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tionswas for our Congress to make a
favorable response to these clear indica'>
tion of a large party at the North of a
desire to end the war upon the proper
principles. The Resolutions were drawn
with special reference to what I under*
stood to be Mr. Hill’s views of “joint
action for separate ratification,” specially
in reference to Missouri and -Kentucky,
in which States no regular convention of
the people had ever given due expression
of their sovereign will.
-My objoct, (as I fully concurred with
them on this point.) was that “our paths”
in this particular should “meet at the
goal. These are the Resolutions so
dfawn up and submitted:
“1. Resolved, That the independence
of the Confederate States of America,
based upon the constitutional compact
between the sovereign States composing
the Confederacy; and maintained nearly
four years of gigantic war, justly claim
from their former associates, and from
the world, its recognition as a rightful
fact.
“2., Resolved, That all the States which
composed the late American Union, as
well as those embraced within the pres
ent United States, as those embraced
within the Southern Confederacy, are
what the original thirteen States were
declared to be by their common ancesn
tors in 1876, and acknowledged to be by
George the 3d of England, independent
and sovereign States; not as one political
community, but as States; each one of
them constituting such a “People” as
have the inalienable right to terminate
any government of their former choice
by withdrawing from it their consent;
just as the original thirteen States,
through their common agent acting for
and in the name of each one of them, by
the withdrawal of their consent put a
a rightful termination to the British
Government which had been established
over them with their perfect consent and
free choice.
"3. Resolved, That in the judgment of
this Congress the sovereignty of the in
dividual and several States is the only
basis upon which a permanent peace be
tween the States now at war with each
other can be established consistently with
the preservation of constitutional liberty;
and that the recognition of this principle
will, if the voice of passion and war can
once be allowed to resume her sway,
lead to an error and lasting solution of all
matters of controversy involved in the
present unnatural conflict by simply
leaving all the States free to form their
political associations with each other, not
by force of arms, which excludes the idea
of “consent;” but by a rational considera
tion of their respective interests, growing
out of their natural condition, resources,
and situation.
“4. Resolved, That as the very point of
controversy in the present war is the set
tlement of the political associations of the
several States, no treaty of peace can be
perfected consistently with the sovereign
ty of the individual States, without sep
arate State action on the part of at
least those States whose preferences may
be justly regarded as doubtful, and have
not yet been expressed through their
appropriate organs,- and, therefore, State
co operation becomes not only appropri
ate. but necessary, in perfecting any ar
ticles of peace consistently with the prin
ciples of the sovereignty of the several
States respectively.
“5. Resolved, That we hail with grati
fication the just and sound sentiment
manifested by a large portion of the peo
ple of the United States since the last
session of this Congress, that all asso
ciations of these American States ought
to be voluntary and not forcible, and we
give a hearty response to these views and
wishes for a suspension of the present
conflict of arms and an appeal to the
forum of reason, to see if the matters in
coutrovesv cannot be properly and justly
adjusted by amicable settlement without
the further effusion of blood.
“6. Resolved, That being wedded to no
particular, or exclusive mode of initia
ting, or inaugurating negotiations look
ing to a peaceful settlement, and adjust
ment of the questions now in issue be
tween the United States and Confederate
States, it is the judgment of this Con
gress that if it should be more agreeable
to the government and people of the Uni
ted States, or even a large and respecta
ble portion of them, that the cprestions
should be submitted to the consideration
of commissioners, or delegates from each
State, one or more, to be assembled in
the character of a convention of all the
States, than to Plenopotentiaries appoint
ed in the usual way (as lately manifested
as aforesaid) then such a plan of initia
ting negotiations should be acceded to,
or proposed by the Confederate States.
Such convention being acceded to, or pro
posed only, as an advisory body. The
commissioners or delegates to it being
authorized by the treaty making power of
each government respectively not to
form any agreement or compact absolute
ly between States, but simply to confer,
consult, and to agree if possible, upon
some plan of peaceful adjustment to be
submitted by them to their respective
governments.
“This mode of inaugurating negotia
tions, in the opinion of this Congress
would be relieved by the consent of the
properly constituted authorities of the
two governments. With such consent
the proposed delegates would but act in
any view of the subject as to negatiatc for
peace; and whatever they might agree up
on, or propose, “would be subject to the
approval, or disapproval of the two govs
ernments respectively; and subject also
to the approval, or disapproval of the
particular States whose sovereign rights
might be involved.
