Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-04
The South Carolina Sand-Hillers.

u Gently lectured. III washington on the
condition of affairs in lis State, in the
course of which he gave description oi
the Sand-hilfers, who have been always
a degraded set of people, by the system
under which they have lived. There
were about twenty-eight thousand OF
them. The free school is utterly un-
known among them, and there is no tras
dition that any of their ancestors ever
. knew how to read and write.o= If they
ever did, thin reading and writing with
them is reckoned as among 'ssthe lost
arts" They even eat a portion of the
earth and are SO fond of eating snuff
that, in order to get an ounce, one of
them has been even known to wash him
self! They all voted solid for secession,
because they were told to do so; they
are in fact natural Democrats. In form
er times, on the eve of an election, rival
candidates would make raid among
hem, and carry off as many as possible
and lock them up in ''bull pens" till the
voting day; and sometimes the 'spens"
would be sailed, and the inmates cap
tured and taken off by a rival, and held
as voters, by the right of capture. De-
graded as they are, they are'said to be.
the Iineal descendants of Marioh's men.
Early in the present month one of the
! Republican orators was addressing about
five hundred of these people, when he
was interrupted, by stalwart man, about
fifty years Of age, who said he would
like to make speech. He was answer
ed that the age of free speech had at last
come in South Carolina, and he was al
lowed TO 60 on. lie said, "Feller citi-.
zens, you all know me. i was borned
in these hair sand hills. You know
am democrat and Late niggers. But.
I'm gwine to vote the Republican ticket,
and want you-uns to vote for it too.
Cause why I? feler citizens ? cause why?
have hada warnn from the Lord
You know, feller citizens, alters raised
the best dominic game cocks in the state
of Carolina. They never give way for
the cold steel, and they was lightning
on the gaffs. Wal, Ginril Sharman start
ed down this yer way his company, and
/ went out with my rife, and with the
boys to meet him. They was too big
fer us, and drew we-uns all back. Wal,
| reckon, when Ginril Sharman come
here, l he'd nigh about seventy of the
best domiEies that ever pecked corn
seed. Wal, Ginril Sharmau's men began
to shoot my chickens, and they bunged
'em under the house and round the house
and on top of the house; and l recken
when they got threw hadn't morn ten
chickens left. But, before God, they
han't one of 'cm crowed from that day
to this, although they're all full game.
That's the reason, feller citizens, Fm
gwine to vote this Republican ticket
It's time for we'uns to stop CROWN and
do the clean thing. Feller citizens, we
ought to have as much sense as fowl"
~ These Sand-hillers have now learned
that the same law that eleyates the ne
gro will elevate the poor whites. The
late contest was between poor and igno-
rant loyalty and rich and cultivated trea-
son, and the right has triumphed.
EXTRACT FROM THE HoN. II. c. DEM
ING's LIFE OF GEN. GRANT. Nature en-
dowed him with a strength of will, an
equitable temper, sound, practical, we'll
balanced understanding and nurture
has contributed to develop and foster
these natural endowments. From his
West Point education he derived sub
stantantial and useful knowledge, and
the edge and discipline which scientific
and mathematical study impaired to an
intellect whose native temper was for
hard service rather than glittering dis
play. His experience in the war, in
frontier life, and in rough civil employ
ment, invigorated his practical resources,
talnIliarized him with the various phases
of American character, and trained him
in the homely task of American life
His hard labor in the civil war strength.
ened and nerved the sturdy vigor Of his
understanding and will, endowed him
with that selfreliance which can only be
acquired IN its .plenitude by the habitli-i
al mastery of those difficulties which are
pronounced insurniountable. His. varied
commerce with the world, and the vicis-
STUDIES of his career, have made him thor
oughly acquainted with men, and he is
not easily beguiled or deceived. He has
the stout Independence Of purpose which
is not plant TO the purpose of Others. =
There is in- him noagkt Of that .Yacilla-
tion or oscillation which is fatal to all
earnest decision; but he makes up his
mind rapidly, and forthwith bends every
energy to the exeeution''of its irreversi-
bic behest. He has strength of convic-
ton, combined with Difference for the
popular will, and hone Of that inflexible
fself snHiciency which discards the advice
and scorns the opinions Of Others. JUS
tiee with him is a predominating attri-
butte. He is devoted to. the right, with
out protesting any supercilious content
for the ieYpedieiit8 He is faithful in his
friendship /; sincere in his professions;
superior to allensy); generoussini hiaap-
probation and commendatiops of Others;
truthful, honorable, upright in all his
dealings and converse with his fellow
men and ardent and tender in his do
mestic Affections 81 .,rrl.. n ro'i"
lb7 HONESTY THE BEST Policy The truth
of this adage is forcibly illustrated in the
recent report of the Massachusetts State
Treasurer. Massachusetts, it will be re,
meRsbsrad, refused to take advantage OF