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Mr. Lincoln's Views on Slavery Before
• the Civil War.
Mr. Lincoln was not an ultra-abolition-.
Ist before the civil war began, and his
ante-bellum statement Mas been widely
circulated: • ...
“I am not.” said Abraham Lincoln at
Charleston on September 18. 1858. "nor
ever have been in favor of bringing about
In any way the social and political equal
ity of the white and black races. I am
not, nor ever have been, in favor of mak
ing voters or jurors of negroes, nor of
qualifying them to hold office, nor to in
termarry with white people. I will say in
addition to this that there is a physical
difference between the white and black
races which I believe will ever forbid the
two races living together on terms of so
cial and political equality: and. inasmuch
as they cannot so live, while they do re
main together, there must be the posi
tion of the Inferior and superior, and I
am. as much as any other man. in favor
of having the superior position assigned
to the white race.”
These words are plain enough and their
meaning is so clear and the purpose of
the speaker is sufficiently manifest to al
low them to stand without comment were
it not that the pressure on Mr. Lincoln
became so heavy that he was forced to
fldat with the tide In the remaining years
of his life, and give support and coun
tenance to the rabid efforts and purposes
of his party associates.
The suffrage question for the black race
Was entirely an afterthought. In the ear
ly seventies I inquired of a very radical
western representative in congress con
cerning the beginning of the negro suf
frage agitation after the war. He said
in substance: when we begun to con
sider what position the black man would
occupy in the south after he was set free
without a voice in the selection of his rul
ers or the making of the laws he would
live under, we decided that his latter con
dition would be infinitely worse than
when the slave owner was Interested in
protecting hl ar for selfisn and pecuniary
reasons.
We were not assured by any means that
it was the best thing to do to give him
•the ballot, but we took it as a choice of
•vita. As the republican party gave him
his freedom it was deemed best to give
him aill the rights of citizenship. Never
theless. we understood at the time and we
are still aware of the difficulties that ap
pear to hang around this suffrage ques
tion. We can only say we did the best
we could, but I am willing to say to you
that the alternative was accepted only af
ter prolonged and serious thought.
I was gratified that this explanation
was made candidly and without ulterior
purpose so tar as I was able to discover.
My acquaintance with the speaker ripen
■ed into respect and then friendship. I
tried to put myself in his place and see
with his eyes, and also to appreciate his
environment and prejudices.
When I reminded him that the south
was solidified against the promoters of
this suffrage scheme -for blacks and that
the race question would always be supe
rior to politics and that the negro's ballot
would be controlled by force or by brib
ery. he admitted the conditions, because
at the time we were speaking the demo
crats had a very large majority in the
house, and were fast capturirtg the con
trol of Jhe senate. The one negro sena
tor, Bruce, has never had a successor,
and the negro representatives went out
in a few years.
No northern state has ever sent a negro
to congress and no Republican president
has ever proposed to offer a black man a
cabinet position. Frederick Douglass' ad
mirers fought President Grant in his sec
ond race, because the president Invited alb
the commissioners sent to Hayti, except
himself. to a white house collation or ban
quet. They were very affectionate to the
negroes that lived in the south, but they
became detestable as soon as they nibbed
against them in social life or anywhere
else save in politics.
Mr. Lincoln emphasised his oppposition
tn miscegenation at Charleston in 1858. He
eras an honest man. and when he declared
himself opposed to making "voters of ne
groes." it is simple justice to his memory
to suppose he would have been still op
posed. when the question was debated by
Sumner. Morton & Co. before pressing the
fatal amendment to the constitution which
conferred the ballot on an inferior race,
after Mr. Lincoln passed on to his final re
ward.
The “physical difference " still obtains,
and the crime of political equality has
been a disadvantage to the inferior race.'
admitting (as all fair-minded people do)
that exceptional negroes have been the
individual beneficiaries of a mistaken pol
icy. which has injured both the white and
black races by its enforced operation tak
en as a whole.
It is more and more apparent that the
two raqes cannot live together on terms of
•octal and political equality. Mr. Lincoln
said there was a physical inhibition, and
being a white man himself, he was tn
favor of having the superior race, the
white race, assigned to the superior posi
tion.
We are face to faee with three plans or
policies for settling the present difficulty.
First—Colonization In territories <w is
lands. '
Second—Deportation to their native
Africa. ' .
