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'WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION*'
xOLTJME XXI.
ROME, GA., THURSIDAT MORNING. MAT 3, 1867.
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civil' officers, or interfere with them i
the faithful discharge of theirdnties.
and there is not one word in it that I have seen several experiments with
counsels or countenances resistance tn I and ™
The following sensible views of the
great question now before the Citizens of
Georgia, are dipt from the Macon lele
graph of 25th inst:
ARE WE FREE to ACT, OR HOTt
countenances resistance to and are completely satisfied of the fact
taw, or to the military authorities
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
, of Land by Administrators, Exec*
. J Guardians, are required by law to
PJ, 0E the first Tuesday in each month,
P™ tte hours of ten in the forenoon
[i three to the afternoon, at the Court
fcwSthecounty in which the property
these sales must be given in a
bnblic cazette 4° days previous.
fS, «f ‘he sde of personal property
LTbeeWeu in like manner, through a
Rule Mtette 10 days previous to sale day.
PS to Debtors and Creditors of an es-
Ktbo published 40 days.
iNoticc thepspplications wiU be made .to
1. Court of Oniiaary for leave to sell land
Ct bo published for two mon ths.
■ Citations for letters of Admm.strat.on,
laardianship ie, must be publishod 30
for dismission trom Administration,
fconthlv six months—for dismission from
lunrdianship. 40 days.
I Buies for the foreeloseure of Mortgages
Lut be published monthly for four months
(•for establishing lost papers, for the full
r e of three months—for compelling titles
jim Executors or Administrators, where
jnd has been given by the decease* 3 , for the
fcl space of three months.
■ Publications will always be continued
Konling to these, the legal requirements,
ulesi otherwise ordered, at the following
RATES.
sheriff’s Sales per levy of ten lines or
/less ^ 3 00
lleriffs Mortgage fi. fa. sales, per
f levy,™— - ®
i Collector’s sales, per levy,.... 5 OU
jtions for letters of Administration... 3 00
tttions for letters of Guardianship..... 3 00
Ittice ot application for dismission
I from Administration, 6 00
lotice of application for dismission
I from Guardianship,., A 00
Ipplication to sell land, 6 00
lotice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00
tale of Land, 5 00
He of perishable property, 10 days... 2 00
Jstray Notices, 60 days, .. 4 00
foreclosure of Mortgage, per square.,. 4 00
lor man advertising his wife, (in ad-
I ranee) 10 0q
What is the Real Question?
I In regard to the Sherman plan of Re-
struction, and the military law now
reed in Georgia^ihe question pre-
enfed to the citizens is not “shall they
ixj the law or resist it ?” We know of
* man in public or private life who
Wt of resisting the law, but the uni-
isrsal determination is to obey the law
|o the letter. The (real question sub
mitted by Congress is “do you approve
p disapprove of the Sherman Shalla-
arger plan of reconstruction, and the
P'11 supplementary thereto.” If you
Approve of this plan, and believe, in
consideration of all the circumstances,
t is best to adopt it, it is your privi-
fgeand duty (if a registered voter) to
'cte “in favor of convention,” and for
legates as will carry opt your
levs. But if you disapprove of the
■oposed plan, then you can vote
unst convention”—and for such
Agates as prefer the Constitution of
wgia as it now exists.
As we have repeatedly advised, we
*1 urge that every citizen, who is per
iled to do so, register as soon as
ere is an opportunity, and then vote,
ien the time
comes, in the way he
' believes will be for the best
Wests of the State.
Longress has not required the people
file South to stultify themselves by
ting for the approval of measures
U they believe ruinous to the coun-
fhe Radical Congress, with all its as-
Dption of knowledge and power did
t dare to assume the responsibility of
,ln e. permanently, the right of suf-
l ge to all classes, without the approv
er those who(know most intimately.
