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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1876. ..
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1 VKL.TON & CO., Proprietors:
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Three Months,
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1 7 -mie«».?*«*> .eomh For longer
Jft a hlKT.il defluctuw Will he mule. A
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F. B. PHINIZY,
(Successor to C. H. l'hiuijy & .Co. •
C0T2 0JY FAC2 Oli;
Augusta, Georgia.
I.iherul Advances made ou Consignments.
inne«i.4m.
NOTICE!
r«UIE BUSINESS HERETOFORE CARRIED ON
A under the name ana style of C. II. l*liini*y & Co.,
will expire by limitation on the 31st day of’August
next. Either partner will sign the linn name in iiqni-
nation. ,
C. II. PHINIZY.
F. 15. PHINIZY.
ti .sr.ocjfiAilfafr
IT N retiriug from tlic Cotton Commission Business. 1
1 take pleasure in reUinum* thanks to my friends who
hnve patroninsd ao liberally the firm of VJ. H. l*iiini*y
tte Co., and to oak from them a continuance of tiui same
to my late paitner, Mr. F. B. Phinizy, whom I heartily
Tecommena as worthy of t their confidence. Ills ex
perience in ample, ami hi* facilities* fortim uiunu^ement
of the Cotton business unsurpassed.
junc3.lt. : ‘0. 4 H. ; PHINIZY.
imEUSlTY OF GE0UGIA.V
aft.x.TJM3sri sociOHrr'sr.
The/ Permanent Homestead: 1!
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.ton Hiotel,
Z3ol*o» GSoorg:leu
Situated f»6 utiles oil tke'Atlanta, Bichmond and Air
Line Knilrond from Atlanta, and within one mile of the
. >1 lire... - — ^ W j junction of the .North East Railroad of Go. The Pr
5 00 j prietor is now prepared to serve all who call upon hi:
1 00
2 25 i
1 50 I
r f**
: legal rales corrected
Countv.
by
him
with meals at the following rates:
Single meal 50c. | Per week $0.00
Per day fci.ii> l Per nioiitl),#20.ot>
f juhis.ly. ’* S. II. HUGHES.
:in333 and Professional Cards.
If. R. LITTLE, ~
It to v ney at L a n>,
caune-ville, ga.
S. DORTCH
Alior a e y al Law,
I’ARSESVILLE, GA.
Au ksdn. L. W. Thomas.
JACKS OS A THOMAS, |>*
ttornoys at Law,
Athens, Georgia.
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non.yet sir law,
ATHENS, GEORGIA,
niion given to all business and the same
dieted. janll-ly.
VO PE BARROW,
riO/LYET A2 LA W,
ATHENS, GA.
Ivin Mr. J. 11. New ton's new ouildiug.
K. SCHAEFER,
r 0 T T O JV II U Y E 11,
T* 5%
—DEALER IN—
\iutricw aad Imparted patches, Clacks, Jcnelrv,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
SA-vasisal Xxxa-fcx-aaaoxx-fco- Gvmo,
Fiwtela, 33-fcs.
WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY REPAIRED
IN A NEAT, WORKMANLIKE MANNER,
And warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental ami Plain LcUtr Eng Hieing a Specialty.
QQLLS92 AV2X92, cm dear fren 3oak Start Corner. A7S2US, GA.
*" feb.lBtf. * ‘ '
wun,
SHOE
college: avenue,
Next Door to Post Office.
am Pr i
ntt \ l’n
toccoa errv, «a.
paid for Cotton.
Con-
Kejmir-
E. A. WILLIAMSON,
PRACTICAL
Cl I MAKER AND JEWELLER,
K:n.:'> Drugstore, Broad Street, Athens, Gn.
ir in a superior manner and warranted to
.ion. Jam8.lS75.tL_
It. E 7 HR AS HER,
l / 0 /2JYET A2 LA w,
WATKINSVILLE, GA.
O N hand, Uppers for making Low Quarto
grew, Alcxis-Tt<**, and Prinoc-itAlherts.
ing promptly executed. **"*'' —
Send ten dollars, per mall or express and you shall re
ceive a first class pair of hoots.
Juno 80,1375. S5-tf.
Great Reduction in Prices
I Hor the next tliirty days. Brackets, Wall
Pockets, and all kinds of Ornamental Wood Work,
will be sold a;
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Now is the time to tnako your houses beautiful at low
figures.
Greav bargalna given in everything at
26-tf BURKE’S Bookstore.
CASH FOR WOOL,
—OR—
CLOTH FOR WOOL.
t i'-r:,ier Ordinary’s Office. jan25.1876.1 y
A. G. MeCUllRY,
ATT OTHTETT AT I.iVW,
HARTWELL, GEORGIA,
civ, »trirt iwrsonal utlenUon to all business, cn-
11" liis rare. A ug.4.1»75.1y.
REMOVAL!
1. SALE, LEJY2JS2,
Mi >Y liD to t’.ie ollieo lately oecopicd by Dr. J.
-•tl jis guaranteed in both Worlrnnd Prise*.
i’. G. THOMPSON, l / ^
■ ttoruey at JLt a w,
>:i juid to criminal practice. For refer-
> i 1 Ks. Gov. T. H. Watto and Hon. David
"Ttsr »:nory Ala, Otficb over Barry’s Store.
'**• ’ Feb, 8.1675.tf.
Til A XK IIARRALSOS,
LTfOUXEr AT LAW,
CLEVELAND, GA.
