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Oi.k Bui.l. the cel *bralctl violinirt, •I'A.I N«i!«w< oil f o'is an- or a x nt •i 1 - 17 mil III .1 Co THE Cai-iain W. I*. Maw .1 Ini A. S -ji'iis i» ilec-m r.m i xci-.uuv • ramiiihtc ►n|>j.unin|> lion. Tlionm- M. N-irwoj I lor yov- WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION." .Mr». Katherine K ikle-, a bride of seventeen, ended hi-r honeymoon jomney at Cincinnati. Her husband -Sole her foitnuc of $2,500, for which he hail ninriied her in Germany, and ahrcomleil. lie even ten k away mo.-t ol her tiou—ean. Volume LXIV. ATIIENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 18S0. Number 43. ADDRESS OF HOY EMORY SPEER, Adelaide Neilson, the beautiful aotre-a who became so famous as the imiiersonotor of “Juliet," died sud denly in Paris a few days since. The circumstances surrounding tier death are said to be to auspicious that a po lice iijijuirv m»ydiM»WSfy>- .Toilge lliiaai Warner hai icnderiil the Governoi his unqualified re-igna- tionof the office ol chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia, to take effect the 1st day of September next. Judge Warner says he has doi e this for reasons of a private nature exclu sively. At Uir Court House, in Athcns,Saturday Eve- nlng, the 14th last. Cot.. John A. Stephens thinks the surest and quickest way to get finally rid of Colquitt is to proceed upon the principle : ‘simili;« similibns curanlnr,,” ni.d give the people an other dose of CVqnittism. Nither- theb-ss, we slmll vote for Norwood all the same. My Fellow Citizens:—It may seem, in some degree, superfluous that I should address you as I purpose to do this afternoon. The most of you have known me from my boyhood. You .know most auo»rntely who J am ; ^pd tyhril I ain. If I have merits you are Mciulitless apprized ot them, and if I am not aliogether meiitorious, as has been sometimes insi-ted, [laugh ter,] you know the reasons wherefore. My friends, perhaps, I had best can® vass elsewhere. The scripture teach es us that a “prophet hath honor save in his own country and among his owu kindred.” The feelings which I have on this occasion show clearly to my mind that I ant neither a pro] diet nor the son of a prophet, for 1 have honor, this day, at my own home, and among my own kindred, if. they adhered to the convention idea, after the nomination, because the only principle for |>olitical guidance of that party isto vote for the nominee. How much more fair and frank it was for a candidate to appeal directly to the people, and permit them to have a lull opportunity of canvassing his fit ness for office, and judging for them selves. He maintained that the peo ple were capable of self-government— that the great foundation stone ot the American superstructure was this capacity-on the part of the people to govern themselves. The logic of this was that they were capable of choos ing their own Representatives. It might be said that they would make mietakes 8 mistimes. True, they might make mistake! sometimes, but they could correct them at the next elec tion, and it was far better tor the people to make mistakes occasionally than to he totally ignored all the time, as was the baneful result ot the nomi nating system, which captures the power of the people by trickery, and confers it upon a few delegai es, who nse it in many instances for their own purpose, and for the advancement of ChaUahoccliiM comity bn- instruct ed her di-bgate-i in bio digression nl convention lo vole lor Persons as the tirst choii-e ot the eounly as long as time is any reasonable prospect of bis in munition, mi l in ease of a Injure lo semi c bi- nomination, to vote for Al bert Cox a- Ibe see-mil choice of the county. The Atlanta Daily Post gives no- t'ee l hut ; t will be enlarged about toe 25th inst., by the addition of one cel- ii un to each page. After September ti e 1st, its subscription price will be six dollars n year, and sixty cents a month. The Post is live ami rattling, ai d will support tl.e Norwood side in the campaign. The editorial valedictory of lion G. A McCurry appears in the last number of the Hartwell Sun. Col. McCurry was one of the most talented young editors in the State, and will be missed Irom tho ranks. The people of Hart are to lio congratulated I hough, on the fact that their bright bale paper is still in such efficient hands as Messrs. Ayers and McGillare know n to be, and we hope that “Old IV will net entirely cease lo coruscate in its columns. Ukv. Henry Ward Beecher some lime since received a-letterfrom n young man, who recommended him- ,elf very highly as being honest, and dosed with the request, “Get me an easy situation that honesty may be rewarded.” To which Mr. Beecher replied: “Don’t be an editor, if you would he ‘easy.’ Do not try the law. Avoid school kieping. Keep out of the pulpit. Let alone all -hips,stores, shops and merchandise. Abhor poli tics. Kerp away from lawyeis Don’t practice medicine. Be not a farmer nor a niechauic, neither a sol- dim nm a sailor. Don’t study Don’t think. Don’t work. None of them are easy. Oh. my honest friend, you are in a very hard world ! I know of but one ‘easy’ place in it. That ia the grave.” sell he believed that the true banner- cry of every true Democrat should be “an iudi-soluble union of inde structible States.” He had circulat ed generally his speech in opposition to the political rideis upon the money bills of the House, and stood on the '3013' majority. l Congress by He had not voted argument therein given to the public. He half been criticised by the organ ized papers for his vote against Igna tius Donnelly, and in favor ot Wash- m burn, who, though a Republican, , He inquired was the nominee of the was elected to hia scat in Congress by jpmiliiilte 08—aHtlou'ina position implicating them ol wanton violation of law. His main speech upon the subject was one of tho most brilliant efforts in the House during the last session.” And agaiu from the same interview: “Mr. Speer was one of the most attentive working men in Con gress. _ He was a ready debater, an attractive speaker, and was always when he addressed the House, listened to with undivided attention.’’ positioi to osrail him for not keeping his against Donnelly as yet, except rathe, .promises to the people ? Hu thought committee, hut if he lived to get back not. Gentlemen who occupy glass to Washington, he would do so. Why? because Washburn was enti tled to the seat, having been legal'y elected. You might as well expect a Republican to be elected in this dis trict as for a Democrat to be elected in Washburn’s district—because it ia a Republican district. It was sought to overturn Washburn’s majority because the ballots voted for him weru num bered ballots. This was a fiction of partisanship which the speaker did not think should control his con science. Every one of the 10,900 ballots voted tor the speaker in his election was a numbered ballot, and to have seated Donnelly upon this pretense logically could have unseated every one of the Georgia delegation together with the Representatives ot two-thirds of the other states of the American Union. Representing an honorable constituency, he did not believe ho would be injured for honv would have voted for Donnelly bad he been elected. lie was not elected, he would vote against him with very great pleasure. Donnelly, until he north of Mason and Dixon’s line Now, however, he claims to bo a Democrat. Mr. Dontieily should re- t.'ux seems to be in the lead so fur in the fourth district. From the counties that have acini lie has fifteen votes, I’er-ons eleven, and Sraitu six. Ti,.. Columbus Enquirer says the con vention consists of thirty-eight votes, two-thirds ol which arc twenty-five and a third. So this puts the situa tion iu rather an uncertain attitude, and bill's |terhups at some out-ider not yet named. We have no doubt the convention will nominate. The example of the Stale convention will not bo followed. We do not ,hclieve that any of the delegates are wedded to personalism, and no one desires a vin dication. Concessions for harmony will be freely granted. Iu the campaign of 1878, Persons was elected to the Forty-sixth Con gress, receiving 13,33G votes against 10,101 for H. U Harris. Dll. FELTONS OPPONENT. Mr. J. W. Robertson, of Cobb c unity, lias been nominated to make the race against Dr. Felton iu the Seventh district. The maioritv rijle lie added alter a parse, ^ like him. The fact is, Jones m, much of himself; tclU •» mu|f know that he doesn’t leave anyr for the imagination.” f. J turner Nicholson has gone “ ward. He will -ojourn in ion city, doing the sights in tbf ital for a lew days, and tho, f coed lo New York to lay in » d of goods for tho member—Reave*, Nicholson Sfl MilledeevilleUnion and Reo Piof. J- E- Witherspoon, wbP the chair of Mathematic* to thj. file Ga. ? M. A A• C ol,e $ e *f- and the honor I so richly enjoy is the I'rescnce and cordial countenance of I themselves end their favorites. Mr. this lurge'and kindly audience of my Speer maintained that these conven- Iriends and fellow-citizens, who tions were not truly representative of have greeted uie here to-day. Indulge the people. He iastanced the election me a moment that I may thank you of 1875, where in convention Mr. Hill lor your greeting this cven'mg. As was defeated for eight days, on four you all know, I am about to engage hundred and sixty odd consecutive in one of the fiercest of political cam- ballots, and where he was overwhelm- pnigns.' The Goddess of Fortune is ingly elected by the people at the proverbially fickle. I am not iuex- polls—thus demonstrating that the peiienced of the pleasure of her convention which defeated him did I orable public conduct, even though il smiles, or the severity of her frowns, not represent the people who elected was iu favor of a Republican. He ;md parenthetically I can say, perhaps, him, and called attention with the Latin poet ol old, to the lact that many “Though I’ll praise her when site’s kin ’, counties which were voted against But it she dance* in tho wiml, Mr. Hill in the convention, gave him _ Aud shakes her wings and will not *try, overwhelming majorities at the polls, assumed the role of a Democrat, a I’ll puff the fickle j»do sway.” This particular convention wuich nom- ■ very short time ago, was as hitter an Whatever, my