The Fairfield Herald, 1876-10-05

"No, no I urge me not," said the young guardsman. "Let me return to my poor mother. She has need of all my consolation. I renounce forever my ill-fated attachment, Heaven, for its wise purposes, has chosen to afflict me. Farewell, baron ; I thank you for your kind kindness-your - ness-your kindness-your generous friendship. You and Holoise will soon learn that Henri do Montmoronci is no more. After tl.o noxt battle, if you seek me out, you will find me where the French dead lie thickest on the field." "Noblehoarted follow 1" cried the baron, when Henri had left him. "He ought to be a field marshal." "Marshal Saxo requests your im immediate - mediate immediate presence, baron," said an aide-de-camp, presenting himself with a salute. "Monsieur do Baron," said th commander-in-chief, when DeClair DeClairvillo - villo DeClairvillo had obeyed the summons, "I ji.vo chosen you to carry my do dospatches - spatches dospatches to the king ; you will find yourself honorably mentioned there in, and I think the favor of royalty 3 will reward your merit." , The baron bowed low as ho re, s cved the despatches from the hand L, o tl\o marshal, and was soon ready r fo the journey, first taking a hasty - le o of his daughter, whom he coin coins - s coins mo ded to the care of Madame do y Granleville (or rather Montx.orenci) e during his absence. t In life days thereafter, he report. report.s - s report.s hin i if to the marshal, and was then at berty to attend to l.is pri prir - r prir vato coierns. Ho found Heloise r in the coipany of Henri and his n mother, aild the gloom depicted on f their couiAenances presented a sin sine - e sine gular cont\ast to the radiant joy a that sp.arklel in the eyes and smiled :3. on the lips of the genial and warm warmw - w warmw hearted old soldier. He kissed his 1, daughter, saluted Madame do Grand ville, and then, shaking the young dl guardsman warmly by the hand, it exclaimed : "Good news, 1Hnri ; I bring yor ro a budget of them. The king ha u heard of your gallantry, and in(uirc< into your story." "The memory of your fath 'r," co aflfalwd tlitms',aron, "has been 'mud feited etates are ies'tmgiv deere jb;and I biring you, ml.isf Ving's seal, your commission as Int colonel in the French Gua ds, and letters patent of nobility Count Henri (1e Montmorenci 1" Henri and his mother were nearly overwhlmed by this good news ; while Holoise clung to her father's arm for support. No fainting, girl," said tho hap happy - py happy baron. "That will never do for a soldier's wife. Here, take her, (unt, make her happy-and let us hear no more of your volunteering on the Forlorn Hopes-at leas+, dur, dur,ing - ing dur,ing the honey-moon." We need not add that the baron's injunctions were implicitly obeyed. Belief in Witchcraft. At Montbrison, France, not long ago, the magistrates wore called upon to adjudge a somewhiat singu singular - lar singular case. Jean-Mario Baron, aged thirty-seven, a wellkto-do farmer of Po)ncins, had for three or four years e aitertain e the hallucination that seome of his neighbors, jealous of his prosperity, had comnbin ed to injutre him by witchcraft. His cows fell sick, his wheat withered, and lie him himself - self himself had singular fits of oppression andl despondency at the sight of the objoetionable persons. Ho consult consulted - ed consulted sevoral doctors, even going to Lyons for treatment, but as they all deridod his story lie resolved to put in practice the remedy suggestedl by a village crone-namely, to draw blood from each one of his persecu- 1 tors. Accordingly lie armed hi'u hi'uself - self hi'uself with a number of stoumt pins wilth glass heads, hid hinmself near tileojparish church door on a proces processkmn - skmn processkmn day, when the whole commmunis ty would naturally gather there, and tilling suddenly upon his victims pffanted a pin in each with remnarka. b)10 vehemnence. Mr. and Mrs. Roy..1 mnud and Miss Joannettoe B Ldieu et nplained~ to the police