• s'c* iu the conutlet of White, Uuion^ Luua-
' im 1 Funning, nud the Supreme Court nt
^ ‘*1 give sjH'ciai attention to all 'claims eii-
UL i*4 r, \ Ang. 11
JOHN IF. 0 WES,
■ ttornoy at Law.
TACO A C1TV, OA.
^ :k\'m all the counties of the Western Cir-
' md MadijM.n of the Northern Circuit. Will
kl attenion to all claims entrusted to his care.
K-Uy.
,R Howell Cobb.
L. & II. COBB,
\llornejrs at Lair,
Athens, Ga.
'>" Deuj.rec Building.
W'Uy.
aLex. 8. ERWIN,
Attorney at Lan\
Athens, Ga.
Street, between Center &
' ' es an *l Ori & Co., up stairs.
AND IALE STABLE.
TLuj'jies and Horses for Hire.
TEp MS REASONABLE. , i
^i 1 >, Washington. Wilks. Co., Ga.
m~a. wise,
. -With-
f®VEIt, STUBBS & CO
Cotton. Kactors,
-And-
f :ra ‘ Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
fv r Cy Ropr and olher supplies furnished.
I u ' 1 I'L'ancvs made on conaignmcnW for
| '•!*« to Liverpool or NortUrn port*.
M»y SO.1875.tf.,
i, ’®sli Meats.
| J ( HEAD & w. F. HOOD,
Esiure* ^ ctso * T A ”» Ooox** Gnacn.
^li ssf’ i l V TT °N, PORK, AND 8AU8AGE,
foiulisT, fiansage). Onr Solicitor is
< of Aih^*' JV’dy to anpply the want* of th«
l * r ‘wro give u* your onler* and wo
1 prior* p*id for Bo»ve*, Sheep,
1R7S ; 1 - t - J. J..HEAD & cb.\
• Tlic Athens Manufacturing Coinrmnv are now making n
1 much larger variety of Woolen Goods than ever before,
: ami propose to
Exchange them for Wool,
believing it to he more to the interest of the Planter to
Exchange the Wool for Cloth, rather than have it Card
ed and Spun at home. Cull for Samples and Terms ot
Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent.
May 19,1S75—29-tf.
“DiTjOIXN G-E li DIN e7
Late of Mississippi,
H aving decided to make Athens iiis
future home, now tenders his professional services
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Address of Judge James Jackson.
Mr. President and Gentlemen, AUumni of
t/ie University of Georgia—Ladies and
JGefylemint ; i -r X’
^ Some sixty years ago a young American
visited England. His eye rested with rap
ture upon its beautiful scenery; his imagina
tion revelled in its rich local associations, his
heart loved its delightful domestic life. That
which he sn n, admired and loved, he trans
ferred Lx, paper and print, nud the Sketch-
laSjdr <jr AVashinglon Imnsp was enrolled
a*mdng the’ classics ‘of ttie English toiigue.
When a youth at this old seat of learning,
I read that book, and ray own taste echoed
the beauties which the author’s gr-ni ig had
evoked from the Fatherland. One scene
impressed me most vividly; it was stereotyp
ed upon my brain ; it is in my mind’s eye
now: a thing of beauty in boyhood, it has
been to me a joy forever. It is a Christmas
scene beneath the rooftree of an ancient
English family. All the children of the
blood have reassembled around the hospita
ble hearthstgne. Age in,its serenity, child
hood in it* glee, vigorous man and graceful
graceful womgn. all sire there—all at home
again. Pleasant is the reunion. Sweet
though sad are the memories awakened by
familiar objects around them. The groves
and lawns and walks, the old gnarled cak
and clinging vine, the limpid'and ever prat
tling brook, the church, the church yard, the
monumental stone with itJmemento of births
aud deaths, all awaken “ the memory of joys
that are passed, pleasant yet mournful to
the soul.” The paintings adorning the walls
recall forgotten scenes of family suffering or
of family triumph. The portraits of long
lines of ancestors, looking down from those
walls, rekindle, as from the ashes of the
dead, the dormant fires of family pride and
ancestral glory!
Thus, gentlemen, English home-life shoots
its roots deep into English soil; evergreen is
the foliage, perennial the blossom ; and Eng
lish heart-strings, like so many fibrous roots,
ramify and intertwine every clodjot English
soil, tying the hearts of that mighty ]>eople
to their native land with ligaments stronger
than Victoria’s throne, or the omnipotence
of Parliament, or the pillars of that venera
ble Constitution which for centuries have
withstood the storms of foreign battle and the
whirlwinds of civil war. The elevation of
the landed interests of England, the assur
ance of title to the soil, the certainty of des
cent from father to son, the superior social
status of the owner of the free, land represen
tation inParliamer —these tend to concentrate
heart and purse upon local scenery aud asso
ciation ; these enable Art to pour rich coffers
and fresh boauiies year after year into Na
ture’s open lap; these constitute that Alad
din’s lamp, which British genius—good, hard,
common sense—has so long wielded over the
islaud, converting it all iuto a beautiful gar
den, wherein eloquence and poeLy, heroism
and industry, philosophy aud the fine arts,
the higher education and our pure religion,
hava so long sat and sung, awl walked and
talked, and preached and printed, and where
in stiff they sit and sing, and walk and talk
and preach and print to-day. One result is
to tho citizen* of Athens and its vicinity.
