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Th» Tru j Mlulon of tho Oaln»TlU» ttouthroa,
»• fcprooo^ by a LstMr rrotb n» Mulatto Cor-
rvopondom la A than*.
Iu our i»\Mt controversies with the
Gainesvliie Southron we have always
spoken or ami looked upon its editor
as a political fanatic from the north,
who having sold himself and influ
ence »o tlie southern branch ol the
radioal party, was endeavoring to
earn his bread, and at the same time
gratify his wish to degrade the people
among whom he lived—by selling
their political )towers to our old ene
mies at the north—and accomplish
tills, too, by working under the eioak
of democracy. But it was not until
yesterday did we discover that this
Yankee adventurer had stooped so
low. and sought such vile means to
further his ends, as to gather around
him a corps of radical negro corres
pondents, who delight to abuse and
villify the white men of Georgia. But
s'leli is tlie case. By reference to a
communication in another column of
the 1! a x \ Kit-Watvii man, from agen-
lleman who lias made it his business
lo trace up and investigate these
anonymous contributions in the
Gainesville Southron, it will tie seen
that Lawsiik’s Athens corres|iondent
is a mulatto negro from Augusta nam
ed K. T. Fleming, a notorious radical.
1 lie day the Southron readied our city
this fellow, armed with a batch of pa
per- sent him by his friend and co-ed-
iior of this so-called independent dem
ocratic organ, ipiit work and spent liis
entire time circulating the vile sheet
among tlie negroes, and wherever he
could collect a crowd of idle blacks
would proudly rend to them his incen
diary etlunion. Surely tlie blush of
shame mantles our cheek when we
consider that we have condescended
to enter into a controversy with such
a political leper; ami but for the fact
that our tove of party and country re
quires this sacrifice, we would have
Mr. I.AWMik anil Ills mottle/ hoardc
of radical correspondents to the silent
contempt they deserve. But there are
now in the titli congressional district
of Georgia many misguided democrats,
■vho through personal friendship to
Mr. Speer, or charmed by his plausi
ble eloquence, have I icon beguiled into
voting forth** success of republican
ism in Georgia, under the sugar-coat
ed guise of “independentdemocracy.”
It is our duty to these gentlemen—
who we know to lie as bitter enemies
to radieai rule and negro supremacy
as the editor of the Bannkr-Watcii-
.m ax or any other organized democrat
—that wo tear the gauze of liypocracy
from the face of tills party and show
its mission up in tlie true light.
Here is the lirst paragraph from
Fleming’s letter:
* * *. ()ne important question for
us I., decide is, whet political party is
there in Georgia with whom we ean
ally ourselves that will best serve our
interest. Or, what party will behold
and fearles*) enough to administer tlie
allairs, Isiili state ar.d national, with
out showing that everlasting hatred
for near one hulf its population by de
barring them from elective privileges
guaranteed by law? *** Here no
pomp of eager array in chambers of
royalty awaits the liirtli of a boy or
girl to wield an hereditary sceptre
whenever death or revolution pours
*ui the oil of coronation. We know no
scent re and should know none, save a
majorities constitutional will To
wield that sceptre iu equal share is
the duty andright.nay the birthright,
of every American, white or black.
Till* is certainly a bold declaration,
and one that we have never seen pro
duced in aught but a black radical
sheet. It is a bid lor tlie negro vote—
upon which tlie radical-independent
NO. LI.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, T;
lAlY, WSSSt 4* ISHa.
whelming odds, yet no one cun lie elected
to a ay position, from a countable up, tinlet*
... , able up, Unlit* ,
lie can abuse tUc negro mart tkmvmi* fppfr- In compliance with your
Intolerance of free action and equal
n S . Political, or eveu business
uiluirs by the organized democracy, is
too patent and flagrant to be denied
°r *J. ou ’ , *ed. One glance at Georgia
elections proves ostracism, tyranny
a, !f* wro ug in monstrous proportions.
Ihe votes of Georgia were registered
before the election in 1S76. The white say that the Presiding Officer was the
votes numliered 95,303, and the ne
groes numbered 93,458. In 1870 the
whole republican vote couuted was
only 5,257. Pretenses have been nuide
that the negroes of Georgia do not care
to vote, and often vote the democratic
ticket. But the savage laws of Geor
gia, under tlie Action of vagrancy and
prison mniiageuicnt, uni! their sicken
ing, beastly administration, will not
allow any negro to vote the organized
democratic ticket unless it be through
fear and coin pulsion.
In many sections of the state the
organized democracy gains and keeps
control, not by numbers, not by hon
esty. not by law, but by stifling free
discussion und action ot the govern
ment *>■ every part of the slate. They
are guilty and monstrous, and every
effort to put the control of the state in
the hands of a more liberal party,
should be made by the negro.
Democrats and white men of Geor
gia—whether you call yourself organ
ized or independent—ean you, do you
endorse tlie above? Are you
ready, through personal regard for an
aide orator, who charms you as a ser
pent hut to destroy, to now turn your
section over to all tlie iniquities of
radicalism, and battle under such
banners as that Haunted in your face
by tlie negro and circulated by P. K.
Lawshk? We believe not. We can
not think that tlie white mcti and
democrats of the 9th
ongrcsaional
district have so far lost their self-re
spect, and are so bowed down to liian-
w orslilp, as to vote for a party whose
mission it is to elevate an ignorant
and depraved race over tlie heads of
iutelligcm-e, and stoop to accomplish
that end by the organ of the party
sounding in your curs advice from an
imported radical negro politician.
Great God! How tlie mighty have
fallen! It was only a few years
since that Emory Speer was the admir
ed and honored leader of tlie democ
racy of his country, und liis greut or
atorical powers were exercised in pro
moting tlie success of that cause. Our
jieople looked upon this young man as
their deliverer, and stood ready at tlie
proper season to place upon his brow
their brightest crown. But in an evil
hour Mr. Spekr gave ear to the en
chantress ambition, und—fell. Doubt
less, when lie first marshalled tlie in-
dependent host in our district he was
so blinded by the thought of self-pro
motion that lie took not time to con
sider the degrading results of the step.