. ““ »uv.r.uuw most intimately,
1 Verier class, and it thus becomes
! acred duty of all qualified voters,
° believe that this wholesale en-
nchisement would be injurious to
late as a whole, including all clas-
• to vote against the proposed meas-
'n full
view of the fact that we are
J hquered people, let us exercise
Prerogatives granted by law in all
Mt yand faithfulness,
this above all to ourselves be true,
>t must follow as the night the
day,
cacn °t then be false to any one;
'ortant Correspondence between
Jenkins and Gen, Pope.
rom the highly interesting corres-
on first page of this paper,
e seems te be good feeling exist-
■ t?feen these representatives of
aod military authorities in this
e i but there is no mistaking Gen.
8 determination to carry out to
«tter his first general order. There
3 probability that Gov. Jenkins will
B another address to the people of
f giaso long as Gen. Pope retains
present position. It ia certainly to
1 -hat the military authorities
The New York Times of the I9th in
stant has an extraordinary article in
condemnation of the recent letter of
Gov. Jenkins, which it seems to regard
as little less than an act of positive re
bellion against the law. According to
its view, it is a crime for a Southern
Governor to advise his people not to
accept the terms of reconstruction—as
they are called, though Congress has
made no pledge to admit our represen
tatives, even though we should comply
with every requirement laid down in
the Sherman and Supplemental bills.
This is not a little strange, and it is
time, when Northern journalists begin
to talk that way, for the Southern peo
ple to ask what the Northern Congress
really meant by their enactments.—
When we examine them, we find a
discretion accorded to the South in va
rious measures—in the matters of reg
istration, holding a convention, adopt
ing the constitutional amendment, &c.,
&c., in all of which, according to the
express provisions of the enactments
in question, the Southern people may
act affirmatively or negatively, as may
seem to them best. But according to
the Times, this grant of dircretion is
all a cheat and a delusion. It is so laid
down in the law, but should we be rash
enough to exercise our best judgments
in a direction not wholly in conformity
to the wishes of our Northern masters,
why, forsooth, we are to be branded as
criminals* and rebels! If Congress did
not intend that we should act with a
free will and in accordance with our
own judgment ot what is ' right and
best for us, why did they give the dis
cretion? Why did not the Sherman
bill go on and provide a constitution
of their own, and then have a legisla
ture elected, with or without the wish
es of the people, to carry it out by legal
enactments? It had the power and
could have accomplished this quite
as readily as it passed the Sherman bill
But it did not so enact, but to the con
trary, left the matter of action on the
details of its measures to the people
giving them the privilege 'of volition
and independent action. We cannot,
then, see how any man can interfere
with that perfect freedom of action
without rendering himself obnoxious
to the charge of having violated those
laws of Congress.
As to the policy of accepting the
terms laid down in the Sherman bill
that is wholly a different affair. It
rests solely with the Southern people
to decide it for themselves in view of
all the consequence, present and fu
ture. If they can see their eventual
interest, honor apd safety in a rejection
of those terms, and are willing to take
the responsibility, it is their business,
and nobody else.
The point we make is, that Congress,
in the very terms of the bill, has gran
ted and guaranteed to the Southern peo
ple, and to all of them, the right to ac
cept or reject the terms offered in the
Reconstruction hills, and that it is in
violation of the spirit and express let
ter of the law to seek to deny or
abridge that right. We challenge any
man to read the law carefully and come
to a different conclusion
Sinoe writing the foregoing, we have
received the recent correspondence be
tween'General Pope and Governor Jen
kins, referred to some days since, and
which will be found elsewhere in our
columns. As regards theTejoinder of
General Pope, we cannot justly omit
an expression of our admiration, for its
spirit and temper. We think, howev
er, as regards the argument against the
address of Governor Jenkins, he. has
misapprehended the real points in the
cases, and is in error, very honesty we
have no doubt, in the matter of bis
duty. The argument is, as stated by
himself, that he cannot permit the civil
officers of his district to do acts that
‘frustrate the execution of the laws of
the United States,” and in another
place, “use. influences so defeat the ex
ecution of the laws of fhe United
States.”
