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CHAS. Gr- BE A ROE,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
THOMASTON, GA., JULY 9, ’7O.
“ Senator Morton is said to be diligently
at work on anew platform for the Repub
lican party.”— Newspaper.
Wo are not surprised at this. A few
years ago the vampires were alarmed at
their waning strength, and anew ism had
to be created and grafted into their articles
of faith— something, no matter how repug
nant to the dictates of reason, that would
secure to them the votes of a certain i
of beings. Ben. Wade, the swearing bully,
who modestly voted himself President at
the time of Juhn6on's impeachment, is
found to serve as a dirty tool to carry out
the infamous designs of the unscrupulous
demagogues. lie hurries eff to the West,
and at Lawrence, Kansas, delivers himself
of an harangue to a mob of liquor-crazed
rowdies, full of bitterness and hellish hate
toward the prostrate South, telling his
gaping auditors, among whom were a large
herd of negroes, that all they were to do
to obtain their rights was to sustain the
party that gave you freedom, and it wilt
divide among yon the fertile lands of your
conquered, brutal masters .” f lhis was the
beginning of Agrarianism.
It soon died, n os that wicked
r *lWy? vo Hiß was the first of a series of
schemes to swell their party ranks.
Next came the Fenian humbug. “ Ah !
the Irish vote, that must be got hold of!”
The leaders met and decided to use every
effort, good or bad, to draw Paddy to their
support. Who was to crawl in the tilth
this time. They east about them for a
willing one. Here he comes—honest Henry
Wilson, of Massachussetts. Staightway
the ex-Know-Nothing repairs to Framing
ham, where tho Fenians are holding a
gigantic pow-wow preparatory to their first
attack upon Canada. Henry makes an oily
speech, promising the excited Hibernians
tho assistance of the government and the
American army in their endeavors to liber
ate Ireland from the choking grasp of
tyrannizing Britain. The Celts gaze in
amazement at the man who once cobbled
shoes at Natick, and—intimate to Harry
that they would like to have some of their
orators who have labored for Ireland's re
demption address them, although it might
somewhat disturb the temper of a political
huckster to yield to such a hint. Not
satisfied with his doings at the hall in the
day-time, the Wilson prepares himself for
earnest work after night-fall. He greases
his tongue afresh. After darkness, he
sallies out and happens, Oh ye*, happens—
to meet his Irish boys at the stand in the
public square, where stirring speeches are
i j * • • • - 1
Mr. Wilson succeeds in making himself
conspicuous and finally is shouted for by
some senseless idiot. Up he bounds, re
counts the wrongs of the oppressed Irish,
damns England forever, shies bis stink
pots at the Democracy, and finally, after
ropeated doses of sickening flattery, begs,
implores, beseeches his listeners to flock to
the Republican fold. Tho thing don’t
work well, —Mike, Patrick and Dennis,
know better than to be deceived by the
smooth-faced man with the glib tongue.
Disgusted and mortified the pure statesman
leaves Framingham and hastens homeward.
Radical National Committees in a high
state of excitement at their second failure.
“ What's to be done next f Done! why only
a little more dirt crawling ; only the uttering
of a few more buttered words. Suppose we
try Temperance, insert a plank in our plat
form that will give us all the milksops in
the land? All right! Temperance it is!' 1
A strong prohibitory clause is inserted in
the party platform in Maine—the home of
Neal Dow. Election comes of, —and Radi
cal majority reduced 14,200! “ llolloa!
what's the trouble ?”
Massachusetts tries the experiment, and
Boston elects a Democratic Mayor, while
the vote of the opposition is wofully C'Jt
downin the State. “ Zounds ! this wo'nt
do at all! The Radicals begin to scent the
odor of a largo sized Norway.
New York is tried, and her 40,000 Ger
man’s desert the “moral” party, instanter !
“i)— n ! we're ruined! This must be stop
ped ! Lets feel the pulse of the West !”
“Prohibition” is made an issue in Wis
consin and Michigan, and in both States
the license men, or “Rum Democrats,” as
they are called, roll up a tremendous vote.
