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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1879.
HILL AND BLAINE.
A Spat Between these Senators on the
Electoral Commission.
In the United States senate on March
24tli, after a lengthy political discussion
ensued, participated in by Messrs. An
thony, Hamlin, Wallace, Conkling, Bay
ard, Beck, Voorhees, Blaine and Eaton.
During the course of the debate Mr.
Beck read a circular issued during the
campaign of 1878, and signed: *
Sidney A. Austin,
By order of the Committee.
Geo. C. Gorham, Secretary.
The circular says it is almost certain
the next senate will democratic, and as
serts that foremost among the schemes of
that party is an intention to attempt the
revolutionary expulsion from his office
of the president.
Mr.-Eaton referred to the circular read
and asked if it was true that the demo
crats contemplated the ousting of the
president, as there stated. “Now, 1 have
not,” he said, “any very high respect
for the man that occupies the presiden
tial chair. I think he is there through
fraud; that he has no business there;
that a majority of 300,000 freemen of this
country say lie has no business there, but
but when the the secretary of this com
mittee says that, foremost among their
schemes, the opposition already announce
their intention to' attempt the revolu
tionary expulsion of the president from
his office, I, as a democrat, denounce it
as false. No body of men, respectable
either in numbers or intellect, ever an
nounced such a policy. Therefore, even
were it not right and proper for other
reasons to make this change in the sec
retaryship of the senate because of this
issue.”
Mr. Blaine said the pretext that the
secretary was to be removed because he
issued this circular might go for what it
was worth. He would have to go just
the same if he had never issued a circu
lar; but the gentleman from Connecti
cut (Air. Eaton) had said that Gorham
stated an untruth in the circular when
he said it was the design of the demo
cratic party to remove the president.
Now, the struggle in both branches of
last congress which culminated in the
Potter committee, was evidence of the
sentiment in the democratic party which
justified the assertion made in that circu
lar. The Potter committee was organ
ized for the purpose of obtaining, if pos
sible, evidence on which to base proceed
ings to remove the president.
Air. Wallace—Does not the senator
know in a week from the issuance of that
circular, the democratic convention of
Pennsylvania declared it unwise and im
politic to make an attack upon the title
of the president?
•Air. Blaine—Why did they make that
resolve if there was no some danger in
the air ?
Air. Wallace —Because that assertion
was false.
Mr. Blaine—That document had never
seen the light then. It did not come out
until some sneaking federal office-holder
betrayed the secrets of his party, and is
probably now waiting hi the corriders
for some reward. The senator cannot
base his action in Pennsylvania on that.
He went up to Harrisburg to make-cer
tain that no such rash step should be ta
ken by the democratic party.
Air. Wallace said he would concede
that there were some such agitation then,
but it was also true that the assertion of
the circular what was untrue and was un
sustained by any word or act of men who
were there to represent the democratic
party.
Air. Blaine thought there was an im
mense exhibition here of virtue after the
fact. If anything was in the air at the
time of the appointment of the Potter
committee, it was the conviction that it
was organized to tish for testimony on
which to proceed against the title of the
president.
Air. Eaton—l do, but a great many of
the republicans feel as I do about it.
The best of them agree with me that the
man at the white house has no legal title
to his place as president of the United
States.
Air. Blaine—l will answer the gentle
man with my view of the case. It is that
the president ot the United States holds
tiie office to which he was elected by as
fair and as honest a vote as George Wash
ington did, but that it took a singular de
parture from the constitutional modes to
make that vote good', and that he M as not
only entitled to the votes of the three
southern states which he got, but to
three more southern states of which he
was deprived by bulldozing democrats.
[Applause.]
The Chair—The sergeant-at-arms M ill
see that the door-keeper take iuto custo
dy any persons in the galleries violating
the rules.
Air. Eaton said that he could make no
argument upon the belief of his friend
fy-om Maine [Mr. Blaine]. His own be
lief was that 300,000 majority of the peo
ple were defrauded out of the result of
au honest election for president.
