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BY EDO B FAWCETT.
I lounge against my garden-gate;
On one tide heaven the sun hangs low;
Down one Bide crawls the exhausted B’orua
That flit-hod and crashed aul hour a^o.
I louche and ace with musing eye.
Two roses and a buttcifly.
One ?s a eumptnous langrid ro?e.
That bows its heavy, lovely hiad,
While each fresh petal's velvet curve
Burns with the same deep, drowsy red;
Circe, her subtle self (who knows ?),
Plotting new sorceries in a rose l
One Is a pale, pure bloom, with leaves
Like satin in their iustr? s mild,
12alf*dots< and, and faintlier flushed than looks
The chaste palm of a little child;
Or pinks as some late sunsets are.
That yearn to feel the evening star.
The butterfly’s quick-quivering wings
Wet* each the nleudings of such hues
As lurk Hi some old tapestry’s
Dim turmoil of golds, crimsons, blurs;
Wings where dul ! , smouldering color lies,
L t richly with \y.'o peacock-eyes.
lie cannot leave th'N rreat red rose;
He flutters near it, iwth to part
From all the frugran- <-h\xm which girds
That blood-drop warm imjn Hummer’s bec.rt!
And . . . on tho pale ro;-o glimmering near,
One rain-diop sparkles like a tear 1
GEORGIA JPOLI TIC 8
The Speech of Judge William M.
Reese, Delivered at Craw
ford ville, Monday,
August 24th.
A REVIEW OF STATE QUESTIONS.
[ [JEFOETED SPECIALLY BY A HERALD HEPOTER. ]
CRAV.TJIVD VILLE, GEORGIA. 1
Monday Evening, Aug. 24, ’74. J
To the Editors op the Herald:—
As I telegraphed you this evening, Gen.
Toombs airived here on the 12 o’clock train,
hat was wholly unable to speak. An im
mense concourse had gathered at the court
house, anxiously awaiting the hour ol his ar
rival, and were sorely disappointed when
they learned that he could not deliver the ex
pected address. They, however, were assem
bled, and wanted a speech, and seeing Hon.
Wm. IH. Reese come into the court-house,
they began to call on him lor a speech, in re
sponse to which he rose, and delivered sub
stantially the following address:
Fellow Citizens :
X hope no one will suppose that I shall
attempt to fill the bill which was announced
for your entertainment to-day. Gen. Toombs
was to speak for you, and he came; but he
is so indisposed that it is impossible for him
to do so. He is quite unwell and has consid
erable fever, and he asked me to come ami
render his excuse, and say something myself.
And several of your citizens have asked me
to say something in lieu of the address which
Gen. Toombs was to have delivered. Ycu
know that I am not a politician, and do not
iollow the practice of public speaking; but
at the request of Gen. Toombs and several
of your citizens, and hat those who came to
hear a speech may not be wholly disappointed,
I will say a few wolds upon the subject of the
State election now approaching.
Yon all remember the State election of 1870.
In my judgment it was one of the most impor
tant to the people of Georgia that evers took
place within our limits. Quite a number? ot
old persons remember the Presidential election
of 1800, when Jefferson and Adams were ian
didates, and when contrary to the expeeta- ,
tions of many, Mr. Jtft'c-ron was so tiium-|
phantly elected. That election was followed i
by results of the greatest importance to the
country. It established political principles ,
and truths, those taught by Thomas 0 ff.rson, j
wbich prevailed over vliis country aiui shaped j
its policy for sixty years. From that time 1
till 1860, there were many eleclii ns, but
none ihat followed it equalled in importance
that of 1860, which as you all know, was a
contest between the North ind the South.— ,
It was conducted and decided upon purely I
sectional grounds, against the South. It; es
tablished aseetional party on sectional princi
ples, and resulted in a five years war and the
subjugation of the South, and the overtnrn
iug ot the great principles established by the
election of 1800.
Then came our State election in 1870, which
I do not hesitate to say, was the r ost im
portant one to us of any that ever had been
held j save only those of 1800 and 18C0. Though
there was no President or Governor to choose,
. cs a Slate election; 'yet it was big with events
*if Vie highest possible moment to the people
of Georgia.
