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Ilic foregoing rates orator eUherJVoekly or
al Government, indicate that our Rep
resentatives and our people wero im
provident and reckless in regard to tax
ation? When was it that our most
uncoasoionable defamers could ever
have it to say that in the schedule of
our exportable products we were not
contributing our full share to the re
sources and prosperity of our world
wide commerce? Wo make no vain glos
rious boast- we lay no claim to praise.
The injustice and the wrong we have
suffered make us more interested in the
impartial judgment of men than in
their praises. This most reasonable
olaim —the claim which neither the just
h t * oo nor the merciful will ever deny—we of
ncsquare ^“ the South have urged in all forms of
* argument and with unceasing remon
T'ceut%lti'om>Vupon table rateu,
published In both papers, 60
DDBESS OF GOV. COLQUITT
,t the Laying of the Corner-
Stone of the Monument to
the Confederate Dead, at
Rome, May 10,1879.
Viiow Citizens :
It will not be long before every
ity in our beloved State will pos-
ass some such memorial as the one
;liose foundations you place to-day.
he purpose which our people have
1 view in erecting these monuments
is assuming a wider and deeper sig
nificance with every incoming year.
What, let me ask, is that purpose ?
Do wo mean by a monument to the
Confederate dead an eternal re
minder of revenges that are to come?
Are we symbolizing a vow against
fraternity and union? By the honors
we pay, the eulogies we utter, the
tears we shed, the unutterable an
;uish we express only in sighs over
the graves of those we mourn, do
we intend to perpetuate sectional
strife and alienation ? In all this
vast assemblage, I dare believe,
there is not ono who represents
Georgia’s great heart who would de
clare that in any degree or in any
sense, that this was our purpose
We think that already in the four
teen years that have passed we have
become calm and collected enough
to hold just and rensible converse
with all Christendom about the
causes and provocations which ac
tuated us in this stupendous conflict
which will for all time to come be
reckoned as among the most marked
and wonderful in history.
" e can say of the causes that
provoked the collision that wo of
* South feel we are without blame.
ieiu s tand in charactois which
cannot be obliterated the terms of
tie compact. Did we observe these
terms; Did we main ain our faith?
,ot the accuser who denies it stand
0r *' ket h hi point to the i olitary
ns ance in which the South grew
tred of the conditions of t e bar-
sam, or in w icli it attempted to
: a ., e ! ts burdens, or enlarge un>
> its advantages. Nay, more;
challenge all accusers to
1111 * 'c instance in which wo were
rgiessors by pragmatical interference
won or denunciation in the case
other members of the union. Wo
i • . ° n seekers after (ruth to sift the
on ° ly ..°. Press, or our pulpit, or
Political literature, to li id, if they
... 10 P>°ols of our offending. When
iU, , * 6 ln default? Was it on tho
1S l 5 ; i0 "’^y°l the 8th of January,
P'aius o°f .Mexico T° ^ ^
the best i
°f tho
strance. These should never have been
necessary. If traditions dear to our
hoarts and most honorable to us all
were not enough, surely the obligations
of a written constitution, enforced by
all the sanctions of a Christian con
science, should havo kept our brother
hood and civil relations intact. But at
last the culmination of revolution was
reaohed.
What for more than thirty years
was merely a theory, assumed the
stern and dreadful shape of practi
cal governmental policy’. In that
teim of thirty years a sharp and
most acrimonious discussion result
ed in confirming a majority in their
determination to take with the
States out of the category of debat
able questions, and exercise, as well
as assert the power, whenever tho
majority saw fit to do it.
The renowned Mirabeau said
“Words are things.” When Mr.
Seward formulated his idea of State
sovereignty in the memorable
word*, “These States must all be
either free or slave,” lie stood
sponsor for a party catch-phrase,and
turned it loose to do a fearful work
of havoc against the peace and uni
ty of his country’. In the twinkling
of an eye, as soon as the final test
was made by a Presidential elec
tion, which had been conducted up
on that issue, the South saw tho
hope of an adjustment of the vital
difference between it and the North
was of all things the most futile.
