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The Cartersville Semi-Weekly Express.
Pu blished on ever;/ Tuesday and Friday . 1 TorniiOjs
VOLUME X.
Tho Cartersville Express
!- |inl»U<hc'l Semi-Weekly on every TUES-
X Y AX I) Pit ID AY, bv
S. H. SMITH & Cos., E litors and Prop’rs.
In the town ot i artersvlllo, Bartow County, Ga.
Ten nos Subscription:
ONLY $2 A YEAR!!!
IN VA R'ißL Y IN A I) VA NOE.
Thursday M i.'nins Edition, one year) 1.50
This latter pi >|>osition Is con lined to citizens
of Bartow county only.
Tonrs of Advertising:
Transient (0 i t I fontk or less ) per square often
sol l Nonparifl or Brevier lines or less, One
I dollar for the first, and Fifty Cents for each sub
eqient. Inset lon, , , ...
Annual or C > itrart. One Hundred and T went}
Dollars per column, or in that proportion.
y.j.rfesaional sands.
John W. Wofford,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CASTERS VILLE GIORMA.
Office over Pinkerton’s Drujf Store. Oct. 17.
A. P. Wofford,
AITORNEY AT LAW,
CAItTERSVIW.S, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court House,
Tune 23,1870.
R. W. Murphey,
AITTORNEY AT LAW,
OAETEItSVILI H, GEORGI A.
Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Part icular attention jriven to the col
lection of claims. Office with Col. Abda .John
on. o<t. 1.
John >f. .tones,
TTORNEY \T LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT,
CARTERSVILI.E GEORGIA, j
Will attend promptly to all professional busi- i
nnss entrusted to bis care; also, to the buying
and selling of Real Estate. Jan I.
Jere. A. Howard,
Ordinary of Bartow County.
CAITERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 1, 1870.
A. M. PoutcT
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
AItTERSVII.LE, GEORGIA.
(With Col. Warren Akin.)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
l’o k, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whittield anil ad
joining counties. March 30.
T. W. MILNKR, O. It. MILNER.
miner & Milner,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
Will attend promptly to business entrusted to
their care. Jau. 15.
Warren Akin,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTEUSVI LK GEORGIA.
Will practice in nil the courts of the State.
Sain. 11. Pat I Ho,
Fashionable Tailor and Agent
for Sewing Machines,
WILL attend promptly to the Cutting. Re
pairing, and Making Boys’ and Mens’
Clothing; also. Agent for the sale of the cele
brated Grover & Baker Sewing Machines. Of
fice over Stokely & Williams Store. Entrance
from the rear. feb 17.
W. It. HlounteaMile,
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CARTERSVILI E GEORGIA.
Office in front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s Store.
Heiiiirsiiiv House,
MARIETTA,... GEORGIA.
IS still open to the traveling public as well as
summer visitors. Parties desiring to make
arrangements for the season can be accommo
dated. Rooms neat and clean and especially
adapted for families. A line large piazza lias
been recently added to the comforts of the estab
lishment. FLETCHER & FREYER,
junelSwtf Proprietors.
S. O’SHI ELDS,
Fashionable Tailor ,
Cartersville, Georgia.
HAVE just received the latest European and
American styles of Mens’ and Boys’ Cloth
ing, and is prepared to Cut and Making to or
der. Office upstairs in Liebman’s store. East
side of the Railroad. sept. 29.
Hr. J. A. Jackson,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OFFICE IN THE NE W DR UQ STORE
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 4th, 1871.
bowleeT"
MANUFACTURER OF. 1 ,
AND DEALER IINT,
SINGLE AND DOUBLE
HAKNESS,
Saddles,
COLLARS, LEATHER. &C.
REIMIRIXCi IM>\K
With neatness and dispatch.
ftjK?**Shoi)« n West Main Street, near the old
Market Ilonss, CARTEESVILLE, GA.
feb 21-wly WM. O liOWLEK.
" GEAR SHOP,” by
w. i mmmt *gP
CART SRSVILI.E, OA.
M/nufactureu of Harness, Bri
(lit s, Gear, etc*, and Dealer in
Leather.
Rcpairtny done on short notice. Work war
ranted to stu id tlie test. Hides Wanted.
jan.24, ISH.-swly
i>i*. r. m.
•q .TOll, i50,.,
e» b:\ti.st.
Cartersville, Ga
•> 2f
Teeth drawn witliout. pain, by the use ox nar
cotic spray. mch 9.
J\ T. OWEN,
JEWELER.
