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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 11,1871.
NO. 356.
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INTERESTING TO TAX PAY-
ER&
The C ondition of the Finances
of Georgia.
The New York Journal of Com
merce has a correspondent who is
traveling in the South. Its issue of
the 6th instant, oontains a highly in
teresting letter, written by this cor
respondent from this city, from which
we extract the following :
THE FINANCE OF GEORGIA.
This is the capital of the State, and
here the Governor lives and the Legisla
ture meets. The taxes flow to this center
and the money is paid out here. Men
who steal, steal here. As to the great
inestiou of finances, only the ridiculous
aspect is presented here. The finances
are the taxes, and they are absorbed by
the politicians.
It will be remembered that the Ku-
Klux committee requested the executive
of each State to forward answers to cer
tain questions touching their debt, taxa
tion, election laws, Ac. In response to
that request tbe Treasurer of the State of
Georgia forwarded information, of
hich I will make a brief abstract.
Governor Bullock liad printed in New
York and sent here State bonds amount
ing to 80,000,000, 84,000,000 gold, and
82,000,000 currency, 8500,000 of tbe cur
rency bouds were canceled in New York
and returned here. He also had printed
82,700,000 State gold bonds under the
act of 1870 granting subsidy to the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Compa
ny.
About $5,000,000 of all these bonds
were sent to New York in January last.
Iu addition to this large amounts of
bonds have been promised “ in aid ” of
railronuL.
The indebtedness of the State at the
commencement of the war was 82,114,-
500 ; at the close of the war it was the
same, with the addition of accumulated
interest of about 8000,000. The $3,900,-
000 issued in 1856 was to fund the ma
tured State bonds and interest, and to
put the State Raailroad in repair. A
further amount of $600,000 of State
bonds was issued in 1868, but not used
by the Governor until last year. These
with the bouds previously issued made
the legitimate bonded debt of the State
in January, 1870, 86,544,500.
To this must be added, but
which may not yet be sold,
tbe new gold State bonds
Currency bonds sent to New
York
State gold bonds under act
granting aid to the Bruns
wick & Albany Railroad..
84,000,000
1.500.000
2.760.000
814,804,500
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sidy it is resaoliable to believe that every
dollar grouted will be applied f° r *
THE CBY IS REPUDIATION J
It will be noted that this extravagance
in subsidizing railroads was started in an
extra session of the Legislature held af
ter its legally adjourned day—tlio lo^fc
session held here. In order to make the
best of it a law was passed adjourning
the session over till next fall, so that the
old Legislature might get the pickings
and the new one, which is Democratic,
might not assemble to undo what that
Legislature did.
A great cry has been raised through
Georgia about repudiation. By that they
mean repudiation of the subsidy bonds.
Many gentlemen of financial note pro
tested against a direct repudiation, be
lieving it would be misunderstood, and
damage the credit of the State. So they
made up a case of tbe Supreme Court of
the State on certain points, and it will be
tested when the court meets about two
weeks from to-day. The points are like
this:
First—The constitution of the State
provides that the second session of a leg-
islatute must adjourn on the fortieth day
after its meeting, unless a vote of two-
thirds of both houses shall extend tho
time. Question ? Was the necessary
two-thirds vote secured ? Plaintiffs say
it was not, and that the body was organ
ized in violation of law.
Second—If the body was illegally in
session, are not its acts illegal? It re
quires no reasoning to r’iswer that ques
tion. The decision of the first point will
govern the second.
It would therefore be a good thing for
those who think of investing in the rail
roads named, in expectation of the sub
sidies, to wait a few days and be govern
ed by tbe Supreme Court decision. My
opinion, based on good grounds, is that
the court will decide that all the acts of
the session during which they were grant
ed were unconstitutional,
GOVERNOR BULLOCK AND HIS ECONOMY.
Governor Bullock lives iu the best pri
vate residence in Athuita. The Legisla
ture paid 8100,000 of Suite funds for it.
