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GOV. GORDON
Urges Us On to Action
HID POINTS THE WAY TO
OREAT SUCCESS. -
He Declares that We Have More
Mineral Wealth
THAN ahy people be knows
ANYTHING ABOUT.
god Has Given Us All The Powers
i of an Eagle,
but will we soar ?
He Thinks Our People Should Build
A Furiipee,
And Say* We Have Knough Ore to Run
Ten, Ten-TliouHaml Years.
The citizens’ meeting at the opera
house last Saturday night was a memo
rable occasion in the history of Carters
ville. It was like the dawn of anew day
—the beautiful sunlight creeping in to
cheer and to warm the hearts of our peo
ple for the great battle that is before
them. It was the forerunner of anew
era and betokens much good for the fu
ture prosperity ot our God-favored and
ambitious little city.
The earnestness of purpose of our peo
ple was plainly displayed on this occa
sion. The feelings of every one were
wrought up to the highest pitch and we
Hy much doubt if there was a single
person who left the opera house that
night without a feeling of better regard
ami a greater love for his town and
county. They were awakened with new
ideas and new ambitions, and the resolve
to do something for the glory and good
of our city tilled every breast.
The advertised time for the beginning
of the meeting was 7 o’clock. By that
time the hall was comfortably tilled with
people of all classes of our citizenship,
including a large number of ladies. The
stream of corners continued until 7:30
o'clock, when nearly every seat in the
house was taken and many stood up
around the door. About this time Gyv.
Gordon, accompanied by a party of citi
zens, arrived, and his apjiearance was
the signal for a storm of cheering and
applause.
1 L* following are the
i‘i<ori-:i.:iuN(}s of the meeting:
motion of J. A. Baker, Mr. M. R.
Nans,!! was olected chairman of this
nio'ting. Mr. Stansell said:
Radiks and Fellow-citizens:— Wehave
come together this evening for the pur
")se of listening to an address on the
:lIIP ol Southern progress and develop
and on the line of our own iinme
'possibilities, and General Young
"* please introduce the orator of the
P'casion. General Young said:
Gentlemen, my Friends and
-citizens: —lt has often been my
/"viHiu-e to meet with you and sometimes
dress you, but never before in my
navel met with you on so important
t!l occasion as to-night. It is an occa
'"n fraught with the most important
11( l the most vital interests—most vital
11,1 porta nt to the interest of this little
•lii i e know, though we cannot
’'‘C world of it on account of our ex
‘j t,ne modesty, that we live in the midst
THE finest mineral interest
1 die world, and that we live in the fin
,l'. ogrieultural district and the finest
* nue m the world. And I speak whereof
/, ' )ow - It is the finest climate that
| u ever placed nnyi in. But above all
, Hs, ‘ tilings, far above them, are our
oautiful and virtuous women. (Ap
plause).
1 here is no spot on earth like this lit
' '•ity of (‘artersville and the grand old
‘j'R of Bartow. Within the last few
! *| } have visited most of the cities
V ll villages of North Alabama and
jand South Carolina. 1 have vis-
Sn a cities, like mushrooms, that have
jr.‘ Uu K up in a few weeks. But, fellow
t| !“T’ know of none that possesses
tl l,! iu I vantages and everything that goes
constitute a city as oui- own little
artersville.
L diort time ago I visited the city of
■papoosa, a town, a few months ago,
m ! “ "as only a handful of citizens and
fc'n houses. To-day there aresixhun
|a ‘ dwellings and two thousand inhabi
■oui- K * ,e - y a me eting about
■is tl l . UOl| ths ago, a meeting not so large
Ki fii U8 ’ * le object °f which was to build
raised a sum m the
I b morhood of thirty thousand dollars,
THE COURAHT-AMEKICAN.
and that furnace to-day is being erected.
And with that furnace where will they
procure the iron? They will get it
ALMOST WITHIN THIS SOUND OF MY VOICE,
near Cartersville. The New York Herald
sa\s that Tallapoosa has an iron mine
almost the size of a hotel parlof.
All I have to say is this: That no one
is coming here voluntarily to build you a
furnace, 1 know of but one instance in
my experience where Northern and West
ern men have come into a community
and built a furnace of their own accord.
You have to help them. You have to
put your shoulder to the wheel, and when
outsiders see that you are willing to sub
scribe money, they will come in and help
you.
