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THE MEMORIAL ADDRESS
Delivered at Cassvllle by Col.
Henry I>. Capers.
An Eloquent Tribute to the Memory of
the <‘onf**leriite SoldierH Who Fought
and Died for Their Country.
Yesterday was the day selected by the
Ladies’ Memorial Association to do
honor to the heroes who sleep beneath
the sod in the Cassvilie cemetery. The
orator of the occasion,Col. H. I). Capers,
delivered the following address:
Ladies of the Bartow Memorial Asso
ciation —And My Fellow Citizens: There
are occasions in the history of all peoples
recurring with each return of an anniver
sary which are illustrative of their pecul
iar virtues of civilization and in their
distinctive features giving expresssion to
personal characteristics. Whether it be
in the ceremonials instituted by conven
tional usngo to commemorate some
achievement in art or in arms; whether it
be to recognize the birthday of a nation
or of an individual, or whether it be to
preserve the record of personal virtue, or
an incident in the history of a communi
ty; however instituted and for whatever
purpose recognized, these occasions are
never without interest, never without
their suggestive thoughts, never without
instructive lessons to those who compre
hend and would perpetuate their historic
import. History, while made up from
the actions of men, is better read and best
preserved in the public recognition of the
anniversary commemorative of these ac
tions,
The monument* erected by man in
every age and among all peoples are but
silent witnesses attesting a history that
'Reeded them, the mute testators to
personal or national achievements which
had preceded their erection, the dumb
evidences of facts preserved through tra
ditions, perpetuated in recurring ceremo
iilalu Instituted ! ,, ‘ tore their foundation
stones were laid,
A people without an anniversary oc
casion without a fete or a festival, with
out a single ceremonial institution, is a
people without a history. Whether it be
to eulogise personal courage or a national
triumph, whether to extoll individual
virtues or the glories of a state. There has
always been in all civilized, and even
among some uncivilized people, some
occasion, which as a link in the great
chain of human events connects the past
with the present. Such an occasion, my
friends brings us together here to-day.
We are here to recognize an anniversary
day and to engage in a ceremony pecu
liar in its features to this day.
This anniversary commemorates a day
memorable in the history of American
civilization, memorable in the political
and social history of the United States,
memorable ever memorable in the histo
ry of the people who it is my honor on
this day to address. The occasion does
not require that I should refer to this
anniversary other than to speak of those
whose resting places beneath the sod you
are here to decorate with the first flowers
of spring; to sepak of the dead who
made this day an occasion and an anni
versary, to speak to theirliving comrades
whose presence here is to do honor to
their fallen associates; to speak of the
ceremony; woman’s institution born of
her faith and a just as well as an expres
sive tribute from her devoted love.
I have no language adequate to express
the gratitude I experience in being per
mitted to meet you, my Confederate com
rades, face to face, and to join with you
in the gratulations, or share with you in
the sorrows which our reveries naturally
provok? on such an occasion as this. One
of the very highest expressions of true
manhood is in the formation of sincere
friendships—friendships that spring from
a mutual respect and that are preserved
by the open frank candor of congenial
natures. No where and under no circum.
stances are these friendships more closely
made than in the comradeship of true
.soldiers; no where is human character
more fully illustrated than in the ordeals
through which the soldiers in active ser
vice must pass. That these are common
to all, that we share the same hardships,
endure the same fatigues and face the
same dangers, excites a fellow sympathy
and a communion of interests formed in
no other relations in life. Coming among
you to-day from the busy world I will for
get its exactions, and throwing off the
restraint of conventional usage endeavor
to recall the days when under the gay
ensign of your country, fashioned by the
hands and blessed with the prayers of
noble women, you marched from your
State to dare, to do and if need be to die
for what you sincerely believed to be the
right. As I look into your faces to-day
I can scarcely believe that a fourth of a
century has passed since the gayeties of
your recruiting camps were over with. I
can scarce believe that the trials, the
hardships and the endurance of four years
in the camp, on the march, at the bivouac
and in the din and struggle of battle
have made you for more than two de
cades the veterans of an army whose
achievements will live through the ages to
come. In this time what an experience
have you not had? What traces of care,
what marks of anxious solicitude and of
toil has not seamed your facee or pen
ciled your locks. What struggles have
you not had with adversity. What ela
tions of hope, what disappointments and
how bowed within you has not been the
stout heart that quailed not before the
deadly assault of the battle field. My
very soul goes out in all hail to you my
comrades of the armies of Virginia and
of Tennessee and Georgia, and to you,
my gallant fellow-citizens, the sires or the
sons of the men who in these armies have
illustrated the manhood of the South,
not only, but of our great American
brotlierlK)od, of spirit, purpose, con
victions of duty and patriotism.
