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rr HE DAILY SUN.
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j7 rI p A T MORNING OCTOBER 6
Tlic Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger Again.
voters at the polls; and members were
returned, who so decided it to be,
by their votes, admitting Wilkes to his
seat, notwithstanding the so-called “dis
ability’’ and “ineligibility.” And we
entertain not the slightest doubt, if the
true friends of Liberty in the United
States—those who look upon this “ disa
bility ’clause of theXIVth Amendment as
Yi'e clip from the issue of this journal
of the 1st inst. the following article:
judge Stephen* for the Senate.
i looied «** the “<«!?«%■'
pjjmsof Hon. Linton Stephens as its first choice,
£1 “We call upon our Legislature to select a man for
bifili position, who will worthily represent the
•'-tits of Georgia.”
As Judge Stephens is ineligible to this or any oth-
federal State office by virtue of the 3d section of
fbcllffi Amendment, and therefore could not take
his seat in the Senate, if elected, we fail to under
wit l*°w he could, either worthily or in any other
lr»y "represent the State of Georgia” in that body.
To hold the commission of Senator and not be able
I, one vote or utter one word for Georgia’s in
terest*, Is certainly not the common idea of practical
representation, at least. Unless a Senator can vote
ana speak where both count against Radicalism and
its deviltry, of what avail are his talents, or even the
ideality—from the standpoint of, say a united public
bntiiuent—of his election ?
It Judge Stephens could represent Georgia in the
cenaie no man's vote or voice, in or out of the Leg
islature- would bo more gladly placed at his service
t) secure such a consummation than that of the wri
ter of tills at tide. We acknowledge and are proud
cihis splendid abilities. Wo honor his devotion to
what ho conceives to be the truth. Wo know that,
to the core of his heart, be is true to what he deems
Georgia’ 8 rights and welfare, but we none the less
deprecate auy attempt to send him or any other in
eligible man to Washington to cool his heels in the
aufe-chamber of the Senate, and keep the Hon. Zebu-
Ion Vance company in his fruitless endeavors to get
inside. We have had quite enough, aye, too much,
of that sort of folly already.
Upon this article we submit the fol
lowing comments:
In the first place, as heretofore said, we
wish it distinctly known and understood
that we have no favorite candidate for the
United States Senate. We know noth
ing of the views, feelings, or wishes of
Judge Stephens upon the subject. Not
a word in relation to tliis office lia6
passed between us, either directly, or in
directly; though we are brothers, and
brothers linked together by ties asstron
as ever linked brothers together.’ Very
few weeks have passed, for the last thirty
years, in which we have notconferred.per-
sonnlly, or by letter, upon matters of pri
vate as well as publicjnature. During most
of this time sucli conferences have oc
curred daily; and yet upon this subject
not the slightest conference has been had
between us, either in relation to himself,
or any other person, in connection with
the office. This wo state to show the
perfect personal disinterestedness and
unselfishness on our part in all that we
have said, or may say, upon tlie question
of the Senatorship.
We are governed solely, as we believe
he is, and will be, throughout the present
and coming struggle for the rescue and
preservation of the liberties of this coun
try, by principle, and that line of action
on the part of the true men of the eoun
try, which will most surely, and by per
fectly Constitutional instrumentalities,
ultimately achieve the great object in
view.
We, therefore, have nothing to say in
reply to the article of our cotemporary,
except to protest most earnestly against
the principle upon which he places his
opposition to the election of Judge
Stephens, if indeed he should be willing
to accept the position. This principle
excludes quite a number of able and
true Democrats in Georgia, besides Judge
Stephens. Voluntary action upon it, on
the part of the Democracy, necessarly
involves voluntary obeisance to an admitted
usurpation. -
The choice, in our judgment, should
be made upon no such principle as that
stated. Our cotemporary says Judge
Stephens is “ineligible to this or any other
Federal State office by /virtue of tho 3d
section of the 14th Amendment, and
therefore coidd not talc his seat,” &c,
If the Legislature &et upon this as
sumption, will it not be an.oct, and a vol
untary act, of obcisauoe to .that outrage
upon the Constitutional rights of the
people of Georgia, attempted to be per
petrated by Congress in regulating the
qualifications of Federal and State officers?