“And inasmuch as the authorities at
Washington have heretofore rejected all
formal offers for a free interchange of
views, looking to negotiations made by
our authorities, and as we deem it a high
duty not only to our gallant citizen sol
diers in the field, but to the whole body
of our people, as well as our duty to the
cause of humanity, civilization, and Chris
tianity, that Congress should omit nor
neglect no effort in their power to bring
about negotiations if possible; therefore
be it further,
“7. Resolved, That the President of the
Confederate States bo informed of these
resolves; and that he be requested to grant
permission to three persons, to be select 1 '
ed by the House of Representatives
(members from each State voting in such
selection by States, and a majority of all
the States being necessary to a choice in
each case) to cross our lines, who rWH
immediately proceed to ask and obtain,
if possible, an informal interview or con
ference with the authorities at Washing
ton, or any person, or persons who may
be appointed to meet them to see if any
such plan of inaugurating negotiations
for peace upon the basis above set forth
can be agreed upon, and if not, to ascer
tain and report to the President and to
Congress, any other or what terms, if
my explanation on that point, stated in
my last artidift. he seemed to be perfectly
satisfied took them, went over to Mr.
Davis, jnA reported him as also satisfied.
Little i
towards afe and
think that he was acting the
as djsclosad in
Unwritten History of the Hampton
Roads Commission.’’ Little did I think
that he was but plotting with Mr. Davis
to make “the negotiation doctors bike
their own medicine, mixed to suit thorns
selves,” by decitfully using the Blair pro
position, which looked to a totally differ
ent object, in order to defeat what he
seemingly so cordially approved.
What Mr. Hill says in his “unwritten
history” about what passed between him
and Mr. Hunter about these resolutions,
and Mr. Hunter's surprise that the Geor
gia delegation had agreed to support
them, is one of the most extraordinary
statements I ever sawgravely put forth as
true history. Mr. Hunter was as well
informed of the nature and character of
these resolutions as was Mr. Hill himself.
They were announced to the whole
Senate on the 6th day of January, bes
fore Mr. Blair’s first advent in Richmond.
It was on that day I addressed that body
in secret session. On the conclusion of
that speech Mr. Wigfall of Texas rose
and asked mo to give in detail what I
proposed as to a change in our external
policy. These resolutions in substance,
(I did not have a copy of them with me,)
were in detail and by number answered
to that body, and so far as I learned or
was informed, not a single Senator ob
jected to them. The general understand
ing, as reported to me, was that they
would unanimously pass the Senate.
They were to be reported in the House,
and the like general understanding, as
reported to me, was that upon a count
they would pass that body by a decided
majority. They were to be taken up in
the House and passed the first week in
February, as soon as other important
and pressing internal measures could be
disposed of.
This was the general understanding,
as reported to me, when Mr. Blair left on
the 26th of January. It now seems from
Mi - . Hill's late account that the Blair
proposition for a secret Military Conven
tion to maintain the Monroe doctrine,
was used by Mr. Hill and Mr. Davis, with
the sole view of defeating this change of
our external policy towards the masses of
the North, whose interest in the overs
throw of the Centralists then in power
there was the same as ours. It is true I
did persistently decline to be one of the
commissioners so to be chosen by the
House. It is also true I did not think
the commissioners proposed to be raised
by my resolutions would be received by
Mr. Lincoln. I had no such idea or ex
pectation: but I did think and believe
that the appointment of such a commis
sion by our Congress with such a re
sponse to the increasing sentiment of the
North for a withdrawal of the questions
at issue from the field of arms, to the
forums of reason and justice, would have
its effect in turning out the Centralists in
their future elections. Meantime, if we by
abandoning indefensible positions, and
avoiding pitched battles and keeping our
reduced army in the field, and the flag a-
float for a year or two, by a total change
of our internal policy as indicated in my
speech in secret session inferred to, I did
think and still think, the final result would
have been far different from what it was.
It was only when I saw how Mr. Davis
had used the Blair proposition, and per
sisted in his purpose to still continue to
hold Richmond under the circumstances
I gave up the further struggle on orn
part as hopeless.
All these matters I now refer to only
in selfdefense,. against Mr. Hill’s most
wanton impeachment of my integrity,
patriotism and honor, and that of others
“the latchet of whose shoes” he “is not
worthy to unloose.” What words could
properly characterize the conduct of Mr.
Hill towards me in regard to these Rich
mond resolutions, and the part he acted,
according to his own showing in the
Hampton Roads affair* If anything in
Barcre’s memoirs exceeds it in—no I will
leave others to judge of it as they please.
My own acts and conduct, as well as pa
triotism throughout this disastrous strug
gle, as well as throughout my life, I
submit to the impartial arbitration of an
intelligent public now and for all time to
come. All I want is for the real truth of
the facts to go fairly before that august
tribunal. But the foregoing is quite
enough for one article. I am not yet,
however, half through with Mr. Hill, if
life and strength be spared.
Alexander H. Stephens.
GOVERNORJAHES -XI. MUITII.
