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J. J. TOPS, EDITOR Ss PROPgIfiTOR.
[Prom Tie Atlanta New Era.]
Speech of Hon. Thomas Hardeman, at Ogle
thorpe Park, Atlanta, Georgia, October
19th, 1871.—An Earnest Appeal to Geor
gians to Build Up the Grand Old Com
monwealth.
Ladies and Gentlemen :
At the request of the Executive Commit*
tee of the Atlanta Agricultural and Industrial
Association, I have consented to repeat, in
part, an address which I had the honor to
deliver at a recent Fair in Cartersville. lam
sure, had I consulted my own feelings, I could
not have complied with this request, and af
ter the exhibition that we have had from this
stand, to day, I feel that one must have cour
age, indeed, to follow in the wake of the
young orators who have preceded me. [Ap
plause.] I say that, had I consulted my own
feelings, I would not have been here to*day.
But, where so much interest and so noble a
spirit has been manifested by the people of
Atlanta m rebuilding her fallen fortunes, and
thereby enhancing the interests and prosper
ity of our State, I think that it is eminently
the duty of every one, when called upon, to
aid her in her onward march of improvement.
When we look back at her course and remem
her her as I have seen her and as some be
fore me to day have seen her, decked in her
bridal robes, and then as we have seen her
a widow in her weeds stricken by the blast
and crushed by the whilwind and the storm,
it must be a source of great pleasure and of
pride to see her to-day a widow with her
weeds thrown off, with the widow’s cap upon
her cheek, and the bewitching smile that
widows only have—more beautiful by far
than when arrayed in her bridal robes. And,
therefore, I say that when wc see such an ex
hibition of enterprise and of spirit, we can
but congratulate ourselves, and congratulate
our whole people, that there is life in the old
State yet.
I speak not now of that melancholly ex
istence that characterized the children of Is
rael when they sat down by the rivers of Baby
lon and wept, when they remembered Zion,
nor of that life of angry repining and fault-find
ing sorrow, which was exemplified in the
prophetot the tribe ofZebulon when in the morn-
ing of his troubles, as he looked upon the with
ered gourd that the evening before had bles
sed him with its freshness and its shade, he ex
claimed in the bitter accents of a Providence
defying nature: “ It is better for me to die
than to live but of a life, despite the with
ered palms that overhang every household,
despite of captured cities, sacked temples,
and ruined fortunes, that is binding its every
energy to restore joy to the household, plenty
to the coffers, independence to the people, and
honor and position to the loved old Common
wealth. [Applause.] A life that sits not griev
ing over the fortunes of the past, but looking
tearful! v at its glory and greatness, shakes
the dust of its ruins from its wings, and
pluming them for u loftier, bolder fight, will
rest them not until she has gained that ex
alted height where, overlooking her former
greatness and position, in the fullness of her
fortune and her honor, she can sing again the
song of Georgia’s “uprising,” Georgia’s
greatness, and Georgia’s glory. Gloomy,
melancholy, sorrowful brooding, never re-,
stored a lost joy, a wasted opportunity, or
a broken fortune. Job sat repining over the
conflagration of his property, the loss of his
children, and the desolation of his hopes, until
his calamities forced him to curse his fate and
pray for death; but this did not restore his
herds, his children, his fortune, or his happi
ness. , Darker and darker grew the day of
his being, until the sun of his hopes set in
the night of despair, nor did morning dawn
until, listening to the voice of Providence,
heard above the roar of the whilwind, he
arose and girded up his loins like a man ready
for the duties of life, and the requirements of
Heaven. Then was it that joy flowed into
his bosom—a gladdening stream ; his deso
late heart beat with pulsations of strange de
light as new sons and daughters sprang up,
the pride and solace of his years ; his pas
tures, long herdless and abandoned, teemea
again with increased flocks and folds ; and the
old patriarch, in the decline of life, despite
the afflictions of the past, its bereavements
and its poverty, looked out upon a present
rich with the posessifins of earth and a future
radiant with the promise of a plenteous con
tentment. Cease, then, ye men of Georgia,
to weep over the wiecked fortunes of the
past. The tree has fallen, so it must lie; yet
from its branches ‘the acorn may be gathered
that, if planted now, will grow up a mighty
oak, under whose wide spreading shadow, in
coming years, your children can sit and sing
those good old songs that gladdened the hearts
of their fathers and mothers, who will then
sleep in its shade. The waters of plenty are
spilled, but the vessel that contained them
are unbroken; and here in the wilderness of
your desolation are Horebs still, which, if
struck by the rod of energy will pour forth
tneir gushing streams thereby enabling you to
fill them again even to overflowing ; but they
will remain cold, barren rocks unless the
Moses of the land stiike them with the rods
of their power. The mountains of your
State are rich with mineral wealth, yet it
will remain valueless and profitless unless or
ganized labor digs from its bed and converts
it into uses, remunerative to the laborer, and
beneficial to mankind. Your rich, eys,
susceptible of a culture that would abu.wMitly
repay the toiling husbandman, are as wortli
-1 ss as so many barren wastes, unless that
husbandman prepares them for the grain,
that Providence, in his bounty, will ripen for
the harvest. Y-mr noble streams will pour
their waters to the sea as they did when the
red man hunted their banks, unless aceumu
lated capital combines to turn those waters
into manufacturing utility, and thus give em
ploy incut to thousands unable to plow a fur
row or drive a plane. The elements of great
ness and independence are vet in Georgia,and
all that is requisite to secure them is deter
mination and effort. Labor is the only talis
man of success; action, will, application are
all are we need to make Georgia the
the pride of her sons and the glory of the
States. With a soil susceptible of the high
est culiure, with a climate unsurpassed for
salubrity, with a people homogeneous in their
wants and necessities, Georgia stands to day
In these respects, without a peer ora parallel;
and she is laggard in the great march of im
provement. Why is it thus written of you,
my countrymen 1 Are you degenerate sons
of illustrious sires 1 The same sun that ger
minated tne seed and ripened the grain for
your fathers, blesses you to-day with bis
warmth and his power. The same seasons
that brought that respective blessings for them
yet return to you, laden with their gifts and
their offerings. The same earth that yielded
them a plenteous support and a rich subsis
tence, invites you to labor in her fields, white
ning still with richest harvest. The same
God that gavetfa the sunshine and the shower
in the da>s of prosperity is yet able to give
the increase in this, the dark hour of your
existence. Up ther, ye men and women of
Georgia, and in the name of all that is bright
in the past and hopeful in the future, with
determined will—
Strike one more blow for Georgia weal
Strike with the plow th» fertile field ;
Strike with the factory’* busy wheel;
Strike with the miners edge of steel;
Strike with the merchant's thrifty zeal;
Strike oft, strike long, strike aft who feel
Proud of her rivers and her rills;
Proud of her valleys and her hills;
Proud of the; Wealth her soil conceals;
Proud of her grain and cotton fields;
Proud of her varied, fertile soil;
frond of her hardy sons of toil;
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1871.
