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Church Directory.
BAPTIST—BEV. D. T. ESPY.
Summerville First Sunday and even
ing and Saturday before; also third Sun
day evening. ’Sardis Second Sunday
ami Saturday before. Pleastint ((rove
i Third Sunday and Saturday before
I Mount Harmony Fourth Sunday and
Saturday before.
BAPTIST REV. J. M. SMITH.
Race ton Mill First Sabbath in each
moiuhat ito’chr-k Perennial Springs
'i'h in IS: ’ / tlt ;; nd Sntiirda v bof-iro
Melville Fourth Sabbath and Saturday
before at 2:30 p. m.
M ETHOD I< !• KEy. T. 11. TIMM<)?< S.
Oak Hill First Saturday and Sunday.
Ami Second Saturday ami Sunday;
also Fifth Sumlay evening .Broom
town Second Sunday cx’ening, ami
Fifth Siiii’ljy morning South (’aro
lin:> Third Saturday ;■•»'! Sunday
Su •a in ;rvilh -Fourth Simday and night.
PRESBYTERIAN -REV. W. A. MILNER.
Trion-Hvory first and fifth Sabbath.
. .Summerville-Every second Sab
bath Alpine Everv third ami fourth
Sabbath.
PRESBYTERIAN REV. T. S. JOHNSTON.
Walnut Grove I’irst Sabbath Sil
ver (’reek, Floyd Uounty- Second Sab
bath .Beersheba Third Sabbath...
Ija Fay et te - Four tl i Sabba 11..
Court Directory.
surnnioii cour.T.
Eirst Monday in March and Septem
ber., .L.Hi AV. ?.Ll<b!..x, .Judge; <l. i>.
Hollis.< 'lerk; ('.<’.(Tementu. Solicitor-
General; J. N. Kiker, Stenographer.
4'SUNTV COURT.
Monihly terms, second Mondav;
'ju.irtcrly terms, first Monday in Ja'n
ue.rv, April, .Inly, and October. J. JI.
Beiiah, judge; G. D. Hollis, Clerk.
justices’ court.
Summerville (1125th district),John Tay
lor, N. I’., and J. .1. I>. Henry. J. I’. j
Court 3rd Friday. Lawful Constables:
P. A. Crumly and E. c. Smith.
Trion (S7oth district). T. J. Simmons,
N. I’., and N. 11. Coker, .L B. Court 3rd
Saturday. Last return day Friday be
fore the first Saturday. Lawful Consta
bles: IL P. Williams.'
Telega (927th district), W. F. Tapp, N.
P., and Johnston, J. I’. Court Ist
Friday. Lawful Constables: George
JV. Carroll.
Alpine IMSth district), J. E. Burns, N.
P. Court 4th S.u nrdav. Lawful Consta
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Dirtsellar (12111th district), J. L. Huie,
>'. B.,and Hi ,h R: •hardson, .1. B. Court
4th Saturday. L. wftil Constables: John
M. Rose. '
Seminole (Dfllst d'isil b’t,) A. J. Hender
son, X. P., and E. C. .Adams, J. P. Court
3rd Saturday. Lawful Constables: Jos.
Glenn and F. P. Ragland.
Coldweter G-'l-h'd district), H. B.
Franklin, X. I'.,. 1 , id W. T. Herndon, J.
P. Court b-t Saturday. Lawful C'.nsta
ble*: ?'*. J. Edwards and M. W. Bryant.
I'irttown (MOth district),M. M. Wright |
X. I’., oid ,1. P. Johnson, J. i*. Court
2nd Sa'day. Lawful Constables: C.
M. ?■•!. Herndon.
i ! :i- ood (1 2nd district), X. 3 k
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C. Sai nd J. J. Barbo: .
Sn' :>ia (.ri'2nd district), R. Ponder,
X. i’.. :.1 .1. P. Jaeksoh, J. I'. Court
Ist Sa: rdav. '.awful Cdn tables: J.
M. Coats.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 1888.
Roger Williams—Baptists.
Among the “illustrious Baptist
characters admired” by our good
Presbyterian brother, he mentions
again and yet again the name of
the bold and heroic yet unstable
and visionary abvocate of religious
liberty, linger Williams. It is a
well known fact that the assertion
that “Roger Williams founded the
Baptist in jtmeriea” has been re
corded in some of our histories and
taught even in some of our school
books. In 1817 a controversy be
tween the church at Providence and
the church at Newport as to which
was first established caused a thor
ough investigation of the matter by
both parties. The Colony Records,
and writings of Dr. Hogue, Staples,
Gammell, Cotton Mather, Callen
der, Neale, Backus, Edwards, and
Roger Williams were all eSimined
and compared ; the church and as
sociations.! records and century
sermons were brought forward and
after several years of persistent,
careful ar. l prayerful labor to do
justice to all, the proof was estab
lished that in four months from the
- date of his baptism (March, 103!))
