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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 183?-1864 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1864)
(gjjirontrle & Jitiitintl. XI'KKI II OK MK LONG, OK OHIO, I.\ TIIK KKDKIUL V IKUHBBS. No item of news, perhaps, has attracted more attention or excited more interest than the late bold speech of Mr. Long in the Yankee Con gress. No sooner was it uttered than the •whole Republican party was on his heels like a pack of cure, and an exciting controversy en sued, which lasted through four whole days. A resolution was introduced for his expulsion for daring to utter such sentiments, but seeing •that it could not be carried, the Republicans Bubstituted for it a resolution of censure. This led to a sharp and acrimonious debate, and was finally carried—but by the very close vote of eighty against seventy. To add further hu miliation, as it were, it was proposed that the vote of censure be read to Mr. Long by the Speaker during the session of the House, but this proposition was laid upon the table by a vote of seventy-one against sixty-nine. Thus ended the whole affair. But the mind natural ly inquires, why has all this fuss been kicked up by this speech ? Why should it have fallen like a bombshell among the Republicans' The Northern papers have published the debate growing out of it, but not one of them has dared to publish the speech, with the single honorable exception of the New York News, which lays it in full before the public. All this has tended to give a peculiar interest and sig nificance to the document. Again, far more than ordinary interest at taches to this speech of Mr. Long, from certain political intimations given out in the Northern press. Mr. Long is a Reprenstative from the great central .State of Ohio ; he is emphati cally a peace man ; he is a representative of the Conservative Democratic party, and his speech, it is said, furnishes the platform upon which the Democratic party of the North will make the issue in tier coming Presidential election. From this consideration alone his views pos sess extraordinary interest, and from the angry discussion it gave rise to in the Yankee Con gress, and the close vote by which it was dis posed of, it is evident that it was regarded by the Republicans with great political jealousy. Had the News not procured a copy of this, speech, we suppose the Yankees would, never have permitted it to be seep, it was their policy to smother it Vnrniu the halls of Con gress, and the’ir presses aided and abetted in luu game by shutting their columns to it. But the Now York News beards the lion in bis den, and, on the very same day it was delivered in Congress, the News comes out with it in full. We lay this speech of Mr. Long before the peo ple of the booth, somewhat abridged in its immaterial passages-. We feel assured that no one will fail to read it : Mr. Chairman: I speak to-day for the pre flci Vtition of the Government, and, although for the first time within these walls, I propose to indulge in that freedom of speech and lati tude of debate so freely exercised by other gentlemen for the past four months, and which is admissible under the rules in tlse present condition of the House; but for what t may Hay and the position I shall occupy upon this floor and bPfore the country, 1 alone will he responsible, and in the independence of a Rep resentative of the people, I intend to proclaim the deliberate convictions of my judgment in this fearful hour of the country’s peril. And now, Mr. Chairman, as we are iu Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, let us in quire, how stands the Union to-day. TUB INAUGURATION OF THE WAR. A little over three years ago, the present oc cupant of the Presidential mammon, at the other end of the avenue, came into this city under cover of night, disguised iu a plaid cloak and Scotch cap, lest, as was feared by his friends, lie might, have received a warmer greet ing than would have been Agreeable on his way through Baltimore, at Ihe hands of the ~>n«tli„.iiit.nf tho lonnnihL gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Davis). On the 4lii of March lie was inaugurated, and in his address depre-' cated civil war, using that eter to be memo rable language, “Suppose you go to war, you cannot, light always, and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease lighting, the identical old questions ®s to terms of intercouse are again upon you.” Seven States had up to that time seceded from the Union. All believed Hint war would be averted. At the conclusion of the address the lamented Douglas, who had closely watched every word as it escaped from the lips of the Presi dent. turned to a friend, and, with tears in his eyes, “thanked God that after ail, the election «>t Abraham Lincoln woulu not involve the nation in war.” A secret meeting of the Governors of a number of States was soon af ter held in this city. A scheme was devised and a vessel sent out under pretense of fur nishing provisions to the troops with Major Anderson in Fort Sumter. On arriving in < 'harleston harbor the people of that city tired upon the Fort. The telegraph bore the news to this city, and on the tirst mention to the President, he exclaimed. “1 knew they would do it,” which to my mind is conclusive that it was intended expressly ior that purpose.— Seventy-live thousand men were immediately called for, war was inaugurated, twenty days were givd.u *he insurgents to lay down their arms ; an additional five hundred thousand men were soon called for, hostilities commenc ed. The rebellion was to be crushed inside of sixty days, more troops were called for, the Union was to be restored with all the rights, equality and dignity of the States unimpaired. JX’o man was permitted to question, for a mo ment. the right of the Government to coerce the States back into the Union. To doubt the right or question the speedy suppression of the rebellion and restoration of the Union, was to be denounced as a traitor to the Government and a sympathiser with the South. Thus, sir, was the war inaugurated. The first year pass ed away ; the second came and passed in like manner, so of the third. * HOW NOW STAN US THK WAR ? An<i now. sir,'let me npiiii inquire how stands the Union to-day l Tlie brief period of three short years lias produced a (earful change in this free, happy and prosperous Govern ment ; so Lee in its restraints upon personal liberty, and so aU.ntle in its demands upon the resources of the people • that the celebrated Humbolt, after travelling ttif ou ßh the country, on his return to Europe, said : “ |he Ameri can people have a Government which >pu can neither see nor feel.” Sa different is it now. and so great is the change, that the inquiry will be made to day, are we not in Constantinople, in St. Petersburg, in Vienna, in Home, or in Paris Military Governors and their Provost Marshals overrride the laws, and the echo of the armed heel rings forth as clearly now in America as in France or in Austria, and the President sits to-day guarded by armed soldie ry, stationed at every approach leading to the Executive mansion. So far from crushing the rebellion in sixty days, three years have al ready passed away, and from the day on which the conflict t:'tran up to the present hour, the Confederate army have not been forced beyond the sound of their gb.ns from the dome of the capitol in which we are a trembled. THE PROSPECT SO'W. The City of Washington is to-day as it has been for three j ears, guarded by federal troops lu all the tort*’and fortifications with which it is surrouuded to prevent an attack from the en emy. and as an evidence of the despondency of the administration, and the unsuccessful open ing 01 the spriug campaign of the fourth year in the progress of the war, the Morning Chronicle of *his city, the President's organ, in an editorial a tew mornings since, said “Charleston has not boe3 fa oll ; Lee maintains a bold front on the Rapida.t t t!)e Llorida expedition was a failure; the ftheruitCH expedition has not been a success, and the re be 'y have everywhere shown mere vigor than they wJT' S supposed to possess.' 