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KACON THMAPB 1KD IESSENSO
FRIDAY, MAY 5.
Qr~n Sirmns is fragrant enough to
start a "commercial fertilizer factory with.
Tkz committee expect to strike ammo
nia in paying qnadtRiee when Senator
Blair if atm pled.
Mm Belmont is ‘determined to inspect
the Penman guano butineea despite of
Blaine’s pro tools.
The British lion ia at liberty to lie down
and lick his chops. Mr. Bobinson, of New
York, haa ceased to twist hia tail.
Htfw quickly these political meteora flash
and depart I We eearch the gloom in rain
for “Freeh,” the administration valet, and
his assumed wife. ^
Hunt Chisf. a brothor of Judge Crisp,
and an actor of fine parts, died in Chicago
on Thursday night. Ho went to school in
Macon when a boy.
Thebe is an old-fashioned, eone-ehaped
extinguisher balanced over the head of the
average Congro-smen at large, and “good
night” is about to be said.
Atoitob Alum caned Deputy Auditor
Dysan in Richmond, Ya., in' a difficulty
about the bond bribery business. They
Are both Billy Maboneite3.
. While CeL Marcellos E. Thornton haa
been consulting with Arthur about the
“syndicate,” some of the Atlanta boys have
been feeding the P.-A. cn a dish of very
humb’e pie.
Tna nows from our old and esteemed
friend at Augusta, Judge Gibson, is of so
inflammatory a character that we have
Ordered a bow and arrow to reinforce our
armory. _
The negro wants to build school houses
and tear down the penitentiary. If he will
work, the school houses will follow, and if
he will behvre himself the penitentiary
Won’t bother him.
Evrnr now and then somebody comes
along and makes arrangements to start
another paper in Macon. Somehow they
always think better of it, and seek for
smoother fields to revel in.
Mm Blaixb ought to be allowed to re
move his hat and apply ice, or the
eonntry will suffer from another sunstroke.
In the meantime, a subpeeny go-fetchnm
might be put in the wake o Monty Blair.
Tnx Atlanta Conti Hut ion is wrong. Per
ky Belmont is not of the gang to which it
alludes. It is his elder brother, “Orgoost,”
Who toots the talented horn on Colonel De-
Loncy Kane's intellectual four-in hand
drag.
The Republicans can force only about
three hundred majority for Lynch over
Gen. Chalmers. Yet the negro majority in
the district is numbered by thousands, and
the Republicans claim r.s their own all the
negro votes.
Benny Bbewsteb speaks glibly of “our
Southern brethren.” In the name of the
Boutbern brethren, we rise up and exclaim
in the language of the Timea-DemoeraVa
recent article on Darwin, this is an “aw
ful kinship."
If Benny Brewster would haul down Ali
unde Joe from the Supreme bench and
convict him of bribery and corruption in
the Tilden-Hayea election fraud, what a
triumph it would be! At the same time,
What a disaster for Benny!
SmpnEnn Is bound to corral all of his
flock if faithful search can effect anything.
Several sheep, however, give evidenoe of
being eo everlastingly lost that nothing
but a tetter trained to follow & warm gu*
ano scent can ever recover them.
If Georgia had the educational facilities she
to much needs, she would work out for herself
•Wonderful prn*pertty.-.Voa/ezsaia IT«Hy.
And her educational facilities will never
be complete until she has schools of tech
nology for the instruction and develop
ment of the labor and talent in her bor
ders.
Mayor Sbakesper-e, of New Orleans, baa
succeeded in advertising himself In rather
an unpleanielt way by the seizure of the
illustrated Meucot, * weekly publication
of that xlty, conducted on the order of
Puck, mention of whtch was made ia
these columns yesterday. Aside from
(be fast that this is the tint seizure of a
respectable American Journal reported
since the war, there U nothing asotw
striking in the event than the tadietoas
rage of the city’s chief magistrate «* bar
ing been made U» victim of a ortoco.
The Incident, to Isolated, will hardly
furnish a text fee any lengthy harangue
on the liberty of the press, and will eerve
chiefly to run up the subscription list cC
the publication which baa been give*
such an extensive advertisement. Doubt
less era this large orders foe copies of
the edition which brought on the *«rm
have begun to pour In. Such ia the ef
fect in nearly all instances ot fine or
seizure. The keen French Journalist un
der ban of official displeasure, is greatly
consoled during his enforced atopse In
prison by the thought l » yprrnal
outside ia “booming” under the Impulse
given it from headquarters, and that the
tour thousand franca wrung from hia ex
chequer are being restored with tenfold
Interest. Recently the London Punch
was received in Berlin with a cutting car
toon ou Bismarck. By some oversight it
was distributed before the plethoric in
spector had time to examine into its con
tents, and only by a chance copy strayiDg
into official hands was It known that the
mtebty Prince had had a Journalistic
bomb exploded under his chair. Then
followed one of the most ridiculous sights
of the year. Six-foot police officers, heav
ily armed and sternly solemn, visited
every reading room and news depot In
the city and with a great display of Indig
nation destroyed the offending pictures!
Imagine the scene! How the Punch ed
itors must have chuckled over the huge
advertisement, and wbat a temptation it
was to bring out yet more hlAons traves
ties. Nor did the Joke end there. With
chsracterlalicshrewdness, the yankees who
edit Puck copied the cartoon in glowing
colors, put’lt on the inside of the edition,
and sent it unsuspected into Berlin, where
a genuine laugh at the offlcU's and a big
advertisement regarded them.
Mayor Sbakespere may imagine that he
has done a laudable act and crushed out
his tormentors, bnt hia triumph will
doubtless be shortlived. He had no more
authority for his set than Hayes had title
to the presidency, and the Southern press
comments upon the one will be as posi
tive as upon the other. The statute
under which he p.-oceeaed reads asfol-
follows:
Art. GG3. It shall not bo lawful for any person
or persons to expose, circulate, offer for sale,
■ell or distribute, within the limits of the city,
any obscene, scandalous or libelous book, print,
newspaper, pamphlet, circular or periodical,
caricature, picture, drawing, statue' or other
object whatever ot any immoral or scandalous
nature, or calculated to excite scandal, I minor*
ality or the disturbance of peace or tranquillity
Any person committing any of the offenses
or violating any of the provisions herein before
■amed In section three shall bo fined not leas
than <J5 or more than f100, and In default of
payment shall be Imprlsqped for a term not
exceeding thirty days.
