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: oB EKT S. 1 gditor and Publisher. i OLUMK VI. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. : S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, V jEFFFIt SON, JACKSON CO ., OA. . S. E. COH. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. . copy I*2 months $1.50 ■ l.OO “ 3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex s opy of the paper will be given. HATES OF ADVERTiSING. (ISE Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) tirst insertion, and Seventy-five Cents | a oh subsequent insertion. xpiare is a space of one inch, measured ..jfld lown the column. jgf All Advertisements sent without spcciiica jjofthe number of insertions marked thereon, ho published till forbid, and charged fjrdingly. jjrliusiness or Professional Cards, of six lines < s?, Seven Dollars per annum; and whore f r do not exceed ten linos, Ten Dollars. £cgal' Jlitaertisements. pEOKCiIA, Jackson County. Whereas, J. W. U. Hamilton and T. K. Smith, iiministrators on the estate of Dailey Chandler, lute of said county, deceased, applies for leave to blithe lands belonging to said estate— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred , to show cause, if any they can, at the regu i-tenn of the Court of Ordinary of said county, Bthe first Monday in October, 1880, why said jjvc should not be granted the applicants. Given under iny official signature, August ‘22d, aug*27 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. rtEOIUxIJ, Juclckou County. IT ———. Whereas John F. Evans, Executor of the last nil and testament of Daniel Evans dec’d rep ents to the court, by his petition duly filed, hat he has fully administered the estate of said itceftscd, and is intitled to a discharge — This is to cite all concerned, kindred and "editors, to show cause, if any, on the first londay in November, 1880 at the regular term fthe court of Ordinary of said county why the liters of Dismission should not be granted* the pplieant. Given under my official signature, this August 11,1880. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. UIORCiIA, Jackson County. Whereas, W. A. Watson, Administrator upon lie estate of Anacliy Hopson, late of said county, leccaied, applies for leave to sell real estate of aid deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause if any, on the first Monday it September, next, at the regular term of the s'irt of Ordinary of said county, why said leave mould not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 11880. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. (jEORUIA, Jackson County. Whereas, S. P. Higgins, Administrator upon Restate of Polly Simmons, late of said county, applies far leave to sell the land belonging to Restate of said deceased—• This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred- Mrs, to show causo, if any, on the lirst Monday a September next, at the regular term of the ' art of Ordinary of said county, why, leave to ■ >aid land should not bo granted the applicant, dived under iny official signature, this August kISSO. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Georgia, JackNou County. J'hcreas, C. M. Wood, Administrator upon -estate of Amanda M. Loggins late of said >nty. deceased, applies for leave to sell the real and Ga .It. It, Stock, belonging to said state— i; s is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred- ; N - to sliow cause, if any, on the lirst Monday - ' ptember next at the regular term of the Y of Ordinary of said county, why leave to real estate and Georgia R. R. Stock : 'JhI not be granted the applicant. ~ lvon under my official signature, this August 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. WHITE LEAD AND OILS, Garnishes & Colors, DRUGS, SEDICIXES and CHEMICALS, Grass and Clover Seed. ~o r of above, or anything in the Drug line, L C. LONG & CO., Wholesale & Retail Druggists, ATHENS, OrJ±. October 24th, 1879. TEETH9R3 A. (lUKTHIN6 POWDERS.) ♦ Tiros Cholera Infantum. Allays Irritation and 'i rm cas J'* Removes and prevents of Children mat/he saved CV - , 'V near by usiny these FoiVtiers. ior **le at UR. PENDERGRASS, Drugstore. THE CASE STATED FROM THE MINORITY’S STANDPOINT. jin Address, in Which the Ulinovity Narrates Its Side of the Proceedings of the Late Con vention—The Selection of Ex-Senator Nor wood to Lea/1 the Forces. To the People oj the State of Georgia, ; The Gubernatorial Convention which as sembled here under a call of the State Demo cratic Executive Committee, on the 4th instant, as you well know, failed to make a nomination of a candidate for the office of Governor. The duties imposed upon that convention wore to nominate a Governor, State House officers and Presidential electors] All the duties were performed except that of nominating a Governor. Before the conven tion there were four candidates ether than Governor Colquitt, viz: lions. Rufus E. Lester, Thomas Hardeman, Jr., Gen. L. J. Gartreli and Judge Hiram Warner. It was apparent upon the