4 Al though the same paper, and others in support of tire, Administration, ba\V? told the country from time to time during the past winter, that the rebellion was crushed, and slavery was dead; that the Confederates were deserting in whole regituenfs at a time, coming within onr lines, taking the oath, and describing the most horrible guttering and demoralization from want of food, clothing and ill treatment, yet at the very time the people have been so deceived and" misled, from day to day, the President calls for .MX), OOP more troops, and in a few weeks follows it w ith an additional call for 200.- 000 more, making 700,000 since the first of Jan nary, and over 2,500,000 since the commence ment of the war out of the 3,500,000 who voted in the so-called loytl States at the last Presi dential election, when 75,000 militia were to end it in twenty, or at most sixty days. -fHO ARE THE TARTY WIIO ENTOURAGE AND „VR* RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAR—THE “PEACE” MB. UNCOLE PROPOSES TJ THE SOU IH. Hr- Uiiait-pan : X have thus made a very I brief statement of facts as to the condition of the Union to-day, and for doing which I have no doubt the usual charge of “encouragement (or the rebels," “the prolongation of the war,” “the rebels are aided by their friends on this floor,and the like charges will be repeated again by gentlemen on the opposite side of the House; and, as L have heard such charges so repeatedly during the past four months, I say now and here that the real friends of the Con federates—those who give them aid and en couragement, and enable them to carry on the war—are on the opposite side of the House and in the control of the Government Your con fiscation resolution, voted for and passed by the fiieuds of the Administration, by which you propose to thrust your hands into the coffin of the deceased father, and take all ha may have left at his death to his widow and inno cent and unoffending children, is worth more than fifty thousand men to the Confederate army. The order issued by the Piesident to General Saxton, dividing up and parceling out the State of South Carolina among the negroes and enteprising Yankees of Massachusetts, gives courage, energy and enthusiasm to the men now in am s in the Confederate State s The order of the President to his military commanders in Louisiana and Arkansas, and the order issued in pursuance thereof by Glen. Ranks to the people of Louisiana—in which, by a single dash of his pen, he strikes out of ex istence the Constitution and organic law of the State, and by virtue of the power vested in him as a Major General proceeds to call and hold an election, and inaugurate State officers, and set up a State Government—and the legis lation consummated and proposed by Congress, and speeches made upon this floor in support of Radicalism, is strengthening the Confedeia ey and prolonging the war. Herein, sir, is where they find strength ; the true friends of the Confederacy in the North are the Radical Abolitionists, and the Radical press goading on the President to issue proclamations and military orders which provide lood, raiment, strength and support for the Confederacy. ~lf Mr. Lincoln had made a gift of millionsof green tracks to Jefferson Davis to be used as bounty money in recruiting the Confederate army, he could not have done better service to the cause of the South than he has done by this silly, absurd and insulting Amnesty Proclama tion. and bis equally absurd attempt to create State Governments by dictator al power. He lias in effect, said to the Southern people: “ You shall not return to Ihe Union except un der such local governments as I and my mili tary officers dictate,” and with the aid of his friends in Congress he is enabled to add, “in the event of your submission and return, your estates shall be confi-cated; your property, person®! and real. shgU taken from you; your cht’-jien shall be .disinherited and left homeless and penniless to starve, under the scorn and hatred of Northern fanatics; your lands and manor houses shall be parcelled out arnoug our retainers; the negro (Freedmen) and the adventurer shall sit and rule at your hearthstones, and you—beggars and outcasts— shall be forbidden representation in out nation al councils, and be shut out forever from offices of trust and honor.’’ Such is tire language in which Lincoln and this Congress and the pre ceding Congress have spoken and are speaking to the people of the South—and now, sir, with such a prospect before them, as the sequel of submission, outlawry, disfranchisement, social, moral and political degradation, penury for themselves and their children, decreed as their portion, will they throw down their arms and submit to the terms? Who shall believe that the free, proud Ameri can blood which courses with as quick pulsa tion through their veins as our own, will not be spilled to the last drop iu resistance? This is the source, sir, from whence comes encour agement, strength, support and sustenance for tift Confederates; herein lies the secret of the unity of their action, the prolongation of the contest and the desperation of the conflict pro duced, uot by anything said, or measures pro posed by gentlemen upon this side of the House, or by any measures proposed or policy advoca ted l-y the Democratic- party, but by the acts of the gentlemen who make the charges, and the President and his military commanders, who issue the proclamation and military orders. CAN WAR RESTORE THE U*iION? Mr. Chairman, I have deemed it proper thus to advert to the chargesuot encourag inent to the Confederates so repeatedly made upon this floor, ana I again recur to the consideration of the Union. Can the Union be restored by war? 1 answer most unhesitatingly and deliberately, no, never; “war is final, eternal separation.” My first and highest ground of opposition to its ifui ther prosecution is that it is wrong ;it is in violation of the Constitution and of the fundamental principles on which the Federal Union was founded. My second objection is that as a policy it is not re constructive but destructive, and will, if contained, result spee dily in the diStruetion of the Government and the loss of civil liberty to both North aud Saudi, aud it ought therefore immediately cease. [Here Mr. Long reviews at great length the views and opinions entertained, previous to this war, try' some of the greatest statesmen of the country, living and dead, upon the light as well as the exepedjency of coercing any State into submission. It is not necessary to follow him in this part of his speech. Returning to the subject of tho war, he continues :] WHAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT. Three years’experience in attempting ‘‘by numerical preponderance and military prow ess of one section exerted to coerce the other into submission,” has Convinced me more tho roughly that it is “as self-contradictory as it is dar%erous’’ —contradictory because it violates the great principles of free government, which ‘‘derives tueir just powers from the consent of tho governed and dangerous because, by its exercise, especially when wielded by a weak, vascillating and unscrupulous man ; war de stroys, instead of maintaining the Union, Constitution, and organic law ; civil liberty and personal security are forced to yield to what is claimed to be a military necessity, and the Government itself, in the brief period of three short years, is to-day verging on the very brink of ruin. I am well aware, sir, that tho cry of disloyal ty, want of patriotism and lack of devotion to the Government, which is in every place and at all times raised against those who have the independence to disapprove or any of the acts of Mr. Lincoln, as well as an inordinate desire lor Government patronage, from the building of a steamship and a shoddy contract, down to the insignilicant .position of taking charge of a mutilated and depreciated greenback in the Treasury Building, has changed the opinion of many men, but the fixed principles of free Gov ernment as well as the rules of right, reason, justice and