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Newspaper Page Textit DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. * im0§ >• ;0 . *■ - fc ‘ * “WISDOM, JUSTICE, A’-. MODERATION .” ROME, GA., TUESDAY MOANING, JUNE 15, 1880. FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL. 19, NO. 86 Courier and CONSOLIDATED APRIL lO, 1870. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. FOR THF. WEEKLY. Six moath« ThrfemonthK. ..*2 00 .. 1 00 FOR THE TRI-WEEKLY. $4 00 2 00 Three month* -— 1 00 It paid yearly, strictly In advance, the price of the Weekly Conner will be*l 50. Oue year...j. ■Six month s.............. CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square one month _ .S * 00 One square three months.... —. S 00 One square six months — 12 00 One square twelve months — 20 00 One-fourth column one montii. 7 SO One-fonrth column three months 15 00 One-fonrth column six months 27 00 One-ionrth column twelve months — 50 00 One-half column one month 15 00 One-half column three months 27 0 One-half column six months 50 00 One-half column twelve months. 80 00 One column one month 27 00 One column three months 50 00 One column six months — 80 00 One column twelve months 120 00 The foregoing rates are for either Weekly or Tri-Weekly. When published In both papers.50 per cent, additional upon table rates. (JEN. GORDON’S SPEECH. Delivered in the Opera House in Atlanta on the night of the 4th. My Fellow Countrymen: You are my witnesses that so. long as I was in public office I was free from that par donable vice of egotism so common to public men. You are my witnesses that so long as I. was a candidate for your suffrages, I abstained from all al lusions to my record as arguments for support. Now, however, since I have surrendered the commission with which you intrusted me, and have come to give an account of my stewardship, and in view, of recent occurrences, some allusion to my record may be made without any violation of propriety or good taste. Before I was thirty yjears war came. It found me in lnounl walks of a private citizen, possessing the good will of all my countrymen o: every political party in every section of our common country. (Great ap plause.) My countrymen, I am proud of your confidence—more proud of it than of any other portion of the legacy that shall leave to my children; but I am obliged in this connection to make one observation that it is a little marvelous that during all these • years of service, of devotion to your interests, of toil and of anxious watching and working, there have been a few men in Georgia —only a few, thank God!—who have n<Sver seen one virtue in my purest mo tives nor one merit in my best actions! (Cheers.) Even now these men pursue me to private life. I am not amazed at it; I am not angry at.it; but for them I have nothing but a feeling of pity, not unmingled with contempt. (Cheers and laughter.) They are not satisfied with my reasons for retiring from pub lic life, and seek others than those. I, myself, have given over my own sig nature to the Governor in my letter of resignation. One says that I resigned to be A CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT! first, on the Grant ticket, second, on the Tilden ticket, and third, on any ticket! (Laughter.) Now, it is said that confession is good for the soul, and I am going to make a confession. I am a candidate for vice-president; but not on the Grant ticket, not on the Tilden ticket, rtot on any political ticket, but on Mrs. Gordon’s ticket! (Great laugh ter and cheers.) And the senate over which I trust God in His mercy will permit me to preside for long years to come is composed of big and little Gordons and assembled out here at Kirkwood! (Renewed applause and laughter.) and mo ie -my home , _J>y- I had turned my back on all oners of political prefer ment, and these had not been wanting, but when the tocsin of war sounded I felt that the time had come for me to turn my back, also upon home and private interests. Summoning around me a body of hardy mountaineers, I organized them into a company, and tendered their services to the Confed erate Government. From that time until tiie last echo of the last drumbeat at Appomattox I endured with your sons and kindred the privations of the camp, the fatigues of the march, the loneliness of the picket and the dan gers of battle. (Applause.) At the close of the war, I found myself with enough of the confidence of Lee (cheers) to be entrusted with the com mand of one wing of the grand army, and I believe, I may ' challenge your appreciation of the truth that when our standards were furled and my sword sheathed I had not only the confidence, esteem and affection of that grandest of living or dead cap tains, but the confidence, affection and esteem of every officer and soldier who had followed the red