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THE FREE PRESS,
Cartersvllle, Ga.
1 |{() I' 1 KSSI ON A L GA Rl>S.
It. 10. CASON,
dentist,
Oflice over Curry;* , I rug store, fartersvllie,
K. O. GRAHAM.
OKAHAM & GRAHAM,
Attorneys, Solicitors anil Counselors at
Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Oi. wu K IN THE COURT HOUSE. WILL
v * H ;.11 the courts of Bartow county,
pr .rL>r courts of northwestern Georgia, and
lU cSuSeme and Federal courts at Atlanta. Ga.
anil ——
SHELBY ATTAWAY,
at O K FY"AT *I J -A- "W,
\\ 7"ILL PR ACTICE IS ALL THE COURTS
M. B. 8ta,.11, llnk
Block. _
GKO RGB H. JOHNSON,
ATTo It N KV- A r r -LA w ,
CARIERS VILLE, GA.
/’vvkk'R West Side, Public Square.
1 Will practice in all the Courts.
K. W. MVBPHKY,
a r tohney-at-
CARTERSVELLE, GA.
,r kick fnl!' 1 stairs) in the briek building, r
-i.iM-of Main A Erwin streets. julyla.
H NBCU ,J. J. CONNER. W.J. NEEL.
NEEL, CONNER * NEEL,
A r l' i O RNKYS-AT-LAW
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
~rI U PRACTICE IS ALL THE COURTS
\V of this state. Litigated cases made a
penalty. Prompt attention given to all business
-■iSKI northeast corner of courthouse. febO
M. L. JOHNSON.
A V ORN Y- AT*LAW
CA 11 I'K RSVILLE, G EOltG IA,
Onice in the brick house next to Roberts’
very stables. Hours from B>i a. m. to4* p. m.
AU business poomptly attended to.
a p 1-251 _ -
jgy, |{. K. LUMPKIN,
A 'C T ORNFiIt -A T - L.A W ,
ROME. GA.
/ COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. OFFICE
L j m rear of l’rintup, Bros. A Cos. 8 Lank.
T. W. MILNER. J* w • IIARRIS.JR.
MILNER A HARRIS,
A TORN K 1 YS - A r -U -IjA W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Ollice on West Main Street. julylS
JOHN U. WIKLE. no GLASS WIKLK.
WIKLE & WIKLE,
A C T ORN PC Y S-A A W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Ollice in court bouse. Douglas W ikle will give
special attention to collections.
KOBKRT It. TKIPPK,
A x V O I t N" 3G Y -A T - L A W .
ATLANTA, GA.
S’o. 8 Broad Street, up-stairs.
Ollice No.-12 Grant Building.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS.
Business receives prompt attention. Col
lections a specialty. I will attend the superior
court of Bartow county, Ga., and in connection
with Mr. J. M. Neel, will tiuish the unlluished
business of Trippe A Neel and will also attend
o any new business that may lie offered, sepfl
ALBERT S. JOHNSON,
A T T O It INT EY-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
/AFFILE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
V/ Will practice in all the Courts. Business
will receive prompt attention.
TRAVELERS* GUIDE. _
GADSDEN AND BED LINE STEAM*
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(B e n. 11. Elliott. Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Luovts Rome every Tuesday and Friday. ...Bam
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, .b a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m
Arrive at Romo Thursday and Sunday 7 p m
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
K M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays aud Fridays— 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays und.Fridays.... 9am
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays .7pm
Otlice No. 27 Dread street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telcuhomc connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr..
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Geu’i Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, March 19,1882, the trains
% i tlii- Road will run daily as Hollows (Sunday
excepted):
PASS ENG K R T RAIN .—MORN IN G.
L ;ave Cartersville a m
Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 19:25 am
Arrive at Uoekmart 11:10 a m
Arrrive at Cedartown ...... 12.05 am
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 2:58 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville ...... 8:38 pm
Arrive at Stileslioro 3:51 p m
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
1* ASS ENG Elt TR AIN.—E VENIN G.
Leave Cartersville 4:80 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 0:00 p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m
RETU USING.
Leave Cedartown 6:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2g aui
Arrive at Suleshoro 7:46 am
Arrive at 1 aru rsville 8:20 a m
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 am
Arrive at Kingston ....... 8:65 am
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
NO. 3.
Leave Rome pm
Arri ye at Kingston ....... 5:30 p m
NO. 4.
