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A T r o li IST K Y -A T-LA W,
AND—
DEALER IN REAL ESTATE,
( VSS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
K. W. MU 111*11 EY,
AT r r Oli JST TG Y-A T - JL, Aw ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
< >FFI< E (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor
ncr of Main & Erwin streets. jnlylS.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the
Supreme Courts at Atlanta.
office west side public Square, up-stairs over
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Postoffice. julylß.
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AT TO HNEYS-AT-LA W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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V. M. .JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely & Williams store.)
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
r WILL FILj TEETH, EXTRACT TEETII,
1 and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suitthe times.
ItfejSpAVork u | warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county.
augls-ly. _ F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
UriLL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
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. julylS.
CHAS. B. WILLINCHAM,
Sten.ogx’aplaio Court Reporter.
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I MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES,
taking dowit the testimony entire; also, ob
jeetions of attorneys, rulings of the court, and
the charge of the court, without stopping the
witness or otherwise delaying the jutueiai pro
ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis
faetiou guaranteed.
Traveler's Gruicle.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after December 10th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden \V ednesday .... oam.
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday spm
Leave Rome Friday Sain
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7 a m
Arrives at Greeusport 9 a in
Arrive at Rome Saturday 0 p m
M. ELLIOTT, President and Gcn’l Sup't.
# ROMK RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leave Romo 8:10 am
Arrive at Rome 12:00 m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Rome 5:00 pm
Arrive at Rome . 8:00 pm
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
Leave Cartersvillc 7:40 am
Arrive, at Stilesbora 8:30 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 am
Arrive at Rockmart 10:00 a m
Arrrivc at terminus 10:50 am
RETURNING.
Leave terminus 3:00 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 3:40 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm
Aar rive at (iartersville 6:00 p m
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 pm
Leave Cartersvillc 4:53 pm
Leave Kingston 5:19 pm
Leave Dalton 7:10 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm
NIGnT rASSF,NGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm
Loave Dalton 7:10 pm
J.eave Kingston 8:39 pm
Leave Uartersville 9:05 p in
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 p m
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:20 am
I.eave ('artorsvillo . 7:23 am
Leave Kingston 7:49 am
J.eave Dalton 9:2lam
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:50 am
DAY P A SSENG EH —DOW N.
Leave Chattanooga 6:15 am
Leave Dalton am
Leave Kingston 9:43 am
Leave Uartersville 10:11 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 12:06 pm
CARTERBVII.LE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta ® : 10 l 1 m
Arrive at Uartersville * 7:22 pm
CART ERSVILLK ACCOM MOD ATION—DOWN.
Leave Uartersville 6:05 am
Arrive at Atlanta . 8:45 a m
STOVES A TINWARE.
JOHN ANDERSON,
(Opposite Curry’s Drug Store.)
TTAS IN STORE AND FOR SALE A
1 I large lot of Tinware, Stoves and Cutlery.
Also, the celebrated Fly Fans, Tubs and Buck
ets which lie will sell in exchange for Rags,
Beeswax, Feathers, Butter, Eggs and Chickens.
He sells goods cheaper than ever. jnnelO
COUCH HOUSE,
(Kingston, Georgia.)
rill IIS LARGE AND COMFORTABLE
I House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. The
traveling public will find good, plain accommo
dations. Parties wishing board through the
summer will find Kingston one of the healthiest
and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three
or four families can get comfortable rooms in
view of trains. Terms very reasonable.
j|y‘2s. W. W. RAINEY.
1 1 110 TO OR ARMS !
YOUNG’S GALLERY,
Shorter Block, : : : : : Rome, Ga.
lIFE SIZE (BUST) FOR ONLY TEN DOL
j lars; half life size only live dollars. His
work is all strictly first-class. Makes copies of
it llsorts of pictures auy size and character de
sired. june29
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rniJE “CENTRAL HOTEL,” ADA IRSVILLE
i Georgia—a three-story brick building; large
yards, garden and orchard attached.
Address J. C. MARTIN,
Uecl9-tt Adairsville, Ga.
VOLUME 11.
E. J. Hale k Son’s
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Care J. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia.
U. O. ROBERTSON, M, D.,
Hygienic Physician and Electro-
Therapeutist,
Begs leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee,
and other counties of North Georgia, that for the
sake of rendering his mode of treatment more
universal and available, and the Health Institute
equally easy of access to patients in all parts of
the state, has removed from Rowland Springs to
Atlanta where he lias permanently established a
Health Institute.
