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[C<irrespiiudt*n<-«- of the Charleston Courier.]
m* washinctox.
Washington, July 10.
The N<*w York Democratic nomina
tions vvt-ie .-ome\vii;ii tme.\|>ecle*l, but
are i»om rallv well received by all con
servative men. It is true that some of
the Conservative lte|mh!icuns, or old
W higs, who never voted y Democratic
.lieket aie disappointed at the result,
but even lh**v are so sick ol the tollies
and excesses o! Radicalism, that they
will make no opposition to the New
York nominees.
The Democratic platform, taken as
a whole, will be acceptable to a major
ity ot people, and as to the nomination
ol Governor Horatio Seymour for the
Presidency, the country may be con
gratulated both upon the possession of
a statesman of such sound and elevated
views and upon the wisdom anti pa
triotism that di< tuted his selection.—
Governor Sevmour has lor a long lime
been regarded as one of the Iasi hopes
of constitutional Democracy, and he
would have been heretolore made the
standard bearer of the party represent
ing that principle, but for the reason
that he was disinclined to accept the
responsibility, and thal he was thought
by many to be too nigh a man lor pop
ular appreciation in this country. Hud
he been present** 1 by the Charleston
Convention in 1S60 for the Presidency,
he would no doubt have been elected,
and the country would have escaped
the evils which have befallen it.
General Blair is popular with the
soldiers, and will unite the entire Dem
ocratic strength of the West. In Hue,
the nomination will have the supprt of
the Democial.ic parly proper, and of a
vast number of anti-Radicals, and ol
the young tnr-c in the Northern States,
who are to exercise the right of suffrage
for the Hrsi time next November.
Some ol the Radical members of the
House affect to be jubilant over the
nomination, as one that can be easily
beaten. But others of that patty, more
sagacious, regard it with much concern.
Senator Morion’s remarks in tiie
Senate ujMin the New York platform
and nominations may be considered as
expressing the views ot the Radical
party on the subject of the new issues
which ure now presented. All finan
cial and other issues sink into insignifi
cance, in Senator Morion’s view, when
compared with the great issue now
presented by the New York platform
and by Mr. Blair’s letter, upon die Re
construction law of Congress. The
real arid all important issue before the
people wdl lie whether the State gov
ernments imposed upon the States late
ly alienated by the Acts of Congress
and military three, will stand. This
conflict may not end with the Presi
dential election. It will probably be
the subject of strife between the two
parties until the political character of
Congress shall be changed.
Congress appreciates the importance
of legislating upon the subject of the
participation of the Southern Slates in
the Presidential election. It will pre
scribe the conditions upon which States
shall have votes in the Electoral Col
lege. Mr. Edmund’s Bdf would ex
clude all States not organized at the
time of the election. These States
would be Virginia, Texas an cl Missis
sippi.
Virginia may reject her Slate Con
stitution. If those three States remain
ns they are under provisional govern
ments, they will be excluded by Con
gress from taking part in the Presiden
tial election. But they will no doubt
choose electors and claim the right ol
voting. LEO.
Washington, July 11.
So far as we have yet learned, the
South and West receive the nomina
tions and the platform of the New York
Convention with unbounded enthusiasm
and approbation. The friends of Gen
eral Hancock and of Chief Justice
Chase are disappinled, but they will,
nevertheless, give a cheerful support
to the nominees. The friends of Mr,
Pendleton cannot complain of the re
sult, lor he himself, and his ardent sup
porter, Mr. Vallandighatn, were the
most efficient among those who thrust
upon Governor Seymour the honor
which he would have willingly declined.
As the foremast man of the Demo
cratic party and the ablest of the living
statesmen in the country, Governor
Sex^nour was entitled to the nomina
tion. He can be elected if any Demo
cratic candidate could be. If he car
ries the thrpe great central Slates,
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, he
will be elected without any support
fiom the South. Of New York there
is no question. Pennsylvania, as we
have every reason to believe, will sus
tain him. Ohio is doubtful. There
will be the great battle-ground of the
campaign. Slate elections occur in
Ohio and Pennsylvania on the second
Tuesday of October. From the result
of these elections some opinion may he
formed as to the grand issue of the con
test.
A disposition has been manifested in
Congress to discuss the merits of the
Democratic platform and nominees,
but gentlemen have been reminded that
they will have lour months for that pur
pose before the people. Members on
both sides are eager to rush into the
canvass, and the session will no doubt
be closer! by the 22<\ instant.
