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THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
BY C. H. C. WILLINGHAM.
The Cartersville Express.
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J. M. HOOI,
attorney at law.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office: Up-stairs over Stokcly & Williams,
West Main Street. _apr2n_
James W. Harris, Sr.
ATT O RN E Y-AT-LAW*
Onedoor East of Express Office, Mam Street.
CARI'ERSVILLE, GA.
nmrHU. _
I.IU A REAL ESTATE.
W. T. WOFFORD,
1 will be in my office between the hours of 10
ami 11 each morning, and will attend to any
business entrusted to iny cam.
A. n. FOI TE,
attorney at law
CARTEUSVILLE, GA.
(With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, 100 yd, Cordon, Murray, Whitlleld and ad
joining counties. dcc!-lv.
It. W. MUBPHEY,
attorney at law
Carteusville, Ga.
OFFICE (up stairs) in the brick building
corner of Main and Irwin streets. dcc2-tl.
J. W. IIA It It IN, Jr.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Carteusville, Ga.
OFFICE next door to The ExrtiESS printing
establishment.
JOHN W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILNER
U OFFOK I> A MI LXEB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
OFFICE np stairs. Bank Block.
JA9I KM IS- I’OSVERS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee
anil adjoining circuits. Particular attention
xiven to all tmsiness entrusted to my care.
Collecting made a specialty. Office up-stairs
in the Bank dec23-ly.
. 11. BATES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office in the Court House.
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DENTAL NOTICE.
Drs. Tigner & Johnson
Office up-stairs, in Brick Building opposite
The Express Office.
■ TREAT diseased gums and ab
jySSciag scesseti teeth, fill and clean
teeth, extinct teeth, and in
guaranteed. Terms reasonable.
Business Cards.
SALE, LIVERY AND FEED STABLE.
THOMPSON & SCOTT
KEEP constantly on hand good vehicles
and fine horses, and ever}' conveyance to
accommodate the public.
East Main street, Cartersville, Georgia,
m ay 11 -tf
THE TENNESSEE" HOUSE,
Cartersville Ga.f
JOSHUA SUMNER, Prop’r.
THE accommodations and faro at this House
are unsurpassed in this section, and the
charges are as low as the lowest. june22
NEW PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY
MESSRS. MUSH & BUG. have now opened
their photograph gallery over Messrs.
C layton’s and McDonald’s store where every
thing in the line of
Photographic Portraiture,
will be executed in a first-class style. Old pic
tures copied, enlarged and finished in a stvle
that will surpass the original. Also stereo
scopic views and large views of residences
taken on short notice. mayll-tf.
WM. T. Wofford, C. H. C. Willingham.
Attorney-at-Law. Editor Express.
WOFFORD & WILLINGHAM,
Real Estate Agents,
Cartersville? Gfeorgia
V*TE will sill and purchase Real Estate
V T upon Commission. Any person having
laud for sale or wishing to purchase, can have
our services by application either at our law
or printing office, or by letter through the
post office. We will al>o examine lands for
distant owners, and give such information as
p&rtiesmay desire, ot price etc. ma r!6
Travelers’ Guide.
TDK COOSA RIVER STEAMERS.
steamers on the Coosa River will run as per
schedule as follows:
I .cave Rome every Monday at 1 p ni
l-eave Rome every Thursday a m
Arrive al (rmdsden Tuesday and Friday.. 9 air
Arrive at lfomc Wednesday and SaturdavG p m
.1. M. lll.fi ITT (icn’l S(i|’>
4 BKROXKK RAILROAD.
FROM and after this date the following
Schedule will be'run on the CherokeelUil
*<ave But iraart at 7:<JOA.M.
“ Tav'orsville, 83*) •*
“ Stib -boro, 8:25 “
Arrive at t artcrsville, 9:10 “
I>eave Carlersville - 3:W I’, il.
•* St'l Wboro, 3:50
“ Tav.or#vi!le 4:30 “
Arrive at Rock mart 5:15 “
HOME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, Dec. l'ith trains on the
Borne Railroad will run as follows:
PAY TRAIN—EVERY PAY.
Leave Rome at 7 a m
Arrive at Borne 71.30 a in
SATURDAY EVEN INO ACCOWO JATIOH.
Leaves Rome at 5.45 p m
Arrive at Borne at 9 p m
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad,
Atlanta to Augusta, run as below:
Leave# Augusta at- B:4sam
Leaves Atlanta at 7:09 ant
Arrives at Augusta 3:30 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 5:45 p m
Night passenger trains a# follows:
Leaves Augusta at 8:lf p m
Leaves Atlanta at 10:50 p m
Arrives at AugiPta 3:15 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 6:35 a m
Accomodation train as follows :
Leaves Atlanta... 5:00 p m
Leaves Covington 5:50 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 8:15 a m
Arrives at Covington..,. 7:110 p in
SELMA, ROM St DALTON.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY-NORTH.
Leave Borne 6:10 p m
Arrive at Dalton 8:24 p m
Making close connections at Dalton with the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Bail
road, an.l Western and Atlantic Railroad for
all Eastern and Western cities.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY—SOUTH.
