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tiffin Semi-weekla Star.
VOL. 7.
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The Griffin Semi-Weeklj Star.
PahltnUoa DaiyWrimiari * Friday*.
Office —In Aimak EaU Building.
Tuu or Scaaoupnoa—Fo# Dollar* par annum;
Two Dollan and Fifty Cent* tor six montha-taawte-
Wy in advenes.
JOB PRINTING OKPIv K.
Is Jilted up with entirely New Type, and
suitable convenience for dispatching work.
¥« SOLICIT OMDXMM TOR
Pamphlets, Circulars,
Bill Heads, "Letteb Hkap«
Checks, Cards,
Posters, Hasdbills,
Visiting Cards, Wedding Cards,
Labels, Programmes,
AMD EVERYTHING DONE IN A FIRST CLASS
PRINTING OFFICE.
aria* Professional Card*. *
DR. E. F. KNOTT
informs his ma
ny friend*, that he has changed hie lodging* to hia
aona, below the Freight Honae, on the north aide of
the Railroad, drat honae below H. 0. Roberta, where
he may be found at ail hoar* of the night.
Call* left at Wm. Reeve* A Co.’a Drag Store, in the
day, promptly attended to.
Griffin, Inn* 85, 1872. ts
Charles R Johnson,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
\ I TILL practice in the Courts coin-
V T posing the Flint OlrenU. Prompt attention
given to the collection of claim*, Ac.
February SO, 1873. IT
OOYNTON & DISMUKE, Attorneys
X) at Law, Griffin Ga. Office in Almah Hall, neit
dooi to the Sian Omni. Will practice in the Conn
tiee composing the Flint Circuit, and In the United
States Dlatrict Court. Attention given toeaaea In
Bankruptcy. Nov. 37-ly
William M. Cline,
Notary' Public,
(EX-OFFICIO JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.)
Oilloe with Meaara. Boynton A Diamuke, Almah
Hall, Solomon Street.
I WILL HOLD a Regular Monthly
Court (or the trial of Civil Oaaee, at my Office, on
the SECOND MONDAY In each month, and will tor
criminal oaaea at any timg neceaaary. April 16,1869.
iSoYAL & NUNNALLY, Attorneys
JLv at Law. EA.Offloe in Jonea, Drumrlght A do.'a
Bank Building, Hill Street, Griffin, Ga WUI continue
the practloo In tho Flint Olrcult; will alio attend any
Court In the State Whore aunlolent Inducement! are
offered. Special attention given to the practloe tn the
United States Courts. March 33, 1870-ly
Dr. Hibbler
JJAVING permanently located in the
Offers hia PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
ia of Modiciiie, and its various branches,
to the ..'(teens, and the surrounding counties of Spald
ing. M-HHmer, Pike, Coweta and Butts.
«.arHpEEnld call especial attention to his Card
that iipiew in exteusivo circulation throughout the
llTflake this opportunity of soliciting the MOST
Ipli&aAlVT CASK OF NEVKAI.au OR
■KpfflffATlSM IV THE LAND for treat
"fj THaiiaaim of Women of all ages and conditions
with encccss. Try my romedles, and enjoy
69*1 gnarantee a certain and speedy care In the
JgptmirrnT V of children IN EVERY CASE.
BBliNhargea moderate, and accommodating terms,
sMCffic*-Andrews’ Hotel, near Passenger Depot.
@|HOOMBULTATION3 FREE. Jm
’ Griffin. Ga., April 36, 1873. U
|p If. CAMPBELL, Attorney at Law,
SBr, Griffin, Georgia. Office overG. B. Beecher A
HplMon. Deo. 17-ts
MatAMPEB M. SFlin, ) JOHN D. BTSWABT.
f Speer & Stewart,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
GRIFFIN. GEORGIA,
October 17, 187 L ts
reiVAn:i
TYB. M. J. DANlEL—Office at Harris’
k JLf Drugstore, Hill Street, Griffin,Georgia.
WJtoV.ffl. ly
iflß. D. T. JOHNSON, Griffin, Geor
■ AJ gla—Office at Harris A Co.’e Drag Store.
IgHKb 10,1671. ts
Mf 1 ; ■ ■ •• ' 1 "
S. MoKEE, at “Uffokd’s Old
m*. Stand," Wholesale and Retail Mannfactur-
MSm* Dealer In HARNESS, SADDLES and SADDLE-
MggABDWABE. WHIPS, BRIDLES. Ao. oat-ALL
pWOBK WARRANTED, June SO, 187L-ly
s. C. McDaniel,
AT LAW,
mcdonouoh, Georgia,
TTTILL practico in all the counties
iioapoaing the Flint Olronlt, and In the United 6tatea
Court, and elsewhere by special contract.
