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¥»f.nA V MORNING, DECEMBER 1.
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MILTON RUSSELL, La Favctto. Ga.
x F. SMITH, Cedar Grove, Walker Co., Ga.
WM. STRANGE, Rock Springs, “ “
J. S. SMITH. Alpine. Chattooga Co Ga.
R. W.JONKS, Mcliville,
WM. HIX, Subligcc,
DR. A. CLEMENTS Villanotv, “
A SPLENDID TICKET.
Last Saturday evening; a large and enthu
siastic mce ling of the citizens was Leld at
the Cit y Hall to u ake regular nominations
for Mayor uud Alderuien, for the ensuing
year.
On motion. Dr. Win. West wascaUed to
the Chair, and W. M. Slitopshire was re
quested to aetas Secretary
A committee of six from each ward, con
sisting of the following gentlemen was ap
pointed to report the names of candidates
for nomination: •
D. S. Priutup. D. M. Hood. A. T. Har
din. R. S. Norton, II. II. Smith, J. G. Da
ley from the First Ward ; R W. F. Lam-
kin. I. J. Word, Dr. S. l owers, J. C.
Rawlins, Spencer Shropshire, J. A. Bale
from i he Second Ward ; E. Hillyer, I D.
Ford. J. Camp. J. G. Yeis:r, C. Glover,
R. T. Hargrove from the Third Ward.
Alter mature deliberation the Commit
tee repirted the following nominations:
FOR MAYOR.
ARCHIE GRIFFETH.
FOR ALDERMEN.
1st Ward. H. C. Norton, H. H. Smith.
2nd Ward. J.I. Wright,R. V.MitchcIl.
3rl Ward Dr. Robert. Battey, R. 0.
Clark.
On motion, the nominations were made
unanimous, and after enthusiastic speeches
by Capt. Griffe‘h,Col. Printup, Col. Mitch-
oll, J. I. Wright, R. T. Hargrove and Dr.
Hillyer, the meoting adjourned.
We must congratulate our citizens upon
the excellent selection made. They are all
men of sterling worth, and have the true
interest of the city at heart. Let every
one who desires the prosperity of our city
go to work earnestly for the success of the
Ticket
OPPOSITION TICKET.
We publish below the proceedings of a
meeting held last Tuesday evening in the
City Hall, to reconstruct the opposition
Municipal Ticket. It will be seen by them
that Mr. H. D. Cothran was nominated for
Mayor io the place of Major Hooper.
With this exception there was no change
in the back-room nomination made some
days ago. All the gentlemen on the Tick
et rire good men, and it includes some of
our best personal friends, but for
all that wo think that the true interests of
the city can bo best subserved by electing
the regular Ticket put forth by ‘he citizens
last Saturday night. We would have been
glad that Capt. Griffith’s proposition to
harmonize the people by submiting the
claims of the Candidates to a primary elec
tion of the people, would have been acceed-
ed to by the oposition. That would have
settled the matter at once, without the ne
cessity of a contest in which bitterness and
heart burnings are sure to be engendered.
The following is the Sscretary’s report:
Rome, Nov. 28th, 1871.
In pursuance of a published call, a large
and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of
Rome was held at the City Hall on las
evening to nominate candidates for Mayor
and Aldermen of the city. On motion of
Col. W. B. Terhune, Col. Jas. F. Shanklin
was called to the Chair and M. A. Nevin
requested to act as Secretary.
Col. Shmkliu on taking the Chair, and
calling the meetingto order, requested Capt
C. G. Samuel to state the object of the
meeting. Cupt. Samuel made an able
speech, counselling harmony of action and
a pushing forward at once of the eiter-
priscs inaugurated for the prosperity of the
city.
Maj. Hooper, who has been proj.incnt
before the public as a candidate for May
or, and who lias faithfully served the city
as alderman for the past year, withdr w h
name, and Capt H. D. Cothran was nom
nated for Mayor.
Nominations were then made for Aider-
men.
MV. James T. Moore,from the first Ward,
nominated Capt. T. M. Gates and Mr. R.
T. Hoyt.
Mr. H. W. Grady, from the second
Ward, nominated Capt. W. T. Mapp aud
J. W. Noble.
Col. J. J. Cohen, from the third Ward,
nominated Col. C. G. Samuel and Mr. F.
I. Stone.
The Dominations tor Mayor and Alder
men were confirmed by the meeting, and
subsequently made unanimous.
Capt. Cothran being present, and bein
oalled upon by the meeting, accepted the
nomination iu a brief and pertinent speech.
Maj. Chas. H. Smith beiug called out
before the meeting, made a forcible speech
in behalf of the nominees, giving a urief
sketch of each, and their claims to public
confidence and support.
Judge J. W. H. Underwood being next
called upon,followed Col. Samuels and oth
ers in their advice for harmony and unity
of action; paid a high compliment to the
nominees, as the representatives of progress
and enterprise, and dwelt with much force
upon the great importance of building the
Memphis Branch Railroad immediately,
and the still greater importance of keeping
itin the hands of our own people, that
Rome might not be made a way station of.
Judge Underwood also favored the pushing
forward of the North aud South Road, and
other commendable eutorprisas set on foot,
for the advance ment of the city.
Mr. H. W. Grady followed in a brief
speech, refuting the idea that the large tax
payers of Rome were not in favor of the
progressive measures proposed, and pledg
ing the hearty support of the Commercial
to the nominees.
Several propositions were made to the
meeting by Capt. Griffith, the opposing
candidate for Mayor, which were not act
ed upon, bat were left; to be settled at the
ballot box.
Great harmony and good feeling prevail
ed throughout, and after brief speeches, by
J. J. Cohen and others, the meeting ad
journed.
