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FIUPAY. FEIJBLAKF 22. U7H.
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tllE t OJfl ICTIWJt OF tEHEIltt AS
Pi i!'o\<»i:ol Tlir. KhTrUMM;
I50UUIOK IXH ISI.t\A.
Tln‘ trial of this notorious felon, and
his conferred, Well* and others, under
the laws of Louisiana, all made by Radi
cals, with a Radical one-legged Judge
who lost the limb in the Union army,
and his conviction by a jury of fair and
impartial men can leave no doubt in
the minds of any patriot, or friend of
Republicanism of the great wrongs com
mitrted by the lb-turning Ibiard and the
Commission who gave such a clear title
to the Presidency.
A political error or Wrong is the thing,
and we all lmvc many reasons to be
charitable and forgiving for errors and
Imperfections of judgment in any course
we may conscientiously pursue in acliiev
Ing sneers*. Personal interest and anx
icty, earne-t and strong, have often mis
led good and true men. When, however,
the several officials' of Government have
coi ruptly prevented the will of a people
."■* .....Ml, ......direct,-dIte
business confided to rtiem. Can this la:
said to Ik: a political offense ?
What, political party iu this country
iq* to the days of Radicalism, ever
claimed the frauds and perjuries of the
.r.\ a I** i a a o < nse.
minv " uw mis.ii'i’u ) " " " ".Y, ' . Yr',i'!
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ujwiit . le lV ' fw.ts, vu- say ,l " U ;r,'. t il w cot ectwl V ‘
ut n < ga > api""" < "'‘I’ 1 11
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sss til 32 SHrSa .
* ......«vate KK,, ‘' ilt t,A crime " If however ® ’ tl»e ll,t
pig squeals, or tho calf bleats, the old
sow or it* mother must lie, expected to
raise her bristles. Such is nature and
Mich is John Sherman anil company.
We trust, however, tho law abiding
)ample of Louisiana will, at all hazards,
inftintain the honor atnl dignity of hrr
lawn, at ih(* rink e ven of offending high
teidftciarv offioialn of Htato,
IT is !l\i;MH I„
Under the caption, set in prominent
1vj.e, ‘ Tin! Witch’s Curse,” there up
pears iu the last number of thu “liny*
nml flirt* of ll,c South," a palter devoted
to “light literature,” published in At¬
lanta, Ga., a story of fiction of more
’ tlinn column nod imif, nrouiiiistiiitHl
ii o
by an editorial note stating that it was
written by a lift•«’ Atlanta girl only
twelve years old. The parents of little
Maggie, we have not the slightest doubt,
feel proud of the preeoeiousness of their
child, and will exhibit Hits piece of com
position to admiring friends as a proof
of her talent, lint a moment of sober
tlionglit ouglit. to ronvinee them that
the encouragement of this thing in the
mind of their 1H1 It* one will as inevitably
lead to harm as night will succeed to
dav. ", It Is ns uncommon for the mind
to , l*e born ■ without , ,, the faculty , of imagl- 1 ,
nation as for tho l»)dy to be l*orn with
out shapely limbs, and its growth is so
rapid that It often, veiy*’ often over
shadows every other faculty of the miiul
and to render it inert and useless for the
nse of real life. To such an
extent has the cultivation of the imagi
nnl ion or the present day been carried,
that we live in an almost unreal state, and
we believe tlie evil it has wrought has
tieen fully co-equal with its extent. To
prove this, our book stores are crowded
with works of fiction, the railroad ears
are full of them, and nine-tenths of the
ti »oks In u«c by every family in the kuul*
rich in poor, are the same, while him
d * Jm of Presses mv* running day and
night to supply the same flimsy pabulum
for over cultivated imaginations.
Our young men come from college full
j.,, Inim. not with a sound practical
eduealiith, *' l d with the ideas and mad
ravings of the "oils, and the unnatural
•iiid Impossible dect, 1 ® fanciful heroes,
lion unfit is Mu l.ano^f‘«-tUe practi
eal business of life! Our *: n,u « !;ulk ' a ‘
drink a( the same stream of m-Ltious
lore, and >,-e life through rainbow titu'«l
speetaeks. !U ,d nei r know that there
are any iwdities m life until they have
placid themselves tuid all around them
in a condition , ,1 to be miserable , , tor life. -
We am not drawin- faaev pictures.
