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Editors and I'norni irons.
farnesvIlls, Ga., August H, 1 Stitt.
EDITOHIAI.LY r.V ItA'.TlAIT!ED.
It is thought there will bn an ef¬
fort made m the democratic nemi-
nating convention in Atlanta to com¬
mit the State to the sub-treasury
plan.
T. V. I’ownr.itLY nay of the force
bill: “There is more intimidation in
lour lines cl the', law that: in all the
‘Southern outrages’ that have taken
place since the wav.”
Tun “Banner Editor” rays that
Broughton w.v Lis first choice for
congt es. mati, I ul since Broughton
i efu-'c : t<. ran he will east his vote
for Hon. 1'. It. Coliey.
Tin: inci eased demand h r cctloti
Iter the last three or four y. :u> means
.a great deal fra the South, especially
if as many noccs: arier of life a por
si! Ic are produced here.
Wk i:op< N. bit! and Ilunnieut!
togi t.her wili la able to route (’nin-
missioner of Agriculture Henderson,
lie r not the man that Georgia needs
in that important office.
TitP. United States hr.,; 3,4:18 na¬
tional banks. The combined capita!
of those in Now York, I’ennsylvania
and MiV’suohnsetts is two hundred
and sixty millions ot dollars.
Frank i.ix county proved to one of
Ilaborr.liam’s distinguished citizens
last Friday that she would take care
of her own business when it comes to
voting for commissioner of agricul
lure.
Mayor Grant, of New York, will
be renominated by the Tammany
democrats, and it is thought that the
anti-Tammany democrats and tho re¬
publicans w ill combine on cx-Mayor
Grace to defeat him.
Col. Di;n Hughs, of the Sixth
district, thinks lie has been unfairly
treated in his candidacy, as he was
not given time to make a canvass of
the district after his announcement
before the primary would come off.
Tin: republicans in the Ninth dis¬
trict think they can elect their man
to.congress in a race where the dem¬
ocratic strength is divided, as is al¬
most certain to be between Pickett,
independent, and Winn, the nominee.
Brotiike Craig, of the Jackson
Herald, is married. Already we can
see an improvement, in the Herald.
Wo wish them a happy voyage over
the ocean of life, and may their bark
of happiness be not disturbed by
squalls.
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Tiif. Atlanta Journal shows mali¬
cious prejudice against Judge Law-
con in staling that Olive or Colley
one will bo elected in the Eighth
congressional district. The reading
public have not forgot that the Jour¬
nal championed the Olive bill in the
legislature, and that Judge Law son
was largely instrumental in detev.ting
it. The Journal should bo more mag¬
nanimous than this.
The New York Tribune says that
“the controlling element of every
Bourbon constituency is a mob of
negro haters.” By Bourbon it mean.
Southern, and if wlint it eava be true
it iu remarkable that Southern hate
for the negro finds no < pprobsion ex¬
cept in the rein al to elect him to
office, And Northern republicans
also refuse. Is it possible that they,
also, are Bourbons and negro haters V
M.icon Telegraph.
Mu. Mills, of Texas, in a recent
speech iu Missouri, tackled Speaker
Heed in the following bold manner:
“A bold wretch occupying one of the
highest positions in the government,
who tramples under foot the rights
of minorities, and thanks God for the
opportunity; has made of the
representative body a military
in which tho subordinates get
orders daily. U it tho Saxon rcirit
which has dcthroiied kings and
scepters will teach him the
wmeli it has taught every uaurp. i
who hat- attempted v, curb u,”
7 Ml pTvrn
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S. J. IHIBSLE S SPEECH TO Till
OLD HE3.0ES.
ConfvHierair veter,.us: Twenty-five
?• ■ elapsed s.Uee von stood
). idei to m ■ tid : v. ;th your broth-
. ? * .r.d companions in the strife
your country at Mamrwis, Gettys¬
burg, Shiloh, Missionary Ridge, and
finally at Appomattox saw the old
flag furled, the flag which you had
followed through snow and ice and
scorching plains for four long years.
