Liberty advocate. [volume], December 22, 1866, Image 2

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occupied by E. P, Sirstinn. Hn house U no !y ou I'X'eti J 10 m that welcoming rfccpiion
ilocked with nnv drug and a full ifnd completo ' hat is the ofT;rin of kindri'd ay mputh ira
aaaortmcnl of cnnroctiunanm. It ia, by far, tlm ' " n,J a aireciiou. For our hearts
beat Hock at "good thir.C" ever brought tn Una 'M H a wfl recall our atrU(fKle
, . ,r, . ,. . f o . n, Innd our d'-fi-at, and muny ol your dead,
nia.-ket. The reprcsuntauvet of bant Clam . ' . . ' , ' '
iwhoin you bury alrmih lo-dav, wero very
can ba greatly aBmated by calling on ''ftuin." L . . 1 1 ,u .V 1 L
3 ' dear 10 nit ; I knew their worth and shar
i''d ihi'ir uirTing?, und, with you, share
Mr. OTKEN'S SCHOOL
We call attention tu this gentleman's card ia
their In.. ArH, in calling mo lo ihia duly,
von hvf, m rny person, invoked tho min
to-day 'a paper. I he people hera ought to rej-K , ,j, s ot ,hc,t relii;ion whosu sublimo reve
at thiaproBpect fnr a god school in thilr midat, aiions tin V3 opeued to the virluous and
We have long been without acy advantages fur llio good those heavens loward which the
half grown boya in thia community and we hnpa
Mr. Oiken will be able to fill the much neoded
desideratum.
CARROLL AND LEA.
Theso enterpriimg gentlemon have just Tr
turned from New Orleans with a full supply nd
complete assortment of drus and confoctiunarius.
The Bsir.rlmi nt was made by our friend Carioll
in person, and we can assure the public that
every thing is of superior quality.
This house is very justly one of the most pop
ular n our flourishing town, and we know that
their present slock of good will add to their in
creasing popularity.
We advie our children friends to carry llnir
Christmas change round to the brick building if
they want to get a quid pro quo, and lest :hcy
nvght not know what that mnanf, we wil! tell
them it means the finest oranges, apples, cinriies,
oats, &c, they ever did s.e.
MR. MARKIIAM'3 SPEECH.
We hope our readirs will bear with the re-pub
lication of this speeib thia week.
in it which marrf d its read-
it nud t n 'cM liavo made
cad, v'l as il is i document
r pooplo will presi-rve, we
d bo best lo publish it with
ible.
There w.re errors
ing, and although U
the correct onsaslie
whicli so many of 01:
have thought it wmi
as fuw errors as pus:
Another ironsiderua in which makes its reiter
ation in our columns appropriate Is, that there
are utterances in it, which ought to bo kept
prominently bofore oir people, and as the elo
quent gentloman has Jiven these ideas in a strik
ing and fon ihlo manner, think we could not
do our readers a botlel service than to rc-publish
The two gri-at thoujlits in the speech which
the speaker himself intended to make prominent
relate to our duly to the orpliun children and the
widows nf dependent aeccased soldier; and to
our nb'igatiiins t 1 a large class of dependant hu
man hi inys n our midlt
An vi "i" fi.s; dotvi we do not know bow to
shaltofthii monumental itono will point,
n symbolic token of their aspirations af
ter a better world and a truer lifo.
The fair givers of this draped banner
and this corner-stone, and thosa young
men, your own sons, who have rocoived
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un:u n'nciuu gms, iut) ouormgn 01 a
brave man to tha brave spirits who sealed
their courage wuh their lives, in true and
thrilling words have moved your hearts
und moo-toned your eyei with their glow
ing tributes to your loved and lost. No
words or mine can add o that impression.
