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AUG VST A, GA.
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POETICAL.
Home.
BY JOAQUIN MII LKR.
Some leveled hills, a wall, a dome
That lords its gilded aich and lies,
While at its base a beggar cries
For bread and dies ; and this is Rome.
Thou Rome that pouted, shrieked for room,
To stretch thy limbs! A hill of eaves
For wild beasts, as they were and slaves,
And gypsies tout within thy tomb.
A w olf-like stream, without a sound,
Steals through and hides beneath the shore,
Its aw ful secrets evermore
Within its sullen bosom bound;
Two lone palms*on the Palatine,
A row of cypress, black and tall,
" itli white roots set in Caesar’s Hall—
With roots that round white marbles twine.
They watch along the broken wall.
They look away toward Lebanon,
And mourn for grandeur dead and gone :
And this is Rome and this is all.
Yet Rome is Rome, and Rome she must
And will remain beside her gates,
And tribute take, from king and states
Until the stars be fallen to dust..
Yea, time on yon Companian plain
lias pitched in sedge his battle tents,
And round about hei # battlement u
Has marched and trumpeted in vain.
These skies are Romo ! The very loam
Lifts up and speaks in Roman pride?;
And time outfaced and still defied,
Sits by and Wags his head as Rome.
Memorial Day in Thomson.
JUDGE TWIGGS’ ADDRESS.
/.adit ft of the Memoriul Ass&dation
and Tcl/ow Citizens of ife Duffle:
Death is the common lot of all mankind.
The terrible Reaper is never weary with
his (lossless rounds, and tin* human har
vest which falls beneath his sickle, and
m gathered together in these storehouses
of the dead, is as certainly and regularly
reaped as tho waving grain of the hus
bandman, fructified and matured by tlio
sunshine and the shower. It is as natu
ral to die as to live, for living is but dy
ing, and beginning to live is but begin
ning to die.
The innumerable caravan, which silent
ly moves to the mysterious realms of
shade, lies been swelling day by day
since “man’s first disobedience and Hie
fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal
taste brought death into the world and
all our woes.”
The grim monster walks an unbidden
guest both into the palace and hovel, and
hnrlw his cold javelin into tho hearts of
prince and peasant alike. Statesmen,
wmvlors, Iraiws, witna ’l Med; triumph?..*
conquests, glories, have shrunk into the
narrow compass of the grave. Greatness,
with withered laurels, fades away and
melts into the dissolving shadows of time,
and the ghosts of dead renown but faintly
whisper in our ears the echoes of the
world’s applause from the distant past.
Around ns everywhere in these sacred
grounds and sylvan groves repose the
ashes of our own dead. Fathers, moth
ers, sisters, brothers, friends, all lie hero
and moulder into dust, but grief soon
forgets to mourn, and they are too for
gotten. Death is not therefore strange
to us ; there is nothing more familiar
than his pale vi . age, more common than
his presence. Yet. there is nothing more
uncommon or more novel than the cere
monial we have witnessed to-day ; this
wonderful exhibition of a common senti
ment, animating once a year our people
from the Potomac to the Gulf, and which
finds expression in a solemeu and touch
ing tribute to our soldier dead. Why is
this ? It is because death is here associ
ated with a vital principle which cannot
die. ; a principle which springs elastic
from the iron heel of tyranny, or the
martial tread of conquering hosts. The
principle of which I speak is the love of
constitutional liberty, and the determin
ation of a brave and heroic people to tip
hold, maintain and defend the glorious
structure of a government which had
be* :i cement''il by the blood of ti chivalric
ancestry. A government justly charac
terized by your venerable Representative,
the Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, in his
celebrated history, as one “whose match
less framework has attracted tlieatfention
and excited the admiration of men of tlie
greatest learning and highest statesman
-I:ljythroughout the civilized world.” A
government of which Lord Brougham,
the great English statesman, educated in
the nursery of monarchial predjudices,
says, “The regulation of a union vpon
principles which preserved its integrity
as a Federucy while the rights and pow
ers of the undivided States Were main ■
tained entire, is the greatest refinement
in social policy to which any state of
circumstances ever gave rise, or to which
any age has ever given birth.”