In this, the General clearly misap
prehends the scope and design' of Gov.
Jenkins’address. It was not designed,
nor could its effect by any possibility
be, to “frustrate the execution of the
laws Of the Unietd States,” or the re
construction acts. We correctly rep
resent the sentiments of the whole
people of Georgia when we say that.no
man has any such design, or the slight
est wish to interfere wit Gen. Pope in
his execution of the law so far as that
duty has been imposed npon him. The
object of Gov. Jenkins was simply to
enlighten his constituents upon certain
matters which the reconstruction acts
have, in express terms, confided to their
discretion, and upon which they ore ex
pected, in the contemplation of
law, to act, with all the lights they can
obtain on the question of duty* This'
trusted with its execution. The sole
object was to counsel the people of
Georgia in the matter of a proper exer
cise of a duty that the reconstruction
acts themselves h&d imposed npon
them, and whereih such action can be
justly held as illegal or improper ? If
the people have a discretion under the
law, they also have the right to use
every soarce of light for its proper ex
ercise, and we cannot see how any one
of them can be rightfully closed against
them?
We will do Gen. Pope the justice to
say that we believe he iB acting consci
entiously, for his whole course since his
assignment te duty here has been such
as to repel all idea of harshness and
injustice; but we feel assured that in
this matter of the 3d Section of Orders
No. 1, he has made a grave mistake,
and, if carried up, will not he sustained
by the authorities at Washington.
Rome Fostoffice made a Money Or
der Office.
We are informed that the Postmas
ter of this place, Mr. Asahel R. Smith,
has received authority to issue and pay
money orders under the postoffice reg
ulations. It will require a few weeks
in which to have the necessary bond
approved, and to obtain the needfnl
blanks.
This postal money order system is a
source of great economy and conven
ience to business men. The business
is done by drafts, but it does not oper
ate except between offices that have
each been made money order offices by
the Department. The amounts of or
ders issued are limited to from one to
fifty dollars. The premium required
to be paid for these orders is as fol
lows :
From 1 to 10 dollars,
From 10 to 20 dollars, ,
From 20 to 50 dollars,
It will be borne in mind that the
government is not responsible for men-
eg sent by mail, even in registered let
ters; but under this arrangement you
buy a draft from one Postmaster on
another, and there is no possibility of
loss.
*ot find jj n ecessar y t Q depose any | the sum total of Gov. Jeakia’s addr'es
it
It
en* that it is completely non-explosive.
emits a beautiful white light, and
cheaper than kerosene. Dr. S. D.
Hoyt, Druggist, has the exclusive right
to sell this fluid in Floyd county; and
we would advise housekeepers to call at
Yeiser’s old drug store and examine it
for themselves.
From Washington. .
Washington, April 24.—The Presi
dent has issued an order granting Exe
cutive employees, who are Odd Fel
lows, leave of absence to participate in
the celebration on Friday.
Official letters received at the Indian
office describes Hancock’s interview
With the Cheyennes as unsatisfactory.
The letters express apprehension of a
general Indian war.
Relief for the Sufferers.
Washington, April 24.—The South-
em Famine Commission has received
an additional ten thousand dollars in
gold from California.
Gen. Sheridan has been authorized
to draw for five thousand dollars to re
lieve the districts from overflow.
Elec-
he Mew York Convention
tion.
New York, April 24.—The Tribune
estimates the Republican majority at
20,000, and claims a large majority of
delegates.
Sooth (American Affairs—Hayti.
New York, April [24.—Venezuela ad
vices state that the American claims
against Venezuela will be amicably set
tled. Gen. Blance, President of the
Senate, pronounces the annexation of
Eucador to Colombia impossible.
Hayti advices state that the revolu
tionary committee had decreed perpet
ual banishment against Gefiard, his
family and ministers, and that their
property be confiscated. Salnare has
: Peen elected President, and a declara
tion of war against St. Domingo is prob
able.