Nor is it well to linger too long about
0 ir graves, feeding our sorrows wuh mem
ories ol our desolations. Let ma rather
hid you look up, lilting tha heads I hat
hang down, una nerving anew souls that
arc depiess-d, as we contemplate (ho clear
compensations and strong consolations that
am in be pluced over against these lossos,
and mmister crnlort in theso harenv-
nvnis j
And the fust thouaht which, in this
spirit, l nhall offer, is this: That those
(jenerauona of a nation whose chief expe
rience t ndvers.ty, who know sufferinos,
oppression and boreavments, often live to
hioher purposes, and work out noble re
sults, than oher generations of tho same
paop.e, whose experiences are prosperity
and success. And, for prool, I turn to the
pa-t, to me nations the clear shining of
whose records lights up the path of the
present, und crowns with a beckoning glory
neadlands of hope in ihe future. Take,
in H'usiration, that people whose history
is ihe oldost and the grandest the Israel
ites. Why are we not idolaiors to day?
because three cpnturies o( the biitoresi
honditgu kept the Jews, as they attained
their national growth, acquiring the learn-
ng and skill and nrt ol ihe first people ol
tVlHt llPrinrl llPIII ihum mm untunlir.n
wv. , nvv.i pi11',
wuh these great guns, i hoi r customs and
wor-hip. lsoiaitd and protected by this
verv oppression, tln-y preserved ami trans'
mined the knowledije and worship of the
one God, the one only, the living and the
1 me. Again, the generation of that same
ppfiple t hat died :n me wilderness between
Kjiypr, and Canaan, received from God
nd guve 10 iimii tho two tables of ihe law,
in .t arn to this cf-iy the bases of truth,
jj-iu-eand right throughout Christendom.
IJ ' nut such grand results repay oppres
inris and wnndermgs? Again, there are
the mnryrs, ol whom Paul writes '-that
'tin wurlil was nut worihy,"and of whom
MiIiiiii sings, asking in that noble sonnet
ihat "their marty red blood und ashes m.ty
he 'own o'er all Ihe Italian fields." They
fnnk idv-'rm'y's dregs, yet are they the
iiurch s crown and glory. And the fa-
ur. il 110 in ' or lu nula b'. arsuinenl. It is so
I
poti'iil hiul i s T.i'g;ect Would lie so uisyr.ioelul
thai wo feel il must ar.ii will be performed
As tu tho lust duty our present relation to the
negroes, it must command our attenti m sooner
or later. At present, but liltlo can be effected
It is a duty which we will learn only by cxperi-
ence, in its most costly form. Our people, in
their dissatisfaction at their own political rela
tions, and in their hot haste to repair broken for
tones, are regardful only nf the present, unmmd
ful of the or st fiilori! o' thir ii 'is Our ri l
lln i' tn.- . i;r. . i M1 trni- uJ .ui impor
ttt'i " , "!it 1 el but lew men aru endeavoring to
comprehend u. I" iev seem to iie ob.inous of
the fuel, t i, ui in all h story, no sin h radical
change x as ever before cHerted, in so fdiort a
time, and at a cost of a fearful ar, and they are
endeavoring to follow in the old way, although it
isfiliud with fallen timbers, washed in unpnssa
ble gullies and in numberless ways obstructed, in
stead of setting resolutely to work to hew out a
pew and plain way.
The fact that we forget, or rather ignore, is,
that the negro is free and cannot be governed as
heretofore. Henceforth he must be governed by
the law, and in order that he may not be a curse
under the law to us and to himself he must be
educated. From thia there is no escape.
The negro must be the laborer of the South.
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, , , . , , , , Is tuids t.'-djy 10 ihe lore front of the
to us as a laborer the next hundred yar. of the t,mp, ror8- L(ok at Scotand.
Sooth, will b year, of poverty to tho while, of , u&tiuiii wfd, j jt agaiD an(J a,ajn over
the South. tJis uoefulnus will be limited if he ,, r Low) . nd plains and her Highland
1 kept in ignorance and governed by law. If crus Yet, alter nges of strife, she gave
ei s ul mr land, who battled against Bru
sh power, ah! we uncover our heads to
mat noble yet suffering generation.
My second thought is this: that a people
rnst d'iwn by conquest, overwhelmed and
despoiled, are not, therefore, either de
stroyed or doomed. All Ihe great nuiions
have known just such vicissitudes. lng
iani. has been thrice conquered; the Dane,
the Sitxou, the Normuo, have in turn
pressed her beneath their leet. Every
continental capita! saw the flig of the
great French conquerer flaunting viciory
from us spires und domes; all these ban
ners in turn floated over his. And still
another turn lascomowith cycling time.
