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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old
'Southern Recorder” and
consolidated]
‘ Federal Union ’
Ktunvaavnui, qa :
Wednesday, November XI, 1171
She Next Congress.
We had prepared a table showing the
Democratic gains in the several States,
but several Districts still remain doubtful.
After making deductions for doubtful
districts, we believe, the majority against
tho present administration in the next
Congress will be over seventy and may
reach eighty. We take the following ta
ble from the Nashville Union and Amer
ican, which is as near correct as can be
ascertained at present:
The Nest Congress Classified Toliti*
cally.
The Nashville Union and American
makes the following table, based upon
tho latest news received at that office. It
eliows how parties in the present and
tow they will stand in tho next Con
gress :
f OBTY-THIED FOBTY-FOCBTH
CONGRESS. CONGRESS.
Alabama... .
Arkansas...
California...
CjnnecJrcat.
Delaware...
Florida. 2
Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem.
..33 26
..3 1 4
..3 1
..3 1
..1 1
Georgia.. .
Illinois....,
Indiana ....
3
...14
...10
Iowa 9
Kansas 3
K 3ntucky
Louisiana 6
Maine 5
Maryland 2
Massachir est".... .11
Micliigan 9
Minnesota .3
Missinrippi 5
Missouri 4
10
9
12
8
1
1
10
5
G
6
3
13
Nevada
New Haro rsH e,
...1
O
1
1
£<ew Jersey....
...6
1
4
3
New York
..23
10
13
20
North Caro'ina.
. ..3
5
1
7
Ohio
7
7
13
Oregon
i
1
Pennsviva tia....
Rhode IsVad... .
Ro.itli Cp oliti".
,.22
2
. .5
*5
11
2
5
16
Tennessee..,
. . 7
:?
1
9
Te^ao
Venn ont
. .3
<;
3
6
Virginia
. .5
4
2
7
WeJt Virginia..
...2
1
3
Wisconsin
2
6
2
—
—
—
201
91
103
172
Confirmation of the Previous Bis»
patches.
The mall •• ml. mp la WuUiiim hy
Clate*—lh. Itawratlc Majarlfy ia lb.
He*« f.»|wa~ Sla Slam Beeaaetraetlaa
ail Civil night*—A Ceasplrtc Heal m€ the
Ita4i.nl*
Caa4ea*atiaa ef the Preplr’* May usg*.
Washington, D. C„ November 5.—Ala
bama—Six to ten thousand majority for
the Democratic State ticket. Certainly
five, and possibly seven, Democratic Con
gressmen and a Democratic Legisla
ture.
Arizona Territory—Stevens, independ
ent, is elected a delegate to Congress.
Arkansas—A clean Democratic delega
tion to Congress is elected.
Florida—A full Republican delegation
elected.
Georgia—A clean Democratic delega
tion to Congress elected.
Illinois—Tlie indications are that the
Republican State ticket is elected by a
decreased majority. Previous dispatches
regarding the Congressional delegation
are confirmed. Doubtful districts are
still doubtful.
The count by Congressional Districts
»ive the Democrats 12 to 13 majority on
tie popular vote.
Kansas—The Republican State ticket
has 5,000 majority against 32,000 two
years ago.
Kentucky—A clean Democratic dele
gation elected.
Maryland—A clean Democratic delega
tiou elected.
Massachusetts—Tho Democrats carry
the election for Governor by 7,000 ma
jority. The Republicans elect tho balance
of the State ticket. She sends three
Democrats and ono Independent to Con
gress. The Legislature is strongly anti-
Prohibition.
Michigan—Tho Democrats have a large
representation, possibly a majority on
joint ballot. The Congressional delega
tion will probably stand five Republicans
and four Democrats. Both parties claim
the Governor.
Minnesota—Returns from remote parts
are more favorable to tho Republicans.
Missouri—Tho ticket is very long, and
the vote not yet reported.
Nevada—Bradley (Democrat) is elected
Governor. Shaion (Republican) will
NnuM-i r*l*Ml Bm.7
Wasmingtoii, November A--The Demo
crats of this city serenaded Senator A. G-
Thurman, of Ohio, to night, at his resi
dence here. A large crowd wan present
In response, Senator Thurman returned
his thanlfg for the opportunity offorded
him to participate in their rejoicing, and
said:
When I think of it is it not a drexdfn
thing and calculated to bring terror U
every loyal bosom to see you with drua
and fife, with trumpet and cymball, ant
with mighty shouts that rend the air, cel
ebrating the conquest of Masaachusetti
by the terrible Ku-Klux? [Laughter]
Was it not enough that those awful am
godless fellowsjiad intimidated the peace
able, amiable and honest carpet-bag
gers and scallawags and their follower?
down South and obtained the master?
over that fair portion of the Republic
Was it at all necessary that they shook
invade the North, and by intimidating
Republicans carry Ohio, Indiana, Wes
1 Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Nev
Jersey, and, to cap tho climax, overmi
New York and put Massachusetts in thei
breeches pocket. [Applause!,] Politician!
and editors are scratching taeir head*
to find out tiie cause of our victories,
when every one who has carefully mm
and inwardly digested the history o:
Southern outrages, manifestos of Attor
ney General Williams, the proceedings o
the Chattanooga*Convention, the affida
vits of Marshal Packard, knows full wel
that there is but one cause, and that it
intimidating. “Tho devil inspired party,’
as that venerable Christain statesman
Gerritt Smith, calls the Democracy, bav<
so frightened the peace loving Radical!
from Passimaquaddy bay to the Ric
Grande, that many of them, in sheer ter
ror, have voted the Democratic ticket,
and yet many of them have abstained
from voting at all.—[Renewed laugter.]
And as if there is nothing that these
“devil inspired" men will not dare to per
petuate, they have, without the least feai
or trembling, laid their profane hands
upon the head of the brave and patriotic
Butler and shrieked into bis ear the dis
loyal cry: “Benjamin, depart !’*—
[Laughter and applause.]
Now, my friends, I prav you, don't
think me frivolous because I talk in this
way. Year after year our victories in the
iaia* •! Extinct liiail
Plant* VmiI
* Hal Karr
In this table, none but certain Demo
cratic gains are given, conceding the Rad
icals ail doubtful districts. The figures
show a certain Democratic majority of
69 out of the 275 members thus far elec
ted. Seventeen members from the States
of California, Connecticut. Mississippi and
New Hampshire are yet to be elected.