We will cast tlie mantle of charity
over the first wrong stepof this young
man. Hut since that time his downfall
has been rapid und terrible in results,
until to-day we see the adored lead
er of the young democracy in 1870
grovelling at the feet of a repuhlii an
administration, that he may force
white democrats from office und muke
The Georgia Baptist Convention.
Mr. Editor, I furnish the following
account of .the recent session of the
above body, sis reading that may be of
interest to numbers of your readers.’
The attendance was not aa large as
usual, but the spirit of harmony was
manifest. It is scarcely necessary to
places for negroes, upon whom he can
party kim.v tli.y must rely for support | now only rely for support. Hilda
' prophet In 1870 foretold this hot-blood-
fxt fall.
.'»**x( comes tin* old charges by iiie
Sonihrii.i against tin* Banner-Watch
man, rehashed in a nut shell; and it
shows the public conclusively that P.
F. I .aw.siik inculcated his view of the
late murder of young Rountree, and
shaped Ills editorials ou that outrage
from information lie received by con
fabulating with negroes during his
late visit to Athens, (’an any south-
ern-born white iiian read the follow
ing und Uien vote a ticket endorsed
by the Gainesville Southron f
A man need not lie intelligent to
understand tlie blinded prejudice of
one faction of these parties, nor learn
ed to see it its desire to annihilate the
negro* Read tho editorials of the dai
ly and weekly Banner-Watchman,
published at Athens; the Atlanta Con
stitution, the Macon Telegraph and
every organ Ofthe organized democ
racy; then look at the blood shed in
<>glcthor|M-, Wilkes, McDuffie, and
throughout tlie state in the past.
Here is another specimen of “inde
pendent democracy” by tlie same
dusky writer. It shows that the ne
gro intends solidly to unite with the
independent party; that by so doing
he may Africanize our set-1ion and
turn it over to the radical party:
Every democrat who sees the state
flooded with immigration, capital
flowing in tlie state to work the vast
fields of minerals, and to cultivate our
barren farms, and to set up manufac
tories from which every citizen will
be profited; every negro who desires
work, increased wages and free
schools kept open, should lay down
all the past and unfurl the banner 'of
inde|ieiiilentisin,and march in a solid
idiiilunx to the polls next fall and hnry
that party who kept back tlie progress
ol the state by bloody wars on the ig
norant race and ostracism on tlie oth
er race, so deep that it will never be
resurrected.
If you wisli any further evidence on
this point read tho following para
graphs :
ed young southron the great change
that but little more than a decade
would bring forth in his political hear
ing the interpreter of liis destiny
i would have hail “the lie flattened in
Every negro should toad the plat
form laid down by the independent
party, and should awaken to the im
portance of assisting them to take the
government from the control of the
laourlmu democracy.
liis teeth.” Yet such is the downfall
of one of the most gifted and eloquent
sons tlie University of Georgia has
ever produced. To-day we see Con
gressman Speer arrayed on the side of
tlie race und party lie once so ubly
loaned his name and eloquence to de
feat, striving for the elevation of Afri
cans to important offices over the
whites, upon which former raee he
must hereafter solely rely for future
support; and we see him upheld and
ids cause espoused by an imported
editor from the north, who is aided in
liis ignoble task by a corpse of radical
negro correspondents.
1 TOO THIN."
* * * I believe it is the liest in
terest of all law abiding citizens,
white nnd black, that the great inde
pendent party should succeed next
fall.
* * Enemies because they have
driven oft emigration by their bended
prejudice; enemies because they have
shut tlie. doors of the state against
northern and foreign capital by their
ostracism of men who would think
for themselves politically.
Tlie Southron's Athens editor winds
up ids letter with the following infa
mous tirade against democracy, In
w hich lie confesses that his race are
republicans at heart, and unite with
the so-called independent movement
because its mission is identical with
radicalism:
It has been the united effort of these
editors to place the responsibility of
tlie killing of Rountree on the ne-
S ro politicians and independents.
ut the chief cause was editorials pub
lished in the Banner-Watchman abu
sive to negroes. These editorials made
the young whites believe that negroes
Purpose.if being
kicked and killed, regardless of law.
The negroes, seeing this and having
none of the fears of slavery on them
Im d » k 2S. wln 5 t !* e condition that the
? h «l e Iif d,tor ™ the Banner-Watchman
!t^JS.°i- negro< *** , t. nd whites in Ogle-
them having at one
Ome resided there,) and being educa-
todup to the standard of fr£s
hood would take no Insult, and as the
paper prepared the minds 0 “ the
whites to offer insults. It also caused
insults^ 0 to prepare himself to meet
Awjssagsssvsst
The Cartersville Free Press says: “It
“ is a work of patriotism to rid thiscoun-
“ try of Bourbonisin and Radicalism. It
“ is a work in which every true friend of
“ Georgia should take a deep and active
“interest. It is to tlie advantage of
“every interest connected with thepros-
“ perity of the country and the Welfare
“ of the people that Georgia should lie
“ rid of such incubuses upon her material
“ growth and advancement. This ncces-
“ sity for reform has brought into exis-
“ tence a great independent movement
“ that should sweep tlie State from the
“ seaboard to the mountains.”
Tlie people of Georgia, with Malione
before them, are not to be deceived by
this glittering generality. Tlie indepen
dent movement, as is now well known,
under a pretext of destroying “Bour-
lKinism,” is simply the left wing of tlie
Republican party, which means, not the
annihilation, but perpetuation of Radi
calism. Tlie people of Georgia compre-
liend well enough that tlie only thing
that stands between them and tlie recon
struction programme, of old days, is the
Democratic party. There will be a sweep
from the seaboard to tlie mountains.