! April 38, 1873. ly
W. A. LOFTON,
ATTORNEY AT I*AuW,
H '
MACON, GEORGIA,
continue the practice in Oc
mulgee Circuit Febrnary 9,1873-3 m
j ~ . -a
T. 8. WOOD & CO.,
DEALERS nr
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
IN opening our new enterprise, we
rsapeetfOUy Invite a share of the publio patronage
—feeling aasnred that we will give BVnSFAOTIOR,
(toil: as to work and prloea. Onr experience author
pi ** to wamatall work fortwalvs months,
p MPN|mk-UI attention ia invited to onr slock of tb
MCT GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, offered at
ppannilto prim. T. H. WOOD A 00.,
Map Pda of Hill strap, Griffin, Ga.
March U, 1671. ts
B thorn Form and Homo’—
sultar*! Monthly. UIN, Wri.UAM
lltflf. At |i t§ mm Mr i» mtmm
OMOMMMMM WHh VoWNPhO MMB
| HMLPMMJVIP>nHh Imm
g Itfrnrr-.
OIT Y X>IBECTORY.
i. a a f.
Warren Lodge, No. 30, meeta every
at 8 o'clock, at Odd Fallow* halL
JOSEPH W. SPARES, N. G.
Max Lobwbnstbw, Sec'y.
Oaala Encampment, No. TANARUS, meeta the second and
fourth Frhlay nights of each mouth, at Odd Fellow*
ban. HUGO HASSXLKUSS. 0. P.
G. D. Stewakt, Sec'y.
Richardaon Lodge, Danghtara of Rebecca, meets at
Odd Fallows hall third Thursday of every month, at
8 o'clock, P. M. G. J. DRAKE. N. G.
Miml, Jos. Richardson, Sec’y.
l a o. a. t.
Perseverance Lodge, No. 30, meeta every Friday
night P their hall on Hill Street.
O. D. WHITE. W. O. T.
Pm. M. Bbown, Sec'y.
The Degree Temple meet* the lap Friday night tax
each month. G. B. NILES, D. T.
G. D. Stewabt, D. B. 8.
MASONIC.
Meridian Snn Lodge, No. 76, meeta lint and third
Tuesday nights In each month, p Masonic Hall.
A. B. NILES. W. M.
A. W. Jones, Soc’y.
Pythagoras Chapter, No 10, meeta second and fourth
Thursday nights in each month, at Maeaonto Lodge. .
JASON BURR, M. E. H. P.
S. W. Manuham, See’y.
Griffin Council, No. 8, R. & M. meeta third Thurs
day In each month, P Masonic hall.
JASON BURR, T. I. M.
8. W. Manuhah, Sec'y.
CHURCH DIRECTORY. „
ST. OEOBOX'S EPISCOPAL CBtmCH.
Honrs of service on Sunday*, 10.1 o’clock A. M. and
6 P. M.
Bunday School 9 o'clock A Ml
Evening Prayer, Wednesdays and Fridays 6 P. M.
REV. C. DOW*, Rector.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Honrs of service on Sunday, 10V o'clock A. M. and
8 o'clock P. M.
Sabbath School 0 o'clock A. M.
Prayer meeting Wednesday 4 o'clock P. M.
REV. R. H. NALL, Pastor.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Hours* of Service on Sunday: Prayer meeting •
o'clock A. M.
Service at 101 o'clock A. M and 8 o’clook P. M.
Sabbath School 3 kjdpck P. M.
Prayer meeting 8 o’clock P. M.
Conference first Wednesday In each month.
REV. J. H. DEVOTIE, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Hours of Service on Sabbath: Prayer meetings
o’clock A. M,
Service at 101 o'clock A. M and 8 o’clock P. M.
Sabbath School 3 o’clock P. M.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday 8 o'clock P. M.
REV. j. W. HEIDT, Pastor.
CITY oiiIOERB.
Matob—JAMES S BOYNTON.
Aldermen.—J. D. George, T. J Brooks, G. A. Cun
ningham, J. D. Alexander, J. M. Boyle, C. R. John
son, W, B. White, J. H. Grant.
Clbbk and Tbxasubkb.—J. M. Blood worth.
Ouixr Marshal—T. G. Manley.
Police-A. J. Gibson. W. W. Hoff, 8. A. Hawk,
S. D. Fox.
Cm Phtocxan—Dr. T. A. Warren.
Cm Attornxt—K. w. Hammond.
Sxxton.—B. W. Doe.
Cm Bub vitor—Daniel Holman.
Street Overseer—J. A. Gunn.
Clerk or Mabixt—David Brown.
Schedule of the Macon hi W.
