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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1875-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1878)
CUKROT PARAGRAPHS- Ben Butler has been dubbled “the cockeyed child of destiny.” Butler has found use for his two left-handed eyes at last —one to watch the Nationals, the other to wink at the Democrats. We learn that Montgomery has quarantined against Atlanta, C hatta nooga and other places along the line of railroads leading into the city from nearly every point. From recent returns made to the Department of Agriculture it is be lieved that the cotton crops this year will equal the great crops raised be fore the war. Meetings have been called in Liv erpool, England, to raise means to aid the yellow fever sufferers in the Immigration at the present time seems to he turning with special vol ume towards Texas and Virginia. Union City, Tenn., has hail the following placard along the roads leading into that place: “No strang ers allowed to come into Union City under a penalty of a fine of two hun dred and fifty dollars.” Mexicanization is the term now applied to the mixing of stimulating beverages. When a man rashly drinks beer, whisky, gin and wine in the course of half a day, ho is said to Mexicanize. Of what does the ring consist that nominated Lester? Eleven thou sand Democrats. That was a huge ring, doctor, don’t you think so. A tack points heavenward when it means most mischief. It has many imitators. Let the political Parson do one of two things, quit “politicis ing” or quit preaching. So far the yellow fever has not be come epedemic in a single city or town in the State of Georgia this year. There have been two import ed cases in Atlanta. Do the mails propagate the yellow fever? seems still to be an open ques tion. The Cincinnati Commercial quoting the paragraph from this col umn which was to the effect that yellow fever did not travel by mail says: “The malignant outbreak of the disease in the Cairo Bulletin of fice has been attributed to the mails. Seven or eight of the men were at tacked almost simultaneously’.” The fever in Memphis in 1873 com menced September 14th and lasted until November 9th, with a total of 1,202 deaths. The epedemic this year commenced August Ist, and, up to the 24th ult., the number of cases was 5,123, and the deaths 1,458. Judge Lochrane, of Georgia, inter viewed in Chicago, thought Gen. Hancock the only man to successfully oppose Grant in 1880. The Green back movement, he said, would show great strength in the South, but it could not prevent a solid South on national questions. The movement would be carried on within the; ranks. Dr. TANARUS, O. Summers, who has just waded four weeks of scourge at Memphis, say?, in the Nashville Ban- j ner : “I am surprised to find that, people in the city of Nashville are afraid that the fever will spread among us. It is just as impossible j for a yellow form to live in the fiy grometic condition of this air as for a man to live in a vacuum. You can gojto the infirmary and sleep with the patients, and you would be perfectly safe. I have never known an atmos phere so antagonistic to its develop ment. Not long since a darkey did some whitewashing for a white man. On paying for the job the employer paid off Mose, for that was the darkey’s name, in Mexican quarters at par. It was several days before Mose found out that they were worth only twenty cents. Mose was very much hurt about it. “Jess to think of Col. cheatin’ dis hard working nig gah outen thirty cents. Foah de Lord, 1 would neber have believed it on him. I hadn’t orter tuk de job in de fust place. An this is the way with the peo ple wire have voted for Dr. Felton for two terms. Jlis expected indepen dent quarter hag only been worth twenty cd.?ts, if that much, but by the experiment People have as certained that if they want their bur dens relieved they must not buy the pig in the bag any longer, but must vote forti man who has his face value marked upon his professions and who stands stamped. “This candidate is good for one vote for greenbacks and again-t the monopolists and bond holders.” 1 now undertake to affirm, and without the least fear that I can be answered, that a paper issued by Government, with the simple prom ise to receive it for all dues, leaving its creditors to take it, or gold or silver, at their option, would, to the extent it could circulate, form a per fect paper circulation, which could not be abused by the Government; that it would be as uniform in value as the metals themselves; and I shall be able to prove that it is within the Constitution and powers of Congress to use such a paper in the manage ment of its finances, according to the most rigid rule of construing the Constitution,—[John C. Calhoun. Iu the Wisconsin Sentinel appears the following: The management of the bank at Neennah last week ordered 10,000 Mexican dollars and began to pay them out at par. The citizens ac cepted them for 100 cents, and trans acted business with them at the val ue fixed by the bank. But when the dollars began to return to the bank they wouid only take them at a dis count of twenty cents. The citizens held a public meeting, at which they resolved to withdraw their patron age from the institution unless its managers wouid pay 100 cents on the dollar- Tiiis had the desired effect and the bankers announced their willingness to comply with those term3. Just what those bankers did, the bondholders want to do with the National Greenback currency. Pay it out as one dollar, but when you wish to pay it back to them, to be told it is only worth 90 cents, as gold is worth sl.lO, $1.20 $1.30, just as the gold speculators may gamble with it. “Black Fridays” are things of the past. The people intend to have but one currency, and that for rich and poor, banker and merchant. VOLUME XIX.] LET EVERY >I VN READ AND JUDGE FOR lint SELF. Dr. Felton said in his speech at Adalrsville on September °\-t, that Judge Lester was elected Home Com missioner of Foreign Immigration under the Bullock administration, and held on to his office u. til all of the SIO,OOO appropriated w as exhaus ted, and that his salary a id the per quisites thereof amount! A to $5,000. In connection with the above asser tions Dr. Felt in reai from Judge Lester’s resignation a r contained on page .530 of the House Journal of the Legislature of Georgia for the year 1870. On page 529 of the same Jour nal will be found the following re port : “Executive Department, Atlanta, Ga., August 29th, 1870. To The General Assembly. I transmit herewith a report of the Domestic and Foreign Commission ers of Immigration : The Domestic Commissioner *>f Immigration has received a salary of $2,598 and G 4 cents, and hesexp ded SSOO for printing and circulati g doc uments, etc. The Foreign