10 cts.
15 cts.
25 cts.
Defeat of the Beecher.
New York, April [24.— Henry Ward
Beecher is defeated in Brooklyn for
the Convention.
Bnt one Republican elected from the
city of New York. Scarcely a third of
the people voted.
Latest from Mexico.
New York, April 24.—Private 1st-:
ters have been received confirmatory of
the capture of Puebla, ana that all
officers from Lieutenants up were
killed.
The Georgia Injunction Bill,
The question of temporary injunc
tion—pendenle^lite—was discussed yes
terday before the Supreme Court, in
Washington City. We will probably
hear with what result before our next
issue. The full Bench are present, viz:
Chief Justice Chase, Justices Wayne,
Grier, Swayne, Davis, Nelson, Clifford,
Field and Miller. The five following
vote** against the constitutionality of
the Test Oath last fall, viz: Justices
Wayne, Grier, Nelson, Clifford and
Field.
Western & Atlantic Railroad.
The following is the number of load
ed cars brought to Atlanta by|the W es-
tem & Atlantic Railroad daring the six
days ending with the 20th of April:
April 15—Loaded cars arrived
April 16—Loaded cars arrived
April 17—Loaded cars arrived
April 18—Loaded cars arrived
April 19—Loaded cars arrived
April 20—Loaded cars arrived
106
134
96
85
93
123
647
“Signs” of the Times.
Col. Ritter has given Messrs. More-
field & Coleman permission to again
hang out their sign, “The Lone Star
Saloon,” that Capt De la Mesa ordered
them to take down some three months
since.
The Steamer Undini arrived at her
wharf yesterday, bringing the follow
ing.
ifr
PASSENGERS.
Miss Sue Logan, Mrs. Dr. Gregory,
W. M. Meeks, Stokes Gregory, three
storage passengers.
CONSIGNEES.
Glover k Bale; Gates & Shropshire,
Uftwiin & Clarke, R. T. Hargrove, J. M.
Elliott, Rome Railroad.
PBEIGHT.
10,800 feet of lumber, Flour, mer
chandise, &e.
A Maehine for the Times—Interesting
to Ladles.
In these days, when it is so extreme
ly difficult to obtain reliable servants,
an invention like Hall’s Patent Wash
ing Machine promises great refief to
housekeepers. Like nearly all really
useful machines, this one is remarka
bly simple, durable and easily Under
stood. Any child that can torn a
crank, imposing resistance of 12 or 15
pounds, can work this machine. Some
six or eight families in Rome have tried
it, all of whom speak of it in terms of
high praise.
It is said that this machine deprives
“washing day” of most of its horrors.—
It costs only ten dollars, and can be
seen at the store of Anderson k Lam-
kin.
Meintzer, who interferred to prevent
the difficvlty. A brother of Meintzer’s
shot Reid. Both parties are dead.
The affair is mhch regretted by the
community.'
War Aspect in Europe.
The news from Europe, says the Att
gosta Chronicle, of the 25th, for the last
two days is of a very warlike aspect.—
Prussia is represented as having refused
the mediation of some of the leading
Powers to settle the points at issue be
tween herself and France. . Napoleon
has recalled the Duke of Majonta, Gen.
MacMahone, from Algiers to take com
mand of the forces at Paris. All fur
loughs are revoked, and officers are de
tailed .to drill the reserves. Commer
cial and financial centres .are greatly
agitated. Stocks are declining at Lon
don. Cotton is falling at Liverpool,
and rentes are heavy and declining at
Paris. Cotton is tumbling at New York,
and gold is booming. This indicates
great alarm and prospective failures in
monetary circles. It^portends war; but
notwithstanding these warlike indica
tions, there is stiU hope that Napoleon
and Bismarck are too wise to plunge
into a war which will bring destruction
France, .Prussia, and perhaps the
whple of Europe.
. '
Important Order from General Sickles.
