Butts-Morgan County GaArchives News.....Mixed Marriage Ceremony August 20, 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 13, 2005, 11:50 pm Jackson Argus – Week Of August 20, 1896 August 20, 1896 Judge Lee of Morgan county, who is a red-hot silver man and somewhat excitable in his nature in marriage a couple recently got the marriage ceremony mixed up with the democratic platform lately adopted at the Chicago convention. After mistaking two of the attendants for the bride and groom he started off in this fashion: “Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God and in the presence of these witnesses to join together this man and woman in holy matrimony at the ratio of 16 to 1, which is an honorable estate instituted of God in the time of man’s innocency, signifying unto us that the standard silver dollar shall be a legal tender equally with god for all debts, public and private, into which holy estates these persons present come now to be joined. Therefore if any one can show any just cause why William Jennings Bryan should no be elected president of these United States, let him now speak or forever hold his peace. I require and charge you both to stick ot the democratic play for lately adopted in Chicago, and if any of you know of any impediment why ye should not, speak now or for ever hereafter hold your tongue. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/mixedmar614gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb