Newspaper Page Text
SOUTHERN BANNER: AUGUST 250, 1878.
ADDRESS
OF
HON. JOSEPH OANAHL,
BEFORE THE
ALUMNI SOCIETY
SEV ENTY-SEYENTII SESSION
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
Fellow Alumsi :
In visiting our Alm.t M iter which we loft in the flush of youth,
nml t » which, wo no w return in the years of a ripe manhood,
many associations ami reflections crowd upon the mind. ‘ : Non
tom cof'i'i qoom modus in tlicemlo queerendus esf.”
I'li • rh-iico of a top e, covering thirty years of the past—full
■ >! events in .< iiich uo have lived, and of changes which vve have
fell, L iijl easy, .lust a generation of years ago I stood on this
rostrum at. the eum.nomjenieiit of our University, in 184S. It
was a vo ir oi great political excitement, agitation and revolu-
t io *. Franco hud just swept train power the last of her Bour-
1,0 ,s, and amid the harricifles ot Paris, and the cries of“ Down
wii.i (Iuiz>i,’’ proclaimed a republic of liberty, equality and fra
ternity
Before our epos, she has passed from u republic through a
s cond N ipolcmiic Empire—through another reign f terror and
communism to rise again, twice a republic in less tliarf three
decu le> of years.
Tne proclamation of the French republic stirred Continental
Europe to the bottom. All Germany, Italy, Hungary and Po
land were ablaze. Every wlu-re rose “the rights of man against
the prern alive of Kings’’ The Pope fled from Rome; the
Emperor of Austria from his capital, in that year. When, at
m'-dsummer, I made my maiden effort on this stage, it was with
an :i>-urai,ce t.utdiy .short o' absolute conviction, that llie days
of monarchy were numbered, or at least, that all western Eu
rope was i.henceiorw...ii to be governed on pri iciples of the
political liberty and civil equality of the citizen. Bat time is
the breaker of images, and it took not a short period to destroy
this picture. Within three years hardly a vestige of the st^nn
could be discerned. Re action had come and passed. All was
a-min quiet : all again monarchical as before.
°y l iil tl,u seed was not without fruit. Twenty years later,
Italy, with a Constitutional King, and a parliament of free dep
uties', was horn to the map of Europe. Since then, the dutchies
and principalities, the kingdoms and free cities of Germany
have been unified by the genius of liismarck, and consolidated
on a U ichstag; chosen upon the durable basis of universal sut-
iVage, and since then a national legislature founded on repre
sentation of the people, with large political power, lias been
plant, il in Austria, long the strong hold of bigotry and des
potism.
If the dream of youth quickly passed, the experience of a
generation of wars lias shown a vast political improvement in
Europe.
The infection of 1818 crossed the channel and spread to Ire
land, the •* withered and distorted member oi the British
EmpireWhere the domination of race ove" race, uml re
ligion over religion renders a noble island a reproach to the ^ ^ _
greatness, while its tenure is necessary to the existence of, with its lessons of life aud experience, heeded always I trust t«
the patriotism of Webster: how what was conceded in that
compromise to the South, a legal remedy to reclaim her fugitive
slaves was made idle and nugatoiy—was practically defeated
by adverse S:ates’ legislation, and served only to incite the
other section into language of abuse and invective: how the
stump, the press and the pulpit teemed with reviling a gainst
the South: howler decorous but firm insistence °npm her
right to equality’ in a sisterhood of States was denounced as
the aggression of slavery and barbarism: How the Missouri
compromise line was abrogated : how Kansas applied for ad
mission, and civil war raged for a time in that territory: how in
1856, when the canvass for president opened, a purely sectional
anti slavery party of formidable proportions, calling'itself Re
publican, arose with the avowed purpose oferushingout ‘those
twin relics of barbarism, Polygamy and Slaveryhow in the
following year, the question m all its hearings came before the
courts—the last bulwark of the constitution, and in the famous
Dred Scott case, the legal proposition, that congress had no
power to exclude slavery from the territories, was formally
decided: how this Republican party thereupon arraigned tbc
Supreme Court of the V ' *1 ^1:1*. . 4 .»s : ble and cor
rupt- how this party, unable to gainsay the‘legality of that
decision—routed in the field ol argument, of reason and of
right, denounced the. slavery compromises of the constitution as
immoral and sinful, as - ‘an agreement wij.lt hell and a covenant
with death” and proclaimed a law, binding in conscience, higher
than the law of the constitution : how then party spirit broke
loose from every mooring and assumed the fanaticism of ha) ■: how,
impelled by’ this influence, an intrepid felon landed in Virginia
and conspired, through a servile war, to wajeher our women and
children, for which he was tried, convicted and hanged: how
this malefactor was by’ this Republican party thereupon canon*
ized into saint and martyr, and with blasphemous a otheosishis
gallows proclaimed as glorious as the cross : how, while John
Brown’s body lay mouldering in the grave, his spirit went march
ing on: how this fell spirit, thus marching on, poss* ssed the
Northern heart aud mind with rage and fury towards their
brethren of the South: how ranging for revenge with the cry
of” Surround them with a wall of tire, burn them out like rats!”
