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Tri-Weekly Republican;
Americus, Georgia:
cT wT HA N COCK,
Editor and Proprietor.
BATUBDAyT J tJNE 20, 1887.
To Register i3 a Patriotic Duty.
“ Whosoever,” says the Mobile
Register cb Advertiser , “throughfalse
pnde7pique or criminal indifference
fails to register and qualify himself
jo vote when the time arrives, will
Surely bitterly repent his mistake and,
if he is a true friend to the State, have
to reproach himsell lor the non-per
formance of a sacred duty.
“Wo regret to learn that some of
our young men —true and spirited
fellows who upheld the Southern
cause through suffering and danger
while war flamed—now hesitate to
do what they call humiliation of taking
any part in political action under ex
isting laws ! Young men! the same
sense of honor, the same duty to and
love of country that had not to call
you twice, to take up arms now adjure
you to make another sacrifice ol your
pride and resentments for the same
country and people.
“If we of the south, from whatever
cause of pride or indifference, fail to
exercise the fraction of voting power
left to us under these cruel laws, and
suffer the State Government to fall
into the hands ol our Radical enemies,
a lifetime ol sack-cloth and ashes will
not be able to attone to our conscien
ces for the irrepairable injury we shall
have inflicted on this unfortunate
State. Happily our enemies have not
left us (although they designed it)
without h.ope and means of protection.
The actual disfranchisement under the
laws does not extend to placing us ii
a minority. Our safety and our des
tinies arc in our own hands, it every
man who is entitled, registers his name
and annes himself with a ballot to
cast for the public honor and public
safety. Hut there are none to spare,
and every straggler and deserter,
every laggard in duty will be needed
—perhaps fatally missed—when the
State’s destiny is called.”
'An Item which Every Man should
Read-
We have probably all of us met
with instances in which a word
heedlessly spoken against the reputa
tion of a female has been magnified by
the malicious minds until the cloud
has been dark enough to’ overshadow
her whole existence. To those who
are accustomed —not necessarily from
bad motives, but from thoughtlessness
—to speak lightly of ladies, we re
commend these hints as worthy of
consideration:
Never use adady’s name in an im
proper place, or at an improper time,
or in mixed company. Never make
assertions about her that you think
untrue, or allusions that you feci she
herself would blush to hear. When
you meet with men who do not scru
ple to use a woman’s name in a reckless
and unprincipled manner, shun them,
for they Are the worst enemies of a
community —men lost to every sense
of honor, every feeling of humanity,
many a good woman’s character has
been forever ruined and heart broken
by a lie manufactured by some villain,
and repeated where it should not have
been, and in the presence of those
whose little judgment 'could not de
ter them from circulating and brag
ging of the report,
A slander is soon propogated,
and the smallest tiling derogatory to
a Woman’s character will fly on the
wings of the wind, and magnify as it
circulates, until its monstrous weight
crushes the poor unconscious victim.
Respect the name of woman, for your
mother and sisters are women, and
yet you would have their fair fame
untarnished, and their lives unembit
tered by the slander’s biting tongue,
lieed the ill your own words may
bring upon the mother, the sister or
the wife of some fellow creature.
The Raleigh Sentinel is respon
sible for the following conversation be
tween two darkies:
No. 1. It ain’t a’ gwinc to rain agin
in a month.
No. 2. How you know '! Look migh
ty like it, any how.
No. 1. Case,.Gen. Sickles done issued
an order agin its raining !
No. 2. (Perfectly satisfied.) Ah,
'deed.
Egk, Queen Victoria, and-Louis Napo
leon have requested our Government to
do all that may be deemed proper i tithe
way of interceding with the Mexicans for
the personal safety of Maximilian.
Bgt, A schoolmaster, was about to flog
a pupil for having said he was a fool,
when the boy cried out: “Oh, don’t!
dont! I wont call you so no more ! IMF
never say what I think again all the
days of my life.
Proceedings of the Supreme Court of
Georgia in commemoration of our
late Chief Justice, Joseph Henry
Lumpkin.
From the Macon Telegraph ]
Supreme Court Room, )
Milledokyille, Ga., June G 7. f
By appointment, his Excellency
Governor Jenkins, as Chairman of the
Committee appointed some weeks
since to prepare a memorial in honor
of our late Chief Justice, appeared at.
10 o’clock this morning and submit
ted the following report:
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
lii the clays of gloom through which
our beloved State is now passing, we
are called, with unwonted frequency,
to record and to lament the death of
her wisest, best and most useful sons.
