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ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNK 10. 1S80.
i NEW SERI ES-Vol. 14, No. 24.
An Raspy, Read before tlin lin
ker Comity Agricultural
Society, by .Indue
•l|io. O Perry.
Why arc the agricultural classes of
the South poor ami dependent ? Ami
what course of action should lie adop
ted and B&|jiiad,Uiat_ would insure
llieir prospFrfly 'and indcpendcnec.
which is tlicir birthright.
In discussing a sulijcct like lids,
where the range is so broad, I can
only touch briefly on the tnorc im
portant’features of the subject. This
subject is one of rcry great impor
tance to the-farming classes and com
munities throughout the world.—
Many tons of paper and many gal
lons of ink has been consumed, while
tjtojtcst miuds of the nation has been
exorcised tfpon "this stibjeet. Time
after, Ij me Itavc those evils been point
ed out, and time after time remedies
bare been suggested, but down to the
presentTimcliiit little has becii done
in a practical way which has tlic ef
fect of advancing the interest and
welfare of-lhc farming population of
tjie j^outh in any considerable degree.
At they were ten years ago, so diet-
arc to-day, only, in many instances,
in a ranch worse condition. There
is something radically wrong some
where. The laborer is worthy of his
hire, but where this time is applied
to tlic farmers of the South, whether
worthy or not, I am sure they do not
receive just and fair compensation
for their labor. Whatever may he
said by the fancifti) of the pleasures
of country life on the farm, of the
green Acids, the grand forest, decked
all over with bright and beautiful
trees and flowers; of the golden har
vest, with its fields of waving grain :
of thc'ainging birds, of the tinkling
bells and browsing kinc; of tlic rip-
pling-rills and rushing brooks, etc.,
etc., the farmer’s life is one of toil,
endless toil. The farm is not a gar
den of Edcu; nor is the farmer an
Adam
TEETHINA.m
menus rsarauBi)