Main Street, Cartersville, Ga..
‘*l furnish anything in his line as cheap as
>t can he bought anywhere.
e is always at his post, ready to serve his
customers. /
Every fchirj warahtod to jrlvc satistaetiofi.
Church Directory.
Methodist Church,
Ret. John T. Norris, SrrtKvt ji eh ah y.
The pulpit of this Church i< filled, the first Sab
bath in each month, by Rev. Wm. H. Felton;
the 2nd Sabbath in cadi month, by Hkv. JaS.
W. Harris; the 3rd Sabbath In each month,
by ItKV. Jno. T. Noams; the ir.h sabbath in
each month, bv JtKV. Da. X\ . W. I.EAIt. ser
vice- every Sunday nlglit. Prayer meeting
bold on Wednesday evening of each
week. Subath School Sunday mornings, com
mencing at 9 o’clock.
ISaptist C’hurch.
Rev. Robert 11. llkahkn, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday anil Sunday night by
the Pastor.
Prayer Meeting held on Thursday night of
each week.
Sabbath School every Sunday morning com
mencing at 9 o’clock.
Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Theodore E. Smith, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and night,
by the Pastor.
Prayer Meeting held on Tuesday evening of
each week.
Sabbath School every Sunday morning, com
mencing at 9 o’clock.
Episcopal Cliurcli.
Rev. Alexander J. Duyspalk, rector.
Preaching every Second Sunday in each month,
commencing at half past four o’clock, p. m.
Services, in the future, will be held in the
building belonging to J)r. W. W. Leak,
in the rear of the new Methodist Church.
I. O. O. F.
milE regular meeting of Etowah Lodge. No.
JL 49, I. O. O. F., is held on every Thursday
night, in the Masonic Hall.
JOHN M. DOBBS, Seo’y.
Cartersville, Ga., Oct. 9th, 1871.
Cherokee Ilailrottd Time Table.
ON ami after Monday, OctoberDth, trains on
the Cherokee Rail Road will run as fol
lows :
I .cave Taylorsville 8,30 A. M.
“ Stilesboro 9 “ “
Arrive at Cartersville 9,50 “ “
II E TURNING.
Leave Cartersville 1,30 P. M.
Stilesboro 2,30 “ “
Arrive at Taylorsville 2,50 “ “
C. T. SABIN, Sup’t.
Cartersville, Ga., Oct. 7,1871.
SASSEEN HOUSE.
(Formerly United States Hotel,)
CORNER ALABAMA & PRYOR STS,
Atlanta, Cicorgia.
E. It. SASSEEN, Agent.. ..Proprietor
Terms—Transient Boarders, per day, $2
iSngTe meal ami lodging, 50 cents.
TIIE C A USE A N D Cr re O F CONST J M PTION.
—The primary cause of Consumption is derange
ment of the digestive organs. This derange
ment produces deficient nutrition and assimila
tion. By assimilation I mean that process by
which tlie nutriment of the food is converted
into blood, and thence into the sol ills of the
body. Persons with digestion thus impaired,
having the slightest predisposition to pulmon
ary disease, or if they take cold, will be very
liable to have Consumtiou of the Lungs in some
of its forms; and I hold that it will he impossi
ble to cure any case of Consumption without
first restoring a good digestion and healthy as
similation. The very first thing to he done is
to cleanse the stomach and bowels from all dis
eased mucus and slime, which is clogging these
organs so that they cannot perform their func
tions, and then rouse up and restore the liver to
a healthy action. For this purpose the surest
and best remedy is Sehenek’s Mandrake Pills.
These Pills clean the stomach and bowels of all
the dead and morbid slime that is causing dis
ease and decay in the whole system. They will
clear out the liver of all diseased bile that has
accumulated there, and rouse it up to anew and
healthy action, by which natural and healthy
bile is secreted.
The stomach, bowels, and liver are thus clean
sed by the use of Sehenek’s Mandrake Pills;
hut there remains in the stomach an excess
of acid, the organ is torpid and the appetite
poor. In the bowels the lacteals are weak, and
requiring strength and support. It is in a con
dition like this that Sehenck’s Seaweed Tonic
proves to be the most valuable remedy ever dis
covered, It is alkaline, and it use will neutra
lize all excess of acid, making the stomaeh
sweet and fresh; it will give permanent tone to
this important organ, and create a good, hearty
appetite, and prepare the system for the first
process of a good digestion, and ultimately
make good, healthy, living blood. After this
preparatory treatment, what remains to cure
most cases of Consumption is the free and per
severing use of Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup. The
Pulmonic Syrup nourishes the system, purifies
the blood, and is readily absorbed into tne cir
culation. and thence distributed to the diseased
lungs. There it ripens all morbid matters,
whether in the form of abscesses or tubercles,
and then assists Nature to expel all the disease
matter, in the torm of free expectoration, when
once it ripens. It is then, by the great healing
and purifying properties of Schenck’s Putmonic
Syrup, that all ulcers and cavities are healed
up sound, and my patient is cured.
