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.
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