The Democracy will hold the broom, and
the Independent will be swept summar
ily. “ Reform,” in such a connection as
Mahoneism, here or in Virginia, is sim
ply a mocking, catch-penny phrase,
which has as much significance as
“liberty and equality" during the
French Revolution. Tlie people of Geor
gia will never be reformed backward.
Augusta Chronicle.
distinguished Chancellor of our Uni
versity, for to him belongs this posi
tion, by right of his unsurpassed qual
ifications, and by the additional right
of the desire of his brethren who so
clearly and gladly recognize these
qualifications. Besides the usual mat
ters which eugage the atteptiou of
this body, two of extraordinary inter
est were presented: First an invita
tion from the Home Mission Society
of the Northern states, to participate
by representation in their semi-cen
tennial to be celebrated the latter part
of May this year in the. city of New
York. Tlie special committee to whom
the communication conveying the in
vitation was referred, reported against
accepting it, but the report was
amended by the body after a protract
ed discussion so as to accept. The
principal reasons urged by the com
mittee and supporters of the report
were,first, t\)e informal and nntechni-
cat manner in which tlie invitation
was given, it not having been ad
dressed to the Georgia convention
through tlie Southern convention of
which the Georgia is a constituent;
and second, the apprehension felt
that this is a move to bring Southern
Baptists into organic connection with
northern societies, to tlie destruction
of the organizations through which
our missonary and other benevolent
denominational work is curried on.
The replies to the reasons were of va
rious character and form and coloriug,
the general import of all being that
the spirit of fraternity should be culti
vated and that organic union of south
ern and northern Baptist general or
ganizations is not to be uppreheuded,
as it is not desired certainly, by the
southern, and almost certainly be the
northern bodies.
The second matter of extraordinary
interest was a question sprung too late
in the session for discussion in refer
ence to Bible work by tlie Baptists.
This question has grown out of tlie re
cent action of the American Bible so
ciety, declining to carry out an argree-
nient understood to have been made
by it in 1879 to aid in the
publication and circulation of cer
tain translations of Baptist mission
aries of the scriptures into the lan
guages of the people among whom
those missionaries have been labor
ing, conspicuously that of Judson, in
to the Burmese, and Mason, into the
Karen dialect of India. The Ameri-
ban Baptist Missionary Union recent
ly asked a donation from the Ameri
can Bible Society of $2,000 to print
and circulate Dr. Judson’s Burmese
translation, and that society declined
tlie application on tlie ground that tlie
translation “was deficient in the qual
ity of catholicity as used iu the By
Laws of tlie American Bible Society.”
This declinature led to tlie Baptists
adopting preliminary steps looking to
tlie performance of their own Bible
work, and thus the question came be
fore our convention. Resolutions
were adopted advising Baptists to with
draw co-operation from tlie American
Bible Society, and expressing sympa
thy with the movment toward doing
their own Bible work. Upon this
question there was difterence of opin
ion, not as touching withdrawal of co
operation from American Bible Socie
ty, but as touching the second resolu*
tion expressing sympathy, tlie appre
hension being felt that sucli a resolu
tion might interfere witli the freedom
of our future action. Proof of the gener
al spirit of harmony in the convention
already spoken of is fouud in tlie fact,
that this was the only question during
the entire session, lasting from Thurs
day until one o’clock p. m. Monday,
on which it was necessary to call for a
division of the house.
The entertainment of the body was
in the usual style of generous hospi
tality for which all portions of our
beautiful and affluent southland—af
fluent in natural resources and all so
cial, intellectual, and christion quali
ties which make it desirable—is noted.
Many signs of matcriul progress were
apparent in the city itself, to which
the already extended length of this
communication forbids that I should
more particularly allude.
C. D. Campbell.
GEORGIA RAH-ROAD.
Report of the President nnd Directors to the
Augusta, Ga., April 12,1882.
The Hscal year was commenced
with:
Cwh on hand . » 708,180 OS
Kceeipta during the year (per alato-
ment No. A)
Net earnings ot the Bank 51.TC4 52
CONGRESSMAN SPEER—PAST AND
- PRESENT. V -cA#
Stats Executive Committee Call.
Atlanta, Ga., April 25, 1882.—A
meeting ot the state democratic exec
utive commitee is hereby called to as
semble, at .the breakfast room of the
Kimball house, in Atlanta, on the
18th day of May, next, at 2 o’clock, p.
m. A full meeting is desired, as bus-
iness ol importance will be before the
committee. The following named
gentlemen are members of the com
mittee, for the state at large: J. E.
Shumate, R. J. Moses, L. Mynattand
Win. Phillips.
Jones, Burke
irubb, McIntosh
a-'"; F-
•Richard Hobbs,
A. Harris,
^AiCoMijSoim
George P. Wood, Pulaski
ter
oounty.
Fourth District—4, D. Abrahams,
’Troupe ttognty; J. D. Willis, Talbot
ooupty. .
Fifth District—W. T. Newman,Ful
ton county; J. H. Mitchell, Pikecoun
nksalMS hH ■ »si ‘tn-ei m«i ».* r
.IftiH'jll $r»l Nell till*- 4 if |.» *HV
■ •ffrthJifatot JteujvU Wimberly,
JwigfcilSiWftty; JfcWl*/ Hardeman,
*1.368,847 10
Expenditures (ss per statement
No - 6 > ..*1,090,28145
Balance commencement of newTYT^TR
The directors,believing that the earn
ings of the oompany warrant it, pro- nBt t eonntv
seventy-five cents per share, instead
of two dollars and fifty cents, aa here
tofore. vj.
The Geogia Railroad and RanHi. g
Company has paid In dividends since
the war the Immense sum of *4,626,'
576.
‘ Over three grains of arsenic were found
in Jennie Cramer’s stomach.