Br i nin chained that great victor in a rock'
hound, sen girt prison, and there he fretted
his mighty heart away. Yet afterwards
h s land gave him kingly burial; and his
simple nam" gave that land a lord, who
gives. M givu his sentiment, not remom
tiering his words.) And our (ull, and
clour, and honest yielding has sustained
that guarantee. So qu.ct, so complete, so
enure hus it been, that the party doiiiinii
ting in the North cannot appreciate it, can
not credit it. Aoriinsl ihmr force) we are
powerless; and if unconvinced and unre
lenting, they pursue us wiih still further
wots, lot us oppose lo those that which,
while it is the last resource ol a prostrate!
people, is also their crowning glory an
unconquenng patience. Uurnanity looks
with reverence upon a great man calm
amid adversities; men and annuls honor u
great people who, quiot, snlf-poised and
self-coutained, bear gieat and continuing
wrongs.
Aaoiher losson that woshouldread to-day,
is thu: G id gave us a great trust. Four
millions of bondsmen and bondswomen
were ours. To teach them, to elevale them,
lo christianize them; theso were our plain
duties. Wedid not discharge these duties;
haJ e, this irust, in that very form, had
been our to day. Ojr relations to thut
peop e are changed, but the trust in an
other form, aod with like duties, remains.
L)i us "sn no more lest a worse thing
happen unto us " We are the only true
friends that this ignorant, feeble, depend
ent people have in all the world. And
while their elevation to a social and politi
cal equality we will ever oppose, never
consenting to our own degradation, yit,to
tustruct, tocojnsel, to help, and to fiave
them, is a high and sacred mission, worthy
the hands and hearts ol christian free.inen.
nd,here we may take courage when we
re mi in be r that six hundred thousand men
in tie two great Slates reaching from the
Delaware and Hudson to the lake, and
thouiands upon thousands in other North
em btates, men who aro no longer ad
versaries, stand with us in the utterance
of vjords like these. All honor lo the
menvho battled at tha ballot box to ex
tendjtous the rights due to Slates and
men-the " consent of the governed," and
the inalienable birth right of while men!
LSu,t the lesson that should most impress
our hearts to-day ; is this: and it is the last
of which I shall speak. You are remem
bering the dead; and it is well. Do not lor
get (he living. I can shew you how to
build a monument more enduring than
marble Erect it in the hearts of widtsws
and orphans. VV hen laboring as chaplain
in the army, as good men as ever bore
musket would come to me, iheir counselor
and friend, with words such asoneof ihern
usid, whose brimming eyes moistened
mine, as he said: "Parson, (ah'.lhal plain
word of ihe country will ever bs sweet to
my ear,) rny family have lived for more
than a month on corn bread and water,
and not always enough of that; and I have
neitthbors who have plenty. What must I
do?" Ah! don't build monuments to these
dead men and leave their wives and chil
dren to sulfur. See to it that they get food
and shelter and raiment, and that these
boys and girls, whose lathers and broth
ers1 names are engraven on i his shalt, get
the nurture and admonition of ihe school
house and the church. This will honor
the dead and ennoble the "Lost Cause,"
far more than shaft und urn and tablet.
And your own hearis will rejoico as or
phans' eyes sparkle and widows hearts
sirg for joy. And children's children will
"rise up and call you blessed.''
I know that this is to you a day of sad
dest recollections. You live amid desola
tions daspoiled and bereaved. When l
read ol leniency lo the conquered, aa tbat
word someiiwe appears, l think of that
wholesale act of confiscation, which at one
blow, beggared a people. An impoverish
ment without parallel four billions of
proper;)', lor these slaves were our prop
erty, wrenched from us by a stroke of our
conquerors' pen. i think, too, or a land
Oil! us ihi ii) o mi I I ey have our thanks, ami our warmest wishes,
III oil I he all nr that the lonil npi .el n I ens and t'Ji'cr hopea wlniili
mbilmed, your "oy ehetl.h for lha im happy tuupln, may b
foil V leu (leil
rilltf lo truth, honori M,, ii.j. r,,l. n,,,P I,. r.i nr llmif Inn.
v ft he atlendnd with
and t.l eaaeil won
me, i f earth and
ho'cafter.
aidenre nf the bride's
make skill and valor and d'v mum power- f"'er, by ihe Kcv. Charles II t.ilmn, Mr. A.