Leave Kingston 5:55 pm
Arrive ivt Rome pm
no. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
no. 6.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2, 3 aud 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta anil
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T..
Va. & Ga. 11. R.. for points south.
EIIEN HILLYER, President.
J, A.SMiTfi, G. P. Agent,
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston 4:sspra
Leave Dalton 6:84 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 p m
NIGHT PASSKNGKR— DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 p m
Leave Dalton 4:32 p m
Leave Kingston 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSKNGKR—UP.
. jeave Atlanta . 7:00 a m
Leave Cartersville 8:56 am
Leave Kingston 9:21 a m
Leave Dalton .10:60 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:80 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 am
Leave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 a m
Leave Cartersvillo 11:42 am
Arrive at Atlanta 1 :40 p m
, ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:80 pm
Arrive at Cartersville 6:3lpm
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 pm
Leave Kingston 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:82 am
Arrive at Atlanta 10:37 am
VOLUME VI.
Listen Ladies.
Bridal Boquet, Upper Ten, Verbena, Night
Blooming Cereus, Ess. Boyuet, Honey Suckle,
Ocean Spray, West End Stephanotis, Patchonly,
W bite Rose If rangipani, in fact all of Lunborg'*
favorite triple extracts at l). W. Carry’s.
Seltzer water possessing the same medicinal
properties as the famous Seltzer water of Ger
many, on draught at Curry’s.
Curry’s Dysentery Remedy is a never failing
enre for diarrheas, dysentery and all bowel com
plaints. Try and lie convinced.
Curry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentary specilic is
just what its name in plies and cures promptly
all derangements of the bowels, 25 cents, at
headquarters.
Curry will sell you au insect gun filled with
Persian Insect Powder that will kill bugs and
fleas, and drive the flies from your house, for 25
cents.
“If you catch ’em shoot ’em.” Go to
Curry’s and get an Insect Gun filled with pow
ders that kills all insects with which it comes in
contact. Priee 25 cents.
Ice cold Soda Water and Ginger ale still on
hand at Word’s drug store.
ARE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion,
constipation, tUnainoeo, 1000 of appetite, yellow
skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is a positive cure. For
sale by Cui ry.
Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure, Warner’s Kid
ney and Liver Cure, Warner's Nervine, War
ner’s Tonic, and Warner’s Pills, are kept con
stantly in stock and sold wholesale ami retail at
Curry’s drug srorc.
FOR DYSPEPSIA au l Liver Complaint, you
have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shi
loh’s Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. You can
get it at Curry’s.
Remember that M. F. Word sells jelly glasses
away down.
M. F. Word will sell you a p Lit bottle of Cas
cara Bitters for 75 cents. They aro very good.
Bull Durham cigarettes, five and ten cen*s
packages at D. W. Curry’s.
300 lbs. turnip seeds of every known variety
fo.t sale cheap by David W. Curry
Wadsworth Martinez & Longman’s paints are
guaranteed strictly pure and of greater covering
capacity than any other and Curry is selling
quantities of it.
The demand for Curry’s Liver Compound is
increasing. A prominent merchant of Carters
ville says a bottle or two of it has cured him of
a disordered liver of two years standing.
Blue stone by the pound or barrel at Curry’s.
Call and get what you need cheaper than you
can possibly buy it elsewhere.
Lorinz Elite Face Powder white, flesh and
l. ush for sale by D. W. Curry.
Swan’s Dowu for the complexion at D. \f.
Curry’s.
Herbine—Wliat is it? Ask M. F. Word.
2,000 pounds Blue Stone at D. W. Curry’s
Ladies. Curry keeps Tetlow’s Gossamer,
Curry has another beautiful lot of lamps, which
lie is selling at astonishingly low prices. Cal
and see them.
Tooth brushes at any price from 5 cents up at
D. W. Curry’s.
Curry will sell you 3 cakes of good toilet soap
and a fine pocket haudkercluof for 25c. and give
j ou a chromo.
Preserve your teeth by using Sozodont. Curry
keeps
PILES.
Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, loius and lower part of the
abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has
some affection of the kidneys or neighboring or
gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are
present, as flatulency,uneasinessof the stomach,
etc. A moisture, like perspiration, producing a
very disagreeable itching, particularly at night
after getting warm in bed, is a very common at
tendant. Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles
yield at once to the application of Dr. Bosan
ko’s Pile Remedy, which acts directly upon the
parts affected, absorbing the tumors, allaying
the intense itching, aud effecting a permaueut
cure, where all other remedies have failed. Do
not delay until the drain on the system produces
permanent disability, but try it and be cured,
rice 50 cenis. Sold by D. W. Curry. janlS-1
“HACKMETACK,” a lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price 25 aud 50 cents. Sold by Curry.
Another lot Wizard Oil, the great “Cure All,”
fust received at Curry’s drug store.
FREE OF COST.
By,-calling at I). W. Curry’s drug store, you
can get a sample bottle of Dr. liosauko’s Cough
and Lung Syrup free of cost, which will relieve
the most obstinate Cough or Cold, and show you
what the regular 50 cent size will do. When
troubled with Asthma, Brochitie, Dry, Hacking
Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the
Throat and Lvga, try a sample bottle of this
medicine. janlß-ly
Madame Loraine’s sure death to bed bugs.
For sale by D. W. Curry.
If you would rise early take Curry’s Liver
Compound.
From Jolm P. Stegall.
David IT. Curry. —Dear Sir: The Persian
Insect Powder procured of you has effectually,
rid my vegetables and melon vines of insects,
without the least injury to the plants.
Respectfully,
June 9,1883. John P. Stegall.
Fruit jars, all standard kinds, quart and half
gallon, for sale cheap by D. W. Carry.
Puff nothing but “Tunsell’s Puueh” 5 cent ci
gars, at Word’s drug store.
Jelly glasses xcry cheap at Word’s drug store.
The people have learned that Wadsworth,
Martinez and Longman’s paint has so much
greater covering capacity than any other sold,
that they all go to Curry’s for it.
Glass oil cans very cheap ai Word’s drug
store.
Curry has a spleudid lot of strictly pure teas
which he is selling cheap.
Peck’s bad boy and his pa will be in the city
last of this week. Word’s drug store.
Curry’s Liver Compound is endorsed by many
of the best citizens of this and adjoining coun
WHY WILL YOU cougn wiien Shiloh’s Cure
will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts., 50 cts.
and |l. Euquire for it at Curry’s. nov23-8m
Peck’s bad boy and his pa will put in au ap
pearance last of this week aud will stop with
M. F. Word.
“Tansell’s Punch” 5 cent cigar leads the van.
Only to be had from M. F. Word.
S. S. S. always on hand at Word’s drug store.
Iron Tonic Bitters at Word’s drug store.
THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of Bourbon,
Ind., says: “Both myself and wife owe our lives
oShiloh’s Gins'.im.ition Cure.” Curry h i
Take S. S. S. for all blood diseases in the spring
° the year. CclWord sells
Curry has just opened a fresh supply of l ine
Cut tobacco, the finest ever sold in Cartersville
THE FREE PRESS.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
The Supreme Court Declares tlie Bill to
be Unconstitutional.
Washington, October 15.—The most
important decision rendered by the su
preme court of the United States to-day
was that in the live cases commonly
known as the civil rights cases, which
were submitted to the court on printed
arguments about a year ago. The titles
of these cases, and the states from which
they came, are as follows:
No. 1. The United States against Murray Stan
ley, from the United States circuit court for the
district of Kansas.
No. 2. The United States against Michael Ry
an, from the United States circuit court for the
district of California.
No. 3. The United States against Samuel Nich
ols, from the United States circuit court for the
western district of Missoirri.
No. 26. The United States against Samuel D.
Singleton, from the United States circuit court,
for the southern district of New York.
No. 28. Richard A. Robinson and wife against
the Memphis and Charleston railroad company,
from the United States circuit court for the dis
trict of Tennessee.
These cases were all based on the first
and second sections of the civil rights
act of 1875, and were respectively prose
cutions under that act for not admitting
certain colored persons to equal accom
modations and privileges in inns or ho
tels, in railroad cars and in theatres.
THE DEFENSE SET UP.
The defense set up in every case was
the alleged unconstitutionality of the
law. The first and second sections of the
act, which were the parts directly in
controversy, are as follows:
Section 1. That all persons within the
jurisdiction of the United States shall he
entitled to the full and equal enjoyment
of accommodations, advantages, facilities
and privileges of inns, public convey
ances on land and water, theatres and
other places of public amusements, sub
ject only to the conditions and limita
tions established by law, and applicable
alike to citizens of every race and color,
regardless of any previous conditions of
servitude.