As an Ex-Congressman of tlie Confederate
Days be gives his Remembrance
of the Hampton Roads
Matter.
explained the resolutions, objection to
the plan therein suggeeted wa* made,
upon the ground that the dbiise of
Representatives was without tiathority
under the Constitution to appoint such
a commission, and that for this reason,
if for no other, Mr. Lincoln would refuse
to hear the commissioners. Mr Stephens
said that he did not expect Mr. Lincoln
to receive or treat with the commissioners,
but that the people demanded that a
movement in the interests of peace should
be made, and this demand had to be met in
some way; that if the Federal Government
should refuse to hear the terms offered
by the commissioners, the effect of such
refusal would be to unite the Southern
people in a vigorous prosecution of the
war, and that it was with this view he
had fixed upon the plan suggested in the
resolutions. In reply % to this, it was
suggested by one of the delegations,
that the same reason which would induce
Mr. Lincoln to reject the commissioners
viz: their want of autnority, would prob- 1
ably lead the Southern people to suspectj
that their appointment had not been made
THE UNIOS 4, RECORDER.
Old
‘Southern Recorder” end
eoaaelidated.f
1 Federal Union 1
MntPMvntal, mm :
Wednesday, Jans 3, 1IT1
A Tnrntar of Ike Political Vide,
Heretofore we have looked to Southern
in~good faith,* and that any attempt in favor j Politicians and Southern Jonmalists for
of peace ought to originate with the orthodox principles and State Rights
proper authorities, _ otherwise it would J joctrines, but lately, we hear of loud pro
any ’ S’! peaceful settlement may be pro
posed by the authorities at Washington.
Should this effort fail w<
„ ... shall have the
consolation of knowing that we in our
high and responsible trusts have done our
duty, x\e shall have given assurance to
our people that we have done all that we
can do m our position and capacity to
end the strife upon just and proper prin
ciples; and the rejection of this overtime
■u he J T U ! cnt o{ the United States,
will afford additional evidence to the peo
ple of those States, that he is urging this
unnatural war, not for peace, or the good
of his country, but for purposes of the
most unholy ambition; while it will de
monstrate to our people that his object
ns to them is nothing short of either sub
jugation or extinction.”
With the exception of that part of the
Resolutions which provided for the ap-
C ent ?* the Commissioners by
Congress, instead of the President. I
understood Mr. Hill to m
hearty approval when theyVrere^t
mitted to the Georgia delegation, on the
occasion to which Mr. HiU refers. Wqn
Atlanta, Ga., .May 21. 1874.
Hon. li. II. Hill, Atlanta, Ga-:
Dear Sir. Your letter requesting me
to state my “recollections” of what oc
curred at the meeting of the Georgia
delegation, at the room of Mr. Ste
phens, in Richmond, in the month of
January, 1865, has been received, and I
take the present opportunity of comply
ing with your request.
I attended the meeting referred to, at
the request of the Hon. W. E. Smith, and
there met yourself and the members of
the House of Representatives from Geor
gia, except two, or perhaps three. A let
ter from Judge Hansell to Mr. W. E.
Smith, giving an account of a popular
meeting held shortly before, at Thomas-
ville, Georgia, was read to the delegation.
It appeared from the letter, that reso
lutions had been adopted by the meet
ing, asking Governor Brown to con
vene the Legislature in extra session,
to consider the propriety of calling a
convention of the people. Such a con
vention, it was assumed, had become ne
cessary, on account of the mistakes and
blunders of the Confederate Government
in conducting the war. I will here remark
that the reports of similar meetings in
other sections of the State had reached
members of the delegation and were
spoken of by the members present at Mr.
Stephens’ room. The state of the public
mind in Georgia was fully discussed dur
ing the interview, and apprehensions were
expressed that the movement which seemed
to be on foot would, unless cheeked, lead
to a counter revolution. Mr. Stephens
gave his opinion very freely in reference
to the causes which, in his judgment, had
produced dissatisfaction in the popular
mind at the South. He thought the peo
ple had lost confidence in the ability
of Mr. Davis to conduct the war to a suc
cessful termination, and he blamed the
President especially for not attempting
to negotiate a suspension of hostilities
until terms of peace could be presented
and considered by the two governments.
After a free interchange of views, the
opinion unanimously expressed by the
delegation was that a convention of the
people ought not to assemble in Georgia,
and Mr. Stephens was requested to write
to Governor Brown, urging him not to call
an extra session of the General Assembly.
He declined to comply with the request,
saying that the public demanded that
something should be done to stop the
effusion of blood, and if the Government
would not act, the people would take the
matter into their own hands. Ha was
requested to advise the delegation as to
the course which ought to be pursued.
He said that at the request of Mr. Atkina
of Tennessee, he had prepared a preamble
and resolutions to be. introduced in the
House, which he would read. This paper
which gave evidence of elaborate prepara
tion, was read, and the plan therein pro
vided was, that a commission, consisting
of threet should be chosen by the House
of Representatives, voting by States, who
should treat for peace with the Federal
Government, on the priampW of the
Declaration of TniViumilmu
md m*
reasonably be considered a trick to delude
the people. Mr. Stephens showed some
feeling at this point, and remarked that
he had no plan which he thought at all
feasible, except that suggested in the
resolutions. If the delegation would
promise, however, to support the reso
lutions in the House, he would undertake
to write to Gov. Brown, advising him
to suspend for the time being, his pur
pose to convene the Legislature. This
offer was accepted by the delegation, and
the promise given to support the resolu
tions. Speaking for myself only, I am
very clear in my recollections that I was
induced to pretermit my objection to the
resolutions by tlie promise of Mr. Ste
phens to write Governor Brown.