necessity is ll:c mother of slavery.—
The fanner being ill debt becomes an
easy prey lo tlic dcqler in tlic neces
saries of lire. lie is obliged io buy
on credit. To get Ibis credit lie must
give a mortgage lien on all lie has.—
In this way lie becomes bondman of
the dealer. He must liny all bis sup
plies from this particular dealer, for
lie can only be the bondman of one
dealer, lie must buy at just such a
price as liis dealer may Impose.—
Whether it lie one, two, or three hun
dred per cent, he cannot help him
self. lie is bound, lie is cut otf
from all the advantages of competi
tion in trade. He must pay just such
a price as Hie conscious or policy ol
bis dealer may suggest, lie has no
option iu the matter. He must pay
whatever l.e is charged. This is one
feature ft the transaction, lie gels
his supplies during the year. Early
in the tall his mortgage lien matures,
and must be met, at least be must
carry iu all liis cotton. I.et it lie ap
plied to tlic payment so far ns it will
go. Ilis cotton is turned over to the
dealor, and then be has no further
control of the matter. He then hc-
cpnie* tlic victim of the speculator.—
liis cotton is sold at some price, lie
does not know liotv much, and if lie
docs know it makes but little ditfer-
cnco. He has no power to help him
self. Ilis cotton must be sold for
wlint it will bring, or liis mortgage
will be foreclosed, and he will be
turned out of house and home, with
himself and family beggars in the
land. The sharp speculator having
become well acquainted with this
state of affairs, begins now his man
ipulation, so tlic poor farmer’s cottoii
goes otf at a price which is ruinously
low. lienee it is iu this way of con
ducting the farm. The farmer must
submit to the very highest price in
obtaining bis supplies, which is a
great hardship indeed. But when he
goes to pay for liis supplies which he
used in making his cotton,' lie is then
compelled to submit to the very low-
lee for his cotton crop, which
enough, Jjut when the two are
lied, they form an clement
sooner or Later must consume
It is like a two-edged sword,
lig both ways ami parting the
and marrow. The farmer who
lies this policy must be poor all
fe. A log-house must be his
ling. Coarse and hard fare
be liis food. Cheap and coin-
clothes must be his raiment, and
work must be his doom for and
ng the term of his natural life.—
as sold his birth-right for a mess,
[otage, and bondage shall be bis
For sale by
W. II. GILBERT, AGT, A CO.
/. E. A II. E. IVELilf. ,
k to *•«->. ,nr.otr tatmy
la jour own locality. So
V-OMW do 00 WcH u
Many male more thin
*nrk. Yui ft -
rent* U» 12 sa boar bydevulio* four nttrimp
r r» time I* tbe tonim*m II rutf • nothin* to- try
l«iim Nothing lit* it for r»#»«y makltr
o«ro*m4hlfare. Breirere plraaaolMd atrial 1
Ik.sUM.. KreitrT.tr yoo want u. rarer all Aar'
I It boat paying boat Deal l.-for*: Iha public, a-bd r
iuur vi4r**« nod •* will rnl you full jnrtietila
and private i«m» ft**-, sample* worth fl »h-» fit-;
von ran thm make up four m!n<l f**r younrfir, MU
4rr««vEolCiv£»MIV»Ojf A ro., F.,rU*id, Malar
nn«l«-lF
TOKAY’* HPRCiriC MKDICIXK.
THADK MARKTWirratKn-TRADI MARK
dlih lUrnr-
Rr. An an foil in*
, remedy for S*ro>
} Inal Wnaknraa,
Hpmtlorrbn,
r, isassss
, fallow, an a an*
fjuroce of Hrlf-
•ifbii lCHtm* takim
vrml LaaaHodr. Pain in turn Rack, Itimnew of VI*.
ion, Pranaatnrr <J*4 A*r, »nd aaaay otbrr diaraaea
that lead to I aaa oitr or tmm umption, and a prr wv
turntararno Ad-Fall paatknlam Iu o*r pam|d4n
wklrb wn dr*lr« tnaand frnr by mail ^Trwtrtf m*
MPTbn Jtperlir Medici nr i* anldi*/ alt dnigxieta a
91 nrr pnrkur, or >ii (wkim lor V», or will Ik
wal 9m* by mail oo meciptof tbn moorr. My a<|e
diwuiz THE OKAY **
, Mrrhanlr’aWork. Act
Jpdloti in Albany and t-fery wbrre
*lal*.
k A Wia-IK In 7our own 1
P capital riakeif. Yvicauiiie tin !»«*-
k flfnem a trial nithoot r*|>nvr. The
llnwt. opportunity rrer oflirred for thorn
I willing to work. You nwmld try noth*
■in* rlar until you are tor y*tr**lt what
y roucan do at the Ui*lr*eJ* we otter.
No room to explain here. You cat
derate all your Hate o- only your irpare time to tlw
laiiineu.a»i make grrst ;>ay tor every Lour that
yon work. Women raxke a* nw h aa wen. «end
f yfapotlal private trnn« and porticelara, nhlcli »•
mall free. outfit free. Imn't rurnplaln of bani
tlnae* while you have auch a chance. Addrcaa If
If ALLETT A CO, Pori land, Maine. au*!* ly
ICE! ICE! ICE
W. E. & It. J. CCTLIFF,
ICE DKAI.EKS,
A sset NCKlbo >-re..n npmnt. An-r 11... i-
redptaoTCir Loadlul^ wo will act) ml low price*
at bllowa:
100 lb. Tickets (delivered as want
ed) 7ft
fiO lb. Tickets I <10
10 Ilis. and upwards.,™. It, ids.
Retail s
tlFF
■)au« U|ioii which the fmindatiou
lociety, with all its rainiliirations.
must have its resting place. Remove
this liase and all things pertaining to
the human family niu-t luttleand tali,
and tlie Inimaii rare would soon be
taine extinguished from.the earth.—
ilieii, if all this be true, and I pre-
sume.ils truth would not be ques
tioned, why do the fanning classes
occupy the humble ami insignificant
position which they have always oc-
tipird in Ibis land of boasted free
dom ? Is it for lai k of niiuihers ?—
Surely not, for they out number all
other classcs by a large majority.—
But while tlii* is a fact, but very lit
tle legislation is bad for their heiieiil
as a class, and one of llieir 'own class
is yffyf fehlom seen among the Icgis-
lato/s of the State or nation. All the
m>M ieVj' ofGovcrnnient is controll
ed and directed by men who have no
interest iu common with them. All
flic voice they have in the nflairs of
government i* to cast their ballots for
tnen whose thought and interest is
entirely different from tl.eir own.—
Then, under this slate of things, it
would he foolish to expect that the
interest of the farming class should
he guarded anti cared for, when they
have no representation in Dm Slates'
and nations’ councils to make their
wants known. It scents lo me that
it is getting about time that this little
matter should be looked into. Al
though being much greater Hi ntiui-
’"fliers, and being engaged iu an occu
pation, the importance of which
much greater than allotlicr interests
put together, the fostering eare of
Government is seldom thrown
around the interests of the Itiriniu
lasses. The lavish hand of the Gov-
rnuient always drops its blessings in
some other direction. Wccome now
to the question, Why arc theagrieul
tural classes of tjie .South poor and
ilcpendent? It is because they have
pursued a system of operations in
the past that has involved them iu
debt, nml they are still pursuing the
same policy ami are consequently
kept in debt. The policy of plnntlii
large crops of cotton lo the exclusion
of other crops, and the keeping of the
corn crib and smoke bouse in the
West, can have but one result—that
of keeping the country poor and
poorer.