Second section provides that any per
son who violates the first section shall be
liable to a forfeit of five hundred dollars
for each oftense, to be recovered in civil
action, and also to a penalty of from five
hundred to one thousand dollars fine, or
imprisonment from thirty days to one
year, to be enforced in criminal prosecu
tion. Extensive jurisdiction is given to
the district and circuit courts of the
United States in the cases arising under
this law. The rights and privileges
claimed by and denied to colored persons
in these cases were full and equal accom
modations in hotels, in ladies’ cars on
railroads, and in the dress circles in the
atres.
THE HOLDING OF THE COURT.
The court, in a lone and carefully pre
pared opinion by Justice Bradley, holds
Ist, that congress had no constitutional
authority to pass the sections in question
under either the 13th or 14th amendment
of the constitution; 2d, that the 14th
amendment is prohibitory upon the
states only, and that the legislation au
thorized to be adopted by congress for
enforcing that amendment, is not direct
legislation on matters respecting which
the states are prohibited from making or
enforcing certain laws or doing certain
acts, but is corrective legislation neces
saiy or proper for counteracting and re
dressing the effect of such laws or acts.
That in forbidding the states, for exam
ple, to deprive any person of life, lib
erty or property, without due process of
law, aud giving congress power to en
force prohibition, it vas not intended to
give congress power to provide due pro
cess of law for the protection of life, lib
erty and property, which would embrace
almost all subjects of legislation, but to
provide modes of redress for counteract
ing the operation and effect of state laws
obnoxious to prohibition. Third, that
the 13th amendment gives no power to
congress to pass the section referred to,
because Hint amendment relates only to
slavery and involuntary servitude which
it abolishes, and gives congress power to
pass laws for its enforcement; that this
power only extends to the subject matter
of the amendment itself, namely, slavery
and involuntary servitude, and the ne
cessary incident and consequences of
these conditions; that it has nothing to
do with different races or colors, but only
refers to slavery, the legal equality of
the different races and classes of citizens
being provided for in the fourteenth
amendment, which prohibits the states
from doing anything to interlere with
such equality; that it is no infringement
of the thirteenth amendment to refuse to
any person the equal accommodations
and privileges of an inn or place of pub
lic entertainment, however it may be vi
olative of his legal rights; that it imposes
upon him no badge of slavery or invol
untary servitude, which imply some part
of subjection of one person to another
and incapacity incidental thereto, such as
inability to hold property, to make con
tracts, to be parties in court, etc., and
that of the original civil rights act,
which abolished these incapacities might
be supported by the 13th amendment. It
docs not, therefore, follow that the act of
1875 can be supported by it. Fourth,
that this decision affects only the validity
of the law in the states, not in the terri
tories or the district of Columbia, where
the legislative power of congress is un
limited, and it does not undertake to de
cide what congress might or might not
do, under the power to regulate com
merce with foreign nations, and amongst
the several states, the law not being
drawn with any such view. Fifth, that,
therefore, it is the opinion of the court
that the first and second sections of the
act of congress of March Ist, 1875, enti
tled “an act to protect all citizens in their
civil and legal rights,” are unconstitu-
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 25, 1883.
tional and void, and judgment should he
rendered accordingly.
JUDGE II Alt LAX’S DISSENT.
At the conclusion of the reading of
Judge Bradley’s opinion, which occupied
more than an hour, Justice Harlan said
that under ordinary circumstances and
in ordinary cases he should hesitate to
set up his individual opinion in opposi
tion to that of his eight colleagues, hut,
in view of what he thought the people of
this country wished to accomplish, what
they tried to accomplish, and what they
believed they had accomplished, by
means of this legislation, he must express
his dissent from the opinion of the court.
He has not had time since hearing that
opinion to prepare a statement of the
grounds of his dissent, but he should
prepare and file one as soon as possible.
In the meantime, he desired to put upon
record this expression of his individual
judgment.
ANOTHER WAR CASE.
