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The Weekly Democrat.
SEN. E. RUSSELL, * Proprietor.
$EH E. RUSSELL, - * R. M. JOHHSTQK,
EDITORS.
Bainbridge, Ga., June 22, 1876.
DEMOCRATIC mass meeting.
A Mass Meeting of the Democratic
Party of Decatur county is hereby called
to convene at the Court H.ouse in Bain-
bridge on Saturday the 8th day of July
next;, a* U o'clock a. .to, to ^osga&isje. fob
the Campaign, and to-send four delegates
to the Gubernatorial Convention to.be
held August 3d, at Atlanta; and also, to
provi.de for the selection of delegates to
the Senatorial Convention to pieet is,
Bainbridge oh 19th of July-
This is a v*»ry important meeting and &
large attendance is desired front every
le^ihtof^haCovnty. •
J. A. Butts, • ■
rActiag -Ohairraan Ex. Com.- '
: ’ Decatur County..
GUBERNATORIAL
Gen. Colquitt’s friends, judging from
the noiee they make, are quite sanguine
of his urination and election. We shall
certainly n<# object if tho people prefer
him.
Nor will, we object to bluff, honest
hard-fisted, rich old. we\l fed John II,
James, if the people cab him to rule over
them. _ ... ~
Nor vrill we ary no matter who is 50m,
inated,- provided he is competent, honest
and a gentleman-
But, our im(Hessian ia that Tom Harde
man stands today, with the masses, the
most^8gf$l&r mao in the State. except
probabjj John B. Gordon and B. H. Hill;
and if-thr-people are allowed to appoint
their divagates without the usual accoin-
Govemor on the2ni of Auguster-wo are
badly mistaken.
THE MAN OF BT. LOUIS.
The National Democracy will meet in
Convention next Monday at St. Louis for
the purgoee of nominating a Presidential
ticket. For reasons already given at
length in these columns, and more espe*
cially in view of the Republican nomina
tions at Cincinnati, it will'h© the impera
tive duty of the Convention to nominate
for the Presidency General W. S. Hau-
. cock, ,• of Pennsylvania: He is
among the best and purest in the party,
and by the most available.
The Republicans,' a'H things considered,
have got out a,very strong ticket, and one
hard tq" beat. It can Ik heaten, however,
we verilyffielieve by "General Hancock.
The country both North and South, out
side of the professional politicians and
place-hunters, are enthusiastic in his
favor, and the Convention will pave acted
unwisely should they fail tQ nominate
him. -
COME TO theIiass meeting
Yes ; come oqe—come all- This meet
ing of th e democratic Party of Decatur to
be held in this city on Saturday the 8th
proximo, is of considerable importance,
as -4he political campaign for this year
will be organized ; delegates will be se
lected to the Gubernatorial Convention,
and to the Senatorial Convention. Let
the meeting be a: rouser. The people
from every section of the county are ex
pected to be present. Come and see that
the Convention does not fall into the hands
of thimble-riggers and tricksters. The
time is at hand when thjs people should he
allowed to direct the politics of this coun
try—so people come out, f»qrae, jn your
might, and contend for your rights, even
though it be within your own party,
Had Bristow not been a Southern map
he would have been nominated for the
Presidency at Cincinnati. Southern po
litical ostracism seems to be the.ruling
passion of both parties. The South is at
liberty to do the voting.
Fellow-citizens, we ace no alarmist, but
i1 is our candid opinion that if St Lonis
does hot gi ve the Democracy of the coun
try General Hancock fur standard-bearer,
Hayes and Wheeler will have the odds in
^ Jr favor.
. CONCILIATION. -
There is no people, in the AffibribSn
Union .who desire the conciliation of -its
eve^y section more than , we of the Spilth
We. have freely admitted that the right of
Secession is finally abrogated by the re
sult of the war. We have submitted to
tha loss of four millions of slaves without
a murmur. We have ratified: the consti
tutional amendments which .guarantees to
them forever their freedom. We have
seep, this four millions of -ignorance dove
tailed into our body politic as our equals
at the bqllot box, end. have witnessed the
commercial ruin of our country therefrom,
yet we have hawed out. necks and hum
bly submitted, We once allowed our
fair country to be partitioned off iqto
military satrapies and submitted to the
ruje of swaggering tyrants and brutal sol
diery without raising aq arm against their
authority, or the authority by which they
were sent among us. We allowed our
ballot-box to be controlled by- the bayo
net, and hence our country to be repre
sented in Congress by men who had pa
interest in common, with us. We paid
millions of dollars, into the U, S- Treasury
illegally and dishonestly filchO^ from otff
hard-workfrg people under the shpllpw
guise of n'‘cotton-tax,” and yet we have
made no united effort to regain what is
our own. have allowed the sacred
precincts of a §tnte Legislature to, he en
tered apd disper&ed by Federal soldiery at
the option a bloated bully yclept a' Lieu
tenant-General. Wd have s^nfrUr citi--|.
