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The Son OF Jefferson pavis's Coaol.man.

The Son of jefferson Davis's Coaehman'
The movement started in Kansas to col
onize the negroes in South America is not
viewed in favorable light by the race most
deeply interested in it.
Among the intelligent colored men OPP
posing the scheme is Lieutenant William A.
jackson, of North Topeka, Kansas. Lieu
tenant Jackson has written letter to The
CONSTITUTION, in which he says
The primo movers in tbs emigration scheme are
q set of ward heelers, and their main object is to
create political capital far the G. o. F., and to fdtten
their pockets at the expense of our ignorant south
ern brethren. Ny father was coachman for Mr..
Jefferson Davis in Richmond. He made his escape
In 1852 See Harpers Weekly, June 7th, 1867 l
played with the children of Mr.. Davis Slavery IS
dead thank God What is left is for the negro to
make common cause with his white brother north
and south, and we expect aid from both sections in
obtaining perfection of citizenship What the he
gro needs now is mental and political freedom.
Money viii produce that, aud seitgoyernment, pa
triotism and home interest will follow.
The son of Jefferson Davis's coachman
writes very sensibly. He goes on to say that
in twenty years the negroes have built up
church organizations with 100000 COM
municants. They have learned preachers,
teachers, journalists, lawyers and merchants.
They are admitted into the labor unions,
and the courts of justice are open to them.
Why should they emigrate to country
where there are 1000, 900 slaves. They are
doing well enough in the SOUTH and, says
this independent writer: "The day is COM
ing when they will suffer no infringement
of their rights as southerners, but will vote
and act, not as political tools, but as south
ern gentlemen"
The son of Jefferson Davis's coachman
takes pains to inform us that he is demo-
crat. This is hopeful sign. When intel
ligent colored men, with such antecedents,
take this stand they are doing a good work
for their race, and are making long strides
towards that perfection of citizenship
which seems to them so desirable. I'm
doubtedly Lieutenant jackson is right in
his opposition to the colonization scheme,
and he takes the right view OF the situation
of his brethren in the south. The southern
negroes have made wonderful progress in
twenty years, and there is no bar in the way
of their happiness and prosperity. Their
white fellow-citizens have stood by them all
the time, and will gladly do anything
that will contribute to their advancement.
Our correspondent may rest assured that he
is on the right line, and he cannot do better
than to stick to the course which he has
marked out for himself.
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The Farmers and the Tariff.

PERRY, Ga, February IS, lSSS.-Editors
Constitution In the last issue of our home paper,
the Journal appears editorial credited to the Sa-
vannah News. healed The Farmers Interests
Ignored II is hardly necessary to state that twas
anti-protective Alter enuneratiny a long list of
articles used m0inly by farmers. and dwelling on
their prices under the present system Of import du-
ties the writer concludes with this sentence: as il
any wondcy that the farmers are poor, and growing
pooror,' Now il strikes Us, after carefully reading
the article that the News is striving 10 impress its
readers with the idea that the present prices of these
articles is tie main cause Of poverty and failures
among the arning classes, and that reduction Of
these Irces will bring them prosperity and ultimate
success surely that paper knows better than this
Il has not been very long, il we are not mistaken
since tie News was advocating other methods 10y
which the farmer might better his condition and with
more logic In Us reasoning Nine out OF ten OF the
free trade papers acknowledge, and SO state editor
ally from day 20 day, and from week 10 week that
farming conducted on business principles, with d
basis OF home supplies, IS a paying busincss--the
best and safest OF all pursuits now open to our peo
ple-aud those who thus follow IL asc not growing
poor. but rich ana Independent In support Of this
position we can cite several instances in this nuu-
~ and in this immediate neiChborhooj. Ifthis
rule will apply TO one or more it viii apply 10 any
II these farmen are independent ana growing rich
by following cat this lire Of policy then he prices
q few articles necessary u the proper conduct "
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It is impossible to think of Louise Michel
as a woman. She is an incarnate fury, and
if she could have her way France would be
plunged into anarchy, and Paris would be
painted red.
For nearly twenty years this Withered old
hag has made it her business to excite the
worst passions of the worst elements of
society. She has arrayed the dissatisfied
against law and order, the poor against the
rich, the wicked against the good. Trans
portation to the penal colony of New Gale
donia failed 10 cool her ardor, and successive
terms of Imprisonment had no effect. She
is just as ready to dabble her hands in blood
as She was during the horrible days of the
commune. She pants impatiently for the
time when she can again throw herself into
the red whirl of another carnival of
murder.
Yet this monster is in some respects like
other women. She loves flowers, and writes
pretty and pathetic stories for the children.
Her hatred is all concentrated against
one thing--socicty as it now exists Soin-
tense is this passion that she is above petty
personal Ieyeuges. While still suffering
from the bullet in her head, lodged there by
Pierre Lucas, who shot her on a platform
in the midst of one Of her speeches, she
told an American correspondent that she
would do her best to have the would-be
assassin set free. II don't believe in God,
heaven or hell, she said, "but that poor
fellow does, and pity him. It is evident
that he is fanatic and | admire fanatics.
One must have respect for faith. Pierre
Lucas firmly believes that l am doing in
finite harm with my doctrines, and that
there was reward for him in heaven ii he
sent me to hell | am told that his poor
wife is inconsolable. l shall write her
letter, and do my best to console her."
Even with this brief glimpse of this
strange woman's character, one can under
stand her wonderful power over the Partisan
rabble. She is absolutely fearless, thor
oughly inscriptions, and devoted with
single-hearted constancy to her revolutionary
doctrines. If she had lived in the terrible
days of ninety-two she would have taken
her place by the side of Madame Dafarge
under the shadow Of the guillotine. and
would have pursued her knitting without
dropping stitch, as head after head fell
into the basket.
But there is no telling what the end Of
this apostle OF hate will be. Her life has
been one of violence and 1t is impossible to
believe that her death will be peaceful and
happy. The sooner her stormy spirit wings
IFS tlight to some Plutonian shore the better
10 viii Inc f,r Franco
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-28
The Farmers and the Tariff.

