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THE DAILY SUN.
Gfilce Corner of Broud nnd Alabama St’a
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Alexander II
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ATLANTA, GEOBGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1871.
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1871.
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The 4th of July has come and
your correspondent is seated on the
platform in the midst of city offi
cials, magnates of the Democratic
party in this community. The Dem
ocratic party and the Tammany party
are terms of synonimous meaning,
The galleries of the Hall and the
seats in the centre, are filled. On the
fully occupied platform are numerous
city and county office-holders—Judg
es, Sheriff, members of the Common
Council, Legislature, &c., &c., -&c.,
and in His hands the following
; ' PROGRAMME.
In pnrsnance of their unvarying cus
tom, the Brothers of the Tammany Soci
ety will meet to- celebrate the National
Birthday according tp the manner pre
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THE WESTERN * ATLANTIC (OH STATE) SAXLBOAD.
Night Passenger Train arrives... 1:42 a. m
Night Passenger Tram leaves 10:30 p. m
Day Passenger Train arrives.!....... ......2: 0 p. m
Day Passenger Train leaves ..8:15 a. m
Cartersvillc Accommodation arrives. 9:10 a. m
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THE GEOllOlA (AUOUsTAJ KUUOAO.
(.Vo Day Train <m Sunday.!
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Chattanooga train leaves'....9:50 a.m. and 6:45p.m.
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scribed by tlie Constitution of the So
ciety. Ml
At half-past nine on Tuesday, July 4,
1871, the Sachems, Braves, and Warri
ors will assemble for tho transaction of
business'iu the Council Chamber of the
Great Wigwam.
At ten a. m., the doors of the Great
Hull will be thrown open for the admis
sion of guests and friends of the Society,
when the following order of exercises
will be held:
National Airs — Seventh Regiment
Address of Welcome—Grand Sachem
Tweed.
MUSIC.
Beading the Declaration of Indepen
dence—By Brother Jerome Buck.
The Long Talk, by the Democratic
Warrior from Newark, N. J.,—Gen
Thfeo. Runyon.
Music by Baud.
Poem—By John Savage, Esq.
Short Talks, from Sachems and Braves.
INCLUDING
Hon. M. C. Kerr, of Indiana; Hon.
W. R. Roberts, Hon. J. J. Friedman
Hon.-S. S. Cox, Hon. Clarkson N. Pot
ter, Hon. Richard O’Gorman, etc., etc.
Finale, Star-Spangled Banner, sung
by Wm. J. Hill, Esq.
Sachem Peter B. Sweeny,
“ Richard B. Connolly.
“ Emanuel B. Hart,
“ John J. Bradley,
“ Isaac Bell,
“ Douglas Taylor,
** Samuel B. Garvin,
“ Matthew T. Brennan,
“ Charles G. Cornell,
“ A. Oakey Hall,
“ JostPH Dowling,
“ Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr.,
Sachem James B. Nicholson,
* ' Father of the Council.
William M. Tweed,
Grand Sachem.
Wilson Small, Sec’y;
Henry Yandewater, Treasurer;
Cornelius Corson, Scribe;
George W. Rdome, Sigamore,
S. C. Duxrea, Wiskinskie.
Surveying his surroundings and
the announcements on the pro
gramme, yonr correspondent con
ceived that- tall expressions of Demo
cratic principles and policy as re
gards ‘the Presidential contest of
1872; and the political platform of
the Democratic party in the coming
contest, would be announced and
presented to the numerous assem
blage of the Democracy of the Met
ropolitan city of the tlnited States.
But there was nothing of a definite
character—nothing of Democratic
policy, and nothing but magniloquent
generalities, (with the exception of
what was said, and well said by Mr.
Runyon, the Mayor of Newark, on
the subject of State Eights).'' His ex
position on that subject—the most
important of all political subjects,
are worthy of being preserved.
The letters of Governor Hoffman,
General Mc’Clellan, Montgomery
Blair, Amasa J. Parker, and John Q.