of the aj ault. Baron declared with anD air d. happiness that lie wvas guilty ; tat ho bore no ill -will to the coim~ ~ainants ; that ho h.id to do0 whet (lha one, and it p~roved effectua',r a hto and is cattle had rocovwed ?her health. Thme Judge endeavor endeavori - i endeavori to convince him that lie ad moever been p~ossessed, but the prs, U~nor retorted unamsworably that ~mtil lie had assaulted his torment tormentb::s -- b::s tormentb::s ho had sufferod, whereas from ~h very moment that lie hid drawn lood he and his beloved cattle hiad g ~joyedl perfect health, so that infal infal~bly -- ~bly infal~bly hto must in the first place have '001 b~ewitchod. Ho was santenced' ? fifteen days imprisonment, re reaivinig -- aivinig reaivinig his punishment gleefully M '" lie said, "that is not so 's : dergoas tihe price of the of muon's health aind luck." The late Dr.--, being one of ( no mloderators, (did not satisfy by C iia preaching the Calvinistie per- a aon of .his tlock. "\ h y, sir," said t hoy, "we think you dinmna tell. um. a nough about renonning our oWD t Ighteousnoss." "nenonncing your if anI' righiteousness \" vociferatea the I Ii~ih( octor, "I never sa an

DELAN Y FOR HAMPTON. 1 A Black Man's View of the Inter'est and Duty of His Race. CHARLnsTON, S. C., Sept. 25, 1876. 'o the .E'duor News and Courier: The present condition of things in this State, by the relation of the two races in hostile array against each other, is most anomalous, and, to the thoughtful dbserver is capable of comprehending the true stato of the situation, and interested in the wel welt.i - t.i welt.i :e of the people and State, is alarming inl the extreme. I cannot, and will not, believo otherwise than that political motives, by unscrupul unscrupulous - ous unscrupulous leaders, have induced it ; as tho general feelings between the races, till after the last canvass in 1874 for Governor, were kindly and cordial. The canvass of that your was the first great mutual effort made to unite the two races in one political movement, which came near being successful. Why then, now, this great divergence and extraordinary estrangement ? From whichever side it comes, or whether from those of both sides, it evidently is intend. ed to prevent a union of the two races in one common home or State interest. In such an issue as that now pending, if not permanently check checked, - ed, checked, my race can have but one terminal dostiny-political nonentity and race extermination. And what care the promoters of this fearful steife when that is the end they desire to obtain ? This thing can and must be stopped. There are virtue and intelligence enough a.nong the people to do it; but e teh race must perform its part and do its duty. Shall it be said that at such a crisis the blacks had no statesmen, no men of diplomatic wisdom among thom c(lal to the emergency, the demands of the hour ? For statesmanship is not necessary simply to diplomatic shrewdness, since even among s.tvages (as the Indians of America) shrewd diplomatists are met with. S Mall we, the blacks, be less than tley? When my race were in bondage : 1 did not hesitate in using my judg mint in aiding to free the, No " that they are free I shl in9 -21Y" mug ou" ii ustrig teLajud zodom and lromoto cmesorve th . What I did and desired rbi y own rao, I desire and wvould io if duty re required - quired required for any othhb race. The r exorcise of all their rights unilpair.. ( o, and unobstructed is that desire. t I have then but one line of duty n let me, and that is to aid that effort which in my judgment best J tends to bring about a union of the - two riaces, wohite and black, (by n biack I mean all colored people) 11 ll onc common interest in the State, n with all the rights and privileges ' af each inviolab y and sacredly r. t speeted. 