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BSTABXilSHED IN 1843.
THE COURIER mis a liirwc and steady clrot;-
lation in Cherokee Georgia, and is the best ad
vertising medium in thlssecllon.
M, DWIX E 3-.E, Proprietor.
Saturday Morning, : : : Nov. 8,1879
“STAKV1N THE GOVERNMENT.”
Congress convenes in regular session
on the first Monday, the first day, of
December, and if the Democratic mem
bers of that body are truo to the coun
try and to civil liberty we mny expect
a renewal of the fight between the ex
ecutive and legislative branches of the
Government, as to whether Congress
shall be allowed to exercise its constitu
tional right of appropriating money for
such purposes and only such as its senso
of duty to the people warrants it in
voting.
That the executive and legislative
branches of the Government are co
ordinate, that each has well-defined
duties and privileges, and that each is
dependent in some degree upon the
other, are propositions that no one
taking tho written laws of the country
for his guide can or will deny. That it i Surely, yes.
is the duly of Congress to make pro-1 make laws;
vision by appropriation ot supplies for
carrying on the Government including
all branches of service that are necessa
ry to its constitutional and legitimate
exercise, all are willing to admit.
But it the majority of the Congress
believes that the creation or continu
ance of a certain branch or branches of
service is either unnessary or unwise,
and the President believes the contrary,
then there must be a yielding by one or
the other party, or at least a compro
mise, in Older to reach harmonious ac
tion. The Congress is charged with the
duty of making appropriations of mon
ey for all purposes of government, but
along with that duly comes the privi
lege of saying what particular things to
bo paid for are necessary and expe
dient, and its action is final and con
clusive unless tho President intervene
and by the use of the prerogative of his
office, veto the action of tho Congress.
At its extra session last summer the
legislative branch of the Government,
believing that tho uso of the army at
the polls was wrong, and that the ap
pointment of swarms of deputy mar
shals to attend at the election precincts
and overawe the people in the interest
of tho Radical party, and vote and buy
votes for Radical office-seekers, qb had
grown to be the custom with theso hire
lings of a party pi id with the money of
tho whole people, should not be longer
tolerated, an effort was made to wipe
out the offensive statutes allowing such
wrongful UBe of the array and public
funds. And, also, the Congress refused
to appropriate money to pay the army
and the deputy marshals when used in
such unjustifiable ways. But Mr. Hayes,
using ths power granted to a President,
and using it we verily believe in a way
contrary to the purpose for which this
power was granted to the President,
put the seal of his condemnation on
the action of Congress by vetoing tbeir
action.
It should be remembered that the es
sential result of Mr. Hayes’ vetoes was
to compel the Congress to vote supplies
for purposes that it believed unneceB-
srry, and not only unnecessary but
wroug in principle. Theso paving-
stones to autocratic power laid by the
hands of such men as Morton and Chand
ler nnd their co-workers in the cause of
enslaving the people of the South gen
erally and disfranchising tho Democrats
of the North—these laws allowing a
President and his sycophantic Generals
to distribute the army all over the
country on election day at places whero
they could do .he most good for Rad
icalism, and to pay five dollars a day
to an unlimited number of ward poli
ticians, bummers and sneakthieves to
do the dirty work of a dirty party, had
been passed when the Radical party
held undisputed sway over every branch
of the Government; and the Democrats
in Congress believeing the laws permit
ting such use of the urrny nnd the pub
lic money to bo unwarranted by tho
Constitution, and knowing that the laws
were perverted to a partisan purpose,
they determined to withhold funds to
pay for such purpose. In this they
did right.
At the extra session Mr. Hayes ap.
peared determined to have his way,
and to be willing to see the wheels of
government stopped rather than yield
his opinion, and a sort of compromise
was effected which temporarily lulled
the storm, but the appropriations that
were made were only for or.e year, and
the same questions will arise again at
the coming regular session.
