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|i>K< \ \ j ( 3ARPS
P. W.
ATTORNEY at law,
THOM ASTON, GA.
Inov2s—lv
JAMES W. GREENE,
attorney at law.
THOM ASTON, GA.
novlß—ly.
, Warres. C. T - Goode.
WARREN & GOODE,
ATTORNEYS AT TAW,
PERRY, HOUSTON CO., GA.
novlS—tf
A 0. MOORE,
DENT I S T ,
TUOMASTON. GA.
iFFIC'E over Dr. Thompson’s Store. My wortmsmy
’ Reference. nl ”
G. A.Am.LER,
attorney at law,
TUOMASTON, GA.
HI N CAR l
HARDEMAN A GUI FEIN,
lenlui’S in Staple Dry Goods and
Groceries of every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets,
MACON, GA.
hrrjj would call the attention of the Planters of Up
|f son and adjoining counties to the above Card. l>e
ving we can iiuike it to their interest to deal with
Macon, Ga., November 19,1858. r.0v25 ts.
A. s7 BROOKS,
Dealer in Family Groceries,
THOM ASTON, GA.,
“EEPS constantly on hand a large stock of all kinds
l of Family Groceries, Iron. Hollow \\ are, &.C., &0.,
and a few Liquors for the afflicted.
Fruits and Oysters in season. pov -° 11
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Public Schools—>lemoral.
o the General Assembly of
the State of Georgia :
The undersigned Committee respectful
represent that, at a large meeting of the
iends of Public Education, held in At
nta during the late exhibition of the
Southern Central Agricultural Society,”
lo following resolution, among others,
as passed:
“9. That a committee of five be appoin
dby the Chairman of the. meeting, to
■(■pare and present a Memorial to iheLeg
iatur© at its approaching Session, setting
nli the claims of a general system of
üblic Schools, as affording the only hope
ever securing the great object iu view—
ie education of all the children ot the
tale.”
Under this resolution, your memorialists
■re appointed, and they trust your body
ill consider this sufficient authority for
presentation of this memorial.
We deem it unnecessary to argue upon
ftths acltTK'wledged by nil—such as the
benefits of a general diffusion of Education
among the people—nor the duty of the
State, as far as possible, as Parens Patriae
—the mother of us all—in return for our
allegiance and support, to give us protec
tion and education. These truths are “in
grain” in our fundamental law—woven by
our forefathers-—and will never be repudi
ated by us.
Nor do we deem it necessary to inform
your body of the fact, that the people of
our State are aroused upon this important
subject, and through public meetings—the
Presentments of Grand Juries—the News
paper Press, (that index of public feeling,)
and every other known channel expressive
of the Ponular will, are demanding loudly
of your “Assembly to take some iniative
steps toward the establishment of a more
perfect system of General Education in our
Htate.
Nor do we deem it necessary, by argu
ment or persuasion, to induce you —their
Representatives—to carry out their will.
But satisfied that you sympathze fully in
the general sentiment of our State, we pro
pose only, in obedience to the behests ot
the respectable meeting by which we were j
appointed, to submit for your com-idem- j
tion a few reflections \ first upon our wants; |
second, the feasibility of supplying those
wants to a very great extent. And even
in doing this we desire to disclaim anv in
tention of trespassing upon your Legishn*
live function—of devising the best plan to
remedy existing evils.
First. Our wants —These are compen
diously summed up in the resolution un
dor which we are appointed — the education
of ad the chi dren of our State. That the ;
present system fails to effect this object is I
a iaci too well known to require reference
o the census for proof. What are its de
lects ? (We refer to the voluntary sys
tem, and poor school system.) We men
tion only a few :
Ist. It can never reach a large number
of children whose parents —too poor to pay
—are too proud to take charity. This class
is large , and will be, as long as the spirit
of freedom burns strongly in their breasts.
We will not amplify. We call upon your
own observation for proof.