“ JJ-111 h-ll! take away Temperance! take
away Temperance! We go up if we retain
it r
By this time the party leaders begin to
think there is something undergoing de
composition in that country where live the
Danes. Not wishing to ascend a certain
stream whose waters are somewhat saline,
they drop the liquor law and take up the
cry— *
“War with England on ihe Alabama
claim ! Uurrah !—it will sweep the country
like a whirlwind, and we can retain power a
little longer .” It is unnecessary to dwell
on this most glorious failure of all. No
more laughable failure to create party
capital has ever occured. Bull was not
in the least alarmed, on the contrary, his
fat sides fairly shook with laughter.
“ We must try something that will stick this
time ; a little lying to the toiling millions
will draw thousands oj them into our loyal
army,” snaps out foxy Cameron. Forney’s
“two papers, both daily,” eoho the advice of
the veteran wire-puller. Wade rests from
his intense mental labor of committing
‘ Mother Goose” to memory, while at his
homo in Ohio, and starts to meet his oo-
workers at Washington. When they meet
be whispers in their ears,— “when the bur
dens oj taxation comes to be more keenly felt
by the laboring men of the country, they will
jiock like sheep to any party specially advo
cating their claims. AH we have to do is to
make them believe we i*re their friends and
are laboring to better their condition; and
ice can stay where ice are.” I hey rub their
palms in glee and resolve to carry out the
suggestion. Wilson isfuund ready to clean
spittoons and polish muddy brogans again,
and goes to meet his friends, the dear dar
ling workingmen of Massachusetts. Haw
ley with a budget of cut-and-dried speeches,
talks political salvation to the Connecticut
workingmen. Kelly, who hid under the
table while a fight of his own instigation,
was progressing, in a hall at Mobile, makes
a journey through the mining districts of
Pennsylvania, for the same purpose.
Schurz goes West; Sprague comes South.
All their labor is thrown away. They
awaken the laboringmen to the necessity
of doing something for their redemption,
but the figures do’nt work exactly right.
The sweat-covered men with aprons form
Trade-Unions, etc., and organize a “Third
Party” in almost every State, in every in
stance drawdng almost entirely from the
ranks of the Radical cohorts. At this
Greeley swears ; pious Beecher prays ;
Sumner whines; Phillips snaps, a l ''* l
, , , . . -. u.c jellies,
whole u' r t, . /
Fen1 »ie bunrage is the next ism out of
which they seek to make capital; this they
soon drop,—the fruit is green and sour
—the plum3 must ripen a little longer,
until they contain a sufficient quan ity of
juice. When this movement will have as
sumed larger proportions and promises
benefit to successful bidders, the Radical
party will be found ready and anxious to
do anything in the wide world, in reason
or out of reason, moral or immoral, to bring
about the incorporation of it as a doctrinal
point of faith, into the Radical political
tenets. Radicalism seizes hold of what
ever bids fair to become popular, but not
always with benefit to itself, as has been
shown, ft has resorted to this practice to
prevent relinguishment of its ill-gotten
power, ever since it left its baby-garments
—it is carrying out this policy at thio hour
—it will continue to until this hugh politi
cal, moral aud social monstrosity,-begotten
of ignorance and devilish hate, shall have
passed away, never to curse and blight the
land again.
Horace Greeley on tiie Test Oath.—
A young lad from Virginia, appointed to
the Naval Academy, who passed a very
credible examination, was refused admis
sion on account of his refusal to take the
test oath, whereupon the New York Tribune
makes the following independent comments,
which does it credit. There are few more
generous or advanced men in the Radical
party than Horace Greeley:
“We sincerely trust the yonng.yirA'
faf “Acaoemy Because he declines to swear
that he had no sympathy in the rebellion
in wbicn his family heartily enlisted, will
not be any longer proscribed. The test
oath which boys are called upon to take
before admission to the National Schools is
a disgrace to our statute books. The more
oath taking, the more lying there will be,
and the more we proscribe children for the
rebellion of their parents, the more that
rebellion will be respected. The adminis
tration of the test oath to a boy who was
only twelve years old when the war closed,
and who is still a minor, is an absurdity
which ought to secure the repeal of the
statute.
In the same issue of the Tribune which
contains the foregoing, we find the follow
ing literal views toward the South, from
which it will be observed that Mr. Greeley
is far in advance of-His party in advocating
the immediate removal' of all disabilities
from the Southern people:
The Democratic members of Congress
addiess a circular to the Southern sup
porters of their party urging them not to
“risk the loss of Senators or Representa
tives by electirg men who cannot take the
test oath, or who are under the disability
imposed by the fifteenth amendment.”
This is very good advice, and we second it
with all our might. We should be glad of
a broad, generous, and complete amnesty,
removing all disabilities at once ; but so
long as Congress persists in holding any
class of ex-rebels disqualified, we trust the
Southern constituencies will accept the
situation patiently and elect only available
men. We want to see all the States fairly
and fully represented without further delay,
End of the Income Tax. —There is a
chorus us approval ali over the country at
the racent action of tho Senate in regard
to the Income Tax. That body has refus
ed, by an overwhelming majority, to impose
any tax upon incomes ; and as the existing
tax expires this year by the limitation of
the authorizing act, it follows that the coun
try is hereafter to be freed from this offen
sive impost. Nor is this all the relief that
the people have a right to expect. The
amplitude of the current revenues, exceed
ing all the official estimate, indicates that
we can well afford to dispense with fully
$35,000,000 of the receipts fro m customs ;
and if this be not granted, the country will
very justly conclude that the repeal of
the Income Tax is merely a sop to tnolifv
public exasperation at the continued dis
crimination in favor of industrial monopo
lies. Let Congress give the country a clear
relief of $100,000,000 of taxation.— Charles
ton News.
Important Revenue Decision. — The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in res.,
ponse to a letter from the Deputy Sheriff
of Gwinnett county, states that there is no
penalty against State courts for giving judg
ments in favor of unstamped instruments,
but such cases can be appealed to the Unit
ed States Courts. lie also calls upon
officers to report persons who issue un
stamped instruments, intending to evade
the revenue laws. The penalty in such
cases is fifty dollars on conviction.
Conqrese has passed, and the President
will sign a bill making certain days legal
ized holidays, throughout the United States.
They are the 22d of February, New Year’s
Day. Good Friday, Fourth of July, Thanks
giving Day and Christmas Day,
CUDS.
The Republican party in the Ste of
New York, to-day, is a demoralized,mted
rabble, without organization, and vhout
leaders. Republicanism in New \c to
d ly, is a mockery and a by-word a al*
most as deplorable a condition, and pable
a plight, as the defeated Fenians oiing
home from the border 1 ine. A. 1. md
ard (Rad).
The leaders of the Repubican parthave
killed it. Their malevolence, and ices,
and contempt of public interest ha lost
them the confidence and sympathy f the
voters who have hitherto sustained tin.— j
Chicago Tunes.
The Republican party will undoiedly j
have as much as it can do to keep i ma- |
jority in the House of Re presen tativ It
will lose seats in New York, and, I spect,
in every Southern State, and will liiard
pushed in Connecticut, New Jersey)hio,
Missouri, and parts of Pennsylvania. Chi
cago lribune (Rad).
Congress is the National Wind-*-Bj and
the affairs of the nation are to be cortcted
in a way that would disgrace a founrate
debating club, the sooner the countigives
up all hope of rational legislation ) less
liable will it be to subsequent di aoint
ment. —A 7 . Y. Times, (Rad).
If two such rascals as Bullock a' An
gier represent each other to be, rea hold
office in Georgia, there might be goodound
for refusing to admit the State it the
Union. —A". Y. Tribune, (Rad).. \
The Republican n 6 ***T In rc &hi de
funct.—A" * un > (Rad).
One might as well attempt to wljsie a
tornado into silence as to defend tli oar
acter or wisdom of Boutwell’s offieialjoirse.
Boston Journal, (luq.
“Radicals. — They are men who vant
office ; are malicious and want retire ;
people who want to increase the cited
man's enemies, and make a break ii the
friendship now existing between the gro
man and his late owners. They ar ;he
demagogues, unprincipled and corruppol
iticians ; men who want an army of sobers
to saddle more expense upon our Stall in
order to do their dirty work under bayiet
protection ; in a wurd, extreme Radi,ls.
We ontreat the men of our race not tube
blinded and fooled. Be free, and not he
slaves of miserable guides without jug
ments, consc ence, or horn s y.” ,
Maysviile (Tenn.) Republican, (the oy
paper in that State edited and publishedVy
a colored man).