TH© Atlanta Health. Institute
is the only institute south superintended by reg
lllai t_> ii-,,...,:- c.G <-•
only place where all kinds of curable diseases i
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical drug in any form, and with success un
paralelled by any other known process of treat
ing diseases.
Parties who are, because of continued dosing
and drugging, considered incurable, are re
spectfully requested to visit or correspond with
us. Thousands of chronic invalids, after having
patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (drug
opliatic) healing art” and with no other change
than that of growing continually worse and
worse, have under the Hygienic system of medi
cation. been speedily and permanedtly restored
to health.
For particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH
INSTITUTE, No. 178 W. Peters street, or address
Hit. U. O. ROBERTSON,
feb2o Atlanta, Ga.
J. A. JACKSON. AV. L. KIRKPATRICK.
Drs. Jackson & Kirkpatrick
Have opened an office in the
bank building and have fitted it up so as to
make their consultation room comfortable, and
attractive to all who may honor them with a call.
They prypose to furnish themselves with all
the instruments and appliances necessary to a
special and general practice. Also a full line of
pure chemicals aud prescription medicines, to
gether with the leading family medicines.
COMPOUNDING of PRESCRIPTIONS a SPECIALTY
Their office arrangements are such that the
public may feel assured that all consultations and
necessary examinations can be attended to Avith
the utmost facility and privacy. Would be pleas
ed to welcome their friends and the public gen
erally at their new office and will spare no pains
to render pleasant a leisure moment. They Avill
lie prepared Avith conveyances to answer all
calls from the country as well as the city and
will take in exchange for services produce at
market rates. Will givespecial attention to the
diseases and scientific treatment of women and
children. •
An experience in the treatment of diseases of
this climate ranging from eleven to thirty years
should giA’e some assurance of our ability to
meet the wants of the public in both practice
and the compounding of medicines, sepll-ly
THE STAR SALOON.
BAR AND BILLIARDS.
MORT E. PAINE
Has oped for the spring and summer business
and will keep always on hand
THE VERY FINEST LIQITOi?*,
BiUNWES, WHISKEY AND WINES,
Which will be manipulated into
fancy drinks of all kinds.
jggjy-Beer on draught.
Cigars of the best brands. The public respect
fully invited to call. may i
A. F, MURPHY,
Home, :::::: Georgia.
GENERAL SOUTHERN AGENT
New York Portrait Painting Company.
TT7TLL TAKE ORDERS FOR ANY QUALI
FY ty and size portrait known to the art for
less money than such work can be done for by
any other house. Parties desiring portraits can
sentl photograph, with description of complexion,
hair, eyes and dress. junel2-6m
J. C. & S. F. MILAM,
Commission Mevc-liaut *t,
COTTON BUYERS,
-Dealers in Standard Guanos,
AGENTS FOR
Metropolitan Works, Richmond, Va.
(fAN FURNISH ANY KIND OF AN EN-
U gine from four-liorse power to one hundred
and fifty.
SAW AND GRIST MILLS, THRESHERS,
And in fact any kind of machinery.
Please see us before purchasing. Office
at T. A. Foote’s store, West Mam street, Car
tersville, Ga. feb27
THE NATIONAL HOTEL,
The only first-blass hotel in
DALTON, GEORGIA.
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Rates per week : : : : : : 800
Rates per month : : : : : 25 00
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A.7ST IMMENSE
FALL AND WINTER STOCK
JUST RECEIVED AT
STOKELY. WILLIAMS & COMPANY,
WE HAVE JUST AND ARE NOW RE
ceiving every day one of the largest and
l*est selected stocks of
Dry Coods and Clothing
Ever brought to this market, which
We will Sell Cheaper than any
House in Cartersville.
WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY !
Our stock consists in
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,
HOOTS jAISTD SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE.
TOBACCO, <fcc., .See.
And in fact everything usually kept in a first
class house.
The Largest and Best Selected
Stock of T. Miles St Sons’
Ladies and Children’s
Shoes
EVER BROUGHT to this MARKET.
Goods Exceedingly Low For Cash.
STOKELY, WILLIAMS & CO,
octs
THE
Bargain Store !
IN FULL BLAST!
\\ T i: TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING
t V to our customers and the public generally
that our stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
is now full and complete—embracing everv ar
ticle usually kept in a FIRST" CLASS
STORE.
