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PARAGKAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.44. Cotton, 2 c.
—Mr. Stephen Massett is giving his enter
tainment in California.
—The Chinese embassy have sailed for
England.
—Grading on the Denver Railroad has
commenced.
—The McGee assassination trial was con
tinned in Ottawa, yesterday. The testimony
is circumstantial, but strong against Whalen.
.—Figaro publishes ip prose a French
version of the “ Bridge of Sighs," by Toni
Hood, with the remark that is for the first
time given in that language.
—Napoleon is making so many French
&mators of small calibre, that the French
are beginning to call the Senate the “Second
Hotel des Invalides.”
—Lydia Thompson, the pretty cause of
innumerable suicides and duels in Russia
and Germany; is coming to a New York
theatre.
—The National Telegraph Union com
menced its Sixth Annual Convention, at the
Delaven House, Albany, yesterday. The
Convention will probably be in session two
or three days.
—A military company passing through
the streets of Ithaca, was called to halt by a
lady on the sidewalk, who called out from
the ranks her young husband and received a
kiss, when the company was again ordered
to march.
—General Toombs has made another
’ speech denouncing General Grant- But for
the magnanimity of General Grant, this
Bobodil of the South would to-day be hiding
in the swamps of Georgia.
—Hon. James E. English has been chosen
President of the “Seymour Monumental As
sociation,” formed for the purpose of secur
ing a suitable monument to the late Ex-
Goveruor Seymour, of Connecticut.
—The fashionables are now hurrying back
from Saratoga in good earnest. In one of
the Hudson river cars, a few days ago, the
conductor says, lady passengers must have
worn some $70,000 worth of diamonds.
—By the ireshet in South Jersey, last
week, property in Camden county was dam
aged $60,000 worth; in Gloucester, SIOO,-
000 worth; and in Salem, over SIOO,OOO
worth. The total loss to owners of mill
property will not fall short of $300,000.
dogs have always been exempt
from the penalties of anti-caninc legislation.
In 1838 London had an ordinance fining
dogs running at large forty pence—always
except genteel ones. How old are all our
'municipal laws?
—Gen. James Shields, who twenty years
ago was United States Senator from Illinois,
and some pears later from Minnesota, is
now i > his fifty-ninth year, a Democratic
candidate for Congress from the Sixth Dis
trict of Missouri.
—Matilda Heron has concluded to devote
her entire attention to the instruction of
young ladies for the highest rank of the
drama. Terms from one to five hundred
dollars per quarter. Poor pupils will be in
structed for nothing.
—The “wickedest woman” at South End,
in Boston, has been discovered. She goes to
rile on Sunday, never goes to church, at
tends from sixty to one hundred dancing
parties during the season, drinks up her hus
band’s medicine (whiskey), and smokes fra
grant Havanas.
—We learn from the Princeton Standard
that there is a new young millionaire in Now
York. Ills name is Louis E. Nugent, and
he is heir to the great Nugent estate. He has
$700,000 in cash, and is about 24 years old,
and Very handsome. Not engaged.
—Two Sucker girls, driving in a buggy on
a plank road, were stopped and asked for
101 - “How much is it?" “For a man mid
a horse,” replied the gate-keeper, “the charge
js fifty cents.” “Well, then, git out of the
way, for we are two gals and a mare. Git
up, Jenny!” And away they went, leaving
the man in mute astonishment
—Six newspapers are now published at
Honolulu, three of them in English and
three in the Hawaiian language. The joint
sale of- the English papers is computed nt
2,200, that of the latter at 7,800. There are
600,000 native inhabitants, and about 5,000
foreigners ; one newspaper, therefore, for
every sixty-five souls.
—Neither Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garri
son, nor Thaddeus Stevens was the author
of the oft-quoted saving : “The Constitution
is a league with hell and a covenant with
death.” It is the perverted sentence of J.
Q. Adams, who said that if the Constitution
meant so and so, “it was a league,” etc.
—General Packard (Republican) and
Judge Earrand (Democrat), the rival candi
dntes for Congress in Speaker Colfax’s Dis
trict, Indiana, are canvassing in company,
and nightly hold joint debate*. The District
used to be a close one, and on more than one
occasion was carried by the Republicans
only through the great personal popularity
* of Mr. Colfax.
* Referring to the report that General
Forrest complains that his speeches are
“mangled and distorted” by Northern jour
nals, the Pittsburgh Commercial says : “It
surely must be a dreadful thing to have
one's Speeches mangled, but there is one
tiling worse, and that is to ’mangle’ the
bodies ot those who have fallen ngutirig the
enemies of the Republic.”
—Mr. HoHtio Seymour has again and
again expressed a confidence in his election
as “serepe” »s the confidence of Hon. Sam
Tilden. The Vermont election increases his
confidence; the Maine election will make it
positive; and when, in November, he finds
it was nil misplaced—why he will enjoy the
defeat as a “ blessing in disguise”—which it
will be.
—The French are certainly ingenious iu
their modes of experimentalizing. Last
year they used dead men as their targets for
practice; this year they are testing the action
of the Chassepot rifle by firing at live horses.
The Loudon Star thinks they had already
killed Garibaldians enough for that purpose.
But it seems they had not. If, now, they
would only try their new rifle on a few live
Prussians, they might be able to test not
only the action of the Chassepot, but the
reaction of the needle-gun—killing two birds
with one stone.
