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iTLA.V OF CLEVELAND CIRCUIT -1880
(First Sunday, Eleven o’clock, Zion Church,
seven o’clock at night, tjuillian’s Chapel;
Second Sunday, Eleven o'clock, Mossy Creek ;
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MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.
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§i A rfe*t»I to#.
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A TTORNEY AT DAW,
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OUR OWN SECT} UN—Wlu‘ LABOR FOR ITS AD\'ANC!'I;’\IENT.
CLEVELAND. GA., SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14. 1880-
[From The Chicago Ledger.]
i)o Your Duty.
nr mA c citAia.
Goa.ongnnd No do your duty,
matter what that duty is:
Put your trust in tied the Father;
Forall you call your own is His.
Go along and do your duty,
Never falter, never fear;
God will help you, only trust Him,
He is always, always near.
Always near to help and bless you,
Strengthen you to do the right;
Look to Him when cares distress you,
He will make your burden light.
Oh. He is so good and faithful!
You can find no earthly friend as true;
If youi’ll only do your duty,
lie will never turn from you,
Go along and do your duty,
That is all God asks of you;
Do it with a gentle patience,
Keep your heart and conscience pare.
Keep tile great commandments strielly,
Trust Him with a strong, true trust,
And you will find His mercy boundless,
You will find Him always just.
Trust Him when life’s sky is darkest,
When Hope’s star is hid from sight;
He can change the gloom to brighness,
Turn to day the darkest night.
LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE OF W.
S, HANCOCK AND W. II. ENGLISH.
Governor's Island, )
New York City, July 29. \
Gentlemen —I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of July 13th; 1880, apprising me form¬
ally of my nomination to tjio office of
president of the United States by the
national democratic convention lately
assembled in Cincinnati. 1 accept the
nomination with grateful appreciation
of tbe confidence reposed in me. The
principles enunciated by tbe convention
are those I have eherishod in tbe past
and shall endeavor to maintain in the
future.
The thirteenth, fourteenth and fif¬
teenth amendments to the constitution
of the United States embodying the re¬
sults of the^war /or the union are invi¬
olable. If called to the presidency, I
shall deem it my duty to resist with all
my power any attempt to impair or
evade the full force and effect of the
constitution, which in every article,
section and amendment is the suprome
law of the land.
The constitution forms the basis of
government of the United States. The
powers granted by it to the legislative,
executive and judicial .departments de¬
fine and limit the authority of tho gen¬
eral government. Tbe powers not del¬
egated to tbe United States by the con¬
stitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, belong to tbe States respectively,
or to the people.
General and State governments,each
acting in its own sphere, without trench¬
ing upon the lawful jurisdiction of the
other, constitute unions. The union,
comprising a general government with
general powers, and State governments
with State powers, for purposes local to
States, is a policy tho foundations of
which were laid in tho profoundest wis¬
dom. This is the union our fathers
made, and which tia3 been respected
abroad and co beneficient at home.
Tried by blood and fire, it stands to-day
a model form of free popular govern¬
ment; a political system which rights
!y administered, has been and will con¬
tinue to be tbe admiration of tbe world.
May we not say, nearly in tbe words of
Washington, the “unity of the govern¬
ment which constitutes us cue people is
justly dear to us.” It is the main pillar
in the edifice of our real independence—
the support of our peace, safety and
prosperity, and that liberty we so highly
prize aud intend at every hazard to
preserve. form of howevor
But no government,
carefully devised, no principles, howev¬
er sound, will protect the rights of the
people unless tho administration is
faithful aud efficient. It isa vital prin¬
ciple in our system that neither fraud
nor force must bo allowed to subvert
tho rights of the people. When fraud,
violence or incompetence controls, the
noblest constitutions and wisest laws
are useless. Tbe bayonet is not a fit
instrument for collecting the votes of
free men. It is'only by a full vote, a
free ballot and fair couDt that the peos
pie can rule in fact as required by tbe
theory of cur government. Take this
foundation away and tho whole strucs
ture falls.