REMEMBER, YOU CAN GET ANYTHING
YOU WANT AT OUR STORE—
Dry Goods, Notions,
Boots, Shoes and Hats,
Clothing-, Groceries, Tin,
Hardvvare, Crockery,
and Glassware, Etc., Etc.,
All at less figures than you can buy anywhere
else in town.
Be sure yon price our goods before buying, and
you will most assuredly save money by buying
at THE BARGAIN STORE.
M. L. FLOMERS & CO.
ocl2-tf
BRINE MEDICINE CO.
LOST!
It is an established fact that Quinine or Cin
chonidia will stop Chills, and for this purpose
there is no better remedy. But it is also an es
tablished fact that they do not remove the cause
that produces the Chills. For if they did, the
Chills would not return on the 7tli, 14th, 21st, or
28tli day. Then is it not money LOST to attempt
to permanently cure the Chills with Quinine or
Cinchonidia, when they do not remove the cause
from the system that produces them? For until
the cause is removed, the Chills will return. The
FERKINE
Is warranted to remove every cause from the*
system that produces the Chills, and if it fails to
do this you will sustain no loss, for every drug
gist is authorized to guarantee a permanent cure
in every case, no matter of how long standing
and will refund the money if the Chills return
after you are through taking. Positively no cure,
no pay. Try it and be convinced. It contains
no poison, and is perfectly tastelesss and a per
manent cure guaranteed in all cases.
FERRINE MEDICINE CO.,
E. W. GROVE, Manager, Paris, Tenn.
sale by I). W. CURRY, Agent.
aug7
Cheapest 11 ncl Best.
HOWARD HYDRAULIC CEMENT.
MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUN
TY, GEORGIA.
QUAL to the best imported Portland Ce-
A ment. Send for circular. Try this before
buying elsewhere.
Refers by permission to Mr. A'. J. West, Presi
dent Cherokee Iron Company, Cedartown, Ga.,
who has built a splendid dam, (cost $7,0000 using
this cement and pronouncing it the best he ever
used. Also refer to Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superin
tendent W. & A. Railroad Company, who has
been using it for piers of bridges and culverts on
bis railroad, for two years; also to Capt. John
Postell, C. E. A Iso to John Stone, Superinten
dent of Bartow Iron Company, Bartow, Ga., who
has built several large reservoirs with it, which
are perfect; to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., of
Rome, who have made a splendid pavement
with iti to Capt. M. B. Grant, or Mr. Gilbert
Butler, of Savannah, who have used it with
great success in stucco work, or Major Bryan,
of Savannah, Mr. J. J. Cohen, of Rome, to
Messrs. Grant, Jacksonville, Ala., who have
used it for fountains, pavements, fish ponds, cel
lar lloors, etc- T. C. Douglass, Superintendent
East River Bridge, New York, who pronounces
it equal to the best Imported Portland Cement.
Address G. H. WARING, Kingston, Ga.
sepl2-ly.
THKO. E. SMITH. J. W. PRITCHKTT.
SMITH & PRITCHETT
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
PROPOSE TO BUY AND SELL ALL KINDS
of Real Estate in Cartersville and Bartow
county, on commission. They have on hand for
sale several desirable farms located in different
parts of the county.
They respectfully solicit business of all par
ties desiring to sell or buy town property or
farming lands. Their terms will he reasonable.
Office in Planters’ and Miners’ hank, Carters
ville, Ga. seP 11
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1879.
THE DAYS OF ’6B.
The Source of the Present Attacks Upon
Ex-Governor Brown’s Record.
Editors Constitution: Rumors on the
street have been very current for the last
few clays in reference to the consultations
of gentlemen outside of the legislature,
who are not my personal friends, and
who, if reports are reliable, have had
Mr. Garrard in training as their instru
ment in a wanton and unprovoked attack
upon me. While they may not have
formally organized themselves into a
committee, I shall designate them as
“the committee on prompting and assist
ance.” The result of their deliberations
is seen in your columns over the name
of their instrument.
It i3 composed of a tissue of misrepre
! sentations and personal abuse, which
never have much weight as argument in
favor of a cause. Mr. Garrard, under
their promptings, quotes extracts from
the newspapers, and the sayings of prom
inent gentlemen in Georgia who differed
from me politically during the recon
struction period.
That was a period of unprecedented
bitterness, madness and vituperation.
It was just after the war, at a time when
the people of the state felt they had not
only lost all, but that the terms dictated
by the conqueror were t harsh and rigor
ous. Prominent politicians who were
disqualified to hold office under the re
construction legislation of congress, and
under the fourteenth amendment which
we were required to adopt, were very
bitter and denunciatory, and they fired
the passions and worst feelings of the
people up to a high point.
