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ATLANTA, QEQBGIA, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1871.
no. :m
Buuannut). Shipping lino.
MURRAY'S LINE—NEW
\ IRK 6t SAVANNAH,
EVERY TUESDAY ruou uoh p
1 INSURANCE BY KTEaMERB OF THIS LINE, ONE
HALF FLU CENT.
, OABIN P488AGE $30
FOR SIMPLICITY, DURABILITY AND BEAUTY DECK, with *uUi«Veuoa
The flret oIam *’<-ain«hlpa
1**0 DEARBORN, Commander
VIKUO, BULK LEY, Commander,
Compose this llue, uid one of those steamship*
loaves each iH.rt KYSBY TUESDAY.
Through tills of lading given by these steamships
by all railroad connections, and also through bills
lading given In Savannah on Cotton destined for
Liverpool and Hs'i.burg by first class steamahips.-
For freight or i-aiuiage, apply to
HUN 1KR A OAMMLLL, 84 Ray Krwt.
PHILADELPHIA AND SAVANNAH MAIL 8TXAM
Ml IP COMPANY.
,i.*d ai-
EVERY SATURDAY from each port.
INSCRANCK ON COTTON BY 8TSAMEH8 ON TBU
USB ONE HALF PER CENT.
CABIN PA8HAGK *»
DKHL aith Biibsistenue V
This Hue is composed of the first class steamships
W YOMIMi TEAL. Commander.
row A \V A \JJ A BAKU LIT, Commander
One of these steamships leave each port KY'ERY
SATURDAY. Through bills lading furnished by
■jc*e steaiuehips by all railroad connections. Tor
eight or passage, apply to
HUNTER k OAMMKLL,
34 Bay street.
P’or I tow ton.
CABIN FAKE..
DROK
Through bill*
Boston, and in
filial points !■
Capt. F. M. Swan.
Capt. 8. H Matthews.
$30 00
10 fill
of lsdlug given by railroad agents to
ou by Steamship agents to pnn-
eecured in advance by writing agents in
K1CHARD80N A BARNARD,
Agents. Savannah.
P’or IVew Yoi*L.
Z.
THE GREAT SOUTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
BVKBY THURSDAY.
Insuranoe by this Line can be effected under oar
open policy at one-half per oent.
CABIN PASSAGE $30 0
The first class steamers
rmsn Livingstone, Cheese roan, Com
a. Usrnci F. O. Mallory, Com.
1U sail as follows:
LIV1NU8TON June 1st, at 8. 9. u.
GEN. RAItNES
Bills of lading given hereon cotton and wheat thro,
Liverpool and Hamburg via New Yort hv first
lass steamers. For passage or freight, apply to
WILDER A FULLARTOH,
nov 0-tf No. 8 Stoddard’s Upper Range.
General Huporlntendont of
BuIldltiRH, and all Manner
of Carpenters#* Work.
T HE undersigned would respectfully
announce to the public that he haa loca
ted himself on the corner ol Grubb and Spring
streets, near Rice A Mitchell's Lumber Yard* where
he propose* to receive Contract* for BuildRht »nd
general Carpenters' Work, which he prop-mas
carry out to the satisfaction of all concerned , and
as low figures as any one. lie makes s sociality of
Stair Building, and proposes to give satisfaction.
If BANKSTON.
Whitehall street, between Mitchell and Peters
mh 31«d3ni
B. Z. DUTTON,
PRACTICAL
ST^SCIL CUTTER, UESKJXER AXI>
E.NUKAVEH!
Foi’ Baltimore.
L C M :
C(_., iTANTLY
JJRASS ALPHABETS,
DRY AND
FLUID STENCIL INKS, Stencil Dies, Steel
Stamping Dlea, Railroad and Hotel Checks, Marking
Brands, 1c.. No. 61 Whitehall St., a few doors below
Hunter street
fiV N. B.—Particular attention paid to Brands and
Stencils for Merchants, Millers. Tobacconists and
Distillers; also, to Name Plates, for marking clothes,
which will be sent to any address for seventy-five
cents, including Ink. ho. saplvlj-
Utfreslimcnia.
CITY BREWERY.
Corner Collins and Harris Streets;
Feclitor A Mercer, Proprietors.
