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Till: WEEKLY LOYAL GEORGIAN.
YOL. 11.
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JT. E. BBIAKT, - - Editor.
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ADDRESS, “LOYAL GEORGIAN,” KEY
BOX 169, AUGUSTA, GA.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY^PM)
Platform Union RepnY lean Party,
Adopted at Atlanta July 4th.
Whereas, xve, humbly acknowledging our
dependence on an overruling Providence, who
shapes the destinies of men and nations, thank
Almighty God for having, hrongli agencies ami
instrumentalities in His wisdom selected, pro
servcdourGoycrnmont when its deepest founda
tions were being shaken by the mighty upheav
ings of the recent rebellion.
And whereas, the loyal men ofGeorgia desire
the earliest practicable settlement of the 'dis
turbed condition of tlie country : and whereas,
wm believe that the establishment of justice is
cmntiol to enduring peace, that patriotism
should be exalted as a virtue, amLthat it is the
<lltf*LPfthe State to eberish all its people; and
xnWWas, those who assert theseprinciples are
called Republicans, throughout the Union.
Therefore.
Resolved, Ist. That we adopt the name of the
Union Republican party of Georgia, and declare
ourselves in alliance with the National Republi
can party of the Union, and for the uncon
ditional support of the Union of these States.
Resolved, 2d. That we pledge our hcartysup
port to the reconstruction measures ol the Con
gress of the United States.
Resolved, Bd. That it is the duty of the State
to educate all her children, and to that end,
wc recommend the establishment of a general
system of free schools.
Revolted, 4. That (he Union itejmftlicau
Party is-indentified in its history nud by its
essential principle- with the rights, the in
terests and the dignity oflabor, and is in
sympathy with the toiling masses of society;
and that the working men c-i: Georgia will re
ceive at its hands every encouragement and
assistance that may be necessary (o pytcct
their lull rights; in the maintenance
btCTwitnd the principles wc
avowed, we cordially invite
tWpjwiperation of all citizens, without regard
to Their politico] antecedents.
Rrsoloed, 5, That the Union Republican
Party of the State of Georgia pledges itself to
maintain the free and legal rights of all men,
and wc will abide by the proscribed terms of
restoration, in electing to office those men
only who can comply, in all respects, with
Ihe requirements of tin - A cts of Congress, and
xvho prefer the Government of the United
States to any other that could he framed.
State Central Comm:' '“se, Union
Bepubean Party.
Hon. FOSTER Augusta,
',hg**mu u.? •• • -aFv4.
?' j. Lia aAT, or
Secretary.
Col. JOHN BOWLES, Treasurer.
First District. —Col. A. YV. Stone, Col. F S-
Ifa/.eltine. James M. Siimusfof Savannah ami T.
G. Campbell, of Meintohh county.
Second District.— Col. Beni. Smith, Albany;
Capt. C. W. Pierce, Wooton Station, Lee county ;
VV. H. Noble, Randolph county;Robert Alexander,
Clay county.
Third District. —G. W. Asliburn, T. S. Tuggle,
Oliver Saunders and Hampton Benton, Columbus.
Fourth District. —ll. M. Turner, Macon; Geo.
Wallace, Milledgeville.
Fifth District. —Col. John Bowles, Col. J. E.
Bryant, W. J. White, S. W. Bcaird, Augusta.
Sixth District. — 11. C. Flonrnov, Madison
Davis, Athens; Benjamin Dnnagau, Gainesville,
Hall County, Teter MeCiuster, Jefferson, Jackson
county.
Seventh Districts —Wm. Markhain, Atlanta;
B. M Shcihley, Koine ; Ephraim Kucker, Marietta;
William Higginbotham, Rome.
Constitution for Republican Clubs.
Weca'l the attention of our Republican
leaders to the following Constitution,
which will be a good one for them to adopt
in organizing Republican Clubs :
ARTICLE I.
NAME.
Tills Club elinll be known as the Union 11"
publican Club of -* , (name of town,)
county of , State of .
ARTICLE 11.
This Club is organized for the purpose of"
advancing the interests of tl>e Union Republican
party in this State and throughout the nation.
It wifi strive to elevate labor, educate the ignor
ant, and sustain the cause of universal justice.
ARTICLE TTL.
■ *■ OFFICII IIS. .
The officers of this Club shall £o a I*e_-ident
two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer
and an Executive Committee of live members
The above named officers shall be elected at the
lirst meeting in Januapy and July in each year,
and they shall hold over until their successors
are duly elected and qualified.
ARTICLE IV.
DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
The officers of this Club shall perform the
duties required of similar officers by ordinary
parliamentary usage. The Executive Committee
shall prepare business for the meetings of the
Club and make such arrangements as - shall se
cure a good attendance. They shall also make
such efforts as may fee in their power to make
tiie meetings interesting and profitable.
ARTICLE V.
QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS.
The only qualifications necessary to become
a member of this club, should be a good moral
character aud an expressed determination to
support the principles oi the Union Republican
partv.
ARTICLE VI.
REVENUE.
sTlie expenses of this Club shall lie decayed
by voluntary contributions from among tlie
members and others.