zens dragged' from their hetnes without
warning, and without warrant, and hur
ried before military tribunals, to answer
to charges of which they were innocent,
condemned apd sent to languish in dis
tant prisons,
And yet we have talked for, hoped for,
and prayed for the conciliation of the sec
tions, but in answer, we have had our
sacred dea.d maligned and denounced as
traitors in the CoBgress of the Nation—
our great Chieftain has been compared to
every blood-thirsty mobster of which his-,
toiy has a reeprd by the Blaines, the
Mortotts and. the-Butlers; and our every
panlmeni of ^and-dried nominating poUti ^ act as a people has been ^ftu V ^
he i will he hominalnd ifbr ri nt0 ti^ -f O i U ^ing Gr* , auSther reUcfliciu
But we have endured-all, -Op $1$ c^inci-plg
\is!
General Gartrell has withdrawn from
Gubernatorial race. We opine that
iVRwe ^kylsrfrfrdraw on the3nd
that “to bear U3 to c^nc^uer pur fate,”
Heavens*! couldra peqgfe hayc.^qe
to heal up the <?f Xisyr tly\ty we
have •ttAYe even Weut into, the Radical
ranks as aq earner of'suhuiiss.iq^q^d'got
and plated Horace Gree\cy at tiip lieqd of.
our Prudential ticket,’ only tq be t he
more hhterly Renounced, aud the more
overwhelmingly defeated. *'
The fact is the South lias made every
Overture of amity and good will consis
tent with our dignity as a people, but by
the dominant party North our prqfessio
have been spurned as hypocritical, .and
we still have hurled ' into our teeth the
epithets of “rebel,” “ku-klux,” “traitor,”
etc. We had hoped that this Centennial
year would have been ’ auspicious of the
general reconci Hation of Ihe country, and
when Cincinnati nominated Hayes for the
Presidency we hugged the delusion, tha:
this campaign would be divested of all
hate and bitterness—but the Republican
platform knocked that idea to pieces ; it
is war l^jar ! war to the knife against the
South. We regret the ultimatipn with
exceeding great sorrow ; but by tjie
Heavens ahove us ; to the extent of oqr
ability, we will be found ip the rank 8 bat
tling, if need be, to the depth, to m s i*h
the further encroachments of a party
whose very name is a synonym of all that
is dishonorable and dastardly ip politics
or in morality.
HARDEMAN IN THE WIRE
GRASS.
The counties of Irwin, Pierce, nod
Echols, have held their conventions to
select delegates tp the GubernatqrJnl con
vention, and they hgve instructed {heir
delegates to vote for the gallant and glo
rious Tom Hardeman. The whole wire
grass region is for him, and if the sceptic
will tak^the trouble of keeping up with
these primary conventions all over the
State, ho will find on the 3d of August
that Hardeman is the choice of the people
—Colquitt’s thirty newspapers to the cqn-
trary notwithstanding.
Poor Morton ! And they wouldn’t lot him
wave the “bloody shirt.” It is too bad.
The days of this radical howler are number
ed. He will never be President of the Uni
ted States, and he will not be anything the
next chance the people get at him.—Ex.
He will be something, however, when
the Devil gets his~ own, is the idea that
is now consoling the conservative masses
of this conntv.- -
THE-BAIN BRIDGE DEMOCRAT.
We regret to see, by last week’s issue of
this paper, that it has been reduced^ to the
necessity of coming opt on a half*sheet—
and this from the want of that decent sup
port to which, it is s.o richly entitled from
the hands of the citizens .of Decatur county,
without regard to‘.‘race, color ox previous
condition.” It is nothing less than disgrace
ful to the JDemocracy-of Decatur that they
should permit their faithihl mouth-piece to
get into such straitened circumstances,They
seem to have forgotten the noble service
done by that paper in the last campaign.and
that they are now oh -the eve - of - another
struggle, of even geater magnitude, in
which their local paper will" be the most
powerful Weapon they can rise.We say they
must have forgotten thesertbingS; otherwise,
instead of adoring the most useful soldier
In all their ranks'*to.become weak, thin and
discouraged for want of rations, they would
he strengthening his bo.dy, nerving his arm
and stimulating his. brain wi.fb extra sup
plies <)f the most nourishing newspaper ail
ment—greenbacks., This much for the
Democrats of Decstqr.
