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CljcConal^forjian!
J. B. BBVANT, - • - Editor.
AUGUSTA, GA.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1868
Official Organ U. S. Government.
Official Organ of the Georgia
Educational Association.
All comimmlcaUon* for puUllcation
must be written only on one side of tlie paper,
and accompanied with tlie name of the writer.
We will not publish the name, unless the writer
wishes us to do so, hut we must have It. as a
guarantee of the truthfulness oft lie article.
C@ f *'-Mu. Wm. J. White i# the Travel
ling Agent for Loyal Georgian-
The Principles we Advocate.
Reconstruction in accordance witli the
laws of Congress.
The equal political and legal rights of all
citizens of the United States, except those
who have been convicted ol crime, or those
who have voluntarily attempted to destroy
the Government.
The enactment of State laws for the
inauguration and support of a system of
common schools.
The elevation of labor, and the passage
of such laws its will protect the toiling
masses of society in their just and legal
rights.-
Organize ! Organize! Organize ! i
Ii is that we have been successlul in
the late election, but our opponents did not
work against us. True, they opposed us;
hut they had no organization. Our or
ganization was very imperfect. Wo have
lost two hundred votes in nearly every
county that might have been polled, if we
had been thoroughly organized.
The next contest will bo most important, ,
and our opponents will organize to defeat j
us- In a few months wo shall he called I
upon to vote to ratify the Constitution,
and to elect officers under it. Wo can
succeed if wo do our duty.
A Union League should be organized in
every county, and ti Club or League |
should be organized in every precinct. A
Constitution for Republican Clubs will be j
found on the outside of our paper.
Ju organizing Clubs, we would advise
that a few true men come to gether, choose
temporary officers, and adopt the constitu
tion. After that, let names lie proposed
and referred to a committee who shall ex
amine to see if they are true men. Let
the Committee report whether they are
friends or enemies. Then have a vote of
the Club, and let a majority decide, [fa
majority vote against the Oandidatof he is ,
of course, rejected; if majority \ ote for, 1
then have film sign the Constitution and
enjoy all the rights of other members.
. 1 'Vl'iillirisS' “ 4
- liave n sentry*:! j
to keep out persono not members. When u !
sufficient number of persons have been
elected, have permanent officers elected in
accordance with the Constitution.
Wc urge upon the Central Committee the j
importance of thoroughly organizing every
county in the State. ’Let the members in
each Congressional District see that each
county in I heir District is organized.
Friends ! If we fail in the next election,
it will be our own fault. We can succeed,
if we .work
Laboring Men, Remember!
That Ben 11. Ilill in his " great" (!)
speech at Atlanta spoke in favor of“ a
landed aristocracy." embracing cum/io i
lively few people.
Remember that three hundred thousand
to slaveholders—the “ landed ariscracy ”
of the Sou tit—have theretofore tided the
Southern States, driving the laboring white,
men from tint, good lands into the pine,
oarrens. keeping the great mass of the peo4
pie m ignorance and poverty.
Remember that this “ landed aristocra
cy ” broughton awar to destroy the Govern •
uient, established a “reign oi terror,” and
forced the poor men to fight for them.
Remember that this "landed aristocracy"
have always despised laboring men, and
have crushed them by oppressive laws.
Remember that the Union Republican
party is pledged to elevate labor, and to
the passage ot such laws as will protect the
toiling masses of society in their just, and
legal rights.
Colored Men, Remember!
That the Rebel-Copperhead party —some-
times called the Democratic party—fought
to keep you in slavery : and that the lenders
of that party have done all they could to
prevent you from voting.
Remember, that the Union Republican
party has given you freedom and the right
to vote ; that it has protected you, and " ill
continue to protect you.
Remember all this, and do what you can
to defeat the Rebel-Copperhead party, and
place the Union Republican party in power.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL NOMI
NATING CONVENTION.
The undersigned,constituting the National
Committee designated by the Convention
held at Baltimore on the 7th ol June, 1804,
do appoint that a National Convention of
the Union Republican party be held at the
city ot Chicago, 111., on Wednesday, the
20th day of May next, at 12 o'clock m., for
the purpose of nominating candidates for the
offices of President end Vice President of
the United States. Each State in the United
States is authorized to be represented .in said
Convention by the number ot delegates equal
to twice the number ot Senators and Repre
sentatives to which each State is entitled in
the National Congress.
We invite the cooperation of ail citizens
who rejoice that our great civil war has
happily terminated in the discomfiture of
the rebellion; who would hold fast the
unity and integrity of the Republic, and
maintain its paramount right to defend to
the utmost its own existence, whether im
periled by secret conspiracy or armed
force ; of all friends of an economical ad
ministration of the public expenditure, of
the complete extirpation of the principles
and policy of slavery, and of the speedy
reorganization ol those. States whose Gov
ernments were destroyed by the Rebellion,
and their permanent restoration to their
proper practical relations with the United
States in accordance with the true princi
ples of republican government.
Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey,
Chairman.
John D. Defhees, of Indiana, Secretary.
Washington, Dee. 11, 1867. td
MAJOR C. C. lIICHARD BON.
This gentleman, a delegate from the
20th district to the Constitutional Con
vention, was murdered in Atlanta on the
3d inst., by one E. Mcßarroo Timoney.