Supposing the Democrats to make no
gains at all in any of these StateB, itwou’d
still leave them a majority of 60—enough
for all practical purposes, as the Radicals
will find out when the Democrats set
about overhauling the books a ,d letting
light in upon the dark and rotten places.
THE SENATE.
The large Radical minority in the Sen
ate is much more formidable in appear
ance than in reality. According to pres
ent indications it has already been redu
ced to 6 or 8. Among them are several
carpet-baggers who do not like to be in a
minority and who will be sure to desert
tho Republican party as soon as they see
it going down. There are several Sena
tors, also, fix in the West who spent large
sums of money to get elected, who will
not stand by any party any longer than
they can make it pay. The represents
tive branch of Congress holds the purse
strings of the nation, and if the Democ
racy act wisely and prudently we believe
in a short time after the next Congren
assembles they will be able to control
tho Senate. Such a sweeping revolution
in politics never occurred before in so
short a time since the foundation of our
government.
Poor Blaine.
No man in the United States, not even
Gen. Grant liimself, has been more as
tonished or wors.c demolished by the
late elections than Mr. Speaker Blaine.
At the close of the last session of Con
gress he considered liimself the heir ap
parent to the presidency. His only fear
was that Gen. Grant might refuse to re
tire and obstinately determine to remain
in the white house himself another term,
and in that case, ho thought he would
have to content himself with the Speak
er's chair. But what must be hiB cha
grin and disappointment when he dis
covered by the returns of the late elec
tions that tho people had rejected both
Gen. Grant and himself, and that he
would not have even the poor consolation
of being Speaker after the close of thin
short session of Congress. And he will
find but little consolation in the refiec
tion that he has contributed to produce
the catastrophe. He lias made several
speeches during this campaign at the
West and in Massachusetts and New Jer
sey, and everywhere that he has spoken
his party has been overwhelmingly de
feated ; and no wonder, for he defended
all of the abuses of the administration,
even the President’s tvrany in Louisiana
By this he disgusted the people and
drove them into the ranks of tho democ
raev. He will no longer have the powei
of packing committees to varnish rascal
ity and clear villians. But Speaker Blaint
has one consolation: since he has been
in Congress he has contrived to get im
mensely rich, and it is said he spent a
vast sum last Fall in carrying the election
in Maine and securing his election to
Congress. Alas! poor ghost.
Bow Will the late Bemoeratie Vie
tones Effect the Civil Bights BiU.
We predict they will kill it off effec
tu&lly. It is true they will have the pow
er to pass it this winter if they are st
disposed. But why should they desiri
to pass it now ? Their great object in
passing it was to strenghten themselves
at tho South by binding the negroes t<
them. But they have lost every State ir
the South but South Carolina. Mis
sissippi and Florida, and the Civil Right
bill has operated against them even
where, both North and South; and wh
should they continue to press it whe:
they know it is injuring them? Besidt
Gen. Grant has not yet given np the idt
of running for a third term and he wi
oppose the Civil Rights bill with aU o
his influence, which will be sufficient t<
defeat it We need have no more feart
•boat the Civil Bight* bill, it wtil never
I* Jmt.
probably go to the Senate on account of j South have been falsely attributed to ra
the State Senators holding over. j timidating, and member after member of
New Jersey—The Democrats have 11 Congress, duly elected, has lost his seat
majority on joint ballot, securing a Sen- ! upon this false charge. At even election,
ator. The Congressional delegation is 5 for years, “Southern outrages" has been
Democrats, and 2 Republicans. the battle cry of Radical politicians in
New York—The Democrats have a the North and the justification for laws
majority on joint ballot, securing a Sena- that disgrace civilization, and usurpa-
tor. i tions that lay the axe at the root of Re-
Pennsylvania—The Democrats have a publican institutions, but what can these
majority of one on joint ballot, securing manufacturers of false pretences say now,
a Senator. The Congressional delega- , when our trumphs at the North are even
tion will be—Democrats, 16 ; Republi- more signal than thoeo at the South,
cans, 11. : When even Massachusetts, p.-rs-stord
South Carolina—The Governorship is unvarying, hafcitbonnd Masss*-’ usetts,
doubtful. Mackey, fusionist, and Smalls, sots the seal of her condemnation upon j
coloied, aie elected to Congress. , Radical misrule, and for the first time in j
Virginia—A full Conservative and nearly half a century sets an honest Dem- j
Democratic delegation is elected, except | erat in her gubernatorial chair ? And in
Stowell in the 4th District. j this connection was it not right, gentle-
Wisconsin—Tho Republicans have a | men, that I should refer to Benjamin F\
majority on joint ballot, which may give j Butler, who, is accepting his last nomina-
us Carpenter again. The Demo- i tion, gave, as his chief reasons for wish-
crats have two, and claim another Con- 1 ing to remain in Congress, his will and
gressman. The Republican majority in the ! ability to still further bind and repress
A Denver letter concerning the Wheel
er expedition, says:
The discoveries of vertebrates an 1 in
vertebrates made by Professor Cope and
Dr. Yarrow, of Philai.ilphin, notwith
tending the short time that t<'e_, hr ,e
oeen out, are declared, by compe'mt
luthorily, to be the most important that
isve been mr de since paleontology ac
quired its present scientific status. * The
irst mentioned comprises a large number
>f new species of animals that were found
n the eocene and pliocene periods.
Among them are quite perfect sped
mens of several of the mastodons and
■ther elephantine creations of former
lays. One hundred new species inver
ebrates have bean also found and a largp
lumber of re discoveries, w hich will be
avalnable in determining tho ages of
he differt it fonrr tons where the same
pecies have been discovered in other
darters of the globe. These discover
38 v. ere made exactly on the divide of the
itiai tic ard Pacific oceans where the San
Tuan flows on one side nnd the Bio
Franic on the other.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Upon Ex-Comptroller Thweatt’s Un
paid Salary Claim.
From the Columbus Enquirer 1c Sun, August 1874.
“An Appeal for Jaattco.”
