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§hq Jerald and ^dcertiseij.
Newnan, Ga., Friday, May 18, 1888.
MEMORIAL ADDRESS
Delivered by Prof. E. T. Whatley in
Newnan, Thursday, April 20, 1888.
Ladies’ of the Memorial Association—
Human history is •written upon diver
sified pages. The darkest nights of
storm and oppression are often follow
ed by the cloudless sunshine of happier
and brighter days. The nature of man
seems to makes it necessary that the
golden sunshine of his peace and pros
perity must follow the shadows and
darkness of the storms of revolu
tion, through the lessons of adversity
and the t rials of defeat,
come great and powerful through strug
gles and hardships, through wars and
bloodshed, and by teaching to their
posterity the most useful of all lessons
—that they are willing to sacrifice life
for principle. The trials of misfortune
and defeat have often been the cruci
bles which try men souls and develop
manhood. When God’s chosen peo
ple had encamped upon the great
plains of Arabia, the pure incense from
their sacred altars rose up to Heaven
in thanks to God that all the trials and
misfortunes of the past had nevei
changed their faith or obliterated their
hopes.
As we meet to-day upon Southern
soil to honor Southern dead, we are
proud that the trying conflicts of the
past have all been settled, and the his
tory of a people changed, who have
undergone defeat and learned the les
sons of adversity. We are proud that
the sectional animosities engendered
by 1 lie last war have all been buried ;
that the people of the North and South
are again being united into a common
brotherhood. We are proud that pub
lic opinion will place the mark of .Cain
upon that man, or that party, who
would stir up dead issues or excite prej
udice in order to advance personal or
party inf crests. We are proud that the
Union of our fathers is again firmly
established in the hearts of the Amer
ican people. But, above all this, we
thank God that all the trials and mis
fortunes and oppressions to which the
South has been subjected have never
changed our faith in Southern princi
ples or obliterated Southern hopes.
The first, great landmark in the line
of American progress was the Declara
tion of Independence. That declara
tion was written and moved by South
ern men, and was the outgrowth of
Sout h' rn hopes. The foundation upon
which this Government stands was
laid in the Constitution. The father of
the Constitution was a Southern man,
and it has always embodied Southern
ide' r ' government. It is not necessary
to-day, in a short address, to argue the
conUl ut iunal right or causes of seces
sion : but it is necessary to say, that the
South withdrew from the Union when
she s.iv. in the policies of our Northern
brethren a subversion of the vital prin
ciples upon which the American Gov
ernment was founded. Rather than
Sacrifice these she would sacrifice life,
she would sacrifice union. The South
tion to principle. We point to history,
we point to the heroism on the field of
battle. If we inquire, what caused the
little band of Spartans to stand guard
at Thermopylae until their dead bodies
were all that was left to tell the tale
of their heroism—the answer is, they
fought for liberty. If we inquire
what caused the little band of Chris
tian martyrs to stand up for truth,
when nations oppressed, and thrones
would shut out the light of Christianity
forever—the answer is they fought
for the eternal principles of right. If
we inquire what nerved the Larons
to rise up and dispute the powers of the
mighty monarch and plant the seed of
liberty on English soil the answer is,
they were engaged in the great cause
If we inquire what caus-
of freedom
A people he- ed the little band of Washington s fol-
lowers to leave their blood-stained foot
prints on the field of battle; to endure
all the fatigues and hardships in the
great struggle for independence—the
answer is, they fought for liberty. In
the last Confederate struggle, if we in
quire what caused the Soutn to taxe up
arms against mightier munitions of war
and four times her number of soldiers;
what caused her under unfavorable cii-
cumstances to gain the unparalelled
victories of Bull Run, Wilson’s Creek,
Carthage, Lexington, Seven Days, Shi
loh, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and nu
merous others ; what caused her to
leave to the world the example of he
roism that is unsurpassed in the annals
of human history ;—the answer comes
up from the grave of every dead South
ern soldier, that they fought for the
maintenance of those eternal princi
ples upon which the American Govern
ment is founded. In the blue dome of
heaven there is a star that shines
brighter and more gloriously than the
rest; it has burst from the raging tem
pests and fury of the storm. In the
great constellation of governments
there is a people whose fair name has
been clouded by the dark shadows of
vile epithets; who have been charged
with treason, rebellion, and the terrible
consequences of the war between the
States; but the cloud of infamy begins
to disappear—it vanishes—it passes
away—it is gone forever, and the golden
light of truth bursts out upon the
world !
We have been told by some of the
ablest orators of our country that we
live in a New South. The connection
of our present with our past history
makes it very fitting that we look
around to-day and inquire, in what res
pect are we a New South? The modest
violet which comes forth at spring’s
bidding is not sweeter to-day than
it was a century past ; the song
of the mocking-bird is not more in
spiring, and the gentle zephyrs of
spring are not more invigorating. The
little brooks and streams up and down
which we have wandered in the earliest
days of our childhood can yet be visited.
