The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
ALL ABOUT TROY.
ABou BEN ADHEM ANSWERED.
Tho yrasofas..Effect of EducatiOn--The
Blair Biil-..Personal and Other

| II CreenW0Ou is iAoDCSlHC fAIRtho" AioJ
must be its Chicago.
So will candidates.
The election for 1ntendant ana WnrdcnS OF
the town of Troy Will be held on Iuesaay'
Owing to the unfinished condition Of the
Methodist church. the quarterly meeting next
Saturday and Sunday will be held In the Bap-
tist church, which has been kindly rendered.
Our school teachers, the Messrs. Pyles, both
have swcethearts up the road, and they keep
the traeh Of the "a M It pseoS s down G ere but
West the candidate who can kiss baby IN
four or five different languages is pretty sure
to knock the persimmons ,u
| According to our way OF thinking, Republt-
can otficeh0lders nre as much out or place un.
der Democratic administration as the devil
would be- Mt the communion table of an Or
thodOX church. H.
administered in the Presbyterian church IN
| this place on the first Sunday in next month
|-o1e week from next sunday: preliminary
services will be held on the Saturday preceo-
We have always held to the opinion that, to
be consistent, the man who preaches Prohlol-
tion should practiccit; 1t seems that Dr. me
his recent article In the Independent on 1he
death of John b. Cough we find this sentence
! "IIvery prohibitionist is morally found 10 be
Messrs. ]. $. Jay, Glenn Youngblood and
others went ON a pleasure trip to Mt Carmel
one day last week. They had to walk three
miles out from Mccormick TO strike the Sa-
were dunn ped out at the same spot and had to
"honf it" back to Mccormick. They had lots
| of fun. .,
If the ladies Of the A. r. p, congregation
West, and attach to the backs of the seats IN
their church cards bearing The legend. "Please
do not spit on the floor" perhaps it will save
them the necessity OF having scruooihg
II strikes us that the views of the United
Presbyterian church on slavery. when that
question was being agtated, should not DC
considered US an objection to union by Inc
that the Scceder church here in South Carroll
Ma always was opposed to slavery;
Those United States Senators who opposed
the Blair educational bill, OH the ground that
| il is "unconstit ooshondp' TO grant public mon
| cy for such q purpose, experienced not sin.
| gle quaIm OF conscience when they recorded
their votes In favor of appropr'ating s5OoOo0 OF
the peoples money to build monument to to
General Grant Where is the warrant1n the
constitution for any such expenditure? There
il none; yet we condemn no senator lot IA
yorinp it, It is the 'sptrit' of the constltu-
tion that must govern in such matters, not It's
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. in her ''open
letter" to Miss Rose Cleveland anent bare
Necks, Shoulder Blades and Arms relates
the following incident: Sitting ut dlnneronce
in a fashionable hotel In Washington, discuss
ing u woman's convention, then In session.
with some genlleme1, nny passn omenSlVelS N tbe h
fashion allowed, objected to women speaking
In public, singularly enough on the ground
that 1t involved great sacrifice or dellcacy ana
promiscuous assemblies. With my eyes
nvcrted as much as possible, for was asham-
ed TO have the gentlemen see me look OF her, l
listened with smothercd impatience 10 her
platitudcs on womans sphere On leaving
| the table, which did as soon as cOnven1ent. l
said, "Madaine. have spoken In pubic iorty
years and have never in all that time been as
much exposed as you are now, and trust
that never. under any circumstances, have
seemed so lacking in modesly."
! THE Augusta CGrUntcLe has ueen publishing
n series OF articles from the pens OF ulf!erent
| correspondents in Georgia and this State on
the question. "Is the Negro Fa lure? Sever.
al of these writer's corroborate what we said
| In your columns a week or two ago III regard
to education having proved curse 10 tne ne
/ does the part show us? 1t shows US that 8"
for the education of the negro has been a fhii,
ure. The records of our criminal courts VIII
show that nearly all of the educated negroes
! have committed crime. Teach negro. how
to write and lie forthwith and immediately
| puts that knowledge into execution by be-
coming Il forger:, Teach MN AWNING you
! Uniting crime. OF course there are some eN-
ceptiOns to this rule, but we are not discuss
ing these exceptions; we are discussing the
"The experience OF the writer IL that, as
race they are capable Of limited education !;
and in no other instance rs IN this has llttle
learning proved so dangerous thlng. some
! observation among negro cOnvictS proves that
quite large proportion OF the worst class can
read aud write. And increduous as 1t may
appear, the experience OF the past forty-flVc
| years among negroes on the PLANTATIONS proves
! that q preacher, who Is the educated man
among them. has been the source OF every
considerable lawlesS act committed by them
here Vithic that time whenever the matter
was traced to its origin"
Some one writing from this place In the
| Press and Banner over the signature OF ADou
Ben Adhrm' takes the Rev K. r. Bradley 10
TASK for denouncing Masonry from the pulpit.
sonry to be wrong it is just as legitimate TOR
him to denounce it from the pulpit as ills for
him to denounce murder, theft: arson or any
him to do SO but we would not give much for
q policy man In or out of the pulpit. a large
proportion of the people of The United SttteS
are opposed to secret, onth-nonn9 20 sociGiles.
ed Presbyterian church, one of the largest
and most influential denominations IN THIS
country, positively denies membership 10
those connected with secret, oath-6ound socie-
| ties; and at the General Assembly Of this
church held In Topeka. Kansas. In May OF
last year this prohibition was construed to en-
tend even to the Grand Army OF the Kepuo-
lie Under monarchiul forms of government
it may become necessary for the oppressed TO
bind themselves together by Oa;hs TO resist
the encroachnents of their oppressors; but
in this land Of liberty, where II" class OF our
people can justly claim that they arc unfairly
dealt with, numbers of good citizens think
! that secret societies are out OF place. Ana
one has but 10 watch the mancuvers OF the
knights of Labor to become convinced That
opposition TO secret societies has some sub
| stantin! basis to rest upon. "Abou Ben Adj
hem advances the stereOtydeu arguments III
favor Of MasOnry-itS antiquity, its rcspecta-
bility and it's charity. Masonry may De hoary
with age, still crime was committed before
! Masonry was institutes L; but we nave never
YET known an arraigned criminal to plead
This fact in palliution Of his offence. Extreme
youth is sometimes pleaded in eXtenuation OF
crime; old age never. We admit the respect
ability OF Mnsonry; but lis membership must
admit that 'respectable" men often commit
alton from the pulpit. AS TO the charity or
Masonry as an Organization, that is bestowed
exclusively upon its own members, or upon
the widows and orphan children OF Mas0nS,
and The latter generally receive but 4 tlthe of
what had been paid in to the order by the lins-
band or father. This is praiSe-w orthy as far
as 1t goes but 1t IS not true charity, Whlch
falls like the gentle dew from heaven, and Is
bestowed without regard to color or condition.
We de- not wish to assume the role of defend
er OF Mr. Bradley, for he is amply able to de-
| tend hInSelf: nor do we wish to be understood
! as dcnouncing Masonry, of which we know
but little beyond the fact that 1t Is q secret,
ath-bound society. We simply contend that
to denuunce what he deems to be wrong, re-
eurtlless of the opinion Of others; for in sn do
ing he hut obeys the Scriptural injunction,
"Cry aloud and spare not"
CONSIGNEES.
ExpRESs-O. T. Calhhun, w. J. Rogers, Rev.