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Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. WILL
pra lice in ail the court* ot Bartow eountv,
*br aup* rt# -f northwestern Georgia, and
Ibebupi t! i and Federal courta at Atlaata.Ua.
Jan if
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B i 1 (>HN K V - A T - L A W .
ATLANTA, GA.
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office No. IS Graat Baildiag.
WII !. I’BACTICB IN ALL Til* COURTS.
liii rirns receive* prompt attention. Col
lection* laity. I will attend tko superior
court of tow county, un., and in connection
w ill M< '' Neel, will fuih the na*mlied
bntine* Tripp® A Neel and will alo attend
Uanyi.. b< men that may bo affered. *cp9
M. 4KQUAUO BROWN*, M. U.,
j Late of: • Arm of Dr*. Browne * Itkual, ML
Olivet, Ky.J
Pkydeta. .: argeea,Oktetrtelaa and Cyameelegiat.
Cassvllle, Georgia.
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of North Georgia.
i .re with col. M. K. Stauaell, Baak
Block. _
UOItGK 8. JOHNSON,
A r r r I O UNEY-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OF KICK, West Side, Pu bile Square.
* Will practice in all tiie Courta.
It. W. MIRPUEY,
A T T O HN K Y - A T - IjA W ,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
>FFICF (Mii-tairs) In the briek baildiag. cor
ner of , in A Erwin street*. jnlyll.
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of Pits state. Litigated cases made s
penalty. Prompt attention given t# all kaaines*
_ntrit9tei lo u*.
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Office .n the brick house uext to Roberts'
.verv Htalilos. Hour* from 8)4 a. m. t4>< p. m.
WaiTAl! businesa poomptly attended to.
aprtt
r. w. mii.' icr. j. w. OASKi>,ja.
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A TO ItNEYH-AT-LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office on West Main Street. july!B
JuIlM U W ill.!. DO Ol.Aaa fltn.
WIKI.K A WIftLLK,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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special attention to collections. leb24
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A T T O R N K Y - AT-LA W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
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TRAVELERS’ GUII>E.
G ADSDEN ANL) KED LINE STEAM
KHS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. H. Elliott. Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Kona every Tuesday aad Friday ...8 am
Arrive Gu imlcn Wednesday and Saturday. 6am
Leave Gadadcu Wednesday and Saturday. .8 am
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday ...7 pm
Will g<> through to Ureensport, Aim, every
Friday <i glit. Returning, leave Greeusport ev
ery Saturc.ay morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk,
Leave Home Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive >, adaileu Tuesdays aud Fridays ... Sam
Leave Galsdeu Tuesdays and Fridays ... Bam
Arrive at Wednesdays aud Saturdays 7pm
Office No. 97 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cottou h tchange. Telephonic connection.
.J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gee. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
rr. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CiIEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, May 19, 1889, the train*
•n this • * ad will run daily as fellows (Sunday
excepted):
rVSSF.NGKU TRAIN.—MORNING.
Leave ( t iters vi lie 9:15 a hi
Arrive *t Stilesboro , 9:slam
Arrive in Taylorsville 10:12 a m
Arrive at Kockmart 10:51 a m
Arrrivc at Cedartovrn 11:50 am
RETURNING.
Leave ( et! art own 3:05 pm
Arrive at Rock mart . . . , . . . 2:53 pm
Arrive m Taylorsville 8:33 pm
Arrive at Stileeboro 8:51 pm
Arrive a. Carter# villa 4:25 pm
1* \SSKNGEK TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave Carterevilie 4:30 pm
Arrive u Stilesbor® 5:04 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at Rockinart 8.00 p ra
Arrive st Cedartown 7:00 p m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown idOaw
Arrive at Kockmart B:3lam
Arrive nt Taylorsville 7:04 am
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:18 am
Arrive ai l artcrsville 7:45 a in
ROME RAILROAD.
Thu following ia the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Rome 8:10 am
Arrive nt Kingston 8:55 am
NO. 3.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a in
no. 8.
Leave Home 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston ....... 5:30 pm
No. 4.
Leave Kingston S :65 pm
Arrive at Home 4.50 p m
no. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
no. 8.
leave Kingston 9:20 a in
Arrive at Rome 10:10 a ua
Nos. 1. 2,3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays onlv.
No. 1 will uot stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 nukes connection at Rome with E. T..
Va. A Ga. It. R.. for points south.
HUES HILLY tit, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The f >Uowing is the present passenger ached
ale:
nioht rasaxNou—cp.
