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Year: 1872

One CAUSE oE SOUTHERN DISORDER


In South Carolina there are a cowardly
and corrupt State Government, incapa-
BILE, ignorant and worthless local Off
GERS, and a weak, vascillating Judiciary
The State officers command nobody's
respect. They are third rate men, iu-
tellectually and morally, who could not
have obtained any Office of trust in an
intelligent Northern community. Their
time has been largely occupied in de-
vising selfish and questionable schemes
for their own profit, and they have lack
ed the courage to make any determined
effort to suppress disorder and punish
crime. Some of them have acquired
sudden wealth upon small salaries, and
their apparent dishonesty has brought
all the others into disrepute. If the
State officers had been thoroughly hon
est men, with some dignity of character
and knowledge of public affairs, and if
the State Executive had commanded the
respect of the community by firmness,
consistency and truth, and a courageous
determination to enforce the laws and
maintain order at any personal risk or
sacrifice, the Kuklux evil would never
have found foothold in the State. But
even with inefficient and bad State Off
GERS, a good judiciary could have done
much to limit and perhaps suppress the
evil. This is shown by the fact that
there is one Judicial district where the
kuklux outrases are unknown, although
the character Of the population is idenr
teal with that of the worst infected dis
tricts. That is Judge Orr's district, and
includes the five northwestern counties
of the State. One of these counties,
Greenville, borders upon Spartenburg,
and while the latter has beon overrun
by the Kuklux during the past year, the
former has been entirely peaceable.-
South Carolina correspondence N. 7. Tri-
bune,
Year: 1872

rogues everywhere to righteous punish
ment.


Certainly, unless this is done by the
party in power, it will provoke such a
reaction as will overwhelm it. One of
its sources of strength has been in its
tendency to rigid self-criticism, in the
sturdy individuality Of its members, in
the possession of journals that have
earned powerful influence by such in
dependence as the Tribune conspicuous
ly illustrates. The Democracy lost a
great point when it waited for the op-
position to begin the raid on Tammany,
and only took a part in it-though a
most effective one-when forced by an
aroused public sentiment. The best
servants of a party are those who fight
its rascals, putting the public interest
first in every case. 1t is only by such
course that confidence, and its off
spring, influence, can be secured and
retained.
Year: 1872

erment in the interest of the citizen
rather than the Spoils Gathererer.
If this is done, his nomination, ani
election by larger popular majority
than has been given to any candidate
since the era of good feeling which plac'
ed President Monroe in the chair, is as
certain as that he lives to the 5th Of
November, 1872.


Upon the dissolution of the Whie
party, Daniel Webster, one of its
great exemplars, despairingly inquired,
"Where shall I go?'' The question
was answered only by his death. So
now, men who have fought the battles
of the Democratic partyfor more than
a score of years, in good faith believing
that party to be best adapted to ensure
the greatest good to the greatest mum
Der, will eagerly re-echo the cry of DAN
iel Webster.


Nothing of practical good can result
from the passive policy. 1t is impossible
for the men who comprise the brain of
the Democratic partyto stand idly by and
permit the battle to be fought by cou-
tending factions of Republicans. These
men must either be sincere and ardent
supporters of General Grant, or the real
leaders of those who array themselves
against him. Hence some will no doubt
be found in the ranks of their ancient
enemies, and will support Gen. Grant,
not so mnch because he is the RApub-
lican nominee, as that his election to
second term will be the final and crown
ing triumph of American unity over Sc
cession and dlsintegration, and will
gracefully round Off the measure of graf
itude which this great people have filled
to those who fought the battles of the
Union against secession, while the mass
will support the Conservative candidate,
in the belief that by so doing they can
better subserve the interests of good
government. c. II. L.
Year: 1872

CnarleS " Neal, De1enuant.


The allegation of the complaint was
that the plaintiff was in the quiet and
peaceable possession of what was known
as the "Bastion Donation Claim" on
or about the first of June, A. D. 1864.
This allegation was specifically denied
by the answer.


The evidence showed that portion of
the so-called donation claim was fenced
and had been for over five years, but
that the fence was not put there by
plaintiff. He, however, by his hired
hauds and agents kept the fence up and
in repair. Plaintiff had some hogs on
the claim, pasturing them. The boun-
daries of the claim had never been
marked or otherwise fixed, and the claim
was in the unsurveyed public lands of
of the United States. The plaintiff had
never resided on the claim, and there
was no house or dwelling on the same.
Plaintiff alleged no title to the premises.
Neither did he claim as donee or pre-
cmptor. 1t was admitted that defend
ant was in possession of the premises
on or about the first of June, A. D. 1869.
and plaintiff testifes that he did not go
there by his consent.


