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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1912)
The Henry County Weekly VOL. XXXVII DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDE RACY RESUME THEIR STUDY. “Georgia, 1861-1865 Is Subject For September. QUESTIONS. 1. When the Southern Con federacy was organized at Mont gomery, Ala., how long did the enthusiasm continue over the State of Georgia? 2. How many more soldiers did Georgia furnish than her vot ing capacity? 3. Name Georgia representa tives at the secession convention? 4. Who of her gifted sons pre sided at the secession conven tion? 5. Who of her sons was the convention in favor of making their president —but who express ly forbade the use of his name? 6. What noted Georgian doubted that the south would conquer the north? 7. Who prevented serious trouble between union men —and state government of north Geor gia? 8. After Georgia had seceded, at what county seat did the citi zens plant a pole and raise on it a United States flag, and kept it floating there for several weeks in open defiance of the confede rate and state authorities? 9. When the rest of the state was irritated and appealed to Governor Joseph Brown for redress, wjiat was his reply? 10. What act recommended by President Davis and passed in confederate congress in 1862 was thought most dangerous to the confederacy? 11. Why was this act consider ed by the confederacy a reflection on the patriotism of the whole southern population? 12. How did it deteriorate the principal of state rights? 13. In March, 1863, when Geor gia’s war governor issued a proclamation convening the legis lature in special session to discuss the subject of bread, what did he say the opportune time was at hand for us to consider and do? 14. What amount did he lay be fore the legislature for the distri bution and support of the indigent families of soldiers? 15. How many thousand dol lars worth of corn did Governor Brown give out of his own barn to the people of Cherokee coun ty? 16. When Georgia was threat ened with a salt famine, what im mediate action taken by Governor Brown resulted in great good to the welfare of his state? 17. What other means was used bv Georgia besides the “salt bu reau” which was organized by the legislature and distributed to her people to obtain salt? 18. What year did Georgia be come the battleground strategic point? 19. What evidence have we that Georgia was the very center of the confederacy’s vitality? 20. When was Georgia’s dark est days? 21. Relate the incident of the imprisonment of the Macon edi tor. 22. As the civil system had been McDonough, Georgia, Friday September i 3, 1912. entirely overthrown by the militia and was neither law nor or der, and conditions were very seriously agitated by the incendi iary teachings of the Union league, what secret order was organized to offset these conditions? 23. How long was the carpet bag legislature in session and how much did it cost the state? 24. How much was the cost of the legislature from 1853 to 1862? ANSWERS. 1. Until the state added to the confederate army 125,000 of her valiant sons. 2. Twenty thousand. 3. Robert Toombs, Francis S. Bartcw, Martin J. Crawford, Eu genius A. Nisbet, Benjamine H. Hill, Howell Cobb, Augustus R. Wright, Thomas R. R. Cobb, Au gustus H. Kennan and Alexander H. Stephens. (Stephens in writ ing of this body says: “Of the personel taken collectively, he never was associated with an abler one. There was in it no one who, in ability, was not above the average of the members of the house of representatives of any of the sixteen congresses he had been in at Washington; while there were several who may be justly ranked, for intellectual vig or, as well as acumen and thought and oratorical powers, among the first men of the continent at that time. They were not such men as revolutionists or civil commo tions usually bring to the surface. They were men of substance, as well as of solid character, men of education, reading, refinement, all well versed in principals of government. They came em phatically within the class styleu by Carlyle, ‘tamest men.’ ”) 4. Howell Cobb. 5. Robert Toombs. 6. Herschel V. Johnson. 7. Governor Brown. 8. Jasper, the county seat of Pickens. 9. “Let the flag float there, it floated over our fathers, and we love the flag now. We have only been compelled to lay it aside by the injustice that has been prac ticed under its folds. If the peo ple of Pickens desire to hang it out and keep it there, let them do so, and I shall send no troops to interfere with it.” 10. Conscript act was the most ruinous blunder of the confede rate government during the war. 10. It wiped out the whole the ory of state’s rights, on which the people of the south depended to justify secession. 12. It was enforced and its en forcement did the work of disor ganization more thuroughly than the hard times and the actual war were doing it. 13. In March, 1863. the govern or issued a proclamation conven ing the legislature in special ses sion to discuss the subject of bread. It was a very important subject. The governor stated to the farmers that the time had come to raise bread instead of cctton. 14. Two and a half million. 15. Four thousand dollars’ worth of corn. 16. Georgia appropraited a half million dollars to the organization of a salt bureau. The state, in self-defence, took into its own hands the monopoly of manu facturing salt, and distributing it to the people. When the salt famine was at its highest a pound of salt was worth a pound of sil ver. Foreseeing the famine, a number of shrewd business men had laid in large stocks of salt, storing it about in large ware houses in different parts of the state. They were about to real ize an immense fortune out of the suffering of the people when Gov ernor Brown stepped in and seiz ed all the salt the state authori ties could lay hands on and pro hibited the shipment of the article out of the state. 17. The earth of smokehouses was boiled, as well as water from the Gulf. 18. 1864. 