U;ive ttlauta 2:40 pm
Leave i trtcrsville 4 30 uni
Leave Kingston 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 6:34 pm
Arrive st Chattanooga 8-00 pm
NIOUT FASBXNGXR—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 p m
Leave Kingston 6-03 pm
Leave . artcrsville 6-33 pm
Arrive *.t Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAT PXBSXNQKK—CP.
-*avr Atlanta 7-00 am
Leave . artcrsville 8-55 am
Leave Kingston 9 21am
Leav- Dalton 10:55 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:80 a m
DAT PAS9KNOXH— DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 a m
Gcave Dalton . 9*46 am
iAsavt Kingston * * i 11:15 am
Leave Oarteravilla 11:42 am
Arri-<i at Atlanta • • . , # . I*4o dhi
t_ _ ... . EXPKXBB *
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arrive *tCartereviUe 6:81 pm
Arrive ut, Kingston 7:00 pm
Leav* Kingston 8 06 am
Arrive al Atlanta ...... . 10:67 -am
VOLUME V.
MR. WHEAT’S TRIBUTE.
To the Editor of Tax Faxx Pxisa: Uninflu
enced by any living soul, I voluntarily offer a
tribute of gratitude to a man who has been ‘the
greatest benefactor to rayeelf and family that we
have met throughout our lives. - I do this be
cause I see that an effort is being made by cer
tain persons to put him down and impair his
usefulness, which I honestly b-iieve to be
greater than that of any other individual in
this country. I refer to Dr. F. W. Memmler.
Fourteen years ago I lived in southwest Geor
gia, and there my trouble and the disease of my
dear wife first began. I had twe good physi
cian* there, whose efforts failiug to restore her
health, they advised me to move to Florida. I
did so. She not only grew worse in Florida, but
also lost her hearing in one year. My wife’s
health being my only object, I was advised te
move to a higher country. I did v, and went to
Columbia county, this state, employing
there the b*st medical skill, but without avail. I
caaried her back to her mother’* in southwes
tern Georgia. There I retained three of the best
physicians the country afforded; but she still
grew worse. I then, by advice of these physi
cians, carried her to Sweetwater, Teun. There
-he improved a little, under the treatment of a
good physician.
I then moved to Floyd county. She was some
better for three years, but not wed. Two years
ago she was attacked by her old disease, in a
worss form than ever, and it grt v worse and
worse, under medical treatment, untjl the dis
ease culminated in the loss of her mind, aud the
only comfort I got from physician or friends was
that I was advised to send her to the asylum.
My wife’s condition was such that she could not
rest nor sleep except when I sat by her side and
rubbed her head. It seems that the rubbing
quieted her, but as soon as I would stop, she
would start up in wild confusion. God only
knows what I and she suffered. 1 prayed to God
for help, night and day. I still refused to carry
her to the asylum, but carried h:r to Middle
Georgia, consulting a physician iu Thomson.
He advised me that she bad dropsy and to send
her to the asylum. I still refused aud called
her to a physician in Augusta, who said she had
a humor in the brain, and said her only lit place
wiu in the asylum. I still refused. I resorted
u> opium, aud she continued this until she could
eat enormous quantities of it, a handful even, at
a time ana still no sleep, except through com
plete exnaustion, On the 21th day of December
last, I arrived in Cartersville. Outhe 25th, Mrs.
Field advised mo to take her to Dr. Memmler.
I remarked to Mrs. Field that I had employed
loctors for many years and spent all my means
nearly in seeking relief for my wile, and was
discouraged. She told me to goto Dr. Memmler,
that he had saved her life, aud if ho coy Id help
my wife he would lie candid with ire, and tell
me so or not, as the case might be. Thanks to
God flfst and to Mrs. Field next, I did so; and
the doctor was kiud enough, after hearing the
story of our wo ms, not to charge me anything for
he examination. My wife at that time weighed
just 72 pounds, and was worse in her health than
ever before, and often did not know her own
children. Tho doctor at once took the opium from
her, and took her in treatment. After three
day*, she was enabled to sleep soundly and
sweetly, without stimulants, aud asked how she
came to be at Dr. Memmler’s house, not recol
lecting even, wheu she came there, and aston
ished that her hearing was completely restored.
After days’ treatment, she gained
thirty-two pounds, aud La* improved wonder
fully ever since, aud there is every reason to be
lieve that only a man who has suffered like I
have, standing at the bedside of his afflicted
wife, night after night, month after month and
year after year, with no hope that she can be
rescued from the grave, or the asylum, is able to
shake my faith in him, and in his akill as a phy
sician. May God ble* him and his good work,
aud may the afflicted of our country, long have
the opportunity of availing themselves of his
wonderful skill. Mr. Editor, I desire to make
oath to the truth of the above statement of facts
and do so volnutarily and gladly.