CtxVrox f t., in uuiLtHXG qf J6uk H. Ntwnw’s,
inhere he may bo found from 8 o’clock a. m. to f> p. if.,
when not nrofeasifoally engaged. Can bo found at
night at residence of the late Mrs. Goldings.
march28.ly. N - i i v r
Miss C. Potts,
.Fashionable Di'essnaajcer
*0 K <Otct UniverMty Bunk.)- lr\
Broad Street, - - - Alliens.
Would respectfully inform the Ladies end her friends
generally, of Athens urtil vicinity, that she is now pre-
pared to do Dress making in the Neatest and most
FASHIONABLE STYLES.
With her experience in *tb« bwoineee, she fowls* wore ot
giving satisfaction. May 14,187*' 28-ti.
GENERAL TICKET AGENCY,
RAILROAD TICKETS
>r sal*, by *11 route*, owl to nil principal jpfi A in
UNITED STATES.
Buy yonr Ticket* before leaving Athens, and get* all
information from
n Capt. \VM. WILLIAMS,
A"cnt Southern Express Co., Athens, Ga.
May 18, ’75 - s - tf -
that imperishable monument of British
glory—English literature. The influence of
local association upon the mind is wonder
ful. The power of the union of that abstract
something called thought—incorporeal, in
tangible, invisible itself—with local objects
which nnty be handled and seen cannot' be
overestimated. It has been felt in evefy
country where literature has flourished.
Indeed it seems to be its life-blood—its very
heart sending out the rich, red current which
sives it color, form, grace, beauty—stop this
flow of blood in the veins of literature, and
yon not only deprive her of her glowing
complexion, but you amnsculate her flesh,
dry up her muscles aud sinews, make rigid
and angular her round proportions and
flexible grace of motion, and leave her noth
ing but a naked skeleton of hard dry boues!
Noah' which God set in \he^dfmXD ImL
signet ring of Jehovah that never more would
He desolate the earth with a deluge. The
wild flowers whose fragrance sweetened the
inaccessible glens of r the iROunton/sfdes of
Helicon and Parnassus expanded their
beautiful petals to catch the dewy nectar
for the repast of the Muses and the Graces—
food sweeter even than honey gathered by
the bees from the blossoms of Hymettus;
and not a flower blown where aerial Nymph
could alight, was “ born to blush unseen and
waste its sweetness on the desert air j ’’‘'strik
ing analogy again to the Bible truth, that
God has made nothing useless and without
purpose, but His all-seeing eye is everyw here
and He everywhere openeth His hand and
feedeth every living thing!
Thus, gentlemen, the entire surtax of the
earth, mouutaiu agd valley, fountaitvand flow
er, Helicon, Parnassus, Olympics, Pelion
and Ossa, the sweet vale of-Tefnpc, the
springs of Aganippe and Hippocrene, the
Castalian fount, the very Acropolis of
Athens, where Neptune’s trident, like Moses’
rod, brought water, from the rock, and
Minerva’s touch rootisl the full leaved olive
to shade the fount.; the over-hanging heavens
with morning hues and twilight glory and
thundering cloud aud bow of peace; the
caverns and glens beneath with flowers and
fern ami mossy leaf—r 1—all—were used by
the ancient classical writers as warp, into
which the web of thought wns woven jnl
.order to present it visible,, attractive,- bcautr*'
ful to the eye; thought imaginative super
stitious, false if you please, but nevertheless
beautiful, elevating, humanizing, immortal;
and these rich carpets spread over earth,
and these magnificent curtains suspended
from sky and rnouutain and hill top, where
thought is interwoven with everlasting
scenery by immortal mind, constitute to
this day that charm which more than all
the glory of her arms rende.s Greece hallow
ed ground, and still attracts the traveler
to the fair fields of the soft Campania! Tiiat
oldest and grandest of all books—the Holy
Bible—gentlemen, furnishes abundant
evidence of the same truth—the adaptability
of local scenery and association to the pre
sentation and striking adornment of even
inspired thought. Nor should it suprise us
that such is the fact. AH high nud grand
thought cast metaphor from it is a.s sub
stance does shadow. The substance of all
holy thought is in Heaven ; we can only see
it here through the glass darkly, to be seen
at all, it must be reflected from earthly mir
rors; it must incarnate itself in earthly
similitudes or remain unuttered ami un
heard by man. Hence the Bible abounds in
metaphor, and is a book of poetry. Destin
ed for the use of all men and to be coeval
with the earth its holy thought is one grand
picture set in the universal frame of nature
and garlanded with flowers from every clime.
Therefore St. John’s vision at Patmos
abounds in similtudes and “ pure rivers of
water, clear as crystal, golden streets and
pearly gates, the throne, and “ a rainbow
round about the throne,like unto an emerald,”
the “ sea of glass-like unto crystal ” and er&
tho voice of harpers harping with their
harps,” are but faint descriptions; dim and
shadowy reflections, of the glories of the
Apocalyptic vision. In that wonderful
poem, the Book of Job, the whole range of
physical nature, animate and inanimate,
from behemoth and leviathan to the snow
flake and dew drop is exhausted to present
to man the wonderful dealings of God, the
Omnipotent ruler, with Satan the power
ful adversary and tempter of man, and Job
the patient child of affliction. The Psalms
ot David draw from local scenery much of
their captivating imagery. A shepherd lad
tending his father’s flock", he ibecame famil
iar with jrastoral life. Elevated to the
throne, his heart beat full of gratitude to
God, and thus he made that heart beat felt
in every tongue, by nil the generations ot
men : “ The Lord is my shepherd, I shall
not want. He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures, He leadetli me beside the
still waters—yea, though I walk through
the valley of "the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil; for thou art with me, thy rod
and thy staff, they comfort me.”
