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TFrom the Chronicle ifc Sentinel !
Leller from Nemesis-Number i.
Oxford —YY e are pleased to leani of
the prosperous condition of Oxford.
Real Estate is advancing in price and
in demand. ’I he health and morals ot . , >
the town centim e unexcelled. Emrov T° "His Excellencyll. B. Bulled
College is in a thriving condition. Over !
thirty accessions were made this term, j
and the pupils 1 earn rapidly. The Pal*. 1
mer Institute has met with enlarged I
success this year, a just campliment to j SllJL
S? !7i 0 ‘ it H MCn !‘| P J i6l ! ed P ,i . ,,ci P a1 ’ ! at the "call of the white voters of Geor-
•Mtss Lundy. May Oxford continue to
thrive and prosper, and shed the bless*
ings of its bright example all over the
State.— Const it uf ion.
We concur most heartily with the
Since my respects to your Excellency,
under date of the 9ih ultimo, 1 have tak
en a glance along that noble line of
smen, scholars and gentlemen, who
gia, have done honor to themselves, and
illustrated the high oflicc now dishonor
ed by yourself. They were the right
fill successors—you are hut the Preten
der. They came at the call of the peo
ple. leu, with vulgar intrusion, came
self-iuvita3, and forcing jour way by
tlie bayonet. They came to bless; you
cawm to curse. When they spoke, their
ds fell like pearls and precious gems.
1 our utterances chill and disgust like
the ugly, venemous toad. Prosperity
followed in their footsteps like ingots
.hopping from the cornucopia. Blight
and mildew, destruction and bloodshed,
rubbery and assasination, peculation
and perjury, have been the fruits of
your administration. It is the hotbed
ot every vice.
1 ardou me for recounting the names
of a few of those noblemen whose vir
tues and talent-!, were you capable,
would make jour Excellency blush with
shame. Josiah Tattnall, D. B. Mitch
ell, William llalun, John Clark, Wil
liam bc.iiey, 1 ct-er Early, John Eorsyth,
i George M. Iroup, George R. Gilmer,
\r lisou Lumpkin, James Menu wether,
, ,. „ „ ... P(1 , , . „ Charles J. McDonald, Howald Cobb!
:ercmony was performed by Gen Evans, tion o. that c.ass of people so recently j Herschel V. Johnson, and Charles J
„ raised from seif lorn to citizenship. They j Jenkins!
Constitution in its benediction imon Ox
ford and its institutions of learning.
We’ve been their ourselves, and know
that it is well worthy of everything that
can be said in its favor.
H!ot in Mississippi.
During the trial of three negroes
charged with riotous conduct, one oi
the piisouers shot and killed the Justice
presiding in their trial; indiscriminate
firing ensued, and two of the nogioe*
were killed in the court room. The clt
izens assembled iu large numbers and
| were ordered by the sheriff to di arm
- - j the negroes. la doing this several
Mr. W. A. Hemphill of the Atlanta I were killed. Total killed, six negroes
Constitution, married Mrs. Emma Luckie and Justice Bramlette.
of Covington, on Tuesday the 6th The j This it a specimen of the civiliza-
ecutive warrants are in proper form, spirit, no Governor has ever before at
Tlie remainder of bis apology is based
on the con t tutiona! clause which gives
the Gove nor power to
cies in certain contingencies. His ar-
gonvr.t is thi : the Governor has power
to till a vacant judgeship; the jugieship
of tlie District Court was vacant, there
tempted, fur party purposes, to corrupt
the Bench. Even the people, when j
fill vacaa- j Judges were elective, and under the j
bitterest political hostility, have held j
the Judiciary high above the strife. But j
with Radicalism nothing is sacred—not
even the sanctuarv of God. In this
fore, you (the Governor) had power to ! nomination you Seem to have consulted
MILLB
T IESD A Y , ffi A It C II
The remains of Bishop Andtcw were
interred at Oxfoid Ga , on Sunday the
o;h of March.
The jail in Barnesvilie was broken j
open on the night of the 4th and a tie- j
gro Ben Fambro made his escape. Jail |
breaking is an event of quite too fre j
quent occurrence. Most of the county
Jaiis need
At the too‘ of this array of
blend the ferocity of the tiger with the I giants, crawls your microscopic Excel-
j lenej’. IV hat a lame and impotent con
nailing or re
build in j
Mr. Hiram Cobb cf Do iy, has “shuf
I
Jed of this mortal coil” by committing
suicide. Bullock will issue a procla- j
maiionin his papers offering §.>,000 re- j
waul for the perpetrator:
Ku Klux outrage.
of this fresh
Two persons were killed on the State
road on the 3rd. And old lady, living
near the road, and old man from New
Orleans. No blame attaches to the road.