Adams, were not read to the meet
ing in Tamuiany Hall.
gjjTlie following is the call of the
Grand Sachem for the meeting and
for the reasons that the designations—
Democratic party and Tammany
party have become in New York,
synonimous appellations, yonr cor
respondent will now give you a his
tory of the origin ana history of the
Tammany Society:
TAMMANY SOCIETY; OR, COLUM
BIAN ORDER.—Brothers : A regular
meeting of the Institution will be held
in the Council Chamber of the Great
Wigwam on -TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1871,
! at .10 o’clock a. fl, to celebrate the
asylum in this from the oppressions
of the old country, unitea them
selves in an association for mutual
benefit and support, in a society to
themselves. In those davs of won
drous recitals, both in French and
English, of the wild character of the
Indians in America, they preferred to
look among those unsubdued sons
of the forest for symbols of their
brotherhood 'rather than take them
from any English quarter whatever,
even though it were American.—•
Hence the insignia and names of
chiefs.
When Thomas Mooney, or Tom
Mooney was their chief officer, they
concluded in 1805 to apply to the
Legislature of the State for a charter
for what they called themselves—the
Tom Mooney Society, which they
Indianized into Tammany Society ;
but Tammany is an Irisn bull, for
there was no such Indian name in
those days known to exist. Their
petition to the Legislature was as
follows—passed April 9, 1805:
Whereas, William Mooney and other
inhabitants of the city of New York, have
presented a petition to the Legislature
setting forth that they, since the year
one thousand seven bund - ed and eighty-
nine, have associated themselves under
the name and description of the “Society
of Tammany, or Columbian Order,” for
the purpose of affording to the indigent
and distressed members of the said As
sociation, their widows and orphans and
othere who may be found proper objects
of their charity. They therefore solicit
that the Legislature will be pleased to
incorporate by law the said Society for
the purpose aforesaid, under such limi
tations and restrictions as to the Legis
lature shall seem meet. Therefore, Be
it enacted by the people of the State of
New York represented in Senate and
Assembly, That such persons as now are,
or from time to time shall become, mem
bers of the said Society shall he, and
are hereby ordained, constituted and de
clared to be a body corporate and po
litic, in deed, fact and name, by the
name of the Society of Tammany or
Columbian Order of New York.”
Tammany, having organized thus,
has become a great power in the State.
The thirteen Sachems of the So
ciety at present are, as stated in the
programme: Peter B.* Sweeny, Pres!
dent of Central Park Commission;
Richard B. Conally, City and-County
Comptroller; Emanuel B. Hart, Com
missioner of Assessments; John J.
Bradly, City Chamberlain; Isaac
Bell, Commissioner of Public Chari
ties; Douglass Taylor, Commissioner
of Juries; Samuel B. Garvin, Dis
trict Attorney; Matthew P. Brennan,
Sheriff of City and County; Charles
G. Cornell, Registrar of Croton De
partment; A. Oakley Hall, Mayor of
the City and Comity; Joseph Dow
ling, Justice of Police; Nathaniel Jar
vis, Clerk of the Court C. C.; James
B. Nicholson, Great Father of the
Council of Sachems and Commis
sioner of Public Charities; William
M. Tweed,- Graud Sachem, and the
President of the Board of Public
Works.
The above constitutes at present
the political oligarchy of the Democ
racy of this city and State. Like
many other bodies founded in “love,
hope and charity,” it has undoubtedly
grown corrupt as it has grown great,
and like all other large centralized
bodies, its proceedings and actions
should be closely watched by the
people.
More anon. Observer.
From the Selma Times and Messenger, July 7.
The New York Tribune and
General Forrest.
WASHINGTON CORRESPON
DENCE.
Georgians Summoned Before
the Ku-Klux Committee.
Georgians to The Rescue.
Washington July 8,1871
Editors of the Sun: One week ago
General A. R. Wright, of Rome,
Judge Hiram Warner and Dr. N. L.