I- ! this the Middlesex case over
again?
Had the freemen of Middlesex acted
upon the assumption that "Wilkes was
“ineligible?' that the unconstitutional
“disability” attempted to be fixed upon
him, by a corrupt House -of Commons,
was “valid;” or should be so accepted by
them, and voluntarily acted upon, as if it
were “valid;" would English liberty ever
have been rescued from Tory usurpa
tion ? Would not the voters of Middle
sex have,by such au act, clinched the nails
in their own political coffins ? This was
just what the Tories wanted them to do.
This was tho very thing that Chatham
told them never to do ? The creation of
this so-called*'disability,’’or “ineligibility,"
was the “breach in the Constitution;”
that he called upon the voters, not only
of Middlesex, but in all England, “to
rush to" “and repair" “or perish" in the
attempt! We look infinitely more to
the principle involved in this question
than to the election of anyjnan whatever
to the Senate. Personally, "Willies was
no special favorite of Chatham. Per
haps there were fifty, or more, Whigs in
London, that he would have pre
ferred to him. But he stood for
the vindication of a principle in
attempted to be fixed upon Wilkes—will
but pursue the same unfaltering Constitu
tional course of seeking redress, which he
recommended, and the people there pur
sued, that the result with us, in the end,
will be the same, as it was with them.
Was it “folly" in Chatham to re
commend it ? Was it “folly" in the
unfaltering friends of liberty in England
to persue it ?
We, moreover, most respectfully ask,
where is the “folly" of any people .pur
suing it, who have not made up their
minds, voluntarily and of their own ac
cord, to surrender the most inestimable
rights of freemen? With equal respect,
we-say to our cotemporary, that we can
not imagine a more stupendous “folly,"
on" the part of any people, than that of a
voluntary surrender of their rights, with
the view of thereby being better able to
maintain them. A. H. S.
were The entrance to the enclosure of the
armory is flanked by two pieces of artil
lery bearing the following inscription,
sunk into burnished brass “captured
from the British Frigate Confiance, Sep
tember 11, 1811, by Commodore McDo
nough, United States Navy.”
The Commodore and subordinate offi
cers received us with the courtesy that
is so characteristic of those attached to
this branch of service, and to Dr. Joseph
Taylor, of United States Navy, are we
particularly indebted for delecate atten
tions in acting the part of Cicerone, dur
ing our sojourn here. The library of
the Naval School contains about 15,000
volumes.
I must not omit to say that a splendid
collation was served on the boat on her
downward trip, consisting of every luxu
ry that the magnificent market of Balti
more could furnish.
It is the custom of the Naval Academy
to send out practice squadrons during
the summer months, in charge of the
midshipmen, who go on a ernise, either
in European waters, or along the coast
°f the United States and Canada shores,
and in June last, the fleet, consisting of
the ships Constitution and Saratoga, left
on an expedition, aDd to-day this squad
ron returned and entered the harbor, the
Commodore formally forwarding dis
patches and receiving documents from
the Commandor of the fleet, which we
passed as we steamed to the Naval Acade
my wharf. J. N. S.
THE NATIONAL COMMER
CIAL CONVENTION.
The Subject-Discussed—-The Excursion
of the Delegate* to Annapolis as tlte
Guests of tlic Members of tHe Corn
and Wheat Exchange—Interesting
Relics—Tlic Chamber in which Gen.
Washington Surrendered his Commis
sion as Commander-in-Chief of the
American Armies—-The Spot on which
was Composed the Celebrated Verses
Entitled “The Star Spangled Banner”
—The Scat of tho Naval Academy—
Commodore Warden—The Return of
the midshipmen to-day in Charge of
the Practice Squadron from the Sum
mer Cruise.
