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THE €ARTERSYILLE EXPRESS
BY C. 11. C. WILLINGHAM.
The Cartersvillc Express.
[OLD STAX!)Aim \NI> EXPRESS.]
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Citations lor letters of administration ... 300
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Travelers’ (guide.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
FROM and after this date the following
Schedule will be run on the Cherokee Rail-
Leave Roc ini art at 7 :00 A. 51.
•* Tay'orsville 8:f)0 ”
“ Stih shore, 8:25 “
Arrive at (. artcr.'Ville, 9:so
Leave Canersville 3:00 P. M.
•* .stil wboro, .... 3:50
“ Tuy.orsvifie 4:30 “
Arrive at ilookin art. 5:15 “
WESTERN * ATLANTIC RAILROAD
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
The following Schedule takes effect Novem
ber 2'. 1875.
north Ward. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 6 20 pm
Arrive 1 artersviile 636 pin
rnve Kingston 6 42 p ni
Arrive Dalton 7 04 p in
Arrive Chattanooga... 1U !5 p ui
So. 3.
Leave Atlanta 6 20 a rn
Arrive t artercville . .. .8 4? aiu
Arrive Kingston 9 it am
Arrive D iit'.n 0 r, 4 atn
Arrive Chattanooga 12 42 pm
No 11.
Leave Atlanta ...5 55 p m
Arrive < avtcrsvilie 8 50 p m
Arrive Kingston 9 24 p 111
Arrive Dalton ll 43 i* m
SOU I’ll \\ A !{(>• No. 2.
Arive Chattanooga .4 0b j ni
Leave Dalton 3 5t p m
Arrive Kingstot 7 31 p 111
A'rive' -vtersvtHc 8 0* p ui
Arrive Atlanta ...10 10 p in
No. 4-
Leave Chattanooga 5 15 a m
Arrive Dalton 7 14 am
Arrive Kingston 9 1/7 a ni
Ardve Curtersville ...9 45 a in
Arrive Atlanta n’n
Arrive Dalton 1 60 11 1,1
Arrive Kingston 4 *1 a ,n
Arrive Cartersville 5 16 a m
Arrive Atlanta 0 42 a si
Pullman Pal ace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be
wrcii \e\v Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palaec Cars run on Nos "3 nd 2be
tween Louisville and Atlanta.
UtTSo change of cars between New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore
ami only one change to New York.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m , ar
rive in New York (he second thereafter at 4 00
p. tn.
Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs
ai.d various Summer Resorts will be on sale
in New Drlearns. Mobile, Montgomery, Colum
bus, Macon, Sav iiinali. Augusta and Atlanta,
at greatly reduced rates Ist 01 June.
Parties' desiring a whole car through to the
Virginia Springs or to Baltimore should ad
dress the undersigned.
Parties contemplating traveling should send
for acopyof the Kennexenc Route Gazette, con
taining schedules, etc.
I4T A>k foi tickets via ‘‘Kcnnesaw Route.”
B. tV. W REN X.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
m.nv23—rltl Atlanta. Ga.
ROMK RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday. Dec. 12th trains on the j
Home Kuilroad will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN —EVERY DAY.
Leave Rome at 7 a ni J
Arrive at Rome t 1.30 a ui
SATt-RDAY EVENING ACCOMOOATION.
Leaves Rome at 5 45 p m
Arrive at Rome at 9 P ,u
ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD.
PASSISNUK U TRAIN-OUTWARD.
stations. arrive. leave
Atlanta *• “•
Last Point I 1 ':* !'• • •
Led Oak t*:s9 i>. in. 0:44 p. n-
Fuirhurn 0:21 p. m. H-2 j,.m.
Palmetto 11:37 p. in. H:• p- n>.
Powell’s D ;5- !>• in, :* l>- '•
Puckett’s 12:30a m liUto am
Grantvilte 12:50 ain 12At a m
Iloßausville 1?* an J;**
1* ” - .
™ S * l a, “
West Point ••• 2.40 a 111
P VSSENGEU TRAIN—INWARD.
ARRIVE. MATE.