Plan for Organizing the Republican
Party.
The following plan lor organizing the Repub
lican party in the State, is recommended by
the Chairman of the Slate Central Committee,:
First. There shall be a State Central Commit
tee, consisting of four members from each Con
gressional District. This Committee has been
already appointed inmost of the Districts.
Second. The members of the State Central
Committee, in each Congressional District,
shall commence the organization of the party
in their District. They shal. organize a Con
gressional District Committee, to consist of one
white and oue colored member, for each county
in the District, of which they shall be members
at large. They shall lie considered the Con
gressional District Committee, until that com
mittee is but they shall organize
that Committee as soon as practicable.
Third. The Congressional District Committee
shall organize County Committees in each Coun
ty in the District, consisting of five white and
five colored members. If live white men who
are willing to serve on the Committde cannot be
found in any of the Counties, the Committee
shall consist of five colored men aud as many
white men as can be found.
Fourth. The County Committee shall organize
Republican Clubs, or Union Leagues, and use
their utmost efforts to thoroughly organixe the
party in their Counties.
Fifth. The Chairman of the State Central Com
mittee will call a meeting of that Committee in
the City of Augusta, as soon as the vacancies in
the Committee can be filled, to provide fora
J. E. BRYANT, Editor.
more thorough organization of the partv in the
State.
Sixth. The State Central Committee xx - ill be
organized by electing a Secretary and Treasurer.
The Chairman xvas elected by the State Conven
tion of July 4th. The Chairman of the State
Central Committee suggests that each -ot the.
Congressional District and County Committees
organise by the election of a Chairman, Se
cretary, and Treasurer. It is also suggested
that the members of the State Central Com
mittee, in each Congressional District, form a
temporary organization by the election of the
above-mentioned officers, and immediately plaec
themselves ill communication with the Chair
man, and with suitable persons in each County
of their District.
Seventh. The County Committees should re
port to the Committee
of their District, and State
Eighth. No -
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Freni . C; rrc-; -ilei.r
letter from iu.i -■///.
j The Situation—Reconstruction—lians
| greet—lmparlance oj the Presidential Election
I —The Breakers Ahead—The last Onslaught of
the President—Our jfiuSster at St. James —,
Something Agricultural—Reorganizing the
Treating Department — Sbeietg-Scotched, not
Killed — Frcedmen’i ’Bureau—The Soring, of
Frccdmcn.
U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C., 1
Wednesday, Feb. 4,1808. J
If 18(38 is not more pregnant with big ;
events than any preceding year, then I !
liave cast my horoscope wrong, Every ;
fundamental change in the history of this j
eotpl#y has required seven years for partu- !
ritran. For instance—it is unnecessary to I
go farther into the past—the proprietary
war between ill French and English, the
war of the Revolution, the disturbance
wfih the mother country ari.-ing.ont of the
Right of Search, and
each run a period of seven .years, and the
Savans xvho believe in the historical ‘•riot.”
an ! some who do not, are quite sure the
great Slaveholder’s Rebellion will be
and the States restored do
present year, which completes the
of seven, peculiar to affairs on
this .jcoulineiit, and the grandest in
American history. During this year, also,
the life or death of the nation is still in
issue ! —whether this experimental Repub
lic is a success or a failure whether the !
men wlm breasted treason’s iron hail, and j
died that the nation 'might live, died m
vain. All this and more is involved in
tlie* Presidential question to be finally I
decided in November liext. As is well j
known, a large majority of the Democratic
party in the Northern Stales are in close !
fellowship with those xvho for four i
years, with arms in their bauds, at- j
tempted to destroy the Republic—
none other than a sympathizer with this
class can receive a nomination for the Presi
dency from the Democratic party. The
! such a party, it is honestly be- j
| ruin. ' Prominent Southern men, embold- j
I cned by President Johnson and political i
| successes last fall, have openly avowed in:
1 the streets of Washington their determina- !
; tion to accomplish at the ballot box, and j
! through the agency of the Democratic or
| ganization, xvhat they failed to do through |
the agency ol bayonets and bullets. Promi
nent Democrats have no objections to
make to such a result. Success of;
this kind xvould add to the present na
tional debt the value of the slaves liberated
by the Emancipation Proclamation, and \
probably the Confederate debt, and pensions I
for disabled traitors and relatives of traitors. I
The chief object sought by the Democratic I
party —Repudiation would be the natural |
result of this most unnatural accumulation
of debt.
I need not tell your readers what would
become of the loyal men in the Southern
States if the Democratic party triumphs
next fall. The Congressional majority fully
recognize the situation, and have determined
that the work o( reconstruction shall be com
pleted the present year, and that every legiti
mate effort shall be made to prevent a rebel
triumph in November next. They feel to
day that they committed a blunder, if not a
crime, in not impeaching Johnson one year
ago. The real evidence relied upon to im
peach. it is believed, was tit v>r laid before
the committee, ft may yet be. wd! bo, used,
if Mr. Johnson's course should r iiily again
endanger the Union cause. Loyal men at
the'South may rely upon it that they will not
be abandoned by Congress, and can shape
ifceir course of action accordingly. The
irresponsible Rebels at the South, and Cop
perheads at the North, die hard, but die they
surely must. Their struggles for power tire
the last throes of the monster—Treason.