After it was agreed that tlie resolutions
should be supported, there was some
conversation in reference to the persons
who ought to be selected as commission
ers. The names of several gentleman
were mentioned, but the delegation was
unanimous in desiring that Mr. Stephens
should be one of the number
A few days after this meeting at Mr.
Stephens’ room, resolutions similar to
those read by him to the delegation were
introduced in the House by Mr. Orr, of
Mississippi, and considered and partially
discussed in secret session. Upon some
collateral question which arose pending
the discussion, a test vote was taken,
and the result showed that they would
probably be adopted. The friends of the
resolutions consented that a day should
be fixed for considering them further,
and my recollection is that this consent
was given in consequence of a clear
intimation from gentlemen opposed to
their adoption, that they had reason to
believe that something would be done to
wards the appointment of a commission
by Mr. Davis himself. Before the day
appointed for taking up the resolutions
arrived, Mr. Blair visited Richmond, and
the events which rapidly followed ren
dered it unnecessary that they should
be again considered. I will remark here,
that I have never doubted that the
introduction of the Stephens resolutions
in the House, and the strong support
they received, moved Mr. Davis to take
the matter into his own hands, and
appoint the Hampton Roads cor
sioners.
I do not remember, as an independent
fact, that you were in Richmond when
the commissioners were appointed. I
only recollect that I was told of the
appointment by the Hon. M. H. Bland-
ford, who said he had just received the
information from yourself.
I am, dear sir, yours respectfully,
James M. Smith.
A New Civil Mights Move.
The friends of the civil rights measure,
anticipating its early passage, are prepar
ing the way for an arbitrary enforcement
of the common school system in the var
ious States, where the odious provisions
of the bill are most likely to lead to a
disruption of the public schools.
In tlie Senate yesterday, Ste tvart offer
ed an amendment to the constitution,
giving the government power to compel
each State to keep up a public school
system withing its borders, and at its own
expense. The enormity of this uncon
stitutional and partisan proposition, is
too apparent, and, even as the shadowy
outline of a preparatory measure, demon
strates to a nicety the tone and temper of
the Radical majority in Congress, who
propose to stop at no half way point, un
til the South feels the full force of civil
and social rights in all their repulsiveness.
Congress has decided that it has noi
power under the constitution to shield
the suffering people of South Carolina
from the outrages, dishonesty and op
pression of their black and white task
masters. Yet an amendment is boldly in
troduced in the Senate compelling each
State to support a system of education
for which tlie white people can have no
interest or affection. It is a most flagrant
and outrageous proposal, wherein the
righteousness of justice is subserved to
partisan malignity. It is a fitting sequel
to the Civil Rights Bill, and like it, will
very likely become a law before the close
of the present session of Congress. We
shall then have the spectacle of intelligent
people of the South debarred by the
promptings of self respect, from partici
pating in the benefits of a system of edu->
cation which by the inexorable fiat of a
Radical Congress, they will bo compelled
to support.
Civil Mights.
A conversation substantially as follows
was overheard between a couple of ne
groes yesterday:
•‘Say, Bill, when dis civil lights done
passed fore Congress, do you know what
I’se gwine to do?”
“No Sam; what yer gwine to do?”
“Use gwine to go down to de Brown
House and take dinner—settin at de same
table wid dem white folks. And den I'll
set out in front and smoke my segar jes
as big as any of ’em.”
“G’way, nigger. If you tempts to
eat dinner at de Brown House I bets you
eats supper in h—1,”—Macon /Star.
fessions of admiration for Gen. Grant and
even for monarchy coming from Southern
politicians, and fulsome eulogies on
Charles Sumner from Southern States
men ; whilst the most orthodox princi*-
pies comes from a Connecticut Senator.
Mr. W. A. Eaton, the newly elected Sen
ator from Connecticut in a late speech to
his friends in which he said he was now
and always had been and always expected
to be a States Rights Democrat of the
Jefferson School. He said also, I shall
try to take away the bayonets from our
brethren of the South, so that every
State shall have the same right of local
government that we have. In answer to
this the New York Times a strong Re
publican Journal writes as follows :
The “regulation” way of answering
all this is to stick a label on Mr. Eaton’s
back certifying that he is a Bourbon and
a Copperhead, and to call attention to
the fact that be was by no means “sound”
on national issues during the war. But
even after this had all been done, there
would still remain a question in the back
ground which will have to be met fairly
in the face some day or other. The ex
treme length to which State Rights
theories were pushed in 1860 and 1861,
brought about a reaction, and that reac
tion has led many people to think that
State Rights belong to the dead and-gone
class of questions, and that, any man who
talks about State Rights is sufficiently
answered when he is called a “Bourbon.
