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mim mim . ..VtJ/r^VVvnir ts-rt*V ’ .<-?*&£' va ' " " ' *»> ssamm THAT I AM ITTLA {UABTKBS Far ibfc HpfcretU U|kifail*lac WHITE IW’G MACHINE Ifambtr, aim, Dm! 1 carry i qpleilU Marie of General Merchandise, Fine Liquor*. Tobaccos, Cigars, 0(9. 4 ran tsS pctcf mj roods before boyiag ebnthtre. LAWYERS Z. J. ODOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ^ > . JiLBAXT, OA. ¥ , OoUectfoot. Urn.or smsll. a spreUllr. WUI at- Orel I'HglOy reaU tadpre eolroaed to bisi MT. T. JOXtS, JESSB W. WALTRJtS, JONES ft WALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. ’ OBf# ever Ostia* Railroad But •■IWJ Lott Warren, ATTORNEY AT LAW t ALU ANY. GA. DOCTORS* -.1. HOULES. Drs. Holmes & DeMo3s, ALSAXr, a GEORC • Mra aol laboretory orer Fast OOre, aaahlaflsa •rare. may X, isn-lj W. A. STROTHER, It D. ALBANY, GEORGIA. Office over Gilbert's Ore Store. AB oaders laft at «ba Ore, 8ure.nl itretre peaafs Dr. E.W. ALFBIEND, LT tead.rabiCaerrkea.lD Ibeea- l£ladinJnl*Sj!o£*> HOTELS The Old Reliable B4fI$NES HOUSE lln SI., Albaaj, Ga., A MONTH guaranteed. 312 a day at bone made by the indox truxjft. Capital nr* required; w* •rat work ter us tfena at »ny- tbing eh». The aerlt I* llgftf and plea.<int, and sorb as a.*CVrty Ontflt and Vo*btb«iiar. Tho~* already at work are iajtaf mp lar«e ms of aaner. Addrru TRUK A (JO, «G«u Main« anglt-IJ NEWS. By EVANS & WAHEEN.} Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia. {$2.00 Pcr/'nrci. ES-Vol. 37, No. 7. } 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!’’ HEADQUARTERS IX SAVAXXAH, FOR Bananas, l*inc Apples, Cocoanuts, Oranges, Lemons, AXI> AM. KINDS OF— Also ill Slock a FULL LINE of GREEN AND DRIED fSUITS. ;e or „ its! 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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. in irtlliittilvBn^ liiiililiii”, ii|u>tjir.4. Will cut t*d makiM'OTls, I'aitla nml W-d.s in aiyto and is ch«n* as any ln*u-** in tl,;* siai*-*. I fccc|» always ti <ikI .■ full iim «»l"CWt*ll*a. Come aihl uxat.iitii* »uy {( n.«» l«;i*o your S)«riii£ .Suit* 11 iaili- right .tw;«v. U«*sjti<fil'iiUv, O. J. FAKKIXGTON. lucV-vir j 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. 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