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THE WEEKLY TELEGRRPH; TUESDAY. MAY 1,1888.-TWELYE P \DES.
neral Observance of Memo
rial Day in Macon.
ENTIRELY SUSPENDED.
[ Beautiful Addre« from Capt. John L.
Hii.ilet.mi>, ond o Touching I’rnycr
from Dr. Ken.lall-Tlie Mili
tary ami Children.
strike for liberty and his people. The
lawyer forsook liis argument of words for 1
one of lead. The minister of God laid
aside his holy garb and appealed to the
god of battles. The schoolteacher no longer
taught the young his a-b abs, but went
forth to teach the invader the lesson of
Southern rights and Southern braverv;
while doctor and surgeon went out to toe
field to bind up the wounds of friends, and
to make others for the enemy secundum
artcm. v
From the cities of the South, the Confed
erate came enthused _ with a Southern
enthusiasm. Front beside the sea, he sailed
into the war with a tempestuous love of
freedom. From mountain heights, he
ruBhed with the impetuosity of mountain
enerallv
Although memorial day has been ob-
.„-.i : n Uacon each recurring year since torrent, his arm as strong as mountain oak,
lervcu i j ]n S courage as hxed as the everlasting
the adoption of the cu.to son e twenty- | j 1 j|i 8 _ Boy, man, aged grandsire—each be-
two years ago, the observance of yesterday ! came a soldier. lie was a man who had a
seenird to be more general, there was a home to fight for. He was one who had
outpouring of the people and a | no possession but wife and child and whose
grcaie* x o ‘ j I patrimony was but the heart of his ances-
ltirger q antity °* “ owera * or “ 1<J graves . tor8 a j ove 0 f liberty. There
than has ever been known. were those who owned not soil enough to
When the military marched from the ' cover them; while on others fortune ‘had
»-> SliSit
Mulberry street followed, the business — J
portion of the city seemed deserted. The
_ . 1 smoking tobacco, I your valor and sweet rcvei
a pipe, and sometimes a little soap. life and death, may yearly
With bis rags, his poverty, weary of I your graves with sweetest flowers, as you
limb and weary of heart, he pu-lied on as j have decked the pages of history with
Moses did through the Wilderness. For deeds of daring and unconquerable patrl-
roKXiSAM SMALL’S PARTY.
“Yea, in lt?BH title
him no manna came as thedewsof her
no quails came up and covered the camp;
but whence ho was supplied seemed almost
as miraculous. He fought his battles and
pushed on until he ascended his Pisgnh of
destiny and saw the promised land of a
free and independent country for his peo
ple, and, like Moses, while on the high
peaks of hope—
d,
stores were closed, there were but few peo-
The Confederate Boldier was our father,
our brother. He was a hero. Was he
right? See him as he tore himself from
pie
the street?, and business was indeed E‘ s loved ones, when he unwound the lov-
’ . lnir arm frnm lim nprk nnd nngnpi hnplr
r - . , m. .1 i I tog Brm from his neck and pushed back
entirely suspended. There were thousands the little ones clinging to his knee, or as
0 f people at the oesetery, and the day he bent over the sleeping cliild in the still
to have been given up entirely ' ness of the night to kiss his baby boy a long.
. .. .wtmdto it. nbtervnnee. n la5t farewell. See him barefoot and
and all interest absorbed in its observance.
The first feature of the day was the an
nual
decoration of the monument.
This is always left to Librarian Ilerbst
hungry marching right up to the cannons'
mouth that spoke in thunder, and whose
every word was a sentence oi death. See
him wounded, on the battlefield crying for
water—dying in a hospital, far away from
_»nd a committee of ladies, Mrs. M m. j lome —no loving wife near, no sister, no
Be-rden, Mrs. Wm. Flanders, Mrs. Man-
soti Mrs. Chestney,and Miss Georgia Con
ner all faithful workers in the cause. At
an early hour thev went to work and by
noon had it about ready. The base was
wreathed in evergreen and flowers in most
oleasine arrangement. Chief Jones, of the
jire department, very kindly had the
trick brought down, umbtho boys with a
ladder placed a Confederate flag at the
side of the man on the monument so that
it folds would float over their head. An
other flag was placed by Mr. Herbst with
in the enclosure, and all forming a scene
dear to the heart of every Southerner who
looked upon it.
THE MILITARY.
In the afternoon the sound of the fife
and drum was heard upon the streets.
This seemed to be the signal for closing
the stores and places of business, as well
U for the assembly of the military. Soon
afterward the soldiers were seen hurrying
to their respictivc armories, and
at 3 o’clock the Southern Cadets marched to
Triangular Block, halting on the north
side of Second street. They were soon
joined by the Macon Volunteers and then
by the Floyd Rifles. Formed in line by
acting Adjutant Kenan, the command was
turned over to Lieutenant-Colonel C. M.
