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Great Speech of Hon. George H.
Pendleton.
At Grafton, West Virginia, Thursday,
July 16, 1868.
A MASTERLY REVIEW OF THE GREAT
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
IXTROVVCTiOs.
Mr. Chainhanand Gentlemen: It will be im
possible for ine to make myself heard in this
itnraense audience unless you keep quiet, and
1 chiill ask that while I am speaking you will
allow me to proceed without interruption. I
thank you, gentlemen, for the very cordial re
ception you have just given me. The Chair
man of your State Executive Committee, who
invited me to attend your meeting to-day, told
me that 1 had no truer friends in the Union
than I would meet here in West Virginia.—
You have proven his statement true. I catne
obedient to your bidding. 1 desired to see
yon, to make your personal acquaintance, and
to return to you my thanks for the warm and
constant support of your delegates in the Na
tional Convention. 1 came to show you that
no personal disappointment lingers in my
breast or dampens for a instant the ardor of
my efforts for the success of our party; that
far above all personal consideration I rate the
success of the principles in which I believe,
and whoever shall bear the flagon which those
principles nre inscribed, I shall be found close
by his side, in the thickest of the fight, to
cheer him with my voice and to aid him with
my arm. I came to urge upon you, Democrats
and Republicans alike, to trample under foot
every prepossession, and prejudice, and passion,
if it were as dear as life itself, and, rising to
the height of this great struggle, to remember
that we have only a little life to give and a
noble, enduring Government to save.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE PARTY OF LIBERTY
AMD PROGRESS.
I am a party man. I avow it, but not, I
trust, in any narrow or sectarian sense. I am
attached from conviction to the principles of
the Democratic party. I have studied its his
tory from the foundation of the Government.
In the States I have found it to be the party of
liberty and progress. In the Federal Govern
ment I have found it to be the exponent of
that fundamental principle of the Constitution
that “all powers which are not granted are re
served.” It has been the consistent opponent
of consolidation in one system, and of exces
sive administration in the other. It has been
at once the firm supporter of the rights of the
States and of the just powers of the Federal
Government.. In every vicissitude of its his
tory it has appeared to direct us with its wis
dom, and to extricate us with its courage, and
to-day it stands as it did in 1708 and 1799,
under the guidance of Mr. Jefferson, pointing
us to the path of safety, which is now as it
was then—the Constitution—the path of fra
ternal harmony and peace.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION THE SYMBOL OF A
RESTORED UNION.
The Convention which sat in New York was
an august assembly. It was the true council
of our party. It embraced oiii best, and purest,
and wisest men. The roll of the States was
called, and not one was without a representa
tive. The doctrine of State suicide was not
recognized- The dissolution of the Union was
not acknowledged. Every Slate was invited
to be present, and every State accepted the in
vitation. Every State selected such citizens
ns she chose; nnd (bus it happened that North
Carolina, and South Carolina, and Georgia,
and Virginia, sat, ns in the days of the Revo
lution, in fraternal council with Massachusetts,
and New York, and Pennsylvania, and New
Jcrttey ; nnd that Hampton, and Preston, and
Forrest, sat side by side with Stcedmau and
Morgan.
The Convention was the sign, and the sym
bol, and the prophecy of a restored Union, and
a harmonious people. It rose 1o the dignity
of its high duty. The eyes of the world were
upon its proceedings—greater than the Holy
Alliance, which subjugated peoples and divi-
aui empires, its mission was to enfranchise
the people of our own race, to restore the
Union of our States, and to maintain the in
stitutions of civil liberty. For flip first tinn-
in their history, the American people realized
that free government was in danger, and that
the fate of the Republic trembled in the bal
ance. They had been taught to believe that
freedom was indigenous to our soil, and, shut
ting their eyes to the facts connected with our
Revolution, they had hugged to themselves the
delusion that whatever the storm of faction,
or passion, or revolutionary fervor, liberty at
least was safe. They had awakened from the
dream. As they sent representatives to she
Convention, they charged them, as the dictator
of old was charged: “See to it that no detri
ment happens to the" Republic.”
THE PLATFORM.
By unanimous vote they adopted Redeclara
tion of principles—“fidelity to the Constitu
tion;” “fidelity to the Union;” “fidelity to the
rights of States;” “fidelity to the rights of the
citizens;” “fidelity to the principles of civil
liberty;” “fidelity to that policy in matters of
finance'and taxation, which, by paying the
public debt in legal-tender notes, will lift from
the shoulders of labor the burdens which op
press it, and by lightening the measures of
taxation, will secure to it the just rewards ot a
cheerful and contented industry.” [Applause.]
THE NOMINEES.
And the assertion of these principles was
nlso, by a uuaufnious vote, confided to one
who is worthy of the trust, by his age and ex
perience, and intelligence, and cultivation; by
his honesty, his patriotism, and his unsullied
reputation. By the possession of every virtue
which adorns a public or a private life, Hora
tio Seymour stands the first of statesmen: and
his explicit declaration that he approves every
Use of those resolutions; that he will stand
upon them in the contest; that he will carry
them out in future, wherever lie may be placed :
gives full assurance that he will make them
effective in his administration. [Tremendous
applause.]
Mr. Blair is an accomplished and experienced
Etutesman; a brave and able soldier. Ilis
father was the nearest friend of Gen. Jackson
—his brother the confident and adviser of Mr.