The Court held on the above state of
facts-1st, That possession was either
actual or constructive. That where the
action was founded ON title constructive,
possession was sufficient to sustain it..
But as actual possession was aIled in
this case, the above facts did not sus-
tain the allegation. All the citizens of
the United States have the same rights,
so far as the public lands are concerned.
Each one can take a certain quantity of
the public lands as his own under and
by virtue of the donation, the homestead,
or pre-emption laws. He can take no
more than the law under which he
claims will allow him. All of these laws
require actual residence or actual pos
session. The lands cannot be held un-
der constructive possession. If citi-
zen claims a portion of the public do
main under any of these laws. and has
the possession which these laws require,
the Courts will protect him. And even
if he goes upon the public lands as a
mere trespasser so far as the Govern
ment is concerned, and is in the actual
possession of portion of such domain,
he will be protected by the Courts SO
far as his actual occupancy is concern
ed, against mere trespasser. But he
cannot hold as against other citizens of
the United States any portion of the
public domain by constructive posses
sion. To concede him the right to hold
one acre that way would give him the
right to hold thousands. In fact he
might monopolize county and cover
it with cattle and exclude others who
might wish to become actual bonafide
settlers. The object of the donation.
homestead and pre-emption laws was to
put the public domain into the posses
sion of actual settlers, and not have it
absorbed by constructive possession.
The actual settler bas nothing to fear.
Government is generous to him and the
Courts will vindicate his rights.


Congress has lately passed an aot to
cure the defect in the title of land claim
ants in this county, ratifying and con-
firming their claims under the donation
Year: 1872

FIGHTING PuBL1c PLUNDERERs.-It is
gratifying to observe that several of the
leading Eastern journals, of Republican
proclivities which aided in exposing the
corruption of Tammany, aud in bring
ing some of the guilty to account, have
been quite as active in exposing and de-
nouncing rascality wherever they find
it in their own party, and especially the
fraud and robbery committed in some
of the Southern States. The New York
Tribune utters the right doctrine on this
subject, when it says:


We are heartily sick Of the sentimen-
tai attempts of "party managers I" to
cover up the corruption, dishonesty and
extravaganza of the carpet-bag govern
ments. The plea that exposure of the
frauds will injure the Republican party
is as wicked as it is silly. Better, a
thousand times, that the party be rent
asunder than any crime for which it can
be justly held responsible be covered up
in its own house. No party can long
live with such cancer concealed in its
bosom. But the party is not RESPONSE
BILE for the criminal dishonesty of few
officials who bear its name /; though it
would be justly held to strict account if
it should be accessory to any attempt at
conceaIment of the offences to which we
have called attention. We are glad that
it is too late to screen the rascallties
which have been perpetrated in the
Carolinas. We have fully exposed and
denounced these cunning thefts. and
leave the issue with the Courts and the
public, more than ever convinced that
this is specially time for letting in the
light into dark places, and bringing
Year: 1872

his recent lecture on Civil Reform in
New York, said:


As to the President himself, suppose
he has a pet scheme which he wants to
get through Congress at any cost, and
Presidents are apt to do those things
sometimes. The Congressman must
help him, or the President may refuse
to give him any further appointments,
or he may lose his patronage, which is
the only stock in trade the Congress
man possesses. That gone and his
constituents will never send him back
again. On the graves of a great many
Congressman fitting epitaph would be,
"This Congressman died from too much
Postoffice." The President himself has
power in appointments and removals
greater than that of any constitutional
monarch in Europe, and with the great
ness of his power comes the greatness
of his temptation. What seductive fac
ulties he has for approaching Congress
men, and thus the spoils ere the means,
the inducements, by which the indie
pcndence of the Legislative Government
can be undermined. Why do we hear
so much of the one-term system? Be-
cause Presidents can use their power to
appoint and remove, for the purpose of
securing reelection. We hear of sweep
ing changes in the New York Custom
House. We hear of great number of
newspaper men put into profitable pla-
ces, whose duties will not conflict with
their newspaper work. Not that they
are expected not to write, but to keep
up writing.


The speaker described how political
parties which at first are comparatively
pure, finally when in power degenerate
into an association of offce-seekers and
office-holders. He spoke of Senator
who had denounced certain abuses in
the New York Custom House. He was
warned by political friends that his re-
election was in great danger if he per-
sisted in that reckless way, and that is
the reason so few public men dare to
speak out. Party harmony is the su-
preme cry, harmony at the expense of
justice. Down with critics! they cry
Tom Murphy was undoubtedly one of
the fercest to denounce Charles Sumner
as q traitor to the country, because
Charles Summer had denounced the
Presidents San Domingo scheme. So
the Reform Democrats found fierce and
boistrous enemies because they rose
against the Tammany robbers; they
were bitterly stigmatized as disturbers
of the public harmony. Now consider
the influence such system as this must
have upon a society like ours, in which
an inordlnate greed of wealth exists.
You see around you robbery on large
scale. You see princely fortunes ac-
quired with marvellous rapidity, and
the robbery excites the admiration Of
many by the very grandeur of its sue
cesses. Can we much longer slide on
this dangerous slope without the most
disastrous consequences !? Is it not
time that all over the country that
should be done which you have done in
New York? The spoil system has de-
moralized our political organism alrea-
dy. We must raise the standard of mo-
rality in our political life; we must re-
move those temptations which are dan
gerous to those in higher places.
Year: 1872