There is one gentlemen here to-night
that has, within the last few weeks, be
come interested in the resources of this
section and this little city. That gentle
man 1 need not introduce to you. llis
nairie is not confined to this State or to
the United States, but a man whose name
has been wafted to every clime, whose
name has been spoken in every language
on earth, ahd in every country and in
every clime where honor, glory and
statesmanship are beloved and admired
his name is known and spoken. Incom
parable as a soldier, his cheek has been
blackened by the smoke of an hundred
battles, and all in defense of his country
(applause); a statesman whose voice has
been heard in our behalf on every occa
sion where our interests were involved—
that incomparable soldier, that match
less statesman, John B. Gordon.
gov. Gordon’s speech.
Amid great applause Gov. Gordon
arose arid said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, my Fellow
Countrymen: —lf ever that salutation
was appreciated by any man it is by him
who addresses you to-night. My fellow
countrymen, there is not one impulse of
this heart that is not awakened to new
life and struggles for a higher and a
nobler utterance at the thought that l
am the countryman of such a people as
surround me to-night. (Applause.)
When the war ended, to which my elo
quent friend has been pleased to allude,
I had for the Southern people two
ambitions, the one political, the other
material. I sighed and labored and
prayed for deliverance from a bondage
which fate had sealed upon .ton, but,
which I felt God, in his Almighty Provi
dence, would bring you. For you If it
another ambition: That you should re
gain not only the prestige of which the
war had deprived you, but that you
should outreach and stretch far beyond
in tne domain of progress anything
which you had either realized or of which
your imagination had dreamed in the
past. And I want to say to you to-night
that never in the darkest hour that fol
lowed that disastrous conflict did I ever
despair of either. When you were bound
hand and foot, when passion ran high,
when hope seemed to have deserted you,
when all was darkness and blackness,
politically, I felt an abiding confidence in
a better thought, a loftier sentiment and
higher and holier impulses of my fellow
countrymen at the North with whom we
had differed. I felt that the day would
come, and coine speedily, when that cloud
which hung above us would break, when
the rays of anew sunlight would re visit
us, when the chains would fall from our
limbs, and when we would again be recog
nized as a part and parcel of this great
rebulic, for which your fathers had given
their treasure and their blood. /.(Ap
plause.) I felt that the day would come
when this southland, which had given to
this republic, young and struggling for
existence, its greatest heroes in the field
and the forum, would again be recog
nized as the co-equal in this, the
best, purest and freest goverment
this earth has ever known. (Ap
plause.) I knew it would come, and,
though hope was deferred until your
heart was sick, it has come. (Applause.)
Thanks to your bra ve spirits, thanks to
your love of truth and of right and of
liberty, thanks to your devotion,
despite discouragements, and, may
I say it, thanks to the few men, who,
beyond our borders, saw that, with
poetic justice and political justice, the
interests of the republic itself demanded
your recognition, not only as freemen,
but as equals as well as freemen, that
day has come. Thanks to them and to
the god ot liberty, who had guided us,
we are free men and the equals of any
portion of this republic. (Applause.)
That ambition has been realized. The
other interest, in its inception, now full
of prombe, the bloom already upon the
growing stem, the fruit just beyond us,
ready to be grasped, is inviting you to
the harvest.
My countrymen, I undertake to say
for the whole southland that, never in the
history of any people—search all history
and see —never in the history of any peo
ple has there been such recuperation,
wider such discouragements, over such
mountains of almost insurmountable
difficulties as has been realized in your
experience. Think of it. Twenty years,
twenty-five years is but a span in the life
of a nation. It is but a little over on<*
fourth the span of a human life, and, yet,
within that short space, you have arisen,
not from the struggling condition of a
new country, but from a country abso
lutely buried
NECK-DEEP IN ASHES ANI) DESOLATION,
with your labor destroyed, with your
currency absolutely obliterated, with
not a dollar within the entire limit of
your country available as a currency, you
began bare and naked, without resour
ces. and have built, all by your own en
ergies, your own enterprise, and the help
which a beneficient God has given you,
a land already beautiful, already dotted
all over with evidence of thrift, ofgrowth,
of wealth, of comfort.