As 1 grasp 3’our hand and share with
you the sad ceremonies of this day, I
•would call to your .honest hearts and
ask, “How fares with you, my brave
comrades?” Many who’once joined mer
rily with you in the pastimes of a, soldier
are not here; many who, with the mar
tial mien of noblest manhood, stood bv
your sides when the storms of battles
were raging, are absent. Were you again
to call the long roll there could be no
answer from the majority who once made
the splendid color guard of our honor as
a people.
Would you send a detail to bring them
here? If so, it must be such an one as
can march beyond the infinitude that
separates us from the men who have
been transferred from the battle fields of
Virginia, ofTennessee, and of Georgia, to
the glories of Paradise. Would you know
their last resting place and find their last
bivouac? You must go from the rnourn
big pines Florida, from the sands of
the seashore at Charleston to the hills,
the mountains and the plains of Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania; from where
the Atlantic washes the shores of Roa
noke Island over the broad valley of the
Mississippi and among the fruitful fields
of Gaorgja Alabama, .and in all
this search yi qu mftycalj for them in vain.
Here, at Marieta, at lp**aea, Rome
and other places, loving hands with Dare
have marked the places where a few may
be found; but alas! alas! the winds, in a
melancholy whisper, will tell you that
your comrades have, in a sol
dier’s grave, unmarked and unhonored,
mouldered into dust, and that they have
fed the corn, the grasses and the flowers,
as the years have gone by.
As the men you once knew in all the
manly expressions of their characters,
yon cannot have them here to join with
you in the ceremonies of this Occasion.
Yet, my friends, in the spirit that gave
to them the manhood .you admired, in
their finer and better natures that made
them dear to us, who would say that
they are not here with us to-day? I know
nothing of spirit by process of reasoning.
I cannot by any inductive methods of
the logicians penetrate the veil between
the finite and the infinite. Yeti do know
that if it be possible for the immortal
nature of man to leave the abode of the
highest and most blissful paradise that
your comrades would leave their place
of rest among the immortals and be in
your midst to-day, as you recall the
scenes and incidents of the march and
bivouac, as you tell of Oulustee, of An
tietarn, of Gettysburg, of Coal Harbor’
the Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Murfrees
boro, Chickamauga, Resacca, Kennesaw
and Franklin. As you march and fight
again your battles with Lee and John T
ston and call over the long roll of your
honor. Sweet to me is the thought that
we may have such a communion with
those we honored and loved in this life.
Then all hail to you my comrades dead
or living absent or present whether in the
spirit or in the flesh. There is nothing to
make your coming here together a source
of pain or of displeasure. Hushed is now
the voice of war. Still in the sweet rest
fulness of peace is the land of your love.
No more does the roll of the drum or the
bugles blast call you to the fray. With
you these are in the past and your con
nection with them gives but a pleasant
retrospect to those, who in the faithful
discharge of duty, have won the respect
of the good and the true citizens every
where.
You are not here to apologize for a
cause that went down in defeat. You
are not here to ceiisure, to repine or to
regret, But you are here as men who have
known what your duty to your State
was, and who as patriot citizens have
dared to perform that duty.
I am not one of those, and as long as
my sense, of self-respect remains I will
never be found among those who have
apoligies to make for the cause of the
Confederate armies or any regrets to ex
press when 1 review the conduct, the pa
tient endurance, the self-sacrificing devo
tion of the men who made the rank and*
file or who lead them on the battle-field.