assembling of the conven tion that there was a majority for Alfred 11. Colquitt. I low* that majority was obtained is well known to you. While all the other candidates remained at home except Col. Hardeman and Gen. Gartreli, each of whom made a few speeches during the canvass, Gov- Colquitt took the stump, and, aided by his friends, canvassed the State at large. By appealing to the people on the ground that he was persecuted for religion’s sake, and the hearing being ex parte, he succeeded in getting a majority of the delegates to the convention. Wo will not pause at this moment to show the utter fallacy of the position taken that he was persecuted, but will content ourselves by simply referring to the fact that in 187 G the minority delegates in the late convection, and their constituencies over the State, now bitterly opposed to Gov. Colquitt’s adminis tration, unanimously assisted in electing him by a majority of 80,000 votes. Nothing was then said about his religion, and nothing lias been said since then except by a few in dividuals scattered throughout the State, who have made reference to the fact that he has too frequently left his office to attend religious meetings in the South and in the North. The true issue before the people then and now, which is the incompetency of the Ex ecutive and the scandals which have grown out of his official acts during his administra tion. was not discussed in that canvass. By earnest s*nd personal appeals to friends throughout the State, that majority iu the convention was obtained. We believed that it was not a fair expression of your opinion, and yet, though so believing.* if Governor Colquitt could have obtained a two-thirds vote of that convention, the minority, rep resenting the four other candidates named above, pledged themselves upon the floor of the convention, that they would not only abide by the nomination, but would support him at the polls. On the assembling of the convention, General P. M. B. Young, a delegate from Bartow, in advance of the repart of the Com mittee on Rules, announced on the floor of the convention, as the friend of Governor Colquitt, that the majority desired the adop tion of the two-thirds rule for nominations, and that he was authorized to say it was Governor Colquitt’s wish that it should be adopted, and that Governor Colquitt would not accept a nomination unloss it was made by a two-thirds vote. The committee then reported the following rules, among others, and the convention, without debate, adopted it as the law of the convention : 1. No vote shall be counted for any person whose name has not been previously placed in nomination as a candidate for the office voted for. 2. No name shall be placed in nomination for any office unless the delegate proposing shall state in his place that he has the au thority of the gentleman proposed so to do. On the first ballot for Governor on Thurs day, Governor Colquitt received 208 votes. During Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday thirty-two ballots were had, and from the first to the thirty-first ballot Gov ernor Colquitt's vote fluctuated between 205 and 212 and a fraction. The last ballot, which was had under peculiar circumstances, which we will hereafter narrate, gave him 220 and a fraction, as reported by the clerk, though the minority claim that there was an error in the count in his favor. You will observe that by one of the above rules of the convention, and which were stren uously objected to by all the opposition to Governor Colquitt, the convention was limited in its balloting to a choice of one of the live gentlemen first named for Governor. These rules were, of course, adopted by a majority vote, and that majority were the friends of Governor Colquitt. Their object in adopting that restrictive rule was clearly to compel the minority in the end to accept Governor Colquitt or nobody. They believed they would and could thereby force the minority to abandon their convictions of right and duty and to accept a candidate whom the minority opposed on principle. The minority saw their purpose as the sequel proved, anu solemnly resolved that, as freemen charged with a high trust by you, they would never surrender so long as they were denied the right which belongs to every freeman in America, to cast his ballot for any man he may prefer. That undemocratic, tyrannical rule enforced the gag law and denied to the minority who opposed Governor Colquitt freedom of the ballot —a right which, even under Bullock's administration, was never denied to a citizen of this fetate. On the second day of the balloting Dr. H.H. Carlton, a delegate from the county ofClarkc, presented to the convention the following list of names of distinguished gentlemen in the State, every one of whom you will recognize at sight of his name, to be a man ot the highest character and in every way fit for the office of Governor: General Lawton. General Jacksen. T. M. Norwood, J. B. Camming, J. C. C. Black, J. M. Smith. M. H. Blandford, P. W. Alexander, M. J. Crawford, A. 