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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old “Southern Recorder’’end “Federal Onion’
[consolidated.]
MUMP 0X2VZZ.ZJB, O A:
Tuesday, September 5, 1S76.
National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT:
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
T. A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
For the State at largo*
GEN. A. R. LAWTON,
HON. JOHN W. WOFFORD.
ALT KEN AT KH.
GEN. L. J.GAKTRELL.
JUDGE W. D. D. TWIGGS.
District Hectors.
1st District—A. M. Rogers, of Burke. Alter
nate, T. E. Davenport, of Glynn.
ad District—R. E. Cannon, of Clay. Alter
nate, James M. Seward, of Thomas.
3d District—J. M. DnPree. of Macon. Alter
nafe, W. H. Harrison, of Siewart
4lh District—W. O. Tuggle, of Troup. Altei'
nate E. M Butt, of Marion.
5th District—F.D Dismuke, of Spalding At
ternate. W. A. Shorter of Fulton.
6th District—Frank Chambers, of Wilkinson.
Alternate. M V. MeKiblien, of Butts.
7tli District—L. N. Trammell, of Wbittield.
Alternate Hamilton Yancey, of Flovd.
8th District—D M. DuBose. of Wilkes. Al
ternate. F E. Eve, of Columbia.
9th District—J. N. Dorsey, of Htril. Alter
nate, F. L Harrison, of White.
was hang in the Jail yard-during the
war for rape. A
We need ndagive farther particu
lars. The proof of the ■egrea'gnilt
was unquestionable. We have no
doubt Alio result would have been the
same if the.gnilty party had been a
white instead of a colored^lnan.
So far as the opinion goes, that
there was ample time for passion to
cool and the friends of the lady to
think better of the matter and leave
all to the law, we question its cor
rectness. The force and depth of
their passions for revenge, imrnedi
ately and dire, was startling, as evi.
denced by their battering down the
doors of the jail. The tempest was
not laid, bnt at its height The lady
was left in a critical, possibly a dy
ing condition. They were like men
aroused from a sleep of confidence,
to see a sister and neighbor stricken
down by a brutish fiend in the woods
in her yonng helplessness. In snch
cases there is always a troop of sym- I bright and honorable, by their vig
HON_IVERSON L. tyARRIS.
In'Baldwin Superior Court, )
, August Term, 1870. j
The committeo heretofore appoint
ed in Bar-meeting to present now,
not an of/it nary, bnt a pri
memorial of the kite Hon
L. Harris, deceased, do hereby Re
port :
1. That our late eminent senior
and leader, who died March 12,
1870, since last term, was born in
Clarke county, Georgia, in 1805,
of a brave, patriotic Virginia fam
ily, whose courageous, faithful ser
vice, along with Dooly and Wil
liamson, Few, Catching and Clarke
and many others, kept the Savan»
nali River country hot with war
during all the old revolution.—
Since then, in every generation, in
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi,
the family name, has been kept with
singular success and universality,
patbizers not only from motives
creditable to humanity, but from the
fact that they too had mothers,
wives, sisters and daughters, who
were to be protected against such
prowling villians as Robt. Williams.
While we should have preferred that
the parties had yielded to the courso
of law, public sentiment will cons
demn any action that will impose
orous, intellectual sons, and their
unsurpassed, admirable sisterbood
of daughters, who havo ever been,
without an exception, or a failure,
the undimmed, bright ornaments of
our Society, wherever known; al
ways eminent among our peoplo for
every modest grace and feminine ex
cellence which adorns Sonthern wo
manhood, and inspires the worship
any penalty npon those whose object ■ of gallant, or wise men. No family
FOB. GO VSRXTOB:
ALFRED H. COLQUITT.
For Senator 20th District:
F. O. FTTrLMAM-.
Election for Governor and mem
bers of Legislature—1th October.
For Congressmen and Presiden
tial electors—7th Novtmilier.
Lynching of Robl. Williams at ^ugusta.
We shall never advocate mob law
and the lynching of a human lieing,
because in some instances, the inno
cent may suffer. Infuriated mobs rush
on with the opposeless fury of a tor
nado. Reason, justice, mercy, and
the cries of innocence, are trampled
down and stilled in their heedless
passion, wild shouts and clamors,
and cries for inconsiderate action
and often, bloody vengeance. AH
good men and lovers of law and or
der, should set their faces sternly
against mob law, lest it should be
encouraged by acquiese.nce, to fre
quet deeds of violence, for the pun
ishment of which the law provides
While we say this, we are compelled
tc say there are cases of its exercise
when the lovers of law and order
are forced to silence by the enormity
of the crime which drives a collected
body of citizens summarily to pun
ish the guilty.
All the passions were implanted in
the human mind by our heavenly
Father for good and not evil. Fear
is useful, for in many cases it pro
vides for self preservation. There
may be causes for rational fear which
would make the strongest nerves
tremble and there is do cowardice in
providing against the danger. Love
has affinites which draw hearts to
gether like steel and magnet. How
necessary is its influence in family
circles. What else can produce the
happy harmony which there prevails
and spreads an unfailing fegis over
wife and offspring. Anger was giv
en to prevent, or repel injuries and
to control the wrong doing of others.