To that ever-longlitoning catalogue we
come now, with heavy hearts, to add
the name of Joseph Henry Lumpkin—
a name to which even well-erned ti
tles can add neither lustre nor dignity
—a name which, during many years,
has not failed to awaken honest pride
in all true Georgian hearts—pride
still undintinishod, though saddened
by the consciousness that it has no
longer a place on the rolls of the liv
ing.
A native Georgian, he was educated
in her Seminaries, when far advanced
in the curriculum of our University,
adverse events temporarily closed its
doors, and drove her youth to seek
instruction abroad. Then, with honor
to himself and his State, he completed
his collegiate course at Nassau Hall,
at a time when that venerable institu
tion confessedly maintained a high
standard of scholarship. Returning
home with the prestige of collegiate
honors, he devoted to thestudyof the
legal profession a mind of acknowl
edged superiority, already trained to
severo application, and quickened by
an earnest and laudiblo ambition to
do good and to acquire fame.
Arrived at manhood, and admitted
to the Bar in the year IS2-, he entered
zealously upon the practice of liis
profession. licit his fellow-citizens of
Oglethorpe, the county of his resi
dence, quick to tlisern the power he
weilded, and the virtue that controll
ed it, promptly demanded his services
in the councils oftho State—no slight,
distinction bestowed bv a constituen
cy', accustomed to be served by a
Crawford, a Cobb, an Upson and
a Gilmer. When he entered the Leg
islature, that noble Roman, George
M. Troup, worthy successor of Ogle
thorpe —grand exemplar of executive
purity and ability held the office of
Governor. Accustomed to draw
around him, to place in public view,
and to urge onward the promising
youth of the State, he placed Mr.
Lumpkin on his military staff, and
thus introduced him, to a brotherhood
of choice spirits. Some of us, then
just old enough to note intelligently
passing events and prominent actors.,
are here to vouch their true nobility
and to mingle our regrets, that all
but three (Lumpkin the latest,) have
followed their great Chief on that
dark pathway which leads through
the valley of the shadow of death.
In the interval between the admin
istration of Governor Troup and the
year 1860, Georgia grew vapidly in
population, in mineral wealth, and in
other recognized indicia of modern civ
ilization ; but in the elements of true
greatness, that earlier period—the
third decade of the nineteenth centu
ry', —was her palmy day. Then her
contributions to American Statesman
ship, whether employed in our nation
al or State councils, was largest;
then was put forth her maximum of
intellectual vigor, in the exposition
and defence of American constitution
al liberty'. The future historian in
writing the annuls of Georgia for that
time, will accord, “ there were giants
in those days."
It was in this period that Joseph
Henry Lumpkin appeared in the
Gereral Assembly of his native State,
carrying with him a reputation rarely
attained so early in life, and encour
aging such compensation as we have
indicated, he passed bravely and suc
cessfully through the ordeal, winning
laurels and gathering around him a
hast of friends who, with intoxicating!
plaudits, cheered him on in what \
they regarded a splendid politic-!
ai career just opening. Asa prelim-j
inary r debater, he evinced varied i
knowledge, vigorous thought, and
captivating elocution surprising in one i
so young. He was fairlyj before the'
public, and all the augries promised '
signal success. liis legislative career,;
however was very brief, limited to
two sessions oftho General Assembly, j
those of 1824 and 1325. In this one!
instance the choice of his life-long
erena—he disappointed public expec-!
tation. That choice fell upon the j
forensic, to the utter abandonment of
the political ; and though at intervals :
disturbed by pressing importunities,
was never reconsidered. Forthwith'
with characteristic, ardor he threw j
himself into the practice of his pro-j
session. Xu exploring the intricacies
of law, as a science, he found both
mental occupation, and compensating j
pleasure. In its practice there was
connection enough, ofmind with mind,
to satisfy the yearnings of an active ;
spirit. Asa councellor he was re
markable for careful.examinntion, ac
curate analysis and reliable advice. '
In court he showed himself well forti
fied in the law, and fully conversant!
with the facts of his case, fn unfold
ing the former he reasoned closely',
but not coldly. Without impaling
the logic it demanded, his imagrna
-4
tion constantly brought relief by gar
nishing its dull details. Coldness
indeed, was foreign to his nature. —
llis impulses were quick—strong —
generous. Nature wove into his
temperament that nervous excita
bility' which constitutes the sub
tile, controlling mesmerism ol elo
quence.
Combined with these traits, and
vastly enhancing their practical effici
ency,was the purity, the \irtucof
liis life, his unbending integrity in
business affairs, which show conspic
uously wherever lie lived, and moved
and acted. Men admired, and trusted,
and sympathized with him in all
things.
