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Patriotic* Letters Accepting tl»e
Nomination.
tiKX. haxcock’s letter.
Governor’s Island, N. Y., July
80.— Gentlemen: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of July 13, 1880, apprising me
formally of my nomination to the
offioc of President of the United
States, by the National Democratic
Convention, lately assembled in (’in
cinnati. I accept the nomination
with grateful appreciation of the
confidence reposed in me. The prin
eiples of the Convention are those I
am authorized to maintain in the
future. The thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amend aents to the
Constitution of the United States,
cmlrndying the results of the war for
the Union, are inviolable. If called
to the Presidency 1 should deem it
my duty to resist with all of my
power any attempt to impair the full
force and effect of the Constitution,
which in every article, section and
amendment is the supreme law of the
land. The Constitution forms the
basis of the Government of the
United States. The powers granted
by it to the legislative, executive and
judicial departments define and limit
the authority of tlie General Govern¬
ment. The j towers not delegated to
th«‘ United States by the Constitu¬
tion nor prohibited by it to the States
belong to the States respectively or
to the people in general and the
State Governments, each acting in
its own sphere, without trenching on
the lawful jurisdiction of the General
Government, constitute this Union.
This Union, equiping the General
Government with general powers
and the State Governments with
State powers for purposes local to
the States, is a policy the founda¬
tions of which were laid in the pro
fouudest wisdom. This is the Union
our fathers made, and which has
been respected abroad and so bene
fieient at home. Tried by blood and
fire, it stands to-day a model form of
free popular government—a practi¬
cal system which, rightly adininis
tered, has been and will continue to
be the admiration of the world—may
we not say the woiyder of the world.
The unity of government which
constitutes us one people is justly
dear to us. It is the main pillar in
the edifice of our real independence
—the support of our peace, safety
and prosperity, and of that liberty
we so highly prize, and intend, at
every hazard, to preserve. But no
form of government, however care¬
fully devised—no principles, however
sound—will protect the rights of the
people unless their administration is
faithful and efficient. It is a vital
principle in our system that neither
force nor fraud must be allowed to
subvert the rights of the people.
The bayonet is not a fit instrument
for collecting the votes of freemen.
It is only by a free vote, free ballot,
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WRIG-HTSVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1880.
and fair count, that the people can
rule in fact, as required by the theory
of our Government. Take this
foundation away and the whole
structure falls.
Public office is a trust and not a
bounty bestowed upon the holder.
No incompetent or dishonest person
should ever be intrusted with it; or,
if appointed, he should be promptly
ejected. The basis of a substantial,
practical civil service reform must
first be established by the people in
filling the elective offices. If they
fix a high standard of qualification
for office, and sternly reject corrupt
and incompetent men, the result will
be decisive in governing the action
of the servants whom they intrust
with the appointing power.
The war for the Union was suc¬
cessfully closed moro than fifteen
years ago. All classes of our people
must share alike in the blessings of
the Union, and are equally concerned
in its perpetuity and in a proper ad¬
ministration of public affairs. We
are in a state of profound peace.
Henceforth, let it be our purpose to
elevate friendship, and bear no ani¬
mosity against our fellow citizens.
Our material interests, varied and
progressive, demand our constant
and united efforts. A sedulous and
scrupulous care of the public credit,
together with a wise management of
our government expenditures, should
be maintained in order that the latter
may be lightly burdened and that
persons may be protected in their
fight to the fruits of their own in
dustry. The time lias eonu* to enjoy
the substantial benefits of reconcilia
tion—as one people, we have their
i interests at heart.
I If elected, I shall, with divine fa
j vor, labor with wliat ability 1 possess,
to discharge my duties. I am, most
respectfully,
WinfieldS. Haxcodk.
To John \V. Stevenson, President of
the Convention; Hon. John P.
j Stockton, Chairman, and others of
; the Committee of the National
: Democratic Convention,
mr. English’s letter.
Indianapolis, July 30.
; To Hon. John W. Stevenson, Presi
, dent of the Convention, Hon. John
( P. Stockton, Chairman, and other
I members of the Committee of No
tification.
Gentlemen: I have now the honor
to reply to your letter of the 13th
instant, informing me that I was
unanimously nominated for Vice
President of the United States by
the late Democratic National Con¬
vention assembled at Cincinnati. As
foreshadowed in the verbal remarks
made by me at the time of your letter,
I have now to say that I accept the
high trust with a realizing sense of
its responsibility, and am profoundly
grateful for the honor conferred. I
accept the nomination upon the plat¬
form of principles adopted by the
convention,which I cordially approve
and I accept it quite as much because
of my faith in the wisdom and patri¬
otism of the great statesman • and
soldier nominated on the same ticket
for President of the United States.