The following account of the recent ijn
counter between Butler and Farnswojh,
we clip from the Boston Herald. It is lie
best we have seen of the affair :
Gen. Butler and Gen. Farnsworth met n
battle array in the House this afternoo ,
and the occasion was one of rare interet
arid excitement. Probably no other scere
of personalities was ever allowed moe
limit in this body, or produced more un
parliamentary language. The basis, it
itself, was insignificant, being the questioi
of passing a private patent pistol bill, fc
the relief of one Rollin White, over thi
President’s veto. While Butler was advo
eating the passage of the bill, Farnworth
interjected a charge into the speech that
produced a positive sensation, by declaring
that Butler had been employed as counsel
for the opponent of White, but had turned
up to represent the latter before Congress
for a fee of S2OOO. lid exhibited a certified
copy of
sum. To this Farnsworth added that Butler
had filed a small bill in the Supreme Court,
where a suit was pending, as a mere pre
tence to cover the receipt of so large a fee
for work to be done really in Congress. “I
therefore charge him,” said Farnsworth,
with vehement voice and gesture, “with be
ing on both sides of this case—on one side
without a fee, and ihen on the other side of
the case with a fee.” By this time the
whole House was on its feet. The entire
Democratic eide came into the central aisle
to see what would follow next. Farnsworth
had the rule read that no member shall vote
on a matter in which lie is interested. An
attempt to shut off debate and thus end the
scene failed, and Butler got the floor in re
ply. Farnsworth sought to make an inter
ruption, and Butler excitedly said, “I don't
yield to a man who has got more beard
than brains,” alluding to the former’s long
iron-grav beard. Farnsworth shouted out,
“The member may curse my beard, but he
shall not come into the House and steal un
der the shadow of it.” This wis received
with shouts of “order” from the Republi
cans, and crios v.f “good,” “good,” and nods
of approval from the Democrats. But Butler
went on witb his reply, charging Farns
worth with having made an infamous and
maliciously false charge, and adding that
he acted in the first instance against the
White patent for some of his constituents,
but he was not called into the case profes
sionally until White earhe to him and said
his counsel was ill and asked Butler to take
his - place in the Supreme Court on the
pending case. He did this by preparing
the brief which he said took him a month,
and for which he received the sum named,
but that he never argued the case in court
because the counsel first employed was
then able to go on himself. After dis
claiming any interest in it in violation of
of the law and his position as a member of
the House, as Farnsworth had charged, he
concluded by saying that he who had dealt
this blow without notice, and when he
(Butler) was unprepared, was a coward and
an assassin. Down came the Speaker's
gavel with a fearful blow, but the Speaker
said nothing. The whole House looked first
at the Speaker, then at Farnsworth, who
was in his seat, and then at Butler. The
gavel’s fall was succeeded by no call to
order. “Is it a message from the Senate ?”
inquired Butler. The Speaker was now as
silent as his gavel. It was evident that
this was not the usual signal announcing a
menage from the Senate, but an incom
pleted call to order. Butler pushed ahead
with a repetition of his charge. “I take
it,” said he. “and I reiterate, ft that it is a
principle of ethics that no one here will
dispute, that he-who deals a blow on one
that is unprepared for it,%nd has no notice
of it, is an assassin and a coward ; and I
venture that it is an assertion that even the
Speaker's gavel will not interupt.” Butler
then sat down, full of passion and excite
ment. Members were requested to take
their seats and order was restored. After
a little more debate the vote was taken, but
so general was the feeling against Butler,
who had at first advocated the bill when he
knew he was interested, that he only got 12
votes, the measure being rejected
than 100 majority.
McFarland, according to the Chicago Tri
bune, is in Indianapolis “breathing out
threatenings and slaughter against the at
torneys of his wife and Schuyler Colfax.”
He promises to make the Vice-Pi esident
“smell hell before he gets through with
him/'
SYNOPSIS OF TELEGRAPHIC NE\N S.
domestic.
Washington, June 30.—Revenue to-dny
£758,000; (or the month, $25,500,000; for j
the fiscal year to date, nearly 184,00 t ,00).
The San Domingo treaty was rejected by
a vote of 25 to 28. Two-thirds being re
quired to ratify.
House— On the tax bill there was no
quorum. Eleven Senators voted to tax
United States bonds, including Fenton and
Sprague. Harris voted n>. Kellogg silent.