West- Point 12:30 |> in
Lone Cane 13:38 | m 13:36 p in
l.a GranEc i :u2 p m 1 SK P in
W liiuifeM’s 1:21 p in 1:21 p to
llogausville . 1:2! pB \ ; 42 p m
Grantville 1:57 iBl * :, iß p ill
Puckett’s 2:13 p ni 1*1? ** l,l
New nan 8:29 p in 2:30 pin
Powell’s 2:44 p ill 2:40 p ni
Palmetto 8:< P m P 1,1
Lai: burn 3:32 p m 2:24 p m
Red U.tk 3:38 p m 3:42 p in
Last Point 3:57 i- m 3:o< pm
At! tilt t .. 4:15 P > .
SELMA, IIOM & DALTON.
MAIL TRAIN DULT-NO TIL
Leave R-me P 111
Arrive -.1 Dalton 3:'.4 P m
Making close connections at Daiton with the
East l ei. ness :e, Virginia and Georgia R.nt
l'oii. and 'Vesicrn and Atlantic Railroad tor
all La-tern and Western cities.
mail train daily—south.
Leave Dalton ’-00 P ni j
Arrive at t aler t :i 1,1 j
Arrive at Selma ..., —IO;2W a in j
Making close connection at Caler.-t lor Mont 1
goineiu and points South, and at Selnia "*'-
AlabamaCenlr.il Kailmad for Mobile. New Or
leans. Meridian, Vie-ksburg, Jackson, _ all
points South in Texas. Louisiana and Missis
fcir.pi. M. STANTON, Gen. oup’t.
“If ay K SIGHT. Gen. Ticket and P.t-s’gr A vt.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Dav Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad.
Atlanta to Augusta, run as below :
Leaves Augusta at B:4sam
Leaves Atlanta at - 7:00 t ni
Arrives at Augusta 3:3u a ni
Arrives at Atlanta 5:45 pm
Night passenger trains as follows:
Leaves Augusta.at p :[ s P ni
Leaves Atlanta at - P m
Arrives at Augusta 3:15 ain
Arrives at Atlanta 6:35 a m
Accomu* 1 ation train as follows :
Leaves Atlanta - 5:00 p m
Leaves--Covington 5:50 a ui
Arviiesait Atlanta BHS a m
Arrives at Covington 1:30 p m
THE COOSA RIVER STEAMERS.
Stf .fmefson the Coosa River will run as per
schedule as tdllbws: - * * *
Leave Koine every Monday at........ P m
Leave Rome every Thursday Bam
Arrive*! Gadsden l ues iav'and Friday..* a m
Amt, a wsjjSgiaia
■• * ’
EON. W. H. FELTON.
His Speech on Federal Outrages lu Upper
Georgia.
The following is the speech of our
representative in Congress, on the
loth inst., on the outrages in upper
Georgia:
Mr. BLOUN F. I yield to my col
league. [Mr. Felton.l
Mr. FELTON. Mr. Chairman, re
trenchment and economy in the pub
lic expenditures is the declared poli
cy oi this House. r l he country in
its financial embarrassment demand
ed this much at our hands. They
confided in our promise of reform.
With a Democratic House of Repre
sentatives a reduct on of official pat
ronage, of public indebtedness, arid
of attending taxation must necessa
rily ensue. A realization of these
hopes is guaranteed by what this
House has already accomplished in
this direction. We are moving steadi
ly along the “whole line,” reducing
ti e expenditures of the Government
to the lowest point consistent with
the good faith and efficiency of the
Government, creating no office for
favorites, continuing 1,0 man in place
it his services can be dispensed with,
making no appropriation of money
unless essential to the happiness and
prosperity of the country, and bring
ing the salaries of officials to a level
in some measure equal to and com
patible with the straitened circum
stances of those whom we represent
and serve.
Just now there is much said and
written upon financial questions.
Every man has his theory ol finance.
Infiationists, contructionists, resump
tionisLs, are everywhere and in all
political parties. Every financial
nostrum is put forward by its inven
tor and licensed vendor as :t specific
for all the financial ills the country is
heir to. I submit, the solution of
these difficulties in part is to be found
in curtailing expenses, economizing
in every possible way, and husband
ing the internal and custom revenues
of the country.