Grouping in the mind these quali
ties—physical, mental and moral—we
j shall be prepared to appreciate liis
power as an advocate —a power which
impressed and moved as well the
learned ns the simple—a power, under
whose magic spell jurors, obfivious of
the stern authority of the Bench, have
at times sprung from their seats elec
trified, and, at others, have uttered
audible response to liis stirring ap
peals.
liis practice was extensive, success
ful and lucrative. If he did not amass
wealth, it was because lie valued
money chiefly for its uses, prominent
among which he ranked the rites of
hospitality and the devoirs of charity.
Notwithstanding his ability, and the
frequent successes lie achieved in the
forum, he took delight in adjusting
controversies and ending litigation by
accord —a beautiful finish to the touto
cnsemble ol the truly great barris
tc
’Thus passed, after a brief dalliance
with politics,, (the young lawyer’s
artful seducer) twenty years of ardu
ous, unremitting toil, with the too
common result of failing health. This
suggested, as a matter of duty', the
immediate realization of a long cher
ished dream of foreign travel—and
abroad he] went. Thus, completely
disenthralled of business, and care—
treading the streets and art galleries
of renowned cities, and roaming over
I historic fields and classic grounds—
with his remarkable susceptibilities,
physical, mental and moral, a few
months sufficed to re-establish his
health and to stenghten for the work
of future years.
In the fall oftho year 1845, Col.
Lumpkin returned to his native Stale,
| but not to resume as he contemplated,
the practice of liis profession. Just
at that time the State of Georgia had
come tardily' to the establishment of
a Supreme Court, to the end that the
law might be uniformly and correctly
administered. 'This Court was con
stituted of three Judges. To Colonel
Lumpkin, as the fit occupant of the
highest position on that bench all
eyes turned. To it he acceded with
out candidacy and without competi
tion. ’To it lie was called not admit
ted. Thrice re-elected on the expira
tion of successive terms, lie never en
countered opposition—never looked
in the face of a competitor. The
strongest competitor would but have
served to double his superior strength.
In the Constitution of the Court, there
was made by law no titular distinc
tion among its members. But I lie in
cumbents were elected first for terms
of six, four and two years, severally,
each subsequent election to be for a
term of six years. The elective body
assigned to Col. Lumpkin the longest
term, and this was the distinction con
ferred on him. His associates grace
fully' yielded to him the Presidency',
thus confirming liis claim to prece
dence. But whilst in the course of
time, the seats on either side of him
repeatedly changed occupants, the
same venerable form steadily holding
the center, came to be regarded as
the impersonation of the Court. So
entirely did this idea pervade the
public mind that the Legislature, at
length made him by little, as lie had
ever been in fact, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court.
Trained in the law, of which lie
was a close student, by a practice ex
tending nearly or quite through a
quarter of a century, he came wdl
prepared to the bench.
familiar with llie well-settled prmci
plcs of common law, (from which so
much has been borrowed i:i building up
| other systems ;) and long
! with voluminous authorities regula
[ ting the application of those princ-i-
I pies, under varying circumstances, he
was both prompt and accurate in his
judgments.
| In that first, most essential requi
site of judicial character, integrity,
incorruptible—unapproacable, he was
above question. With him, indeed,
the love of justice was a passion. If
: ever he yielded reluctant obedience
to the law, it was when its concerto
strictness restrained him in dispensing
equity' and justice in the abstract.
Yet he was too wise and too conscien
tious ever to ignore any well-defined
rule ot conduct. But why attempt
to delineate a judicial character so
broadly known—so generally appre
ciated ? The records of this Court,
whose reports pervade the country
in its length and breadth, are replete
with credentials that will perpetuate
liis fame.
Chief Justice Lumpkin’s love of
law as a science had still another de
velopment. "Whilst engaging in nil
extensive and arduous practice, lie
usually had a class ot students, and
after liis accession to the Bench, he
called to the law-professorship in- our
University which lie tilled to the end
of his days. Many distinguished
members of the profession,.and many
more rising young lawyers of Georgia
and t lie adjoining States, arc proud to
claim him as their Gamaliel. He en- j
joyed, moreover, the peculiar graliti- j
cation, (for such it was), of having ;
for a time, as an associate on this j
Bench one ot his own pupils — i
thus gathering in the efficient aid of
this esteemed coajutor, bread himself j
had cast upon tho waters many years
before.