Philadelphia, June 30.—Forty-five fire
companies are in line for the reception ot
the New Orleans fireman.
Washington, July I.—lo p. m. —Reve-
nue, to-day, over one million dollars.^
The Senate resumed the consideration of
the tax bill. There was a .spirited discus
sion on the proposition to tax the income
from Government bonds five per cent. The
amendment was rejected on the final voto
for striking out the income tux—yeas, 2G ;
nays, 21. This vote is regarded as a final
ity upon this question. An amendment
was adopted providing that the tax on the
salaries of Government officers shall cease
August Ist.
Lexington, Ya., July I. —Gen. R. E.
Lee left this morning en route North, lie
is very much improved in health and in
fine spirits. A great demonstration was
made over bis arrival at Charlottville by
the students, where he was joined by Hon.
George 11. Pendleton.
Washington, July 2. —The Senate last
night resorted the income tax by fixing the
rate at two and a half per cent., to contin
ue two thousand dollars to be exempted.
This action leaves the matter in such a
shape that in the disagreement between
the two Houses the Conference Committee
will be obliged to retain this tax, although
the rates may be fixed at different figures.
llevenne to-day $1,107,018.
The House refused to allow the counsel
for Pat Wood to be heard at the bar of the
House
The Louisiana contested election case,
Darrall against Bailey, was decided in fav
or of Darrall. Republican.
Woodst ck, July s. —After 1 the orations,
the President being present, Gen. Butler
made onslaught ou the introduction of
Chinese labor, when Gen. Hawley took
issue with him and said, “Let them come."
St. Louis, July s.—The Steamer Gen.
Robert E. Lee, arrived at 11:25 this morn
ing—making her run from New Orleans in
three days and eighteen hours and fourteen
minutes, and beating the Natchez’s time
on her la«t trip three hours and 44 minutes,
and James M. White’s famous time about
five hours. The Natchez was detained by
a heavy fog, one hundred and twenty miles
below, and had not arrived at six p. m. A
million dollars changed hands on this result
Thousands of people were out to witness
the arrival. The race has been a complete
ovation from first to last.
Captain Leathers, of the Steamer Natch
ez, claims that deducting six hours laid up
by fog and 30 minuites lost repairing a
pump below Helena, tne Natchez beat the
Lee’s time some 20 minuets. A banquet
to both Captains will be given at the South
ern Hotel to-night.
Washington, July G.—Fifty thousand
dollars has been appropriated for the Arc
tic exploration.
Akcrman assumes the Attorney General
ship ou Friday.
—wrfis, June 30, —The eupnorfprs nf tf lP
ir.roJJiuiiity dogma, count on Uarauial Uul
len and Baron Rehore, as tlie.r latest re
cruits.
There was a magnificent display yester
day in honor of St. Peter. The processions
and reviewer lasted all day, and in the
evening there was a line display of fire
works.
Paris, June 31. —Napoleon, Prim and
Serrano have consented to Isabella's abdi
cation with the Understanding that no
Orleans Prince succeeds.
Londonderry, June 30.—A large meet
ing was held last evening, at which the
government bill, granting public proces
sions, was strongly condemned.
Rome, July I.— The Pope has ordered
the Cardinals to oppose any proposition to
set aside the infallibility decision.
Dublin, July I. Agricultural laborer
are attempting to destroy mowing machines.
Paris, June I.— There is no apparent
dimunition of the small pox.
The sitting of the corps legislatiff yester
day was much agitated by the discussion of
the military establishment. The govern
ment asks for 90,000 instead of 100,000
men, the usual number.
Jules Favre made a spirited and eloquent
speech against the continuance of a large
standing army.
V ienna, July 2.—Advices from Bern
have been received of a sharp earthquake
in Greece yesterday. An Island in the
neighborhood suddenly disappeared at the
time of the shock.
London, ouly 6, —The Morning Post has
a telegram dated Teintsein, June 25rh,
giving the paticulars of the terible mascre
of Christians by the natives of' Pekin on
the 21st. Count De Rbchechauarh, the
Frence Secretary of Legation, and a num
ber of priests and sisters of mercy were
slaughtered. The Cathedral was burned,
and a number of Prussians killed.
A well informed correspondent says that
Prince Leopold, of Hohenzollern, has form
ally accepted the Spanish crown. The
English Government approves it, but France
siill objects.