The cartoon, it is said, was libellous
and a caricature, bnt nowhere does the
law give the mayor authority to consti
tute himself judge and Jury and hia offi
cer’s bailiffs, to execute a sentence before
it was passed, and annihilate where the
law says fine. If we do not mistake the
American temper,the mayor will find In the
next issue of the Mascot a terrific carica
ture, and the editor will be perfectly wil
ling to pay the light fine, or even to repose
in jail thirty days for the sake of the
income and advertisement secured.
Shakespere has made a tremendous mis
take, and this is one instance in which it
will not do for Shakespere to repeat.
the Supreme Court in Ua better days. Age
does not seem to have impaired his abili
ties, and hit argument was pronounced
by those who beard it to be simply unan
swerable.
It would ba wild work tospecnlate upon
the probable decision of the court, whose
bench is now Bill, bur the judgment in
thin cabs will be looked to with absorbing
interest, for, If against LonMana, It will
open wide the doors for prolonged litiga
tion smd onerous taxation.
county.’’ The public, not confidentially l sentiments of his people when he eug-
1 nil mate with the rimes’ editor, will be at gested that aiding the independents was
Ccthbebt brags of com in the silk, and
McDuffie of cam in the shoe, bnt it is re-
served for Bibb county to come forward
■ with wheat in the boot IThanks; bnt it
has token ns two days to formulate this,
and we are in no condition to acknowledge
-compliments.]
As an ofbet to a repent paragraph in the
Constitution concerning the exclusiveness
Of the colored men’s caucus at Macon, del
egate Jarkron McHenry rose in the meet
ing ana confessed to having promenaded
through Atlanta, arm In nrm with Grady.
The humor in this occurrence can be found
without tho aid of a field-glass.
A Bzlxkpontaine Ohio dispatch saya
“During the high winds and rain storm,
minnows and small fish were picked up
from the streets of DeGraffe, in this
oounty. The fish were three inches in
length.” This is tough, bnt wo pass with
the privilege of coming in when Tom Cab-
nuif s and his party report from the Oge-
chee.
The «■
These i> evidently a disposition on tho
part of Editor Americas Glesmor to attrib
ute the pea green tint of tho last IVarren-
ton Cbj./>er to jealousy and bile. The mis
take is, perhaps, natural, bnt we happen
to know that Col. Shivers ia the patentee
of a proc- os by which paper can be mnnu
factared from pea pods. A slight misun
derstanding will stmetime* cause a coo!
ness betwet n worthy gentlemen.
The Past-Appeal very emphatically
says :
It ii riiiti ul n* for the average Georgia l-o’.I-
Uclan toquote the words of Mr. Stephens, "So
man has a right to decline the call of his peo
ple." Tiie average politician is not called
upon by tlu- [»cople to any very large extent,
and the only call he hears generally proceeds
from a man stationed in the t-ack yard who
has l-ccn hired to do the vociferating.
It most te admitted that Mr. Stephens is
at lea«t an average politician, and the
Post-Appeal's editor ia the only men do
ing the gubernatorial vociferating for
him. Are we to understand that Col.
Thornton has been hired to stand in the j
backyard and raise this racket ?
A New and Important Question.
The Supreme Court of the United
States now has under advisement a ques
tion of great importance to the conntiy at
large, but more particularly to such
States of the South as were compelled to
repudiate the load of indebtedness saddled
upon them by carpet-bag legislatures dar
ing the process of military reconstruction.
The case of tho State of New York vs. the
State of Louisiana was argued and' sub
mitted hut week.
Certain citizens of the State of New
York, holding bonds of the State of Loui
siana upon which tho Interest had been
remitted, assigned their claims to the
State ot New York under a recent act of
the Legislature-Of that State, and amt is
brought to recover the interest due. And
upon this point the court is to pass judg
ment.
As originally drawn, the federal con
stitution provided that the Judicial power
of the United States shonld extend to
“controversies between two or more
States” and “between a Stale and citizens
of another State.” Soon after the adop
tion of the constitution the Supreme
Court decided that under the provision
last quoted a State might bo sued in the
federal courts by a citizen of another State
on a money demand. This decision
caused no little dissatisfaction ameng the
State rights politicians of that day, who
felt that the right of an -individual to en
force a pecuniary claim against a State
was not compatible with true State sov
ereignty. Cdbsequently the eleventh
amendment of the constitution was adopt
ed prohibiting a suit from being brongbt
against a State by the citizens of another
State. Under the constitution as thus
amended it seems to be clear .that one
State may be sued on a money demand in
the Supreme Court by another JState, but
not by the citizens of another. The ques
tion that the court is now called upon to
determine is whether a suit may be main
tained by a State on a money claim as
signed to it b7 ono of its citizens. The
constitution bars the citizen from bring
ing such action.
It may be remembered by many ot our
fellow-citizens that Judge Lochrane and
ethers, representing certain foreign bond
holders, have been threatening to have
the constitution of tbo United States so
amended that these parties might bring
suit against tho State of Georgia., The
threat is an idle one, for while the Re
publican party, if strong enough to com
plete this action, would not hesitate to do
so, it is not within the range of possibili
ties that the party wilt ever have the
power to do it. But if the Supreme Court
shall decide this case In favor of the State
of New York, Georgia and the other
Southern States will be harrassed with
lawsuits by parties who desire to recover
moneys for which they never gave any
equivalent.
The case was argued in behaif of Lon-
isiana^by Judge John A. Campbell,
I g Georgian, and an ex-jutilcrf ot
We bad reached the conclusion, which
•eemed to bet common one, that Blaine
had successfully eliminated all of the un
pleasant odor out of the Peruvian guano
business, when be had gotten through with
Shipherd and left him a wilted jobber and
liar. There was nothing left of him, and
public enrioaity began to feel and reach
ontfor^Senator Blair and Boutweilto
put them to the rack. Bootwell’s repn
talion was infamous, and Blair had re
ceived money,been frightened and return
ed it It was supposed that some suc
cessful mining could be done la this di
rection, but it looked as though Blaine
had been smart enough to cover bis
tracks and dear his skirts. “Things are
not wbat they seem.” Our noon
dispatches give a glimpse of what must
have been a highly exciting and dramatic
scene in the foreign relations committee
room at Washington on yesterday. It
looks bad for Btsioe that be lost his tem
per under the probing of Mr. Belmont.
The young New Yorker eeems to have
struck a sore and tender nerve. The
public will look with interest to future
developments. In the meantime, the
Washington correspondent will wallow In
imaginative gore. Blaine baa intimated
that Belmont Is not a gentleman, and
Belmont has pronounced Blaine a bully
and a coward.