Office In Old Post Office Building, next Gate City Bar,
ap G-corpla.
T. 1\ GHADY’W
R. R. ALE HOUSE*
2 a
Alahsmn Ntrcet Atlanta. Oa.
J UST received, a flue lotof Champaign,
Jersey Cider. Families supplied at their
hotaes. A fine assortment of the beet
LHIUOHS WIIVliH,
and sogars always on hand. BotUed Ales and Porter
aspeciaRy. Ales. Boor an 1 Champagne Jersey Cider
on fraft. Call on Gradv and sway pleased,
detlf
Uncle Jack Coughlin,
H AVING disposed of his interest in
th. old •'« iWoon," on «.n «mn <* ■>
auu Alabama streets, has located himself under the
old Post office, corner seme streets, in the
BKK-mil'K
Wtm EVERYTH I»a IE READY tm tt
accommodatuiu ol bis old friend*, end a* iua'-ty no
ouessa may think proper to gtvg him • <***•
John pajs eapecial atte.iUou to the iu-.er man, both
DRINKK
J.VI) COLD LU jrCNES
LE BON TON,
jTh. 14 Peachtree street, near the
National Hotel.
DAN. LYNCH'S OLD STAND,
FRKK LUNCH FROM 10 .A. M.TO l P. M.
EVERY DAY.
FRCHTEB A MERCER'S
DIO DORA WHISKY.
PREMIUM BEEIl.
at it .a punches.
SUMMER DRINKS
OF ALL KINDS.
THE 0RLEBRATED AMERICAN DRINK,
• NIP UP.
New Lumber Yard,
JUNCTION OF
MARIETTA AND WALTON STS.,
all kinds of
B B HI
ON HAND.
I Attention to Orders.
M. A. HARDEN.
LANDSBERG'S
LUMBER YARD,
OPPOSITE GEORGIA RAILROAD DEPOT.
ATLANTA.GA.
S.wod Slilnclea »nd
UatUa. White Pino
SMh,Wludow. *
Blind*
III Kindi ol Dressed and
rraming Lumber.
f.MI-ty
W
OABIN PASSAGE »»
tff Th* Baltimore and Savannah Steamship Go's,
steamers sail from Savannah during December as
follows:
Ssrsgoras Thursday,February *d
America Thursday, *• »th
Saragossa Thursday, “ 18th
America, Thursday, " 33d
Saragossa Thursday, March find
JAH. B. WE8T h CO.,
nnriMf Bay street, foot of Whltakw.
SAVE YOUR FRUIT!
A. LANDHBERG k CO.. Propriet
1HOS. HAMPTON, B. D. SALMONS, 9. A. BAMOUB.
Drake's Creek Mills.
F. A. BARBOUR & CO.,
|READERS IN
FLOUR,
MEAL,
V SHIP STJJFF,
rsJ.YMi.i.r. iKimnr.
HIGHEST PRICK PAID FOR WHEAT.
,11 protluoe delivered at the depot free of charge.
spri:i-*m
To Parties Desiring to Build
SAFEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST
FRUIT JARS
In the market
McBHIDB CbOO.,
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Thmagh Lina.
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Memphis train haves..
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M A r
UUIT J A US and JELLY TUMBLERS.
WANTED!
u. t f\t l Il/IA IN COKt EDERATE CUB REN*
•t> 1 ‘ " r," M H t CY. nl all denominations, for
which s fair price will be paid.
Apply to
MOORE'S ACITAL BU8INE88 COLLEGE.
msy81*3t Cor. Whitehall and lfnnter streets.
$ 4 50 for Clmko of Elf hi.
$‘4 for Ctmkt of TsecnIff.
THE PLANTATION
.in .ifriroltnral U'eeklp of NUUen F#f«,
Published in Atlanta, Ga„
»——r ******"! EVERY SATURDAY.
Iks Vinfohin* /Apwrlmsnl only, of nmp
fired Cium Mono* Ikrp mop teioh to rmU'M—kd prr .innum for Mng-le Copp.
Mroeis
u. hu *t Mi command s picked set of hands, soil
“* Roti.rD Mtl.fjcUon. |
REFERENCE—Co). John L. Grant, Longley
k uobtnsoo, and Fay k Corput, Architects.