t jrumis sioner has received S3,(XX) a his com pensation, and has expended $1,020 and 00 cents for printir and circu lating documents, maning a total expenditure, for the experiment, of $7,119 and 24 cents. In the report of the Commission ers eight reasons are given why the experiment has not been a success. I also transmit herewith a copy of the resignation of the Domestic Com missioner. Rufus B, Bullock.” Now, the foregoing report shows that when Judge Lester resigned he j had received as his salary only $2,598 and 64 cents, and there was an un expended balance of $2,880 and 70 remaining in the State Treasury of the SIO,OOO appropriated, and yet Dr. Felton is racing all over the Seventh Congressional District and proclaim ing from every stump that Judge Lester received a salary of $5,000 as Commissioner of Immigration, and never resigned until all of the SIO,OOO was gone. He has been notified of his error by “Citizen” in his open letter contained in the Atlanta Con stitution of the 20th of September and also by a statement contained in the Cartersville Express of the sth of September, 1878. No one can doubt that Dr. Felton had read the fore going report on page 529 of the Jour-1 nal referred to, as he read from J udge Lester’s resignation on page 530 of j the same Journal, in his speech on said occasion. Then why does he so j misrepresent the records of his own State? If he has no regard for the truth, surely he should respect the intelligence of his hearers.— Farmers are not fools because they wear plain clothes. The Jour nal of the House of Representatives for the year 1870 is accessible to the farmer as well as to others. The Court House in every county of this State should contain the journals of the Legislature, and these journals are there for the inspection of the people. ] The honest yeomanry of the land are invited to go to the Clerks of the Su perior Courts of their respective counties and examine these journals and see how Dr. Felton seeks the de- ; feat of his opponent. Farmers, if he deceives you in this can you trust his veracity in anything? Does not this explain his refusal to meet his op- 1 ponent in joint discussion Before you ? j If he were armed with truth, why need he fear to meet Judge Lester? Surely not because he mistrusts his own ability, for he told the people assembled to hear him at Adairsville that his speech on the silver bill ac complished as much as any speech ever made in the American Congress. O, minister of the gospel, how far have you fallen beneath your high vocation? You once proclaimed to the world that you had been called to preach the everlasting Truth, to teach that Gospel which enjoin brotherly love, and yet you hav condescended to make s which are untrue for the purpos of injuring your brother. Perhap the bitterness of the campaign and your desire for office have hurried you away to commit this great wrong. If so, and you are a truth loving gentleman, with brotherly love and kindness filling your heart, pause, and repent this injury you have done your neighbor. Is it not enough that you mock his wounds ? Do not seek to ruin him with an untruth. KEEP IT BEEOIIE THE PEOPLE, that Dr. Felton did all in his power to bring upon us a useless war, which desolated our Helds, and brought poverty and orphanage, uud woe and widowhood, to our peaceful and happy homes. KKIII* IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Dr. Felton, when the war came, urged his countrymen to the front to fight, while he rcnjalued at home, although he was in the full strength and vigor of manhood. KEEP IT BEFORE TBS PEOPLE that when the poor men were ordered to the j front to tight, Dr. Felton staid at home safe under the “fifteen negro act” and now abuses Lester for making it, well knowing that Les ter was in the battle field when the act was passed. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Dr, Felton charges Lester with being in the Confederate Congress while the “fifteen nigger act” was a law and doing nothing to have the act repealed, when Dr. Felton knows that the law was repealed long before Lester took his seat in Congress. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that when the holy ministry and the dear ne gro could keep Dr, Felton out no longer he exclaimed, “If I must fight—or physic—l’ll enter one of the largest hospitals in the state.” And we hoar of him no more until after the war was over eight years. KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE that in all the dark days from IS(>5 to IS7O, '■ when the patriots ot Georgia were struggling ! to free her; when the carpet bagger and the satrap ruled; wheu the bayonet and the pris on threatened freemen, Felton was silent — still as the grave. Never was his arm lifted. Never was his voice heard. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Felton stood silent, and saw Bullock rob Georgia, and never protested; never resisted; never opened bis month either to warn his j fellow countrymen, or rally them for the ; right. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that iu 1574 Dr. Felton declared to the people j of this District that had Dabney been nomina ted, he would not have opposed him; and yet when Dabney was nominated he denounced him as a corrupt trickster. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that in 1874, Dr. Felton declared to the people of this District that had Lester been noraiua- j ted, he wouid have grounded his arms and re- j tired to private life; and yet when Lester is nominated, he calls upon the people to vote 1 for ME ! and says Lester is a corrupt lobby- I ist. KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE that in 1874, Felton, knowing then what he j charges now, patted George N. Lester on the back and called him “good and pure,” while I to day, for no other reason than because Les- j ter opposes him, he denounces him as a cor rupt scoundrel trading upon au empty sleeve. KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE that Felton sneers at the wouuds of a man who was brave euoHgh to fight (not physic) for Georgia iu her hour of need. The people have loved ones who FELL for her. Their memory is dear. Shame on this hospital pa triot who sneers at the scarred living and dis honors the uoble dead. KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE that Dr. Felton charges that Lester held office under Bullock when the record in his hand shows tbet Lester wrs elected by the Legisla ture. KEtr IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Dr. Felton charges that Lester tilled an of fice created by a Radical Legislature when the record in bis baud shows that the bill estab lisning the office was passed by Democrats, in a Democratic legislature, and that a large ma jority of the men voting for Lester were Dem ocrats. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Felton denounces Lester for holdihg the office of Immigration Commissioner, when CJbarles Wallace Howard, and Geneial Lafay ette McLaws were candidates for that office. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PBOPKE that Dr. Felton charges that Lester held on to the office until the last cent appropriated to It had been exuausted and theu resigned, when the TRUTH is, that wheu Lester resigned there was abaUnce of the appropriation unexpended of nearly three thousand dollars. See the House journal of 170, page 529. The book is in all the Court houses. Let the people look and read for themselves. KEEH IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Dr. Fe.ton charges that Lester attempted to bribe Hargrove ; and that Hargrove denies it, and that after Hargrove denies it, and Les ter denies it, Felton will furnish us no proof of the charge, but goes over the district re peating the slander, and refusing to give Les ter au opportunity to deny it. Will the peo ple encourage any man in such a course as this ? KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOFLF. that when Dr. Felton charges are shown to be nntrue, he will neither retract them nor give Lester a chance to meet him before the peo ple and disprove them then and there. Will ajnstice loying, and a truth loving people en dorse such conduct by their votes V KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Dr. Felton’s negro supporter, Aaron Middiebrooks, has said to the people that Les ter lost his arm in a disgraceful cause, and that “the time is coming and must come when we (the negroes) shall be equal with the white people before the Bar, and in the domestic relation.” And Dr. Felton does not lift his voice against it. White men, how do you like that ? KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE that Dr. Felton’s negro supporter, Aaron Middiebrooks, has told the negroes that they were shut out from the jury box ; that Dr. Felton and his friends would lock arms with them and march with them to the polls, and see that they got their rights. And Dr.Felton has uever denied his sympathy with the senti timeut. White men, how do you like that* Keep It Before the People— That Dr. Fel ton’s negro supporter, Henry Brown, told the people oi Rome that the wives and daughters of Confederate soldiers who went to the war and died there, turned to whoreism over their graves. And Hargrove heard it and said not a word. And Felton knows be said it and is silent too. Why will he not protect the wid ows and orphans of these brave men ? Is it not because lie is afraid that it he denounces Brown, he will lose the negro yote ? Keep it Before the People— That Dr. Fel ton has introduced no bill to relieve the finan cial troubles of his fellow citizens. Keep it Before the People— That all Dr. Felton has done to relieve the people from Revenue laws was to introduce a bill, which he never had passed, to allow farmers to sell leal'tobacco without licence. But he sits in Congress and sees men dragged away from their homes to prison to be tried among stran gers by a negro, radical mnngrel jury and has done nothing to prevent it except to make a speech. We don’t want a speech. We want a law. Are not our own juries good enough to try their neighbors ? Dr Felton has done nothinirto relieve the people from this oppres sion, Lester has promised and pledged him self to give the people relief, so that an honest poor man will not be imprisoned away irom liis wife and children, because he is not rich pnough to give the excessive bail the Revenue officers deinand. Keep it the Before People— That the At lanta Republican, the leading radical paper in Georgia, has said “the Radicals are mostly committed to Felton. They will vole for him to split up the Democratic Party, and break its o ganization.” Demociats, Democrats what do you think oi that ? Will you vote for Fel ton and Help the radicals to split your party ? Gofi torbid ) J 1 GRAM) DEMOCRATIC RALLY. On Thursday night the 26th of September a large number of the friends of Judge Lester met in Car tersyilje apd§ decided to have a bar becue on Saturday the 2ndday of No vember, and committees were ap pointed to solicit subscriptions &<%, On Monday, of last week, we were very much surprised to learn that the friends of Dr. Felton had held a meeting on Saturday night after wards and decided to have a Felton barbecue on the same day that we had selected. After talking with several friends of Dr. Felton we met Col. F. M. Ford and he assured us in the most positive manner that Dr. Felton’s friends had decided to have their barbecue more than three weeks prior to their meeting on Saturday night the 28th ult., and stated that he himself had been soliciting sub scriptions [for that purpose at least that long. When this became known the friends of Judge Lester held another meeting and decided to have their barbecue on Thursday the 31st day of October, as they did not desire to interfere with the friends of Dr. Felton or their barbecue. We there re announce that the grand Demo cratic rally and barbecue will take place at Cartersville on Thursday October 31st, 1878. The following committees were appointed to solicit subscriptions for the barbecue : Cartersville District—A P Wofford, J N Dobbs, R L Rogers, J M Smith, M V Hollinshed, R L Sellers, Nelson Gilreath, F P Gray, G H Bates, J W Riche, John A Sto ver, J M Neel, T F Gouldsmith, Geo S Cobb, Win H Styles. Cassville District —B O Craw ford, J D Lauson, Thos Pittard, J M Wofford, George Headen. Sixth District— Red Floyd, H D Lewis, Jeff Murphy, M T Hays, Charley Whitworth. Pine Log District —Thos. Gor don, W L Adams, Robert A Richey, Thomas Carson, A M Fite. Wolf Pen District—Silas Bell, Charley Wofford, Spence McEver, David Vaughan, Capt. J D Thomas. Stamp Creek District— Thos. Jenkins, Joe Davis, Stant Rouse, John Dayis. Altoona District— J C Wa’drif, Egbert McDaniel, Campbell Wal lace, Jr., O U Dodgins, Patillo Wal drif. Seventeenth District—Chris tofer Dodd, B T Leake, John G Col bert, Morgan Rogers, Hayne Dodd, John J Calhoun, Roe Isbell, R C C Psvvell, J CTumlin, W J Williams, Styles Phillips, T J Lyon. Kingston District— A Y Sheets, Mark A Hardin, Dr. Thos. F Jones, William Rainey, Benj. Kitckens, sr., Perry Collins, B F McMiken. Adairsville District—Capt. J L Neel, John W Bowdoin, J R H Gray, John L Chilton, B J Lews, Col. John II Fitten, D W Leuder milk. On motion, it was resolved that Gen. John: B. Gordon, Gen. Lucius J. Gartrell, Gov. Alfred H. Colquitt and Judge Geo. N. Lester be Invited to be present and address the people on the political issues of the day. •All committees in the different dis tricts are requested to report their subscriptions to A. P. Wofford, Chairman Central Committee, at Cartersville. The weather