It has been said that necessity is
the mother of invention. It. tnighfl
be said with equal truthfulness, Unit
e are brought now to the second
ion, at the heading of this arti
Which course of action should
[uirsucd by tlic farming class
It would insure pros|>erity and
.tendenre, which is llieir birlh-
? The evils attending the op-
ons of Southern agriculturalist
been to a certain degree set
iu this article, in answer to the
question. But to point out a
ical remedy, and one that the
people would lay hold of and adopt,
is decidedly another thing. Many
-tiggcslions have been made, and
imirli gratuitous advice given. It
lias been suggested by a friend .hail
ing from Dawson and signing his
name “Hotspur,” in a very able arti
cle on this subject, that the question
of unity of action be agitated atiioiq
the farmers of this section. Now, i
unity of action could be secured, then
all other troubles could be managed
at once. But the nature of the occu
pation of the faemers is such, and I la-
lack of disposition lo form any tiling
like co-operative bodies among them
selves, Seem to forbid any hope iu
that direction. It is presumed that
every farmer knows the status of hi
own nflairs, and it is natural to sup
pose that lie will act so as to secure
the greatest benefit to himself. He
has read line after line and page after
page upon this subject, until it lias
become an old story without point nr
profit. Nevertheless, with a full
knowledge of this fact, 1 will add a
little more of the gratuitous advice.
I see no wav out of the difficulty ex-
pt iu the plan of i ntctisive fartoin
It has been demonstrated beyond a
doubt, and by nearly every farmer,
that the extensive plan of farmqi
under the present system of labor,
and on the credit system for supplic
is a positive failure. It is a fact that
all will admit. Then why pursue a
policy that we know before band will
surely fail. Ifwcfails on tlic other
plan it will only be a failure, and
will not lie attended with so much
expense. But once adopted, it will
not prove a failure, but will lie nsue
cess beyond our expectations,
know ol a lew men who have been
running tlicir farms on the intensive
plan, and livery one have succeeded,
and are now prosperous and entirely
independent. Anil what is a little
strange in connection with those
farmers of whom I have spoke, they
are making tlicir farms more iiiten
sive every year, with hotter results.—
As they contract tlicir operations
tlicir net profits increase. The nc
profits of tin: farm is all we desire,
and any plan that will secure the
greatest amount of net profit, this is
the plan to pursue. Ia;1 the old big
planlalion go. Make it n pasture for
stock of all kinds, nnd see to it Hint
plenty of stock of the best breeds is
placed upon it. This will enable you
to increase the compost heap, und
this will enrich the soil of the little
farm, mid very soon the yield of I In-
little farm will lie more than that til
the old plantation which von am non
worrying over trying to keep soul
anil body together, and the expense
of running the little farm will In-
omparativcly small, so you can take
all the proreeds and apply lo the li
quidation of the old debt, nml very
soon this old debt wliieh has been
hanging over you like n pall for so
many years will ho removed entirely.
You will then he a Iree man. No
terrors of the mortgage lien will dis
turb your rest nt night. You will be
able to pay easlt for all you buy.—
■ laving the money in your pocket you
can secure all the ad vantages of com
petition iu trade. You will then be
able lo control your own cotton, and
will be able to take advantage of the
best price. You can say to the btly-
or, pay my price. The old log-house
will give wav lo the neat frame-
building, with all appointments for
convenience and comfort. The hard
pan fare (Imcon and corn bread) will
disappear, and your table will lie
supplied with the best. The old suit
of clothes will lie seen no morn and
gootl ones will take their place.—
Your children will he sent away and
educated, nnd will he enabled there
by to take their places in the best so
ciety of the land. Your own mind*
will lie improved, for then you will
have time to read. Your sons and
daughters will cease to he drudges,
but will occupy the places to which
they belong. Farm life will then lie
pleasure, and votir sons will take
up your occupation when you lay it
down. The whole scene will be
changed, The country will bloom as
the rose, and will he lovely to behold.
