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PARAGRAMS.
' ’ —Yesterday, in New York, Gold wM
quoted at 1.44. Cotton, 27 jc.
—The Horseshoe Falls at Niagara have
receded six feet in the last y«t.
—CalifoWiia publishes 238 newspapers
and periodicals*
—The Princess of Took, Queen Victoria’s
cousin, has been in trouble since her baby
was sick. It is getting bolter.
—Pollard’s Political Pamphlet is said
to be very successful. Os the first number
100,000 copies were circulated.
—Miss Charlotte Cushman aud Miss
Emma Stebbins are at present residing at
Swampscott, near Boston.
—Prague editors get porters to sign the
articles in the journals, so vigorously are
the press prosecutions carried on out there.
—Silver and golden anklets for ladies are
about to become fashionable. They will
be worn outside the stockings.
—The breach in the Atlantic Telegraph
• Cable is about 80 miles from Newfoundland,
in water 100 fathoms deep.
—One of Mr. Gladstone’s sous is to take
holy orders at Christmas and become a
curate in Lambeth.
—The Boston correspondent of the n ~
cinnati Timet says there is no likelihood of
anybody defeating Gen. Butler for the nomi
nation to Congress.
—A North Carolina correspondent of the
Rochester Democrat denies that any con
siderable number of the colored voters of
that State have joined the Democratic party.
—The New Jersey Railroad Company
• refuses to employ any one who. does not
pay his boarding aud washing bills regu
larly.
1 —lion. John A. Bingham is to stump
California for Grant aud Colfax. lie leaves
for the Pacific coast immediately after the
. election in Ohio.
. —A favorite style of dress for gentlemen
in Paris this summer has been coats, vests
and trowsers ol white silk, with blue
—One ol the finest weddings in London
this year was that of Sir Ivor Guest, a rich
Welsh iron master, to n daughter of the
Duke of Marlborough.
—For the week ending Tuesday, the 15 th
instant, 218 patents will be issued from the
Patent Office. During the last week 270
applications and 54 caveats were filed.
—An elderly Pennsylvania woman, wfth
her daughter, looking at the marble statue
of Girard, in the college building, startled
the by standers by exclaiming: "La ! Sally,
bow white he W’as.”
-There will be no election in California
until November, as, by act of the Legisla
ture, the State election on Presidential
election years is postponed until that
mouth.
—The Philadelphia Age. says "Vermont
gives a crumb .of comfort to the Radicals.”
Well, yes. Ten thousand gain is a pretty
comfortable “crumb.” It’s ti Republica’n
“crumb!’ and a Democratic crumb—ling.
—Judge Jerry Black lately said that if
President Buchanan had known, before his
death that Frank Blair was to bo the Demo
cratic candidate for Vice President, the old
man’s heart would have broken with indig
nation.
—Senator Morton, of Indiana, who has
been spending some time at St. Catharine’s,
Canada, has materially improved in health.
It is intimated that he expects, in a few
Weeks, to take part in the Presidential cam
paign.
—A fund is being raised for the purpose
of inirchasiug a homestead for ex-Governor
Wise, of Virginia, whom the Norfolk Day
Book describes as “the noblest Roman of
the nineteenth century.”
—Governor Curtin thinks that Pennsyl
vania will give Grant a heavier majority than
was ever before cast for a Presidential can
didate, and that Seymour-will not get a sin
"gie Northern State, if the tide keeps on
rising, lie believes the vote of Vermont
will be the key-note of the final result,
—ln Columbus, Ohio, the Roman Catho
lics are building a cathedral one hundred
by one hundred and eigbty-seven feet in
dimensions, with a tower two hundred and
fifty feet in bight. The style will be that
known as the Early English.
—The Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va.,
were recently sold at public auction for
>236,000. Mr. James Erasure, jr., was the
purchaser—a young man about twenty two
yews of age. He inherited a portion of the
property, and is now the solo proprietor.
—The Hon. John M. Harlan, of Louis
ville, Intely Attorney General of Kentucky,
.. a McClellan Democrat in 1864, a colonel in
the Union army, and one of the most effect.
• ive public speakers in Kentucky, has taken
ground in favor of Grant and Colfax.
—Gov. Seymour was always noted for
giving bad advice, and he never gave worse
than when he urged bis party to “push”
the financial question, when they can t
agree which way to push it. Don’t commit
yourself, Mr. Seymour, by any more letters
on grave public topics.. Stick to water
melons.
| —Vallandigham aud S*m Carey having
been posted to speak from the same platform
recently in Ohio, each of the gentlemen in
. diguautly discfaimed all knowledge of the
aauocsccacsrt, and would not fill • *“* »p
--. pohrtment. Vallandigham is ashamed of
Cary, and Cary is ashamed of Vallandrghatn.
—Gen. Graii’ is 'acting wisely in keeping
himself in a quiet place in the West during
the campaign. He would be bored to death
st* Washington, and we fear the bores would
persecute his patience out of him at any of
the fashionable watering-places. There nre
hut few places where he could enjoy as
much peace and comfort as at Galena. One
of these few places is West Point; another,
New York.