Roger Williams declared that “(lie
church is yet in tile wilderness;
the organization of churches and
ordaining of ministers are inven
tions of men to fetter the freedom
|of the soul.” That Philip, a dea-1
■ con, baptized the Ethiopian, and'
Paul was baptized by a lav member
and preached without ordination.” i
This conviction, that “there is no
true church organized in the bay I
or in the world, and no true minis
try ordained by men” was so firmly
fixed in his mind that he never!
wavered in it during the 43 years
of his after life. Some of these
facts, before this controversy were !
regarded by some Baptist writers
jas “pedobaptist misrepresentn •
1 lions.” Mather, who knew Williams
; well, said the “thing like a chure'i
■! . ’,nded 1 William- came to nois
ing, and Williams declared himm-lfi
a ‘seeker.’” Neale wrote “hlsi
church crumbled away Edwards;
says, “Williams did not found a
Baptist church in Providence, nor
did he ever unite with the live
principle church gathered by
Olney, or with any church as he
declared himself a ‘seeker.’ ”
Thomas Olney,' a Congregation
alism baptized by 'Williams, March,
1639, gathered the five principal
churches at Providence, while Wil
liams was in England on his first
visit. In 1652 a division in this
church resulted in the formation of a
sixth principal church of which
Wiekenedon was pastor until his
death in 1669. Edwards says,
“Olney’s church, scattered in 1715
and was never again united.” Roger
Williams came to America a Puri
tan minister; he preached for the
Congregational church at Salem;!
he cordially embraced and fearless
ly advocated the Baptist doctrine of!
religious liberty, he renounced in
fant baptism, was baptized by Hol
liman, turned seeker and Familist;
declared all church organization
and ordinances illegal; therefore he
is not to be eulogized as the father of
the American Baptist.
Adlam, of Rhode Island, to whose ;
book we arc indebted for these!
facts, says of Mr. Williams: “As a
statesman, we admire him; as a!
bold and a powerful advocate of civil j
and religions liberty, and for all he j
did in conjunction with Dr. ('lari:'
in framing and securing the char-!
! ter of R. 1., we do him homage, but;
as a Baptist we owe him nothing..
As a religionist, lie had the courage I
to suffer, but lie was uninstructed I
on some points, unstable, and vis
ionary.”
I state these alleged facts, be
lieving them to be true; but as
Baptists do not believe in Apostolic
succession, as does Rome and some
of her Protesant daughters, and as j
Baptists most emphatically repudi
ate the doctrine of “baptismal re
generation” which is in a greater or !
less degree taught by all pedobap- ■
list; why docs it matter whether:
“the lawgiver of R. 1.,” as Bancroft
stvles Roger Williams, was, or was
not, a member of the Baptist;
church. By the way I have ex
:mined Bancroft’s history this
'. -ek and have failed to find a s’
g:e declaration in 411 1 pages t! it
>'■ illiatn. was a Bapti t; but B i:i-'
I crept says in vol. 1, page 44!)
“When Clark, the pure and toler
ant Baptist of R. 1., one of the hap
" py few who succeeded in acquiring
'an estate of bcnificence,and connect
ing the glory of their name with
' the liberty and happiness of a com
' monwealth, began* to preach to a
’ small audience in Lynn, he was
1 seized by the civil officers; and
1 Holmes, who refused to pay his
: fine, was whipped unmercifully.”
This is Presbyterian testimony
' and I accept it as I accept,
I
the testimony that Williams
’! was never a member of a Baptist
' church. To John Clark, the firm
1 : friend of Roger Williams and co
’ worker with him in the cause of
! civil and religipus liberty, “To John
’ ( lark to whom” the governor said :
’(“You have denied infant baptism:
' ! you deserve death ! I will not have
' such trash brought into mv juris
(diction,” to John Clark the “true
' | pioneer of the Baptist cause in the
! new world”—who when about to
‘, pmbark for England with Roger
’' Williams, charged his church. Bar
row says: “To steer clear of the
! opinion of those who destroyed the
' | purity of the church by uniting it
with civil power and introducing
into it unregenerate material by in
! fant baptism ; and to beware of the
! opinions of those on the other hand
( who denied that there were any vis
j ible churches. He warned them to
I avoid both extremes—the false or
; der of church and state pedobaptist
! and the no order of
I Roger Williams and his party—
the Seekers; to John ('lark a “full
j grown, double breasted lock-stick
Baptist,” belongs the honor of rais
ing the Baptist banner in America,
and “sustaining it in defiance of
prisons an I stripes unto blood,” till
( its conquest were carried into the
heart of Massachusetts, and a work
began by.him and his suffering com
panions, which will continue to
! spread and triumph.