friends, may be my nated Mr. Bell was a laughable farce.! enemy ol tie; Southern people, and as fortune iu the contest, whether of Clarke county, which voted 1750 venomous a Republican as there was disaster or of victory, nothing can Democratic votes lor Tilden, after the * " bereave me of that pleasure which most vigorous exertions of the orgau- your welcome and your hearty, man- ized to get a full vote for delegates, ly and kindly greeting inspires in me had voted 28 votes for delegates lo member that when a member of Con- to-day, [Applause.] Will you in- the Gainesville convention, anJ had a gres-, in 1808, he had said on the ditlge me with one other reflection of gentleman as a delegate who had no floor of the House that the land a general character ? more connection with Clai ke county Tbe outlook in the political heav- politics than it he had not lived in the ens is very stormy indeed. The Ninth congressional district, and who Presidential contest is iuqieiidiiig and had icarcely acquired the privileges the two great contending parties in of citizenship in this county. In this country are about to engage in Franklin county, a call had been is- deadly conflict. The Gubernatorial sued by the chairman of the Execu- contest overhangs ns. It is like a tive committee for primary elections lowering cloud surcharged with thun- in each militia district, and in every der and lightning. The elections lor militia district of the county it was the State Legislature is hard upon us, positively refused, and no primary and the Oongreisional contest, to ) elections were )ieM- A couveutjon which I specially wish to invite your was then called as a dernier resort attention, will perhaps, not be with- There were 44 people attended it. out its asperities. Now, my friends, (Hon. Tlios. Cryuiea here aro>e and this is a free country, and while some reminded the speaker that there were may differ with me in the statement, 1500 voters in Franklin county). Mr. lor my part, I am grateful that ev- Speer went on, and asked if these 44 ery man in the broad reach of this gentlemen constituted any fair repre- “land of the free” has the perfect sentation of these 1500 voters. Of liberty to vole as he pleases. Our this convention it might also be said government depends upon the entire of the 44 voters present, 23 by their freedom of the elective franchise. In votes indicated a preference lor our a recent ringing and manly letter own distinguished county man, Hon. which has been given lo the public, Alexander S. Erwin, and yet the it is declared that “a free ballot, a delegate elected by a convention ot lair ballot and a full ballot is the only this sentiment voted three for Dell security for American institutions.” with singular disregard of tho wish of This is the utterance of Geu. Win- the people who sent him there. Even field S. Hancock, the gallant stand- the grand old county of ard bearer of the National Democra- Clarke was voted by Judge cy. Now, what is the conclusion McDonald in tbe Glinesvilie convene which I purpose to draw from this tion for Mr. Bell, and it might well be statement ? It is this. That a toler. doubted whether Mr. Bell on the day ant spirit of a difference of opinion on of the election would receive more political questions is to-day one of votes in Clark county thah Mr. Mcs the first duties of patriotic citizen- Donald received in his memorable ship. My friends, tbe times call lor canvass for the position of delegate, tolerance. The welfare of the coun- He trusted that his allusion to Judge try demands tolerance. The peace McDonald would be construed in the and quiet of communities, the perpet- kindest possible sense. The Judge nation of friendship, the preservation was an excellent gentleman, though ot friendly social relation—in fact his politics are bad. The speaker eveiy question and interest of public rather hoped ho would get right be. nrosperity and individual happiness fore the election and vote lor him, demands that people may differ on notwithstanding he was a delegate to public questions without bitterness the convention. The grand old conn- and recrimination, without calumny ty of Habersham had refused indig- of private character, without detrac- nantlv to send any delegates at all. tion and slander, and all the worst Could it be said that the Democracy features of popular elections iu soa-1 of Habersham county was questions- sons of great political excitement, ble ? It was as pure as the pellucid For myself I do not hesitate to avow waters of her mountain streams, as t he intention of conducting this can- over-towering as the lofty proportions vass in a spirit of fair play and cour- of her wood-crowned hills. Tliero lesv> were not 25 Republican votes in Hab- Fellow-citizens, I am here to-duy ershnui county. Lumpkin county grants given to the stockholders of Southern railroads who had been in rebellion, should be declared null and void, and that the lands should be divided among the freedmen in tracts of 40 acres, and that the planting c!a-s of the South were intolerant and the enemies of the government, and that, their lands should be taken from them. When resisted by Mr. Blaine, he replied