Looking upon the mountains which sur
rounded Jerusalem, and estimating their
raan seuses the essence and spirituality and
grity of the Di,vine Nature, nu<l Ilis in-
nitely merciful," tender, forgiving, paternal
dealings with the children of men. Indeed,
gentlemen, God has always symbolized Hint-
selfin physical forms when He would nppoar
to man, for the obvious reason that, man
could not otherwise comprehend God. The
five senses are the only natural avenues
leading to the mindto reach it, ideas, con
ceptions of all sorts must pass f through one
' Oh^ gentlciucn, borne with its Surroutad-
ings and associations, whether that home
be palace'ov t coinage, is'ever jthe nursery of
reonius-Atbp 1J( >st where the young bird a<s
quires,, at ptice tlig streugtli.to fly aud th'ff
plumage to sustain and adorn - 'its flight.
The patriotic, heart of Thomas' Moore,
tying its strings around the relics of Irish
liberty and feeding bis genius wi^h the as
sociations they awakened, has rendered
Tara’s liajls ( more immortal ‘all the
of these senses; and the eye is not only the 1 kings wh'o.eVpq'weiit tolhittfe from Tara’s
ipostbeautiful, but .the most instructive of —'-”'-
the senses—therefore, when the centre and
sourc^ of all mind wouljf reach the.minds
He ha* created, He has usually selected jhe
eye as the medium of approach. *
Thus, Jacob mir the ladder and the as
cending and. descending angels ; Moses staw.
the burning bush; all Israel edw , the,pillar
of cloud and of fire, aud Sinai’s smoking
and fiery top; and again, at Salomon’s
beautiful dedication of the temple, all Israel
saw the whole house illuminated with the
glory-cloud of the Divine Presence and Ajv,
proval; and again, on Carmel’s heig|it, in
answer to Elijah’s prayer,..all Israel saw
“ the fire fall from Heaven, and consume the
burnt offering, and the v:bod and the stones
and the dust, aud lick . up the water round
about in the trench;’’ and later yet in the
fullness of time, Peter and James and John
sate the body of Jesus transfigured aud glo
rified with Moses and Elijah; and after
wards all the Apostles and others saw the
ascension of Jesus to (he skies, and the sub
sequent descent of the Holy Ghost sitting
upon them as cloven tongues, like as of
fire; and Paul sate, at noon day, the glory
of a light that blinded him—a light above
the exceeding brightness of the sun. Gen
tleman, revelation tells us that this earth
shall be wrapt in flames and pass away, and
a new heaven aud earth shall appear ; but I
believe that new earth will he but the old
earth passed through fire to her purification
—rejuvenated and Edcnized again.—Sinai
and Ncbo and Carmel and Zion and
Jordan and Jerusalem and Nazareth and
Bethlehem and Bethany aud. Gethsemane
and Calvary must lie immortal! The foot
steps of Jehovah have immortalized tho soil.
Eternal thought has been interwoven by
Omnipotence with all this scenery, and its
glory must he perennial.
However this may be, one thing is certain,
the fact that God clothes inspired thought,
with local scenes and surroundings, gives
the sanction of almighty wisdom to the influ
ence of local sceuery and association upon
the human soul; and demonstrates beyond
cavil the power of physical forms to impress
and glorify human thought. If wo turn
from classical and Biblical literature to the
writers who have made the deepest impres
sion upon the literature of England, v.e i
shall find local aud physical associations
equally powerful in moulding the intellect
and beatifying its productions. Shakespeare
crystalized thought into every form of mate
rial beauty, strung it with coral and pearls,
set it in diamonds and embalmed it in flow-
Milton had looked sofntcutly and lov
ingly upon Nature, that upon the broad
retina of-his memory, ns upon some grand
mirror, universal grandeur and loveliness
were so indelibly reflected, that when blind
to all outward glory he had hut to look w ith
in, and a world of glory there emparadised
bis thoughts. Bunyan’s Pilgrims’ Progress
walls - . the wafers of the Boyne touched by
liis'sorrowing pen shall forever flow, with
the iiiijrruuripg ramrih that tlie demon dis
card js tjie .direct :\iict yilest fbe of any rswio
fightmg for frgediOm; ajid. Avoca T s Vile,
‘ c where the bright, waters meet',” shall al-
wAys" tjypify the, delightful reunion!} of
friendship and love. Indeed, from tlic mo
ment Moore lifted Erin’s dusty Harp from
the shelf where he found its neglected
wires, and attuned them to song, to the
lime lie restored it there, garlanded with
gtorv—patriotism, borne, Ireland, was the
theme and inspiration of his verse:
44 Pear Harp of my country, farewell to thy numbers,
This bright wreath of sob# is the lft*t we shall twiue;
Go sleep with the sunshine of tame ou thy slumbers,
’Till awaked by some hand less unworthy than mine!
It ihe pulse of the patriot, soldier or lover, d ". • r .
JIave throbbed at our lay, ’iis thy ffiorv alone,
I was but as the wind passing heedlessly over,
Aud all the wild sweetness I waked was thine own.”
Thus, gentlemen, I might multiply ex
amples to show- the influence of local asso
ciation upon literature and to exhibit tho
manner tti which settled, fixed,' home life
intensifies tins influence, and develops and
ripens literary talent. Let tlieso examples
suffice. Logic sustains what experience
attests; . Popular literature, that which
moves the hearts of the peopla and stirs
those hearts with answering echoes, must
itself bo the offspring of heart as well as
mind; and the producing heart and mind
must have time to take root in tho soil, anrl
grow upon the food its scenery, attach
ments and memories so abundantly supply.
