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' DAILY ENQUIREK - SUN: WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1874. jEuquivcv. IOHM H. MARTIN • • • rOU NHCN, UA.I WEDNESDAY... .SEPTEMBER he has made lias received three cheer* j ed ourselves to suppress from that great party that rained him to Can there he any genuine power, and to whoso principle* he will ** * always he true, because they are hi«. He 1874. The Augusta Chronicle, of Sunday, aaya that it haa information that Mr. Stephen* will accept the nomination for Congress made by the Democratic Convention of the Eighth Diatrict, and that his letter will be published in a day or two. Tho Chronicle alao expresses the opinion that the oppoaition to the nomination is sub- aiding, and it urges all Democrats to sup port Mr. Stephens. The Enfanla Time*, of Monday, pub- lishoa a letter of A. J. Locke, Kud.cal nominee for Sheriff of Harbour county, Ala., declining the candidacy as tho nomi nee of that party, also resigning his posi tion as a member of the Executive Com mittee. He aays that his “convictions of right and duly force him to separate him self from the Republican party.” He is a brother of R. D. L-nko, tho Republican Solicitor who testified to Judge Roils par tiality and bitter partisanship. What aro bayonets in tho interest of a political par ty good for, if they cannot pin tho candi dates to the party uutil after tho election? EX-UOV HRUW.VS LETTER. We hope that no one will forego, on count of dislike to tho author, to read the letteiof ex-tiov. Joseph E. llrown, which we copy to-day. It is addressed to two leading and influential Republicans, who co-ojierated with him throughout tho “re construction" struggle, and have, with him, acted with the Radical parly since that time. The ox-Governur now places himself fairly and squarely by the sido of the Democrats, on account of the Civil Rights issue, and well says that no South ern gentleman, having a true perception of what he owes to his country And his race, can fail to do likewise. No doubt the Messrs. McWhorter and Hon. Joshuu Hill take the same view of the situation. Hon. James L. So ward, the able white leader of the Republicans in tho southern part of the State, had already taken the same position. Congressmen Sloan and Freeman, Republican Representatives in the present Congress, have declined to seek a re-election because they ennuot meet the demands of tho fanatical portion of their party on this question. What white leader, then, of any respectability, i« left to hear the banner of Radicalism in (loorgia while tho Civil Rights issue is before the country ? There are some statements and argu ments in Gov. Brown's lotter to which we do not assent. We all know that the alienation of the negroes from tho South ern whites was effected some time before the commencement of “reconstruction" in 1807 >: that nearly all the negroes had left the employment and homes of their old masters long before that time, and therefore the latter could not have exercised the influence over them that Governor Browu supposes ; that men like Ashburn and Maul wore found in nearly every large negro county to organize them in secret meetings in implacable hostility to nud distrust of the whites and that no exertions by the whito men outaido of tho “Loyal Leagues" could at that time havo iufliieucej a single uegro vote other than thoso of the very few who voted with the whites at that time. But the conclusions of Gov. Brown's letter are so good that we refrain from enlarg ing on these incidental questions. We hope that it will have a good effect out side of Georgia. lias wo i Lorn nil parlies the title of jnst, and the irreconcilable enemy of injustice. In 'hi. just to his sword. In peace, just to the fallen great anti the cause he con quered. Jn**t in vir.tiou* example; just to the memory of Greeley ; just to Lee; just to his foes; just to the lawn; just in demanding of strong nations the right, and in mercy to weak nations. The splen dors of fortune, the applause of nations, tho confidence of country, the adulation of flattery and the churnis of vice have not moved the virtue* of an innocent life. Thoso of our citizens who fear a third term seven ly reflect upon his pant, while they betray a want of confidence in the permanency of our institutions. Blessed of 1’rovidence with such vast re sources, blessed with such examples of Roman virture, all that is needed to re store the couutry to prosperity is pa- tienco. OUR POLITICAL CONBITIOX. A STATESMANLIKE VIEW. WHAT COL. NWANN MAID. Col. Swann, of West Virginia, is re ported by telegraph as having made tho authoritative announcement that General Grant is a candidate for a third Presiden- tial term. This Col. Swann married a cousin of President Grant, and tho Presi dent, while on a visit to West Virginia laat spring, stopped at hiN house, ^iul was entertained with a munificence and atten tion exceeding oven the famed hospitality of tho rich Virginia gentleman of tho old timo. It was while Col. Swann's guest that Gen. Grant is Raid to have confided to him his purposo to run for another term. Moro recently, at a caueus of load ing Republicans of West Virginia, Pol. Swann disclosed this design of the Presi dent and offered a resolution eudorsiug his candidacy, but it wus voted down on tho soore of inexpediency. This, of coarse, was iu secret moetiug. But a cor respondent of the New York llerttld claims to have found a gentleman who attended tho caucus, aud who makes thin