Many have shrunk back from evil
deeds under the influence of strong
and passionate words and the light
ning glances which radiated from the
eves of the authorized private or
public censor, over the conduct of
others. We might extend these
remarks to show that every passion
was given for a wise and useful pur
pose, bnt all were to be controled by
reason ; but such is the weakness of
human natnre that passion often gets
the control of reason and drives its
victim headlong into unruly thought
and intemperate action
On the 24th inst, a young married
woman, Mrs. Anna Bridges, about
sixteen years of age, visited her sis
ter afoot. They lived about seven
miles from the city of Augusta and
near each other. Mr. Bridges, the
husband, had gone to the city to get
some family supplies. Wl< r Mrs.
Bridges was returning home, Robt.
Williams, a large and powerful ne
gro man, suddenly emerged from the
woods and struck her upon the head
with a heavy stick. She fell to the
ground, but suddenly arose, when
the miscreant delt her another blow
and she fell the second time. Again
she arose and he gave her a third
blow. During all this time this
young and defenceless woman
screamed and struggled and finally
escaped a worse fate to which his
brutal lust had doomed her. Her
cries and struggles saved her, and
reaching her sister's house, to which
she returned with difficulty, fell in
the porch and fainted.
Such were the facts. No one,
black or white, could have uttered a
word of condemnation if her hus
band, or either of her brothers could
have witnessed the fiendish brutali
ty and shot him upon the spot He
was soon arrested, placed in the bot
tom of a wagon and taken to Augus
ta, where he was lodged in jail. The
crime was committed on the 24tb,
and the lynching took place on the
night of the 26th. Some think there
was time for reason to resume its
sway and however justifiable it may
have been to take the law into their
own hands at the time, or soon after
the commission of the crime, it was
wrong to do it after the criminal was
jailed, and especially, as the jailor
and a part of the police of Augusta
resisted their purposes at the jail,
by every means within their power
Short of the shedding of blood- The
jailor refused to give up the keys
and the assailants battered down
gates and doors, seized the prisoner,
turned him loose in the street near
the jail and fired upon him as he ran.
In a few minutes he was dead and
the crowd dispersed. With a very
few exceptions, those who took
‘Williams forcibly from the jail were
(grangers in Augusta.
Eight persons, citizens of Augusta,
were subsequently arrested, charged
with murder and lodged in jail for
crimination before the county court
^tempts we presume will be made
to arrest otters who live in the coun-
broth* 1 * of this Robert Williams
was to protect a defenseless female
and the purity aud safety of the
mothers and daughters of the land.
REFORM.
In all the questions of reform, no
one equals in importance the rester
alien of fraternal feelings in the
heart* of all the people of the Union.
It takes time to still the tempest of
passions which the civil war ongen
dered, but even worse than that the
continuous acts of hate which were
extended to the people of Iho South
after the conflict of arms had term- j
niated. We need not refer minutely
to those acts of reconstruction which 1
excited moro bitter blood than the 1
fiery tempest of war. They were the '
cool, premeditated acts of the ruling
power of the country and inflicted, j
in malice, np r n a helpless people. I
The leaders of that, party, dead to I
every noble sentiment of magna-
nimity—acting as tyrants always do i
—resorted to every possible means
to spread the contagion of hate in
the hearts of the people of the North.
Wo merely refer to these indisput
able facts, and even, now, at this late
period, when the Republican con
vention professed a disposition in
favor of friendly relations, their
presses and speakers aio conjuring
up the genii oi' the storm, taking up,
from the abysses of the angry past,
every possible power to widen the
breach, and open the wounds which
have so long afflicted the Union
What then are the professions of
the Cincinnati Convention worth?
What arc the professions of their
candidate for the Presidency worth?
name on the roll of honor and merit
in our country was ever better sup
ported l>y its women.
2. The Bar is liko a forest wood :
while the young spring upward, the
tall ami full grown and overshadow
ing are constantly decaying, dying,
falling. But while the once stately
and flourishing, but now fallen troe;
the cedar of Labanon, the oak or
piue of Georgia, or the red wood of
the mountains of California perishes
iu silence among its shades, without
memorial, the towering Lawyer leaves
a record behind him, which his coun
try keeps and he lives in history,
along with her lilicrty and laws and
institutions, in whose defence and
practice and perfection he spent tho
professional and legislative labors of
his life.
For many years;—from 1852 to 1870
our Xlilledgeville Bar had a long im
munity from death and loDg term in
which to win the prizes of the pro
fession. The circle of our surround
ing counties had it different lot.—
War wasted the Bars of Hancock
and Warren until hardly a survivor
was left on their gallant roll. With
in our sight Putnam lost her Mer-
riwether, Ashurst, Adams, the heroic
D avis, the refined Wingfield, Bow
den. and last of all the glowing, bon
est Hudson ; and the manly voices
of Arthur Cochrane, Carswell, Cum
ming and Rivers are no more heard
defending the rights of tho people
of Wilkinson But at last, the time
of Baldwin has come and now, of
all our Bar of 1800, hut two alone
remain. Since last term three have
died ; four in a year. Our distin
guished trio, who long possessed the
county to themselves—Harris, Ken
an and Rockwell, all arc gone, and
we meet to-day to say by this memo
rial a brotherhood’s farewell amongst
He talks of peace and good will for i others, to tho memory
the people of the Soulb, while his i a formal good-bye
followers are still breathing curses a-
gainst our people, and the adminis
tration of the country is pouring
troops into the South where they are
not needed for no reason whatever
but to control the elections and
keep the Radicals in power. No peo
pie ever existed who bore oppressions
with more patience than the people
of the South. They put seals upon
their lips to aid in quieting tho coun
try. Long since they would have
closed every quivering wound, if
devotion to the Union and liberty,
could have effected it. Wo of the
South want peace and desire to live
in friendship with all our sisters of
the Union. Is it possible that peo
ple of the North cannot see that the
great means of a restoration to pros
perity is a restoration of friendship.
