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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
BY JAS. A. WRIGHT AND HUGH WILSON.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
TERMS.—Three Duller* a yeerie advance.
UT No Subscriptions taken for a shorter
time than sis months.
Another MRallyoftlie Democracy.
Triumphant Demonstration at Abbeville.
Over Three Thousand Persons
Present
Speeches by HotfT. C. Perrin, CoL Has
kell, Col Thomas, Gen. Kennedy.
Gen. Garlington, Hon. J. P.
Reed, and CoL Aiken.
Abbeville, in her palmiest days,
never witnessed a more triumphant
demonstration than that which on
Wednesday last greeted tho eyes, and
cheered tho heart*, and inspired the
hopes of her patriotic? citizens. It
proved that “there is life in tho old
land yet;” that the Arcs of patriotism
still burn brightly upon tho altars of
our hearts; that wo have “not yet
despaired of the Republic," but with
serene hope aud unfaltering trust, arc
ready onco more to rally around tho
banner upon which is inscribed the
Union and the Constitution. Such a
spirit is the best augury of success,
and must nssuro it. It proves that
we aro not yet ready to be slaves;
that with the spirit to appreciate, we
have th« courage to maintain the
precious heritage of our fathers.
Tho opening notes of the Presiden
tial campaign in the mountain Dist
ricts had been sounded in the Green
ville and Anderson meeting*, and
catching enthusiasm from the spi
rit there manifested, Our citizens de
termined to have a demonstration
here—even a grander demonstration,
•which should bo worthy of our time
honored District, and proportionate
to tho greatness of tho issues wipth
aro at stake. Such they proposed,
and such they have accomplished.
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MnTOStalionW that now life and
new spirit which is nerving tho hoarts
and strengthening tho hands of our
people, and which bring us tho assur
ance that anew era is about to dawn
upon us. •*
On Wednesday, three thousand of
our best and brightest, assem
bled to do honor to tho occasion;
old men and matrons, young men
and maidens;, manhood with-its
strong arms and stout hearts; and
bcanty with its smiles and inspir
ing presence. The twonty organized
democratic Clubs came up with ban
ners flying; came up with their fami
lies ; with their freedmen; with their
baskets of provisions; came behind
tho swift locomotives ; came in carri
ages ; came on horseback; came on
foot; —all to do honor to the occasion.
The occasion proved apolitical jubi
lee, a social festival; and in the sym
pathy of kindred hearts, and tho en
thusiasm of common purposes, wc all
renewed our devotion to those sacred
principles which this celebration was
designed to advance.
At eleven o’clock, the procession
was formed in our village squaro, un
der tho direction of Col. J. T. Rob
ertson, [marshal of the day, assisted
by Mr. T. P. Quarles; and such a
procession Abbeville has not often,
if ever, witnessed. Representations
from tho various Democratic Clubs of
the District, numbering between
twelve and fifteen hundred persons,
formed into line, and under the inspir
ing strains of the fine music furnish
ed by the Greenville brass band, and
with gay banners flying, of silk, and
satin, of white, and crimson, and
blue, marched to the pleasant grove
near the depot, where a stand had
been erected and seats provided for
tho accommodation of tho speakers
and audience. .Not the least noticeable
feature of the proeesesion was the
colored section of the Abbeville Club,
whoso banner had the inscription
“Down with the scallawags,” and
then the names of that trio of rene
gades, who have disgraced themselves,
and their race, and dtshonored the fair
fame of their District in that bogus
assembly in Columbia. Around the
stand were suspended the most beau
tiful of the banners, upon it were
seated the distinguished speakers and
officers of the day, and before it sat
an audience of which Abbeville might
well be proud—whose inspiring pres
ence might well impart intellect, soul
and voice to eloquence itself.
The lion- Thos. C. Pert-in, the
President of the day, In opening the
exercises of the occasion, presented
an able and eloquent exposition of
the objects which this celebration was
designed to advance, and whilst cheer
ing tho hearts of his fellow-citizens
of the white race with words of ear
nest hope and well assured trust,
pressed upon tho attention of the
blacks, some lessons of sago counsel
and timely warning. He reviowed
tho dark record of tho past, and
opened up tho brightening prospects
of the future. After three years of
unexampled oppression—of arbitrary
arrests, of military tribunals, of mili
tary bastiles—wc had already seen a
partial restoration of our civil rights,
and had a well assurod hopo in tho
triumph of the Democratic party,
a speedy restoration to all our rigs "jV
of citizenship, and our complete
liticul enfranchisement. ..
which crowns the work” shod! 1 not
only inspiro renewed vigor in tho
great contests in which we aro enga
ged, but should impress us with tho
necessity of pationt
“the powers that be,” as long as they
remain a de facto government. To
the black race he urged, aud pressed
upon their conviction, their uttor in
eompetoncy to take part in the gov
ernment of tho country, but in behalf
of the Democratic party guaranteed
them tho ttalus in quo, and full pro
tection of all just rights of person
and property. —Tho name of the
Honored President is in itself a tower
of strength to any ennso, and his as
sociates whilst drawing encourage
ment from his oxamplo, may well
hoed those lessons of wisdom which
his sago oyporienco dictates.