disclosure iu an interview, stating that “there were present the Collector and other revenue officers of t^e district, tho special Agent of tho Post Office Department, and Col. Atkinson, Postmaster at Charleston, and editor of tho llVnf Virginia Journal; all good men, all true Republicans, and thor oughly competent for their positions, but they are men, aud don't oaro to bo forced into positions of nntagonisui with the ap pointing power. They got out of the thing on the ground of its inexpediency, and the resolution was voted down.” In thin connection the Herald publishes nn extract from a speech made in opeu session of the Republican nominating con vention of the 3 l Congressional District of West Virginia, by the some Colonel Swann, on the Hath of August. It is a very pretty and imaginative speech, and worth the place it fills, without reference to the third term question. But it will bo seen that he distinctly claims a third or oven a fourth term for Gen. Grant and speaks of it as n certain event. Wo make the following lively extract from this speech. At the head of the government stand-', aud will staud for mauy years, a man iu whom all have confidence aud who will prove equal to the trials of the present, as he was equal to tho trials of the past, From a two column editorial articlo of tho Now York Herald, of Friday last, wo make tho extract given below. It proven that while the mere politicians and time- servers of the country are looking to con tinued usurpation and force on the means of perpetuating ut tho South the evils and aniiuositioH that havo been kept up during the last eight years, there aro some think ing men who see that this policy can nev- or restore a harmonious Union or secure tho stability of any great interest in the country. Tho people of tho South want justice nud right, not coercion aud wrong* and they must continue to bo a distract ing and disturbing element in the Union as long ns they are denied political equal ity and the right to manage their local af fairs in thoir own way, subject only to constitutional restrictions. The Herald acknowledges the goniua aud moral power of the statesmen who represented the .South in tho nationul councils before the war, nud truly says that though they nro in retirement their spirit and touchings still animate the Southern people. Permit us to say that all tho evils of Federal “recoustiuction" which the Herald now perceives as the re sult of experiment, these Southern states- men clearly saw and foretold as the cer tain effect of tho Federal policy as soon as it was proposed; and they us clearly seo in tho future all the evils which the llerald apprehends, as tho certain result f a continuance of tho policy. They know full well that the shorn and mutilat- id South in now in a condition like that •f Humson grasping the pillars of the Phihstiau temple, and that if the edifice falls they will not bo the ouly sufferers. Tho Herald's articlo concludes: Can we really reconstruct the Southern States without tho a d of the real sons of tho South ? We have tried to do so, de pending upon the ignorant freedtneu who Yesterday were slaves aud the unscrupu lous white adventurers who yesterday fled from the North as political mendicants and soldiers of fortuue. There is uo re construction. On tho contrary, we see disturbance, civil outbreaks, corruption and disorder, and, worse than all, a war upon the national credit hy meuus of re pudiation that will he as disastrous to the Union as if the rebellion had heeu a sue* co-s. It would cortaiuly be better in the interests of civilization and liberty to have two Confederacies, governed by statesmen of honor and character, who respected credit aud sacred obligations, than such a Uuiou us wo shall certainly see if Arkansus and South Carolina are permitted to drag theso Federal States into the abyss of bankruptcy. This can he iu no respects a wholesome living Uniou, aud I he end will be a destruction by repudiation more disastrous than would have heon tho dostructiou by war. What then is the remedy ? It is idle to tulk of military power to keep the peace. No military power can keep the peace iu a country bent upou disturbance, uuless by tho extermination of the peoplo. Spain has boon trying for forty years to preserve order iu her Biscayan provinces, aud iu tho end she has a civil wur as irri tating as it wus when Espartoro made himself the Duke of Victory. The public sentiment of this country would not ad mit of. any policy which looked to the armed occupation of the South. It would be au expense, an offence, a scandal. a burden that could never be cheerfully borne, a violation of the genius of our in stitutions. Oil the other hand this public sentiment would never consent to tho re vival of slavery, to the recognition of its existence in any form, except as a crime happily abolished and atoned. Nor would it accept any of tho responsibilities of thoso «arho made the rebellion, the Confederate debt, tho cotton loans, tho losses of those who went into secession aud whose property was takeu by troops, tho sequestration of lands like those of Arlington. Norcuu | «re consider lor u moment any policy that would regard tho uegroos of the South who were formerly slaves as iu any other relation thau that of freemen, citizens, aud .entitled to every right of citizcuship. t here are certain inevitable facts growing out of our war, just as they grow out of all wars aud nil revolutions. The English Revolution made Parliament free and de stroyed