Tiie habits of tt.e mi' dare as marked as
thoM of the bodv; and if one is intoxi
, ated by spiriumus liquors, the other is
equalh so by works of fiction. Thc
Uxiy by habitual drunkin s-s is renden d
incapable of pcrfornnng the labor that
Natuve requires that every one should
do to be happy, and by too much fiction
tin- mind is rendered as unfit for the
necessary mental work of lift'. The
trxith of th.-se assertions is verified be
fore your face every day, if you wilt but
05 enyour eyes to things which are trans
puii-g as-•Hi; ! yu <\,r.v day. If the
paivufs littl- Mag..: 1 ' will permit a
w.-rd ad*.-.<•. we " uld U-g them to
k*s;- »far from the little one as
jxissiHe. e. .,! i;.-: : a tc.I as bright as
In vs 1 -jo lv, be i.uxislieil. tiisr.i.s
: ! by tie ujm.d works of
bet- ii.
Laigc at ' v .c tot i-; Ladies’ Cloaks.
cheap, at t. MHUv.
Dr. Durham's Liver Pills and Itlood
Purifier for sale bvTlTl’s RICHARDS.
• lawfoidville, Ga'.. and all druggists and
dealers in medicines
».>iancii»*TIOS MY is " asm l AC
lux.
^pceri, ot Uou. A. II. Stephen*.
}!tj Tfl/yrnph to Oit Morning JVftri.
Washington, February 12.—The
feature in the House to-day was the
presentation in joint committee of the
Senate ami House of (Airpenter’s large
pa.nting of ‘ The Heading of the Dec
laration of Emanci|>ation by President
Lincoln , to Ins cabinet. - i lie present ....... a
t ion speech was made by Mr. Garfield.
"f Ohio, and was followed by a speech
from Ml. Stephens, of Georgia.
In h ’® presentation speech Mr. Gar
field eulogized Mr. Lincoln and the mem
her* of his Cabin*, and emphasized the
point that Mr. Lincoln had for a long
time resisted all attemps made to induce
him to Issue the proclamation and had
«ily resolved upon it after he had be
come convinced of its necessity, as a
war measure, to save the Union, which
was his chief object. In this connection
he quoted Mr. Lincoln’s famous dispatch
in repljr to Horace Greeley’s prayer from
twenty millions, to the effect that if he
could save the Union by abolishing
slavery he would do it, but that he would
not do it, or refrain from doing it,
through any other motive. The speech
was entirely free from any allusion that
(in. o«e»cc to
party.
Sir. Stephens said:
Mr. I resulent .... and efptnher. .. . . T Inert , lcro i( is ,
but little left for roo to say in the pro
gramme assigned me on this august oc
easion. On the skill of the artist my .
* e,, rt from Ohio has dwelt at length,
•" regard to the munificence of the
donor, he has left me nothing to say. •
i^.w instances of this kind have occurred :
in the history of our country. 1 know
of none, May his example m the
. ..... r ^r Mf l ’ i Pra * ar ll,enfc : ! H! Tr ®P* l aker , hy ’
with reference to the subject of the
painting, I propose, if strength permit,
to submit a few remarks First, on the
central figure, the man ; after that as
to the event commemorated. I knew
M( , Linco „, wc „. W o were together
<|((r , on<j (VmgrcM . , wfls M }nt imate
with him as I was with any other man
of that Congn i 'i, except perhaps one.
(if his general character I need not
speak, lie was warm-hearted ; he was
generous; ho was, as he afterwards
said, " possessed of a heart which had
‘malice to none and charity to all.”
In bodily form he was above the average,
und so in intellect ho was not highly
cultivated, but had a native genius far
almvo the average of his fellows. Kvery
j fountain of his to-art Wu« ever orrrrtow
I ing with (ho milk of human kindness,
riii much for him personally, and so
much the deeper (from my attachment
to him) was the pang in my own breast,
as well as In those of millions, at the
manner of Ids horrible taking on. That
was the climax of our woes, of our
troubles ami tho s,,ring from which
came afterwards uuuinbomt woes. *» ut
of those events, HO more now. As a
friend I may say :
"No farther seek his merits to disclose.
Or draw his frailties from their dread
abo q u .
There they slike In trembling hone repose,—
Th « lKMom of uu ,,,u,<,r *" J 1,,s Uo,l ‘"
So much I have felt it my duty on this
occasion to say on behalf of my friend,
Now, ns to Urn great historical event
which this picture commemorate and
j j which we are here to-day to commemo
rate. This is a subject, perhaps, as
; remarked by my friend from Ohio (Gar
field), which the people of this day and
1 generation are not exactly in a condition
to weigh rightly and judge correctly
One thing has been remarked:
cipation was not the chief object of Mr.
Lincoln. What was Ills chief object ?