for the past few weeks has been very favorable for the spread of the yellow fever, and this foe to mankind has marched forward with relentless tread. At New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Chattanooga and other places the increase was large, the disease even spreading to remote farms and plantations, and in many instances frightening the flee ing people from the country into (he infected cities. The situation and distress is appalling which prompts us all to wish and hope for an early and killing frost. The duration of our passion is no more dependent upon us than the rudation of our life. CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 187S. DR. FKLTOX VS TROTH. Dr. Felton has repeatedly said to the people of this District that Geo. N. Lester did not favor the greenback movement. For the information of the people who may have been mis led on this subject we reprint Judge Lester’s views, printed in this paper some three weeks since: Rome, Ga, Sept. 4,1878. To the Editor of the Courier : Dear Sir— ln offering myself as a representative of the honest farmer, mechanic and laborer, I desire to in form the workingmen of the Seventh Congressional District that I have communicated with Dr. W. El. Fel ton and the Hon. Geo. N. Lester upon the Na’ional Greenback and Labor platform. I wrote to Dr. Felton some twenty days ago, and demanded his views in regard to the above named platform. He has fail ed to answer- Furthermore, he has passed through our city and failed to let me know that he had been in Rome. I wrote the second letter on the 31st of August, to know why he did not reply to my letter. So far, no answer; nor would I have known him had I met him. The Hon. Geo. N. Lester and myself had an inter view on last Saturday afternoon, at 3 o’clock; and being welt educated, as well as being perfect in the knowl edge of finance, as well as the neces sary condition of the laboring men of the country, I feel it my just duty to say that Judge George N. Lester has expressed his views entirely in our favor, both verbally and by letter; and I will furthermore say to my working brethren, that what we de sire is to be protected from the terri ble condition that we have been placed in. The Republican party has ruined us, and we have one who is honest and don’t fear to express his policy if sent to Congress, either verbally or by letter, and is the poor man’s friend. I say, and so does every honest farmer, mechanic and laborer say the same, we ’want re form; and what more can the labor ing classes ak for when honest prin ciple are expressed; The blow must be struck. I would like to write the true position of the working class, but will some day soon be with you and explain the situation right and left. I say the laboring man must and shall be protected. We demand it, and we, with our immense power, shall conquer by the ballot. The following is my letter to Hon. Geo. N. Lester, and also his answer : Romp., Ga., Au, ust 31,1878. Geo N Lester.* I find it extremely neceessary to communicate to you in regard to the position you stand in as a representa tive of the Democratic party in the Seventh Congressional District, as I have toiled for over one year in bring ing forward the laboring classes un der the Greenback and labor plat form. My labor in this great cause has so far proved very successful, and I rejoice to say that the honest farm er, mechanic and laborer have come forward with heart and soul in the great cause. I will now respectfully ask you if you feel free to express your views in regard to the National Labor and Greenback platform ; and it the liinggold Convention had the power to use certain planks of the greenback platform with the inten tion of carrying tbepi out to a letter ? Again, does the Democrats claim it as a legal and just addition to the old Democratic platform. Be kind enough to give your viems in answer to this. Coppies of your letter must be for warded to every National Club in the District, to secure the aid of the working classes. I presume your re ply will be perfectly plain and deter mined. Would be glad to converse with you at some convenient time when at Rome. I am, most respectfully. David Axe, Stc’y and Treas. No. SN. G. Club. Rome, Ga., Aug. 31 1808. Mr. David Axe: Dear Sir :—Your polite letter of the 27th instant asking my views re lative to the principles embodied in the platform of the National Green back party, was handed me this day, feeling assured that your motives in seeking my opinions are upright and patriotic, I do not hesitate to express them fully and frankly. Having sprung trom the laboring classes and belonging to that large number of our people who obtain their living by their own exertion, I can say with truth that whilst I entertain neither prejudice nor envy towards the rich, there is not a throb of my heart that is not in sympathy with the toiling poor ot the land in which we live; they groan under burdens which I fain would lift from hearts and their homes; they suffer from evils of outrageous legislation which I fain would relieve, and if I shall be elected to a position in the Congress of the LTnited States from the 7th District of Georgis I shall work with unfag ging energy and perseverance for the people by carrying out by efficient legislation, the principles set forth iu the following items, to-wit: 1. That all bonds and obligations of the National Government ought to be paid in legal tender notes, ex cept where it is otherwise provided by the original law under which the bonds or obligations were issued. 2. That all bonds that can be called in and paid now should be paid at once, and the remainder should be called in and paid as early as it can be lawfully done. 3. That the present national bank ing system should be abolished and the national bank bills now in circu lation should be retired and legal tender greenback notes substituted in their place. 4. That greenback notes should be made a full legal tender in the pay ment of all dues both public and pri vate. 5. That what is called the resump tion act shauld be forthwith uncon ditionally repealed, and the currency enlarged to an extent that will fur nish the people with an abundance of good money to meet all the de mands of trade and business needs of every sort. 6. That the General Government should issue money for the benefit of all the people, and it should not issue it to or through or for the enrich ment of bankers or money kings or gold tyrants at the expense of the laboring and producing classes. 7. That all kinds of property, in cluding bonds, shonld be taxed alike, whether owned by individuals or cor porations. 8. That the strictest honesty and the most rigid economy in the ad ministration of public affairs should mark the course and be required of every office holder from the highest to the lowest. 