tliis spirit, in I860, ushered intu power, this black Republican
party!!
What was our country to do? She had broken no band, she
had violated no faith, she had done no wrong! Who shall
blame her? Where is tlie arm to strike, that alter insnit and
threat, she wailed not for the overt act, but left her home, the
house her faille* - built, because there slit* was to he dishonored
ami betrayed.
I know it has become much the fashion to s|>eik disparag
ingly ot secession. On tl.e oiln r si.lt- it i$*-el aracterized, now
as ever, :is a wicked and sinful act, justified by no law, tin nan
or divine. I refer not to these, but among-t ourselves it ln»-
coms in vogue to think and speak of secession, a» a procedure
finding indeed, ample warrant in the constitution, but a mad
and a foolish step. The few who opposed the movement, are
wont to quietly assume vv hat their hearers liav£ come apparently
to award them, a greater wisdom, a broader patriotism, and
higher political prescience than others. Weighed m the scales
of material interest, tested by t he tenets of political economy,
reduced to a mercantile operation, doubtless a heavy debit
stands to the account of profit and loss—and judged by these
standards, the whole scheme, if not a crime, was assuredly the
grer test of blunders. But are there no controlling principles of
humanity higher than considerations of material interests? In
that house which her lathers built, was liiere no school which
taught the South to bold iunor and manhood higher than
money or life ? Has this become false doctrine? Never! No!
There are exigencies in the affairs of nu n, ami of peoples not
to be met and solved like a sum iu aijihiiic^jf No! There are
limes when the cost may not be bu coniiteh,^'Nutt counted, no !
though it foot up whole columns of blood and treasure!!
A retrospect from this staud-poiut of eighteen years distance,
credit ami the power of sovereign States, constitutes the sicken
ing page in the history of the United States. I except not even
the murder of that good and amiable old lady, upon whom, in
time of peace, a number of grown-up men, of Generals and
Colonels of ar. army, assembled in Court Martial in Wash
ington and passed sentence of death. The assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln had stricken the conquering heroes with terror.
Mrs. Surratt was executed in a panic: the same panic that
hanged Wit z, that put Davis in chains, that imprisoned our little
Alec. But that years after Lee had surrendered at Appomat
tox, and not a breach of parole, not a murmur of disaffection
had been heard throughout the limits of the conquered States, it
was made a condition precedent to their admission into the
Federal Government, that they be degraded to the level, and
wear the livery of Scullions, is the unchallenged master piece of
malignity. Tlia hleus St evens'"taught a lesson, not to bo learned
in the school of Ma h; i\« !'.
It was nearly ten years before all the States emerged from the
slough of this thraldom ; before they come foith a Solid South,
armed with the sword welded for their subjection, turned a
against the enemy. But Hainan at last was hanged on tin* gal
lows he built for Mordecai
I sli.-ill not pause to narrate how in the Centennial of our
country, this Solid South elected a Prcsiclenf, how to count this
President out, the “Rights of Stales,’’ theretofore contemned
and despised, were lifted from the pigsty of reconstruction into
sovereign -’nudity, that the mantle of their holy attributes
might be made to cover the blackest frauds. “ Oh ! Liberty ’’
cried Madam • Roland, “ what crimes are not committed in thy
name.” “ But shall Liberty perish because its zealots have
committed atrocity ?” and is it not better that the “ rights of
States ” shotijd. iq.se agdhi fc’W! f|se again, di.-honoj ed even,,
into an iestfimient of fraud, than die forever in the rot of recon-
■ ruction!!