Tho myth, the idol with which his
whole soul was concerned, was the
preservation of tho Union ! Now let
not history confuse events. That
proclamation, pregnant as it was, ini
tiativo as it was in point of fact,
nated morn from tho necessities of the
war than from any purely humanitarian
views. Ia>t this bo noted in our history,
Mr. Lincoln, like all the rest of us, in
my opinion, like an instrument in the
hands of that Providence above winch
“shapes our ends, rough hew them how
'vewill.” I doubt much if ho know at
thc Line or realized the great results of
the act. Tho proclamation itself did
not make tu . >o or declare free all ' the col- c<
ored race. It "as only to operate in
those parts which m resistance
to thc government. Had resistance
ceased, that would have been aR Hthe
emancipation of the colored radP to a
boon to that race, aiul Providence has
yet to determine that, it depends much
on themselves if it is. 1, representing
the Southern States, here may claim in
their behalf that that freedom was never
finally consummated until the Southern
States sanctioned the thirteenth amend
went, which they did every one of them,
and by their own constituencies, they
coming to the conclusion that that in
stitution could no longer survive. They
accepted the pvsition, and by their
adopting of the thirteenth constitutional
amendment Mr. Lincoln’s idea was
consummated. Now. as to that insti
tut ion which was called slavery, many
errors were indulged in and rnauv preju
dices. Oh! that the people of tho
United states could divest themselves
of lwjudice—that moral distortion of
the mind! Mbit mischief has it not
•lone? NVhat ills has it not caused?
, " ,,: *t advancement would not the world
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have :[ it had not Ivon for this
Of all the grand ex
pressioua of that greatest of American
orators, Daniel Webster, tire grandest
was that in which he told the people of
Massachusetts when Faneuil Hall was
refused to him. “You have conquered
the sea, you have conquered a sterile
soil, you have conquered the elements,
but you must yet conquer y ot ef preju
of so-called slavery - . It was not an an
mitigated evil. It was not without its
It is my purpose now,
however, to ‘‘bury, not to praise,” nor
aught of evil to extenuate. If it was
not the best relation for the happiness
and welfare of both races morally, phys
ieally, intellectually and politically, it
was wrong and ought to have.been abol
ished. This I said years liefore secea
sion. and I repeat it yet. Hut there is
no time now to discuss this question;
let it go. I have seen something of the
world, I have traveled somewhat, and I
have never yet found on earthy paradise,
The Southern States were no exception.
\V hither I have been I have witnessed
the truth of the lines ;
-nviiat crowds in every land are wretched
and forlorn, ^
2,1 *tho uTnds uiourn."" ma s COun 689
1 ’ ^ '
the relations of races was one of the
lno .Y difficult problems thatstatesmen or
philanthropists, legislators or
over had to solve. It is past with us. I
<i 0 not think it inappropriate on this
occasion to indulge in soma^remarks on
this subject. .Since the South has been
released from all her responsibility about
it, it has l»een common to Ipeak of
color(;d 1MJ0 ,,|e a8 the “wards of the
nation.” May I not say t with appro
priateness, and with due reverence, in
tu> ‘ inM -
1-vt, that (hey arc rather “wanls of the
Almighty?” They arc committed now
up again ; if the conflict of classes, the
conflict of labor and capital, the conflict
0 f race—that profound ethnological
question which we have all got to settle,
a; ,<i the most difficult one ever coni
mitted to the consideration of statesmen
or philanthropists—shall break out, and
these dangerous elements be again
aroused, I greatly fear that the recent
troubles and disasters through which we
to te but the
shadow, the penumbra, of a deeper and
more dreadful eclipse which will come
upon this continent, blighting and blast
j ng the highest and best hopes of man
fcj„d. Should that be so, then some
future bard may sing :
,. Thc slar o( hope shone brightest in the
West; darkened
j'htoofbs* slYYpoYher freedom light shore, earth
And hope and up no
luort ''
[General applause].
The Vice-President announced that
the object for which the two Houses hail
convened having been accomplished, the
Senate would retire to its own chamber
uudet* the new state of Jhings to the
rulers and law makers; tHie law ex
pounders and tiie law executors, within
their respective constitutional spheres,
to take care of and to provide for in this
complicated system of government un
,j ur i^hieh we live. I am "so inclined to
regard them. I speak ofi them not in
exceptional cases, but as a mass. Why
iu thc ,, r()V idence of Ooil fliey were per
mitted to come here, it *s not for us
t 0 say ; ]$ut tliey have adocatiou here,
anil I can say for myself and for those of
my immediate circle of acquaintances,
am j f,„. y 1(J whole of thebDuthern lo people,
tlmb there's not one would now
change the condition itiftfnnM im’hings, resub
j,,, IT u , , i ,, u hi n't in
me condition he was in before. If there
is one in all the South vdbo would desire
suc h a I am not aware of it.
