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tut ion as a uprightly anti versatile writer
lor the religions ami secular press.
We have known l;lm from his early
maiihooil anil have long recognized his
ability anil unquestionable integrity as a
Christian minister. He Is a bold thinker
and thoroughly conscientious In his con
victions. Anti yet we ventuie to say that
not a few of bis latter day deliverances,
especially on the negro question, are
grievous blunders, ant] will be so esteem
ed by himself when his present ardor
shall have somewhat abated.
By his own admission he is a recent
convert to the theory embodied in this
volume, anil quite naturally he .mani
fests the usual fervent zeal of the neo
phyte.
As an advocate Dr. H. is a certainly
not lacking In ingenuity. The very title
of Ids lionk, if it lias any practical sig
nificance at all, is an assumption of the
physical unity of the races. Surely we
are not to understand that this difficult
ethnological problem has been set at rest
cither by the surrender at Appomattox
or the 13th constitutional amendment.
It is by no means ascertained that tlie
negro is of the same species with the
Caueasslan. Many learned Christ'an men,
amongst them Agassiz, have questioned
whether this theory lias any basis what
ever either in Scripture or in science.
We can readily see how with the uni.
ty-dogma ns a vantage-ground such
masterly orators as Wendell Phillips on
tlie platform and Theodore Parker in the.
pulpit could set Massachusetts ablaze
from Berkshire to Nantucket. For if the
negro is uf identical origin with the
white race, and as Cowper postulated, is
simply •‘guilty of a skin darker than onr
own.” then by inexorable logic he is en
titled not only to freedom and citizen
ship. but to social equality—anil other
kindred abominations that are contained
in the premises. A thin layer of coloring
matter in the rete unirntinn of our African
brother is hardly a sufficient reason for
excluding him from the table d’hote of
the Kimball, or ejecting him from the
first-class coach nf the W. A A. K. It.
And yet Dr. llnygood’s Cincinnati friend
refused to share a bed with a clean ne
gro! Was this race-instinct rebellin.
against the logic we are criticising?
Mohammed in every emergency of his
career fell back on a new rerelntion.The
‘‘New South.” which is wonderfully
progressive, may yet learn to spit on the
‘•color line” in this and kindred instan*
ces, even as it has apotheosized Garfield
and feted Sherman in the city that he
burned like a vandal chieftain. Bishop
Warren lias recently lieen prospecting
through the South anil since bis return
to the North has condemned in meas
ured terms the social disabilities from
which the “Brother in Black” still suf
fers in our midst. The Bishop was ex
ceedingly indignant that “iducated col
ored ladies" were compelled to travel in
a smoking car. We have never seen it
on this wise, and If seems to have es-
ca|H'd the notice of Bishops Pierce and
McTyiere. Possibly onr Northern
brother lias a gift for seeing motes and
was on the alert for a sensational para
graph. Perhaps the “New South” will
“reform it altogether.”
Dr. II. distinctly repudiates these log
ical sequences of his majority premise.
This is well for the Doctor, but in the
meantime what become* of his argu
ment ?
The question whether the negro is a
distinct anil earlier creation of Go I than
the Oanensian is a problem that demands
for its solution the most patient scientific
research. It is altogether outside the
province of ecclesiastical dogmatism—
not less so than the order of the solar
system. When the church was >11 agog
as to that matter a Burnish Cardinal, the
learned Baronins was wise enough to
perceive that the Bible was designed to
teach ns how to go to Heaven and not
liow the H»aven8 go.
It may be found in the life time of
some now living that there is a plurali
ty of species of the genus homo. It
would lie premature to assert that this
is definitely settled, lint it is not too
much to say that it is probable that this
whole anti-slavery agitation from Wll-
berforee to Sumner, that the fratricidal
strife anil bloodshed of the late civil war,
were one and all the results of a scion,
title blunder and a wrong scriptural ex
egesis.
The ’calling proposition of Dr. Ilay-
good’s book is the declaration that the
emancipation nf the Southern slaves was
l he work of God. St. Peter tells us that
"no prop tecy is of any private interpre
tation.” The same law (if we appre
hend correctly the teaching of Christ in
the 13th chapter of I.nke) holds in re-
g ird to the int- rpretation of apparently
vindictive Providences.
From sundry references to the Exodus
of Israel from Egypt, we might infer
that he regards the.emancipation of the
negroes as a like accomplishment of His
outstretched arm.
By parity of reasoning, he might hold
God responsible for the slaughter of the
innocent* by Herod, seeing Joseph and
Mary and the yonng child had fled into
Egypt.
Would a Go l that cares for lilies and
si-arrows—to use his own illustration—
be unlieedful of the voice of “Rachel
weeping tor her children?”
Indeed, Dr. H. believes that God had
as ranch to do « ith the negroes coming
to this country as wi^li Israel’s going
down into Egypt. The slave trade then
was a link in the Providence of God.
The horrors of the middle passage which
so often convulsed the audiences of Ex
eter Hull were necessary fseters of the
divine economy, looking fo the election
of Lincoln In 18(i0, and the downfall of
the Confederacy in April, 18G.*i.
Most assuredly *he doctor does not
mean to assert that the Jehpvah of .the
Old Testament who instituted slavery
amongst his elect people, the Jews—and
the Christ of the New Testament, who.
by his apostles, sanctioned a worst form
of slavery than ever was tolerated on the
rice plantations of South Carolina or the
sugar estates of Louisiana, that one or
both of them should, in these last days
become the apologists, aye, the champ!'
ons of the most infamous national rob
bery perpetrated since the partition of
Poland.
Crrdat Juden* aptUa, non ego.
We believe and maintain’, contrary to
all this fanfaronade about Providence,
that the emancipation of the southern
negroes was a premeditated spoliation
concocted and plunned and prosecuted
for nearly a half century by northern
politicians, under various aliaass, and
upon sundry pretexts of philanthropy.