Surely what we n stt*i»the eiid.Dve gamed in' the means ot
that c<mnt.~’If the gnat electoral commission of 1877 stole
from nsa President, it returned to us a principle—a principle
still in fetters, withered, distorted ami tleiormed, but none tho
Mtoo Mutual Insurance
coTvr^^isr^r,
ATSE1TS, GEORGIA.
YOUNG L. G. HAKRIS, Presided*
.STEVENS TIIOSUS, S»wt«r>.
tiros* Assets, April 1, tS77, - - $7HI,X.i.' *ii
Resident Director's.
Youno L. l*. Harris,
John H. Nkwton,
Dr. Hknrv Huli,,
Alrin P. Dkarino,
Col. Robust Thomas.
m'23-wly
Stkvkss Thomas
Eliza L. Nkwton,
Fkbmnakd Phjslz r
Dr. R. M. Smith,
John W. Nicholson
-TO-
TS
RS.
lessit principle - ! a principle wuhoul which every Federative Gov-1
eminent mast be lost in eonsolid ltion and Empire—the princi- j
IT IS POOR POLICY
V. 1 r any retail merchant to sell Inferior
goods because Ire cart make
more money on (Item.
Instead of trying to And (Ire cheapest
i Irat can bo bought, Ire should always
seloc*. TII« BEST in the market.
V.’c tin tv of no business anywhere, in the
city or country, that would not sooner become
permanently established, and in the tony ran
;,ny bettor. 1 y haodUng only f-’r nrd honest
■ ,'•<! . i.o >ur..*, custom »r.:g fur a white
■ a!,tired by low piices into, the purchase
of infj.i .r and fdulter.ded ertiilcs; many
;> wiili short weight and other
but lime rtcrhts all these
, . . - , , and f.otliiog is more certain than that
pie ot State Rights, beside which the gain or lossot slavery, tiie i jg "fHI®" BEST PdL2&Y
i 5IE N'DOl 1U8DTE SS
gtii*i or loss of a President vanishes from sight.
From things political I tui'ii to things material. From the
r.ivti nmonls of man let us turn our eyes to the dominion man
-in these thiity years, lias extended over nature. Here we
- ,.. , TO mm. MONET!
touch a region, to use the fine imagery of Bacon, conquered not i Tho surest way to accospllsli this Is to
with steel, i>ut .\it!t chalk. I’liihiMiphy a Ids lo h. r estates by _ bui.d up U perffi£T.=si trad.?.
the simple process of putting her while mark on tiie doors of
tiie bouses she means, to quarter. She subjugates by beneti-
cience, and marcut-s into possession, not as an enemy but a- a
guest.
Iu is not within it*.y reading and culture to have explored this
uu nut uu ivbljCrliMimj uuifo
if iiffiriar pi sre soil
It is only by keeping the tri? rrlirl/s of their
kind, i .-i if I .y d t : t ;- y the largest
vast expanse, and with diffidence do I lie. e e.-say to point to its! immediate profit, that a t a. rc-ament buxines*
inoiintni.i tons u built «P- Keep tiie best soap, the beat
,, i . , , , i * e . starch, the best s.pi. en, the best lmking powder.
l>ut a few ’.yor.ls touching the youngest daughter ot the
hist
England.
Responding to the cry of liberty, equality and fraternity,
Ireland bad armed one hundred and fifty thousand men, en
rolled in the clubs of the “ Irish Confederation,’’ against the
subjugation and pauperization of her people, were set on the
path of revolution. But the civil arm of the government soon
cru-hed out the rising, and before the year had ended, the
Gauging act and the Treason Felony net had dispatched the
leaders to moulder in the hulks at Bermuda, or rove with Bush
mino rs iu the wilds of Tasmania. This scheme only died out
to be followed by those of the “ Phoenix Society,” of the “ Irish
Revolutionary Brotherhood,” and finally of that mad-cap con
spiracy which beguiled for many years, ycleped Fenianisin.
For a quarter-century, did these agitations try the Statesmen
and tax the resources ot the Empire. But their uses are seen
in the acts of the Imperial government, which disestablished
die Anglican church over Ireland, aud which secured tciu-ut
rights, and extended the franchise of suffrage to the Irish
people.
Thirty years have given vast improvement to the political
and social condition of Ireland.
