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tho pert
ain party of tho Union; a man who
abased and misrepresented by
cratio press. And yet the assumption ii that
Andrew Johnson is the friend of the South,
whilst General Grant is the enemy of the
Southern people 1 The Mends and admirers
of th*y modern Democratic leader—this vulgar
Tennessee Demagogue- assume that they are,
exedknee, the representatiro types of
Southern chivalry and manhood; whilst
Southern men who an the political Mends
and admirers of Gen. Grunt, on characterized
by this bastard "Democracy” as enemies of
the South or traitors to their section!
Tbs Pilot who our and will etnas tbs
Sbif or Stats satslt thboush stskt stow.
Will Yirdioats tbs PaiscirLss and tbs
Policy or tbs Bsfobuoas Pabtt, and Snr-
pobt its Horatszs. State abb National.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, s : OCTOBER 18
OUR TICKET FOR 1872,
(Subject to tlM action oi tho Republican National
Convention,)
FOR PRESIDENT,
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
AMOS T. AKERMAN.
Republican Congressional Nominations.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
fob roBTT-niurr confiness,
RICHARD, W. WHITE, of Chatham.
SOB TOBXY-SKCOND COBOBSSS,
VIRGIL HILLYER, of Camden.
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
sop. Focrr-riBST amp foktt-he^ohd comobiss,
RICHARD H. WHITELEY, of Deeotnr.
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
FOB FOBTF-FTBOT eOBOBBSB,
MARION BETHUNE, of Talbot.
FOB FOBTT-8ECOIIP COMUBZm,
JOHN g. RIGBY, or Coweta.
FOURTH. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
fob FoBTT-meir coxobess,
JEFFERSON F. LONG, ef Bibb.
FOB FOBTr-OBCONP COXOBXSB,
THOMAS J. SPEER, of Pike.
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
FOR FOBTT-FTBRT AMP FOBTT-SBOONP COXOBBSS,'
GEORGE P. BURNETT, of Floyd.
TIIE LATEST
By UAH to the Era. J
An eminent English engineer says that the
walls of Paris will not stand an ordinary
siege.
Spain cannot send any more troops to
Cuba. „
Brigham Young's resignation as Trnsteo of
thoMormon Church has been rejected.
Temperance lecturers are canvassing Con
necticut
The Election Uw.
No law was ever 'passed by a legislative
body that gave universal satistation.
Of course such a thing would be
impossible; and it is the beauty of
Republican institutions that the Majority is
the umpire of publio sentiment It therefore
beoomee ss much the duty of the citizen to
obey a constitutionally enacted lew, as it does
to obey a decision of a legal tribunal. Both
may be objectionable, or in conflict with in
dividual interests, hat the motto of Republics
is the greatest good to the greatest number.
We can readily understand why oar Demo
cratic Mends ore not pleased with the present
election law. They, for obvious reasons,
would have preferred an election trader the old
laws, enacted before the colored man become
a voter. And for the same reasons, they would
prefer that the nomination of the two Man
agers by the Ordinaries, provided for by the
House amendment, should be valid without
tho concurrence of the Senate. In other
words, they were quite wilting that the Chief
Executive should be checked by tho Senate in
the manner prescribed, but they ore not wil
ling that petty magistrates should be sub
ject to tho tome restraints.
The action of Governor Bollock therefore, in
taking the precaution to got the Senate's con
struction of the law, before issuing bis Procla
mation to Uie Ordinaries, and tbs Senate's con
firmation of the Governor's construction,
gives our Democratic Mends occasion for
much useless complaint. In the law is too
plain to be misunderstood. The w nomination
of two of the Board of Managers in each
county, the Ordinary is substituted for
the Governor, end it would be absurd to say,
in the absence of on rapteea provision,
that one may moke the appointment inde
pendent of the Senate whilst the other may
not. The complaint of the Dexaoc
press is both useless and absurd; and it im
plies, on the part of the Democrats, an im
peachment of the. honor of tbs Senate no
less than a will to preveitlhe law itself.
Folk County Alive to Her Interest*—Large
Assemblage or l<oiU** and Gentlemen nt
the Court House—Able and Eloquent
and Great Enthusiasm Got.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPI.E1
FIUUHKS DO NOT LIE!
WHERE A* THE EXTRAVAGANCE?
Who Sqwfcwflk're* the People’* Money 1
UKAD! RKADX RKADJ
When Governor Jenkins was inaugurated
the total debt of this Htato was only $2,356,"
635--when he was removed from office, hav
ing been inf only a few months more than two
year*, the debt of the State waft §6,256,635
—showing an increase in tho pabtic debt of
nearly FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Under tho present State Government, the
puhtiu debt has not increased a single dollar,
(withstanding the extraordinary legislative
expenses forced npon the State by the new
Democratic rebellion of September, 1868, and
under which the colored members wero forced
to secede.
The expenses of Gov, Jenkins' administra
tion froui.Octobor IGth, 1866, to October ICth,
1867, was $2,700,050,58 loss *11,586,73
cash in Treasury at last named date, nuking
tho total oxpennCKfor tho year 82,689,5(3,-
85.
The expenses for Gov. Bullock's adminis
tration from October 1st, 1868, to October 1st,
1869^ were $1,444,895 00 less $116,695 00
cash iu Treasury at lost named date, nuking
the total expenses for the year $1,328,-
200 OO being ONE MILLION THREE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE DOL
LARS less than the expenses of the econom-
icnl ■•Democracy" under Governor Jenkins for
tho same length of time.
TIIE PUBLIC DEBT HAS NOT BEEN
INCREASED ONE DOLLAR UNDER GOV
ERNOR BULLOCK’S ADMINISTRATION.
The JUccflluff at Cedartown.
Wo yield most of our space to-day to tho
verbatim report of the great Railroad meeting
at Cedartown. It appears to have been one of
tho most enthusiastic mass meetings over held
in the State: The speeches were eloquent
and appropriate to tho occasion. His Excel
lency, the Governor of tho State, was present
by special invitation. His speech will be
found among onr verbatim reports.
We regret to learn that certain parties
cither through ignorance of the nature of the
meeting, or through petty malice toward the
Governor on acconnt of his well known political
sentiments, have endeavored to create the im
pression that this wasa “Radical meeting;" and
that in eonacquenoewf this indiscretion on the
part of n few partisans, several prominent and
worthy Democrats who were present and par*
ticipated in the meeting, have been greatly in
censed at the mendacious-stories of one or
two of their indiscreet party friends. The
meeting was not partisan, either in design, in
ception or conclusion; but a grand gathering
of tho masses inospeetira of party, to signify
their interest in the great Railway project un
der consideration.
In his short address. Governor Bollock
pays a beautiful and touching tribute to the
memory of tlie late General Robert E. Lee;
and Lis remarks upon the subject of direct in
terest to the. meeting, met a hearty response
from stl those present, irrespective of party.
Andrew Johnson, Gen. Lee and Gen,
Grant.
When Andrew Johnson, .as President of the
United Staton, threatened to violate the terms
of snrrcnder consummated at Appomattox;
and, iu open defiance or the laws of war, to
nuke a public example of Gen. Leo, by trying
and executing him osar traitor,.General Grant
found it necessary to interpose his authority
as General of tho Armies, and to announce,
officially, that the same military force that
compelled tho^ surrender would, if necessary,
bcevoked.'to protect the litilen hero under the
terms of his parole. General Grant was too
brave and noble a mas toailcmpt to humiliate
a fallen foe; too honorable a man to be
pectcd of panic faith; and he was too proud
of the honor of his Government to see a vin
dictive demagogue, in the Presidential choir
disgrace the nation by violating the parole of
' a soldier.