M. A. Nevin, Sec’y.
Gen. Blair on The Ku Klux:
St. Louis. Nov. 21.—Senator Frank P.
Blair hiving returned fiom the South,
where he has been engaged for a considera
ble time in his duties as a member of the
Congressional Ku Klux Committee, was
yesterday interviewed by a reporter of the
lb publican, and nave the results of his
observations and investigations :
THE INTERVIEW.
Reporter.—Your committee had to visit
Tennessee, Alabama aud Mississippi ?
Gen. Blair.—Yes; we tried to get a sub
committee appo’ntel to go to Arkansas,
Louisiana aud Texas, but the Radical ma
jority refused it. I presume they were
afraid the die los ires there would be dam
aging to them. Of course I do not know
what was done by the sub-committee ap
pointed to visit Georgia and Florida.
R.—What did yonr committee do ?
Gen. B.—We visited Tennessee, Ala
bama, and Mississippi, and took the testi
mony of two hundred witnesses. The Radi
cal witnesses were chiefly negroes.
R.—What place did you visit?
IN ALABAMA.
Gen. B.—We first went to Huntsville,
Alabama. ’• here the country at present
seems to be very orderly, and the people
very much depressed by the cmditiou of
affairs.
R.— Are there Ku Klux there ?
Gen. B.—There are some disturbances,
but not ol any moment—not any more
"than you will find in any part of the coun
try The people are surprisingly quiet and
well-conducted, considering everything
they have goue through, the impoverished
condition, the ptedatory habits of the ne
groes, and the plundering they have suf
fered from the Radical legislators.
R.—What do you attribute their de
spondency to ?
Geu. B.—Their despondency arises from
the fact that they are so
UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN
by the war and the mal administration of
their State and county governments, and
suhmerged as they are under the most
tremendous debts that those fellows have
piled upon them by the aid ol their negro
constituencies. It looks almost hopeless
and whilst the carpet-baggers and scala
wags put iu office are plundering the peo
ple by means of taxation, the negroes are
stealing everythiig they can lay their
hands on—stealing cotton, corn and live
stock from the farms. Tie people find it
almost impossible to raise any stock on
their ftrms.
R. Is there no protection offered by the
civil authorities?
Gen. B. The negroes are many of them
couvicted in the courts for their plunder
ing, but they do not oare about being sent
to jail. It gives them food and shelter
and they don’t lose any character amongst
their own people by it. They come out
and are made heroes of; so that they do
not care. They will steal, come right out,
steal again, aud be sent back. They con
sider it a mjch better way of getting aloDg
than to have to go to work. When these
political campaigns take them away from
their work of plundering they cannot be
controlled in any way, and thus I speak of
the despondency of the people arising from
the condition of affairs. They do not see
how they can remedy these things. Every
little county has got its
SET OF CARPET-BAGGERS AND SCALAWAGS,
who live with the negroes and guide their
politics, and these fellows get the offices
and plunder the people, while the negroes
steal ad libitum, so that they are plunder
ing on all hands.
R. What did the evidence show ?
Gen. B. It showi d this condition of
things. There is a system of
WHOLESALE PLUNDERING
which goes on through the governments,
and the individual efforts of the negroes.
In consequence of that they were, in many
instances driven to take the law into their
own haDdo and protect their property by
inflicting punishment, of which the negroes
stood in some dread' but all these things
have chiefly originated from this kind of
misconduct on the part ol the negroes.
It was not shown in any instance that they
had anything to do with politics ; it is sim
ply an effort of die people to preserve what
little property is left iuem.and it is essen
tial to the support of th ir families—to
put bread in their children’s mouths A
grea' many other instances of violence oc*
casioned by the crimes of negroes, such
as pluuder or revenge, and there are a
GREAT MANY INSTANCES OF RAPE
and outrages of that kind, which are gener
ally visited with instant punishment and of
the most violent clia.acter. Apart from
these things, resulting from this condition
ol affairs, there is very little of violence iu
the South—no more than you can find
anywhere else in any other part of the
country. But there it arises to a very
great extent because those who are in pow
er shield their patrons, they being of the
samp politics ; and again it arises from the
(act that imprisonment of these negroes for
petty larceny and other crimes is no pun
ishment at all. They consider it a very
comfortable abode. It is a great deal bet
ter than their own cabins, and they have
food and shelter, and it is no disgrace to
them when they come out. Therefore it is
no punishment, and it does not redress the
disposition to steal.
B. Where did the committee go after
leaving Huntsville?
GeD. B. We went from Huntsville by
Chattanooga to Montgomery, Alabama,
where we took evidence. The testimony
taken there was not in regard to anything
that occurred in Montgomery or in the
neighborhood, but we had witnesses from
distant counties on the eastern border of
the State. There was very little distur
bance shown there, and none arising from
any political cause. We went from there
to Demopolis, Marengo county, Ala. This
is one of the rich counties of the State,
where the negroes are three to one of the
white population, but there was no distur
bance of any kind there, or very little.
There was, however, the same condition of
affairs in reference to the predatory hab
its of negroes. We next went to Living
ston, Sumter county, Ala. This is a large
negro county, the negroes being three or
four to one white. In this county it was
found that a large number ol them
VOTED THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
A large number of negroes voted the
Democratic ticket in Green and Hale
counties, giving heavy Democratic majori
ties. The carpet-baggers have dispersed
themselves and gone out of that region.
It was alleged and tried to be proved that
this result was brought about by violence
and intimidation, but they failed utterly
to sustain that allegation. The negroes
were shown to be very independent, and
voted because they were disgusted with the
promises made to them by the Radicals.
