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i f 4 H.EBEL^r VOLUME XXI. LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING; MARCH 24, 1865. •*> '** _ •> < NUMBER 12» * Tt£n ii ii ■ .1 yL>« ftA < j To the Bonded Men of Troup Co. Jttfrttr* | gY request of the Inferior Court, I would rail PUBLISH F.D EVERY FRIDAY MOSSING BY JONES & WILLINGHAM. Rates of Subscription: One Yeav-, S20 OO Invariably in advance. ae All paper*) stopped at the end of the time ptdd for if not previously renewed. Rates of Advertising. Advertisements inserted for FIVE DOLLARS per square of 10 lines, or less, for each insertion. We shall charge the following rates for legal advertising: Thirty days Citations (4 times), flirty “ — “ (8 “ ), Notice to Debtors and Creditors, Letters Distnissory from Administration, *« “ “ Guardianship, Sales of Lands and Negro a (1 sq.). ofcr attention to the faet that, uryler the ?ti- — pulations of your bond*, you are authorized to i -sell your surplus of provisions either to indigent i soldiers' families, or to the Government. The soldiers' families of your county are very mneb in j want of corn for bread, and we most earnestly re- | quest all those who have corn or meat to sell, to l give the county the preference, as we find it im- ' possible to get corn anywhere else, except at such j prices as would largely increase the taxes on the j county. Those having corn will please tot it be known either to me or any member of the -nferior Court. The money is ready to pay for it. J. F.AWTRY, mari7-3t Cdnnty Agent. $20 00 30 00 20 00 30 00 20 00 20 00 Georgia, Troup County. Orutvaky's Office. Feb. 23. 18C5. J AMES H. CALLAWAY,- Administrator with the will annexed of Edward Young Hill, Jr., deceased, gives notice that he will apply to me on the first Monday in September, next for letters of tiismisslon from said administration. - All person* are notified to file their objection?. If nay. in this office, at or by that time, or said letters will be granted. L. FITTS; raarcb3-€tm* Ordinary. Georgia, Troup County. Ordinary's Office, Oct. 4, 18C4. IT. STRONG, Administrator bn the estate of J no. W Strong, deed, gives notice that he will apply to t' e Court of Ordinary on the 1st Monday in April next, for letters of dismission from aid adminirtration. AH persons interested are notified to file tlicir objection in my office, if any. at or by that time or letters will b«* "granted. Ogt6-td " L. FI T3, Ordinary. To the Women of Georgia. Richmond, Va., Februaiy 14, 18G5. I am in Richmond, and am issuing to the gal lant Georgians in the Army of Northern Virgin ia. a supply of rorafbrti.ble clothing. 1 have issu ed t4 them the last token of your affectionate re membrance of their manly deeds, and of sympathy for tbeir sacrifices, which yon have forwarded to me. There 1? not a pair of socks left in my de partment. Although I am compelled to witness the sufferings of our troops, as they trudge with cheerful obedience through alternate snow and mad, with sockless feet, I am unable to amelior ate those sufferings without yonr aid. Yon have done nobly in the past. About thirtt thousand pairs of socks have been sent me. 1 know you are willing to do even better in future. Without your assistance our boys must suffer. You will never allow them to suffer while yon have power to pre vent it. A number of ladies have socks on hand made from the yarn furnished by us. Will they please forward the same as directed below. We have yarn on hand still. On applioation by lettef, or otherwise, to any of the parties mention ed below, you will lie furnished. When the socks are ready they may be returned to the partfbs from whom th • yam was received. We want ten thou- Speech Of the Hop* B. H. Hill* ity reMored ot-t n- ns the first condition of peace j With them* Dbl these people forget who our fath- _ . r. ,• , rr n r r< ;-sr* were? or. did thhy think we were degenerate? Dcliwrered at Sterlings Hall, La Orange, The next demand is. that we must agree in ad- Ga., on Saturday, March 11/A, 1865. ' vance-to accept whatever cohse’tnences may fol- ‘ ; low from (he restoration of this antfitirilv.' It _ ... . , 'matters not how hard our lot tuny be; how degt-ad- From my youth, most of you now before me. 4 . to oap honor; how ruinous to our interests; have been accustomed to honor me with a willing- 1 j J0W hopeless for our children; wc mast agree, in ness to hear my opinions upon questions of public j not tn comp i a ; n; not to plead surprise: interest. This large assemblage to-day manifests nQt , Q rw!st ap , in . nf , t to ask for R chn nge! We that, through all our_ sufferings and vicissitudes. mu$l accept whatever consequences m.<y follow ! ycur confidence remains fteauiast; ana mot?t sin- ♦ OurEnemies are wiser, in their exactions, than the cerely I thank you. _ i Venetian Jew. We r- - >st pnv the pouna of flesh. At no previous period have I addressed yon Caterer l.lnod shall d-w. and it must be so writ- with so thorough a convictiop of the magnitudeof f¥B ; nth( , brtnd! Jf we sign that bond, no fair the interests involved, nor with so deep a sense or p^jj, mye judgment for n«. and no honors- my utter incapac-ty to discuss the issues upon ^ woinan 5! , n tyer bear children to a people so which those interests depend, sat.sfactorily to my- j bankll)pt in ^nUness! self. I do not come to tell you yonr property is J Dut wh „, are Ganges made in the Consti- seeme. or yonr liberties are unthreatened. or your j ;ution and , awg aml what are tlie consequence? lives are safe. I come to tell you that the grea flow