Leave Dalton ft.oo p m
Arrive at Rome 9.10 p m
Arrive at Calera 5.40 a m
Arrive at Selma 10;20 a m
Making close connection at Calera lor Mont
gomery and point# South, and at Selma wit-
Alabarn a Central Railroad for Mobile, New Or
leans, Meridian, Vicksburg, Jackson, _ all
points South in Texas. Louisiana and Missis
sippi. M. STANTON, Gon. Sup’t.
Kay Knight, Gen. Ticket and Pass’gr Agt.
ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD.
I*ASSEN GE R TIIAIN-OUTW A B I).
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE
Atlanta 10:25 p. m.
East Point 10:44 p. m. 10:44 p. ni.
Red Oak 10:59 p. m. 11:44 p. ra.
Fairburn 11:21 p. ra. 11:22 p.m.
Palmetto 11:37 p. in. 11:38 p. m,
Powell’s 11 ;5 p. in, 11:59 p. in.
Newnnn 12:14 p. m. 13:15 a.m.
Puckett’s 12:30a in 12:35 am
Grantville 12:50 a m 12:51 am
Hogansville 1:08 a ni 1:09 am
Whitfield’s 1:34 a m 1:35 am
I.aGrangc 1:54 a m 1 :55 a m
Long Cane 2:21 a m 2:21 a in
West Point 2:40 a m
PASSENGER TRAIN—INWARD.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
West. Coint .. 12:30 p m
Long Cane ..18:36pm 13:36 pm
La Grange 1:02 p m 1:03 pm
Whitfield’s 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
Hogansville 1:21 j) m 1:42 p m
Grantville 1:57 p m 1:58 p ni
Puckett's 2:13 p in 2:18 p ni
New nan ~ . 2:29 pm 2:30 pm
Powell’s fi;44pm 2:45 pm
Palmetto 8:06 pm 3:0? p m
Fairburn 3:32 p m 2:83 p m
Red Oak 3:38 p m 3:49 p m
East Point 3:57 p m 3:57 pm
Atlanta 4:ls|p m
WESTERN A ATLANTIC RAILROAD
AND ITS CONNECTIONS,
The following Schedule takes effect April
30, 1875.
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4 10 pm
Arrive Cartersville 6 23 p m
Arrive Kingston 6 52 p m
Arrive Da1t0n,,,., 8 32 pin
Arrive Chattanooga 10 16 p m
K,q. 3.
Leave Atlanta 5 40 am
Arrive Cartersville 7 57 a m
Arrive Kingston 8 26 am
Arrive Dalton... 10 08 a m
Arrive. Chattanooga U 55 p m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 8 00 a m
Arrive Cartersville... 10 20 am
‘Vrrive’Kingston ..10 53 am
Arrive Dalton (i(i pip
SOUTHWARD- No. 2.
Leave Chattanooga 4 00 pm
Arrive Dalton 5 51 pm
Arrive Kingston 7 21 p m
Arrive Cartersville. 4 71 p ni
Arrive Atlanta 10 10 p m
Np. 4.
Leave Chattanooga f> w a m
Arrive Dalton 7 09 am
Arrive Kingston 8 57 am
Arrive Cartersville 9 32 am
Arrive Atlanta 11 52 n’n
No. 12.
Arrive Dalton ,1? 69 a m
Arrive Kingston 4 16 a mj
Arrive Cartersville 5 09 a m
Arrive Atlanta. 9 45 a m
Pullman Palace Car# run on Nos. 1 and 2, be
ween New Orleans and Baltimore,
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos -a3 nd 2be
tween Louisville and Atlanta.
{3T No change of cars betw. en New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, .>t).apta and Baltimore
and only one change to New Vi k.*
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 110 p. m , arr
rive in New York the second thei after at 4 00
Excursion Tickets to the Virgin ! a Springs
ai.l various Summer Resorts yvill oe on sale
in New Orleans. Mobile, Montgomery, Colum
bus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta,
at greatly reduced rate# Ist bt Jung,
Parties desiring a whole car through to top
Virginia Springs or to Baltimore should aur
dress the undersigned. ... ,
Parties contemplating traveling should *end
for a copyof the Kennexavo Route Gazette , con -
taining schedules, etc.
Ask foi tfekt-ts via “Kt'nncsAW^Rotite.
General Passenger and Tmkgf AEd't,
may22—dtf Atlanta, Qn.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
First-Class Faro s2g.OPerDay
An “Old Virginia Welcome” by llewjtt.
WM. K. HUSE.
GENERAL
INSURANCE AGENT
Represents the following: first-class
companies :
GEORGIA HOME,
OF COLUMBUS, GA.
Rates ow and guarantees dividends yearly.
The private property of the stockholders bound
for all of the obligations of the company.
NIAGARA,
OF NEW YORK,
The assets arc nearly a million ami a half,
ATLAS,
OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Assets are over half a million dollars.
AMERICAN,
OF PHILADELPHIA,
Incorporated in 1810. Charter perpetual. As
sets, one and a quarter million. Surplus on
the first ol January, aquarterot a million.