Wiley. The order was given to carry
arms and then to forward, and the bat
talion marched into Cherry street, down
■Cherry to Third, up Tiiiru, to Mulberry
and up Mulberry on its way to the ceme
tery. Arriving in the cemetery, batalion
marched to the speaker’s stand at the
head of Soldiers Lot and stacked arms.
Seated in the stand were Mrs. Wm. Lee
Ellis, President of tho Memorial Associa
tion. Mils Kale Ajrs. JsejrtflTy anil
Treasur-r, Col. Tlios. Hardeman, Kcv. F. R.
Kendall, Mr. \Y, R. Rogers, Mrs. Thoe.
Wells and others.
mother, none of these there to hover around
hia couch; the angels he should last see on
earth ere he beholds the angels in heaven.
See all this, and then answer. Was he
right! The answer comes back: I care not,
he bled for me—he died for me.
“He sleeps. What need to question now If ho
were wrong or right,
He knows, ere this, whose cause was just, In
find, thi* Pathfip'a nlirhf
God, tho Father’s sight.
He wields no war-like weapons now, returns no
frwMnnn’« fhniit
focman's thrust,
Who but a coward would revile an honored
soldier's dust."
The army of the South rose up as tho
whistle shrill of Rhoderick Dhu was an
swered by Clan Alpine. The God
dess of the Confederacy sprang
from the hearts of her peo
ple as Minerva came full panoplied
irum the brain oi Mars. The Southern
soldier stepped forth “with a farewell to
pence and a welcome to war,” full armed,
and with what? A few Enfield rifles and
a. handful of smooth-bores, some Missis
sippi yagers and Joe Brown’s pikes. The
drum beat of war was heard in every vil
lage. Train after train—and freight trains
a that—hurried by filled with troops,
ef red lustily by boys, while women shed
fieir precious tears and waived them on
.< victory.
_ In six short months our State had hur
ried into the field near 40,000 men. The
first troops to land on Virginia soil—not
her own sons—were your two old com
panies, the Volunteers and Rifles, together
with the brethren of the Second Georgia
battalion—one of these companies, the one
I am. proud to-day to command, being the
fi st in the State to unfurled to lie breeze
the stars and bars of the young Confcd-
TIIE PROGRAMME.
So large was tho concourse of people that
all the available space in the vicinity of
the stand was occupied, and alio mu ' along
the avenue on the mirth side of (tie sol
diers’ lot. Near the stand, on seats ar
ranged for them, were the young ladies of
Wesleyan, under the direction sf I’rof.
Newman.
Tbeexercises began with abeautiful and
appropriate prayer by Rev. T. R. Ken
dall, pastor of Mulberry Street Methodist
Church.
Following this, the young ladies of Wes-
lejan sung “When the Mist Has Cleared
Away.” It waa sweetly sung, and highly
enjoyed by the vast crowd.
Alter this, Mr. \Y. R. Rogers arose and
stated that Capt. John L. Hardeman, who
needed no introduction to the people of
Macon, would then deliver the oration of
day.
THE ADIHiES-S.
Capt. Hardeman, in the uniform of his
company, the Floyd Rifles, then delivered
the following address;
When we stand in tho presence of the
dead, the tongue loses its cunning, and the
heart asserts its sway. Memory goes back
through all the years, and there come up
on so vividly, so many scenes that touch
the tender chords of affection and awaken
within ns such songs of recollection , that
human words seem but withered sounds.
Standing to-day in the presence of these
' tret y is whispering of love for
them, every flower is blooming with devo
tion, every sunbeam bearing words of
•*eet recollection from loved ones far' raw,' because
**sy, while every breeze is alive with n shrivel — *■
'Pint of adoration. As each of these gen- ‘ *
us agencies softly performs its duty, so
•“My scenes through which these dead
J? en passed—so many heroic deeds that
twy enacted—rise up, that volumes alone
tould do them justice. •
A spirit is callihg us to-day, not with a
As the long days of war dragged on,
Georgia swelled her number to 10*5,000,
while the rest of the young republic fur
nished 500,0 0 more to meet in battle ar
ray 2,090,000 of the best organized, best
equipped army on the globe, while in the
words of
ords of one who so heroically fought to
make ourhistory then, and who Is so grand
ly striving to preserve our history now,
“from first to last ours was the worst
quipped, the worst fed, the worst clothed
and the worst organized army the world
ever saw;’’while Gen. Lee expressed it;
“I nm ashamed for strangers to sec my
barefoot, ragged boys in camp, but I would
bo glad for all tbo world to see them on
the field of battle.” It was not of his men
that he was ashamed. It was not their
valor lie did not want beholden, but their
poverty, their rags. What would the great
Napoleon have said— be who declared that
“the first qualification of a soldier is fort!
tilde under laliu'oe and plivalii.n?”