State sovereignty was the essential
feature which characterized the Govern
ment, and was the web and woof of our
exquiste, harmonious and powerful so
cial fabric. The faith of the Govern
ment of the United States was most
solemnly pledged to forever maintain in
violable these rights and powers of the
individual States, and after much agita
tion and discussion the doctrine of non
intervention was finally settled and de
termined. The threatened violation of
these rights inaugurated a fierce political
strife, which finally culminated in one of
the most bitter and terrible conflicts of
arms in the record of history. This war,
my friends, was maintained in defense
of truth, in defense of the constitutional
THOMSON, GA., MAY 19,1875.
right to a compact, j
voluntarily entered into resistance to
coercion and aggression ; in resistance ]
to Federal encroachment upon the sover- !
eignty and domestic relations of tin'
States. Encroachments l>y the creature
upon the creator. By the agent who
possessed only delegated powers upon i
the principal who delegated these powers. !
’Twas then that the silver cord which !
bound the two sections was loosed, and !
the golden bowl of unity was broken. |
No reckless haste characterized tlie do- .
liberations of our people in tlie begin- :
ning of this strife, No tumultuous dis- j
order governed their counsels, but like
the sultry stillness that precedes the !
storm, when nature groans, ami every!
leaf quivers without a breath of air, in !
calm and silent agony they beheld the ;
threatened destruction of that shrine of I
liberty around* which they had so long j
worshipped ; then with hearts bowed liy
sorrow they simply . t'.Ued to ho allowed-,
to depart in peace. They were answered
only by the bugle blast of war waged for
the purpose of coercion. ’Twas then
that the red lightnings of carnage flashed
and weeping nature beheld “the Wood
iest picture in the book of time.” ’Twas
then that the avenging sword of the
South leaped from its scabbard and an
indignant and heroic people, true to the
ancient landmarks of liberty, true to the j
Constitution of their fathers, and true to i
the ancestral courage if this sunny land, \
made no base compose between wrong |
and right, between dishonor and ruin,!
Standing alone, unsupported, and friend
less among the nation:, of the earth, with
all communication cut off with the out- j
side world, she bore the shock of war, ■
and appealing to the god of battles to j
witness the recitude.of her intentions,!
she joined ill a dark, ■‘4-dubious strife.
With no voice, of sympathy, no words of
encouragement, no hope of succor ; but
with a high and sublime intrepidity, she
marshaled to battle tho flower of her
chivalry and manhood', and when the
billows of invasion swept over her bosom
from every quarter of the habitable globe,
unyielding still, dauntless and undismay
ed, she died for liberty beside tlie flash
ing of her guns.
Deathtuay consign heroes to an un
timely grave. The god of war may
crush millions beneath the wheels of his
Woody chariot, but. fl 5 gloat principles
for which they st niggled will not die
with them, but w ill live forever.
“ ! his shall resist the Empire of decay
When time is o'er nfil world's have passed
T.'oM in fly dust the ] While,l heart, may lie’
But that which warmed it once will never
die.”
This, my friends, accounts for the
strange spectacle of to-day. This is why
(i,000,0l)() people, moved by a common
implnsc, once in every year do reverence
at a Nation’s grave. This is why once
in every year I honsouds of fair hands are
engaged in weaving bright chaplets to
deck the graves of fallen martyrs who
laid down their lives a willing sacrifice
upon the altar of their country. “It is
meet that beauty a.vi virtue should strew !
flowers upon the green mounds which
hide such high resolve.” Let, then,
every grave, however, lowly the soldier
boy who fills its narrow bed, or how
exalted the warrior chieftain sleeps in
death, receive this d:iy a fresh tribute of
immortelles, fashioned by the fair hand
of beauty. It is right ! ever right !to
honor the dead who died in defense of truth
and the cause of liberty. We cannot
forget memories which hand down to
prosperity such unsullied honor, chival
rous courage and undying patriotism.