Another interesting case, involving
war legislation, was also decided by the
supreme court to-da}', namely, the United
States against Edward T. Gale and Wil
liam S. Gibson, which was brought here
on certificate division from the circuit
court of the United States for the district
of Florida. This was a suit against the
supervisor and clerk of election district
No. 8, in Marion county, Fla., on the oc
casion of tlie election of congressional
representatives in IS7B. The indictment
charged the defendants with misconduct
as election officers, in stuffing the ballot
box with fraudulent tickets, and abstract
ing tickets which had been voted. The
defense was that sections 5512 and 5515
of tlie revised statutes, upon which the
indictment was based, and section 320,
under which was chosen the grand jury
by which the indictment was found,
were unconstitutional and void. r ihe
court disposes of the first part of the de
fense very brieflj r , by saying the question
of the validity of sections 5512 and 5515
has already been decided by this court in
the case of Siebald and Clarke, 100 United
States, 371-309, and was determined in
favor of their validity. Section 820, upon
which the second part of the defense was
based, contains the statement of causes
for disqualification and challenge of
grand and petit jurors in the courts of
the United States as follows: “Without
duress and coercion, to have taken up
arms or to have joined any insurrection
or rebellion against the United States; to
have had adhered to any insurrection or
rebellion, giving it aid and comfort,” etc.
In empanelling the grand jury which
found the indictment against the defend
ant, four persons otherwise competent
were excluded from the panel for the
causes mentioned in this action. The
court, after a review of the circumstances,
as shown by the record, declines to de
cide whether section 820 is valid or not,
for the reason that the objection to the
constitution of the grand jury under that
section was not raised in due time.
A HISTORY OF THE LAW.
The court, however, gives a brief his
tory of this law, excluding from juries
persons who took part in the late insur
rection, and comments upon it as fol
lows :
“It may be proper to call attention to
the singular position of this section, (sec
tion 820.) It was originally enacted as
section 1 of an act passed June 17th,
18G2, entitled “an act defining the differ
ent causes of challenge, and prescribing
an additional oath for grand and petit ju
rors in United States courts. 12 Statutes,
430.” At that time—lß62—it was no
doubt a very proper and necessary law,
but after the rehabilitation of the insur
gent states, the proclamation of a general
amnesty and the adoption of the four
teenth amendment, guaranteeing equal
rights to all citizens of the United States
there would seem to have been no just
reason for a continuance of the law,
especially as by far the largest portion of
the citizens in the states lately in rebel
lion would be disqualified under it. Ac
cordingly, by the fifth section of the act
commonly called the enforcement act,
passed April 20, IS7I, 17th statute, 15th
congress, after providing that in prosecu
tions under that act no person should be
a grand or petit juror who should, in the
judgment of court, be in complicity with
any combination or conspiracy punisha
ble by tile provision thereof repealed.
The said first section of the act of 18G2
and the law remained in this state until
the adoption of the revised statutes. For
some unexplained reason the revisers
imported the section back again into the
revised statutes as section 820, although
it had not been in force for more than
two years. It is probable that the fact
of its repeal was overlooked by congress
when the revision was adopted, and it is
to be hoped that their attention will be
called to it.
THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
The questions certified by the court be
low, are answered by this court as fol
lows :
“It is the opinion of this court, and it
so decides, that the question whether
5,512 and 5,515 of the the revised statutes
of the United States are repugnant to and
in violation of the constitution of the
United States, should be answered in the
negative, that the question as to the va
lidity of section 820 of said revised stat
utes is unnecessary to .be decided, inas
much as objection to the constitution of
the grand jury, under that section, was
not raised in due time, and that the re
maining question, namely, whether the
judgment of this court could be rendered
against the defendants on an indictment
found by a grand jury empanelled and
sworn under the sections aforesaid, and
whether the indictment aforesaid charges
any ofienses for which judgment could
be rendered against the defendant? in
this court, under the constitution and
laws of the United States, should be an
swered in the affirmative. Opinion by
Justice Bradley.”
MR. STEPHENS’S CHILDHOOD.
Events Narrated ly the Statesman Him
self.
Johnston and Brow u’s “Life of Alex
ander H. Stephens” is an unusually en
tertaining book throughout, but perhaps
none of its more than 600 pages are more
interesting than those in which Mr. Ste
phens himself, in letters to Col. John
ston, tells of his childhood days and the
scenes and incidents of that time which
left the deepest impression on his life.
We have just been reading one of these
letters, and that our readers may share
the pleasure we derived from its perusal,
we transfer a portion of it to these col
umns.