The cause was to them declared as a
right or freemen when our ancestors gave
to us the chart of our liberties in the con
stitution of the States, united for mutual
protection and delence, but never bound
together by compact or contract which
would justify the stranger in the oppres
sion of the weaker member of the politi
cal household. This I as firmly believe
to-day as I did in 1801 and when I as
sert the fact I am doing no dishonor to
the noble dead whose sacrifice was made
to preserve this fundamental truth of our
history as a people.
Whether the apppal to arms was ex
pedient or inexpedient; whether secession
was wise as a matter of cool calculating
policy, or unwise is altogether another
matter, whether it could have been pre
vented without yielding in a menial
spirit to exactions and demands unau
thorized by law and unsupported by
reason is more than I will dare say.
Whether Mr. Lincoln, wise and patriotic
as he was, could as a statesman have
controlled the fanaticism of the radical
wiug of his party and have pacified the
turbulant spirit of impetuous men, by
formulating such measures as would
have brought about a peaceful adjust
ment of our “callus lielli,*' we can best
judge from the fearful experiences that
we have been called to pass through in
the years of reconstruction. But I
desist. It is far from rny intention to
make an argument to-day in tracing the
causes that produced these graves and
gave to us this occasion. However pro
voked, however began, continued and
ended, the war between the States may
have lieen, it is with a pride that no mis
statement of so called historians can
humiliate that the confederate soldier
may lift his head among the bravest and
the best of this world and say to the
veter,ins of Grant or of Sherman: “I
followed the standard of Lee or of John
son, ofe Jackson, Beauregard, Brjigg,
Hood, Smith, Longstreet, Early, Hill,
Hampton, Stuart or of our honored
Gordon. Not even among all of those
you once knew and met as enemies is
there a disposition to under estimate the
ehivalric character of the confederate
soldier. Some there it is true, who
knew but little of serv&qe on the battle
field, who in the ranges of the home
guard, or on some safe *taff duty “fqmed
and frothed” and are yot the pitiable
apologies for their braver comrades,
but. these I have found to be exceptions,
as in the round of my business and
social life I have met the soldier* of the
federal army.
The ehivalric soldiers of the North has
no desire that you should stultify your
sense of honor by expressing thanks to
him that you were defeated. These men
are too brave to lend their influence to
ambitious politicians who for the spoils
of office, would seek your humiliation
arid ruin; they are content to recognize
you ft* ftipft worthy of their respect, men
with whom they may agrep disagree
upon principles of State polity mid who
in all sincerity would unite with you in
advancing the best interests of a com
mon country. As citizens agreed with
out an explanation from either to main
tain the genius of constitutional liberty
against the dogmas of schisrnatists and
the fanaticism of wild progressionists.
&uch men do not dishonor the flag of
their country and your flag by offering
childish insults to their chief magistrate.
With such men .you are at peace, my
comrades, I am at peace, the God of the
true and the brave is at peace, and with
such spirits we may hope to move for
ward into the development of a future
that holds a splendid promise for our
posterity.
I greet you then, to-day, and at these
graves of our comrades, not alone as
veteran soldiers, but as citizens of a
country the true genius of whose liber
ties you have ever had as the prompting
impulse of your actions; citizens who,
without a murmur, have acquiesced in
the results of a revolution that swept
from your Southland the accumulated
wealth of more than a century, and who,
by patient toil and in manly endeavor,
have restored to comparative prosperity
the beautiful hills and fruitful valleys of
your country; citizens who have now but
one leading thought, one supreme desire,
the perpetuation of peace and the en
couragement of every legitimate effort in
development and progress.
May the God of our fathers and all
true men bless you and yours, my com
rades. AVere it possible for me to do so,
I would have your future life one of per
fect peace and your end the rest of the
righteous. Let us gather about our “camp
fires” and about these graves year after
year. Another decade or two and but
very few, if any of us, will be left to call
over the roll and mark the names of the
departed. One and another of us will
have gone to join “the bivouac of the
dead.”
Just before leaving my home among
the beautiful mountains of vour neigh
boring district, I was strolling in the
lovely natural park of our excellent fel
low-citizen, Mr. Yeach. where I often de
light to ramble. I found that a grand
old tree I knew well but a short time ago
had yielded at last to the storm winds
and was lying upon the ground, its
strong limbs broken and its beautifi 1 fo
liage withered and dead.