We shall allude to this death at length in
our next issue.
REPUBLICANS, WORK!
The Constitution adopted by the Con
vention now in session will he submitted
to the people very soon. It will be sucli
a Constitution as the Republicans will be
willing to ratify.
Our friends should now liegin to work
with zeal, and thoroughly organize every
county and precinct.
’lilt: GEORGIAN FOR THE
CAMPAIGN.
Wc desire to send the Loyal Georgian
into every county m the State during the
campaign. Will our friends assist us
to do So ? Our terms are but sli2s for
six mouths.
The Loyal Georgian was the first Re
publican paper published in Georgia, and
it is one oi the few reliable Republican
papers now published in the State.
As the National Republican is published
by the same company that publishes the
Loyal Georgian , we can transfer from the
Republican the most important news pub
lished in that daily paper. tv c can there
fore promise to lay before our readers each
week the latest telegraphic news, as well
as news of importance from all parts of
this State.
It is not necessary for us to assure our
readers that we shall advocate the ratifica
tion of the Constitution adopted by the
Constitutional Convention nnd the election
of the Republican candidates lor office.
We ask our friends in every county to
assist iih. We. wish to add several thou
sand subscribers to our subscription list
during this campaign. This is perhaps
the most important political campaign that
the Republican party of Georgia will ever
carry on, and it is important Hint oar
friends should he kept hilly informed of all
matters of importance to the party.
Will not every friend who receives this
paper subscribe if lie lias not already done
so ; and w ill he not try and send us one or
more new. subscribers.
I from the Atlanta Mow Era.
A IflUI).
Hall Hi. Constitutional Convention, /
Atlanta, (fa., Jan. fit, 1808. (
To the Public:
Several of the newspapers in the State,
editorially and through their correspond
ents from Atlanta, having referred to the
unfortunate encounter lictwr.u Captain
Timoney and Major Richardson, in snob
a manner as to give it a politicn! signili
eance, and for the purpose of making it
appear that the dispute was the result of
tocig respective in eferences for a Guber
natorial nomination, 1 desire, in this public
imtpner to say, that upon Ike article in the
Opinion being brought to my notice, I was
assured by Major Richardson, an. by other
gentlemen who were pr eit at the meet
ing referred ta in the said nrt'cle, that
ItfL-.v » it.- .-4 ‘ »•-*•*—meins. - ttS'i
charged, and Tg»tiiereforc, dropped the
subject, as o ictdtogeth r peso,ml between
the writer a id the Major, nor did 1 advise
or recommend any t '.ion to he by
Major R.; nor was 1 informed as to wlint
action lie proposed to take, or had taken,
until informed on Monday evening that
Major R. had been shot byCapt, Timoney.
It will, therefore, be seen that the meet
ing between the parties w s the result of
personal feeling upon n question of verac
ity exclusively, and lias no political sig
nificance.
While it was to be expecUd that the
opponents of reconstruction! would be
greatly gratified at any want/of harmony
among the friends of that policy, I am
sure that no one can regret it more sin
cerely than Col. Farrow and myself.
It. It. liru.ocK.
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the Augusta National Republican.
THE HEI IEE MEASURE.
■s vexatious nml
tier the circum
stances. Almost every delegate lmd a plan
of his own, and the proposition of Col.
Bullock was a compromise, which, while it
did not satisfy extremists, commanded the
support ot the moderate men. Some relict
was demanded by the people, and they
looked to tins Convention, representing
their interests, for it. Tlie present measure
was adiqitcd as one which, while satisfy
ing the demands of the people, did as little
injustice as possible between debtor and
creditor.
Had the demands of extreme relief men
been listened to, every debt existing or
created before or during the war would
have been blotted out at once. Some were
in favor of repudiating all debts, even to
the present time. But the exception made
in Col. Bullock's plan of all fiduciary
debts, and of such as were contracted for
property, still existing in the hands of the
purchaser, were so manifestly proper and
just, that even the extreme men felt com
pelled to forego their opposition.
If the plan adopted passes the ordeal of
ratification by the people, there is nothing
to be feared from the courts. Aside from
the inherent difficulty of bringing tlic
question before the Courts, closed against
it by the Constitution itself, if rati
fied, until reopened by the Legislature,
such questions are very reluctantly en
tertained and tardily decided by the
Courts—as we have an example in the i
Stay Law, only lately declared uncon- !
stitutional. It is to be hoped, therefore,
that if it be declared inoperative by the I
Courts, as it is not likely to lie, still so !
much time may be gained that the people
may be able to extricate themselves in a
great measure from thei;- present pecuniary
troubles.
Kirtlaml, Ohio, once an important seat of
Mormonism, has still a small remnant of
the “faithful,'’ who worship in the original
temple.
A Paris actress fell near the footlights,
but escaped injury, from the circumstance
that she had nothing on which could take
fire.
U. L. OF A.
We publish below, the admirable ad
dress of the officers of the U. L. of A. for
the State of North Carolina. 11
Every word and line of this patriotic
paper is applicable to our State, and we
can only regret that the officers of the
League in Georgia have issued a circular
looking only to personal advancement.