In replying to questions from his bio
grapher relating to the time when he
first became a member of a Sunday-school,
Mr. Stephens says:
“In thinking of the events of my past
life, I am often impressed with one fact,
and that is the perfect unconciousness,
at the time, of the important hearing
upon after-life that little incidents have,
which, at the time ot their occurence,
were almost unnoticed. In the lives of
all persons there are turning-points,
ideas, —indeed changes of all kinds.
These changes or turning-points, as I
call them, form epochs in every one’s
life.
“To illustrate; One of tlie first epochs
in my life that I remember was my
dropping the ‘slips,’ as vve called them
then, —a sort of frock such as girls wear,
—and putting on breeches. This was a
momentous event with me, changing
my ideas, giving me entirely new notions
of myself, hitherto undreamed of.
Starting to school was another great
epoch with me. New fields of precep
tion and reflection were opened before
me, and new scenes presented. It was
in truth my first entrance—first step upon
the stage of life. But Ino more thought
of this the morning my father gave me
the beautiful new spelling book, with its
rich blue cover, and told me to go to
school and be a good boy, than I thought,
several years afterwards, that I w r as
turning another point in my life when,
one Sunday morning, he started me with
a Bible to Sunday-school at Powder
Creek meeting-house. These things,
when they occurred, seemed just like
any other ordinary daily events; yet, in
looking look'ng back upon them, I see
that they and many other similar ones
which I have in my mind were far other
wise.
•‘That start to the Sunday-school was
an epoch in my life. It was then that I
first took a taste for reading. It was in
the summer of 1824. I was a little over
twelve years of age. All my reading had
been limited to the spelling-book and
New Testament. At this Sunday-school
we had the Sunday-school Union Ques
tion-book, which was anew tiling in the
country at that time. The school was
organized by Garland Wingfield, a class
leader in the Methodist Society at Pow
der Creek. He was the superintendent.
There were perhaps thirty scholars, di
vided into a class beginning with Genesis,
—a part of the Bible I had never read
before, and I soon became deeply inter
ested in the narrative. It was no task
for me to get the lesson, though I had
no other time to do it but on Sunday
mornings and evenings, or at night, by
the light of a pine-knot fire.
“When I reached the history of Joseph,
I did not stop with the lesson, but went
on for chapter after chapter. I was per
mitted to recite 'all I had learned, and
this carried me out of my class. I soon
went through Exodus and the other
Mosaic books, often sitting up till mid
night, reading with interest by the light
of the blazing pine-knots, the onlj T light
in our house for readers in those days.
My stepmother had a candle in her room,
by which she sewed, patched, darned,
and performed other similar domestic
tasks. But by the fire I read long after
the whole household “were asleep, and
that aftei a hard day’s work. I never
missed a question; and my rapid pro
gress was surprising to the teachers and
the whole school. I improved also in
my reading, of which at first I made but
a halting, stammering, speliing-out busi
ness. I soon went through the Old Tes
tament, —in fact, long before the class
with which I had started got through
Genesis.
“My‘entrance into this school had a
considerable effect upon my fortunes. It
gave me a taste for reading, for history,
for chronology, and it gave me reputa
tion. My rapid progress was noted and
much talked about.”
He then goes on to show how his con
nection with the Sunday-school, and the
reputation he made there, brought about
those subsequent events that had such a
telling influence upon the whole of his
after-career. Space will not allow us to
give further extracts at this time from
this charming book, but it does allow us
to say that we hope the book itself will
find its way into every home in this land,
for, as the Baltimore Bulletin truly says,
“it may be studied with benefit bj r every
American.” Tne good that comes from
reading the history of such a life as Alex
ander 11. Stephens can hardly be over
estimated.
As when Site wag Young;.
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and fixe it better than any similar pre
paration I know of,” writes Mrs. Ellen
Perry, wife of Rev. P. Perry, of Cold
brook Springs, Mass. “My hair was al
most entirely gray, but a dollar bottle of
the Balsam has restored the softness, and
the brown color it had when I was young
—not a single gray hair left. Since I be
gan applying the Balsam my hair has
stopped falling out, and I find that it is a
perfectly harmless and agreeable dress
ing.” oet. 25. lm.
THE NRGIIO CONVENTION.