To-day only a few of that noble band,
who laid down your arms nt Appo¬
mattox and sadly plodded your weary
way to y ear devastated homes, are
living to t-di the .vl tale of ycur suf¬
fering; ’ti you alone who can appre¬
ciate them, and to you they appear
almost a dream. Fci in the quarter
ot a century liu South present- a
picture < i progress urn quoled in any
age of the world. “Behold how
charged! fhe same skies are indeed
above your heads, the same ocean,
roli at your feet,” but all else how
changed. Vou see now no mixed
volumes of smote rising from burning
Atlanta; you hcas no cry for bread
iron; fin. hungry children around the
hearthstone; you see no poverty-
stricken houses; no wrecks of fortune
mattered throughout the South; no
wolf howling at the door of many a
happy home; r.o widowhood
orphanage starving and weeping
ter never-reluming sons who fell nt
Gettysburg and Mana av; no roar
of camions, no clash of arms, but all,
my countrymen, is peace, and the
South pj C-sent: a picture of pelfeCt
and progress. The
whirl of the spindk, the ling of the
hammer, the splash of the steamer’s
wheel, the moving of thousands in
thronging c itiea, and long trains of
ears darting through the land to bear
•way her production bopruk of prog¬
ress unknow n before in the history of
the world. When the war came, my
countrymen, the South was abreast
with the world in all the progress and
enterprise then known; she could
boast of her fields blossoming in yei
low grain; she could boast of luxury
and plenty on every hand; she could
boast of rising cities and magnificent
scho#ls, but, sirs, when the victorious
armies of Sherman marched in gallant
tread from the red old hills of Geor¬
gia, and Gen. Grant accepted the
swords of the battle-scarred soldiers
at Appomattox, they left our cities
in ashes, our homes in ruins and our
people’s hopes were dead. To-day
a change is upon us and the rising
generation is asking the question,
“What has caused these changes?”
If we listen to tne syren voice of the
r.ilver-tongiu d orators :>i‘ the day who
are praising the progress of the new
South in disparagement to the old,
we will be mislead as to who and
what caused these. Confederate
sons, it was your fathers; it was the
men of tho Old South who made
vvliat the present generation is pleased
to cell the “New South.” I avail
myself of this opportunity, ladies and
gentlemen, to warn those <>f my age,
the rising generation, against the de¬
ceitful meaning wrapped in the pop¬
ular phrase, the “New South,” and
take as my text on this occasion the
“Old South”- the south of our fath¬
ers, tho south of Washington, the
south of Jackson, the south of Davis,
Stephens and Toombs.
i stand before you to-day not fol¬
lowing the example of the popular
orators of the day, who are praising
the “New South” and saying nothing
of the old, but I positively refuse to
be branded with a nature not our own
and to assume a character the North
desires us to, iu other “to kiss the
hand that smites us” and to bow
down in huinditation to tho spirit that
law humbled u . Why is it that the
popular subject of the day among the
speakers of tho south is the New
South ? It is because they are trying
to iucui the favor of the North by
praising the progress, the ways and
the men oi the New South in dishon¬
or to the pregro'S, ways and men of
the old, and is because the rising gen¬
eration :nv being taught that our fath¬
ers fought in an unjust cause—not
that they were rebels, not that they
were revolutionists, hut that they
were untrue to their own interests,
untrue to the interests of the south,
being lead on by lidded fanatics
seeking their own aggrandisement.
I am here as the son of a confederate,
as a son whose father fought in the
bloody battles of the confederacy for
four long year , and should the whole
south oppose, yet 1 would stand be¬
fore you to-day end declare that my
conveimn are as true to the eon fed-
crate cause a- were Ins, and so help
me God 1 ./ill ever raise my voice in
the rich.ucc or that cease, end should
I evir utter one word in dishonor to
to ta-i rod oi my
.ao ■ , e:." t;.... naut arm VeCORIt.
palsied r-t i-.s root forever. 1 would
It untrue to my .onvic’ion., untrue
P> t;i'r eoiiYietioiH of my taller, un¬
true to tin conviction ot the South,
untrue to my God nid I not boldly
embrace the cause for which my
countrymen laid down their lives on
tlu. old red hills of Georgia—my na¬
tive state, my native home. 1 love
my native state, for on t!iia bonny
soil was born my my loved ones; my
parents are here and all that makes
life worth living is here.
Soon thi.-- little band of veterans
ameinbled hero to-day shall leave
tin ir honor, the honor 'i Davis,’
Stephens and Toombs, tho honor of
tin' confederacy, the honor of the
whole South as well, to ho defended
by their son::. Then my countrymen,
I app; al to you, in the Lame ot cur
fair Southland, to teach your -one for
the love of truth, for the (ovo of right,
for the love of freedom, to cherish
the memory of the old South; teach
them that their fathers fought and
died in a just and righteous cause,
teach them that they fought and died
toi con-titutie! al liberty, teach them
to emulate their example in patriot¬
ism should their country need their
sei v ieos.
