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The following passenger schedule took effect
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NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:15 pm
Leave ('artersville 4:09 p m
Leave Kingston 4:3(1 pm
Leave Dab on Olid urn. '
Arrive<u ...... uiir r
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Leave Chattanooga 111
Leave Dalton
Leave Kingston '.!. P
Leave ( artersville
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PAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta
Leave (artersville i;*’ 1 ‘
Leave Kingston ‘ ™
Leave Dalton ’; ]
Arrive at Chattanooga 11 a 111
day passenger—down.
Leave (.lmttanooga <>;];• * ™
I.CHVC Dalton
Leave Kingston !!,
Leave ( artersville
Arrive at Atlanta , , . ■ •
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, June 10, 1878, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
GOING W EST. Arrive. leave.
Carters 1:80 pm
Stilcsboro 2:15 pm 2:20 pm
Tavlorsville 2:45 pm 3.00 pm
Kockmart 4:00 pm
Stileshuro !" .' .‘ .’ .' * 7:40 am 7:45 am
Cartevsville 8:35 am
WILLIAM M acRAE. Sup’t.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
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MAt! NOLI A:
Leave Rome Monday 2"™
Arrive at Gadsden lnesday ‘ t m
Leave Gadsden Tuesday * P *"
Arrive at Koine \V ednesday JJ P 111
Leave Rome Thursday . . .• • • • • •) a 111
Arrive at Gadsden Friday ' a 1U
Leave Gadsden Friday ! P 1,1
Arrive at Rome Saturday • 0 P 111
J. M. ELLIOTT Gen 1 SupT.
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
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Hoad will run as follows:
day train—every day.
Leave Rome it-oom™
Arrive at Rome
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Rome
Arrive at Rome p m
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VOLUME I.
THE WA Y THEY IH1) IT.
It is a matter of great rejoicing with
Hie Lester faction that they reduced the
majority of Dr. Felton. Now we pro
pose to tell you how they did it. In
Bartow county we held a fair election.
Pofh parties were allowed to Le mana
gers. True, there was a move made to
build a barrier in ( 'artersville at the
court- house, but there were people living
in that town, who had seen the c ircus be
fore, and were not scared out of their
hoots hv certain bulldozers. Bartow
county had seen a mule hid under a
lion’s skin before—the bray was proof
sufficient to identify the animal. Bartow
county gave Dr. Felton liis old vote—
liis neighbors endorsed him, and rebuked
the slander mongers that plied their call- ,
ing in the fourteen counties.
Hull "dozing was carried on in Cobh.
! An old Methodist nfinister who had lived
in Georgia for twenty-five years was
challenged at ttre polls Dy one' of the*
candidates, and his feelings miserably
outraged, for daring to vote as he wished.
At Roswell, voters w ere deprived of their
ballot who had not paid their taxes when
they carried a Felton ticket. If you
want proof you can get it. In Cherokee
Dr. Felton got his same vote and eighty
one additional. The districts next to
Forsyth, voted very heavy for Lester.
Cherokee county voted five hundred
more than she is entitled to. You may
have the proof. Gordon county gave Dr.
Felton heavy majorities at every pre-
cinct hut Calhoun undone other. Yet
| Calhoun with a light vote swallowed it
| up, allowing only eighty-six majority
for Felton. Mr. Kiker the ordinary held
the election, and ran rough shod over
the voters. (Remember he had no au
thority to hold it, the law allows it only
to justices and freeholders.) But one
Felton man was allowed inside the room
—he saw no ballot hut the one he east.
His table was placed for him by Iviker &
Cos. with his hack to the polls. The
sheriff was not allowed to go in, because
he was a Felton man. Gordon county
will take care of the usurpers. The law
requires the ballots to lie sealed up, until
the meeting of the first grand jury. Ev
ery precinct can produce its sworn testi
mony, and we will eateli up with the re
turnimj board that made itself so notori
ous at Calhoun.
At Crawfish Spring, in Walker county,
Hie manager who was a Lesterite (no
others were allowed) would leave the
box awhile and go out to electioneer and
then take it up again where he got a vo
ter willing to put in a Lester ticket.
One Lester man took a Felton ticket from
a negro, and told him if lie voted for
Felt on, he would vote for a “(hie
Gray, who desires a registration law, re
sides) there was most disgraceful con
duct. One Judge, one clerk and one
justice held the election, refusing to al
low a Felton man inside. The Judge
ITt the State about the first of August,
for good and sufficient reasons to him
self, but he was needed at Graysvi le, and
he could return for the purpose desired.