from the?e changes r for Mr. Lincoln is 2 t trial which can befail a people isn^w ^on you. j |)d;d rnoujrh to „ iv „ u , not ; c ^ 0 f a sufficient re you willing—ato you ready, to sacrifice prop nnmher J? lheln _ t0 0 nn,l.le even a stupid man to erty. liberty and life to defend Jo preserve, to es- ^ what othor? mast follow, tablish that national honor, national integrity and j n lbe p rg( p j ncPi onr s ]„ ves are emancipated by national independence, withont wh ; t h neither pro task of either supremacy or equality. His taste, ! and seen them in a hundred battler. You cannot his h*W s, lira naifirc can never, by any innate . startle them with the enetny’s nttVto**: they h*v% charm-or power, rise to social equality with,the ! met that enynv on a hundred fields wffniefit H white race. And I r peat, iiy>s" ends will not be ; count, ww or the slain and captnhedf ■ They CJKi reschM as results, nnlurstly arisingffrom hi? state j bury their fa,ton enmrafles. and riill press oil. An of freedom. But they will be provided for by law. j ten time* ten thousand quick-shovelled mounds HisTriend and yonr enemy, his lihettofor and yonr ( hide the still clenched teeth soil fearless miens of tyrant will have the sole right to'judge of the sleeping troves, fnm Oak Hills to tibttrsbprp. measured appropriate to enferce thenegro's eman- i They are in the valley of the Mississippi, and. t«> cipalion: and by virtne of laws thus 1 rovided. tlie their memories, the great father of waters witl negro will t»e entitled to hold yonr lands: to sit in mingle a hoarse. dee P dirge with the tolling be is your legislative halls; to adjudge yonr rights: to 1 of floating stearin r*. « hit-commerce tball gatberi be the witness between yon and his race; to pass , the rich fruits of thrfr labors. They art among sentence upon yo.ir acts; to eat at your tables; to i the bills of Oei-rgiB. and the sfcbet, winding Et«»w- associale with your families, an I to intermarry ah shall hymn their rrquiiih, as long S# the iron with y< ur children. i mouniitin. around whbse base she pours her water*. Nor is the worst yet toR. It wi 1 be io vain to , shall remain. And Virginia— unrivalled old moth- give the negro all these riglrS. and establish them : er—holds ihem. tr-day. all over her great, wide by law, and stop there. AH the laws the Federal i losom; and there she will ever hold them, richer. Congress could devise could not by Iheir simple ; ia ti em alone, than India with her treasures, and enaciment lift the negro to nctnal equality ttith j prouder than Egypt lifting her changi few pyrm- t‘ e. whiteman. Ilia nature and his habit i* to ; tnids to the skies! fear and ttf obey his mas tor. The n»*wo and the . And what is it. so richer than wsaltfc: ro dearer habit of the white man is to command nod govern the negro. This normal relation mnst be over come by something stronger than laws, or it will i* uvm , u * yam wiw received* R IT. STRONG, Administrator on the estate 3AN -,, p R irs for our brave boys. all they have • of J no. W Sttong. deed, gives notice that them? Ira R. Foster. Q. M. Gen'l of Georgia. X B.—Ladies living near the following place? .can forward sock? to the following officers. Re quisitions for yarns can also be made Upon them: Augusta—Capt Jno W Walker. <Jr**enM?jro—Capt W G Cade. Madison—Capt Jno A Erwin. Ve**sl>, Troup Count,-. | i', Juji'iSuik J _ ORMVAnT a Office, Jan 10. ISC.,. , Mil iedgeTille-Col Ira R Foster. NO. S. niLL. administrator de boms non upon f | f the p atka g eg are marked Sock- forSw.tuvrs, the estate of John 8heppaid, dccea^l. Rives | „ ie FxprCr8 Company will forwanl them, and the hotice that she wit. apply to me on the 1st Monday 0 fFjv-, Jr ^ receiving will pay tVic Iteight. The Vddi'-s in April next, for leave to sell the negroes fieWbg i ug to said estate. All persons interested wiil show fcatise. if any they have, why such appointment should not be marie, or letters will be granted. jan*»-td _ L PITTS. Ord'y. Georgia, Troup County* Ordinary’s Office. Feb. 8, 18G5. L P. HODNETT gives notice that be will apply • to the Honorable Court of Ordinary on the tit don day in April next for letters of administra tion upon the estate of II. II. Iiodaett, late of said county. dee*d. All p rsoas interested fttv fibtified tb file their objections with me, if ftriy, at or by that time or letter* will be gfAn't'ed. . feblO-td L. FITTER Ordinary. Georgia, Trowpc®»w1^^®®®i Ordinary’s OVtice. Feb. 9. lSdfi. M AltTnA L. MIDDLEBROOKS gives notice that she will «pp‘y to the Court of Ordinary ol said connty. on th,; 1st Monday in Api-il next, - Hi wilt plens'e ch'close tlie fexphefis receipt to the offi cer to whom they ship the socks. All papers in the State will copy three times, abd, a- the socks arc donated to the soldiers, they will please make as small a charge as possible. —[Wc make no charge —Lagrange Reporter.] niarl7-3f. To the Lttdies. M RS. N. C. CHRISTIAN would respectfully inform the ladi> s Of La Grange and vicinity that she is prepared to put np and dross LADIES’ HATS: Also to do PLAIN SEWING. Residence on the street leading to the Boys' High School (the Newnan road), opposite Mr. I’. B. Hall’s residence. * mar10-4t* Certificates of Indebtedness. B EARIJVG vix per cent, per annum intereet. and free from indebtedness. Treasury Department, C. S. A., J Richmond, Ang. 7. K6t. f Bv (he 14th section of the ast to reduce the cur- Ul VMM* VW***»»J • — ^ *| * . . , • I for letter* of Administration oh the estate rtf \v 1- roncy, approved Feb. IVth. ISlii, the .Secretary of try J. Middlebrr.oks. late