Angier, of Atlanta., lion. Thomas
Hardeman, of Macon, Col. P. W. Al
exander, of-Cohimbus, General A. R.
Lawton and Ex-Mayor Anderson, of
Savannah, and General A. R. Wright,
of Augusta, were summoned by the
Democrats to appear before the Ku-
Klux Committee. Up to this time
only General Wright, of Rome, Dr.
Angier, of Atlanta and Mayor An
derson, of Savannah, have appeared.
The Democrats of the: Committee
have summoned, in addition, General
John B. Gordon, of Atlanta, General
Henry L. Benning, of Columbus, Mr,
W. W- Paine, of Savannah and Col
John II. Christy, of Athens.
Georgia matters are in truly a crit
The New York Tribune, commenting
on the statements lately made by Gen.
Forrest to a newspaper correspondent,
and in his testimony before the Congres
sional Kn-Klox Committee, indulges in a
strain of detraction little calculated to
advance the peace and quiet of the coun
try, which Mr. Greeley professes to have
so much at heart. Such attacks upon the
credit of every man who does not testify
in support of Greeley’s crazy notions that
the Southern States are overran by dis
guised men, who whip or murder every
man, white and black, who does not agree
with them on political questions, will
never tend to establish good feeling be
tween the different sections of the coun
try.
The Tribune says: "By all the rules of
civilized warfare, and by the law of tho
land, Mr. Forrest has no right to the head
ont of which these brazen falsehoods ib-
sue. He is not a creditable witness on
any case of treason or negro-killing; and
if, as reported, a committee of Congress
has sent for him to give evidence in those
matters, the committee has been led
thoughtlessly into a grave error.” And
again: “If he has any convictions of du
ty, they would teach him to conceal the
truth and assert its opposite, in any deal
ings with the government of the United
States.”
It is simply nonsense and balderdash
to talk, at this time of day, abont Mr.
Forrest having “no right to his head.”—
It is the fact, and no one knows it better
than the editor of the Tribune, that if “by
the rules of civilized warfare and the laws
of the laud, Jefferson Davis and other
“rebel leaders” could have beeu convict
ed, they would have shared the ignomin
ious doom of Wirz and Mrs. Surratt.—
Those unfortunate victims were murdered
to appease the cry for blood, on charges
trumped up for the' occasion, and “on
testimony which would not have convict
ed a sheep-killing dog,” but with all its
vindictiveness, the Government well
knew that the execution of the Confed
erate leaders would be a violation of “the
rules of civilized warfare and of the laws”
of nations, which even the best Govern
ment the world ever saw, could not afford
to commit. Therefore, it concluded to
act “magnauimiously 1”
And Mr. Forrest is not a creditable
witness, forsooth! The character of Gen
eral Forrest as a brave, high-minded and
honorable gentleman, needs no defence
from us in any community where he is
known; nor do we think his character for
truth need be defended among honorable
men anywhere. He cannot afford to lie
even if his moral constitution would per
mit it. He has nothing to gain, and ev
erything to loose by such a course. But
he has • •convictions of duty” to a higher
Power .t.an even the Government of the
United States, and these convictions, his
conscience will not permit him to violate.
Against the testimony of General Forrest
and the score or more of honorable men
who corroborate him, and some witnesses
of its own party the Tribune can adduce
nothing but the lying statements of a few
partisan and subsidized newspapers, and
the testimony of worthless men, like
Laken and others of the same stripe, who
make their statements for their Own ad
vancement and reward. And the coarse
of the “magnanimious” government has
given these wretches a right to expect to
be rewarded. Bergen and Settle and
Warner, and many others we might name,
have been rewarded for just such “servi
ces to the government,”
The Tribune says the Committee has
cofnmitted a grave error in calling For
rest, and such as he to testify. In one
view they have. If the Committee intend
to carry out the real object for which it
was raised, to-wit: to furnish further
ground on which to intimidate, worry
and harass the Southern people into vot
ing Radicals into office, or not voting at
all, they committed an error, and a grave
one, in calling in Forrest and Clanton
and others, who,-like them, will tell the
whole truth. 1 But if the Committee in
tend to accomplish its ostensible purpose,
of ascertaining and reporting the true
condition of affairs in the South we think
they are right not to confine their inves
tigation to the statements of nnscrupu-
lous and interested adventurers. When
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth shall become known and folly be
lieved, we may have quiet and good feel
ing throughout the country and not be
fore. While credence is given to such
articles as that from the Tribune, arous
ing and keeping alive feelings of indig
nation in both sections, neither cordiality
or quiet can be expected.
