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BAPBR1D6E, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBEB14,18re
THE PATEIOTIC SACRIFICE
Or, Grantism Under Another Name
IVumber 48
Bainbridg-e. Georgia Sept. 14. 76.
HALF WAY D01N S
Bciunoed rellow-ttabblcrsIn boldin'
forth to-day;
I doesn t quote no special verse for what
I has to suf'j
I)r Mormon j - A, e berry short an 1 die
here am de tex’:
I>it half-way 'loin’s aint no oennt for dis
wori’ or de nex’.
Dis worl’ dat we’s a-linbin’ in is like a
cotton row, *
1\ liar cbery cullud gentleman has got his
line to hoc;
And ebery time a lazy nigger stops to take
a nap,
De grass keeps on a gmwiu’ for to smud-
der up his crap.
When Moses led de Jews acrost de waters
ob de sea.
Dey had to keep a goin’, jes’ as fas’ as fas’
could be;
Do you ’sposc dat dny could eber liab sue.
ceeded in deir wish, -
And reached de Promised Land ut last—
if dsy had stopped to fish?
[From the Courier-Journal.]
[Time, one week after the Cincinnati
Convention. Place, the White Home.
Enter Chandler to Grant.]
Grant—1s t done? Am I ahead?
Tell me the truth.
Chandler—Great King, you are
ah^n tS At mentfon of yoifr name the
peopity roared and—
Grant—Nominated me by acclaim?
Chandler—On the first ballot—nay,
so eager were they in their love for you,
glorious name before you politicians be
deviled it.
Chandler—Undoubtedly. Before
you fell in with Bristow and Jewell
Mr. C, H. McCall, of Marian county, j SHALL
sends the following communication to
Hon. Thomas Hardeman, President of
the State Agricultural Society .• “I saw
and that crowd you were all right; but, • in the Atlanta Constitution of recent
evil associations corrupt good manners, j date that the Agricultural Society had
You should have had those fellows
shot long ago.
Grant—True, too true. It is D - y in
fernal good nature ; cut I was a soldier
they brides all precedent and with.mi^h- j v ’P ers 3ri tnw^ Jewell .asdjheir spawn,
My frien’s, dur was a garden once, whar
Adam libbed wid Eve,
Wid no one ’rou.id to bodder dum, no
neighbois for to thieve,
And ebery day was Christmas, and dey | how to say ’tis Hayes,
got deir rations free,
And ebery ting belonged to dcui except an
apple tree.
ty shouts proclaimed you their choice
Grant—I knew they would, I’ve
won—send Bristow off, and all his
pack ; but strange the papers speak of
Hayes.
Chandler—The papers lie. You
know how grossly they have lied about
y°u.
Grant—And now they suppress this
great fact-—pretend that Hayes is nom
inated instead of me ? Oh, for an hour’s
power on the tented field. I’d drum
head them all, I’d suppress the press.
I’d buck and gag George William Cur
tis and all the rest. I’d teach them
You ail know ’bout de story—how de
snake come snoopin’ ’round,—
A stump-tail rusty moccasin,
mi de groan’—
How Eve and Adam ate de fruit
went and hid deir face,
Till de angel oberscer lie corns and drove
’em off do place.
Now, s’posc dat man and
i mpted for to shirk.
But bad gone about deir
’tended to deir work,
Dry wouldn’t liab been loaiin
bad no business to,
And de tiebbei nelA r’d got a
tell ’em what • n ftn
crawlin’
and
ooman hadn’t
hardenin’, and
whar dey
chance to
brtdrcu! It'll neb-
h it, and den's de
N i half-way doin
her do, I say!
Do at your task and fin
lime to play—
Fur ebeii if de crap is
Vile de boll*} |
1 :•)<•*» you keeps a-pickin'm de
ob v nr souls.
Keep n-pl twin’, and a lioein’, and a scra-
piu ob de rows, •
iuniifs ober you can pay
Aml when dc
up what you owes;
Bat if you quits a workin’ ebery time de
sun is hot,
Dr .sheriff's gwiuu to lobby upon oberyting
vou’s got.
AYhatcber ’tis you’s dribin’ at, be shore
and drive it through,
And don’t let nutlin’ stop you, but do
what you’s gwine to do.
For when you sees a nigger foolin’, den,
as shore’s you’re born,
You’s gwine to see him cornin’ out de
small end ob de iiorn.