Governor Bullock i,* not as economical as
he might be. Witness a comparison of
expenses under his administration and
those of his predecessors. Tho Bullock
legislature, 4 rom its organization in July,
1868, to January, 1871,1 cost for its ex
penses over 81,000,000 cash. From 1855
to 1862 (seven years) the entire cost was
8865,000. Last year the legislative ex
penses were greater than for any five
years before the war. The clerk hire ex-
Jlucftt Ado About Nothin.
The New York World advocated
the nomination of (Jhase in 1868, and
ever since it lias been, with great tact
and industry, paving the fcay for his
nomiuatiofi in 1872, or at least for
organizing the Democratic party on
a platform which would he but the
eniliodiment of his principles. WhaU
ver its feebler imitators aud folio# 1 * by its repeal; for they would Still be
ers may claim, the World dtperves all
the credit of the new departure in
vention. It put the ball in motion,
and tbe ‘*iu£ind petty spirits” that
have since been trundling ht it deriv
ed all their inspiration as well as their
confidence from the great organ of
Tam many. As |usual, the original
utterance is far more distinct ana in
telligible than any of its echoes. For
instance, the World finds some of its
disciples jumping at conclusions with
a vim that Uneaten8 to take them
clear over into the Radical position,
and in its issue of Thursday last it
gently Warns them thus:
If the Radical interpretation of Amend
ments XIII, XIV and XV were warrant
ed, particularly that interpretation of
Amendment XIV, which finds ground in
it for the Ku-Klux act, then recognition
of the validity of these amendments
would be an acceptance of an accom
plished revolution—a revolution which
looked but time to blot out State Govern
ments, to expunge tbe Federal Govern
ment, to make prevail one coiiHolidated
centralized Government. No such re
volution in the structure of our institu-
tions as tho Grant Republicans ore at
tempting can the Democratic party be
brought to “accept;” no such situation
will they “recognize;” no such “new de
parture” from tho doctrine h that are
dearest to them will they validate with
even the assent of silence.
The Democratic party would cease to
be Democratic; it would have begun to
bo (not a Republican party, but) a Grant
Radical party—the party of revolution—
the party of imperialism—if for one in
stant, if in one election, if in one Con
gressional district of any State it sub
mitted without indignant protest,without
organized and determined re Stance to
uuy aud every such intolerable interpre
tation of the Constitution as it is.
In discarding the three amendments
from the issues of 1872, the Democratic
party surrenders ilbt one single syllable
last year -re f2 000 being two ^ .tKE.3 tta
clerks for each three members of the sut<8 NorUlern DfIllocrate
deny, as they have always denied, that
At a very low estimate wo
will place the bonds in
dorsed as subsidy to build
new or repair old rail
roads, already made nec
essary or issued at 6,923,000
Total 820,727,000
I do not much like the looks of the ac
counts of the State of Georgia. They
suggest broken promises. Here I find
bonds due and unpaid, matured in 1859,
1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1868, 1869, 1870,
amounting to about 8170,000, with a
prospect of its being increased during
1871 by bonds maturing this year,
amounting to $150,000. In 1868, ster
ling bonds held in Europe, amounting to
£15,000, and £3,000 interest, became due.
They have not been paid.
THAT AWFUL RAILROAD JOB.
During the year 1870, the Legislature
granted State aid, or what we would call
in the North, subsidy, to railroads, which
bear enumeration, for it may be of in
terest to those who desire investing in
the stocks. The aid granted was as fol-
lows: . ^
Albany & Columbus Railroad, 812,000
per mile.
Albany, Mobile & New Orleans Rail
road, $12,000 per mile.
Amerieus A Florence Railroad, 812,000
per mile.
Aiuericus & Hawkinsville Railroad,
$12,000 per mile.
Amerieus & Isbella Railroad, $12,000
per mile.
Athens & Clayton Railroad, $15,000
per mile.
Atlauta & Blue Ridge Railroad, $15,000
per mile. t __
Atlanta & Lookout Railroad, $15,000
per 8 miles.
Augusta & Hartwell Railroad, $15,000
per mile.
Brunswick & Albany Railroad, $8,000
additional per mile.
Camilla A Cuthbert Railroad, $12,000
per mile.
Chattahoochee Railroad, $12,000 per
mile. . '
Columbns & Atlanta Air Line Pailroad,
$12,000 per mile.