HOME PROTECTION,
OF NORTH ALABAMA.
Invests only in United States bonds. Issues
against Lightning as well as fire. Guarantees
dividends yearly. Losses adjusted by the
agent,;
Also'represents
OTHER FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES,
not enumerated above. Insurance guaranteed
at the lowest rates in first-class companies.—
All losses promptly and equitably adjusted.
Cartersville, Ga., May 4,18 TO.
THE CAMPAIGN OPENED,
Speech of Ilon.J. W. Woflerd, Candidate
for Elector for the State at Large in
Georgia onTildenand Ifendricks ticket.
Delivered at Dedart own Ga. on the 2‘il
day of August, 1870.
Fellow - Citizens: This is an
iiD[>ortant era in the history of the
great Republic. A political war is
now IteiriiJ waged between the two
political parties of the country, for
the possession of tlie macbiic rv
of the government. These pirties
are the Republican party arid the
Democratic party. The Republican
party lias been in power si ucc* tlie4tli
of March, 18<il, when Mr. Lincoln
was inaugurated Pres dent. The
issues whicli were prominent in the
public mind when he was elected are
now dead ; indeed alt the issues be
tween ttie Republicans and Demo
crats, and which brought on the late
war, and issues which grew out of it
are dead. The war was waged to
preserve the integrity of tne Union,
its integrity lias been preserved and
it stands to-day cemented with the
blood, of both sections. If the peo
ple of both sections from now on do
their duty, it will stand forever.
A consequence of that war was tiie
freedom of the negro held in bondage
in the slave States, the enactment of
fundirnental and other law) for his
protection in all the privilege of a
citizen, and the transfer to him of
all the political rights of any other
citizen in the Republic.
These amendments to the Consti
tution and the laws passed in pursu
ance of them ar acquiesced in by
every man, woman and child iii
Georgia. So far as my experience
and observation goes, there is no one
here who would abridge the rights
and the political privilege of the
black man.
I do not myself believe that slavery
was ever a benefit to Southern peo
ple. lam perfectly confident, that
tiie Southern people are now univer
sally convinced of the truth of this
proposition. And if the question of
a re-enslavement of the black man
was to-day submitted to tiie people
of Georgia it would be voted down
fifty to one. The tenacity with
which the Southern people clung to
the institution of slavery was not
based on their love tor it in the ab
stract, but was fostered in the oppo
sition that is bred in the heart of any
one when his rights are unlawfully
invadid by another.
Slavery was peculiar to the cotton
States and a few of what was known
as tiie border States; a great political
organization grew up in the North
ern section of the Union, the avow
ed purpose of which was the destruc
tion of this institution peculiar to
our section. Our rights to the
ownership of slavery was as old as
Constitution itself, and one recogniz
ed by both the fundamental and
statute law. When, therefore, a res
pectable and powerful organization—
composed of the ablest and most in
telligent men of the was
created for the express and the sole
purpose of tiie annihilation of slav-,
ery, tlie feeling of resistance which
God has planted in the breasts of
ail of us, came into play-In all its
force, and was fed and totalized by
the protracted and discussions indulg
ed in by politicians of both sections
until it culminated in the election of
Mr. Lincoln aud the attempted
secession of the Southern States from
the Union.
There is not now, and there never
has been a people on the earth who
would have acted differently, and
there is not an intelligent man in
the world who does not know this to
be true,
When the (Southern people wefe
subjugated and their former slaves
were declared free men and the po
litical equals of their old ma3ters,aud
this after one of the most bloody
on record, the natural ten
dency was to nnuio the pegrp arro
gant, protected as he was by thehay
nets of the government. This taken
in connection with the universal
poverty pf the whites, and the bad
uses to which tne negfops were put
by bad men after poticical privileges,
Were conferred upon them, and the
negro being used as an element
in hostility to the real or supposed
interests of the whites, produced
naturally an estrangement between
the races. And this never went- to
the of hostility on the part of
the whites to the negro aa sqch, but
mainly to the men who used and
the mean purposes to which his vot
ing powers were perverted.
Jf there is a race on earth who
under the saih® circumstances and
tiie same provocation w°uld have
acted with more forbearance and
more charity than the white people
of the South acted towards tiie black
people after the later were freed, I
want tp see that people, for they are
not of seed of A.qaip.
There has never been a day nor an
hour from June Igfio, to this blessed
moment when the black man of the
South did not have a friend in the
white man in the samesection.
Under the law of Georgia a slave
could not hoid property. His aecu_
mutations and earnings, accuiT.efi to
his master, consequently nt the”sur.
render” in the spring of 1865. there
was not a freed man in the State who
owned one dollars worth.'of property.
There were jn June, 1865, in Georgia
about so.ooo colored men oyer twpn
ty-one years of age. These men have
from then to now, by their own exer
tions,supported their families as rent
ers of the land of the white people
and as hirelings of the white people
educated their children more or less
and have accumuluted $5,393,885
worth of property. In the next ten
years, with the improved facilities,
increased knowledge from experience
more general education, their ag
gregate property will go to $30,000,-
000. For nearly all of the $5,000,000
now by the colored men of Georgia
was made in the last six years; the
flrst five years after the “surrender”
was speqji in polities, and in looking
for the “forty acres of Jand and a
mule” promised by Radical politi
cians from the scanty means of the
Southern whites.
