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The Abbeville Banner "The Price of Liberty is eternal vigilance." By W.W Farrow ABBEVILLE. S. C., SEPTEMBER 30, 1868. VOLUME XXIV.---NO. 48. Abbeville- In Equity Wm. H. Parker,Comissioner, vs. J.H Cobb, et. al. Pursuant to order of Court, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, at public outcry, on Sale Day in October next, (5th), the tract of land near Abbeville known as the Tustin Tract, on which J.R. Hamlin resides, in two tracts, said tract bounded by lands of R.H. Wardlaw, T.C. Perrin and others and contains 123 acres more or less. Terms Cash. Purchasers to pay for papers and stamps. WM. H. Parker C.E.A.D Commissioner's Office, } Sept. 10, 1866. } Sept. 11, 1868 20 St Park, Commissioner, vs. J.E. Lyon. Pursuant to order of Court, I will sell at public outcry, at Abbeville Court House on Sale Day in October next, (5) the Tract of Land known as the Willie Calhoun tract, 494 1/2 acres, more or less and bounded by lands of J.A Calhoun, J. Edw'd Calhoun, Edwin Parker and others. Terms cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. WM. H. PARKER C.E.A.D Commissioner's Office } Sept. 10, 1868. } Morrow and wife vs. R.A. Archer and others. PURSUANT to order of Court, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, at public outcry, on Sale Day in October next, (5) the tract of land near Abbeville Court House, late the Real Estate of J.P. Cooper, deceased, 237 acres, more or less, bounded by lands of J.I. Gilmer, Samuel Robinson and others. Terms Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. WM. H. PARKER, C.E.A.D. Commissioner's Office, } Sept 10, 1868. } J. B. Armstrong vs. Eliz. Armstrong and others. PURSUANT to order of Court, I will sell at public outcry, at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in October next, the Real Estate of Wm. Armstrong, deceased, as follows: 1. The Winter Tract - 280 ACRES, more or less, in Anderson District, bounded by lands of Mrs. Cowan, Widow Robinson, Mill Tract, and others. 2. Tract No 2. (Wilson & Armstrong Tracts) 210 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of J. Armstrong, A. Cowan, Robinson and others. 3. Mill Tract, 6 1/2 ACRES, more or less bounded by lands of Estate of W. Pearman, dec'd, Tract No. 2 and others. 4. Another tract, 370 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of J. M. Branyan, W. Y. Walker, Geo. Alewins and others. Terms, Credit of 12 months with interest. Purchasers to give Bonds with two good sureties and mortgage, pay costs in Cash and pay for papers and stamps. WM. H. PARKER C.E.A.D. Commissioner's Office Sept. 10, 1868. Alston vs. Pettigrew. PURSUANT to order I will sell at public outcry, at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in October next (5) the tract of land [[...]] [[new column]] [[...]] House, on Sale Day in October next (5) the Real Eastate of W.C. Davis, deceased, being his interest (1/6) in "Law Range," in rear of Court House-- subject to the terms and conditions on which the same was held by him as tennant in common. Terms Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. WM. H. PARKER C.E.A.D. Commissioner's Office, Sept. 10, 1868. Lynch vs. Lynch. PURSUANT to order of Court, I will sell, at public outcry, at Abbeville C.H., on Sale day in October next, (5), the Real Estate of A.W. Lynch, deceased, in 3 tracts, viz: 1. HOMESTEAD TRACT, 279 Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of J.W. Black, Capt. Swilling, and others. 2. BRANSON TRACT, 208 Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of J.W. Black, W.A. Gaines, and others. 3. RUSSEL TRACT, 200 Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of John Smith, W.A. Gaines, and others. Terms, half cash-- As to other half credit of twelve months and interest. Purchasers to give bonds with two good sureties, (with right to anticipate payment), pay for papers and stamps. Titles not to be delivered till payment is made in full. WM. H. PARKER, C.E.A.D. Commissioner's Office, Sept. 10, 1868. Aiken vs. Wardlaw. PURSUANT to order of Court, I will sell, at public outcry, at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in October next (5), all the Real Estate of H.W. Wardlaw, deceased, (except the tract assigned to Mrs. Wardlaw for Dowery), 100 Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of H.H. Cresswell, J.A. Partlow and others. This tract may be divided into 2 or more tracts, of which plats will be exhibited on day of sale. Also the Remainder, in the Tract assigned for Dower, 250 Acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Capt. Cresswell, Thomas Coleman, J.A. Partlow, and others. Terms, half cash-- As to to other half credit for twelve months and interest. Purchasers to give bonds with two good sureties, (with right to anticipate payment) pay for papers