McDuffie weekly journal. (Thomson, McDuffie County, Ga.) 1871-1909, June 19, 1872, Image 2

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% be gonrual. Kditon. andi'nqjriutore Wednesday June 19, 1872 “When the rebolious traitors are overwhelmed in tlie field, and scattered like leaves before an angry wind, it must not be to return to peaceful and con tented homes. They must find poverty at their firesides, and see privation in the anxious eyes of mothers and in the rags of children.” — Horace Greely. Homo ol* the Beahonw wliy Mr. Greeley In anOhJeet ion iihle Ciiinlidate lor <tent. A late number of the Now York World gives the following reasons against Mr. Greeley as a candi date for the Presidency, and at first view they weern to be conclusive. Mr. Greeley has no perwinal fitness for the of fice. It is an executive and a-iminiatrativo office; and wo suppose there is no person acquainted with Mr. Groeiey, who believes that he possesses exec utive or administrative capacity. He cannot even manage his emull side-hill farm at Chappaqua on business principles. In the Tribune he merely wrote articles and gave advice; the executive man agement has always been npon other hands. Mr. Greeley is nimble to take care of his own property; much leas of the complex and multifarious affairs of the Federal Government. It may be said that we are prejudiced ; but wo appeal to the estimate 4 which Mr. Greeley's own party has always placed upon him. The Itcpubli can party has hud no motives to under estimate the Wonts of Mr. Greeley; but that party has never had any faith in his ability to discharge the duties of any important office with credit. Ho has never booh nominated by his own party except on a for lorn hope, but in ono instance of his election to the State Constitutional Convention in 1867. Hut in that Convention Mr. Greeley did not rank as a first rate, hut only as a second-rate or a third-rato man. There were at least twonty members of tho Constitutional Convention whose capacity and in lluence were superior to those of Mr. Greeley. Men who liavo boen so long before tho country as Mr. Greeley haa got rated at thoir true valuo.- He is a man of undoubted talents and capacity; but even his own party have always thought him unfit to hold office. If General Grant had died in March, and the Philadelphia Convention had been free to nominate any other candidate, wo do not supposo that Mr. Greeley would have boon thought of as a candidate, much less nominated. Tho estimate which has been so uniformly put upon him by his own party must have some foundation in justice ; and as his own party never dared to trust Mr. Greeley with tho responsibilities of high office, tho inference scorns reasonable that, those who know hini best believo him better qualified to shine as a journalist than an the incumbent of any office.- The fact that Mr. Greeley’s own party has always . thought him unfit for the responsibilities at any office, 1b pretty concluaivoovedenoo against him- The truth is, tlist. ho is wayward, crotchety, opiu ionated; that ho lacks sound judg mout and mon tal balance; and that tlio party which he has moßt faithfully served and all whose prepossessions have been t wonty years in his favor, has never nomina ted or elected him to any important office. Not only have party conventions refused to nominate him, but Republican administrations have Rteadily declined to appoint him to office, It is, therefore, clear enough that his own former party associates have always thought him totally unfit for high om en! positions. IliH desertion of his former flag can make no change in his personal character. Ho is tho same max that ho was before he war nominated at Cin cinnati —n man wayward, impulsive, abounding in crotcliots, and notoriously deficient in all tho qual ifications of a man of business and administrative officer. The Republican party could never object to Mr. Greeley on tho score of principle; but it has never given him any important office, for tho simple and conclusive reason that it thought him singularly deficient in administrative qualiflonlons. Rut if tire Republican party have always deemed itubsurd to think of Mr. Grooley as a man capable of discharging official duties, how utterly pre posterous it would be for the Democratic party to take him up and run him for the Presidency! Mr Greeley does not represent onr peineiples; and this would boa fatal objection, even if ho had tho administrative