Hemphill Quotes Lincoln.

General Eobert E. Hemphill of Abbeville, S. C, in an address before the twenty-seventh annual convention of the N. A. W. S. A. at Atlanta, said: " 'I go for all sharing the privileges of government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequeutly I go for admittiug all to the rights of suffrage who pay tases or bear arms, by no ineans exclnding the females. ' "These were the words of Abraham Liucoln on June 18, 1856, to the voters of Saugainon county, Hls. They expresa my seutimeuts today. I am in favor of equal rights and equal opportunities for wonien, and that is why I ain today in the good city of Atlanta and before this refined and distinguished audience to say a word upon the living issue which has called this assemblage together. Is uot the situation uniqne? Here I am, a South Carolinian, a disciple of John C. Calhoun, prond of the traditious of my boloved state, quoting from Abraham Liucoln in support of a proposition the tnention of which a half a century ago would have given the leader of my peo pie the horrors. But the world moves and South Carolina is moving with it. '