In 1868 we had what was called an election.
The Radicals had established themselves in
power all over the country. They had taken
possession of our State Government and held
it as a conquest. The Governor was their
Governor. The Judges of the State were the
Judges of that party, and the Legislature was
its Legislature, which subserviently registered
the edicts of the party in every scheme to re
tain their hold upon the power they had
usurped and to plunder our people. When
you cursorily look at tho mockery ot the
election of 1808—its highhanded fraud and
injustice, and the wickedness and oppression
ww-h it fastened npon us, you will agree
with me eq a t the election of 1870, which over
vumed the tyranny of the band of plunder
eiw—which re-esiwhlished justice and good
gottrnment upon principles of truth, and
placed good men in powtr, was most import
ant indeed.
The Radical party having established them
selves in power, pa-sgd numerous law., and
adopteirmeasufts inlonded to enable thenf to
retain that unjust power indefinitely.
They passed what they called “Relief Laws,"
which the Supreme Court has declared to be
unconstitutional and which they, at the time
nt passing them, knew to bo unconstitutional
—all tor the purpose of debauching out peo
ple—of making them dishonest, and theut o re
incapable of setting up a good government,
acinroisiered npon principles of uprightness
and integrity.
Then they passed laws in aid of these <sp.
nailed relief measures, known as ‘'limitation
laws,” which were intended
and and moralize the | eople and delnuch pisi
lie sentiment. t .
Then they passed a large number of bogus
Railroad State Aid'Quarters wbich had a two
told object; one t debauch the people, the
other to plunder tborn. Alorq than forty of
these bogus, dhtionJst, plundering Charters
were plenttd doefti in every sectiqp of tho
State, to germmafc and bring lolßjtlieir fest
ering brood of effruption agd deSoralization;
This fascinating Jliarm—the hope of hiving a
lailroad m every ieighborbood— was intend.d
(o hitch our peow#, firmly, for all time, to the
car of Radicalism and carry them along with
ihe party, retaining it in'its power with all i;s'
hands, plunderings and corruption.
They adopted metsures to squander tho
- people’s Ipjriptfyy into their own
pockets the ia's<riuces and values of the State.
They leased out ihe State resdfor s3(jo,oob a
year, when they could have obtained more,
and upon teims which they knew to bs uisad
vanlugeaus to the State. Icm not oppes and
to a lease of the road or even to a sale—pro
vided it be done to best advantage—so
tbat it be the best that tmn be done with it.
And they sold Ihe State's property in front
of the Kimball House in Atlanta; worth two
or 800,000 dollars, for tlfirly thou
sand dollars— knowing that they were defraud
ing the Statb rind ihe people, and intending i
Kng. It was all for the benefit c
al party, and to fill the pockets i
ders with plunder. t
attempted to pnt the poo; le of t
re tiny never could be relieved ! i
from their foul ginsp, by passing tin election
law compelling tvery citizen to stand off fif
teen fee. lrom the polls, and allowing the peo
ple at evety poll to have only one man to sit
with the judges of the election. They were
determined to hold cn to the power they had
usurped and grasped and established in wick
edness.
It is worth while to take a little further
review of their conduct.
The Radical Legislature, from 18G8 to 1870
were in session nearly 300 days, all tho while
doing every mischief they could. They spent
all the money which they could possibly lay
th6ir hands on, or raise by any means. They
stole the School Fund, amounting to over
$250,000 and pocketed it. They put out the
bond of the State and the indorsed bonds of
these bogus railroad enterprises, whereupon
they could get any even money on
them andjwhen they went out of their places
they each bad about three thousand dollars
for their so-called services to the State.
And they had standing committees and spe
cial committees without number, aud kept
them in session; and the committees had
clerks, and ali were drawing pay, whether
they had anything to do or not, all drawing
extra pay.