It was easy then to float with the cur
rent. My opinion was, however, that it
was the time of all others, when patriots
and good citizens should meet the issue
calmly and coolly, dismiss passion and be
controlled entirely by the dictates of
their judgment. Taking this view of
the situation, and feeling that I owed
the people of Georgia a debt of gratitude
that I could never pay, for the honors
and confidence they had bestowed upon
me, I looked carefully into the situation,
and whilst every prompting of my na
ture and of my passions was in the di
rection of the popular current, my judg
ment told me it was bad policy and
would terminate disastrously to pursue
that course.
I was fully convinced that further re
sistance to the will of the conqueror
would be worse than folly. I knew the
northern mind was inflamed against us,
and that the party which had favored
the war from the commencement and
had come out of it triumphant, was
obliged for years to control popular sent
iment there. I was, therefore, satisfied
the best thing we could do was to agree
with the adversary quickly, to take the
first terms they offered us, and close
with them and get our representatives
back into congress at the earliest date
possible; and our state again recognized
as a member of the family of states of
the union. 1 was satisfied if we made
no resistance to the right of the negroes
to vote, and made no issue with them
upon that subject, we could retain their
confidence and carry a majority of them
with us in spite of all the influence of
:ui Cue uiiipci’-u.iggers nv..-,,. pomo
among them. But I was equally well
satisfied if we made war upon the acts
of congress which gave them the right
to vote, it would be a war in which we
would ultimately be vanquished; and
the very fact that we made the issue
would put them under the control of the
carpet-baggers who came among us, and
who represented themselves to the col
ored people as being their friends sent
here to see that these rights were secured.
1 also predicted at the time, in my
public speeches which are now on record,
that the time would come in less than 15
years, when the New England states
would regret that they had given suffrage
to the negro; and when the southern
people, on account of the power which
the negro vote gave us in congress would
resist any effort to take from the colored
people the suffrage already given them.
Under the 14th amendment, if the state
were to permit none of the colored race
to vote, she could count none of them in
her representative population. The
southern states, therefore, have some
thirty members of congress and thirty
votes in the electoral college, which they
would not have if they had denied to the
colored race the right to vote. The
northern radicals saw this in the results
of the late presidential election, and
many of them have since cried out
against unqualified negro suffrage.
What southern man would now yield
that right, thereby losing the power
which we have in congress and in the
electoral college; and which we would
not have if the race were disfranchised.
But this is not all. At the time I took
position for acquiescence in the recon
struction acts, no 15tli amendment had
been put upon us, as part of the terms of
readmission into congress; nor was it
done until a number of the states of the
south had rejected the 14th amendment.
I predicted at the outset, if we did not
accept the terms then offered us, harder
terms would be imposed and we would
be compelled to accept them. After we
had rejected the 14th amendment, the
15th, which guaranteed the right of the
negro to vote, woe proposed and made
part of the terms; and we were informed
we would not he readmitted till we com
plied with this additional requirement.
And we had to comply before we were
readmitted.
What has been the result? Those
gentlemen in the south, who were then
the leaders of popular sentiment and who
opposed the reconstruction measures to
the bitter end, until they had been agreed
to by the southern states, have since be
come prominent in federal politics; and,
notwithstanding their denunciations of
the 14th and 15t.h amendments and their
predictions that they would never be en
forced, they have since that time again
and again sworn to support the constitu
tion with these amendments incorporated
in it. And the national democratic con
vention, which met at St. Louis, incor
porated a plank into its platform declar
ing its devotion to the constitution with
these amendments.
As my enemies, through the agency of
their instrument, have thought proper to
wake up the old issue, and again call in
question the propriety and wisdom of my
conduct in the course I took upon recon
struction, I think it not improper that 1
should call to mind these facts and ask
the people who gave the wiser advice on
that occasion ? Was I right, when I told
the people we would be obliged to sub
mit to these terms? What advantage
did South Carolina, Louisiana and Flor
ida, whose people refused to go to the
polls, or have anything to do with the
conventions that formed their constitu
tion under the reconstruction acts, gain
bv hands-off policy? They were ad
vised by their leaders to touch not, taste
not, handle not the unclean thing, to
have nothing to do with it, but to give
the matter up into the hands of the
negroes, carpet-baggers and scalawags.