You, the sons of toil, will then re
ceive the legitimate share of yoitr
own labor. You will not bo com
pelled again to barter away your
birth-right for a mess of potage. The
whole country will be blessed nnd
happy, and the tiller of the soil will
lory in his occupation. All this,
and more, in my opinion, ran be
brought about by a general system of
intensive farming.
Views of Senator David Davis.
F.XPRKfiSKIl IX A LKTTEB TO ORVILLE
H. BROWN I NT., EX-SECRETARY OF
THE INTERIOR.
Permanent prosperity and frater
nal fellowship arc only to tic attained
by silencing sectional strife. Faith
ful adherence to the constitution and
amendments, strict observance of the
laws iu conformity therewith, nml
equal rights and equal protection for
cvery citizen ill every part of the re
public will soon end discords. Any
encroachment over (lie respective lim
its of federal or state governments
upon the distinctive domain of the
other involves danger to the whole
body politic. The demand by thc
adherents of one of tlic grent parties
for a strong government means sub
stantially ciu1tr.Tli7.cd government,
destructive of linme-riilc in the states.
Carried to a logical conclusion, such
a cliange would finally overthrow
the republic. If the limitation ol'
two terms in the presidency hereto
fore universally accepted be destroy
ed, the wav to a self-perpetuating
presidem-v will be opened l>y the use
and abuse of the enormous public
patronage. Break down Ibis barrier
and an end of Hie experiment of re
publican government, looms up dark
ly as the cost of a federal concession.
The rapid growth of corporate pow-
r and the malign infiiiencc it excrls
liv combinations oil national nnd stale
legislatures is a well-grounded cause
of alarm. - A struggle-is impending
ill tlic near future between this over
grown power nml the people iu an
unorganized condition for control of
the government. Neither laws nor
commissions created under-them will
effectually reform the glaring abuses
of I lie civil service. An honest exec
utive, bent on real reform, has abun
dant authority to make it ellectivc.
.Subsidies iu every form are sources
of corruption ami ought to he forbid
den. The remaining public lamb
should be sacredly reserved for cul
tivators of tlie soil. The existing ta
riff is a confused mass of incongrui
ties nnd monopolies created by spe
ini legislation nml open to noiislnnl
fraud on the revenue. A revision,
which shall lie at once searching ami
fair, is needed and should be prompt
ly made. The rapid extinction of the
public debt is to lie desired. Tin 1
public expenditures should he great
ly reduced. The ballot-box should
he the safeguard of the republic.—
Elections ought to lie exempt from
the presence of any menacing force
and he free from the contamination
of corrupt returning boards.
Woman’s Wisdom.
‘She insists that it is more important
that her family shall lie kept in full
health, than that she should 'have all
I lie fashionable dresses and styles of
the limes. She therefore secs to it, that
each member of her family is sup
plied with enough Hop Bitters, nt the
first nppenrnncc of any symptobis of
ill health,-lo prevent a fit of sickness
with its attendant expense, care nml
anxiety. All women should exercise
tlicir wisdom iu Ibis way.”—New
Ilavcu i'nlhidium,
The republican slates mid territo
rics of (he North arc three to 011c
against a third term before a noini
nation, nml a nomination settles noth
ing; it only gives the people elbow
room and a choice,—Springfield Re
publican.
Athens Banner: Mrs. T. A. Burke
received yesterday one thousand dol
lars from the Knights nml l,adics of
Honor. This makes six thousand
dollars licit she has received from tho
societies Unit her husband belonged
to.
The slimmer resorts of North Geor
gia nre dusting about, nnd fixing up
for tlic summer campaign, (lalnosn
comes to the fi'onl with numerous
attractions.
TAGMAOE ON POLITICS,
Anil Those Who Engage Therein
riiK mscoiiRsE ok the iiev. t. Hewitt
TAI.MAOE IN THE TAHKIINAI'LE,
BROOKLYN, \. V. ON HITNIIAY,
RAY 211, ON liKsl-oTIsftl IN
EOLITH'S—Ills VIEWS
THEREON.
“1 was free-born.”-—The Arts, 22,
tt.
