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DARIEN, ~ - GEORGIA,
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 4th, 1875
THE THIRD TERM.
The New Yolk Herald, refering
editorially to the President’s third
important political declaration he
has made since his accession to of
fice, says: “It is an exceedingly
adroit letter, but far from being sat
factory. There is nothing in it to
prevent Grant’s acceptance of the
Presidency for a third term. W e
shall be surprised if the country ac
cepts this as a satisfatory declara
tion. It is an evasive letter, and
would have been much better for
his fame, and even for the welfare
of the party he proposes to serve,
if he had not written it. In a word,
the country is told the President
will not take what is not offered him.
The Herald wants a declaration
that will distroy Csesarisin by limit
ing all administration to one term,
and no re-election ever after.
The Times considers that the
President’s views are expressed
with great simplicity and frankness
and that his declaration will be
deemed satisfactory by the people,
but persons who originally raised
the cry of third term will not be
satisfied. They will pick holes in
the letter here and there, and take
out detached sentences and twist
them into signification which
they do not properly possess. The
Times confesses that the letter
ought to be accepted by all just,
fair minded men as absolutely put
ting an end to the whole question
and the Republicans should pre
pare for the work of 1870 without
reference to even Grant being in
the field as a candidate.
The Tribune says, although some
what delpliic in its praseology, the
the President’s letter probably will
be regarded as finally withdrawing
Grant's name from the list of can
didates for the next Presidency'. If
he had only said as much some time
ago what suffering might have been
saved to the Republican party.
The World says nobody can fail
to read the extreme reluctance with
which the President makes even
the pretense of resigning his chance
of re-election. This letter, which
purports to be a resignation of his
pretensions, is not so in fact, saving
the clause in it which enables him
to push those pretensions whenever
he chooses, which lie means if and
whenever he sees the possibility of
success for them.
The Sun is silent and publishes
the letter without comment.
Tho evening Post, commenting
on the President’s third term letter,
says it comes better late than never,
and it is open to verbal criticism,
but the common sense of the peo
ple will construe the letter and
rightly as an unequivocal disavowal
by a man who is not a dissembler
of all purpose or desire of renomi
nation t,o the Presidency. This
letter has been wrenched from the
President by the force of public
opinion.
The Express considers the letter
neither racious in manner,’sound in
judgment nor conclusive as to his
position.
The Mail says the letter slio-ws
how little of a Caesar he was really.
Those who know him best have
most unqualifiedly declared he nev
er had any expectations of a third
term.
The Commercial Advertiser says
it is a manly straightforward letter.
It may not be acceptable to his en
emies, but the masses of the people
will accept it in its honest mean
ing and intentions.
Setting type by telegraph is
the latest invention. The London
Times is said to have the machine,
and to be perfecting a system by
which the paper will be set simul
taneously in each of the large cities
where it has a large circulation.
This will connect the London offices
with offices in Liverpool, Manchas
ter, Birmingham, etc, and a person
operating the keys of the machine
in London will set the type there
and in all other offices at the same
time. Of course the papers will be
delivered simultaneously in all the
cities where there are branch offices.
AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA.
President Estill has called a meet
ing of the Georgia editors to assem
ble in Atlanta on the 3d of July,
which is the first Wednesday. Pat
ent insides and outsides are invited.
We hope there will be a large gath
ering of the press.
Jack Brown, of Americus, has at
last been rewarded 4>y his master.
Grant has honored him with a reve
nue collectorship. Jack succeeds
Holtzelaw.
The Savannah News and other
leading papers in the State have de
clared in favor of ex-Governor ('has.
J. Jenkins as their choice for the
next Governorship.
In Athens on the ‘26th while blast
ing, Hiram Bullock, colored, had
his head blown almost entirely off.
Colonel Avery, a well known
Georgia editor, has gone into the
insurance business in Atlanta.
The girls were victorious in the
late spelling bee in Americus. Hur
rah for the lovely Americus girls,
Social Circle had a shooting
scrape the other day.
Elisha Yarabrough, a lad of IG,
was hanged for murder at Carrol
ton on last Friday. The Atlanta
Herald gives an account of it.
The Atlanta News, we are sorry
to learn, has permanently suspend
ed.
Bishop Peirce proposes to be one
of twenty thousand to give one dol
lar towards the completion of Emo
ry College which sufferred heavy
losses 1>y r the late war.
It’s actually dangerous to allow
negroes to jump from trains while
in motion. A negro man did this
near Atlanta, striking a crosstie
with his head. It took half an
hour to repair the track, and de
layed a subsequent train. The head
is all right.
It only cost Bard one thousand
dollars to stab a young man in At
lanta.
We are at last satisfied about Ben.