During the extra session it was the
fashion for Radical speakers and writers
to accuse the Democrats in Congress of
frying to “starve the Government,”
when in truth nnd in a fact Mr. Hayes
was rightfully chargeable with conduct
tending by its consequences to “starve
the Government,” unless it be that
troops at the polls nnd deputy marshals
at election precincts are necessary to
the constitutional existence of tho Gov
ernment. If this last supposition be a
truth them Congress was wrong, if it is
Mr. Hayes was wrong. He
who charges tho Democratic majority
in Congress with an intent or purpose
of frying to “starvo the Government,”
or of beiug guilty or actions tending to
that result, necessarily by imp'ication
admits the wisdom nnd necessity of the
laws providing for troops at the polls
and for deputy marshals. There i3 no
other alternative. And whether such
charge bo made through ignorance of
tho real form of constitutional govern
ment or for partisan purposes tho es
sential truth of the proposition remains
tho same.
“Starving the Government 1” What
can fledgling politicians mean by as
sorting that because a co-ordinate branch
of the Government in the proper exer
cise of its constitutioual prerogative and
duties refuses to appropriate money to
pay men to perform unnecessary and
wrongful acts, it is thereby starving
tho Government? And more particu
larly, what do such men mean by the
Government? Are we not taught that
ours is a Government' of mixed pow
ers, and composed of a legislative, a
judicial and an executive branch?
First, is Congress to
then the judiciary to ex
pound and declare what is law; and
thirdly, nnd in the rear, is the exccu
tive to enforce and carry our Ilia laws
passed by Congress. This is briefly the
“form” of government established by
tho Constitution of 1787. But there is
a large party in the North which has al
ways been willing to see tho Constitu
tion set at naught and the whole power
of government placed in the hands of
one man. This party we suppose con
siders Mr. Hayes the "Government,”
because he happens, while holding the
office of President, to oppose the true
democratic ideas of individual and per
sonal liberty and States' rights.
But there are others who prate of the
Democratic majority in Congress try
ing to “starve the Government” whose
ideas have never reached a well defined
shape. The “Government” with them
is but a word nnd nothing more, a fig
ment of tho brain; and because of lack
of knowledge as to the genius and spir
it of theanomalousRepubliefounded by
the patriots of 1787, they crazily talk and
dream of something that does not exist,
a myth, a creation of their own diseased
and ill-taught minds, which, when ma
terialized, bt comes in reality a Cresar—
a man whose, rule is governed by his
will, nnd who is responsible to no ono.
If there is any propriety in denomi
nating any one branch of service ra tho
federal republic as the Government, it
can be only when one branch is re
ferred to in matters over which it has
constitutional control. Then the Con
gress having exclusive jurisdiction of
tho matter of appropriations it, the Con
gress, is the the “Government" as to
that particular duty or office. So, like
wise, the courts have the exclusivo right
to interpret the laws and apply them
to individual ca3cs, and the executive
is bound to seo that tho laws are en
forced.
In its particular sphere each branch
of the Government is independent, and
in the exercise of its legitimate nnd
constitutional functions each branch is
the Government.
State News.
The fourth fair of the Southwest
Georgia Industrial Association will be
held at tho fair grounds at Albany on
tho lltb, 12th and 13th inst.
Elder T. H-. Stout has resigned the
care of tho Baptist church at Buena
Vista, and Rev-. J. H. Corley of Daw
son has been called to its charge by a
unanimous vote.
Tho new Georgia flag consists of a
perpendicular blue bar from top to bot
tom of the flag, next to tho staff, and
three horizontal bars, red, white and
red.
Augusta, too, wants a free bridge fur
the Carolina trade. Tho Augusta News
says the question will enter largely into
the present municipal canvass.
The Sylvada Telephone states that a
negro woman, who reported herself to
be from Rome, passed through that
place last week on her way to Savan
nah. She has been on the road ever
since the 3d of July, having walked all
the way.