Asa lawyer, I have defended a
great many colored people; every
lawyer of much practice has done the
same thing ; zeaf for the client lias
never abated on account or color;
this is done every day in every court
of Southern states. In almost every
instance this is done wjtjiout re
ward or hope of it. The better class
of black people do not commit
crimes. More than that the records
of the courts will show and to this I
challenge contradiction, that there
is as large a per cent, of black men
acquitted of crime,s by white juries
as are of white men acquitted of
crime by the tamejuries. I here as
sert, that the records will disprove
it if I am wrong, that this is true of
every court in Georgia from the low
est to the highest.
This I say to the honer of Geor
gians is true, in a [state where every
officer is a Democrat, and where al
most every black man is a Republi
can.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 7,1870;
A striking illustration of the feel
ing,. when uninfluenced by a bad
man that exists in the South between
the black; and the whites, is found in
the conduct of the gieat Bishop
Pierce of the Methodist church Sou H
meeting with colored people ofGeor
gia in their annual conference preach
ing ami praying with them and giv
ing them the full benefit of his ripe
exjterience —pure Christian character
—in the management amt control ol
their affairs as a denomination of
Christians. No feeling in that good
man’s heart but love for his fellows
without relerenee to the color of their
skin.
Another illustration of a class
that might be urolouged indefinitely,
Bishop Ward is a black man—a very
btaek man. He was for four years,
ending last spring, ttie Bishop in
charge of the Methodist church of
ttie colored j wipie in Georgia. He
preached at all places where his du
tiescalled him. Among other places
he preached to the colored people in
Cartersville, where 1 iive; the white
people learning of his presence they
went to hear him ; lie is a very able,
eloquent man. Sometime afterwards
his business brought him there again;
the desire to hear him had became so
general that he was invited by uni
versal acclaim to preach in the Meth
odist church of the white people, the
finest building in the place. His au
dience was mixed in color, but was
large, respectful and intelligent.
Nothing but good feeling prevail
ed and a common desire to hear the
black bishop again.
The people of Georgia pay annual
ly of taxes to defray interest on the
public debt and the other expenses
of the State government about $1,800,-
000. Of this amount the colored peo
ple pay $20,960 42. It will be remem
bered in this connection there are
121,819 white males in the State over
twenty-one years of age, and 87 509
colored males in the State over
twenty-one years of age. Now, it a
State every department of which is
governed by white Democrats, and
which pays to the public school find
of the State over $300,000 annually,
and in which thereabout 400,000 chi
ldren of school age both white and
black 100,(MtO of whom are black,
without reference to the fact that
the total tax paid by the colored peo
pie in the State is only a little over
$26,000, and the white people pay
over $1,800,000, the fund is equally
distributed, and each black child
in Georgia gets just as much benefit
from the fund as each while child in
Georgia. Teachers for the white
schools and teachers for ttie colored
schools are exairned by the same
commissioner and paid from the
same fund and precisely ttie same
amounts per scholar,
And yet it is said we are the ene-!
mies of the colored people. In the
light of the truth, I am willing to
submit toa candid world whether the
charge is true or false.
It is not our opinion that the mass
of the northern people wisti to do us
injustice. They have been educated
to their present opinions; what we
need is the truth presented to their
minds.
One hundred years from now, in
the face of tiie tale, history will tell.
It will appear incomprehensible to
impartial men, that the President of
the United States, lie who should
know no section, he who should
have no prejudices, no partialities,
he who should sit us the Goddess of
Justice, blind toail but perfect equity,
should have said in the solemnity of
a message to the Congre s of the na
tion, that the officials ot one of the
greatest States in the Union hold
their places by virtue of means foul
enough tp tjisgrape savages, yet
that was said without proof to sus
tain it, and by a man who sits where
Washington once sat.
A distinguished writer in Harper’s
Weekly of this week said in an elab
orate article over liis own name,
upon the political situation, that it
would require an “influx of gentle
school mistresses from tlie north, to
educate and tame the savage spirits
of Georgia and Texas.”
Texas can speak for herself; but ae
to Georgia, I ask in the name of her
people, where is the outcroppings of
the savage spirit to which this wri
ter refers i 1 here assert4hat there ig
not a negro church nor school-house
in Georgia of any consequence, to
the building of which the money of!
the white people has not been con
tributed, I challenge the whole of
Radicalism to show this is not true.
The immediate cause of the Presi
dent’s gusli of passion, tiie Ham
burg murder, finds no more approval
in Georgia or (south Carolina than it
would find in New' York or Massa
chusetts, The''murder of unarmed
and defenseless prisoners, *no matter
what their personal guilt might be,
is an outrage of such enormity as to
pieet tne just indignation of every
gopff map.
