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WEDNESDAY MORNING ....April 8. 1868
For I’KESIDENT,
Ok the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRAiT.
♦ •
For Governor
OF GEORGIA :
Hoy. R. B. BULLOCK
OF RICHMOND.
FOR CONGRESS:
J. W. Ci.irT, First District.
R. H. Whitelky, Second District
\V«. P. Edwards, Third District.
Samuel. F. Gove, Fourth District.
• C. 11. Prince, Fifth District.
John A. Wimpy, Sixth District.
J. Atkins, Seventh District.
PLATFORM.
Resolved, That ire pledge our support to
he Constitution framed bp the Constitu
tutional Convention of this State now in
session.
Resolved, That we present to the friends of
Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution
as our Platform , and we urgently request
them to ratify it.
Resolved, That we pledge our support to
the llon. R. R. Bui-i-ock, our candidate for
Governor, this day nominated.
Resolved, That we earnestly request the
friends of Reconstruction to ratify the
Nomination of the Hon. R. B. Bullock in
their Primary Meetings, and sustain him by
their vo'es.
JUDGE IRWIN RULED OUT.
It seems that Gen. Meade lias replied
to the Democratic enquiry that he
considers Judge In win ineligible. Proba
bly the late revelation that the Judge was
an Elector on the Jefe. Davis Presidential
ticket was the cause of the General’s
decision. 'flic Democracy, instead of
finding fault with the General, ought, in
fact, to be very grateful to him. He has
saved them a heap of trouble. They need
not expend any more money in bribery
and whiskey, and instead of exhausting
themselves in shouting for In win. they
can keep their breath to cool their por
ridge with. They need not exercise their
talent for abuse in villifving Bullock or
praising Irwin, at the expense of their
veracity, and they need not get out of
their comfortable beds at midnight to
assassinate Union men.
We have heard of “ Coelcbs in
search of a wife,” and read “Japlict in
search of a father," and think that quite
as interesting and pathetic a book might
lie made on the Democracy of Georgia in
search of a candidate. Tiic tribulations
of that Macon Regency, which has the
guardianship of the party, are quite as
interesting and affecting as those of
Coelebs or Japhet. Think of it! After
scouring their own bailiwick persevering
ly, they scare up Judge Reese. Up goes
liis name to the head ot their columns,
and, at the bidding of their leaders, the
multitude shout, “Hurrah for Reese 1”
The Judge, however, finds that his elec
tion would be of no practical benefit to
the people of Georgia, and lie declines.
The Executive Committee is bewildered ;
finding nobody lit for the office in their
own ranks, they make a raid into the lines
of the Union party and capture Judge
Irwin, a member elect to the “ Nigger
Radical Convention.” Forthwith Irwin’s
name takes the place of Reese’s at the
masthead of most of their journals, though
some are so rigidly righteous as to eschew
Irwin. The facile multitude changes its
tone and shouts as lustily' for Irwin as it
did the day before for Reese. But, alas!
tlie “best laid schemes of mice and men
gang oft agio”— lrwin is discovered to
have been a Jeff. Davis elector, and,
therefore, to be ineligible; so Gen. Meade
charitably conies forward in time to pre
vent tlie Democracy making fools of them
selves by trying to elect a nonentity. This
is about the liistorv of the Democratic
canvass in Georgia.
What next ? Their dictatorial Executive
committee stands aghast and dumbfounded
at their ill luck. Some propose they should
run In win anyhow. Well, nobody on this
side will object to that ; but we propose
to take this discomfited and discouraged
party under our charge and give them
some good advice : Don’t run lit win ;
you can't concentrate your party on him.
He was objectionable enough before to the
Simon Purcs in your ranks, when he was
thought to be eligible; now' he is both
objectionable and ineligible, and you will
hardly get any true Democratic office
seeker to vote for a man for Governor who
cannot hold the position.
If our ranks were not so much crowded,
we should advise the forlorn Democracy
to come over and range themselves under
the banner of Reconstruction and the
Union, instead of see-sawing their Guber
natorial candidates up and down in this
undignified* style. There arc a few among
them we would gladly make room for
among us; there are others we do not
want, and a good many we won’t have on
any terms; but it is so heart-rending to
see them wandering about in search of a
candidate, like sheep without a shepherd,
that he must be the most merciless of
Radicals who would refuse to give them
shelter. We hope our friends, then, will
not repulse the good ones who may wish
to shelter themselves under our banner,
but will charitably forget all old injuries
and insults, and welcome them as returning
prodigals. “ Come ye disconsolate !”
The Chicago Times puts down Michigan
as a doubtful State hi next fall’s election. It
is doubtful whether it will give Gen. Grant
twenty five thousand or forty thousand ma
jority.
PROSCRIPTION.
The Savannah Advertiser, iu a doublo
leaded leader and large capitals, advises
its patrons to drive out of employment,
and if possible, out of the city, all men,
white or colored, who vote tlie Republican
ticket.
Now, this a specimen of tlie same spirit
which murders, tortures and outrages men
for their pbliticnl opinions, and for using
the privileges of freemen by thinking and
acting like freemen. It is the same dia
bolism that prompted the assassination of
Askburn. Between taking away men’s
lives, and taking from them the means
whereby they live, there is small dif
ference.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK ONE OF THE
CAPTURERS OF THE UNTIED
ST A TES ARSENAL NEAR AU
GUSTA.