Third—Or a withdrawal of the ballot
frbm the negro as a privilege of citizen
ship belonging to the superior race, as
fully explained by Mr. Lincoln himself.
Which shall it be? Which will be eas
iest to do? Which will inflict the least in
jury upon the inferior race?
On High Stilts.
Are not the insurance people killing the
goose that lays a golden egg by increasing
their rates so rapidly? After a wl-Uo
people who have buildings to insure will
ask themselves whether they may not as
well be slaughtered for an old sheep as
well as a lamb.
Life insurance rates are subject to se
rious fluctuations on the dividend plan
in some of the established companies.
Whether these companies are losing mon
ey I know not, but when a premium
—corls up frem one dollar to three dollars
on the thousand in a year's time, we might
begin to ask ourselves whether we can
better afford to live or to die under such
circumstances.
And hog meat has mounted on stilts al
so. When it gets to a place where you
must pay 10 cents cash and 12 cents on
time for ice-cuned fat bacon, it may be
that now is the season to resolve to be
i eome vegetarians and not pork eaters
during the famine or prevalence of stilted
prices j
It takes but a small cut of white clayey
looking bacon to amount to a dollar’s
worth at present prices. Hog meat has
surely mounted on stilta in this day and
time. ~.
The war on oleomargarine is likely to
put lard and butter from the cow on stilts
also. z
Hog's lard and Cottolenh had a duel and
Cottolene is laid up for repairs.
For several weeks the battle against cot-
ton seed has been raging in congress and
the south’s great staple has been wound
ed in the house of its friends.
But so long as butter and hog’s lard
are on stilts and Cottolene and oleomarga
rine will supply a want, the people who
must buy will try to get all products of
this kind for the least money and eat less
of it.
Labor has also mounted on stilts. For
merly you might hire by the month, then
it narrowed down to the day and now we
are at the hour-rate in this country.
This difficult labor is bringing farm pro
ducts up to steep prices. With corn at a
dollar a Bushel and still going up and fat
bacon at 12 cents on time, the situation is
worth investigating.
If farmers can get enough labor to raise
eatables they had better quit cotton,
'when it costs so much to make it, and
try to get to a place where they can be
free from the quano speculator and the
cotton future gambler.
A little common sense will maybe help
some hard toilers ln<o a better financial
condition. Otherwise they had better quit
and go at something else.
Washington as a Temperance Man.
Gen. A. W. Greely wrote a very inter
esting article on this subject and publish
ed it in Ladies’ Home Journal some years
ago.
It must not be forgotten that it was the
custom ot Washington’s time to keep
decanters of all sorts of liquors on the
sideboards of the gentry of this country.
In my earliest recollections of people
and customs, fine glass decanters and
loaf sugar were set on nice sideboards,
and it was the habit of well-raised men
and women to drink a toddy and they
expected to be offered the same when
ever they made a social call on their well
to-do neighbors.
These things count heavily In discussing
the habits and customs of the people.
It is well known that Virginia planters
were the most hospitable people in the
world. Their homes, their lives and sur
roundings are historic and their hospi
tality lives in song and story in two con
tinents.
Thackeray’s "Virginians" is one of the
most interesting books I ever read in my
life: and when we recollect that the great
novelist looked at Virginia people through
loyal English spectacles, it is one of the
fairest books ever written of this country
abroad.
General Washington was a most remark
able public man, in keeping his head clear
and in endeavoring to keep hib people in
paths of sobriety, under prevailing condi
tions and surrounding circumstances and
environments.
“His reflective mind and acute observa
tion.” says Gen. Greely, “soon noted the
ravages made by drink and doubtless
confirmed that personal moderation which
never permitted him to run into excess of
any kind. In the Provincial army when,
general charges of drunkenness were
made against the Virginia troops, there
was no word against General Washington
personally. He early deplored it as a se
rious vice, forbade it. by stringent orders,
and applied a hundred lashes to every
man found drunk. Still later he wrote:
“Gto-shops served to ruin the proprietor
and those who make the most frequent
application to them." In advising his
nephew, he adds: "Refrain from drink,
which is the source of all evil and the
ruin of half the workmen of this country."
The boys and girls who read The Jour
nal will now understand why the earliest
temperance organization was called the
“Washington Society." I joined it when
a bit of a girl, and can yet recall the en
thusiasm of the "Washingtonians" in my
earlier days.