—Senator Fessenden has gone into the
Maine campaign in earnest. His speeches
are, in many respects, the very ablest that
• have yet been delivered anywhere. The
financial question, in particular, is discussed
by him with great clearness, vigor, and ef
"* fectiveueas; but never abler than in the
Portland speech, which was published last
week. We are not surprised that Mr. Fes
senden is exerting great influence on public
opinion and the prospects ot the election.
—The platform of the New York De
mocracy demands "one currency for the
laborer and tile office-holder, the producer
apd the bond holder.” Bosh! When were
there ever. two different currencies for dif
ferent classes ? It is and always has been
either gold for all or paper for all. Only
we want to secure a gold currency, and the
Democracy are trying to perpetuate paper.
—The Chinese understood the science of
making paper money pass current, for
during the Ming dynasty the government
notes bore this indorsement; "At the peti
tion of the Treasury Board, it is ordained
that paper money thus marked with imperial
seal of the Ming shall have currency, and
be used in all respects ns if it. Were copper
taouey; whoever disobeys will hate his heed
ent off.”
NntipimlUcpublicmi
AUOUWA. g»a.
FRIDAY MORNING September 11, 1868
For T*T€.KSII
Os the United States :
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF IF DIAS A.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
FOR THE BTATE AT LARGE.
HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOST. AKERMAN, of Elbert.
alternates.
Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield.
C. 11. Hopkins, of Chatham.
FOR THE DISTRICT*.
Is/ District—A. WILBUR, of Chatham.
Alternate— E. E. Howard, of Chatham.
2<Z District— E. K. HARDEN, of Randolph.
Alternate— S. F. Salter, of Pulaski.
3<Z Dw/ricZ-E. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
Alternate— J. R. Thomasson, of Carroll.
W District—Wx. H. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts. .
Alternate— Henry Glover, ol Jasper.
5M District—J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond.
Alternate— F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe.
Ijth District —J. 8. FAIN, of Union.
Afitona/e—lsaac S. Ci SMEXTS, of Forsyth.
Ith District ■
Alternate— F. A. Kirut, of Chattooga.
THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
We lay before our readers, this morning,
one of the ablest State papers that ever
emanated from the Executive Department
of Georgia. This magnificent document
is a triumphant vindication of the sagacity
of the Republican party in selecting Rufus
B. Bullock as the Chief Magistrate of
Georgia. We arc proud of him. The
Republican party idolizes its able Gov
ernor and noble champion. The whole
people of Georgia will soon leuru to appre
ciate his reul worth, and will honor him
for the splendid courage with which he
defends the Constitution of his country
and State. The lovers of the Union
throughout this entire nation will peruse
tiiis overwhelming indictment of the re
creants who have deliberately disregarded
the sanctity of their solemn oaths, and
perpetrated this foul wrong on their fellow
citizens.
Gov. Bullock exhiius7s*the subject, and
the guilty culprits in the House of Repre
sentatives deserve some sympathy for their
insulting and dishonorable course in re
turning the damning expose of their own
treacherous infamy. We pity the poor
creatures, who, not being able to answer
the Governor’s convincing arguments,
guiltily*acknowledge the fact by the
adoption of their cowardly resolution. We
have no room for further comment. The
message needs no commendation at our
hands. It speaks for itself, and will blast
the reputation of every traitor and cow
ardly demagogue in the House that black
ened his soul with perjury by openly vot
ing against law and facts.
FRAUDULENT.
The regular reporter for the Atlanta In
telligencer, l>eing a practical man, thor
oughly understands his business, reported
the more Salient points in Blustering Bon
Toombs’ Cedar Town speech for that life
long Democratic organ, the Intelligencer,
just as the bullying blackguard uttered
them, and published them. Here is the
(Democratic reporter’s version:
In a brief review of Grant, tho speaker de
picted the degradation of the chieftain, t"i< that
h< had been proven a liar, while a member of
Johnson’s Cabinet, by five of his colleagues. lie
it a eonjeeeed traitor, tor he said ho wont into
tho councils of Mr. Johnson for that purpose.
Mr. Toombs, however, was disposed to think that
Grant had lied upon hitMtlf when ke rnade the
confettion ; it wae lie the eecond to get out of lie
the first.
When this report reached the North, the
injuatiqe and brutality of Toombs’ lan
guage even shocked the sense of decency of
the New York BieraW, and that paper ad"
ministered a rebuke that actually entered
the rhinoceros hide of the villainous
author. After the criticism of the Herald
and other journals had been received and
read in Georgia, the rascally revolutionist
wrote out his speech, ami modified the
language of denunciation in the following
manner:
He (Grant) accepted the confidential position
cf Bootetary of War from the President, had his
veracity directly impeached by five of his col
leagues, and attempted to support veracity
by plending his own treachery.
Now, notwithstanding the reiterated
declarations of the Intdligeneer* reporter
as to the correctness of the version of that
paper, the Ku-Kiux organ in this city, has
the'audacity to characterize the latter re
port as “misstatements.” Who that knows
Bob Toombs—Democrat or Republican
docs not believe that he used tlw vulgar
language attributed to him by John L.
