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THc. EASTMAN TIMES
M. L. BURCH, Editor & Proprietor
THURSDAY, SELT. 11, 1879.
The Impeachment Trial,
At last tho h'gn court of impeach¬
ment has about got down to business.
Alter two or three day's irgumcnt on
the demurrers and pleas of the defend¬
ant to the jurisdiction of this august
tribunal aqd the oveiruling the de
murrers and special pleas—the *couit
upon the plea of not guilty is proceed¬
ing with the trial. On Monday 8 th
in.st. Mr. manager Han mond, opened
the case in b'dialf oft In* State in a vig¬
orous and eloquent sp ech,after which
evidence of the Comptroller's oath of
office, commission, and the statement
of .Mr. Gol ! inith a the wild land in
vest gaf in r committee, The oath of
office of Mr. Goldsmith for the term
preceding the one he is now filling,
was off-re !. The defendant's conn
sol obji cfod to its introduction upon
the ground that they had no notice
that they would b : called upon t >an*
swer for any delinquency that may
have occurred in a former term. And
it it was intended to impeach the re¬
spondent as a Cempti offer-General
who had been in office, it should have
beet so stated L. the articles of im
p< achmenf. The Chief Justice deci
ded the test’mony was inadmissablc.
The question was submitted to the
court ami on a call of the yeas and
na\ s, the evidence was declared to be
aduiissable by a vote of 36 yeas to 3
nays. The oath was considered ad
missable.
On Tuesday, 9th instant, further
te. timony of Mr. W. A. Wright clerk
in the w ild land bureau of the Comp¬
troller-Generals department support¬
ing article No. 1 , which charges the
Collection of 50 cei.ts on a number of
tax ‘i. fas. accosts from Logan,Orrne,
Si McLendon. The question was
asked the w.tness whether payment of
costs on land in default had not been
demanded and paid before the work
o. preparing fi.fas. had been execu¬
ted.
To this question counsel for respon¬
dent objected, because it related to
matters not charged in tho articles,
manager Turner, insisted that it was
admisutlffe to rebut the explanation
made by the witness, and to show the
intent of respondent in charging cost
on li. las for wild land. The Chief
Justice, overruled the objection where¬
upon counsel for respondent culled at¬
tention to rule No. 3, which denied the
right of appeal to the S cate lor re¬
versal of tho ruling of the court.
Mr. Lumpkin, moved that the ques¬
tion involved in the objection of re¬
spondent be submitted to the Senate.
This was done and the So.uato voted
twenty- one yeas and twenty nays on
the propostion to sustain the ru-
1 ng of the court. The evidence was
admitted. The witness testified that
tnxes on the Rondo Go, and Fox &
Co. will lands had been paid by the
two firms mentioned, and executions
had not issued against these lands of
his knowledge. To the question how
he (witness) first discovered tiiat fi.
fas. had been issued without his
knowledge, he answered, 'While ma¬
king out a statement < f the number of
fi. fas. issued at request of the wild
1 ml committee. We discovered that
the sheiiffs of some counties return¬
ed more fi. fins, sold than the num¬
ber offi. fas. shown to have been is¬
sued in those counties. So far as we
investigated it appeared that the dis¬
crepancy resulted from the transaction
in regard to the lands of Rondo & Co.
and Fox & Go. Mr. Wright on being
recalled by the managers testified,
‘That probably three or four da} 7 s be¬
fore tin* committee on wild lands in
vesjigated the charge of bribery.
Hinton R. Wright, called on him at
the w Id land office, saying that he
wanted to give him an order on the
Comptroller General for $2.50, Wit¬
ness told him to see tho Comptroller.
Wright replied that he was up stairs
and that he was in a hurry, as he had
Mr. I’avis in a buggy outside and
needed the money at once to pay the
livery stable changes. Tint if the
C unptruller did not pay him back he
(Wright) would do so.
W itness advanced him the money
asked. The Comptroller came in the
mormng and inquired of witness
whether he had advanced any money
toll nton Wright, he stated the facts,
and Goldsmith bunded him a $5 bill
which witness not being able to change
paid he would settle at their next
monthly settlement.
Mi. W. R. Anderson, testified,
that under protest he pa d $4 as cost
on 8 fi. fas. September 25ih, 1877
ar.d that the fi. fas. were not deliver¬
ed until alter October 1 st, 1877.