However terrible the past has been,
the quickest way to give new life
and new hope to the country is to
instil kindly feelings in tho breasts
of all our people.
The question then is, how shall
this great object be effected* It can
only be done by a change of rulers.
The Democratic party is the party
of friendship. The Radicals have
wielded power long enough to have
accomplished immense good. It has
been a party of Evil and with all its
professions of peace in the past, it
kept up a social war. It makes the
same professions now, only to break
them, as heretofore, if again entrus
ted With power.
Surely the depression in trade, in
commerce, in every intercut at the
North, will influence the franchise
there to such an extent as to place
the Democrats in power. When
broken promises and faithless smiles
and continuous tyranny shall cease,
the “hard times” will cease. Better
measures will bring better treasures.
Immigrant and capital will flow to
the South. Their work, and bene
fits here, will re act upon the North.
General prosperity will restore bar
mony. The peoplo will move on in
the sunlight of an era of change for
the general good. Waste places will
be built up, industries will be revived
and rewarded, and the whole land
will overflow with wealth and plenty.
i^ijotljer Promising Bud Willed.
Columbus, Ga., September 2.--A.
T. Calhoun, postoffice clerk in this
city, was detected in taking money
from registered letters. He admits
stealing $92. He is chairman of the
Republican committee of Muscogee
county, chairman of the Republican
Convention of the Fourth Congres
sional District of Georgia and a del
egate from that district to tho Re
publican Stato convention. He is
now in custody, Postmaster John
son discovered the act and caused
the arrest. He tried to commit sui
cide-
COTTON MARKET.
The following is the marVet
r« port of August S
Liverpool.—Middlings 6.
New York—Middlings 11$.
Savannai.—Middlings 10 9-l(>
Charleston.—Middlings 10$.
Augusta—Middlings 104.
Milledgetillr—Middlings 9&.
Gold 9$
MiUedgeville Prices Current.
Corrected
Weekly by O. H. Wright Si Sea.
BACON:
Shoulder*, f toll
iMrRibSIde* IS* 14
Clear Sidra 141*13
D.S.CIe* Rib didee.li*
ruiu Mania, ....Ilf •
CwthriI Haul*,....
BAGGING 15 9
IRON TIES 1 0S
BUTTER—Country JV 9»
COriTEK—RioPto 259
Java 4* 943
EGOS, «r dozen
FACTORY GOODS
Cotton YiuaaPbuneheijo
GRAIN
Corn
feat
so a at *•
73 a a] so
Oat* IN
HOES 60*1 5»
iron <r m 50iu
LARD I53|20
LIME y buak ai 25
MEAL e bu.h 1*
MOLASSES, P gal. «|R6U
NAILS, r » 6®1»
OlLiKeroaane.y 1*1.309 46
«ot.y bnab..759-91
Irfab.tFbnah. .92 M9
POTASH % LYE 9oau, 20
SALT. P aauk 17#
SUGARS, .
Stripe*, f yd 1219» SYRUP. 4P cat 75912"
FLOUR, pbM a« <W9S V TALLOW 10
TEA at 509260
VINEGAR. 40970
WHISKEY |*i.ai7590u
of Harris ;
to the long
established head and leader of our
Society. His noble juniors dead
since last term, Barrow and Barrow,
will be remembered in another paper,
from another committee.
Custom and professional amenity
mark the scope of such a ceremo
nial and require some portraiture of
the lamented dead we meet to honor.
The records of our own county
and of the Octnulgce circuit, and of
the Supreme Court, show Judge
Harris’ standing as a working attor
ney and as a lawyer and judge. He
mingled well, books, business and
men, and was ever ambitious to leave
his record, like the ermine of Meta
phor; pure and untarnished :—and
nobly did he succeed. As a -Judge,
he sold no man justice, nor judg
ment for a bribe. The prisoner nev
er pined in captivity nor w r as hurried
unjustly to swift judgment by his
fault; to tho poor and rich he was a
just, impartial judge; and in him
the oppressed found protection, and
the guilty found mercy. Long prac
ticed in the defence of accused pris
oners, he came to tho Bench fully
furnished with the rules of practice
and principles of law, which guard
the citizen’s rights of life, and liberty,
and he was still more expert in civil
law. His entire administration as a
Judge, even amidst the disturbance
of civil war, was beautifully free
from tyranny and injustice. Con
stitutionally hasty in his words and
positive in his opinions, ho some
times erred upon the Bench ; but
never was there a strong Judge
more willing to be persuaded of his
own error, or more ready to yield to
kind and respectful remonstrance.
Ho wished to be right. With a
Judge so emphatic and decided,
sharp collisions with his Bar, in
Nisi prius practice, would of course
often occur; but no lawyer of tho
Octnulgce Circuit ever charged him
with oppre.-sion. Towards the Bar,
his judicial bearing was a model of
courtesy and dignity, and impartial
justice : sometimes nrgent, bnt nev
er rude ; never insolent. He was an
upright, able Judge, with all his
faulis, and well knew and respected
the several rights of counsel, parly
and witness; and now that he is
gone, it is our sacred duty and great
pleasure to bear this cheerful testi
mony.