When Judge Irwin was appointed elector
on the Davis and Stephens ticket in 18C1 the
State of Georgia had withdrawn, by soiemn
ordinance of her people in Convention
assembled, from the Federation of the United
States, and had joined the Federation known
as the Confederate States, l’he latter had
been recognized by the Lnited States
Government as u belligerent power—not as
rebels—and was officially treated as such.
AVhen Joseph E. Brown, as Governor of
Georgia, made war against the armed for
tresses of the United States, ia the mouth of
the Savannah River, and by force of arms
seized upon and took possession of the United
States Arsenal near this city, capturing the
garrison of United States soldiers who wer.-
in possession and defending it, Georgia teas
in the Union and bound by her allegiance to
the Union. The Convention which subse
quently assembled at Milledgeville and
passed the Ordinance of Secession had not
then met. The allegiance of her people at
that time was due to the Federal Govern
ment. The seizures thus made by Joseph
E. Brown and his conspirators against the
Federal Government was open, clear, legal,
treason. They were made without the
shadow of authority from any source what
ever. The treason ot Joseph E. Brown was
the result of the of the individual, not of the
Executive of the State, for in the latter
capacity he had no authority to act whatever.
All those who volunteered to aid him in
these acts of war against tho authority of
the United States became liable, individu
ally, for their participation therein. Among
the number who shouldered their muskets
and marched upon and beseiyed the garrison
holding the United Stales Arsenal at this
place was one RUFUS B. BULLOCK, now
Radical candidate lor Governor ot the State.
When the Federal garrison surrendered to
tho revolutionary body which beseiged the
Arsenal, RUFUS B. BULLOCK was one of
the valiant soldiers of Brown, who, with
musket in hand and bayonet fixed, marched
in and took possession- The Union flag was
hauled down from the flag staff on the
parade bv the soldiery of which BULLOCK
was a mighty member, and Union soldiers
stacked their arms in obedience to the terms
of their surrender in the presence of the great
rebel RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
When Joseph E. Brown made a blood
thirsty and revolutionary harangue in the
afternoon, of the capture of the Arsenal, to
the excited throng of citizens and soldiery,
in front of the Planters’ Hotel in this city,
in the mud and rain—drenched to the
skin and shivering in the cold winds of
winter, stood RUFUS B. BULLOCK, with
gun in hand, applauding and cheering
Brown's treasonable and revolutionary ut
terances.
Will General Meade inform us how it is
that Judge Irwin, who was using all the
influence of his fine intellect and pure
character to prevent the war, while Bullock
was capturing United States forts, is in
eligible, and the latter is eligible? Judge
Irwin was a Union man before the war,
was opposed to secession—labored night
and day to prevent it —was a Union man
during the war and since the surrender
vet ho is declared ineligible because he was
placed, without his knowledge or consent,
on the Confederate electoral ticket nearly
a year after tho State seceded, by and
through the suggestion and artifices of
Joseph E. Brown. This consistent Union
man upon principle is forbid, by the
mighty Meade, to run for Governor, in
order that the people of Georgia may have
fastened upon them a man in whom they
have neither respect or confidence, and who
was an open, rampant, active, noisy and bold
conspirator against the Government of the
United States before the State of his
adoption had withdrawn from the Union.
The native Georgian—tho Southern Union
man, who counseled against war and
violence—is set aside to make place for the
New England Yankee Rebel, whose fierce
patriotism and intense Southern feeling
could not wait the slow process of getting
out of the “ haled Yankee Government''
through the instrumentality of a regular
State Convention.
It would be charitable to suppose .that
General Meade has not been advised as to
the part Rufus B. Bullock took in
precipitating the war against the Union.
It is in that view that we have felt
compelled to give publicity to this most
interesting period in the “great agent’s”
history. Having exposed this portion of
Bullock’s war record, wc ask: Is he
eligible, under the Reconstruction laws, for
the Governorship of Georgia ?
We give to the above brilliant effort from
the Shyster’s organ, the benefit of our exten
sive circulation,and like Ben. Hill's speeches,
we use it as a campaign document, to aid
in the success of Reconstruction and our
candidate.
The summing up and the appeal ate
worthy the source from which we presume
they emanate, being full of misstatemeuts
and ignorance.
If the editorial corps of that journal would
read more and write less, for a time at least,
they might be saved the mortification ot the
stupid blunders they are continually com
mitting.
The Ordinance of Secession, which as
sumed to place Georgia beyond the control
of the General Government, was passed on
the 19th day of January, 1801, and the sur
render of the United States Arsenal at this
point was demanded by Governor Brown
on the 23d day of January, 1801, and the
demand was complied with on the 24th day
of the same month, being/iec days after the
State had “seceded.” Therefore, according
to tie logic of those who endorse the right
of secession, and the sovereign rights of the
Stales, Georgia was independent, and Gov-
Brown was commander in chief.
We extract from the current history of
that time:
“The Militia were ordered to arms, and all
were ordered to assemble in front of the Cily
Hotel at 9 a. m-, on the 23rd.
Brig. General Harris directed the move
ments of the troops, and the Governor, as
Commander-in chief, held his Headquarters
at the Planters’ Hotel.”
