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THE NEW USURY LAW.
Wbat a North Georgian Thinks of the
“Cob Web” Arguments of the
Atlanta Constitution.
To The Free Press:
Will you permit me to use your paper
to offer a few thoughts in reference to
the usury law passed by the legislature
at its recent session ? Ever since the law
was passed fixing the rate of interest at
eight per cent., or not allowing a higher
rate, the Constitution, of Atlanta, has
been trying to make the people of Geor
gia believe the law was a terrible calami
ty to the people of the state. Every ar
ticle in the Constitution against this law
was expected by the people to be the last
one that would appear, especially after
the Hon. John F. Aw trey, of Troup, suc
cessfully answered every objection pre-
sented against this new usury law. He
deserves much credit in addition to his
action prior in reference to the law, and
for his ability and firmness he will not be
soon forgotten. But when the flimsy
article appeared in the Constitution of the
23rd November, longer forbearance ceas
es to be a virtue. It is a great wonder to
eight-tenths—yes, I might say nine
tenths who are friends of the usury law,
to see a paper of such intelligence as the
Constitution is thought to possess, labor
ing so hard with spider web articles to
make the masses dislike one of the best
laws that has been passed for many
years; and if the law is defective at all it
is because the rate of interest is one per
cent too high yet.
In some of the articles in the Constitu
tion referred to, the editor labored fiardto
make the hard working farmer believe
lie was in sympathy with him on account
of the bad effects be supposed would re
sult from the passage of the law. If he
is in sympathy with the hard working
fanner he has completely failed to make
him believe it. No, sir, he must he in
sympathy with the bankdrs and money
changers, and he would try to make it
appear that money was like any other
article of trade —worth what it would
command, and that the law had no right
to fix its value. Such an idea! Every
schoolboy almost in the whole country
knows that our legislators have the right
and it is their duty to say what is money
and what rate of interest it shall bear.
The hanker goes to his bank at nine
o’clock in the morning and returns at
three p. m. The laboring class work
soon and late. Which of the two classes
wears the best clothes and sits down to
the best table, or has the most comforta
ble houses to shelter them from the
storm ? To talk about banks not being
able to survive in business with all their
other advantages of exchange and depos
its, is all a fallacy. They can get rich at
eight per cent., and they know it. The
paper referred to would try to make the
farmers believe that under Jhis usury law
they will have to pay merchants an ex
horbitant price for everything to aid them
in the production of a crop, because the
banks would not loan to them at eight
per cent Banks seldom ever loaned to
planters. It was the twelve per cent,
merchants had to pay hanks for money
to enable them to assist farmers that did
the mischief. If money is worth twelve
per cent, why don’t the state pay that
rate, or why don’t the most prosperous
enterprises in the state declare a dividend
of twelve per cent, or in other words
more than eight?
No man nor business can pay a higher
rate than eight per cent., and not safely
pay eight. I tell jou this twelve per
cent, rate of interest, which was the law
prior to the passage of the last act, has
brought many a man to poverty and dis-
grace.
Well, the bankers of Atlanta, if their
organ is correct, held a meeting and de
cided not to obey the law, and when they
had to make affidavit tney would swear
they had violated the law. I am much
surprised at these bankers, who are per
haps intelligent men, to commit such a
folly and let the same go out in a public
press to the people at large. Tf they will
examine the good book they will find
that there is 110 safety for time or eterni
ty in such a course. Already the pas
sage of this law shows the wonderful
good results which it lias produced all
over the state. There are law-abiding
men that have money, and are investing
in land and other property.
God never intended in his providence
that one class of men through stratagem
shotdd live in luxury and waste and sin
ful extravagance by extortion, and his
neighbor in want of food and clothes to
shelter him from the wintry blasts. But
such to a great extent has been the state
of society in our midst. Cunning, crafty
men have appropriated too much of the
earnings of the industrious classes to
their own use without paying a fair price
for it, and thus the ill-gotten gain used
in sinful pride and luxuries forbidden in
the good hook will by and by bring upon
them sorrow, grief and remorse.
But I must return and say something
more about the Constitution's spider web
objections to the usury law. Under date
of the 23rd instant it remarks that it is
glad so influential a journal as the Haw
kinsville Dispatch is not misled by the
fallacies which the interest regulators de
pend upon to deceive the people; and it
further remarks that no measure ever
passed by a legislative body in Georgia
produced such distress and disaster to the
small farmers. In answer to which I re
mark that no law passed in many years
will result in more good to the small
farmer. And I am sorry the Ilawkins
ville Dispatch has been so deceived with
the false idea of injury by this law, when
indeed nine-tenths are friends of the law.