We call on our friends to give this paper
wide circulation. Our motto is Equal
Rights, Equal Laws, and a Loyal Gov
ernment in preference to any man, or any
set of men, in the State, or the United
Statft:
To the U. L. of A. in North Carolina.
State Council Chamber. U. L. A , ?
Raleigh, Jan. 31,1868. J
Brothers :—You will he called upon in |
a short time again to exercise the right of j
suffrage. The Convention dow in session
in Raleigh will soon submit to you the new
Constitution lor this State. This Constitu- !
tion must be ratified. We must elect loyal
members of Congress, and loyal State and
County officers All our past labors have
been directed to this eDd. Let us stand
shoulder to shoulder in this contest, and
! put to utter rout the enemies of reconstruc
tion, and declare in unmistakable terms
that “ LOYAL MEN MUST GOVERN.” In 110
i other way can the Union be restored. In
noother’way can prosperity he revived
! and made permanent among us. In no
i other way can Liberty itself.be preserved.
But to make sure of these results,
: thorough organization is necessary. We
| should at once go earnestly to work,
i Establish your Councils at every County
j seat. Invite into them the loyal and the
true. Bold frequent meetings. Letdocu
! ments and newspapers Le read, comment
ed on, explained, and freely circulated
! uniorig the people. Frepareyourselves for
the various nominations to be made fur
offico; and wheu the nominations arc
made, see to it by every honorable means
in your power that the loyal candidates arc
elected. Wo exhort you to have no strife
or wrangliugs among ysurselvcs about
office. The cause is too important, and
the interests at stake too precious, to be
put in peril ‘by mere preferences foi meu,
or by the ambition of men Let us rallier
"in honor prefer one another,” so that,
like brothers in a common cause, wo may
be able to reach the best results. Let
your Council# at the Connty seats radiate
throughout every neighborhood in the
County. Let precinct Councils he estn
blisheil, and let them co-operate with the
central County Councils. In this way_
I great good can be accomplished. Be ready
! especially several days before the election
j for the work to he done on llgit day. Let
committees or precinct men, with the
necessary tickets, pervade every neighbor
hood; and let every loyal Leaguer work,
work, work, upjai the last moment on the
last day of vsling.
Brothers, our mission is tlie noble one
of reconstructing our State on the basis of
Loyalty, Truth and Justice. We seek to
“secure the ascendancy of the true princi
ples of popular government, equal
the education and elevation ot the toiling*
masses, the preservation of our national,
honor and faith,” *and wo inculcate,
“brotherly affection nnd true charity^tfip
wards all men.” Our rule of faith is tlie,
Holy Bible. Our political creed is fouiPfr
in the Declaration of Independence amr
the Constitution of the Untied States. We
Tove 4ho flag because it is the symbol of
the national majesty and glory.* We arc j
dor the Unan, because.,,iL»ill Us 1 '■■■
pfennnfu, Yat n naslsceu in uj*- post, is
Tmiutninol innumerable benefits and bless- 1
ingc. Wo seek the good of all, the injury
of"none. Ard yet, brothers, you have
been misrepresented, denounced, threaten
ed, persecuted a.id hunted down for these
principles and sentiments. The most in
famous calumnies have been heaped upon
you. In public and in private, from the
stump and from the press, and even in
Courts of Justice, your enemies have re
sorted to every effort to destroy your good
name and your noble organization. But
you have stood firm. To your lasting
honor he it said, you have never faltered.
Sustained by a consciousness of the purity
of your intentions, and your smglo-eyod
devotion to your country, you lmvo pre
seuted an unwavering front, against which
the legions of treason and rebellion liaVe
raged in vain.
Loyal Leaguers !■-you have done well.
You have contended against fearful odds,
anil have been victorious. Against you
has been arrayed the wealth and power of
the State. All the patronage of the State
government, with all its corporations, has
been wielded against you. It is to the
justice of your enuso that you owe your
triumph. ’ You have been victorious, be
cause you have fought upon the side of
Truth’and Right. Y'ou entered the field
sustained only by the eternal principles
which inspired you Your enemies were
entrenched behind the passions and preju-
dices of society, and supported by ail the
prestige that former rank and power hod
given them. The flag of your country
floated above you, and on it was inscribed
your motto, “ Equal and exact Justice to
iijl men,” of whatever race or former con
dition. Upon the banners of your enemies
was written, “ Caste, Aristocracy', and tin
viehling opposition to the national will.”
As the contest opened, and ns you measured
arms with your enemies, you were cheered
by dio immortal spirits who to all ages
have dedicated themselves to Liberty and
Justice. The memories of hundreds of
thousands who fell in the great war to
suppress the rebellion, and who died happy
in iho hope that their blood would •• cry
from the ground” until the existence I’s
the nation undivided should be perpetually
issured, inspired you and sustained you
in the darkest hours when “bloody trea
son” teemed again to “flourish over ns.”
Thus cheered and sustained, having in
view only your country’s good, you scatter
ed your enemies before you. You have
met and overcome, to a great extent, the
prejudice of ages. You have bridged the
chasm which divided the mex of this nation
in theirequality of political and civil rights;
and you now present the grand spectacle
oi a party, feeble at first in numbers, which
has dared to do justice, to maintain the
Unioli, aud to demand < equal political mul
civil rights for all, in the face ot loug-set
tled conventionalities, prejudices and pas
sions, which no party in any country had
ever previously been called to confront and
overcome.