Lincoln, and he himself the disciple aud pro
tege of Benton. [Applause.]
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY—WHAT IT IS KESPOXSI-
KLK FOR.
If anything more were needed to fire your
heart with the enthusiasm which marked their
nomination, let it be drawn from the contrasts
which the country to-day presents. The Re
publican party has been for eight years in ab
solute possession of every department of the
Federal Government—it has had the execu
tive, and the legislative, and the judiciary,
obedient to its behests. It lias had possession
of every State government in the Union, with
very few exceptions; so few that they hardly
serve to illustrate the rule. It has had every
department of governmental power, both State
and Federal entirely in its hands. If vetoes
have been interposed they have been overrid
den by a two-tliirds vote. If adverse judicial
decisions have been expected, the court has
been reorganized by a diminution of judges,
or the case has been taken from its cognizance
by a change of the law of appeal. If States
have interposed an obstacle, their assumptions
have been derided, ancLtbeir efforts have been
met by the strong arm of the Federal power.
Having thus had absolute possession of the
Government duriug four years of the war, it
has also had possession of it during three
years of profound peace. It has had the en-
jovineut of power and it is responsible for its
use.
But iD what condition do we find the coun
try to-day . It here is the Constitution which
- ey "ere sworn to -uphold? Where is the
Lmou which they swore to maintain ? Where
are the rights of the States which are essen-
tml to the maintenance of that Constitution
and the L uton?
‘^STOKED” THE UNION, ETC.
We have had three years of profound peace;
not a hostile arm has been raised in opposition j
to th«* O-wernment. and ret. to-day. ten States j
nre held by the strung arm of military power,
in acknowledged subjugation, or else are com
pelled to submit by that same power to frames
of State Constitutions and Government? which
they abhor, whose foundation and sole purpose
is the enfranchisement of the negro and the t
disfranchisement of the white man. 1 know j
they' tell us that the work of reconstruction
goes bravely on. It does, forsooth, but it is '
not tlie restoration of the South: not the res- j
[oration of the Union: not the re-establish-j
ment of civil government! Read your tele- j
graphic dispatches to-day, and you will see !
that in Georgia men are being tried by milita
ry commission for murder. * * * *
PERIPATETIC CONG RES MEN.
Read the dispatches of the day before, and '
you will see that one of the newly elected j
Senators from Louisiana was, six months ago. j
a citizen of Illinois, and the other a citizen of j
Indiana; tlint the Governor of Florida was, a j
year ago, the President of an agricultural .-o- :
ciety in Iowa. If I am not mistaken the State 1
of Virginia rejoices in the possession of a ;
Governor fresh from the soil of Ohio. [Laugh- j
ter.j And if the new-papers do not belie him, I
a citizen of our State has declined to be a can- i
diilate for Congress in the di.-trict in which he I
lives, for the reason that he expec s to be a
Senator from Alabama before the fall elections
in Ohio shali take place. [Laughter and ap
plause.]
[Warner, who is referred to, has since been
elected U. S. Senator from Alabama.—Ed.]
CONGRESSIONAL USURPATIONS.
Congress ha3 usurped to itself all power
over the State governments of the South. It
has destroyed them. It lias ruade use of the
Federal Government to destroy the States, and
now, with the insatiate spirit of revolution, it
turns upon the Federal Government itself. It
has destroyed the independence of the Jul.-
ciary; it has struck at the existence of tb*-
Executive. Our fathers thought they had
solved the problem of free government in the
creation of the three departments. This Re
publican Congress has destroyed all the divis
ions which were thus created, and seeks to
collect in its own hands all the powers which
belong to the system, and, by an inexorable
law of its existence, it now stands ready, in
ease of party necessity, to transfer them to the
grasp of the military dictator. It is reprodu
cing in our country the lessons of all history.
LEGISLATIVE DESPOTISM AND THE SEQUEL- HIS
TORICAL EXPERIENCE.
The depotisru of a legislative assembly is
the worst despotism in the world; it is tbe
most selfish, the most cruel, the most auda
cious, and the most short-lived : it end? in an
archy, and is speedily followed by the calm
repose of tyranny under the order of tLe
sword. Recall the history of the Roman Sen
ate and the Emperors; recall the history of
the Long Parliament and the tyranny of the
Commonwealth ; recall the history of the Leg
islative Assembly of France, raid of the Con
sulate, and the Empire, and read in them the
certain prophecy of the fate of this Govern
ment if Congressional usurpation shall run its
course.
OUR OWN EXPERIENCE.
Have we not already a part fulfillment of
these examples ? Congress has despoiled the
Executive of the just power of Ins ollice, and
has invested them in the General of our ar
mies. It has despoiled the States, and vested
them, too, in the same officer. It has given
him power over all the military commanders,
and to his decision it has referred every ques
tion of interpretation or execution of the re
construction laws. And this same officer—
wielding this enormous power—backed by the
army—sustained by all the military organiza
tions, by whatever name they may be known,
appealing to the ferver which yet remains after
the struggles of a terrible war—demands that
he shall be elected President of these United
States. And the party which support him,
declare that if they cannot do it by the votes
of you, men of the North, it will elect him by
the votes of the negroes and carpet-baggers in
the reconstructed States of the South !
THE DANGER ILLUSTRATED AND THE REMEDY SUG-
GBS’lED.