of said county, dcc’d. Any one having objections must file thetti in tnv office by that lime, or letters w ill be granted. feblO-td T> PITT?, Ord'y. Georgia, Meriwether County. W HEREAS L. I). F. Hos-ur, administrator with the will annex' d. of Nancy FreetrtliH, late bf said county, dcci avd. applies to me for Letters t>s Dismission from said deceased : These ere, therefore, to cite and admonish all ■persons interested, to Is? and appear at my office, bjthln the time prescribed by- law. then and there to show cause (if any) why said Letters of Dismis- TOn should not be granted. Given under tny hand, at office, this 8th day of December, l«5l. F. KENDALL, O. M. C Georgia, Meriwether C’outily. W HEREAS. James F. Hoskinson applies to me for Letters of Guardianship of Thomas II. Pm?4h, orphan and minor of tkm. John t>mhh. i«*o of said connty, deceased : Three arc, therefore, to cite and admonish all persons interested to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, then and there to show cause (it any) why said letters should not (ffein under my hand at office this 24th day of November, 1864, F. KENDALL,O.M. C. GWKgUi Meriwether County* W HEREAS LUCINDA CARTER, widow of Edward R. Carter, late of said county, de ceased, applies to me for let ters of adn4inistrr.tion with the will annexed, on the estate of said dec'd: These are therefore to cite and admonish all per- terim interested to be an J appear at my office with in the time prescribed by law, then and there to show cause (if any) why said letters should not be printed Given under my hand at office this 5th of De- cember, 1864. • F. KENDALL, O. M. C. the Treasury is authorized to issue tlie nbove cer tificates. payable two y^ars after the ratification of a treaty of peace witti tlie United States. They cannot be sold, but .ire only to be issued to such et-r’ditors of the government as are willing to re ceive the same in payment of their demands. They must also be given at par, though free from taxa tion. The attention of purchasing agents and disburs ing officers of the government is called to this class of public securities as Offering peculiar ad vantages to those from whom f c supplies of the government arc bought, and to facilitate the use of them, checks drawn hv disbursing officer* npon the depositaries boldine these funds, and marked across the face, “l’ayablc in certificates of in debtedness,” will be paid in conformity there with. Depositaries arc hereby authorized and required to comply With this regulation, and to make ap plication io the register for supplies of certificates at rrtlllfrcfl. (Signed) G. A. TREN'IIOLM, S\rcr<tary Of Treasury. Post Qu«:termaster'S Office, J West Foint, Ga., Feb , 21. 1865. f In pursuance with the above circular from the Treasury Department. I will phy with these certi ficates all claims contracted by officers ol the Q. M. Department, properly made out aud certified to, wbeta presented to this office. STEFHKN F. POWER, feb24-lm Mnj.r & Q. M. Post. Notice. BROUGHT TO JAIL AT GREENVILLE, aUr Meriwether county, G*.,» nhoku mas jj* Ike Mm* of BILL, who from appearance, - V* j, About forty years of ago, and says that h^cUwft to a man by the name of Faulfoper, a nexro trader- that be ran away from raid Fdulk- aorat West Point, Ga.. abont three yeara ago. The owner is requested to some forward, prove property, pay chargee and take him away, or he jtimARtd of as the law directs. W.UJ* toposed as we Q g bLaLQCK> We«t Point Bulletin please copy. Notice. B ROUGHT TO JAIL, in Lincoln county, 0| tho 26th October last, a bright mulatto BOY, SB year* old, upper front teeth out, 5 feet £ *—Uch. end says he belongs to IsAac Spears, bf Hemd oounty, Ga. The owner l* requested to com. forward, prove property^ tots raid boy Sheriff Lincoln eontoty. Watches and Jewelry* a LBERT LEHMAN, of La Grange, Ga., has for ^ tSQOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, - iiGOLD chains: ligrrs OF FINE JEWELRY, f mxiHnir with several other article* la the Jew- Watchmaker k Jeweler, docli-tf La Grange, Ga. Wanted. G eorgia railroad bank notes. R500 GOLD. GEORGIA SIXES AND EIGHTS. NORTH CAROLINA. TENNESSEE VIRGINIA BANK NOTES. TENNESSEE, NORTH CAROLINA, GEOR GIA AND MISSOURI BONDS. fcb24 -tf JESSE McLENDON. AND perty, liberty or life, could be either valuable or tion> what nr-etl f.ir “courts and votes” after dcfirablt. If so, you will enjoy ail—property, , C0I , g pjjt? Well, this change alone, is a great liberty and life: and enjoy them more abundantly. : #ne g laTery n0t the cause, but it was the If not, then you lose all: and with them you thfow j occasioni nl o nr secession. We voluntarily left a away national honer, lntegrity and independence, j union under a Constitution which our fathers did forever. Nations, like individua s, must have : ^ rotlk p. jn which slavery- was recognized; in character; and nations.like individuals, must have whi r ch CTen fbe abolitionists admitted it was rec- that character tested—proven by tnat. Trial is C ornj Z pj j n tb e States: to secure greater and more to the national character what the scalptor s chisel q„j e t protection for that property. It is dow pro- is to the marble: it cuts away much of its subj- _ )3gd _ demanded—that we be earritd back by stance, but leaves tt in shape, comeliness and val- . | 0rce j 0 a Union under a CoBStitution which onr our enemies-. aDd ws must consent to that eraanci- practically prtvaiT. Therefore, power, force mnst nc. And this I can speak for onr encouragement: That no nation has ever yet died, or been destroy