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THURSDAY
Thnrsslny. flurcli S, WS9.
Prnlb of Oofrrnor Slcphem.
A meeting of the ciliions of Grene coun
ty wa* held on last Tuesday morning at
•len o'clock at the Court-house in Green
esho-o, for the purpose of passing suitable
resolutions in the death of Gotr. A. H.
Stephens. The notification had been short,
hut a large number of our citizens were in
attendance, including many from the ex
treme ends of our county
A motion having been made and carried
to that effect, Coionel J s L. Brown was
called to the chair, and W. Addison Know
les, requested to act as Secretary.
Hon. Jos. B. Park, Mayor of Greenes
hero, then addressed the meeting. He
stated that lie was in reeeipl of a telegram
from Henry TV. Grady, Secretary of the
Atlanta committee of arrangements, re
questing that a delegation from this coun
ty be present at the funeral cereaionies, ul
the late Governor. With that end in view,
hs had notified as many ns possible of the
meeting.
A motion was made that a committee of
three be appointed to attend the funeral, as
the representatives of Greene county, and
that they be empowered to add to that
committee at many more as they slight
think suitable. This motion being cot.cur
ed in. thechairnppointr l as the committee,
Judge W. M. Weaver, Hon. James 11. Park
and TV. O. Mitchell, Esq.
It was moved by Col. Jno. C. Hart, (and
the motion was unanimously adopted) that
a committee of three be appointed to draft
appropriate resolutions upon the death of
tho Governor ; and that they repoi t at an
adjourned meeting to be held at twelve an I
a half o’clock p.m. This committee con
sisted of Sedge TV. M. Weaver, J. B Park
aad Columbus Heard, Esq. The meeting
then adjourned.
At twelve and a half o’clock the meeting
ra-asscinbled and was called to order by!
the chairman.
The committee on rcsilutions reported
the following which was submitted, and
adapted by the meeting:
The great leart of Georgia is stricken.
She mourns the .Tenth of her most illus
trious son, and admidst her poignant grief
refusee to be comforted, Alexander Ham
ilton Stephens, the juaist, the patriot, the
etmteemen, the philanthropist and the Chris
tian is dead. After life’s fltflil fever he sleeps
well. Being dead he yet speaketh, ami his
works do live alter him. Embalmed in the
hearts of all Georgians, his virtues will
ever yield the richest perfume.
Whereas, God in his infinite wisdom has
taken our distinguished Governor,Hon. A.
H. Stephens from the labors of life to that
bourne from whence no traveler return •
Resolved : That we recognise in the life
af the distinguished man who has passed
away, all tin sc characteristics of intellect!
and lieai t and soul which, when summed
up, constitute true greatness.
2nd. That the life of such a man, so full
of patriotic labor, so consecrated to hum
anity, so replete with works of love and
deed* of charity’was alike a public bene
faction and a private benediction.
3rd. That tit (he death of stica a man
the world is indeed poorer; that a lo s.J
irreparaple lias fallen alike on his native
State, tho country and humnnity.
4lh. That we lendet to the immediate
rli iof Got. Stephens our heartfelt
eomlolence in the hour of their grief.
6th. That we commend to God the great
&tate which is deprive' l of the wise and
■ngneious counsels of her greatest and
noblest son.
IK‘lt*jfiitcM From Urceiir.
W M Weaver W 0 -1/itciiel
J B Park, sr. J F Thornton
W I£ Branch Colcmous Heard
John W Wright Jas L Brown
John II Carlton M W Wooding
OK Kluker .1 F Zimmerman
C C Davison Rev 0 A Thrower
H T Lewis R l McWhorter, sr
Dr Thos 1* Janes W P McWhorter
T M Bryan Alex II Smith
.T W Swann J .1 Sanders
Sami P Durham W A Knowles
J C Hart l)r W A Moore
L P Jernignn Kdward Young
Z T Walker II \V Jeruigan
Dr I D Moore P M Moss
J O Boswell J R Boswell
Dr J M Griffin G T Norman
Dr H II King J X Armor
V 6 Hail T W Powell
J 1) Y Warner I)r H II Credille I
C M Sanders P B Kohinson
A GCaldwell W E Reynolds
II G Lewis J W Heard
E A Vceiey J W Cawthon
O 8 Thornton J A Griffin
L D Laid well J Knowles
V P Gresham Wm Armstrong I
B'm H Me IKlurter H C Pennington I
H T Foster JII H Brown 1
F W Holt I)r W' E Adams I
M J Roesman IT L Grant
L C Perdue
On motion the delegates from Greene
were requested to meet it the Marlham
House, Atlanta, at oneo’clock p m., Thurs
day, and from there proceed in a b*dy to
the place where the procession would form.
