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fffliss KATE KING
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SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath: Pain in the Side, sometimes the
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the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
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which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains,
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits aredow and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred wnen but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
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J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga.,
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“The only Thing that never fails to
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such a medicine, and would advise ail who are sim
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P. M. J annex, Minneapolis, Minn.
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I HAVE RENTED THE
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' - AMERICUS, GA.,
Which I will repair and have ready to store
cotton in during the coming season. My
friends and the public are asked to patron
ize me. All produce left in my care by
friends and others, will receive prompt at
tention and sold at best prices offered.
J. L. PRICE.
Ameuicub, Ga., May 19, 1882. tf
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1882.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALJI AGE
DEGRADATION OF MODERN
POLITICS.
This placeshall no more be called Topliet,
nor the Valley of the Son of llinnom, hut
the Valley of Slaughter,—Jeremiah xix., 0.
. This was Gehenna, or the valley out
side of Jerusalem. The carcasses of ani
mals were thrown there; the offal of the
city was deposited there. Fires were
kept perpetually burning so that the
place would not breed a • pestilence.
The place has sometimes been used by
religious writers and speakers as a
symbol of perdition. I used it as a
symbol of the condition of modern pol
itics. But this Gehenna instead of be
ing in the suburbs of the city is in the
centre of every neighborhood and every
town and every village and every city
of the United States, Its carcasses rot
on the steps of the city halls of this
country, and its lires siss and simmer
and crackle through the long night of
official corruption, and those who have
noticed how the bodies and the minds
and the souls of men have gone down
under the influence need not he told that
like the valley ot llinnom in the text,
it ought to be called “the valley of
slaughter.” The condition of State
and national politics to-day is appall
ing. L speak without any allegiance
to any political party. I have all the
time purposely kept myself aloof from
partisan organization that 1 might in
dependently discuss every moral ques
tion pertaining to each or both of them.
By this 1 do not. mean that 1 sit on the
fence in matters of politics, for 1 have
always voted ever since 1 was of age,
save when by change of residence or by
necessitated absence at the time of reg
istration I had no right to vote; but 1
have never voted what in this country
the parties call a “straight ticket.”
When a man tells me he always votes
the “straight ticket,” that ho always
goes for everything on the ticket of his
particular party, he makes me think of
a man who should buy a barrel of ap
ples and then boast that he ate them
all, not only the good apples, but the
worm-eaten ami the gnarled and the
rotten, so as to be consistent. I pro
pose to make a selection of apples.
Within our memory in nearly all the
States both political parties have at
some time been in supremacy, and it
seems to me there has been a gradual
descent to lower corruption. Ever and
anon a party cries out, “Put me in pow
er and I will effect a great reform.”
The new party comes into power, and
generally the only difference is anew
roll of officers. Hark; to the crash!
What is the matter now? Why, the
machine of some Republican or Dem
ocratic party has been crushed to pieces,
and we say, “thank God for the demo
lition.” But before another election
comes another machine is in action—
a machine with larger crank and stron
ger wheel and wider hopper. We have
been killing political bosses for the last
fifteen years in this country, and there
never were so many political bosses as
to-day. There are young men here who
are to enter soon upon the discharge of
their civic or public duties, and they,
before entering the arena,ought to know
some of the lions they will have to
meet, or, to come hack to the sugges
tion of my text, those young men need
to come forth with shovels and spades
and plows to turn under the carcasses
of the Gehenna of modern politics.
I propose to give you some illustra
tions of the present debasement of pub
lic affairs, drawing my illustrations for
the most part from the last year. There
has never been anything to boast of in
the purity of American politics. Do
you know that Aaron Burr, the <se
baucher, came near being President of
the United States? He got as many
votes'as Thomas Jefferson, the patriot.
Then the election was thrown into Con
gress, and Thomas Jefferson, the pat
riot, beast Aaron Burr, the debaucher,
by one vote. In the Congress of the
United States, in 1798, a member by
the name of Lyons spit in the face of u
member hv the name of Griswold, and
Griswold struck him with a hickory
stick, and then Lyono seized the tongs
and struck Griswold, and then the two
rolled over on the floor of the national
Legislature in a scuffle from which
their friends extricated them. When
Thomas Jefferson was [inaugurated
President of the United States, the
Sentinel, of Boston, wrote the obituary
of the American nation, saying: “Mon
umental inscription. Expired yesterday,
regretted by all good men, the federal
administration of the Government of
the United States, aged twelve years.
