The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-01

the purpose, does not end the strug-
gle to rescue Tallulah Falls. The
suit was brought and conducted in
utter defiance of the provisions of
the legislative resolution, which di-
rected that suit.
On the day the Attorney General
made the appeal at Clayton for
special term Of the court, months
ahead of the regular term, 1 ap-
peared before the court and stated
that the lawyers employed by me
under authority vested in me by the
Georgia Legislature, were not ready
for trial and they protested against
having the case tried before the
regular term of the court. | stated,
on that occasion, that the Tallulah
Falls Conservation Association
would not abide by the verdict in
the dummy suit which was being
c. I'D to suit the convenience Of the
y ,1ter power trust, under conditions
which made it impossible for the
States interests to be presented.
Every intelligent person familiar
with the insidious influences which
brought about the special term trial,
knew, in advance, what the verdict
would be. Perhaps, in the history
of the American Courts no such
travesty on justice has ever before
been witnessed. The Georgia Rail
way and Power Company has re-
corded it's own most deadly indict-
ment in the practical demonstration
which it has furnished the public
that it is not able to face fair
trial.
| said personally to the Attorney
General in the Clayton court house:
Before I would have done what
you have done today, would have
suffered myself to be torn limb from
limb. Before I would have so be-
trayed the people who had honored
and trusted me, I would have per-
mitted myself to be burned at the
stake until my ashes mingled with
the winds which sweep over Tallu-
lah."
On the opening day of the trial
at Clayton l wired from Washing
ton City (where I was detained after
being ousted from the Gainesville
P. O. by the hirelings and bench
men of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, ably assisted by
Senator Hoke Smith) instructing the
lawyers engaged by me for the State,
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1ature, to withdraw from the case, if
the Attorney General insisted on go
ing forward with it.
Surely Georgia is not so poor in
legal timber that her imperial acres
on the hills of Rabun and in the
valleys of Habersham have to be
sacrificed to save a derelict Attorney
General.
The Georgia Railway and Power
Company and it's varied assortment
of hired craftsmanship, have learned
little from the onward sweep Of
Christian civilization, if they do not
know that issues which are settled in
corruption are not ultimately settled.
The only thing which never is de-
feated is Right. 1t is eternal. Two
thousand years ago the money
changers and the law givers cruel
fed Right. But it rose, triumphant
over death. The cause of the Tai
lulah Falls conservationists was
never stronger than in this hour. I
commit myself unresewedly to that
cause, and call upon the eternal
forces for the light and power un-
failing. The fight to rescue Tallu-
lah is just beginning. What has
gone before has been a mere Skin
mish: real war is ahead and it will
never end until Georgia's sovereign
ty is reasserted over her property at
TalIulah.
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