T. 11. WHEAT.
Georgia, Bartow County-In person came be
for me Thomas H. Wheat, who being duly
sworn, says the above Staten ent of facts in ref
erence to his wife’s case is true and not exag
gerated in the least. Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 24th of February, 1883.
F. M. SHAW, J. P.
DR. V. WM. NEMMLER
Makes specialties of chronic diseases, such as
eancer, without recourse to the knife, rheuma
tism in any form or stage, piles, bloody or blind,
White swelling will be relieved seedily. All
forms of venereal diseases, acute or chronic,;
gravel and urinary complaiuts: diseases of the
kidneys and liver; dropsy iu any form; tape
worm; fever sores, female diseases, leucoerhcea,
prolopsua uteri, irregular menstruation, difficul
ties attending the climacteric, Bright’s disease
diabetes, dyspepsia, loss of memory, diseases of
the eye and ear, liver spots and freckles remov
ed in a short time, tetter, rickets, catarrh and
ozeena.
I will give the names of some persons whose
testimonials will follow, which have been cured
by me: Mrs. N. A. Bockridge, Uartersville, can
cer on the nose; G. N. Sanford, Burlington,
Coffee county, Kansas, rose cancer over the eye;
Carolina Schaeffer, cancer on ihe face, Town
Dale, Ottogamie county, VVis.; Irwin Addison,
Jopelin, Jasper county, Missouri, cancer on the
face; Delilah Tingling, cancer on the lip, Bur
lington, Coffee county, Kansas; A. R. Hudgins,
Cartersvillc, Ga., cancer on the right side of the
cheek; erysipelas and fever sores, James M.
Smith, Esq., Cartersville Ga.; Mrs. Lizzie
Goodman, Cartersvillc, Ga., tape worm sixty
five feet in length, removed; Mrs. M. A. Ham
monds, tape worm about fifty feet long; D. N.
Poor, erysipelas and fever sores, Carterseille,
Ga. I give these testimonials iu proof of the
fact that these chronic affections can be removed
and healed.
WOMANj h VS, e b „!. st
DR. J. BRADFI ELD,S
FEMALE REGULATOR.
rpillS FAMOUS REMEDY MOST HAPPILY
meets the demand of the age for woman's
peculiar and multiform afflictions. It is a rente
el v for WOMAN ONLY, and for one special class
of her diseases. It is a specific for certain dis
eased conditions of the womb, and proposes to so
control the Menstrual Function as to regulate all
the deraugements and irregularities of Woman’l
MONTHLY SICKNESS.
Its proprietor claims for it no other medical
property; and to doubt the fact that thie medi
cine does positively possess such controlling and
regulating powers'll simply to discredit the vol
untary testimony of thousands of living wit
nesses, who are to-day exulting iu tUeir restora
tion to sound health and happiness.
BRADFI ELD'S
FEMALE REGULATOR
is strictly a vegetable corapouffd, ami is the pro
duct of medical science anil practical experience
directed towards the benefit of
SUFFERING WOMAN!
It is the studied prescription of a learned phy
sician, whose specialty was WOMAN, and whose
fame became enviable and boundless because of
his wonderful success iu the treatment and cure
of female complaiuts. THE REGULATOR is
the grandest remedy known, and richly de
serves its name:
WOMAN’S BEST FRIEND,
Because it controls a class of functions, the va
rious derangements of which cause more ill
health than all other cause more ill health than
ail other causes combined, and thus rescues her
fro r a long tr in of attllietions, which sorely
embitter her life, and prematurely end her ex
istence.
Oh 1 what a multitude of living witnesses can
testify to its charming effects I
WOMAN ! take to your confl lence this
PRECIOUS BOON OF HEALTH !
It will relieve you of nearly all the com
plaints peculiar to your sex. Rely upon it as
your safeguard lor hdalth, happiness and long
life.
PREPARED ONLY BY
DR. J. BRADFIELD, Atlanta, Ga.
SOLD BY ALL r>Ri;oGIBTB.
Price, Small sue, 7$ cems; large size, fl. 80.
/anlß-Iy
THE FREE PRESS.
Oak Grove Notes.
Mitara Editora: I don’t suppose many
of your many readers know there is such
a place as Otk Grove in the seventeenth
dUtrict. But there ia, and Wiens’
storm has not blown it away at this writ
ing. Notwithstanding it is not a post
office, (but it ought to be) nor a railroad
depot, it is a live place, alive with good,
intelligent farmers, alive with good
schools, there being three taught within
a radius of two miles of this place.