The essential thing to he done in curing Con.
sumption is to get up a good appetite and a
good digestion, so that the body will grow in
fiesh and get strong. If a person has diseased
lungs.—a cavity or abscess there,—the cavity
cannot heal, the matter cannot ripen, so long
as the system is below par. What is necessary
to cure is anew order of things,—a good appe
tite, a good nutrition, the body to grow in flesh
and get fat; then Nature is helped, the cavities
will heal, the matter will ripen and be thrown
off in large quantities, and the person regain
health and strength. This is the true and only
plan to cure Coi sumption, and if a person is
very bad, if the lungs are not entirely destroy
ed, or even if one lung is entirely gone, if there
is enough vitality left iu the other to heal up,
there is hope.
Bridles,
I have seen many persons cured with only one
sound lung, live and enjoy life to a good old
age. This is what Schenck’s Mcdizinesjn ill do
to cure Consumption. They will clean out the
stomach, sweeten and strengthen it, get up a
good digestion, and give*Nature the assistance
she needs to clear the system of all the disease
that is in the lungs, whatever the form may
be.
It is important that while using Schenck’s
Medicines, care should lie exercised not to take
cold; keep in-doors in cold and damp weather;
avoid night air, and take out-door exercise only
in a genial and warm sunshine.
I wish it distinctly understood that when I
recommend a patient to be careful in regard to
taking cold, while using my Medicines, I do so
for a special reason. A man who lias but par
tially recovered from the effects of a bad cold
is far more liable to a relapse than one who lias
been entirely cured; ana it is precisely the
same in regard to Consumption. So long as the
lungs are not perfectly healed, just so long is
there imminent danger of a full return of the
disease. Hence it is that Iso strenuously cau
tion pulmonary patients against exposing
themselves to an atmosphere that is not genial
ami pleasant. Confirmed Consumptives’ lungs
are a mass of sores, which the least change of
atmosphere will inflame. The grand secret of
mv success with my Medicines consists in my
ability to subdue inflammation instead of pro
voking it, as many of the faculty do. An in
flamed lung cannot, with safety to the patient,
be exposed to the biting blasts of Winter or the
chilling winds of Spring or Autumn. It shoul
be carefully shielded from all irritating influ
ences. The utmost caution should be observed
in this particular, as without it a cure under
almost any circumstances is an impossibility.
The person should be kept on a wholesome
and nutritious diet, and all the Medicines con
tinued until the body lias restored to it the nat
ural quanity of flesh and strength.
I was myself cured by this treatment of the
worst kind of Consumption, and have lived to
get fat and hearty these many years, with one
lung mostly gone. I have cured thousands
since, and very many have been cured by this
treatment whom I have never seen.
About the First of October I expect to take
possession of my new building, at the North
east Corner of Sixth and Arch Srects, where f
shall be pleased to give advice to all who may
min ire it.
Full directions accompany a’l my Remedies,
so that a person in any part of the world can be
readily cured by a strict observance of the
s ime.
J. If. SCHKVCK. M 1>„
Philadelphia.
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA, OCT. 31. 1871.
SHARP & FLOYD,
Successors to Geo. SHARP, Jr.,
ATLANTA, GA,
Wholesale And Retail Jewelers,
We Keep a Large and Varied Assortment of
FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS,
DIAMONDS, JEIVELRV,
AND
SPECTACLES.
mm mm mm,
A SPECIALTY.
We Manufactuae Tea Sets, Forks, Spoons.
Goblets, Cups, Knives, etc.
3fotj Agricultural Jfaiqs.
We arc prepared to fill any order for Fairs at
short notice; also to give any information in
regard to Premiums.
Orders by mail or i» person, will receive
prompt and careful attention. Wc ask a com
parison of Stock, Prices and Workmanship with
any house in the State.
Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired
and Warranted. Masonic Badges and Sunday
School Badges made to order.
All Work Guaranteed.
ENG PA VING FREE OF CHARGE.