We have rrceived a pamphlet copy of an appeal
made by Peterson Thweatt,former Comptroller Qeoer
al of Georgia, to the people of the State, tor “aim-
pie justice” What lie claim* i* hi* -‘unpaid salary
is Comptroller General,” ard a* the Legislature has
heretofore refused or neglected to pay it. and has
not even allowed him an opportunity to test the jus
tice of the claim in the courts of the State, he now
addresses liimself to the people, and especially to the
‘aitncuiturists. granger* ;>r farmer*.” Mr. Thweatt
makes out his case very strongly in the publication
before u—-howiug that'such claims as his were ex
pressly excepted f-om the repudiation of the “war
debt’ by the Conventi-nof 1*65; that he received no
valuable consideration for services most a duous and
important; and that other State officer* were, after
the termination of the war, paid in good money their
salaries for the same terms for which he still claims
his. He now demands that he be either paid at once,
or that he l>e authorized to sue the Stato, aud provi
sion be made for the payment of any judgment which
he may recover.
We nave heretofore given oar opinion of the value
of the public servioes lor which Mr. Tbweatt claims
payment. By his intelligent and assiduous labors be
made the Comptroller's Office the great repository of
he financial, agricultural, and industrial statistics
d Georgia. The yearly program or decadence of the
State in wealth, population, production, and industry,
s therein recoided, and Petersen Thweatt is the man
who rirat systematized and grouped this valuable in
formation, blazing the tray for his successor* and
making it a comparatively easy task to keep up the
work which he planned and mi listed He dia the
work himself, too, and this is a consideration that
pleads more loudly for the payment of what ia due
‘ him. lie did not employ a platoon of clerks and
_ , ... . . , charge the State for their services, bnt addressing
xie.'P, 0180, it 18 said, Cftll bo found tho ! himself laboriously to the work which be had under
From the Ham
Mk PitebsosTh
i Visitor. August, 1874
veatt.—We are in receipt of o
narks left by the ebb and flow of the tide
>f those ocesos when the Rockies formed
he only barrier between them. Besides
hese discoveries of Professor Cope and
Or. Yarrow, the natural history division
aboriug in portions of Arizona ami New
dtxico, contiguous to the above, lias col
ected 100 bird skins and a large number
>f specimens of mammals, reptiles and
ishes, including five new species of the
atter.
Dr. Loem, the chemist with the expo-
lition has also been devoting himself to
raalvzing the mineral and thannal springs
le has come across and has discovered
•nrative proprieties in several for a large
oroportion of the ills that flesh is heir
to, that were were entirely unknown be
fore. He has too, collected many new
plants which will be of us in the econo-
nic arts, and his analysis of the soil of
the different formations over which he
has passed will, it is said, lead to other
practical results.
State is 6,000.
Delaware—The Radical spirit finds
incarnation in only one State Senator
who holds over.
Washington—-The Democratic major:.-,
ty in the House will be 54.
A Eater Summary by the Tribune.
Washington, November 5, Midnight.—
The following is the Tribune’s sum
mary: Nine States, Delaware, Mary
land, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
New Jersey, New York, Tennesssee and
Virginia, have chosen Legislatures which
will elect Democratic United States Sena
tors. Five of these are now represented
by Republicans. In five others, Louisi
ana. Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvan
ia and Wisconsin, the Legislatures are
either in doubt or has in them indepen
dent elements which will be likely to so-
care the election of anti administration
car didates. Present returns indicate
that the Democrats will have a majority
of between fifty to sixty in the next
House of Representatives.
In Massachusetts tho Democratic ma
jority for Governor is about 8,000. There
is a gain of six Opposition Congressmen,
with another District in doubt.
In Pennsylvania the result is doubtful.
The Republicans admit a loss of 13,000
votes on the State ticket. The Opposi
tion has elected 14 Congressmen, a gain
of 9.
Tho Democrats b«ve elected their
Governor in New Jersey by 8,000 majori
ty. The Opposition gains three Cons
gressmen.
The contest between Wm. Walter
Phelps and Cutler, in the Fifth District,
can only be decided by the official can
vass.
The Republicans have a majority of
25 on joint ballot in tho Wisconsin Legis
lature, but Senator Carpenter’s ra election
is by no means sure.
Delaware has elected a Democratic
Governor. Congressmen and Legisla
ture.
Michigan has elected a Democratic
Legislature, and has sent three or four
Opposition candidates to Congress, all
gains.
Tennessee has elected a Democratic
Governor by 30,000 majority, and has
gained five Opposition Congressmen.
Alabama has elected a Democratic
Governor by about 10,000 majority, and
has gained two Opposition Congress
men.
Tho Kellogg clique is said to bo try
ing to count in the administration State
ticket in Louisiana, but the Conserva
tives claim the State by 12.000 majority.
They have secured tho Legislature, and
consequent 1 ;- a United St: tes Senator,
and have elected four Congressmen, a
g on jf three.
In Illinois the Reform party has
earned the State by a small majority,
md the Opposition has gained 6even
Congressmen.
In South Carolina the result is still
loubtful. with the chances in favor of
Chamberlain's election as Governor.
[Noth.—Current dispatches are still
nore favorable to the Conservatives.
LOUISIANA.
Discovery of Frauds on the Fart ef
the Kelloggites-.-A Disturbance
Feared if They are Carried Ont.
New York, November 5.—A special
to the Tribune from New Orleans says
the evidence accumulates of the deliber
ate purpose of the Kelloggparty to count
ra their candidates by means of the Re
turning Board. This discovery has crea
ted great excitement, and if the plan is
:arried out disturbances are feared.
New Orleans, November 6.—In the 1st
District there is 3,500 Democratic ma
jority, and in the 2d District 2,500 Demo-
•ratic majority. In the 3d District the
eturns indicate the re-election of Darrall.
)ne hundred gun6 were fired in honor of
he Democratic victories.
the Southern people. But the time had
passed by when his persecuting cry found
a ready response in the hearts of his con
stituents. Tho time had passed when
violations of the Constitution, contempt
for justice, disregard of sound policy,
and neglect of the interests of the
people could all be overlooked under
the influence of passion and preju
dice, and hence the result. You see he
raised the black flag of persecution, and
under that hateful banner sought to main
tain his place in the Congress.
The people raised the white flag, not j
of defeat, but of peace, and said to the j
would-be persecutor, “Stay thou at home.” j
If you ask me, fellow citizens, what are
the causes of our victories, I answer dis
content with Radical rule. If you ask !
me for the reasons of this discontent,
I answer that our Radical rulers have in
the last nine years persistently set at
naught every instinct, feeling, habit and
teaching of the American people. Amer
cans are a Constitution-loving peo
ple, but no regard has been paid
to the Constitutionby our rulers.
Americans are a liberty-loving peo
ple, but liberty as been remorsely
trampled under foot. Americans arc a
home-rule loving people, but home rule
has been treated with scorn and contempt,
and Congress assumes and exercises
the powers of an omnipotent parliament.