On this side the water all was apparent harmony and tran
quillity The people were glowing in the warm flush of victory
and a conquered peace. The United States had just come
forth in triumph from her third war. The treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo in that year of ’48 had given them the territory of
New Mexico and California and assured Empire on the Pacific
as on the Atlantic. Simultaneously with the proclamation of
tills treaty, was heard llie cry of Gold, found in the territory
it bestowed. The flood of emigration wliich surged over Cali
fornia lias become liistori al. In a few months it was covered
with a quarter million of people, who, iu the following year, had
framed a government anil demanded a seat with the sovereign
ties of the union.
Hut sec that heavy and black cloud look down !
During the war Daniel ,\Vilmot, a democratic representative
from Pennsylvania in congress, moved to add, to a bill author
izing the use of money in the ncgolion of peace with Mexico,
this ominous clause. Provided, Tnat as an express and funda
mental condition to the aeqiusition of any territory from the
republic of Mexico, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except for crime, shall exist therein.’’
Tims under the term of “ The Wilmot Proviso was fonnu
kited the political heresy, subversive of the principle of State
equality upon which this federal government rested, and with
out wliich it had never been formed. It formally announced
that a large section of our common country was to have no
part in the territory acquired by the common blood aud the
common treasure. It carried insult and menace to fifteen of
tiie thirty Stales of the union. But what was more startling
than the source and spirit of this proviso, was the fact of its
adoption in the lower house, aud that it failed n the senate, only
for want of time.
When the war ended in 1848, and California was tilling up
with adventurers, the principle involved in this proviso became
in the presidential canvass of that year an immclliate, practical
an 1 momentous q uestion.
I shall not attempt to draw the picture of that fierce agitation
which fairly opening iu 1848, now rose and now fell, until finally
it eliminated in secession in I860—followed by the war between
the Stales. 1 shall not recount how it immediately split the
national parties into their free soil and barn-burner factions:
how in 1850 the policy of this proviso was practically consum
mated by llie admission of California into the union: how, in
that year, the hostile forces and opposing elements were arrayed
against each other: how the impending storm was stayed, for
awhile, by a compromise that taxed the genius of Clay and tried
guide me to the right, I am heie after a survey of all the facts,
in Avhich I have aimed for historic impartiality, to find in miud
and heart, nothing to reproach my country—no censure to
cast upon the passing of those ordinances, by wliich in the years
1860 and '61, our Southern States sought to dissolve their
poli:ic;d relations with the United Slates of America.
The war c.une and j Kissed. Iii the twelve years that pre
ceded it, the sections had grown to hate one another-the
North had come to contemn the constitution, the South to
abhor the union. In the twelve years that have followed it,
may we not discern the growth of a spirit of regard and for
bearance ?
Unquestionably the conduct of that war onge dered for the
South, as an enemy in the field, a respect not accorded, as a
member iu the brotherhood of States. So long and so persist
ently had we been vilified by all tbe organs which diffuse
thought, that when that war opened we stood at the bar of
public opinion impeached—as an effeminate and wicked people,
enervated by our climate and demoralized by our institutions
—a race of idlers, braggarts, bullies and slave drivers—a city of
Cimmerium in the land of light—an exceptional barbarism on
the face of society.
It took not the four years of that conflict to destroy this
illusion ; long before the Confederate States—stripped of nu n
and money, with their resources exhausted, their finances
ruined, and their fair territory ravaged by fire and sword,
bowed to fate inevitable—had the m.iiily courage, the patient
endurance, and the steadfast adherence lo their cause of our
soldiery and people excited the wonder apd cxiortcd the admi
ration of the world.
When time shall have dried the tears, and healed the wounds
of that contest, aud the bitterness of death shall have passed
from the graves ot the fallen, mellowed into fragrant memories
of .devotion and sacrifice—may we nm lu-hevo that the respect
thus germinated by the sword iu a soil watered by blood, may
grow into estc;in that may yet hear the fruits of brotherly
love? That a union of force may yet resolve into a union of
Stales, equal, sovereign and free ; held together by bonds pt
fraternal feeling ? If so, and it is thus that a providence lias
shaped our ends, let not the patriot, nor the philosopher, nor
the philanthropist deny the uses of that war!