truth are unchangeable; and, al though it may be unpopular and even at the risk of personal liberty in times like the pres ent, to advocate them, they are nevertheless eternal and immutable. WH-AT IS THE POSITION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES IN THIS WAR. The distinguished gentleman from Pennsyl vania (Mr. .Stevens) who this floor and before the country as an acknowledged leader of the Administration party, has had the honesty and independence, in a speech de livered at an early part of the session, to an nounce what he holds to be the true position of tile Confederate States. He says : “Some think that these States are still in the Union and entitled to the protection of the Constitution and the lawsof the United States." This idea he at once repudiates, and then boldly affirms that which he holds to be the true doctrine. "Others hold that having committed treason, renounced their allegiance to the Union, dis carded the Constitution and laws, organized a distinct and hostile government, and by force of arms h ive risen from the condition of insur gents to the position of an independent power, (Ufacto : ami having been acknowledged as M belligerent both by foreign nations and our own government, the Constitution and the Union are abrogated, so far as they are con cerned, and that as between the two belliger ents they are under the laws of war and the laws of nations alone.and that which ever pow er conquers may treat the vanquished as con quered provinces, and may impose upon them such conditions and laws as it may deem best." In answer to any objections that may be raised to this position, he says : “But it is said that this must bo considered a contest with rebel individuals only, a* States in the l nion cannot make war; that is true so long as they remain in the Union; but the claim to be out of the Union .'and the very fact that we have admitted them to be in a state ot war, to lie belligerents, shows that they are no long er in the l nion. and that thev are waging war in their coiporate capacity, under the corporate 1 name cf the Confederate States, and that such major corporation is composed of minor cor porptions called States, acting in thier associa ted character. “When an insurrection becomes sufficiently formidable to entitle the party to belligerent rights, it places the contending powers on pre cisely the same 'footing as foreign nations at war with each other. “No one acquainted with the magnitude of this contest can deny to it the character of a civil war. For nearly three years the Con federate States have maintained their declara tion of independence by force of arms. “What, then, is the effect of this public war between these belligerents, these foreign na taionsßefore tills war the pai ties were bound together by a compact, by a treaty called a ‘Constitution.’ They acknowledged the validi ty of municipal laws mutually binding. on each. This war has cut asunder all these liga ments, abrogated all the obligations. Now. sir, for once at least 1 agree with the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania, that the Confederate States are out of the Union occupying the position of an independent pow er de facto; have been acknowledged as a belli gerent. both by foreign nations and our own Government; maintained their declaration of independence for three years, by force of anns; and that the war has cut asunder all the liga ments and abrogated all the obligations that bound them under the Constitution. So far I agree with him, and however un willing we may be to accept such position as the actual condition of the Confederate States, the history of the years, the law of nations, the genius oTour government, and a regard for truth, compel me at least to accept it, and my judgment to approve it, and if the charge of disloyalty is brought against me for this opinion. I have only to shield myself un der the broad mantle of the distinguished lead er of the Republican party. At the commence ment of the war England and France both de clared the Confederate States to be belligerents; the United States has treated with them as such in the exchange of prisoners, and the Ad ministra'ion s to-day, without the hone slyorin dependence ot thegentlemau from Pennsylvania to avow it, doing precisely what he proposes to do under his war of conquest, waged against the Confederate States as a foreign nation. It is not now even pretended that the war is carried on having for its object the restoration of the Union ; “ reconstruction,” “ consolida tion, “centralization,” “with an entire change in the Constitution,” are the terms employed in speaking of the government that is to exist hereafter. To speak of the Constitution as it is, and the Union as it was, is an offense, sub jecting an officer in the army to punishment by dismissal from the service; and conclusive evi dence of disloyalty in the citizen. If* the time ever was when the Union could nave been restored by war, which I do not be lieve, it his long since been dispelled by eman cipation, confiscation, amnesty and the lfke proclamations; military orders annulling State constitutions, setting aside State laws, obliter ating State lines and attempling to organize and set up a form of State government in their stead, in which one man out of ten who shall turn Abolitionist, take and subscribe an oath to execute and obey the will of Abraham Lin coln, whatever it may be, shall govern and rule “• .h<. remaining nine who refuse to become Abolitionists. These follies of the Adminis tration and others of the like character have, instead of “crushing the rebellion,” crushed out whatever Union sentiment may have re mained among the Southern people. WHAT SUBMISSION EXTORTED UNDER FEAR IS WORTH It is possible that in districts of country oc cupied by the army, occasionally a mau may lie found, who, seeing nothing before him but ignominy and death, his wile and innocent chil dren appealing to him for protection, with all thy ties of filial affection, his property confis cated,- and his family to become outcasts and beggars in the world, that such a man, in or der, lor the time being, to save himself, save his family and save his property, may take the oath, but the effect of it will be, as i> ought to be, like that of Gallileo who invented the tele oscope, and who first taught the rotary motion of the earth. »That noble old ItallhQ, after many yea«,of labor in the study of science,and when lie had advanced to the extreme age of seventy, was summoned before an inquisition, tried, condemned and imprisoned in a dungeon for teaching a heresy ; subsequently ha was brought out and offered liberty on condition of renouncing his heretical doctrine. The effect of beholding the glorious fight of the sun and breathing again the pure air of Heaven as contrasted with the loathsome dun geon in which he had been cast, and to which he must return or renounce his belief in the earth’s motion, so far overcame his humanity that he consented to comply, and upon h'is bended knees, with his hands upon the gospels, he objured his belief in the Copernican doc trine. Part of his objuration ran in these terms: “With a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I objure, curse and detest the said errors aud heresies, (viz: that the earth moves, &c.) I swear that I will never in future say or assert anything verbally or in writing, which may give rise tu a similar suspicion.against me.”—- Rising from his knees with his eyes still fixed on the earth, he whispered to a friend, put si muove.’’ “It move* for all that.” So it will be with the man who is forced lo take the oath to save himself, his family and his property. He uiiiy take it, butyl his heait he will de test and despise the authority that requires it. Will such a man be devoted to or make a good citizen of the government in which he lives ? The history of I’olaud, of Hungary, of Ireland and of Italy furnishes an answer to the ques tion. If Imperial governments are not able to hold in submissive obedience small portions of a vast empire, once in revolt, how much less a government having for its basis the consent of the governed. THE CRY OF “ SUBJUGATION WlfitT ARE THE TEACHINGS OK EXPERIENCE. But “ subjugation” is the watchword. Lib erty and freedom for the slave and subjuga tion and extermination for the master is the popular cry. Meet them, fight them, crush them, says the gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Green Clay Smith.) Sir, that is easily said upon this floor, and is popular with those who, from day to day, fill the gallery of this House, but even the gentle man from Kentucky as well as a number of other military gentlemen, were quite willing to forego the pleasure of the performance and ex change their commissions as generals in the field for a certificate entitling them to a seat upon this floor ; and were Ito judge by the willingness with which it was done, aud the tenacity with which they hold on to it, and the elforts some of them are making to return here again, instead of the war spirit they bieathe within these walls I should strongly suspect them of being in sympathy with tile peace par ty- Mr. Chairman, I am no military man, and therefore incompetent to give advice or ad vance an opinion in military affairs, but I have been often lorcibly struck by a remark of Mar shal Ney, in reply to Napoleon, as related by Headtey in his “Napoleon and his Marshals:” “One day, at Madrid, Napoleon entered the room where Ney and several officers were standing, and said in great glee,' everything goes on well; Romana will be reduced in a tort night; the’English are defeated and wilLbe un able to advance; in three months the war will be finished.” The officers to whom this was addressed made no reply, but Ney, shaking his head, said, with his characteristic bluntness, “Sire, this war has lasted long already, and our affairs are not improved. The people are obstinate; even their women and children tight; they massacre our men in detail. To-day we cut the enemy in pieces, to-morrow we have to oppose another twice as numerous. It is not an army we have to tight, it is a whole nation. I see no end to this business.” “Bonaparte followed his own inclinations, and was eventually defeated.” Mr. Cuairman, is there not instruction in the blunt yet forcible reply of the old French Mar shal to his superior officer for in? Have we not had, from lime to time, the predictions of Napoleon during the past three years, but with out a Marshal Ney to say, “I see no end to this business.” [Here Mr. Long argues, at some length, to show that the North was inconsistent with all her former acts and the declarations of her most prominent men, in not permitting the Southern States to withdraw in peace. He calls to mind that even as late as December, 1860, after Mr. Lincoln was elected, and after the preliminary steps for secession had been taken, the paper having the largest circulation 'in the Republican party, and having more in fluence than any other in the formation of Re publican opinion. (New York Tribune), de clared that it- could see no reason why, if three millions of colonists could separate from the British Crown in 1746, that five millions of Southerners could not separate from the North in 1861. He shows from history that there never was a people on the face of the earth that demand i e 4 an independent government that did not | have the sympathy of the American people. : and refers particularly to the appeal made by Clay and Webster in behalf of Greece, in I 182-1. when they so eloquently declaimed in that behalf. Mr. Long contends that it would have been far better if the North had parted in peace with the seceded States, as Mr. Ever ett recommended as late as February, 1861, sustained by many of the leading Republican journals. Returning again to the war, Mr. Long proceeds : WHAT THE NORTH HAS GAINED BY THIS WAB. We have made, Mr. Chairman, by this war eight millions of hitter enemies upon the Ameri can Continent. While time shall last the re collect.ons of this bloody strife will never fade from the memories ofthe people North and South, but will be handed down to the latest generation.' The words Shiloh, Autietam, Gettysburg, Murfreesborough, Richmond,Vicksburg and Fort Donelson are words of division and disunion, and. will serve to bring up emotions of eternal hate. If it were true, as was alleged by a distinguish ed Senator from Ohio (Mr. Wade), in a speech in Portland in 1855, “ that he believed that no two nations on the earth hated each other as much as the North and South,” how much more true is the remark now after they have been ar rayed in such bloody contests. It is the object of the sword to cut and cleave asunder, "but never to unite. What union is there between Russia and Poland, between Aus tria and Hungary, between England and Catho lic Ireland, where the sword and the bayonet for centuries have been employed ' Instead of con ferring national strength, they are sources of weakness to countries that hold them in subjec tion. and which would this day be stronger with out them than with them. Mr. Chairman, these lessons of history are full of warning and example. Much better would it have' been for us in the beginning—much better would it be now —to consent to a division of our magnificent empire and cultivate amicable rela tions with our estranged brethren, than to seek to hold them to us by the power of the sword. • THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECESSION. Here let me advert to the common, yet per fectly glaring and apparent error, that to part with our jurisdiction over eleven States, involves the destruction of our Government. The state ment of the proposition demonstrates its absur dity. As well might one say, who had a farm of two hundred acres of land, that he had lost his title deed to all of it because by some mis fortune he had parted with fifty. In losing the South, not one function of our Government over us is snrrendered. It remains over us as com pletely sovereign as it ever did. Here let me say, as the experience of my individual belief, that if it had been understood in the North as in the South, that by the terms of the Federal compact a State had a right to secede from the Union, this disruption would never have occur red. Had the North so understood the matter there would have been upon its part a forbear ance from the exercise of extreme measures, and a desire not to press its Southern sisters to the wall, that would ever have maintained the Con federacy unbroken. It was the pftvalence of the idea of the Consolidationists in the North that the Southern States had no right to, and would not, secede that tempted them and that fatal policy that has sundered the Confederacy. It is said that no confederacy can exist by a recognition of this principle, but such was not the view of the fathers of our ' Government, it was not the view of Jefferson and Madison in their immortal resolutions of 1798 and 1799. ft has been said, Mr. Chairman, that it would make a confederacy a rope of sand, but if so it is strange that the Southern Confederacy, where it is recognized, should hold together through such a bloody pressure as we have applied tc it for the last three years ; it is a strange rope of sand that endures all that. THE UNION FOREVER DOST. But, to return, Mr. Chairman. As will lie judged perhaps, by the tenor of these remarks, I am reluctantly and despondingly forced to the conclusion that the Union is lost never to be re stored. I regard all dreams of the restoration of the % Union, which was the pride of my life, and to restore which even now, I would pour out my heart’s blood, as worse than idle. 1 see neither North or South any sentiment on which . it is possible to build a Union—those elements of union which Mr. Adams described have, by the process of time, been destroyed. Worse ; yes, worse than that Mr. Chairnjan, I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that in attempting to preserve our jurisdiction over the Southern States we have lost our constitutional form of government over the Northern. What has been predicted by our wisest and most-eminent states men has conre to pass ; in grasping at the shad ow vve have lost the substance ; in