There are certain great commercial
and industrial laws above and out
side ot legislative enactments, beyond
our control. Sometimes these laws
may be modified, diverted for a time
from iheir natural functions, dis
turbed and disarranged by unwise
tinkering and impolitic intermed
dling; jlist, for example, the motion
of some gnat inferior saleiliie, or
just as the magnetic needle when in
the neighborhood of large metallic
deposits may be disturbed, its varia
tions uncertain, its trembling move
ments unreliable, But all these dis
turbing influences are temporary and
lo'-ai, and the great primary law of
their organization soon assorts its au
thurify and supremacy. S* the great
laws of commerce, of productive iu
lu>try, and the hundred departments
of human activity and enterprise
may be disturbed and disarranged
for a lime by bad Jaws. But if the-a
great principlesare not weighted am!
pre.-st (i down by accnmulaung debts,
they will adjust themselves to every
exigency of -the country.
It is amusing to hear some men
discourse upon the ease and practica
bility of resuming specie payments
at any given time. It is the act of
sovereignty, they say. and .only re
quires The edict of tiiesovereign t< ac
complish the desired object. I have
read the story of Canute, who was
carried by his courtiers into the path
of the rising tide and was mid by
these flatterers that it only required
a wave of the royal hand and a word
from royal lips to send hack that ir
resistible torrent and to establish his
claim to supreme authority. You
remember that the wise and virtuous
monarch sent those courtiers home
wiser if not better men. Equally
ansurd, in my judgment, is it for
Cong re s or ihe Executive or for
hoards of trade to fix the day or the
year when the country shall com
mence specie payments; forgetting,
as they do, that the laws regulating
trade and commerce, and production,
and specie and currency are beyond
and superior to their sovereign will ;
forgetting also that this country is
weighted and pressed down with a
load of taxation and debt that ren
ders it well-nigh helpless. We must
remove or greatly lighten these
weights, ease this pressure of taxa
tion, and let trade and industry re
assert themselves.
I know that heretofore in times of
suspension,-both in this country and
in England, resumption has been
reached by previously fixing the day;
but legislators in these several eases,
like the Delphian oracle, took good
care before giving an answer or fix
ing anything definitely to acquaint
themselves with surroundings and
learn that the p oposed project was
possible; yet in every one of these
instances of foreed resumption iueai
cniahle loss and Distress was
lite result. Legislators simply dem
onstrated their capacity to crush out
nil productive industry and commer
cial thrift, by crushing out the seif
regulating principles which underlie
ail production anil commerce.
I will not speak at this time of ex
ciwG laws; how odious they are to
tLe people of this country. Excise
is taken from the Latin exciiere , to
at off. It is a term used in finance
to signify a duty charged in a coun
try upon articles produced in that
country before they are permitted to
get into the hands of the public
i he-e laws were introduced into
Home by Augustus. There they led
to abuses innumerable, and gave
rise to many civil disseusi ns. line
rius declared that the army, for
whose benefit the tax had been lev
ied, depended upon it for support,
ami ibis was the only way he recon-
ciled the people to its continuance.
This excise system was first intro
duced iiito England in lOAS by a com
ni ssnm under the great seal. Its
first introduction into our civiliza
tion was therefore an act <>l tyranny.
Parliament protested against it and
it was canceled. This tax was re
established in England by ptrlta
memary act, 1646, both ot tire con
tending parlies availing themselves
of is benefits, but pledging them
selves to its abolition as soon as the
war should close. Cromwell, by act
unauthorized by law, continued it in
cxistence, and a portion of tins in
ternal revenue was assigned to the
Crown in compensation for heredita
ry revenues arising from feudal pre
rogatives which were then abolish
ed. So then to-day this system of
: taxation stands out in our civiliza
tion as a modern supplement to an
cient feudalism.
The very name is objectionable to
American fteemen. It was this ha
tred t-oexcise and stamp duties which
gave birth to American liberty;.and
the spirit of Boston in 1776, which
now pervades the whole land, can
never be recon ci-ed to it. It is true
; the Government during the adrnin
! istration of Washington inaugurated
a limited system of'feXeiHSr (tinies;
hut even that gave rise to insurrec
tion and civil disturbances,and upon
1 the accession of Jefferson to the
i BaoiUeuvy, aud upou uuo teeuu*ucu-
dation, the w hole system of internal
taxes was abolished. May I nut as
sert that whenever this Govern ment
| shall become us pure, as economical,
as wise as it was hi the days of Jef
ferson, this anti-American system of
taxation will again disappear? It
doubtless was necessary to sustain
l he credit of the nation during the vvai
and perhaps was needful for a few
years after the war, because every
thing, labor, capital, production, all,
must and of right should be made
tributary to the credit of the Ameri
can Government. Every species of
property and industry is pledged to
the redemption m good taiih ot every
promise and obligation of the Gov
ernment incurred in the war for the
restoration of the Union.