and stamps. Titles not to be delivered till payment in full is made. WM. H. PARKER, C.E.A.D. Commissioner's Office Sept. 10, 1868. Hodges, Adm'r vs. Higgins. PURSUANT to order, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, at public outcry, on Sale Day in October next, (5) the Real Estate of W.W. Higgins, dec'd, on Watts' Creek, 158 ACRES, more or less, bounded by lands of A. Agnew, A.M. Agnew, S.J. Hodges, and others. [[Pointing hand image]] Terms Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. [[separating line]] The State of South Carolina ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. IN THE COURT OF ORDINARY By William Hill, Ordinary of Abbeville District. WHEREAS, application has been made to me by Phares C. Martin for Letters of Administration of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of Phares Martin, [[...]] [[new column]] THE ABBEVILLE BANNER, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, AT $3.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. [[separating line]] Policy vs. Platform THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE NEGRO STATE GOVERNMENTS-- WILL CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION STAND, OR BE SWEPT AWAY?-- WHAT THE NEW YORK WORLD SAYS. Under the heading, "A Frank Answer to an Insidious question," a very significatn leading editorial appears in the New York World of Tuesday last. The World is the most prominent and influential of the Democratic organs atthe North, andis understood to reflect the views of those who will shape the policy of the Democratic party in the event of its success in November. The position which it has taken differs very widely from what very many Southern Democrats have conceived to be the aims and publicly declared intentions of the National Democracy, and, as faithful chronicles of political events, we, therefore, place the statement of the World before our readers. The article to which we refer was in reply to the following paragraphs which appeared in the New York Times, of Wednesday last: According to the policy thus authoritatively proclaimed, it will be incumbent on Mr. Seymour, if elected, to set aside the new governments as null and void, and withthe help of the military to disperse them and re-establish the order of things which Congress abolished. This programme involves the forcible destruction of governments organized under the law, and whose validity Congress has recognized, the overthrow of constitutions which have been ratified by a majority of the people, the disfranchisement of the freedmen in defiance of existing law, and the restoration to power of rebel leaders in spite of the disability imposed by the fourteenth amendment. * * * * * Will the World give its opinion frankly touching the practical application of the Blair doctrine as to the dispersion of the Southern governments and the disfranchisement of the freedmen by the mereorderof a Democratic President? Will it explain how it reconciles its professed respect for law, and its acknowledgment of the de facto authority of the new governments, with its support of candidates who are pledged to defy and violently to overthrow both? To which "insidious question" the World makes "frank answer" as follows: This strain of remark and requestfor information proceed upon the unwarranted assumption that General Blair's letter is a part of the Democratic platform. But there is no process of fair reasoning by which it can be made to appear so. The Democratic National Convention adopted its platform before balloting for candidates, and without any expectation that Mr. Seymour wold be its nominee for President [[...]] [[new column]] example of Georgia demonstrates that everything desirable can be accomplished through the agency of the new State governments. The fact tha, in the greater part of the South, the white citizens are a majority, and that they monopolize the property, the education, the social infuence, and the political experience of their section, prove that, if let alon, they can mould their institutions into any form they ple[ase] There will be no need of dispersing the new governments by force, because they can so easily be made the agents of their own reformation. Encouraged and supported by the public opinion of the whole country, as the Southern [[?]] will be by the election of the Democratic candidates, they will have no difficulty in revising the present constitutions by methods so free from legal constitutions by methods so free from legal question, that no federa interference will be possible to thwart and none necessary to aid them. We are confirmed in this view by the fact that the ingenuity of the Times itself can descry no other remedy than a refusal to admit senators and representatives from the States which thus transform their governments. In an article on