2d The miserable pittance paid fur tui
tion out of the poor school fund can never
command competent teachers. The sala
ries of teachers in Georgia —“outside ot cit
ies and towns —from our best information,
will not average $l5O per annum in cash.
The law of cause and effect applies here as
elsewhere. We do not mean to condemn
all who are thus engaged. Many are wor
thy men and women. W e speak only of
the necessary consequence of these facts.
3d. We mention as another drawback
od our present system, the too frequent ab
sence of anything like a comfortable house
for school purposes. Some ruined hut, a- j
ban doned as tenant able, is too oiten eon- \
sidered good enough tor a school house.
4th. A general result of all these and ;
other causes is the absence of all pride on j
the part of patrons in tlie school—the in-j
troduction of private Teachers in the fam
ilies of the wealthy, and the congregation
in the towns of the children ot those not
willing to indulge in the expense ot a Pri
vate Teacher, and still more unwilling to
be satisfied with the country school.
Need we argue these points ? Who de
nies their truth ?
What, then, is our want ? A system
w’hicli shall remedy these defects, avoiding
others. A school to which the children of
the poorest citizen shall he sent, without
submitting parent or child to the jeei ot
pauperism” A tocher who shall be. able
to impart solid and useful instruction —
sufficient to prepare our youth for the ac
tive business ot life. School houses which
shall awaken a feeling of pride in c\er\ j
neighborhood, and cause the richest to feel j
that no private teaching can afford equal ;
advantages to the common school; and
thus bring together, on a common plat- j
form, the children of all classes of comrnu- ;
nities. To effect these objects, we must |
have Free Public Schools in every School |
District in Georgia. In “the language of
our resolution, this “is the only hope of\
ever securing the great chR.”. i . I
So universal is the admission, that tins
is an object devoutly to be wished, if prac- j
tie-able , that we will not tax you with fur- ]
thcr argument to show this to be our great
. °
want. m
We come, then, to the second and far
most important inquiry i Is such a system |
of Common schools practicable in Geor
gia ? Two very grave difficulties are sug
gested, eacli deserving calm consideration.
hfne is the sparse population in mam poi
tions of our State —especially those cotton
growing regions occupied by extensile
plantations. The other is the necessity for
very considerable funds annually for the
support of so large a number of Teachers.
As to the first, we say, to some extent,
this is a very formidable difficulty in many
parts of our State, and that, in that por
tion indicated above, it may prove a con
stant obstacle in the way of a thorough es
tablishment of this plan. But we suggest,
that the increasing population annually
bringing into cultivation more and moie ot
the wasto lands of our StaF. will each a ear
“THE UNION OF THE STATESDISTINCT, LIKE C.N’E, LIKE THE SEA.”
TUOMASTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER % 1853.
I diminish the number of localities thus un
-1 fortunately situated. And that the pros
pect of securing a good school for their
| children w ill induce immigration and set
tlement on lands up to this time unmar
ketable, in part, on account of the absence
of educational facilities.
Such, we have been informed, has been
the result of this system upon the sparsely
settled portions of our sister State of Ken
tucky, and such seems to us to be a con
clusion rational and philosophical. But
we remark, again : Admitting the full force
of this objection, shall the State refuse to
extend the benefits of this system over
vastly the major part of her Toi-i-itm-v, tar
cause of the inability of certain portions to
avail themselves of its blessings—especial
ly (as will be seen hereafter) when it is
proposed ‘that all taxation for this purpose
shall be imposed only upon those inhabit
ing the Districts benefitted thereby? It
seems to us that there can be but one ans
wer to a proposition so plain. Let us do
all that we can —extend the system as far
as practicable—perfect its operations-—just
so far as our institutions and condition al
low, and not be staggered at the outset by
the distant tops of some apparently impas
sable mountains.
For a long time, this objection was held
to extend over every Slave-holding State,
and the palpable reasonableness of it, to
some extent, drove good and great men
from all effort in favor of common schools.
But tlie successful establishment of the
system in Kentucky and Tennessee, and
the rapid strides which are being made in
the same direction in other Southern States,
have convinced thinking men that too much
force lias been allowed to that objection.