But your work is not yet complete. The
final issue is staked on the next election.
He must rati/y the Constitution, and put
loyal men tn poicer. Unless this be done,
all your past labors, sacrifices and suffer
ings will have been iu vain. But not this
alone. Should you be defeated now, not
only will you lose ihe great benefits in
store for you, but the course you have thus
far taken’may prove your utter ruin. The
colored race,’ if they should pass again
under the control of the rebel leaders of :
the South—which is highly probable, if the
present acts of reconstruction should fail—
would soon find themselves reduced below
the Russian serf to the level of the peon,
with no rights save those that belong to i
the beasts that would live and then perish
in common with them on the soil. Every,
noble hope, born gouls of the elec
tric fire of FreeSK. would be forever
quenched in darkness. You,
Loyal white Lea®rs, with the colored
'race, have fully cßmitted yourselves to
the Congressiona' Wan. You would not
recede, if too ww. Should this plan
fail in North CaroWa, from yonr want of
energy, what wo® be your condition ?
That “ hideous r®k,” placed upon you
during the rebellitx for yonr devotion to
the Union, would H sunk still mto
your foreheads- U>ur names would oe
come a reproach, Djid the finger of rebel
scorn would poiatfl-ou out in your most
secret retirement. gWhat hope of redress
would you have wljp yon were bound hand
and foot, with t® heel of your old op
pressors on your ®cks!
But there are hiiher considerations than
these to stimulatelyou to action. Every
! interest of the Stae demands its restora
tion to the Union it the earliest possible
I moment. Onr so and climate, from the
sea shore to the Tennessee line, present
almost every varjl iy to be found in other
i States. Iron, coa . copper, marble, plum
bago. and other r inerals hidden in inex
haustible qnantitj s in our hills and vaV
i leys, while the lire fd belts of the gold and
silver region rich v reward the labors of
the miner. Onr crests abound with the
, mon valuable t ees. Our rivers and
! streams, as they low to the sea, waste
i enough power to i lrn the machinery of all
America. Our p> st history, previously to
the rebellion, pres ints a long succession of
pages of which Ire may well be proud,
illustrated as thejuare by early and con
tinued devotion M\ constitutional liberty,
and by a sense of honor as a
people and as on which there is no
stain. Why shield, our agriculture and
commerce languish, and our rivers run
idly to the sea ? Why have not Northern
enterprise and capital poured tnupon us,
to enhance the value of our lands, to em
ploy labor, and-Kuild up our-jmlustrial
interests ? The «Rswcr is, because we have
noLueen restored to the Union. Under the
atSces of those who involved us in ro
belWon, and whtj, though the conflict of
ceased, continue as rebellious as
tfley ever were, their opposition to the
national will, we are growing_poorer every
day. These leaders, instead of inviting
immigration, at;« repelling it by their
sectional councils, and their silly repining*
over the unhappy past, and -the
minded, malignant manner in which they
treat those whom they are pleayid to term
« Northern advqplnrcrs ” and “ Radical
emissaries." • Gentlemen of eTTOcatiou and
character who hive come among us from
the’North, to’infest their money and to
share our fortalA instead of being wel
comed by these -Bulcrs as American citi
zens and as frills, arc [Misrepresented,
maligned, and held up as the eneniios of
our people. These leaders are thift intent
on our ruin. Thiy can see nothing worthy
of approval in pAc affairs which does not
promise to contilffc them in their ill-gotten
power. They spit upon this distressed and
impoverished pdfjple as a most fatal in
cubus, preventing the success of every
effort thus far t<aj£slore prosperity by the
restoration of the Union. Twice already
have they induced our people to reject
/Dims of reconstruction proposed by a
dffaguanimous government; nnd they are
now making a third attempt to plunge our
qieople into fiqal ruin, to gratify their
Ambition and thifit for office.
Brothers, you ftre to meet these leaders
(again and overcome them. With the aril
of all true Republicans, keeping even step
with the V nohlmarmy of Heroes of Araer
icaYou have tho power
nviiil to put
itmrth. Cul l i tßetfioums t Iriemßy rcla
tioni with all Ibjpi organizations, and with
all true Republicans, whether they belong
to our Councils or not. Remember your
holy pledges, ond redeem them, by efforts
as intriped and indefatigable ns were those
by which, on a thousand battle fields, our
nation was preserved in its integrity
against the armed assaults of treason.
With Union to inspire us, ami with Vigi
lence guarding every avenue by which
traitors would approach to assail us ; and
with u determined purpose to use tho
power wo possess for God, our country and
mankind, VICTORY is certain. The
Union will ho reconstructed. Our beloved
Slate will once more put on the garments
of prosperity aud jpy ; and our people w ill
he contented and happy through tho long
ages reserved for the existence of the gov
ernment which Washington established,
and which Lincoln' labored and died to
preserve.
Fraternally ypurs.
W. W. Bolden, President.
Jas. 11. Harris, \st Vice Pres.
A. 11. Jones, 2d l r icc Pres.
C. W. Horner, Scc'y.
POLITICAL.
The Tiay-Ku Leader relates the following
incident flat he Resident, ot the Senate.