Mv countyvinep, when I look into
the face of this broken band a feeding
of rcvoroncc and humblonoi-p passes
ovc-i me that could n< t be aroused by
any other assemblage. Though 1
were in the 1'gi-dative hall-- of Geor-
;da, though 1 were in congressional
halls of the United States, where the
ir..v;t( v minds of this republic are as¬
sembled, though I were in English
court when: ail in grandeur and pomp
and where the greatest minds of the
world are assembled and where in
tlu ii luxuriou t palaces th.-y rec line on
rich and silken lounges and feast their
eyes on magnificent paintings on the
walls cmhelli he'd with gold, though
I were in the presence of even these,
not then would 1 feci the respect and
reverence for them and the position
they occupy, as I do for the gray
hairs who sit before me to-day, though
you may be in tatters and rags with¬
out a morsel to eat at home or with¬
out a ponny to buy. I honor you the
same. For it was you who fought
for my country; it was you who fought
side by aide with my father on these
bloody battle fields of old Georgit, it
was you w ho fought for my brothers;
it was you who fought for my sisters;
it was you w ho fought for my mother
the dearest tie that binds me to your
hearts. I honor you for it, I honor
those of you who are living. I hon¬
or those of your brothers who fought
side by side with you at Gettysburg
and Man asses, at Kennosaw and Shi¬
loh, but who are now lying silently
beneath the red hills of Georgia or
beneath the sod of old Virginia’s
lulls or beneath the sandy plains of
Florida, no matter where they lie ii is
an honest soldier’s grave, and dear to
me are their stainless lives. Who but
a coward would revile such honest
men as these? Shall Southern sons
revile them on public stage or in pri¬
vate life? Shall southern sons neg¬
lect them in tho history of our coun¬
try? or shall southern sons honor
them? The gallant deeds of our sol¬
diers are a common heritage to the
whole South and those deeds shall
bo commemorated throughout the
ages. Look out over our fair South¬
land and see the monuments roared
to the memory of our honored dead—-
these show our love tor them. To
those shafts which crown each cen¬
tral hill your sons shall gather their
children arid point them to the
names of Lee, Jackson, Johnson,
Gordon and countless others
who won the highest admiration of
the world and tell them to follow in
the foot step:- oi their ancestors who
ennobled their names by heroic deed:
and true patriotism.
My countrymen would that I could
contrast the picture that present.. i>-
eelf to-day—1890 the New South —
with that of the old South of ’00—
when you returned to your homes
and found a mother weeping for her
darling son whose father had left
him in a little grave that dots some
kill on the old Shenandoah bank,
your children crying for bread; their
mother, reared in luxury, serving
at the wash-tub to provide bread for
Iter children; the beautiful homes that
decked every hilltop and valley
when you left you now found in
ruins; your farms were devastated
and the beautiful fields you left in
waving grain now formed a “tangle
covert for the snake,” where the
bramble wrestled with the weed;
your slave.-, were gone; your
money had lie'!; a greater part
’.he population tee! been slain ami all
was misery and despair though-mt
ilhe South. The old school house
.■IV. ittK.-i g O': ook With
ii \T noil 01
•ilk gi ;ks> you passed—a Georgia
volunteer—to join the armies of
Virginia. Four year.; from that (lay
you passed along * ho same road and
nothing but the rippling brook mark¬
ed the ‘‘cenos ot your childhood. The,
tale is told that Sherman with his
mighty hordes had passed this way
with lire and sword and nothing but
devastation and ruin wore in his path.
To-day contrast the changes. From
the Potomac to the Kio Grande, from
the orange groves of Florida to the
snow-clad hills of Colorado, which
was once liic scene of many a bloody
battle, of invasion and flame, the
march from the land to the sea, now
form:; a domain, the “richest and fair¬
est on earth.” View her natural en¬
dowments, a? they ."'re; view her
princely rivers, rolling in majestic
tide through the richest plains of the
world and sweeping along between
banks ornamented with corn, vine¬
yard:; and cotton fields, on c lev .aliens
overlooking these fields are located
cities and towns with temples and
spires that raise- their stately heads
to God, thanking lam for the grand¬
eur they possess, with ornaments and
sculpturing that excite the wonder
and admiration of the modern world,
with arehitcenro only surpassed by
that of old; view their magnificent
tributaries as they come rippling
through our mountains, their crystal
waters sparkling in the sunlight as
they go winding, lettering their way
to join the ocean through fi< Ids as far
as eyes can see whose fertility is only
surpassed by that of Holland and
France. With our vast and natural
resources, with our railway system,
with our climate unequalled in salu¬
brity; with our soil unequalled in
fertility; with our swamps and plains
for agriculture, with our hills for
mining and manufacture, with our
four hundred millions annually re¬
ceived from our cotton crop, and a
vast amount from other resources,
we are fast becoming the happiest
and the richest people on the globe.
1 know no other people on which the
sun shines that presents a better and
brighter prospect. God grant that
the south may continue her stride.