ed. while‘the people held every other interest sub ordinate to the preservation of national ho idt. virtue aod independence. While this I mnst ray for onr admonition: That no nation has ever yet survived, whose people became willing to sacrifice honor, virtue or independence, for individual east, or any material prosperity. fathers refused to make: which our enemies alone hare made; in which, our property is taken from ns without compensation; nod ail at the bidding of an enemy who have been murdering our children while making this change to destroy our property; and who tell us they wiil continne to murder nntil we accept the change, and consent to the destruc tion. I say. to yield slavery at all, is to show a great change in onr people. To yield it thus to As, therefore, no man can enjoy life, liberty or j J^e enemy.ls singular, unusual huudlation for the property except the national integrity be presery- j Sonlhci . n peoplp . Dut t0 yic ia it as a privilege— ed, it follows, that it is every man s duty to sacn- ag condition of re-union with that very enemy; fice all_ these, when necessary, -o preserve that pa- j and f~ 0 be required, in the new Union, to pay a tionnl integrity: usd he who refuses to make the ■ f u jj propor ti 0 n of the debt incurred by the enemy sacrifice, lecom-s an enemy to that hation.and w bi] c murdering our people to force them to the the personal enemy of every other individual of gurren dcr. is a. subjugation which no people fit LlAt Jl.’ltiOD. aau ol CllTJ iudlvidual to be borQ in t n |; V0 with wnnlfl pvartt nrui (n «ih;P.h no npnnlp that nation. I speak to yon. my friends atVd neighbors, to day. but 1 speak of iritcreSts that must affect our whole country, and onr whole country's posterity. We can have no divided interests; hna no separate deliverance. 1 plead the canse of twelve millions living, and ot twelve millions, many times multi plied, yet to live. And wliat a patrimony to pre serve, what a heritage to transmit, arc involved in this cause! Since our beneficent Father made the heavens and the earth. He has parceled out to His children no better portion than that which we of the Con federate States possess. We have an area broader than the fire great powers of Europe. We have a sky as bright, and a bliffiate as balmy, as the po et's "loVed Italia.” We have a Soil more frttitftil than that of the land selected by the Father Him- selt for His own chosen people, and which is de scribed as “flowing with milk and with honey.’* And wc have ritefs which can float to the sea ten thousand cargoes, each ribheh than the fabled golden fleece! And yet. since God cursed hwn and drove him from Paradise, thenceforth to be the victim of hatred, and revenge, and of every passiolf, no people have been threatened with t vils so dire, and a fate *o terrible, as those with which we. of tlie Confederate States, are now threaten 1 to live with would exact, and to which no people fit to live at all would ever su' mit. But I am speakipg, to-day, of questions wbosc- solution must affect all the world, and all the world's posterity. By what I this day utter, I am willing to go befote my cou.itry, before posterity, and iK-fore my Heavenly Father, for judgment! And, so speaking. I declare to you, I think the preservation of property in slaves, great as it is, is yet the very smallest interest involved in this contest. I believe slavery is God s own decree. If I did not believe so, no earthly power could make me hold my slaves until the going down ol this jay's sun. In God’s hands I am willing to leave the negro's condition and dcstihy. 'Rost arc all things as the will of God ordained them.” But as far ns property in that negro ia the crea ture of human consent, I am willing to say, I would ftcely, cheerfully.gladly. if necessary, give up slavery for independence; bnt I will never con sent to give up slavery end independence, for any price which humair coffers can pay, nor on any be provided to secure to the negro the ectnal en« joynieht of these rights. The Yankee wiil not sac rifice a million of live-* and billions of money to obtain these rights for thenegro. and then hesitate to adopt whatever means may be necessary to se cure their enjoyment, as far as that enjoyment can be secured. This force mnst come from without, or be fonnd within the country. To be furnished from without will prove too expensive. It will require three hun dred thousand soldiers to garrison this vast terri tory. It would doubtless be deemed appropriate to collect the expense of maintaining this force from us. especially as wc would be consider'd the cause of the necessity for snch force. But. im poverished, and enervat* d, and manacled in all our energies, wc should never be able to provide the means for such payment. The Yankees would not long agree to pay such expenses from their own treasury.and the force from without would be chiefly withdrawn. Only one resource to accom plish the end would remain, and this would be ad opted. The black race—the emancipated, slave, would be armed; and the white race—the dominat ing offended master, wpnld lie disarmed! Do not tell me this result is too horrid, toodemoniac. You will have no right to judge. That right is reserved, by the terms proposed, to the Federal Congress.— Yonr enemy is to be the only judge. Yon arc to agree in advance lie shall be the only judge — That enemy is fanatical; that enemy is mad; that enemy is blind! That madness has been restrain cd hitherto by yonr power, but even now is there any cruelty which that enemy has not delighted to inflict upon us where opportunity presented? Let Atlanta, with her exilrel people and heaps ofa?hes, answer!. Let Columbia, given to a soldiery licens ed to sack, to riot and to burn.dlose np the argu ment. I tell you. Atlanta, depopulated and destroy ed; Columbia..