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A LUX- GHUIICH. VOL. IL lie ©mlawl Sstolfew. —— Tublislietl Every Saturday Morning. Offloa—In the Court Ifousc, room, North Ea ft t, down Stairs, Cleveland, Ga. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy, one year, $1.00 Ono copy, six months, 50 One Copy, three mouths, - 30 • 'ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements inserted at the rate of .$100 nurinch (or loss) first insertion, and 50 cents far each subsequent insertion. Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, -will be published .jrutil forbid, and charged accordingly. Contracts made for three, six, or twelve .months on liberal terms. Local Notices lfl cents per line. Every communication for publication in •the AnvEKTlSEa must bear the name of theau jhor, not necessarily for publication, but asgu ariinty of good faith. 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Tosentee.,,558 OODJun, ,,,55b pist.„„- Fourth Sa,ttijrdi,y,.J5. - -; - ■ —- J. t -- 1. - jgc iMTTInHlWi Yfasatiaoerry, Bf * S. P- Augustus Allison, ™" ' Town Creek...S36 Dist.,...Third Saturday... W. if. Hawkins, N. V., J. K. AIrA f ne. T F. THE MAILS. .Cleveland to fiainsville, Daily, except Sun¬ day. Hlaireville, Daily, except bun (Repels.!}<i to day, Cleveland DaUlonegn, Tri-weekly to Cleveland to llaysville Tri-weekly. Cleveland to Belton once & week. Cleveland to Tesnatee. once a week. EDWARD L. STEPHENS, P. M. fcjfe 1 K. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY AT LA W, Cleveland, Georgia. J. J. KIMSEY, A TTORNEY AT LAW. Cleveland Ga. f\ Office, room No. 4, Basement Court House. Jan. 10th 18S0. wl’y.ly. M. G. BOYD, A TTORNEY and COUNSELOR AT LAW .LA... Dahlonega Seorgia. Will pactice in the Superior Courts of White, Hall, Dawson, Habersham Lumpkin, and the Supreme Court of the State, Jan. lfttb I8S0. Vikl’y ly. FRANK L HARALSON. TTORNEY AT LAW, Atlanta Georgia. ,/ill practice in all the Counties embracing iVestern an Blue Ridge Circuits. Also iA lac Federal Supremo Courts of the State. \ 11 business entrusted to my eare will re » 3 i -o prompt attention. Jan. 01th 1SS0 wl’y. Iy. PENSIONS. All Soldiers disablod by sickness or injurie; while in tbe army, are entitled to Pensionss also, the heirs of those Soldiers who died from consequences of service. Send stamps for full instructions in Pensions and all kinds of Soldiers claims. C. M. SITES £ CO-, Pension and Bounty Attorneys, P. O. Box 2), WASHINGTON, ; D. C. -° '-■‘-"free. per day at home. Somples worth $5 Address Srixsax A Co. Port and Maine. Take your county paper and pay tor it too. ; ■ PI - OUR OWN SECTION—WE LABOR FOR ITS ADVANCEMENT. CLEVELAND, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12. 1881. SPEECH OF HON, JOS. E. BROWN j Mr. President; 1 f 1 understand from the amendment offered by the Senator Massachusetts,[Mr, Hoar,] it is to con j for ah the rights of a citizen of the ' United States upon an Indian who has received his land on the reservation of his tribe in severalty under this bill. I j incline very strongly to think that the radian who has settled liimsoif upon a homestead is a citizen already, under I ' the fourteenth constitutional amend ment: but if he is not, I aui prepared i vote to make him one whenever ho j takes his land in severalty, - acd to give i him the rigbtR 01 a Citizen It he lacks anything. The history of our dealings with the Indians is a sad history. And I think we owe something to thorn. Wheo the white people, few in number, appeared upon the eastern shores of this continent the Indians possessed it. They wore powerful; they wera sover eign; they were the monarebs of this country; and it was by their toleration that w'o rattled in their dominions. Thera was no dictating to them by tho persons who first came hero to settle on tho eastern shores Tho white men asked, may we purchase from you, the owners, a homestead hero? The In dians met them with kindness and bos' pitality. When justice has been done to them I belkve thoy have usually been proverbially kind. Negotiations of land were opened and certain tracts were conveyed, not b| us to them, but by them to us. They had the power then at any time to have exterminated tho settlements upon the eastern shores of this conti¬ nent; and it would have taken armies to plant colonies here that could have sustained themselves. Thoy did not tion think proper white to peopia do so. poured By tljaii| Bvind dera¬ in¬ tbe creased in numbers uutil they became most numerous, and commenced to dic¬ tate to the Indians; and the stronger