cross of the Con federacy to battle! (Great Applause.) After the war I had repaired to some extent my shattered fortune, when you generously called me to become your candidate for Governor, and then to the exalted political station from which I have from my own choice just retired. I will not attempt a detailed account of my votes or actions during my ser vices in the senate. I may say gener ally, however, that I have endeavored, in season and out of season, to subserve your interests in that arena also. (Ap plause.) If I were willing to give my life in battle to secure your rights and your independence out of the union, I was no less ready, surely, to consecrate all the powers which God had given me in order to secure -your equality, peace, prosperity and freedom within that union. ^Renewed applause.) When I entered upon my duties in the senate, I. found many of our sister southern states in chains, a dominant majority pouring its vials of wrath day by day upon the heads of the devoted people. It was my fortune to meet its leaders in debate, to mingle in the ex citing scenes and the furious passions of those perilous times; and I have now the proud satisfaction of pointing you to the fact that no word or act of mine has ever been quoted by political foes to your detriment! (Immense applause) In South Carolina, in Alabama, in Mis sissippi, all over the South, at the North, in the East and the West, have I spoken in your defense. Every in sult that was offered you by your foes has been met and repelled by me wherever it was uttered; and yet I think I may say that I retire from that scene of conflict possessing the confi dence and esteem of my democratic as sociates,~but with the respect and con fidence of my republican foes! (Ap plause.) And if the press of this coun try is to be. believed, if telegrams and private letters are to be regarded as tes timony, I can point you also to the fact that I return to my home and the THE KELLOGG CASE. Others have' said: “Oh, no; he did not resign to be Vice-President. He resigned because he was afraid to vote on the Kellogg case.” You have seen it charged, Dodging! Well, I do not know that I have been in the habit of dodging more than other men, at least since the shells ceased to fly around me. (Applause.) “Dodging the Kellogg case!” I was in fa vor of my entire par ty dodging that case. I agreed with some of the oldestyind * wisest leaders ’ e party that it would bo better to the-law left it and leave the responsi- - - -- - - - bility for the wrong on tho majority that committed it; but I never had any idea of dodging a vote when it came up. And if it is any comfort to the few men in Georgia who are my ene- ihios, I am ready to tell them how I would have voted had I remained in the Senate, I did not agree with my colleague and other able democrats, but I did agree with such men as Allen G. Thurman, George H. Pendleton, Thom as F. Bayard, Lucius Lamar, Wade Hampton and Butler, of South Caroli na, Pinkney White and Groome, of Maryland, Jones, of Florida, and oth ers, who are perhaps as towering demo crats as sit in that body or ever sat around the council boards of the re public. (Great applause.) I do not propose to criticise any one who differed with me, but I am showing you that I was in pretty good company and that there was not much necessity for my dodging. I should have voted against unseating Kellogg, not because 1 belidve he was elected, for I <lo not so believe; not because the body which claimed to have elected him, or the persons who commissioned him were the lawfully elected, legisla ture and executive of Louisiana, for I do not believe that. Nor would I have given that vote because I believe that the judgment of the Senate seating Kel logg was a righteous judgment, for I am profoundly convinced that history will pronounce the verdiet that it was a most unrighteous judgment. Nor would I have given that vote because of any diminution of interest in the welfare of Louisiana, for every throb of my being has been one of unspeakable sympathy with the sufferings of that d'own-troidden people. Nor would I have given that vote because of any abatement of my abhorrence of that caricature of government which, con ceived in passion, bom in revolution and baptised in fraud, was set up by bavdnets over an unwilling people and has made the name of Louisiana the synonym of a great historic unparal- Mlecl political crime! [Great applause.] On all these points I was in accord with the Democrats of every shade of opinion; but I should have voted against the resolution unseating him, because I do not believe he could be lawfully unseated. I would not con vict a murderer unless he could be law fully convicted. [Applause.] I could not give that vote to unseat him, be cause to thus right Louisiana’s wrongs would be in my judgment, to