Indeed, true Art is but the close imitation
of Nature. The more deeply and thor
oughly Nature is loved and learned, the
more excellent Art becomes. Thai instru
ment makes music sweetest which approxi
mates nearest to ‘- the human voice divine.”
Tlie statue Ircirthes, tlic canvass speaks,
only, when Art deceives the eye with the
very similitude, the perfect likeness of
Nature. As with music, sculpture and
painting, so with the art of writing—par
ticularly with fictitious writing—it approx
imates perfection as it approaches Nature,
personifying men as they are aud describing
scqijcry as it exists. Shakspeare wrote,
“The world's a stage and men and women
actors;” Shakspeafe’s art was to make the
stage a real world, and actors real men and
women. Scott, Bulwcr, Dickens, all make
fiction appear tact, and show that Ihe best
creations of human genius are but the most
accurate copies of natural scenery, character
and manners. There is but one creative
Mind; the' others are mere creatures and
copyists, and that created mind is greatest’
that copies closest Nature, the work of the
creating,M’md.
But, gentlemen, tlie permanent home
stead, and tho consequent elevation of the
landed interest and attractions of home-life,
teud surely and irresistibly to elevate, rt-
arewdtmiTralhnng^orvilwaryoyerwbelmuig-
lyso;* lit demolishes the homestead and
scatters the j Tamiry» -When:''"shall we re
cover from it’s appalling effects ? The
legislator, at tho .Capital of tlte State or of
theJiationpxperieuces tlic sinking influence
oflh'6 tres'cflferbf'tlie elevating associations
of home. If it’s absence docs not destroy,
it tends to stunt tlie' trow'th of piety in the
soul; and’ifHhdtoirtmpotenceof grace does
not permit it to kill id! religion, despite that
omnipotence, ! speak ptrongly bnt reverent
ly, it too often makes it but ap ill-shaped
and uncomely dwarf t The stranger abroad
suffers too id his moral life because the res-'
traiuts 1 oMiomw do not: surround; him.
When abroad,.men will frequent, place? and
do deeds which, if frequented and done at
home, would mantle the face with shame.
ConsCihncC itself srcirs ’©■'loose the strong
est ties which bind it to virtue, when it cuts
the striugs that tie it to the homestead. .
Now, gentlemen, lot that home be tlie
sanie which ancestors had owned, and oc
cupied continuously before—let church and
church-yard, door-sill and hearth-stone be
the same—all a .onndhis mansion, let the
occupant see ancestral foot-prints, and then
impregnable to vice and crime-—so far as
any piaeo this side of Heaven can be—shall
be such a home. * Lifo there shall be life
with the dead and with posterity—with the
virtuous past to be transmitted, untarnished
to the future—happy if the possessor feel
that ancestry and posterity, all linked with
the common come, smile approval, but O,
how miserable if they weep in sorrow or
scowl with scorn!
Patriotism and piety, gentlemen, arc twin
sisters twin daughters of the hallowed and
the hallowing associations of ho nc. The
captive children of Isfael could not sing the
Lord’s soiig in a<.straffge land ; silently and
sadly their harps bung upon the willows by
the waters .of Babylon. Even Christ’s;
human soul wrapped Us affections closely
around the land of his earthly fathers, and
tlie great heart of Jesus agonized not only
for the souls of liis countrymen but over tlie
ruins of his country. “ And when he was
come near, lie beheld the city and wept over
it saying. If thou had’st known, even thou,
at least iu this thy day, the things which
belong unto thy peace; but now they arc
hid from thine eyes. For the days shall
come upon thee, .hat thine enemies shall
cast a trench about thee, and compass tlieo
round and keep thee in on every side, and •
shall lay tlieo even with tlie ground and thy
children witiiin thee, and shall not leave in
thee one stone upon another; because thou
knowest not the time of thy visitation.”
“ O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killctli
the prophets and stonest them that are sont
unto *hee; how often would I have gather
ed thy children together as a hen doth
gather her brood under her wings, but ye
would not! Behold, your house is left unto
you desolate.’’ Though John Wesley’s
parish was the world, his heart grappled
England with undying tenacity: and
neither obloquy nor persecution could drive
him from tho communion of her National
Church I Patriotic fervor as well as Chris
tian zeal fired the prayer of John Knox
when he cried : “Lord give me Scotland
or I die!” Root the heart, gentlemen,
deep into the soil, tie it there by the myriad
is one picturesque allegory—a long vine of! The pioneer, ever restless and energetic, is
metaphor full of branches and thorns aud j eV er as rough—rarely cultivated and re-
flowers—an actual, visible journey from g ne d. 'The hustle and activity of his life
earth to heaven—a flight, leaving all be- ; leave no time for contemplation of the
hind, from the wrath to come—a race, drop-1 mu.-cs or fellowship with the graces. His
ping every burden and laying aside every j very surroundings preclude . their close ap
weight, to the Celestial City, ’’ *” ’ ■’ ’
fine and polish society. Ordinarily, the Huic tendrils of home-life, and then shall
,Tder the country, the better its society. ! L ’ S outgrowth be taste, refinement, patriot-
— ■ - - - ism, piety. Nor is this all—conservatism
is another of its certain fruits. A fixed
landed interest, 1 a settled home, is of the es-
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■C.L ;„^r inmress the minds ad- the hero poet-sung:” riioy that trust in the
R? R» SAULTER,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
visible in order to impress tlie minds ad
dressed; and whilst all language is the garb
thought wears, yet the more strikingly and
tastefully it is dressed, the more powerfully
anil lastingly does ‘it impress the receiving
mind. _ »-■>
The ancients were familiar with this prin
ciple of mental philosophy and acted upon
its knowledge, arraying and adorning their
thoughts in drapery woven from the visible
all around them. Indeed, if you take from
tlie glowing numbers of Homer ami Virgil,
of Hesiod and Horace, this beautiful drapery
and sparkling jewelry, dry narrative or dull
criticism in numbers will alone remain—
sound may still be there, but sound monoto
nous and dreary as the continuous sighing of
the winds through the pine forests of South
etti Georgia.
