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THE DAILY . SUN
Thursday Morning Seri ember 23
Cato s I^ettcr.
We call the attention of our readers to-
dawspecially- to the letter of Cato, from
Wellington. The disclosures he mokes
are of a very important character. We
have personally no knowledge of the facts
stated by him, but from our knowledge
of-the writer, we take it for granted that
he feds well assured of being able to sus
tain by proof all his allegations! It is
with our confidence in his judgment, in
tegrity and sense of justice in this par
ticular, that we give his letter to the pub
lic. It is certuinly.time for the honest
masses of the people, the toiling tax pay
ers everywhere, duly to consider whether
they are being driftted by the corrupt
ring of political trichstcrs, into whose
hands they have fallen. A. H. S..
Words of encouragement greet
us from every quarter—not only in ap
proving letters from nearly every State
ill the Union, but in long lists of sub
scribers daily received.
We have the strongest evidence that
the masses of the people everywhere ore
in earnest, and that there is “life in the
old land yet.”
WASHINGTON CORRESPON
DENCE.
Letter from Cato.
Startling Disclosures.
Washington, September 22, 1871.
The public press in this city seems to
bo in a curious condition. I except the
Sunday papers, and a morning and eve-
iiing prunella, for the reason that I never
see any of them. The Chronicle was es
tablished during the war, by that incom
parable [patriot, “Colonel” John W.
Forney. Ho made it pay ^handsomely
during the Presidency of the “Martyr.”
Subsequently, however, somehow the
cash account exhibited a preponderance
of big figures on the wrong side, and he
magnanimously sold out to an attachee
of tbe Senate, (a Mr. Morris), who
forthwith showed his teeth in an anti-
Grant direction. It was one of the won
ders of the world hereabouts-at the time
where the purchase money came from; if,
indeed, it were not merely nominal. No
one susj>ecteil Mr. Sumner, nor Mr. Carl
Schurz, nor Mr. Trumbull, nor. any of
the other expectants of the. next Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency, of
contributing a red cent. In the"'first
place, they are all too pure, honest, and
abovc-aboard, to think of such a thing.
In the second piace, they are all parsi
monious to a proverb; and thirdly, and'
lastly, and conclusively, they are known
to be as poor as snakes in March.
Under these circumstances, it was with
more wonder still, (if wonders may be
said to have degrees of comparison), that
the public read a recent announcement
that the Chronicle had passed into the
hands of that other huge patriot, ex-
Governor Holden, of North Carolina !—
When this worthy son of the South,
(who, if my recollection serves, was one
of the “original” secessionists), came to
this city, he was minus tlfe dimes to pay
his way comfortably. He paid a visit to
New York, and just in time secured a suf
ficiency of money to get Morris out of
his pecuniary scrape 1 I have it from a
good source that his feigned loyalty, how
ever dexterously putin market, has failed
utterly to affect him of the cigar !
But, where did the money come from ?
This has become a National question of
the gravest importance. It is known
that Tweed, Connelly & Co., established
the Patriot newspaper in this city, wider
restrictions as to its political course. It is
an acknowledged stipendiary of these
sharpers, and at any moment may be
stopped at their behest. How mildly the
Patriot deals, therefore, with these ras
cals ? For every dollar they stole, bodi
ly, it shows a counter dollar stolen by the
other wing of the same financial confed
eracy—bnt not a word of condemnation
of either !
This washing of one hand with the
other, is not an invention of the Tamma
ny Bing. But the subsidizing of public
presses upon both sides is! And now,
probably comes in the information that
I am enabled to give in this very import
ant letter. It is that Holden got
the money to sustain the Chroni
cle from the Radical adjuncts of
Jhe Democratic Tammany Ring. So we
see that the Metropolitan press employed
to abuse and recriminate each other, and
thereby throw dust in the eyes of the
public, are owned by one and the same
body of men, who, for convenience sake,
divide themselves into Democratic and
Badical coteries, the better to fleece the
country of millions upon millions. The
common ground upon which these vil
lains meet is the “New Departure,” a
most superlative humbug, designed from
the beginning to cover up frauds, politi
cally fundamental and fundamentally
fraudulent and felonious. I hope these
truthful and alarming disclosures—none
of the implicated parties will dare deny
them—may have some weight with the
thinking men all over the country. No
man can be called honest in a pecuniary
sense, who proposes to avail himself of
fraud and knavery in furthering his
political prospects! Cannot honest men,
throughout the land, be brought together
upon a common platform of honesty in
politics, as well as in dollars and cents?