The people followed the advice of their
leaders, and the governments of those
states were put into thr hands of the
classes above mentioned. They formed
the constitution to suit themselves; and
the world knows the result.
On the other hand, the white people of
Georgia were divided upon this question.
Some thirty or forty thousand of them
who agreed with me, thinking it better
to have a hand in making the constitu
tion they were to live under, went to the
polls and elected some of our best and
ablest men, who were not ineligible, to
represent them in the convention. The
result was we got a constitution which
soon placed the state under the perma
nent control of the white race, where we
have not had any inconvenience from
the position the negroes have occupied
in the jury box. In a word, a constitu
tion under which the intelligence and
virtue of the state soon asserted their su-
premacy ; and our leading position is not
only recognized but envied by the south
ern sisterhood of states. But for the
course of the constituency I have just
mentioned, and of the self-sacrificing
heroic men who went into the conven
tion, ami who watohed around it, with
the curses of a large proportion of the
white people against them, who had the
nerve to breast the storm and do right,
we would have been in as deplorable a
condition as our three southern sisters
above mentioned. I leave it therefore
for the honest, fair-minded men of this
generation and for impartial history in
the future to say whether the course I
took and the advice I gave during that
great struggle was the wisest and best
that the circumstances permitted. lam
willing to stand or fall by the record;
and my enemies who have provoked this
assault are welcome to make the most
of it.
Immediately after the reconstruction
acts had passed if the whole south had
accepted the situation and supported
General Grant for president in 1808, we
would have been promptly readmitted to
congress, our state governments would
have been left in our own hands, political
disabilities would have been removed
and we should have had no carpet-hag
rule. This would have thrown together
in the republican party, as the result of
the war, elements not congenial on
questions of banks, currency, tariffs,
etc., and before this time a split would
naturally have taken place on those
issues. And as there would have been
no bloody shirt waved, large numbers of
northern men who now act with the re
publican party, who were originally war
democrats, would naturally have drifted
back to their old position, which has
been prevented by the position of the
south on the reconstruction issues.
Entertaining these views, I did not
support the Seymore movement on the
insane platform of 1808. But I then
voted for General Grant, as a measure of
policy, as the democratic party did for
Greeley in 1872. The difficulty was,
however, that the party did not adopt
the proper line of policy by giving their
support to a republican till four years
after the opportunity had passed. That
which would have been wise and judi
cious in 1868, and would have secured
our immediate return to our proper posi
tion in congress, was of no benefit in
1872, because the time had changed, and
the opportunity was gone. The mischief
hnrl nIrPJHW npoii (InilO. Had me wnoie
south moved on that line in 1868, the re
sult would have been that the democracy,
designated by their old name, or by some
other watchword, would before this time
have been in complete control of the
government.
But my assailants through their in
strument quote the bitter and discourt
eous language used by' Senator Hill du
ring that exciting and violent campaign,
in reference to my position and conduct.
Doubtless Mr. Hill used the expression
attributed to him at the time under the
excitement and promptings of a hitter
partisan warfare; hut Mr. Hill will not
use that language now, nor will he ap
prove it when used by others.
The caustic and very severe language
of General Toombs, uttered during that
period of madness, is also lugged into
the reply. But General Toombs will not
use that language now. Subsequent de
velopments and the influence of time
have wrought great changes.
The abusive language and the misrep
resentations of the Constitution as then
published in this city', are also copied
into the article. But the Constitution
will neither use nor indorse any r such
language now; nor will it defend any
such misrepresentations. Why do the
gentlemen seek to do me injustice by re
producing these hitter expressions used
by the opposition in that most stormy
period, when they knew that subsequent
developments have changed the opinions
of those gentlemen who uttered them
and that no one claims now' that they'
were just when uttered. They were the
ehulitions of political madness.
I see in the Constitution of yesterday'
that Colonel Carey W. Styles, who was
editor of that paper during the stormy
period of IS6B, has had the manliness to
come out and inform the public of the
circumstances under which the denunci
ations then went into the paper, and to
state that he does not now entertain
those opinions. In comparison with the
conduct of my assailants, this high
toned, honorable course on the part of
Colonel Styles reflects credit both upon
his lipad and his heart.
Theirs is the spirit or the hyena which
feeds upon the rottenness of the past.
His is the act of the enlightened patriot
who rises above the dead issues of the
past and looks forward to the living fu
ture, ever ready to do justice to all.