striving to retain the casket of liberty in which our jewels were confined, we have lost those precious mon uments of freedom. Our Government, as all know, is not anything resembling what it was three years ago ; there is not one single vestige of the Constitution remaining ; every clause and every letter of it has been violated, and I have no idea myself that it will ever again be respected. Revolutions never go backward to the point at which they started. There has al ways been a large party in this country favorable to a strong or monarchical government, and they have now all the elements upon which to es tablish one. They have a vast army, an im mense public debt, and an irresponsible Execu tive. Ambitious to retain power, he is a candi date for re-election, and ajjComnrander-in-Chief, it is charged (whether true or false, I shall not undertake to decide, that he has already used the army in the Florida expedition to advance his chances of suertss. One of the Generals he has decapitated, (General Fremont) has entered the field to dispute his claim to a continunmce in power, and if the Chronicle of this city, the President’s organ, is correct in its construction of the suggestions of the New York Herald, speaking of Lieutenant Genera! Grant, the question is already mooted whether he in certain contingencies, at the head of the army would not be justified in assuming the reins of govern ment. The very idea upon which this war is found ed—coercion of States —leads to despotism ; to preserve a republican from of Goverment under any constitution, under the prevalence of the doc trines now in vogue, is clearly impossible. These convictions of the complete overthrow of our Gov ernment are as unwelcome and unpleasant to me as they are ta any member of this House. Would to God the facts were such I could cherish other convictions. - I may be denounced as disloyal and unpatriotic for entertaining them, but it will only be by shallow fools and arrant knaves who do not know or will not admit the difference between recognizing a fact and creat ing its existence. A man may not desire to die, but nevertheless his belief will not alter the fact of his mortality. I shall not in these remarks re vive the unpleasant and acrimonious controversy of who is responsible for the death and destruc tion of our Republic. Ido not see that any duch discussion now would be productive of good. I entertain clear and strong convictions upon that point,•’convictions that I have no doubt will be shared in by the impartial historiA of the future. For the present I am willing to let the past with all its recollections rest, provided we can snatch from the common ruin some of our old re lics of freedom. Ido not share in the belief en tertained by many of my political friends on this floor and elsewhere, that any peace is attainable upon the basis of Union and reconstruction. It the Democratic party were in power to day I have no idea, and honesty compels me to declare it, that they could restore the Union over thirty four States. My mind has undergone an entire change upon that subject. THE ONLY ALTERNATIVES. I believe that _there are but two alternatives, and these are, either an acknowledgment of the independence of the South as an independent nation, or their complete subjugation and exter mination as a people, and of these alternatives I prefer the former. Mr. Chairman: I take little or no interest in the ffiscussion ofthe question which many of my political friends would make an issue a's to how this war shall be prosecuted, its manner and ob ject. I regard that as worse than trifling with the great question. Ido not believe there can beany prosecution of the war against a sovereign State under the Constitufon, and I do not be lieve that a war so carried on can be prosecuted so as to render it proper, justifiable or expedient. An unconstjtut.on al war can only be carried on in an unconstitutional manner, and to prosecute Penn 7/ /xi e 'i eaof Ulc gentleman from ' S ’s I™p i V tevpns ) as a war waged against the Confederate States as an indepen dent nation, for the purpose of conquest and sniyugation as he proposes, and the Admmis opposed'* ‘ n arUt m fBCt doin *’ 1 equally t.f/ i Urt ,7 r ’ Mr ' f'Uairman, that if this wa sto heturther prosecuted, 1 prefer that it shall be done under the auspices of those who now conduct its management, as I do not wish the party with wh.eh I am connected to be in any degree responsible for its results, which can not be otherwise than disastrous and suicidal-let the responsibility remain where it is until* we can have a change of policy instea j of me ' n , jf such a mg is possible. Nothing could be more flital for the Democratic party than to see£to come into power pledged to a continuance of a war policy-such a policy would be a libel upon its creed in the past and the ideas that lie atThe basis of all free governments and would lead to ■ts complete demorahzation and ruin. >e k\c t le masses of the Democratic partv are for peace that they would be placed in a a »e posi ion i they should nominate a war can didate for the Presidency and seek £o make the issue upon the. narrow basis of how the war should he prosecuted. For my own part, as I have already mdicated. I fear that our old gov ernment oannot be preserved even under the best auspices, and under any policy that may now be adopted; yet I desire io see "the Demo- cratic party, with which I have always been con nected, preserve ,ts consistency and republican character unshaken. The small pox is quite prevalent and fatal among the Confederate prisoners at Rock Is land, 111. Over eight hundred are now confin ed by various disuses, NEWS SUMMARY. The Raleigh Progress learns that “sixty-one farmers have recently been l eleased from Camp Holmes and sent home to cultivate their farms. This is a good step, and vve hope it will not stop I here, but every farmer taken by the last law will be left at home to make something to eat. W hen the Abolition movement first com menced at the North, it was modestly contended that the negro was a poor, ignorant, and unfortu nate creature, and it was a pity and sin to add to the degradation of his condition by enslaving him. Some years elapsed, and it was held that the negro should be made free and sent back to Africa or some distant country, where he could not interfere with the white man, or he a moral stumbling block in his way. At a still later day. it was boldly proclaimed that the ne gro should be set free, kept in the country and endowed with all the privileges of the white citizen, as he was the equal of the latter. From equality naturally flowed as a sequence the doctrine of amalgamation, or “miscegena tion.” as the modern Abolition lights have dubbed the intermarriage of blacks and whi es. This was thought to be climax, but the war has developed a still further step in the march of the progressive negro. We observe that the Rev. Dr. lying, of N. York, Bne of the able.-t of Northern divines, has recently declared from the pulpit that the negroris not only equal, but “superior’’ to the white man ! Only six miles of the track of the road be tween Charlotte and Statesville N. C. is to he taken up and that is soon to be relaid with flat-rails, and the operations of the road will continue. The heavy iron is taken up to finish the Danville connection. The Confederate Tax Collectors in some dis tricts of the country have found it necessary to call the attention of Assessors to frauds com mitted by persons making returns of their pro duce. This is much to be regrated, as a faith ful return of this tax is absolutely necessary .to the country, and for the additional reason that the agricultural interest has been greatly favored by Congress on account of this tax. The Yankees brutally murdered Mr. William Hart, one of the best citizens, living on the east side of the St. Johns, Fla. They went to his house and shot him, and he got away, and went by the house of his son iu-law, and a number of Yankees who were there murdered him in cold blo.d. 