JO DAT C. A'It'HOLS,
OFF1GI HI AIR-LINK HODS* PRYOR gTBIET i A.,t) mMlnm tt h„ f,w -qntl*. M il.
| bona fide «irculation Is Five thousand, and steadily
Thomas G. Simms,
yyrrH shbtook k Rowland,
Floor mod JSnnnfottnrsd Toboreo,
PURE BOURBON AND RECTIFIED WHISKIES.
GHKESK, FISH, OK ACKERS.
CORN MEAL. HOMINY,
BOaP. candles, coal oil,
A Man Die* from the Bite or a
Do* Rderived Four Year* Pre
viously.
A correspondent of the Scranton
(Pa.) “Republican,” writes: The
street* of Ashley were thrown into a
fever of eiciteinent yesterday by the
report that a man had died trout hy
drophobia, and ala*! the report pro- -
ed too true. The case is both remark
able and horrible. About four year*
ago, John Bennett was bitten iu the
hand by a mad dog. He has been in
good health, and was of sound mind,
and no unnatural mud actious were
noticeable until a few days ago, when
the men at work with him in the
mines noticed a wild expression about
his face and a peculiarity in his man
ner. At times he would stare
rpHIS paper is edited by Rev. C. W. Howsr
I Hinted by Col. R A Alston, aud la equal 8
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AND FANCY OBOt KRIF-m.
Also—Commission MsrchanU for the sale of Fork.
Bacon and Lard, and general planttUon sopplkw.
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sprit 6m
(In—In Usnkruptry.
ATLANTA GEORGIA, THIS
LOUIS, MO.
37th day of May, HTI,
The undersigned hereby gives notice of hta ap
pointment s* . *-‘ijnee of Jones A Harper,
t'harie* M !i if Home, iu the county af I
and HI I.- oi vleo.gta. «ithui mid IHstrict, who hat*
I" _ ! bo-n • 11.nig. J Bankrupts U|-..» the petfOou of (Mr
LAWY r. U 8 Crtsllkus. by the Di»tn. MOO
_jid Count) »ific*sPi
gVN Office. AUaiiia. Ga nu>36-law3w
Mr. M«i»lit*in* 1 Political Viewi.
From the Chronicle and Sentinel.)
We clip th<i followiug from a late issue
of the New York Express, and give it to
our readers, for the purpose of com-
meutiug ou some of the singular errors
iu it, according to our understanding of
Mr. Stephens’ position:
He considers the 13th Amendment as
fully rutitied aud valid, as the natural re
sult of the war. The 14th and 15th
Amendiueuts he considers as * grooBusur
pations of power, passed by force and
fraud,’ with seven of the original thir
teen colonies unrepresented- He did
not, nor did any one, propose to do
away with negro suffrage, but desired to
avoid what now exists—hostility of race
to race. The whites needed the blacks,
and were dependent on them for labor.
It was to tbeir interest and advantage to
treat them well. The blacks were igno
rant and dependent, as is a child on its
father, and us a mass, they acquired
knowledge with great difficulty. They
sought ‘white’ advice and counsel al
ways; before every election they came
to him from ull over the country, seek
ing advice and a clear statement of the
issues at hand. Notone of his negroes
had left mui, and the feeling among
them was general that they were better
cared for, and prospered better where
they remained with their old musters.
"With emancipation agreed upon as a
fixed fact, and negro suilrage admitted
as another fixed fact, we do not see that
the record can be changed, or that Mr.
Stephens proposes to change it. He de
nounces the usurpation ol power and
the traudulent manner in which it was
accomplished, but can he point any safe
way out of it. The act ol secession, at
a time when the Supreme Court was a
Court of, us well os under, the U. 8.
Constitution, when the U. S. Senate was
Democratic, when the tide of aggression
was set hack—as witness the vote of the
resolution iu the House after Mr. Lin
coln's election—were the incipient steps
to the 14th aud 15th Amendments.
They took out of the Union all the
States south of the Potomac, and ren
dered powerless all the conservative men
north of it. We neither see nor ex
pect any practical movement towards re
storing what was then lost forever, and
the consequent usurpations of powers.
Policy aud duty, interest and patriot
ism, seems to us now to demand that we
unite to prevent new usurpations of pow
er aud new infringraents upon the
rights of the people and the Hta tea.”
