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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1875-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1878)
WATCHMAN, WHAT OF TIE NIGHT ? LET THE PEOPLE BEAD AM REFLECT. The Gallant Gordon Is Leading thr Charge “Divide and destroy,” is the Re publican motto. They have already done the former —shall they be allow ed to accomplish the latter? The camp fires are burning bright ly all along the line. Good men, think of to-morrow’s battle and trust in God for strength to Qvereome the foe. Dr. Felton is the wedge that the Republicans are using to split the Democratic party. What Democrats will suffer themselves to be used as j mauls to drive it in ? Lester and Democracy is the watch word. Carry it along the lines that the fight is to be upon the enemies’ centre, composed of Hargrove, mis cegenation and its cohorts. Let it be remembered that not a single charge uttered against Judge lister has been substantiated, no not one. The vials of wrath were opened upon him but their contents fell harmless at his feet. Look out for frauds and illegal vo ting on the sth of November. The negroes of Alabama are preparing to march, perhaps for the shot bag full of pewter dollars of which General Toombs talks so much. Dr. Felton has nowhere said one word in praise of the Democracy or of censure for the Republicans. He is for Felton all the time. “Good Lord save me and no more is hi* political pral’er.” Democrats, take heed and return to your father’s house.; Come, now, let us reason together. If a man showed his love for his peo ple by sacrificing his blood upon the field of battle, in time of war, will he not do to trust to represent them in time of peace. If you think he will, j vote for Geo. N. Lester. Who are the Independents ? Who are the Democrats, and what are their respective objects ? Look upon their hosts, their leaders and cap- ' tains. Observe their manner of war fare, and calmly decide under which banner you will enlist. Perilous times are still upon us,and the necessity for united action still exists. The brave commander comes to the front and says, “Ho, comrades! our rights are imperiled. We must >be as one man again. Forward into line!”—[John B. Gordon. “Birds of a feather will flock to gether” is an old and true saying. Hargrove and the Republican party generally are supporters of Dr. Fel ton. Condemn this alliance on the sth of November by casting your ballot for Lester and true Democra cy. When Gordon’s brigade wavered before the enemy in Virginia he seized the colors, closed up their ranks and gallantly led them to the charge. In the Seventh District he is leading again, and he who would not follow, in the language of the Free Press ed itor, “would tear down organization and torge the chains of political slav ery.” m The Democratic party is the only party that has in the long years since the surrender raised its voice against the oppression and misrule of the Re- j ■ publican administration, the only j party that has stood between us, our homes, property and liberty, and the aggressions of the Radical party; the party that has wrested Georgia from carpet bagger and Radical rule. — | John B. Gordon. Democrats, look out for tricks and circulars gotten up to mislead and deceive. The enemy is up and do ing. Vote for the party that has freed Georgia and be not deceived by bogus circulars and other printed matter eminating from the Felton ring of disorganizers, aided by the Republicans in Georgia and else where. Stand by the old party which has upon its rolls the names of the truest and best men in Georgia and the South, and be on the safe side. Will you endorse the abuse heaped upon Judge Lester, Gov. Colquitt, Gen Gordon, the dead heroes of a hundred battles and their wives and daughters who mourn and delve in poverty all over the South ? Do you want Democracy to perish, Radical ism to triumph and our old masters to laugh and chuckle at our new evils. In a word, will you condemn the heroism of southern soldiers, and viitues of southern women, and aid to enthrone again the party of in iquity and corruption, if so, by all means vote for Dr. Felton. General John B. Gordon is leading the Democratic charge in the Seventh Would that our State pos sessed more Gordons, but there is none other. How refreshing in these times to note the acts of a statesman whose personal ambition stands not in the way of patriotic duty. A can didate for the United States Senate, he goes forward among the moun tains, and speaks to the people whose legislative representatives blindly op pose his every utterance. He does not fear to tell the truth for the safety of his State, and courts no fovors. The true Democracy of Georgia will remember his services and honor him for his manhood. We have no doubt but that many good and true men joined the Inde pendent element in the two last campaigns for the purpose, as they thought, to purify the Democracy of corruption. As they see it, that end having been accomplished, they will now return to the old fold, fight un der a single flag, and henceforth should corruption creep into the De mocracy they will purify it in the ranks instead of going over to a common enemy. No terms with our country’s enemy, say we, and if errors should get into our ranks let us purify them ourselves, and not cry ; unto our old enemies to fasten upon 1 us untold evils. It is our jquarrel. I Let us make no terms with our old I betrayers who stand ready to fasten ■ upon our necks the yoke which I cursed Georgia for so many years. Hate and estrangement has been ■ engendered in the democratic party &0f this district and State by Dr. Fel iton and like Independents. Will lyou vote to cement the party which ■saved Georgia, and v resiled it from ■the hands of the destroyer, or will ■you aid to furtherdrive in the wedge Knd create a break through which the ■Lid party of hate and iniquity may Koine into power again. Think over ■the matter before it is too late. VOLUME XIX.] HEAR HI FOR HIS CAUSE. THE FREE I'RENB. HOW ITS EDITOR BLOWS HOT AND COLD. “Hast thou not spoke like thunder on our side ? Been sworn our soldier bidding us depend Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength ? And d<jst thou bow fall oyer to our foes? Thou wearest a lion’s hide —Doff it for shame And hang a calf skin on these recreant limb,.” Felton is dependent upon negro votes and such Democrats as he can slab off from the party candidate for an election.