Gov. (ii'twHlp. is w.dl known, is a preacher
of the Memodist ptrsiuision. It seems that
a hill, conferring sene special powers on the
Methodists, was be tore the -Senate. A mo
tion to ‘strike out tie enacting clause,’ and
thus kill the hill, w:n made and carried, and
the somewhat exciod Governor thus an
nounced the result:'Ten yen/lemen having
voted in the aflirmatve, and only eight Meth
odists in iho nejptive, the motion pre
vails.' ”
The Annapolis co-respondent ot the Bal
timore American snys there is a strong pro
bability of a split SAiong the Democracy of
Maryland, in consequence of an effort on
the part of M i it.pinery Blair to force
Johnson on the (fifty as a candidate for
President. O
T. P. Fjuefrockwlhe Democrat whom
General Bucklaud defeated for Congress in
the Ninth Ohio Dijtriet, in 180(1, lias just
withdrawn' from the Methodist Church at
Fremont, because a jolored couple were ad
mitted.
Gcue-al John M. Palmer and General
Logan are named as he prominent Bepubli
can candidates lor Governor of Illinois.
The former, it is sad, will not accept the
nomination-
General Kilpatrifclus reported to be com
ing home from Chu, at llie request of
certain Republicans jin New Jersey, who
want him to run as tfiiir candidate for Gov
ernor this fall.
A committee of Sr. Pendleton's friends
has been established h Washington, to urge
his nomination as Deaocratie candidate for
the Presidency. \
It is said that Gw. Carney will be the
Republican, and Geoqe W. Glick, of Atchi
son, the Democratic Jindidate tor Governor
in Kansas.
General Burnside lifelines to be a candi
date for reflection to idle Governorship of
Rhode Island.
The German Grant Slabs of Connecticut
are taking measures'ti form a State organi
zation. A
It is said that Reny'J. Raymond is to
write a history of Genosil Grant, assisted by
William Swinton.
Twenty-nine papers ot Ohio have declared
for Grant, and ten hr Chase.
General Grant aipeafs to be the choice of
the Kentucky Repilliqjns.
China never had kithflr a slave, or a feudal
system, or a paupe^peasantry.
From the Washington (D. C.) Chronicle.]
TIIE GRANT AND JOHNSON
CORRESPONDENCE.
YVe have two very different men to deal
with here; one who has illustrated a use
ful life with heroic acts, and is singularly
reticent; the other, a loud and constant
talker, whose record is full of contradic
tions. The General is a law abiding citi
zen and soldier ; the Piesident a political
trickster and lawless demagogue. The first
wonld attend to his duty and refuse to in
termeddle with tho affairs of others ; the
second wields his badly-acquired powers to
subject all departments of the Government
and the very nation itself to the imperious
demands of his single will.
The course pursued by Andrew Johnson
since he made that lamentable exhibition
of himself on the 4th of March, 1865, has
given the he to all his patriotic record;
has denied every principle upon which his
popularity was based ; has caused all those
who supported him in his days of integrity,
with a few exceptions, to from
him as a political gathered
around him tho vnlturcs upon the
carcass of a Government they killed under
Buchanan, but which was 1 resurrected
under Lincoln by the strong arm of
Ulysses S. Grant and bis boys in blue.
We have only to recall his interviews withJ
Governor Morton and the Indian delegaß
tion alter lie became President, and ho|H
of others, to lemefisber with what
he acted, and how far lie placed
1 eyond tlie pale of honesty and
was not content with doing ill; he
his ill deeds worse by promising
good. ‘
lie intended to “ make treason odiouHH
to “ punish traitors,” and said if there were
but four thousand loyal men in any rebel
State they should reconstruct it, and the
rebels should take back seats in the work
of reconstruction. He pledged himself to
Mr. Sumner as favorable to universal man
hood suffrage, and to Mr. Stevens as favor
ing negro suffrage upon named conditions.
Upon every pledge he has ever made he
stands foresworn Ijsfore the country.
Nor have his more private and personal
plilges been better kept than his public
ones, as thousands of disappointed men in
all parts of the country to-day bear witness.
His ‘ questions of veracity” have been
frequent, and invariably determined
against him when the truth was known.
'J o carry out his purposes he has resorted
to measures hitherto unknown, and such as
it would have shocked any former Presi
dent to mention. We mean the detailing
to correspondents of newspapers conversa
tions which took place at Cabinet meetings.
These matters have so astounded the coun
try that the people have long since ceased
to express surpriso at any act ho might do,
however lawless or atrocious.
• When he wished to avail himself of Gen
eral Grant’s popularity to sustain his politi
cal movements, he tricked him into atti
tudes where his name could be used, and
had him telegraphed all over the country as
a supporter of his policy. Who docs not
retnemoer his unworthy “dodge” upon the
occasion of the visit of tho Johnson-Ray
mond Committee from tlie Philadelphia
Padlock Conventum, when he senl or
Grant and bis Chiel-of staff to come ov- J
the White Iloifte ? These officers, sup
posing the President wished to see them on
obeyed his summons only to be
brought into the pnjence of a speaking
deljg ■ition, “bathed ißpars” over the affect
ing spectacle st Philadelphia, and have
their pSmes telegraphed all over the lapd
a3 participants in the progV'nme. Then
followed tho revolting and treasonable
“swing around the circle,” which Grant in
vain declined to attend, upon written invi'a
tipn andj'eply. 4
f WtienTSrsVttsc T'i T-TTTn—irtTra-T-m"., ■■rr.rt nts
rtiuroge up to the point ol removing Mr.