0. Bacon, Cliff. Anderson, H. G. Turner, .James Jackson, Aug. Reese, Geo. Hillyer, G. T. Barnes, H. D. McDaniel, W. H. Dabney, A. T. Mclntyre, W. M. Hammond, M. A. Candler, D. E. Betler, John I. Hall, R. P. Trippe. T. G. Lawson, H. V. M. Miller, A. H. Stephens, N. J. Hammond, J 11. Blount, Joel. A, JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1880. Billups, and stated to the majority that the minority wero willing to accept any gentle man whose name was on the list and vote for him unanimously, or for any other good man in the State whom the mojority-would agree upon. This proposition was repeated times without number during the balloting for Gov ernor and was every time met by jeers and laughs from the majority. On Friday Hon. Patrick W alsh, of Richmond, the general spokesman of Gov. Colquitt, made a speech in which he declared that the majority had come there “ to nominate Alfred 11. Colquitt and nobody else !” On Saturday the minority, through Dr. Carlton, offered the majority the name of Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, with the declaration that if acceptable to the ma jority the minority would vote for him unani mously. This proposition was met by the derisive question, “ By what authority is the name of Mr. Stephens presented to this body ?” and no further notice of the offer was taken by the majority, except the cry of “ ballot!” Again on Saturday, Mr. Reid, a delegate from Putnam, who was earnestly patriotic and deprecated the possibility of an adjourn ment without a nomination, put in nomina tion Judge T. G. Lawson, of Putnam, as a compromise candidate. He did so with the assurance of the minority that if Judge Lawson should receive such a vote from the adherents of Governor Colquitt as to raise a hope of his nomination, the minority would change their votes to him. The ballot re sulted in only votes actually cast for Judge Lawson. On Monday Mr. Imbodcn, a delegate from Lumpkin and a supporter of Colonel Lester, made the proposition to the majority that they might name any suitable man in the State of Georgia and the minority would accept him unanimously. Again on Saturday a proposition was made by the minority to raise a conference commit tee, in which there should be a majority of the friends of Governor Colquitt, for the purpose of agreeing upon a name to be presented to the convention. This proposition also was met by laughter and cries of “ ballot 1” On Monday and on Tuesday tnis proposition was repeatedly renewed and every effort made to induce the majority to consent to a nomina tion of someone else than either of the can didates before the convention. All these efforts were met by a resolution offered in the convention Tuesday morning, by the Honorable Patrick Wal3h, which was as follows: Therefore he it resolved, That this conven tion recommend to the people of Georgia General A. 11. Colquitt as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia at the ensuing election, provided that this resolution does not go into effect untill three ballots shall have been taken under the two-thirds rule and it is demonstrated that no nomina tion can be effected thereby. Upon this resolution the majority called the previous question, thus preventing all discussion, and it was adopted against the protest of the minority by a strictly majority vote, excepting the votes of Colquitt delegates from twoor three counties who were unwilling for the convention to adjourn without a nom ination. The resolution of recommendation was adopted on Tuesday afternoon. On Wednes day morning the electors and Stato officers were nominated, and the work of the conven tion, except the nomination of a candidate for Governor, was finished. The majority, instead of adjourning sine die, took a recess until 3p. m. Their object was a caucus secret, and was unknown by even some of the Colquitt delegates. The minority supposed and hoped their purpose was to rescind the resolution of recommendation and to resume the ballot for Governor; but after the adop tion of the usual complimentary resolutions a Colquitt delegate moved an adjournment sine die, which the minority opposed, and demanded a call of the counties on the vote. Every delegate of the minority voted against adjournment and all the Colquitt delegates voted for it except about ten. After the vote on adjournment was taken and before the Chair announced the result the delegates from Harris county changed their four votes to Governor Colquitt, which, added to the last ballot for Governor taken the day defore, gave Governor Colquitt 223 13-30 votes. These facts are stated that you may under stand under what pressure that number of votes was obtained. The object of the recess till 3 p. m. was not to give the convention an opportunity to ballot again for Governor, but it was, as we afterwards heard, to have time to learn if the minority were intimidated by the prospect of adjournment without a nomination for Governor, and with the hope