Plrom the day ol Wm. Lloyd Garrison,
St least, the abolitionists left no stone
nefarious juirpose^tney auacxea s in single hcti oi sugar
the Distflct of Columbia and wherever OpO.flOO oFpounds in'1791 to. .nothing i
else the national govthnroentjlleld ex- -»42 v *. --
elusive jurisdiction. They practically *’ * , ~ 1 -*“ ,, **“
.b&
nullified, by mean* of mr.brf-and like ap
pliances^ The constitutional provision for
the rendition of fugitive slaves—they
incited insurrectlohs araongsWhe slaves,
thereby imperilling helpless .Women and
children? 'They influi need crazy John
Brown toTnvadetho soil of fie*‘MoJher
of States’^'Witli a like intent.**
It answers a purpose now to call these
“dead Issues.” They are TffcW, neverthe
less, and dike the ghost of "the blood-
bolted Bpffigio,” they will Jiot down at
the hidding.of Dr.-Haygood or any other
prophet of the New Dispensation. They
are part and parcel of the record upon
which the tribunal of Universal dilatory
will adjudicate tMft right and wrong of
this controversy. We. insist, further-
monytlial, as the north Increased in rcl-
ativu -power* it beciimi '■•W^rrogiHit
anil nggre*ftiye. * It spare^fliWljPr mon
ey or laljpr to exclude us from the com-
mon territory acquired by the treaty of
Guadatupe Hidalgo. The burden of
the fight was boriie liy southern troops
led by southern-horn generals, but this
availed nothing in the controversy. Dan
iel Wflister waqlooked" out of Fanhuil
Hall for defending the coftiPromlse meas
ures of ISTiO', and tills Solemn compact
lietween the sections was.hplijly set at
naught in every town and city of the
north: ThUfew exceptional caws amount
to nothing ift the argument. Tile decade
extending from 1850 to 1SC0 was a jieriod
of incessant anti-slavery agitation. .At
its close. Abraham Lincoln, owing to
the dissihisihns of the Democratic party,
was eTiVtrd to the Presidency. The
South',“ghaitfeil well-nigh to desperation
by the persistent assaults of the past
forty years, and holilingto the right of se
cession,withdrew fioni the Union. In bur
judgment it was an unwise step, but the
political leaders of the South' thought
otherwise, and we acquiesced. In the
struggle that ensued the South was
greatly out-numbered in the field, and,
without foreign-.reengnition or u fiunn-.
however, disastrously defeated at several
points, and an alarming reaction occur
red in the public sentiment of the North*
At this juncture Mr.Xjtjfc'oln was urged
to issue his emancipation proclamation.
He hesitated and postponed until the ex
tremists of his parly, conspicndns
amongst whom was the notorious Jack
Hamilton, of Texas, told him plainly
that without It “the Union w.-it? lose” If
_ At a later period England abolished
slavery Tn Jamaica. Wilberfoaxe and
Clarkson* were jubilant on the occasion.
Dr. Channing oUNew England regarded
it as the most notable etent of modern
times."'He prophesied that in a few
years Jam&icd would rivil in beauty and
fruitfulness the fabled Atlantis.
A brief expeHenee suffleedto dispel the
Utopian d: earn. Jamaica and its popu
lation-erased poorer and poorer and but
for v the subsidies or parliament
it would ere this have -hfien depop
ulated by lust and famine. • “
We-admit that ?hV*presence of a large
whitcrpoptilatiotf flfthe Southern States
'has prevented thaJratchery ol Havti and
“Hie Impoverishment of Jamaica. The
experiment hnrni la made" under vastly
mort* favorable circumstances—but the
end is not yet. .
Dr. Hf is not a statesman—but a capi
tal college president and an excellent
preacher, but if he was a Statesman be
sides he could Hot' from his present
standpoint see the beginning of .the end
of this emancipation- project. Lfeaving
out of view the methods by' which the
negro was emancipated, we are con
strained to say that the experiment hith
erto has been quite, unsatisfactory in its
results.
We confess our own disappointment.
jus_.tr>
to liabitaof obedience, coupled with a
wise god cautious procedure on-the part
of tlie general governmet< would , have
Ik-cii followed "by better consequences.
A gradual*emancipation and a' qualified
suffrage would have lessened the evils of
the transition from bondage to liberty
and citizenship. But madness fuled the
councils of the nation and the - issue it
what might havo been anticipated. Not
less than two millions of industrious la
borers were] converted Into a body of
tramps and Idlers. Intoxicated by lijp
sudden enfranchisement the negro be
came inefficient and unreliable as a la
borer. This fact not less than the pur-
tigniu- -
cial crash at the Niirtli, could partly chase of fertilizers and supplies at ruin-
hope for ultimate Success against sdpl*
heavv odds. The Federal armlFs weref
est form of English civilisation and yet
hat comparatively few have advanced
beyond the rudiment* of civilization.
Any dozen of our negro labotero gather-
ered out of the streets of Atlanta, are
neither physically nor inteffittaally dif
ferent from the same number as repre
sented on the tombs of Epg£csthe Sev
enteenth dynasty. • .
We are far from opposing the educa
tion of the negro. We*wonld be glad to
believe that education would lift him to
a lofty place of thought and action. Bat
as no skill of tfie lapidary can polish the
coarse pebble Jpto the Monty and bril
liance of Kohintoor, so no scholastic drill-
sergeant can change the skin of the
Etliiopian'or gfcre him the brain of the
Caucassian.
Believing 4s im do that God has crea
ted him for a subordinate relation to the
higher races, we have no thought that
any species of statecraft will so counter
act the Divine purpose as to make them,
with rare exceptions, other than hewers
of wood and drawers of water. Their
muscles and sinews qualify them for the
drudgery of the field and workshop. In
this sphere they will find their higest
happiness and greatest usefulness.
In this way will they best serve their
generation until they shall be numbered
with the extinct races that were contem
porary with {he’ mastodon and the great
Irish EjlL The law of the survival of
the fiftegis as inexorable iu lta working
in iffeUs races of men as races of men
We did hppe that his previous training as races oT animals. The Aztecs and
- • - - •• '**■.* — Toltecs like the Dodo and the megathe-
otis rate* ha* Impoverished our planters.
R is not-extravagant to say that over
half of them to-day are loaded down
with mortgages and liens and-.ire on the
verge of liankruptcy.
To say by way of offset to this state
ment, that our cotton crop is largely in
excess of what is was before the war is
to no qurpose. This is explained not by
tlie thrift or industry of the freedman
but because the stimuloiis of high prices
has greatly extended the production of
cotton pnd moreover the growth of our
on,white add colored,.has In-
_. , , , _ the productive capacity of the
ed it. It vas simply anil nakedly a des- I ctSuntry l>y not less than*forty per centi
perate effort to bolster up the tottering *i»c* the close of the war.
administration. It had tlie-deiired-effect. .Nor has the jnor^l or religious status
It consolidated lire'pal-tyr. Like the I oitlie negro lieen improved by his free-
bomlinrdmcnt .of. I’ort f-umler. it fired I doni. The criminal^, statistics of the
afresh the Northern heart and unleashed 1 South will show that more crimes of a
once more the dogs of war for a fresh I graver sort have been committed by the
onset on the Confederacy. Henceforth negroes during the last fifteen years than
slavery was doomed—the ratification of for fifty years preceding the war. Mur-
the 13th amendment being a sheer mock- | der, rajs , arson and other felonies have
cry. . been augmented a hundred fold. As re-
Dr. Ilaygood sees in all this the finger speets petty thieving it has become well
of Providence. We sec In it the fortunes nigli unbearable. The overseer’s lash
of unsuccessful war. I been substituted by tlie chain gnng.
