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@he Loyl Georgian,
AUGUSTA, GA, FEBRUARY 3.
TO THE PUBLIC.N ™
As many rumors have been circulated
in this community, which are calculated to
misrepresent me in relation to my con
nection with the ‘C.lored American’ lately
.published in this city. 1 hereby make
known that the paper was suspended from
a want of funds to carry it'on. . I was
fully authorized by Mr Shuftes, befer:
the suspension of the paper, to make any
arrangenicnt I thought best to raise money
to keep it alive—and if I could not raise
money on its credit Q‘vhichl found im-~
possible) to suspend it. -, Since. its sus
pension I have received a letter from Mr.
Shuften, fully appgoving of the course I
have pursued [leadmits that urder ex
isting circumstances I could bave done
no better. I trust this explaintion will
satisfy those who have beeu led to be
licve that [ bave done Mr. Shuften an
injustice in his'absence. ~ ~ ° _
"R Y. TeOr,
Agent for the late ‘Colored American,
THE NEW GLORGIA CODE.
A committee, appointed by resolution
of the recent Convention, for the pur
pose of preposing and reporting to the
General Assembly, a system of laws, to
carry into ' effect the sth paragraph of |
the sth section of the 2d article of the‘
Constitution, have reported a ‘system of
laws,” for ' the O:nefit (?) of ‘persons of
color. ‘ “
* This code has been carefully prepared
by able lawyers, men who, we believe,
intended to act/wisely and - secure justice
to the freedmen, but in our opinion, they
bave labored in vain. What necessity is
there for a ‘negro code?’ 1t is claimad
that the freedmen require different laws
from white men. This depends upon the
intention of the law makers. If they
desire to keep the freedmen always in
‘an iuferior position and prevent their
improyement, it can be most effectually
accomplished by a system of laws, like
those prepared. by the Commission. But,
if it is their intention to give the freed
men fair play, and an opportanity to im
prove their condition, they have, we be
lieve, acted unwisely, for ‘they must be
| aware, that the effict of such Legisla~
tion will be iniurious to all *persons of
color,” by denying to them rights, which
‘white men enjoy. We object to all such
distinetion.
It may be claimed with some reason,
that because the freedmen are iguorant
and but rocently emancipated, the right
of sufferage should be denied them, but
upon no principle of justice, can men
claim, that, for these reasons, civil rights
should be denicd them, In the name of
500,000 colored persons in this State, we
demand that no distinctiou shall be made
before the law. We demand this be
cause it is right, and because being citi~
zens, they are entitled to the rights, gran
ted to other citizens.
The admission of a co'ored lawyer, to
practice before the Supreme Court of
the United States, was virtually a decis
sion that he was a citizen of the United
States. If colored men are citizens,
they are ‘entitled to all the privileges aud
immunities of citizens in the several
States.’” See See: 2d, Article IV, Con-~
gtition of the United States. Therefore
laws, that are not applicable alike to all
citizens, are unconstitutional and void,
unless the Constituuion itself concede
the right to make such distivction, But
it does nowhere give the right to deprive
citizeus of their nataral rights, ‘except
as a punishment for crime, whereof the
parties shall have been duly convieted.
Therefore no citizen can be deprived of
the right to sue and testify, except as a
punishment for crime. Ina word, ali
laws, which make sueh distinction, are
pull and void. ,
We' notice that a bill is before the
Legislature of this State ‘to exclude
freedmen from other States from this
State’ Such a law would be elearly una
constitutional and void ; for, being eitix
&ens, they are ‘entitled toall privileges
%m, io other go s, thev shall
have thesome privi leg%* exewption and,
freedom, graited go other feitizens§ and,
one citizen, sball apply to all. :
. Weare surprised that men, as able
and as learned in the.‘l_awfi as fl‘;fie com
mittee, who have prep%éd“thge syéflcmgof
laws, mentioned above, should bave fallen
into the error of suppnsing, that one
system of laws can be enacted for one
class of citizens, aud a different system
for anether class. We can acuount for
it only upon the hypothesis, that they
hold that ‘persons of color’ are not citi
zens. The same rules must now apply
to all persons of color, for all are free.
It is well known that, in some of the
States, colored men have all the rights,
conceded to other citizens aud that Con-~
¢fress ig' about to counfer upon ‘them, in
the Disttrict of Columbia, the same
rights that other men enjoy. Tt.is evis
dent that the President is of the opinion
that ‘they are ci.t?zedé, ‘and, we believe,
that most of the able lawyers North and
South have the same opiuion;»-, It istrue
that ‘the Supremwe Court of the Uuited
States have not, siuce the emancipation of
the slaves, decided this question, but .no
well-informed man doubts, that they will
decide that free persons of color, born in
this country, are citizens, when the ques
! tion is brought before them.