The war ended, and then followed the years of reconstruction
A retrospect may fail to find justification, tut will discover some
extenuation at last for the war that was waged again-t us. “Ira
agination” said the Great Najioleon “rules the world.’’ And many
circumstances conspired to tire tbe Northern heart upon that
crusade. In the power that was passing away, a vision of “stales
dissevered, discordant belligerent ’ arose to view—secession, iu
their excited thought, assumed the proportions of Revolution. It
meant Mexicuuism, anarchy, chaos, ruin ! In this temper, came
the tall of.Sumpter. In that firing, they saw a blow to their ho icr,
an insult to their flag, affront and defiance to their mar.iiood. The
spark had struck the magazine, explosion followed !
But the scheme of Congressional Reconstruction finds war
rant no where but in the wickedness of the human heart.
Four millions of slaves, by Constitutional Amendments un
constitutionally imposed, were endowed with liberty, elevated
into citizens, and provided with the ballot.
This army of electors, led by scalawag and carpet bagger,
Avere turned into political masters to keep the South subject and
degraded forever. It was thus the Black Republican Parly
found revenge, by planting, beneath the forms of free government,
the most merciless and ingenious tyrauny known to modern
times. How these governments of* ours were put under the
bayonet, and by the bayonet duly turned over to the dregs of
society ; and how these gangs of adventurers and plunderers
field high carnival with the prerogatives, the patronage, the
school. The history of chemistry strikes and fascinates the
mind no less than the greatness ot its discovered truths. The
mystic arts of magic and alchemy, which aimed to change the
baser metals into silver and gold, and promised an elixir, be
stowing perennial youth to man, had for thousands of years be
guiled human thought and exercised human invention. From
the crucibles and retorts of this mercenary superstition, sprang
a body of truths, scarce a century ago, which needed only to
be classified to ri-e into the majesty of a science. It chemistry
have not transmuted the baser metals, into treasures of gold, it
has long since shown the allotropism of matter and pointed out
tha: the diamond is but charcoal in a different form. Recently
it <•; .mis to have discovered in ozone—(another form of the
ax j gi^i we breathe)—thq antidote pud cure of all zymotic dis
ease. In our day it lias given us Gun cotton and Dynamite: it
has t; light us how t<> manure our lauds: lo conquer heat by the
manufacture of ice : to cleanse and purify the air we breathe:
aud is ever adding new alkaloids and acids, and salts to the
pliai maeopaeia of medicine. If wealth consist not in the pre
cious metals but in ilio acquisition of appliances that meet the
wants aud relieve the necessities of mau, this young daughter
bids fair to give in substance all that her venal parents dreamed
and promised. *'
The student of chemistry who shut his hook a quarter cen
tury ago, will not now understand the meaning of its terms. It
will hardly clear his apprehension to be told, tnat the gas which
evervesccs at the soda fount, is a “ carbonic anhydride—that
the elements are either perisads or arlaids: that oxygen is
diatomic and dyadic: that uitrogem is a triatomie or trivalent
constituent of matter.” But these are only the scaffoldings on
which the builders stand, and deform the noble aud imposing
structure while it ris s to completion.
In this generation, Astronomy, not content to measure dis
tances, and work paths of bodies in the heavens, now under
takes to analyze the Sun, and toil ns the elements which com
pose the starry host that traverse llie blue empyrean of space.
From the study of space we are called to the study of time.
Geology, wilh-lls fos-ils, claims in our tlay to demonstrate an
antiquity of the Earth, and an antiquity of man, beyond even
the grasp of hum m thought.
As God in his way and at his appointed time, deliver d his
commandments from Mount Sinai—written on tables of stone,
to his chosen people, so he has chosen this generation and our
people to reveal to them records of the human race and if
the eartluvhich it. inhabits, written during an infinity of the
past, with no mistaken characters, upon his everlasting rocks!
“Not’’ says the eloquent Tyndal “not for six
“ thousand, nor for sixty thousand, nor for six thousand
“ thousand, but for icons embracing untold millions
“of years.J has tl is earth been the theatre of life an 1
‘death. The riddle of the rocks has been read from sub cam-
“ brian depths to the deposits thickening over the sea
“ bottoms of to-day. And upon the leaves of that stone book
“are stamped the characters, plainer and surer than those
“ formed by the ink of history, Wliich carry the mind back into
and io on throngR the whole li-.t We hung
known a grocer to lose a eu.-tomcr whose
trade was worth a hundred and fifty dollars
a year clear profit 1j him, ju.-t because ha
would not supply a bnklr.^ powder ihat waa>
demanded by the best trade.
