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Senator Hill’s Views.
On the 23d ultimo the editor of tho
Rock Islander addressed to sevoral pro
minent men in the south the following
letter:
Rock Island, III., October 23, 1879.
-Dear Sir: I will mail to you a copy
of my paper of this week, and I respect
fully ask that you will read the re
marks of mine in an article on the pro
posed Yorktowu centennial.
Something should be done at once by
southern leaders of public opinion to
counteract the efforts of republicans who
ate endeavoring to make a solid north
on the idea that state rights means seces
sion ; that there is no freedom of speech
or of the press in the south; and that
the south has been solid by means of
iho shot-gun.
Will you briefly give me your
views as to the southern sentiment on
these points for publication? South
ern men should take every occasion to
enlighten public opinion in the north
on these points. Very respectfully
yours, J. D. Danfortii.
ANSWER FROM U. S. SENATOR BEN HILL.
Atlanta, Ga,, November 12, 1879.—
Mr. J, B. Danforth, editor of the Rock
Islander, Rock Island, Illinois—Dear
Sir: Your very kind letter of October
23d was received some time since, but
absence has delayed an answer.
( I also received the number of 11 Tho
Hook Islander,” and read your article
on the proposed Yerktown centennial
with interest. I read with still greater
interest your article on state rights in
the same paper.
The view you there present of state
tights is so clear and correct though in
so tew words—that I do not see that
Anything can bo added.
Ido not KM la ye thcro is a man of in
telligence in all the South who now ad
heres to the doctrine of secession. It is
utterly abandoned. Before the war so-
ccs-ion was an open question. Being
s°, its allirmanco or denial then could
hot be treason. But by the war seces
sion has become a closed question. This
wall admit. It follows that any at-
tempt to re-assert secession would nec
essarily be treasonable.
The attempt by Republican speakers
"'I papers during the late campaign to
ntound secession with state rights was
e moat witnuml exhibition of ignor-
. or deceit or both ever seen in any
nJ r ? Tersy- No man con keep his
n tosupport the constitution and de-
J to the states the right to exorcise the
P era not delegated to tho general
but which were expressly
rved. in that constitution itself.
... 18 jSbt to oxoroise these expressly
fi ed poiTer8 h 811 wo racan h y state
cession h8 lT f °Ution whatever to se-
di, t j„ n : Lb 0 powers reserved are as
, lW . , a .’ u I as constitutional as the
able f 1 °' e 3 ate d. It is just as treason-
mum ° r 110 K enera l government to
it a ? 8 P°"' 0 r reserved to tho states as
of' '“’estates t0 resist tho exercise
governmmlt ted P ° Wet hy the generftl
tnil h ;t S / CC 7? ioni ' ts committed the latter
gri nl m 5 ut lhe y bad tho teachings of
gensrntu 1 ln . ever y se °l' on and in every
constitn?/ 1 ’ BU ’ C0 t’ 1 ” adoption of the
Tho T) lon \ l ,? P'cad as their authority.
, aistake~H U H IO r a " 3 are making the first
the Mn 1 of usurping supervision of
ej nnw a government over tho reserv-
NOW nrT 8 0f th ® StateB - Indeed they
they o., P r° 80 1° destroy those powers, or
lay onn d them with secession and
Now y ,L real . read y destroyed,
urns in 'V. 8 n °I single respectable
El ructinn° Ur ,‘? tor y 10 sustain this con
It i a a 1,,,,, 0 'aim of the Republicans.
Apr] ” attempt to destroy the States
u j urdtm - It is Bought to be
-, u ,,“P“ 8he d tinder cover of the pas-
^ s Pbhlir? endered b y the war. If the
team, a , a 8 succeed in this new at-
destrov dl8gu ' 8 °d revolution, they will
more ofr 8 y a tem of government far
could -5 y than the secessionists
bad si,„„ 6 ,'VlA e - If the secessionists
’"’alcls.iif^ the Northern States
Cf, verii,„„ ‘ lS ”t.had free constitutional
m - But if (he Republicans
succeed neither North or South will
have such government. All will pass
under the yoke of that despotism which
is so significantly heralded under the
demand for ‘‘a strong government.”
• I trust that the discussions now to be
had will show the Northern people the
immeasurable difference between State
rights and secession, and thereby save
our constitutional system of limited
otate and Federal government from
nnal and disastrous overthrow.
Equally wicked, though not so dan
gerous, is the Republican charge that
the South has been made solid by the
shot-gun. This is simply a disgrace-
fill untruth. The South has been made
solid by the polioy of the Republican
party, and the ’'shot-gun” slang is re
sorted to for no purpose but to hide the
truth from the masses of the Northern
people.