We have been blamed even by
those whose sympathies were not
all against us, for the extremo re
sort which we had to secession. How
harsh and unreasonable was this
censure ! Should we appual to rea
son and moral suasion? For more
than thirty years the South, day and
night, in season and out of season,
by every conceivable agency that
human beings, hard pressod, could
employ, had tried these appeals.
Was the subjectmatter at issue large
and v luable enough to justify the
steps we took? If Constitutional
liberty’, which for three quarters of
a century aud more, we had been
cherishing, like our heart’s blood
was important enough, then were
we j ustified ? Was the right of prop
erty ail excuse ? Then three thou
sand millions of dollars, represent
In truest loyalty to
Htorest, and highest honor of
Somi Governme nt, when did the
'looiri'' aR a Rec ^ 011 ’ T*'l to maintain
i,Of, , Ue , S . " 8 llve the strongest sup-
W o these ? Did our belief in the
»MnvLi,T U ° Ver01gnty of oach Gom -
ciwractJ If" tL ? XJnion d‘ 8 P arn K e Ike
on* of ftn American citi en ? Did
etuio 8olul support of a just rev-
field and ! m f’ Wh L° haske<1 only nn opon
tries of aU C lauce * or the indus
ter U JT ant *’ P rove thatwelustedaf-
<maSf te0U8 «. ain? Did our almost
and min-' 8 oppositlon to tho imperial
" f in ternaHmn r0 ' 1i8ality ° f a 8y8tom
nprovements by tho gener-
ed in a single species of property
and which was imperiled by tiie
success of hostile politics, was
more than justification. Was the
dignity and honor of our people to
be slighted, sneered at, and system
atically misrepresented to the world
and we remain insensible to shame
and contumely ? in either, or all of
these aspects, we can have no mis
givings as to tho final verdict ot the
world upon our conduct. To this
hour we suffer reproach,and all man
nor of taunt from men who would
not have touched any one of the
burdens laid on our shoulders with
their little finger. A bare word or
allusion will suggest names to your
mind, who«aspiro to the Highest
honors in the gift of the people, the
Alpha and Omega of whose meriti^
and services consist of abuse and
decrial of the South. Before seces
sion we were abused, and for seces
sion we are denounced as rebels.
But a few days ago, before one of
the most august- and imposing tri
bunals known to this country, wc
were denounced as rebels, and the
war in which we engaged as the
wickedest rebellion recorded in his
tory. Let tlio true constitutional
republican, who is willing to make
a stand for the government of the
fathers, pause a moment and ask
himself how com vs it that in a hun
dred years from the date of tho bat
tie of Bunker Hill, no term of re
proach half so odious to the vast
number of our people as rebel. How
changed tho public ideas of free
dom, when the public judgment
casts out as infamous the spirit that
resirts a wrong, or fearlessly’ main
tains a right.
Will our judges, who so unspar
ingly condemn, tell us what can
make a “casus belli”—tell us wli-t
amount of material injury will
make it ? What amount of provo
cation and insult ? if in each of these
particulars the South was altogether
o blame in seeking to depart in
peace, and sever a connection which
was said to be a disgrace to one
party or ruin to tho other?
Who is sufficiently learned in the
politics of 177G to give a categorical
answer to the question, “for what
did tho colonies go to war ? ” Tlio
stamp act had been repealed, and
obnoxious'axes on paints, oil and
glass had been relinquished. No
citizens of the colonies had a right
to say that taxation without repre
sentation was cause of separation
from the mother country, so long as
only one citizeu in every eight was
allowed a vote in England. Mr.