Prof. Ethridge, who is a graduate of
Mercer University, presides over the one
here, and his an average of 40 scholars
or more. Alive with two good churches,
the one at this place, presided over by the
Rev. Mr. Gibson, and Macedonia near
by, whose pastor is T. A. Owens, to
which we can go and near preaching
every Suuday except the first, and each
church having sabbath school every sab
bath.
The time and space would fail to speak
of the gins run by steam, of the steam
mills, both grist and saw mills and other
improvements that we might speak of.
Come down next fall and see the bales of
cotton piled up at the various gins and
you will think we are a living people,
that is if providence smiles upon us dur
ing the year as he has in the past.
VVe, in this section, are pleased with
the prospect of getting a bridge built
across the river so that Cartersville will
lie more accessible to us, which has been
a heavy tax to us going to and from our
county site. As the grand jurors left it
with the county commissioners to locate
the bridge, we would be glad for the
commissioners, together with yourself
and as many as the good tax-papers of
Bartow as will, to come down and look at
our section, sue the geography of the
country, see where the bridge should be
located so as to be of the greatest benefit
Lo the greatest number of individuals.
This is what we ask, and nothing more.
We think, however, that the bridge
ought to be built at Col. Rich’s, but if our
authorities are satisfied after careful in
vestigation, and not let their minds be
biased by a favored few, that it should
be at some other point,vve will cheerfully
co-operate with them. E. Harling.
Seventeenth Siftings.
Spring, spring, gentle spring.
The martins have made their appear
ances. m *
The farmers in the seventeenth have
gone to work like they meant business.
/’“Mr. J. J. Oweus and lady spent sev
eral very pleasant days in Rockinart last
week, visiting their sister, Mrs. Ollie
iDavis.
V 'SThere has been several deaths in the
seventeenth in the past week.
Miss Tla Lowry, of Rome, has been
j for tiie past week visiting the family of
Airs. J. C. Dodd.
Dr. Vanmeter has had a beautiful
monument erected over the grave of her
husband, Dr. I. N. Vanmeter.
Mrs.Lother and daughter, Mattie, were
in the Seventeenth some few weeks ago,
visiting the family of Mr. Grifi'eu.
Miss Willie Templeton has put up
a millinery shop in Stilesboro. We hope
Willie will have great success in her
new labor in pleasing the people.
Miss Sola Owens has been very sick
for the past few weeks, but is convales
cing now.
/M isses Willie Dodd and Ida Lowry
spent a few days last week with their
uncle, Mr. Lowry, near Cass Station.
Well, as your reporters, have to write
Compositions this week we will have to
close for this time. Two Girls.
WHO SHALL HE BE?
Amid tlie unseemly scramble which
we learn is now going on for the office of
the great man, whose bier is still bedew
ed b}' tlie tears of Georgia’s fairest and
purest children, as they linger around
all that remains to earth of their beloved
governor; amid all the working of poli
tical machinery, for sellish end, it is a
relief and satisfaction to remember that
Georgia still has sons who are not politi
cians by trade-, men of maturel judg
ment, ripe experience and tried patriot
ism, whose elevation to the high and
honorable position of Governor, would
not only be honoring them, but an honor
to the state. Among such are ex-Gover
nor James M. Smith, who, though no
aspirant, will not refuse to obey the be
hest of his people, as he has always done
in war and in peace, with that ability,
fidelity and dignity which becomes the
man of brains and true patriotism.
Felix.
If we are obliged to tell who will please
us for Governor, we will mention Dr.
Felton, Judge James Brown, Ferdinand
Phinizy, Emory Speer, Senator McD.in
ial, or Sain. T. Thurmond, as among
those who would be acceptable to the
most of our people in the north end of
the State. —Gainesville Southron.
I will duplicate in price and quality
any vehicle bought from a first class car
riage manufacturer iu Georgia or any
other state. I have a large lot of vehi
cles 0,1 hand at prices lower than ever be
fore sold in Cartersville, to casli custo
mers, or for good paper. Call and ex
amine my stock. Now is your time to
get our bargains. R. L. Jones.
R. H- Jones’ Store Next door to Carriage
Factory.
Dr r goods, clothings family groceries
and e verything usually kept. Mr. Dick
Jones will wait on and give you as
good bargains as can be obtained in the
town. Bring him your produce of all
kinds and get bargains.
550.00 Reward.
For the man upon whom I have gone
back on a guarrantee.
How is this for a showing cf 35 years,
business? R. H. Jones.