The Republicans have made the
South solid by unmitigated wrong upon
the Southern people, and are now seek-
ing to make the North solid by unmiti
gated slanders of their victims.
Wo havo bad men in the South.
You have bad men in the North. But
tho greatest criminals iu either section
are those men who teach the people of
one section to hate and distrust the
people of another section of our common
country.
If the Republican party will let alone
the issues settled hy the war and treat
them as settled, and will cease to mal
treat, slander aud raalign the Southern
peoplfl, and will thus allow parties to
form on economic and proper political
questions, the people of the South, like
all other people, will divide.
This whole matter must be decided
by the intelligence ot the Northern peo
ple. If they are unable to see the very
plain motives of the Republican lead
ers and papers in keeping alive the sec
tional passions and issues, or if they are
unwilling to rebuke those motives, we
shall have a solid North against a solid
South, and very soon a solid depotism
for all.
We, of the South, sincerely abandon
secession and slavery, aud are doing all
in our power to improve the freedmau
into an intelligent, good citizen. While
the Republicans had control in Georgia
neither white nor black could accumu
late property. But since the Republi
cans were expelled from control, the
blacks of Georgia have accumulated
nix millions of property, and under
their own oaths return over five millions
for taxation, including over five hun
dred thousand acres of land!
When the Republicans had control
in Georgia neither whites nor blacks
could obtain free education, for all the
school fund was diverted—in plain
words, stolen.
As soon as the Republicans were ex
pelled from control in Georgia, whites
and blacks alike and in equal propor
tions began to be educated at the pub
lic expense. In 1878 over seventy-two
tnousand colored children wero in school
at the public expense in Georgia, and
the sohool-commiasiouer thinks that
the number in 1879 will reach over
ninety thousand 1
You may search the whole earth and
all tho ages in vain for benefits to the
colored race equal to those I give you
from the offioial records in Georgia. In
the face of such facts is it necessary to
use the shot-gun to induce the colored
people to veto tho Democratic ticket?
In -the face of such official facts will
the Northern people still believe the
reckless demagogues who slander and
abuse the Southern people ?
I repeat, we of the South accept, the
results of the war in good faith. We
will soon recover from all the losses of
the war if Republican rogues and slan
derers will permit us to do so. We are
strongly in favor of preserving and per
petuating to our children our constitu
tional system of Federal and. State
governments. We do not believe a
better system can ever be devised for
this country. But sectional despotism
accomplished by sectional slanders and
administered in sectional hate is the
very worst form of all possible despot
ism. We are opposed to any more civ
il wars for any purpose, oven to main
tain liberty. If sectional despotism
maintained through sectional malignity
cannot be otherwise avoided, we will
respond to an honest proposal to
change our system fiorn a free to a
strong government, peaceably aud regu
larly.
It will better-inexpressibly better
for the Southern peoplo to be governed
by a wise, able and just man as empe
ror and king, than by an infuriated mob
under the lead of a narrow, sensational,
sectional demagogue as President.
Will intelligence save or will monop
oly destroy our constitutional system
of government.
Tins is the question. Tho North
must answer, ana the South abide the
answer, be it what it may, insisting only
that tho peace be preserved.
You can do as you please with this
letter as I am a public man full of earn
est desires for the public good, en
tirely without secrete in my public
opinions, and without shackles in utl
ing them. Yours very trul^ ^
Rights in the Road,
If a farm is bound by, on or upon a
road it usually extends to the middle
ofthe roadway. The farmer ownB the
soil of half the road, and may use the
grass, trees, stones, gravel, sand or any
thing of value to him, either on the
land or beneath the surface, subject
only to the superior rights of the public
to travel over the road, and that of the
highway surveyor to use such materials
for,the repair of the road; and these ma
terials he may cart away and use else
where on the road. No other man has
a right to feed his cattle there, or cut
the grass or trees, much less deposit his
wood, old carts, wagonB or other things
thereon.—8 Met. 576, 8 Allen, 473, 1
Pa. St., 336.
The owner of a drove of cattle which
stops to feed in front of your land, or
of a drove of pigs which root up the
soil, is responsible to you at law. as the ho fl V mu »* hav ? i 1 tc ^ aand i " it » tod . h >“
.L J . “ a groat deal, ae bo f cratebod Iho surface *11 Iho
McMinnville, Teun., is making a good
start as a manufacturing town. It has
now a large spoke and handle ‘“ tor /
a cotton mill, two woolen nulla, an
iron foundry, two fermture factorms,
marble works, wagon shops and lum
her and flouring mills-
(Ijticura
REMEDIES
Haro speedily and permanently cured Ilumora
of tho Bkin and Scalp of Children and Iolanta
aflliotodolnceblrth.