1 The present Democratic move- 1 fnent promises this, and asks us, the t b)lacks, simply to aid them and try them once ; if they do not fulfil 1 heir promises, to trust them no y nore. This is simply fair. This i! ,v.s asked by the Ropublicans (col 4 >red people) inl 1908 of the Demo, C *rats at the beginning of recon- 1 truction, which thley then refused, 5 >ut have long sincei seen and felt ,he results of their error. I am not v'illing, now that an1 Occasion re rejuires -- juires rejuires our co-operation, that wvith ~heir example before our eyes we hlould commit tihe same error. As Gen. Wade Hampton is the i andidate for Governor, no one will 9 luestion him as speaking tihe senti. ~ nents of his party in the present t saue0 and camllpaign, I quote: "ini his speech at Abbeville, as in I ivery county whlere lie has spoken, me has pledgod his word1 tihat, if b dicted Governor of South Carolina, 1 10e'a/ael rendler to the wkote10 people ~ a' tie State equal and impartial R tslice.' And that his meanings hould 1)e unmistakable, he said : 'If b here is a white man in this assembly1 who, because ho is a Democrat or - >eeausoe he is a white man, believes '& hat when I am elected Governor, e f I should be, I will stanld between C miim and the law, or grant to him v my privileges or immunities that. 0 Ilall not be granted to the colored 1 a in, ho is mistaken; and I tell him Low, if that is his reason for voting ol or me, not to vote at all." Al Again, as late as Saturday, thme s i3d, at Darlington, he said : "We i vishm to show tihe colored people d hat their fights are fixed and im- ni novabile, and, furthermore, we a: voull not abridge them if wve could. c. (10 here, what I did in tihe Con . ni eontion;i I pledge myself esolemnly, ti a tihe presence of the peoplo of Pj outih Car'olina, and in the presence 81 i my God, that, if the Democratic OJ cket is elected, I shall know no P' ~a?ty, nor race, in tile administra. a] on of the law. So sure as the law g' renAunces a man guilty, so sure nl iall that man be punished. I shall S nowv nothing lbut tihe lawv and the )onstitution of South Carolina and h '1 tile United States. [Immense b pplause.] Wo recognizeo thea bideenth, fourteetith and fifteenth t mendments of the Constitution of he United States, and accept them'~ a good faith. The colored peoplo g now that it is nndor those amend amendments - ments amendments that .they enjoy theo rights hof ww ha'vo;y M tand nipon

The French Guardsman. With the army of Marshal Ebie, eicamped near F'ontenoy, ready to give battle to the allies, there were not a few ladies, who, impelled by a chivalric fooling, or personally in interestod - terestod interestod ifi the fate of somve of the combatants, had followed the troops to witness the triumph of the Y+;oneh arms. Their plrIoence was mnoo the incitement and reward.1 nValor, for what soldier would not fight with tenfold gallantry, when he know that his .xploits wore wit witnessed - nessed witnessed by the eyes of her he loved as wife, mistress, or mother, and whose safety or honor, perhaps, do doponded - ponded doponded on his prowess 'I 'Among those most distinguished for their beauty was the youthful Heloise, the lovely daughter of the Baron do (Olairville, a French goner goneral - al goneral olli.:er. The handsome eyes of the donoiselle had enslaved more than onO young officer, but of the host of suitors none could boast with reason of encouratgement, except Henri de randvillo, and Iaoul, Count de St. t'ix, both conantn'ling companies in the French Guards. Both were handsome and accomplished young men, and both had their spurs to win upon the field of brattle. 