less against oumumoering hosts; tie. ml.. rVm.V rU ''' Em'Y ' "
er, ever overmatched and .vet as valiant rll(ierwo, bus done w.'ilM brlda likewise,
und a true, ever renewing itsell alter dis- He is mio oi the eleven sho handsnmo, amiubla
asters, and, though driven and bn filed, true ani' aecompindicd. I he future U full of hope.
toils leaders and its colors will nit your'Thh 'V,rewn bI"' n"w ' no thorn
1 . 1 . ., , should be allowed lo grow in it aa the eoal is ao-
hearts leap up as you read the mines ol )racllud lhpiB aJtn lllluM ba freesl(!r'
your dead written on their rolls ol honor? more fragrant, and when at last it i reached,
Sold.emof the war! I know you. hearts tb"y " ' '" flower.
r ,, . , . , . . , ' , are perennial, and where thorns never crow,
are full to-day, burdened wuh the mem-i
ones ol brave men. You are lurjing' On the 2(lih inst., at the residence of Mrs. Kli
your dead Iriends over agin and pa.o ikl. ''auU
laces and cold formi com" vividly t mind. su i this County.
And the camp, the bivouac, the h.spnal, Long wooed, at last wed, Charlie has ihe best
the prison, the marches, ihe tiencies, the wi"hes of all connected with our office. To wish
battles; in thought you Iivh these over a "''""'"""J w' ' to ish the wife belter; for
.1,, , , aueh are ihe relations ol the wedded li.'e, that
gam. And you, corn rades ol ourod Corn- happines. to the husband bringsgrealcrliappine
mand'. do not bhiloh, and Viclsburg, to ihe wife. Let the accomplished wife whom
and Murfreesboro, and Chickamauja, and ha has taken to his bosom ever bear in mind thi
Chattanooga, pass in review b-l'tre you !,rul,, and "18 warm wishe we have expressed
to day? And those later cv.iilu cam-hnugV
paigns, when from Dalton to Atlanta you will be gilded by a clear mellow sunset.shed
contested, step by step, the advance of a ding a benignant radiance over the abiding place
mighty host under a trusted leader whom 01 in,)(8 wn" ,nav ri8e ,JP to aii you blessed."
you would have followed to the gulf; withi
New Advertisements.
HIGH SCHOOL
FOR HOYS ANi) GIRLS.
ONE MILE East from Liberty on the Holmer
viile Road. Commences Monday, January
an army wrapped in gloom because of his
removal, and the quick following disasters
of Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jon'sboro;
continued by that fatal onward movement
to tho Tennessee: the crossing tha' Rubi
con by a brave little army, flushed wiih
expectation, which, disannomied nf u V.
...... . . .' . ui.i I9K7 Tt.. a s r ,. -
rignt.ui priz", by the fatal inacnon all ' D ' " '""i-" 01 iony weeas.
Spring Hill, broken by the vain slaujhter' RT" or rtllIIMI
at Franklin, and frozen in the cold r.ench 'P,",,ir.v Studies, per5esklon, $25,00
;r, '"" rk , ;"'uWitf' " : ss
lated stream; us rear guard, us forlorn Incidentals. j rju
nope, beating oil lis pursuers at Am non v ai Th pti,;M ar9 in Hdlheir rquivaient'in
Hill and bugar Creek lilts drend woik currency ill be taken in payment. One half
all wrought in one disastrous month the m"s' bB P1"!'1 in advance theother at theexpira
little remnant forming again under ,tJ,tlon of five rnonthii. No deduction for absenco
.Treat (Ipnirnl who,, nro.nnn. ,,,a,A , ' . . . "" .. -,r-uMnw. "
" . , r. ,v.u " students
lile, to close in the Caroimas under his g,on.
wise head and careful hand tho unequal
struggle! 1 know you remember all this.
Ah, Franklin! Can you ever lorget it,
wiih the seventy stiffened lorms that we
laid away in their wintry sleep! And
hore stands a general (Thos. M. Scott)
who, leading another brigade of our divis
ion, shares with us the memories of thai
dread day. .And can we ever forget the
noble people of Franklin, and those noble
women, and has not our division embalm
ed in its heart that prince of men, (Col.
Jno. McGavock) whose home was opened
to its wounded, his houe and grounds a
field hospital for three hundred bleeding
men; grounds since hallowed yet more
as the resting place of all the Confeder
ate dead buried on that fatal field and re
moved at his desire!