But I assert, if the retrenchment ie
pubj ic ex peiidit uns wl l ich t his 11ouse
proposes to effect had been inaugu
rated six or eight years ago, and had 1
been adhered lo by the dominant
party, this vexatious system of taxa
tion might to-day cease, and the rev
enue arising from customs duties
levied ujkju importation of foreign
merchandise would meet every de
mand ol au honesi and wise govern
ment.
Let us see what this tax has done
for the manufactories, the occupa
tions, and the agricultural produc
tion of the country. It has gathered
from all these since 1863, when it
was put in action, $2,086,590,705 83.
Admitting its necessity during the
war and perhaps up to 1870, this ex
cise has collected from the labor and
production of American citizens since
1870, 8789,264.865.87. It was made
necessary by the war and the results
of ihe war since 1870. Si ice that pe
riod it has been necessary by the ex
travagance and culpable expendi
tures of the Government.
What has it done for rny own
State, a Slate desolated by war, in
ruins, needing ail the products of her
labor for recuperation and self-sus
lenation? From Georgia it has
gathered since 1866, when it became
operative in that Stale, $19,068,419 03.
From 1803 and 1863 it has reaped
fr m
Virginia $45,097,215 82
West Virginia 7,722.908 55
North Carolina 13.134.970 50
South Carolina 7,060.054 39
Alabama 14,604,957 39
Mississippi 10.299.837 45
Louisiana 31,746.917 00
Texas 8.937,659 54
Tennessee 19,194,825 00
Making a grand total collected I rom
the Siate especially devasted by war,
since their national rehabilitation, of
$157,849, 645.60. This i> a direct tax'
upon their labor and the great agri
cultural staples of this section. The
increased amount paid by Virginia
shows what tobacco is doing toward
the support of the Government, and
-howthat agriculture must he drain
ed "of its hard earn in gs while many
investments of the capitalists are ex
empt from every form <>f taxation. I
feel dint there is not only one hard
ship, but injrsiice here. The Onn*
mi-i-doner of Internal Revenue says
in his report after giving Ihe net
-t mount of receipts from all smm-es of
inf ru:.l rrvi-uu: during the last fiscal
\-ar in the several States and Terri
tories :
“ Fiie results thus shown do not in
dicate that the States paying the
largest amounts of internal rev
enue pay in proportion to their re
lative population of wealth.”
Thisis the injustice connected with
his whole system, particularly with
that portion of the revenue extract
ed from tobacco States, All exercise
duties are strictly direct taxes, lev
ied upon or cut off excidere from the
industries of the country ; and the
Commissioner says the States paying
tne large-t amount do not pay in pro
portion to their relative population
or wealth.
The Constitution says, article 1,
section 2:
“Representatives and direct taxes
shall be apportioned among the sev
eral States * * * according to their
respective numbers.’ ’
Here in this report it is boldly an
nounced that Ihe wealth of thecoun
try does not sustain the burdens of
the country.
Beferring once more to the South
ern States and the $157,000,009 that
has been gathered from them—prin
cipally from their agricultural pro
ductions—since 1566, permit me to
remark that I have seen penury cast
ing in its two mits.wednigh all its liv
ing, to sustain some cause which lay
near its heart; hut here we have
prostrated bv war, the accumulations
from a century swept from existence,
Sta r es mourning like Rachel because
their“children were not,’’widowhood
and orphanage fiiling the*land with
iheir tears and struggling for bread
going on among all classes of socie
ty; vet in the midst of their bitter
* ’ •—J- „,,a ursoiatton they pay
into the Treasury of the Uniied
States within ten years, as a direct
tax upon their labor and production
this immense sum of money, and for
all this their patriotism is sometimes
impeached, their professions of loy
alty are sometimes criticised, and
upon their reception into the United
.Slates tiie entente cor diale of a com
mon brotherhood is sometimes de
nied them.