A few moneyed men are not all the peo
ple. If the men who trade in money
don’t want to loan at eight per cent., let
them lock it up and let it stay locked up
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1879.
as the Constitution says they will do. No
body will cry about it or fret.
As one of the patrons ot the Constitu
tion, I ask you, gentlemen, in all candor
to desist and write no more of these spi
der web articles. You arc injuring the
reputation of your journal to please a
few or a small minority, whether you
knoV it or not.
I will close this by saying success to
the immortal Awtrey, who has won for
himself laurels bright and enduring, I
may in the future give'this subject more
and better thought than I have in this
hasty article, which I was prompted to
write when I read the Constitution’ 1 s spi
der web article of the 23rd, referred to
previously.
The Sunny South, LaGrange Reporter,
and other friendly journals will please
copy and invite our friends of the Consti
tution to desist in their war upon such a
wise law, which is like a glorious shower
of rain upon a parched thirsty soil.
Nov. 25th. North Geoikjia.
“AYE TOLD VOU SO.”
To The Free Press:
Now, didn’t we ? The Rome Courier
of the 18th says on its editorial page,
which by the way is full of just such
venom and worthless trash: “We have
said time and again that Felton and Aker
man would not. both run for congress
from this district. We thought that Fel
ton would turn radical rather than have
Akerman take the radicals from him.”
The Courier has been having a .regular
old-fashioned jubilee over that letter in
the Savannah News. The “organized”
could not beat Felton last year even with
the mighty help of the Atlanta Constitu
tion. So now they have called for more
hired troops. The News says “They re
ceived a special from Washington saying
that Rev. Mr. Felton, D. !>., representa
tive from the seventh had decided to re
move his pretended allegiance to the dem
ocratic party and ally himself with the
radicals.” How easy it is for some folks
to try to deceive and mislead other folks,
and how easy it is to fail! When they
got up this trick, I suppose they thought
the honest independents of the seventh
would swallow it like “a yaller dog does
an oyster cracker” without once ques
tioning or doubting it and how badly
they are mistaken. The independent
party know just how far to believe such
papers as the Courier tf* Cos., especially
when they are talking against Dr. Fel
ton.
“O, consistency thou art a jewel.” Of
course we know that the editor of the
Courier is a thorough democrat and dead
ly opposed to the radical party, still
when he wanted the Rome postoffiee he
did not hesitate to ask a radical president
•.<! ,V) binot it, GtU i)C? Till) Courier
has always maintained the principles of
the democratic party, even so much as
to help hire ignorant negroes to speak
and buy votes in the last canvass.
“Nearly all the bone and sinew of the
country who have voted for Felton
while he professed to be a democrat will
leave ’him now that he denounces the
whole party” says this reliable paper
now, while last year it said that “Felton
was elected by the niggers and radicals;
was understood by them to be a radical
and was the true republican candidate in
disguise.” We hope Dr. Felton’s letter,
which is published in the Constitution of
the 18th, will give them something else
to blow about. “None so blind as who
won’t see,” says the proverb and it suits
the case of the “organized” to a dot.
They translate everything to suit then
own narrow views, and leave everybody
else out in the cold.
Bjhjtum Fulmen.
Rome, Ga., Nov. 18th, 1879.
THE LATEST FROM TOOMBS.
Ho Declares for Grant and the Empire.
Atlanta Correspondence Pliladelphia Times.]
I met the general tile other day and
asked him who would be the next presi
dent.
“Grant,” be replied promptly. “He
will be the next president and the last
president.”
“After Grant—what?”
“The empire, by G—d ! I am ready
for it. It is part of theinevitable. When
the north, by the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, injected 300,000 savages in
to the belly of the constitution they made
popular government impossible. Grant
is a man of power. Alec Stephens
thinks be is the greatest man, probably,
in public life to-day. I like him well
enough myself—a U— i sight better than
Ido any of his crowd lie has, to a
pre-eminent degree, what will command
the irresolution of tlese times. And
that is a dauntless coinage.”
“Is there no demoirat who has the
same quality ?”
“None —unless it is Bayard. He
comes of the purest and bravest strain of
blood that ever flowed (1 rough American
veins. If be has the nerve of the old
Bayard, who turned fis back on Burr
and his party because ie said Burr had
led the party where no dean-handed gen
tleman could follow itj he will do. I
suspect the blood is noJlosing its temper.