How such words, purporting to convey
his ideas ou some of tue subjects allude<
to, ever could have got luto au editorial
of the New York Express, we cannot
imagine.
It is well known, by all who have read
with any attention, Mr. Htephens’ 2u
volume upou the War between the
Stub s, that he does hold aud maintain
that the 13th Amendment of the Consti
tution of the United States—that by
which slavery was abolished—was duly
ratified by the Southern States, after
they abandoned the cause of secession
ami resumed their obligations to the
Federal Union.
This Amendment, having been thus
duly ratified by the constitutional con-
stitueucies of these States (though they
hud no voice iu its proposal by Congress,
because of their voluntary absence), he
nevertheless regurds us a valid part of the
organic law.
It is equally well known, by all those
conversant with the same work, that Mr.
Stephens does not hold either the 14th
or 15th Amendments, so-called, to be
valid aud righ’tul parts of the Constitu
tion, because they were and are nothing
but the offspring of gross usurpations of
power, passed by force, fraud, aud por-
tidy.
The Reconstruction measures, upon
which they rest entirely for their foun
dation and support, were passed by Con
gress upon the assumption of powers
avowedly ‘‘outside” of the Constitution
—ten of the States of the Union at that
j time claiming representation in Con
gress (and not “seven of the original
colonies”) were arbitrarily aud most
wrongfully denied a voice and hearing
in the Congress of the Htates npon those
amendments wuen they wore proposed,
aud that too, iu the very face and teeth
of the Constitution which declared that
“ each State shall have at least oue Rep
resentative” m the House, aud that “ao
State, without its consent shall be do-
j prjvcd of its equal suffrage iu the Sen-
| ate. ”
On proposing these last two amend
ments, ten States were thus most wrong
fully anil unconstitutionally denied a
voice. It is well known that but for
this palpable und avowed usurpation by
which they were denied a voice, these
so-called amendments never would have
L>eeu proposed foradoptiou by the States
of the Union.
Hut besides this, it is also well known
that it was a part of the plan of the con
spirators agaiust the liberties of the peo
ple ot the United Stutes, by whom these
fraudulent amendments were concocted,
m their first step towards centralized em
pire, that they never were to l>e submit
ted for ratification to the constitutional
constituencies ot these disfranchised
States, as required by the Constitution.
They, tlnrvlore, not only originated in
au attempted revolution of the Federal
Government by those who then bore sway
based, and those upon which solely they | to work well, it will hardly be disturbed
are claimed to have been passed and in- . iu auy 8tate. If it shout l bo found not
corporated as valid parts of the Cousti- to work well, of course it ought to be
tutiou of the United States. changed, and will be. Suffrage of ail
These, as we understand them, are Mr. ! kinds emanates from Democratic priori-
Stephens’ views iu regard to the last two | plea. Free Government itself, which is
amen Intents so-caH<*d. In the views thus ( baaed upou suffrage, uw* s its existence
entertained, we suppose the editor of the entm ly to Democratic principles. Ruf-
Express concurs at least iuthe main. All i frage iu its every modification is the uat-
true Democrats at least do. But he seems urul offspring of these. May not the off-
to look upou the results of these usurps-! spring, therefore, be more safely in-
tions aud the exisriug status under them
throughout the limits of the Uuiou as
“fixed facts” not to be changed 4 or even
assailed, and gives out. that Mr. Stephens
looks upon them in the same light. Iu
this we conceive consists a difference,
small or great, as it may be, between
them. While Mr. Stephens advises, aud
has from the first of these usurpations,
as we know, advised that there should i*e
no resistance by force or violence to their
execution, aud that the only sure ulti
mate remedy for them and all like ••!§ <>f
tyranny under our system of government,
is the peaceful rectification of wrongs
through the hallot-box; yet he uiuiutaius
that his rectification cru never be brought
about except by au exposure of thewrougs,
and au arraigumeut of their author be
fore the people for their condemnation.
It cannot be done by an acceptance of
the wrongs as rightful impositions of, as
in this case, by an acknowledgement of
the validity of measures so founded en
tirely upou usurpations, fraud, violence
aud perfidy, as these are known to be.