To be Held in the City of Atlanta, Decem
ber 18th,ISS3.
| To the Colored Citizens of Georgia:
; At the convention composed of 300 of
; Georgia’s colored men, which met in the
j city of Macon, on the 27th of April, ISS2,
an executive committee of one from each
congressional district, and W. J. White,
of Augusta, from the state at large, as
chairman, was appointed and empowered
to look after the general interests of the
people and whenever they deem it neces
sary to call another convention. While
that committee has carefully watched the
progress of public events, it has not un
til the present time felt called upon to
take any action looking to the calling of
the people together in convention.
Recent events in the public policy of
our states; the discussion in our .legisla
tive assembly; the character of certain
bills presented and vigorously pressed in
the two houses of our state legislature
must admonish every thinking man that,
we have reached the crisis as a race in
Georgia that demands at our hands
prompt and decisive action. While there
are a number of subjects to which we
might refer, we call at this.time special
attention to the question of public educa
tion.
Since 1871 we have had in Georgia
what has been called a free school sys
tem professed to afford equal school fa
cilities for white and colored children,
while in fact it has been so administered
as to almost always discriminate against
both the colored children and the colored
•teachers. This has been because of the
fact that the administration of the law
has been wholly in the hands of white
men who were either prejudiced them
selves or were under the influence ol the
prevailing race prejudice that is every
where to be found. Every imaginable
device has been resorted to to prevent
the colored people of (he state from re
ceiving the equal benefit of money laised
by the state for educational purposes.
The colored people have quietly and
without complaint submitted to this in
justice, hoping that time would right ex
isting wrongs and give to every citizen
of the state that measure of justice to
which each under the law is entitled.
It is with deepest regret that we are
forced to believe that instead of there be
ing improvement, the outlook is decided
ly less hopeful for the colored men in
Georgia.
The recent bitter articles against the
education of the negro, that have appear
ed in the leading newspapers of the state,
the house of representatives of our state
legislature separating the tax paid by
white citizens from that paid by colored
citizens for educational purposes, and
providing that the colored people should
only receive the benefit of the taxes paid
by themselves, go to show that a large
part of the white people of the state are
denying the colored man in Georgia equal
citizenship, and that the negro shall not
have the same eliance to rise as the
white.
The question of education involves the
dearest interests of the colored man, not
only as it relates to the present, but as it
relates to his future in this country and it
becomes every true-hearted colored man
to lay aside every other consideration for
the time being and unite with his breth
ren for the securement of education for
our children.
In accordance with a resolution unan
imously adopted by the colored executive
committee of Georgia, 1 hereby call a
convention of the colored men of Georgia
to meet in the city of Atlanta on Wednes
day, the 12th of December, A. D. 1883,
at 12 o’clock m. By resolution of the
committee every county in the state is
requested to assemble in convention and
select delegates, and also to provide the
money to pay the expenses of said dele
gates, and also to provide the money to
pay the expenses of said delegates. Each
county will be entitled to twice as many
votes in the convention as it has mem
bers in the house of representatives, but
this is not intended to restrict the num
ber of delegates from any county. To
the ministers of the gospel, teachers in
all parts of the state we extend a hearty
and cordial invitation.
Let the colored men of Georgia from
the mountains to the seaboard arise and
unite before it be forever too late.
The welfare of our children and future
of our race is at stake—shall we not arise
and vindicate our manhood, and show to
the world that though pressed down by
the iron heel, we are yet men.
Yours for the cause of education and
advancement,
W. J, White, Chairman.
E. S. Small, E. K. Belcher,
James Tate, J. 11. DeVeaux,
A. B. Fortune.
We cordially endorse the above call.
A. Wilson,
Member of the Legislature.
Fuank Johnson,
Member of the Legislature.
A baby was born in a cemetery at
Marsltaltown, lowa, a short time ago,
but evet v-where can be seen babies borne
to the cemetery because mother’s cruelly
neglect to procure I/r. Bull's Cough
Syrup, a sure cure for cioup, colds and
coughs.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says “sixty
eight new counties were organized in
Texas last year. property in
creased to the extent of $130,000,000.
Immigrants are pouring in. That state
contains territory twice as large as Geor
gia which is yet undivided into counties.
It promises to be the real empire state of
the Union.” It does, indeed, says an
exchange; and yet good Georgians may
find it best to remain at home.
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NUMBER 14.
THE CIVIC RIGHTS DECISION.
Xew York Sun.]