You have arisen, not as anew people
beginning anew life, but as a people de
spoiled, desolated, With your backs
bending under a burden which had
never been imposed upon any people, you
have arisen in your present tlp ift, your
present comfort, your present peace of
mind, with all this evidence of growth
spread all through your land. What
does it mean? What does it mean, my
fellow countrymen? Could any other
portion of this Union—and I put this
question to thoughtful men and women
in my presence here to-night—could any
1 other portion of this Union have survived,
CARTERSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY,* MAY 11, 1888.
much less thrived, the disasters of war.
the disasters of the decade following the
war, which was worse than war itself, and
yet have given ttie evidences of thrift
which srirround this section to-dav?
(Applause.) Find the place and
point to me the people. Indicate
upon the map of this or any other con
tinent the locality where such a possibili
ty would have been in reach of human
enterprise and human effort. Can you
find it?
IMAGINE NEW ENGLAND,
stripped as was this Southern land. Im
agine it with an injection into its body
politic such as we had in our midst —of
ignorance, whatever else might be said,
of ignorance of four millious of people,
untaught in the science of government
that it was to build. Imagine its homes
destroyed, its farms laid waste, its labor
disorganized, and a wall built apparently
mountain high and impassable betweeu
labor and landlord, passion excited by
all the suggestions of human ingenuity
and of passion engendered and
kept alive between landlord and laborer;
currency, the last dollar in entire New
JEngland gone, with nothing to pledge for
it but the bare soil, where would New
Fngland be to-day? Its mills gone, its
farms laid waste, the implements of hus
bandry destroyed, farm stock, cattle,
horses, all the products of industry of
years swept away in a night, would New
England have recuperated ns this coun
try has? Answer me the question.
WITHOUT A PARALLEL.
Let’s lay aside for the moment all pride
in this Southern land or in thiH Southern
people, and tell me, ye student of history,
where, in all the records of times that
have passed, is there such a spec
tacle of progress? I do not know
it. I have been somewhat a student of
history. I have thought some upon the
progress of society and the development
of human agencies or human industries.
But I put it to you here to-night, and I
challenge all the thought and ingenuity
of this land to give me an instance in all
the history of this world comparable to
the resurrection, theenergv, the progress,
the development and the magnificent
promise of a grand future that is spread
before this people to-day. (Prolonged
cheering.) Where is it? Can you find it?
Take any other section in the world and
put them in like condition with this peo
ple and tell me in twenty }ears what
would be their condition?
My countrymen, you dr/riot appreciate
these facts, I fear. Just think of a people
beginning life, not, as 1 have said, anew,
but a great deal worse, beginning life,
not with your labor organized, but with
your labor disorganized and arrayed
against you, an element, nou-tributive,
not only apparently useless, but abso
lutely hostile to your progress. Take
the Middle Spates, take any portion of
this favored continent, and array tor ten
long years by all the passion and power
of the government, superior to all else,
the laborer against the landlord. Take
that simple proposition and tell me what
would be the result in any other land
than this? Why, my countrymen, worse
tliau waste, worse than a howling wilder
ness, would have become the most flavor
ed land under the sun. Nowhere else
on this earth could the spectacle be
I) resell ted which is presented to-day, un
df*r similar circumstances, bv this peo
ple, and I challengecontradiction to that
statement. (Applause.)
A GIFT FROM GOD.
Now, what is the cause of it? Why is
it? Let’s analyze that for a moment. I
said a while ago that 1 never despaired.
I should have been in my grave, bur
dened as this heart was with a feeling of
longing and of uncertainty as to the
future of my children and the children of
my people but for my faith in an admin
istration wielded by a higher power than
human governments which had wrought
out for this section and for this people a
destiny which human agency can never
defeat. (Applause). I did not despair
because I knew that, despite adverse leg
islation which was unjust, in spite of dis
criminations against you. in spite of the
misapprehensions which lodged even in
honest minds on the other side of the
bloody border which separated us, in
spite of the destruction and waste and
boundless desolation which had swept
over you, in spite of the wall which pas
sion had reared between the laboring
classes and yourselves, in spite of it all, I
felt that God had given you in your cli
mate, your soil, your productions, the in
tegrity of its people, the splendid devo
tion of its people to duty, had given you
a wealth which He himself would guaran
tee in His own good time. I felt it all,
and here it is. It has come. It is com
ing, it is coming. Are you going to help
it? Oh, my countrymen, let me again
remind you to keep in the progress of
this argument to-night steadily in view
the contrast that this country presents
at this present hour with that of twenty
years ago. Think of it. Keep it before
you. Keep before you the difficulties
with which you had to contend, and then
tell me how it is that we have been led to
comparative comfort, ease and wealth.
nature’s work and man’s work.
