The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-27
A LETTER FROM MR.. RIVES
POINTED CRITICISM OF JUDGE
MARTIN OF OCONEE CIRCUIT.
Who Would Add to Punishment for
One Crime Because the CuIprit
Had Violated Another Law.


Editor Dawson News: Said a cell
ebrated divine of the last century to
a continual nagging by a disreputable
unfrocked minister when asked by
his friends why he did not reply to
him: i am too busy attending to my
Masters business to chunk pebbles
at every fee that snaps at my heels. J"
This is my reason for noticing any
filings by the human biped that signs
itself Isl Otis" and l have asked the
Cuthbert Leader not to print any Of
his yapOrings, good or bad, about my
self He is populist, l am a demo-
craft he is a Calvinist, so far as he
knows himself, / am an Armenian;
he caters to popular clamor, l adYo-
cate principles; he tries to be humor-
GUS, l only use humor as a means of
illustration; and working on entirely
different lines we have no common
ground, hence what he says of me
does not affect my constituency, and
what l think of him does him no in
jury with his following. Therefore,
with this dismiss the subject.
The chief text of the Sunday school
lesson for September II teaches pa
triOtism and resistance to mob law.
Here it is: 20, King, we are not
careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so our God who we serve
is able to deliver us; but if not be it
known unto thee, o, King, we will
not worship the golden image which
thou hast set up. In the first place,
by his new law Nebuchadnezzar had
$40 right in his dominions TO set up a
god, nor to control worship. This
was the exclusive right Of the priests;
"a similar usage obtains in Russia to-
day. The patriarch of the Greek
church a ConstantinOple controls the
religious affairs of the Russian en-
pire, and the emperor has no power
10 set aside his DEGREES So not only
did Daniel refuse to dishonor his God,
but he refused to break the law of
the land in which he lived, and one
was as brave as the other. Said old
John Bunyan, confined in Bedford
jail, when promised his liberty if he
would stand by James right by royal
decree to set aside law of England:
Tell his Majesty liberty is sweet
but not sweet enough for me to aivo-
cate the assassination of the cOn5ti-
tuition. And old Kon, author OF
praise God from Whom All Bless
ings Flow" when a majority of the
bishops were in favor Of complyiDg
with James proclamation Il can
not in conscience violate my oath K
uphold the law by, through fear O.
his Maiesty's threat Of trial for trea
son, doing this wrong to the law.
And the Catholic admiral command
ing the English navy was equal,
emphatic: DO your duty, and SHOW
that we believe in constitutional law
and are opposed to arbitrary power.
The confederate youth who went II
the gallows at the age of 16 rattle
than betray trust was as brave AM
manly as those Hebrews, and the Off
Ger in Columbus, Ga, who died rath
er than submit to the mob was il
this class, but the Judge Of the supe
riOr court who, in Pulaski county
some days since, set at naught an
made sport of the federal Judge q
the Southern district of Georgia an
proclaimed from the bench that h
would add punishment to one Grim
because the culprit had at some othe