Proud of her women, her greatest pride,
Lovelier here than in all the woriu beside
Then will her bonds indeed be riven;
Then will new hope, new life, be given
To Georgians all, who, where’er they roam,
Will point with pride to their dear Georgia home.
Educated labor, diversified and directed, is
all that is essential to realize for youi
State all that patriot hope can anticipate or
patriot heart desire, and for this diversified
labor, every interest in the present and every
hope for the future, plead and invite theeuer
gies and enterpriseof her sons. Your streams
must be vocalized with the music of machine
ry for this. Cherokee Georgia has water ca
pacity sufficient to turn the many spindles for
Lowell, and contiguous to them you have
fertile fields that can supply the thousands
engaged therein, with the necessaries of life,
creating at the same time a home market for
the production of your soil and a home sup
ply for the products of your looms. Here,
too, is an inviting field for the mechanical
arts in your great natural laboratory of min
eral wealth, whose inexhaustible treasures lure
you to day with their richness and their value.
One of Georgia’s greatest wants to-day is
skilled mechanics, not your mere builders of
houses, but your Tubal Cains, workmen in
copper, and brass, and iron, to make your en
ginqs and machinery, your cars, your cultiva
tors —in fine, to work to advantage and profit
the ores now lying profitless in your moun
tains. She needs, as friend Greeley says,
more shops, more forges, more furnaces, more
factories, more school-houses to develop the
latent energies of her people. Let the fire of
your furnaces be seen among your hills and
in your valleys, and let Georgia aitisacs, edu
cated in Georgia’s mechanical schools and
work-shops, supply yoar necessities from these
furnaces and forges, run by coal obtained from
your mountains. Let the hum of the factory
be heard above the roar of your waterfalls,
and the song of the happy operative break
upon your morning devotions or your even
ing quiet. Let your common schools—sup
plied with ail the appliances of education—
be brought to the doorways of every citizen
of the State, be he humble or in high place,
and Georgia will have begun in earnest her
march toward independence and greatness.
Exhaust not your fertile soil in the cultiva
tion alone of corn and cotton. Small grain
and the grasses will prove equally remunera
tive, for every pound of clover hay, every
sheaf of wheat, and barley, and oats, will
ever command remunerative prices in the
markets of the world. Study, my country
men, the ennubliug art which to-day engages
your time and your labor, for agriculture,
like the mechanic arts, requires patient study.
It is a fatal error to suppose that every man
who can plow a furrow, who knows when it
is seed time and harvest, is therefore a farmer.
Successful agriculture requires educated labor.
I speak not simply of the education of theo
retical agriculturists, but the practical experi
ence, based upon a knowledge of geology,
chemistry and vegetable physiology, of men
who look upon agriculture, not simply as a
great necessity, but as an art coeval with
man’s civilization, and the basis of every art
that adorns and ennobles the human race.
The agriculturist should know the analysis of
his soil, its wants and necessities; for old
mother earth, like the human system, has
wants, tjhe supplying of which is essential to
her maintenance and support. He should
have a correct knowledge of the properties of
mineral, animal and vegetable manures, and
the best mode of applying them. You would
think strange of an accredited physician, who
would administer to a patient, without having
a diagnosis of his disease, or any knowledge
of the remedies that the case demanded ; and
yet, with the same culpable ignorance, you
often administer to the condition of the soil,
without knowing one of its constituent ele
ments, and what remedies are best suited to
its requirements and necessities. Yes, my
Countrymen, the professed friends of agricul
ture and the cultivation of the soil, you are
in many instances the Cassiuses, the Cascas,
and Brutuses, that have mortally stabbed the
Csesar of your love. And when I look upon
“ the bleeding piece of earth,” when I hold
up the rent mantle and see where your dag
gers pierGed, with stricken Antony I exclaim :
‘I am no orator:
But ns you know me all—a plain, blunt man—
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action nor utterance, nor the power of speech
To stir men’s blood —I only speak right on :
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;
Show you sweet Casar’s wounds, poor, poor dumb
mouths,
And bid them speak for me.”
And your miserably wasted fields are
speaking; your gullied hillsides, your scaled
hilltops, are speaking; your defective rotation
crop system is speaking. The remedies and
stimulants you are ignorantly administering
to a famished soil are speaking; your exten
sive farming area system is speaking; your
defective preparation of soil is speaking; your
dependence upon the products of distant
localities in speaking; and each and all are
speaking in tongues that should move the
very soil upon which you stand to rise and
mutiny. [Applause.] Study, my country
men, the ennobling art of agriculture, which
is engaging today seven-eighth* of the peo
ple of almost every civilized community on
the globe. Far back in the annals of the
ages gone we read of Noah, the husbandman,
and Abel, sacrificing “ the firstlings of the
flock.” Again, we see the Egyptians in their
admiration of this Heaven-inspired art, “ wor
shipping the ox for his services as a laborer”
in the barn yard, and the ancient Roman ven
erating the plow that broke this soil, while
Rome’j greates encomium her
sons was to say he was a judict'. -*sd indus
trious husbandman. As it was glorious in
the past, so it is eminently honorable in the
present —an active instrumentality in build
ing up those moral and industrial habits
which give position to governments and per
manence to their institutions. A thorough
knowledge of agriculture, its wants and re
quirements, will lead to a well devised system
of diversified labor, and this important lesson
Georgia should learn at once. Look at your
State to day, poor and impoverished, not be
cause you have not labored, for no people
groaning under adversity have so heroically
struggled against misfortunes, but because
you have labored unwisely and too much in
one channel.