The North, emboldened' by its irolirii- We .write this more, in sorrow than in
ry success in the utter overthrow of the I a nger, and believe that the blame is less
Confederate Government and the whole- I dnu to the negro than to the shameful
sale impoverishment of tlie South by its | policy which placed him in a position
.. k! . . _ .. - 1: . .^.**1»— I I Lip u'liirih.ldn id nflnvlv rtnlSltoi)
rtum' belong to the records of the Pale
ontologist. The negro and the Indiun
and other inferior races cannot escape a
similar /ate.
Dr. Haygood seems to regard the des
tiny ql the South as inseparably bound
up with tlie elevation of the negro race
Has it never occurred to him that in fifty
years the blacks of this country will be
less than one-lwidth of our population
and therefore relatively of less numeri
cal importance than our Indian tribes
one hundred years ago? Still, he advo
cates with impassioned earnestness what
he styles the New South. This phrase sa
vors of slang unbefitting the author and
theoccaslon. If by the phrase he means an
organization, political or semi-religious,
that shall renounce the traditions of our
past history, we hesitate not to say we
loathe the lane suggestion. We grant
there is too much in the past that we
ought te repent of and turn away from.
But Heaven forefeud that. the South
This kashwll be pade In kora, ur
utlier projuce, tu be kolected at ur
abent nextycamp-meetin, ur tharater,
by eny one what ketches him, fur the
karkus oVe a sartin wun Sut Lovin-
good, dead ur alive, ur ailing an’ safe
ly giv over tu the purtectin care ove
Parsou John Bullen, ur lef well tied
at Squire Mackjunkins, fur the raisin’
ove tne devil pussonally, an’ peratis-
kusly dteeumrorttn’ the women very
powartal, u‘ akeering ove geDtle folks
generly a heap, an’ bustin’ up a prom
isin’ big warm meetin, an’ a rank
in’ the wicked larf, an’ wus qn’ wus,
insultin’ ove the passun orful.
Test, John Wethers.
Signed by me,'
John Bullen, the passun.,
I found written copies of the above
highly intelligent and vindictive pro
clamation stuck up on every black
smith shop, doggery, and store door
in the Frog Mountain -Range. Its
blood-thirsty spirit, • its style, and
above all, its cbirography interested
me to the extent of taking one from a
tree for preservation.
Ina few dsay I found Sut in a good
crowd in front of Capehart’s doggery,
and as he seemed to be about in good
tune, I read it to him.
“ Yas, George, that ar dockymlnt
am-in dead yearnist, sartin. Them
hardsheUs over thar dus want me the
wusklne, powerful bad. But, I speet
ait dullars won’t fetch me, nither wud
ait hundred bekase thar’s nun ove ’em
fas’ enuf tu ketch me, nither is thar
bosses, by the ivin’jingo! Say, George,
much talk ’bout this fuss up whar
yu’re been ?”
For the sake of a joke I said, “ Yes,
a good deal.” - -
“ Jis’ es I spected, durn ’em, all git
drunk, an’ skeer thar fool sefs ni ontu
deth, an’ then lay hit ontu me, a poor,
lnnerseut yuf, an’ es soun’ a belever
as they is. Lite, lite, ole feller, an’
let that roan ove yourn blow a little,
an' I’ll ’splaln this cussed misfortnit
after: hit ruinated my karacter es a
plus pusson in the s’ciety roun’ yere,
an’ is a spreadin’ fastur nur meazils.
AVhen ever you hear eny on ’em a
spreadin hit, gin his the dam lie,
squar, will you? I hain’t dun nuffin ’
tu one uv ’em. Hit’s true, I did sorter
frustrate a few lizzards a littil, but
they hain’t members, es I knows on
“ You see, las’ year I went tu the big
meetin’ at the Rattlesnake Springs,
should upon any pretext of expediency l nd were a glttln . in a nice 8had ;
surrender her just convictions, or that
place conversing wif a frien’ ove mine,
ners; be threaten’d ’em orfoi, tried
skeer’em wif all thewust varmini
he cud thtnk ove, an’ Alter a vftiile lie
got ontu the idear ove Hell-sarpints,
and he dwelt on it sum. He tole ’em
how the ole Hell-sarpints wad MOTe
em if they didn’t recent; hoty.oold
they’d crawl oyer tftar nakid body,
an’ how like ontu pitch they’d stime
tu ’ernes they crawled; how ^they’d
rap thar Jails roun’ thkr naiks chokin
clost, poke thar tungs up that noses,
an’ hiss intu their years. This wer the
way they wertu serve men folks. Thai
he turned Ontu the w^pimen: tole ’em
how they’d quite Intu thar buzzims,
an’ how they wud crawl down’ onder
thar frock-strings, no odds how tile
they tied Vm, an’ how sum ove the
oldes’ an’ wus ones wud crawl up tbar
laigs, an’ travil onder thar garter, no
odds how - tight they tied them, an’
when the two armys ove Hell-sar-
pints met, then That. las’ re
mark fotch ’em. Ove all the scream
ing, an’ hollerin,an’ loudcryin,I ever
heurn, begun all at onst, all over the
hole groun’ jis’ es be hollered out that
word ‘then.’ He kep on a bellprin, but
I got so buisy jis’ then, that I didn’t
listen tu him much, fur I saw that my
time for aeksliun lied cum. Now yu
see, George, I’d cotch seven ur eight
big pot-bellied Uzzariis, aii’ lied ’em
in a little narrer bag, whut I had made
a-purpus. Thar tails oil at tlie bottim,
an’ so crowdtd fur room that they cu-
dent turn-roun’. So when he wfcr a-
ravin ontu his tip-toes, an’ a-poundin
the pulpit wif his fis’—unbeknowonst
tu enybody, I ontied my bag ove rep
tiles, put the mouf ove hit onder the
bottiiuove his britclies-Iaig, au’ sot
intu pinching tliar tails. Quick en
gunpowder they all tuck up his bar
lulg, making a* nise like squirrils a
climbin a shell-bark hiedtpry. He stop’t
preachin rite in the middle of tlie word
•damnation,’ an’ looked fura moment
like he wer listenin fur sumthin—sor
ter like a ole sow dus, when she hears
yu a wliistlin fur the dorgs. The tar-
ifieh shape ove his fet-ters stop’t the
slioutin an’ scleamjn; instuntTy yu
cud hearn a cricket chirp, I gin along
groan, an’ hill my bead a-twixt my
knees. He ginliisself sum orful open-
handed slaps wif fust one ban’ an’
then tuther, about the place whar yu
cut tlie bes’ steak*outeu a beef. Then
he’d fetch a vtgrUs ruft nib whar a
bosses tail Sprouts; then he’d stomp
one foot, then tuthiA’, then bof atonst.
