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the ATHENS GEORGIAN : AUGUST 21, 18/7.
Well-Timed Remarks. 1‘rom such an institution. It was in
vain tliat it had honorable and learned
We extract the following well- and zealous professors. Dependent
timed remarks from the able address Jbr its support upon P" vat e i t uiti,>n * i ]
of Hon. .1 11. Gumming, delivered to
the Teachers Assoeiation, at Toeeoa
City, on the 9th mat.:
Let us now turn to ti e “Univer
sity.’’ The ;|ot of 1785, before refer
red to, was “ An act lor the more full
and complete establishment of a pub
lie seat of learning in this Strife.” The
language of the preamble is so full of
grand expectations that I recite it,
and let it speak for itself:
hail to debase its curriculum and
lower its standard so far that none
inclined to apply should be rejected,
and none ever udmitted should there
after be cast out. The consequence
was inevitable. The instruction ina
parted was that of a tolerable academy,
and the degree it conferred alike on
the proficiont and the unlearned had
neither value nor honor. I do not mean
to say that there are not many rij»e
scholars among its alumni : but 1 do
“ As it is the distinguishing hnppi-mv that its curriculum and its stun-
ness of free government that civil
order should lie the result of choice
and not necessity, and the common
wishes of the people become the laws
of the land, their public prosperity,
and even existence, very much de
pends upon suitably forming the minds
and morals of their citizens. When
the minds of the people in genera! are
viciously disposed and unprincipled,
and their conduct disorderly, a free
government will bo attended with
greater confusions and evils more hor
rid than the wild uncultivated state
of nature: It can only bo happy
where the public principles and opin
ions are properly directed, and their
manners regulated. This is an influ
ence beyond the stretch of laws and
punishments, and can be claimed only
by religion and education. It should
therefore be among the first objects
of those who wish well to the national
prosperity to encourage and support
the principles of relig on and, moral
ity, and early to place the youth un
der the forming hand of society, that
by instruction they may be moulded
to the love of virtue and good order.
Sending them abroad to other coun
tries for their education will not an
swer these purposes, is too humiliat
ing an acknowledgment of the igno
rance or inferiority ofour own, and
will always be the. cause of ,sp great
foreign attachments, and upon prin
ciples of policy it is inadmissible.
“This country, in the times ofour,
common d ngcr and distress, found
such security in the principles and
abilities which wise regulations bad
before established in the minds tffotir
countrymen, tliat our present happi
ness, joined to tin:pleasing prospects,
should conspire to make us feel our
selves under the strongest obligation
to form tbetyouth, the rising Hope of
our land, to render the like glorious
and essentiallBcrvices to dor country. 1
“ And whereas, for the great pur
pose ot internal education, divers al
lotments .of land have at different
times been-ma.de, particularly by the
Legislature at their session in July,
1783, and February, 1784, all of which
may be comprehended and made the
dard were not calculated to make
scholars. It would lie more agreeable
to myself and doubtless more popular
among my hearers to tqieuk of the
“University’’ in different terms.
But we are dealing with this subject as
men seeking to improve. We shall
not improve while we make that which
is unworthy the subject of commt nda-
tion. But I do not speak of the Frank
lin College of the present hour,
confess my ignorance of its actual con
dition 1 trust that there have been
improvements of which I have not
heard.
With what force and truth has the
honorable speaker here presented the
history of our so-called Stale Uni
versity. Though he claims to speak
of the college in its former days, not
professing to know much of its present
status, we can inform him that tbe
photograph he has drawn is quite as
applicable, if not more suited, to the
institution in its present condition,
and, indeed, wpuld admit of much
stronger coloring. How lamentable
a fact, vea', bow shameful a record,
w he*n the past history of our Stat.e
University shows it to liav« been
more a political arena for the gratifi
cation of ambitions trusteeship, a
field of contest- for opposing partisan
ship, rather than a seat of learning of
which all men might proudly boast.