inflict an infinitely greater wrong on the consti tution and laws of the land on which the rights of Louisiana and all her sis ter States must. rest. [Applause.] I could not give that vote, because to give it one thing is certain, I should have to strike down a time-honored precedent, old as the constitution itself, inviolate and never infringed from the foundation of the government to this hour. With my view of the methods by which the liberties of this people are to be preserved under the forms of a Republican government, I would suf fer any condemnation, before I would give a vote to strike down any of the muniments of law which in our situa tion as a minority of tire people in this country are the* sheet-anchor of our safety; or before I would set a prece dent which would authorize political majorities with their unbridled wills to settle great questions of the rights of States, communities and people. Now, my countrymen, I am not going into any discussion of the points in the Kellogg case or of the laws bearing upon it. But I have said this much that these gentlemen who feel such an interest in my reputation may under stand that they need not be unhappy any longer. I did not dodge the Kel logg case. THE REASON OF REASONS. But I come now to the reason of rea sons for my resignation. “Bargain!” “Corrupt trade!” Well, my country men, if my life, if my character, if my record as it stands now completed, in war and in peace, public and private, does not answer that, it will go unaii-. swered forever, so far as I am concern ed. [Immense cheering.] But for this my voice would not have been heard in this campaign. While I am no longer in public station, I have not abdicated my position as private citizen, and I do not intend that my friend shall suffer this wrong as long as my voice may be heard in any degree potential with the people of Georgia. I propose, therefore, to answer not for myself, but in the cause of truth and justice. And in answering, I shall ad duce proofs so overwhelming as to cause the flush of indignation to glow upon the cheeks of every honest man in Georgia. They did not understand how it is possible for any man to make up his mind willingly to lay down an office, to attain which they would have labor ed a lifetime. Strangers to the passion of pure patroitism, they do not sup pose any man posesses it [applause]; and they arc perfectly unable to com prehend how any man could hold an exalted office for the purposes for which the government created it, and then lay down that office When the great ends of good government had been secured through it. Such men would have been astounded that George Washing ton should prefer his country home on the banks of the Potomac to the crown tendered him by a grateful people, and would have sought to find some cor rupt motive moving him thereto. fro!>f every drop of blood drawn from ! theveins of Alfred Colquitt in such an j unholy warfare there will spring a ! clui.npion of his cause, panoplied in j tlie^irmor of truth, valiant, bold and invincible! [Continued cheering and gtejt applause.] Why, they forgot tHo Alfred Colquitt had the confidence and love and .affections of the people wb* had known him from his youth upj They forgot that there was such a t.'ilng as sober second thought with tk-Aiheople. They forgot that the peo- f fej love justice, and that justice had eriseat in the clear, calm atmosphere of 'Jfbason, and not in the murky clouds at' C dust of partisan passion! [Cheers.] ' tljS. ever yl>ody knows that I am not iLfehampion of Governor Brown; but 1 i.fn the friend of Alfred Colquitt and of she Democratic party, and I would he m ingrate to both, as I shall pres- ,enity show, if I should refuse to ex- | the wrong which is being done to i my friend and the party by these •arranted assaults. I have known ernor Colquitt almost from my hood. I know the secret impulses __ teart and brain which guide all his 'actions, and I do know that no execu tive was ever moved by higher, more uii •-'elfish or patriotic considerations than was Governor Colquitt in making th is appointment. I repeat that but fo - these ungenerous, unjust, unholy assaults upon his fidelity and his hriior, my voice would not have brim heard in this campaign; hut as I slfiidl presently show I had, by my re- fp|al to accede to his earnest* and re peated requests to withdraw my resig nation, forced upon him the necessity ^making an appointment to fill the ®fency. I am not guided, therefore, as_some might imagine, simply by a ' yalric devotion to my friend in thus uing before the public, but by a ve sense of public duty—duty to a and to the party which has hon ored me far beyond my deserts. I wish t<T remark in this connection that S. B. LOWE, CHATTANOOGA, - - - TENNESSEE, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in PIG AND