■'Till t ; waxes of the bay.
Where the Max flower lay
Shall f :ia and .; ,’eze no in n' .”
No, my friends the fact that the'
I oldest apostate church existing to!
<lav, the Greek Catholic Church!
immerses adults and infants, does!
not make her the witnessing church :
indeed, as the Greeks surely under-'
stood their own language, it is not
strange that they immerse as the
Greek word baptizo means dipping;
but it is strange that they say : “We
believe baptism is a sacrament
which, except a person receive he
has no communion with Christ.”
They had just as well sprinkle or
pour, as they make their baptismal
right, God’s appointed channel by
which He conveys the Grace of
Salvation to the soul; and
it is therefore with them,
a sac,renien !■ without which there can
bo no salvation. This doctrine |
whether taught by Greek Catholics,
: Roman Catholics or Protestants, has !
I never been believed, and will never
lbe accepted by true Baptists. We I
J cling to the old fashioned truth—
“saved by grace, through faith in
Christ, and not of ourselves; it is
the gift of God.” All bcljk'vcrs in
Chistare saved, even befoiwmptism
and are entitled to water naptism,
and none but believers should be
i baptized. See Acts, viii-37—“ Here
i is water; what doth hinder me?”
“If tho;i b.lievest, thou roayest, and
: they both '.'ent down into the waler
and he (Philip) baptised him.”!
j Again, when Jews came to John to
be baptiz' d, saying “JVe have |
(Abraham for our father. John’s
j dcclaratio.—Matt-. 3:7-9, is a
i clear denial that any may be bap
( tized on the ground that they are
the chiidrcn of pious parents. How!
the Calv: nistic .doctrine an abso
lute bell'd*.m of wrath, and the the-)
ory, inherited church membership !
can “walk togather agreed” is more
than I .an comprehend. The
truths above stated, upon
which true Baptists are
united in belief and practice, are
not quoted from “sensational news
papers,” but from that “reliable I
Book” of Books, the word of God, j
which well deserves a place in every
private or public library.
Now in conclusion, I believe that (
all true Christians desire true union ■
with Christ; and that the prayer of (
our King 1 hat all His people may
b ' ie, : ■ H( is one with the Fath-,
er, will 1-. granti 1 when . '! Chris
tians “buy the t th and 11 ' not
and hold fast t > that which is
good.” But “there can never be 1
- any real union of effort between a
- system of religion founded in truth,
z and systems of religion founded in
- error.” Sham unions are hypocrit
li ieal. Our English’Spurgeon says:
- “Union with known and vital error
a is participation in sin.” Our Atner
s ican “Spurgeon” says : “Principles,
1 moral convictions and the revealed
s truths of God cannot be denied,
yielded or modified to effect a com
i prortiise; while opinions, prejudices,
t feelings and self interests may be,”
s and must be before we may as faith
t ful subjects enjoy that union with
i all Christians for which our King
- prayed. Then will our “Father’s
f will be done on earth as it is done
i in Heaven.” J. G. Hi nt.
Wilson Wheeler.
There is Joe Brown up to Wash
ington tellen them Northern people
what's de matter wid de farmers of
de South. He says de farmer has
’ er biger bonanza dan de whisky
ring. Now, maybe I don’t under
' ’ stand what de word bonanza means.
ilf it means poverty, hard work, |
: hunger, rags, hard times, and little
' children, I agree wid de senator dat
’ de farmer has de bulge on all de
rest of de businesses. But if it
moans big profits, line clothes,
1 wealth, luxury and fried ham and
red gravy, I must say dat de farm
er am distressingly left.
I wonder if “Uncle Joe” thought
de farmer had such er big bonanza
when he use to plowdat steer. Why
did de senator forsake dat big “bo
nanza” to enter de political arena?
Why didn’t lie stick to farmin if
derc was such er “bonanza in it?”
But probably I do Senator Brown
an injustice. Perhaps he sacrificed
his personal interest for de good of
country. If dat is de facts in de
case it is er great pitty de people
,of Georgia didn’t vote him er vote
|of thanks, give him er chromo and
I send him back to plowin dat old
bull amide injoyment of de farm
er's “bonanza.” Oh, my. ain’t it
rerdiy refreshin to hear dese soft
hand, kid-gloved politicians, preach
ers, and newspaper editors talk and
wi;ite erbout farmin and what de
farmers ought to do.