Hill's case. The Governor has is
sued his proclamation declaring
him the Congressman from the
Ninth District.
According to the statement of
the Reporter this is the way a
a Quitman girl puts it: “If I catch
you dancing with that red-headed,
crossed-eyed, freckled-faced wretch
again you need never call me your
darling any more,” is the way a
jealous lassie of fifteen summers
laid down the law to her “future
hope” as they stepped out on the
porch at the fireman’s ball Wed
nesday night. He said he wouldn’t.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says
that Governor Smith has negotiated
a loan of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars with the Fourth
National Bank of .New York, in ac
cordance with the act of the last
Legislature. The loan is a tempora
ry on' 1 , and made on favorable
terms.
The Atlanta Constitution says
that Governor Smith lias appointed
the following board of visitors to
attend the examination of the senior
class of the State University. The
examination will commence on the
9tli of July: W. J. Northern, Spar
ta; Colonel Mark W. Johnson, At
lanta; W. L. Kilpatrick, Richmond
Factory; J. Y. Wood, LaFayette;
G. M. Dews, Columbus; A. H.
Flewclleu, Cuthbert ; J. M. Richard
son, Carrollton; J. W. Glenn, Jeffer
son; H. H. Jones, Macon; W. H.
Baker, Savannah.
Savannah is trying to have a due 1 .
Aud its all about a boat race, too.
Mr. Alfred Bryan, of Savannah,
died in that city during the week.
Savannah had a wild cat sensa
tion this week. Nobody hurt.
Last Monday evening, the 24tli
inst., a number of citizens of Pauld
ing county had collected at the old
20th District court ground to make
their tax returns. The court house
was a small building beside the
Burnt Hickory road, some five or
six miles west of Acworth, aud
whilst in the building a storm came
up and blew a tree across the house,
instantly killing Hon. William E.
McEver, one of Paulding’s best and
most distingushed citizens. There
were eighteen persons in the build
ing and no one else was seriously
hurt, although the house was level
led to the ground. Marietta Jour
nal.
Communicated.]
CONFIRMATION.
At the close of the ritual of the
“Baptism of Infants,” it is required
of the officiating minister, that he
should f barge the parents or spon
ger, that the child be brought to the
Bishop for confirmation “so soon as
he can say the creed, the Lord’s
Prayer, the Ten Commandments,
and is instructed in the “Church
Catechism.”
The qualifications for confirma
tion seems by this to be intellectual
and educational,rather than spiritual
—not so in the rite itself, the qualifi
cations as therein stated, are well
defined, and specific. The candi
date for confirmation in the pres
ence of God, and his minister, and
before the whole congregation, sol
emny of his own free will declares
and professes, that he has been
“recreated by the Holy Ghost”
that he has “received the forgivness
of all his sins.” and that hencefor
ward “will renounce the devil and
his works, the vain pomp and glory
of the world, with all covetous de
sires of the same, and the sinful de
sires of the flesh,” and that hence
forth he will not follow, nor be led
by them.
These solemn confessions and
fearfully solemn promises and vows,
they embrace clearly and emphatic
ally the principals of the whole
Christian life, and unless the are ab
solutely experienced, the profession
of them is a mockery before God,
and a positive and palpable false
hood. It is to be feared that in
some possibly “Christ is wounded in
the house of his friends,” the influ
ence of religious truths seriously de
mand, and Christianity itself made a
laughing stock by tWo admitting to
the communion of the church, those
who do not understand, or, under
standing, do not appreciate the sol
emn obligations that are imposed,
and the solemn profession required
by this rite.
In his late address to the conven
tion of his dioces, Bishop Stevens of
Pennsylvania, in unmistakable and
decided language puts the respon
sibility of the correction of this evil
where of right it ought to be, on
the Rector, and charges him, as to
his duty in not admitting to this
rite, nor to the Holy Communion
any candidate, until after personal
examination, he is satisfied as to
his moral fitness:
The Bishop then turned to anoth
er subject attended with crying
evils, viz, Confirmation. He said:—
I feel constrained again to ask my
brethren of the clergy to exercise
greater care in presenting candi
dates for confirmation. I have rea
son to fear that there are those who
do not give sufficient thought to this
important subject, and who, there
fore, fail in the right and due dis
charge of an imperative duty. It
should be remembered that this is
not a rite to be received as a matter
of course when a child reaches a
certain age, whether lie is prepared
or not. It is a solemn consecration
of soul and body to the Lord Jesus,
and requires an intelligent under
standing of the nature of the prom
ises made and the vows assumed.