*ackrd and in smoking uin*. are hap py places where the weary and pursued may well fly for rest and safety, compared to the fate which awaits this whole land, when the white race, con quered and hclples-, shall lay down there arms and submit to be the negro’s fellow on the Yankee’s terms. I will not detain you longer with details of the consequences that must result from an ac ceptance by us, of the terms proposed by Mr. Lin coln to our coirtmissioners in Hampton Roads. I terms w.:ich human ingenuity can devise, nor un- L have shown yon that he requires Us, der any toiture which human power can inflict. | 1. To accept a new Constitution and new laws , But ! *ey. emancipation simply, is the stnnlhst ; made hr our aaemie*; —made in t' r midst of in- question involved. If this w-ere the.only danger; . flamed hatred to us: made while invading onr if we, the white race. Were atili permitted to reg- j country, buruin - our bonus, and shedding our ulate the new relations by our own State laws, we j blood ! , might be able to protect ourselves in our political. ' 2. To ncc-pt this new Constitution and Ihoie ed! ror. what to ns will lie our wide-spreading j an( j g^iai supremacy: and, though in a dif- ; laws without reservation or qualifies! on as to the lauds, if they are to be divided by the hands of an i f ercn t W av, and on different terms, we should still consequences that may follow-, enetuj? What will it he to ns, that onr sk:es are i able, in a great measure, to control the labor, 3. That we must agree; in advance, that onr bright nnil oflf C’iinutc balmy, if the ?p rib? of our Q r it., nosxo. both for hi? eoo<l and our o^rn. Oar ! slaves are cmaTicipatrd! and that the Federal Con- people are bowed and broken? What will it be to 1 - - - ■- ... ' ..... , . ^ • 1 us, that onr productions are rich and varied, if. while, wc may reap, another shall enjoy? Wl,at, oh. whnt will it be to uh, that the sails of white- wing-d commerce shall gather in our waters and along our stteanJ“, as the fleecy etobde sometimes gather oil onr horizon and through our heavens, if they come to bear away our riches to fill the coff- rs of a cbnqiierof? I would not be sacrilegi ous; I tVould not be ungrateful: I would not throw away, foolishly, the bounties of Heaven! but rath er than these evils should be fixed upon us, I could pray that God would curse these lands until not a seed could vegetate; and darken these skits until not a ray of light could penetrate the blackness! In view. then, of the great interests involved, let us proceed to examine the issue, as that issue is now presented, between us and our enemies; how that issue is to be solved; our resources; the difficulties which obstruct us: the mcih-U &r «i*r. coming those difficulties, and our prospects for final siteccks. There can be no two honest opinions as to the character of the issue. Our enemy, proverbial for deception, ia candid with us, on this subject, now. It wc be deceived here, we must deceive ourselves. Indeed, so distinct is the issue, that, in my opin ion, this very distinctness, combined with the char acter of the demands which make the issue, will, in history, make this the beginning of the second poch in this revelation. Four years ago, our enemies have ?ecn this result, and they have pro vided against it. Therefore, in the next place, nndor this new Constitution, Congress—the Federal Congress— we arc notified, “reserves the power to cnforccthis emancipation, by such legislation ns that Congress Anil deem appropriateThat is to say, the pco pie who emancipate the slave, reserve the power to say how ti at slave shall enjoy hi# freedom: what shall be his political, civil and social status; and wbat relations shall exist between the freed slave and his former master. The people who hate you; who have murdered your sons to free the ne gro; who impoverish and degrade you to enrich and elevate the negro, is to be the sole judge of what is appropriate in the future relations between you and that negro! Do you imagine snch a peo ple will judge it appropriate that you should be above the appro? Will it not be marvelous if they tvea judge it appropriate that you should be bis equal? * Let us glance a moment at souk* of the meas ures which this Federal Congress must deem not only appropriate, but as absolutely necessary, tn enforce tbi* emancipation ot the slaves: withont which, indeed, the emancipation would be idle aDd cruel: . In the first place, of course, the freed negro must have a country to live in. >*oW, it has never been known that tbc white anti black races could inhabit the sathe country; in any large propor- Notice rpiTK STOCKHOLDERS °F THE PLANTERS’ j pointed commissioners — • «- The first demand is “4 people were divided in opinion as to what onr rn-, t j fln8> withont the one race being t-ubj'-ct to the emies proposed to do; and, therefore, were divided • n qj Cr> Thecontrary is the experience of mankind.— in opinion as to what we ought to do. Then, there j j Q f orn j Pr times, even the abolitionist shuddered at was ground for debate; rdota for doubt; tolerance ; $kc j,| eoo f turni g loom four million* of blacks for differences, and patriots on both side*. Now, - onr enemies declare distinctly what they propose to do, and equally distinct becomes opr duty.