Judge Harris begun practice in
1824, at MiUedgeville, and here, ex
cept a few years of infancy, he spent
his whole life ; never absent except
for education or business. His life
was full of energy and diligence, ex
cept the last four years, which we^c
years of decay and paralysis and
weary weakness. He accomplished
a great deal for his clients, but not
being a covetous man, he was con
tent and happy with a comfortable
competence and independent home
for himself and his largo family and
their good education. When he be
gan practice in 1824, the Milledge«
ville Bar was occupied by eminent
Seniors : Seaborn Jones, Wm. H.
Torrance, Wm. Y. Hansel], the eld
er Rockwell, John Howard, the elder
Lucius Q. C. Lamar; all men of
mark; and young Harris, intent on
bread and business, at once devoted
himself earnestly to a horse-back,
Saturday practice in the country
Justices’ Courts—having then a ju
risdiction of only thirty dollars. Bnt
“great streams from little fountains
flow," and this humble forum, with
its keen old practice of appeal, and
jury trial and certiorari;—and its
mingled drama of fight and fan, was
at once the hardest and best school
of all, to train an etherial, yonng
collegian for leadership of the people.
No man ever made better use of it
than Harris. There at the foantain,
he learned to know the people; his
countrymen;—to know the world of
men; their strange mysterious ways
and motives; their head men and
their masses; and to the last of his
active, manly life, none had a keener
sense than be, of the public mind of
Georgia; or of the rights of the
citiMiSr But such energy and hard-
training as his, soon fitted him for
conflict in the uppermost circles snd
front flmk of life among the strong
est men ofhis day. He felt all the
charms of,office and honor bnt his
Sessional ' heart panted mainly for the delights.
Iverson uT' a high reputation. The noble
models of human virtue in the re
cords of history, filled his soul with
lofty emulation. Judicial greatness,
forensic excellence; professional
power; the great examples of history
and biography—these were the life-
giving angels with whom he com
muned ; and who possessed the bou!
of the aspiring young attorney, as
he rode his round among the Jus
tices’ Courts of Baldwin county.
And never in life did his enthusiasm
for high humanity cool down. With
his whole heart he worshiped the
great judges and lawyers of England,
and struggled to be their equal;—
fpr they were bnt men. The basis
of his character us men saw him
and the key to his heart’s secrets
was this noble love for the exalted.
His strongest traits were its fruits.
He lookod always aloft; to ideal
standards, unseen of the multitude,
yet worshiped of mankind;—beaute
ous standards, tinted by fancy with
higher colors than the common com
plexion of humanity—godlike stand
ards. robust with great virtues, and
radiant with fftce divine. .His eye
was towards Olympus, and his heart
full of hope to win tho praises of
men. Quick with inborn energy
and inspired by honorable thoughts,
Judge Harris' life was a marked
success-— not so much as a material
ist, a money getting man : for he
was not sordid, or covetous, and he
was sympathetic and charitable and
hospitable—bnt he won the idol of
his hoart, a high reputation as a
citizen, among honorable, eminent
men of his day, and State. A man
of positiveness and force and vehe
ment self assertion, some of his pro
fessional and judicial features were
very salient and always imparted a
high, pleasant tone to the Bar, and
Couit and world around him. His
declamation was superb and trnmpet-
toned; his advocacy earnest, especially
for all that elevates society ; his man
ner vigorous and fervid, his learning
excellent. Some of his judicial de
liverances were highly vitalized and
pleasantly appreciated by tho Oc
mulgeo Bar and by the Supreme
Court.
Time forbids to mention but two,
the “Emphasis” case of Maddox vs.
Simmons, «?1 Ga., R. 512, where
Judge Foster’s bill of exceptions
alleged as error, that Judge Harris
“chargee! the jury with a manner
and emphasisaud the “Dower"
case of Clements ve. Walker, 38 Ga ,
P 1
The first affected him with much
indignation as it implied partial
ity, and the Supreme Court (which
overruled him in both cases) put
on their own record his entire
decision as Circuit Judgo in Maddox
vs. Simmons, purposely, says Chief
Justice Lumpkin, “To daguereortype
to posterity the peculiarities of our
most excellent brother far better
than any jiost mortem eulogy of
ours, should Providence impose this
duty upon us, which may Heaven in
its mercy avert.” We simply name
the ease.
In the second case, Judge HarriB
was on tho Supremo Court bench,
and dissented from his colleagues,
Judge Walker and Chief Justice
Warner. Difference with such tuen,
of course aroused all his powers, and
in thirteen pages of mingled learn
ing and railery.he decides and leaves
on record:
1st. That a Georgia debtor’s
widow shall get no Dower, no home
until his creditors get their last dol
lar.
2d. That it is “absurd” to ask a
creditor to wait for a Georgia wid
ow’s death ;—for she lives too long
for his rights, “and has a vitality
which defies the power of arithmetic
to count.”
3d. “That for many years he has
been uneasy about the Supreme
Court of Georgia; because when
ever a woman is a party, or her
rights involved his distinguished
associates, Judgo Walker and Chief
Justice Warner “stretch principle too
far; become quixotic, and incurably
insane; disobedient to law, deaf to
reason, and insensible even to ridi
cule.”