Then he run his bait’ atweeu his wais-
bun an’ his shut an’ reach’d way
down,, an’ roun’ wif hit; then he spread
his big laigs, an’ gin his back a good
rattliu rub again the pulpit, like a hog
scratches hisself agin a stump, leanin
tu hit pow’ful,an’ twitchin.an’ squirm
ing all over, es ef he’d slept in a ' dorg
bed, ur ontu a pisaut hill. About this
time, one ove my lizzards seared an’
hurt by all this poundin’ an’ feelin,
au’ sratcliin, popp’d out his head frum
the passuii’s shut collar, an’ Ills' ole
brow naik, an’ wer a-surveyln the
crowd, when ole Bullin struck at ’im
jis’ too late, fur he’d dodged back agin.
The hell desurviu ole ruskil’s speech
now cum tu ’im, an’ sez he, ‘Pray fur
me brethren an' sistereu, fur I is
to discuss tin* reconstruction pcrloJ. We I brought about hot by the act of God, but
must not in this connection overlook the by the fanaticism of a small majority of
fact that the government stoutly refused the American people,
oqe ifarthiqg of compensation to,the We might apeak of the increase of
SoOthTor inrfonr mttlions ofslaves.'- Lrtee drunkenness since the dawn air their po~
than forty years before, when the British I litical freedom, the legalized adultery—
parliament, in a moment ot madness, Rhe aitfrtning prostitution.--True, these
abolished slavery in the West Indies, it evil* existed in a fearful degree during
promptly voted a handsome rcinunera-1 slavery, but they have greatly-Increased
tion to the colonists. Yet parlinnumt, and tlie ^ore thoughtful and sober
according to the theory of jhe British amongst tlie* blacks acknowledge and
constitution, is omnipotent, whilst the I deprecate the /trutii- But we refrain
American Congress' trampled upon the I from these sickfdtipKdeUtile. **
limitations of "the constitution anil the I What use has th<rd|grt> > >fflade of the
principles of eternal justice to consnm- I bqlhL Which, aa hltitier says, ‘*Exe-
mate a partisan project and perpetuate a cutes the frae'maflBT^
partisan ascendency. And <this, too, I does the jWll bf (£pdv?
when the anocstoraef these l*jw-giv?rs J a matterqf. history that foe has prosti-
had been enriched by the traffic in slav- I toted it to the vilest ends. We do not
ery, foreign and coastwise,and not a few 1 apeak so much o£ his adherence tq the
of them were, at that precise time, bank- radical ffaftyj but onxinestions of a pnre-
ing, manufacturing and trading wUh|bp,l Ijr local character faihe-not >always"ar-
purcliase money received for these man- Tnyed against moral reform*and political
umitted slaves. . ' * ... .progress, i ^ .... T
We venture to say that Dr. Haygood’a j He standstq the political marketplaces
thanksgiving Tor the abolition V>f shivery of the country until' the eleventh hour
like Macbeth's amen, would stick In his waitiqg tb.Iie hired. Wjth some hdnior-
tliroat at this point. He indeed poult-1 sble'exteptiorei they are, in the main, as
edly disclaims an eqilorscroent of the voters,^ bought and aoM like sheep in the
metlusls employeii In this matter of I shambles. The outcome pf alj this must
emancipation. We could hardly cxfiect J be the demoralbation of the elective
less of him. Will he pardon us for say- franchise, until some whilwind of vir-
ing that he does seem to us to confound I tuous popular indignation shall sweep
all tnhrnl distinctions when 1 Ire'makes 1 it as a pestilence, from the face of the
G^tths fiiyhjzriorjfoettoriof jn>cl£fc jut j-qartli. Bdt enough an this point. We
gled web of falsehood, villainies ana nave somewhat to say of hfs future.--On
aboihinatiqos as chaeacterize this whole this subject Dr. H. is enthusiastic to a
work, from its beginning to end. j degree and in his eloquence
“doth studs
Jo ftomelhinK like propboUCStnln.'
we may beolloMred to judge-the fn-
_ — . . tuje by the past, w0 find nothing id the
Our Brother in Black. history of “Our Brother in Black” to
Dr. H. seems greatly concerned to ira-1 warrant any great expectations,
press both rapes- witji thor co^victlop, | geologically the oldest con
tinent on the globe. It is not all s de-
stirt as 'many suppose it. Modern ex-
with Ingratitude “sharper than a ser- , ntu the huekn thicket, jis'
pent’s tooth,” we should forget those nufflll , t „ nobotly a „. makil| . no
gallant men whose bones bleach on every lug9i wheni th0 fugt thil ,g i remem-
battlefield from Gettysburg to the Mes- bere j woke up frunl a trance what j
silv \ alley. _ I hed been knocked intu by a four year
Wliat is there indeed in our history I 0 j ( j hickory stick, hilt in the paw ove
from the drafting of the Declaration of oJd Pasgun BuUenf durn h i» aligater
Inib-pendeiice by Thomas Jefferson to hide; an’ he wus standin’ a straddle
the reuel imprisonment of President ove me> a foamin’ at de mouf, a
Davis at Fortress Monroe that should I c hompin’ his teeth—gesterin' wif de
make a Southron’s cheek tingle with I hickory club—an’ a-preachin tu me so
shame? In every contest with a foreign I y OU cud # hearn him a mile, about a
foe we have furuished more than our l rt , n ^ an , my wlcked _
quota of men and money. In the halls neg8 uggOMel an , niC nshunin’ the
of-Congress our statesmen have been ove Mea , , oud enuf to a
ever foremost in debate as our m.htary hcfn tu the me « tin . > OU8 . M y poor,
chieftains have been foremost m the lnnergent frlen . wer dun goIu ., an - i
bloody fray of battle, ll.e six most sue- wenj glad oye hit fur j tho . t he ment
cessful ailininistrations of the govern- I t(1 nle r j te w |, a rl lay, an’ I didn't I rastilin’ wif the great iniiny rite now!’