Americans are an honesty-loving people,
but Credit Mobiliers, Sanborn contracts,
Custom House frauds, and Washington
rings have made corruption almost a sy
nonym for government.
The financial embarrassments now
upon the country could not be attributed
to the Democratic party, as that party
had no power iu tqis land for nearly
twelve years. The Republican party had
had a triumphant majority in both Hou
ses of Congress and absolute control of
the finance of the country. In reply to
the cry of “How about an independent
press," he said “the independent press
had accomplished a work during the
past year which would redound to its
honor as long as the press lastB." In
reply to the question : “How about a
third term,” Thurman said, “my friend
in the White House has not given that
idea up yet He is trying to fight it out
on that line if it takes a year and a half.
If the President don’t want a third term
why in Heaven’s name don't he say
so?"
He (Thurman) saw in the newpapers, a
few days ago, that Gen. Grant did not
consider it consistent with his dignity to
make any denial of being a candidate for
a third term. That was a -cry pooi-
apology. The Republican State Conven
tion of South Carolina had solemnly nom
inated him fer u third terra. Did t that
authorize him to speak on tho subject, or
did he consider that the Radical party of
South Caro,ina was so utterly contemp
tible he could not answer it?
Elbctioss.—Next year, Congressmen
will be elected in Connecticut, New
Hampshire. California and Mississippi.
If anything, the Democratic majority will
grow larger.
Negley.—The Courier-Journal rejoices
more over Negley's defeat in Pennsylvan
ia than Butler's iu Massachusetts. The
editor says Butler dashes his rascality
with a sprinkle of good humor. Negley
is a sour varlet, lean, mean and cold. He
was a lowbred persecutor of women and
children during the war. and he has been
a course, senseless and brutal partisan
ever since the war.
The VTcC-llaz 7i.il.
hr ELIZABETH \\ HlTTiER
Dear Anna, whan I brought liar vail.
Her white vail.on her wedding night.
Threw o'er my tl.in, brown hair its folds,
And, laigbiDg. turned me to the light.
“See, H**«ie,*ee! you wear at ltiet
The bridal vail, fore worn for years!'
She *aw my face— her laugh was hushed.
Her happy eyes were filled with tear-.
With kindly haste and trembling hand,
She drew away the gauzy mist;
“Forgive, dear heart,'' her sweet voice said:
Her loving lips my forehead kissed
We passed from out the searching light:
The Summer night was calm aud tair :
I did not see her pitting eyes,
I felt her soft hand -month my hair.
Uertender love unlocked my heart
'Mid failing tears, at last I said:
“Forsworn, indeed, to me that vail.
Because I on y love the dead!”
hlie stood one moment statue still.
And musing, spake in undertone
‘ The living love may colder grow.
The dead is safe with God alone!'
taken, ho did nearly the whole of it himself, and tune were prompuy pum. no - -—---
ouw only asks moderate pay for hard work of his own (ifoo passed the State convention providing for the
* . r, . l . r ra.—A* . / l Li- k..l I aitvlJatn
paronhlet from this gentleman, ex Comptroller Gener
al, in which he places before the people Ins claim
against the State.
It will be remembered by many, that, some timesgo.
he tried to get the Legislature to pass *n net nnthor
iling him to sue the State, which it refimed to do
Wecanaeeno just reason why Mr. Thweatt ennnot
have his claim ti ied before the courts The 1-egi- a-
ture most be conscious of the faot that the claim is »
just one. Then why keep him ont of bis money by
refusing him an impartial trial ? IT th*? claim i*
anjurt. will the coorts not so decide when the casejis
brought before them? . ., .
We think the law forbidding private individuals
from suing the State without special legislation, is as
senseless as it is oppressive, anu snould lie repealed.
From the Milledgeville Every Saturday. August, 1874.
“Fay BKe That Thou Owest.”
The pamphlet of our friend Col Peterson Thweatt,
addressed to the Fa'triers and Grangers of Georgia
sets forth at some length the claims and grievances ot
this excelled gentleman and past taithtni Comptroller
General of the Stale. «.•__*
Col. Thweatt, we think, has been the moet efficien
Comptroller the State ever had. It is nothing but
just that he should be paid in fall, the amount due him.
and of which he has been deprived for so long a time,
through the quibbling of an over economical Legisla
ture. It is a shame that the great State of Georgia,
ictuses to act towards one other children, with the
common honesty which is considered due between
man and man.
From the Southern Etiterpriss, Thomasvitie, August
1874.
Let Justice be Bone.
Ex-Comptroller General, Peterson Thweatt is ent
in a pamphlet appealing to the people for justice, and
showing that he has been kept out of his pay for
his services to the Stato. during the war, while a
large number id other officers who served at the same
time were promptly paid. He shows that a resolu-
SIMMONS’
heatl an'i hands Surely the people of Georgia do
not begrudge eo faithful a public fenrant the measure
of simple justice which be a«k.s at their bands.
Frorn tho Macon Telegraph Sl Meeaenger, July 3d,
1874.
Ez« Comptroller General Vetenoa
Thweatt*
We have received from thia irrepreaaible geotle-
KMis a pamphlet entitled ‘ Fay M® bat Thon Oweat/
elc., addressed to the agri< nlloriat, Granger** and farm
er* of Georgia.
Some mouths ainee our readera were daly informed
of the character ot Mr. Thweatt’# claims upon the
Treawnry fer faithful service* Tendered to the dta’e.
These have beeu subject to the cloaca* scrutiny, and
tbo beat legal minds unite in the opinion that they are
emii untly just and should be paid. Hia case is ex
ceptional, and pjecedents are on record where claims
of le»fter magnitude have been discharged siaoe the
war.
Let not a great State belittle itself by ignoring a
righteous demand made by a gray beaded servant
a bo has not only earned his wages, bat devoted a large
portion of bis life to the trueci intcreeta of the Com
mouwe<h.
We hope the next Legislature will take time to look
into the matter and do him justice. It they don’t,
then this worthy, like the old man theses, will ride
a dozen Geuc-ral Assemblies to death. Let candi
dates make a note ot this.
The Madtxou Home Journal of August, 1^74, copies
the above, with the following remarks;
‘We beariily endorse the foregoing, whirh we hnd
ia the Macon Telegraph.**
The Ctawfoidviiie Gazette, also, eopie* the above
Reticle from the Macon Telegraph 4c Messenger and
“endorses” in a similar manner, with the Home
Journal.