In the private and social relations, I
were the greater virtues and warmer
affections find scope —where the guid
ing mind and loving heart exert con
trol without the sanction ol law, Chief
Justice Lumpkin's position assumed
the patriarchal type.
lie was a husband and the father of
many’ children Would to God the
sympathy' of the brotherhood hero
assembled and represented could min
ister consolation to the survivors of
that desolated household ! With pro
found respect, we tender the offering,
and intrude no farther on the sacred
ness of family sorrow.
Within the limits of Georgia,
whither he appeared, numero.us
friends rose up to welcome him. He
was a man, to know whom was to love
him. None turned aequaintenship to
better account, for mutual enjoyment
or advantage. He had for all a pleas
ant look of recognition and a friendly
greeting, and for many a needed word
of counsel. Having acquired large
stores of knowedge from books, and
from intercourse with men, his conver
sation was instructive, liis compan
ionship genial. 11c enjoyed and lreely
promoted, in social converse, that
chastened mirth which, while it lifts
from the heart the burden of care, in
flicts no sting and instils no poison.
The benevolence and charity of
the Chief Justice were manifestied as
well by personal acts ns in associated
enterprises. His hand was in all con
certed movements (for the dissimul
ation of knowledge, the improvement
of public morals, or the relief of suffer
ing poverty'. Few have contributed
as inueli tb persevering efforts, or the
positive influence of the temperance
reform, which, for so many' years, so
palpably' diminished the greatest
moral pestilence of the age.
Thus far, in an imperfect sketch of
a pure and elevated character, we
have presented it as built up and
moulded by a system of severe moral
ity. But the rigid and searching code
of human ethics necessarily falls short
of producing the highest type of man,
because it is, itself, the work of man,
in his fallen estate.. Divinity alone
can restore to him even the semblance
of its own last image.
Chief Justice Lumpkin was of a na
ture too earnest —too far reaching—
not to bethink himself of the .wonder
ful dispensation which bring human
nature under the renewing influence
of that. Divinity, beginning with re
generation, and effecting a change in
the aspirations, the motives, the ends
and aims of the subject.
Tot this scheme ot redemption, quite
above human invention, our departed
biother in good faith, and with reso
lute purpose, made an early surrender
of himself. He became a sincere de
voted Christian, and thus attained the
highest standard of earthly excell
ence. He was a pillar in that branch
of the Christian church which rejoiced
in his membership. Not only’ was liis :
a life of active usefullness, but from j
its quiet and tranquil aspects there
were daily emotions of salutary influ
ence.
The Committee recommend the
adoption of the following resolutions : !
Resolved, That in the death ofj
Chief Justice Lumpkin we recognizs !
the loss of a most worthy citizen, a
Christian gentleman, and an eminent
jurist, whose memory' and example we
would-perpetuate, to the end, that his
‘ good deeds may live after him,” and
the leaven of liis life go down from
generation to generation.
Re sole ed., That we respectfully ten
der to liis bereaved widow and chil
dren the heartfelt sympathy of the
Bench and Bar and officers of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, whose rev
erence and affection he so well deserv
ed and so long enjoyed.
Resolved, That in token of these,
wo will, (luring thirty days, wear for
him the usual badge of mourning.
Resolved, That the Clerk of the l
Court be requested to prepare and to
keep open for members of the bar, a
subscription paper that they may
have the privilege of contributing to
a fund for raising over the remains of
our first Chief Justice, an appropriate
monument. Arid through such com
mittee or committees as they' may think
proper to appoint, to ask of liis widow
and family permission to pay this
tribute to his mcmeoy, and to see that
it be carried into effect,
Resolved, That a copy of this report
and resolutions be transmitted to Mrs.
Lumpkin, for* the family ; thatj the
Court be requested to have them en
tered on its minu#s, and the
gazettes of the State be requested to
publish them.
I3U” The Boston Journal says :
“Morethan a hundred thousand cot
ton spindles controlled in Providence
and vicinity have been stopped with
in the last ten days, and the probabil
ity is that the number will be consid
erably increased this week.”
Samuel B. Wiggins died in
Saint Louis, recently', from a cancer j
in his nose, caused by preasure ot his ,
spectacles. The World wickedly re-;
marks that it will be remembered j
that some y'ears ago the colored spec- j
tacles ot the Tribune similarly brought |
about bleeding in Kansas. I
Fioai the CtHmicU A Sentinel.