■Arthur H. Gray,
Catoosa County; N. 3. Tumlln, Polk
3V \f vi- -
Eighth District—Wilberforce Dan
d county; F. H. Dolly,
mam DUlrieU-C. J; WeUtoonw,
Union county; T.' M. Peeples, Gwin-
Wlth its dying throes the Watkins-
ville Advance—the only independent pa
per in the district outside of the Gaines
ville Southron—reproduces an old oom-
pliment that we paid Mr. Snocr in the
Echo, anil during tlie race of thatgeo-
tleraan against Hr. Bell. Had the edi
tor of the Advance referred to the files of
the Watchman, only a few months Since,
he would have seen where we onrtelf re
ferred to not only the article he copied^
but also to a personal letter we had writ
ten Mr. Si-ecb In reply to one of thanks
from that gentleman, in which we reit
erated our editorial comments; and
moreover, we here boldly aaArt that had
we been in the district at the last election
we would certainly have cast no impedi
ment in the way of that gentleman’s
election. Up to the time of his contest
with ME Bell but little could he said
against the official record of our con
gressman. He seemed to be earnestly
striving to do his duty by his constitu
ency, while at the same, tiiqe he gener
ally worked with and for the democracy
tlie party of the south. But no sooner
Bad Mr. Speer been firmly pliinted m
his seat by a majority of 4,000 votes than
the cloven foot enpeared. First we hear
of his hob-nobbing with the late Presi
dent Garfield, and minors were rife
that he aspired to a foreign mission. But
Guitkau’s bullet having destroyed his
chances there, and the bitterest parti
san in the republican ranks being eleva
ted to power, our congressman seems
determined on retaining his popularity
with the chief of the dominant party,
even at a sacrifice of liis principles. So
the first decided step we see toward rad-
iealism iu Mr. Speer is his refusal to en
ter into a democratic caucus, although
for months prior to that time hisvaseilat
ing course, that leaued strongly toward
our enemies, caused mauy of liis warm
est friends to lose faith in their candi
date. From this first step his downfall
was rapid until we to-day see our dis
trict Hooded with negro office-holders,
w hite men thrown aside to make room
for this raee, and u state of affairs even
more degrading and demoralizing than
the ejioch which marked tlie reign of R.
B. Bullock and his crew. In Athens
wc have a colored postmaster and a col
ored clerk in that office; on the North-
Eastern railroad we have a a colored
mail agent; another colored man was ap
pointed census enumerator in Clarke;
one was a mail agent ontlie < ieurgia road;
and only a few days since was another
Ethiopian curried from Athens and plac
ed in charge of the Atlanta custom-house
—and the place given him, too, to bribe
liis silence with liis race during tlie next
campaign. Thus we see the highest and
most lucrative offices iu our district
turned over to tlie African, while the
poor whites must take back seats—for it
seems tliut out of the large white
vote polled for Mr. Speer at
tlie last contest he could not
find a single Caucus-dan compe
tent (iu his opinion) to hold an
office. And dare any of Mr. Speer’s
friends deny that lie of his own free will
and accord, broughtaboot this degrading
state of affairs ? Cast your eye.over every
congressional district iu Georgia, aye, in
the south, and you do not see a similar
prostitution of high offices? It is only
in the jioor, independent-ridden ninth
tnat ijcursed am) flooded with African
officials. And can Mr. Speer look his
honest white constituency iu the face
and say “This uot in v work!” We defy
him to do to! And while on this subject
we would respectfully request Mr. Emo
ry Speer to stand up and answer the
following interrogatories under oatli:
1. “Did you endorse a white man or a
negro for the Athens post-office?”
2 “Please name the man you used your
influence to have appointed.”
3. “If you did uot recommend Post
master Davis, did you make auy effort
whatever to prevent his appointment
or confirmation V’*
4. “Did you at any time, during you
present term, urge the propriety of ap
pointing a white mau postmaster at Ath
ens?”
5. ’‘Were you not endorsing tlie ap-
paiutment of a negro all the time?”
Please reply to these questions through
the columns of the Banner-Watchman,
or any other paper that you may select.
White men ol the ninth congressional
district: The time has come when we
must tight the old battle of reconstruc
tion over once more. We are more to
day uuder the negro and radical rule
thau in 1865. Then we were oppressed
and insulted, but even our foreign con-
quesors spared us tlie mortification of
negro office-holders. No ; it was reservr
eil for a so-called independent democrat
ic congressman in the year of our Lord
1882 to fix this crowning infamy upon
liis people—or at least it was done un
der his administration, and we cannot
hear of a single instance wherein he
raised his hand to avert the degradation.
The only hope now for the ninth d.strict
is to again draw the color line, and let
Mr. Emory Speer either coraeover to the
white side, and pledge his allegiance to
and trust promotion in the democrat
ic party, or he must rely solely upon liis
black friends for further preferment.
Tlie party lines are drawn for the fall
campaigu. There is no longer a neutral
ground. A candidate must cither gang
with negroes and rank as a radical; or
lie must avow himself a democrat and
rest liis claims solely in the hands of tlie
intelligence and worth of the land. Tba
independent fence has been torn awap.
Too many blacks used it for a stepping-
stone to office over tlie heads of white
men. There are to-day but two parties
in Georgia—the dtmoeratic, striving for
white supremacy; and the republican,
whose mission is to wrest old Georgia
from the grasp of her free-born citizens
and turn it over to radical and negro
rule. We can exect no farther aid from
the negro vote. When the democracy
attempts to use them it must stoop to
their level and lose its self-respect. This
we cannot afford to do. So let the blacks
centre on their candidate and call him
independent, republican or any o.her
name. It is not the ticket that any true
bom southron can -support—the only
path being left for us is that which leads
to the organized democratic fold. We
have no personal war to make upon Mr
Speke, but we shall continue as long as
our hand can wield a pen to expose the
infamy of his so-called i ndependent dem
ocratic party, the claims of which are
now being heralded to our people by a
Minnesota Yankee at Gainesville and a
mulatto radical negro in Athen .f Now
isn’t this a nice pair to dictate*politica
to the intelligent white men of Ge rgta?