Gentlemen, do you see no danger here?—
When, years ago, we predicted this result, and
warned against the first step in revolutionary
progress, the Republicans laughed at our feats
-called us copperheads and traitors. [Ap
plause.] When Napoleon was called on—
young, unknown to his countrymen, never
having had command even of a regiment—to
quell the revolt of the sections, he did it effec
tually. In four years he was the First Consul
and master of the French people. Here a
grand party, through the General of our army,
attempts a Similar usurpation, which the Dem
ocratic party opposes, as iaimicalile to the
whole system of republican government, and
it proposes a safe aud simple means by which
it may be averted; I read you from the decla
ration of principles:
“Immediate restoration of all the States to
their rights in the Union, under the Constitu
tion, and of civil government to the American
people.
“2d. Amnesty for all past po’.iti al offences,
and the regulation of the elective franchise in
the States by their citizens.”
CORRUPTION AND EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE REPUB
LICAN PARTY.
The Republican party is the party of usurpa
tion. It is aiso the party of corruption. Read
the report of the Commissioner of Revenue.
Count the number of clerks who are seeking
in vain to discover the amount of peculation
in the Treasury Department. Go to tiie War
Department and see the mutilated archives a.id
ask why they were destroyed? Visit the Pen
itentiary and count the public plunderers who
are confined there. [Applause.] It is the
party of extravagance—the war party ended
in May, 1S65.
Duriug the three years, from July 1, 1865,to
July 1, 1SCS, the expenditure of the Federal
Government, independent of iuterest on the
public debt, was eight hundred and twenty
millions of dollars! These were years of
peace. The army and navy of the war had
been reduced; their back pay had already
been made up to them ; immense sales of Gov
ernment property, consequent upon the do-v
of the war, bad been made, and yet in these
three years the Republican administration ex
pended eight hundred and twenty millions ot
dollars—two hundred and se'cnly millions of
dollars a year.
CONTRAST WITH DEMOCRATIC ADMIXISRT.YTI0N3.
The whole expense of the Government of
the United States for four years preceding the
war, was two hundred and fifty-six millions of
dollars. These eight hundred and twenty mil
lions do not include the interest on the public
debt. If this be added, the expenditure of
each one of these three years will amount to
at least four hundred and thirty millions of
dollars. The taxation of the year 1806
amounted to five hundred and ninety millions
of dollars. The taxation of the last year of
Mr. Buchanan's administration amounted to
eighty millions of dollars. The expenses of
tbe War Department, during the whole of Mr.
Polk's administration, including the Mexican
war, were ninety million five hundred aud for
ty thousand dollars; the expenses of the War
Department, for 1868. were one hundred and
twenty-eight millions eight hundred and fifty
dollars. in one year of Republican adminis
tration, in time of peace, the War Department
spent thirty millions of dollars more than a
four years' Democratic administration did in
time of war. [Applause.] The Navy Depart
ment for four years, before the war, cost sixty -
two million nine hundred and tea thousand
dollars. Then our commerce was prosperous,
our ships sailed uu every sea and landed in
every harbor. To-day we have no commerce,
a loreign ting covers all the trade to our sea
ports. The ship-builders of Maine are starv
ing for warn, of occupation, and yet the esti
mate for the Navy, for the current four years,
is one hundred and seventeen millions four
hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
option of the Government. Redeem these.
U 'O, in legal tender notes. ‘‘Where wi 1
:!o se notes come from ' a-k' some friend
FINANCE AND TAXATION.
I Kve s.riJ to yon th it the taxation of 1806
amounted to fine hundred and ninety millions
f ‘‘•"iff 1 ■TJiff! Stop this contraction at the Treasury De
less. The securities of the Government are t
not subject to taxation. The capital invested partnient ; rc\erse its whole policy , gi\’.
in the securities reaches $2,500,000,000. All
the property, real and personal, of every kind,
as derived from the official report? of I860,
mounted to $10,000,000,000. Thus yoa see
that near one-sixth of all the capita! in tbe
country is exempt from taxation.
cured bv the enjoyment of liberty regu- , . JOHN BULL’S
•ated bv law, and ol law inspired by the;
genius of virtuous liberty. [Immense and -Q^EAT REMEDIES*
prolonged cheering]
stability to the money market; let it b>
understood that f rtunes are not held at
the whim of any Secretary, and trade will j
revive and business will become active, j
j Investments will be made, the rate of tax J
But why is it that the amount realize! from ation will yield a larger return, and those !
1869 will be less than the amount realized in no ies will flow into your treasury. Let
lcff? The rate of taxation is substantially nnmv be practiced : let corruption be
the same. It 13 true that this Repu olican Lon- . , % , \ , ’■ f„,Li „
gress has diminished, as a whole, tbe taxes on banished ; lot speculation of public fund,
the manufactures of New England: it is true be puttisheu , let tne aim\ be reduced ,
they will diminish somewhat the taxes upon the Fruedinen’s Bureau be btoken up;
whisky, but the amount collected from either tb e impoverishment of the South cease,
of those sources would not materially change 1 ^ noteg wU1 be abuQC [ aut .
tlie ap^regate. W by, then. 1 ask again, will ,
CHEAP GASH: SUM!
JAMES B. HUNJJTCTJTT,
BILL’S CEDRON BITTERS.