This equals St. Paul's impatient
chiding of the Christians of Gal
atn ;—the fickle French branch of
the East!” “O foolish Gael, who
hath bewitched you.”—The Supreme
Judges are “bewitched.”—But let us
hope tho spell upon them may never
be broken, and that none of our
witches may ever bo burned for that
trick !
But while we recall these official
pleasantries we must not forget to
mention with sympathy and rever
ence his grave and momentous de
cision in Aycock et al, vs. Martin et
al, in 37 Ga.,—124—166, in Sun
preme Ccurt of December Term,
1867. In it he had more pleasure,
more pride, than in all others, and
he esteemed it the grandest act of
his life;—the worthiest of all, of his
country’s praiee. To be permitted
such an opportunity to connect his
name officially with the Constitution
al history of his country, filled the
measure of his ambition and he of
ten spoke of it as the proudest in
heritance he could leave to his chil*»
dren. Such a record, in defence of
the Constitution !
The question was the validity, or
nullity of the two Georgia “Stay
Laws” of 1866, in light of See. 10,
Art. 1, of the United States Consti
tution, and the public hung in pain
ful suspense upon the Supreme
Court. The South was just out of
disastrous civil war. which swept
away our men and all our property,;
but left npon us all our debts and
an incubus of nearly five millions of
pauper freed negroes; and for public
ielief the Georgia Legislature enact
ed said “Stay Laws” over the Gov
ernor’s veto by votes of 121 to 7
and 103 to 7, as Judge Harris says :
“Under the influence of nnprineis
pled demagogues, who had the peo
ple ever on their tongues, but never
in their hearts ”
Here was a chance for immortali
ty;—an intense issue between an
entire living generation of ten mil-
lione of ruined Southern people on
one side ; and Sec. 10, Art 1, of the
United States’ Constitution on the
other. What a time for judicial mar*
tyrs! Our Governor, Peter Early,
had one snoh opportunity in his
day, and made himself immortal by
brave defiance of the public pas
sions, in pronouncing against the
once famous “Alleviating Laws” of
1809, and 1814; and Judge Harris
had all his life lived in the sound of
Early’s fame. Then in 1819, Chief
Justice Marshal had decided the
same way in Sturges vs. Crownin'
shield 4, Wheat, B. 122, and in 1827,
came reiteration of the doctrine by
United States Supreme Coart in
Ogden vs, Sandere, 12 Wheat., B.
213. Next followed the Georgia case
of Forsyth vs. Marbury, in 1830,
B. M. Chari, B. 324—decided the
same way by our honored Jadge Law
and then, Ossa piles on Pelion; case
follows ct}se, in the United States
^npremeCourt, under every Chief
Jasticeahd the illustrious names of
Kent, Spencer, Story and Sedgwick
crown the climax of authority.
Strong in his glorious auxiliaries,
Judge Harris' spirit glowed with
rapture at the grand occasion and in
twenty-eight pages of passionate re
view, he swept the whole field of ad
judicated oases; paused but a mo
ment for brief lamentation and sur
prize over the fatal folly of his idol
Chief Justice Marshal, in catching
so hastily at the senseless distinc
tion drawn by the attorney, Mr. Hun
ter of New York, in Sturges vs. Crown-
inshield, as to the power of the
States to alter the remedy for con
tracts whose obligation they could
not impair, and concludes his work
of love, bis most exalted effort in
these words which we copy from the
record:
“I know full well the danger of
resisting popular feeling. I have
calmly measured it, and prepared
my mind to meet the usual fate of
those who obey the stern dictates of
duty. 1 love rejmtation, and it in
perhaps the deep love I have for that,
that iB unsullied, that has given me
firmness to resist the storm, which
howls around. Compliance with
popular clamor would probably have
kept mo buoyant on tho mad cur
rent and made me a favorito for tho
moment. I will not;—my nature
forbids mo to attempt to retain pub
lic favor by personal dishonor ;—by
what, I can .regard as nothing else
than deliberate, willful perjury. I
am a sworn sentinel placed here to
defend the Constitutions of the Uni
ted States and of Georgia from at
tack from every quarter. I will fall
at ray post, if necessary.”
Then he pictures the skeleton of a
Roman soldier found lately standing
sentry at the gate of Pompeii, em-
beded in Yesuvian cinders, but still
erect and armed with javelin and
sword, and shield and helmet and
standing yet at his post just as he
was nearly two thousand years ago ;
and catching fire from this dead sol
dier’s case, the Judge pours out bis
inspiration and ends his judgment by
saying:
“This fact so sublime in the sug
gestions which it must perpetually
awaken, will continue forever to
teach, in a language all can under
stand, to every man engaged in pub
lic service, whatever con sequences
may betide him personally, the first
and last lesson of life, is obedience to
•ity.”
This illustrates that the calm Ju
diciary with blind eyes and level
scales, have their times too, which
“try men’s souls.” It is heroic and
makes a vivid record.