Caxtersville Ga., Feb. 20, 1883.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 29, 1883.
GENERAL TOOMB S ORATION.
Ovr the Remains cf his I Ife-Long Friend,
Gov. Stephens.
At the funeral obsequies of Gov. Ste
phens, Senator Colquitt introduced Mr.
Toombs by the simple announcment,
“Gen. Toomts.” The general stood sob
bing for fully five minutes before he
would proceed. For over 20 minutes his
emotions were so great that he was almost
unintelligible. He then nerved up and
said:
Fellow citizens: I come to mingle my
tears with all the men and women and
even children of Georgia, not to make
au eulogy, His afcu are written in letters
of gold. From the accidents of life, from
tiie contiguity of our places, natives of
the same county, from similarity of
tastes and pursuits of life, more of my
life has been spent in the presence and
close contact with our illustrious friend
than with that of any other man that is
living or dead, from nay infancy to man
hood: In fact his whole life was an
open book. He was moie the child of his
country than any man that ever breathed.
With early disadvantages to a degree and
extent that seemed to forbid, absolutely
forbid, by the hand of God—the work
that was before him. I know that lie
never counted on a day of life for more
than forty years. Like the faithful sol
dier, whenever the ro-’l *vas called his an
swer was “here.” Having fitted him
self for college, under the tuition of a
man of great intelligence, one worthy to
transmit both his genius and his virtues
to his descendants. He did not enter
public life as early as it was my fortune
to do. Educated and prepared for col
lege at the same academy he schooled
and entered the university of Georgia;
came away in all her honors, with ac
quaintances and friends, without jealousy,
with and a store of knowledge that was fit
for the great events for which God inten
ded him. When he qaine out of college he
went to the vocation of his father —a
teacher—a trainer cflf both from
necessity and of his condition, as well as
his known fondness for learning. He may
have been improving hi3 well stored
mind when he was imparting his knowl
edge to the youth of the country. When
he was able to come before men he was
admitted to the bar in his 24th year. Under
one of the most illustrous of Georgia’s
sons, who was then presiding at the last
court he ever held in the county of Talia
ferro, the Hon William H. Crawford,the
name and synonym of all that was great
and honest, and true, and patriotic, who
himself died like my illustrious friend,on
the path of duty,going from home to one
of his courts on the circuit, his very ad
vent to the bar was a success. They
knew his talents, they knew his virtues,
and he was a leader almost from his en
trance into life, and it was no small dis
tinction to be a leader among such men.
Among the leaders of the bar of the
northern circuit, in which he was born,
in those days you fiud the name of our
distinguished—more than distinguished
—one of the greatest men and best citi
zens, Chief Justice Lumpkin. Mr. Cone,
one of the mo3t distinguished of all the
lawyers that ever appeared at tiie bar in
Georgia, Judge Longstreet, and among
them some younger men, nearer his own
age, whose future promise was then fore
seen by the public—names which their
lives have shown were worthy of his glit
tering steel, and his magnificent genius
and character.
But upon his retirement from college
those who knew his virtues and his char
acter were earnest iu their desires that he
should take the sacred desk. lie said
God had not called him. He took his
mission from the voice of Go 1. “Con
science” He, always determined, from
his cradle, to live for his country. His
maxim from early life was adopting the
language of the immortal patriot who
gave his blood for his, and mine, and
vour ancestors, that there was no subject
worthy of the human intellect but. the
well government of the human race.
There wa3 the field to which he was
called—the well government of the hu
man race. It was the sheet anchor of
liberty and union. God was his ideal,
the sheet anchor of humm virtue, of hu
man happiness, and of all that was worth
living for in this life. There was a wide
field of usefulness. His daily life w r as
sermon. Every act at the bar, every act
in the courthqpse preached a sermon that
struck deep in the hearts ot all that knew'
him. He had not been two ye irs at the
bar until they said, “The public need
you:” and they sent him to the legisla
ture, and there was spent the greater
portion of his life. He needs no eulogy
from me. It is written in letters or gold
and of light, all over this country, and
loved and honored aud admired and re
spected by all his opponents. He had no
enemies. A man could not be his enemy
for he could not reciprocate the feeling.
Wherever civilization extend his name
was known, earl}' in his life,and respect
ed where his private character was known
and loved by his fellow-men. Nobody
can recount his virtues. His was one of
the few immortal names that were not
born to die. Death had no victory, the
grave was cheated of her rights, as
claimed, 'ahere was notheng, and when
he passed from this life to happier re
gions there was no king or errors guard
ing the portal of his exit to a better w orld
It was no terror to him;
He was not there. He gently ceased to
breath.
