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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 4 1872.
THE ATLANTASUN
••Mr. Slcpkcni."
We resume the article of our neighbor,
the Constitution,of the 25th instant,under
the above heading.
Immediately after what was last quoted
by us in our previous commentary on
this article, the Constitution goes onto
49:
3. Mr. Stephens will please a*y what principles ot
the Baltimore Convention we have repudiated on
which Mr. Greeley is pledged to run the covern-
f _
Our neighbor had better first speak lor
himself, and those whose official organ
the Constitution proclaims itself to be;
and let the country know what part, or
parts, if any, of the Greeley Platform
adopted at Baltimore, he and they do
not repudiate.
They certainly, in their July Conven
tion, when they put forth their electoral
ticket, pledged to support Mr. Greeley,
■ die} repudiate the Platform standing as a
Whole on which their candidate was
nominated. The^ refused to indorse it
as it was adopted at Baltimore. He will,
therefore, please inform us and the ooun-
' try, which are the particular parts of it
that they c-ih not “swallow f ’ There must
be some oue, or more parts of this charac
ter, in it, or it would not have been, as a
whole, so unceremoniously rejected, and
the Platform of the “Straights” adopted
in its stead 1 If there be but one such
part in it, this is sufficient for the pur-
■ pose of the question now in point.
If our neighbor aud his 'associates re-
. , pudiftte but one of the edicts of the so-
called “constituted authorities of the
party” in the matter, of.principles, are
not he and they quite as’justly obaigea-
Lle with being “bolters” as we and the
“Straights" are, in repudiating the edict
in the matter of nomination? This is the
heinous “bolting” on oivr part, of which
he so grievously complains, and for
which he assumes to read us out of the
Democratic party. .’'J. * l
Our neighbor seems to look upon the
conduct of the “Straights” in their
“bolt," as he calls it, with a sort of holy
horror. He seems to claim an exclusive
privilege for his own most glaring “nif-
ter
“Yet cast a moment's fair regard,
What makes the mighty differ.'"
According to the facts and truth of
the case, if the “ Straights ” are “ bolt
ers,” in this instance, then, most assur
edly, the “ Crookeds ” are also.
Let us, however, proceed with the ar
ticle. It concludes as follows:
4. Mr. Stephens’ whole argument is based on in
correct premises. He misrepresents Mr. Greeley
and the democrats who support him. Of course his
oonclusioiiB are incorrect. He denies that Mr. Gree-
1 ey runo is what he says he is. Mr.Greeley speaks lor
himself. He advocates principles in direct antago
nism with every Radical outrage and usurpation.
Mr. Stephens says Greeley now sanctions them.
Mr. Greeley don't. Mr. Greeley demands fall am
nesty. Mr. Greeley demands “local self-govern
ment" as igainst “centralized pswer” to secure the
“rights of citizens.” Ho usurpation sanctioned
there. Ho demands “supremacy of civU over mili
tary authority, and freedom of person under habeas
corpus." Ho usurpation sanctioned there I
Ho demands “for the Stole self-government, and
for the nation a return to the methods of peace and
the constitutional limitation of power." Ho usur
pations sanctioned there. This is aU of it good
enough Democracy for ns, and if carried out will
atop usurpations completely.
Mr. Greeley has a right to state his own status
He has dono so. Mr. Stephens denies him this
right, and argues Greeley to stand identically with
Grant when he is diametrically opp .sedto him in
the cardinal Democratic doctrines above mentioned.
So far doea Mr. Stephens go that he absolutely con
tends that the arraignment of Grant’s administra
tion in the address accompanying the Cincinnati
platform, which enunciates the above Democratic
principles, is not to be consideredas the action of the
convention, and belittles the address by terming it
the “opinions of scrivener." The address is part
of the platform.
Mr. Stephens further misrepresents the Democ
racy as going to Radicalism by supporting Greeley.
This is wholly incorrect. In him they support local
self-government, the habeas corpus, return to consti
tutional restriction, amnesty and reform. If this is
Democratic, then there is no abandonment of princi
ple.
