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Till: WEEKLY LOYAL GEORGIAN. YOL. 11. £l)c£oiial<£>corgian JT. E. BBIAKT, - - Editor. THOS. P. BEARD, - - Agent. Office, corner of Monument and Ellis sts. TERMS: One Year, • . . *•> OO Six Jionliisi, . r - t 23 Tlircc tionilis. . 1 5 ADVERTISSMENTS INSERTED ON LIB ERAL TERMS. 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 - f ijPr jk : - adlpt- i pa- Yijlßr 1 :! •• * if. 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.