“Afier consultation, the Governor did not
deem it advisable to attack the place on the
same day that the demand was made, but
ordered the troops dismissed until the 24th
inst., at 9 o’clock, at which time they were
ordered to rendeavous as appointed in Bat
alion Order No. 1."
[Copy.j
Augusta, Q a., Jan. 23, 1861.
Captain Arnold Bitty, U. S. A.:
Commanding Augusta Arsenal:
Sir : 1 am instructed by Ills Excellency, Gov.
Brown, to ssy to you that Georgia having
seceded from the United States of America, and
resumed exclusive sovereignty over her soil, it
has became my duty to require you to withdraw
the troops under your command, at the earliest
practicable moment, from the limits of the
State.
He proposes to tako possession of the Arsenal,
and to receipt for all public property under your
charge, which will hereafter be aooounted for, on
adjustment between the State of Georgia and the
United States of America.
Ho begs to refer you to the fact that tho reten
tion of foreign troops upon the soil of Georgia,
after remonstrance, is, under the laws of
nations, an act of hostility j and he claims that
the State is not only at peace, but anxious to
cultivate the most amicable relations with the
United States Government.
I am further instructed to s»y that an answer
will be expected by to-morrow morning at nine
o’clock.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Hkkrt R. Jackson,
Aide de Camp, etc.
[Copy.]
Headquarters Augusta Arsenal, I
Georgia, Jan. 24, 1861. j
I have the honor to inform jou that I am di
rected by Captain Elzey, commanding this Post,
to say, in reply to the demand of the Governor
of tho State of Georgia, made through you yes
terday, requiring him to withdraw his command
beyond the limits of the State; he begß to re
quest an interview with His Excellency, the
Governor, for the purpose of negotiating honor
able terms of surrender, at an early an hour this
morning as practicable.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. C. Jones,
Lieut. 2d Artillery, Adjutant.
To Col. H. R . Jackton, Aid de-Camp.
[C*py.]
TERMS OV RETIREMENT.
First.—The United States Flag to bo saluted
and lowered by the Company late in occupation.
Second.—The Company to march out with
Military honors.
Third.—A recoipt to be given for tho public
property, with a view to its being accounted for
hereafter on adjustment between tho State of
Georgia and the United States of America.
Fourth.—The Company to retain its uruis and
company property, to be allowed quarters, and
the use of tho ordinary transportation wagon
until their withdrawal from this State, and their
unobstructed egress by the way of Savannah to
tho sea.
Notwithstanding all this history which
the “ old Conservative” ought to have
known, and probably did know, he has the
impudence to deny the very foundation of
his political faith iu this wise :
Tho Convention which subsequently as
sembled at Milledgeville and passed tho
Ordinance of Secession had not then met.
The allegiance of tho people at that time
was due to the Federal Government. The
seizures thus made by Joseph E. Brown
and his conspirators against the Federal
Government was open, clear, legal treason.
They were made without the shadow of
authority from any source whatever. The
treason of Joseph E. Brown was the result
of tho act of the individual, not of the
Executive of the State, for in tho l itter
capacity he had no authority to act
whatever.
Col. Bullock had then been living here
some years, and as a citizen, was called upon
to obey the orders of the Commander in
Chief of the Slate, and he acted in this case,
as he has in all others, the part of a good
liw-abiding, law-respecting citizen, and,
shouldering his musket, marched with the
rank and file until discharged.
He did not cringe and fawn upon the
ruling powors for soft places on the Gover
nor’s Staff, nor seek appointments from the
Brigade Quartermaster to avoid the range of
the Arsenal artillery, as did some chivalrous
gentlemen whose names we can print if it
becomes necessary.
The point, however, which the “ rancid
writer’’ dei res to make is, that Colo nel
Bullock, having obeyed the orders of the
Chief Magistrate, and served two days as a
citizen soldier, he is, therefore, ineligible
for the office of Governor at this time.
An honest desire to prepare itself to speak
tho truth would have’prevented the “ Old
Conservative” from dropping into this
pitfall also.
The law, in plain terms is, “ that no
person who has taken an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, and after
words voluntarily engaged in rebellion
against the same, or gave aid or comfort to
its enemies, shall hold any office under the
Government of the United Stales, or of any
State, until such disability has been removed
by a two-third vote of Congress."
Any fool cau understand this, therefore
the Macon clique ought to, but they have
repeated their blunder.
llures B. Bullock is eligible under the
law, and will be elected.
So much for tho Chronicle and Sentinel.
CONSISTENT ARGUMEN’J AND
PERSISTENT ABUSE.
The Constitutional candidate has been
abused as an “adventurer,” “carpet bagger,”
“recent importation,” having no interest
here or good feeling in common with us ;
and now the destructives have opened anew
line of attack—finding fault with him be
cause, iu 1861, he shouldered his musket,
and obeyed the Governor two days in the
militia. If Col. Bullock is a “carpet
bagger,” and an “adventurer,” how does it
happen that ho was here in ’CO and ’CI?
It would not surprise us to see the de
structives abuse him, because he cared for
the sick and the wounded, forwarded and
delivered supplies to the needy, the widow,
aud the orphan, without money and without
price, fer lie did all these things, and is hon
ored for it.