So, my comrades, will the strongest of
us yield to the storm winds of this life.
About that shattered trunk one may
see many symetrical and vigorous young
trees. These have been warmed by the
same sun. kissed by the same dew drops,
watered by the same genial showers, and
nourished by the same generous soil that
had brought into life and strength and
beauty the fallen veteran of many years.
So there will follow us these young men
of vigorous minds, these boys of manly
impulse, and in the y T ears to come, with
your history understood by them, and
as a stimulas to noble actions they may
be as good or better men and will move
on into another generation and into,a
yet better expression of our civilization,
out into an enlarged development of
progress, and in the demonstration of
their own manhood they will illustrate
the virtues of the American ancestry
from whence they spraug.
The ripling waters of our beautiful
Etowah that makes a principle attrac
tion in our charming county, that adds
grace to our landscape, and furnishes a
power to move the great throbbing indus
tries of this promised development, do
not remain here to flood and to sour
your fertile fields or to destroy the facto
lies and workshops located in your
midst, but on and on they ripling go,
joining other waters as they go, until at
last they are lost in the boundless ex
panse of the great Atlantic. So will we
go on and with these whose graves only
evidence the fact of an existence once
upon the earth, will we be finally at rest
in the great sea that bounds the infini
tude beyond this life. Let us my com
rades be true to our manhood, to our
virtues of citizenship, to the heritage of
our fathers, and our rest shall be that of
the righteous.
While there is iu the heroic devotion of
our noble dead and in their sufferings and
service enough to excite the loftiest sen
timent in eulogy and that must give to
the historian of this epoch a splendid
theme in the detail of the unexaggerated
facts of this service, yet there is in the
struggle which followed unsuccessful war
an expression of character which is
worthy of the highest encomiums in be
ing worthy of the record made by our
dead comrades; worthy,the highest type
of Anglo-Saxon civilization and that
must command the admiration of all re
flecting peoples throughout Christendom,
while virtue has a shrine of worship and
valor claims the admiration of manhood.
From the gloom of defeat and the sorrow
of the grave would I now invite you to
follow me, my friends, while with proud
satisfaction and congratulations, we
may all join in making, we contemplate
the land of our fathers and our heritage
restored again from “the desolation that
wasted at noonday” to the beauty and
the abundance of prosperity.
Who that has read, with even indiffer
ent care the history of modern civiliza
tion can find a parallel to the material
condition of the Southern States in the
spring of 1865. Where will you turn in
the record for a companion picture of
desolation. For four years the demon
of destruction had held high carnival in
our beautiful valleys and productive
plains. The strongest and best of our
men. from the youth of immature years
to the gray-haired sire had been offered
a sacrifice upon the altar of patriotism.
Thousands with impaired physical con
stitutions, from the exposure of a service
of severe hardships, maimed and scared
in the unequal conflict of a hundred bat
tle-fields were everywhere attesting the
self-sacrificing devotion of unexampled
heroism. Our workshops were destroy
ed, factories in mins, towns and depots
of supplies sacked, burned or empty.
Fruitful fields whose generous soil had
yielded rich harvests of golden grain and
supplied the world with a fleecy fabric
for fortunes were in neglect and their en
closures destroyed; barns that were once
filled with provender and the storehouses
of food for man and beast were empty or
in ashes; the old homestead about whose
hearthstone many happy memories of
childhood centered themselves, and at
whose generous board an open hospi
tality had welcomed many a guest, was
in many instances but a pile of black
and charred embers or the abiding place
of penury arid want. Our railroads were
worn out or torn up, our seaports blocked
and the channels of commerce once filled
with the trading-ships of all nations di
verted from us or obstructed with the
shattered hulls of many a gallant gun
boat. Our system of labor that formed
the assured basis of individual (and
State) wealth, that had descended to us
with thq traditions of colonial history,
that had been protected in its equitable
relations by legislative enactments, that
had been guaranteed by constitutional
provisions, was overthrown by a decree
as imperious as any that ever was issued
bv an Eastern satrap. Indeed, nothing
remained to our people but their genial
climate, their fruitful soil, their integrity
of character and their nnconquered spirit
of manhood and womanhood.