Air. Kern an—Aly recollection is that
contemporaneous with the organization
of that committee, the house passed a
resolution that there was no intent to
question the title of the president.
Mr. Blaine—Some Meeks after there
came up from the’country aery of indig
nant protest. After business communi
ties everywhere discountenanced such
action, then the house, on motion ot a
republican, did adopt such a resolution.
Air. Eaton reiterated ids assertion that
the charge contained in the circular was
baseless.
Air. Blaine said that there Mere still
echoing in his ears the words of the sen
ator from Connecticut (Air. Eaton) him
self, denouncing the title of the president
to his office.
Air. Eaton—l say so now.
Air. Blaine—Then is not the senator
denouncing the republican party, which
is amenable for the situation ?
Air. Eaton—Tiie gentleman states that
the Rotter committee Mas organized to
hunt for evidence of that fraud. Dare
he say if such evidence was found Hayes
ought not to be removed ?
Air. Blaine—The senator awhile ago
alleged that the president held his seat by
fraud. Now he does not know M hether
the committee could lind evidence of
fraud.
Air. Eaton—l have evidence sufficient
for me.
Mr. Blaine then remarked that the de
cision of the electoral commission Mas
final and conclusive and Mas so accepted
by the people, and it Mas an unpatriotic
course on the part of the democracy to
seek to disturb that settlement. They
had agreed upon a tribunal which decid
ed against them, and it was in his view
dishonorable to refuse compliance with
the terms of that settlement.
Air. Hill, of Georgia, said that there
Mas an issue of fact raised here between
the senators Mho had spoken and a very
material one affecting, not only the dem
ocratic party, but the character of our in
stitutions. It M’as important that the
real truth be stated upon this question.
The charge of revolutionary purpose
made against the democracy by the cir
cular which had been read was denounced
by the Senator from Connecticut (Mr.
Eaton) as false, whereupon the senator
from Alaine (Air. Blaine) came to the
rescue of the document and charged that
there'was such a revolutionary intent and
to sustain his general charge he specifies
the Potter resolution as having that xd
terior meaning. Mr. Hill claimed the
senator from Maine Mas as incorrect in
his statement as M as the secretary of the
senate, and he could produce enough
fact to bear out his charge, that no por
tion of the democratic party ever intend
ed, under any contingency, a revolution
ary movement for the expulsion of the
president. When the electoral commis
sion bill mas passed, it contained a pro
vision as folloM's:
Sec. 6. That nothing in this act fhaT be
Held to impair or affect any right now
existing under the constitution and laws,
to question by proceedings in the judi
cial courts of the United States, the right
or title of the person Mho should be de
clared elected, or Mho shall claim to be
president or vice president, if any such
right exist.
This is a provision of the act of con
gress, establishing the electoral commis
sion. .It Mas embodied tiiere in view of
the apprehension that the commission
would not, as in fact they did, look into
and investigate tiie alleged frauds in
Louisiana and Florida, and that the re
sult of their labors would be the declara
tion of one of the claimants as president,
without an examination into the testimo
ny regarding the merits of the case. It
M as-adopted that the doors might be left
open in such case to proper judicial in
vestigation, M'hich would bring out the
facts. That there was ground for this
belief that the courts of the country
M ould have jurisdiction is manifest from
the fact that learned gentlemen and dis
tinguished statesmen on both sides
of both chambers incorporated the
provision in the electoral commission
bill, reserving all right to reopen this
question and have it investigated before
the judicial tribunals of the country.
Some of the most able huvyers believe
that by proper proceeding the superior
court can get jurisdiction to investigate
this question. It Mas on that principle
that the legislature of Maryland adopted
a memorial to congress, demanding pro
ceedings of this nature should be inaugu
rated. Some of the most distinguished
republican lawyers of the country hold
it M ould be perfectly proper, in a com
petent proceeding for tiie superior court
to reopen and determine this case upon
its merits. Every gentleman of his (Mr.