—Willingham,Oct. 19, ’76. He who would tear down Organi zation, would break the shield of liberty and forge the chains of polit ical slavery.— lFilllingham,Oct. 9, ’76. Isn’t it about time that Democrats were opening their eyes to the real purposes which influence Hargrove and his malconents to support Dr. Felton.— IFillingham’Oct. 19,1876. Will the intelligent supporters of Dr. Felton tell us why Zaeharia Har grave is so anxious for the election of Dr. Felton. Can they give us any rerson for it except to “make an al liance offensive and defensive,” and by it “make war to the knife” upon ! the Democratic party.”— IFilling ham, Nov. 19,1876. We repeat here what we said to Dr. Felton’s face—that he is the most artful trickster we have ever known. lFillingham, Oct. 19, 1876. The Felton ring of disaffected Democrats, Republicans and subser vient negroes combined together to break up the Democratic party must be broken asunder.— IFillingham, Nov. 3, 1874. IFhile Col. Dabney stood at the front during the war, contending for Southern rights, Dr. Felton stood be hind the pulpit as a shield against personal danger.— IFillingham, Oct. 22. 1874. Poor Felton who is to be elected by the help of Radicals, if elected at all, seeing that the great majority of the true Democracy are against him resorts toduplicity and misstatements to bolster up his failing fortunes, — IFillingham, Oct. 27,1874. Stand by the Demociacy of the Union, by the Democracy of the South, by the Democracy of Georgia aud the Democracy of the Seventh Congressional District—all of which is thoroughly organized everywhere and which would be nothing with out organization.— tkillingham, Nov. 1876. Col. Dabney, one of the best and truest Democrats in the State, has been fairly and honestly nominated. His nomination was effected by no trickery, and whoever says so, utters a downright falsehood, knowingly and wilfully.— IFillingham, Sept 21, 1876. “United we stand, divided we fall.” A house divided against itself cannot stand. Rill the three or four thous and Democratic supporters of Dr. Felton cut themselves off from the great body of the organized Democ racy of Georgia, and the country, at the merely deceptive cry of “ring ! ring !” when there is no ring in our Congressional District?— IFillintrham. Oot. 1970. Felton by his course confesses him self too weak with the Democratic party to get to Congress, for he is de pendent upon negro votes and such Democrats as he can slab off from the party candidate for an election. Felton knows, and his friends know, that he will be beaten at least 3,000 votes unless the negroes vote for him. — Willingham, Oct. 19, 1876. FELTON, HARGROVE & CO. We call attention to this old firm, who entered into the general busi ness of politics in 1874, and have con tinued with unabated zeal up to this time. They now have on sale a few post offices, marshall’s places, and in ternal revenue offices. Call and ex amine their stock before voting else where. —Willingham, Sept. 28, 1876. Organization is our idea of Democ racy. It is our idea of perpetuating it. It is our idea of the preservation of public liberty upon this continent, and if there be those who cannot en dorse such Democracy, we can only leave them to their own convictions; but tor us, we shall always stand by the Democratic flag as it represents the party all over this country. —Wil- lingham, Nov. 1876. Now we tell all Democrats that Hargrove has no interest whatever in Dr. Felton’s election, but is using that election to split the Democratic party. This every man can see who has a thimble fullof brains. : Are the Democrats of this Congressional District willing to unite with Har grove in the accomplishment of this purpose.—Willingham, Oct. 21, 1876’ Can Democrats really endorse the war to the knife that the Radical post-master at Rome—the most con spicuous supporter ot Dr. Felton in Cherokee Georgia —is making upon the Democracy of this District? Can they really clap their hands with joy when that man stands brawling out denunciation against the Democratic party of the country ? And yet we see these things in this campaign. We see Felton and Hargrove united in a war to the knife agaiust the or ganized democracy. We see and Lear it from every stump. We ap peal to all to look to the interests of Democracy, and not to the personal i interests of any man, nor pander to | the bitter hatred of Z. B. Hargrove to the Democracy. Il you are Dem , ocratic, repel Hargrove's professed ‘aliance offensive and defensive' with scorn and contempt, and stand by your party, and no longer aid him in his war to the knife against it. W il lingham, 1876. Kow we would say to the people of Georgia outside of tills district that the best and truest Democrats we have, are supporters of Dr, Felton.>€. II- C. Wil lingham, July 25, 1878. We feel assured that if Georgians j will consider the subject calmly and ; reasonably they will, with us, come to the conclusion that Independent ism is the opportunity of Radical ism that the success of the first is the restoration of the latter. Even as the dreaded yellow fever plague often seems to be dead only because there is lack of material upon which to work, but seizes greedily on every unacclimated victim presented to its devouring appetite, so the plague of Radicalism merely awaits the opportunity to be as virulent as ever, and this opportunity, so long waited for, it hopes to find in the suc cess of Independentism. If our peo ple value their rights and are alive to their true interests, they will be very wary how they act, lest In encourag- I ing Independentism they commit po -1 litical suicide.—[Savannah News. THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. Felton’s Effort* Not to Serve the People but to Make “Kven” with His Fast Campaign Expenses. Hon. Wm. H. Felton.