They opened at six o’clock, and closed at
twenty minutes before. There were
about 25 illegal votes polled there, Reg
istration would play the wild with the
organized at Graysville.
At Fond Spring drunken men were
brought up as often as three times,to vote
for Lester. Boys of seventeen tried to vote
and some did vote by swearing to a legal
ago. The like was never seen before in
that county.
At Chattooga there was a regular sys
tem of intimidation pursued at every pre
cinct. Alabama furnished at least one
hundred and fifty illegal votes, as decided
by good authority. Every Felton man
was closely questioned, and denied the
privilege of voting on tlie most frivolous
excuses —those who luid not paid their
tax were prevented if they carried a Fel
ton ticket. In Summerville every man-
ager was a Lester man.
Thus it goes. Every mail brings a
chapter of such premeditated fraud.
Paulding county had a hard struggle also
they run some colored men off entirely.
You can get the proof, ju&t ask foi it.
That excursion train with sixteen
coaches to carry colored men from home
and keep them until Wednesday was a
d'*ep laid scheme. It passed Cartersville
with no passengers except a huge barrel
of whisky,with faucets, and two tin cups.
The poor colored people were to be made
beastly drunk and kept away from home
u itil the voting time had passed. That
train was talked about six weeks before
the time to start it. Great God! what
are we to expect next.
We can tell you how many were made
drunk and crowded to the polls at six
o'clock last Tuesday, the sth, even in
the town of Cartersville, Will you just
inquire?
That is how they did it. The State
railroad puts its pressure upon every em
ployee of the road. The hands must vote
; an open ticket for Lester or be dismiss
ed. Colored men were told to take
French leave if they voted for Felton.
Every wire was pulled, every device
arranged, Jay Gould’s money, State road
| money, State House money, ring mas
| ter’s money, and the meanest of whisky
I was in full blast to help to do it.
I VIIICII IS ITT
If Colquitt is innocent why hold a se
cret investigation ?
If Colquitt is guilty, why conceal it
with a secret investigation?
Don’t you know that everybody be
lieves he is one or the other, when a
packed committee of his friends ea Ft al
low the world to see and hear for them
selves? Come out, Governor, and say
that you will be heard and seen too!
“Whitewashing” is a played out trick.
It gives a color of doubt to the most in
nocent transaction.
THE FREE PRESS.
TOOMBS AND HILL.
Characteristic Speeches from two of Geor
gia’s Most Distinguished Statesmen.
Atlanta Constitution, 14ih in. -a.]
During the past week Gen. Robert
j Toombs has remained in our city as a
guestof the Kimball. At frequent times
efforts were made to get him to address
the members of the Legislature on the
! current events of the day. Yesterday,
he gave his consent to make them a
speech and during the morning session
of the legislature a resolution was passed
in the house tendering him the use of
hall during the evening. The announce
ment that lie would speak had the effect
of bringing out a large crowd, and on
last night the hall of the house of repre
sentatives was crowded until standing
room was not to be had for love or money.
At 8 o’clock General Toombs entered the
hall and mounted the speaker’s stand.
-Vs he was well-known n> all wW w ere *
present, an introduction to tlie audience
that had assembled to hear him was un
necessary, and he at once commenced
the duties that were before him. He
spoke as follows:
LEX. TOOMBS’ SrEECII.
Fellow-Citizens : — I undertake the
duty to which you have called with some
reluctance to-night, mainly on account
of my own physical disability. The con
dition of the country suggests the sub
ject. It is the subject that occupies all
men’s heads and all men’s hearts. It is
the public distress that is everywhere
pervading the country,without reference
to section, climate or pursuits. Hence it
becomes your duty as representatives of
the people of Georgia to give your best
exertions and efforts to searching out its
causes, and, as far as possible, to allevi
ate our distresses. This general distress
is not the work of Providence. Old
mother earth has not forgotten her chil
dren. Looking over this broad land
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the
lakes to the gulf, general prosperity,
abundance and plenty exist in all sec
tions of the country except that portion
which had been devastated with that ter
rible scourge. Elsewhere we have had
health and abundance. That is a gener
al rule; of course there are exceptions.
That is the general result all over the
continent. Yet, in the midst of all there
is bankruptcy, turmoil and discontent
pervading all classes of the people. Why?
What is the reason, when nature is so
benefieient, when industry has been de
voting itself to the prosperity of the
country, why are not the people happy
and prosperous ? Crimes are everywhere
discontent prevails everywhere. As I
have told you, it is not the act of God;
it is not the deed of Providence, hut it
is the had government that is the foun
tain of all your woes. [Applause.]