Thus much I have said to give a cursory
view of the situation from our standpoint at
the capital.
TUP. LAST ONSLAUGHT OF TIIE
PRESIDENT:
Was made yesterday, by sending to tiie
Senate the name of Colonel N. A. Wise
well for the place now held by Mr. IS, A
Rollins, ns Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue. The present ’ incumbent, having
failed to sqe the beauties of Mr. Johnson s
“policy,” has thereby become oiFensive—
hence the attempt to remove him. Col.
Wisewell has a fair military reputation,
but is claimed by the Copperheads as one
of their set. The Senate will hardly lend
itself to this new scheme of Mr. Johnson.
THE PRESIDENCY.
I Every movement just now is gu.iged by its
i bearings upon the Presidential election,
j General Grant cofitinues to be much talked
! about by a certain class of Itepubjicans’;
i but a large majority of other than pro
! fessiorial politicians prefer Mr. Chase,
ior some one like him of pronounced
| political views. I may be mistaken, but 1
: think the Republican candidate for the Presi
i deucy has not yet been named in cot.r.ec
; lion with that office. The recent election in
: Ohio, and the campaign thus fur ic New
Hampshire, have so raised the hopes oi
i the Republicans that they begin to fee 1 , us
| the p-ople always have, ibul they can elect
j any sound progressive Republican they
j please with proper exertion. The Democ
racy have really only two men to choose
1 between —Pendleton, and Seymour, of New
| York. Both are men of great ability ;
both fairly i epreaent the political views of
the great majority of the Democratic party.
OUR MINISTER AT ST. JAMES.
I Memorials have been presented to the
! Senate urging the recall of Charles F.
j Adams, our Minister at the Court of St.
I James. t is well understood that Mr.
i Adams’ slock has pretty well run out—in a
j word, the elder Adams has been so iong
I abroad us to have fallen behind the progres
j give strides of his own nation. Simultaneously
i with these memorials, comes a rumor that
AUGUSTA, GA-SAfURDAf, FEBRUARY 15,1868.
Mr. Adams *kas already resigned. Mr.
Seward refuses to confirm or deny the
rumor, and therefore it is taken for granted
that there is some foundation for the rumor.
liRODUCTS OF AGRICULTURE.
The Director of the Bureau of Statistics
has compiled the following statement of
the products of agriculture for the years
named :
1840.. value §612,790,(384 '
1850 Dt4.495.089 :
1860.. (currency) 2,453,957,065 j
Frojj,lß4o to 1860 the agricultural p^e
pertion of the laboring population in> the
States,, decreased from 65 to 50 per cent of
the wliok'.
REORGANIZING THE TREASURY DEPART
mi: XT.
A s/stamalte effort is being made to
the Treasury Department to
■ccure greater efficiency. The Depart
■pent was organized, as it now exists, in
■853. In 1860 the aggregate receipts and
of tlje Government were
$151,214,136, and 412 clerks only were
employed. On June 30,1867, the receipts
and expenses of the Government amounted
to $2,224,110,575 (nearly fifteen times
larger than jn I860) and only 2,213 clerks
wer” employed. The facts show on an
average a clerk of to-day does three times
as much work ns a clerk did in 1860. It
is estimated that $200,000 per annum will
be saved under the new plan.
SCOTCHED, NOTJKILLED.
The old rebel element crops outßftio oc
casionally so as to attract attention.!' Even
women sometimes so fin-forget themselves as
to manifest ill breeding. Only yesterday r.n
aged anu blind colored man, led by a fittle
boy, asked a female, dressed in the garb ol
a woman, and possessing the external indi
cations of a lady, to give him a penny lo buy
bread, when she, with an impertinent smirty
said, "Go and sea Sunnier” (meaning,doubt
less, Senator Sumner), and passed on. She
..will doubtless, at some time or other, find a
hot Ur place than Washington. .
■SOCIETY.
Tlie present is iubuiqcil by all to be tlie
gayest season ever experienced in Washing
ton. A majority o( the Senators; and many
of the Representatives, have their faiqjl ies
here. All members ol the Cabinet, numer
ous civil office holders, and a number of
army and naval officers, besides private
citizens, keep open house, and give frequent
entertainments. There is an unusual num
ber of foreign visitors spending the winter at
the capital, and it is generally remarked that
more us the elite ol American society is
represented here than ever in anv one season
before. • , *
FREKI)MENV (jiURBAU.
A committee of Congress will, in n few
days, report in favor of continuing tho
Freedmcu’s bureau indefinitely, and some
plan ol the doubtless bp adopted,
the t 1 xp-'u.-Tx-bi the Bureau siftce its
organization in June, 18(35, •has been
’55,959,457j11—this is up to Jamlary, Ist,
18(38. The amount originally appropriated'
xves $10,780,750 —so that a large sum still
remains.
* THE sV VINOS OF FItKED-Xi ta.’.