“No. no! by the heroes who died for our
By their memories clearer than life to us 1
Ry & tattered banner its cross and its j
stars.
We’ll bear the eroft still, though the stars
have all set.
And we’ll bear it in peace if our conquerors
show
Jtespeet and not scorn for a brave fallen
foe.”
A decade has passed since the “ tocsin
of war pealed his last alarm,” and in the
light of that returning reason which takes
the place of passion and resentment, 1
do not hesitate still to affirm that the
Southern people; were right in making
the issue, but whether wrong or right
no belted knight e’er buckled on his
armor in what they deemed a higher, ho
lier or nobler cause. This sentiment of j
duty and patriotism. I am satisfied to a
large extent prevailed in both sections
and among both armies. lam willing to
accord to the army we fought the same
honesty of purpose we claim for our own,
and as for my self I will most cheerfully
bear testimony to their gallantry and
heroism.
Is it strange, therefore, that our peo- !
pie, educated in the Southern school of
polities and actuated by only a higlf sense
of duty and patriotism, should chafe 1
under and resent the untrue and ungen
erous stigma embodied in the word
traitor ? No Confederate soldier fills a
traitor’s grave. If fidelity to tlie Consti
tution was treachery, then, indeed were
they traitors. If the honest effort to
preserve that liberty which George Wash
ington fought to maintain ; if to cherish
and perpetrate tlie government handed
down to us by Jefferson, Madison, Henry,
Rutledge and Pinckney be treason, then
we were traitors. No, my friends, our
treason has chiefly consisted in our fail
ure. It is with nations as it is with in-
dividuals. Alas, iu private Affairs, men !
-to© otteir. iiulgfi.. .motives by results:
The most reckless venture when success- j
ful is called prudence. Success makes \
fools admired and villains lamest, and \
much of the proud and boasted virtue of
the world fawns on success and power,
however acquired. Among nations which ,
are but aggregation of individuals, suc
cessful tyranny is called patriotism and
unsuccessful virtue is named rebellion!
“Rebellion, foul dishonoring word,
Whose wrongful blight :x> uit has stained
Ilie holiest cause that tongue or sword
Os mortal ever lost or gained,
How many a spirit born to bless
lias sunk beneath that whitheriug name :
When but a day's, an hour's success
Had wafted to eternal fame !
As exhalations when they burst
From the warmed earth, it chilled at first, :
If checked in soaring from the plain
Darken to fogs and sink again ;
But if they once triumphant spread.
Tlieir wings above the mountain head
Become enthroned in upper uir,
And turn to sun bright glories there ! j
Dam glad to say this sentiment that, j
the people of the South are not all trait- j
ox’s and rebels is fast gaiiiing ground in
the North. A few days ago, at Doyles- i
town, the gallant Federal General, AY. j
11. H. Davis, in his welcoming address
at the reunion of the One Hundred and j
Fourth Peni s*, lvinia Regiment, of which
he was the old commander, used this re- j
markable language in speaking of our i
soldier dead : “ Our hearts should swell
with charity towards them when we re- :
member that but for the accident of sue- j
cess Washington and Jefferson would
hare no y renter claim to the name of.
patriot than Lee and Stonewall Jack- i
son.” True, gallant and noble words,
and no one lmt a brave soldier could
i utter them. The encouragement of such :
mutual sea'haeuta will tend more tlum ;
j anything Use to bind up the wounds ol
the war and restore a feeling of harmony
between the sections. Bayonets can
never conquer the. heart. Our p eople can
never be driven by harsh tiiatmeut, but
can easily be led by the silken cord of
kindness and good will. 'While, there
fore, my friends, it is right to honor our
immortal dead ; wiiiieitis right to refuse
to recant tlie principles which sustained
an nid'alteriug devotion to our cause ; let
me in all earnestness impress upon your
minds that the time is past which justi
fies the encouragement of sen!:m nts of
bitterness or crimination. Tho war has
ended, and there should be an end of
strife. Let us bury’ our passions with
the dead, never to be resurrected. We
should no longer review the wrongs of
[the past., ami heart-burning, prejudice
j aiiiT pa.,s.(. u shouii/xicafic It talo tho hour,
i We have in good faith laid down our
j arms, and we stand pledged to obey and
support the Government under which we
live, and let ns say to our Northern
| brethren who have so long misunderstood,
and who, I fear, still misunderstand us,
that South; rn honor, unsullied in defeat
as well as in victory, is forever pledged
to abide the results of this war.