Dalton & Morgantown Railroad, $16,-
000 per mile.
Fort Valley & Hawkinsville Railroad,
$12,000 per mile.
Georgia Sealward A Northwestern
Railroad, $12,000 p< r mile.
Grand Trunk Railroad, $12,000 per
mile.
Great Southern Railroad, $12,000 per
Griffin, Monticello A Madison Rail
road, $15,000 per mile.
Lookout Mountain Railroad, $15,000
per mile.
Macon A Brunswick Railroad, $3,000
additional per mile.
Marietta, Canton A Bllijay Railroad,
$16,000 per mile.
, „ McDonough Western Railroad, $12,000
iu 6:45 p.m. • |
id 3 45 a.m. P er mile.
Memphis Branch Railroad, $15,000 per
mile. __
Newnan A Amerieus Railroad, $12,000
per mile.
North A South Railroad, $12,000 per
mile. , ^
North Georgia A North Carolina Rail
road, $12,000 per mile.
Ocmulgee A North Georgia Railroad,
$16,000 p< r mile.
Polk Slate Quarry Railroad, $15,000
per mile.
Savannah, Griffin A North Alabama
Railroad, $12,000 per mile.
South Georgia A Florida Railroad,
$12,000 per mile.
St. Mary’s A Western Railroad, $15,000
per mile.
There you have 32 railroads, whose
bonds are indorsed by the State Legislar
M A ! ture. They cover a distance of over
2,000 mile*, and amonnt inline ofm-
"» r-^-q road* at Maorn. Passengers leaving dorsemeut to paobably $35,000,000.—
lfcMa«4a.ii..<riu*»k. ctowc«iii»rtion MCai T the State guarantie. the bond* only
-: in™' antinipatorpsenae; bat with the
vUl oammui at Atlanta with trams for the West. inducements held OUt IU amounts OX SUD-
mib $. K. JOUR SON, Superintendent.
Legislature. The Legislative clerk hire
from 1860 to 1863 was only $43,000, a-.d
part of that was paid in Confederate mo
ney. The cost of the entire Legislature,
clerks and all, 1862, was only $6*2,849.—
In 1870 the cost was sixteen times that
amount.
Governor Bullock’s incidental expen
ses amounted up to Novembef last to
$23,800; those of his predecessors $350
for fifteen months. Governor Bullock’s
extra printing to November last footed up
$76,000. His predecessors got along a
year with $1,070 for that purpose.—
Among other expenses of the present
Governor are: $34,000 attorney’s fees for
work the Attoruuy-Geueral should have
performed ; $40,000 for executive clerks,
fully four times what the law allows or
has been customary at any time ; $300,-
000 for special service to bis predecessor’s
$7,412, or in the ratio of forty to one.—
He hired Mr. Conley to make nn analysis
of tho State Constitution, and took $10,-
000 copies at $115 each. They arc worth
probable 20 or possibly 25 cents each at
retail. The State Road—tbe Western A
Atlantic—paid to the State last year $45,-
000, but at the end of the year it was
found that it accumulated a floating debt
of $700,000, and the State was obliged
to assume it. There must have been ele
gant pickings for somebody in that trans
action, because it is well known that the
road, well equipped as it is, does a busi
ness that pays handsomely. Before tbe
war it paid a very large portion of all the
State expenses. As the Congressional
Ku-Klux Committee does not pay me for
unearthing these evidences against the
real Georgia Ku-Klnxes, I propose to
stop. Every one seems to be talking of
them, but I get my data from the books,
cession is sncli a right; and Southern
Democrats accept the situation that war
has ended debate. But evejy other
Htuto right defined or reserved in the
Federal Constitution, asserted in Demo
cratic platforms, affirmed bv the Sup
reme Court of these United States—to
these and all of them they cling! accept
ing no revolution which womd melt
them indistinguisliubly iuGrant’enmperial
brazier. Thus the Democratic party oonld
not and would not discard from tbe issues
of 1872 tho three amendments if they
justified those usurpations whiojuGraut
and his party have cut the ties anoiaid
rails for in the Ku-Klux act—usurpation
of the State Rights of police, usurpation
of the State right to have tho suspension
of the habeas corpus writ kept williin the
legislative discretion, and not delegated
to a candidate for re-election to tho Pres
idency. Usurpation of the State right
to make and administer all criminal and
property laws would be as well justified—
for the gate is left wide open—if tbe
XIVth Amendment conld justify the ac
tual usurpations of the Ku-Klux act. But
it justifies neither these nor those—not
one of them.
