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FOR THE
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It Is THE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY
-for the bowels. It is one of the most pleasant
and efficacious remedies for all summer com
plaints. At a season when violent attacks of the
ibowels are so frequent, some speedy relief should
be at hand. The wearied mother, losing sleep
in nursing the little one teething, should use this
medicine. UOcts. a bottle, Bend 2c stamp to
Walter A, Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., for Kiddle Book.
Twylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullein will cure Coughs, Croup,
and Oonsomption. Price 25c. and 91 a bottle.
. H. Croukshiw A Co., 176 8. Foryytb, Finish
and Rough Lumber, Laths and Shingles.
CAPITOL CHAFF.
Fish >n great variety. Donehoo’s.
Pare candies —wholesale —G. E. Johnson.
Good table board at 42 N. Collias.
Board and lodging, $4 00 per week at 42 N.
Collins.
There were 682 Atlanta veterans, and 1,400
veterans from over the State, in line this morn
ing.
McNeal Bros., Decorators and Designers,
sella Wall Paper and Picture rods, 42 Broad
street.
Still they come. New customers every day
are finding out where to get fine shoeing done
to suit. Horses and mules happy. Business
booming. No. 20 E. Hunter. J. N. Cook, V. S.
Mitchell A Parker have had the misfor tune to
have a very line horse seriously ipjured by fall
ing on a crossing on West Harris street. His
spine seemed injured, and he could not be got
ten on bis feet.
Go over to the warerooms of the Estey Qfgan
Co. if you want to see the coming Piano of
America. It is the new “Estey” with many
novel features. There is no Joubt but this
house is the leading one in enterprise, amount
of business being done with music-loviug people
of all classes.
Their organs are the most celebrated in the
world and can be had on the moat reasonable
terms and fairest prices. Just call and see
them, it will do you good, and whether you want
to buy or not they will be glad to see you and
give you some fine music.
Cli'Y NEWS.
Afternoon Item* Hotted Down From
'Jl'bia morning’s Paper.
The engine that will pull the Governor’s
Horse Guard special Pullman palace train to
Savannah, leaving to-night at 8:30, has just
been completed in the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad Company’s shops in this
oity, under the sii|>orviaion of Mr. C. F. Thomas
master mechanic. This will be its maiden trip,
and it is considered the finest engine in the
South, as all the modern improvements were
need in her construction.
James McCoy, the murderer of Deputy Mar
shal Ke'lett, has been found guilty of murder in
Ih* first degree, and will be sentenced to death.
Aa alarm of tire was turned in last night,
ateoat V o’clock, from box 32 on Whitehall and
Hood street. The tire was located in West end,
•nd was consuming the residence of Mr. J. B.
Boseer, in West End. The building was a five
room frame structure, and was almost entirely
destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown.
The fire communicated with a cottage adjoining,
and only the hardest work saved it from com
plete destruction.
STILL a-Biion
motes'’ Club Systeaa Continues to
Flbnrlab.
The photograph club rate system, which was
instituted by Mr. C. W. Motos, the
Premium Artist, has taken with
the people most wonderfully. Scores of
clubs have been formed and others are being
made up. Twelve members constitute a club
and those who join are entitled to one dozen
Cabinet Photos for $4.00. Getters up of clubs
receive 1 dozen photos or $4.00 cash m pay for
same. Call at Gallery, 34 Whitehall street.
Fine corned beef always on hand. C. A.
Rauachenberg, 133 Whitehall street.
(Continued from first page.)
