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H. B. GKKKB. I T. B. KIRBY
aKBfiK& SIBB7, - Bditois.
ELU.TAY, GA., APRIL 27, 18S2.
Official Organ of Fannin Cos.
Official Organ of Oilmkr Cos
Official Organ of Fickess Cos
SPEEE, ON LAMAR.
Committee on Wavs and Means.
Douse of Representatives, Wash
ington, I). C., April lOtli, ISB2. —
Editors Constitution; I ask
through the eoiußius of your pa
per to reply to the brutal at tuck
on me in the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger of the 7th instant.
1 know that the policy of Tiie
Constitution is hostile to me and
to my representation of a Geor
gia congressional district, but I
presume it will give me the op
portunity to defend myself. Ido
not often claim the attention of
the public to matters personal to
me, and the. most unjustifiable
and unmanly provocation is my
excuse ibis time.
In his comments on the homi
cide of young Mr. Roundtree,
Albert R. Lamar, the editor of
the Telegraph and Messenger,
declares: “We recognize in this
the legitimite conclusion of the
partially successful attempt of
Mr. Emory Speer to Africanize
that portion of the state, to grati
ly his personal ambition and van
ity.”
This proposition contains two
palpable untruths. It is stated
that 1 have attempted to Afri
canize that portion of the stale.
No act or utterance or ambition
of mine can be truthfully held to
show such attempt. My inde
pendent candidacy and election
to congress had and can have no
such effect. Again, the deplora
ble death of Mr. Roundtree had
no connection with a political
cause. “We should feel belter
about the matter if we might
justly lay the blame of the entire
transaction to his (Mr. Speer's)
door,’’ writes Mr. Albert Lamar.
This genial and Christian wish
serves to show the cordial feeling
of Mr. Lamar toward Mr. Speer,
but the truth is Mr. Speer is no
more connected with the death of
Mr. Roundtree than was any oth
er member of congress with any
other breach of the peace in
Georgia during his term of ad
vice. No more, for instance,
than was the renresenlative ol
the Savannah district with the
regretted but still remembered
occasion when, in that city, Mr.
Wayne Russell, with the palm of
his hand, buffeted Mr. Albert
Lamar on the face. I am no
more responsible for the bloody
tragedy in my city than was the
Savannah representative for the
bloodless exparte encounter in
his.
Mr. Lamar continues: “But it
is true, and it is about time for
the people of Alliens and the
surrounding country to awaken
to a knowledge of the fact that
they who haye upheld and sus
tained this young man (Mr.
Speer) in his anything but ad
mirable career, may have to bear
apart of the responsibility for
the results which have followed.’’
Now, the animosity of Mr. La
mar towards me is well under
stood, and is generally ascribed
to the fact that he was dismissed
for incompetency by the demo
cratic clerk of the 46th congress,
and to the farther fact that my
cousin, Mr. Eugene Speer, ap
pointed to the vacant position,
and held it while the democrats
held the house. I have been in
formed also that Mr. Lamar an
nounced his purpose with Mr.
Hanson's paper “to drive me
from public life.” To accom
plish this ambition, he charges
me and the men who have voted
for roe with blood-guiltiness.
Mr. Lamar should reflect that in
this statement ho is doing a cruel
injustice to a community who are
not in “public life,” and at whom
he strikes with a view to wound
and cripple me. He states that
Mr. Koundtree was killed by a
couple of negro politicians. He
was perhaps justifiable in this, as
an Alliens paper, the Banner
Watchman, made the same state
ment, or rat her stated they were
great “independent politicians.”
This is untrue. 'J’ne boy who did
the killing was only 19 years of
age, and had never voted. His
coadjutor came into the county
and Ihe district since the lasi
election. 11 o w indefensible,
therefore, is it to ascribe this
; crime to independentism in the
ninth district? Willi tiie same
propriety the rat her frequent
homicides in Macon for several
years past may be charged to the
organized politics of that dis
trict, and if Mr. Lamar can find
in his spleen to me and my fam
ily the justification of his slan
ders, what excuse has he to as
sail the high minded and order
ly people whom I represent ?