Webster stated the case when he
declared that the colonies went to
war about a preamble. The statute
repealing the obnoxious tax act re
tained in its preamble the right to
tax the colonies. For this did our
fathers assert the right to separate
and self-government. Resistance
to a preamble, or it may have been a
riot in the streets of Boston, placed
George Washington among the im
mortals, and has taxed tho highest
powers of the muse of history and
poetry, to do justice to the heroes
who bled and died in the cause of
liberty in the colonies. The liberty-
loving Englishman claims his share
of the reflected glory of Wa-ihing.
ton’s name, and to this hour re
echoes the electric words of Chat
ham, “I rejoice that America has
resisted.” But, my countrymen, we
have lived to see the day when the
near descendants of that people,
the children of revolutionary he
roes, by the implication involved in
their denunciation of the South, de
cry, if they do not defame the mem
ory of their own sires. If years of
mistrust of the English government
justified revolt; years of aggressive,
acrimonious criminations and per
secution surely justified the course
of the South. Why then ignore
consistency—why condemn all anal
ogy; why become ashamed of our
once glorious traditions; only to
prove that a part of the American
brothorhood were unworthy of the
fame and fortunes of brave and
true men, or eyon of the rights ol
freemen.
Of one honor no power or politi
cal or social influence can deprive
us. Wo asserted our rights with
manly firmness, and maintained
them as long as we could raise an
arm. We have been cheered by
the thought, oven in moments ol
greatest despondency, when fore
casting tho future of this section
that men cannot, if they would live
in voluntary blindness. There are
to be no more deluges, physical or
moral, that shall put even Ararat
under water We should indeed
fear the rainbow had failed in its
promise, if over all this vast coun
try of ours I ho bitter flood of strife
and hatred between sections should
ever engulf the republican spirit
that gave life and being to the gov
e nmont wo boast. Until free gov
ernment is lost or driven by civil
strife into exile, the majority of our
people must be lovers aud defend
ers of constitutional freedom. No
sane man who values Lis rights or
the honor ol his country, cm evor
consent ‘hat a government such as
our fathers bequeathed to us should
be replaced by the government of
an irresponsible faction; and sent!
ment is even stronger and surer
than opinion, the deductions of log
ic. There canuot be an American
patriot who ever had his pulses
quicken at the boom of cannon on
tho dawn of a fourth of July, who in his
hoart can frown on our memorial days,
No true heart that over bled at tho
mention of the sorrowful day of Valley
Forgo can ever track the Southern
@uidf.
Spring and Summer Schedule of the
Steamer Sidney F. Smith.
O N AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 2lsr,
W|Ml, tho atoxmer Sidnoy P. Smith will run
us follows :
Loavo Romo Monday at 11 A.u
Arrfvo at Gadsden Tuosday at 8 a. u
Arriro at Gteensport Tuesday at 12 u.
Loavo Groensport Tuesday at 1 r. u
Arrivo at Gadsden Tuosday at Sr.s
Arrivo at Romo Thursday at ir.s
S. P SMITH, President.
Rome Railroad—Change of Sohedule
O N AND AFTER TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1st,
1878, the trains on tho Rome Railroad will
run as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leaves Rome daily at 7.(10 A. M
Return to Romo at 11 00 A. M
SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION.
Loaves Rome (Saturday only) at 6 00 P. M
Return to Roms at 8 00 P. M
Morning trr Id makes oonnaotinn with trais on
W. A A. Railroad at Kingston, for the West and
South. O M. PENNINGTON, Gon’lSupt.
JNO. E STILLWELL. Ticket Agent.
United States Mail Line—The OooBa
River Steamers I
O N AND AFTER NOVEMBER Sru, 1878,
Bteamors on the Ooosa River will run as
per sohedule as follows, supplying all the Post
Offioss on Msll Route No. 8188:
Leave Romo evory Tuesday and Friday
at 7 A. M.
Arrive at Gadsden every Wednesday
and Saturday at 7 A. M.
Leave Gadsden every Wadnsiday and
Saturday at 8 A. M.
Arrive at Rome every Thursday and
Sunday at _ 7 P. M.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Gsn’l 8upt
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The Beauty and Accuracy of its Movements Attest
its Superior Workmanship.
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For Sale by
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Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad—
Change of Sohedule.
BLUE MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, NOVEMBER
17th, 1878, trains will ran ai follow*:
GOING NORTE.
No. 3. No. 1.
Daily. Daily.
(Sunday exoepted.)