Tho President fft'st introduced tho
gallant soldier and distinguished
young citizen—a. son of Abbeville
and one whom sho delights to honor—
Col. A. C. Haskell, tho Elector for
tho Third Congressional, District.
Col. Haskell gracefully responded
to tho compliment,, and gave full ex-.’
hemTOlTainStfrorhis native District,
illustrious as tho homo of Clievcs,
Calhoun and McDuffie, and endeared
to him by the scones and associations
of his youth and early manhood, lie
made a beautiful and touching allusion
to the scones which were enacted in
this very grove more than seven
years ago, and which in part inaugu
rated the evontful revolution; and
drew a ploasing contrast and parallel
between those scenes and tho ones in
which we were now engaged. The
issues involved were tho same—the
objects wore the same—but the means
employed w r ere widely different. Tho
watchword then as now, was tho
equality of tho States,” and “our
Rights under the Constitution," but
to secure those, secession proved un
availing and the bayonet was power
less to save. Tho sword of Leo rests
idly in its scabbard, and our arms we
trust are stackod forever; but again
we are called to raise the same silken
banners and bearing the samo devices.
The contest is a peaceful one, but in
volves the same great issues. Tho
speaker presented tho striking con
trast betweon the principles and poli
cy, and tho nominees of the two groat
parties. Grant and Colfax were true
exponents of Radicalism, and tho in
eompetcncy of the one and the duplic
ity of the other received tho unspar
ing invective of the orator. The suc
cess of Radicalism would intensify
ten-fold tho evils under which wo are
now laboring. The degree and char
acter of these evils received a vivid
and just delineation.
Thd President next introduced Col.
J. P. Thomas, the Elector for the
State at large—one who had given
the first impetus to the Democratic
movement in the State, who has ever
since infused into it his own energy
and enthusiasm, and was now upon
the eve of “organizing victory.” Tho
speaker responded in terms which
well justified the encomiums which
had been passed upon and which
showed that no better selection of a
standard hearer could havo been
made in the great impending struggle.
The speeeh was a well digested and
well arranged argument—clear, com
pact and impressive—illustrated by
all the aids which tho reason borrows
from a luxuriant imagination and a
cultivated taste, and enforced by
thoso strong appeals which impress
burning conviction upon the under
standing and the passions. The
speaker expressed the high gratifica
tion with which he addressed for the
first time an Abbeville audience, and
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1868.
paid a high eulogium to that valor in
tho field and wisdom in the cabinet
which had illustrated the history of
the State add reflected honor on the
District. Dropping a tear to the
memory of our sainted dead, he pas
sed by an easy, and naturla transition,
to a vindication of the great princi
ciples which inspired the late contest.
Never will we disgrace the living and
dishonor the dead by repudiating thoso
We are not called on to
do so. Slavery and secession are
dead issues, and without ignoring a
single fact, or giving up a singlo
principle, wc may go back into tho
Union standing upon a platform
which is broad enough to hold tho
men of the North und tho men of
tShtf' South. The unconstitutionality,
impolicy, and inhorent weakness of
[the Ecdical scheme of Reconstruction
'reeoiven an admirablo exposition, and
after a«tborough discussion of tho great
in tho contest, the
speaker closed with aiycarnest appeal
Democratic Clubs to perfect I
thur organizations, and make them do
good service on the coming election.
Gen. J. D. Kennedy, of Camden,
was next introduced—one of tho elec
tors of tho State at large, the gaUant
commander of Korshaw’s Brigade in
many a bloody fight—one whose elo
quence, energy and enthusiasm well
qualified him to boa standard bearor
of tho Democracy in tho present
campaign. Gen. Kennedy made a
rousing spooch, “wielding at will the
fierce democracy,” and casting from a
full quiver tho varied weapons vt tho
peaceful fray—tho clear statement,
tho pointed argument, the apt illus
tration, tho bitter invective, tho fer
vent, appeal. He presented hi bold
relief tho dark record of Radical mis.
rule, which discarding that generous,
policy of conciliation, which a mag
nanimous victor would havo extended
to the vanquishedLbad first consigned
us to military edicts niiui&litnry com
missions. .. and now to a
fiiSro fntofcrable,—tho tender mernef
of the carpet-baggor, tho scalawag,
and tho enfranchised* slave. - AVc aro
struggling to regain all that makos
existence dear, and to relievo our
selves of all that makes government
intolerable—the incubus that crushes
out tho vory life, —tho vampiro that
sucks the life-blood of tho body poli
tic. This contest we aro ready to
transmit from “bleeding sire to son.”