—An anecdote is told of a German stu
dent in theology, who, after waiting an
unconscionable time for admission, ap
peared before the examiner “bearded like a
pard.” The learned examiner fell back
astonished, exclaiming: “ A student in
theology with a beard I” “ A beard ?” cried
the* student, with an air of equal astonish
ment, and putting his hand up to his face—
“bless me! why it must have grown while I
have been waiting iu the ante-room ?”
—The Russian people have been recently
greatly excited by the preaching of an old
Muscovite peasant named Alexis Alexan
drovitch, who, after a seclusion of several
years, appeared in the district of Samara,
declaring himself n prophet He is now
going m>», IS p!-“, asnesneing the <
approaching destruction of the Crescent and I
the substitution of the Greek Cross for it, .
an the dome of St. Sophia, at Constantino- (
pie. The Russian Government allows every
liberty of action and language to this popu- 4
lar agitator. 1
National Republican
AUGUSTA, GTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING ..September 16, 1866
PRESIDENT
Os the United States:
ULTSSES S. CftAWT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
Republican Electoral Ticket*
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOS T. AKERMAN, .of Elbert.
ALTERNATES.
Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield.
C. 11. Hopkins, of Chatham.
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist District — A. WILBUR, of Chatham.
Alternate— E. E. Howard, of Chatham.
2d District — JNO. MURPHY, of Dougherty
Alternate —S. F. Salter, of Pulaski.
3d District—K. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
Alternate—J. R. Thompson, of Carroll.
4lh District—Vlm. H. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts.
Alternate— Henry Glover, of Jasper.
sth District— J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond.
Alternate— F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe.
Wi District—S. C. JOHNSON, of Dawson.
Alternate— Isaac S. Clements, of Forsyth.
'till District—J. L. DUNNING, of Fulton.
Alternate— F. A. Kirby, of Chattooga.
COL. THOMAS J. SPEER’S SPEECH.
We present this morning the instructive
and manly speech of Col. Tnos. J. Speed,
State Senator from the Macon District, on
the question of the eligibility of colored
members. It will repay perusal. It is
from the head and heart of a native Geor
gia, thoroughly identified, before the war,
with the institution of slavery, aud an
earnest advocate of the Confederate cause
before that cause was hopelessly lost. He
is a bold and fearless man—an honor to
his State, his section and his country. The
howling of Demagogues and the piteous
squeals of cowardly Republicans has no
effect on Col. Speek. Every inch a man,
he speaks out like a patriot. Reap his
speech.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
The result of the Maine election is
highly gratifying. It demonstrates tire
truth ot our repeated declaration that the
name and fame of Grant, together with
the revoluntionary declarations of the
Blairs, Toombs, Cobbs, aud Hills, has
aroused the patriotic order of the North to
a pitch unequalled since the bombardment
of Sumter. The Ku Klux and Democratic
organs pretend to be satisfied at our ma
jority. We arc glad that for once both
parties agree. Wc are more than satisfied.
We have enough and to spare. In 18C6
wc carried nearly every Northorn State.
We are now making gains on the vote of
that year. Grant is destined to “rule the
country he has saved.”
Personal.—A communication has been
handed into this oflice, demanding the
name of the author of a communication,
written and signed by “A Dooly Colored
Man,” and mailed nt Montezuma, Georgia.
The writer characterizes the communica
tion as a “string of falsehoods." We have
reexamined the communication, and tlic
name of our indignant correspondent is
not used, even by implication. The com
munication was genuine, and the proprietor
and business manager is wholly irresponsi
ble for its insertion. The writer of this is
entirely responsible. If our aggrieved cor
respondent will, in respectful language,
satisfy him that injustice has licesi done
any portion of the Seymourites of Dooly,
he will cheerfully make the correction. No
charges have been made against the party
alluded to, and wc fail to comprehend his
right to speak for either the citizens or his
party. We are willing to do justice, and
if our Dooly correspondent has done any
body injustice, we will make the amende.
The individual penning the above is per
sonally responsible for anything he writes,
and wishes it distinctly understood that
he will stand to the rack.
►
Vote i*on the Man.—ls the Republi
cans had nominated Gen. G hast the
would. Indeed, they were the
first to ittntion his name in connection
with the high office of President. Then
why not vote for the man Grant. Hr is
brave, noble, generous, self-reliant, inde
pendent and patriotic. He will prove a
better friend of tlie South than any.lnwt
licking politician in the whole North. It
is not bad policy for the people to look out
for No. 1, and it would be exceedingly
good policy for them to vote for a No. 1
man for President. He is sure to win. Al
ways bet on the winning horse.
An Explanation by Comparison.—Sup
pose that the Southern Confederacy had
been established, and John Minor Botts,
W. W. Holden, Andrew Johnson, or some
other distinguished opponent of secession,
were now a candidate for the Presidency,
with Gen. Lek on an opposite ticket. Is
it not reasonable to suppose that the Grev
backs would cast their ballots almost unan
imously for Gen. Lee ? Certainly they
would. Well, U. S. Grant is the Lee of
the North. What the South would do for
Lew tire North will do for Grant. Op
position is useless.
Only $86,565.84 Per Annum. -Colonel
Hulbert, Superintendent of the State
Road, has already reduced the running
expenses of that road at the rate of $86..
665.84 per annum, without the slightest
effect on the working management of the
road. Yet foe Commissioners wish to take
the place of one Superintendent.
$9 Per Day and Mileage.—There arc
over twenty members of the Georgia Legis
lature, elected to stay at home by the peo
ple, now drawing $9 per day out of the
depleted Treasury of the people. This is
economy and respect for the will of the
people with a vengeance.
GRANT AS REVEALED RY HIS
PRIVATE LETTERS.
