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Newspaper Page TextKATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year, - - - - 12 00 one copy bi* months; .... 100 One copy three months, * *>o k CLUB RATES. Five copies one year, * • - * $S <5 Ten copies one year, .... 15 00 Twenty copies one year, ... 25 00 Fifty copH one year, .... 50 To be pai<l for invarrlably in advance. \ll orders for the paper must be addressed to THE FREE PRESS. Professional Cards. a. w.. xa*Bis, jr. MILNER & HARRIS, atto knkys-at-la. W, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. jnlylS K. W. MURPHEY, attorney-at-law, CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE (up-stairs) In the briek building, cor ner of Main * Erwin streets. julyls. AV. T. WOFFORD, A T TPRNEY-AT-LAW, —AND— dealer in real estate, CABS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA. JNO. L. MOON. DOCOLAS WIKLE. MOON a WIKLE, Attorneys-at-Law, ■CARTERSVILLE, GA. “Office in Bank Block, over the Postoffice. B. B. TRIPP*. J - M - NE * L TIIIPPE & NEEL, ATTOIINEYS-AT-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. \T7TLL PR ACTICE IN ALL THE COti RTS, VV l>oth State and Federal, except Bartow xmaty criminal court. J. M. Neel alone wul practice in said last mentioned court. Office tn northeast corner of court house uuilding. j;. i). UK A II \M. A. M. FOUTB. GRAHAM & FOUTE, T r r OIiINPI Y S -A. T-L A "W. CARTEItSVILLE, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Supreme Courts at Atlanta. Office west side public Square, up-stairs over W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of Postoffice,, julylS. JAMES B. CONYERS, ATTORNEY -a r r - A. av AND Notary Public, Caktesvillk, : : : : Georgia. (Office: Bank block, up : stairs.) WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Cherokee and adjoining circuits. Prompt attention given to all business. Col lections made a specialty. june29-ly F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokcly & Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. I WILL FIL j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, and put in tooth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit the times. Workal. w arranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. , BUgI L |j . F. M. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTEItSVILLE, GA. WILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, arid will sell them as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done l>y me warranted to give s;ui faction. Give me a call. julylS. Traveler’s Guide. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC K. K. The following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. I.crc Atlanta . 3:00 pm Leave Cartersville 4:58 pro Leave Kingston 5:19 pm Leave Dalton 7:10 p in Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm NIGUT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm Leave Dalton 7:10 p m Leave Kingston 8:39 pm Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm Arrivq at Atlanta . . . . . . .11:00 pm DAY PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 5:20 am Leave Cartersville 7:23 a in Leave Kington 7:49 a m Leave lialfon 9:21 am Arrive at Chattanooga 10:50 am DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 6:15 a in Leave Dalton 8:10 am Leave Kingston 9:43 am Leave Cartersville 10:11 a m Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP. Leave Atlanta 5:10 pm Arrive at Cartersville • 7:22 p m CARTEIISVLLLE ACCOMMODATION— DOWN. Leave Cartersville 6:05 am Arrive at Atlanta 8:45 am c6osa river navigation. On ami after December 16th, 1878, the following Bcliednle will be run by' the Steamers MAGNO LIA or ETOWAH BILL: Leave Rome Tuesday Sam Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday . . . . 6am Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm Arrive at Rome Thursday spm Leave Rome Friday Bam Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am Arrives at Green sport 9am Arrive at Rome Saturday 6 p in J. M. ELLIOTT, l’resident and Gen’l Sup’t. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train On this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): Leave Cartersville 7:40 a m Arrive at Stilesbora 8:30 am Arrive at Taylorsville . . . . . . 8:52 am Arrive at Rockmart 10:00 a m Arrrive at terminus 10:50 am RETURNING. Leave terminus 3:00 pm Arrive at Uoekmart 3:40 p m Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm Aarrive at Cartersville (i:00 p m ROME RAILROAD COMPxVNY. On and after Monday, November 17, the Rome Railroad will run two trains daily, as follows: MORNING TRAIN. Leave Rome daiiv 6:30 am Return to Rome daily 10-00 a m EVENING TRAIN. Leave Rome daily (except Sundays) . 5:00 pm Arrive at Rome . 