The various temperance oig;
stupidity ol tlie ass. Their courage rare
y rises higher than brutality, because
:t is never inspired by pride or virtue.
The negro however, if left to himself is
disposed to be peaceful, and in ino-t ca
ses where they display their barbarity,
i they arc duped by designing white men.
I Such was the case in the instance we
speak of. On W. M. Sturgcs, long ob
noxious to the good citizens of Missis
sippi, and planner of much mischief a-
j mong the negioes, was the evil spirit,
I and doub’les- iu him this riot had its
origin. Wonder if this will he heralded
through the land as another knklnx
I outrage!
elusion! \\ hat a sudden, shocking step
from the sublime to the ridiculous” The
antithesis is painful in tlie extreme,
while, toe comparison is absolutely cruc 1 .
‘ Hyperion to a Satyr” gives no relief to’
the bewildered mind in tearch of a fit
ting contrast. Their genius, intellect j
and worth were, to your Excellency, as |
fill it. To reach his conclusion he as
sumes as granted, in his second premise,
the only question ho is trying to estab
lish, that is, was the office vacant? That
logic was not begat of Whitcly. Nor
can it he the offspring of a “wliate.” It
so resembles your Excellency’s head as
to cast suspicion on the legitimacy of its
birth.
“Albus” again asserts that this office
was certainly vacant, ‘‘unless a vessel
must be once filled and 'poured out be
fore it can be empty.” YVithout determi
ning how a vessel cau he poured out, it
is sufficient to answer that, if the Legis
lature has declared that the Judges
shall bo appointed, not by the Governor
alone, nor by the Senate alone, but by
Governor and the Senate, even ‘‘Albus’
will admit that the vessel cannot be
legally filled by the Governor alone, nor
by the Senate alone, hut that it requires
the concurrence of both. Your power to
fill a vacant office must not be inferred
from your ability to fill eu empty
pU-80.
The act organizing the Court points
out in words of no uncertain
sound, how these Judges shall be ap-! ionship and
pointed; and the Constitution has noth j him (with tl
ing to do with the question. The Act
reads.‘‘the Governor shall appoint with
the advice and consent of the Senate.”
This is the original appointment. Af
ter the office is thus filled, should a va- company.’’ During the b
cancy occur by death, resignation, pro
motion, impeachment, or otherwise, then,
and not till then, will your constitutional
form to fill vacancies come into play.
(1 will show in a moment to the convic-
tiou of any fair minded friend whom you
may call upon to read and explain this
letter, that the words, “or otherwise,”
do Lot apply to this statute ) How can
only with Belial, B;
own heart, and to have been aping the .
nepotism ot your master, Gran*.
I learn there were five ether appli
cants, well endorsed, for this office; that
ail, except Simms, are white men; that
one was a Radical of the dirtiest water,
and diowi)3 his pillow with as grievous
jeremiads as ycur Excellency does bo
cause he was not born a negro; that the
five were all members of the Bar, of
years’ standing, and several of fine abil
ity; that there were of good moral char
acter, and one had been a Judge of the
County Court au.l held it till the Court
was abolished. With these facts before
you, and under the solemnity of an oath
“faithfully to execute the office of Gov
ernor of the State of Georgia, and to the
best of your ability, to preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution thereof,”
you, after mature deliberation, pushed
aside every respectable and qualified ap
plicant for this Judeship, and selected
the cue who was alter your own heart.
I have not the honor o' his acquain
tance, but yonr Excelleecy has enjoyed
the distinguished favor of his eompan-
ior for 1
chang
could say with David,
equal, my guide and miu
We took sweel counsel
walked away from the !
ho?i a. h smrss.TS
What is said of the second vol
time of hi- work about tlie late
between the Stales, by the London
Saturday Review, in the issue of that
journal of the 23i.ii of January,
1S71:
.AMERICAN LITERATURE
The second v<*!ume of Mr. A.