They complained very much that they
did not get the
MULE AND FORTY ACRES
that had been promised them, and they
believed that it was their interest to main
tain good feeling with the whits people of
the country. There were some acts of vio
lence shown to have occurred in Snmter
county, in which negroes were killed, bnt
it was generally the case that the negroes
had killed white men, and were lynched
by the friends of them. At one precinct
where it was claimed that the negroes had
been intimidated, as the committee passed
along they bad quite a large negro gather
ing. It was a very entl usiastic Democrat
ic meeting; negroes made speeches, and
proclaimed their sympathies to be with the
white men who were their old masters, and
with whom they had lived all their lives.
This manifestation was intended to solve
the doubts of the Radical members of the
committee on that point,
IN MISSISSIPPI.
We went into Mississippi, stopping at
Macon, io Noxubee county, which is in the
Biack belt, as it is called. The negroes
predominate largely. There were a great
many instances of the same kind of violence
blowing out of the insolent and overbear
ing conduct of negroes, and to repress their
disposition to plunder the people, and pun
ish their crimes, such as rape and insults to
white women, which are frequent all over
the South.
R. Were there any unusually flagrant
instances ?
Gen. B.—There were a great many of
that class of outrages committed on the
persons of white women, and they are pun
ished there as they are generally punished
everywhere throughout the country—by
lynch law. There were*cases of that kind
in nearly all of the counties we visited
Apprehension felt by the Southern people
in regard to outrages < f that character is
ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL REASONS
Of the association of men together in bands
to protect themselves and protect their wo
men from this discription of outrage, which
is invariably punished with death. In Nox
ubee. Lowndes aud Winston counties, and
all the Northeastern counties of Mississip
pi, there were some disturbances, mainly
violations ol the law arising from the gen
eral cause which have already beeu spoken
of—the disposition of the negroes to plun
der, the disposition to use violence towards
the whites, to which they are encouraged
by their preponderating number 11 , and by
the policy of the Radical government of
the State in the hands of Governor Alcorn
aided and
ABETTED BY THE PRESENCE OF UNITED
STATES’ TR( OPS,
and a very vindictive persecution against
the white people instituted under the resent
act of Congress in regard to the Ku Klux.
Indictments have been found against
three hundred persons in the IJoited States
courts upon very
FLIMSEY PRETEXTS
in the great majority of instances. Some
few of them are cases iu which the parties
deserve to be prosecuted and punished, but
where there is one of that kind there are
fifty which grow out of trifling affairs, re
eneontres aud brawls between negroes and
white worntn. But the
TRUCULENT CHARACTER
of the negro, under the aspiration of the
persecution instituted against the white
people, there is very well illustrated by an
occurrence which took place at a village call
ed Artesia, on the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road. During the late election canvass,
600 or 700 negroes gathered : n ihe little
village, and a white man named Hugh Lee,
who was a stranger in the town aud employ
ed on the railroad, walked up to see what
was going on. The negroes had been par
ading with arms in their hands, and one of
them accidently discharged his piece in the
air, or it might have been fired as a soit of
salute in way of applause, as a politica
speech was being made at the time, and
they wore crowded near the speaker. It
was either fired with such ae intent, or it
was discharced accilentaly. The negroes
were alarmed momentarily at the discharge
of the gun, and one of them cried out
“there he is,” pointing to the white man.
They thereupon out the stranger down with
a sabre, and perforated him with gunshot
wounds, and stamped upon his body killing
him instantly; they left him upon the
gtound. These negroes were most of them
drunk, iyid under the leadership and guid
ance of two or three carpet-baggers. Some
of the leaders were arrested and carried to
jail, and a mob of negroes was raised at
Columbus, about fourteen miles distant, to
take them out. But the leaders were dis
charged from prison, and immediately pro
ceedings were instituted against the Sheriff
and his force, who had made thearrests, for
violating the enforcement law of Congress,
and they carried off to Oxford, where they
were compelled to give bail before the Uni
ted States’Judges lot arresting the mui-
derers of that innocent man.
THE ENFORCEMENT ACT.
II—How does ti e enforcement net op
erate ?
Gen. B—It deprives the States of their
jurisdiction in criminal cas s, ordinarily
punished by the Slate laws. It intrudes
itself into States, takes jurisdiction of all
classes of crime committed in the States
wh'ch were fiirmerly punished by State laws
so that the Federal courts in the South arc
now crowded with every description of
criminal litigation against the white people.
Persons are brought under the law by a sim
ple allegation i hat there is a combination to
deprive the people of tlieir riehts guaran
teed to them by the constitutional amend
ments. In this instance it was for an at
tempt to deprive negroes of their right to
murder white men. There could have been
no other effect, for they were arrested for
the murder of Hugh Lee, who is spoken of
as a very retiring timid and modest young
man
R,— vVhat do the people think ol the
measure?
GeD. B.—They think it is an arbitrary
illegal and
UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURE.
It is certainly repugnant to every idea we
ever had in this coun’ry heretofore in ref
erence to the jurisdiction in the Federal and
State courts. It lias been couceeded up te
this time, that the State courts had jurisdic
tion of all the criminal acts within the sev
eral States. This proceeding usurps this
jurisdiction for the courts of the United
States, and in all probability there are now
more indictments in the Federal courts for
infractions of criminal law than there are
in all the State courts combined. The
proseentions arc set on foot by the officers
of the Federal courts themselves. They
have got a lot of carpet-bag district A ttor-
neys, Marshals and Judges, and they act
under the instruction of the government at
Washington and institute these proceedings
upon the most frivilous complaints.
R. The expense consequent to the pro
ceedings must be great?
Gen. B. It is a vtry great expense not
only to the general government, but to the
citizens who are arrested under it. The
latter are dragged from their hoa-es and
carried off hundreds of miles; for instance
there are but one or two United States
courts in the entire State of Mississippi,
and no matter where, within the State, a
crime is alleged to ‘have been committed,
parties are dragged from the counties in
whie i they live, and where their witnesses
are to be had, and carried to a great dis
tance, aDd at a corresponding expense in
procuring lawyers and witnesses.