Statements and oilier documentary
evidence bearing upon the allegations
made in the several articles were of
fep d and court adjourned. The fore¬
going abridgment we get fn in the
Atlanta Constitution,
The well hied i*re free from pretense
v.r bt ptrcihousiK sa.
Crops, Timber Duttii*g Etc.
Bed Bluff, Montgomery Co.,
August 28th, 1879.
Edior Ehstman Times .—Bli nking
probably that it might be of some in¬
terest to your many readers, I submit
the following Iroin our section, for their
benefit.
Crops with us have been very much
damaged by the drought. Corn has
been cut off fully one half in many
places. Tins is very heavy and wiJ
be seriously felt. This trouble, how*
ever, may he relieved to a considera¬
ble extent, by putting in heavy crops
of small grain this fall. This I hope
to sec our farmers do. It is certainly,
the only truly practical plan to supple¬
ment the corn crop, W heat can be
successfully grown in our county, as
has been demonstrated. Our farmers,
! am glad to notice, are preparing to
sow largely of oats.
Cotton continues to look well, and
if it escapes the rust and the worms u
few weeks lunger a good crop may
be expected. It is now quite common
with our farmers to plant their stubble
land in cotton with often times the
most satisfactory results. I have no.
ticed some this year that is equally as
promising now, as the cotton planted
earlier, and on same class of land.
The pea crop in this section is bet-,
ter than I have seen for several years.
Sugar cane and potatoes have been
injured some by the drought, though
these crops will fall, perhaps, very lit¬
tle below an average if the autumn is
seasonable.
The indications are that quite a
number of our people will again en¬
gage in timer cutting. This, Mr. Ed¬
itor, is to be deplored. The timber
business has done our country an im¬
mense amount of injury. It causes
men to neglect their homes and farms—
tho only hope of oul* country. If our
people would only exercise the same
energy, and c <«se attention to their
homes and farms, that they manikst
when engaged in the timber business
ibe result would be wonderful and
ours would soon be an independent
people. Our cribs and smoko houses
would no longer be in Tennessee,Ken¬
tucky, or suae other Western State,
but they woul i be found at home, and
it might be that in the course ut hu¬
man events our purses might be able
to retain a little extra cash.
Subscriber.
Young Men and Old,
A man is ordinarily said to be young
even in this country, when we live pre¬
ternatural,ly fast, up to 35 or 40, tube
middle aged from 40 to 50, and not to
be positively old; if lie be of sound
health and well preserved, until he
shall have reached 60 or thereabout.
This estimate of years would indicate
the normal age of man to be 100 ,( is
Buffon declares it should be,) though
has average ago* is scarcely 50, and 60
is much beyond it. What reason is
there, then, for speaking of 35 or 40
as young, and 40 to 50 as middle-age?
None, unless we consider tiiat we be¬
gin practical and useful existence, as
we really do, with the attainment of
our legal maturity; and, as a rule,
people have very little life—30 to 35
years—after tiiat. It is common to
speak of men, especially in public po¬
sitions, of 60, as in their prime. A
very few appear to be so, notably in
Europe; but they are not actually,
since, at 75, the public distrusts them
merely from their age. The great
majority of men are buried and for
gotton before they gain three score,
and he who is in his prime then, in a
seeming sense, is as exceptional as he
who lives 90 or 95. We all like to
delude tourselves in respect to life.
When our neighbor is 60, he appears
to be very old. When we are of that
ago, we are not young, to be sure; but
we feel as young, we say, as ever; in
fact, we are in our prime. While we
can creop around and are in posses¬
sion of our lacnltios, vve ins : st that we
are not very old; but our friends,
Smith and Brown with not a j?yc$
more than we if the truth were known
make themselves ridiculous by trying
to appear young.
Post-Office Regulations.
By the most n c in regulations of the
post-office department, no more due
postage is collected on registered let¬
ters at the delivery < 16101 *, Postmas¬
ters are required to see that the post¬
age is f’ujly prepaid before transmission
in the mails. In case they neglect to
s>e to this the due postage is paid by
the department at the delivery office>
and the neglect on the part of the post¬
master in the sending office is report¬
ed to headquarters in Washington,
and he is required to foot the bill for
the needful stamps. This is a good
regulation, especially since the admis¬
sion to registry of matter belonging to
other than the first-class, as in many
instances, should th s matter be allow¬
ed to go through the mails, the con¬
signee could be made to pay more than
the value ot the article sent. It will
have another beneficial effect in ma¬
king postmasters more careful in the
conduct ol their offices.
WHAT DOGS IT MEAN.