absolute powor. The French Revolution made France the home, tho heritage, nud the glory of every French man, and decreed noble and peasant equal before tho law. Our own secession revo lution consolidated the Uniou and eman cipated the hIavoh. These are the fruits of the coldest, tho inevitable facts that came from it, that can never l»e destroyed or taken uwav. and for which we should go to war to-morrow as eagerly as Eng land for tho freedom of her Parliament, or France for tho preservation of the fruits of her revolution. But there are other questions iu noway vital which do not affect these inevitable result'*, aud tho consideration of which statesmanship would impose upon us. Havo wo not imposed too heavy a tine upou the South as tho cousequeuce of the war ? Have we not punished her. al though a sister Commonwealth, ten times more severely thau France was punished hy the alien invader? If Germany as tonished the world iu exacting five mil liards from Frauce, what must be thought of the fine of ten milliards, which, asti- rnating each slave at five humlred dollars, was imposed upon the South by the pro clamation of emancipation? Should not some compensation be made to the South for this enormous fine—not iu the way of that make* it tho object of the Southern leader* to aim to destroy by repudiation the Union they fuiled to destroy bv seces sion ? These are grave questions. To the minds of some of our readers they may no doubt l e novel, and it may be said that we t.ike a gloomy or a"fautastic view of the situation in the South. But there certainly is au evil iu the South that wo have not reached. We are rapidly drifting upon chaos, disorder, a war of races, repudiation. We have made our brothers Xif yesterday our enemies, nnd not only enemies, but we surrender to their mercy the credit of the nation and the happiness of the four million* of slaves we emancipated. More than all, we have giveu them no motive for recon struction ; but on the contrary, we have left them every temptation to war upon the Union. These aro living questions. Jt is not for ns to decide them ; but wo do uot seo how there can he recount ruction until they are decided. Would it not be the wisent statesmanship, therefore, to call together n national convention to consider the war, its consequences ami results, and how best the Union can adjust itself to the new and strange conditions it has left to us ? 1st vm hare a national convention of peace and reconstruction. LETTER ON THE PRESENT PO- UTICAL SITUATION. CIVIL RIGHTS. tho rebellion? PAV [ACL 1 DU L 1 RllOWY acquiesced in these measures, with the of the horrors consequent upon its part- reconst ruction • •JVJoEiril Tj. DIw It ii• Fifteenth Amendment added; which s*ge. might have been avoided, if the whole If this should fail—and I trust it may South had promptly acquiesced in the uot—the only remaining hope is in the Fourteenth Amendment and the Recon- exercise of the veto power by the Brest* struction net known as the Sherman bill, dent of the United States. I know noili- But at this period we ore met with a ing of the intentions of the President on much more daug^rous issue than any that 1 this question, bat I trust a sense of patri- was presen’ed in 1867; and it become* , otic duty may compel him, if the mens- ns t-i meet it fairly and squirely, and to I ure should ever come before him for do all in our power to avert the enactment ] action, to save the country from anarchy of a measiim which will be productive of and ruin by tho two of this great cou th© in .Kt ruiuous consequences through- ; serv*t ve power which is wisely placed iu out tho entile South. his hands by the Constitution. If it It wa* a hard enough fate up »n us for j should come to that point and General our conquerors to abolish slavery, and Grant should veto the measure, mid wrest from n*, without a dollar of com- ! throw the* vast weight of his Executive pensutioii, «he fail ions of dollars invested j power and personal influence in the sc tie The Attorney-General nt the Head of the Government. The President of tho United States in his recent letter of instructions from Long Branch to General ihdknap, Secre tary of War, at Washington, after calling his attention to the “recent atrocities in the South, particularly iu Louisiana, Ala bama aud South Carolina,” nnd to the danger* which they threaten “uulesa speedily checked.” and to the duty of tho Government, under such circumstances, “to give all tho aid for tho protection of life and civil right* legally authorized,’' says, that “to this on I 1 wish you would consult with the Attorney General, who is well informed as to iho outrages already committed aud the localities where the greatest danger lies, nud so order troofis to be available in case of necessity," and that “all proceedings for Iho protec tion of the South will be under the Law Department of tho Government, and wid directed by the Attorney General, in accordance with the provisions of tin En forcement acts." It thus appears that under tho Enforce ment acts tho Attorney General, so far as the restoration of law nnd order in the Southern States is concerned, is practi cally the head of tho government and charged with duties which constitutional ly are the duties of the President. Tli% Attorney General, for instance, sends for tho Secretary of War. aud tho Secretary, on reporting in pers >n at the La v Depart ment is told that three, thousand troops are wanted iu Louisiana, two thousand in South Carolina nnd fifteen hundred