The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-19
RANDALl'S CAPITOL. VIEWS.

! RANOALl'S CAPITOL VIEWS.
fortunss--The South In tho War and tho
Yankee at tho South.
One Of the most charming and inter-
esting correspondents in this country
is Col. James r.. Randall, author Of
Maryland, my Maryland,", who
writes regularly for the Augusta
Chronicle. Here are some extracts
from recent letter:
THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT.
! I SEQ that Mr.. Charles Broadway
Rouss, who is rapidly growing blind,
offers 81 ,00O, 900 to any man who will
restore his sight. 1t is q pretty safc
| offer, | suppose, as nothing short Of Il
miracle could help this rich man, who
also admits that ho would rather re-
| turn to his original poverty than be
deprived OF sight, if he could change
the conditions. Mr.. Rouss considers
Mr.. Cleveland tho great man of the
time, and he also admires Col. Ingcr-
soil. 1t would take many more mil
| lions than Mr.. NouSS possesses to allie
viatc the suffering presumably brought
about by the money vlews Of this great
man, and the injury done by Colonel
| lngerBoll is supposed to be considera-
bic in another direction. But here we
have, by his own confessions, a man
whose money has brought little or no
| happiness, and who has become blind
in persistent accumulation. | WAS told
! tot long ago, that man of middle age
in Baltimore, the inhcritor of millions
Of money, declared that if he had good
! health or could obtain it by exchange
| OF his fortune, he would prefer poverty
along with youth. Along with other
aiflictiOns the Garrett family, Of Bnlti-
| more, may lose the bulk OF their estate
| by the Baltimore and OHIO collapse
How the property could have been OPP
Grated as it has been for ten years is
alnazing, and it is strange that The
| CARROTS did not know enough OF the
real condition of affairs to unload their
holdings gradually. Perhaps they had
family pride in the matter, but whore
is it all row? Not even prestige re.
mains, and the son Of q poor Pennsyl
vania blacksmith holds in solution a,
co-receiver Of tho operation, the for
tunes of the mighty.
PRO-BRIrIsH ORATORY.
II somo congressman were as good al
boiling down ideas and thoughts a.
newspaper men frequently show them,
selves to be, not little OF the pro.
British boastful eloquence of Il few OF
our orators might have been puncturcd
by sending to the desk" and having
read, right in the stomach Of such an
oration, the following points made by
| The Chicago Herald which tells us
what were English institutions when
Washington smashed the chain that
bound this land to England:
| l. "A crown imported, German on o
| Dutch stock.)
2. An aristocracy.
3. A chamber of hereditary legisla-
| tors.
4. a union Of church and State.
3. A religious test for suffrage, Office
and university privilege.
.. taxation without representation.
7. No education except Tor the rich
8. PrimOgeniture and entail.
8. Denial of self government.
| When the fathers had succeeded in
driving tho English troops out of the
country, with the help OF French,
Irish, Poles, and others, and sat down
to make constitution for the United
States, these were and continue to be
it's essential features:
l. No crown.
| 2. No aristocracy.
3. No hereditary legislators.
4. Separation Of church and State.
|
| rig hts or education.
6. No taxation without representa-
tion.
7. Education for all the people.
8. Neither primogeEiture nor entail
0. Local sclf-goyerDmcnt.
CHANCE OF SITUATION.
Senator Hawlcy, Of Connecticut, was
born in North Carolina and recenl,
revisited his birthplace after an ab
scnce OF fifty-eight years. Ho founc
lite or no vestige of the family dwell
ing, but familiar walnut tree wa.
still nourishing. Of his numerous
youthful contemporaries he discovered
four personf surviving. Senator Haw
ley was an eminent Union soldier dur
ing the war Of 1861 G6, and he has sub
sequcntly distinguished himself as q
congressman. 1t was very amusing
tho other day, to hear this veteran
soldier rebnking an orator who wantcC
Cuban independence made certain
even by intervention and war. Yhi:
rampant gentleman did not fight whcl
he had q chance thirty odd years ago
ana may not do 80 IN case OF hostiliLlCs
with Spain, unless, like ArtCmas Ward
he would sacrifice his wife's relations
AS II to match General Uawlcy, wh(
illustrated Connecticut in war for tn,
Union, | remember what gallau
soldier of the South was Colonel Soy
mour, of louisiana, who had been born
IN Connecticut. Indeed some Of tin,
. y Yankees In Southern history were
more Southern than Southcrncrs. Ike
Qntmhn, Prentiss, Rnggles and Othc
gallant spirits The North. on t"'
other hand, helped conquer the Soutl
WI Win Lincoln. Stanton, Farragut
Thomas and Andrew johnson, wh'
, came originally from Kcn'ncky Nortl
| carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
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"A man who can hold his tor gu,