capacity of Alexander Ham ilton or Henry Clay. For the last thirty years, Mr. Greeley has opposed not. only all tire measures of the Democratic party, but tho fundamental principles of which thoso measures w ere the out growth. If tho Democratic Convention should mako Mr. Greeley its candidate it would both be lie its principles and ask the suffrages of the Dem ocratic paity for a man who is so notoriously unfit for high office that, popular as he is, Ins own party associates never dared nominate, and never elected him to any considerable office. Why should the Democratic party take up a candidate whom his Republican associates have always thought disqual ified for important trusts? If Mr. Greeley were a Democrat we might perhaps accept, sound princi ples as r partial compensation for personal unfit ness. Rut Mr. Greeley is unfit every way. He detests the principles of the Democratic party, and he has no personal qualifications for the high office to which he nspires. Hnndres of thousands of Democrats will either vote against him or stay at home. He has no Republican strength; the Re publicans would never tolerate the idea of his holding any important office even when he was in full communion with them. Mr. Greeley is un fit to bo elected President by any party, because his cast of mind does not qualify him for the dischage of executive duties. Rut he is still more objection able, because he has been the most violent antago nist of Democratic principles. What could be more preposterous than for Dem ocrats to take up a candidate who never belonged to their party; who has assailed it for more than thirty years with the utmost license of vitupera tion ; and who has long been regarded by the par ty to which he really belongs as personally unfit to hold any office ? A candidate who is personalty so weak and incompetent that even his own partisans have always thought him unfit to hold office, has a slender hold mi the voters of the country. A man who neither represents their principles nor is qualified for administrative duties, nor Ims any chance to get one-fifth as many Republican vote-' as he is certain to drive off Democrats, is as un promising a candidate aa the Democratic party conld think of nominating. It is not possible that the Democratic National Convention should nominate such a candidate. O|>|>owi t lon to Greeley. The most fatal blunder the Liberal Repub! can, have com mi iti and wn§ tho Nomination of G/celey /or lb" Presidency. It m evident that he in not a Javoiite of nth pftrty and (rum tho moot reliable reports cannot control in the coming election, rnoie than a two-lhirds support from the name. Gar! Schurz, the prime loader of the I iberale, and late Prexi-Jx-nt of ihe Cincinnati Convention refuses to lift ht« voice iu favor ol Greeley while the German element and Labor Keform party are Solid iu their opposition to the Greeley au«l Urown ticket. If, as it ia shown, Greeley is so unpopular with hi* own party, it ig not to be wondered at but that the old life-long defamor and slanderer of the Democracy should Iks objectionable to a respectable portion of tho p.»rty. With the present chances before GreeLy we be. lieve that it will be impossible for him to be elected even if the Baltimore Convention should endorse his ticket, hence wo are not disposed to see the Derm o racy disgrace Ihe principles of the party and to lose everything and gain nothing by nominating that old enemy and calumniator of the party. Npotiking; itt tho Capitol. Judge Linton Ste phens, last night, spoke at the Hall of the (louse of Rep resentatives to a full house. We notic ed many ladies out. He was frequent ly applauded during its delivery. As we will give the speech entire in our afternoon edition we wjll omit even a synopsis of it. Hon. Robert Toombs responded to calls in one of characteristic efforts. Fellow-cittizen : I am not in this programme. (Laughter.) I came here as u listen?!, 1 have not made a speech in public since 18GS. I have been watching events though, I am an outlaw. lam proud of my outlaw ry, (laughter,) and I thank thiti living God that I have lived to see just such a state of things, because we shall be able to sift the chaff'from the whbat— we can find out all the true Democrats, chalk their back and kick the others out! (Laughter.) I stand upon the principles ol public liberty which has been udvocated lor eight centuries by my ancestors —principle, ns good to day as in 1237. 