EXPANSION.
But, gentlemen, if the measures will
AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
Arkansas Heard. From.
SdEjNTOI^k, TESTIMONY OF MEDICAL MEN.
FAMILY GROCERIES
uumiobiun Mimormni.
ALSO AGENT FOR
3VT -A. 3E» 3Z3 ’ SS
the amount realized from taxes this year be J
less than 1866? The burthen upon those who j
do pay is just as great as it was then. Tbe |
difficulty of making the payment is even great- | uot supply funds, speaking for myself, I ; y, * 1 C,i n p Pn ]iAQ n liqfn
er than it was then. • would expand the currency ; I would cor- j A lirO^CIlIZCll
rriE general distress and iTs CAUSE. | rect the evils wliicli have been produced
Theory of distress when the day for the | bv gucb . extraordinary and unprecedented
payment of the taxes comes around arises from; c * ntractiou The business of the COUn
evervpartol the countrv: and it is because! . , j. . , .
the business of the country is stagnant; it is j try has become adjusted to a larger vol-
because vour workshops are icle; it is because j ume ol currency than we bob hate. J he
labor finds no occupation; it is because the j demands of the South and West require
They arc
to pay
g the
war, when the currency was at its largest
cuiiuENCY—contkactios. j ““>ouDt, gold touched COO per cent.; yet.
And why is all this? Because a Republican j upon the declaration ot peace, when the
administration insists iu curtailing the cur- | Southern country—impoverished, as it
had been, with 10,000,000 of people, who
had been shut out from the use ot our
currency, ready to strain every nerve to
lized. and capital remains inactive.
jj^Tf^The best Fertilizer for this section.
CALL AT THE
ROCS HOUSE,
Senoia, Coweta County, Georgia.
March 28-Grn.
Atlanta Machine Works,
AND-
rency disturbing all values, checking all en
terprises, throwing out of employment all
labor. The tradesman is caught with a large
stock on declining prices. The farmer fears
tiie fall which may overtake him before his (
wheat reaches the market. The manufacturer j our business, gold stood only at a fraction
fears that the price of his raw material to-day j over jog.
will be greater than t,.e price of hi? manntac- J Th e system of contraction was imme-
tured goods to-morrow, and the capitalists will J , . ,
not take his money out of Government bonds diately commenced and with a currency
and invest it in house?, or hinds and stock?, | of at least two bundled millions less than
lest the rents and dividends will not yield him ; it was then. Gold stands, to day, at 141.
simple interest. In the meantime labor is j The value of the currency then was not
IRON m BRASS FOUNDRY
repair the wastes of war—was opened to
JAS. H. PORTER.
K. H. BUTLER.
uid Savv Mill Machinery, Cotton Screws, Gins,
Castings made without extra charge for Fat-
terns when in regular line of work.
Saws re-toothed and gummed in the best
manner.
bstterms cash.-©#
February 13-ly.
Run Here Everybody!
would be necessary or advisable to expand j p rtn5j _g ar * Mills, Sugar Mills, and Boilers,
the currency to that exteut; but if it
should prove to be so, I would not hesi
tate to restore the currency to the amount
at which it stood when gold touched 128.
I tell you, gentlemen, if this were done,
it would be as grateful to you and to the
people of the West aud South as the dews
of heaven to the parched earth; as the
quails and manna which God, in his mer
cy, vouchsafed to the children of Israel
in the wilderness. By these two meas
ures alone your debt would be reduced to
$830,000,000, and tlie interest would be
reduced more than $50,000,000 in gold,
annually, aud the accruing revenue would
enable you, without further expansion, to
pav off the residue of the five-twenties as
they mature, and thus to diminish still
further the amount of interest and con
sequently the taxes If, then, tlie cur
rency were iound redundant, gradual con
traction could be effected, and as it would
come when tbe debt had been paid—when
the necessity for large sums of money on
the part of the Government had passed
away—when taxes were low, it could be
accomplished without the oppressiou aud
disaster which now attend it.
G E 0 RGIA—Carrol 1 Conn t y.
'Y\7'HEREAS Wm. H. Pope applies to me for
VV letters of guardianship of Jefferson A.
Fope, minor son of Henry Pope, late of said
county, deceased:
Therefore all persons concerned are notified
t > be and appear at my office within the time
prescribed by law, and show cause, if any
they can, why letters of guardianship should
not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature
July 15th, 1868.
July 24-30d. J. M. BL ALOCK, Ord’v.
PERSONAL POSITION TOWARD TIIE BOND
HOLDERS AS A CLASS.
I have been represented as inimical to
the bond holder. Gentlemen, you shall
judge me. I am hostile to no class or in
terest in the country. 1 simply desire to
be just—just to the bond holder, just to
the people. I would live up, with scrup
ulous fidelity, to the terms of our contracts
I would pay the interest of the five-twen
ties in gold, beeause the Government has
promised to do so. I would pay both
principal and interest ot the ten-forti°s in
gold, because the Government has promis
ed to do so. I would pay the principal
of the five twenties in legal lender notes,
beeause the bond holders agreed to re
ceive them in payment; and as I would
not repudiate an honest bargain to make
money for the people, so I will not repu
diate an honest bargain to make money
for the public creditor.
ALLEDGED CONSEQUENCES CONSIDERED.