Now, my countrymen. 1 want you to
k< ep that picture steadily before you
while I submit one other proposition.
There are two +hings, and only two, that
are requisite in making a grand future or
a grand history, politically, materially,
socially, educational, religjous—in all di
rections there are but two things requis
ite. What are they? One is nature’s
work; the other is man’s work. Nature
must do her part, but that won’t suffice.
You have mountains of wealth here near
by you, but suppose you never hunt for
it. Suppose you sit down and say, “Na
ture has done all of this for us.”' What
good does that do, my friends? If the
wealth was not in your midst, then man
would have to do it all. If you had no
soil, if like the bleak shores of New Eng
land—God be praised that the people
even upon her rocks have been able to
build fortunes and great estates and
great civilization and become powers in
this land of ours—if nature had done
nothing for you, you must do it all.
But nature alone will not accomplish
the development of a community, a State
or a country. Why? God Almighty
does a thousand things without your
help.* He arms the eagle with two" pin
ions, but he does not arm you with but
one. He has given you brain, with a
consciousness and power to think, a
power greater than eagles wings or the
lion’s strength, greater than all the* ani
mal kingdom or the vegi table kingdom.
He has given you the power to think and
act. He has armed von with that. He
has armed your country with every re
source of wealth. Wherever you turn, it
is here, under you, above you, around
you, throbbing with a life which isalrriost
conscious. Pulsating within your hills is
a life that almost throws itself into being
and into development. Beneath you He
spreads a soil rarely equalled. Is that
true? May I repeat it? In this blessed
couHt3 T of Bartow He has given you a
soil scarcely equalled, taking all the
range of products. (Applause). $
PLUME THE EAGLE.
Right around you here, within a few
miles: what can you do? Cotton upon
one acre, equal to the belt land, clover
upon the next equal to the richest prai
ries of the West, iron in your hills, woods
upon your ranges, transportation, water
power, health, and spreading above you
a sky that is matchless in its splendor.
Everywhere and on every hand He has
blessed you and invited you. He has
plumed that eagle with one wing, but he
lacks the other. What can you do with
the eagle? He is a powerful bird, but if
you deprive him of one wing
vou pin him to the earth. You
have not disabled him much. He
has hs throbbing heart, his pulsating
breast, his strong sinews, his bright eye
as before, but he lacks just one little
thing—one wing—that is all. Deprive
him of it and he is a fixture on this earth.
He cannot soar. He cannot mount over
mountains and above the storms, but give
him both and he soars away to
meet the sun. Oh, my countrv
men, God has given you the one
pinion. He has done more than that.
He has given you all the power with
which He has armed the eagle. He has
filled you with it. He has poured in the
life,- the vitality, the blood, the power,
but he has left you to supply the one
wing, man's part. Are you going to do
it? Are you? If yes, then you will soar.
If no, then it matters not, though mill
ions of pounds sterling were lying at
your door, though your streets may be
thumping with the pulsations of wealth
that would shake the very houses that
are built along it, what good would it
do? What good? Not a bit. It is not
worth anything.
Your soil is here. Suppose you do not
cultivate it? Is clover going to grow?
Is wheat, cotton and other produce going
to grow? Oh. no. Wee Is, briars, this
tles and thorns will cumber that
ground. Man, man, must do his part.
It is the law of the Great God of the Uni
verse, and you cannot undo it, and ought
not to if you could. (Applause). You
must do your part.
UNEQUALLED IN WEALTH.
You have wealth here.* (Ap-plause).
T do' not know anything like it within the
range of mv travels. I have been North
and East and West, and I have thought
some. Ido not know a better country.
Do you? Do you know anything better
than Bartow? It, has a good name. Ah,
lam glad it is Bartow. lam glad that
this county here, so near the head as the
heart is in the body of man, here near the
head of our State, this county, central in
the body, near the brain, is so enriched
with all the life-giving blood, ready to
send out to the remotest extremities of
allthisland of ours its streams of wealth.