that they would cravenly surrender to the one man power and tyranny, which from first to last subjugated that convention. Wo have thus laid before you in detail the actions of the Colquitt delegates and the vari ous offers of the minority for a compromise, and to preserve harmony and tiie organization of the Democratic part}', that you may judge who are to blame for the schism produced by the failure to make a nomination for Governor. We, speaking for the minority, were not sent to the convention as the tools or slaves of any man. We came as representatives to nominate candidates for the united suffrage of the De mocracy, and not to disorganize and divide the party, because our claim or preference was not nominated. We belong to no man. We set no man above his party. We hold the unity of our party and the peace and prosperity of our State dearer to us than the gratification of the ambition or greed for office of any one man, or clique, or syndicate. We loathe and detest one-man power ! We would not then, and we will not now, submit to it. When we were put upon notice that the Col quitt delegates came “to nominate Colquitt or nobody,” we accepted the defiant declara tion, and inflexibly resolved, to a man, that we would never consent to his nomination. To have done otherwise would have been degradation and a surrender of your rights. Gov. Colquitt is your servant, not your master. You made him, and you have the right to unmake him. That defiance was to you, as the convention was only the people of Georgia j assembled by representation. And had you ! boon unitedly u&6eaibled. even though you FOR THE PEOPLE. might have come together unanimously in favor of Gov. Colquitt, we mistake your man hood and patriotism and self-respect, if you would not have met such a demand by a unanimous and indignant rebuke. If it be said that Gov. Colquitt was not responsible for that declaration, we reply that Mr. Walsh was a recognized leader of the Colquitt delegates ; that the declaration was known by Governor Colquitt, and he never authorized anyone to deny it in the convention; that lib course during the convention corroborated the statement of Mr. Walsh, and clearly proved that he was resolved that no other man in Georgia should be nominated except himself. This is proved by the fact that lie attended the caucus of his delegates on Satur day -ght, m'.d made apathetic appeal to them never to desert him and by the fact that the Augusta Chronicle, Air. Walsh’s paper, an nounced on Sunday morning following that caucus that no nomination for Governor would be made ; and by the farther fact known to you all, that when Governor Colquitt and his delegates became convinced that his nomination by a two-thirds vote was impos sible, they determined to pass the resolution of recommendation, and he agreed to go before you as a candidate on that certificate alone. Besides this proof we present tiie further facts that Governor Colquitt had a brother on the floor, though not a member of the convention, every hour of its sitting, closely observing and actively at work, and that an advisory caucus was held in the Execu tive office during each sitting, and after each adjournment. In view of these facts we submit the grave question of the responsibility of a failure to nominate a candidate for Governor to your decision. The Colquitt delegates proposed the two-thirds rule, and the convention adopted it. Mr. Walsh, on the first day of the convention, offered a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the convention that the majority rule should be adopted by ail future Gubernatorial conventions. On a call of the counties, which is virtually a vote by ayes and noes, the convention refused to endorse the majority rule. Tims the convention de clared the two-thirds rule to l#e the law of that body, and that it ought to be the law of all future Gubernatorial conventions. The law of the convention, therefore, was that no man could go to the people as its nominee unless and until he should obtain two-thirds of the votes cast. That vote Governor Col quitt never got. He is, therefore, not the nominee of the Democratic party, but is a self-appointed candidate with the endorse ment of the Colquitt delegates. Those dele gates insist that as he is almost a nominee, therefore he is a nominee. They say he had a large majority in the convention. That is true ; but they enacted the law that no man should go out of tlie convention and tell you he is a nominee unless they gave him a two thirds vote. That law was not repealed, and when the Colquitt delegates and Governor Colquitt claim for him the right to your sup port as a nominee, they and he are doing so in defiance of the law of their own making. For. while lie had a personal following of a numerical majority, he had a minority and received a minority vote under the law which required a two-thirds vote as a majority. Governor Colquitt, therefore, comes before you not as the nominee of your delegates, but as a candidate recommended