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W Tf aß j i( ;’eHliKati n g committees.
L VlT ro P roven e *l )o,,siv '‘ :m '*
f.itdy fruitless in results. I Ito
jM.*l Tildeii, it is true, is some
f\vhi(-/^ U ‘ lt winTglossed over
t .iho two investigating com
(rmttee appointed by Grand Jul ies
dhCobb county, if they discover
*Vf damaging irregularities, had
'*>eir reports quashed by subse
f .‘ent Grand Juries.
;; .lu ti popular government par
,iok founded upon theories of
government are essential to the
preservation of social order and
political liberty. Contests then
take place upon issues arising
out of the organic law or invol
ving the administration of gov
ernment and though greed, sel
fishness and plunder, may some
times rule them, there is always
an apparent, issue upon principle
and the strife seldom sinks to
mere personal issues. How de
plorably we realized the absence
of issues upon principle ii\ the e
lection of last year in Georgia?
N question touching the organ
ic law or the administration of
government was argued or doba
ted. Our effort to force the Bmu
turns to a defense of their party
record was evaded and personal
crimination and recrimination
from first to last, animated the
conflict. Are we hopelessly ful
Ion? Have our intelligence and
patriotism no higher aim ? Must
we abandon forever, all generous
einulutiou in the promotion of
sound and enlightened govern
ment to become the mere follow
era of aspiring men f Krceiuon!
Your leaders of te day will soon
pass away; it is your government
that, for weal or woe, is i be
perpetual, and how that is is be
administered is alone worthy of
your highest thought.
file Rev. Mr. Jasper, of Rich
immd, Yu., who pins his faith on
the notion that ‘the sun do move'
called on Bro. Scogin to open
last Sunday evening's service
with prayer, and he did so. as fol
lows: “O. Lord, we’s a mighty
abused people: tve's had a had
time in slavery: tve's been all
broken to pieces: we’s bow-leg
ged. knock kneed, bandy shank
ed, cross eyed, and a great many
et us is hump hacked. .Now, Lord,
we want to be mended up, and
we want you to cmuic an' do it.
Don't aeiul an angel, fordisistoe
big a job far an angel. You made
us, O, Lord, an* yen know our
wants, an' you can fix us tip as
nobody else can. o*me right
down vourself, and come quick
ty.”
Letter From Itr. Felton.
Caktkksvii.lk, Ga.. March 8,1879.
To ihr. Chronicle muj Co*ti(n
ti one lint.;
Messrs. Emtohs : I have just
lead the letter of Gen. Gordon,
addressed to you, and dated
Washington, March 4th 1879.
I understood before I lett
Washington that a grand consul
tat ion was held to conclude the
attack commenced on my wife in
the Macon Telegraph "o<l Mcwen
tjer some weeks ago.
If this manifesto, signed by
(Senator Gordon, embodies all the
strength and strategy that the
“organized" can command, alter
full consultation with both visit
ing and resident statesmen, then
we are surprised at the weakness,
i malice and impotency of ttoh a
: warfare.
Gen. Gordon ignore* my wife
I in this communication. It is a pi
tv, tiny this sober second thought
,f ' and norHccurred t© his mind at
lm->bH.j; or # iajrpofthis contriver
given .
1.. l ..r •fgca '- t, distinctly understood
.in- nliegei|(; or( j ft „ „. ;is tj lft au thor
tat in eked r a t O ,. 0 f j| ie attack on
kV sa Airop|-|,itcit
P ilo, l 1,1 >t> and
t twenty
Legions. Si urn
■Lilt- has hern
Tantfl surveying
hit. h<* l'n- that
asked for f%U‘ ll
r- 7 rr
" jiings, my wife dealt with him,
f u ; '
'T/hJier than Reese, the nominal
' A lior.
and/ When Gen. Gordon instituted
search for rny wife’s letter,
to (lm. c t was soon made known to
as the JR- went in person’to Sen
•whjeeyvrry and applied for her
\Cfcr. He begged to know its
contents, and gave as a reason for
(his meddlesome interference,
that “Felton was his bitterest
foe.**
He states in the letter before
me, that he did uot go into the
seventh district of his own choice
hut went at the call of “his par
ty.“ Did “his party’’ vend him on
this errand likewise ?
Fit in
About as soou as bis pliant,
tool could sendea letter to the
paper in Macon, my wile’s name
was emblazoned over Georgia,
charging that she “plead in pite
ously pathetic terms for radical
money” to help my election.
When Gen. Gordon talks about
slanders on his good name it will
be well for him to recollect who
dragged my wife’s name into
the public prints.
Yielding to her earnest request
and satisfied that no mind in the
state was more thoroughly com
petent, L as her protector, acced
ed to her wishes, when, she pro
posed to measure foils with a U
nited States Senator who was too
prudent to appear in an assault
which h venyayed A. W. Reese to
make.
