The Weekly sun. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1870-1872, July 05, 1871, Image 3
THE DAILY SUN
Saturday Morning. Judy 1.
The Mississippi “Ku-Klux.”
A Memphis dispatch, of the 28th
to the Western Associated Press,
says:
The Avalanche's Oxford, Miss., special
to-night says of the first important case
under the enforcement or Ku-Klux bill
now on trial here in the United States
District Court: No less than twenty-eight
names figure in the indictment, all being
residents for many years of Monroe
county, ranging in years from eighteen
to sixty. The indictment charges the
defendants, while in disguise, with the
forcible taking of a negro named Alexan
der Page from his house, near Aberdeen,
at midnight, on the 29th of March, and
hanging him by the neck until he was
dead. The trial opened last Friday, on a
petition for a writ of halieas corpus,
which was granted, and was yesterday set
for hearing, which was occupied with pre
liminaries. To-day the case commenced
in earnest. A large number of witnesses
were examined. The defense rely chiefly
on alibis and previous good character.—
They present a respectable appearance,
and are guarded to aud from the court,
which is presided over by Judge It. A
TTill, by a detachment of the 16th United
States Infantry; sent from Nashville, who
mount guard at the Court House door all
day. The trial excites the greatest in
terest, and will probably last several dnya
The wife of oue of the defendants was
admitted to testify in behalf of her hus
band, to-day.
State 1C lections.
Louisville Courier"*!'
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The fall elections will be opened by
Kentucky the first Monday in August,
when State officers and members of the
Legislature are to be chosen.
California comes next. Her election
takes place on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember. State officers and members of
the Legislature and three Congressmen
are to be elected.
Maine elects a Governor and Shite
officers the second Monday in Septem
ber.
Governor Davis has ordered an election
in Texas for four Representatives in Con
gress, commencing Tuesday, October the
3d.
Ohio elects State officers and members
of the Legislature the second Tuesday
iu October.
Iowa electa State officers the second
Tuesday in October.
Elections will be held in Massachu
setts, New Jersey and Wisconsin on
Tuesday, November 7, when State offi
cers and members of the Legislature will
be chosen.
A Congressman for the State at large
is to be elected in Illinois, to fill the va
cancy caused by the election of General
Logan to the United States Senate,
but we believe the time has not yet been
fixed.
Atlanta Agricultural and Indus
trial Association.
In the New York Express we find
the following:
The progressive men of Atlanta,
Georgia, have organized and had in
corporated a society under the name
of The Atlanta - Agricultural
and Industrial Association, and
will hold their first fair at Oglethorpe
Park, near Atlanta, on the 16th to
the 19th of October next. This As
sociation has been effected on the same
basis as the well-known St. Louis
Agricultural and Mechanics’ Associ
ation, and no doubt will be equally
useful and successful.
Oglethorpe Park, which is on the
line of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, is two miles from the center
of the city, with a double track to
the park entrance, and during the
Fair the cars run every fifteen minutes.
The park has been arranged expressly
for the purpose. The exhibition halls
are large and substantial buildings, at
suitable points, and are classified for
every specialty, with steam power,
machinery in motion, &c. There are
also extensive stalls and sheds for
stock, a half-mile track, and thorough
arrangements throughout.
From the large number of entries
already made it seems certain that
this event will be the great Southern
Agricultural and Industrial Exhibi
tion of 1871.
Parties desiring to receive premium
lists and full information should ad
dress Samuel A. Echols, Secretary,
. Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta has superior hotel accom
modations for strangers, and among
them is the celebrated H. I. Kimball
House, the finest hotel in the South,
and one of the most elegant and
complete to be found anywhere. It
has 317 rooms, exclusive of offices,
etc., and in all its appointments is
equal to a first-class New York hotel.
Payment into the State Treasury of the
Monthly Rental of the State Road.
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Western & Atlantic Railroad,
President's Office,
Atlanta, Ga., Jone 30, 1871
Dr. N<.L. Angier, Slate Treasurer :
Dear Sib—I send you, by the Treasu
rer of this company, twenty-five thousand
dollars in cash, the rental due the State
for the present month of June. Please
send' me the usual receipt from the
Comptroller General for the amount
I am very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Joseph E. Brown,
President W. & A. R. R.