Ells 1 Who that knows the editor of the
Ku-Klux organ does not know he will deny
the truth as frequently as denials suits his
wicked purposes i The editor of that
organ knows that Bob Toombs is a drunken
profooc, vulgar beast. He knows that in
his speech in this city he violated the
iiuuous 18th section —by the use of vulgar
ity and profanity—to » degree that would
have justified his arrest by the guardians
of the public peace and public decency.
He knows that Toombs denounced the citi
zens of Augusta for not having killed the
Governor of the State. He knows that
Toombs gloried in having trampled on the
United States' flag. He knows tltnt the
Democrats smuggled him out of the city
to prevent a repetition of his violence. He
knows that even Bkx Hill characterized
his speech as scandalous and disgraceful.
We challenge a contradiction, and would
suggest to the editor the propriety of pub
lishing an authorized version of Toombs’
Central Hotel speech.
THE DECISION OF CHIEF JUSTICE
TANEY FAVORABLE TO REPUB
LICANISM.
A few days since, the Republican ex
posed the demagogical attempt of the
Atlanta Constitution to evade the odium
justly attaching to the revolutionary pro
gramme of the Democratic party, and that
paper’s incorrect and unfair charge, that
General Grant and the Republican party
would disregard any decision of the Su
preme Court. Wc alleged, and produced
the proof from those higher in authority
with the so called Democracy than the
editor of the Constitution, that the Democ
racy contemplate no appeal to the Supreme
Court, if Seymouk is elected, but intend,
nolens nolens, Ito “trairijile the Southern
State Governments in the dust.” Blaik
says the "only” wny to succeed is to make
the military undo whatever Ims been done
in the South.
In the same article wc Contended that
the Supreme Court does not now, and never
did, possess the authority to interfere with
any legislation of Congress on the ques
tion of reconstruction. Our position, and
the position of the Republican party, based
on the matured opinions of the greatest
constitutional lawyers in the land, is that
the question as to the legality of any State
Government is a political one, and .can
only be decided by the legislative depart- ’
ment of the Government. This is not a
new question. The principle Ims already
been decided in favor of the position of
our party long before the party had an
existence. In the noted Dorr case from
Rhode Island, Chief Justice Taney,
decisions are so highly prized that the
Georgia Democracy quote them against
the plain provisions of an amended United
States Constitution, in giving the opinion
of the Supreme Court, said :
“Under this article of tho Constitution it rests
with Congress to decide what government is tho
established one in a State. For as the United
Stales guarantee to each State a republican
government, Congress must necessarily decide
what government is established in tho State
before it can determine whether it is republican
or not. And when tho Senators and Representa
tives of a State are admitted to tho councils of
tho Union, the authority es the government
under which they are appointed, as well as its
republican character, is recognized by tho proper
constitutional authority. And its decision is
binding upon every other department of the
Government, and could not be questioned in a
judicial tribunal.”
Could language be more forcible ? If we
had employed the terms of the Chief Jus
tice as an editorial, the Democrats would
have denounced the sentiments as the mad
ravings of a partisan. Gentlemen of the
Democratic press, 4ill you dig up the
bones of the lamented Taney, who was a
Democrat when many of you were in your
twaddling clothes, antt burn them for de
ciding favorable to the principles amt
policy of the Republican party before there
was such a party ? Apply the above de
cision to Georgia, at the present time, on a
question as to which is the legal Govern
ment, that with Chas. J. Jenkins at its
head, or the one administered by Rufus B.
Bullock, and the language of Chief Jus
tice Taney is that the legislative De
partment of the Government having de
cided favorable to the latter “its decision
is binding upon every other Department
of the Government, and could not be ques
tioned in a judicial tribunal.” Frank
Blaik understands this, and hence he does
not propose to appeal to the Supreme Court,
but advocates a resort to war. Are the
people ready for another war? If so, they
should be sure and not vote for Gkant and
Colfax.
♦
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
man who never lost a battle, and who did
not cry like a baby when he was nominated
Tut; Electoral Vosw of the States.—
It is generally known that the electoral
college is constructed so that it contains just
as many electors as there are Senators and
Representatives in Congress. The
ing table will be found convenient for ref-
erence :
Illiavis 16
Indiana 13
Kentucky .11
Massachusetts 12
Missouri 11
New YorWt 33
Virginia 10
Ohio ....21
Pennsylvania 26
Tennessee 10
Alabama S
Arkansas 5
California 5
Connecticut r. 6
Delaware 3
Florida 3.
vregou 3
Georgia 0
Kansas 3 I
—One of the most forcible Democratic
documents ever put in print has been often
published, but it deserves toprodiiction once
more. Here it is :
Hox. Wm. I’. Miles, Richmond, Va-
Has the bill fur the execution of abolition
prisoners after January next been passed?
Do it, and England will bestirred into ac
tion. it is high time to proclaim the black
flag, after that period. Let the execution
be with the garrote.
G. T. Bkavreuabv.
November 10, 1862.
—Grant’s silence has troubled the Demo
crats a great deal, but we don't see that they
like it any better when others speak for him.