The smiling valleys,, the beautifuj for
ests, the cloud-capped mountains of
the South, are not grander teachers to
day than they have always been. Our
soil is not more fertile and our inhabi
tants are many the same, and those
who are not are the descendants of
Southern parents. The same blood
which coursed the veins of an honest
parentage, warms up the great heart
of young Southern manhood to-day.
The same ambitions, the same desires
which have made so many Southern
homes sacred, so many Southern hearts
pure, will yet work out that higher
destiny of this blessed people, which it
has pleased a beneficent Providence to
foreshadow in the glorious principles
of the South.
Some of us who have met here to-day
are too young to remember much of
our past history or the last war. God
has blessed us by raising us up since
unchallenged, would j that time, under more favorable cir
cumstances; but we have gathered
terestsofthe American people. We
are willing to forget all in our past his
tory that should be forgotten; we
bury all that should be buried. As the
“children of destiny,” we claim only
the honor which is due us. We look
backward, and our history is saddened
by trial and defeat. We look around
us to-day, and Southern energy has
regained her lost treasures. We look
forward to a higher, nobler, grander
destiny.
There is rising before the imagina
tive mind of the world tcfcday the
grandest of all human structures. That
structure is the “Temple of Liberty,”
—erected by American hands, hut
planned and ornamented by Southern
genius. The father of the building
was born and reared on Southern soil,
and sleeps on the banks of one of her
majestic streams. The foundation up
on which it is built rests in the Consti
tution, which first originated in South-
an old schoolmate of mine, threw open
the front window and I caught a cinder
that gave me the most excruciating
jfain. I began to rub the eye with both
hands. “Let your eye alone and rub
the other eye,” (this from the engin
eer.) I thought he was chaffing me
and worked the harder. “I know you
doctors think you know it all, but if
you will let that eye alone and rub the
other one the cinder will be out in two ;
minutes,” persisted the engineer. I\
began to rub the other one and soon I
felt the cinder down near the inner
canthus, and made ready to take it q,ut.
“Let it alone and keep at the well
eye,” shouted the doctor pro tem. I
did so for a minute longer, and, looking
in a small glass he gave me, I found
the offender on my cheek. Since then
I have tried it many times and have
advised many others, and I have never
known it to fail in one instance (unless
it was as sharp as a piece of steel, or
something that cut into the ball and
Shopping in Cuba.
From tlio Albany Argus.
One class you will miss in Cuba—
not only in shops, but everywhere' else
—is the woman workers. The most sen
sible and often the handsomest women
can be found occupying places oi: trust
in American mercantile establishments
and offices. In all Havana but one
place is noticed where white women
are employed. This is at a modiste s
on Calle de Obispo, and these are a
scraggy lot indeed. Women in Cuba
are ladies, washerwomen or demi
monde. Shopping is done by the fair
senoras or senoritas in the afternoon,
and one will then certainly see beau
tiful women. They are neither flippant
nor trifling in their purchases, as in
some countries. No salesman would
dare gossip with them, suggest for
them, or chattingly enter upon discus
sion of their affairs. Nor do they in
form shopkeepers of their own or their
neighbor’s intentions. They seem to
know just what they want and* go
straightway and get it. The turnouts
are very gay. Thousands of women
meet, mingle and pass greetings, hut
there seems to he a general under
standing here that a shop is not just
the place in which ladies should enter
tain one another.
hii<’
1.o<'n i-uiglv
to love princip
le bet-
tev
than life. I
Lev Henry had si
muted,
“Li
ht vt j or de a
th"; her Yfasl
liugton
list-.'
written, “P
e true to the pri
nciples
far
which we f
-tight, and let no vile
ha:
•' usurp \v«u
.•liberties”; hei
Madi-
son
had formulated the doct
rine of
St a
'.os’ rights; and when these
sacred
its had been
trampled upon
when
the
enactments
of both houses of Con-
f
■ss had been
gnored, the South saw
a h
ndenevto a
centralization
of gov-
era
nlent and the usurpation of
unjust
pO’
vers, To h;
ve suffered such base
(frtcroachmcnts
upon the power
s of the
government to go
have made the last sad experiment in
o- n al failure. The i around the old family hearthstone to
five government a si
South realized till
fortitude to stand up for
new compact of government did not
differ in any essential principle from
the old. It was formed and consolida-
fact and had the j hear an honest father tell the story of
right. The! the past. We have seen the marks of
premature decay years before on that
aged forehead, brought about by the
scenes and harsdhips of that desperate
tod not to make war upon the Union, struggle. He has explained to us the
but by men who felt that government | causes which led to it, the conflict it-
was useless unless it was obeyed and j self,
the scene which followed it, the
reckless extravagance of carpet-bag
domination, and the impressions made
have sunk deep into our young South
ern hearts. We have seen the tears of
a devoted mother for her noble son,
who sleeps far away in the blood-stain
ed soil of Virginia, and, as long as there
is a spark of manhood within our breast,
those impressions will never be forgot
ten. We will remember them. We
will transmit them from genera
tion to generation. The poet will
make them iu his verses; the states-
respected by the people With these
deep-seated convictions the South with
drew from the Union, carrying the
Constitution of our fathers with her.