The only “safe way out,” according to
his opinion, is the peaceful mode of au
earnest appeal to the sober second thought
of the liberty-lovmg masses of the peo
ple, in all the States, to rally at the polls
and there protiouuce their crushing judg
ment of popular condemnation against
their authors.
If the party iu power are to be turned
out, it ought to be for their misdeeds of
some sort. What misdeeds have they
done, or aru likely to do, compared with
these? This party ought to be condemn
ed, if at all, for what they have done, as
well as for what they are likely to do—
judging the future by the past. New
usurpations can only be justly apprehend
ed hereafter from those which have gone
before.
Mr. Stephens, doubtlessly, agrees fully
with the Express in the last sentence ol
the article quoted, which is that “|K>licy,
aud duty, interest aud patriotism, seem
now to demand that we unite to
prevent new usurpations of power, aud
trusted, in this ease as iu all others, for
its well-being, to the hands and keeping
of its parents than to the custody of its
known enemies V Those who now claim
to lie the exclusive champions of “negro
miffrage,” are but acting a part. They
are, in truth, the enemies of all suffragt
Their present plan of getting rid of sul
frage, is by lowering its standard. Tin 1
object is to bring it into contempt,
extending it to those w ho are unfit for il
stercise. They are, indeed, opposed to
all Governments supported by suffrage,
either w hite or black. Hence their con
tinued usurpations with a view of over
throwing the free institutions of this
country, as established by "the fathers,”
aud the execution of a consolidated em
pire instead. Their professed friendship
at present for “negro suffrage*' is only, to
use a common phr.ise, to run suffrage
“in the ground.” It is with no view of
permanently securing the right of voting
to the negro, baton- ot their tricks, wily
aud bland, for ultimately biking away
the right of the w hite man. They be-
helieve in no elections except those car
ried by the bayonet. This, their whole
pa*t history clearh indicates, and this the
future, if they be imt arrested by popu
lar condemnation, will abundantly verify;
to l»e successfully arr. sted, they must be
arraigned and comb not for their
ttilla otfmxot, but tor their most daring
acts of usurpation the’T highest crimes
and misdemeanor against tin* (Constitu
tion. If these bo permitted to pa.ss not
only unrebuked, but if th-y are to l>e
accepted and endorsed as valid acts uot
to be questioned, then the people will
hardly be much aioused ns to the danger
of any other additional claims of power
they may set up. It they are made to
believe that what li.is been made “in the
green tree” in this case, is all right, they
will take very little interest in what is
apprehended will be hereafter done in
the name line “in the dry.” They will
look upon all the appeals of that sort
more iu the light of demagogues eager for
s(M)ils than theearnew euticaty of patri-
new infringements upon the rights of j ots devoted in principle and right, and
the people aud the States.” J wuo really feel that our free institutions
Hut where is the policy, it may well be | are iu danger from either old or new
asked, of attempting to mute the peoph
iu a rally to prevent new usurpations, if
the existing ones, which strike at tiie cit
adel of the “right* of the people,”as well
us “the States, ’ are to be utterly ignored?
In view of policy alone, with wnat confi
dence or face could any man go before
the people of any State and appeal to
them to unite and rally for the preven
tion of new usurpations, who should be
gin his appeal by advising them to re
ceive and accept as “verities” aud “fixed
facts”—not to be now or ever hereafter
questioned or assailed—the foulest usur
pations that have ever yet been perpetra
ted upon the rights of any portion of the
American people ? Could the earnest
efforts of the people, anywhere, be ex-
l>ecfced to be enlisted for the prevention
of neir usurpations of auy sort, at the call
or eutreaty of any party which either
wiuks at or connives at, much less which
favors the sanction of those greatest of
all outrages upou popular rights—these
highest of all crimes against the Consti
tution—these fellest of all blows ever
aimed at public liberty in this country,
by which ten commonwealths were strick
en from the roll of States, and the lives,
with the rights of person and property
of nine millions of freemen were put uu
der the absolute dominion of military sa
traps !
It the party in power are to be asaailed
for their usurpations, as the Express evi-
deutly thinks they should be—if they are
to be put out, to save the “rights of the
people and tile States” from their grasp
of usurpations—is it not the dictate of
patriotism, as well as of sound policy, to
assail them fore and aft—root and branch
—pointedly and most vigorously, for their
most mischievous and iniquitous acts of
this character—those aimed at the over
throw of the entire structure of American
free institutions ?