From the Augusta Constitnlionaliat, August, 18* 4.
Claim of Sx-Comptroller Thweatt.
We have received a pamphlet of iriiteen pnge*.
setting forth, with great particularity, the services ot
Col. 1'eterscu Thweatt, as Comptroller General dur
ing several years of the war, for which he was paid
b/tbe State iu Slate Treas_ry notes, still nnredeem-
,.j Tha* tlie service* of Cel. Thweatt were very vs!
liable cannot be iinee'e'io d A more indefatigable
Btate t louse officer probably never held office in
.Jemgin. l i.ut tue i-ihi.i. ..>r po/u.eii. o. i^eso ireae.
ury notes . an .4 tah\ une e -C.. t Ire Ji u •* . II9*
J"-- - I Me be "iro wi” rf'cf-iM it a pic.iia:
equity it is not for us to artu innte. But Co! T is ei-
litleu loa c.tliu and lair bearing, auu we hope the re
sult wul oe that he wiil not have a right to complain
that Republic* are nrjust or ungrateful.
From the Atlanta Correspondent ot the Augusta
Chronicle dr Sentinel, August, 1874.
Col. Peterson Thweatt.
This old Stale official, the man who first raised the
office of Coinptioller-Genera! to one of dignity and
distinction, has issued a circular to the people of
Georgia submitting a bill of about $10,000 which be
claims is due him for services daring his term of office.
This gentleman won considerable distinction during
b:s term of office, and he was greatly astonished when
the last Legislature refused to re-elect him. He bad,
as be tbouiiht, good reason to believe that his reputa
tion as an efficient and faithful officer would restore
him to his old post, along with Jack Jones, Treasurer
and Col. If. C. Barnett, Secretary of State, formerly
contemporaneous officials with him. The wonderful
tact of Col. W. L. Goldsmith, however, defeated Col.
Thweatt,nod failing iu his candidacy the latter now
appeals to the State tor compensation tor services dur
ing h:s term of office.
From the Augusta Chronicle 4k Sentinei.
While publishing a communication from a corres
pondent signing himselt “Justice,” in which said writer
takes the ground, aud shows from the Repudiating
Onliance oi 1805, that I am equitably and legally en
titled to my salary, as claimed by myself, and that the
Legislature ought to forthwith pay me; the Editors of
the Chronicle St Sentinel thus refers to the matter, viz:
"The communication favoring the payment of the
claim of Col. Peterson Tbweatt is from eneot the most
trusted, prominent and honored oitisena of Georgia.
CoL Thweatt is ano:d and worthy servant.”
From the Atlanta Herald of August, 1874.
! Peterson Thweatt. Ex-Comptroller
General-
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This veteran
in regard to a claim he holds against the State.* Ho
was Comptroller General for a long time. During
the war he took Georgia Treasury notes in payment
of his salary. |6,25U in all, which were repudiated by
tho Slate, lie therefore got no pay for his set vices
daring the time for which he received the 96,250.
Same thirty nine oivi officers in hia fix have been
paid by the State. Some twenty others including bim-
selfhnve n. t been paid
We think Mr Thweatt has a valid claim against
the State and ought to be paid.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
The Atlanta Constitution of the 12th ot' September
Copies from the Augusta Chronicle A Sentinel the
article signed “Justice'' advocating the payment of
my claim by the Legislature, and the Editors of the
Constitution speak thus:
We publish in another colnmn an article clipped,
which the Chronicle and Sentinel state* was written
by ono ot the moet "trusted, prominent and honored
citizens of Georgia," and we happen to know that their
statement is correct We think that anyone reading
it will be convinced of tho justice of Col. Thweatt'.
claim. We ask a careful perusal of the claim, and
hope the legislature will do justice in the premises.
From the Monrue Advertiser, August, 1874.
Peterson Thweatt, >K.
We have received from Mr. Peterson Tbweatt,
Comptroller General of Georgia previous to, and dur
ing t he war, a pamphlet in which he seta foith his claim
against the State, for salary due him tor his past ser
vices.
It is claimed that the debt was paid in Georgia Trnas
ury notes, but Mr. Thweatt claims that h* has never
receipted the State for the amount due him, bnt aim-
ply took the notes as an evidence of debt. A portion
ot these notes were turned over to him after toe ear-
rendei of the Confederate armies, when he certainly
knew that they were worthless.
This claim was presented to the last Legislature but
jvaa not considered favorably. To our mind the ques
tion ia clear. Mr. Thweatt aerved the State as a faith
ful servant and has never received any compensation.
The State owes huu t> r this service aud eaght not to
repudiato her jnst d.bt.
Some thiity uir.e civil officers, similarly situated,
have been paid by the State, while twenty others,
inc’U'Hng Mr. Thweatt,have never received any pay!
Jnet ice should tie uieted ont to all.
of such claims as his, but tne Legislature
as persistently refused to make the appropriaiton,
and thus about twenty officers who faithfully served
the State are denied compensation, while others have
and are still being paid, who stood, at the cloee of
the war, precisely on the same footing as Mr. Thweatt
in reference to their claims. The pamphlet sets
bis wrongs in strong terms, shows the justice of hts
claims and makes a strong appeal to the people, for
that justice denied him by the Legislature.
What we have to say in the premises is simply,
that Mr. Thwea't was a good and faithful officer of j
the Stale, did much valuable service and was fully
approved by press and people. 'The matter should
be looked into during the stssion of the next Legisla
ture and full justice done him If others found a law
receiving psy in currency for such past service to the
State, because they held Slate repudiated bonds as
Daymens for such set vice, the same law should entitle
Sir. Thweatt to the same currency.
Why is an exception made in bis case ' We hope
some astute memborof the next Legislature will take
the matter in hand.
From the Crawfordville Gazette, August 1874.
Mr, Thweatt and his Complaint.
We have carefully examined Mr. ex-Uoinptrolier
General Peterson Thweatt’s ‘Appeal for Justice.” It
is a pamphlet of sixteen pages, but as we always
give attention to the narrative of the unfortunate, 01
the wronged, when it beais the marks of integrity
and truth, as ;t progresses, we were nut at ail wearied
with the peiusal otthis production by its length. The
whole case, however, seems to us may be stated in a
nutshell. The State of Georgia most justly owes Mr.