The other difficulty suggested is the
waitt of means to carry out so grand a
project.
Have we the means ? We have at pres
ent a school fund, the annual income of
which is distributed under the poor school j
law, amounting to the sum of “ $30,000
From the profits of the State Poad,
either immediately, or from tiie ultimate
working of Gov. Brown’s plan, or from
the interest on its proceeds if sold —which
ever may be adopted by your body—we
can obtain an additional sum of “ “ “ 220,000
Making an annual increase of $250,000 j
Distributed among the ditlereut counties in
Georgia, pro rata, according to the en
tire number of white children, an aver
age county would receive “ “ “ $2,000
We do not. pretend that this fund alone
would he sufficient —as such a county
would require al least ten school districts,
■and to secure a competent teacher in each
district for the entire year would require
at least SI,OOO more to be raised by a vol
untary tax imposed by its citizens. Such
a tax would not draw as much from its cit
izens for the education of the children as is J
now voluntarily paid in tuition, The few
statistics we have been enabled to attain on
this point, in a few counties, proves this
assertion incontestably. But should any
county decline to impose any tax, two oth
er courses are left. The one, to adopt tlie
itinerating system, by which one teacher
should divide the year—spending, say four
months in each district, and thus supply
three schools. Four months instruction by
a competent teacher is better than four
years instruction by one incompetent. This
plan, we are informed, i i found to work
well in the State of Tennessee. Still an
other plan has been adopted in some States,
and tlmt is, for the School Commissioners,
afur receiving the State-fund, to notify
each school district of the amount coming !
to it from the fund, and then each district
raises by voluntary subscription as much
more as they see proper, which is added to
the fund for that district, and the best
teacher employed which the com!lined fund
will authorize. This plan also, we have j
been informed, lias been found to work
well.
We do not ask any of your body to
compel any county to abandon the poor
school system, whose citizens are satisfied
with its operations. To such we only wish
to add an affilitivrrml i'miii the profits
of the state Road, and thus render their j
system more efficient. But we do ask that
your body will so frame your legislation
as to enable the people ot each county to
choose by ballot between these respective
systems,* and wherever the citizens of a
county are sufficiently aroused lo the ne- ;
cessitv of a more efficient educational,
Scheme, to adopt the one proposed, they
may have the liberty of doing so. In fact, j
we would respectfully suggest that it might
be extended even to the towns and cities
in a county, and allow them within their
own school district to adopt this plan.
We do not hope to perfect at once, a free
school system in our entire State. But we
can do much, and by inaugurating it even
iu a few counties, we are satisfied that, as
it ha 3 been found in every other Slate
where tried, to gain annually upon the af
fections of the people, so it will in Georgia
soon he voluntarily adopted in every por
tion of the'State where practicable. Surely
those sections of the State which, from any
cause, can never successfully adopt the sys
tem would not seek to deprive the other
1 counties in the State oi its blessings, when
the State fund is fairly distributed to all ,
1 and the difference arise? only from the
mode of appropriation of the fund by the
counties themselves. Because Southern or
! other counties are so sparsely inhabited as
to preclude the idea of convenienl^school
districts, should the counties of Upper and
Middle, or Eastern Georgia be- denied tip©
privilege of inaugurating such a ststeip
within their bounds ? -
We are aware that some are wedded so
the idea of appropriating the profits of the
State Rbftd to the reduction of taxes, and
such an id< • is generally very popular with
the pcoilc- and justly so, when the fund
otherw®- is spent in a manner bringing no
! iniiwWtc the people : but that
*ts not the issue now. The question is:
Shall this fund be given to the people in the
way of Education, or by reducing the
taxes ? We say that three-fourths of the
voters of Georgia will derive more direct
pecuniary benefit by devoting it to free
education, than by relieving them entire
ly of taxation. And the assertion is easi
ly proved Because to pay tuition for their
j children, cost more to three-fourths of our
people than the present tax imposed on
them. To illustrate : A citizen pays now
$.3 for tax, (and three-fourths of them do
not pay that much.) Relieve him entirely
of taxes, and you give him $5. The same
citizen has a single child to educate, and
he pays from $lO to SSO for tuition. Give
him a Free School and you put in his
pocket from $lO to SSO. Which is best
for him ?