Whatever may be said or thought of
“dead issues” in the coming contest, all
tme friends of the Constitution now seem
to be ooming to the conclusion, though
some of them tardily, that the whole will,
iu the end, be narrowed down to the siu-
glo issue of whether ours is to be a Gov
ernment of bayonets or a Government of
laws. “To this complexion it comes at
last.” This single issue, like Aaron’s
rod, must and will swallow up a11 ques
tions of tariffs, revenue reform, taxation,
“negro suffrage,” or what not
With regard to the special subject ol
“negro suffrage,” to which the Express
aud seveial of our exchanges seem to at
tach so much importance, we understand
Mr. 8tephens’ positiou to be that it is
a question wliioh docs not belong to Fed
eral politics in auy way. It is a question
which belongs exclusively to the States.
The Federal Govern raeut has no more
rightful control over “uegro suffrage”
than over “woman suffrage,” “minor suf
frage,” or auy other sort of class suffrage.
And “ the safe way out” of all the
troubles attending this question is to leave
it to the Democracy ol every State to set
tle it for themselves bj acting in refer
ence to the existing status as they thiuk
best for their respective States, without
the slightest reference to the usurpations
by which the existing status has beeu at-
in the Congress of States, but wi re based j u-mpted to be imposed forever upon tho
for their assumed future validity upou a States.
like projected revolution of the govern
ineuts of Urn of tho States of the Uuiou
which was lo be carried out by the force
of arms. This revolutiou so proj»H.ted
was carried out iu these teu Slates. Their
rightful or de jure gnvcruiueuta were
overthrown, aud tie facto governments es
tablished by bayonets iu their stead,
wh>ch siill exists iu each of tnem at this
at them with a ferocious look, similar
to that of * mad dog, but, <h the* t, “* > imPmllncut8 thll , origiaulillg ...
symptoms of mania were oi but «i were submitted for ratification
moment’s duration, it was not men- . 0 a constituency iu the^e States uot em
tioned. On Wednesday, he was taken | draced in their Constitutions and uu-
sick and confined to his bed. Alter kuown to the Constitution of the United
being confined to his bed he could not 1 States. They were carried not entirely
*1 «« h * rtj'L f iio^io -i intuit, in fnvur o, the ..tau-on ... . .»■
short time it was evident he tvas sul- j ^ llllVt , Lerni carried), but by a violeu. it d and q ialunaUun.age to the colored
fcnng from hydroyhobm. day ^ ijoeUK . ut of tll e reguJar guveruiuc. r** among us. He w.d then opposed,
passed and the suffering increased.— the8e aud the erection in thou and doubtles *till is, to the policy ol ai-
The Fifteenth Amendment, as we have
said before, and now repeat, is not held
to be invalid by those who denounoe it,
because of what it ouutaius, but because
of the usurpations and outrages upou the
Constitution by which it is claimed to be
a rightful part of the organic law. Those
UMirpations should never be permitted to
pass without proper rebuke and condem
nation, eveu by those who favor the ob-
j *ct professed to be aimed at by them.
We do not understand Mr. Stephens as
opposing “negro suffrage” per le. We,
aud all who have read his testimony be
fore the Reconstruction Committee in
1865, know that lie was then, after the
ratification of tho Tairteeuth Amend
ment, in favor oi the e .tension of a lim-
The suffering had become so intense 8 toad of a military despotism in each of
that he formed At the mouth and last them. Their de jure governments are
night he expired. A few miutttes be- still in a state of repression. This is the
fore he died he said he was iuttering troth of the case, and the annaU of no
r . .. _ i„ the breast <*> nn »7 ™ W "how gro«or or mow P*l-
f f°® •“ “f 0 * !*“ m “3 , . ' p-.hlo usurpation* ofg'«;
showing th»t ho wa* *en*ihle to ll» ' >. . , mud *od
last It «M said by thoee who saw | p^gay ou the part of tnure in authon-
him die that it wan the most heart I t y—than to those meavui-s npou wine
lowing the general suffrage of the present
older of Ihingjfto that class of persons;
believing it not to be for the best interest
of society in view of their general condi
tion mental aud moral. But in his opin
ion, “the safe wav out” of all difficulties
attendingjihis subject, is to leave in with
the Democracy of each State to rnauagi
ud ooutrol lor themselves. If, upon
oaiirpatious.