9. That every man who holds office takes part in the administration of public affairs the in terests of the laboring, industrial wealth producing classes as of para mount importance to the people of these United States, and every thing that can be done should be done to protect and foster and encourage those who labor, and by enterprise produce the wealth of the country. Now, my dear sir, I have given you my views and opinions freely and fully, and should I be elected to Congress I shall labor without ceas ing to carry them out so that the in cubus of hard times which now presses so crushingly upon the hearts and hopes and homes of the people shall be lifted from them, and the day light of peace and happiness shall dispel the gloom and brighten the home of every man in the land, whether he be rich or poor, white or colored, Democrat or Republican. With every good wish, I am your fellow-citizen, Geo. N. Lester. The above is a true copy o' the original in my possession. I now ask and inquire of every honest greenback man, farmer mechanic and laborer, after correspondence and two hours verbal conversation with Judge Lester if there is anything more re quired by fault-finders. You will notice in the heading of these letters the full report of written communi cation to Dr. Felton twenty days ago which remains unanswered. I am respectfully bound to sustain the views of Hon. George N. Lester and the laboring classes. David Axe, Sec. and Treas. No. 5, G. B. Club. AID NOT TUE SLANDERER. Editors Express: Has it not been observed by the Christian peo ple of the Seventh district that the whole district swarms with vile rob bers of private character —men who maliciously traduce the public record of prominent men, (especially candi dates for office), by basely, poison ous insinuations? No honest or good man Is safe. Let someone have cause to differ with him, and the foul flood tide of slander is at once turned loose upon him. Why is this? Who is responsible for this state of things? An artfuljand designing man may by violent assertions and no proof to support it, raise a suspicion in the mind of the peopie, against the char acter of a good man, and there are often men who, careless of all conse quences, recklessly repeat the slander which defames and blackens a more honorable fame than their own. He who will originate is no more crimi nal than he who repeats. What can be said in defense of a people who will hear a worthy man slandered, without attempting a justification ? Again, is it no crime in good morals to receive and countenance evil reports and slanders ? How much darker is the crimi nality in the sight of a just God, for a people to stop their ears against a just and complete vindi cation? Oh, my fellow citizens, will you lay aside your partisanship one moment and listen ? Will you envy the deserved credit of any man? You will not; then do not grieve Do you indulge in fond admiration of your candidate, then do not throw scorn and contempt at the candidate of the opposition. Will you all, of both parties, hinder what you can in others which in its tendency procures an ill name, or foully slanders a fel low being? Bible readers when you hear G. N. Lester or W. H. Fel ton slandered, that the one deliber ately aided the legislature of his State to swindle the people out of millions of dollars, or that the other, a minis ter of the gospel will electioneer on the the holy sabbath day, do you re ceive and countenance the accusation and stop your ears against a defense, or evidence which will show inno cence? Was not the devoted Ste phens accused of blasphemy against the law and the temple? Aud when he attempted to answer the accusa tion did not the people cry out with a loud voice, and stop their ears; and ran upon him with one accord ; and cast him out of the city, and stoned them. Let the Christian people of this Congressional District study their bibles, and consider well whatare the sins forbidden in the ninth com mandment. Let your light so shine that others may see you have a god ly walk and conversation. Do not give credence nor countenance to any evil report you hear, much less re peat and give such reports circulation. When George N. Lester comes into your community show to him, and to the whole world that jou have not stopped your ears against a man ly and just desense. Show this by going to hear him speak. And as you would that others do to wards you do ye also towards him. Should you find that he has been falsely accused, yiDdicate his name and reputation by giving him your vote. When the true and noble Christian men of our land, preach less politics from the stump or street corner, and vote right at the ballot-box, vole to vindicate a good man when they know the effort has been to destroy him, then may we look for happier and purer days. Then may the soldier, the patriotand the Christian be held up as an exam ple to the noble youth. Then may we look for the vile swarm of rob bers of good character to cease their dirty and unchristian work, and so ciety redeem itself from its foulest blight and curse. Observer. CAMP A I G X PAR AG RAP HS. Pass it along the line that the gal lant Gordon is leading the charge! Murray county is booming and Whitfield is following closely in her wake. From every direction we hear of large gains in favor of the empty sleeve. The people of Walker county have petitioned Gen. Gordon to address them upon the political issues in the Seventh district. The ladies had tastefully decorated the stand from which Gen. Gordon, Judge Lester aud other gentlemen spoke at Silver creek. The women of the South love her heroes. Barbecues and Lester rallies are the order of the day, and the old hero of Perryvllle is gaining with a force which will crush opposition in to powder on the sth of November. Gen. Gordon, the battle-scarred veteran, has enlisted for the balance of the campaign, and of course will soon come in for his share of abuse 1 from the slander mills. He, how- i ever, towers too high for their min iature arrows to harm him. Like a boomerang they will turn and injure only their senders. Has Dr. Felton ever said that Mid diebrooks was misrepresented when he said Judge Lester lost his arm in a “disgraceful cause?" We have not heard of it, if he has ; in fact, the Doctor seems to be surrounded by an unpopular set of followers and orators. Let them speak out their true sentiments and the Democracy of the Seventh District will roll up such a majority for Lester in Novem ber as will bury Dr. Felton for all time to come.