It is unnecessary to say to any intelligent
reader that this view is a miserably shal
low one, and that in reality the right of
States to govern themselves is as dear to
the people as it ever was. And it ought
to be dear to them, for when they aban
don it they will have utterly forsaken the
system of government established under
the Federal Constitution. They may set
up something else in its place, which
may be called by any name that may please
the persons then living; but it will not be
the government designed by the founders
of the Constitution. It may be a civil
policy based upon parliamentary rule, or
it may be a monarchy or a despotism; but
it will no longer be a constitutional re
public such as we have seen here for
nearly a hundred years. We say, then
that when Mr. Eaton talks of the neces
sity of maintaining State Rights, and of
giving the citizens of South Carolina the
same freedom which the citizens of Con
necticut enjoy, it is not enough to allege
that he is a “copperhead," and to fling at
him the missiles which darkened the air
between 1861 and 1865. If the citizens
of the South are living in a state of op
pression, Mr. Eaton is right in calling
attention to their situation; if they are
suffering from injustice thenationat large
will never tolerate its continuance, and
therefore, the sooner the injustice is re
dressed the better.
This is sound doctrine and is found in
a northern Republican paper, and in the
same article further on he says :
All such questions as these should be
dealt with frankly. It is very bad policy
on the part of the Republican party to
try to stuff them away in corners, and
cover them with the “battle-flag” or with
any other of the war paraphernalia The
people will not consent to see either
Poland or an Ireland created on this soil.
It is not impossible to redress mistakes
when they are discovered; but to persist
in those mistakes after discovery, and (o
pretend that religion and morality require
us to persist in them—this is a course
which we certainly shall not take the re
sponsibility of recommending to the Re
publican or to any other party. The
Southern States are not living under a
fair or free government—so Mr. Eaton
and many others allege. Well, is the as
sertion true ? Look at South Carolina !
The facts in reference to that State seem
to be about as well established as any his
torical facts can be, and they amount to
this: The negroes, assisted by rascally
wliites, have held a sort of grand orgie in
questions Ltlcen up by Ifcpqhlj***. Mr.
G * *
the State for several years past, have
swallowed up among them pretty nearly
tne Sta
A Pen Picture of Atlanta.—A Gal
veston, Texas, letter writer sharpens his
pencil and makes this faithful sketch of
our “Capital” city:
Built upon and surrounded by hills, over
looked by mountains, cut up and travers
ed by railroads and ravines, her rugged
streets ever resounding with the rattling
noise of cars, carriages, wagons, drays
and carts; no pleasant drives or walks or
places of resort and rest for the world
weary toiler, no eity hospital, no water
works, in wet weather the muddiest, in
dry weather the dustiest, in all weathers
the fussiest: headquarters of sensational'
ism in Georgia, humbug's eternal camp
ing ground; going to sleep later, getting
up earlier, doing more devilment while
awake and dreaming of more while
asleep—with more in and around and
about it to harden, and less to soften the
human heart than perhaps any other
town of its inches under the sun—such is
Atlanta. ^
Judge Mackey, of South Carolina, “one
of the fiercest Radicals in the State,” de
clared in a recent speech that the great
overflow of the Mississippi by which two
hundred thousand people are rendered
homeless, was due to the corruption and
peculation of the Radical party, which
stole the $30,000,600 which the States
along the river contributed to keep the
levees in repair- It is a great pity that
the men who stole the lfioney were not
swept away by the flood- But when that
flood came, every rascal of them was up
a tree, with bread and ‘meat enough to
last them six months.
Cremation makes light of a grave
sub-
all the private property in the State, have
ruined what may be called the na
tive citizens even more thoroughly than
the war had done, have robbed and har
ried like so many highwaymen, and have
reduced the State to a condition which
must shock every man who sees it or
reads about it. The very Governor of
the State is a thief. The Legislature is a
gang of thieves Is this a Republican
government such as the Constitution
guarantees to all the States ?
We venture to say that it is not—that,
on the contrary, it is a government of
which the Republic has every reason to
be ashamed. No doubt the system in
troduced as a “war measure" into the
South after the war—chiefly upon the ad
vice of Senator Sumner and Thaddeus
Stevens—was experimental; but can we
wonder that people everywhere begin to
ask how long the experiment is to last?
There should at least be some signs of
improvement visible as time goes on.