'flie small pox has made its appearance in Lee county, Ga. There were nine cases in one family. Mr. M. B. Tomlinson, a son of Dr. Tomlin son, of Americas, Ga., was drowned in the Flint river, near Albany, Ayril 19th. There was some excitement in Americus last week by a Teport from the commandant of the post at Anderson that great fears were enter tained that the Yankee prisoners there intend ed to revolt. A company was raised at Amei*- icus, and took their departure for Anderson. A sufficient force having arrived to telieve them, the company returned onftke 22d and re ported all quiet. • Broadbridge & Green, of Montgomery, Ala., have established a factory of cases for .Daguer reotypes. , The Troup Factory of Georgia is making towelling on a la>ge scale, and approved qual ities. In the vicinity of Montgomery; Aft,, corn is looking quite badly. The small grain looks well, muen better than was some time ago an ticipated. The oats, especially, have improv ed mufti and promise well. Several persons in Montgomery, caught in the act of discounting five dollar Confederate notes, have been conscripted. The Mobile Tribune notices evident signs, of a rapid decline in prices of groceries, provis ions, etc. Butter, that commanded in the Mo bile market, three weeks ago, from $lO to sl2 per pound, is now dull at $5 to*s(i per pound. Bacon is offered at $3 50 per pound. Fresh meats have declined in the past fen days frtun thir yto fifty per cent. Corn is selling at $3 to $5 per bushel, according to quallity. . The editor of the Columbus Enquirer saw a few days since a suit of clothes made of com mon gray doth which cost the wearer $1,350 in Atlanta. The tobacco ration has been fixed under the late Act -of Congress at three-fourths of a pound monthly, aud Adjutant-General Cooper has issued orders to the Commissary Depart ment accordingly. . It is stated that prices are declining in the Columbus, Ga , and Montgomery, Ala., mar ket*. The jStHall pox is on the increase in Mont gomery Ala. Brig. Gen. Mercier, long in comrfiand at Sa vannah, has been ordered to Dalton. Gen. John K. Jackson will hereafter command in that city. ’The hog cholera is very prevalent in Marengo county, Ala. Thousands of the hogs have died recently. The moJ successful remedy trid there has been red pepper cut or beat up and mixed with the food of the hogs. Jin Thomas county, Ga., large numbers of hogs are dying from cholera daily. The Convention of the Episcopal DioceseVjf Alabama will be held in Montgomery, com mencing May 5. Anew machine has been recently invented by Mr. O. D. Pease, an employee of the Naval Iron. Works at Columbus, Ga., which manufactures knitting needles, almost its fast as a man can pick them up. He has already turned out no less than sixty thousand setts of these nee dles, besides faithfully performing all his reg ular duties as a government employee during business horns. • MKtTHKItN KSWS. A Yankee paper states that Gen Jas. Watson Webb, United States Ministtr to Brazil, an old friend of Louis Napoleon in the days of his ex i:e, has received an autograph letter from the Emperor of France, in which he expresses him self dcspondingly concerning the Mexican Em pire. Ilaifrll Magrudcr, a wealthy planter of Prince George’s county, Maryland, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in Fort Lafayette, for harboring rebel spies. Lincoln has recognized “Governor” Hahn civil Governor of Louisiana, and has also con ferred upon him the powers of a military Gov ernor. These are doubtless, intended to be temporal y, and to be withdrawn as soon as the people shall adopt a State Constitution. The returned “Haytian colonists” will be sent to Boston, where it is expected the male por tion of them will join the next regiment of ne gro trooj s to be organized. The tux bill pending in Mr. Lincoln’s Con gress occupies two hundred and fifteen pages of fine print. The levies are generally small, the object seeming to be to touch up every body a, little. Anew abolition paper, styled the Lousville Na tional Union Press, is shortly to be published at Louisville Ky., in support of the Administration, even the Jounal having declined the job. The Second U. S. negro regiment, recruited and organized in the District of Columbia, and commanded by Col. Fellows, is doing garrison, duty at Key West. A Northern paper noticing the exaggerated reports of desertion from the Confederate army says: A Detroit paper mentions a gentleman of a statistical turn of mind, who lias kept a careful record olThe desertions irom the Con federate army since the first Bull Run, as they have been reported in the journals Irom time to time, and the sum total shows that three millions and three hundred thousand Conleder ate soldiers have abandoned the Confederacy and come within our lines. Preparations are making at Memphis to re ceii e Forrest in oasehe should attack the City. The. New Orleans Times says that medical men have remarked within the twelve months an alarming increase of insanity among the resident population of that city. Besides the cases which come to their knowledge in private practice, scarcely a day passes that per sons are not brought before the Recorders’ Courts charged with being insane. Northern advices, report that the Confeder ates, under McCrea, were concentrating in force at Augusta, on White river, Aik., one hundred miles above Ball’s bluff. They had driven out the small garrison on duty compelling them to retire to the gunboats. Measures were immediately taken to fortify Duvall's bluff. “a semi-official despatch from Washington says that Minister Dayton had no authority for his assurance to M. Drouyn de L, Huys that the United States Government would receive a i Minister from the Government of Maximilian in Mexico,’ etc. Ex scrams Department, I Milledgeyilie, April 20, 1864. f Since the date of my proclamation specifying the different classes of officers of this State ex empt from conscription, my attention his been called to the fact that 1 omitted the Attorney and Solicitors General and the Masters in Chauce ry. and I now make known that the Attorney General and all Solicitors General of this State, and all Masters in Chancery who have been le gally.appointed under the 4112th section of Code‘prior t 0 this date, are claimed by me as exempt from enrollment or conscription. JOSEPH E. BROWN, Resolutions of the Rhode Island Demo crats. The Rhode Island Democratic Conven tion at its late session passed the annexed res olutions i Whereas, A fratricidal war, originating in a aisregurd ot the maxims and warnings of our larthers, is desolating the land and threatening me permanent destruction of our Federal Lnioa; and whereas, the present administra tion, by its fatal policy in the conduct of the war, by its infringement on State and individu al rights, by a general suspension of the writ of Habeas corpus, and substituting military for civil courts, and above all. by employing the army to freedom of elections and forcing governments of minorities upon the peopie ot the State, has not only protracted the war indefinitely, bringing udoh the country interminable taxation and financial ruin, hut has created general alarm for the integrity of the States and the liberty of their citizens, all ftneatened to he swallowed up in a fanatical despotism, the worst of all governments; and whereas, the country has no guarantee for the speedy and successful termination of the war under the imbecile and changeable manage ment of the present administration, through any other means than by a change of men at lie coming presidential election: therefore le olved. 1. That we earnestly invite ail’onr fellow cit tzens. ot whatever shade of political opinions! and under whatever political oiganizatioiis, to uuito with us in our concerted efforts to place at the head of our Government a man in whose vvisoom, integrity and firmness the country may rely with hope for a speedy suppression ot the rebellion, the cessation of bloodshed and the maintenance of the Uniou.which our farth ere bequeathed to ns—a Union of independent fctates and tree people created by the constitu tion, and to be maintained only by its observ ance. 2. That the right of suffrage, regulated by the States, is the only safeguard for individual liberty, and must he defended at every nazard. 