ment were presided over by Southern I want her tu see me die.” ail’ his voice wer the mos’ pitiful,
men. What if in the unequal strife of I u who was she, the friend 'you tremblin thing I ever hearn. Sum ove
the civil war we were overwhelmed ’’>• I gpeak of,Hut?” Sut opened hU eyes the wimrnen foteli a painter yell, an’
immense odds, God yet reigns, and tlie I wjde _ a young docter, wif ramrod laigs,
justii-e or injustice of our cause could not I “Hu the devil au* durnashun tole j lean’d toward me monstrus knowiu
tlie arbitrament of the j yu that hit wer a she?” like, an’ sez he, ‘Clar case oveBelish-
tlie future glory of the I ■> why, you did, Sut”— us Tremeujus.’ I nodded my liead.an’
promoted by truckling sjco-1 “ I didn’t, durn ef I did. Ole Bui-I sez I,‘Yas, spechuly the tremenjus
pliancy or unmanly concessions. God | j e jj da n hit, an* I’ll hev tu kill him j part, an’ Ise feard hit liaint* at hits
has given us a goodly heritage. A terri- j yet, the cussed, infernal ole tale-j worst.’ Olo Bullin’s eyes wera-stick-
tory beautifully diversified by hill and j barer!in out like ontu two buckeyes flung
dale—mountains “rockribbed and ancient I » Well, well, Sut, who was she?” aga i n a mud wall, an’ he wer a-cuttin
as the sun,” that teem with exhaustless I “Nun ove y-u-r-e b-l-s-i-n-e-s-s, up more shines nor a cockroach in a
mineral wealth; rivers that can float the I durn your littil ankshus pictur! I sees hot skillet. Offwent the claw-liam-
commerce of a continent moving majes-1 you alikin’ oveyure lips. I will tell me r coat, an’ he flung hit ahifie ’im
tically onward to the stormy Atlantic J you one tliiug, George; that night, a | like he wer a-gwine intu a fight; he
and the Mexic sea. A territory vaster in J neighbor gal got a all-fired, overhand- bed no jackid tu take off, so hfrunbut-
extent than imperial Rome, ever shad- I CM j atroppin’ from her mam, wif a stir- toned his galluses, an’ vigrusly flung
owed-with her eagles. “What though ! rup leather, an’ ole Passun Bullin lied J the ainds back over his head. He fotch
the field be lost,” the South has still the |«et supper thar, an’ what’s wus nor all his shut over-handed a durned site
“unconquerable will,” with a steady I that poor, innersent, skeer’d gal hed j faster nor Ijfcot outen my pasted one,
purpose to hew out her pathway to a I du n her levil bes’ a cookin’ hit fur ’im. I an > then filing bit strait up in tire; air
fame and a fortune that shall eclipse all I ghe begged him, a-tremlln’ an’ a-cry- ij ke he jis'* Wanted tit tu keep on up
the refulgent gloriesof the past. | j n > no t tu tell on her. He et hercook- furever; but lodged ontu a black-jack,
This she will do, despite the cant and I in,’ he promised her he’d keep dark— an * i ged one ove my lizzards wif his
sneer pf the Puritan. For in the veins an > then went strait an’ tole her mam. toiI up> abo ut all over- the' ole
her sons courses the cavalier I Wan’t that rale low down, wolf mean? dirty 8hu t, skared too bad tn jump,
blood that mantled in the cheeks of The durned infonnel, hiperkritikal, I Then he gin awrtcrshakix an’as tom-
titled dailies, and high-born beauties in I pot-bellied, sealey-hided, whisky- I p j a klire ovsWh’, an’ he earn outer
the court of Elizabeth, and that flashed I waatln.stinkin’ ole groun’-hog. He’d hig britches. He tuck ’em by thebot-
ln the eyes of the knightliest that rode I a heap better a stole sum man s boss, j ove the laiirs. an* swung ’eln roun’
that God amlziot MbfLineoli
negro. Onianocii aa we arejof
We have sought to disabuse both races
of what would prove a hurtful, delusion.
But at all events he is free, and what are
the immediate results of this qpomaloi
condition o* the former: slave. 1*- T
argues that it has heeiHt Sr^hal hi
to both parties. In proof of this he gives I master pli
- * lit jpf statiklcs iibout rtie negrp’e * "
1icwal|idvaicekfccnh&-hi8lin<
•^piilnt.inn. ntiii f>e improves I
tries of the south.
We have this to say at the outset—
plorations have shown that large tracts
of it are exceedingly fertile. And yet
what has the African race in their na
tive laiyl ever contributed to the world’s
and enlightenment. Diditever
ticeabook-of prose or poetry; a
in statuary or painting? In
rship? :E'
of ■
Leone, many of them educated and
petted and fostered by Great Britiau and
that Dr. H. sometimes bases his con chi- I the United States, what have they done
sion on too narrow an induction of facts. I for their own advmcement or the civiti-
A witty cab'
judge
obserVati-
sides do notfqrnbh sufficient. fh|ta.
such a sweeping generalization. Let
for
fedenf I tinn pf their couoteyipent- y
jTContrarylq the gfener^Popinion, ti»ere
arelribestif^AfrlcaTJs metjaif s'upe-
riorto the tribes of the West coast.
sweeping generalization. Let it I These better tribes have numerous rep-
not be forgotten that this is not the first I resentativeo in this country. Their
time that onr “Brother In -BlaelU—1JW Ices tors'were captured in'-War and sol
been put on probation: — ^SSEriSSw andAshantee, and
In]17ID ibefnjict converlidhT at lhe I thffice transJerred to.the sla
he most .of oy slave
■nous vote decreeirthe~ffcediSO-or | iame from'tin regibn that
the blacks of Ilsyti, One toPtaho richyti Jlsited where they subsisted on the bark
Islands of the Gsedtor Abilities. J&italpf trees >tod are: butelittle superior In
predlc^d^M^B^^cs jkonld prosper physical organization to the Chim-
plne and butchery followed the decree.
Infanta were impaled upon the pikes ot
a brutal soldiery, and wives were violat
ed on the bodies of their dead hosbands.
bia.