Jhe following private letter of Gen.
Grant, written in 1863, before his capture
of Vicksburg, reveals his private senti
ments, modesty, and noble impulses better
than could a .volume of outside panegyrics.
Read it, Georgians; and sec the hidden
treasures concealed by native modesty un
vieled in every line and sentence:
MtLi.iKEn Bend, La., April 21, 18G3.
Dear Father : Your .letter of the 7th,of
April has just this day reached me. I
hasten to answer your interrogations. When
I left Memphis, with my past experience, I
prohibited trade below Helena. Trade to
that point had previously been opened by
the Treasury Department. I give no per
mits to buy cotton, and if I find any one
engaged in die business I send them out of
the Department, and seize their cotton, (or
the Government. I have given a few fami
lies permission to leave the country, and to
take with them—so far as Memphis—their
Cotton. In doing this I have teen deceived
by unprincipled speculators, who have suc
cessfully smuggled theifiselvcs along with
the army in spite of orders prohibiting them,
and have been compelled to suspend this
favor to persons anxious to got out of Dixie.
I understand that Government has adopted
some plan to regulate getting the cotton out
of the country. Ido not know what plan
they have adopted, but am satisfied that any
that ean be adopted, except for Government
to take the cotton themselves, and rule out'
peculators altogether, will be a bad one. I
feel all army followers, who are engaged in
speculating off the misfortunes of thoir
country, are really aiding the enemy more
than they possibly could de by open treason,
should be drafted at once and put in the first
forlorn hope.
I move my headquarters to New Carthage
to morrow. This whole country is under
water, except strips of land behind the
levoes, along the river and bayous, and makes
operations almost impossible. I struck upon
a plan which 1 thought would give me a
focthold on the east bank of the Mississippi
before the enemy could offer any great re
sistance. But the difficulty of the last one
and a half miles next to Carthage makes it
so tedious that the enemy cannot fail to dis
cover my plans, I am doing my best, aud am
full o( hope for complete success. Time
has been consumed, but it was absolutely
impossible to avoid it. An attack
upon the rebel works at any time since I
arrived here must inevitably have resulted
in the loss of a large portion of my army,
if not in an entire defeat. There were but
two points of land, Haines Bluff and Vicks
burg itself, out of water at any place from
whieh troops could march. These are
thoroughly fortified, and it would be folly
to attack them as long as there is a pros
pect of turning their position. 1 never
expect to have an army under my com
mand whipped, unless it is very badly
whipped and can’t help it; but I have no
idea of being driven to do a desperate or
foolish act by the howlings of the Press, It
is painful to me, as a matter of course, to
see the coursq pursued by some of the
papers. But there is no one less disturbed
by them than myself. I have never sought
a large command, and have no ambitious
ends to accomplish. Were it not for
the very natural desire of proving
myself equal to anything expected of me,
and the evidence my removal would afford
that I was not thought equal to it, I would
gladly accept a less responsible position. 1
have no desire to be an object of envy or
jealousy, nor to have this war continue. I
want, and will do my part toward it, to put
down the rebellion in the shortest possible
time, without expecting or desiring any other
recognition than a quiet approval of my
course.
I beg that you will destroy this letter ; at
least, do not show it.
Julia and the children are here, but will
go up by tho first good boat. I sent for her
to come down and get instructions about
some business I want attended to, and see
no immediate prospect of attending to my
self. Ulysses.
Closed ut For a .Week. —We learn that
the I’hotographers of this city have deter
mined to take a week's holiday, as the
Democrats of both sexes, have such long
faces, since the reception of the news from
Maine, that it is impossible to take natural
pictures of them. It is no use, Sir Photo
graphists. Better take them as they are
now. They will be a devilish sight longer
after the October elections, and in Novem
ber their faces will be as long as a shadow
just before sunset. At that time the sun
of their revolutionary hopes will set for
ever.
• • *
On Ho!—The bummer editor of the Sa
vannah Republican says that the labors of
the Seymourites to carry Maine were “com
paratively insignificant." What a whopper!
Did not George 11. I’endletox, Sunset
Cox, Richard O'Gohman, and nearly every
prominent politician in the East, canvass
the “Pine Tree Statu ?” If the Republican
had said the labors of his party were “com
paratively iusigni'ficaut" in results he would
have hit the nail mi the head.
Heard, From.—“ Y.,” the telegraphic
correspoudent of the Ku-Klux organ in this
city, turns out to be a prominent member of
the Damfhool family. He charges Colonel
Hulrkrt, Superintendent of the W. & A.
Railroad, with the responsibility for a recent
collision on that road. Everybody, except
the family of Damfuools, knows that it is
not the Superintendent, but Master of Trans
portation, that has charge of the running ot
trains. The Master of Transportation is said
to be a Democrat.
Don't Troubli Yourselves, Gentle
men.—We notice that the Bainbridge Argus
aud Macon Journal if- Messenger have got
up u lively, newspaper discussion over the
question as to whether the accession ot
Governor Brown, Hons. Foster Blodgett
and James Johnson 'to the Democratic party
would be a thing to be proud of. Don’t
trouble yourselves, gentlemen. These dis
tinguished Georgians know the treasonable
and revolutionary designs of your party too
well ever to-sympatbize or act with it. They
have taken a through ticket for the Union
and for freedom.
I ———
—“ Brick Pomeroy” is trying to find out
what kind of clay he is made of. Following
out the investigation, he wnile to Senator
Pomeroy, inquiring to what branch of flic
Pomeroy family lie belonged ? The Senator
replied that “ Brick” might take which
branch lie pleased, but he (the Senator)
belonged to the other branch.