The General of the Jesuits known as the
Black Pope says that the Jesuits are appre
hending the expulsion of their order from
Germany and postponed the execution of
their more ambitious projects to safer times.
E. Joy marries an American Minister
and attends the festivities in Constantino
ple on the occasion of the anniversarv of
the Sultan. He was not attired in court
costume, but wore a black dress suit in ac
cordance with the recomendation of his
government. The circumstance excited
much comment.
That there is but one step from the
sublime to the ridiculous received fresh
illustration recently in Atchison, Kansas,
a grief etr>ckeu mother was com
pelled to yield up her only child. She
seemed entirely inconsolable; but finally,
summoning all"her fortitude, she exclaimed,
“Farewell ! little darling, farewell ! I
must give you up now, but I’ll meet you in
heaven— you bet ”
Chiness. —A dispatch has been received
jrom Hickman, Kentucky, saying that five
nundred Chiness were there, bound for
Chattanooga. They will probably be here
Saturday.— Chattanooga Times.
The last Tri-Weekly Chronicle and Sen
tinel has a very able column editorial nirther
Cotton Trade.
Anything that is good will bear
repetition, and certainly the following is
g, od. We discovered it by neeident, and
believing it would be full of interest to our
readers, have given it a place in our cJ
aifins. That it is several years old can be
no objection to it. The substitution or ore
or two names for those used would perhaps,
render it more applicable to the present
time, still, wp give it without alteration :
a Wonderful dream.
Major Jack Downing relate- a remarka
ble dream he had to the “Kernel.” “I j
thought l was in a grave yard, and there
wa q groat big grave dug large enough to
hold fair or five coffins, and while I was
s'andin there wondcrin what on earth the
grave was for, I saw a big black earse
comin and Stanton was driving it. . wons
der°d what on aiith could be in the I'earse,
fi.r if seemed to be heavy loaded. Right
behind the hearse walkin »long were you
and Sumner, and Greeley and Cnase, and
old Grandfather Welles. Pretty soon you
all went to work taking oat the coffins and
gitt n ready to put thenrin the pfrave. The
first one tuk out was marked “habeas cor
pus,” the second one “trail bv jury,” then
the “Union,” and then “the Constitution.”
When they were all out on the ground some
dispute riz as to which should be buried
first, but Greeley Cut it short by sayin, “put
the Coustitution under, and all else fol
lows.” So Greeley got the rope under one
end of the coffin and Sumner under the
other and begun to let it down. While it
was goin down you looked kinder anxious
to Chase and ses v.ou, “Chase, think it will
stay down ?” “My God, Kernel, it must
stay down, or we will go up. ' Greeley
was tickled eenamost to death and scs he,
“we shall bury it now so that it will never
be heerd of again ” Old Grar.farther Wel
les, however, seemed half frightened to
deth, and trembled like a sick dog, andse 0 ,
“Oh, that it was all over.” Sumner was
wroth at this, and scs he, “shut up, y> u old
fool, wait until it is all under.” And there,
too. stood Beecher, with a nigger baby in
his arms, lookin up to heaven, anil praying
all the while as follows : “Oh. Lord, not
thy will but mine be done! ’ finally, all
the coffins were put in the grave and cov
ered up. I wondered where Seward could
be all this time, ami lookin up there he
Was, fly fit through the air with' wings, and
tail, and horns, lookin for all the world like
an evil spirit, and ses he, “if ’twCre done,
when it is dime,” just as if he was afraid
that a day of resurrection was coming. T
tell you, it nrmie me feel sorrowful and sad,
when I saw the old Constitution and the
Union put tinder the ground, out ot right,
and when 1 woke up, my eye- were lull ff
tears, and I felt more like crying than I
have sense I was born.”
[communicated ]
L'GT wx, June 20 1870.