Glace with me a moment, gentlemen, at
WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER,; smne 0 f the pictures of these great painters
mv 1’ifi.MH Sr .«. ..r il,I,f . wntnripa liivp planned since
ALE, GIN, CIGARS, &.,
CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE,
Jackson Striet, ATiir.v*, Georgia.
Oct. 8—d-tf.
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable,
Ath.©ja.s, Georgia,
• GANN & REAVES PROPRIETORS
WiB Bo found *t their old stand, rear Franklin Houec
building, Thomas street. Keep slwavs on haml good
Tnmont* *nd careful driver*. Mock we.l rior
when entrusted to onr cure, block on hand for side »t
all time*. _ deeUtf ’
Planters’ Hotel, Augusta, (Ja.
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Summer of 1875, is now opened, with Increased food'-
ties for the accommodation of the travelling public,
feht-ly B. lVCUWTFIELD, Proprietor.
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, MEDICAL X01ICE.
At the solicitation of m»ny of my former patron*, l
resume the
[Practice of JVEedicine
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Jane 1«,1875—SSily. -
fat 1 ' COCHRAN,
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^ given to the purchase and **le of
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PRICES WAT DOWN!
AdELss g. fcjstr
,TS SELLING MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS
l ot prices lower than ever before i Hsta trlm(neu
with fcibbons end flower* «t *1.00’, CblplUt* «t *i.5«
PomcU II»ta it 75c; No: IS Mid 1« Ribbon. »‘ *0«>d
.85 et*.;. A beautiful line of N*oktU», RuoUngn, SJlks,
call and be convinced at her store on Broad St, bitween
Dra. Longs & Billups and Smith’s Drug Stores.
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of thought; centuries have elapsed since
the brush was applied to the canvas, yet the
hues have not faded, the colors are still fresh.
—Those streaks of light which beautify the
morn and herald the rising day were to
these painters of thought but the touches of
tlie rosy fingered Aurora, the daughter of
the Morn, and when the people gazed upon
the morning sky they fancied that their beau
tiful goddess, with rose tipped fingers was
was painting the early day. Those broad
belts of pale light which encircles the heavens
at night were streams of milk spilt from the
overflowing breasts of the queen of heaven
as she ‘nursed the infant god, and poets,
philosophers and astronomers, all bow be
fore tlie majesty of ancient genius, and still
bail that light as the Milky Way. The lava
and ashes which the fiery mouths of JEtna
and Vesuvius disgorged from time to time
were but the refuse of metal and cinders
from those ^cavern shops wherein Vulcan
was forging the armbr of the gods.
I Echo, sweetest and saddest of all the nym
phs, and fairest daughter of earth and air,
pines away to a shadow—because her love
of the beautiful Narcissus was unrequited,
withdrew herself forever from animate gaze,
and made the banks and glens of the sin
uous Cephissus vocal with plaintive respon
ses to every voice of man or beast or bird
that broke the silence of her retreat! The
cloud-capped Olympus was the Council
Chamber where the Uods held high debate
for the tifeal of outn; the (Ronds which cap
the rainbow wKSshftrehed 3ho«:Ccloiids and
touched the earth was the highway for the
descent of Iris with l’ligniossage ol peace to
man—striking■ analogjKto the audience
chamber of the Almightj\with .Loses ou the
mm “
Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot
be moved, but nbideth for ever. As tlie
mountains are round about Jerusalem, so
the Lord is round about His people from
henceforth, even forever.” Driven to the
wilderness by Saul’s persecutions, be watched
the wild deer hasting thirsty to the water,
and thus his^adoring song took shape from
the figure in his eye: “ As the hart panteth
after the water-brook, so panteth iny soul
after Thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for
God, for the living God; when shall I come
and appear before God? Observing the
dew on the heights of Hermon, and each re
freshed flower and blade of grass as they
lifted their reviving forms to praise the skies
in unity and peace, he embalmed the senti
ment of Christian fraternity in the fall of
the dew-drop and the response of the flowers:
“ Behold how good and how pleasant it U
for brethren to dwell together in unity!