Mow damaging to thy cause of
higher education ; how wounding to
the pride'of all true lovers oflearning,
that the government of. nnr State
University should have shown a
greater ambition fer swapping trus
tees or trading in professors, than in
sending out scholars ripe for the
higher duties and responsibilities of
life. Ah, Mis sad to think that the
government, that the disposition in
regard to what might have been the
educational pride of Geohria, should
basis of one general and complete es.- l ^ ,ls have been.
tnblishmcnt: Therefore exacted,”
What rolling sentences! What
magnificent expectations! What im
mense superiority over all foreign in-
When trusteeship becomes the
matter of personal ambition ; when
it is subject to factious preferences
stitui ions ol learning is foreshadowed ! an ^ prejudices; when, what should
As we read we begin to feel almost
sorry for the departing glories of Ox
ford and Cambridge waning before
this one general and complete estab
lishment. All tliis magniloquence of
the preamble rolling in our ears con
jures up before us nothing less than
Salamanca, with its. 12,000 students,
and Bologna, with its 13,000. The
lame and impotent conclusion was
Franklin College.. Fyllbw ing this tre
mendous flourish there was, through
a long scries of years, any quantity of
legislation i^relerettec to t|t* .“Uni
versity,” but it was all petty and bar
ren fX good results. It was mainly,
from lime to time, to increase or di
minish the number of U ustees, to pre
scribe the times of 'meeting of the
Senatii^.afffllliHIWIIlH^tntilMHriMCt titles
of purchasers .of the university lands.
’There was enough of this patching
and tinkering to keep the Legislature
in remembrance, that they 'had a
university, so-called; but it did not
advance that institution oqu step
nearer the position arrogated to it by
its high soutiding name. Silver and
gold , for this beggar, sitting at the
beaubftil gate «uf learning, the-State
had none, but such as she had—trus
tees—freely gave she unto it. To
look Jbraoxh the legislation opr this
subject of tue u University” one could
hardly escape the oonvicticn that the
lasb&W
—that Franklin College wgs to be
made what the preamble to the act of
1785 contemplated, “ the one general
and complete establishment’! of. learn
ing. by the addition and subtraction of
Trustees, and that the cause of ad
vanced learning was fixed on a firm
foundation when the Trustees assem
bled' in august senattis aeddemicus.
Little had this legislation to do with
that, without which there could be no
improvementmoney. When it could
«pare time enough from making and
unmaking trustees, the Legislature, on
two occasions, loaned the “Universi- .
ty” 85,000 and $10,000. having good
care to secure the repayment. The
permanent endowment became in 1821
$8,000per, annum, less than one-third
of the sum bow raised annually by
Richmond county to supplement* the
State-aid. to her common schools.
Not much could be expected, of course,
be a high ami honorable position is
so prostituted as to come within the
control of independent ami self con
stituted candidates, whose success is
won by that system of treating, log
rolling and electioneering, with which
the cross-roads politician is supposed
to be most familiar; when,-professor-,
ship is uo < longer based •upon that
qualification which should *6ver make
the first-class educator the envy am 1
ambition of every well-ordered insti
tution-ot learning, but bceVfiries Bim-
ply the matter of trade and combina
tion, or, perchance, the resJl of suc
cessful partisanship, then, in the
name of all that is reasonable, we ask,
is it at all surprising, that onr State
University does not dive in the hearts
of our people ?
We fully concur with the houorable
gentleman, that the legislatures of our
State have failed of that fostering care
which should have been* bestowed
upon the institution, founded by
the State and of which tbe State is,-
and should be, the true guardian. But
it must be remembered, that since the
College was given in trust to a Board
of Trustees, in whom the power of
their own continuance is vested, there
has existed between this body and the
legislature such difference, of opinion,
if not antagonism, as to the States
rightful authority in the control and
management of what should be, and in
fact is, her own instiltrtkqi, that the
legislatures from time to time have
certainly, in no small degree, been ex
cusable for their dereliction in provid
ing for the wants of the College.
We are glad to kuow that Major
Cumming, has thus raised his voice
so abiy and so eloquently in behalf of
the cause of education, and that he has
so well, and so timely spoken in regard
to his Alma Mater.
Wo trust that what he has so
spoken may prove “ the leaven' which
leaveneth the whole lump.’’ and that
the Alumni, cf at least his day and
time, rallying around his standard, we
may hope to see “ life in the old Col
lege vet.’’
The MexicaiTQuestion.
IX the Administration Taking Water Altrr Ita
First Hold Stand.
Railroads.
Schedule Northeastern Railroad.