— Sir : You claim to be the favorite of the people of this District. The leading, object ion which you urge against the nomination of Judge Lester is that it was not a representative act, since the people had twice already declared their preference for you at the polls. This is also the argument Mr. Ste phens makes for you. He says that nominations by party organizations “should be controlled by views look ing to the ablest and truest men representing the principles of the party, and to the favorites of the people.” You will observe that the nominee should always “represent the princi ples of the party” and be “a favorite of the people.” But to be a favorite of the people is not of itself a suffi cient qualification. The nominee of the Democratic party must be a rep resentative Democrat —“representing the principles of the party.” Now, sir, the living principles of Democracy for the past thirteen years has been organized legal pro test against wrong, and organized le gal resistance to oppression. Even your friend, Mr. Stephens, says “par ty organization I believe in.” Mr. Hill has eloquently warned against its abandonment. William E. Smith, whose former indorsement was your boast, has renounced you because you are trying to destroy that cohesion without which party principles are useless, and are seeking to disrupt that organization by which alone Democracy can free this country from misrule, and restore the blessings of good government. Now, why should you be supported by Democrats, when your election would be the triumph of a war made by your Republican allies and your personal friends upon the organized Democracy ? The issue is unmistaka ble. You ridicule all opposition as coming from “the organized.” Every Radical in the District takes the cue and sneers “organized.” Their rea son is plain. They have avowed their object to be to break up the Democratic oxganization by uniting with you, because the organization prevents the accomplishment of Re publican work and the promulgation of Republican ideas (i. e., the ideas advanced by Middlebrooks and Brown.) On the sth of October, 1878, at Spring Creek, in Floyd county, a negro declared in his public speech that Hargrove told him that “we must vote for Felton because that would split up the Democratic party so that in a few years we could do what we pleased with it.” This statenaont, uo fai as X aui mtormed. nas never been denied. I repeat, therefore, that the reason why Radi cals unite with you to break up Dem ocratic organization is plain. But why should true aud honest Demo crats aid them? Let us consider. Mr. Stephens concludes that the nomination made by the Ringgold Convention was not a representative act, because you are the represen tative of the party and the favor ite of the people, as apparently shown by your majority of 2,245 in the election of 1876. But is evident from the fact that yonr fight is made directly upon the organization (which Mr. Stephens believes in), and from the other fact that you are aided by the Republican party with the avow ed purpose of breaking up the Dem ocratic organization, that you can in no sense be said to be the representa tive of the Democratic party. You may represent the personal preference of some good Democrats and a mul titude of Radical negroes; but you are certainly not the representative of the Democracy of this district. The attention of the people has been drawn to the fact that there are 4,109 colored voters in this district, besides the number over sixty years of age. Your little sheets, in at tempting to account for that “awful 2,399,” claim that the every man of them voted. Every observant citi zen knows that over 3,900 of them voted for you. We all know, too, that the white Radicals of the district voted for you solidly. Now, if we take this white and colored Radical vote, amounting to over 5,000, from your aggregate of 13,269. and contrast your Democratic 8,269 remainder with Dabney’s 10,807, (all Democrat ic), what becomes of Mr. Stephens’ pretense that the election of 1876 showed you to be the favorite and representative of the Democracy, and entitled you the nomination by the Ringgold Convention ? I have ex pressly excluded from notice in this view all those 2,390 suspected ballots, which your editors, like detected thieves,are striving to account for. If they should be counted out, your status as a “favorite” of the Democ racy becomesstill more contemptible. I put it to the people. These facts and figures are plain, notorious and undeniable. Consider them calmly. Rememember how and by whom Dr. Felton was elected in 1876, and then answer in your hearts : Had Dr. Fel ton any right to the Democratic nom ination in 1878 ? But Mr. Stephens says that that majority of 2,462 shows that you then had the confidence of your eonstitu- ■ ents. Does Mr. Stephans mean confi dence based upon a belief in the in tegrity of your Democracy, or the “confidence” indicated oy tha ballots of the repeater and the “colored ex cursionists” from Alabama ? I need not again remind you that you claim to be the free choice of the people. You denounce every man who confronts you as “corrupt.” Ev ery act of opposition is a “trick.” Neither the living nor the dead are safe from your rank breath. I will judge you fairly. I should merit in finite scorn even if I fouled my hands by laying your own filthy measuring rule upon your own acts and declarations. I have twice reminded you that your friends are saying that you CAKTEESYILLE, GA., THUESDAY MOBXING, OCTOBEE 31, 1878. spent so much money in the two pro ceeding campaigns that you could save nothing from your salary. I asked you if you told Rev.W. 3. Rich ardson, of Whitfield county, that af ter you first election you hoped you would have been elected the second time without much opposition, but the opposition had pressed you so hard that you had been compelled to spend a great deal of money, and that, counting your whole expense you had made nothing, but had been compelled to draw on your private resources, and that your mind was made up to run again, with the hope that you might be able to get even or whole, and that you would be sat isfied if elected without much oppo sition the third time. I am informed, that since the pub lication of my question, Mr. Rich ardson has renewed his assertion that you did use the substance of the language asked about. Your ardent friend asserts it. Y*u will not deny it. We may, therefore, and without injustice, assume both the fact that it was uttered by you and that you told the truth when you said it. I beg my countrymen to read care fully the statement made by you to Richardson. It shows: 1. That you have spent in the two preceding campaigns an amount of money not required or warranted by the legitimate demands of a fair race and a fair election. *You have drawn perhaps $25,000 as salary and mileage; $2,500 per annum is a liberal estimate for the expenses of yourself, your wife and one child. This leaves a balance'of $15,000 expended in “.cam paign purposes.” And yet you boast, and Mr. Stephens boasts, that you are the free and unbought choice of the Democracy. Was (here any connection between that $15,000 aud that colored excursion train run from Alabama into Floyd and Gordon and Whitfield counties on election day in 1876? Ido not assert it, but your silence is fast converting ex bited suspicion into deliberate belief. 