The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-11-17
Egefield Echoes.


tanned at the "rrcnton House )" slept
like top in good bed had nice
breakfast especially prepared for him
by the hostess. A cursory view of the
little town showed thriving village
with many pretty houses, large stores
and numerous CHURCHES. The 10
; o'clock train brought Attorney General
Miles to Trenton, and 1--WE two" took a
comfortable private conveyance. and
drove to this place in little more than
an hour. Before leaving Trenton
asked for my bill, but nothing could in
ducc Mr.. Il. Ii. Clark, the kind host, to
accept any compensation. He sad his
hotel WAS "Chroncle' house. l,
therefore, chronicle his unexpected gen
eroSity. 1t sounded rather strange to a
native of Charleston, 'The City by the
Sea- to hear the Trcntonesc speak
about Augusta as a town 1t Is said
that one Charlestonan meeting another
in any part ef the world, Paris or Wen
na, for example; inquire, when did You
leave town p I" meaning Charleston,
the only place in the world to an aver
age native. But "timeS change and we
change with them., Now. 1.-The town."
to Il very large and growing portion OF
this State is Augusta. and the Getty by
the Sea" is Savannah, for all the mer-
camille connections Of this, the best part
OF the State, arc with your city, and ali
the cotton, or nearly all, goes to Angus
Ia and savannah.
This places i most interesting little
city and beautifully situated on hills.
L is hard to believe that such deeds as
are charged upon certain citizens Of
this county could be committed in such
Il place. with such soil, such a-ctimate
and such history. But I will not
give any pre- misses nor express any opin-
ion. simply because have none. The
case Of the Stats Us. Holmes ct al"
charged with the murder OF Oliver
TowleS Culbreath' has not been mt
before the grand jury. 1t is rumol ed
that of the eighteen members OF the
grand jury, eight arc known to be in fa-
vor Of throwing out bill against the
thirty-two accused whenever presented.
AS it requires two-thrtls of eighteen,
viz twelve, to find n true bill. the i'm
probability of coming to trial ut this
term appears manifest. But have
learned never to believe all that ! hear.
nor half that see, so take this rumor.
with all others, cum erano sals.'
There are several criminal cases on
the docket for offences covering the
range OF dellnqncncies from larceny un
10 murder; seven in all, without count
ing the leading case against the lynch
ers OF Cnlbreath. Juge Hudson has
his hands full, and | understand has
come prepared to remain month.
What terrible responsibility rests up-
on the fanatics who precipitatcd irce-
dom upon the negro All Of the seven
accused, and others who are charged as
participants, are colored And this is
the record of all the counties, with rare
exceptions. Thinking men who know
what the negro is, in his native wilds.
and what an immense Contrast there
was between the naked, emaciatcd bar
barian of the slaveship and the Guinea
coast on one side and the welI-bcbay-
ed, well-clothed and hearty Southern
slave on the othe other, deplorc the ir-
resistablc conclusion that the sudden
glare Of freedom was too much for the
poor moral stamina of the negro.
Macauley, when advocated imme-
diate emancipation Of the slaves in the
British colonies, was measuring the AZ
rican by the standard of the Anglo Sax
on.
If the clothes do not fit, the fault is
with the tailor, and not with the Afri
can, or his late owner.
am now and never was a pre-slavery
man; but the manner in which eman-
c'pation was effected, has proved an in
jury toall three Of the parties. To the
North by demoralizing the whole ccun-
try and lowering the standard of vir-
tue; to The South by impoverishing all,
and running half its people, and to the
poor slave himself by forcing him sud-
denly into a position for which he was
not prepared, and thus placing him on
the road which leads to his former con-