Unduxiaiill. —The New York Times’
opinion of the Macon clique is expressed as
follows:
The Democratic party nnd the Southeru
whites do not read aright the lessons ol the
war or of history. They are seeking peace
from a violent and extreme reaction. They
aim to restore the state of things that existed
before the war. The effort will he vain.
That state of things can never return. The
condition of the country, the relative distribu
tion of political power, the temper of all
classes of the people, have been so changed
as to render this impossible. There are
certain great and radical changes which they
must accept as inevitable. They must take
the condition of things substantially as they
find it—and must make that their point of
departure in their political calculations for
the future. Such a reactionary policy ns
they propose would be ruiuous, if it were
not impossible.
Chief Justice Chase said to a friend on
Saturday, in general conversation, “I would
rather go clown to posterity as a pure and
upright Judge than as President of the
United States.”
[COMMUNICATED.
COL. R. B. BULLOCK AND TEE
CONS Til UIION.
To the Editor of the National Rtjmblican:
I feel a very great and earnest solicitude
for the accomplishment of speedy restora
tion, and this must be my excuse for
addressing you. I have no personal aims
lam not seeking office —I do not desire
any; but I am seeking my own good, in
common with that of all the people, as I
conceive, when I lift my voico or use my
pen for Bullock and the Constitution.
This should be our battle cry, from the
Blue Ridge to the sea—“ Bullock and tho
Constitution.”
No simply personal or local issue, nor
any side issue at all, should be allowed to
divert any true Republican from the vital,
all-absorbing issue of this hour, now pending
before this people. That issue is the ratifi
cation of tho Constitution now submitted,
and the election of its friends and makers
for its successful administration. All other
issues sink into insignificance in view of this
paramount one. All private and personal
considerations must be buried, or tempora
rily laid aside, till we have first secured the
triumph of the Constitution, and surely
delivered its administration into the hands
of its friends—not of its enemies.
Os what avail is the Constitution with
out Bullock ? Why deliver the lamb to
its slaughterers ? Can any sensible friend
of the Constitution seriously propose to give
it up to those who malign it and its framers?
Can any man really hope for any relief,
if the State Government is allowed to pass
into ihe hands of General Gordon, who de
nounces the Constitution and those wh'
framed it as “infamous.” Leaving out of view
the peculiar fitness and appropriativeness
of giving the new organization to those who
have been mainly instrumental in franring
the new fundamental law, it surely ii/ust
come home to the common sense of every
one that the real design, however insidious,
of the arch enemy of man, of the Union,
of progress, of equality, of justice—the
Democracy, so called—is still caste and
sectionalism, and the old oligarchy. From
all these, Good Lord, deliver us and ours
forever!
What are the objections urged against
Col. Bullock ? The first is, that be is not
to the manor born —not a native Georgian.
This is Puritanic, Satanic, egotistic, in
tolerant, insolent, and would seem specially
inappropriate by the Democracy, did we
not refleet that all the so called leaders of
the new Democracy—Hill, Snead, Cabinoss,
Trippe, Wright—were original Know
Nothings, and all carried the dark lanterns
in the culverts. There is not a real,
prominent Democrat in the whole concern,
but the “old soldiers” put forward these
fellows to draw the chesnuts from tlie fire
for their use. This is the same old cry
that, nearly nineteen centuries ago, was
raised by a wicked and perverse generation
against Him who came to seek and to
save. “ Can anything good come out of
Nazareth ?”
The time and plaae of Col. Bullock's
birth were with him as with all of us, circum
stances beyond his control. Bat seriously
will any sane man say that no gentleman, no
man of capacity, of enlarged, progressive,
human Christian views and conduct, no man
fit to be Governor of the Empire State of
the South, can be or ever was, or ever will
be, born in the Empire State of the North,
and that too of parents tracing their lineage
back as we all do here, to the great common
British stock? The idea is so perfectly
preposterous that it can not for a moment
be entertained, except by the dark lantern
crew.
It is further argued iu a contemptuous,
and contemptible style, that Col. Buijlock is
a “carpet-bagger” or “interloper”—urged
only to pander to a besotted prejudice, and a
wholly vicious and senseless taste. Col.
Bullock has long been a resident of Geor
gia, his children born and being reared here,
largely identified with many important
public and private interests, expecting
always to make this his home, and his burial
place. The miserable epithet, applied
to him by his miserable assailants, would
be equally applicable and appropriate to one
General Janies Oglethorpe—if these bum
mers ever heard of him—who landed at
Yamacraw, in Georgia, one hundred and
thirty six years ago, and proceeded to orga
nize industry, develop resources, and open
up the land to light and religion—this fair
land, then occupied by savages, and now
cursed by obstructionists, retrogradists, and
Democrats —demagogues, as my friend, Ben
Hill, used to say.