Mr. Stephens has no right to misrepresent either
Mr. Greeley or the Democracy.
How wo have shown that the State party has pre
served principle, that Greeley is for principles that
correct usurpations, and that the Democracy support
him to securo tho success of essential doctrines.
We further call his attention to the fact that his
squad of “ straights ” was unable to prevent Gree
ley’s nomination by thefState and National Democ
racy by overwhelming majorities. Thoyare equally
poweness now to change tho programme. The re
sult of their action is therefore to divide the party,
defeat Democratic principle, elect Giant aud contin
ue Radicalism with its despotism and Southern op
pression for another four years.
We ask in kindness that Mr. Stephens will show
ns any benefit to offset tho terrible evils of Grant’s
re-election.
The many loose and reckless assertions
here jumbled together in the conclusion
of our neighbor’s article, would not be
11 it iced by us at all, if they had not been
made by a journal professing to be the
official organ of a gieat Party in our
State. Coming from the source they do,
we can but express our amazement at
them!
Wherein hnsMr. Stephens misivpresen
ted either Mr. Greeley or the Democracy ?
When has Mr. Stephens' “dduiod Mr.
Greeley the right” “to state* his own
status?” Has not Mx. Step.i. As, from
the beginning and throughout, based
his opposition to Mr. Greeley upon his
status, as stated by himself, and in his
own words ? Could any etetemeut be
Mr. Stephens farther affirms that, so
far from its Deing correct that Mr. Gree
ley “advocates principles in direct antag
onism with every Radical outrage and
usurpation,” the very reverse of the pro
position i3 trne.
There has not been a single Radical
outrage or usurpation upon the rights of
the people, or States, within the last six
years, that was not based upon princi
ples which Mr. Greeley then advocated,
and now advocates!
As to what our neighbor says about
the inability of the “squad of ‘Straights’ ”
to “preventMr. Greeley’s nomination
by the State and National Democracy,
by overwhelming majorities,” we have
nothing to say, except to give it as onr
opinion, that, if all the sentinels upon the
watch-tower of Democracy had discharg
ed their duty as faithfully as we did ours,
when the “New Departure" tempter
mounted the walls of Democracy for the
destruction of the Party, the foul and la
mentable deed of Greeley’s nomination,
as stated,never would have been consum
mated. yu*l *
Aud though we and the “squad” of
“Straights,” who taka the same view of
the subject we did then, and do still,
may not be able “ to change the Pro
gramme," we can, at least, save ourselves
from becoming “particeps criminis" in
our owu political destruction, by aiding
in bringing into power men pledged to
principles which, if sanctioned by the
pgorie of. this country, will bring not
only destruction to the Democracy, but
ruin to the whole Fabric of out free
We ean have that most agreeable, as
well os self-sustaining consciousness,
which springs from a sense of duty dis
charged in following the scriptural in
junction: “Follow not the multitude to
do evil.” A. H. S.
h- ♦ i
Maj. W. P. liamtuy.
Yesterday we published a card from
Maj. Ramsay, who sought our columns
because he was denied a healing in the
Constitution, in the columns of which its
editors had allowed him to be wantonly
assailed—spreading before the public an
allegation concerning the private conduct
of a highly respectable gentleman, the
publication of which, whether true or
not, is an abuse of the proper privileges
•of a journalist, under any such circum
stances. ! :
We also, publish a short communica-
tiph from onr valued correspondent—“A
Democrat who is a Democrat,” (the
same who propounded some questions to
the Constitution more than two weeks
ago, which it has not yet attempted to
answer,) criticizing this publication with
dignity and ability, and giving the same
a pointed application, which the public
will appreciate, and which we
hope will have the good effect of im
pressing upon the conductors of that
journal the great truth that the placing
of a responsible name at the disposal
of an injured party is no justification in
an editor to publish a defamation of his
character. We think Major Ramsey did
right in ignoring the author of that ob
jectionable publication, whose name was
tendered to him before he sought it, and
in asking the editors of the Constitution
to repair as far as they could the unpro
voked and wanton injury done to him in
the publishing of the objectionable arti
cle. f •
We will remark that the card of the
Proprietors of the Gonstitiium was hand
ed in last evening, but we could not pub
lish it this morning, owiDg to Council
proceedings and other local matters.