Railroad.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Macon 7 10 A M
Leave Forsyth 8 60 A u
Leave Barnosville 9 67 A m
ARRIVE AT GRIFFIN 11 03 A M
Leave Griffin 11 06 A u
Leave Bear Creek 11 Mix
Leave Jonesboro 13 30 * X
Arrive at Atlanta 148 p x
Leave Atlanta 3 00 A X
Leave Jonesboro 8 04 A if
Leave Bear Creek 8 84 A M
ARRIVE AT GRIFFIN 4 00 A M
Leave Griffin 4 13 A N
Leave Bameavllle 6 14 A M
LeaveForsyih 6 01 A M
Arrive at Macon 7 80 A M
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Macon 6 80 P M
Leave Forsyth 7 08 P M
Leave Bameavllle 7 66 p M
ARRIVE AT GRIFFIN 8 40pm
Leave Griffin 8 61 p if
Leave Bear Oreek 9 31 p x
Leave Jonesboro 0 61 P x
Arrive In Atlanta 10 60 P K
Leave Atlanta.'. hope
Leave Jonesboro 311 pm
Leave Bear Oreek 9 40 p M
ARRIVE AT GRIFFIN 8 10 P M
Leave Griffin. 8 13 P M
Leave Bameavllle 4 08 p M
Leave Fonyth 4 63PM
Arrive at Macon 6 10 p u
A. J. WHITE, President.
C. H. WHITE. Agent at Griffin.
Marsh 16. 1873. ly
Schedule of the A. hi W. P
Railroad.
L. P. GRANT, Superintendent.
DAT PAaaXNOXB TBAIN. ■ ~
Leave Atlanta 7 10 a M
Arrive at Newnan 0 00 a m
Arrive at West Point 11 40 a m
Leave West Point 13 80 p m
Arrive it Newnan 3 66 r m
A-rive at Atlanta 6 00 P x
XXNOKT nUdOHT and pxaaxxoEß TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 7 00 p x
Arrive at Newnan 0 31 p x
Arrive at West Point 13 16 a k
Leave Wait Point • 1 46 A X
Arrive at Newnan 4 38 A X
Arrive et Atlanta 6 46 a x
Febrnary 38, 1873.
W. D. SMITH’S
<3-arden Plow!
PATENTED, AUGUST 22ND, 1871.
gUPPLIEH the Garden with (be beet
Implement now In nee. USED BY HAND ALONE.
tek-A man can plow as much, safest,** good, and
with more ease In abort tow* then he can with a good
boras and au ordinary plow. Strange I but true I
Try It, and yon will tray it, and yon will be pleased
with It la two days lie entire eoet may be aevtd In
labor iphl ap—d VtfttablN /row bolter from Ui
u*. then they do from thaua* of tb* ordinary garden
ntenalla, kamuM a palverlaaa era xott liip axl near
tbs plant. irWllblt|WNrMlblVOf>Ml
nr MHr.*CI
*». A.raa* wealed la dUßanal aaMlea* of IbaHMa.
Mart- M. COUCH, of Wswteei, ua., pnprie*er for
lb* Stela af oeeagta.
A M- flefoHlM, a#hm Hi UmMMMmm, Ortffia.
•Man. April It MMf
Thf Pant is Paetj Lot ua watch the Present find the Future
* tT'-i
*»“WBLL WOETH CONSIDEEINQ I
40-On and after Sunday, Jana Id, 1873, Paaaengem
leaving Atlanta by
Western & Atlantic Rail Road,
At B*o a. m. and 8:88 p. m.,
60-Make connections at Obattanooge with Nashville
A Chattanooga Relhroed, arriving la LontavtU*
In time to connect with
Pulman's Palace Sleeping Cars
Throngh to New York without change.
REMEMBER:
69-The time from Atlanta to New York via Louia
vilta, ia lam than via Angnata.
«R.Uohlers ol Tickets to New York end Boston via
Louisville, are privileged to atop over at
CATOOSA SPRINGS,
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN,
MAMMOTH GAVE,
AND NIAGARA FALLS,
Without extra charge, returning their Journey et
pleasure.
OarOome to Railroad Agent's Office, No. H. I. Kim
bell House, end inquire for representative
of tho NASHVILLE ROUTE, and
got reliable information.
Try Nashville Ronto.
IFBeet Route North anil Plant !6t
ST. LOUIS,
MEMPHIS,
NASHVILLE,
AND CHATTANOOGA
••-Central Short T^ine.
69-Two Daily Passenger Trains from Atlanta leave
8:80 a. m. and 8:36 p, m.
69 This la the beat route to—
CARIO, BT. LOUIS,
OHIOAGO, KANSAS OITY,
ST. JOSEPH, OMAHA,
DENVER, SALT LAKE,
ST. PAUL, SAN FRANOISOO,
JACKSON, 'lhiNN., FT. SMITH,
HOT BPRINGS,
69-And other points North, East, West, Northwest
and-Southwest.
WUShortest uniform gauge to 81. LouMs 100 mllea
shorter than via'Memphis and Louisville,
and 6 to 13 hours qntekor than via
Corinth to St. Lonla and West.
Baggage Checked Through !
*a»Tlckotß for sale at all the principal points Sonth.
WARNING I—See that yonr Tickets read by this
line, and take none othor.
B. WRENN,
Traveling Agent, No. 4 H. 1. Kimball House.
J. W. THOMAS, Gen'l Sup’t, Nashville, Tenn.
Atlanta, Jane 31, 1873. 8m
Samuel Bailey Male Institute,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
W. F. Slaton, A. M., Principal.
R. H. Johnston, AB ] . . o ,
Wm. M. Sims, A B j Associates.,
SPRING TERM OPENS
2nd Wednesday ill January,
1872.