2. You are running again to “get even—or whole.” Mark that count ry-men ! He wants to “get his money back.” Gold help our simple souls; we thought you wished to serve your country ! This beats im migration salary and retainer fee combined. In this connection I would like to be informed how, oui of a salary of $5,000 per annum, you expect in two years to pay your ex penses and save $15,000 too ? How are you going to “get even” —or whole?” But again : Dr. Felton is pretending to be in favor of reduction of salaries. Now, does anybody believe that a man who Is running for office with the declared intention of making money will be apt to do much to cut the money off. Is. it reasonable to suppose it? “Worse and worse, doc tor! Pray, bring your “halleuiah iick.' ' to oeai on uit-oe U gures aiul tell us how, in two years, you expect to save 415,000 out of a salary of $5,000 a year, and reduce the salary too? 3. You will be satisfied “if elected the third time without much oppo sition.’* 1 Why? Because you \vSR have your chance to “get even or whole’” We had thought you were seeking a vindication from the peo ple. You claim to be a greatly slan dered man, yet you cry, “never mind the slander.” “ ’Tis the jinkling of the guinea that helps the hurt that honor leels.” I give you, my countrymen, the assertions of Dr. Felton’s most ardeixt friend, Dr. Felton does not deny them. Reflect upon them, aud de cide whether it is safe to trust a man who says that he spent so much money to get to Congress that he now wants to return there to make that money back. I warn the people now, that in a few days Dr. Felton will begin to de nounce Middlebrooks and Brown and the Radical party generally. This will be done for immediate effect up on the Democrats, while the short time before the election day will pre vent the Radicals from concentrat ing elsewhere, and so, on election day, through force of circumstance and natural antipathy, they will vote against the Democratic nominee. The Radical leaders understand the move. Hargrove has taught the ne groes not to vote for Holtzelaw. But a negro never fails to vote once on election day ; and they will all vote for Felton. Look out, fellow-citi zens ; be not deceived. Citizen. A ‘CHINK’ OF A Lit REFUTED. It keeps tne Democratic papers busy in nailing lies, but as fast they are nailed another one is gotten up, and so it has gone ever since the campaign opened. Slander and lies, here, there and everywhere. This is the latest from the Marietta Journal: “In a recent issue of a Felton pa per, published in Marietta, appeared a statement to the eliect, that after, Judge Lester spoke at Brounsvibe Paulding county, some weeks ago, he staid all night at a Lester man’s house, and in reply to a question as to his chances of success, replied, “I know lam beat, but I am going round picking up the chunks !” Now, Judge Lester staid at my house on that night and he made no such remark, but on the contrary said his chances for election were very encouraging. Being in Marietta, I went to the Felton paper and de manded the author of the article, and the publisher refused to give it. I told him emphatically that the ar ticle In question was a lie, made out of whole cloth, and I so pronounce it here. When such misrepresentions and bare-faced falsehoods are circu lated and published, it shows that Felton’s cause is a weak one. M. J. Feorenie. P. S.—Since my return home, I have met my father-in-law, Mr. Clonts, who, though a Felton man, says the report is a fabrication —that he has not seen my wife since Judge Lester staid all night with me. Paulding Cos., Oct. 1878. M. J. F. A celebrated philosopher used to say : "The favors of fortune are like steep racfcs—only eagles and creeping things mount to the summit.” THE I’EOPLE THE JURY. What Shall tlie Verdict Be ? Solemn Word* from a Plain, Blunt, hat Hunet Man. Read and Decide. Messrs. Editors:— We are soon to determine at the polls who shall represent this district in the46th Con gress. It is soon to conclude, and I believe, with the complete vindica tion and triumph of a most deeply slandered gentleman. I have never practiced the “halla lujah lick” in a confederate hospital, nor displayed that vaulting agility which leaps from Saturday night’s stump to Sunday mornings pulpit with serene, unrufled Christian com posure. I am out in the crowd. . Genuine wool hats are pressing ail about me. God bless these people ! Honester, braver men never wore gray, or fell in the flaming hell of battle. Deceived they may be. They hav’e .learned from their boyhood that the words “Method! Y .Preacher” should be synonyms of truth and honor. They are loth to believe that a consecrated herald of Almighty God can, with slander reeking on his iips, ask that God to visit liars with the liars curse. When they see it, when they know it, when they feel it i from their honest hearts, their out raged honor shall rise in a shout of execration that will sound to the apostate like the cry of doom. Eternal justice, slow moving in her stai'ting steps, is coming. We shall be redeemed, and the shouts of our rejoicing be gladder than Miriam’s song beside the sea. The evidence is all in, my country men. What shall our verdict be? What does the proof show? Was Dr. Felton guilty of bringing on that war which has impoverished us, and wrecked us, and well nigh ruined us? Why the weeping in Ramah? Where are our sons ? Widow, where is your husband? Did Lester aid in this? Did he help to bring it on, or did he work to keep it off? Whose judgement and j foresight was best? “By their fruits j shall ye know them.” What would Felton do in a like situation in the future? What would Lester do? Judge the future by the past. Was Feltou guilty of refusing to help you fight when he bade your sons