— There is no ground for debate; no room for doubt; and there ought to be no tolerance for differences, or patriots cannot longer divide. He that is not tor ns. ie. by*the very nature of the issue, compel- fed to lie against us. This issue, I repeat, is form ed, made up. by the demands of the enemy, offici ally annonneed by Mr. Lincoln to our own ap- 1 IRON COMPANY arc hereby notified that tbc works Sir again in operation, and that the 1st Tuesday in April next is tbc time for the regular annual meeting. As there will be business of importance before tbc said meeting a full attendance is requested. JNO. I. CALLAWAY, marlO-td Sec. & Trcas. ’ ftotice. T HE BOOKS, ACCOUNTS and NOTES, be longing to the firms of Miller, Ferrell A Co. and Miller k Ferrell, have hren placed in the bands of J. T. McCormick. Ksq., for settlementand collection. Those indebted to us, who wish to avoid a suit and bill of costs, had better call upon him and settle up. Wc mean what we say! MILLER, FRKRELL k CO., oct 30—tf MILLKR k FERRELL. Notice This! 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OFFICE tb"-autf as r>, curi r d by Drs.Long I roil, burning o*ir he W ifi »pvll *62- tf I and fell «= wc »M‘l complete restoration of tbe authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States, over all places within tbe States of tbe Confederacy.” Wbat Constitution? Ah. my friends, not the Constitution which our common fathers made! Not that Constitution in which conflicting interests &nd opinions made mutual concessions for tbs general good; in which, the Sooth sgreed to contribute to the comtbcrcial arid manufacturing greatness of tbe North, and the Noi-tb, in consideration therefor, agreed rot to in terfere with, bat to respect, the industrial pursuits and domestic labor of tbc Soatb; and without which mutual concessions our fathers distinctly declared they would never agree to any union at all. That old Constitution, the Nortbeyi people did no£ like. Many of them bated it. They call ed it “a covenant with bell, and a league with the deviL” They refused to obey it. They openly, repeatedly, grossly violated it; and, because of that bad faitn, we were compelled to abandon the Union formed by that Constitution. Since we left them, they Have made a Constitution to suit thefn- , selves. They have anna lied nil the concessions their fathers made to us; bnt bare retained all the concessions onr fathers, in return therefor, made to them; and have added new exaction* ot us, which their own lathers, in tbe Convention, dis claimed, and which those fathers would bare Con sidered themselves disgrac'd in exacting; and which the most fanatical enemy of tile S'* t Ub.in New England, would not have exacted before onr separation. They have repealed tbe old laws, nude for oar benefit, in pursuance of tbc old Con stitution; and have made new laws, in accord with the spirit And purpose* of this new Constitiition. And new, they take this new Constitution, and these new laws—spawns of the most wicked fanat- to livo in the >Sontlr. What to do with the negro after freeing him was the hardest problem fir the world’s fanaticism to solve. For the purpose of solving this problem tbc “Colonization Society’’ was forrted. The object was to carry the freed negroes back to their own land -Liberia- and aid and encourage them to pursne and progress in the civiliiition and Christianity they acquired here, and extend both to their race still in barbarism.— Great intellect* helped the scheme. Wealth, phi lanthropy and fanaticism all comb ned from tbe North and from the South, to give it «ucc*s*. It failed. The negro preferred slavery here to free dom there. Many in Ibis very State, freed by their master* t» lie carried to L beria. refused to go.— Some did go. Teachers with books, and pr achers with the bibie, went with them. Bnt even with these helps,the freed n*gro went back to the barba rism of his race with more rapidity titan he recover ed hi* race From barbarism. SlAvcriy is the only civ ilizer of tbe negro. Early in Mr. Lit coin's first term, we heard much of his offor ts to get some Southern country : n which to colonize the negroes. He foiled. The negro would not go. He preferred to stay here even ircompcllfd to shoot his master; and Mr. Lincoln, it seems, has concluded that it is a more Christian work. The truth i*. the negro Will never vo untarily leave this country. He much prefers slavery. And tbe yankee has eon* eluded he shall neither leave the country nor re main a slave in it, whatevt r const qnences may re sult. But wl y give the negro his freedom and a country to live in, anti not the me<»n§ of making a living? He must have lands to work and the means th work them. Therefore, ss another result, our land* must be parcelled out with the negro.— Gen. Sherman lias already Commenced the work — He has already set apart certain lands in Georgia and South Carolina, a id the islands adjacent, for the poor starving negroes who followed lnm.and has torbid any white person going within their limits except by military order. Iff thd nest place, tbe negro, being a free landed proprietor, ntnst have C’vil rights; snd civil rights are bnt a mockery without civil power; and civil petrer must include political power; aod all thee* will be fiitile without social equality. I tell you as sure as there is reason in logic, or rcvtnge in gross shall, in tulure, Vxereisc thepowor to enforce that emancipation by such laws as they may deem appropriate. 