H. Stephens’ work on the war be
tween the States, is in every res-
pe'cl worthy of ihe first, and is in
many points of more immediate
j and practical interest, The former
volume, which has already been
s ta!
arm
pn
of
■He
-years. Ut
word) you
was mine
(uaiLtanco
;ether and
of God in
periods of
reviewed in these columns, dealt
chiefly with the legal and constitu
tional aspeclsof secession; with the
history of the original Confedera
tion, and of the Union established
in its place by the Convention of
1737, the records of that convention
and of those by which its action
was confirmed in the several States;
and with the evidence afforded by
that history, and by subsequent in
cidents and declarations of the high
esl authorities—statesmen, jurists
and Presidents—that the Stales had
never parted with their sovereign
! character, or resigned the indepen
dence formerly asserted by them,
and recognized as belonging to each
individually, and not to the whole
collectively, in the treaty with Great
And, finally, he:hows strona
lor believing not only that ti e S
%vrir was forced I ito the war by t ie
tempt to provision and streim;
Fort Sumter, and the approach 3
powerful fl*vt to Charleston i !ar
but also that this step \
distinct violation of as
ise, arid with a deliberate mten
ot bringing about the results
followed; that it was urged 0: ,
Govornmenl by the New £ooj c
war party, in order to hurry into 1
tilities the reluctantcotmmrcial
agricultural communities of >
York, Pennsylvania, ami the \\
He explains at some length sen
the most curious diplomatic tram
tions of the war—* specallv tii-,
sion to Washington and the IE
ton Roads Conference : and 1m <>-
... C
very fairly and in a very candid
generous tone, an account of
own differences with the Presi.
about some of the most impor
I measures of the Richmond gov<
ment. On the whole, no contr
1 lion to the history of the civil w;
j equal value has yet been made]
j is likely to be made, unless sj
| one of Gen. Lee’s few survi
j lieutenants should one day do fo
! tnililaly history of the struggle v
i Mr. Stephens has done lor its r
, icai aspect.
war
of tin
the expansive disc of tlie warm, genial j a vacancy occur by death unless the
sun, to Lie aie ul ignis fit um shedding | man who dies was in the office? IIow
its midnight glimmer in fens
in the twilight of
bo
g 8 - can a man resign an office which he
your distressing separations, you were
partially solaced by epistles from yonr
Jonathan in his mood, orthography and
syntax. Y ou had thoroughly acquaint
ed yourself, with his personal history,
which, being without a redeeming fact,
commended him to your love. You,
therefore, had full knowledge of his ah-
solute disqualification fir any office
wherein intelligence, integrity, urbanity
and decency can have a place. You
knew that he had not even a nidimenfa-
ol
treats of more
; technical ar-
t the author’s
tlie most re-
the great po-
tiiat glorious da\- never held? How can ho be promoted ! ry education: that In
towards the while race as 13
vin
itan or vot
whica their genius illumiinted, their col-| (literally, moved forward,”) unless he
Iosalfoiujs are seen like polished pillars, h 8 an incumbent? IIow can he be im- Exce’lency would have him bo, that!:,
supporting that grand old temple ot V\ is | p e ached until he imitates your example, was not only the most objectionable, hut
into | au d has been malfeasant in the office? | the least qualified, ol all the applican
>ver | These are the kind of vacancies con-
have
loat
iznucns
of Atlanta met at the Good Templars’
IIill ou last Monday night, for the
purpose of calling a State Tcmpcranc e
ittcud them
Con vi
• t.on
• v: hi
May success ;
igtitev underfc.al
eral of the newspaper men are
gins’ themselves about the head ol
n of the Sun, just as if Watson
have a uatura! right to wear as
head as he pleased!
GARABALDI.
Garibaldi was one of the Lious at tire
meeting of the constituent assembly- of
France at Bordeaux. He desired to
make a speech, but was refused the
opportunitj\ As Garibaldi left the
House, the National guard presented j to yonr Excel
arms to him. Whereupon M. Thiers
j quite in iage went up to tlie officer iu
common 1 and said: ‘‘Why do you do 1
that?” “Because,” said the offic. r, “he
is Geu. Garibaldi, he is Deputy; he has
ceme to light for France, and he is the
only General who has taken a Prussian
(Join, Justice and Moderation,
which, under cover of the gloom
shadowing the fair State, and
ing the uignt of despotism, you
crept and arc ravaging- like a
ing Vandal.