Editor Gcoryia Herald Please allow
me a little space in your paper to reply to
an article written by W 11. Harris, of
Thomaaton, June the 7th. Iu tne first
place it is necessary to state that the Moth
odist Episcopal Church has granted the
privilege, and given a certain parcel of
ground for the erpicial benefit of the color
ed people, to have and to hold their meet
ings to themselves. This is the property
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
every person knows that W. 11. Harris or
any preacher of a different denomination
without previous consent canuot take so
much liberty as to take possess on of the
church bv force and appropriate it to their
I!« r, SUT u r ;*ht to preach
at the Camp Ground than he has to nc.-p,..
upon the private property of a single ir -
dividua 1 . By his preaching at the Camp
Ground without permission, is the cause of
our having a dispute or a lew’ words in
regard to his taking too much liberty in
preaching in other churches be-ddes his
own. I politely asked him if he had not
preached at the Camp Ground, to which lie
replied, he had, Saturday night, Sunday,
and Sunday night. I then told him I un
derstood he had opened the doors of the
church, he said he had. He then asked,
Why? Y<u h ave no church, it belongs to
the county. He then remarked, you had
better get away, you are not worth my
talking to My reply was to him that he
was not worth the notice of a dog, etc. As
far as fighting is concerned it may be prop
er and right under some cireum.-tames.
but if W. II Harris had been disposed to
do right as becomes a Minister, there wou and
have bo'en no necessity for this document,
or war of words or ill feeling toward my
seif, or Rufus and thechurch.
Now, Mr. Editor, I will leave it to your
iudgment and that of the people who have
good sense, if I was not right in protecting
the property of the church of which the
supervision was given to me as a minister
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
As far as the lying is concerned, let his
own letter determine that, lie positivelv
states that he has 1075 members of the
church, or at the least he found that num
ber there. This seems to be very strange,
that in a country like this that such a large
number belonging to one church can be
found.
Now the whole truth is, I have not fol
lowed after some new God, now doctrine,
mingled with a large class of the colored
population and took sides with them in
politics, as well as the doctrine cf the Afri
can M. E. Church. Now my reason for
doing this is, I believe the old church good
enough. The white people have never in
terrupted me in mv ministerial duties, I
belohged to the M. E. Church South at the
time of emancipation, I have not changed,
I believe no white person can or will object
to black people having or bold their meet
ings to themselves if they choose to do so.
As far as politics are concernd my opinion
is that political and ecclesiastical duties
are. and should be, kept seperate and dis
tinct. I love my colored bret«*rn with Godly
fear a.s well as I do all Christians irrespect
ive of color, believing as I do, that God
looks at the heart, not the external part. I
am for peace, tot for engendering strife •
creating animosity between one denomina
tion and another, one party and another for
popularity's sake. Now Brother Harris, (if
he will permit me to call him so) must con
vince me that he enjoys priviiiges in his
Church superior to those I ha\e or enjoy ;
convince me I am in the wrong, my docs
tring is wrong, then I will renounce them
all and follow him, but for my life can I
see any difference in his privileges in his
worshiping God and mine. 1 preach to
the colored people, so dues he, the doctrine
from the main must or ought to be tho
same, still the preaching I have heard, I
cannot subscribe to. Now, Mr. Editor, as
he has taken the liberty of using your col
umns as the means of addressing me, please
he so kind as to publish this reply for me
and you will confer a great favor.
Most respectfully,
Harper Young.
Every plain girl has cne consolation—
though not a pretty young lady, she will,
if she lives, be a pretty old one.
Pemocraic Triumph —ldaho Territory §
has gone Democratic. At the election ~ . I
week it followed the example of Count J
ticut, New Yoik aud Oregon, and gave tL *
Democrats a rousing victory. M rr-tt, the
penv erotic candidate for Congrrs-*. i* i
by 800 to 900 tnaj why, together with,, 1
Democratic l ,u ’iil ti**k* t - *.
‘ OBITUARY. — Denth has again visited ear ,
tv and swept away one of enr old* st ned L<-.«t , t
Mr. Dasikl. Dr.xiiAM, departed this life on tin , |
of the *'9th Inst., at bU reddence near the J
Bridges, alter an illness of about two m-.i th*. jj. I
Dkjtmam had been a citizens ol l*p»on county frr,i
gfi at mtftj years. He was a kind and »ff, etior,**, I
husband, and a loving rather. He was a man of **,l
(hnn ordinary hospitality, and w e speak truth j
wheu we say. that he pertorroed more charitable cee , J
to the poor than any one in his vicinity. j
miss him, but he is Jb-ne, and !t will be hard t.. find. .1
to fill hi# plnde, while hi« aged anil affectionate ,(,1
and his ohddren mourn their los*. we sincerely h r .|
and trust 'hat hlsfpitit has gone to res*» there t I
in praise with the holy. -Mr. Dknham was in hi* »i s:; I
seventh year, l’eace to Ms remain#.