But, sir, a favor consolidation of
districts and retrenchment of expen
ditures in the revenue department
of Georgia for reasons yieeialiy ap
plicable to my State. Economy in
public expenditures, removal of su
pernumerary officials, and equitable
adjustment of taxation are the
great the great demands of the coun
try just now. In Georgia the Inter
nal Revenue Department of the Gov
ernment with its association and col
lusion with tiie Department of Jus
tice,(so called,) offers the most prom
ising field for r treuchment and re
form that I know of in all the com
plex machinery for carrying on the
Government.
The aggregate receipts from each
collection district in Georgia for the
fiscal year ending June the 80, 1875,
were :
Kiis: District $55 11165
si‘coi.<l oj>oivt 63 643 ;2
Third Di-triel 8-<.3H> 85
Fount. Disirict 181. 10942
Total 388 £26 84
Now let me ascertain the expense
of collecting this amount of revenue.
I submit a letter from Hon. D. D.
Pratt, Commissioner; *
I KKASUKY DEPARTMENT, 1
Office Internal revenue. -
( V\ a-hingtoii. Feb. 23. 1876.)
SIR: h* compliance wall request, contained
in your letter of the 22d instant.. I have the
honor to hand you herewith the amount allow
ed tor eaeh eoliector and deputy collector in
the stale of Georgia lor the fi-cal year 1875 :
First dist>ict of Georgia :
Personal salary of collector, per annum. .$3,003
Three deputies 11,500 each 4 500
One deputy 1,800
Second district of Georgia :
Personal salary of collector, per annum., 3 000
Four deputies, $t 500 each 6.H0
One deputy 1,800
Or.edeputv. |iour month- 500
Thirii di-triot of Georg 1 * :
Persona* -alary of collector per annum... 3,000
One deputy I.MjQ
Three deputies, $1,500 each 4 5 1 *)
One Special deauty.... I.SOj
Fourth district o: Georjfi* I
Person.d salary of-collector, per annum... 3.C00
Fwe doputies. (1 50 each 7.51X1.
One clerk I.SOi
t/UU clerk... 6 0
T*s:MiUkl4’ j p. D Pit \ IT\
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1876.
The total amount of these items
of expense is $45,300.
Permit me to a-k the attention of
the House to one feature iu this list
i of expenditures.
The amount of revenue collected 1
j in the first district was $55,111 65.
! The expofst* is given in this letter
j In.in the commissioner, wan $10,300 ‘
! The amount collet led in the forth
! district was slßl 109 22. The expense
was given by the same authority,
was 812 9t*o.
While the amount of revenue in
the fourth district is more than three
times the amount collected in the,
first district, yet the in the
fourth is only a traction mure than it
was in the first district.
Here we have an unanswerable
argument for the equalization of
these expenditures. •
The expense should bearsome pro
portion to the amount of work done,
and these districts should not be con
tinued for mere partisan purposes, as
sinecures for favorites, Government
asylums for its political pensioners.
if one collector with a salary of
$3,000, a limited number of deputies
judiciously located in the State, and
two clerks—if they can do the work
which is now done by this large
number of empiovees, let us have
consolidation and retrenchment In
the revetnu* department trf Georgia.
But, sir. expense I have men
tioned is only a small part, a fraction
of the cost of this department in my
State. So far everything seems le
gal. Fixed salaries, regular work.
This crop of officials are not responsi
ble for the extravagance of the Gov
ernment in the number of its ap
pointeesor the amount of money
paid them. The Congress of the
United States is accountable for such
permitted extravagunee.
But there is another Department
of the Government a sort of adjunct
or auxiliary of this revenue depart
ment. 'Plie two are so blended in
my State that it is difficult to disen
tangle their interlacing threads. Yhi
can only trace the one through the
other,as you trace the blackish, fetid
drainage of some great city through
the clearer waters of some great stream
into which the sewer empties. The j
other depart ment is called—hear it,
ye gods!—“The department of Jus
tice.”
~„There is such a “reign of terror”
exercised over the upper counties of
ihe State which I in part represent
upon this floor that I feel constrained
to make gome effort for ihe removal
or explanation or modification of
this terrorism perpetrated under the
guise- of law.
That there are violations and in
tentional infractions of the revenue
laws is not denied. That these vio
lations should he prosecuted and
punished is not controverted, but
rather insisted upon.
The people of mv Shim ildl-jw
,itnt adherents to every law of the
United States, and there is no State
in the Union where the citizens and
the State authorities will exert them
selves more zealously in exacting
the laws <>f the Federal Government
than Georgia.
Oar .people recognize this whole
country us their common country,
the home of their children. If, in
the future emergencies should arise
imperiling the honor or glory of its
flag, that flag will find no stronger
anon nor braver luhoUm com in a- t<> i-•
defense than will he found in the
military contributions ot the empire
State of the South. The courage and
endurance that illustrated her sons
upon a hundred battle-field of civil
strife are now and for ever at the dis
posal of the General Government.
One other remark. The counties
in vm State that are sufferingjmqst at
this time from the maladministra
tion of the revenue lawsare the coun
ties w here the citizens generally are
making the greatest efforts to abolish
in their midst all the evils resulting
from the traffic and intemperate use
of alcoholic liquors.
In Gilmer county I am told, under
the local-option law that is in force
in our State, the people have suc
ceeded in abolishing the retail traf
fic in the county.
lii some counties in my district
where those outrages are perpetrated
I know that the young men are band
ed together in temperance organiza
tions, and have well-nigh swept the
manufacture of liquor from the coun
try. So in many other counties in
that section of the State suffering
most from these revenue difficulties.
1 mention these facts to show that
the people who are crying out against
these oppressions are no appolagists
for “Illicit distilation,” no advocates
for “crooked whisky,” or abettors
of a smuggled liquor traffic.
Indeed, the farmer, who grows his
small crop of tobacco is frequently
arresfvil. -u.ni.-*>* L -1--*--* 1 ! 1
numerable indignities, and only
finite escape possible by complying
with the illegal demands put upon
him.
I can speak from personal know
ledge, and say that county jaiis are
frequently crowded with men
who have been arrested arid
brought there seventy-five ora hund
red miles from their homes; away
from the witnesses, away from their
Mends, away from commi-sioners
who slionid investigate their cases
by otiu-r county jails. Hu ml reds of
these men are thus incarcerated, liu
initiated, bullied and fleeced, who are
as innocent of crime as you, sir, or
anv other man on this floor.
Now, you will remember, these
deputy marshals and commissioners j
receive fees, perquisites; and it is no
surprise when you remember they
charge up mileage against the Gov
ernment for themselves and their
prisoners, to learn that they some
times travel a hundred miles when
the same work could he done by!
traveling fifty miles; and the mileage
of an innocent man counts as well as
the mileage of a guilty man ; the
fees, for conducting the preliminary
inesvtigation of an innocent victim
count as though he was guilty.
Il appears during the last fiscal
year out of the ea-es before the Fed
eral court lor violating the revenue
laws in Georgia there were one hun
dred and one suits decided in favor
ofthe United States, and eightv-four
suits decided adversely to the United
S ates, and twenty-nine suits dismiss
ed, showing conclusively that a ma
jority of the arrests are innocent men,
or without evidence sufficient to con
vict them. You and I will never know
how many of these arrested parties
not reported in this class were dis
charged and dismissed by commis
sioners and reaching
the court in Atlanta. I see, also, on
July 1, 1875, there were one hundred
and fifty-three suits pending, and it
is reasonable to suppose that among
these pending cases thcreare as many
innocent parties as there were in the
suits disposed of. Indeed more, for
this system of terrorism and fleecing
is growing more clamorous lor vie
tims from clay to day. I wish I had
the reports for the present fiscal year.
Now, I s*e an item in the' report’
j of the Attorney General that throws
[ u tkui of UgUC Uiu ic£v^>
ularities of which 1 speak. In state
ment ofex}en<litores made by the
department of justice to defray the
expenses of the courts of the United
for tlit* year ending June 30,
1875. for the District of Georgia, are
the following items of expenditures:
For marshals $78.7M) 06
Attorneys 6,105 00
Clerks 4.757 75
Commissions 3.965 85
Rents-. ],so< 00
Miscellaneous 309 00
Total 93,337 80
Think of this, Mr. Speaker. Out
of >9-3,337 80, $78,700 is paid to these
deputy marshals and their chief, who
are spreading terror, sorrow, and
death through the upper counties of
Georgia. Should we be surprised
that innocent men are arrested?