I&.Duration, 24 Weekt.
T E It M H :
THIRD CLASS— $lB 90
SECOND <> ....34 90
FIRST •• ....80 00
Contingent 1 00
egh-In order to secure prompt attendance, Students
entering the Drat month wlll.be chargee from the be
ginning or the term.
Deduction* made only for alokness', of fifteen day*
lnration, or upwards.
OjrTultlon payable montly.
69-Send for drcnUra to
MAJ. W. V. SLATON,
December 1. VB7l-tf Principal.
Important to Lawyers I
GEORGIA LAW DIRECTORY.
are preparing a full and com
plete LAW DIRECTORY of the State of Georgia—to
contain the name of every Practicing Lawyer and Law
Firm In th* State, with Boat Offloe address.
As soon aa completed, this Directory will be given
four Insertions In the “Norcroaa Courier,” and then
printed In convenient form for preaervaUon and ref
erence together with the name and address of the
Superior Opart end County Officers of every county in
the State.
This Directory, In pamphlet form, together with the
four number* of the Oonrior containing the same,
wUI be aant, post-paid, to every Lawyer or other per
son who win forward their address, aeoompaoled with
Fifty Cants, to this offloe, within three weeks.
69-The legal fraternity will appreciate, *1 one* the
advantage of having snob a Directory always at hand;
and at the aame ttm* having their own eddrase in ev
ery law otto* in the State. So send on your names
end money et ones, kddreee
Jane 4, liW-iw THI OOUBUffi, Noreroae, On.
Regular Schedule GrifYln k North
A. R. R.
Latvte Ortffia 4t I 00 o*atosk, P. M
Arrive* el Griffin at • 47 o'clock, 4, M
leaves Mewses a*. 7 <« o-otoek, A. M
Arrive*Hffiawag at... 6 60 o'etaok, P, M
Sffi-Oenaeel* it Oriffin with dow IMfhl lr*<u for
Meson, and np pnasaggar Irate Rom Mason.
„ _ a. W. JONM, Agent.
MriffirvHb IS7I.
GRIFFIN, GA., JULY 2, 1872.
The Griffin Semi-Weekly Star,
FITCH & ALEXANDER,
Editors and Proprietors.
URIEFIN. GEORGIA,
Tuesday Morning, Jttly 2,1872.
Authorised Agpnts for the Star.
J. J. Dickey, of Henry County.
B. F. Canthorn, of Atlanta, Ga.
A Word to Advertish»B. —The Star
lias the largest circulation of nny pa
per published in this city.
The Star is the official organ of
Spalding, Fayette, Butts and Henry
counties.
SENATORIAL.
ttd-As Fayette County ia entitled to the noxt State
Sonatorchlp, according to the rules of oourtesy. I
have concluded after consulting with manyFayotte
people, to announce my name as a candidate for Sen
ator of th* 36th District.
Respectfully,
Fayetteville, o*., June 7, 1872. Q. O. GRICE.
Gen. Toombs’ Atlanta Speech.
Fellow Citizens: I have accepted the
invitation of a portion of my mends to
address you to-night with no cheerful
spirit—no hopeful one, but with a firm
resolve to itand by prinoiple to the last
extremity. [Applause.] There never
has yet been a time in the history of
this country when it was more impor
tant to the people of thisoountry to find
the true faith, and to maintain it
Clouds and darkness surround you.
There are strifes and bickerings where
there should be harmony and concord.
There is abandonment of principles ly -
ing at the foundation of human rights
and human society, by those to whom
they should be the sole solace and the
sole defense. [Applause.] We owe it to
the kindness of Providenoe, that while
the Creator has concealed from ns thous
ands of secrets, in the arte, in the scien
ces, locked up in the bowels of the earth,
in the planetary system, everywhere to
bo sought out by labor and by toil, the
Father of men in His kindness has made
the road so plain that even a “ wayfar
ing map, thougn a fool,” can find it to
the most important principles of this
life and of the life that is to come. We
all know that He has taught us plainly
our duty to God and our duty to man.
The weak, the simple, as well as the wise,
oan learn that We know the great prin
ciples upon wbioh human happiness is
based in this world. We know from the
very beginning of the catth tnat no man
has a right tb wrong another man, and
that ia the first prinoiple of government
—that which prevents one man from
injuring another; and that is the whole
sum of political economy that I have
earned in forty years. Here is the great
principle of human rights that has been
maintained by the old Fathers of tho
• Hepuhlic, hy yonvJaffersonaby your
Madisons, by yonr JaektenK wmnigntwf
their torohes at the saored firos of Magna
Charta, and illuminated liberty from
the days of Bunnymede to tho present
hoar. He who holds life, liberty or prop
erty by the will of another is a slave.