Guards met at their armory and marched
by double-quick time to the depotto meet the
Busch Zouaves, but as it was learned that the
Zouaves would not arrive until later, they
marched back to Mrs. Hill’s residence, where
the procession began. In the meantime s pro
cession beaded by the Griffin band started from
the depot. The band began by playing “Dixie”
and a yell went up from the throats of
thousands of ex-Confederates. This
procession marched over thh city until 9o’clock,
when it bolted on Walton street at the inter
section of Cone, to await the arrival of the vet
erans iu front of the custom house. About 9
o’clock the procession of veterans was ergan
ized at the court house; from there thev march
ed to the custom house and opened ranks on
Marietta street to await the arrival of Mr. Da
vis and parly. In this line there could
be keen men who were maimed in different
ways, some minus a leg, others aa arm, some
an eve, but each only served to make the old
soldiers love their chiefeain whom thev had
come to honor all the more. Gov. Mcfianiel
made bis appearance from ths Capitol and was
greeted with cheere. While the line was in
waiting, the procession of veterans march
ed uu the line and back with hared beads.
About 10 o’clock, the Davis party
made its appeapance on Broad street,
headed by a squad of mounted police: then
came the colored band; then the Gate City
Guards, followed by Means' cadets; after them
were the Governor's Horse Guards. Then came
the carriage containing ex-President Jefferson
Davis, Hon. J. C. C. Black, orator of the day;
Dr. R. D. Spalding, president Ben Hill Monu
ment AsMxjiation: Henry W. Grade, master of
ceremonies.
In the second carriage were Gov. McDaniel,
Gen. C. A. Evans, chaplain; Mayor Reese, of
Montgomery; Mayor Hillver, of Atlanto. The
third carriage contained Chief Justice Jackson,
Major Minims,General Lawton, Captain J. Mc-
Intosh Kell. The fourth carriage was occupied
by Colonel Printup, of Rome;
Hon. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta:
Hon. J. W. A. Sam'ord, of Alabama, and
Judge L. W. Harris, of Georgia. As the party
turned trom Brosd into Marietta street, cheers.
• many and loud, rent the air.
The Cereuaeniea Begin.
AT TH! STITI’B.
When the procession reached the statue, the
veterans opened ranks and the military and
carriages passed through.
There was the wildest 'axeitement over Mr.
Dav is, and the people swarmed around the
platform until they were pack'd.
The stage was handsomely decorated with
flowers and banners.
Mr. Henry W. Grady opened the ceremonies
by saving: “We have gathered here to-day to
A do honor to the memory of a great man, and to
W perpetuate his name in our hearts.”
W Mr. Grady then introduced Rev. Mr. Evans,
the patter and friend es Senator Hill, to com-
mence the ceremonies with prayer. That
prayer was beautiful and touching.
“0 Lord, our God, thou art the Father of all
mankind. We come together to worship, and
we invoke thy blessings upon us—upon our
State and country.
Gen. Evans prayed for Mr. Davis and Mr.
Hill and his family.
Mr. Grady then alluded to the valuable ser
vices of Dr. Spalding as the chairman of the
Hill Monumental Association, and introduced
him to the peoplt.
Dr. Spalding in a neat address presented the
statue to Governor MeDamel for the people of
Georgia.
Dr. Spalding gave a history of the commit
tee’s work and alluded in touching words to
Senator Hill’s noble life. He said “Captain
Burke, will you unveil the statue?”
Dr. Spalding’s speech was a surprise to those
who dp not know hiu and a revelation to all of
finished and stirring eloquence. He manifested
as ease, a grace, a fervor that carried the great
crowd by storm, and evoked thunders upon
thunders of applause. There was a felicity, a
force and elegance in bis utterances that placed
him in enthusiastic rapport with the audience.
As Capt. Burke unpinned the clothand gave
it a slight jerk it fell in an instant, revealing
the familiar form and features, and a great
shout arose from the immense crowd.
Governor McDaniel, in behalf of the people,
received the statue in a fine and eloquent ad
dress.
M. Black closed amid deafoniog applause and
received many congratulations.
JIEEKBSOM DAVIS IS INTRODUCED,
When Col. Black ended the people cried for
Davis, and Mr. Henry Grady introduced the
distinguished guest in the most eloquent man
ner.
