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REMARKABLE PAPER.
Gov. Brown’s Famous Pike Order-An
Appeal to Fight to the Heath and to
Clutch the Enemy Hand to Hand
—How the Pikes Were to
he Made and Used.
Atlanta Correspondent Macon Telegraph.
In rumbling through the executive
department, yourcotrespondent found
the following interesting historical
document:
Executive department, Milledge
ville, Ga., February 20, 1862.—To
the Mechanics *of Georgia: The late
reverses which have attended our
arms show the absolute necessity of
renewed energy and determination
on our part. We are left to choose
between freedom at the end of a des¬
perate and heroic struggle and sub¬
mission to tyranny, followed by the
most abject and degraded slavery to
which a patriotic and generous people
were ever exposed. Surely we cannot
hesitate. Independence or death
should be the watchword and reply
of every freeborn son of the South.
Our enemies have vastly superior
numbers and greatly the advantage in
quantity and quality of their arms.
Including those, however, which have
been and will be imported in spite of
the blockade, we have arms enough
in the Confederacy to arm a very large
force,but not enough for all the troops
which have been and must be called
to the field. What shall be done in
this emergency? *1 answer, use the
“Georgia Pike,” with six feet staff and
the side knife, eighteen inches blade,
weighing about three pounds. Let
every army have a large reserve,
armed with a good pike, and a long,
heavy side known, to be brought upon
the field, with a shout for victory when
the contending forces are much ex
hausted, or when the time comes
for the charge of bayonets. When
the advancing columns come within
reach of the balls let them move? in
double-quick time, and rush with tei
rible impetuosity into the lines ot the
enemy. Hand to hand the pike has
vastly the advantage of the bayonet,
and those having the bayonet, which
is itself but a crooked pike with shortei
staff, must retreat before it. When
the retreat commences let the pursuit
be rapid and if the enemy throw
down their guns, and are likely to
outrun us, if need be, throw down
the pike and keep close at their heels
with the knife till each man has hewn
down at least one of his adversaries.
Had five thousand reserves thus
armed and well trained to the use of
terrible weapons, been brought
to charge at the proper time, who can
say that the victory would not have
been ours at Fort Donalson. But it
was probably important that I state
here the use to be made ot that
which I wish you to manufacture.
I have already a considerable num
ber of pikes and knives, but I desire
j within the next month ten thousand
, more of each. I must have them5
and appeal to you as one of the most
patriotic classes of our fellow citizens
to make them for me immediately.
I trust every mechanic who has
the means of turning them out rapid¬
ly, and the owner of every machine
shop in this State will dt once lay aside
asfar as possible all other business and
appropriate a month or two to the
relief of the country in this emergen
cy. Each workman who has the
means of turning them out in large
numbers without delay will be sup
plied with a proper pattern by appli¬
cation to the ordinance office at Mil
ledgeville. Appealing to your patri¬
otism as a class and to your interest
as citizens whose all is at stake in the
great contest in which we are engag¬
ed, I ask an immediate response.
In ancient times, that nation, it is
said, usually extended its conquests
farthest whose
ARMS WERE SHORTEST.
Long range guns some times fail
to fire, and waste a hundred balls to
one that takes effect, but the short
range pike and the terrible knife*, (as
they can be almost in a moment)
wielded by a stalwart patriot’s arm,
never fail to fire and never waste a
single load.
I am very respectfully your fellow
citizen, Joseph E. Brown.
HE APPROVES IT.
In gelling opinions upon the new
tariff bill proposed by the democratic
ways and means committee, the At*
lanta Constitution obtained the
following from Dr. H. V. M. Miller,
the Demosthenes of the Mountains.
He eloquently expresses the views of
the democracy of the state upon the
proposed measure.
Doctor H. V. M. Miler was found
taking it easy in a soft, swaybac'k
chair at his office in the Fitten bui -
ding. As the reporter entered the un¬
lighted cigar was slowly removed from
his mouth, and with it he waved him
to a cosy seat.
“What do you think of the tariff
bill, doctur?”
“Well, in my opinion the bill has
very many defects, but I am willing
to accept it in the absence of some
thing better. I can give you myrea
sons m a very few woids. It is not
the best bill which could have oeen
j framed on the subject, but it is :nfin
! itely better than the piesent state of
! affairs. Tlie great point to be aciiiev
j ed is the reduction of taxation. This
bill, if passed, will bring about agreat
t reduction in taxation. I like it for
that reason. That is what the coun-
; try needs. The bill will assist in nd
j ding the treasury of that tremendous
surplus. I like it for that reason.
r he best rid of that big
i way to get
surplus, in my judgment, is by a re
j duction of import duties. That bill
| will have a tendency to diminish the
danger to this country from combi- j
nation or “trusts.” 1 like it for that j
reason. The great object of levying !
J import duties is to raise revenue for
the support of the government, and
if in raising this money from this
source for this purpose alone, inci
dental protection shall flow from the
levying of these duties, to the manu*
facturing interest of the country, all
right; I do not object to that kind of
protection. But to levy import duties
simply with a view to the protection
to the manufactories of this country
would, I think, be unconstitutional.
That sort of protection simply takes
the earnings from the consumers and
gwes them to the manufacturers. 1
J don’t think labor ought to be made
to pay tribute to capital in that way.
If, for instance, by a very heavy im -
port duty on pig iron it should be
shut out in the interest of our iron
industries, the piice of iron would
shoot up and the excess paid for it
by the constimei would be in the na¬
ture of a tax paid by him to enrich
the manufacturer who would get rich¬
er while the consumer would grow
poorer. It that be true, toy 1 educing
the import duty on iron the consumer
reaps a distinct benefit, In other
words, taxation would be reduced—
and I am in favor of the greatest
possible reduction of taxation
sistent with the support of the gov
ernrnent.
“You can say too,that I am against
the repeal of the internal revenue
laws. The bill in question very prop
erly avoids that subject. The inter¬
nal revenue tax is, I think, the only
fair tariff levied by the government.
Why ? It is a purely voluntary tax
paid upon a luxury.”
44 - 4 -
Mountain Hill Awake.
Messrs J. W. Cline and John A.Wil
liams of Mountain Hill, were in the
j city yesterday with a variety of min
erals taken fron the Pine mountain,
in the western part of Harris county,
All the minerals which they had were
found on the surface not two miles
i from Mountain Hill All along on
the mountain at that point, we learn,
iron and copper is found cropping out,
and the quality compares favorably
with that ot sections whose under
ground deposits have proven of con
sequence. There is a place, which
has been worked many years ago
j but was abandoned for want oftrans
portation facilities, leaving an im
mense pit to mark the place. Some
years ago gold-diggers of considerable
experience, somewhat familiar wi»h
the mountains in the western part of
Harris county, said that the rocks
bore every indication of the proximity
of gold. The mountain has never
been searched for any mineral, Pe
destrians are attracted by the richness
of the surface oie, and talk it over
among the neighbors, and the sub
ject rests there. But it is not des¬
tined to rest there long. The people
are becoming aroused from their
slumber, and immediate steps will be
taken to have an expert geologist look
into the matter, and if wealth is bur
ried in the Pine mountain it will be
unearthed.
The citizens moreover expect the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
to cross the mountain at that point
since it is the lowest gap in the coun
ty, and move southward on a parallel
line with the river. In this case they
think that the mineral resources of
the Pine mountain will be developed
without delay.
Aside from the mineral land, that
is a fine section of country and the
local traffic on a railroad would be
an item worthy of consideration,
j Columbus Enquirer,
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