He who has a government put upon him
by aliens, by enemies, by conquest, by
force, hy fraud, or by any other means
but his own will, it is bis duty to use
every effort in his power to overthrow
that government. [Applause.] Gov
ernment is instituted among men for
the benefit of the governed. It has bnt
one true foundation and that is the con
sent of the governed. Have you that
government? The government of the
Southern States is one placed upon them
against their consent by aliens, by for
eigners, by foroe and by fraud. [Ap
plause.]
Four years ago the Democratic party
met in New York. The triumphant
party was then strong. There was no
appeal to publio opinion—there was no
public opinion. In the midst of these
times, the Democratic party deolared
that the Constitutional acts were revo
lutionary, were usurpations, were null
and were void; 2,700,000 people with
300,000 majority affirmed it at the ballot
box. We were defeated. We have gone
on another cyole of four /ears. Despot
ic governments hove been set up in the
Sonth. We have been reconstructed.
Despotism has hod full sway. Look at
those government* and what are they ?
Do they promote the publio happiness ?
Behold your brethren across Savannah
river. They are governed by 300,000
elavee led by 5,000 knaves! [Applause
and laughter.] f
Driven from the courts of jnstioe,
from the the legislative
halls, and her la#s actually made by
brutes and executed by demons, [ap
plause.] We have been somewhat better,
bnt it is more due to our personal man
hood than to the wtshea:of the govern
ment. [applause.] I tnut some of my
friends will not be shooked when I sav I
hate the government. I say further
that no honest man oah love it [ap
plause,] An honest man can never love
a government that affordl him no protec
tion, that tramples on' tus rights; in
whioh he neither makes laws nor exe
cutes them. If yon love that government
yon are not human. Yon have not got
nature in yon. It has my undying hos
tility. Its enemies are my friends, and
ita friends, are my enemies, [applause.
Well, the Democratic party stands
opposed to this government. They don’t
go as far as I do. There may be degree*
of hostilities. I support the Democratic
party because it is opposed to despotism
u all its form. Look at the present Ex
ecutive of the United States I He has no
oonoeption of any law exoept the last
“general orders from these headquarters.”
(applanse and laughter.) I challenge any
man to weigh and say whioh prevails, his
ignoranoe or his incapacity. Men say
they want peaoe. There is no road to
peace through despotism. There never
shall be peaoe with despotism. It is a
violation of God’s law, and He will see
to it that there will be no peaoe with
despotism. Peace can maintain itself
only by blood and by the (word.
Bnt we have additional reasons now
for adhering to prinoiple. Wo are not
as vulnerable as ws were ten yean ago.
We have not as much to lose. (Laughter)
The most of our possession now is onr
liberty. When it isjpne, how poor in
deed ere all of us ? Your money is gone,
yonr property is gone, your State credit
ugone. The poor have been robbed, for
all wealth ooues from the sweat of the
poor man. Home take handspikes and
Klnto vaults to get it; some get into
government ottoee to get it; some
get it under protection of bayonets; but
alter all It oorae* to this at lasi Gold
In it* last analysts is the sweat of the
poor, and whoever robe the Common
wealth is robbing the poor. Welt, that
is some consolation, yon bavd nothing
.to lose. That’s one oonsolation from
poverty. Stand by j astioe, stand by
trnth, and stand by right.
There are thousands of men in this
country who believe, and they are taught
to believe, the Democratic party has no
ohanoe whatever of snocess, that their
principles are dead, that it is impossible
for them to succeed uuder any state of
circumstances. They say that the Con.
stitution is changed, that the spirit of
the government is changed, that there
is anew era, that there must be anew
revolution and we must take anew de
parture. It wonld make no difference
with me if this waß true. If men will
overthow liberty, I will endeavor to re
build the temple. If the Constitution
is changed, whioh I deny, it ia my bus
iness, it is your business, yesterday, to
day, to morrow, and forever, to re-estab
lish these great principle of liberty and
fight their enemies wherever we can find
them. These great principles demanded
by the Barons of Bunnymede, for all
freemen, were frequently overthrown.
They were sworn to forty different times
by the Kings of England. Though oftea
overthrown, patriots fought on ror them
for over four hundred years, until the
last generation when Hampden bled
and Sidney died, and to-day the British
government are the freest people on the
face of the earth. They didn’t give it
up because it failed the first time. But
because you have fought four years and
been defeated, if you hug yonr chains of
slavery, O, miserable wretch that you
are. [Applause and laughter.] Why,
the broadbacked Dutchmen fought
seventy years for their liberties. The
Greeks, after thirty years of war, yielded
to the thirty tyrants at the persuasion
of foolish friends. And the first seven
of peace cost more blood than the whole
war. [Applause.]
The Greeks gave it up at the fall of
Constantinople. What’s the result?
To-day, after five centuries, they are the
most servile and degraded of slaves.
Their wives, their daughters and them
selves are not only slaves, but the slaves
of Turks. Everybody else got from uu
der their Empire. Spain got from under
it—the aame Turk. These who fought
got from under it—all exoept those who
hugged their chains and were contented
with their manacles. And you will do
that way, too, if yon love your slavery.
