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Dote, money order or r-guttered letter.
All buxine.* communi> ailou* should be ad
dreMod to tlie liuxiotsa Manager.
that b« I
all the honor* and recognition
corded the white pension grabbrrsof
the Onion nriny. Let there be
grand n.uniou of the G. A. R- Let
white spirits add black, brown spirit*
and grey, all meet and nifrgle on the
most lovin'* terms of social equality.
ELIMINATING THE NEGRO.
The Richmond Times very wisely
Certain seribbera have res««rrected
the Caaiak-Waslv difficulty am! given it
a coloring which the faffs do not war-
The position taken bv Sena- «»'• A »««■ lej orter, who by the
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THE ATHENS BANNER
We intend to make The Banker
not only the organ of Athens and
the surrounding country, but for
Northeast and Middle Georgia. Oar
daily edition we will send to all the
towns and villages, while we are de-
termined to place our mammoth
weekly in every farmer’s home. We
are daily adding new names to oar
list, and hope by the close of the
season to enroll 10,000 new subscri
bers. We want to secure a good,
Sncrgctic agent in every locality, and
such a man can do well canvassing
for us. We claim that we are now
publishing the ’seat and newsiest
weekly paper in the South There is
not an occurrence of importance in
the whole world, that reaches the
press, but it is recorded in our paper.
We re-write every article, and by
condensing all the important facts,
are able to give a great deal of news
in a small space. This is a conve
nience, too, to our patrons, as they
can obtain at a glance all informa
tion without wadiug through col
umns of Bmall print. We ask our
patrons to speak a kind word fo
The Banner to their neighbors, and
when they are through with their
paper to loan it to a non-subscriber
to read, that he may in turn become
a subscriber.
lor Morgan, ol Alabama, ou the res
olution of Senator Butler, of South
Carolina, providing for the coloniza
Mon of the negro from the South on
tiio ground that aulagoniem between
the races is constantly increasing!
aud there is no other remedy for t!i6
trouble, is startling iu its ultraism.
Mr. Morgan uot only favors the re
moval of the negro from the South,
but from the country altogether.
He wants him colonized in the Congo
basin, Central Africa, since that
country, be maintains, seems ready'
for conquests of civilization, and our
American negroes exported there,
could promote civilization more rap-*
idly than could be expected from any
efforts of the whites.
This might prove a very satisfac
tory answer to the negro question if
it were practicable, bat we are afraid
it is wholly otherwise. In the first
place, where is the money to come
called on I>r. Cfttfisk and obtained from
him the fo’Soe'ing state merit ol t-lie af
fair:
In the summerof 1801, as you know,
nearly every m n capable of beariug
arms bad left the city.!, Tty University
Was at its la.-t gasp and shortly thereaf
ter suspended. In the faculty of the
college was a young man who, haviug
passed an exceptionally good examina
tion, bad just been elected tutor in
mathematics. W 1>. Wash was ids
name, and although we shortly came
•n collision, it lias always been a pleas
ant recollection that even then I did
him justice. Brave even to ra-hness,
patriotic, self-sacrificing and thorough
ly imbued with tlie doctrines of State
sovereignty as exemplified in these days
in the speeches of such men as Yancey,
Toombs, Brown, T. R. It. Cobb and
others, he saw it necessary to take a
personal part in the great struggle
which had then begun.
“I bad, at that time, been recruiting a
company, wbicli afterward, under the
name of the Mell Volunteer*, covered
itself with glory on more than one well
fought field. About the same time Mr.
Wash opened a list for volunteers and
was meeting with reasonable success.
Finding the field here had been thor
oughly swept, I went dow'n into Ogle
thorpe county and sncceeded iu enroll
ing some thirty-odd good men there,
NEGROES AS G. A. R. MEN.
That truly loyal aud patriotic or
ganization, the Grand Ainiv of the
Republic, is now wrought up to the
highest pitch of excitement over the
admission of a colored post into their
ranks iff. Louisiana, and one com
mander went so far as to resign soon
er than sign its commission.