Hill’s) acquaintance and every promi
nent democrat of the United States Mho
defires to investigate this question at all,
desires to do so in the courts and under
the encouragement and authority ot elec
toral Lima Was this revolutionary?
Whether that proceeding before the court
should he inaugurated or not would de
pend on reliable evidence that should be
obtained in the case. Therefore, all sec
tions of the democratic party were willing
to have an investigation to obtain the
real facts. There were republicans as
Mell as democrats in the couhtry, who,
if the facts should thoroughly establish
the illegality of the title of the present
incumbent of the presidency, and if it
should appear that the supreme court had
authority to investigate the subject, were
in favor of such investigation. Air.
Hill denied that the democratic party had
ever announced a revolutionary purpose,
looking to the expulsion of the president.
It had never been announced in the leg
islature, conventions, or in congress. To
tell the candid fact, he always believed
the gentleman raised the cry of revolu
tion to prevent investigation.
Air. Blaine, in reply to a portion of
Air. Hill’s remarks, read from the decis
ion of the speaker of the house at thef
time the Potter’s resolution Mas intro
duced to show that the investigation in
volved the occupation of the Presidential
chair.
Air. Hill required if any law had been
passed subsequent to the electoral law
which gave parties the right to test the
question of the presidency.
Air. Blaine replied that the entire Pot
ter resolution did not mention it.
Air. Hill said the Potter resolution w r as
simply to obtain testimony in relation to
the subject. Would the senator say that
that the appointment of a committee for
th is purpose was a revolutionary proceed
ings?
Air. Blaine—The speaker stated tliat it
involved the rightful occupancy of the
presidential chair. Did you want the
evidence to be obtained by the Pot
ter committee to be used by the supreme
court ?
Air. Hill—l said no such thing.
Mr. Blaine —How does the senator con
nect the Potter committee proceedings
with the electoral bill ? I maintain that
being entirely outside of tiie electoral
commission, tiie resolution Mas grossly
and blatantly revolutionary from begin
ning to end.
Air. Hill—l have asked the question
tM'ice. Instead of answering mine, be
refuses and asks me a question. Aly ques
tion was first in order. Aly question is:
You charge revolutionary purposes on
the democratic party and say it was man
ifested in the appointment of the Potter
committee. I ask, do you hold that the ap
pointment of a committee to make inves
tigation is a revolutionary movement?
Air. Blaine—The reason for the ap
pointment committee, as construed by
the speaker of the house, Mas revolution
ary.
Mr. Hill—Will you saj'- that the ap
pointment* of a committee of investiga
tion by the house is revolutionary ?
Air. Blaine—The committee as con
stituted by the speaker, M'as revolution
ary.
Mr. Hill—ls the appontment of a com
mittee revolutionary?
Air. Baine—Don’t be childish.
Air. Hill—Was your revolution for the
appointment of the Teller committee rev
olutionary?
Air. Blaine —No, M'eM'anted to find out
how persons had been deprived of their
r*ghts. I assume that the object of the
electoral bill Mas that* if any wrong ex
isted there might be a judicial remedy.
That contemplated only judicial action
before a court. The democratic party
and the friends of Tilden never wanted a
remedy, but organized a committee of a
side which had no connection with it.
The democrats had startling witnesses
and had been coaching them in.order
that the ecu itry might be treated ti their
revelations, but it did not pan out well.
It rather missed fire, and notwithstand
ing the decision of the speaker as to the
character of the revolution-, which under
his construction meant revolutionary,
the democrats resolved subsequently that
it did not mean any such thing.
Falsehood and deceit as charges against
Talmage are a mere cloak. The real ob
jection is to his method and style of
preaching, lie may be guilty of the
falsehood and deceit, and his methods
may be, and we think are, objectionable,
but it would be well for the Presbytery
not to dodge the real issue and seek to
destroy by indirection.