It was moved by Captain W. H Branch,
and adopted by the meeting, that the edi
tors of eir city papers be requested to pub
lish the proceedings, together with a liet of
all the delegates. The meeting then ad
journed.
J. L. BRO IPX, Chairman. J
W Addisok Kwowles, Secretary.
—ln accordance with law, Gov. Boynton'
has issued the two following proclamations:
AS ELECTION ORI’RRED AND TitE LEGISLA
TORS. CALLED TOGETHER.
Executive Drpartmeet ok Georgia, 1
Atlanta, Ga., March 5, 1838. /
Obdrred; That a proclamation be is
sued under the Great Seal of the State or
dering an election to be held en Tuesday,
the 24th day of April, 1883, in the State
for Governor of Georgia, to fill the racan
ey in said office occasioned by the death of
the Hon. Alexander If. Stephens -
Further Ordered : That the General Assem
bly of Georgia convene in extra session on
Wednesday, the 9th day of nay, 188S, at
the Capitol in Atlanta, Vi receive the re
turns and declare the result of said elec
tion, or elect a Governor in case no person
shall receive a majority of the votes cast.
J. 8. Boynton,
By the Governor, Governor.
I. W. Avikt, Sec'y Ex. Dept.
Gov. Boynton does not propose to make
any changes at all. He will tender Col.
John A Stephens the position as Adjutant
General, the same he now holds, and
through it request him to occupy the Ex
ecutive Mansion. The Governor will keep
his room at the Kimball.
(Jcn-'ral Ik. VI. On Hoar.
Our reodere-witl bo psined to learo
■tho death of General D. M. Lußoac,
Iwhich occurred at his residenoe in
■ Washington, Wilkes county, March
■2nd. General Du Bose was born near
I .Memphis in Tennessee. In early life
■he removed to Georgia, settling in
■ Washington. lie married the only
Isttrviving daughter of General Robert
■Toombs.
’i From the Chronicle of Saturday we
■take following high hut well merited
to the worth of tho deceas
led.
j “Dudley M, Du Bose was a broad mind-|
l ed, big hearted man. His was a sunny,!
rgenial disposition; a frank, chivalrous na-j
flute, full of tender, noble instincts, and 1
generous to a fault. He was just the man!
to be a friend upon whom one could always!
depend, and in the rounds of the Northern!
Circuit it would have been difficult to find!
a more popular person than ths lamented]
deceased. Gen. Dußose was free front]
guile and bated seem an and dissimulation.—l
He was honest, and straightforward in alii
Lids dealings, and ns he would never adopt]
itlie toggery of mere show, go he never de-]
iscended to empty flattery for popularity.—l
Hie was popular, but not in ths modern]
[sense a politician. In bis home life lie car-I
ried the same strength and consistency]
distinguished hint abroad, while in Ilia)
broad bosom ho cherished the gentlest and]
the warmest affections for those about him.]
Firm in all of hie relations, lie yet seemed]
lo be considerate of ethers, and his death]
will be sincerely mourned by those about'
him.
Gen. Dußose was an able and aucccssful
awyer. Ilis business /m i bef/n a large
ode in the courts of his circuit, and his
capacity and integrity in kig profession
were uuqtieslioned. He was a very thor
ough reader and a bros 1 scholar ; few pee
pole indeed knew the extent of his infor
motion, so averse was he to parade and
show. He had at his home in Wgehington
a library of rare selections, and here he
was content to spend mush of his leisure
timo. Informing judgment of the caliber
of such a man, liia measure should not be
taken in the standard of thoso heroic pro
portions whose shadows fell about him
Such a comparison could not be made to
[advantage for many persons in this gener
[stion; hut contrasted with men of his own
[lime and circle, it tnsy be faithfully said
[that Gen. Dußose wag intellectually .the
[peer of those about hint. Few men have
[lived with less enmity; no man lias died in
llliia Stnte with more friends.