tleman in the highest sense of that word
and he has the qnalifications both as the
ablest lawyer in this community, and as
regards oar system of Republican Gov
ernment, he is an ercellent Democratic
Statesman. I know him well, and can
say that in all the past forty years of my
life, I never heard any human being ut
ter a single word ot sentence derogatory
to the personal character or eminent
ability of Charles O’Conor. \idi.
P. S.—Just as I was folding this letter
The Atlanta Sun of August 22, came
to band, and I proceeded to read your
editorial on Newspaper changes, <fcc.
You have said what I feel all through.
Y.
Local Matters.
Reward.—See the advertisement of H. H. Harri
son, offering a roward for the arrest of a man whom
he describes charged with having committed a theft
Special Correspondence.
NEW YORK GOSSIP AND FASHION
NOTES.
and
new tore: correspondence.
Letter from Villi.
New York, August 25, 1872.
Messrs. Editors of the Atlanta Sun:
Your correspondent has read “ the
platform adopted by the Jeffersonian
Democratic State Convention, assembled
in Atlanta on the 20th August, 1872.
The above platform is so perfectly con
sistent with the Constitution of 1787 and
the twelve amendments thereto that as a
life-ling Democrat I recognize it to be
the Alpha and Omega of my political
creed.
The nominee of the Philadelphia Con
vention for the Presidency of the United
States has been tried and found deficient
in adequate Statesmanship for the office
of President of the United States. If
elected, he will have a Vice-President to
preside over the Senate which represents
the Sovereign States in the Federal Gov
ernment, and to supervise tho delibera
tions of that body and to subserve the
more reckless or unfouuded, I or unsttp- | interests of Monopolist Manufacturers
ported by facts, thnn tho A-o cx bin- of. New England who hold, in the worst
’ " ’ " bondange, men, women and
in pent up factories.
The nominee of the Cincinnati and
Oolrthobpx County Sheriff’s Sales See the
advertisement of Booker Adkins, Sheriff of Ogle
thorpe. - *°
Douglas County Land.—James L. Brown, ad
ministrator of the Estate of Frances H. Cone, de
ceased, will, on the first Tueidsy in October, in
Greensboro, Ga., sell an undivided half interest in
land lot Ho. 68, second district of Douglas county.
H. O. Hoyt.—The motion for a new trial in the
case of H. O. Hoyt, convicted of felony, which was
announced to be heard yesterday before Judge Hop
kins, was, with the consent of the counsel for the
defendant, continued until the first week of the Oc
tober term of the Superior Court, when the motion
for a new trial will be disposed of.
neighbor here put forth, that,'° f
rwiAvi _a Z- j children
Greeley) advocates principles in .direc? an
tagonism with every Radical a)iil
usurpation?”
To say nothing at this time .upon ithe
Reconstruction outrages, usurpations
and atrocities, and tho principles; on
which they were based, are uoiitheEn-
forcement and Ku-Klux acts, Tse-bailed,
held, and truly held, by all trne Demo
crats to be outrages upon the rights of
the people and of the State ; an<£ based
upon the most flagitious usurpations on
the part of Congress?
Mr. Stephens has snxd, and how re
peats, that Mr. Greeley dovammo sanction
6Vivy one of these outrages- and usurpa
tions. This is a truth as fixed'and as eter-
na «t*>B OBr-ttah«x>W «t this
time empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
To what r3t trcHiity must the official or-
Theaga i of , ^£*1 Party be driven in its da-
th/aZtwrihiS “-•* wron ? against.the :^Lt
n»y- the hardihood to deny this
W " • •' • r t
Kl ““
p
Baltimore Conventions is Horace Gree
ley, the noted embodiment of centralism,
and all the moral isms, as well as political
schisms, that exists in antagonism to the
Democratic party; and the principles on
which the Federal Government was
founded. He is said to be the embod
iment of the Liberal Republican party.