Tho Thomasvillo Enterprise says that
the Clement attachment is on tho brain
of a few Thomas county men, and it is
probable that by the next crop one or
more of these machines will bo in op
eration there.
Mr. John G. Holtzclaw died recently
at his home in Green county. He left
orders for an inscription to be placed
on his tomb to read as follows : John
G. Holtzoaw. Born in the Flesh, May
15,1804. Born in the Spirit, May 4,
1828. Died-(Oct. 24, 1879.) Spirit
immortal.
Monroe Female College building re
cently burned was insured for $6,000.
Tho property cost over double that
sum. President Asbury and Dr. Hill-
yer wore losers. Another house will be
built immediately. The exercises of
the school will go on ns usual,
Among the important acts of the Au
gusta Presbytery in recent session at
Gainesville, was one dividing the Pres
bytery. The new Presbytery, called
the Athens Presbytery, embracing twen
ty-four churches, runs with the south
ern line of Elbert, Oglethorpe, Clark
and Oconee, and includes Northeast
Georgia.
The Georgia Legislature waB in ses
sion 150 days, and the expenditures
amounted to over one hundred and fif
ty thousand dollars. In the House 1,029
bills were introduced, and in the Senate
219, Over 300 resolutions were like
wise introduced. Of the 1,248 Jiills
not over 348 were passed, leaving 900
consigned to tho waste-basket. Of the
900, fully 600 were killed on the second
reading.
Diamond Gut Diamond-
Augusta Chronicle : Gen. B. F. But
ler lias found time, during his canvass,
to run over to Washington on law bus
iness, and while there he has been very
free of his opinions touching certain
matters nearly concerning himself, and
directly at issue with the present ad
ministration. He has expressed much
merited contempt for the President
and Cabinet for dashing all ovor the
country in emulation of stump speak
ers, and pronounces such conduct scan
dalous, undignified and unprecedented.
His chief aim is at Hon. John Sher
man, and, in the following style, he
very cleverly wings Mr. Secretary, if he
does not bring him to the ground:
“I think Mr. Sherman’s claim, that
good times have come in consequence
of the financial policy of the Republi
can party, is rather far fetched. It can
not be sustained. It is very clear that
returning prosperity comes from the
fact of our raising five good crops in
succession. This year’s crop is the very
largest. But, even that would not bave
brought prosperity and started business
if there had been nobody to buoy the
crops. God, in His providence, saw fit
to bring famine upon a large part of
Europe, so that there is a market for our
products, and gold is coming in upon
us at the rate of three or four millions
a week. This inflates tho currency. It
is no m<itter how it is inflated—the
prices are rising and we are prospering.
Now, although tbe Republican party
claim the credit under these circum
stances, would they have done so if it
had pleased Providence to send the
famino to us and plenty to Europe ?
Suppose we were so poor that we had to
sell out everything, would Sherman
have taken the blame for the fall in
srices? I think Mr. Sherman would
save claimed that it was a dispensation
of Providence, nnd not tho curse of Re
publican finance.”
This is true. Tho nrrogance of Mr.
Sherman in claiming for the Republi
can party the credit of the business
“boom” is only equal to his blasphemy
in more particularly ascribing to 1i!b
own agency what really, as Gen. Butler
demonstrates, conclusively, was the
providence of God. The tide and time
seem to be with Mr. Sherman and his
partisans, just now, but they may bo
against them next year. If such should
bo the case, Mr. Secretary will have
ample opportunity of being dosed with
his own medicine and laughed at for at
tempting to evade a rule of his own de
vising.
Look to your interest, and try
the “WHITE SEWING MA
CHINE” before buying any
other.
For fSale by
E. C. HOXJGrH
ROME G A
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There is no causa of qparrel bat ween
the Gartersville Fress Press and ourself.
The Free Press is for Felton; Felton op
poses tho Democracy, and we oppose
Felton. The Free Press admits that it
is for Felton, and that puts the Free
Press “on the other side.”