Leave* Selma. ....eestttte 4 00 P M 5.00 A M
Leave* Randolph 7.30 P M 7.20 A M
Leave* Oalera ......10 00 P M 9.00 A M
Leave* Talladega 2.30 A M 10.57 A M
Leave* Oxford.4.10 A M 11.49 A M
Leave* Anniston 4 40 A M 11.57 A M
Leave* Jacksonville..... 5.50 A M .12.29 P M
Leave* Patona... 6.45 A M 1.00 P M
Leave* Teeumseh 8 05 A M 1.40 P M
Leave* Prior’* 8 35 AM 2.08 P M
Leare* Cave Spring 9.10 A M 2.27 P M
Leave* Rome .11.05 A M 3.15 P M
Leave* Plainville 1210 P M 4.00 P M
Arrive* Dalton 2.00 P M 5.30 P M
GOING SOUTH.
No. 4. No. 2*
Daily. Daily.
(Sunday exoepted.)
Leave* Dalton 3.25 P M 9.00 A M
Leave* Plainville 5 20 P M 10 24 A M
Leave* Rome.6.50 P M 11.10 A M
Loavo* Cave Spring 8 00 P M 11 55 A M
Leave* Prior’* # 8 40 P M 12 11-P M
Leave* Teoumieh......... 9.10 P M 12.19 P M
Leave* Patona •••••#..•••.10 40 P M 1.03 P M
Leave* Jacksonvllle„...l 1.28 P M 1.31 P M
Leave* Anniston 12.40 A M 2.01 P M
Leave* Oxford 1 05 A M 2.08 P M
Leaves Talladega 2 30 A M 3.06 P M
Leave* Calera 7.40 AM 6.10 P M
Loave*Randolph 9.45 AM 7.30 P M
Arrive* Selma 1*45 A M 9.50 P M
No. 1 connect* closely with L. A N. Sc Gt. So.
R. R. at Calora for all point* We*t; with E. T,
V. A Ga. R. R at Dalton for all Eastern cities,
Tennessee and Virginia Spring*, and with W A
A. R K. for Chattanooga and all points in the
Northwest.
No 3 connect* olosely at Dalton with E. T. V#
A Ga. R. R. for all Eastern oities, Tennessee a"d
Virginia Springs, and with W. A A. R. R, for
Chattanooga and all points in Northwest.
No. 2 connect* cloioly at Calera with train* of
L. A N A Gt. So. R. R. for Montgomery, Mobile
and Now Orleans, and all point* in Louisiana
and Tox&s.
No. 4 make* clod© conneotioms at Selma with
Ala. Central R. R. for Meridian, Jackson, Vioka-
burg, Mobile and Now Orleans, and all points in
Mississippi and Louisiana.
M. STANTON, tfen. Supt.
RAY KNIGHT, G. T. A.
W. 8. CRANE, Agent, Rome,Ga.
1879. SPRING & SUMMER TRADE. 1879.
O
New Goods! Fine Goods!
MRS. T. B. WILLIAMS,
M ILLIKTER,
No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga,
rpHANKING MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME
A in (ho past, l am proud to say that I am better prepared to attend to their want, than ayar
beloro. I hays now in store and to arrive Bonnets, Hsta, Flowors, Plums,, Silks, Valrots, Plushes,
Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Goods, Zephyrs, Combs, Notions, ete., otc., whinh I have selected ln
isrson in the Northern markets. My Goods are in the Latest Styles, end I have my Trimming
one with good material by experienced mlllinere. Call and examine my goods and gel my prioea
before purchasing elsewhere. (ootT7 tw wtf
0. W. LANGWORTHY.
W. & A. R. B. and its Oonneotions.
•• KKNNE8AW ROUTE!!’*
The following sohedule tehee effect May 21,1876
NORTHWARD.
No. 1 . No. 3 No. 11
Leave Atlanta... 2 00 pm... 820 am... 666 pm
ArrCartorsvillo.. 636 pm... 842 am... 860 pm
Arr Kingston 7 04 pm... 911am... 9 24 pm
Arr Dalton 8 41 pm...l0 64 n46 pm
ArrChattanooga.10 16 pm...l2 42Vm.