Now here we have the great leader
of the now departure saying, as plain
as words can make its meaning, that
the Democratic party would cease to
be Democratic ii it submitted to the
amendments as construed by the
Radicals. This whittles down to a
very small point indeed the issue be
tween th<*new departure and the old
One side pro-
Democratic position.
o w I poses to accept the amendments and
and there are plenty more where I left construe them out of sight, seeming
off. very confident, that it ean be done;
the last Ku-Klux outrage the other behoving that the amend-
was the recent offer by Governor Bullock | monte were made aud the courts
of largejrewards for the arrest and deliv-1 j )llit .ked to insure the Radical con-
ery (not conviction) of alleged^Ku-Klux- gtructioh of them, proposes to eradi-
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prop
cate ttie amendments themselves, and
with them every pretext for the fatal
liowera which the ltudicals intend to
iissuinc and have assumed uudor
them.
The World makes a long argument
to prove that the Radical construc
tion of the XVth Amendment is un
tenable; but the World is neither the
legislative, the executive, nor the ju
ilicial department of our (iovern
ment Unfortunately tho Supreme
Court lias recently been packed for
corrupt decisions where only sordid
theft was the motive. How can we
trust to weigh the glittering prize of
i mnjro against the lilx-rtics of our
people? If the Democrats wore in
power We huve no fear that they
would construe the amendments
dangerously as the Radicals do. If
wo could nave any assuranco that
power would never again pass into
the hands of consohdatioubts we
should have no cause to fear the
amendments. Ilut, until wo can
have some such assurance, it is rain
to expect that the Detnscratic heart
will he reconciled tg the permanence
of such startling innovations in the
original scheme of our Government
—sfveli mighty changes in the distri
bution of power as must unsettle the
‘guilibrium of our system. Usurpa-
ing in it to cause estrangement among
honest Democrats. The great end in
view is the same on both sides, and
the only difference is as to the best way
way of securing it The bitterest en
emy of the amendments does not wish
to disturb the Xlllth. He objeots to
the XVth because suffrage should be
left to the States entirely and not be-
oause he would disfranchise the negro
voters under, the Constitution of
nearly every Southern State. His
objections to the XIVth are precisely
those innovations which the new de
parture pledges itself to construe
away.
We said, and we sinoerely believe,
that there is no cause here for es
trangement between honest Demo
crats who take different views as to
the policy of the campaign we are to
conduct together against the com
mon enemy. But there is another
class of new departure Democrats who
stand in a very different relation to
us. • They have gone into the move
ment because they are indoctrina
ted with Radical principles, aud
are only restrained from joining the
Radical party by the most sordid con
siderations of selfish policy. It is easy
to distinguish this class of Democratic
papers from such as the World.—
There are but three or four of them,
and they may be known by the trucu
lent and shameless malignity with
which they unceasingly assail the
Democratic party under the presence
of attacking the “Bourbons.” It is
from them that the North gets the
Ku Klux alarms, its belief that the
“Bourbons” want a new war to dis
franchise the negro and reduce him
again to slavery. It is from them
that tiie North gets its opinion of
Democratic government in Kentucky,
as an organized system of lawless
ness, eorruption and cruelty. It is
from them, in short, that the
Radical stumpers draw most of their
campaign material. It is not at all
strange that they aro known aud
shun lied us political lepers. That
there is no movement to kick them
out of the party, aud out of their dis
guise us Democrats, resnlts from the
fact that their feeble sensationalism is
not at all dangerous, and everybody
knows that they will take themselves
out of the party at the first favorable
opportunity.—Louisville Ledger.
From the Albany News, July 7th.
Nearly a Unit*
Three days after he issued his proo*
famation he "commenced drawing war
rants on the State Treasurer, amounting
to $1,500 each.