The Seriate has passed a Bill, in
which the. House will concur, regulat
ion the representation of the Southern
Stales in .he Elec* ora I College. By
ibai Bill all State's jjoi organized under
the Reconstruction Ao>- and entitled
to representation in Congo ss, \'ili l»e
excluded from representation in the
Electoral Coliege. The States which
will thus be excluded will be Virginia,
Texas and Mississippi, unless some
further legislation on the subject shall
be had. Congress has fixed the time
f<»- the constitutional election in Vir
ginia, and for the meeting of her Slate
Legi>lature, and may pass another Bill
'‘niovi'ding lor the representation of the
State in curtain contingencies. Vir-
iginia, it duty admitted before Novem
ber, will vote tor Democratic electors,
and the Democracy cannot afford to
hazard the loss ot her vote.
LEO.
Washington, July 12.
Congress will wait ten days for the
President’s veto of the Electoral Col
lege Bill, and then passing the same
over the veto will adjourn. There is
no reason why the President should
hesitate tor a moment to veto this Bill .*
but it is riot to consult the con
venience of Congress in relation to this
or any other matter. This Electoral
Bill is the meanest piece of Radicalism
that has yet disgraced legislation. It
is a Bill to enable the House, upon
some pretext or other, to exclude the
electoral votes of ten Southern States.
Those States which have been or
may be reconstructed and admitted to
representation in due time, are. seem
ingly to be represented in the Electoral
College, but it was pointed out in the
course of the discussion of the Bill, and
it was not denied that the House can,
under this Bill^ejeet the votes of any
State which tna^Tote against the Rad
ical ticket. The power to pass this
Bill was claimed by iVfr. Stevens to be
derived from the power given to the
House, to “couut”jjhe electoral votes.
Thus lie claims that the House may
count the elec#>ral votes or not—count
them in or count them out—at pleasure.
There are several other pending
measures of great interest to the coun
try, and especially to the South, which
are so framed as to mean anything or
nothing, according to the future de
mands of Radical plicy. The Freed-
men’s Bureau Bill is a gross deception
and so intended. It retains the Bureau
in the States which may noi be recon
structed and represented, but it does
not withdraw it from any other States
where it is employed. At the pleasure
of the Government, or when the Rad
ical interests will permit it. the Bureau
may he abolished. Of course it is in
tended that the Bureau shall be contin
ued till alter the Radicals shall have
secured the Presidential election.
The project for reducing the army is
also deceptions in its character, as was
alleged even hy some of the Repub
lican members of the House. It will
turn out to b“ a scheme for disbanding
some of the Democratic officers of the
army, and nothing else.
The Radicals pretend to find a com
plete arrnoi v lor their campaign in Gen
eral Frank Blair’s letter, which they
construe as threatening “another re
hellion.” It will be relied upon in the
canvass as the chief Radical weapon.
The Democratic party, as was stated
in the discussion yesterday, is not com
muted to Mr. Blair’s views, but it is
quite certain that the Radicals intend to
cheat the Democrats out of the election,
if they gain, and this would be an act
of revolutionary violence.
Virginia will not probably be recon
structed or represented before the Pres
idential election, but she wili choose
Presidential electors and claim that her
electoral vote shall be counted next
February. If the result of the election
should turn on this vote, it would pre
sent a very fearful question, for neither
party will be in a temper to yield the
Presidency to the other.
It will depend much upon the pend
ing legislation ol Congress whether the
Southern States shall be permitted to
have a*fair election. It appears to be
the determination of the Radical major
ities to employ force and fraud for the
purpose of gaining the election in the
South LEO.
A Conversation with General Blair.
A delegation called on General Blair
m New York and discussed the ques
tions of the day at great length.
General Blair very courteously stat
ed that he was very willing to make
known his principles, although his re
cent letter should have settled the mat
ter. Our reporter acknowledged hav
ing read the letter, but with the view
of eliciting a clearer statement, asked
if the General did not consider, on a
reconsideiation of the matter, that his
views on the reconstruction laws, anil
the duties of the President in regard to
them might not have the effect of Iright-
ening many thousands who, although
not Radicals, echo Gen. Gram’s de
mand for peace ? The General then
spoke in substance as follows:
I do not think that people would be
alarmed at the prospect of undoing the
infamous acts in lying and double deal
ing even for the office of President of
the United States. It is belter that the
truth should be known at once. Alarm
the people? Why, they are alarmed
now. The country is it: revolution;
the liberties of one half of the citizens
of this country have been destroyed,
and that of the other halt threatened.