SUN-STROKES.
BFrom the Ohio Radicals, through
John Sherman, a petition goes to Wash
ington for help to save the State from
the Democrats.
Annapolis, Md., Sept. 27, 1871
Editor Sun: Some two hundred and
eighty delegates are in attendance upon
the National Commercial Convention—
representing twenty-three States. The
Southern and Western States are more
largely represented: than the Northern
and Eastern. The discussions upon the
various subjects submitted are quite ani
mated; not a few of which relate to in
ternal improvement, river navigation,
canals, cotton tax, education, public
lands, etc. At one o’clock, v. M., on the
invitation of the members of the Com
and Wheat Exchange of Baltimore, the
members of the Convention were con
veyed to the wharf of the splendid
Steamer Louisiana, and embarked for
this delightful city, which is invested
with so much historic interest; for it was
here that Genl. Washington, during the
session of Congress that was here assem
bled, resigned his commission as com
mander in chief of the American army,
on the 23rd day of December 1783.
Approaching the warf we dropped anchor
and with curious interest I ventured into
the ancient Senate Chamber, and. stood
upon the spot where 88 years ago, the
“Father of his Country surrendered the
authority that conferred upon him the
direction of all the armies of the infant
nation.” The same contracted gallery
that held the patriots in that eventful
hour, still unchanged, remains, and the
indentical seat, with its high carved back
and crimson upholstery, which was occu
pied by Genl. Mifflin the President of the
Senate, is there, a relic of colonial times.
All the seats of the members, who sat in
that chamber on that grand occasion are
yet there, as memories of the stirring
scenes of the revolution.
A painting representing Washington
in the act of resigning his commis
sion, smaller than the one in
the rotunda at Washington city,
occupies a place on the wall of the Sen
ate Chamber, and the portraits of the
four signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, on the part of Maryland, are
suspended on the wall—Governor Paca,
Chas. Carroll, of Carrollton, Judge
Samuel Chase and Governor Stone.
As our craft moved down Patapsco
River, and as it was gliding into Chesa
peake bay, we were saluted from the
forward deck by one of the heavy tonage
Bremen line "of steamships that was just
leaving port, and was beautifully deco
rated with flags representing the German
Confederation, both steamers in mutual
compliment dipping their colors. We also
passed the famous Fort McHenry, in
which is now being tried by Court Mar
tial, Paymaster Hodge, of United States
Army, Gen. Meade presiding, and in
which many of the Confederates were
confined during the late war. This is
also "noted as the spot near which was
indited the verses that rendered the name
of Key immortal. During the war of
1812, he was taken prisoner at Alexan
dria, and brought in a British steamer
into the waters of Chesapeake bay; it
anchored three miles from the Fort, and
commenced shelling it during the night,
whilst our national ensign was floating
over the Fort, the missels fell thick anil
fast about it, and which was witnessed
bv the poet, from the deck of the man of
-war, and who, upon a slip of paper that
rested upon the top of his hat, composed
“The Star Spangled Banner.” that was
published in the morning papers, and
has been a thousand times republished
in many lands.
Commodore WardeD, who was the
commander of the Monitor during the
naval engagement with the Merrimac, at
Fortress Monroe, in the war between the
States, is at the head of the Naral Acad
emy which numbers 2S0 pupils. The
While the New York officials are
willing to bow all the “wild oats” they
can, they were . not willing that others
should do any sowing of that hind, hence
they suppressed a paper of that name.
BQL. Grant possesses the qualification
to stick np to the friends who do the
dirty work for him. In this line none is
so useful to him as Murphy, of New
York; hence the President declares bold
ly in Murphy’s favor.
In the October number of the
Overland Monthly, Joaquin Miller has a
prose article of some length about Avon
and its proximity. The article is fresh
and readable, even though the ground
has been tramped over a thousand times
or more.