These objections to our standard boarer,
being simply born of, and addressed to,
prejudice, with no sense nor reason in them,
and designed only for gulls and dupes ; and
the Know-Nothing bummers, having failed to
pick a flaw in the personal or public char
acter of the Republican nominee, assail
him finally, and in the hope of affecting
even sensible men, on the ground that he is
the candidate of the Augusta ring, as it is
called, and will, if elected, be the subservi
ent tool of these alleged bad men. I know
not what influences secured liis nomination,
but good or bad, they secured a good man, who
I presume was selected as the most fit to
organize the State anew under the changed
order of things. Os one thing I am sure,
and 1 speak from a personal acquaintance
of several years with Colonel Bullock, that
he will go into the executive chair of my
beloved native State with no friends to
reward and no enemies to punish. That, it
brought forward by a ring, nominated by a
Party, he will be the Governor of a whole
People. I know that place-hunters need not
bore him, and that he will fill all the offices
within his gilt with capable and honest men
—that his inflexible rule will be only honesty,
capacity, fidelity. Like others, he may he
deceived, but his aim will be the right—and
the development, progress and glory of
Georgia.
Then raise on high the banner of Bul
lock and the Constitution ! Boar it aloft,
ye sturdy sons of the soil, who are interested
in good government, and not iu the petty
squabbles of musty politicians It is the
banner of equal rights, of justice, of pro
gress, of development, and no power of the
dark ages, or of the dark gentleman, shall
prevail against it, for it is anointed from
on high. Its folds are for all —not for a
few. Bear it in triumph from ltabuu’s Gap
to the Yamacraw Bluffs—stand by it as the
Ark of the Covenant, for it is the new
Evangel, the long delayed inauguration of
the foundation idea of the Republic—of that
great Democratic-Republican, Thomas Jef
ferson—“all men are born free and equal-”
Index.
Cure for Sore Heads.— Ho ! Ye Afflic
ted —
Ye aching, mourning heads, now sick and sad
Troublod with sores and cares of State bo glad !
Dry up your tears —hush up your groans ; as
sured,
That brushod heads, by loyal liniment, are cured.
The above valuable medicine having
recently been fully tested in the State of New
Hampshire, and proved to bejjau infallible
remedy for sore heads, is now offered to the
(Copperhead) people ot this city and State.
The directions for using are: Pull out the
hair before applying the ointment; drink
wormwood tea sweetened with suakeroot
syrup three times a day, until you sweat,
and keep in the house until the healthy
Union symptoms make their appearance.
Tho genuine article bears tho impress of
“Stars and Stripes,” on the bottle. Try it,
ye who are snakebitten. —New Nation.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Greensboro, Ga., April 3, 1868.
National Republican, Augusta:
Sri as—There was a few of the would-be
Democratic disciples met here on Saturday
last, from an adjourned meeting of tho same,
held a few days previous, at which there was
net enough of the disciples present to form a
committee. But, however, they managed
this time to get up some resolutions, which
I will now proceed to notice, as I desire to
show their jewel—consistency.
In their first, they resolve that they regard
the Constitution of the United States as the
supreme law of the land, and that having
sworn to support, sustain, preserve, protect,
aud defend it, they would, as in duty bound,
keep their oaths forever inviolate. New idea
this, since their gigantic rebellion to over
turn and set aside that very same instrument
which they now pretend to hold so dear, and
to protect and defend as tho supreme law of
the land. Before their rebellion against this
same UnitJd States, they claimed to have
owed paramount allegiance to the Govern
ment of Georgia, and then to the General
Government ; hut now they say their first
allegiance is due to the General Government,
and next to Georgia. This is Democratic
consistency with a vengeance-
In their second they resolve that, in
view of the facts—first, that the Constitu
tion of Georgia, offered to them by the
Convention for ratification, was made by
virtue of a law which is in total disregard
of the Constitution of the United States, etc.
Here they presume themselves sitting in
the capacity of the Supreme Court of the
United States, to decide the constitutionality
or unconstitutiouality of the laws passed by
Congress. Secondly, that said Constitution
of Georgia voids private contracts made
prior to June Ist, 1805, in defiance to a
provision to the contrary thereof in the
Constitution of the United States, etc.,
which they are sworn to support; and that
they cannot vote in favor of said Constitu
tion for Georgia without palpable perjury.
I answer that the relief clause does not
prevent any man from paying his honest
debts. Under the relief clause the Superior
and Inferior Courts would only do the same
thing, saying they had no jurisdiction over
any claim contracted prior to June Ist,
180-5; so the law does not wipe out the
debt, but simply takes away the remedy ;
and as to the perjury part of the concern,
they should have thought of that thing
when they declared war against the United
States in 1861. Then it was with them
that the Constitution of Georgia was the
supreme law, and demanded their first
allegiance; and they acted accordingly.
If they could violate that instrument then
without the odium of perjury, why are
they so adverse to it now? Oh, ye repent
ing sinners ! think on your ways and turn
your feet unto the testimonies of the law.
In their third resolve they say they will
oppose the adoption of the Constitution, etc.,
but do not wish to be understood to say they
oppose Reconstruction, etc. We simply say,
they do oppose with all the means in their
power the Reconstruction of Georgia to her
proper place in the Federal Union, and their
every day actions prove it.
Their fourth resolution, which opposes the
election of Col. R. B. Bullock for Governor,
is a perfect batch of kumbuggery, and I ven
ture the assertion that these is not a respect
able man in Georgia who really desires the
State to be restored to her quiet and peaceful
relation to the Union but what would blush
at the ridiculous ideas therein contained.
Tlie address of the so-called Democratic
white people of Greene county, to the black
people of the same, is the best compaign
document in favor of Col. Bullock and the
Republican party that I have yet seen, and
would suggest that it be printed in handbills
and distributed throughout the State for Col.