It is a struggle in which no true Caro
linian can hositato to choose his posi
tion. “Ho who dallies is a dastard:
Ho who doubts is damned.” Wo shall
not protend to give a synopsis of tho
speech, which was attentively hoard
and loudly cheered.
Next was introduced Gcnoral A. C.
Garlington, of Nowborry, ono of the
ablest men, and finest orators in tho
State; who is doing valiant sorvico in
the field. We have before had tho
pleasure of hearing General Garliug
ton both before the popular assembly
and in tho Legislative hall, both in
attack and defence, both in the set
speech and the impromptu, and havo
admired tho ability and skill of the
self-possessed, self-reliant and practi
ced orator. A fairer antagonist wo
never saw; ono who would state an
opponent’s position as squarely and
clearly as Charles James Fox would do,
or as he could do himself without cur
tailment and without perversion, and
then meet it full breasted, as few but
himself could do. To say that his
speech on the present occasion was in
his best style is to pay it no ordinary
encomium. Solid massivo argument
according to his wont, formed the sta
ple of the address, which was yet illus
trated by thoso figures of speech, and
embellished by thoso flowers of poe
try, and graces of rhetoric, which
beautify and adorn without impairing
its strength, whilst tho conclusions of
an irresistible logic were driven home
to the understanding, and the will,
with a force and earnestness peculiar
ly his own. The war-policy of the
Radical party, its objects and results—
the Reconstruction policy of Presi
dent Johnson—and the Congression
al plan of Reconstruction were
the threo grand divisions of his
theme, upon which he expatiated at
length, and highly to the gratification
of the largo and intelligent audience.
We shall not pretend to follow the
outline of the argument which, in its
effect upon the audience furnished one
of the best illustrations of that in
terest, with which genius, learning,
and eloquence can even invest pro
found reasoning and elaborate argu
mentation.
Then followed in one of his telling
speeches, the Hon. J. P. Reed, of
Anderson, who is known to all our
citizens as “the terror of evil-doers,”
and who h»s so long wielded upon our
judicial circuit the thunders of the
law. He complained humorously in
responding, that his thunder had been
all stolen by his predecessors, and
that he would have to extemporise
BOmetbing'for the occasion, but wheth
er a song or soemon, time would alone
determine. “The evils of Reconstruction
and the sine of the carpet-bagger, and
the scalawag, tad the sad condition
of the poor negro, “ moro sinned
against than sinning," furnished a fit
theme and ample material for the
speaker’s r*ro powers of Btump ora
tory. He painted to the life, in colors
no less strikingthnn truo, tko venality
anctoonruptionc , o mongrel Assem
bly in Columbia, v» bo are preying upon
the vitals of the State, and now
threatening to destroy the little capi
tal which has survived the ravages of
the war. ' The Carpet-bagger was a
noody adventurer, without character
at home, the scalawag, a renegade
without principle and without shame,
whilst the negro is tho cat’s-paw and
tho unwilting dupe of tho selfish and
rapacious, . These subjects were made
the basis*' of a cloar and convincing
argument which was pressod home
upon the-alien tiou of the nogro, w ith
groat fort< and earnestness.
CoL D. W. Aiken, tho Canvassar
for the *jhi>d Congressional Districts,
was now introduced to tho audionoo,
as tho gallant soldier who boro upon
hiß person, an almost mortal wound ro
i ci vod at'Bfafcpsburg, and who brought
to the pres®! contest a zeal, energy,
ar.d enthhHHm which made him a
worthy sttißard boarer of tho groat
Domocrftijßlmrtr. Col. Aiken ros-
M K&vcn moro than his ac-
and oloquenco, and
his bis pointed argu
invoctivo, and his
■ awajuptod interest,
vim SeuMßicMwA, arid carried con
vict ton Opine to the understanding.
ThdßeV. .0. T. Porchor, was noxt
invited to ascend thp stand, and mado
Some very appropriate remarks, sug
gested by tho motto of tho Willing
ton, Club, of which ho is President,
and which was inscribod upon its
banner Deo vindice “God tho Avcngor."