This monumental inscription to the
virtues and the services of the deceased
is raised by the Sentinel of Boston.
All the way down it has been a scene
of scurrility and defamation. President
Van Buren was always pictorialized as
a fox or a rat. Horace Greeley was
mauled into the grave by political in
justices. After serving this land with
all the concentrated energies of mind,
body and soul, he was practically by
American politics put to death. The
chief campaign document against Pres
ident Jackson was a picture, a copy of
which I recently saw—a picture ot ten
or twenty coffins in allusion to the de
serters whom he had ordered shot. Last
autumn people were surprised at the
spirit of assassination abroad in this
country. Why be surprised? The
same spirit attempted to shoot Andrew
Jackson, President of the United States,
returning from the funeral of a Con
gressman,and the President would have
been slain but for the fact that a gen
tleman beside him struck down the
assailant to the lloor. The same spirit
attempted to poison at the National
Hotel, Washington, President Buch
anan the day before his inauguration,
two of my personal friends dying from
the poison that day distributed
through the hotel. The Hon. Mr. Hous
ton of Texas, in 1832, because of some
derogatory words uttered, bludgeoned
the Hon. Mr. Stansberry, of Ohio, and
the President of the United States ap
proved of it, saying in so many words:
“After a few more such examples in
Congress, the members will learn how
to have decent tongues in their heads.”
The two political parties of thirty years
ago were slain by their corruption. The
Whig party compounded with iniquity
was hung by the neck until dead. The
Democratic party, as it was then organ
ized, was slain. It went out of power,
the ablest member of the new Demo
cratic party saying this last week in an
editorial in regard to the old Democratic
party: “The Democratic party, like
every other organization long continued
in power, begot abuses that could not
be cured save by the turning of the
party out of office and power.” Those
two political parties of thirty years ago
were slain by their corruptions. But
why should I go away back, when the
blackest year in American politics is
the year between October, 1881, and
October, 1882? I will give you some
illustrations. 1 draw one illustration
from the Yorktown carousal. Ou the
19th of October, 1781, tha British
forces under Cornwallis'surrendered to
Washington, and the long agony of our
Revolutionary fathers was ended. Last
autumn was the centennial celebration.
Someof the distinguished foreigners who
had helped us in achieving American
independence came across the water and
were our guests. The programme for
.the service and celebration was issued.
The Congress of the United Slates made
appropriation for that celebration. (Mul
titudes of people went to the quaint vil
lage of Yorktown, and preserved their
patriotism and their respectability; but
to a great many of our public men it
was a drunken carousal. I refer you
back to the correspondence in the differ
ent papers about that tima. Look at
the whisky bill, look at the wine bill,
look at the cigar bill of those times,
and then consider the fact that there
were innocent men and women insulted
during those times and during that cele
bration—making it sure that the Octo
ber of 1781 was not more glorious than
the October of 1881 was infamous. Ah!
they saluted the English liag, and they
saluted the French flag and they saluted
the American flag; but all the flags to
gether cannot cover up the shame of that
debauch. The politicians got up the
celebration, the politicians conducted
the celebration, the politicians ended
the celebration, the politicians forever
besmirched that occasion. I bring it
as an illustration of the degradation of
modern politics.
I draw another illustration from the
Garfield funeral carousal, reaching from
Washington to Cleveland, and from
Cleveland back to Washington. On
that day and at that time, when this
nation was sick with a grief such as has
seldom befallen any nation, there were
public men who guzzled and swilled and
drank and caroused, and at the expense
of the nation. -You and I helped pays
for it, if we have paid onr taxes. The
city of Cleveland, as beautiful and as
moral a city as we have in all the land,
never had so much drunkenness and
debauchery in it as tho night before
Garfield’s burial, while the Mayors and
tho Common Oouncilmen and the poli
ticians from all the cities were there
waiting for the obsequies. I arraign it
as an appalling indecency, as an insult
to God and the American people. I
arraign it as an illustration of the degra
dation of modern politics.