PRINCES LEARNING A TRADE.-The
sons of rich parents in America are of
ten urged to learn some trade, both as q
good discipline and education. and as a
possible means of earning an honest
living in case of reverse of fortune,
which is likely to come to any one. A
man who has good trade is master of
himself. and has acquired self-depend-
ence of character which will be exceed
ingly valuable to him in any situation
in life. Besides this he would know
one thing practically and thoroughly,
and the influence of such knowledge
cannot be oyerestimated. But learning
IA trade is not fashionable, and boy
would have to encounter great deal of
social opposition who attempted it in a
republic. There is different standard
in Germany. None of the princes are
brought up idly. Prince Henry, son Of
the Prince imperial, "Our Fritz" who
won such credit in the late war, has
been apprenticed to Berlin bookbinder.
His father was printer and his grand
father. the Emperor, was a glazier.-
The latter seems to have initiated, in his
recent campaign, the London glazier
who went about breaking windows for
the benefit of the trade.
Year: 1872

LEARNING TO CoNvEBsE.-Despise not
tn, day of little things, rs many fantas-
tic persons pretend to do. Consider
that there are many things in daily
practice of no use or significance in
themselves, except insomuch as they
prepare us for things beyond them
And this is one. If you are stiff of limb.
and your dancing-master should recon-
mend you to supply yourself by course
of gymnastic exercises, you would prob
ably say nothing in objection; or if your
fencing-master should tell you that he
could do nothing for you in this art,
unless you first acquire a degree of
steadfastness, and self-command. and
pliability, by use of the lunging practice
for half an hour every day. you would
do it at once, Now, only weigh the
accomplishments one against the other.
Few people dance SO often as once a
wee and if they fence, the chances are
that it is ,till less frequently. Whereas,
in regard of language, We are talking
animals; and. as Cicero says. it is a
shame that we should not be studious
to excel in that one quality whence We
have our humap pre-eminence, our do
minion over beasts; but so it is, that the
noblest faculty, and the only one where
in the mos, might be done by care, we are
too apt to fancy that We may leave it to
itself, and that it will come, as it were
by chance.
Year: 1872

We envy neither the men or women
who cannot speak to a fellow-creature
out of their own circle, not to anybody
without the formality of an introduction.
There is no computing the amount of
profit and pleasure such persons use by
hedging themselves III with this stupid
fence of f.stidiousness. We have al
ways found more of this feeling among
persons who were touchy on their social
position. than among those self-respect-
ing persons who thought nothing about
it. A great deal of intelligence is float
ing round the world without being la
bled. and those men or women who
have the good sense to recognize this
fact and act upon it, not only are educa-
ting themselves, but confer that pleas
ure which we are all bound by the COM
mon ties Of humanity to exchange with
each other. 1t seems to US thatitis only
the snob and pretender who takes a
different view of this question.
Year: 1872

Silurian age. and makes the first mis-
take-they all do it-of seizing the
projectile with the wrong haud. Then,
with malice aforethought. she makes
the further blunder of swinging her arm
perpendicnlarly instead of horizontally
-thereupon the stone fiiss into the air.
describing an irregular elleptiole curve,
and strikes the surface of the earth o.
far from the hen as the thrower stood at
the time, in a course due west from the
same, the hen then bearing by the COM
pass north-north-east by half east At
the second attempt the stone narrowly
missed the head of the thrower herself,
who seeing that any further attempt of
the kind would be suicidal, did what she
might have done at first. started after
the hen with an old and familiar weapon
The moral of which is: Stick to the
broomstick. Figaro.
Year: 1872

A Cleveland man who removed a
grease spot from his Goa tail with ben
zine, and then stood close to stove
that the odor might evaporate quickly.
has not ridden on horseback since,
although ne would be glad to do so, as
he has anew coat which he wishes to
diplay.
Year: 1872

Every mans task is his Iife-pre-
server. Emerson.


What is birth TO a man, If it shall
be a stain to his dead ancestors to
have left such an offspring ?-Sir P.
SyJ1dey.


A just and reasonable mOdesty does
not only recommend elOquence, but
sets off every great talent which a
man can be possessed Of.-AddisOn.


Itis very often more necessary to
conceal contempt than resentment,
the former being never forgiven, but
the latter sometimes fOrgOt.-Chester-
field.