To the wretchedness of these surround
ings was added the systematic oppression
of an enemy whose sp rit of avarice and
vindictiveness inaugurated a military
government under the pretext re-adjust
ing the relations of the so-called “con
quered States” to the tederal govern
ment.
These governments proved to be but a
system of espoignage, and whether de
signedly so or not unquestionably gave
protection to those who in a cloak of
“loyalty to the Federal. constitution”
outraged the decency of civilized govern
ment by a shameless appropriation of
the public revenues to their licentious
gratification or personal uses and in the
name of law inaugurated an insulting
surveilnnce over the virtue, the intelligence
and the respectability of the hapless
South, unparralleled even by a debauch
ed despotism. Ostensibly to raise a reve
nue for the government a burdensome
tax was imposed upon the staple pro
duct of the distressed country, while the
“developers of resources,” sneeringly
enveighing against the alledged want of
enterprise among their hapless victims,
were making immense public debts, whose
representatives in bonds or other securi
ties, State, county and municipal, they
were appropriating to their own person
al uses. Under the plea of suppressing
treason and of enforcing the enactments
of Congress, an armed constabulary
was everywhere serving the processes of
partisan, magistrates and executing the
mandates of vindictive partisan courts.
Such my friends is hut an out line of the
condition the Confederate soldier found
to invest him when he stached his arms
at Appomatox or at Bentonville and re
turned home to find the loved ones with
whom he had joyed in happier days.
From such a record, a part of the his
tory of the past, I turn, and gladly
turn, to contemplate the land of our love
redeemed and disenthraled.
Without losing his manhood in the
vortex of the ifliin thus opened before
him, without indulging in useless mur
murs of complaint, without yielding to a
cowardly spirit of apathy or of indiffer
ance or despair; without compromising
his convictions,, or abjuring the right
eousness of the cause in which he suffered,
we find the battle scarred veterans of the.
Confederate armies, their wounds yet un
healed and their feet unshod, improvis
ing a harness for some disc, rded army
horse and turning the follow lands of his
ruined homestead with implements
forged from the iron that had fallen
upon the bosom of his devoted father
land. Among the charred embers of his
desolate home, the strong arm that flash
ed a bright saber in the battles front,
that served the artillery of Lee and John
ston with shot and shell, that had kept
the rifles shady aim or bore to the front
the colors of his regiment is nerved for
another and a greater struggle attaint
odds as great as he had met on the field
of strife.
The ruins of the old homestead where
the hallowed associations of childhood
and of youth all centered themselves are
cleared away and on the sacred spot
another home is built, another altar erec
ted, and household gods restored to
a shrine purified from all polution.
If we follow our heroes from the quieter
walks of rural life to the centers of trade
and of commerce we find the same.spirit
inspiring his enterprises and stimulating
him• to exertion. Iu the counting room
or at the exchange lie who was but just
returned from the armies of the Confed
eracy, a paroled prisoner of war, is found
brushing the dust and cobwebs from his
long deserted office and invoking a re
turn of the trafic that once made fhe
prosperity of hiseity or with thebouyaney
and bon hornrpmie that gave life to the
bivouac and the force-moreh, trunnel
ing his first invoice in a wheelbarrow (as
your speaker once knew a. gallant com
rade, Louis Guilmartine, of Savannah,
Ga., to do from the Central railroad de
pot to a warehouse on Bay street) for
the want of a better means of transpor
tation. In the halls of legislative bodies,
he whose voice was but a short time ago
heard amid the din of battle was now
advocating measures for the restoration
of proper civil government and the en
forcement of proper civil law; while from
the sacred desk the spirit that moved
amid the carnage of the battlefield, ani
mating the face and nerving the arm of a
very war-god, was in gentleness and in
love fending the souls of others with
“the bread of life immortal,” and mar
shalling his followers under the banner
of the “Prince of Peace.”
These were but the beginnings of the
conflict that the war worn veterans of
our Confederate armies entered upon in
the spring and summer of 1865. A con
flict with poverty and a struggle with ad
versity, such as no people have been
called on to make, or have had to test
the virtues of their manhood. A strug
gle in which their only allies were a con
scious rectitude, a determined purpose
and the soil and climate of their blest
heritage.