Learn a lesson, my countrymen, from those
who are being enriched by your folly. Look
at the great West; and she is great in all the
elements of greatness. See her as I have just
seen her, her labor directed in a thousand
channels, and each one converging in the great
ocean of her prosperity. She makes her own
machinery from her own mineral ores; she
makes her own woolen goods, her own t'urni
ture, her own farming utensils, builds vessels
and freights them; large cities and peoples
them with a thrifty population, and in addition
to all these, furnishes you, people of Georgia
—and 1 say it to your shame—with your
flour and corn, your bacon and your mules,
that you may raise cotton to enable you to
purchase again the products of her labor. All
these you can do for yourselves. You have
the minerals and the coal sleeping in your
mountains; you have the water power at
your very doors; you have the forest in all
its native growth and beauty, and you have a
soil peculiarly adapted to the wants and ne
cessities of your State. Awaken, then, to the
importance of living atrhome and supplying
yourselves. Then will success brighten the
horizon of your preseut, apd hope gild her
heaven with the radiant splendors of your
future. lam anxious to see the day again
in my old State when our farmers will get
their meat out of their own smoke houses;
when the ox will know his owner and the ass
his master’s crib, for I assure you if this latter
animal could apeak, as did Balaam’s of old,
it would be in denunciation of your present
mode of farming, and your uncharitable prac
tice of forcing him to earn a substance by
grazing with Nebuchadnezzar in the scanty
grass fields of the country.
Aye, say you, these are stubborn truths;
but our labor has been taken from us, and
we are unaccustomed to menial service.—
Where are the hands the God of Nature
gave you, and the determined will that char
acterized your fathers? Yes, say you, we
have the will, we acknowledge the necessity;
but then labor is degrading, and toil the bur
den of a curse. Fatal delusion, miserable
subterfuge for indolent pride ! Labor is not
a curse attendant upon Adam’s fall. God
did not intend in creating man that he should
sit an idle admirer of Eden’s beauties, for he
was enjoined to labor in that garden, to “keep
and to dress it.” No briars or brambles
were to grow among its buds and blossoms
—no foul weeds among the plants that were
unfolding for him their beauty and their
loveliness. Creative agency the very day
man was located in Eden—its trees untouch
ed by blight, its groves redolent with the
perfume of flowers, and sighing through their
branches the sweet music of Paradise, with
plenty above and around them—enjoined
upon him the duty, hence the dignity, of
labor. Read, then, my countrymen, in the
very preface of your being, the assurance of
divine will that you labor in the sphere as
signed you. I know it grates harshly upon
the ear of aristocratic refinement and wealthy
indolence to assure them that labor is a
heaven-enjoined duty, but there is the record
and the decree, and he or she who would
mar the one or efface the other should be
forced to glean with Ruth in the barley field,
or grind corn with Samson in the prison
house. Our sensitive young man, ashamed
to be seen at the plough or the bench ! Vain
young lady, unwilling to acknowledge you
can sew or cook! Go read the history of
the first laborer upon record. It was the
Almighty Godhead, the great I Am : “In
the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth.” The very first line in creation’s
history evidences the labor of His hands.
Nor did he rest therefrom until He made the
firmament from the midst of the waters, set
the hills upon their everlasting foundations,
fixed the sun and the moon in their spheres in
the heavens, created earth, and placed man in
dominion over it. Then, but not until then,
did he rest from the works He had made. —
Nor was He ashamed of the labor of His
hands; for in the fullness of His exultation
He pronounced it good. Away, theD, with
the idea that labor is degrading, and toil un
manly. Sweat of the brow and labor of
the brain are the great talismen of success in
every vocation of life. Work! It is the rod
that strikes the Horeb of all honor, of all
distinction, of all success. Wealth smiles in
its coffers, plenty crowns its board, peace
broods over its altars, while glory wreathes
it with the fadeless flowers of immortality.
Honest toil dignifies character, ennobles
nature, refines poverty, elevates man. By it
Gallileo wove for himsell a chaplet of stars,
and Herschel wreathed his brow with a coro
net bright as the satellites he discovered. By
it Fulton ascended on wings of steam the
rugged eminence of worldly renown, and
Morse with electric rapidity transmitted his
name to the coming generations. By it the
golden gates of success are unbarred, and
the avenues are open to these inviting heights,
where wealth, and honor, and fame await the
successful comers with chaplets and crowns.
Labor, then, my countrymen, educated and
diversified, will soon show its beneficial re
sults in increased intelligence, accumulated
wealth and universal prosperity. Are you
too poor to effect these grand results ? Invite
the labor and the capital from the North and
South, the East and the West, to come in
your midst. Give all who thus come among
you, bearing in their hands the olive branch
of peace, a hearty welcome and a God speed
in their efforts to aid you in building up the
material prosperity of the State, so that she
may stand a peer among her sisters—an equal
among them all. And it will not be long
before joy will kindle again in the sky of
your being, and prosperity gladden your
hearts with the fullness of its treasures.—
Work—well-directed labor—is the key that
will unlock to us the treasures we desire.
Fathers, teach your sons that industry is the
parent of every virtue, idleness the mother
of every vice. Teach them that David,the shep
herd, was as honored as was David the King.
Impress upon them that Paul, the tent-maker,
was esteemed eminently fit to become an
ambassador of Christ, and a spokesman of
Heaven. Teach them that Franklin, at his
printing press, Cincinnattus, at his plough,
were nobler specimens of true manhood than
are the fashionable gentry of this day, whose
gloved hands never administered to a family’s
necessity, and whose idle brains never origin
ated a thought that elevated themselves or
bedefitted society.