Nine years have passed since the close of
the war, and is South Carolina better gov
erned than she was then? She clearly is
not so well governed as she was purely
under a military rule. The same must be
said, mutatis mutandis, of Louisiana,
Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas. Now,
it is folly to suppose that the Republican
party, as an organization, will continue
much longer to look on with perfect sat
isfaction at this great failure. The lead
ers of the present moment may not
any attention to the subject; but if
do not, other leaders will arise who trill
1 see that justice is done. Last week we
all witnessed the United States Senate
engaged for about twenty-four hours at a
stretch in passing a bill for the benefit of
the negro, merely out of a sentimental
sort of deference to the wishes of a de
ceased Senator. Respect for the dead is
incumbent on us all—but legislation
should be based on a careful and wise re
gard for the welfare of the bring, not up
on “mandates,” real or fictitious, of the
dead.
The negro has had a very fair amount
of protection. It is important before go
ing any farther to find out what use he
has made of the freedom given to him; in
what way he has exercised the vast polit
ical powers with which he has been en
dowed; what sort of a government he has
helped set up in States when he is most
powerful; whether, in short, be at this
moment stands in need of protection from
the white man, or the white man stands
in need of protection from him. If Mr.
Eaton intends to raise these questions,
depend upon it he still obtain an audi
ence, and he cannot bo suppressed by
howls and groans, and wb, for our part,
ai»all not join in any such attempts at
suppression. We should like to SCO the
iarpenter ,uade a greftfc beginning m
reference to Louisiana. Such a work
would be fqrmore conducive to thejuros-
perity of the party, and to the
goon government now and
than the headlong passage of senipfeentar
bille in favor of the negro. Al ^
Our next Congressman—Vho Work
does Bravely On.
It will be seen by reading our letter
from Wilkinson that the people of that
sterling Democratic ©oitntys'are in favor
of nominating CoL C. A Nutting far
Congress. We believe that a large; ma
jority of the voters of the Dilrtrirt ba^e
become tired of sending none but lawyers
to Congress and to the Legiafetyn^ In
make laws for them. A good substantial
business man is worth half a ddzen
fourth rate lawyers to legislate 'for the
people. Let us have men that can sym
pathise with frnrugfliiuituill and me
chanics—a man of the people to make
laws for the people.
The Civil MJfhta Bill.
It is now belioved that t|m Civil Rights
Bill, will not pass this session. Many
of the Northern Radicals have got sick
and disgusted with the negro. As the
New York Times wisely sayw A*is best
to see how the negro will use the privi
leges he now has, before we give him
more. We don’t believe the President
wants the bill to pass and if he oppose?
it, it will not pass.
Mr. Stephens’ Meply to Mr. Bill.—
Bo. 3.
We devote a large portion of our paper
this week to Mi - . Stephens third letter on
Mr. Hill. It is very interesting and will
repay the reader. He shows from Mr.
Hill’s own letters to him that Mr. Hill
approved of the course pursued by Mr.
Stephens, Gov. Brown and others of
Georgia whom he has since denounced
as traitors. These letters reveal a very
interesting chapter in the history of the
Confederacy and show clearly that had
our armies conquered in the field the
Confederacy would have been distracted
by quarrels and contentions among our
statesmen and generals.
Three men and two boys lately floated
for thirty-two days in the Indian Ocean
in a small boat before they were rescued,
For the last eleven days they had neither
food nor water, except that the mate shot
a bird which chanced to fly over them.
They chewed lead to moisten their
throats, tried to eat their boots and jelly
fish, and in delirium fought to kill one
another inviting death. Blood from
wounds in a fray was eagerly drank, but
when the frenzy passed the men would
Bhakc hands and kiss each other.
Wilkinson Co.. Ga., May 29, 1874-
Jftinrs. Boug/don^Parnes *6 Moore
Gent : I saw a copy of your paper
was^bdtojii ‘
_ C. A-fNnttin^of
T think you have sel
While I believe
>r<
Co:
right "man.
other man in the districts who
haps, make abler speeches, I don t know
any man who will make us a more ser
viceable member of Congress. He is my
first choice. I hope he’ll get the nomina
tion. I took your paper a great many
years and I always found you right in
r litics, and think you are right now.-—
must have your paper again—se^id it
for sfx months.
My neighbor, says if you
will wait till fell for your money you can
jAqd him the paper too. He need&j»Jl
his change to pay for chopping cottdn
now, but will pay next Court.
Yours truly,
J, M.
Lots
were cast, and a boy in the boat doomed
to the biled: but this the mate, who acted
throughout most resolutely, prevented.
An Insect Tkai\—A writer in a French
horticultural journal relates this sugges
tive experience: “After sunset I place in
the centrejof my orchard an old barrel,
the inside of which I have previously well
tarred. At the bottom of the barrel I
place a lighted lamp. Insects of many
kinds, attracted by the light, make for
the lamp, and while circling around it
strike against the sides of the barrel,
where, meeting with the tar, their feet
and legs become so clogged that they
fall helpless to the bottom. In the morn
ing I examine the barrel, and frequently
take ont of it ten or twelve gallons of
cockchafers, which I at once destroy; A
few pence w orth of tar employed in this
way will, without any farther trouble, be
the means of destroying innumerable
numbers of these insects, whose larvae are
amongst the most destructive pests the
gardener or farmers has to contend a-
gainst.”