His eminent services to his country,
his fidelity to the Constitution, Union
and laws, his clear perception of the
correct principles of government, as
taught by Jefferson, his scrupulous
care to keep the military in strict
subservience to civil authority, his
high regard to civil liberty, personal
rights and the rights of property, his
acknowledged ability in civil as well
as military affairs, and his pure and
blameless life, all point to him as a
man worthy of the confidence of the
people. Not only a brave soldier, a
great wise man and pure patriot, but
a prudent, painstaking, practical
man, of unquestioned honesty,trusted
often with important public duties,
and always faithful to every trust,
and in the full meridian of a ripe
and vigorous manhood, he is, in my
judgment, suited for the highest po¬
sition on earth. Not only is he the
right man for the place, but the time
has come when the best interest of
the country requires that the party
SCIENCE AND 11ELIGI0X; TIIE GUARDIANS OF LIBERTY:'
which has monopolized the General
Government for the last twenty
years shall yield. It was a grievous
wrong to every voter, and our system
of self-government, which should
never be forgotten or forgiven, that
many of the men now in office were
put there because of corrupt partisan
services, thus defeating the fairly and
legally expressed will of the majority;
and the hypocrisy of the professions
of that party in favor of civil service
reform was shown by placing such
men in office. The money of the
people, taken out of the public trea¬
sury by these men, for services often
poorly performed or not performed
at all, is being used in vast sums,
with the knowledge and presumed
sanction of the administration, to
control elections, and even members
of the Cabinet are strolling about
the country making partizan speeches
instead of being in their departments
at Washington discharging the public
duties for which they are paid by
the people. But with all their clev¬
erness and ability, discriminating
men will no doubt read between the
lines of their speeches that their para¬
mount hope and aim is to keep them¬
selves or their satellites four years
longer in office; that perpetuating
the power of chronic Federal office¬
holders four years longer hill not
l>enefit the millions of men and wo¬
men who hold no office, but earn their
daily 7 bread by honest industry. This
contest is in fact between the people,
endeavoring to retain the political
power which rightfully belongs to
them, and to restore the pure, simple,
economical government of our fa¬
thers, on one side, and a hundred
thousand Federal office-holders and
their backers, pampered with place
, uul JM)Wcrj ail(l determined to retain
t j K . IM at , ;i || hazards, on the other,
Hence the constant assumption of
1u . w . lll( i dangerous powers il,’,. by the
„n.W ml,.
,he Republican party, the
to },„i| ( l w ],at they call a strong
i government, the interference with
home rule and wit h the adiniriistra
tion of justice in the courts of the
several States, the interference with
elections, through the medium of
partizan Federal office holders, in
putting their party in power. Our
success would bury beyond resume
tion sectional jealousies and hatreds
which have so long been the chief
stock in trade of pestiferous dema¬
gogues, and in no other way can this
be so effectually accomplished. It
would reassure good feeling between
all sections, and make them in fact,
as well as name, one people. The
only rivalry, then, would be in the
race for development, the elevation
of labor, the enlargement of human
rights, the promotion of education,
morality, religion, liberty, and all
that would tend to make us foremost
in human progress. I am, with great
respect, very truly yours,
Wm. II. English.
They Wanted to Live in the Stars.
Very near us sat two young people.
He wore the face of a man who
shaves three times a day, and that
white necktie had never seen the
starlight before. There was pearl
powder on the shoulder of his coat,
and a tender, dreamy look in her
lovely eyes. They sat aad looked
up at the stars, and they didn’t care
for any solitary thing any nearer to
this earth. “Mortimer,” she mur¬
mured softly—“Mortimer,” his name
appeared to be Mortimer, though I
couldn’t learn whether it was his
front name or his after name—“Mor¬
timer, dear,” she said, “if we could
only live apart from this busy and
sordid, unsympathetic world, in one
of yon glittering orbs of golden ra¬
diance, living apart from all else,
only for each other, forgetting the
base things of earthly life, the coarse
greed of the world and its animal
instincts, that would be our heaven,
would it not, dear?”
And Mortimer, he said that would.
“There, heart of my own,” he said,
and his voice trembled with earnest¬
ness, “my own darling Ethel, through
all the softened radiance of the day
and all the shimmering tenderness of
night, our lives would pass away in
an exalted atmosphere above the
base-born wants of earthly mortals,
and far beyond the chattering crowd
that lives but for to-day, our lives,
refined beyond the common ken—”
■And just then the man with the
gong came out. Mortimer, he made
a grab at Ethel’s hand and a plunge
for the cabin door. Ethel just gath¬
ered her skirts with the other hand,
jumped- clear over the back of her
chair and otter him, and away they
went clattering down the cabin, up¬
set a chair, ran into a good, sweet
old Quaker lady and banged a bad
word out of her before she had time
to stop it; down the stairs they
rushed, collared a couple of chairs at
the nearest table, feed a waiter, and
opened the action without skirmish¬
ing. I am a man of coarse mould
and an earthen-bound appetite my¬
self, and I wouldn’t live in a star so
long as I could find a good hotel in
America; but long, long before I
could get seats at the table for my
family, Mortimer and Ethel had
eaten two bluefish, a little rare beef¬
steak, some corn bread, a plate of
hot cakes, two boiled eggs, and a
bunch of onions, and the waiter had
gone out to toast them some cheese.
