e going out of officeeby and by is a
enial gentleman from the West, who
akes a handsome figure on horseback
n tihe avenue of a pleasant afternoon.
hen he was appointed he was taken
about the division by the gentleman he
as succeeding. After they had made
the rounds, the outgoing official asked
him how he was pleased.
"Everything appears well," was the
reply. -W bo is that lady over there?"
"5-he is one of our best clerks."
" Is she marriedt"
"-No"
"Well. there is a reform I will insti
tute at once. PIl marry her myself."
Ad he did wi-in three weeks.
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