Without yielding a principle of right in
fear, without compromising rectitude for
paltry favors, without selling manhood
for the emoluments of an enemy, the
true Confederate has pursued steadily
his course, and now, as near a quarter of
a century has added its burden of years,
now, as in middle life or in old age he
looks out upon the land of his love.
What a picture of promise is before him !
Within two decades and one can scarcely
trace the battle lines that were made
here, there and everywhere. Earthworks
have been leveled to the ground’s sur
face, ditches and rifle pits have been filled
lip ; From their ruins stout hearts and
strong arms have rebuilt cities, towns
and villages. Binding fields and well
stored barns rejoice the heart of the
farmers. Railways have been repaired
and many new ones built. Our seaports
are again the trading marts for the
world. The hum of machinery in work
shops ariid in factories makes now for us
a music rythmic with the advanced en
terprise of the age. Colleges, academies,
and school houses are no longer hospi
tals for the wounded or the sick, but the
nurseries of thought and the breading
places of manhood and womanhood.
The harpies who settled upon the pros
trate body of your wounded mother have
been driven away. The cords that held
her bound have been cut and again re
stored to her native loveliness, again in
the vigor and beauty of her former
strength, and glory she is, thank God,
rejoicing to-day in peace and in pros
perity, the recognized equal of the proud
est in the sisterhood of States.
What wondrous force has produced
this change? What energising spirit,
what power of might has brought about
this tra nstornl at ion ?
While we do but justice to the man
hood of the South in recognizing the en
ergy of the ex-Confederate soldier and
citizen, his patient struggle with disaster,
his resolute purpose, his elastic spirit and
indomitable will, as the agencies which
have been employed in the restoration of
order from chaos, and in bringing back
the prosperity, we recognize on every
hand, yet, my friends, your
would be remiss to his own sense of jus
tice to the truth of our eventful history,
to the spirit of this occasion and to your
chivalric characters, my comrades, if he
did not discover the inspiration, the in
spiration of your noblest actions in the
sympathies, the encouragement, and the
moral support of our heroic women.
How often would your energies have
failed yon,*your manly resolutions have
sunk into the listless apathy of despair,
your courage have become aught else
than the recklessness of desperation or
lost entirely in achildish indifference, had
there not been near you the sublime
faith, the comforting love, the gentle
caress and cheering counsels of a mother,
a wife, a sister or a daughter? These
God appointed vestals have stood at
your altars the faithful guardians of
your honor and your manhood. Their
willing hands have kept the beacon light
of your hope brightly burning when the
clouds of adversity settled around you
and made the blackness of darkness
everywhere.
In the gloom of your poverty their
cheering words and many expedients
brought you through the rfiost difficult
straits; when men in high position were
bartering character and principles of
common honesty, and for the patronage
and favor of your worst enemies, were
prostituting talents of high order in the
persecution, even to death, of those who
defied the priests of the Political Baal
they attempted to set up in your midst,
when others for preferment, among reck
less partisans, were denouncing the vir
tues of your past civilization and would
have placed the stamp of infamy not
alone upon you, but your posterity, it
was a woman’s uncorrupted and incor
ruptible virtue that twined a wreath of
roses for these graves, and a woman’s
love and influence that inspired'the living
with a courage worthy of their dead.
My friends, men under the excitement
of the battle field, with the inspiring ap
peals of gallant leaders to move them,
with the spirit and pride of chivalrous
comrades to rebuke cowardice and to ex
cite emulation, at the call of the bugle or
the roll of thedrum, move on with steady
step where ‘death shots falling thick and
fast’ strew the ground with the dying and
the dead, to find the grave or the chaplet
of a hero.