When he went into public life he en
tered It in the most eventful period of
the world’s history. It seemed as if the
Creator, about that period, had deter
mined to open all the portals of knowl
edge to man, and it so happened that his
very entrance into public life w'as distin
guished by one of the greatest events that
had happeued in this or any other gen
eration. Our system of improvements
had been conceived by wisdom. It was
incomplete. Our two great corpora
tions, the Central and Georgia railroads,
had organized, but there was one link
missing. The savages had ceased to oc
cupy any portion of our territory. In
the yer 1833 the territory of Minnesota
gave to Georgia the supreme, actual
domination over every inch of soil with
in her glorious limits. But the great
trunk was under debate when, In 1836,
he entered the legislature ot Georgia,
with no experience, as men thought, in
practical legislation, but with his mind
so well stored with knowledge that he
was ready for every duty. His speech
in favor of the state appropriation was
remembered by all his contemporaries.
There were no white inhabitants, or
very few. They had just commenced to
take the places of the savage men. That
it was necessary to act, he saw in an in
stant, with nothing of what men call ex
perience in this great question. There
was not a mile of railroad in the state of
Georgia. It could not move without this
necessary adjunct. It was necessary to
connect, first with the waters of the
west, with the Tennessee and then with
the Mississippi, and then with the
boundless Pacific, known in the cnarter
of Georgia as the Great South sea. That
memorable bill was passed; that mo
ment of life’s energy and enterprise an
nounced success. All his life was devot
ed to his country, to his state, to man
kind. The next great event in his life
was when he was elected to congress in
1843. We had already made light our
portrait painter, and the question came
up of making lightning our news carrier.
Professor Morse, himself a poet and
painter, but whose genius had expanded
at the discovery of Franklin, he was not
able to carry out the great invention.
With the aid of congress, which Mr.
Stephens intuitively saw—while he was
not a professor of science, he was practi
cally the most scientific man I ever
knew anywhere, from the valley to the
seas—the appropriation was made. In
the next year he saw the first message
that was ever carried, announcing to
Silas Wright that lie was elected vice
president under Mr. Polk, which he de
clined.
I chanced to be in Washington at the
time. Not as a member of congress, for
he entered the legislature a term before I
did, and he entered congress a term
befere I did, although I was his
senior. Having already made light
our portrait painter, by the bles
sing of God, which shed innu
merable blessings throughout th
world, then we accomplished, by his aid,
by his far-seeing sagacity, in a question
that was greatly disputed, and one
which some of tho greatest scientists op
posed—the possibility of carrying news
beyond the ocean; and to-day it is worth
the while of any of us to note that the
very utterances I am making can be in
staneously landed in Hong Konk.
There is nothing more to accomplish in
that line. Lightning is our newsboy.
When he entered life there were but few
more than 20,000,000 people, and as he
breathed his last breath about 50,000,000
of the most enterprising, energetic peo
ple on the face of the earth, as his fellow
citizens. Then with the past improve
ments, take our transportations, and a
model to day of the best means of trans
portation, the best cars and engines
made to-day, aud there is not a vestige
connected with the whole subject, but
what has been improved a hundred fold
under his services, thus adding to our
comfort and happiness. Everything
that enters into production, everything
that produces, is carried with a rapidity
before unknown in the history of the
world, to the uttermost parts of the
earth.
The brotherhood of mankind is estab
lished by the blessing of Almighty God
in this last half century. Fortunately
for those who chance to be born in this
age, I know not where it will end, anu
cannot conceive what rfiore can be done.
It seems that our kind Father determin
ed to unlock all his secrets that will ben
efit the human race. It would be im
possible even for me, with my special
knowledge, to tecount the great events
of his life, because he did nothing that
was not either good and great, and often
blended together. Modest, gentle, re
fined, with a heart big enough to control,
to take in, all human wants and all hu
man woes. His whole life was spent in
the practice of virtue, the pursuit of
truth, the worship of God, and doing
good to mankind. Take him as you
please, and one of the greatest tests of
the real grandeur of his character is
found in his eventful life. He was not
always successful; a man of no stern
ness, but of a will that dared to do right,
to follow his convictions, even in spite of
his constituents; calmly studying, work
ingout, what was best for the human
mind. The world was not to equal him ;
the world was not worthy of him.
Sometimes, in very important political
questions, Mr. Stephens differed from
the people of Georgia and the United
States, but he pursued the even tenor of
his way, tolerant of all differences, bear
ing malice to none, good will to all.