Charleston, April 23.—General Sick
les has issued an order re-organizing'
the several distrusts in his Department;
and providing additional regulations
for the same. ~H%Ydrbids the sale or
gift of liquors to United States soldiers
sailors or marines. Among the provi
sions of the order is the folloing: Post
commanders will exercise a supervision
over all; magistrates, sheriffs, deputy
sheriffs constables, and police within
their commands, and wul, whenever
necessary for,the preservation of order
and the efficient discharge of their du-.
ties, assume command of the police
forces. .tip.' , •
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Snow Storm in Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg; April 24.—Four inches
snow here last night.
The Virgiaia Railroads-
Lynchburg, April 24.—The Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad Directors have
been in session yesterday and to-day.
It is clearly ascertained that a sufficient
number of private stockholders will
unite to resist the consolidation act as
a violation of their chartered and vest
ed rights. They are sustained by able
counsel.
Radical Spirit in Tennessee.- The
sboro’Elag, edited by one Capt.
Grisham, ot the “Loyal Militia,” has
the following notification : -
The man that does not understand
that this: State :is to remain under the
control of its friends at any cost or sacrifice,
is ceitaiply too far behind the times to
make a safe and snccessfnl legislator.
The Radicals will rule this State
“peaceably, if they can ; forcibly, if
they must.”
This is a candid confession ns to what
an officer of the “loyal militia,” having
his commission direct from the Gover
nor. regards as the purpose of the Rad
ical party, and he endorses this pur
pose: ;
Executive Department, Nashville,
Tenn., March 4; 1867.—To all whom it
may concern : I take great pleasure in
recommending the patronage of the
loyal public to the Jonesboro’, (Tenn.)
Union Flag. It is a truly loyal sheet
—ably conducted, and is doing good
service in the Radical Union cause.
W, G. Brownlow, Gsv. of Tenn.
There is a day of reckoning coming
for these bad men.
High
Waters In the Lower Missis
sippi.
New Orleans, April 24.—The levee
fund is exhausted, and the work-;: must
be discontinued unless the planters are
successful in raising funds from the
brokers and capitalists of New Orleans.
No abatement of the waters.
Affairs at New Orleans.
New Orleans, April 24.—Gen. Sher
idan has removed the aid to the chief
police. It is alleged that he was dis
couraging negroes from registering.
N.Y Market.
New York, April 24—Colton dull
and declining, and unsettled. Sales
1,000 bales at 25. Flour steady and
unchanged. Corn active. Mixed wes
tern SI 35al 38. Pork dull and lower.
Mess $20 70. Lard firm at 12Jal3 J.—
Sagarin good demand and advanced
an eighth. Coffee heavy and declined
a quarter. Other groceries quiet and
unchanged.
New York, April 24.—Stocks oxd-
V.pnl 2_. _____
ted. Coupons ot 1862, 109J- to 110.—
Money 6 per cent. Gold4IJ.
The Bridge at Bridgeport.
According to notice published, trains
will cross the bridge at Bridgeport, on
the Nashville and Chattanooga Road,
to-day, the 25th, and there will be no
further interruption in freights or travel
on that line- We learn that the cost
of replacing the bridge across the Ten
nessee at Bridgeport will amount to
nearly $100,000. The loss outside of
this, not including the freight damag
ed at Chattanooga, will count up at
least another 5100. 000. Should the
company be compelled to settle far the
freight injured, the above amount will
be increased about $50,000, which will
make a totol of $250,000. The Nash
ville papers speak m high terms of the
energy and promptitude displayed by
the officers of this road inmeeetingand
reparing the great disaster which had
been sustained through the fi«ws.
They certainly deserve great credit.—
At. Intel.
Non-Explosive Petro Oil.