Vermont made a ringing speech, the other
day j she had made it before, but it was
good enough to stand repetition, and it was
given with unusual effect. We expect to
hear another campaign speeyh Atom Maine
before long. These Down-Easters talk
plainly, and to the point.
—John’Covode bus been making a speech
iu Pennsylvania, in which he indulged his
hearers in reminiscences of the first months
of Andrew Johnson’s Presidency. At an
interview, shortly after his accession to office,
the question was put: “Andy, I want to
know what your policy is going to be?’’ The
reply was: “Hang them, liaiiy them, hang
them I” He was next asked : "How many
do you expect to kill?” “At least two hun
dred, including Jeff. Davis,” was the re
sponse.
—The cigars made by the French Govern
ment are excellent. Those of the Italian
Government are execrable.
GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. |
. ~ I
Masterly Vindication of the Constitn
tion and Laws of Georgia.
THE USURPERS EXPOSED.
To the House of Representatives : I
**.* * * i
Your Committee requested of me the I
names of the parties, who, in the respective
counties named, received the number of
votes next highest to the persons so de
clared ineligible.
I immediately caused the necessary ex
amination of the election returns to be
made, by two competent persons, sworn to
the due and faithful performance of that
duty ; and herewith submit the names of
the parties ascertained to have received, in
the respective counties named, tho next
highest number of votes ; namely,
While thus complying with the request
-Of your Committee", 1 deem it my duty to
gay that when inaugurated as Governor of
this State, in presence of tho General As
sembly, I took a solemn oath, that Io the
best of my ability, 1 would preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution, and though I
am only able on this occasion to defend. the
Constitution bv expressing a respectful ob
jection to the action already taken, as well
as that about to bo taken, by the House of
•Representatives in connection with the
report above given.
A due regard for my official oath will not
-permit mq to remain a silent spectator of
the. attempt thus made to deprive electors
of many counties in the State of their Con
stitutional’ right to the voice and vote in
your deliberations of their chosen Repre
sentatives ; and the placing in their stead
of persons who did not and can not receive
a majority of the votes in those, counties.
It must be apparent to the mind of every
person not blinded by prejudice, after fairly
viewing our situation in the late past, and
our present condition under civil govern
ment, that such action is a violation of the
Constitution, which you and I have sw-orn
to support.
When the armies of the confederated re
bellion surrendered to the military power
of the government of the nation, and tho
composing the civil establishment
of the insurrectionary States became cither
prisoners or fugitives, we were left a com
munity composed of non-combatants, parol
ed prisoners of war, and persons —formerly
slaves—who had been set free. IVe were
totally without political rights or privileges.
Those which we have since acquired arc
such as have from time to time been granted
us by Congress.
Under the provisions of the Congressional
law, all male inhabitants of the State, ex
cept such as were specially excluded by
law, are permitted, after framing a Consti
tution acceptable to the general government
to establish a government for the State...
All the rights, privileges and immunities
enjoyed today by any citizen of this State,
are so enjoyed, under and by virtue of this
Constitution, and are derived through tho
clemency of Congress in permitting us to
organize a civil government under that in
strument.
The attempt is now made to exclude
electors who are not of Anglo-Saxon blood
from the right of representing the voters by
whom they’ were legally and Constitution
ally elected.
Whence does the elected representative
of one county derive authority to become a
judge and decide that the representatives
duly elected from another county shall not
be seated ?
If such authority is not fbrmed in this
Constitution, it can only be delivered from
the unlawful exercise of power.
The only limitation upon the eligibility of
an elector to office, or to membership of the
General Assembly, is found in the following
provisions of the Constitutions of this State
anil of the United States, namely :
CONSTITUTION OF GEORGIA.
ARTICLE I.
Sec. 3. No person convicted of felony or
larceny before any court of this State, or olj
or in the United States, shall be eligible to
any office or appointments of honor or trust
within this State, unless he shall have been
pardoned.
Sf.c. 4. No person who is the holder of
f any public moneys shall be eligible to any
office in this State, until the same is account
-1 ed for and paid into the treasury.
I Sec. 5. No person who, after the adoption
j of this Constitution, being a resident of this
, State, shall engage in a duel in this State, or
ekewhere, or shall send or accept a chal-
■ lenge, or be aider or abettor to such "durol,
• shall vote or hold office. in this State; and
■ . every such person shall, also, be subject to
such punishment'as the law may prescribe.
Sec. 6. The General Assembly may pro
vide, from time to time, for the registration
of all Electors, but tho following classes of
' persons shall not be permitted, to register,
I vote, or hold office:
_ First. Those who have been convicted of
treason, embezzlement, of public funds, mal
feasance in office, crime punishable by law
with imprisonment i.u the Penitentiary, or
bribery.
Second. Idiots or insauq.persons.
ARTICLE I.