Dit. Bradford ha3 retired from the
editorial chair of tho Cedartown Ad
vertiser. We regret to see him leave a
place ho filled so well; but, no doubt,
he thinks he can succeed better in cor
recting livers than the politics of Rad
icals.
The New York election is
doubt.
still
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: A re
markable caso of the restoration of
speech has just occurred in MadLon
county, near Huntsville. A few days
ago Mrs. Geo. Martin, residing not far
from Huntsvill", who has been for some
time afflicted with paralysis, so much
so that she has been for more than a
year past speechless, while brushing a
table struck a load revolver lying
thereon. The weapon was at ouce dis
charged, the ball taing effect above
the left kaee of her paralyzed leg. An
ugly, though not dangerous, wound
was produced, but, strange to say, Mrs.
Martin at once began to talk and has
continued to so ever sinco tho accident
Mars, which this week becomes more
brilliant than at any time siuce 1877, is
now tho most striking object in the sky,
not even Jupiter excepted. Indeed, it
almost equals Jupiter in apparent size
The rich ruddy color of Mars, unlike
that of any other planet or star, serves to
easily distinguish it, and adds greatly to
its splendor. The present opportunity
is berng improved by astronomers in all
parts of tho world to catch a glimpse of
Mars’ two little moons.
A telegram to the Galveston News
from Camp, Borquo county, Texas, Oc
tober 25th, says: “Thegrasshoppers are
thick here, and tho wheat, which had
come up beautifully since the late rain,
is being entirely eaten up by them.
Farmers say it is past recovery, and
will have to bo resown to be of any ac
ccount. More has been sown and had
come up better than for years past. It
is time enough yet to re-sow, if the seed
could.be had, but, unfortunately, it is
notin the county; and, again, their
coming now almost invariably insures
a full crop of them next summer. It
is hard on tho farmers to have gone
through the drought of last spring and
summer, and to have the grasshoppers
to commenco the seeding season with
Cotton picking is about over, the yield
being about one-third of a crop. Since
the rain the weed has revived and com
menced growing and blooming, and the
prospect wn3 that the second picking
would make nearly as good a yield as
the first. But the cold nights and frosts
of tbe past few nights will cut it off.”
Montgomery Advertiser, bem.: With
almost any good Democrat as the Pres
idential nominee next year New York’s
thirty-five electoral votes are as well as
sured as those of any other Stato in the
union. Nothing, in short, but tho most
egregious blunders on the part of the
nomocracy can prevent the election of
a Democratic President next year,
good ticket will carry New York and
Indiana and all the Southern States
against Grant or anybody else. Tho
signs are auspicious, tho outlook cheer
i.ig, and wo confidently expect that the
grand old Democracy, truo to itself and
its traditions, will savo the Country in
1880 from Radicalism, and place it once
more in tbe hands of its friends.
Senator Bruce urged the New York
colored men to vote for Cornell. Tbe
St. Louis Republican is of the opinion
that he “should have furnished them
with a few advance sheets of his Fieed
man’s Bureau report. It might prol
an additional incentive to their loyalty,
perhaps, to seo how carefully their fi
nancial interests have been looked uflcr
by the Republican party.” It would
not have made much difference either
way, as the Northern colored man, as a
general thing, did not lose much by the
failure of the Freedman’s Bjnk. Tho
Southern blacks were the principal suf
ferers.
W. N. THOMPSON,
Empire Block, Rome, Ga,
Wholesale and. Retail Dealer in
Pure Old Wines, Liquors, Tobacco and
Cigars,
WHERE MAY BE FOUND A LARGE STOCK OF
Old Georgia Corn, Kentucky Rye, and Bourbon Whiskies
TENNESSEE AND LINCOLN.
All of well-known Brands at Lowest F*rioes’
Also, Imported Bottled Wines, Brandies, Gin, Rum, etc.