8:00 pm Both trains will make conueetion with W. A A. .R. ft. at Kingston, to and from Atlanta and points south. EBEN HILLYER, Jas. A. Suitu, President. G. P. Agt. DUFF GREEN HOUSE, Dalton, Ga. THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL On the Kennesaw llonte. BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR PASSENGERS. Special Attention Given to the Comfort and Con venience of Lady Passengers and guests. Reading and Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers. Board per day, $2.00; Meals, 50 cts. Railroaders, County and Stockmen, half fare. BARTOW HOUSE, (Cartersville, Georgia.) MR. SUMNER HAVING REMOVED FROM the Foster House back to the old Sumner se, and having spent considerable time ana money in refurnishing and litting up his hotel, is now prepared to accommodate the traveling public in tne most acceptable manner. Terms Very Low and In Keeping with the Times. BOARD can be obtained at ibis house cheaper than anywhere else in North Georgia. Stop and see (for vonrselves. sepS. the national hotel, The only flrst-blass hotel In DALTON, GEORGIA. Rates per day : : : : : :?2 00 Kates per week : : : : : : 800 Rates per month : : : : : 25 00 Large Sample Rooms for Commercial Travel ers. Postoflice in the building. jan9 J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor. VOLUME 11. E. J. Hale k Son’s STEPHENS’ HISTORY A Compendium of the History of the United States, For Schools and Colleges, By Hon. ALEX. H. STEPHENS. (513 pp. 12m0.) 17 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK. “The pith and marrow of our history.”— Ex- President Fillmore. “Straightforward, vigorous, interesting and im pressive.”—y. Y. Christian Union. “Its tone calm and judicial; its style clear and good. We recommend it to be read by all Northern men ."—Boston Courier. “A work of high excellence; well adapted to supply a long felt want in our country.”—Con necticutt Schoo Journal , ( lion. W. C. Fowler , L.L.D.) “Worthy of high praise. It will of necessity challenge attention everywhere.”— "N. Y. Eve ning Post. “Among tne notable books of the age.”—Chica go Mail. “Narrative, impartial; tone calm and dispas sionate; style masterly.” —Louisville Home and School. “A model compend.”— Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. “Everything necessary to a perfect handbook.” —Goldsboro Messenger. “Broad enough for all latitudes.”— Kentudky Methodist. “The best work of its kind now extant.”—Mem phis Farm and Home. “A succeas in every w r ay.” — Wilmington Star. “Destined to become the standard of historic truth and excellence for centuries to come.”— President Wills, Oglethorpe University. “The method admirable.” Ex-Gov. Herschell V. Johnson. “Should find a place in all libraries.”— Ev-Gov. C. </. Jenkins. “A most important addition to American litera ture.”— Prof. R. M. Johnston, Baltimore. “Read it; study it; heed it.”— Prof. E. A. Steed , Mercer University. ‘Fairness, fulness, accuracy.” Prof. J. J. Brantly , Mercer University . SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY Iverson, Blakeman, Taylor & Cos., NEW YORK, R. E. PARK, General Agent, THIS series comprises among others, the fol lowing well-known STANDARD .SCHOOL BOOKS: New Graded Readers, Robinson’s Mathematics, Spencerian Copy Books, Well’s Scientific Works, Riddle’s Astromics. Dana’s Geology, Woodbury’s German, Kerl’s Grammar, Webster’s Dictionary, Swintou’s Histories, Swinton’s Word Books, Swinton’s Geographies, Pasquell’s French, .'. .£ q Gray’s Botanies, Bryant & Stratton’s Book-keeping, Cathcart’s Literary Reader, etc., etc. Correspondence respectfully solicted. Address ROBERT E. PARK, General Agent. Care .T. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia. U. O. ROBERTSON, M. !>., Hygienic Physician and Electro- Therapeutist, Begs leave to announce to the citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee, ami 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 w here he has permanently established a Health Institute. The Atlanta Health Institute is the only institute south superintended by reg ularly qualified Hygienic Pnyeicians, and the only place where all kinds of curable diseases 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 ophatic) 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 anil permanedtly restored For particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH INSTITUTE, No. 178 W. Peters street, or address DR. U. O. ROBERTSON feb2o Atlanta,, Ga. Cheapest und Best. HOWARD HYDRAULIC CEMENT. MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUN TY, GEORGIA. EQUAL to the best imported Portland Ce ment. Send lor circular. Try this before buying elsewhere. Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West, Presi dent Cherokee Iron Company, Cedartown, Ga., wlio has built a splendid dam, (cost *7,000.) using this cement and pronouncing it the best nft 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 his railroad, for two years; also to Capt. John Postell, C. K. Also 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 A Bro., of Rome, who have made a splendid pavement with itt to Capt. M. L. 