My “career,” in the opinion ol
Mr. Lamar, “is uiything but ad
mirable.” I confess that I often
think, in looking backwards, that
I might have done better, and 1
do not boast of my career. Such
as it is. however, infinitely bet
ter and. higher than that of Mr.
Albert R. Lamar. I have never
been discharged by my own par
ly from public office for incom
pelenc.v, not have I used the
powers entrusted to me to glut
a detestable malice toward a
man who had never injured me.
The brilliant correspondent, Mr.
George Alfred Townsand, de
clares that Mr. Lamar said in a
recent interview, that lie, with
deliberate purpose, mixed the
liquors which palsied tiie brain
and longue of llerchels Y. John
son, when in the convention he
was pleading for the muon
against secession, and thus the
powerful advocate of peace and
union was stricken down at the
crisis of our country’s fate by the
man who now traduces me and
the people among whom I live.
Thank God my career does not
seem admirable to Mr. Albert
R. Lamar. Let him not charge
me with blood-guiltiness when
lam innocent, while the furtive
hand with which he held the
stupifying cup to the lips of ller
schel V. Johnson is stained with
the torrents of blood in that ter
rible war which the latter was
seeking to avert.
“Give rein,” says Mr. Lamar,
“to the unbridled ambition and
passions of Mr. Emory Speer and
his followers, and the classic
walls of the university, within
which now lies the bloody corpse
of the first of its children mur
dered by negro politicians, will
be spattered with the blood of
others iu an effort to save them
from the hands of a mob of Af
rieans, raised to murderers by
the eloquence of Mr. Speer, in
the recital ot his and their
wrongs.”
This is indeed “fine writing.”
It is magnificent. lam inclined
to think that before penning this
final and supreme paragraph of
his defamatory article, Mr. La
mar must have borrowed inspira
tion from some source —from
vvliat source those who know him
can judge. 1 quote it to show
the vindicative recklessness ot
the man. No one can be impos
ed upon by it, lam a graduate
of the University of Georgia, and
I love my alma mater. lam one
of the trustees. My father, be
loved and respected by all who
knew him, an honored minister
of Christ, is one of the professors.
The dead young man was my
club-mate, bound to me by sa
cred ties. But a few days be
fore his lamentable death the
students of the university, I am
informed by the papers, had se
lected me to preside at then
champion debate at commence
ment. Can it be true that any
man in a lucid interval, with the
fads before him, can believe me
capable of the atrocious crimes
imputed to me by this malignant
enemy ? I love my state and my
home, and I am true to my
lineage, my kindred, my friends
and lie who asserts otherwise
shall, if it be the last act of my
life, liavu the falsehood flattened
in iiis teeth. Emory Speer
The Chinese residents of South
Boston, Massachusetts, have, or
ganized a Masonic lodge.
THE SMALL-POX.
Yesterday the people seemed
to have tired of talking of the
small-pox, and the city was more
quiet on the subject. There were
several wild rumors during the
day, but only one positive case
developed—that of a negro Doy
named James Harris, at IG# Fill
more street, lie was reported
about 4 o’clock. A guard was
placed around the premises, and
he will be carried to the pest
house to-day. Lite yesterday
Sam Logan, a negro man living
at 50 Hilliard street, was reuort
ed as having small-pox, but it is
not known yet whether lie is a
case or not. The Fair sleet case
was pronounced not small-pox. A
reported case at 66 Ellis street
proved to be chichen pox; a
rumored case at 106 Collins street
pioved to be measles, and report,
ed cases at Bob Stevens’s and at
the Southern hotel and Adams
house were found to be baseless
reports There were other sup
posed cases reported, but they
amounted to nothing. The pa
tients at the pest house were do
ing well yesterday. List night
Dr. Martin, who is investigating
all the reported cases, said to a
Constitution reporter:
“1 see that some man is saying
that the cases sent to the uesl
house are not cases of small pox,
but are ‘black measles.” That is
said to be the conclusion of a
prominent physician who lias vis
ited tiie pest house and made an
examination of the cases. I am
not disposed to create any undue
excitement, but if any one is try
ing to quiet (lie people with such
stories as that, he is certainly
very reckless with his reputation
for veracity. In the first place
nobody has been to the pest
house to see I lie patients, and
even if one had gone he would
not have been admitted without
a permit. I have just been talk
ing to one of the men, and he
tells me that nobody has been
out there. So you may the story
of black measles down as being
our of the whole cloth.”