'They had been fast friends until the pur, *suit of tho sauno lady bi id (caited a srt of ostrangement between thewn. Little was known of Henri do Grandville previous to his reception of his commission in the guards. He had been brought up by his mother in the old provincial chateau, and though his manners and educas tion were those of a gentleman, still he scened but little acquainted Ivith the world, and above all igno, rant of the lighter accomplislmielnts of the courtier.. Perhaps this voey simplicity of mnanl\rl and frainkness of character, contrasting so strange strangely - ly strangely with the fashionable itlectations of the court, endeared hun h -hi comrades, and stiongly prepos seed Heloise do Clairville in his favor. His rival was of a different stam1). Rarou1 do St. Piix was a dashing, bril iant officer, brave as steel, but, fond of dress, reckless, dissil :ed and extravagant. Yet his, f:alts were those of his age, and beloiged to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. TI'he Baron de Clairville, while he loft his dai ter co to make her selection, yet, s a ain, blunt soldier, rather that a " .'t.hArtier, secretly inclined to fa:'or the pretonsions of Henri. Still.his; treatment of the two young gu:u ls lsmn - mn lsmn was the same, for they give equal promise of muilitary gallaury. It was on the eve of the battl( of Fontonoy that Henri sought an n nterview -- terview nterview with Holoise, who occulod ai gay pavilion near hoc father's tuit. He found her alone and weel.ing. "Mademoiselle," said lie, "you '.0 lnhappy. Will you permit, a frild to inquire the cafume of your >r >rrow - row >rrow ?" "Can you ask me, Monsieur do Grandville? Of the thou.a.-nd of brave n1101 who lie down to-nigl in poaceful slmnbei', how many -ill s'coep their last4 sleep oui enh ? How muany eyesl that will witnoe: to tom1orro's'W - m1orro's'W tom1orro's'W 51un arise, will b)e 0eh forever before it goes dow: at ven n~f g ! .Oh, what a drea.Ifad isi. isi.fathor', - fathor', isi.fathor', he never cares for ' hijelfI, lie never asks his mein to go sore he is unwilling to lead. I1 fe:Lfor his safety in the deadly coniflic of to -morrow." "'If the devotion of one faiful follower canl save him,~ lady'," n - swered Heniri, "he0 assured ofuis - .I would pour' ouit thei lbd i '' yvein s as freely as wate-to; jahiol'd' thme fathers of IHoloisde Cl irville." .IBut youi-youi-Henrii-laI ficur do Grandville-youl tk nothing of your own) life." "It' I fall," answered the ycg soldier, "my poor' mother will 'p bitterly for hera only sonm, thouag e perish on the 1101(d of honor. t who else will she i a tear for' o p~oor guardan?" "Henri I" exclaimed the yov girl reproachfully-and the soft a she raised to his were filled a tears, "Is it p~ossiblo ?" craied the yoj soldior. "Can my fate aiwaken a m)omfenltary interest ini the hie of the itveliest, the gentlest of sex ! Alh! why (did you renider so doear to me at the moment I m peril it 'U" "Believo me," saidl Holoise, i. -' her tears, "that I would: al you black wh'len honor' beck. i. It is to such hands asi yo h ,Iat the honlor of the giiole lii i commifittedl. I amii the daughiter< sodirand though these tears ce it is displayed1 in at good cauis~ honor the soldier as miuch e 1otest the duelist." "Then listen to one wvhose a~ was never stain~ed with his brot~ blood. I had thought to go to. lold with mny secret concealed is own oreast, but something in~ me to spoak out. I love JRelois-I have dared to lovy adore yot." 'The fair girl blushed till her .omplos were crimnsoned over ~1onnant. blood. The yong

bhat platform, and not one sing o eight enjoyed by the colored poop e bo day shall be taken from ther. They shall be the equals, under t o h.w, of any man in South Carolir. And we further pledge that wo w 11 give better facilities for educaton than they have ever had beofro. (Loud chering.] Let me say Ono wvord more to the colored peoplo. { I was the first man in the Stat of South Carolina, after the war, ho advised the white people of S th Carolina to give the right of vping to the colored people. ;I hae the proposition\at several publi meoet' ings in Columbia, and I t 9k the ground that they had boon made citizens and that they should not be excluded from the right to vote." .. Those are, indeed, most definite, strong, impressive and extraordina, ry words, and must have eboee candidly meant, or tbey;e ey wonbid havo been spoken shall, hold Gen. Hampton, o aif of my raco, before tho iad world; responsible for thom ; and if