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AKQELS’ FOO 'ITIIISTS Every little lilmhicM, Evory deed ot love, Every littlo uction, Prompted from above; E'en a cop of water, Iu nin great name glveu These are angels’ footpiiuts Leading up to lieaveu. Evovv little sacrifice Made for others’ weal, Every wounded brother Thai wo stive to heal, E’en a word of kindness To misfortune given All are angels' footprints Leading up to heaven, Then lid angels lead us Wheresoe’er they would; Eton let tiemi teach ns What is for our good; May they crons our pathway When from heaven they roam; Let us follow alter, Footspriuts leading home. Funny Wuj land. PL ANT YOUR STAKE. Tlfnty years ago a young man, without capital other than his own energy, might have conic to Flotilla and taken up government land in what uru now the garden spots of the State. His qnaiter see,ion there pre-empted would now ho ■ oitli fif ty or one hundred dollar.- ■ aero. — lie would have neighbors and friends about him, schools and churches within reach, railrords past his doois, and -the while machinery of modern existence daily made a part of his life. The young man of to-day looks at this growth and wonders vaguely why lie could not have come upon the stage of action a few years sooner, while there were yet untilled lands, llut does any sane person for a mo ment imagine that from now hence forward there is to be in this wide domain only silence, stagnation and wivck ? Is not the progress of the n< xt thirty years to compare favora bly wi h the past? Asa whole, is it not more than likely that heavy will be the regrets of the young man who to-day, in this year of grace ISBO, blukcs off the dust of Florida, and seeks new fields for tho next thirty years ? In this matter of winning a cotn pctcntonce, and being one’s own master, it appears evident that there is room out of doors for energy and hope; room in in each county of tho State lor active young men; places where a few dollars will enable one to get a foothold, to cling, and hew out his patli to success. Day af ter day, and dime after dimo, we have seen men save enough to make a beginning for themselvos. They set their stake, and they worked, incli by inch nearer, until tho hour of tri umph came as it always does for those who toil wisely,—Florida Lis patch. Cuthbert Appeal: '‘The protract eel drought in this section lias injured cotton to a degree lardy ever expe rienced by our planters. Immedi ately after planting a drought ol sev (ral weeks set in, which seriously retarded the growth of c< ttou, when a season was had sufficient to produce a “bottom crop,” since which time not Giiongh rain has fall en in many sections to mature the fruit formed, and the plant is now re ported dying. From reports the present cotton crop will fall short of last year’s thousands of bales. Po tatoes, peas ami late corn will also bo short indeed. S’ill the planters arc hopeful, and as fast as a bale of cotton is ginned and packed it is sold, and tho proceeds aj 1 to the . settlement ot debts —where an) are outstanding.’’ Dtraglassvillo Star: “Two weeks ago Mr. 1). W. Prince sent Tom Ar nold, a negro man, with a cow to At lanta to sell. Arnold carried the cow •to Atlanta, sold her, pocketed the money and left lor parts unknown Nothing lias been heard of him, ex cept that lie sold the cow tor nine dol lars. Newnan Herald: Judge Buchan an, judge of the Coweta circuit, the Democratic nominee for Congress from this district, hi3 resigned his judgeship and will stump Jiis district Up to the close of the campaign. The judge will mako things lively for Pou, and bo rptumdd to Congress by a larger majority than has ever been given to a*y Democratic nominee since tho war, * __ -r— T**£ , u Tv. A. SINGLETON, Ed■ <1- Trvp'r. VOL G. Lotter of Rev. J. R, Respess, of Tay lor COunty, to tho Savannah Itocordor. IJuti.f.r, G.v, \ng.-13,18’8. Editor Becouder: Tho political opinions of an ob seme citizen as mysClf are perhaps of but little importance, so that I would not intrude them upon tho public wore it not that I feel it duo myself, and those friends who attach tome little value to them, to give the rea sons wliy I cannot vote for Gov. Cel quilt for the next Governor of Geor gia. You know, and my Iticnds know, that 1 was an ardent support er ol Cos quilt prior to the recent Gu bernatorial Convention, and did what litile ! could to secure a delegation to the convention in Lis behalf. I was a Colquitt man in preference to any of the otliei candidates before the paity, becauso I believed him to be a persecuted man—one whom the politicians sought to destroy without a cause. I did not prefer him be cause I thought he was a better Dem ocrat, or because I thought ho would make a belter Governor than either of them, or than many other distin guished Democrats of Georgia would. My preference was purely a personal one, and whilst I yet esteem him as a friend, I ilurc not prefer him before Ihe unity of tho party or at the sacri fice ol piinciple. Wlieu I voted for him at our primary election as my choice of them all for Governor, no principle was then involved; but to vote for him now would be, in my view, sacrificing a principle and tho unity of