It is intimated that the Clayton-Ar-
kansas resolutions will supercede in the
interest in tlie Senate any feeling that has
been excited on the subject of civil rights.
The disclosures which a discussion of
these resolutions will bring about will
suffice in scandalous exposures even
Washington gossip3. Both sides in the
recent imbroglio are arming for the
legislative conflict,' which, so fer as the
two Senators from that State ard con
cerned, is a death straggle. It will de
termine whether they will keep theirseats
or not.
Mefiudiuf She Cotton Son.
A Bill Introduced in the House—Its
Features.
Washington, May 25—The bill repor
ted to the House to-day to refund the
cotton tax was agreed upon at a recent
caucus of representatives from the cotton
States. .
It provides for a commission of three
persons, to be appointed by the President,
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, to adjudicate the caees which
may be presented. The tax montys are:
to be refunded to the parties who actually
sustained the burden of the tax, or their
legal representatives. The judgment or
award is Co be based on the established
principles of equity as held in the highest
courts of chancery in this country. In
like cases bonds of five hundred and
one thousand dollars are to be issued,
payable at the end of forty years in gold
from tlie date of judgment, bearing
interest at the rate of four and a half per
centum per annum, and to be called cots
ton bonds. It is not expected the bill
will be acted on during the present ses
sion.
From tlie York Tribune, May 30.
Coiwecticnt’s Mevolt.
A period of Democratic Ascendency Pre
dicted.
There has not been a time within twen
ty years, till the present, that W illiam W.
Eaton had the slightest chance to attain
wliat has notoriously been the measure of
his ambition, a seat in the Senate of tlie
United States. That he lias at last at
tained it, and that Connecticut has delib
erately turned away from the men who
have had her confidence for Over twenty
years, to lift to her highest representa
tive position the man she has feared Rfid
dons
Nearly all di-eases originate from lu.lig tion « n i
Torpidity of the Liver, and relief is always an ,j ( „ i
sought after. If the l.ivcr is Rrnnlnted j n jJ“T
ti^ haaltai^lm^tkurariabLiMteurea. JW*nt 0 £W
tisnliiJltlk liver anuses Hdadaclu^ Coia'jLjflJ’
Jaundice, Painiu the Shoulders, Cough, Chills, jjjT®’
ness. Sour Stomach, bad taste in tin mouth bili
attacks, palpitation of the heart, depression of >D :? UJ
or the blues, and a hundred other symptoms for®’ • ,l
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We would call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of Horace
Waters A Son, headed, “Waters’Concerto
Pal lor Organs,” and for a description of
them we can’t do better than to copy the
; pay
they
folio win
A New Feature in Ore/cuis— Heatons
Concerto Parlor Organ.—The great mer
it of the concerto stop is, that it approxi
mates nearer than any other to the hu
man voice. If we avert the attention
from the instrument while this delicate
addition is being operated, the impression
is instantaneous that it is to the human
voice under exquisite culture that we
listen. Of course the origin of this im
provement, and the exact manner in which
its advantages have been made so pomi-
nent in this organ, are known to the
patentee alone; but we doubt if the in- 1
ventor can make it plain why the direct
result has occurred. The effect of the
concerto attachment is simply softening
and vocalizing. It seems to catch a note
that might have been shrill or reedy, and
at once soothe it into something as sweet
and musical as a human whisper. The
writer was informed by Mr. Waters that
on account of the popularity of the new
stop, the instruments were bought up
almost as rapidly as it was possible to
manufacture them.—Brooklyn. Union.
Saturate a Piece of Bread or Meat
with gastric juice, and it will dissolve.
This is digestion. Add to such a mixture
a little alcohol, and it will not dissolve.
This is indigestion. Beware, then, of
tinctures, or tonics, or decoctions con
taining spirituous liquors. Shnn all rum
“tonics,” and rely solely on Dr. Walker’s
Vinegar Bitters, the finest digestive
invigorant known, and free from the
fiery curse of Alcohol. £45 4tJ
—
fifa?*A darkey was once attempting to
steal a goose, but a dog raised an objec
tion, and Sambo retired. The next nig^t
during a thunder shower he attempted it
again and just as he was on the point of
getting away with his fowl, the lightning
struck close by, and the noise nearly
frightened the poor fellow to death.
Dropping the goose, he started away,
mnttering “Peers ter me der am a mighty
lot of fuss made boot a eooimon goose.
hated most, and whose political ijpfn: _
she has repeatedly repudiated and dis- p[yg
owned, is an event of peculiar signifi
cance. "Whoever should have said two
years ago, when the Republicans, strong
in tbeir majority, quarreled and split into
factions over the election of Senator, that
Wm. W. Eaton would be the next Sena
tor elected, would have been compassion
ed as a lunatic. Such a prediction a few
months later, when the State was carried
overwhelmingly for Grant, would have
been wilder still.
