The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-08-09
UNION c. H., SOUTH cARof.fssA, AUGUST o, ISIS

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can not govern the cdpnify successfully.
II has also been said that NE gave our as.
sent to this doctrine ins1S70,. but that is
not true. We were then on the outside and
trying to Improve the goverunent by intro.
ducing better element into it. The whole
matter is reversed now; the governu ent
has passed ints competent and honorable
hands, and shall we be expected to deterio-
rate 1t by admitting the very same corrupt
element we fought then And, moreover
how were we met then when we advanced
this same proposition? The Republican,
party turned the backs of its hands to us,
and now that we are IN power L propose to
turn tho backs of osr.hands to them l.
That is the whole issiae E&S ii is said
that we ought to be magnanin;ms and gen.
erous. These are noble traits Of character
in any man or party, and 1 trust may
never be heard raising my voice against
their proper exercise but let us be careful
that we don't mistake magnanimity and
generosity for silly and pernicious seuti-
mentslism. They are different things
Onos soes for the domain of poesy, but in
the Practical affairs of the law and in any
thing SO intensely practical as politics it will
not do. Do not let US degenerate these
high and noble qualities into pulling SEN
timentalism.
THE POLITICAL MILLENNIUM.
1t has been said that the political mil
lenium is not far off, thar the Republican
party is not going to run an opposition
ticket to the State ticket / hope that the
State ticket will not suffer itself to be mis-
led into position of false sesurity by any
such siren illusions, promises or songs
They may indeed paralyze the strength of
the ticket by promising to run nothing
against it, but While the ticket is in state
of supposed security this cunning monster
will run in candidates enough to get control
OF our Legislature, and we cannot afford to
lose sight Of this danger.
APPREHENSIoNS OF DIVISION.
learned since came here that there
are great apprehensions that we will have
serious divisions among ourselves ON account
OF the number of candidates who have
come forward, but the practical good sense
of the people of Edgefeld will not permit
suoh'a result AS to the number of can
didates being proof of division, hail it
rather as a'sigp of. rsturning interss; i'm,
public affairs. All who have been nominn-
ted up to this time are honorable men, and
L know they will abide the voice of the
people; and WOO to the man who does not |!
| say to you let such an one be ostracised
and thenceforth consigned to political obi
won, and let him be fayed alive by the
voice of public opinion [Cheers.]
HIS WORK IN WASHINGTON.
I want to say one thing more in conclu-
sion. Some Of my friends want to know
what l have been doing in Washiugton.-
One of the first things had to do was to ss-
cure my scat in Congress, and believe
have accomplished that. Another
thing l have done was to secure tho open.
ing Of the new postof6ces and needsd an,
preparations. Another thing was to satisfy
those people that they were Dornd to recog-
nize South Carolina as an independent SOW
ereign State. How far I have succec ded
in this matter cannot say bat I think |
can promise that before l have concluded
my term there they shall know that there
is such spot of earth as the State of South
Carolina.
Gen Bntlar continued his remarks by a
brief discussion OF mattersss s.gz -, Local
interest, and concluded WITT g. ssaeef :ae.
acknowledgement of the compliment which
had been conferred upon him by the peo-
pie of his county Charleston Neos and
Courier
RUST IN WHEAT.-Edfitor Southern
Cuttioator.-I have just tested German
recipe for rust in wheat, and found it a sure
remedy. My wheat this year had rust
badly, but Il prepared and sowed one peck
on two-lands across, a lot /; and the hands,
when they came to it remarked to me, 'this
wheat is clear of rust" without any knowl-
edge of the test. On either side, tho wheat
was badly affected with scab rust The Ger
man agricultafist had used this remedy for
30 years, and his neighbors had rust in
fields adjoining his whilst there was NOT a