R. What has been the general result of
the trials so far!
Gen. B. There has been no conviction in
the courts of Mississippi as yet. The trials
have been postponed from time to time,
and the indictments as far as we could as
certain, were generally of the
MOST FRIVOLOUS CHARACTER.
And the natuie of many of these cases
may ce judged from the fact of the arrest
of the sheriff and posse for arresting those
charged with the murder of Hugh Lee.
They were carried from Lowndes county
to Oxford in one of the northern cjnnties
of the State, for arresting parties under a
plain and distinct statctc of the State com
manding them to make arrest of all parties
engaged in violent assaults. The distance
the sheiiff and his posse of six or eight
men were carried in about one hundred
miles, and the charge was that they had
conspired to deprive persons of their right
under the constitutional amendments.
They were released on bail.
AT COLUMBUS.
We weDt from Macon to Columbus, in
Lowndes county, where we spent eight or
ten days in taking testimon ;. The evidence
so far as Lowndes county was concerned, did
not show any, or but very few, violations
of law of any kind. The county is very
quiet, and the population orderly. There,
as ir. Noxubee, the cegro vote is about
three or four to one white, and they have
just elected a fellow named l-ewis as Sheriff
—a recently imported carpet-bagger—who
was conspicuous by making a speech when
the man Lee was murdered. We came
home direct from Columbus, having finish
ed our business there last Friday. We
did not stop to take testimony iu Ten
nessee.
TENNESSEE.
R —What is your opinion of the con
dition of affairs in that State?
Gen. B.—So far as I am acquainted with
it, I did not see anything alledged against
Tennessee.
That has passed under a Democratic
government now, and it appears to be quiet.
People are more reconciled, and are doing
far better than in States that are still under
Radical domination. Mississippi is thorough
ly, completely, at the mercy of the Radicals.
Alabama has got rid of her Radical Gov
ernor, and the Democrats have possession
of one branch of the Legislature. Many
of ihe State officers are Radicals, and the
whole judiciary of the State are the samo.
Many counties are controlled by. Radical
officials, especially those counties where
most disturbances occur.
R. What was said about th e proclamation
of martial law.
Geu. B The people arc apprehensive
that if it becomes
NECESSARY TO CARRY THE ELECTIONS
martial law will be declared by the Presi
dent. Iu Alabama and Mississippi they
seem to feel that this whole thing is a mere
trick ot a party to obtain its ascendancy,
and that it would bo resorted to if necessary
to continue power in its hands. The people
were all convinced that the only way to put
a stop to these matters aud to restore peace
an i harmony in the South is to accept the
policy which has been proclaimed by
the Republican newspaper known as the
MISSOURI POLICY',
an I to vote for some Liberal Republican to
defeat Grant; to have ganeral amnesty
and to repeal all these prosecuting Ku Klux
laws. I believe that sentiment is about
universal, and it is the only thing that
bouys up the people of the South with any
thing like hope for the future. It has been
generally accepted by the Democrats
throughout the South.
R.—You were invited to make several
speeches in the South ?
Gen. B.—1 made a tpeech in Montgom
ery and in Meridian Miss. aDd l*was asked
to make a speech almost every day, but I
did not have time. 1 was the only Demo
cratic member of the committee there, and
I was prevented by that from going to
Mobile and Vicksburg, where I was invit
ed. The committee generally sat ten hours
every day, sometimes at night. There was
the Republicans, and, as I had no Demo
cratic colleague with me, I could notabsen*
myself a day. Rut wherever I spoke
public, or wherever I conversed with the
leading men of the State, I found that they
all accepted the policy known as the Missis
sippi policy, as the only hope, and believe
that,
IF GRANT SnOULD BE RE-ELECTEI),
it would come very near depopulating the
Southern States of the white people. I be
lieve that everybody Would leave who had
the means of getting away. The danger,
the apprehension under which they suffer,
the actual inability to repress the crimes of.
the character I have spoken of, is such that
the people feel that they cannot in safety
remain there among that vast negro popu
lation, which is prompted and urged all the
time by the most unprincipled men on the
face of Good’s earth to excess of every
kiod and description. They consider that
the Missouri policy is the one to save them
Irom ruin —extradition from their homes.
They believe that it would produce a con
dition of affiirs iu the South which would
enable them to control labor better, and in
all probability it would reuew the pros
perity ofthe South and conduce to the hap
piness of both races; because these disturb
ances were created iu ureat part by design
ing men down iliore, growing out of the
animosities engendered by them, and they
de troy the happiness of both the white
people and the negroes. They can not get
along—neither race can get. along—with
out harmony, and good understanding. The
whole South is in a most unhappy con
dition.
ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.
B.—Did fairness characterize the action
ofthe committee?
Gen B. No. 1 f there was a brawl nn
the street they would endeavor to prove it
to be disorder, and give the impression of
lawlessness, and they would very frequently
reserve witnesses. For instance, in Missis
sippi they ha before them the United
States District Attorney. He came to
Columbus, and was there the whole time
that the committee sat there. They never
put him on the stand until the very last
day, when they had determined to adjourn
on Friday night. Friday evening they put
this gentleman on the stand, and he had
forty pages offooftenp, which he had filled
up with .all the stories ho had been able to
gather together under his administration of
the Ku Klux laws, and he read them to the
committee, and they were all reported when
it was loo late for me to call any witnesses
from the localities to explain or refute
them. And they observed that sort of con
duct in all their sessions in the different
places. T1 ey made a point to give the
minority no opportunity to refute the stories
gotton up in this way.