SHARP Sc FLOYD.
May 23, svvly.
Lawshe & Haynes,
HAVE ON HAND AND are receiving
the finest stock of the
Very Latest Styles
of Diamond and Gold
JEWELRY,
in upper Georgia, selected, with eat care for
the
Fall and Winter Trade.
Watches,
of the BEST MAKERS, of both Europe and A
merica;
American and French Clocks;
Sterling and Coin Silver Ware;
and the best quality of
Silver Plated Goods,
at prices to suit the times;
Gold, Silver and Steel
Spectacles,
to suit all ages
Wat dies and Jewelry
Repairs!) by Competent Workmen;
Also Clock and Wdtch Makers
Tools and Materials.
sept 13.-swly ATLANTA, GA.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. CC
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN—OUTWARD.
Leaves Atlanta, 10 30, ?. M.
Arrives at Chattanooga, 6 16, A. m
I)aY PASSENGER TRAlN—Outward.
Leaves Atlanta, .. C 00, a. m.
Arrives at Chattanooga 1 21, P. m.
EAST LINE TO NEW YORK—OUTWARD.
Leaves Atlanta 2 45, r. m.
Arrrives at Dalton 7 53, p. m.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN—INWARD.
Leaves Chattanooga .... 5 20, p. M.
Arrives at Atlanta 1 42, a. m.
day passenger train -inward.
Leaves Chattanooga 5 30, a. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 1 32, p. u.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN—INWARD.
Leaves Dalton 2 25, A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta 10, a. m.
E. 6. WALKER,
sept 14,1871. Master of Transportation.
New Route to Mobile, New Orleans,
Vicksburg and Texas.
o
Blue Mountain Route
V I A
SELMA, ROME AND DALTON
Railroad anti its Connec
tions.
o
PASSENGERS LEAVIMG ATLATA
BY THE Six A. M. TRAIN OF THE
WESTERN: & ATLANTIC!, arrive at
Home at 10 A. M., making close connection
FAST EXPRESS TRAIN
Os Selma. Dalton and Rome Railroad, arriving
at
Selma at 8:10, P. M.
and making close connections with train of
Alabama Central Railroad, arriving at
Meridian 4:00 a. m.
Jackson 11:50 a. m.
Vicksburg .. •• • 2:55 p. m.
ALSO, make close connection at CALEB A
with trains of South and North Alabama Rail
road, arriving at
Montgomery 7:10 r. m.
Mobile 7:45 a. M.
New Orleans 4:25 P. m.
The road has recently been equipped audits
equipment is not surpassed by any in South for
strength and beauty of finish.
change of cars between Rome and
Selma.
PIJLLNAX’S PALACE
€ a ns
run tlirough from ROME VIA MONTGOMERY
to MOBILE, without change.
NO DELAY AT TERMINAL POINTS.
Fare as low asbv any other Route.
Purchase Tickets via Kingston at the
General Ticket Office, or at the 11. I. Kimball
House. JOHN B. PECK.
General Passenger Agent.
E. G. BARNEY,
General Superintendent.
E. V. JOHNSON, Local Agent,
oct. 2—ts No. 4 Kimball House, Atlanta
“Onward andl Upward
Speeeli onion. Tlionms Horde*
man, Jr., Delivered at the Sec*
°»*d Annual Fair oft lie Central
Cherokee Georgia Agricultural
Association. at Cartersville, on
riiurMlay, tlie sth day oYOeto*
her, and Repeated at Ogle
thorpe Park, Atlanta, Oetober
19th, 1871.
An Earnest Appeal to Geor
gians to Build Up The
Grand Old Commonwealth.
[Note. —This address is copied from
the Atlanta New Era, and is the same
in substance, with a few slight altera
tions, as the one delivered at the Car
tersville Fair. We have never been
furnished with an exact copy of this
able Address, and think it entirely un
necessary, as the one is a repetition of
the other, with the exception of a few
introductory remarks. Cauteusville
Exp afss.]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
At the request of the Executive
Committee of the Atlanta Agricultur
al and Industrial Association, I have
consented to repeat, in part, an ad
dress which I had the honciV to deliver
it a recent Fair in Cartersville. lam
sure, had I consulted my own feelings,
I could not have complied with this
request, and after the exhibition that
we have had from this stand, to-day,
I ft 1 t hat one must have courage, in
deed, to follow in the wake of the
3’oung orators who have preceded me.