But there is another view of this ques
tion. My assailants have not thought
proper to give a fair version of even what
occurred during the stormy period above
referred to. They have quoted the bit
ter language used by' my opponents; hut
they have carefully suppressed my re
plies to those opponents, which at the
time were equally' severe and denuncia
tory. They have quoted the vitupera
tion against me; but they have quoted
none of the numerous expressions of
approbation and even of laudation by
the press on the other side. They are
like the Dutch justice who when he had
heard one side of a case, stopped the evi
dence and refused to hear the other side
because, he said, when lie heard both
sides it always confused him. Or,
to come down to a later case, they are
like the special committee to investigate
the office of the principal keeper of the
penitentiary, which heard such witnesses
as were called before it; but refused to
permit the witnesses to confront the ac
cused, or the accused to confront the
witnesses, for fear it might confuse them
or damage the case they sought to make.
But history will hear both sides of these
cases and render an impartial verdict.
The mode of attack adopted by my as
sailants would prove that George Wash
ington, Andrew Jackson and George Me
Troup were not only patriots, hut wer.
men whose conduct deserved the con
demnation and censure of mankind.
Even harder things were said of each of
those gentlemen in his day' by political
opponents than those which have been
uttered against me. But time has con
signed the assailants to the oblivion
which was their just reward, and I am
content to trust to time for my vindica
tion in my humbler sphere.
This much for my reconstruction re
cord, which my assailants have thought
proper to attack. In my next I will
show how maliciously false are their late
statements in reference to my conduct in
the prosecution of the Columbus prison
ers. Joseph E. Brown.
AMONG THE WILD MEN.
Hon. W. O. Tuggle, of Georgia, Visits
the Indian Territory.
Correspondence Atlanta Constitution.]
Eufaula, Indian Territory, Sep
tember 17.—Hw would you like a ride
of two hundred miles on the back of a
mule. ’Tis a novel change from the rail
road. Your Sunday issue of the 14th
reached here at 9a. m. to-day, the 17th,
and 1 devoured largely of its contents.
Grady’s two articles on the early history
of Georgia are splendid, and ought to be
preserved in permanent book form with
some of his other sketches, which are as
readable as Irving or Addison.
During the three weeks spent among
them I have been favorably impressed.
There are in the United States about
$300,000 Indians; 55,000 in the live civ
ilized tribes—the Cherokees, Creeks,
Choctaws, Chickasaws and Seminoles;
20,000 more belonging to other tribes in
the Indian Territory, and the balance are
scattered in the western part of the Uni
ted States, with a few remaining in Xew
York, North Carolina and other states.
The civilized tribes have forms of gov
ernment more or less familiar to that of
the states. The Cherokees have a con
stitution and code of laws. The Creeks
have a constitution, but their laws are
not yet codified, although efforts have
been made in this direction and a code
prepared. The Creeks have a chief,
elected by the people every four years, a
house of kings and a house of warriors,
district courts and a supreme court.
Judge Warner will smille when he
learns that the chief justice of the Mus
cogee nation is a Baptist preacher, and is
now a missionary to the wild tribes two
hundred and fifty miles west of his home.
I met him the other day at the Muscogee
Baptist Association on his way from his
missionary labors. lie came back to pre
side over the supreme court at its next
session, in about two weeks. Rev. John
Mclntosh is his name—grandson of Gen
eral William Mclntosh, whom the Creeks
killed in 1825, on account of the treaty
at Indian Springs.
The present chief is Ward Coochman,
born in Alabama, and remained there till
about 1848. He was a delegate to the
Baptist Association at Newoka. He is a
stout built man, of about flfty-tive years
old, black hair, black eyes, thin whis
kers, will weigh over two hundred
pounds, and was dressed in a dark gray
citizen’s suit. He is a man of ability,
and has an affable address. I took tea
with him —coffee rather.
The Presbyterians and Methodists have
each a mission school on the manual la
bor system and the Creek nation pays
the board and tuition of a certain num
ber of scholars. The Baptists aie con
templating the establishment of a mission
se *l9ft!rl?(f^’e iity -e igi a puonc scnoms
kept open ten months in the year, and
under the supervision of a superinten
dent of public instruction, and he is also
the superintendent of public blacksmith
shops. The nation pays for sharpening
both mental and agricultural tools.
They pay forty dollars per month to
teachers and pay for school books.
The Indians enjoy religion. I attend
ed an all night prayer meeting last Sun
day night. They saj 7 they used to wor
ship the devil all night, and they think
they ought to worship God all night too.