It is moreu tban likely that both are
wrong. We know Belmont, and know
him to be a modest, able and accom
pllshed gentleman, and while Blaine
never fails to make a point by abraab
manner and a bold front, we do not.take
him for a bully or a coward. He must
have lost bis bead very badly If be un
dertook to bully Belmont. He comes of
a stock that will not submit to that kind
of treatment, Hi» father carries a stiff
leg as prefert of bis manly courage in
protecting a lady fromlnsnlt, and the
young man inherits the blood of Commo
dore Perry.
Blaine cannot conceal the fact that be
is a statesman with a decided reputation
for commercial methods. He has grown
rich in the life which makes most honest
men poor.
If he has a clear record In this miser
able business, it should bo capable of
proof in bis official correspondence. A
cool man thus armed can parry the thrusts
of an eager adversary, and save himself
from barm.
A display of temper and the resort to
denunciation are evidences of a weak
cause, and Blaine's case may revive fra
grant memories of the episode ot the Mul
ligan letters.
Some days siqce, In a communication
to this journal, Messrs Mynatt and How
ell, attorneys, of Atlanta, stated that they
had been employed by the Railroad Com
mission to represent that body before the
courts in the case of the Georgia railroad,
and insisted that the commission bad the
power to engage their services.
In a recent interview with a reporter
of the Atlanta Constitution, Governor
Smith says:
“Mynatt and Rowell have been employed
Tor that purpoae by merchants who are Inter
ested in sustaining the action of the commis
sion.”
It strikes ns as something unusual that
merchants of Atlanta, ontside parties,
should pnt into a suit at law between a
State and a citizen, or a corporation.
A suspicion has long been afloat
to the -effect that the action
of the Railroad Commission in regard
to certain roads has been influenced by
the interests or complaints of certain
Atlanta merchants. Tho appearance
of attorneys in a case made by a railroad
against the commission can have bnt one
effect, viz, to intensify this suspicion
whether It be well grounded or not. All
merchants, in every city in the State,
shonld be in faTor of the commission
when clearly right, bnt for ontside parties
“who are interested In sustaining tho
commission” in a certain action, to come
into court by their attorneys, to say
the least, does not lock well, and will not
tend to strengthen the commission In the
minds of fair and Just men. The com
mission for the time is the State and is
represented by her law officer. No citi
zen or corporation seeking to test rights
under the law should be crowded by out
side interests.
Again Dissatisfied.
Our Columbus contemporary,the Times.
is nothing if not dissatisfied. Sometimes
we are tempted to term him the “Colum
bus Daily Negative.”^ His recent sources
of complaint are, first, the gift of one mil
lion dollars by Slater to the cause of edu
cation among Southern negroes; second,
the building by the State of an academy
for the colored blind, at this place. The
cause of his first complaint is a far fetched
philosophical idea that Mr. Slater should
have bestowed his gilt upon the poor mill
hands of New England, and not upon the
poor uneducated blacks of the South
Discussion on this point is useless. Few
people can be found willing to say that
the money was not well bestowed, and
fewer still to donbt Mr. Slater’s right to
carry out his own idess wltn his own
money. The dissatisfaction of tbo Co
lumbus Times concerning the academy
for the colored blind doubtless grows
partly out ot his ignorance of State affairs-
Says be: -
Wo approve of educating the blind of all col
ors to a useful point by the State, when parents
are not able to educate them, but we are op
posed to the State frazzling out her money in
small sums, too small to confer benefit on any
body—In the vain, if not foolish effort to have a
college or an "institute” in every county. The
State Institute for the deaf, dumb and blind,
should be centrally located, and large enough
in Us accommodations for all of the class In
tended to be benefited, of both colors. The
same building need not be used for both races,
nor would it bo best to have the same teachers,
but it all should be under one general and
competent director at some on* point.
We find it necessary to state to our
contemporary that the Georgia Institute
for the Blind is already located at Macon;
that this new branch for the colored blind
will be under the same trustees and man
agement; that tbe separate building was
rendered necessary because of the crowd
ed condition of the present establishment,
and that the Stale has not within the rec
ollection of any Georgian “frazzled” out
money for educitlonal purposes which
conferred benefits upon no one,nor yet es-
a loss to understand upon what grounds a
single institute for the “deaf, dumb and
blind,” abwaM be established; or where
can be tonud a director of such varied en
dowments as to be able to preside over an
institution in which the ear and eye are to
be treated intelligently, and with a view to
permanent benefit. Our contemporary
may not tie aware of the fact, and yet the
fact is not doubted among intelligent peo
ple, that either one of these branches con
stitutes a subject upon which a life may
be usefully spent In study, and something
new learned every day; that each is a
specialty, requiring the aUedHon of spe
cialists. By no tie or mason are they
Joined. It might Jost aa well be argued
that the State University shonld be made
part and parcel of the Lunatic Asylum,
with a room In an upper story for the Legis
lature's biennial assembly. Under the cir
cumstances we fail to see why any two
of these institutions should have a general
director, or why our economical contem
porary should desire to burden the State
with this additional expense. It may be
that be baa a general Idea that the crazy
peopla will not mind having company of
any kind; that the blind would not mind
the association with people not visible,
and that the general racket would not
disturb the deaf. These ideas, however,
are not vividly attractive enough to cause
the State to sacrifica her present institu
tions and pool the varied interests at a
large expense.
What the
dent*
Jost now the South U being flooded
with a circular issued by the Washington
Republican, asking for aid in the way ot
subscriptions. By way of a bintlo South
ern postmasters, a deep line la drawn with
a bine lead pencil under the announce
ment of the fact that Frank Hatton, first
Assistant Postmaster-General, is one of
the proprietors of the journal, and expects
the faithful to support it. The circular
says:
The success ol the libera! movement In Vir-
ginla, resulting as it did in the overthrow of
the Bourbon Democracy in that State, was the
beginning of the break In the solid Sonth.
The avowed sympathy of the administration
with the Virginlacoalition is the best assurance
that similar movements elsewhere will receive
like approval and encouragement
In these paragraphs we have the declar
ation that the Independent movement, in
Georgia means a Mahonelzing of the
State by a possible alliance between the
blacks and a lot of discontented men with
white skins, and that as Arthur rewarded
the renegades In Vifginiahe msy be relied
upon to help the Georgians who may de
sert their duty, their friends, neighbors
and families in order to keep from honest
toil by living on the emoluments of office.
As in Virginia, Arthur and Mabone
gave the fattest and richest pickings to the
men with white skins, so in Georgia this
rule of division Is likely to be followed
and the negro will have, at usual, to take
care of himself as best be may. The di
vision has already been made here. The
syndicate of white Republicans have
taken the offices, Pledger and Pleasants
have small ernmbs, and Parson Felton
and those who may elect to follow the lead
may get wbat they are willing to fight for,
and wbat they may be able to capture.