This iB a nice howdy-do. From
the viluperous utterances of jndig-
■ nation by the G. A. R. whenever
nigger chicken thief is sprinkled
Bird-shot down South, we thought
its members were longing to take the
rother-iu-black into their arms,
find bedew his raven brow with tears
of fraternal affection—that the odcr
of.the African woold be sweeter to
their nostrils than breezes from
Aivaby the Blest—that they longed
for the day when they could press
his thick lips, and smooth bis woolly
head with the hand. of aflection
that nothing would delight this noble
order so much as to gather the dar
key under its wings, as a ben doth
her brood, and rapturously exclaim
“ Once you was lost, but now you’re
found r
It indeed 'pains our heart to see
that we have been laboring under
such a hallucination, and that the
Grand Army of the Republic has no
. more hankering after nigger equality
thou the veterans ot the COnfedera
cy. It seems that the sentiment of
the! G; A. R. is that, from a Southern
stand-point, .the colored man is
gentleman afid a scholar, and should
receive every honor and recognition—
i.c., from the South. But when it
comes to swallowing a small dose of
the extract‘of coon themselves, they
„ sure at once taken with a violent at
tack qf black vomit.
Woll, well, well. This is certainly
a strange and incongruous world we
live in—especially that little section
of our mundane sphere located north
- of Mason A Dixon’s line. Here we
find the greatest Iovei of the nigger-
the only men wiio claim to have
shouldered their baskets (by proxy)
to Bet him free—uow refusing these
charges admission into their ranks
These same, humanitarians are en
tirely willing to show their devotion
negro by permitting him to
iu the same coach with the white
of the South, and they are
so willing to endure him so long as
finea.his depredations and out
„ to his former owner—but never,
well, hardly eVer, wijl they take this'
same dose themselves.
We are heartily in sympathy with
the colored troops ih their laudable
ambition to become enrolled in the
A. R. ranks. If these white sol-
thought the negro good enough
iiis life for the North and
isk
by their
enough to
little liolida,
hat the w
FA.RR BROS.,
House and Sign Painters
DECORATORS AND DEALERS IN
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No. 17 North Jackson Street, Next Door to Banner Office.
from which will be necessary to which brought my company up to the
carry into effect such an idea ? . Ac re * iaiCn,B of the Confederate govern-
cording to the census of 18S0, the
black population of the country was
6,566,766. At the Northern Presby
terian convention, held in New York
last summer, it was stated by one of
the divines, who had made a study
of his subject, that the Southern ne
gro was increasing at the rate of five
hundred a day. It stands to reason,
therefore, that the six and a half
million of Afro-Americans of ten
years ago have easily increased since
to not less than nine million.
To transport these 9,000,000 col
ored citizens to the great Congo
basin and giye them a start—as, of
course, the government would be ob
liged io do if it attempted to colon
ize them in the Dark Continent—
would cost, on an average, of not
less than $200 per capita, or the
enormous sum of $1,800,000,000.
Before that tremendous figure the
large surplus in the treasury' would
sink into insignificance, and after it
was-all swept away it would be but
ns a drop. Rich as is this country
and exhaustless as may be its capa
bilities.. it possesses neither wealth
nor resources sufficient to supply that
vast amount of money without an
enormous increase in popular taxa
tion.
In the next place, suppose that the
means for the exportation of the ne
groes to Africa could be provided
aud the people were willing to vote
through Congress to saddle them
seles with an amount which would
double the present national debt,
Uow could the negro even then be
sent to Africa, if he saw fit to refuse
to go ? A horse after being led to
water, cannot be forced to drink, and
neither can a- colored citizen after
being led to the side of . a ship bound
for Africa be forced to get aboard
contrary to his inclination. This is
another obstacle to Mr. Morgan’s
plan worthy of careful consideration.
Then, in the third place, it is very
doubtful if one of the main argu
ments advanced by Mr. Morgan in
defence of his pbsitiob would be ac
complished. 'The negro while in
closest contact with the wLites can
only rise to a limited poiut of civil
ization, and it lias been the invaria
ble experience of. the world so far
that, removed from white influences,
be easily and rapidly relapses into
barbarism. As a pioneer of civili
zation in Central Africa, therefore,
he would not be likely to prove any
greater success than he has proven
in the soma capacity m Liberia or
Hayti.
regtmentB of tlie Confederate govern
incut, which at that time fixed not only
the number of meu in a company, but
their physical condition as well, and
accepted no volunteer who, could not
pass the required examination. These
men from Oglethorpe had been appoint
ed to meet in Athens on a certain day
for enrollment, and with the country
man’s idea of makiug assurance certain
ly sure, had come up a day ahead of
time. Air..Wash, seeing these men in
town, and knowing nothing of my agen
cy in bringing them here, opened a live
ly crusade among them for his own com
mand, aud secured some enlistments,
and my company was decimated to that
extent. Meeting Mr. Wash the next
morning I protested against his inter
ference with my men, and a heated ar
gument resulted. In the course of the
controversy Air. Wash made use of an
expression that I answered by slapping
liis face. Mr. Wash struck "at ine in
stantly, but whether his blow bit me
I do not know. Friends interfered and
we were separated, and tiiat is all of
it.”