If there was no other reason in this
world for keeping sober the money rea
son would be sufficient for keeping a
brain free from fumes of liquor. In the
hard and strenuous life of the average
toiler, a befuddled brain is a complete
disqualification.
Gen. Washington’s advice to his nephew
is as true today as when he wrote it.*
The question for this era is not how
intoxicants may be vended, or who may
buy and drink, (whether mature men or
minors), but it is the evil effects produced
on every brain that is placed under its
influence that appals the mind.
No father, who really loves his own
son. is prepared to say he is willing for
that son to drink Intoxicating liquors. I
heard of a prominent politician of Geor
gia who once told a public audience that
he would rather his own son should die
a drunkard than the right to make and
sell intoxicants should be curtailed or pre
vented. Immediately a great gulf opened
betwixt him and me; although I am pos
sibly too insignificant to be even noticed
by such an anti-prohibitionist as him
self. I never see his name in print, with
out fearing God may take him at his
word, and visit the alternative upon his
boys. Let us hope that a good wife’s
prayers may shelter -her offspring from
the evil which wastes at noonday and
desolates virtue and innocence at mid
night!
Dear readers we must educate public
loplnlon to higher standards, especially in
the habits and ideals of the youth of this
country.
Gen. Washington lived when drinking
was the custom of the day. He was a
public man, in the general and enlarged
view that we take of his character. Wc
know he was a brave man in the field,
in the forum, and afi chief executive. 1
But he was never tnore courageous than
when he made drunkenness a punishable
offense in the Provincial army; and main
tained authority by flogging the offenders
to preserve army discipline.
I know that people call it fanaticism to
fight the sale of intoxicants, but I know*
also that a drunkard is not wanted any
where or to conduct any business where
money or life is at stake. Gen. Wash
ington understood the evil.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
The German emperor owns 359 carriages for
the use of himself and his court.
The gold medal offered by the Paris council
for the most numerous and best behoved family
of children haa been won by a couple named
Gal lex. parents ot thirteen youngsters.
James Doll, the oldest English actor. Is 98
years of age. He never appeared in London,
but spent his life in Devonshire and at Exeter
acted Launcelot Gobbo to Edmund Kean's
Shylock.
The union veterans of German birth are to
raise a fund for a monument to General Fried
rich Wilhelmn von Steuben, of the American
• revolution, to be erected in Washington. D. C
Superintendent Elliott Woods, of the Wash
ington capitol. has made plans for restoring
the grounds to their condition prior to the
time when shrubbery was removed from the
lawn east of the building.
An Austrian physician has invented a powder
known as antisputol. which experiment is
stated to have shown to be capable of destroy
ing the bacteria causing tuberculosis, typhoid
fever and diphtheria.
They are talking of running the Rev. Charles
M Sheldon for mayor of Topeka. Kan. Mr.
Sheldon is author of the book called "In His
Steps." and about two years ago edited The
Topeka Capital for a week to show how he be
lieved Christ would run a newspaper.
The bishop of Lucknow, in a recent charge
to his clergy, gave some valuable figures with
regard to the spread of Christianity in his
diocese. He stated that the total number of
native Christians in the district was 68.841.
Ten veers ago It was 23.406 and twenty years
ago it was only 11.893. It had therefore nearly
trebled In the course of ten years.
The oldest member of the English royal
family, the duke of Cambridge, completed his
eighty-third year on March 38th. Although there
have been many rumors of late that the duke
is looking old. he 'manages to keep his health
in a remarkable manner. He is greatly inter
ested in all the projects which make for the
well-being of the nation, especially for the
youth. It will be remembered that he was
commander-ln-chlef of the British army for
forty years. He is now ranger of St. James
park, the Green park. Hyde park and Rich
mond park.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1902.
Status of Married Women Under Georgia Law
BY EB T. WILLIAMS.
The classification under' the common
law, "Lunatics, idiots and married wo
man," we are glad to say, does not now
exist under the laws of Georgia. The
law has grown and expanded with our
Christian civilization, and one test of
growth with all institutions is to be meas
ured by the treatment of all women, but
especially x>f married women, for they
are truly the very pillars of the state, and
deserve homage of every good and
brave man the world over.,
The property of a married woman before
the act of 1866 became the husband's at
marriage, now. however, a married wo
man retains title to her property when
she marries. She is a “feme sole” as to
her separate estate, and she may exer
cise ownership over it and even prosecute
a business of her own.