3. That the invasion of Mexico by France is violation of the Monroe doc tribe, which would never have been tolerated under a Democratic administration. _ 4. That the seeming prosperity in the finan cial affairs of the country is. deceitful and un sound, aud that the continuing expansion ot our paper currency and the extravagance and corruption in the expenditures of the govern ment will bear us, unless wiser counsels prevail into the gulf of national bankruptcy and anar chy. The Yankee Navy. —The annual Navy Reg ister for 18(14, which has just been published at Washington, says that the Yankees now have : Six hundred and twenty-two vessels of all classes in the navy, 432 of which are war steamers, and 74 Jron clads and rams. The number of guns of the iron clad fleetris put down at 325, and the tonnage of the same at 80,474. hi March, 1801, there were but 42 na val vessels in commission, and now they have •nearly double this number oi iron dads alone. Os the iron clad fleet 27 vessels are afloat and 47 building, nearly all of which will be speed ily launched. From the official reports up to February Ist. 1803, we find (bat England had live iron plated vessels afloat and six building, and France had four afloat. The pros# it naval force is divided into nine squadrons, as follows: The North Atlantic, Ihe, South Atlantic, the East, Guif, the West. Gulf, the Mississippi, the Special West India, the Pacific, the East India and Mediterranean, and the Fotomac Flotilla. Seven vessels of the navy are detached, and as signed to special service. 0 *&«■*— Barbarity of Negro Soldiers. —We are per mitted, says the “Southern Observer,” to make ihe following extract from a letter written by a lady in Yazoo City to a friend in Alabama, re lative to the recent visit of the Yankees to that city : “We dreaded very much to see them come on account of the Degrees. Most of the men were negroes. They, as soldiers, are the maat ferocious and unrelenting of human beings. We dreaded their coming as of wild beasts. On last week they took an old man from (Tear Satartia, —Col. ijarris,— and behtftiim to death wilh a fence rail. They captured two of our scouts, and after shooting them seven times, knocked “hem in the head and left them. Such barbarties as these are be'ng-daily committed.” CITATIONS S®R MITIKt O# ASaiiUtHt&VMIl fc£TATE OF GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY. KS Whereas, Sophia A. Arnett,, Guardian for George F and V irrfaia Arnett, applies to me for leltei a of dismission. These are therefore to cite and admonish all, aniW!in<*ula r the kindred and creditors of said deoeased, to be and appear al n,y office, within tho time i reserihed by law, to show cau.-e it any they have, why sdd lit:or? should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office, in Wash ington this 16th day ot Jlarch, )804. mhloSwU G.G. NORMAN, Ordinary. ( ORMNABY, GIiISKNE COUNTY-MARCH KJ ILRM, ißf»4. Whereas, Mary Mapp, Guardian of ITc.nry S. Mapp, peti blh[ 13 * k° ur * or betters of Dismission from said Guajruiau- It is therefore ordered that all persons concerned be and arW pear at. the Court of Ordinary, to beli lit in and for said cou’t-’ ty, od the first Monday in .May next, to show cau.-e, if any they have, why Lettersof Dismission should not then lie grant ed to said Guardian. Ordered further that a copy of Rule be published in conform ity to law. A true extract from the minutesof Greene Oourt of Ordina ry, March term. 1864. EUGENICS L. RL\G, mhlit owl 2 Ordinary. (gJTATE OF GEORGIA, MORGAN COUNTY KC7 Wlierea-’, JoiiAihaa A. YValKer applies to me for letters <0 Guardianship or t.fe persons and properly of Mary Long, Jonathan .Long ami Francis Long, orphan children of" Jumes W. Long, deceased. . These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singular the kindred and cro'itors of said orphans, to be and appear n*£my cilice on or before the first Mom,ay in ay, then and there to snow cause, if ary they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office in Mad sou, tins j.o ih day ol A.arch, 1864. , F. W. AIINOLD, mh2o owl 2 Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY. Whereas, Benjamin Dunaway, applies to me for Letters of Guardianship of the reasons and prop, rty of Aivirah T. \\ heat ley and Alamack J. Wheatley, minors of J. J. Wheatley, late of said county, deceased, These are .therefore to cite and admonish all and singular, the’ kindred and creditors of .said deceas' and, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not by-granted. Given und- rmy hand andoffleial signature al office, in Wash ington, tliis 10. h day of March, 1864. * mh-20 6w12 G. G.NORMAN,Ordinary. OF GEORGIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. Whereas. Jesse J. Morris applies to me for lettersof auministration de bonis non, on the Estate of A. S. Wilkinson, deceased, These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be ami appear at my office within the time prescribed by Jaw, to show cause, if any hey have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office in Ap pling, this 10th day or March. 1861. mh’2o 6w12 W . W’. SHIELDS, Ordinary. OT Al E OF GEORGIA, TALIAFERRO COUNTY. Whereas, Abner Sturdivant applies to me for letters of administration de bonis non. upon the estate of Wilii. m fctur divant, late of said county, deceased. The e are, therefore to summons all persons interested, to be and appear at rav office within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said ie.tera should not be granted. Given under my hand at office m Crawfordville, April 14th, I>6l. ap 22 6wio * J. 1). 11AMMACK, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY. Whereas, Leon ml G. Young, Guardian for Richard M. Smith, applies to me fur letters of dismission from said Guar dian ,>hip: ‘ These are therefore to cite and a'lmonLh all and Lingular the kindred rff.d iriemisof said R. Al. Smith to be and appear at rny offle”, wiilun the time prescribed by daw, to show cause, if any thev have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my Laud and official signature, this 19th day of March 18‘i4. E. G. SHACKELFORD, mirJi « wi3 Ordinary. w<TATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. O * hereas. the Ett :i eof Francis Oliver, late of said county, deceased, is unrepresented. The e are, therefere, tq ci»eand admonish all and singular the k ndred and credit yrs of said deceased to be and appear at my office bn or before the first Monda in MAY next, lo'show cause, if any they have, why letters of administration should not be granted to Benjamin F. Hail. Clerk of tne Superior Court of said county or to such fit and proper per.-on as may be named and presented to the Court. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Au gusti, this So ill day ot March, ltGi. mh 31 4 wll DA VIL> L. ROATH, Ordinary. QTATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. ►d . * h-reas, Ben iamin F. Hall applies to me for letters of aum.nistra ion on tnc Estate oi George Y. Davis, iate of Laid county deceased. f hese are therefore to cite and admonish all and singula! the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office on or before tiie first. Monday m. MAY next, to thow cause, if any they have, why said Jotters should not be gr mted Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Au gusta, this 3 ;t.h day of March, -fed. 4wi4 DAVID L. ROATII, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, LIN 'OI.X COUNTY. Notice is hereby given to all persons concerned, that on the day of———ly.-d, Abner I*. Hamrick, late of Lincoln county, o«par:ed this life mrestant, and no person lias applied f r administration 0.0 the Estate of raid Abner P. Hamrick, and that in terms of the law, administration wili be ' erted in the clerk of the Superior Court, or some othe*- fit and prop -r person, thirty days after the publication of this c\ at-on, unless some valid object ion s made to this a. pointed. (riven under my hand and offic ai signature, this 22? March. 