This ti lls the story of men being
handcuffed and pushed at the point
of the bayonet a hundred miles dis
tant from home to undergo a prelim
inary trial. Mileage fees, perqui
sites, all charged up against the Gov
ernment, amounting to $78,600 all
under excuse of enforcing the reve
nue laws.
In the United States the marshals
cost $2,393,631.78. But all this is a
trifle compared w ith the violence and
bloodshed of which they are guilty
in my State.
Let me give you some of their pro
ceedings. These vigilant deputies
after stuffing their pockets full of
warrants, (and I wish the testimony
I have as to the character of those
warrants was official so 1 might use
ii; but it is not, and I pass it ovr,)
place themselves at the bead of a
squad of federal soldiers, say a dozen
or more, and thus they proceed to
counties distant from railroads, and
with no law but a ruffians, greed,
hacked by shot and bayonets, they
enforce their will.
I will ask the clerk to read, as part
of my remarks, extracts from two
newspapers, published one in Gil
mer County and one in L’herokee
County, Ga.
The Clerk read as follows:
From the Ellijuy Courier. January 16. 1576,
C >NCKILNING RECENT ARRESTS.
Ellijay, Ga., January 16, 1875.
EDiTOK COlTkick: On Friday night the 14th
iiiNl. I \v a>on mj way home iii the up|ter por
tion ol this count', train where 1 h-d been
making hoards that day. i it ad my c.ro>sot
.-.t\v with me. I c im<: by the slid-house of'
Mr. John Etnorv. Near there I met with
some hoys—Sisson, Rogers and Leatherwond.
The night was dm k and cold. We went into
the still-house to warm by the hie and to wait
awhile lor the moon to rise. While sitting
(hi re some men entered the root' and ordcie-t
U-* to surrender. We mule no resistance. In
a few moments we heard a gun lire just out of
doors. We heard no one halted not no wotd
spoken by any one out doois. Ju-t alter this
a soldier entereo the house amt one who was
guarding its said : - Grady, was that\ou tired?”
•tea havered, “Yes.” The guard replied.
“That’s right, pour it to them ” Then Grady
stepped out doors and was absent <t few mo
uieiils. The scagearit in ihatgu then Inifsltsl
••‘P all the beer st.ihds. destroy ed the still and
other anicles, and broke up a wash pot in the
in, 1 soil and the tluee !,p-.^
dwelling. 1 hev'thee 1, - S .o V“A“the house, found
a kegof hranu.e- mied canteens, found some
jugs ami lilted them, and limn nursied the keg
and poured out the contents onjihe floor. The
the lady. Emory’s wife, cried ami picad with
1 hem not t-> do so, 1 demanded of them if they
Stud any warrant against me or either of the
others. They gave me no satisfaction They
cuffed Us togeino.l, two and two. and then car
ried us up into i-'aiiniii county. Tile night was
very cold and we were made to w ade watei -
courses on our way; our clothes were frozen
upon us. We were returned as prisoners untiil
we weie brought down below Ellijay, when
Leatherwond and myself were released, the
second night alter our attest. We never
heard a word of Emory’s minder, until we
came back I rom Fannin County, the day utter
”'<•murder. Then we heard that John Emory
had neen killed at il Sliri-nilUsC, and the gun
we heard, was the gun that lulled him 1
leave the further facts in this on.-e to the cor
oner’s inquest, and to the legal investigation
which I hope will follow.
Now, I am an old citizen of this county, have
lived here tor thirty years, and never" hd a
charge brought against me tor any crime;
never was arrested on a warrant before; have
been a peaceable, law-abiding man ail my
life, have tri -d to'ncver Violate any law. State
or Federal. Have been a devoted Union man;
took protection during the wai under the
.Union flag, and my sou served in the'l!ll ion.
army. And I how ask iu the name of God,’ 01
Liberty, Justice, and everything that is sn
ored, if these tilings are to he tolerated in this
country V Is the great Government ol the
United" States to hack the bloody ami vindic
tive Blacker and his vile crew ol criminals
thatlie has selected iu this country to ui<l him
in his hellish work, under the pretence of en
forcing the revenue laws, iu thi-, the glorious
Centennirl year of itsexisteuce ?
