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, PARAGKAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.44}. Cotton, 29}e.
—Happy Cincinnati gete its grapes lor
ton cents a pound.
—Judge Milligan hni resigned his seat on
the Supreme, bench of Tennessee.
—Mr. Lawton Babcock died at Lyme,
Connecticut, on the 21st nit., aged 101.
—A Jewish edifice which cost $200,000
wa&.dcdicated yesterday at Louisville.
—Leonard* better known as Live-forever
Janes, an eccentric character in Louisville,
Ky., is dead.
—An envelope company at Hartford,
Conn., cuts up a ton of paper and turns out
300,000 envelopes daily.
—The “Wickedest Man in New York”
denies that he is going to take the stump for
Seymour. • »
—A party ol the chivalrous Ku-Klux
burned down a colored schoolhouse at
Raleigh, in Shelby county, a few days since.
—We see it announced that Lieut Gov.
Jones, of Texas, Democratic elector, is out
in favor of universal suffrage, and asks
whether ho shall retire from the ticket.
2—bays a tasteful editor: The first nine
hundred and ninety-five thousand times we
heard “Champagne Charlie” we liked it; but
now are beginning to tire of it.
—A Republican paper at Des Moines,
lowa, states that, by actual count, fifty-two
persons in the township who have heretofore
been Democrats have declared their inten
tion to vote for Grant and Colfax.
—The Albion, of New York city,denies the
truth of the report that Secretary Seward
is in correspondence with the British gov
ernment on the subject of the revival of the
Canadian reciprocity treaty.
—The recent Itfiavy rain did immense
damage to the lower part of New Jersey.
It is reported that not a mill dam is left in
Salem county. The toads are considerably
damaged, and trains are delayed.
—A Boston merchant has caused his
daughter to be si nt to a reformatory institu
tion in New York, until she becomes of age,
she having ran away from home last May,
to lead a life of shame.
—Pendleton spoke at Greenville, Ohio, on
the-3d instant. The Dayton Democrats char
tered eight cars for the accommodation of
tho faithful, who, it was believed, would go
to hear him. Only twenty-eight men, how
ever, went.
—Councilman Seanncl and Joe Coburn got J
into a light in a notorious bar-room in Hons- '■>
ton street. New York, Friday night, when u
Scannel drew a knife and seriously stabbed {
Coburn about the head alid neck. Os course
they were not arrested.
—A. H. Stephens says of General Grant: '
“He is entirely underrated by the country
and the press. I know him very wdll. He I
is a remarkable man, and one that few ap- i
predate ; of decided military genius, indomi
table energy and determined will.”
—General John A. Dix, Minister to ,
France, nnd«Mr. Henry M. Watts, the newly
appointed Minister to Austria, have declared
themselves for the Republican ticket. Word t
has come from Nashville that Senator Fowler
has come out for Grant and Colfax, which ,
causes much surprise among President John
son's friends.
—Eugenie’s hair dresser, Leori, receives 1
30,000 francs ($G,000) a year. He has 1
more influence over her than her Jesuit <
confessor; and, besides arranging hair, lays 1
the ihroniyiie Scandaleuse of the day before ,
her. He is a most abject flatterer, and his
influence over her has given rise to the mot: 1
“Leroi (Leroi, the King) has more influ :
cnce over tho Empress than the Emperor.” .
—The great scull race for the champion- <
ship of America and n purse of two thou- ,
sand dollars, betweep Walter Brwon, of ■
Portland, and Henry Coulter, of Pittsburg, '
takes place Wednesday afternoon, at Pitts- ’
burg. Brown arrived there on Saturday.
Hamill has challenged the winning man. to
row within two weeks from the race.
—Gederal Dent, of Grant’s staff, who has
been with the latter on his recent tour,
returned to Washington Friday evening,
accompanied by the sec6hd son of General
Grant. General Grant is now residing on
a farm in Missouri. General Dent will re
turn to St. Louis, and accompany General
Grant to Washington about the middle of
October.
—Tire Hartford Times says that the wick
edest ma’n in Cape May eats deviled crabs,
drinks sulphur water, and defies (Jersey)
lightning. It omits to mention that he will
vote for Seymour and sheds tears over the
cruelty of Gen. Grant and the humanity of
Ould and Winder and Beauregard, who
wanted “abolition prisoners” garrotol in
1662.
—Prof. Lipscomb, of the University of
Georgia, now travelling in Europe, writing
from Berlin, says: The dogs are put to
work and kept at work. They are a race of
business dogs—educated dogs -polite dogs.
1 watch them daily. How demurely they
pull their little carts along, toiling in the
harness I Hundreds of them may be seen
in the streets, making money and saving
money. I have a great liking for these
dogs. And I wish some dogs I know, were
sent oveijhere and taught German.