, l ' *■ (i ■<
threatens to sweep over onr country and
obliterate every semblance of civil liber
ty and self-government in these United
States.
This can only be accomplished by
closely guarding and jealously preserving
the Constitution of the United States and
the rights of the several States. Any con
nivance at or submission to usurpation
must result first, in the weakening and
finally in the destruction of our institu
tions. The only manner in which the
Constitution of the United States can be
altered is pointed out in the fifth article
of that instrument, and if written con
stitutions are not wholly worthless all its
provisions must be obeyed and respected.
We care not how many proclamations are
made or by whom, they cannot make a
lie the truth, or a proposed amendment
a part of the Constitution, unless in
adopting the same, all the provisions of
that instrument are obeyed in every par
ticular.
To say that the so-called 14th and 15fch
amendments are enforced as though
parts ol' the Constitution is merely to say
that sometimes might may qveroome
right. During the war men were thrown
into forts and common jails, houses were
ransacked and destroyed, and mothers
and daughters insulted and abused, not
for any crimes committed, but merely
because it pleased the passing whim or
passion of some petty military satrap. If
a Democratic convention could not ap
prove of these outrages upon the rights
of single individuals, how can it now
with any degree of consistency endorse
an effort to destroy the rights and liber
ties of the whole country by the most
glaring and barefaced usurpations. J : G
We believe that the great, living and
vital issue now is: shall we perpetuate
our present form of government or con
vert it into a despotism ? We are “Bour
bons” enough to desire the former, and
therefore oppose and will continue to
oppose every step tending towards the
latter.
Those who desire to tuke a “new de
parture” are perfectly welcome to go over
and join Lands with those who have al
ways earnestly, consistently, and we be
lieve conscientiously favored a centralized
government.
The true Democrats of Iowa deserve,
as they no doubt will receive, a hearty
God speed from their brethren in all sec
tions of the Union.
From the Cincinnati Commoner, July 1.
The Holden, Mo., Democrat.
The 1:50 ajn., 12 in., a»J S:J0 pja. train***, — . , , . T
not run on - J uuu»i». tl. A;(io aju. anU 6:43 y.m. ninety-lift a Anniversary oi American Jn-
trxioa mn ftaUv. ' y dependence.
Western Railroad of Alabama J runctmd attendance is requested. By
! order of Wiluam M. Tweed,
Grand Sachem.
From the West Chester Jeffersonian, July 8th.
The Ioway Democracy.
a The late Democratic State Convention
of Iowa, passed resolutions favoring the
“New Departure.” They were certainly
the best prepared and least objectionable
of any we have yet seen, but the party in
that State averse to any “departure” from
principle—unwilling to be sold out to tho
negroes and their allies by selfish politi
cians, have-called another convention for
the purpose of placing the Democracy of
the State in its true position before the
country.
This is right, and must meet the ap
proval of every true Democrat. This is
This consistent and firm exponent
of the true principles of Democracy
in its purity is taking stronger hold
week after week of the minds of its
readers. If the office of an editor is
to think in advance of others, it
should be intelliuentlv
discharged. "Wereuv^........v
of the Democrat, the information aud
zeal witli which itpromisesto be con
ducted, and we recommend it to the
men in Missouri who have borne so
much outrage and persecution for
opinion’s sake. The worst of it is
over. Tlie sacrifices for principle al
ready made in Missouri have been
sufficient to endear the cause of a
cheap, simple and responsible form
of Federal government to the confi
dence of the Democracy. A teacher
of that doctrine, and an opponent of
the odious centralization which is
being attempted by force and fraud
located at Washington and extending
to the furthest limits of the republic,
has a right to a hearing in Missouri.