Young men, to you, upon whom rests the
future of your State, her position, her honor,
and her glory, I appeal to-day. You must
be the pioneers in her great march of im
provement. Bowed not down with the mis
fortunes of the past, you can bring to the
discharge of your duties firm resolves, reso
lute wills, manly hearts. Be not ashamed of
the work before you. Georgia calls, you
must obey, and in the field and the workshop,
at the bench or the bar, in the laboratory or
in the forum, show by your perseverance,
your intelligence and your will, that her sons
areeqm' to the duties of the hour and the
of the State. Think not you are
duty or your destiny.
“ When you rise, tie on your neck doth, with skill and
with ease;
For,young men, when they go out in the world, if you
please,
Must have their necks tied up—there is not a doubt of
It—
Almost at tight as some men who go out of it,
With moustaches well oiled, und boots that hold up
The mirror to nature so bright you could sup
Off the leather, like china ; with coat, too, that draws
On the tailor, who suffers a martyrs applause;
With heads bridled up, like a four-in-hand team,
And muutbs that some say are run obiefly by steam;
A cane, their only visible means of support—
Disdaining cold water, they drink sherry or port;
With cigar in their mouths —ah, that is glory enough,
For their lives, like thin smoke, can go up in a puff,
And with curls, like those looks to Mussulmen given.
For angels to bold by, as they lug them to heaven.”
Thus photographed, you may command the
admiration of the thoughtless and the gay;
but nobler far, in the eyes of the man of
merit, is the humble laborer returning to his
neat cottage home, the consciousness of duty
performed gladdening his breast, the sweat
of his brow jeweling his face, the dust of his
field proclaiming his vocation and his calling.
Mothers, learn your daughters that the work
of the household, the kitchen and the dairy,
is a jewel in the casket of their adornments;
for, believe me, the artist never painted love
lier picture than did Solomon, when he pho
tographed his ideal of accomplished woman
hood :
"She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh diligently
with her hands;
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands
hold the distaff;
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and
eatetb not the bread of Idleness.”
Verily doth the'work of such a One “praise
her in the gates.” Young woman, be man’s
helpmeet in this* the hour of his adversity.
Go back to the simple customs and fashions
of your mothers j for; while your fathers are
struggling with poverty and misfortune, it
were better that you should be a Rebecca at
the well, clad in simplicity, with your pitcher
upon your shoulder, ready to give drink to
the servant of the Lord and the camels of
his attendants, than Sheba’s Queen, clad in
the silk and the purple of Eastern luxuriance.
Economy now is wealth, and you, my fair
countrywomen, whose sacrifices in war were
only equalled by a patriotism pure as rain
drops from virgin clouds,-must for the pres
ent sacrifice, upon the altar of duty, your j
fashionable follies and costly extravagances.
Do your duty, young man—young woman—
in this, the hour of your State’s necessity,
and the historian, catching the inspiration of
a rural bard, can exclaim:
“ In vain fair Georgia weeps her desert plains,
She moves her envy, who jo well complains.
In vain has war’s oppression laid ber low,
She wears the garland on her faded brow.
Amid her bowers the conqueror’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all her green ;
But blessed with these, of native strength pos
sessed,
Though very poor, wo still are very blest.
Cheerful home duties will create home
pleasures and home comforts; and thus our
children will become attached to the spot
where their infant eyes firjst saw the sunlight
and their infant ears caught the first notes of
nature’s minstrelsy. To accomplish this,
make home beautiful and lovely. Adorn
the old homestead with fruits and flow
ers, and you will attach them to the old
walks of their fathers, and implant in their
bosoms a desire to be buried in the shadows
of the trees that surround the dear old home
stead. Thus you will have a settled popula
tion upon your soil —a population that, look
ing to their present surroundings as their
homes in the future, will, both for comfort
and emolument, improve, beautify, and adorn
them. No State can permanently prosper
whose population has no fixed abode—no
“abiding home.” Georgians, why leave your
ow'n to link your destinies with that of an
other State? Has any other fairer skies,
more salubrious climate, loviier valleys, richer
mountains, nobler forests, or loviier women
than your own native State? Here lie the
bones of your fathers and your mothers;
abandon them not. Hei%, too, your sons are
lying. Upon the ensanguined battle fields of
your State—fromMissioiiary Ridge to their
humble graves among -the flowers of our
Southern coast, they are lying, and from their*
patriot graves comes jLe eloquent appeal,
stamped with the of the noble etead,. v
abandon not the StateTiJl&cred with our dust'
and immortalized by o&r deeds. Listening
to that patriotic appeal to-day, let us, Geor
gians, bury the animosities of the past, and
linking our shields together, strike one more
blow lor Georgia’s prosperity and Georgia’s
glory. Working men of the State, laborers
in her fields, her workshops and her factories,
upon you hang our hopCs for prosperity and
independence. You are the Atlas upon whose
shoulders rest the present and the future of
your State. Be not discouraged at the be
reavements of the past, or the forebodings of
the future. The night is dark, but through
its mantling gloom a feeble star sends forth
a glimmering ray. It is the star of duty. —
Follow it, it may prove the'Bethlehem of
your deliverance. Borrowing an illistration
from an eminent Divine, “Let this, my
countrymen, be Israel’s last night in Egypt.”
Prepare the paschal lamb; sprinkle the blood
upon the lintels and the door posts, and with
sandals on your feet and staff in hand, begin
your march from this land of bondage and of
slavery. The perils of the wilderness, its
lengthening gloom, its dark shadows, its
threatening dangers, may ba before you; but
if you are true to yourselves, true to your
fathers, who have gone before you, true to
old State, you too shall commemorate your
exdus from the evil that threatened you, and
sing in the fullness of your joy, your “pass
over song of deliverance.” Then, my coun
trymen, amid the green fields and rich pastures
of your Canaan, where, in plenteous content
rnent, financial independence, intellectual
wealth, and social refinement, you shall dwell
in fellowship and in peace with the children
of your love, may you exclaim, with feelings
of triumphant pride, “This i* my State,
whose power is heralded, from her mountains,
and whose greatness is echoed from her val
leys and her hill.” [Applause.]
What Georgia Needs.
For the last decade no portion of the w’orld
has attracted more general or deeper at
tention than the Southern States, and no one
of them has commanded so great an interest
as Georgia.