I am glad its name is Bartow. (Ap
plause). I knew Bartow. I am
glad two ways. I am glad
that such a county is named for such a
man, and I am glad to know that no in
ferior county bears the name of such a
man. I knew him. I knew him well. I
loved him. I saw him as he rode for the
last time in the discharge of a high and
holy duty, to give himself for his country.
(Applause). He was no half-way man.
He was not the man who sat down and
said to other people, “Yon go and at
tend to that and let me alone.” He was
not a man who said, “This thing is right,
and, therefore, will take care of itself.”
Oh, no. But he said, “This conscience of
mine, this brain of mine, dictates to ine
that this is my duty; it is my duty to go
where bayonets gleam, where shells are
shivering the very timbers around me; it
is my duty to go where the rninnie-balls
are making music in the air, and I am
going.” And he went.
IS IT RIGHTLY NAMED?
My countrymen, is this county well
named or not? What are you going to
do about it? Have you got a duty? I
think so. I think so. Ido not think it
is worth while for me to stand up here
and tell you what that duty is. Why,
you know it. It is written on every hill
around this town. It is written in your
red, rich soil. It is written in your mines.
It speaks to you in .your water powers.
Are you going to heed that voice or not?
If you do not, one of these mornings—l
like to have said you would wake up. I
do not know about that, because if men
cannot see what you are obliged to see,
I do not know whether or not they will
ever awake. (Applause.) If you fail to
s *e it, somebody will wake up in the long
future to find other people are gathering
the fruits all around you. While you
were asleep they were ripening. While
you were sitting still others were gather
ing, and, after a while, the wealth will
have passed away from you, and you
will find yourselves strangers in a
strange land. You have an opportunity
now of doing it yourselves. To recur to
the figure of the wing, yon must put the
wing on or somebody else will. Some
men, and some time, not very far dis
tant, will see that eagle mounting to
the skies. Are you going to furnish
that wing? Ah, my countrymen, wake ud
to-night, wake up. Hear the prediction
which 1 submit here in all solemnity and
thoughtfulness to you: The time is at
hand when here in this portion of our
beloved State of Georgia will be indus
tries which* shall make your very air
revel and thrill and tremble. (Applause).
It is coming. You can stop it for a time,
but you cannot stop it forever. Why?
I am ashamed to aRk the question. I
will submit it to these boys. Tell me,
you thoughtful boys who sit before me,
why it is that Bartow county should
ship iron ore to
MAKE OTHER PEOPLE RICH
in some other State? (Applause). Why
don’t: you make it Any reason for
it? Haven’t you as much sense as other
people? You have got whole mountains
here full of timber to make charcoal.
You have a river with a power rarely
equalled You have a soil that will sup
port the densest population that ever
lived upon any soil. You have a climate
that will send the blood cowsing thro ugh
the vein, and as free from poison as any
climate on this earth, wherever you go.
(Applause). You have a water that is
invigorating, almost as much so as
champagne itself. And your women’s
eyes are encouragements and greater en
couragements than anybody’s cham
pagne. (Applause aud laughter). Now,
I put to you the practical question, and,
as I said before, I am ashamed to ask it
to grown men and women, but 1 put it
to the boys and girls: With such a coun
try aw yours, why should other people
come here and take your ores off and
manufacture them?
WHAT ONE FURNACE WOULD DO.
Do you know what it would be worth
to you to manufacture the iron that is
going out of this country toother peo
ple? Why, its costs something to ship
iron ore—cars, engines, railroad tracks,
conductors, all to pay—all .to pay. It
comes out of your pocket, doesn't it?
Why don’t you keep that iron ore here.
You would save the freight. Is that all
you would save? That would amount
to something, it is true, but a furnace
would help these struggling merchants. It
would help the poor lawyer occasionally
to a fee. (Laughter.) It would
help you to pay the preacher and the
doctor. Of course, the lawyer doesn't
need it. (Laughter.) But, my friends,
that is a very small part of
it. What else will it do for you? Can
you imagine that it will help you in any
other way? Let’s see. Suppose you
started one furnace—and you ought to
have ten. There is iron ore enough
within a range of ten miles of this town
to run ten furnaces. I expect, ten thous
and years—longer than a whole life at
least. (Applause.) You ought to have
one furnace anyhow. You would save
the wages of the men that make it. It
would be spent here. You would bring
population to your midst.
HEAL/ ESTATE WILL RISE.