the 11th inst., upon the expulsion of the negroes from the Georgia Legislature, the Times said: How the wrong may be remedied is a question we are not disposed to answer with the same degree of confidence. It is a difficult and delicate question. The House has a right to decide upon the election and qualification of its members, and no State Court has jurisdiction over it. An adverse judgment may be announced, but the prominent advocates of expulsion have announced their intention to disregard it. They claim to be judges of law as well as of fact, and will heed no opinion or decision at variance with their action. What, then, can Congress do? May not the Senate and House in turn assert their supreme control over elections and qualifications, and respectively refuse to admit the senators and representatives whom Georgia will send to the next session? The inquiry is not extravagant in view of the fact that Georgia regained its privilege of self-government, in part, by ratifying the fourteenth amendment, which, without that vote, would still be law. The act of ratification, however, in the Georgia house, was carried by the votes of the colered members who have been expelled as ineligible. If they had no lawful title to seats they could have none to votes; and after striking them off, the motion to ratify becomes a failure. Interpreting the action of the Legislature in respect of the amendment in the light of its recent preoceeding, no special pleading would seem necessary to justify revision by Congress on the ground of fraud. For if what purported to be a ratification was really not such, admission obtained in reliance upon it was in fact admission by false pretences; and Congress may vindicate its integrity and punish the fraud by refusing to receive the Georgia senators and [[...]] [[new column]] troversy on its true ground; and on that ground we proceed to show that the imputed intention is a baseless chimera. The Times, arguing from the platform, rests its case on the declaration that the Reconstruction acts are "usurpations-unconstitutional, revolutionary and void," and on the fact that this clause was inserted in the platform at the instance of General Wade Hampton. The fact that Wade Hampton suggested it signifies nothing, unless it can be shown that it is a doctrine which the Democratic party had not previously held. Now, it is notorious that this is a subject on which there has never been any difference of opinion in the Democratic ranks. From the very inception of the Reconstruction acts the Democratic party has, to a man, consistently and indignantly denounced them as high handed usurpations and flagrant violations of the constitution. Every speech made against them in Congress, by every Democratic member, has proceeded upon that ground. All of President Johnson's numerous veto messages, uniformly applauded by the Democratic party, have held up the Radical measures as revolutionary violations of the constitution. This doctrine did not originate with Wade Hampton; it did not originate with the South; it has been from the first. the spontaneous, settled, universal belief of the whole Democratic party. If it had not appeared in the platform in the words suggested by Wade Hampton, it would have been introduced in some other words; for it has been the constant sentiment of the party on that subject. The only perinent inquiry is, whether the Times' inference is well drawn; whether in other words, a declaration that the Reconstruction acts are "unconstitutional revolutionary and void," pledges the party to disperse the new governments by force. It is an accepted principle of logic that an argument which proves too much proves nothing. If the reasoning of the Times proves that its editor is pledged to abet the the overthrow of the Radical policy by force, he will perhaps recoil from his own conclusions, and admit that his formidable inference is ill drawn[.] The World then addresses the editor of the Times, Mr. H. J. Raymond, in a powerful argermentum ad hominum, reminding him of the strong protest which he himself drew up against the Reconstruction acts, and which was adopted by the Philadelphia Convention, and contrasting his positions then and now. The World then concludes as follows: But we need no assistance from the Philadelphia address to confute the pretence that the Democratic party is pledged to destroy the new State governments by force. There is not only nothing of the kind in the platform, but nothing which can bear that construction in the action of the Southern people. Wade Hampton himself is trying to carry his own State for Seymour and Blair through the agen- [[new column]] any, Mr. World-ly wise man; but whatever else you do, don't hope nor try to involve the party that pays you in any cowardly desertion of its principles or its leaders. Frank Blair's letter is a part of the platform. Thank God he is not a marble that can wabble backward and forward from platform to platform like a sick rat for toasted cheese. He wrote that letter for two human reasons: 1. He knew what he meant and wished the public to know it, too. 2. He desired a nomination, and deemed that a good way to get it. He was right, it seems, and no man can more heartily despise the journal that insidiously opens the door for a dishonorable retreat than he. It takes a Southernized Yankee, a renegade Radical, a pap seeking leech to squirm and lie, and make faces to suit the emergency; but they never deceive anybody, and in time meet the contempt they richly merit. GAMBLING.