With a soul tilled with right
eous indignation she repelled the
charge in a way that these ma
ligners and revengeful slanderers
of a noble w ife will not soon for
get.
Gen. Gordon bad no personal
interest in her letter that he
sought. Ft did not allude to him
directly or indirectly. His search
after it,was a work of malice born
only of hatred.
I have her original letter. Oth
ers have seen it. Not one dollar
was asked for—no pecuniary aid
was requested, and the false alio
gation recoils on the heads of
those who promulgated the slaw
tier.
When the howling political
dervishes of the sevent h congres
sional district, had slandered eve
ry member of my family; and
when their foul tongue* and filthy
pens wore insufficient far the oc
casion, there was no ether man
in the state, outside the district,
whose proclivities for falsehood
promised them so nine!' “aid and
comfort,’’ as did Get). Gordon. lie
rushed to the rescue and became
the leader of these calumniators
of rhe wife, who was struggling
for the success of her husband.
Not satisfied with this effort in
Georgia, he carried the war into
congressional circles. From the
capitol ot the United States he
continues the dirty work begun
in the seventh district last full,
A woman’s quick intellect ami
deep sense of wrong has made
her punish her assailants with
merited severity.
God. Gordon stated in a public
speech, that “lie had met Blaine.
Mot ton and Conk Li ug in the sen
ate, the meanest blackest repub
licans in that body .but Felton was
meaner than all.” He stated al
so. “that one more success for
Felton would make him and his
friends respectable," implying by
the expression that they had not
A' i)n /et, the Macon Tehtyettph
t' ' r H‘.u<jer. He was the man
o ,r - I'Smeneed the search for
• •laid j n <-ity of Washing
w : , on i'i oX p,. eßSCf j great solici
-11 'To be placed in possession of
♦ contents, and knowing these
HIE FIELD AND FIRESIDK—MAD!E'I TA. (GA.) 'Mil RSDAY. MARCH *>M. IsTD.
yet attained to respectability/.
He also said “the independents
must be pushed to the wall and
crushed eternally.” lie wound
up this tissue of slanders in his
Atlanta speech by saying that
my success in the seventh district
was the resuls of “repeating nr
aro vole a,” all of which assertions
lie knew were utterly false.
When J spoke in Atlanta. le*s
than a week before his re-election
to the senate, I was urged by my
friends to retalliate upon him for
i his oft-repeated assaults upon
i rny character and good name,and
|to denounce publicly one of the
most vulnerable political records
j ever made by a Georgia senator.
| But 1 steadily refrained, in the
j interest of harmony and good
J will, and because my heart craved
i peace.
| When this final attack upon
Imy wife constrains her to turn
i like the worm and sting the foot
I that seeks to crush it, what does
: he say ? Does he d&ny the charg
jes't No. He explains. He pro
| varicalcs. He apologizes.
She charged him with being a
j lessee of state convicts, working
j them for money. Does he come
I out like a man and say “ ’tis
'false?'* No.
He says, “the law was passed
by the chosen legislature” of our
“own people,” “without his
knowledge or agency.” If we are
correctly informed the Yazoo
frauds were passed by a similar
body, manipulated by a United
States senator, and like some of
the statesmen of that time, it
seems that Geu. Gordon stands
ready to reap the profits of such
favorable legislation.
(She charged that Gen. Gordon
borrowed the scanty earnings of
a holy roan of God and deposited
with him as security certain
worthless collaterals. Does he
deny it ? No. He says “he
stands ready to make good every
cent of loss.” Ah ! the good man
is gone and does not need this
genereus proposal to become an
honest man. If he had applied a
pittance of his large income from
insurance companies to the liqui
dation of this debt during the
lifetime of the good bishop, lie
might stand up and sav to the
world “ *tis false !”
She charged that lie could ina
nipulate a southern insurance
company and a southern univer
sity publishing company,in which
the money of the subscribers dis
appeared forever. Does he deny
the charge '!? No. In the insurance
matter he says every “death poli
oy was fully paid.’" Ah! it was
the money of the living policy
holders, she asserted, had disap
peared forever. He persuaded
hundreds, by his oily tongue and
deceptive pen, to invest their
money in this company, from
which he drew an immense salary
while these unfortunate policy
holders know that their money
has disappeared forever.
As for the southern university
publishing company, he attempts
to plaster the fraud by saying lie
desired to give the country south
ern books that did not slander
“our people.”
Soon after the war this distin
guish general ascertained that an
appeal to southern pride and sec
tional honor was the short road
to the pockets of southern men,
and he has traveled that road in
pursuit of iiis own emoluments
until it is worn smooth.
The charge was not about
southernJioeks. their value or:
quality. It was not w hether Gen.