Six. 1. If. 4. No person holding a Mili
tary Commission, or other appointment or
; office, havitl|f any emolument or compensa
tion annexed thereto, under the State or
. United States, or either of them, except
’ Justice of the Peace and officers of the
militia, nor anv defaulter for public money,
nor for any legal texes required of him,
! shall have a seat in cither House ; nor shall
1 any Senator or Representative, after his
■ qualification as such, be elected by the
r General Assembly or appointed by the
I Governor, either with or without the advice
and consent of the Senate, to any office or
' appointment, having any emolument an
nexed thereto, during the time for which
he shall have been elected.
•’ 5. The seat of a member of either House
1 shall be vacated on his removal from the
district from which he was elected.
Sec. 3 3. The Representatives shall be
citizens of the United States who have
attained the age of twenty-one years, and
who, after tho first election under the Con
' slitulion, shall have been citizaus of this
State for one year, and lor six months resi
dent* of the counties Irotn which elected.
ARTICLE IV.
Sec. 1. ‘1 3. No person shall be eligible to
th? office of Governor who shall not have
been a citizen of the United States fifteen
years, and a citizen of this State six years,
and who shall not have attained the age of
thirty years.
Sec. 2. *1 5. A person once rejected by the
Senate shall " not be re-appointed by tlie
Governor to the same office during the same
session, or the recess thereafter.
article v.
Sec. 10. *! 3. No person shall be Judge of
the Supreme or Superior Courts, or Attorney
General, unless, at the time of his appoint
ment, he shall have attained the age of thirty
years, and shall have been a citizen of this
State three years, and have practiced law for
seven years.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES.
Louisiana 7
Maine 7
Maryland 7
Minnesota 1
Miatissippi 7
Nevada 3
Nebraska 3
New Hampshire. .m.. 5
Now Jersey 7
Rhode Island 4
South Carolina it
Texas 6
Vermont 5
West Virginia 5
North Carolina...,;. 9.
Wisconsin 8
lowa 8
Michigan 8
I
Total 31
A It TI C L £ X I V.
Sec 1. No person shall boa Senator or Rep
resentative in Congress, or elector of the
President and- Vice President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the United
States, or under any State, who, having pre
viously taken an oath as a member of Con
gress. or as any officer of the United States,
or as a member of any State Legislature, or
as an executive or judicial officer of any.
State, to support the Constitution of tho
United States, shall have engaged in insur
rection .or rebellion against the same, or
given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of
each House, remove such disabilities.
CONSTITUTION OF GEORGIA.
ARTICLE XI.
Sec. 1. As the supreme law. The Consti
tution of the United States in pursuance
thereof, and all treaties made under tho au
thority of the United States.
Sec. 2. As next in authority thereto, this
Cohstilution.
From the foregtAug it must be freely ad
mitted that no person is made ineligible
under our Constitution on account of race or
color.
That neproes are citizens and electors of
the State, and therefore entitled to all the.
privileges enjoyed by other citizens and
electors, and Subject only to the same re
strictions, is further demonstrated by article
1, section 2, and article 2, section 2 of the
Constitution, as follows :
ARTICLE I. ,
Sec. 2. All persons born or naturalized,
in the United States, and resident in this
State, arc hereby declared citizens of this
State, and no lawi shall be made or enforced
which shall abridge the privileges or immu
nities of citizens of the United States, or of
this State, or deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws.
And it shall be the duty of the General As
sembly, by appropriate legislation, to protect
every person in the due enjoyment of the
rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed
in this Section.
ARTICLE 11.
Sec. 2. Every male person born in the
United Stales, and every male person who
has been naturalized, or has legally declared
his intention to become a citizen of the
United States, twenty-one years old, or up- j
ward, who shall have resided in this State
six months next preceding the election, and
shall have resided thirty days in the county
in which he offers to vote, and shall have
paid all taxes which may have been required
of him, and which he may have had an op
portunity of paying, agreeably to law, for
the year next preceding the election (except
as hereinafter provided), shall be deemed an
elector, and every male citizen of the United
States, of the age aforesaid (except as here
inafter provided), who may be a resident of
the State at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution, shall be deemed an elector, and
shall have all the rights of an elector, as
aforesaid.
Provided, That no soldier, sailor, or ma
rine, in the military or naval service of the
United States, shall acquire the rights of an
elector by reason of being stationed on duty
in this State; and no person shall vote, who,
if challenged, shall refuse to take the follow
ing oath:
“I do swear that I have not given, or re
ceived, nor do I expect to give, or receive,
any money, treat, or other thing of value, by
which my vote, or any vote, is affected, or
expected to be affected, at this election, nor
have I given or promised any reward, or
made any threat, by which to prevent any
person from voting at this election.”
I am aware that gentlemen argue that the
eligibility of the colored elector to office'
should have been affirmatively stated by
specific enactment in the Constitution, in
order to vest in him that privilege.
It might with more propriety be argued
that a constitution framed by delegates who
were voted for by eighty-five thousand black
men and twenty-five thousand white men,
and ratified by the votes of seventy thousand
black men and twenty-five thousand white
mens did not carry with it that privilege to
the white elector, because it was nut affirma
tively stated.
Admitting, however, that this privilege
ought to have been so grunted, and we find,
that, by Paragraph 3 of Article XI of the
the Code of laws, known as
Irwin's Code, continues of force, when not
inconsistent with the Constitution.