: | tig.., v~, r t - f-. - • ■
| -ravings Ranks snow tho >,au,u»tfi linpoajtcd
| in the different Banks, during the year 1807,
to be as follows :
: Augusta $19,372 54
, Baltimore 81,191 42
I Beaufort 397,390 21
: Charleston 201,520 02
' Huntsville 10,818 11
Jacksonville 130,018 12
Louisville 103,017 00
Memphis 50,432 01
Mobile 82,848 00
Nashville. 50,302 40
Nuxv Orleans 05,514 92
Newborn 29,488 95
New York 54,486 53
Norfolk 110,077 15
Richmond 21,464 37
Savannah 43,585 43
Tallahassee 27,308 31
Vicksburg 51,210 21
Washington 211,1(30 50
Wilmington 2,792 02
Total $1,906,741 71
Os the total amount $272,719 32 remains
in bank, and the balance was drawn out
Capitol.
THE WRONG \VA Y. * i
Tlie Constitutional Convention of Geor- j
gia has just
'‘dissolved. That Ihc Congress of the
United States lie respectfully petitioned to
appropriate thirty millions of United States
currency, to bo loaned under proper regu
lations, to aid the development of the
agricultural interests of needy Southern
planters ”
We respectfully advise the aforesaid
Convention that Congress will do no such
tiling, and we add an avowal of our con
vietion that therein Congress will do just
right, and especially what is best for the
South The chief misfortune of that sec
tion is that too many of her people arc to
day looking for “relief” from something
else than their own faithful labor. There
are thousands on thousands of whites col
lected day by day in the various grog shops,
cursing tho.Jaziness of the negroes n»
ruining the South, when it is their own
laziness that equally damages the South
and them solves. Then there are thousands
of blacks who aro waiting for land, or
mules, or tools, or something else, to he
given or allotted them, which they will
never get except by solid, hard work. Let
them all understand this and just go to
work as they best may, and the South will
soon be all right. Waiting for reconstruc
tion, or for help of some kind, reminds us
of the Irishman who grumblingly wonder
ed why Father Mathew did not flurry along
and give him the pledge before lie drank
liitnseif to death.
Thirty millions of dollars would make a
large hole in the Treasury, but. would nowise
satisfy the needs of the South. A week's
faithful work from every man in the South
would effeqt more good. Twenty per
sons would wait and watch, and run to
county sedfs'.or State capitals, in quest of
their share of the greenback shower, where
one would get the first cent; aud thus pre
cious weeks would be squandered, and the
great body of the planters would turn to
llieir work too late, disappointed, disgusted,
aud disqualified for manly exertion.
The South needs, not more debt, but less.
She would not be benefitted by enabling her
great landholders to hold on a few years
longer to their unwieldy estates, which are
unsuited to free labor, and need to be broken
up into farms and smaller plats, owned by
their cultivators. lu short, the thirty mil
lions would only serve further to demoralize
and distract tiie South, postponing that In
dustrial Reconstruction which is of more
account than any other. Her true relief is
to be found in fixed adherence to the stern
maxim, "Root, bog, or die V—New York
Tribune.
the Atlanta Era.J
State Constitiitional Convention
Ga., Feb. 6, 1868.
' The ConventionVlet at 9J o’clock.
The journal wasijad and approved.
Air. Dunning Drived to reconsider the
action of theConveation yesterday on Re
! lief. 3
The motion to rc pnsider xvas laid on the
table by a vote of "Mas 82 to nays 45.
Air. Speck offepej the folloxving, which,
after being amenfft |,.\wae adopted :
Resolved, That *tiif■. three Pages of this
Convention shall retfeivo for their services
one dollar each, per flay, and the Assistant
Doorkeeper, and A’-lstaflt Messenger, each
three dollars per day. and that the Auditing
Committee be autLrizad* to issue their
xvarrant to each of tie said persons for the
respective amounts (due to each to date,
which account shali bp countersigned by
the President; -md )ho Messenger is here
by authorized to pnfi'hanc' fuel for the use
of the Convontiou. ■ "**
The report of the*.'ommittce on the Ex
ecutive Department;'!lts taken up, as the
special order, andrt-ju,
Mr. Paurott (A'r. Trammel in the
Chair) offered the Constitution of the
State of 1865, with amendments which he
had-prepared, as a substitute for the
sectisn. '
Tlie Chair decrili*- „ that such a Substi
tute could be offeri I.
I Mr. Asubuhn aji.lealed from ~{hn-deeis
ion of the Chair. 4
l bs decision of tID Cbair was sustained
by a vote 1f65 to 57*. . * »
Mr. Whitelev m'.ved tp Jay Air. Par
rott’s substitute on 'Jiotafilu. Carried—
j'eas 82, nays 37.
Air. Conley movgTlo tnk'e up tJte report
of the tpc Ejceeutive'Depart
ment as a whole. C^-Ged.