Men of the North and South, of the
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on tills commemorating oocnsion say,
let us one and all, within our sphere of
July> wheUl „ in pubUc or in private
n( e gee to it that wo do not violate that
divine trust committed . to us. w *\e „ liv live ,.,
j in a new era. During tlie contliet of
! avms I frequently almost despaired of
the liberties of our country. Wars
ways menace liberty and often result in
its overthrow. I have always thought
that the Union of these States at the
first was founded on the assumption
that it was for the best interest of all to
remain united, faithfully performing
each for itself and its own people, as
well as for tho people of all tho States,
their constitutional obligations. But
secession was resorted to as a remedy.
It was only to avoid, as I then thought,
a greater evil that I wont with my State,
holding that to bo my duty, but believ
ing all tlie time that after the passion of
| the hour ami tho day were over, the
great law which produced tho Union at
first, mutual interest and reciprocal ad
I vantage, would necessarily bring us to
gether again in some mode or other,
lhe Mississippi could never be dammed
l, P» The Ohio would continno to flow.
I* 10 P 60 !^ 0 tlie South, and at
IVest, and at the East had all a com
j »n»nity of interest, and I believe that
after awhile there would be a restora
Lon. I lie tune came sooner than 1 was
apprel.ens.vo it would; but, even if
''hat is called the sovereignty of the
States, and which I think the basts and
oiuu .1 ton 0 out a 111,u Y/*
acknowledged [Mr. Stephens left the
sentence uncompleted and went on to
say:] But let these questions be , , buried
so deep as nooi to be kmuhx ted.
M hat shall we do in the future down.
South? We are doing the best that we
can for the colored people, hoping earn
estly that they will fit themselves for a
L r<llior civilization. Ihe tiag no longer
tloats over provinces but over States!
No longsr over subjects but over citizens
white atnl black. Why can we not look
hopefully to the future ?
Mr. President and Mr. Speaker, is it a
delusion, is it a fauey, which I have in
dulged in, that there is a nobler and a
grmfticr future for these United States
than anything that we have yet attain
eel? It may be a delusion, but it is one
of which l do not wish to divest my
mind while I linger on this stage. Let
all parties and all sections do justice to
the component elements of our com
munity everywhere according to our
constitutional power and right! Let
harmony and peace prevail! Let sec
tional strife be done away with, and
then there is a higher and a grander
future for us. But if the embers of the
last most lamentable war are left, and a
little additional fuel comes to flame them
^ O _ .. . c<mn .
$2eo.‘ 1 loir Organs,
Par
pri<*« °nly Paper free. 1). F.
RE ATT Y, Washington, X. J.
^ r-z* Tor a ease of Catarrh Tliat Sand
ford s Radical Cure for Catarrh will
Esin, Wells, Wm. Fargo A Co., Aurora,
N. Y.; Bowen, Esq., Mellat
T^tin»Sffial & > Sse 8 ^aib
8 and by
Price, with improved Inhaler, Si.
WEEKS &
i ER, Proprietors, Boston, Mass.
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& > 4?sow itiiie-*LmffiJ!:» f
jJjrf & it te I
fcj Ui , .TorSiSSj
p p A^ao. Stgck of Frujt
rN '' Shruhs OtC* A •M'pugi- catitLiguo of treos,
fi «tC., aa'i BCroenli l4-p:»r« price \ ^ 24th
y«nr. OU8P3. eras.
mmmmm A-i
WAPST5TWIT’S
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r , «reat Remedy for
1 COUullb COLDS
—AND—
CONSUMPTION.
FINLAY & THOMPSON,
New Orleans, La., Sole Agts.
F*?‘ For Sale by all Druggists.
A Groat Offer FOU Holidays!
We will during these Hard Times and
Organs, the Holidays of first-class dispose makers of too New at lower Pianos prices and
for cash, or Installments, than ever before
offered. Waters’ Pianos <fe Organs are the
™
the trade. Pianos. 7-octave, |140; 7 1-3
octave, $150. Organs, 2 stops, $4s ; 4 stops,
X half price. HORACE
year, Seeet music at
WATERS * SONS, Manufacturers and
]),, a ],. rS( 40 East 14th Street New York.
febi4w
A. G. & G. W. 11 ) )V AD,
AT n.VUKETT, GA.,
Would inform the people of this vicinity
that they have just opened at their New
Store House, near Barnett Depot, a complete
and ____________ well selected stock of fresh
Dry Goods,
Notions,
Ready-made Clothing,
Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
Ladies and Gents Hats,
Boot* and hhocs, Ac.