Our commerce has been swept from
the seas, and the republic is insulted in
the person of her citizens by a govern
ment hostile during our war and hostile
still. It will not serve the cause of the
people by putting in a President with
the same set of opinions as the present
occupant of the White House. Whai
more could Chase or Pendleton do than
Johnson ? Nothing more ; and the car
pet-bag Congress which will virtually
rule the country, no matter who is
President {unless means not vet tried
are used to prevent it,) will merely
have a new “man at the end of the av
enue” to laugh at and overide. If the
madness of Congress is not checked
we wdl have in ihe South an Ireland
or a Poland, and periodical indirec
tions will give vent to tfie aspirations
of lt;e peo ( ftJ for libel tv. Ttnoe are in
dications, loo, that tlie West will not
quiet I v submit to he ruined by the
Radicals much longer. Under these
circumstances I think it is only right
and proper that the people know where
I stand, and why I am a candidate for
the Presidency. I think that the finan
cial, and every other question slated to
blind the eyes of the people and con
ceal the real issue, is of small import
ance at present. The country must
first f»e saved I nun the impending tuin percent, for the three months, anil you
and the supremacy of the Constitution j would have made at least IbO per cent,
established before those questions can luolhet words, ifvourcrop was worth
be taken up. The first duty of a Don-' $1000 in November or December, it
ocratic Government should be tovindi- would have broughiyo*t $2000 in March
cate American honor in the mailer of or April, and you could have drawn a
the imprisonment and punishment as j thousand dollars for that time at a cost
felons of American citizens, in Enainnd j of only seventy-five dollars,
and Ireland on suspicion and without ! In conclusion, don’t lot the specula-
proof. The prisoners should fie de- {tor?got their fingers in your eyes any
mantled at the cannon’s mouth, and
proper apologies and a sufficient indem
nity for the outrage.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
Siiterl's Steel—The Great Discovery of the Age.
We obtain the following information
from General Imboden, the correspon
dent in this city of the patentee, in re
gard to this wonderful discovery, with
permission to make it public :
Elizabeth Furnace, the property of
the Messrs. Forber, sevenieu miles west
of Staunton, is now in full blast, and
turning out about six tons a day of fine
steel, made directly from Brown Hem
atite iron ore. Over one hundred tons
have been made in the last three weeks
It has been tested for edge tools and
otherwise and found to be of admira
ble quality. The Central Company
have brought down about six tones, ami
arrangements have been made with the
Tradegur Company to roll it in their
mills into rails and bars and east it in
to wheels and tires. In a few days the
process will be presented to the world
tor adoption, and the merit? of the dis
covery will be sustained by the public
endorsement of some of the most dis
tinguished engineers of this country.
Last week, Col Andrew Talcott,
late Chief Engineer of the Imperial
Railway of Mexico, one of the host
known and most distinguished men o!
his profession in the United States, his
son, Col. T. M. It Talcott, also of high
distinction and attainments in the same
profession, and H.D. Whitcomb, Esq-,
Engineer and Superintendent of the
Virginia Central Railroad, acknowl
edged to be one of the leading railroad
men of the South, visited Elizabeth
Furnace and spent a day in examining
this process, and the metal produced.
The result of their observations in de
tail will shotlly be laid before the pub
lic. They concur in opinion, as we are
informed, that this discovery is of such
magnitude in its results, to stagger be
lief. Having satisfied themselves a;
the Furnace of the fact that the steel is
there made with the facility and cheap
ness of common pig iron, by a purely
scientific process, in which well known
laws of chemistry are applied in the
preparation of a flux that produces this
great result, these gentlemen will at
tend the operations next week at the
Tredegar Hulling Mills, in which it is
proposed to convert the et ude steel in
gots into all the forms of that metal re
quired in tlie arts.
The Virginia Central Railroad Com
pany has furnished one of its engines
with tires of this steel, made by Par
kins, Nelson & Co., at Staunton, and
Mr. Whitcomb, since his visit to the
Furnace, has decided to introduce it
for wheels and rails on his road.
The patentee and his associate own
ers of litis discovery have simply se
cured their rights in this country and
Europe, but have not tried to interest
capitalists to adopt it.
We are glad to learn that a meeting
will shortly be held of those interested,
probably in this city, to decide upon
what terms the patent may be used.—
By a proper policy this discovery may
more, by telling their “yarns” about
supplies of cotton fiom India and
Egypt. You know that it requires uni-
lorin seasons, moderate warmth and
moisture to grow cotton. Excessive
w et or dry weather is fatal. In India
they have heavy rains and excessive
diougfits, which ruin the crop; and in
Egvpt they have no rain, but depend
oti artificial irrigation.