Of course he will go for a Liberal tariff
oi the biggest kind—liberal taxation and
expenditures to make the rich richer and
the poor poorer. Liberal taxation, liberal
expenditure of the public money, liberal
official emoluments, liberal exactions up
on importations by levying liberal duties
upon importations so that the public
debt shall be levied on foreign goods for
Vie benefit of New England Republican
ism.
The Platform adopted by the Jeffer
sonian Democratic State Convention as
sembled in Atlanta on the 20th day of
August, 1872, commands the concur
rence of the Party everywhere, in its eve
ry word and sentence. Its nomination
of Charles .O’Conor, of New York, lor
the Presidency of the United States, has
my heartiest concurrence. He is a gen
Theatrieal Items MaretzeK
Feretti — Dana and His Fishermen—
Self-Motors and Electro-Motors for
Sewing Machines—Fashion’s Follies
New York August 27, 1872.
“La RoiCarotte,” with splendid spec
tacular scenery and gorgeous costumes,
now running at the Grand Opera
House.
Nilsson is married to M. Ronzaud, the
retired Parisian banker, but ’tis said she
intends soon returning to America —
perhaps to make another $300,000. That
was the amount with which she sailed
for Europe in May.
Maretzek announces Lncca as his
star prima-donna daring the coming
opera season in America. He also an
nounced M’lle Feretti as one of his
donnas seconds, bnt Feretti, who is a
beauty and a spirited one, says she will
not sing for him or any one else, except
as’prima donna.” She is a Louisianan
by birth, but received her musical edu
cation under Ronzi, of Paris. Her voice
is of wonderful sweetness and power,
pure, high soprano, and her repertoire
very extensive for her age. She is only
nineteen.
Chas. A. Dana, of the New York Sun,
is as fond of fishing as Horace
Greeley is of farming. ' When
reporter applies at the Sun office for
work, the first question Dana asks him
is, “Can yon fish ?” A negative answer
isfataltohis hopes as a Sun reporter.
Dana goes fishing every Saturday, and
when he can’t go he sends Amos Cum
mings. Last Saturday the whole office
went fishing, except England, who staid
at home, looking like a boy who had
been given a piece of bread without any
batter on it.
Blind Tom gives a series of concerts
during the next season, traveling through
Canada, Iowa, and across the territories,
to California. Warhurstis the manager
of the troupe, bat Gen. Bethune, the
former owner oi blind Tom, is still his
legal guardian. There will be more mu
sical stars on this side of the Atlantic
next winter than in Europe. Italian,
German, and English Opera, Opera
Bouffe, and Comic English Opera, will
all be represented by stars, both male
and female.
-The weather has been a litte cooler for
the last two days, and tho city is begin
ning to look more lively. The country
merchants are flocking into the hotels.
Madame LeVert and Laura Keene are
Writing a story together. It is called
“Society’s Queen” and is runuing in the
columns of Laura Keene’s “Journal of
Pine Arts,”
A new’covering for floors of halls, cor
ridors and theatre lobbys, has been in
vented, and is coming into use. It con
sists of an ingenious mixture of cork and
India rubber on a hempen foundation.
It is not so cold as oil-cloth—is more
durable—completely deadens sound, and
is impervious to dust or water. It is paint
ed in various colors, just like oil-cloth,
and very inappropriately bears the name
of linoleum.
Alpaca, coated with rubber, is to be
worn for ladies, waterproofs this winter.
The rubber coating forms the lining.-—
Of course it is as wea her-proof as a
policeman’s or stage-driver’s rubber over
coat.
Rubber gloves, for house-keepers, and
lady gardeners’ use, are also among the
new inventions. They keep the hands
white and so't while washing dishes,
sweeping and dusting, or working in the
mould of the garden.