The people of Missouri will not fqil
to respond. The present condition
there is transient, and the desc6nd-
ents of Southern houses who are so
numerous and respectable there, will
in the end resume the control of the
State’s destiny.
If we were: to advise the editor of
the Democrat, it would be our opinion
that lie should calmly and temper
ately, but faithfully, adhere to the
ancient landmarks and sea marks of
Democracy which fence in liberty
throughout this country from out
ward dangers, and which alone can
preserve the shadow of it. All beyond
is naked despotism;. will and. pleas
ure; false and fraudulent departures;
moving up to the last night’s encamp
ment of the eonsolidationists, and
finally mingling beyond recognition
in their ranks. It should be the first
care of true friends of liberty and
Democracy to separate themselves
from their antagonists in thought,
speech and action, not, however, cut
ting off the possibility of their be
coming converted from the error of
their ways and doing service among
the rank and file untiLfully confirmed
in the faith.
Mr. Williams wields a free and on
lightened pen; he has passed beyond
the fear of criticism or intimidation.
He stands at the opening of a career
which we hope will be long, happy
and illustrious. v
dine, bnt to-day we Were revived - * ith
a srjendid shoWor.
crop of wheat is about one*
uurd olf, and poor in quality, Weight
light, ‘(owing to too much Wet Weath
er in washing off the bloom), though
we shall hare a surplufr, the avenge
being about one-third more •than hik
year. ! TT
Onr com also looks splendid and
promises to be the best yield we have
had in seven years; though this year
works precisely, about rain, as did the
celebrated year ’64, when the Feds,
came into Rome, though then we
made heavy, fine wheat, And this year
light. We made splendid corn in-64.
After, General Blair and the 17th ar
my corps, aud General Davis of the
14th army corps, U. S., passed over
and took all the horse power in toto.
Glover is doing finely in this coun
ty, under an improved Anode of sow
ing, and preparation of soil. If a
few more Virginians come in they
will make our country “ bud and blos
som like the rose.” Our formers are
somewhat pressed now, but I think
they, will: realize more this year, in
money and comfort, than, in any year
during the last seven years. Form
erly,.by putting in so much cotton,
they seemed to think there was no
flower commanding the wise man’s
attention, “ but the cotton blossom.”
There are very few who are mort
gaging crops this year ; they seem to
work nolens volehs, oh tbeir own ac
count, more than formerly'. 1
! The lbw price or Cotton in -April
so discouraged the planters that they
gave more than usual breadth to corn
aiul cereals, and hence the unprece
dented high price of provisions last
year is beginning to produce a cornu
copia.
If the rains continue there will
never be such an abundance of pro
visions seen, as will grace barns,
which will reduce , living'and elevate
the Southern staple to its former dig
nity. 1 With" this* result the people
will have nearly the entire Cotton crop
to adorn waste places, and make the
amende honorable oh their contracts.
The corn and bacon quotations at
Cincinnati are quite low, and down
pearly to a speeie standard,.‘which is*
a good harbinger of the return to
good old days of Adam and Eve.—
The war demand (transatlantic! has
pre t ty much ceased, besides, shy locks
at. large ports know that itj will not do
to hold for higher prices, as less cot
ton and more grain seem to be the
rule. The want of confidence and
the easy manner in, ,which debts are
now paid, compel markets to be strin
gent in their terms and time; besides,
in buying for cash they get their sup
plies 2a to 50 per cent, less than last
year.
A friend of mine writes from Ran- •
dolph county, Gal, that the smash
among* the advancers of provisions
last year was really horrid—intolera
ble.'" The cash system makes our peo-
"1 ■ "‘uv-vsilly, more economical, par-
..v.u.tiiN Ihe ladies. When they pay
cash Mown they make out upon
about, half they really need.