To the mass, of b$r citizens we must say
‘qhe half sheet” shows a want of proper
appreciation of the labors of the editors in
giving them,, for the past few months, at
least; one of the best country papers printed
in the State. We conclude by saying, shame
on you, Democrats, shame on you, citizens,
if you don't at onee come to the aid of the
Democrat.—Early.County Newts.
We are much obliged to our esteemed
contemporary for the above handsome
compliment;, but it .is due to the people of
Decatur county for us to state that these
are the “bluest” times within the recollec
tion of the “oldest," inhabitant-” Many
would.doubtless patronize ns but;are
actually unable to do so; . . The fe-w mer
chants of Bainbridge who. patronize us at
all are very liberal.. iq view, then, of the.
scarcity of money, and our hatred of in
curring deht weten^porarilj redqced our
paper. We could have coftti^d, but at
a sacrifice—and as °A pqe s^qridecs any
thing foy d*» N® We- eyeo on-thjat scqre.
If tt\e DajtQpR.vr.had depend .upon
the ‘‘Democracy of . Dyedatpr” foyj. that
sqppjprt.dqe q ^p,er. of its. clasff.and repu
tation f$ .w.oqld Jiay.fi diea .dui-yenja^ 8.idqe^
Foqr y.cnra ago, i^f r ft^|ance, : w^’ snpport-
ed a candidate 5 jt^.'thd. Xegislat^ '■ with 1 .
aW^nur u\igKt.”an!:| .marn,.-and' ’|qdging.
-isqm t^e ed.itbrji^ w^Suiit; td ms’-'-nmne-
nnd fa^i.Q,p'n'e’j!pdid.d r h’|v„e sup posed- him-to
fc(Q- a amQfi'^^JUliputia-ns,
worthy Deniocrs^jc^nomiuee during the
Ciitypuiga bwtighl: fijky'ciiits vihirth of _t\iW“
DfijpeBAT^ VV:«^this of’.candL
rtqtes, have
composed “tlm'-'Da^bSracy Dicatur”
silica tlfu>ft:sEfv afit^Lducey; we'qi^i led to
remsH'k th^t if we l\ad depended on
We w(>u1d have go«e -tp : in6etV“WjH*d 1 s'
Ducks’’ loUgv’'l0.ng5lgQ t - ' : ; '
The Democrat has depended ppo'd^;
nothing-for suqc'es6.-'hqt"’it8 ti'wh jperffs, 1
and upou them ufiCw; it is*' w iHrag—recfiic-^
ed in size as it is—to, tempt the fate of
even worse times than the present. It is
due to the Central' Democratic Club of
Decatur to say -that in the last campaign
its members sustained the Democrat
quite liberally; and it was the first organ--
THE REPDBUCjlN NOMINEES.} The annual chronic demsmjtohT^
The Cincinnati Convention. has some-.' Capital, moved back to Milled ve mu”*
what surprised the country by-the npmi- now at white heat, and some editors* **
nation of Governor Hayes, of Ohio, fop. having spasms in their advocacy tT
President, and W. A. Wheeler, of New. measure. As for us we don’t qare a “ '
York fop the second place. The men tjius tinental” where the Capital islocated ^
prominently brought forward before the for that reason are perfactly satisfied *
people in connection with the highest of- have it remain in Atlanta. Besides, tfo
fices within their gift are of mediocre tal- ^ cost of repairing the old dilapidated build*
enf and emerge from comparative obscu ; ings at Milledgeville would hardly do'
rity. They are truly compromise candi- these hard times. As long as we hs^
dates and would never have been nomi- ; good and competent men in the Capita]
Hated but for the stubbornness of Morton, if it were situated in “Coon-Bottom” the
Blaine and Conkling, who would not
tax-payer would care but little.
yield one to the other, and hence allowed ( n - —-
a couple of respectable figure-heads to*^
walk away with the prizes. | tion, I will repair Washes, Clocks
Gov. Hayes has been three times elected e lry at the following reduced price* rir
to the Chief Magistracy of Qhio, hasserv- : Maumpring $1.50, Cleaning $1.56, Hand,
ed two term, in Congtea, and wae W '' “SsS””"
Brigadier-General in the Federal army. I - m , 8EES '
While he has supported all the harsh aqd j ]Jow Awfully Culpable
vindictive measures of the Radical party? Must be those afflicted with Consumption
against the South by ids vote, he has kept Brofichhis, Asthma, 01 any disease of the
his hands washed qf official dishonesty ■ dS^Se^bInt
and corruption. At this date he is gene- i following letter, written by one of the rawt
rally conceded to be a somewhat conser-, estimable ladies in the South:
vative man, and he brings a degree of J Savannah, Ga., April 28,1872.
respectability hO the ticket refreshing' Tuttb :
indeed when we contemplate the other J the^^ur Expectorant.* 8 ! To*^
aspirants. | ad,d my * testinaony ^o its wonderful
Mr. Wheetei has been in Congress for power in curing deep seated coughs, F«
many years where he has kept remarkably
silent, achieving his first notoriety as th,*
author, of the “-Wheeler compromise” by
Which the N e H°gg usurpation was fasten
ed upon the people of Louisiana. .