the party to a personal pref erence —just what, it seems to me. the majority ot the late convention did. Therefore, I cannot vote for him, because to do it would be infi delity to the trust committed to me ns a freeman and citizen. I hold the convention committed a crime in re fusing to make a nomination for Gov ernor. I could and would have vo ted for Colquitt if at first he had been nominated by a majority, but not after the cont’cutiou had bound itself by a two-thinls rule. I say they committed a crime because in making no nomination they left a disputed succession ami all the train of disastrous consequences inciden 1 to it. The least it can involve in our form of government is strife, bitier feuds and party instruction. Our government is a government of par ties, npen which is involved tho duty of naming our rulers and their suc cessors, and when tho delegates ol the people, selected for that purpose and invested with that power, refuse to do it, they are guilty of criminal negligence, for which the people should hold them responsible. I charge this gu.lt upon the majority party of the convention, because it should be laid at the door of that party or fraction which could, with out a sacrifice ol party or principle, have prevented it, ami which, to per petrate it, made a sacrifice of princi ple. The majority voluntarily and of their own accord adopted tho two tliirds rule, binding themselves to make a nomination, and by a two thirds majority. It was their privi lege to do that or not to do it, just as they chose; there was no compulsion; but after they did it, it was not their privilege to set aside, but their duty to abide by it; there was then com pulsion. It is my privilege to go in debt; it is not my duty—that is to say there is no compulsion. I may or may not, as I choose; but if 1 do go in debt, it then becomes my duty to pay my debts, and it is not. my priv ilege to do it. I am bound, and so was the convention by the two-thirds rule; and having voluntarily bound themselves, they could not, withou violation of principle, throw oil their obligation. There has been a good deal of talk of high moral principles in connection with this contest, but it scorns they were forgotten ill tho heat of passion, that tho righteous should not swear deceitfully; and '.hough they swear to their own hurt, they should no' eh rage, but stick to it. There is another tiling that, m my judgment, savors of a bad spirit ■BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ SEPTEMBER 8, 1880. [in tho njajorify. Imm. diatoly upon! the heel of i-he two-tldr.ls ride they pa srd by a majority that what Ims boon cub'd “a gag law,’’ saying in effect that no man should lie nomi nated save s nio one ol the ciwJL dates then before the body, which was saying, as the sequel proved, Hint no man in the State save Gov. Colquitt should be nominated; that no man should bo chosen for Governor of Georgia unless lie had announced himself for that positi, n and had sought it. Is that a principle of tiio Democratic party, that a man who gets an office must always seek it ? Was it ever a princij lj of the party before ? As lo flic minority, I know not the spirit that actuated them, but can on ly judge them by I licit’ fruits, and their conduct was right in tho letter. They made concessions, yielding thi ir own personal preferences and giving the mujoiity tho selection of any two or llncc dozen distinguished Democrats lor whom they would cast their yotes anil harmonize tlio par ty. Could not they have saved Ihe unity of the party by naming such men as Gen. Lawton, Judge Craw ford, Jackson and Stephens, all good and true Democrats ? Thus the majority had the opportunity and upon them devolved the duty ol pre serving the unity ol tho parry by yieldiug a personal preference with out any sacrifice whatever of princi p'e or manhood. To this they were bound by their own action in passing the two thirds rule, when it was scon to bo clearly impossible to unite the minority upon Gov. Colquitt. But they persisted, and sacrificed the uni ty of the party to their personal preference, and violated the covenant they had voluntarily made in the two-thirds rule, and have said to the people of Georgia that they prelcr Gov. Colquitt to tho Democratic par ty. This action I cannot endorse, nor ought it to be endorsed by the Dcm ocraiic party of Georgia. The mi nority are not responsible for it, be cause they could not help it, save as a sacrifice of their manhood. They vielileii their personal preferences and left the selection of the candidate to the majority, excepting Colquitt on ly, and the majority had agreed, in effect, that if they couldn’t nominate him by two-thirds, to mako a nomi nation by two-thirds of some good Democrat. That is what the conven tion met for, and what they ought to have done. As to Gov. Colquitt’s vindication, he was nobly vindicated so far us the majority could do it by tl eir ballots, and could have afforded to have made his aspirations a peace ofhring to the party that had so greatly honored him in the past, and in that very convention. That they had a majority is nothing, as they did not liavo tho majority they agreed to have to make a nomination. If they lacked ever so litile, that littlo was as great an obstacle as if it were twenty t' : mes as big. I grant it pre sented a greater temptation to do wrong and violate their plighted faith than a less majority would, but the glory of resisting the temptation would have been in the same ratio.