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, pavemeuts, fish ponds, cel lar floors, etc- T. C. Douglass, Superintendent East River Bridge, New York, who pronounces it equal to the best Imported Portland Cement. Address G. 11. WARING* Kingston, Ga. sep 12-ly. STILESBORO HIGH SCHOOL The spring session will begin on January 12, 1880. Pupils prepared for ad mission into any one of the College classes. For further particulars, address W. R, THIGPEN, Principal, declß-3t Stilesboro, Ga. THE FREE PRESS. •4 If frlgfriii * , v* *• ; * J I *- ; t ' THE “ORGANIZED” VS. INDEPEN DENTS. We clip the following from the Alba ny Advertiser of a recent date : The great “organized” ring of to-day in Geor gia, which has usurped its honored name, is not the democratic party of 1868 and ’7O, which saved the state from radical and carpet-bag domina tion; else, four congressional democratic dis tricts out of nine in the state would never have risen up in their might and independence, to as sert the rights of free citizens and electors, and to rebuke their would-be bourbon leaders, who with fronts of brass and tongues of poison, would seek to suppress, by means of the lash, the uttevance of every honest and manly sentiment. There is much truth in the foregoing paragrph—too much to be palatable to the enemies of free and independent de mocracy. The democratic party of Geor gia did perform a noble work in the dark days of reconstruction and bayonet rule. But it afterwards became corrupt from too much power—that power being controll ed by so-called leaders who availed them selves of it for selfish aggrandizement.— Had such men not attempted to use the party as ringmasters and thimble-riggers, there would have been no independent element in the democratic party to-day. As that element first manifested itself in the seventh district under the lead of Dr. Felton, it is well enough to refresh the public mind as to how it came about. Iu 1874 this district congressional con vention met at Calhoun. Gen. P. M. B. Young, who had served the district ac cent ably, was the choice of the majority of the democratic party for the nomina tion at that time. But Gen. Young had not been initiated into the great ring which had been “organized” for the pur pose of farming out the offices of the state, from governor down to the lowest office. For weeks before the Calhoun conven tion met it was given out all over the state that a certain nomination would be made, and that the “organized” had ef fected all the necessary plans to carry the convention their own way. As editor of the Rome Courier, we warned the leaders not to carry their plans too far. They heeded not the note of warning, and the Calhoun convention culminated in a nomination long before determined on by the ring. Gen. Young was the first victim to be slaughtered. It was determined that he should no longer go to congress, but that some one of the initiated of the ring should take his place whether “the rank and file” desired it or not. The court house and street corner politicians, in ut ter disregard of the popular sentiment of the democratic party, overthrew Young, and then came an outburst of the inde pendent sentiment of the masses which resulted in the election of Dr. Felton to congress. In the year of 1*576, there were true men wno desired to purge the organization of the democratic party of those who had all along assumed to be its leaders and who skilfully manipulated ‘the machinery of the organization to suit themselves. But the outrage of 1874 on ly increased the volume of independency of 1876. The people had seen that they were as fit to seleot a congressman for themselves as the leaders were for them, and Dr. Felton was re-elected. In 1868 and 1870 the democratic party of Georgia was controlled by the spon taneous will of the people. Those who afterwards became the so-called leaders were no more in power than the masses. After victory had been won, democracy in Georgia had no opposition. Political contests • were confined to the ranks of the party itselt. The chronic office-seekers then combined to rnn the state by the formation of a ring that permeated the whole state. In fact, the offices were farmed out,, each so-called leader was to he elected to this or that office as his term came. A dozen or two men would meet in a county court house and go through the forms of a mass meeting and thus put the machinery of organization in motion.