No. 206.
Comptroller General’s Office,
Atlanta, Ga., June 30, 1871
Received of W. C. Merrill, Treasurer
W. & A. R. R., the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars, rent for W. & A R. R
for June, 1871, as per certificate No. 206,
of N. L. Angier, Treasurer,
d $25,000; Madison Hell,
* f Comptroller. General.
Mr. Alexander H. Stephens asks far
some responsible and representative
Democratic authority as guarantee for
the “new departure,” which continues to
excite his noble rage. We have to call
his attention to' the Democratic Congres
sional address, which is the “new depar
ture” in swaddling clothes, and to the De
mocratic platforms of Ohio, Pennsylva
nia and Iowa, which axe the “new depar
ture” fully matured. He may also ob
serve, if he has a mind to, that there is
scarcely a Democratic newspaper of any
force or character in the country which
is not square on the issues laid down by
the Courier-Journal two years ago. His
platform, the platform of the Bourbons,
has a Radical origin. It was made by
Mr. Morton, of Indiana, and adopted by
the red-hot elements, who are in some
cases secretly and in other cases uncon-
sciously allied to Radicalism.—Louisville
Courier-Journal, 26th Jnne.
Alexander H. Stephens has asked
no such silly question as that stated
by the Courier-Journal; hut he has
said that no true Democrat—no true
friend to the Constitution of the
United States and the Liberties of
this country can, as he believes, have
the unblushing effrontry (to charac
terize the act by no stronger term)
to affirm and maintain before an in
telligent people that the “Reconstruc
tion Measures” of Congress, and the
so-called Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution,
based upon these measures, and all
questions growing out of them, have
been “settled in the manner and by
the authority constitutionally ap
pointed /”
Does the editor of the Courier-
Journal affirm the truth of so mon
strous a proposition? If so, he will
“out Herod Herod” himself. He will
h^re gotten, in his “destructive”
progress, far ahead of even Thaddeus
Stevens, the standard-bearer; for
he openly aud boldly asserted that
these measures were “outside of the
Constitution,” and declared that he
“would not stultify himself by claim
ing them to be Constitutional.”
As a reckless usurper, he admitted
that the Progress he was setting out
upon was the overthrow of the Fed
eral Constitution, and the right of
self government on the part of the
people of the several States.
Is this the Progress which the De
mocracy of the Union is invited to
follow up? If so, they will have
taken quick and rapid strides in it,
when at one bound they shall have
gotten so far ahead of its original pro
jector as to say that was Constitu
tional which he was neither hold
enough nor base enough to assert.
When Senator Morton shall have
retraced his steps and gotten on the
platform of the “Bourbons,” then he
will show signs of another sort of
Progress—an upward Progress—a
getting out of the depths of ruin,
into which he and his allies have
plunged the country under the lead
of his great chief; but he will find
himself upon no platform of “Radi
cal origin.” He will find himself
upon a platform erected by Jefferson;
coeval with the Constitution upon
which this country achieved all that
marks that brilliant career of Pro
gress, which redounds so much to its
honor, glory and renown; a platform
which was sustained by over two
million six hundred thousand Demo
crats in 1868, and would then have
been sustained by over three hundred
thousand more, but for their out
rageous disfranchisement, through
the most flagitous- usurpations by
those in power, on that line of Pro
gress, to which the Courier-Journal
seems now to be so thoroughly de
voted.
Senator Morton can never frighten
the three millions of Democrats of
this country from their own princi
ples, and cause them to*espouse his,
aud join him and his allies (in cordi
ally accepting and indorsing them)
by any such bullying challenges, as
that they “dare noi” assail or question
any one of these sacriligious usurpa
tions which have marked the progress
of his party for the last fiAe years!
He will be told by the “Iron-ribbed
Democracy” everywhere, that they
dare assail fraud, violence, perfidy,
corruption and usurpation in any
quarter where they are to be found,
and to call upon the people at the
polls to pronounce their judgment of
condemnation, both upon all those
abuses of power as well as upon their
authors.