It was this timely chock to that maddened
fury and cowardly malaee, whereof Andrew
Johnson was chief, that made Gen. Grant the
idol of the American heart. North and South.
But for the firm and manly stand taken by
Gsn. Grant, there is little question bat that
the Nation would have been called upon to
witness a scene alike shocking to humanity
and disgraceful tb our civilization. And this
was sought to be perpetrated by Andrew
Johnson, the idol of tbe Southern Democracy!
Tire Trades Unions and Demogogaes.
The Labor Reform Associations in many of
tho Western and Middle States have degener
ated into mere political organizations, manip
ulated by demagogues who seek this as a
means of resuscitating themselves. Men who
never did an honest day’s work in all (heir
lives, but wbo are graduates in the school of
political trickery, espouse the caueo of the
laboring men ns a means of creating influence
by which to direct nominating conventions.
In too many instances, tbe working men have
lieen the dppes of these genteel vagrants,and ac
cepted them as leaden. This of conrse, always
proves fatal to their organizations, os it in
variably precedes divisions and counter asso
ciations, led by rival politiciana, Tbo real
object of Labor Associations is thus lost sq^lt
wholly ignored; and Trades
Unions, otherwise beneficial when
managed by able and jndieions
working men, are brought into eontempt even
with their own members. Working men find
by sad experience that the very politicians who
rise to power through the influenoe of these
Unions, or espouse the hobbies of the lobo
reform associations, ere the first to turn
against them, and thus kick down the ladder
by which they asoended to position. Labor
ing men should be cautious of political aspi
rants, and never fail to give these political
bummers a wide berth. If they would in
fluence legislation, let them beware of dema
gogues wbo suddenly become enamored of a
branch of industry of which they really know
notliing.
STATE HEWS. '
uvuxu.
Tho business men of tbe city closed doors
anil the citizens generally observed Saturday
as a Memorial day in honor of Gen. Lee. The
city police will wear crape for thirty days
The birth-day of Father Mathew, the Catholic
Tcmpennee reformer, woe generally observed
by the CatoKes More Aurora Borealis
Frost Thursday night Bishop Perrico had
not arrivod Saturday The colored citizens
joined in paying honors to the memory of
Gen. Leo It is rumored that a well-known
Bay street merchant has disappeared under
circumstances not tho most favorable to his
honesty Bishop Verot is lecturing on
Rome and the Ecumenical Council.
Judge Parrott, Judge Undi
- Crawford, GcneraTPhillips, and otu.c
Distinguished GenlltnesPresent—Hen.
Hr. Jsynes, or Polk. Elected President,
with Judge Parrott, Judge Loehtmse
and I Ion. Seaborn Jones,VicePresidents—
[Note.—Wo ore indebted to tbe courtesy of
the.Son for the report of the speeches mode at
tho meeting.]
Governor Bullock, accompanied by Judge
Me Cay, Judge Loclirane, Hon. Mr. Walthall,
Representative from Polk, Hon. Mr. Strick
land, Representative from Panlding, Hon. Mr.
Williams, Representative from Haralson;
Hon. Mr. Tweedy, and other gentlemen left the
city, on Friday evening's train, to attend a rail
road meeting, at Cedar Town, Polk eounty,
which had been announced, somo ten days
since; to take place on the 15th instant
On the arrival at the train at Marietta the
party was increased by tho addition of Gen.
Phillips, Henry G. Cole,'Judge Hammett
CoL Horrell, Judge Green and a number of
other leading citizens of Cobb, together with
tbe Marietta silver cornet bond.
At Cortersville Judge FerroU and others
came on board.
The party with many pleasant incidents
joornied on to Cave Spring, nnd.thence by
carriages over the cedar mountain and
through the magnificent cedar valley to Cedar
Town, arriving at 12 o’clock, noon, on Satur
day.
The party wero here joined by Judge
Underwood, Major Burnett and CoL Gaskill
from Rome, and were received by a delegation
of citizens,' Ool. Dovers, CoL Waddell, Major
Blanco, Mr. Bunn, Mr. Simmons and many
others, and escorted to a samptaons dinner,
after which the whole party repaired to the
Court House which was crowded to its full
espacity. On arrivftig in the hall, Hon. Mr.
Jaynes was nominated and unanimously
elected President of the meeting with Judge
Lochrane, and Hon. Seaborne Jones as Vice
Presidents, and Messrs Turpin and Anderson
as acting Secretaries.
Tbe President then announced tbe order of
Speakers and introduced bis Excellency Gov -
Bullock to. tbs audience.
Gov. Bollock was kindly received and spoke
os follows:
1U00X.
Citizens held s meeting Saturday in honor
of Gen. Lee. Speeches were mode and resolu
tions passed Mon robbed of $1,000 Thurs
day night More burglary.
COLUMBUS.
Citizens met Saturday in honor of Gen.
Lee. Exercises very appropriate.
BOWL
Over 4,000 persons on the Fair Grounds last
Thursday.
ALBSXV.
Citizens' meeting in honor of General Lee.
Address by Gen. A. H. Colquitt
LX GBASGE. ' »
Publio meeting last Wednesday. Speeches
by Hon. J. IL Caldwell and Colonel W. F.
Wright
Heavy reins. I .'.Everybody is going to the
Atlanta Fair.
City draped in mourning and public meet
ing in honor of General Lee A. B. Wright
and H. W. Hilliard delivered addresses....
Fire Department will parade daring Fair week
and contest for prizes.
Slight frosts Exercises of the University
suspended in honor of General Lee.
Superior Court in session. Full attendance
of the bar.
Tke North*!
The "revolution in Northern public senti
ment” that was to have been inaugurated at
tbe elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi
ana, seems to have bora postponed for another
term of two years. From tbe best informa
tion we can gather. Republicans have mode
gains in all tho States where tbo elections have
taken place, and this wholly regardless of the
confident predictions of some of our friends
in this State, who set apart the year 1870 as
the grand Jubilee of the “Northern Democ
racy." Even in New York, where Democracy
now bolds sway, the proepect is decidedly
blue. "Shin-bone" Brooks is opposed, hr bis
District, by another Simon pure Democrat,
thus creating a division in favor of the Repub
licans.
Gen. Banks is visiting Kentucky.
Or GOT. BUIXOCK.
.Ur. Presides/, ladies and Gentlemen—Citi
zens tf Folk eouidy : Your President has been
kind enough to introduce me to you as one
wbo will make an address. That I cannot do.
But before saying anything upon the subject
for the consideration of which we are assem
bled, I deem it due to myself and to tbe feel
ing which I am sure pervades the heart of ev
ery one before me, to refer to tho solemn cere
monies which on this day and at this hour are
being performed in the State of Virginia. It
so happens that this meeting was appointed
for this dmy and could not well be adjourned
in deference to the events which have occur
red since its announcement We are there
fore here when many, perhaps all of us would
have preferred to remain nt onr respective
homes and.tr> have given such expression as
might to each of ns have seemed Met adapted
to evince our feelings of sorrow at the death
of General Robert E. Lee. [Emotion and
snbdaeil applause.] In bis death tho Ameri
can nation hoe lost an eminent Christian man,
one wbo by his civic virtues has added addi
tional hwtre to the title of “American citizen."