— The people calmly submitted and obeyed without complaint except when some one would murmur dissatisfaction. The par ty lash was applied and all such were si lenced. In fact, no complaint was al lowed becanse it “would ruin.party” and reinstate the radical party. This kind of political slavery could not always exist. The spirit of rebellion to party dictation and political oppression had to be met even if it did spring into life an independent democracy that would hurl defiance to former party masters from whom they had so long submitted to the party lash. Besides, the corrup tions and crookedness of our state demo cratic government has also aroused the people to a sense of public danger. The more sensible see no escape from the tyrrany of organization and its corrup tions and duplicity except through the broad way that leads to independence of thought and action. If this element does not purity the democratic party it will certainly continue its work of re form in the affairs of the state. This work is in the interest of the people—the working and tax-paying masses —who are overburdened with taxes wrenched from the toiling and struggling sons of pover ty. This is the mission of the indepen dent move in Georgia. The “organized” leaders can blame none for the independent move of the people but themselves. If organization was at all necessary at this stage of the political history of Georgia they have too far lost public confidence to restore it. But, when it becomes necessary to save the state from the evils of plundering officials, or those who assume to control the old commonwealth under the influ ences of evil motives of partisan or sel fislTpitrposes,‘tlie people, the honest peo ple, of Georgia will unite to overthrow them. The independent movement will de velope this year into huge proportions. The party lash has lost the keenness of CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1880. its crack, and the manhtjod of a true and genuine democracy will assert itself in dependent of all the “organ ized” discipline and rancorous abuse. 0 + 0 £ IJJ “ ORGANIZED” INTOLERANCE. The intolerance and misrepresentation of the independent democracy by the “organized” press is without parallel. They do not hesitate to*tate a falsehood, directly or indirectly, ii it can in any manner be tortured as a means Of con- ' summating their purpose?. This para graph is from the dyspeptic columns of the Dalton Citizen: Father Willingham, of The Cartersville Free Press, is getting more ami more malig nant toward the democratic party, and it is quite evident that he is about as strong a radical as old man Felton. Now, the editor of the Citizen knows perfectly well that the editor of The Free Press is not “a strong radical.” He knows he penned a falsehood when he made the statement, ttnd he ought to be ashamed of himself fcr such duplicity. We regret that an old acquaintance should indulge in such intolerant mis representation of our politics. We did not expect it of him. Rut he belongs to the “organized” and must wield the party lash over the backs of honest dem ocrats for their honest convictions be cause the ringmasters tell him to do so. The best democrats are the independ ents. They belong to no rings or cliques. They acknowledge no masters in the per sons of court house and street corner pol iticians. They act for themselves like men and boldly exercise the right of the elective franchise as free men ought to, and not at the biddingPf a few ringsters and tricksters who essay to lash “the rank and file” of honest democrats who suffer themselves to be controlled and managed by political office-seekers who call themselves democrats, in order that they may use the masses for selfish pur poses. Hence, the Citizen states an un truth when it says we are opposed to de mocracy. We stood for the party in the dirty clays of reconstruction, while it made hut a weak fight and took in about $2,260 of Bullock’s proclamation printing, as we are informed. We refused to be a party to such a squandering of the peo ple’s money. OUR FLEDGLING NEIGHBOR. And now comes along our neighbor and young debutant of the Express , shuf fling to the footlights in his pinafore of journalistic simplicity, scratching his flaxen hair for a huge idea, and whim peringly remarks that — The Free Press published last week a lengthy communication denouncing Gen. Gordon in very bitter terms. It was signed by some one calling himself “Democrat.” It sounds very much like the editor of The Free Fifiess, for, as everybody knows, whenever an opportunity presents itself, he is certain to abuse Gordon. Willingham is a good clever kind of a fellow, but all of his growl ing at Gordon and the democratic party is a3 “a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.” Now, we would inform “the nice young man” who has so suddenly bolted out into the cold air of journalist distinc tion, that, whenever we write anything about Senator Gordon, we do so edito rially. As to the “ opportunity” of criticising the great Ajax of the “organ ized,” it comes along very frequently, and we shall continue to exercise our in alienable right in the premises on all fit ting occasions. We hope never to do him or any one else injustice intention ally. But, the young pinafore editor of the Express forgets that he has taken a pretty good start in the “organized” fight on Dr. Felton who, intellectually, is far