Bullock’s interest. idea of a darkey
going to his old master for a ticket and advice
is really amusing. Observer.
Washington, Ga., April J.
I o the National Republican.
We had quite a large meeting here on
Wednesday, the Ist inst., for the purpose of
nominating members of the Legislature,
County officers, etc.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Prince,
Rice and others, and it is generally believed
created a good impression, especially among
the whites.
Strict attention was paid to the speech of
Mr. Prince, by both white and colored citi
zens, and his liberal and non-proscriptive
ideas will give him many a vote iu the
ensuing elec- ion.
This County will poll a heavy majority for
Col. R. B. Bullock.
Yours, respectfully,
Plutarch.
Anticipating Wade.— We publish, this
morning, an order from “these headquarters,”
completely denying the right of free speech
and the freedom of the ]m?ss. As long as
the Loyal League had work to do, this
order had a quiet repose; now that the
counter-irritant has been applied through
the Ku Klux Klan, whatever it is, out pops
the Republican patent extinguisher. Well,
all this is but a few weeks in advance of
Wade- General Meade is an apt scholar,
and will have his reward ; the more surely
as the Supreme Court has gone to the dogs.
We have heard of these patent extinguishers
before. They may work well, for a season,
but the time will surely come for an ex
tinguishment of tho inventor.— Constitution
alist, April Ith.
It is a great pilty that the “anticipating”
had not been sooner done. There would
have been infinitely less need for severity
now, and some of the would he leaders of
the bogus Democracy, and some of the con
ductors of tho bogus Democratic Press would
not have had the unpleasant work to pei
forrn, of “pulling in their horns,” as they
will have to do now, sure. There is not a
word of trutlain the assertion that General
Meade was influenced to issue order No. 51,
by the K. lv. lv’s exhibition, hut lie was
mainly induced to do so by tho assassination
of Ashburu in Columbus, aud other equally
reprehensible acts by others iii Georgia.
Goon Adoice—Then asd Now.—We copy
the following excellent advice from opr
neighbor’s paper, on the opposite side of the
street, in 1865—he don’t talk so pretty now
—but hear him. We take special pleasure
in commending “the only way now,” not
only to our readers, but to the Constitu
tionalist newspaper.
The Only Wxy Now.—This is indeed our
only way. Man to man we gained battles
once—our Hag then grew purple many times
over in the smoke of triumphing fires—but
God so willed it that the bloom of our laurel
never ripened into fruit. For the musket,
the mine ; for the rifle, the railroad ; for th«
cannon, the cotton field and—hard by it—the
cotton mill. These be thy Gods, O ! Israel,
and fallen Judea shall yet arise. Away with
your maudlin politics, in which, do what you
will, we are but puppets in the end. If we
are piped to, we must dance—if sung to, seem
to bo merry. It is the very sadness of our
sorrow that this should be so, but for every
hope of the future, every balm in the present,
every glory of the past, let the business of
our lives henceforth be to work—to open
mines, rear up forges, piierco the heavens
with furnace chimneys, and scatter the wild
birds with the hum of the mill. Forty cents
per pound wo get for cotton —into three yards
of cloth is that pound spun and then we pay
tribute one dollar and ten cents to the ship
man, the mill and the broker. Why should
wc do it? Let us keep that triple profit and
in that field, as in all others where the victo
ries of Peace are won, we will win wealth,
aud with wealth power, and with power that
happy day when provisional governors shall
not sit in our capitals or sovereign conven
tions be tclegramcd into action.
But to do it there is but one only way—we
must quit politics and work —Augusta
Constitutionalist.
Atlanta, Ga., April 6, 18C8.
Editor Opinion: My attention has been
called to an article in your issue of the 4th
instant, taken from the Macon Messenger,
which you will please permit me to correct.
In that article I am represented as haring
repeatedly charged Hon. R. B. Bullock with
“fraud, corruption and dishonesty.” What
ever I may have said of others I hare never
used such remarks concerning him, and
without circumlocution, I pronounce the
charge an infamous lie.
1 have never, at any time, under any
circumstances, made any insinuation as to
his integrity and honesty, hut have always
regarded him personally as a truly honorable
gentleman.
The Messenger can publish this or not, as
it pleases. _ Henry P. Farrow.
We call the special attention of the Macon
Journal & Messenger, and every other bogus
Democratic paper in the State, to the above
denial of Col. H. P. Farrow, of the slanders
he is charged with uttering against Col.
Bullock, and which are paraded under their
editorial columns, and as a mere act of
justice they, one and all, will no doubt
publish Col. Farrow’s letter, and call atten
tion to it.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PER SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAILROAD, April 7, 1868.—M Hyams
& Cos, L J Miller, I’ Jennings, Stovall Edmons
ton, R T l’arks, J M Dorn, Gray & Turley, IV A
Ramsay & Cos, M II McKinnon, C A Cheatam
& Bro, J A Gray & Cos, Augusta Factory, 0 F
Cheatam, A Dorr, WjC Jessup & Cos, Oetjen it
Doschcr,A Myers, D K) Wright <t Co,tV|M Jacobs,
W II Tutt, G I, Penn, P M, Z McCord, Nelson &
Mcllwainc, Gray A Turley, Kenny & Gray, Wy
man & May, T Richards A Son, Geraty it- Arm
strong.