Mr. Davis said: "I came here ailentlv, rever
ently, laving, to see unveiled the statue of my
friend, as one who wanted to show him
respect. If I was asked to name
three of Georgia’s noblest sons, I would sav
Oglethorpe th* great, Troupe the dauntless, and
Hill the faithful. It it was ex ected es me, if I
could make a speech, there would be
nothing to be ahded. It all has been
said. But I can say something of my dead
friend. If he was last to precipitate the States
in war, he was the last to give
it up. When the South was under
the power of a conquering enemy,
Mr. Grady introduced Hon. J. C. C. Black,
who spoke as follows :
Mr. Black’s Address.
J. C. C. BLACK.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : His
tory has furnished but one perfect character;
humanity nas but one example in all things
worthy of imitation. And yet all ages and coun
tries have recognized that those who, devoting
themseivos to the public service have led the
people through great perils, and by distinguish
ed careers added to the just renown of their
highest respect, honor and veneration.
The chiloren of Israel wept for their great
leader and deliverer on the plains of Moab. The
men of Athens gathered at the graves of those
who fell at Marathon and pronounced panegyrics
upon them. This sentiment is an honor to the
living as well as the dead. It iajust, for no
merely human pursuit is higher than that pub
lic service which honestly and intelligently de
votes itself to the common weal There is no
study more worthy of the highest faculties of
thu mind than that which seeks after the nature
of civil government, applies it to its legitimate
uses and ends, and properly limits its powers.
No object is more worthy of the noblest philan
thropy of the heart than society and the State.
It is not only honorable and just, but like all
high sentiment, it is useful—for honors to the
dead are incentive to the living. Monuments to
our groat and good should be multiplied, May
I take the liberty on this occasion of suggesting
to thu bar and people of the State to provide a
fitting memorial to the distinguished Chief Jui
tice who so long presided over our Supreme
Court, whose decisions are such splendid speci
mens es judicial research and learning, and
who-i* career recalls Wharton’s picture
of Nottingham, “seated upon his throne with a
ray of glory about hie head, his ermine without
spot or balance in his right hand
mercy on his left, splendor and brightness at
his feet, and his tongue dispensing truth, gosd
ness,' iitue and justice to mankind.” And by
its side, soil worthy of such association, another
to couiniiunorate the sturdy virtue ; unswerving
fidelity under great trials, and worthy public
career of that other Chief Justice who so re
cently passed from among us. The public dis
position to honor the dea,d too often finds its
only expression in the resolution of public as
semblies, and the exhibition in public places of
emblems of mourning, soon to be removed.—
“And the children of Israel wept for Moses in
tue plains of Moab thirty days ; so the days of
weeping and mourning for Moses were en
ded.” Too often the great and good lie in un
known sepulchres, or, if kuown, they are un
marked by any lasting monument. When the
feeling does crystalize in enduring marble or
graite, in most cases it is after painful effort
and long delay. Eighteen years elapsed after
the laying of ihe corner stone of the Bunker
Hill monument, erected by the patriotism of
New England, before its completion was cele
brated. The statae of Chief Justice Marshall,
appointed during the second administration,was
unveiled within a very recent period. Imme
diately after his death in 1790, Congress voted
a marble monument to Washington. Half a
century elapsed before the founda
tion was laid. After this
for seven and thirty years, it remained unfin
ished. Although intended to commemorate tee
life aud character of him who was “first in ths
hearts of his countrymen,” and had just claims
upon the Treasury of the Government, it stood
as if insulting him whom it should have honor
ed, symbol of nothing but the ingratitude of the
prophecy of nothing but a broken con
stitution, a civided people, and a disrupted
union. Its completion was not celebrated until
the 21st day of February, 18S5, —more than
three quarters of a century after the resolution
of Congress voting it. The history of these
similar organisations marks with peculiar em
phasis that of the Association whose completed
work we come to celebrate with becoming cere
mony. Amidst profound and universal expres
sions of grief at the public calamity to the
country indicted by his death.—on the 18th
day of August, 1882, bis body was buried
to await the dawn of that resurrection
day of which he so, beautifully wrote
after he could no longer speak. Within a few
days after his burial, a public meeting was call
ed to assemble in the State Capitol on the 29th
day of August thereafter. That meeting re
solved itself into an organization that under
took the patriotic duty of commemorating his
public life by some fit and during memorial.
