The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-04-15
THE ARMY BILL.
Speeches by Messrs. Aiken and O'Con-
nor, of South Carolina.

Speeches by Messrs. Aiken and O'Con-
nor, of South Carolina.
During the course of the debate
Mr.. Aiken, of South Carolina, said
that in in the Furty-tifth Congress
the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Car
field had said that whoever at,
tempted to raise sectional issues as
q platform for 1880 would find him.
self greatly mistaken, and whom that
gentleman rose in the Forty sixth
Congress and denounced majority
coming from the South BIS revolu-
tionary, he (Aiken) could sec no
candor in the man or or his position.
Following the leadership of that
gentleman, tho gentleman from
Kansas (HaskelD had condemned
the aots of Southern mon, but ho
had forgotten to tell that after
Republican rule of twenty years,
within the last ten days citizens of
his own State had burned q negro,
burned him at tho stake, and
Glanced to Bacchanalian music
around his pyre." The House had
also heard from the ''nigger catcher"
from Connecticut (N[r. Hawley.) The
expression would, of course, be ex-
cused by the gentleman who had
said: "You gentlemen of the
South are relying upon troaohorous
friends. You must know that in the
Northern States all patriotism, all
intelligence and all capital belong to
the Republican party" If that gen
tleman was half as wise as he
thought he was, and know anything
about the Southern States, he must
know that all Intelligence, all prop.
erty, all virtue and all worth there
belonged to tho Democratic party.
Applause OH the Democratic side.
He had heard from men of eminence
constitutional arguments, but he
bad only to listen from which side
of the House the voice came to
know the convictions of the speaker,
and that had led him to believe that
there was not SO much constitutions
oil construction required about tho
matter. The law which it was pro.
posed to repeal had been partisan
measure. passed by partisan Con-
gress, for the purpose of upholding
partisan power. In 1868 he had
been permitted for tho first time
after the war to vote, but, on going
to the polls, he found sentinel
guarding the approach to the ballot>
box, and an officer secretod behind
the box. He, thereupon, refused
to vote, saying that no freeman
would vote under duress. CDerisive
laughter on tho Republican side.
There had been no Democratic votes
cast at that poll. In 1879 he had
gone to another poll, and found
soldiers quartered within fifty yards
Of the ballot-box, and not Repub-
llcan vote was cast at that poll.
Why? Because they had under
stood that the military we're Demo-
Gratis, and had taken the liberty of
not voting under duress. laugh.
ter and applause on the Democratic
side.]
Mr.. O'Connor, of South Carolina,
arraigned the Republican party for
it's partisan Legislation, and said that
the renowned champion of the oppo-
sition (Mr. Garfeld,) chorged the
Democratic party with organizing
revolution, but it was the gentle
mans own party that had dragged
the nation to the very perilous edge
of revolution, and from that gulf tho
Democratic party intended to rescue
the fabric of American institutions
and American civilization.
AN OLD DEED.-We saw on Monday
an old land grant from Gov. VIM.
Moultrie to WIN. Burton, made in
l786. The land granted ia two
hundred acres in Ninety-Six Dis. :
trict, which at that Gme included
Laurens, Abbeville, Newbeny and
Edgefeld, with the court house at
Old Cambridge. The land in -ques-
ton lies in. what is now Newberry
county, on Beaverdam creek. The
seal to the deed is q curiosity. It is
made of wax, is six inches in dame
ter and half an inch thick, and is
tied to the deed with q linen cord.
On one side of the seal is o palmetto
tree, and on the other is an individ.
ual, somewhat blurred and disfigur,
ed, which has the appearance of the
Goddess of Liberty, with an olive
branch in her hand. The deed was