I thanks you for dc 'tentiou you has gib
dis afternoon—
ster Williams will oblige us by a-raisin’
ob a tune—
1 see dat Brudder Johnson's ’bout to
ass aroun’ de hat,
Ami don’t let’s liab no half-way doiu’s
when it comes to dat!
Chandler—’Tis true the press is giv
en to lying. Even I have been assail
ed by that vile power, but now we must
submit. This is a coup d’etat. We
keep your nomination secret from the
press.
Grant—Eight. I always kept my
plans from the reporters when I was in
the army. There i- nothing like the
military way of doing things.
Chandler—That is true. You are
the nominee because your genius in
forms the campaign. Hayes is only an
other name for you "We callyou Hayes
and Wheeler. What of that ? A rose
by any other name would sn oil as
sweet. •
Grant—None of that—no poetry; no
literary stuff.
Chandler—God forgive me if I was
literary. What I JSiean is Bourbon would
>od, de rain 11 j taste as well if you called it ’rater.
(/rant—[ don't know about that ;
! but that is more comfortable thau your
j poetry. 1’cu may be tight; but l lik
■ not to be called Ly another name, let
| alone two other uauies. Will I be Hayes
d Wheeler through all the third
1 Afoul 3 not to-day be obliged to make
this sacrifice, I hate to change my
name. \
Chandler aside—(He has some'S^se
left.) My Lord, I beg you not to trou
ble yourself with this. It is an affair of
State. Such things fatigue you. I have
done your bidding. The third term is
yours, and if we call you Hayes and
Wheeler, be sure the party need dic
tate it. Oh, that such rascals as JJristow
and Jewell can breathe the air of heav
en ! but I am nearest to your heart and-
Grant—Nut nearest; next to Shep
herd.
Chandler—Oh, fortunate Shepherd !
but “ven a second placo iu Hayes and
W heeler’s love is joy and blessing for
ever.
Grant—In Grant’s love, you mean?
Chandler—Of course, in Haye3 and
Wheeler’s love.
Grant—Is the third t^rm certain ?
Chandldr—As my purity.
Grant—And I shall have the sal-
offered a premium of five hundred dol-
cure of hog cholera. Bavins had ten
years’ experience in the trer meut- of
once aryl tried to serve my country. I' the above named diseasef I Save con-
did not know you or Cameron or CoDki
ling or Butler then. I was a plain,
blunt soldier, no judge of men. If I had
only clung to you and kept aloof the
iry
made
meeting of cotton exchage.
s ivaxnaii, September 2.—A large
feting of the members of the Cotton
Evehange was held to-day at 10 o’clock
tl the following preamble and resol uu-
m were unanimously adopted:
hereas. The sickuess prevailing in
ties city excites apprehensions here and
■here that business may be interrup
ts:!: and, whereas, vessels are on the way
!a, l nearly due in Savannah to load with
ttou for European ports; and, whereas,
. are assured that the Central Railroad
Company will continue to send two stea-
aiers per week to New Y'ork.and that the
anks and bankers can and will buy all
e Northern sterling exchange offered,
■bus «nab!iug exporters to fill their orders
ad factors to sell cotton; therefore, be it
olved, That notice be given to all
sttcerncd through the Savannah News
! the Associated Press Company that
interruption of the cotton business of
ivannah has occurred and that, in the
Pmion of this Exchange, none is likely
occur.—Sac. News.
Albany Netcs: Richard II. Whiteley, S.
Barker, E. C, Wade, B. F. Brimberry,
,r pet-bagger Pierce, Scowhegan Putney
■i two or three others will be quietly re-
wl to private life after November- But
■t>re that time, we have a little verse to
~ 4te concerning each of them, which shall
forth at the proper hour.
Die two great bodies of Methodists North
■3 South have removed all obstacles to
4100 ani1 fraternal relations between the
churches.
Chandler—It is absolutely necessary;
Jewel! and Bristow have iven you a
bad name. They are the wretches who
have soiled the fame of Grant. Came
ron. Morton, Butler, Conkling. Bab
cock and myself oft warned yau against
them, and now we are obliged to call
you Hayes and Wheeler.
Grant—I’ll not bear it. Where ia
the army ? Call the marines, call Fred;
put the oob-tailed clam Yankee in
irons.
Chandler—Not till the third term—
wait Augnstean Warrior ! We—
Grant—Augnstean Warrior! another
name : I’ve a notion to tie you up by
the thumbs.