A NEIGHBOR. I
Double Rridsres, Upson ro., Oa.. June 80. Is7o
\\m jtt»frtisanfct.
QOOO SK-.VS roll tS* PJSOPLI i
A KEW YORK DRUG STOlitl
AT
BAtINESYILLE GEORGIA.
Tl T HERE the people cun purchase ev**i*j
y \ thing pertaining to the line, at a savin# ..fJ
to 100 per cent. Friends and Fcllow-UHtzens: Th. 1
worth saving; and now it M for j>ort to call and
■sAhether these things are so or not. Pure Ker. sine fl
at 50 eta. per gallon, and all other articles in s»»i
Drouortion. Yours truly,
P Jidy9-ly PHILIP I*. VAN ALSTIXE ]
dissolution, i
rit HE copartnership heretofore exi. ■
? I etween O. J. Lewis and Wilson Sawyer I> ■
dnv dissolved by mutual consent. Wilson Sawy--.9
pay all outstanding debt* and collect, all ><ecounti 1
the Brin. Those owing w ill please come forward ,jj
sott'e at on tie, us the outstanding debts must be : m
immediately. tJ J. LEWIS
Thomaaton, Qa., July b ’TO. \S IL6UN bAillEll
I WILL pnntinne the business at the 11
stand, whbre I will he pleased to see ail my I
fyien la and as many new oms as w ill make it to i I
interest to call Mr. A S. Brooks will be retained I
me who invites all his friends to call and #ee him
trust, by strict attention to business Vo secure u '.!b -,m
share ot patronage.
fitly 9-11 WILSON PAWY ■
--- )ST |
VPAIR of Gold Spectacles; tl.ev a J
a tin case, the case is stamped on <>ne side * ■
narrow phdn place "l the middle in which my to 9
written. The finder will he suitably reward- <1 hi 9
much oblige me by liahdftig them tS the subscrit: ■
leaving them at the Herald office.
july‘2 It N. BKYAvM
LlHillV AM) SIM! STIHIj:
1 i
4 LWAYS ON HAXf), P^.ETO*
XJL Carriages, Buggy and Saddle Iloises.
FINE BLOOD HORSE'U
1
both for sale and livery. Extra accommodation:9|
to drovers.
'W'A.LKIEPt BFIO, t l
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Will furnish good teams for the Indian
Chalibeate and Warm Springs, on reasonable ter
June l l-ts
LATEST NEIVj
FRO Ivl
GRI VFI N, G .111
6.
THE MOST EXTENSIVE AMjw
LARCKST IS BI Sl-|
IN GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, »<•
1. SCIiEEIMW i ms.
Takes this method of informing the citizen
T II O M AST 0]
ana surrounding country, that they have "I
lion and for sale now the following nsm |
to which we draw the special a tention of ou'""
especially to some of the
p n. i o b s
Calicos, the best, 11c per yard.
Jlbrnespun, Macon, 4-4 15c per u'
Macon Mills 7-8, 14£c per yard.
Grenadines, 10c per yard.
Figured Brilliants, 16§c per yari> j
Japanese Poplins, 30c per yard.
Lawns, 25c per yard.
French Percales s3Jc per yard.
French Calico, yard wide, 25c pet
Plain White Jaconet, 25c per jab 1
London Grays. 13c per yard.
Nainsooks, from 20c to 40c P er - V n|
Pigues, 25c per yard.
Ginghams, 15c per yard.
Striped Homespuns, 15c per ya rJ '1
Shoes, from $1 to $2 50, the beio |
Boots, from $3 to $8 50, the best | j
Slippers, from $1 to $1 50, tbe^lj
1
And all other Goods in proportion. T& e - 1
bought their goods during the last Panic, » §■
GOLD PHIC^
Prices, the/ can hold out better inducem^ 1 - Jb
other House in the Stateof Georgia. Al-H
to lay in a supply of Goods will do well ?' B
and see A
1. SCNERMIN & M
where they not only will get repaid tbeir
buying
GOODS CHEAF*|
but besides will 3AYE TWENTY-FlVt
on the dollar.