Not only is this true, but a married wo
mrin cannot bind her property for tne
debts of her husband. Even if the hus
band and his creditors collude and obtain
a mortgage on her property to pay his
debts it is absolutely void. Nor can sue
.endorse and bind herself by such endorse
ment.
The laws of Georgia have gone to the
extent of zealously guarding the rights of
a married woman. She cannot even sell
her property to her husband without an
order of the judge of the superior court.
In criminal cases she is not permitted
to testify for or against her husband,
except when he commits an assault or fdl
ony upon her. Then het mouth is no long
er sealed; but she may uncover hl? in
famy and hold him up to the scorn of
public opinion which usually does full jus
tice in fixing his moral status and in
vindication of her own.
In divorce cases the law shows its Con
sideration and tenderness, for where chil
dren are of tender years, the mother un
less proved to be of bad character and un
fit is awarded the custody of the children.
It will not take from her what is so pe
culiarly and sacredly her own. In cases
of separation and divorce the wife may
get a considerable sum as alimony when
the husband is a man of means. In most
cases she is entitled to a support if the
husband is earning it.
We believe there is but one injustice
that might be remedied, and that is in re
spect to the wife’s earnings, which are
the husband's.
When the husband dies the law makes
the most liberal provision for the wife.
She can take a child’s part if there are
children, and one-fifth if there are more
than five; or she can take a year's sup-
Some United States Senators
Who Are Good Story Tellers
BY ANGUS M’SWEEN.
In Philadelphia North American.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.-Not
for • a long time had a speech In the
senate been listened to with such close
attention as was accorded that of Senator
Vest upon the ship subsidy bill Monday.
Among members of the senate there was
a general feeling that in all probability
it was the last effort the grim old war
rier from Missouri would make, and, in
addition. •it was the breaking of a long
silence which ill health and the growing
infirmities of age had threatened to make
perpetual.
For two hours Senator Vest held the
floor, and for two hours members listened
reverentially, and contrasted his utter
ances with those of the Vest of five years
ago, then the best equipped debater ot the
Democratic side, and one of the bqst in
the senate.
There were times today when the old
man's oratory was as brilliant as ever.
Words came to him with all ease of
former days, and his mind showed az clear
as when he challenged all comers In de
bate and begged for mercy from none.
But the fire of the senator's earlier days
was lacking, and his physical weakness,
his hoarse and feeble voice, made his ef
fort seem a reminiscence.
Vest is not the oldest man in the sen
ate, but he Is near it. He was born in
1830, (Mid has been in public life ever since
the opening of the civil war. There have
been few greater orators in the senate
than he. and none who was a greater
master ot invective.
Vest was at his best during Cleveland’s
second administration, and when the nght
between the president and the senate over
the tariff schedule arose Vest criticised
the former in a manner that gladdened
the drooping Republican heart.
For four years Vest’s health has been
declining. It is told about the senate how
once he felt so certain he was going to
die that he assured all ms callers of this
conviction.
"I don’t believe,” he said—then his old
sense of humor breaking forth, despite
his physical weakness—"l don't believe
I’ll live until Morgan finishes his speech
on the Nicaragua canal.”
.This prediction may be fulfilled, for Mor
gan's speech on the Nicaragua canal is a
continuing effort, and may be resumed at
any time.
Vest has been one of the best story
tellers the senate has ever known, and
hundreds of capital stories that have ap
peared in print originated with him.
The senator was a member of the Con
federate States congress, and, finding sen
timent in Missouri • was being aroused
against him by the assertion that he pre
ferred the life of a legislator to that of a
soldier, he calmly shouldered » a musket
and went to war. During the first battle
in which he was engaged the Confede
rates lost, and Vest was retiring from the
field, when he met a soldier from his
own district.
“Jim,” he said, "you see what I am do
ing?'*
"Yes,” said the other.
"Now, Jim,”, said Vest, "I want you to
go back to Missouri and tell them there
that you saw me fighting for my country.
Tell them. Jim. that you saw me in a
battle yourself.”
Jim said he would do as he was bld, and
started on his way.
