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Newspaper Page Textome ®ri- M DWlSBIiTi, PROPRIETOR. KliW SERIES. “ WISDOM. JUSTICE, AND MODERATION.” ROME, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1879. FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL. 18, NO. 144 Anm Cinnmtuial. nMSOUDATED APRIL 10. 1876. hhtes of subscriptions. FOR THF. WEEKLY. Oney«» r ’ .... # 1 00 qis months 50 Three months for THE TRI-WEEKLY. W 00 2 00 1 00 the wav) the poor, rebel- jus, barbarous ana solid South was the only theme! This exception was noteworthy and commanded my full at- " ntion. The speaker made what he -idled a constitutional argument, in which he undertook, in behalf of ab solute Nationalism, to give a meaning to the Constitution which I am sure never occurred to its framers nor to any of the great expounders of that in strument in the two generations that succeeded its framers, and then added that "if his construction was not the correct one he was in favor of tearing up the Constitution and consigning it, with the rebellion, to damnation!’’ Is Six month* Thff® month* * * yearly, strictly In advance, the price J[,!^Weekly Courier will l«» *1 fiO. contract rates of advertising. on, Assn mu’ monthi i-g < “> One -qnsre threeU 00 A-Isniinre twelve months 30 00 * «... iuw.wn v* o.o.* wo., t. .uqq auu uu.u onLourth column one month. T oo 0 f the South in the Republicans of the nnafnurtu column three mouth* • , 1500 -it ti. - *-— - one-fourth column nix months *7 00 sss _ oSfrMUcolumn"hroe months woo your local elections for State, county, •llftlf column six months 50 00 aHw nnA Inmn affinow OM ilArvNi'iNoAi A kt> up" process to be the “final battle with rebellion ?” The feeling of distrust, abuse and hate the South in the Republicans of the North exhibits all the symptoms of a mania. It is full of irrelevancy, irra tionality and untruthfulness. 80 00 , 37 00 00 00 . 80 00 . 120 00 percent. siWItlnmil ii|hiii table rates. vas-halTcolumn twelve months. On,column one month on,copmu three months One column six month" on,column twelve months SENATOR HILL SPEAKS. HE IlNtilt*UTISNS TUG* MIND OF MB. CHITTENDEN AS TO THE SOtltt SOl/TM. 1 ' Hit, Georgia hits a Higher Credit than the | Union, and why Georgia Negroes psy Tucson BlxJJIIIIoBs- of Prsperty. y . ad pulpits. It is be yond reason and. I fear, beyond remedy, t -see no evidence that the North "is strife. The Republi- and thrives by this Bad men speculate on it, anti demagogues ply it as. the best means of getting an office. You say: era men the American spirit as represented by the can party lives < sectional strife. IgtOL ——, — letter, auaresseu to my sen ney, Rutledge and a great number of 6d in the Tritfune ofthe 4th Southern men had much to do in plant- “re entitled YSteecourVe- log and rooting in. this country "I ------- ,J - u -‘ 1 “one jot or tittle of ,K “ New England is entil In reply to an open latter addressed lo him by Mr. Chittenden, in theTri- I hnne,Senator Hill of Georgia, just be Iforeleaving New Yort last week, sent Jtbitjournal the following rqplj :i \VAsHiNtiTov, Oct. in, 1879. .- Mr. Chittendpn—I have read lyour open letter, addressed to myself • pqbljiMr —•*- Jimt. You were I iy of a prompt reply, bdt divere engage- | mews have worked a delay which T ■know your good nature will pardon, lam glad you are getting well of your I physical hurt, and congratulate you on lyour escape. I I have made no summer speeches in I Georgia., I made « few remarks very ■unexpectedly at Tammany Hall, on the lith of July, and it must be to this speech |you refer, as I have made no other du- ' e summer, or since the adjourn- Iment of Congress. I have been quietly, Ibutwith more than usual solicitude, |*iicbing the course of political evfents, laud have been studying to understand, las accurately as 1 could, the real temper lof the North toward the South and the IConstitution, together with the cause, Ithe tendency and the probable final ef- Ifect of that temper upon our sectional ■relations and governmental institutions. ■However much we may differ on some [questions of policy, I believe you will 0 me the justice to admit that I am in 'speaking, when I. speak at r .