Did this soldier have it? Did fatigue
ever come over him? or did the hungry
jaws ofnrivation ever snap in his very
taco? The soldier boywlio left home with
tight-fittiog uniform, well packed knap
sack, a trunk full of necessary clothing, a
camp chest of absolute necessities, besides
an interest in the negro cook, toon, nil! too
soon, learned that his knapsack must go,
nnd the contents of his haversack, that hia
trunk and his chest must be as a dream,
while the clothes upon his back must be
his all.
The black cook is gone, and one of the
boys soon learns to bake bread on a ram
rod and fry bacon in » skillet. How much
did he have to fry? 8<> small a piece that
many a poor hungry wiu) would eat it
I e in rooking it would
ip too much. Parched corn
Issued for ooffee many a time
has done duty fur bresd. With such rations
this soldier Hjmbt for love of country—
not for monewrnot for wealth. Ilia pay
for four bloody years averaged, in gold,
about thirty-five tents per month. This
could not furnish him many luxuries, but
He filled the first requisite of Napoleon’s
rule. How about the second? “Valor is
only second.” Ho had fortitude. Had
lie valor? Ask the Mississippi, as
it flows by Vicksburg and Fort
Pillow. Ask the mountains of East Ten-
nessee and Georgia, and hear their thun
ders as they roll from Lookout and Mis
sionary Ridge and Kennesaw! Ask the
valleys and plains of Virginia, and the
whisperings of each leaf will bo in the
voice of a patriot whose death struggle was
the most glorious answer that history can
make.
The song of triumph from Manassas yet
rings in our ears, and as echses to it roll
anil roll those from Fredericksburg. Chan-
cellorsville, Cold Harbor, Gaines’ Mill and
Frazier’s Farm, Second Manassas, Har
per’s Ferry, Chickaraauga, Olustee anti the
Wilderness, and the reverberations from
the fearful crater are hurled back on tlie
foo with valo? unprecedented.
Wasliebrave? Ask Beverlv Kennon
why he shot through the bow ol his own
boat when lie saw that his guns were too
high to reach the Varuna, unless lie thus
tore away his own Bide to drive destruction
into the enemy.
Go to Battery Gregg and see two hun
dred and fifty Confederates three times
drive back Gibbons’s column of 5,000 men.
See them as the fourth charge war made
by such a column—a handful 30 men,
whose guns were loaded by their wounded
comrades, and when the Federals rushed
in tiiey found 250, 220 of wiiom were
killed and wounded, while they them
selves had down upon the field near GOO
dead and dying.
Look around Richmond where SO.OOO
Confederates were beleaguered by 105,000
of the enemy, 30,000 of whom were lost.
Lee at Second Manassas, 49,000 Confeder
ates, met 60,000 and killed and wounded
30,000 of them. At Sharpsburg 33,000 of
our men being opposed to 87,000, killed
and wounded over 12.000. while the ene
my’s loss was about the same at Freder
icksburg, where 75,000 Confederates met
120,000, while at ChanccllorsvillR 57,000
caused 133,000 Federals to lose 17,000 men.
At Murfreesboro 35,000 Confederates
fought 43,000 and killed and wounded
8,500, while Bragg with 50,000 made Chic-
amauga run red with the blood of 11,000
from their army of 55,000. At Gettysburg,
where so much precious Macon bloAd so
freely flowed, in the thickest of which light
the Macon Volunteers lost 29 nnd the
Floyd Rifles 33—59,000 Confederates at
tacked 101,000 and laid upon the field 2
000 of their bravest, while in the Wild,
ness G4,000 Southerners mowed down G0,-
000 out of the 140,000 they had.’
At Durham twenty-three years ago to
day Johnston with 14,000 surrendered to
Sherman, who had 00,000, while at Appo
mattox, 7,800 half starved, ragged rebels
laid down their arms to Grant with 155,-
vvu stalwart men.
And one of Virginia’s sons tells us that
from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor Lee
killed and Wounded more 6f the enemy
titan he himself hail carried into the cam-
>aign, and that from Cold Harbor to Five
forks he again put hors du combat as
great a number as was left him for the d
tense of Petersburg. These arc but son
of the places where our soldier boy lias
been
For him a summons w. igo out to a re
union. The angel of the resurrection
shall sound the reveille of eternity, and
these war-worn veterans hero on earth will
otrun.
The yearnings of your heart would have
been to lav you down to sleep where your
wife and little ones might come; to nave
re stud ’neath the trees where your boyish
feet have trod; to sleep with those who
guided v hi in youth, ami with your daily
breath breathed into your life the love of
home and native laud, that was the day
star of your being.
Here perhaps was never the solt footfall
of a child of yours to see her father’s
grave; never the innocent prattle of your
little ones to break tho solemn stillness of
these groves, but how much more blessed
your ashes to rest in this holy place than
the hundreds that bo seattered from Vir
ginia to the Rio Grande; no grave, no
Heat} board, no name,
“But oniltBturlicd In sleep profound.