A SPLEIIBfB BPPBftTUilfTY
[/rum the New York World.L
Washington, August 3.—Your
correspondent from Mexico says that
Americans and Mexicans are alike
anxiously awaiting the arrival of the
mail to find what our government
would do in answer to *h««nnt-M5 .insult
of Diaz, or his Minister ot War, in
his remarkable orders to Trevino, as
published in the official Mexican pa
per
Change of Schedule.
Ou aud after MONDAY, June 33d, 1877. tbe
morning train on tiie Northeastern Railroad will
be discontinued. Tbe evening train will run as
follows:
EVENING TRAIN
Leave Athens ...U. 4.60 P. M.
Arrive at Lula 6.50 P. M.
Leave Atlanta via A. L. R. H 4.00 P. M.
Leave Lula 7.20 P. M.
Arrive at'Atneus 9.43 P. M.
Ample time at Athens for passengers on np-
day of Athens Brunch Georgia Railroad, to con
nect with this train. Close connection at Lula
with North boned train on A. and C. Air Line
Railroad.
J. M. EDWARDS,
je5-tf Superintendent.
Atlanta and Augusta Undersold.
NOTICE.
Augusta, GA.,May 1st, 1876.
. On after Monday, May 1st, 1876
lam airs id they will have t° j the Passenger trains on the Georgia
THE TREMENDOUS STOCK OF
Railroad will run as follows, viz
1>av Passesoer Thais wn.r
Leave Athens at y.00 i. m.
Arrive at Augusta at 4.00 v. u.
Arrive at Atlanta at 4.00 p. si.
Leave Augusta at... b.oOa. y.
Leave Atlanta at. 8.00 a. y.
Arrive at Athens at... i ....'. i.55 p. if-
N ion r Passenger Tkaix.
Leave Athens at
Arrive at Augusta at..
Arrive at Atlanta at
Leave Augusta at
Leave Atlanta . ..j.
Arrive at Athens at
.... h.aO p. m.
.... 7.85 a. y.
.... 3.25 a, n.
.... 8.20 r. y.
it* .10.30 rt y.
6.50 a. y.
Passengers from Atlanfi, Athens, Wash
ington, or any point on tin; Georgia Railroad
and Branches, by taking the Day* Passenger
Train, will make close connection; at Cumafc
with Train 'or Millcdgerille aiid Macon.
Sleeping (iars on Night Passenger Trains.
-S. K. JbiiiraoX’ Superintendent,
aprilduf - •] pi.--y-:., y f J
ATLANTA
- • • iAir^IAne. i- •» - ;
CONDENSED TIME CARD-
ATL ANTA. -
!ELA.ST-fcU.e.lSr aiTiauaSji
'id.hi
les,
AND WAGONS,
-OF THE OLD RELIABLE FIRM OF
HODGSON BROS
MARKED DOWN.
, J . {. » U
PRICES GREATLY . RSDX7CEE «.
* ' • ’ - . ( / -i (/ f f{ /Mu! 1 f
We huve on hand the Largest STOCK SOUTH OF BALTIMORE,'and it must and will b,
sold without delay. Good Buggies, HODGSON MAKE for , ’
me mmm& BaitAfis.
Th£ Celebrated Hodgson Wagon,
. , . .* .-» d l WT.t*r <*' 1.
• * I * Ptf-i- • e * .
known.all over the State for .their durability and strength, and ure bevond question the bes
\V AGON’S ever sold in this section'of the Conntrv. Parties wishing auy sort of
Vehicles are respectfully invited to Urokthr^pgh our stock.
BEramxjcG Jtaa Wq&g
wait until their patience is exhausted,
and I fancy that I can see the _bvoad
grin on the faces of the Mexicans, and
the disappointed looks of the Ameri
cans, when they find that the Ameri
can Government will do nothing’ be
yond pocketing the insult, and even
after recognizing Diaz’s Government,
so called. It is said Iwre that Mr.
Foster first insisted tin 1 having his
“ memorandum ” published in the
Mexican papers, but as “ the political
and military advfentures,” as you call
them, did not want the people to kuow
the true state of the case, he desisted.
He first demanded an apology, it is
said, for the insult to our government;
but as they represented that their peo
ple would not like that, it is said, that
he was authorized to be satisfied with
a private apology, or, rather, explana
tion.
According to Mexican .papers, Mjr.