Bullock spent over 5150.000 on the news
papers of the State, tor which there was no
necessity upon the face of the earth. The ob
ject was to coirupt tbe press, and thereby to
corrupt the people. He issued proclamations
ofiering rewards, for every little trivial neigh
borhood affair, and had theta published ex
pensively all over the State. X recollect seeing
a reward lor the arrest of "Jim Toombs,” who
bad committed some offense away down in
Southwest Ge. rgia, published in a newspaper
in Elbert cornsly, aud kept standing there two
months after Jim Toombs was dead. If any
one was stabbed, it was quickly followed by a
proclamation, put in as an advertisement in
the papers all over the S'ate.
A number of the best iawyets in Georgia
were retained by Bullock and large fees paid
to them where their services were not needed
—simply to keep them from joining the peo
ple in? any effort to oust them ftom power.
Every trick, device or measure—to matter
how reprehensible—was resorted to, to cor
rupt, debase and debauch the people and ena
ble them to feold on to power.
And there was the outrageous abuse of the
pardoning power ! whatever judges and juries
might do to punish crime, there was no pun
ishment for any criminal, it he or his friends
had money which they were willing to spend
to mrA'memM festdeserte. _ .
aroused to a solemn sense of their desperate
condition; and they arose in their might, in
their wrath, in their infinite majesty, and
crushed them out. [lmmense applause.] It
was a stunning defeat, for which they were
not prepared. Their corrupted press, and
retained lawyers, and debauched adherents
and apologists, and wicked contrivances—all,
all, availed them nothing; for the people were
not debased, notwithstanding the efforts to
effect this, and they determined to put an end
to Radical rule in’Georgia, [prolonged ap
plause.] They put forth their might and
achieved a glorious victory.
And when your legally chosen representa
tives were about g ithering themselves togeth
er in 1871, solemnly to call upon tho party to
give an account ot their misdoings, Bullock,
their Governor, ingloriously fled from the State
and left his robes of office hanging on Con
ley’s shoulders. The people’s representatives
quickly passed an act bringing on an election
lor Governor, which Conley and the Radio ils
tried hard to defeat, and strange to say they
had enlisted in their service numbers of per
sons regarded as good men, who were timid
and deprecated the measure. They urged us
to be cautious—to let Conley alone—said he
could do no harm —his term would be cut in
a year, etc., etc. I, for one, was opposed to
this cautious policy, and was in favor of put
ting Conley out of the way at the very earliest
possible moment, and not keeping him a sin
gle day longer than I could help.
We passed an election bill and the people
elected Gov. Smith, and then Conley went
out. But before lie did so, ha pardoned
| Blodgett for all the crimes he ever had com- j
I mitted against the btote. When those vko
! advised us through timidity to let Conley
alone, saw what Le bad done, the manner in
which he had attempted through a pardon to
save Blcdgett and others from punishment, j
! they yielded their timid policy and said we j
| had dene right. We got clear ot Conley, and
I that was the last of Radical rule in Georgia.—
( Appleuse.)
Such wero some of the measures of the Rad
ical party, and such the manner in which
their yoke was shaken off.
No.v, whatever was wen for us by that
election of 1870 is now worth preserving.—
You have now the same supreme inteiest in
maintaining good government which you
then had in establishing it. The Barns issues
in a great degree, are now upon you. If you
are not vigilant the men who robbed you from
1868 to 1870, and put $2,000 apiece of your
money in their pockets for tbeir wicked work,
will again get into power, and again govern
the same plundering schedule.
I have served four years in the State Sen
ate, and have labored to discover what they
did while in power, and to remedy tbe same
and prevent its repetition in luture. I’ve
careiuily investigated the ground—gone over
all tbeir tracks—and I know what they did,
and its enormity; and I am determined to do
all I can forever to prevent that wicked crew
from obtaining any ascendancy, or any foot
hold whatever, in any department of the
State Government. [Tremendous and pro-
longed applause. ]
[A voice in tho audience: “ Read that verse
over again!'* (Immense cheering.) “ Bead
it over again; its a good verse!]