This is a fair statement of the esse.
Now let us see what Maheneism has
done in Virginia. The Richmond Dis
patch sums up the villainy as follows.
“Thirteen millions of the State debt repudi
ated; the Court of Appeals turned out; Read-
justcr judges chosen to fill offices which the
highest court in the Commonwealth had de
cided were not vacant; the election of H II.
Rlddlebcrger to the United States Senate; the
displacement of all tho officers of all the luna
tic asylums; the removal of the Boards of Visi
tors and Boards of Directors of all the State in-
■tituUons of learning, charity, etc.; the chang
ing tor the worse of the city charters; and, gen
erally speaking, the doing ot whatever onght
not to have been done, and the leaving undone
of whatever ought to have been done.
And ail of this and more besides is in
store for Georgls, if by sny chance the
mongrel eoalilion shonld succeed. How
the good people of Virginia have stood
this is a source of wonderment to all men
capable of thinking. It is strange that
the people did not rise in their wrath and
majesty and disperse the Mabone Legis
lature, as Cromwell did the Long Parlia
ment.
But Mabone had rcacl.cd the length of
his tether. Four of his quondam follow
ers became frightened at tho ruin wrought.
They rebelled and refused to follow him
further. His motion to gerrymander tho
State was defeated and so his attempt to
prolong the Legislature. He returned to
Washington to his Republican allies with
a confession of defeat at the supreme mo
ment, upon his lips.
And now the courts of Virginia, in in
vestigating a bribery case, have develop
ed the fact that his friends and associates
were speculating upon the necessities of
a people whom they had ruthlessly
robbed. The independent movement in
Georgia Is Radicalism pure and unadul
terated, covered under the disguise of
words. The men who are its leaders are
in all respects as lad as Mahone, and if
they succeed Georgia will meet a worse
fate than has fallen to Virginia. There
can be no safe dalliance or compromise
with such a movement, engineered by
snch leaders.
Safety may be sought alone in a vigor
ous and unflinching assault on both.
the best way to overthrow Boorbonlam.
The resolutions declare, in effect, that
while the negroes, at represented by the
convent loo, will be controlled-by the Re
publican organization, they will help men
of bero.c and patriotic action. This re
fers, of course, to Parson Felton and the
coalition colonels, bnt what of patriotism
or heroism there may be in seven men
locking themselves m an up-stair* room
In a hotel and conspiring against the good
people of the State, we are unable to see.
There was at the outset a disposition to
show np some ugly temper, but the news
of the death of young Joiner, at Atlanta,
quieted the delegate down who edits the
Defiance, and he introduced and support
ed some pacificatory resolutions. It waj
never at any time absent that the mem
bers of this convention intended to agi
tate the‘question of social equality when
ever opportunity offered, and to endeavor
to make all possible capital ont of this
sure device to fire the Northern heart.
Without giving public announcement cf
the name of any particular person, the
convention left no room for doubt but
that it was in active sympathy with the
Independent coalition. We were disap
pointed at the result. We do not mean
by this to convey the idea of a personal
disappointment. But we, in common
with all good citizens, can find cause for
regret that a convention of colored men,
composed of the most intelligent and edu
cated of their class, after a session of two
days, could do nothing better tban to
draw with ominous distinction the line
between themselves and their white
fellow-citizens.
This regret would be deepened if we
thought that these trained and profession
al politicians could carry their people in
a body with them. But the negro who
bandies the ho*, who holds the plow, tbe
carpenter, the blacksmith, tbe mason, and
the thousands who earn their daily bread
byjhonest toll) were not represented and
can not be led to sacrifice themselves lor
tbe ambitions of tbose who convened the
caucus and controlled it.
which the nominating conventions are
baaed is that delegt’cs will be sent
who will consider and select the beat rep
resentative of the principles of the party,
the one likely to combine tho moat
strength and insure success. While not
at all given to primary elections, the
mod* and manner by which the people
may select delegates to tbe convention is
a matter of small import to us. In our
jadgroent the suggestions of Mr. Garrard
are calculated to produce that harmony
and unity ot action that is not only de
sirable, but absolutely necessary. The
Republican party, by order ot the admin
istration, is going to make fight again in
Georgia. The convention recently held
In this place develops tbe nucleus of or
ganization, and tbe Markham Hoase con}
ference has promulgated tbe hope that the
party is to be recruited by ambitions and
dissatisfied men who want offices.
Da. Benjamin Duooab haa been induced
to retire from the Congressional race- in
the ninth district. This will not save
Speer.
It would appear from our Washington
dispatches, that Representative Hooker
made a neat job cf skinning a skunk on
yesterday.
The Atlanta Knight Templars were so
much pleased after prancing about with
Pierce Young that they have resolved to be
a “kritter kmnpny” all the time.
- Cloox-wohx stocking* have come back
into fashion at Wesleyan Collage. This
leads ns to fear that our girls will only get
through the redbeg season with a scratch.
Thebe is a dangerous typographical er
ror in an artiole which appeared in Mike
Burch’s Eastman Timet, under the head
ing, “What shall we do with our daugh
ters?”
Tbe Catered Convention.
The ring performance of a circus never
fell further below the impossible pictures
■which heralded Us coming on fences, con
venient corners and bill boards, than fell
tho colored convention under its premon
itory programme. In place of a conven
tion composed of the ablest and most
prominent colored men of tbejiouthern
States, it turned out to be a caucus of the
most notorious negro politicians of Geor
gia. They came of their own motion,
barring an invitation from Jefferson Long,
and the only credential asked for was, m
the language of one ot the delegates, “a
black face.” It was inauaged by Jeff
Long and Pledger, and accomplished
nothing that can be called tangible,
except to consolidate tbe assembled
brethren for an active campaign against
the Bourbon Democracy. It behaved no
better and no worse than political con
ventions usually no. There was tbe
usual amount of intemperate oratory, a
display of jealousy between rivals, out.
breaks of bad temper, a good deal of ma
neuvering upon the part of opposing
leaders, and the never tailing accompani
ment of the brother who gets full and
falls from his chair.
The proceedings in full, except those of
the secret session, have been laid before
ocr readers. Jell'Long gave tbe cue to
tbe movement when he admitted, in his
opening address, that he had no matured
ttblubed “a college or institute in every views on education, but that be voiced tbe
Mr. Stephens In th« Gubernatorial
Canvass.
Sometime since Mr. Stephens com
municated to personal friends, and th»r j n
turn to the public, his uesire and^n-
'.“LliCr. to again retire from public life.
He has reconsidered the declaration then
made. In response to Inquiries of a re
porter of the Atlanta Constitution, Mr.