to war. Was he? When he dared the enemy to come, and they did come and fell upon you, did he help you then. Did he? Did he help you or did he stand afar off and cry, “if you get hurt come down here to my hospital. Where was Lester then? Was he not fighting the foe back from Geor gia. Was he not dividing his officers pay with bis men. Was he not shar ing even the little food his loving wife sent him, with his foot sore, sick and weary comrades. Oh ye men who knew him, answer ! naan "whom he7*L his do<,r to the front, and deny him even a day’s rest in a negro cabin. When the war was over and Bul lock was robbing us and stealing tlie little that Sherman left, did Felton help us then ? When Gordon was in these mountains in 1868, did Felton j help us then. He is a great orator, ■ for he says his financial speech in Congress accomplished as much as any ever made there. Did he ever make a speech for us in 1868 and 1870. Where was Lester then ? Was he not stumping for Gordon. Was he not pleading with the people to rise and be free. Did not Felton tell us in 1874 that if Dabney had been nominated in stead of Trammell he would not have run for Congress, didn’t he? When Dabney was nominated did he come | down. Was what he told us theu ■ true or false. Will he not deceive j us again ? Judge the future by the past. Did not Felton tell us in 1874 that j Lester was good and pure. And does he not now tell us that even, j when he said the words, Lester was corrupt. Did he tell the truth then, or does he teß an untruth now. If he told an untruth then will he not tell one now. Can you trust a man who will tell you what he himself says is false. Will he not do it again, if it will serve him. Judge the future by the past. Did not Dr. Felton sneer at Lester’s wound, and hold up his arm in mock ery of that maimed body ? Did not Felton charge that Lester held on to an office till all the money was gone—when the records show 1 when Lester resigned there was near- Ily $3,000 undrawn. If lie did was it not false: Did he not thus try to de ' ceive us to gain our votes. If he did, will he not try to deceive us again when he wants our votes. Judge the future by the past. Did not Felton charge Lester, in Walker county, with trying to bribe Hargrove. And did not Hargrove deny it. And did not Felton go to Cherokee after Hargrove had denied it and make the same charge there? Don’t you know that if Lester had made such an attempt Hargrove would have told his friend Felton of it. But Hargrove and Lester both deny it. Where is the weight of the evidence. If Felton will make false charges behind Lester’s back now, will he not do il about any man when ever he thinks it will benefit him. Judge the future by the past. Has not Dr. Felton refused to meet Lester on the stump, and face to face before us prove his charges. Is not this unfair. Don’t you know that if you or I were armed with the truth we would not fear to face the world. Did you ever know or hear of such a thing before. Is it not unfair and unjust. Don’t you believe that Fel ton knows that if he gave Lester a clear ring and a fair fight he would | maul him every time. lam talking i to men who scorn to hit a man in the back. If Felton is so unfair and un just now, will he not be so hereafter. Judge the future by the past. 1 Has not the leading Radical paper in Georgia said that the Radicals will 1 vote for Felton to split the Democrat ic party. Are they not all for him. Can he receivs their favor and not be grateful for it. Can they all unite and go for him and put down their own man —and notjhave some under standing about it. Has Dr. Felton said one word against the Radical party. Don’t you know that he won’t do it. Don’t you know that if he did he would drive them off to Holtzelaw and so lose all their votes. Are you going to vote for a man who depends upon Ihe Radical vote to elect him. Are you going to help the Radicals split up the Demo cratic party by electing Felton. Did not Dr. Flton’s negro, Brown, use the language charged against him in Rome. And did not Dr. Felton, instead of denouncing him try to smooth the matter over. Don’t you see the reason. Was it not because | if he denounced the negro, the negro would pet mad and take -the stump against him and carry off the negro vote to Holtzelaw. Men of Floyd, will you vote for a man who is afraid to denounce the slanderer of your old comrades’ wives and daughters, be | cause if he did he’d lose some negro votes. Is not this also the reason why Fel ton does not denounce his other negro Middlebrooks, who tells us that the time must come and shall come when the negroes shall be equal with the whites in the domestic relation; and that Felton and his friends “will lock arms with them and march with them to the polls and see that they get their rights.” My countrymen, are you going to lock arms with Middle brooks and Brown The End. The evidence is in ; the speeches are made. We, the jury, are out. Fellow jurors, pass these questions round the room before you ? make up your verdict. A G.enuine Wool Hat. LETTER FROM JOHN RF.U. The Speaking In West Armuchee Valley. Editor Rome Courier : On Sat urday, the 12th inst., Gen. Gordon and Judge Lester addressed a large and enthusiastic audience a t Church Hill Academy, in West Armuchee Valley. Gen. Gordon’s speech was one of the most eloquent and power ful of his life. He was surrounded by his old schoolmates and other friends of his boyhood, together with quite a number of the old brigade which he had led to victory and un dying fame in the bloody conflicts of the late war. From his childhood Gen. Gorden has always made a deep impression upon those by whom he has been surrounded. From his attachment to principle, unswerving in his devotion to truth, kind and genial in his social intercourse, gen tle and persuasive in his deportment, he has always been loved by his friends, respected by his enemies, admired by all. He had spoken but a short time, when it became evident that he had complete control of his audience; for the big tear-drop was many who had stood unmoved in the most deadly conflict of battle. He spoke of the sacred memories of the past, which, “like the music of Car roll, are pleasant and mournful to the soul;” he dwelt with eloquence upon the duties and obligations of the present, of the dangers, the hopes and the expectations of the future. His