Were I malicious, I should fed com
punction lest the thought of suggesting
to you tins humiliating contrast was of
dcsigu to drive you at once to suicide,
I will, as far as truth will bear me out.
and that he was odious bey
Oil'
betoken- tcinplated by the framers of the Consti- j pressiou to the wealih, intelligence
tution, and no other.
virtue of the F
.Sen at i
District
his vices
knew that
atone for the unkiudness of the
But finally, the Constitution has limi-1 and of tlie State wherever
ted your power to fill even such vaean- i have made him known. Yo
cies as these. “Albus” quotes the words i hia antecedents, when in slavery and i
correctly, hut the brilliancy ot your I the very community over whose prope
achievements, in disregard of that once
honored instrument, dazzled his under
standing. “When any office shall be-
icgio near Griffin walking on the j
rd track, thought he would try to j
j an approaching train. Me was
n
ske
-led fearful]-
He
and
stantly killed. He h
EU
ited to
swallow a streak of greased lighting; but
it got cross*wise in his th'oat. mounted
to his head, and rendered him top-heavy.
More food for Executive prcclama
til ns.
Governor Warmouth of Louisaua (
while on an excursion down the Missis
sippi a few days ago, me.t with an ac*
cident that was quite serious. His foot-
became entangled in the machinery of
the steam tug that he was on, and la
cerated it badly. It is thought that
amputation will be necessary.
How fickle is fortune! But a few
days before, this man commanded the on.
ly victorious army of France; now he is
too in.sigi i leant to secure a mark of
respect from a sentinel. “Glory like
the pho- iix midst her fires, exhales her
odors, L
I surely must be very ungrateful. Gaii
| baldi left his quiet Italian home to aid
i France i t driving the invader from her
soil. He did all that heroism could do,
rnd suffered ail that strength couid eu-
dure, i i return f r his services ho re
ceives f he insults of au ungrateful pto-
I pie. Such is fame.
g| cet by showing a faint resemblance
cy in one of j'our pre-
j decessors. He flourishing near the end
j of the last century aud suddenly closed
his official career, and sacrificed his
J character by a corrupt combination to
close out tlie wealth and honor of the
State in the attempted sale of the Y;i
j lauds. Your Excellency will recogniz
i the likeness by cons tiling your balance
sheet as you review your own distin
guished services in the repeated recons
! stiuction of the State; in closing out the
! State 11 (fed and the State’s credit; in the
[purchase of the Opera House and tlie
• Executive Mansion; in the failure of
i the State Road, for ten monti
a farthing
retro- C ome vacant by death, resignation or
otherwise, the Governor shall hav
1 power to fill such vancancy, unhss other
| wise prodded by laic\" Admitting that
these offices were vacant as soon as the
| act went into operation, still, you had no ! oath by attempting to appi
power to fill them, because the manner I creature, Judge over the Di
riu which they are to he filled is, “other-
or moie of like operations. So far the
zes and expires.” The French j resemblance is perfect. There is a point
of dissimilarity, however, which your
I self-knowledge will not fail to detect.
I He assumed (ho office with some little
j reputation for integrity, and left it with-*
j out iij-. Your Excellency began as
| ho left off.
Thus far in my first letter, and in
| this. I have onlj- stated tho conclusions
the public mind,just as au algebraist
or georr e‘.t ician lays down his problem
, and then proceeds to its demonstration.
| But these conclusions are the logical
S sequence of every step in yonr career.
izoo J wise prodded by laic'’ The law organ
izing the court provides, that the Gov
ernor and the Senate shall fill them. It
you can appoint without the advice and
consent of ths Senate, that portion of
the statute is worse than nonsense. Did
the Legislature mean nothing more than
to give j-oti a power already given to
you by the Constitution? Such a con-
i, for tea months, to pay ] struction seems ungenerous to even that
the Treasury, and a score \ pons assinorum which supported your
3 caravan of sins so patiently and so
long. Let it be granted that these
offices were vacant, yet the vacancy was
not such as is contemplated by the
Constitution.
Why, then, did you not convene the
tv and liberties you are eager io maitc
him arbiter, were such that decency for
bids their mention; you knew, finally,
that he Las never read, even the primer
of law and. like your Excellency, could
not tell whether a supersedeas is to hang
up a party, or to hang up his oa-e. And yet
with this knowledge, you vindicate your
t such a
ict having
the greatest wealth, the largest popula
tion and commercial interests of any- in
(lie State; with a salary of two thousand
dollars to be taxed of the white citizens
alone, to pay an officer they despise.
Your Excellency- is certainly r.o copy
ist. Y'ou have* genius pecuhaily your
own. Y'oti have improved on the refined
cruelty-of tho savage who Cays his vic
tim alive. You would flay him alive
and tax his estate to pay for tho opera
tion.