—An editorial letter to the Washington
K Chronicle presents a careful and close an-
B of the political prospects in Pennsyl-
JF vauia, as seen from a Pennsylvania stand
point. Pennsylvania has never been so
united, not even in 1864. Here, as else
where, .Grant is tile Cuvocu iuau. Tliu uuity
is so far greater than in 1864, that though
the State then gave Mr. Lineoln 20,075 ma
jority, it will now give General Grant at
least 30,000.
—A special dispatch from Denver City, of
the 4th instant, says: “ Confu and party,
with -Governor Hunt and family, have just
arrived safe and well, with a band of Indians
at their head.' At the time of the Indian
outbreak they were in the valley of the Ar
kansas river, west ol South Park, The Utah
tribe, always faithful and friendly to the
whites, on being informed of it by a messen
ger from Governor Hunt, sent a band of
tbeiy braves, who escorted the party back to
Denver.”
—Nearly all the London papers, following
the lead of the Times, are bitter against Mr.
Burlingame and the other members of the
Chinese Embassy, which will probably be
coldly received, in England- The trouble
simply is that Great Britain has bullied the
Chinese into conceding to British trade and
outrageous monopolies. It now fears that it
will lose them. The British are wise enough
to know that Mr. Burlingame can not be
hoodwinked, and tliey are therefore trying to
scare him with a lion’s roar. We think h*e
will not be scared very easily, especially as
he has all Christendom, Bngfand excepted,
to back him.
—The subscribers to the French loan
were obliged to form in line and take their
turn at a chance to register their names.—
One lady fainted. No one moved and the
police officers came to her relief. “Is the
lady alone !” “No,” said a gentleman,
her husband in the line." ■ “Why
don’t you come to the assistance -of your
wife ? ' asked the officer. “I’m not going
. to lose my place just for a fainting fit,” re
plied the brute. ' 1
National lUpublicnn
AUGUSTA. <».
Tlll I’.hbAYM'JRFINU ...'eptcinUr l->. 18
For FF£ESIT>EIVT
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
TOB THE STATE AT I.ARGE.
HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOS ']’. AKERMAN, of Elbert.
ALTERNATES.
Judge Dawsox Walker, of Whitfield.
C. H. Hopkins, of Chatham.
* FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist District—A. WILBUR, of Chatham.
ABernafe—E. E. Howard, of Chatham.
2d District—E. R. HARDEN, of Randolph.
Alternate—S. F. Salter, of Pulaski.
3d District—E. 1. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
Alternate— J. R, Thomasson, of Carroll.
■Uh District— W». 11. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts.
Allernate— Henry Glover, of Jasper.
5/Zi District—3. E. BRYANT, of Richmond.
Alternate— F. J. Robinsox, of Oglethorpe.
6ff» District— J. S. FAIN, of Union.
Alternate— Isaac 8. Clements, of Forsyth.
'llk District •
Alternate—F. A. Kirby, of Chattooga.
WHO IS GUILTY OF BAREFACED
LYING ?
The brazen organ of the Ku-Klux in this
city makes the following denial of the ex
iatcncc of any such organization as the Ku-
Klux, in its issue of yesterday :
The Ku-Klux orxauinatiuu is a will-o-tho
wisp, having no foundation save in tho distem
pered "imagination of the credulous negro. The
carpet-baggers and scalawags know that they
lie when they assert tho existence of any such
organization.
It is highly probable that the author of
the above precious specimen of dignified
journalism is a member of the very organi
zation whose existence he denies. Being
an old Know-Nothing he has some experi
ence as a member of a secret, oath-bound,
proscriptive political organization that was
very savage and murderous toward carpet
baggers from across the waters, and whose
members burned churches, butchered men,
women and children indiscriminately for
the crime of being bom under other than
the United States Government. The writer
says that the Ku-Klux organization is a
will-o’-the wisp, and that the statements of
the correspondent of tire Cincinnati Com
mercial, detailing the particulars of a late
interview with General Forrest are “bare
faced lies.” Now, General Forrest says
no such tiling of the correspondent or his
statements. On the contrary, in a recent
card, which theKu-Klux organ luul doubt
less seen, lie only “regrets” that the cor
respondent “so far misunderstood him as
to make several important mistakes in
attempting to report what I (he) really
said.” Docs this language sound as if
General Forrest thought that the corres
pondent had written “barefaced lies?” Is
N. B. Forrest such a craven ns to charac
terize “barefaced lies” as “mistakes?”
The Ku-Klux paper say the organiza
tion is a “will o’-the-wisp.” The writer of
the assertion knows better ; but as he pos
sesses neither the candor or courage of
General Forrest, he attempts to deceive
the unwary. Now, hear the great Confed
erate cavalryman in response to a remark
by the Commercial correspondent that “we
• people up North have regarded the Ku-
Klux Klan ns an organization which ex
isted only in the frightened imaginations
of a few politicians
i “Well, sir, there is such an organism-'
I tion, not only in Tennessee, but all over the
s South, and its numbers have not been
f exaggerated.”
) “ What are its numbers, General ?"
i “In Tennessee there arc over 40,000; in
all the Southern States they number about
- 550,000 men.”