”Oh, Jim!” Vest called after him, as a
new thought flashed into his mind, "when
you tell them you saw me in battle you
can add, if you want to. that if I keep my
health and have an ordinary run of luck,
no living man will ever see me in anoth
er!" •
Vest made good this declaration, for his
career as a warrior ceased right there,
and his career as a legislator was re
sumed. ~ •-
Like all the older members of the senate.
Vest Ijas regarded any effort to take his
seat away from him as a personal Injury.
While he w»s sick he was Informed that
ex-Governef Stone was regarded as a can
didate to succeed him.
"There is a bird in Missouri,” said Vest,
"which sits in a tree on the river bank
and waits for dead fish to come to the
surface. There are a lot of folk in Mis
souri like this bird, and some of them are
waiting for this fish to d.e. They'll have
to wait,” he added with fierceness, “until
he is good and dead before any of them
can get him,”.
Admirers of Vest—and there are many
say the period of waiting is about over,
for even if he retains the measure of
health left him, he is too, advanced in age
to think of another term in the senate.
Vest and Morgan and Daniel are the
only ones remaining in the senate to. rep
resent old-fashioned, impassioned South
ern oratory. Morgan talks so readily avid
so easily that an admiring constituent
once declared he could do so without
thinking, a conclusion that has been
forced upon many other persons. He was
once asked how long he could talk in the
senate.
"If I were all prepared foY my speech,
had plenty of books of reference and a
port and the commissioners may set aside
the whole estate to her if they deem her
social conditions and manner of living
demand it; or she may take a dower of
one-third of all the real property of which
the husband dies possessed. 1
When the busband has property and be
comes in debt, even if he refuses, she may
apply for and get a homestead out of his
property, which will shield her and her
little ones from the storms of life in
a home which is not subject to his debts
and on which he can never lay his hands
to dispose of it. Though the husband has
been greatly reduced in his high preroga
tive, he is still, as Judge Bleckley face
tiously observed, “presumed to be" the
head of the family, and he may wear that
garment still of which he boasts and
wnleh is so becoming to most men of my
acquaintance.
When the husband is killed by accident
she has a property right In his life, aqd
she may sue and recover for his homicide,
and such recovery is not subject to the
claims of his creditors.
Again, sometimes, but not often, a hus
band is mean and penurious and shuts off
articles so necessary to the wife's porn
fort, but she may get the "necessaries,”
charge them to the old “skinflint” and
make him pay the bill. And if I were on
a jury I would hold him responsible for
all beautiful and dainty things, from
spring hats as large as a flower garden
to laces and dainty lingerie, especially if
the wife was a beautiful and dainty wo
man. Such a woman requires not bread
and meat, but the sweet and nice things
so congenial to her nature, and without
which life would become a burden.
So we see. under Georgia law, married
women have been placed in the high and
dignified position of individuals, and are
not mere chattels of the husband.
The science dt law is replete with wis
dom and has for its object the protection
of the weak against the strong, and in no
branch of its humane provisions has it
made more progress than in its tender
care and protection of married women.
Its great, strong arm has been placed
around them, and with the chivalry of a
knight of old it has not only
that all communications between husband
and wife are sacred and are excluded
from the gaze of court and jury, but it
has provided for married women in the
protection of her property with the tender
ness of a mother and the consideration of
an affectionate father.
The law is not second to the church in
fixing the status of woman, and the pro
gress of both may be judged by the esti
mate they place on married women.
good subject,” he replied, “I think I could
talk for three days.” «'
"But suppose you had no time for prep
aration and found it neceSsary to hold the
floor,” suggested the questioner.
“Then.” said Morgan, "I could talk in
definitely.”
The house of representatives Is sadly
lacking in humorists. Since John Allen,
of Mississippi, left It the only men on the
floor who have been really funny have
been these who were making most seri
ous efforts.
Champ Clark, of Missouri, is classed as
a humorist, but'Champ was funny only
when he first came to congress and be
lieved he had been;entrusted with a great
mission, and was in deadly earnest in
everything he said- He had a quaint man
ner of talking and used many homely
western expressfbhs that made the house
and the gallery laugh, and It began to
dawn upon him-.fhat he was really a hu
morist. h t ,
Then it was that Clark began to grow
tiresome, and when he found the house
cared little for his stories he began sav
ing them for the lecture platform. He is
ci edited with deriving much profit from
the telling of these stories to persons who
pay for the privilege of listening.