A selt moter for sewing machines has
been invented by an ingenious Kentuck
ian. It moves the needle without the
use of the treadle, by springs which wind
np like a watch. It runs an hour. Toe
speed can be regulated. It is now on
exhibition in New York. An electro
motar for the same purpose has been in
vented by a scientific, French Canadian
gentleman. It is not yet patented.
The importers of Parisian and Berlin
costumes for ladies are beginning to open
their goods. Dresses are more elaborate
affairs than ever.
The new fall wraps for street
wear are in the sacque-talma
form, but with long tabs in front
and round and short capes in the
back. They are literally covered with
passementerie, embroidery, fringe, tas
sels and lace, all on the same garment.
Fashionable women will look more like
fools than ever this winter.
Dolly Varden costumes are now
called Trianon dresses. They are
worn with leather belts and large
buckles with a pocket pouch for the hand
kerchief and purse at the side. Large,
high tortoise shell combs, elaborately
carved, are to be worn in the hair, which
is arranged in a bewildering mass of
curls and puffs, but more in the natural
shape of the head than it has been.
Shoes are worn with lower heels, and
ladies’ boots are not made quite so high
in the ankle for the coming season.
There is a tendency to continue the
lengthening of skirts, but sensible wo
men will never be Btreet-sweepers.
E. Y.B.
To Teacher
Josef li E. Brown as at Farmer.
Got. Brown owns some very valuable land in
Cherokee county, which he has cultivated to advan
tage aud made quite profitable to himself before
aud since the war. He turned his attention to the
cultivation of hay very soon after the war, and last
year his income from his hay crop alone was about
$10,000.- -This year his wheat crop wiU yield him
about $6,000. Last winter and winter before last we
saw very large quantities of corn forage, (baled fod
der and shucks) in thiB market for sale, which was
grown on his farm in Cherokee.
Last year he planted Borne cotton, and succeeded
very well with It—so well, indeed, that it paid hand
somely. . 'ibis year qnite a number of his neighbors
have followed his example and for the first time, in
that section a large amount of cotton is planted. We
fear he has set, and they have followed, a bad ex
ample.
»• • M
Champion Cotton Stalk.
We saw, yesterdty, in the office of Judge C. H.
Strong, Cotton Commission Merchant in this city,
the largest cotton stalk, probably, ever grown in
this section of the country. It measures eight feet
seven inches, [clear of the root] baa twenty-three
limbs, and. before cutting, contained squares, blos
soms and bolls in proportion. The cotton seed
from which it sprung wss planted about the 10th of
April, and ha* attained this enormous size in less
than tour months. ‘ ' < '''
The stalk was grown on the plantation of Judge
C. D. Black, on the Chattahoochee river, in Camp,
bell county, eighteen miles below Atlanta, and about
foHr miles above Campbelltou.
The gentleman who brought this fine specimen
here reports that the condition and prospects of the
cotton crop were never finer, promising the most
abundant yield ever known in this section.
Corn cropB, also, he assures ns, are unusually
promising.
John A. Wimpey in Ambush!—The celebrated
John A. Wimpey, it appears, is bound to have noto
riety thrust upon him in spite olh-'s beat efforts to
avoid it. The following facts present him upon a
new and interesting stage of action;
A United States warrant was recently issued against
him by the authorities atWashington, charging him
with having committed frauds in the United States
Pension Bureau at Washington, D. C. f by forging
the signatures of lour ladies in his county, among
them Mrs. Mary M. Sianbuiy, and endeavoring
thereby to collect the pensions for himself, legally
due them and them alone.
Through the United States authorities at this place,
the warrant for his arrest was placed in the hands
of United States Deputy 'Marshal, J. J. Findley at
Gainesville, who proceeded to Wimpey’s residence
in Lumpkin county, for the purpose of executing it.
Whimpey, who was at home, expressed his readiness
to comply with the warrant and asked that he be ex
cused lor a moment until he could change bis attire.
For that purpose he retired to his room, .and taking
advantage of his absence from the office, leaped from
the window, and took to'the woods.