Again, by a reduction of taxes who is
most benefitted ? The rich man —who,
on his thousands, pays his hundreds to the
State. He who needs least the bounty of
the State is tlie greatest beneficiary. The
poor man who pays a poll tax is benefitted
to tlie amount of that pittance. On the
contrary, by free education, who is most
benefitted ? The rich man, who hardly
feels its loss when he pays hundreds to ed
ucate his children, or the poor man, who
can hardly, from his scanty earnings, lay
it}) enough to give to his children that ed
ucation, the want of which in himself he
has so severely felt ? The question-an
swers itself. We feel, therefore, that we
pander to no popular prejudice and seek
no demagogue’s crown when we say that
the question of applying the profits of this
Road to education, or to a reduction of
taxes, is a question between the poor man
and ihe rich man, to which shall the Leg
islature extend the bounty of the State ?
Were our taxes high or oppressive, we
would say deal justly by the tax-payer, and
relieve him of the burden of the Stole. But
when, as demonstrated by your Comptrol
ler General, almost every sister State lev
ies more than double as much taxation as
Georgia, and some of them nearly nine
times as much, we almost blush at the.
spirit of those Georgians who approach
your body with the cry of high taxes / Con
sult t lie digests of the counties w here such
croakers live, and you will find them re
turning their thousands and hundreds of
thousand of taxable ] roperty. The pco. le
rnaliC no such demand.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Til OS. R. R. COBB,
SOLOMON COHEN,
D. E. BUTLER,
GREENE B. HAYWOOD,
Example of Georgia.
The State of Georgia furnishes a bright
example of the encouragement of home in
dustry in developing new sources ol wealth
and creating local prosperity and indepen
dence. -
For a long period, the people of that
State have manifested a commendable de- |
gree of self-reliance, and a readiness in
adopting all the instrumentalities lor im
provement in which the present age is so
prolific. The result is now patent to all
who take the trouble to inquire into its ac
tual condition.
Less blest with fertility of soil than
some of the adjoining States ; possessing j
no advantage over any Southern neighbor
Gr tli© iutrxjcLuiMian of varied industry ; !
having no large city that promises, even in ;
the distant future, to be a distributing een- ;
tre for large sections of the Union, Georgia
is yet in advance of any other common
wealth south of the Potomac, in enlighten
ed enterprise, in the development of its
own resources, and in actual independence
of every other portion of the country.
Scarcely had the zeal for internal im
provements been awakened at the North
before Georgia caught the same spirit, and,
without ostentation or parade, almost by
her own unaided resources, she has steadily
pursued the great work of intersecting the |
State with railroads, until there is now
searcely any county which has not ielt
their beneficial stimulus. The steam horse
to-day finds twelve hundred miles ol the j
iron track laid for his use ; and to this
amount, in less than twelve months, two
hundred more will be added. Property
ha| advanced in value, smiling villages
hate sprung up in } laces not long since
for. st solitudes, the whole people are pros
pering and cultivated, and the State has
tafen a leading position in the South.
Cotton and woolen factories, rolling
mils, paper mi ls, foundries and machine
11 n
ship-yards, i ar. witness to the division of
.labor, to create an important
home miujjiet for the perishable fruits of
Her co#ofi crop of the present year is
; estimated toTcwtvorth twenty-five millimtt
j of dollars, while theYrop of cereals is worthy
‘ twice that sum. Os tobacco and sugar,
and stock, she is becoming a, considerable
| producer. Gold and cop}-# iron and coal
mines are worked with profit, and are 5
growing in importance as sources of future
wealth.
The railroads of Georgia produce afi
average of seven per cent, of dividends.