Lee had approved or disapproved
of the enterprise, but that the ,
money invested in the concern
through Gen. Gordon’s influence
had left the pockets of the sub
scribers and has never ret urned.
I heard a distinguised member
of congress from Georgia sav
some days ago, that he had sev
eral hundred dollars of this worth
less university scrip, which lie
had advised his wife to burn a*
waste paper.
All the way from Baltimore,
down south, we hear of men who
invested in this south sea bubble,
and up to the present time. Gen.
Gordon admits, it has made no
money for the stockholders. Did
lie get no percentage—no profits i
Again, my wife reported the
fact that his name in connection
with the money of Jay Gould
and Huntingdon was the afreet
talk of Washington city, and
some of this talk mortified and
astonished two prominent Geor
gians who were at that time vis
iting the city,
He replies that this was the
mere gabble of the friends and
advocates of two opposing rail
road companies, and goes off in
to an extended explanation of
his vote which he seems to think
gave rise to this gabble.
Since Gen. Gordon, by his
humble tool Reese, did not hesi
tate io publish my wife’s name
to the general public in connec
tion with “radical money,” she
decided to give him the benefit
of a general criticism on the
money of Jay Gould and Hunt
ingdon. In a spirit of candor
and fairness, she referred him to
the distinguished Georgians who
heard from strangers these dam
aging charges.
When he gives as satisfactory
proof of his innocence as she has
furnished of her innocence lie
may congratulate himself, but it
is my impression that his vindi
cation will be a work of much
greater magnitude.
Allow me to say. just here,
that it would be a novel sight in
any other state to see a lady of
the highest social standing, thus
attacked openly and by name,
and then to be lectured by a
venal press for allowing her
name to appear in print in reply.
Gen. Gordon, in his peroration
says “that I was false to my pen
pie in war, and begrimed with a
wicked and corrupt alliance with
the enemies of my party, section
and people.”
lie knows that after uttering
these foul slanders at every cross
roads and county precinct in the
seventh congressional district
last fall, the purest and best cit
izens of that district with a
unanimity and zeal unparalleled
in the history of Georgia politics,
placed the seal of falsehood and
condemnation upon his state
ments.
Now, having shown in the out
set of this letter that lie was
guilty of a base falsehood against
mv innocent and noble wife, and
after a succinct review of all the
facts involved in the controversy.
1 close with the full conviction
that the country will award a
just and impartial decision.
lake the great Duke of Marlbor
ough, he lias besmirched a bril
liant war record with financial and
official complications, until Geor
gians blush that the grand old
state is represented'in the high
est councils of the nation by such
a man.
Respectfully
W. 11. Fki/ton.
The Rome Courier wants the
vagrant laws enforced. It says
that about two hundred able
bodied men are loafing about
that town with no visible means
of support, and who are apparent
!y entirely idle.
“From the report of the CJom
missioners of Roads and Revenue
published in the Advertiser , we
learn that three years since Mon
roe county owed about twenty
five thousand dollars. So well
have the (Commissioners man
aged the finances of the county
that they now show that, with
the collections of the balance of
taxes due for last year and the
proceeds from the sale of the
poor farm, the entire debt can
be paid, and Monroe will be her
self again. *’ — BarnsriU e Gazette.
Says the Hartwell San: “Re
cently at a revival at a colored
church in this county, while the
preacher was exhorting at the
top of his voice, a tall brother,
who was standing upon a bench,
threw up his hands and fell back
ward on the floor in a trance.
One enthusiastic old woman
clapped her hands with joy and
cried out: “Kill him, kill him
dead.’ A sober eld deacon
caught him by the collar and
pulled him to his feet with the
remark, ‘Do fool nigger will kill
himself if he don't look wliar he
falls.”
A peculiar and very sad ease
of kleptomania is reported from
Rochester in the person of a Bap
tist minister who has preached
for thirty years. Last January
he took from a show window in
a china store a vase valued at $lO.
The vase was one of a pair, and
last Frida}' he entered the store
and took the other. He went
away unmolested, but at the de
pot he was met by two officers,
who asked him what he had in
his valise. At firs! he denied
that he had taken the vase, and
said lie bought it of a man on
the street. But he afterward
confessed that lie had taken both
vases, but said he could not toll
why he had taken them, only
that he could not help doing so.
I he disease is very prevalent in
Georgia and operates extensive
ly upon chickens, pigs, garden*
and household values.
FORTIETH TEAR ! !
f DRUGS g MEDICINES J|'
PAI7STTS _/v_3STID OILS,
—Building Hardware. —
WILLIAM ROOT,
lias at his Old Stand, almost everything usually called for in u
FIRST GLASS DRUG STORE.