Tom Bayard’s father jave us a hint of
the old spirit when lie eft the Senate in
1860 because be would not swear that he
did not sympathize will the south. But
if Grant wrnts the Residency—and |L
think he does —it will equire a man that
can meet the lightning open-eyed to stay
his steps to the white house. Once in
there, you might as wfil try to tear the
lightning from its seat,in the clouds as to
get him out. But let it come. Grant
and the empire. Thai is the prophecy
ot an unrepentant reb.”
The Sparta Ishmaelie says that “a few
old dilapidated demouatie quidnuncs in
Georgia seem to have united themselves
into a sort of politics Clement attach
ment for the. purpose if spinning yarns
in the Grant "interest. They are going to
realize the fancy of thanan who dreamed
that he attended his 0111 funeral. There
is going to be a regula rush in the busi
ness of political grave-iigging down here
in the republic of Geo^ia.”
On Tuesday of lastyeek the receipts
of cotton in Columbunvere 1,465 bales,
the largest receipts it any single day
since the war.
Americus wants a Ciment attachment.
SENATOR HILL’S VIEW.
In Favor o fa Constitutional Declaration
of a Monarchy.
On the 23d ultimo the editor of the
Rock Islander addressed to several prom
inent men in the south the following let
ter:
Rock Island, Jli , October 23, 1879. —
Dear Sirl will mail to you a copy of
my paper of this week, and I respectful
ly ask that you will read the remarks of
mine in an article on the proposed York
town centennial.
Something should be done at once by
southern leaders of public opinion to
counteract the efforts of republicans who
are endeavoring to make a solid north on
the idea that state rights means secession;
that the people of the south are still for
secession; that there is no freedom of
speech or of the press in the south; and
that the south has been made solid by
means of the shot-gun.
Will you briefly give me your views as
to southern sentiment on these points for
publication? Southern men should take
every occasion to enlighten public opin
ion in the north on these points. Very
respectfully, yours, J. D. Danforth.
ANSWER FROM UNITED STATES SENATOR
BEN HILL.
Atlanta, Ga., November 12, 1879.
Mr. J. D. Dan forth, editor of the Rock
Islander, Rock Island, Illinois—Dear Sir :
—Your very kind letter of October 23d
was received some time since, but ab
sence has delayed an answer.
I also received the number of the Rock
Islander, and read your article on the
proposed Yorktowu centennial with
interest. I read with still greater inter
est your article on state rights in the same
paper.
The view you there present of state
rights is so clear and correct —though in
so few words —that I do not see that
anything can be added.
1 do not believe there is a man of in
telligence in all the south who now ad
heres to the doctrines of secession. It is
utterly abandoned. Before the war se
cession was an open question. Being
so, its affirmance or denial then could not
be treason. But by the war secession has
become a closed question. This we all
admit. It follows that any attempt to
re-assert secession would necessarily be
treasonable.
The attempt by republican speakers and
papers during the late campaign to con
found secession with state rights was the
most criminal exhibition of ignorance or
deceit or both ever seen in any contro
versy. No man can keep his oath to sup
port the constitution and deny to the
states the right to exercise the powers not
delegated to the general government but
which were expressly reserved in that
constitution itself.
The right to exercise these expressly
reserved powers is all we mean by state
rights.
This has no relation whatever to se
cession. The powers reserved are as dis
tinct and as constitutional as the powers
delegated. It is just as treasonable for
the general government to usurp a pow
er reserved to the states as it is for the
states to resist the exercise of a delegated
power by the general government.
The secessionists committed the latter
mistake. But they had the teachings of
gprOiir luon a ntrAnjr oAnfiAn orwl nirarr
generation, since the adoption of the
constitution, to plead as to their author
ity.
The republicans are committing the
first mistake —that of usurping supervis
ion of the general government over the
reserved powers of the states. Indeed
they now propose to destioy those pow
ers, or they confound them with seces
sion and say they are already destroyed.
Now, there is not a single respectable
name in our history to sustain this con
struction and claim of the republicans.
It is a bold attempt to destroy the states
and then the union. It is sought to be
accomplished under cover of the passions
engendered by the war. If the republi
cans succeed in this new attempt of dis
guised revolution, they will destroy our
system of government far more effectual
ly than the secessionists could have done.
If the secessionists had succeeded the
northern states would still have had free
constitutional government. But if the
republicans succeed neither north nor
south will have such government. All
will pass under the yoke of that despot
ism which is so significantly heralded un
der the demand for “a strong govern
ment.”