However true may have been our iu
| terpretation of the constitutional right to
withdraw from the Union ; whatever may
! have been our rights and privileges grow
out, of our peculiar institutions—all these
have been annulled, repealed and forever
settled by law—law which can never be
misunderstood or misinterpreted. This
being tbe case, men of the North, I say
to you that you need uo better guaranty
of the pacific purposes of our people, or
of tlie sincerity of their pledges, than the
fact that thru struggled for four long
pears for what they in good faith dr.e.m
--! cd a defense of the Constitution and the
| maintenance of law.
In surveying the past, I am often com
forted by the reflection that there is a
Divinity which, shaped the end and tlie
I results of this war for wise purposes, ami
which will, sooner or later, result directly
or indirectly in the glory aud prosperity
of our people. Man’s feeble foresight
aud faculties, dimmed and obscured by
mortal shadows, cannot comprehend the
grand tmd mighty schemes of infinite
wisdom, and the severest chasteniugs are
often blessings in disguise.
“It seems, in the providcuce of God,
that great sacrifices are necessary for tlie
attainment of the greatest good. Advers
ity is ever a crucible in which the metal
of human nature is tested.” This great
struggle, therefore, through which we
have passed, its trials and afflictions, will
make us appreciate the blessings of peace,
and should make us cling closer to the
principles of constitutional liberty.
Let us cease, then, our vain repining;,
and strike hands with ourbrethreu of the
North for the preservation of the honor
and glory of our whole country. It is
ours ; its glorious past, its memories and
j traditions, are all ours, and let us deter
mine that, come what may, come weal or
: woe, its future shall bn ours. I believe
Ia great destiny awaits the American peo-
I pie. Only one hundred years ago these
States were colonies of Great Britain.
! This seems almost increditable when to
' day we contemplate its prodigious strides
to power, to wealth, and material pros
i peril,y, and human imagination can
scarcely conceive the grandeur of that
, destiny which still awaits her. At one
time the lamcuta le war between the
States, and the ruinous and reckless
policy whigli has governed the corrupt
party in power since its close, justified a
; grave apprehension of an utter subver
sion of our whole system and the extiu
‘ guishment of constitutional liberty for-
NO. 20.
ever: Bat at last streaks of light are
breaking through a rift of the cloud,
which has been hanging so ominously
above us, and our people everywhere,
j North, South, East and West, are rally
ing to the rescue.
Already the song of deliverance is
: heard in the distant North and West, and
i as the glorious anthem swells, the grand
j chorus will be taken up by the full choir
j of States, until every heart, thrilled by
! the music of patriotism, will hold com-
I muuion with the sonl of liberty. But
j ray friends the hour admonishes me that
' I mustering this rambling and desultory
address to a close. You have yet a sacred
! duty to perform and I fear that I have
already wearied you.
In conclusion, let me say that weshould
ever commemorate this day and never
cease to cherish the memories it revives.
Lot us enroll this tribute to the dead a
mong the time honored customs of our peo
ple ; it embodies a noble design and should
ever be as settled and certain a recurrence
as the birthdav of Washington or the
Declaration of Independence. Noble wo
man sets us the example and her voice is
always heard, her influence always felt
| in the eonsumatioii of all that is self-sac
rificing, noble and patriotic. To them
; we may safely commit the memories of
the past. Some writer lias beautifully
said that womanly character, power and
i influence are just as important in the
j economy of Providence as are light, heat
i and gravitation in nature. We believe
1 it. Seek to unravel the web of past ages,
. and see how the golden thread of her in
fluence is interwoven with every portion
lof the strangely wrought fabric. We
' cannot withdraw it without destruction
;to the whole. Hero it gleams faintly
through the darkness; there it shines
with a hold radiance ; bat through all its
changes we see and recognize its mighty
I raoery. Our cause would not have lived
an hour without her influence. She sns
: taiued us iu defeat and rejoiced with us in
| victory, and the manifestations of her
handiwork to-day indicate the ontbreatli
ings of an interest which from woman is
j always the mute oracle of success.