“ What is the character of the organiza
tion. may 1 inquire ?”
“ Yes, sir. It is a protective, political
military organization. 1 am willing to
show any man tho constitution of the
, society. The members are sworn to rceog
, ni«e the Government of the United States.”
; This is what Forrest says. W*put his
! word against the editor of the Ku-Khix
' organ. Who is guilty of “ bare faced
lying ?”
I «, . -x_
COL. AKERMANS LETTER.
Those who would not miss a rare treat
will not fail to read the calm, dignified,
and unanswerable letter of Col. Amos T.
Akehman, of Elbert county, one of the
candidates for the State at Large on the
Republican ticket, which appears in an
other part of the paper this morning. It
! is one of the strongest documents it has
i been our good fortune to peruse. It is a
masterly vindication of the beneficent
principles of the Republican party, and a
dispassionate expose of the evils \fchich
would inevitably follow on the heels of the
success of Seymour and Blair.
TERMS OF PEACE.
Both parties in the Presidential contest
propose terms of peace. The supporters
of General Grant recognize every man,
native born nnd naturalized, OS a citizen
of the United States, entitled to the equal
protection <tf Its laws. Tlms Democratic
party boldly proclaims its terms of peace
to be the overthrow of the present State
govemmentoof the South, and the banish
ment of every white man not a Democrat'
nnd die reduction of the negroes to a con
dition more slavish and degraded than the
old system of-slavery, l>ccausc tliey would
deprive them of the equal protection of
the laws and the interested care of maaters
having a pecuniary interest in their health.
Personal. —We were pleased to take by
the hand, yesterday, our genial quondam
associate, Dr. F. J. Robinson, of
who is here as a delegate to the Congres
sional Convention which meets in this city
tO'day.
INELIGIBLE UNDER THE DRED
SCOTT DECISION.
Some of our exchanges, published out of
the State, that know no better, and sonic
published in the State, that do know Vet
ter, agfiouncc that the colored members
were turned out of the House of Repre
sentatives because they were ineligible
under the new Constitution. This is a
mistake. They were turned out because
they were incligi 14c wider the Dreil Scott
decision. This was the position taken by 1
Mr. Dunlap Scott<’ of Floyd, and Mr.
Dunlap Scott is n “Big Injun” among the
advocates of the next war. Colored men
are eligible under the Constitution, but
Dred"Scott rules them out That decision
says that a “negro has no right that a
white man is bound to respect ’ -and they
don’t respect any of his rights, either.
The Democratic Platform declares
the restoration of the States illegal and
void, and the rel»el leaders and followers
are thoroughly organizing for their destruc
tion. Loyal men arc remitted to the choice
of organizing and sustaining their restored
States, or of neglecting organization, and,
as a consequence, becoming the subjects of
the triumphant rebel leaders. It is free
republican 'government on the one hand,
or rebel despotism on the other.
The policy of the rebel leaders is to unite
their own forces and divide the Republi
cans ; the policy of the Republicans should
be to continue united in defence of all they
have achieved and of all they hope to gain.
They cannot neglect, organization without
danger to their cause.
A New Way to Tell a Lie. —The enter
prising gentleman stationed at Washington
ns agent of the Associated Press for the
newspapers of the South, has an original
way of making the trnth look like a lie. For
instance, unsophi.stocatcd people will read
his dispatch this morning announcing that
the Democrats gained 33} per cent, in the
Vermont election, while the Republicans only
gained 22*per cent. His object in stating
the result in this unusual way was to get the
people to believe a lie without his absolutely
telling one. Why could not the agent have
made the matter plain by stating that in
majorities the Republicans made a gain of
from 7 to 10,000. and that the Democrats con.
sequently sustained a loss of a like number
of votes ?
Humbug.—The revolutionary papers are
publishing announcements that certain
county officers, elected on the Republican
ticket, have repudiated Grant and support
Seymour. This class of men were never
Republicans. They were menu enough to
hang around the kitchens of colored men to
secure their votes, and* having obtained
paying offices, they acknowledge their own
infamy in deceiving confiding negroes by
declaring*fdr the Democratic ticket. They
were always Democrats, and their pretended
conversion is unblushing!y false. We like to
sec their names in print; for then we know
who it is that is so unprincipled as to cheat
negroes who . have, in many instances,
saved them from bankruptcy.
Df/lined. —We have received a some
what extended Cummuniciitiou from O. F.
Gregory, in reply to a communication in a
city paper, yesterday morning, alleging that
Mr. G. had made some statements in relation
to the resignation of Mr. Bryant, as As.
sistant Assessor, in conflict with the recent
letter of the Assessor. Upon reflection, we
have concluded not to publish the communi
cation. We have given currency to none of
these charges, and as they are all questions
of official iccord, we see no good to result
from a newspaper controversy. In justice
to Mr. Gregory we will state that he flatly
denies “ Piney Woods’ ” statements, and
says the books of the Assessor is open for
inspection to all who doubt h'n word,
Hand-Book of Politics.—Hon. Edward
, McPherson is entitled to the gratitude of
, every person interested in the political
history of the country for the past four
years for the preparation and publication of
his admirable Hand-Book of Politics.