The people of South Carolina as a
people are no more responsible for
that ruffian act, than aro the people
of any community responsible for
the death of an innocent man shot
dead by an assassin. Yet this is dune
in this country, but too often;
done North, Fast, {South and \V eat-
Life in no part of this country is as
dear as it ought to be. Blood runs
runs too freely aud for occasions too
slight. A drunken, reckless vaga
bond, without the fear of God tr
man before his face, spouts an inno
cent paan dead or combine and do
the same thing, and thp community
in which it is.dope, is held up to
scorn and contempt for the act, The
latter is ajerime ol just a little less
magnitude than the other.
Two years ago when the Orange
men paraded through tiie streets of
hfew York, it required all the police
force of tiie city to protect Them
from violence. Without such pro
tection many lives would have been
lost, hundreds of persons injured and
much property destroyed. This was
purely a political and religious dif
ference. No sensible man ever
thought of holding the city or State
of New Vork responsible for the con
duct of the Irish Catholics who men
aped the Orangemen with violence
and bloodshedj por hajs any sensible
man proposed to hold tiie better class
of Irish Catholics responsible for the
conduct of their ignorant and more
SfiDerstitious brethren. Yet it could
be done with just much pr°P riet y
and just as much decency and truth
as to hold South Carolina responsible
for the murder of negro prisoners by
reckless, irresponsible men
I am a supporter of Governor I il
den, not because I expect any pecu
liar favors at his hands for tiie people
of the South, but because I believe he
will hold the scales evenly, and give
an ex-Cfinfederal §oldi£ r fll.b §atpe
protection under the constitution that
he accords to the soldiers of tiie Inion.
So far as I am concerned I ask no
more; I believe the Southern people
expect no more,
I was, as you know, a delegate
from the State at Large to the St.
Louis Uopvpntiop. J went there a
Tilden man because J believed him to
the most faithful exponent of an idea
that ought to prevail in our country,
and that is the idea of reiorm in the
administration of the government.
The Western delegates to the St.
Louis convention complained to the
Southern delegates that they had en
tered into a combination with the
people of the East—an alliance they
said wholly unnatural and unpre
cedented. They said a natural affin
ity exists between the Western ami
North Western people and the South
ern people. Those to whom I talked
I told we had but one purpose in our
course and that was to secure the
nomination of tiie best men who
could be elected, and the best man
was the man most acceptable to the
Northern Democrats. That Mr. Tii
den seemed the best and most prac
ticable representative of the most pop
ular idea. That we recognized in
Mr. Tilden the fact that he was an
uncompromising Union Democrat
during the war; that hi* opposition
to us had ceased only when our hos
tility to the government ceased.
That we felt the hand of power heav
ily upon us; and heavier than it bears
upon the people in other sections.—
That small affairs with us, are
magnified for political purposes into
huge mountains of sin; that what we
ask is no favor, but simply an equal
right to stand before tlie law with
the negroes who live among us.
And more than that, the Republi
can party is shown to have served its
purpose. There is no longer any
national demand for its existence.
Abuses have grown up with its long
lease of power,and it is impossible for
it to reform itself. Experience proves
no political party has ever done so,
and there is nothing in the conduct
of the Republican party to prove it
an exception to that well established
rule.
If the Democratic party was in
power just as long it would no doubt
become just as corrupt. The coun
try will profit by a change.
The platform as adopted by both
parties makes reform the watch-cry
and slogan of their songs.
Can the Republican party make
good its promises with Governor
II a yes as President of the United
States? I say not, and will attempt
to show you why.
1 have never believed General
Grant personally corrupt. I have
never believed that lie directly or
indirectly shared in the plunder with
which many of his officers have en
riched themselves. Nor is General
Grant a weak man. To the contrary
lie is a strong man. He is not a
statesman as we orderly understand
that word but lie is a man ot ability
and great personal courage.
Now that I concede his personal
integrity and courage, it is equally
fair to say that his administration of
the affairs of this government has
not been a success. For while his
own hands are clean, it is universally
known that corruption, fraud and
speculation have crept into hiirh
places; his ministers have been de
tected in crime; villainy has been
traced to his personal staff. In a
word, Gen. Grant’s administration is
without a precedent in tiie matter of
defaults, frauds upon the govern
ment and peculation on the part of
the iiigh officials. It is to be doubted
if more corruption was ever shown
in any country among those entrust
ed with power,
Then i say, if all of this has gro ,vn
up under ttie very nose of General
Grant, and he unable to detect and
stop it, how is it possible for a man
like Gov. Hayes to do it? Gover
nor Mayes is personalty honest; so is
Gen. Grant; but Hayes is one of
ttiose routine commonplace, genteel,
gentlemen who wilt do his individu
al duty he understands it, but who
lacks the elements necessary for a
reformer to a much greater degree
than Gen. Grant. It is not folly then
to expect of a man like Governor
Hayes what a man like Gen. Grant
has been unable be accomplish ? Gov.
Hayes is now serving liis third term
as Governor of Ohio; but lie has
failed to leave his impression on the
country in any, except to say lie lias
never stolen anything and discharges
faithfully the duties of iffs position
according to his ability. Is it not a
sad commentary upon American
statesmanship, that it has come to
the point Unit a candidates chief
recommendation is, that he has never
stolen anything ?