You say you fought four years and were
defeated, and will give it up. If yon
Xmen, you will never give it up. [Ap
use.]
How will you do it ? How will yon
go into this contest ? Peacefully,' if you
can. How shall you do it ? I say
maintain the Democratic party. There
is so trouble about the South’s doing
•that. Northern men say they accept
the ltth and 15th amendments because
the black race cannot carry a single mi
litia distriot in one of the Northern
States. They have a virtue of looking
with great equanimity upon other peo
ple’s misfortunes. [Laughter and ap
plause.] But here you put a raoe with
no intelligence, no c&paoity, to partici
pate with yon in a government of whioh
they know nothing and can never learn.
You know that element cannot govern
yon. If there be any acoepted prinoiple
in this world it is this, that a free gov
* •CfMteeHt saiiuot bu- £uvnt<*iiuu} any
where without virtue and intelligence
and there is not a particle of it in them.
There is no capacity of government in
them at all ana that was the very rea
son tho franohiso was given them. It
was not because the Northern people
wanted it so. They voted against it.
Bnt the party demanded it and they said
we need the votes. We will make five
millions of voters, and turn the waver
ing balanoe in our favor, and for this
motive they enfranchised ignoranoe and
vice that as long as it ruins makes good
government with you forever impossible,
therefore, the man of the Sonth who
can acoept these five million of men in
that condition—from the lowest to the
highest—aocepts rain for himself and
degradation for tys family [applause,]
and he knows it os well as you do; and
among the foremost among these in pat
ting this corse upon this people has been
one of the nominees for the Pretideooy—
Horaoe Greeley I [Applause.] It is he
who destroyed the Whig party, who car
ried its glorious flag into the free-soil
den. It was Horace Greeley that car
ried that flag into Abolitionism. And
then since the war there have been the
13th, the 14th, and the 15th amendments,
civil rights bill, yonr bayonet bill and
snspennon of habeas corpus bill, and in
the forward march of this great army of
yonr enemies, he has led the van—their
proudest leader. [Appl«jxse.] And yon
propose to follow. [Ones of nol]
Well, I believe these gentlemen are
for an advanoe. They go for throwing
Bourbonism behind them. Well, aU
truths are old. Nothing ie new butlies.
[Laughter.] There are no new truths
about government. The same old truths
that were thundered from Sinai troths
are to-day, and “the devils believe and
tremble.” They are Bonrbon, though,
[laughter.] They want to develop.
Here are some of the developments yon
are standing under, and I do too, (allud
ing to the oapitol) and what did it cost ?
[Laughter.] Yon oannot afford to fol
low it..
Yon hold no principles in common
with him. When I was with Mr. Gree
ley in Congreaa he went for the tariff
He was never a favorite with the South.
Instead of the old .United States Bank
Sou have that litter from a thousand
evils instead of one. Yon have 800
banks now, and their money is bnt the
shadow of a shade. It is paper payable
with paper, and you can go on banking
forever.
(A voice: “Horace Greeley was the
first Abolition horn we ever heard sound
ed in the South.”) No! no I He is not
an original man. [Laughter.] Many
men advocated freedom for the Afrioan
slave before him. He took it up among
other isms. There is not an Ism that
passes by him that doesn’t stick to him
Bke a cnckle-burr to a sheep. He is a
little four feet eight inches high fellow.
Yon would think he is a Yankee ped
dler. He has got all the onteneas and
sharpness of one of these, and he is not
a very bad man. He is a philosopher.
He is one of that kind that doesn’t care
how much other people suffer. He bean
the suffering of others with sublime
stoicism. [Laughter.] Well, I don’t
mind that. Some have opinions and
ohange them very fast. I know soon
very good men that do that way. Prob
ably there is one present here to-night
whose father was asked about how he
stood in politics. “ Well, Xdon't know,"
he said. “I haven’t seen him sin on
breakfast.” [Laughter.] That was
about noon. They say he ie a very good
fallow. They oaaT help it. Some have
a constitutional inability to stlok to
anything. Why, we know whet W
oocbm of ell these fellows. They heve
got the onree of Henben upon them.
“Unstable as water, tbon ehelt not
exoel,” ia God Almlgnty’e curse upon
that kind of people. Applause.
I don't know what's inwri for me
or for yon, but I know one thing. In
looking over the history of the world,
seeing freedom’s great straggle, I know
the beet place for the true man, when
the donas, darkness, thunder and light
ning surround him, and when the earth
quakes is to find the solid foundation,
and stand there and trust to God. God
disposes of man's affairs, therefore I
know that if I were to follow the truth,
and stand by it as becomes a man, 1 shall
live a freeman, or die a martyr and free
man tool [Applause.] Therefore, be
ye steadfast. Don’t abandou the truth
beeause its enemies are legion. Do your
duty, and the balance will come. I
see a speck in the horizon now. You
have got principles in life and in death
to defend—the old time-honored princi
ples of the Democratic party, that no
man shall be deprived of life, property
or liberty without due process of the
law. All governments have their just
foundations in the oonsent of the people.