The success, brilliant as his own resplendent
career which calls ua together within
less than half a decade after its inauguration to
crown the completion of its work, is highly hon
orable to those who have achieved it, but
most honorable to him who inspired it. It has
few, if any, parallels. It is in itself a more fit
ting and eloquent oration than human language
can pronounce, for that mar speak in exaggera
ted phrase of the worth of the dead and the sor
row of the living; this is love’s own tribute, thia
is griefs truthful expression.
As we come te dedicate this statue to his
name and memory, all the surroundings are
moat auspicious. No place could have preferred
a claim above this. It was bis own home; it is
the capital of the State, and his fame is a com
mon heritage. The progressive spirit that has
already made thia populous aad growing city
the pride of every citizen, the woader of every
■tranger, shall furnish opportunity te apeak, as
THB EVENING CAPITOL: ATLANTA. GA- SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1886
it shall speak, to the largest number of behold
ers. It is the time, too, when all over this
Sou'hern land, in the observance of a custom
that should be perpetuated, fair women and
brare men pay tribute to our dead. May we
not think of the spirits of our honored dead who
preceded him in our history, aa well as those
of his woithy cotesnporaries, coming from that
world where no uncharity misjudges, no preju
dice blinds, no jealousy suspicions to hover
over us and rejoice in the tributes of this day.
And surely, if the honor this occasion pays the
dead could be enhanced, er the joy it im
parts to the living could be heightened by
human presence, we have that augrv'nted
honor, and that elevated joy in the presence
of one worthily ranked among the most renown
ed of the living; whose strength of derotion to
onr lamented dead has overcome the infirmities
of age, and the weariness of travel, aud who
comes to mingle bis praises with ours Illus
trious son of the South, thy silent presence is
loftier tribute than spoken oration or marble
statue or assembled thousands. Alas ? Alas 1
we this day mourn the silence of the only ton
gue that could fittingly and adequately voice
the honor we would confer upon thee. Beside
the grave of him who never swerved in his de
votion to thee and the cause of which thou wert
and art the worthy representative, we this day
acknowledge thy just claim upon the confidence,
esteem, love and veneration of ourselves and
our posterity. May these auspicious su-round
ings help us to commemorate the, life aad
character of him in whose honor we are assem
bled, and move us with the higher purposes of
devotion to our State aud country that life and
character inspire.
As a son of Georgia he eminently merits this
enduring memorial and all the honors conferred
by this vast concourse of his grateful and ad
miring countrymen. Born upon her soil, rear
ed among her people, educated at her schools,
permeated by the influences of her society and
civilization, he plead with an eloquence unsur
passed by any of her sons for whatever would
promote her weal, and warned against every
danger his sagacious eve detected threatening
her prosperity. Called into public service at
an early age, he at once gave assurance of the
high distinction he afterwards attained. For
years his public career was a struggle against
prevailing principles and policies he believed to
be dangerous, and he stood conspicuous against
as powerful a combination of ability and craft
as ever ruled in the politics of any
State. Upon every field where proud
est gladiators met, he stood the peer
of the knightliest. He did not always achieve
popular success, but that has been true of the
greatest and best. His apparent failures to
achieve victory only called for a renewal of the
struggle with unbroken spirit and purpose.