Seventeen years ago when the war be
tween the States commenced, this gov
ernment was carried on for less than
.$60,000,000, The public debt did not
amount to $60,000,000. vvm
armMW ">
navy_a , t >d w vv i v-. -rife revenue had been
brought down to the wants of the peo
ple. The tariff was brought down 20
per cent. Every department of the gov
ernment was run with honesty and in
tegrity. But the men of tlie eastern
states did not desire that state of things
to continue. From the time our fathers
sat with them at the council hoard at
Philadelphia and all through the strug
gle that followed down to that day, they
wanted to carry on the government on a
different principle. They waif ted pro
tection for all their products and all their
manufactures, They wanted to bring
money into the treasury and apply it to
their own benefit. They sought to
squester the public lands and put them
to their own uses, and not those of the
people of the United States. The first
thing they did mss to commence carry
ing out that policy. They enlarged all
your expenditures; they issued tens and
hundred of millions of paper currency,
the furnishing of which had hitherto
belonged to the people of the different
States. They then got other institutions
to help them'. They commenced throw
ing away in millions the public lands of
the country, the common domain of all
the people* and turning hundreds of mil
lions out of the treasury in carrying on a
war —not in any view that they eared for
the principles at issue—they eared not
one-half as much for the negro as the
people of the South—but simply to re
tain control of the government. They
carried on the government in 1787 for
one term under the elder Adams—a very
good man—but the best of that class of
men that the people trusted until Lin
coln came into power. When they got
into possession of the government, the
first object was to overthrow tlie South
to overthrow her institutions, to invade
her soil and to murder her inhabitants.
And to effect this purpose they brought
all the people they could from Ireland,
Germany and the lands beyond the sea.
They got hold of the government seven
teen* years ago and inflicted upon us the
worst race of thieves on tlie face of the
earth. [Applause.] Xobodys disputes
that. They take all the premiums for
that. [Applause.] They stand out as a
reproach to the human race. They have
■ot so common that the public sensibili
ties have been deadened. After tlie war
they flooded the treasury with seven
hundred millions of greenbacks and a
hundred millions of national bank notes.
There never was a government on the
face_on the earth that could make a fig
leaf that could cover the darkness of our
mother Eve. They could draw money
from the treasury and appropriate it to
their own use, but they can’t make a dol
lar of money. It seems to be the idea
that if you want money just stamp it.
All the government has to do is simply
to stamp it. You may stamp all you
please but how are you going to redeem
it. On that subject 1 believe very much
in my old friend Preston’s ideas on re
deeming it. “I am against redemption”
said he. “Take all the money and burn
it up.” [Laughter.]
These people thought they would pro
tect the raw material of the country.
Finally they caught up with the con
sumption of the L nited States, and it was
a loss on their hands. Everybody could
compete with them, and successfully.
And what was the result? There were
no United States ships that floated on
the ocean. The fact was that we were
! ahead of no nation on earth but the In
dians. [Laughter.] After that work
, was accomplished the Congress of the
United States exerted all manner of
means for retaining the power they had
obtained. Frauds everywhere in the
elections became a by-word, and you all
know that to cap the climax they stole
the Presidency. [Applause.] They had
stolen towns, csties and States, and then
they stole the Presidency. They went
on until they brought up the national
debt to $2,000,000,000. We have not
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21. 1878.
| done as much perhaps because we have
' commenced later. [Laughter.] They
robbed some of our States by their depu
| ties. North Carolina. South Carolina,
; Georgia and the other States of the South
went through a second robbery—a com
plete spoliation. Their great idea was to
develop the whole country—to make
everybody rich. If I should make anew
dictionary to succeed old Worcester, I
would make anew definition tor develop
ment. Development Amply means rob
bing the people. As f have Said, here
were the national debt, state debts, rail
road debts. Then the tariff touched
everybody. It protects the manufacturer,
but plays the duee with the consumer!
[Laughter.] Building railroads when
ever the State would indorse the bonds
got us for some thirty or forty millions.
We threw off some, and I w ish the rest
had gone with it. I shall not cry be
cause my people will not pay for tlie
thefts, anymore than I would pay for
mj own chains. [Applause.]
When the Republican party got
through here, w e were ten thousand
millions in debt, cvej£*odjr mined;
in.,} rtrrtt- i roc " tPHdfffclo i* -da v througH-
out the United States.