—[Rome Courier. Judge Lester delivered a telling ad dress at Floyd Springs last week. He spoke for two hours, and, accord ing to au eye-witness, he completely satisfied the people of the falsity of the Dr. Felton lias been making against him. So convincing and conclusive was his speech that several gentlemen who had believed these reports started by Dr. Felton, came out publicly on the ground, de claring themselves satisfied, and say ing that they would vote for Judge Lester. The Atlanta Republican prints this extract from the Conyers Examiner to afford encouragements to its aiders, abettors and followers : “Let the In dependent movement progress far enough to disintergrate the Demo cratic party, and Radical candidates will again show their heads in every district and county in the State.” This sounds the key note again, and in au indirect way urges the Repub lican to look well to the old com mand, “when you cannot vote for a Republican always vole for an Inde pendent, All over the State the press and the people are looking at the contest in the Seventh. This is the weak spot in the grand Democratic army, where the enemy is massing its for ces to break through, and all eyes are turned in this direction. The Al bany News, speaking of the situation, says : “The contest this fail will be in the Seventh District of Georgia* The question to be decided Jhere is : Can one man conquer a party, by preed for office? The eyes of the Democracy of Georgia are upon the good people of the Seventh. General Gordon delivered a splend id address at Silver Creek in the in terest of the Democracy on Friday last. About four thousand people were present, and when he held up the empty sleeve of Judge Lester, and threw his eloquence over the crowd in its defense, the cheers were deafening, and the watery eyes of hundreds bore witness to its magic effect upon the multitude. His speech is said to have been one of the most masterly efforts of all Georgia’s statesman, and will be felt and cheered by every lover of his coun try who heard it. The appearance of Gen. Gordon upon the stump in advocacy of fidel ity to the party of the true people will give delight to the Democracy of this district and State. General Gordon as a soldier and a statesman stands in tne front ranks in this coun try, and his appearance in the Sevento district with his clarion voice can not fail to arrouse the patriotic feelings and impulses of our people. He is a man who is always right, and just now his appearance where the fight rages the thickest is no less a delight to his friends than it is an honor to his ever noble self. He addressed a multi tude with much effect at Silver Creek, on Friday last, and will continue in the good work until victory is achieved. And the gallant Wade Hampton of South Carolina, has this to say of Independent candidates. His words are ringing and decisive : “I will, however, say one word up on the dangers which are threatening our party. The greatest of these, in my impression, is that of an Inde pendent movement. He who sets up his own individual judgment as a rule of action, and refuses to act in full and perfect accord with our platform, i in spirit as well as in letter, is an In dependent, and an Independent at this crisis in our affairs is worse than a Radical. He places himself by his own action, outside of the pale of our party, and should be ruled out of the party. He who is not with us is i against us, and should be ranked among our opponents, for an open enemy Is far less dangerous than a pretended friend. Our party must be kept fully organized, perfectly compact, and thoroughly disciplined. Every member of it must yield im plicit obedience to its dictates, sacri ficing, if need be, his private judge ment to its expressed policy, and sub ordinating all personal ambition to the public welfare.” Judge Lester received $2,598,04 for fourteen months labor, while Dr. Felton for twelve months service, in cluding the time spent in this can vass, has received $5,000 and mileage. Mark the contrast. WORDS TO OLD SOLDIERS. Felton and Fester. Which has Shown Himself to be the Statesman and Patriot. Seventh District, 1 September 27, 1878. j Editors Constitution :— l had intended to call public attention to tne frauds perpetrated iu this district at the congressional election in 1876, by which some 3,000 illegal votes were cast against the democratic par ty, but the matter is so ably treated in your issue of this morning by your correspondent “Citizen,” that I pass j on to the consideration of the respec tive claims of Dr. Felton and Judge Lester to true statesmanship and earnest patriotism. And first as to their claims to true statesmanship. It will be conceded without argu ment that never in the history of the United States, and seldom in the his tory of any country, has there ever existed such a field for the exercise of the highest, broadest and truest statesmanship as that presented in 1800 and 1801 on the occasion of the attempted secession of the southern states from the federal union. Our liberties, our lives’and our property were all staked upon the decision we might come to. Not only the prop erty, lives and liberties of the then existing generation were involved, but the lives, liberties and property of our children and our children’s children for generations yet to come. It is not. my purpose to enter into any discussion of the doctrine of se cession, or to criticise the action of those who favored or those who op posed it. That doctrine lies buried in the bloody grave with our beloved brothers and sons, some of whan ap proved and some of whom disap proved it, and yet all of whom died fighting for it. It is sufficient for the present occasion to say that our peo ple were divided on the question. Among those who advocated seces sion was Dr. Felton. Among those who opposed it was Judge Le-tter. Dr. Felton believed that we had suffi cient cause to withdraw from the union, and that it would be right and wise, and to our best interest to do so, even to the cost of a bloody war. Judge Lester, while admitting our grievance, did not believe that our true remedy lay in secession, nor did he believe that it would be right | and wise, and to our best interest to attempt it, at the time and fur the ! causes then existing. The question here arises: In the baleful light of the last seventeen j years, which one was right and which | one was wrong, Dr. Felton or Judge Lester? Which evinced the truest, I broadest and most far reaching states manship in 1800, the one who voted | to plunge us in the outer darkness of ; secession, with all its bloody horrors of death and fire, and ruin, or the one who forecasting the future with the eye of a statesman, advised us to “bear the ills we had rather than fly to others we know not off?” I shall make no answer to this fearful in quiry. On the contrary, I shall leave it to the numberless graves which dot every hillside and vailey throughout the south—-to the hun dreds and millions of our property which have been swept out of exis tence —to the billions of public and other