[Applause.] I say, that, if I consulted
my owu feelings, I would not have
been here to-day. But, where so
much iuterest and so noble a spirit
has been manifested by the people of
Atlanta in rebuilding her fallen for
tunes, and thereby enhancing the in
terests ana prosperity of our State, I
think that it is eminently the duty of
every one, when called upon, to aid
her in her ownward march of improve
ment. When we look back at her
course and remember her as I have
seen her and as some before me to
day have seen her, decked in her bri
dal robes, and then as we have seen
her a widow in her weeds stricken by
the blast and crushed by the whirlwind
and the storm, it must be a source of
great pleasure and of pride to see her
to-d iy a widow with her weeds thrown
off, with the widow’s cap upon her
cheek, and the bewitching smile that
widows only have—more beautiful by
far than when arrayed iu her brid.il
robes. And, therefore, I say that
when we see such an exhibition of en
terprise and of spirit, we can but con
gratulate ourselves, and congratulate
our whole people, that there is life in
the old State yet.
I speak not now of that melancholy ]
existence that characterized the chil
dren of Israel when they sat down by
the Rivers of Babylon and wept, when
they remembered Zon, nor of that
life of angry repining and tanlt-finding
sorrow, which was exemplified in the
prophet ot the tribe of Zebulon when
in the morning of his troubles, as he
looked upon the withered gourd that
the evening before had blessed him
with its freshness and its shade, he
exclaimed in the bitter accents of a
Providence- defying nature: ‘‘lt is bet
ter for me to die than to live;” but of
a life, despite the withered palms that
overhang every household, despite of
captured cities, sacked tempks, and
ruined fortunes, tli it is binding its ev
ery energy to restore joy to the house
hold, plenty to the coffer, independence
to the people, and honor and position
to the loved old Commonwealth. —
[Applause.] A life that sits not
grieving over the fortunes of the past,
but looking tearfully at its glory and
its greatness, shakes the dust of its
ruins from its wings, and pluming
them for a loftier, bolder fight, will
rest them not until she has gained
that exalted height where, overlooking
her former greatness and position, in
the fullness of her fortune and her
honor, she can sing again the song of
Georgia’s “uprising,” Georgia’s great
ness, and Georgia’s glory. Gloomy,
melancholy, sorrowful brooding, never
restored a lost joy, a waste J opportu
nity, or a broken fortune. Job sat re
pining over the conflagration of his
property, the loss of his children, and
the desolation of his hopes, until his
calamities forced him to curse his fate
and pray for death; but this did not
restore his herds, his children, his for
tune, or his happiness. Daiker and
darker grew the day of his being, un
til the sun of his hopes set in the night
of despair, nor did morning dawn un
til, listening to tne voice of Providence,
heard above the roar of the whirlwind,
he arose and girded up his loins like a
man ready for the duties of life, and
the requirements of Heaven. Then it
was that joy flowed into his bosom—a
gl ddeniug stream; his desolate heart
beat with pulsations of strange de
light as new sous and daughters
sprang up, the pride and solace of his
years; his pastures, long herdless and
abandoned, teemed again with in
creased flocks and folds; and the old
patriarch, iu the decline of life, despite
the afflictions of the past, its bereave
ments and its poverty, looked out up
on a present rich with the possessions
of earth and a future radiant with the
promise of a plenteous contentment.
Cease, then, ye iueu of Georgia, to
weep over the wretched fortunes of the
past. The tree has fallen, so it must
lie; yet from its branches the acorn
may be gathered that, implanted now,
will grow up a mighty oak, under
whose wide spreading shadow, iu
coming years, yonr children can sit
and sing tuose good old songs that
gladdeued the hearts of their fathers
and mothers, who will then sleep in its
shade. The waters of plenty are
spilled, but the vessel that contained
them is unbroken; and here in the
wilderness of your desolation are Ho
rebs still, which, if struck by the rod
of energy will pour for h their gushing
streams thereby enabling you to till
them again even to overflowing; but
they will remain cold, barren rocks
unless the Moses of the land strike
them with the rods of their power.