The money changer and the bondhold
er is the only one that holds his own, and
he has to keep his hand on it all the time
and pray for it. [Applause and laugh
ter.] God Almighty curses them for it.
Here is the vast number of people all
over the country toiling and struggling,
and there never was a country on the
face of the earth that worked harder and
lived worse than the people of the South
ern States. They have lived hard, work
ed hard and made nothing. It becomes
us, and especially our legislators, to know
how this is. It is not all the fault of the
government. Our own folly has some
thing to do with it; but the great part
of it has been done by bad government.
We have had to pay heavy taxes. All
these public debts, independent of peo
ple’s own debts, had to be mid.
What is the consequence? You are
taxed until it leaves no profit, until what
you produce does not pay to make it; and
“that’s what’s the matter w ith Hannah.”
[Laughter.] All that you can raise is
cotton, and when you have done that
there is not enough left to pay you. The
debts of our people have gone on from
day to day, and what is worse the great
er number of people in this country don’t
care any more for their debt that you do.
[Laughter.] They make a little cotton,
have a little to start the new year on and ;
then they go ahead. In Georgia you owe
$11,000,000 of money. That is your part
of the spoliation of Bullock & Cos. Here
are your cities and towns "with a tax of
one and a half and two per cent. You
have to go on and pay that. In this
schedule, w hich has been furnished me
by the comptroller general, it states that
you pay seven millions of dollars for
transportation, w hile your cotton is not
worth twenty millions. That shows
simply the internal transportation. I re
member the tiifie when the people of my
section never paid a dollar for transpor
tation. They raised their own stock, and
carrried their cotton to Augusta and laid
in their supplies, and came back again
with money in their pockets. Here is a
v.iwK.t.keu a aeuera
objeet of our enemies. Ruin aroused us.
If you started a little bank of two or
three hundred thousand dollars you
would enter into copartnership with
somebody in New' A ork. and they caught
you there. We suffered more than any
body else from this system. If this fac
tory here buys cotton to-day on tlie
streets, tt will he on the Liverpool pnee
eurrent in gold. It is the fluctuation
that troubles us. The time was when I
saw fifty-three per cent, go up and down
at one time in New York. “Black lii
day ” they called it, and it was a black
day for a heap of them. I say to you to
night, gentlemen, it is my honest opinion
from close observation, that from the
time I came back, in 1867, from abroad
when I had run away vfrom the thieves
and radicals, until now, there wtis not a
single sun set that did not find the peo
ple poorer than when it rose. Some peo
nlp have risen, hut I say to you, it is my
houest opinion that there lias not been a
day when the sun has not set upon the
people to find them poorer than when it
arose. They have lived among sorrows
and desolations, and they look to you to
help them out of this condition.^
The system of transportation is one of
tho most important of all questions to the
whole world, and it is more important to
the United States than any other nation
because of our extent of country. In th Is
boundless extent of territory there is no
question of equal importance to tlie
United States and Georgia than the sub-
ject of transportation.
The great idea, when the roads were
chartered in our State, was to leave
everything to competition. That was
the general belief and it was my own.
But it turned out very soon, as a great
English engineer has said, that where
combination was possible competition was
worthless. You need not be blind. That
fact has been settled to the satisfaction
of all. Here are three or four of these
roads that meet here in Atlanta, in de
fiance of competition, and in defiance of
law, corning up every day and “pooling”
over you. The newspapers say every
day these people have made no money.
Fellow-citizens, it has been my duty,
as the attorney of the State for years, to
look into this business. I say that no
regular industry in the State of Georgia
has ever paid like the railroads. The
Georgia railroad has made an average of
$1,500 per day. It has now $1,500,000,
and it has watered its stock.
That is the way the poor railroads are
getting along. ....
In the days of Bullock they built roads
where nobody ever wanted them. Like
the road from Macon to Jesup—they
started nowhere and stopped nowhere.
That is the case with the Gulf road. They
o-ot a million of dollars and of course
built it nowhere with everybody’s money.
The public went into it, and the man who
started the road didn’t have a quarter of
a dollar to cover his eyes with. These
were the roads that failed. These were
the roads that didn’t pay. Ve \ient
into it with the money and they con
tributed the experience.
Here we are getting poorer every day-
For the last two years the taxes of the
people of Georgia* on taxable property
have diminished ten millions per annum.
We are going down, down, down! There
is a great work you have got to do. Let
the legislature look into it. Let us de
stroy nothing. We have got nothing to
destroy. We must try and save all we
have got. Let us do justice to everybody
and start afresh on an honest bottom;
start with an honest government; keep
honest money and honest contracts and
the country will be saved. [Applause.]