they a-o not verified in every pare tieuhlr the moral sentiment of all Christehdom will be a swift and con(lemnuing witnoas against him. And not only him., but Mr. W. D. I Simpson, candidate for Lieutenant. Governor, and all others of his colleagues who have pledged their party for oqudal rights and justieo hoforo the law to all the people of both races, shall he hold equally ro rosponsiblo - sponsiblo rosponsiblo for their utterances I desire in this that my race shall see that the veracity, honor and .in .integrity - tegrity .integrity of the party laf'o boon plighted to them. And since the Carolinians of the white race did not hesitate to take mei at my word, and honor' re with their support in the gen.al Stato canvass of 1874, for Li Governor on the Indepen publican ticket, in an eilfN'ED. deem the State of ileonopm-,. corruption, I shall not nowEFORE to take them at their word,.HERE then in a similar effort in supporting the State movo) voting the St-ito )3mncrati as put fo:th and avoweo present issue, for the goo the people of both races. & CO. this I change no princ; ,jljhere as anAmerican to to- - -.,d..c~'T~m - . .'.gqht - '.gqht .'.gqht of the comnon ;eople to rule. This is a step taken after the naturest deliberation, as the claims f race are far above those of faction mad party ; and duty to the claims >f the community, far above the dic, 4ition and reluirement of factional anl partyleaders. My design was fixed after the ad adournmnot - ournmnot adournmnot of the Republican Con-, 'ontion recently hold at Columbi ,nd my conclusion only roacho ,fter the Straiglit-out nonminationq t Orangeburg, Thursday last, by vhich wats proven to my satisfactioni hat the policy of the party recog sizes both races, as three colored ]en were put in nomination on the icket. In this step, impelled by my own romptings for the benefit of my race ith that of the white, as when, 'uckling on Iy sword, I entered ie United States Army, as a field flicer, for the same1 ob)jc~t anid pur purlose, -- lose, purlose, I have thme honor to b)e, sir, our most obedient servant, M. BR. DELAm. An Explanation Wanted. The C]ourierd-ournal wcants Tarper's Weekly to explain-.~.ut of s excess of enlightened cuhur() and road, Chris tiani zed spim t--whero' t--whero'a - a t--whero'a the nomination of Wade H-amps% on for Governor of fiouth Carolina msa a blunder. Il adds: "Is Wade Iampton a turn-coat and a thief ? a lie a blackg;uard and a miounto.. 'ank i Is h' an oxtre mist, or dog dogiatist - iatist dogiatist ? What has he (lone, what as he failed to do, which ought to tigmnatize him, making an offense of ny aspiration of his, making a hander out of any confidence shown ~-- - im by his fellow-citizens ?1 It is Aa ard to got a civil, and still less a fair, fair,uswer - uswer fair,uswer of any Republican, however . .4 .4>nspieuous, - >nspieuous, .4>nspieuous, as Mr. George William ur tis is for the affhoottion of political irtuo. WVade Hampton is now well u to sixty years of age. He was over a politician. Before the wvar a was a wealthy planter holding pjrmons so conservative, that, in the ot Carolina atmosphere, lie was ispiected of ultra Union proclivities. lie war came on and ho was a sol solier - ier solier ; not a blot upon his shield; ot an unmanly, not an -ingenerous ~t charged to his account., At the ose of the wnr he was 'tihe first otablo Southern leader to accept 1o situation. H e did so like- a wise, rudent, patriotie eitizen. Ever ne, heo has been a friend and help. help.to - to help.to the black peopie. Never a litioian, nover an office-seeker, was's a plain -spoken, moderat6 Intl oman-~why sho id ho not be aminatedl by the stricken people of aith Carolina for Gavernor ? A moeroanile firna at hpid't Lake wvo adopted a new method of doing isimoss. No books areokopt. When~ custoncr desires credit, he goes to o deisk and h)orrows ti4e 1az09y, r which he gives his ne pay bo ith interest. Ho thenad bir is >ods nd~ palys for them, - Always bound to iilb w4Ma I.