I imagine most of em would be
by farmin as old Father Kinchin
Rambo was by de big two-horse turn
plow what he bought when da fust
come in dis country. Father Ram
bo put old Sam to plowin wid de
new plow, and long toward dinner
time Sam come up and he was well
wet wid sweat and dirty and mud
dy and says he, “mars Kinchin dat
plow is no good. I can’t work her.”
Dat kinder vexed Father Rambo
and he low dat he can “make her
june all right: Sam des didn’t have
sense enough.” After dinner Father
Rambo went down in de bottom and
Sam helped him hich up de horses
and he started, and de thing would
try to run to de left all de time.
Well, he thought as it was er new
thing and had never been worked
any lie had better break it to work
as he wanted it, and he des set
er gin it wid all his peuver and it
wasn’t long tell he was wet wid
sweat, and hot and tired and mad
but de plow still wanted to go to de
left. Den he concluded as it was
er new thing maybe lie better hu
mor it er while, and probably it
would get to see de errow of its
wav and do as he wanted. Well dat
plow discontinued to run to de left
till it got to de fence and den it
wanted to get over de fence and he
des put it over and says he “Sam
go back to your old bull tongue we
| dont understand dat critter.” Now
I imagine if senator Brown had to
“tr.kl?” er farm for his daily bread
de “bonanza” wouldin appear near
so large, evin as a W. & A. railroad
lease, Dade coal mines, or his con
vict lease fro say nothing of a sena
ip. The people of Georgia'
have made’ Joe Brown great and
rich and transferred him from plow
ing a bull to the senate of the
United Siases. And it aint right
for him to slander de farmers of de
i south, up dare mong dem northern
falks where he aint known.
WIL SO N WHEELER.
Judge Jas. R. Brown is to re
sign the judgeship of the Chatta
. hoochce circuit, and Governor Gor
d i v ! appoint lion. V> ’. J. Winn,
'of Ma ietta, as his success or. Judge
Brown will p? ss his candidacy for
' the supreme court.
> JOHN GATEWOOD.
! A Reminiscence of the Guer
rilla Warfare of North
Georgia—Ellijay in the
Handsof Murderers.
[•
The valleys of Gilmer county are
smiling with peace, yet there was a
I time when they ran witli blood.
These were days of war, when men’s
minds did not turn to thoughts of
love, and when the better part of
■ nature was subject to the dominion
. of Mars.
Although this county was about
. forty miles from the line of march
of the invading army, and though
a federal soldier was never seen
here until after the surrender, yet
no people in the state suffered more
from the horrors of war than did
those within bugle call of Ellijay.
Here, as in several surrounding
counties was waged a guerrilla war
fare of the most bloody character
The contending factions were tin
“Tories,” “Bushwhackers,”or“Hog
backs,” who sympathized with the
federals, on one side, and the con-
I federate “Scouts,” or “Guerrillas,”
on the other. These men usually
went in bands of twenty-five or
thirty, with some desperately bravi
man as their leader. Their deed
are yet spoken of with bated breat h
as if fearful that even now some i I
them might rise up and demand
satisfaction.
“I knew many of these men.”
said an old citizen today, “and was
intimately acquainted with soin of
the most noted desperadoes of those
desperate times.
On being asked to continue he
said:
“There was on the side of the
bushwhackers Bill Noblett- and a
man named Tray, alias
Ringwood. On the other
were Con and Bob Jord in.BHh
Glenn, I'om i’■ k
Freeman, John Gatewood, a*id
ny others.
“John Gatewood! I have seen the
time when the mention of that
name would cause the stoutest
heart to quail, and blanch the cheek I
of men who knew no such thing as
fear. He was known far and wide
as the bravest of the brave, and he
was desperation itself. He had been
the hero of some of the bloodiest
battles ever fought, and he and his
hand had the reputation of having
slain “union” men almost without
number. I had heard so much of
him and his desperate deeds that I
had painted him in my fancy as
something monstrous iu appearance
and almost expected on meeting
him to see the cloven foot. But. .
how different the reality !
“One day in 18(11 the little town
of Ellijay was startled by a series of
the most terrible yells that ever fell
on human ears. Soon the square
aro,im4 the courthouse was filled
with a band of men whose conduct
would have disgraced a tribe ofi
Apaches. Drinking, swearing swag- i
gering, yelling, hooting, shooting,
they role the streets, plundering
houses, insulting women ami slay
ing men.
“After about an hour of riotous
revel the'band disappeared, and the
streets were again quiet. But it.
was the quiet of desolation and
death! The jail had been totally
demolished, the cn:irtho:ise was a
wreck, and the home of every
family who sympathized with the
south had been ruthlessly entered
and everything destroyed.