I trust that the discussions now to be
had will show the northern people the
immeasurable difference between state
rights and secession, and thereby save
our constitutional system of limited state
and tederal government from final and
disastrous overthrow.
Equally wicked, though not so danger
ous, is the republican charge that “the
south has been made solid by the shot
gun.” This is smply a disgraceful un
truth. The south has been made solid
by the policy of the republican party, and
the “shot-gun” slang is resorted to for
no purpose but to hide the truth from the
masses of the northern people.
The republicans have made the south
solid by unmitigated wrong upon the
southern people, and are now seeking to
make the north solid by unmitigated
slanders of their victims.
We have bad men in the south. You
have bad men in the north. But the
greatest criminals in either section are
those men who teach the people of one
section to hate and distrust the people of
another section of out common country.
It the republican party will let alone
the issues settled by the war and treat'
them as settled, and will cease to maltreat,
slander and malign the southern people,
and will thus allow parties to form bn
economic and proper political questions,
the people of the south, like all other
people, will divide.
This whole matter must be decided by
the intelligence of the northern people.
If they are unable to see the very plain
motives of the republican leaders and pa
pers in keeping alive the sectional pas
sions and issues, or if they are unwilling
to rebuke those motives, we shall have a
solid north against a solid south, aud very
soon a solid despotism of all,
We, of the south, sincerely abandon se
cession and slavery, and are doing all in
our power to improve the freedman
into an intelligent, good citizen. While
the republicans had control in Georgia
neither white nor black could accumu
late property. But sinoe the republi
cans were expelled from control, the
blacks of Georgia have accumulated six
millions of property, and under their own
oaths return over five millions of taxa
tion, including over five hundred thous
and acres of land!
When the republicans had control in
Georgia neither whites nor blacks could
obtain free education, for all the school
fund was diverted—in plain words,
stolen.
As soon as the republicans were expell
ed from control in Georgia, whites and
blacks alike and in equal proportions be
gan to be educated at the public expense.
In 1878 over seventy-two thousand col-
ored children were in school at the pub
lic expense in Georgia, and the school
commissioner thinks that the number in
1879 will reach over ninety thousand.
You may search the whole earth and
all the ages in vain for the benefits to the
colored race equal to those I give you
from the official records in Georgia. In
the face of such facts is it necessary to
use the shot-gun to induce the colored
people to vote the democratic ticket? In
the face of such official facts will the
northern people still believe the reckless
demagogues who slander and abuse the
southern people?
I repeat, we of the south accept the re
sults of the war in good faith. We will
soon recover from all the losses of the
war if republican rogues and slanderers
will permit us to do so. We are strongly
in favor of preserving and perpetuating
to our children our constitutional system
of federal and state governments. We do
not believe a better system can ever be
devised for this country. But sectional
despotism accomplished by sectional
slanders and administered in sectional
hate is the very worst form of all possi
ble despotism. We are opposed to
any more civil wars lor any purpose,
even to maintain liberty. If sectional
despotism maintained through sec
tional malignity cannot be otherwise
avoided, we will respond to an honest
proposai to change our system from a
free to a strong government, peaceably
and regularly.
It will be better —inexpressibly better
for the southern people to be governed
by a wise, just and able man as emperor
and king, than by an infuriated sectional
mob under the lead of a narrow, sensa
tional, sectional demagogue as president.
Will intelligence save or monopoly de
stroy* our constitutional system of gov
ernment?
This is the question. The north must
answer, and the south abide the an
swer, be it what it mav, insisting only
that the peace be preserved.
You can do as you please with this let
ter as I am a public man full of earnest
desires for the public good, and entirely
without secrets in my public opinions,
and without shackles in uttering them.
Yours very truly, Benj. 11. Hill.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.
What He lias to Say in Regard to the
Affairs of the Country.
Washington, Nov. 28.—The president
completed his message before leaving for
Philadelphia. The National Republican
prints the following as an outline of its
contents:
It is understood in well informed cir
cles that the president begins his forth
coming annual message by congratula
ting congress and the country upon the
successful accomplishment of resump
tion, but warns congress that unless the
unlimited coinage of standard silver dol
lars is stopped the present amount of gold
will soon begin to flow out of the coun
try and that silver will take Us place.