But I must not do you the injustice
not to mention that you have given to
the public your reason for thif nomina
tion. It was in a letter xvritteu for you
by a frothy rhetorician in reply to a
j T oung gentleman nominated by- y-ou to
britum which crosi
Revolution.
The second vohi
recent events and
guments; setting 1
view of several
markable incident:
lilical conflict which ended in the
renunciation of the Union by the I
Southern Stales, of the purchase of
Louisiana and Florida, the Missouri j
Compromise, the Mexican War, the I
so-called Compromise Measures of |
1850, arid their immediate conse- j
quences. In dealing with all these |
I subjects, Mr. Stephens bring? an un i
I equaled knowledge of tacts, aud j
abundant collection of authorities,
I cmd remarkable clearness of consti- !
j lulioual reasoning to sustain the |
[doctrine that, from first to last, the j
i South was acting on the defensive. I
! No writer has ever presented so dis
i linot ly to unprejudiced judgments
! that side of the question which even
i the fairest of iv.igiish observers were
liable fro n want of a full and fatnil-
! iar apprehensions of tne relations of
the Stales within the Union, to over-
I look—namely, that under the Fed-
i eral Constitution and in the Union,
l slavery and free-labor—or, in their
j constitutional aspect, tlie social sys-
I tern of the South and that of the
j North—stood on an equal footing,
and-itml it c< uld not be expected of
! the slave States that they should be
A
nal
oetwetn the State
Conduct and llasa.
of Colloquies at Lit
H. Stephens. *2 '
Ci icinaati, Ohio; J
pmy London; .Sam*
Tlie Coal Faraine at
J\e -
Aza
M<
run te
rn lf>i;
inn (
cam
qu:
ven this
they di
'ghts.
* J
Mr.
1 not
’J’
b ml!)
51-
tv ui
W;
to not seea to force
he North; she deman-
jality within, or an
i of Territories. It
that assailed the in-
tlie South; that refused
luther'i States without
ArctSTA, Ga. )
March 'Jth, 1S71 J
Messrs. Editors:—When I wroL
you last I rtuid I Would visit Atlanta
old or new Senate, and submit your 1 the oflico of Attorney for the First Sena-
nomiuations for its confirmation? Was j tarial District, who indignantly spurned
the proffered honor, because you c>up-
led w’ith it the requirement to recognize
as an equal one of your negro associates
The reason you assign is, that the peo
ple of Chatham Lad shown their appre
ciation of your nominee to this jtnlgshif
it because tender consideration for
the people s purse? The unparalleled
economy of your administration gives
much plausibility to the suggestion.
The more they think ofit, the tnoro th<
people will honor you for the motive,
and thank you for once passing their I by accrediting him to tho General As
That career is but one syllogism. The j pockets. Or, was it because you doubt- j senibly in 1SGS; and as they esteemed
only eq
[| divisio
the North
slitulionso"
to admit
Southern institution?; that strove to
abolish slavery in the District ol
Columbia, in the midst of slave
States. Mr. Stephens does n it en
ter into tlie abstract merits of sla
very, regarded as a question be-
same btate
I,
premises are perfect—the conclusion, a
damning demonstration. For, without
Wbilo a parcel of boys were playing
hail ia Hawkiasvilie last Sunday week
one of then, by the name of Jones I
struck at the hall; and the hat slipping
from his hands, came in contact with
the head of Ike Blount, killing him al-, , ,
t- , , , , thank my s
most instantly. I eruops those boys lias | .
never heard cf the fourth commandment;
8o I did, hut for the life of me, couid I logic in your head, your heart with uc
not gather a single item of interest at J erring certainty has saved j'ou the inor-
| that unfortunate mushromm village. I
saw it stated in the Era th
your correspondent was coming, and that
' go up
Atlanta
e then to “go up.” 1
tars that I am safe back at
Augusta, and am mjsdf no*, “gone up!”
I don’t think [could risk the tiip again.
would have blushed to confess. Ever
species of torture was restored to, in
order that confessions might be extorted
from the innocent victims; transactions
have been brought to light, and scenes
disclosed, that bring in to this cnligbted
nineteenth century-, the horrors ot the
Spanish Inquision.