superior to Senator Gordon and is a most faithful representative of his people. The young man very patronizingly says we are “a good clever kind of a fel low.” In more decorous language, we will say that Fite is “a good clever kind” of young gentleman whose tamiliar terms of reference to his seniors may cause him to appear rather a pert young man. We will let the threadbare quotation of “a sounding brass and a tinkling cym bal” pass for the present, until the “good clever young man” shall doff his editorial pinafore. In the house of representatives, on the 19th inst., Mr. Stephens said “that he did not believe that, according to the demo cratic doctrine of Jefferson, Madison and Jackson, it, was ever intended that ap propriation bills should be encumbered with outside legislatian. If there had been any progress in legislation in this country, it has been in excluding from appropaiation bills other matters as riders. He repudiates the so-called democratic doctrine that it is proper to seek redress of a grievance by withholding appropria tions. It has never been democratic doc trine. It was monarchical doctrine. The new doctrine of making war on the veto power through means of appropriation bills was not democratic, was not repub lican and was anti-constitution. He had opposed it during the extra session last year; he opposed it now, and should al ways oppose it.” “M. E. TANARUS.,” the Atlanta correspon dent of the Augusta Evening News, says; “Talking about free things, the Carters ville Free Press is the best of its kind in the state. It’s got a way of saying things it thinks, and that are true. Wonder if the editorial fledgling of th e Express would like to be appointed enu merator under Rev. T. J. Simmons in the event of his confirmation ? There is some evidence, w r e understand, that he would like it first-rate. We think Speer is right in his position on the twenty-first rule of the house.— There should never be any “riders” on appropriation bills. We axe for sustaing the government. The feeble attempts of the Rome Cour ier to disparage the democracy of Hon. A. 11. Stephens is one of the weakest ab surdities of the political discussion of the day. HON. B. H. HILL. An Admirable Letter From our Senator on the South. From the Brattleboro(Vermont) Reformer.) The letter below from Senator Beu Hill is a manly, straightforward, temperate document, which does great credit to the writer and to his constituency, so far as his views represent it. It ought to put to shame every bloody shirt demogogue who is trying to retain his grasp of the plunder of office by seetional strife: U. S. Senate Chamber, Washington, January. 26, 1880.-—Dear Sir: Be kind enough to attrioute to a pressure of offi cial duties and not to intentional neglect, the delay in answering your letter ot the 29th instant. You ask, “Do you favor General Grant for president, under any consideration, (as some people claim.) Has Grant any following among the southern democrats ? and in case of his nomination by the re publicans, do you think he could carry a single southern state?” Answer: Ido not favor General Grant’s election to the president under any contingency I can now imagine. General Grant does have some following in the south, among those who say they are democrats, but if nomi nated by the republican party, he could not carry a single southern state. There are a few men in the south who are still unfriendly to the union. Having failed to dissolve that union by secession, they now hope to see a worse result, prac tically, accomplished through the oppo site extreme of centralism and despotism. They believe this result can be reached more certainly and speedily through the third election of General Grant than by any other means. An illustration of this class is furnished in General Toombs, of my own state, who sent a congratulatory message to General Grant at Chicago, ending with the expression, “Death to the union.” But this class are very few, and they are all intense original seces sionists. There are also a few men at the south who, while not unfriendly to the union have utterly despaired of the preserva tion of that union under our constitution al system; who believe in subversion iu principle has already been accomplished, and its subversion in form is only a ques tion of time; and they believe this inevit able result can be reached mere easily and with less shock through any other man. I doubt whether both of these classes combined, number one bundled men in Georgia, hut they are men of in telligence, and they entertain with favor the idea of electing Gen. Grant nominal ly for a[ third term and really for life. There is a third class in Georgia who believe Gen. Grant wilt be elected by the northern people any how; who knows his partiality for his friends, and who ex pect by announcing themselves as his foremost friend in the south, to command the offices which will then be in his