To secure this understanding •of
what is done the children need care
ful and specific teaching, not simply
in the text of the Lord’s Prayer, the
Creed, the Ten Commandments and
the Catechism, but in the spiritual
import of the words which the lips
speak, and in the eternal obligations
of faithful duty to God which are
then assumed. I have been deeply
pained at the aspect of some whom
I have confirmed, and at the facts
which have come to my know a ?
in reference to the hcedlessness and
even levity with which several have
taken upon themselves their bap
tismal vows. Ido not think that
public lectures or instruction are a
sufficient instruction to the candi
dates; so much that is personal and
special is overlooked when you
speak to classes and congregat ions.
This public instruction ought to be
given and to be given diligently
and solidly. But, in addition to all
this, the pastor should hold person
al and solemn converse with each
candidate, ascertain the spiritual
condition of each one, and present
for confirmation only such as can
give good evidence that they have
repented of their sins and believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Otherwise it
seems almost a mockery for the
bishop, in the prayer in the confirm
ation office, just before the laying on
of hands, to thank God that “He has
regenerated these His servants by
water and the Holy Ghost, and hath
forgiven all their sins.” This dec
laration, made in solemn prayer to
God, before the act of confirmation,
aud while the candidates are several
kneeling at the chancel rail, is the
basis of the whole subsequent office.
It i.s the premise, out of which all
the conclusions of the service pfi'ow.
If this basis is wanting the service
is valueless; if that postulate is
wrong all the subsequent inferences
are wrong also, and the transaction
becomes a religious nullity. The
clergy have it as one of tlieir most
bounded duties to see that such sad
results do not occur. More thorough
ness of instruction, more care in
personal preparation, a deeper sense
of the great interest involved in this
transaction, and a willingness not
to take things for granted, but to
examine and test each case by the
standard of God’s word, will uproot
all the evils of which I have spoken,
and though it may lessen the num
ber confirmed* it will increase the
moral weight and force of those who
are confirmed, and the Church will
advance more vigorously with a few
well-prepared and thoroughly
equipped soldiers, than with an un
disciplined multitude, ignorant of
the terms of enlistment, of the du
ties which they covenant to do, and
of the faith which they profess to
believe. With the most careful scru
nity that fallible man can give to the
subject, there will be much “wood,
hay and stubble” mixed up “with
untempered mortar,” in the build
ing up the walls of our spiritual
temple; yet it is incumbent on each
rector to contribute as little as pos
sible to this perishable material,
which, after all, serves to weaken
rather than strengthen the Church,
and contributes only that which the
fire will consume.
J6@“The Chinaman was imported
into America with a view to the
confusion of trade-union and the
checking of strikes, and now* with
tile ImitatiVencs's characteristic of
of his race, has himself organized a
Union and gotten tip a strike. In
deed he has introduced the tactics
of Sheffield. Asa rule, the Ameri
can striker contents himself with
marching in processions and lean
ing against fences and hitching
posts until ho is ready to give in,
and labor troubles of a Serious sort
are only of comparatively recent oc
currence and confined to one locali
ty. The Chinese tailors of San
Francisco, however, offer sl-300 for
the head of any pig-tailed “rat,” and
SIOO for that of any employer of
rats, which is at least a fair valua
tion, according to the popular rank
ing of tailors, Chinese tailors at
that. The openness of this offer —
it is proclaimed on placards—must
compel more respect from those
who least approve of it than is pro
voked by the secrecy and cowardice
that characterize our native devisers
of similar lawlessness.
General Slmrman, in his me
moirs neglected to tell about the
length and general cussedness of
the names of Georgia rivers. One
whole day was lost because it took
Sherman eight hours to mention
the name of the river the leading
brigade was to camp on in the even
ing. And Sherman himself had to
to take Scotch snuff before he could
speak properly of the Ogeecliee riv
er.—Milica id ee Sentinel.
JGJdp-Hon. James 13. Beck confes
ses that he is a candidate for United
States Senator from Kentucky, and
regards Governor Leslie as his
chief rival. Senator Stevenson he
does not consider in the race.
tS@“’The oldest fourth of July ora
tor in Massachusetts is Benj aminVHo
bart, oi Arbiugton, now ninety-four
years of age, delivering the oration
on independence day in that town
in the year 1805.
Mb. Pierrepont Puzzled.— A
Washington dispatch says: “The
perplexities of official life are begin
ning to be felt by Attorney-General
Pierrepont. He is anxious to reform
the service of the department in the
West and South. From prominent
politicians he receives letters strong
ly recommending certain applicants
for office, and yet from equally po
tent sources comes the information
that the applicant seeking the place
to which be i.s recommended is not
worthy to hold a public office. The
great trouble he finds is the want of
trustworthy information as to can
didates.” If Mr. Pierrepont is real
ly anxious to reform the service, and
to fill the offices of his department
with men “worthy to hold public
office,” he must not confine himself
to the ranks of his own party, where
that class of men are exceedingly
scarce.
