The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-03

public opinion will not SOW. It is an
u1cersain indication and is apt to blow
the wrong way.
Communities snd churches and na-
tions sometimes are thrown into hys-
terra, and it requires 5 man Of great
equipoise to maintain right position.
Thirty.three years ago there came a
tine Of bitterness in American politics,
and the impeachment Of president OF
the United States was demanded Two
or three patriotic men, at the risk OF
losing their senatorial position, stood
out against the demand of their politi-
csl associates snd saved the country
from that which all people of all parties
now see would have been a calamity
srd would have put tvery subsequent
president at the mercy Of his opponents.
1t only required the wal ing OF few
months, when time itself removed all
controversy.
LET Us have var with England il
needs be-" said the most Of the people
of our northern states in 1861, when
Mason and Slidell, the distinguished
southerners, had been taken by our
navy from the British steamer Trent
and the English government resented
the sct of our government in stopping
one Of their sbipz. Give up those
prisoners, said Great Britain. "No, :"
said the almost unanimous opinion Of
the north. DO not give them up. L
US have war with Englsnd rather than
surrender them" Then William E:
Seward, secretary Of state, faced one Of
the fercest storms Of public opinion
ever seen in this or any other country.
Seeing that the retention Of those two
men was Of no importance to our coun-
try that their retention would put Great
Britain ard the United States into i'm
meoiste conflict, he said, "We give
them up" They were given up, and
through the resistance Of popular c!amor
by that one man worldwide calamity
was sdverted.
Some of US remember as boys huzz \
ing when Kossuth, the grest Runga.
rian, rode up Broadway, New York.
Most Americans were in favor Of taking
some decided steps for Hungary. The
only result of su,h interference would
have been the sacrifice Of al good pre-
cedent and war with European nations:
Then Daniel Webster, in his immortal
'Hulsemann letter." braved whirl
wind of popular opinion snd saved this
nation from useless foreign entangle-
ment. Webster did not observe the
wind when hs wrote that letter. So in
stste and church there have slRsys been
men at the right time ready to face a
nation full-yea, world full-os op-
position.
How many there are who givs too
mnch time to watching the weather vane
and studying the baroneterl Make up
you mind what you are going to do and
then 60 ahead aad DO st There always
will he hindrances. It is moral dis
aster if you allow prudence to over
master all the other graces. The Bible
makes more Of courage and faith and
perseverance, than it does Of caution.
It is not once q yesr that the great
ocean steamers fail to to sail at the ap-
pointed tina becsuss of the storm sig
nails. Lit the weather buresu prophesy
Whist hurricane or cyclone it may, next
Wednesday, next Thursday, next Sst-
urday, the steamers will put out from
New York snd Philadelphia snd Boston
har0ors and will reach Liverpool and
Southampton ard Glasgow aud Bremen,
their arrivals as certain as their en-
5arkaticn. They cannot af ord to con-
solt the wind, nor can you in your life
7oysge.
The grandest and best things ever ac-
comp!ishe6 have been in the teeth OF
hostility. Consider the grsndest enter:
prise OF the eternisies-the salvation Of
a world. Did the Roman empire send
up invitation to the heavens inviting
the Lord to descend amid vociferssions
Of welcome to coma and tske possession
of the most capscious and ornate Of the
palaces and sail Gslilee with richest i'm
perial fotilla and walk over flowers Of
Solomon's gardens. which were still in
the outskirts of Jerusalen2 No. It
struck MIN with insult as soon as it
couli reach him. Let the camel drivers
in the Bethlehem csravansary testify.
See the 7ilest hate pursue him to the
borders Of the Nilel Watch his ar
raignment as criminal in the courts!
See Row they belle his every action,
misinterpret his best words, howl at
him with worst mobs, wear him out
with sleepless nights on cold mouu-
tainsI See bin hoisted into a martyr
dom st which the MONDAY croRled it
self with midnight shadows, and the
rocks shook into catsclysm, and the dead
started out Of their sepulcher, feeling
it was no time to sleep when such hor-
rors were being enacted.
The winds Of stormiest opposition
blew on his cradle, blew on his noun
tain pulpit, blew upon the homestesds
that dared to give him shelter, blew
upon his grave, but he went right on
and soWed the earth With sympathetic
tears and redeeming blood snd consola-
tion and helpfulness and redemption
and victory. 1t was an awful time to
SOW. But behold the harvest Of
churches, asylums, worldwide charities,
civilizations, millenniuns!
Just call over the names of the men
and women who have done most for
our poor old world, and you will call
the names Of those who had mobs af-
ter them. They were Stunned by the
elite, they were cartooned by the
satirsts, they lived on food which you
and I would not throw to kennel.
Some Of them died in prison, some Of
them were burned at the stake, some Of
them were buried a. public expense
because Of the laws Of sanitation.
They were bounded thro7gh the world
and bounded out Of it. Now We Cross
the ocean to see the room in Shioh they
7va-o horn nr died and 1ook mn at fhs