Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-23
J. L. Hogs Makes Another Speech In,
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Slho occasion was on this syise.
Major Dean of the freedmen Is Bu.
eau camc up on Monday last to
receive the new School House for
The Blacks, Which has just been
completed, and lIoge we suppose
was invited to dignity the occasion
with his presence and make u
speech. At least he came and
spoke. What was his subject do
you think rcadcr?-Edueation g
"teaching the young idea how to
shoot ?'-moral enlightenmcnt?-
Social regeneration &c?. Nothing
Of all this. 1t was principally
about Solomon L. Uoge, aid az
"thcreto incident and appertaining"
about the people of Abbcville, and
oven with word about the Press,
anticipating and even courting an at
tack. Some men have an itching
to be abused, and would sooner be
"damned to everlasting fame" than
not to be talked about ut all. They
are continually obtruding them
selves upon notice and handing a
club to an adversary to bclabor
them about their heads. Now we
have every disposition to obligc
Judge Hogc, but think we cannot
crafty linn i'll this particular. We
DO not care to waste our ammuni-
ton. We havc had our shot, and
we think we have brought down
the game. We do not care "to kill
Il dead duck" SO much for Mr..
uogc. AS to tho speech, We did
net hear it. but a friend has rcpor-
ted the points Gf the term is all'Ii-
cable to that which was rambling
and pcimlless) some of which
may merit a passing comment.
II go told his audience, that il
the late Congressional election had
been Il f;;ir. one, he would have
beat his competitor Mr.. Reed, some
10000 votes. That is all-bosh
llogo does not believe it-and nc
one else Leiierrs it--and lie him.
self would he the last man to make
that issue before an impartial ,ri.
bunal. Even his own committc,
in Congress seem to dodge the is
sue, an! gave him his scat on anotL
cr ground,
Again he offered his gratula
tons upon the improved condition
Of affairs in the country-that "th,
winter ot his discont.nt' had 0ccl
nude glorious Summer''-tha,
now he could even meet "llis friend
Col. Aiken Without danger of &
coiiision-and alluded. even pleas
antiy to the famed "exodus" from
Anderson. Our reply to all his Ii
TN -'s>.. IL. I. II ------A -
titan the conntry.-iIc views things
now through the reseate hucs of a
wcll-eatisGed self complaceucy. and
not through that distorted fancy,
which found 'gorgons hydras; and
rhmers dire at every railway
station. A''1 '.s.'' :
But Judge Hoge, thinks that
there is still room for amendment
expenses to be cut ott-humors to
be purged-too much sympathy
with law-breakcrs &c. We claim
that our community is one of the
most peaceful in the land, aud that
it there is an occasional breach of
the peace it is owing. in greut
measure to those strollirg incen-
diaries-who make their bread bv
fomenting agitation---and who not
content with expressing must irri-
tate and annoy.
His statement that some thirty
young men had como into the Dis
trict on Saturday for the purpose
OF creating disturbance, was. an
unmitigated falsehood, which was
contraaictcd on the spot by his
Honor Judge Hill. In fact Wright
OF the. Investigating Committee,
"a very sensible man by the way)
admitted, that Judge Hoge who
was absent, knew good deal more
on the subject than he did. though
present .&2,@ : s'r, '..hjT;".t
gg The election I, Of e. G: wal
ker, a Conservative Northearn: i: man, H.,
as doycrnor Of Virginia. and the