Thweatt 96,25(1,00, Lis salary as Comptroller General
for the years 1862-’63'64 and part of 1*65. Why has
he not been paid ? 'I he only answer to this seems to
to be that be received Treasury rotes issued by the
State for he purpose ot supporting the 8 ate Govern
ment during thee* years—1 hese notes he still holds.
On issnirg them the State pledged its honor to redeem
them at the close ot the war in specie or interest bear
ing bonds. This, tho evidence adduced by Mr.
Tbweatt, clearly shows, aud the S'ate is therefore
bound tiipav them by every obligation legal as well
as moral Upon what grounds can it be preten ed
that the State is not bouud iu goed faith to comply
with its obli -atioL.’ The only answer to this, as ap
pears from the pamphlet, is that the State iu 1685, re
pudiated ail her war debt at the dictation ot President
Johnson. Bm it was not a “war debt,” it was a debt
incurred not to cariy on the war, but to carry on the
State Government, and was expressly excepted in the
repudiation ordinance.—Will any one ventu-c to gain
say this undemaoie le.el! TnC oiipreme Gc-nrt of the
Uuiteti .i-e..- L... ueciued ri.a: the State is
still 'itbie for t'.is cl iss o! debts, even if
-*ie ]<*il ei-br-c»d them in her act of repudia
tion. But tor the honor of Georgia, it snould never
be lorgoiien turn her U-..noi;. 'i. of l'-.tw expressly-
refused to repudiate this class of her debts. Then let
jnsticebe dono Mr Thweatt, and all Olliers who hold
s milar obligations against the Statu. This is aur view
of tbo subject; no one can be more opposed to the
payment of the State of fraudulent bonds than we are,
and also to the shameless repudiation of a just debt—
we eo regard Mr. Thweatt’s c:aiin. But if the Legis
lature thinks that there is any doubt oi the jus'ice of
his claim, then he simply asks that he be permitted to
have the matter adjudicated in the courts Is noi
such an appeal fair, huueet and just? We think it is,
and for the honor of the State, we trust that it Will
not be unheeded by the next General Assemli v.
8.
“Jletolced, THAT WE. THE PEOPLE OF
WILKES COUNTY, WOULD 1 OOK. WITH
8HOIE AND INDIGNATION UPON ANY OF
IIK* PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO WOULD DARE
TO PROPOSK THE REPUDIATION OF ANY
HONEST DEBT, OR JUSTA.nD LEGAL OBLI
GATION OP THE STATE. NO MATTER HOW
SMALL,OR HOW BURDENSOME IT MIGHT
BE.”
The above “ftoolve" has the ring of the “(rue met
al,” and I feel nore it bat expresses the true sentiment*
of every honest man in Georgia.
That my claim against ihwHtate is an ‘ honest debt,
and is a “just aud legal obligation ot the Slate.” is
fully at letted by the fact that a Convention of the
people of Georgia in 1865. a' the instance of the Hon.
Joshua Hill, excepted it from repudiation. (while be
ing forced by President Johnion in 1865. to repudiate
the “war debt,”) by incorporating into the Repudia
ting Ordinance an amendment or proviso, fully au
thorizing “any Legislator*” to pay it.
It is true that the Legislature in 1866 did not pay it,
when I-cai!ed upon it to do so,-yet it did not, at that
time, with the proceedings of the Convetnon tiesh in
the minds of all “dare ’ to “propose” ihe “•epuiia-
tiou" of it—bnt.opoothe then plausible plea of ‘ no
money in the Treasury," the miserable ‘‘dodge’ or an
“indefinite postponement’ of the matter, was resorted
to, successfully, by the Repudiator, to keep me out of
my money at that time.
it is also true that the Finance Commi'tee of the
last House of Representatives in February last, as will
be eeen from my pamphlet, acted very inconsist
ently, and outrageously wrong, in recommending the
payment of the interest on what is called the Atlantic
and Gulf Road Bonds—a debt created during the war,
not half as equitable sad just as mine, while dec iniug
to recommend the payment of my unpaid salaiy. See.
Still, as will also be seen, upon the House of R -presen-
•atives being informed of the conduct of said Commit
tee, or its Chairman, in relation to the Bill providing
for my pay, and being satisfied 1 bat ‘fair play” had
’ not beeu shown me, it reconsidered its adverse ac
tion on the same, and said Bid now stands on tlie Cal
ender of the House as “unacted on."
If therefore remains to be seen whether or not the
next incoming Legislature will -propose" the ‘ RE
PUDIATION” of this “HOVf-ST DEBT, <r JUST
and LEGAL OBLIGATION OF THE STATE,”
which a Convention of the people in 1865 refused to
repudiate and authorised to be paid.
I eaunot fer a moment believe that it will do such a
tbiog with ail the facts placed before its me "hers in
time. I bava no idea that a majority of file Finance
Committee of the last House 01 Representatives would
have acted as they did, had they examined the mat
ter ,fudy and thoroughly.
P. T.
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Thanks.—The St. Louis Republican
banks Attorney General Williams and
Hon." Ananob Hats are entitled to
oanks for adopting a policy which swept
ven the vestiges of Republicanism ont
f about sixty districts, more or less, in
.he North
Fausrlraala.
Philadelphia, Nov. 5.—The Evening
Telegraph says the Democratic State
ticket is pretty certainly elected. Gen.
McCandlesa is undoubtedly defeated, and
Gen. Beatb, for Secretary of Internal
Affairs. Judge Olmstead, Republican
candidate for Lt Governor, leads his
ticket here and elsewhere and may possi
bly be elected by a small majority, but
the chances appear to be against him.
The Senate will stand, 28 Republicans to
22 Democrats, but the House will have
from 10 to 12 Democratic majority, mak
ing the Legislature Democratic on joint
ballot, and securing for them the United
States Senator in place of Scott, Repub'
lican.
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Dis.rirt E
Fab-
irt E.l
II. 1874.
Abczndino.—The Radical papers pre-
ictedthata Democratic victory would
take United States securities decline.
•ut. on the contrary, Government bonds ^
-ave taken an upward tendency nncel object waa to <lo hi* tjnty. AU bonor to
rueedey’* tidal ware. j bia lawy.
Captaih James H. Hunteb Dead.—Our
information from Quitman, says the Sa
vannah News, is to the effect that Capti
James H. Hunter, who was stabbed by a
negro wretch on the 7th of October is
dead. There was some hopes of his
recovery for several days after he waa
wounded, bnt when pheumonia attacked
his already laderated lung, the physicians
could only exert themselves to render
hia last hours aa painless as possible.