Cuthbert is having a liv
ro b beries, &c., and the last Appeal has j
over half a column of news, headed j
“ Fiendish attempt at incendiarism,"
“Daring Robbery,” “Bold Robbery,
An attempt T . as made io fiit. the factory, j ravt p 1D g rail, almost makes one grow
but the flames were discovered in time
to prevent the destruction of tile build-
about. Indeed there are many plan
; ters who think they had as well quit
There will be a general convention of ; planting as t > try to farm without guano.
tificaiimi of ever, “even by- accident,
deviating into virtue.” If consistency
* | be a jewel, how rich in woe will he the
heritage of your offspring! Clarum ct
vencrabile nomcn.
But I must not longer deprive yonr
j Excellency of the delight with which
you meditate on your iniquities and wit-
j ness the contortions of your victims. I
your last
executive acts, which, perhaps of all
others, you contemplate with greatest
pleasure and pride.
Just before its only harmless act-
which was to adjourn—that body-, call
ed by courtesy, tho General Assembly,
passed an Act to organize the District
Gourt. That convocation of Georgia’s
vagrants (and let me here premise, J
speak only of its majority) clothed you
and the Senate with power to appoint
the Judges of that Court. With that
lack of discrimination which has pre
vented yon from distinguishing the pub*
lie treasure from your own, you seem
to be unable to tell where your power
ends, and the Senate’s begins; and you
have, therefore, assumed to fill those
offices without the consent of the Senate.
It is possible you may have taken coun
sel of high judicial authority, and the
question may be prejudged. It is proba
ble, you consulted your own heart and
attempted, through some of your ap
pointees, to regain by a venal judiciary
the strength your party has lost in the
in his boots—which indicates that a good I General Assembly-, i lie fact in either
deal of fertilizers arc being slli d I remains unaltercd--your are guilty
° of usurpation!
or may bpjffiey thought “The better the . , . . . , . ,
J 1 ' , , „ 3 rue in Atlanta there is a Constitution* will, therefore, review one of
day the better the cccd. , - , . . . a , . ,
' j at, fight against tilth ami corruption,
but then there is an Era of falsehood,
The evidence given in by the wit- j and a clover little bastard child. Some
nesses at the Holden impeachment trial j say its hair is “aggravated auburn,” so
shows a tyranny and cruelty on the part j jj. ma y p e a p u t wc jt j s known by
of tfiid “truly foil” Governor, that NoiO ; another gender.
It was my pleasure to see tlioso “Star
Actors,” Rase and Hairy- Watkins.
Their reap'ion in this city was al
most enthusiastic. A crowded house
greeted their re-appcarance on the stage
here, aud loud and coutinued encores
attested how well these Southern ta*
I vorites are aj predated here. They have
| an excellent tioupe, and render the plays
ly time over with masteily- effect.
The cotton market is not active, nei.h-
i er does the Guano men seem to be very
! busy. The effluvia attending almost
j every- freight train which you meet while
the ticket agents of the various railroads
iu Savannah on the 28th to nuke ar
rangements with reference to the though-
fre-ight lines.
The Memphis Appeal says: “Mr.
D. H. El iiott, General Southern Agent
of the Kansas Pacific Railway, is at the
Grocery men seem to be laying
in heavy supplies for summer trade.
We hope the price of provision will not
increase.
The Constitution of Saturday contains
au article from a New Orleans paper
Overtoil, liotn whom we learn a grand ing that it would be advantageous
Southern excursion to Denver, Colorado j to Atlanta aud the whole State, to buy su-
aud the Rocky Mountains, it is on the
tapis lor this summer. The prelimina
ries will be arranged at the General
Ticket Agents’ Convention to he held
at Savannah, Georgia, March 28th.
gar. molasses, Arc., from the former place
rather than from the North with the
freight added. This is good advice, and
| the people ought to heed it.