Stephens says:
"I don’t know,” he said. “I receive a great
many letters on the subject, more I think tban
I ever received on any question before. They
come from ray own district and from others,
mod from all parts of the State. They come
from organized Democrats, from new move
ment men and from Republicans. They denot
insist so much on my return to Congress as on
my making tho race ;for governor. They urge
me for many reasons, to do so. They seem to
believe that certain troubles aro threatened,
which 1 might assist in averting, and that some
dissensions exist in the Democratic party,
which I might help to heaL In fact, I have
been assured by men on whoso judgment I can
rely that there la a general wish among the peo
ple of Georgia that I should be a candidate for
governor." •
"How have yon answered these letters and
assurances f”
"How could I, except a* I answered a friend
who wrote the other day and asked m? if my
resolution to retire was Irrevocable and lnexor-
able ? I wrote to him that I thought no pub
lic man had a right to say that Ho ought to
be at all times at the command of his people, if
ft lay In' his power to serve them."
“8uppose your health continues about as it
Is now, and there ts ageneral wish to have you
enter the gubernatorial canvass, will you not
deem It your duty to do so T ”
“With my present state of health thcro is no
imperious reason why I should not.”
We have no doubt that many friends
and admirers of Mr. Stephens would be
pleased to support him for governor if he
desires tbo position. We shall do so
most cheerfully if be be nominated by
the Democratic party, and placed upon a
sound and acceptable platform.
But we imagine that some of tbe cor
respondents and friends of Mr. Stephens
are unduly alarmed and excited at tho
situation of affairs in Georgia. Upon a
careful and daily inspection ot tho situa
tion, we can discern no troubles or dis
sensions that the party may not heal
within itself without difficulty. It is
quite certain to our mind and judgment,
that troubles which are covered and
smoothed over by spontaneous agree
ment and action, will break oot again
with renewed force, just as pain returns
with redoubled strength after the powers
or a sedative or narcotic are exhausted.
The Democratic party of Georgia Is
confronted and challenged by a coalition
with principles and purposes as badly
mixed as the complexions of its members.
This .coalition has gone to tbe people
and changed that the Democratic State
government is partisan and corrupt, that
the Judges will not give the law in a spirit
of equity and justice, that executive offi
cers will not fairly and strictly discharge
tbelr duties, that taxes are unwisely laid
and the revenue unequally divided, in
fact that tho organization is untrust
worthy of tbfe confidence and support of
tbe people, and should be overthrown.
Tbe party that fails to respond to such
an arraignment, and cannot meetit at any
point successfully, does not deserve popu
lar confidence and support and should be
at once and forever driven from power.
There is but one way to meet it. It is for
the party to assemble in convention,
boldly proclaim its policy, define its prin
ciples and Join issito with its accusers-
Thu woman who lists to alover's tale.
The castle that answers tho herald's hail,
' Soon will surrender.
Hr. Uirrnrd’i ■nnrcatloita.
Mr. Louis Garrard, of Columbus, in a
letter to the Atlanta Constitution, makes
some very pertinent suggestions for the
consideration of the State Democratic
committee at Us coming meeting. We re
produce tbe most pertinent points ot the
letter in this issue, and take occasion to
say that they should receive favorable
consideration. It is the policy and prac
tice of tbe Alabama Democracy, and per
haps that of other States, to have the ex
ecutive committee decide upon and give
notice of the ratio of representation in
State conventions. Tbe basis, as sug
gested by Mr. Garrard, strikes us as beiLg
lair and just.
His position as to proxies is very
strong. The evil upon this point ia a cry
ing one and should be remedied, if tbe
power lies in tbe committee to apply tbe
remedy. We would add co this sugges
tion that no “dle in-the-ditch delegates”
Bbowx, the colored Colonel of the De
fiance, in his resolntion introduced at Fri
day’s meeting, practically recedes from
tbe gory position token in the Rountree af
fair. The resolution is the reenlt of sober
second thought, and well-timed.
Otra Albany contemporary fears that a
coolness has sprung up between Editor
JSarris and th# Teleobafh, inasmnch&s he
has dropped the prefatory “esteemed.”
The fear Is well
ue referred to ns as “bilions,” and we have
ent the telephone wires.
A Wisconsin Congressman hat present
ed a petition from the Norwegian citizens
of that State, praying Congress so to
amend the treaty with Great Britian as to
prevent Irishmen from coming to their
country. A Republican Congress would do
it, if it had the power.
Db. Lamson has ended his career at the
end of a rope. English journals say that
Benjamin Brewster’s interference in his
behalf reflects no credit upon him as a
man or a lawyer. Tbe impression gains
ground that Benjamin is not mnch of
either.
Oub foreign editor stnmbled over
French sentcnco recently, and was prompt
ly picked np by the Post-Appeal. This
comes of profoso gratitude. It was only a
short time ago that the Post-Appeal's for
eign editor stqmbled over an Atlanta
young man and had to be picked np!
The Atlanta Constitution mistakes Mr.
Belmont. He does not play shinny on a
bob-tailed pony, nor does he toot the horn
on Col. DeLancy Kune’s red wheeled stage.
Ho is a modest, accomplished gentleman,
and has cb great a contempt for Arthur
and hie methods us the Constitution itself.
A PiBLWWA journal says: “The
'colored citizens’ of Venango county held
a convention at Franklin, a few days ago,
for the purpose of ‘demanding their
rights,’bnt-a few Republican politicians
got hold of them, and then their 'rights’
did not look the tame color.” Jess, so
jess.*o.
As the great Lick telcscoc-e is unfinish
ed and not available, it is difficult to un
derstand how the administration is going
to witness the “brilliant naval display” Tit
fortress Monroe, contemplated by Com
modore Billy Chandler.. The commodore
onght to borrow a few oyster scows from
Maryland to givo brilliancy to tho occa
sion.
“Ukxebal Gaufield once said, in walk
ing through the Treasury Department,
what struck him most forcibly among tho
clerks wa3 tho absence of well developed,
bock heads.” The Gonerol ought to havo
known that the gentlemen with abnor
mally developed back heads have positions
as chiefs of departments whoro young
women are employed.
The memorial reporter of tho Atlanta
Constitution says that, after the address,
“tbe band played a fantasia on gospel
hymns." Well, well, we aro getting o;<^
and slow. We thought tbo band ployed on
tbe trombone, tho opheieide and tho boss
dram, bnt this is a brand new trick. We
have heard of the strap game, the box
game and the three-ball game, bnt where
were the police when tbe band wss playing
tins new'thing on gospel hymns ? _ ,
John Cubban, of Mobile, indniged in a,
poem on Memorial Day. The Register, of
that city, publishes it as an advertisement.