Mr. F (>ster B idgett moved* to ’
amend-the report bv the creation of the
office of Lieutenant (xUvafiiOT. * ,
During- the discuss ~11 oT'tilis proposition
it was announced tho llAn. C. C- fticn
ardson. a member Convention, had
departed tliis iif#^
Air. BEty'QRD iniyf iced the following,
which xvas 11 in Dime 'A*, adopted :
\\(jii’.rl'as. Inform 'ion has been rc- \
ccived in this Couxvi .L,n of the (h ath of
Hon. C. C. Richards, V delegate IVOIII the
20th district; therefqjbe it
Resolved, That a mrpitleo of five he
appointed by the I. x ident to draft a
suitable memorial in rtmor ofllte deceased,
arid report the same t this Convention on
Day morrow morning,
Messrs. Bedford, Ilivtfht, Seeley, White
ley, and Bullock wore ajipointed that
committee. _ , _ ’..
Mr. Wallace following, xvliich
was unanimously ado, ed';
Resolved, That, aa .-mark of respect to.
the memory of Hon., CD Ot Richardson,
deceased, this Convention do ooyv ailjouyi.
The Convention adjufmed.
TiiiHTv-Etcj.j n Dart
Atlanta, G.a- :
1 l-.c Coi.ycntim,rt.' i gfe«tt >< j
Prayer by l!ev. Ali™Jowers, a Delegate
from the 3lst District. ‘
The Journal was read.
The unfinished business of tlie previous
day was taken up, the same beiiv the report
ol lhe Committee on the Executive Depart
ment.
The report was adopted, without amend
ment, by lhe following vote : Yeas 66, nays 55.
The Report of Committee on Franchise
was taken up and read.
Mr. W nitelkv moved to suspend the
rules to take up tho report of the Commit
tee on the Legislative Department. The
rules xvere suspended, when
Mr. Brvant moved to amend so as to
provide for taking up- the report of the
Committee on Franchise, which motion was
sustained, a off the report xvas ordered to he
considered section by station.
(Jn motion of Mr. Bryant the first scu
tum xvas read and adopted, as follows:
Sec. 1. In all elections by the people the
electors shall x'ote by ballot.;
Mr. Bedford, Chairman of tlie commit
lee appointed yesterday to report on the I
death of lion. C. C. Richardson, asked a j
suspension of the regular order to make a j
report.
The order was suspended, and the com
mittee reported as follows :
Whereas, it has [leased ngyiue Provi
dence to take from out til dstjarip-. the vigor
of manhood and in tfie of
the blessings of healti and prosperity, us
well as in the due performance of his Julies
as a delegate from tlioKOth Senatorial Dis
trict of Georgia in tlij Constitutional Con
vention of tho same, jhe Hon. C. C. Rich
ardson, formerly of ijtxfield, in the ,State
of Maine; and
Whereas, the sail delegate has passed
from our midst by a iiost unfortunate oc
currence, after having for years braved
death in behalf of his flag and country, aud
having exemplified bylhis acts as a soldier
his devotion to tiie Constitution and the
Union ; and.
Whereas, The dceef-.ed, true to his first
principles, and urdeuf-iu his desire to re
store the Union, It ,-, ntf aco laborer in the
work of recott: rue: in, zealously repre
sented his District, i id has fallen in the
midst ol his official lal ant.
Resolved, That thi Convention recog
nize in the person of the deceased, a zeal
ous and steadfast (rieid, and an open and
manly opponent, and an earnest o-iaiiorer
in tiie work of restoraion.
liesolved. That ti is Convention tender!
their sympathies to tl; relatives and friends
of the deceased.
liesolved, flint tha Convention do wear
the usual badge of m urning lor the period
of thirty days. i
liesolved, That a i Ijif of the above be
forwarded tiie imme date relatives of the
deceased.
The report was unjnimously adopted.
Eulogies on the defeased were pronoun
ced by Messrs. Turnjr, Bryant, Campbell,
and Smith, of Thom*.
Mr. Bedford offeril the following reso
lution, which was utf.nimously adopted :
lie it resolved, Tint the Committee on
Printing be instiuded to have five hun
dred copies of the injmOrial and resolution,
and remarks main by the delegates,
printed for the use « the Convention, and
that tho Secretary 14 instructed to forward
to the mother and silters of the deceased a
copy of the same. I
The Methodists of the North and West
have proved their claims to enlarged
Christian liberality by raising within a
limited’ period the amount of $8,241,000,
which is known as the Methodist Cente
nary collections, and is devoted to the
establishment of churohup in destitute sec
tions and to the spread if education.
From the Augusta National Republican
* FREE SPEECH.
If any one doubts that free Speech is
! allowed in Georgia—or if our Northern
friends suppose that the Reconstruction
Convention is composed of delegates elected
by loyal votes exclusively, xve commend to
them a careful perusal of tho speech de
livered in tho “Georgia Unconstitutional
Radical Nigger Convention” (as our Con
served ife Literatures' style it) on Friday last*
by tho Hon. Mr. Waddell, of Polk county :
Mr President—lt xvas not my intention
to trouble tho Convention with a sinele
word upon the subject immediately before
ns; I and should not now, but for some ro
niarks xvliich fell from the delegate from
Richmond (Mr, Bryant). Ho complained
because allusion had been made to the fact
that Stand of the conspicuous delegates to this
Convention -those oftencst. on the floor—
xvere recent residents’ of Georgia, and
intimated that in consequence of that fact
a prejudice xvas endeavored to be. kindled
against those delegates of Northern birth.