I tell you my lnends, I’ve not come here to
talk of matters of which I know nothing. I’ve
Scien it ail and I proclaim to you the solemn
truth. I know the designs of the men, whom
you thrust out of power in 1870. They are
now struggling to ingratiate themselves into
your favor
the merits aud cS {he. issue, so
that they may pat their hands in your pockets
and help themselves. Their work is not all
done yet. It behooves you to scan carefully
the real designs of every candidate for the
Legislature, and don’t allow yourselves to be
deceived and cheated by any one. Don't cast
a vote lor any ,mau whatever, unless you
kmw he can be felied upon -that he will be
vigilant—that Be is above temptation, and
that he can not-be corrupted.
t V. mtn wljom you 6-nt to the Legislature
•£y tVe importjht .victory of 1870 labored to
ov, lhe exten^ of tin? mischief that had
a®®”* to punish the .perpetrators as far
be detected, and to prevent the
recusrence et eucli things iu the fntore, as far
aB possible the only sure Eafety is in the
sleepless wterTLil vigilance of the people ! We
lqokjfd into ted matte; of the bonds very care
fully, and scuatit.to finit how many and
which were gooa and (ust and how many
were bad unci unjust. In loing this we set the
seal ot overlasting.-CDudehuution on nearly
eiljht millions of their uniawt.l and iraiidnlent
issues. _ Yet the men iffhom y,u hurled from
power in 1870 lor doinf; this cry work are
everywhere trying to fasten theio fraudulent
issues upou us. If they bucceoQ Ju this, it
will double our taxes; it will make oiu State
debt twice as large as it is, and our taxes for
many years will have to be double what they
now are, to pay it; and if this unjust and in
iquitous burdrn is put upou us it will not
benefit the State or tbe country one cent. It
wril only be robbing you and your children
to fill the pocketed the same party that tried
in 1808-70 to lasten tho Iraud upon yqu,
come of tbeso designing men sny we don’t
understand them, and are doing them injtts
i ice in what we charge. Some say tbey are
not in favor of paying thoso illegally issued
and unlawfully inilorsed_bonds; but say [hey
are in lavor of taking them all up and issuing
other bonds in their place! They urge that
these bogus railroad charters were by their
terms, entitled to bonds to aid them, and
they w inh to give them legally issued bonds'
lor whatever they are entitled to under their
ATLANTA WEIIKbY HERabu-
charters, lu other words, they want to give
them new Stale aid/
Now, X have no State aid for any of those
who have defrauded us, or tried to do so.
Why, the charter ot the Brunswick & Albany
railroad, in its preamble, recite s five falsehoods!
That charter is tainted and stinks with false
hood and rascality, and I will cot trust them
with any more State aid ! (Applause.)
No; I say, if they have put their money in a
railroad, let them taka the road and muke
their money out of it. I don't intend to help
them out of a bad scrape because they have
deliberately tried !o defraud us and have failed !
I say let all railroad entetprises rest upon their
merits, aud bo built alone by tho money of
the stockholders, just as this great line pas
sing through your midst has been done. If
roads are constructed through sections of
oonnlry and lrom one point to auotier which
will not pay, let those who buildthem, and
not the people of Georgia, bear the,'loss.
The Legislature havo been tryinf for sever
al years, to find out tho extent of'the frauds
which this party of fraud perpetpted upon
us, and have done what they co’id to have
tho active perpetrators caught an( punished.
We have found out a great deal, but few of the
evil-doers have been punished: aid I'll tell
you why this is sc>. In my opinion it is be
cause of the death of Judge Lin tip. Stephens.
His death was a calamity to the (State—a sad
oven l , which I shall ever deplore—not only ;
for the loss to bis family and kindred, but to j
the whole people of Georgia. He was a tnan |
without reproach, whose nature abhorred ev-1
erylhing that was wrong, lie entered upon a i
vigorous prosecution ot the evil doers, but. I
was cut down in the midst of his successful j
work.
When the Legislature assembled, alter flte .