Itill Arp's Effort For Light.
A Matitotinal Remark from One of
IIis Female Heirs—Tiie Difficul¬
ties of thf. Legislature Con¬
sidered—The Meaning of Bi¬
ennial Sessions Set Foeth.
From the Atlanta Constitution
It's about a& fashionable to abuse
the law makers ns it used to be for the
privates to abuse the officers of the
army, and so I ain't agoing to do i‘.
If they don't do to suit rue I can't help
it and my doctrine you know is to be
reconciled to what I cannot help. So
far as I'm conc- rned they may set and
set and set, whether they ever hatch
anything or not. There's a powerful
load in the wagon now and they keep
a pi ling on and by and by you'll hear a
haim string pop but I’m not going to
complain about anything or anybody.
As old Bob Paris of the state of Dade
used to say, *it’s all optionary with
me.'
But I wish I could understand the
gislura of th s impeachment bisness.
The other morning I was trying to
dress one of my little children while
Mrs. Arp, my wife, was taking her
last nap — (she always takes a nap di
rectly after she wakes up)—and while
I was apologizing to the little thing for
gettitig her frock on wrong side be¬
fore, she helped me out by saying,
Papa, you haven't got very much,
sense, no how, have you?’ I think ot
that every time I think about a three
months' session on an adjournment,
and a four weeks' trial of a man for
some irregularities at a cost of 15 or
20 thousand dollars, for you. see I
haven't got sense enough to under¬
stand the necessity of it. Maybe bien¬
nial sessions means to hold em twice a
year but then they needent hold cm
so long and it seems to me they are
attaching a little too much importance
to that trial considering the size of it
and that the punishment is only to
step down and out, and not forgetting
the low price of cotton and how hard it
is on a poor farmer to pull his own
fodder and pay 95 cents on a hundred
dollars for taxi-s. But I reckon it
ain't as unreasonable as I reckon it is
for they say that over in England they
impeached a rnan by the name of Has¬
tings, and they we re off and on, seven
years trying him, and it cost the gov¬
ernment over a million of dollars and
they convicted him of being one of the
noblest of men and best officers that
England ever had, and if he wa^ent a
hero and a patriot before lie was after¬
wards. Tney played the comedy of
‘Much Ado About Nothing" lor Mr.
Burke's benefit, and thats the history
of nearly all the impeachments I've
heard of It/s like trying a case by
inflation. It swells and swells and
gets bigger and bigger until everybody
connected with it gets puffed up and
bloated and the defendant himself feels
a heap more like a hero than a crimi¬
nal. Why, it aint such a terrible
thing to be impeached if a feller can
have all that sort of a fuss made over
him. Spose lie has been guilty of a
few ‘irregularities" (I believe that's
what they cqll 'em), it dignifies the
business to spend so much money in
investigation, and makes a feller feel
like he is of more consequence than he
is. My friend Fort says the whole
cotnbunktion is based upon an old
Youtopian theory that its a heap worse
for an office-holder to steal than any¬
body else, when, in fact, the usage
and practice is just the other way. He
says its sorter expected of a man in
office to pick up a little that is laying
around loose, and that is what is
meant by the perquisites of office.
Tiiat the law makers understand it so,
and that's (he reason why they make
the salaries so small; for instance
they pay the solicitor 250 dollars a
year and his perquisites, which amoun
to one or two or three thousand dol¬
lars, accordin to crime and consciencet
Well, I reckon Fort is right, for I
never could understand how a puor
man, with an aspirin family con'd live
in Atlanta on $2,000 a yea? and keep
up the dignity ot his office in a digni¬
fied way— that is, old Father Barnett
excepted. I believe he could live pret¬
ty comfortable on 25 dollars a month,
and send some of that to the heathen,
but I‘m not sure there's any more of
his sort in this generation, and I know
there won't be any in the next.
Did you ever observe how long it
takes an old-fashioned fiddler to tune
up his fiddle just befote he began to
play? Well about what time do you
think the high court of impeachment
will set down squarely to work and
begin to try the case? I don't want
to hurry anybody, but I remember
when two soldiers of the Tiger Rifles
resisted an officer at Centerville and
Joe Johnston ordered a court-martial
the next morning, and they found em
guilty before dinner and they were
shot for supper, but then you see that
wasentan impeachment and they were
not to be turned t ut of office, and I
reckon tin*y are fight ng yet some¬
where, though 1 don't know for ser
tin. Well, of course, I don't favor
that sort of swiftness in times of peace,
but four weeks ami twenty thousand
dollars, good gracious! I do hope lb s
ai d to be a wholesale business, for
the fact is we can’t stand it unless we
are obliged to and I reckon we are.
