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wirier M D W.INELL, PROPRIETOR. NEW SERIES. FOUR DOLTiA RE PER ANNUM. ROME, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1879. VOL. 18, NO. 138 ioutict and gtommemal. 3NSOUDATKD APRIL lO, 1870 rates of subscriptions. for THE WEEKLY. Oue year glx months Three mouths.. for the tri-weekly. ..$4 00 . 2 00 . 1 00 20 00 One year Six months Three months it nahl yearly, strictly in advance, the price of the Weokly Courier will be <1 50. CONTRACT rates of advertising. Square one month s.. * 100 One square three months 8 00 One square nix raouthB..„ One square twelve months.;.... One-fourth column one month 7 SO One-fourth column three months 15 00 fine-fourth column six months 27 00 One*fourth column twelve monthB 50 00 One-hnlf column one mouth 16 00 One-lialf column throe months 27 00 One-hnlf column six months 60 00 one-half column twelve mouths 80 00 One columu one month 27 00 One column three months 60 00 Onecoluinn six months 80 00 One column twelve months 120 00 The foregoing rates nro for either Weekly or TrhWeekly. When published In both papers, 60 percent, additional upon table rates. The Jasper Centennial Oration of Gen. John B. Gordon, Dee livered October 9,1879. . Gentlemen of the Jasper Monumental Association and Fellow-citizens: Your request that I should represent you in the imposing ceremonies of this iiour came to me with the force of an authoritative command. _ Other en gagements were relinquished that this duty might be discharged. The novel ty, as well as thejelevated and patriotic purposes of the occasion, must invest it with a peculiar attraction.: to us all. What is it that brings together this vast concourse of people from this and sis ter States? It is not to celebrate . the triumphs of genius in civil life, nor to do honor to some great military chief- lain. To no philosopher or sage; to no lawgiver like Lycurgus, or Solon or Al fred; to no conqueror like Bonaparte, or tear or Wellington, to no founder of a State like Romulus or Washington, but to a modest private in the ranks of the colonial army do we pay tribute to day. It is not your purpose, however, by this ceremonial, to mar in any de gree the refrain which now fills the world with the deeds of her titled chief tains, and which makes the names of such mon as Washington and Andrew Jackson and Lee the true echoes of the world’s highest glory. But you propose for once to descend to the ranks, and ignoring tlio insignia of place and pow er, to rear a shaft which shall com- j memorate the courage, the patriotism, i and the virtuo that invest with a pecu liar charm and dignity the life sacri fices of a private soldier. In this connection I wish again to in quire why, on this spot and upon this day there is assembled with a common impulse tliis almost countless multi tude? Why this universal tribute to bergeant Jasper? It 1b true that in his life and death he illustrated all those I excellencies which sparkle brightest in I the crown of virtue; but thousands of I your own countrymen in the late war hud in the wars which preceded it have I lived as devoted lives and met. as heroic I deaths. It cannot therefore be solely I “lie to the fact that he so nobly dis- I “ ar B e u his duty, nor because he re- I on 1“ 6 ""mraission tendered by Gov. I '"hedge and uttered those immortal I words; “Adversity has been my school- I 48tw > Liberty my schoolmistress; let L . tW country as an humble and L V ‘o ] aboror * n the cause of free- I , u ni ' cannot be because he leaped kl, ra “l )art9 an( I saved the flag 1 of |„ j C ari) lina when shot from its |.> nt]iird| not because he died upon the lhnrn r cM 0t ! this city, where he had I wb ! 0 Weeding, the colors of his Il!l-o i r - y for d'hers, though rarely, have I llt !’> re fuBed the honor of rank and IH b . llltl68 of offi ce, preferring to lutliPM • ei .L C0Untry ' n private station; lino ? 18same wa r and other wars Ifarwi ,k’? tton "elf, braved dangers, | a. ( * ea ffi unblanched, torn flags from IiiDon 8 Lands, planted their own lat tho!.°i Stl 0 brea stworks or gone down Imonnm . ’ C0rae nting with blood the ■with tt. er u S ,. w bicli patriotism builds ■ «*‘be bodies of her slain, lineni therefore, as are the prom I on. r c te ln Jasper’s life to command |inotU? eCl i at ffi homage, we must find I tion. lt, and tnora Philosophic coneidera- l 1 inivi'r,V- euSona ffir this profound and Itionnf i-.‘cterest in the commemora- I °Tlofo 19 lfu a *ffi services. |geneni\ 8eem to be three causes .for the I'bis iini • ? la ° e P a ffi to the memory of IteZ & t0 , wh . ioh 1 invite your at- I rate 16 lrs *‘ is that he was a pri- ■Wouj ,J 0r ’ an< i one of the most illus- l s Wof m 1>reseu , t ?tives the world ever I>n all n,.