that Mr. Blaine did not draw the distinction betwoen-loy ally and disloyalty, and, said he, “in the language of the illustrious Am drew Johnson, rebels must be made to take back seal a’’ This is the man iu whose favor parlizan sheets were condemning him because for Donnel ly’s sake he refused to unseat a Re publican who had been legally elected by three thousand and thirteen ma jority. Donnelly had said also that the condition of intelligence in the Southern Slates was a disgrace to civilization, and that tbe great mass of the people were too ignorant to exercise the right of suflrage. Pus 1 sibly Mr. Douuelly thought that about the speaker. Mr. Speer com intu'ated himself that he bad sufficient intelligence to that under the law and houses are not iu a position to throw stones. What did Mr. Bell promise Col. John B. Estes when that gentle man was induced to take the field against Hon. Beni. H. Hill in 1875 ? Said he to him “Bale, you go to the lower end of the district and canvass the counties down there. I will look after the mountains for you, aud will speak every day from now until the election. I will meet Ben Hill wher ever he speaks in the mountain coun ties, aud whenever lie comes to For syth, i will meet him there.’’ What did Mr. Bell do? When Mr. Hill came to Forsyth, he not only refused to meet him, but assured Mr. Ilill ot friendly interest in his welfare, and as that gentleman states, introduced him to his audience. Not onespeecb did he make during the entire campaign, and Estes, relying on his promises, was slaughtered in the house of his alleged friends. The speaker had these facts directly froai Mr. Estes himself. He called upon a gentleman present, (Capt. Barrow) who corrob orated the accuracy of the statement. What was the conduct of Mrf Bell towards that, distinguished gentleman and your fellow-townsman, lion. H. H. Carlton, in 1877? When Dr. Carlton informed him that he intend ed to support him, and icad to him certaiu articles which he had written in his favor, Mr. Bell voluntarily stated, so great was the pleasure which Dr. Carlton’s support gave him, that he would never be a candidate again before the convention, and longed for the day wheu by his iuflu- guished antagonist was also invited to I all. There was a singular absence ot he present. Tho public is here in desire on the part of the politicians of force; the Indies, I atn delighted to the District to become the nominee see are here, hut I do not perceive | of the convention, and two of the del- tho presence of my distinguished an- egates to the convenuou had laugh- tagonist. This is a matter of deep ingly assured the speaker that they regret to me, because the truth ot had given Mr. Bell the nomination, disputed public questions is best as- but would give Mr. Speer the ofhee. curtained by fair joint discussion. Hr. Speer then proceeded u> speak However, I shall say nothing of that of his own record as a member of Con- gentleman that I shall bo unwilling grass. He was elected to Congress for him to hear and to know. I under circumstances of the greatest The speaker then proceeded to dis- disadvantage. Perhaps no one in the cuss tho unfair features of ihe system history of Georgia had ever been sub~ of nominating conventions. Ho in- jected to more bitter and ,continuous sisted that Mr. Bell, who was the opposition. The press, the politicians, nominee of tbe Gainesville conveu- the greatest dignitaries of the State tion, had been a candidate lor the aud some of the most distinguished nomination and for Congress long be- men of the Democratic party had fore the convention had met, and that united iu opposing him. He had bo had been traversing the district in however, b-en true to his party and different directions, speaking to pub- to his country, and he was one of lie gatherings with a view of canvass- those who believed that it was the ing for the nomination. He referred first duty of a patriot to hold hia coiin- to the address ot Hon. Allen D. Can- try superior to his party. He dbr, chairman VttfcaJExeeotive com- quoted from the interview of Hon. mittee of tne organised Democracy, Alexander H.. Stephens—clarem in whit* that gentleman slated that et venerabile women—the following “any candidate who sought to secure language : “Mr. Speer in Congress is tho nomination by canvassing or oth- regarded one of tbe truest Democrats er disreputable means was unworthy upon the time-henored principles of the support of the Democracy.” He the party, in that body.” lie had insfa'cd that Mr. Bell liad said, long differed with the majority of the par- before the oouvention met, and before ty on tbe question of tacking riders the delegates to the convention on appropriation bills, becauso in his were elected, that he (Mr. Bell) I judgment, it was. one of the most fruit- was assured of the nom- tul sources of discord possible under ination. He protested that the j our system, and because it assailed system was most unfair, in that it pro, the very existence of the government, vented the people from canvassing the The speaker believed that this was merits of a candidate. Tue people the best government tbe world ever oould not kuow