My friends, our sad duty will soon lie
ended, and though no marble shaft or
' gilded shrine marks the lowly resting
places of the “boys in gray,” let us re
| member—
“ They delict die who in their deeds survive,
Enshrined forever in the hearts of men ;
N’ot battle triumph, nor the rude cannon roar,
. From their calm sleep can ever wake them
more.
l Dnld decorum eai.pro patrkt mori—
' Hallowed the dust where sleep, tlittbrave,”
i v
. Don’t Quarrel.
One of the most easy, the most com
mon, and most perfectly foolish things
is—to quarrel—no mutter with whom,
man, womau or child ; or upon w hat pre
tense, provocation or occasion whatsoever*
There is no kind of necessity for it; no
manner of use in it, and no species or de
: grec of benefit to be gained by it. And
yet strange as the fact may he, theolo
gians quarrel, and politicians, lawyers,
doctors and princes quarrel ; the church
quarrels and the State quarrels ; nations,
j tribes, corporations, men, women, chil
dren, dogs, cats, birds and beasts quar
i re! about all manner of things, and on all
1 manner of occasions, ii’ there is any
■ thing in the world that will make a man
feel bad—except pinching his linger in
: the door—it is unquestionably a quarrel.
No man ever fails to think less of himself
after, than he did before one-—itdegrades
' him in his own eyes, and in the eyes of
I others—and, wlmt is worse blunts his
I sensibility to disgrace on the one hand,
j and increases the power of passionte irri
: lability on the other. The reason people
quarrel about religion is, because they
; have so little of it, and the harder they
; quarrel the 4uorc abundantly do they
prove it.
Politicians need not quarrel. Whoever
quarrels with a man for his political
opinions, is himself denying the first
principle of freedom—freedom of thought,
moral liberty, without which there is
nothing iu politics, worth a groat; it is,
therefore, wrong upon principal. You
have on this subject a right to your own
opinions, so have others. You have a
right to convince them, if you can ; they
j have the same. Exercise your rights;
! but again I say, don’t quarrel.
The truth is, the more quietly and
peaceably we all get on, the better—the
i better for ourselves, the better for our
I neighbors, Iu nine cases out of ten, the
| wisest policy is, if a man cheats you, to
quit dealing with him ; if he is abusive,
quit his company; ii he slanders you
( —unless there be something outrageous
to complain of—the wisest way is geuer
-1 ally, just to let him alone, for there is
nothing bettor than this cool, calm, quiet
way of dealing with most of the wrongs
we meet with.— American Homes.
A Remarkable Adventure of a Fish
Hook.
Some eight years ago a lad of thirteen
(a son of Charles E. Myers, a well-known
citizen of Portsmouth) while fishingfrom
one of the wharves of that city, caught a
fish-hook in the fore-finger of the right
hand, near the roots of the nail, drawing
it in to the bend of the hook. His fath
er saw at once that the only thing to be
done was to open the finger on a line with
; the hook and take it out, but preferred
to call in their family physician to do it.
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After looking at it for a moment, the
doctor, by a sudden twist, wrenched the
hook from the linger minus the barb and
point. The parents were justly indign
ant at such rough treatment and insisted
that the hook was not all removed, while ’
the hoy came near fainting from extreme
anguish. The doctor, however, insisted
that no inconvenience would result, and
dressed the finger in some simple and
safe manner and in due time the wound
healed. But the finger and arm tr< übled
him for a long time. After a year or
two the lad’s health had so far failed as
to become a subject of serious alarm to
his friends, lie being subject to frequent
and alarming fainting fits aud other
spasmodic affections or symptoms. This
state of affairs continued for years, with
more intensity, until a year or two ago,
when the boy’s health became nearly or
quite restored. In the spring of 1871
the young man, while dressing himself
one morning, tore a pimple from his left
shoulder and on examining it, he drew
from the flesh the point of the hook
which, seven year’s before, was imbedded
in a finger on the opposite side of his
body.— Dover (N. Y.) Enquirer.