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, April 7, IS6S.—G Kabrs it Bro, E
Mercer, Isaac Levy, Mrs A J Miller, E O’D, W
A Ramsey A Cos, Leon Gureiu A Cos, A Stevens,
Augusta Club, Peter Farley, T Markwaltcr, L J
Miller, Mrs II Watford, Z McCord, Claghorn II
A Cos.
ffff-THE CITY TAX DIGEST FOR 1868
has been placed in ray hands for collection. No
in dulgenco beyond that provided by tho City Tax
Ordinances can be extended.
I. P. GARVIN,
aor7 —lOt Collector A Treasurer.
ftgg“FOlt COUNTY TREASURER.—I
respectfully offer myself as a candidate for re
election to the office of Treasurer of Richmond
County at tho ensuing election.
apr7— td HENRY g. CLARKE.
g@“WE ARE AUTHORISED TO AN
ncuDce the Hon. John Harris, of Newton county,
as the candidate of Relief and tho Constitution,
for Senator from tho 27th Senatorial District,
which is comprised of the counties of NcwtoD,
Walton and Clark. apr7—td
jjjjyFORTAXCOLLECTOR.—WE ARE
authorized to annouuco JOHN A. BOHLEIt as a
candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Col
lector of Richmond County, at tho ensuing elec
tion. aprs—td*
jWE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
NOUNCE the name of Mr. MATTHEW
SIIERON as a Candidate for rc-election to the
Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond
County at the ensuing election. ap4—td
THE Hon. HENRY W. HILLIARD
will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON
GRESS from the FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT of Georgia, at the election on the
20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS.
mh24-td
ftff-THE EIGHTH REGULAR MONTH-
Iy Meeting of the Reliance Loau and Building
AssoJiation, will bo held at the City Hall on
Thursday next, 9th inst., at 71 o’clock, P. M.
Members can pay their instalments to tho
Treasure!, S. 11. Shepard, until 5 o’clock p. m.,
of the same day. W. 11. EDWARDS,
apro ood.'it Secre’ary.
REPUBLICAN mass meeting.
The Republican Voters of Richmond county
are requestor! to meet in Mass Alee ting, at the
CITY r IIALL, in tho city of Augusta,
Ox THURSDAY, APRIL 9th,
to nominate candidates for County offices, to he
supported at tho coining election, and attend to
any other business that may come before the
meeting.
Distinguished Spoakcrs have been invited to
address tho meeting and it is expected that they
will do so.
Let there boa grand rally of the frieuds of
Reconstruction and Col. Hi llock, our candi
date for Governor.
By order County Executive Committee.
J. E. BRYANT,
ap4—td Secretary.
INSURANCE
Fire, Marine, Inland
AND
ACCIimiURMCfi
Phenix Insurance Company,
New York.
Manhattan Insurance Company,
New York.
Howard Insurance Company,
New York.
Standard Insurance Company,
New York
Commerce Insurance Company,
New York.
Lamar Insurance Company,
New York.
Fireman’s Insurance Company,
New York.
Astor Insurance Company,
New York.
Commercial Insurance Company
New York
Mercantile Insurance Company,
New York.
Phoenix Insurance Company,
Hartford.
The above are all FIRST CLASS COM
PANIES with ample means to meet their liabili
ties.
Ail lossos promptly and equitably adjusted.
WM. SHEAR,
Augusta, April 7th, IS6B. Agent.
ap7-3m
NEW ADVERTISEMENT'^ 5
Change «f Fare and Schedule,
ScPERixrxNDENT’s Orncr >
AUGUSTA A SUMMERVILLE R Rpr, •
Augusta, Ga., April S.’lgsg ' f
TN ORDER TO MEET THE VIEWS op xnp
A business public, the price of tickets i> t
this date, reduced to the rat- of nrv-iS'
TICKETS FOR ONE DOLLAR in.Sf* 5
twelve as heretofore, and the Depot ot the? 4f
pany, on McKinne street, is to be, hereafLv
established termious of the City Line. ” “ !
The first cars will leave the Depot on u.v
nie street, at 7.00 A. M., and every’fiftAT
utoi thereafter during the day until 745
when the last cars will 1-ave the Demit ..i
turn about 9.00 P. M. P “ and «
SUMMERVILLE LINE.
(Fro,,, Depot to United Stater Ar«„ a i .
first car leaves Depot at 6.15 A u t
U. S. Arsenal. for «*
Cars leave U. S. Arsenal and Depot&t 7 i,fi i
M., and at intervals of one hour thereafter j ■
the day, until 8.00 P. M., when last car’deT^
from Arsenal. r*it!
Summerville cars leaving Arsenal at 8 lie 1 u
1.00 P. M. and 6.00 P. M, will proceed to L ’
of Broad and Jackson streets, and will leave-k' f
point for Arsenal at 8.4 5 A. _M., l 45 p J
6.15 P. M., respectively. A II Afrit
-Jggr'i SuperlotoW.
To the Ladies of Augusta,
£tOME AND SEE
THE DIFFERENT STYLES
HATS!
SOW OPENED AT
BLAUVELT’S
And when yon hear the prices, you are
bound to buy.