Section 1648 of that Code is as follows:
Among the rights of citizens are the enjoy
ment of personal security, of persona! liberty,
private property, and the disposition thereof,
tho elective franchise, the right to hold
office, to appeal to the courts, to testify as a
witness, to perform any civil fiHictiou, and to
keep and bear arms.”
Section 1849 of the Code states that “ all
citizens arc entitled to exercise their rights
as such, unless specially prohibited by law.”
Sections 1859 and"lßsl specially prohibit
females and infants—both of which classes
are citizens—from exercising certain of the
rights of citizens.
Will any’one declare that these sections
are inconsistent with the Constitution ?
Will any one < e..y that the negro is a
citizen ?
11l the Constitutional Convention which
framed the Constitution, under which we
act; on the 15th day of February, 1868, Mr.
Waddell, of Polk, moved a reconsideration
of so much of the journal as related to the
striking out of the 10th section of the report
o? the Committee on Franchise, for the
purpose of offering the following as a sub
stitute for said section, namely : “ White
men only shall be eligible to office of truth,
honor or profit., or employment, whether
municipal, judicial or political, in this State,
and white men only shall serve as jurors in
the courts. 1 ' This motion was voted down
by a vote of 103 to 19. If the Convention
intended that white men only should hold
office, why did they not adopt Mr. Waddell’s
motion ?
Again, is it reasonable to suppose that a
class of citizens, who had been recognized
and commissioned aS officers to execute the
Reconstruction acts,by holding the elections,
and who had been qualified officers of the
Convention which framed our Constitution,
should be now any the less eligible undey
the Constitution which they participated in
framing, unless the right they then enjoyed
hud been curtailed, or entirely withdrawn
by express enactment 1
No, gentlemen; the framers of the Con
stitution made no distinction between elec
tors, or citiz ens, on account of race or color,
and neither can you without violating it
It is argued that this can be done under
Paragraph I, Section 4, Article III: “Each
House shall be the judge of the election re
turns and qualifications of its members, and
shall have power to punish them for disor
derly behavior or misconduct by censure,
tine, imprisonment, or expulsion ; but no
member shall be expelled except by a vote
of two-thirds of the House from which he
is expelled.”
Each House is the judge only as to whether
its members are qualified according to the
provisions of the Constitution, and of laws
made in pursuance thereof; but the House
certainly shall not ‘judge” members to be
ineligible or disqualified, because their po
litical sentiments or the color of their skin
is not acceptable to the majority ; nor shall
they, in case there be a doubt as to the Icgit
imacy of such an act, place the weight of
that doubt against the person on trial.
Having first silenced, en masse, the votes
of twenty-five of your members, and then by
resolution, in defiance of the Constitution,
declared them ineligible, you now propose to
fill their places by citizens- who failed to re
ceive a majority of the votes iu their re
spective counties.
Is that a republican form .of government
where a majority of the electors rule? Are
not the privileges of a citizen “abridged”
by your action ? Hoes not the Constitution
ot the Unitpd States guarantee to each
State a republican form of government, and
to the citizens all their privileges or immu
nities ?
Is it not tlte duty of Congress, by appro
priate legislation, to enforpe that Constitn*
on 11 ?
Have we, from our past experience, any
reason to believe that Congress will fail in its
duty ?
But, reasoning from motives of policy
alone, tho denial of the right of colored men
to hold office will but stimulate a desire on
their part, which has not heretofore existed,
to press themselves forward into official po
sitions.
At the result of an election for delegates
to the Constitutional Convention, when none
participated except the negroes and the few
white friends of self-government who were
not overawed by the opponents of Recon
struction, we find an assemblage of one hun
dred and sixty-nine members, of whom only
thirty-three were persons of color, and in the
late election, when every possible means was
used to prevent white persons from becoming
candidates on the popular side of the ques
tion, out of one thousand two hundred and
eighty-three persons elected to office, only
forty-five of that number are colored.
Add to these facts that, with a Genpral
Assembly of two hundred and • seventeen
members, but thirty-one are colored, and it
must be apparent to the unprejudiced mind
that the colored men have not acquired that
insatiable thirst for office which is so charac
teristic of our own race. The denial, how
ever, of a well established right will beget
contention for the enjoyment of it.
In conclusion, 1 most respectfully and ear
nestly call upon you, ns lovers of our com
mon country aud well-wishers of tho peace
anß good order of the State, to pause in the
suicidal course upon which you have entered,
urged on, as you are, by bold, bad men out
side your body, whose wicked counsels have
ouce drenched our land in blood, and whose
ambition now is to ruin that which they can
not rule.
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ASSIGNEE’S SALE IN BURKE.