A most remarkable order has been
ssued by General Sickles, commandiog
the Department of SBouth Carolina which
we publish this week. = 'We do notspeak
for the Governmcnt and do not pretend 1
10 possess infonflation tuat is not known
to the public. But we have reason to
believe that General Sickles has the eon
fidence of the President and General|
Grant, and, it is well knows, is a poli
tion of great shrewdness. We therefore
lufer that the order is issued with the
kuowledge and approbation of the Presi
sénnt if pot by his direction. The
Charleston Daily News thinks that the
regulations under existing circumstances
are ‘sound judicious and practical.” We
heartily concur with The News, and are
pleased to know that it has arrived at the
same conclusion that we have 7. e that
‘all laws shall be . applicable alike at all
the inhabitants.
We call the attestion of our readers
particularly to the second paragraph,
which directs t'at ‘all laws shall be ap~
plicable alike to all the inbabitants. No
person shall be held inc~mpetent to sue,
make cowplaint, or to testify, because of
cclor caste.’
As the laws of South Carclina are not
applicable alike to all the inhabitaats, this
order of General Sickles nuilifies the
code wherever a distinctiou is made. In
other words he says to South Carolina,
if y u do not give equal justice to all,
you shall not enforce your laws. We be
lieve that this acuicn of General Sickles
is upon the ground that the freedmen are
citizens, aud, being citizeus, are entitled
to the same ‘privileges, aud immunities
that other citizens enjoy.’
We notice that several bills have beer
introdu ed iotu the Legislature ®of this
Scate, applica.le only to freedmen. We
call the attention of tixe memb rs to the
action of General Sickles, and advise them
to pausc before they go too far, if they do
not wish to make thewselves aud the
State ridiculous. N
If South Carolina had passed laws, ‘ap
plicable alike to all the inbabitauy., she
would not have been hnmiliated by Geunes
ral Sickles Let Georgia, with this ex
ample before ber, preserve her diguity by
refusing to pass laws that do uot aply o
all Guvervor Jenkins will no doubt
veto unconstitutioual laws if any should
be passed. % ,
Winkfield, an lunglish thoroughbred
who woun the Ascot cup iu 1856, was
lately recoguized drawiug a butcher’s cart
in Loudon. Tue butcher had bought
bim for thirty shillings.
Gov. Patker, of New Jersey eonciudes
bis valedictory message as follows: Not
a sirg-eright of the S.ate of New Jersey
bas beeu yielded and pot.oue of her cit
zeus, duriug my adwiuisiration, has becu
deprived of Lis Liberty without due pro
oess of law. :
WL MAN AS TH ~ HELPAMEET
3 OF MAN. =% 'S
“Woman, as the helpmeet of man, is
L 8 . S b%4 '
sutrounded by duties ae i an@.
. : S
WSng as his, h%&er \’:.'f”. t};
‘pature of them may be. They labor
through different means for the accom
plishment, of common_gbjects. Tffig is
fully true ‘in ' those ‘countries’ only,
‘in which w-man holds the position;-uni
} versally accorded in their and many other
civilized countries. JrHdNedg
'Among many nations woman'is degra
ded, She bas little or .no edixcatibn;
her mind not being exercised or developed
is, of course, lacking in streogth’ and
power, and she never attains to any real
perfected womanhood. She then becomes
either the pampered slave or household
drudge of man. The Indians and other
uneiviiized tribes oblige their squaws, 28
they call their women, to ecultivate the
land, to raise and harvest their scauty
crops, bring in the game whieh they have
killed, and perform the worst menial ser~
‘vices for them. o |
In many Eastern countries women are
kept in the harems of their lords, shut out
from all society save among themsevles;
and t e’r occupations are of the mcst
trifling nature. Their mental and moral
natures are entirely neglected— their souls
are entirely uncared for. Their idle and
luxurious life is no less a life of servi
‘tude than even that of the NSouthern
‘slave. Raise your hearts in gratitude to
God, freedwomen of the South, that you
live under different institutions; that you
live in a land where books and schools
are as free to women as to men; —and not,
‘as free to black as white;—where woman
‘way think and Jeel and act as ability is
'given her. :
“With the glorious gift of freedom,
God lays upon you responsibilities to be
borne, burdens, not grevious, but for your
souls good. Those faults. which slavery
has engendered and myrsed may not be
tolerated in a free people the sins that
linked znreproved in the darkness of its
shadow will be put to open shame by the
light of freedom. ¥Your position has
heen - suddenly chavged from that of
chattles to that of free, responsible
beings. Youare endowed with the right
to acquire knowledge, to be respcctable,
virtvous and ' chaste; the law allows it,