Let nsbope that tbe sorrows which are mutu
ally indulged in to-day both in tho North and
in tbe Sooth, may weld together still more
strongly the Union that has been restored,
and through which each and all of ns an en
abled with pride to say that wo are American
citizens, with one country, one flag and one
destiny 1 We of the South, have indeed beat
en onr spears mod onr swords into usefril uten
sils, and are now devoting onr Lost energies to
develop tbe natural resources of our country,
and -tins meeting to-day is an evidence of it
Wears here to promote, if passible, the con
struction of a railroad communication between
the Alabama line and tbe State Road, to run
through your county and the adjoining coun
ties of Paulding and Cobb. At a meeting
which I bod the honor to attend a week or BO
since in Panlding county, I listened to several
addresses from the citizens of Panlding and
Cobb, setting forth the advantages which the
country would derive if a bill which had been
adopted by the General Assembly granting
what ie known as “State Aid," in constructings
rood to run trough those counties and beyond,
poold become a law, and I assured them that
it should receive my approval. That Act has
not yet come to me, but when it does it shall
be approved. [Applause.] And let me as
sure you now hero to-day, that whatever lies
in mv power to do, personally or officially,
shall be done to secure the prompt and rapid
construction of this line of rood, as well os all
other lines that open up remote sections of
our State that have hitherto been and still are
without practical and convenient aoeess to
railroad eommunicatian. [Applause.]
There are some few timid and esutiaus per
sons in the State who fear that we are “going
to everlasting ruin” by authorizing what is
known as “State Aid,” to railroads. Let ns
refer for a moment to the exact relation which
the State beam to this “Aid" which it extends
to railroad enterprises.
When railroad companies are organized and
incorporated by act of tbe General Assembly,
the next step is' that gentlemen of intelligence
and responsibility form themselves together
as a company, and they prepare, by careful
surveys, examinations and estimates, to build
a railroad. If the enterprise is. deemed by
them site sash examination, practicable and
likely to be feasible, they pot in their money,
complete say ten or fifteen miles of road, and
then by executing a first lien to tbe State upon
the whole work completed, the State in ex
change, give! hex indorsement npon the first
mortgage bonds of tho-road to the extent of a
certain number of dollars per mile, as may be
fixed by statute, which can in no event exceed
ane-half the cost or value of the road and
equipments already completed. Yon will read
ily see that if on enterprise has any merit, and
it the gentlemen wbo put their own. money in
the enterprise have any judgment the State is
doubly secure. Tbe advantage which the
railroad oompany derives from this indorse
ment, is that it makes their bonds more valua
ble and salable outside of our State, and in
the markets of the world, because bonds
baring such State indorsement, carry
with them the security of the united
wealth and capital of the whole
State for the payment of tho interest and prin
cipal of the bonds. The advantage of this
plan to the railroad company is, that tbe peo
ple need pay in on subscriptions only about
ono-holf the cost of the rood, and can get
credit for the balanoe for twenty years^.when
by the increase in the value of property and
the earnings of the road, they will be able to
pay off tho bonds when they bocome due.
The advantage to (he State is in toeincreoeed
value of taxable property by development and
increoseof population,
.Asa business transaction, it is fully illus
trated by every man who has bought a planta
tion, paying half cash down and letting the
balance run on mortgage, until by dealing up
and cropping, be baa made bis placo pay twice
wbat be paid for it
.lam sure that if the gentlemen ’ before me
to-day, are really in earnest and desire to have
a road built from here to Marietta, each a
road will be built It only requires tho united
effort of the inhabitants of the section of
country through which tho road is to pass, to
insure its speedy completion. I need not, of
conrse, go into detail as to how it shall be
done, or as to the proper manner of doing it
All that is necessary is united action and de
termination npon your part, and the best
means of constructing tbe rood will readily be
found.
As I see here in the audience some of my
colored friends, let me say to them that the
road is of as much importance to every colored
man in the county of Polk, or in any other
county thrtfT&h which the toad nibs, as it can
be to any of tho white citizens. It i^ig fact,
more important and more valuable to the”
laborer than to the land holder, for tho en
hanced price Of land brings up with-it tlip
value of labor. The opportunity for the
laborer to change his location is also given by
this easy means of communication. You,
oolored men have muscle; your white friends
have money. Let the two be united, and the
road will be promptly built.
Thanking you, ladies and gentlemen,' for
your kind reception, I will .now join you in
listening to the eloquent gentlemen wbo arc
to address the meeting. [Applause.]
Upon the conclusion of Gov. Bullock's re
marks Judge HcGay, of the Supremo Court,
was introduced and spoke as follows:
remarks of hon. n. k. if cay.
Rllow Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am
a citizen of the low country. I live a long
way below Macon. I am almost within sight
of the Gulf of Mexico, and within range of its
soft and balmy breezes. There ore no hills
where I live, and no mountains. It is a great
plain. From where I live out to the Gulf of
Mexico, there is scarcely a single hilL But
yet, fellow citizens, in my early life I lived in
the mountains, and although I have passed
through this section by railroad, this is the
first time that I have passed in a long number
of years, through such a country as this. It
brings to me memories of my early days. It is a
glorious country—a country to live in—a
country in which the products of the land are
in the way of a liyelihood. The country in
which I live is a country where they raise cot
ton, and where they don't have milk to put in
their coffee, because they do not produce
it They can only make cotton. I am, how
ever, a cotton man. But, fellow-citizens, I
con see that this is just the sort of a country
that needs the development of a railrral. A
pound of cotton is worth now about thirteen
cents, and a pound of wheat ,is worth .only
about two cents. A pound of cotton ton be
transported in a wagon & long distance, but a
bushel of wheat cannot; a bushel of com can
not, and a bushel of oats cannot The country
then that produces these things is the very
country that needs a railroad. I am a sort of
a hardshell in my religions faith, and I am a
sort of a hardshell in my political belief.
[Applause.] I believo that what God intends
men cannot hinder, do all they may. Yon
may delay it, you may stop it, you may put
yonr foot npon it, you may hang back, but it
will come to pass in spite of all you can do.
And one of the decrees of God is, that all the
world is to be bound together with iron bands,
and it isn't worth while to try to stop it, jrad
the man that is now the most strenuously op
posed to railaoads, in a few years will be like
a man in my town was when they built the
railroad from Macon to Atlanta. He opposed
it; he fought against it; he cursed it; be
abused it; he gathered together a gang of
men, and vowed that he would brei& down
the first locomotive engine that came along.
Ho took Li* men to the road. Presently ho
heard the whistle blow, he saw the engine
come rushing along by him with its great
speed, puffing and blowing, and bo stood
npon one side as it passed, and looking after
it said, “well, I am in favor ot tbo thing
after all.** (Applause.) Yon can't stop the
decrees of Providence. This country
has been seized with the spirit
of improvement. You can’t stand Dj-
yourself. You must do as others do. If a
man living on the railroad can get his wheat
to market for fivo cents a bushcll, when it costs
yon ten cents, he will be better off than you.
You will be obliged to take tbe railroad if for
no other reason than because you belong to
the great universal Yankee nation that never
will stop. Now, I use the work Yankee not
in the sense in which wo use it ordinarily. A
Yankee is a man who, the harder yon push
him down, the higher he will bounce up again.
Yon are bound to improve your country, for
when yon work and get a little money, you
will want to invest it in something that will
pay, and a railroad is the very best invest
ment yon can moke, because it increases the
value of the land. It brings people into your
country that would not come into it before.
Formerly if a man had $1200, he would send
to Virginia and buy a negro. Virginia got
the money, and Georgia got the negro.