Public office is a trust, not a bounty,
bestowed upon toe holder. No incom¬
petent or dishonest person should ever
bo entrusted with it, or if appointed
they should be promptly ejected,
ibe basis of substantial, practical
civil service reform must first be estab¬
lished by the people jn filling elective
officep, fi they fix a high standard of
qualifications for ofijee and sternly re¬
ject tbe corrupt and incompetent, the
result will be decisive in governing tfip
action of servants whom they entrust
with the appointing power.
The war for the union was successful¬
ly closed more than fifteen years ago.
All classes of our people must share
alike in tho blessings of the union, and
all are equally concerned in its perpetu¬
ity and in tho proper administration of
public affairs. Wo are in a state of
profound peace. Henuclorth let it bo
our purpose to cultivate the sentiments
of friendship and no animosity against
our fellow-citizens.
Our material interests, varied and
progressive, demand our constant aud
united efforts.
A sedulous and scrupulous care of tbe
public credit, together with wise aud
economical management of our govern¬
mental expenditures, should be main¬
tained in order that labor may he lightly
burdened, and that all persons may bo
protected in their own industry.
The time has come to enjoy the sub¬
stantial benefits of reconciliation, as
one people wo have common interests.
Let us encourage the harmony and
generous rivalry among our own indus.
tries, which will rovive our languishing
merchant marine, extend our commerce
with foreign countries, assist our mer¬
chants, manufacturers and producers
to develop our vast national resources
and increase the prosperity and happi¬
ness of our people.
If elected, I shall, with divine favor,
labor with what ability I possess to dis¬
charge my duties with fidelity according
to my convictions, and shall take care
to protect and defend the union, and to
see that the laws ho faithfully and equal¬
ly oxcuted in all parts of tho country
aliko, I will assume the responsibility,
fully sensible of the fact that to admin¬
ister rightly the functions of the govern¬
ment is to discharge the most sacred
duty that can devolve upon an Ameri¬
can citizen. I am, very respectfully,
WiNFrurj* S. Hancock.
To John W. Stevenson, president of
convention, Hon, John R. Stoc < ton,
chairman, and others of tho commit¬
tee of tho national democratic con¬
vention.
HON. WILLIAM f! YNGLISil'S AC¬
CEPTANCE.
Indianapolis, July 30.
To lion. John W. Stevonson, President
of tho Convention, lion. John P.
Stockton, Chairman, and Other mem¬
bers of tho Committee of Notification;
Gentlemen; —I havo now tho honor
to reply to your letter of the 13th in
stant, informing mo that I was unani¬
mously nominated for vice-president of
tho United States by tho late democrat¬
ic national convention which assembled
at Cincinnati. As foreshadowed in the
verbal remarks made by me at the time
of the delivery of your letter, I have
now to say that I accept the high trust,
realizing the sense of its responsibility
and am profoundly grateful for tho hon¬
or conferred. I accept tho nomination
upon tho platform of principles adopted
by the convention, which I cordially
approve, and I accept it quito as much
because of my faith in the wisdom and
patriotism of tho great statesman and
soldier nominated on the same ticket
for president of the United States. His
eminent services to bis country, his fi¬
delity to tbe constitution, uoion and
laws, his clear perception of correct
principles of government, as taught by
Jefferson, bis scrupulous cares to keen
the military in strict subordination to
tbe civil authorities, his high regard for
civil liberty, personal lights and rights
of property, his acknowledged ability
in civil as well as military affairs, and
his pure and blameless life all point to
him as a man more worthy of the con¬
fidence of the pe-oplo. Not only a brave
soldier, great commander, wise states¬
man and pure patriot, but a pmdeut,
painstaking, practical man of unques¬
tioned lmnestv. Trusted often with im¬
portant public duties, faithful to every
trust, and in tbe full meridian of ripe
ana vigorous manhood, he, in my judg¬
ment is eminently fitted for the highest
position on earth—the presidency of tho
United States. Not only is he tho right
man for tho place, but tbe time has
come when the beet interests of the
couutry require that the party which
has monopolized tho executive depart
mont of the general government for the
last twenty years should be retired. A
continuance of that party in power for
four years loDger, would not be benefi¬
cial to the public, or in accordance with
the spirit of our republican institutions.