4. I nave shown you that to enforce thi* emanci pation it must iireessreily tic deemed appropriate: 1. that the Irerd negro sba 1 have this country to inhabit 2. That he mnst lie furnished with lauds to c dtivate. and with means to cultivate them. 3. That he must have c vil rights; civil and political power, and social equality with us. 4. That he must have power to protect himself in the enjoy ment of all these rignts against an old domineer ing master, and that, to this end, the negro will be aimed, and the toimer master—the white race, will be disarmed. I need scarcely add that in Srdcr to carry out this p licy it will become necessary to old iterate .all state lin*s, and have all the states ot the Con Icdcracy reduced to one vast territory. For thi* territory, there will b- but or.c law making power —the Ft deraJ Congress; an i from this territory in thatCongres*. the negro or t c w it>- man wiling to be bis equal, w II be the only fit and accepted representative. As an induc'inent—and the only inducement offei cd— to accept these terms, Mr. Lincoln promis ee ns a liberal exercise of the pardoning power !— And, doubtless, those at the North who support him. will consider thi* indeed a liberal off r, since they claim the right to exterminate us for the sins already committed! The vety terms of the issue, a* tendered by Mr. L : ncoln. nm*t preclude any division it opitli< n as to the manner of meeting that Issue. Diplomacy, on its own terms, by if* oWt. champions, ha* made an effort and failed at the thresho’d. Stairs* manship has been given its day, and not only fail ed, but was humiliated before one day ended.— How could it haVe been otherwise when Mr. Lin coln had previously plainly said: “It i* an issue which can only be tried by war. and decided by victory.” The day for diplomacy snd statesman ship will certainly come; and L will corrfo early, or delay long, just in proportion to the enrneat ness and unanimity with which we, on our side now wage tbe war. Wooing will drive it away.— Universal defiance will bring it on. If our enemy con'd hare beard from our people but one harmo nious determined voice, of re sistence to death, af ter the Hampton Roads conferience, that day would have come npofi ns ere the springing grain could yellow for the harvest. Oh. dastardly I* the cowardice of that troopeh who lingers from the battle now; hopehssly suicidal is that avarice which can withhold its offering now; ami hateful, hateful, hateful far beyond tbe darkest thought of the traitor’s mind, is that ambition, whicu cannot forget its personal griefs and personal scheming anil cease to divide our people now! If we were base enoogh to desire to submit, we coal;) not. for all inducements to snch submission are destroyed hy the terms propos»d. We could not get back thfe old Union, for tb*t has been more effectually destroyed by tbe enemy than by seces sion. We e* eld not save our prop"Tty, for itssnr- render is the very first condition of submission. We give up property in slaves in advAieA We throw away all the debt we have ineerfed’and which is dne to our own people. The remainder ot onr property, if sold in the most favorable market, would not p»y ourproportion of our enemy’s debt j incurred in ocr subjngalitn! I do not speak to than home, and wife, and children: acd so more valued than ease, and health, ami life, that, for it. the true, brave soldier, is willing to lose all. and endnre. and suffer, and toil, a d fight, and die, and never falter? it is that, withont which, there can be no enjoyment in wealth, no home for fami ly. no safety in ease, acd no pleasure in life. It is tbe honor and independence of onr country! And do yon suppose, that these gallant hertes. who have lost so much, whb have endured so much, who have raff' red so mneb, and who have buried so many, and all to defend and maintain that honor and independence, will tamely agree, that you. who hare never felt the sirocco tonen of this war'd wild blast, shall now surrender all nutiOi si hondri and independence forever? Will they agree that yoh shall say all their privations bare been endured in tbe cause of treason? Will they, at your bidding, l*y down their arms. And like p«ai- tent felSlts, trust he enemy they hare been fight- in?. for pardon- Will they ever oonAent that yoo, taking tbe friendly hand of the enemy who slew them, shall go over tbe fields of Mammas and Fredericksburg. Shiloh and Cbieamanga. and write above the graves of their comrades who Are resting there, that blackest of libels—“Traiturs lie here’’? Will Georgia write that epitaph for Bartow, and Cobb, and her thousands of eons who fought, and died, to illustrate her honor? Will Virginians write it for Jackson? Whose hand shall write it, snd not be paralhced? Whose tongas shall ntter it, and not grow speechless? Wh“ gill bear the message to those foreign nations wife urn serving statues aqd erecting tnonttmento to his memory, to forbear tbe nnhoiy work of perpetuat ing the name and features of a traitor? But even if the army conld endnre all this, and lay down their arms, think yon they would not grasp thorn again when they should see that nobler than Bru tus. that purer than Cromwell, and that greater than Washington, the glorious Lee, hd np to th* prison stand to reeeire tbe aentence of an inveter ate. or the pardon of a penitent, enlpilt, from the mouth of such a jester as Lincoln! Bannkh! euough! Away with the thought of peat* on snch terms. ’Tis tbe wildest dream that testiest ambi tion , or selfish ar Aries, or slinking coWardfoe cohid conjure in the highest flight of the moat angnishsd imaginings! The day you make friends with the enemy on any socb terms, yon will make eternal enemies of yonr own brave sons and brothers who have been defending yon against the malice of that enemy. Yon will hare an enemy in story household, a battle by every fireside, sad a was that shall blight yonr fields* aod enrss the land with horror forever! “For glory is the aoldicr's prig?, Tbc iolttigr'3 Wealth is moxo*. 