Stanton, he sent for General Grant, ostensi
bly to consult with him upon the subject;
but already tlie General of the army had
been subject to misrepresentation at tho
hands of the President, and he went home
and wrote out his remonstrance against that
act, in the letter marked “Private.” It was
not agreeable to have an eavesdropper taking
down his words in stenographic writing, and
then have them garbled in the daily papers,
as Sheridan’s New Orleans dispatch was.
The quiet General did not say a gicat deal,
but he did not wish the little he did say to be
misrepresented. It was, therefore, only a
wise precaution in him to begin the process
of asking lor the relations between him and
the President to be put in writing. Even
his wriiten remonstrance against Stanton's
removal did not prevent tho President (ruin
giving out the lie that he advised said re
moval. So, also, when asked to give his
opinion regarding Sheridan’s removal, Gen.
Grant gave U freely, and to the satisfaction
of the country, in an official letter; the Pres
ident having learned by that time that Gen.
Grant nicmt to have his views on the subjec,
i.-i black upd whitg,
From the frequent recurrence of there
things, and the constant disclosure ol pri
vate letters and conversations by the Presi
dent, contrary to all official or gentlemanly
usage, tho world at last lost all confidence
in him. Tho fact that tlie boat he floats in
has received additional rowers since is no
contradiction of this fact: it would have as
many or more without him in it.
The last examplp of his lawless hi .1
tricky disposition is manifested in the cor
respondence between him and Grant upon
the Stanton reinstatement. We consider
the question of veracity .as settled. As
against a man who has proven false to
every pledge he has made and every friend
he had on earth, anybody would be be
lieved ; hut when a man like General Grant
gives him a flat contradiction, it is equal to
an avalanche of proof hurting hint into the
pit of everlasting infamy. Should those of
his time-serving Cabinet who have bent
tlie pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift
may follow fawning, choose to add to pub
lic contempt by additional servility, it will
not affect the judgment of the world.
Thus much upon the peisonal phase of
this controversy. Upon the public phase
of it we do not know how properly to
characterize the moral heinousness, the
base sulileifuges, and the lawless trickery
disclosed by the President’s own state
ments.
“You had found, in our first couferen. ”
savs the President, “ that the Presid
was desirous of keeping Mr. Stanton o
of office, whether sustained in the suspen
sion or not. You knew what reasons "had
induced the President to ask from you a
promise. You also know that, in case
your views of duty did not accord with : his
own convictions, it was his-spuspos# to fill
your place by another appointment". Even
ignoring the existence of ajaiitive unde,
standing between us, these, conclusions
were plainly deducible from our various
conversations-- certain, however,
that, even under these circumstances, you
did not offer to return the place to my
possession, but, according to yonr own
statement, placed yourself in a position
when, could I have anticipated your action.
I would have been compelled to ask of
you, as I was ei rapelled to ask of yonr
predecessor in the War Department, a
letter of resignation, or else to resort to
the more disagreeable expedient of sus
pending you by a successor.”
Here is a distinct avowal of a lawless
purpose into which he wished to draw Gen.
Grant as a participant, so that he might
shield himself front the penalties incurred,
or involve the General iu the consequences.
It appears to us that what the President
had the right to do then he has still the
right to do. If he meant to disobey or dis
regard the law then, and act upon his con
stitutional prerogatives, he may still do so.
Has his courage oozed out since the de
parture of General Grant, or is he unwill
ing to tempt alone the dangers of that
thorney path he wanted Grant to tread ?
Does not the letter itself disclose a pur
pose, so reckless of the law, and so against
the morale of good government, as to con
stitute a high misdemeanor in office ?
To this, we tbinb no more eloquent and
fitting response could have been given by
a brave soldier and an honest man than the
following from General Grant:
“The course you would have it under
stood I agreed to pursue was i-.i violation of
law and without orders from you ; while the
course I did pursue, and which I never
doubted you fully understood, was in ac
cordance with law, and not in disobedience
to any orders of any superior. And now,
Mr. President, when my honor as a soldier,
and integrity as a man, have been so vio
lently assailed, pardon me for sayiDg that I
can but regard this whole matter, from
beginning to enu, as an attempt to involve
me in the resistance of law, for which you
hesitated to assume the responsibility in
orders, s to destroy my character
Bitry. lamina measure
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■ p, • u <!:- .b»y or b.-rs from
,Hght -B® v.
sb p.F . ■ vKgi aH
gjgTTior: '. nW: I > disob .-v.
is a d-'Ai i t indictment of the I’resi-
wishing to induce his subordinate
cco.r e in violation of law. So
a charge from such a man ought not
Wo pass wilhoat investigation by the repre
sentatives ot the people. The proper resent
ment of the General again-t an assault upou
his “honor as a sbldier and integi ity as a
man,” is again coupled with the declaration
that the President attempted “to involve
him in the resistance of law, for which you
hesitate to assume the responsibility jflk orders,
and thus to destroy my character befo-e th J
country''
Here is a charge distinctly made by a
thoughtful and honest man, first in the
hearts of his countrymen to-day, against the
reckless disturber of the country’s peace in
the White House. We take it for granted
that it will not be permitted to stop bssre by
those having proper authority ; bttfflti- any
event, the people will settle the (Question
rightfully, and in favor of the hero who con
quered the rebellion.