1 have sat in this Convention nearly forty
days, and 1 appeal to those around me to*
know if twenty ill-natured flings have not
been made at Georgians xvhere one even
respectful allusion has been ma 0 to New
Englanders.
Fonr-fiftba of the white people of Geor
gia were rebels, “so called,” and not a day
lias been suffered to pass when those "fob
j els” have not been denounced, in some
shape,or form, by those who have assumed
the task of “ingrafting upon the stock of
Georgia ignorance Next England ideas and
New England civilization.” They seem to
have an intense loathing for those xvho bore
part in the struggle for liber tv—they de
nounce them as rebels and traitors. No
: terms of reproach are rigorous enough to
; characterize them by—no punishment is
severe enough to inflict upon them. vVhen
xye tell them xve have surrendered in good
faith—we have down our arms upon
. the honor ot soldiers—we have abandoned
I what they call the “heresy of secession”—
! In-lcdfortli xve mean to stand by the Union
I nodiff the Go'nsfltution—it is all to no pur
; pose, nil without avail. They are not coq-
I lent. They are greedy for the pound of
flealij nothing slmteof our ruin, degrada- J
•ion.' eternal disgrace, will appease or
satisfy tlieiiK y
Now, sir, I have home vituperation long
enough. lam not ashamed of my record.
Tiherti ircver xvas a moment since the
date of nfy political accountability, when I
was'not; true to .the- great principles of
popular liberty us laid-down in th£Consti
tution of’llie United States, ft xvn| pre
cisely because franneeived that that. Unisti
tntion was prncti*aljly overt .brown, that its
principles xvere in jeopardy, that its spirit
awl essence were violated by the election
to the office of President of the United
States ofi* a-sectional candidate upon a
, notional platform, that F espoused the
chose of .Georgia. Through her sovereign
commanded rao >o -voe mv
**"T •*V lll> ra-V.88r.00t.. . V'W-J <n Tr
Inga mfuntirer yhmrgm tnwrre mp A-ercsi-ii
of the United States. I conceived she bad
tho right to absolve my citizenship «She
commanded mo to defend her; the Federal
! Government commanded me to crush her.
j i jould not obey both masters. 1 elected
I without hesitation in obedience to the in
j stinets of dfcC'nature, to stand by Georgia
i the home ol my childhood and nutn
i hood ; the graves of my neighbors and
i friends ; the alters of my kindred; the
honored ashes of him whose name I bear.
Os xv Irani then shall I he afraid ? Os what
bIuiII 1 he ashamed ? Let me here speak
one word lor myself alone, and if toy voice
could reach to the uttennost boundary of
creation, creation should hear the declara-
tion. To-day, poor as I am, I xvould not
exchange the memory of the part ] bore,
’humble as that part was, in the noble strug
gle of Georgia to he free, for the crown of
the Bourbon lost. 1 would not exchange
the memory of my poor part at Manassas,
Gettysburg, and Chickainauga, and a
dozen other proud hut melancholy fields
for the best hope I have, if 1 erred, it xvas
j on the side of my .State ami my section.
| an error, if one it be, that stands recorded
l in Heaven's Chancery upon mercy’s page.
1 I erred too in company with the best, the
j brightest, and the bravest of my State. I
erred with men whose names are garnered
up in her heart, whose valor shed unfading
lustre upon her arms, whose fame is among
the jewels of her crown, ami over whose
hero dust, her nuist precious tears have
been shed.
Mr Baldwin here interrupted by in
quiring whether Mr. Waddell still held to
secession ?
Mr. Waddell—Secession was settled by the
war. J accepted the result. When I stir
rendered my sword 1 surrendered that doc
trim:. i surrt ndcred to General Grant, who
is a mail of honor, and has kept his pledge
I have kept, ami mean to keep mine. Would
that I could say as much tor some of his
supporters here. My honor was pledged,
anil that i.-: unstained. But 1 will not sit
si'ently by " id hoar the memory of those
,v!j . perished, ii the effort to make secession
gho i. .us, calumniated. Those Christian he
ro' s, Tom Cobb and Stonewall Jackson,
wl.o baptized your cause and mine, Mr.
President, in their blood—who sacrificed life
in maintaining it—over whose graves glory
weeps —they are denounced by a party on
this floor as traitots to the country, while
Butler, the beast, who incited a ruffian sol
diery at New Orleans lo violate defenceless
females—who went there a bankrupt in for
tune, as he is now a bankrupt in fame—who
grew rich by plunder, robbery, rapine and
theft—he is now a patriot! Put me down
among the traitors 1
Democrats —Young men’s Democratic
Clubs arc organizing in Georgia for tiie
purpose of “restoring the Constitution of
our fathers.”— Exchange.
The Georgia Democrats,*under Hardee
and G. W. Smith, organized a few years
ago in great numbers for the purpose ol
destroying the Constitution of llieir fathers.
As we were able to preserve the constitu
tion in spite of their hostility, we shad
doubtless succeed in still maintaining it
without their aid. The best thing for the
Georgia Rebels to do is to slop mustering,
blustering, and filibustering, and quietly
work, read, and vote.— -N. Y. 'Tribune.