The mountains of your State lire rich
with mineral wealth, yet it will remain
valueless and profitless unless organ
ized labor digs from its bed and con
verts into uses, remunerative to the
laborer and beneficial to mankind.—
Your rich valleys, susceptible of a cul
ture that would abundantly repay the
toiling husbandman, are as worthless
as so many barren wastes, unless that
husbandman prepares them for the
grain, that Providence, in his bounty,
will ripen for the harvest. Your no
ble streams will pour their waters to
the sea as they did when the red man
hunted their banks, uuless accumula
ted capital combines to turn those
waters into manufacturing utility, and
thus give employment to thousands
unable to plow a furrow or drive a
plane. The elements of greatness and
independence are yet iu Georgia, and
all that is requisite to secure them is
determination aud effort. Labor is
tbe only talisman of success; action,
will, application are all we" need to
make Georgia the pride of her sons
and the glory of the States. With a
soil susceptible of the highest culture,
with a climate unsurpassed for salu
brity, with a people homogeneous in
their wants and necessities, Georgia
stands to-day, in these respects, with
out a peer or a parallel; aud she is
laggard in the great march of improve
ment. Why is it thus written of you,
my countrymen ? Are you degenerate
sons of illustrious sires? The same
sun that germinated the seed and ri
pened the grain for your fathers,
blesses you to-day with his warmth
and his power. The same seasons
that brought their respective blessings
for them yet return to you, laden with
their gifts and their offerings. The
same earth that yielded them a plen
teous support and a rich subsistence,
invites you to labor in lmr fields,
whitening still with richest harvests.—
The same God that gaveth the sun
shine and the shower iu the days of
prosperity is yet able to give the in
crease in this, the dark hour of yonr
existence. Up, then, ye men and wo
men of Georgia, and iu the name of
all that is bright in the past and hope
ful iu the luture, with determirnd
will
Strike one more blow for Georgia’s weal;
Strike with the plow the fertile field ;
Strike with the factory's busy wheel;
Strike with the miner's edge of steel;
Strike with the merchant’s thrifty zeal;
Strike oft, strike long, strike all who feel
Proud of her rivers and her rills ;
Proud of her valleys and her hills ;
Proud of the wealth her soil conceals;
Proud of her grain and cotton fields ;
Proud of her varied, fertile soil ;
Proud of her hardy sons of toil ;
Proud of her women, her greatest pride,
Lovelier here than all the world beside
Then will her bonds indeed be riven ;
Then will new hope, new life be given
To Georgians all, who, where’er they roam.
Will point with pride to their dear Georgia
home.
Educated labor, diversified and di
rected, is all that is essential to realize
for your State all that patriot hope
can anticipate or patriot heart desire,
and for this diversified labor, every in
terest in the present and every hope
for the future, plead and invite the
energies and enterprise of her sons.—
Your streams must be vocalized with
the music of machinery for this. —
Cherokee Georgia has water capacity
sufficient to turn the many Kpiud»es fwi
Lowell, and contiguous to It em you
have fertile fields that can supply ihe
thousands engaged therein, with the
necessaries of life, creating at the same
time a home market for tne production
of your soil and a home supply for the
products of your looms. Heie, too, is
an inviting field for the mechanical
arts in your great natural laboratory
of mineral wealth, whose inexhaustible
treasures lure you to-day with then
richness and their value.
One of Georgia’s greatest wants to
day is skilled mecuamcs, not your
mere builders of houses, lout your Tu
bal Cains, workmen in copper, and
brass, and iron, to make your engines
and machinery, your c rs, your culti
vators—in fiue, to work to advantage
aud profit the ores now lying profitless
in your mountains. Sue needs, as
friend Greeley says, more shops, more
forges, more lnruaces, more factories,
more schocl-nouses to develop the la
tent energies of her people. Let the
tire of your furuacvS be seen among
your bills and in your valleys, and let
Georgia artisans, educated in Geor
gia’s mechanical tchools and vvoik
shops, supply your i.eees. ities lrom
these furnaces and forges, iuu by coal
obtained from your mountains. Let
the hum of the factory be in aid above
the roar of your wuteifalls. and the
song of the happy operative break up
on your morning devotions or your
evening quiet. Let your common
schools—supplied with all the appli
ances of education—be brought to the
doorways of every citizen of the State,
be lie humble or in high {ilace, and
Georgia will have begun in earnest
her march toward iud -pendence and
greatness. Exhaust not your fertile
soil in the cultivation alone of corn
and cotton. Small grain and the
grasses wi l piv-vr equally remunera
tive, for jK>und of clover bay,
every sheaf of and barley, and
oats, will ever com urn ml rerun tier itive
prices in the markets of the worin.—
Study, my countrymen, the enabling
art which to-day engages your time
and your labor, for agriculture, like
the mechanic arts, n quires patient
study. It, is a fatal error to suppose
that every man who can plow a fur
row, who knows when it is seed time
and harvest, is therefore a farmer.—
