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Office in Bank Block over the post office. M vlß - R. D. GRAHAM, A. M.FOUTK. GRAHAM & FOUTE, AT T O RYJdX" S- AT- L A XV. CARTERSVILLE, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Supreme Courts at Atlanta. Office west side public Square, up-stairs over W. VV. Rich & Co’s.*Store, second door south of Postofficc. julylS. T. W. MII.NER. J. w. HARRIS, JR. MILNER & HARRIS, ATT( ll IST Id X" H-AT-I, AXV , (ARTERSVILLE, GA. Office On Wflirt Main street. julylS F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokely & Williams store.) ( ' A TITERS VILI.E, GEORGIA. rWILL FILL TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, and put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit the times. Work all warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county, aiii' l.v I; . I . W. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERS VILI.E, GA. \ \7TLL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, YY Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, .and will sell them as cheap as they can he bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done by me warranted to give satisfaction. Give me a call. July 18. Cdias. It. XV ill ingcliam, STENOGRAPHIC LAW REPORTER, [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.] I MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, taking down the testimony entire; also, ob jections of attorneys, rulings of the eourt, and the charge of the eourt, without stopping the witness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro ceedings. C harges very reasonable and satis faction guaranteed. Traveler’s Ghiide. _ WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. 31. The following passenger schedule took effect July 14th, 1878: 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 NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 111 Leave Dalton Leave Kingston '.!. P Leave ( artersville Arrive at Atlania 10:4 ° P ni 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. On ami after Monday, November 30th, the fol lowing sebedule will be run by the Steamer 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. On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this 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 THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN. riTUF RF VDERSOFTIIE FREE PRESS WILL 1 find in the Nashville AMERICAN, a first rlass new snrper. In news, it enjoys all the ad vantataes of the Eastern and Western I ress Associations, thus securing the latesttelejfraph h-news rrom all parts of the En.ted States and he rest or the world. Its market reports are full, and includes all artb les in the mercantile lists of the country. It has Dr. Daniel Tax for Agrieultural Editor, who gives it special value 1 ' TllE 1 A l 'l Elt IC AN is Democratic, and its discussions of the current-ftolitiral questions are able, and challenge even the respect of adversa '' The miscellaneous columns of THE AM ERL CAN embrace all that is interesting and useful, in the various fields of human enterprise; and it cun lx 1 safelv commended, as a most excellent and valuable paper in the Household, the \\ ork slop, the Store-house, and to all people of every "the” AMERIC AN prints three editions— I>ailv, Semi-Weekly and Weekly-specimen m i ,, iSSS3S3e o 6M.i W.JO; W S£ Ait'iic-a Nashville, Tenu. S TILEBBORO man school. riVMF SPRING SESSION WILL BEGIN ON I the Second Monday in January next. Pupil* prepared for admission into any one of Xc classes. For further particulars, ad ireL" W. R. THIGPEN, Principal. novV-tjanl. Stilesboro. t.a._ Notice ! Notice ! Notice ! Ail parties indebted to us will please come forward and settle and SAVE COST. MOUNTCASTLE & FOOTE. October 24 th, 1878. -4t ~_ T m ., ke money faster at work for us than FT at anything else. ('apital not required: we Ch)88lv outfit and terms free. Address TUI L & CO.‘ Augusta, Maine. 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 RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. One inch, 1 month, $2 50; 3 months, $5; 6 months, $7 50; 1 year, $lO. Fourth column, 1 month, $7 50; 8 months,sls; 6 months. $25; 1 year, SB6. Half columns, 1 month, sls; 8 months, $25; 6 months, S4O; 1 veur, S6O. One column, 1 month, $25; 8 moutlis, S4O; 6 months, $00; 1 year, SIOO. Address all orders to The Free Press. NUMBER 19. 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. •■ ■ ■ ■ t " 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.