I draw another illustration from the
last Albany' Legislature, Lo >k over
the record of the ayes and noes and the
dodging on the Convict Labor bill, on
the General Street Railway bill, on the
Grain bill, on the Canal bill, and get
your eyes so wide open you will never
get them shut. Asa specimen, they voted
to destroy forever the grandest street on
earth—Broadway, New York—by run
ning a railroad through it. There never
has been a greater sense ot relief in this
State than when it was announced that
tho Legislature hail gone home!
I draw another illustration from the
Spuyteu Dnvel disaster, that Friday
afternoon when the Hudson River rail
car was crowded with politicians, and
by their drnnenkness and their obscenity
they turned tho car into a pandemo
nium, and overpowered the conductor,
until, he testified on solemn oath, ho
could not manage the train, and then
one of tho politicians, jerking the rope
to the air break until the train halted,
and another train swept around the
curve and the lives of some of our most
valuable citizens, and the bright anil
happy bridal tour ended in horror and
massacre, the flames completing what
the collision left. Tho politicians got
the management of the train, and I
charge them—l care not what the cor
oner’s jury may say—l charge them
with the murder. They halted the
train.
I bring as another illustration of the
degradation of modern politics the Riv
er and Harbor bill misapprobation.
Millions of dollars voted away by Con
gress, and voted away in dead waste.
Gentlemen wanting to bo re-elected to
Congress may go around this country
trying to fix that up, but it will never
be fixed up this side the day of judg
ment, and that will fix it down. I saw
last summer two of the places for which
large appropriations were made bv Con
gress in the way of improvement and
development. One of these places was
in Virginia. Thousands of dollars
voted by Congress to develope what is
there, or what was there during the
summer, a dry creek. There was not
one drop of water in it, and in the win
ter time it very seldom has more than
two or three feet ot water. You see
looking there where some time there
had been water, The creek started
nowhere especially, and ended nowhere
especially. Thousands of dollars voted
for the development of that creek,
doing no more good to the public than
an approbation for the development of
rivers or harbors on the top of your
City Hall! Of no more use than an
appropiation to run a railroad from
Trinity Church steeple to the moon.
Swindle. All swindle. Nothing but
swindle. Then I saw this summer
so another place for which a large ap
propriation had been made. It is on
the coast of Massachusetts. A sea
captain familiar with all the coast
pointed out to me where the improve
ments were to be, and he told me that
.the only use of that large appropriation
by the Congress of the United States
for that development would be to pile
up the iee in winter and impede navi
gation. A laugh of derision has gone
all around this country about that Con
gressional outrage; bat the people who
pay the taxes are so stupid they can
not see the joke. Oh! how easy it is
to vote away other people’s money.
Some of the loading men of both polit
ical parties were in that national insult,
that God-defying outrage. Oh! how
much more beautiful it would have
been if the Congress of tho United
States had practically said. “The peo
ple of this country have since the war
been taxed until thebiond came. Now
let them up. Let us through the la go
surplus in the Treasury lower the tax
es. Let us give a surprise party to
the people and lift their burdens, and
let the toiling men and women of
America have an easier chance to earn
a livelihood for themselves and for their
families.” Ah! no, Let the people
sweat. 'Grind harder the faces of the
poor. Draw the buckle of the harness
one hole tighter. Let Dives come to
finer linen and the dogs take care of
Lazarus’ sores. 1 tell you the oppress
ors of the common people had better
look out. 1 say the oppressors had
better look out. God will mash some
of them yet. lie says in his word,
“Ho will wound tho hairy scalp of him
who goetli ou still in his trespasses,”
and while I have noticed that a few
more Republican votes than Democrat
ic went for that River and Harbor bill,
1 notice to balanco it when there was
a move made tor the moderation of the
peoples’ taxes, tho Democratic votes
were a little larger in number; so side
by side the two parties go, shoulder to
shoulder; in infamy People ask me
whether 1 am a Republican or a Dem
ocrat. I tell you once for all, neither,
thank God neither!
I bring another illustration of the
degradation of American politics from
the Star Route thievery. What a beau
tiful revelation! All the miscreants in
that enterprise confirmed politicians.
Their guilt'proved beyond all doubt,
and if they had been poor men they
would have had a trial of four days
and would have long been in the peni
tentiary; hut as there was a large
amount of money to draw on, they had
four months of trial, and they are com
paratively free. There is condemna
tion, great condemnation in this country
fora man who steali less than SIOO,-
000. If you are going to steal, if you
must steal, if you are bound to steal,
steal over SIOO,OOO, or there will be
no chance for you! Tho reason peo
ple are condemned in this country is
because they do not steal enough.