Have we Indeed sunk so low as to have
to choose our political advisers from
gers deep down in the hearts of th
•rule or ruin” party in tile south,;
■in disposition to fight the federal gove
,, W
VfiT : YYVTTT f 11 *-' 1 .* 4 ai ! d ”ut its officers, when
TUL. . AAV11I, in the discharge "of their plain duly,
•** ' tl ;cy«huppeu > to ruu counjerto the willcya;
RIBPFS^
ICTEDINTHEDEAD
URS OF NIGHT: Qj
By Three Hoble-Heuted and Patriotic
Gentlemen of Athens. ,
y • 1
A Happy Su;
Ey.
that will Greet tho
e Ladies’ Memorial
Re*t on embalmed and sainted dead.
Dear aa the blood ye j?*ve:
No impious footstep here Khali tread
The herbage of >'our prrave:
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fanie her record keeps.
Or hone r points the hallowd spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel’s voiceless stone.
In deathless none shall tell.
When many a vanished age hath flown.
The story how ye fell;
Sor wreck, nor change, nor Winter’s blight,
Nor Time’s remorseless doom.
Shall diin one ray of holy light
That gilda your glorious tomb.
Weehi
•We.will, howevi
cle )hat api
!wi
taken,' was written by a
intimate friend to Elder
t havo^f reflected
upon the inSmoiy-orgod^wo^te of
the deceased,) or wounded the feeyngs
of his family jor friends:
Washington,^a., Api
Editor Athens
see a piece
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tion taken ;
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manVand]
ridicule. \
imagine, u
want I
For the past month or more the La
dies’ Memorial Association of Athens
have been making what seemed fruitless
appeals to our patriotic citizens for the
means to place an humble monument
over the graves of the Confederate sol-! 118 * le unde rstood it; and if we had
should
he has at some time
had a controversy with the did Elder
and gotthe'worst of it. and feels a lit
tle sore yet; but ttd|on’t seent. to me a
very brave man wtflildasaanlt another
whan he knows there is no chance for
him to defend himself. '
I am not a Primitive Baptist nor
don’t know much about the little
church in Athens that the writer
speaks so contemptuously about. My
impression -was, though that a very
wealthy gentleman who lives in Ath
ens and was a warm friend of Elder
Patman furnished the most of the
money towards it; but us poor and
dilapidated as it is, I think it shows u
want of tlie great Christian virtue,
Charity, to ridicule it.
It is a great mistake about his hav
ing such fear of those mischievous
college boys. He was not afraid nor
ashamed to express his views to the
best and most talented men in the
land, anil why should he feai; a set of
inexperienced boys? He would have
treated their impertinence witli the
silent contempt it deserved. And as
to tlie foot washing scene, I have wit
nessed it myself, anil I thought it very
solemn and impressive, and why crit-
icies it? Surely the Scriptures author
ize it as much as tlie communion ser
vice, and if our Savior wasiied his dis
ciples’ feet and commanded them to
wash one another’s, why not the
Hardshelis do the same, when they
profess to lie humble followers of tho
Savior? And us to the old Elderboast-
ing of his Bible knowledge that is an
other grand mistake, lie was too huin-
biea Christian to boast of anything he
knew. It is true he could remember
and quote passages of Scripture more
readily thau any man I ever knew; lie
madeg his Bible his daily study and
tried to live according to its teachings
dlers buried in Oconee cemetery. They ; eaou 8ti such men this would he a bet
An advertisements in a Virginia,
Nevada, paper reads 1 “Two dwelling
houses—one of ten rooms, marie fin
ish, with fine verandah. Both houses
built since the big fire, of good new
lumber. Also two cooking atovea,
some bedsteads, spring mattres
chairs, crockery ware and oi
tblaiw.; ,Sricc.fec whole. ;*fi0.. Ta£sa
for 1882 already paid.”
sochacrewT How an
man can be so blinded
ly thinking
to personal
white
>r-
tnan can oe so ounaed to personal pref
erence for a selfishly ambitious candidate
as to sacrifice his’country and self-re-
* - ken.
cause
„ district
—and to-day boldly announce to Mr.
Sfeeb that from this hour be must
choose between the two rival parties
race, nod whose ]
ignorance and cri
intelligence and worth.
placed a contribution box in tlie post-
office, but the cdlleotions were so insig
nificantly small that these noble ladies
felt that their appeals were in vain, and
with sadness an I deep pain they recog
nized the fact tii.it our people had al
lowed the soothing hand of time to blot
from their -memories the gallant deeds
oftifobhtmajMMMr */*iRs|i9*tipi
held the banner of tlie lost cause and
now sleep in unmarked anil neglected
graves. Only a few days since we had a
conversation with Mrs. Lipscomb, tlie
indefatigable President ofjthe Ladies’
Memorial Association, and who, togeth
er wfth her noble mother, has done as
much to keep green in the minds of our
southern people the memory of these
fallen bravts as any one in Georgia. This
lady expressed deep regret at (he wan
ing interest of our citizens in this noble
cause, and spoke with sadness ot the
changes a few years had wrought in
their patriotism. But with tlie noble
la lies of Athens Mrs. Lipscomb had de
termined that if the men proved forget
ful of the great sacrifice these slee]>-
ing heroes had made for their country,
that they would prove to the world that
tlu-ir deeds were yet fresh in their minds,
and that tlie fair hands of true southern
womanhood would beautify and bedeck
with the fairest offerings of spring the
grass-grown mounds beneath which re
pose the bones of the bravest men the
world ever knetv. So quietly and with
out display these ladies had determined
this evening to repair to our cemetery
and there spend an hour iu paying their
humble but sincere tribute to the mar
tyrs of a hopeless cause.