Governor Tilden possesses, in an
eminent degree, the elements of a re
farmer, I'irot, iie i* possessed of a
high order of ability ; lie has an iron
will tireless energy; and last, but
not least, he has a deathless hatred
of rogues.
The Democratic party has given
gn earnest declarations of its inten
tions to reform and economize in the
expenditure of nublic piopey.
The present House of Representa
tives of Congress has a Democratic
majority. The Republicans call it
the Confederate House of Represen
tatives. Alljf which for is that the
people of the United Skates may never
have a House which legislates less in
the interest of the people than the
present one. If all that are to follow
do as well the country wilt prosper.
We will look now at a few items
of savings to tfie country, tint, be
fore we do that, I will ask you to
note if the machinery of the govern
ment does not run just as well for
the next year as it has for the last.
Take the fortifications first : The
government asked f°f an appropria
tion of $3,100,000. House committee
where all appropriations must origi
inute, recommended $315,000. It
was so passed in both Houses: over
$3,000,000 saved there. Congress,
last year—it was a Republican Con
gress-appropriated $17,n06.000.40 to
the Navy. Government this year
asked for $20,871,666.40; House passed
Lijll giving §12,132,55540i Senate
recommended on House bill so as to
make it $16,167,85540, On conference
between the Senate and the House
the bill was passed for $12,740,355.40.
Little over $8,000,000 was saved
there.
Savings made in appropriations to
Xavy yard, public buildings, efp., by
the House, is over half a million of
dollars. Appropriations to the mili
tary academy last year, $364,740.
Government asked i’or this year,
$437,470; House appropriated $231,-
241; bill, as finally pas;ed on confer
ence between tlie Senate and the
House, $290,035. Amount saved,
about $150,000.
Last Congress appropriated on In
dian, bill, $0,300,554.55. Government
asked for this year, $5,787,995.60’;
House appropriated $3,979,602; Sen
ate recommended $495,361.27 ; bill, as
finally passed on conference between
Senate and House, $4,670,117.02.
About 1,000,000, saved there.
If the Semite had passed the House
bill for appropriations to the Consu
lar and diplomatic service, the saving
would have been about $400,000; but,
as finally passed on conference, it
saved only about $30,000.
To the Legislative appropriation
bill the last Congress appropriated
$18,932,239. Government asked thjsj
year for $y0,836,30V; House appropri
ated $12,998,895; Senate recomnaend-
ed $16,635,338; bill as finally passed
on conference l>etween the Senate
and House, $15,373,960. About
$5,000,000 saved there.
The last Congress appropriate ' for
post office department $" 376,205. gov
ernment asked this year for $8,431,-
602,99; Senate recommended $7,255,-
647 ; bill, as finally passed on confet
enco between the Senate and House
$5,997,498. Nearly $3,000,000 saved
there. If House bill had passed the
Senate, over $4,000,000 would have
been savad.
For the army last Congress appro
priated $27,933,830. Government
asked this year fur $33,348,748.50;
House appropriated $23,179,819.52;
Sen-Po recommended $27,717,877.20 ;
the bill, as finally passed on confer
ence between the Senate and House,
$25,987,167, saved there, nearly
$8,000,000.
To sundry civil service bill last
Congress appropriated $26,641,350.
Government .asked this year for
$32,560,475; House appropriated
$14,857,326.54 ; Senate recommended
$18,501,601.24 ; (till, as finally passed
on conference between the Senate
and House, $16,357,90547. Amount
saved there abuut $16,000,000.
Last year, Congress gave, by the
usual appropriation bills, $177,663,327.
Government asked for this year, on
same bills, $203,099,025; House ap
propriated $137,233,134; Senate rec
ommended for tiie same purpose
$159,260,598; Dills, as finally passed
on conference between ttie two hous
es, $147,719,674; it will thus be seen
that amount actually, between that
given by ttie last Congress and what
was given by the present Congress, is
$29,944,253. If the Republican Sen
ate bad passed the appropriation hills
as they passed the I)e nocratio House,
the saving i etween what was given
last year, and what would, under the
House bills have been given this
year, would have been $40,430,-
192. And if they had not been there
a constant menace to the Republican
rulers in their extravagance, the up
propriotions would have been what
was asked for by the Government,
to-wit; $203,099,025; the difference
between that asked by the govern
ment, officers and what the house on
conference with the Senate, is $55,-
379,951. The last is the actual
amount saved to the people of ttie
United States by a Democratic
House. If the bills had passed ttie
Senate just as they did the House,
the actual saving what would have
been given and what the Govern
ment officials asked for, would have
been $65,865,890.
The Democratic House of Repre
sentatives tias, in time of peace,
saved more money from the civil ex-1
pense3 of the Government for one
year than was spent by President j
Polk in tlie same time in carrying
on a war in a foreign country, inclu
ding all civil expenses at home.
Is this not au earnest of the good
faith of the Democratic party, anti of
the public virtue of the Confederate
House of Representatives, as some
Republicans call it?