“ CORRESPONDENCE.”
M. WILKINS TO HIS I*A.
Brighton Academy, Jan 31, 1868.
Dear Pop : I am getting along first rate
at the school, and I like it very much, all
except Whacks, the assistant—“ Old Bees
wax,” wc call him, and we on
him like a pile-driver, all us lnfl®for lie’s
ignorant. Why, he’s so iguorantjie don’t
know’ a blackboard from a dark mg lit, no,
he don’t, and Bill Ferguson, lie put a tor
pedo under each leg of old Beesey’s chair
yesterday, and when he sat dow i (you sec
lie sits down like he had ballast in him),
why the torpedoes they exploded, and like
to I low him through the roof. Golly, hut
wasn't he scared ! He looked at tbe*alma
nac to make sure it wasn't the 4th of July,
and then lie came down, looking mad, and
licked Bill like blazes. But Bill said he
didn’t care a cent, and the next time ho
would sprinkle gunpowder in his hair, aud
busUhis old front piece off of him.
Dy. Goggles, he's a nice old fellow, only
he will sit and chew gum drops right be
fore us boys, and never say "take some”
once.
Hq-wears,ereea saceka-ftsu 1 BiU_ller2u.,
son, no called hitn, ''•old four eyms one
day, which tho doctor, lie heard Bill say it,
and he nailed him and dragged him up to
the desk, and then he gave us a lecture,
and said thore was once a boy he knew,
and lie was about Bill’s size, who insulted
a gray headed old man, and called him
wicked names, and the next day—the very
next morning—that boy’s mother died of
inflamatory rheumatism, and his sister
broke out with humors.
Bill, he cried, while the doctor held him
by the shirt collar, but lie winked at the
boys ns be came away, and wrote on a
piece of paper, and threw it over to me,
that he thought the doctor was “a blower,”
and he dareseut hit a boy of his size.
1 want some now books very much, about
ten of them, and they will cost eight dol
lars. Don’t send the books, for the doctor
likes us to buy them here.
I don’t want any money for taffey or
marbles, for I don't care about them ; but
bo -jre not to send anything but the money
for the books.
lam in good health. I was taken sick
last week, and had a sore eye for a few
days, but it is now well.
We was a pitying mumbly-peg out on
the grass, and Bill Ferguson he grabbed
my knife. I told him he had better give
tk.t knife up or I would tell you, and get
you to lick him when you come down, and
lie said he could lick you and a dozen like
you, and then he dared me to knock a chip
off his shoulder.
And Jake McGinnis, lie pushed me
against him, and that knocked the chip
and Bill, he struck me over tlie nose three
or four times, and said he’d “bust me on
the snoot ” if I didn’t dry up, for I couldn’t
help crying, and I was taken sick, and 1
couldn't go to school all day.
And the doctor, lie lucked Bill up in the
garret, but he didn't care, for he chimb out
on the roof and was a chasing around after
tom-cats, up and clown almost every morn
ing, and pulling plaster out of the chimney
to throw at people in the street.
Give my love to all at home, and don’t
forget the money for the books.
Bill is about fourteen, do you think lie
can lick you ?
Please send the money, and believe me
your affectionate son.
H. M. Wilkins.
P. S—Don’t forget to send the money
for those books.
The Prince of Wales will visit Ireland in
April. --jv
Anew sect, terming themselves “Non
fighting Men,” have appeared among the
swlors of the British navy. Some of the
ten years' men of this sect, on claiming
their discharge, were asked why they wished
to leave the setvice, and replied, “For the
love of the Lord and liberty.”
Tennyson declines any longer to acknowl
edge the MS. verses which he is in the
habit of receiving from strangers. He is
about to issue a “Standard” edition of his
works in four library volumes. This edition
will be carefully corrected by the poet, and
will contain some notable additions to his
published writings.
The German citizens of Philadelphia
intend to erect a firsi class tiieatre. The
Executive Committee held a meeting on
Saturday night, to take counsel as to what
step they should make. The sum of
$67,000 has been subscribed, to which a
wealthy citizen has agreed to add $‘20,000
when ever the fund reaches SBO,OOO.
A Miss Smith, a school teacher in Mis
souri, having dressed the wounds of a rebel
soldier during Price's raid in that State in
1804, received a few days ago a letter from
the administrator of H. C. McDonald, Sr.,
informing her that she was named in his
will as legatee of $50,000, iu consideration
of having saved the life of his and
TIIE GEORGIA INJUNCTION CASE.
The Washington Chronicle of Tuesday
says, that the opinion of the Supreme
Court in the Georgia Injunction Case, de
livered on Monday, by Associate Justice
Nelson, will throw a wet blanket upon the
hopes of those who have been relying
upon the judiciary as an ally of a treach
erous Executive. It will be recollected
that an injunction was prayed, in the name
of the State of Georgia, to stay the exe.
cution of the reconstruction acts. The
application was dismissed for want of
jurisdiction, but the reasons which influ
enced this decision of the court were not
given, and have not been given in the form
of an opinion until the present time. But
recently a startling report was put in cir
culation as to what this opinion would be,
but the question is now set at rest in a
manner which will be as gratifying to the
country as it is creditable to die dignity
and honor of the court itself.
