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ELMJAY, GA., MAY 36, 1882.
Oeficlal ORgH or FahsW Cos.
OF Cos
oTFi^A^^gfflror-nemtygt^r
SPEECH OF
iron. EMORY SPEER.
Aeamst' tire Bril to Org&tsize tie
Militia
On MonVTrfy the 15th if**?. the
Hmfie-M Represent stive Utl im
der (■•iHSideraHm-n ft bill to enlist
bulWeew eighteen
amt S’esrs ; ftge, and'
to erVotP in '**' Nbftatiftlv guard,
not nfoi** llnm five hWi<hr#A tor
eaclr Kept*e/e4ative in Congress
for it • Stifle. The hill had tlre
unanimous report of tire commit
tee in its favbr, but whs tieteaied.
a-ftei* discussion.
Mr Speer presented bjs objec
tion* to tire hill in the following
speech, which we give as a mat
ter of interest to all of our read
ers,without regard to party:
Mr. Speaker, 1 regard this bill
as one of the most dangerous and
insidious propositions which has
been presented for action to this
body since 1 have been a mem
ber of Congress. A similar prop
ositiou was submitted to the
Committee mr the Militia in the
last Congress, and that commit
tee, as 1 understand it, relused to
commit themselves to the rneas
are embodied in the bill; some
of us certainly did. Sir, this
proposition, by the terms of the
bill,m my State lor instance,and
other gentlemen can speak for
their own States, would organize
a force of SjOOO militiamen; it
would have a camp of instruction
for five days hi each year; it
would require the militia of the
State so organized to iiave
monthly drills, and would impose
upon them arl of I lie penalties
and putißhirrenl which are en
acted for mutiny and lev deser
lions from the regular Army,with
their disqualification of citizen
ship and the deprivation of all
tiie rights to hold office, penal
ties under the laws governing
the regular Army degrading and
painful, as if involving moral tur
pitude. And this law is souggt
to be enacted in a time of pro
found peace and wne there is no
possible necessity for such legis
lation.
We are not opposed,Mr. Speak
er, to a proper system of laws to
organize and govern the malitia.
But the country does not need a
bill of this character at this time.
The land is filled with seasoned
veterans, men who have seen
actual war, who have faced real
danger in time of battle, and who
do uot need to be instructed now
by the pomp and paea ntry of
magic war, The boys who wore
the blue atkLtbe bovs who wore
the gray when they come to fight,
shoulder lo shoulder, as they will
do if ever the time comes when
this country shall need their
strong arms, require no such
system of instructions as this bill
contemplates, nor do the neces
shies of the country deuiaud the
organization of a landwehr sys
tem such as this bill proposes.
lam opposed to it, sir. I know
how it will take the sturdy yoe
maury from the-plow and from
the cotton and. corn fields in my
country. They are tired ol war
and rumors of war, and military
display in all its farms- They are
prompt and-earnest and able to
defend rheir country when called
upon , and so it is true of all our
American citizen soldierly, and
so it has ever been, since the em
battled farmers on the green at
Oottgcord fired the shot heard
round the world and unknidled
in mil lions of hearts the sacred
ires of national liberty. fAp
plause.}
"-“i ' ~ ii ■ .1. J
Women as Farmers.
It cannot be denied (bat wo
men make thrift? and successful
farttfert. There may be some
e*eeptn* to this rule, but in
most eases where they have giv
en their attention to agriculture,
they have done well. There are
thousand* oi farmer* who owe
their saccess in Hfe to tire hearty
and perserving co-operation of
tiietr aoble.wives and daughters,
who have labored in the field as
well as in the house, with a zeal
full of inspiration..
Widows who live on farms and
give their personal attention to
agrfftoitural affairs, in most in
stances, manage to keep their
affairs in a prosperous condition,
ind&try ajftd economy are tlpii
worjjj and they, labor jjlth
cheerful and hopeful hearts.
There can be nothing degrad
ing in honest toil, and a woman
ought to be able to go to tin
field and help her husband oi
father or biother, without feeling,
ashamed of her employ mem.
Tns+iwtees are mnnerirHs in wfirei
refined young ladies, of finislie<
education, have done this, am
press ami the public generally
applauded their action.
A notable example of what a 1
energetic, hopeful women ma
accomplish as a farmer, is fin
nished in the case ol Mrs. Angus
l us Johnson, of Faribault, In Min
nesota. Owing to the ill-heatih
of her husband ho was unable to
altend to ilie harvesting of hie
extiefisive crops; and M rs. John
sou cheerfully undertook the su
pervision of the farm.
Aniobg brlier tiiitisis, she drove
and ati ended to nne' of McCor
mick’.s celebrated harvester ami
binder, drawn by three horses
cutting over nne hundred acres
of grain—averaging 12 acres a
day. Truly can it be said that
such a Wife is, indeed a ''help
meet.”
And this noble wife is sixty -
two years old, and for several
years pist has been blind in one
eye. Vet, besides cutting twelve
acres of grain per day with a
three-horse McCormick reaper
she attended to her housework
and a sick husband. With this
grand example before them, the
women of the South who live on
farms, need not be afraid to lend
a helping hand to their toiling
and burdened husbands.— Ex.
Guiteau’s Hanging.
Speciaid to Post-Appeal.]
W ASHiNGToN, D. C., May 19.
As the lime approaches for Gui
teau to hang the excitement be
gins to revive. The sentence
states that he shall be executed
in ihe jail, and the custom has
been here lo admit none but of
ficials and a few others. The irn
pressiou has gone out, however,
that il Guiteau is executed tiie
hanging will be public, and, from
inquiries made from llie West
and Northwest, especially, it
would seem that the impression
is pretty general. - The agents ol
the Baitimore and Potomac, the
Baltimore and Ohio, and the
Chesapeak and Ohio Railroads
have received many inquries as
to chartering trains, one party
offering, if the terms are advan
tageous, to bring forty car loads
of people from beyond the Ohio
River. In a letter to his lawyer,
Mr. Reed. Guiteau, after speak
ing about some business matters,
adds: “You attend to the legal
part of the matter, and 1 will at
tend to the spiritual.” Guiteau
says that if the court, in banc re
pudiates the law, and sustains
the jurisdiction of Ute court, it
will incur the enmity of God, aud
his case will go to the President.
Ashes for Sweet Potatoes.—A
correspondent says: “I notice
the question is asked, which is
the best fertilizer or manure for
sweet potatoes ? From the expe
rience I have had in manuring
the sweet potato, I must say that
rotted ashes, whem properly put
on has precedence over all oth
ers 1 have had any experience
with. The plan that I adopted
was to open a deep furrow with a
scooter plow and put in plenty of
ashes. Bed on the ashes and a
sure croD may be realized on the
poorest soil. Cow-penning is
good—so are cotton seed and
stable manure; but, after expe
rimenting with the ashes, they
will all be abandoned, provided
ashes can be bad. I exneriment
ed on as ooor soil as I had, and
the result was as fine a crop of
potatoes as I ever saw on any
kind of land. Rotted ashes is
good for cotton also, and almost
any kind of vegetation. I am
convinced there is not a better
fertilizer made on any planta
tion than rotted ashes. So every
ond will find it greatly to his in
terest to take special care ol it.”
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