—ls the word “cabled” is allowed, an '
exchange -is of opinion that we shall then 1
have people “stcamboated '’ to Albany, "car- 1
ed ’to Philadelphia, “schoonered' to the 1
oyster bods, and ‘ slooped” through Plum *
Gut. r
—New York city expended $3,020,832
for school puqioseslast year.
THE ASHBURN MURDER IN
GEORGIA.
Official Report of General Meade.
Headq’ks Thud Military Dist., |
(Dep’t Georgia, Florida and Alabama), [
Atlanta, Ga,, July, 1868, )
Gen. U. S. Grant, Commanding U.B.Army,
Washington, D. C.:
General—The numerous malicious and
false statements that have been given to the
public through tho press, for political aud
partisan purposes, in relation to the trial and
the treatment of witnesses and prisoners im
plicated in the murder of Mr. G. W. Ash
burn, of Columbus, require on my part n
special report, which is herewith made, and
to whieh I beg to ask 1 may be authorized
to give that publicity which my vindication
requires. The accompanying papers con
tain all the. instructions, orders, and tele
grams that have emanated from these
Headquarters, and the replies made thereto.
A careful perusal of these papers will give
an accurate history of the whole transaction,
and will exhibit the part taken by each in
dividual, whether military or civil, under my
control. A brief synopsis of these papers,
and a succinct statement of the facts of the
case, is herewith submitted : On flic 30th of
March last, a little after midnight, G. W.
Ashburn, ex-member of the Constitutional
Convention of Georgia, was assassinated at
•a house where he was boarding in the town
of Columbus. Immediately on receiving
notification, I instructed tho commanding
officer of Columbus, Capt. Mills, 16th infan
try, to make every effort in cooperation with
the civil authorities to detect and arrest the
criminals. Capt. Mills having reported, the
civil authorities were disposed to act with
energy, I declined the frequent recom
mendations of parties to remove them, but
subsequently, Captain Mills reporting that
the energy of the civil authorities was all
show and merely assumed, and that he
could place no reliance on them, 1 removed
the Mayor and Board of Aidermen, together
with the Marshal and his Deputy—appoint
ing others and appointing Captain Mills
Mayor. About the 6th of April, nearly a
week alter the assassination, Captain Mills
having obtained sufficient.evidence to war
rant his acting, arrested, by my older sonic
ten citizens of Columbus, either as partici
pators,'accessories. or having some knowl
edge of the facts of the case. These per
sons were subsequently released on bonds
to appear and stand their trial. Finding
that owing the character of this crime, in a
great measure political as well as social,
there was no effort on the part of the com
munity where it was committed—cither
through the authorities or among the citi
zens—to ferret out the guilty, I deemed it
proper to ask of the War Department that
a competent detective officer should be sent
to report to me, that he might assist Captain
Mills in his researches. On the 18th of
April, Mr. Reed haying arrived from Wash
ington, was sent to Columbus to report to
Captain Mills. On Mr. Reed reaching
Columbus, and being made acquainted with
the evidence then procured, he earnestly
urged that I send for a Mr. Whiteley, then
in Kansas in the]service of the Internal Re
venue Department. My application to Com
missiouerltollins being courteously received
and acceded to, Mr. Whiteley arrived
about May Ist, and was immediately
sent to Captain Mills. Soon after
his arrival at Columbus, Mr. Whitely re
ported he was satisfied Capt. Mills was on
the track of the criminals, and had arrested
some of the principals, but that it was
utterly impracticable to obtain any testi
mony from any party in Columbus, as their
lives would be forfeited if they dared to
disclose what they knew, and he recom
mended that certain parties whom he be
lieved had a knowledge of the affair, should
be removed to some secure place, where,
being protected, they could, without fear,
disclose such facts as were in their posses
sion. Upon receipt of this communication
1 authorized the transfer of the parties
named to Fort Pulaski, and directed the
commanding officer of the post to permit the
detectives, Whitely and Reed to have free
access to the prisoners, and to have a general
direction of their treatment. At the same
time I cautioned the detectives that in their
efforts to extract the facts as known to these
parties no unusual, or cruel, or physical means
: should be resorted to." The result of this
movement was the disclosure ot most im
portant facts, by several parties who had not
' dared to speak out until under the protec
-1 tion of the Government. From the state
ments made by these prisoners, a number of
B others were arrested, and brought to Atlanta
early in June. Being compelled to go
1 North myself, and other circumstances,
- delayed the organization of the Military
v Commission till late in June? Finding on
, my return the most false and exaggerated
statements in regard to the treatment of
prisoners and witnesses, I called on Gen.