indebtedness, which lias made | us a nation of tramps and bankrupts j —and to the sorrowful hearts and I ruined homes, and the lost rights ; and liberties of our once peaceful and happy land—l shall leave it to these graves, these wasted millions, these ruined bankrupts, these blighted hearthstones, and the latter horrors of reconstruction, to make answer for the people who still suffer, and whose children for generations yet unborn will suffer after them. Secession presented an original proposition, free from party embar l rassments, and there was [nothing in the circumstances of party or coun try to force men to take sides against their better judgements. There could arise no more vital occasion for the exercises of the wisest foresight and the truest states statesmanship. It is the boast of Dr. Felton’s friends that he possesses abilities of a very high order. It is for the voters of the seventh district to contrast his ' course with that of Judge Lester, and to render their verdict at the j polls; We come next to consider the re spective claims of DR, FELTON AND JUDGE LESTER AS PATRIOTS. After secession came the greatest civil war of ancient or modern times. Dr. Felton, to the extent of his vole and influence was responsible for this war, yet he took no part in It, but like Job’s war-horse, “he snuffed the battle from afar*” Judge Lester was in nowise responsible for it, and yet he buckled on his sword and fought until he was disabled. Felton was too prudent to fight for his own cause, but encouraged his neighbors to go forward and interpose their breasts between himself and the ene my. Lester had no cause, yet, as the state espoused Felton’s cause, he made it his own and fought and bled for his “country, right or wrong.” Felton, like Ramsey Sniffle, exerted himself to set sister states to fighting, ank then retired to a hospital or some other place of safety. Lester, | instead of widening the breach, tried 1 to heal It by pouring oil on the troubled waters, and by urging his I people to “agree with thine adversa ry in the way,” yet failing in his peaceful efforts, he sought the post of duty w hich was the post of danger. Which one, then, has the better claim to earnest patriotism ? Which is the better patriot, the man who helped to bring on the war, yet i would not fight, or the one who eu- ! deavored to prevent the war, and yet I tendered his life in defence of our home?, including Dr. Felton’s? Dr. i Feltbn did not fight, even for his own fireside! General Toombs, in one of his impassioned gusts of eloquence, declared that “patriotism in its last j analysis is the blood of the brave/ It this be true, has not Lester demon- i strated his patriotism ? Has he not j [NUMBER 37. shed his blood in battle for his coun try? He has. Has Ftlton done like wise? He has not. What then is the duty of the SURVIVING SOLDIERS OE THE SEV ENTH DISTRICT? This question they must answer at the ballot bax next November. Here are two candidates for their suffer age. One of them, when the time came that tried men’s soul’s took shelter from the storm of battle which he had in part brought upon the country, and remained at his own snug fireside surrounded by his family and friends. He said he would go, yet he went not. The other said he would not go, and yet he went. The soldiers of the seventh district should stand, by their old comrade, Judge Lester. They have trudged by his side on the weary march in the heats of summer and the rains and snows of winter. With him they have thirsted and huugerd, and with him they have stood a living wall between a ruthless foe aud our mothers, wives and daugh ters. They have felt the touch of his elbow in the day of battle, and shar ed his sympathy in the hour of sick ness and wounds. Will they desert him now who did not desert them then? Judge Wright is reported to have declared that it was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight. 1 know not how this was; but this I fee! wel assured of, that the true soldiers of the seventh district, whether rich or poor, whether originally opposed to secession or in favor of it, whether old whigs or democrats, will stand by their fellow soldier, and not desert him for one who was not even a member of the “home guards.” General Thomas and Admiral Farragut were southern men, yet they fought against the south. Dr Felton, General Longstreet and General Mosby are southern men, and yet they fight the democratic parly which has rescued us from the condition of conquered, provinces. What say you, soldiers! Is it Les ter, or is it Felton ? Cato. AN CLP MAX’S INDIGNATION. Editors Express:— Will you please give space in your colums for a few words from one has been a voter in this County for forty-four years and one who has never voted for a Congressman but a regular nominee of the Democratic party. In the two last elections for a Repre | sentative from the Soventh Congres ' sional District I remained neutral and should have continued so in the approaching election had the sup | portersf of Dr. Felton confined them -1 selves to truth. My religious prin ! ciples fordid me voting against Dr. | Felton. My political principles for -1 bid my voting for him. But since : the slanderous reports circulated 1 against Judge Lester, I feel it my ! duty to take part, and in so doing I ! shall adhere to my former course in 1 supporting the Democratic nominee. ! Did I say slanderous reports? I say reports that are wilful and malicious 1 and proceed from a corrupt and rot ten heart. It is reported that Judge Lester lost his arm stealing corn, by others stealing cattle, chickens and the like. Now, I take the grounds that all such reports are false, as it is not likely that one could loose an arm in performing theft, and after that be promoted to the Judgeship of one of the Judicial Circuits of the State in which he was reared up, and that too, by the Governor of the State. Therefore, I think Doctor Felton nad better advise his pig pen orators to cease making sucli reports. But i say go on, ye insignificant revelers, spit your venon at the fair fame of Judge Lester. Spew your slime up on the escutcheon of his character empty your poluted stomachs of all the pent up spleen that is in you, ! for you cannot harm him. An en i lightened public know his history, his principles, Usability and his un j example usefulness, and the tongues ! and pens of slanderers cannot detract j from either. A Voter of Bartow Cos. ANOTHER SLANDER. In tho Name of Truth an<l J ustice when will Dr. Felton c< ase to Slander and Mis represent Facts? When? We are reliably Informed that Dr. Felton the other day, while address ing the people at Ball Ground, in Cherokee county, told them that “they were paying the salary of two Superior Court Judges during this campaign.” Was there ever an as sertion further