What is population worth? It is
wealth. Your corner lot that is
now worth five hundred or a thousand
dollars would be worth two thousand or
live thousand dollars after a little. Why?
More people want it. Population. What
is population? It is wealth—wealth!
People must live. They must have places
on which to build a home, and the furnace
you build will erect a greac many homes,
and will multify your profits a great
many times. Is somebody else
going to do it for you? Oh, no.
Others may come in and help,
but my, countrymen, if you do not show
.vour faith in your own development, in
your own wealth, b> putting your own
money in these enterprises, the outside
world will be very slow to do it, but they
will go up here somewhere else and start
their own town and furnaces.
INQUIRING ABOUT BARTOW.
Mark what I tell you. This county is
not going to sleep much longer. * Its
wealth is being known all over the coun
try. As Governor of this State—by the
kind partiality of deluded friends, I’m
afraid—(laughter) a great many of my
Northern friends write to inquire about
Bartow. “What sort of a place is Bar
tow?’’ “Is there iron ore there?” Is
there manganese and marble and
graphite?” and last, but not least, “rich
chocolate soil.” (Applause). If so, why
is it that there is nothing being done?
not a furnace about Cartersville. lam
told that the mountains literally groan
with wealth in sight of the town, almost
within the very streets of the town, with
all this wealth lying around you, and
yet no furnace. How is this? Is the iron
ore useless, valueless? Has it within it
some enemy that prevents it from being
smelted into shapes that would bring
commerce, wealth and money? Oh, no,
that is not so, because other people are
shipping it to outside furnaces. Then,
WHAT IS THE MATTER?
Is Bartow a sickly county? Is it a
place where men cannot labor? Are the
lands so poor that provisions cannot be
had to supply the labor? Oh, no. Then,
what is the matter? My countrymen,
instruct me to-night, what I am to say
for you. How is it? No furnace, close
to the coal fields in two directions, two
lines competing and ready to lay down
coal and coke and all the needed fuel at
almost the same price as to those people
to whom your ores are shipped hundreds
of miles away. Is there a man in this
audience that will ted me what answer I
can make to that? Why, my country
men, there is but one way to answer it,
and that is to say that you either do not
appreciate this wealth around you, or
that you are totally incapacitated to
take hold of it and develop it. Why, I
know that neither of those things are
true. (Applause).
MONEY AND DRAINS SUFFICIENT.
You have the brain. You know that
this wealth is here. You have
got money enough to do it right
here in this county, and if you
start one furnace others will follow.
Other industries will follow, and there is
not one enterprise of any description, no
profession, no school house or church or
counter or shop that will not be vastly
benefitted by such a development as is
before us. Now, are you going to do it?
My countrymen, that is the question I
press upon you. to-night.
While 1 am governor of Georgia, I con
fess to one ambition. I expect—well, I
ought to have said first of all an ambi
tion to live in the hearts of my
people. Ido want that. Whether I de
serve it or not is another question, but I
want it. But, my countrymen, what I
really want while I am blessed with your
confidence and your ‘partiality as the
chief executive of this State, is to see you
bettered in your financial condition, to
se this country thrive and to see this
buried wealth resurrected, to see this gi
gantic and Herculean power that has been
asleep tor these centuries in your moun
tains awakened from its slumber and
harnessed to your car of progress. (Ap-
$1.50 Per Annnm.—sc. a Copy
| planse). Will you do it? I will l**g
! other people to help if you will,
j I have talked a great deal longer than
j I expected, but I want to ask this ques
tion: I)o you want it? How much do
; you want it? Now, Ido not live in Car
tersville. I wish I had enough liveH to
live here as well as some other place,
j (Applause). Your opportunities here
| are the very best, your climate is deli-
I cious, your views from your hill tops are
entrancing, your wealth that lies around
under your feet is matchless. I again
put the inquiry to you : What are von
going to do? How much do you want
it? I repeat. Ido not live here, but my
laith is such that 1 am going
TO TAKE SOME STOCK
in this sort of development for one.
(Applause). lam not going to risk any
thing, but I am going to invest some
thing. (Applause.) There is not a tiling
to risk about it.
I submit this sober, business proposi
tion how much do you want it? Let these
people show their faith here to-night.
Will you do if? [A voice: “We will!]