Her factories ret urn from twelve to twenty
six. The State tax is not quite one
twelfth of one per cent. The net income
to the State treasury from the State rail
road is three hundred thousand dollars per
annum, while the entire debt of the State
is less than two millions <>f dollars—an
amount that a tax of one-fifth of one per
cent would pay in two years.
This is an example of prosperity, pre
sented to the States of the South and of
the Union, which is worthy of imitation.
The means of attaining the same degree of
success is within the power of all, for it
has grown from no extraordinary measures,
it lias-followed no individual sacrifices ; it
is not the result either of unusually favor
able position or a fortuitous concurrence
of propitious accidents.
Industry without extravagance is its ba
sis. The planters of Georgia are mainly
independent of the favors of factors, and
rarely anticipate their crops, paying heavy
interests for loans that may prove mill
stones around tl cir necks. Yvith an unu
sual liberality, they have been contractors
on small sections of railroad passing
through or near their properties, and paid
for stock in labor. They have encouraged
the establishment of factories in the neigh
borhood of the cotton field, and have ceas
ed to he pensioners upon the North for
coarse fabrics or for provisions for planta
tion use. The surplus capital of Georgia
finds investment at home, and if pleasure
or business induces its people to visit the
cities of fashionable resort at the North,
they are not seduced to buy fancy stocks
or to dabble in property, the oversight of
which must withdraw them from their na
tive state. Georgia sutlers put jilUe from
tire curse of the South, absenteeism, or
the temporary residence of a large class
who have no feelings in common with the
great mass of its peoples.
The spread of the same policy which has
enabled Georgia to take the lead among
the Southern States, has already begun to
produce elsewhere a most happy influence.
In every quarter of the South her example
in favor of internal improvement is adopt
ed; The whole country from tlie Potomac
to the Rio del Norte, promises to be soon
overspread with a ] erfect net-work of rail
roads. The great trunk lines in progress
will soon have lateral branches penetrating
every fertile valley.
Nor can it any longer he said that the
South is entirely dependant upon the North
for every article of necessity and utility.
In this city and elsewhere the example of
Georgia has had its influcncein awakening
a confidence in manufacturing investments,
and though the wants of the people are
not supplied, a b g’nuing has lj<*a made
which is an indication of the great change
in public opine n and habits in progress.
It may not lie asserting too much to say
that the course long pursued .by the North
will, if still persisted in, soon make the
South their rivals in manufacturing indus
try. We are driven, perhaps fortunately, j
to greater self-reliance. The growing po- |
litictil antagonisms between sections ofHaJ
same confederacy that from
of social organization and modes of
try were mutually dependent,
‘the South to favor a division
pursuits and to dc-velopc all the elements j
of its varied resources of production and j
wealth. # j
Kxmnple L •0.0-.rth volumes of precept, i
It is the living teacher enforcing his in
struction by palpable illustrations. *lt
clothes the dry didactic principles aug|
non need with tin* attractiveness ol
and shows their results by pointing
glorious results. Georgia is teadMg the j
South by example. She lias iaß.ite ( a
progress, the ie<ul: of which ijgftftiiied to-j
he most beneficial, hut fill- ;
ly estimated. —A . G. / V'g/c',)". g.j
The Western Pitscrve b 7> ran
new item to the history of George Branoay, j
the liberal American London banker, it
savs : “32 years ago the above millionaire
was sawing wood for his board in New
Haven, Conn.” *
Leave your grievances, a? Napoleon did
his letters, unopened for three weeks, and
it is astonishing how few of them at that
time will require answering.
Magistrate.— ‘What brought you here !
j Prisoner. —‘Two policemen, your honor.
Th< n I suppose liquor had something t">
do with it
§N V & M A-] X) is © us. ■
A iicw Vtux.rr’s Flection Hally.