the Lord required it. Mothers bear in
mind cvery day and ez’gr?‘y howur of the
day, ttat the children whom God has
given you are to be reared, not for the
slave-pen or awtim block but for free
dom; that when the little limbs are grown
and the tender mind matured, the child
grown to be a man or woman, he or she
must think and act for 'h_im or herself,
und think too, that y2er son may be re
spected and respectable, your dawghters
chaste and virtuous, or the reverse ot
these, accordiug &s you train them in
childhood. God has given to none of us
a graver respounsibility, a more sacred
charge than this. It has been said that
amoug the eolored pcople, children are
severely whipped by their pareuts, when
in » passion. Thisisa relic of slavery,
and a shame and dasgrace to all who are
guilty of it. Are you tempted to be
avgry with your child ? stay! think of
your Heaveuly Father, whose childreun
we all are, and who is. slow to anger
and of teuder mercies; control your
own passi‘uns and correct your children
in u spirit of love; you will thus plant
io their little hearts seed, that shall, in
later years, spring up and yield an abun
dant barvest. : :
“I'he mothers, wives and daughters of
the colored people have an important part
to perform in the eleviting and refi ing
of their race. Slavery scarce recognized
their sex; on the plant ticns they Jrere
worked in the fields, side by side with
men—they were without edueation, and
bad little opportunity for the develops
meut of a wowauly nature, Idleness is
uot essential to refinemens ; the wowan
who labors for ber daily bread, as ; most
of you are now doing, is not of necessity,
ccarse. ' Some of you may become educa
ted, many may learn, at least, to read
and write, avd nearly all may do some.
thing for the elevation of themselves and
their race. vl 8 ‘
o Personal neatness and c’eanlinesgpisy
?f g;‘t *. Many of youn Da
your o n homes, With your fawilies al
you : make your heuses as tidy and com,
forta m% dress your chilg {
neatly if possii‘flé; and labor to make your
bome attractive to husband and children
Close things may secm to you trivial, but
fi!‘éfh‘?fl&figfiow from tbem. The komes
of -a-nasion- deeide -the -character of her
people ; how important then the position
of her who presides over that home and,
makes it what she will. o
~ We are obliged to omit our account
of the Union of free schools of coiored
children. It will pe published in our
hexbibgue, . o i
We are happy to inform our'readers
in Edgeficld District, South Carolina,
that Licutenans Bickerstoff, has returged
to Hamburg, and opened " his Court,
where the claims of freedmen may be
investigated and justice given, We trust
that the days of robbing are at an erd
in that town, and that the Lientenant
will investigate some of the charges,
made against theseé in ecommand during
his absence-
We are happy to inform our. colored
friends in this, State, and South Caro
lina, that the déemand for labor is greater
than the supply; and for that reasun,
wages have gone from ten and twelve
dollars pes month, to fifteen and eigh
teen dollars per month ~ If you wish to
secure situation at good wages go to the
office of the .Agent of the Frecdmen’s
Bureau in your county, and if he does
not secure a situation for 'you, let us
koow and we will aésist.you, Captain
Campbell of the Freedwen's Bureau in
this city is unable t» supply the demand
for labor made at his ¢ fice.
We are glad to make this anpounce
went, because it promises well for the
future of our State. The light is break
ing; daikness is passing away, and pros
perity, we feel assared, will bless our
people. Treat the colored people fairly
and puvish the villains, who beat, rob
and murder them, and you will find free
labor profitable, 7
Orrice State Sver. F ScuooLs,
- AvgusTa, Ga., Jan, 25, 1366.
Editor of the Loy I Georgian .
In compliance with your request I, with
much pleasiire, give you ajfew itemes,con~
cereing the Freedmen's Sehools of this
State, 4 ~ :
"1 have reéeived, for the month of De
cember, reports from teachers in fiftecn
different cities, from which I learn that,
in that month, the
* Number of sehools was 60.
* Number of teachers 70.
Number of pupils 4,658,
Number of pupils able to |
read’ 3 &2 173, -
Out of money paid to su pp%-t. of s3bools
by freed people, since the close of the
rebellion, in seven villages, (83,963) three
thousand nine hundred and sixty~three
dollars. 3
From nine schools, no reports hLave
been received; and I am, therefore, un
able to give the number of pupils in at~
tendance, '
In Savannah there are twenty~eight
schools; sixteeii-of which are under the
control of an Kducational Board of
colored men; taught by colored teachers,
and sustained by the freed people There
were, in all, thirty four colored teachers
engaged in the State in December.