The meeting began at dark and ended
about sun up or a little later. Imagine a
savage crowd of Indians singing in
Creek at the top of their voices just be
fore daylight end suddenly a bugle blast
sounds on the air—wouldn’t you think of
Gabriel ?
The Creeks have no marriage laws,
but the Baptist Association adopted a
memorial on the subject, urging the
council to pass a proper marriage law.
Your correspondent had the honor of
drafting the memorial. Their custom
allowed several wives, but the churches
have so altered public opinion that it is
rare to find a man with two wives.
“How did you punish a violation of
marriage vows?” 1 asked an Indian
lawyer.
“Yousee that man there?”
“Yes.”
“Well, his wife was taken by another
man, and one night lie went with some
other men, arrested the betrayer, beat
him senseless, and then cut his ears off
with a dull knife.”
“How did they treat the woman?”
“The same way.. Sometimes they let
her off easier than the man.”
“What became of the man and wo
man ?”
“They are living together as man and
wife, and the injured husband got him
another wife.”
“Was that your custom?”
“Yes; the chief made that law, and
everyone followed it.
Sometimes they cut the woman’s nose
off by way of variety.
Tf the criminal could hide out till after
“Busk,” the annual festival, he went
free. Some of the tribes had cities of
refuge like the Israelites.
Mine host was a Uchee Inkian, and
said at breakfast: “A witch was in the
kitchen last night.”
“Do you believe in ghosts?”
“O, yes.”
“Ever see one ?”
“Yes.”
“When and where?”
“My wife’s uncle was buried and sbe
wanted to have him buried nearer, and I
brought his body here, and while the
coffin was lying by the new grave, I saw
him walking around my fence there, and
he had on the same old hat and coat he
used to wear. Brown was with me but
he couldn’t see it.”
His ten year old son told me confiden
tially that it was bis grandfather’s ghost
that was in the kitchen, and that he came
there frequently. Some people in Geor
gia believe about the same thing. Read
er, would you like to stay in a graveyard
after midnight?
I heard of some old copper plates, and
I tried to get a look at them, supposing
from descriptions in Pickett’s History of
Alabama, and otherwise, that they were
old Spanish shields and pieces of armor
left by DeSoto, in Georgia. I tried in
vain; neither love nor money could per
suade the town chief to permit unholy
hands to touch the sacred vessels, which
are kept buried, and only taken up by
medicine men at the yearly festivals, or
busks,
“Why not?” I asked Harjo, the town
chief.
“Only medicine man can dig them up.
He died, and n‘o other medicine man has
been selected, and we had no busk this
year. If any other man should see them
he would die before he reached his
home.”
“I’ll risk that.”
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NUMBER 13.
“Must Ik? medicine man.”
“Then elect me medicine man.”
He laughed, and the interpreter told
me it was useless.
“Do these civilized Indians believe
such things and call these medical men
i to see them when sick?” I asked an in
: telligent white doctor one day.
“Yes. I was spilt for, and found a
I medicine man blowing with a long cane
! in a vessel of water, with poison oak
leaves, some sumac leaves and some
grass in the water. The child had the
intermittent fever, and he told the moth
er to sprinkle it with this water. He al
so told her the child had hog sickness,
and he took a piece of hog meat, put it
on a sharp stick, mumbled over it, push
ed it off, and then, taking it up, he walk
ed backwards, and threw the meat over
his shoulder, and told the mother the
child would get well!”
“I knew another case this summer
where three children died under similar
treatment.”
Of course these bar bar ions customs pre
vail only among the most ignorant class
es. The church people are generally the
most intelligent and free from all such
ideas.
It is not uncommon to see mowing ma
chines cutting grass on the prairies and
improved plows in the fields. A few
Berkshire hogs and Durham cattle
abound. Most of the farms are small,
and only corn is usually cultivated, but
occasionally a cotton patch is seen and
wheat is raised to some extent. “Sofkey”
and “abuskey” are generally 7 found at the
Indian houses. “Sofkey” is made by add
ing water to weak lye hominy and let
ting it stand a few days, and “abuskey”
is Jeff Davis corn meal coffee.
I stopped at a house yesterday. We
were thirsty. “Sofkey ?” we asked. The
woman smiled, and soon brought out a
big bowl filled with sofkey, and one big
wooden spoon about the size of a man’s
hand, and it would hold a pint. Eti
quette demanded that the whole party
use this spoon, and our crowd was com
posed of descendents of Shem, Ham and
Japhet.