usurp
If the power to appoint, “with the ad*,
vice and consent of the Senate,” means
anything, it means that no origininal ap
pointment can he made until the Senate
shall concur. But you assumed that the
judgeships were vacant and therefore,
you had the right!) fill litem. An
apologist, over the signature of “Albus,”
siiences all comets by asserting that it
is quibbling to say- these offices were not
vacant. He maintains that the appoint
ments are legal because the form of your
commission is regular. As well might
j he defend your lawless incursions on
the State Treasury, to pay hush-money
to a subsidised press, under tho pretext
of compen-ation for publishing your
elastic proclamations, becauso your ex*
d the loyalty of the old Senate? You
had uo cause to doubt tlie truculcncy of
its majority. To the extent of their ca
pacity, for over two years, they were as
true to their dishonor and the spoils, as
you ever required them to be. They
never refused their perquisites and tri
fling per diem, or surprised their consti
tuents (if any they had) by even one at
tempt to curb your maliguity-
Why did you not convene the Sena
tors elect? Y’ou ueed not give a leason;
yonr virtues furnish many, and any- one
sufficient. Determined to gratify your
hatred of your superiors; you seized the
hit in your teeth, and endeavored to tear
away from the restraints of law. \"on
knew tho new Sen te would not conform
your scurvy politicians, and that the
old could not because it is defunct. Let
us pause a moment at its tomb. Peace
to its ashes!—the world will never see
its like again. So harmless; when asleep;
most determined even when bonds were
most expected; so devoted to your Ex
ccllency and the public treasury; so uni
ted by “the cohesive power of public
plunder;” of each of its majority, who
resisted everything except temptation,
it may he said in praise, “he was as mild
a mannered man as over scuttled ship or
cut a throat.” Let us inscribe an epi
taph, which your Excellency will ads
mire, and then pass on. Nil tdigit, non
ccpit.
An apologist, ignorant of your charac
ter and administration, might, through
charity, infer that your assumption of
the power to appoint these Judges was
from an error of Judgment in oonstru
ing the law. But w-e now come to a
feature in that action which silences all
apologists. It has no key, no hypothe
sis except in turpitude. I need not ex
plain to you that I refer to the character
of some of your appointees to that office
of vast powers for good or evil; I will
cite hut one instance at preseat in preof
of this charge. I allude to the nomina
tion of one of your bosom companions to
the Judgeship of the district composing
hatharn, Effingham and Bryan. The
people of Georgia have been educated to
believe that the Judiciary is the last
bulwark of their freedom. They hare,
heretofore, seen their Executive officer
select rnen of high moral character, of
legal attainments, if not ol acknowledg
ed ability, to fill judicial offices. How
ever partis&D, however rancorous in
I tween citizens of the
j between tuitions; he defends
[only the rights ot equal Confeder-
I ales to equal privileges, ami insists
only on the obligation of the North
either to renounce the benefits of
the Federal compact, or to fulfill its
conditions. And here he is atone
: with the most respectable section ol
' the Abolitionists. In this argument
| as in those of ti.c previous volume,
j he allows his interlocutors to state
.the strongest parts of their easel
; freely and fairly; and in consequence I
i Ins reply, be its force what it may, i
’ fas tlie advantage -if comprising the .
; whole case. Ami, however we may !
j sympathize with the Northern ab-
1 horrence of slavery, however strong- i
' ly we may- feel the moral impossi- I
biiity of i’uliilliug the compact to j
return fugitive slaves, it would be ,
very difficult to dispute the force of!
Popular Indignation
Pennsylvania Coal Couij
Newburg, in common wit
the other cities of tlie count
anthracite coal has come to I
one of the necessaries of, is
from the scarcity of the artii
though at litis place are lo<
extensive works of the Pent
Coal Company, from which
ped several hundred thous
ot coal duiing each season
gallon, and from which also
iy derived the city’s sunpl
not a pound of coal has bet
rab'.e at those works fur a
months, and citizens have b
polled to send to a distance
Ply- A large quantity has I
veyed in sleighs from Mar
eight or nine miles ilista
slock of the retail dealers ;
was quickly exhausted duri
the extreme cold “spells’
: winter, and the poorer citiz
! had been unable to providi
i the day of need, were com
j use for fuel whatever th
I set. To relieve the needy
vent some of their operate
I actually treezmg to death.
I prietors of some of the iarg
- facturing establishme.its ds
! supply by the basket or 1
I the precious fuel. Tlie g
have been actually besiege'-
I people coming with bask
1 coke. There is the hitter*
plaint against the Pent
Company lor negh cling to
an adequate supply ot e<».
city, and threats are mat
more violent of demolish
Company’s works. But it
ble that the peace will he pi
The people say that brh
works were established i
practically drove out the r>
ers in the article, the supph
ways ample, and aff’trdrd a
able r ites ; but now it is ta
to gel it at any price.