Dr. Camak does not say that the few
boys in college at that time got hold of
the matter and that effigies of Wash and
Camak enlivened the monstrosity of
college life; iior that, the locust tree, in
front of the library, boro fruit that the
botanical professor could not account
for; nor that old Sain, the janitor,
caught a cramp from climbing the said
tree which remained with him to the
last, notwithstanding his efforts to drive
it off by wearing the garments that hi
daily gathered from its branches. These
are matters that the doctor forgets, and
his modesty will not allow him to recall
what all our older citizens remember,
that when Capt. Wash fell in the front,
of battle fighting bravely for the South,
his name, bis deeds and bis honor bad
no more zealous custodian than was
found in the person of his former antag
onist, Dr. James Camak. Theseareold
matters now and we should not have
referred to them had it not been neces
sary to put in its true light the char ac
tor of an honored ciiizen.
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Austria, gallows, public.
Bavaria, guillotiae, private.
Belgium, guillotine, public.
Brunswick, axe, private.
Chilli, sword or cord, public.
Denmark, guillotine, public.
Ecuador, musket, public.
France, guillotine, public.
Great Brittain, gallows, private.
Hanover, guillotine, private.
Italy, capital punishment abolished.
Netherlauds, gallows, public.
Oldenburg, musket, public.
Portugal, gallows, publics
Prussia, sword, private.
Russia, musket, gallows or sword,
public. -
Saxony, guilotine, private.
Spain, garrote, public.
Switzerland, fifteen cantons, sword,
public. Two cantons, guillotine, pub
lic. Two, guillotine, private.
United States* other than New York,
gallows, private.
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Stalks Abroad at Nigbt and Terror
izes the People of Scott County.
Geohoetown?Ky., Jan. 9.—[Special]
—The people in the vicinity of White
Sulphur,this county, are alarmed at the
presence of a wild animal of some .de
scription in the neighborhood. It has
only been seen at, nigbt, and no one
knows what it is. Some -negroes who
claim to have seen it, say it isa hyena,
-ome a tiger and others a wild cat. The
dogs in the neighborhood are afraid to
venture from the house at nigbt, a num
ber of them having been attacked and
torn .to pieces. One night last week the
the strange animal bit a number of ’ fat
hogs belonging to Mr. Robert Bratton,
who lives just below the Sulphur,
which died of hydrophobia. Two or
three weeks ago the animal was seen on
the farms of Mrs. Alice Brown and Mr
Lawrence Long. 1
DEFENDED HER YOUNG.
Two Boys Have a Desperate Encoun
ter With a Wolf.
Fort Smith, Ask.,Jan. 9.—(Special.)
Sunday afternoon,in the Boston Moun
tains, some twenty miles tiorth of here,
two boys named Ge.irge and Charles
Gray were out in the woods and fouud
what they supposed Were puppies ly
ing under the ledge of a rock. They
caught the animals, which snarle'd
and bit furiously, apd started home.
The supposed puppies were a pair of
cub wolves, and before the boywhad
gone far they were attacked by a large
she wolf, mother of the cubs, and. both
were lerribly bitten and scratched.
The boys drew their pocket knives in
defense, and after a hard fight killed
the wojf.
Eighteen Passengers Died.
Boston, Jan. 7.—{Special]—The bark
Margaret, which arrived here Saturday
from the Exit coast of Africa, had a
menagerie aboard, consisting of twelve
snakes, pythons and cobras, four hun
dred cockatoos and parrots, an otirang-
outang, two small ring-tailed monkeys,
two fourteen-foot alligators and one
gorilla. For a week the bark rode
through a howling gale, wTiieh made
thing* uncomfortable for everybody on
board. Both the alligators and all the
snakes died from the cold and the bad
passage; the two monkeys and the
ourang-outang were chilled tti death,
and only the gorilla, remained alive.
Captain. SaVgeht says the gorilla was so
ugly, that nortiiug'eould kill him.
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purchase a note given' by ; the under
signed to James Cheney, dated the 20th
Dec. 1889, and due Is
the consideration
failed Jan. Sth, 1L...
Si
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J. T. Tolbert, Danielsvillc.
P. F. Crawford, Laconia.
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