If the Courier-Journal sees any
thing in the late Address issued by
the Democrats in Congress, from
which it can take comfort in its
“New Departure” policy, it is to he
hoped it will profit by it. That Ad
dress will he found in the columns of
The Suh to-day. The counsels of
this Address are far from advising
the people of the United States to
fall into that fatal line of Progress
which has marked the history ofjjie
country for the last five years; on the'
contrary, after speaking of the grea
ills it has brought about, and other
greater still threatening, it says withj
great power and truth:
“Our hopes for redress are in tb
calm good sjnse—the ‘sober secon
thought’—of the American peopli
We call upon them to be iru
to themselves and their pos
terity, and, disregarding part;
names and minor differences,
insist upon a decentralization of pow
er, and the restoration of Federal au
thority within its just and prope:
limits, leaving to the States that coi
trol over domestic affairs which
essential to their happiness and tr:
quility and good government.”
This is the doctrine which we
vocate. It is the doctrine which Se:
ator Morton resists with allhismigh|
It is also the doctrine, which, if
understand some of the late articli
of the "Courier-Journal,” bears sue]
a dreary aspect, as it looks to a “re
tracing of steps” in order to recti!
wrongs in Government instead o
plunging “onward” and advancing
in that line of Progress which has
brought ns to our present sad condi
tion. A. H. S.
Virginia Military Institute.
We have received an invitation to at
tend the Commencement'exercises ofthis
celebrated Institute, at Lexington, Vir
ginia, which takes place at the Institute
July 4th, at 11 o’clock. The oration will
be delivered by M. L. Spotswood, of
Richmond, Virginia. The valedictory by
J. P. Arthur, Columbia, South Carolina:
Address before Society of Alnmni, by
CoL John M. Patton, of Albemarle, Vir
ginia.
Among the names composing the Com
mittee we notice those of J. T. Wade of
Georgia; B. B. Pearson, O. M. Rey
nolds and J. W. Moore, of Alabama ; J.
S. Legare, W. J. Magrath and A. R. Sul
livan, of South Crrolina. The President
of the Committee is S. Grantland, of
Georgia.
We thank the gentlemen for their cour
tesy, and shall make.it a point to be on
hand at the time mentioned.
ADDRESS
To the People
States hy the
Congress.
of the United
Democrats in
To the People of the United States:
Our presence and official duties at
Washington have enabled us to be
come fully acquainted with the ac
tions and designs of those who con
trol the Radical party, and we feel
called upon to utter a few words of
warning against the alarming strides
they have made towards centraliza
tion of power in the hands of Con
gress and the Executive^
The time and attention of the Rad
ical leaders have been almost wholly
directed to devising such legislation
as will, in their view, best preserve
their ascendency, and no regard for
the wise restraints imposed by the
Constitution has checked their reck
less and desperate career.
GRANT TO BE HIS OWN SUCCESSOR.
The President of the United States
has been formally announced as a
candidate for re-election. The decla
ration of his selfish supporters have
been re-echoed by a subsidized press,
and the discipline of party has al
ready made adhesion to his personal
fortunes the supreme test of political
fealty. The- partisan legislation to
which we refer was decreed and
shaped in secret caucus, where the
extremest counsels always dominated,
and was adopted by a subservient ma
jority, if not with the intent, certain
ly with the effect, to place in the
hands of the President power to com
mand his own renomination, and to
employ the army, navy and militia,
at his sole discretion, as a means of
subserving his personal ambition.
When the sad experience of the
last two years, so disappointing to the
hopes and generous confidence of the
country, is considered in connection
with the vile' utterances as rdsb pur
poses of those who control the Presi
dent’s policy, it is not surprising that
the gravest apprehension for the fu
ture peace of the nation should be
entertained. At a time when labor
is depressed, aud every material inter
est is palsied by oppressive taxation,
the public offices have been multiplied
by all precedent to serve as instru
ments in the perpetuation of power.
CORRUPTION.
Partizanship is the only test ap
plied to the distribution of this vast
patronage. Honesty, fitness and
moral worth are openly discarded in
favor of truckling submission and
dishonorable compliance. Hence
enormous defalcations'and widespread
corruption have followed as the natu
ral consequences of this pernicious
system.