Mata came here to “demand’’ a moll
ification of the orders to General Ord,
and just alsmt then the orders were
gieatly modified by instructions. So
you see that General Treviuo’s boast
ful report is not so far out of the way,
and that our chicken has rather backed
out liefbre the rooster of “liberty in the
Constitution.^’
I suppose you have noticed that
change on the old saw, “ God and lib
erty.’’ The- Mexicans vary their
motto with every change in the-gov
ernment. The Church* party used to
have it “ God and order,” the Liberal
party, “ liberty an’d jeftVip.” Against 1
Maximilian they made it “liberty, in
dependence and reform Ortega in
his scheming against Juurez, whcnMr.
Guillermo Prieto was Ortega’s right-
; , n y
hand man, and “ liberty and the Con
stitution.” Jaurez and Lerdo, dis
carding reform and order, fixed upon
“ God and liberty.” I see now that i 2 inchx >.ttvttMiwfcrRiu« v *witufront. 1
Diaz has “liberty in the Constitution.” \\ !• ! BOUgllt at Panic Prices!
lie most earnestly*in\ites his old customers and the public generally,
C/ASH. OtSTOMERS,
» ; 1 - .T-:fH
TO CALI, AND EXAMINE IMS .
GOODS AND PRICES
A SPECIALTY.
VIA UlCHMOXD.g
Leave ATLANT.V.. ..i,....4.*H> l* u ’
Arrive at WtarMlre.*! . .6.15 p m i
Arrive at DitOvillf i,,...vi;j-l.W ?.* 1
Arrive at Richmond 1 8.28 p m !
Arrive at Wuahinsttoni lXlC.,-Via, R., > ' t
F. &P.R.R. .1.10am *'■’ ' ’ ”
Arrive at Philadelphia............... 0.40-a i! Skilled and Finished Workmen in Every Department.
Arrive ut New-York.1:7: , . , :.'..9:45 : a m ; ... 'i " *
Arrive at Boston,.8.80 p m
Leave Atlanta.....*. ...V... i.........4.00 p ii
Arrive at Charlotte.,.....,..»..6.1* am!l‘ av
(VIA. VIRGINIA MIDLAND ROITE.)
Arrive at Danville 1 f.16 p y
Arrive at Lynchburg 4.00 p u
Arrive at Washington Uity 1.80 a a
Arrive at Baltimore 3.15,a m
Arrive at Philadelphia.... ‘. 6.40 a h
Airive at New York 9.45 a jl
Arrive at Boston.’.......... ....8.30 p m I
Throngh Tickets on sale at Union Passenger i
Dei>ot. Baggage Checked Thropgli.
G. J. FlIREACKE, General Manager.
W ..I HOUSTON, Ger. Pa-s. ,fe Ticket Ag’i ,
fipcciu! attention will Wgiven to REPAIR WOf K. mill the scale of prices in this brnr.cli
re been reduced lully one-fourth. No BOTCH v.-jix ahuwe^Jn our shop—all Fir-t-class
WORK AND AT 601 TOM PRICES.
julyO-Om
NEW SPRING GOODS.
Notwithstanding the hard times,
NeTfSlSMdl™ TODERS ™ IS RECEIOT A ™
A j. ■ : ' SUPPLY OF ALL KINDS OF
• “ • Articles^- • i- 4 •
Spring and Summer Goods
11 ii. P. Port. Engine,Book waller, nood order. ;
l 12 II. P. Port. Eugine, Wood.dc Map..
1 6 It. P. Port. Eng.’, but Tittle used.
1 4<>JI,P. Stationery Engilie., . , j
OF VARIOUS STYLES.
, . - Eelinse Water Wheel, good order.
They have plenfyof liberty in their! 1 Leftele WuterXvheel. : J
‘ ... ‘1 T'v!e^ W ater,\t heels, pow rtiiuiog.
Constitution, and jierhnps a little Con-1 _ Ceann-',"Shafting, Pulh-vs, etc.
stitution in their libertv'might do no : 1 *mhA- v
harm. Perhaps thht will be the next
tack. ’* •• toB-t-m
However, they evidently ate again
-wheedling our lovernirient intS what
they please. At 7 h6mU *1bey please
their people hy bullyiDj* and insultjng
Americans and the American Govern
ment, and ' secretly they; talk hiimbly ‘
and beg off. It was a good thing that,
the -Acapulco affair was left to A4n
American officer of the navy. Who
made them salute the American ‘ itag
and apologize, in spite of their remon
strances and excuses. If they had
succeeded in getting it into diplomacy,
who knows but what they w ould have
finally got our government to apolo
gize for objecting to having the Amer
ican Consul imprisoned. I am afraid
our energetic fit will be of short dura
tion. The changing of General Ord’s
order by instructions, uuder the
threats of Mexico, was too bad. Even
old Flalstaff, much-as he valued discre
tion -above valor, refused to give a
reason’on compulsion, if reasons were
as plentiful as blackberries.
