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r r'HOVIAS BEALL. Attorney at Law.
■ Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir
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nj T. WEWER Attornpy at Law.
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T A HUNT. Attorney at Law. Barnes
y • V| He, (.a Will practice in all the counties of
Hint i ircuit and Supreme Court of th* State.
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"Wether counties deciß-ly
] Y' HO'iERS will continue the prufticP
A ; Medicine. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
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J S WALKER Attorney at Low
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Wo i and in the bolted States District Courts.
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THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2\tS7l.
yVIISCELLANEOUS.
r
Monthly Orations of the Thomaston
Literary Society.
We propose to publis'i regularly the
orations delivered before the Thomaston
Literary Society monthly, by a member <»f
the same, appointed for that purpos*. We
bejrin in th*s issue with the oratinn of Mr.
0. F. Turner, tbe first delivered before the
s »ciety :
INFLUENCE OF GREAT HEN AND W MEN.
It is said that a pehhle thrown int t the
middle /if an rtcf-an will start a ripple that
will £’> on, and on. increasing in ma*r; itu le
as it prtMieeds, until it eprwin its force on
the distant shores, so, likewise, the actions
of jzreat men and women are not only felt
during their lives, but continue to in
crease in the magnitude o( their influence
until it extends to the remotest portions of
ihe earth. We will uow, for a few minutes,
dwell on the actions of some of the world’s
greatest men and women.
w e will begin by reviewing the life arid
actions of one, who was wiser than a Plato,
greater than a Pericles, more discreet than
a Phoeian, and in moral sentiment as pure
as the icicles that hung upon the temple of
Diana—we mean the great Athenian legis
lator, Solon. This great patriot, statesman
and legislator, wrote for Greece a code of
laws which not only raised that nation to
the highest point of moral, social and politi
cal position, but shed its wholpsome influ
ence throughout the civilized w >r!d. It
was those distinguished lows which mighty
Rome as she beg in to launch forth into her
career of greatness saw the necessity of
adopting, she sent a number of her most
eminent Senators to Greece to copy the
iaws of S don. These distinguished men
arrived at Rome with Solon’s laws written
on twelve tables. They were p ac'd in the
Roman Senate, and under the influence of
those laws she soon became the proud mis
tress of the world. Not only was Rome
benefited by those laws, but through her
power and influence they reached the re
motest portions of the civilized world ; and
<*ven now, in this our day, we see their in
fluence among the nations of Europe, Asia,
Africa, and America. Rome got these laws
from Greece, and modern nations received
them from Rome, s<> that the influence of this
great man is still felt and will continue to
he fit for good, to the end of time. L’ cur
gns was another of those great legislators
whose name has been rendered immortal by
the code of laws he produced. ’ Such was
their influence on the citizens of Sparta that
that nation, although extremely small, be
came one among the most distinguished
nations of the earth, and tho people living
under the influence of those laws were en
abled ta maintain a prominent position
among the groat nations of the earth for
the space of five hundred years. This great
legislator lived three hundred years before
Solon, near the same period in which Ly
curgus lived, the immortal Homer wrote.
So inexpressibly grand and sublime was
his style that his writings are read even at
this day with the same admiration that they
were twenty-seven hundred year< ago.
Alexander the Great placed such a high
estimate on Homer’s works that he made it
a rule to lay them under his head every
night during the whole of his ten years
campaign in Asia. It is more than likely
that, the writings of this poet did more to
stimulate Alexander to great and glorious
deeds than any other one cause. When he
had taken possesion of Ecbatans, the
Capital of the Per.-ion Empire, there was
handed him a golden vase that King Darius
had used to keep his precious ointments in.
Alexander said on receiving it, that “Darius
used this va*e to hold his ointments, hut I
have not time for such luxuries, hut I will
put it to a more noble purpose—l will use
it a*s a place of deposit for Aristotle’s copy
of Homer.” But Alexander wa* not
only great man who was stimulated to acts
of honor and glory by the writings of Ho
mer. butthey had the same influence on most
of the great warriors, statesmen, philoso
phers and legislators of ancient time, and
perhaps his writings did much to raise
Greece to that pitch of learning and refine ;
ment that placed her. in many respects, far
above all other nations in cither ancient or
modern times.