Laws are made for the happiness of the
people and not for rulers alono. These
are the principle* yon are **».
They are good yesterday, to-day, for
ever. Live by them, die by them and
leave them to your ohildren. Wealth
takes wings and flies away. Men can
not be happy without money. If I were
to make any crusade in this world it
would be against this cursed thurst for
gold, whioh has demoralised men, wo
men and ohildren and brought them to
worship the god of gold, the meanest of
all gods.
And you offer me'tho ohoice of two
evils, you say many have come here to
night to hear my principles. I have
them and they are fixed. I will never
abandon them. I set not up my judg
ment against that of ray assooitates. I
have not yet formed an opinion as
to what is best to be done at
Baltimore. Why? Beoause I am
I am not in a position to come at all the
facts. I will wait until I get the faots
upon whioh a correct judgment can be
formed. What is that correot judg
ment ? A party means a body of gentle
men united to carry out the same prin
ciples ; the mode of carrying them out
they may differ about, but the principles
themselves they oannot obaugo. Then
the rale is they must carry them out by
tho friends of those principles. That is
the first principle. There fore when the
party meets, if it stands upon my prin
ciples I will stand by it and carry oat
its action. If they abandon principle
they are traitors to me and to my cause.
Suppose you go to Baltimore and noni
nate Grant and take the Fhiladelpha
platform. Will yon go in for it ? Well,
why not Berve with the party ? Would
you accept that as the regular nomina
tion ? Would you stand Dy what they
did I What would yon do? wonld yon go
with them ? If you would, you may go,
and I (rill give yon a free tioket to go.
[Applause.] I don’t oall that backing
friends; I call that deserting friends.
I want what the old Baptists down in
my seotion used tq say, “AU persons of
the like faith and order.” (Laughter and
applause) Consult those men. Take
their judgment upon what is best for
yon to do, who must be the nominee. Ex
press your opinions upon pnblio pubUoy.
As to whether or not it is best to rnn
any one, there are exigencies in whioh a
v party, t» their opinions, not to
1 aband on them, bnt to pnt them m pow
er and to make them eifioint, may sup
' pdrt an enemy, when, by so doing,
they may break the enemy’s lines. I
remarked the other night, when Mr.
Hill made his speech, that was the best
argument presented on his side. And
it is. If you were to be satUfied that by
supporting Grant you would destroy
tho organisation of yonr enemies, or by
supporting Greeley, or by supporting
Groesbeok, for there are three parties—
one the free-trade—it has my hearty ap
proval—the Liberal Republican party,
it has my contempt, and the RepubUoan
party, whioh has my hatred. I shan’t
be bound by any nomination. I shall
remain free to oome to a conclusion.
I wish to give a little leoture to these
genJemen of the press. They have con
stituted themselves pnblio censors es
pecially o{ myself. There’s year Thun
derer from thu place and yonr Organ
from that place, a little bit of a Gazette
from Washington with a still small voice,
and yonr Atlanta Constitution, and all
that pile. Now I tell yon Messrs. Editors,
-you are equal to just a similar number of
respectable gentlemen and nothing more.
Bnt whenever yon use • the royal pro
noun “we,” and set np for a thousand, I
despise your olaims. [Applanse.] lam
one of the “we.” [Laughter.]
Fellow oitizens, I say stand firmly,
stand teadfastlv; don’t abandon your
prinoiplee at all. Go and consult with
yonr brethren; stand by yonr Mends.
Let the cause of trnth and yonr prin
ciples stand. Then I say, if yon are
thoroughly convinced that yon oannot
do any good, don’t nominate but retreat
and throw yonr votes to Grant, Greeley
ortheDeviL I implore yon men and
women—everybody—stand np to-day
firmer than ever, and I trust that you
will stand firm.
Throw yonr banner upon the outer wall;
display a courage and magnanimity as
great as the cause, and as prolonged as
the oonfliot! If yon should fall now,
your fall will be the fall of Lucifer,
never to rise again I (Grert applause.)
[Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday.
MF*lt is a singular and pleasing
fact that Southern boys have borne off
the highest honors at Princeton Col
lege, N. J., during the last three years.
The late wonderfully gifted Theodo
rick Pryor, son of General Roger A.
Pryor, of Virginia, was graduated in
1870 with higher honors than were ev
er taka? before by any stndent In
1871 Skinner Lassiter, of Oxford,
Miss., stood foremost in his class, and
is now at Berlin, Prussia, in attend
ance upon the University, his Prince
ton scholarship supporting him.—
Whilst the other day Richmond M.
Pearson, of Raleigh. N. 0., bore off
the highest distinction in a doss of
ninety-six graduates.
Changes in the Bankrupt Law.—
Congress, a few days since, passed a
bill amendatory of the bankrupt law.