Alexander 11. Stephens.'
In the Southwest room ofthe Exe
cutive Mansion in Atlanta, at thirty
minutes past three o’clock on Sunday
morning, March 4th, 1883, the pure
■pint of ALEXANDER HAMILTON
STEPHENS escaped from its frailj
tenement of clay and winged its flight
to the mansions above. lie is dead.—l
But a few short months ago he entered
upon whit was fast developing into the]
most notable administration Georgia]
ever had. Only a few short weeks ago]
he was addressing with his own match I
less powvr the vast coneourse that had]
gathered to commemorate the birth ofj
a great State. To-day tho eloquent]
voice is hu-hed in death—tho historic]
roller-chair ]is amply —the frail body]
lies shrouded for tbetouib. Georgia, his]
proud, loving mothei, bows her head in]
sorrow and gloom; a nation mourns.]
When the news first went abroad]
(hat Mr Stef hens was ill. and even af-J
ter it became known that his oondi-j
(ion was critical, the people, in whose]
hearts their ruler was enshrined, fond*]
ly hoped that, as had so often been the]
cao before, he might in this instance]
rally from tha attack But heaven]
willed it otherwise. The death sick-]
ness was different from every othor]
through which he had passed Before,"
in his manly struggles with grim dis
ease his mind was always clear; Dr
Steiner, his trusted medical attendant'
ever relied mainly on his wonderful
power of wi’.l to bring him through
In this instance from the first his twiod
was gene, and be “drilled, perfectly
helpless at ths Mprey of every chance
or impale*.” Tho frail body unaided
by the powerful will wav powerle.-s '*
withstand the shock of disease.
Thus, with the harness of his exalt-j
Jed dutios girt about hi* and surroun-j
ded by loving Friends—with no paia,
and without a quiver, ha went down
into the dark shadow. In lift he was
a hero; in death, a conqueror. All
ihe ends he aimed at were his country’*’
God’s and Truths—hia country, her
highest wesl; God, his honor and ser
vice; Truth, the revelation of God, the
inspiration of heavenly wisdom.
.Statesman, philosopher, patriot, hu
manitarian— when wiil the world look
upon hia like again!'’ To Georgia and
the Union were given his life; to Geor
gia and the Union belong his Feme.
From the Fort-Appeal of Mondayi
we take tho Following sketch of Gov.
ernor Stcpheos’ life. This sketch was
written by Rev. Henry W. Cleveland
aad was submitted to Governor Ste
phens just before his trip to Savannah
It is, therefore a correct hislory.
Sketch of his Life.
Who than is this man —we may
aak in the pjesent tense—for he,
•’being dead, yet speaketh,” and
his life and memory seem to grow
articulate from the cold lips, and
to sav as did the tongue of the dy
ing Webster—“l yet live.”
Sixty-four milos from Augusta,
and one hundred and eeveu from
Atlanta is tho town of Crawford
ville, built on one of the sterile bu']
health posessing ’back bone ridges’j
of Georg a. In a large tree-shad-]
ed yard, the travelergon the Geor-j
gia railway is pointed to a comfort-]
able mansion, which Is fatuous]
both in this county and Europe,as]
“Liberty Ilall, the chosen home of
[the sage of Georgia. Two miles]
away on his plantation, a heap of
chimney stones mark the site of
the log cabin in which he was boro ]
A substantial granite wall near by,]
encloses the ashes of many of his]
near kindred, and constitutes the]
[less than “God’s acre,” now about
to receive his own. it is almost a
matter of congratulation that we
have here no fFestminster Abbey
and no St. Paul’s to contend for
this honored dust, for it is well
.known that our loved dead would
far prefer the open hillside and the
[free air and the gentle patter of the
[rain, to any manbuih temple; aad
[he who loved to be called “the old
[commoner," would, if able to spank
[now, elect to share the common
Ut, whore
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, ■
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.]
The grandfather of Mr. Stephens
was an englishman and adherent ofj
Edward the Pretender, and after
tho defeat of his cause at the battle
of Worshester. in 1745, he came]
to this country and found sanctu
ary with the Shawnee Indians.