FaXuji. th° inimitable “ local” of the
Bufmio litpuHic, got otT the’ following
TloatP 1 a k\>v tlavs previous to the fht
; IjHjt York^Kectiofts, on lbs own account :
HfeM’ _ - •• VOTERS !
a lew hours will intervene before
| yon will be called upo:i to exercise your
rights as freemen, *!id at the ballot-box
state yuur preferences for rulers and offi
cers. . S’ /
up jpSF.pAß'rn i
\Tt YOUR BEST CLOTHES!
Patriotism doesn’t require the sacrifice
of your other clothes for the sake of the
Union.
roll v? vorn trowsehs and go ini
VOTE EARLY ! ! !
VOTE FREQUENTLY ! ! !
VOTE OFTEN ! ! !
KEEP ON VOTING ! ! !
Who you get well known at one Ward,
go to another, but vote manfully, and for
whom you like* and frequently— we insist,
frequently.
DON’T VOTE FOR GEN. JACKSON!
For he is dead.
RALLY ! RALLY ! ! RALLY ! ! !
TO THE POLLS 1
Save your country ! Have you wiv<s
and children ? Vote that those orphans
may hereafter enjoy the political privileges
you are enjoying, and let not the traitor
and the treason strike them down. If they
do hit, hit back—our whole human nature
calls on you to hit back. We lutdnot
suggest hitting hard when vou hit.
See that the infirm are brought to tl ©
polls in one-horse wagons. Don’t put tl e
beggars on horseback — we need not ro
mind our readers where they will go.
VOTE UNTIL SUNDOWN!
DON’T LOSE A CHANCE !
PUTIN ALL THE VOTES YOU CAN {
GO IT ! GO IT ! GO IT ! !
Swear in your votis ! If you can’t swear
your votes in, swear at the inspectors of
Ooetion Have rt sweat at somebody, at
all events.
VOTE ALWAYS!
Never mind your dinner or supper, but
stay at the polls and vote.
DRINK CONSIDERABLY f
The more you drink, the better you will
fed. Moreover, the candidates pay for the
I‘quo". See that there is nothing left ov r,
tl e fore.
In conclusion, we would snv,
CONTINUE VOTING ALL DAY 1 f !
A Platform. —The Democratic Editor
of the South rn (Miss.) S(< r being sick,
has entrusted his paper to a friend, who in
an old-line Whig and an incorrigible Know
Nothing. To guard against any appre
hension that the politics <f the State will
suffer under his admin'sfration, the Edit* r
pro i> hi. jays down tiie following platform :
J. We ; To opposed to spirituous, v'n >us
and map liquors, wi;h perhaj s a inuteri; 1
reservation in favor of Scotch ale and si or
ry cobblers.
2. We are opposed to ) a tent medicines
of what ever nature, from the 1 Medieamen
tum Gratia Prohat urn.,” down to “Dr. Ge
hogan’s Hydroppipcr” (Phcebrfl, what a
name!) via “Geolicke’s M itchless Sana
tive.”
WgftoM* are in favor of letting the “ Re
tired ian's sands of life” run out,
94. WlPiit* in favor of t iic passage of an
the Mobile and Ohio Rail
a
—We are in favor of e incline un-
circumstances, except in Equ stri
an performn nces.
These principles, we believe, do not c r
riiet w i l l l the political opinions which our
friend has h> ahly advocated in the col
of the Star, and upon his recovery
them unimpaiied” tef
to pinch you, Sal.’ said an
awkward tfflow on id- first visit to his rus
tic dame.
want to pinch mo for, Zeke?
! ’cause I likes you so!’
r ‘Now, go along, Zeke, you giGit lmteful
—I should think you might be big enough
to feel ridiculous.’ *
‘Jonathan ; where were you going yes
terday, when 1 saw you going to tl e mill ?’
‘ Whv, I was going to the mill, to 1)6
sure.’ , .
‘ Well, 1 wished I’d seen you, I’d got
you to curry a grist for me.’
‘Whv. vou did see me, didn’t you .
‘Yes* lilt not until you got chan out of
sight,’
An Irishman being asked why lie an ore
his stockings wrong side put. replied :
tßecause li c e’s a hole on t’other side
1 r.f ’em.’
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