' 'As party-m,en, Messrs. Hayes & Whee- 8 |“ oe J *? e ® an Vf e ’ 8 “ d 1 have not had ,a
^ J . . ' . .. attack sin,<^, Itj has been a great blessing
ler are perhaps the most unobjectionable ^0 me ; I can not afford to be without k
that could; have been nominated, with the * '
single exception of Bristow, qnd this fact
alone will intake them a very strong ticket.
several years I suffered dreadfully with s
cough attended with grW difficulty of
breathing. I was ivduce.d to try your Ex-
peqtoraqt, and it gav^ almost immediate re
lief. I took sij^ snd a “ now per-.
| feqtly restored. It is about five months
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
This noble old journal has just entered
upon its nintb'volume, and artqounces the
fact in a’very graceful and n^odest little
editorial. Were we called ti^on to . ex
press our candid and open opinion of the
Constitution, we should say^ .without an
instant’s hesitation, that it Is decidedly a
gre^t qqwspapjepr-qne, iq' our humble
and. heartily recommend it to all who hive
lung or throat disease.
Very respectfully,
Mrs. A. M. WELLBORN
June 32—2t.
Heal^ Board-
Notice is hereby given that the Health
Board <$ Decatcm county lj,a8 been duly or
ganized glider the recent apt of the Legisla
ture aqd v;i.ll li,ftld re^yl^i; monthly m«t
-mg on the nrst 8n,tu,p!ay 19. each month nt
the office of the Ordinary. Physicians and
other invested arc respecttijuly requested
to send in their reports 0/1 or.'beiore the
... day8 of nreetiug, which vviH greatly facilitate.
qpfni9,a,-without ,& superior, ijj the Slate the Board in the important work' Of creating
‘ South It/htis morq enterprise, a .correct stfttijS.tical. report of
ondrgYV daring aiid braveri” -than Jh« wn ' c0UU ; t J"-, _ . .. „ n
average.of Southern daiiies^yX'lulqUs:-eX’fr v ” ' Chstrnu".
ti^ie diborulity of thdught ajjttl nctiibn, in Sun© 22 if..
djgiling with the current topics of the ilajv . ——-
pdHtic'al, persefnai aiid DtherwisCjConfepire Toh^otfjO.
to make it ai gtbjtt and safe leader and one Best tobiiyqo^, ii^ost qigaf**.
ioJie trusted by the country; T . In- other ^be h^ tint big store oi H. B. Ehr-
'words*'it is emphalicitily a paper for the
people ■ ' ? ■ |
, The editorial conduct of th,p Constitution Fish,ip[
iff and has eVdr been brilliant, able and Jewelry S.tqre of
sagheiotis, wliile its untiring energy as aj p
Look Fishenuen-
Tackle of all kinds, cheap, »t
W. C. Suben.
We are not down-hearted. Things will
be brighter and better than ever next bnsi-'
ness season,.when we expect to retrieve
ai} that we have lost in the stagnation of
this summer. In tbs meantime, we shall,
as we have always striven to do, repre
sent in our own particular way the inter
ests of the Democracy of Decatur, t^e
State and the country.
Hon. John H. James has developed over
the State many strong friends and support*
era. We publish this morning a rasp.lqtion
passed by the citizens of Povyder Springs
and vicinity, declaring him jo be their
phoice for governor.
A man lpsp James will neyce lack friends
and admireps-—Atlanta Cona^ty,Hoy.
Hurrah for John H, Jam® 8 * H he
misses the Governorship is there any rea
son why he should not be next U. & Sen
ator ? He has the biggest i“ the
State ; and his brains weigh Qtpxe than
Dan Wehstera ; besides his is a heart that
beats alone for the good qf the pppple of
Georgia. “Senator James” WQqld not
spupd so bad.
Preachers and school teachers m u8t be
faring badly in Decatur county. We judge
Sq, at least, from thelqcal newspaper having
been put on half rations. —-R^y County
j(ew*.