“How easily the State could be
imposed upon,” exclaims the Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania, State Journal. Not?
easily as you seem to suppose. Your
party has determined to “impose” its
candidates upon the State, but look
around and you will see a Democratic
opposition which declares that the State
shall not “ be so imposed upon.”
BQM A Nevada young man who used
to treat and be treated until iie was warn
ed by the mania potu that it was time to
desist, now carries a repeater, and the
general understanding is that he has
promised to shoot the first man that asks
him to drink. No one mentions whisky
in his presence.
The Elmira, New York, Gazette
(Radical) intimates that many delegates
were deterred from attending the Syra
cuse convention by hints of bloodshed.
This is evidently an out-cropping of that
ghostly Ku-Kluxism that is being organ
ized in many parts of the North. Aker
man will have to’apnly the (Enforcement
Act.
JO® 0 * Louisville is. organizing a “society
for the prevention of cruelty to wives.
The gentlemen comprising the society
have evidently forgotten the fate of the
humanitarian who attempted to chastise
a man for beating his wife. He had to
buy a wig the next day, simply because
the wife would not suffer him to mal
treat her affectionate husband.
a constitutional way, and through his y 0 ung midshipmen have elegant new
firmness, and that of the people whose quarters,and a most excellent cornet band
rights were outraged by wsio-pa/fon, the | composed of thirty members afford de-
. ® Z * , lightful music. Forty-five a
acres are em-
prindple was finally, after years of contest, i b ° ace j the naval grounds, which is
fully vindicated; and the liberties of the 1 nothing more than a charming lawn,
people of England were rescued and which is sometimes covered with mid-
preserved. Those true, noble and un- shipmen engaged in croquet amusement
faltering patriots did not perish in their
glorious rush to the breach, aud attempt
to repair it! The breach in the wall of
the Constitution was repaired. The
“fraudulent disability” clause attempted
to be incorporated in the fundamental
law of the Realm, was held to be “nidi
and voi<T i by a majority of tho
An armory containing models of guns
and men of war and other nautical ves
sels, full rigged, together with numerous
ancient flags and standards, tlie trophies
of naval engagements, is located wituin
the campus. A quaint looking piece, re
posing on the green, bears the following
inscription: “One of the cannon brought
to Maryland by the first settlers under
Lord Baltimore,”
The North and South Road has nego
tiated for iron for the first twenty miles!
also for and engine and some cats.
Drummer Harris, a noted Columbus
individual, died Tuesday at the age of
seventy. He had rattled his drum in no
less than five wars.
Mr. Brinkley Babb, an old citizen of
Baldwin county, died on the 26th. Aged
64.
The Putnam county fair begins next
Wednesday and lasts three days.
J. J. Browne, who shot Neal, in Au
gusta, Monday evening, has been com
mitted to await the result of the wound.
The doctors say it will take two or three
days to decide whether or not the wound
is fatal.
Hon. Sam. Barnett, the Georgia State
Agricultural Missionary, illustrated the
beauties of agriculture to the college
boys at Athens yesterday.
There were nineteen deaths in Savan
nah last week, of whom ten were whites.
The Milledgeville Union understands
that L. Carrington will be a candidate
for Clerk of the House.
Repairs on the Macon and Augusta
Road have been completed and the trains
are now running.
A correspondent of the Milledgeville
Union is fully persuaded that-the choice
of the people of Georgia for next Gover
nor is General Alfred H. Colquitt.
The Home Commercial says a number
of the citizens of that place are getting
ready to attend the Atlanta Fair. Rome
folks always were sensible.
The Savannah News says: Templeton
having left there is now no place
of amusement in that city. Did Tem
pleton take the theater away with
him? ?v
At the sale in Savannah Tuesday,
Central Railroad stock, brought 117i
and Southwestern brought 93 and 94.