“1 feel pretty sore,” con'inued
the doctor, “I have been in my
saddle all day. I wish you would
say that people ought not to be
so hasty in reporting everything
as small pox whether it looks like
small pox or not. Why, people
rush in and report cases of small
pox at places where there is ab
solutely no sickness whatever.
They keep me rushing around all
day—from sun-up until night —
examining headaches an and all
sorts of things that don’t look a
particle like small-pox.”
About sundown Inspector Veal
boarded the Peachtree street car
and remarked to a Constitution
reporter who was there :
“I am going home and going to
sleep. I’m tired. I have been,
out all day every day since ibis
scare got up, walking, and walk
ing, and walking. It seems that
no oooner is one rumor dispose*!
of than two come in to take its
place. If this small-pox scare
keeps up I can’t guess what will
be the end of me.”
Dr. W. D. R. Thompson says
there is no such disease as biack
measles, and that the report thal
the cases now being treated as
smali-pox at the pest iiouse is
false ; that lie lias examined the
cases and knows they are genu
ine cases of small-pox. lie says
further that Dr. Nathan Harris,
who has the house in charge, is
doing his duty, and knows what
he is about. — Gonttitution.
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sum agreed upon by Congress as
proper to pay the physicians and
attendants on the late President
Garfield. Dr. Bliss gets $25,000,
and the sums, while liberal, can
hardly cause grumbling on either
side, Hie public or the doctors.
SHORT METER.
About the only reply we need
to make to the low flung tirade
of the Macon Telegraph against
Emory Speer, charging him with
making a speech several years
ago in Athens to the rabble, and
out of which has grown a war ol
races in Clarke county, culminat
ing in two “negro-politicians,”
neither of which is yet 21 years
old, killing a college student who
was not a politition, we reckon,is
to say that since that speech was
made to the drunken men, wo
men and children” of Athens, Mr
Speer has beaten as good a man
as Joel A. Billups badly ir. that
county, and at the last election
got all the votes in the county,
high toned, super extra, medium,
white, mixed and pure black, ex
jfi pi 125 votes lor Col. Bell. If we
were Col. Albert Lamar, we
would hesitate a little before
throwing such great gobs of filth
at a whole county, in another dis
trict, as capable perhaps ol exer
cising the American ballot as the
people of bis own district or even
Bibb county. As the great ma
jority of the people ot Clatke
have no organ now we take it
upon ourselves to hurl back this
base slander into teeth of the
man who wrote it. — So?// /iron.
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C niton, April 19 —The engine*,
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each loaded with fitly five bars
ot railioad iron, crossed over the
Etowah river bridge this morning,
amid the cheers of many anxious
spectators. Captain Monssan.who
is supei intending the building of
the bridge, told your correspond
ent this evening that lie sat on
top the bridge while the engine
and loaded cars were crossing,
and 11 1 al he did not perceive the
slightest wobble or unsteadiness
:n any part of the bridge, lie
promt bees it perfectly sale, and
is confident it will prove sat is fa e
lory and equal to the capacity
recommended for it. The bridge
has the appearance ol being a
good and substantial job, and re
flects much credit upon Wilkins,
Lost & Cos., for their untiring el
(orts to give the road a good
oridge, not withstanding the ad
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they have labored, the winds and
Iresbels having beat a portion ol
it down several limes. 'They will
paint and cover the bridge during
the next few days, and will then
go to Sharp mountain, about sev
en miles a ove here, in build an
other bridge. Everything bids
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