We print elsewhere a communication
from a subscriber in Houston county which
is well worth reading. 1t seems that our
correspondent has been moved by a state
ment that appeared recently in the Perry
Home Journal, copied from the Savannah
News, to the effect that custom-house tax
on articles of foreign manufacture is caus-
ing the farmers to grow poor and poorer,
Our correspondent handles this assertion
as it deserves to be handled, and his argu-
ments are not only suggestive but unan-
swerable-as facts always are when they are
employed as arguments.
If the statements of the News were true
they would have general application. They
would apply not only to individual
farmers, but to the farmers of the whole
country. Yet it is well known to every
person who is interested in the progress of
agriculture in the south that our farmers
are not growing poorer and poorer every
year. In Georgia, for instance, the condi-
ton of the farmers is better than it has
been at any period of the states history. If
any proof of this fact were necessary, we
might refer the News TO its own columns, TO
the state fair, to the Atlanta exposition, and
to the letters from prominent agricultur-
lists in the state which have appeared in the
columns Of The CONSTITUTION during the
past three years.
II has not been a great while since THE
CoNsururIoN, which has the facilities for
engaging in such enterprises, investigated
the condition of the farmers in Georgia.
There was hardly county in the state that
our reports did not cover. They were COM
plcte in every respect, and they showed
beyond an question that the farmers, instead
of growing poorer, were as progressive and
/ as prosperous as any other class of workers.
Our reports showed that in every instance
/ where farming was made business of-in-
stead Of mere means of gaining \ liyell-
hood the farmers were making money and
growing rich. We suppose that there is not
I a county in the state in which may not be
! found Instances where farmers, who began
/ poor after the war-and indeed all Of them
| were poor at that time-aro now rich or
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ThcIard on Ion.

The Cincinnati Lancet Clinic, = medical
journal, has an article discussing The Dawes
bill, which proposes 70 tn: the cotton seed
oil industry. The Lancet Clinic saws that
such iii might have some merits if All
hog products Nero made subject to sanitary
Inspection, sad al cholcra-stricken and
meesly porSers turned over to the fertilizer
companies; Int the Dawes bin is simply The
old oicomars arinc BIZ. Il is a bill that has
Its origiG in thc east where the "pure leaf
lard Is made .rom the enotc Fat Of diseased
hogs shipped from the west by unscrupulous
dealers, ana the Lancet Clinic saws that II
Will be vowed with surprise by every west
ern health officer WHO knows the ful ms
and outs Of Ihe traffic in diseased pork.
Ous med'cW contemporary says:
NhAt err thy m,.e uI..c Dawes I'm ~ ~. acts
pnuN' p'"'N "'-'4 tNe Aweruaa In5uufac u-rr,
II Ainc western p'Hmtfopst impeIled lv the
Hine generous motive, we've 10 make u an ofr.o..
80 pas OF ne Irdlet %. Sew England ln,r,sas
tu'e "ooa Wild WrsAiel brand when ths tay
Iuie Nhs ID REALTY lt icr cent cotton what an ont
Ns NV"'N w. ifom Massachusetts the bcaaou.r
Ne o. MI textile sofA.siio.tion1 yet an adr1,stnr,
N'wi"h win wool viewed from "A ssuitsr, az
tooLomie tnndPoini, cNn 10, b. deemed bartsh,l ~
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Like n Roman Father.