“My own home was a scene 1
shall never forget. Barrels of syr
up and feather-beds were open to
gether in the floor; pictures were
broken, books torn up, clothing
burned or carried off, and nearly
everything in the house destroyed.
“On the street lay Judge Inlow,
dead. He had been shot through
the heart without a word of warn
ing. A few yards distant lay Jake |
Pearcy, another citizen wounded
nigh unto death.
“This was the work of an hour,
and done by beings calling them
selves men. They were led by that
infamous being with the many alias
es, that day calling himself “Tray I”
“The next day for the first time
I saw John Gatewood. How differ
ent he was from what I had imag
ined him. He had heard of the out
rages committed at Ellijay, and
with about thirty of as brave men
as ever road with Quantrell he had
come for revenge or retalliation.
“Gatewood rode a magnificent I
NO. 10.
large, grey horse, whose high head
and spirited carriage seemed to in
” dicate that he was conscious of the
fact that he bore a woithy rider.
When Gatewooxl and his band had
ridden up into the public square
e the leader dismounted and, learning
1 from some one that I was a brother
• of one who had often ridden by his
’ side almost into the jaws of death
f he at once approached me and told
f me who he was.
1 “He was about six feet tall, broad
shouldered, and as handsome as a
f picture. His hands and feet were
1 small, and on his finger flashed a
' diamond ring of dazzling brilliance.
1 He had dark auburn hair, which
hung in heavy curls down to his
! shoulders. His eyes were large,
1 dark and lustrous. Add to this a
’ soft, delicately tinted skin, and you
■ have : picture of the handsomest
man ever saw. Perhaps to some,
hi amity seemed too effeminate.
Bu: let his soul be fired by the im
pulse of revenge, and the dark eyes
! Hashed fire, the delicate hand held
tiie bridle rein with the grip of a
I vice.
“When I first saw him he was el
egantly dressed, and his mild man
ners, and soft, low tone of voice
i seemed better fitted to a modern
j lude than a dashing cavalry rider.
Fhe four heavy navy revolvers
which were buckled around him,
alone, of all his paraphernalia, be
spoke the desperate trade he fol
lowed.
“He asked and received informa
tion of the bushwhackers’ raid the
day before, inquiring particularly
for certain parties whom he seemed
anxious to meet. When he was
about to leave, he gave me a little
pocketbook and the first greenback
dollar I ever saw. He then mounted
the command “Forward !” set
■hub h* 3 steed, and left in the
WaWthe bushwhackers, follow
'OV' fl ’ ,nen as evcr
fol ’ o wed I <:■ r
“A few day? lai r 'I heard news
which proved tb-it the wrongs suf
fered by the people had been terri
I bly avenged He had followed
‘Tray’s’ band of desperadoes into
their mountain retreats, where a
terrible encounter took place. The
men fought with the knowledge that
I their deeds cried aloud for blood,
and that Gatewood’s men owed
neither mercy nor quarter. The
encounter had such a wholesome
effect upon ‘Tray's’ partizans that
they gradually disappeared after
ward.
Gatewood was at this time about
twenty-two years of age. He was
born in East Tennessee. When he
was about seventeen his home was
visited by a band of murderers who
plundered his house, bound him
j with ropes, and in his presence
grossly insulted his mother and
sisters, killing one of them.
“When they left and his bonds
were loosed, he swore a terrible
loath of vengence. He was bound a
boy—he was released a man. How
well the man carried out the resolu
tion of the boy, was proven by the
fact that nearly every one of that
band of murderers paid for his mis
deeds with his life.
“A few years ago John Gatewood
was following a peaceful vocation
in the west. I suppose he is yet.”
Such are some of the stories
which one may hear told here. In
the light of the present day they
seem improbable, but as they took
place within the memory of living
men, they can be verified.—Pea Jay
in Atlanta Constitution.
Newspapers in 1888.
From the edition of Geo. P. Row
ell & Co.’s “American Newspaper
Directory.” published April 2d (its
twentieth year), it appears that
the Newspapers and Periodicals of
all kinds issued in the United
States and Canada, now number
16,310, showing a gain of 890 du
ring the last 12 months and of 7,-
136 in ten years. *
The publishers of the Directory
assert that the impression that
when the proprietor of a newspaper
undertakes to state what has been
his exact circulation, he does not
generally tell the truth is an errone
ous one: and they conspicuously
o era reward of .SIOO for every in
stance in their book for this year,
where it can be shown that the de
tailed report received from a pub-
I Usher wt»g untrue.
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