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MARIETTA, DEC. 19, 1878.
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may not ai*
Wyone of ngnt, but whenever
of humanity is
UAr Ki4‘ej*ln light. S\ <-
f tilings in a man
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HRa-xmilini! of lire law,
H&S securing ample re for
IffiPmutnishment, saves a fob
*r\> nature from ji violent death
yiud the public from ;i cruel ami
Hfcmoraliziiig spectacle.
■p.HL Davis, in a recent speech
Commercial Convention in
Nile Orleans, said “ Railroads
J W, HT 'come, and railroads might
L M , but the Mississippi river
El/'ould anything be more truthful.
k Great Rritain has a total area
if 1 nearly 78,000,000 acres. <>l
these there are in crops, fallow
and grass. 48,000,000 ; corn crops
11,000,000; rot crops 1.000,000 ;
grasses under rotation 7,000,000.
There are 2,000,000 horses, 1(1,-
000,000 cattle, .‘55,000.000 sheep,
4,000,000 pigs.
• The electoral hill of Senator
Edmunds was adopted, giving the
control of the electoral returns to
the States. Senator Hill thinks
it is only a transfer of the trouble
from political parties t<* the peo
pie while the people are them
selves party ridden.
The Legislature passed acts to
carry into effect constitutional
provisions relating to exemption
and homesteads; to change the
fiscal year, which is to end on the
doth of September and begin on
the Ist of October; to allow land
buds to foreclose certain loins he
fore due; to regulate drawing of
jiiiies; punishment lor the crime
of murder; the appropriation and
lux act.
The European crops of grain
for 1878 have fallen oil largely
j>ath in quantity and quality, and
reexportation from this country
lU ys largely increased; still, the
■Western papers say, the danger is
an over supply. Certainly the
West is realizing no more profit
from its productions than the
South.
From the Chicago Fanners lie
view, we learn that the lisli com
missioner of lowa chartered a
schooner, and on the receding of
the waters of the Mississippi be
gan to seine the waters of the
shallow bayous, catching three
million fish, croppies, black, yel
low and striped bass, sunflsh, wall
eyed pike, while and ringed perch,
and deposited them bv the car
load in waters on the lines of the
railroads in the Western States.
Whether re imbursed for his nine
thousand dollars expenses or not.
this man is a benefactor.
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The Georgia Legislature, in
contempt of the constitution,
moves lor an adjourned term, if
it takes all summer, saying “it
will prolong its session as long as
tin* public interests require, re
gardless’of die constitution.” Is
this resolution ?
Ihe bond investigating com
mittee has reported, and both ac
cusers and accused are immacu
late. .
h is
y The “organized” of the Sev
enth have faded from the vision
of the If •‘me Courier. Are they
fir ‘.''sited un
Jtvhoie .
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a
one fotwrer?
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i oned troh. 'fussing r ooin i
j room.y apffropriatiqp,
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HHM®®wBJRSng tho'Jihiiti.M r
solid South 1 " vs. •• a
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Hiaine made his great bowl in
the Senate on Wednesday last.—
Such a crowd has not assembled
before since Hayes'was inaugu
rated. We deprecate such speech
es—they do no good. We do say
that all men in all places should
have the perfect light to cast a
free ballot, r |but such speeches
do not give the colored voter a
better chance than he had before.
It only strengthens the opposi
tion against him. Thurman’s
speech was a go*d one, if it was
an impromptu effort—otherwise
it had no exceeding great merit.
(Jen. Gordon was published as in
tending to reply, but he failed to
come to time. Lamar made an
effort, which in our candid judg
ment, lm<l better Imve been left
unsaid. Thurman said enough
and lie did it well. If the mem
bers of Congress should ever de
cide to consider the material in
terests of the country, instead of
getting off so many speeches for
Buncombe, the country would re
turn grateful thanks.
If certain political Hohudils
could see themselves as others
see them they would take this
wholesome, advice and profit by
it. The whole effort is to make
a President in 1880. Blaine got
up a scheme to lire the Northern
heart—the opposition replied to
suggest a ticket for the other
side.
Lamar may make a good Vice
President, but it is very certain
those will go into any race han
dicapped, that attempts to carry
a Southern man with his peculiar
views on finance.
Bury the bloody shirt on both
sides of Mason’s and Dixon's line.
Go to work in good earnest to
help the suffering people, and
quit this everlasting fuss, to de
ceive the popular mind and elect
a President.
| COMMCNICaTKD.]