in Alubama, to bo distributed at such and such places, Ac., and tho Secretary, hav ing received his instructions, bows him self out and proceeds to execute his or ders accordingly. Thou wo have a circu lar letter of instructions from tho Attor ney General to certain United States marshals touching their duties iu tho prom ises. instructions which should emanate directly from the President anil over his signature. We conclude that the Presi dent, having had enough of it. has turned over tho unpleasant business of enforcing law and order in the South to tho Attor ney General, under tho idea that tho dep uty in theso duties will servo as well as his principal. But this is a grave mistake and a had precedent. It is the boiinden duty of the President “to takn care that tho laws be faithfully executed." The duties of liiH office are the execution of the laws. He caunot properly, and espe cially in serious emergencies, turn over bin highest responsibilities to his subordi nates. As Commander iu-Cbief of tho army it is hi* business to instruct directly the Secretary of War touching tho move ments of troops. Iu a word, the Presi dent should ho now domiciled uot at Long Branch, but at Washington, for tho prompt and proper discharge of his offi cial duties. — -V. J\ He aid, oth. Third Diatrict of Alnbuiut%. TAUL URADFOttn'.S APPOINTMENTS. Opelika, Lee County, Ala.,) September f», 1874. The Executive Committee of tho Dem ocratic and Conservative party of tho Third Congressional District met this day aud organized by electing J. R. Dowdell, Esq., Chairman, and John A. Holmes Secretary. On motion, the following programme for speakiug by the lion. Taul Bradford, Democratic aud Conservative candidate for Congress, was adopted, viz; Sept. 19, Saturday, Gold Hill, Leo county. “ 22, Tuesday. Wodowee, Randolph tio. •* Jit, Wednesday, Lwuiar, “ *‘ 24, Thursday. High Sheets, “ “ “ *25, Friday, Koanoko, »• “ “ 26, Saturd.i), faotiiua, »• •* “ .8, M ml ay, Mill Town, Chamber* Co. •• 5i9, Tuesdax, Hickory FI't, “ “ Weduo.-d •>. LaFayvtio, “ “ Oct. 2 Frida 3, Sat rd*y, Hr< Monday, Opelika vlllo, Lae county. salem, “ “ Siiuy, Crawford. Ru.'soll Co, ay Seale, “ “ •' 1«’, Friday, ll'u 'ley> tl “ 17, Satu day, I hi v Id ton. “ W, Monday, Newslte, “ “ 20, Tuosday, lladcvillo. •• “ 21, Wednesday, Barusvlllc, *• “ 21, Wodnesda* night, Tallassec, Elmore. “ 22, Thursday. White's Grocery, “ 23, Friday,Central Institute, “ •* 24, Saturday, Wotuinpka. “ “ 20. Monday', Buyckville. “ “ 27, Tuesday. Traveler's Best, Coosa. “ 28, Wednesday. Kookford, • 2V. Thursday, Nixhurg, “ “ 3o, F.lduy, Kelly ton “ On motion, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted : Whereas, It 1ms been brought to the knowledge of this committee that certain representations have been made by one Charles Pelham and other Radical* iu Washington City that recent outrages have been committed m this District upon iuuoceut and inoffensive citizens ; there fore be it Resolved, That we take this occasion to deny said charges, and pronounce them utterly false aud without the least founda tion. Resolved, further, Thn* n'l the Demo cratic papers in the District bo requested to publish tho proceedings of this meet ing- Ou motion, the committee adjourned. J. R. Dowdell, Chairman. John A. Holme*. Secretary. From the Atlanta Herald, flCi.] Pesy.eld, Ghf.es Co.. Ga.J August.ll, 1874. > Cor. Joseph K. Ilnur n, Atlanta, (Ja. : Dear Sir;—In this Lour of political trouble, we would counsel your wisdom, and political experieu o. In our opinion the passage by Congress of the Civil Right* bill would inaugurate a spirit of antagonism bet wee i the white and black races, that could novel* be lecouciled. To us it dues appear imposedhlo for any Southern gentleman to identify himsolf with any party who seek to imposo this measure upou our people. But irusting in your profound judgment aud practical common sense, we advise with you. We are, Governor, Yours very respectfully, R. L. McWhorter, J as. H. McWhorter- Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2, 1874. Messrs. It. L. Me Whorter and James H. Me Whorter, Cenfield, (Ja. : Gentlemen ;—In reply to your letter in reference to the political situation, in which 1 understand you to ask my opin ion of the Civil Rights bill, pending be fore Congress, I have to state that J am not engaged in political strife, nor do 1 intend to be in future. I shall, however, iimiutain the position of an independent citizen, and I shall not hesitato to express any political opinions which I may enter tain, uud to act and vote in such manner as in my judgment will best promote the interest of the State of Georgia, and of (he whole people of the Union. As you are aware, I wa* one of the first public men in Georgia to take position in lavor of acquiescence to the reconstruction measures adopted by Congress. I did this because I clearly foresaw that the South, as the conquered section, would be com pelled to submit to theso measure* ; and. if acquiesceuce was refused, that more rigor*.u* measure* still would be euforced But I thought by acqniesciug at once, aud raising no issues with the colored people of the State, we would retain their confi dence, and keep them out of the bands of the carpet-baggers and designing men, who would come among them for the pur poso of misleading them, and exciting their prejudices against tho native white population; who aro in fact their best friends. Each of you took the same posi tion whioh I felt it my duty to take upon these issues, and