. Contemporarv with Homer was Dido, of
Phoeoecia, who was one of the most illustri
ous women that the world has ever pro
duced, she was the founder of Carthage that
grew with such rapidity in every thing that
constitutesgrea'nessand influence,
it without a parallel in history of cities. In
less than one hundred years after Dido had
purchased a piece of land on the northern
coast of Africa, from the rude barbarians.
H e a site for tbe city, Carthage had taken
her position among the leading enmm c, rcial
c it es of the world, in this branch of business
she c iDtinued t-j prosper Until poon she
became the proud mistress of tbe seas: this
position she he'd for many centuries and
continued to grow in riches and power f>r
seven or eight hutufred years. Our wooder
and admiration are excited when we
contemplate the profound wisdom, eagasity,
and foresight of this i lustrious woman. Who
would have supposed as they beheld her
leaving her native country, on account of
jneulf and persecution, that she, with har
Lttle colony, would display such wisdom in
the selection of a place as would leal, in
so short a time, her city ard Colony to be
come one of the wealthiest and nv st power
ful nations the world has ever known? Y©t
such#waß the ca«e. G r eit in wealth and
commerce wu* Tyre the city r.f her birth,
hut grea'er still became Ca-thage which
she founded. Thi* wonderful woman lived
about the time when Jepthah governed Is
rael, and her native country, Phceneeia,
adj >ined that, of the Israelites.
One thousand years before Dido’s time
Semiramis, of Assyria, immortalised her
name hv Iver glnri'-us w rs and the hurid n;
of th* ijif»gnifici©nt cities of B ibylon nnd
Nineveh. Same historians sta»e that she built
these mighty cities* others that she enlarged
and beautified them. She extended her
conques’s fri.m India to Ethiopia, and laid
the foundation of the Assyrian Empire on
such h firm basis that it enjoyed en almost
uninterrupted prosperity for seven hundred
years. This woman, like Dido, was one of
the most r o rr»nrkahlo of which historv gives
an account, when we reflect on her achieve -
ments we are astonished at the wonderful
influence the actions of a single individual
can produce on so many millions of human
beings, and that for so many centuries.
But to pass over the action and influence
of men and women of ancient times, we
comedown to the of Queen Elizabeth.
This woman did more to raise England to
a position of greatness and influence than
any other six monarehs that ever sat on the
Eng'ish throne. It was in her reign that
Shak-peare and Speneer lived. It was
during her reign that the English literature
reached its highest s’Rte of perfection. She
was instrumental in establishing protestant
ism on a fi-rn basis, which has since spread
over most of the civi iz ‘d world. Who can
estimate the wonderful influence this wo
man’s neii >ns have had on the nations of the
world ? Millions have already sounded her
praise, and countless numbers, yet unborn,
wi’.i rise up to do her honor. -
We now consider the actions and influ
ence of some of the most distinguished men
of our own country; prominent am<‘hg
whom was Washington, who has been justly
styled the’father of his country. When we
consider the influence that has already re
sulted from the actions of this great man,
and that xVltich it will rYTt in all time to
come, we are left to wonder h >\v it is possi
ble that any one man could wield an in
fluence that should effeet the welfare of so
many mi! ions of men. For the principles
of a free government proclaimed and estab
lished by him will cease as long as
time shall lact. Nations groaning under
tyrannical rules will look with, hope and
pleasure to the actions of Washington. They
will take courage when they consider his
success in throwing off the yoke of a tyrant.
They will be stimulated to do the same, and
in this way bis influence is likely to be felt
throughout world in all time to come
If we had the time we might dwell with
pleasure and profit on many of the great
men of our country who figured conspicu
ous! v durirtg the revolutionary war, but
time would fail _ys were we to take into
consideration the influence of such men
Patrick Henry, John Adams, Thos. Jeffer
son. Franklin Francis M arion, and a
host of others whose nam°s we will not men
tion. The j e men established a government
nnd a code of laws such as the World never
before saw ; and sir, this government erect
ed by our forefathers entered immediately
after the revolution on a career of greatness
that leaves h-ar without a parallel among the
nations of the earth Sir. we wili be consid
ered as unworthy deccndants of tho«e revo
lutionary Patriots if we do noi step forward
and use our utmost influence to strenghten
and psrpotuate the glorious principles es
tablished by those distinguishei moo. Let
us then consider seriously the motto of
Thrs. Jefferson, who was one of the greatest
statesmen that this country, or any other,
has ever produced, that ‘‘Eternal vigilence
is the price of liberty.”
