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*s° §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 ' URES Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, Nervous Weakness, Stomach and Liver Diseases, Rheumatism, Dys- n , 'pepsia, and all affections of the Kidneys. WELLS, ^™ VT^' Pf ° P * WEAK NERVES Coca, those wonderful nerve stimulants, it speedily cures all nervous disorders. RHEUMATISM Paine’s Cixesi Compound poriflea the blood. It drive* out the lactic acid, which causes Rheumatism, and restores the blood- makingr organs to a healthy condition. At is the true remedy for Rheumatism. KIDNEY COMPLAINTS Paine's Celehy Compound quickly restore* the liver and kidneys to perfect health. This curative power, combined with its nerve tonics, makes it the best remedy for all kidney complaints. dyspepsia Paine’s Celery Compound strengthens the stomach, and quiets the nerves of the diges tive organs. 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SLOCUM, M.O., 1S1 Pearl street, New York. “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.” Th9 Best of All. Of nil the medicines I ever heard of or used, I consider Dr. BiggePs Huck leberry Cordial the best medicine lor all bowed trouble and children teething ever used. A. J. Stine, Oxford, X. G. X ~r a JRNITURE! I buy and soli more FURNITURE than all the dealers in 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. 1.50. A \ XL A Sir; nm. A dy K;U dicker he man 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. I if e $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. A.. Write for prices. RHODES, 85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Ux. /-I T / T DUD i* k k 1 KK . 1 oil . j-i LJ ji_n ry & McClendon, WHOT ■. r v of the g'v" 1 are sorrowfully let Dyspepsia. Acker th 11 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 US ALE GROCERS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS hi. Newnan, Ga. Tlie statement of a Es uii : w re scurvy was mer dy a > cannon ■ off >r. that with Tecth- 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 ■ NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Floury Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese, FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Consignments solicited. (*uick sales and prompt remittances. Good, dry, rat-prool stor age. Excellent facilities lor the care of perishable goods. 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. 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