we passed through a pe riod of persecution aud ostracism seldom endured by those who have in view noth ing hut tho bed. interests of the Stute, in the course they pursue, and who labor day aud night to save those who revile them, from a fate such ns tho white peo ple of South Carolina and Louisiana, who followed tho advice of unwise leaders,and made no effort to control the deliberations of their conventions, are now compelled to endure. The result of our labors, and of thoso who co-operated with us in aud out of the Convention, gave to Georgia a Constitu tion under which she is now living nnd prospering ; aud to her native original cit izens thecoutrol aud management of their own affairs. In the other Kent horn States, where the whole mas* of the white people, follow ing the advice of their excited leaders, gave up their constitutional conventions to ne gr. e* aud carpet-baggers, and made uo ef fort to control them, constitutions have been fixed upon them which vest the gov ernment in the hands of their former slaves, und-r the guidance and direction of Northern men, who, bankrupt in char acter and fortune at home, came to the South, and, taking adva* t igo of tho folly of our people, who were nc.iug upou thoir pHK*ioiisaud prejudices at.>1 not upon their judgment and common sense, alienated tho negroes from their white neighbor* and friends, and obtained complete con trol over them. It was the thirty to forty thousand whito men iu Georgia who acted with us, sub ordinating passion and prejudice to judg ment aud reason, and who, contrary to the ndvico of honored leaders, voted iu tho election for delegates to tho conven tion, nnd sent such men as McCoy, 8af- told. Miller, Parrott, Trammell, Waddell, McWhorter, Bell, Augier, Bigby, Bowers, Flynn, Foster, Irwin, Maddox, Shrop shire, and a number of others, all able, honored citizens of Goorgia, who, with the aid of some influences outside, con trolled tho counsels of the convention, nnd secured our pr«sent constitution, who saved Georgia from the sad fato of some of her Southern sisters. Suppose the whole whito population of South Carolina, immediately after the p ssage of the Sherman bill, had pro claimed to the world that they acquiesced iu the measure and each had gone to work to influence and control ah many colored men a* possible, innking no issue with (hem. but informing them that their right to vote was conceded, and suppose every white voter iu the State had gone to the polls and voted for delegates to the con vention, who believes that they could not have carried colored voters enough, with their own, to have controlled the con vention nnd made their constitution as good as that of Georgia? This could have been doue by them, if they had acted promptly, in defiance of all the efforts tlmt carpet baggers could have uinde. If no is-»ue had been iqado with the col ored people, probably each white voter in the Stuto could have influenced nnd con trolled one colored vote. Some could have controlled a much larger number. But if only one in every five had control led n colored vote it would have giveu the white people the control of the conven tion. uud as a consequence would hnve given them a good constitution. The property, intellect and intelligence of any State can govern it, when it unites in a determined effort to do so. And if they had made no issue with the government, or the colored people, on their right to vote, there wore s'rung reasons why their former owners could have exercised more influence and coutrol over the colored people thau the employer can usually ex orcise over tho employed, owing to the kind relations which hud formerly existed between them, aud the dependence upon tho white people which the colored peo ple had habitually felt during their past in that, property, which had descended from gouersti 'll to generation as the pat rimony < f savor d ages; and then to com pel us (<» stand up in term* of legal equal ity with our former slaves, and meet them as equuis at the bullot-box. This, how ever, tho conqueror dictated, and com pelled submission to his dictation ; and those who were most fiery and denuncia tory in their warfare against it accom plished nothing of good for our p ople. All parties have now united in acquies cence in these measures, and all the States have been re-admitted into the Union, as the Northern States must ad mit, upon terms of legal equality. Here, then, the reconstruction measures should cea*e, and ail parties should agree that the war is at au end ; that we have suf fered its disastrous consequences, and that no further wrongs should be inflicted upon us. At this stage, however, with a view no doubt to the uext Presidential campaign, and for the purpose of making the color ed voters more enthusiastic in their sup port of tho Republican party, certain leaders of that powerful organization bring forward what is called the “Civil Rights Bill,” which is now pending ou tho calendar of Congress, and which, iu fact, is intended, not a* a civil rights bill, but a social rights measure ; for the pur pose of compelling social equality betw een the whito nud colored people of the South. This can never be done, and if attempted should not, and will not be submitted to. be the consequences what they may. God has created the two races different, with different tastes, capacity and instinct for social enjoyment, and no human legislation can ever compel them to unite as Rocial equals. Those who urge this measure in Con - gress, with a view of bringing up the col ored voters to a more enthusiastic sup port of their party, are putting themselves litlon to do ' of peace and harmony, he would bo enti tled to, and I be ieve would receive, (he thanks and applause of the entire white population of the South, and of a vast majority of the people of the Union. 