- The prevalence of the social evil know as gambling, in every class of the community, is exciting the attention of those politicians who are also moralists. Betting, one of the most popular forms of this ruinous vice, is becoming associated with every amusement of English life, from horse-racing to household games. The debasing effects of this habit are visible amongst men of every rank and age; and the fool's argument of a bet assails one's ears in every street and public assembly in England. If respectable newspapers would cease to give the gambling new as they give the markets and the debates, it would greatly dicour age the vice of which we complain. It is fast getting to be one of the recognised institutions of the country Some of our pulpits would be doing more good than they now do, if they were to give us less polemical declamation and more faithful preaching against the moral evils of the day, [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] have to do battle with every hour. A few of the London papers- conspicuously among the Methodical Recorder- are inviting attention to this growing curse of gambling. Hastings' and St Leonard's News. A CAT CHARMED BY A SNAKE.- The Pensacola Observer tells the following snake story: "A young lady living in the city had a valued cat, and a day or two since, losing sight of it for an unusual length of time, was induced to make search for the missing pet. In a short time, to her surprise, she discovered the truant under the shade of a shrub, with a snake coiled around its body. The reptile stretching forth its pliant neck and [[...]] [[new column]] PRAYER-AN INCIDENT.- For fourteen years a father and a mother prayed for a wayward boy. During this period, they many times fixed a date inside of which they expected his conversion. One after another of these times had passed by till fourteen years had gone. The father was going out one morning, when the good wife laid her hand upon his arm and said: "Father, have you forgotton prayers?" "No," was the husky reply, "I haven't forgotten; but its no use, God does not hear us." The wife's eyes were full of tears: "Well let us pray that God will make us more earnest, and then, perhaps, he will answer our prayer." He went out to the barn, an then his wife's words, his overburdened heart, and the habit of years led him to fall upon his knees and pray for more earnestness, and to again beseech God to convert his boy. His boy heard the prayer, and wishing to get away so that he might bear no more, went to the house. Going past his mother's room, he heard her voice raise in prayer for more earnestness, and in supplication for him. He paused, overcome, and then went in, and kneeling down by her and putting his arms around her neck, said,"Mother, God knows you are in earnest and he has answered your prayers." ALL A SETTING.- Old farmer Gruff was one morning tugging away with all his might and main at a barrel of apples which he was endeavoring to get up the cellar stairs and calling at the top of his voice for one of his boys to lend a helping hand, but in vain. When he had, after an infinite amount of puffing and sweating, accomplished the task, and just when they were not needed, of course, the boys made their appearance. "Where have you been, and what have you been about, I'd like to know, couldn't you hear me call?" inquired the farmer in an angry voice [[?]] me [[?]] [[?]] shop settin' the saw," replied the youth. "And you Dick?" "Out in the barn sttin' the hen." "And you, sir?" :Up in [[?]]'s room settin' the clock!" "And you young man?" "Up gaarret, settin' the [[?]]" "And now, master Fred, where were you settin?" asked the old farmer of his youngest progeny, the asperity of his temper being somewhat softened by this amusing catalogue of answers. "Come, let's hear!" "On the door-step, settin' still," replied the young hopeful, seriously. "A remarkable set, I must confess, added the amused sire, dispersing the grinning group with a wave of his hand. JEWS IN NEW YORK.- This body of men are fast abandoning the practices of their fathers. 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