If ive make a million of bales less
this year, it will bring more money
than the crop of 1870, because it is
on'the principle of the East India
Company, who destroyed one-half of
their spices once, and got more for
the ballance than for a full crop. In
stead of destroying, let us improve
the homestead, make it attractive and
add an increased number of harmless
amusements for the young people,
and thus beautify and adorn and stop
this wearing and skenning out pro
cess of the virgin soil, and removing
West as the panacea to cure tlie evil.
Let our. farmers never he tempted,
under the present cotton prices to re
lax their rigid economy and launch
ontdnto superfluities and; thus entail
the same old epidemic of articolo in
mortis.
In my next I WiH have time to say
something upon-the agricultural re
sources, the mechanical industry and
appliances to develop onr country—
ihe mineral resources—the railroad
connections in progress and in opera
tion, and more particularly about our
county as a "clover, stock, fruit, grape
anti flouring mill .country. :‘j
: We are richly endowed by nature
with water power and eminences and
sites for the hum of the spindle or of
the French buhr mill-stone.
Floyd County.
- Jnlv5,1871. -.u 1,
Our Wusliinsctou Correspondent.
w . the course we suggested should be pur-
ical condition, from the carpet-bag, 8ae a in this State, after the disgraceful
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Wilson Small, Secy
Manhattan, Season of Fruits, Seventh
Moon, Year of Discovery 379th, of Inde
pendence 95th, and of the Institution
the S2d. -
A fe w vears before the commence
ment of the present century, a num
ber of Irish exiles, in seeking an
scalawag and negro testimony given
before the Committee on yesterday
anil to-day. General Blair and Mr.
Beck are exerting themselves to pro
tect the people of .Georgia against the
slanders of Bullock’s radicals, but are
much embarrassed by the. non-atten
dance of the gentlemen summoned:
Alabama has. within the last few
days, been fully vindicated by the
testimony of such representative men
as General Clanton, of Montgomery,
General Pettis, of Selma, and Colonel
Pugh, of Eufaula. uri ; 9 '
Will not Georgians come the res
cue? - . . ijCoaif
and humiliating proceedings of the Har
risburg Convention. If the Democratic
party is of the slightest value to the
country, it is because its principles are
correct, and because it is more devoted
and- attached to our republican institu
tions than any other party. If it is in
tended to convert it into a mere machine
for the advancement of certain individ
uals to office without regard to honor,
honesty, consistency or principle, then
it Bhould, arid moist assuredly will perish.
We have always looked upon the Dem
ocratic party in the past as the great bul
wark of protection and defence against
all tendency toward centralism; we be
lieve its missioa iu the future is to turn
back the current of despotism which now
FLOYD COUNTY CORRESPON
DENCE.
The VVlicat, Corn and Clover
Crops—Brilliant Prospects for
North Georgia.
Floyd Col'nty, July 7, 1871.
Editors of the Sun : I just drop
you a line, hoping a word may be in
teresting to you, from the mountains.
During the last ten days we have had
fair, most too fair, weather, and crops
begin to show signs of atrophy or ile-
We ask special attention to the
very interesting initial letter of our
special Washington correspondent
Ilis contributions will appear regu
larly, and will constitute one of the
most attractive features of The Sun.
He is one of the ablest writers in this
country, who has long experience in
correspondence, whose integrity is
untarnished, whose sentiments may
be relied upon, and whose facilities
for gathering news are unsurpassed
by those of any person residing at the
Capital. We congratulate our read
ers upon our good fortune in securing
such an able and worthy correspon
dent at the seat of Government in the
United States. odi atadw
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There are 53,000 fniles crfrwlroads m
operation iu the United
cost is put down,
just about the amount
debt As an investment, w
be admitted the -lUilreeds have pma •
great deal better than the war; 1*
in Mossacausetts a mile of rndrond
ery five miles of area-
country was netted in that way
have (300,000 miles of line*.
united States.
at *MdO,0OaO0p, or
uOunt of the National
tment, we thinkit Will
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