"Ves, these convicts that had worked for
Brown and Seaver at 3} cents per day, at that
' hell hole in Dade comity, were to be turned
out naked and friendless from the mines!
“W. B. Lowe, as wild, wickodjuul wayward
a man of tiie world as 1 am, who does not go
to tiie sanctuary with an it ito cravat on, pro
posed this humanitarian measure, which Pres
ident Brown says robbed him. The idea of
GEORGIA EVER ROBBING JOB BROWN
in any way or,under any circumstances, isnot
I to be entertained. Has lie not had Georgia’s
property in his hands, the State road ami her
convicts? It makes me think of sweat boxes
in Columbus, of shipping cotton from Wil
mington, and collards from Milledgeville!
“The act of 1881 is a Pandora’s.box. Grand
juries are authorized to monkey around
WITH CHEAP RELIGION
and appoint chaplains for these camps. These
migratory chaplains have cost §l,lOO, and yet
there are camps in which no sermons have
been preached for three months.
“The trouble in the act of 1881 is hi the ap
pointment of the whipping bosses. The lessees
appoint them in writing, fiibject to the written
proval of the governor. They are paid and
controlled by tiie lessees, but in order to re
lieve themselves of liability the lessees say:
‘How dare you forfeit my lease when the cou
j victs are whipped by your own. office?’
“The committee of which I was chairman
| had no money, and wo paid our own expenses.
I Tiie railroad passes were withdrawn, and wc
had difficulties to contend with. We had to
abandon the inspection of camps and convicts.