— Saul lost the kingdom of Israel by a very littlo lack. lie was commanded and assumed to do it, to slay tho Amalekites,oxen,shaep amlall.tospare nothing, and he came very nigh do ing it; he only lacked a very litile; he spared a few sheep and oxen, and them not for himself, but to sacrifice to tho Lord. When the Prophet Sam' uel went down to inspect his work, Saul went out jubilantly to meet liiim exclaiming: “I have lull filled flic commandment.” “If so,” grimly said the prophet, “what means the bleating of these sheep aiul lowing of these oxen which I hear?” There fore. lie lost His kingdom, and had as well have done nothing as what h■■ had dime for all lie did amounted to nothing for the lack oi a little tic didn't do; because the lack, or what he didn’t do, showed that he had done all that lie did do m tho wrong spirit. This, I honest ly believe, was the way the majority did iu the convention, and I emmet VN. DEMOGBATIO T’.A.IVIIX.'Y IISTEWSPA.3P.T3R,, follow them. These nrirfny reasons for n >t being a Colquitt man, though [ wan one a low days ago';. Did Sam uel change in rejecting Haul, even though lie had chosen jMA anointed him ? If I liavo T utn not know it; I have found out the tacts, and the right must act upon them. J, 11. lIESI’E.Si. Concerning Mr - Respess, • AND HOW UK STANDS ON THE CANDIDA- C , 'j? COLQUITT. Butler, August 24.—Editors Con stitution: I saw in tho Savannah Re corder of tho 20ih iust. a letter from the Ilev. ,J. R, Respnss, of this place, in which he cltims to have changed from Colquitt to Norwood, and gives lie reason why. Will you allow the undersigned a little of your valuable space to notice that aiticlc? In the first place, it is hard to understand why the gentleman went so far from homo to publish Ins communication (miles he bethought himself of a well-known scriptural adage), whin wo have a paper hero in our town and quite a number in tho surround ing towns anil adjacent ciiics, cither of which lias a larger circulation in out" county than the organ selected. Why was it necessary to have writ ten the letter ? i.s the question at last. From his standpoint, lie is “an ob scure citizen,” not in politics, and re moved from the turmoil and strife en gendered thereby. Certain!} - lie does not desire to injure, unnecessarily, his personal friend, Governor Col quitt, or to stir up additional-strife among tho already ple, was it done because hurtviews had been solicited, or his position assailed? Not by tho Recorder in Savannah, to say the least of it. lho reader is left to his own conjee ures to solve tho mystery. The honorable gentleman says, “he was an ardent supporter of Gov ernor Colquitt prior to the recent gu bernatorial convention,’’ I would like to ask how long before, or rather how long at a time? Does he re member, I wonder, what position In occupied in tho beginning ot this gu bernatorial race? I think he does, and his candor and love of truth will cause him fo admit that he was in that position known in political par lance “as on tho fence.” He does remember, and will readily admit, I know,that at tho Ist meeting appoint cd in our county to cleet delegates to the convention, a number oi gen men approached him, (knowing his position, as they thought,) and urged him to allow his name run as a Colquitt delegate, and ho rufased, giving as his excuse, the thing is too close; I can't tell how the county will go.’’ This may not bo the exact lan guage, but the substance of what was said. In this county at that time—or rather at that meeting, which was a small one—it was diffi cult to till who woul.l carry the l , Colquitt or Hardeman; but the zea| of i lie Colquitt followers was such that “they proved their faith by their works,” and the gentleman was re assured, and continued to be “an ar dent” supporter of Colquitt. About this time, (I have forgotten whether before or sinco the meeting rifered to) his excellency, Governor Col quitt, appointed Governor Brown U, S. senator, by way of parenthesis a wise appointment, still, it enrne “liko a clap of thunder from a clear sky,” and produced considerable commotion, viz: indignation meet ings, denunciatory letters, etc. So great was the excitement that there was a general shaking among those not well established in the faith, and some of the knowing ones predicted that the appointment was the hand writing upon tho wall that foretold ihe doom ot Governor Colquitt; oth ers predicating their opinions on the Stormy demonstration that lollowed the announcement, of the sain-, sail it had set in motion a breeze Dint would culminate in a poliiical cy clone, which would sweep Colquitt and his littlo band into oblivion. 