remarks to the colored voters were eloquent in the simplicity of their truth and power, carrying con viction to every heart. The friends of Judge Lester were edified and strengthened, while those opposed to him seemed to be filled with painful regrets. Judge Lester followed in one of his most powerful speeches. He showed, most conclusively, that the charges which Dr. Felton and his co laborers in slander and vitupera tion are circulating against him are the merest fiction, without | foundation or color of truth, manu factured for the purpose of deceiving 1 the unsuspecting. Throughout his i remarks, Judge Lester exhibited the nobleness of his soul; for he uttered no charge agaiust tiie private charac ter of Dr. Felton. His magnanimi ty in not attempting to drag the pri vate character and business affairs of his opponent into a political contest, contrasts most favorably with Dr. Felton’s cut and dried medlies of slander, detraction and positive false hood. After the speaking, many of the 1 colored men who had formerly ! known Gen. Gordon, sunounded I him, and were restrained only in de ference to the occasion from embrac ing him. The stand was a model of taste and 1 beauty. The ladies (God bless them !) made the stand just such as cultivated j intellects, refined hearts and skilled hands could devise and execute. The dinner was all that heart could wish or appetite crave. The speak i ing, the accommodations as to seats, I the stand, the dinner—all was a feast jof fat things. The people parted in the best of spirits, and, doubtless, ; they will feel better and better until Judge Lester is elected to Congress. John Reb. The Rome Tribune calls Gen. Gor don a “redoubtable blatherskite” on account of going into Felton’s district and stumping it for Judge Lester. That paper says Gen. Gordon by this course will lose votes before the next General Assemby in his candidacy for re-elction to the Senate. Gordon is the choice of the people of Georgia as his own succes-or to the position he now occupies, and his course in the Seventh District in behalf of the elec tion of Lester, the candidate of the organized Democracy of that district, will but add to his strength and ren der his election almost if altogether quite unanimous. Dr. Felton told Rev.W.C. Richard son, of Dalton, that he had spent all of his salary electioneering, and now had to draw on his private resources. Five dollars to this man and that one, is a system of lobbying with the peo ple equal to bribery.—[Marietta Jour nal. __ From the large number of fairs that are being held throughout the State, Athens Watchman is led to believe that the prosperous times, so often al luded to, have come. A MAY OF STRAW. Set up by a Feltou Sheet aud Knocked Down by the Good Sense of an Intelli gent Public. The last issue of the Free Press states that certain parties have charg ed that Dr. Felton secured $75,000 fior the Coosa river and put $30,000 of that sum into his pocket, and then pub lishes a card from Capt. W. R. King, U. S. A., certifying in effect that un der the regulations such a theft was impossible, and that only $-1,368 of the $75,000 have thus far been put in to anybody’s pocket, aud that the bal ance of the appropriation, $70,631, is still in the United States Treasury, or subject to his draft, anti will be ex pended as fast as the interests of the work demands. Novt?, we have no fault to fiud with : Capt. King for writing the above mentioned certificate, as he was likely applied to to do so by the editor of the Free Press or some other friend of Dr. Felton, who had it into their heads to set up a man of straw for the purpose of getting it knocked down. It is such delightful fun, you know, and as nobody would believe that Dr. Felton ever stole $30,000, perhaps the originator of the little piece might have gotten it into his head that he could thus create prejudice in Dr,Fel ton’s favor by letting out the nice lit tle piece of information that the Dem ocrats, Ob, holy horror! had charged Dr. Felton with being sharp enough to steal $30,000 from Uncle Sum’s Treasury, and thus, perhaps, make a few votes out of this flimsy bubble, which is enough to almost make a dead man laugh. Campaigns gener~ ally are not always devoid of tricks, and when we intimated some time since that the Felton element would get them up we had no idea that this huge monstrosity upon a trick would have been forthcoming. We have heard of men of straw before, aud notwithstanding the Free Press edi tor says Dr. Felton “is the most art ful trickster he ever knew,” yet we cannot credit him with this one. Some nobler Colossus must have em enated in his brain this purely “base less fabric of a dream.” No man of ordinary capacity could have wielded the huge thoughts that brought forth this elephant on ice. To be serious, it is laughable indeed, and we vote for presenting its author with a leath- j er medal, properly engraved, and with suitable remarks. THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE. This body meets next month, and this session, being the first under the new constitution, will be an impor tant one in many respects. The work before this body is voluminous. Eight Superior Court Judges, several Solic itors Genera! and a United States Sen ator will have to be elected. These elections will no doubt take up many days. In addition to this, the Legis chinery necessary for puting in oper- ■ ation, in its full force, the new con ststution. It will enact, in obedience to the organic law, statutes regulat ing rates of freight and passenger tar iff on all railroads, making these as nearly uniform as possible. On this subject there will no doubt be very powerful and determined opposition. This will perhaps be the most im portant subject that will come before the Legislature and will be the most difficult in its settlement. In view of the immense amount of work to be performed we may expect a very protracted session—one which will probably continue through the remainder of this and some time into next year. It will be the most important Leg islature to Georgia that has met in several years, and no doubt it acts will have an important influence on the future of Georgia.