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THE OOTTINI'TIIYIVTA.3NT.
By J. A. TURNER. “independent in everything—neutrad in nothing” §5 for Three Months*
YOL. XX. TURNWOLD (NEAR EATONTON) GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1865. NO. 6.
Stand Firm.
Why will our people despond, and
why will they think of giving up 1
Why it every soldier in the land were
disarmed, even then we should not
think of yielding. The yankees can’t
enslave us, without enslaving them
selves. There can’t exist a govern*
ment with some states allowed to be
represented in congress, and some not.
The yankees can’t garrison all this
whole country. That is impossible.
They can’t foice us to vote, nor can
they force us to be represented in
their congress. Then why yield 1
Why assume the yoke voluntarily ?
If we can’t whip the yankees, we can
hold ourselves aloof from them. We
can refuse to have anything to do
with their government, and we can
thwart their purposes in a thousand
ways, even grant that our armies are
scattered, and our people disarmed.
They can never make us love them,
but we shall always hate them.
What folly for the yankees, and
our own people, too, to think that in
vasion conquers a people ! Why
Sherman has marched through Geor
gia—his army has been in Putnam
county—and his minions in the veiy
house where we write this. And yet
our people, today, are free as the
wind. And if any of us are subjuga
ted, we certainly ought to be very
much ashamed of ourselves.
How can we be subdued, if we
never yield ? How can we be con
quered, if we are true to our homes,
and our firesides, our wives, and our
children ? How can we be enslaved,
if we are true to ourselves ?
If we ever have the yankee yoke
fixed upon us, it will be when we have
become degenerate sons of sires dis
graced by oui want of manliness. It
will be when we all turn tories, and
traitors. If we will all stand firm, we
can never be conquered. Let us
think *of nothing but Jour indepen
dence, in peace, as well as in war. If
6ur people^will but stand firm, and
never think of yielding, time and the
extent of our territoiy will give us
independence, if nothing else will.
Provost Marshals and Citizens.
—Treason.—The trial of two men—
Munday and McPherson—arrested
for treason, by the provost marshal of
Atlanta—Munday being charged, and
correctly so, with, since the federals
occupied Atlanta, superintending the
shop for making, and trimming, and
preserving their (federal) ambulances,
and receiving rations from them, and
that Mcfherson was engaged as a
clerk in the quartermaster’s depart
ment, came, recently, before Judge
Lochrane, of Macon, on a writ of ha
beas corpus. It was proved, by high
ly honorable men, among them an
honorable officer, that both were true
southern men ; that they had mani
fested their loyalty by acts; and that
their families were sick, when the con
federates left Atlanta, and they thus
compelled to stay there, and there
must, support their families, and it
could be done in no other way than
the one adopted.
The Judge, in the first place, de
cided, most emphatically, that provost
marshals, by the law of our land, have
no right to arrest persons outside of
the army, and navy. If they take
such authority, it is an arbitrary as
sumption of power. Citizens can only
be arrested upon warrants, issued up
on oath, and can only be arrested by
the civil officers, and tried before civil
courts. These rights are guaranteed
in the constitution, and it can only be
altered by the people.
He decided further, that these men
were not guilty, and ordered them
released from custody. In cases
where men are compelled to labor, to
get something to live on, under cir
cumstances where their own govern
ment. could give them no protection,
and in other cases of this kind, the law
recognizes the right of the party, “ to
enter into an agreement of neutrality
with the enemy.’’ The law goes fur
ther, and when the enemy occupies
the town in wliich a man lives, he
may work to live. It is a law of na
ture, and the law of nations recognizes
it. It is nothing more, nor less, than
the conquered submitting to the con
queror, and, for the time, yielding to
the change.
A man liable-to military service, and
who, without just, or imperative rea*
sons for remaining, volunteers his
services, or, by joining the enemy in
acts of hostility, or by giving informa
tion to the enemy, against, his own gov*
eminent, commits treason, and would
be justly held responsible for the
crime. Any act of aid, or comfort,
proceeding from motives of disloyal*
ty, would be treason. Any act of
aid, voluntarily done, would be ad
judged treason. For it is the solemn
duty of every citizen, even when he
differs with the public policy of the
government, to maintain his fealty,
and allegiance to it. It would be im
possible to state what act may, or may
not be done legitimately. The whole
case, with all its reasons, And motives,
must be presented, and weighed with
the attending circumstances.—Colum
bus Sun.
An Eccentric Hen.—In a stable,
on the farm of Mr. Gerald, of Fay
ette county, Pa., are three little pigs,
probably six weeks old. One, which
is called ‘titman,’ generally takes the
middle berth, when turned in for a
snooze. As soon as the mother was
removed from the pigs, an old white
hen took up her quarters with them,
and seemed determined to make them
comfortable, manifesting, in all res
pects, the same care, and attachment
that a hen does to her brood, clocking
and calling them when finding a good
morsel : and, to carry out fully her
motherly care, she broods them, as
she would over chickens. She does
this by getting astride of the little
one, which lies in the middle, and ex
tending her wings so far as to cover
those on either side. No amount of
force, or moral suasion will induce her,
for one moment, to leave her adopted
family, but if the pigs are interfered
with, in any way, she. is ready to
fight their battles, as though they be
longed to the feathered tribe.—Amer
ican Agriculturist.
The Countryman.—We call at
tention to the advertisement of Mr.
J. A. Turner. Last week we pied the
form containing it, and were forced to
omit it.
The Countryman is tbe best, the
ablest, and the most interesting, as
well as instructive weekly published
between the St. Lawrence, and the
Rio Grande. Every family in Geor
gia should have it. That it is a fa*
vorite we know, from the many who
borrow our copy.—Georgia Weekly.