Loud and repeated calls were made for
Hon. B. H. Hill, who responded as fol
lows :
MR. hill's REMARKS.
Fellow-eitizens: 1 came here to-night
to hear a speech, not to make one. I
have heard a gentleman whom it has al-
Ways been my delight to honor; for
whatever else may be said of the great
m. n who sirs upon the platform on
w ieh X stand to-night, there is one thing
that all who know him must admit, al
w ys, everywhere—his head is great and
hi- heart is true. [Applause.]
have seen all the great men of this
cc mtry; and, take him all in all, I have
n< er seen a greater or nobler man than
R !>ert Toombs. [Applause.] He has
sal 1 many excellent tilings to-night in a
vt , y short space of time. That is char
acteristic of the man. lie says that the
distresses of this country ure attributable
to rad government. [Applause.]
Physicians tell us that diseases have
tie ir different stages. Some have their
fii t, their second, and their third stages.
P: ients sometimes die in the first stage,
so letiines in the second stage, sometimes
in he third stage. Some times they sur
vi, e all stages of the disease. Civil wars
in popular governments are diseases, and
th y have their stages, and every civil
w; • in a popular government may lie di
vided into three stages. The first mav
pi .penv fie called Hie period or discus-
sion. We had this previously to 1860,
with which you are all familiar. The
second stage is that of violence, of war,
which results from the first. The third
st; ge, (and I affirm in the light of all his
tory, tlie most dangerous of all stages) in
eh 1 wars and popular governments, is
tli tof fraud and corruption. The
A erioan people for the last thirteen
ye rs have been struggling in the third
stage of the disease of civil war.
Yow, the student of history ought to
un Serstand why it is that every civil war
in , popular government is follow ed by
a stage of corruption and fraud. The
reasons are patent and invariable. lam
no going into them to-night. There are
reasons in all governments—civil and
me larehieal —why a civil war should be
fol ow ed by corruption and fraud. It can
be proven just as palpably as you can
demonstrate any other proposition. It is
just as natural for a period of fraud and
corruption to follow a period of violence
—by w hich 1 mean a period of civil war
—it is for weakness and feebleness to
follow a period of fever and sickness in
ore nary diseases; and you cannot have
a subject presented to you of more inter
est mil instruction than to have the rea
sons of this Ihing unfolded to you with
pro icr analysis and illustration.
The great question is—whether w r e can
survive these three periods of our diseases.
Sometimes I have been encouraged to
bell3ve we are almost through. Again,
developments have satisfied me that we
are not. I think l can understand as
we; as 1 can see that light above me,
how this thing exists. It is in the phi
losophy of things, it is in the future of
things. lam not going into it because it
is too great a subject. I say the fraud w-e
have been struggling under is a natural
condition, because it naturally follows
this period of violence. There are. rea
son? peculiar to the character of the war
whi -li have made this country leel more
inti isely this period of fraud and corrup
tion than it lias been felt in other coun
trie-.
I -say (and I am corroborated with sta-
bee the case in any other country. Y\ e
hav< survived it. A man with a strong
constitution, after getting rid of the first
staves, may find himself likely to re
cover. We, of the United States have
had i more vigorous constitution than
any other people have ever before had.
We lave had more natural resources than
any other nation ever before had. there
fore w'e have survived. We have sur
vive 1 because of the character of our gov
ern! lent and its complex system, al
though rudely seized by the party in
pow ir. Those peculiar features in our
govt rnment have had much to do with
aiding our recovery from this period of
disease.
But why this period has been greater
in our country that had civil war lies, in
the l'act that our war was not only a civil
but a sectional war; and the people of
the United States deemed it proper when
the war was over to place the govern
meiij in the hands of one party to that
civi 1 war, and they were animated to that
spirit of hatred to the other party to that
civi war. It is a very dangerous meas
ure on all occasions to put the unsuccess
ful party into contest with the successful
part' ir , because it is natural that they
should be ruled only by hatred engen
der) l in the strife between the two.
T c whole affairs of the government
wei placed in the hands of the success
ful : arty, and the animating principles
of t at party was hatred to the party of
the conquered, combined with a want ot
confidence in that party.. Hence 0111
statue books are covered with enactments
whi h have no meaning and purpose but
wroi .to the unsuccessful party. And
verv naturally these wrong enactments
are beginning to react and effect the
One other reason why
the Uauds of this government have been
so great is that after the war our chief
rulers were chosen —not by the standards
of peace, not because ot bis capacity to
administer the government—but simply
because of his connection with the v ar.