Among the reasons assigned for the dis
missal of the application, the most signifi
cant, and the one which lias a direct bear
ing upon national affairs, is that wherein
court declares that it possesses no
to decide on political ques
tions. Holding this opinion,, it will
be impossible that it should fulfil the
hopes which among Copperheads and
reliels were recent!w«i__£onfidently enter
tained by giving a decision adverse to tire
reconstruction acts. The bare possibility
that it might usurp such a function as to
decide upon a purely political question of
that character was a sufficient cause for the
apprehension of the most serious evils.
Wit H-another man than Andrew Johnson
in the Executive chair, it might hav« occa
sioned no particular disquietude; but with
an Executive whose many usurpations of
power demonstrated the probability of
others still more audacious* the danger of
furnishing him such a pretext was too
manifest not to excite the gravest tears so r
the peace of the country. This opinion
will be like oil poured upon the troubled
waters. It will not merely tend to traL
quilizc the ’political atmosphere, but, by
allaying the apprehensions of some unde
fined possible evil, will remove one of tlie
obstacles to industrial ami commercial ac
tivity, and contribute to relicvc'the country
from the stagnation from which it is now
so severely suffering. It could scarcely
have been promulgated at a more oppor
tune time.
Elegant KlietoiTc.
Wc can not resist the tempfs ur
nish our “low flung Y'ankcc” frienSSHvith
gems and models of elegant “high-toned’
rhetoric current among the pride of the
earth who have “lost all but honor. We
quote (not, this time, from the Augusta
Chronicle) from the Native Virginian, who
says, of the Convention in session in the
Old Dominion:
Very little space in these columns has
been or will be devoted to tlie doings of the
assemblage of cLuudi.-U*|ps, weevils, snake
doctors, eed-ticks, chigoes, bed-bugs, cock
loache-v jk'fktiejaL rea-r-tiicks, jurub-woiHi^i
wood'd i<sßßßpiqpfftn, HywoWjTnsgßoP
skippers, dung-beetles and pismires which
now defile onr ancient capitol.
AARON A BRADLEY.
At last this worthless and brawling negro
has been expelled from his seat in the Con
vention. During the whole sitting of that
body his conduct has rendered him ob
noxious to both white and black members.
Always full of babbling and loud-mouthed
effrontery, he was a nuisance and a dead
weight upon the Convention. The recent
charges preferred against him would un
doubtedly have resulted in his expulsion ;
but we are glad to say that the end was
accomplished without further waiting.
As will be seen from the proceedings on
yesterday, he so grossly insulted members
upon the floor that Mr. Cottiug moved his
immediate expulsion, and the motion was
sustained by a unanimous vote—the colored
delegates as well as the whites, to a man,
casting their voices in favor of it. Now let
him be ejected from the State. He is a dis
turber ot the peace, a creator of discord
■among his race, an enemy to the black man,
and a nuisance of which the people should
be rid at once. Tberd will be no satisfac
tion among the blacks where he is allowed to
remain.
While he is impotent to do evil among
the intelligent classes of people, his gift of
gab, his wily, scheming, arid perversa na
ture. jriakes Hjgu. a dahgerous Creature
artiong'Those whom he can lead. The col
ored of the State, a*Mieir represent
atives fn the Convention have done, should
cast him off and refuse to associate with
him. He can only bring injury upon them.
Those colored men in the Convention who
voted for his expulsion, have done them
selves infinite credit by their votes. Not
one so demeaned himself ns to vote against
expelling him. They, iu common with
the whites,- have felt him to be a burden
and a nuisance upon the body. Even those
who defended him in the late investigation,
cast him pff utterly, and now the miserable
creature may go away ams onCe'more bully
Hayes, his compeer, ahnut the streets of
Savannah.— Atlanta E a, Feb. 13.
Ex-Gov. Jenkins and Gen, Meade.—
The Washington correspondent of tire
New York Times says: “The action of the
Senate authorizing the War Dcparment to
employ counsel to defend*Gens. Grant.
Meade, and Roger, in threatened suits,
was occasioned by the fact that Gov.
Jenkins, of Georgia, has taken steps to
bring action against them for alleged
assumption of power in appropriating the
public funds of that State for the benefit
of the Reconstruction Convention. It
should be understood that Gov. Jenkins
eluded arrest by Gen. Meade by flight, as
that officer had made preparations to
arrest him for impeding reconstruction
and embezzlement. This latter charge
was based on the fact that Jenkins trans
ferred the funds in the State Treasury to
New York without authority, and caused
them to be deposited there to the credit
ot private parties.”
It. is said that more than a hundred men
in New York make their living by catching
rats for sporting purposes.
Northern Arkansas raised wheat and
corn last year, beside cotton, and is doing
well. Southern Arkansas raised only cotton,
and is starving.
Gen. N. B. Forrest, of rebel notoriety,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the
office of the Clerk of the United States
Court in Memphis.