Chandler—Strike, but hear mo. Au-
gastean Warrior is a kingly title. Cx-
sar was called Augustus.
Grant—If that is so all right. I am
like Caesar aint 1.
Chandler—As two peas.
Grant—I thought so ; but must all
uiy brotl.er-in-laws, the Dents, Tom
Murphy—all change their names ?
Chandler—All, even Shepherd and 1.
Grant—Certainly, certainly ; disci
pline would require that.
Chandler—How well you express
it.
Grant —Oh, I’m a dabster at that
sort of thing. Let no guilty man es
cape Twice two makes four. Integri-
ty is the—the bottom fact of honesty,
etc.
Chandler—Jjreat Heaven ! What an
intellect,
Grant—I should think so—2:14, at
least, a good one to go; but I must
Chandler—We’ll double it.
Giant—And Fred shall be
Commatader-in-Chief?
CTuwffiler— 1 The people clamor for it.
Grant—And Belkuap, McDonald.
Babcock and all the boys shall be taken
earo of?
Chandler—The platform provides for
that. It approves your administration
and they were part of it.
Grant—Then I consent to the sacri
fice. Here (he writes, repeating the
writing alound). - Let no guilty man es
cape. Bristow, Jewell, Pratt, Wilson.
Dyer and all other rascals who have
polluted my administration will get out,
Our faithful Chandler, Babcock, Came
ron, Belknap, Conkling and McDonald
will run the campaign.
IIAYES & WHEELER.
Chandler—This is the greatest act of
your glorious earger. Victory now is
certain.
Grant—What, will all the distille
ries open ?
Chandler—All. Your third term
shall float- to glory in seas of Mononga-
hela and Bourbon’s best. Tbe gods
shower all gifts upon you.
Grant—Then is Hayes and Wheeler
(that’s me) content. Oh, Chandler,
what a blessi' g ’tis to have sueh brains
and such a purse as yours to lean on.
You gave to Bab., our darling Bab ,
whom ruthless Bristow would have
stricken down, of your plethoric cash.
to it now that all the rest get out
of—of—exile ; suppress the press, ex
pound the vulgar word reform from
every lexieon, and gag the brutal work
ing horde who cry for bread! Why,
bread ! There’s plenty of it. I see it
on my table every da;. Whenever I
dine with you, with Fish, or Murphy,
you have enough to eat, and so I see
this cry of want is but a vile sedition—
a false pretense like that which says I
am not nominated for a third term.
Chandler—Your mighty genius doth
embrace the truth. At every rout and
festive gathering your own eyes see
that luxury appeals every form, that*
diamonds flash, and Worth’s best silks
rustle the music of plenty. It is a lie
eluded to compete for the premium,
and herewith submit my preventive
and cure : For the preventive of the
disease. I use, viz : Lard }, tar i, car
bolic acid J ounce, and sulphur 4
ounces, to one gallon of the lard and
tar mixed. The tar and lard should
first La thoroughly blended, then add
the acid in small quantities, and lastly
the sulphur, constantly stirring until
tneSjbole is intimately incorporated.
This in fnT^frTf 01 "r[‘ l: " a ' : "’ "" A the
hog should ba thorougly annotated
with it. I claim to have discovered
more than five years ago that hog chol
era was produced, or resulted from the
ravages of the parasites (commonly
known as hog lice). I hold that the
skin contains many little glands, and
these glands have duets, the orifices
open up the surface, and, further, that
they are channels through which aque
ous and gaseous material are excreted ;
or, in other words they are the means
by which effete material are thrown off
from the system. Krause, and other
microsoopist8, have estimated that cn
some parts of the skin these orifices
number 2.000 to the square inch. The
wheats produced by the bites of these
insects, together with the contraction of
the muscular tissue of the skin, olose
the orifices of the glands and thus pre
vent excretion. N w, when we add to
this the nervous irritation and constitu
tional effects produced by thousands of
wounds upon the skin it is not st all
surprising that prostration an'i even
sudden death so soon occur. We not
only judge of the secretions by the skin,
but by it we also judge of the charac
ter of the blood, the activity of the cir
culation. and of the condition of the sys
tem at large. Should the excretory
organs fail to eliminate the irritation
substances from the system the blood
would become poisoned, then nutrition,
secretion and innervation would ha per
verted. After the disease has develop
ed itself I use sulphur flowers in table
spoonful doses every twenty-four hours
(to be given in buttermilk) for its re
solvent and diaphoretic properties. I
also use the ointment for its soothin'*
and parasiticidal effect. With the bare
remark that myself and neighbors have
not known of a single failure to cure
when the case was taken in time, I en
ter the ranks as a competitor for the
premium, and respectfully submit my
paper to your generous criticism.