.More than two hundred and
have elapsed since ‘they wiew
to America. All this while they
he shook the yeath. The bonnets, an :
fansclar’d the way an’jerked most
ove the children wif em, an’ the rest
he scrunched. He open’d a purfeckly
clar-track tu the woods, over every
livln thing. He weighed ni ontu three
hundred, hed a black stripe down his
back, like ontu a ole bril rein, an’ his
belly wer ’bout thq size, an’ color ove
a beef paunch, an’ hit a-swingin out
frum sidetu side; he leand back from
hit, like a littil feller a-totln a big
drum, at a muster, an’ I hearn hit
plum tu whar I wer. Thar wer cramp-
knots on his laigs es big es waluuts,
an’ mottled splotches on his shins;
an’ tqkin him all over, he minded ove
a durnd crazy ole elephant, pussessed
ove the d^vil, rared up on hits hind
aind. qn’jis’ gittin frum sum imijut
danger or tribulashun. He did the
loudest, an’ skarlest, an’ fussiest run-
nln I ever seed, tu be ho faster nur hit
wer, since, dad tried tu outrun the
ho’neta.
“Well, he disapeard In the thicket
jls’bustln—an’ ove all the noises yu
hearn, wer made thar on that camp
groun’: gum wimrnen screaming—
they wer the skeery ones; sum larfin
they wer the wicked ones; sum cry-
in—they wer the fool ones, (sorter my
stripe yu know); sum tryin-tu git
away wif thar faces red—they wer the
modest ones; sum lookiu arter ole
Bullin—they wer the curious ones;
sum hangin clost tu thar sweethearts
—they wer the sweet ones; sum on
thar knees wif thar eyes shot, but fac-
in the way the ole mud turtll wer a-
runnin—they wer the ’saitful ones;
sum duin nothin—they wer the waitin
ones; an’the mos’ dangerus ove all
ove em by a durnd longsite.
“I tuck a big skeer myself after a
few rocks, an’ sicli like fruit, spattered
ontu the pulpit ni ontu iny head; an’
es the Lovingoods, durn em! knows
nutlln but tu run, when they gits
skeerd, I jis’ put out fur the swamp on
the krick. As I started, a black bottil
ove bald-face smashed agin a tree fur-
ninstme, arter missin the top ove my
head ’bout a inch. Sum durn’il fool
professor dun this, who hed more zeal
orsence; fur I say that eny man who
wud waste a quart ove even mean
xperrits,.fur the chance ove knoekin a
poor ornary devil like me down wif
the bottil, is a bigger fool nor ole
Squire Mackmullen, an’ lie tried tu
shoot hisself wif a unloaded hoe-han
dle.”
“ Did they catch you, Sut?”
“ Ketch thunder? No, sir! jis’ look
at these yere laigs! Skeer me, hoss,
jis’ skeer'tne; an’ thenwatch me while
I stay in site, an’ yu’l! never ax that
fool question agin. Why, durn it,
man, that’s what-the ait dullars am
fu*.
“ Ole Barbelly Bullin, es they calls
him now, never preached ontil yester-
day, ‘an’ he hadn’t the fust durned
’oman tu hear him, they had seed tu
much ov ’im. Passuus generly hev a
powerful strong holt on worn in; but,
hoss, I tell yu thar ain’t meny ove em
kin run start nakid over an’ thru a
crowd ove three hundred women und
not injure tlieir karacters sum. Euy-
how, hits a kind ov show they’d rutk-
er see oue at a time, an’ pick the pas
sun at that. Hia tex’ were, ‘Nakid
I cum intu the world, au’ nakid I’m
gwine out’n hit, ef I spared ontU
then.’ He said nakedness wau’t
much ove a sin, pariickerly of dark
nights. That he wer a weak, frail
wun ove the dus’, an’ a heap more
sick truck. Then he totch ontu me;
sed I wer a livin’ proof ove the hell-
desarvin’ hater ov rnuu, an’ that thar
wurnt grace ’nuf in the whole ’socia-
tion tu soften my outside rind; that I
wur a lost ball forty years afore I wus
horn’d, an’ the lies' thing they cud do
fur the church, wer tu turn out, an’
still hunt fur me ontil I was shot. An’
he never sed Hell-sarpints oust iu the
whole preach. I b’licve, George, the
durned fools am at hit.
Now, I want’s you tu tell ole Bar-
belly this fu/ me, ef he’ll let me and
Ball alone, I’ll let him alone—a-while;
an’ ef lie don’t, ef 1 don’t flztard him
« I lis“wiqh I may be dodduru’d?
Skeer him ef you ken.” A .
The Citizens of Athens Determined to
Preserve the Law and Good
rtame of Our City at All
Hazards.
heap better a stole sum man's noss; I tim ove the laigs, aq’ swung ’^n roun
with Rupert at Naseby and Marston- I I’d a tho’t more ove him. But I paid hig head a time ur two, an’ then fotch
moor. There are those, too, whose Hu-I him plum up for hit, an’ I means tu . em down cherall-up over the Runt
guenot ancestry followed the snow- I keep a payin’ him, ontil one or tother I ove the pulplt . You cud a hearn I the
white plume of Navarre in the desperate I ove our toes pints up tu the roots ove gmag i, a quarter ove if mile! Ni ontu
charge at Ivry, and who suffered bonds \ the grass.” . fifteen shorten’d biskits.a boiled ctfick.-
and banishment rather than violatetheir I “Well, yere’s the way I lifted that en w , f hltg laig9 crosgedt „ big dub _
loyalty to conscience. Aye, and Scotch I note ove han*. At the next big meet- bil-bladed knife, a hunk oveterbacker,
blood transmitted from those who tri-1 in’ at Rattil Snaik—las’ week hit wer a cob-pipe, sum copper ore, \ots ove
umphed with Bruce at Bannockburn, I —I wer on han’ es solemn es a ole hat | broken glass, a cork, a sprinkil ove
and of like lineage with the heroes who, I kiver on collection day. I hed my face i whisky, a squirt,an’ three lizzards flew
led by Havelock, double-quicked for ten I draw’d out intu the shape an* perpor- permiskusly all over that 1 liicctin-
wearisotne miles, to the relief of Luck-I shun ove a taylwer’s sleeve-board, groun’, outen the upper ainddve them
now, and saved the empireof the Indies I pintdown. I hed put on the convicted big flax britches. One ove tlie stuar-
to their country and to Christianity. I sinner so pufeckly that an’ ole obsarv- tes’ ove my lizzards lit head-fust intu
Tell ns that a race like this is to lose I in she pillar ove the church sed tu a the buzzim ove a fat -toman,- es big ex a
its individuality! That a country like I ole he pillar, es I walked up tu my skinned hoss, an’ ni ontu es ugly,who
ours—hallowed by such precious mem- I bainch: sot thuty yards ofl, a fannin hersef
ories. and inspired by such uplifting | “Law sakes alive ef^harqin’t that j w (f a turky-tall. Smart tu the las’, by
hopes, is to become a mere appendage to I orful sinner, 8ut Lqvingood, pearced I golly, he imejuntly commenced run-
New England. The distinction between I pl um thru; hu’s nex?’ I nlu down the centre ove her breas’-
the north and south is more than a geo- “Tu see, by golly, George, I hed til bote an , kep on j gpeck j she wer
graphical ihfference- It U a distinction I promts the ole tab ove soap-greas tu .u- boun’ to faint • an’ she did hit fust
broader than the bloody chasm of a four-1 hev mvaelfoon varied its’ tu J , nt ’ . .. . 111
years’ conflict—a distinctiou that will I ® um he Y ntyseUconvarted, jis tu rate—flun^the turkey-tall up In the
endure while the starry firmament is I *e®P “ im from killin me. An es I a | r> gabbed the lap ove her gawii, gin
above ns or the moral law within us. • | know’d hit wudn’t interfare wif the | hu a b | g h |stin an’ fallin shakq, rolled
Let^s have InternUy founded in jus-1 relashun I bore
auglit else should be indignantly spurn
tice and consistent with self respect,'but | roun’ thar'l didnML keer a^urn^l'j'is’ down tl * e hMl'tauK 1 ®* 1 he f an 1
se should be indianantlv smirn- I roun lnar ’ 1 a,an 1 Keer “ aurn - 1 J 18 • «•* •>-“ •—
ed with the foot'd contempt.
