Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
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AF0URTH OF JULY GRAFTON.
The following is the New York Suns ad-
vance report of D. H. Chamberlain's Fourth
of July Grafton in Springfield, Mass:
FELLOW C1rIzENs.-I have been asked 3 as
a Southerner, to address you Of the North on
this anniversary day of. the birth of our COM
mon Union. AS Southerner, deeply feel
the significance of the request. Could our
representative men be brought more frequent.
ly into contact with the masses of your people,
could we oftener meet, as to day, to exchange
congratulations on the permanency of the glo-
rious fabric which our fathers builded, and to
join in the expression of sentiments appropri
ate to this occasion, know that much Of the
misunderstanding, jealousy and suspicious
hatred that now ALLEVIATE the sections would
disappear like the sui lphurous smoke of yon-
der cannon that lately doomed. Therefore, l
come willingly and frankly, in the true spirit
of the Fourth of July, bringing to Massachu-
setts the friendly and sisterly greeting of my
own beloved South Carolina. .
For South Carolina, the State Of my adop-
ton and choice, is also the State Of my love-
Born and bred elsewhere, with family ties
and domestic associations elsewhere, never
theless, yielded up to her my love and loyal
ty when Ientered her Palmetto fringed bor
ders in the dark days Of reconstruction. |
went there without money, without political
influence, without previous acquaintance with
the people among whom I had cast my lot,
but fortified with strong moral purpose,
and animated by a sacred missionary spirit.
stood by South Carolina through all the vi.
cisistudes of the experiment Of universal suf-
frage-an experiment fraught with much per-
sonal danger, but of transcendently great i'm
portance to civilization. stood by South
Carolina while her citizens grew poorer and
poorer, and only left her when unavoidable
circumstances compelled the separation Of our
ways. 1t is true that my residence is no lon
ger in South Carolina true that my profes.
sional and personal interests now, centre else
where, vet my heart. is, still there, and an
Indictment for felony committed within her
borders still binds me to her sunlit groves
and smiling cities with afbond of exceeding
strength
Therefore, as representative South Caro-
Imam, I thank you, men of Massachusetts,, for
the compliment which you have paid to my
cherished State. An exile thanks you from
the bottom Of his loyal heart. Whatever
may have been my political course during
the happy and eventful years spent at Colum.
bia, 1 feel that I at least brought away the
affectionate solicitudey Of my ;neighbors. l
feel that they remember me, and will contin-
ue to remember me. I know that they are
anxious to get me back. I know that they
recall my disinterested acts as Attorney-Gen-
eral and afterwards as reform Governor, with
emotions of the livelest character. They
never can and never will forget the day when
I, surrounded by men like Moses and Parker
and Neagle, and Cardozo, and Honest John
Patterson, but dominating them all by the
force of intellect and purity of motive, exer-
csed permanent influence upon the desti.
nies of the beloved State. They still recall my
official utterance, lofty, ringing and patriotic,
as when / wrote, There is an indefinite verge
for expansion of power before u.s. 1t is pro.
posed to buy s35O,OO0 worth of Greenville
and Columbia stock. This ,cith the $4,000
of stock held by the State will give complete
control to US. We shall havein G. aud Co.,
1853 miles, in Laurens, 81, and in S. and D.,
70 miles-in ALL 269 miles-equipped and
running. Put first mortgage Of $4,000 a
mile on this, sell the bonds at S5 or 80, and
the balance after paying. all outlays for costs
and repairs are immense, over S2,OOO,OOO.
There is a mint of money in this-oR AM A
FOOL"
Nor can it ever be forgotten that at the
darkest hour of South Carolina IS sdarkest day,
when burden of debt was crushing the peo-
pie of South Carolina 10 the earth and grind
ing their estates and homesteads into dust,
when the black cloud of State debt of twen'
ty.six millions filled the whole sky and dar'
kened the future; when able fnanciers like
Parker and Moses and Cardozo were in de-.
spair, when the people were on the point Of
revolution, I, clear headed and selfpossessed,
the ruling spirit of the storm, flooded Wall
street with fraudulent paper and calmly wrote
to Kimpton in my letters Of September 3,
1870, the memorable words: Do the commits.
sions foot up pretty ,ueN eNf-Eh!"
Fellow.citiZens of Massachusetts, do you
wonder that the people of South Carolina are
anxious to get me back? But it cannot be.
An inexorable fate and very considerable
interest in my own personal liberty keep me
far away from her beloved borders. | must
remain an exile, consoling myself as best |
can with the mitigating reflection that John
Patterson was wrong-there is no more good
stealing in South Carolina.
ELECTRIC L1eHTING-ANoTHER D1scov-
ERY.-A novel system of electric lighting IS
announced from California, where the inven-
tors reside Only one lamp (with carbon
points, is used to illuminate large number
of apartments The lamp is placed near the
generator of electricity and surrounded by
lenses and refectors, forming chamber of
light. These lenses are to concentrate the
liz ght into as many beams of parallel rays as
may be required, which beams are then car
ried through pipes in the street or house to
the places to be illuminated. At the bends
rehectors are arranged to change the direc:
ton of the beam, and where light is wanted
for one apartment, and the beam still has du'
ty to perform in an adjoining room, only
part of the beam is bent in the first apartment.
The inventors declare that they have pro-
,os 1;,.Lt, with a fyuonfy