There is no country in the world
that has the climate and soil tha* will
enable it to compete with the United
Utates, “so called,” irt growing cotton.
Nor is there any danger of the supply
in this country exceeding tbe demand.
With the present system of labor, the
crops wiil never again exceed one, half
those grown before the late war.
Again let me urge you not to fool
away your cotton as you did last year.
If you cant get a price that will pay you
a reasonable interest on your capital,
arid goo ! wages for your services and
attention, you had better quit it and go
at something else. It is a poor busi
ness “to work for nothing and find
yourself.” Farmer.
Hatcheehubbee, Ala., June 29, 18GS.
[From the Savannah News & Herald.]
Saviinnult—as Seen by Gett. George Washing
ton in 1731.
The “Southern tour” made by Gen.
Washington in 1791 has been mention
ed often by his biographers-, but none
ot those who have mentioned it have
done more than to refer to it. During
his tour Gen. Washington kept a diary,
which fortunately has been, saved, and
now appears in book form, edited by
Mr. Benson J. Lossing. Monday night
as slated i y the News & Herald, Mr.
W. S. Bogart entertained the Georgia
Historical Society by reading extracts
from the book. The account of the
General’s visit to Savannah appears in
the book, and as it is of interest, we
publish it, only writing out the abbre
viations :
The General left Philadelphia on
the 21st of March, 1791, to make the
trip, and after visiting all ot the prin
cipal cities along the route, arrived,
at Purisgburg, in South Carolina,
o ' the 12ib of May of the same year.
(Purtsburg is about thirty miles from
u« re.) “Here I was met by Messrs.
Li. Wimberly Jones, Colonel Joseph
Habersham, Mr. John Houston, Gen.
Lochiin McIntosh, & Mr. Joseph Clay,
a conmuiiiuee from the city of Savan
na to conduct me thither. Boats were-
also ordered there by them for my ac
commodation, among which was a
handsome eight oared barge, rowed by
eight American Captains, attended. In
my way down the river, 1 called upon
Mrs. Greene, the widow of the deceas
ed General Greene, at a place called
Mulberry Grove, and asked Iter how
she did. At this place (2 miles from
Hmisburg) my horses and carriage
were landed, and hud 12 miles farth
er by land to Savanna. The wind anti
the tide both being against us, it was
(j o’clock before we reached the city,
where we were received under every
demonstration that could be given of
joy and respect. We were seven hours
than all other causes com-
Virgiuia
bined.
To Cotton Growers.
The merchants of the country have
their “chambers of commerce,” and
“boards of trade,” for the purpose of
fixing the vt.iue of their wares ; manu
facturers have their associations and
conventions for arranging the price of
their goods, and the wages paid their
operatives, the physicians have theirs,
where they fix the fee bills; and even
the politicians have their caucuses and
conventions, in which they set a price
upon themselves, their constituents,
and (he country; whilst the poor cot
ton growers plod along, every one his
own course, work hard the year round,
and when they get their cotton ready,
carry it to market, sell if for idial they
can get, an 1 pay out the proceeds for
supplies at whatever price may be de
manded of them—and thus, for want of
concert of action, do not realize what
the crop cost to produce it.
Allow me to suggest a plan hv which
this concert of action can he attained,
and the interest of the cotton grower,
protected.
Let an association be formed in ev
ery magistrate’s beat; another at each
county site, to be composed of dele
gates from the beat associations; and
another at the capital of each cotton
State, to be composed of delegates from
the county associations, all to meet as
often as may be necessary. This plan is
simple, and easily pul in operation. Bv
means of these' associations, the best
mode of hiring labor, and the amount
that ought to be paid for it, can be dis
cussed and determined ; the amount of
the crop can be ascertained, as well as
the cost of produclion.^md the profit
which the tanner ought to make on his
capital. With this information, you
can fix the value of your cotton, un<
do more to develop the iron interests of I making the passage, winch is often per
formed in 4, though the computed dis
tance is 25 miles. Illum’ns aL night.
(Illuminations meant.) I was conduct
ed by the Mayor and Wardens to
very good lodgings, which had been
provided for the occasion, and partook
of a public dinner given by the citizens
aL the Coffee Rooms. At Purisburg I
parted with Gen Moultrie.
13th of May—Dined with the Mem
bers of the Cincinnati at a public din
ner given at the same place, and in the
evening went to a dancing assembly,
«t which there were about one hundred
well dressed and handsome ladies.