THE 1
GEANT SEIZE
PRESIDENCY ?
It is not improper to remind the coun
try frequently that Frank. Bhdr in 1868
predicted that if Genera! Grant ever oc
cupied the Presidential chair, ha would
not surrender it alive. If, therefore, Grant
chooses to control the elections in Louisi
lars for an infallible preventive and ana > Mississippi and Florida, by the use
of the army, and the elections in New
York, by the use of fhe public money Is
bribing voters undarihe pretense of mak
ing deputy marshals of them, people will
put this and that together, and wonder
whether he is providing a life office for
himself. For if he can persuade the House
of Representatives that Hayes was not
elected without the votes of tho States
which the President controlled by force
and bribery, and the Senate that those
States were carried for Hayes fairly, aDd
thus induce one House to refuse to allow
Hayes to be counted in, and the other
House to refuse to allow Tilden to be
counted in, Grant will have nothing to do
but to hold on to the office.
The question which we have here mpjjj
tioneJ, alioT> inkfrav’ii have’ tried to bring
before the minds of the Northern people,
has recently attracted some attention in
Washington city. A letter thence to the
Cincinnati Commercial says:
’’A great deal of speculation is indulged
as to the difficulties that will be encount
ered in coounting the votes of the electo
ral college if either Tilden or Hayes shall
have but a small majority of them.
“Under the law the objection of either
House to the reception of the vote of a
State is sufficient to throw out that vote
without debate. The assumption is that
if Hayes is elected by a small majority,
carrying such States as North and South
Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ar
kansas, or any of them, the House will
object to counting the votes of one or
more of those States, or as many of them
as will suffice to oust Hayes and elect Til
den. On the other hand, the Democrats
profess to be equally apprehensive that if
Tilden should carry those States, or some
of them, and should have a small majority
in the electoral college, the Senate would
object to the counting of some of the
votes, and thus defeat Tilden and elect
Hayes.
‘T'v<> could play at that game of coarse,
and for each State thrown out by the
House the Senate could disfranchise one.
It would come to be a question of deter
mination, with the chances in favor of the
most belligerent, till the list of doubtful
States should be exhausted.’
“Curses like chickens, come home to
roost.” A government of force for the
Sou'll means a government of force for
the whole country. We are all in the
same boat, as the Northern people will
perhaps find out before long .—Richmond
Dispatch.
DEMQCfiATS WILL YOU SUSTAIN US!
IN OUR ENDEAVOR TO PUBLISH
ALL GO TO WORK
AND HELP US TO GET UP
A CAMPAIGN LIST
OF SUBSCRIBERS
PASS IT AROUND.
J. R. Holloway, a leading colored
maa of Clay county, writes to the
Cuthbert Messenger :
“I was for a long time a strong re
publican and felt that in that party was
the salvation of the country, but since
they have been in power fifteen years.
I have become satisfied that their prom
ises are as t e winds, and that we need i he considered the Democratic Banner
A Challenge From Texas to Every
State in the Union.
Dallas, the Queen city of Northern
Texas, sends forth, in behalf of the State
of Texas, the following challenge:
AY e challenge each and every State in
the Lniou to meet us in friendly contest
in November next, to see which can roll
up the largest majority in favor of Tilden
and Hendricks, the prise to be a splendid
silk banner.
The term3of the challenge are these: If
any State gives a larger majority for Ti -
den and Hendricks than is given by the
State of Texas, then Dallas will send to
that State a splendid silk banner. But if
Texas gives a larger majority for Uncle
Samuel than auy other State, then the
State giving the next largest majority
must send a banner to Texas, Dallas to be
its custodian.
Whichever State wins the banner is to
reform and that the Democratic party
is the only one that can or will give us
the needed reform. I have therefore
decided to throw migmtSiiJe influence
with them and will address my friends
of Clay county, at 9 o’clock p. m. at the
C"Urt house in Fort Gaines on August
24th 1876.