The Yo Semite Valley has been visited
daring this year, up till about a fortnight
since by 2,133 persons, which is over four
hundred more than visited itin 1870, and
fully one thousand more than entered the
valley in any previous season. Next year
the number of visitors will doubtless be
greatly increased, owing to the improved
facilities for making the excursion which
will, by that time be completed and in op
eration. These improvements consist in
trails up and down the mountain sides,
whereby tourists may obtain the finest
views of the magnificent scenery of the val
ley with much lcs3lalor than hitherto; while
at the same time, the stage and horseback
portion of the trip will be greatly reduced,
and hotel accommodations will be arranged
at suitable places. The subject of Yo Se
mite guardianship, the ownership of prop
erty in the valley, and its permanent occu
pation and improvement, is likely to come
prominently before Congress and the Leg
islature of California at the approaching
sessions of the respective bodies.
TnE fact that Govenor Scott has “gob
bled” a cord or two of South Carolina
bonds ought not to be used against him to
the extent that, we regret to see, some of
our cotemporaries are carring it. These
bends are orfly worth twenty-eight cents on
the dollar, and, with the prospect of a
square repudiation, wilt soon be worth
nothing; and, like owning land in Vermont
the more he has the worse he is off.
The Carpet-Bagger.
Akermau, after returning from the South,
informed the President of the excesses aod
shameless corruptions and frauds of the
carpetbaggers, aud expressed the opinion
that it would be necessary for the good of
the Republican party that they, as well as
the Kn Klnx, should be punished. Of
prominent Republicans, Mr. Greeley first
called attention to these people aud their
crimes He boldly charged them with their
vices and frauds, and cried out to them.
“Go back, thieves.” Mr. Hughes, of this
State, in his late letter on the subject, said
that they had brought disgrace upon the
Republican party.
The declaration of prominent Republi
cans show the enormity of the wrongs per
petrated by the carpet-baggers upon the
Southern people. Nothing less outrageous
than the most open and extravagant trans
gressions and depravities could have pro
voked Republican leaders to renounce them.
What have not the Southern people had to
endure from these people ?
Mr. Hughes contended that the carpet-
baggers had an undue influence at Wash
ington, and that the favor they had receiv
ed at the hands of the Executive had been
damaging to the Republican cause It
seems that these warning voices have been
heard at Washington. The Chronicle
(Radical) declares itself in favor of confer
ring Federal offices in the South upon
Southern men. It confesses that it is im
politic to show distrust in the Southern
people by confiding thetrnstsof the govern
ment so exclusively to strangers—to the
'carpet-baggers.
This is a tardy confession—very tardy—
and t -o late to do good. After the South
ern people have been harrassed to death by
these people, it is confessed that they are
not as good as they should be, and that
possibly there are some Southern people as
good as they are, and may be a little better 1
Indeed ?
In this question the Government is not
exactly free from embarrassment. The black
voters had to be drilled and disciplined with
leagues, &c„ aud kept ready to vote, and
to vote the right way. Their drill officers
had to be upon terms of entire intimacy
with them, and smartly gifted with the art
of lying and in the manufacture of con
ningly devised fables, whereby to delude
the negro. In tilts occupation they had in
a great degree to cut themselves off from
white society for two reasons. First, the
whites despised them for their mean arts
and vulgar devices; aad secondly, as they
professed to hate the Southern whites, and
daily charged them with every sort of op
pression and wrong, for consistency sake
they had to shun white society, Had the
negroes caught them in such had company
they would have cut loose from them in
great indignation. But the carpet-baggers,
understanding trade, were guiltv of no such
folly. We can bear testimony to the faith
ful manner in which they performed their
office of self-degradation and attful decep
tion of the negroes.
New, if these “thieves,” as Mr. Greeley
justly styles them, are turned adrift by the
Government, what will become of the de
partment of negro missions ? Will the
native Virginians fill their places and dis
charge their duties as faithfully and a? suc
cessfully as they did ? It is a question of
importance. Messrs. Greeley and Hughes
are right. The “thieves” have brought
Republicanism into disgrace in the South,
anti it is not probable that the Southern
people can be won back by the Administra
tion which has given aid and comfort to
the wolves that have worried our people
for near seven years. If they are with
drawn, the tendency to disintegration of
Republican strength among the negroes
may be increased. They have not been
behind wiser people in discovering the hol
lowness and wickedness of carpet-baggers;
but it is questionable whether the Admin
istration will gain by putting down carpet
baggers.
We refer to this to suggest the moral
which it conveys; that the correction of a
deliberate outrage in tho hope of gaining
popularity thereby rather increases than
diminishes the indignation of those who suf
fered from the wrong. It is poor redtess
to an insulted people to discontinue an out
rage because it “does not pay,” and changes
of a policy suggested by sordid motives
cannot add to the respectability of a party,
Dor should it increase its strength.—Rich
mond Dispatch
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The South in I8G5.
At the close of the year 1863, General
Graut made a tour of inspection in the
South, to ascertain the condition of affairs,
aid, as he says, “to learn as far as possible
the feelings aud intentions of the citizens
of those States toward the General Govern
ment.” On the 18th of December he sub
mitted his report to the President in which
he said :
I am satisfied that the mass of thinkin,
men of the South accept the present situa
tion of affairs in good faith. That questions
which have heretofore divided the senti
ments of the people of the two sections—
slavery and States’ rights, or the right of a
State to secede from tho Union—they re-
.gard as having been settled forever by the
highest tribunal—arms—that man can re
sort to. I was pleased to learn from the
leading men whom I met, that they not
only accepted the dicision arrived at as final,
but now that the smoke of batle has clear
ed away, aud time has been given for re
flection, that this decision has beeu a for
tunate one for the whol s country, they re
ceiving like benefits from it with those who
opDcssed them in the field and in the coun
cil'. ******
There is such universal acquescence in the
authority of the General Govenment
throughout the portions of the country vis
ited by me that the mere presence of a mil
itary force, without regard to numbers, is
sufficient to maintain order. * *
Tho late slave seems to be imbued with
the idea that the property of his late mas
ter should by right belong to him, or at
least should have do protection from the
colored soldier. There is danger of colli
sions being brought on by such causes.