Thus has passed away, in the very prime
and rigor of manhood, one of the most
promising young men in the State. He
represented his section in the Legislature
for several years, and hia service fell upon
a period when the State had sore need of
such men in her councils. His intellect
ual activity was ennobled by • nature
sensitively pure, and throughout a career
exceptionally promising, his one aim and
Tie Wkilt Western Ceaatrj
Cm now be ea*ily reached by the Atlantic and
Pacific, *xd Missouri Pacific Railroads and their
rail, stage and steamboat connection*. These lice*
oommence at 8t. Louis, at whioh point the Mirettsippi
river is crossed by the moet magnificent Steel Bridge
in the World, and traverse the whole length ot Central
and Soarh-weet Missouri, and a portion of Kansas and
the Indian Territory, and tbo* famish to the bnsine**-
man, pleuare-seeker and the emigrant, ’he most direct
and Comfortable route to all points in Missouri, Kan
sat, Texas, Colorado. New Mexico. Nebraska, Utah,
Wyoming, California, Oregon and the whole Pacific
81ope. Superior inducements are offered for those
seeking new homes in the Fsr West, and the transpor
tatiou facilities are unequaled by any Western road.
Everybody going West should give these roads a
trial, end be convinced that the Missouri Pacific
Throegb Line and tbe Atlantia Sc Pacific Short Lme
are tbe really popular thoroughfares of travel- For
map*, time-taoiee, information as to rates, routes,
etc. address K. A. Ford, General Passenger Agent,
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ly "
From the Marietta Journal,-August, 1S74.
ClpimcfKr. IPhTfepft.
"’e ' i’-e rocrive.i r yr.mpL'-t pub a. lied by Jlr.
Thweatt Ptesentirr- at lerc-th sh“ gr-n-ds of hi cl rim
to l.ie payment of In* ralary as Comptroller General
during the war aud we cheerfully endorse his closing
appeal to tbe people of Georgia:
“If after you have done this, yon think I ought to
be paid instanter, without running ms to farther ex
pense, (1 have been to enough already) I hope yon
will so iufotm year candidates or.members for tae next
legislature If, however, yon should donbl, (how can
yon doubt?) then instruct your members to the next
legislature that, when they assemble ia January next,
to take up and set utioize closely my claim, and if they
think it right, to psy me st once; but, should they, too,
doubt, then by all means to give me tbe seme “bene
fit and protection of law,” that has heretofore been
so freely given to others: to authorise me to sne tbe
Slate, and to provide for the payment of My jndgment
that I may obtain against her. This is bnt jn*t. I
ask for no alms, bnt rimple justice! I only ask for
tbe same “fair play” and ‘ equal rights” heretofore
granted to others, no more. At good and loyal eitisan of
Georgia, I feel that I am entitled to this much at least.
If As a faithful public Ofiicer.wboserved Georgie“weU”
in the past, (a* all eey) though perhaps’‘not wisely,-’ac
cording to tbe practices of the present day, (I left office
as all well know, quite poor.) I feel that I am entitled
to this much, if ro more! Yonr fellow-citisen,
Petsrsos Tswsatt
threat Southwest I
To all persona desiring Homes in the great and
proeperone Want, the AtUotio and Pacific Railroad
Company gives a cordial invitation to visit its lands in
Central asd SsaSkwtM Kieoowri, which possess
all tbo requirements of a good climate, good soil,
good water, and good health, with long aad cool
«ammers, aad short and mild winters.
1.9—*— Acres of Prairie and Timber Land* are
oflered for sale at low pries and on long time—terms
'®‘* < *. n, o <1 e to suit purchaser* ^bo are furnished with
Free Transportation from 8t Louis to tbe lands, at
tha Company's Office in 8t. Louis.
For particulars in pamphlet* with maps, address
The Sumter K< publican also copies the above and
“cheerfully endorses,” with tbe Marietta Journal
The Cartereville Sentinel also copies the above
concluding part of my pamphlet, aad also * cheerfully
endorses” it.
From the Ctnnming Clarion, Angmat, 1974.
Hoe. Peterson Th wxatt has sent os his pamphlet
in relation to bis claim against tbe State for servioes
rendered by him s'hen be was Comptroller General.
We have not had time to examine the pamphlet
ihoronghlv, but think that the State might apan the
Courts to trim. We suggest, however, that Mr. Tbweatt
sbonld be required in tbe la w opening tbe Courts to him,
to pay alidatnegt* that the State might eastern by the
bnnging ol the son. including lawyers fee*, aad all in
cidental expenses, in the event he should bo cost in the
suit.
I have no hesitation in saying that if tho Legisla
ture doe* not choose to pay aw, without suit) aad I
can't get a hearing in the Court otherwise, I mb per
fectly willing for it to pass m Act requiring aw to
pay all costs of suit, including tha Stale'* Attorney’s
fees, in ease I do not get a jndgment against her. At
tbe same time, 1 think it nothing but fair, that, ebon id
I get a judgment against tha Stato, (which I fast
sure of getting. If allowed to eaa her) she sbonld also
pay aU costs of suit, indadiag my Attorney’s foe*.
From tbe Union Sc Recorder, August, 1871.
Col. Thweatts Appeal to the People
of Georgia-
We have aeon in several of oar exchanges a notice
of a pamphlet put forth by Col- Pctervon Thweatt,
beaded “Pay me that thou Owest ” Col Tbweatt
•ays be sent us one of the pamphlets, bnt as we have
not received it, we suppose it miscarried. We know
however the nature of Coi. Tlivveett’s claim. It is
well knowD to the people of Georgia that Col.
Thweatt was for many years Comptroller General of
the State. It is saying only tbe simple truth, when
we assert be was a fust rate officer. He was the first
Comptroller General in Georgia, that magnified bis
office aud made it houorable. In his annual reports
he gathered up a large amount of valuable statistics
for the future historian, and collected many thousand
dollars of old deb's due the State, which were suppos
ed to be lost. After serving tbe Mate so faithlully
and honestly at the close ot his term of office he was
paid for his services in a currency which proved to be
worthless. Having been honest whilst in office, he
had saved but little aud is now left in his old age in
straightened circumstances. Col. l'hweatt now asks
ot tha people of Georgia through their legislature. t''at
they pay him for his services in something that will be
of someuseto him. Tbe Mate has had the benefitof
his labor and he thinks she ought to be wi ling 10 pay
for it. If tbe money was due tiom an individual or a
corporation. Col. Thweatt could, we believe, recover
it by law. But an individual cauDot sue the State,
aud now the question is, shall the Mate, because she
has the power, keep him out ot bis just rights. We
hope tbe next lc-gisiatu'e wilt pay him. We are Wih-
iog to pay our portion, and we believe a majurity
the people ot Georgia wauttum paid-
From the Georgia Grange, September, 1S74.