A posse comitatus was summoned, which scoured
the woods for mileB around, and reconnoitered in
every direction for two successive days, bnt without
any success. It is believed that he is concealed in
some of the cliffs or mountain gorges.
We have heard it stated that the warrant has been
withdrawn.
Death or an Aged Lady.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wadsworth died in the
Third District or Dooly county, near
Millwood, about leu days ago, at the ad
vanced age oi 110. She was raised in
the county of Washington, near the line
of Hancock, bnt had been living in Doo
ly for more than half {a century. She
left great-great-grandchildren. Hon
Wm. B. Cone, well known in Georgia,
was her grandson. She was perfectly
well the day before her death, having
eaten a hearty supper a few hours before
she died. She was a consistent member
of tbeBaptist church many years.—Hous- j .-*#wr u
ton Home Journal. News,
Thz Month.—This is the first day of September,
which iB the first of the fall monthB.
The season probably is so-called because, in these
days the leaves begin to faU; fruit falls from the
trees, if not gathered; the sun falls down below the
ecuator towards where Capricomns rears his anti
quated horns; and men begin to fall into the habit
of dropping in upon the shadowy precincts of those
old Labradorians—Thomas and Jeremiah.
This is the beginning of ember days, of which the
almanacs speak. The calendar does not enumerate
more than four such days in the year; but according
to a better calculation, and one that the almanac-
makers seem to have omitted, we are about to have
122 of them, commencing with this, the first Sept-
ember day. gj r jjj[
It is hoped the season will be permitted to pass
without any resort to •• the melancholy days have
come, the saddest of the year.” That line has done
enough service to be considered an old stager, and
ready to be retired. It ought to fall into disuse for
one FaU, at least.
“ Leaves have their time to faU,” and it generally
occurs in FaU time.
The Fall is a good time to dye, if your hair and
beard is very white.
As the weather wiU soon be cold, it is a good plan
to have your premises weU coaled also.
Hi3 echoing ax the setUer swung,” and he has
made up his mind to charge about $6 a cord for the
wood he cut, whenever tnere comes a $peU of bad
weather. “Oh, woodman, spare” us this winter.
This is a good month for hops. There wiU be one
at Catoosa Springs, and several at several other
places. ! - r .
Musquitoes wiU sing less this month than they
did last, because the month is . shorter. The less
they sing tho better we love them. We know of
nothing in nature that can be better,dispensed with
than mosquitoes. Kature made them in order to get
rid of a surplus of meanness after she had finished
making spiders and rattle-snakeB.
This is a good month to mako up your mind to
vote the Straight Democratic ticket.
Another Frctty Tale Spoiled “ Consid
erable Bad.”
The LaGrange Reporter of the 30 th
has the following: ’
Mistake.—We find the following par
agraph in the Atlanta Constitution:
“A respected citizen of LaGrange,
whose name was given in yesterday’s pa
per, died a few days since, bnt willed the
annual subscription price of the Consti
tution to the man, if he could be found,
who had often deprived him of the Sun
day’s issue of his favorite paper.”
No such provision is in said will, to
which we are a witness. The testator
remarked, good humoredly, upon sign
ing it, that he had omitted to include
such a provision. This was promoted
by using the Constitution in blotting the
signature. This is all there was of it.
and the Public Generally.
J. HALE & SON, 17 MURRAY ST., NEW YORK, HAVE JUST ISSR Ed
A School Historv of the United States
Bx HON. ALEX. H. STEPHENS, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY A km
LITICAL SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA P0LI '
This Compendium of History should he in every Schoolroom and
ry Library, in the United States. It is the History of the country— a l eve '
sity to all who wish to know what has been done, aud why it has been t |
by those who made and those who have administered the Government
these States. -It presents not only the unmaimed body of our History } °!
its pervading spirit, and will prove a Vade Mecum to both student* ■-Ti
statesman. The volume—12mo., 513 pages, with numerous illustration^
is boautifully printed and strongly and tastefully bound. Price §1 kT
Mailed, postpaid, on receipt of the price. To teachers for examination half-
price; but when to be forwarded by mail, 25c. must be added for postal!