My observations lead mo to the conclu
sion that the citizens of the Southern
States are anxious to return to self-govern
ment within the Union as soon as possible;
that while reconstructing they want and re
quire protection from the Government; that
they are in earnest in wishing to do what
they t : ink is required by the Government,
not humiliating to them as citizens, and
that if such a course was pointed out, they
would pursue it in good faith. It is to be
regretted that there cannot be a greater
commingling at this time between the peo
ple of the two sections, and particularly of
thoso entrusted with the law-making
pi wer.
If the condition of affairs described in
this report has changed since then, who is
resnonsible? The control of the Southern
States was taken out of the hands of Pres
ident Johnson and given to General Grant
as Commander-in-Chief; afterwards he be
came President, and ever since has had
complete control.
Another link has peen added to the tele
graphic girdle that one day will completely
snrronnd the globe. A cable has been
successfully laid from Batavia, Java, to
Port Darwin, Australia, and in a few days
the tariff of messages from New York to
Australia will be annonneed.—Tribune.
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The Legislature has not extended
the time of paying taxes for 1871. The
people will find the Collector at Esq. Per
ry’s Office until Thursday.
MODERN RELIGION-
As Illns'rated and Verified by Progress.
Text: “Deihat his the most money and
plunder, is the best Christian.” We cannot
exactly say, in what part of the Bible this
text can be found, bnt we can say it will
be found in almost every ramification of
American civilization, from Aristock to the
Rio Grand and in every breath of atmosphere
that is wafted by the inspiration of modern
progress, from one end of tie American
Continent to the other : indeed it may be
set down as almost a universal truth,
whether in the Bible or not. Truth 13
truth, let it come from where it may.
Then if our text is truth, we have a
right to use it, for truth cant be beaten.
True, in former days there were a few
old fogies and twaddles, who did not sab-
scribe fully to this great truth, hut they
were rather insignificant in their day, and
perfectly antiquated in these modern times
of progress We allude to such men as
John Calvin, Martin Luther, John Wesley
and men of their stripe red stupidity, who
lived and figured a little in the dark, age-*
ofthe world, and whose minds were be-
clounded and overwhelmed . by fanaticism
and enthusiasm, that they never for a moment
looked forward, or even anticipated the
bright progress of the latter part of the
Nineteenth Century when the great tru h
of our text was to be, and would be fully
illustrated and verified. This proves beyond
question tbeir want of sagacity and fore
sight in the legitimate results of the worlds
progress. They had no knowledge or
conception of any higher law than their
Bible. No conception that human progress
would as early as »his day establish the
great fundamental truth of our text, though
they may have been -good meaning men,
yet their weakness is <o be pitied if not
pardoned. We conld say much in relation
to tbeso self deluded men, aud their
like, but we will for the present dismiss
them by setting them down as scires and
grandseires of fogyism.
Now let us turn to the truth of the re
ligion promulgation in the text, and verify
it by argu nent and authority, indisputa
ble and unequivocal. The truth of the
text is wafted over the American Conti
nent, by every breath of air that sweeps
across it. This air and atmosphere is nec
essarily inhaled and breathed by every liv
ing soul on the continent. Breath being
the great essential of human life, and there
being scarcely any other atmosphere to
breath, animal life is to a great extent
dependant on it; then does it not fdlow
that this great atmosphere is the great
constituent ele nent of life, and if so could
animal life exist without it ? Certainly,
none will say it couid, then the truth of the
text neccss.rily becomes the great element
of human existence; consequently this
great truth is well sustained by higher law,
and human progress.
Should there old be fogy squamishness,
as to the mode or maner of acquireiDg the
tangible evidences of this modern religion.
We think not, as there is nothing in higher
law, or modern progress, prescribing rules
on this subject, but on the contrary, one of
the fundamental rules is “that the end,
sanctifying the means.”
Indeed there should be no stringent
rules in this matter, for it is proper that all
should be left free and untram.neled, to
seek the higheststate of happiness, attaina
ble, both on Earth, and in Heaven, and
that no conventional rules should place any
"(jstraint on any one, for in proportion by a
regular scale of graduation, established by
this modern progressive Religion to
the pile of plunder and money which
a man has, he takes his seat both
on Earth and in Heaven. Yet these old
fogies, Calvin Luthur, Wesley and the like
of them, in the dark ages of the world,
talked of such nonsense, as filthy lucre,
mortifying the flesh, humility and poverty
of spirit, and such like twaddle.
We will quote authority, that will stand
the test of time, and vindicate the great
truth of the Text, to-wit:
Ulysses S. Grant, William M. Tweed, of
Tammany, Tom. Murphey of New York
Custom House, Governor Scott, of South
Carolina, Governor Bullock, late of Geor
gia, Foster Blodgett, are old deciples in
this faith, indeed we could enumerate hun
dreds of great men in Georgia, and if we
were to begin at Maine, taking the Circuit
of every State in the Union, through Utah.
California, down to Mtxico, the apostles of
this faith, who are the leading men of
American civilization, mi Jit be numbered
by the thousands. And yet to the great truth
of this modren religion, there are a few
stupid skeptics, but they will soon die out,
and be ranked, and numbered, amoug the
non-progressive of heathen days and fogy-
ism, defunct. We could add to these high
authorities already given the gu-at cities
of Washington, Philadelphia, New York,
BostoD, Chicago, New Orleans; &c., &c.
Our authorities are high, numerous and
abundant. And he that will not believe
these authorities, “would uot believe,
though ten thousand were to rise from the
dead.”