For four years of this period these States
were engaged in a war which, for its magni
tude, has never been equaled.
For six years they have been passing
through the reconstruction of their political
destinies. Georgia bore her part of the war
unflinchingly, and has had her full share of
experiments in the way of reconstruction.—
Since the war, tenders of advice and offers
of gratuitous counseljhave been freely offered,
but this has not reestablished our prosperity.
To-day there is a wide-spread pecuniary des
pondency throughout the State, with a dis
trust of the present and gloomy forebodings
for the future. The great cause for this con
dition of our affairs is to be found within
ourselves, and while it is true that the disor
ganized condition of labor, the constant polit
ical agitation and other- causes have had their
damaging effects, the principal cause is to
be found in an overgrown cotton production,
thereby glutting the markets of the world
and reduce the price below the cost of pro
duction.
While this is true, there are other causes
at work all tending to-make us, if possible,
more dependent upon others than ever be
fore.
The universal want of diversified interests,
and diversified labor, has thus far kept us
poor, and is daily sinking us deeper in the
slough of despond.
Our planters and farmers, while theoreti
cally the most independent, are practically
the most dependent of the community.
Anterior to the war- <rexpended millions
of dollars "annually fo*-yCrn and meat. Since
the war there has beefr no improvement in
this particular, and to-day it is said at least
one half of our lands are pledged to pay for
food, and that too in a purely agricultural
community.
The great want of is diversified in
dustry. It is maintained by some political
economists that each nation and each region
should ascertain the special pursuits to which
it is peculiarly adapted, and devote all its en
ergies to that one production to the neglect of
all others.
They say let England give us iron, France
silks, Belgium laces and carpets, and the
South cotton. This is Vhat Georgia has done
and is doing. Behold the practical result.—
A Georgia farmer uses a Northern axe-helve
and axe to cut up the hickory growing within
sight of his door, plows his fields wiih a
Northern plow, chops out his cotton with a
New England hoe, girte his cotton upon a
Boston gin, hoops it with Pennsylvania iron,
hauls it to market in a Concord wagon, while
the little grain that he raises is cut and pre
pared for sale with Yankee implements. VVe
find the Georgia housc*-wife cooking with an
Albany stove, setting her table with Yankee
chinawarc and knives, and even the food, es
pecially the luxuries, imported from the
North. Georgia’s fair daughters are clothed
in Yankee muslins, and decked out in Massa
chusetts ribbons and Rhode Island jewelry,
while their dresses are fastened by Water
bury hooks and eyes and Cohoes Falls pins.
Georgia’s sons are clothed in Yankee cloths,
boots and hats. Our school books, Bibles,
hymn books, pen, ink and paper, as well as
periodicals, are mainly furnished by the
Northern States. Our machinery, locomo
tives, wagons, carriages, furniture, hardware,
dry goods, groceries, in fact not only the
luxuries but the actual necessities of life,
are furnished us by Northern thrift and in
dustry.
Thus, from the the grave there is
a mortifying dependence upon others. Un
til this state of vassalage shall have been
changed, until Georgia shall have learned to
supply her own wants, she cannot become
prosperous and rich.
Wars will come, and woe to the people
that by a too exclusive devotion to any one
pursuit have crippled their powers of self
maintainance in a struggle for existence.
The late war furnishes a most terrible ex
ample of this truth.
Will Georgia and her sister Southern
States learn wisdom by the bitter experience
of the past, or will they continue to serve
others ?
Will they leave their future in the hands of
others, or will they, by developing their re
sources, control their own destinies?
Another paramount need of Georgia and
the South, is rapid and cheap transportation.
Our railroad freights are enormously high in
comparison with those of the Northern Slates.
Cheap freights develop a country and enrich
the people. Dear freights check develop
rnent and impoverish a people. The cotton
crop of the South has, for many years, aver~
aged about 3,000,000 bales. To place this in
market and effect its sale, costs an average of
about three dollars per bale, or an aggregate
of $9,000,000, of which one-third is paid' for
transportation, or an annual outlay of $3,-
000,000. Additional railroad facilities, with
diminished rates, would save 20 per cent, of
this amount, or $600,000 per annum, equiva
lent to an addition of $10,000,000 each year
to the capital of the South at 6 per cent.
The sale of the cotton crop amounts to
about $200,000,000 per annum. Three
fourths of this vast amount is expended in
the North for dry goods, hardware, groceries,
etc., giving $150,000,000 worth of merchan
chandise to be transported over Southern
Roads. More railroads with improved means
of transportation would save at least 5 per
cent, on the cost of these articles to the con
sumer, making a saving of $7,500,000, equal
to the annual addition of $125,000,000 to our
resources. A reduction of rates of travel
.and freight would at once create an immense
productive capital in our midst. Shall we
have this increase of capital ? and if so, how
we can best attain it, is a question that we
propose to discuss in a future article. —At
lanta Constitution.
The Autumn.
The forests are donning theirgrandest robes.
Just before they deck themselves in the som
bre colors of dreary winter, they always
swell our bosom with admiration of their last
and richest garments. Who can describe it
—who paint it? None but He who makes
it to magnify Himself in the hearts of His
children, and He who bestows it as the last
great offering before the fall of death en
shrouds beautiful nature.
That heart is truly insensible, that does not
experience a thrill of rapture over the varia
bleness,and at the same time the uniformity, of
the laws which control the universe. To
night the Pleiades, in mystic splendor, are
rising above the mountain top3. Before the
dawn of day, they will have set. Soon a
comet is to blaze across the zenith and disap
pear, perhaps forever. The days are growing
shorter and the nights longer. The heat of
summer, though lingering, is soon to be crushed
by the cold snap. Can we behold these won
ders, enjoy their benefits, and persist in the
yelief that “there is no God?”
But, the autumn regales not the eye alone
with its bounties and beauties, but is a feast
to all species of animals and intelligencies.
It empties its trsasures into the barns and
store houses of industry, and gives unsparing
ly to the birds and beasts of the field. It is
the harvest-time—the glorious harvest-time !