When I was arrested 1 detn imled tneir au
thority or my arrest; told them l had a fam
ily of "small orphan children alone at home,
with no mother with them, and plead with
them with tens iu tny eyes, for my release,
that 1 might go to my children: hut it was all
in vain, such is liberty, now, it seems.
11. Hcllfosi).
[From the Cherokee Georgian, Feb. 9, 1876.]
OUTRAGES OF REVENUE SCOUTS.
Reports reach us from reliable sources that
tile revenue agents continue their unwarrant
able and t) mimical conduct in the upp- r part
of this county. Ata late hour on ihe night of
the 26th ultimo, one ot these agents entered
the house oi Michael Cline, and, brandishing
hi- cocked revolvers, so had'y frighte>>e I Mrs.
Ciiue, who was in a critical condition, that her
recovery is doubtful.
Last Wednesday night an old out-house oc
cupied by the notorious Cos >k women, was
burned, and one of the women thereupon went
to Gartersville and reporte-i a number of citi
zen-' living in the neighborhood as being ei
! belli a hlux or illicit distillers. The result
was th.it on 1 hursdav night some revenue offi
cers. aided b s v u eswd
eight citizens, some of honi are aiiove suspi
cion, and carried chem off One of ihe prls
o iers was Mrs. .James JlcvOv. They broke in
to her husband’s house late in the night, cap
.ured him and her, anil forced her to March on
mot to the old Burrows place, and there, al
most without shelter or 6re, she was keptunii)
late Fi idny niorniog. Mrs. McCoy was in the
poorest condition th it a wile could he to en
dure harsh treatment.
The truth <u these reports is vouched for by
several credible witnesses, ’ihe facts would
induce one to ihlnk lie was reading of some
high-handed outrage perpetrated in a Turkish
piovim e, weie 10-lo t inlormed that the) oc
curred in iepi.h’.lcan America. How long is
-uch tyranny to last ? Government is a sham,
democratic institutions are a failure, if such
shameful proceedings are permitted to contin
ue.
Mr. Felton— All this, and it is not ‘
a tithe ofthe violence these men are j
guilty of, in a. State under civil law, !
in a country whose proud boast is
that no citizen, however humble, can
he arrested and punished without
due process of law—-in a country
whose glorious heritage is thestib
jugation of military to civil au
thority.
Men having the commission of
deputy marshals, a civil office, halt
men at the dead hours of night, and
if they refuse to obey shoot them
down as outlaws. Helpless and deli
cate women are arrested and so ex
posed as to endanger life. The en
tire section of the State is disturbed
and trem ning with apprehension,
not knowing where the blow will
fall or when their money will be ex
acted.
As the representative of this peo
ple I protest against the unrighteous
! continuance of these outrages.
Mr. Chairman, now for the reme
! dy.
First. This lull suggests one reme
dy, consolidation and retrenchment.
My observation teaches me that one
effectual way to suppress wrong
doers is to withdraw the perquisites
of wrong doing. Cease to feed and
pamper men at the expense of the
Government whose services can be
dispensed with.
Second. Require every man arrest
ed for violating the revenue laws to
have his preliminary trial in the
county in wiiich the offense is alleged
to have been committed. Stop this
despotic work of dragging men a
hundred miles from their homes for
the mere pecuniary benefit of some
pliant tool of those jn power.
Tnird.. Take these Fekeral troops
land putTliein a i wiim> employment,
worthy of an American soldier; and,
i U U tti f ft*idea* ouiuftA JUrt
with sufficient respectability to in
duce citizens to assist them in mak
ing: these arrests, ihen ask the gov
ernor* of the Stall’s to order out a
pos,*e comUnfus of citizens, and my
word for it all these revenue troubles
will cease in Georgia.
Special Notices.
Directory of County Officers.
ORmxARr—T. A. Howard.
Clkrx ofsr PEKiOßCot’RT—Thomas A. Word.
Sheriff— V. M. Franklin. G. L. Franks,
Deputy.
Tax Receiver—a. M. route.
Tax C'OLi,Rcroß—W, F. Corbin.
County < onmissioxers-Russel 11. Cannon,
Chairman. David V. Stokcly, John C. Aycoek,
It. H. l>o<ld, John H. Wikle, Llerk.
COBOsas—D. B. Mull.
Strveyor—ll. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill.
Deputy.
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