Unheeding there he lay,
His coran hut the mountain soil,
Ills shroud Confederate gray.’*
It devolves upon tho living to preserve
the- history these dead have made. Had
God permitted me to have Bhared in that
glorious contest, to-dav I would tell you
the deeds of those you knew, of those with
whom I should have served. Ob, ye that
bared your bosoms to the storm of battle,
write out what von saw—it is too radiant
with glory tc be lost. Give it to your
children, not the campaigns, not tile
orders of generals and the disposition
of armies, but the deeds of
man, the man you knew, the
man you Blept with. These are the records
we want. They the dear dead have made
them. Do you preserve them. Let the
sentiments of reverence we have be accom
panied with the facts on which they are
founded. The glorious dead spoke fa the
rattle of musketry, and the civilized world
heard amazed. They commanded in thun
der tones of cannonry and the armies of
the universe stood still. In sentences of
flame that leapt from gnn to gun, they
wrote, tlieir record of valor that illumines
the liisiory of time; and to the music of
the oft repeated veils of victory and the
charge, they march, march, march, straight
into the white tented fields of glory
“where the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary be at rest.’’ •
TRIBUTES FROM THE CHILDREN.
When the exercises at the stand had
been concluded the children of the public
schools began theirs. Under the direction
of Superintendent Zettler, Professor Abbott
and the teachers, three large wagons load
ed with.flowers, and followed by a long
procession of the children, were driven
down to tho lot. The flowers had been
made into bouquets, wreathes, crosses and
other shapes, and these were taken by the
children and deposited upon the graves.
This was the most interesting sight of the
day, this strewing of flowers on tue graves
of the soldiers by little children. Every
gravo received its quota, not one was neg
lected.
The ladies had previously decorated the
graves, and in different portions of the lot
..s.-i :r.r.'.ra! 11 ? a ! - - - * - —
(Evangelist Small
limn fh .”)
I)r. Hawthorne. \V. A. Hemphill. Green
Dodd, George Ilillver and Recorder Ander-
Hon were alluded to jih the big-mouth talk
ers who were not here to-day.
1 he chairman Haiti tin* question of tariff
I was not- a live issue. The matter of getting
SIXTY LONE DFIEOATFS SHOW UP l cllca P c, ? thIn 8 W!l “ a “mail one, when
OIAU LUI1C UlLluH lo onui? ur, compared to saving itouls from hell. In
conclusion he paid a tribute lo the negro
Its Alleged State Convention
In Session. I
.« Clmlrman States That ills Party VVltl
Nave Souls, “llust“ tee Republican
Party, nml Then llo Up the
Democracy nt Its Leisure.
, ry wewHH u. UTU.O no* s wu.w --- -- y-—/ «- - —
"ole* of rebellion, but of loyalty—loyalty 1 luxuries lie would have whenever they Union was made, the Revolution fought,
to our dead. It is akin to the spirit that ’ could be fouml. The heroes of Lexington and Concord will
; spirit
prompted Samuel to raise his Ebenezer
the Almighty thundered upon the
j ntlwtines and smote them before Israel.
Tk* ,arae voice that whispered to
hor ,V l( l*en, whose inspiration called
•“to life from the side of the mountain
™ci« of Lucerne, the dying lion to com
memorate the valor and death of the
guard—mail-til' os ho ilien. hia once
After drawing two months’ pay, two of
the Second Georgia Battalion went into
Richmond to enjoy a feast, and dining at a
hotel thev had to pay thirteen dollars
each, and on returning to camp, all that
one could tell he haif was thirteen cups
of coffee.
Ilia little ration, how often did he share
I M it one with another. It left his hungry
powerlul arm still stretched out to guard | possession to go to the women and coil-
•“e lilies of France. I dren of Fredericksburg. While there was
l If ** inspiration that made yon, • issued to each for a day’s ration one-twen-
•Miw of the Memorial Atwre-iaiion.'put ty-fourth of a pound of rancid bacon and
tutu your marble that sad, stern, piteous .... 1 1
*cc that look.,out towards his own Sunny
hasten away from tlieir furloughs to join
their comrades in Valhalla. In the
uu several botmtifui ucsigiis of crosaan
and aVehrs. and when the children hrnuaht
their offerings the graves were literally
wared with flowers, more profusely than
ver before. The association adopted a
. ise plan in assigning to the ladies in dif
ferent sections of the citv certain portions
>f the lot, and thus with a general and
generous response from the laai- - all over
xiie ciiy, broughi put a wetiiiii ui newer*.
RETURNUtp TO THE CITV.
The work of the children and ihe firing
of three vollega by the battalion closed the
memorial exercises. The military marched
into the city, followed by the people, who
formed a full and long procession, in which
were a great Dumber of ladies and children
on foot and in vehicles.
marches they have made their tramp,
tramp, tramp, has left “foot-prints on the
sands of time,” which shall solidify into
rock, nnd the historical geologist of the
future shall find them as he docs the tracks
ol extinct animals to-day. and read to ihe
world of a race of patrfo s without pay,
heroes without homes, comrades without
cowardice, soldiers without shame.
