The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-01-13

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been impeileI, us it were, to make
known some of our grievances, and
wrongs, and demand redress. | have
given voice to my OWE honest thoughts
and wishes, and I find from numerous
letters received from all over the State,
that I have spoken those of others.
My temerity IN assaesing such high
and mighty men, perhaps, has attract
ed as much attention as my arguments.
You know they say, "Fools rush in
where angels, Fear to tread" but how
lever that may be, my only hope has
been, and is naw, to arouse older aud
nobler men, to consciousness of the
impositions psacticed upon US, who
may thus be- lead to take up the move
ment and carry it forward to COM
plete success
You have many such among you,
and they are numerous in every coun-
ty. If they can be induced to pu:
their shoulders to the wheel, We can
hardly fail to accomplish great good.
While each county in the State did
nobiy in 1876, it was the fortune OF
Edgefeld, where live, to lead in the
straight-out movement She and her
daughter, Aiken, threw themselves into
/ the breach and stormed the Radical
citadel. They risked all and gained
all ; and the farmers throughout the
State, here as elsewhere, bore the
brunt of that phenominal contest.
Even in Edge6eid the people were in
advance of their leaders and urged
them forward-but you and / my
friends-we farmers, whose rights are
now ignored or boldly invaded, aud
who are only considered Fit to pay tax
| es and vote-are not reaping our just
share Of either the honors or bene-
fits Where were you lawyers and
time serving politicians then? With
few honorable exceptions they failed
to face the music-they didn't risk
their carcasses much or take any chan
ces for Federal halter or Albany dun
geon, and so with you merchants and
brokers.
When say farther that agricult-
urist., are either boldly robbed or
their interests ignored, when I say that
there are ten laws passed for the ben
eft of the professions, the railroads,
and the brokine or commercial class
es for every one 50 passed in our in
terests, I think, I speak within oauds
and can prove what I say. Some
of the intelligent farmers of the State
have been for years hammering at the
repeal of the Lien law. But without
any concert of action or ever agree
ment among themselves as to whether
it was desirable or not. The few
thousand merchants and the few hun
dred lawyers, who don't want It repeal
ed, have been able to thwart US, and
keep it on the statute books. This is
merely one instance.
As I have had good deal to say
recently in the newspapers about the
composition and MANAGEMENT of the
Board of Agriculture, and the so. called
Agricultural College at Columbia, I
viii only mention for the benefit of
those of you who have not read those
letters in the Neus aud Courier, that
this Board has only two men on it,
who can be called farmers, and Judging
by their acquiescence in palpable in
justice, they cannot be considered as
being very loyal to, or enthusiastic,
for Agricultural advancement.
While the Board of Trustees of the
Colleee, which was reopened in 1882
as an Agricultural and Mechanical
College, and receives $500 from the
fund devoted by the United States to
found college for educating farmers
and mechanics alone.
This Board of Trustees I say, is
composed entirely of professional men,
With the exception OF these, some two
farmers, who are also on the Board of
Agriculture. These are the two
Representative farmers" OF the State.
They represent US on all occasions