gift. These last are more numerous and more noisy and less intelligent than the first two classes mentioned above, but they are too weak in every sense to authorize any chance of giving the electoral vote of any southern state to General Grant. Nearly all the southern people have a kindly feeling for General Grant. He is stronger at the south than any other re publican. Our people will never forget his manly and magnanimous conduct at the close of the w*ar. If he had manifest ed the same magnanimity in his adminis tration of the government he would have become an idol with the southern people. But his seeming disregard or ignorance of constitutional obligations; his use of the army to sustain the carpet-bag plun derers; his encouragement of the return ing board frauds both in state and federal elections, and his unexpected subservien cy to bad men who filled the world with scandals during his administration, have fully convinced our people that General Grant was not equal to his grand oppor tunities and ought not again to be trusted with power, how r ever personally honest and kind he may be. It is a national calamity that the north ern people are not permitted to under stand the real views and feelings of the southern people and those who prevent such understanding, are the worst ene mies of both sections. Let me state one fact. All thinking men in the south feel and believe that our constitutional sys tem of free government is in very great peril of final and complete overthrow. - With the few exceptions I mentioned be fore, we are naturally more anxious to avert and overthrow than are the north ern people. Why should we feel more anxious? It is because our southern people feel and believe that the causes which produce this peril have derived much strength, perhaps their chief strength, from their own act —the act of secession. While not intended by them, they yet see the sccessionai spirit which dominates the republican party, and which enables that party to dominate the northern people has grown to its danger ous proportions through the passions en gendered by secession and the war. If, therefore, this sectional spirit shall finally plunge all sections of our country into despotism, the southern people feel that they will be held in history as largely re sponsible for the result, although such result will have been wrought by the re publican party and in the direction di rectly the opposite of secession. It is thus proper and natural that our people in the south should be anxious, above all other people, to allay the sec tional heats their own conduct so greatly inflamed; to restore the constitutional in tegrity their own mistakes so woefully unsettled, and preserve the union of states their own madness so nearly de stroyed. The fact I have just stated will explain much of southern history since the war. There never was such a social, industrial, and political revolution, as that into which we of the south were so suddenly thrust by the result of the war. So also, there never was such an ordeal of humilation, insult, robbery, and wrong as that through which we were forced to pass in the negro domination and carpet bag rule of reconstruction. That some resentment were provoked, I do not deny. That some excesses were retaliated, I freely admit, and that some temporary violent remedies were resorted to in the desperation of self-preservation I concede. But when the history of that terrible or deal shall be fully known, the world will be amazed at the forbearance, the endu rance, the patience, and the self controll ing courage which the great mass of the southern people exhibited. Our people were largely enabled to exhibit these rare virtues because they knew that those who inflicted the wrongs derived their power to inflict them from the passions engendered by secession, and because they saw also than every groan, every murmur, every protest, and every indi vidual excess or indiscretion, was eager ly caught up by their plunderers, and exaggerated and heralded before the northern people, as evidence of a contin uous spirit of rebellion, in order to con tinue their oppressors in power. The southern people have lost every thing by sectionalism. The republican party owes all its successes, all its power, and all its offices to this same sectionalism. The southern people desire above all things, to keep alive the sectionalism of the northern masses can once fully un derstand the present feelings and the views of ffie southern people; and there fore it is the leaders and journals of the republican party are determined that the masses of the north never shall under stand the masses of the south. It is to prevent the northern people from under standing the southern people, that the leaders, journals and beneficiaries of sec tionalism have persistently misrepresent ed everything in the south, with all the energy which the greed for power can inspire. In the