It has been said that this policy will
give us a depreciated currency. I think
not. I think, on the contrary, that just
as the public debt is in this way discharg
ed, will the certainty of its ultimate re
demption become more apparent, and its
value be steadily increased. These bonds
operate as a mortgage upon the property
and labor of the country. There are two
thousand million of them. Pay off these
two thousand millions, and will not the
legal-tender notes be just that proportion
more valuable ?
But again, give to these notes the ac
knowledged undoubted capacity to pay
these bonds ; to pay all public obligations,
and they immediately increase in value.
I know the evils of a depreciated curren
cy ; Webster described them. .1 would
not aid in depreciating our currency;
{ought against it when it was proposed by ; jj ef , r< q county for leave to sell all the land
tne Legal-tender act, my warning was j belonging to the estate of Solomon L. Almond,
not heeded. But since it has been ac- i late of said county, deceased,
possible; all the money collected from i eomplished—since the debt was contract-! Junel2-2m. G. W. DRUMMOND, Adm’r.
j the people shali not be squandered on ! ed in legal tender—since it may be law-j ~ ■ ■
i freedmen’s bureaus and standing armies,! fully and honestly paid in lettal-tender— j 0 “ ont hs after date application will be
i ^ i n v. t ,.i T ' • i> S made to the Court of Ordinary of Heard
but shall be appned to the payment ot j I am m favor o coutinuiug it until we c * untv for leave t0 sell ali the land * belonging
this debt and the reduction of the interest. ! can secure to the peop.e, who have al- , t0 t be estate of Lazarus Summerlin, deceased.
^J^HE undersigned takes pleasure in announ-
A eing to his friends and customers that be
is again prepared to do anything in the
Saddlery and Harness Business,
with neatness and despatch. My motto is
1 Quick sales and short profits.” He also
manufactures
Ijoatlier Collars.
Call and see him up stairs at Old Repository.
Country Produce taken in payment for work.
Nov. 2-if. GEO. W. VANCE.
NOTICE.
A LL persons indebted to ine either by note
or account will please come forward and
settle the same with J. J. Goodwin, who is my
duly authorised agent,
June 12-tf, D. A. COOK.
PORTER & BUTLER,
PROPRIETORS,
,'At the old Stand of J. L. DUNNING,)
-A.TXj^A-ISrT-A. 3 G-^k-
At this establishment can be manufactured
and repaired all kinds of Machinery. We es-
■ J u . r , too large for the demands of the business j penally invite the attention of all interested
homes w here comfort had always been belore. „ , , T , . , .- . .. in Coweta and adjoining counties, to our Grist
[Applause.] In the meantime, this work of ot the country. I do not believe that it '
contraction is steadily pushed. Look at every
monthly report of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, you will find that every month the debt
that hears interest in gold is increased; you
will find that every dollar that bears no inter
est at all, or which bears interest in currency,
is converted as rapidly as possible into the
bonds that pay interest in gold. And why L
this? Is there too much currency in the
countrv? Is there a plethora of money? Is
speculation rife? No one will dare affirm so
much, and yet this work of contraction still
goes on, aud value is coined for the bond
holders out of the sweat and tears, tlje blood
and bones aud muscles of the laboring man.
UNITED STATES RONDS.
And when we ask the reason, we are an
swered by the declaration of the Republican
Convention, at Chicago, that the bods must be
paid in gold, according to the spirit aud letter
of the contract; by a declaration ol its Presi
dent that the debt of the bond-holder is as
sacred as the grave of the soldier.
PAYMENT IN LEGAL TENDERS.
I deny that it is according either to the
spirit or the letter of the contract tinder
which the fi\e-twenty bonds were sold.—
I say that neither the spirit nor the letter
of the law under which those bonds were
issued, nor good faith, nor good morals,
nor exact justice to tlie bond-holder, re
quire that they should be paid in gold.—
They are payable in legal tender, and in
this opinion I am sustained by the reso
lution of the Democratic Convention iu
New York, which declares that where the
obligations of the Government do not ex
pressly state upon their face—or the law
under which they were issued does not
provide—that they shall be paid in coin,
they ought in right and justice to be paid
in the lawful money of the United States.
When the legal tender act was passed,
the private indebtedness of the country
amounted to a very large sum. It was
contracted to be paid in gold, but was in
fact discharged in paper. The public
necessity was alleged to be sufficient rea
son for this wholesale confiscation. Is
there no public necessity now to demand
the payment of the bonds iu the money
which was paid for them ?
POLICY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ON
THIS QUESTION.
The policy of the llepublican party is
to pay ali these bonds in gold ; to con
vert all the currency now outstanding,
and all the indebtedness of the United
States into these bonds ; to pay interest
in gold fur this enormous amount, what
ever it may be, and to extend tbe time
within which the bonds shall be paid.—
semi annually, in gold. What the amount
of indebtedness under that system can fi-
! nally be shown to be I cannot say; $2,-
j 500,000,000 we know it is now. Less
j than that it certainly will Dot be. The
j interest upon that sum will be drawn an-
! nually from the people of the country,
during all your lives, aud the lives of
your youngest children, in order to carry
out the dogmas of the Republican party.
THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION.
Tbe Democratic party upon this ques
tion has given forth no uncertain sound
It declares that the debt shall not be ex
tended, but must be paid as rapidly as
GEORGIA—Carroll County.