There is no official action of the Executive'
or Legislative Departments of the Govern
ment which is not contained in this valuable
publication, collated from official data.
Every Republican and Democrat should
obtain a copy. It is a book of 400 closely
printed folios, and can be had in cloth
binding at the low price of $2.50. Address
Hon. E. McPherson, Clerk House of Rep
resentatives, Washington, D. C.
One Latham, who addressed the De
mocracy of Portland, Me., last week, was
whipped during the war for trampling on
national flag. He’s a niee specimen
brick. — Exchange.
There are thousands iu this “ neck of tho
woods” who wore “whipped during the war
for trampling on the national flag." Thej
are anxious to trample on that flag again,
and will do it, if Seymour is elected.
■' '■ »
Let the People Remember that, if the
Democrats triumph, the now Constitution
will be overthrown, and the homestead law
declared a nullity ; the rich note-shaver and
unrelenting Shylock will turu the poor
women and children out of their loved homes
upon the cold charities of the world. Vote
for Grant, CGlfax, Peace and the Home
stead Law as it is.
Back Your Judgment.—A number of
noisy Democrats in this city profess to have
faith in Seymour’s election. One hundred
dollars has been placed in our hands for the
accommodation of any Democrat that may
think Grant won’t be the next President.
Out with your weasel skins, gentlemen.
The money is ready to be staked on the
*nan who never lost a battle, and who did
not cry liken baby when he was nominated.
General W. E. Hobson, of Kentucky, has
-been nominated as the Grant candicate
for Congress in the Bowling Green District-
Gen. IL was conspicuously brave as a
Federal soldier.
—G. A. T. says Gee. Huntgr “has non
resigned from the service, ants lives at
Princeton, New Jersey, the husband of a
wealthy wife. He is a strange looking man,
dark yellow of skin, hillious eycd, Indian
like in hair, round ant! fat of body, absent
minded.’’
„ LETTER FROM HON. AMOS T.
AKERMAN.
Calm, ■ Dignified and Unanswerable Argu
ment-.
LET HIM who FEARS MOT TUB (TRUTH, RE AD !
Elbeeton, Elbert Co., Ga. 1
September 2, 1868. J
J. M. Rice, Esq., Secretary of the State Re
publican Convention :
**• * » ♦
I have no hopes of the speedy return of
peace, order and security to our troubled
country, but in the election of Gon. Grant.
The violent passions which are embodied and
organized in the Democratic party of the
South, can bring forth nothing but evil if
they enter the seats of political power. The
leading principles which actuates that party
here, is revenge—revenge for military de
feat, revenge for political dispointmgnt, and
revenge for the loss of slaves. The resent
ment which, during the war, was directed
against the whole North, too timid now
to assail so formidable a power, limits its
manifestations to that portion of the North
ern and Southern people who compose the
Republican pnrty, and breathes out against
them in a coarseness of abuse and a savage
ness of threatening, disgraceful to a civili
zed age.
This spirit, improper at all times, is pe
culiarly unbecoming row. Im 18GI we em
barked in a bold political adventure, which
was soon followed by a voluntary resort to
arms We took the chance of victory and
independence, and we took the risk of defeat
and subjection. In the one event we ex
pected to be governed in our own way, in
the other event we expected to be governed
at the pleasure of those with whom we had
entered into controversy. Tho fortunes of
war compelled us to surrender; and, in honor
and good faith, it was a surrender, not only
of our Territory and our persons, but also
of our cause. Wo gave up the Confederate
Government. We gave up slavery. We
gave up the State Governments then exist
ing. We yielded to the conquering power
the right to establish governments for the
Southern States.
Accordingly, President Johnson, conceiv
ing himself to be the representative of the
conquering power, set up governments here,
through the agency of Conventions com
posed of men whom he chose to make eligi
ble, elected by voters whom he chose to in
vest with the right of suffrage. He dictated
the action of those Conventions. In Georgia,
lifter a government had been formed in
pursuance of his own plan and officers had
been elected under it, he still claimed a con
trolling power over it, and actually prohib
ited the inauguration of Governor Jenkins,
after all preparation had been made for that
ceremony, until it suited his Presidential will
to allow it. During all this long process he
kept us under military rulers, who, at their
pleasure, withheld from us the trial by jury,
and every other right which the Democratic
admirers of Mr. Johnson now profess to hold
most dear.
This reconstruction was unacceptable to
Congress, to the Republican party of the
North, and to many Union nfbn of the
South. They believed it to have been done
by a usurpation on the part of the President.
Agreeing with Mr. Johnson that the task of
reconstruction belonged to the government of
the United States, they differed from him
upon the question to which department of
that government the task properly pertained.