1 ' But, eten if onr people sad army werfc all to agree to submit to Mr. Lincoln’* terms, wo ohohM nut hare peace. No, not even it onr ncgroessboold not be armed, or even the emancipation proclama tion should be abandoned. Policy, safety ltd passion, would all combine to drlte our c* smles into a foreign war. anil ereriy man in tbc south ern army wouldJie at once ordered to the conflict. Our sons. Imsbatids and brotHers, would be march ed from the Mississippi into Mexico, or from the James fnto Canada, or. perhaps, into both t Let us not deceive ourselves! Tbs <l*y of cnmproiMsn did exist. It lingered long. It has gone fornvtr! There is. now, for tis, no safety; no property, no honor, no peace, no hope, save in independence. Tho next question; therefore, becomes an im portant one: What arc our research for prosecut ing a defensive war? These resource* arc of two kinds: physics! snd moral. Physical resources consist in to-.-e, in sup plies, and m mm* and monitions of war. and in tlie means of producing snd procuring them. h was my fortune to be one ot a joint romraittc; recently appointed by the two bouse* of Congress, and chirped with the doty of enquiring into tho condition o! our resources, present and prospect ive. for the maintenance of tho public defence.— Alter a lengthy examination, tbo committee bad the bappincr* to cooclnde, aod to report, unani mously. that our resource* were sufficient, and, with energy and vigilance, were available for tba prosecution of the war until independence was won. It may not be improper to state to yon some facto on tbi* branch of the subject: We have more than half a million of white -wen within the military age, east of tbe Miawsrippi river. ... Taking tbc whole country together, east of that river, and wc find provisions—though scarce in *omj place*—were never more abundant. Ws have supplies in North Carolina and Virginia suf ficient to rust uin Gen. Lee's armies until harvest. Notwithstanding rcecot losses, we have an abon- d mt supply of heavy ordnaaoe and field artillery. We have more small arms than men on dtr.y to hold them. We have machinery now on band suf ficient to manufacture fifty-five thousand rifles and muskets (not couoiing pistol* tad carbines) per annum. This i* more than twice tbs number manufactured in Hie whole United States, before the war. What will rtritics. «ho can find nothing efficient in dwr new grttofttment, say to this fact alone? We arc ue'riing mechanics in this depart ment. W# have, and can manufacture within mitselre*, C >wd<-r enough to carry on the war indefinitely, end ia not so abundant ns powder, but sufficient. Tho*. you see, God has not left ns Without nil the physical means necessary for our defence in this trying struggle. Truly, it svelM He hid away in onr earth all thing* needful for us. and at th" critical hour of want, ito uBtovtm them for oar . icism. conceived and perfected in the most bitter hate, these consequences will ail follow. They i hatred to ns, oven while they were invading our cannot follow naturally. The negro, ol himself, rail, burning our homes and shedding onr blood-- can ncrer make, administer or-xemife laws for consent t«» b'«v- their aijfh«r- use. • The moral resource- of a nation consist in the will—the spirit—tbe determined and nailed pnr- |wee of the penult. These re sonrer* are developed in the highest strength, when all tbe people deter- -mine to rtsq all the physical resources to tbs one great efitl of defending, protecting ot establishing, their national integrity and independence This will most lie manifested by faith—faith in God, in our os use, in odrsylrid*, in ofir •aternaent, w.4 in onr army. This falih to manifested by a readi ness—a ebeefftflrtosa. to do. to roller, ami to sacri fice. U is the province of tbc ciefgy to teach yon faith in God. I. trnat no man how needs to be We would not secure pence. I do not speak to j taught faith ri our cause. The exactions of tbe yon with threats; but I do spesk in frankness. : enemy have madv that caoie righteous tor sbeffc And l tell yon, if you. at home, are willing tomb : all precedent. When this war began. ut» people mil to terms so degrading, the aany will nit. The ever exhibited i eublitrtcr faith In tbctfitrite*, tlAdr soldiers can give up property; they have gfv-; government, aod their army. Non. will admit, en it up. They can leave home, and wife, And i they ha to I "fit faith in the **my. dr ill the propie. can cliinb inonntoins; wade rivers; thake long marches; walk without shoes: sleep without tents; fight withont trembling; trod die withont fear!— All these things they ba?C ilrtti" from Texas to can rurvivc when cither shall fail. And the i which all fire required to defend, cannot sucewM when these fifiail give way. Now. the skill of a commander ie generally exhibited by finding out and ^lltirlln# litk tirtvi wonL-owl rwssrtf fine Maryland. Th-y can 'isten to the ImrMlng shell- and attacking lift sdw LmryV weakest point. Our without quaking hue''- 1 -md *raMi th» Rt«iiiiig | «*w*ny have fl«>t Hewn stupid or bhiadtoing on tb** the white man. His intellect ir n«' equal re th" ' Run- wiiHBiut blink n- eres Tltcv h »r- h-S"t ‘ y rr«nrinM-d on •rcoud page.)