BAR IRON, IRON ORE. NAILS AND SPIKES, RAILROAD SPIKES, FISH PLATES AND BOLTS, NUTS AND WASHERS, VERONA NUT LOCKS, TRACK AND MINERS’ TOOLS, RAILROAD SWITCH LOCKS, LIGHT RAIL, BOILER RIVETS, INGOT COPPER, BLOCK TIN, ANTIMONY, .SPELTER, PIG AND BAR LEAD, SHEET ZINC, No. 1 METAL SOLDER, BABBIT METAL, FIRE BRICK, FURNACE HEARTHS, FURNACE BOSHES, BLACKSMITH COAL, FOUNDRY COKE, COKE AND CHARCOAL FORKS, GRINDSTONES, BLACK DIAMOND STEEL, FILES BELTING AND LACING, HOWE’S SCALES, MACHINISTS’ TOOLS, SAW AND GRIST MILLS, INJECTORS AND REJECTORS, WIRE ROPE, ROOFING TILE. SEWER PIPE, BRASS GOODS, STEAM GAUGESa^a^tey^ private citizen as I am that my pen years before him, and as they are very complimentary to say now;—“for a life time if he wanted it”—unless moved by wicked motive. My countrymen, you will pardon the assertion, hut if they had followed me during the war they would have found me capable of doin'* good many things which they would not do! [Great applause.] If they had sat by my bedside in 1862, with two balls through my right leg, a third haring shivered my right arm, a fourth through my shoulder and a fifth through my cheek and jaw, and had seen me in that fix refuse a call from my Alabama people in the District in which I then resided to become a can didate for the Confederate Congress, which would have given me more mon ey, greater comfort and somewhat less of danger [applause], do you think such men eould .understand why Gor don should calmly lie there awaiting strength to remount his horse and re turn to the field, instead of going to Congress ? [Cheers.] Now", my coun trymen, I know you will believe me when I say I refer to these facts in no spirit ol vain boasting nor for populari ty; for i ask nothing of this people save the consideration due an ex-sol dier, a private citizen and an honest man. [Applause.] I refer to this fact only to press the question upon these self-righteous men, whether they think that such a man is made of the stuff to barter and dicker away his honor for any man, or any money, or any power beneath the stars ? [Great applause.] A STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWER. I repeat that in answering these men I shall so utterly overwhelm them as to bring the flush of indignation to the cheek of every proud and fair minded man in Georgia. [Cheers.] Eager in the wild hunt after Colquitt, they thought they had chased the fox in his hole! The sequel trill tell whether they have rushed into a mare’s nest or a den of lions. [Cheers.] I come now to the second fact which has excited adverse Criticism, viz: the appointment of a man who has done much to provoke hostility and resent ment among Georgians. The senti ment of a large portion of our people was naturally opposed to such an ap pointment, and they gave expression to this opposition without waiting to know the reasons which controlled the governor or the ulterior effects upon the -future of our party or the country. Many of these men were guided by the highest impulses known to our manhood. The hitter opponents of Governor Colquitt took advantage of this sentiment to strike him down. An instant appeal was made to the prejudices and passions and sentiment of the people. They said “Aha, we have him now ?” The}* sent telegrams flying over the country, held indigna tion meetings, unbarred the magazines of wrath and fired at him the red-hot shot pi their malice.and detraction, until they thought’ they had slaughter ed him. “bct he lives !” [Cheers.] He still lives, my country men ! [Renewed cheers.] The hero of Ocean Pond, of Olustee. still lives, and ' all not be stayed nor my voice need whenever truth, or honor, or tice, shall demand their services. „_ ird and prolonged applause.] Let Ui? place ourselves in Governor Col- iaiitt’s place, and, laying aside all pas sion see what our cool judgment would dictate. [Laughter and applause.] Let me premise what I am about to say Jty the remark that, while, as a matter qfijSTHithiic-iit, most--of-u»—would” have preferred some other Georgian, yet there are thousands in and out of the state who are beginning to agree with that gratest of living generals, JosephE. Johnston, that Joseph E. Brown was the very best selection that could have been made, surroundingourpresentand the momentous issues involved in our political contest for the future. There are great men and true men now in high places of responsiblity, who be lieve that the time had come in the south when the integrity of our society the security of our property and the supremacy of our political principles required that we should so liberalize our policy as to extend the olive branch to all men now in accord with our prin ciples, although they had differed from -us in the transition stage succeeding the war aq to public policy. They saw in Govenor Brown the most distin