Although he had opposed the then
reigning house of George 11, be
mad* common cause with his fellow
colonists, and served under Gener
al Braddock and Colonel George
Washington in the French and In
dian wars Having entered service
as a private, he became a captain
of the Pennsylvania Continental
dine and did patriot service. He)
settled on Kettle creek, in Wilkes'
[coqnty, and later moved to that;
part s nco cut off to make Talifero]
county. Andrew B. Stephens, hi j!
[father, was simply a good farmer ]
Governor Stephens derived his first]
name, Alexander, from this grand-]
sire of the revolution. Ilia second]
name, Hamilton, was adopted by]
himself in gratitude to Rev. Alex I
Hamilton Webstor, of Wilkes coun-[
ty, his teacher, benefactor and!
friend.
The statesman and patriot whose
body is now holding Ins last recep
tion in the Executive Mansion cf
Georgia, was hern within a few
rods of the present Stephens grave*
'yard on the 1 Ith day of February,
1812. Therefore Mr. Stephens
was seventy-one years old last
[February. Ilia mother, Margaret]
Grier, was a sister of tho maker of]
Grier’s Almanac, odo af the wisest
men of bis day in that line. Jus
tice Grier, of the United States
Supreme Court, belongs to this
line of his ancestry. Judge Lin
ten Stephens, who was s Lieutsn
ant Colonel in Col. T. W. Thom
as’ rsgimsnt in ths Confedsrate
Array, and Justice of the Supreme
Court, was his half brothsr Thus
our Georgia idol was the worthy
soa of worthy sire*, and kindred
to eur best.” His mother died in
his infancy, and the lack of “man's
only faithful nurse and friend,”
probably from the outset, impaired
[his health. His father died May
26tb. 1824. leaving hits an orphan
[at fourteen Hf vital* inheritance
from the estate was four hundred
end forty-four dollars. /Tie uncle,
Aeren W. Grier, gave hia a borne,
end the interest of hie money, at
eight per cent. clotbei him and
sent him te the common “eld field”
school. Mr. Charles (J. Mills, his
Sabbath-sebool teacher, end Rev.
Alex. H. Webster, ef the Waah
ton, Wilkee county Academy and
Presbyterian Church, arranged for
hie better education et the academy
of the latter. AH advances were
strictly loane. They, and the
Georgia Education Society of the>r
church, proposed to Master Ste
phens an education for the ministry,
and ho accepted their aid with The
express condition that he w*s to
return the money if he changed his
mind, and at all events when able
lie prepared for college in nine
months and entered the Freshman
class of Georgia University, Athens
in August, 1828. Before he grad
uated he determined that he was
not “called to pjeach,” while ad -
hering to his faith in Christ and to
the Presbyterian form of worship.
It may be said that he remainad al
ways an humble Christian, but this
is all there ever was of his “being
educated for the ministry.” He
never was for one dsy in a theolog
ical seminary. Ilia guardian eoon
gave him hia own money. lie
graduated on that, and his older
brother, Aaron G. Stephens, loan-*
[od him the monoy to repay his
[friends. 110 taught school at Mad
ison Ga., after graduating with,
[honor in 1832, and paid his debts'
|io full, but lost his health for a|
[time There is no “die” in him,
[his friends used to say, and ou the
[26th of May. 1834, he began to
[study law, being admitted to the
bar 22nd July, 1821. He was so
poor that he had to walk ten miles,
or about half the distance, to bor
row a horse lo go to Wilkes coun-
ty, his first court. He carried e
pair of cheep eotton pants with him
starched to look like white linnen,
and he made his toilat in the woods
before entering the town in un*oil
ed clotbee. lie ei carefully took
■them off when he left. Ilia first
lease wee taken ten dsys after ed
imission, and he begen as he held
rout, oa the side of tho needy and
[sorrowing. A chill was withheld
[from its ewn mother under letters
[of guardianship, and he was to
[face Mr. Jeffries, one of the vete
rans ef the bar on the effort to set
[them aside. The battle was before
[the five Justices of the Inforior
[Court, and tho mother recovered
[her child, Mr. Stephens had the
[honors, and since then he has been
employed in almost ever case in
tho circuit, that be would take. A
State practice at once grew up,
and he stood eminent at the bar,!
where Nathan C. Sayre. Eli Hi
Baxter, James Thomas, Garnett!