There are important movements just
ahead! Cato.
- > H
Hr. Stephens and “Law and
Order.*’
To-day we lay before our readers the
following correspondence, in yhich they
may take some interest. It is copied
from the Constitutionalist, of Augusta, Ga.
The letter of “Law and Order,” ad
dressed to Mr. Stephens, appeared in
that paper of the 21st inst. His response
appeared in the same paper of the 34th
We shall continue the republication of
this correspondence in The Sun, as it
progresses. It is directly upon the vital
i- of constitutional liberty.
* Since you have become editor, you
have impressed the public mind with the
conviction that you have assumed as your
special mission the defeat of what you
are pleased to style “New Departure.”
When it is remembered that the New
Departure, properly and truthfully por
trayed, simply represents a prudent pol
icy deemed essential, to the future tri
umph of the great Democratic party of
the nation,and is sanctioned by tbe ablest,
purest and wisest of. its leaders, and
heartily sustained, as it is believed, by
the almost unanimous voice of the
National Democracy of the North, it can
but be confessed you have taken upon
yourself a Hercuhan task. While this
may indicate both your sincerity of con
viction, and your confidence in your
own power to crush what you conceive
to be an errer, it must nevertheless pro
voke surprise and chagrin that so illustri
ous a foeman should be willing to thrust
his glittering steel at the hearts of his
own friends, and seek to spill their blood.
What, then, is this policy of the New
Departure,of which you are so unsparingly
denunciatory, and that causes you to per
secute its friends even unto strange cities?
Let the question be answered first by
showing what it is not. And first, it is
not what it is so often stated to be in The
Atlanta Sun—“a new name forBadical-
ism”—nor is it a pretext for sliding into
the Bepublican party, as you often insin
uate, if you do not distinctly charge it.
Nor yet is it an endorsement or approval
of the principles and policy of the Badi-
cal party, which resulted in the adoption
of the (fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments and the unconstitutional laws.
The Departures, so-called, neither ap
prove nor endorse 'as constitutionally
adopted, even though a compliance with
form and manners may have been had,
any of the recent amendments, including
the tbw-teenth. Still they accept them
alias accomplished facts, as proclaimed
and recognized parts of the organic law,
and say they are to continue to be recog
nized and obeyed until the people,
who alone have the power, see proper, in
a legitimate way, to repeal them. The
thirteenth will never he disturbed, since
it was most solemnly acquiesced in and
agreed to by the whites, the masters and
owners at the time of its presentation to
the Southern States for their acceptance;
and for the additional reason that the in
stitution of slavery could never- again be
desirable in the South. The fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments have also been
added, as .the New.Departurists conceive,
in violation of the spirit of the Constitu
tion.
Still they have been thus added, and
there is now no escape from obedience to
them. But you say, this is a departure
from the platform of the party in 1868.
Grant it. -But that platform was so ex
treme in its demands that the author of
the Broadhead letter, which letter caused
the insertion of the weakest plank in it
has since, with his own hands, ripped it
np and thrown it aside. General Blair
and the party tried that plank thorough
ly, and found it would not do, and hence
discarded it as an element of mischief
and tending only to unite the enemies of
the true Democratic theory of govem-
If you persist in standing on it
still, its capacity may prove ample to
hold the minority who will stand there
with you, and you and they will have for
your compensation the reflection that
you defeated your party and gave a new
lease of power to Radicalism. By per
sistence in an unwise policy, already con
ceptance of a lie make it tbe .......
aswer, No, never! But to de*0' e
Itence of the lie akan accompl.
I, if not in itself an untruth, .
lost untenable absurdity. But t
paund upon your rights of pP c *
t enacted, and without theshao
institutional right, when you were?® J
kllnrl . ih /\ _ * j * _ Wvn
piled to accept the emancipation 0
iur slaves, tell us of your acceptance!,®
by a “constitutional constituency,”?]
iherwise, was equivalent to an endorse
Lent of the policy and the modus ope\
indi ? If yes, then indeed are youconf,
stent in saying that those who now ac*
ipt the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ents as parts of the organic law to b\
leyed until repealed necessarily endors
_ ieir policy and the modus of their adop
tion. But if no, then indeed is your
logic lame, though you be a sound
logician.