The Freedom of Religion.
A European paper before us states that
in Russia all the remaining landed
belonging to the Catholic Church has b©eu
dec! ire i the prnpertv of the Crown. All
the bequests of pie f y and dsnations for
religi"us purposes are to be handed over to
tpt* Moisten* of the Interior. If the Catho
lics nf York ehould fai[ to sympathize
in Grant’s national welcome to the young
Cz irowitz next month, it should hot destroy
his faith in human nature.
Should the Radical party triumph in the
next Presidential election, tbe Russian
policy above noted may be aiopred in these
United States, and the free lorn of religion
come to he considered one of the Constitu
tional vagaries of the Sires of ’76. The
New l r >rk Times, in a leader of of its is> ue
of the 24rh, on “Republican Policy.” is
firing th** heart of rhe Radical Protestants
hv declaring that “The Dish Catholic vo;e
i« beyond any qest’mn more hostile to our
Republican liberties and the truest pros
perity of the c 'Untry than was the <ri avo in
i‘s m 'st arrogant and su<‘ce-'ftil days.”
The plain I'gic of this is: The Catholic
religion should he c r ush**d as the slave
pow r was. Tlus Ridicalism marches on.
Under tbe Grant d-nasry the, Methodist
Church, North, would be the established
cnurch.
The names for the Revenue
Reform ticket for President, so *ar. are ex-
Secretxry Jacob D Cox and Gov. P. Gratx
Brown, of Missouri.
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Mark Tintin'* First Experience at an
Editor.
I was a very smart child at ‘the age of
thirteen—an unusually smart child. I
ih >ught at the time. It was then that I
did my first newspaper scribbling, and,
most unexpected to me. it stirred up a fine
semation in the community. It did indeed,
and t was very proud of it, too.
I was a printer’s “devil.” and a progres
sive and aspiring one* My un *le had me
on his paper (the Weekly Hannibal Journal
—?2 a year, in advance—soo subscribers,
and they paid in cordwcod, cabbage, and
unmarketable turnips), and on a lucky
summer’s day he left town :n be gone a
week, and asked me if I thought I c >uld edit
one issue of the judiciously. Ah,
didn’t I want to try 1 Hinton was the editor
of th° rival paper. He had lately heen jilt
ed, and one night a friend found an open
note on the poor fellow’s bed, in Which he
Stated that he could no longer endure life,
and hid drowned himself in Bear creek.
The friend ran and twn there, and discovered
limton wading back to shore ! lie had con
cluded he wouldn’t. The village was full
of it for several days, but Hinton did not
suspect it. I thought this was a fine op
portunity. I wrote an elaborately wretched
account of the whole matter, and then illus
trated it with villainous cuts engraved on
the bottoms of wooden type with a jack
knife, one of tllem a picture ot Hinton
wading out into the creek in his shirt, with
a lantern, sounding the depth of the water
with a walking-stick. I thought it was
desperately funny, and was densely Uncon
scious that there wna any moral obliquity
about such a- publication. Being satisfied
wub the eff irt, I looked around for other
words to conquer, and it struck me that it
Wauld make good, interesting matter to
charge the editor of a neighboring country
paper with a piece of gratuitous rascality
and “see him squirm 1” I did it, putting
the article into the form of a parody on the
burial of “Sir John Moore,” and a pretty
crude parody it was, too. Then I lampoon
ed two prominent citizens outrageously
not because they had done anything to de
serve it but merely because ( thought it
was my duty to make the paper lively.
Nett I gently touched up the newest
stranger the lion of the day, the gorgeous
journeyman tailor from Quincy. He was a
simpming coxcomb of the firri water, and
the “loudcßt”-dressed man in tho State.
He waH an inveterate woman killer. Every
week he wrote lu.shy “poetry” to the Journ
al about his newest conquest, llis rhymes
fw my week were beaded “To Mary in
11 1,” meaning to Mary in Hannibal, of
course. But when setting up the piece I
was suddenly riven from hpad to heel by
w’hat I regarded as a perfect thunderbolt of
humor, and I compreeeed it into a snappy
foot-note at the bottom—thus; “We wiil
let this thing pass, just this one; hut w
wis h Mr J. Goj-d on Runnels to understand
that we have a character to sustain, and
from tltis time hence forth when he wants
to commune with his friends in h— 1 fie
must select some other medium than the
Columns of this journal !”