Ben. Butler,
One ofthe Unholy Apostles.
PREMIUM ESSAY.
This is a subject in which all of our
people are more or less interested, but to
the farmer, it is a matter of special interest.
To keep in repair the fencing on his farm,
is one of his greatest troubles. This arrises
from two causes, the high price of lumber
for fencing, and the uncertainty of secur
ing labor. The cheapest and best mode of
fencing is what the farmer wauts. Much
has been said and written on this subject.
Various kieds of fencing are being intro
duced, hut in none do we find so well com
bined, the advantage of economy, strength
and convenience, as in Stokers Portable
Fence. It is simple and convenient, and
durable in its o. nstruction, and the only
really Portable 'cnee we ever saw. Some
fences are said to be portable which are not.
No fence is portable, which cannot be
used on level or unlevel land, without alter-
ralioD.
Stoker’s Portable fence may be used to
day on level lands, and to morrowthc same
fence may be run up the steepest hills in our
farms, where other fence would not stand
without cutting or altering in some way?
The improvement in this fence, »hich ex-
cells that in any other, is the lock adjust
able brace. The fence is made as our com
mon plank fence, but not reqnirieg so large
a post as we use. The brace3 are fastened
by means of a bolt, or a large nail to the
top of each post, falling on each side, mak
ing the fence very strong. We know that
the strength of a fence depends on the base
it covers. By giving greater length to the
braces, the base is increased. Ordinarily,
the fence has from five to six feet base,
which is sufficient to make a strong fence.
This is the best fence for lands that are
subject to overflow. By driving stakes at
the foot of the braces, and nailing the
braces to the stakes, tho leticc is secure
against overflow cannot get away unless
broken by drift.
This fence can be made of aDy kind of
timber that is used in the common fence,
with a saving of three fonrths of timber,
also, a great saving of time.
But the bean y and great advantage of
this fence is, that we can nse the pannels
without changing them, in making all con-
veinencc3 about a farm, sneh as pens,
covered or uncovered, feed tacks, straw
pens, and winter quarters for stock. For
folding purposes it cannotbe excelled. As
a fence It is a success.
W. P. SIMMONS.
EJECTION RETURNS PROM CHEROk^
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S- Sheriff.
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E. R. Savage,
H. J. Clarke,
W. H. Ballard.
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J. M. Mosely, J
A. M. Patterson, S
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B. D. Cook, j
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The above 1s a correct statement of the Election in Cherokee County Ala. 7^^;
her the 7th, 1S71. The * denotes those elected. *’ ~ n “-all. l
November, 21st, 1871.
The Democratic Party of Polk County,
met in Convention, and was organized by
calling John O. Waddell to the Chair, and
appointed Jno. L. Branch as Secretary.
The following resolutions were offered by
Maj. J. W. Blance, to wit:
Resolved. That as a Convention is soon
to assemble in the City of Atlanta to
nominate a Candidate to fill the unexpir
ed term of the office of Governor, lately
made vacant by the resignation of R. B.
Bullock, it is the duty of the Democracy
of Polk, to have representation therein.
2d. That three Delegates be chosen by
this meeting, by one acclamation vote, to
represent the Democracy of Polk in the
said Convention wherever the same shall
assemble.
3d. That the Delegates so selected, be no
further instructed than that they shall cast
their ballot for none other, than a sound,
able Conservative, aid competent Demo
crat.
4tb. That while it is the sence of the
Democracy of Polk, that the Hon. L. N.
Trammell, by virtue of his office, as Presi
dent of the Senate, is constitutionally en
titled to exercise the powers of the Execu
tive office, they can but applaude the wis
dom and Conservatism displayed by the
Legislature in suffering the Hon. Benjamin
Conley, to discharge the functions of that
station, as evincive of a determination to
avert if possible, a collision between the
State aud Federal authorities, so greatly
desired by the radical heart.
Col. Bat Jones offered as a substitute for
Mej.Blance’s third resolution,that Delegates
be instructed in no event to vote for any
man who favors the doctrioe of the new de
parture. The motion to adopt Col. Jone’s
substitute was lost, when on motion Maj.
Blance’s resolutions were adopted.
The following gentlemen were appointed
as delegates to the State Nomination Con
vention viz. Maj. J. W. Biance, L. H.
Walthall, Col. Bat Jones, and on motion
our, representative in the Legislature, MrJ
Bunn was added to the’list of Delegates.
On motion the Delegates were authorized
to appoint substitutes if necessary.
The convention then adjourned.
Jno. O. Waddell, President.
Jso. L. Btanc i, Secretary.
The Atlanta Constitution,
In the matter of Henry Clews & Co., ac
count against the State, upon which we
commented a few days ago, the Atlanta
Constitution says:
We confess to very much surprise at an
editorial in the Rome Courier, beginning
with the above paragraph, and quoting a
part of our report of the statements of Mr.
Crosby, the attorney for Clews & Co , in
regard to the financial connection of that
firm with the State. Wc gave that side of
the matter as information without endorse
ment. The attempt of the Courier to con
nect the views of the Constitution with this
reuort, is, wc must confess, not in accord
with the usual fairness and courtesy of that
journal.
Our own position upon tf is subject has
beeu declared too often, and too explicitly
to be misunderstood. Upon tbi3 one sub
ject of all others, we do not mean to be mis
understood. We look with suspicion upon
every financial transaction of Bullock’s ad
ministration. At the same time we shall
at all times give all the facts obtainable and
afford a fair hearing to all.
We are heartily glad to be able to set oar
esteemed contempory right on this subject,
the more so as others fell into the same
error by a similarity of reasoning. The
publication of Mr. Crosby’s statement in
an editorial form without comment or dis-
aproval, betrayed us int? the inference that
the Constitution approved, and we must
confess to a painful surprise at the inference.