The act and the sole fact, ihat General
Grant was the leader of the union army
at tlm time of its success made him ITes
iden of the United States, and hut tor
that imple fact there is not a man in the
I United States who would have thought
of G neral Grant as justice of the peace,
r\p lause.] Allow me to say of General
Grant that i know him personally. Al
low 1 le to say his character is honorable,
and 1 think very little of his instincts
are personal, and I think my friend
a ore- s with me in that. But General
Gi-a 1 bv his training and habits of life,
was not* fitted for that position. B hat
was ie result ? Men of his party de
signi ig men —men with corrupt purposes
took losscssiou of General Grant by rea
son of his imbecility intellectually; and
so tl e American government was ad
minhtered for eight years, not by the
head of its chief, but by the control ot
that; rtful, designing men obtained, over
him. And such a set crowded around
him, and plundered you and me, and de
vised means to cause the desti net ion ot
the p jople as no country evci betoie
saw. . e
Sh 11 we recover from this state, ot
things? General Toombs has not said a
won' that is not true, and every word
that be has said is true, I believe to
nigh that the honest working classes ot
the people pay us less than two hundred
milli ns per year to discharge ot the
time. How long will you survive this
thing? By what means can you reco\ei
Yo i must return to healthy action.
Men nust be placed at the helm with
powe •to judge and ability to comprehend
and honesty to rule. [Applause.] Don t
tell ire a man is honest. 1 lie simple fact
: that ■( man is honest does not make him
! qualified. [Applause.] He must have
liter ect, power, abiUty and qualifications
to protect himself as well as you from
the spares of those who surround him.
A great era has happened In this coun-
try. Ihe people have been struggling
hard to get this party out of power—
these people who had no origin but in
: strife, no existence but in blood, arid will
die with no disease but fraud and corrup
i tion - [Applause.] You have been
struggling to get rid of it. Just in pro
portion the American people are recov
ering themselves. The process has l>een
slow and terrible. It is getting letter.
In 1871 the party was defeated. It took
a long time to change the political ehar
•aeter in the senate. As I have heard my
friend, Senator Thurman, say when he
entered the senate there were six demo
cratic senators. Now I say that the as- !
semblmg of the forty-sixth congress will !
witness a majority of democrats in the !
senate. [Applause.]
1577, we carried a majority in the pres- !
ent house of representatives, and elected
the president, and if we had justice, we
would have a democratic president to
day, and would have witnessed the Gov
ernment passing from the hands of the
war party into the control of the peace
party. But by frauds and corruption
vutiPh Will iu\t
but which should make every honest man
in America blush for shame* forever, we
were cheated out of the presidency.
[Applause.]
In after one of the most remarka
ble struggles—and I say to you it has
not been a wise one, though on the part
j ol the Republican friends a remarkable
one—in spite of all our faults, and in
spite of all their money, we secured the
Democratic House of Representatives,
and for the first time since we left the
government in 1880, the meeting of the
forty-sixth Congress will witness a Dem
i ocratic majority in both houses of Con-
gress. [Applause.] That fact entails
upon us great opportunities as well as
grave responsibilities, and the great fea
ture which should encourage the. coun
try now if that is hope that the tide of
fraud may cease, because the party of
hate has lost legislative control of the
government, and the party of peace, the
party of right, the party of constitution
al government, has taken possession.
[Applause.] Rut are we equal to our
duty ? Ah, my Democratic friends, are
we equal to our duty ? Our responsibili
ties are great. We have the responsibili
ty upon us of cleaning out such an Au
gean stable as history has never shown.
In the name of God I tell you we will
not be equal unless our own people by
reason of their honesty and integrity shail
be true to the country and true to the
constitution. [Applause.] Let us leave
behind us our anger and our differences
and begin the work of reconstruction in
earnest by returning the legislative pow
er of the government to the limitation of
the constitution. [Applause.]
In addition to the fact that the people
of the L nited States in the selection of
their chief magistrate after the Mar con
sulted his connection with the war in
stead of his qualifications, it is natural
that the people should get away from the
restraints of the constitution, and should
resort to harsh and violent measures and
it is hard to get it out of the
minds of the people that the government
is a government of unlimited power.
It is hard to get, them in the riaht uaths.