1 would liko to enquire where this ar dent supporter of Colquitt was (lur ing tins time, and if his voice was ever once raised in !iis behalf ? No, would bo his truthful answer, and it he told all, lie would further say that on the streets in Butler, in this coun ty, publicly, and with emphasis “I said I would not vote for Colquit 1 .” In a short while the stir m passed over and tho political horizon cleared np. then reason ro son resumed her sway and a reaction followed in Colqiiit’s favor, and once more we.find our honored, but some what vaccilating friend an ’‘ardent snppoitcT of Colquit, ’ and to his credit be it said he remained an “ar dent supporter of Colquitt” until the second meeting ol cut people in the county at which time the delegates to the gubernatorial convention were elected, the election having been pos ponccl until this time. This meeting ing was a large one—several hun dred persons present—and the issue submitted to the people was Colquitt or anti-Colquitt, and colquitt carried tlie vote nearly four to one. Then delegates were elected by tlie same body to tlie convention. This gen tleman was so enthusiastic at lies time that lie was affected as one o. the delegates to the convention, and for tlie express purpose of carrying ing out the will ot the people as ex pressed in the meeting. This ho knows. It is a well-known fact here and also to tlie members of tlie con vention, that he did not go in per son. Now, the question is why did he not go in person and discharge the Unties he owed his constituency, and at the same timo show his de votion to him whom he claims as his .‘personal friend,’’for by obeying sim ply liis instructions he would have performed the delightful service of honoring a friend. It may be that he had an excuse lor not going - to the convention, but what excuse has lie for criticising so harshly the work of others gratiously performed for him ? I did think, inasmuch as be failed to go, he would have remained quiet, and ncquiscsed greatfully in what was done, but in this supposi tion I was mistaken; Again our distinguished friend says; “I was a Colquitt man because I believed him to boa persecuted man, one whom tho politicians sought to destroy.” Who were the politicians then ? They will rejoice over one recruit now. Iu tho next sentence I find this language: “My preference was purely a personal one.” Now which -of these sentences would he have us accept as embody his truo sentiments, we certainly can’t take both. lie goes on to soy: “When I voted for him at our prima ry election as my choice of them all for governor no principle was then'involved.” Here ho admits that Colquitt was his choice against the field, the word “all” embraces as much. What principle is now in volved that was not at that time? He says, “To vitc fer him now would be sacrificing a princip'e and the uni ty of the party to a personal prefer ence just what to me it seems the majority ol the late convention did.” Surely the gentleman Joes not intend to charge infidelity to the party, and a want of principle to all who will vote for him at the coining election, but l hat is what lie says, nnd I reck on he is willing to stand by it. Now I say Unit those who voted for Col quitt (at least one) did so because lie was Ihe exponent of the principles which they honored and cherished, and which were born with our party, first promulgated by Jefferson, nurs ed and nurtured by each successive ANNUAL SCnSCRIPTION . $2 00 ; gem ration from that timo to this, and will be ns long as fredom is pre served in this country; while he ad mits that lie voted for him “purely (rom personal reasons.” “F.rat cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then slialt thou sec clearly to | east out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” Onco more lie says: “I hold that tho convention committed a crimo in refusing to make a nomi nation for governor.” If so, lie is the lir.-t mail to “turn state's evi dence,” and as ho is ‘particeps eriminis, he had a right to do it He certainly ins forgolt m that he was a legally elected member ot tho convention, with power to select his own alternate, and that tie did ap point ids alternate and instruct him too. Now it is evident that lie is mon-ally and legally bound by the acts ot his agent, if tho agent aclou only within the scope if his agen cy. Now, I don’t think any other members of that convention will plead guilty, neither do I think a ju ry composed of the people will find himself alone in his Confession and not corroborated by the surround circnstanccs: if he had confessed, I don't think he would have been found guilty on t hat line. All that remains to be done is for the Sentence to he passed. This leave for the people to do, and would respectfully recoin menu to mercy. Now, Messrs. Ed itor, I desire to say that this article is not intended as a reply to the gen tleman’s document, or in answer to ilia argument, for that has been done over and over again to the satisfac tion of “tlie majority,” but simply to do justice, tnat both sides might know where tho gentleman original ly stood who now claims to hav* changed. I submit w hat has been written with kindness and in good humor.