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m/rIETTA 2% 1878.
W* Ti* Marietta Paper Manufactjur
g Company manufacture* the host of
• .cwn and Wrapping paper, at lowest
Vices. 8. A Anderson, Agent.
*IJL£S. 3*- —-
with a view to the largest pub
jljC of the Grand Jury Present
11 the county we proposed.
' ffie last two terms of Cobb Su
perior Cotirf. to publish them at
half priheraknd in ,each instance
the Grand Juries recommended
*hat they only in
the oJfcJE/pSpe* of the county.
We wot^d k mildly suggest that
there ismo paper made official by
law, bGt that they are made so
only by the action of dominant
-*rty officials. The Field and
\trside will he an official paper
ist as soon as officials choose to
a medium of their publi
gng rfleir ;-
R, Durp&a^ 4 fifty-eight Hanks
iilheWi' -rosolved to cooper
'h the. government on the
A Januaryjiext in the ae
jßpmstqfcgis for (lie currency. Let
|Know< ce that there will always
dollar forthcoming,
* *V„,. V4 anything of value
§£• fer i,:
. , know 11 -
'llu* value of l < Ver r commißSion
•Ilow • physicians who have
the epidemic
ie stricken cities ©f’ the
;tni
have arrived at the com
. ciswtise conclusion that impor
£ ‘‘and the sanitary conditions
!* lit lor it all.
.• >* mZ:
‘ has commenced the
** war.
rf,' ,
* a '. "’ordon exhibits the fault
t atluA
..pnilitary men. He has one
it ant idea, in military or ci
*— expressed by one word
l ; lbat word discipline. In mil
* stairs. he knows the value
discipline—of unquestioning
lienee, and how an army of
.on may thus be hurled, nolens
'lens, against an adversary, and
e insists upon the same diseip
.in* in his political party. Come
*uto the organization—obey or-
ders, and ask no questions, is the
p •'* *'tance of his political liar
"es. “Fall in men—fall in—
oat face, ?narcA," 1 is Cordon's
ontieption of democracy in its
analysis
“ Organize, organize, organize,”
*ays Gen. Gordon. “ All good
comes from organization.” Such
is the fallaaious und alluring cry
of “rings.” Bacon did not “organ
la©” a party when he revolution
ised the system of reasoning.—
Newton did not “organize” a par
ty to introduce his newly discov
©red laws of nature. Hampden
did not “organize” a party when
suffering imprisonment to estab
lish a principle of liberty. The
people who established the liber
ties of this Country did not “or
ganize” a party; but moved for
ward with on© will and one mind
a secure the principles oMiberty
ml “a more perfect Union.” That
|Jnion the independents wish to
Ac 7 x *\ rve—i' na t liberty they hope
—and their faith is that
|B people, untrammelled by the
|Bfishness or ambition ot organ
will uphold the one
the other.
jJiization” never begins
thought ha- taken
foaJgM 'ix of the popular mind.
‘ :lr '' termed. Hie
an '* l 'on-,eien
stlie idea the |>nnri
class is forming to
xvi' I .,'''' ' “tlh a \ lew
they ran out ot' it.
( '‘ 11 <srn '' ,! alter
;S the igv . •;
the idea or
the organ
Vide tie'
m
South arrayed against a solid
i North. VVe do not desire that
conflict again. We would hail, as
the harbinger of joyful times, a
solid South on such a platform as
we present to-day, in unison with
a solid North. Then we would
have peace, fraternity and liberty
as the reward of consentaneous
unity.
The Constitution regards the
speech of Gen. Gordon as the
most eloquent production of the
day. It was, perhaps, as eloquent
as successful ambition in such a
cause could achieve. Its rhetoric
was all good, but baseless as the
fabric of a vision. The indepen
dents heard and intelligently
passed judgment upon him before
the election.