„?- 30 fi e]I'8acrificing men, who Iterest n ,.? ll< l 8 ® it* ranks, suffer its bit- Ithe va ‘ 10nH and bear the brunt of ■ ®anitv »ni 6 heart of universal hu ll; an ' . l * respond to this day’s work ■ hiiuJir , justice, not only to Jasper ■ whotn i’w, mt t° all private soldiers laming ii,: 80 eiuispiouously represents, ■"here To,.. 8 ‘"Huron rises on the spot Ifutu re a „i ICr it will proclaim to ■>elf.'abn(>3„r appreciation of the like unhnfi^'u?’ 1,0 faring courage and l«tmy ofS ,patriotism of that vast 8 "titled soldiery who, with no incentive to aotion but devotion to duty, no prospect of distinction above the mass of their comrades, no hope of re ward save the approval of conscience, their country and their God, have gone down in the orach and carnage of war to fill unlettered graves. I rejoice that Georgia is to build such ,20 ° a monument, and I thank you, my countrymen, that you have thought me worthy to represent you in such a cause. The truest heroes of this earth are the men who, in any sphere, serve and suf fer, labor and endure, in the cause of humanity, or justice or truth, without the hope of worldly glory. The men who, for truth’s sake, endure persecu tion are heroes; the men who for hu manity’s sake brave pestilence are he roes, and the men who for liberty’s sake face death, aB it thunders in artillery or 12 00 speeds on the bullet’s.wing, are grand heroes, and the less prompted by the pride of office or the hope of distinc tion, the grander that heroism becomes. God in His Providence mingles good with all the ills which befall man. Per secutions and pestilence are evils, but not wholly evils, for they furnish the theatre for the exhibition of the loftiest Courage and demonstrate how grand a being man may become when forgetful of self and consecrated to duty. War is an evil, but not wholly an evil, for it arouseB and inspires; it awakes from slumber the mightiest energies and manliest virtues; just as the storm, which while it lashes the ocean into rage, shivers tho masts and submerges navies, yet purifies the waters which would become foul with stagnation and reek with corruption; or to use a trite but perhaps more expressive figure, war is a furnnneo in which men are tried, and of all of those who are tested by its fireB the private soldier must endure its hottest and fiercest flames. How sub limely unselfish is such a man. In all this universe there is not one spectacle which surpasses in moral grandeur the self-abnegation of the private soldier; his courage inspired by no hope of dis tinction, bis life devoted to the service of his country or his death made glori ous as a sacrifice to freedom, and no monumentul pile built by human hands, though it should bear upon its summit the visible seal of Jehovah’s approval can tower too high nor endure too long to adequately measure the honors which freemen should pay to their un- epauletted martyrs of liberty. Another source of the peculiar inter est which invests the name of Jasper is to be found in the fact that he was an Irishman, that he did not permit the mournful state inflicted by Great Britain upon his own coun'ry and its people to deter him from enlisting in the cause of the feeble oolonies against the same dominating and apparently invincible power. As the chosen organ of the Jasper Monumental Association, I invite the Irish-Americans and the patriots of Ireland everywhere to regard the col umn which shall here be erected to Jas per as a monument also to the spirit of resistance to tyrants, which though baffled in Ireland and victorious in America, is still older and as enduring in Irish as in American hearts. Ireland and Irishmen in every quarter of the globe, wherever they breathe the vital air, will rise up with one acccrd to do honor to the principles of freedom for whioh that people battled through cen turies of defeat; for which Jasper fell and to which this monument is to be reared. Few nations that have lived in history deserve more richly than Ire land the tribute whioh you are about to pay to one of her sons. Her history running back to the regions of fablo and descending with an unbroken cur rent through ten centuries, Ireland, prior to her conquest by a foreign pow er, can boast of a civilization and na tional independence of greater duration thatvany nation of any age. Even the tides of foreign conquest which have rolled in successive waves over Ireland have not sufficed to obliterate the re cord of her learning, to obscure the manifestations of her wonderful genius, to crush the spirit of her inextinguish able nationality, nor to quench the fires of freedom that glow in the breasts of her people. Even Alfred, the . 9 1 ?’ hearted monarch and idol of — ritish history, the Washington of England, who blended in one character tho charm of romance and the power of philoso- phy, who combined the fire and chival- ry of David, with almost tho calm wisdom of Solomon, was educated in Irish halls of learning and drew from Irish polity his maximB and institu tions of political wisdom. Edmund Bnrke and Curran and Sheridan were Irishmen. What country, what age, can boast of such a trio. Burke, the fearless friend of American freedom, unrivalled in the profusion pi hU°gifts, whose oollossal form rises in peerless height above his fellowmon; who, from the platform of. politics swept with his intellectual vision the vast field of philosophy, of science, of the frosts of years had blighted s&ny of those flowers of fancy, which bloomed with perennial beauty, drew ^“Mad ame de Stael the declaration that he was the most gifted man she had ever known, who was the Shakespeare of the bar, the true son of genius, and h ° ir its highest inspiration. Sheridan, whos eloquence Byrpn declared ■*W*« ike thundor- -tbs o venglu*. rod I -* “ShM What does England not owe to Ire land for the gift of suoh men as these? What does France not owe to Ireland for Cavaignao, who was oalled in our day to the head of the Frenoh Republic and. whose popularity never yielded till it bame in contuot with that of a Bonaparte—a name that holds the hearts and imaginations of Frenchmen with a spell more potent than the wiz ard’s wand? What does Amerioa not owe to Ireland for the monuments of Irish industry in her railroads and canals, and for Irish contributions to bar and bench and battlefield; for Jas per and Montgomery, martyrs to Amer ican independence; for Shields and the Irish born soldiers who in every war followed the flag of this Republic ? What does the South not owe to Ire land for enriching her soil with the blocd of Cleburne, and her literature with the genius of Ryan, that gifted Irishman who is at once the thunder bolt of oratory and rainbow of poesy; whose thoughts breathe with the very life of truth, and whoss words like Bparks from holy altars burn in our bosoms with immortal fire ? What does liberty not owe to Ireland for Fitzger ald, for Wplf Tone, for John Mitchell, for Francis Meagher, for O’Brian, O’Connell and Robert Emmet ? Though heroes of a lost cause, the names of these patriots are forever associated with the names of Hampden, of Sidney, of Brutus, and of Washington. It is fitting that America thould build a monument to a son of Ireland. It is especially appropriate that it should be built by Georgians to Jasper; that it should stand here among the people for whose freedom he died; here on the soil that drank his blood; here by the ocean whose waters wash either shore, and whose ceaseless throbs symbolize the beating of the great heart of the two peoples, pulsating in common and deathless sympathies. The third and last reason whioh I shall mention, is the devotion of the people to the cause whioh Jasper so gloriously served. It is not only an impressive testimonial of the gratitude of the country to JaBper, but a sponta neous manifestation of the peculiar sympathy felt by the South with the oauso of constitutional and local gov ernment for which he fought and fell. It cannot be successfully denied that at the South th9 cause of local govern ment has a champion in almost every citizen. The peculiar institutions which for half a century before the late war had isolated her from sympathies of other sections, apd the mournful factB of her history since that war, have served to wed the South in indissoluble bonds to this doctrine of local govern ment—a doctrine which all the colo nies anterior to the establishment of our independence, and all the States for a long period subsequent to that event, held to be essential to the freedom of the people. But the unhappy conflict between the Southern States and the General Government has had the un fortunate tendecy to bring this cardinal doctrine of free government into tem porary disrepute. I say temporary, for it must again successfully assert itself in every State of the Union, uuleBs pas sion and prejudice, apprehension, and the false presumption of a necessity for a stronger government shall blind the American people to the experience of the colonies, and to the clearest lessons taught by the history and the philoso phy of government. Temporary it must be unless the Constitution is to be disregarded, the States to be disorgan ized and liberty cease to be regarded as a heritage of American 'citizens. It is true that the opposing theories—the na tional and the local or State govern ment theories, ns in this connection they may be termed—have been in conflict for nearly a century. The con troversy might continue forever without involving any serious change of the Government or imperilling the liberties of the people, if waged in the spirit and with tho same moderation that marked its progress for the first seventy years of our national existence; for never until tl ese latter years was the integrity or independence or sovereignty of the States called in question.