It lias always been “her pillar of cloud
by day, her pillar of fire by night.”
Through the darkest mazes of secession
its fundamental principles were her
‘.‘guardian angel." and to-day, landed
Pack in the house of our fathers—when
the impartial historian records the
story of the past; when the unbiased
judgment of an enligteued age decides ( . .
that historv-the South is held up to man will renew them; the historian
the world with her garments pure and j will reinstate them—“to the last syl-
her sacred honor unimpeached. The j lable of recorded time,
character of our great Southern leader | But there is a respect m which we
verifies the truth and has left its mark ! are a JSTew South. The fields that were
on the line of the world’s history. Men j left desolate by the effects of war have
have lived through all ages who de- j been made to smile with waving gram,
served the respect of mankind for their ■ The beautiful homes, the churches, the
greatness; but there are others whose I proud cities, that were left iu a Mies,
fives stand before the great mass of j have been rebuilt. The great cause of
mankind like beacon lights on the i education is again being fostered. Even
shores of time; or, like some solitary j here, within the borders of our own
mountain, whose foundation lies deep State, that grand old institution which
in the bowels of the earth, with its I has given to the world a 1 oonibs, a Hill,
enmmit risin" high above the passing ; a Stephens, has opened her doors and
summit ^ man and such a . C har- ' offers free education to her noble sons
ern brain. As its gigantic proportion
rise up before us, we can see in every j required an operation to remove u.;
part of its solitary grandeur the marks V by it is so I do not know. But tnat
of Southern statesmanship. When it has ! it is so I do know, and that one nia j ^ e
been attacked by foes from without, j saved much suffering if they will w<-
the South has sealed her devotion to it! the injured eye alone and rub the well
by the blood of her dearest sons. eye. Try it.
When it has been assailed by foes from
within, the South has risen triumphant
above defeat, and made the principles
for which she fought the prevailing
principles of the American government
to-day. I undertake not the high office
or solemn functions of prophecy; but
when all the nations of the earth shall
join in the song, and poor, bleeding
Ireland shall catch up the chorus of
Liberty, it will then be the yet higher
destiny of the people of our beloved
Southland to place the most valued
offering upon Liberty’s sacred altar.
Ladies of the Memorial Association:
In preparing this short address, I have
thought of a theme which I deem wor
thy to close any address, at any time,
upon any occasion. That theme is
“Southern Womanhood.” Would that
I were worthy of that theme, or had
the time or talent to. exhaust it. If I
were asked what has blessed our South
ern homes and made them the nearest
type of purity on earth, I would an
swer, our noble Southern women. If I
were asked what has kept the fires of
patriotism kindled within our breasts,
and in the darkest hours of trial and
temptation given us that advice which
has prepared us to fight successfully
the great battle of life, I would answer,
the noble women of the South. As
Irving has expressed it: “As the vine
which has long twined its graceful f< >!-
iage about the oak, and been lifted by
it into sunshine, will, when the hardy
oak is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling
around it with its caressing tendrils
and bind up its shattered boughs; so
it has been beautifully ordained by
Providence that woman, who is the
mere dependent and ornament of man
in his happier hours, should be liis stay
and solace when smitten with sudden
calamity, winding herself into the
rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly
supporting the drooping head and
binding up the broken heart.”
Why Gen. “Euny” Lee Objected.
From the New York Press.
Gen. “Euny” Lee, of Virginia, son
of Gen. Robert E. Lee, remained a
few day's at the Brunswick Hotel this
week. He is serving his first term in
Congress, and ran over from Washing
ton to enjoy a respite from the monot
onous duties of a law-maker. His face
has a strong family resemblance to
that of his father. He is tall, broad-
shouldered, and stout, and has gray
hair and beard. During the war he
was a cavalry general and participated
in all the great battles fought by the
army of Northern Virginia, except
Gettysburg. When that memorable
battle was fought, Geu. “Runy” Lee
was a prisoner in Fortress Monroe, not
held as a regular prisoner, but as a
hostage for Sawyer and Flynn, two
Union officers. Gen. Burnside had
executed two Confederate spies, and
the two Union officers named, captured
soon after, were sentenced to death by
way of retaliation. An order was read
to Gen. “Runy” Lee in prison that as
soon as the officer in command of For
tress Monroe should be apprised, offi
cially or otherwise, of the execution of
Sawyer and Flynn, Messrs. Lee and
another Confederate officer should in
stantly meet the same fate. Gen. Lee
said he objected to the word “other
wise” in the order, because it not only
seemed irregular, to say the least, but
ground
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NEWNAN, GA.
FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE
- AT PRICES—
THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE.
Big stock of Chamber suits in Walnut, Antique Cfak, and
Cherry, and Imitation suites.
French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to $125.00.
Plush Parlor Suits, $55.00 and upward.
Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward.
Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00.
Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set.
Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot. j
Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00.
Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents.
Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low.
Picture Frames on hand and made to order.
SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS
Low, for cash or on the installment plan.
Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, night oj
day.
THOMPSON BROS.',
NEWNAN, GA.
Dear Friend—“That gentleman who
boards at your house seems to be very
attentive to you, my dear.”
Sweet Girl—“He is, and I—I love him;
but oil, what a risk I am running, We
are engaged,”
“Risk?”
“Yes; It nearly breaks my heart when
the thought comes to me that he may
not love me for myself alone, but—boo,
boo!” .
“Calm yourself, my dear. V by
should he marry jt>u if he do :• s not; - v ■
you?”
“He—he owes mother three months’
board.”
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“I can never be more than a sister
to you,” said a buxom widow, tender
ly, to an old bachelor who had propos
ed.
“Ah, mad..me, yes, you may
responded, gallantly. “I am not
to lose hope.”
“Yes, but I say I cannot,” she persis
ted.
“You have daughters, madnme,” he
said; “you may yet be my mother-in-
law.”
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JRNITURE!
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j Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I
|buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you
cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices:
A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00.
A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00.
A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00.
cd Single Lounge, $5.00.
od Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00.
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Ex-Senati r T1 i t n is reported as
saying that if he is sent as a delegate
to the St. Louis Convention lie will
second the nomination <>! Air. Cleve
land. It is supposed ih.ii Daniel Lock-
wood, who nominated Mr. Cleveland
for Sheriff, Mayor, Governor and Pres
ident, will make the presentation
speech.
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$2.50,
A Nice teacher Rocker, $5*00*
A A rung vV-ainut Hat Rack, $7.00.
A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00.
A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00.
A Fine Book Case, $20.00.
A Good Office Desk, $10.00.
A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00.
A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00.
A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00.
I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and gei
my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as
well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta.
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Write for prices.
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85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
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done on account of
s Dv.'po 1 >>ai Tablets
- - id
practically put his life in the hands of , ^ ^ D ;<ia , Imt ^ e stion
the commander oi the prison. One j ‘ -,v; .a TV
day several new prisoners were brought amee at 25 ;,ud 50 c,-u'. s by V,
in and and declared that Sawyer and
Flynn had been hanged—that they
saw them executed. Gen. Lee and ids
companion expected to be led out eve
ry day and executed, but after eight
months he was exchanged. Flynn is
dead, hut Sawyer still survives.
RODUCE AND
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS
hi. Newnan, Ga.
Tlie statement of a
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scurvy was mer dy a >
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Rub the Other Eye.
Medical Summary.
Nine out of every ten, with a cinder
or any foreign substance in the eye,
will instantly begin to rub the eye with
one hand while hunting for their hand
kerchief with the other. They may,
and sometimes do, remove the offend
ing cinder, but more frequently they
rub till the eye becomes inflamed, bind
Hate ■■ tiiat are ti'ai, p
or troubled with 'Windy Cohc,
jing Pains, or Stomach Disorders, can
he relieved at once by using Acker’s
| Baby Soother. It contains no Opium or
1 Morphine, hence is safe. Price 25
cents. Sold by W. P. Broom. Newnan,
j Ga.
Old flames frequently get together | = enerallJ •
and make a parlor match. j ■
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Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Floury
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Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman.
££&~~ References: Gate City National Bank, and merchants and bankers of Atlanta
Cl r d tA S rcc-”reTt in all the sublime : Factories are being built, mines are be-1 a handkerchief around the head and
^butes which conspire to make hu- ing worked, railroads are multiplying. |
man character loveable and did in- Our great staple product has been ship-j
<mished with a heart as pure as the ped to the most distant parts of the
rnlirbhs that stands over his silent dust, earth. We send men
But we would not point alone to the
laracter of Lee, to prove the honest
jnvictions of the South, orherdevo-
to the halls of
legislation who are ready to support
any measure which will more strongly
cement the Union, or advance the in-
go to bed. This is all wrong. The
better way is not to mb the eye with , -
the cinder at all, but rub the other eye DR.
as vigorously as you like.
A few years since I was riding on the
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