-rwhat I think on all sub- Ijttts. The impression made upon ray tuind by the study alluded to is not a ■pleasantone. I will frankly say that lit no period of our Unioif, as 2 IS seems T n,e i have the Northern 1 people so [Wy or so unjustly distrusted the -oiUhern people, nor do I think there fver was a generation at the North who itsje understood the Constitution or b little regarded that Constitution as (W bond of tmiqn. {do not mean to ve, but 1 do mean, to he can- l Bay that to berate and mis- ppresent the (South, and to mUifateipret pun ignoro tlio Constitution, seem to be pe two mlijeets which absorb the hearts kJF ul t ' , ° Republicans of the V.n’i i to S'hoh till other 'subjects L subordinate. Your own let* riumiShte strong confirmation of this feVvSpSLSTJg lim 1)01 everybody laughs fit N for saymg it." What! laugh at a fcecNt Payi i Dg tha ^ officers are ft«PRd lo State affairs? American spirit as represented by the own Slate officers in a mad people who planted and rooted our in stitutions and thrift in the hard and thorough disoipline of New England.” I had supposed that our thrift as a people was due to the abundance of our cheap 'fertile lands, the great varie : ty of our productions, and the industry of our people, all protected and inspired with hopeful vigor by that unprecedented ly all they consumed from the North, and allowing and paying heavy profits both ways. Will Now York agree to pool her losses and profits with the louth? It is a curious fact well worth our study that the South has not made one dollar either by slavery or slave labor. Indeed, the state of the account shows that the South has lost untold millions both by slavery and slave labor, while the North has made and pocketed every dollar of profit there was in slavery or that was realized on the products of slave labor! The North sold the slaves to the South, and then, keeping the prioe; de nounced the idea of property in human beings as barbarous. Because the South defended the title she bought and paid for in the very manner which New England had taught was constitutional, she is denounced as rebellious and traitorous! You are a great and successful mer chant. Will yoh d i me the kindness to cast up the figures and tell me how many billions of money New York and boast when you say, "New York is now the financial centre of North America, and will soon be the greatest money power in the whole world." Will such a great and rich Slate, in whose pros perity I rejoioe, still insist upon treating as rebels and traitors the people who have done and are still doing so much | pose you succ to increase her wealth and power ? Will | and impossibli a State which has so much wealth for get her own State affairs in eleoting her .. — ~ a it peopl. — — shall tee proper to solidify and keep the Sectional Republican party in power until this confession shall be mode, then your hope of only one more year of sectional agitation is the dream of a dis tempered brain, and a cordial reunion is hopeless. The Southern people abandon, and abandon forever, both secession and slavery. They admit that superior physiciol force has settled what arga ment was not able to settle. They ac ceptin good faith the constitutional amendments. The desire to exeroise onlj their proportion of power under the Constitution and laws. They neither desire, nor will they allow, if they can prevent it,any more civil or sectional wars. This they abundantly proved to all fair-minded men in the Presidents! count. They will not, under any cir- oumstunces, "starve" the Government, nor seek any control over the North. But they intend to preserve their self- respect, and to deserve the respect of all brave and honorable men every where and for all time, and this they cannot do by confessing themselves to be criminals, as the Republican party lias demanded and still demands. Now my friend, what are you in telligent men in the North going to do about it? Will you insist upon keeping the South solid by demanding their self-dishonor, and then insist upon mak ing the North solid because the South refu R. T. HOYT. H. D. COTHRAN HOYT & COTHRAN, Wholesale Druggists, ROME, GEORGIA, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF GRASS A^STD FIELD SEEDS, INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, 1ILUE AND ORCHARD GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (a ml OntR ti arrive.) Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures. jallOtwwtf umairny ;—me mminuy ui uaie ( may it not prove to be the very devil of final disunion! You say I "will not care to deny that the South is firmly united in a bold and persistent purpose to oontrol the Feder al Government in the name of the Dem- lODstitutionaV mteV oYdualTed^ ocratic party." I do deny it, though the and local free governments which charge is so absurd that it scarcely Washington, Jefferson,Madison, Pick- -merits* denial. I fear a friendly re- - p - • ’ ■ ’ ' mark I made to. you during the Presi dential count to the effect "that the North was wise in spending so ranch ■o heEfr.i feeling seems Iion«l i . l ie election is nut only of Na- ■ml . ut ’ thftt '* a ' B0 the ■ kin* 9 re hellion; the olitnax ■Wetisy f plional 4nfe, and probable Pniiuan j.a ., 0G P Q P ar *ti v h good feeling Wwhh 1 !; K a u? nal pros P e lity-” Bftt - L . i r «bellion in a State election Ll, ro tate 0,Ucer * in New York, Ended r> ? yeurs af ter the wur lias ,ne ' my friend, but this iqinarv i, 8 ^ a sta ^’ 8 battle' with his' im- |iabu'ekram C “ n9t w ntly inorta8ln B foeB |otrii # ! 9m! , Nevertheless, you seem ■r i n the views of your par- f orth t throughout the W in P„„ a a Ropublican meet- WthlnM n TO 00 the night of r^appeafed 19 n ' glU °f tl|e I 0UT r*Pablu!, l ' ng ^ tt8 ca'ied to ratify thp. C^nnominatiop for State officers. PC I 8e v n8i J ble b 'y th9 > »e had two elafaorate, evi- M and. I will add, ablp the credit to which New England is entitled in this work. I despise all sectionalism, whether against the North or against the South. I believe no one section of this country is all virtuous or all vicious, and no one section exceeds the other in either yirtpps or vices. But if our bis; tory teaches any two faots more ind*8* putably than all other facts they are these: First—That slavery was “planted" in this country from Africa and “rooted’ in the South through "the hard and thorough discipline of New England! Second—That secession was both planted and rooted" aa a doctrine in our constitutional system hy New Eng land, and was taught, advocated and threatened as a constitutional remedy for State grievances by leading New Eogland statesmen many years before it wss ever whispered in the South. The first threat of secession was made i the first term of Wnshingtod’s ad ministration. The New England mem bers in Congress had brought forward a proposition for the assumption by the General Government of oertein war ebts of the States. The Southern states had largely paid tbeir debts, while the debts of the New England States hod mostly been bought up at a large disoount by speculators, soma of whom, a Northern historian tells us, then in Congress. The proposi was rejected by Southern votes. ,. n /,S!3“io“S?'J3a cbuld do no business but adjourn from day to day, and its dissolution was im- mineot. At this oritical moment Mr. Jefferson arrived at the capital from a foreign mission. He found Mr. Ham ilton pacing up and down» front house (or the mansion) in utter despair of the Union. Hamilton explained to Mr. Jefferson the situation, and appealed to him (‘to save the Union. Jefferson id save it. How? Not by argument, lQ r by denouncing the New England jjerabers as traitors and criminals, but by & trade? He proposed a trade by which the New England members got their money, and the Southern members -ot the National Capital1 looated on the 'otomac instead oi further North. were I tion G Yii n j ravure aiiturs. wot 000.- g 0 e *e«ption, (not a singular method of saving the Union was by giv ing theNorth the money and theSouththe honors. Under thU; process the North has grown so great she insists upon hav “g all the money and all the honors, an B d upon treating the South «| crimi nals and traitors! My fr > end ', d ^ m T°“ refer to thia happy faculty of com ng out of all contests to save the Union with more money in their P^^when vou spoke of “institutions and thrift beL Planted and rooted in the hard and thorough discipline o f New E“2- land u" If bo, Junius himseit never made a harder hit, and you must take rank as one of the first, if npt the y first, of Amerioan letter wrltMs. LwJ gratulate you on your weff irop laurels much money has New * or “- “ , of the South? From my lection ‘he Southern ^Ple have been in the habit of sending newly y made to the North and of buying nea eminent without the aid of the uu jth," has unnecessarily alarmed you. The South does not seek to oontrol eith er the North or the Federal Government, but the South does greatly desire to see both the North and the South restored to the control of the Constitution—the Constitution of Madison, of Webster and of the Supreme Court. The South will seek to exercise no power except that to which she is entitled under the Constitution, and that power she desires to exercise solely for the peace and prosperity of the whole country. Allow me to add that this bugaboo of South ern domination is not creditable either to the manhood or the intelligence of the Republican party. The South is and must remain the weaker section. She has no interest