The perpetuation of property, or place,
in one family or set of men has never
been encouraged in this couutry, aud
the great and good men who framed
our republican government and its tra¬
ditions wisely limited the tenure of office,
and in many ways showed their disap¬
proval of long leases of power. Twen¬
ty years of continuous power is loug
enough, and has already led to irregu¬
larities and corruptions which are not
likely to be properly exposed under the
same party that perpetrated them,
Besides it should not be forgotten that
tho four last years of power held by that
party were produred by discreditable
means and held in defiance of the whtab¬
es of a majority of the people. It was
a grievous wrong to every voter and our
system of self-government which should
never bo forgotten or forgiven- Many
of tbe men now in office were put there
because of corrupt partisan services in
thus defeating the fairly and legally
expressed will of a majority, and the
hypocrisy of professions of that party
favor of civil service reform was
shown by placing such men in office and
turning the whole brood of federal office
holders loose to influence
Money of the people taken out of the
public treasury by these men for service,
often poorly performed or not performed
at all, is being used in vast sums, with
the knowledge and presumed sanction of
the administration to control elections;
and even members of tbe cabinet are
strolling about tho country making
tisan speeches, instead of being in
departments at Washington discharging
the public duties for which they are
paid by tho people, But with all their
cleverness and ability, a discriminating
public will, uo doubt, read between
tho lines of their speeches that
paramount hope and aim is to keep
themselves, or their satelites, four years
longer in oilice; that perpetuating pow¬
er of chronic officeholders—four years
longer will not benefit the millions of
men and women who hold no office, but
earn their daily bread by honest indus
try, is what the same discerning public
will no doubt, fully understand; as they
will, also, that it i3 because of their
own industry an 1 economy, and God's
bountiful harvests that tho couutry is
compartively prosperous, and not be¬
cause of anything done by these Feder¬
al officeholders. The couutry is com¬
paratively prosperous not because of
thorn, but in spitoof them.
This contest is in fact between tho
people endeavoring to regain tbe polit¬
ical power which rightfully belongs to
them, and to restore the 'pure, simple,
economical, and constitutional govern¬
ment of our fathers on one side, and a
hundred thousand Federal of^eo'vMders
and their backers pampered with'place
and power, ana determined to retain
them at all hazards on the other,
llonce tho coii3taut assumption of new
and dangerous powers by tbe general
government under tho rule of the repub
licau party,
Tho effirt to build up what they call
a strong government, tbo interference
with home rule and with the adminis¬
tration of justice in the court3 of the
several states, tho interference with
elections through tho medium of paid
partisan federal officeholders interested
in keeping their party in power, and
earning more for that than for fairness
iu elections; in fact, tbe constant en¬
croachments which have been made by
that party upon the clearly reserved
rights of the poople and the states, will,
it not cheeked, subvert the liberties of
tho people and the government of the
limited powers created by tho fathers,
and end in a great consolidated central
government, strong indeed for evil, and
the overthrow of republican institutions.