—As the dew of Hermon aud the
dew that descended upon tho mountains of
Zion ; for there the Lord commanded the
blessing, even lite for evermore.” Isaiah’s
prophetic eye rested on familiar objects
around him—on Bethlehem’s quiet village,
Calvarys unostentatious mound, Jerusalem's
magnificent temple—as his mind unfolded
the successive scenes of that sublime drama
which was realized and acted iu the humble
birth, the long-suffering life, the lamb-like
death, the majestic resurrection and ascen
sion and the eternal reign, of the glorious
King of the new Jerusalem and it’s glorified
inhabitants! Indeed, gentlemen, when on
Sinai’s awful summit, God revealed to
Moses the creation of the Heavens and
Earth with all moving beings and trees and
ilants and lightflbd water, it is now thought
>y the most eminent divines, that lie caused
the successive stages of the creation, tike a
magnificent panorama, to pass before the
eyes of that grandest of inen^ and Moses
transferred to the Book of Gehfesis the out
lines of the pictures which he saw l And
when Christ, that promised prophet like un
to Moses, came from. Heaven apd .spake on
earth as never man Ipake, God wa^'not only
incarnated in him -bodily, but he iuwarnated
divine thought in the visible aud tangible all
around him: and thaJpcamate God ew|ced
from the light of the candle and the* my on
the hill, from the salt and its savor, from the
fig tree, the vine and its branches, the lilies
at his feet, the flying fowl above him, the
MtirauwlKZU;
thronged avenue and the straight and nar
row path, the lofty mountain and the gor
geous temple, from nature and nature and
art blended in local scenery all over the holy
land, from these Christ drew the thread and
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The graveyard ot a quiet village, long fa
miliar to Gray, inspired the most elegant
and touching elegy in the English tongue.
Gold smith’s recollection of tlie home-life of
his father, and tlie scenes of his pastoral
visitations inspired in his soul the most
striking description of the ministrations of u
pure pastor among his flock in all the range
of literature. See the good nian iwPtfio' poet-
paints him at work for Heaven:
“ And ns a bird caeli fond endeaqncnt tries
To tempt it’s new fledged offspring to the skies,
He tried eacii art, reproved each dull delay,
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.”
Lord Bvron, traveling everywhere and ob
serving all things and drawing from all
sources to fill the great reservoir of his mind
from Ocean and Alps and the beautiful
sence of all conservatism. A Conservative
in political opinion is one tvho opposes all
vc.y u lww(i .^u o.o,. , ™ sl b «? trie< } schemes, lest in a wild hunt
proaeh. All men are chamelions; they will ^ ter imaginary blessings and Utopian
absorb and reflect tlie line of surrounding dreams, presort, practical good be endanger-
obiccts. Constant association with the wil- Ma . n ls , ev ® r so,hs ^-, Ho . who has most
clem ess' and the wild beasts and separation | ir J t 1 crc ‘ st ln . e t0 anc * V nin ? v '
from the arts of civilized life, not,only tend | a ^ c . * m ' * conservative, be-
to clothe the body with the rough texture ! cai isc_it is htsi interest so to be. There is
and rugged skins of the wilderness, but meaning, striking significance in tlic legal
they tend too to impart to the soul, the synonym for land; real estate—real pro-
•v-i -i -r-i x. perty—ns much as to say, “there is nothing
cloud-like or evanescent here, no trick or
sham; this is solid property. It embraces
the earth—all that which is affixed to it,
mind, the manners, much of the same rough
and rugged nature. Savage life is always
the growth of tjie wilderness : civilization
hews down the forest; and fields and gar
dens smile upon men, and men smile back
in response- The little flower pot in the
cottage window is the never failing sign
that within dwells some soul, if not yet in
the bloom of culture and refinement, iu the
possession of the germ at least that aspires
—from Ocean and Alps and tlie beautiful to unfold all delicate sensibilities within it-
Rhine and the relics -ot Roman -grandeur ge ]f. Now, as symmetry and taste inter,
crumbling beneath the weight of centuries-r. tw j nc tlioir graceful tendrils with
from that reservoir wherein was everythin,
terrible or lovely in nature, grand or beauti- ;
ful in art—fro?# A mind thitai-fnUTofr all
things, Byron drew vivid and varied hues
with which to paint his teeming thought aud
matchless verso ; yet when at the zenith of
his fame, when fawned upon and flattered
by adoring multitudes, he could not tear
from his heart the ivy-clad home of his an
cestors, but gave vent to his impassioned
yeaminga for the long neglected ivy and de
serted brook in strains of melancholy and al
most despairing melody.
44 Tl»o’ wit may flask from fluent lip» and mirth dis
tract tho breast, ’
Through midnight hours that yield no more their
former hope of rc*4, , ^ .,7 ^ ***'.'»
’Tis but os ivy leave* around the ruined fcurraftmath,
All greon and wildly fresh without, but grey and worn
beneath.” * /
44 Oh could I feel os l have felt, or he what I have been,
Or weep as once i could have wept o’er many a van
ished scene,
As springs in deserts found, seem sweet, nil brackish
though they be,
So ’midst the withered,w«istc,ofJifl?,thbse tearsvrpuld
tWtowe*” .7, Sill
Sir Walter Scott from mountain and
lake, valley and’rill, and mist and cloud—
iu contact aud communion with which his
genius grew into wonder-working powers
—drew such copious clouds of illustration
and poured them back upon his native land
in showers so frequent and refreshing, that
Scotland still sparkles with tho lustre and
teems with tho flower and fruit of that
mighty genius which converted her bleak
hills and blue ponds into the classic ground
of modem Europe. What traveler visiting
Loch Katrine cau ever dissociate its wild
beauties from the lace amitbnn of Ellen
Douglass as she tripped lightly along
banka or rowed her aliallop as lightly over
its waters:
“ A foot more liglit, a step more true.
Ne’er from the heath flower dashed the dew,
E’en the slight harebell raised its heed
Elastic from her »iry tread—
Her kindness and her worth to spy
Yon need bnt gun on Ellen’s eye;
Not Katrine in her mirror bine ,
Gave back the shaggy bunks more tree,'
Than every freeborn glance confessed
The gnilsleu movements of her breast.”