1 stand by free gov ernments and tho right of freemen to govern themselves. Yon talk to me about your Grants an! Mr. Greeleys, and all such stuff. I will beat them at tho ballot box, or any other sort of box you choose. — [Applause and laughter.] Now, this is a very plain question there is no trouble about it. Show me a man that tried to make a party out of the negroes, and 1 will show you a Greeley man. mo u Bullook man that has turned Democrat, uud I will show you a Greeley man—a thief that has robbed the State, and I will show you a Greeley man. Show me one of the Mitchell orphans, and I will show you a Greeley man. Show mo a State Road lessee and I will show you a Greeley man ; but show me on hon est man and I will show you uu anti- Greeley man! j Why, we have no questions with us. There is run a white Greeley man in the county of Wilkes, the old hornet’s nest of the revolution. 1 am glad we have got them all to gether. We will get tho New Depar tures, the Bullock men. the swin dlers, the thieves, in one pile and then get rid of them. As to Greeley and Grant, with one exception, I would support old John Brown’s Ghost, if 1 could maintain Democratic principles and popular rights. I would support the devil in preference to either of them, because when you support the devil you sup port a very respectable antagonist.— He is not a coward. He fought God Almighty a very respectable fight, and he lights Him a pretty tough light till now—so the story goes in revelation. As to me I put polities upon one sec tion of Magna chartu. No man shall be imprisoned, louud guilty or exiled unless by the decision of a judge, and the verdict of a jury according to the laws of the land. The laws that He makes, and 1 will accept laws from no other. So far as the Government of the United States is concerned, I am its enemy. I have trod under foot the Haunting lie a hundred times, and 1 trust to do it again. They are no friends of mine or of my country —they are no friends of 1 berty. What’s the difference between these people? Grant’s a soldier, a sort of fool, but be loves his friends, sticks to bis Ain, bis kith. [Laughter.] But Greeley loves nobody—don’t even love bis wife and is a woman’s rights man and 1 woudin’t vote for him for that if tor no other reason. ‘That’s the mat ter with Hannah.’ If the women only had the right kind of husbands there would be no women’s right women. [Laughter and Applause.] They say a great deal about iiisold white hat and old coat. His white bat is his greatest distinction. I tell you ono thing. I said to an Augusta man, you abuse Atlanta.— Why ? Where did Bullock come from 1 From Augusta, my own District. W here did Conley and Blodgett and Eph. Tweeedy come from 1 Why, from Au gusta. And I hope we sent yon all the rogues we had. They all gathered here in Atlanta, for where the carrion is the crows will gather. Bullock came, they came, more vultures. You did not raise one of them on your soil ; but take the hard-listed men of this town, and there is not a people iu the world who show a magnanimity grander than the common men of Atlanta. Now, fellow-citizens, I don’t know w here this is going to ; with ail rever ence 1 say it, I leave it with God. I know my duty ; to do justly, to main : tain free government, to maintain pub lic institutions, to fight all cowards and traitors, to stand on this grand old ship of the Constitution, and fight under the principles of eight centuries. It’s true, pirates are aboard in the Grants ; rogues are boring her bottom in the Greeleys. Cast one into the sea ; hang the other; dovorir duty; trust to God. What then ? Let the storm come; let the robbers have oharge of her ; let the bo rers snceeed ; nail to the mast tiie holy flag, and give her to the God of the winds, the lightning and the gale. [Vo ciferous applause.] —Atlanta Cprutilutiun. A Hlgh-llauded pijtrago. From the I»ndon (Canada; Herald and Prototype, January 7.J About two weeks ago a gentleman, whose name we suppress for reasons that will be afterward explained, came to this city from the South. lie was formerly a resident of York county, South Carolina. During the American war he served as a suigeon in the Con federate army. At its conclusion he returned to his home, determined to maAe the best of existing circumstances. He still, however, retained his belief in the principles for which he had risked his life, and fie freely denounced the military despotism which Grant had established iu the conquered States.