Notes on the Situation -No- 4- j
ill n. n him,.
tla v i ij«t shown what every fair mi rut ad
mits, and what every legal mind must ..con- ,
elude,that these military measures are sObver- j
sive <d' the Constitution and fatal to the very ,
life of all Anierieim principleso!’ government, |
let us now proceed to examine the reasons ,
urged to justify or induce tiieir acceptance
by our people. After careful consideration, i
1 find that all the reasons which I have heard
or read are if cl tided in the following five
propositions and allegations :
1. We are helpless, it is alleged, and can
neither resist nor prevent ilte adoption of
these measures.
2. That if we refuse to accept this plan
of reconstruction, a worse one will lie provi-1
ded. An appral to our f ars. and therefore j
a strong or rather dangerous position.
3. That if we reject this plan, Congress
will become more offended, and Will confis- j
cate our property, and take the substance we |
have left. This is an appeal to our avarice 1
—a very dominant passion of human na- J
ture.
4. That we of the South area conquered
people, and are bound, to accept the terms of
the conqueror, and that these bills arc the
terms of the conqueror.
5. That the negro, being now free and
made a citizen, is entitled both for his own
protection, and in accordance with the prin
ciples of popular government, to political as
well as civil equality with the while race,
and that civil .equality will be idle without
political equality.
This last position in urged chit fly by Nor
thern supporters of these hills, and lias a sem
blance of consistency and principle, and I
have, therefore, included it in the list of ar
guments or positions to be answered.
I have no difficulty whatever in finding
the most satisfactory replies to all these al
leged reasons. Indeed, f affirm, with nbso
lute confidence, that all the good which it is
claimed will come of the acceptance of these
measures, will come and can only
come of their rejection ; and that all
the evils which it is alleged will ic-i.ll
from their rejection, will necessarily and nat
urally result from their acceptance. But I
find it very difficult while writing and impos
sible while Speaking, to exhibit what 1 do
not feel; and, while making the analysis, it.
will be a task to exhibit any respect either
for these positions or those who use them
For the educated politician—the man who
lias experience in public affaiis and who as
pires and labors to be a teacher and counsel
lor of the people—and who urges these teach
ings and counsels, ‘-J am exeedingly filled
with contempt;” because 1 can but believe
that such a man consciously'desecrates the
truth, and recklessly, but with most concil
iating address, hazards every interest of the
people only that lie may take the benefit of
being “on the strong side.” Alas,what pen
shall ever be able to recount the countless
horrors which have resulted from—been
wrought by—that demoniac spirit of our po
litical leaders to‘ keep on the strong side!”
This spirit made 'bleeding Kansas,” rent the
Union in twain ; drenched the country in
bipod and clad the people with mourning;
demoralized, deceived aid betrayed the most
gallant people under thp cycles of the sun to
the most humiliating subjugation, and now
counsels, urges, threatens to compel dishon
or to a people who have nothing but honor
left.
But 1 know there are many ppoplc who
are honest, and intelligent on most subjects,
who commit grave political errors and mis
takes. It would be strung if they did not
when there are so many influences to deceive.
In popular governments, therefore,and more
especially now, so much power ij proposed
to be given to so much ignorance, it is neces
sary to ans Mer the knave in his argument
lest he make a fool of his hearers.
First, then, it is said we are helpless ami
cannot, prevent the success of these Military
Bills. Well, if this is true, uiiy dsk our ebu
\ sent ? If success does not pepend on consent,
why beg and coax and threaten to secure
consent? If we must be disfranchised and
| have an enemy’s government” forced ijj on
i us, spare us the gratuitous dishonor.of con
! senting! If a lieud, with the power, should
| come to burn your house, or rape your wife,
!or kill your family, and should coolly ask
your consent, saying t on had better consent,
for il you did not, lie would burn, or rape, or
ki lui y how, and perhaps, being incense I
by your refusal, do all; would you consent ?
1 like the spirit of the old Roman centurion.
A decemvir—a ruler of the strong side—be
came enamored of the humble centnron’s
“daughter.” Me.first persuaded, bnt per.-ua
sion failing to secuie consent, lie res Tied to
his power, the power of his office. 'When the
hour of supposed helplessness was reached,
the father snatched a knife and plunged it.
into the breast of his duughthor. exclaiming :
‘■This is all, my dearest daughter, i can give
thee to preserve thy chastity liom the lust
and violence ol a tyrant.” ’ And what was
the ri suit in heathen Rome? Til a soldiers
and people honored the father, and rose with
indignation and abolished the deccmviral
power of Borne forever, and the guilty d* -
cetnvirs sine themselves And to this dnv,
this thing is told ns a memorial of the noble
father, and of the glorious army and people
who avenged him. And the daughter’s name
was Virginia. The virtue of all our daugh
ters, and the pride of all our song are secure
only in our sense of honor as a people.