Ridieal party was expelled ftom power, v. e
found the finances ol the State ui contusion
and disorder, and the credit of Georgia down
below that of individuals. It wots reduced so
low that the State could not borrow' a dollar
without personal security or indorsement be
ing given; and Gen. Toombs, and M. Fiainazy
of Athens, and Judge King of Augusta, bor
rowed from three to four hundred thousand
dollars on their own responsibility, aud pot it
into the Treasury of Georgia; (and this is a
mattter you would do well to bear in mind)
and in this way the State began to make pay
ment of honest dues. We slopped giving its
obligations for nothing—quit inderseing for
schemes to plunder us, and in this way we
have built up a credit for the State which to
day :s better than that of any corporation in
it. The bonds oi the Georgia ana Central
{Jjjlrqads are selling at 93 or thereabout, while
Think of this! Recollect what a bad condi
tion we were in financially, in 1872, and how
proud is our position in the financial world
to-day ! But there.are some who are doing
all they' can to have us adopt measures that
will again ruin our credit and burden us with
debt and taxation!
And some of these designing men are urg
ing that the selectien of our best men for the
Legislature is not so important; but if it was
tor a Judge of the Superior Court, or for Con
gress, it would be worth while to be more
circumspect.
My friends, this is a great mistake. How
many persons in Georgia are ever affected by
auy law of Congress? Some such a law as
the Civil Rights Bill, or a bankrupt law, may
interest us; but nine-tentbs ot l ha laws of
Congress never affect us perceptibly.
But it is the members of your Legislature,
who make tho laws by which you and your in
terests m life are daily affected. It is the law
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making power which protets you by day and
by night—which gives you a sense of security j
while life lasts, and comforts you in death, i
with the assurance that the provisions ot year j
will, for the distribution of your property j
shall be faithfully carried out. It protects j
your wife while you are gen-, t-.nd provides j
guardians miiiOiHbhihir-in, and caves j
your property for their benefit. Tjieseaie
the kind ol laws enr.c. vd by cur Legislators.
It is the exercise of a power vastly more im-1
portant than nine tenths of the acts of Con-;
gress. Shall we iuliust these great r.nd im
portant powers to techie rr uutrostworthy
hands? And the importance of looking well j
i to the men whom you select for this work, is i
| shockingly illustrated, when you thick of the |
unexampled amount cl power of this kind '
confided to a senator. The man you send to
the senate is one of only forty-four persons,
who have this vast power, so directly affecting
your interests and your lives confided to
them. This is a very .large share of the sov
ereign power of the bh-.te, which is conferred
on one man. See to it, that he is in every in
stance, honest, capable and faithlal.
I wish our very best men could be prevailed j
upon to go to our Legislature, and that our |
people would rise up in their majesty and
send them there. I want to see such great
talents and virtues as are possessed by Air.
Stephens, Gen. Toombs, Mr. Jenkins and
Judge Benning, in the Georgia Legislature,
and the people ought to send them there—
taking no denial, and refusing the importu
nities cf the great swarm of men who are not
well qualified. Tha Legislature is the point
to wbich all thoughtful, patriotic men
should turn their attention and seo thaU
the best men in Georgia are senfl
there. There is now more at stake righM
there, than anywhere else. Tne raide.M
are coming upon us. They are
swarms from Germany and France (I
the foreign bond holders) and from the
They are not going to give up
upon u.s lor eight iniition of dollars!
struggle. Every thing that can
fair m* ans or mill —by fraud, by
bribery, di c-.-it or any scheme *r
lainv. will be resort' dt< ! ?.nd ij|fl
t ' have in n in the L-gisl
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THE SCRAMBLE FO|’
Our Candidates fr tllo Tegis^^
We do not it necessary to say afl|
thing'abco' che candidates for the Senate
the Jeiegatt s, • who are to select a candidate
for the party for this office, have already boeu
selected, aud on their votes depend who is to
bo the nominee.
HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES.
There has never been such a heated contest
for the Legislature since the war as the pres
ent. We have mote candidates, and they
are working harder than ever before, in our
knowledge. Who will bo the nominees next
Friday, no positively say, .
Every candidate has a hostot fiit-ndt, and
almost every man interviewed on the subject,
numes a different ticket to win the race.
We have, as candidates for the nomination,
ha following gentlemen:
Col. Hoge, Coi. Hooper, Col. Thomas,
Cupt. Calhoun, Judge Wilson, Col. Hulsey,
Col. Abbott, Capt. Young and Col. Siduey
Dell.