1 have no wi*h to thrust my opinions before the public on any political issue ; but on accouut of the magnitude of this question, and tho fearful results which may follow, I think it the duty of every citizen to speAk out aud stuto his position in terms too unequivocal to be misunder stood. I therefore authorize you to make such use of this letter as you may think proper. I am. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Joseph E. Brown. SELECT FEMALE SCHOOL, OolumbUDf Ga. T he tenth soholastaC year will begin the tln*t day of October, 1874. The Rev. C. A. Kendrick will be associated with the hohool to teach Mmlera Languages aud Belles-Lettres. Music Department—Mrs. L. Spencer. Tuition In Literature reduced 15 per cent. All Branches thoroughly taught. A few boarders can be accommodated in the family of the Frinclpal. sep® tr j. r. mcintosh. Check Lost. I GST—On Tuesday, 8th Instant, between J the Fontaine warehouse and Kudo & Phentx Manufacturing Company—a CHECK on Merchants’ k xecnardcs’ Hank, Columbus. Ga., No. 63, payabl • to W. B. Howard & Co., or boarer. All persons are forowarned not to trade for said check, as payment has been stopped. The finder will be rewarded by leav ing the check at Messrs. Jackson jt Pratt's store J. E. DAVIS. se9-2t« 4'onauiiiptioii of Cotton. Reports from seventeen cotton fact in the district allotted by 111 Exchange to 1 ha Augusta Exoha district embracing the territoi by n parallel with Augusta to t see State Line—have ionnl actual money paid to former slaveholders, hut iu the development of industries in the South that were destroyed by the | From these reports we coll.it w ar ? If we of the Northern States for : ing of interest to our read the future—a man generations sustained, approved and Tho whole consumptio: w ^ . . profited hy slavery when it was an insti- 1 teen mills during the year ending August , them—the colored people became willing tut ion, should we not assume some of 3lst was 13,381 bale*. During the last subjects of those who carno to them with aud responsibility of quarter of the year the same mills cou- | flatteriug promises, and were soon bound crime ? * Be- , sutned 3,325 bale*. % to them by ties too strong to be easily and w ill be equal t< just to all. lie will save to the East her bond*, and to the South her schools aud her civilization and to tho Goodman his , the expense equal rights. A uun who will give trails- regarding But so soon as the whole mass of the white people proclaimed their hostility eternal to the lie const ruction nets, and declared that they would never submit to negro suf- frage, they drove the negroes from them; aud, as any other race wto did not feel competent to coutrol their own affai wou'd lmvo done under like circum stances. they naturally looked Around for somebody to lead them ; aud at this ciiti- cal moment the carpet-baggers ennie umoug them, announcing that their mis sion was to see that tho acts of Congress weto carried into effect, and tho rights of suffrage secured to the colored race. Having no one else to lean upon—their former owners aud neighbers hav ing, as they considered it, turned against p station to the West aud for the nation cause we eouquered the South have we Six of those mills run to their full ca- brokeu will find au exit from her financial any right to desolate it V Cau there be pacitv aud eleven did not. All ruuuing But the reconstruction contest is in the troubles. A man as illustrious for his any form of desolation moro thorough to fail capacity would have consumed post, aud to-day we see the white people modesty aa for his justice. A mau who thau to compel the people to bear all the , 3.053 bales more than the above totals iu- of Georgia coining up to the position of can afford to be just, because by the con- burdens of the war which they assumed— dicato. acquiescence that we took in 1867 ; and, sent of mankind he ranks as a soldier, of the abolition of slavery whioh we at | The stock held by these mills August indeed, going far beyond it. Wo then ac- and as a civilian he stands above the re- one time guaranteed to them as an insti- 31 st was 1,507 bales more.—Augusta quieeoed iu the Fourteenth Amendment strain!* of party. Every liberal advance tut ion, ua well as of the dabt we contract -1 Chronicle. j and the She v mau bill. They have since in a position to do the greatest possible injury to the colored race. Suppose this bill should pass at the next Congress, what will be the result? The legislature of each Southern State, as soon as it is called together, will at once repeal all laws by which public schools are main tained at the public expense, and leave each man to educate his own children bs best he cau. This will leave the colored people, who are without property, to grope their wav iu ignorance, with 110 means of educating their offspring. And it will necessarily leave a great mauy whito people in the same ur fUltimate situation. But ho this ns it may, we will never sub mit to mixed school*, where our chiidreu w ill bo compelled to uuite with those of the colored race, upon terms of social equality. I have heeu President of the B jard of Education in Atlanta, since the organiza