So, seventeen hundred years be
fore Thomas .lell'ersoii wrote his dc-
hiralion of Aiiierlcnii'iiidnpciidcucc,
some |officinl brag bad been telling
how that liy eminent services, or
through lnr|(c compensations,-lie had
purchased his liberty, wlien I’anl, be
thinking himself of the tact that Tar
ns, the place of his untivity, had
Iiccii inmiiimUtcd by Antonins, re
sponds to the bragndocio in these
words prncllrnlly: “My freedom
dates further hack than yours; lam
not a liberated slave; my cradle had
110 shackle on the rockers; my moth
er was not n -erf; I was free-born.”
That is descriptive of all the populn-
ion horn in Hits country during the
last seventeen years, nml is true of all
Ihr while population ever horn in
Ibis country. And yet the attempt
onslmitly is being made to manacle
1 he people. Chains are being forged
for our slavery.
I speak to you this morning on the
Icspotisiii of American politics, and
how we are to break that despotism.
We are on the eve of tlie great Pres
idential iiominalions. The troops are
athcring for Chicago and Cincinlin-
i. The air is hot with political im
precation. We are all being whipped
into line as fur ns is possible. One of
three offour pairof spectacles we arc
to wear, or sutler for it. Tlie politi
cal guillotine is rolled out,nml the
■cealeilrants arc shown llie knife for
their necks and the basket into which
their heads will probably roll. The
managers of the political “machine”
are tightening the screws nnd mak
ing more firm tlic cranks. Delegates'
arc having a stout rope of instructions
put around tlicir necks, and have in
timated to them that if they vote con
trary to the behests of tlicir party llie
rope will tighten until tlicir facilities
for respiration may be seriously in
terfered with. Shadrae, Mc-hac and
Abeduego arc commanded to bow
down to the images set up, or be
roasted in the furnaces seven times
heated. Every .towir and village and
cilv und neighborhood has what is
called, iu old-fasliioncd English par
lance, iu “boss,” ami every state its
larger “boss,” and then, nil these
“bosses” meet together and elect a
“rent national “boss/” Against this
despotism of American politics I ut
ter a protest, and demand that at
convention and nt ballot-box, und
everywhere, without hindrance and
without liialcdictiou, men shall vote
as they think best, God tlicir only
judge.
First, if we would resist this des
potism of Americau politics, wc must
refuse to believe every four years
that everything is nt stake. Ifour
institutions are so rickety that every
four years they arc in danger ot
siuash-iip, the sooner they go to pieces
the better, and we have a’ government
iihstitutcd which has in it some of
the elements of durability. I remem
ber ten Presidential elections, and
ach election the leaders of parties
told us, with vchcincncu ghastly and
terrific, that everything was in dan
ger of ruin. As near as .1 could cal
culate we were about a quarter of an
inch from the eternal precipice. Men
went to the ballot-box tremulous
with omens. Carriages were scut lo
bring aged voters and invalids. At
partv expense they were brought, anil
patriots, who by strange coincidence
at tlic same time'were candidates for
offiec, lifted these invalids out of bed
into wagons with pillows anil mat
tresses, and supported them to the
hallot-hox while they dropped for
the very life of the country their pre
cious votes, I admit there have been
pivotal elections on wliieh everything
turned; hut more than half the time
there has been nothing at stake lint
official patronage. This disposition
lo magnify peril anil pork before the
eyes-of the nation on wires the skele
ton of danger every four years halts
our Aiiicrieaii commerce and demor
alizes everything. What do western
mri'chniits want to conic to buy
oods for in New York if next nn-
111 mu the land is to lie a howling wil-
lernoss? Merchants in all styles of
business will tell von that every Pres
idential year is a dull year. Every
thing is unsettled. What do men
want to liny plows and harrows for if
before they get their crops in, accord
ing to the intimation of sonic, wc arc
lo hare a hlood v Ca'sarou the throne,
who shall have vultures and buzzards
caged as ordinary pets, and, as these
men intimate, may turn the Senate
chamber into n coliseum where shall
lie llirqwu lo the lions all those who
are opposed to the third term? Or,
on the other hand, a paralytic Presi
dent who will pension the Confeder
ate Generals and reinstate American
slavery, anil let the Honlli miserably
cat up the North ? Why, the political
orators are getting out llieir old
speeches that they made iu the Fre
mont campaign, and in the Lincoln
campaign, and iu all the campaigns
since, for the speeches do just ns well
for the one campaign as for the oth
er, for wo arc always in imminent
peril, and always just going to ruin,
and, therefore, they do just as well
now as they did forty years ago.—
When I was a lad eight years of age
I heard the first political speech of
my life. 1 stood hnrcfoolcd in the
broiling sun, at Somerville, N. .1.,
ami heard a western orator show me
conclusively that if William Henry
Harrison instead of Marlin Van Hu
ron was elected President of the Unit
ed Slates, there would he 110 use of
my living to grow up, for there
would be 110 country lu livo in I A
few months ago 1 went to Boston to
lecture in Music hall, and I heard in
the ante-room that night that a cele
brated orator from tho west was to
speak iu Fanciiil hall; so l hurried
through my work and hastened down
to Fmienil hall, the cradle of liberty,
and I found the cradle that night was
rocked by the very same speech lliat
I hail heard in tlie days of my boy
hood, anil that llie country was iu the
Hitmc imminent peril ns lorly years
ago, anil the only dilfcrcnro I could
observe was that in tlie one speech it
was William Henry Harrison, and in
tlic other it was Benjamin F. Butler!