One of the most important little in
ventions we have recently become ac
quainted with, is tbe burning fluid
named at the head of this notice; We
jagyAn effort has been made recent
ly, says the Macon Tdegraph, to _ induce
the President to make a large increase
in the army for service in the Southern
States and in certain territories. Un
der the law the army can be increased
to nearly double the present force, i lr,
Johnson refuses to increase the forces,
believing them sufficient now, if judi
ciously managed; besides, it is shown
from numerous letters, official and pri
vate, daily received by the administra
tion from the South, that the people id
the Southern States offer no obstruc
tion to the execution of the laws fe-
Fcarfnl Tragedy at Augusta.
Augusta, April 23.—A fearful trage
dy occurred at the race course near
this city last night. Jerry Reid and a
man named Meister had an alteration
Reid fired *it Meister, shooting W
ocrats, den yoti fooled de secessioners,
den you fooled Mass Zeb Vance, den
you fooled President Johnson. Nor,
who you got to fool next? Why, you
thinks you’ll fool the niggers; but, sii,
you’ll ne’er fool die one.—lialeigh. Sentinel.
The above will apply with equal
force to some prominent Georgia poli
ticians. Honest consistency would ap
pear to be no virtue now-a-days, but
power and place more sought.—Recor
der.
Senator Wilson at Richmond.
Richmond, April 22,—Senator Wil
son addressed a crowd of about 6,000
persons trom the Capital steps this
afternoon. Nearly all those present
were ,colored, though all classes of
whites were represented. He was in
troduced by Governor Pierpont. After
alluding to the fact that he visited
Richmond by invitation of several
members of both houses of the legisla
ture, he proceeded to give the history
of the reconstruction bill. He then
recited events since the close of the war
to show that Presidedt Johnson’s policy,
adopted against the will of the nation,
had caused more unhappiness than the
work of any other man in America.—
It again excited men who had beon
more than willing to accept the terms
of Congress. The reconstruction bill
was not passed to humiliate the South
but to meet the need of the whole
country. The question now before the
Southern States is, whether they will
elect men 1 to State offices and Con-
gresss wh» favor an honest acceptance
of the policy of tbe nation, or men who
still mourn over the lost cause,' and
who hope something may turn up to
overthrow that policy and restore old
ideas and old measures. Patriotism de
mands that the latter class shall never
more be permited to participate in the
management of State or of the General
Government. The apostacy of Andrew
Johnson bad made' a Republican tri
umph' at the next Presidental election
certain.
The speaker wanted all classes of
men—the colored, tbe white, the loyal,
and those who have abandoned the
wicked heresy of secession—to stand
together -on the national platform of
the Republican party. As to the color
ed vote of Virginia, he had no fears
of its being controlled by tbe secession
ists. :■ He appealled to the old Whigs
of Virginia, the followers of Henry
Clay, who dqcjared that slavery was a
grievous wrong that no contingency
could make right,' to seize the occasion
and unite! their fortunes With the Re
publican party* Now was .their day and
theur hc»ur to cqVry Virginia by. an cWer-
w helming majority.
To that; class who are disfranchised
for participation in the rebellion, he
would say that by speaking and Work
ing for the national policy they would
shoW their codntrymen that tbe disa
bility now imposed on them ought to
be removed, and a country that held
proved its generosity wotlld not forget
thecd.
Governor Pierpont, after Mr. Wilson
Holden has met his Match at Last.
A sensible colored man, in this city;
was a ^listener at the African Church,
some time since, when Mr. Holden ad
dressed the colored people there. His
employer felt some curiosity to know
what the speaker said on that occasion,
and requested the colored man to give
some account of it.