Tho wiso men who formed our constitu¬
tion. knew the evils of a stronggovern
ment and loug cotuiuuauco of the polit¬
ical power in the same hands. They
know there was a tendency iu this dir
reutiou iu all governments, aud the con¬
sequent danger to republican institu¬
tions from that cause, aud took paius to
guard against it. The machinery of a
strong, neutralized general government
can bo used to perpetuate the same set
of men in power from term to term un¬
til it ceases to be a republic, or is such
only iu name, aud the tendency of the
party now in power in that direction as
shown iu various ways, besides tho wil¬
lingness recently manifested by a large
number of that party to elect a presi¬
dent an unlimited nunber of terms is
quite apparent and must 6utit'y think¬
ing people that the time has come when
it will be safest and best for that party
to be retired. But iu resisting the
croacemoDts of tho general government
upon tho resorvod rights of the' people
and tho states, I wish to be distinctly
understood as favoring the proper ex¬
ercise by the geuoral government of
the powers rightfully belonging to it
under the constitution. Encroachments
upou the constitutional rights of tbe
goueral government or interference with
the ptoper exercise of its powers must
be carefully avoided.
The union of states under the consti¬
tution must be maintained, and it is
well known that this has alway been
the position of both candidates on the
democratic presidential ticket. It is
acquiesced in everywhere nowq and fi
nally and forever settled as one of the
results of tbe war. Itiscertain beyond
ail qaeStiOD that the legitimate results
Of tbe war for tbe union will not be
overthrown or impaired r should tbe ‘ dem
ocratic ticket . , , be electeu. . In . that
event
the proper protection will be given in
ST A "VMHV
NO. ;>2.
evert legitimate way to every citizen
Dative or adopted, in every section of
tbe republic in the enjoyment of all tbe
rights guaranteed by the • onstituiion
and its amendments.
A sound currency of honest money of
value and purchasing power, corrcspon
ding substantially with the standard
recognized by tho commercial wot Id,
and consisting of gold and silver and
paper eonvertab e into coin, will be main¬
tained. Laoorand manufacturing, and
tho commercial and business interests
of the country will bo favored and en
; couraged in every logimato way. Tho
j foiling millions of our own poople will
bo protected from the destructive com
j petition of the Chinese, and to that end
: *b a ir immigraii m to our shores will
! pF’pm.y footnoted,
j Fhe public credit will be scrupulously
maintained aud strengthened by rigid
economy in public expenditures, and
Ibo liberties of tho people and property
°I tbe people will be protected by a
government of law and order, adminis
tered strictly in the interests of the peo
P le and not of corporations and privi
i Ldged classes. I do not doubt the Ms
criminating justice of tho people and
j theircapacity for intelligent self goveru
ment, and therefore do not doubt tne
i sucsess of tho democratic ticket. Its
! success would bury, beyond resurrec
tion, sectional jealousies and hatred,
which have so loug been the c, i f are It
in tbe trade of pestiferous demup-.gu
and in no other way can this be re :V >
tually accomplished. It would rest mo
bariuonj and good feeling betweeu a; i
sections, and make us iu fact as weii as
in name one people. The only rivalry
then would be in tho rauo for the devel¬
opment of material prosperity, elova
tion of labor, enlargement of human
rights, promotion of education, religion,
liberty, order, aud all that would mako
ua the foremosG uation of tho earth iu
tho grand march of human progress.
I am with great respect, very truly
yours,
Wsi. D. English.
It is tho easiest thing in tho to find a
man willing to bat a has on his candi¬
date, but. it is tho hardest, n .i,* re,,
world to bud tho man if he loose it.
“I didn't know, - ’ said an old lady, as
she laid down her neswpapor, “that
thieves woce so scare that they had to
advertise for ’em, aud offer a reward
for their discovery. - '
THE
Telegraph ami Messenger
[MACON. GA.]
FOR 1880 1881.
'THE X present year is pregnant with stirring
important events. Geuoral elections are
to be held lor National, State, and county
offices, arid the interest and exeitoinont evolv¬
ed liy (lie contest will lie iulense. Measures
of the most vital character, alse, to tho futyre
of live country, such as the modifications
sought to be inaugurated in our system of fi¬
nance, the projected revision of tire tariff, our
Indian policy, etc., are to lie discussed before
the people, and every intelligent person should
tako a newspaper. Uho proprietors of ihe
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