The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-05-07


room, but be fitted to perform the duties Of life
aud become breadwiuuers if need be. A COM
monwealth which does not train its future
mothers, can never hope to achieve any high |
place in the civilizations of to-day, and both |
justice and wisdom demand that our girls |
should have an equal chance with our boys. |
We recommend that such school be opened
at the Citadel in place of the military institute
now in operation there, and that il be literally
supported by the State We appeal to the wo-
men of South Carolina, who feel the defcien-
oies of their own training md have seen the
utter helpessness of their sisters when left at
their own resources, to aid in establishing an
industrial college for females in our State like
that at Columbus, Mississippi. If they cannot
secure that prohibition which would Danish
alcohol. they can help to Danish chat prohibi-
tion, ignorance, which now bars their sex in
this State from all occupations except sewing
teaching and working in factories.
III. Resolved, That committee of seven, one
from each Congressional District, be appointed
by the Chair, who will draft the memorial men,
toned in these resolutions and forward the
same at once to our own representatives. at Wash
ington, and that the said committee shall pre-
pare bills and have the same introduced in the
next General Assembly, carrying out the spirit
and purpose of these resolutions Furthermore,
that said committee shall go to Columbia when
the Legislature meets and make such presenta-
their passage.
Mr.. Tillman said he desired that each resolu-
ton should stand on its own merits.
The first resolutions were adopted without
debate.
Mr.. Tillman said in reference to the fifth res
olution that in wording it he had no intention
to reflect on tho Board Of Trustees Of the Col
lego.
Mr.. D. P..Duncau, Of Union, said he would
be recreant as q member of the Board of Trus-
tees if he failed to meet the remarks Of the gen.
tleman. He had been opposed to the scheme of
an agricultural college, pure and simple, but
since he had conferred with it's advocates at
this meeting he had almost been persuaded to
be in favor of a purely agricultural college.
He would not antagonize such college. but
proposed to aid in its upbuilding. He quoted
Governor Haygood as saying of the agricultural
annex to the South Carolina College that it
"ain't worth q d-n." He did not think We had
the man in South Carolina who could take
charge of such college, and if any attempt to
foist the wrong man upon it was made, he
would join i n the attempt to break it down.
He was willing to subordinate his opposition to
this system of a purely agricultural college to
the judgment Of others. He read q statement
prepared by President McBryde, in answer to
the reflections on the agricultural department
Of the College and the work which it was do
ing. which has already been published.
The resolution was adopted.
The sixth resolution was adopted without
debate.
Mr.. Tllman said that tho first question
which proposition to establish Agricultur-
al College started in the mind Of any one was"
"will 1t increase the taxes?' People were
very sensitive on this subject, and it must be
remembered that the convention was not
Legislature, which could impose n Tux for this
purpose, but that we would have to 70 back to
the people and lay these propositions before
them, and induce them to send men to the
Legislature to carry out their views in this
| matter. If they believe that their burden of
| taxation was to be increased they would not
vote for it. We would have, therefore, TO use
great deal of policy and "dodge round q
little. BY getting the money through the tax
on fertilizers, the farmer would never know
that he was paying it, and even If he was pay
ing fifty cents q ton on the fertilizer used,
apart from the benefits he derived from the
| college, the purity secured in fertilizers would
in itself more than compensate him.
Mr. Dargan sprang up with considerable
| earnestness and said he abhorred an indirect
| tax, and when it was deliberately proposed by
| the recognized leaders Of the farmers move
ment TO take out Of the pockets Of the farmer
money for any purpose without his knowledge,
| he would oppose il and advertise the farmers of
this purpose. Such proposition this was
we'll calculated to kill the movement, and it
| was because he wanted this effort to succeed
that he was earnest in his protest against utter
| ances in this convention which were calculated
to injure its success. lie protested that he was
actuated only by the earnest desire to see sue
cess attend the present movement, and there
fore he deprecated anything which would an
tagonize the other classes of citizens as such i'll
advised terms Of abuse had been directed
against the officers of the government and law
yers was calculated TO do. The latter had been
| always true to the intere sis of the farmers and
ready to help them. IA voice] "They have
been we'll paid for it," lie replied to this by
| saying with much sp irit that when our citizens
| had been hailed before the Federal courts and
their liberties expos ed to the malice of q cruel
| political enemy, the lawyers Of the State had
nobly in the breach for their defense, and to
his knowledge not lawyer Of his County had
ever asked or received dollar for the service
Mr.. Tillman disclaimed that he had applied
language Of an offensive character to any of
the officers ofthe State, and that he had only O
| short time since on this floor taken occasion to
put in this disclaimer
number Of brief interlocutory speeches
were made and several yot es taken, when the
| fate of the resolution was finally determined
and it was adopted by rising vote of 140 to
&c.
Resolution ten came up for consideration
when Mr. Tillman said, ait seems that, in my
innocence or faculty for saying striking things
| am always treading on somebody toes" and
| while the terms used in the resolution "dude
| factory and "that moral graveyard, the cotton
factory expressed exactly his own idea of
the institutions to which they were there ap-
piled as he did not wish to hurt any feelings,
he asked to have them expnnged before the res.
olution was put upon its passage. The words
were accordingly stricken out and the resolu-
tion adopted without debate.
The eleventh resolution was also adopted
without debate, and the resolutions as whole
were then adopted, after which the convention
took reces, until 3. p. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The CO INVENTION re-assembled ut o. P. NJ, Mr.
Talbert occupying the chair. He stated that IL