Now, my countrymen, for your
own interest and for your chil
dren’s and for tin* iove you have
for this county and this country set the
example to those outside of this charm
ing region by your own course to the ex
tent of your ability. I bid you, as
1 love you and love this country, go for
ward to-night; go forward to-night; go
forward in the cause of development in
Bartow county. [Prolonged applause.]
NOT READY TO TAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS.
At the finish of the great speech of Gov.
Gordon loud calls were made for the sub
scription book to be opened. The earn
est desire to help swell the subscription
seemed to have taken possession of every
one, and it was therefore with much re
gret that the announcement of Hon. T.
W. Milner that the progenitors of the
movement were not ready to then open
the subscription was heard. The an
nouncement was also made that
ANOTHER MEETING
will be held at the opera house next Sat
urday night and that Hons. Henry W.
Grady and Evan P. Howell had con
sented to address our people on this all
important subject. After these speeches
the Subscription book will be opened and
every one will be expected to subscribe as
much as he can afford.
No one should absent himself from the
meeting and no one should fail to do his
duty. The ladies are cordially invited to
be present.
“Betny Hamilton,”
Mrs. Idora W. Plowman, now of At
lanta, well known as “Betsy Hamilton,”
and a regular contributor to the Atlanta
Constitution, appeal ed at the courthouse
Friday night, under the auspices of the
Presbyterian Childrens’ Aid Society, in
recitations of some of her original sketch
es of Cracker and negro dialect. Mrs.
Plowman was introduced to the audience
by Col. B M. Huey, an old acquaintance
ot the family. The house was filled with
a large and refined audience, who were
drawn there by the well won reputation
this distinguished lady has of being the
best writer in the country of the above
dialects. The selections recited were all
true to life, and gave perfect satisfaction
to her hearers, a.s was maiiiJested in the
hearty applause. Mrs. Plowman’s nat
ural manner of reciting her selections
adds a great deal to her entertain
ments.”
The above is from a Marion, Ala., pa
per. The many admirers of this lady
will be delighted to see and hear her at
the opera house this evening. Her enter
tainment is for the benefit of Calhoun
sufferers.
Strawberries and Flowers.
Yesterday morning a tray of fine, lus
cious, red-ripe strawberries, encircled by
a wreath of white flowers, entwined w 1 1
green, made its way to the Courant
American office. Accompanying tus
precious load of beauty and sweetness
was a bit of white paper containing the
following words: “Compliments of little
Rosebud Edwards to theCouRANT Amer
ican.”
To our little girl friend who has thus
honored us we extend our sincere thanks,
and assure her that her gift is more ap
preciated than > would • be whole
barrels of money. May this little
Rosebud, the loveliest in al? the
garden of loses, bloom into a full
grown flower, ladening the air with its
delightful perfume, and causing happiness
to all.
Tle Baptist Folks.
T. he Baptist folks of this community
have a way of their own of “doing things
up brown, so to speak. Thev put a
handsome purse into the hands of their
beloved pastor, Rev. W. H. Cooper, and
hied him away Wednesday to attend tl e
Southern Baptist Convention that meets
at Richmond, \ a., to-day, continuing on
to Monday night. Tuesday morning
the Northern Anniversaries, correspond
ing to the Southern Conventions, will be
held at \\ ashington city, continuing four
(lavs. This makes a very pleasant trip
for Mr. Cooper and to say he appreciated
the magnanimous and liberal action of
his church would be but half expressing it.
Supetiui Court Adjourned.
It is ordered that the Superior Court of
Bartow County, whch adjourns this day,
take a recess until Saturday, the 12th of
May, 1888, for the purpose of signing
some orders and, rendering judgment in
any matter subject thereto. It is further
ordered that this court convene on Mon
day, the 21st day of May, in adjourned
term, for the purpose of hearing motions
and transacting any other business that
may be transacted without a iurv. This
May sth, 1888.
*T. C. Fain, J. S. C. C.
A true extract from the minutes.
F. M. Dunham, Clerk S. C.
Death of a Faithful Servant.
Maria Brown (colored) raised by Mr.
and Mrs. Edwards, and a member of their
family for nearly fifteen years, died at
Cartersville April 27th, i.BBB, after a
painful illness of nearly four months.
She was a faithful, worthy and perfectly
honest servant, and we feel that her place
can never be filled.
Bhe was a Christian. ' ***