That great countryman of Scott, Robert
Bunts, from a simple hawthorn bush within
whose shade he sat with Highland Mary—
from the bonnie banks of Ayr—from the
cotter’s humble home, where Saturday
night the good man led in family pray.etv
evoked the most inspiring strains of ahaty
whose echoes shall murmur forever tyith
the rustle of the hawthorn leaf; the ripple
of Ayr’s water; ' :thd the breeze that tans
and garden and cascade and flower, by an
invisible but energising 'mesmerism, char
acter, conversation, manners, home life,
social life imbibe kiudrod symmetry and
grace. But how shall you thus fructify
and beautify the soil, and thereby beautify
the face, of society ? By assuring as far as
you can by law the title to the possessor
and his deseendents, is the plain and irre
sistible answer: Because the possessor,
having such a title descendible to his heirs,
will be stimulated by love of self, family,
posterity, to expend his incomes upon the
inheritance, to build upoii it solidly for gen
erations to come, to enrich the soil and
adorn the homestead nnd surroundings;
and this outward and visible adornment
shall operate inwardly upon the home cir
cle, the kindred aud the neighborhood, and
impart amenity and grace and polish to the
entire society around.
Nor is this all, gentlemen. What is pa
triotism hut love of country, and what is
country but that portion of the earth’s sur
face where God has set our homes? Our
country, if ,but the aggregation of all our
homes; tlieso homes adhere to the soil, aud
as we enrich that soil and beautify these
homes, we enrich the country aud beautify
its face; and with the spire of every new
church .and the erection of seats of learning
aud solid -and beautiful additions to home,
and linking all neighborhoods to each other
by nets of railway, and multiplying manu
facturing wheels,, a?/ attached to the soil,
our, hearts shall • swell with more of pride
and lo ve ,for the land of our fathers, patriot
ism become a passion, and in the whole
Hod-given univorse. therc wiU.be noplace
like home. Truthfully*,;then, as-well aa
proudly, may we all repeat the patriotic
verse of ihp English ppet: i; -..jMi-.q
“ There is a tend, of every land the pride.
Beloved hy Heaven, o’er all the vrorld beaid*, .
.Where brighter anna dispense aerpner light. s.v t*
• And teildririnoona emparedise tfcenight ; n ,-'
lii every chine, tho magnet the sow, *.'1:;-’
Touched by remembrance, trembles to that Bole;
For in this laud of Heaven’* peculiar grace, i ,
The heritage of natures noblest race, - -■ 1
Thtte in a spot of oartb tnpftfnalyi bjafl'i) ■ ’ >
^S^tef-undF
Art tixm a man !-S-p*tr'K*Mo4k a»odiul;
O 1 tbou shall find, howe’er tby footsteps main; [•.,!(]
That land % cvuntry, and that spot thyhomtl"
-Noristhis all—morals an<Frtligion, ttfll
feel the ; raesm<iri?m «t' all < thj* solid, Jmk>
movable wcaftli of, beauty, and expand too
under ft’s sway- The associations of home
are essential to good .morals. For want qf
such associations, the soldier and the sailor
inseparable from it.” If a man have that
property, and especially if it be inalienable,
so that he cannot sell and move its prooeeds
away when the State is in danger, be is
shuvnp to take care of it—he must bo con
servative of it, and being so, ho will oppose
all that endangers its safety. Hence ho
will look long before lie leaps into the air.
He will act and vole to save, preserve, con-*
serve that which' is, and must continue-to
be, his own and Ills children’s.
Gentlemen, that which is most needed
now among us is conservative principle, and
its restoration to power. I speak in no
party sense. The thought is too high for
the atmosphere of party. It soars above
the miasma of party corruptions. It is a
sound plank—heart of oak—too navrow,
perhaps, for the populace to stand upon, or
the demngogne to advocate; and therefore
not fit, it may be, lor any party platform.
Outside of all party relations, let us con
template the subject for a moment. In the
early history of our country our fathers
saw a wilderness he ore them, they were
pioneers and made governments for pio*
neers. Yet even at that time caro was
taken to preserve as well as to advance;
and the fathers saw that the element of
preservation—of conservation—was in the
immovable land; and hence in their funda
mental law they fixed the landed interest of
the country. By the early constitutions of
Georgia no man could be Governor of the
State unless lie owned five hundred acre*
of her soil; and in other States, the quali
fication of land owner extended to Sena
tors or Representatives, or both, and to the
voters for one or the other branch or both
branches of the Legislature. This was the
policy when we were pioneers; it would
seem that we should bo more conservative
now; yet what are'the facts ?
New States have been admitted into the
Union so hurriedly; the Western wilds
have been subdued so rapidly; land has
become so abundant and so cheap; the
constitutions bt the new States have ignor
ed all ’conservative checks so completely
that the old States have caught the con
tagion and the entire safeguard of checks
and balances has been swept from onr poli
tical system. I know; no State which hasa
conservative balance wheel left in its Con
stitution. All law making power i&'ini the
indiscriminate mass of the people. Gov
ernors. Senators, Representatives are. all
elected by the same constituency. Hence
the State Senates are riot more conservative
than the Houses, and the Governor some
times less conservative than either. The
Federal Constitution may. be better in this
respeqt only,' that the Senators are chosen
by the State Legislatures, but as these-in
both branches are chosen by all the people,
without regard to any fixed.interest in tho
States, a true, conservative, steady balance
wheel 1 lias no place j in that Constitution,
