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About The Independent South. (Waynesboro, Ga.) 1860-186? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1862)
WAYNESBORO, DECEMBER 6. 1862. “Fiat Justltin Ruat CcDlum.” TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements must be paid for when handed in tothiB office. Citations, for Letters of Admins’tion $2 75, For Letters Dismissory from Adm’r 4 50, “ “ from Guard’ship, 3 00, Notices to Debtors and Creditors 3 00, Sale of Personal Property, per ten lines 1 50, Salo of Lnnd or Negroes by Administrators or Eiccutors, per rqunro or ten lines, 5 00, Notico of Estrar, - - - - - 2 00, All other BdrortiMimcnts will bo charged ten cents per lino for each insertion- Deaths and Mar riage Notices will be charged ten cents per lino. All orders for Citations must come through tho Clerk of tho Court and accompanied by cash. LOOK OUT FOR THE CROSS. When you see a cross mark on the mar- gen of your paper, your Subscription must be renewed if you wish the paper continued. HAS THE CRISIS ARRIVED. It wouid be disloyal to assert and more foolish to argue, that the in terest we bear in our great strug gle, is hut the loss of o territory and the retreat of armies. Even the disinterested has long since determined, that our foe has designed our fate, as a menial sub jugation at tho cost of the lives of multitudes, the desecratiou of wept aloud, hut still the combat ra ged for liberty. When thousands of the first citizens of • Pisa worn hrutnliy incarcerated in Genoa, they entreated the Senate not to purchase their freedom even b\ the surrender of a single fortress i n' the posses sion of the Republic. But tho Republics of Italy like the commonwealths of Greeco though' able to withstand the shocks of externa] subjugation, all ntlast dis membered into ruin from thodiscordl springing from tho exclusion of tho unpriviledged, and the usurpation of their equnlity by tho few in pow er. The Venetian, oligarchy, tho Athenean confederacy nlso nfFords instructive counterparts of our times, all teaching that the animating in fluence of liburty and the prido of race, may bo dissipated, when tho sovereignties of tho whole are reser ved to tlie few. How fearful should we feel when rumors of faction nre abroad in this our trying time, when tho earnest desire of all should be tho warmest allegiance to our rulors and the moBt jealous exercise of their perogntives. It cannot bo that we shall yet full a victim to the, low-born ambition of our the peculant politician, or to tho shameful prostitution of our cheifs and rulers to petty caprice and per sonal infatuation. No! let the bnso and treacherous bo first garrotted honor and the confiscation of our property. Tho conflict has not sprung out of tho fitful excitution of national rivalry or the casual cb- ulition of hostile feeling but from a nnJ the ob du rn teand incapacitated mutual nnd deep-rooted hatred of sectional aggression and sectional resistance: Wherefore wo should not expect thnt tho dashing of a siuglc fiery billow upon the shore, is to appease tho fury of the deep. Such a conclusion would not rea sonably comport with the character of our foe, an Ishmrelitish Purititn, bred of that rapacious spirit of theft and merchandize, constitution ally repulsive to that Dice sensibili ty of honor which weighs the insult rather than the injury nnd whom Christianity has failed to teach either pity or forgiveness; nor with that southern spirit which 1ms evin ced a scorn of death in tho defonse of its boasted status. Liberty against vassalage, tho emancipation of labor from the yoko of a sorded | and base moneyed aristocracy, the same bloody conflict that has em battled the races of earth 6ince the Inauguration of classes^ is our strife. It has already assumed a stnpende- ous proportion, and why may it not he the Armageddon. The virtues of patriotism and the sternness of loyalty, may be yet overwhelmed in the vebomauco of popular ambition and tho dark strategics of truckling domngogne- ism. When power conferod by the sovereign masses for tho benefit of tho whole, claims exemption from restraint, its attachments will yield to tho changes of societies; When liberty without equality, a commu nity of burdens without a commu nity of interest is the plea of ne cessity, revolution is ovoked, arraying property against numbers, tho most terrible of all contest that history teaches. No matter how elevated mny be, tho civil virtues or patriotism of a people, they will yet oxhaust by an unceasing draft upon their forbear ance. Tho Urban civilizations of Italy present muny Btriking illustrations of this fact; tho children of tho citizens of Cremona were placed bs- foro tho walls of the city, by the infuriated Gt-rmans, to deter tho boseiged from disebargeing their weapons; their partita, it is eaid beheaded. Tho Facuvinn Senate retained no ruler who did not ad vance their power and distinction, nnd Cicero roccommonded Pornpey to the Romans ns their great Gen eral, upon three accounts! that ho was a man of courage, of conduct and good fortune. ■pc^; HIGH PRICES FOR NEGROES- Ou Tuesday last the negroes be longing to the estate of Mr. 15. S. Mays late of this county deceased were sold at the following prices: One woman nnd small child, field hand, - - $2036 One woman nnd 3 children, 3000 One old woman about 70 years of uge, - - - ' - 300 J LARGE AND CHEAP| FAMILY NT EWSPAFER, THE Southern Literary Companion] PUBLISHED AT NEWNAN, GEORGIA, ii ft large and cheap wockly paper. The Editol though blind has a ecoro of nblo contributors, nn< tue paper, will continue during tho 7ear 1SGJ, with out any diminution in its size or increase of nrief Bolow may bo found tho names of porno who tributo to this Journal: Finley Johnson, Dr. A Means, J M Thompson, L Lincoln Veazoy. J n Hall, Joho Whit Thnmas, Rev W C Bootto, J C Brown, J Day Barron, ‘Warren Wooavillc, Rev E P Birch, N M Crawford, D D., Miss Annie U Blount, Mrs Dr Wiley, M Mary E Keen, “ Kate Trippe, “ M A Campbell, “ M A McCrimmon , 11 V A Jennings, “ A TD Chapman, “ Sallio A Reedy, “ II L Berry. The paper may be had at 82,00 per annum by addressing, I. tf. DAVIS, Sn. Newnan, fla., Dec. 3, 1862. Prof. M; II. Loonoy, “ J M Richardson, " M P Kellogg, “ C H .McDaniel, Col O A Lochrnno, Ilev C D Mallory; Rev J II Kilpatrick,. Martin Arnold, Col B II Ilill, R E Xeeld, A J Smith, N' OTICE.- All those indebted to the Estate of Rlcoard A. Heath, late of Burke county de ceased, arc requested to come fonrod nnd settle immediately, end nil porsons having demands against said Katato, must render thorn in accord ing to law. Nor ember 22, 1662, L L HEATH, Administrator. 3B2. Sale. SnuhSr V the 72nd DJstrlst of Burke county, oontaming of seven hundred and three acros-.WiuI ft good dwelling negro houses, gin hou«o and screw’ on the place, all in good condition. Also hogs, Lit tle, horses, corn and fodder. For further particulars address mo at Waynes boro or call on tho promises J. y. pflEEMAN- fix?" Savannah Nows publish ono month in Tri- • weekly and tend bill to this othco. / " Nor. 29, 1662 —1m