Georgia now gets the negro, but it
don't cost her anything. Every new man
that comes to Georgia now is worth just os
much now os when wo used to send monfcy to
Virginia to buy a negro. Every count# in
creases in wealth in proportion to the number
of the people in it. The products in it are
valued in proportion to the people who are
there, ana who want to get there. Now this
count# is hard to get to. It takes longer to
.come from Cave Spring to Cedartown than it
does to go from Cave Spring to Atlanta.
The progress this country has made in rail
roads, in the means of intercommunication Is
absolutely amazing. Bailroads and telegraphs
have accomplished things which suck men as
Washington and Jefferson never dreamed of.
A journey can be made between New York and
HfJi Francisco with more ease than a journey
could be mode between New York and Wash
ington fifty years ago. It is just as easy now
to care of a country like ours 2,500 miles
one way and 3,000 miles the other* all'govern
ed by one Bet of laws, by one central head, as
it was a country 100 miles square then. Why?
Because railroads and telegraphs and other
nv^n« of communication have enabled men
to move rapidly from ono section to Another,
and to communicate easily and instantaneous
ly with one another. It makes their interest
one, their feelings ono, their hopes one, their
thoughts one; it binds them together in one
great harmonious whole. . Their interests
make every man feel that he is a part of tho
whole, and not that ho is like a hermit sitting
away off from civilization, doing as his fathers
did before him. No, gentlemen, yon live in
the world, and you can’t lire anywhere else
without leaving the world.
Of conrao, in tho remsrks that I, make, it
cannot be expected that I should go into de
tails as to bow this road shall be built I un
derstand the object of this meeting to be to
seek some means of communication with the
Atlantic seaboard. The Atlantic seaboard is
now tbo great center of American commerce.
Before the war onr tendencies were towards
the Gulf, which is comparatively unimportant
now. .
Thirty years ago the Mississippi river was
looked upon by statesmen ns being the only
outlet frum’tlie West Since the war the Mis-
sisippi river seems to have lost its impor
tance. r
The Gulf is m t so important as it once was,
because a railroad is better than a river: it
never freezes and is never overflowed; it is not
so cheap, but is & far more rapid and certain
means of communication.
There is no man the value of whose land
will not be increased by constructing a road
through this country. Some of you in this
coontry own land worth $25 an acre, that if it
it.. .f til:. —i,. conn
B&h men who cry out
Tunning tho State iu debt;
of sinking the State in
would have cried fire
am for State aid&h its
this occasion I am glad to see the Go'
^ Jtaxatiouand
.t tty this _
a deluge But
d on 'who
lose
Georgia coming to mingle with the people and went into the wodds and cat down the trees
hearing their wonts, and aiding them m their that made their shelter, and by vigorous cf-
pnblic enterprises.- [Applause,] Differing forts,, toil and eeoqomv, nobly planted tbe
with him as I do politically, on this lino wej^ceds ofai prosperity thatgrexr and flourished
proudly and .gloriously, until cut down. Look
at* Georgia os they had raised Tier.'' Her head
was crowned with, a'garland ofr glory, and
yielded precedence to no power or principality
: n the healthy vigor and grandeur of her insti
tutions, universities of .learning, invited, as
they conferred the highest intellectual cultiva
tion. Her mountain barriers opened to com
merce, and from the bosom of the great West,
>ourcd down the fruits of fertility to the At-
antic; avenues overflowed with capital; and
the hum of labor rose up with the lark and
echoed with mills and foundries, factories,
mid forges across the entire State.
What the old men of Georgia did, the young
men of Georgia can do. Do we lack immigra
tion? So did they. Do we lack capital? So
did they. Do we lack spirit? I invoke theirs
to come down to inspire ns in our effort.
To build this toad it is only necessary that
yon be in earnest, and also, that these fair la
dies before me give their co-operation. I am
always proud to see before me, npon an occa
sion like this, involving questions of public
interest, the ladies; for gentlemen, they con
trol you. You may sometimes look upon that
little hand, hardly large enough to carry a
diamond ring, as being able to accomplish but
little, and yet that hand leads the world.
| Applause.] A woman’s will is law in Georgia,
iVhy, Governor Bullock at Dallas, when he
made his speech, after all the manipulations
of the men that were around him; after all the
able statesmen that were endeavoring to get
his views os to the policy of signing
the biti* never said ono word upon
the subject until he was forcod to yield by
stand together—and I am proud to say to my
fellow-citizens of Polk county, that T stand
with him as the champion of a policy that
has done moro to develop tho natural resour
ces of tho State, than that of his predecessors
within ten years. [Applause.] And I con
gratulate you on traveling through your
county from Cave Spring this morning—for I
saw in tho evidence of wealth and prosper
ity—
“That there** life in tho old lend yet.**
With the loss of fortune and the widowhood
and orphanage, and desolation that flowed in
the wave of war, we still retain our proud pre
eminence of honor and social prestige, and
have treasures of fame the brightest lands
cannot boast, and memories that make ns
immortal.
Standing in the very track of General Sher
man’s army, that went over Cherokee Geor
gia like the overflow of the Nile, covering the
fields of Egypt with waste, I am glad to see a
prosperity that covers the land with fertility
and fruit, and a scene of devastation, changed
to a very sheen of glory. I feel the realization
that the storm that disrobed Georgia, like
that which took Elijah's mantle, has only
carried her to a higher destiny. Standing
upon a soil hallowed by its afflictions, and
surrounded by spots 6acred to affection, where
April bends in tears and May pours out her
swsetest flowers.
I thank the Governor for his allusions to
the ceremonies that are this hour progressinj
throughout the nation in memory of Genera
Lee. Tho South is a Niolie clad m mourning
ov/;r a loss that is irreparable. For
Never hand
Waved swonl from stain so free.
And never sword led braver band
Or braver bled for a brighter land.
Or a brighter land had a cause so grand,
Or a cause a chief like Lee.
[Loud and prolonged applause.] Although
he is to-day carried to his tomb, be is not
dead; but bis spirit, beyond the.cedars and.
tbo stars, will live in tbe hearts ot the people
forever. [Applause.] And from other lands
the telegraphic communication pulsates with
sympathy across tho bosom of the Atlantic.
England, a nation proud in a heritage of glo
ries, radiant with names that stand glorious in
every field of history; and proud in the Marl-
boroughs, Wellingtons, and a host of worthies,
that have overflowed Britain with the splen
dor of imperishable fame, speaks her appre
ciation.
The world bows in homage to bis greatness,
and North, South, East, and West melt and
mingle in tho embrace of a common sympa
thy over his tomb. But, especially is be cher
ished by Americans. Wherever tne flag floats
to-day, by sea or land, true men feel the elec
tric pride flash upon the brain that he was an
American. And his nnmo will go down the
corridor of tho centuries, hallowed to Ameri
can nationality forever. [Applause.] Bat I
feel as a Southern man on this subject, that
oilonoo in eloquence, for thought is deeper
than nil speech, ami feeling is deeper than
thought
Our people 'were looked upon as a languid
race: nml when tho war ended, the world
looked for an epitaph marking tho great out
lines of a cemetery.
How sudden and surprising was the result
that followed the wave of war, soldiers as gal
lant as ever lived, that had they been with Lee
at Sedan, would have marched with McMAhon
to Berlin; and Nopoleon to-day, instead of be
ing a captive, would have been a conqueror;
rallied from the battle field to the plough,
draped their buttons in mourning, went to la
bor, and with their own hands built up shelter
against the lonely chimneys left standing in
the very haste of destruction, gathered their
scattered families around them, and laid the
foundation of a new and glorious prosperity.