tion of our system, which is now working most admirably, under whioh we hnve separate schools, open to white aud col ored children, and every child belonging to either race can find its wsy into a good school, if the parent think* proper to send it. Theso schoolsare maintained hy taxation of tho whole people, aud their burdens falls mainly upon those who havo most we alth and who often have no chil- dien to educate. I am proud of the sys tem, ar.d of the great benefit* which are resulting from it, and I feel as our white poople generally do, that since tho col ored people are made oitizens, if they act in their proper social sphere, it is our duty, ns well as our pleasure to aid them iu tho education of their children. But I do not hesitate to say that I should favor the immediate repeal of All laws on this subject, and the disbanding of the school* us soon ns the Civil Rights bill shall be come a law. It enuuot be said that we violate any provision of the Constitution of the United States, when we repeal our school laws, as that constitution requires no State to maintain any public school ; and we make 110 discrimination ou account of race, color or previous condition of servi tude, when wo refuse to maiutain any public school, at the public expense, for tho children of either race. But this is not all. The attempt to force equality between the races ou railroad cars, steamboats, and especially in hotels and churches, will produce constant strife, and very frequent bloodshed, that will probably soon lead to a war of races, and produce a horrible state of things through out the entire South, termioatiug in gen eral anarchy, which will end in the exter mination of the negro race. Much as I deprecate and oppose all mob law, I can not doubt that, iu the excited state of the popular mind whioh would follow tho at tempt to en- orce such a measure, it would soon bo found thnt white juries would not convict white men for killiug negroes who Jertook to intrude themselves upon them a* social equals. Aud if the Gov ernment of the Uuited States attempted to coerce the white people of the South into submission to negro social equality, they would find th*t the white troops, who might he called iuto the field against us to fight fur such negro social equality, would generally’ lay down their arms be fore they* would pet form tho task. In a word, if they drove us to submission at the point of the bayonet, the bayonet would generally be in the hands of tho negro, and our people would hnve to de fend themselves igainRt it »is best they could. The result would not be d mbtfnl. All prosperity would he destroyed, uud general toufu.-fau, bankruptcy and ruin would prevail,'until the s’.uggle between the races terminated, which would, as I have already’ s*id, in the end, result in the extinction of tho weaker race. But I do nol care to pursue this t .ome. The consequences of this measure would be too horrible tor con tempi* ion, and we can only hope that the evil w ill he averted by the good, practical, common sense of the American people, aud that the politi- c »1 organization which attempts to force this state of things upon the country, or any section of it, will meet with over whelming defeat iu 6very issue. I have uo hesitation, therefore, in agreeing w ith you that the passage by Congress of the civil rights bill would in augurate a feeling of antagonism between the whito and black races that could never he reconciled; aud, iu saying most une quivocally thnt no Southern gontloman, 1 care not whether he be Republican or Democrat, ought, in my opinion, to iden tify himself, or continue longer to act, with the party who seek to impose this measure upon our people. In my judgment, there are but two contingencies which cau avert the evil: one is tho overwhelming defeat of the Republican party, in the elections this fall, upon this issue. They are determin ed to make the issue, as already an nounced by some of their leader* upon the stump, nnd my sincere hope is that every State, county, city, town, village and hamlet throughout the entire Union, where an election may be held, will give the Democratic party an overwhe’ming majority. To this end I ahall cheer fully contribute my humble mite. This would check the passage of this most in iquitous measure, and relieze the country Hogs, Hogs! <laio Parties who hnve lopt hogs uiay find thorn at said Pound nud reclaim them upon payment of PROP. GEO. W. CHASE 1 )ESPEOTFULLY ANNOUNCES THAT V lie n -tinue.4 his Instructions in VOCAL AND 1NSTKUMEN 1 AL MUSIC, at his res idence MMUhwen. corner Troup and Craw ford street*. Di the cultiruti r ol Qurcin aud other u;eat Italian carefully applied ; w hile in Plum* playing the <•14), the principle FOR SALE AND RENT. For Rent Cheap. A FOUR ROOM DWELLING nar - r street, near Crawford, neat ilPi ‘ “ ex client well piy W *e;8 ltn For Rent. ■QWELLING ON JACKSON ST . > near the HaptDt Church, \ rooms. En'iU're fit Alabama Warehouse, sops tr W. H. HUOHE8. For Rent. ^ FOUR-ROOM HOUSE JUST , . finis hod. tlii-l Apply to sepfl 3t* JOHN DURKIN. To Rent. T he desirable store room no 101 Broad htreet, now oocupied by A. L Harrison, (ad olnlng Acee & Murdoch). Also, ..legant Oflioe in same building. Appl v to C. O. McGEHEE, _sop6 at* at Alston Warehouse. For Rent. FIVE HUUMED DWELLING, iMk with out-houses, in Troup street, be-*^I. tween Baldwin and Few. Apply to fiepe tf J. H. CONNOR & CO. For Rent. PLEASANT HESIDENOEj_, with live rooms, In the upper part ofH®®- the city. Apply