*' But so rad ical and revolutionary are the changes now demanded; so far advanced from former positions are the advocates of a great consolidated and imperial repub lic; so fixed seems the purpose to sub ordinate the States to the will of a ma jority of Congress, irrespective of the Constitution, thatthe ability of the peo ple to preserve their rights of local gov ernment becomes a question of mo mentous consequence. I say moment ous because there never has been, there never will be, a question submitted, the relations of the immortal spirit to eter nity excepted, in which is involved'so much of weal or woe to these fifty mill ions of freemen. . . ‘ On this Centennial occasion, and in, connection with the question of local government, it cannot be inappropriate, nor without profit, to remind you of the three prime causes which led first to the colonial conflict with Great.Bntain; then to the permanent separation and independence of the colonies; and final ly, to the formation of a confederated Republic on this continent, One of the complaints of our fathers was the asser tion of the mother country of the right to tax without aooording to the oolonies the right of representation. Another was the persistency of the mother coun try in stationing armies in our midst in time of peace The third was—and to thin I ask your especial attention— (Concluded on Fourth Page.) (yticura HUMORS OF THE SCALP. LOSS OF HAIR. Lobs of Hair in thousands of oases is due on* tiroly to some fora of scalp disease. Seventy- five per cent, of the number of bald heads m ght bo covered with hair by a judicious use of Cu TicnnA, assisted by Cuticura Soap. It is the most agreeable as well as tho most oflbotivo hair restorer ever produced by man. It is modfoinal in the truest sonse of the word. All ethers are some oloagonous mixture of poisonous dyes. None but ■Cuticura possesses the specific medical properties that enable it to oure all itching and scaly diseases that inflame and irritate the soalp and hair glands and tubes, causing premature baldness. Medium doses of tho Cuticura Re solvent will purify tho oil and sweat glands of the virus of scrofulous humor of the blood and insure a permanent oure when taken in connection with the outward application of Cuticura. SALT RHEU1MAND DANDRUFF Cured that several physicians had failed to treat successfully. Messrs. Weeks It Palter: Goetlomon—I havo had th. Salt Rheum on my head and all through my hair, also ou my leg., far the put four years, having suffered exceedingly with it. The dan- drutf falling from my hair wu very annoying. I consulted several distinguished physicians la regard to it, and have taken their proscriptions ns ordered, but did not And any euro and bnt little relief. I was told by many parsons who have the Balt Rheum, and who havo boon doc tored for yoars, that there was no euro for It; that it wu in the blocd, and I should always havo it, and I was almost inelined to sgreo with them, hut a friend wanted mo try CUTiennA, made by your Arm. I dl IJ and to my astonish ment, In le.s than throo weoks my head was rntirely free from ell Salt Rheum and Dandruff, and I cannot soe any appearanoo of Salt Rheum on my p-rson. I think It a wonderful romody. Respectfully yours, GEORGE A MUDGE. Portsmouth, N H., Fob. 0, 1878. HUMOR OFTHE SCALP That was destroying the Hair cured with one box of CUTICUKA. * Messrs. Woeks A Potter i Gontlomon—I want to tell you what Cuticura has done for mo. Abiut tou years sge my hair began falling out, causod by Humor of the Scalp. 1 tried various remedies, too numerous to mention, without relief, until I bogan uslog Outicuua, one box of which hu ontiroly cured me, and new bulr Is beginning to grow. Hospootlully, •••!■- MRS. O. J. ROOT. 897 W. Lake 8t„ Chicago, III., Nov. 18, 1878. We know tho above to bo true. Many E. Towksebd, 412 W. Jackson St. Mu. O. A. OttAY, 341 Fulton Bt. SCALDHEAD For Nine Years cured when all other Remedies failed. Messrs. Weeks h Potter: Gentlemen—Sinoe July lut I have been using your Cuticuhx far Scald Hoad, and it has cured me when all modi- oineB that I have taken far nina years did mo no good. I mn now using it as a hair diosslng, but my hoad is well. It keeps the hair in very nice condition. Yours truly, II. A. RAYMOND, Auditor Fort Wayno, Jackson & Saginaw R. R Jackson, Mich., Dee. 20, 1878. 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