But are we helpless ? If wo contemplate
resistance by arms, I concede that now we
are helpless- Bnt our strength is not in
arms. Our strength is in the Constitution.
If the Constitution is strong, wo are strong,
and if we are helpless the Constitution is help
less. 1 have shown if these mi itary meas
ures b v forced upon us the Constitution is
destroyed. On its parapets alone let us mount
our guns and fire on. The most startling
evidence of our progress toward anarchy, is
the idea with some, 1 fear many of our "peo
ple, that the Constitution can do us no "cod.
flic very thought should alarm every man
on the continent who has property, or liber
ty, or peace, or who desires to get, or to keep
either. The only possible hope|f have in the
future for anything good or sale to the peo
ple of any section and of any color, is found
ed in the belief that the Constitution is not
dead —is not helpless. It has been sadly dis
regarded, abandoned, and trampled on, I
admit. But its enemies are too cruel. They
insist upon dealing their blows too often, too
quickly and too recklessly. Their motives
are becoming manifest. The murderer’s in
tent is at last being seen. The people will
come to the rescue; they will come in wrath,
and these long rioting enemies will call on
the very mountains to hide them. If I am
mistaken; .if the Constitution is dead; if
the people has lost' the will to save it; these 1
patriots and Christians, and all order-loving I
men have hut one duty to perform. That'
duty is to pray—pray earnestly—pray un
ceasingly, that the Caesar of American histo
ry would come and come quickly.
Our t.oblc Governor sought to teat the con
stitutionality of these] Tnenwres before the
■Supreme Court, hv a bill tiled inafche name
of the State. 1 afiFglad he did so. It wits
a manly illtjrl, for whiqh our-children will
praise him. it sides, he gave the court an
opportunity of deciding an important ques
tion which may be one day involved, fie.
failed to get the test, because the court was
not able to decide that it had jurisdiction in
the. form in which the question was made;
not because Georgia was not a Stale, but be
cause Georgia being a State, the question,
as made, was political only. But the hum
blest ol the ten millions of the people ol the
ten States, whose rights of person or proper
ty are interfered wtlli by one of these military
officers, can make the question and make it
judicially ; and then the court, must decide
it, and will decide it, and can decide it only
in favor of the citizen, whose property is
seized or whose person is arrested under pre
tence of these Military Bills, will promptly
appeal to the law. 1 am aware that our peo
i pie are attempted to be frightened from this
I appeal to the courts, because they, are told
that it will be years befure a decision can he
I forced 1 This is not true. A decision on a
j writ of habeas corpus must come at once front
j the District Comt, and in a shoit time from
the Supreme Court. But, if this delay is to
1 defeat, the ap; filiation, would not people for
; the same reason assert no reason by the law,
! and thus submit to all outrages or take the
| law in their own hands? And must the right
on which all rights depend, be abandoned be
cause the law is slow ?
But, it is said, that while the courls are
waiting, the Congress will complete its work.
But, if the courts finally hold that the tvotk
is completed without any authority under
the Constitution, will not all the woik go
Ibr nothing and our existing government be
restored?
But suppose it will take one year, or five
years or ten yeats to “force the court to a
decision?” Would it not be better to brook
the court’s delay, for even teq years, than
to accept anarchy and slavery for a centu
ry ?
No. there is neither !og;c. nor sincerity, nor
patrioti-m in this argument or excuse, that
we arc helpless. If we consent to and accept
these military measures, then we are helpless,
because they, by that cotrent, become valid
—become our ret. If we do not accept—il
we vote against a Convention— they never can
become valid. They never can be finally en
forced. This is the reason, and the only rea
son why "every means is resorted to to secure
our consent. Without thatconscnt these acts
lia-e no vitality. There is for these corrupt
party manipulators and bribed deserters from
their own honor, no refuge from disgrace,
but in success of their scheme of ruin; There
is no possible way of success except by the
people’s consent to their own ruin. There
fore, it is that emissaries come, and rene
gades labor, ami original secessionists become
orthodox loyalists, ai.d by persuasion and
threap by bribing'Sumo and alarming otli
(■s and deceiving all, seek to get the people
j tMconsent.
wicked violators of the Constitution
woßd cover their crimes by calling it. I’rn
grtm ami getting the jKvpl- to tread with
thß'i in tiieir country’s death march.
■he itinerant vender in his people’s honor
A jßihl escape the infamy of his trade by indu
”ilr the people to join in the sale.
■Vital 1 will the people violate the Consfi
tißon to get strength, or abandon the laws
t-Pind safety ? Then, is the mariner skilled
who throws away his chart and eoinpa'S to
find his way over the sea ; and the madman
has become wise who forsakes his shelter to
avoid the storm.