But, while we are rejoicing in our well filled
houses, let us turn to the Source, and confess
that we are unworthy of the least gift out of
Ills beneficence, ask a free and full pardon of
our sins, and make a full surrender of our
selves and, all we are, to His divine care and
keeping. C. S.
Silver Spring.
This cup of crystal water, which bears the
name of Silver Spring, has no streams run
ning into it. The fountains that furnish its
waters and form the river flowing out of it,
come from below, and burst up under large
ledges of limestone rock that form its bot
tom. It fills itself to the brim, overflowing
at a break in the edge of the cup. Owing to
the uprush of this large stream, there is a
constant undulation imparted to the whole
mass of waters that is never seen in lakes fed
by surface streams. The water seems to vi
brate, aud this imparts a peculiar appearance
to everything seen through it.
The ledges of white limestone forming the
floor of this cup are each set in a frame of
long, waving green water-grass and verdant
moss, whose vivid color and many shades of
green reflect the rays of the sun as perfectly
as in the open air. The water is so perfectly
transparent that a pearl button dropped on
the rocky floor can be as distinctly seen as in
the palm of the hand. The deep borders of
long grasses undulate continually with the
motion of the water, and the limestone rocks
at the bottom assume the hue cf richly-burn
ished silver tinged with green. Myriads of
fish of all kinds and sizes peculiar to this re
gion, are seen swimming and sporting in these
forests of grasses and moss. It is a pleasant
sight to collect them about the boat and to
see them scrambling for crumbs of bread.
The trees around, cypress and moss-covered
live-oak, crowd the banks, and thirstily dip
their branches in the water.
I have seen many wonderful things, and
many beautiful things in Florida, but nowhere
have I ever seen such a gem of perfect beauty
as Silver Spring. —From More about Flori
da, by J. P. Little , in the November number
of Lippincolt's Magazine.
Wild Nature in California. —There are
still some nooks in California sacred to Na
ture and her apostles. We just visited one
of them—a narrow and weedy caflon full of
spicy woods; a trout stream brawled lustily
over the pebbles at the ford ; cattled browsed
in the heat, mindful only of summer flies;
birds and bees made the air busy in places;
berry bushes projected their ebony clusters;
and a cabin on the edge of these was the
abode of a solitary hunter. We talked with
him. He had tasted of the adventurous till
no meaner fare could satisfy him. Anon, and
as we talked, twilight flowed in and filled up
the valley; the dusty sunshine climbed the
steep mountain opposite; the hither hill slopes
clothed themselves in royal purple; and
down by the stream, where the bed of the
valley broadened, a coyote sat alone, plain
tively lifting his falsetto voice in a cry that
seemed to penetrrte to the remotest recesses
of the mountains, and return again like a
wail from another world; and before the
echo was entirely lost to our ear, we turned
and fled to tho hotel.— From A California
Seaside, by Charles Warren Stoddard, in the
November number of Lippincott's Magazine,
Americans and American Fashions in
London. Americans are at a premium
everywhere abroad just now, and in London
more than anywhere else. American soda
water, American tramways, hotels “on the
American principle,” American ware3, and
wares recommended to American purchasers,
are advertised on all sides ; on the Fourth of
July a “grand American fete” was held at
Cremorne Gardens, with a special illumina
nation, and announcement that “ all the Amer
icans in London would be present;” in so
ciety, American girls are decidedly “ the fash
ion.” There is material in this for a very se
rious article to be addressed to my country
folk, but this is not my present intention.
Whatever there is to be said on that subject,
their beauty and charms are securing them a
triumph which they are not called upon to
forego. Yet, like all triumphs, it is over en
emies. The universal sentiment in London
sooiety regarding a stranger is the memorable
one recorded by Punch during some agrarian
or mining troubles in the Midland counties :
“ There’s a stranger: ’cave ’arf a brick at
him.” People who lack the charity which
begins at home, whose whole social existence
is a struggle to maintain his or her own place
against all comers, be they nephews, cousins,
nieces, btothers or sisters, cannot abound in
any larger charity. The order of the day is
selfishness, not in its most refined, but in its
coarsest forms: the watch-words are, Chacun
pour soi,” and “The and take the hind
most. —From London in the Season, in the
Monthly Gossip of the November number of
Lippincott's Magazine.
Our Bankers Abroad.
Late files of European papers comment
most favorably on the appointment of the
London firm of Henry Clews & Cos., as bank
ers abroad for all foreign countries of the
U. S. Government and the Treasury Depart
ment, in place of Baring Bros.
It is true that no feeling but the utmost
cordiality of spirit exists between those two
representative banking houses.
it is not true, that Baring Bros, have trans
acted their business with the Government in
an unsatisfactory manner. On the contrary,
the utmost good feeling has existed from the
beginning of the trust up to the present
time.
It is true that the government has confi
dence in the House of Henry Clews & Cos.,
and it is rather a testimonial of confidence in
their manner of doing business, than a reward
for services rendered to the government by
Mr. Clews, that has secured the appointment
of Henry Clews & Cos. as our bankers abroad.
This house has risen rapidily in public con
fidence, until it has reached the government,
which nationalizes its popularity by conferring
the present appointment of Fiscal agents. —
Probity, tact, patriotism, and financial power
thus get a compliment.
The duties of their possision are such,
that it cannot but tend to give general confi
dence throughout this country and in Europe
to the name and credit of this leading bank
ing house.— Ex.
Scrambles. —That entertaining and beau
tifully illustrated series of papers, “ Scram
bles among the Alps,” is continued in the
November number of Lippincolt's Magazine,
and will, for some time to come, constitute
one'of the leading attractions of this interest
ing periodical. A noticeable feature of the
present issue i3 a searching and accurate ac
count of the rise, character, and aims of the
famous “Internationale,” by a writer of much
ability. Fiction is amply represtnted by
contributions from the pens of several well*
known authors. The first part of “Ouida’s”
new story, “A Branch of Lilac,” possesses
the marked characteristics of that peculiar
writer. Mrs. Lucy Hamilton Hooper’s little
romance, “Two Soldiers of Jena,” will be
found very attractive.