IVe heard of inditements and present¬
ments and true hills and rulin the
sheriff and striking an attorney from
the bar and they didn’t Cost much nor
take up much time. Two years ago a
feller killed another feller while court
was in sessi m and they had him tried
and convicted and sent off to the pen¬
itentiary for life, before Saturday
night. Tuat sort of speedy justice
ain't at all uncommon up here, in cases
of ‘irregularity,’ and yet the people
think our judges a little too slow, and
some of em talked about impeachin
one of em just to peartin him up a lit¬
tle. I reckon they thought the legis¬
lature could impeach him before break¬
fast and try him before dinner and
elect another judge in the shank of the
afternoon.
Well, I know I havent got very
much sense, but it does seem to me
that all this impeachin machinery is
too heavy for the size of the cargo.
Why not. let the grand jury find a true
hill and Judge Hiiyer try the case and
be done with it, and let the legis’ature
adjourn and go home and look after
their sufferin business and comfort
their wives and children ? Why not?
What’s the difference between Mr.
Goldsmith and any other Smith ?
What's the sense of making so much
more fuss about breaking a man of his
comm’ssion than bre iking him of his
neck or putting him in the chain gang?
But I ain't going to fret myself about
it for I reckon my perceptions are a
little obleek on this subject tho I will
remark that a bare acquittal of a man
won't satisfy our people, lie must
come out shining like the full moon
for we can't afford to keep officers
with a twenty thousand dollar cloud
over their conduct, guilty or notguil
ty
Yours, Bill Arp.
FAITHFUL AND TRUE.
Incident of tire Epidemic Por¬
traying the Love of a Woman.
There is quite a romantic history
connected with the sad death of G. V.
Graves, the telegraph operator at the
Memphis and Chareston Railroad
office, which occurred last Thursday.
Mr. Graves married last May, while
acting as night operator at Grand
Junction, Tenn. Through some mis¬
understanding with the 'brain Master
he was asked to tender his resignation.
Having nothing but his salary to live
on, he, like many other unfortunate
men, started out looking for employ¬
ment sending his young wife to her
home in Charleston, Mo., until lie
could send for her. When the fever
broke out in July, Mr. Graves, learn¬
ing that some of the operators were
leaving, at once turned towards this
plague-stricken city. Arriving a‘ Lit¬
tle Rock, he learned that he was just
too late for the last train, and his way
of reaching here was to walk. So, in
company with a printer, be left Little
Rock on foot. On, on they tramped,
sleeping out by the side of the railroad
when night overtook them, being re¬
fused shelter and something to eat by
the frightened country people. They
managed to live by stopping at the
creeks they passed, fishing and cook¬
ing the fish over a fire, without salt or
grease. From this alone they man¬
aged to live until their sore and blis¬
tered feet brought them to Memphis.
As soon as Mr. Graves could get a bite
to eat and a little rest he went to
work, but was taken sick. His young
wife learning of his being here sick,
telegraphed him she was coming to
his bedside. On receipt of her mes¬
sage, he, having recovered, answered
her not to think of coming. But, be¬
ing a devoted wife, she heeded not his
command, but started out at once.
Arriving at Moscow, she learned that
no trains ran into Memphis. Nothing
daunted, she boarded an engine and
being refus d permission to ride ta by
the engineer, was asked to get off.
She replied, f ‘No; I'll never move
from where I am until I reach Mem¬
phis.’ Seeing the little woman meant
business she was allowed to remain.
Reaching here she saw her husband
standing on the depot platform, and
jumping from the engine the plucky
little girl rushed to his arras. Twelve
days after she uriived she was report¬
ed down with the fever lie at once
left his post of duty and went to her
sick bed, and in a few days she was
convalescing. It was then the grim
monster ot death laid his hands upon
her now worn out and broken-down
husband. The poor boy struggled
with the fever four days, during which
period his young wife did everything
in her power to alleviate his suffering,
but alas ! his troubles soon ended, and
lie passed quietly away, to meet her on
the other shore.