Sibley, commanding the sub-distriet of Geor
gia, for a report on their treatment at
this post (Atlanta), and on Capt. Mills and
• Capt. Cook for reports as to the treatment of
those confined at Columbus and Fort Pulaski
respectively. 1 also called on Mr. Whiteley,
the detective, for a report on the same sub
ject- All these reports are herewith sub
mitted, and it will be seen from them, and
, from the affidavit of the prisoners themselves
attached to Mr. Whiteley’s report, that the
1 exaggerated statements which, for political
purposes, the press have given circulation
to, are all false, and have no foundation be
yond the fact admitted by Mr. Whiteley, that
he did operate on the fears of two negroes,
Wells and Stapler, whom he believed knew
something : but that, soon finding they knew
nothing, they were released, Aud, with the
exception of threatening to shave their heads
and confining them (or some hours in the
cell at Fort Pulaski, previously arranged for
the punishment ’of refractory soldiers, they
were well treated, and were in no wise in
jured. The trial.has been in progress now
some twenty days, and the evidence for the
prosecution made public. It is for the De
partment and the people of the country to
judge whether, with the evidence as adduced
on the trial, I was not only justified but
compelled to arrest and bring to trial the
parties implicated. My conscience is free
that throughout the whole transaction 1 have
been animated by but one purpose, which
was to secure the ends of justice and vindi
cate the law. The character of the crime,
the social status ot the parties implicated in
its commission, and the doubt as to the guilt
of the several parties—had no influence on
me except to increase my determinatian to
bring the fact* out, even ut the risk of for a
time putting persons to inconvenience who
might subsequently prove innocent. Hence
marly arrests were made of parties who were
subsequently released, on its being proven
that they were neither participators or had
any knowledge of the case. In all these
cases these parties were well treated, and on
being discharged were paid the usual witness
fees from the period they were.removed from
their business. Had the civil authorities
acted in good faith and with energy, atid
made any attempt to ferret out tho guilty—
or had the people of Columbus evinced or
felt any horror of the crime and cooperated
in any way in detecting its perpetrators,
much that was seemingly harsh and arbi- 1
trary might have, and. would have been
avoided—but the case required prompt and !
decided measures, which I (fid not hesitate 1
to titke; and am satisfied now that when the
wbcic truth is imvle n»»blie ; »» it will lie l»v !
the documents accompanying this report, 1
and the evidence on the trial, that every 1
right-thinking man will justify me. '
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, '
George G. Meade, ’
Major-General U. 8. A. I
SPEECH
OF
HON. THOS. J. SPEEB,
Senator froa 22d Dirtrict, Ga.,
ON THE RIGHTS OF THE COLORED
MEMBERS.TQ RETAIN THEIR
SEATS IN THAT BODY.
Mr. President and Senators.:
I desire, very briefly, to submit the reasons
that will actuate mo in casting tny vote upon
this all-important question. I would infinitely
prefer remaining silent, and simply vote
upon the question, were I not conscious of
the fact that my motives will be impugned
aud grossly misrepresented by the excited
populace. It is, however, a pleasing reflec
tion and a great solace to me, in my gloomy
moments in these days of social ostracism,
rowdyism and terrorism, to know that, upon
the Democratic side of this hall, are intelli
gent and charitable gentlemen. And if I
would not be accused of flattering them—a
thing which Ido not intend to do—l should
say they are men who have ever been true,
during this session, to the principles of the
party and men which they are representing,
and I am proud to know that there are
amongst them those that accord to me hon
esty of purpose.
I do not propose to go into the constitu
tional question of the subject now under
consideration, because I never propose to
speak about anything that I do not
know, and not being a lawyer or states
man, I shall sav very little upon
that point. But, in my humble judg
ment, the second section of the Bill of
Rights in our Constitution, the Civil Rights
Bin, and the third section of the fourteenth
article of tho Constitutional Amendment,
give to colored persons the right to vote and
hold office. Another reason for my vote
on this question is, that we, as a Senate,
have no jurisdiction in the case. We
cannot give the question a finality, or pre
vent continued vexed and unprofitable agi
tation —a condition of things whieh all good
men must deplore. Let the question go to
the proper tribunal for determining consti
tutional law, and receive its final status
and quietus, and I am satisfied.
Reference has frequently been made
here, by Senators who were members of
the State Constitutional Convention, to
what the Convention “ intended” upon cer
tain subjects. I, too, was a member of that
Convention, and in reference to that 10th
section, so often alluded to here, I will say
that fully two-thirds of that Convention
believed that, even after it was stricken
out, negroes would still have tho right to
hold office. The remainder—about one
third—believed that it was a doubtful
question, and would have to be settled by
the Courts or Congress, aud tbc principle
reason assigned by the majority for having
it stricken out, was that tho Constitution
would never be ratified with that provision
there. These reasons were given pri
vately. Now, I ask you Sena
tors which were right, the two-
thirds of that Convention, which
had not a doubt upon their minds
on the subject, or the one-third who had
“grave doubts,” and simply desire to shirk
responsibility, and leave it to the future. The
Senatorial District which I represent proba
bly contains as much intelligence as any in
the State, and during the canvass I was
often told that the Constitution which we
had framed gave the negro every right in
common with the white man, and this state
ment was not confined alone to the politi
tician —the clergy, and every other profes
sion asserted it most unequivocally. Every
Democratic paper in the State, and fully
ninety-nine-onc-hundredths of the voters of
the Democratic party made similar state
ments, including the great head-centre, who,
in times that tried men’s souls, was too pru
dent for bravery, and who is now too brave
, for prudence. [The Hon. gentleman meant,
we presume, Mr. B. 11. Hill]. Why, Mr.
President and Senators, I do not honestly
doubt but what three-fourths of the Demo
cratic party in thq State would have voted
for that Constitution if they had thought or
believed that it did not confer on the colored
man the right to hold office or serve as a
, juror. I will venture the assertion that the
’ Senator from the 39th District [Mr. Hol
combe] whois a Democrat to the back-bone,
t the present Democratic elector for the
7th Congressional District [Col. Waddell],
and Colonel L. M. Trammell, all of whom
f were members of that Convention, and
] Democrats, good and true, made speeches
j in Northern Georgia in which they affirmed
that under that Constitution a negro had
’ every right in common "with a white man.
j And to-day, doubtless, the Senator from the
[ 39th will vote to unseat the Senators from
f the 2d and 20th. Oh ! consistency thou art
a jewel.