guished representative of that class of citizens in the entire south. They saw in him a man of intellect, of long ex perience, of distinguished services in the ante helium history of the state. A man of large property deeply in-, terested in the material progress of the country and in stable government—a life long deihocrat, who, although de nounced by us for voting for Grant and reconstruction in 1868, was joined by us invoting for Greely and reconstruction in 1872. [Applause:] This is I say what other men, able and true, saw in this ap- ointment. What did Gov. Colquitt see to guide him to a; conclusion which his enemies now seek to use to his detri ment? If he will permit it, I will publish his letter informing me of Gov. Brown’s appointment and of the results he expected to be produced upon himself, the party and the coun try. He saw the strongest democratic districts in the states lost to the demo cratic party. He saw in a third the same fate seriously threatened. He saw in a forth Hammond, able and eloquent, elected after a most laborious struggle. He saw the party upon whose supremacy seems to depend all that is valuable to us as a people, ap parently on the verge of dissolution He saw the friends and life-long follow ers of Governor Brown'among the har dy yeomanry of the mountains dissat isfied and ready to break with the or ganization, and he felt that he might thus recall them to their allegiance, recapture these Democratic strong holds, harmonize former differences, assuage bitterness and assure the future of Democratic supremacy. I wish to repeat here that everybody knows that I am not the champion of Gov. Brown, but it is due our manhood that we either cease hostility to him or cease to ask his time and talents and money for the benefit-of our party. It is due to truth to state that Gov. Brown has been unfaltering in his fidelity to the Democratic party for ten or twelve years; that he was the supporter of Mil- ton Smith, of Alfred Colquitt and myself in my last race for the Senate, even against his life long friend—that up right jurist and great statesman, Hers- chel V. Johnson. It would be un worthy in me were I to fail in this public manner, to testify to the earnest, ffontinned on Second PaTe.l WAREHOUSE ELEVATORS, DIFFERENTIAL PULLEY BLOCKS, LANE & BODLEY’S ENGINES AND BOILERS, decltw wtoja'l SOUTHERN MACHINERY DEPOT. ST 1TI in J R1 A PORTABLE ENGINES BOILERS, ft to I50.Horie Power. ENGINES On wheel* or Skid*, UPRIGHT, From 4 to 30 Horae Power. Those who contemplate buying Engines for ginning the coming crop will save money by buying now, a then* has been no advance in machinery equal to that of big and bar iron. * Besides, by taking time to arrange the machinary, a more satisfactory result will be attained. I recommend and sell Portable Engines, when it is desirable to move from place to Place, as in threshing grain. But for ginning, where the engine is to remain permanent, I advise and urge the use of the STATIONARY ENGINE with a STATIONARY BOIL ER, of tne plain cylindrical form, with flues or tubes, with a high stack, and set in briclc. I can furnish in this the same power, for less money, and it is far superior to the best portable engine made. There are reasons for this which are convincing, which will be given together with prices on-application. I have a number of second hand engines from six to fifteen horse power. All in Erst class order, which I offer at a bargain —? also keep in stock. Belting, Lace Leather, BrasSj Goods and.- Files, all ( of-the hes^ sIb LOWE’S PIG AND BAR IRON- • STORAGE AND COMMISSION, Southern Machinery Depot, Chattanooga, Tenn. AGENT FOB. THE CELEBRATED GAAR THRESHING MACHINES. " ,nn,rrnn /0 Sizes.) APRON MACHINE. Wi of these machines Ran AND PRICES.-©* The No SIDE DRAFT, NO WEIGHT Horse's Neck. and Meadow WEE! STRONGEST, DURABLE. TAB SUPERIOR GRAIN DRILL and fertilizer. SAW MILLS, FIVE SIZES, REQUIREMENTS. A GOOD PLANTATION SAW MILL For $300. “ « CORN “ “ $100. THE LITTLE GIANT HYDRAULIC COTTON FI No Levers, Ropes, Screws or Gearing. .The Simplest and Best Press in Ui HAY RAKES, HAY PRESS, Etc., Etc. Address, s tw wt-jall B. L O W E, Chattanooga, Tenn. LUMBER! LUMBER! I AM NOW PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS promptly for all kinds of building Lumber from best long leaf yellow pine. Dressed Floor ing and Ceiling furnished on short notice. Yard at foot of Howard street, on the river. Office at R. A, Johnson's Planing 31111s. B. H. TAYLOR. Rome, Oa., April IB. tw3m E. N. FRESHMAN & BROS., Advertising Agents, 190 W. Fourth St., CINCINNATI, 0. Are authorthorized to contract for advertising in this paper. Estimates furnished free. Send for cirenlar.

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Rome tri-weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1881, June 15, 1880, Image 1