— His popularity and local influence made him particularly obnoxious to the carpet-baggers, and when it was decid ed to suspend tfie habeas act, in order to carry the elections, his name was marked down us one of the victims. When lie learned this, he immediate ly started for Canada, ciosely followed by ono y. B, Cornell, a Yankee spy, iu the pay of Grunt’s carpet-bagger-in chief, Gov. Thomas K. fScott. The fugitive reached British territory in safety, and Corneil, seeing that Gov. Scott’s warrant was no longer any use, applied to tho United Btates Secret Service Department for assistance.— They placed a fellow named Joseph G. Hester at his service, and the two worthies lost no time in- coming on to Loudon to secure their game. There is reason to believe that they dogged him round the city for Home xf.yti bofare they got an opportunity ***• onrry%!£ out their nefarious project. On Tues day last, about 4 p. in., he was out for .a walk on one of tho streets in the northern part of the city, when he oh served two cabs approach him at full speed from opposite directions. When opposite him they slopped, and two men, jumping out of eaei cab, rush ed at him, and ere ho could give alarm lie was seized by the throat bn J choked until ho was insensible. Fie was thou thrown into one of the cabs, tire two de tectives jumped in after him, and both -cubs drove oil iu opposite directions. Several persons witnessed tho occur rence, but presumed that the men were j acting uff'lef authority, as no one for a momeut suspected that outrage ol this description would pe attempted IR our city. When they got biui to uo troit they procured a warrant and for mally arrested him. He reffised to dis close his real name to the fl&ithorities there, and the warrant was made out in the name of James Simpson. It is this cirumstance that has induced us to with hold his name for the present. The first intelligence his friends here receiv ed of his fate was in a telegram tnhioh he sent them from Leavittsburg, Ohio, iu which he informed them that he had j been conveyed to Detroit while under the influence of cholroiorm. He was well known to a large number of South ern gentlemen in 4he eity, and they all unite in bearing the highest testimony to his character. A memorial has been dispatched to day to the Dominion Government, pray ing for their action in the matter. We trust to see it prompt and decisive. No Ministry, however popular, could afford to ignore such an outrage. We trust that the matter will not lead to any inter national difficulties, but whatever the cost may be our honor must be sustained. If a criminal escapes to Canada, we have extradition laws which will secure his punishment. The very fact the kidnap pers made no attempt to appeal to those laxysYully explains the nature of their mission. We understand that one of our county sub-officials is concerned iu the matter too, thoug to what extent we are as yet unable to say. A Western steamboat Captain favors the world with a computation, of the tonnage of Noah's ark. He inaAes it out at 22,3(58 tons, which, fife says, ex ceeds the tonnage of all the 125 steam boats on the Mississippi and its tributa ries from St. Louis to St. Paul. How is that for Hi. It costs the Chicago Churches 850,- 00t> for their pastors. ; Grant’s letter ot Accept mice. Executive Mansion, ) Washington, June 10, 1872. j ! lion. Thou. Settle , President Bepublican Convention, and Olliers : Gentlemen —Your letter of this ! ilate advising me of tbe action of the I Convention held in Philadelphia on the ! -sth and Gth of this month, and of rny | unanimous nomination for the Presi \ deucy by it, is received. I accept the ; nomination and through you return my |heartfelt thanks to your constituents for this mark of their confidence and (support. If elected in November and i protected by a kind Providence in I health and strength to perform the du | ties of the high trust conferred, I protn ! i.se the same zeal and dev ,tion to the ! good of the whole people for the future ! of my official life as shown in the past, j Past experience may guide me in avoid jiog mistakes inevitable with novices in 'all professions, and in all occupations, i When relieved front the responsibility (of my present trust by the election of j a successor, whether it be at the end !of a third term or thp next, I hope to | leave to him as executive a country at i peace within its own borders, at peace with the outside nations, with a credit at home and abroad without embarrass ing cpjestions to its future prosperity. With tbe expression of a desire to see a speedy healing of all bitterness of feel ing between sections, parties or races of citizens, and the time when the title of citizen curries with it all the protec : lion and privileges to the humblest ! that it does to the most exalted, 1 sub scribe myself, very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. Grant. A beautiful Simile.