1 call upon the great I Am to witness the
truthfulness of the assertion that I am now
going to make : I never told a negro that
he had or had not the right to hold office,
or that he was better than a white man, or
that he would get 40 acres of land and a
mule for voting the Republican, or if he
voted the opposite ticket that the Democratic
party would re-enslave him and bis children,
I never expended a dollar to purchase their
votes with mean whiskey or tobacco, but I
did tell the most intelligent of them that if
honored with their votes I would never voto
to deny them any rights guaranteed to
them by' the acts of Congress and our
State Constitution, and, so help me
God, 1 will suffer my right arm to
be severed from my body, and my
tongue to cleave to the roof of my mouth
before I will be guilty of denying these Sen
ators of their seats to which they have been
legally elected by their constituents, aud in
accordance with our Constitution ; for, were
I to do so, I would certainly think that I
had been guilty of the crime of perjury. I
am not called upon to vote whether I thiuk
these men, on account of color, are not ineli
gible to seats upon this floor, but whether,
under our Slate Constitution and the laws of
Congress, they are entitled to it. As before
stated, I never advised a colored man to run
for any office; but still, there were two
elected from my District to the Legislature-
Turner from Bibb, aud Glower from Monroe.
I thought at the time it was not politic or
expedient for colored men to aspire to office,
unless remarkably well qualified to fill the
positions to which tfiey aspired with credit
and honor to themselves. The same advice
I Would, if -called npon, most unhesitatingly
give to white men. But I am not called
upon to decide whether colored men are
qualified to seats as legislators, but whether,
under our Constitution and the Reconstruc
tion acts of Congress, they arc eligible;
and, viewing it from my standpoint,
I consider them quite as legally entitled to
seats in this Legislature as ‘ though their
complexion were white as snow or dark as
jet. I have always believed that there should
be a qualification for voters, and that it
should be an intellectual or literary qualifi
cation ; and werw such qualification required,
I believe it would be the means of elevating
all of our citizens, without regard to color or
previous condition. I have seen white men
led and driven to the polls like so many cat
tle or hogs.to the slaughter-pen, aud voted
by those controlling them, without the poor
ignorant, deluded creatures having the
faintest conception of what would be the result
to which their voting would ultimately lead.
In the memorable days of secession, there t
were thousands of voters in this State who •
voted frtr secession in obedience to the die- ]
tation of their leaders,‘and ns a party mens- ,
ure, who did so' ignorantly, and thereby
plunged the South into one of the bloodiest
revolutions in the annals o! history; and
these deluded dupes soon repented iu
sack-cloth aud ashes for the suicidal war
they had inaugurated in obedience
to the behests of their leaders. I merely
advert to these facts as going to show that,
according to my opiuion, if our votprs were
intelligent, they would thereby lie better
prepared to vote understandingly Upon all
questions of vital importance, upon which
they are called upon so often in our govern
ment to cast their suffrages. It was not
seriously contemplated, at the commence
ment of this session, to declare colored mem
bers of the Legislature ineligible. It is true,
the Senator from the 3 llh District introduced
a resolution of inquiry, but the principal
object of that resolution was a thrust nt Ex-
Governor Brown, and intended to prejudice :
him with the colored members of the Legis
lature—he then being a candidate I'orU. S.
Senator. I have no disposition to make
public my declarations on this subject of the
eligibility of tire negroes to scats in this body
by Honorable Senators on the Democratic
side of the Senate, which have been made to
me privately since this Legislature has been
in session, and which I will not personate or
particularize. Ido most positively assert
that several Democratic Senators have said
to me that they were clearly entitled to their
seats under our Constitution, and that we
would have to endorse and subscribe to it
until our Constitution was amended or
modified by the manner prescribed in said
Constitution or the reconstruction acts of
Congress were declaret) null and void.
Mr. President, it is almost useless to re
fer to the construction given of our Con
stitution by the Democratic party in the
recent canvass as it well known by the files
of their public press, and a reference to
the speeches ot their 1 oaders during the
canvass, and also by the well authenticated
fact of that party nominating to office, and
voting for and electing negroes.
My opinion is that this action of the
Legislature is made without any regard to
the Constitution and the acts of Congress,
but simply as a party measure in further
ance of the triumph of the principles of a
party, and to subserve some ends iu this
State not yet made public.
We behod certainly a strange spectacle
in the action of this Legislature, in the voting
out of their seats of persons who have been
legally elected, and that too in accordance
with the Constitution by persons who are
themselves clearly ineligible to seats in the
Legislature under the 3d Section of the
14th Article of the Constitutional Amend
ment If negroes arc ineligible to scats in
the Legislature, 1 ask why did the Repre
sentatives vote them lull pay for tho
time they had served, thus robbing the
Treasury of the State of thousands of dol
lars ‘I
As to the eligibility of negroes to hold
office under our Constitution, we have the
assertions of the Democratic party iu the
recent canvass, a large majority of tho
Republican party, and more recently, of
some of the ablest jurists in this State, who
say that if the negro has the right to vote
he has the right to hold office, and does not
require any enabling act to give him the
right to do so.