He claimed it for the Executive. They,
better founded in the letter and the spirit of
tho Constitution, held that the constitutional
guaranty by the United States of a republi
can government to each State must be effect
ed by a law, and therefore required the
action of tho law-making power. So in duo
time Congress proceeded to build up govern
ments here, prescribing (as the President
had previously done) what portion of the
people might take part in the work. Like
the President, Congress put us provisionally
under military rule. Like the President,
Congress provided for the call of Conven
tions, and determined who might vote and
who should be eligiblblc to seats. Like the
President, Congress claimed a controlling
power over the work of these Conventions.
Thus this grand constitutional question, upon
which our Democratic friends have wrought
themselves almost into fury, is not a ques
tion of State Rights at all, but simply an
issue between two branches of the General
Government.
In this controversy, I take sides with
Congress upon the question of Constitutional
right. I also think that in many particu
lars the Congressional plan is intrinsically
better than that of the President. In
allowing the people to determine by a vote
whether the Conventions should be held,
and whether the Constitutions should take
effect, Congress showed a respect for tho
popular will which seems not to be felt by a
Democratic President or .his Democratic
friends. J f .
The most noticeable features of the Con
gressional plan are the disiranehißement of
a class so defined as to exclude the leaders
of the late rebellion, and the enfranchise
ment of colored men. The former was
temporary, aud has already ceased in
Georgia by the liberal action of the late
Convention, so far as suffrage is concerned.
As to office, while it is most pleasant to mo
to know that men are under disabilities for
leading in a cause, to which I adhered, I
would rather have them disqualified from
office than have them hung. By a for
bearance in the conquerors unprecedented
in the world's history, they have escaped
the common fate of leaders in an unsuc
cessful rebellion. If they possessed active
consciences, they would be ashamed to
hold office in a country where the trophies
of their statesmanship are disorder, crime,
the corruption of morals, the decline of
public and private faith, a poverty that is
alnjost umivcrsJilj the ’.Ttxxldi the -
less sleeve, (lie maimed body, tho bones of
the, slain, tho broken heart of the widow,
and the wail of tho orphan.
Among the chimeras of the day, none is
more ridiculous than the dread of “negro
supremacy." If this dread were not pro
fessed by such intelligent men as Mr. Sey
mour, General Cobb and The authors of the
National Democratic platform, I should sly
that the white people who feel it are more
stupid than tne negroes. With a majority
iu Georgia ol at least fifteen thousand voters,
with most of the intelligence, wealth and
political skill, if our race can not keep fore
most in a fair competition, there must be
some natural superiority in the blacks. I
have never known n white man who would
acknowledge such a superiority. It is re
markable that the ouly persons who pretend
to dread negro supremacy are those who are
most forward to affirm the natural Inferiority
of the negro.
But, whatever may be our opinion upon
the abstract propriety of negro suffrage, that
suffrage has become a fact, ami this mate
rially changes the problem before us. Such
a privilege, once enjoyed by so many meir,
can not be wrested from them without resist
ance. Should this resistance be confined to
the peaceable forms of protest and rempn
st/aude, still It will disturb the coUntry with
a lamentable conflict of human passions.
The history ms man justifies the appre
hension that it may take a more terrible
form.
The Democratic party threatens, in the
event of its success, to overturn the State
gnvernuieuts of the Seutb, aud particularly
to take aw.-ly the ballot from the negro. To
this thrcai, jlie. J“,ss lyserved speakers and
journals uiu another, to drive from the State
h.Tso white men who have helped to estab-
ish those governments—that is, in Georgia,
about one third of the white men. The hor
rible scenes that would ensue from an at
tempt to carry out this threat are beyond
my powers of description. In the Republi
can party of Georgia there is too much
physical force, too much intellectual skill,
too much courageous manhood, too strong a
sense-of the rights of freemen, to warrant
the slightest expectation of peaceful sub
mission to such an outrage. But Democratic
fanaticism may attempt what reason, justice,
prudence and honor forbid. We have among
us many stubborn Bourbons who have learned
nothing during eight instructive years.
Nothing is too extravagant for men who now
make or applaud harangues in favor of the
right of secession.
Some of the most rational Democrats
think that Mr. Seymour, if elected, will bo
too wise to disturb the hew State govern
ments. He is too sagacious, they, say, to
involve his administration in so difficult a
controversy ; and therefore he will disregard
the Democratic platform and the warlike
propositions'of Gen. Biair. Accordingly to
them tlw only hope of peace to the country
rests on Mr. Seymour's anticipated treachery
to his party I
I have a better hope—in the wisdom, firm
ness and fidelity of Gen. Grant. Place him
in the Executive Chair, and all will be well.
Our Democratic malcontents, curbed by his
strong aud just hand, will abandon their un
profitable vocation, and cease to disturb the
public peace. Business will revive. Prop
erty will rise in value. Our waste places will
bloom again. Labor will be rewarded. The
rights of the laborer as a freeman, citizen
and voter, will be respected. A general plan
of education will be perfected, and thus for
the first time in Georgia, the wants of the
immortal mind will receive suitable attention
from the State. The spirit of strife, hatred
and malice will give place to the spirit of
peace, concord and charity.