The rhythm is open to the criticism of be
ing a little stringhnlty, bnt the lost stanza
has truthful inspiration, if it may lack di
vine affiatns. It runs thus:
And the world may rear,
And the world may rant,
But our Leo wss as far superior,
As was Napoleon to Grant.
“Richelieu” Robinson not only twisted
the British lion’s tail, but ho mado the bird-
o’-froedonrsail away. Hear him:
"When I came here I found the American
eagle drugged and drowsy, her blood poisoned
with political pymmla, her wings wet with the
mildew of monarchy, and her beak filled with
Lowell garbage. I roused her from her Igno
ble slumber, I brushed the duw from her mag
nificent pinions, I g»ve her voice to the musle
of freedom,'and sent her with her magnificent
wing to fan the tempest and soar to the sun.”
Although a married man, he has lost none of
that pleasing and courtly address for which he
was noted in tho days gone by.—Eeemnr Stu-t.
This shows pretty well what sort of a u
idea Judge Gibson has of matrimony. In
the celibacotio brain, if oor right to invent
a term be unquestioned, u married man is
pictured as a pickled cucumber. Our bach
elor contemporary will neter learn what
trae politeness is until he has acquired the
art of trolling a baby in tho wee sma’
hours, while his better half dreams of
childhood days and new spring hats.
To the Public
Macon, Ga., April 2t»th, 1^2.—One Dr.
P. K. Court nay, a veterinary surgeon,
a member of Royal Veterinary College,
..uu ».>• _ v . Scotiand, late veterinary inspector for Mit-
...... | ryland, by order of the Hon. Win.
be sent to a convention. \Y bile it ts quite j q-_ Hamilton, Goveruor, cuch is his slate-
impossible to prevent gentlemeu having ; insnt while here.
strong and natural preferences for panic- j “if&S Unduly
ulircandidates, they should be satisfied , to warn other communities Against him,
with a proper and modest expression of in onr opinion, unworthy of trust
such preferences. The offices do
not belong to individuals nor
should they be controlled by cliques
and combination*. The theory upon
to the smallest amount.
riHUEBLlKB Sc. CHAPMAN,
H. T. Johnson,
W. R. Kent,
J. E. Russel,
A. B. FABqUHAB & Co.
fhtion of the world. Generally tney know
the disadvantages under which they foognt;
they know the great achievement* with
which our soldiers covered themoelveai
with glory, but there is much that is bb»(?.
known. You may ask the sohoolboy on>
the lowest form who commanded a* toe-
pass of Thermopyla?, and be out tell yoog
but my friends, are there not many ff tfci
great audionee who, if I naked, canid tell
who commanded «t Sabine poae, and yet E
tell you, that the battle of Bahia* Pasa was
more glorious than tho battle of Thermop-
yl®. Who remembers how the iron-clad 1
fleet came steaming up the river with
nothing to oppos© it but a mud fort wqiwd
with Arid guns and held by forty-two men;
how it* commander waa asked by a com
rade what was to be done, and suggested
that they had bettor retreat; but how this-
rallant man raid, "We will never retreat I”
Sow they shook hands with each other,-
and saio, “We will fight to the death!”
How the ironclads came steaming in but
were repulsed by that gallant Utsle army'
of forty-two men. This was lfl63.
Now who knows of Dowling ? And yet
this Dowling I hold higher than Lecuidsa.
It ia such events as this that wo must pre
serve. They will be lost. Ferbap* it will
oocur to some that if all this was in mjr
knowledge, why I didn’t put it in m, book.
Well, I will Answer. I did, every word ot
it; all the facts and all the names- of tho
forty-two soldiers. The State of Tent*
honored these men by striking off a medal-
on the one side of which wa* the date and
Sabine Fuse : on tbe other the letter* D.G.,
and D. G.—1 think you wont take it ns
egotism on my part—stood for “Davi*
Guards.” The company had done roe the
honor to take my name, and 1 wss the only
honorary member of it. Bnt aa the virtue
and conduct of our hero* aro known to-
ourselves, we deairs to perpetuate it tor the
benefit of posterity. Be it ours to keep
their memory greon forever: yet we bn*
wish to show that they do not belong to ue
alone. They belong to the whole country?
they belong to mankind. We do not desire
to deprive the whole country of the glory of
our heroes. Nor weie these service* ren
dered alone ia our war. There was Jack-
son, ths man who, even after he bad
inarched up to the storm of battle.waa often
hezrd to mutter ac ejaculatory prayer: that
man had marehod into the valley of Mexico
amid tho fiercest oonilict before our war
had commenced; that man who had been
the terror in the hour of battle of all who
encountered him, was as peaceful a* a
lamb as. soon as the conflict whs over, and
who, when he found himself in tbe arms ol
death, resigned bis soul to God and said
"Let u* croea over the river anil rest nude*'
tbe shade of tho trees.” We do
not claim or appropriate him, but
W8 do claim every other part of him
that nobody else want*. And there was-
Lee—the oalm, feariee*. rosolate, unflinch
ing, faithful Lee. We do not desire to
take him away from those who hove a®
equal right to him with us, bftd t a»? if
would be well if they would claim some
share of the grand conduct of Lee at tbo
Wilderness, Chnccellorsville. Fredericks
burg and everywhere that soldiers met sol
diers. even egaiust great odds. And there
was the great Albert Sidney Johnston, eon-
tpieuous at tbe storming of Monterey,
bolding a position which might have in
duced him to, remain in the Northern
<Fmy, whoaaMfcdered in 0 rckr
«•” - ““ 1,1 “ vindicate the principles
which be believed to be true, and came to
us with nothing but kin right arm and hia
good sword aud offered his services to
the Confederacy. Never waa man more
true; never was man more brave, as-
was shown in tho way of his death,
when on the field of Shiloh, hav
ing swept every place before him,
save one, tho ono which he deemed
the most important to carry and without
which victory- weald not be complete, rode
forward to lead in person the sfdrill find
received tho death wound, but still he rode
on, until ho fell dead. Then I repeat the
idea of before. Do such men to’orig to us
alone ? Shrd! Dot the memory of £uoh men
be preserved, nud shall not rising genera
tions feel the influence of such men t In
any future struggle, where will you find
such men ns I have enumerated, aud mnuy
others that 1 could add to the listIt all
depends upon you, friends, whether the
South will have them or not, whether yott
will give your children a true statement of
the deads of taeic fathers and the princi
ples that nctMted them. The other side
will then understand ns, and it is to bo-
hoped that the tim-> is not far dis
tant when the off-nsivo epithets, only
too comtron to-day, which defile the Eng
lish language, will soon be blotted out of
the Ncrthc-rn vocabulary. Wo are not re
vengeful. The fact is, tho Sou-horn peo
ple are not capable of hate, and I tell you
why I think so—hate is the child of.