MORAL.
I have, during my wanderings, met
several people who wanted to live in
a star, where the earthborn people
with animal appetites could not trou¬
ble them, and 1 always found the
saftest place for an earthborn man,
when the starborn soul started for
the dinner table, was behind a large
rook. Distrust the aspiring mortal
who lives in a plane so elevated that
he requires the use of a telescope
when he wants to look down ht the
rest of us. And if lie ever wants to
board at your humble table, charge
,! ' m ^ 1 ' ) 3 week, and feed him lots
of so,, |h <>r you’ll lose money on him.
Jlterk^e. ____
To Girls,
Now that you arc being courted,
you think, of course, it is all very
well, and it will be nicer when von
get married. But it won’t. He
lie’s going to keep on this
high pitch of love all the time. But
he won’t. He doesn’t know himself
and you don’t know him. It must
cool down. When lie sees you as
many times a day as he wants to,
and maybe more; when he secs your
head done up regularly every morn¬
ing in curl papers and the bloom is
all off the rye; when your home con¬
tains a good deal of wash tub, cradle
and cook stove, he won’t stand in
front of the house for one hour, out
in the cold, watching your light in
your window. He’ll be thinking
rather of getting out of the house.
Young woman protract courtship as
long as you can. Let well enough
alone. A courtship in the hand is
worth two marriages in the bush.
Don’t marry till Christmas after
next.
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He came into the editorial rooms,
with a face of long primer, solid, and
a nose, i lie redness of which was set
in small pica. He wanted to nego¬
tiate a loan in order to make an in¬
vestment in huckleberry pie stock,
preferred, with a few shares of milk
on margin, stock watered. “Genlura,”
said he, with a very confidential air,
addressing the staff in general, “to
tell yon the honest truth, I”—“The
honest truth,” roared the managing
editor; “do you know where you are,
my friend? This is a newspaper office,
this is no place for the honest truth,
you had better git!” With a look of
woe upon his rubicund countenance
tlie would-be investor departed.
Two boys and two girls, the eldest
of whom was under 10, planned to
elope from Ottawa and get married
this side of the line. One of the
boys obtained $80 for expenses, but
the other’s financial calculation failed
and at the last moment he was com¬
pelled to withdraw from the enter¬
prise. His sweetheart, however, did
not give up the idea of eloping, and
so accompanied the more prosperous
couple in their flight.
\ W. A. TOMPKINS,
A GLASS OF MILK
AND A GEORGIA WATERMELON
Combine to Restore the Fasting
Doctor to the Land of the Gour¬
mand—An Enthusiastic Crowd
Sees the Old Man Through His
Forty Days of Trouble.
New York, August 7.—Dr. Tan¬
ner is in a good condition, and will
undoubtedly complete his fast at
noon. A large crowd is in atten¬
dance.
At 11 o’clock lie stood at a window
on Thirteenth street looking at the
crowd in the streets. A few minutes
previously he walked one lap around
the hall. His brother-in-law, W. M.
Gardener, called on him this morn¬
ing. His visit seemed to make the
faster nervous, and he complained of
“goneness” in his stomach.
At seven o’clock this morning he
had a fit of vomiting. He then got
up and dressed. At 7:30 he was
much exhausted and laid down on
his cot. lie remained in this posi¬
tion until 10:15, when he went into
the lower hall. After a walk he
again laid down and was covered
with a blanket. At 10:50 he arose
and walked into the front room. A
large table of watermelons, fruits,
bread, etc., is spread in the hall.
Dr. Tanner completed his forty
days fast at noon to-day. As soon
as time was up the crowd cheered
Tanner enthusiastically. About one
thousand persons were in the hall
and an immense crojvd on the side¬
walk. He at once drank a glass of
milk and called for the Georgia wa¬
termelon. This he tapped, dug his
hand into and ate heartily of. When
remonstrated with be asked to be
left alone, saying: “No, my Lord,
I am running this now.” When he
placed a glass of milk to his mouth,
he remarked : “ Gentlemen, you
don’t believe that’s good.” The sig¬
nal for the expitation of the fast was
the whistle from a factory in the
vicinity. When it blew 7 Tanner had
a peach in his hand, but before he
could put it into his mouth, some¬
body snatched it away from him. In
response to the plaudits of the as¬
semblage, Dr. Tanner, who was sit¬
ting upon a chair placed on a table,
raised his handkerchief over his head.