who the candidate saw, and that the only hope of our would be until after the nominating I minority section was a rigid adhers Convention met, and they could not, anoe to tbe Constitution. For him- rcoontly converted Democrats was not entitled to a scat in the 46th Congress. He had been flippantly assailed because he had introduced a bill to prevent the United States Army from unnecessarily insulting the re ligious convictions of the great body of the American people by their dress parades and military band concerts on the Sabbath day. The speaker did not see why he might not intro duce a hill ot that son. as well as any other man. Many who had made greater pretensions to ■iety thin he had done, nid witnessed these desecrations with out even a protest. May he not be permitted to contribute his mite. He paid a splendid tribute to Dr. Atticus G. Hay good, and other distinguished divines, tor their co-operation with him in his effort in this direction, and read nn elaborate article from the Wesleyan Christian Advocate fully justifying; his position. He was proud of the traditions of the American sol diers. They had been the study of the enthusiastic moments of his boy hood. Whether they were the em battled farmers, who on the green at Lexington fired the shot that weut rffund the world, awakening in a million hearts the love ot liberty 'and enkindling on a thousand altars the sacrificial fire of freedom, or whether they were the hardy riflemen who from behind the cotton^bags at New Orleans shot down the seasoned vet- ence Dr. Carlton should be honored with the nomination of the convention. Notwithstanding this, my distiuguishs ed antagonist was the active oppqnent ot Dr. Carlton in the next convention —caused his defeat and the nomina tion of Col. Billups. Perhaps the peech of Hod. Wm. E. Simmons, ot the county of Gwinnett, before the Lawrenceville convention ot 1878, has not passed from the recollection of the people of that county. In that speech Mr. Bell was arraigned in the severest terms for promises to that gentleman which ho had not kept. Politics, how ever, “make strange bed-fellows,” and what the Hon. Wm. E Simmons will do in this contest it is impossible for the speaker with accuracy to predict. These are facts which Mr. Bell can not deny, and if they be true, should be be the Representative of a high- minded constituency? Mr. Speer concluded his speech amidst tremendous applause in the following language: And now, my friends, I am about, to bring my remarks to you on this oc casion to a conclusion. But I cannot see gay good-bye without telling you one the tiling else, and that is that as long evidence, this lovely specimen of as m y heart pulsates with the throb of life, I will never cease to cherish with THE GOVERNORSHIP. In expressing our choice for the lion. Thomas M. Norwood for Gov ernor of Georgia we are moved by no bitterness of personal or political feeling towards the present incumbent of the Gubernatorial chair—no more than we were four years ago when we preferred that illustrious Georgian, iHemcbel Y. Johnson, for the stupe place. We believed then that Gov ernor Johnson would make a better go vert than could General Colquitt. We knew the two men, had seen and heard them both, and were convinced of the superior fitness of the man of are choice. We admired, too, thedig- nified- attitude maintained by him in abstaining from those electioneering methods which, of themselves, we be lieve indicate the unfitness of the man who practices them for an office of such high honor and grave response bility as the governorship of a great Sta'e. Four years have elapsed since then, and their painful history is most sad dening confirmation of the wisdom of our choice and the correctness of our belief at that time, Who believes now that if Ilcrscliel V. Johnson had been called to the executive chair of Georgia four years ago we should have witnessed such scenes ns transpired at the Cap itol last year, and such as we now witness, and such as we have yet to witness ? Surely not an honest, in telligent man in the State. There was a man whose past gave us assur ance of his future. He had been tried and found not wanting. He had filled many places of honor and trust for Georgia, and had illustrated her well in all of them. He had been her governor, and had made such a gov ernor as to req lire no “vindication.” But a persistent system of personal electioneering, such as no man like Her-chel V. Johnson would or could indulge in, resulted in the placing of General Colquitt in office. ination in order to “vindicate” hira« self against the criticisms of his iriends and supporters who shall have elevat. cd him to tho high anil responsible position of chief magistrate of the State.” affectionate gratitude those who in the hour of my extremity stood by me in the dark days of ’78. I have no ill-will toward those who opposed me. I have good will to all; but lo you, my trieuds, you hard-handed mechanics, you wool-hat boys, as they called you, you who walk be tween the handles of the plow, who swiDg the hammer and strike the fiery sparks from red hot iron, you who toil about the molten iron aud ponderous machinery