fear, md bravo men do not hate like
cowards. Neither are bravo men over
cruel; eo 1 wish you to draw from those
who can testify on both sides of tho war,
that we did everything in otir power to as
sist those taken prisoners during tho war—
wo tr.ed to release them: we tried to have
them exchanged, and I want those facts to
go down to posterity, so that oor children
cannot have the name of Ander-onvillo
thrown with opprobrious epithets in their
faces. It is false, utterly false, that our
people ever did treat prisoners with cruel
ty, aud I want the fnct drown as it can be
shown. You can get witnesses
who were prisoners:. you can
get the men who when ' prisoners
were paro'ed. went to Washington lo get
relief, were denied an audience, and ha
the honor to come back to prison. Yo
can get these men to testify that if the
were not treated as well i's they might
have been, there wore cause#, thr-ru were
physical causes there were cliru&itc causes ;
we were wantiog in supplies : wvro wanting
in medicines; were wanting in the food
to which they were accustomed—even iued-
icire was uihde a contraband. How could
wo supply them ? It ij.nl! the vilest slan
der that ever was perpetrated. It is here
where the Historical Society cau assist u»
and if you can succeed in giving such at
impulse to tht> orgauizutiou us wii! pirdl
servo the society and increase its useful-’
ness, you will have another claim to the
gratitude of your country.
Why, friends, it is somewhat difiicult for
a Confe terete, whose heart’s love ties bur
ied in the grave of our cause, to speak to
you on a subject which revives the memory
of that period, ia speak to you with that
forbearance and meekness which the occa
sion requires. I br.ve tri'd to do so, and
Ml I can nay ip that jf J hfive ( xwode<3
tho proper limit, j-on vlon’t know how hard
l have tried to keep ^iti in it. And now
my friends, ladies and gentlemen, let me
assure you that this same affectionate re
gard for you, the samo hope for jour fu
ture destiny, the same lielief in your pros
perity. the same high expect ntioi s of New
! a S whicb 1 have 80 often declared,
will follow me m tbe few remaining days
which I may yet live among you.
Mr, Davis received tnmuUam.s applause-
at the close of his speech, which wa# fre
quently interrupted by loud plaudits Yf-
ter he finished he was presented with a
wonderfully gorgeous flora! tribute that
seemed to afford him mu h plea#ure.
CongrcKKinao Miliar, ol Pruoay I v*aia.
H'a.A'KOto* Vorrcpondrnet n.,d Courier.
1 don t think that I have y*t drawn Mil-
iere portrait for yon. He is a bony iudi-
viduui, with ferret eyes sad a goatee: and
he bears a very strong facial resemb-
lanee to Gutteac. I sny “facia! r< semb
lance advisedly, for I do not mean to in
timate that Mr. Sam H. Milter is at ail
cox parabiG to Gatteiu in trae troodnoaB.-
I nope t ui Gmtcxu will not be shocked at
tiie cot,junction of Mr. Miller's name wire
his, for I appreciate the farq that in mak-
tng any comparison between the two X nm
taking a great liberty with the ULtmgnLh.
edpisoner In brief, Mr. M.lter hafcmi-
leati s fanaticism without his religion, his
vengefa ness without his extenuating in-
*..mty, hi* un-crapulousntss without his
ont tea !lii e S ot '*rn with
out tos affability. He ts a trueAype of the
Sonth-bater lie oorrows h: 3 voice from
Hoar and laa CupoMtion from Hades.
The firs, sets tny t-.ath ou edge and the.
iflnt awakeus aQpi<j4is:int old uujuacriaa ofi-
wdter-moc using. **
A Trw •jz Iron,
Cg*«Jia Letter in tn* S*raeu,e Standard
The iron palmetto is tho greatest workVf
ftri Sts the State-house yard. TSia ; j r * ,
ing wholly of W ^memoratto^
of’it. If liehsd any heart,"he "musf be on * nnme*° ara“ a fo£ad < inrafad 10^^
his own side. I would not give tuppence J brass tablets *t the bas^ Th* ' °“ Evro ’
for tne man wno-w heart was »o cold that this casting consists in o4f
he could Ire q lie impartial. We ail re- tion of the livtfig palmetio fK 'i
member the fable of the lion who saw a I tree of Sooth Carolii'£u u'rr. t ^ e fa ’ w,dte
* at ue which represented a lion prostrate i this statue in other i,ti*ta* w R V , ? f * r<i
at the feet of a man, and who said: "If the ' been able to believe»e*»r
lion had made that statue, the figures ! bis leaves b^dinffi in Jho
would have. been reversed.” I want our ' jug this phenomenon «uTopLteMlte. npp06 -
eide of the history. bnt such is real y the <»Xb tw** ,!
It may ba like tne other, but we don’t Jeeves of lion, life- ike oven te
lake exactly an equal view of it. Bnt the ' fibre* of the twigs 1? kxir-Ww
two will be compared by some one who ' tremulously to ev.rv ’ rs W>
comes after ns who will do justice to our ^ tree, [minted arti*ti~Jlv };L “„ ,
cause and our people. You sU know it flernbiance to the rtml “ **■
would bo needless for me to speak of it; ’ the arniest oboerrer at the dtei*V°
how thoroughly unprepared we were when rod*. tee distance of five
we engaged in war—without mcnoy, with- ■ T htse tmd memento** of „
out a mime amorg the nations, without cause all the gloriesW . 8 PXat
credit, without provisions, without arm*, triumph* of viiSortoua *rmt r t P**«r
without ammunition, without even facto- pitiable m-isnifieanVi to .•“‘k into
rtf* to make it: we went in relying solely thetic tribute to the *>2^22? gta-
upon brave hearts and bravo arm*, whose iievers in ttvi W °* f «U«t ae-
... J —- 'T^V »h«to 6ritk WM
DA VIS.
xfo UA KVa of tne Confederacy Me.
look to ua Al«»»r-A* Address fee-
in re tbe MathtraBlotariral Society
*1 Hew Orleans on Decoration XMty.