It must have been something more than
necessity that brought back to peaceful fire
sides the veterans of war and changed a people
into the quietude and toil of labor. To those
who knew tho Southern heart and were ac
quainted with Southern character, the scene
was not unanticipated, but was oven more
successfully and universally developed than
might have been expected. The act Drings in
its hopes a new sentiment for onr people, and
ono iu which the young and lovely faces
around mo must tako port Before the war
we did not feel as w e ought the love of home
nnd home life essential to make it the sanctu
ary of onr household gods. It was only the
absence from the red hills and pine woods of
Georgia that-made them look lovely. It was
by the smoke of tho camp fire, reading lines
traced by the Georgia fireside, that waked up
this love of home. Bat it is now c. sentiment,
n great principle of Southern life, that is grow
ing into and becoming a part of our national
character. And now no people are exhibiting
a greater or grander devotion to their own
firesides than w'e. ‘
In the light of this sentiment I see in the
future, not alone a nationality, but a prosper
ity of happiness. I see tho white cottage
bubbling up out of a sea of green, the wood
bine twining its Anns around it, and the rose
tree climbing to kiss its windowed face. I see
the orchard and the garden waving to the soft
atmosphere of our Southern air their hanging
fruits and Hewers.
We have still left the materials of a great
State. Mineral and Agricultural wealth
abound all over Georgia. We have every va
riety of climate, every character of soil, and
every essential ingredient of prosperity.
From the mountains to the - seaboard, we
have a scope of country washed with rivefe
that may be dotted with Manufactories. We
have lands in cultivation capable of support
ing ten times onr population.
Looking from where I stand I can point to
millions iu Iron, Marble, Slate and Coal,
awaiting but the hand of labor to leap from
tlio mine and mingle with the commerce of
tho world.
I can point to railroads in every section. I
were in the State of Ohio would baworth $200
an acre. TSie State of Ohio is further removed
from a market than yon are naturally, but
railroads are the great cause of its lands being
so valuable. Ohio is not such a fine country
to Kre in as yours. A man has to perform
almost as much labor to get wood for the win
ter as yon have to perform during the whole
year. Yon can't get peqplfiL to come to Polk
county, where it wdl coat them twice us
much to get their produce to* market as it does
in Cobb, or any county easily accessible to
a railroad. They will not come, and, os I re
marked before* land is valuable in a country
in proportion to tbo number of peoplo who
are there, or wbo want to get there. A foot of
land is worth $1,000 in Atlanta, and $50,000
in somo other cities simply because there are
so many people in these cities, and therefore,
if yon want to moke yonr land valuable, you
must holdout inducements and facilities for
people to come into your .country.
But I am a lawyer, and I can't make much
of a speech on a plain case. Let a man come
up here and oppose this railroad, and I will
Brake a better speech in favor of the road; but
it is hard to speak upon such a plain matter.
The road will bo built, and nobody can stop
it [Applause,]
After music by the baud Judge Loclirane
appeared and said:
Rlow-titiiens, Ladies and Gentlemen: If I
come here for the purpose ot apology, I would
have found it since I arrived m your city, for
I have bod a chill only on hour or two ago.
But I promised when I became a Director of.
the Cortersville and Van Wert Railroad that I
would take the position as a Director of Folk
county, having impprtant interests in your
county,land that I would, to the best of mv hum
ble ability,represent your interest [Applause.]
I told those with whom I met here some
time ago, after traveling the route, that I not
only favored this extension, but I favored the
extension through the town of Cedartown, and
am hero to-day to keep my promise, not for
the purpose of demonstrating by figures, esti
mates or calculations the advantage ot such
extension, for you all know I am not a # rail
road Winn. I am only ond of those citizens
who have a general interest in the welfare of
the State, and am proad to seo every section
and every resource of tho State developed,
not only by agricultural and industrial
enterprises, bat by State aid when necessary
in the construction of her railroads. [Ap
plause.] I am not one of those timid or sel-
can point to co-operative industry' already
digging down mountains and spreading its in
fluence in every direction. I can point to the
edifices and improvements all around, and the
invitation, opportunity"and advantage gives
to foreign capitalists and investment We in
vite it, and to all, from every section, who
make this their home, and meet as on the
sympathy of a common humanity, we offer an
honest reciprocity and welcome where he Will
find a homo of association and friendship.
I regretted to meet on my way hero families
moving from Paulding cotmty to Texas. This
is wrong. We mast stand by Georgia, and by
lal*>r and lovo develop her resources. This
laud shall never be the land of strangers, nor
shall the tombs of oar own be abandoned to
others: Never! never! Butin the progress
of our prosperity, wo will cherish the memo
ries tluit live among her hills and plains,
where tlicir music shall echo with thought
forever.
. We have inexhaustible resources of wealth
and boundless prospects of future prosperity.
You have soil as fruitful and a sky os genial
ns Tuscany or the favored Arcadia. In'no
region of earth can we have more to invite in
dustry and exertion.
If to-day God’s providence had led us to
Upper Georgia, and ohr first house was still
in the woods* that gird it in fewest grandeur,
here, as tho most favored spot of eartii, woafd
I hew down a path for civilization to pass, and
start a home. God has given ns a world ctf
greatness to develop which we still .con call
our own.
Let us not then murmur at what is gone,
but feel grateful for what is-left. Resolve this
day still more to adorn and illustrate Georgia,
not only glorifying in her post, but in her
future. If we are * Only roused to a sense of
our resources, we have accomplished the first
stop in moulding tho future. We have much
to do, and I would not underrate the obsta
cles still to be encountered, but to energy and
industry these will go off like mist curling up
from yonr mountain tops.
There are times when tho world moves for
ward with a perceptible shock, and every
thing changes. The last few years was one of
these great movements, in which wo all felt
the shook, and in its progress millions of ottr
capital wasjiwnllowed up.
Wo have offered every inducement to capital
to come and share with us the wealth that lies
in onr fields and mines. ' Immigrants have
been invited, and still they prefer to linger In
cabins, and till lands of which they c*n never
own an acre, and bequeath meanness and mis
ery to their children j than come to a soil that
yields moro with less labor, than any spot of
earth—d land where ten yearn of industry
would make ibom independent, and opens to
their children every avenue of destination.
Let them slay. Georgians will reap their
own reward, and by economy and industry
build our own railroads, plough our own fields,
gather our own harvests,and soon start on every
river flowing to tho sea, .their own manufacto
ries, to spin and weave their own cotton, man
ufacture their own iron, quarry their own mar-
blo and slate, and when we pat the machinery
in motion, we’ll make them pay for the inter
ests they will be begging to buy.
shtml<
the oETmen of jGeorgia
wave of desolation were
ied more than this. They
the influence of the ladies. [Applanso.} I
implore your interest and influence in this
matter. Extravaganco in the past has ruined
and wrecked many of us, and you are the par
ties to economise, and to say that you will put
; rourhand to this work and exercise your in-
5 Inence over those with whom yon are asso
ciated, for if you do, this road will be built
through Codartown, and I shall ride upon it
within five years. [Applause.] If you don’t
do it, I shall always think that yon ought to.