SOU'iHWARD.
No .1 No. 4 No. 12
Lve Chattanooga 4 00 p m... 616am*.
Arrive Dalton 6 41pm... 7 01am... 100am
Arr Kingston 7 88 pm... 9 07 a m... 4 19 a m
Arr Oartorsville-. 8 12pm... 942 am... 618am
Irr Altauta 1010 pm...1166 am... 9 30 am
Pullman raise. Cars run on Nos. 1 and
between Now Orleans and Baltimoro.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Noe. 1 ana
boiweon Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palaco Cars run on Nos. 3 end I
between Louisville and Atlanta.
_ y No ohango of oars beiwesn New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and
only ono ohange to New York.
Passenger* leaving Atlanta at 4.20 P. M. ar
rive in New York tho second afternoon thereaf
ter at 4.00 P. M.
Excursion Tiokois to the Virginia Springs end
various Rummer Resorts will bo on sale i New
Orleans. Mobile, Montgomery, Columbus, Macon,
Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta, at greatly
redueed rate. 1st of June.
Parti.s desiring • whole car through to the
Virginia Springs or to Baltimoro, should ad-
iross tho undersigned.
Parties contemplating traveling should send
for a copy of iTennuaio Routs Ornette, ooitein-
'ng sohedulos, eto.
am- A.k ior tickets via *• Kenneiaw Routs.
B. W. WRENN,
Gan’l Passenger and Tiekat A gt. Atlanta Ga.
army, half starved and in tatters, as it
met tho last days of our struggle, and
not fool tho generous glow of admiration
and sympathy. No, my friends, tens of
thousands of thosa between whom and
us this sad conflict of arms had drawn
a lino are this day cherishing an ingen-
(Concluded on Fourth Pape.)
C. B. LANGWORTHY.
L. M. LANGWORTHY
C. W. Langworthy & Co.,
90 Masonic Temple, Borne, Georgia,
MUSIC DEPOT.
20 Second-hand Pianos, Organs, Melodeons,
To be Received and for Rent within 90 Days.
N EW INSTRUMENTS, SHEET MUSIC, BOOKS (INCLUDING all of jno. e. potter
A Co.’s Publiostions, Philadelphia), Stationary and Periodicals. Our News Office is complete.
Tobaoeo and Cigars on consignment at low prices for cash.
gned
new firm a contlnuanco of the i
will be their atm.
apr8 fwwti
To ploass their onstomera with „
Respectfully, C. W.
ALLEN & McOSKEB
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This is a Prompt and Certain Cure for all Diseases of the Liver,
Such as Dyspepsia, Headache, Chills and Fever, &c.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY CASE, OR MONEY RETURNED.
FOR SALE BY DRUCCI8TS GENERALLY.
J. Or. YEISER,
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Garden Seeds, &c.,
Sole Proprietor, Rome, Cla.
R. T. Hoyt, Wholesale and Retail Agent for Rome, Ga.
fobl wwly
Georgia R. B., Augusta to Atlanta.
D AY PAbSENGER TRAINS ON GEORGIA
Reilrosd, Atlanta to Auguste, run as below:
-■oaves Augusta at - S.0D a. ■
Leaves Atlanta at 7.9C a.x
arrives Augusta at 8.60 r. ■
Arrives at Atlanta at. 6.00
Night Faisengsr Trains as follows:
Leaves Augusteat.. 0.16 r.
Leaves Atlantaat .10.40 p. x
Arrives at Augusta -8.00 a..x
Arrives at Atlanta at-..— *-*0 a. x
Accommodation Train as follows:
Leaves Atlanta — •* ®0 P- M
Leaves Covington -6 #0 A. M
Arrives Atlanta •* >6 A. M
Arrives Covington *0 P. M
HARDY, BOWIE & CO.,
WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS,
BROAD STREET, ROME, GA.
WE CARRY IN STOCK
RUBBER BELTING, 3 ply, 2. 21-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 inches
“ “ 4 ply, 8, 10, 12 and 14 inches.
RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches.
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