The Abbeville Messenger, 1884-11-26

SOUTH CAKOI.INA HA I lAVAY COMPANY. Commencing Sunday. Sept. 7tli, 1884, at 2 35 a in, Passenger Trains will run as follows until further notice, "Kastern time:" Columbia Division?Daily. Leave Columbia 7 48 a in 6 27 p >i? Due at CltnrlcHtftn . 12 20 p m 9 :i8 p m Leave Charleston 7 00 a hi 4 :<0 }> in Due at Columbia 11 00 p in D 22 a m Cavulfn Division?Daily except Sundays. Leave Columbia 7 -18 a ni 5 27 p in Due Camden 12 55 p in 8 25 p in Leave Camden 7 15 a in 4 00 p in Due Columbia 11 00 n m V 22 p m .4 iij/usta Pit if ion?Daily. Leave Columbia 5 27 p ni Imic Augusta 7 41 am Leave Augusta .1 50 p in Duo Columbia. 9 22 p in Con ntct ions Made at Columbia with Columbia nnd Oreenville railroad by trsin arriving at 11 00 a. ni. and departing at 5 27 p. in.; at Columbia Junction with Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railrond by same train to and from all points on both roads. At Charleston with stcamera for New York on Saturday; and on Tuesday and Saturday with steamer for Jacksonville and points on St. John's river; also, with Charleston and Savannah Railroad to and from Savannah and all points in Florida. At Augusta with Georgia and Central rail roads to and from all points West and South: at Hlackvillo to and from nil points on Harnwcll railroad. Through tickets can be purcliHHed to all points South and Went by applying to I"). McQkkkn. A gout, Columbia, S. C. John B. I'eck, (Sencral Manager. I). C. Ai.lkx, Gen. Cass, and Tickct Ag't ran ** "

and prosperity to the people, because it introduces into the Republic the rule of the minority. The lirst instinct of an American is equality?equality of right, equality of privilege, equality of political power, that equality which says to every citizen : "Your vote is just as good, juRt as potential as the voto of any other citizen." That cannot be said'to-day in the United States. The cou|fcb of affairs in the South has crushed out the political power of more than a million of American citizens and has transferred it by violence to others. Forty-two Presidential electors arc assigned to the South on account of the colored population. That population with more than 1,100,000, legal votes have been unable to chosc a single elector. Even in those States where thej' have a majority of more thmi 100,000, they are deprived of free suffrage and their rights as citizens are scornfully trodden under foot. The eleven States that comprised the Rebel Confedcracj* had by the census of 1880 seven and a half million white population and 5,300,000 colored population. The colored population almost to a man desire to support the Republican party, but by a system of cruel intimidation, and by violence and murder, whenever violence and murder are thought neces -

thi; Democratic party of their constitutional ami legal rights as citizens of tho United Stales that tlicy regard the advent of that party to national powcras the signal of re-enslavement and are affrighted bccause the}* think all legal protection for them is gone. Few persons in the North realize how completely the chiefs of the Rebellion wield the *>olitici?l power which lus triumphed in the late election. It is a potentous fact that the Democratic Senators who came from the States of the late Confederacy, all, and I mean all, without a single exception, personally participated in the rebellion against the Northern Government. It isast'Il more significant fact that in those States no man who was loyal to tho Union, no matter how strong a Democrat he may be to-day, has the slightest chance of political promotion. The one great avenue to honor in that section is tho record of zealous service in the war against the Government. It is cettaiuly an astounding fact that the section in which friendship for the Union in the day of its trial and agony is still a political disqualification, should be called now to rule over the Union. All this takes place during the lifetime of the generation that fought the war.

Li 1)1011. The contest j ust closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes und fate of candidates, whether successful or unsuccessful. Purposely, I may say instinctively, I have discussed the issues and consequences of that contest without referonce to. my own defeat, without the remotest reference to the gentleman who is elevated to the Presidency. Towards him, personally, I have no cause for the slightest ill-will, and it is with cordiality I express the wish that his official career may prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to the country, and that his administration may overcome the embarrassment which the peculiar source of its power impress upon it from the hour of its birth. At the conclusion of lilainu's speech he invited the largo crowd into his house and for nearly an hour an informal reception was hold. Successful Treatment of Diptlierlu. Dr. 11. I'. Gauthier contributes the following to tho Medical Review ; While at Xatches Miss., in the early part of 1865, I was led, through my experience with an epidemic then and there prevalent, to adopt the treatment I now ! Drniuwo tn (losnrihn. I^nrinc* *l?5u nni_

lecungs n I tailed to thank the Republicans of the Empire State, who encountered so many discouragement* nu<l obstacles, who fought foes from within and foes from without, and who waged so Ktrong a battle that tlio change of one vote in every 2,(XX.) would have given us victory m the nation. Indeed a ohnnge of a little more than 5,OOo votes would have transferred New York, Indiana, New .Jersey and Connecticut to the liepublican staudard and would have made the North as solid as the South. My thanks would still be incomplete if 1 should fail to recognize with special gratitude that great body of workingmen, both native, and foreign born, who gave me their earnest support, breaking from old personal ami party ties and finding in the principles which i represented in the canvass, the safe-guard and protection of their own fireside interest. The result of the election, my friends, will ho regarded in the future, I think, as extraordinary. The Northern States, leaving out the cities of New York and Brooklyn from the count, sustained tfifr Republican cause by a majority of more than 4<)0,000. Almost half a million

York and Atlanta, via Washii.gton and Danville, Greensboro and Ashcvillo; on I trains Nos. 52 and 53, Richmond and ] Danville, Washington, Augusta and New ( Orleans. 'l'hrougl> tickets on sale at Charlotte, Greenville, Seneca, Spartun- 1 burg and Gainesville to all points south, southwest, north and east. A connect# i with N. K. railroad to and from Athens; b with X. K. to and from Tallulah Kails; r. with 151. Air Lino to and fioin Klbcrlon and Bowersvillo; d with Blue Ridgo to and from Walhalla; c with C. and G. to and from Greenwood, Newberry, Alston and Columbia; f with A. & S. and S., U. & C. to and from Hendersonville, Alston, See.; g with Chester and Lenoir to and from Chester, Yorkville and Dallas; h with X. C. division and 0., C. tte j A. to and from Greensboro, Raleigh, iS:c Kdmckd Hkrklky, Supt. 1 M. Slain/hler, Gen. Pass. Agt. A. Ij Kiveu, 2d V. P. and Gen. Man. < OARPKTS. CARP1CTS and House Furnishing Goods, the Largest Stock South of Haitimore, Moquet, Brussels. 3-lMy and Ingrain Carpets. Rugs, Mats and Crumb ni/wUc wv,w-11 t>