MRS. FELTON.
A Plea for Her by a Daughter of Colum
tms.
Columbus, Ga., March 20, 1879.
Editor Times: —ln countries preemi
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be measured in double dose to individuals,
and especially to those who are known at
home to be the best and truest type of
manhood and womanhood. This is not
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where there are voters and candidates;
and most of our people—the men—are so
wholly occupied with politics, that they
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mind seems to really lose its ballanc-e,
and the right to be sensibly and wofully
adulterated. Hence it is that many of
best men, men who are acknowledged by
their friends at home as well as their un
prejudiced acquaintances at home and
abroad, to be highly moral, honest and*
upright, are villified and slandered; and
many of our women, who are known and
acknowledged by the people at home to
be all that entitles them to our highest
respect and esteem, who are .acknowledg
ed by those who know them most inti
mately, and who alone have the right to
an opinion, to be faultless models of fe
male character, the purest, loveliest and
sweetest of God’s creation, are wrongful
ly assailed and falsely accused, some
times, though very rarely, by men and
women who are acknowledged to be gen
tlemen and ladies, and therefore deserv
ing the full and impartial consideration
of those assailed; but oftener, and gener-
such persons are accused, slander
ed and scandalized, by persons of mean
and negative moral principles, who are
therefore a gentleman’s, or a lady’s
slightest consideration, unworthy alike of
their own self-respect, and ofOurs.
The controversy between Senator Gor
don and Representative Felton and his
wife presents to us one of those rare cases
where the parties are known to be
among the best and purest of God’s crea
tures, and yet, following a charge
brought against. Mrs. Felton by an out
side party, which she has shown to be
false, appears a painful controversy, in
which these gifted children -of Georgia
array themselves against each other,
make grave charges and like denials,
which I am inclined to think are misun
derstandings, or wrong constructions,-
or hyperbolical representations of
things of minor importance, resulting
from the political phrenzy under which
they were then somewhat abnormal. To
find what and who we ladies are, go to
our homes where we live, and whatever
character we have thefe is apt to be the
true one under ordinary circumstances,
so, to know what Mrs. Felton is, go to
Cartersville. I have not been that far
up the Western & Atlantic road since I
came through there five or six years ago,
on my way home from school, but I liv
ed there about six- years ago, and then
Mrs. Felton was acknowledged to be a
a fine model of female excellence; indeed,
one of the noblest, best and purest wom
en on earth, as well as one of the sweetest
and loveliest characters, with all the
charms and attractions that would make
her husband supremely happy, and their
home a model fireside. I doubt not that
she is more lovely now than she was then.
She repelled the charge brought against
her, which was her sacred duty; and not
only so, but proved it to be false. It
does not appear that the charges brought
by her against Senator Gordon are suffi
ciently cleared away, but If I remember,
they are greatly palliated, so that there
can be no evil motive attributed to the
senator in this unfortunate business
transactions. Many persons fail in bus
iness through no fault of theirs, and fail
also to meet demands.
The simple fact of Senator Gordon can
vassing the seventh district in favor of
Judge Lester and against I>r. Felton was
not sufficient proof to have called forth
Mrs. Felton’s letter; but if he assailed
Dr. Felton’s private character and made
the canvass' in an evil spirit, this was
quite sufficient, and had she failed to
have written it, she would have been less
worthy of her husband’s highest aud pu
rest affection. Senator Gordon had the
right to canvass the district, not being
forborne by those noble an unselfish feel
ings of civility, which would prompt
him to decline, considering they ‘were
both democrats, hightoned gentlemen,
and good representatives. It might be
difficult to show that Dr Felton bore
“false witness against his neighbor,” and
quite as hard to show that he would shel
ter himself behind his wife, or any other
pretext; and as General Gordon is known
to be brave, we might have a duel before
breakfast, before the end of it.
