The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-05-23

Stanley to explore the heart of
Ethiopia, or did it procure clair,
voyant to look into his inmost
recesses Give us tue proofs,
noighbor. Now it SO happens, that
just as tho Register trains it's Parrot
guns upon the unoffcnding darkey
and blows him and his story to
atoms, q physician of this place
receives q letter from one of tho
leading physicians of Columbia,
giving his adhesion to the theory
that "it do move" Tho assembled
medical fraternity of Columbia ex-
amined tho negro critically, and con-
cured ut the timo in the conviction
that the "change of base of the
heart was bona fitlo. This belief
was predicoted upon the closest ex-
animation made simultaneously by
four physicians. One physician has
since changed his opinion, but tho
other Gali1eos, SO far as wo are in
formed, shake their heads and still
say cit do move" notwithstanding
the Registers papal bull to the
contrary. The Register should re-
member the sad fate of the church.
men of Italy, and more recently of
John Jasper himself. The world
moves, and science, and sometimes
even the heart, moves with it.
We ask the Register why itshould
place upon the poor darkey tho
stamp Of fraud more damning than
that Of Joe Bradley and the Eight to
Seven /? Why should not his heart
move? Docs not the bashful lover,
in the presence of his girl, feel his
heart rising in his throat? Is not
the seat of the average Ethiopian's S
heart placed by report in his
stomach ? What swain has not
frequently left his heart behind him?
Have we forgotten the touching
story of Gincvra, who on her
fifteenth birthday "gave her hand,
aoith her heart aas 1t, to francisco" ;
nor have we heard Of the threat of
the bully to take his antagonists s
heart out and let him look at it," or
the assertion of the patriotic con-
gressman that he wears his heart
on his sleeve ? All this proves con-
clusively that the heart tzo move,
sometimes. And admitting that
some hearts may be moved, why
not this particular one We are
informed that this negro has no
pcricardium and no diaphragm. Pic
ture the sad fate of one condemned
to stalk the world without these
useful concomitants and appurten-
ances. The loss of q pericardium is
sad enough, but think of no dia-
phragm Horrors This is tho
acme of misfortune, the ne p1us
atttro of doggonedness. We could
wish our worst enemy no sadder
fate than the loss Of his diaphragm.
70 be wanting in the partition sopa-
rating the thornx from the abdomen,
the seat of the affections from tho
seat of the appetite, the tricuspid
from the umbilicus, and to have all
the useful organs so conglomerated,
confounded and congeminated
together that their functions become
confused and their sensations so
mixed that one cannot distinguish
between the heart ache and u pain
i'll the stomach--is most grievous
affiiction. In accordance with the
general laws of nature thore must
be some compensation for this, such
as is vouchsafed to the African
brother whose peculiarities are now
III dispute If doctors differ, they
have done SO from time immemorial.
We will cling to our doctors and
let the Register follow it's own bent.
Having argued from fact, from
scientific grounds, from charity, that
the negro's heart 0o move as claimed,
we submit our propositions to the
Register, hoping that, however slep.
tical it may be, it will deal gently
with the poor dnsly orphan who
has no mother and no poricardium
and is equally destitute of a father
and q diaphragm. It is better, far
better, to have ones heart on o
string than to have mono at all.