On this point he recommends that no ac
tion be taken as to fixing the ratio be
tween the silver dollar and the gold dol
lar until the international monetary con
gress shall have arrived at some conclu
sion regarding the legitimate status of
silver, but suggests that the coinage of
the silver dollar be merely suspended. It
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ground that as it is only in time of war or
other pressing emergency that the issue
of notes, the worth of which is fixed
wholly by the government, is author
ized, and that as no such emergency now
exists, the circulating notes, i. ~ the
greenbacks, should now be retired in
some manner wisely calculated to tore
fend any disturbance of the present finan
cial equillibrium. lie also argues that as
it has been the policy of the government
ever since the adoption of the constitu
tion to pay oft’ all debts as soon after
they are incurred as possible, a sinking
fund should now be provided, or the ex
isting laws relating to that fund amended
so as to fix a limit specified and distinct
within which the present public debt
shall be paid. He then recommends that
if the revenues of the government shall
not be sufficient to provide necessary
funds to meet the demands of such a pol-
Icy, a tariff should be placed on tea and
coffee, as the tax could be conveniently
levied, and would be less felt by the peo
ple than any other.
He calls the especial attention of con
gress to the continued and utter disregard
of the statutes against polygamy by the
people of the territory of Utah, and sug
gests or requests that some action be taken
in the premises. He refers to the fact
that the territory is now approaching the
period when she will apply for admission
into the union, and when she will cer
tainly’ have to be admitted as a state. In
this connection he recommends that the
citizens of all the territories who are
guilty of the crime of polygamy shall be
debarred from the right of suffrage and
also from the privileges of jury duty. He
also recommends that a test oath shall be
imposed in the territories for the purpose
of excluding polygamists from the jury
box. ,
- He occupies considerable space in the
message in a discussion of the theories of
civil service reform, and advocates the
appointment of a commission to be en
dowed with the power to appoint officers
or officials of different grades in the civil
service, all such appointments to last du
ring good behavior.
He reports an agreeable and friendly
state of affairs with foreign nations, and
remarks in effect that nothing of impor
tance has occurred in diplomatic affairs
since his last message. He discourages a
renewal of the discussions regarding the
transfer of the Indian bureau to the war
department, as that discussion always
serves to hamper the officials of the bu
reau in pending operations and negotia
tions, and produces no corresponding
good.
Asa member of the Washington mon
ument commission he advises the appro
priation of a sufficient sum and the
change of existing laws to permit the
completion of the monument at an early
date.
Referring to the deficiency which exists
in the appropriation for the department
of justice, he points out the necessity of
an immediate appropriation for the pay
ment of accrued dues and fees of United
States marshals arising from the failure
of congress to provide at the late extra
session for their payunent under the
usual process. He further points out the
necessity of similar or full appropriations
for the faithful and competent execution
of the laws in the future.
In tone and spirit the entire message is
conspicuously stalwart, as the phrase
goes, so far its it relates to political affairs
and in length exceeds any of its prede
cessors.
♦ ■
A correspondent from Darien, waiting
in regard to friend Grubb’s application
for the position of census supervisor,
says that his appointment would receive
the cordial approval of the entire district.
Col. Nicholis is warmly supporting him.
Harry J. Ryan, the alleged insurance
forger, has escaped from jail in Albany.
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NUMBER 21.
DR. FELTON’S I.ETTEK.
Some Reasonable Comments upon it by
a Few Papers.
Brunswick Appeal—C. W. Styles.
Felton’s foray on the democratic party
appears in the Constitution of the 18th.
We have read it. It is a daring, and, in
many statements, a truthful Indictment.
He arraigns the party for its blunders,
and shows just what we all know, that if
we fail to elect a democratic president
next year, the party will have “been
slaughtered in the house of its friends.”
The doctor still claims to be a democrat,
but antagonizes the “organized” with
vehemence and lurking hatred. The ex
tra session folly is handled with gloves
off', and he predicts that Georgia will
next year eleet an independent for gov
ernor, and several independents to con
gress.
He starts a boom for David Davis, as
an independent candidate for tne presi
dency*, and kills off’ Tilden as unaccepta
ble to the south, and Bayard as unavaila
ble.
On the whole there is too much hard
fact in the doctor’s letter to get away
with by poo pooing. A truth is a truth,
if the devil announces it, and in a fight
with the devil fire is the necessary
weapon.
Griftin Sun.
We give space to Dr. Felton’s letter in
this issue. It is a truthful statement of
the condition of political affairs. We
heartily* endorse every line of it, as will
most of the voters outside of the ring
tricksters.