It allows all exemptions allowed by
any State law on the Ist day of Janu
ary, 1871. It also exempts a widow’s
dower, or other estate in lien thereof,
if the State law so provides; also life
insurance to the amount of five thou
sand dollars. The time during which
Ss!ssf , o."is?ii2roi; ! s:
debtedness, is extended until July Ist,
1878; judgments obtained against per
aoos of property, before petitions in
hffinkraptey are filed, are to be first and
fully satisfied. Changes in the meth
ods of appointing Registrars, in the
matter of Marshal's fees and other lees
Important partioolare, are also made.
NO. 68.
From th* New York Commercial.
Japanese Religion.
One of the Embassy (ell* what he Knows
about It
We had a long talk with Nakshima,
the Japanese Commissioner. He is a
gentleman of superior intelligence, and
don’t look like a heathen at all.
First we uskeil him about his reli -
gion.
“I am a heathen,” he said smiling.
“I don’t believe in religion—that is, in
tho forms of religion. My religion is
to do good, to be honest.” *
•‘What do you think of our Christ ?"
we asked.
“Humbug—all humbug.” ho replied.
“What do you think of Moham
med ■?"
“Mohammed is a fraud too, and so
are all those middle men who say they
we inspired. Confucius w.i# a wise
man, but no more inspired lhan Soc
rates. All these men like Brahma,
Buddha, Swedenborg, Brigham Young,
Joe Smith, and in fact every man from
Moses to Brigham Young, who has set
himself up as one inspired from God,
is a humbug.’’
“What kind of religion do you be
lieve ia ?”
“Well, though I am ft heathen, I be
lieve about as yon do.”
“How is that ¥” we asked, becoming
interested.
“You believe in God - so do I, and
does every nation. We only differ in
the Saviour or Christ Why, tho Arabs
believe in the same God, but take' Mo
hammed as a Saviour; 200,000,000 of
people believe in Mohammod, and on
ly 50,000,000 in Christ It is always
the same God all over the world.—
They may spell it differently, but it Is
the same uod, with the samo attri
butes, such as omnipresence, übiquity,
omniscience, infinity, potentiality, etc.
In Greece, they call him Theos; irt"
France, Dieu; in Germany, Godt; in'.
China, Jos; in Asia, Brahmin; in Amer
ica, God. Many Fap&neße believe in
the same God which you do, but re
ceive Buddha os a mediator in place
of Christ Buddha was a good man.
He was modest, sincere and Belf-saori
ficing, but he was not God. He gave
up a life of ease near the throne to
teach men to bo good. Ho gave up
immense wealth, and went with the
poor. Your Chrißt made no such sac
rifices. He was poor—a carpenter’s
son. He was killed beoause he preach
ed heresies which the Jews didn’t be
lieve. He went a little too far and lost
his life, like Cramner and Latimer, and
as 10,000 foolish people do in India
every day. Rossel lost his life in
France, and John Brown here, for
preaching what tho people didn’t be
lieve. The day will come when yon
will almost worship John Brown as
the Swiss do William Tell. Dying for
oucfcaik signifies jiothing. Why^wr.
10,000 people in India burn ana kui
themselves every year for their faith.
“Bat don’t you think a Saviour is
neccessary ?”
“No. God can do all the saving or
destroying. When you bring a man
to assist him, yon destroy his greatness
—his potentiality. These people who
claim to be mediators are only religi
ons brokers. God is too great to ask
or permit any one to assist Him. We
have the some law of right and wrong
which yon have, and still we don’t be
lieve yonr Bible at all. God has given
His law to us. The Koran, your Bi
ble, the teachings of Swedenborg and
Brigham Young all differ, but the doc
trines of the philosophers like Justini
an, Socrates and Confucius all agree.
That is, they agree that God is great
—and that ne is too great to have any
prophets.”
“Dont you believe that Christ came
into the world to save it ?”
“No, sir. He did not come into the
world any more than yon did. First,
He knew He was here—a boy like all
the Nazareae boys. His miraculous
birth is the fancy of the legendary his
torians. He was put to death like
John Broom beoause He went roOnd
breaking Jewish laws. After He was
killed, St Paul and St Peter establish
ed yonr church. They made a grand
political center and established the se
ven ohurohes of Asia, none of which
stand to-day. Ephesus and Antioch
believe in Mohammed now. I know
Mohammed was a humbug, and of the
same knowledge I know all prophets
to be hnmbogs. Yon call me a heath
an because I reject yonr Church. I
call you a heathen because yon reject
my Buddha He was a great and pore
as ever a man was. More than that,
he gave np riches and station. Ha
taught people to work, not to aU be
come idle preachers. While I respect
Buddha, I do not think he was inspir
ed, and if he wasn’t, then no man ever
was.”
That is what the heathen said, and
he didn’t think he was talking sacrile
gious. He did not think he had said
anything rode, at least no ruder than
we are always saying of him.
Extraordinary I— An extraordinary
suicide reoently occurred in England.
A bov aged ten years, after leaving
school, told a playmate that he was
going to commit sniride, and gave ltim
a knife to take care of for him. He
then walked to a pond near the school,
but finding the water was not deep
enough, he made his way tb a railroad
crossing and deliberately laid himself
on the rails, in front of an approach-'