Gen. McClernand, the politician, publishes
a very long story in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
to show that Grant relieved him without
cause at Vicksburg. Those blow-hard letters
from the ex-political General are worse than
useless. They recoil on his own head when
we read iti hooks letters from Gens. Sherman,
McPherson, and others, urging Grant to
remove him long before he was ousted.
GEORGIA PRINTING COMPANY Publishers.
GENERAL ITEMS.
i Rembrandt Peale's original portrait of
| Chief Justice Alarshnl! has been presented to
Chief Justice Chase.
The wife of the heir apparent to the Rus
sian throne is said to be the handsomest
princess in Europe. *
Matrimonial advertisements now read:
“No cards ; no cake; no wine.” The next |
thing will bo “no wedding.”
England annually consumes forty four 1
pounds of sugar per head of population, j
xxhile Russia consumes only three pounds j
per head.
lhe first Alaska paper was published by i
the expedition sent by tho Western Union I
Telegraph Company, and was called the
Esquimaux. *
A Bostonian claims that Agassiz’s lec
ture in that city, recently, was the first time
he has appeared there on the stage in ten
years. .
The Cii#innati Cvpimercial says ; “There
is no doubt that; in the absence of changes
that reasonable men can not anticipate, the
vote of Ohio in the National Republican"
Convention will be given for Grant,"
' Some eats live lo be twenty-eight years
old. One who had attained that great age,
but who was an evident Methnsaleli among
the feline race, died lamented in Cleveland
recently.
A witness spoke of a particular person us
having seen him “partially clad.” “Was lie
not quite nude?” asked the examining
counsel. “No," replied the witness, “he
wore a pair of spectacles.”
The French Empress skates leaning on
two gentlemen, well known as being adepts
in the art. Recently a young American,
Mr. Riggs, and the youngest of the Errauz
family, had the honor of guarding her
Alajesty,
A Copperhead paper in Michigan threat
ens Gen. Grant with assassination in case
Congress puts the work of reconstruction
into his hands. The Copperheads tried
once before to defeat reconstruction bv
murder.
l’apc-r bonnets arc now being made from
Manilla pulp, moulded on a block, then
spread xvith dissolved shells, and covered
| with woollen flock or clothier's waste, and
pressed till it has a velvet appearance.
The cost of manufacture, does not exceed
ten cents each.
Ihe Kansas Legislature have passed a
resolution asking Congress to annul the
day purchase ol the Cherokee lands. The
resolution sets forth that 20,000 citizens of
Kansas are on these lands, and that by the
sale they are ousted from their homes.
One corporation in Massachusetts, which
has $1,006,000 capital stock, and consumes
•wo p r cent, ot the cotton used in the
United States, and which for six years
previously to 1862 paid $328,754 tax annu
ally, or twenty-two per emu. on its capital.
Ihe Liberal Christian newspaper, is- of
opinion, in which we concur, “that there is
no education xCrrihly neglected
in this country is mayicra in public, and
do'jeuci -s of civiiized<*K),iet.v on public occa
sions because they are utterly ignorant of
the rudiments of good breeding."
General Sheridan has been absent (coin
Washington several (lays recently, attending
the funeral ol a sister. While lit: was re
turning, Thursday morning, he narrowly
escaped a railroad accident, lie left the
train which a few miles further on met with
a general smash-up.
1( El'Uli HCA NISM.
The New York Tribune says that the
Republican victory in the election of Gen
Beatty to Congress from the Eighth Con
gressional District of Ohio, by a majority
eight times greater than that by which
the district was carried last fall, indicates
that the peopled Ohio, and of the country
generally, are rapidly getting over what
ever distrust they may have felt in the
wisdom of the Congressional policy of re
'': 1 1 ;" tr:i■ -: ii,; ■. During the campaign of last
fait the reactionists nud'repndiators charged
""f lit"" with great persistence, and vigor,
and carried here and there ah exposed
point- Tin y did not succeed, however, in
driving us from any important position,
either of power or of principle, and in the
gn at Presidential campaign which is now
approaching, they will find us well en
trenched, our whole army in hand, all our
reinforcements available, and our victory
vnlualiy organized and secured before the
contest is begun. The moment, the actual
reconstruction ol tiie Southern States begins
to he consumiiKstid, as it now soon will be,
by the admission ol the representatives of
certain of those States to Congress, the re
construction question will he visibly solved,
and the very occupation of the Democratic
party will begone. The financial vagaries
of the Pendleton school of destructionists
are short-lived. Their absurdity has been so
repeatedly demonstrated that they hardly
form a basis for a platform sufficiently re.
speetable to be beaten upon, still less for
success.
l.very indication confirms our prediction
made last Fall, that the so-called “reaction”
would spend its force in a single effort, and
that the absurd hope that the people of this
country would surrender their destinies into
tho hands of traitors ami repudiators, was
doomed to he happily and signally disap
pointed. Let New Hampshire echo the re
sponse of Ohio.