. , , . , garters in the top ove a liuckilbcrry
wanted tu git ni ole Bullin, onst on- bush*, wif her head ih the hranofi an
yctionic council of the nations, the I much ove my straitch’d face es I could I the huckilterry bush. That Wer all
wrongs of Poland shall be redressed— | wif my han’s, tu prove I wer in year-
the sufferings of Iretand shall be aveng- nli . Hit tuck powerful-fur I hearn “J b l, lo * n
ed.and.that the right for which Lee drew I--Mferthanktul klne ove buzzln all I that 1 NOW-ole Bullin hid nuf
hit sword, and the came for which Jack-1 , r .. uz ~ n ,,, 1 1 fin left ontu ’to *> u t» P»?'by* -heavy,
son fell, shall be vindicated by the ver-1 over the oongregashun. Ole Bullin I low , ql j a ^ er » d a hdbs. sfiwt '
diet of universal humanity. | hisself looked down at me, over his I
ole cornier snecks. an’ hit sed Hs’ es I at’ ..
uw »iiu»raiwi™^ r Tu. jT, ' tocks,ah’efl-sklrDgarterathkee]) ofl
«nxu.-Poxr-We Team that a h t-*^*Yu a^ the cra “ P ' His aXr hajj^na, him
nw received In this city stating Tr T^ihm. Ti h 1 s g P 1 *”^^** W iB the
fewnan «« considerably welted •n‘|5SS«fciJ55S?* '! t£?»SSlSSl£w
he small-pox qnestion. It seems that ^ frui^haL I tho’tbit wudahetm i »K th ° d K r i’*i, and
• negro mm went there from AtUntaL^ hadenta-cum, tart IH*
and mlng ed pretty l^ly mth the peo- L,^ hitJla Tbar wer a Z
pie, especially with the children and In 1 8 ot me! When this cum out, yu
pie, especially wun urn cmraren ana » . monglrU8 Crowd ln that grove, fur the
* °°‘ wl * a ?f eof weather wer fine, ap’ bTevers wer
U “”* £ ,en<y r6na ’ abOUt R * tm 8nalk
maWiiWAptoji outefiwease. j Springe.- Ole Bullin gln out,-an’ they
TWwshonJdremind us of the necessity aung that hyme.yu know r
of being- vaccinated, and every citizen
t riit Ws duty .to urge all persons! .a. T .
who hive not been to be vaccinated at |OoUiat4r«uiii da7taeata.’’
nno, ill la I. ni.. .tirf'ulliaA- 1 “T'h I „lr«t T nl a Ka. lj V
■ mourain. mouraia yere. zn'mounila
cud a^heam the screams tn Halifax
Hejis’Apitln his han’s,-an’"Loped
over thj front over the rptilpiidf* ker-
difft He -lit on top ove, an’ rite
among the mos’ plus part ove the con-
Ole Misses Chaneyberry
gregashun
«ot wif her bock tu the pulpit, sorter
on«i. l>, iih ’te'dnr Chief guard against I “Thinks I ole hoss' kin hit bq-fcosal- I stoopln forrld. He lit a-stradll ove _
the cBtfeose getting any hold here. ‘ I Ml enybody heB tole yu what’s a I her long naik, a shuttin Jwr up wif a bad .to worse, and soon lost all respect
gwine tu happin; an’ then t'tho’t that I snap, her head atwix her knees, like for (limself, and robbed an editor.—
nobody know’d hit but me, and I. wer shuttin up a jack-knifej^jm* he sot
iffi’artod. He nex tuck hisself a tex |intu gittin away his leVHjiurndest
l been shot and was dead', comforted. He nex tuck hisself a tex
He evidently don’t take the papers. J pow’fjy mixed with brimstone, an’| he went In a heavy, lumberin gallop,
Several days since the authorities
Athens received reliable informa
tion that an attempt would be made
by gentlemen from adjacent counties
to lynch the murderers of young
Rountree, and that Thursday night
was set for the purpose. But the mat
ter was kept quiet, not exceeding a
dozen persons In the city being ac
quainted with the facts. Prompt
steps were taken to avert the trouble.
Extra police were selected to guard
the city, while the original force com
prising seven men under Chief Davis,
were armed to the teeth, each having
a Winchester sixteen shooter and
three pistols, and stationed on top of
the jail, where entrenched behind a
wall of brick they coulfl resist au
army. About midnight, when these
officers invaded the jail, the prisoners
took them for a mob and expressed
great fear; but upon learning their
names quiet was restored. It was
fearfully cold upon the tin roof, and
the guard suffered from its effects but
they noblv kept tlieir post.
But in tne meantime a delegation of
our best citizens had gone out to meet
tlie parties who come to lynch the
prisoners and do all in their (lower to
dissuade them from the tusk. They
knew the direction to take, and near
the Paper Mill came upon the advance
guard, comprising about one hundred
and fifty men, armed to the teeth and
each man carrying a breech-loading
shot-gun. They stated that six hun
dred more recruits were coming on
behind, many of them having ridden
fifty miles or more to lend their aid.