—[Thomasville Enterprise. The Washington (L). C.) Star says : The Forty-sixth Congress will be con spicuous for the absence of old mem bers who haye long been in public life Already is known that Gen. Banks,the Bounding Banning,Burch ard, Gen. Butler, the objector Eden, Charles Foster, Chapman Freeman, Eugene Hale, the marine band’s friend Carter Harrison, Gov. Hendee, Hartridge, J udge Durham, Rev. D jug lass, Sayley, Southard, Martin I. Townsend, and Gov. Walker, of Y ir ginia, will be missing; and in the nominations yet to be made and the elections to intervene, many more of prominence will be left out in the cold. The Forty-sixth Congress will comparatively be one of new men. We are informed that a circular is being distribured in Paulding coun ty to the eflect that Hon. A. H. Ste phens denies having written the late letter to Mr. J. A. Baker, of this town, as published in the Free Press at the time. That circular is an in famous falsehood, and whoever got it up is an unmitigated liar and politi cal scoundrel, and he dare .not give his name. Mr. Stephens did write to Mr. Baker as published from his original manuscript. Such scoundrel ism deserves the execration of all honest men.—[Fress Press. Now you’ve hit the nail on the head, as this is another man of straw set up for you to knock down as you have done. That’s the old trick, make a charge yourself and then re fute it. It is such delightful work and some people are too ignorant to see through the transparent political dodges. Of course nobody ever de nied that Mr. Stephens wrote the let ter to Mr, Baker, or intimated that Dr. Felton stole $30,000, but the singu lar part of the matter is that the Free Press starts both reports and presto-change —the men of straw are annihilated, and its editor is happy. The Cartersville Free Press, Felton organ, is not in favor of reducing the salaries of Corigiessmen. Neither is Dr. Felton; neither is Alex. Stephens who took the “back salary grab” and said Congressmen ought to get SIO,OOO instead of $5,000. But Judge Lester is in favor of reducing salaries, and if elected will introduce a bill to that effect. Make a note of this, ye labor ing, tax burdened and oppressed voters, b fore you cast you oallots. t Yellow fever deaths up .nd in -1 eluding 21st inst., 12,135. [NUMBER 40. SF.COM) APPEAL FOR HELP. Office Chattanooga Rei.ief Com,, October 33, ISIS. Wheu the lirst appeal was reluc tantly made to the general public for help it was hoped that soon the fever would be over. Hut recent frosts, though checking, have not killed the disease, and considerable sickness and much destitution is still to be expected even if hard frosts come at ouce. Yesterday wo had nineteen new cases, including our worthy Mayor, stricken down at his post, and only about three days’ money and supplies ahead, and we were forced to tele graph last night for aid to several places, most of which had already helped ns. We have to-day received some generous contributions bur have still only a few days’ money and supplies on hand, expenses heavy, destitution great, and we shall have to ask considerable more help to get through. We know that the public charity had been severely taxed even before Chattanooga was forced to cease helping others and herself cry for aid as a victim to yellow fever. And since then we have received much generous aid,* part from our own country, part from beyond our bor ders, in Canada, part from beyond the ocean in France. But we must still for a time call on those who can help us. We know full wt 11 how freely and repeatedly they have given, and we hope for the time when we can tell them tint j it is no longer needed. Money should he sent to the Treas ; urer, supplies to the Quartermaster. Any person able to aid, to whose hands this paper may come, will please consider it a personal appeal. Railroads and express transport free all money and supplies. The eyes of (he people of the Uni- j ted States are turned upon the Sev enth District of Georgia. Here the long black lines aie seen with their hosts and captains flying their ban ners,decrying the virtues of Southern women, determined upon an alliance with the advocate of miscegenation. Upon the other side are seen the gallant Gordon, Colquitt, Lester, Hampton, and a thousand other he roes who shed their blood upon the battle field and perilled their lives for what they thought was right. Men and countrymen, with which army will you enlist. By the dead who sleep in unnumbered graves. By theories of the widow and the fath erless, we bid you halt and reflect nefore you cast your vote to over throw the Democratic party and open the breach to let through our old foes and enemies. The silent sleep ers in the Confederate cities of the dead speak to you and bid you not to condemn with your votes the 1 OJilSe for which lba ci.ftv. .•<>, i q-mU The Romans were once in the zenith of their glory and prosperity, but after their conquest the people forgot the teachings of their lathers and lapsed into decay from which they never recovered. Then it was whatTaeitus wrote of them : “Ye can not be said to have lived,but rather to have crawled, the young to the de- ; crepitnde of age and the old to dis- | honored graves.” The people of the ' Seventh District would do well to ! profit by past history—to cease to depart from the principles of our fathers—and to adhere to the old Democratic party which has guided the ship of state over the breakers for 10, those many years. Shall we con tinue to prosper and leave our chil dren a heritage of glory, or shall some modern historian record our rise and fall? There are two parties in this country. He who is not for us is against u. Choose between them. A New York letter says : “The dry goods trade is not looking heaL thy. Cotton goods are especially pressed for sale by manufacturers at ten days’ time at a discount of two and two and a half per cent. The usual time allowed is sixty days, open account without note, but man ufacturers are now asking for ten days settlements at a liberal concess ion. Either a want of cash or fear of difficulties in the near future is nota ble in this action on the part of pro ducers.” The democratic party is the party of the future. It w.ll govern this country for the good of the country. In this party the young men of the south must expect to develop their usefulness and achieve their fame: It will be a fatal mistake for any one to place hirns r If, or allow others to place him, In a position of even ap parent antagonism to that party, arid especially iu a position in which he could either desire or expect the help of the common enemy.