W HEREAS John F. Culpepper has made
application to me for letters of admin
istration on the estate of Gilford J. Boon, late
of said county, deceased:
This is to cite and admonish all persons con
cerned to be and appear at my office within the
time prescribed by law and show cause, if
any they can, why said letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand aud official signature
July 23d, 1868.
July 24-30d. J. M. BLALOCK, Ord'v.
T WO months after date application will be
made to the Coart of Ordinary cf Heard
county for leave to sell all the land and Rail
Road stock belonging to tbe estate of William
II. Glenn, deceased.
ELIZABETH R. GLENN, Adm’x,
GEO. W. GLENN, Adm’r.
July 10-2U1.*
T WO MONTHS after date applications will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of Coweta
county for leave to sell tbe lands belonging to
tbe estate of Francis D. Bowen, late of said
county, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs of
said deceased.
July 17-2m JAMES B. MARTIN Adm’r
O MONTHS after date application will
be made to the Court of Ordinarv of
Stonev Point. White Co. .jArk., May 28. ’06.
Dr. j5ht> Full—Dear Sir: Last February I
was in Louisville purchasing drugs", and I got
some of your Sarsaparilla and Cedron Bitters.
My son-in-law, who was with me in the
store, has been down with the rheumatism fbr
some time, commenced on the Bitters, and soon
found his general health improved.
Dr. Gist, who has been in bad health, tried
them, and he also improved.
Dr. Coffee, who lias been in bad health for
several years—stomach ami liver affected—improv
ed very much by the use of your Bitters. In
deed the Cedron Bitters has given you great
popularity in this settlement. 1 think I could
sell a great quantity of your medicines this
fall—especially of your Cedron Bitters and Sar
saparilla. Ship me via Memphis, care of llick-
ett & Neely. Respectfully, C. B. Walker.
Rule to Perfect Service
GEORGIA, COWETA COUNTY.
Coweta Superior Court, March Term, ISO*
Adelia J. Edmonson, )
vs. Libel for Divorce.
Hugh Barkley. )
I T APPEARING to the Court by the retun,
ot the Sheriff, that the defendant dues tl „j
reside in said'county'of Coweta, and it further
appearing that he doe? not reside in said ^ t a t e-
It is, on motion of Counsel, ordered, That
the said defendant appear an answer at t j lt ,
next term of this Court, else that the case he
considered in default and the complainant al
lowed to procecit.
And it is further ordered, That this Rule hi
published in tne Newnan Herald. a puffi,-
gazette of said .State, once a mouth f or ,- ( ‘ n ' r
'■ months previous to the next term of this Court
JOHN RAY & son.
Attorneys for Libellant.
Order granted.
JOHN W. II. UNDERWOOD; J. s. c.
A true extract from the Minutes of the Court
April t5th, 1868.
April 1 l-4in. J. P. BREWSTER, CUk.
Bull's Worm Destroyer.
To my U. States and World-wide Eeaders.
I have received many testimonials from pro
fessional and medical men, as my almanacs
and various publications have shown, all of
which are genuine. The following letter from
a highly educated and popular physician in
Georgia, is certainly one of tbe most sensible
communications I have ever received. Dr.
Clement knows exactly what he speaks of, and
his testimony deserves to be written in letters
of gold. Hear what the Doctor says of BULL’S
WORM DESTROYER:
Yillanow, Walker County, Ga., )
June 29, 1800. )
Dr. John Bull — Dear Sir: 1 have recently
given your “Worm Destroyer” several trials,
and find it wonderfully efficacious. It has not
failed in a single instance to have the wished-
for effect. I am doing a pretty large country
practice, and have daily use for some article of
the kind. I am free to confess that I know of
no remedy recommended by tbe ablest authors
that is so certain and speedy in its effects. On
the contrary they are uncertain in the extreme.
My object in writing to you is to find out upon
what terms I can get the medicine directly
from you. If I can get it upon easy terms, I
shall use a g>eat deal of it. I am aware that
the use of such articles is contrary to tbe teach
ings and practice of a great majority of the
regular line ot M. L).’s, but 1 see no just cause
or good sense in discarding a remedy which we
know to be efficient,simply because we may Ire
ignorant of its combination. For my pan, 1
shall make it a rule to use all and any means
to alleviate suffering*humanity which l may be
able to command—not hesitating because some
one more ingenious than myself may have
learned its effects first, and secured tiie sole
right to use that knowledge. However, 1 am
by no means an advocate and supporter of the
thousands of worthless nostrums that flood
the countiv, that purport to cure all manner
of disease to which human llesli is heir. Please
reply soon, and inform me of your best terms.
I am. sir, most respectfully,
J ULius P. Clement, M. D.
BULL'S
A Good Reason for the Captain’s Faith.
READ THE CAPTAIN’S LETTER AND THE
LETTER FROM HIS MOTHER.
Benton Barracks, Mo., April 30, I860.
Dr. John Bull—^Dear Sir: Knowing the effi
ciency of your Sarsaparilla, and the healing
and beneficial qualities it possesses, I send you
tbe following statement of my case.
I was wounded about two years ago—was
taken prisoner and cotitined for sixteen months.
Being moved so often, my wounds have not
healed yet. I have not sat up a moment since
I was wounded. I am shot through the hips.