[.V. Y. I
n a!
him worthy to make laws, you are justt
fisd in appointing him to execute them. I
Do you mean to say* that every member [
of a Georgia Legislature is lie to he n
Judge? Your defense means that, or it !
is a confession ol your guilt. Would [
you assert that every Governor of Geor
gia is qualified for the bench? You
thus attempt to insult an injur’d people !
by retorting what you know to be un j
true, as an excuse for a high misde- i
meaner. Y*ou know that following the
leadership i f unwise counsellors in 1SG7 1
and’68, die good people oi Chatham
and the State allowed the elections t,.* !
go by default, that a large number, under j
the registration fraud was disfranchised; j
that many more refused to register, and '<
that the election was cairied by- negroes
who, tickled at the novelty, voted again j
aud again. As the head of the Radical I
party in Geergia, you know there arc,:
barely whites enough to fill the offices, |
while the rauk and file, more honest and
respectable, but more stupid, are a!! ne- :
groes. And yet you affect to justify a
crime on the ground that you have only j
sought to continue honors which tlie pec-1
pie of Chatham first conferred. As well j
might Arnold have been made comman
der in chief after his treason, because he j
had once been honored with an inferior i
position. As well might Judas have I
been translated to Heaven after taking j
the thirty pieces of silver, because he j
had before been one of the disciples. As j
weil might your Evcellency except the j
confidence of even tlie negroes in Gcor- !
gia, after y-our record as Governor, be- j
cause they were once duped by your j
treacherous smile. After such a defense
you need no marble bust to perpetuate
your genius. Nature foreseeing your j
greatucss has saved posterity that ex-[
pense. She c ist vour head and breast! 1 i .i a-it . i -*_ •— K —-• • ~~j -
\ ..im t„i .m . j and the effect proiiuct-d by that event froutier the political c
in brass and made them both iioli.ow! , . , 0 f rT , . , , \ ,
lie, th(
r
Mr. Stephen’s reasoning, that as
within the Union, and upon the
ground ol Federal compact the
South was all al.neon the defensive
and the North the aggressoi; and
that, in breaking up the Union the
South only did what she had a right
to do, what the North had provoked
her to do, and what the best men ol
the victorious party at the North
and long desired to anticipate her in
French Char a:
The extraordinary- rae
France is inhabited appeal
nay supremely, endowed w
but one—the gift of true
gacity. Hence it is that, »
the greatest framers of log
and the most prolific paren
ideas for the solution of A
problems, they seem to -
own case little practical t
for the management of L;
In every other race of
commonly coi
most of Euro
self knowledge they seem to
the hindmost. France doe*
and cannot disco-,,-r, howto
beisclf. Gifted with great
tivc faculties, her people hav.
nearly a him red ycais. e
woful incapacity for adapting
stitutions to their wants, or 1-
iug to them a character of du
No French constitution 1 ivt
the term of a very moderate
The series of perpc’ual chai
progression; it is hardly eve
for in rotation we know what
wheel will next come round
the French polity of to-day
ree enables us to juc
doing. But tlie most interesting
part of the work is that which re- | the French polity of to-morrow
lutes to tho secret history of the plisbed and coDsummat
final struggle. Mr. Stephens throws
a great deal ot light on the causes
which brought on the war. He ex
plains the motive which led to die
disruption of the Democratic or
Conservative, party, and rendered
es an almost universal know
this single hut great chapter *
uliances of civilized, not to sa
fife, they have yet to learn tot
What might France not be if, itn !ea "
allowing her mouth sometime- to 8
for the annexation of
A D
issible the election of Mr. Lincoln, I could import from beyond
Nemesis,
The boiler at Kern & Tillinghast’s
Twilight well, near Parker’s Land
ing, Pa., exploded at four o’clock
yesterday af.eruoon, instantly kill
ing Charles T*iilingha$l, a well
known resident of Pittsburg, and
James Trax, a pumper, and severe
ly scalding W. II. Bern. Tilling
on the mind of the South.
which makes that small
ablest and most influential leader of | °f the best governed an
the parly opposed to Secession, rid
icules the idea ol “conspiracy” or
“coerciog;” he affirms that Secession
was the spontaneous act ot tiie peo
ple, who were more eager in ihel a | s0 G f ,
movement than the politicians to!
whom the North chose to ascribe it. j
He shows th it the secession ol the
! ed members of tha Europ*-.ai
j With this crudeness, chang' J h>
ba: renoess in paint ol acliierei
! result), France becomes before
I a calamity to herself, hut sue
ececsity a standing
unrest to Europe.—App>
Josh Billings observes:
. . . o‘I border States was'due entirely to j poor property enny how; k }* u cl
basis bo>ly wasi tlirown into (ho air lherc3olvB of the Li „ col „ Cabinet | item to tb.m, »»<l ,l
3U0 yards. I ho explosion was , , u vv var 0 „ lhc Mceder3 i tbco> } u to the iue«=t
caused by too high pressure,
meut.