Tho Constitution has stood so manfully to
the right that, the least shadow of turning
from it vas painful to us. We again reiter
ate our gratification at being able to set it
right.
To the Citizens of Cherokee Country In
Georgia anil Alabama.
I desire, most respectfully, to call your
attention to tho Rome Female College. It
has been fully repaired and refurnished.
It is now in successful! operation, with six
teachers, with over ninety pupils, with ap
propriate facilities for the illustration of
sceintific facts and principles, and with a
well furnished gymnasium for the use of
boarders.
The Faculty will be enlarged as the ne
cessities ofthe Institute may require. You
now have a school -near your homes, at
which your daughters may receive a thor
ough education. We need your patronage.
We invite it most earnestly. We are re
solved to merit it, and we hope to receive
it.
Pupils will be received at any time.
There will be no vacation in tie wioter.
The next session will commence on the
22nd day of January, 1872.
All letters of enquiry will be promptly
answered by
J. M. M. Caldwell Pres’t.
Correct as Usual.-W^
undeviating precision the ™.'
last Sunday makes the folIowiJ^
ment: gl " L0 ®i
Our co-temporary Col. Saner „
to deliver a lecture at the pi,i
next Monday night on “ The t & ,
He is a fine illustration of hUsS
We are sorry to eee oar jS
falling into his old habits so J,
his marriage. We had hoped that
the restraining influence of the Good T
plans, and the gentle teachings of, i
wife,he would have reformed hU,
abstained from his sensational ,
but it appears that his ruling ,
stronger than we feared.
Of course it is not necessary t
that the announcement above was ,
gratuitous, and we are puzzled to [
what induced him to make it.
Availing himself of the friendly u
sv of the excellent President of the L,
Female College, Col. Sawyer does eg,
to deliver a lecture at some future ,
which timewil 1 be appointed aad astou
by Mr. Caldwell himself. The s
will be “The Beautiful," and CoL S
yer will illustrate it,not by his own,/
ance.but by photographs ofthe GadjI
ly, with the Adonis of the (WtJ|
the central figure.
Supremely Happy.—Our neighhrl
the Commercial is supremely happy,
ter puffing aud blowing, with bis h
army of Editors. General Editor, 1
litical Editor, Local Editor, Special E
Literary Editor, Commercial Editor,,
Agricultural Editor, together t
Steam Power Presses, for nine long
months the Mountain has delivered, d
Mouse comes forth, aad the happy ftj
cries “Eureka.” He has gut a sub
yes at last —has got a new 5
Blood will tell, and our young
joices in his reward. Here is the way i
tells his joy.
“A Lost Sheep Comb How-fl
are now willing to retire from jour
The triumph of our life is full!
lin has commenced takingthe (
His pet name for our contemporary I
cell, is “Brick Pomeroy'.” And he it
man who wanted to be wrapped up iit
Courier as a sort of martial cloak f
he died. We hope that he will like d
Commercial, though we may ms feed k
oil as red hot diet as does the
Georgia.”
Well we do hope that CoL Tumlii i
like the Commercial, we think he will
it. He loves a joke occasionally, nil
stale joke is bstter than no jot;
surely
“A little nonsense now andtliea
la relished by the wisest men."
you know, and the Commercial ii j
the thing. We would be sorry her
to see our brilliant young friend carry £
willingness to retire from journalism i
effect, and hope that the next sal
will break the joyful news to hitnbj lj
grees, and not surprise him sa s
with an overpowering joy.
ADJOURNED TERM OF FL01D !
PEltlOR COURT.
An adjourned term of this
opened Monday, Judge Harvey pits
The purpose tor which the Con**
convened was to try the prisoners «*'
custody, and to relieve the County o. nj
great expense of keeping them, *-*
to secure justice to the prisoners,
some fifteen cases that require i®
attention. Among which is th*
Anderson Pryor fur the mordent**
upon Mr. Borden, and the cases o
Wade. Richard Watters, 0li« -
don and Armstead Billops for I s 1
of Pierce Roland. This fc* .
of peculiar interest, and will excite
attention. It will be rememb^
last August the mutillatcd body ,
Roland, a petceable colored m»n ®
the track ofthe railroad nett^
disco rC
his pets<»
Pay Your Taxes.—An erroneous im
pression has gone out that the time for the
payment of State and County t-xes has
been extended. This is not so. The Leg
islatnre failed to pass the bill.
S. C. Trout, will be in Rome from the
4th of December till the 10th, after which
the tax books of Floyd Connty will be
closed, and executions issued against delin-
qnents. This is no fault of the Tax Col- 1 the best 1
lector, it is made his doty nnder the law. 1° t * ie 00
aud with marks of a scuffle near by'
indicated foul play-
made shortly afterwards, but
developed that would indicate *
parties. Last Saturday however;
man Lamed Billy Wade **
wearing the natch which ^
was known to have upon
last seen alive. And an
rest was immediately t*’
ry. His arrest led to
the arrest of the other pard**™ 5 "
all tell contradictory ta.c=. J
main for the Court to determm-
or innocence. —derif*.
The most important « se ^ a,i[
Anderson Pryor, ne S r0 ’‘iA
robbing with intent to ktH oU
He was sentenced to 20 yen' 3
tentiary. . „ m3 ri* ’
The following gentle“ ,aD
Grand Jury: jjfl/j
Grand Jury, November T* ^ '
D. M. Hood, foreman, A. • f
G . Dick, Miles Reece, ^ f
nu—i .w Wright, N. ^ ^
Chari *s
Harbour, R- S. Zuber,
C. Morrison, John A. P er ’ j (].
Thomas Lumpkin, tt. a-
Water., J-B-Joatins^^^
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