“One oftlio banished crew-,
I fear, hath ventured from the deep, to raise
X ew troubles.”
!3F“ No fewer than nine fleets will
be in (lie Mediterranean this month—
the .English the French, the Italian,
the Russian, the Austrian, the Ameri
can, the Spanish, the Turkish, and
| finely the Prussian, which is just
announced as having; deshju;ited[Na
[des as its first station,
vSN’Wlicn the President vetoed the
Reconstruction bill the Radicals said he
grossly perverted its meaning; now they
insist that its character was accurately
described in the veto.
COMMEUCIAL.
M.-vcox, June 27.
COTTON—Little or nothing done in our
market to-day, aud few sales made at un.
quotable prices.
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
New Youk, June 27, noon.- -Flour 10@15c
belter. Wheat 3 to 5 cents better. Corn
dull, Pork lower 21 fSfnpil 20.
(fold, 37x. Sterling unchanged. ’62 Cou
pons, 10f(J lOJ-
Cotton steady.
Eew Yohk, June 27, r. m.—Cotton steady;
Sales 1600 bales at 26(g 2i'lc.
Savaxvau, June 27. Cotton opened did’,
but closed with a better feeling. Middlings
22.1 c Stock on band, 15,001 bales.
Augusta, June 27. Colton more active
and firmer; Strict Middlings 2-le.
Ciuri.i-sroN, June 27.—Cotton more ac
tive. Middlings 2-tl.Oi 100.
FOREIGN MARKETS.
J oxnox, June" 27. Financial nnel4,nged.
hivr;afoot,, June 27- noon.—Cotton steady ;
sales to day 10,000 bales.
London, June 27, 2 p. m. —Consols 94|.
Bonds 731,.
bivEiipoor,, June 27. 2 r. m.—-Markets un
changed and easier.
C~l I»Rt, IA —Schley County.
IT To Ihe .Superior Court 'of sn.cl County :
The petition of Austin Congleton shevi eth
that on tlie 28tl) clay of March, ISUO, Charles U
(freon, (who lias gone, and remains out of this
State,) and John .1, Cruel), Sr. (who is dead)
made their mortgage deed, of that date, con
veyed to your petitioner lot of land, No. 11;",
in tlie 30tTi District of formerly Lee, now said
County of Schley, to secure the payment of a
promissory note by them made payable to
petitioner for SBBO, due the 25th of December
then next.
That soon after the death of said John J.
Croon, St*., who died seized and possessed of
said land, one Aaron Hart went into possess
ion of tlie same, and became the Executor of
said Green, and petitioner says that said note
has never been paid, Whereupon he prays a
rule calling upon said Charles It. Green and
Aaron Hart, Executors of said John C. Green,
Sr., to pay the principal and interest on said
note, into this court, or in default file Equity
of redemption bo foreclosed.
If. K. McCAY,
■ Plaintiff's Attorney
SCHLEY SUPERIOR COURT, \
April Term, 'lßll7. )
On hearing the above petit ion it is ordered,
That the defendants do pay in this Court, by
or at tlie next Term, the sum of *BBO, principal,
wit Ii interest from the '26tli of December, 1800,
or in default, Equity of redemption shall be
barred.
And it is ordered, That said petition and
this order be published once a month for four
months in the Sumter Republican.
A true extract from the minutes of Schley
Superior Court.
juueasmlm UEJiRY S. DYVJ'S Clerk
|jfut Jtenitstmfuts.*
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r|YHE General Slate Agent of the NORTH
| AMERICA LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY, is now hero witli tlie view of tnkinr.
'“to 'fiis “'wk „r safely’’ all who desire
inn king’ll sure provision for tlie future.—
Those procuring policies from this (joaitpcr
i.y tkhmei) Mr.i.HAL, and universally popular
Company hove the iiiiquesllon.il assurance
of ii kino insured, a3 all restriotians have
bscn removej from Iho Policies of t his Com
pany, lienee no fear of having to litigate
your claims regardless of How or when (lie
insured should die, provided, only, he or skt
does not without permission from the Home Jo/>
fee, visit the tropics or the extreme north or 1
southern portion of the Globe. All of I his com
l"iny’s Policies aro incontestable, except
when direct fraud can lie proven.
The North America is strictly a mutual
company. The Policy holders alone being
the company ; among whom all the net prof
its are divided and paid in cash ntunially.—
Other commendable features in point of s»-
ctiiurv, ,vc , (not engrafted in other lifecom
jonnes) will be explained to those desirous of
knowing more about I he working of this com
pony, by the Agent, at tlie Drug B.ore of Dr.