At a quarter past twelve Dr. Tanner
got down from the table and left the
hall in a coach in charge of Dr.
Gunn, who took him to his residence
where he will undergo careful medi¬
cal treatment. During the morn¬
ing about two thousand persons
visited the hall. Just before noon
his temperature was found to be 99,
pulse 92 and respiration 17.
Tanner’s weight at the end of his
fast was 1214 pounds, showing a loss
of 3G during the forty days.
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In connection with Arthur’s deliv¬
erance on the subject of civil service,
read the following extract from a
letter addressed to him by President
Hayes: “With a deep sense of my
obligations under the Constitution,
I regard it as my plain duty to sus¬
pend you, in order that the office
may be honestly administered.”
Senator McDonald says he has got
to find or hear of a single Democrat
in Indiana who is not for Hancock
and English. The Democracy of
India have come off victorious on too
many hard fought battles to leave
any room for doubt of their complete
success in October.
Brown had been in love with a
young lady and asked permission to
call her by the expressive name of
some animal, which was granted on
condition that she should have the
same privilege. On leaving, Brown
said, “Good night, dear!” “Good
night, hore!”said she.
“Buy a trunk, Pat,” said a dealer.
“And what for should I buy a
trunk?” demanded Pat. “To put
your clothes in,” was the reply.
“And go nakid?” exclaimed Pat;
“not a bit iv it!”
NO. 13.
IN A NEST OF WATER SNAKES.
A Lively Adventure Had by an
Auburnian Sportsman.
A sportsman, whose word in every
respect can be vouched for, was
spending a few days at Cayuga in
hunting and fishing on Seneca river.
One morning he pulled his boat into
the rushes which line the stream on
both sides for miles to wait for wa¬
ter hens to make their appearance on
the clear water, which they always
do in large numbers at early dawn.
He fell into a doze from which he
did not awake until the sun began
to burn his face. Upon opening his
eyes the first object that met his gaze
was a monstrous black water snake
coiled up in the stern of the skiff.
The sight of this slimy visitant sur¬
prised him not a little. The gentle¬
man slowly reached around for his
gun, which lay in the bow of the
boat, keeping his eyes at the same
time on the snake. The first thing
that his hand came in contact with
wasthe cold,’clammy body of another
visitor of the same species. Like a
flash he jerked back that useful
member, and looking over his shoul¬
der espied three snakes apparently
taking “solid comfort,” either of
which would measure seven feet in
length.
He quickly grasped an oar and 1
sprang upon the seat. By this time
the one which occupied the stern
not liking these warlike preparations
glided off into the water, but the
other three gave evidence of “hold¬
ing the fort.” They coiled and un¬
coiled themselves and ran out their
forked tongues at him in no friendly
manner. Mr. opened the at
tack by knocking the nearest one
completely out of time with the oar.
The other crawled up on the seat
and tried to encompass itself around
his pedal extremities. The gentle¬
man, who was now thoroughly alarm¬
ed, began a series of violent man¬
oeuvres,kicking and striking, until
finally he threw his foes into the wa¬
ter. On examining the spot he dis¬
covered that he had hauled up his
boat into the place where they had
hvbemated during the past winter.
An old muskrat house near by was
literally alive with their hideous
forms basking in the sunshine. Mr.
-said that he soon got into
position and pulled to more congen¬
ial locality to watch for game.
Cox on Garfield. —In his sledge¬
hammer speech in Pennsylvania, the
other evening, Hou. S. S. Cox wed¬
ded the credit moilicr to the DeGol
ycr contract after a fashion that
sent peals of laughter echoing up
the hills of Pike county. Said he:
“It said that the congressmen who
were on Oakes Ames’s memorandum
book had good intentions. Hell is
paved with thein-and DeGolyer had
the contract!” The entire speech was
s > incisive that the synopsis furnish¬
ed by our correspondent this morn¬
ing will be deemed all too brief.
Sardines. —A large portion of the
sardines consumed in this country
come from Eastport, near thh jump¬
ing off place in the State of Maine.
There are no less than five compan¬
ies engaged the packing of sardines,
which are caught near by in the
greatest quantities. They are pack¬
ed both in French mustard and oil,
aud an extensive business is done in
what is known as Russian packing.
The shipments foot up nearly six
hundred cargoes per day.
Mr. C. H. Colt, a young milion
aire of Hartford, has come out with
a splendid four-in-hand at Newport.
He is a son of the late Mr. Colt, the
revolver manufacturer.
An Indiana woman gave birth to
four children the other day. If the
little darlings live they might have a
spanking good time before long.
A turtle caught off Block Island
weighs nine hundred pounds, and is
on exhibition at Newport.