SHARP & FLOYD,
(SUCCESSORS TO GEO. SHARP, Jr.,)
WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA.,
Manufacturing and Mcrchaut Jewelers, Watch-
Makers, Silversmiths, and Engravers.
We Do First Class Work.
We sell only First Class Goods*
We sell the Diamond Spectacle.
We believe it to be the best in use.
We Keep the very Best ol Workmen.
We have a large stock of Fine Jewelry.
We have the Latest Styles.
We have a large stock of Diamonds.
We are legitimate Diamond Dealers,
We have a large stock of Wutcbes.
We sell at Small Profits.
We buy our goods for Cash.
We buy them very low.
We sell them low as the lowest.
We have more Solid Silver Ware manufac
tured than any Jeweller in Georgia.
We Entrave all our Ware free of charge.
We have a motto -Quick Sales, Small Profits.
We guarantee every article sold.
We guarantee all our work.
We make Gold, Silver and BroDze Medals.
We want to tarnish every Fair in the State.
We can make Premiums for Fairs.
We know that we can m ike them at a less price than
any house in Georgia.
We oan make Premiums, then, as low ns nuy House
in the United States.
We cannot, shall not be excelled in Finish, Price or
Quality.
We shall not be undersold.
Give us a fair trial. SHARP & FLOYD.
2543-66—25 t
Important notice
-L TO
CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS.
All Retail Orders amounting to S2O and Over Delivered
in any Part of tlio Country,
Free of Express Charges.
HAMILTON, EASTER & SONS,
OF BALTIMORE, MD.,
In order the better to meet the wants of their Retail
Customers at a distance, have established a
BUREAU,
and will, upon application, promptly send by mail full
lines of Samples of the Newest and most Fashionable
Goods, of FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MAN
UFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times to sell as low,
if not at less prices, than any houso in the country.
Buying our Goods from the largest and most celebra
ted manufacturers in different parts of Europe, and
importing the same by Steamers direct to Baltimore,
our stock is at all times promptly supplied with the
novelties of the London and Paris markets.
As we buy and sell only for cash, and make no bad
debts, we are able and willing to sell our goods at from
Tex to Fifteen Per Cent. Less Profit than if we gave
credit.
_ln sending for Samples, specify the kind of goods de
sired. We keep the best grades of every class of goods,
from the lowest to the most costly.
Orders unaccompanied by the cash, will be sent 0. O. D.
PRO MPT-I J A YIEO WHOLESALE B UYERS are
invited to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Pack
age Department. Address
HAMILTON, EASTER & SONS,
197, 199, 201 and 203 West Baltimore Street,
2525 —2575 Baltimore, Md.
SBELL foundry,
Established in 1837.
Superior Belle for Churches,
Schools, etc. .of Pnre Cop
per and Tin, fully war
ranted, and mounted with
our Latest Improved
Rotary Hangings, the
Illustrated Catalogue sent free,
VANDUZEN & TIFU.
102 & 104 B. Second SL, Cincinnati,
2540—90—50 t
THE STEWART COOK STOVE.
WITH DUMPING GRATE.
LATEST IMPROTE.HENT! BEST IN THE WORLD,
MANtJFACTORBD BX
FULLER, WARREN & CO.,
TROY, N- Y.
The Stewart Stove, which has been in use for more
than a quarter of a ceutury, and by its economy and
complete adapiation to the wants of the kitchen,j-has
maintained an acknowledged superiority over all other
stoves, is now introduced to the public with all the
modern conveniences of Front Draft, Ash Drawer
and Damping Grate. The Flues have also been
enlarged und improved, so as to ensure an excellent
Draft at all times, and still to retuin in the Stove its
unrivalled economical featores. No stove has ever yet
been made to do as much work with as little fuel as tho
Stewart. The following brief summary is the result
of One Day’s Work, recently accomplished at Ulo
versville, N- Y., with oue Stewart Stove:
Baked 415 pounds of bread, half a bushel of po
tatoes, 5 apple pies. Roasted 73 pounds of beet.
Boiled 1 barrel of water; also, 17 gallons heated to
150 degrees. All this with one coal fire, not a particle
of coal being put into the stove alter the fire was start
ed in the morning. Those in want of Cook Stoves will
secure the most economy by procuring the best. The
Stewart Stoves are for sale in nearly every town and
city throughout the United States.
FULLER, WARREN & CO.,
Exclusive Manufacturers,
Troy, Pf. Y.
_ , „„ . 1 53 State St., Chicago, 111.
BranchJHonses :[ g 0 ver Cleveland, O.
The Warren Donbljp'Oven Cooking Range
the most perfect operating Range in the market, and
the Lawson Hot Air Fornaces, the very best for
heating Churches, Public Buildings, and Private Resi
dences? Are also manufactured and for sale by
FULLER, WARREN 4 CO.
Descriptive Pamphlets furnished on application.
FoTla.e in Atlanta by J. WARLICK,
2486 Peachtree Street.
BUSINESS CARDS.
A. CONSTANTINE’.S
Persian Healing Soap.
Patented March 12, 1887.
FOB THE lOILET, BATH ABB NURSERY
This Soap hag no equal. It preserves the complex*
ion fair, the skin soft, flexible aod healthy. Itreuiovei
all dandruff, preserves the hair soft and silky, and pre
vents it from falling off. It cures Pimples, all Diseases
of the Scalp and Skin, and is a GOOD SHAVING
SOAP. Agents wanted. Office, 43 Ann St., New York.
Ask any dealer for A. A. Constantine’s Soap.
2582—t
JpIRST PREMIUM
Awarded at Cotton States Fair, Augusta,
THOMASVJLLE FAIR, AND ALL SOUTHERN
FAIRS WHERE EXHIBITED,
1870.
THE SENTGKEER
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
AT THE WORLD’S FAIR
Constituted by the homes of the people, received the
Great Award of the Highest Sales, and have left all
rivals far behind them, for they sold in 1870, One Hun
dred and Twenty-seven Thousand Eight Hundred and
Thirty-three Machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Company
sold over tho Florence Sewing
Machine Company 110,173 Maohines
Sold over the Wilcox & Gibbs' Sew
ing Machine Company 88,943 “
Sold over the Weed Sewing Machine
Company 92,881 “
Sold over the Grover & Baker Sew
ing Machine Company 70.421 “
Sold over the Howe Machine Compa
ny 02,677
Sold over the Wheeler & Wilson
Manufacturing Company., 44,605 “
It is the most simple and easily regulated Machine
now in use.