That you should be so confident of the
correctness of your own positions, and so
distrustful, if not intollerant, of tliri
views of others, can but excite commcut,
in view of some few prominent mistakes
of judgment occurring in yonr political
history, which have not .entirely faded
from the memory of your constituents.
You sustained the policy of the Missouri
restriction in your bold advocacy of the
compromise measures of 1850, and you
even found in your support of it consti
tutional authority for Congress to ex
clude slavery from one half of the Ter
ritories of the nation—upon the princi
pie of ^ — -Tr
henever the authors and concoeters, as
jell as all supporters, of this movement
pall say in plain terms that they do not
lean by it to affirm that the 14tli and
fcth amendments have been constitution-
ly adopted, and are therefore not “fraud-
nl" but rightful parts of the organic
■ of the Union—not hereafter to be
riled or questioned—then my opposi-
J>n to it will cease.
|No one is less disposed to make war
>on friends of auy sort than I am; but,
this instance, I think, if “Law and
wrier” will take paios to inform himself
little better, he will find that I am not
liDg upon political friends when I fire
Ion the authors of this movement, or
i objects; unless he considers those as
llitical friends whose policy is to get
|e general approval and sanction of the
femocracy of the Union of the righfut-
p of the most flagitious usurpations of
Iwer in the history of representative
J>vernment ! Usurpations openly
lowed by the perpetrators of them,
tenjthey boldly proclaimed that their
volutionazy acts were “outside of the
institution. ”
iThere are many points in the letter of
pow and Order” which I should like to
btice in detail; as, for instance, what he
s about General Blair’s abandoning
principles of his Broadhead letter;
Jiat he says about the “New Departure”
|ving received the approval of the pur-
F and ablest Democrats in tbe country,
i., and divers others which time will not
pw me now even to allude to.
But there is one other point in his let-
• which I cannot omit a reply to, heavy
[the pressure upon my time is. He
Ns the Democracy neither acquiesces in
F approves of (my) extreme policy.”—
Jow my reply to. * 'Law and Order” on
lis is, let ns understand each other. As
intimates that this is but one of
senes of letters he intends to
Idress to me upon the general
Ibjeets embraced in the one before me,
Ivoiild most respectfully ask of him to
hte in the next of his epistles what is
• , f stl ' e “ e Policy” I advocate to
I be re ^ er ' s ■ Is it extreme to say
■at these amendments were not consiitu-
vnally earned? Is it extreme to say that
ley were neither proposed nor ratified
I provided, for in tbe Constitution ? Is
bt tins an admitted truth by every just
bn in the countiy, North and South ’
I “ e ? tre “? to maintain . that what was
Cotton is opening prematurej^fcTT''
and short. Farmpro i.i ” hnthg^
Faxnjers
and short.
but half a crop, „„„ A ,,
fall, of which we have ind’iS
wiH make two-thirds of the yieldS/ 6
though the rains of the laJttlv 18/0 >
are iniurin.cr Q . 0 weeka
are injuring some by causing
growth In making your es&atfc 0 ^
may not count ns mn,- 0 n... “ ate you
may not count us more than on ^ y
five-eighths of 1870 with certafcfr^ 0r
COLUMBUS.
B. G. Stern, a wed-known rrxwu
died Sunday night. lan *>
A $75 cup is to be the prize a f ti
boat race during the Columbus Fair -
MILLEDGEVILLE.
The Recorder of the 25th says •
On last Friday a Collector of gw
was chosen for this cc unty to , es
vacancy caused by the absence*
duly elected incumbent—andvesnuJ
an overwhelming vote for V H?
Callawav. bismai.MMliT K„; -N.
/-j i. vote for Mr T V
last delivered an^addreet™!'^).;',!'’’^
SAVANNAH.