The Atlanta Constitution , as the organ
of the “organized” democracy, might be
expected to sympathize with Gen. Gor
don, but the editor is not satisfied with
that; his feelings are so intense that he
cannot forbear to ridicule and disapprove
of Mrs. Felton’s course in positive terms.
If the editor will only reflect that his
own'wife is a woman, aud a lady, and
that she, as well as Mrs. Felton and oth
ers of us ladies who believe in the omnip
otence of right, is liable to be wrongfully
assailed, probably he will not be so hard
on Mrs. Felton, notwithstanding she is
an “independent,” and don’t ask the edi
tor any difference save in this, that she
is entirely dependent upon her own in
trinsic goodness and sublime virtue, and
she would like for the editor not to ridi
cule any attempt to vindicate it.
Theodora Trammell.
When will people learn that female
children must not be left unprotected?
A negro or a tramp lynched impresses
every few weeks the terrible lesson neg
ligence has taught. The heart is palsied
with the thought of the dreadful crime,
the little victim Torn and defiled by the
brute, and he suffers, perhaps, the pen
alty ; but it is no remedy for a little life
blasted by the very recollection of the
horror. The truth -is continually im
pressed that there is in this land of law
and order no safety from demonaic lust
but in never leaving girls unprotected.
A correspondent of the Macon Tele
graph writes to that paper from Atlanta
that he is informed by Attorney-General
.Ely that under the decision of the su
preme court the state of Georgia is -enti
tled to recover $74,000 for arrearages of
taxes due by the Atlantic & Gull railroad. *
As the road is unable to raise that amount,
however, it is said that the whole prop
erty will be offered for sale at public out
cry about the first of July.
An extraordinary item in Archbishop
Purcell’s assets is a list of 400 business
men to whom loans were made by his
brother amounting to $484,000, and who
have never paid either principal or inter
est, and apparently were never asked for
it.
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NUMBER 38.
THINGS IN DIXIE.
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There are three and a half million
| sheep in Texas.
The cotton receipts of Charlotte, A*. ( ~
this year are about 38,000.
Madison countv, A. C., will harvest
about $140,000 for the tobacco she raised
last vear.
The Knoxville (’’ .111.) Chronicle says
that there will be plenty peaches in that
section.
Ten thousand dozen eggs have been
shipped from Cambridge, Md., inside ol
1 two weeks.
The tide of colored emigration, which
so recently started lvansasward, is about
j to turn southward.
More commercial fertilizers have been
sold in Charlotte this spring than ever
before in any one season.
The eastern boundary of Texas meas
ures 1,915 miles, and to traverse around
the state, one would travel 4,630 miles.
I Mrs. Daniel Elzler, of Liberty, Fred
erick county, Md., has made a quilt ol
8,000 pieces with the same needle.
About forty men are at work building
an embankment for the New Orleans Pa
cific railroad on Bayou Plaque mine,
Louisiana.
Nashville, Tennessee, shows signs ol
awakening 'prosperity. Two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars worth of hous
es are in process of erection.
Gallion and Nelson, two fishermen ot
Chattanooga, in one haul caught four
catfish, whose average weight was 250
pounds. The hugest fish weighed 75
pounds.
San Antonio News: Three armed men
rode into the village of Rock Hill, a few
nights ago, and arrested and guarded
four citizens while the leading store in
the place was plundered.
A cow on Mr. D. C. Mims’ place, near
Buronsville, Alabama, a week or two ago,
gave birth to a calf with two perfect fa
ces and three ears. Otherwise it was
perfect in form. The cow and calf both
died.
Frank Miller, a poor employee in the
press room of the Dallas Herald, has
fallen heir to $200,000 by the death of his
wife’s grandfather, Jentie Louis Cham
pagne. Miller was a brother-in-law of
'Gen. Mouton, who fell at the battle of
Mansfield.
The Fort Worth Democrat , referring to
the question of taxing doctors and dogs,
says: From the action of the legislature
a stranger would be justified in believing
that Texas regarded dogs as a necessity
and doctors as a luxury.