By the official report of the Secre
tary of the Treasury it appears that,
after the deduction of all proper cre
dits, many millions of dollars remain
due from ex-collectors of the internal
revenue; and that no proper diligence
has ever been used to collect them.—
Reforms in the revenue and fiscal sys
tems, which all experience demon
strates to be necessary to a frugal ad
ministration of the Government, as
well as a measure of relief to an over
burdened people, have been persis
lands, which shot
served for the benefit of the pS
have been voted away to giant corpo
rations; .neglecting our soldiers,-en
riching a handful of greedy specula
tors and lobbyists, who are thereby
enabled to exercise a most dangerou
and corrupting influence over Stat
and Federal legislation. If the caree
of these conspiritors be not checked
the downfall of free government is in
evitable, and with it the elevation of i
military dictator on the ruins of tb
Republic.
USURPATION—DESPOTISM.
Under the pretense of passing law!
to enforce the Fourteenth Amend
ment, and for other purposes, Con
gress has conferred most despotic pow
er upon th Executive, and provide*
an official machinery by which th
liberties of the people, are menacec
and the sacred rights of local sell
government overthrown. Modelle
up to the sedition laws, so odious i:
history, they are at variance witli a]
the sanctified theories of our institu
tions, and the construction given b
these Radical interpreters to the Four
teenth Amendment is, to use the lan
aage of an eminent Senator—M:
rumbull, of Illinois—an “annihila
tion of the States.” Under the las
enforcement bill, “the Executive maj
in his discretion, thrust aside the gov
eminent of any State, suspend tb
writ of habeas corpus,” arrest its Gov
ernor, imprison or disperse the Legis
lature, silence its judges, and tramp]
down its people under the armed hes
of his troops. Nothing is left to th
citizen or the State which can ani
longer be called a right—albis changj
ed into mere sufferance.
THE SAME CORRECTION THAT MlJ
JEFFERSON ADVISED.
Our hopes for redress are in th<
calm, good sense, the “sober, seeon<
thought” of the American people.—
We call upon them to be true to them
selves and their posterity, and, disre
yarding party names and minor dif
erencee, to insist upon a decentrali
zation of power and the restriction o
Federal authority within its just an
proper limits, leaving to the State!
that control over domestic affair!
which is essential to their happinesl
and tranquility and good govern
inent.
UNMANLY TREATMENT OF THE
SOUTH. '
Everything that malicious ingenn
ity could suggest, has been done t|
irritate the people of the Middle an j
Southern States. Gross and exaggei
ated charges of disorder and violencl
owe their origin to the misehievoul
minds of the potential managers ii
the Senate and House of Represents
tives, to which the Executive has, wj
regret to say, lent his aid, and thru
helped to enflame the popular feel
ini
%
all this course of hostile legisla
tion and harsh resentment no word o
conciliation, of kind encouragement
or fraternal friendship, has ever bee;
spoken by the President or by Con
gress to the people of the Souther
States. They have been addresse
only in the language of proscriptioi
We earnestly entreat our fellow-citi
zens in all parts of the Union to spar
no effort to maintain peace and orde:
to carefully protect the rights (
every citizen, to preserve kindly rels
tions among all men, and to discoui
tenanoe and discourage any violatio
of the rights of any portion of tb
people secured under the Constitt
tion or any of its amendments.
ADVICE TO THE SOUTH.
Let ns, in conclusion, earnestly be]
of you not to aid the present attempt]
of Radical partisans to stir up strif
in the land; to renew the issues of t
war, or to obstruct the return of pea
aud prosperity to the Southern State
because it is thus that they seek
divide the attention of the conntr
from the corruption and extravagan
in their administration of public a
fairs, aud the dangerous and profli
gate attempts they are making
wards the creation of a centralize
military government.
RADICAL EXTRAVAGANCE.
* In the five years of peace followin
the war the Radical administratio
have expended £1,200,000,000 for o
dinary purposes alone, being wit
$200,000,000 of the aggregate ainoun
spent for the same; purposes in wa