The colored man replied, substan
tially, 1 as follows i “Well,-sir, I listen
ed to the speech, but Could’nt tell you
much about it, for I could’nt help
thinking all the time, and saying to
him in my mind: You first fooled de
old Wings, den yon fooled de old Deal-
Letter from Ex-Governor Perry*
We publish below the following let
ter from Hon. B. F. Perry, of S. C.,
on the political situation t
“The United States shall guarantee
to every State hr the Union a republi
can. form of government,” Section 4,
article 4, Constitution of the United
States of America,
Under this authority the Congress
of the United States after excluding
from their seats the Senators and Rep-
resentives of ten Southern States has
established in all the excluded States
a military government, absolute and
.unlimited in' its powers. It is well
known that these States have
exhausted their power and resources
in a gallantand heroic straggle for in
dependence and self government. They
now have no alternative but unquali
fied submission to the military despot
ism thrown over them. It is to be
hoped, and it is generally; that the
military commanders in the Southern
States will exercise their despotic pow
ers wisely and humanely.' It is the
administration of a government, and
not the form of a government, which
makes it odious - and oppressive. A
despotism, wisely, justly and virtuous-
ously administered, is tbe most perfect
government that can be established.
It is tbe government of God, estab
lished b> him for the government of'
the universe. •
Five or six nionths ago South Caro
lina; with all the other Southern States
rejected with scorn and indignation
the constitutional amendment, which
iroposed to exclude from office their
eading men, and reduce their repre-’
sentation in Congress unless they per
mitted universal negro suffrage. Naw,
it is proposed by the military bill not
only to exclude this class of persons
from office, bnt to disfranchise them
and exclude them from voting id all
elections, and at the same time to en
franchise their former slaves, and give
universal suffrage to the negro. Strange
to say that there are many persons in
the Sonthern States whose high sense
of honor would notlef them adopt ttie
constitutional amendment, who are
now urging the people to voluntarily
swallow the Military Reconstruction
Bill, regardless of honor, .principle
or consistency. I am happy to| know
that they are secessionists, and never
were Union men.
The inquiry is, which, then, shall
we do? WhiislI have been Writing
the telegraph brings the glorious news
that Mississippi and Georgia £have ap
pealed to the Judiciary for the protec
tion of their constitutional rights as sov
ereign States of the American Union.—
Would to God that South Carolina
stood by the side of Mississippi and
Georgia, in this, their last noble effort
to maintain their dignity and honor as
States, and the just rights and liberties
of their citizens. If this last grand ex
piring effort in favor of freedom should
fail, then the South will have to quiet
ly meet the tyranny of Congress; but,
in meeting, she need not embrace the
hideous thine. When the (military or
der is issued for a registration of voters,
let every man, not disfranchised, go
forward and register his name. When
the election is ordered fora convention,
it will be the duty of every voter to cast
his yote for the wisest, best and most
trustworthy men, wbo.are elligible to
seats in that convention. This much
be is forced to do for-self'protection,
and to keep the State Government
from falling into the hands of unwor
thy and base men. He need go no
further. Let him then endorse on his
ticket, “No Convention.” If he is a pa
triot and an honorable man, he cannot
desire the change which the military
bill contemplates, and he should not
vote a lie!
With the conning which always char
acterizes the tyrant, Congress has en
acted that the people themselves shall
endorse the call of a convention, in br-
der to give legal validity to its acts.—
Without this endorsement, the whole
proceeding might be regarded as
forced on the States by the military
Government, and, therefore, null and
void. Hence, the trick of making the
people endorse the call of* a conven
tion, It is to be hoped that they will
not be caught by this conning device,
and that they may be able to influ
ence their freedmen to act with them
But should a majority of the votes he
for a convention, then it is to assemble,
and not otherwise. When it assembles
the honor and destiny of the State will
be in its keeping.
Bnt if the people should vote Ho Con
vention, wbat then f The honor and
dignity of the States will, .at least, not
be thereby sacrificed by their citizens.