by a number of the citizens of Georgia. After the adjournment of the convention, the delegates who constituted the minority remained in the Representative Hall, to con sider what course should be taken to give you the opportunity to have a choice of men for the high office of Governor. With Governor Colquitt alone in the field, you could not do otherwise than tamely submint to what we feel to be a great wrong. We had agreed in the convention to give you a nominee, as a candidate for whom a united Democracy could vote. We were willing and anxious to pre sent to you any one of over a hundred good and true men in Georgia. Governor Colquitt held ins delegates with an iron hand for six days, and would not consent for you to have any man in Georgia but himself. Crushed under his grasp the convention broke up, and unless another candidate were presented you wouid have been left with no right to choose. We believed it to be our duty to you to give you the opportunity to express your choice between Governor Colquitt and some other man. As your representatives had failed to make a choice out of so large a number of able and honorable men in the State, it is your right t.o exercise the power which you delegated to them, and which they refused to exerciseforyou. We, therefore,determined to consult with citizens from different sections of the State in order to decide, first, whether you desired another candidate, and secondly, who would probably be your preference for Governor. We soon heard an almost universal demand for a Democratic candidate to oppose Governor Colquitt, and we decided in a large meeting of citizens of the State, including many of the miuority in the late convention, in the Representative Hall, that the people for the good of the State, and in assertion of the manhood of the Democratic party which personalism had ruled and mastered in the convention, should have another candidate. We say for the good of the State, because the scandals which have grown out of the very peculiar administration of affairs of the Stato in Georgia during the last three years call aloud for action and redress. The incom petency of tiie administration does not admit of a doubt. The division of opinion is not on the incompetency of the present admin istration, but relates to still graver matters, and when criticism on the administration made by a large portion of the Democratic party is as Severe as was made on Bullock's administration, it is time for Demoorac} r to move for reform and purification. What the acts of the present Executive are that have provoked such grave charges, are familiar to you, as they have been published in the press of the State and undergone review and discussion, untill the opposition to an Ex ecutive almost unanimously elected in 1876, wil, we believe, work his defeat in the coming election. In order, therefore, that the facts herein set forth may be properly represented to the people of Georgia, and that the voters *tr.<l tax-payers of the State may have an oppor tunity to pass judgment upon the administra tion of Governor Colquitt, it is deemed pro per and necessary that a candidate bo brought forward who will reflect, not only the wishes of our constituents, but of a large number of the people who have thus far taken no part in the present contest. Upon this point of selecting a suitable candidate, we have happily found but little difficulty. The oc casion itself indicates the proper person to be presented to the people for their suffrages ; but if wo had been in doubt, the manifesta tions of public opinion in ail parts of the State would have dispelled that doubt. The people in the cities and towns, and along the lines of railways, as well as in the country, where they could bo reached, have not been content with a single expression of their preference, but the}’ have resorted to the rails and the telegraph to swell the popular voice. Yielding, then, to the unmistakable voice of the people of Georgia, and in obedience to its mandate, we herewith present the name of that spotless patriot and gifted statesman, the Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, of Chatham. Whilst we found no difficulty in making a suitable choice of a candidate, it is but just to say that it was only after repeated calls and earnest appeals that Mr. Norwood gave his reluctant consent to enter the contest as the standard hearer in the cause of reform and good government. lie had no thought or desire to occupy the position of a candidate, and it was only at the last moment that he consented to sacrifihe his personal feeling and busines interests, and to take the position to which his fellow-citizens have called him. Should the call now made be ratified by the people at the polls, we feel sure thst they will never find it necessary to “ investigate” Mr. Norwood's official conduct at ever}’ turn, nor to submit to such painful scandals as those at which they now hide their faces; nor will he. at the close of his administration, come before the country and ask for a renomina tion m order to “ vindicate” himself against the criticism of his friends and supporters who shall have elevated him to the high and reaponsihile position of Chief Magistrate of the State. Josiaii L. Waiiren, Chatham. R. F. Lyon, Bibb. H. 11. Carlton, Clarke. F. W. Alexander, Cobb. I). B. Harrell, Webster. F. G. Wilkins, Muscogee. J. VC. Staten, Echols. F. M. Imboden, Lumpkin. 