to Sept, ft, 1874-lw P. H. ALSTON. rics ot the most recent schools of fingering are developed Terra* (us heretofore) $5.00 p weekly lessons; *10 per mouth , lessons. Occasional Soirees will be given hy the pupils. Prof. CHASE Is ulso now prepared to 1 une Plan- s. Orders may he lef; with Messrs Peuse fit Norman. »ep8 lw* Youngs Rust Proof Oats. Treatise on tho Cultivation ol Oats will accom pany each order. rep8 tlfcwStn W. H. YOUNG. Closing Up—Great Bargains 1 I AM SELLING ALL GOODS IN MY line at the lowest prices, in order TO CLOSE UP IN A FEW DAYS. I must say, PLEASE J. 1. CRIFFIN. For Rent Cheap. ^ PORTION OF THE DESIRABLE RES- idenco of Mrs Judge Thomas, on ROSE HILL, with or without outhouses, stables and garden. Apply on premises or at Enquirer-Sun office. Sept. 6,1874 tl For 8ale. T heoarrtgek plantation in ^ Kusstll eranty AU.—320 acres, ltfjTO cleared. 2.600 | each. 4 0 apple trees. Also, 1 ears nud plum.*. Taree-iicr-vineyard. In good fruit your will Fell $S0 porday,and clear 46O1 u year from vineyard. Apply tD JOHN BLACKMAIL 8Cp4 tr Ke tl Estat Agent. For Rent. HOLLY OR IN PART, THEM dwelling known at “SI.devlHe,’* ownedJiilL l y Rev. T. B. S ado. A: ply to him or Alfred Prerco t. ^ sep3 2w To Rent. A DESIRABLE STORE ON BROAD Street. Apply to u ELLS & CURTIS. Septa, 1*74 tf For Rent. O FFICES AND SLEEPING J—A. ROOMS in the Georgia Home In- iilil suranco Holhilng, among which is tin****=■- office now occupied by Somh* rn Lite Insurance Company. Apply to CHARLES COLEMAN, aug30 tf 118 Broad St. For Rent. ^ FIVE-ROOMED DWELLING and <>ut-houtes on Tr-up, near Bridge Jfisl. street. Repairs and alterations to suit tenant. Apply to R. B. MURDOCH, tf No. c*2 Broad St. REMOVAL. I HAVE MOVED MY STOCK OF CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,^ planta] WAGONH To the Gunby Building, ST. CLAIR ST., NEAR THE FONTAINE AND ALABAMA WAREHOUSES, where I will sell any work in my lino cheaper than ever heretofore. THOS. K. WYNNE. se)>ddAw tf To the Grangers. ING RENTED A j_j. nie Lowoll Wareh use. 1 store cotton for Grangers untie ment with them. R. G. WILLIAMS. Lumpkin Independent please copy. August 27, 1874. 02w New F'nll Pi-iiits PEACOCK & SWIFT'S. ^DSOLUTK DIVORCES OBTAINED FROM courts, of different State*, for deeertion, Ac. No publicity required. No charge until divorce granted. Addresa, M. HOUSE, Attorney, my30 dewly 194 Broadway, N. V. Miscellanies of Georgia! By ABSALOM H. CHAPPELL. Fob Salk at CHAFFIN'S ANI) PEASE A NORMAN'S HOOK STOKES. In Two Part-. Price ,1. ftUg2Q deod&wlm For Sale or Rent. A TWO STORY DWELLING, , . / ju with eight rooms nnd Double a 5 **) Kitchen, opposite the Gills’ 1’ublic |2s£| School. Enqulro at the re 1 fence of the late Jonn Johnson, corner of St.Clair and Troup sis. A U'HITI' CkDVAMT WAMTfc'li fc'n. For Rent. T HE re idcucc second door south of St. Paul Church, nt present occupied by Mr. Peyton. Po.ec.-.-lon given firct 0-.t.Jiii& For terms, fcte , apply to o. PcL.un y. Esq., who will represent me in above iu»t:er during •4ttr •T. S. JONES. For Rent. fJXHE STORE ROOMS AND CHAMBERS in the Musc igee Homo Building, Apply to B. F. CO!. EM AN, fee'. S. T«ca**r. augio tf or chas. Coleman. To Sent. poll tho ensiling your, the dwelling ou north west corner Jackson and St. Clair streets, now oc- cupiul by Mrs. Wiu, C. Gray. Apply to WM. C. COART, »»gl4 tf at Georgia Home Rank. H For Rent. OUSK AND LOT o , upper end, i if water. Possession giveu October uext. Apply to C. E. JOHNSTON, Ksq. r. 8. Hardaway, ftiigl tf Agent For Sale or Rent. - “HANKSplace*’,Stew- - art County, Georgia, at the junction of Hiti'hutoe Creek nnd Chattahoochee River, 21 miles below Columbus, suppllevl with mules, corn, (arming implements, fce., for another to buv or rent for another to eall on either or the un- Those wishing year, will do well dersigned. E. E YONGE, G. J. PEACOCK, Columbus ; or, G. R. BANKS, On the place. STOVES AND TIN WARE. Stoves, Stoves (Opposite Sun Office) Columbus, Ga., '1TT0ULD respectfully invite the attention of his VY friends aud customers to his extensive stock of STOVES, HOLLOW AND STAMPED WARE, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS. Ac. Also TIN WARE, at wholesale and retail. Manufacturer of TIN, SHEET IRON AN COPPER WORK. Roofing and Guttering done promptly and in the beet manner. He solicits a call, feeling secured that he cau give entire satisfaction. v 49* Prioe as low as the lowest. Como and see before you boy. oct25 eodawtf A Valuable Plantation For Sale. f OFFER FOR SALE THE VALUABLE J. place known us the Wildman plantation, on Upatoie creek, one mile south of Box Spring, Southwc torn Railroad. The tract contains about 1,3)0 aero*. It will he sold on favorable terms. The plaoe is well watered, with 3 0 acres of rich bottom land. There is on tho place throe good dwelling houses, loca ted in a beautiful grove, and a snffl. lent num ber of houses for laborers, and other improve ments- There is also ou the t lace a valuable mill site, where a mill did an excellent busi ness for over twenty j errs, until burned down in the fall of 1873. The dam is secu e, and a fino pond of water on n never failiuu stream. There Is three or four tons of Iron where the mill sto.-d, which will go with tr-e place. I live lu the neighborhood near tho place, and will show Uo land to any one wishing to purchase. _ My address Is Box Spring, Talbot county, Oa. aug28 w2tkdtsept8 JAMES M. LOWE. N. J. BUSSEY, Agent AMERICAN Cotton Tie Company- The trade eupplied at loweit nur- ket rates. »,n