Andrews, Daniel Chandler, Robert
Toombs, Wm. C. Dawson, Francis’
II . Cone and Joseph Henry Lump-j
[kin were the lights. In 1836 he;
[reached the highest weight he bad]
[ever possessed, ninoty-threo pounds]
[in his stockings and drawers. The!
[same year against his wishes, he]
was nominated for State represen
tative H is patriotic nature hore
revealed itself, and won him fierce
opposition. The supposed strong
est man in his county, (a State
Senator.) had advocated a Vigi
lance Committee at a public meet
ing. This he, Stephens, opposed,!
and urged the meeting to “stand?
to the supremacy of the law.” Ilel
ilso opposed the doctrine of ‘’Nul
lification,” which his country and
much of the south then held to
lie wag elected by more than two
to one, or 282 to 137, doing the
best work himself in a speech from
|t work-bench in the court house
yard. In tho Legislature he had
[to meet Titan*. Hons. Charles J.
lenkins, Wm. W. Gordon, An
drew J. Miller, James A. Merri
't ether, Edw.rd Y. Hill, Judgel
Iverson, L. Harm, Sara. W. Flur I
ney and Robert Dougherty were!
canopies of the body.
The question of the session was
the “Trunk Lioe” of railway from
what is now to some point
od the Tennessee river. A face
tious young man thought its brid
ges would only be “gymnasia for
spiders,” or as he repeated later in
his telling anti-railway speech; it!
was to be—“a railway to run upl
a mountain so steep that spiders!
can’t crawl up it.” When every-.!
body was tirad and the friends of
tbs bill hopeless, a thin clear voice
under the gallery said, “Mr. Speak
er.” People turned te laugh and
staid turned to listen. The roan
and his hour bad come, and the
success of the great Western and
Atlantic Railroad was a certainty
from that time. This was a most
remarkable success, as Mr. Ste
phens only got the floor after the
Hon. S.im'l W. Flurnoy, and oth
ers, for and against the great meas
ure of that session, were supposed
to have exhausted the whole sub
ject, and said all there was to be
said. The first appropriation wa9
in 1836. Tunnel Hill was bored
under tbe appropriation of 1847,
and the work was finished, in the!
main, in 1848 He and Joseph E.l
Brown, who first made it pay well,l
divided the honors of its success. |
Mr. Stephens was the champion!
of his Alma Maler whenever it!
needed an appropriation or a speech!
and it was through him, mainly,
■that the bill of Mr. Lewis, of Troup,
for the incorporation of the Mrcon
(Wesleyan) Female College was
passed. It was the first chartered
institution in the world fcr the
regu! ar conferring of degiees as ini
.male-colleges, and the systematic
graduation of young ladies in the
•beigher sciences. In 1837, 1838,
1839, in spite of severe illness.
Mr. Stephens was returned to the
Legislature. In 1839 be was a
delegate to the great Commercial
Convention ef Charleston, S. 0,
and made his first great speech out
of hs State. The Convention was
delighted. Here it was that his
[landlady took him for a country
|lad, and wanted him to let the del
egates have the lounge be lay on
In 1842 he vas in the State Sen
ate, fighting the Central Bank In
1843 the Hon. Mark A. Cooper
resigned his seat in Congress to
run for Governor, and the State
[was not then divided into districts.
Mr. Stephens ran for Congress un
der the “general ticket syatem.”
The Minority Report ef the State
Senate Committee on the State ot
the Republic, had first fixed the
|Wbig party of Georgia and the
[South, to which he belonged, in
[definite relations, and on this he
[was elected. He had to meet in
.the debate in this Congressional
trace, the Hone. William 11. Stiles
[John H. Lumpkin, Solomon Cohen
jllowcll Cobh. Walter T. Conquitt
[and his compitor, James 11. Starko
[The most of men would have gene
[home. Judge Walter T. Colquitt
(then and after the United States
Senator) was then in his glory, and
saidthat his hnndg itched to get hold
of this presumptious little man
Stephens’ friends began to leave
the stand, when Colquitt fired up.
The Judge made his best hits from
tbe journals of the Legislature.
Buc when Mr. Stephens replied,
convincing his opponents of the
incensistency, and vindicating his
own judgement and patriotism, the
now delighted crowd regathered,
and one man shouted, “Your
hands itch to let him go. now, don't
they, J udge ?”