To the Field and Fireside :
llow long are the people of
Georgia willing to sit still ami
watch a Georgia Legislature gab
ble about a clog law and the Mof
fett Bell Bunch, while the tax
payers are being “pressed to the
wall and crushed eternally?”
How long are they to have these
yearly increasing taxes and vet
there is nothing to show in the
way of dee reuse in the public ex
penditures t An increasing out
lay and no returns for it ? When
the new Constitution made the
salaries of State officials less, why
is it there is no decease in their
extravagant way of living? “Do
tigs grow on thorns and grapes on
thistles?” When you know how
hard it is to live on the small
profits of your store, and the toil
of your farm, can you suppose
those princely establishments
grow and maintain themselves on
a meagre salary of $1,500, and
$2,000 per year?
Would any sensible business;
man in Georgia, allow his store:
or banking house to be managed,
as we allow the finances of a
great State to be managed? No.
—a thousand times no!
THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE—MARIETTA, (GA.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1878.
What has this legislature done I
to relieve a tax ridden people?—
can you put your finger on a sin
gle item ? When we have so
many Judges in our .Superior
Courts, that only one half works,
while the other half plays; (yet
all drawing their $2,500 yearly)
while one set can run a campaign
while another set presides, and
takes a sly hand in the game— j
and yet these sworn legislators
go down to Atlanta and endorse
this political judiciary—say, what
are we to think, when they refuse
to reduce the number, and take
,Mp their whole tift.e in whitewash
i'pi.g official/ upon' j
jiieious e.wjof a sa<\ v oppressed ;
'people a£ ?
How long are we to do
with this thimble rigging policy ?
Your taxes will soon over whelm
you unless you check this politi
cal jugglery. How many men in
Oobb county, will be sold out un
der the Sheriff’s hammer, because
they cannot feed and clothe their
dependent families and pay the
tax gatherer ? Who cares for you ?
Who consults your interest?
What difference does it make to
your legislature, if you die a
bankrupt, so longjas the Ring
can control the officers ? So long
as the small member can keep
his place, by helping a little lar
ger State Senator, and both pull
together to keep up a ling mas
ter in the IJ. S. Senate; what dif
ference can it make to them if
you sink in poverty and despair?
Mark my words, unless this legis
lature does something to show a
feeling sense of the woes of this
poverty stricken people, such a
wail will go up that will astonish
the gluttons, who gorge with
gold, made by the sweat and toil
of the hard-listed yeomanry of
Georgia ! They had better draw
it more mildly if they do not
want the supply to be cut off.—
who assesses our State tax ? What
right has he to order, that we
must be bled to exhaustion to fill
the State’s coffers, to be drawn
out, by these assessors them
selves '(
Since the time when France
revolted against the nobles, and
their righteous indignation de
scended into the maddened fury
of the sans culottes , we have nev
er seen a parallel to the present
warkings of an official aristocracy
in the so-called free and sover
eign commonwealth of Georgia.
This order of things cannot last;
there must be relief. We must
find a remedy for this terrible
taxation, if we drive out the
money changers from the temple.
We must instruct our represen
tatives when we elect them, that
it is our money they are manag
ing our business they are super
intending. We do not belong to
the State House—that machine
belongs to us. The comptroller
General must draw in the ligures
on our assessed taxes.
The Treasurer must rsmember,
that we are watching the outside
of the Treasury vault ourselves.
When we are drained of the last
movable dollar, to fill the Nation’s
strong box—we look very care
fully upon the manner of men
who hold the kev.
Wise book-keeping is a very
good item in an officers recoin
dation, but it is immaterial to us
whether, the sheriff’s fi fa is writ
j ten in style, or in the
plain fashioned penmanship of
1 the old school, for either will
draw the money out of the poor
farmer or mechanic.
Commend me to the strict
economy of the nation's book
keeping—show me the equal
distribution of rewards and pun
ishments—when times are hard,
and poverty stalks abroad in the
land—let us fare and fare alike.
Stop this aristocracy of office hold
ers—come back to plain dealing
and plain fare. When the State
can pay but little, run the ma
chine upon that diminished sup
ply. Stop this everlasting blood
letting, or the patient may die. i
and the taxes will not fatten the
office holders so well as if you ex
ercised a little moderation with
the money of a free unpurchasa
ble people—who love their coun
try and honor Georgia for the
memories of lanj Syne.
Relief must come, and come
speedily. The richest countries
in the State cannot pay their as-,
sessments, because it is impossi
ble to draw blood out of a turnip;
you cannot get the money, where
there is none to come. We have
had enough oi these organized
Democratic assessments. Come
back to first principles and let the
people have a voice in their own
business. V otek.
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