" ' - * 'Atiw;Ml'.:. liori/ontul.’l! APi» E^PEGUtULY
Ilorae Powers, Threshers, Fan Mills, Cane 1
3/ills, -
AT11KXS FOf .VmtY * juitum: WORKS.
'* jnhe20-lm. - tr-r'-ti 1*’“ > ' j ’
mi -*.-^41 -- ■ U * ’’’ i , 3\
, JNOtiCOi Before purchasing elsewhere, as'h.c Is ectinaciu lie ean please both with gooils and rrie
“; | J , ^ r ^ ’•
(All. persons having demands against*the 1 ‘ Athens, G:v. ai>17-3m
estate of Thomas Poullain, deceased, are hereby i. *-1 1 . .
notified to present the same to rale for payment I
witju'n the time prescribed by law, and tbos.e I '
indebted to said deceased are required to make
immediate payment. ■*-
EMELIZA POULLAIN, Adm’r. ><
atagT-80d.
fitlv
THE- SOUTHERN MIITlItL INSURANGE
coivrr’^vTNr'v,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
YOUNG U O. HARRIS, President
(STEVENS THOMAS, Secretary.
Unis* Assets, April 1, 1877, - . $784,557 02
Resident Direetoi-s.
Yorso L. O. Harris,
Jons H. Nkwtos,
Iir. Hksrv Hull,
A LEIN P. UKARIKO,
Col. Robert Thomas:
tovK-wly
Stevens Thomas,
Kli/.a L. NiCWTON,
Ferdinand Pui.xizr
Ijr. It. M. Smith,
John W. Nicholson,
-OB WORK OF ALL DESCRIP.
tiou neatly done at this office
, Evaporators, at the
4>
S. C. DOBBS.
UFor Sal^r Kent! :
- A- small house, convenient’ to the business
portion of the city. Also,
For Sale Only, / *
A cottage house containing seven rooms, with
all necessary out-buildings, and two acres of
land attached. M. C. SLEDGE.
ang7-4t • . _ •
Miss 0. Potts,
Fashionable ■ Dessmaker,
j ftrii
(Over Universitr Bank.)
■ * M . _
1 f _ / '•«
Brokd Street*' ILVhmxia,
■ : 1 H ri kI Ti*:4
Would, respcctfijllyi inform, the Ladies and
her, friends generally, of Athens and vlcinit;
giving satisfaction.
snre'of
way 14,1875-28-tf.
FRESH HEATS.
J; J. Heard & W. F. Hood,
ConicEB Fcbndkv and Oconee Strkets.
FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, PORK,and SAU-
sage,( Fresh aud Bologna Suusnce). Our So
licitor is always on the street ready, to supply
the wants of the citizens of Athens. Please
give us your orders and we will guarantee par-
icct satisti-etioi.. The- highest market prices
paid for Beaves, Sheep, Gouts and Hogs.
june20.lis5.ly. J. J. HEAD <fe CO.
ITotice.
A LL persons having demands against Wil
liam P. Talmadge, deccensed, are hereby
notified to present the same to mo for payment,
within the time p-escribed by law, and tb'ose in
debted to said deoeased an requested to make
immediate payment.
ELIZABETH A TALMADGE, Admtr’x.
June 13—6 w
PLANTERS' HOTEL,
^ ^juairsTAt oEortaiA.
NSW ARFLAKTCrEMElVT.
Rates Hedueed to $3 per Day.
HAVING LEASED THIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL, I entci
upon its management hy Reducing Rates, and asking ot the Travel
ing Public, especially my friends of Carolina aud Georgia, a contiuu
ance of that liberal support they have always giveri it. -
tu ' . H '.LO TM. / ■ . ...„i ,U. At- H
B. F. BROWN,
tii: -f i.I -r . . : ; ,. J • •'
. jau23-5m FORMERLY OF CHARLESTON, PROPRIETOR.
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