Failure he did not suffer, for his very defeats
were victories. To say, as may be justly said,
that be was conspicuous among those who have
made our history fer thirty years is high en
cenium. During that period the most memo
rable events of our past have transpired. It
recalls besides his own the (names and careers
of Stephens, Toombs, the Cobos, Johnson, and
Jenkins. In what sky has brighter galaxy ever
shone? The statemanship, the oratory, the
public and private virtue it exhibits
should swell every breast with pa
triotic pride. In some of the highest
qualifications of leadership, none efhis day sur
passed him. He did not seek success by the
schemes of bidden caucus or crafty manipula
tion. He won his triumphs on the arena of
open, fair debate before the people. An ear
nest student of public questions, he boldly pro
claimed his conclusions. The power of oppos
ing majority did not deter him. As a leader of
minorities he was unequaled. As an orator at
the forum, before a popular assembly or con
vention, in the House of Representatives or the
Senate Ch'mber, iu Congress, ho was the ac
knowledged equal of the greatest men who have
illustrated our State aud national history for a
quarter of a century. He was thoroughly
equipped with a masterly logic, a cap
tivating eloquence, a burning invective,
a power of denunciation —with overy
weapon in the armory of spoken and writ
ten language, and used all with a force and
skill that entitled him as a debater to the high
est distinction. While the most unft.endly
criticism cannot deny him the highest gifts bf
oratory, some have withheld from him the praise
due to that caltn judgment that looks at result#;
that political foresigb. that belongs to a w>se
statesmanship. Judged by this just standard,
who among the distinguished sons of Georgia
in that period when her people most needed that
judgment and sagacity is entitled to higher
honor? Who more clearly foresaw in the clouds
that flecked our political sky the storm that was
coming? What watchman stationed to signal
the first approach of danger bad more far reach
ing vision? What pilot changed with the guid
ance of the ship of state struggled more earn
estly to guide it into clearer skies and calmer
seas? With . it devotion to the
Union that always characterized him,
and believing that the wrongs of which we just
ly complained could be better redressed in than
out of the Union, or had better be borne than
the greater evils than would follow dissolution,
he opposed the secession of the State. We
may not now undertake to trace the operation
of the causes that brought about that event.
We can justly appreciate how it could not ap
pear to others as it did to us. As to us, it was
not prompted by hatred of the Union resting in
the consent of the people, and governed by the
constitution of our fathers. It was not intend
ed to subvert the vital principals of the gov
ernment they founded, but to perpetuate them.
The governement of the new did not differ in
its form or any of its essential principals from
the old Confederacy. The constitutions were
the same except such changes as
the wisdom of experience suggest
ed. The Southern Confederacy con-
templated no invasion or conquest. Its chief
corner stone was not African slavery. Its
foundations were laid in the doctrines of the
Fathers of the Republic, and the chief corner
stone was the essential fundamental principle
of free government ; that all governments derive
their just powers from the consent of the gov
erned. Its purpose was not to perpetuate the
slavery of the black race, but to preserve the
liberty of the white race of the South. It was
another declaration of American independence.
In the purity of their motives, in the loftiness
of their patriotism, in their love of liberty, they
who declared and maintained the first were not
worthier than they who declared and failed in
the last. Animated by such purposes, aspiring
to such destiny, feeling justified then (and
without shame now), we entered upon
that movement. It was opposed by war
on the South and her people. What
was the South and who were
her people? There are those who seem to think
she nurtured a Upas whose very shadow blight
ed wherever it fell, and made her civilization in
ferior. What was that civilization? Let its
products as seen in the people it produced, and
the character and history of that people answer:
Where do you look for the civilization of a peo
ple? In their historv, in their achievements, in
their institutions, in their character, in their
men and women, in their love of liberty and
country, in their fear of God, in their contribu
tions to the progress of society and the race.