A brave man thinks no more of his
superior vino does him an injury
for he has it then in his power to make
himself superior to the other by fOrgiv-
ing it.-PJPc.


It is no disgrace not to be able to do
everything; but to undertake, or pre-
tend to, what you are not made for,
is not only shameful but extremely
troublesome and vexatiOus.- PHI
tdrch.


Those who repudlate the Christian
name are naturally anxious, ere they
throw it away, 10 take out Of It what
ever beauty and value it may have
held, and to surrender it into hands
which have most spoiled it. Hence
they turn round with displeasure on
every natural ally, who, within the
church, has been trying TO redeem the
name, and with prayer and fastings
east the demons out Of il; and ap-
pIaud every bigot's claim who sue
ceeds in making it the vehicle Of his
own rawlings, and hands it over to be
repOsessed, after fruitless exo-cism, by
seven other spirits worse than the first.
-.Tdmes MdrtHedU.
Year: 1872

1t is a somewhat remarkable fact
that Christians, in substituting the
first day of the week for the seventh
as the day which should be kept for
the Sabbath, have entirely ignored
the claims Of animals to a day Of rest.
Under the Jewish law, horses were
exempt from labor one day in the
week as well as their owners. But
now the horse has no day in which
he is released from toll It would
almost seem as though the intrOdue-
ton Of Christianity had resulted in
evil, as far as the equine race is con-
eerned. This is not as it should be.
nor is il consistent with the teachings
Of the Bible. Amid the thunder of
Sinai, one day in the week was grant
ed the beasts Of burden as a day Of
rest, and no word Of Christ or his
apostles was spoken in contradiction
Of it. As far as physical necessities
are concerned, horses seem to need
periodical days Ofrest as much as their
drivers.-Prdirie Eqrmer.
Year: 1872

The annual report of the Massaehu-
sets State Board of Health merits a
passing nOtioe. Among other papers
submitted is one on the use and abuse
Of alcoholic drinks, which heartily
eOmmends the establishment Of ine-
briate asylUms for the restoration to
health of OinOmaniacs. The Board al
so contributes a paper on the adulter-
alton of food, in which we find the
statement: Coffee brought in bulk
we have rarely found to be what it
purpOrted to be, while the sO-called
coffee sold in pound parcels was large
ly made up of peas and beans, and
one specimen contains no coffee at
ALL" This adulteFatiOn OF coffee is
now so well understood by buyers that
dealers make but little secret Of it.
Parehed peas and beans are probably
harmless, but still we think every
manufacturer should be forced to la
bel his packages truthfully; and the
same may be said of all other descrip-
tiOns of merchandise. BY the way we
must not neglect to record that the
Board of Health did not disdaiIi to
consider the question OF the sanitary
influence Of chignOns. DIR. White
pronounced the little worms inhabit-
ing waterfalls" and dieting on fair
locks Of beauty, to be humbug. In
hair improperly eleansed, there are
the elements Of fungus, but there is no
reason to believe this to be capable Of
attaching itself 20 living tissue, or OF
creating any disease Of the parts with
which it is brought in contact. More
over, "the dried sebseeOus cOncretiOns
which form at times upon the shafts
Of the hair, which are popularity call
ed hair eaters and are supposed to
be a cause OF loss of hair, are not 10 be
cOnfOunded with anything OF the par
asite nature"
Year: 1872




1t will not take much time to delinL
cate the character of the man Of m
tegrity, as by its nature it is a plain
one, and easily understood. He is one
who makes it his constant rule to fol-
low the road of duty, according as the
word OF God, and the voice of his
conscience point it out to him. He
is not guided merely by affections,
which may sometimes give the color
of virtue to loose and unstable char
aeter. The upright man is guided by
a fixed principle of mind, which de-
termlnes him to esteem nothing but
what is honorable, and to abhor what-
ever is base or unworthy, in moral
conduct. Hence we find him ever
the same; at all times the trusty friend,
the affectionate relative, the consci-
entiOus man Of business, the piOus
wOrshiper, the public spirited citizen.
He assumes no borrowed appearances.
He seeks no mask to cover him, for
acts no studied part, but he is indeed
what he appears to be, full of truth,
candOr and humanity. In all his pur-
suits he knows no path but the fair
and direct one, and would much rath-
er fail of success than attain it by re-
proaehful means. He never shows
Us a smiling cOuntenance while he
meditates evil against US in his heart.
He never praises US among our friends,
traducing US among our enemies. We
shall never find one part of his char
aeter at variance with another. In
his manners he is simple and unaffeet-
ed; in all his proceedings open and
consistent. He is also benevolent,
kind and energetic, social and always
having a smile on his countenance.
But, alas, how many young men are
there at the present day who fall short
of integrity. They are carried away
by the allurements Of vanity and the
giddy things Of earth. They do nOtap
preciate the blessings Of high heaven.


DODGE.