Allen's stories are told over and over
again in the coat rooms, and any refer
ence to Tupelo brings a smile for the
recollections the name produces.
One of the funniest stories with which
Allen is connected was told about him and
not by him. He was coming to Washing
ton from Atlanta with a party of con
gressmen, and secured a birth In a sleep
ing car that came only to Columbia, 8. C-,
while the others of the party had berths
In the sleeper, that ran through to thu
capital. There .were no women in either
car, and during the evening’ a game of
poker was suggested.
"Get Allen,” some one said.
Allen was found sleeping in his berth,
but when told what was wanted he woke
up arid joined the party ahead, arrayed
only in his pajamas. The game was inter
esting and it lasted through the night and
well into the morning. Then it stopped to
permit the playfrs to get breakfast.
Allen started back to his own car. He
realized for the first tfene, when he reach
ed the dooY, that the car with all his
clothes and baggage had been switched
off at Columbia and was already a hun
dred miles or more behind.
The unusual spectacle of a congressman
arriving at the .capital arrayed in a suit
of pajamas and a borrowed overcoat and
driving hastily home in a closed carriage
is still regarded as one of the most start
ling sights witnessed in Washington.
The investigation by the senate commit
tee of the state of affairs, in the Philip
pines is bringing a general realization
that the country has acquired a very diffi
cult set of persons to deal with, and that
their usefulness to themselves or any one
else is a matter of grave doubt. The Dem
ocrats have taken, up the inquiry with
great avidity with a view to proving that
the United States made a bad bargain
when it took the islands, and that the
cheapest thing the country can do now is
to give them away to anyone that wants
them. This is one of the reasons there
has been so much fencing by the Demo
cratic and Republican members of the
committee while General Hughes and
others have been giving testimony.
The frequent tilts between Senator
Lodge and Senator Patterson however are
of different origin. Senator Patterson
owns a newspaper in Denver, and Senator
Lodge accompanied Roosevelt on his west
ern trip during the campaign. There was
som( unpleasantness in their reception at
Denver, and Patterson's paper printed a
story which was anything but pleasing to
the senator from Massachusetts. Patter
son knew no more about the story prior
to its publication than Lodge did, but the
Massachusetts man has never taken this
view of the matter, and the two are on ex
tremely bad terms.
Other members of the senate who under
stand the feeling between the two regard
it humorously. a"d are inclined to urge
them on when they begin to exchange
bitter and sarcastic retnarks either in the
renate or in the committee room.
A BELATED SPRING POEM.
Today the birds sing joyously
The skies are fair and pleasing:
We whisper, "Spring has come again;”
Tomorrow ’twill be freezing.
Todaj- the sun shines warm and bright.
And soft south winds are blowing;
The poets sing ."Hall Gentle Spring!”
Tomorrow 'twill be snowing.
The girls today. In bright array,
Give spring a merry greeting;
I'll go and pawn my overcoat.
Tomorrow ’twill be sleeting.
Today I'll send some editor
This product of my lyre;
Tomorrow he’ll be using it
To light the office fire.
—Lucius Perry Hills.
At the present price of beef, hash may
soon be served as dessert at ye boarding
nouse.
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This Is Hie Time ol Year 1
H ,ii u. j 'H When strong, vigorous women feel /1 V 1
tlie delight, of planning for spring Mgs >■' MM ■
adornment and the most becoming w'r
g JHffiL headdress. Spring has delights for
moat of womenkind except the run-
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that she has passed a miserable ex- BV I / f
istence through the winter by reason «
ills that women are heir to, Wj t
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MARSHAL MURAT AND I
HIS FLORIDA RELICS
BY M. B. WHARTON, M. D. 1
Few men have Impressed themselves on
the world so grandly as Joachim Murat.
He was the favorite of Napoleon, the
glory of the French army, and occupied
a position side by side with the Intrepid
Ney. He rose from an humble position in
life. Born in 1771. the son of an inn-kcep
er, he rose to be king of Naples, or of
"the two Sicilies.” As an epitome of his
services I will say that he served under
Bonaparte in Italy, and in Egypt dis
tinguished himself on every field. In 1799
he became general of a division; at the
eighteenth Brumaire he dispersed the
council of 500, in reward for which Napo
leon made him commander of the consu
lar guard, and gave him his sister, Caro
line. in marriage. He covered himself
with glory at Marengo, where he com
manded all the cavalry.