There will be other Star Route trials
instituted, but as long as there is a
large amount- of money to be drawn on,
there will be no more convictions.
Put that down in your memorandum
book. O! it was beautifully consistent
that this Star Route crime should em
ploy as its counsel the champion infidel
of America. Without the Bible there
is no system of morals and there is no
good government. The prominent in
fidel of the country said he did not sec
anything wrong in his clients. Of
course he did not. There is no God.
There is to be no Judgment day. There
are no commandments of divine author
ity. Let every man do as he pleases.
Such a theory as that would soon turn
this land into a pandemonium. 0! I
am so glad that modern infidelity tells
us at last what it believes in. I lift
this fact upon before the people ot
America, I want it understood. I am
so glad now modern infidelity has gone
out of tho region of the abstract into
the realm of practical morals, and we
know what it sanctions and what it
favors.
But I come down into this present
autumn for an illustration of the de
gradation ot modern polities. There
were three factions in the Saratoga
convention—three factions. The forged
telegram to the State Committee has
been excoriated from one and of the land
to the other, and so it ought to be; bnt
there is one fraud which has not been
ventilated, and I propose to ventilate
it; I propose to turn on all the lights
this morning. If yon are going to
take out a cancer take it all out, root
and all. There came in that Saratoga
convention an hour of supreme ex
citement. It was found that Judge
Folger would get the most votes. Then
a member of the Oneida delegation in
as bold a spirit of fraud as was ever
practiced this side t>f Pandemonium,
arose and declared that the entire
Oneida delegation would now go over
from Wadsworth to Cornell, trying to
get a stampede in that direction, and
without the consent of the men of that
delegation. The bold fraud would
have been successful bnt for the fact
that a member of that "misrepresented
Oneida delegation and said in stentorian
voice, “I am from the Oneida delegation
and I turn my vote over to Judge Fol
ger.” Then there was a great cry
among the men of the convention:
“Call the roll of that delegation; let ns
see where they stand.” The roll of
the delegation was called, and, instead
of finding as that man had represented,
that defrauder had represented, that all
the delegation had gone over from
Wadsworth to Cornell, it was found
that seven went for Cornell and four
for Wadsworth and two for Folger.
The forged telegram was to .help Fol
ger. The Oneida fraud was to help
Cornell. While you denounce the one
you must anathematize the other.
Well, my friends, it seems that in that
case righteousness was crucified on the
centre cross, while on the right and the
left were the two thieves—the forged
telegram and the Oneida fraud, th lat
ter six times worse than the first, be
cause the forged telegram misrepresent
ed six men. Cornell men I see stand
ing with holy horror, their hands out
spread toward this forged telegram,
while with their skirts they are trying
to cover up the Oneida abomination.
They cannot cover it up. I haul it
out in the presence of the American peo
ple as another illustration of the degra
dation of modern politics. Cursed is
the forged telegram. Cursed is the
Oneida fraud. But there are more il
lustrations than I have time to bring
in. In our own beloved city we wanted
anew Raymond Street Jail. A large
sum of money was voted for anew
Raymond Street Jail. We got anew
Raymottnd Street Jail—one of the
meanest specimens of jail on earth.
Money! money! Who has the money?
We have a bridge from New York to
Brooklyn. It was to cost six or seven
million dollars. Some people think it
will cost fifteen or twenty millions be
fore they get done. Money! money!