Successful agriculture requires educa
ted labor. I speak not simply of the
education cf theoretical agriculturists,
but the practical experience, based up
on a knowledge of geology, chemistry
and vegetable phisiology, of men who
look upon agriculture, not simply as a
great necessity, but as an art coeval
with man’s civilization, and the basis
of every art that adorns and ennobles
the human race. The agriculturist
should k low the analysis of his soil,
its wants and necessities; for old
mother earth, like the human system,
has wants, the supplying of which is
essential to her maintenance and
support He should have a correct
knowledge of the properties of
mineral, anim and and vegetable man
ures, and the mode of applying
them. You would think strange of an
accredited piiy.-ician, who would ad
minister to a patient, without having
a diagnosis of Ins disease, or ail}
knowledge of the remedies that the
case demanded; and yet, with the
same culpable ignorance, you often
administer to the condition of the soil,
without knowing one of hs constitu
ent elements, and what remedies are
best suited to its requirements and
necessities. Yes, my countrymen, the
professed friends of agriculture and
the cultivation of the soil, you are in
many instances the Cassiuses, the Oas
cas, and Brut uses, that have morta'ly
stabbed the Cteiar of your l ive. And
when I look upon “the bleeding piece
of earth,” when I hold up the rent
mantle and see where your daggers
pierced, with stricken Autony I ex
claim :
‘I am no orator :
But as you know mi all—a plain, blent
man—
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor
wo v th,
Action nor utterance, nor the power of
speech
To stir men’s blood- I only speak right on :
I tell you that whioli you yourselves do
know;
Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds, poor, poor
dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me.”
And your miserably wasted Gelds are
speaking; your gullied hillsides, your
scaled hilltops, are speaking; your de
fect ive rotation crop system is speak
ing. The remedies and stimulants
you are ignorantly administering to a
famished soil are speaking; your exten
sive farming area system is speaking;
your defective preparation of sail is
speaking; your dependence upon the
products of distant localities is speak
ing; and each and all are speaking ii.
tongues that should move the very soil
upon which you stand to rise and mu
tiny. [Applause.] Study, my couu
trymeu, the ennobling art of agricul
ture, which ii engaging to-d y seven
eights of the people of almost every
civilized c.immunity on the globe. Far
back in the annals of the ages gone we
read of Noah, the husbandman, and
Abel, sacrificing “the firstlings of the
llock.” Again, we see the Egyptians
in their admiration of this Heaven-in
spired art, “worshipping the ox for his
services as a laborer” in the baru yard,
and the ancient Roman venerating the
plow that broke this soil, while Rome’s
greatest encomium upon one of her
si-ns was to say he was a judicious and
industrious husbaudman. As it was
glorious iu the past, so it is eminently
honorable in the present—iu active in
strumentality in building up those
moral and industrial habits which give
position to governments and perma
nence to their institutions. A tho
rough knowledge of agriculture, its
wants and requirements, will lead to a
well devised system of diversified labor,
and tins important lesson Georgia
should learn at once. Look at your
►State to-day, poor aud impoverished,
not because you have not labored, for
no people groaning under adversity
have so heroically struggled against
misfortunes, but because you have la
bored unwisely and too much in one
channel
Learn a lesson, my countrymen, from
those who are being enriched by your
felly. Look at the great West; and
she is great iu all the elements of
greatness. S e her as I have just seen
her, her labor directed iu a thousand
channels, and each one converging in
the great ocean of her prosperity.—
She makes her own machinery from
her own mineral ores; she tu .kes her
own woolen goods, her own furniture,
her own farming utensils, builds ves
sels and freights them; large cities aud
peoples them with a thrifty population,
aud in addition to all these, furnishes
yon, people of Georgia—and I say it
to your shame —with your Hour and
coru, your bacon and your mules, that
you may raise cotton *o enable you to
purch .se again the products of her la
bor. All these yon can do for vour
S. -ll* .Smith 4* Cos., Proprietors.
selves. You have the minerals and
the coal sleeping in yonr mountains;
von have the water power.at your ve
ry doors; you have «ho forest in all its
native grow h and beauty, and you
have a soil peculiarly adapted to the
wants and necessities of yonr State.—
Awake, then, to the importance of
living at home and supplying your
selves. Theu will success brighten tne
horizon of yonr present, aud hope gild
her heaven with the radiant splendors
of your future. lam anxious to see
the day again in my old State when
our farmers will get their meat out of
their own smoke houses; w hen the ox
will know his owner and the ass his
master’s crib, for I assure you if the
latter animal could speak, as did Ba
laam’s of old, it would be iu denuncia
tion of your present mode of farming,
and your uncharitable practice of forc
ing him to earn a subsistuuce by graz
ing with Nebuchadnezzar in the scan
ty grass fields of the country.