Some of us remember when llenrv
Olav and .lames Iv. Polk were eon-
Instnuls for the Presidential chair.—
When llcury t'lay was defeated, piy
father, pale and sick with the news,
sal down and said all was lost. He
had felt the magnetism of that splen
did Koutiiekinu whose iiume I can
not pi'oiiouece without enthusiasm
tingling from scalp in heel. But was
everything lost? Why, tliaPeleclion
gave ns the Texas domain, rich be
yond all agricultural estimates, nnd
opened the dodr lor annexation alter
annexation, until now, when llie wind
blows from the west onr national
ting dips iu the Atlantic, nml when
the wind blows from the east llie flag
dips in the Paeilir. We were told
that tlic existence of the country de
pended upon Mr. Lincoln's second
election to the Presidency. After his
second inauguration lie died, and
Andrew Johnson put the ndmiiiislrn
tion in just the opposite direction,
and wc still live! Last autumn we
were told the prosperity of tlie state
of New York depended upon the
election between Mr. Robinson and
Mr. Cornell. Wc change officers;
hut I do not see any very wonderful
change in the prosperity of the stale.
The sun rises about the same time it
did last yearthis mouth. The lides
come In with about equal strength.
My Christian fellow-eitizcus, while
the coming election shall have great
er or less importance attached to it,
let us quit this crisis business, and be
lieve that God built this country lo
stand. 1 have made up my mind that
tip- Almighty capacity to keep this
milioii on the march of prosperitv
does not entirely depend upon either
(he Chicago or I he Cincinnati con
vention. II there ever was a time
when we could atlord to have a calm,
deliberate, unlevered Presidential
election, this is one. There is no crisis.
Between mi) two of fifty good men
named for the Presidential chair
there will not he a half per cent
cliange in your taxes, nor the thous
andth part of an inch variation in
your national prosperity. The only
diflcrence will be that if the Demo
crats conic into power the Republi
cans will have to get out, whereas if
the 'Republicans stay in power, then
their men will keep ilieir places. But
in many eases there may not even be
that difference, for professional poli
ticians forecast the result, and they
clinngc tlicir political sentiment in
time'to save their fortunes! A good
sailor sets the sails according to the
direction of the wind. A journalist,
not far from where I stand, told me
that after there had been a change iu
a certain administration he went into
a place where there were many em
ployes of the government, and lie ex
pected to find new incumbents, but,
lo! they were the same old incum
bents ; and when lie asked liow it
was they told him that just at the
time tiie administration happened to
change they changed tlicir senti
ments, nnd did it “conscientiously!”
The lion of our nalion’s strength is
covered all over with green boltlc-
ffics, that arc sucking the life-blood
out of its neck aud flunks, and on the
first Tuesday iu November tho old
lion may terribly shake himself, and
there may be a new set of green bot
tle-flies, but more hungry, to take
their places. Do not stand agape ns
to what is to come next. Go and at
tend. to your honest business. Do not
believe the despotic political bureaus
which tell you that the country is in
danger of going to ruin. It is no
more in danger of going to pieces
than tlic moon is in danger of going
to pieces.
Again. If wc want to resist the
despotism of American politics wc
must realize that neither party is im
maculate, and wc must judge for
ourselves as to ivho Is the best man
for official position. Do not vote for
tlic man merely because your party
nominates hint. To show how much
better one party is than the other, I
put side liy side the Louisiana re
turning board ami the political
Hellenic in Maine last autumn, the
Belknap frauds of the one party, the
Tweed larcenies of the other. There
is a diflcrence between men; but be
tween the two parties as parties there
is just the difference as between fifty
ami half a hundred. Both parties
need radical reformation, and by the
time they are fully reformed perhaps
one or both of them will he reformed
out of existence. But you say, “Is
there no test? are we to have nopref-
crenees?” Ah! so far from saying
that, I declare that the man who re
fuses to vote, or neglects to vote, is
not worthy of American citizenship.