It would seem by this that Governor
Bullock wants to raise a Ku-Klux Klau
of his own, for the purpose of creating
bogus outrages in order to secure the
offered rewards. This is tho only or
ganized Ku-Klux Klat in the State of
Georgia.
► •-* —— „
From the Mobile Resistor, June 23.
PRESIDENT DAVIS
And the Franklin Society.
The Mobile Franklin Society—not en
dorsing the special gag-laws, which some
people would impose upon certain dis
tinguished citizens—recently invited ex-
Presideut Davis to deliver a public lec
ture or address iu this aity uoou auy .sub
ject that he might select. Iu reply Mr.
Davis writes as below to the chairman of
the lecture committee of the society. We
publish his answer, in tho hope that, on
the approach of the next season, he may
l)e prevailed upon to reconsider his de
cision. We venture to say that. Mr.
Davi.’s Southern friends hereabout
would be quite willing to bear any blame
that could be put upon them for listen
ing to a lecture from a geutlcuiau whose
attainments as a scholar are fully worthy
of his fame as a soldier and statesman.
Nor do we believe that the feeling of any
respectable portion of the people of this U ^ IIHWW —... r _
country, North or South, is iu sympathy t ; on< jg true, waits tor no constitu-
with the malignant n-vr. irritation, that | „ j rsrnmt . hill we have seen
1 »• *h» <™«try it «n..nt perpet-
1 ! uate iftelf without at least a consti-
luliuiial pretext. Those who refuse
to accept the amendment* as sacrod,
aud never to lie re|ieiiled, merely ask
the people to deal roy such a danger-
mil pretext for the march of eonsoli-
latirm. Those who ucccpt them and
Mf.mrum. 22d June, U>7J.
Major W. T. Walthall
Dwir Sir—With gin err.* thank* fur tli« kind
conatdrratiuft ahown hy the MatSle Frankliu Socie
ty, I feel compelled to decline the invitation to «te -
of any Southern friend*, but 1t wonld hardly
ubi-uud.'fii.tiuacirruM'.u'.,:.. fcvKvcirt no j |irora j=r, t 0 ward off the danger by a
word* from being abu«e«l ff <r auch a pirpoee. I . ® * *
Hopefully looking forward to tho Uu< r d*y whim J I IcUloCI'UUO Q< 'UBirUctlOll, propose tO
iHySSSpwiHitwl,
»nd to««'i>t L>r r»or«-fir or ite remedy they ott r must tail with the
RWh ngMM .us wiiux i daVis. fim rcVerae of tbe party.
■ ■■*■•+ ) This statement we believe fairly
The Southern Recorder reports, covers the ground of difference be-
geveral serious cases of fever in that nyaop tho new departure and the old
•ection. 'Democratic position. There is uoth-
The Democratic press of Georgia
is nearly a unit against the “new de
parture” heresy. There is some dif
ference as to the mode and manner ol
conducting tho C,r'>+ too r- ; ■
but ',vc believe the True Georgian is
the only Democratic paper iu the
State that es2>o!ises the new policy
doctrine, and embraces the harlot of
dissension.
The people of Georgia are not pro
pared to surrender vital priuciplcs
for temporary advantage, and of this
there arc no surer indioee than the
utterances of the press. They may
be willing to remain outside of the
national political cauldron, and calm
ly wait the developments of the in
cantation, hut will never conaeut that
wrong is right, or that usuroatiou
and central despotism shall forever
control the destinies of this country.
They “accept the situation” sC far as
to recognize tho binding force of the
constitutional amendments and the
laws, aud their obligations of obedi-
anco thereto; but tiiey do not, never
will, and never ought to enter into a
compact of eternal silonoo, or liarter
awuy the inevitable opportunity to
decentralize the government, re-es
tablish constitutional balances and
restore the rights of the States and
the libert ies of the citisen.
If the Northern Democrats who ac
cept the 14th and 15th amendments
as finalities are in earnest, and moan
what they say, thon we can have no
affiliation with them, for they agree
to the centralization of the govern
ment, the wiping out of tho State
lines, the concentration of imperial
power in the excoutive, the subordi
nation of the judicial and legislative
detriments of the government, and
the* abandonment of the writ of
habeas corpus. If they aro not in ear
nest, aim are really only playing a
game of “make believe” with the
masses, the trick is too shallow and
will recoil u|Kin them with crashing
effect Therefore, in either case, our
true policy, as well as our safety, argue
trumpet-tongued against our ming
ling in the muddle.