Colonel Tascott, one of the solid and
wealthy business men of Chicago, is a cold
blcoded individual. When he was informed
the other day, that his twenty-one year old
son was the burglar who had broke into the
millionaire SHELLS house, and killed the
owner after robbing him, the colonel merely
said that his boy was doubtless in some bad
scrape. she has been a hayward lad all
his life said'the father, land if he is
guilty of the crime, the law must
take its course. l shall not attempt to
prove an alibi, for never knew where he
spent his nights"
And with these Indifferent words, the
rich and respectable citizen dismissed the
matter and settled down to business.
Young Tascott did not inherit his fathers
cool, clear head. After he had killed Smell
and made his escape from the house, he was
so overcome by his excitement that he gave
himself away. He had been a newspaper
reporter, and the first thing that occurred
to him was to telephone a newspaper Office
that a man had been killed in the hallway
of a Washington Boulevard residence. This
was at two in the morning, four hours be-
fore anyone had discovered the murder. He
did not give his name when he sent the
message, but the police found that he sent
ii from drug store. Then, the youngster
went to his boarding house and burned
some papers. Later, he paid visit to his
mistress, broke into her house with bur-
glars jimmy, and with cooked pistol COM
PEELED her to give him twenty dollars. He
told her that he was in trouble, and was
going away, and before leaving he gave her
some papers, afterwards identified as the
property of the murdered man. He lost no
time n leaving the city, and after his de-
parture, the police found in his room a COM
plete set Of burglars tools. Some of the
tools fitted exactly the holes and dents made
in the doors Of Snells residence
So far as circumstantial evidence goes.
pretty good case is made out against Tas-
colt, and it will take very strong alibf~to
clear him. That he will be found is almost
q foregone conclusion. A young man who
has acted with so little discretion is tolera-
bly, certain to do something that will lead
to his capture. 1t will go hard with him
when he is caught. His Roman father is
not going to help him. The old man will
stand aloof from his outcast son, and claim
great credit for his readiness to offer his
own flesh and blood as sacrifice upon the
altar of justice 1t is a horrible affair all
round, and the Roman father is not the
least horrible part OF it.
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The Colton secd nn -.

With rospcc, 20 the proposition 10 tax re-
fined lard mixed with refined cotton seed
Oh, there are some facts that the public and
congress ought 20 know. I'm the first place.
refined lard, mixed with refined cotton seed
oil, is much more Wholesome product than
the lard made wholly of sw.rc's fat. The
lard is refined and the cotton seed oil that IS
used is refined TO a point whore il could be
brought into successful competition with
pure olive OIL
In the second place, The Iclncd lard,
miAed with refined cotton seed oil, is sold
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In discussing the causes and conditions Of
crime various opinions have been expressed.
One man is certain that the drink habit Is
mainly responsible. Another says that il is
the want of education, and third thinks
that 1t is the lack of religious instruction
4 correspondent Of the journal Of Indus
trial Education has been looking into the
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EDITORS CONSTITUTION: Did Mr.. Cleve-
land ever positively announce that he Wot Id not
accept the presidency for a econd time; and if he
did not, what did he say on the subject?
LAWYER.
Forsyth Ca February 9th, 1855
President Cleveland has never announced that he
would not accept the presidency a second term, and
whatever he may have sail on the subject may be
modified by cnc instances. of course since he has
forced issue he Will it through and will not
think of not allowing the use of his name. What
he said the subject Of second term was as foil
lows, IN his letter of acceptance:
when an election TO office shall be the selection
by the voters of one of their number to assume for
time public trust instead of his dedication TO the
profession of politics; when the holders OF the bal
lot, quickened by sense of duty shall avonge
truth betrayed and pledges broken, and when the |
suffrage shall be altogether free and interrupted
the fun realization of government by the IeOpo
will be at hand. IN OF the means TO this end not
one would, in my judgment be moro effective than |
IN amendment 10 the constitution disqunliiying !
the president from reelection. When we consider
the patronage of his great office. the aurcmcnts Of
anwer, the temptation 10 retain place once Gained I
n more than ALL the availability party finds in
an Incumbent whom horde of oiliceholdeis with !
zeal born of benefits and lostercd by the hope of
fuYors yet to come st. nd ready to aid with money
and trained political service, we recognize in the
eligibility OF the president for reelection Il most
serious danger 10 that calm deliberate ANA lntcll-
gent political action which must Chafa s,tiizu al
gov eminent by the people"
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The French spoliation Claim