1854. B. F. TATuM, ap;3 4w14 Ordinary and Ex-official - lerk. STATE OF GEORGIA, LINCOLN COUNTY. To ali whom it may cor.c.ra. Joseph Al.. X>ill and Peter C. Dill having in proper form uppiied to me for permanent ld'te-srf admin id ration ceboni. noi, with the win annexed on the Ea ate of Pi ilip Dill, late of said county, th s is to cte all, aid singular the creditor: at A next ot kin ot Philip Dill, to be and appear at my uffi >*, within ihe time allowed by law and show cause if any they can. why permanent administration should not be granted to Joseph M. Dill and Pwter C. Dill on Phi'ip Liir» Estate. Witness ray hand and official signature. apl 36w14 ' B. if . TATOM,Ordinary. *DTATE OF GEORGIA, LINCOLN COURTV. Edzabeth ■fa w s having applied to be app' i-.ted Guardian of the person and property of John Teabow, a minor under Fourteen years of age. resident of. said comity. This is to cite al. per.*ons cone me J to be and appear at the term of the«v-urt of Ordinary, to be heid next after the expiration cf fhidy day S from the first publication of this notice, and show cause if the-** can, why said El za -eth Hawes, should not be intrusted with the Guardianship of the person and property of John Teabow Witness my offic al signature. apl 3 6w14 ' B. F. TATOM, Ordinary L. C. OF GEORGIA. COLUMBIA BOUNTY. V* hereaa, M. B. Green applies to me for iettert of guardi anship of the person and property of James P. and John A. Green, n inors of G. H. Green, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admcnish all, and singular the kindred an 1 friends of said minor •, to *>c and appear at my office within the time prescribed r.y law, to show if any they have why sad letters should not ha granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office , n Ap- j pling, this 2d day of April, 1864. apr£6w!6 W. W. SHIELDS, Ordinaiy, | rjN jrj •y/T CHRONICLE I SENTINEL JOB PRINTING OFFICE Is one o± tlie Largest in the Confederacy. WE ARE PREPARED TO EXECUTE IN THE AT SHORT NOTICE, t AND ON Book Printing, Pamphlets, Sermons, Addresses, Catalogues, Reports, JOB WORK . OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Such as Posters, Handbills, • [-■ Concert Bills, Auction Bills, Programmes for Concerts and Exhibitions, Circulars, Envelopes, Druggists’ Labels, Blanks, Bill-Heads, 1 i EXECUTED PROMPTLY, NEATLY, AND ON THE X-uCyWESIST ‘ TmSUMS. BY THE USE OF STEAM AND THE BEST OF POWER PRESSES, 111 kinds of work used by Book Publishers, All kinds of work used by Manufacturers, 411 kinds of work used by Banks, 411 kinds of work used 4H kinds of work used by Railroad Companies, ill kinds of work used by Steamboat Companies, 111 kinds of work used by Joint Stock Companies, 4SI kinds of work used by Merchants, 111 kinds of work used by Mechanics, 411 kinds of work used by Lawyers, 411 kinds of work used by Travelling Exhibitions, 111 kinds of work useef by Patent Medicine Dealers 411 kind of work used by Professional Men, &c., ’ Can and. will be furnished AS GOOD AND CHEAP AS AT ANT OFFICE IN THE CONFEDERACY WE ARE CERTAIN WE CAN PLEASE ALL Who will favor us with TUIHIIH. .‘P ALL IN WANT OF Any :Kind of Printing, -A. IRE INVITED TO CALL. . C NOTICE TO DEBTORS ANO OBKDITORS. IVotKk; 4 Ail pc *(ons indebted to the Estate of S. O. Wheatley, late of Wilkes county, lecr-ased, will make immediate payment of the same to the undersigned; and those having claims against .iuirt Estate aie notified to present them duly attested, within the time pre.crllied by law. mb-2u6w)2 BEN JAMIN DUNAWAY, Adm’r. ■JVTOTICE. xl Ail person* indebted to the Estafe of Joha Southerland iate of Green county, deceased, will make payment to th«* un dersi ned ; and those having c!a ; ms against said Ertate” are nolilied to present them duly attested, within the tnne’nre scribedbv law. JOHN ARMSTRONG, ExV mur ? 8w 11* * VOTI E. 4% ±1 All pe* sons having demand" against fill estate of Robert Boerhart, late of Deßoto county, Mississippi, deceased, are re quested to present them within the time prescribed by law - and all pe? sons indebted to said deceased are requested to make immediate payment. 1c o 1-t .v. w - °* JOHNSON, Adm’r rnar 16 8w 12 of Estate of Robert Eberhart, dec’d. ’V'OTltjE, a.N Two month? afterdate, or the first regular term thereof* :er, uppl.cation will be made to th* Court of Ordinary of Ogle thorpacoim’y for leave to sell the lands t»elongirigto the Estate Oi I);<»rnasA. late of said fcounty deceased, this ISfh March, ISG4. ALFRED J. b'J EWART. mh23Swl3 Adrn’r. Tl t OTI(JK. i M AII persons indebted to ti e estate of John n. Dyson, late oi w Ukes county, deceased, will make payment to the under signed; and those having claims against said estate, are noti fied present them, duly attested, within the time pre-cnLta by aw. GEORGE DVhON, mh26 6w13 Administrator. XT OTIC E TO DEBTORS AND OR EDITORS. iN| All per.-ons indebted to the b state of John Harnss, late of Columbia county, deceased, will make to den-agued, and those ha- ing claims against nU Estate are noti fied to present them duly attested within the time prescribed by a R, HARRISa. AdmT, jV°Ailw'r»n. indebted to the Estate of Anpistine Frede rick, late of Richmond county, deceaeed, are required to make payment to the undesigned ; and thoM.haVn*demand* yaiut said Estate are notified to preeent the same, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. - apl. fiwlfi MARY FBEDERiIiC, Adtt lx. By-Laws and Constitu tions of Societies," Printing from Stereo typed Plates, Court Dockets, Briefs, &c. Blank Bills’and Notes,' Bills of Lading, Bank Checks, Business Cards, £ Direction Cards, Visitiug Cards, Labels, Bills of Fare, Fancy Job Printing, Printing in Colors, Bronze Printing, &c. TWO MONTHS NOTlCtv.s VrOMCE. ~ J:z: — ~ aiJlnmvofw'ilki^n? i (W' lica,ton 6e made to the jar .inai > or Wilkes toanty for leave to sell the real estate be longing to the estate of John il. Dyson, deceased mh2lSwl2 GEORGE I>YBON. _ronaiHwia_ Administrator. TVT OTU'K. A. 1^?r1 ?v? ths u? ftcr date appbwdion will be made to the u < nary of CoJiunbia county Jor leave to relJ the Negroes °on o5J° !£ e ** tute J°bn Hams. dec*a.«ed. — au 24W7 K HARRIS, A.lmr. ]\[oliGE. Two months aher date application will i>e made to the oourt of Ordinary of Richmond county for leave to well the land »n said county, belonging to the Eslate of Lydia Craw tord, aliaa Lydia Buck, deceased. _niur_gfcw_iU JAC KSON MADDOX, Adm’r. AIf.tII.YISrHATGRfe SALE. BY virtue of an order from the Court of Oul.nary of Colum bia county, tvi'i be sold on the first Tuesday in Maysreit tsjtween Jtwfu! rale hours, before the Court. House door at Appiing, ihe tract of land belonging to Abel U-ok-. late t.f iaid county, deceased, adjoining lands of Capt. »m. Odom M A v hitaker,and other-,coniaihinf; two hundred and thirty sir (23«) acres. Said land will be sold mnlect to dower and for .he benefit of the heirs and creditors of said relate Terms on day of sale. mh saewH ALEX. M. ALLEN. Adtnr. I ahmi.mhthatoiih Post i'oneij sale. AC KEEAIILE to an order from the Court of Ordinary. wul be so 0 belore the i ourt House door, at Madi«,r,; Morgan county, on the first Tuesday in JCN E, one negro mai slave i»y the name of lshain, about 18 years r-f age, sold as ti.e prepexty oi George, John and Josc-pL Cockrum. Terms ou the dav of sale. apr«6wls - JAMES COCKRUM, Adm’r. ■\T uIiCE. —— * Ll All persons indebted to the Estate of John C. Rees, ’at* of Richmond county, deceased, are hereby notified to moke tm mediate payment to the ui.dersigned; and those havini * JaJmft against said estate are required to present them, duly attested within the time prescribed by law. ar-r 7 ffw ir.« g NEWNAN Hl( KhAd Dr. Li JVTEO* GEOtvGJA, CULUMiHA CiiUNTY. U 5 ’Whereas, the of Wilmond J Bettit is unrepresented* These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all, and singular the kindred and creditors of saiddec-aced, to be and app&r at u»y office, within the time nreacribed by law, and show cause, if any j they have, why said letters should not be grouted to the Clerk j ofthe huperior Court, or some other fit aud proper per?on. I Givenunder my hand ana official signature, tnis loth day oil March, 1864. I mh 2V iwii V, W.SHlELDb,Ordil.*ry. ■