Mr. Kvarts, Secretary of State,
says I be object of the administra
tion has been to restore the equal
ity of the States, in accordance
with the constitution and the
measures of reconstruction. That
in attempting thus to carry out
the principles of constitutional
liberty, Mr. Hayes relied upon
the pledges of leading democrats
in the South to maintain these
principles, and that they have not
kept their pledges—that worse
than bull dozing or intimidation
has been resorted to in South
Carolina and Louisiana in effect
ing the political subjugation of
the negroes. He considers that
the enfranchisement of this igno
rant race was a mistake—that
freedom, at least in some of the
States, was not possible for that
race in contact with a superior
and dominant one; but he still
holds that though the effect has
been to produce a solid South, it
has also produced a solid North,
and that the government will be
strong enough to secure its pres
ervation.
Einory Speer has impressed the
people of the Ninth as Dr. Felton
has of the Seventh. Below will
be found a sample ot his vigorous
style:
“ If the organized did him the
favor of classing him with the
•wool-hat boys' he thanked them.
Who are they? They are the men
who walk between the plow han
dles,'who strike showers of sparks
from the red hot iron and hold
the throttle of the engine as it
leaps along its iron track—the
men who enrich the country in
time of peace and arc called up
on to fight its battles in time of
war. | Applause.] He trusted he
had been the candidate of the
wool hat crowd, for the wool-hat
boys of the ninth district were as
true, brave and honest a people
as ever drew blade on bat tle field.
Mr. Speer denounced the tricks
of the politicians, and lauded the
evertrustworthy honesty of pur
pose to the people. He sounded
a warning to the former not to
oppose the latter. The day had
come when the people should rise
andriile. He gloried in the name
of being an independent. It was a
name synonymous with that of
freedom, and had been the watch
word of liberty the world over.
His hand and heart were in the
cause. Let the people be true to
these principles and true to your
selves and Georgia will be re
deemed and regenerated. Like a
light house on the sea shore, she
will send rays of hope to the lov
ers of liberty in all countries and
at all times.
An aged and intelligent gentle
man, an old Clay Whig, writes us
from Richmond county: “this
country is never again to see re
pose. Republican institutions of
fer too wide a field for denia
gogues. tV’e are now on the road
to anarchy, and will share tha fate
of Mexico and the South Ameri
can Republics. Such wide spread
debasement-such a lack of pub
lic virtue is without parallel. ”
This is gloojny talk from a
sou tern stand point, but appre
hensions are equally gloomy from
letnocracy of
Md us just
solid
THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE—MARIETTA, (GA.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878.
the Northern side. ln"the Presi
dential election we barely esca
ped civil war. 1880, it is believ
ed, will be another crisis in our
affairs, and we warn the people
that if they do not interpose, a
collison of the organized parties
may destroy the last vestige of
popular liberty.
Independents are tauntingly
told that they have no platform.
True, they have had no organized
band of tricksters to frame one
for them ; but, fortunately, they
have one that partisan spirit nev
er appreciated; that place hunt
ers have ever despised; framed for
them by those who formed upon
it the government under which
we live and we expect to have that
government administered in strict
and joyful accordance with the
spirit in which the platform was
conceived. Keep it before the
people ! For on this rock their
temple of liberty is built! High
above that temple let an intelli
gent public opinion be enthroned
that it may securely guard a
gainst the insidious approaches of
orgauized bands of political ma
rauders to undermine and de
stroy it.
An “organizyj?” Georgia pa
per exulting in the election of
Gordon by a Legislature compos
ed without opposition of the ‘or
ganized’,'says, the independents
from this token, will not have a
‘walk over in the gubernatorial
race.’ Just wait until the people
begin to gather at the polls to de
posit their votes for some such
man as that old Jackson demo
crats Gen. W. T. Wofford and you
will see the tidal wave.
Mr. Stephens rises entirely a
bove party influences in saying
“the foundation principles of true
Jeffersonian democracy , which is
the basis of lib
erty are law and the enforcement
ofjthe law. Mr. Hayes has done
nothing contrary to this, so far as
I am informed, and I cannot see
why democrats should find fault
with any Executive for carrying
out their own fundamental prin
ciples. Mr. Hayes has only, as I
understand, undertaken to carry
out the laws, and it is his duty
to execute them, and if he don’t
he is not lit tor the place. Wheth
er it is a rnoon-shiner or a bulldo
zer or any body else if the law
has been violated, it is the Presi
dent’s duty to enforce it.”