When the public had risen to his elevat
ed standard, or differed from him, not
able like he was to look into the far fu
ture, wiien his constituents whom he had
served through life, when Georgia even
differed from him, gracefully he bowed
like a dutiful son to a gracious father.
I will give you one or two of the few
of those great incidents. Upon one
great occasion lie was defeated. He was
sent from Taliaferro to the secession con
vention. The convention differed from
him. There was not a firmer member of
that convention for the rights of the
states than Mr. Stephens, and if he did
nothing else in the world of the kind
mankind owes him a debt that can nev
er be paid. His book upon that sub
ject is already a text for all mankind.
Wherever the English language is read
there it is, and even Europe begins to
see that iu confederation alone is the
happiness of its people and the safety of
the nation. When he went to that con
vention he was beaten by it. I will
give you a few characteristics that mark
the man that was not born to die—one of
the few immortal men born never to die.
That convention which had opposed his
views that very night passed a resolution
to call a congress or convention for se
cession, and to elect delegates to congress
representing the Bth district. Differing
from him as I did, l was at that meeting.
Notwithstanding the convention had dif
fered trom him and carried the measure
in spite of protests and eloqueuee, lie
was unanimously sent from his old dis
trict, the Bth, to the secession congress
at Montgomery. He had opposed fhe
measure, but not a human voice was
raised against him. He caine into that
very body, phesented to them by his dis
trict iu which lie was born. They knew
him. He went to Montgomery. Well,
ot course, the extremes! of the extremes
were there, many of them. His name
was presented among these men, and
many of that convention were new men.
That convention unanimously elected
him to the second otlice in the gift of the
Southern Confederacy. He accepted all
with good grace. He was never cha
grined, never for a moment—having but
one guiding star, and that is, ‘*my coun
try ! my country I” He went there,
served his time under disadvantages
which would be unbecoming iu me to
allure to at this time; served to the last
hour, to the last throes ot the republic of
fctie south. There was no condition
which could bring him to despair of the
republic. Again, when he was detested
in these halls by an illustrious citizen of
Georgia, it was merely a difference be
tween men. What did he do? The con
vention of the Bth district had already
selected its delegates. He was out ot the
race. Ail of them were pledged to ti e
four or live gentlomen aspiring to the
place which he held. My illustrious
friend whose popularity was unbounded,
and whose merits scarcely less limited,
the peer of anybody the very next day,
without even his knowledge or consent,
some of his friends announced that he
would stand for the Bth district. He
said that nothing could induce him to
come in conflict with the many friends
who were then aspiring for the position.
Not a man would preseut himself, as you
know to the Bth district for any office,
that was not his friend. He was too great
for defeat to crush. He was too great
even when the potential voice of the
country spoke. It did not move him one
inch. Some of his friends suggested to
him “announce yourself before the con
vention.” I think there were seven
candidates, highly respectable leaders of
his old district. Before the sun had set
he had not a competitor, and he went
back into his old place in the congress of
the United States without a competitor.
Never dishearthened by what seemed to
be failures —always for country, in office
or out of it. He once said me, “I have a
mission I have been trying to do for
years. I want to write a history of the
times. I wish to defend the principles
upon which Georgia justified her right to
withdraw from her sister states.” And
yet he could not do it then, for he was
carried right into it. I know that that
book—one-half of the writing was made
on a sick and dying bed, and when he
signed the last pago he said, “I thank
God that I have lived to complete this
work; my life k ended.” lie was in
God’s hands. He had worked for him
while weak, sickly, attenuated, not look
ing lor a day of life; the child of the
public, child of the country. Yes, the
child of humanity. In my long acquaint
ance with him, I never knew any man so
unfortunate, even so wicked, th it could
put himself out of the pale of his sympa
thy and aid. He seemed to imitate, and
I say it with great reverence, the Savior
of the huinau race. He seemed to follow
His illustrious example, when His apostle
and predecessor sent Him word, “Are
you the Messiah, or shall He yet come?”
He sent back a messenger who had wit
nessed His miracles. He saw the dead
raised. He saw the dumb speak. He
said, “Tell John this is a Anal test, that
he should know the Messiah.” He said,
“Tell them the gospel is preached to the
poor.” His whole life was devoted to
instructing, to feeding, and clothing the
poor, without regard to couutiy or 9ex,
oreed. Even the personal vices, that his
own purity never could restrain, were
not excepted from the charities of hi>
heart and purse. Very, very few public
men have lived, or it seems can live not
immediately under the seemiug condem
nation of his country.
There are many more illustrations I
could give you, but it is unnecessary.