of foundry and work shops, and amidst the wondrous mechanism of fuotories, you who Against all persuasions aud all re • monstrance, and all invective, stood by m.i, whom you knew your friend and fellow-citizen, I return tbe gratitude of a heart that knows not how to forget a friend. My 'friends, like the Spartan three hundred iu the pass of Thermopylae, though the darts of calumny aud detraction came so thick that they obscured the fair light of heaven, you fought on in tho shade. Like the old guard ot Napoleon, when at Wa terloo, torn by shot and shell, borne down by charging squadrons, bleed ing at every pore, when called upon to surrender, their immortal response came back through the din of battle, “the OldJGuard dies—it never sur renders.” You are the Old Guard of Independenlism. Your heroism was rewarded and victory, hard-earned and well-deserved, crowned your un sullied standards. erans of Packenham, or the brave volunteers who pursued the dusky Scminoles through the morasses of tht My true'and generous friends, I can everglades, er died amidst the ravines ^Yi as did the prophet ot old, if ever barrancas ot Buena Vista, or scaled I forget you, may my right hand for- the heights of Chepultepec and Chur, get its ounniog aud my tongue cleave uhusco, and in triumph flung to the to the roof ot my mouth. Yours was biceze the Stars and Stripes above tbe struggle tor Independentism. the “halls of ]the Montezumas,—” Yours was' tbe glorious victory. On wherever against a loreign foe tbe your loyal hearts and strong arms— heroism of the American soldier had on year free judgments and un- boi ne aloft, to victory the banner of our common country,' his heart went out with them. But the soldier would be none the less a hero, and his tra ditions none the less glorious, when he was permitted by uie law of the land to respect the religious convic tions of the grest body of the Ameri can people, who believe tn that old and simple and beautiful religion which teaches ns to “ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Mr. Speer maintained that he had been diligent and attentive to his dm ties as a member of the House. He quoted this language from the inter- bosgbt suffrage, depend the happl new and prosperity of our common country. Let us persevere as we have began. Let us maintain that the people are capable of self govern ment. Let us demand our right to a free ballot, a fair ballot, and a full ballot, and the principles of true In- depeadeutisra will grow stronger and stronger as the years ro 1 ou; liberty will strike deep the flag staff of free dom in the free soil of America, “And tl.u, tlie day wilt batten on, When Freedom’* flag here tint unfurled Shall wave shove earth’s prostrate throne?, And it* bright star* shall light the world.” This is all in the past, and cannot be recalled nor remedied, but the peo ple of Georgia are now called on to say whether or noi the lessons ot the past shall guide them in tha way of wisdom in the future. The time has come for them to again elect- a gov ernor. The same candidate who was before them in seventy-six is before them now, but under circumstances widely different from those then ex isting. It is not necessary that we should here point out tho difference. It is known to all who can read and understand. The same system of personal electioneering has been pur sued—intensified, indeed, more re pugnant to all proper notions of seem liness than in the former campaign— but it has not resulted now as it did then, in putting Alfred II. Colquitt before the people as the nominee of the Democratic party for governor. Oil the contrary it has resulted iu there being no nominee; in the discord and breaking-up of the State Demo cratic convention without the perform ance of its highest duty but one; in a “recommendation,” by one wing of the convention, of one man to the people as a candidate for governor, and in the presentation, by the other wing of the convention, of the name of another men to the people as a suitable candidate. These two men are Alfred IL Col quilt and Thomas M. Norwood. They are the only men who are candidates tor t he governorship of Georgia. In the absence of a possibility of any concert ot action by which the whole vote of the Democracy could be cast for some man other than either of these—a consummation, by the way, that was earnestly striven r or by the minority but persistently thwarted by the majority ol the con vention—in the absence, we say, of snch a possibility, it is our duty and the duty of the peo ple to choose between these two. Our choice is already made, and on the same grounds that governed it in 1876. Between Alfred H. Col quitt and Thomas M- Norwood we cannot hesitate. The memories of the past, the troubles ot the present, the hopes of the future—impel and beckon as one way. Knowing them both aa we do, familiar as we are with the record of each, we prefer Mr. Nor wood because he has not sought the office, and because we believe the representatives of tiie large and {pa triotic minority of the late Democrat ic convention speak the truth when they say that, should the call made on him be ratified by the peo ple at the polls they “will never find it necessary to “ investigate” his official conduct at every turn nor to submit to such painful scandals as those at which they now AS OTHERS SEE US. SACRIFICE OF THE HARMONY OF TIIE PARTY—“PERISH THE DEMOCRAT IC partt; siNif |3ie :'com! WEALTH; NEITHER ARE WORTH SAV ING UNLESS COLQUITT BE THE SAV IOR.” The New Orleans Times of the 12, has tbe following editoria', which we reptoduce in order to show our read era how the Colqniltites are regarded by impartial Democrats abtoad “The course of the supporters of Governor Colquitt, in the Georgia Convention, must alienate the sym pathy of the Democracy of the whole country. The minority seem to have been disposed to surrender their favorites and compromise on any sound Democrat, other than Col quitt, who might be presented. But rule or ruin was the incentive of the majority of the Convention. When they found it impossible to obtain the requisite two-thirds vote to nominate their man, they recommended him to tiie people aud adjourned the corn er, tiou. “This is the most flagrant instance ou record ol the sacrifice ot the bar mony of a great part;, and possi bly the welfare of a whole State to the aspirants of an individual candi date. It is the Republican idea of the one-man power. ‘Perish the Democratic parly; sink the Conitnoni wealth; oeither are worth savin less Colquitt be the savior,’ was the cry of the Colquitt men in the Geor gia convention. The Colquitt-Gor don-Brown combination have split the Democratic party in Georgia Let us see what they will make of it. “There will undoubtedly lie a true Democratic ticket in the field notni' nated by the minority, or a Conven tion called by the minority, and \v •hall not lie surprised if that ticket meets with the support of many of the ablest, most distinguished andinfluen tial men of the Slate.” A FINAL EFFORT. A GREAT MAN FALLEN. DEATH OF HERSCHEL V. JOUASOY During last Monday Mr. Norwood made a final effort to reunite and har monize the Democracy, by a formal proposition to Governor Colquitt that they—the Governor and himsclf- •hould unite in a request to the State Democratic Executive Committee to issue a call to the Democrats to meet again in convention to nominate a candidate for Governor. “Should you unite with me,” wrote Mr. Norwood, “should you unite with me in this last effort to preserve the party, and to prevent much acrimony and unchris tian “feeling which will, no doubt,grow out of this contest, I wilt promise, without asking that or any other con» dition of you, that my name shall not go before tho convention.” Governor Colquitt dedint d (o uuite with Mr. Norwood “in this last effort,” and so the ball is “still a goin’ on.” Mr. Norwood, though, deserves the thanks of true Democrats for his pa triotic effort to heal the breach in the party. A telegram was received at Union Point about half-past eleven o’clock yesterday morning, addressed to Hon. A. H. Stephens, at Crawfordvilie,con veying the sad tidings of the death i t ex-Governor Herschel Y. Johnson at bis home in Jefferson county, la-t Monday night. There being no tel.- raph office at Crawfordvilie the dis patch to M r.Stcphens was sent to U nio. i Point and conveyed thence to him 1 y hand. We know none of the partie ulars of the sad event. Governor Johnson had been unwell for some time, but our latt intelligence from him, prior to this, represented him as improving. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Herschel V. Johnson was born in Burke county, Georgia, Sept. 18, versatym 1834" ;- adopted tire plfffiE- . sion of law,/oh»tlh 1840 entered tin political arena as the advocate of the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy ; was a presidential elector on the Stale Democratic ticket in 1844, and wa i appointed in 1848 to fill a vacancy iu the United States Senate ; was elect- ed;to the bench in his judicial circuit in 1849 ; in 1853 was elected Govern or of the State, and re-elected to ihe same office in 1855. From ’55 till 1868 he was a trustee of the State University. In i860 he was run lor Vice-President of the United States on the ticket headed by Stephen A. Douglas for tne Presidency; he wai in the State secession convention ot cj801, and took an active and promi nent part against the policy adopted by that body. Hc-vcted against the ordinance of secession, but after wards, when it was passed by a ma jority of the convention, he resolved to go with his State aud sustain liet in the course she had in her sovereign character adopted. Brought up iu the Slate Rights school in politics, he believed his ul timate allegiance was due to his State. * In 1803 he was elected to the Con federate States Senate, where he took and held a high position till the close of the war. He was president of the constitutional convention of the Stato in 1805. After the removal of tke disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment, he was again, in 1873, placed on the circuit bench for a term of eight years. In the .neau time (that is, from thu close of the war to the removal ot the disabilities referred to) he had resumed the prac tice ot law, which he prosecuted with great success. In January, 