My general health is impaired, and I need
something to assist nature. 1 have more faith
in your Sarsaparilla than in anything else. I
wish that that is genuine. Please express me
half a dozen bottles, and oblige
Cait. C. P. Johnson,
St. Louis, Mo.
P. S.^—The following was writted April 30,
1866, by Mrs. Jennie Johnson, mother of Capt.
Johnson.
Dr. Bull—Dear Sir: My husband, Dr. C. S.
Johnson was a skillful surgeon and physician
in Central New York, where he died, leaving
the above C. P. Johnson to my care. At thir
teen years of age he had a chronic diarrhea
and scrofula, for which 1 gave him your Sarsa
parilla. It cured him. I have for ten years
recommended it to many in New York, Ohio
and Iowa, for scrofula, fever sores, and general
debility. Perfect success has attended it. The
cures efjeded in some cases of scrofula and feoer sores
were almost miraculous. I am very anxious for
my son to again have recourse to your Sarsapa
rilla. He is fearful of getting a spurious arti
cle, hence his writing to you for it. His
wounds weie terrible, but I believe he will re
cover. . Respectfully,
Jennie Johnson.
It declares that the five-twenty bonds ! ready suffered all the evils, whatever good
shall be paid in legal tender, and i may be extracted from the system,
they shall be subjected to the same rate
: of taxaticu as all other property. It de
clares there shall be one currency for the
sioner and the soldier; the freedman
! the bond-holder.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLAN DEMONSTRATED.
RECAPITULATION AND APPEAL.
But, gentlemen, I detain you too long.
M. C. SUMMERLIN,
H. Q. WILKINSON,
Adra’rs de bonis nen, with will annexed.
July l0-2m.
DR. JOHN BULL,
Manufacturer and Vender of the Celebrated
SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP!
FOR THE CURE OF
ACHE AAD FEVER
CHILLS AAH FEVER.
The proprietor of this celebrated medicine
justly claims for it a superiority over all other
remedies ever offered to the public for the safe,
Government aud the people ;" for the j I have sought to bring in sharp contrast j T^dTmthe^ourt^f ChdffiarTof CarroU I Fev 1 er ’ ' JV ^ F [ ver ’ whether^f'"short
laborer and the office holder ; the pen- j the two parties and their respective prm- ! countv for leave to sell all the real estate be- vr T t U i rt '^ ers to the entire
and t-iples, “Choose ye betweeni them/ It ,3 Ion*** to the estate of James Stripling, late ! l.iJStaSev to the' llT
a struggle between law and forceJ Lon. : of ,a,d conntj, deceased I that in no case whatever will it fail to core, if
stttutiou and revolution ; order and anar- ; J- 1 ™ -b—m. M. J. BAXTER, Adm r. | th e directions are strictly followed and carried
! chj’ ; purity and corruption ; economy j " ' " ] ] j out. In a great many cases a single dose has
And how soon is it practicable to pay and extravagance ; civil government, and | months after date application will be ; been sufficient for a cure, and whole families
'■“‘•.Nr 6 fere. ,“1.'“"? i ,«". rthr “* > “! # i ferizs! s ‘^3^ ^
and in every case more cer
use is continued in smaller
k or two after the disease has
, more especially in difficult and
of the chosen leader of a great party of
Rule to Perfect Service,
GEORGIA, Carroll County.
Susan M. Daugherty, )
vs. [■ Petition for Divorce
Robert Daugherty. J
I T APPEARING to the Court, by the return 1
of the Sheriff', that the defendant does not
reside hi said 8tate, it is on motion of counsel'
Ordered, That said defendant appear and
answer at the next Term of this Court, else
that said case be considered iu default, and the
plaintiff allowed to proceed.
It is further ordered, That this rule be pub
lished in the Newnan Herald, a public gazette
of this State, once a mouth for lour mouths.
Order granted.
JOHN W. II. UNDERWOOD, J. 8. C.
T certify that the above and foregoing is a
true extract from tiie Minutes of Carroll 8upe-
rior Court for April Term, 1868.
J. M. GRIFFIN, Dept. C. S. C.
May 23-4 nr.
GEORGIA—Coweta County.
T HEREAS James P. Askew, administra
tor of William Askew, represents to
tbe Court in his petition duly tiled and entered
on record, that he has fully administered said
estate:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
persons concerned to be and appear at my
office within the time prescribed by law, and
show cause, if any they can why said execu
tor should not receive letters of dismission on
the first Monday in October, 1868.
Given under my official signature, April 1st,
1808. B. II. MITCHELL, Only.
^April 4-Grn.
GEORGIA—Haralson County.
ARY A. WETIIERBY, administratrix cm
the estate of E. J. Wetherhy, having
maile application to me for letters of dismis
sion from said administratorship:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
persons concerned to be and appear at my
cilice within the time prescribed by law aud
show cause, if any they can, why letters of
dismission should not be granted said appli
cant on the first Monday in November next.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this 18th day of April, 1808.
JAMES H. WILLIAMS, Ord'ry.
April 25-6m.
GEORGIA—Coweta County.
\17 HEREAS William B. Brown, sr., adniin-
Yf istrator of William B. Brown, jr., rep
resents to tbe Court in his petition, duly filed
and entered on record, that he ha3 fully ad
ministered William B. Brown’s, jr., estate:
This is therefore to cite and admonish all
persons concerned to show cause, if any they
can, why letters of dismission should not be
granted on the first Monday in September next.