COL. HOGE,
' one of the present members ot the General
| Assembly from this county, is making a
i strong race. Ills speech on tbe Constitutional
i convention was considered by many as the
j ablest argument made by any member during
! the last session, and caused him to be fre
j qusntly alluded to as the peer of any man in
either 'branch of the Legislature.
COL. JOHN THOMAS,
| the politician, has cccupied many positions
of trust in this county. He has been in poli
ties and in offico ever since 1845, and has
never yet met with defeat. Ho was once a
member of tho Legislature, and we ate in
formed by his contemporaries that he wielded
a large influence iu the House. Ho lias many
friends, and is probably the bestelectioneerer
iu iLo county.
~Xvdatrfrom the cGTTfiffyi . _
an’ehviaole reputation for honesty and integ
rity, and is said to be a man ot indomitable
energy. This is his debut in politics, though
he has passed the meridian of life, he never
before solicited the suffrage of the people. He
has a large acquaintance, and will make an
excellent race.
SIDNEY DELL, ESQ ,
is a young lawyer of decided ability, and has
many friends who are advocating nis claims
strong.
The indications are that he will poll a large
vote.
808 YOUNG
is probably the most popular man in Fulton
county. Ho has for a long time since served
tho city as alderman in such a way as to gain
the confidence of tho people. His friends
claim that h will distance all of his opponents,
and arc willing to back their judgment with
money.
MR. E. F. ABBOTT,
the drafter of the new city charter, is one of
the ablest members of tho Atlanta Bar. He
has lived in Atlanta for years and at one time
was a prominent merchant. His friends are
numerous-, his chances good.
CAPT. OALWOUN,
rtno of the fotiiwtv 2Scp,r*-‘:v riteiiyaa fiom this
bounty, is a maa of strength ar.d • r fiucnc!*,
I Ynd it elected will make a true and faithful
representative. We meet many vho prefer
j him to the IL id.
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COL. \< It. HULSEY,
j the youngest Major Atlanta ever boosted of is S
| a lawyer of decided talents and goodpropects. \
! lie is well-known ia tho county as' well as in !
I the city, and is making a good rode.
COL. TOM HOOPEP.
who is loved by ail who know him, on account j
! of his record in the late war is a popular can- l
didate. He lias been an active Vraember of j
I the Atlanta Bar for tho last Jm may o ars. He
| moved to Atlanta about a halt !
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■ILE—THE IMPORTATION OF
PAUPERS AND WKU
VILS— ETC.,
rejoices 113 to see Col. Tom
Howard walk into our sanctum !
His coming is like the coming of a strong
breeze blowing from the mountains, full of
suggestions of strength and inspiration.
Before his quick irruption Dullness retires
abashed, and the swoon-y airs of the sanctum
are scattered inn jiffy.
Tom Howard never walked a step in his j
life. Always astride some lusty hobby, care
less of rain, with spurred heels stuck close to
ribs, ho sweeps uloag at a pace which keeps
his blood a-fUme and his eyes a-sparkle,
and beside which Gilpin's ride was a canter,
and the journey from Ghtut to Aix a snail's
pace. Every morning, he seltcts from a
bountiful stable some sturdy idea, innocent
of batb and swift of foot, and mounts it lor
the day's juarneyings. Thence nothing can
shake him, no tilt dismount him, nor cir
cumstance persuade him. He sticks to his
i hobby till he has run it down. And when he
1 has thrown it aside, woe to the man who buys
j it as “sound of mind aud body.”
He is always delightful; instructive without
j being didactic; learned and not pedantic;
i witty aud not trifling; humorous and not
coarse; earnest but not fanatical. He never
leaves you without leaving you richer ot
thought than when he came.
He is full to the brim of honest, earnest re
form, and we esteem him one of the most use
ful as well as one of the most entertaining
men in the State.
Yesterday he was full of the question of j
to ' wttß P re P ar i u ß a spleen
vantages that a -*<> • . the ad- ,
$7.75 BARREL OF FLOUR
possesses over a sl2 barrel, as a healthy and
wholesome article of food.