It is rather surprising that so much ex
citement has been caused in some parts
of the country by the decision of the
supreme court of the United States ad
judging the first and second sections of
the Uivil Rights act of 1875 to be uncon
stitutional and void. All the previous
utterances of the supreme court relating
to the scope and effect of the thirteenth
and fourteenth amendments to the con
stitution, upon which the Civil Rights
■ct was based, had indicated that when
ever the question was fairly presented
the Judges would hold that Congress
had no power to pass such a law.
The act of 1875 provided that all per
sons within the jurisdiction of the United
States should be entitled to the full and
equal enjoyment of accommodations,
advantages, facilities and privileges of
inns, public conveyances on land and
water, theatres ana other places of public
amusement, and prescribed severe penal
ties for the denial of such privileges.
The supreme court says that this legisla
tion cannot he sustained under the thir
teenth amendment, because that amend
ment applies only to slavery and involun
tary servitude, and gives Congress no
power except to pass laws in respect to
those subjects.. 'l'llis conclusion seems
plainly correct, and must have been
reached without much difficulty. A
more serious question arose, however,
under that part of the fourteentl. amend
ment which is embraced in these words:
“No state shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge tlie privileges or
immunities of citizens of the Unites
States; nor shall any state deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property with
out due process of law ; nor deny to anv
person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.”
Congress is expressly empowered to
enforce these provisions by approp*' ,<, to
legislation as the argument i" favor of
the constitutionality of f ,JC Civil Rights
act has been that by virtue of this power
Congress could itself pass law's to protect
citizens In their privileges or immunities,
whether the states attempted to interfere
with those privileges and immunities or
not.
But it lias been plain enough ever
since the decision in the case of the Unit
ed States against Cruikshank that the
fourteenth amendment is operative only
upon the states, and, as was declared in
that case, it simply furnishes an addi
tional guarantee against any encroach
ment by the states upon the fundamental
rights which to every citizen as
a member of society. Chief Justice
Waite there said :
“The equality of the rights of citizens
is a principle of republicanism. Every
republican government is in duty bound
to protect all its citizens in the enjoy
ment of this principle, within its power.
That duty was originally assumed by the
states; and it still remains there. The
only obligation resting upon the United
States is to see that the states do not de
ny tiie right. This the amendment guar
antees, but no more. The power of the
national government is limited to the en
forcement of this guarantee.”
Since this decision was rendered, it
has been difficult to perceive bow any
such legislation as that embodied in the
Civil Rights act could be sustained.
The suggestion has been made that,
notwithstanding the unconstitutionality
of the Civil Rights act, colored persons
may still be able to secure, under section
2 of article IV'. of the constitution, in
other states than their own, all the ac
commodations at inns, in public convey
ances, and at places of amusement which
they enjoy at home. That section pro
vides that the citizens of each state shall
be entitled to all privileges and immuni
ties of citizens in the several states. It is
settled, however, that no privileges are
guaranteed by it except such as pertain
strictly tocitizenship, and it is doubtful
liow r far this limitation would operate.
THIS EAST AND WEST.
Cedartown Advertiser.)
The grading on that part of the East
and West railroad of Alabama now under
construction, i. e., from Cedartown to
the present junction with the E. TANARUS., Vu.
and Ga., since being begun a few weeks
since, has been pushed systematically
and vigorously, the weather favoring to
an appreciable degree, until quite a con
siderable show lias been already made on
the work. Tiie grading force has been
distributed in squads at points between
here and Esom llill, to which part of the
line work has, with the exception of a
small section beyond tiie latter place,
been altogether applied. The grading,
as was predicted, lias been very light or.
tiie work, no grade or cut as yet, we be
lieve, being more excessive than five or
six feet. The work, it is
*iov*' estimated, will lie linished ready
for the ties, from here to Esom Hill
by the middle or last of next week.
The grading force will then be put to
work on the lower end of the projected
line, it is not definitely known as yet
how soon the finished part will be ironed,
the Iron having not as yet been ordered,
as we learn. But little delay, however,
is contemplated in the matter. The job,
when begun, will consume but little
time, it being computed that the force
that will have the task in band will be
able to place a half mile a day of track.
So that, with all mishaps and drawbacks
that are to be considered possible, it will
only be a few weeks, at latest, before the
Esom Hillians may expect to hear the
locomotive’s whistle resounding about
their habitations.
T. P. Jones, Savannah, Ga., saj's:
“I can cheerfully recommend Brown s
Iron Bitters. I have used it and have been
benefited.