11. T. Hollis, Marion. Geo. M. McDowell, Pike. Walter R. Brown, Fulton. Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, Atlanta: Dear Sir — As the representatives of the large and patriotic minority of the late Demo cratic Convention which assembled in this city on the 4th instant, and in obedience, as we believe, to the wishes of a majority of the people of Georgia, it becomes our pleasant duty to inform you that you have been selected as their candidate for the office of Governor at the approaching election, and to request that you allow them the use of your name for that high and responsible position. We are aware that you do not desire, and have not sought, the nomination, yet we trust you will yield to the general wish, and permit your name to be presented to the people of your native State for the highest office within their gift. Meanwhile, wo remain, dear sir, Yours, very truly, Josiaii L. Warren, Chatham. R. F. Lyon, Bibb. 11. 1L Carlton, Clarke. P. W. Alexander, Cobb. D. B. Harrell, Webster. F. G. Wilkins, Muscogee. J. W. Staten, Echols. F. M. Imho den, Lumpkin. 11. T. Hollis, Marion. Geo. M. McDowell, Pike. Walter li. Brown, Fuilon. Atlanta, August 13, 1880. Messrs. Josiah L. IVarern, JR. F. Lyon, 11. 11. Carlton, P. JV. Alexander, JD. B. Har rell, F. G. Wilkins, J. W. Staten, F. M. Lnboden, 11. T. Hollis, Geo. M. McDowell, Walter 11. Brown: Your communication inviting mo to boa candidate before the people of Georgia for the office of Governor is this day received. Asa delegate to the late Gubernatorial Convention, 1 earnestly desired ami hoped, up to the last hour of its session, that a nom ination for Governor would be made which would harmonize the Colquitt and anti-Col quitt wings of the Democratic party. But the hope proved illusive, and the people of Georgia are now left without a nominee for that high office. My desire, as you know, was to issue a call for another convention which could silence all dissension, but I was met by two objec tions—first, the want of authority, as the Democratic State Executive Committee was the constituted authority to call the people together; and second, the want of time for concert of action in all the counties. Your decision, finally, was to act and request some Democrat to consent to be a candidate, in opposition to Governor Colquitt, and leave the question of another convention and of a choice between the two candidates to the people. No man in the State regrets more thnn I do the position in which the people of this State arc placed by the refusal of the majority in the late convention to nominate a man about whom there would have been no division or discord. But the lamentable fact is before us, and the Democratic party must either meet in convention and heal the breach by nominating a man who would silence the discord in its ranks, or the people must ac cept a candidate, by whose acts in his offi cial capacity, and during the late canvass and the late convention, the division in the party has been caused. In reply to oour request I will say that had I net been a delegate in the late conven tion, and had I not taken so active a part in maintaining what I conceive to be the rights of the people ; their right to vote for whom they please ; their right to freedom of speech ; their right to rule themselves and to choose their n' 1 fro— the whole State • ’h.Y -qht S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO For Six Months, to judgo of the fitness or unfitness of a can didate, and to carry out their eouviction of duty ; I should, from oonaid* ratio ns of great personal moment, deeliut to be a candidate. But it is urged that tho logical sequence for me to continue to labor in a good cause and prosecute it to completion. I consider the cause worthy of the ambition and patri otism ot any Georgian. The issues involved in this contest are of great moment to tha State, and to every citizen of it. Their ef fects will reach beyond, and affect for good or evil, the lives of men in the State now in the vigor of youth. In assuming this can didacy I have no motive or purposo or ambi tion beyond serving my State and in endeav oring to instill into the minds of ilie young men of my State who will soon wear tho robes of otlice, the important truth that she same circumspection and avoidance evc *• of the appearance of evil” which should mark their footsteps in private life should guard their conduct in public life. If suc cessful in this alone my reward will be full. In conclusion it is proper that I should state the policy I shall adopt should the peo ple of the State call