And when the bugles ring out for the
armies of the world to pass in review,
Joshua and his priests with the ram’s
horns and the army that shouted down the
walls of Jericho will be there. Leonides
will marshal the 300 frorii Tharmopohe,
heroes of Marathon and Luctre, Bruce and
Wallace with their Scots, Louis and the
Swiss Guard, Cardigan and the Light
Brigade, Napoleon and the Old Guard,
Wellington, Washington, all, all will be
there, and os they wheel into column of
nations, each army will pass in review in
A Troubled Darlir
The drummers bring in a good story oc
casionally.
Mr. Alex. Suiters was in Griftin a few
drvs ago and while there went into a bar
ber simp to be shaved. The barber wore a
Worried look and when lie had Mr. Subors
lathered he became loquacious.
“Boss, I see iii the paper, about a dead
man’s body being taken up, and he was
clean shaved when he was buried, but
when tiiey took him up lie had a full
beard. Is there tiny truth iu it?”
‘Oil, yes,” replied the drummer, “I read
the account myself.”
“Clean shaved when ho died?”
“Clean as my baby."
“And when they took him up had a full
beard on his fnce?”
Certainly.”
Moat be'so, that other gcutleman what
•hared ju-i now said so too; but it wor-
t'.es me li.iulltily.”
Why should it worry you?"
Well, they tell me he was a good man,
and the only way I can make it out is that
he went to heaven and there ain't no bar-
ben there. I’m going to get out of this
‘ go into something that I'll
Atlanta, April 24.—Evangelist Small
started his new party off to-day. It was
proposed by the Evangelist to make the
first m.tional prohibition convention ever
assembled in Georgia a “hummer.” The
town was thoroughly handkilled, and every
delegate busied himself during the morn
ing in pouring out “moral suasion" upon
tho conservative prohibitionists of At
lanta. There were few responses to the
urgent requests, however, for when Dr.
Perkins mounted the sneaker’s rostrum,
after glancing in the gallery at the like
ness of Tnomaa Jefferson, his eyes
dropped down into the hall, to see only
about sixty members of the party in at
tendance. The composition of the assem
bly was about fifty whites, fullv thirty of
whom pretend to have left the Republican
iarty, and twenty who no longer claim al-
cgiance to the party of Democracy and
and good government.
Among those present were Judge David
A. Newsom, Mr. A. A. Murphy of Ilarnes-
villc, Mr. A. A. Delsoacli, Prof. II. M. Ses
sions of the Atlanta University, G. N.
Hurtell, Mr. Jonathan Norcross, W. L.
Hanleitor of Griffin, Mr. Molly, Rev. Sam
W. Small, Dr. J. O. Perkins. Bishop Tur
ner of the African M. E. Church,
and Prof. A. Graves. Mr. Graves was
“knocked out” by Col. Bill Pledger
at the Republican convention last week,
as a candidate from the State at large.
The professor thinks it best to draw out of
the Republican party, and be says it is an
infernal disgrace.
ORGANIZATION.
In calling the hotly to order Dr. Per
kins gave a description of the party since
its organization in Georgia in 1880 ; Hq
then declared nominations for chairman
in order. It became evident from the first
that some one would have to assume con
trol of matters, and without the least lies
itation Evangelist Small took
the position. Tho ■ first occa
sion for his rising was to nominate
A. A. Murphy, of Barnesville, as chair
man, and he was unanimously elected.
Evangelist Small and Professor Session^
of Atlanta University, escorted Mr. Mur
phy to the chair. The chairman was
loaded; he was red hot mail. His speech
consumed exactly one hour. He bej'an:
■ t.iemietlliMI c,f tin- ,-MilVt-iitiuii wf tliu
National Prohibition party of Georgia, la
dies and gentlemen who are present to
give us your encouragement: In accept
ing tin* p<>-itiuH v,,ii have ti nth-red tin-
want to say that 1 do so with more pride
and with more feeling of exaltation than
I would to accept the chairmanship of the
Democratic convention that assembles on
the 9tli of May. [Appl m-e.] Before I
take my seat I will explain, 1 trust, that
statement. _ (
, I cun pray before God. I have
oted the Democratic ticket for years, and
nic and again have 1 gone to ihe polls
and deposited my ballot with closed eyes,
ashamed was l to do it.
(Evangelist Small—“Hit ’em again.”)
fio help me God, I never shall tako_ a
_.and again, polit-dtl, social, or otherwise,
that I am not willing to pray for the suc-
oess thereof.
PROHIBITION “SCAMI-S.”