We reproduce his remarks on this subject—
such of them as we can remember. Of course
in this lame reproduction of his winning
talk—as bright and sparkling as the moun
tain brook that ripples from a hoary rock—
wo will lose that delicious flavor of emphasis,
accent and gesture with which it is seasoned
when it comes Irorn Col. Howard’s lips. But
suah as it is we offer it; and feel sure that it
will pay perusal. He savs:
“My friend, why don’t you quit all foolish
ness, and devote your powers to the good ol
your State—materially and morally.
'The foolishness of white folks is marvelous,
and so prevalent that I have an unbounded
admiration for Carlysle’s definition of Leg
land— “England has a population of 28,000,-
000, principally fools,” says he. As tbe ex
hort er says: “I leave you to make the appli
cation.”
Now here i3 the inauguration of the Bureau
of Agriculture,i for which Governor Ho.itt. i
deserves to iiaye Stone Alountaiu cut into a
statue, iu honor of Lis sens* uud patriotism.
ISOW you Jrjvr M-.-Ttch nf Ui.t Stall*,
nna tee wb*l notice they are going (o take ol
it.
The last case of nigger rape, somewhereont I
in Arkansas, will attract iar more notice tban
this scLievtiii ot o! real statesmaii“bip, for
which v.’e al! ooght to fael proud anil thank
ful. Then look'at the last State Agricultural
Convention. Wh.it uo you alt care üboir
Pendleton’s splendid lecture, or about Bob
Hardaway’s demonstration of tho small farm
principle, or Stewart's common-sense talk on
flour. Do you know (uo, I know you don't
know), that Hardeway proven,
YES, JPBOVIS,
that in mules, seed, expense of cultivation,
that high farming in small places will first
save iu outlay about
THIBTY MILLIONS TO GEORGIA EVERY YE4E,
and next, will make provisions so superabun
dant that we will have to import paupers and
weevils to eat up the surplus. This, though,
is so small a matter that your fraterrity wo;,
let any remarks on the subject shut ont a ...
you have to Soy about Beecher’s lulling sea
son, or tho last nigger hanging.
“THE LITTLE QUESTION OF BREAD.”
■What are you preparing on Stewart’s essay
late Stone Mountain Conveniion,
BLlittle matter of one’s bread? Why,
Hjmke everything dons m the wlmie
p'oiiio , irom “I’roup an.i
V to l; ,|| Tii'iuils' eon-criptttin
Snd Hardw..y "iisiudl farms, mu’
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house, and I’ll give you (he best and
biscuit you ever put into your moulb, aIHQ
then I’ll show $3.75 in the bottom of i(y ”
clock that I have saved by the pm chase of my
first barrel of second class floor.
The man of the day who is the true hero, is
he who fights “shams.” Who holds up to
scorn the man who wears a shirt without a
back to it, in order that the bosom may be
fine; who does without socks, to put a gloss
on his boots; and puts his monih’s wages
into a pinchbeck decoration for his little
finger.
I’m on a crusade against him and his sort;
against “shams” of all sorts and kinds—and
fiist of all against your “fine” flour, thev
bastard product of an honest wheat grain/
seasoned with dirt and pipe-clay, and whitened
np to the ghastliDtss of the charnel house.
Aud then the Colonel with Ihalt" lo'yj- lack
of adaptation of their practice totfthei/ preiush
iugs, lit a $2 meershanm pipe,.< *ob pipe is
sweeter, healthier aud cheaper), pljcked up his
$8 hat and departed. However, wfce have de
termined to nee $7 flour ! |
TOOJVESiS.
.A.'.Thrilling Keminiscence of
in IH-10. N *|
Hark From The Toombs ! ,
To the Editors of the Herald: U
Koewledge depends on memory; knowledge la the
remembrance cf the things wo havo seen or Learned
—bo knowledge was defined by Socrates. Now, among
the men and things wiih which I became acquainted
more than thirty years ago are Robert Toe mbs and
tho scenes in which he was a central figure and prom
inent actor.
Tho first time I ever b< ard Toombs on tbe aluiup
was at Macon, daring the “Harrison freshet’’ of 2840.