If we hold aloof from the National
Convention, and preserve harmony
among ourselves, we shall be in a
condition to save the country by the
terms of our surrender. Let the Re
publicans and the Democrats of the
North make their own fight in their
own way, and the shiuing of the sun
is not more certain than that the
Sonth, being a looker on, and holding
her strength in solid unanimity, can
make terms advantageous to herself
and propitious for the weal of the
whole country.
Judse Chase m the New IV-
part are.
The Savannah News of the 30th of
June says: We publish in another
column what purports to be an inter
view between a correspondent of tbe
New York Herald and Chief Justice
Chase, in which tho latter gives the
country hi-vl. t’.e subject of
the “New Iteparture,” the discontent
prevailing in the ranks of the Radi
cal party, the politioal indiscretions
of Mr. Davis, Messrs. Stephens aud
Toomb's lack of influence with the
Southern people, and the prospeota of
the Democratic party in the next
Presidential election, provided they
nominate “a good man, who will com
mand the popular confidence, and
place him on the ‘New Departure'
jilatform.”
The political views thus obtruded
upon the public through tbe medium
of a newspaper Bohemian, together
With his recently published letter to
Mr. Vnllandiglinm, and other facts
which have come to our notice, in
duce us to believe that the “New De
nurture” initiated by Mr. Vullandig-
uuin is nothing more nor less than a
cunningly devised scheme for forcing
Judge Chase on the Democratic party
as their nominee for President in
1873. It is a well known fact that a
heavy pressure was brought to bear
upon tho Democratic National Con
vention in 1868 to secure Judge
Chase’s nomination, that the New
York H’orW, as the reputed organ of
the bond-holders, and other professed
Democratic papers of doubtful integ
rity, openly advocated bis nomina
tion, aud that most prominent among
his supporters in the Convention was
Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, to whom
the defeat of Mr. Pcndloton, the
Western favorite, was mainly attrib
utable. From published statements
it appears that me “New Departure”
was no new thing with Mr. Vallan
digham. He hae been contemplating
the moveinout for several months,
and that ho acted with the knowl
edge, and in (he political interoats of
the Chaso faction, rather than from
convictions of expediency or political
necessity, we do not doubt.
At no time since tho war was there
so little necessity for snob an aban
donment of principle ou the part of
the Democrats. The passage of the
“Bayonet Election law” and the “Ku-
Klux act,” had aroused the appre
hension of the friends of constitu
tional government of all parties,
while the “Sail Domingo job,” the
Sumuor imbroglio, the treatment of
Secretary Cox, and the admitted im
becility and reeking corruption of the
Grant Administration had driven
thousands from its support in every
section of the country. Tho Demo
crats, meeting their opponents on the
recognized issues of the dav, had
overeomo the Renublioan majorities
in several States, the defection in the
Republican ranks was bccorainggen-
eral North, East, South and West,
while harmony and ooncord, aud re
vived confidence prevailed among the
Democrats from one extreme of the
Union to the other. The prospect of
a Democratic victory, and the tri
umph of sound Democratic Republi
can principles, was never brighter.
There was then, no necessity for,
really no expediency in such an aban
donment of principles as iB sought to
lie accomplished by tho so-called
“New Departure.” But ic was desi
rablo to prepare a steppiug-stone for
Judge Clinso to tha Presidential nom
ination, and to open the way for his
Radical followers, who, foreseeing the
oertain overthrow of their party, as
pire to positions under the new re
gime. The Democrats are to be
forced to accept his principles, as em
bodied in tho Xlvth and XVth
Amendments, after which they cannot
again refuse to ucccpt him as their
nominee for President.
It remains to bo seen whether tho
plot for cheating the Democracy out
of its almost assured victory will be
successfully accomplished. We trust
not. There is encouragement in
thought that “the best laid plans o’
mice und man, gangaft nglcc.”
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