WILL BE SOLI). AT THE RESIDENCE
of Adan McNatt, Esq., in Burke county,
on the 28th day of September, 1868, the following
property, to-wit: Two Common Bod-Steads,
Three Bureaus, Two Dozen Chairs, Five Rocking
Chairs, Three Tables, Two Tete a-Tetes, Five
Washstands, One Candle-Stand, Three Lamps,
Two Side-Boards,,Two Book-Cases, Four Pairs
Andirons, Two Pairs Shovels and Tougs, Ten
Goblete and Tumblers One Mule, One Horse, One
Yearling, One Two-Horse Buggy, One Peddler
Wagon, One Rake, Two Garden Hoes. Five
Planting Hoes, Twenty Plows, Five Axes, Two
Garden Spades. One Forty-Five Saw Gin, One
Set of Banning Gear, One Bngar Mill, etc., etc.
also,
Will be sold before the Cbijrt House door iu the
town of Waynesboro, Burke county, Ga.. on the
FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER, 1868, all
the Real Estate of the said Adam McNatt I now in
Bankruptcy), consisting of (2,21-1) two thousand
two hundred and fourteen Acres of Laud, more or
lees, in said couuty of Burke (excepting fifty acres
with dwelling, set. apart to the Bankrupt), lying
in the 71st District of said county, mostly ou tho
waters of Little Buck-Head Creek, aud constitu
ting a very valuable tract; and,
ALSO,
Richmond county Lands, 150 Acres, adjoining
Bath Lands, on Little Spirit Cieek, formerly
property of James McNair ; and a Fine Summer
Residence in Bath, with six and one half acres
adjoining, the health of which is not surpassed by
any locality in the South.
Sold under an order of the Hon. A. G. Foster,
Register iu Bankruptcy, free from all incum
brances ot the creditors.
Waynesboro. Ga., Septembers, 1868.
H. II PERRY,
septi—law - Assignee.
Assignee’s Sale.
Agreeably to an order from
Hon A. G. Foster, Register in _ Bank
ruptcy. will be sold, before the Court House door,
at Appling, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTO
BEK, next, within the legal hours of sale one
tract or parcel of Land, lying in the county of
Columbia, on the waters of Sullivan’s Creek, aud
adjoining lands of Wm. S. Dunn, D. Colvin, and
D. Marshall, containing (425) four hundred and
twenty-five acres, more or less Also, a certain
Ji. fa,, issued from Columbia Superior Court, iu
favor of Thomas K. Blalock James M. Harris,
Administrator of W. 11. Pullin, deceased, and one
prommissory (negotiable) note on Joseph G. Mar
shall, deceased. Sold as the property of Thomas
K. Blalock, a Bankrupt, for the benefit of his
creditors. The land will be sold free from all
encumbrance.
At the same time and place will he sold a prom
issory (negotiable) note on James L. Eubank,
with William Bennett, security, for tho benefit of
the creditors of George T. Dunn, a Bankrupt.
Thums--Cash, in the currency of the country.
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of Columbia county, Georgia, who has been
adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition
by the District Conrt of said District.
Thomson, Ga., September 11, 1868.
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Retailers of spirituous liquors
whose County License have expired, or who
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Official.
Proclamation by the Governor.
Whereas, Law abiding citizens from man.
sections of tho State unite in communications t
this Department, setting forth that misguide!
persons arc stirring up strife among the penal
by unlawful acts of violence against tho perL*’
ahd property of citizens, on account of p,
opinion; and that persons distinguished f
their hostility to tho Government of tho United
States, and of this State, ato promoting said act
of violence by publicly denouncing the laws a
revolutionary, unconstitutional and void »ni
declaiming in a mannner • MtrdTtig to excite re
sistanoe to the lawful authority of tho Bute aud
to persuade others to join In a combined resist
ance to, and a disregard of tho civil rights of
citizens ; aud whereas, it is further commun?
cated that the inevitable result of said acts of
violence and insurrectionary appeals is al road •
becoming manifest in the rapid spread of a di?
position on the part of those who maintain th
validity of tho laws of Congress, aud of the Sta?
Governments established thereunder, to protee't
themselves by arms from said acts of violent?
and from said combinations against thefr c ;.?’
rights; and whereas, tho General Assembly La
adopted the following preamble and resolution’
*• Whereas, It being the practice of a portion of
tho citizens of this State to assemble i n l ar ’
numbers with arms, for the purpose of exercising
in military tactics, and for other unlawful pur
poses, without authority of law, and to.the terror
of tho good citizens thereof: Resolved, there
fore, by tho Senate and House of Representative?
That His Excellency tho Governor oo ami h c ;’
hereby respectfully requested to issue his procla
maton prohibiting such armed and unlawful
assemblages. But tho right of Hie people to
peaceably assemble for the consideration of auv
matter shall not bo impaired by any proclama
tion of the Governor.”
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
of this State, and Commander-in-Cliief o f the
army and navy, and of tho militia thereof d 0
issue this my Proclamation, commanding all
citizens to abstain from any acts of vioFonce
against person or property, or from persuasion*
which will tend to excite to violence or unlawful
combinations, and from all iutotforenoe with the
constitutional right of persons to assemble f or
political or other peaceful purposes; and to wield
prompt and respectful obedience to the officer*
of the law under all circumstances; and also
charging upon the said officers the exercise of
great vigilance, that tho majesty of the civil l aw
may bo vindicated, and great caution that all
their acts may be fully justified by and done in
pursuance of our Constitution and laws. A n J
to make known that no authority has been
granted by the Executive for tho formation ot
armed or unarmed organizations of any kind or
character; and that the drilling or exercising in
military tactics, with arms, of any organized
body of men within this State, except the army
of tho United States, is unauthorized, unlawlul
and against tho peace and good order of the
State, and must bo immediately suspended.