Judge Harris and Chief Justice
Warner affirmed the decision made
quietly below by Judges Reese, Milner
Warner and Clarke in their respective
circuits; the “Stay Laws” of lh66,
ceased forever, like the “Alleviating
laws’’ of 1809 and 1814;—Sher
ill's and Constables were turned
loose again npon a peeled and wasted
people, and Section 10, Art. 1, of the
United States’ Constitution was hail
ed by creditors, as onco more “lord
paramount” over the States in the
strife of life about men’s ephemeral
title to riches in material things,
“which surely take wings and fly
away, as an eagle toward heaven.”
Contracts immortal, for things that
perish, by mortal men; lasting
phantoms, “whose life is but as
the flower of the grass!” With
these record pictures of our de
parted Senior and a thousand
kind memories of his life among us;
paying our honors to the pure Judge
who was lately over os, and to the
worthy Georgian gone, we move the
following resolutions:
First. That the death of Judge
Iverson Lonis Harris, who began
professional life here in the Justice’s
humble court, and rose by energy
and merit to be a useful legislator
and a Judge of the highest Court of
the State is to ns, the Bar of Bald
win county, the loss of our long-es
tablished honorable leader, and to
Georgia the lossof an able, upright
Judge and eminent citizen.
Second. That we join his family’s
lament over his death, and move
the Court to order the record of this
memorial, distinct from all other
matter, marked by margin of crape
and regularly indexed ; and tbat a
certified copy hereof under seal of
the Court, with funeral badge like
the record, be transmitted by the
Clerk, within forty days, through
the Sheriff’ to tho widow of Judge
Harris as head of his family; and
that it bo published onco in the
Union & Recorder gazette.
William McKinley,
Daniel B. Sanford,
T. W. White.
W. G. McAdoo,
Committee.
August 21st, 1876.
B. W. BORROW, ESQ.
Our brother, Benjamin White Bab
bow, was born in Oglethropo county,
Ga., in March 1851, and died in the
same county, on the 22nd of March,
1876. A graduate of the academic
and law departments of the State
University, he located at Milledge-*
ville in 1870, as a law student and
was admitted to the practice in 1873.
Before that fatal disease, Consump
tion, developed in him, his mould
and frame gave promise of long life,
vigor and strength. The mind of
our brother was admirably conBtitu
ted for his chosen profession, or in
deed for any of the walk3 of life.
His equanimity and self poise were
remarkable; his perceptive facul
ties were quick, clear and discrimi
nating ; his reasoning powers were
acute, sifting, cogent: his memory
tenacious and well stored with fruits
of large reading. Few men have
brought so many, so superior el
ements of success to the profes
sion ; few have been torn from more
splendid promise. In social life,
he was cheerful, kind and frank. His
moral integrity was of that storling
character, that debated not with the
tempter. His tastes were correct,
rather than polished.
To him, Christianity was a practK
cal fact—a present reality. Mortal
life was his opportunity—immortali
ty, his destiny. The joys and duties
of this life were subordinated to its
chief mission, as stepping stones to
its final consummation. The mani
fest approach of the last enemy,
wrought no dismay in his heart.
In his Divine Master’s service, he
“did what he coaid,” And he en
tered the dark valley with as calm
an eye, as eagle's ever gazed upon
the son.
One, who knew him intimately
thus summarizes the character of
our deceased brother: “A Christian
from childhood and a hereditary
his life was a beautiful
example of manly vigor, moulded and
modeled by an honest religiousness.
He was in all things, an earnest, de
cided, candid, forceable man. In hia
home life he was always much en-
denrod to tj* 1 family and kindred.
Bold, intelligent, intense, candid,
playful, cheerful, humorous, he was
the darling of his friends. As a law
yer, he had varjrMfieetfve talents—an
unerring memory of decided cases and
cogent power of demonstra
tions. As an attorney, he wasdiligent,
devoted, faithfal, expert, coercive and
uncommonly successful. As a mind,
he was concentrated, absorbed, ab
sent, forgetful of everything but the
present idea. He was no dreamer—
not a man of imagination, but in**
tensely practical.”
Whilst we bow in submission to
the Providence of Him, who is too
wise to err, and too kind to be cru
el, we can bat deplore, for our fra
ternity, the early demise of oar
brother.
C P. Crawfobd,
F. G. DuBigxon.
H. W. BARROW, ESQ.
Hskby Walkrb Barrow, brother
and partner of Benjaman W., was
born at the same old family homo-
stead, in Oglethropo county, in Feb-
rurary, 1855. A victim to the same
hereditary Consumption, he follow*'
ed his brother to the spirit land,
from Brunswick, on the 21st of June,
1876. Deprived of a mother's caro
in the very beginning of his life, ho
was fostered by his excellent grand
mother, Mrs. Middleton Pope, under
the supervision of his father, Col Da
vid C Barrow. His thorough edu
cation, academic and collegiate, cul
minated in the degree of L. L. B.,
iu the University of Georgia, in
1874.
About a year he dwelt among ns
—long enough for the reading of his
frank and genial nature—too short
to gratify our desires for his com
panionship. In moral and social tem
per and spirit, he was very like his
brother. Intellectually, he possessed
less solid strength, bnt greater ac
tivity and polish. Whilst Ben might
sunder the iron bar, with Coeur da
Lion’s massive blade, the more agile
hand of Hknbt, would wield the pol
ished cimeter of Saladin, and sever
the floating gossamer with steel of
Damascus. Highly imaginative, stor
ed well with classic lore, elegant
and graceful in manner and diction,
he gave promise of a high order of
liteary and oratorical success. Quiet,
modest and dignified, he was also
kind-hearted, genial and cheerful,
with purity of spirit, that was child
like and confiding. Babkow & Bak-
bow, par nobile fratrum, they well il
lustrate that
Oolv the actioaa ef the just
Smell sweet ud blossom in the dual.