in sectionalism, but every interest in true Constitutional Na tionalism. The South can have strength in the future only in advocating the soundest of sound principles for the National-credit, the National honor and the National prosperity, and in send ing her ablest men to Congress to main tain suoh principles. But yon say the South vetes solid with the Democrats party. Why ? Solely because the Re publican par*y will not allow any Southetrn man to support the Republi can party and preserve his seif-respeoL The whole policy of the Republican party since the war has been based upon the assumption that the Southern peo ple are all criminals and must confess themtelvesto be criminals. In your letter addressing myself, you say: “You, youreelf. In all your strength, cannot stand fora moment, or live, with your constituents, if you say that the rebellion was & orime.” Speaking for myself, I never did be lieve in seoeBsiun as a either a dootrine or a remedy under the Constitution. Rut from the beginning much abler men than I am have taught it was both. Some of tho framers of the Constitution so taught Many of tin ablest men of New Eogland so taught The Southern people believed they had a right to recede, and that the peace of the coun try and their own safety demanded its exeroise. They did not intend to make war on the Government, as Republican demagogues so flippantly charge. The attempt by the Republicans to treat an act whioh grew out of honest differences of opinion as a traitorous rebellion against the Government is as unmanly as it is untruthful. But the Republican parly not onlv insists that the Southern people are all traitors, but that they shall confess themselves to be traitora. The result is that no Southern man can affiliate with the Republican party without confessing himself a crim inal and agreeing to treat all his own icoplo as criminals., ty such twnfession ae would show himgeif unfit to he trusted hy any party. By this poUoy of the Republican party every thing deoent in the South is driven into tiie Demo cratic party, and then the Republican party raises the cry for a Solid North against the Solid South !•’ 8 I do not know what elee mav happen in tho future, but this muoh I do know: Come what may the Southern people will never confess themselves tnuteni- Their children will never confess it, and ises self-degradation at your de- mand. Well, suppose your succeed? Sup pose you succeed,, by your absurd and impossible stories of unnatural outrages at the South, in making ivery man in the North hate and distrust every man in' the South? Will that break the Solid South ? Will that allay sectional strife? Will that bring peace to the country, prosperity to the nation, or perpetuity to the Union ? I have always believed the secessionists were the most damaging eneraieo the South ever had. But they did not intend damage. The£ intended to reHeve the conscience of the North on the subject of slavery, and preserve their own prop erty on their own responsibility. They were mistaken, but thfey were not trai tors. I equally believe that the Repub lican party is the most dangerous enemy the Union ever had. It lives on sectionalism. It teadlles the North to hate the South, and compels the South to hate the North.:! If the poeople of the North are not capable of seeing .^the end of such a polioy, they are incapable and unworthy of free government. The Southern people lost fortune, , fame and power by the war. Here and there a man may be found whOj-by reason of his connection with the war, has reached positions for which he would never otherwise have been thought of, but there are very few such, It would be unnatural for such a people to desire further sectional strife. But at the North there are thousands of men who have made fortunes by the war, and many have made fame and power. Many are adulated who, but for the mere luck of war, would never have been known. Millionaires are on every hand who but for the war would be laupers. Is it unnatural for men who lave made so much by war not to re gret its occurrence nor to deprecate another? Ia it strange that leaders who have grown rich and powerful by sec tionalism should desire to make t Solid North against a Solid South, and thus perpetuate their fortunes and power? But it will be strange if an intelligent people cannot penetrate suoh a trans parent purpose and prevent its accom plishment. I hope and believe the present will prove a year of purgation 1 to the Democracy, and cleansing the party of its internal feuds and its run ning after issues, will recill