Two colored Speakers, Jim Valon
line, and Dick Jones, thon mado
some remarks, after which tho Pres
ident of tho day submitted tho follow
ing resolution which was unanimous
ly adopted:
Resolved , that tho Democracy of Ab
beville Distriot ratify tho nomination
of Seymour and Blair, for tho Presiden
cy and Yico Presidency of tho Unitod
States, and pledge thomsolves to uso
their utmost efforts to eloct them, and
carry out tho principles of justice
equality and constitutional right,
deolared in the platform adoptod by
the New York Convention.
Tho meeting was then adjourned,
and the audience betook themselves
to dinner—some to the bountiful pic
nic, where substantiate and dainties,
by turns appeased the sharpened ap
petite and gratified the taste—some to
the tables where barbecued meats and
ice-cream wero dispensed under tbo
patronage of the ladies of tho Metho
dist Church, to advance a charitable
object.
Tho day passed off pleasantly and
quietly, and all pronounced tho cele
bration a grand success—in the
number, spirit and intelligence and
enthusiasm of tbo audience—tbe
character ability and success of tho
speeches—and the lasting infiuonco
for good which has been exerted up
on both races. —Abbeville Press.
The Political Pbospeot.—Tho
Washington Express says that, from
information in our possession, wo are
warranted in saying that all the
States of the Pacific slope will vote
for the Democratic ticket for Presi
dent and for Vico-Presidcnt. The
Sonthern States, we have good rea
son for saying, will give part of their
electoral votes for Soymour and Blair
and without the interference of mili
tary idetators and froedmen’s Bu
reaus, the ehtire Southern Electoral
vote would bo Democratic.
Rnsssia sends 14,000 criminals to
Siberia every year. Onc-fifth of
them die from the fatigue of tbe jour
ney, two thousand six hundred miles,
which is porformed on foot.
NEWS SUMMARY.
It is stated that both tho French
and Prussian embassies hero have ad
vices indicating war between the two
countries.
Prof. Watson, of the Dotroit Ob
servatory, announcos the discovery
of anew minor planet, which shines
liko a star of the tenth magnitude.
A “Respiratory-Advertising Appa
ratus for Precipitato Inhumations,’’ or
a coffin to notify the world that you
are burieu alive, has appeared in
Paris.
The imperß ‘\mily costs Franco
t a millions annually, which is more
tii three timos >at Louis Phillips
"P"*. ? if*
It »' officially an .' ‘ meed that tho
Government of Switzerland will sum
marily rejlyjt any proposal of France
an alliance with that
power. T f
Gold ore in considerable quantities,
it is reported, bas recoutly been dis
covered miles west of Ripley, Tippan
County, Mississippi.
Sherman telegraphs that there are
troubles on tbo Saline and Solo
mon River, caused by the Indians
of the Cheyeno tribe. Sheridan
had gone to tho scene of outrages
with plenty of troops.
The steam ship New York, from
Bremen, arrived at New York on
Monday. A noticeable feature of
her cargo is thirty thousand pounds
—tbo first importation of specie from
Europe in a long wbilo.
English journals publish p letter
from Rio Janeiro, in which tho writer
says tho new cabinet, under Stabo
rahy, is inclined to peace, and a great
majority of tho people are tired of
war with Paraguay and clamor for
Tho Herald has Rio Janoiro advices
via London, which state that ten thou
sand allies attacked Humaita, and'
wdre repulsed, losing throe thousand.
Tho allies wero also ropulsod at Grau
Chaco.
Advices by tho Gulf cable from
Ilayti stato that Snlnave, tho do-
Ihronod ox-prosidont and emperor, is
proparing to loavo, and intends to
favor tho Unitod States with his
presence.
Tho bugs aro said to havo strippod
whole potato fields in Ohio, loaving
nothing but tbo nakod stems—from
those they assailed cabbage loaves and
ethor vogetation —while tbe grasshop
per had levied on the clover fields,
cabbago, potatoes, oats and timothy,
laying low every stem, and leaving
tho fields as bare as a floor.
A high official in ono of the south
ern provinces of China last year issu
ed a proclamation forbidding idola
trous 'processions, and advising tbe
people to spood less time and money
at tbo hoatben temples.
Mrs. August Belmont drives a love
ly pair of cream colored ponies in a
low basket phaeton ; value of ponies
SSOOOO. Her husband’s four-in-* band
bays, sixteen bands high, is said to
be tbe finest in Nowport.
The people of Indiana are bogin
ning to think that something must bo
done to relievo them of the stigma
of living in “the great divorce State.’
Tbe divorces granted in Indiana, un
der present laws, number on the av
erage about five thousand per annum.