In some splendid Epic a poet sings the
glory of the achievement. In glowing
periods the orator eulogizes and in mon
uments of marble and of bronze the ap
potheosis is made complete. This is all
well enough. It is but just to the de
serving and reflects properly the spirit
of a chivalrous and patriotic neople. Let
the memory of Lee and of the* Johnstons,
of Beauregard, Jackson, Bragg, Hood,
Uongstreet, Smith, Stewart, Hamp
ton, and the long list of the
true men who lead your armies,
live for your latest posterity to
honor. Place upon the fairest page n f
history the record" of their achievements
and the reflex of their characters lef
the chisel of genius cut from endurim
stone our ideal hero to preserve through
future acres the story of Confederate com.
agp and Confederate endurance
somewhere in this redeemed land
whore the Rkv i
and brightest, where lympid wate r s
mirror its perfect svmetrv. whero* 11 T
first and the last rays of the q|ln r
crown it with the glory of the d RV }S' 1
yrnteful people erect a monument "r
whitest, purest marble to the
the Southland. Let it rest upon ,</s't !
granite base inscribed to the lnon
were worthy of their love, and n't, ' " °
inspimi b.v thoir fnith. On Mo % w
pnjre let the historians of this T
record the fidelitv of the one and the l'
votion of the other. n<l the ' K
Citation fora Vp>v District.
GEORGIA— Bartow County :
To the Honorniijo Ronrd of Comßr r nm n>'
sinners of -aid Cone tv : T>m nndo**|*W ho
rons of the SSI st district. O. M . Bartow "onnt,
Oa. residing in the southwest cnr n o r nfsahl ™iri
tia district, respectfUffy >-epresent to vnit +h *
lern-e number of the regents of s*lrt of " , t
district nrc seven miles f-o.n the r ’
trronnd and voting nrneftmt. and" heino- out n *r
a neck or corner of the district, and vnnr two
t,oners concave it to be neecssarv end evnadW
lav oat anew mWtfa district n f oi,i sn J,!
tHct O M. ami your petitioners %
sent that within the suM portion of m—i,~
there m snfflcient noncTnOon and .I*,’*
to TOilfftG diltv to f
" *<■':!" nr„vM.„
your petitioners pray that vour honorable hnJd
■hS fT* enm H tl*ns ,y
SuTst district, to bv out nn.i define ;
boundary of said now district, and such nw
and proceedi nt rs are mvossnrv nnd b>„
fnl to cnrrv out the object petitioned fo end',,,',
titionorn will pvpr rrv. aFo This ,
'l°Z h - r \T /"'W h, >o
<att and nt ra.\ lorsville, Ga., Bartow county.
Tt F Smith
P M Rhodes vr Mil r
J II .T \f p o rsev
UR Shew
'V Jo,,v J hn Rowland
A W V nslev
R H j T pd,. nn f,
v\ A Gaston j u AViTVerson
T M Ansiey p T T
nuvfdGurner
Charles Ed words Homer C,rnvuff
Genrup Gaston p T Ravis
VDirnmnw A C Pnoham
: Fisher W A Matthews
0-0 F™d Tnehson
n ill Jackson C F Mathews
R S Maxwell a r Copham
A .T Richfield Lem Wilkerson
Tom Robertson Rob Robertson
C V Conrsey. ay- n Rnckh dter
t? ( vtnTl ■* * Fisher-
M M Trippe J E Smith
T JLn ,7 nn •’ r u Ilford
.T.T Parllen t r Fe-nusop
J W Maxwell Fllby Renderson
Rob Rea ton R-een
A V .Tones j f JoUy
.T F Mavson J p JoJlv
.T R FUtror V M Kileor
R AV Ram-is Af OQP< , p,,i„nd
John Fielder u j p ai f orß
John < rajrg Robert Walker.
C Jt
County Court, Bartow Com v,
Georsia Rearular term, April .1, ISKK.
I'pon considering the within petition it is or
dered that R T r.eeke, R F Smith and Jno M Dor
sey be and are hereby appointed commissione r
to lay out and define the lines of the district nr
proposed in the within petition and report the
seme to this court. And it is further ordered
that said commissioners, if necessary, employ the
county surveyor of said county in the perform
ance of this duty. Jko iV Donns,
■T L Trick,
W J Ricks.
AV Jj An.A APT,
J C Milam,
Commissioners.