Ladies are in favor of public-spirited enter
prises, but let me assure yon that there are
none so great os those which bring facilities
of travel and communication to yqjir own
doors. You, young ladies, before me, were
not perhaps boro in cities, but it is in the
country that you have spent most of your lives,
and it is to a little wife well-willed
and a little farm well tilled that
tho people of Polk county must look for
wealth, prosperity and happiness. Give
mo the smile of a wife and her welcomo,
and the prattle of little children around ono’i
knee when he returns from his toil, and tho
temptations of the world pass liko an idle
wind bv him. Remove this from him, remove
this influence from around him, and yon find
that ho booomea n wreck, fonndoring in the
waves of destruction. I therefore appeal to
you, ladies, that yon become tho* advocates of
this road. I do not desire to consume the
time enumerating the benefits that would flow
from the construction of this road. I need
not refer to the rich and fertile lands around
me needing but the hand of labor to touch
them and mingle their products with the com
merce of the earth. I need not refer to these
things, for, as Judge McCay says, it is too
plain a case to discuss. You know that this
road must be built, and I pledge myself as
one connected with the Cortersville nnd Van
Wert Railroad that, so help mo God, I will do
all I can to build it. [Applause.]
Tho President then introduced Jtidgo Un
derwood, who spoke as follows:
SPEECH OF JUDGE UNDERWOOD.
I hove listened with attention nnd with
manner of indifference to all that has been
so well and so eloquently said by the gentle
men who have preceded me. I marked well
the words of the Chairman jvhen ho stated
that the object of the meeting was for the pur
pose of considering the propriety of connect
ing Codartown by rail with 'the East. If that
is tho object of the meeting, I am opposed t > it
The Chairman.— It was railroad connections
generally that I had reference to, North, South,
East, and West. But more particularly this
meeting was called in reference to the project
for connecting with the East
Judje Underwood.—I have no objections to
that, but I want the North ami South Railroad
to have au equal chance with the proposed
road. I desire that Cedartown shall have com
munication with the North and tho South
as* well as the East I believo that rail
roads should bo placed upon an equal footing,
and if I were Governor, I would sign every
bill. We are here to consider the necessities
of the whole country, and not a part of it
And now let me say nght hero, before I forget
it, that I endorso overy sentiment nttcred by
Gov. Bullock. They are charactcrizeiT by
statesmanship; they are wise, public spirited
$ml patriotic, and I don’t care what
your politics axe, you ought to approve iu
your hearts the sentiments that he has uttered
to-day. looking towards the development of
fbjg country. I am not going to raise any
question.as to the difference between us polit
ically, for, if I understand myself precisely, I
have got no port in politics. [Applause. ]--
Certainly I don’t agree with him, and I don'
know that I agree with anybody else.
My friends, I have been a politician. I have
stood before this people in the advocacy of the
principles upon which this government was
Dosed. I have defended them; I have main
tained them, but I have lived to see the day
that those that were at war with me then, are
now in control of the Democratic party, and
ore attempting to kick me out I have had
more office than I ever was entitled to, and I
think ybu will agree with me upon this point
I hare been honored by this peoplo for which
I bow my most sincere thanks hero to-day be
fore you.- I have seen enough of public life
to know how the allurements of office fade
and glimmer into nothing when compared to
the calling of an honest man. I understand
that I am ineligible to office, and I had liked
to have said that I thanked God for it One
thing 1 do know, I don’t want any offico. I
shall never be before you Again for your suf
frages. I do feel an interest in common with
the people of this country in the welfare
of tbe country. I have looked, my fellow-
citizens, back for the last ten years into the
dark scenes that have passed before us. I
have sickened and turned away from those
miserable cesspools of corruption and plunder,
or have turned my attention to the material
development of the country and its truo prog
ress, and to the interest and the honor and
tho welfare of the whole people. The spcakei
then spoke at length upon the direction, pros
pects, advantages and merits of the North and
Bonth Railroad Company. If the bill, incor
porating this road through Cedartown was
sanctioned, the bill incorporating the North
and Sooth Railroad Company should be sanc-
practical qu<
are interested. I don't
Atlantic Ocean, nopthe
Gulf Stream, i noif Sic
these outside ifcues, fo:
which wc havWbut lit1
question of the greatest importance is to ar
rive at some practical result by which the peo
plo of the county 6f Polk and certain counties
adjoining arc to be mutually benefited by-tlie
development of railroad interests, and to
exactly believe it, however. It may come, but
if somebody don’t bnild it, if somebody don’t
make some efforts toward it, it _ wii!
never come. It may l>e that it is
decreed by Providence that this road
running from Marietta through Cedartown
shall be built, but that time may not' come
until after we are dead. We aro passing along
the journey of life. The days that are allot
ted to us among men are fast passing away,
and it we would accomplish this object, we
must put our hands to the work. People tell
us that onr children will get the benefit of
this road, but we must get tho benefit of it
ourselves. One man cannot build a road; it
must be done by the concentrated effort and
energy of tbo whole corporation or communi
ty—by the united power of tho brains nnd
the wealth and tho muscles of many. This is
tho only way in which you can be assured of
success. This is what State aid means—all
the united power of a million of people in one
corporation directed upon one great enter
prise; and they guarantee that - your bonds
shall be paid, if you will 'mild your road.—
That guaranty will enhai .*e the value of your
land, will bring people into your section and
will ponr money into the Treasury of the
State by increasing the amount of taxable
property within her limits. The whole State
of Georgia concentrates her efforts upon iTlie
enterprize. If you have energy enough
you can have a Road from Ma
rietta through Cedartown to Pryor
station, yon can have a road from Cartersville
and Van Wert through Cedartown by this
means. You may ask how is the State going
to be protected. I will tell you how. You
arc required to build 20 miles of the road
with your own individual money—to put this
amount, out of yonr own pockets, into the
construction of the road, amounting to $2,000
or more per mile. Then you are entitled to
thcJjcuefit of State aid. Thus, you see, the
State is protected, for if tho road foils the
State cannot lose anything unless the individ
uals lose their money first. Suppose you are
building a rood from [Marietta to Pryor Sta
tion, you aro required to build IQ mile? be
fore State aid cau be extended to your road.
That will cost of ytmr t individual
money, $25,000 per mile.. There is $250,000
of rnonoy already laid out and expended, by
the people before the State’s endorsement is
given at all. When they have thus expended,
their own money they*get $15,000 per' mile.
The road costs you $25,000 per mile and the
State loans you her credit for $15,000 a mile.
That is, she places her endorsement on the
bonds of yonr road after yon liavo completed
a certain number of miles, and then you can
go into tho markets of the world and raise the
money. Tho State always has the-first claim
upon the road, and no matter how great debts
may bo against tho road the elaim of the State
must first be satis^ed. •
There has been some di?ccussioa about tho
different roads to bo built through your pouu-
try. Yon will consider this in a sensible,
practical manner, and yon will choose the
road that is tho most easily bnilt, and which
will be the mest proper. When you have de
termined upon it you must give the enterprise
yonr every energy.
I have no fear of competition from any road.
If people want to build roads wherever they
liavo a wagon yard; if they, wish to put their
monoy in it, I have no objection to it When
you are convinced that yon ought to have a
road and that it is to your interest, lfet overy
property-holder come up and take stock in the
railroad enterprise that will benefit his prop
erty, that will make him richer and happier.
It takes a great deal of money, a great deal of
labor, a great deal of brains to accomplish
bring out your monoy. Don’t
id of your railroad as an old preacher
irked to some of his people. He
preaching in a certain town and
ing to get disheartened. His
_ _ e around him, and said, ‘Why
brother we all love to hear yon whenever you
come, we take good care of you, we give yon
all the chickens and tho good things.” “Yes,”
said tho old man, “but my brother. I have
..... . __ . been coming here for ten long years trying to
arouse the people’s appreciation of tbo import? seLora, and save your souls, but not
anco of this great interest-, To this question one e€«yon has over put yonr hand down in
I shall direct the few remarks that I have to '*
make npon this occasion.