The appeal in this instance to be effect
ive must not only be earnest, but it must
uot wink at anything, connive at any
thing, much leas sanction anything, that
is founded upou fraud, perfidy and
usurpation of any sort.
“The safe way” out of all the difficul
ties, no only on the “negro suffrage”
question, but of all other evils now af
flicting the oountry by reason of usurpa
tions, including the def<ido governments
alluded to, in Mr. Stephens’ opinion, is,
first by such an appeal as that stated
at>ov6 to arouse the people in all the
States, and cause them to rally to.the
polls and turn out of their places the party
uow iu power which Inis so abused their
high trust.; and then leave all these mat
ters with the administration of the Gov
ernment in the hauds of the true friends
of the Constitution and free institutions,
who will instantly withdraw the bayonet,
and, through the proper use of the bal
lot, upon Democratic principles and doc-
taines, will soon effect a thorough rectifi
cation of all these existing wrongs, with
out violence or injury to auy class or per
son. The'revolution thus to be effected
will be as thorough aud as peaceful as
that accomplished by the Demixiracy in
1800, under the lead of Mr. Jefferson,
when our liberties were then rescued and
saved by them from a like centralism
which is now threatened.
We have uot undertaken this exposi
tion without cousultiug Mr. Stephens;
aud we are authorized to say that it is
oorrect. He does not wish his views to
luterfere in any way with the harmony
of the Democratic party in their next
general convention, llis own opinions,
however, he freely gives all who ask
them. We simply wish that ho may be
correctly understood. Tuese, therefore,
are his views upou the prcbcnt situation,
and the proper course to be taken by
those who would save the liberties of this
oountry, both iu reference to correct prin
ciples and wise policy. On this line we
know he believes that at least twenty-
three States, ousting over two hnudred
and thirty electoral votes, may be cer
tainly counted upon for the maintenance
of the Governnn nt as oue of law, aud not
of bayonets ; while on the liue indicated
4>y the Express, lie dot's not think one
Hundred and fifty electoral votes can be
obtained against the ruling dynasty.
Platform of the Taw Payers Con
vention of Sontli C'.irotiua.
The Tax-payers’ Convention of the
State, representing to a vary large extent
its property and intelligeuoe, aud com
posed of men as gallant as auy who
fought iu the Into war, and as patriotic
as breathe any where the breath of life,
without a dissentieg voice, resolved:
1. That we meditate no resistance what
ever to the Govern iu -ut of the Uuited
States, under its present administration,
and inland iu respect thereof, to con
duct themselves as peaceful law abiding
citizens.
2. That however distasteful the recon
struction measures have l>eeu to the
Southern mind, we now vi*»w them as
dualities, and recognize the duty of obey-
iug them in the letter and iu spirit, aud
as far as in our power lies to make that
duty pleasant.
3. That we look to time, and to peace
ful measures only, for the .solution of any
difficulties that uow exist, or may hereaf
ter exist, in the administration of affaire
of this State, aud wo entertain the belief
that all the changes and modifications
that may be d.aured in that connection
can aud will! be effected by the quiet in
fluence of au eulighten id pul die opinion.
4 That the exigencies of the times
demaud from the people other efforts
thau those intended to promote the suc
cess of any “ party ;” their true interests
consisting iu their uuitiug with good
citizens of auy and all parties in promo
ting the welfare of every section and of
every class of the people.
An old Connecticut lady who was very
much troubled by tho prospect of the
introduction of gas in the village, aud
the consequent disuse of wh ile oil, asked
with much earnestness, “ what is to be
come of the poor whales?”
drSh,— ; him die thlt it was the most heart ty—than t«» those measure* you wi*icu t *na comro or
HoURi* i i. UAooRovic^ J goeuc they ever witnessed. I solely these so-called amend menu \.v. . uial, the existing }«te
A special to the Athrnta Hr.N eW lW
Gen. Toombs and Gen. Forrest willlx)
summoned to testify before tho K,u-Kliu
Committee at Washington.