Bring with you, or send, your children, and
have them fitted with a FASHIONABLE mj
either of Straw, Felt or Wool.
Send your Husbands (if you hare am
Brothers and Sweethearts, and" have them dew
rated with a NICE HAT.
BLAUVELT.
aprS— 6t 258 BROAD STREET
DENNIS’
SARSAPARILLA
The Purest aud the Best,
UOR DISEASES OF THE LIVER, OR FOR
jl purifying the blood.
Prepared by J. DENNIS, M. D., Augusta,Ga.
OFFICE No. 16, Water St., Brooklyn,N.Y.
aprS— 2t
City Sheriff's Sale.
ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN MAY NEXT
will be sold, at the Lower Market House,
ia the City of Augusta, within the legal hours of
sale, all that Leasehold to a certain Lot or parcel
of Land, situate, lying and being in the City of
Augusta, on Marbury street, between D'Antig
nac extended, and South Boundary streets, front
ing about 55 feet on said Marbury Etreet, and
extending thence of the same, with about ono hun
dred and twenty feet in depth,boundednorthbya
lot of land belonging to the trust estate of Mrs.
Mary (i. Harrison, west and south by lots be
longing to the same, and east by Marbury street.
Levied on as the property of Amos E. Owen, to
satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the City Court of
Augusta, in favor of John C. Galvin vs. AmosE.
Owen. ISAAC LEVY,
aprß—td Sheriff C. A.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
-L States for the Northern District of Georgia.
In the matter of |
J. W. CUNNINGHAM, [ IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. J
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment as Assignee of J. W. Cunning
ham, of tho county of Oglethope, and State of
Georgia, within said District, who has beeu
adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition, by
the District Court of said District.
B. 11. BARNETT,
aprS—la wot Assignee.
IN BANKRUPTCY
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF TIIE UNITED
i States for the Northern District of Georgia,
In the matter of )
WM. T. FARMER, tIN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Tho undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment as Assignee of Mm. T. Farmer, of
the county of Oglethorpe, and State of Georgia,
within said District, who has deen adjudged a
Bankrupt upon his own petition by the District
Court of said District.
IS. 11. BARNETT,
aprß—lawiit Assignee.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JHE UNITED
1 States, for the Northern District of Georgia.
In the matter of j
MASTON CHILDERS, [-IN BANKRUPICI
Bankrupt. J
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his ap
pointment as .Assignee ot Maston Childers, of
Oglethorpe county-, and State of Georgia, within
said District, who has becu adjudged a Bankrupt
upon his own petition by the District Court of
said District. B. 11. BARNETT,
aprS—iav.-St Assignee.
IN TIIE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
Uuited States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of i Tv ,> vk'RIIPTCT.
ALBERT M. HAPFOLT, - 1N H
Bankrupt, j *>»•-*•
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all his debts provable unoe:
the Bankrupt. Act of March 2d, 1867, notice -
hereby given to all persons interested 10 appear
on the 22d day of April, 180S, at 12 o'clock in
at Chambers’ of the said District Court, before
Frank S. Hcsseltino, Esq., one of the Registersol
said Court in Bankruptcy, at his office, corner or
Bay and Drayton streets, in Ihe city of Savaunan.
Ga., and show cause why the prayer of the M
petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. Jn»
further notice is given that the second an
third meetings of creditors will he held at t
same time and place. „ ..
Witness the Honorable John Erwin,
i ~ . T , Judge of said Court, at Savanna -
[tskAi. j 6 tlli3 titll d . lv of April, 1808;
JAMES McI’IIERSON,
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THH UNIT®
JL States for the Northern District of Georgia-
In tho matter of )
WM. C. LOVEJOY, | E ivkRUPXCV
ANDERSON R.LOVEJOY j 1 '
Bankrupts. 1
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The undersigned hereby gives notice ot biGl
pointment as Assignee of William C. Lovejoy
Anderson R. Lovejoy, of Meriwether Mnn b
Georgia, both of whom have been adjudged ha
rupts upon their own petition by the VU u
Conrt of tho United States for said District-
Dated at Newnan, tho 6th day of April,■ 1
ISOS. JAMES J. McKINLEY,
aprS—lawiit Assign »■
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF I’ HE
JL United States for the Southern Diftric
Georgia,
In the matter of '
CHARLES KAUFMAN, \
GEO. L MoGOUGU,
R. N. R. BARDWELL, /
TIIOS. CHAPMAN, ( r
GIDEON J. PEACOCK, )IN BANkRbrU *-
GABRIEL SELIG, I
WM. L. TILLMAN, V
ALFRED ZARKOWSKY, J
JACOB ARON. /
Bankrupts. -
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :
Tho undersigned hereby gives notice
appointment as assiguoe of Charles K* »
Geo'ge L. McGough, Ralph N. R- Jiar *j
Thomas Chapman, Gidcoa J. Peacock, ’ .
Selig, William L. Tillman, Alfred Zarkou 7
aid Jacob Aron, of Columbus, Muscogee i
Oeorgia, within said District, each of . Dj
been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own r
by tho District Court of said District: p
Dated at Newnan, tho 6th day of Aprt. •
ISCB. JAMES J. McRINLb'-
aprS—lawot Ass.ga«-