14//i of May—A little after 9 o’clock,
in company with General McIntosh,
General Wayne, the Mayor, and many
others, (principal gentlemen of the
city.) I visited the City, and the attack
and defence of it in ihe year 1739, un
der the combined forces of France and
the United Slates, commanded by the
Couutde Estaingand Gen. Lincoln. To
form an opinion of the attack at this
distance of time, and the change which
has taken place in the appearance of
the ground by the cutting away of the
woods, &c., is hardly to be done with
justice to the subject, especially as
diere is remaining scarcely any of the
defences.
Dined to-day with a number of the
citizens (not less than 200) in an elegant
Bower erected for the occasion on the
Bank of the River below tbe town. In
the evening there was a tolerable good
display ol fireworks.
Sunday, 15/7* if May.—After morning
service and receiving a number of vis
itors from the most respectable ladies
of the place, (as was the case vc-ster-I
day,) 1 set Out for Augusta, escorted |
beyond the limit of the city by most of!
the geriih men in it, and dining at Mul- |
berry Grove, the. seat ol Mrs. Green;!
lodged at one Spencer’s, distant 15 j
oil by it more than double that distance.
Rice and tobneco (tire fast of which is
greatly increasing.) are the principal
ex pi hi a. Lunil)or«fiml indigo are also
exported, but the latter is on the de
cline, and it is supposed hy hemp and
cotton. 8hiff timber, viz: live oak and
cedar, is (and may he more so) valua
ble in tbe exportation.”
During the reading, Mr. Bogart stated
that the house in which Washington
lodged was (according to tradition) the
wooden house at the corner of Barnard
and President streets, on the eastern
side of the square, lie further called
lire attention of the Society to the tact
that Washington did not mention that
lie was received with a salute of artil
lery, when at other places lie always
noticed that he was received in that
way; arid staled that the Chatham Ar
tillery did give a salute, and he noticed
it by afterwards sending them two
brass six-pounders, which the company
kept until 1864, when the guns which
were here fell into the hands of the
United States soldiers.
Resolutions from A fix. II. Slrphtus.
Mr. Wright (Del.)—I hold in my
hand a series of resolutions which l
have received from Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens, of Georgia (applause) which
I ask to have read and referred to the
Committee on Resolutions.
These resolutions were read as fol
lows, and were received with repeated
applause.
Resolved, That in the future, as in
the past, we will adhere with unswerv
ing fidelity to the Union under the Con
stitution as the only solid foundation ol
our strength, security and happiness as
a people, and as a fiame work of gov
ernment equally conductive to the wel
fare and prosperity of all the States—
both Northern and Southern.
Resolved, That the Union establish
ed hy tlie Constitution is a Union of
Slates, Federal : n its character, com
posed of Slates thereby united, and is
incapable of existence without the
Slates as its continuing integral parts ;
and, therefore, the perpetuation of the
Union in its integrity depends upon
the preservation of" the States in their
political integrity, the Government of
the United States being a Federal Re
public, and not a consolidation of the
whole people in a nation.
Resolved, That the perpetuation of
i the Union, and the maintenance of the
Government as both were established
by the Constitution have been expound
ed in the foregoing resolutions, in con
formity with the venerable teachings
of Jefferson, Madison and Jackson, have
ever been held as cardinal doctrines of
the Democratic parly ; and they are
now reiterated With increased earnest
ness under ihe solemn conviction that
only by bringing back the administra
tion of the Govermc-nt to the time hon
ored principles (on which for sixty years
there was such unpuialleled happiness
and prosperity); and in rescuing it
from tho.-e who have ever held the Con
stitution itself to be no betier than a
“covenant with death and an agreement
with hell,” whose revolutionary policy
and measures have brought such general
discord, strife and war with its attend
ant ills upon a large portion ot tlie coun
try, and such wide-spread demoraliza
tion throughout the whole of it.
Resolved ; Thai the Democratic par
ty in sustaining tbe Federal aciministra-
tion in the late unhappy coutiici of
arms, did so in good faith, with the
hope and earnest wish to maintain the
principles above set forth, and with no
view of “waging war” on the part of
the Northern States “in any spirit of
I oppression” against the brethren of the
! the South, nor for any purpose of con-
| quest or subjugation, nor purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the
I rights or established institutions of the
! States; but to defend and maintain
the supremacy of tbe Constitution, and
to preserve the Union with ail the dig
nity, equality and rights of the several
Slates unimpaired. The subjugation
MILLEDGEVILLE:
Tuesday, July 21, 1868.