Tho treatment proscribed In such casoa is mild
doses ol the CuriccR* Resolvkkt, a perfectly
s&fo yet powerful blood purifier, and the external
uso of Cuticura, the great Bkin oure. Tho Cu-
ticura Soap should bo tho only soap appllod to
the disoaaed skin for cleansing purposes.
HUMOR oFa CHILD.
Since Itirth Cured, tiller faithful Medical
Treatment bad I'title' 1
Messrs. Weeks A Bolter: dontlomon—My
little ion, two yoars of ago, has had a humor on
one aide of his face sines he was born, which
during the last tour months has spread over the
entire aide of the face, tho ohin, oar and aids of
much as if they did the same things
within the fence. No children have a
right to pick up the apples under your
trees, although the same stand wholly
outside your fence. No private person
has a right to cut or lop off the limbs of
your trees in order to move his old
barn or other buildings along the high
way, (4 Cush., 437), and no traveler can
hitch his horse to your trees in the Bide
walk being liable, if he gnaws the bark
or otherwise injures them.—54 M., 460.
If your well stands partly on your
laud and partly outside the fence, no
neighbor can use it except by your per
mission. Nay more, no man has a right
to stand in front of your land and in
sult you with abusive language without
being liable to you for tresspassing on
your land (2 Barb., 330). He has a
light to pass and repass in an orderly aud
becoming manner; a right to use the
road, but not to abuse it. But notwith
standing the farmer ownB the soil of the
road, even he cannot use it for any pur
pose whioh interferes with the use of it
by the public for travel. He cannot
put his pig-pen, wagons, wood or other
things there, if the Highway Surveyor
orders them away os obstructing public
travel. If ho leaves such things out
side his fence, and within the limits of
the highway as actually laid out,
though some distance from the traveled
path, and a traveler runs into them in
the night and is injured, the owner is
not only liable to him for private dam
ages (15 CoDn., 225), but may also bo
indicted and fined for obstructing a
public way. And if he has a fence or
wall along the highway be must place
it all on hiu own land, and not half on
the road, as in cose of division fences
between neighbors (4 Gray, 225). But
as he owns the soil, if the road is discon
tiaued, or located elsewhere, the land
reverts to him, and he may enclose it
to the centre and use it ns a part of his
farm.—Judge Bennett.
Tilden’s Joke on Dorsheimer.
When Mr. Tilden, in 1874, was nom
inated for Governor of New York, Mr,
Dorsheimer received the nomination
for Lieutenant-Governor. The ticket
thus headed was elected generally by
about 50,000 majority. A little knot of
Germans in New York city, who usual
ly voted the Republican ticket, took
Mr. Dorsheimer, from his name, to bo
a German, and scratched their State
ticket in his favor, so that he had a ma
jority of nearly 53,000. One day, after
Mr. Tilden and Mr. Dorsheimer had
been inaugurated, they met at a politic
al breakfast at the former’s house in
Gramaoy park. Mr. Tilden had always
felt a little sore at Mr, Dorshoimer’s
extra majority, and so when in the.cur-
rent of conversation Mr. Dorsheimer
itingly said:
“Well, Governor, you must remem
ber that I had 3,000 moro majority
than you—”
As quick as a flash Mr. Tilden re-
torted:
“Yes, you supplied the 3,000 and I
lent you the50,000.”—Scribner’s Month
ly- • ^
He Lived on $1,500.
A great deal has been written about
the possibility of living on $800 a year
aud upward. There is a young man in
Ingersoll, Outario, who has been de
monstrating what can be done on n,
limited salary. He was a teller in Mol.
son’s bank. He received something
like $1,500 a year. Yet ho kept up a
great deal of stylo on this sum. He
lived in a fine house, kept a fast team,
had a coachman and two servants, en
tertained his friends sumptuously, and
lived in a manner that quite extin
guished all the complaints made about
the impossibility of living luxuriously
on a small salary. It is impossible to
continue his interesting experiments m
the matter, but the fact is that he is
that he is now under arrest for embez-
zliog sums from the bank during the
last few years, that aggregate $20,000 —
Detroit Free Press.