The following extracts from the Constitution
and the Code are commended to the thoughtful
consideration of tho public:
ARTICLE I—CONSTITUTION.
Sec. 1. Protection to person aud property is
the paramount duty of government, and shall be
impartial and complete.
Sec. 2. All persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and resident in this State, are
hereby declared citizens of this State, and no
laws shall be made or enforced which shall
abridge tho privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States, or of this Siato, or deny to
any person within its jurisdiction tho equal pro
tection of its laws. And it shall be tho duty of
tho General Assembly, by appropriate legisla
tion, to protect every person in the due enjoy
ment of tho rights, privileges and immunities
guaranteed in this section.
Sec. 5. Tho right of the people to appeal to
the courts, to-pptition government iu all matters,
and peaceably to assemble for tho consideration
of any matter shall never bo impaired.
Sec. 6. Every person eharged with an offence
against the laws, shall have the privilege and
benefit of counsel, and shall bo furnished, on de
mand, with a copy of the accusat ion and a list of
witnesses on whoso testimony the charge against
him is founded, shall have compulsory processes
to compel the attendance of his own witnesses,
shall bo confronted with the witnesses testifying
against him, and shall have a publie and speedy
trial by Un impartial jury.
Sec. 9. Freedom of speech and freedom of the
press are inherent element.* of political liberty.
But while every citizen may freely speak, or
write,or print on any subject, ho shall he respun
sible for the abuse of the liberty.
Sac. 10. The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses,papers and effects against
unreasonable searches and seizures shall not he
violated, and no warrant shall issue, but upon
probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation,
particularly describing the place or places to be
searched, and the person or things to be ssized.
Sec. 11. No person shall bo molested forhis
opinions, or be subject to any civil or political
incapacity, or acquire any civil or political ad
vantage in consequence of such opinions.
Sec. 14. The right of the people to keep and
bears arms shall not be infringed,
CODE.
Sec. 4249. Insurrection shall consist in any
combined resistance to the lawful authority of the
State with intent to the denial thereof, when the
same is manifested by acts pf violence.
Sec. 4250. Any attempt, by persuasion er
otherwise, to induce others to join in any com
bined resistance to the lawful authority of the
State, shall constitute au attempt to incite ineur
reetiou.
Sec. 4251. Any person convicted of the offence
of insurrection, or attempt at insurrection, shall
be punished with death, or if the jury recommend
to mercy, confinement in the Penitentiary for a
term not lees than live nor more than twenty
years.
Ssc. 4252. If any person shall bring, introduce,
permit, or circulate, or caused to be introduced,
circulated, or permitted, or aid or assist, or be in
any manner instrumental in bringing, introducing,
circulating, or. printing -within this Stale, any
paper, pamphlet, circular, or any writing for the
purpose of exciting insurrection, riot, orconspi
racy, or resistance against the lawful authority of
the State, or against the lives of the inhabitant*
thereof, or any part of them, such person or
persons so offending shall be guilty of a high mis
demeanor, and on conviction shall lie punished by
confinement in Uie Penitentiary for a term not
less than five uor longer than twenty years.
The conditions. upon winch parole was granted
to these persons in tins State, who were prisoners
of war, are that the persons paroled “ will not be
disturbed by the United States authorities so long
as they observe their parole aud the laws in force
where they reside.’’
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor : Governor.
"B. B DeGbaffenreid,
Secretary Ex. Department. septi— 3t
Executive Def abtment, (
- Atlanta, Ga., Septembea 9, 1868.)
Ordered, That James 51 Bishop, Exp, of !“ e
county of Dawson, be, and he is hereby, appoin
ted Compiler of tho Laws of tho present session
of the General Assembly, by virtue of the au
thority vested in mo by the 1045th section of the
Code of Georgia.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By tho Governor; tlo-vornor.
B. B. DeGraffenreid,
' Sec’y Ex. Department. sepll—3t
Executive Defabtmbxt, 1
Atlanta, September!), 1868. 1
To the Ordinary of Madison County :
Whereas, The House of Representatives hate
given official information that a vacancy
occurred in\he representation from tho coun
of Madison, by the death of tho lion. '■ •
Moon ; and whereas, ia all such cases it is o’
tho duty of the Governor to issue n wr,t ' ‘
election, directed to the Ordjnary of th® eoun ■
in which such vacancy may occur— ,
Therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor, am>
Co»mander-in-Chief of the army and nayy
thia State, and of the uoiltia thereof, do ws
this, my Writ of Election, requiring you,
giving due and public notice thereof, ay® r
twenty days, to cause an election to be helu,
and for said county of Madison, in manner a
form as prescribed by law, to fill said vacancy.
Given under my hand and the seal of the EX
tive Department, at the Capitol, in Atia
the day and year above written. •
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By the Governor : Governor.
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