Col. Peterson Thweatt — Much has beer, said re
cently, by the press ot this State, about Col Thweatt’s
claim against the State for his salary as ComptroPer
General during ’he war. Its comments have been
elicited by a pamphlet recently distributed by Col T ,
in which the nature of his-claim is fully Bet forth, and
it* justice clearly established. Such, at least, seems
to be the opinion of the press, and in this opinion we
concur We canuot now, for waut of time and space,
give fully and in deiail our reasons for this opinion
Those who would know rue facts upon which we pred
icate our opiniou, are referred to Ihe pamphlet publish
ed by Col. Thweatt. and entitled “Pay me that thou
owest.” From this pamphlet it appears that Col.
Thweatt has rendered valunble service to the State as
Comptroller General, for which he has m-rer beeu
paid, and for whiok, we think, ire ought to be paid.
The Christian Index of September 2, 1874, also, has
a simular editorial in relation to my cluim.
From the Savannah News, October 15,1874.
Vetereon Thweatt and the State of
Georgia.
We have had before us for several weeks a pam
phlet addressed by Colonel Peterson Thweatt to tbe
people of Georgia in regard to the salary due him by
the Mato for services rendered during the war. It is
quite an interesting little brochure, and wo should be
glad if it could come into possession of every honest
and justice-lovingci izen.
Tbe pamphlet is intended aa an appeal to the peo
pie of Georgia for simple justice. During the war
ComDtioller Thweatt received State Treasury notes
for his Balary in lieu of currency to the amount of
96,250. These notes were to be redeemed iu State
bonds after the war, and so confident was the Comp
troller of this fact that even after the surrender of the
Confederacy he accepted 9750 of these notes in pay
ment ot hts salary. The Convention of 1865 passed
an ordinance repudiating the debt of Georgia created
for the purpose of carrying on tbe war. Au amend
meat, however, provided that this ordinance should
not apply to any claim against the Mate baaed upon a
consideration not incidental to a state of war, and
that any Leg’Blature sb- uld be competent to make ap-
pr''“ri«tior« for ,l- e onr»*o*e of pB\in" the same
This would seem to be conclusive, bar. as we shall
presently .utic >, a- u.oi e »> i-moii. .ii mu last Legis
ts ure than in- dreiin -' > .'. Thu-< ‘.he n i*tcr stood
when Mm S'-te ;vy ed into the b-'id" of the Raoi
cals. It would have been a very easy matier for Col.
i ii weatt to have bad utsCisim paid under ihe Ilullock
legime. He had simply to put it iu tbe hands of oue
of the hungry crew aud give him a small commission.
Indeed, theie were parties in Atlanta who made it their
bu-ines* to bnnt up unpaid claims and offer to collect
them for a consideration. But tbe ex-Coinptp Her pre
ferred to present his claim to the honest people of
Georgia, and he therefore waited until tney came into
power
We have frequently taken occasion to lament, in
teimt more emphatic than polite, tbe shortcomings of
tbe lost Legislature. Unfortunately for him, Colonel
Thweatt presented his claim lo this remarkable body
His account of tbe manner iu which it was received
and finally disposed of bristles with that sharpest of all
stings, unconscious sarcasm. The claim was stared
off through chicanery, and now it stands on the reoords
of that highly intellectual Assembly at not acted upon
We most heartily * isb that Colonel Thweatt's pam
phlet bed never been written—we most heartily wish
that tbe occasion for writing it had never existed. It
pat* upon record a most shameful and disgraceful tra-
willingnees on the part of the Mate ot Georgia to pay
one of her most faithful servants the wages that be
honestly earned. Here is a man who has to beg for
jortioe m the State of Georgia—a man who, above all
others, has succeeded in giving previons Legislature*
a basis for intelligent legislation. He made the office
ef Comptroller General what it is, and his reports are
models of their kind He brought to the discharge of
the duties of his office a patient and elaborate industry
that has been equalled by few pnbho officers; and, all
things considered, it is by no means disparaging to hie
successors, either present or to come, to say that hie
aptitude for the position, hts enthusiasm and his econo
my will never again be equalled He created the
office and be fitted it in every respect. It grew an
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"W'Jot'the officers of
der bia fostering care into one ot the meet important
departments of the Mate administration —a depart
meat that has suggested to tbe General Assembly somt
of itsmoet important legislation. And now wa have
the strange picture of a man who has spent the b-*i
years of hi* life in the service of a great Mate abeo
lately driven to the necessity ot writing a pamphlet it
order to impress* legislator* with the justice of hi;
claims.
If Georgia ever did owe a debt, she owes it to Pe
tenon Thweatt, and we trust that the new Legislator-
will promptly dispose of the claim in the manner that
every impulse of justice and patriotism suggest* lt i
enough to onose the blush ol shame and indignation t
rise to the lace to read Colonel Thweatt’* account •
his treatment by The last General Assembly. We ea
pent better things from tbe incoming Legislature, »
only in respect to the bond amendment, bnt also i
respect to tbe jnet claims of Peterson Tbweatt.
REPUDIATION!
At a very large Maas Meeting of th* paopl* ot
Wilke# cooaty, in August last, while said meetii g de-
Dooaced la tha moet emphatic terms th* payment .<
the Bollock Illegal Bonds, it “naamaenWy aad raOa-
HetkHf adopted' the MJewing “Bmehe," wig,
dontpelier Female Homans Association, who reside in
the vicinity of my home, and I attest their ^nielli”
Sa-attiSSr aastarS
ALixxsnniA.Va July 8, 1874.—- •|L
mend them ** geate of honor and integrity, and tolly
rntitied to th# eoofldeoce of tha aablie » • y
K - ^ HUGHES, U. 8 Judge East n Diet of Va
Farther refeiesee* by permission: His Excellent.
Gilbert C. Welker, Kx-Gdvernor of v“"hSTkX 7
K. Wither*, Lient-Gov. of V.. and U. S tJoator
,lMt; Senator, aad Member, of Cougroe, from
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•faOdreo, bnt that is bo season why yon
>honld provide them with ft luxury st the