Philadelphia Ledger: “In Louisiana,
yes. In Maine, no. It seems to be
conceded unanimously in this part ot
♦ho country that, while stealing the vote
of a State by counting in the defeated
parly may be tolerated in Louisiana and
such far-off places, it will not do at all
for the State of Maine. We o.on’t be-
liove any such thing can be done in
Maine, but all the same it is a good op
portunity for excursions to ‘visiting
statesmen.’ ”
time, no matter what was applied. I used many
romedies by advise of friends and my physician
without benefit until I found Cuticuha. which
immodiatoly allayed the itching and infl tarna
tion, and entirely cured him.
Ronpootfully, JOHN L. SURRY,
With Walworth Manufacturing Co.
Bjston, April 15, 1878.
Noth—Once cured, tho zkin may be rendored
soft and fair by uulng Cuticura Poap for toilet or
nursery purposes.
CHILDREN AND INFANTS.
More Cures of Skin and Scalp Affections by
the Cuticura Remedies,
Fred. Fohrer, Esq., Cashier Stock Growora* Na
tional Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes: “I am so
well pleased with its effects on my baby that I
cannot afford to be without it in my houie. It is
a wonderful euro, and !o bound to booome very
popular as soon as its virtues are known to the
maizes.”
J. B. Weeks, Esq, Town Treasurer, St. Alban«|
Vt., says in a letter dated May 28s “Jt works to
a charm on my baby'* face and head. Cured tho
head entirely, and has nearly cleaned the face
of sores. I b&vo rooommonded it to several, and
Dr. Plant has ordered it for them.”
M. M. Chick, Esq., 41 Franklin Bt., Boston,
says: “My little daughter, nighteen months old,
has what the doctors cull Eczema. We have
tried 'most everything an i at last havo used Cu-
ricuRA, and she is almost a rew child and we
feel very happy.”
pricklFhbat.
Incidental to the Texan Climate.
Messrs Weeks Sc Potter.* Gentlemen—En
closed please find ono dollar for a large box of
Cuticura. The small ono that I resolved some
time ago has been very efficacious, especially in
Prickl) Heat or Rash, as somo people call it. I
am noising it about- Yours truly,
THOMAS W. BUCKLEY.
Macon, Texas, Sept. 22, 1878.
Cuticura is a most valuable external applies
tion. It hon's all cuts, bruises and abrasions of
tho skin, restores the hair when destroyed by
Bcalp diseases, removes dandruff and keeps the
scalp clean and tho hair soft and pliable. It is
as tgreeable as it is effective, and is ably assisted
in overy case by the Cuticura 8oap, which is par
ticularly rocommondod to mothers for cleansing
the skin and scalp of infants and children. It is
Toilet ee well as Meiicinal. and is tho most fra
grant and refreshing Soap f ir tho nursery and
bath of any yot prepared.
Paronts havo our assurance that those retuo
dies contain nothing injurious to tl o youngest
Infant, evidences ot which may bo found in tho
certificates of Dr. Hayes and Prof. Merrick nc
companying ouch remedy.
Tho CuTicnaA Remedies aro prepared by
Weeks A Potter, Chemists and Druggists, 3fi0
Washington Btroot, Boston, and aro for s lo by
all Druggiets. Pri w of Cuticura, small boxes
50 cents; large boxo?, con’oiniDg two aud one-
half times tho quantity of small, .>i. Kbsoi.vsnt
$1 por b>ttle. Cuticura Soap, 25 cents; by
mail, 30 cents; 3 c.ak«s, 76 conts
They destroy nil tendency
to inflammation by drawing
VOLTAIC BajEilCTBlOlrom the p.vBtoin morbid or
Pi AcstunwhoicBtitn matter, thus
preventing or enring Rheu
matism, Neuralgia, and Sciatica. Worn over the
•it of the Stomach, they prevent Ague and l.ivtr
’ains, rnfiimimatiou of the Liver and Ki tnoys,
Bilious Colic, Dyspepsia, Indigtuiion. Cramps,
aud Pains. nov7twwlm
R. T. HOYT.
FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
VOL 19, NO. 1
II. D. COTHRAN
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,
ROME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD 0?
GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats to arrive.)
Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures
jullOtwwtf
ALBIN OMBERG,
Bookseller, Stationer & Printer
No. 33 Broad Street,
Has just received a Large Stock
CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC
A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER.
WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.n®!
In cunnoctinn with
our Immense stock, we
have added a Milline
ry Depart monk, where
will always bo found
a full line ot F&l) and
Winter Stylci, em
bracing Trimmed and
Untrirntnod Shapes in
Biraw and Foil Hots.