FOAM
“ abysses of pa-t time, compared with which, the periods which
“ satisfied an earlier chronology, cease to have a visual angle.”
It would not be proper to leave this topic without a referei.ee
at least to the great generalizations which science claims to
have reached in our day. Of these the widest aud most radical is
that termed the conservation of energy, and consisting of the
proposition that the forces of nature are like its matter, from the
first one and indestructible, and that these various forces of
light, heat, electricity motion, magnetism, &c., are mutually
convertible into each other. It is from the play of these forces
with matter “ that every vital and physical phenomenon is evolv-
ed—resultants predetermined by unchanging law. This broad
theory has been nailed as the highest law in physical science
that our faculties permit us to receive, and one which “ binds
nature fast iu fate.”
It has given aid and c>ml**rt to another conception of phys
ics, which iu our day has become an accepted doctrine. Ihat
matter in its last analysis consists of atoms or molecules, through
whose interaction with one another, and with the forces of na
ture, all forms and changes are developed. Hear Clark Max-
tveil, one of its enthus'asU'. .,
“ Natural causes we know are at work, which inodity, if they
“do Hot at length destroy all the arrangements and dimensions
“ of the earth aud thfi whole solar system. But though in the
“ course ot ages, catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur
“ in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved, and
“ new systems evolved from their ruin , the molecules out of
[CONCLUDED ON THIRD PAGE.]
taiptooaetliiiiii
the Grocery Line.
It Is a flnit-class article, will do all WA
claim for it, and never Coils
to work WELL.
It is a credit to any merciu ill’s stock, and £*
one of (lie few good things he can confidently
recommend to every customer. It will eeli
itself after ono trial, for its great merits are
soon appreciated. And not only so. but one
lady using it will tel! ethers of tiie wonderful
properties of Sf.a Foam, ami where it con be
purchased, and so the tide of trade wHr
gradually but surely set toward the enterpri*-
ing grocer who keeps it in stock. Actually,
tho ladies of Georgia where Sea Foam has
been introduced, are noted for making better
bread, biscuit, corn cakes, snd other cookery
than can be found anywhere else, and they
give Sea Foam the credit, ar.d won’t use anj
other baking preparation. And it u not to be.
wontlTcd ot, either, for Sea Foam
NEVER FAILS
TO MAKE GOOD BREAD when used
according to directions.
More than half tl.e complaints of bad Boor
ari.-e from the tt-e of common baking powders,
which not infrequently make the best of flour
turn out dark bread. Ska Foam will make
better cookery with second quality of flour
than tire Ix-st of hour will produce with any
of these other compounds.
NEARLY EVERY BAKING POWDER
IS ADULTERATED.
SEA FOAM IS PERFECTLY PURE
Anil contains no element or ingredient
that is in any way injurious.
SEA FOAM COOKING RECIPES
Are presented with every can, also Fall In
structions for Use* ££" Yuli can buy Sea Foam
from any loading wholesale house, or send to
Gants, Jones & Co.
MAHUFACTUBEBS and PEOPBIETOBS^
176 Duane St., New York.
TO THE
Citizens of Athens
And 'STicini-fcy-
Tlie undersigned has this day purchased frotu
his brother, Maj. THOMAS' A. BURKE, bis
entire interest in the BOOK AND STATION
ERY BUSINESS AT ATHENS, and intendato
run a
First Class Book Store,
InJ which the Best Goods, latest and most popu
lar Books, tind indeed everything usually kept
in a Good, Well Appointed Book Store, may be
found. Being connected with the well known-
and extensive wholesale house of
J. W. BUKKE &00., MACON, GA.
His facilities for keeping up stock aud keeping
everything nt Bottom Prices, *vill give him s
decided advantage in buying Booi s Ac., at
Lowest Kates, and lie intends to give kis custo
mers the full benefit of if, by
SELLING AS CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST.
Ho asks his old friends in and around Athens,
to give hi-.n a share of the patronage. To alL
he extends a hearty invitation to come and buv.
Maj. T. A. Burke will still be connected^ with
the house, and will have charge of the busmess,
and he asks his friends and tlift public to cou-
tinue the patronage heretofore bestowed on him.
JOHN W. BURKE.
June ll.tt.
OPIUM^^
Opium Katin*, vo w.
I worthlngun. Gre«a«
—Look at Gray’s unlaundrcd Bhirts
tor 50 cents.