- Albert A Carson. A LILY OF THE VALLEY. One day our dog Towser was a lyin in tho sun and a trine to sleep, but the flies was that bail he couldn’t cause ho had to catch eni, and bime by a bee lit on his head and was working about like the dog was bis’n. Towser he held Lis head still, and when the bee was close fo his nose Towser winked at him like he sed you sec wh.it tni3 buffer is tloin; he thinks I’m a lily of the valley which isn’t opened yet, but you must wait till I blossom and you will see some fun; and sure enuf Towser opened 1 i> mouth i O' y fri ten, the bee, end the bee went into Towser’s mouth; Then Towser shot his eyes and his mouth, too, and had begun to make a peaceful smile wen the bee stung him, and you never see a lily of tho valley ack so in you life. —Little Johnny's Essays, Savannah News: “Personalism,’’ as Mr, Iliil calls it, must indeed run high in our politics when a distin guished and honored citizen liko General John B. Gordon is greeted with hisses from an audience he had been invited to address. We cannot believe that respectable citizens of Columbus had any part in such dis graceful conduct, but the boys of our sister city t-hould be admonished against such an exhibition of bad manners by the reflection that tlie Creator itas endowed only two ani mals besides man with the power to hiss—tlie serpent for its venom and the goose for its stupidity. Rome Courier: Unices early frost or some unseen calamity befalls the cotton there will be tho largest crop ev. r grown in this section. There seems to ba g neral apprehension among the planters that they wt’,l not bo able to ga her what grown’* AN OLD FEUD. * Louisville, Ky., Sept I.—A ripe* ciul from Shelby city to tho Qonriar- Journal says, Samuel Johnson was shot nnd instantly killed by .VnmeH Wheeler last evening at Danville junction. This is lire culmination 1 of an old feud which commenced in' 1859 at Libei ty, between Samuel Johnson’s father, Bill Owsley, Jturns Wheeler, ami several other pur tips,, in which Johnson was killed by Owe* Icy. Young Samuel then a Itoy only NO. 1 four years old, as ho grew older,, swore lie would kill Owsley ami Wheeler at the first opeoitTmitJy. / , Ow.-Ly died nine years ago, John son met Wheeler for the first timo last full, and at onco assaulted-him. Bystanders interfered and prevented l Johnson from accomplishing ItiS pur- pose. Nothing more was thought of tho matter until two months ago; when Johnson appeared at Danville’ junction where Wheeler wits at work and fired three shots at him,, without/ warning. None of the shots look effect, and Wheeler made his es cape. Since then Wheeler annul' himself and lias been on tho lookout for his enemy. To day, Johnson, accompany icd by three other .men; came to the junction looking for Wheeler under a; pretext of wanting to comoromisc the matter. Wheeler not' believing in their sincerity kept cut ot their right, and finally went to hisromaml Irom the window watched their move-- mcnls, nnd just as Johnson stepped Irom the railrad’ upon the platform' Lading lo the hotel, lie fired one barrel of his gun loaded with buck shot into Johnson's right side. John-- son sank upon tlie platform and died in a lew moments. Wheeler was ar rested and taken to Danville. The first and second' volumes of the official records ,ot the lde war, publication of which' was au thorized by Congress at its hot ses sion, have been completed under’ the direction of Coi. Seott, of tho war department, arc now in' the hands of the publishers. A Newport woman at a prayer meeting turned to her husband and whispered: ‘‘Father is very sick and we must go home.” Though they had left him-well, it was only by the most nctive exertion that he w* kept from' dying of cboleratnorbus. Washington, Sept. I.— The - debt statement issued to-day shows the reduction oi the public debt during the month of August to be $44,027. 167 59. Caslt in the treasury, $196,- 668,332 23; gold certificates, $75,* 979,000 00;.silver certificates,. $13,- 138,040 00; certificates of deposit standing,. sll3, 000,000 00;. refund ing certificates, $110,645,000; legal! tender outstanding, $346,691,916.00;: factional currency outstanding, $7,-- { 181.995 37.. Oglethorpe Echo: “A visitor who> attely passed through this county says he found it lined with cotton— seeing only one com field in thirty, miles’ drive. The reason ol this is our roads run on ridges, and farm ers find that uplands pay bettor ini cotton Let hint dbviabc to tho right or left, and view the broad bottoms of waving corn and he wilh conclude that Oglethorpe comes as near raising her own supplies as any county iu Georgia. Upland com. don’t pay one year in three. It is a waste ol labor to plant it. Cot ton pays much better,” Gih.uiDix and Dr. 'l'annee.— Tho Parris journal La France, organ of ttlie celebrated Emile de Girard'n, claims to have letters front this coun try, anil it is supposed, from Dr. Tan ner’s divorced wife, exposing tho means by which, it is alleged tho fas er defraud the’Amcrican people and made them believe he fastod forty days. Tlie supposed water that tho Doctor took, according to La Fiance, was an infusion of the well-known mato, or Paraguyan tea, which is nu ritous in a high degree. The Doc-, Ii or will now of course go hang him self, or floe to Canada to escape tl& wrath of tlie crcdulonsAmericans,who are already staggering uudor tho weight of M. de Girardin’s ridicuL’. —Savannah News.