The Indian Territory is a hashpot of
nations in more senses than one. Her
bert Spencer would enjoy theorizing
here.
Water in winter and no water in sum
mer. Drouth is the curse of of the wes
tern country. Texas, the Indian Terri
tory and Kansas, have suffered fearfully.
I have met crowds returning from Tex
as. I rode from north of the Arkansas
river to near the Choctaw line, and cross
ed only three running streams. All the
creeks are dry except stagnant pools,
and from these man and beast must drink
or perish. They push the thick scum
aside and dip the water from beneath.
Does not the memory of Georgia springs
and wells seem like an oasis in Sahara
amid such scenes ? Georgia forever, say
I. With all the disadvantage attending
Georgia farming, I have yet to find a far
mer in the west who makes more money
to the acre than our best Georgia farmers,
and when locusts and grasshoppers and
drouth are considered, Georgia is ahead
on the home stretch. Doctors’ bills are
long and heavy out in the west.
Georgia newspapers seem dearer than
ever. The Reporter , the Constitution ,
an cl m ifes ini p rove tfi eftrr 1 T £ ifh?i 1
Drs. Tucker and II ay good emich n.iv
state, and our Baptist and Methodist
hosts are safe under such leaders.
As I saw the steam rolling west and
northwest via Kansis City, I sighed, “Oh,
that Georgia could secure some of these
emigrants.” The continued distress in
England, the poor crops, the difficulties
just ahead of European nations will cause
the little classes of farmers and mechan
ics to emigrate. Surely something can
be done to let them know the advantages
of Georgia.
I met the famous Jim McHenry, who
was prominent in the war of 1830, and
was in Columbus jail a while. He is a
fine looking old man, white beard, black
eyes and rather slender. He is a Metho
dist preacher, and also president of the
house of kings. Was introduced to Os
ceola’s half-sister, Ilepsy Powell. She
is tall, nearly six feet, stoutly built, black
hair mingled with gray, dark hazle eyes
and resembles Osceola’s pictures. Os
ceola has a half-brother living near Oe
mulgee.
Met the candidates for chief. Election
was on Ist September and 'tis not yet
known who is elected. Coochman, I
mentioned before, Sam Checote, is the
other. He is a large, powerful mail,
black eyes, hair and thin beard running
gray. He is a presiding elder of the
Methodist church and spoken of as a very
good man.
The election for chief is close and
some trouble is anticipated on the eight
to seven plan.
The Indians have been diligent stu
dents under Uncle Sam. Diplomacy a
la Indian is not after Talleyrand, Metter
nieh, Maeheivello, nor the Duke of Sul
ly, and yet a diplomatist would do well
not to neglect the Indian system. They
are good judges of human nature and
scheme accordingly. There are three
parties among the Creeks, the Muscogee
party, the Constitutional party and the
Loyal party. The Muscogee’s call Con
stitutionals the “pins” because they
wore pins as a badge. These parties
have issues that an outsider can appre
ciate and are controlled by local issues
and the desire to get In. Old fight of
“ins and outs.” All parties oppose the
conversion of the Indian Territory into a
state, or “temporizing” or “sectionaliz
ing” their country as they term it. They
hold their lands in common as tribes,
and do not wish any change, as they
know they will go the wall. The white
man has come possessed of his once con
tinental domain, and the Indian fears
that efforts are being made by the rail
road corporations and others to get bis
land in the Indian Territory. Treaty
stipulations should be regarded and In
dian soil should be sacred from molesta
tion. W. O. T.
Senator Thurman, in a letter to a per
sonal friend in Washington, says there
is not the slightest doubt in his mind but
what General Ewing will be elected gov
ernor of Ohio by a handsome majority,
and the legislature will be democratic on
joint ballot. He says his confidence is
not based upon casual observation, but
a precise knowledge of the work being
done and the sentiments expressed in lo
calities which were fora time justful re
garded as doubtful to the democracy.
Baltimore has the smallest debt of any
city in the country of its size and wealth.
The debt is $7,040,002, with a current
valuation of $225,000,000, a population in
1870 of 207,354, and a tax rate this year
of $1.50 against $1.90 last year. This,
however, does not include the state tax,
which runs from 17 to 18 cents on the
SIOO.
The viceroy of India telegraphs that
cholera is only prevalent among the Brit
ish troops on the route from Ravval Pin
du to Jamrood. As the forces advance
beyond Jamrood they lose the cholera
Influence.