We shall remain as vie are; under a mil
itary rale, until there is a reaction at
the North. It has already-commenced
in Connecticut, and will, sooner or
later, sweep over the whole Northwes-
tern and Middle States. Then we shall
be restored to our rights in the Union
with honor unsullied and the rignt of
suffrage unchanged. Let ns await this
Democratic triumph, be it a hundred
years, rather than seek new associa
tions With our Black Republican ty
rants and oppressors, and be gtiilty of
the baseness of abandoning our friends
at the North, who have nobly defed-
ed our cause for two years past, and
sacrificed themselves in the struggle fdt
Sonthern rights and constitutional free-'
dom.
faith in tyrants. Threats of confisca*
tion are futile. Almost every one has
been pardoned, by taking the amnesty;
oath or by special application. The
Southern people may be robbed and
murdered, but their property cannot .
be confiscated:
In ordbr to debaiich prominent
Southern men, offers have been made
in Congress to remove their disabilities,
and, it would seem, not without success] -
Threats to the many and bribes to a
few, is the policy adopted for Radical
izing the Southern States. With uni*
versal negro suffrage and debauched
politicians, we may bid farewell to all
hope of Rupublican institutions. Tire
tue and intelligence alone can mtaln
a republic. When the negro has acquire
ed intelligence to understand his politi
cal rights, and poperty to make him
feel an interest in the proper exercise
of them, he should be allowed to vote:
This principal has been adopted in
most of the Northern States, and is wisd :
and jnst. But it is wicked to put bal-j
lots into the' hands of those who will
be the passive tools of their employers,
or the mischievous agents of Black Re
publican emissaries. . ; : ;/i -
Nothing can be more nnjnst and in
iquitous than the discriminating dis
franchisement of the Military Bill. ,„A
Union man, whose life has beeti spent-
in trying to maintain the interests, of
the Union, but who was a member,, of
the Legislature or a Judge ten or twen
ty years ago, and who, after his State*
seceded, fed or clothed a son . in the
Confederate army, is disfranchised !
But the man whose whole life initir
have been spent in treasonable efforts
to destroy the Union and involve the
country .in a bloody civil war, who was
a leading member of the Secession
Convention, and afterwards a distin
guished General - in the Confederate
army, hurling his command against the
United States forces in a hundred
bloody fiells of battle,is not disfranqhis"
ed, unless he had previously taken fin
he mentioned, showing the injustice *
and folly of this disfranchisement.—
It is believed that neither Gens. Beau
regard,' Hill, Magruder, nor Gen. Le'e
himself, the illustrious commader-in-
Chief of the Confederate forces, inr dis
franchised, But the humble Union.
magistrate who relieved the distresses
of a son or friend in ' the Confederate
army is disfranchised! '
There is not the remotest prota*
bility of the Southern States beiog res
tored to the Union till after the next
Presidential election. Why, ..then,
shall we voluntarily degrade ourselves,
and give up our dearest political, rights
for a delusion ? If bishOnor must come, 1
do not embrace it. If w6 are to weay •
manacles, let them be put on by oo^',
tyrants, not by ourselveS: If a .njan,
threaten to kick you, self-respect.wqnla '
forbid your exposing 1 your person to
him and asking*, him to kick yon at
once and be done with it. We haye ,
lived already two years under military ,
rule, in great poverty arid distress, and^
have been cheered ’all the. time hy thje‘1
conciousness that we ate not fi degraded;
though a conquered, people. We.-can*,
continue to live.inthe same way two,,
years longer, or, if need bo, ten, years,
and feel a pride in knowing thafwV
have maintained out 1 honor; arid made
every effort possible to preserve pur.
freedom and constitutional rights.. A
man who feels that he has dishonored
himself is lost, and so it isVvith a peo
ple.
Let ns live quietly arid peaceably, at
tending diligently to our various, voca
tions in life—Obeying piitieiity tH*
powers that be: but never think of vol
untarily voting away our rights as a
State or boitor and freedom as men.—
Let us trust in a returning sense of jus-.
tiqe on the part of our opressors, which :
sooner or later must come. Have pa-,
tience, forbearance and long suffering.
The Southern States fought four long
bloody years for what they believed to
be a sacred right proclaimed by all the
American people in their Declaration
of Independence. Can they not now.
afford, to live four years longer out of’
ihat Union, rather than sacrifice their
honor, their rights, as States, and the
great republican principles of freedom ?
B. F. Perby.
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