Political aspirants for the Pres
idency are canvassing the field to
secure favorable delegations in
the respective so-called National
conventions. Soon the program-
will be perfected—the dele
gations meet, and in the order of
time the candidates marshaling
the largest forces will receive the
nominations. Then the respec
tive conventions will proceed to
patch up their platforms, amt,
with a forlorn hope of inducing
them to take a sober second
thought, we submit the following
formula as suggestive:
ORGANIC.
It is of infinite moment that you
should properly estimate the im
mense value of your National U
nion to your collective and indi
vidual happiness; that you should
cherish a cordial, habitual and im
moveable attachment to it, accus
toming yourselves to think and
speak of it as a palladium of your
political safety and prosperity;
watching for its preservation with
jealous anxiety ; discountenanc
ing whatever may suggest even
a suspicion that it can in any
event be abandoned. .
2.—“ There is an opinion that
parties, in free countries, are use
ful eheeks upon the adiainistra
tion of government, and serve to
keep alive the spirit of libej^v. —
However true this may be in gov
ernments, more or less despotic,
in those of a popular character,
purely elective, the spirit of party
is dangerous and not to be encour
aged.” Washington's Farewell
Address.
3. —“ The support of the State
governments in all their rights as
the most competent administra
tions for our domestic concerns ;
the preservation of the General
government in its whole constitu
tional vigor, as the sheet anchor
of our peace at home and safety
abroad.”— Jefferson's Inaugural
Address.
4. —Politically, no North, no
South, no East.no West, but one
country, one destiny, one Union,
now and forever, one and insepa
rable. “So that when we consid
er the extent of our territory ; its
increasing and happy population ;
its advance in arts, which render
life agreeable, and the sciences,
which elevate the mind. When
we see education spreading the
light of religion, morality and
general information into every
cottage in this wide domain, and
behold it as the asylum where the
wretched and oppressed find a re
fuge and support, we may rejoice
that we too arc citizens of Amer
ica. I " —Andrew Jackson.
5. —A government not of Em
perors, Kings, Nobles or Dema
gogues, but a government by the
People and for the People.
ADMINISTRATIVE.
fi.—“ Equal and exact justice
to all men, of whatever state or
persuasion, religious or political.”
7.—A1l measures growing ne
cessarily out of the organic law,
we obey in good faith, including
the recent amendments to the
constitution of the United States,
adjusting the civil and political
relations of the races in the south,
holding said adjustment subject
only to those natural laws which i
silently, but surely, will eradicate j
all political or social evil incident j
to it.
8. —No more offices—no higher
salaries, and no more legislation
than is demanded by the public i
good. Economical and honest j
disbursements of the public rev- j
enues tor the preservation of the
faith of the Nation and necessary
expenses of government. Tariffs
and tax laws to operate firmly up
on the accumulated wealth of the
country and favorably upon its j
producing power, discriminating,
where practicable, in favor of la
bor, and no other discrimination,
except in behalf of science, the
diffusion of knowledge, and the
advancement of agriculture, up
on which the material prosperity
of the nation rests.
9. A currency amply adequate j
for all the necessities of trade, of
paper, gold and silver, always pre
served each at equal exchangea
ble value.
10. —The history of parties in
this country, for the last forty
years, has shown that their only ■
end and aim is to create and fos
ter an office seeking class, with a j
greed and selfishness utterly re
gardless of the welfare of the peo
pie. We have been, by these
parties, alternately plundered or
abused; in their fierce conten
tions our institutions have been
well-nigh wrecked, and lately we
have seen the highest office in
our gift sold for money to that
party making the highest bid !
The preservation of liberty de
mands the interposition of a vir
tuous and intelligent people, and
we have an abiding confidence
that they are capable of adminis
tering a beneficent government
without delegating tbeir power to
organized rings or cliques of poli
ticians. A free choice far the i
people in the selection of officials, ;
and the chances are that we will
be blessed with the “survival ot
the fitest” and a pure democracy.