The shuttle gives an even tension from the full to tba
empty bobbin.
Makes the most durable, elastic and smooth stitch.
Stitching the softest muslin without drawing it into
the feed, and from that to heavy cloth or leather with
out changing the tension, making it capable of a greater
range ot work than any other Mucbine made.
Wo use the straight needle, and it will do more and
finer work than the curved needles.
The work moves from you instead of sideways, which
is muoh easier to manage.
For speed and ease of operation it is unequalled.
Our machinery is ail protected from dust.
Our corder, tucker, gatherer, quilter, trimmer, ('ring
er, binder, hemmer, braider, feller and embroidery at
tachment, are simple and easily used.
We have the best of silks of our own manufacture at
wholesale and retail, of all colors and numbers.
We will place the Singer in your family for a trial
with any machine you may wish to try with it.
The sales of our New Family Sewing Machine is
steadily increasing, showing its popularity.
The new No. 1 Machine, for Tailors and Boot-makers,
is the best in the market.
Examine before purchasing.
Are now sold ou easy terms at the Atlanta Agenoy.
R. T. SMILLIE, Local Agent.
Corner of S. Broad and W. Alabama streets.
Agents wanted everywhere.
Silk Thread, Needles, Oil, etc., always on hand.
Stitching neatly done. H. D. HAWLEY,
General Agent for Georgia, South Carolina and Floiida.
Pincipal Distributing Offices.
182 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga.; 197 King
Street, Charleston, and the Atlanta Office.
Local Offices :
J. 11. Bramhall, Columbus, Ga.
A L. Clinkscules, Macon. Ga.
E. H. Sumner, Augusta, Ga.
E. C. Hough, Rome, Ga.
Satterfield, Byron & Cos., Cartersville, Ga.
E. H. Bloodworth, Barnesville, Ga.
S. F. Wilder & Son, Forsyth, Ga.
Mallard Brothers, Thomasville, Ga.
Mrs. B. E. Johnson, Bainbridge, Ga.
Montgomery & Shaw, Americus, Ga.
Geo. A. Peek, Jacksonville, Fla.
And in almost every connty, our Machine is now
ully represented.
Anyone ordering a Machine from reading this ad
vertisement, please state it when ordering.
2541—2591—60 t
TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO
E. W. Cole, Superintendent, Atlanta.
Night Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 10.30 PM
Arrive at Chattanooga 6.16 A.M
Day Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta C 00 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga i.21 P.M
Fast Lene to New York — Outward.
Loave Atlanta 2.45 P.M
Arrive at Dalton 7.53 P.M
Night Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5.20 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 1.42 A.M
Day Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga... 530 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 2.20 P.M
Accommodation Train—lnward.
Leave Dalton 2.25 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 9.10 A.M
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
S. K. Johnson, Superintendent, Augusta.
Day Passuger Train.
Leave Augusta 8.00 A.M
Leave Atlanta 7 10 A.M
Arrive at Augusta • • • • 5.40 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 6.20 P.M
Night Passenger and Mail Train.
Leave Augusta 8.15 P.M
Leave Atlanta 5 30 P.M
Arrive at Augusta 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta., 6.40 A.M
Athens Branch Tbain leaves Union Point daily,
Sunday excepted, at 1.15 P.M.. arriving at Athens at
435 P.M. Leave Athens at 9.15 A.M., arriving at
Union Point 12.50 P.M. On Monday and Tuesday
nights, n train leaves Union Point at 2.20 A.M . arrives
at Athens 5.15 A.M.; leaves Athens, 8 P.M., arriving
at Union Point, 11 P.M.
Wash/noton Branch. —Train leaves Washington
at 10 A.M., arrives at Barnett, 11.30 A.M.; leaves
Barnett 2.15 P.M., arriving at Washington at 4.10
P.M. On Monday and Tuesday nights, leaves Wash
ington at 10.20 P.M., arriving at Barnett. 12 at night.
Leaves Barnett, 1.50 A.M., arrives at Wasliinglon,
3.30 A.M.
Macon and Augusta Railroad.— Train leaves
Camak. 12.40 P.M., arriving at Milledgeville Junction
4.20 P.M.; leaves Junction at 6.15 A.M, arriving at
Camak, 9.25 A.M. Connects Augusta with South
Carolina, Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta, and
Augusta with Savannah Railroad.
ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD.
L. P. Grant, Superintendent, Atlanta
Day Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7.10 A.M
Arrive at West Point 11.40 A.M
Day Passenger 'Drain—lt ward.
Leave West Foint 12 45 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 5.00 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7.09 P.M
Arrive at West Point 10.45 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger — lnward.
Leave West Point 3.00 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 10.07 A.M
NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD
J. W. Thomas, Superintendent, Nashville.
Day Paseengsr Irain.
Leave Nashville 9.30 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4.20 P.M
Leave Chattanooga 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Nashville 1.30 P.M
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville 6.15 P.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4.30 A.M
Leave Chattanooga.. 8.00 P.M
Arrive at Nashvill#- 5 00 A.M
Night trains run daily; day trains run daily, Sun
days excepted.
Both trains connect at Chattanooga for Rome, At
lanta, and all principal Southern cities.
Selma, Borne and Dalton Railroad.
DAY PASSINOKR THAIS—NORTH.
Leave Selma. 10:05 a.m
Arrive at Borne. 8:85 p.ui
Arrive at Dalton 11:96 p.m
NIGHT PASSENGER train—SOUTH.
Leave Dalton 8:10 p.m
Arrive at Rome 11:86 p.m
Arrive at Selma. 10:80 a.m
AOCOKICODATION TRAIN.
Leave Borne I;4C p.m.
Arrive at Borne. i;46 p.m.
The accommodation train runs from Borne to Jacksonville
dally, Sundays exoepted. The through passenger train only
will be run on Sunday. #