The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-07-01

not only to defeat, but to disaster
and death. It is not only a re-ac-
'tion against the war, and against
the principles which it established,
it is q reaction against the ten
deneies and events of the age
against that broader and higher
civilization which is making men
everywhere more tolerant Of mere
accidental distinctions, and which
is admitting them as men to share
the rights and responsibilities, as
they must share the burdens and
penalties, Of governments and
laws" ..... T..
T And believingthat there ismuch
deserving of consideration in this
paragraph, I hope that the Nation
al Democratic party will be mod
crate and polite. Let that Con-
vention put itselfupon the basis of
the South Car rolina Convention Of
April last. I agree with Col.
Thomas. in his litter to a meeting
in Newberrys wherein he suggested
that were the National Democracy
+ to plant itself upon the basis of
,qualifed suffrage to the negro,
North and South, 1t would sweep
the country and certainly achieve
the success it deserves. This, Mr..
Editor, is.my own view. 49,
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT,
The-Central Rail Road---see5
II ond Marriage:of the Atlantic,
-" " Ocean, and the Mississippi,
4. River -.S->--e = >.-.~ - -
We published Saturday morn
ing, Says the Macon Jou,uat d
Messenger, ofthe 22d:instant } from
the Montgomery Advertiser, the
proceedings Of, the stockholders
meeting Of the Montgomery and.
West Print, Rail Road, at that
.sifs. large ANS punt -of- -steelS42s:5
it:says, twas - represented, especial
1ly that held by the ceatEat Ek;sis
Road and Banking Company Of
Savannah, Georgia That Com
pany.. has leased. the Muscegee.
Bail Road for ,ninety-nine years.
and now owns, as we, learn, the,
controlling portion Of the Mont
go,nery and West Point Rail Road.
They propose, and have agreed,
we understand, to build the road
from Montgomery to Selma in less
than two years, in order 10 have
one grand line from he Missis=
-sippi riyerto the Atlaptic coast"
This is the se,ond marriage. of
tue Atlantic Ocean and Missis-,
:sippf River. In, 1857 the Memphis
and Charleston Rail Road was
completed. and the first nuptials
were grandly solemnized by those
two cities, assisted by all the
towns and cities along the line.
But, the Union was neither a close,
sor a happy one. There was not,
as nsmauy- other matches, much
love, not enough homogeneous SEN
timent, and bride and groom soon
became estranged and virtually di-
.vorced. The awful denunciation,
"Whom God Joins together let no
man, put assunder:" was disregard
ed by the, East Tennessee andVr-
ginia roads, and they have, like
the cruel and .merciless 1ago, es-
tranged Charleston and Memphis
the weather beaten, powder-be-
grimed old Othello and the lovely
young ,Desdemona: <
But the amorous old Ocean has
fallen in love the second time with
his fascinating Western bride.
This time:the nuptials are to be
celebrated by a different priest,
and before a different audience.
They are now betrothed, and the
links which are to be moulded into
the indissoluble bridal chain are
the Central, the Muscogee, the
Montgomery and West Point, the
Montgomery and Selma, and the
Selma, Meridian and Vicksburg
Do;l Dad. Fvor1, lirl- 10 roo6y