8 e our New Stylo
Pattern Hats. Tbia
department will be
under the control of
Mish ABB1B WEBB,
assisted by
Mua. E. BURNETT,
who will bo pleaaed
to see all of their
frfonds Will con-
Rtantly receive nil of
the Latest .Novelties
as they appear.
GREAT OPENING
— OF THE —
CRYSTAL PALACE,
13 Shorter Block.
U STORE! NEW GOODS!
NEW STYLES IN
DRESS GOOD*, CASH
MERES, ALPACAS, LARGE
VARIETY CHEAP DRESS GOODS,
IMMENSE ASSORTMENT SHAWLS,
CLOAKS REPELLANTS, LADIES’
UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS,
CANTONS AND DO
MESTICS, JEANS,
CASSIMKHES, BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES
Separata departments for Clothing, Boots,
Shoos and Hats. Complote stoolc Gent’s Fur
nishing Goods.
DAVIS & CO.
ootU tw wtt
Call & nil ass our
line of Glove* tefore
buying. The cheap-
c,t lino of Thtoe-
Button Kid Gloves in
the city, that wo war-
rent. Ladles’ Neek
Wear, Tlei, Bows,
Bilk and Lace Fia-
ohua, Collar* and
Cuff*, Linen and
Bilk Uandkercbi.f*,
Hatnbuigi, Ribbon*,
Hosiery anti Ltdio*’
Linen. Laec* ol all
kind*, Corieta, lire**
Trimming*, and ev
erything usually kept
in a first el*** Dry
Good* House.
Clocks! Tick! Tick! Tick!
ALLEN & McOSKER..
COLLIN S *
J. T. CAIIILL,
MANUFACTURER OF
IR0l\ and brass castings,
HOLLOWWABE, GRATES,
Hill Castings, Fencing, &c.
Architectural Work
. -AND-
Building Castings
A SPECIALITY.
Office — Railroad Avenue, between
7th and 8th Streets,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
jun28 twfira
James G. Dailey,
UNDERTAKER’S WARE-ROOMS,
(On sec >ml story)
96 Broad Street.
JUST RECEIVED
A Large and Beautiful As
sortment of Clo: s,
INCLUDINCI THE
LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE STYLES.
Prices Banging from $1 to $16.
CONSTANTLY RECEIVING ALL THE LATEST
AND MOST NOBBY STYLES OF
BRIDAL PRESENTS, FINE JEWELRY,
Silverware, &c.
ALL Q00DS SOLD ENGRAVED FREE BY US.
8fp9 twwtf
1879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879.
———O' ■ ---
New Goods. Fine Goods.
MRS. T. B. WILLIAM S,
IVK ILLiHVEIR,
No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
'PHANItlNG MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME
1 in th. past, I am proud to aar that I am hotter prepared to attend to their want* than ever
before. I have new in (tore and to arrlvo Doiinote, Hat*, Flower*, Flame*, Bilk*, Velvet*, Pluahc*,
Ribbons, Ornament*, Hair Good*, Ztphyrs, Comb*, Notion*, etc., etc., which I havo (elected in
person in tho Northore market*. My Good* are in the Lateit Stylo., end I hove my Trimming
douo with good material by experienced milliner*. Call end examine my good* and get my price*
before purchasing elaowhore. (-totlT tw wtf
A FINE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK
of Metallic, Walnut. Grained and Stained
Coffin*, Burial Robee and Coffin Trimmings, ai-
wav* on hand. Neatcet Hoaraes furniahod for
funeral* All order* filled with dispatch, day
or night. Residonco, corner Court und King
street*.
ALSO. DEALER IN
Flattery is a sort of bad money to I FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS.
whioh nnr vanity gives currency. | jui5 twtmarif.
HARDY, BOWIE & CO.,
WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS
BBOAI) STREET, HOME, GA.
WE CARRY IN STOCK
RTTBBEB BELTING. 3 ply, 2, 2 1-2. 3, 4, 6, 6, 7 and 8 inches
“ “ 4 ply, 8, 10, 12 and 14 incheB.
RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches.
iSyStrictly Best Goods Made.
HEMP PACKING—MANILLA ROPE—LACE LEATHER—CUT LACINGS—
UrRIGIIT MILL SAWS—CROSS CUT SAWS—ONE MAN CROSS CUT
SA WS-SAW SWAGES-FILES-BELT RIVETS—FINE HAMMERS- . \
WRENCHES, tf-c., making Complete Line of Mill Furnishing
OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RICHT.
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