In conclusion, I desire to say a few words
to the negroes of the -State : If it should
be irrevocably decided that they are not
entitled to hold office, I would earnestly ad
vise them to vote for the Democrats to the
back-bone—men who will never deceive
them,and who will not prove treacherous and
desert them after they have ridden in to power
by their votes. A Senator who was elected as
a Republican,has said agreat deal about what
he conscienciously believes, and that same
Senator has said to me, since the 'agitation
of this question, that he believed the Con
stitution did confer upon the negro the right
to hohl office, and that Congress would so
decide. Yet, that Senator has since risen in
his seat, and, in a harangue before this Sen
ate, has held to the couUary. Truly, a re
markable change has come over the dream
of that gentleman. I repeat, that if the
negroes should not be able to hold office,
they should, by all means, vote for Demo
drats to tho backbone, who will not prove
recreant to the trusts reposed in them, but
will come up fairly and squarely and do for
them just what they hate promised, without
any hesitancy, and that, too, boldly, fear
lessly and independently, and without regard
to outside pressure, and will uevea be found
shirking aud dodging upon important ques
tions—as Republicans, Senators and Repre
sentatives, have done in the Legislature.
The maxim of Crockett, to “be sure you
are right, then go ahead,” is my polar star,
and I intend to vote as I conscientiously
believe that I should do, without any regard
to the approving smiles of the women, the
plaudits of the lobby, the denunciations of
the press, or the threats of midnight fiends
and assassins. It is true,. there is no one
that likes the approbation and esteem of his
fellow-citizens better than myself, but I don't
desire their esteem at the sacrifice of princi
ple and in open violation of the Constitution
that I have solemnly sworn to support.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Office Ass't Suf’t Georgia Railroad, 1
Augusta, Sept. Uth, 1868. j
RATES ON VIRGINIA
SALT, COAL AND LAND PLASTER.—UntiI
further notice, on and after the 15th instant, tho
‘ following will bo tho chargo per car load of
16,000 lbs., on
Coal from Chattanooga to Augusta $33 10
Coal from Coal Creek via Knoxville to
Augusta 45 lu
Salt from Bristol to Augusta 76 65
Land Plaster from Bristol to Augusta.' 5t I#
8. K. JOHNSON,
sopls—-30t Assistant Superintendent.
GKAIN AND^FLOUiTsACKS! ’
The old established
“Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory”
Is prepared to furnish GRAIN SACKS of any
desired- sizo or quality, and at short notice.
Also,
COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR SACKS
Neatly printed to order.
Information promptly furnished upon applica
tion. W. B. ASTEN A CO.,
je 17—3 m 25 Pearl Street, New York Ci(s.
United States Marshal’s Sale.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA—SOUTH
ERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
JOHN T. DORAN, Libellant,)
vs. | IN
Sloop Marum and Caroline, )
Iler Boats, Tackle, Apparel I ADMIRALTY,
end Furniture.
Under and by virtue of a writ of tenditione
exponas issued out of the Honorable the District
Court of the United States for the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia, in the above entitled canse, dated
Sep»eml>er 10, 1868, to me directed and delivered,
I will sett at Public Auction, on TUESDAY, the
15th day of SEPTEMBER install’,, between the,
legal lioiu-s of sale, before tlie Court House, in the
city oi Savannah, Ga., the Sloop Mariam and
Caroline, her Boats, Tackle. Apparel and Furni
ture.
Dated at Savannah, Ga,, this 10th day of Sep
tember, 1868.
WM. G. DICKSON, ‘
sepl2-td U. S. Marshal, District of Georgia,
IN THE DIS TRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
States, for the Southern Dirtrict of Georgia.
In the matter of i
CHAS. W. DOUGHTY, [ IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt.
To whom it may concern: The undersigned
hereby gives notice ot his appointment as As
, signee of Charles W. Doughty, of Angusta, Rich
niond conntv,Georgia, within said District, who
has been adjudged a Imnkrnpt upon hie own peti
tion by the District Court of said Dirtrict.
JOHN S. DAVIDSON,
au U—lawJw Assignee.
.NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
INBANKRUPTCY.
rpHIB 18 TO GIVE NOTICE: That on (h
1 11th day of September, A. D. 1868, a Wan
in Bankruptcy was issued against the estat 7?
BEALL A MUIIPHY, 1
of ,iu the county of Harns, aud StateofG«
gia, who Imve been adjudged Bankrupt, on
own pelitions-.ami that the pay ment'of any debts u, i
delivery of any property belonging to such
rnpts, to them or lor their use, and the transfer i
any property by I hem,are forbidden by law that
meeting of the creditors of the said Bankrupt, ,
prove their debts, and to choose one or
assignees of their estate, will be held at a Court i
Bankruptcy, to beholden at the Register's
Newnan, Ga., before ChartesG McKinley
Register, outbe 6th day of October. A. ljl’lxiil
at o o’clock a. m. ’
WM. G. DICKSON
sepll— It U. 8. Marshal as Messenger.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF 'fm
United States for the Northern District of
Georgia. 0
In the matter of )
JOHN W. ADAMS, [IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. J No. 123. *’
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the' Court
for a discliarge from ali his debts provable mid.,
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice h
hereby given to all persons interested to anneai-»»
the 6tn day of October, 1868, at 10 o'clock a i U U
at Chambers of said District Cdhrt before Alex
G. Murray, Esq., one of the Registers of e ,ii
Court in Bankruptcy, at the Register's office in the
city of Grifiin, Georgia, 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 meetings of creditors will he
held at the same time and place.
Witness, tho Honorable John Erskine
I seal 1 Judgo of said Dstrict Court, and the
IBEl 8E '■* seal thereof, this 12th day of fient’hcr
1868. W. B. SMITH,
sepl6—law2w* Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF tITe
United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of ]
WILLIAM C. NUTT, jIN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. J No. 206
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
toappearon the 6th day of October, 1868, at iq
o’clock in the forenoon, at chambers ofthe said
District Court, before Alex G Almray, one of
tlie Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at
the Register’s office in the city of Griffin, Ga
and show cause why the prayer of the said pets.
tion of the Bankrupt should not be granted.