EDITORS CONSTITUTION: What is the press
ent status of the French spoliation claims
READER. j
France reimbursed our government many years
ago but with characteristic slowness the latter re-
fused to settle with its own citizens and allowed
these Just claims to rest until 1885 Congress then
passed an act by which the United States court OF
claims is authorized to decide all claims presenteSi
TO it within two years from the passage Of the act
but nothing in this act shall be construed as COM.
hitting the United Stae TO the payment Of any
such claims" Noteworthy among other provisions
of the act are those that the attorney general shas
resist all claims presented under this act by ak
proper legal deenses, and hat "the finding and
report of the court shall be taken merely advisory
s. d and shall not conclude either the claimant
or congress" Developments so far indicate that
the government will avail itself fully of the provls6
to resist all claims for every little technically is
made use of to defeat them Those that it receives
il will paw,
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growing rich; and all from the products OF
their farms.
Now, as our correspondent says, if the
tariff is keeping our farmer poor and max
ing him poorer, why doesn't it have
that effect on all the farmers? If the tarlft
is keeping the southern farmers poor and
making them poorer, why doesn't 1t nave
that effect on the farmers of the north and
east? For great many years the north has
had the benefit of the tariff, and the result
is shown in the prosperity of the farmers and
in the increase in land values.
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No Senator Ever Arrested.

EDITORS CONSTITUTION: Was Riddleberger
arrested by the sargeantat-arms when he disturbed
the good order OF the senate recently? Wha: sena.
tors have ever been arrested? $. h. S. !
If senator's arrest is ordered by the chair he re-
mains in the custody of the sergeant taIrns untik
the senate directs his release. The president pro
tenn. has no more power. Once in arrest the only,
motion that could reach the case under the rule
case to committee, to suspend or eXpel Lin. No
man has ever been actually arrested while MEM
Der Of the senate house Of representatives John
Chauncy, who has been assistant serseant-at-
arms in the house since 1888, says that tEr3ughouk
all the stormy scenes that have occurred in the halls
OF congress the extreme resource had never tcen re-
sorted to, not even when Brooks ASSAULT
ed sumner, or during the many fights that took
place on the floor in the days preceding and sud-
ceeding secession At one time McDougal of CALI
iGo:nia. caused such disturbance the floor Of
the senate while that body was in session as to ins
teTrupt the proceedings. He was drunk and did not
know what he doing. The vice rTesidentl
called him TO order repeatedly, and as he would not
obey ordered the sergeantat-arms to take him into
custody but before the order was executed Uncle
Isaac Bassett, who at that time now was door,
keeper of the chamber, took him by the arm
and led him quietly away. Resolution after.I
ward introduced to eNpel him, but it never
acted upon. On the 4th of March, 1871, willard
salisbury, the senator from Delaware, and the,
brother of the present>cnaor from that state, caused
similar disturbance. His term expired at noon on
that day He very drunk and did not realize
the situation. The succeeding congress assembled
Immediately upon the expiration of the previous
one, and Mr.. Salisbury still supposing that he wasi
a senator attempted 10 make a speech The pres
siding officer Mr.. C)lfax called him to order and
informed him that he was no longer senator This
Mr.. salisbury disputed with good deal of Vigor.i
Again Mr. Coliax called him to order but he sti re-.
fused to sit down and the sergeant-at- arms was
directed to remove him.
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A Mistake Corrected.

ATLANTA, Ga, February 20, 1S98.-Editors
Constitutions With your permission l desire to corr
rect your contributor Sarge in matter of history
and to prevent msstatement of his from Waiting
along down the pathways of the future in the garb
of truth. In speaking OF Hookers advance and the
battles of Charlottesville and second Tejericks+
burg, he says "But," spoke old man Brown,
Hooker made Gorlons brigade skin outen the
broastworks down at Fredericksburg, and as they
run, half bent, the yankees let em have i, and
never seed the like OF men shot under the shoulder
blade during the war but it was because they were
hanked. the reason they run.
N wv the above quoted statement is wholly untrue
in that engagement. 1t did not fight behind hreasta
works at ALL But under the lead of the then newly
tedged brigadier, the brigade CALAMITY charged and
aotured, from part Of Sedgswcks federal corps,
the line of works on Mlyre's Heights which had
been taken from Barksdae's Mississippi MS the
evening before. Barksdale was fanked and strongly
oltnImbered, and, after a stubborn fight had been
forced back
General Gordon led his brigade for the arst tme,7
and the Georgia boys OF the 18th Goth, 3St 18Th GOTH
and 61st regiments covered themselves with glorys
They recaptured the line of works, made priSoner&
of large number OF the enemy, and secured, bell
sides, some forty or fifty wagons, with their teams
and loads of ammunition and other supplies.
Sarge can find plenty of facts and ludit r1us in.!
cidentS which really took place. without having to-
resort to such unfounded statements to get up a.
readable communication, and il is to be hoped that
he will confine himself to these, else !e5 it be-
understood that he deals altogether in fiction.
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