Year: 1879




throughithe mire to reach personal prefer
ment, and unless the good, square men of
the State take this thing in their hands
now the people Of the State will be contin.
ually deprived Of the services of our most
worthy and reliable citizens. Touching
this matter, we have spoken right out as if
we were face to face with the people OF
South Carolina, and we have done so from
plain senss of duty. We have no acrimo.
NOUS feelings whatsoever to indulge no
personal grievances whatever to complain
of, and simply talk and feel as plain citi.
Zen ofSouth Carolina, seeking no better
positioL'and willing to accept meme less
We refuse to be trotted out to any mans
occasioni as every freeman ought to do, and
set the face of the Register like flint against
''machine politics." come from where it
may aud Serve whom it may. We want
the people to know this now and to know
il all the time. There is no public man in
,n,s S~whou Gii6s, iRtyisser sshas
The slightSs personal i'll feeling, and if it
had there is no man against whom it would
suffer such feelings to weigh for moment
against the interests ofthe State and people.
We mean to do even-handed justice to all
alike, without fear or favor, all along the
line. We make this remark simply because
,rsonal preferences, and perhaps more,
have been attributed to us hastily and with.
out any proper ground therefor We con.
fide in the good sense and virtue Of the
people of South Carolina. This we have
ever done, and 'it is hard to teach an old
dog new tricks. - Columbia Register.


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WORDS BaAvELY SPoKEN.-A cores.
pondent Of the Philadelphia Times has had
long interview with Mr.. Bayard, and
sounded him upon all the salient questions
Of the day. The replies of the Senator are
frank and explicit He makes no attempt
at evasion, but squarely delivers himself
upon every issue. There is grandeur and
broad craftsmanship in every utterance of
this worthy patriot that should command
the respect and challenge the admiration of
the whole country. When the question
was pronounced to him, "What does the
South need ?" the following was the un-
dauntcI reply of this truly great man:


"Ihe South does not need legislation;
the South needs sympathy and respect
In my judgment what they need is real
izins sense that they are safely and securely
within the Union, bound up in its dcstinies,
in which they are to share the blessings as
well as the burdens; but that they are not
to be IN the Union except upon terms thor
oughly consistent with their selfrcspect.-
Everything is gained by appealing to all
that is higher and better among them, and
to cease the spirit of domination and con.
slant expressions of sclfconscious superiori-
70 i A.
trials are conducted as they think they
ought to be, telling them they are OH trial,
and all that sort Of thing. No such spirit
ought to exist, and l would not treat this
Union as an experiment would treat it
as fixed fact that they are in the Union
and are going to stay there; that they arc 60
ing to be part Of our people and part of the
government, and not only expect them to
sustain and help it. but make that part Of
the country source of strength to the
whole. | want the people Of the South to
feel that they are respected and an essential
portion of this Union and they cannot be
anything else. Now, in order to do that,
We must make their position in the Union
one of honor in the first place, and then
if they fall away from that it must be their
own disgrace; but tho honorable recogni.
tion must precedc the other, and that they
have not had yet at the hands of the Re-
publican party. The people of the North
ern States, whose representatives want to
make solid North, if they are wise, must
see that the South must be to them one of
two thinss-a source Of weakness or a source
Of strength; but their present course and
their present feeling is calculated to make
the South u second Ireland"


Two WHITE BOYS AND A NEGRO RoAs.
TED ALIVE IN A CoTToN PnEss.-Elen.
ton, November 1i-Mr L. A. Ashley, who
resides about seven miles from Ellenton,
just across the Barnwcll County line, lost
by fire on yesterday his steam saw mill, grist
mill and gin. The gin alone was running
at the time, and it is supposed that match
in the cotton was the cause of the conAa.
grafton. The press for baling the cotton
was situated in the lint room At the timo
the fire occurred league and Jesse Owens,
two white boys about II and Is years of
age, employed by Mr.. Ashley, were in the
press, and young negro man named Isaiah
was working in tho lint room. In min.
ute after the cry Of fire was raised the par
ties in the lint room found themselves en-
veloped in flames and all means of escape
cut off. The poor boys in the press could
not get out, as the doors of the press box
fastened from the outside.


Mr.. Ashley and Mr.. j. NJ. Darlington
with others who were in the gin house at
the time the fire broke out rushed to the
rescue Of the unfortunates, who were now
in den Of fire. With axes they soon burst
through the walls of the house and knocked
down the doors of the press, when they
dragged out tho halfdead boys and negro
To find their clothEn all hnrned from thcir r