The Dawson journal., 1886-06-03
A Significant Omission.

Mr.. EDITOR In the report
Of. thai Incompatible speech of
a u. J. c. G. Black as published
the Weekly Constitution, the fol-
lowing is left out, viz: "All this
Georgia and her sister State have
suffered at the hand of her enemies
but more cruel than wrongs done
by hostile hands were wounds
inflicted by some of their own
children. They basely bartered
themselves for the spoils of office.
They aligned themselves with the
enemies of the people and their lib
@rties until the battle was fought
ami then with satanic effrontry
lnsulted in the presence of the
vlrtuous and brave by coming
among them, and forever fixed
npon their ignoble brows the
stigma of a double treachery by
proclaiming that they had Joined
our enemies to betray them. They
Were enemies to the mother who
had nurtured them. They bowed
the knee and spit upon her. They
cried"Hail!" and smote her on the
cheek; they put sceptre in her
hand, but it was a fragile reed; they
crowned her, but it was with thorns;
they covered with purple the
wounds which their own hands
had inflicted upon her, and
inscribed beautiful titles over the
cross on which they had fixed her
toperish in ignomy and pain. They
had quarreled with and weakened
the Confederacy out of pretended
love for the habeas corpus and
now they sustained a government
that tramped upon every form of
law and every principle of liberty.
They were foremost in leading
the people into war, and now
they turned upon them to punish
them for treason. Even some who
were still loyal at healt, appalled,
by the danger that surrounded
MS, overwhelmed by the powers
that threatened US, were timid in
spirit and stood silent witnesses
OF their country's ruin. Others
there were, many others, as loyal,
brave, noble, heroic spirits as ever
enlisted in freedom 8 cause. thew
could suffer defeat in honorable
war, but could not, without re-
sistance, though fallen, submit to
insult and oppression. Their fort
unes were destroyed, the fields
desolated, their homes laid in
ashes. their hopes. blightad, but
they would not degrade their man.
hood. To their invincible spirit
and heroic resistance we are in
debted for the peace, prosperity
and good government we enioy
to-day. Long live their names
and deeds. Let our poets sing
them in undying songs; let our
historians register them in imper-
ishsble records: let our teachers
teach them In our schools; let our
mothers recount them in our
honest let our painters transfer
their very forms and features tc
"dorn our public halls; lot the
dert hand of the sculptor chise]
them out of the granite and mar.
6le to heautify our thoroughfares
let every true hear. and memor,
born and TO be born, embalm then
forever"
When it is rem smbered that tb.
Weekly Constitution is the princi
pal secular paper oirculatin,
shroughout our country precincts
she omission is rather insienifi
can't II Mr.. Black was brav
and patriotic enough to proclaim
the solid truth in the very shade,
OF the Atlanta triumvirate, an
standing near the white marbl
statue OF Georgia's dead patrio
she Weekly Constitution shoul
have had the bravery to have On,
ried the whole speech to III
heaFth-stones of its thousands
readeFa in Georgia, even thoug
it gave offense to the chief of 81,
ners and the head of the triumv
rate. These were brave wor,
tlIst should be printed in livip
letters and hung up in gi
frames. The professional orga
OF the people will hardly be alb