But do not he submissive to parly
wire pullers, do not go kneeling he'-
l’ore demagogic behests.
The question with a vast multitude
of people is, who ought lo he the
next President of the United States?
I remark, in the first place, he ought
to he a man of established moral
character. It. is a matter of congrat
ulation that the most of the candi
dates on both sides are moral men.-
Some of ns can look hack to the time
when for Gubernatorial or Presiden
tial positions men were named who
were libertines and drunkards and
gamblers. One of our Vice-Presi
dents was sworn in drunk. A United
State Secretary of State was once
carried from his office iu a beastly
state of intoxication, l'lic American
Congress again anil again lias been
disgraced by men who could nqt
walk straight, yet pretending to rep
resent Delaware, Illinois and New
York. I am glad that now the ques
tion of morals comes into tlic polili-
;al discussion. I care not how iiinch
talent a man has if he is bad. (
us is worse than stupidity if it move
in the wrong direction. A nation of
homes needs over it a man who ha
regard for the sanctity of the domes
tic circle. A nation of young men
looking lip for example needs over
it a 111:111 of undisputed integrity. A
man who cannot govern himself can
not govern forty million. Our
churches, our universities, our
schools, aud our homesteads must
vote for good morals. Moreover,
our coming President must lie a re
specter of the Christian religion. 1
apply no religious lest; hut a coun
try discovered by a Christian man
and settled by the pilgrim fathers
nnd the Huguenots nnd men of other
nationalities who, persecuted for
tlicir sentiments, came here and took
possession of this continent iu (lie
name ol the God of heaven—this nil
lion must linve over it a respecter «
the Christian religion, 'l'lic founds
lion of our institutions is not, ns Irb
Iiccii sometimes stated, the constitu
tion of tho United States, hut the Bi
ble. Without that, Republican insti
tutions arc nil everlasting impossi
liillty. Our first President was a
Christian, nnd the coining Presided
must at least be a respecter of reli
gions institutions.
. 1 go further niul say our coming
president must have ii heart large
enough to lake in all the slates and
territories. If lie lie a western man
Slid despise the sea coast, nml chiefly
anxious to change the ynnimcrcinl
centre—if he be an eastern man and
be is disposed to denounce all the
west as in furor of repudiation—if
lie lie a southern man nnd lliiiik only
of the north ns nu ignoble generation
—if lie he a noi l hern man nnd lie
wants to keep the old grudge up
up against the south and wants’ to
tight over again battles that worcsel-
tlod seventeen years ago—that iii’an
must not ho. hacked by conventions
or hv the hallot-hox. The enuntn
needs a bigger president Ilian ever
before because the country is bigger.
When Washington took his sent as
charioteer he bail only thirteen cour
sers to drive. Now ilicroare thirty-
eight, and some of them are very
skittish! Of course with the wire hit
of the telegraph they can he guided
much easier Hum one might suppose;
tint still there are increased responsi
bilities. Three-fourths of this centu
ry has hern taken up with sectional
strife. Now let us have twenty years
for something else. I/'t tlie political
orators get. out their oldspecrhcs Ihal
discussed dead issues, and rend them
changed into white sheets on 'which
they shall write one good, rousing
speech about the moral, or commer
cial. or agricultural, or mining pros
perities that arc now aboutlolnirstiii
upon us. Do not let tlic despotism ot
polities make you believe there arc
one, nr two, nr three, or four men
that can save this nation. There are a
hundred that can save it. In' oilier
winds it is saved..The old ship of stale
lias got out into calm waters, and ii
docs not require any very skillful
navigation. The flowers of this spring
time have covered up tlie northern
and southern graves, and let no hoof
of contention trample the flowers, lu
pulpit, and platform, aud iu conven
tion, aud at hallot-hox, let us plan
amity. Why do wc want to fight au\
longer? Is life so long we are in a
hurry to iret rid of a surplus'or it ? I*
tlie sword bcticr lhan tlic wheat-cra
dle? Can wc not raise rich pasturage
except l»v mouldering human bones,
and tlic real rajn of liiiinnti carnage
I pray God there may be no more iisi
for tlic musket in this country except
for holiday turnouts. I pray God
that the time may hasten on* when
your navy-yards' will be museums
containing ships that were used in
barbaric ages wlien nations settled
their quarrels by slaughter. I prax
tlic time may come when the eagle
shall be taken otf our coin and there,
shall be substituted the dove, the’
bird of blood giving sway for the
bi rd of the olive-branch. Pcai e once
established, Jet it be established for
ever. I give you, my friends, as a
panacea for all political ills, and a
preventive of all national calamity.-
the Christianization of the people.—
Get their hearts right, and they will
vote right. Have you any idea that
the professed politicians of this day
will lift our country to its high desti
ny? They never did anything hut
get office and make trouble. The
masses of the people rose «tp again
and again, and commanded national
reformation. Professed politicians
got us into the four-years’ war. Did
they get us out of it? No. The peo
ple cafuc and fought out the fight,
and they commanded peace. Pro
fessed politicians agaiu and again
have ruined our American commerce.