In the same spirit in which conserva
tive Connecticut swung over from Bu-
channan’s administration to Francis Gil
lette in 1854, she swung from Grant's ad
ministration to Wm. W. Eaton in 1874.
The people are tired of platforms and
protestations. They have begun a revolt.
Does the party in power understand the
situation!
As for Mr. Eaton, with all his faults,
and they are such as may seriously im?
pair his influence, he has distinguishing
virtues that may make him a very useful
representative. The lesson of 1854 to
his own party, and the lessons of his
twenty years’ experience since then, are
not more his to profit by than those of
the last two years, which seem specially
directed to his opponents. If li story
does repeat itself, Mr. Eaton's election to
the Senate opens a period of Democratic
ascendency, just as Francis Gillette’s led
the way to twenty years of Republican
rule in the State.
One ’Prize $5,000 in Silver!
<rf$l ,000each in Greenbacks!
'nzes' $500 each in Greenbacks!
Ten Prizes $100 each in Greenbacks!
Two Family Carriages and Matched
. Horses with Silver-Mounted Harness,
worth $1,500 each!
Two Buggies, Horses, dec., wcrlli ffi«0 each !
Two Fine-timed Kost-M-oid Pianos, worth *o50 each !
Ten Family Sewing Machines, worth flW) each!
1-500 Gold and Si ver Lever Mi ntirg Watches (in
aii) worth from^-tieach!
Gold Chains, Silver-ware, Jewelry, dee , &c.
Number of Gifts 1»,000' Tickets limited to 50,000!
Agent* Wanted la sell Tickets, to whom
I.ibernl Prtniiinx will bn jiaitL
Single Tickets $2; Six Tickets $10;
Twelve Tickets $20; Twenty-Five
$40.
Circulars containing a full Ii~? of n descrip
tion of the manner of drawing, arH ot? t-r information
iareference to tlie Distribution, will be nent to any
one ordering them. All letters n)a*»t be addressed to
Zu D. SINK. Eox 85,
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lOl W FifiiiSl S
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P SYCHOMAN'CY, or SOL’L CHARMING’’
IIow either sex may fascinate audfoiin the love
Renewal of Treaty Between Canada
and United States*
Montreal, May 28.—The prospect
for ’an early renewal of the reciprocity
treaty between the United States and
Canada, was hailed with general satisr-
faction throughout the country, and
resolutions were passed on it yesterday
by the New York Produce Exchange and
the Oswego Board of Trade, which go to
strengthen the belief that our Commis
sioners in Washington will be successful in
their negotiations.
J. Edgar Thomson, the great railroad
king, is dead. It is expected that Thom
as A. Scott will be selected to fill the va
cancy.
Hon. J. J. Hichman, of Atlanta, lias
been elected the Right Worthy Grand
Templar of the World. Mrs. *M M. C.
Brown, the wife of an ex Governor of
Ohio, has been elected Right Worthy
Vice Templar. Joseph Mailsus, of Eng
land, is elected Right Worthy Grand
Chancellor.
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Our DormaatiMrftofc ■- v
Our bodies ore not as vigorous aor otg aUtis
clear as they might be. Tkis remark is true af at
least two-thirds of civilised society, amdof theao two-
thirds probably one half is laboring under bodily
infirmities of a character likely to shorten the lives
ef the safferers. Tills is a melancholy exhitrlt and
furnishes abundant food for nAMtiem| Can Ike
evil be mitigated ? It cau Lack of vitality is the
primary cause of most of the physical and mental
suffering to which we are subjected, and therefore a
vitalizing medicinal agent is the remedy reqaired,
Is there such medicine ? There is. Hostetter’s
Stomach llitterg will rouse and energise the mind aid
pwatively dormant state; P
desponding invalid is not aware m the latent energies *• *
th^t underlies bis debility. He thinks there is no
element of vigor left in bis frame, mkaa the test it
that bis physical capabilities are manly asleep anc
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and amelioration of the human race, none is entitled
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Dr. J. Bradfieid's Female Regulator, Woman's Best
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never fails, as thousands of women will testify. It
cures whites. This valuable medicine is prepared and
sold by L- H. Bradfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price fl 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
Toskegek, Ala., 13ti3»
Ha. L. H. Bradfield—Sir: Please forward us,
immediately, another supply of Uradfikld’s Fk
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W# the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure In
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liable remedy for the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
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. Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
-Atlanta, Ga.
Redwine & Fox, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C. Lawshe, Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root A. Son, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Troup County.
This is to certify that I have examined tlie recipe of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of tills county, aud as a medi
cal man pronounce it to be a combination of medi
cines of great merit in the treatment ot all the dis
eases of females for which ‘lie recommends it. This
December 21,18GB.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
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WATERS’ CONCERTO ORGANS
are the most beautiful in style pnd petfCc! iti tofte ever
made. The CONCERTO STOP is the best ever
placed in any Organ. It i« produced by an extra set
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