Measured by the high standard, where was
there a grander and nobler civilization than
hers? Where has there been greater lore of
Laming than that which established her col
leges and universities? Where better prepara
tory schools sustained by private
patronage ar.d not the exactions
of the tax gatherer—now unhappily
dwarfed and well-nigh blighted bv our modern
system. Whose people had higher sense of
personal honor? W hose business and commerce
was controlled by higher integrity? Whose
public tnan had cleaner bands and purer re
cords? Whose soldiers were braver or knight
lier? Whose orators more eloquent and per
suasively? Whose statesmen more wise and
conservative? Whose young men more chival
ric? Whose young women more chaste? Whose
fathers and mothers worthier examples! Whose
homes more abounded in hospitality as genial
and free to every friendly comer aa the sun
that covered them with its splendor? Where
was there more respect for woman, for the
church, for the Sabbath, for God, and for the
law? which next to God is entitled to the high
est reapect and veneration of man for it is the
fittest representative of His awtnl majesty, and
power and goodness. Where was there more love
ofhome,of country and of liberty? Deriving their
theories of government from the Constitution,
her public officers never abandoned those prin
ciples upon which the government could stand;
esteeming their public virtue as highly as their
private honor, they watched and exposed every '
form of extravigance, and every ap
proach of corruption. Her religious
' teachers driving their theology from the Bible,
guarded the Church from being spoiled
“through philosophy and vain deceit after
the rudiments of the world, and not after
Christ.” Her women adorned the highest so
cial circles of Europe and America
with their modesty, beauty and
culture Her men in every society, won a
higher tit e than “the grand old name of
‘gentleman’”—that of Southern gentleman.”
This in herself what contributions did she make
to the material growth of the country 1 Look at
the map of that country and see the five States
formed out es the territory north of the Ohio
and east of the Mississippi generously and pa
triotically surrendered by Virginia. Look at
the vast extent of country acquired under the ad
ministration of one es her Presidents, which to
day constitutes the States of Louisiana, Arkan
sas, Missouri, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minne
sota west of the Mississippi, Colorado north of
the Arkansas, besides the Indian Territory and
the territories of Dakota, Wyoming and Mon
tana.
It is asked what she had added to the glories
of the republic? Who wrote the Declaration of
Independence? Jefferson. Who led the armies
of the republic in maintaining and establising
that independence? “Who gave mankind new
ideas of greatness?” Who has furnished the
sublimest illustration of self-government? Who
has taught us that human virtue can set proper
limits to human ambition? Who has taught
the ruled of the world that man may be entrusted
with power? Who has taught the rulers of the
world when and bow to surrender power? Os
whom did Bancroft write “but for him the
country would not have achieved its indeped
ence, buffer him it could not have formed its
Union, and now but for him it could not set the
Federal Government in successful motion?” Os
whom did Erskine say “you are the only being
fer whom I hare an awful reverence ?” Os
whom did Charles James Fox say in the House
of Commons, “illustrious man, before whom all
borrowed greatness sinks into insignificance?”
Washington.
What State first made the call for the con
vention that framed the constitution? Virgin
ia. Who was the father of the constitution?
Madison. Who made our system es jurispru
dence, unsurpassed by the civil law of Rome
and the common law of England? Marshall.
Who was Marshall’s worthy successor? Taney.
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall,
Taney—these were her sons. Their illustrious
examples, their eminent services, the glory they
shed upon the American name and character
were her contributions to the common renown.
It is asked where her history was
written? It was written upon the bright
est page of American annals. It was writ
ten upon the records of the convention that
made the constitution. It was written in the
debates of Congresses that met, not to wrangle
over questions of mere party supremacy, but,
like statesmen and philosophers, to discuss and
solve great problems of human government. It
was written in the decisions es the country’s
most illustrious judges, in tne treaties of her
most skilful diplomats, in the blood of the revo
lution, and the battles of every subsequent war,
led by her Generals from the Chippewa to the
proud halls of the Montezumas.
“Braathte there a man with «oul so dead,
Who to himself hath never sa.d,
Thia is my own, my native land?’’
Forced to defend our homes and liberties
aftfcr every honorable effort for peaceful separ
ation, we went to war. Our leaders were worthy
of their high commission. I say our leaders,
for 1 believe that he who led our armies was not
more loyal, and made no better use of the re
sources at his command than he to whom was
entrusted our civil administration. Our people
sealed their sincerity with the richest treasira
ever offered, and the noblest holocaust ever
consumed upon the altar of country. To many
of you who enjoy the honor of having participa
ted in it the history is known. You ought to
prove yourselves worthy of that honor by teach
ing that history to those who come after
you. Theugh in no wise responsible for it,
though he had warned and struggled to avert
it. Georgia’s fortune was his fortune, Georgia’s
destiny was his destiny, though it led to war.
