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! aInformant' says he did not
: exactly use the avords attributed to
!, hin, ,,but that did not make much
:, difference, as the sense was the
: same. Now, we were always taught
at school, that words were used to
express our ideas, but it seems he
thinks differently; 50 that, although
Ihe did not say that sickness and
death prevailed at Ninety-Six to an
alarming extent, he started out
forthwith to prove that such was
the case. And this is the way he
does it. He takes US down the
winding Greenville & Columbia
Railroad until he gets to a certain
cross-road, by which he designates
our little town. Taking this point
as a centre, he uses radius three
miles long, with which he draws a
circle. He then names about a
dozen families living within that
circle, and calls upon them to testi-
fly in the case. After yelling the
houses in the deepest gloom, he
paints such a horrible picture, that
old Cambria ge in its sickliest days,
would have proved blessed sum-
mer residence for US.
Messrs. Editors, when horses
take a stampede, or men a panic,
they become unmanageable, and it
is astonishing what trivial causes
will sometimes produce these ef-
fects; and there is no telling the
damage that even one man can do,
whose liver is out of. order, and
who, consequently, sees things
through a disordered medium.
h Now, let us examine what he
calls Ninety-Six. His radius being
three miles long, the diameter of
the described circle would be six
miles, and the circumference in
round numbers eighteen miles.
Can this be the little village Of
Ninety-Six? The charter granted
us by the. Legislature embraces a
circle made by a radius one-half
mile long. The diameter is then
only one mile, and the circumfer-
ence three. And yet, even accept
ing his eighteen mile circumference,
there has not been a single death
in the families named, nor has there
been, up to the date Of his informa-
ton, one of their houses "veiled in
deep gloom" save one, which was
not embraced in his list. The one
excepted is located just outside of
his large circle, and its occupants
have our heartfelt sympathies, for
two of their loved ones have been
laid in the dust. ; H}&1g2,. !
After having enlarged Ninety
Six to suit his convenience, and
failed to establish his premises, he
draws the logical deduction that
his statement was "true in toto, and
not false in mo.'' Shade of
Whately! A friend suggests that
we say to "Informant," what a
school master once said to a bright
pupil-"go head"
: Now Messrs. Editors, we do not
deny that we have had some sick
ness in Ninety-Six, and a great deal
in the surrounding country, in fact,
more than we have had for years,
but We believe that the same is true
with regard to our whole county,
and extending even through Ander-
son and Greenville, but we can't
imagine why we should be singled
out and held up as objects of public
sympathy, and we do protest against
making our little town responsible
for every thing which happens
within six miles Of it. Abbeville
Court House may as we'll bel
charged with the defects of the
Long Cane country.
Now here is case in point-In the
last issue of the Medium, it is stated
that train loaded with iron ran off
the track near Ninety-.Six which de-
tanned the passenger train. Being
news to US, we asked the Agent, and
he informed US it ran off near Belton
We do not know how far our limits
may extend in the future, for We have
many great natural advantages, and
only lack population, but we do con-
tend that for the present, Ninety-Six
must be embraced within the incor-
porated limits.
As regards lnformant's classical al
lusion to putting tar upon our heels
to keep US on the track, thespubhc
may judge whether it is more applica-
BILE to us1who are keeping close TO the
text, or to him who is flying around
with such velocity on circumference
Of eighteen miles. = >-.-
In reply tohis satirical charges of
wisdom, &C., we can only say, that
personal abuse and logical arguments
are two different things, and INDUCED
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