But these noble ladies were not alone
in their good work, as they will find this
morning to their surprise aud joy. With
out display, without asking the aid or
adviee of auy one, a single magnanimous
firm in Athens, comprising Messrs. C.
G. Talmadge, W. D. O’Farrell and W.
H. Jones, set to work and built and
erected a beautiful and imposing shaft
over these graves, and so secretly and
unostentatiously was the work done that
none knew of its extstence, save those
employed upon Us construction, until
the monument, like Jonah’s goad-vine,
sprang into existence in a single night,
and this morning, when these noble and
patriotic ladiss repair to the cemetery
with their simple Floral offerings thr.y
will And confronting them a beautiful
and imposing monument recording in a
few words the sacrifice of these heroes
and pointing upward to the Heavens,
At the head of this article we give an
correct representation of this monume
It is of galvanized iron, panted perfect
ly white, and at a short distance cannot
be detected from a shaft of the finest
Italian marble. It was made in the
shops of the North-East Georgia stove
and tin-ware emporium, save the wreath
that Was brought from franoe, and is a
beautful work of art. The base of the
monument is filled with brick and mor
tar, and a pole planted therein reaches
to the top of the shaft, which renders it
aa firm in its place as a cenotaph of gran
ite, and will endure for years.
As we stated, no onesave the gen'erous
donors knew of the efferlng. The shaft
was quietly constructed, and the first
rntimation given of its existence wak
yesterday morning, when those called to
the cemetery were surprised by finding
a handsome cenotaph, sixteen feet tall,
at the entrance gate and over the graves
satn&didDtivtf
lows:
TO THE HpBLK LADIES OF ATHENS
AND TO THE
MEMORY OF OUR SLEEPING COMRADES
0» THE
CAUSE WE SO WELL LOVED
AMD res WHICH THEY DIED,
WE LOVINGLY DONATE THIS SIMPLE
HOHDHSHT.
MAY IT ENaUBE, A8 WILL OUR LOVE
TOE .THEM,
• eternally and forever.
Very respectfully,
W. D: O’FAXExuJf
W. H. Jones, r.»
C. G. Talmadge.
ter world than it Is. He was an hon
est Christian gentleman and carried
his,religion with him every day;
didn’t pnt it on with liis Sunday coat.
And as to his being a dissenter from
the Baptist chureli that is a mistake
again. “Tlieon” will find, If he will
read the history of tlie Baptist in Geor
gia, he belonged to tlie. same church
the Revs. Jesse Mercer, Abram Mar
shall, and many other good old Bap
tists that are gone did, and when tiiey
left the old church and founded new
institutions, as they were ealled in
thosS days. Elder Patman and many
others held oh to tin-old Baptist creed
audthere the Primitive Baptists stand
yet. Elder Patman was by no means
the ignoramus Tlieon tries to muke
him; lie had as good ab education as
most men raised seventy years ago.
Forty-five years ago I trudged along
by his side to school. Jib as toucher,
and T :ls si-1 iiilnr, and there are many
now living ih Ogletl
xl old man. If we could all
I ve aa blameless a life aa he did and
peet in that better land we : won’!
*re whether we were Hardshelis if
iftshells - “ m.! ,ran
; nineteen
i spent with the Pr
**»*»'. *I h »ve seen a good deal' otAlae
world's fashions and follies since then,
an< V. u ‘?° kl P8 back at the past I must
saythe happiest part of hly life was
spent with those plain, unassuming
And now,Me. Editor, Jam done. I
have no excuse to qfier for troubling
you, only wounded feelings, and there
are many who #111 Join me, not only
fire whole community
ib which be Jived. One and all loved
ahd 1-joked up to him os a father.
. . L. •/". ' M.B.
THE CROWNING INSULT.
Gwinnett county, and saw Hii, the
proprietor, enter und make all arrange
ments to carry on that day,; his illegal
work. Ho afterwards left the still
housq, and was pursued by the officers,
who had in their pds8esklon''ttUipItf
authority for his arrest. In'endeavoiu
ing to make the arrest, he (Hix) was
shot and killed. At the death of this
old law-breaker, the people of Gwin
nett county, it we are to credit the
newspaper reports, arose en masse—
Christiana, temperance men, good tern-
In our last we intimated, that with
that Issue we would conclude the dir-
uo longer defile our columns, or furth
er intrude upon the decency and in
telligence of our readers, by noticing
again this miserable renegade aud
carpet-bagger from Minnesota. But
as several of our readers have called
our attention to the article, in the
Southron of the 4th inst. headed “tlie
rule or ruin spirit,” and which is cer
tainly the crowning insult yet of
fered tlie democracy, as well as tlie
good, honest nnd law-abiding people
of Georgia by this creature, who, the
outlaws of nature and justice he seeks
to use, as the necessary . tools of his
tnmult and political nefariousness,
we trust we will be pardoned for a
brief notice of this most iniquitous
insult from this infamous defender
of outluws.
The article referred to is one in re
gard to tlie outrageous, brutal, and
unprecedented murder of old man
Hix of Gwinnett county by a set of
cowardly, law-breaking,and doubtless
drunken revenue officers. As will be
remembered by all who read the ac
count of tlie murder of this
old man, and the assault made
upon his poor idiotic son. It exceeds
in brutality, and cold-bloodedness
anything to be found in the history of
outlawry or banditti. It is, or may be
true, that old man Hix had been vio
lating the revenue laws, but did that
furnish an excuse for the wilful ani)
cold-blooded murder of this unarmed
and defenseless old man by these
stout, able-bodied young men? Sup
pose he had -resented arrest, could
they not have taken him and bis whole
household without shooting him?