I do not pretend that the Republican
party is faultless. It has sometimes erred
in measures. It Las not always been for
tunate in its selections for office. Selfish
men have sometimes intruded themselves
into its places of influence and power. But
from these faults no large paity has ever
been free ; and in all these particulars we
can truly retort on the Democrats that they
are no better than we. A wise man judges
a party according to its vital and essential
principles and the general tendency of its
policy.
The Republican party has these high
merits. It is moved by a grand spirit of
nationality, and exults to look upon our
capacious domain, all parts Os which will
be quickened with the same national life,
as soon as the evil and narrow spirit of
Southern Democracy is cast out by the
election of Grant.
It has proved its ability to carry on the
Government, by administering it under
most trying circumstances, with a success
that must command the admiration of the
world, and especially of those who were
condemned to live under that feeble, dis
honest and tyrannical concern at Rich
mond which we dignified with the name of
the Confederate Government.
It labors to maintain liberty and order,
and values the Union as the safeguard of
both.
It is alive to the wants of this'age—to the
demands of a high, refined and advancing
civilization.
It strives to put the Government in sym
pathy with the people, and would make
Government an agency for improving the
country, instead of a stern and morose insti
tution with only penal functions.
It is devoted to the national honor, and
therefore keeps the national faith and up
holds the national credit.
Here in the South particularly, it forgets
those things which are behind, and reaches
forth unto those things which are before ; it
consults not the prejudices of the past, but
the interests of the present and the future.
It is opposed by the State Rights Demo
cratic party. I have lived under a govern
ment of State Rights Democracy (so-called).
It was born at Montgomery in 1861, and
expired in Virginia in 18G5. -I remember
its lubberly statesmanship, its inability to
turn to good account the Constitutions of a
conflicting people and the blood of a gallant
Soldiery. J remember its faithless legisla
tion, its cruel conscripttons', its unfair ex
emptions, its discriminations against the
poor and in favor of the rich, its neglect of
its sick aud wounded soldiers, its stu
pidity and treachery in matters of finance,
its absurd diplomacy, its suspensions of
the habeas corpus, its enormous taxation in
motxey and property, its harsh and often
knavish inipessment, its restraints upon
our liberty nod business and even in loco
motion, its swarms of useless officials plun
dering and domineering in every corner of
the country. This was enough for me- In
that mixture of comedy and tragedy in
which the Southern Confederacy took its
last gasp, ftot far from this spot, my respect
for State Rights Democracy departed for
ever.
The National Democratic platform de
clares that secession is a dead issue. Then
why not renounce the idea out of which se
cession sprang ?
It declares that slavery is a dead issue.—
Then why not renounce the passions and
prejudices to which slavery gave birth ?
Let us then be in.-tructcd by bitter ex
perience- Let us abandon all absolute dog
mas and unseasonable sentiments. Let us
recognize thruth even when at variance with
oui- prepossessions. Aud let us welcome
that prosperous future which will dawn
upon the South in the election of Grant and
Colfax Yours respectfully, etc,
Amos T. Akerman.
STATE NEWS.
We aaw a bag of cottou on yesterday
shipped to New York in the seed, No rope
or tics were required for this hag. It was
sewed up!— Columbus Enquirer, Bth.
At the regular Tuesday’s sitting of the U.
S. District Court, as a Court in Bankruptcy,
Judge Erskine presiding, certificates of dis
charge were granted as follows : M. R. Bell
&Co , Atlanta; Matthew R. Bell, Atlanta ;
Asbury P. Bell, Atlanta; Benjamin F.
Moore, Atlanta; Lewis B. Scudder, Atlanta ;
Hillery Brooks, Fayette county; William 0.
Cheney, Greene county; P. &M. Gallaher,
Atlanta ; Patrick Gallaher, Atlanta; Michael
Gallaher, Atlanta ; John Hall, Henry county;
William Hammett, Hogansville ; Joshua J.
Hanes, Jonesboro'; Patrick Hayden, At-,
lanta : James Henson, Walker county ; Jas.
B. Key, Jonesboro’; Jasper Kinnebrew,
Oglethorpe -county ; John Mahan. Jr.,
Walker county; Lemuel McWhorter, Walker
county; Charles F. Newton, Griffin ; Edwin
B. Pond. Atlanta; James A. Sanders, El
berton ; Thomas Swint, Newnan ; James A.
Taylpr, Atlanta: Abner R. Wellborn, New
nan.—Aftdnfa Intelligencer.
For two weeks past a revival has been in
progress in Wesley Chapel, during which
time sixty-nine persons have united with the
church, more than half of which number is
“composed of young men-” This revival
immediately succeeds the “week of prayer”
held in all the churches.— Atlanta Intelli
gencer.