For President:
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YOKK.
For "V"ioe-3?resid.exrt:
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF JtKfSSOUIU.
when you carry il.to-market, instead of; mdes.
doing as \ou did last winter, sell lor j Savanna stands upon what rnav lie j
what you could gel, demand tlu piice. : called high grmind fur this coun- j
and bold on till you get it. ; trv. it is extremely sa; dy, which |
If you are compelled to have money, makes liie walking very disagreeable, \
and can’t gei tin- price lor \our colJo», a .d the h -uses uncomfortable in warm i
draw rui it, mi I hold till you can.— and windy weather, as ihe\ aie filled
1‘here is always plenty ot money mad- ; with dust win never these happen.— j
valu e on cotton ; and there is another i The town <m three sides is surround, d '
truth that is just as patent, and that is, . widreuitiv .ted rice fields, which have!
liiat the umnulaciurers and consumers | a rich and luxuriant appeal a nee. On!
are as much compelled to have cotton, i the 4:h, or backside, it is a fine sand,
as you are to have money. j The Harbor is said to be very good,
Suppose, instead of selling vour cot-1 urid often filled wi'hsquare-riggedves-
tou last November or December at 8 or ! sels; but. there is a Bar b; low, over
10 cents net, (about what it sold lor at! which not more than 12 lee-L water can
that lime,) vott had held for three be brought, except at spring tide. The
months, and paid 2J per eenl. a month i tide does not flow above 12 or 14 miles
for money ; it would have cost you 7£ | above the city, though ihe river is swell-
of these States, or rhe holding of them
as conquered territory, would be, in
the judgment of this convention, the
destruction of the Union itself.
Resolved, Thai the highest meed of
patriotism is due, and should ever be
rendered to all those who, in the recem
war, periled life or fortune for the
maintenance ot the Union and the ben-
efieient system of American Govern
ment thereby established upon the fun
damental principles set forth in the
foregoing resolution, but we have
neither thanks nor sympathy for those
who entered or carried on tbe contest
for the subjugation by Federal authori
ty of the white race in any of the Slates
to the dominion of the black. The
right of suffrage, or who shall exercise
political powders, is a matter that rests,
uuder the Constitution, exclusively with
ihe several States. There it pioperly
belongs, and there it should continue
ever to remain.
T. W. Osborne, Senator elect from
Florida lias been admitted to his seat in
the Senate. Osborne was Captain of a
New York battery during tbe war, and
went to Florida in 1865 “wid de buro.”—
Welch bis colleague, is a school teacher
from Michigan. A saw mill speculation
took him to Florida, but that failing he
was sent to Congress. Most of the offi
cials in the South are Northern adveuturx
ers Bullock, of Georgia, is from New York;
Clayton, of Arkansan, is from I’ounsylva*
nia ; Iteod, of Florida, is from Wisconsin ;
Warmouth. of Louisiana, is troai Illinois;
Scott, of South Carolina, is from Pennsyl
vania; the individual (B B. Eggleston)
proposed for Missirmip'-i is from Ohio ;
Wells, to he voted for in Virginia is ti-run
Michigan. All of tlicse men are carpet*-
baggers, and not ore of them could have
been . lectcd » justice of ihe peace in his
owu Stale. They owe their elevation to
the “intro'' and to the military, both ol
which institutions are "nut” in ttic inter
ests of the Republican parly, What a nice
party tin*. Republican pn:iy is.
B.',dg(H>rt Farmer.
Such are the facts certified to by Cap
tain Ward. In additiou to these, the tel
egraphic despatches of yesterday inform
ns that the National debt increased nedlly
teu million dollars during the month of
May,
SEYMOUR &c BLAIR.
Tbe presidential campaign now inau
gurated. will be one of tbe fiercest and
most bitter that has agitated this country
for tbe last fifty years. It will be a politi
cal fight for constitutional principles, as
against Radical unconstitutional legisla*-
tion , of the right of the States to regus
late their own internal polity, as against
Cougressional usurpations and arbitrary
dictations ; in a word, of Right against
Wrong. The party in power, drunk with
success ; mad with undisputed authority ;
and vioieut in its hatred of opposition, can
illy brook a firm and determined foe who
marches up in front and flings defiance in
its face, and changes corruption in its acts.