The law of tfye, land, does not justify
such violence towards offenders of the
county who
rge
remember those'blessed days of child
hood long past.' I think Theon speaks
very unkindly of the country people
of Clarke county, as they and the ne
groes were tlie only ones who went to
the little despised church after the
curiosity of tlie refined people of Ath
ens was gratified. /
I have always thought some of our
moat substantial aud refined people
lived In’ the country, anil ga to the
negro, I thought tiiey belonged to tlie
shouting persuasion, and I know the
Primitive Baptist don’t suit them
much. I know there are many good
Christian men and women in Athens,
but with all that, to walk the streets
and see the tan colored evidences of sin
and shame one would feel like saying
as the Rev. Jimmy Danelly of past
years said, behold the refinement of
Athens—aud as to the Elder preach
ing I have never heard him in ; many
years, but it seems that a man Who un
derstood his Bible as well as Theon ad
mits hedid, could hav«i.varied his ser
mons sometimes; and as to his con
version by the old stump, he always
looked hack to it as sacred ground and
loved to talk about it, for there he re
ceived the blessed hope that was his
guiding star through life; and with
the host of professing Christians now-
a-days if they have naplJ stump nor
spot to remember aa sacred ground,
they are in abad^Ay to reach Heaven;
and as a friend told me once, has need
to do thi ir first work oVer. And as to
his taking off his coat to preach I nev
er saw nor heard of his doing it,
though I don’t pretend to say he didn’t,
for he was so in earnest about his Mas
ter’s wprk he didn’t give forms and
appeerfinee a thought. Aa he advanced
in years lie increased ifiTflesli, and no
dpubt he was more comfortable with
out his coat^-tblnking.what He taught
is of more importance than his ap-
uance. He was temperate In all
ings. He would; as Theon says, take
Kiciail'ilasa; bat he nfede no secret
it im many do. It waagjpe ofthe cus-
*■**—g ago that h^- kept up tH
and never abus-
gefietef _
I and t hey ^refrained .from;
: any opinion whatever, ^
—— —. o—It or innocence of those
charged With the killing, In order, as
tiiey said, that tln> accused mighthuvo
» impartial. trial. Wpa itoot
•fi tho Hix case? The foots, are ye-
fresh in the minds ‘of all the! readers
of newspapers In Georgia. ’ Deputy
ted .States Marshal Bolton, (with
deputy collector* ol internal. rev*
i t! visited an illicit , distillery in
to I
plars and all—in f
ecute the duly
the government, who had been seht
to Gwinnett county to break upon
unlawful distillery and bring to j
‘ ‘ ' f
were sworn out against them and the
services of the Solicitor General were
brought to bear anil other able lawyers
were retained, to prosecute the offend
ers. Then the newspapers opened vig-
to gratify a little
orously, and in order l
personal spleen and carry out the
‘red hot” programme, deputy Bolton
singled out aud his blood demand
ed to avenge the outraged law. The
accused avuiled themselves of a right
granted them, by tlie laws of tlie Uni
ted States, and removed their case
from state to the federal courts, aud
over tliis another vigorous, long aud
deafening howl goes up. A prelimi
nary investigation is had; Hix’s wife,
daughter and idiotic graudsou swore
positively to the guilt of Bolton, while
Freelaud swears on the investigation
that he did tfie killing in self-defence,
and Miller confirmed his testifliony
verhutim; both affirmed, positively,
that Bolton was unarmed!
No w why has all this parade been
‘ y did the l
indulged iu, and why did the Georgia
bourbon press, 1*d on by the Atlanta
Constitution, try to fasten guilt, right
or wrong, on an innocent but faithful
officer of the government? Docs not
each aud every one of the bloody
handed crew know frill wffil, that if
tnese three man had hftu taken back
to Gwinnett county for trial, that a
lawless mob, led to the conflict by Abe
...” AVOO U4UM. 4tu w lAtvJ vUIIUlwv Ujf Vile
position of the Constitution and other
papers, would have tukeh tlie law into
their own hands and murdered Bolton,
Freeland aud Miller? There is uo
doubt on this point. Well, what rea
son then, can lie urged for tlie posi
tion ofthe bourbon press on this sub
ject? Only tlie narrow contracted
idea that by making this war on Bol
ton, they could thereby stab General
Longstreet and throw a wet blanket
over tlie independent movement in
Georgia. But in this, bourbons will
make a sad mistake, as they always
do, when given rope enough to hang
themselves. Bolton lias been tri
umphantly vindicated and set at lib
erty, and tb<* “red hots” are left to an
occupation th it suits them well—paa’-
iug uie ground and howlin*. Lomr-
—T-—---— 1.— ing tlie ground and howling. Long-
law, except incaseS.of extreme neces- street comes forth as he has always
sity. What was the necessity in this
case? Was the old main, seeking to
escape? From the evidence given in
on the.trial of the case, this could
have - been the 'ifflj) excuse. Then
ooUld-aot these three young, active,
and stalwart revenue officers have
pursued and captured this old mau
without takinghis-llfe; yea without
brutally shooting Him ‘down as he
stood on liis door steps, while his aged
wife earnestly entreated these officers
not to shoot her husband as he was
unarmed aud did not intend to resist
them? Such is a brief statement of
the facts in this case, and the revenue
department or United States officials,
knowing that under a trial before the
district court ofthe state, where the
case would be tried uuder the law and
facts governing such cases, that these
offenders and violators of law and jus
tice would be made to suffer
the criminal law of the laud pro
vides, hud the case removed to the
United States district court, the result
of which was, under a most partial
proceeding to again turn these out
laws loose upon society. This conduct
and this proceeding, such an outrage
as it was upon the whole people of
Georgia likewise.thqlaw.of our state,
called forth the “ri^btewfe: indigna
tion” of all good,pCaee-loying ahd law
abiding people, aa well as the honest
and proper criticism and condemna
tion of the press generally. Now be
cause the good of society, the safety
of life, liberty and property demanded
such criticism, and such condemna
tion, this Yankee adventure, this ren
egade from the wil£ west, this incen
diary of society, rises up and charges
upon the good and true people of Geor
gia; the democratic party of Georgia
composed as it la of the honesty and
intelligence of onr land, with that
spirit of “ rule or ruin” which would
induce them to defy uhd “to fight the
Federal government, and seek to crush
out ite ; offioere.”,. AhLtHl* miserable
adventurous reviler of our land and
our people stops not witlr his assail-
ment of the democracy of Georgia, but
with a demoniacal spirit of hate and
revenge, even goes so for as to assail
“the Christians, the temperance men
and Good Templars” of the state, who’
lie says, “arose en masses te prosecute
the only accredited officers of the gov-
eminent.” This unscrupulous slun-
done, when traduced, with Hying col
ors. The bourbons have simply made
a little more notoriety in a field that
lias grown sterile and unproductive
from over work. The people—tlie
blessed people—that the bourbous say *
they are guarding, are watching*their
capers and weighing tho reasons for
their antics just ut this particular
juncture. They have been led and
driven before to conflicts with the fed
eral government by this same “red
hot” element, and the results are fresh
upou their minds, The law abiding,
peace loving, sober people, depreciate
these bourbon antics, but there is no
denying the fact that there is yet here
in Georgia, “a rule or ruin” spirit oc-
laliy croi ‘ - - -
casionally croping out, that time only
can cure. Our advi-e to tlie people of
Georgia is to obey the laws as graded
in the first section of Irvin’s Revised
Code, and when this is done, there is
no conflict of jurisdictions, and no use
of frantic appeals to prejudice. “The -
government still lives.”