This thing of using the federal treas
ury as a means of supporting people, a
means of supporting parties, as a means
of wasting in nice schemes under the
name of development, but really fdr the
purpose of enabling men to steal and live
upon the government —this thing, 1 suy
must be stopped. [Applause.]
Come back to the constitution ; come
hack to honesty and economy; confine
the government in its legitimate chan
nels, and teach men that government is
made to protect, but not to support the
people. [Continued applause.]
Tliere are strange things in the orders !
of providence. When I listened to my !
distinguished friend and heard him allude '
to the ordeal through which we have j
passed—how we had suffered —how we i
were wronged—how we were trampled
upon, our whole industries overturned,
and the whole country in a helpless con
dition, I thought of all that, and I
thought of another picture, and that is
the one that is coming. When this same
people that have suffered so much, that
have been wronged so much by reason of
the passions of the war and the forget
fulness of those in power of the limita
tions of the constitution, shall return to
the helm of the government and restore
prosperity and good government, not
only to themselves but, even to their
enemies. [Continued applause.] It is
for the democratic party, as the northern
people sneeringly say, under the lead of
the South, to bring prosperty to the
country. We, thank God, will be equal
to the task of bringing relief to the peo
ple whom the Radical party have almost
destroyed. [Applause.] Under our lead
as certainly under our principles, the
government shall be preserved, and this
constitutional system perpetuated. [Ap
plause.] Ah, how the hearts of Southern
men must rill with anticipations of joy
in the future when we shall give to the
country a good currency and a good
tariff, when we shall feed the hungry
and clothe the naked, and make this land
smile and bloom once more in beauty and
grandeur. [Applause.] Ah, my coun
trymen, the mission of the Democratic
party all over the South is not one of re
taliation, vindictiveness or revenge. We
are going to give the American people,
we are going to give the northern people,
we are going to give Massachusetts, we
are going to give New England that
which the Republican party has taken
away and never returned —good govern
ment. [Applause.]
It is a terrible work. It is a great task,
fellow-citizens, and we need your assis
tance, your encouragement. Come up
to the task in all your elections, high and
low. Choose men for position solely be
cause of ability and qualifications, and
the time will soon come when the people
that cursed you will call you blessed, and
the people that abused you and destroyed
your cities and children will come to you
and say, “Blessed be ye for our sakes.”
[Applause.] Now, fellow-citizens, I
look with great anxiety to the future for
this reason. We have great anxiety tor
this reason. We have been foolish, al
low me to say, on a great many occasions.
For this reason I have not taken part m
this campaign. It seems to me we have
been acting strangely, and I know our
common enemies have been tr\ ing to
awaken these divisions amor" us.
Fellow-citizens, whatever opinions
you may hold on any question, abandon
vour feelings, your individual notions,
iml come with ine heart and rally to the
support of that party which will save
this country from fraud and corruption
the democratic party. [Applause.] I
hear men say sometimes, “If this is going
to be the case, if this thing or that thing
is to be, lam no longer a democrat.”
\ml l am reminded sometimes oi a pas
sage in Exodus, and I commend it to
your attention. When the children of
Israel passed through the wilderness
thev should have reached Canaan; they
were forty years in the wilderness; and
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why, every now and then they rebelled
and God would turn them hack in the
wilderness as a punishment for their sin.
They built a golden calf and worshipped
it, and God punished them for that. They
were wiser than we, because we wor
shipped a paper calf. (Laughter and ap
plause.] It has often came near putting
us liack in the wilderness. It came near
losing us the House of Representatives
the other day. You ask, “l)o vou w ant
a sound currency ?” 1 do. ‘“Do you
want a healthy currency ?” I do. “Do
you want a currency equally distributed
over the country?” Ido. “Do vou
want prosperity revived ?” Ido. “Do
w ant better transportation for the ]#•<-
, ducts of the country ?” I do. All these
things you can have and have only
through the Democratic party. [Ap
plause.] This country must be ruled.
It cannot be ruled for a generation to
come by either the radical party or the
Democratic party. If you weaken the
Democratic party, if you deny its stand
ard in disdain you will be turned hack in
the wilderness, and that party , born of
*•*.. liu iinU YY.u, uavl 11,lug MUly tjj VlvfOlT,
will continue to rule In sorrow.
Moses called the people of Isreal"to
gether and told them finally that God
was going to let them into the land of
Canaan, not on account of their own
righteousness but the wickedness of the
people who dwelt there. And so I am
afraid we will get hack the government,
not on account of our own righteousness
but the wick'' lness of the people who had
it. [Laughter and applause.] We are
going to get it hack any way, but I had
rather get it on our own righteousness
than their wickedness.
