The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-06-18
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hcch' No "OuuCI IHdG uc 10 pUpu-
lar both as postmaster and as man,
with the people among whom he
has lived Sc long, and of whose high
esteem and confidence he has prov
en- himself so worthy. We need
more true men from the North, like
Capt. Hughes, Farmer Beach and
MIR. Lewis Spalding.
The Journals editorial on the
Third Party was grand. 1t evinced
the wisdom of philosopher and the
bravery OF patriot.
A strong petition has been secur-
ed in this community among the
friends with whom MIR. Charley o.
burn was raised, asking Governor
Northern to commute his death
sentence to life Imprisonment; be-
lieving that under the circumstances
the jury should have recommended
him to mercy, and that considering
his wretched invalid condition, he
ought to be allowed to die, if die he
must, natural death. God help
him and all those near and dear to
him,
We wish to commend bright
new feature of the Jourual-the
Athenean column. There is much
good sense (rare commodity and
instruction in it. We would like to
mention each fair young lady editor
personally, as we remember them,
but if We should make special note
Of Misses Cortelyou, Gober, Nesbitt,
who painted the beautiful "Sunset
Scene," and Miss Rosa Wing, whom
we saw once just before spending
the first Of my last six birthdays on
bed-it we should mention these
and leave the others unnoted, some
one might feel passed BY" But
unto all, young ladies, we commend
you, with the earnest hope that your
column, your school days, and your
whole life, will be opponents of
that true Christian womanhood
without which all else is vain.
The card of Col. w. S. Cheney
was an eloquent, timely call to the
people to wake up and put the
graves of our Confederate dead in,
at least, a respectable condition.
We love the principles they died
for, yet our neglect of their last
resting places, is reflection on our
patriotism and our avowals of love
for the little republic that "rose and
fell without crime and the mel.
lowed beams of whose short lived
glory, fall back into our hearts and
make better the South and Nation
as we'll.
Should not true worth be always
recognized and commended, and
especially when we find it not at
every turn in our path? Cobb
county has a son who is doing her
honor amid the classic shades of old
Virginia's Washington and Lee
Waldo P. johnson writing in the
'"Sunny South Of a speech made
by Mr.. Walter McElreath at celc-
bration OF the Washington Literary
Society, says; "Mr. Andrews was
followed by Mr.. Walter McElreath,
of Lost Mountain, Ga, who, With
eloquence as lofty as his own blue
mountains, and as pure as his own
upland air, ably and logically sup
ported the affirmative. He finished
with a glowing tribute to Southern
womanhood-that fair lily, which
had endured the storm of war, anG
when the tempest had past, stood
forth in the sunlight of peace with
lily petals still white and heart still
golden" x x 1.-The next morn
ing when he came down to break
fast, the boys rose to a man, ant
the old Blue Hotel ratified with ap
plause. The Prot. of Logic, Mora
Philosophy and Rhetoric, took Mr.
McElreath's speech as a text, anG
lectured on it two days to his class
in Rhetoric, telling them it was &
combination of logic and rhetoric
very rare, and what he would have
then learn from the style of the
young orator from Georgia" Now