The following appeal for aid was
sent to the telegraph office yesterday:
‘Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 29, 1879.—
To the Teleciraph Corps, Memphis
Tenn.: George V. Graves, operator,
who died last night of yeUow fever,
leaves a helpless, young and unpro¬
tected widow. Scarce have the
sweets of the honeymoon passed when
she lays him in the silent tomb, I
will pay her fare to Elmira, Nexv
Yoik, Graves' funeral expenses, and
give her a little money besides; this
Uy order <ff our generous General Su
perintendent. This is a case that ap¬
peals to the souls of «U who have been
afflicted. I ask the charitable co-op¬
eration of the telegraph corps.
'Truly, B. P. Robson.’
U is needless to state that the ap¬
peal was not made in vain, A sum
of money was at once subscribed and
as soon as she is able to travel Mrs,
Graves will leave for Elmira, New
York, where Mrs. M. J. Hull, a rela¬
tive of her deceased husband, awaits
her arrival .—Memphis Avalanche of
Sunday.
A Sacred Trust for the Soldiers
of the South.
We feel it our duty to lay before our
readers the lo lowing touching letter
which describes the last sad scenes in
the life of General Hood, and the con**
dition of his desolate and destitute
family. The li:tie is addressed General
Randall L. Gibson, of Louisiana, to
whose care General Hood, when dy
ng, commended his orphan children.
New Orleans, August 30, 1879.—
Dear Genera: Knowing your love and
esteem for Gen. Hood and his family, I
thought a few particulars of the sad
event would not be uninteresting to
you. Mrs, Hood, after her last con
finement, was better, and had an easier
time than on any former occasion
Friday week, feeling so well, she im¬
prudently took a hath. Immediately
after she was taken with a abill. Dr.
Richardson having left on the 1st of
the month. Dr. Bemiss was called in
I heard him say Mrs. Hoad's case was
the most remarkable one he had e vei
seen in his practice; that there was
not a single symptom of yellow fever
and they did not know that she had it
until the black vomit appeared. She
died at half-past 9 o’clock Sunday
night, and was buried at 10 o'clock
Monday morning. 1 never in my life
saw a man so completely crushed as
General Hood was. I was with him
Monday morning till the funeral. He
said he’d rather God should have ta¬
ken every one of his children in one
day than to have lost his wife; that
he was completely ruined, and now
without his wife, he had nothing to
live for. The precious little lambs
who had gone to bed Sunday night
knowing nothing of their mother’,
(ieatli, beg in to come in one by one
until nine came in, and such a scene
I never wish to witness again. After
toe children left he sai l: ‘Major, I
have never had the favor, but if I
should have it, and it is God’s will,
1 am ready to go. I have requested
Colonel Flowers to take charge of rny
children and appeal to the confedeaate
soldiers to support them, for I have
nothing on earth to leave them.' He
was taken Tuesday morning at "three
o'clock, and died Friday morning at
half-past 3, perfectly in his mind to
to within ten minutes of his death
At about two o'clock ho asked the
doctor if ins time to die was not near
at hand. Toe doctor said, ‘Yes, g n
era!.' Then a minister was sent for
at his request,to give him the last Colli
munion. As his death was announ¬
ced and no hour fixed for the funeral
very few were present. A detach¬
ment of‘Continentals' fired a salute
over his grave, and the last sad trib¬
ute wa.s paid to our brave generous
and Christian friend.
The doctor thinks Lydia will not
live through the night. She had a
violent fever from the first which went
right to the brain. Little Ethel is
quite easy to-day. All the children
seem to be droopy; none realize their
great loss.
I bear his house is mortgaged to its
full value, and lie left but little insur¬
ance on his life, not being able to keep
up Lis policies. He told me his buok
was finished, aud he was just about
starting to Philadelphia to mase ar¬
rangements for its publication. 1
think it is alogether the saddest death
I have ever known. Old Mrs. Hennen
can live but a few months; and here
are eleven little lambs left fatheiless
and motherless. Oh, how much better
ifGod in His providence would take
them all. * * * * *
Yours, very truly,
Walter V. Couch.
It is estimated that from September
1, 1879 to August 31, 1880, Great brit
ain Will purchase seventy-two million
bushels of American wiieat, which will
cost them on the spot in round nurn-
bers $I 0 C,000.Q00. For all this—for
the bad weather in the United Kings
dom and for all the causes thereof—
the organs would have us believe that
the republicans are responsible. Borne
of them give the cr *dit to the immense
personality of John Sherman and the
popularity of M'\ Hayes. So that it is
exceedingly difficult to get ut the true
inwardness of the affair. The demo¬
crats hardly known vho to congratu¬
late.