It is known to us all that throughout the
habitable globe, it bos been established be-
; rond all controversy, that wherever railroads
! lave run. the country has grown richer,, and
more powerful.
Now in the State of Georgia for many, many
yeara past—and these old citizens who are
present know it io be so—there were particu-
ar regions that were highly favored by tho
legislative power, authorizing and empower
ing them to have railroad communications. For
long years it was impossible for many sections
of the State to derive any advantage or benefit
from the railroad laws of tho State of Georgia.
It is well known to these people here that the
Central Railroad and the Georgia Railroad
and their connections exercised a controlling'
influence over the interests of the people of
tho State of Georgia, and that these powers
and these monopolies were depriving in a
great measure, the interior and back counties
from the benefit of railroad enterprises. This
Was true until the close of the late war, when
a change came over our people. The common
mass of the people detennined that they
would have their rights in the Stato of Geor
gia as well as the more favored few*. Their
ands wero riot enhanced in value, yet
the tax gatherer never failed to visit
each house however humble in these back
counties to gather up. revenues by winch
these monopolies wero to bo favored, bat they
were denied tho benefits of railroad enter-
prizes. This existed for many years until
finally iho pooplc rose in their might and said
that the Georgia Railroad and tho Central
Railroad and tho State Road might run on,
but they should not deprive other sections of tho
benefits which rightfully belonged to them;
and so a road has been constructed from
Macon to Brunswick, another has been com
menced from Brunswick to Albany running
through tho South-western section of the
State; and the Cartersville and Van Wert Rail
road, this little child of our own section. AU
these have followed from this new policy, the
result of tho voice of the common people of
tho country; and so by these means, fellow-
citizens, yon are to derive benefit from tbe
State. Yon contribute to tbe support of tlio
Government and you derive tho benefit of its
support in return. It may be that tho theory
advanced by Judge McCay is correct and that
this road is going to come anyhow. I don’t
the bottom of your pockets, and drawn out a
dollar.” I want you to put your hands down
deep into your pockets and draw out the dol
lars. Subscribe to some road—to the Carters
ville and Van Wert Road, or to any road that
seems most profitable to you, and most likely
to develop your resources and build up your
material interests. A railroad is a public ne
cessity. Your property will bo worth three
times as much os it is now. I have seen
lands in the valley of the Little Miama river
in Ohio, that you cannot buy for $200 au
acre in gold, aud yet I have seen farms
hero that I would rather have than any of
them. What is the reason of this? It is be
cause they have beaten us iu their facilities of
communication and transportation. What
this country needs is energy, people and trans
portation. -You must have the energy or you
will not have the people, and you cannot have
the transportation. I am reminded, in look
ing over this country, of the words of a gen
tleman whom I heard speak of Polk county.
He said, alluding to her agricultural and her
mineral wealth, that “dame nature had bro
ken her apron strings and spilled out of her
lap, the wealth of the world.” [Applause.]
There is more truth than poetry in that re
mark. .You have inexhaustible mineral re
sources. You have got farms that would be
envied by men who live upon the banks
of the Mississippi, or in North-western Mis
souri, which is tho richest part of the world.
Yon surpass* them in climate. Y’ou have no
long winter. Yon cau raise many things that
they-cannot Yon can raise all the fruits of
temperate and tropical, zones, with a very few
exceptions. But with all these things, you
have got to work if you would have these vast
resources utilized and most advantageously de
veloped. It has often been said that where
God docs the most for men. they do the least
for themselves. We often find that the most
sterile regions are best supplied with railr. ad
and commercial facilities, and the richest por
tions are, for want of energy, left undeveloped.
Yon will not do your duty if you do not have
a road to this place, and you must put your
entire energies to the task. Col. Crawford is
here representing tlie Cartersville and Van
Wert road, and Gen. Phillips is here repre
senting the road from Marietta. You will de
termine which of these* roads will secure to
you the greatest advantages. Tho advocates
of these different roads will speak for them
selves. I am not an advocate for auy particu
lar road. I am in favor of railroads iu every
section of the State. Iu tho inspiring words
of the poet,
“No pent-up tTtic* contract* our powers.
Dot the whole boundless continent is ours."
Col. Crawford, of the Cartersville and Van
Wort Railroad, having been noticed in the
audience, was loudly colled for aud responded
os follows:
REMARKS OF COL. CfeAWFORP.
Jfr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: This
reminds me of what occurred hvst week iu
Carteraville. At tho close of the week’s festiv
ities that ended tho Fair nt onr town,
tho President of the Association announced
from the stand that there was to be a ball that
evening at my house. That was the first inti
mation I had had of the ball. And here I
am called upon to make a speech. Now, ladies
and gentlemen, if I was ever overwhelmed 9j
with embarrassment, it is right here now. I
have never douo much iu the wav of making
speeches, except it may be making compli
ments to the ladies. I came here to hear my
friend, Gen. Phillips in ihe interests of tlie
peoplo of Cedartown, and in his efforts to in
duce you to help him bnild bis road. lam
trying to build a road also, nnd I hope I will
be able to succeed. Succeed! Why, wheth
er you' get Gen. Phillips road or not you will
get a rood—just remember that—and I will
bring it through Cedartown, so help me, God!
[applause,] if his Excellency, the Governor,
don’t in some way or other, put his foot upon
it. That I am not sure of, you know. Now
the Governor will excuso me for calling atten
tion to him, for he is as good looking as any
of us, I think.
Now, gentlemen, in all seriousness, there
has been some reference made to politics, and
State lines and State Rights. I have dropped
all that. I did some pretty good fighting
during the waT. And you, my friend, with
yonr empty sleeve, (putting Ins hand upon
the head of Major Rlane,) were in the same
regiment with myself, and we did all that wo
could. But when we slipatlied onr swords
and gave our garoles^wo were douo with the
racket,* and since that time I have been at
work; and, fortunately, the Governor of the
State has kindly given me a great deal of as
sistance. I don’t know whether he intended
to do it or not, but he bus, and I niako hero
public thanks that he has rendered mo as
sistance,-ns he has assisted the whole State of
Georgia iu extending State aid—tho true aud
wise policy—to the different railroads of tho
State. It has been truthfully remarked by
some of these gentlemen that Rufus B.
Bullock is the champion of this great policy
which has developed tbe material interests of
Georgia in advance of all his predecessors. If
anybody doubts it, I will demonstrate it. I
have Uo war to make on the Governor, no war
to make upon his school policy, and I have
no war to make on his railroad policy.
-■ Many years ago, beforo some of yon were
born, I was associated with tbe Central Rail
road Cdmpany, of Savannah. I was connected
with Emerson Foote, the great Civil Engincor
of his day, who surveyed the lino from Griffin
to Decatur in North Alabama. I was con
nected with the road at that time, and became-
familiar: with tho workings and with the.
thoughts of the meu who conceived this enter*-
prise. •’ It Was a favorite project of Mr. Cnylcr.
over whom the mantle has not yet descended.