A Change of Tune.— The Augusta
Chronicle, which sang peans over the re
moval of Gen. Pope, and hailed his sue
eessor wiih songs of personal laudation and
political satisfaction, now says:
“We think that there can be very little
doubt, now, on the mind of any impartial
man in the State, that Gen. Meade is as
thorough and as hitter a Radical as John
Pope or Thad, Stevens. He implicitly
believes in the omnipotence of the Rump
Congress, and makes it a labor of love to
enforce, with the greatest degree of severity
and vigor, all the behests of his Radical
friends.’—A. T. Tribune.
Printing with moveable types was known
in India at least one thousand years ago, j
according to discoveries recently made by
English Savans. I
; Sdcgrapjjic Neros.
The Conventions.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, February B. —An ordinance
was passed to provide means for defraying
the expenses of the Convention by a tax
of one-tenth of one per cent of all the tax
able property. The same to be collected
on or before May Ist, 1868. -
A resolution to expel Aaron Alpcroo
Bradley, was made the special order for
Tuesday next)
The second section of tbe Committee’s
report on franchise, as adopted, recognizes
“no distinction between the races, and
provides that all voters shall have paid •
their taxes. If challenged, they shall swear
that their vote is not affected by any re
ward received or expected, nor have they
given or promised any reward, or made
any threat to prevent any' person from
voting.
FLORIDA.
I a Li. \ll asset, February 7—-The Minority
Convention is still in secret session. They
have adopted a ConstitiTtion, and are await
ing instructions from General Meade before
adjourning.
The majority refuse to recognize the acts
of the minority, or admit British subjects or
non-residents to s ats in the Convention.
The majority consists of four negroes and
twenty one whites—all eligible. The minor
ity numbers twenty-one, of which one is
colored ; three British subjects, non resi
dents. Os tlie balance, fifteen or sixteen are
negroes.
The P resident of the Convention, and
the Chairman of Committee on Eligibility
and Elections, are included in the minority.
I lie President rules that foreigners and
non-residents are eligible to seats, and re
fuses an appeal from his decision without a
two-thirds vote, which enables the minority
to govern the Constitution.
Tallahassee, February B. —The Minority
Convention held three sessions to-day—in
the morning secret. At 5 o’clock they were
signing the Constitution, which many of
them have done reluctantly, having come to
the, conclusion that they have been proceed—
ing regardless of law and precedent j and
concluded not to adjourn until they could
hear from Gen. Meude.
A State lit :el has been nominated, con—
listing ol Billings for Governor; Launders,
colored, Lieutenant Governor; and Gibbs,
colored, for member of Congress.
she reg ulaij Re public:! a ■ s omi o o.t.i n g Con
'be held on thoTlth instant.
Messengers were sent last night to neigh—
boring plantations, calling on the negroes to
a.tend a mass meeting favoring the minority,
to be, I."M this p. m. About 1,000 attended.
In a speech, it colored minority delegate
caked !>»r tin* hanging of the seceding mem—
h'-rs by some ol the crowd. The speaker
also sai l burn them.
portion claiming tii • majority will pro
bably assemble on Monday, and proceed as
as if no interruption had taken place, or
Constitution acted on.
-ORTH CAROLINA.
Raliu'.h, ehuTh Carolina, February 7.
| I be. Convention to-day adopted the report in
1 bivor ol npplviug to l.ongress tor the re
moval of the disabilities of all who favor
and support the Cobgressioual reconstruction
policy.
Resolutions of Mr. Durham, making ne
groes, or persons unable to read and write,
ineligible ;o the office of Governor, or other
executive offices, were 'voted down promptly
by the majority.
MISSISSIPPI.
Jackson, February 7.—The Committee
appointed to request General Gillem to
issue an order prohibiting tlie sales by all
officers and trustees, except for wages on
plantations and mechanic’s labor, submit
ted a letter from headquarters declining to
comply with said request.
A .supplemental report from the Com
mittee on Destitution was adopted, ap
propriating the poll tax of 18(37 as a tem
porary rehef.
A resolution that the per diem of tho
members cease after forty-five days session
Wijs t bled.
Washington Items.
Washington, February B. —The Recon
struction Committee hud a stormy session
to day, hut did nothing pointed. Pe-ck, of
Kentucky, was added to the sub com
mittee on the President’s alleged violation
of the law, i;i forbidding Gen. Grant to
obey Stanton. Grant will be tho first wit
ness. This morning’s Express say’s : The
feeling among the majority of the com
mittee is undoubtedly in favor of impeach
ment, and there is reason to believe that a
resolution to this effect will shortly be
reported to the House. Before adjourning
to-day, the committee agreed to report a
hill to remove the political disqualification
imposed by the Reconstruction acts on
Governor Holden, of North Carolina;
Gov. Otr. of South Carolina, and General
Longstreet, ot the late Confederate army.
It is reported that Mr. Brooks moved to
add the name of Gen. Beauregard, but the
committee refused to include him. Among
those summoned are Gen. Grant, mem
bers ot the Cabinet, including Stanton;
J- B. Stillson. of the New York World,
and two members of Gen. Grant’s staff.
Grant failed to appear this afternoon, and
the committee examined Mr. Stillson.
Mr. S. W. McKaiu, for fifty years Dis
bursing Clerk m the Treasury Department,
is dead.
NO. 54.