May no more strife of ’05 disturb
her days, no more sorrows distress
her nights, and may this land of the
south, this imperial land, this land of
health and the free, “as long as her
mountain barriers shall stand may
she be blest and free—
May dark descem.ion’s banner ne’er
wave o’er her fertile lome;
But should it corae there’s one will
die to save his native leone.”
And my countrymen, in the
of our dead heroes, shall the south
because of her present progress or
her future prospects never bow down
to the golden calf bespangled with
the alluring name of the “New
south.”
My brothers of the North, we
no quarrel to make with you.
are in the Union and we arc glad
it. \Ve are in the bouse of our fath¬
ers and here we expect to remain.
The time has come for Americans
North and South, East and West, to
strike out their sectional animosities
and make this Union a Union
know no prejudice to the south nor
north, to east nor west, but a union
of states—a union that our fathers
intended it to be.
My brother, with each returning
anniversary let us scatter flowers alike
on the graves of our dead, for they
were noble men, be they Federate
or be they Confederates. Side by
side let the soldiers of Leo and Jack-
son, of Sherman and Grant, march
up to the foot of Hunker’s liill and
on this beloved and sacred spot to
every true American there enshrine
with immortelles the deeds of cur an¬
cestors, paying no regard to- north
nor south, to east nor west. You
oi the north fought bravely; your
com id ions were ns tineas ours. We
of the south fought yon as never men
fought before. The valor and forti¬
tude of our soldiers we hope will bo
a joint heritage to the whole land
boih north and south The result of
the war we accepted in good faith.
Now our swords are crossed, our
shield a are locked, and we hope the
time io not far distant, when Ameri¬
cans north and south shall harmonize
their differences and live in love in
the union of our fathers, looking for¬
ward to tiie future with a hope and
not to the past with an animosity, so
that this union may exist in undiinin-
is'ned vigor, “when some traveller
from New Zealand shall in the midst
of vast solitude stand on London
bridge and sketch the ruins of St.
Paul.”
In thi: .-nirit the south greet, the
north to-day. In this spirit she has
always greeted her. Even in 1-
when there was reign of strife, tyran¬
ny and dot pottery iu the south, Hen-
in IJ. If tood i umwujy Ball
said to ou.; norfhem hrethreu,
he expressed tho sentiment of the
south when h.° said: “There
was a south of slavery and secession;
south iu dead. There is a south
union and freedom; that south,
God, is living, breathing,grow¬
every hour.”
In this spirit of loyalty and love
the Union the South lias ever
and even in the carnage of bat¬
she would gladly have returned
this Union had our brothers of tho
said, “Brothers, come back; we
give you justice and equal
but they did not say it. The
my countryme n, did not mean
you loved this Union less, but
you loved tho Confederate cause,
which was justice and equal rights.
Confederate fathers: You have
down to us from a former gen¬
eration—you have come through
many hardships and trials. Dark and
impenetrable w as the path before you,
thick were the gloom and curtains
that closed in tho horizon around
you, but God has bounteously ex¬
tended your days that you might be¬
hold those joyous changes in your
southland. Hut in sadness to this
occasion wo must say time and war
have thinned your ranks. Lee, Jack-
son, Johnson, Daves, Stephens, Hill,
Toombs, Cobb “our eyes seek for in
vain amidst your broken band,” but
thanks to Heaven they arc gathered
to your fathers, and tlu ir names shall
live- in verso and song anc in the
hearts of our people as long as south¬
ern lie-arts shall beat, as long as south¬
ern tongues shall live to lisp their
names. My countrymen, long since
your cause was lost! and the old flag
that once waved so proudly, and was
hailed by so many thousand glad
hearts, now droops in tatters above
our dead! The cause is lost, the flag
is furled! Hut with this lost cause
was not buried the germ of truth
which then seemed crushed forever,
but from it has sprung the “tree of
American Liberty” which is growing
every hour, and when unprejudiced
reasoners shall control our govern¬
ment this tree of American liberty
shall be the corner-stone of the might¬
iest government on earth, but should
this truth be crushed forever, still
hearts will say in content¬
ment as they have said in defeat—
‘‘Yes, give mi' a land that hath
and song,
To toll of the strife of the right
the wrong;
Yes, give me n land with a grave in
each spot,
And names in these graves that shall
not be forgot;
Yes, give me a land of the wreck and
the tomb,
There is grandeur in the grave,
is glory in the gloom;
For out of the gloom future bright¬
ness is born,
As after the night looms the sunshine
of morn;
And the graves of the dead with
grass overgrown
Shall yet be the foot-stool of
throne,
And each simple wreck in the war¬
path of night
Shall yet bo a rock in the temple
right.”
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