Savannah rejoices in the proprietor
ship of a conservatory of music.
Mi\ Sparks, of Gwinnett county, killed
sixteen rattlesnakes one day last week,
The Air-Line Eagle is authority for this
story, otherwise it would never have been
believed..
Mr. Barton, who has been usurping the
THE ATLANTA
crime of Justice of the Peace in Athens,
has been deprived of his mantle which
fell upon the shoulders of Gen. Frierson
who the Watchman declares" was duly
elected.
Columbus removes stores from one lot
to another without disturbing the goods,
They are getting “mighty smart” down
there.
Mr. Marion Gabn, of McAUisterville,
fell dead Monday night, from disease of
the heart, it is supposed.
“Georgia promises,” says the New Or
leans Picayune, “to become as noted for
the number of fairs as for her many
miles of railroad and the extent of her
manufactures. No fewer than eight will
be held between the close of Septem
ber and November 21.” It would be
decidedly agreeable to have Georgia noted
on such grounds. The development of
the State is well advertised through the
medium of Fairs, and Georgia ought to
have just as many of them as can be
made creditable.
w. h. ho-wabd.
W. H. HOWARD &
C. H. HOWABD
SON,
The Courier-Journal, in a fit
apparent concern, asks : * ‘ What is to he
said of that loyalty which seeks through
bitterness and misrepresentation to have
its own way, and, failing to get it, pro
poses to go over to the enemy.” Don
knew, indeed ! What have you to say
it since you have tried it in “ New De
parture” doses ?
BSE. Rev. W. H. Milbnm, known
“the blind preacher,” was connected with
the Methodist church until 1864, when
for reason satisfactory to himself, he
severed the connection and united with
the Episcopal church. But an experiance
of seven years has satisfied him that the
step was an imprudent one, for his hap
piness, consequently he has addressed a
letter to Bishop Hopkins, of Yermont, an
nouncing his determination to* return to
the church of his father, the church in
which he was bom and bread. Mr.
Milbum now resides in Indiana, though
his connection has never been severed
from the diocese of Yermont.
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
• ■ ■ • i • - \ -
No. 2 WARREN BLOCK, - - - AUGUSTA, GA.
W E again tender our services In the Warehouse
business, in all its branches, to 4 our old pat
rons and planters generally.
Commission for Selling Cotton,
One and a Quarter PerCent.
AU family supplies ordered will he carefully se
lected by one of the firm, at tho lowest market
prices.
Orders for Bagging and Ties will be promptly
filled, and at the lowest cash price.
Liberal cash advances made on cotton in ware
house. We extend all the facilities offered by Ware
house merchants. Consignments solicited—satis-
action guarantee.aug21w3m
A notice was made in The Sun
yesterday, of a forthcoming volume of
poems by Dr. W. H. Holcombe, of New
Orleans. Here is quite a spirited poem
which will appear in the book. It i& en
titled “Montague the Pilot:”
‘‘Montague! Monlague! fly from your post!
The flames will surround you! the boat wUi he
lost!”
Urgently warning, his comrades thus spoke,
Stricken with terror and stifled with smoke.
Out from the pilot-house clearly there came
Words that »re deathless in beauty and fame,
High o’er the tumult, the rush and the roar:
“I'll stick to my wheel tiU we strike on the shore!”
On went the burning boat, making for land—
Burning, but guided by Montague’s hand.
All cheered as she struck; the flames mounted
higher.
And Montague's post was a column of fire.
The Poet’s a scribe, and enroUs every name
Of hero and martyr, and gives them to fame.
O bravest in peril! O greatest in soul!
j^hon young river-pilot, stand first on my scroll.
