The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-31

laws so much that we complained Of aa The
manner of their execution. We complained
that the State debt had been increased by
the Republican party from six to eighteen
millions and that seven years Of Republican
rule had cost the taxpayers Of the State in
actual cash over nineteen millions Of dollars,
besides the Republicans had repudiated ov-
or Ave millions Of the debt created by them:
that arms had been placed iu the hands of
the negroes to the exclusion of the NH, es;
that Blue &idge scrip to the amount of o ne
million eight hundred thousand dollars had
been issued contrary 10 law; that schemes
I" rob The Treasury and cypress The people
by taxation had been cOncocted and sue
cessiully carried OUT; that many laws design
cd 10 rluuder the whi,e people and keep
them nuder the heel Of vice and ignorance
had been placed upon !he Statute books -
We then told the audience how Mr.. Looper
had, in conversation with us, when The
stock law was first passed for portion Of
this County, endorsed it, and said that ,he
only objection he had to it was because the
law had moi been extended TO the whole
County. We turued 10 find Mr.. Loopcr to
ask him TO say whether we were not
sthting facts correctly. when we found,
ike the Arab, he had ''sile,nly stole away"
We then took up the Registration aud Elec-
ton low; showed t]'at regisira,irn was q
constitutional requirement, and how it
prevented repeating and ballot box stuffng.
We showed that any man with sense enough
10 live without guard IN might vote intel
ligently, and that no man had been disfran.
chised rs Ind been clnjmed by Russell; that
now every man was required TO vote in his
own precinct, and for that reason the me-
grOes could not be couceui rai ed nj any par-
ticular point io be voted by some leader
There was where the law pibched The RAIDS
and Greenbackefs, and if it was not for
that provision in the law we didn't suppose
we should have ever heard any complaint
from them
AS 10 the South Carolina College, we sta
ted that rs the Institution already had an
endowment of n hundred and ninety one
thousand dollars, il was believed TINT very
small app, cpr:aton by the State would run
il successfully; that The huudred and ninety
one thousand dolla,s had been donated by
Cong ess on condition that The Slate kent
up nn Agricultural College, but when she
failed TO do SO, she should refup,l the mon
ey TO the general Governments; that the
Rad icals had stolen the hundrcd and niue-
ty one thousand dollars and if The Legisla-
tire had not used it (by issuing bonds to
that amounD the State would have been
compelled to return it to the gcne,al Gov.
ernmcnt. Now that Ibis endowment WAS |
permanent "n': The State was obliged to
pen an Agricultural College or refund the
money, we thought ii was the part Of good
sense 10 make small appropriation and |
open first class Literary College In
connection with the Agricultural College.
where our citizens might educate their sons
ut home at cost not exceeding $l75 a |
year, instead Of sending them North where ;
the cos, would be three or four times great.
&c; that if IN ,he cou' Sc OF lime the Lagisla-
l"'e found iha, II would tie cheaper 20 re.
iu"n 20 The Gcne"al Gov,rnMcn. one hun
d'ed "rd timely one thousand dollars tn n
II was % appropriate n srnal' amourn 20 krc,
open 't'e College, we supposed lhpy might
do SO. ihat the deno"inn'io"al Colleges in
.'e Sale wt"e fighting the sla.e College.
but we diGn', believe .hey wo, ID Le h,tr. "
'ts re establishmen,-;ha. there was roo,
ond lcniy work "or them all TO do.
AS 10 the Citadel Academy: |, is en-
phatcally poor mans msli,u,ion-cvery
uollar approp' ed by the State was useu
in The tdrcn,ion of poor youths from the
different coun,ics in the S,a,e. No, a dol
lar rou(d be u ed in any other way. To dny
there are TWO poo yo.,hs a. ?ickens C II.
preparing 20 e"tcr he Citadel Academy.
IL 'ich ulen pa, chi: c he jns nu.iun (nnu
many Of them why hey viii haze 10 pnJ
member Of the L"sisln,ure in 1856, hnu
vo. ed 70" tnc cS rbishmen. Of he U"iver.
gil. aud tie Black (cGe," md when we
iur0rd TO ask HIM 10 COZ. &c, Us i: We were
misrcprt sennng him. we iound lha, ne 100,
like Nj. Looper, had tan away. anu we
could Only q"o,e re old nphoriSm, 'IIe
that 6gms AZ 'uas away may live to fight
another day"
TIE srenkiIg continued for SIX hours.
the audience Iis'en,ng with great pn'ience
10 all The rtakers, frequently npptnuding
the Drmucrns IT ,teie vas s'ngIe FAD.
ical or G:eeu3acNc upo" ,he hill bcsiueS
LOoper anu Russell, we die not see Or hea.
Of h IN Tue Dcmocras o; hat section
(aod in fac. we mag say o; the whole of r.ck-
cts COrO,J) were neSe" more uni',d and
:u::y de,er,n.ned TO do their whole du.y
The result Of ,he Gay was o complete ri
umpb for the Democrats.
We fovLot 10 me0,'on in he proper place
thnL Mr.. b. J. Johrs'on, when ca led upou
TO speak, auuouuced bis withdrawal from
,be rnce. lie said be Withdrew la the in
ieresL Of no candidate. but simply on ac-
cou0I Of he Sc ious ilress o. his wife. tie
though. his tirsl dr,y was 10 his wife. anu
If nominated aId elected, he didn'L know
thai he could se'Ve, and after consultation
with frieods he had decided 10 wnhdraw.
CROSS PLAINS.
The candidates visited Cross Plains on
Wednesday, bu, only a few of them spoke.