Very liberal terms made for introduction into Schools and Colleo-e*
Hew York, August, 1872.
:o:
FROM NOTICES ALREADY RECEIVED WE SELECT THE FOLLOWING
A Review by Rev. D. WILLS, D.D., President ofOgietliorpc Universi*y > AUant V
“This valuable work, which has been anxiously looked for, has recent?
appeared in a decidedly attractive and popular form. Its typographical and
mechanical execution reflects credit on the house which his issued it and
its convenient size, solid binding, and happy arrangement into chapters and
sections, admirably adapt it to the use of schools and colleges. As a text-
book, we predict for this compend a hearty and extensive adoption, and a'
a work for general instruction, no reader in the land ought to be without a
copy of it. The Southern people may be justly proud of this noble contri-
bution to their growing literature, and the grand old commonwealth of
Georgia will doubtless evince an appreciation of the industry, patriotism
and talents of her distinguished son by giving this richly stored volume a
cordial welcome to the thousands of her intelligent and happy households
We believe that this work of the great Georgian is destined to become the
standard of historic truth and excellence for centuries to come, just as ifr.
Stephens’ work on the War Between the States is acknowledged to be the
most complete and triumphant vindication of the Southern people ever
placed on record. Mr. Stephens has peculiar qualifications for the office of
historian. In the first place, he is one of the ablest statesmen of the age.
He has not only mastered the principles and maxims of all political science,
but is profoundly familiar with the rise and progress of American institutions!
In the second place, his mind is eminently puilosophical in its struc
ture and modes of thought, and does not stop with the mere dry details of
history, but unfolds the relations between cause and effect, and makes just
deductions from facts and circumstances. It is capable of the clearest and
broadest generalizations.
In the third place, the author of this work was a prominent actor in
some of the most excitihg and eventful scenes in American history, and
therefore is enabled to speak from personal observation and matured exper
ience. wild augfifft eriT .Ino* viuum vn ,fwtd arf H
And lastly, Mr.Stephens has always been characterized by a. sincere
and steadfast love for truth, and this we regard as the most important trait
in the character of a historian. This rare combination, of qualities is the
key to the lofty and lasting merits of the work which has called forth this
brief but candid review.
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FKOM THE NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM.
“Few. men are more capable of writing a correct and popular history of
the United States than the author of this useful volume. A statesman
himself], identified with nearly a half a century of national growth, and
personally acquainted with all of the distinguished mfen who have left their
imprint on the country’s page during that period, Mr. Stephens is enabled
to present those salient features of history in which the present generation
are most likely to feel the deepest interest. He has done so in a compact and
graceful form—with an intellectual "vigor, indeed, that makes one almost
believe he is reading a well-connected romance, rather than the dry details
of continental development.
“It is a notorious fact that even in colleges little attention is paid to
the philosophy of politics. The student travels comfortably through Greece
and Rome, and can talk glibly of the Spartan boy and the Caesars, but when
invited to describe the events of any administration, from the time of
Washington down to that of Abraham Lincoln, he is at sea, without rudder
or chart. The names of Whig and Federalist are familiar to him, because
he has read them in the newspapers. From the same medium he has learned
that there were once great contests over the tariff, tne United States Bank,
Nullification, the Missouri Compromise, the admission of Texas and Kan
sas, and other disturbing questions that invoked the highest statesmanship
of men like Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Seward, Benton and Cass; but of causes
and results he knows not half so much as he. does of the platitudes of dead
poets, or the rounded sentences of Tacitus and Macaulay.
“Mr. Stephens supplies this knowledge. From the discovery of Colum
bus to the establishment of American independence, he carries the reader
quickly and gracefully through all of the leading events that transpired,
developing those facts in colonial history which led to the organization
and growth of the present form of government. This constitutes the First
Part. ,
“The Second Part is a review of the administrations of the various
Presidents of the United States; the rise and fall of parties; the progress
of public opinion; the material growth of the country; the philosophy of
government; the constitutional safeguards by which the people have been
protected; the vigilance with which the constitution has been defended in
the past, and the logical results that followed the inauguration of the late
civil war.