last presidential contest the southern democrats insisted upon submit ting to the loss of a president, elected by the people, rather than hazard the dangers of another civil war. Yet re publican leaders who knew this fact, and who in private here expressed warm ad miration for it, went home to their peo ple and represented that the country would be in danger again, if the south with the democratic party should again obtain power! And every republican partisan paper daily emphasized the false hood. During the late extra session it was well known that while the southern dem ocrats desired the repeal of certain laws, and most especially an odious jury law, under which nearly all the white men in the south could be excluded from the federal jury box, they were yet deter mined never to adjourn without voting appropriations to support the govern ment. Yet the republicans,* who knew this, brazenly represented to the north ern people “that the rebels, having fail ed to shoot the government to death, were seeking to starve it to death!”— and all the republican papers repeated the slander. Southern democrats have admitted on all occasions that secession was settled by the war, and it would be treason to attempt again to assert it. But because they believe what the consti tution so plainly says, “that the powers not delegated to the United States are re served to the states respectively or to the people,” these republican leaders and journals have actually sought to create a panic at the north, by affecting to believe the south is again reviving the doctrine of secession. These instances, with many others, il lustrate the two great facts, (1) that the southern people desire to allay sectional ism, and (2) that the republican party, as a party, is determined that sectionalism shall be kept alive. The truth is, the republican party is the essence of sec tionalism. Outside of sectionalism that party has neither history, nor policy, nor purpose nor prospects. When it shall cease to be sectional, it will cease to ex ist. But sectionalism is the very death of the south. We can have neither hope nor life, save in a broad constitutional nationalism. It is not possible, there fore, for General Grant, or any other man nominated by the sectional republi can party, to carry a single southern state. I admit the democratic party is not in all respects what we desire. There is much in the history of that party I cannot ap prove, and it vaccillates now on some questions in a manner which is mortify ing. But with all its faults, it is the only party in sight with which any man can affiliate who sincerely desires to frater nize the feelings, nationalize the inter ests, and constitutionalize the govern ment of the American people. That would indeed be a glorious move ment which could bring all good patriots, north and south, who hate sectionalism and desire to return to honest govern ment, into cordial co-operation. The southern people would hail such a move ment with delight. We of the south, present no names for presidential honors. I believe the very best thing which could happen would be an administration of the government by a wise southern statesman, to so administer our national affairs as to banish from the minds of the northern people the last vestige of dis trust and apprehension of southern na tional fidelity growing out of past sec tional controversies. But we are aware that the sectional temper of the north is not in condition to reason calmly on this subject, and would not brook such a sug gestion. Therefore, no thoughtful man in the south is even expecting such hon ors. All that we expect or ask is that northern statesmen shall be presented who will do equal justice to all sections, rates of advertising. Advertisements will be inserted At the One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and I Fifty Ceuta for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. ' Stack. , 1 mo. 8 moa. 0 moa. I 1 year. One inch, *2 50 $5 00 |7 50 | *lO 00 Two inches, 875 7 12 50 j 18 00 Three inches, 500 10 00 17 50 I 25 00 Four inches, 625 12 50 22 50; 32 00 Fourth column 750 16 00 25 00 | 40 00 Half column, 15 00 26 00 40 00 00 00 One column, 20 00 40 00 80 OO | 100 00 NUMBER 33. and whose lives show that they do not regard the abuse and calumny of any sec tion as the test of loyalty to the union. There are many such state men in every state of the north, in both parties; hut not one such Is even spoken of for the re publican nomination. I can name men in New England —even in Massachusetts —who won Id administer the government in a spirit worthy of Washington, and either one of whom the southern people would rejoice in aiding to elevate to that high position. After all, such men must ultimately be chosen, or the people will lose the right to choose at all. The people must end the triumphs of fraud, or fraud will end the liberties of the peple, and that, too, at no