A Valuable Receipt
derer and rev,
party arid oil
his being a black-
her mistake and
’ little Theon really knew
' He \had a blacksmith
t planters do,- and no doubt
ve worked in it too if he
’' " “vas ingenious and a
f good judgment, Hut work in a
: anywhere else didn’t trouble
Tible and tbeiicare of
ties filled
verinwant. That was so,
for he had enough to live on at home.
He didn’t preach for money, but if his
churches gave contributions it was
thankfully received. It la true he
will be greatly missed, not only by
his own church but otheo^also. Some
of his warmest friends were members
of other denominations. - In speaking
of the church, during his last illnessT
our
ield,
ihorts-
as
oval of these
ett couuty to
that the good
of that grand
*£***? Ve8
murderers Infesting as
r a people aa
‘lied?
L ssioh
and spirit - of this miserable Yhrikee
adventurer—who dares to assail our
course in the murder of youtig'Roun-
tree, and who defends and-upholds
one-of the most brutal; murders ever
perpetrated in this Country,—we shall
reproduce His entire article. Read It
arid then tell us if Beast
men
insulted* SMhMM and
mos
ierer <
com ‘ era people ever known couid surpass
it. And yet this creature dares flaunt
in your face the flag of defiance, one-
corner of whlohis upheld by a mulatto
negro in ’ Athens, and claims to
lie the spokeman of a large majority
of the white men of the
liinth district. Read the following^
^" n entire from his filthy sheet, and
^ yon ever saw such Infamously
sal' doctrineB inculcated in the
th—and can you support any tlokj
We consider the following receipt of
such value that wc transfer it to our. col
umns from tlie Stockton (California)
Herald:
“I herewith append a recipe, which
has been used, to my knowledge, in hun
dreds of cases, It will prevent or cure
tlie small-pox, though tlie pittings are
filling. When Jenner discovered cow-
pox, iu England, tlie world of science
hurled an avalanche ot fame upon his
he fid; but when the most scientific school
of medicine in the world— that of Paris
—published this recipe as a panacea for
small-pox, it passed unheeded; it is as
unfailing as fate, and conquers in every
instance. It is harmless when taken by
a well person. It will also cure scarlet
fever. Here is tlie reeept as I have used
it, and cured my children of scarlet fe
ver; here it is as I have used it to curg
suiall-pox; when learned physicians
said tlie patient must die, it cured:
Sulphate of zinc, one grain; half a tea-
spoonful of water. When thoroughly
mixed, add four ounces of. water. Take
a spoonful every hour. Either disease
will disappear.in twelve hours. 1 For a
child, smaller doses, according to age.
If counties would compel their physi
cians to use this, there would' be no
need of pest houses. If yon value advice
and experience, use this for that terri
ble disease.”
Death from m Oetfleh Via.
Last Wednesday, one' week ago, a
colored woman named Margaret Sims,
at the residence of Mr. H. H. Epplng,
was cleaning fish when she accident
ally pierced her hand with a catfish fin.
The next morning she got up and her
hand was so swollen as to prevent her
from doing her usual work. It began
to pain her and the pain 1 increased
until she soon was compelled' to take
her bed. She suffered violently with
it until yesterday, when she died.
The attending physician says'that her
death was caused from erysipHlt&’atid
septisemia or blood poisoriirig. ‘We
have seen some very severe results
from Wounds Inflicted by the fins of
1 salt' water catfish,' and tiiey' ^-.-e con
sidered very poisonous and dthigerous,
but this M the flrtt death of \vhteh we
can remember having ocbritfSil from
the fin of a fresh water fish.—Columbus
San. ' "• ” ’
—: i; ,.i,4c..i
Macon, Ga., Aprll SS.—l'he state con
vention of colored men adopted a plat
form to-day in sympathy*with any move
ment to overthrow the bourbon democ
racy, and will offer better inducements
than the Republican 'party. The resolu
tions demand tho repeal or lriodlficatiCa
ofthe penitentiary systeta Ofthe state,
and a larger appropriation for education
al purposes, and ; declare that the poll
tax ought not to bo made a prerequisite
to voting. The convention then adjourn
ed sine die. ' n.v
T- »■■».»/v-."i llittjMBfl
. . . , , A little girt in Milwaukee has dfedyy
et endorsed by such a slanderer of from hydrophobia.