The paper came out, and I never knew
any little thing attract so much attention as
those playful trifles of mine. For once the
Hanoihjt Journal was in demand—a novelty
it had.not experienced before. The whole
town was stirred. Hinton dropped in with
a double-barreled shot.gun early in the
forenoon. When ho f mnd that it was an
infant (as he called me) that had done him
the damage, he simply pulled my ears and
went away ; but he threw flu his situation
that night and left town for good. The
tailor came with his goose and a pair of
shears ; but. he despised me too. and depart
ed for the South that night. The two lam
ponned citizens ccrne with threats of libel,
and went «way incensed at my insignifi
cance. The country editor pranetd in with
a war whoop next day, suffering for blood
to drink, hut ended by forgiving me cordially
and inviting me down to the drug store to
wash away .all animosity in a fripndiy
bumper of "Fahnestock’s Vormifuge.” It
was his little j"ke.
My uncle was very angry when he got
hack, unreasonably so, I thought, cmisid
ering what an impetus I had given the
paper, and considering, als », that gratitude
for his preservation ought to have been
uppermost in his mind, inasmuch a? by his
delay he had so wonderfully escaped dis
secting, tomahawking, 1 1 be! and getting his
head shot ofl’. But he softened when he
looked at the acc< unt and saw that I actually
hooked the unnaraileted number of thirty
three new subscribers, and had the vegeta
bles to show for it-~cord- wood, cabbage,
beans, and unsaleable turnips enough to run
the family f >r two years
Aw ay with Secret Diplomacy!
The treaty negotiated by the Joint Com
mission. and to be laid before the Senate
next week, is on*» of ex'raordinary imoort
ance and if the Fresident nnd his advisers
are wise, they will abandon with regard to
it the absurd rule which attempts ti cover
such and (cumentii with the veil of secrecy.
The interests, the political i leas, and patri
otic sentiments of the wfi'de Americn
people are concerned in this mst'er. The
treaty is their property, and their views
respecting it should i>e listened to. It
should be published before it is finally acted
upon bY the Senate, so that the newspaper
press in every part of the country may lay
it before their readers, and e<> that public
opinion may be fully expressed concerning
it.
There can be no valid objection to the
course we recommend. If the treaty is a
just, wne, and good cue. it will receive the
approbation of iffe people, and Senators can
vote to ratify it with the perfect confidence
that their cn-tituents will approve their
action If it i* a had one. defective in its
provisions, unequal in its bearing-, em
bodying provisions unjust and injurious to
thi* country, the pub'ic will condemn it,
and the Senate can reject it without and abt
at to the ulterio popular verdict.
To Gen. Grant’s Administration it i*»
especially necessary that this treaty should
be made public and be acted upon publicly.
Secrecy in such matters mtsst always be
hateful to a free people. President Grant
has d'*nefe v things that have bprn popular,
and he could not, make a oauer begming in
that direction than by giving this treaty to
the puhlio at the same rime that he gives it
to the Senate.— W. Y Sun
Thb SOU O' a non itlaC Tn ft cW York has
aquanasrud $50,000 in a single yetir.
Joilt Billings' Pa p r ra—Remnant*.
Customs are like grease—they make
ennvthing slip eazy.
There it sum things that kant be counter
filled—a blush i* one oV them.
Goodness ia list as much or a studiy at
mathum&ticks is.
If a man expekts tow be very rirtewoui
ho rcusn't mii too milch with the world,
nhi* too much with himself neither.
Thnre is more devilry in the world than
there is ignorance.
The people who acktually de«erre tew lir
their lives over agin arc the rery once who
don’t want to do it.
The iiche«t m*n or all iZ he who ha* got
but little, but has g >t all ho wants.
Natur makes all the noblemen—wealth,
edukashun, nor pedigree, never made one
yet.
When a man duz tried favour i alwas try
tew remember it, and when he dux me an
injury, i aiwaC try tew forget it—if i don’t,
I uught to. %
*lf a man i t honest he may not alwas be
in the right, but he kan never be in the
wrong. *
Grate talkers are generally grato liars for
them who talk so much must sooner or
later run out or the truth, and tell whet
they drn’t kno.
1 don’t bet thare is enny sich thing nr a
perlektly g »od man, or a perfektiy bad
man. *
I kno or enny quantity or people whose
virtews are at the mercy or other folks,
who ?.re good simply for the reputashun or
it, who haven’t got enny m>re real appetite
tew their conscience than a klam haz.