And rows.
All plans on whioh we insure are non.
forfeiting. june 29 it.
Attention Invalids!
j“ 1IA X "E ou hand at tlie Grain Emporium,
15 Bbls. RYE FLOUR,
the very article for lli.e dyspeplic, which 1
will sell at figures astonishingly low.
Also, Flour, different grades, for family
use at i educed prices, to close out a consign
ment, and a fine lot of Tobacco. Planters
would consult their interest by giving me a
call.
A large supply of Tennessee BACON aud
CORN altars on hand,
jime 29 If tXw. M. 11. STEPHENS.
A T
J . W. MIZE’S
IS A SI BOO,VI,
('COTTON AVENUE,)
I nAN RE H AD, THE FOLLOWING SUM,
mcr Drinks :
LEMONADE,
MINT JUMP,
CLARKTPUNCH,
MILK PUNCH,
SHERRY COBBLER,
BRANDY SLING.
WHISKEY SLING,
POUT WINE SANG A REE.
jnne 29 1 m.
TO COTTON MAKERS
OK
Sill 11 HANOI film
I OWN r [ 11 E “RIGHT” TO BROOKS*
Cotton Serow, for Sumter nod Marion
Counties, superior ro nil o(tiers now known.
Made of wrought iron and portable, witli alt
its fixtures, in a common wagon.
If. cm be transported t 'getlier wiih the
common field thresh power Gin, and pack in.
the field sis Well ns in a house. 1 have the
certificates of about seventy gentlemen of
Pike and Merriweihei* c unties, where this
screw v/as first put in operation, all testify
ing to il# superiority to ail others, besid a
the certificates of a like number of members
ol the las Georgia Legislature.
I also own tlie “Right.” to the improved
j GIN, for Sumter, Schley, Macon and Leo.
j 1 will have a competent workman in each
| of those counties before ginning season.
The Screw can be had at Macon and Co—
hi ml us upon reasonable terms.
W. J. REESE,
Americas, Ga.
Mir.LEPOKVTLT.K, G.\., )
Nov. 29th, 18GG. f
Wo, the undersigned, members of tlie*
Georgia Legislature having witnessed the
practical operation of _
lirook's Patent Revolving Screw
and Press,
Unhesitatingly pronounce it, in cur opinion,
the best Screw and Cross, we have overseen.
Its exoclleney consists in its simplicity, its
porfabi i y, and its adaptation to the wants
of both an individual and community Mr.
Brooks is a native Georgian, a eitizeu of Bike
county. We cheerfully recommend him and
his invention to tlie favorable consideration
of the people of Georgia and ollrer Colton
growing States.
We witnessed, yesterday, tlie ginning of a
bale of Cotton, weighing 025 pounds on his
improved 40 saw Gin, the same was gimie t
in t wo hours time.
J. B JONES, of Burke, “Chairman AgrU
cultural Com.
G. .1 McDOWELL, Heard, Agricul. Com,
F. ITARGETT, Harris “ “
1) M. BROWN, Houston, “ “
P. G. WARREN. Columbia, “ “
p. n. McDowell, l ike, “
E. C HARDIN, Cherokee “ “
I). G. HUGHES, Twiggs, “ “
MILLIN' 1\ TUCKER, Merriwethcr.
W J. HUDSON, Harris,
R. A. T. HIDLEV, Troup.
THUS. DIXON, Macon.
T A. SWEARINGEN, Decatur.
B. F. BOWELL,
B. 33. MOGUE, Thomas.
P. J. STROZIEII, “ 10th Dist.
O. L. SMITH, (Senator) Berrien.
Together with fifty other members,
juno 29 ts
GEOUGIA~»Siimter County.
Whereas, \Y r illis A. Hawkins applies
to me for Letters of Administration, with the
will annexed, on the estate of William J,
Bennington, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish,
all and singular, the kindred and creditors of
said deceased, ami all persons concerned, to
be and appear at my oilice, within the time
prescribed by law, and lije their objections, if
any they have, otherwise letters will be grant*
ed in terms of the law.
Given under my hand, iu office, this 24tU
day of J une, 1807,
june 25 lm L. P. DORMAN, Ordinary,
Now is the Time
BUY YOUR JOINT MEAT AT THE
Grain Empotinra, as it is being sold at fig,
ures so low as to amount to jour own price.
.Call at once if you would save money.
M. 11. STEPHENS,
june 22 ts