19. “The difference between Virginia and Georgia in their rela tive situation and importance in the anatomy of the convention was very striking,” says Jones, (Georgia historian.) “Virginia was a gateway on the border, Georgia was the very vitals of the confederacy. When Vicks burg fell, it was a gloomy halo of the young republic in the south.” The commonwealth, therefore be came the heart of the cause, and the hope of the beleaguered Dix ie. Besides contributing the principral source of grain supplies, as well as the nucleus for the manufacture of military stores, Atlanta being the great distribut ing point. Her importance was further enhanced by reason of the fact that the grand army of the west —one of the indomitable pillows whereof the tottering na tional fabric rested, was quarter ed within her borders.” All the days of reconstruction, when leading men of the state were disfranchised, when taxpay ers were robbed in the reckless way and the rights of citizens were entirely disregarded. 21. An editor in Macon was im prisoned and his paper suppress ed for declaring in regard to the amnesty oath, that he had to “for tify himself for the occasion with a good deal of Dutch courage.” 22. The Ku Klux Klan, organ ized to prevent crime and violence as well as to restore order, but the spirit was frequently violated by lawless persons in the name of me klan. 23. Three hundred and twenty eight days and cost the state one million dollars. 24. Nine thousand dollars for nine years, whereas the cost of the carpet-bag legislature, less than one year, cost the state near ly one million dollars. Colonel I. W. Avery in his “His tory of Georgia,” says that on the thirty-first day of December, 1864, one dollar in gold was worth forty-nine dollars in confederate. The private soldier received sll of this money for a month’s ser vice. He could buy a pound of meat for his month’s pay. He could buy a drink of whiskey and have one dollar left over. With four month’s pay he could buy a bushel of wheat. DR. RALEIGH HIGHTOWER HEARS DEATH S CALL. One of County's Most Useful Citizens Died Sunday. Dr. Raleigh Hightower passed away at his home at Whitehouse Sunday afternoon at 4:20 o’clock. He had been in feeble health for several years and had been seriously ill for several weeks, so that the end was not unexpected. Dr. Hightower would have been 73 years of age on the 23d day of next Febuary. His whole long life had been one of activity and usefulness. Always a man of the strictest integrity, his virtues were also brotherly and conse quently he posessed a multitude of friends throughout the country. All who knew him learned to love Him and count him as a friend. He was an excellent physician and until a few years ago, when feeble health compelled him to abandon active practice, he enjoy ed a large and valuable practice. Dr. Hightower was an exempla ry and prominent Mason, having been past master of the White house Lodge of Free and Accept ed Masons and also high priest of the Raleigh Hightower chapter of Royal Arch Masons, which was named for him. He was also a hero of the six ties and was Captain of Company B. of the 30th Georgia regiment of the Co federate army. As a member of the Stockbridge Methodist church, he was ever a consistent Christian, illustrating in his quiet and kindly life in a high measure the teachings of the Sav ior. Mr. Henry C. Hightower, of our city, was one of his sons. The funeral services were con ducted at the residence by the Rev. W. O. Butler, pastor of Stockbridge Methodist church, Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. An immense throng attended the funeral and interment and at tested the high regard in which Dr. Hightower was held by all. The interment followed at Ozias cemetery and was in charge of the masons. Dr. Hightower is survived by his wife: four sons; Dr. H. C. Hightower, Dr. J. C. Hightower, Raleigti Hightower, and Frank Hightower: and seven daughters; Mrs. G. E. Glass, Mrs. E. C. Glass, Bessie May Hightower, Annie C. Hightower, Margueritte High tower, Maud Hightower, and Florence Rebecca Hightower. Miss Annie G. Tnompson re turned the first of this week from a visit to her aunt, Mrs. Mayson, at Decatur. Mrs. Hugh Hutton and Miss Cornelia will return to their home in Savannah next week. General Toombs once humor ously declared that “a negro pressman worked all day printing money and then till 9 o’clock at night paying himself off.” There was a grain of truth in this humor. Just enough to picture a charcoal sketch. References: Harris’ stories of Georgia: Alexander H. Steph ens’ History of the United States. MR. BEN RO'SER DIES IN SAVANNAH. Well Known and Popular Young Man of McDonough Is Victim of Fever. Mr. B. L. Sosser passed away in Savannah Friday arternoon at 3 o’clock. He had contracted malaria but had been ill only a few days and his death came with a shock of great surprise to the members of his family and his friends in *Mc- Donough. Mr. Rosser was a native of Hen ry county, where he had lived practically all his life. For the past several years he had lived in McDonough until he left a few months ago to accept a position with the construction department of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He was always genial and pleas ant in his dealings with his fellows, and leaves many friends through out the county who join with the bereaved family in mourning his departure. The remains were brought to McDonough Sunday morning and the funeral and interment were at Bethany at 1 1 o’clock Sunday morning. Rev. Mr. Bradley, pas tor of the Jackson Presbyterian church, conducted the services. Mr Rosser is survived by his father, Mr. H. B. Rosser: and five brothers; Messes. H. E. Ross er, S. M. Rosser, G. D. Rosser, L. V. Rosser, and Gettys Rosser. ONE LARGE FAMILY OF REAL SNAKES. Mr. Harry Oglesby Brings Family of Twenty Mocca sins to Town. Mr. Harry Oglesby brought to town last week a real curiosity in the shape of a whole family of snakes. It was a family of highland moc casins. There were the two grown ones and eighteen young ones. No, they were not alive. Mr. Oglesby said that the family was not quite complete, as he let two or three of the little ones escape when he was killing them. They wore the most lurid col ors and, had they not been snakes, would have been most beautiful to behold. Mr. Oglesby killed them out on his mother’s piace on the Hamp ton road. This easily makes Mr. Oglesby our champion snake killer. Can. anybody else beat this with a snake tale and the evidence to support it? MR. J. H. STROUD BRINGS FIRST BALE. Mr. J. H. Stroud has the honor of bringing this season’s first bale of cotton to the McDonough mar ket. H e brought it in Saturday morning and sold it to Mr. D. J- Green at the price of 14 cents per pound. It was a good sized first bale, weighed 475 pounds and netted Mr. Stroud $66.50. Mr. Stroud is a clever gentle man and a fine farmer and be lieves in always being ahead and in that motto about the early bird and the worm. $i A Year