I know we shall have trials, and verv
great trials, hut I shall go hack to Wash
ington, so far as 1 am humbly concerned,
fellow citizens, with a heart not entirely
free from anxiety; hut 1 shall go so far
as. one so humble as lam concerned,
with a firm purpose of restoring this
government to its proper limitations and
its material prosperity. [Applause.]
They say we of the South mean revo
lution ; that we of the Democratic party
will revolutionize the country if we get
control. Yes, I say, we do mean revo
lution. We intend to have revolution
from fraud to honesty, [applause,] from
extravagance to economy, from ruin to
prosperity, from unconstitutional Re
publicanism to constitutional Democra
cy. [Applause.]
Fellow-citizens, I beg your pardon, I
rose to make an excuse not to speak to
night, And if you desire that I should
speak to address you at some other time.
[Cries of “go on.”] I have been betray
ed into saving wh it I have. My heart is
in it; it is my daily thought to partici
pate in the restoration of the South and
the hated confederate. To take this
country by the had and and lead it back
to the glory and prosperity is the mission
of the democracy. [Continued applause.]
CAPT. HENRY RERSONB.
Washington Gazette.]
Capt. Henry Persons, Congressman
elect in the fourth district, will make one
of . .**.
debater that will hold his own with any
other member of the House. He is a
a true Bourbon Democrat, and freely
used his trenchant pen in opposition to
wild-cat Greely movement. He is for
more greenbacks, hut his good sense will
not permit him to go Mild on the subject,
and his life time allegiance to the Demo
cratic party is proof enough that he is a
true and tried Democrat. Some of the
papers speak of him as an Independent,
hut is utterly false, for he cheerfully sub
mitted his name to both of the conven
tions, while Mr. Harris, who ran against
him, never w ould say that he would abide
by the nomination. Capt. Persons made
a good soldier and won his title o’n the
battle field. In fact, the entire record of
his life is untarnished. He was born and
raised in Talbot county, about thirty
miles this side of Columbus, and lias liv
ed in that county all his life; and here is
the opinion of the people who know
him best: One thousand six hundred ma
jority in the late election—nearly every
vote in the county. He lacked only about
100 votes of beating his opponent in the
latters own county. His majority in the
district was about 3,C'H). He is a perfect
gentleman, and you would know it if you
were to meet him under a tree in the
rain. We congratulate the people in the
j fourth district and Georgia upon the elec
! tion of Capt. Henry Persons.
The “ bloody chasm” appears to have
been not only bridged, but actually filled
up and all trace of it desiroyed. At flu
grand Cathedral Fair in New York, the
other day, a magnificent sword, gold
mounted andbejeweled, was put up to he
voted to the most popular soldier. At
the latest accounts the vote stood as fol
lows: Joseph E. Johnston, 71; Gen.
Shields IS, Gen. Sherman, 12, Gen.
Grant, C, Gen. Hancock, 4; Gen. Mc-
Clellan, 1. The gallant old Confederate
not only leads the list,| but his vote
nearly doubles those of all the others
combined. It looks now as if the people
were really determined to forget all about
that little unpleasantness.
A poor Irishman at Rochester, N. Y.,
owed a rich man some money and was
unable to pay. The rich man obtained
a judgment and an execution, but there
was nothing on which the sheriff could
levy. The Irishman had two large pigs,
but the law allows a man two, and the
sheriff could not take them. The rich
man then bought two little pigs, had them
presented to the Irishman and thereupon
took his two large ones.
An agent, who had sold a Dutchman
some goods, was to deliver them in the
afternoon at the residence of the pur
chaser. The Dutchman gave him the
following directions: “Yust go behint
der sthable, und dura to der right until
you cooms to a fence mid a hole in id;
den you turns up to de right for a while
till you sees a hous mid a big dog in de
yardt. Dots me.”
One of the most useless of all things is
to take a deal of trouble in providing
against dangers that never come. How
many toil to Jay up riches which they
never enjoy, to provide for exergeueies
that never come, sacrificing present com
fort and enjoyment in guarding against
the wants of a period they never live to
see.
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Why is it that when the photographer
tells the man to assume a pleasant ex
pression, the sitter puts on the same ago
uized expression he wears when the den
tist is pawing around for an invalid
tooth ?
Near Fort Osborne, Manitoba, is a
dwelling-house sheeted and roofed with
tin obtained from old oyster and fruit
cans. All the joints are perfect, and the
house is water-proof.