I have studdied mi owrr karakter, and mi
own impulses for 39 years clussly, end
kan’t tell-day (to save a bet) whether i am
an honest trew man or not—if thare iz enny
b«<ciy who knows about this matter i wish
they would address me a letter, enklosing a
postage blister.
There iz no sekts, nor religious disputes
araung the heathen ; they, all of them oook
a missionary the same way.
One grate reazon whi ‘’Jordan iz sich a
ruff road tew travel” iz b»*kause almost
every body works inside or their own lot,
and lets the turupiko take care of itself.
Thare iz lots ov folks who expekt tew
eskape hell jist bekause the crowd iz so
grate that are going there.
Every man makes hiz own pedigree and
the best iz a clear conscience.
To be a gentleman—git rich and keep a
boss and buggy.
Virtew in a poor man iz looked upon az
a jewel in a tud’s nose.
The man who iz a tyrant in hiz house
hold iz an abjekt cuss araung his equals.
After a man iz fairly burn the next grate
blessing iz a square deth.
Virtew iz like strength, no man kan tell
how mutch he has got or it till he cunis
akrost sumtiling he kant. lift.
I have cum tew the konklusjon that what
every body praises wants closa watching.
Thare iz nothing the world will pay so
much for as fust rate nonsense, aud thare
iz nothing in the market so skase.
There is menny folks who are like mules,
the only way tew their affeckshuns iz thru
the kindness of a klub.
Thare aint but phew people who know
how to piv gifts, and the number who know
how tew receive them iz less.
The strongest propenrity in woman’s
natur is to want to know “what’* going
on 1” and the nest strongest, id tew boss the
jib.
Sknrn not the day ov little things, for
thare iz no man in this world so grate but
what sum one kan do him a favofr, or an
injury.
Tharo iz one witness that never iz guilty
or perjury, and that iz the conscience.
Tile Only Safety for tile Democracy.
If the Democratic party are wise, they
have a very good chance to carry the Presi
dential election in 1872. All that is neceso
sory is to adopt the right platform, and to
nomidate the right candidates. As for the
the most important of it is ex
pressed with great cogency and originality
in the following brief extract from a speech
recently delivered by the Hon. W. S.
Grocsbeck of Cincinnati:
“War legislates. History is full of its
enactments. It has legislated h**re; its
work is fixed, and let us hope ended. We
shall not go.backward.”
The same stntimcrts-are repressed in
different languagr by that brilliant voung
statesman, John Quincy Adams of Massa
chusetts, the grandson ot one President and
the great grandson of another:
“The North can never be carried for a
new revolution. We must go forward, and
not baek We must demaud self govern
ment for all, and guarrantee equal rights to
every man. Democrats must te democratic
to succeed.”
If the Democracy will plant themselves
unequivocally, baldly, manfully upon the
principles laid and >wn in striking utter
ances of Mr. Groeabeok and Mr. Adams,
their success in 1872 is more than baobable.
But if they adopt principles opposed to
these, “or i! they attempt to equivocate re
specting thege is*ues. so that they may seem
in one part of the country to be on one side,
and in another part to be on the other side,
tb*ir doom is fixed, their defeat inevitable
and irremediable.
If the leaders of the Democracy hare
sense enough, firmness enough, patriotism
enough to adopt frankly and heartily the
platform which we have pointed out, they
need not be in any trouble about finding
candidates. In fact, they would not go
mry far out of the way in nominating
William S Groosbock of Ohio for Pre-ident,
and John Quincy Adams of Massachusetss
for Vice-PrC'idf»nt
A GALVEr-ToN y.-ung man has lost faith
in human nature worse than Grant did. He
courted a girl over two weeks, and her pa
rents said they wouldn’t permit any such
thing, so the young people concluded to
elope. He got a young man, a friend of his,
to take the girl to New Orleans, where he
w.-uld meet them and marry the girl, and
go somewhere and enjoy life sensibly. The
young pr.-x? took tbe girl all right, bot
before the fellow that did the courting
arrived he had married her and gone to
keeping house. The deceived chap says
you won’t catch him courting up another
girl for someone e up. riot if he knows it.
CoMMojt ae se is raiua Ui* in all kinds of
business except lore-making.
NO. 24.