Who has got the money? That is the
game we are playing now! .Oh! my
friends, it seems as if it is time to call
a halt in the practices of American
politics. To me there is a personal
consolation in the fact that both politi
cal parties seem to me split beyond
reparation. No one will doubt there
is an important split in the Republican
party. The split in the Democratic
party seems bridged over; but if any
body thinks that Tammany is dead
because Tammany is silent, they make
a very great mistake! O! you will see
lively times when there conies a distri
bution of offices. But I believe by the
time 1884 comes there will be a better
state of things in this country. No
doubt the political parties of the day
have had a mission and they have done
a great many bright and beautiful
things; but their work is ended. In
the estimation of all who look at it from
a Chiistian standpoint, they are dead,
and I wish that some grave-digger
would stuff his nose with cologne and
put them fifty feet under. O! we want
in this land—and I shall live to see the
day if God spares my life a few years
longer—we want a party in this coun
try that shall first of all recognize as
its dominant principle the presence of
the eternal God in the affairs of men
and governments. The trouble is we
have no God in American politics. We
have a devil, a cohort of had spirits—
the devil of office-seeking, the devil
of fraud, the devil of injustice, the
devil of waterfulness, but no God. We
have plenty of gin and plenty of old
rye, and plenty of schnapps, and
plenty of Congressional infamy, and
plenty of Congressional outrage, but
no God. lam far from wanting to see
a union of church and state in this
country, but I would like to see a party
that‘would recognize openly atul above
board,and without disguise and without
cant, the God in whose name Columbus
took possession of this country, and in
whose name Washington achieved our
independence, and in whose name so
many blessings have come to us—the
God of the last three great wheat crops;
the God of these genial skies and these
industrious rivers is the God who pro
tected our armies in 1770 and 1812 and
1804 ; the God over peaceful and be
loved homes—blessed be His glorious
name forever. “O!” says someone,
“that woulden’t bo fair to put a recog
nition of God in a platform of a politi
cal party when there are so many peo
ple that do not believe in a God. Well,
my friends, there area great many peo
ple who do not believe in chastity, a
great many people who do not believe
in the sanctity of the marriage relation,
a great many who do not believe in
the rights of property, a great many
people who do not believe in any style
of government—people who would rob
and steal and murder. •Do you refuse
to make laws against crimimals because
there are criminals? Will you refuse
to recognize God in governmental affairs
because there hre men who do not be
lieve in a God? All the good people
believe in a God.
Your political parties come on with a
preamble and they say whereas this
and whereas that, and it is simply a
hash of old political hacks. There is
overwhelming victory to that party
which shall come up and have enough
courage and enough worshhipfulncss to
say in a preamble: “Whereas, This
nation has been blessed of God as no
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other nation has—blessed in its har
vests, blessed in its civilization, blessed
in its protection against foreign enemies;
therefore we in convention assembled
acknowledge His goodness and pray for
the continuance of His mercy, and in
the name of God we now set up our
banners.” A party that has *he
strength to say that, establishing such
a preamble, followed by commonsensi
cal and righteous resolutions as to what
you will do for the agricultural, the
commercial, the manufacturing, the
milling, the literary, the artistic, the
moral interests of the country, will
sweep this whole land from sea to sea
with an overmastering triumph. There
is another plank that must go into that
platform, and that is the economical
plank. The running of the government
costs too much money. Away with this
machinery of diplomatic correspondence
with other nations. Why is it neces
sary for us to have expensive establish
ments in foreign nations only to settle
disputes international?" No minister
plenipotentiary ever settle a dispute.
It always has to be referred home
to the government, after all. Be
sides that, while such machinery
may have been necessary in the
time when it took a letter three
weeks to go to London and four or five
weeks for the answer to come back, in
our time, when the government of the
United States can rise in the morning
and in one hour talk with St. Peters
burg, and talk with London, and talk
with Italy, and talk with Madrid, and
all the nations ol Europe, there is no
use of such lumbrous and expensive
machinery. Beside that, it seems to
me that it ought not to cost $200,000
to hang one Presidential assassin.
There are people who seem to think
that the United States government is
something merely to steal from. The
shoveling out of the national treasury
without discrimination and without
right is enough to sicken the heart of
every philanthropist. Now, let a man
arise, North, South, East or West,
with enough talent and with enough
good character to lead forth in a move
ment in which the moral and the eco
nomic ideas shall ho dominant over all
others, and then yon will see the Ge
henna of modern politics fumigated
and plowed under. 1 wait for the foun
dation of such a party. I wait for the
coming of such a man. Where is the
Moses? Where is the Joshua? We
are as a nation on the way to either re
formation or destruction. A flight of
doves discovered to Columbus the di
rection of the land. We shall come to
new and regenerated America by a flight
of prayers. Wo need in our homes, in
our common schools and in our churches
the principles of pure patriotism incul
cated. We want to live in a national
atmosphere cleansed of all moral con
tamination, and the dust of our graves
untouched by the feet of the demagogue
and the despoiler! God save the State!
God save the nation!
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