As tho gnllcry was full of prohibition
ists, the chairmun devoted a little attention
bus
iu national uniform fit for inspection,
until there comes an army “whose line, (in
the language of D. If. Hill) waa as crooked
stand some chance of getting to heaven in
Next!’
aa a ram’a horn, each ragged rebel yelling
on his own account and aligning on him-
self.” An army without arms, an army
worn out, an army uniformed in jeans, in
Macon milk, in anything, but an army
“That knew no shame, no folly and no
fear.” An army that fought for principle,
that died for principle, the same princi
ples for which their forefathers fell, the
ortuuate Lumber Camp Ticket Holders
Some months ago a party working In the lum
ber ramp of Wm. Coech, on the Hlurgeon river,
orderared 31 tenth tickets In the laiuUUna Btute
tottery. One of these was a tenth of ticket No.
71,MS, which won the tlrst prize of 51.VJ.00 1 ! In
the drawing of the Tlh of February, giving tho
handsome sum otlU>,U00 to be divided. There
were sixteen In the club, the tlekcta being tent
to George J. Johnson, of Baraga. Three of the
holdere were of one family, being John Hod-
weln# his wife and child, who tbua secures •
good share.-L’Anae (Mich.) Sentinel. March 3.
_ mth, the Confederate soldier, sad, sail,
*Ru a hopeless, “resting on his arms,” a
' l'teket off duty forever."
Itie the spirit that cnmnu-oiorates deeds
salor, deed? of h yyoutn, deeds of patri-
This spirit makes a yearly pil-
one-sixth of a pound of corn meal, lie
would deprive himself of a day’s supply
to give to the starving poor of Richmond,
and in tlie awful hours that so shortly pre
ceded Appomattox, he fared royally on
one-tenth pound of flour and one-twentieth
pound of bacon.
When we *ee this man living this stare-
to this shrine to bow down and I Wo-wten we sec him on the march
*■' •"P ‘hat life which w. M out in s-id- through rain and wmd.drenched ut .uhh-
f ”ty, and tike the gnu that sinks Pi 'fS wh . en round
.‘ hind a dark black cloud, toon by its hear him joyously sing ng around
®hwmoa after glow, paints the wboto wait! campfires, ch « rful de> P‘“
J.t'h crimson and with cold—that life, the-1 the elements » nd f lh *
** UHonthernsoMI*. we: seetibia lortuudc undyr -u;-... a..d
t ml who w he’ privation, and he stands forth lit Owl
Vhat d'nl he? I soldier that ever wakened to rcveillo or
JJ’here was he, and where k he? heard hi* last tattoo.
Mhni th. whisperings discontent \\ hat a picture has been painted by
•w*loud and lot .ier. ...... . ml. - .1 and ol the “Boye in Gray. Ledu.v.1 p.
"tntreri d, gq,! thundered into ar the - mlnlmaw, the Confederate eolalgr
|*n»er lift hi, plow to yak* great furrows »•*<« d ff one man, one hat, one jacket
through the. ..roiy'erop’p, Tl mechanic pairof panse, w shirt, one p-ur »f -I
WTthef, ... -, t v • beating on-pair of -nek- Hi, baggage waa
wi*l ' in blanket aud haversack. '1 lie iu
join with the larger band from Manassas.
Valley Forge veterans repeat their marches
in Virginia’s valleys, Marion and his
men make the foray with John H. Mor
gan, Pulaski stand shoulder to shoulder
with Pickett , and Polk, Bartow attract
Green from his hidden resting place and
Dungctiness give up Light. Hone Harry
Lee to ride side by side with the great esp-
taiu of tho bust, his icariesa sou, immortal
Robert Lee, father and son side by side un
der the same flag, for the same principles,
can they and all these march.
Around the sunny tents in the fair fields
of Eden we shall see these • Southern sol
diers os we saw them a quarter of a centu
ry ago, not grown old in care,
in trouble, in the darkr.es.,
defeat, but with faces as they were,
manly faces, youthful faces, Itoy ih faces;
faces bronzed with soldier life; ennobled
with a son, of duty well performed, subli
mated by the shouts of victory, on which
their souls were wafted into the eternal
camps of peace.
These that here sleep so calmly in Rose
Hill are Uod’i gift, to you, that you may
yearly pay your vowe at thk holy place,
^ coed by (he influence ok’ their
and, ton
mentor*, learn well the story of their lives
to treasure up the eacredne -t of their ex
ample and breathe in with the very air
devotion lo their principle*.
■mlexp. soldier,Ile- I-: tbjr warfares., r."
Sleep here where v..t, wi n- laid to
when roar country's fl»c n.,t con
quered banner; Imre ill thi, .jiiiet City ,-i
tlie dead, wliere woman's admiration vt
St. Michael the Weigher.
Stood the Archangel weighing
All man's dreaming, doing, laying.
All the fiiilure and the pun,
All the triumph and the gain,
In the tmlmagined years.
i ull of hope,, more full of tears,
Since old Adam's conscious eyes
lliekwsrd searched for Paradise,
A ml Instead the flame-blade taw
Of Inexorable law.