He was too great for defeat. The coun
try could uoc spare him. There were
casual differences. We had differences
of opinion, but never, never, one pang of
discord. I had occasion to follow my
own dictates, but I never did differ from
him without doubt. He was not what
you cail a stubborn man. When he dif
ered from his friends i.i any private or
public matters, he sought to And grounds
for his action. He left no pang behind,
but was a brave, true and patriotic man.
I remember after the fall of the confeder
acy I told him of rny opportunities and
arrangements for going out of the coun
try, and I urged him to do likewise.
“No,” said he, “I am old, weaker in
years, and bodily infirmities of all sorts
but,” says he, “I have done rny duty to
God and my country. I am ready for
any trial which the public enemy shall
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assign to me.” He was put in prison,
suffering many of the indignitits that
such an estate would produce anywhere,
but with the temper of a stern, bloody
and determine'! civil war that brings
these things in Its evil train. Ha looked
it calmly in the face. He viewed them
not with trepidation. He viewed them
not with anger, but he marched to the
prison as he did to grave, saying: “I am
ready to stand for trial whenever thev
order me.” This marked him to be a
man; every one of these events. Neith
er chagrined by treachery nor dishearten
ed by desertion nor sensible to resent
ment, the great soul looked upon his
country with love and affection, and hill
last breath was in her cause. The ques
tion in his long glorious and useful life
was so perfect that I know’ not where to
begin or where to end, except in justice
to you and to the audience; and it is un
necessary, for I say every act of his life
is stamped with immortality. It is
stamped upon the hearts of tire thousands
of weeping people of Georgia; upon his
sorrowing countrymen throughout the
bounds of his country, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific; all look with love and
admiration,and mingle their sorrows with
the people of Georgia. Looking through
his whole life, take any point you want
of that glorious existence, and it com
pares with tue Roman senate. When
one of her greatest and best generals had
lost a great bitile, and Rome was tremb
ling almost under the sword ol the bar
barian, her legions broken and scairered,
shivering in the balance, Rome itself,
after centuries of triumph throughout the
world, being defeated almost under her
O'vn walls, wnat did she do? Sh*- voted
thk, the thanks of the senate: “We have
not despaired of ihe. republic.” Ir every
crisis of this country in defeat, iu the
worst defeats and greatest dangers, the
hearts of the nation —even of his oppo
nents —could not help but admire the
man that “never despaired of the repub
lic” or human liberty. He went right
back among the broken altars and over
turned principles, and le-estahliahed and
re-asserted them with a firm faith undy
ing. His idea was that there was life iu
the old land yet; that truth is immortal
and cannot die. With that unbounded
faith and confidence, having devoted his
whole life, irrespective of the passing
events, to humanity, to that great eause
of truth, God and his con try, he met the
greatest misfortune with a still higher and
devoted patriotism. He strengthened his
tame. His great heart rose with a nation’s
calamity, and he died thus for his country.
These outlines mark his character. You
all know them; hence throughout this
broad land every heart is in mourulug.
Throughout the wide extent of this coun
try he had opponents, but not an enemy.
He was not the enemy of the north. Of
course, his flrst sentiments were for his
own native land. He was not an enemy
of the wicked, or the bad, but his heart
was broad enough to cover every human
beings’ misfortune and sorrow. Trust
ing in the truth, iu his final triumph,
his last work, his history of the United
States, in his monument. His very last
effort, almost dying (domestic affliction
prevented me from coming), was his
speech in Savannah, which no mau can
read without being wiser and better. He
made this grand commonweath preuder,
and prouder, of her small beginning, and
the noble purposes with which this colo
ny was inhered into existence by one of
the most illustrious of all men that ever
lived—General Oglethorpe. A min who
refused to draw his sword to command
armies against the colonies. The author
of the colonies that were building for
humanity; that were t>r the benefit of
the poor, where thjy could go and live,
and i thank God that he illustrated the
history of Georgia, £ am proud of the
humility of her early origin. lam proud
of the great and good rami who planted
it. It was planted in the cause of Gad
and humanity, and will stand till Heav
en’s last thunder shakes the earth below.
For some time a solemn pause pre
vailed. All felt deeply with General
Toombs, his emotion and apparent effc
tion having won for him their undivided
sympathy.
Resolution of City Council.
Resolved that section 81, page 18 of
printed city ordinance be amended so as
to read as follows: Any person who
shall be found drunk at anj* time on the
streets or in any public place in this city,
or who shall make any unusual noise to
the disturbance of any citizen, may be
lined not exceeding S3O and costs, or be
imprisoned at the discretion ot the court,
not to exceed 30 days. A true extract
from minutes. Geo. S. Cobb,
Cl’k Council.
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