we became and the weaker they became, the moro illiberal aud unjust was our policy toward them. It reached a point at a certain stage when it was adjudica ted, I believe, by whole'territory our that tnat Yve Yve owned owneii the the whole territory aod they were mere occupants. It is true we then treated them, I believe, as per¬ sons, but now the question is gravely considered in the Senate and in the courts whether th9y are persons under the fourteenth constitutional amend¬ ment. The whole history of our deal¬ ing with them has, I think, been a his¬ tory of wrong, mostly on our part. A distinguished officer of the Uuitod States Army when approached on this subject on one occasion said he never know tbe Indian to violate a treaty, and ho never knew the white men to observe one. This may not be literally true, but there is too much truth in it. I will not go into a discussion of the various outrages that have been porpetrated upon them. As our people have ad¬ vanced farther west and found territory they desired occupied by the Indians we have soon found occasion to get up disturbances or difficulties with them that lea first to war, then to victory on our part, then to negotiations and ac¬ cession of the territory on their part. This has been tho sad history of our dealings with them. We until have to-day grown stronger and stronger we number more than fifty million persons. Thoy have beeu reduced all told as tho last report shows, excluding Alaska, to 255,H38. At the first settlement of the country we were completely in theit power, and they could dictate auy terms they pleas¬ ed to us. And when justly dealt by, they were kind and ittdulgent to us. Now they are in our power. We have a right, at least we have the power to dictate any terms we chooao. Have we dealt as liberally with them as they did us? We have driven them back from vation. time to time, from reservation to reser¬ We have made treaties with them that they are to hold the reserves "as long as water runs and grass grows,’ but always get rid of the treaty when we are dissatisfied with it or when we covet the territory and determine to have it. Tbe biil now before us, as I under¬ stand, proposes to permit them to take in severalty lands in the proportion moDtioned in the bill within the reser¬ bill. vations assigned believe to they th'm. should I favor have tb§t tbe I same right that the white man has to take homestead on their reservation, and we should then give them a fee simple title to it as we give to the white citizen or settler. What inducement have they now to labor to acquire pro perty, to build houses, to clear lands, and to tnako home3 comfortable for their iuture dwelling, when i they know any that they may be driven from it at time when we choose to say they must leave ? But wbeu we have allotted the Sands to them and each has his land iu then he is entitled to the protection of the law; he can go for¬ ward and improve his homestead. If he knows it ig fiis v he has a stimulant to industry, and there is something to in¬ duce him to make a good citizen and to bind hint to good conduct. The man who is a robber and desires to possess himself of the property of the Indian goes upon tho reserve, steals his ponies or his. cattle, and brings them away. Is it unnatural that the Indian should pursue ? t is it unnatural that he , should attempt to protect bis rights of property? Ho would bo loss than a human being if he did not seek to pro¬ tect theta. This Indian follows the rob¬ ber, and the result generally is a collis¬ ion-, sossebody fs killed; and then war. Allot his lands to him in soveralty: give him tlye right to build houses, to clear plantations, to raise stock upon it, and wo shall in a very short time Bee tho progress in the far west that wo have sosn it, the Indian Territory. YVe will soon jlind tho Indians upoa their hoajesteads advancing in civiliza t'on; and trader .....•>-- tho bonigu influence ! - a 0 f the Christian denominations, wo shall soe Sunday schools and churches plant¬ ed among them-; a&d instead of roving baDde without fixed habitations, goad ed to desperation by injustice and wrong, spreading death and dastruction in their pathway, we shall' see them in the comfortable homes of civilized man, not only a Christian people but many of them cultivated and honorable citizens But the question is, shall tho Indian be a citizen f l have said it scorns to me ho is a citizen already under the fourteenth constitutional amendment as soon as bo severs his tribal relation aod takes tho homestead that the law now allows him to take. The fourteenth amendment is very broad in its provis¬ ions. It reads thus: All persons born or naturalized in the Uni¬ ted States, and subject to tho jurisdiction tuereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reijdo. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge tho priviledgcs or immunities of eiti jcen%of the United States; nor ehallapy Stat? deprive any persou of life, liberty, or proper¬ ty, without due process of lat?, nor deny to any person within r jurisdiction the equal pr.-teution of the law. t . . tho original sovereign of this continent, who had tbe title to it by a posseesion that may have run back a hundred generations; who met the while man when ho came here kindly and fratern¬ ally, who during the wars that we have had with him has shown gallantry of tho highest order and oftentimes milita¬ ry genius uusurpassod—is he not a per¬ son? Was King Phillip, who swayed tho scepter over six powerful tribes, and who when be felt that his rights had been outraged, by his great geuigs and powers of organization and persuasion, formed a league of all the tribes of the Atlantic slope, in a cause which they considered sacred, not a person? Was Logan, the great chief who neverturned away from his cabin a white nfan who asked his protection, and who never took an undue advantage of an enemy, not a person? Wa9 Tecumseh, whose military genius was not surpassed by any American ofiicer he met, and of whom tho poet has said: And long will the Indian warrior sing The deeds of Tecumeeh the royal. not a person ? Are the educated lead¬ ers of the five civilized tribes, same of whom possess intelligence of the highest order, not persons? Was Sequojah, the author of the Cherokee alphabet and dictionary, who reduced their Ians guago to a system as complote as auy other written language, not a person ? The idea is absurvi. If they aro not persons what are thoy? You hold that the meanest and most ignorant uegro who comes from the deepest juugle of the darkest part of Africa and plants himself here is a person, and yon pro Sotabe naturalization laws by which he has a right to become a citizen. Every human being— Said Governor Horatio Seymour born upon our continent, or who comes here from auy quarter of tbe world, whether savage or civilized, can go toourcourts for protection, except those who belong to tribes who once owned this country. Tho cannibal from tho islands of tbo Pacific, tbe worst criminal from Europe, Asia, or Africa, can appeal to tho law and courts for tbeir rights of person and property; ail save our native Indians, who above all, should be protected from wrong The Indian on the western piain* who shows genius aud gallantry and man - hood is denied evou an existence as a person. Note the of Constitu¬ language the tion: Ail persons born or naturalized in tbo United Slates, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. YVe claim that the jrniadielion of this country extends to ih« Pacific Oean. Was the Indian born within that limit? No one questions it; He does oat ask you for naturalization. He cares no thing about tbe uniform rules yon may make on that subject. He claims his right as a birthright. He was born in tho United States, aud he is a person, (to be continued) “Left fiver.” About midnight on the night of the 5th, a Woodward Avenue policeman discovered a female seated in a dark hallway and apparently fast asleep. It was not until he took hold of 1 er arm that she suddenly put her right foot against his body and sent hirn down three steps and out tho doorway, follow¬ ed by the remark: ‘Young man don’t you come spooking around here uuloss you want to loose a leg!’ “Who are yon?’ inquired the officer, as he cautiously advanced again 1 Tou go ’long, sir!' she replied He was several minutes assuring her of his official position ami bis desiro to be of anysorvice to hor, and when bar mind was easy on that she replied. ‘I come down here from Canada on an excursion, and got left over/ ’Row long have you been here ait the stairs !’ ‘About an hour, I guess.’ ‘Aud will you go to a hotel ?’ ‘Naw 1’ she replied in tones of dis¬ gust, Tea going to slummix around hero till daylight, and then I'm going to cross on tho boat. You don’t catch mo paying out no money at a hotel.’ ‘Don't you feel afraid ?' ‘I rather think I don't/ she replied, as sho roso up and showed a figure about five feet ten in height, and weigh¬ ing about one hundred acd sixty pounds. ‘It's kind o’ dark and purty dusty in here, and there's a good many rats running around, and if you hear screams fur help "twist now and day¬ break you may reckon that some fool of a man has come along aud sassed me, ami that I've lit down on him !' •Well, I guese you'll get along.' ‘You bet I will J I can wh'stle some, and sing purty well, but if I had a mouth organ and a hunk of gum I might feel more lively. Never mind, though ’Taint over four hours to day¬ light, and I’m used to setting up all night,, -----<» — - . -- Brandy and 'Brains, From Ohio comos a capital story which all who lovo a good joke will relish, whatever they may think of teetotalism or the tricks of scurvy political mountebanks to make capital out of pretended zeal for “temperance/ A teetotal lecturer led off as follows: '"All of those who in youth acquire a habit of drinking whisky, at forty years of age will be total abstainers or drunkards. No one can use whisky with moderation. If there is a person in tho audience before mo whose.exper¬ ience disputes this, iet him now make it known. I will account for it, or ac¬ knowledge that I am mistaken.” A tall, largo man arose and folding his arms iu a dignified manner across his breast, said distinctly: "I offer myself as ooo whose own experience contradicts your statement' “Are you a moderate drinker?” ask¬ ed the Judge. “I am' ' • I “How long have you drunk iu mod¬ eration?" “Forty years.’’ “And were uev«.r intoxicated?'' “Nevor.” “YVell,” remarked the Judge, scan¬ ning his subject closely from head to foot, “ yours is a singular cause, yet I think it is easily accounted for. L am remined by it of a little story. A ne¬ gro man, with a loaf of bread aud a flask of whisky, sat down to dice by the bank of a cloar stroam. In break¬ ing tho bread some of the crumbs drop ped into tbe water. These were eag¬ erly seized and eaten by the fish. , That civeumstauce suggested to the darkov the idea of dipping tho bread iu the whisky and feeding it to them. He tried it. It worked well. Some of the fiish ate of it, became drunk, and doat> ed helplessly on the water. In this way be easily caught a number. But in the stream was a large fish very un¬ like tbe rest. It'partook freely of the bread and whisky,_ but without any peraeptibio effeot. It was shy of every effort of the darkey to take it. He re solved to have it at all hazards, that he might learn its name and nature. He procured a net, aud after much effort caught it, carried it to a negro neigh¬ bor, and asked -his opinion of the mat- ter. The otner su.veyed the wonder a moment, aD<i then said: “Sambo, I undorstand dis case. Dat fish is a mullet head. It ain’t got any brains.’ “In other words," said tho Judge, “alcohol affects only the brain, and of course, those having none may drink with impunity/' The storm of laughter that followed, drove the forty years' moderate drinker suddenly from the house. Vvhat is the difference between a drummer boy* and a pound of meat ? One weighs, a pouiid aud the other pounds away. ch $1 A YEA I! NO. 5 1 lilies light as air—Bording house pillows. ’/ should blush to simper,’ is tho atest slaug. 1 ‘Am I froze? is the regular Minneso¬ ta salutation. An eff irt made (or the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. Death has consign M many a mart to fauio, when a D- gu- life «.vu;;U pavs consigned him to in. n.-e. There are m i . : -.ir¬ on grace, many sno ,.l charity. Smoking io injurant•< man was killed by falling his pipe. The man who ‘kept hi9 wo u’ serious offense to Webster, was a. iron it for his dictionary. ,1 can t do it/ never did any /Mag. Til try has worked wonders; and ‘I will do it,' has performed miracles. Anger is the most important passion that accompamos the mind of man, id affects nothing it goes about, and hurts tbo one tnat is possessed by it, morn than any other against whom it is di¬ rected. ‘We wont indulge in such horrid an¬ ticipations/ as tho henpecked husband said whan the parson to'd him he would be joined to bis uife in another world, never more to be separated from her. ‘Parson, l hope you will not mention this unpioasaut circumstance again,’ said he. A newspaper subscriber who refuses to receive from ois postmaster a paper on which there remains a portion of the subscription unpaid, tenders him¬ self liable to prosecutoiu. Io has re¬ cently been decidod that such an act on tho part of subscribers is prirna facie evidece of intentto defrand the newspa¬ per publisher. It would he well for dishonestly inclined persons to pasta this on their demijohn, where they will bo apt to see it several times a day.— Athens Banner. 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