me to discharge tho duties of Governor. As education is the source and support of gjpcod government, and a3 no people can bo truly great and free who are ignorant, I should favor a liberal provision for the edu cation of the children of both races. I shall oppose the 9ale of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, as well as any attempt that might tic made by any persons or cor porations within or beyond the State to got such control of it as would enable them to use it to tiie detriment of the citizens or the corporations of this State. I shall endeavor in all official action to foster the kindred relations between th+ white and colored races. I shall advise such legislation as will Iqk partially protect tho just results of capital and labor. In the matter of transportation, I shalT seek to establish the equitable mean whicU imposes no unjust burdens on the shipper and secures to tho carrier a fair and reason able return on the capital invested in his road or other means or transportation. I shall endeavor in every way to prevent the repetition of the cruelties growing out of the convict sytem of the State, which in 187d. and 1870 were brought to light, and caused a thrill of horror in every humane beast ia the State. Any system which works suet* cruelty and mortality must be radically wrong and should be corrected. Thanking you, gentlemen, for the confi dence in me implied by your request, I re main, very truly, your fellow-citiien, T. M. Norwoodv Judge IBack on Hancock. THE ATTEMPT TO BASTARDIZE ORDER NO. 40 AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO HANCOCK. It has otton happened that the best thing* of the greatest men are attributed to others, who are wholly incapable of them. The opin ion was iudustriously propagated and accept ed by a great many as true that Hamilton wrote the Farewell Address of but the evidence is concluaira which aboant that every word of that ijamortal pjwdkahioft came from Washington himsalf, and Hamil ton could not hare written it aay mare than, he could have made a world*. Some of Jack eon’s most characteristic papers, bearing th full impress of his own mind, were habitually credited to persons of far inferior ability.. When it was charged against Jefferson that, he wroto Logan's speech he solemnly de clared that he was unequal to such a compo sition. lam not affecting modesty when I claim credence of 1113' present denial for a similar reason. I could not have written Hancock's No. 40—not because I pretend to be dumb or altogether unskilled in the use of English words, but because if I had under taken to write it the chances are ninety-nine in a hundred that my argumentation would; have marred its majestic simplicity and, greatly diminished its power. When a pub lic man, especially a military man, meets a, grave responsibility, saying no more nor less, than just the thing ho ought, but sa}:ing that, with unequivocal clearness, you may be sure he is the interpreter of his own thoughts. At any rate tire attempt is unjust to bastardize No. 40 by assigning to it au origin totally different from the true one. Why should m3' opinion be asked or vol unteered on General Hancock as a civilian ?• Anybody else who lias watched his life is as good a judge as I, and there are thousands who know him much bettor. But since the question is propounded I will answer, sub ject to fair correction, that 110 has in him tho highest and best qualities of a Republican ruler. I think his fidelity to sound princi ples, coupled with his sound judgment, will entitle him to rank well with the great Presi dents of former times. I do nut compere him with \\ ashington, for tho grandeur ef that character is and will remain £or§v*r un approachable, but I do eay that Washington, if placed in his situation, would have acted precisely as ho did. His patriotism has not the impulsive ardor of Jackson’s, but his fidelity to the truth, 1113 love of justice and his scorn of wrong are quite as unmistakable. He is not a doctrinaire like Jefferson, for his busy life has left him no time to stud) r tho abstract philosophy of politics, but hia prac- tical good sense knows the right intuitively and al<va3 ; s catches the nearest way to do it. If he be elected, the ability of his administra tion will inspire universal respect, and hia moderation and magnanimity will conciliate even Lis enemies. I have the fullest faith that he will not only keep his oath to pre serve, protect and defend the Constitution, but will so carry out its provisions that th* great objects of its framers as expressed h| the preamble will be fully accomplished t “To form a more perfect Union, to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to pr%- vide for the common defense, to promote tha general welfare and to secure tho blessing# of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”— Judge Black's Paris Letter to N. Y. World. A wag said of an egotistical writer : “ Somebody should lake pity on his readers and put out his I’s.” NUMBER 13.