Tall Men.
Asa country becomes settled, and
especially in the cities, where great
numbers of human beings are crowded
into a comparatively small place, men
degenerate iu height, and the women
are not only proverbially shorter
than in the country, but they are less
muscular. As there are thought to be
exceptions to all rules, there are both
tall gentlemen and ladies in old cities.
A majority of them, however, if traced
to their birthplace, will he found to have
come from the country. Kentucky aud
Tennessee produce, the tallest men in
this chantry. A young boy taken from
the city, whose parents are below the
usual height, and reared in either of
those States, would probably quite over
top any of his family. The material
abounds in the grains and meats of those
splendid regions for developing the bones.
The Patagonians have long been cele
brated for being the tallest race of -njen
in existence. Magellan’s associates give
their average statute at seven feet four
inches. Commodore Bryant’s officers
seldom saw one below seven feet; and
some exceeded that measure. . At the’
polar circles, especially”N&tb ( .the Esqui
maux rarely tower above.four.fsei and a
half to five feet. As A xhole, the English
are.finely’developed, tall aud energetic.
' AmorieaiK are-* of aril the
nations on the globe, varying in size,
strength, height, weight, mental capacity,
and energy, according to the predomin
ance of blood from any particular source.
A milk diet, of ali food, is most favorable
for a large, tall frame in early life.
Old Plows,
A plow used by the Emperor Joseph
11, of Austria, iu 1709, was placedbesido
a modern plow iu a portion of the Aus
trian department of the Vienna exposi
tion of the old plows of various nations.
No better proof could he given of the
great advauce in the improvement of
plows which has marked the 100 years
which have elapsed since his i nperial
majesty worried himself and mother
earth with that plow. This venerable
plow was composed of tho root of a tree,
with the stem for a beam, resting on an
axle with wheels under neath it of about
two and a lmif feet iu diameter ; tho
handles were secured to the knee by
holes bored into it, into which the hand
les were secured ; the share was a piece
of iron about nine inches long secured to
the point by the knee, and then a strip
ol' board about six inches wide was secur
ed uear the share. This last coutrivam e
was designed to answer the purpose of a
mold-board. The old English plows,
though much in advance of this Austrian
one, were very awkward aad weighty
affairs! such as now would riot be accept
ed as a gift by farmers in any civilized
country. Spain exhibited an old plow
with shafts, and a wooden share. South
France, a plow constructed with wood,
with tho exception of the share, with
wooden mold-boards five inches wide ;
this plow was about SOU years old.
Style in Old Times.
In 1782, Governor Hancock reseived
his guests in a red velvet cap, withn
which was one of fine linen turned up
over the edge of velvet one or two inches.
He wore a blue damask-gown, lined with
silk, white satin small-clothes, white silk
stockings, and red morocco slippers.
The Judges of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts, as late as 1773, wore robes
of scarlet, laced with black velvet, and iu
summer, black silk gowns. Gentlemen
wore coats of every variety of color,
generally the cape and collar of velvet, of
a different color from the coat.
Iu 1780, General Washington arrived
in New York from Mount Vernon, to as
sume the duties of the Presidency. He
was dressed iu a full suit of Virginia
homespun. On his visit to New Eng
land, he wore the old Coutineutal uniform,
except on tho Sabbath, when he appeared
in black.
John Adams, w hen vice- President, wore
a sword, aud walked about the streets
with his hat under his arm.
At levees iu Philadelphia, Pr sident
Washington was clad iu black velvet, his
hair powdered and gathered behind in a
silk l ag, yellow gloves, knee and shoe
buckles. He held iu his hand a cocked
hat, ornamented with a cockade, fringed
about an inch deep with black feathers.
A long sword with a white scabbard, with
a steel hilt, hung at his hip.