In what I have said I have at
tempted to establish these proposi
tions —every one of which can be es
tablished by the record:
1. That tiie Southern people are
not the enemies of the black man.
2. That Southern people are the
friends of the black man.
3. That in ttie Southern States, es
pecially in Georgia, the colored peo
ple enjoy all the political privileges)
of tiie white people, and all the im
munities of tiie white people.
4. That in Georgia tiie percentage
of the increase of the property of
the colored people is gt eater under
Democratic rule, than it was before
Gov. Bullock fled from the State.
5. That the percentage ot the in
crease of the property of the colored
people is greater in Georgia, which is
ruled by Democrats, than in South
Carolina, which is governed by car
pet-baggers ami negroes. Provided,
the office-holding negroes who have
stolen fortunes are excluded from the
estimate.
6. That the Republican party can
not reform itself.
That Gen. Grant lias more of
tiiequaiities of a reformer than Gov.
Hayes, and if Gen. Grant can’t puri
fy the party it’s impossible for Gov.
Hayes to do it.
8. That the Democracy has proven
its faith by its work ; it has inaugur
ated reform amt economy in the ad
ministration of the government.
9. That it has for its candidate, the
embodyment of the reform move
ment, Gov. Tilden.
10. That the corruption does exist
in the Republican party.
ff these propositions are true, then
the Republican party ought to he de
feated, and the Democratic party
to succeed.
CONSTITUTIONaL cosvestion.
The Albany News inquires: “Are
you in favor of a Constitutional Con
vention? That is a most important
question for the people to ask their
prospective Representatives in the
next Legislature. It is a question
that demands our earnest and partic
ular attention, and we hope that all
sections of our State will be in favor
of the movement. Georgia needs a
new Constitution, or the old onei
needs a thorough cleansing out, a pu
rification and a modification that will
render it acceptable to the people of
our good old commonwealth. Let
us send men to the capital who have
firm and settled purposes about this
matter: men, who seeing the neces
sity of throwing away t lie whole or
a part of the Yankee-and-negro-made
Constitution, have the strength to act
so as to rid our State of such a vile
and miasma-breathing measure.”
Augusta Chronicle: Those who
oppose a Constitutional Constitution
are making an effort to show that
the object of a convention will be to
annul and take away a man’s home
stead, after he has applied and it
been granted him. There has cer
tainly never been a greater fallacy
presented in opposition to a oonyen
tron. The convention could not, if
it desired, take away the homestead
already granted, and if the home
stead Question is touched at all, it
will not be with a view of interfering
with those already granted, and it
does not necessarily follow that the
homestead will be touched at all by
the convention, though a reduction
qf the present amount would prove
beneficial to both debterand creditor,
and would have a tendency for good
in restoring confidence among the
people. There are many necessary
reforms in our constitution badly
needed, and the only remedy ig
through a convention, The patron
age of the Governor is too extend
ed ; we should have the privilege
of electing our Judges, Notaries
Public, etc. The arguments in fa
vor of a constitution are numerous,
as hut little legislation that can ben
efit the people can be effected under
the present constitution. The home
stead is altogether a secondary con
sideration, and thuse who are ‘'blow
ing” about it, (15 so to use it to de
feat a convention |
NEW CASH STORE.
u-reat Bargains, Goods at New York Cost.
J. H. SATTERFIELD
~r HAS iftnro 11 Crtrsvillt and opened next door eatd of \
**-**'/• ' N* Hudgins oi eof the largest amt l i‘t elwtcd sLck-. ot
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS,
4 4 i°llS, Fh UCV ( roods,
CENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
4 READY MADE CLOTHING. HATS. CAPS. BOOTS & SHOES
That tias cvcr beee exhibited In Cartcrsvillc, which lie often to the cash trade at prices that
rannot s>e U-atcn this side of the Eastern market, lie respectfully asks bis old IVieudfc and
( us tinners and the public generally to examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere,
may2s :p|
Hardware and Farming Implements.
BAKER HALL
A J‘Jw v. e .v-*/. 01 .' U o J. h .V ‘fj;' ,st<)n ] er> t 0 * general and complete stock of IIIAKDWAK i ar.d
s f AKJII.Mj IMl'LhJihMJ>,sucli as
PLOWS, HOES, COTTON PLANTERS, ETC:.
We also have a complete stock ofFIKLD BEKDS such as Clover, Red Top, Orchard and ltluo
, ass ’ Herman Mi Lett, etc. as cheap as they can he sold iu this or anv other market. We al>o
have a complete stock of READY MADE RLOWS both Iron and Steel. iVe >ell
Bar Iron
Cast Steel '..'.V.V.V.'.V 7.7..7.7.7.7. A'V’ Anl**
bwced Iron !7. 77 77 7!7 77 7 7777 \\ 77..7.77. 7. . . .77 7 St ,V cents!
r .f" 1 H' c cas * l " u t:ln S °H as cheap as the same qualify of goods can be sold a tty where.
_ BAH Kit A HALL.