it to sound principles and a healthy condition for 1880. If so, we shall be able to present a man for the Presidency whose nomi nation will be an honor to the party, whose election will'be an honor to the people, and whose wise and patriotic administration will inspire confidence in all good men, will maintain the na tional honor and the national credit, and advanoe both ; from whose presence rogues will retire abashed, and under whose influence sectionalism will wither forever. Will my good friend, Mr. Chittenden, for whom I have the highest personal regard, itipport such a man ? Very truly yours, Bkn.i II. Him.. The Hon. S. B. Chittenden, Brooklyn N. Y. In connection with our Immimt stoeV, we have sdded s Millino- rj Department, wh»io will always ho found a lull lino ol Fall and Winter Rtyhs, otn- braoing Trimmod and Untrlinmed Shapes in Straw and Felt Bats. Baa our New Stylo pattern Hats. This depariment will be under the oiotrol of Miss ABB1E WEBB, assisted by Mss. E. BithNETT, who'Will be nloaied to Mo.aU.or their frlomls Will eon- atantlj receive *11 of the Latest Novelties as they appear. GREAT OPENING — OP THE — GRYSTAL PALACE, 13 Shorter Block. n STORE! NEW GOODS! NEW STYLES IN __ . DliESS GOODS, CASH- MERES, ALPACAS, LARGE . VARIETY CHEAP DRESS GOODS, IMMENSE ASSORTMENT SHAWLS. CLOAKS. REPELLANTS.LADIES’ UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS, CANTONS AND DOt MESTICS, JEANS, CASBI Mh RE3, BL i-NKETS, COMFORTABLES Soparalo departments for Clothing, Boots, Shoos end Hals. Complete stock Gent’s Fur* uiibiog Goods. DAVIS & CO. Cell and see onr lino of Gloves lofore buying. Tho cheap est linn of Thtoo Button Kid Gloves in the city, that we war rant. Ladies’ Nuck Wear, Ties, Bows, Silk and Leco Fis- chus,' Collars and Cuffs, Linen n n d Silk Handkerchief), Hambnigs, Ribbons, Hosiery and Ladies’ 'Linen. Laocs cl all kinds, Corsets, Dress Trimmings, and ev ery thing,naually kept in u first alasi Dry Goods II-,use. Tailoring! Tailoring! PLENTY Piece Goods, Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods, SHIRTS, UMBRELLAS, ETC., - AT — CALL AND SEE THEM. •ep26twwtf 1879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879. New Goods. Fine Goods. MRS. T. B. WILLIAMS, M IlsLINBR, No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. >THANK(NG NY MANY ;CU9i:OMER8 FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME l in tho past. I am proud ta say th*t I am bettor preptred to attend to their went* than ever before. 1 h*vo now in more end to arrive Bonnets. Hut*. Flowers, Plumes, Silks, Velvet!, Pluihea, R'.bbona, Ornament!, Heir Goode, Z iphyre, Oombe, Notions, otc., etc., whieh I H*ve ■eloo od m person in the Northern merketi. My Good# are in the Leteit Style*, en done hi»h good meteriel by e*porienced milliners. Call end examine my boforo purchasing elsewhere. wblnh I have seleo-ed in and I have my Trimming ponds and got my price, ' itI7 tw wtl Clocks! Tick! Tick! Tiek! ALLEN & McOSKER. Gov. Andrews of Connecticut, upon being asked, "How about Grant in that State?” was not prepared to adniitlhat his nomination was ntetssary. "tie think,” he says, "we have a good man in New England,” and there is a cer tain Maine man who thinks the same way, As to the Democracy, the Gov ernor looked upon their candidate as certain to be an Eastern man, and spoke particularly of Mr. Tilden’s good for. tuue in having so able a coadjutor in ConnectlcOt as Mr. Barnum. Sava an exohange: We oppose wc man’s rights, and wo have a good reason for it. too. If women were running for the Legislature, and onr landlady should be eHcfcd, we are afraid that her first bill presented would be our board Mil. ~ t 'Julius,” said a Brooklyn gentleman to his colored servant, “don’t you enjoy the astronomical phenomena these fine evenings?” “Dunno, sah," responded tho darkey, “mush milons are my favorite fruit” JUST RECEIVED A Large and Beautiful As sortment of Clocks, lNCI.UDlNU THE LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE STYLES. Prices Ranging from $1 to $15. CONSTANTLY K GOBI VINO ALL THE LATEST AND MOST nobby STYLES OF BRIDAL PRESENTS, FINE JEWELRY, Silverware, &c. ALL GOODS SOLD ENGRAVED FREE BV US. ,epS tw urlf A LB IN OMBERG, Bookseller, Stationer&Printer IVo. 33 Broad Street, Has just received a Large Stock CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC A •prtt.t* LARGE STOCK WAIJ. PAPER. IW-WRITE FOR SAMPIjF.S AND HUQR8.r«% wly

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Rome tri-weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1881, October 30, 1879, Image 1