During that memorable campaign, which young cion
cannot remember, and old men cannot forgot, there
was a more genoral political excitement throughout
j every part of the United States than has ever been
knswn before or since. It wia the hiutoric*! period
i of rod-pepper, hard cider, eoomkins and log cabins.
Miniature log cabins were mauehetnred into every
shape and aize; they become fashionable •rofelems
CTWj *'" v - they adorned the matftle-piece, tbe trav
eling carriage, the bar-room, audtweie worn osgeideo
ornaments by the ladies. If you' passed a cabin on
auy road in the country unadorned with a coon akin
and a string of red pepper over or at the aide #f its fr ju t
door, you could easily guess the political complexion
of the proprietor. He was sure to be no “good whig
anyhow!”
It was in time* like these that* great mass meeting
was called at Macon, in the latter part of tho summer;
The whole country of Oeorgii retp nded; the people
came from f very town and Lcmlct, from every Jois
cabin with a log cabin, to mingle in tho graud festivi -
ty. Never, before or since, baa Georgia witnessed
such a day 1 Some dee'ared there were forty thous
and people at Macon on tbat occasion. Orator: wera
there from all parts of tbe country, and ike people
were in a burner to hear them. Various u’tnuH were
erected with a view of accommodating the anxious
i.rtu. fna-~- ' ' On f:Rch atand was a
Kefarate improvised organuiatloo,
William C. Proton, of South Carolina, the gt-*/
tti* cf tx.. ago. '.Vftß Xlirr -i <f. •..*, k\ n
was there. f A
Bob wa j a sp'endid y;?ung fellow then ! “H.k 'odk
wero bke rho raven ’ then J and be wore them long to
sh /W them, or to shak e them, as be hid a right to o.
II * wore them, and be tbook th e to some pwpoae,
as it proved, ilo soon became io that vast mmUituda
of excited men the orator of the day—the central fig
ure ot the whole. U s spieaiid volci, b a flue gestic
u ation, Lis commending personal appearance, caught
tbo eye3 and ears of that anxiwua throng. Wherever
Tot mbs went, there followed tbe crowd; some ot thdi
boys cried out ‘ Hark from the Toombs ! ’ and aH tho’
i other boys took up the cry, and rushed after him
wherever he went. He spoke at every stand; he up oka
| everywhere, and all other orators seemed to sink into .
| msignific'.Tico. Tcombs was adapted to tho crowd ftuij
the occasion. The writer of this reminiscence heard I
| Col. Preston say, “That young man is the greato J
stamp orator I ever heard.” v /Tl
Since then I have seen Toombs io many p • uht
tcouct: —in the Lrigislature, on the smm; a|d
CongrcEn, and elsewhere -’ ut ihe roene at
pretsed me like a dream. I remember tbe strii iHg
figure in the centre, with iw gestures and it* pl#y/u!
locks, but cannot remember its utterances. However,
what was >aid then and there was not designed for
“all time.”
lam happy to learn from your piper that lot mbs
(now Oeurral Toombs) is yet alive and well; and, if I
can help him, be will keep well. Baldwi* .
Marital Felicities.
The beat and worßt thing one can say of
marriage is that it is, a tie. i
A colored conplc who, last Christmas, ob
tained a license to marry from the ordirary,
on Saturday astonished that officer by apply
ing for a license to “nnmarry”
A lather consoling his daughter who had
lost her nnntrana, Haiti; *‘l -,io not wbuder
you grieve for him my child. You never will
find his equal." X don’t knoidas 1 can." re
sponded me sobbing widow; '‘hut I'll da my
best.", N'ln: lather went home comtorted.
It is a beautiful eight to attend an Arisons
wedding. The bride in white—the happy
grooio the solemn minister—the smilihg pa
(rents, n n j from twenty-five to thirty shot-gong
■H|i' U) Kagainst the wall ready for use. make
■teuoiiima not soon forgotton *’
Bjfi I'OOBle, newly married, marebed
4 and called for conn) nula
Bfeßilging eleilc inquired what
in when Ue swam
object In li J, JUt su- M
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