C. P. Chawford,
F, G. DuBignon.
Compiled fer the Uniou Sl Recorder.
General latelligeaee and For
eign News*
The London Standards Belgrade
dispatch, of August 28th says iu
substance, that while Prince Milan
is trying to negotiate peace the Ser
vian general, Tehernayeff, is contin
ually attacking the Turkish lines to
prevent peace. Ho says the reports
of great victories by the Servians are
without foundation. Russian officers
are continually arriving. The report
now is, tbat on the 26th and 27th
there was severe fighting which resul
ted in a complete Turkish victory.
The Servians sustained immense
losses. This is later than any. intel
ligence from Servian sources which
claim a victory on Thursday. Teller-
nayeff is a Russian and it is quite
apparent that Russia is intriguing
for a continnence of the war for hei
own interest, and not that of Servia.
Servia should make peace as soon as
possible. Her troops have fought
well but she cannot withstand the
formidable power of Turkey.
Secretary Morrill has gone to
Maine on an eleotionering tour.
The new 4^ per cent bonds will be
ready for delivery September let.
The remainder of the Utes have
deserted. The whole body (500) got
a good supply of gune and ammuni
tion. That was what they were af
ter.
The Clinch Rifles, of Augusta,
have passed a set of complimentary
resolutions returning their thanks
to Mr. William Emerson Baker, of
Boston, for his most generous and
princely hospitality to them when in
that city. The 3rd resolution is in
these words: “Resolved, that the
members of the Clinch Rifles desire
to live kindly in the memory of Mr
Wm. Emerson Baker, the good man,
the true patriot, and the Christian
Philanthropist.” A copy of the reso
lutions, beautifully embossed by Mr.
J. Alma Pelot of Augusta,, and by
him presented to the company will
be forwarded to Mr. Baker.
Committees of the Northern and
Sonthern Methodist Episcopal chur
ches in a formal and eloquent address
have declared the restoration of fra
ternal association between tho chur**
chos of the two sections. This looks
well for social peace.
““Buffalo Bill.”
A correspondent of the New York
World, writing from Crook’s camp,
under date of August 9th, contains
the following paragraph in relation
to the above-named renowned scout
and Indian fighter, which will be read
with interest by many who witnessed
his performance at the Opera House
last winter.
Mr. William Cody, popularly
known as “Buffalo Bill,” the scout
and Indian fighter, came into camp
yesterday with the Fifth cavalry,
having cancelled all his engagements
with the Eastern theatres in order to
take part in the present campaign.
He has accompanied this regiment
as chief scout nine years, and been
in no fewer than fifty-two Indian
fights with it. He is without doubt
the best scout and Indian fighter on
the plains, thongh his personal ap
pearance and manners would lead
one to suppose him to be anything
but such a character. His mild man
ners, handsome face and pleasing ad
dress seem more adapted to grace
a parlor t-h*n to share the perils and
the roughness of snch a wild life on
the plains. He is still quite a young
man—thirty-eight—has a wife and
two children in Rochester, New York,
and, it is almost needless to say, is
a great favorite everywhere.
Cameron and Gen. Sherman will
leave on the 12th September, on an
inspection tottr, extending to San
Francisco.
A colored Democratic dab has
been formed in Aiken, South Caro
lina. .
The latest acooonta of fighting at
Alexinatyu unfavorable to the Ser
vians. Austria will be invited to
take the lead in the mediation for
pease* The news from Constanti
nople indicates that the present Sal
tan, M—d, will be deposed and
Abdul Homed put in his pfcoe.
Ex-Gov. Samnel Price bee been
appointed flan'lsr ef Weal Virginia
to fill Caparton’tr vacancy.
The Democrats Convention of
New York nominated Horatio Sey
mour for Governor by eodemetion.
They commended the netton of the
St.'Lonis convention, the nisnination
of Tilden and Hendricks, end, among
_ ape in
e people
•‘A wv-
they say
the Secrets^ of Wer, a]
Grant to place gavernme:
the South to inUmidatq,
and control the election*,
eminent by the bayonet
“to take the place of a Government
through the ballot, is an ontrage
which demands tho condeniMtion of
all who love republican freedom and
hate despotic power.”
The Emperor of Brazil will soon
visit Madrid. •’ .. „ ..
The revolution in Columbia, South
America, continues.
The loss by the recent fire at San
Francisco reaches the large sum of
$780,000. It is attributed to incen
diarism. _ „
Russians are swarming into Ser**
via. Their influence prevents peace.
Russia has long desired to own the
city of the Sultan. Murad has been
deposed, by the great dignitanes of
the Empire, and Abdul Hamid has
been formally proclaimed Emperor
of Turkey.
Tho Turks were defeated in a bat
tle on the right bank of the Morava.
Their bi idgee over the Morava was
destroyed.
Russian, English and Servian sur
geons say a large number of Setv
vians wounded themselves to avoid
battle.
The Turks have received a siege
train from Niscb, and in default of
an armistrice, something very deci
sive may be expected at Alexinatz.