Given under my hand aud official signature,
February 19th, 1808.
Feb. 19-Om. B. II. MITCHELL, Ord'v.
GEORGIA—Haralson County.
\\J HEREAS W. J. Brown, administrator on
YY the estate of Rowland Brown, deceased,
represents to tbe Court that he has fully ad
ministered the estate of said deceased:
This is therefore to cite all persons concern
ed, kindred and creditors to show cause, if
any they have, why said administrator should
not be discharged from bis administration, ami
receive letters of dismission on the first .Mon
day in November next.
JAMES 1I. WILLIAMS, Adm’r.
May 10-6rn.
GEORGIA—Heard County.
C HIARLES AY. .MABRY, administrator upon
/ the estate of Richard I. Watts, having
made application to rue for letters of dismis
sion from said trust:
These are therefore to notify all persons con
cerned to be arid appear at my office within the
time prescribed by law and show cause, if any
•they have, why said letters should not be
granted.
Given under my official signature, May 18th,
1808. W. H. C. PACE, Ordinary.
May 23- 6m.
GEORGIA—Coweta County.
\V7HEREAS Josiab D. Green, administru-
fY tor of David Linch, represents to the
Court in bis petition, duly filed and entered on
record, that he has fully administered David
Linrh’s estate :
This is therefore to cite all persons concern
ed to be and appear at my office within the
time prescribed by law, and show cause, if any
they can. why letters of dismission should not
be granted ou tbe first .Monday in January. 18‘i'J.
July 3-6m. B. H. MITCHELL, Ord’v.
; legal tender notes, and let them supply
j the place of the bank paper. This tneas-
! ure alone, with very little inflation of
; the currency aud without any addition to
i the taxation, will reduce the debt and
my eountyuien.
Tliis is the supreme struggle for the
mastery by the enduring and opposing
forces. Choose wiselv between then; —
the estate of H. R. Harrison, deceased.
save the twenty millions of dollars, in Work earnesly for vour choice, aud on ' May 29 2m. J. P. BREYv STER, Adm’r.
; gold, annually, which are now paid as a the day of the election in November the 1
bonus to the National banks. American people can be congratulated TT^WO months after date application will be
Five hundred millions ($500,000,000) for achievement of a victory for their Con-1 A made t0 the Court of Ordinary of Heard !
of the first issue of five-twenties are al- i stitution—the achievement of a prosperi- i . CO “" t - V -& r A ea ^ e r. to ^ seI i. a11 th . e !und _ beloQ g‘ng
long-standing cases. Usually, this medicine
will not require any aid to keep the bowels in
I ttm mnntt- .... , good order: shonld thepatient,however,re-
ma.le to thp f^nrt n‘' fi\r Ka£K>i J U quire a cathartic medicine, after having taken
T . “ J ‘ ,, * Grdinary of Coweta three or four doses of the Tonic, a single dose
1° luL:. e _ la “f S - belo " gin » to of BULL’S VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS
will be sufficient.
DR. JOHN BULL’S Principal Office:
No. 40, Cross Street,
LOUISVILLE, KY\
t ready, or will this year be payable at the , ty and happiness which can only be se-• July lo-2ra
to the estate of R. D. Cato, deceased.
H. II. COOK, Adm’;
All of the alove remedies for sale by
Dr J T. REESE, Sole Agent,
Tatinarv 2-7-1 v. Newnan. Ga.
GEORGIA—Carroll County.
X\J HEREAS Samuel C. White applies to me
VV for letters of guardianship of Florence
Pope aud Wm. 11. Pope, minor children of
Wiley Pope, late of said county, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish al•
and singular the next of kin and creditors of
said deceased to be and appear at my office
within the time prescribed by law, and show
cause, if any they can, why said letters should
not he granted.
Given under my hand and official signature
this July 15th, 1808.
July 24-30d. J. M. BLALOCK, Ord’ry.
GEORGIA—Coweta County.
D AVID L. MOORE having applied to be
appointed guardian of the person and
property of James P. Harris, a minor under
fourteen years of age, resident of this county:
This i3 therefore to cite and admonish a-h
persons concerned to be and appear at my
office within the lime prescribed by law and;,
show cause, if any they can, why said David.
L. Mocre, should not be entrusted with the
guai4hanship of the person and property 0.
James P. Harris.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
July 28th, 1808. B. IL MITCHELL, Ord’y.
July 31-C0d.
GEORGIA—Coweta County.
| -^T'OTICE is hereby given to all.persons con-
| _|_X( cerned that Joseph R. Meriwether, late
i of the State of Texas, departed this life iates-
! tate, and leaving an estate in said county of
j Coweta, State of Georgia, and no person ha?
i applied for administration on the estate of said
1 Joseph R. Meriwether, and that in terms of
! the law administration will be vested in the
! Clerk of the Superior Court or some other at
! and proper person, thirty days after the publi
cation of this citation, unless some valid ob
jection is madg to his appointment.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this 28th day of Julv, 1868.
July 31-30d. B‘ H. -MITCHELL, Ord’y.
^TAWO months after date application will be
I made to the Ordinary of Coweta county
for leave to sell the laud belonging to t :e e;
tate of P. S. Hodges, late of said county, de
ceased. P. CARROLL. Adtfl r -
June 19--2nj.