And further notice is given that tbc second and
third meetings of creditors will be held at tjie
same time and i>lacc.
Witness, the Honorable John Erskine,
[seal] Judge of said District Court and
the seal thereof, this 12th day of Sep
tember, 1868. W. B. SMITH,
scpl6—it* . Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
JL United States for tho Northern District of
Georgia.
In th* matter of i
JOHN B. ORR, YIN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. ) No. 193
* The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court lor 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 6th day of October, 1868, at 10
o’clock in tho forenoon, at chambers of the said.
District Court, before A G Murray ,'Esq., ouc ol
the Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy,
at the Register’s office in the city of Griffin,
Ga., and show cause why the prayer of the said
petition of tbc Bankrupt should not be granted.
And further notice is given that the second and
third meetings of creditors will be held at the
same time and place.
Witness, tho Honorable John Erskine,
[sbal.] Judge of said Court, this 12th day of
September, 1868. W. B. SMITH,
sepld— It* Clerk.
; TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
j 1 United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )IN BANKRUPTCY.
* W. S. EVERRETT, !■
t Bankrupt. I No. 313.
: The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
l for a discharge from all his debts provable under
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 18<ii, notice is
hereby given to all persons interested tS appear
1 on the 7th day of October, 1868, at 10 o’clock a.
) m.,at Chambers of said District Court before Law
1 son Black, Esq., one of the Registers of said
Court in Bankruptcy, at tho Register s office, in
Atlanta, Ga.. and show cause why the prayer
’ of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be
i granted. And further notice is given that the
> second and third meetings of creditors will be
.held at the same time and place.
’ Witness the Honorable John Erskine,
[seal, j Judge of said Court, this 12th day ol
September, 1868. W,. B. fiSIITH,
t seplli—lt* Clerk,
’ TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE '
’ I United Stater, for the Southern District of
Georgia.
I In the matter of i
I TIIOS. W. MANGHAM, >IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt, ) No. 376.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all his debts provable under
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is
i hereby given to all persons interacted to appear ou
, the.2d <lay of October, 1868, at 1(1 o’clock in the
j forenoon, at chambers of the said District Court.
, before A G Murray Esq., one of the Registers of
1 the said Conrt in Bankruptcy, at Macon, Ga., and
! show cause why the prayer of the said petition of
f 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.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 11th day of Sep-
1 tember, 1868. JAMES McPHERSON,
sep!6—lt ’ Clerk.
Assignee’s Sale.
W’ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door, in the town of Sparta, Han-
' cock county, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OC
TOBER next, between tho legal hours of sale,
tho following prpperty, to wit ;
Five hundred and sixty-seven and one half
(567 J Acres of Land, more or less, on the oast
bank of the Oconee river, in said county, and
adjoining lands of Wilkins Harper, Wyatt Har
per, and Alpheus Butts. Also, one judgment
and execution against John Bass, of Newton
county, principal and interest amounting to
$919.19.
Sold as the property of Josse G. Butts, senior,
Bankrupt, of Hancock county, free from the in
cumbrance of lions, under a decree in Bank
ruptcy. Terms cash
ARCHIBALD C. McKINLEY,
scpl6—law3w , Assignee, ctc_
Postponed Assignee’s Sale.
117 ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
> ’ House door, in the town of Sparta, Han
cock county, -an the FIRST TUESDAY IN OC
TOBER next, between the hours of 10 o’clock
a. m. and 3 o’clock p. m., the following prop
orty, to wit:
Four hundred and sixty two (462) acres of
Land, more or less, situated within one mile
the village of Linton, in said county, and ad
joining lauds of J. Stone, J. W. Duggan, and
Stanley. Also, the following promissory notes
and other evidences of debt,-viz: Ono Note on
D. S. Brown, as guardian of J. E. Brown, for
$856; one Noto on John F. Mulligan for $393;
one Note on J. A. I’. Kobsog for $l3B ; one At
torney’s Receipt for a Noto on F. S. Howard
for $175 ; one Receipt from William Ingram for
a Note on G. M. Burton for $218.75.
Sold as the property of James R. danse,
Bankrupt, of Hancock county, Georgia, frce
from tho incumbrance of lions, by order of Hon-
A. G. Foster, Register in Bankruptcy.
Terms cash.
ARCHIBALD C. McKINLEY,
sepl6—law3w Assignee.
QOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, 88.
O At Macon, the Ist day of September, A.V-,
1868.
The undersigned hereby gives notice es Io -
appointment as Assignee of GEORGE M- LU
WAN, of Maoon, in the ’county of Bibb an
State of Georgia, within said District, who has
been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own peti
tion by the District Court of said District.
sep!6—law3wJOHN P. FORT-_
SOUTHERN DISTRICT -OF GEORGIA-
At Thomasville, Georgia, Sept. 14th,
The undersigned hereby gives n ®Jj e ® ®l vi
appointment as Assignee of JOSEPH 10 '
colored, of Thomasville, in the county of Thom*
and State of Georgia, within said District, »•»
has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon hie own P e
tition by the Di-trict Court of said District.
11. H. TOOKE,
salt—law3w* Assignee.
Wanted to Rent.
A. sMAbL WITH E ONE OR TWO
ANDA KITCHEN, ndjaccnt to the
office.
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