Ex Governor Seymour declines to
accept the nomination for Governor
of New York. He says Sept. 1st:
“I have this morning received a let
ter from Dr. Chnrcbhill, one of my
physicians, forbidding me making
any mental or physical effort, and
declaring that tho acceptance of this
or any other public position would
prove detrimental, if it did not pro
vent my ultimate recovery.” It seems
there was a misunderstanding. A
form of a dispatch was agreed upon
in a committee of ten to signify Mr
Seymour’s acceptanca It was in
these words: ‘Go on and complete
the ticket.’ It was sent by Mr.
Spriggs to Gen. Faulkner and hence
the statement that Gov. Seymour
bad accepted. But it was a mistake
and lie is not a candidate. That
matter is settled. Immense fires
are raging in the neighborhood of
Honesdalc, Fa., in Clinton Town
ship, the Moosic monntains and oth
er places. No rain had fallen there
since the 4th of July. Vast quanti
ties of timber had been destroyed
and nothing but heavy rains can pre
vent farther losses.
The Republicans in North Carolis
na are making a strong light to carry
the State, but they will have to fight
harder and in much greater numbers
to overcome the war-horse. General
Yance, and his enthusiastic follow-
LOUISIANA.
Trouble in Monroe Parish.
Monroe, La., September 1.—Fresh
excitement sprang np last night in
consequence of reports that the ne
groes were arming in the northern
portion of the parish, and were com
ing to burn the town. About seventy-
five negroes mounted and foot, were
found at Capb Hillop’s. The ne
groes refused to disarm, and said
they would come back with five hun
dred men. Captain Theobald, with
fifteen men, blockaded the road with
rails. * The news spread rapidly, aud
the whites armed from this and
Morehouse parishes, went to the
scene of the trouble. The excite
ment was intense, but no disturban
ces of any kind occurred. The
whites include some of the best men
of the section, and they acted with
great forbearance. One of the armed
negroes said they were told to arm
by the sheriff of the parish, who is a
negro, and come to Monroe and burn
the town. In the sonthern portion
of the parish, where honses were
fired into, leading citizens reports
all quiet. Some demonstrations,
they say, were mode last night, bat
nothing serions occurred. The situa
tion is decidedly critical, but leading
citizens are proceeding with prudence
and moderation.
Russians are reaching Alexinaty
in large numbers, officers and men,
and adding rapidly to the strength
of the Servian army ; hence they
seem more likely to hold their
ground. The feeling that the pres
ent situation is dangerously uncer
tain begins to be reflected by the
prices of international stocks npon
the London and Continental ex
changes.
Later news to the 2nd of Septem
ber, represents that the Turks vol
untarily abandoned their position
on the right bank of Morava and
took new positions on the left bank.
The battles reported from Belgrade
are either wholly fabricated, or gross
ly exaggerated.. It is reported that
the Rnssian officers drive the Servi.*
ans to battle when necessary, as no
toriously it often is, with pistol and
sabre and shoot down the laggards
remorsely. It is not surprising then
that it is reported Russian officers
in the front meet their deaths by
other hands than the Turks.
Gov. Hendricks made a telling
speech at Shellyville, Indiana, on
the night of the 2nd inst We will
notice it at length in oar next.
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Not a Candidate.—A friend says
he was asked by Hon. S. F. Gove,
yesterday, to request us to say that
he was not a candidate for Congress
or for anything else just now, but
good crops and a living. Sensible.—
Telegraph and Messenger.
Messrs. James, Hilly or and Fry,
are the democratic nominees for the
legislature in Falton connty.
The Central railroad is going to
put on a fast train to run from Savan
nah to Atlanta in thirteen hours.
The Atlanta 1'imes says: The
Agricultural Congress will be held in
Philadelphia on tho 12th, 13th and
14th of September. Delegates ap
pointed by the Georgia Shite Agri
cultural Society and the Georgia
State Grange to this Congress will
leave Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon
next, the 5th of September for Phila
delphia.
The Griffin News says: Dr. J. H.
DeVotie, pastor of tho First Baptist
Chnrch in this city, happened to a
very painful accident last Tuesday.
He has been visiting some planting
friends in Meriwether, and in at
tempting to cross a farm fence, fell,
breaking his left shoulder.
The Democrats of the Columbus
Senatorial district have nominated
D. C. Cody.
Heniy W. Hilliard announces him
self as an independent candidate for
Congress in the Sixth District.
At the primary election in Butts
county recently Mr. Thomas Hark-
ness was nominated for the Senate
f lover Mr. B. W. Collier by a majority
of sixteen votes.
Mr. T. B. Cabaniss has been nom
inated for the Senate in the 22d Dis
trict—composed of the counties of
Pike, Monroe and Bibb.
Rockdale Democrats held their
primary election on last Saturday for
the selection of a candidate for the
Legislature. Tho majority rule hav
ing been adopted, no nomination was
made and the race is open for all as
pirants.
Cttkious.—In this city there are
eight Confederate soldiers who lost
their right legs in the late war. In
this vicinity, including Augusta and
Edgefield county, S. C., there are
thirty-five ex Confederates with the
right leg gone, lost in the army.
Just now we cannot recall a single
men who lost his left leg. In the
loss of arms the proportion seems to
be about equal in the loss of right
and left arms.—Constitutionalist.
Min Mittie Monghaa, of Macon, is
you.
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Religious revivals are the order of
the daj and night iu Stewart ooiuity,