“In the treatment of these various subjects, Mr. Stephens is not a par
tisan. He addresses his readers from a point of view far above the influence
of passion or prejudice, and in the statement of facts, to which he mainly
confines his work; there is an exhibition of impartiality that forbids thy
question whether this man who thus summarizes the history of his countre
is from the North, South, East or West.
“Although Mr. Stephens was the Vice President of the Confederate
States, no political views are forced upon the reader, save those which the
reader himself wiU. deduce from the irresistible ‘logic of events;’ but these
point with unerring fingers to the infringements of the Constitution that
have marked the history of the last decade, and to the dangers that surround
the country, unless there be a speedy return to the sturdy virtues of oui
forefathers. ■
The book is apropos to the times. It abounds in information with
which every American citizen ought to be familiar, and which he will not
find compiled elsewhere. For the youth of the land it will prove invaluable,
and we believe that teachers throughout the country will adopt it as a sub
stitute for all other histories of the United. States, as soon as they become
familiar with its pages, and observe with what tact aud impressiveness tie
distinguished author has arrayed; his knowledge to the end that it maybe
most easily and eagerly acquired by the young. .
From REY. J. J. BRANTLEY, D. D., Professor of Belles Lettres and Modern
Languages, Mercer Uoiveisity, Macon, Georgia.
“I think you are to be congratulated on having brought out a School History,
which, on account of its fairness, its Southern origin,End especially.the fulness ana
accuracy of the later political history of the coahtrv, ought to supercede all others
at the South.
From HON. MILLARD FILLMORE,' late'FrisjJeit dlf.'the'United States.
. “I think it exceedingly well written, and adeiraibly well calculated for acade
mics and schools. It is necessarily greatly condensed, but it seems to contain tW
pith and marrow of our history, somewhat tinged, as’ was natural, with Southed
views, but as impartial as any we can expect at this time; - either from the North or
South. I regard Mr. Stephens as one of our ablest’statesmen, and certainly very
competent to write a history of the United States*” ; . .
FROM .THE EATONTON PRESS AND MESSENGER.
“ Let it be introduced into the family circle, into the school-room—cv^J*
where over this broad land. For it is not only-instructive as welt as entertainiofe
to youth, but is a most useful compendium for all grown-up people who desire to
be well informed.”
A Singular Case. f
We are informed that there is at the
house of Rev. Wm. Davis, in this county,
a great grand-son—the son of J. J. and
Iiouisa G. Roberson, of Alabama—which
has now living four grandfathers and
four great-grandfathers, and five grand-
e.otiur*. and fiv- great-grandmothers.
are.goi.g kj ou thl3
ul •• lariird de*k.”—Franklin
FROM THE WILMINGTON STAR.
As a school compend this work is a success in every way.
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whatever. The book is absolutely fEee
ence to leadhig political events, and these are madfe to stibserve no partisan U- .
It gives a pro»j“-
o partisan
'.Ional coloring, though it j 3 1
production of one of the great leaders of ^ou'dertt thought, himself an actor J®
some of the grand scenes he describes. , From a close perusal of that part of ^
book commencing with the chapter containing an account of Pierce’s admu^ 3 ^’
tion, and subsequent chapters through jfey the ’beginning of the current year, *
are satisfied Mr. Stephens has given a i-rn > unvarnished, lively picture of the trej
mendous agitation through which the c; uuu-y i..is passed during two decades
her history. , he
All tne prominent occurrences, civil' and military, of the war between
States, are sketched iu rapid, but distinct .outline, ilr. Stephens’ style is
torse, pare, graceful and strong. makes no special effort, as most of sc l°l
hi -tory writers 4o, <> »nus m wn •• t-.’.m|*r«*-hii:si«n of his juvenile w*"?,
Rut theie us uoilnn^ iu -ivii .»r u«».uU iu». »uu amipk-1'intellect cannot g raa P’
aug26-dw3m.