MENKO BROS., have just re
ceived the beet selected stock
of men and boys clothing and a
general assortment ef Gents
Furnishing Goods. If you want
bargains go to 21 Whitehall St.
Atlanta, 6a. Call and examine |
before purchasing elsewhere.
Prices low. sop 1 9 3m j
WOOL JEANS!. WOOL TWBEDS!
Wool Rolls.
Linseys, check and plain,
IKHE LAUREL MILLS,
Roswell, Ga.
THESE Mills are their goods for WOOL, with farmers and oth
ers, on the most terms, (our ijygtto is live and let live) er we will
manufacture wool for by thoyfft-d, into any of the abovo line of
goods at a reasonable pricemay, Jeans at&ajettyts, Tweeds at 20 cents and Lin
seys at 15 cents. Will makePdHscounf oujfcargg lots of wool. Those living in
the vicinity of Marietta ancrjuShtrig tlyii *iVool.§arded into roils, or cxchaiiged
for goods, can leave the wooflt IlaksjJiAothers, north side publie square. Roll
canting 10 cents per pound:* Will tyke wobl and return rolls or goods once a
week free of charge. We will niuke it h-'the. interest of merchants to buy their
goods direct from the factory. We pay freight on all wool shipped to us. All
communications should be addressed to LAUREL MILLS M’F’G COMPANY.
Roswell, Ga. - v~; J. S. WOOD, Presidrxt.
CHEAPEST
Furnitur<?Mouse in Georgia. A,
A LITERAL AND ABSOLUTE FACT.
I have just received a large and handsome assortment of ChttinbejßMMfcyJor
Furniture which 1 am selling at astonishingly low prices.
Beautiful Dressing Case sets, 10 pieces. $65. Beautiful
Parlor sets, all colors, $65. Parlor sets, hair cloth, S3O. with
glass, $lO. Walnut Bedsteads, $7. Cane Heat Chairs, sets, and
back Rockers, each $2. Common Beds, $2.50. Cotton tJßpPWess, $2.50.
Wardrobes, Hat Racks, Side Boards, What Nots, Marble Tables,
Book Cases, etc., in endless mfiety. Also the celebrated Woven WireiMattrcss,
tiie most delightful spring bed in use. Send your orders to P. H. SNOOK,
corner Marietta and Broad Streets, Atlanta, Ga, june 27
f. "W. HART.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
DOORS, BLINDS, SASH,
GLAZED SASH,
MOULDINGS, STAIR RAILING, NEWEL POSTS, BALUSTERS,
T 7O m V7 m G-LiiSS,
BUILDER’S HARDWARE etc.
30 Broad Street Atlanta, Ga
MUSIC/IjSSife\ MOUSE
iglflf j
Jcr
ton, \ * •,/ ~,
T£ HALL ST., AT*.**
The Estey Organ,
Challenges the World for an equal
in power and variety of tone, durabil
ity and beauty of workmanship. Ex
traordinary manufacturing facilities al
low reduced prices.
Pianos.
Experts, artists and the decree of the
• Centennial Exhibition place the
WEBER
above all competi.ion. The
HENRY f. MILLER,
Incomparable and matchless in tone
and action. Ar used in the Boston
Public Schools, Massachusetts State
Normal Schools, , mi New England
Conservatory of .Music, exclusively.
Also the celebrated
GUILD,
and other Pianos, some of which cas
be sold as low as
$125.00.
If you want bargains, write to
Guilford,
who is the only practical musician and
workman in the music business South.
Guilford,
who has had twenty-eight years expe
rience in the business.
Guilford,
who guarantees lower prices and bet
ter terms than any other dealer.
270 LOOAZi AG2C27TS.
Manufacturers sell, through me, di
rectly to customers, charging only a
very small advance on cost,
Q. p G'OI-Cf’Qj
* * mission*
52 Whitehall St., _ J. fpl