The prospects for a brilliant season for
•New Orleans summer sports seems un
usually good and there seem to be an en
ergy and will displayed by the members
of the seven aquatie and athletic organ
izations that argues well.
New Orleans Times: A crazy negro,
armed with a bar of iron, installed him
self as doorkeeper of the Marietta (Ga.)
jail, recently. He wouldn’t recognize
even tickets with coupons for reserved
seats until he was taken in and chained
to an orchestra chair.
Sherman (Texas) Courier: Luke Ed
mondson, a hardware merchant in Sher
man, was joked on a tender subject by
J. P. Douglass, postmaster. When the
joker saw Edmondson get mad he apolo
gized, telling him it was only a joke.
However Edmondson procured a shot
gtm and deliberately blew Douglass’
brains out.
The length of a pig’s tail led to a mur
der in Madison county, X. C., last ThViVs
daj\ Two farmers, named Norton and
Gaither, disputed concerning the length
of the tail of a pig which they were ex
amining. Norton gave Gaither the lie,
whereupon Gaither told Norton to get
ready for a deadly fight. Both men drew
their revolvers almost simultaneously.
Gaither was fatally wounded and Norton
lost a thumb. The point as to which ot'
the two men, was right in regard to the
length of the pig’s tail remains unde
cided. ‘
AN IMMENSE FARM.
Twenty-seven miles north of • Fargo,
Dakota territory, is the famous Grondin
farm, the largest cultivated wheat farm
in the world. It covers about 40,000
acres, embracing both railroad and gov
ernment land, and is close to the Tied
river. The farm is divided into four
parts, and has dwellings, granaries,
blacksmith shop, elevators, &c., and has
a stabling capacity for 200 horses, and
has a granary capacity for 1,000,000 bush
els. In addition to the wheat farm there
is a stock farm of 20,000 acres. During
the seeding season they employ about 70
men, and in harvest time, as many as 200
men are busily engaged. Seeding com
mences about the 9th of April and ends
the first of May. The work is dpne very
systematically, the machines following
each other about the field four rods apart.
Cutting commences about the Bth of Au
gust and ends the fore part of September.
Then comes threshing, which is done by
eight steam threshers. After threshing
the stubble-ground js plowed with gang
plows, that cut two furrows, drawn by
three horses, and this-work continues
until it freezes up, which is about the
first of November,
With such splendid educational insti
tutions as thifffeountry possesses it does
•not say much for the good sense of Amer
ican parents to state that $4,0f0,000 is
annually spent by people in the United
States in educating their sons and daugh
ters in Europe. Every year more than
5,000 American students go over to Eng
land and Germany to receive an educa
tion. They evidently desire to say with
Mrs. Gilflory, “that they have been
abroad.
A.report having been circulated that
Wade Hampton, jr., took part in certain
festivities in honor of Gen. Sherman du
ring the recent tour, that gentleman
writes to the Charleston News and Cour
ier'. “Please deny, on my authority, that
I was present at a ball given to Gen.
Sherman at Jacksonville, Florida. I
would certainly have* avoided meeting
the man who was guilty of burning Co
lumbia and the cowardice of denying it.”
A correspondent in Santa Barbara, Ca’~
ifornia, writing on March 6th, says that
the weather is fine and warm, the hills
and valleys are all green, peach, apricot
and almond trees are in full bloom, ripe
strawberries have been in the market all
the winter, and plowing, sowing and
planting commenced in December and
will continue through the month of
March.
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Gen. Sherman and Jeff. Davis left
Vicksburg, Miss., on the same train, re
cently, and in mentioning the fact the
Vicksburg Herald says: “A friend of
Mr. Davis remarked to him that he
would have good company to travel with
in the person of Gen..-Sherman, and the
ex-president replied: “Well, I suppose
there is room enough on the ears for both
of us.”