from the truth ? Does Dr. Felton take the p ople of Chero kee county to be such a sat of ignor ant fools that they do not know that the constitution of Georgia expressly provides that there shall be a certain fixed number of Judges of the Superi or Courts in this State, and that the number cannot be changed or altered without changing the constitution and that by the act of the Legisla ture ? And does he suppose that they are fools enough to believe that any Judge can draw more than his regular salary as fixed by the consti tution of the State, no matter where he holds court ? Was there ever a greater insult offerred to the intelli gence of aDy community, than that offerred to the people of Cherokee , county by Dr. Felton when he told j them that they were paying the salaries of two Superior Court j Judges during this campaign? How often has It happened that i the different Judges of the Superior ; Courts have held court for each other in the last ten years. Is It not a very j common practice among our Judges? j And has any Judge drawn from the j treasury of the State one dollar more j than his regular salary because he j held court for some otner Judge?; Why does Dr. Felton seek to inis - j represent the facts and injure Judge Lester in this way ? Honest people of Cherokee can and will you support a ipan who stoops so low ? Patriotism is fruitful, there already | being seven Independent candidates j for Congress in the field in Georgia. The public debt was increased nearly six and a half millions, in the month of August. Atlanta is quite full of Montgom ery people. The nearest star is 250,000 times as far off as our sun. The Portuguese population of Cali fornia is estimated at 12,000. Not a single case of yellow fever has occurred in Montgomery this season. Several cases of yellow fever at Decatur panicked the inhabitants. There are only five white families left in the town. Extra trains are being put on the Georgia railroad to carry the incieas ing freight. Queen Victoria has twenty-six grand children, and tho end is not yet. The mills in Columbus will, this year weave into doth, about 20,000 bales of cotton. Flies totally disappeared from the districts inected with yellow fever. A little son of I. J. Meadows, of Madison county, picked 1,243 pounds of cotton in four days. Cue man in North Carolina has shipped to the north this season 40,- 000 watermelons. XV. S. Waddell, Professor of lan* guages in the University of Georgia, died Wednesday night, at Milford, S. C., on his return from Saratoga Springs. The Carnesville Register bemoans the fact that there are one hundred and ninety six persons in Franklin county who cannot read the Bible. The dreaded disease, diptheria is prevailing to an alarming extent in the vicinity of Knoxville. Atlanta has given about seven thousand dollars to the yellow fever sufferers. Chicago has 45,000 school children, with 810 teachers. A Louisville youpg woman adver tised in the papers for an escort to a concert and forty young men re plied. Women are telegrah operators in Great Britian, and it is said that generally they keep the secrets in trusted to them. In Memphis, up to September 80th two thousand four hundred and tw< ntg-eight deaths are reported. The Rev. Father Ryan, who died in Chattanooga is not the poet priest, but Rev. P, Ryan of that place. The infidel Arab said: “I will loose my camel and trust in God.” The man of faith said : “I will tie my camel and trust in God.” Ex-Governor Ames, of Mississippi, Ben Butler’s son-in-law, Is selling butter and cheeso in New York. Mr. Reynolds, of Cuthbert, Ga., aged 21, has married Miss Chance, aged 11 and weighing G 5 pounds. The managing editor of the Paris Bonapartist journal, IjC Pays , has been sentenced to a fine of three hundred dollars and three mouths imprisonment for insulting Presi ident MacMahon. The Hon. A. H. Stephens announ ces that his hemorrhages are subsid ing and his health is improving. Samuel F. B. Morse, of telegraphic fame, studied painting in England, and was the first person to deliver a course of public lectures upon the art in America. A fat woman of Corinth, Miss., drank ask bark tea to make her lean, and she skipped tor tho better land just two hours ahead of a lean woman who was eating gum-arabic to make her fat. Liberal aid for the fever sufferers is being received from all points. The Masons of New Orleans, pro foundly grateful for favors shown them, announce that ample funds for the benefit of the croft in that city j have been received. At a benefit at j Ford’s Theatre, Baltimore, for the i distressed cities five thousand tickets i were sold. I A Chattanooga special of the 24th I says: “The people at the depot were i startled to-day by the appearance of | a man looking like a skeleton, bear ing a valise; and expressing a desire to go to Nashville. He was recog nized as a yellow fever patient, who had risen from bed in his delirium, dressed himself and rushed to the depot to catch the train. He was re turned to bed.” Gen. Longstreet has received the appointment of revenue agent for Georgia and Florida. Dr. Annie E. Fisher has been ap pointed lecturer on the diseases of children in the Boston University Medical School. The Eagle and Phoenix mills of j Columbus, sent one hundred pairs of blankets to Memphis. | Ghestnut trees are known to have lived nine hundred years; lime troos I have attained six hundred years in ) France; and birches are supposed to be equally durable. It is quite a common practice in England to send young men to serve apprenticeships to eminent farmers, and to pay a sum agreed upon as a j fee, for board, lodging and instruc tions. The wife of Captain Porter Heap wore a painted dress at a Newport reception. The material was white silk; and on that groundwork the Captain had painted flowers and birds in bright colors. Three cases of imported yellow fever have appeared in Cincinnati and an order has been iasued forbid ding the reception of any freight from the South which could absorb i infection. The Democrats of Sedalia, Mo., have just held a barbecue at which there were eighty oxenjroasted whole forty sheep, and 4,000 loaves of bread were consumed. Mr. Stephens has revei sed the po sition of Lear and his unnatural daughters. Instead of asking the pity and forgiveness of a grateful constituency, he cracks the whip of ownership over their headaand drives them to an unwelcome task. Central Georgia Weekly: Every one armed or on* legged soldier Is a hero. Ay, more, every wounded soldier is a hero in our esteem. All soldiers who fought for liberty and the right in the late Confederate army, and did not desert their post in the hour of need, were and are still heroes. The most unfortunate we worship the most, the least un ! fortunate we honor none the less. A Confederate soldier is a hero.'