distant day. Very truly yours, Benj. 11. Hill. JENNIE TYLER’S SAD DEATH. Washington Post.] Ma::y of the citizens of Washington will learn with deep sadness of the death of Miss Jennie Tyler (Mrs. Collins), who breathed her last in a Brooklvn hovel, Monday afternoon, in poverty and desti tution. Jennie Tyler was the grand niece of ex-President John Tyler, and as late as ten yeers ago shone in the society, of the national capital as one of its brighest ornaments and reigning belles. Her lite history has been replete with ro mance, and those who knew her in the height of her popularity, scarcely dream ed that the subject of their deep regard was destined to enter upon her final rest away from home and kindred, and with all the harrowing attendants to make the last scene one of the deepest miserj*. She was born in Richmond, Va., in ISIS, and until the opening of the rebellion lived with her father, William W. Tyler, on his plantation. The rather united his destinies with the cause of the confed eracy, and was a colonel on the late Gen eral Lee’s stall', and when his property, in common with others in liae circum stances, was confiscated, Jennie, who added to a thorough and polished educa tion an attractive personnel, received an ample fortune through the death of a California relative, and was sent to Wash ington after the wai, under the protect ing care of General Custer. Here she entered society circles, and soon not only became a favorite, but acknowledged leader. In 1872 she went to Brooklyn to live, and was enticed into a mock mar riage with a dissolute Lothario, who was an inmate of the fashionable house in which she boarded. After securing the remnants of her fortune, about SIO,OOO, her supposed husband was found to have a wife living at Buffalo. A civil suit for the recovery of the money resulted in his arrest, hut he escaped through some ir regularity or legal technically. The young heiress was thus left without the means of support, and to her trials was added that of estrangement from her family. After a precarious existence, she, in 1875, met William Collins, an in dustiious laboring man, who was employ ed by the Brooklyn gas company, and they were married July 13, of that year. Up to one year ago their married life was comparatively happy, when Mr. Collins, losing employment, became veiy much reduced. His wife contracted a cold which culminated in consumption, from which she died, as stated. The dead wo man was then laid out on a table in the wretched, comfortless apartment so re cently her home, in striking contrast to her former social condition, and her hus band too poor to give her remains a de cent burial. He telegraphed her father at Harrisburg for aid, but received no re ply. The dead woman’s sister lives in a handsome brown stone house, four sto ries high, in West Thirty-eight street, New York. A reporter, who called there, Tuesday evening, was ushered in to the parlor, which is handsomely up holstered. The carpet is of a rich pat tern, and fine ornaments adorn the walls. The lady was ill, and her husband, a fine looking man of thirty-five years, gave a cordial greeting. “I hope no mention will he made of this unfortunate affair,” he said, “sis it is {surely a family matter and doesn’t con cern the public. Mrs. Collins has not been recognized by us on account of her marriage beneath her station, and there are family reasons why I should not tell you anything about her life. I do not know whether any assistance will he giv en to Mr. Collins to bury his wife, and in tact, I would rather not say anything about the case.” The gentleman then smiled very pleas antly, stroked his long beard gracefully and bowed the reporter out. Mrs. Collins was first cousin to a prom inent New York politician, and she was also a relative of a leading lawyer in Wall street. Her brother is at a Balti more college. Ex-Senator John W. Ste venson is also her cousin. The Columbus Enquirer tells a strange story on a well known character of that city and vicinity known as “Barefoot Walker,” so called because lie has not worn a pair of shoes during the past forty years. He is aged about ninety five years and three months, and is em ployed on a farm about three miles east of Columbus. On Sunday afternoon last, says the Enquirer , he apparently died, probably from sheer exhaustion and old age. He was dressed, laid in his coffin, and his friends from the neighborhood gathered 10 pay their tribute to the de parted. When the assembled multitude were bending in their sympathy, amid the serenity which overshadowed the surroundings, the defect aiose from his strange position and demanded of the astonished assembly “what they meant by such treatment.” The party turned away, leaving the old man master of the situation.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The free press. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1878-1883, February 26, 1880, Image 1