The Democratic party of the North de**
feated lor the last eight years, remained,
nevertheless, uocoRquered, and assailed
its foe, when opportunity presented, at ev
ery poiut, and with every attack gained
strength, and to day, it feels itself the
equal, if not the superior of the party led
by Grant and Colfax. Iustead of acting
upon tbe defensive, it has become ten inly
aggressive, and changes home upon Radi
calism, its violations of Constitutional prin
ciples ; the squandering of tj^e public treas
ury ; tbe creation of offices for party pur
poses ; the maintaining of a standing ar
my to do its behests ; the bribing and cor
rupting of parties to swear falsely ; an<>
the gross corruptions of Cougress, as a leg
islative body.
With such charges, of course there must
bo bitterness, and will be. At tbe South,
deeply interested as we will be, for every
ri?br dear to a freeman is iu tbe balauce,
we expect to assail those, whether natives
of tbe soil, or Y r ankee ad veutarors, who
will attempt to advise tire people of tLe
South to vote for the Radical nominees.—
The specious and contemptible arguments
of policy, necessity and expediency is at
an end ; for the Democratic platform, the
creation of Northern men, backed by a
millioo of voters, ij, presented to our view
as the palladium of our rights, and we are
appealed to, and invited to bo true to our
own rights ana honor, and to strike a blow
with those who have voluntarily become
our defenders’and vindicators.
No longer need tbe timid man say, we
can do nothing, our hands are in the lion’s
mouth ; the scheming politician and office
hunter need not prate about policy and
expediency, for tbe platform gives him
living principles, his rights, his honor, and
his manhood. The native Southerner, the
man of principle, can, with no consistency,
vote against Seymour anil Blair. Their
election will be a rebuke,an extinguisher, a
blott'uig out of Radical wrongs, and the
lifting up of the Constitution, and the
proclaiming of constitutional principles as
the law of the land.
We cannot conceive liow any one in tbe
South, with the facts before him of radical
rule, and the Democratic platform, prom
ising relief, can hesitate to vote for Sey
mour and Blair; the argument that there
is no chance, is a fool’s argument, a cows
ard’s reason. Charitable as we are, we
cannot but denounce the supporters of
Grant and Colfax uuder the circumstances,
traitors to their section, fool’s to their in
terests, and office seekers, hoping for sue
cess,
In the late election in Georgia for Gov
ernor, we could easily comprehend the
vote for Gov. Bullock as against General
Gordon—the desire for Relief from debt ;
but in tbe great national issue now before
tbe country, it is the Rights of the South
as against Radical unconstitutional legis
lation. We as h people are invited to
strike a blow for our own deliverance, and
he who refuses, should bs remombered in
future days ; it should be made the test
hereafter for office aod honor. Tim Grant
supporter stands without an excuse or au
argument.
Whatever may have been the past po*.
litical records of Seymour or Blair, it is as
but waste time to recall it ; the platform
upou which they stand and was nominated,
overshadows ami hurries in oblivion past
opinions. We hold Grant aud Colfax to
tbe Radical party and Radical platform
Grant’s past democracy ami Colfax’s "know
nothing principles” are not worth a straw iu
this campaign. They declare themselves
Radicals and a? such, ue fight them. Tbe
Democratic platform is grear«w in our eves
iliai. tiie men wh i were nominated upon it ;
'liey are but the honored instruments to
caiiy out the principles of it if elected.—
We were ready to take any man on the
platform laid down ; but as it i?, we have
a sound platform, and -a great and’good
man to stand upon it. Let tLe South elect
him.
A part of this issue of tbe Recorder, on tbe
outside page, is dated 14th., when it should be the
2!st. as inside of the paper.
ononm me legislature ratify ,| |f j
amendment, then will Georgia be a , (;) .
ted into the Union according t» p l '
principles and programme. The 8t a , e m
chiuery in all ot its civil branches v j,j ,
putin running order, and Military 0r ,J r '
cease in a great degree, if not all to gH | K . r ’
If, however, the legislature refuses to r „
fy tbe amendment, then the governing
will be only provisional under Gov B 1
being only an appointee of Gen. i[ eR j e
The legislature is also required to stri ^’
out their Relief measures before Cong,*
will recognise tbe State.
Taking it for granted that the Legi s | a .
ture will pass the amendment—thuuoB w
hope not—then Gov. Bullock will be°G,» v
ernor de farto.de jure, unless iu December
next, tbe Reconstruction acts are declare 1
unconstitutional, and then he walks ;|,
political plank and goes back to hj s
press business.