State of the Union, and is to hold on to
the flag until the next Presidential elec
tion. and then give it up to any other
State which may win it by giving the lar
gest Democratic vote.
Now, while this challege is given to
each and every State in the Union, yet we
would smgle out the great States of Ken
tucky, Georgia and New York, and invite
them to the contest. AYhat says Louis
ville. will she take up the glove in behalf
of Kentucky? And what do you say,
Atlanta, in behalf of your grand old goo
ber grabbing State of Georgia? Come
now, New York city, we dare you to
enter tbe list.
Every city or StaZe which accepts this
change uiy tune. I know it will help j every poor man’s table.
xMcKee. and McDonald, and Babcock,) Grant—It’s so !’Twas different when
and Shepherd, aud Belknap. It helps ! I was poor, but now I see how blessed
has been my reign.
a fellow out of a scrape to assume an
alias.
Chandler—That's it That's where it
will help all of us. You know the fel- not consent to the approaching triumph of
lows who bore our old names were gr^at
rascals. We must give it to them right
and left. We must abuse ourselves.
We must begin with your former name
of Grant.
Grant—I don’t like that. It was a
As Gov. Hendricks well says in his Let
ter of Acceptance : “The man who would
arouse or foster sectional animosities and
antagonisms among his countrymen, is a
dangerous enemy to his conn try.” Such
are the men who, for the last eight years,
have had the control of our National Admin-
that men are poor—a petty Democratic j istraiion, and as such they must be remov- j challenge, will please make it known by
'• ’ ’ 1 publishing their acceptance in the Demo
cratic papers of New York, Atlanta,
Louisville and St. Louis.
James B. Simpson,
Pres’t First Ward Tilden and Hendricks
Club.
Barnett Gibbs,
Pres’t Second AYard Tilden and Hendricks
Club.
V. W. Cleveland,
Pres’t Third Ward Tilden and Hendricks
Club.
J. D. Kerfoot,
Pres’t Fourth Ward Tilden and’Hendricks
Club.
de—the incendiarv rage of demagogue. ed -
You know the best of turtle soup and . The ealls for th " Congressional Conven-
. 1 tions are now complete, and we, therefore,
an imperial meffs palate in every | present the ^ , ist thn3 . First District>
place vou dine. The same are now on
September 6th. Jessup ; Second District,
September 13, Thomasville ; Third District,
September 6, Macon; Fourth Di strict.
September 14, West Point; Fifth District,
September 13, Griffin ; Sixth District, Sep
tember 6, Miliedgeville ; Seventh District,
September 7, Dalton, Eighth District, Sep-
Logan, Sherman and Morton have recent
ly intimated that the Republican party will tember 6, Thomson: Aiuth District, Sep.
the Democratic party. AVe suppose, like
tember 13, Gainesville.
Hon. Sam J. Randall has been renomina-
Rutherford B. Hayes and Gen. John A. 1 ted for Congress. The country is to be
Dix in I860, they will want to secede. Well I congratulated upon this fact. He saved the
the country can spare either Logan, Morton people $30,000,000 this session, and will
or Sherman.
continue the good work.
jj^riThis paper is only 50cte.
J^Take our campaign paper.
The man who declares that he is not
able to take bis county paper certainly
deserves the sympathy of all good men.
After paying for his whisky and tobacco,
there is nothing left for the publisher,and
consequently the poor fellow is forced to
borrow his neighbor’s paper. We pity
him.—MonticeUo Constitution.
^ ARE PREPARED and ready for the fray, but we must have the pil|ttt
encouragement at the hands of the Democratic party. We have entered upon the meet
important politioal campaign ever witnessed by the American people, for it is honesty and
reform against venality and corruption, intelligence and virtue against ignorance and rM*
cality. In this great battle for right, the Democbai purposes playing no unimportant
part, and in the carrying out of its convictions of right, in the advocacy of the party of
its choice, will endeavor to become an instructor of the people in the great lesson of polD
tics as enacted in the Union, in the State, and in the county. To that end we desire *
full audience, and we here earnestly appeal to the Decatur Democracy, and to the friend*
of the paper generally, to assist in extending its circulation. In this fight a newspaper
is of the most vital importance, and we shall try to make the Democrat just such a paper
as the people need and desire.
Advertisers should bear in mind the extensive circulation enjoyed by the Diyoon**
during the campaign, and avail themselves of its advantages,
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