To till of his success in Congress
would be to recite the history sf
America since 1844. He had the
grand courage, when faced by a
report of 4 committee in Congress
that seemed to invelro his right
to bis seal ; to oppose the commit,
roe, and hold their report unconsti
tutional. lit said, f, I do not think]
the election constitutional, but if
you hold that it was, then my peo
ple say lam the man they have
sent.” The admiration of John
Quincy Adams for him seemed
then to bsgin, and a beautiful poem
from the old statesman to the new
one, existsin Mr. Stephens’album.
Mr. Stephens has always been a
State Rrights man, but never a
Nullifies Ja 1836 he voted for
Hugh L. White for President, and
wanted the State to stand for Qov.
tieo. M. Troup in 1340, although
he had no chance for the Presiden
cy. He voted for Gen. ifarrison,
however, and far //enry Clay in
1544. //e was in favor of the in
corporation of Texas into the union
as early as 1838 or 1839, end on
the* 2oth of January, 1845, with
seven other Whigs, led in the fam
ed vote of 120 to 98 in the House,'
that gave us the great State but
not her debts, and settled her slave
status, and the question then dis
turbing the public. Ho opposed
President Polk oc ths Mexican
War, in his celebrated resolutions
of 22d January, 1847.
In 185 U he made his great general
canvass of the State, and’was one of the
eomroitte# that with Charles J. Jen
kins as its Chairman, drew up tbe fain
ed Georgia Platform of that year. Iu
one of his speeches in that year a fire
eatvr interrupted him with—“ Give us
the line of 36° 30' or fight.” Mr. Ste
phens, who was never at a loss for facts,
said, “My friend, we have already se
cured the line of 49° or twelve and a
half degrees more than you ask, with
out a fight. Are you satisfied, or d<>
you want a fight anyhow ?" In the
■‘Georgia Platform" he held the
“Amo’ican Union only seeoudarv to
the rights and principles it was design
ed to perpetuate.” Sinae 1863, he has
held to “An indissoluble Ur.ion of in
destructable States,” and wo held till he
died. In tho Atlanta speech of Hon
Stephen A. Douglas, 1860. he put him- -
self squarely on Stephens' Georgia
Platform of 1850 Hon. Howell Cobb
was elected Governor upon it in 1851
Tn 1852 came oiie of the great acts oJ
his life, which has been much uiisrcpV
resented and misunderstood. SHoo'
Franklin Pierce was the Democratic
nominee. Gen. Winfiell Scott, the
hero of Mexico, whom it was supposed
no man could beat, was nominated by
the powerful Whigs, Then was issued
the famed card of the 3rd of July,
1852, which began the dissolution of
ihe Whig party. Stephens wrote it,
and signed it with C. J. Faulkner, of
Virginia; W. Brooke, of Mississippi;
Alex. White of Alabama; J. Aber
crombie of Alabama; Robert. Toombs
and James Johnson of Georgia, and C.
H. Williams and M. P. Gentry of Ten
nessee. Mr. Stephens had favored the
nomination of Daniel Webster as the
embodiment oC constitutional Union
principles. Gsn. Scott, the nominee,
refused to approve squarely of the ad
justment principles and Stata rights
doctrines of 1850 Mr. Stephens asked
him to indorse them, but he took his
nomination with the resolution annex
ed. He was Ifor them, but refused tn
indorse them, as declared by Congress.
Franklin Pierca was a constitutional
States Rights man. Daniel Webster
died beforo the election, but many ad
mirers voted for the principles he rep
resented, after he was dead. Among
these were Toomba and Stephens.—
Franklin Pierce was elected, but did
not bring his parly entirely to his own
principles". i lit death ol'tifeu.
in 1850, brought in Millard Fillmore,
who would have been elected in 1852,
if he had come up to Webster's views.