— While Father | Ryan was speaking not long since in j Mobile before the guests of tbe Ladies’ ; Memorial Association, lie made use of tbe following words. In pointing to a heavy bank of clouds just rising in the west and obscuring the setting sun, among which a vivid lightning was in cessantly playing, lie said: As yon sun goes down behind a dark cloud, so went down the hopes of those engaged in the unequal struggle for Southern liberty ; as you see the light nings flashing and blazing athwart the face of that cloud, so leaped the bolts of bate and persecution. Rut behind that cloud the stars are still shining, just as the star of hope is sti 1 lighting the hearts of our people; and as the suit will rise again on the morrow, so shall eventually rise up in all its splen dor tho down-trodden and partially od srured cause of right and justice. f Marriage oat the Empekok op Ou | NA. —The Einperor of China is soon to jbe married. Tbe Bombay Gazette says j his Majesty has imported a pair of ele j phants to assist at tbe ceremony, llis | future consort is undergoing a careful training in the etiquette of court life. For three years the looms of Nankin, Kongchaw and Canton have been enga ged on the silks and satins of her bridal trousseau, and just now they are an nounced as completed, at a cost of nearly half a million of our money. While the bridegroom, who lias the sun for his emblem goes forth in a car drawn by ele phants, bis bride, who represents tho moon, is to be borne to her palace in a ; palanquin composed entirely of pearls, j The Einperor is only sixteen years of age. j ‘NoffffNO Its Debtor.’—ln one of his editorials,-id closing a lumbering article ; against the Democratic party, Horace Greeley said : ‘May it be written on my Grave that 1 was never its follower and lived and died nothing its debtor.' Every thing will be done by tbe Democracy at Baltimore that it may be written as he desires it. To endorse Greeley then is Democratic stultifiica tion that will not be tolerated. The Greeleyites may throw up their hats until July the 9th, and then they may hnng’etn on a peg.— LiG range Iteymter. •, Now Adrertisomonts. ls;\. I.SO S', AT ; “Stonewalls” Grave. i Al4x 18 i cli E igra*iitg of'‘Stonewall” Jackson in the Lexington Vo., cemetery. The noble Gen. L e Siam s be-iJe the flewer-s rewn over which hangs a weeping vvi low In Use ilisunoe is to be seen a beautiful larul'icap®, hills decked in verdure, clouds as natural as real oues, and many other things which makes this picture a gem of art ; one which should hang in the parlor of every Southern home. It is without a rival the sweetest and most tunching ,ly beautiful engraving before the public. Scot by i mail, mounted ou a roller and post-paid ou receipt of 20 cents or 3 for 50 cents. Address J. C. & W. M | Bi nnow, N«>. 200 Main st., Bristol, Tenn. i C-iT Agents wanted everywhere to sell our popu* |Hr Pictures. Books, Charts, Photographs, &c. — | Catalogues free. Millinery Establishment. AT THE RESIDENCE OF ‘Mbs* C. B&r&BS la Hear oi the Masonic Hall, THOMSON, - GEORGIA, Where she keeps on han da full stock of Millinery, consisting in part of Ladies Bonnets, Hate, Flowers, Uibbons, Aaces, Trimming, Sdks, Chiguons and pto'ts for the Hair. She respectfully Invites the 1.