When the empire was established he was
loaded with honors. He contributed ma
terially to the victories of Austerlitz; Je
na and Eylan. He was made grand duke
of Berg. In .ne expedition against Rus
sia he commanded the cavalry, and the
whole army when Nepoleon left it.
After Napoleon’s first overthrow he
went to Corsica from which with a few
followers he went to Calabria, and pro
claimed himself king, but was arrested,
tried by courtmartial at Pizzo, and shot
October 13, 1815.
We boast of republican America, where
"honor and shame from no condition
rise.” We speak of Clay going from the
slashes of Hanover, where he was a mill
boy, to the senate; of Andrew Johnson go
ing from the tailors bench to the white
house; of Garfield going from the log cab
in to the president’s chair, but In France
we have Murat going from the position
of waiter In a case to a tnrone. •
His family history possesses a peculiar
interest for us of the south.
He married as stated, Napoleon’s sister.
Caroline Bonapajte. By her he had four
children, two sons, and two daughters.
The latter married Italian noblemen. The
younger son, Napoleon, born May 16, 1803,
went to Spain, where he was arrested on
suspicion; and after his liberation came
to the United States and married a Miss
Frazer, his wife being a school teacher.
He returned to France in 1848. and was
appointed ambassador to Turin, became
a senator in 1852, and received the title
of prince of the imperial family in 1853. In
1860 he put forth his claim to the throne
of the two Sicilies, but soon withdrew
them. He was with Marshal Bazaine at
Metz, and died April 17, 1878.
The elder son., Napoleon Achille, born
January 21, 1801. after the death of his
father first lived with his iZother in Aus
tria and came to tne United States in 1821,
located in Florida and married a grand
niece of George Washington, Hs devoted
Jiimself to scientific B’.’td’es. and wrote
several strong papers on r the institutions
of America. He died April 15, 1547, on his
plantation near Tall&hacseo, Now to ths
point which greatly arrested my atten
tion. His silver plate whoa his family
was reduced financially was purchased by
a wealthy lady of Tallahassee and kept by
her as sacred relics for many years. But
as we sooner or later lose our grasp on
all things in this life the owner of tho
silver plate who had contracted to have
several monuments made by a Eufaula,
Ala., marble worker made tty her mind
that she wou'.C pay for these tombs with
the silverware which camo from the groat
marshal’s family, and many pieces bear
ing the coat of arms of Napoleon.
The bargain was mad© and these articles
were brought tp Eufaula and kept in tho
family of the well known and eminent
marble worker. At his death It became
necessary in dividing his estate to sell
the silver plate at public outcry, which
was done, and as people would not bld
against the family the amount Drought
was something under SIOO.
So far as I can hear (for the articles
are now with a member of the family to
Georgia), there are nine pieces as follows: >
Sugar bowl, teapot, butter dish, coffee
pot, cream pitcher, ice pitcher, goblet (for
spoons), large waiter and syrup pitchar. 3
I know of no relics more valuable, if
their identity be unquestioned; and I be- |
lieve the story to be a true one. As tOj
whether the metal be all sterling silver'
I cannot say. Some one told me tho i
framework of the large pieces was steel,
but they were accounted silver, I
hoping to get a look at these rare and in-’
teresting relics and when I do I can teill
better about them. But to have silver'
plate once used by Murat and beartag the
Bonaparte arms! What a treasure!
SUSPECTING. J
You suspect one man es this thing.
And another man of that: *
You suspect yeur trtenda and neighbors
Of—the Lord alone fcpewa wbav
And you prtde '-nurreif that yeu «aa
Into human ts>eea loag,
And juat a»ab*»e tbNr nature*,
Read them like an apvn beak.
But rameUmte you road tad ewlMr.
And sometime* yea read tee
Ard your rtUiy, rAbid readtag ■
la rewembtrod by the erewd.
And each member of the crowd gee*
or.* And tails the thing Ns way,
Alters Uaini M hlfi at-tnar <
That Nd Ursa.worn phrase "they »?.
Ftd-* rr batter than you think ’h®®«
And rtaht acre rd like u> say,
Yea eusbt always to remember
Yea have tavlte as well as they.
Study mankind ail ydu want to,
Orly keep this fact in mind, .
Tbit la every human beinc ,
Some goad trait you're sure to find. . . d
-Frank Strioklaad. -