Ladies and Gentlemen—It would be al
most superfluous to address to ac audience
of New Orleans any argument in favor of
the preservation of the history of oor Con
federate straggle. Your coatee is too well
known—marked by too many deeds, both
in w*r and peace, to render it at a!! doubt
ful that your hearts be tra* to the cause
for which so many of oor friends and
brothers have died. Tho early colony of
Louisiana was constituted of men who
were refugees from oocquerors, and who,
guided by patriotism and sustained by
valor, came into a wilderness to make
for themselves a now home. And their de
scendants have shown from that day to
this tbe same characteristics wbioh marked
their fathers. I believe it has boon gen
erally conceded, and I think most truly,
that never was a people more universally
gallant than the creoles of Lonisiana. At
the very first sound of the late war your
citizens ran forth to the defense of their
country, and gave their sons to die upon
it* altars. It was from here that the chief-
tan who distinguished himself on so many
batiie fields went forth to battle, the ohief-
t*n whose name is so honored, General
Beauregard. It was here that so many
brave women gave up their homes ou l lux
ury to serve almost by the side of their
brothers and fathers.
It would ooDBume the whole evening
were I to attempt to enumerate the list,
but you have seen juat standing before you
the maimed wreck of one who went forth
sound aud vigorous, who lost one limb and
was sent back, who went into the field
again and lost anotbeij aud never faltered
in his zeal. It is here that the daughters of
Louisiana, always roremost in good works,
instituted the plan of decorating the graves
cf the Confederate dead, and bringing
their fragrant tribute, which in it* beanty
and annual recurrence expresses the
heartfelt love you bear the dead. Then
here, first too, was organized the Historical
Society in view of preserving the record*
of the Confederate war. That society has
boon removed from here, but still look*
back to this, the place of it* birth, and
here where you have been swf pt by the
beoom of deeolation, where you nave had
more trouble tban any other town which
was overrun, hero has arisen more monu
ments to tbe Confederate heroes than auy
other city of the South. People of New
Orleans, yon havo a right to be proud of
the past; and w* have a right to do confi
dent of you in the future. But there is yet
a higher nd more important duty to per
form. Monument* may crumble, their in
ecriplions may be defaced by time, but the
records, the little slips of paper which oon-
tain the memoranda-of what is passed, will
^7* forever, To preserve these records
faithfully is the higher and holier duty
still. They are now said to be in danger,
but when did Lonisiana ever hesitate to
put forth efforts whenever any j)f her
friedtis were in Ganger, zirey ww*
appeal to you now in the midst of disaster;
hero when your country has been over
whelmed with the flood; here when every
thing points more to the want of your
selves than a«pledge to fnrnish
•applies to others, they etill come
to Loniriana as the first
place in which they ask that the Confeder
ate records may be preserved. I do not
doubt tnat you will respond to the extent
of your power. I do not donbt that yon
will nobly aesist the organization, which
growing from year to year, and spreading
from cify to city, will render seouro the
perpetuation of those records, the value of
which it would be impossible to compute.
This is the duty that we owe to the dead—
the dead who died for ns, bnt whose memo
ry can never die. This is the duty we owe
to posterity, an obligation to see thst our
children learn the worth of their parents ;
to seo that the sons grow np worthy of their
noble mothers, their mothers who never
faltered in all the hours of trial through
which wo have passed. They who now
sleep in the grave cannot be benefited, it
is trae, by anything we do. Their cose is
gono lo a higher tribunal than that of any
earthly judgment, but their children and
their children's children are to be benefit
ed by preserving the record of all they did,
and of all tLo motives for whicb they died.
As for mo I only speak for myself.
It is to me a most desirable object that
the Conduct of our men in the defense of
that cause should be so presented to the
world as to leave no stoic upon it. They
went through strangles which might have
corrupted weaker men, bnt yeti during the
whole wsr, I never went into the army be
fore a battio without finding every camp
engaged ia prayer, and after the war wss
over, seo how many of tlwaa men forsook
their arson and went into the ministry ol
God, as in case of that worthy young man
you havo the good fortune to have preside
over your dioqeso now.t'-e soccerscr to one
who gave his l*st breath for tbe cause he
loved so well. It is not enough that we
hand down wbat was Fettled, that our men
wero brave, that our men were noble and
that our men exercised solf-denisi. You
must add to that, if yon would have
your children rise to the nigh piano I de
sire thorn to occupy—yon must add to that
the evidence of tho morality, the sobriety,
the forbearance, the nbsenco from that
crime and stain of the soldier, nnder all
the circumstances of the war. True we
did not invnde to any great extent; we did
to some, and it is a fact which I choose to
remember that, when our army invaded
tbe enemy’s country their properly wss sa
cred. I draw no comparisons, but if any
body else didn’t behave well, let it icsti
We had no army, our troops were not pro
fessional soldiers. They were men who
loved their wives and children and their
peaceful occupations, but at the first call
of.their country they seizod such weapon
as they could gather and stood around
their country like a wall of fire to defend
tbe rights their fathers left
them. Coutd there be cause more sacred
tban this? If there be anything that justi
fies human war, it is defense of duty, de
fense of country, defense of family, de
fense ot hom< and defense of constitution
al rights. Then, if I be asked, as possibly
I may be, why I wish to perpetuate such
painful memories, I say, in no spirit of
vengeance, in no deeire for vain glory, and
in no wish for sectional exaltation, bui
that the posterity of the men, such ns I
have referred to, may rise equal to their
parents—higher if possible—and that the
South hereafter may be remembered in all
time, and all tho glories recorded which
Bhe has heretofore manifested; and it U
only by preseivicg these records, by gath
ering thoee facts together that you can
ever hope to convey to posterity an exact
idea of the men who fonght *nJ perished
in our struggle. It is not enough to show
where some general won a battle, or suc
cessfully carri. d'soine bieastwork; it is not
enough to show where one army destroyed
another, but what was the character of the
meu and how they behaved themselves ou
the field; and this you can only do by col
lecting such evidence as Gov. Nicholls
stated to you it was tho object of this soci
ety to gather.
The highest quality of men is self-sacri
fice. The man who gives his lire for an
other, tho man who surrenders all his
earthly prospect*, that is lhe man who
most nearly fo! ows that grand exemplar
which is given to us bs the model of weak
hurnuuit/. Thai wo had many of these, it
is tho purpose of this society, by collecting
the evidence, to show to the world. Let it
suffice to say here that I wocld have our
children’s children to know not only (bat
our cause was just—that may be ln tori-
uilly established—but I would have them
know that tho men who sustained it weie
worthy of the cause for which they
fought. These are the great objects of the
society.
The other side has written and is writing
their history of the cause. We want to
preserve ours also, (hit the future histo
rian, by comparison of both, may cvolvs
that fair stalem -nt which probably noctn-
temporary could make. I would frankly
acknowledge that 1 would distrust the man
who served the Confederate cause and was
capable of giving a disinterested account
anu unanimity ox car people, a no Hero- WMToh list fajleti lik/i . ,
ism of our soldier* has caused the adnsl. da-kwa* over «ji of
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