A Good Chance
FOB A HOME
I door, in the town of Newnan, in Coweta conn
ty, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER NEXT,
it being the 7th day of the'month, beginning at 1C
o’clock, and continuing until all are sold, my lands
lying in the Fourth District of said county, known
as the
«harber place,
CONTAINING
ONE THOUSAND ACRES
The said place is well watered, and well timbered,
there being about Six Hundred acres of the same in
the woods. I will sellit in tracts and parcels as fol
lows :
First. ONE HUNDRED ACRES, upon which are
situated the dwelling house, a neat frame building
with five rooms thoroughly cealed, with glass win
dows, and substantial rook chimneys,—with a gar
den well enclosed, itself containing near three acres
—and capacious Gin House with Screw, and new
barn built since the war.
Next I will sell SIX HUNDRED ‘ACRES, tracts
or small farms of FIFTY ACRES each.
I will then sell THREE HUNDRED ACRES
parcels, or tracts of from Twenty-Five to Forty cr e3
each.
Upon each and every tract sold I shall so arran D
that there will be water, timber and good buildin,
sites.
I shall have each tract accurately surveyed, and
the boundaries well defined.
I wUl sell on the following terms :
ONE-FOURTH CASH ; ONE-FOURTH IN ONE
’ YEAR ; ONE-FOURTH IN TWO YEARS ; THE
BALANCE IN THREE, WITH INTEREST FROM
DATE OF SALE.
Upon any and all these payments except the first
I will take cotton at Fifteen Cents per pound, (I mean
good merchantable Cotton such as is usually sold ’
this market) delivered, at Newnan, Georgia. ”
YOUNG MEN—Honest aud industrious and all
others have now an opportunity to buy homes, aud
pay for them, by their own labor.
Persons desiring more than one tract can have the
privilege of purchasing additional parcels. I shall
so sell that persons buying can purchase adjacent
tract*.
This laud will positively he sold on the day thus
advertised.
Any information can ho had by applying to me, or I Z'VFFICE above
Hinton P. Wright, at Newnan, Ga. |
W. F. WRIGHT,
eugl-MonjcWeeklytlstNov. Newnan, Ga
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The Presidential contest for 1872 will be the most important in the history of America. The issues in
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To disseminate truth, sound doctrine, and correct principles—laboring earnestly and zealously NOW, BE
FORE IT IS TOO LATE ; utterly repudiating the do-nothiug, say-nothing, be-quiet. acrid-asleep policy
advocated by some, while we are being rapidly borne down the current which is rushing iuto tlie whirlpool
of Radicalism, Centralism and Imperialism.
The Radicals, with the aid of bayonets., have thrust upon us the unconstitutional aud wickedly oppressive •
measures of the so-called 14th and 15th Amendments to tho Constitution and the. Recount ruction Acts of
the majority Faction in Congress. The Radicals have asked us, as Democrats, to pled;;'.- -ursclves to ac
cept, indorse, stand by, defend and build upon these measures forever. Those Democrats who give this
pledge of course must “depart” from the faith of their fathers. Some of them have almiwy gone over
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tilj for us all to go with them, a few others are advising us to hold our peace lest wo dtstutb the harmony
and distract the counsels of the Democratic Party!
Verily, if we should hold our peace, “the stones would cry out.” We cannot remain silert:. We cannot
thus counsel our people to accept and welcome their own ruin, and thank God for the prit I'.t'.v !
It is of the utmost importance that these issues be discussed now; icrfae adoption of ,. time-serving
“ departure ” by the General Convention of the Party witl be, not only wrong in principle, hut in our
jodgment it will be fatal in policy.
Fidelity to the Constitution is the true test of Democracy in every State of the Union, and we recognize every
one who is a true friend to that sacred instrument, as a co-worker with us in the great cav.-m of American
Liberty. The rights and liberties of the whole people are jeopardized—not any more so in the South than
in the North; and we of the South have no interests at stake in the momentous issues of iha day, warn t
areuot common to North and South, alike.
We respectfully ask a fair share of public patronge.
All communications or letters on Business should be addressed to
J. HKKTXiY SMITH, manager,
^T'JL.AJN'X'A, GA,
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