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TZEOIj POST.
WEDNESDAY, OCT 9, 1878.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
W r . Uki* ix Hit regular Agent for the
POST in Johnson ton nig, authorized to re-
eeirr subscriptions, receipt for the tame, ami
to nude eontr/ietx for udtertisiug. Alt due*
should be, pout to him.
OUIt SCHOOL.
Dublin possesses ninny attractions
to men of business and families tlmt
would like to selllc down in a thriv
ing little town of six or seven hun
dred souls, but none greater than her
school. The good old times when
every community in tho South could
have a good school is gone—gone to
return up more for at least two or
three generations. Before tho war
tho Southern farmers wero wealthy,
and there were but f6w communities
that could not pay a fair salary and
_> u]i a good . i liool. Since the
• everyone is poor, and tho only
hopo for a successful school is to lo
cale it in it town or village whero the
burden may bo shared by a largo
number of jiatrons. And tho only
hope for parents in the rural districts
is to board out their children or re
move to lown. Wo Intro nothing to
say against tho largo number cf ex
cellent men and women who are
engaged in teaching three-month’*
schools throughout the country. They
aro in many instances doing good
work. But for them wo should
have many thousands move than we
now Imvo in tho melancholy condi
tion, of being unable to read. But
parents who really moan anything by
sending their children to school—
who wish to equip thoir offspring
with an education which shall give
thorn a fair chance in tho battle of
life, should loso no timo in placing
them in a school that is permanent,
1liat doesn’t change teachers ovory
year, that is presided ovor by a thor
oughly educated and profound schol
ar. Such aschool is tho Dublin Acade
my. Wo think tho fact that wo have
enjoyed f6r several years an intimate
acquaintance with tho Principal to
gether with the fact that for six
years wo ourself swayed tho birohon
scepter, slionld entitle us to speak on
this subject ex cathedra. And wo
foci wifo in saying that, there is no
hotter school anywhere* in this por
tion of the State. Col. Ramsay is
not only a man of profound learning
in the classics, Mathematics, Belle
Lotters and tho sciences, hut wedded
to a happy faculty of imparting in
struction, 1m possesses a mind en
riched with spoils from ovory pro
vince in the Republic of Literature,
which enables him to hreatho vitali
ty and interest and sweetness into his
refutations, to eliminate much of tho
grim monotony from ordinary school
work and to give that broad and rc-
llncd cult ure which can novor, novor
como from text-hooks and text-hook
knowledge alone. Lot thoso parents
thou who wish their children educa
ted think of these things.
Lm ukss Him., Oct. 1st, 1878.
Ed. Post:
Steam power, water power and al
most ovory other power can in some
way ho measured—except the power
of tho press. .
That is an enormous power, which
is almost unlimited and immeasura
ble, either for good or evil, accord
ing to tho manner in which it is used.
It is a groat bond-light leadimg a
long train of readers into a happy
state of civilization, enlightenment
and morality; or it is an “ignis fut-
n«8, M leading them along through
tho hedges and by-ways of life into
false doctrines, prejudice, envy, mal
ice and all kinds of corruption. Or
it may ho that dull, still, phospho
rescent light, which is without lustre
or warmth, giving neither virtue to
its readers nor profit to its proprietor.
It is the watchman upon the tower,
ami the guardian <■!' all \ inue.
The other powersmentioned, when
confined are of no value. The pow
er of the press when circumscribed
by a timid or cowardly leader is
equally _ impotent.
Steam or water power put in mo
tion by an unskilful operator is far
more likely to do harm than good.
Tho leader »f tho press if ho bo un
skilful, giving a “serpent for a fish,
or a stone for broad,” or being too
timid to give his readers anything
but “soft senior,” bowing to the
“Baal" of public clamor is equally
likely to do more harm than good.
Or ho may, like the phosphorescent
light, ftgjtd none, cheer nmio ? pficonSg
age none, condemn none; hut by his
cold, unchccrful, dull style, drive oif
his readers to more cheerful columns.
It is not our intention to insinuate,
proscribe or criticise our local press,
ft is yet in its infancy and is worthy
of much commendation for ita rapid
advancement. But if we cun put tip
a finger-board for it that our people
may he aroused to the grievous ne
cessity of relieving our morally-
blighted community of the great evil
incubus hanging over it; then our
object is obtained.
Fifteen or twenty years ago cld
Laurens stood the peer of any county
in the State for morality, sound pol
itics and a law-abiding people gener
ally. A new generation, almost
entirely, has grown tip since our ad
vent. flow docs it compare with the
old one just passed away? Where
arc the peers of tho Tronps, Block-
sh curs, Hamptons, Stanleys, Yopps,
Robinsons, Guytons, Thomases and
and a host of othersY I ask the sad
question, rlo wo live in a day of de
generation?