Others who had been influential m bringing
about dissolution and the first to take up arms
engendered disaffection by petty cavils, dis
couraged when they should have cheered, weak
ened when they should have strengthened, and
the spirit of his devotion never faltered but
through all the stormy life of the young repub
lic, what Stonewall Jackson was to Lee, he was
to Davis. If the soldier who leads his count y
through the perils of war is entitled to his
country’s praise and honor, no less the states
man who furnishes and sustains the resources
of war. Our flag went down at Appomattox.
Weakened by stabs from behind, inflicted by
bands that should have upheld; his front
covered with the wounds of the mightiest
war of modern times; dripping with as pure
blood as ever hallowed freedom’s cause, our
Confederacy fell, and Liberty stoed weeping at
the grave of her youngest and fairest daughter.
Our peerless military chieftain went to the noble
pursuit of supervising the education of the
young, proclaiming that human virtue should
be equal te human calamity. Our great civil
chieftain went to prison and chains, and there
as well as afterward in the dignified retire
ment of his private life, fer twenty years
has shewn how human virtue can be equal to
human calamity. The one has gone leaving us
the priceless legacy of his most illustrious char
acter; the other still lingers, bearing magesti
cally the sufferings of his people, and calmly
awaiting the summons that shall call him to the
rewards and glories of those who have suffered
for the right.
Our Souhern soldiers returned to their deso
lated homes like true cavaliers willing to ac
knowledge their defeat, abide in good faith the
terms of the surrender, accept all the legiti
mate results of the issue, respect the powers of
those who had conquered, and
resume their relations to the gov
ernment with all the duties those rela
lations imposed. The victorious Generals and
leaders of the North awaited the highest honors
a grateful people could confer. Their armies
having operated over an area of 800,000 square
miles in extent, bearing on their rolls on the
day of disbandment 1,000,516 men, were peace
fully dissolved. Then followed the most
remarkable period in American his
tory —iu any history. After spending bil
lions of treasure and offering thousands of lives
to establish that the States could not withdraw
from the Union, it was not only declared that
they were out of the Union, but the door of
admission was closed against them. While it
cannot be denied that the gravest problems
confronted those who were charged with the ad
ministration of the government, a just and im
partial judgment must declare that the most in
genious statecraft could not have inspired a
spirit, which, if it permanently ruled, would
mere certainly have destroyed all the States.
Its success would have been worse for the
North than the succeas of the Southern Con
federacy, for if final separation had been estab
lished, each new government would have re
tained the essentials of the old, while the domi
inance of this spirit would have destroyed every
vital principle of our institutions. The success
of the Confederacy would have divided the old
into two Republics. If this spirit had ruled, it
would have left no Republic. It was, therefore,
a monumental folly, as well as a crime. It was
not born of the brave men who fought to pre
serve the Union: it was the offspring of that
fanatacism that had in our early history, while
the walls of the Capital were blackened with the
tires kindled by the invading army of England,
threatened disunion, and from that day forward
turned the minister? of religion into political
Jacobins, degraded the church of God into a
politic*! junto, in the name of liberty denounced
the Constitution and iaws of the country, and
bv ceaseless agitation from press and rostrum
and pulpit lashed the people into the fury of
war.
In this presence, at the bar of the enlightened
public epinion of America and the world, I ar
raign that fell spirit of fanaticism, and charge
it with all the treasure expended and blood shed
on both sides of that war, all the sufferings and
sacrifices it cost, and all the fearful ruin it
wrought. And in the name of the living and
the dead 1 warn you. my coantrymen, against
the admission of that spirit under any guise or
pretext into your social or political systems.
There are trials severer than war, and calam
ities worse than the defeat of arms. The South
was to pass through such trials and be threaten
ed with such calamities by the events of that
period. Now and then it seems that all the la
tent and pent up forces of she natural world are
turned loose for terrible destruction. The foun
dations of the earth, laid in the depths of the
ages are shaken by mighty upheavals, the
heavens whose blackness is unrelieved by the
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A GRAND OPPORTUNITY
THE EVENT OF THE OCCASION I
Visuors to Atlanta at the Unvailing of the
BEN BILL MOlfflT
Are especially invited to visit the
new and Mammoth Establishment of
M. RICH & BRC S>,
64 and 56 Whitehall Street.