As Governor of Georgia, he was elected
without onr aid and under acts aud orders
we deemed unconstitutional. That is p as -
As Governor of our State, we feel interest-
ed iu his acts ; and if wise, for bis own
reputation and the reputation of the State
bo should be the Governor of the who^
State and not of a party. Ha Las not j,,
ing to foar from bis political opponents
therefoie, be can afford to be liberal anj
magnanimous.
W'bat we have to say about him i s 6 j m .
ply this : That if be endeavors to do
rigLt; guard the financial interests ol the
State ; appoint good tneu to office ; we
shall make no war upon him, but on the
contrary, give him credit wherein lie de
serves it, and uphold him if unnecessarily
assailed. Because we differ politically,
and as wide apart a3 tbe poles, we have
nevertheless an interest in Georgia, and
lie as her Governor, should be aided if he
manifests a spirit to build up her credit and
interest.s
We therefore see Gov. Bullock, as Gov,
ernor of Georgia, aud wiil cheerfully aid
bim it bis line of internal policy agrees
with ours. Shouid the Governor become
simply a partizau, aud use the influence
of his office to build up his party, by
appointing simply partizans, we will m>t
hesitate to denounce bim and bis actions,
and expose his doings to the best of our
ability. We are willing, without prrjud''
ing, to give him a fair and impartial trial
iu bis new and responsible office. We be
long to no party, and are responsible to no
party for our actions. We support Sey
mour & Blair, not because they arc denis
ocrats, but because their principles as au-
iiouneed, are just, right and correct. Our
motto is : Good men and good measures
—constitutional principles, and not party
names.
Futurity.—The creative home of tbe
soul, built upon individual faith, reason or
reflection ; what we are to be, determined
by what we have been ; an inscrutable
mystery, of which we can only guess at a
solution, and resigned to our dissxlntiou,
with hope as our best comforter. Tha ie-
flectivc mind, unbiased by conflicting be-
iiels and faiths, is assured by thousands of
incontestable proofs that a benevolent and
just Creator sympathises with our happi-
| ness ; and that be must sympathise more
tenderly with our sufferings. To suppose
that He woold scatter all sorts of delights
around us iu this evanescent world and en
dow us with appetites, desires, tastes and
susceptibilities to enjoy them, and then to
doom the great mass of mankind to ever
lasting anguish beyond the grave, is an ir
reconcilable contradiction. It is making
the spiritual man, the helpless aud chain
ed slave to the animal ; aud his pnuii-b*
meat eternal, for deeds that were temporal
and carnal. In ihe language of anotben
we would say : “The earth upon which
are raeiely flitting passengers, is every*
where enamelled with flowers exquisite for
varied beauty and perfume, but useless,
except for the purpose of diffusing pleas
ure to the eye, smell, and taste; yet onr
eternal abode is to be horrent with fire and
ag°Dy. The best way of combatting tlia
terrors with which superstition, ignoraoce
and misconception has darkened futurity ;
is to appeal from tbe unknown to tbe
known ; from tbe unseen to the visible;
from imaginary torment to real enjoyment;
from our present temporal pleasures, to
those that are everlasting and unfading;
from a terrible God, to a kind Heavenly
Father.”
Archbishop of Tillotson has said : “Ac
cording as men’s notions of God are, sn cn
will their religion be ; if they have a g 19 **
and false conceptions of God. their relig*
ion will be absurd and superstitions.
Echo.—“The shadow of a sounds*
voice without a mouth, aud words without
a tongue.” The soul may be happily ii
lustrated, as the echo of the mind.
Education.—With the Ch;ld, **
learns from its pareuts. With tho ScboJ
and College boy, what be learns from n> 3
books; with tbe Illiterate man, what f-
gets irom association ; with the Scholar*
what be has gathered from tiie past; wl,u
the Ob.-ervcr, wbat he has picked up h n °
nature and observation; with tbeR*’
live mind, what it has read, seen, be’ ,ru *
investigated and weighed ; wrb the
in&l mail, his own inate idea*-, rffh*cfi nn ~
and conclusions. He who combim-s "i' 11
iu himself, originality , reflection, ob.-e r '^
tion and scholarship, is the truly eOiicnu
man ; the mental giant. A mau can
learned without being gieat ; for he t;1
retail the ideas, opinions, thoughts *®' : 6 ‘*-
ings of others, as the merchant s
gar, coffee, flour and rice, without bein 0 1
producer. A truly great man, creates * ^
gives to tbe world original thoughts, 1
and new truths. Never follow* i u
beaten tracks because others have goo* ^
fore, but prerers to blaze out his <> wn 10
tellectuai road.