The cities of Augusta, Atlan‘a, and
Macon are oceupied, exclusively, by the
Auwerican Mssivnary Associa ion; and,
with the New England Freedwen's Aid
Society, occupy Savaunah. = The latter
Society has several teachers outside of
the ecity io Chatham county; and have
teachers, 'alse, in ‘Atheus, Americus and
Columbus. £ Wiy |l
So far as the action of the freed people
is concerved, there is everp thing to en
courage those who, at the sacrifice of
home enjoyments, and general social in~
tercourse, huve engaged in this great field
of Christian euterprise; while: in the
actious, aud popular sentiuient, of the
white population, there /is much to de
plore—much to discourage us, -
Little, or nothiny, can be dome where
there no troops; and, in some placss,
schools had to be closed wpon the with
drawal of the gurrizous; in consequenee
of citizens threatening to burn the school
houses, aud to kill the teachers. {
o We hope, bowever, that a bri‘hter day
18 dqwnmg; aud that ultimately,in the
provideuce of God, the wickedness eof
wan, a 8 in b past, will be made to -ad
vauce, rather than retend, the cause of
truth aud righteousness; - and that soon,
justice an'd mirey will becowe the dis.-
tinguish g characteristios of our people.
c oes b nde (8 EBBREART, ik
« -State Supt. F. 8. Ga.
A "!ggflfl-ge,..;.f_ cted lag,
lffi"{fifiis just hoj;;:g_ '
. » gturer in that towy for ,: :
Narry ner.
T'he vote of the New Jene
ture on the gonscitutional &
was forty-two to ten. -
Fanny Young, an infay .
the bites-of a rat ip Ch’kf‘:ihz.t‘
Jan 16th. Three of the t\&.
right foot of the child hag i
away.by a rat, and the jary
verdict ‘that she, had ¢qp, 10 b
from the effects thereot’ X
~ “The’ Mobile Al , Registe, :
nated General Grang g a C\m:‘
President in 18683,
Mr. Haffey, who keeps g 2touen
in' Memplis, Tenn, vy Fobbey
days sinze of about siy thousayg;
about seventeen hundreg o v
in gold.
« The total population of the
States .in. 1860, wag 31,149 ¢:
whites 20,703, 157; slaves, 3;‘60
free colored, 476562 = ' "
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HE cheapest Family G ko
Thons cum’i‘}&c-';’f‘;'flgg;;?
Upper Markeat. i
DON'T feed the serpent who bites
the jack ass who brays for food,
you out of Jerusalem. ]
At 131 Broad St., you can have yog
repaired at reduced rates and warrun
snake about it. Also watches ang |
trade or for sale, very low. All sy
with their patronage wiil find v
and obliging, with fair treatmey
snake about it.
' Come and see for yourselves X
feed the ungrateful rerpent who bites)
D. P. BALDWIN 13( bri§
[Near the Lower Marke|
13 Augusta, Ga, 8
INFORMATION WANTY
OF HHOWARD SATTAWHNE, w
vabnah when last heard of He
some time in November last for frah
C. IHe was a dryggmner in the 1031 reg
5. C. T. Any ':nnation of his wl
willbe thankfully, recived by his fuf
office. JOHON SAI‘TARI
14
" GARD
TfiE au!;scriber, Dr GRANDT.SU.#
begs wost respectfully to intims
tire coiored population in and around
ty, that he will treat ia the practice!
and from the practical experience he'
is confident that he will de all the
uis powe: tu relisve the suffering.
GRANDISON HARRIS, 107 Bn
i 5 y
Country Prod
“IE have opemed a ' store on Wil
No. 136, near the Georgis
senger Depot, where we will keep
supply of Cwntrf‘hwuce, such ¥
Eggs, ?utter, Lakd, Meal, Tuliov,
nuts, &c¢ , &o. . |
16 KENT, COTTON & C’i
- fofle 50 NOTICE.
"A;n adjourned meeting of E. B. 4¢
Richwond couaty, No. I, late”
League, will be beld at the Hall, &8
evening next, February 6th. A fm‘ll"
of members is requested as officers ""
17 T. P. BEARD,
5 NOTICE:
‘A poblic mesiiae of £ B Associat®
\ will be held at Sprinsfield Chured,
NESDAY, Februwry Tih, commencixfl
o’clock. An address will be delivar
Eberhast, State Superistendent of ¥
Sohools. An iprtation 1o exter ded %0
to attend, particular)y \he friends of
tice-
NOTICE. ¢
A public meeting of E. R Assoc
wiil be hel 1 at Trinity Chureb,?
ovening, Febraaty bhi. Rev. ¥
will addred the ‘méeting. Too% '
rested in securing Eqaal Right ¥
vited to attend. bt ¥
. . INKORNATION T
OF Caroline ‘Barnwell, fmfi’
Mr.: Kingstou, at Culbow®
heard of in two years. Asyi
whereabouts will be thans/
office. 1963 & M