* •
CHLOROFORM,
QUININE,
MORPHINE,
CASTOR OIL,
EPSOM SALTS,
SULPHUR,
WHite ißea-ci,
Pjitont Medicines, in great variety,
Fluid Extracts and Mixers,
Malt me and ot her Medicines
# Too tedious to mention.
Building Hardware,
sm m* 1 ■■ i
Latches Nails, Arc., Arc.,
Window Glass and Putty,
Varnishes, Brushes, Arc., Are..
Stationery, Ac., A.,
K@ r "Physicians Prescriptions carefully prepared. Terms, cash
WV il■ £sm ■■■ lloaof .
Marietta, Ga., Feb. 13. 1879.
IP TX R IsT I T TJ E ET
CTJVHAN rp /CHEAPEST
HEAPER A AHE O
111 nek Walnut Dressing Ease Suit*, Full Garble, 1#
Pieces, tji.lO. Cottage Suits B'iO. The Best Parlor
Good* In The Market For The Moncj,, Walnut Bu
reau With Glass, s; 10. knod ( oiuiuoii Bedsteads, $4.
And a Full Cine Of Other Furniture Cheaper Than
tnv House In The State. 'lVrins Strictly Cash
IVES A THOMAS.
12 & 41 White ilatl Street, Atlanta, fin, Aug. 22, ’7B
I .1. It. DA AT FEE X CO,
West side of the Public Square.
MARIETTA . . . GEORGIA.
Dealers in
XDr37" G-oods,
.
t < a live of different kinds, Men's and La
| dies Shoes, Men’s and Bov's Hats. Spool
< otton, Sheeting, etc.,
f’AACV GROCERIES
Meat, Meal, I’lour, Lard, Soda, Baking
Powder, Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Itiee, Grits,
Butter, Cheese, Crackers, Oysters,
Spice, Pepper, Ginger, Cloves, Starch
Soap, Bitting, and also Fancy and Stick
Candy, Cigars, Tobacco, Snuff, Powder
tid Shot, and also Sugar, Coffee, Salt,
Tea, Rice, Grits, Kerosene, &e. Will
veil cheap for cash. The patronage of
tin* public solicited.
.T. R. DANIKLL A CO.
Marietta, Jan. 1, 1879. ly
Great Reduction In Prices,
Knowing that very many of the peo
ple of this country feel the need of
Mental work, who owing to the high
prices asked for the same and the scarci
ty of money, cannot afford it, I have de
termined to do what 1 can to bring
prices and tirst class work within the
kkach of am.; to do tins I will put in
Gold Fillings from 50ets tosl.oo. .V
--malgatn Fillings fro,in 23 to 50ets. Gut
tapercha and other cheaper fillings 23
cents. Full sets of artificial teeth $5 to
♦lO. t will work on time when request
ed to do so by responsible parties.
Having an office built and fitted up
especially for my business and supplied
w itg first class instruments and appara
tus I am prepared to perform all opera
tions on the teeth in the best manner
possible. Remember, I guarantee my
work. 1 also manufacture a Superior
Tooth Powder for cleaning and beauti
fying the Teeth, for pit-fuming the
breath and inflamed gums.
Don't l’orge*t the place, office in
MeCiateey's Building, South-west cor
ner Public Square.
A. REYNOLDS. JR. D. D s.
Jan. 30. Iv
The Soluble Pacific, one of the
best fertilizers: for cotton, nowon
the market, for sale at the OM
Printing Office Building Matief
ta, Ga.
SEEPS
INDIGO,
READY MIXED PAINTS,
LINSEED OIL.
TANNERS OIL,
MACHINE OIL,
LARD OIL,
Nation ai. Hotel,
IKK OXf.Y KIUHT-OI.ASS IfOTKI. IN
ll:i I (on - - - -Georgia.
Bales, pee day, $2.00
Bates, per Week, *>B.oo.
Bates, per Month, $135.00.
| 1 .arge Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers.
J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
W.M. LEWIS, Clerk.
farrows! $ n§girs! frßaqons!
Still at the Old Stand.
ROSWELL STREET,
Mnrirlla, . . Georgia..
FIMIE subscribin'* otter G&rritfges
* Buggies. Wagons and Har
tess of superior material and fin
.sh. at the most reasonable prices.
Work Warranted!
All kinds of Vehicles built r&
repaired to order. Encourage
your home industry when yc.:s
have every reason to expect good
work at moderate prices.
We are still making and repairing aR
kinds of Vehicles, from a Plneton to a
Wheelbarrow. We intend that nothing
shall leave our shop unless it is h first
class job. Having bad 30 years experi
ence in Marietta we are well acquaiutei*
with the wants of the community in
diis section of Georgia. Special atteu--
rion given to orders, either in Carriages
or Harness. Prices reduced to suit the
times. We will give a better job for the
money than can lie done anywhere.
Thankful fur past favors, we earnestly
a-k a continuance of the -mine.
REVO X GK % MEIAG.
Marietta. Jan.. 9. 79. - lv