Chicago, June Ist. —In the Na
tional Temperance Convention this
afternoon, Hon. Henery Wilson
made a forcible appeal for the cause
of temperance. At tire conclusion
of the Vice-President’s remarks,
which were received with a good
deal of enthusiasm, the Chairman
said he felt that the presence of
Vice-President Wilson at that time
was an indication that the time was
coming when there will lie a man in
the Presidential chair who will rep
resent the Friends of Temperance.
(Loud and continued applause.)
GRANT AND THE THIRD TERM.
Exec utive Mansion, )
Wahhingxtos, I>. C., May 29, 1875. \
Dear .Sir —A short time subse
quent to the Presidential election
of 1872 the press, or a portion of it,
hostile to the administration, star
ted the cry of “Csesarism” and “the
third term,” calling lustily for me to
lefine my position on the latter
subject. I believed it to be beneath
the dignity of the office which I
have been twice called to fill to an
swer such questions before the sub
ject should be presented by compe
tent authority to make a nomina
tion, or by a body of such dignity
and authority as not to make a re
ply a fair subject of ridicule.
In fact, I have been surprised that
so many sensible persons in the Re
publican party should permit their
enemy to force upon them and their
party an issue which cannot add
strength to the party no matter how
met. But a body of the dignity and
party authority of a Convention to
make nominations for the State offi
cers of the second State in the Un
ion, having considered this ques
tion, I deem it not improper thfit I
should now speak. In the first place,
I never sought the office for a sec
ond nor even for a first nomination.
To the first I was called from a life
position—one created by congress
expressly for me for supposed servi
ces rendered to the Republic. The
position vacated I liked: It would
have been most agreeable to me to
have retained it until such time as
Congress might have consented to
my retirement with the rank and a
portion of the emoluments which I
so much needed, to a home where
the balance of my days might be
spent in peace and the enjoyment of
domestic quiet, relieved from the
cares which have oppressed me so
constantly now for fourteen years.
But I was made to beleive that the
public good called me to make the
sacrifice. Without seeking the office
for the second term the nomination
was tendered to me by a unanimous
vote of the delegates of all the States
and Teritories, selected by the Re
publicans of each to represent their
whole number for the purpose of
making their nomination. I cannot
say that I was not pleased at this
and at the overwhelming endorse
ment which their action received at
the election following. But it must
be remembered that all the sacrifi
ces except that of comfort had been
made in accepting the first term.
Then, too, such a fire of personal
abuse and slander liad been kept up
for four years, notwithstanding the
onscienti us pprformanc e of my du
ties to the best of my understanding,
though I admit, in the light of sub
sequent events, many times subject
to fair criticism, that an endorse
ment from the people who alone
govern Republics, Was a gratifica
tion that is only human to have ap
preciated and enjoyed. Hedging
on the third term.
Now, as for the third term, I do
not want it any more than I did the
first. I would not write or utter a
word to change the will of the peo
ple in expressing and having their
choice. The question of the num
ber of terms allowed to any one Ex
ecutive can only come up fairly in
the shape of a proposition to amend
the constitution —a shape in which
all political parties can participate,
fixing the length of time or number
of terms for which any one person
shall be eligible for the office of
President. Until such an amend
ment is adopted, the people cannot
be restricted in their choice by reso
lution other than they are now re
stricted as to age, nativity, etc, It
may happen in the future history of
the country that to change an Exec
utive* because he has been eight
years in office will prove unfortu
nate, if not disastrous, The idea
that any man could elect himself
President, or even renomhiatfe him
self, is preposterous. It is a reflec
tion upon the intelligence and pa
triotism of the people to suppose
such a thing to be possible. Any
man can destroy his chances for the
office, but no one can force an elec
tion or even nomination. To reca
pitulate : I am not now, nor have I
ever been a candidate for a renomi
nation. I would not accept a nom
ination if it were tendered, unless it
should come under such circum
stances as to make it an imperative
duty, circumstances not likely to
arise. I congratulate the Conven
tion over which you presided for the
harmony with which the ticket was
put in tile field, and which I hope
may be triumphantly elected.
With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
U. S. Grant
To Gen. Harry White, President
Pennsylcaniaßepublican Slate Con
vention.
How easy it is to say out of
debt, and how few do it. How
much happier are they who are out
of debt, and oh! how miserable are
mankind. If you make one dollar
per day, live on ninety cents. If
you cannot make anything, give up
the ghost and fly to parts unknown
—you may possibly find a free lunch
country.
England reads eighty-seven
bags of American newspapers every
time the mail from this blarsted
country gets in.
A. & R. STRAIN 4
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