The letter but expresses the views
which we have time after time promul
gated through the columns of the Sun,
and their wisdom and truth have been
verified by r the result of the recent elec
tions at the north. The endeavor made
by the ring or bourbon element of tire
democratic party to raise sectional and
dead issuos, for the purpose of forcing
the people into a further support of the
ring tricksters has only solidified the
north, and made the conservative ele
ment of the south more determined than
ever to overthrow the rule or ruin, so
called leaders, who feed and fatten upon
the taxes and spoil wrung from a dis
tressed and easily* misled people. But
the masses are mow thinking for them
selves, and will not be longer controlled
by the selfish machination of ring men,
for they see clearly that self-aggrandize
ment and desire for public funds are the
ruling motives which govern the actions
of these so-called leaders, most of whom
are disappointed supplicants at the feet of
President Hayes’ administration for offi
cial position. Failing to get office from
him they are the loudest to cry “fraud,”
though they were among the first to put
up the “electoral commission” job for
the purpose of going outside of the con
stitution to settle the presidential ques
tion.
Dalton Headlight.
With all the organized gush about Dr.
Felton and his political faults, be is, as
yet, guiltless of the right down lying,
which is considered as a virtue with some
of the Georgia organized ring editors.
Why condemn Felton for stating just
w hat every* candid democrat admits to be
true? It would have been better to have
followed the drift of the Atlanta Consti
with llie doctor.
The Rome Courier affects to think that
the Bullockites will follow Dr. Felton.
Bless the little brassy* heart of ye, if they'
should commence to do so there wouldn’t
be material left ior an organized candi
date in the the seventh district.
Our usually fair contemporary*, the
Atlanta Constitution, while very modest
ly ciiticising the effect of Dr. Felton’s
letter, did one ugly thing, and that was
to publish the press criticisms on the ly
ing dispatch which preceded the letter to
Georgia, as the actual comments brought
forth by the letter. This might not have
been the purpose, but it looked so.
The much talked of letter of Dr. Fel
ton appears in another column. It was
written in reply to the editor of the Na
tional View , at Washington, as to what
he thought of the present political situa
tion. If it is unpalatable to the organ
ized factotums, it is only a careful analy
sis of the situation and the causes which
brought about the result. There is not
a syllable in it which even justifies the
suspicion of a possibility of its being in
the interest of Sherman, as so generally*
and maliciously and falsely published by
the organs. They knew they were lying
when they did so. The doctor has sim
ply replied to a request for his views on
the situation. He might have gone fur
ther without doing himself harm. Those
who believe the next canvass can be iso
lated from the financial issues are count
ing without their host, and the doctor
probably puts this question more tersely
than any other.
Gainesville Southron,
The recent attack of the organized de
mocracy upon Dr. Felton has manifested
itself in their regular lying style. Fel
ton is too good a democrat to cut loose
entirely from his party. In the first
place he has honesty. In the second
place Dr. Felton is a representative of
the people. In the third place Dr. Fel
ton is too wise to cut off on his own head.
The organized democracy have tried in
tie world to destroy* his influence and
kill off a free expression of the people.
His record shows conservatism. And
if the national democratic party had fol
lowed the counsels of such men as Felton,
Stephens and Speer, Ewing and Robin
son would have been elected by* over
whelming majorities. It is too early y*et
for the Savannah News to commence its
hackneyed attacks upon Felton. The
News abused Hill for exposing the Mur
phy-Colquitt fraud. Yet when an inves
tigation took place Hill was thoroughly
vindicated.
Gumming Clarion.
To show by* the recent letter of the
above named gentleman that he has aban
doned democracy requires a reading be
tween the lines ol words not exactly re
flected by the printed matter. He says*
many things that are true, so -true that,
unless the democratic party takes warn
ing in time, it is bound to be overwhelmed
in a political maelstrom from the vortex
of which it will never be able to emerge.
Air. J. C. Mcßurney and Mr. Hollings
worth, of Macon, have bought the cotton
factory* at Hawkinsville and it will be
put in operation at once.
Covington will soon boast of a cotton
factory with a Clement attachment.
A crop of very* fine oranges has been
gathered in Savannah.
Over sixteen hundred men have signed
the temperance pledge in Atlanta.
Rome has manufactured over 5,000,000
brick this year.
The cotton receipts of Griffin since the
Ist of September have been over 17,000
hales.
The directors of the Macon & Bruns
wick railroad paid $20,000 into tin st.it j
treasury Wednesday of last week.