For a few years past, I liave been laboring
upon that same plan. In 18G6,1 was success
ful in securing State' aid to the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama Railroad. By-such
aid I expect,, to- complete tho road, but his
Excellency* Gov. Jenkins* witnhcld his sanc-
7Y - „. , . . . tion from my bill; but lam under pceulior
these things, but you most pat you hands obligations to Gov. Bullock who did sanction
deep into yonr pockets aud yon most mlt tbo OartersmUe and Van Wert Road, wl.icli is,
hard. Concentrate yonr effors upon the erf- ^ raftd that is going from Cartemlic to.
terprise, and don t lot ewery man be palling jlccatar, through Cedartown. I might, per-
his own way. It will rosrtt ur uuprowmrent, . Ma Qcn rh flij rs . by submit
prosperity and advancement It takes a 1; ‘ fcr Ills nee. The line from
•>- Jnt dfal1 °.* labo . r . % Marietta to Cedartown was surveyed iu 18C0.hy
one given Object, but the» a^-nowttg the engineer now in tho employ of onr com-
~ ** ** I have at communication from him here
great deal of labor to get the people united
upon one given object, trat tlicro is nothing ,. en „ i[lc< .|
within the range of human probability that ° I have a commnmcauon irom mm iwrc
you cannot do if yon wUl but all work, to-, ntaU r^fl T hopTtho road may be
get her. j.; . • . • r built., Tlie letter is as fofiows: ^
Now what.s yoarmteresttnth^omtlyor t 1
Polk in regard to ibis matter? Will you sit ■ i - .....
down quietly and pay jtesna* for wagon reads - P^ TERsrr M^ Van Wkirt > i
and pay commissions to commisifiou raarchruita;.. GAitTEBSvmm GA., uctoncr i*, io< . ;
and factors in cities as long as you live, aqi Cbll Hhtterf Ai Grmtfotd, Superintendent Carters-
tinned also. He wanted only justice and pro- then leave them all os a legacy to your childr^h? ville (Oul Van. Wer^IirUtoad :
taction and enjoyment of his rights. The I liope you will not' G*t all vonr people 1 Sis; In compliance with request, I take
> —-*— ' - — j — * » - fed upon this enterprise. You will hare..a* pleasure in lajang beforo you all information
road in that way and in np Qtb$r, A gwat in ffij' t^wer, regarding the line of railroad
deal of help will bo extended to you by the known as ih* '“P©Hc State'Quarry Railroad,”
State, but it is not‘going to doyorf any gOocf extending from Marietta, via- Dallas, Vai
unless yon do something fur "yourself. «- 3 Wert and Codartown, to : tho Alabama line.
This system of: State aid hoar accomplished. All tho books, maps, profiles, etc., with tho
Governor has spoken for this road, and has.
pledged himself to sign the bilk He .wanted
him to say just one word for the North and
South Railroad, and that word was' “ap
proved.” He opposed the opinion of Judge
McCay that the Gulf was not deemed as im
portant as ,formerly as an outlet for the com
merce of the Southern States* and argued that
it was not only the cheapest and 1 most direct
route for the south to interchange her com^
modi ties with those of South America* bnt also
for tho shipment of her products to other
parts of the world. He said* I will'just
tell whoever upholds this theory that they
stand upon untenable ground. I don’t care
tfhe&er it be a Judge of the Supreme .-Court
of Georgia or some one else. As a Judge of
the Inf erior Court once said to me, “ I : have
been some Judge myself.” Aud I am opposed
to another idea of his—this great central head.
I don’t believe that this great country, 3,000
miles one way and 2,500 miles the other, can
be governed as easily as a country but 100
miles square. I do not believe in any such cen
tralization. ■ My fellow-countrymen, I feel it
in my heart that State lines are nearly rubbed
out, and Unit State Bights are, for tho present,
nearly dead, bnt I hope thnt they will have
breathed into them the breath.of life and that
they will become operative in this country.
[Applause.] I believe that that idea of Thom
as Jefferson of a General Government and of
State Governments, of a wheel within a wheel
will bo accomplished in America. I don’t be
lieve that State Rights are entirely dead, nor
State lines entirely wiped out. I ilou'C be
lieve in setting np a central head. It is a form
of gqvunMnent that I do not wank- I-want a
separate government of tho States. I know
State Rights ore nearly dead, but I want them
revived and brought into force.
Upon the conclusion of JudgeUnddrwodd’s
Speech, of which we have been able to give
only a synopsis, Judge Parrott was introduced
and spoke os follows:
8TEECH OF HON. 1. B. PARROTT.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : *
I come before yoa for a short time to discuss
your Cobbs, your JolmsOnsp, many, of whom
now BleepTn 1 ttar graves, ; IiaVn brought this
matter beforo tho legislature for many years
past If, our. people but ; take., advantage of
this great system of internal : improvement
which is now within .their grasp, it nfll make
them great; prosperous, and happy. * v
There is no reason in this world,, my foQoW-
citizen.v except your awn want of energy and.
'industry, why this beautiful section of. qur
State should not be opened'-by railroad ‘ebm-
mnnication», and I am sure it will he. - If the
enterprising citizens of tho ..town nm to to
gether, aided by tho ladi^s f , of whom our
friend, Judge Lochrane^ so eloquently spoke.
I will.venture the assertion that in less than
twelve mouths from- this date thetJoVerndr of
Georgia, tho Judge* of the Supreme Court
and other lcadiug citizens will :l>o invited to
eome to Cedartown upon tho Carters ville and
Van Wert Railroad amt, partake of a collation,
drawn by a railroad engine!' ^Appl^Use.] ■
Col. Gaskill was then tolled upon by tho
andienco and spoke briefly as follows: • 1
REMARKS OF COL. GASKILL.
The great question of this Ago is- transporta
tion. It is exciting the nation. -1 have just
returned from a convention of 350 delegates
representing twenty-five. States, who intend to
cover this whole continent with raihrtod
tracks; Bnt it is npt enough, citizens of Polk
county, that yon desire this road to be built*
it is not enough that you have, the road built
on paper, tho only way is to put your shoulder
to the wheel. Put your hands down deep into
more for**the State of Georgia, than any other exception of home few detached portions of
doctrine which hag beeped vosatod or adopted tho experimental lines having been lost during
since her foundation: Go anti/read, if you the,w»r, um constrained to trust almost
please, tho messages of your-, Governors for altogether to recollection of the work done ten
twenty years past, and you Tflli find that this years since.'
system has been Oflvetoteit befofA the- Legisla- * The line located in 18G0, commencing at
tare during all that period.. .Your Lumpkittfy: Marietta, wne; with.few exceptions, one pre-
your Schleys,. your McDonalds, your .Gilineftfr sentikg np very great,; difficulties, and could,
in my ophpon, bo rendered comparatively
tight by crossing streams lower down, and
avoiding *idgU routes more than was done in
that location. This is the case as far os Dal
las, twp miles beyond (which the really heavy
work commences) extending from Pumpkin
Vme Croek to Hill’s Creek, crossing tho di-
viding ridge between these two streams and
RacoooikCreek. Surveys which I made iu
November of 1358, convince mo that much of
tilts work can be tightened, and a moro favor
able location obtained. From Hills Creek to
Enbarle* Creek is light work. Hence to Ce-
dartown the work is light, as also beyond to
the crossing of tbe Selma. Rome nml ^
Railroad, and presents no considerable difli-
onltics as fer as tbe Alabama line, nt tbo heads
of Hurricane Creak.
The distances arc, approximately: Irom
.Marietta .to, Daljas 20 miles, Dallas to En-
harlec Creek (Van Wert.) 15. Van Wert toCe-
dear fown, 18 miles- Cedar Town to S. R.
and D. B. R. 5 miles, thence to the line about
^Tb too best of my recollection, the estima
ted averaco cost per mile, was, at the prices
*** igin 18C0, $25,000, and might still bo
by changes of location, to something
tike those figures, at cash prices. This amount,
I think, also, included depots, stations, engin
eering, superintendence, etc.
The distances which include the classes of
work, from Marietta to the S. R. & D. R. R.
xnay be roughly estimated os follows:
Heavy work 10 miles; Medium 20 miles;
Light 22 miles.