Go Mr. Editor to tho criminal
docket of that day and compare it
with tho prosont exliubcrunt volume.
Tlion a crimo of magnitude was a
rare occurrence, and when it did
Occur it was met with prompt pun
ish mont, both logally mid morully by
tho virtue of such solid men as lived
iu that day. To-day our docket is
flush with charges of the State against
evil-doers for crimes of nlmsot ovory
grade.
It is horriblo to know that any
circumstance should arise to incar
cerate white females—that to-day the
walls of our jail echo the groans of
an old lady in her dotage, tho wails
of a young one in her primo.ago and
the pitiful erics of an innocent .babe
upon her breast.
Let ui? not from falso pride veil
those things from our sight. They
aro spread to tho world through the
press. Our community is under a*
cloud. Wo aro in moral darkness.
Lot tho light of tlio press pour forth
its unerring rays upon the law-break
ers, and lot tho withering gaze of an
onlightonod, virtuous public frown
them down, and out of our conlmti-
nity, for they can no more hear Ibis,
than can tho poojgmitj&r the frowns
of tlib Saviour to tlio great day of
His wrath.
Oh trio.
A South Carolina Statesman in
Distress.
Tho editor of tho Yew York
World has received tho following
from a South Carolina statesman:
Kali: I'm a man of cullnh, find a
pohtisliun by trade, lately from do
Souf. As sieh, I find myso’f out o’
business, and address you as do lead
in’ Democrat. As do Republicans is
done gone up and busted, I want to
know if you Democrats want to hire
a good likely cullahed pnsson in a
politikul capacity of enny kind. If
so, I’m open to offers. I was former
ly a member of do Souf Caroliny
Legislator when said Stato was ruled
by our race. I kin givo references
ns to knraotev ns sieh, and beg t>
offer my friends, Ex-Guvoncr Cham
berlin and Mr. Kinipton, also ex-
Congrossmun Bowon. Me and him
has frequently slept together and in
the sumo bod—politikul and other
wise.
Tho Republicans m now gittin’
rather vulguh and down in do heel,
and I for ono has resolved to loavo
’em.
References exchanged. Please let
nto hoar from you, ns my board is
now unpaid sovoral days mid I want
a job. Political principals is sub
ordinate and inferior to bcof and
bread. Yours to order,
John Nicodemus.
LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Wo clip the following from nu ex
change:
“Under our now Constitution, if
you want any loeul legislation doue,
you must draw your bills and have
them advertised thirty days before
the meeting of the Legislature, so
the peoplo may know what they aro,
uud be able to determine whether
they will approve or opposo their
pas-age.”
England is on tho ovo of war with
Afghanistan.
Gov. Rice 1ms refused to file Gov.
Hampton’s letter, published in an
other column, and returned it.
Bah!
THE WIVES or MEMPHIS.
The editor of the Memphis Av
alanche has given a mournful picture
of that city, moved to indignant
complaint by a statement laid to
have been made in Boston by cer
tain Memphian visitors who assert
that the reports of distress at the
South are groatly exaggerated. Ac
cording to tlio Avalanche, thehap-
less city has lost 1,200 of its people
in the course of twenty-seven days,
out of a population of 15,000. It
lias 3,000 sick men, women and chil
dren, and is spending ovor §20,000 a
day in the employment of 1,200 nnr-
scs and forty doctors, and in supply
ing medicines for those stricken with
the plague and food for those left
destitute by its ravages. Within
these distinctly drawn outlines let
the imagination crowd together what
images of physical! and mental suf
fering, self-sacrifice, cowardice, sel
fishness and Christian heroism it
may, and, wo arc assured, the lurid
horrors of the fancy will remain une
qual- to the grim reality. In the
oftico of tho Avalanche there are
only two men loft out of all that
wero employed there a month ago,
aud they move about among stran
gers. “Fear sits on ovory face,”
says this writer, “and dread on ovory
heart. We work, not in tho slind-
dow but in the very face of Death.
We meet him on every hand and at
ovory moment in the homes of his
victims and in tho desolation ho lias
spread about us.” But it is not our
design’to mako an abstract of the want
and woo and misery depioted in the
Avalanche so much as to quote a sin
gle sentence in the account of those
who have played tho coward and
thoso who lntYe dono their duty.
This is the verdict of tho yellow
touch-stone that has tried human na
ture so sorely: “Parents lmvo deser
ted children and children parents,
husbands, their wives, hut not one
wifo a husband.” This simple sen
tence ought to make amends for
many of the sneers at women which
tho newspapers dispense so freely.