I marked him there,
atwgud, hicks, iugiieii,
yi*b uia utu-gua, lncact.ua
In hi, blinding armor stand,
And tho sjale, were in hia hand.
M tghty wrre they and full well
I hey con d poise both heaven and hell.
Iask. -i l humbly then.
“ w idghest thoa the souls of men?
That thine ortlre l, x know.”
“ v sy,'' he eniuri red me, “not so;
etgh the hope ol man mm
ter of choice
the power
. began
It. the world of good or HI."
Hu n I waited and was still,
sic t saw him place
All the vtnrtea of onr rare
Cop, that lit Belshazzar's feast.
Many
To
sis
ol >ci*nce, vain.
men as god* again.
In the other arale be threw
Thliiir* repanlleaa, rmtraat few
M artyr H-h. arena und.
'-“"U Iruti. N'rord anrun.l,
»*-•«■« cupa oi man wboaa need
\ 4»v t that the t>oor might feed,
I>hilIu»ions arm •{•"•pairs
Of jouneaalnU with icriff-k'r.md hairs,
i r-.a- n beartt that break for man.
«-itiK Oirt; ltie Ix-nm divln'r
Hwjfsrjr on this hand I
" •* 1 L*rih
He had always been an abolitionist. When
he was fifteen years old his uncle used to
scold him about his views on abolition.
He admired the men who let the negroes
out of bondage.
No sooner had the chairman unloaded
himself, Evangelist Small popped up and
nominated W. R. Hanleiter, of Griffin, and
C. D. Barker, of Atlanta as secretaries.
They were elected. Evangelist-Small was
up ngain. This time lie arose to tell what •
was necessary to be done. He moved for
the appointment of two committees of seven
each; one on platform and one to recom
mend an executive committee and on
electoral ticket, nnd delegates to the
national convention.
MR. small’s BCALPINO KNIFE.
While tlie Evangelist was up some one
remarked that all the fellows who were
holding off would come in later. '
"Well, I hope, said the evangelist, it
won’t be that crowd that waylaid Bam
Jones at tlie house ot his sick sister • the
other night and tried to dissuade him
from coming to that meeting to make a
speech. I hope it will not be the crowd
that did that disreputable thing and the
preacher who was so recreant to his duty
as to endeavor to prevent a brother minis
ter from keeping his promise and doing
Ilia duty."
Shame! shame I” cried several dele
gates.
“If I get back here to-niglit,” said Mr.
Small, “I will come with my scalping
knife whetted to expose the doings of that
crowd.
The following committees were appoint
ed:
Committee on platform—Evangelist
Smaii, J. C). Perkins, C. D. Barker, W. R.
Hanleiter,Virgil R. Smith, H. C. Johnson,
II. H. Sessions and W. G. Solomon.
Committee on delegates anti tickets:
Evangelist Small, A. A. DcLoach, II. J.
Ellis, E. D.’Chesltire, J. A. LeFontaine, E.
M. ItoberLs, A. T. Talley, J. O. Perkins.
Evangelist Small offered a resolution
endorsing Gen. Clinton B. Fiske, of' New
Jersey, as the proper person to be nomi
nated for the Presidency and Col. George
W. Bain for the Vice Presidency; which
was referred to tho committee on platform
and resolutions.
Prof. Sessions offered a resolution in
dorsing the Voice as the national prohibi
tion paper, and recognizing the Star as the
State organ of the party. This was referred
to tlie committee on platform and resolu
tions.
A. A. DeLoaqli offered a resolution
thanking W. S. Wishiun, of New York
city,‘formerly of Troup county, font tent
donated for the use of the party in the
coming campaign in Georgia. This was
adopted unonlmoualv.
Kev. W. J. Kill- then and said that
he hoped the convention a • h : tot-drive
away otiicr prohibitionists by harshness.
Brother Small had said that he was coming
back with his scalping knife. If it ivas to
throw jokes at tlo-ts it tv as .ill right, but he
hoped there would not bo anything violent.
There are prohibitionists like Win. A.
not drive them away; the;
after while.
Evangeli- 1 ! Small said:
quiet, brother Ellis, but the
at ns; if they do I’ll hit bat
The party adjourned to n
night.
ill all jbin
I am somewhat amused,’’ said he, “hero
in Atlanta on this occasion, in casting my
eye over the audience and into tho gallery,
to find that some of our loudest-mouthed
prohibitionists here in Atlanta arc stand
ing nt a distance. [Applause.] Great big
fat scamp*, standing oil from us when we
have been In the ranks with them. [Ap-
dause.] It is quite amusing to me. I
.ave been here when you had tlie prohibi
tion question up, and I see in the galleries
to-day tlie biggest-mouthed prohibitionists
—all sorts—national, local and every other
kind.”
(Evangelist Small—“Hit 'em again.”)
The chairman next paid attention to
George Ilillycr.