GEORGIA—Bartow County :
This iN to certify that vv'e, the trndersicned cifi
zens and commissi ners appointed by the honor
able lionrd of county commissioners of the aboV*
county do aurree *that the new district, line
shall be as follows:
Ist, To betrin at the Polk county line at tin
southeast corner of lot number twelve hundred
and seventy-two (1273), from thence dlle north on
a lot line to the northeast, corner of lot number
nine hundred and twelve (912): thence dlle AVest 011
a lot line to the northeast corner of lot number
nine hundred and fifteen ,915): thetice due north
on a lof line to the rfortheast co r ti r of lot num
ber six hundred and sixtv-nine (Mi)): thence west
on a lot line following' the old Corra mill road to
the northeast '•orner of lot ntlmber seV'm hun
dred and four (701): near Robert Eaton’s, thence
following the said old Corra mill road to whert it
strikes the northeast corner of lot number eight
hundred and fifty-six (86fi): thence due west on h
lot line to the northwest corner of lot number
eight, hundred ami sixt.v-four (8(54). where it
strikes the Floyd county line; thence around the
Flovd and Polk county lines to the beginning
point. This April the 16th, 18s8.
B T LeeKe.
B F Smith,
J M Dorset,
Commissioners,
The wlthih petition and order therein and re
port f commissioners laying out the new dis
trict is hereby approved and ordered to record.
This May ls% 1888. Jno X Dobbs,
J L I RICK ,
AV .T Hicks,
W L APA MS,
J C Milam.
Commissioners^
Tax Receiver’s Noti<*e.
1 will be at the following places on the day*
named below for the purpose of receiving tax ■
turns for the year 1888:
Wolf Pen, April 9. 23, May 7.
Stamp Creek, April 1", 27. May 8.
Allatoona, April 11, 26. May 9,
Euhaflee, April 12. 25, May 22.
Carters ville, April 13, 24, May 11, 21, 30, 31, at
June 5.
Cassville, April 16. 3ft. May 14.
Kingston. April 17, May 1. 15.
Adairs ville, April 18, May 3, IC*.
Sixth District, April 19, May 4, 17.
Pine Log, April 20, May 5. 18.
Saiacoa, April 21, May 19.
Hall’s Mill, May 2. I
Stegall's. May l<f
Ligon’s Chapel, May 23.
Taylorsville, May 24
S lies boro, May 25.
To comply with the law governing tax r*curr>
each taX payer will be furnished at the times ft'*' 1
place- above announced, with a blank up l '
which to make returns. I cannot otherwise t*
ceive returns. Please remember this and saj
time and trottble. Each employer mu-t ror>
prepared to make a full and complete return 1
his employees. I hopeever.v citizen will coniept’"
pared to make a full and fair return and lm'j
the number ot your lots, with district and
tion, as the law requires.
NAT DUNAHOO, R. T. R B '•*
March 24-, 1 Sfcty
Letters of Dissmisory.
GKORGLV— Bartow- county:
Whereas, H. W. Kitchens, administrator. ' ■
the will annexed, of James T. Kitchens, t* :
sen’ts to the eoiirt in his petition, duly filed ■ ■
entered on record, that he has fully admin”-'' ■
James T. Kitchens’estate. This is thereto e ■
cite all persons concerned, kindred and credit; B
to show cause, if any they can, why said B
islrator should not be discharged from hi* B
ministration, and receive letters of dismission 1 ,
the first Monday i June, 1888. This 6th
1888. j. A. Howard, Ordinary ■
among the worm si
inventive progress is a method and syst*'
work that can be performed all over the co”|
without separatingthe w orkers trom their tie
Pay liberal; any one can do the work: ei' n ’ i; ,.’-. J
young or old ; no special ability required
tal not needed ; you are started free. * ll
out and return to us and we will send y< ,u M
something of great value and importance to
that will start you in business, w hich " :il ”
you in more money right away, than aI1 \ M
else in the world. Grand outfit free. 'd< H|
efbio-ly True & C... Aug fl
Edward liell.
Colored, does ail kinds of gardening and M
work, Whitewashing of rooms and li! ' i! * I
•carpets, mattings, oilcloth, etc. Frump • aßfl
tion given tC’ all orders left at Claiborne " . BBfl
shop on West Main street. Best of ' f * .w
given. Will deal in ice cream this een-'
usual. a 'l r,!n * t