-tdies of ThomsOu and vicinity to call on her, as she is sure that in price, quality aui style she can not fail to give satisfaction. June 12 n23ml Just Received. \ Fine assortment Of'Rustic Wiudow Shades in assorted Siyles and Colors. ALSO—-2 Gross Fruit Jars, half gallous’aud 7quarts. JOHN E. BENTON. ; Thomson, Ga. June 10thwj FOB g&EEf rn T homsan Ge og ia, TjHE Store House and Lot occupied by J. H. Montgomery, and also one-half interest in the Store House oc cupied by Messrs. Morgan & Scott. Purchasers desiring will be allowed three payments ou property. For fur ther terms apply to GERALD & DILLON, n2lm3 Thomson Ga. Notice to School Teachers! THE Board of Education for McDuf fie County will meet at the Court House in Thomson, on Saturday, June loth, at 10 o’clock A. M., for the pur pose of examining Teachers and grant ing license to those who may wish to receive the benefits ot tbe Common School Fund. By order of the Board. JOHN L. GOODRICH, Prest. Thomas M. Steed, Secretary. Thomson, Ga., May 28th 1572. w 2 CORN"! CORN ! O. K "T BUSHELS prime white corn •Jit* 9 and corn meal and Fancy Drand Flour, For Sale at BONUSYV&IiEL ALSO, A large invoice of Spring and Summer wear, Ladies Hats and dress goods, may 1-5 YOU BET THAT Chkistophir Gray A Cos., OF AUGUTA, GA., CAN SELL THE CHE APEST IDT* C3-OOID3 To be had in the city. And they not only Can, but they Do Sell in all cases as cheap, and some articles HUGH CHEAPER THAN They are sold by any other person in the trade. One of the members of the firm lives all the Year Bound in the City of New York Where hr bays goods For Cash And takes advantages of all bargains in the market. That’s the reason why So call in the Store (recently enlarged) COHTSTER T3FIO-AJZ> <3c MUNTOSH STREETS Where you will find every kind of Dry Goods and receive the best attention from a; rlom3 CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO. AUGUSTA CLOTHING EMPORIUM. W, A. RAMSEY, Takes pleasure in calling attention to his Large and varied stock o SPRING ANU SUMMER READY-MARE CLOTHING, Manufactured expressly for the Augusta market, by those celebrated Clothiers Jas. Wilde, jr. & Cos., Chas. B. Peet & Cos. Having every facility to procure Goods from first hands, I will at a!! tunes Keep the Best of Goods at lowest Prices. My stock of FURNISH NG GOODS, is of the most elegant style and finish ever brought to this market, and of the greatest variety. The smallest to the largest man can be fitted. Clothing Cat and Made to Order, at short Notice, in the most Elegant style. I have also a full stock of Fine and Medium Hats of the very latest styles also Trunks and Valises, and gents furnishing goods of every variety W, A. RAMSEY, Opposite National Exchange Bank Next door to Butt, Boyce &. Co apriom3 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. the AUGUSTA Boot and Shoe. Emporium PETER KEENAN, Tmm&ive Boor Mmmem&wp of gfafomra TENDERS his thauks to his McDuffie friends for past favors, and ’respect fully invites them to call and examine his large and Well Assorted Stock of Boot3 and 5b.033, which he has recently purchased for the Spring and Summer trade. THE ONE PRICE SYSTEM adhered to, and a strict observance of the principles of honor and integrity. He guarantees perfect satisfaction in every instance for articles purchased at his store, and he holds himself personally responsible to make reclamations in all cases when the articles sold fail to be as represented. He employs no Drummers, and hence adds no percent, upon his shoes for fees of that nature. Call aud exam ine his elegant Stock, at No. 226 Broad Street, (at the store lately occupied by j James A. Gray & Cos.) 1 aprlDintt PETER KEENAN. For Sale. A beautiful house and lot in the flourishing town of Thomson, contain ing 5 elegant rooms, newly repainted and renovated, together with all neces sary out buildings on the premises.— Now is your time to secure a comforta ble home. For terms apply to H. C. RONEY, Esq., Thomson, Ga. may22tf What every Horseman Wants.—A good, cheap and reliable liniment. Snch an arti cle ia Dr Tobias’ Horse Liniment, Pint bottles at one dollar. For lameness, cuts, galls, colic, sprains, Ac., warranted better than any other. Soli by the Druggists. Depot 10 Fark Place. New York. Carbolic salve, recommended by the leading Physicians and the President of the New York Board of Health. Gives instant reHef to burns, cures all kind of sores, cuts and wounds ; aud a most invaluable salve for all purposes. Sold everywhere at 25 cents. John F. Henry, solo Proprietor, 8 College Place, New York. WILLIAM I>. DAVIDSON. JOSEPH BBUMitEL. Davidson & Brammel, Broail St., Auj-usta, Ga. Rectifiers, Importers and Wholesale Dealers irr Pure Foreign and Domestic LIQUORS BRANDIES, WINES, GIN, PORTER, ALE. ETC. TOBACCO AND SEGARS OF EVKKY VARIETY, maylo nl9m4 Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.—lt relieves the tilth- sufferer from pain, cures wind, colic, regulates the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, and during the process of teething is in valuable. Perfectly safe in all cases, as millions of mothers can testify.