STOVES & TINWARE.
r To the Citizen* of 0:u-tei**ville and Sui*-
rounding Country:
HAVING consolidated our business at the old GILBERT
ffMHfpK STAN 1) on the corner of Mniu and Tumlin Streets, \Ve
wi, l carry on the business under the name and firm of
Mtmgf STALL & ADAMS
We will keep constantly on hand .a large and complete
STOVES, TINWARE L HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
tyhieh we will sell at the very lowest price to suit tliime-. We keep the celebrated t'OTI'ON
KlNti, IRON KING, t'.\ I’IToLA and various other stoves of all sizes and prices. Wc will du
plicate prices I rout any market in the State. All job worK and repairing promptly don for
cash. Country produce, rags and old brass and copper taken in exchange for goods. Wrap
ping paperalways on band at Atlanta prices. We Will fttrnisb galvouized Iron Evaporators i..r
lloillng Syrup, 10 ft. long.JO in. wide, complete, made out of a solid sheet, A r o *<<=.*, at (12
cash, frame and all. Ten dollars lower than ever furnished in the .South. Those desiring to
purchase please give us 15 days’ notice. (jant-ly) STALL. & ADAMS.
STILL J± r THEIR OLI > STAJVD,
STOKELY * WILLIAMS
DEALERS IN
STAPLE & FANCY I)RY GOODS, DRESS GOODS,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes.
‘V’ITE desire to state to our old friends and patrons that we are still running our business
T Y with our paying p itrons on the usual time heretofore given,
But will Expect Prompt Payment at Maturity.
Those paying cash at purchase will get the beneiit of a heavy deduction. And we would
most respectfully request those purchasing for cash to say to ns’at the time: “We will ca-li
this bill,” as we*will then tne more readily allix prices. 1! there is nothing said our prices will
be given at time rates. BTOKELV Jfc AVILLIAMS.
HO Those owing us due paper will do us a great favor by calling and making ear t pay
. D. ment (march 2) STOKE LX A WILLI AILS.
SORGHUM MILLS.
Pi’ice List Of Sorghum jVlill* For lS7<i r
Twelve inch, ttvo roller, Mills §25 00
Fourteen inch, two roller, Mill 35 00
Three Roller, Iron Frame Mill, complete, 55 .00
Twelve inch, Two Roller Iron Frame, Complete 35 OH
Fourteen inch, two roller, iron Frame, 45 00
We guarantee our mil is to be fir-t-class in every Irespeet. Our Three Roller Iron Frame
Mill is Superior to any M ill at the Price in the country, Witt give a written guarantee with
this Mill. Call on or address
WALLACE & HAGKETT, CARTERSVILLE. GA.
jan2p-tf ETOWAH KOl’N DRY AN D M Allll.N E SHOPS.
THE GRANGERS’
LIFE AMI HEALTH IVSIHAM'L I’d..
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
EACH STATE IS A HOME COMPANY, AND RETAINS NINETY PER CENT. OF ITS
CAPITAL STOCK AND ITS ENTIRE RESERVE FOR LOAN AND INVESTMENT.
□ ADITMT nCCSPC F. E. Davidson. President.
rAnC.il i Ur ! ILL. M. G. Hudson, Vice-President,
K. W. Fort, Secretary.
MOBILE, Ala.
C’asli and Ronds, - - 8200.000.
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT, Alfred Shorter. Vice-President, ]
It. J. Gwaltucjr, Sec. and Urea.-.
HOME. Ga. G. W. Ilolmes, Medical Exam’r.
Loans and C ash, - - 100,000.
Board of Director*, Georgia Department.—
A. P. Allgood, C. Rowell, Alfred Shorter,
A. 11. Jones, Hon. I). F. Hammond, D. IS.
Hamilton, Cain Glover, T. McGuire, F.
Woodruff..!. L. Camp, C. G. Samuel, M. 11.
Bunn, lion. W. H. Hutching*-.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT, nZ. SJHSggASSSfc
W. L Chambers Sec. and Treas.
MONTGOMERY Ala.
Loans and Cush, - - 100.000.
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, John H. Gray, Vice President.
L. A, Duncan, Sec & Tress.
MERIDIAN, MISS.
Loans and Cash, - - 100.000.
Cfl mom nPD’T Th©s.o.Jeter, Pie-idcnt.
OU. LariULIIIH ULr I. ThomsA MtCreerr, Viee-Pra.
COLUMBIA, S. C. 1L UrCe ”’ Secr^arJ '
Loans and Cash, ■ -^IOO.OOO.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT,
„ . A. J. Jernigan, Secretary.
AUSTIN, TEXAS. K. A. Blandford, General Agent.
Loans and Cash, - - 100,000.
Total Assets, - - - £700,000.
The great and popular feahire of this growing Company is that each State .Jf A”
truth and fact a, Huvuo Company, and loans its entire reserve at home,iita low a o ml i rest,
o.u undoubted real estate security. The Parent office recaives the death loss and pax, the
death loss. Good Agents wanted to canvass during the next si* i.k nth . Ad lress. C. G.
SAMUEL, President, K. J. GWALTXEY, Secretary, ROME, GA. (dei.-tl.)
W. K. HUBE Agent, Cartersville, Georgia.
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