Aye, say you, these nre stubborn
truths; but our labor has been taken
from us, aud we are uuaccustomed to
menial service. Where are the bauds
the God of Nature gave you, and the
determined will that characterized
your fathers? Yes, say you, we have
the will, w’e acknowledge the necessity;
but then labor is degradiug, and toil
the burden of u curse. Fatal delu
sion, miserable subterfuge for indolent
pride! Labor is not a curse attendant
upon Adam’s fall. God did not iutend
iu creating man that he should sit an
idle admirer of EJeu’s beauties, for he
was ei joined to labor iu that garden,
to “keep and to dress it” No briars
or brambles were to grow among its
buds and blossoms—no foul weeds
among the plants that were unfolding
for him their beauty and their loveli
uess. Creative agency the very day
man was located in EJeu—its trees
unt-uclied by blight, ils groves redo
lent with the perfume of flowers, and
sighing through their branches the
sweet music of Paradise, with plenty
above and around them—enjoined up
on him the duty, hence the dignity, of
labor. Read, tuen, my countrymen, in
the very preface of your being, the as
surance of divine will that you labor
in the sphere assigned you. I know
it grat s harshly upon the ear of arisr
toeratic refinement and wealthy indo
lence to assure them t-lmt labor is a
heaven-enjoiued duty, but there is the
record and the decree, and he or she
who would mar the one or efface the
other should be forced to glean with
Ruth iu the barley field, or grind corn
with Samson i:i tbe prison bouse.—
Our sensitive young man, ashamed to
be seen at the plough or the bench!
Vain young lady, tmwilling to ac
knowledge you can sew or cook ! Go
read the iiistoiy of the first laborer
upon record. It was the Almighty
Godhead, the great I Am; “Iu the
beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.” The very first line iu
creation’s history evidences the labor
of His hands. Nor did he rest there
from until He made the firmament
from the midst of the waters, set the
h.lls upon their everlasting founda
tions, fixed the sun and the moon in
their spheres in the heavens, created
tile earth, and placed man in domin
ion over it. Then, aud not till then,
did He rest from the works He had
made. Nor was He ashamed of the
labor of His hands; for in the fullness
»>f His exultation He pronounced it
good. Away, then, with the idea that
labor is degrading, and toil unmanly.
Sweat of the brow aud labor of tne
brain are the great talisinen of success
iu every voeatiou of life. Work I It
is tbe rod that strikes the Horeb of all
honor, of all distinction, of all succkss.
Wealth smiles in its coffers, plenty
crowns its baard, peace broods over its
altars, while glory wreathes it with the
fadeless flowers of immortality.
Honest toil dignifies character, en
nobles nature, refines poverty, eleva
tes man. By it Galliieo wove for him
self a chaplet of stars, and Harsehel
wreathed his brow with a coronet
bright as tbe satellites he discovered.
By it Fulton ascended on wirtgs of
steam the rugged eminence of worldly
renown, and Morse with electric rap
idity transmitted his name to the
coming generations. By it the gold
en gates of success are unbarred, and
tbe avenues are open to these inviting
heights, where wealth, and honor, and
fame await the successful comers with
chaplets anti crowns. Labor, then,
my countrymen, educated aud diver
sified, will soon show its beneficial re
sults in increased intelligence, accu
mulated wealth and universal pros
perity. Are you too poor to effect
these grand results? luvite the labor
and the capital from the North and
South, the East and the West, to come
in your midst. Give all who thus
come amoDg you, bearing in their
hands the olive branch of peace, a
hearty welcome and a God speed in
their efforts to aid you iu building U P
the material prosperity of the State,
so that she may stand a peer among
her sisters-r-au equal among them all.
And it will not be long before joy will
kindle again in the sky of your beit g,
and prospeiity gladden your hearts
with the fulness of its treasures.—
Work—well-directed labor—is the key
that will unlock to ns the treasures we
desire. Fathers, teach your sons that
nidus*ry is the parent of every v.rtue,
uil ness the mother of every vice.
Teach them that David, the shepherd,
was as honored as was David the
Km". Impress upon them that Pan 1 ,
tne °tent-imiker, was esteemed etm
nenllv fit b» become an mtilvumdor of
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