The situation in Athens and the wish
es of our people were explained to
these gentlemen by tlie committee of
citizens. They were told that while
our people were as much incensed as
they at the brutal murder, It was the
unanimous wish that the lnw be al
lowed to take its course. There was
no necessity for mob violence, as we
had a fair and just court, which would
meet to tlie criminals their just de
serts. The party stated that they did
not come to override the will of our
people, but rather to lend their aid
to avenge tills inhuman butchery,
that had aroused tlie white men of
Georgia from tlie mountains to the
seaboard. They knew tlie gallantry
of the men of Athens, and at the same
time recognized tlie fact that it would
not do for them to take the law in
their own hands after the prisoners
were placed in the charge of legal of
ficers. They respected tlie law abiding
sentiments, ana would quietly dis
perse at their request, as they had
come not as enemies to the whites,
but as their friends and helpers. And
they further stated, that should tlieir
services be required to quell any fur
ther disturbance they would march
several thousand strong Into the city
at short notice, as they were thorough
ly prepared. This large body was com
posed of tlie best men in tlie various
sections from which they hailed. They
were not a desperate, hot-lieaded mob,
but quiet, determined citizens, who
had come boldly and undisguised to
the redress of u great wrong. Upon
learning the wish of our people they
quietly returned home. No mention
was made to them about the Jail being
guarded, as they were not. men to be
frightened from any undertaking, it
mattered not what be tlie danger.
The action of our citizens cannot tic
too highly commended. Here the
white men were ready, aye willing, to
sacrifice their lives, if necessary, in
defense of two dispised murderers in
jail, and that they might have a fair
trial. It should prove to the blacks
In Athens that tlieir past fears are
groundless—that while our people in
tend to meet justice to all criminals,
they will at the same time preserve
peace and law at any cost or hazard.
They are determined that the prison
ers in jail shall have a fair and impar
tial trial, if it takes every man in Ath
ens to enforce it. They will not coun
tenance anything that smacks of mob
law, whether It eminates from the
white or black race. They can also
learn from this the lesson that it is
suicidal to resist the law of the laud
bv forcible resistance to the whites.
While the Banner-Watchman has
been accused of Inciting strife between
the races, its counsel has always been
in defense of submission to law. It
would have been the easiest matter
possible to have fanned public indig
nation Into mob violence, but we con
tended from the day of the murder for
the law to take its course. We think
the action ol Athens In this matter
should relieve our people ofthestispna
of cowardice and place them where
they belong—as brave, law-abiding
men.
DEATH OF MR. JAMES. s
We aro once mjre pained to announce
the dsatlref tile Houorable Jesse James.
We sped; dt libit as Honorable Jesse
James, because it*is possible he may not
be dead yet, and qe. do not-desire any
peltonaiities raked up in case he should
be at large. The Aguiar scini-au mi
ni 'death of Jesse James, has beeu the
>*of national sorrow for some time.
His tbituijy has.been written seven or
eight times ty the faltering hand that
penned these lines, and' we are still
voi>h& Death, has-marked Mr. James
for •Hw'bwn a good quiny tlmes, and now
eteurbefh again butenered to make a
Missouri holiday.- The soil from Maine
to California‘has been drenched With his
gore,'and tliegreeu grass now waves
above his ashes in portion pf our great
land. No man has perished from the
face of the earth soiibiquilously as Mr.
James, and no American citizen has
yielded up his young life under such va
ried and Deculim circamstanpcs. Lay
him low wh^rq_tHe l3)hollnk blossoms on
the sweef^ato ripe, had plant him in
the valifljkxffiere the pecan, waves. Born
bft, obaci^e parents, he
rose, to* tho proud eiui-
t Amqri^ 8 ’ 8 Reading _ thief
mun^w^j -When, death marked
s tta vi^qt the last time, he was
mineut a man as Henry Ward
BeeJliei^or Roscoe Conkling.' His. ge-
nhjtf^Via'dlffcrent shoot,it is trui-j but
he wflR a. name .as a plunderer whieh
throws the aehiArements of our modem
bank cashfer hack fli to cold and clammy
obll^K. ^testh has once mqre stilled
thepulaBof a man . who, were it not for
his little eccentricities os a human butch-
er apd / grand laroenarg connoisseur,
would have made an olegant humorist or
LETTER FROM JACKSON.
Editor Banner-Watchman : The
Rev. Mr. Grow preached to a large and
attentive audience in the Methodist
church at Harmony Grove last Sab
bath evening, and was very courte
ously invited by the Methodist breth
ren to preach again on the third Sab
bath in May.
Dr. Bradley has been conducting an
interesting meeting at the church in
Jefferson for tlie last two weeks andl e
feels like the meeting had just begun.
Quite an interesting Sabbath school
meets regularly at the Presbyterian
church, numbering over fifty pupils
and teaehers, ably presided over by
Col. P. G. Thompson. They will join
with the Methodist Sabbath schoo
here in their May day celebration.
Up at this end of the narrow guage
railroad, near the river, we under
stand Mr. Blackstock has about sixty
hands at work and they are getting
close enough here to borrow meal of
us.
Col. Price Is getting in earnestubout
the Dahlonega Railroad, and it is now
thought will have it completed by tlie
time nur road is done, which would
give us a continuous line of nearly
fifty miles in that fine mountainous
section.
Wheat is looking finely—some early
sown in bloom, with no rust on it yet.
Corn all along the road to Harmony
Grove is large enough to work, and
cotton planting has commenced in
earnest, and as usual a good deal of
cotton will be planted this year.
Though we see a good many cotton
fields planted In corn and sown In oats,
and at least two farmers in Jefferson
-who have heretofore used guano freely
will use none this year. The farmers
are beginning to believe that bought
Ha I he been less of an en
ter’d thwiast, and less radical sa a murderer, fertilizers and Western corn don’t
he might have shone in the best of so- P»y *“y one except those who sell
ciety. Had he pleaded emotional insan-
ty'the first time he got up a surprise
fuQeritl;.Wtead of making an outlaw of
himself,* lje might now bo alive, loved
andrespected. But be was ignorant at
the taw, and thought that when a man
mfrdifQd an the first-class passengers
on"the train, he would bo harshly dealt
vrifljjanil ostracised. That is where he
committed a grave error. He went from
front.
ihing tackle are coming to the
then). Our farmer who' cupqe near
loosing his mules last year from feed
ing them on Western corn, is seeling
good home-raised corn at $1 per bushel.
There are a good many peaches yet
not killed. Many of the Shockly ap
ple trees that were fall last year are
not blooming this year. ■■
Every reader of the Banner-Watch
man thinks it first-class, butone, and
he has a good supply ot free garden feed
and is all over for “Emory.”
The cream agitator lias raised the
price of poor cows and cotton seed
anil the but