To 1854, Mr. Stephens defended the
Kansas-Ncbraska measure of that year
on the ground that they were in accord
with the Georgia Platform of 1850,and
the Clay compromise. For the same
reasons he supported Stephen A. Dou
glas for President in 1890. This is
the Georgian, by some said to hive
been inconsislent; States Rights fo:'
Harrison in 1840; tho same for Clay
in 1844; acting with the Democrats on
tho same principle* on the admission of
Texas in 1845; with Calhoun and the
VVhig9 on tho snme jrinciples of a
Constitutional Union of States iD the
Mexican war contests of 1846 and
1847, which the whole Whig party
adopted fram his resolutions in the lat
ter year; with Taylor on the same pol
icy in 1848; against Taylor and for the
old principles with Clay in 1850; in
1854 for the Kansns-Nebraska Act on
exactly tbe same line; in 1859, voting
for James Buchanan, the Democrat, as
ithe better man, still on prineiple;
against Buchanan and for Douglas in
jl 859 and 1860, when the President
jwent astray and Douglas was true; for
jhe Union in the secession hours of
( 18G0, but abiding the decision of his
State. Then on the same State Rights
doctrine with which he made his first,
speech—is there a man alive or dead
with such a record? His maxim in
|life was: “Times may change and men
with them, but principles never!’’ and
jas true as is the magnetic needle to its
jfar bride, the polar star, so true has he
jbpsn to principles. Parties have vari
ed as the winds of popular emotion
swept them about. Presidents and
Cabinets hava been on both side* in the
same year; but Mr. Stephen*, regard-
Sui parties and men a* only the ma
chinery of government, baa never vari
ed. Outside of Mr Toombs, who else
can say ths same? He was callsd a
traitor at horns for bis speech on the
Clayton Compromise, 7th Asgust.lß4B,
which nearly cost him bis life. The
terrible stabs of that occasion, to the
last, affected his right haod and spoil
ed his writing. His (appearance, still
unable to walk, in Atlanta, 14th Sep
tember. 1848, was one of the memora
b e scenes of a wonderful life. The
people displaced the horses and drew
the carriage, and wept a* they applaud
ed the few words that he could speak
for “Old Zack." Ha did carry the
Slate for Zaek Taylor, by 2,o9o,againstl
Lewis (’as*.
| On the 15th of January, 1855, he!
.met tbe charge of L. D. Campbell, of]
|()bio, in the House, |es be hed, that of
Mr. Face of Indiana. Both bad said
that slavery nseesaarily left a common
wealth in both ignorance and in pover*
ty. Stephens' reply, “Georgia and
Ohio again,” abowing that Georgia, in
[proportion to population and vote*, was
ahead in education, wealth, industry,
manufactures, echoole, labraries and the
esseotials of civiliration, was the grand*
est and noblest vindication the Empire
State of the South ever had. Thi* as.
sertion of our wealth per capita he re
peated at Savannah, February 12,1883.
Certain weaklings have attempted to
show that Mr. Stephens was with tbe
Kpow Nothings in 1855. His letter to
Judge Thomas TV. Thomas, May 9,
1855. waa the first voict^^th^f^^l^
general omecU
UTirujwu tiea<l.
as if were, “a wheel within a wh4 w l. ri
Then the numbe- may be multAlhud
without limit. Then, indeed, may the
nations of the earth look with wonder
at our career, and when they hear the
no se of the wheels of our progress in
achievement, in development, in expan
sion, in glory and renown, it will ap
peer to them not unlike the noiae of
great water*—the very voice of the
Almighty—l ox populi , Vox Dei !—
In 1859 he retired from dongresa, and
I'is farewell speech, July 2nd, 1859, is
worthy to frame with the farewell words
of Washington. In 1845, in his Texas
speech he had said; “I am no defender
of slavery in the abstract —iiberly al
ways had ebarme for me,” etc. In hie
farewell speech he said; “If slavery as
it exists with us is not the best for the
African, constituted ae he is; if it does
not best promote his happiness and
welfare, socially, morally and politically
as well as that of his master, it ought
to be abolished." His later words
about the rock “impregnated as truth,’’
and the “Corner Stone” speech, did
not contradict these words. His letter
to this biographer, written on tbe Bth
of April. 1860, in reply to a proposal
to use his name for President at the
Charleston Convention, was as full of
the spirit of self-denial and of obedi
ence to the will of the people, as hi*
whole life had proved. But it was not
until he stood by Senator Douglas in
Atlanta, later in the year, that he knew
how near Mr. Donglas had been- to
withdrawing his name for President in
favor of Mr. Stephens. Mr Douglas’
words were, “If they would only stand
on the Cincinnati platform and accept
a Southern man on that platform, I
implored him (Richardson) to consult
our friends and get them to accept
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, as
the man.”
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