—B. H. Hill. Every tax the national banks now pay will still bo required of them after the right to issue notes is taken away, except the tax on circulation. The national banks paid the government a tax on circulation for the year 1877, $2,899,000. The people paid the banks as interest on $343,- 048,900 of bonds deposited to secure their notes, the sum of about $18,000,- 000. Deduct the $2,899,000 from the $18,000,000 leaves $13,101,000 as the net saving to the people in that item alone, by substituting greenbacks for bank not&s. As it is somewhat uncertain with which party the Greenbackers will go with, and as the Democratic party stands arrayed against the iniquities of the Republican party, does it not look reasonable that the safer plan would be to vote for Democrats who are in favor of a greenback platform ? Thus two birds will be killed, as it were, with the same stone and no risk with the bargain. The negro Brown and his cohorts who have denounced the virtues of Southerly women are enlisted under the Independent banner. Will you be counted there in the battle of to morrow ? CURRENT PARAGRAPHS- Bananas grow, flourish and ripen in Augusta. The Albany fair ltd week w a decided success. One hundred and four -indents at Mercer Univer-ify. Billups’ election is considered as sured in the 9th district. Japan has thirty-eight banks, and will soon have sixty-four more. Alabama received last year SB,OO ) of the Peabody School fund. The new legislature meets on tin first Wednesday in November. The Government is now buying gold bullion vvilh greenbacks at par. The value of the hogs sold fo slaughter in the Uni toil States is now over $.100,000,000 \ year. There are on deposit in the six National banks of Williamsport* Penn., nearly $1,000,000. Horace King, colored,<of Lagrange, is announced as a candidate for Gon gress in the fourth district. Fifteen hundred vvonaeu and girh woik in printing officea in New York city. A Connecticut manufacturing com pany has received an order from South America for 3,000 plows. The Charleston nurses in Mtmphi < are now allowed to return homo, as ice has visited Memphis. Mobs in Mexico have been killing Prote-tants. Twenty wore kilie lat Atzola Sept. 29. Boys under sixteen who smoke iu the streets of Cyblentz, Saarlouis and Treves are fined or imprisoned. Mobile has sent 99 doctors and nur ses to the yellow fever district, an l notone has fallen a victim. England seems to be on the verge of a great financial crash. Hard times are not confined to this coun try. The Ilopking grammar school at New Haven is 218 years old, and begins the new year with 114 stu dents. John Pond, a wealthy resident of Manchester, N. 11., has been fined S2O and costs for stealing a dozen eggs. Eight prisoners escaped from the Rochester, New York jail, on Friday night, including the worst burglar* in the country. Gen. Gordon’s noble endeavors to redeem the Seventh district from Radical independentism is winning him golden opinions all over the States. Madame Blanc, widow of the noto rious gambler, bought the Spanish Isabella’s diadem at the late sale. Thirty-seven thousand dollars was the price paid. The Washington Republican sol emnly announces that South Caroli na and Gov. Hampton are now “un der surveilance of the Administra tion.” With four metallic qualifications a man may be pretty sure of success in the world. These are gold in his pockets, silver iu his tongue, brass in his face, and iron in his heart. The Independents are massing their forces, led by Felton and llar and miscegenation” engraved upon their banners. Wisconsin’s bounty of $5 for every wolf scalp cost the State $16,000 last year, as the wolves are and it is suspected that the wolves are raised for their scalps. A Michigan woman iiid her cow under the hay to keep her out of sight of the tax collector, and a news paper calls it a case of cow hiding by a female. In North Carolina a negro woman fainted at a camp meeting while shouting. She remained uncon scious four or five days, and then died. Going in debt has wrecked more fortunes and hopes, made more mortgages, and brought more wrin kles to the brow than any other mis take farmers are chargeable with. The life insurance companies lo cated at Hartford, Conn., have al ready lost $59,000 by the ravages of yellow fever in the South, but the returns are not all in, as some of the agents fled from their posts at tho first outbreak of the pestilence. The Indian Commissioners have done well. They have shipped throe millions five hundred pounds of freight to about nine hundred and fifty-eight thousand pounds of Indi ans. Who would not be an Indian commissioner ?—[New York Ob server. It is never too late to marry the old love, Judge Brooks, of Los Angeles, forty-five years ago, was the accepted suitor of the lady he has now wed. The relentless purpose of fate separa ted their young hearts, and the lady and gentleman have both since mar ried twice and lost, he his wives and she her husbands. Something like a year ago their paths crossed again, and the Judge has now married his first choice. The groom is 70 years of ago and his bride 63, A popular doctor in Boston, while escorting a lady home the other eve ning, volunteered to relieve her cough and sore throat by giving her a troche: He told her to allow it to dissolve gradually in her mouth. No relief was experienced, and the doc tor was chagrined the next day wheu the lady sent him a trousers button, with a note saying that he must have given her the wrong kind of a troche, and he might need this one. Democracy was born of American liberty, roused by Jefferson and tho galaxy of great and good men who helped to raise and cement the fabric, of American independence. Will you help to destroy it and join with the Felton-Hargrove miscegenation party to overthrow and destroy it.? American cigars have recently been advertised in London at very low rates. They have proved to be the cabbage leaf and brown paper brands not unknown this side of tho water. Bays a London newspaper : “These precious commodities are known to |be largely formed of a peculiar de | scription of straw paper steeped into tobacco juice, which is manufactured in the United States for this express purpose, and largely exported to the I Cuban and other markets.”