1806, on the restoration of the Slate to the Union under the proclamation of President Johnson, he was chosen as one of,the two United States Senators to which Georgia was entitled under the Constitution. The duties of this office, however, he was not permitted to enter upon;his seat was denied him by the reconstruction acts of Con As an orator, constitutional lawyer, and jurist he had few superiors in the United Slates. Of his death we can truly say that a great man has fallen in Israel. Geor gia loses in him a son ever true to her dearest interests, and whose life makes a chapter in her history which she will never be ashamed lor poster ity to scan. The closest scrutiny will reveal no act of his life in which he was not animated by the purest pa triotism. Alas, atas 1 how few such have we among the political leaders of to-day! view of the Hon. A. H. Stephens , “Mr. Speer was one of Uie inert vigi- The total value of propertyln Jadt-. Mde thtir f nor wonld h at ^ embers In Cans, son county aggregates $1,780,172.50. ,. . MR. NORWOOD. The following sketch of Mr. Nor wood appears in the New Illustrated Universal Cyclopedia, and is from the pen of Hon. Alexander II. Ste- phens. It is a tribute of which any man might be proud, coining, as it does, from so distinguished a souice: “Thomas Mason Norwood was born in Talbot county, Georgia, April 26, 1830; received an academic educa< tion at Culloden,' Monroe county, and graduated at Emory College, Oxford, Ga., in 1850 ; was admitted to the bar iu February, 1852; opened an office at Savannah in March 1857; was a member of the State legisla ture from the county of Chatham in 1861-2; was alternate elector for the State at large on the Seymour and Blair ticket in 1868, and was elected to the United States Senate for six years from March 4, ’ 1871. Hia seat was contested by Foster Blod gett, but was finally awarded to Mr. Norwood December 19, 1871. Mr. Norwood is a democrat. As writer and an orator he is distin guished by purity of language and elegance of style, as well as scholarly attainments. His newspaper articles in the political canvass of 1870, over the signature of “Nemesis,” are among tiie fir eat specimen- of pol ish.-d invective of this generation. The same may be said of his speeches delivered in the United States Sens ate,” lant and attentive members in Coos' son county aggregate , , . , . . . , grass I think, aud defended tbe good j The census mates the population of | ~ ose “* * lls a ^ m come by name of his people against charge! the county 16,412. “Don’t play tag around tho hind legs of this mule” ia a placard iu an fore the country and ask for a renotn- - Indianapolis stable. THE EXECUTIVE COMMIT TEE. The State Democratic Executive Committee met in Atlanta the 17th inst., and elected Hon. L. N. Tram mell permanent chairman, and IV. T. Newman secretary. After proper steps had been taken for forming Hancock and English clubs, Hon. M. \V. Lewis offered the following reso lution; The harmony of tbe Democratic party bc'ng endangered, and its very existence, as a distinct mlitieal organization iu Georgia, being impor ted by tho failure of its convention, which as sembled in this oily on the fourth inst, to dis charge one of the most important Unties iin- posed upon it by the call of the Executive Ooti mittee, towiu the nomination of a candidate tor Governor; Resolved, fist this committee hereby call another convention ot the Democratic party of Georgia,to assemble in this city on Wednesday, the IS* of September next, to nominate a can didate for Governor. Resolved, That we reoominend to the party in the diff-rent counties to appoint delegates to said convention on Tuesday, the 7th ot Septem ber next. The majority of ihe committee are Colquittites, and the resolutions were defeated. ’ - Mr. Lewis then offered the follow* ing resolution: This committee having been appointed by tbe president oftbe late Democratic convention, under a resolution adopted by tbe unanimous vote of that body, for tbs purpose of proposing such measures as we may deem conducive to the reservation of the organisation of the pai ly in teorgia and accomplishing its auoccss, consider it not within the sphere of onr duties, a* the official repreaentauvea of the Democratic party of Georgia, to interfere in any manner with the canvass tor the office ot Governor being made by two distinguished members of our party, si-ee said convention made no nomination tor said office. But as the convention, with great una nimity,nominated an electoral ticket for Presi dent and Vice-President of the United States, and Under their rales also nominated candidates for Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller General and Attorney General, Resolved, That this committee will cheerfully discli rge the duties imposed upon us by using all legitimate means to secure Uiu triumphant suooeae of said nominees. This resolution was referred to a committee of five,of which Col. Haw kins (Colquittite) fa chairman. Tho committeo then adjourned to nrt t again the 28th~inat. Mist Beckwith, a young lady nine* teen years ot age, succeeded in ao« iplfahing a thillf hours’bontinucw tbe Aquai'um in London.