A GRAND SPECIAL SALE DAY
FOR THIS OCCASION.
Unparalleled Bargains in Carpets, Dry Goods, Etc.
LARGEST STORE IN THE OITY.
Immense Stock in Every Department..
LOWEST PRICES IN ATLANTA
GRAND SPECIALTIES FOR TO-DAY:
CARPETS.
50 Rolls Extra Heavy Brussels at 50c yard
29 “ Extra Heavy Ingrains at 50c yard
20 “ Ingrain at 20 cents per yard.
RUGS.
50 Large Turkish Hugo, 4 by 7 feet, $7.75 each, reduced from sll.
65 Large Turkish Rugs, at $5.00 each, reduced from $7.50.
70 Large Turkish Rugs at $3.00 each, reduced from $5.00.
MATTINGS, MATTINGS!
100 Rolls Fine White Matting at 12 l-2c. per yard, worth 20c.
90 Bolls Bed and White Matting at 12 l-2c. per yard, worth 20c.
Shades and Curtain Poles.
1000 Dado Shades with Spring Fixtures, all complete, 50c, each, all colors.
1500 Curtain Poles with Brass Trimmings, at 50c. each, complete.
IN DRY GOODS!
Planlr Sillr. Worth 90c > we now
JDlClUlx 0111x3 sell at 60c.; our regu
lar $1 silks at 75c., and a good $1.35 silk at sl. All the
|1.25 colored Surahs at sl. Ponge silks |4.75 per piece
of 20 yards. New Foulard silks at 75c., opened first of
the season at |l.
Dress Goods- “line ot Tatted Eta
mine and Zephyr cotton dress goods of our own importa
tion, just in. x
Un c? pieces and 15c.
VTllly XlCim&“"Gin|hains marked down
to 6c.
PqtQCalq °^ er a satin Coaching parasol
*O.l dbUlo*"in all colors at one dollar; twenty
inch Twiled silk at |1.25; Pongee silk at |1.75; a fine
satin, with all silk lace, at $3.50; children’s parasols,
all colors, at 25c. These are very, very, cheap.
YTraQI AW w F,ve or 10 cents will buy a child’s
Jf good school hose, or a lady’s
solid and striped hose. Misses’ full regular made black
or solid color in all sizes at 15c. Ladies’ full regular
made Balbriggans 15c, and solid colors and black at 25c.
Ladies’ French Lisle black and colored, at 50c. Gents’
fill regular made British tocks at 15c.
Besides Numberless Other Bargains.
These mut be Sold down, so come if yon want real Bargains.
We Are Headquarters in Atlanta.
M. RICH & BROS.,
54 and 56 Whitehall Street.
QHirtc Gents’ reinforced Shirts, linen fronts, at
dill lO’* - 5o cents.
Shirt Waists—Boys’ Shirt Waists, perfec fit
ting, at 50c.
Towels—Think of buying a good Towel at 2>£«.
Table Linen—Fast color Turkey red Table Lin
en at 25c.
Doilies—Linen Doilies at 43c. per dozen
Bed Spreads-Full size white bed spreads at
50 cents.
Laces.—Just teceived, new Yak, Chantilly and Gui
pure Spanish all over Laces, Flounces and Skirtings, in
black and colors, new and beautiful.
Underwear—Loek at our prices for Ladies’ Under
wear. Chemises worth 50c, !0c and |l. we now offer at
30c, 60c and 70c. Skirts worth 75c, $1 and |1.25, we
sell at 50c, 75c and 9( c. Gowns, our regular 75c, |1 and
|1 15 gowns, at 50c, 60c and sl. Drawers at 45c, 60? and
75c. Corsets.—We sell you the best 25c corset you ever
bought,