Alas! but few of our great fields will
get for their dead such noble and gen
erous care; but wherever our slain soldiers
lie, that, to us, is hallowed ground. Ye
there uncovered bones may bleach beneath
the sky and the heedless .farmer turn
them over with his plow, yet, just a
wind, and sun, and rain shall whitea
I. .11 .
inese negiectea ooues, so tnetr names
which, to-dav, may be cast out, will, in
the keeping of time "which is the shrino
of virtue rather than its tomb," be ren
dered fair and clear.
We of the South were once a power.
Our conquerors for four years conceded
that: one of their highest judge defined
our limits as "compact and bounded by a
line or bayonets that could be crossed on
ly by force." We are a power no loncer
Yet the men and deeds of those four years
will live while the world stands lamnus
in its history. Poland is crushed but Kos
ciusko's name is immortal; Ireland is en
thralled but Emmet's memory lives in nc
and story. Think you that the land of
Lee, and the Johnsons, and Jackson; of
Davis and ueauregard, of 1' or rest and
Semmes, will go down to. other limes
"unwept, unhonored and unsung?" No!
these names and ihisland will live through
which, before, invading hosts, was "asithe ages, and, embalmed in great epics.
tho garden of thu L ird, and behind'and resounding in martial odes, will move
the hearts of gentle women, and stir the
souls of brave men.
This monument whose corner-Hone will
them, a desert. ' And then the vision of
blood rises. 1 know, la hors and moth
er, tbat to-day the vivid remembran
ces ol your boys' lives aro freshened in:bo laid to-day, by this noble an! ancient
your minds; the infant that lay in your order, will become a pilgrim ihrine to
arm-, the child that prattled ut your knee, which your children and your children's
the stripling that grew at your side, tho children will resort to hold corimunion
young man on whom ybur age looked to' with the martyr warriors of their race.
lean, the soldier who went to the war with But a day will come when this memorial
educated he will not thereby ctase to be our la-i her if ee assent ichtn made equal, and be-'your blessing and yoir fears; I knowjihaft will fall and its baiecrurtble; yet
will be taken, except by snccial permis-
A l'mited number of boarder can be ac
commodated by the Principal Mr. D. A. Facst
ann runer
This Szhonl i permanent.
CHAS. n. OTKEN, Piibciml.
December 22, 186G. u
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,)
Amite Cocntv.
Circuit Court To May Term, 1 867-
John T. Lomi'kins, i
vs. Attachment for
Etheldred May, j
William J Weatiiersby,) $1925.00.
William M. McNulty. J
FgllJE at achmont in this case having
I been returned by the Sheriff of said
County, and it appearing to the satisfac
tion pf :ho Court, that smd LHandanu,
Etheldred May, William J. Weaihersby
and William M. McNuhv, are nun resi
dents of tha State of Mississippi, it is now
ordered that publication be made for four
consecutive weeks, in the ' Liber'y Advo
cate' a public newspaper, printed and
published in the Town ol Liberty, in said
County and State, citing the said Defend
ants t be end personally appear at the
May Term of the Court aforesaid to be
held in the Court House in Liberty, in
said County, on tho Fourth Monday of
May, A. D., 1867, and answer the com
plaint aforesaid, in default of which ap
pearance, judgment by default will be
rendered. a
JAME3 M- GAYLE,,
Clerk.
December 22, 1866. 44
COMMISSIONER'S SALE.
In the Chancery Court of Amite Coun
ty, Mississippi To Nov, Term, 1866.
VV. J. Marsalis, )
vs. v
James Marsalis. )
O Y VIRTUE of a Decree of the Chan-
J3 eery Courl of Amite County, Mis
sissippi, made at the November Term,
1 866, the undersigned, Commissioner, will-,
on Monday, the 28th day of January,
1867, between the hours prescribed by
Law, at the door of ihe Court House, in
Liberty, in said County and State, pro
ceed to sell for cash, the following de
scribed lands viz:
The North West Quarter of Section
number 6, in Township number S, of
Range number 6, East containing ona
hundred and sixty acres.
PETER R4.TCLIFF,
Cvmmitsiorter.
Dewmbcr 22, 1866. ; 44
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