It does not mean, of course, that all
or even a majority of parents, chil
dren and husbands lmvo boon false,
hut that, while not a fe\y of them
lmvo shirked their duties, no wife
Ims turned veereypt, It is nil \well
enough to say .in explanation of *r\ch
a fact that the sick-room is a wo
man’s sphere and that nature 1ms
given the sex a light foot, a minister
ing lmml, a sympathetic heart and
something of the physician’s courage
in encountering suffering and danger
in shapes peculiarly terrible; hut this
is a mercy to urgo that women are
good nurses. Grant that women aro
more at home in attending the sick
and less disgusted with tho circum
stances surrounding sickness than
men, is tho little matter of uwkward-
noss or squoatnislmess worth taking-
in to account in tlio presence of such
an evil as the yellow fever? When all
lessor considerations of convenience
sink in the great question of lovo,
loyality and readiness to encounter
danger wo must go farther tlmn more
adaptability to tho cares qf tho sick
chamber to oxphr'n the fact which
tho Memphis editor 1ms alleged in
favor of wives. Lot us frankly con-
cedo to woman in this supremo oalm-
ity a superiority in the sentimonts os
well as tho offices of lovo and self-
sacrifice, since this deduction which
wo have quoted can hardly be the
phraso of idlo compliment. That
physicians und- clergymen should
lmvo laid down thoir lives in tho per
formance of their duty; that Sisters
of Chuirity should lmvo moved about
with their usual serenity in tho pos-
tilenco; that warm-hearted philan
thropists should lmvo thrown them
selves into the infected districts to
fight tho fever—all this was to be ex
pected, for the heroes and heroines
of professions, creeds or sentiments
aro never wanting at a great crisis.
But, this declaration of tho Southern
journalist deals with tho ordinary
mass of peoplo, und not with tho ex-
ceptional few who offer themselves
up us martyrs, and assert tlmt among
all tho wives of tho city—white or
black, good or bad, ignorant or re
fined—not ono lms forsaken a hus
band attacked by iho fever; in a
word, tlmt tho women of Memphis
rose to a high level of heroism in tho
hour of overwhelming ovil. It has
been said of the sox throughout the
tho country that they have within
the past few years exhibited a certain
frivolity aud extravagance, a earo-
lessuess of the pressure of the times,
a disposition to forget the part of
helpmeet to man and a-sumo the
role of social idol, an inclination to
restgh the prr&ligo of beihg\the
light of; a single household fob/the
sake of shining as tho ; star of .a fash-
ionable company. it rneroiy an
error of the imagination on the jiart
of the cynics who made this-'tritic-
ism that the divorce suits seemed
multiplying in our courts, that scan
dal cases appeared to be growing so
common that the matrimonial knot
seemed to be considered as a noose to
he slipped for convenience, not a tie
that only death could loosen? How
ever these things may be, this trib
ute from Memphis brings a revela
tion of tho true womanhood of the
country that makes mere prose out
of Scott’s wcll-tvorn lines:
"0 woman! in our hours of ease,
Unccrlain, coy and hard to please,
And variable as, die shade
By the light quivering aspen made;.
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!”—JV. T.
World.
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good a paper THE WORLD is and how
worthy it is of their support.
On the 1st of May, 1870, the ownership
and control of THE WORLD passed into
the hands of the undersigned, under whose
absolute nnd untrammelled direction TIIE
WORLD has ever since remained and now
remains.
During (lie whole of this time THE
WORLD has labored patiently and per-
sevcringly for the accomplishment of two
great objects in politics of paramount inter
est to the Southern people.
I. The restoration of Local Self-Govern
ment at (lie South.
II. A Real Reform of the Civil Service,
in such wise as to destroy the political ma
chines under the operation of which it has
come to pass that the people are taxed to
support political parties, whereas political
parties have no other reason of being except
to lessen the burdens of government.
Tho lirst of these objects has been tri
umphantly accomplished. All intelligent
Northern men now admit that all parts o:
the country were as deeply interested as
the South in seeing it won. A corrupt
and aiiti-Dodiocratic g-veriihient in the
South was a permanent peril to the a eon-
dom-.y of true Auuvrteau principles in the
Federal Government aud therefore to tin
peace and honor of the whole jniople.
The second political object fqr which
THE WOULD contends still remains to be
fully achieved. The actual Administration
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this direct ion of which it is sufficient to say
that they have been as yet only in part re
deemed. THE WORLD for its part will
resolutely support any honest effort to re
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and will as resolutely denounce every ob
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It seems to the undersigned eminently
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\Y ORLD to be a paper which Southern
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nnd important to be brought to hour with
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duct of our national affairs, in the interest
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our peoplo of all sections.
It is my desire to keep TIIE WORLD
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in private nnd in public affairs the misun
derstanding of men by one another lies at
the root of so much evil tlmt the word
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est disputes with Great Britain, that two
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