Hon. Tom Diggs and Hon. B. Royal,
two distinguished negroos of tbo Al
abama Senate, pulled each other’s
wool and tried to goouo each other’s
eye oat, the other night, at their
boarding honse in Montgomery.
St. Louis. —Advices from Solomon
City, Kansas, report horrible Indian
outrages in the Solomon River settle
ments. Men killed, women ravished
children captured, and tho stock ta
ken away. The country is strippod
with provisions.
The fire in the Canadian woods
really gotting to be a serious affair.
It is spreading fearfully, and there
seems to be no prospoot of its stop
ping until it has burnod and destroyed
tho wholo of tbe noble forests.
Tbo Washington correspondent of
of tho Baltimore Gazette says Gove
nor Scott, of South Carolina, reports
here that he cannot procure the loan
authorized by the Legislature.
Returns from all but fivo smor
counties in Kentucky, for Governor,
show the result to be: For Stevon
son, Democrat, 111,451, and for Ba
ker, Ropnblican, 23,020; Democratic
majority 87,825.
VOL. Ill—NO. 20.
A novel photographio picture, ono
only visiblo in tho dark, bas, it is an
nounced, been invonted.
The rice crop in Louisiana for the
present season promises to be not on
ly the largest ever grown in the
State, but of superior quality also.
The Underground Railway in New
York city, it is stated, will be com
menced very shortly. The subscrip
tions books for the stock havo been
opened, and the route has boeu de
termined on.
While Baltimore is having a fair
retail trade, and many visitors, New
York is said to boas dull as a deser
ted village.
A New York steamship company has
oonlracted to bring over tbe remainder «{
10,000 Mormon saints, eight hundred
having already arrived.
Philadelphia. —T. Chase Cabot, the
President of the Alexandria Rolling Mills,
has fled, leaving debts to the amount of
$500,000.
Colmbia, S. c.—Tftt bill authorizing a
State loan to P«y the interest on the State
dept was p<W*od without amendment.
There is a disposition on the part of
some of the members to finish the most
important work to be done and g p home
within two or three weeks.
The bill preventing persons doing
business under license from making any
discrimination on account of race or color
was read a third time and aeut to the
Senate.
There are aver four thousaad vacant
offices under toe new Tax
In the House the greater pars of the
time was occupied in the discussion of the.
bill to pay member* thjir mileage and per
diem; the objectionable clause that
members receivable
tU scurfy cents on the dollar. An amend
ment was finally adopted that tho bills
shall be taken at their face value.
. lUs seriously stated that Rosoorana’
visit to Virginia 1n dwwdhaMdulinAto*-*
with General Leo regarding Mexican
relations and Southwestern border in
terests. Other parties say that Rose
era ns desires to consult General Leo
with regard to tho views, purposes
probably action’of Demo
crats us preliminary to a letter of ad
vice that Rosecrans intends address
ing to tho Gormans before leaving
tho country; Nothing is positively
known beyond that Hosccranz goes
to Virginia to soe Gen. Lee.
London. —Dispatobea have been re
ceiued from Ireland, giving the par
ticluars of deeds of lawlessness at
Tipperary. It seems that while one
of tbe great landlords of that region,
named Scally, was serving tho usual
notices on various tenants, he was
killed by an unknown person. A
strong body of police attempted to
arrest the oulprit, when tho police in
turn wore fiorcoly attacked, two of
them shot dead and four badly wound
ed.
The Indian coin in store in Liver
pool, which in ordinary seasons is al
lowed to reach two millions and a
half of bushels, is now reduced to
about ono hundred thousand bushels,
and it is supposed by many that the
price will rise to $125 per bushel as
the season advances. It appears that
thirteen steamers laden with grain aro
now on tbeir way to London and Liv
erpool from Odessa and other ports
on tho Black Sea; but a groat part of
tho reliance from abroad is placed up
on tbo United States, including Cal
ifornia, whoso surplus of wheat will
amount to over seventeen million
bushels. Hitherto, it is stated, tbe
orders transmitted to ibis country
from Liverpool for grain have beon
carefully restricted as to prico; bat as
the emergency is critical, somo of
them aro arriving without that pre
caution.
A self-styled professor advertised
an entertainment in St. Louis, a few
nights since, at which he was to ex
pose the mysteries of spiritual mani
festations, allow himself to bo shot at
with pistols, and let the audience into
all the secrets of jugglers. After ap
pearing before tbe audience and re
questing those who desired to shoot
at him to prepare their pistols, he
went behind tbe stage curtain and
has not sioco been seen. He obtained
about two hundred dollars and left
his ball rent and printing bills unpaid.
Senator Abbott states that over
ton million of Northern capital has
been invested in North Carolina
since tho war.