—Unsophisticated boy—“Mamma, papa
is getting very rich, isn’t he?’’ Mamma—l
don't know; why, child?” Boy—“’Cause
he gives me so mnch money. Almost every
morning, after breakfast, when Sally is
sweeping the parlor, he gives me a sixpence
to go out and play.” Sally received a sheet
notice to quit.
SPEECH ON MONDAY ELOYD,
One of the Colored Members Ousted f rom the
House of Representatives.
Mr. Speaker: I have not much to say to
you on this subject. I have been a slave
fifty-live years, and no chance to get learn
ing, so I could not suy much any way ; but
I can say, that I have tried to behave myself
and act like a man since I have been here.
If I have failed to do so, it is because I am
ignorant—and I have been made so by the
very men who arc now seeking to put us out
of onr scats ; and I hope, if members on the
other side of the House turn me out, they
will give me credit lor that much sense any
way.
But, Mr. Speaker, tire gentleman from
Floyd, said that the negro man was inferior
to the white man. I would like to know how
he knows that. I would like to know if his
forefathers had been kept in slavery two
hundred years, and he had been kept in
slavery for fifty-five years, with the lash over
his back all the time, and whipped if he
attempted to learn his ABC, how much
better he would be, and how much superior
he would be to me to-day ? When he gets on
to tub floor again, 1 would like to have him
give his views on this point. Mr. Speaker,
the gentleman from Floyd made some very
nice rails, but they were very old, and he
laid up his fence crooked. 1 will not say any
more about that, Mr. Speaker.
The gentleman had a good deal to say
about social equality—mixing up of the
races—amalgamation I believe ho called it.
Now, sir, wo colored men don’t want to mix
up with the white men ; we all like our
own color best, and if these men that talk
so much about the inferiority of the race,
and of mixing up with she “nigger,” will
let our colored women alone, we won’t have
so many ringstreaked and speckled people
among us. We want the white men to
mind" their own business, and not come
sneaking around our women [at night, or
any other time, for unlawful purposes.
Now-, Mr. Speaker, we are a law-abiding
people, and if I ain’t here according to law,
I want to know it right away, so as to go
home and go to work. '
I thank the House for hearing, me. I
havn’t anything more to say.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE FIRST ANNUAL MEET
ING of the Reliance Loan and Building
Association will bo held at the City Rail, on
THURSDAY NEXT, 10th instant, at 8 o’clock
p. in. ,
There will be an election for President and
Directors for tho ensuing year.
Members can pay their instalments to the
Treasurer, 8. 11. Shepard, until 5 o’clock of tho
same day. W. It. EDWARDS,
sopO—2t Secretary.
SP E CIA L N OTICEI—A~MASS
MEETING will bo held at the City Hall on
THURSDAY EVENING next, at 3 o’clock, Sep
tember 10th. Speakers are expected to bo pres
ent to address the meeting.
Come One! Come Everybody!!
G. B. SNOWDEN,
Sec. of Grant Club.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States, for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of i lx Bankruptcy.
MICHAEL M. LEVY, L
Bankrupt. ) No. 328.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned lhe Court
for a discharge from all his debts provable under
the Bankrupt Act of Match 2, 1867, notice is
hereby given to all persons interested to appear
on the 22d day of September,lß6B. at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon, at chambers of the said District
Court, before Albert G Foster, Esq., one ot the
Registers of tho said Court in Bankruptcy, at
Madison A Ga., and show cause why the prayer of
the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be
granted. .
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 9th day of Sep
tember, 1868. james McPherson,
sept o—lt Clerk.
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NOTICE
To Retailers of Spirituous Liquors.
Retailers of spirituous liquors,
whoso County License have expired, or who
have not yet taken out such license, are hereby
notified that they must renew or take out the
same forthwith, or they will bo dealt with accord
ing to law. . SAMUEL LEVY, .
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Assignee’s Sale.
STATE OF GEORGIA—RICHMOND dOUN--
TY.- Pursuant to an order from the Hon.
Frank S. Besseltinc, Register in Bankruptcy for
the Southern District of Georgia, will be sold in
the city of Augusta, at the Lower Market House,
on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER next,
between the usual hours of sale, all that Tract or
lot of Land on the south side of Ellis street, be
tween Campbell and Washington streets, known
as the Palace .Stables, together with all the im
provements thereon. All the above real estate
sold as the property of Marcus A. Dehoney,
Bankrupt,for the benefit of his creditors.
This property will he sold free of all incum
brances, they having been ordered to be trans
ferred to the proceeds of sale of the same.
Also, at tho same time and place, will bo sold
all the Notes and Bank Accounts belonging to
and surrendered by .Marco? A. Dehoney.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
A. WILSON, Assignee.
Augusta, -September 3, 1858.
sepi—lawtds
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Official.
Proclamation
WbH frit
BY THE GOVERNOR.