For Family Uno, which will bo Sold as Reproiented or No Bale, by '
W. TV. THOMPSON.
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Announcement Extraordinary
An Abuse Alluded To.
Atlanta Constitution.
The general assembly at its recent ses
sion passed an act which was approved
by the governor giving maimed and crip
pled ex-confederate soldiers money to
buy artifical limbs with. The governor
got up a blank for the purpose which
any person of ordinary intelligence can
fill out, It is entirely unnecessary that
any lawyer should be employed to col
lect tbe rnony from the state such sol
diors. The blanks will be sent to any
one applying for them and the money
to it.
We learn that an attorney in middle
Georgia has obtained some of the blanks
and is making the soldier pay him ten
dollars for filling out the blanks and col
lecting the money from the state. Tbe
poor soldiers get little enough any
away. It is improper that a portion of
the mony should be taken from them.
Tho blanks are simple and process of
collection easy, requiring no intervention
of a lawyer.
The governor has been endeavoring to
prevent this tolling of the meagre allow
ance to the soklier3 by sending blanks to
county officers and members of the gen
eral assembly for distribution among
the soldiers.
We are requested to ask our contem
poraries to publish the statement of
this article and to caution soldiers every
where not go to the unnecessary expense
connected with these papers, but to ap
ply to tbe governor direct.
Fraudulent Voting in Philadel
phia.
The Republican managers in Phila
delphia were evidently determined yes
terday to excel all their former achieve
ments in ballot-box stuffing—not that
the election of a Treasurer was so very
important a matter, but just to give the
Graut boom a good start off. That they
went deliberately to work to accomplish
their object is shown by tho fact that in
tho city previoust the election they reg
istered 139,G90 names, just 25,547 more
votes than were registered in the city
of Now York, which in 1870, contained
26S,270 more inhabitants than Philadel
phia. Some idoa of the extent to which
the list wore doctored may be drawn
from Ibis fact, that tho Presidental vole
of Philadelphia in 1S76 fell below the
present registration 54,511. The city of
Brotherly Love has heretofore borne au
unenviable reputation for t lection
frauds, but nothing in its hiBtory will
ernopnre with their achievements yes
terday.—Savanah News.
The New Orleans Picuyune says that
the supreme moment of a loafer’s life
is.when a candidate asks for the us of
his influence with tho workingmen of
his ward.
AT HORN & M’GHEES’ OLD STAND, ROME COURIER BUILDING,
Hereby announce to the public that they have j
rented one of tho Stores In the new Opera
House, which they will occupy when
completed, and in order to save the
expense of removal, they oiler their
ENTIRE STOCK ATi REDUCED PRICES!
The Stock Consists of
DRY, FANCY AND MILLINERY GOODS
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes.
IN FACT, EVERYTHING A MAN, WOMAN OR
*©*On.ll Early and Secure Bargains.ta
COHElsr & CO.,
Horn & McGhees’ Old Stand, in the Rome Courier Building,
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J.
II. BUTT & CO.,|
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Stoves, Tinware and Housefurnishing Goods!
A lso, manufacturers of galvanized iron cornices, window caps, a
Plumbing. Steam and Gas Fitting a speciality. Agents for Romo Stoves end oiner i
class factorien. . L
We buy in large loti for cash, thus enabling us to m&ko lowest possible prices. Tallin |
for yourselves. (aprStwwtf
R. T. HOYT.
n. D. C0TIIRA81
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,,
HOME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF
ORA.SS A1STD FIELD SEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
ORASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats to arrive.)
Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Fig ures 'j
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Clocks! Tick! Tick! Ti<*!|
ALLEN & McOSKER-
JUST RECEIVED
A Large and Beautiful Asj
sortment of C1)J s »
INCLUDING THE
LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE STYLE*
Prices Ranging from $1 t0
late sT J
CONSTANTLY REOEIVINO ALl<
AND MOST NOBBY STYLES
BRIDAL PRESENTS, FINE
Silverware, &°*
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