Did they ever restore it? No. The
people rose, and, with hard-handed
and. besweated industry, overcame
tlic financial calamities. To the peo
ple, then, wc look, praying Gyd for
their evangelization. Let a practical
Christianity take possession of the
ballot-box, and that will settle illeg-'*'
voting/ Let practical Christianity
take possession of tlic primaries anil
the caucuses, and that will give us
righteous nominees. Let Christian
apology like that which William E.
Gladstone the other day sent to the
Austrian government be tlic key-uote
for H10 settlement of all difficulties
bet jveen men, between states, between
nations. I know that sonic denounce
that apologetic letter of Mr. Glad
stone as weak-minded and as imbe
cile. I pronounce it sublimely Chris
tian. If men can settle tlicir ’difficul
ties by. apology, why not nations?—
Instead of bulicLs and gun-carriages,
and cities on lire, and national mas
sacre, let ns have explanation anil
treaty, and forgiveness and apology.
[A voice—“Amen!” Oh! I believe,
my friends, God lias grand things f'or
tbis nation. Never was it so bright
as it is this morning. The churches
of (iod, instead of being a select car
for a fciv passungers with tender feet
on soft ottomans to ride to heaven iu,
will lie thronged by tlic grent masses.
Tlie Mississippi, tlie Ohio, the Hud
son. rolling on from source to outlet,
will not find, after awhile, an over
tasked workman, or a single wa’stc
place. The morning, laughing on
the eastern const, will give a glad
salutation to evening, waving its red
banner on the western coast. And
agriculture shall bring all its sheaves,
and mining all its precious metals,
and mnuiiluctiirliig all its adroit fab
rics, and art all its pencils and chisels,
and literature all its printing presses,
and commerce alt Us masts, aud reli
gion all its altars and towers, and
tmt them down at the feet of Him on
whose vesture and on whose thigh
is written, “King of kings and Lord
of lords.”
Most High God of Plymouth Rock,
and Banker Hill, and Valley Forgo,
and Appomattox Court-house, pro
tect this nation. I care not who is
president, if God is king. Wlien to
Him from all parts of this land the
doxology shall rise, wc will give
grateful, prolonged, universal, and
triumphant “Amen!’’
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The Derby race at Epsom, En;
Wednesday, was won by “Render."
Tlie prince and princess of Wales,
tlic duke and duchess of Connaught,
llie dukes of Edinburg, Cambridge
nnd Mecklenburg and other promi
nent people were present. Nineteen
horses ran. Lorillard’s “Boreas” was
sixth. Tlic race for the Stanley stake:
was won by “Tristan.” Lorilhird':
chestnut filly, “Pawpaw,”came iu se
cond,
An asylum for aged domestic ani
mal* has just been opened at Goncssc
in France. There are already a cow
:tli years of age, a hog aged 2ft, and an
LS-’year-old goat. The senior mein
her of the happy family, however, is
a iilllle III years of age.
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makiM'OTls, I'aitla nml W-d.s in aiyto and
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IN PRICES!
TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR
which will he large, we will sell the
remainder of our Fall and Winter,
DRY COODS,
HOOTS and SHOES>
HATS, rUOTHtXG, KTC.,
Al prices that will
ASTONISH PURCHASERS.
This is no IDLE BOAST, but »
true statement of facts, that a call
will prove.
Geo. Collier.
THE JOHNSON HOUSE,
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SQUARE MEAL.