Executive Dki-artmkiit, i
Atlanta, Ga., September 7, 1868. J
Whereas, At the August Term, 1867, of Mon
roe Superior Court, General Taylor was convicted
of the offence of involuntary manslaughter lul j
sentenced by his Honor, Alexander M. Sneer
Judge of said Court, to hard labor in the Peniten’
tiary for and during the term of one year :
And Whereas, It appears from the stalenieut
of the Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary that
the conduct of the said Genera! Taylor has’been
uniformly good during his said couiiuemeut, au ,i
being desirous of restoring him to his civil riuhis
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
by virtne of the power and authority vested in me
by the Constitution of the State of Georgia, J o
these presents fully and freely pardon tl’io sarf
General Taylor of the offense of which he staud
convicted, and restore him to his civil rights, and
order that he be forthwith discliarged from’cOu
fmementand set at liberty.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive
Department, at the Capitol in Atlanta, tee dav
and year above written. ■’
R. B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor.- Governor
B. B. DeGraffenhied,
Sec’y Ex. Departflient. sep9—gf,
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United States Marshal’s Sale.
TINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF THREE (3)
U writs of lieri facias, issued Out of the Hon
orable the Fifth Circuit Court of the United States
for the Southern District of Georgia, in favor of
the plaintiffs, in the following cases to-wit:
CARHART 4 BROTHERS vs. BENJ AMIN F.
ADAMS,
A.T. STEWART 4 COMPANY vs. BENJAMIN
F. ADAMS,
WILLIAM C. BROWNING, {Survivor, etc., vs.
BENJAMIN F. ADAMS,
I have levied upon, as the property of Benjamin F.
Adams, a Plantation, containing twenty-six hun
dred (2,6(111) acres, more or lees, [situate, lying
and being in the county of Randolph, and State
of Georgia, numbers of lots unknown, but lying at
and immediately around Ward s Station, on the
Southwestern railroad-
A LSO
One lot of Land, containing oue hundred (100)
acres, more or less, with a- dwelling house, out
buildings, and other improvements, being the
residence of Benjamin F. Adams, and adjoining
the property of Col. J. A. Wingfield,A. O.Mosley,
W. E. Adams, R. C- Jenkins, and others, in the
town of Eatonton, county of Putnam, and State
aforesaid.
ALSO
Two Store Houses and Lots on the Court
House square, known as Hudson ami Thomas cor
ner, now occupied by B.F. Johnston & Co., and
Benj. F. Adams.
also _
One Store House and Lot, occupied by Ethridge
& Davis, druggists.
ALSO
One Store House and Lot on Main street, occu
pied by J. M. Ballard, Jr.
ALSO
One Town Lot near the Railroad Depot, now
vacant.
All the said Town Lots situate, lying and be
ing in the town of Eatonton, conuty of Putaam,
and State aforesaid.
And will sell the same at public uucltua, al the
Court House in the city of Macon and county of
Bibb, ana State of Georgia, on the FIRST TUES
DAY IN OCTOBER next, between the lawful
hours of sale.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 3d day of Septem
ber, 1868, WM. G. DICKSON,
sep4-lawlw U. S. Marshal Diet, of Ga.
Postponed U. 8. Marshal’s Sale-
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT
of f ieri facias issued out of the honorable the
Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for the
Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the plain
tiff, in the followilfg case, to-wit: George W.
Hatch vs. the Bank of Commerce, I have, levied
upon, as the property of the defendant, the Bank
of Commerce, part of lot of land numbered ten
(1(1), Jekyl Tything, Derby Ward, together with
all the improvements (hereon, consisting ot a
building, known as the Bank of Commerce Build
ing, situate, lying, and being iu the city of Sa
vannah, county of Chatham, and State of Georgia,
and will sell the same at public auction, at the
Court House, in the city of Savannah, Chatham
county, Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN
OCTOBER next, between the lawful hours of
sale.
Dated Savannah, Ga., May 29th, 1868.
WM. G. DICKSON.
sep2-law4w U. 8. Marant
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of ] IN BANKRUPTCY.
JACOB AARON,I
Bankrupt. J No. 167.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the'
Court for a discharge from all his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867,
notice is hereby given to all persons interested
to appear on the 29th day of September, 1868, at
10 o’clock a. tn., at chambers of said District
Court, before Charles G. McKinley, Esq., one
the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at
his office at Newnan, Ga., and show cause why
the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt
should not be granted. And further notice is
given that the second, and third meeting of
creditors will be held at the same time and
place.
Witness, the Honorable John Erskine,
(seal.] Judge of said Court, at Savannah,
Ga., this 3d day of September, 1868.
JAMES MsPIIERSON,
aeps law3w Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States fgr the Sonthern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
JAMES D. LENNARD, I IN BANKRUPTCY-
Bankrupt. J
At Cuthbert, Georgia, this the 31st day of
Aitauet, 1868.
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment as assignee of Jamas D. Leonard,
of Cuthbert, in the county of Randolph and State
ot Georgia, within said District, who has been
adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition by
the District court of said District.
COLUMBUS O. BROOKS,
an2l—lawdw Assignee.