Also, a well selected stock of
Family Groceries and Provisions,
Live wta^Ho^t^wnn^o^the^^and^at
us a call and wo will convince you
that we mean
“QUICK SALES & SMALL PROFITS.”
Our stock has born purchased" since the
^Yrdm’ct ve'vou^the kuTahw’ otyow
money. all The highest price paid for Cotton
and kinds of country^wodivce^
nov- 2 - 1877 -n-w Barnett.-Ga.
T 1 IV’TA 1 / rHK !)V Y w H - ) V C OXYJjAj V T
‘ * s > '
‘ U M. ^IGCR.
J ^ PJIB tU e^iUy «ve hundred
of of Taliafeno and
the Raytown road a half mile’, the North
Prong of Little river running through il
the land is a new store house 2 .ixoii feet,
amt three or four settlements for tenants.
Price, $«.30 per acre. Also, in the eastern
adjouring J Smith’s’t^w Mffie.'T’mtles
Past of Union Point, lying on thc Greenes
^ rnCC ’' 8 ' 00 Washington ^ P ” >CT fo£$Saft. md-well watered.
rawfordville, LYNE,
t Ga.
nu ‘ ’ “ n *
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1 I HAVE also a fine Yoke of Oxen for sale.
Woiuo and see them.
THOMAS A. LYNE.
*1.' StllC*
..... ^sinY t*ef(«v°the°Court
\\ } 'j'j "in’ ° lb u.e
dw>r. Cfiawfordvffie, Taliaferro
county, Georgia, on tlie 1 st Tuesday in
saU\'the' n>ilo'vlng U property V
tract of land, containing fifty acres, more
Yoll YoiintyY afijofiUng ''laml^of Jcipn’
Chapman, vhYae John D. Evans and others. Lev
amUoYarisfy 1 H ^ fayss^d
of one fi.
from the Justice’s Court of the said 605th
Kielmnk° f Dw^Se Satow
J. 1
bailiff of said District and returned to me
This Feb. Oh,MW*
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felvV«78. Sheriff L C.
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If subject to billious speDs, take Dr.
Durham’s BLOOD PURIFIER.
A POSITIVE REDUCTION! 1
IX THE PRICES OF GENTLEMEN'S FIXE
A MB SHOES!!!
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in stock a large quantity of MEN'S FIXE BOOTS, of every style and do
to JSc. on Shoes and Congress (Jailers, and 25c. to SOc. reduction on every pair oa
holies I have always shared and.
whose liberal oatrouage them bona fide
hich t value soLighlv, to call, or send their orders, and assure these are
J3T Terms Cash.
PETER KEENAN,
feb8,lSJ# CENTRAL HOTEL BLOCK, AUGUST*, BA.
NEW STORE ! NEW GOODS l! LOW PRICES It 1
-AT
TI IE NEW VARIETY STORE
C. M. Overton, Proprietor, GEORGIA.
THOMSON,
TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
>Iy Stock consists in part ot
Dry ‘ Goods,
Ladies’ Goods, Groceries,
Fanev Family Groceries,
Canned Fruits
T °' lSt’Calicos! Bed Ticking,
Shirting, Sheeting, Checks,
Domestic Cotton,
Coats’ Spool Raisins, Candies,
Oranges, Sardines, Oysters,
Peppers, .Spices, Preserves,
Jellies,
.Medicines, all sorts,
Cutlery, Pins, Oil,
Kerosene
Matches, Ae., Act
Hr Mv prices are low down. I am determined to sell, and now is the time to buy.
C ° m janrt-jon f ° r 8 °c! M. OVERTON, Thomson. Oa.
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WE OFFER THE ABOVE MAGNIFICENT
extent. We shall endeavor to meet all legitimate, competition and feel assured that all
who use our articles will be highly pleased with the results.
We also offer our
EUTAW ACID PHOSPHATE
we believe is equal to any in the market. COTTON OPTION given if desired. Callow
Agents GEO. for terms and prices. W. WILLIAMS
& CO.,
Proprietors,
STEW ART .t SMITH, Agent'at Crawfordv!Uc, Ga. CHARLESTON, 8. C.
dfec24’77-n-w.
IMPORTANT TO ALL.
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t. lOtlllllff, IlOOlS, R* tax NiOCS and HatS,
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OUijJJ YIIJjAI nilT; 4 4 ) Tull 4T> LA C 1 Oil OTT II I I
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will be sol<l , at the lowest prices, and
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C. MYERS,
sopt- 2 l-t-o-a CRAWFORDV1LLE, GA,