What is the difference between a
wether and an imperial ? One is a
he goat and the other a goatee.
A Captain Generalship for Grant
Since tho adjournment cf Congress
a number of General grant't fiiends
have had under consideration a sug¬
gestion coming originally from a dis¬
tinguished Southern soldier whose
name is withheld for the present, but
whose .services in militery and civic life
have won for him the confidence and
esteem or hi.-* people as well as the
respect of the county at large t > cro
ate the offi e of Captain-General of the
army, with suitable pay and allowances
and to have same tendered to General
D. S. Grant unrecognition of his pa¬
triotic services in behalf of the Union
as well as to afford him permanent oc
cupation in a congenial employment
the remainder of his life. This idea
has been quietly canvassed among the
members ot the Senate and House who
have visited Washington during the
races, as well as at Saratoga, New¬
port, Long Branch and White Sulpur
Springs. It oan be said tiiat the prop
osition has been received with great
favor and will take shape in a bill
accomplishing the purposes named
early at the next session of Congress,
Swimming After a Steamer.
As the steamer Montana of the
Guion lino was leaving her pier in New
York a scene occurted which caused
much excitement. A sailor appeared
taree minutes too late. Tossing his
coat to a comrade, and shouting ‘I’ll
have her yet,’ he jumped into the river
and when next seen he was fully one
hundred feet from the pier and strik¬
ing out manfully fur the fast-receding
steamer. ‘He'd never reach her,'
‘He'll go under soon,' were the com
meets on the dock. ‘Bill’ll get her
yet; I know him,' answered a comrade
l he steamer was well over toward the
Jersey side, 'Bill' in the middle of the
river and all hopes of his getting
aboard that boat were given up by the
excited spectators, when a rowboat
was seen to approach him. Clamber¬
ing in and taking the oais he tried to
head off the steamor. He succeeded
in getting along side but no rope was
lowered to him. He then pluudged
again into the water, and to save his
life a rope was thrown to him and in
a twinkling lie was on desk among hii
comrades.
Julia Johnson, the negiess who was
accused of the murder of old Mrs.
Farmer and her two daughters in Sep¬
tember, 1878, and who was acquitted
because the principal witness, Miss
Lettie Farmer failed to recognize her
is now on trial at Jonesboro for as¬
sault with intent to kill Miss Betiie
Farmer at the same time A ci-rrefi
pondent ot the Griffin News describes
a disgraceful scene which took place
during the trial on Monday last. He
says that as the case was progressing
three negro women walked into the
bar and took chairs hy the side of the
prisoner. As soon as the old lady,
Miss Bettie Farmer, entered the court
house to testify, these negroes and the
prisoner commenced changing seats
and bonnets. They changed back¬
ward and forward probably a dozen or
more times. The idea was that Miss
Bettie had been posted as to Julia's
hat and location, and knowing that she
was nearly blind they wished to make
her tail to lecognize the prisoner, as
she did on the former trial. But her
evidence was pretty clear and pointed
and showed that she fully recognized
the pris >ner, and that the prisoner
gave her the intended fatal blow and
afterward murdered her mother. Says
the correspondent: ‘The way these
negro wenches wvie permitted to act
in the court room to deceive this old
blind, simple, inoffensive lady, was, to
say the least of it no credit to the
court or lawyers eugaged in the de
fe rise.'
A correspondent of the Griffin News
takes that paper sharply to task for
some of its recent assaults upou the
Legislature. He says:
Why attack them? Do you really
believe that the people are w>Th you?
Do you think thit the people are Say¬
ing that the only legislative body has
met in Georgia ioryeats have come
together and commenced to rip up
and expose to view ihe rotten frauds of
officials, is ‘a fraud aud a disgrace to
Georgia?' Do you think that the first
Democratic body which exposes the
faults of its own political household
is‘a Iran i and disgrace’? D> you
think a sen-.: of mor il courage which
attacks th ise in p isitiou and ’refuse to
be overawed by power or seduced by
biibes, is a ‘fraud aud disgrace'?
Let me tell you that it will pay the
people of Georgia for this Legislative
body to sit and continue to sit until it
settles one question—until it establish¬
es one fact terrible to corrupt men—
that public officials cannot abase the
high trusts committed to their charge
Aud if you think that that Legislative
body which establishes this fact is a
fraud and disgrace, conclusion is based
upon some principle of reasoning that
I confess I cannot understand.
‘‘Those whom the gods love die
young/’ That's what become of all
the honest State officials.
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