“I am a little amused at my good
friend, Judge Iiillyer. Didn’t vou hear
him talk mighty' ‘oud and _long? I
thought if there was a prohibitionist in
Fulton county, he was.”
Mr. Murphy then proceeded to go for
the Democratic party. He said that the
auti-prohibitionisu were opposed to a
third party, but the reason they did not
want one was because they had two parties
already.
He says the liquor men may want a
third party, but the prohibitionists don’t
need one. In the name of God when the
LIQUOR MEN HAVE ALREADY GOT TWO
“We’ll keep
must not hit
et at 7 :*»U to*
The convention reassembled at 8 o’clock,
with Chairman Mart by presiding. lie-
ports of committees were received. The
committee on a new executive committee
ml delegates to the national convention
reported an follows, both of which reports
were adopted:
Delegates to Indianapolis, Evangelist
?mall, of Fulton: Dr. J. O. Perkins, Kill-
on; A. A. Murpny. Pike; 'Win* K. Ilan-
eiter, Spalding; JiUhop N. M. Turner,
(colored) Fulton; We Cl Sibley, Richmond;
Prof. II \ s. omii, Newton: W. J. Munir,
Whitfield; John L Harden, Liberty; Prof.
II. Me Sessions, Fulton; II. M. Vappelt
(colored,) Fulton; Virgil H»
Siniih, Hall; James Mitchell, I >. I >;
• ’III Sills ItUtl , willin'* .’All* lit II, A'. J/,
A. Grandson (colored;) Arnold T.
PARTI QS,
what do they want with a third? The
Democratic party, o» a national party. U a
liquor party; the Republican party m a
national party U too. In the name of
God do they want nil. If they have two
part ea in thin country do let the prohibi
tionists have one Judge Hiilyer says the
prohibition sentiment is overwhelming—
that it numbers two-thirds of the Demo
cratic party and two-thirds of the Repub
lican party. Well, if thai little one-third
have got the courage to make them put in
the liquor plank every time, then I have
irot to vote for it, then I am tired of it,
In the name ol tiod lets get togetner tne
sober element of the Democratic carty
and the sober element of the Republican
party and the hot element of the colored
people and carry thia country by four-
thirds; and this u what we mean.”
(Evaugelist Small: “Amcu! Ilit’cm
again!”)
The chairman next told how the na
tional prohibitionists were ooming into
power. “You know,” said he, “that if it
had not been f«»r the prohibition vote in |
1884 Blaine would now be Prr*tri* nt* for
lie would have carried New \.»rk by
40,( 00 majority. Our plan U to
DEFEAT THE REPUBLICAN'S
this year by drawing a large part • f their
vote for our ticket, and thia will elert
Cleveland. 7 he Republican pa ty can’t
stand another defeat, for disintegration will
to!low. Tilt) Wm* U Used ** **«• f
decay vhc national prohibition party will
increase. This will he the decent party:
ail the sober Democntilii will join it arid
with the colored rtts wc will rarrythej
country. This will come to pa- n three J
Maxwell, Henry; \\\ G. .Solomon, Ilibb
E. M. Robert*. Fulton; W. E. Harjior,
Butts; G.K. Woodwnru, Fulton; C. D.
Barker, Fulton; Rev. F. F. Robinson,
Floyd; J. A. Rounsavillc, Floyn; J.
Thomas Wellhnm, DeKalb.
State Executive Committee: J. O Per
king, of Fulton, and \V. II. Brewer, of
Spalding, for State at larger First district,
J. Z. Harding, of Liberty; Second, J. O.
Langston, of Terrell; Third, D. M. Bu
chanan, of Dodge;. Fourth, H. II. Parks,
of Coweta; Fifth, A. A. Deloch, of Ful
ton; Sixth, A. A. Murphy, of Pike; Sev
enth, M m. Ware, of Cobb; Eighth.S. W.
Boot , of Morgan; Ninth, W. D. Alien, of
(iiln.r; Tenth, W . 11. Brigham, of Rich
mond
Evangelist Small, member of the na
tional executive committee.
Clinton B. Fiske was indorsed for Presi
dent, and George W. Bane for Vice Presi
dent. The delegates were instructed to
vote for them at Indianapolis.
Evangelist Small otic red a resolution
voicing uncompromLiug opposition to
high Derate in Atlanta and opposing all
forms whereby stloon liquor is allowed,
which was adopted. He next offered a
resolution assuring the Georgia temperance
association that the national army would
aid them iu a way.
biltavu.
Cotto
:orn Injured—Negro C<
tor /tssntitt «u«i battotj.
Correspondence Macon TeWiapb.
Sylvania, April 25.— iVc lixve had &
week of drouth w ith Ugh &n.i told winds,
which lias done considerable damage to
our tenners. Cotton is about half killed
and corn badly stunted.
Oscar Mid.V , colored, wsj arretted and
brought before Judge John li. Hull on
yesterday for a committal trial, charged
with •!.- • - tl ■ .i-Miiilt and battery
evidc
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