Qh, no, Mr. News; w« ape, preachers,
teaphers and aU, fareng pretty well
Blackberries are ripe gnd can be h^d just
for the picking. You can tell an editor,
printer,.preacher, or teacher,.aboht here
on sight if you can just see him grin.
The next question is who will be nomi
nated for State Senator t Bush seems to
have lhe inside track.
gatherer and compiler of ne>vs keeps the
paper fully Up with the times on that line,
-Ip fact, the proprietors, in their endeavors ?
baecp
S. piackwelhs Durham Smoking To-
1 at $0 cts. per lb . 1 ' t ‘
per
-VP
»,, --1 W. T. Blackwell’s genuine “Durban^
• to build up a first-class newspaper, have smoking tobacco, 80 cents per lb. also “Xw
. j , . 5. tv Pair” smoking tobacco 51.60 per lb. For
so f&r succeeded as to place their journal ^ by * w. C. Svbku.
-Ujson a pinnacle so lofty thajt, to pull it
7’ " down, will require a stronger and better l
lzed support ever given the paper. The : • ’ H , . . I
.... 1 ■ rivrflrv than we have vet seen evinced. ?
elections of that year, plainly showed, m fj™ ■ ^ * y . -
their results the wisdom of the club.'
Success, much success, to the Constitution.
Great Reduction in Price*.
W. C. Subers is now offering spjendi
bargains i,n Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, i
Stock complete, call ap^L see. M
Sportsmen 4^ n ^ os *
Pistojs and Cartridges, Powder,
‘‘Let us have peace,” is the hypocritical >
'spirit of one plank in the Cincinnati plat- j
ferrmj while it bears oth^r positive evidence < ^ c .
of a base appeal to the vile pplicy of Morton- Caps, ajud sporting goqfls generally, lo'l
isin and Blaine-ism. The cloak is too thin, prices, at Jewelry Store of j
-Atlanta Constitution. \ 1-t W. C. 8ubeP. f
Peace, the deuce! There is no peace— » . - — tisEMENT^
nor there never can, nor never will be, so NEW ADVERTI8EME
loug as the mission of the Radical party G £ 0RG i4_D ec atur County
is to ipalign and represent the Southern; Oruinart’s Ofpicb, June 21st, 18/6-1
people. While the Cincinnati platform ’ AU Rer8on8 interested are hereby notifl
hypocritically cries “let us have peace,” tHatPayid P. Harris, «f the 1046 Distnci
it states that the fact qf the Soutli being G. Mi, polls as estrays before HirsauiK*
a unit for the Democratic party is evi- ett, Ordmary of said dirked m '
dence that she is op thq eve of another ® under b’it snd half
7":’_ V j 7 „„,1 nrnn split m
Rebellion.
Ye gods! thpre is no peace according to
Radical acceptation hut within the folds
of that most damnable of all political or
ganizations known to history—the so-call
ed Repqhlican party.
THAT DISPATCH
Now those who doubted what Mr.
Knott said, when he expressed the opin
ion that the famous “Caldwell dispatch”»
was a put up job, will please read the 1
following special telegram from Washing- jne22 If
ton tp the Savannah News.
derfrop in one e» r , and crop *pht
other ear,- branded with »heart,
which marks there mqde not known-
of Sfiid cows arp blapk and wllI “. y
One COW and yearling, one eo w “
brindle ; two are supking eAsts.
known.' Valued by Hardy Strickland »
E. C. SJosriy, free holders of
and DUtficf, worth four dollars p«
$28. Ike owner qf ra'4 e 811 *! 8 “ "v (
to come forward and pa? ,
said cattle away, or they will be a
as the law direejs.
r4 true extract ^“ijfp^gKTT,
That
migMy .hi, Job o, Blaine's. Th. d^h. C *"
reads: f
Martha A. Donalso
minor children, has applil
WASHiNqrpN, June 19.- -Mr. Hioks, cable and setting apart of hom< stead,
clerk of the Ocean Telegraph Company, ap- upon the same on S iturday
peered before the Judieiary Commit^ §fld day of July, at 10 o’clock t \i
submitted five telegrams, among them qpe j jne23-2t HIRAM B ROCSf**^
signed “Philadelphia,” commencing: “IUs-1 ”
patch receive^. Cable this immediately to GEORGIA—Decatur Co.on J-
the Chairman of the House Judiciary Com* I Mattie E. Brackett ha 1 appl
mittee, Waehiilgton.” Then follows the ’ emption and' Setting apai t of.
precise langnage which Knott moeivbd from and I will p«« upon the 1 am* o*i** ’
Jonah Caldwell. It is addressed te ‘Av,’ I day of July, at 10 o’clock 1 it 07 .
London. • S' ' M, F. HAN IPTGN, ^