The News of yesterday has the folW
mg:
Mr. James Bussell, -who we ,
last week os mysteriously disappS
from Ms home Iras turned up, STr®
We learn that lion. Charles U tlo
a late aspirant for the State sLmSp'
and who received three votes in P,
robbed a strange white min IIS' ’T’
night of ten dolfars in men”) 10 ° tter
saundbbsville.
The young men of Saundersville have
concruded thata tournament is absolutely
necessary to their happiness.
The Georgian of the 27th, has'the fol
lowing: *
A Httle boy got lost in the woods in
this county, one stormy evening last
week, and was not found until after houS
H* T rCl l md far int0 ^ S
He was finally discovered by the yelu-
ing of a dog that had accompanied him.
Dr. A. G. Thomas, we are gratified to
PFV 11- * —
^ 1 - “ VOUL -n-as not
ery Democrat in the country—the
declared at
I polls . Is it extreme to urge upon
le people everywhere to yield obed ea-
i to these usurpations as defacto acts of
tanny, so long as they are enforced by
lem- bn°t W , lth power t0 execute
lem, but never to sanction them as de
to r f?n rf - par I S of; the fundamental
■at tbA he Um °“ ? Is extreme to hold
KJSET* ofrectilying these abuses
I the high trust of office remains in the
\ople of the States, and that this rectifica-
bn can be effected by them peacefully
I we pods! Is there'any thine violent
|n?s , o“eld‘'’“' Kl0l ' li “'’ iu ‘ he d0 °-
tiffed be “ law an <l order”
fou in every step of policy I recommend
Ir the rescue of the liberties of this
luntry and if in any thing I propose I am
KcfaS™ 1 ! t0 f kuo - v iu what - 1 do
hii 1 K w *» teyer is unconstuUqually
by -, Congress is “null and
Lx! a , should he so pronounced
K sm 13 tkere a man in
I™ States — even Senator Morton
Imself—who will dare dispute this be-
tre an mteUigent audience in any State
(i the Umpn ? Am I extreme in holding
ns position ? b
Jig? further; and maintain that, in the
JWof persons prosecuted for a viola-
ion of acts of Congress, founded upon
liese amendments, which were earned
* admitted ztsurpations, that the juries
A judges of the validity of the law, as
El as the judges. Is this an extreme
■sition . Can any man deny or dis-
Ite its correctness ? Have I recom-
eu any course or policy for a recti-
aiwn of the usurpations of Congress
Inch is not founded upon a strict ob-
Irvanee of “law ana order” throughout?
■ay, more: have I recommended any
tl7? h i 1Ch ’ ' ! fP ursued > will not most
Iitamly bring about a complete rectifica-
ELS i al <- tbeS f usm 'Pations, after a
■bile at least, uniess the Peoples of the
fnited States are themselves ripe for
yespohsm? 1
I These are plain questions and I wish
lem answered. I do not myself believe
tat the Peoples of this country are at
LL ready for Imperialism, or Monarchy in
oy shape, and that all they want for the
Maintenance of the Bight, is to see how
hey can save and preserve their liber
ies m a constitutional.mode and manner
IwJ » ° Ut a A Dy TioIation of “Law and
Alexander H. Stephens.
General Toombs and the State
Road Thieves.
. Gratefully remembering all that Geor-
gj- kasdone for him, General Toombs
hag nobly tendered his services, without.
1° a £ sist in the frvestiga-
on of the State Road frauds, and the
punishment of the thieves. He lias al
ready devoted much time and patient la-
“"I - ei ) T d ^ leave 110
unturned m his future efforts and deter-
inmed purpose to unearth the hidden
s tie to the
Ail eyes are now turned to him as coun-
sel for the Commonwealth, and we are
proud to know that he not only appre-
ciates the responsibility that rests upon
him, but that he has gone into the inves
tigation and prosecution with a high
sense of duty to his grand old mother,
welfare 1 * 6 deVOtl ° n to her honor and her
Who doubts his fidelity or his ability 9
As true as the needle to the pole in his
fealty to his people and their liberties,
grand in the conception and vindication
oi the right and God-like in intellect, he
has given the world assurance of a man,
to be trusted, and there are none to ques
tion his integrity, impugn his patriotism,
or disparage his power.
Knaves and fools may affect disregard
for Ins great qualities of head and heart,
but m their souls. they lie and tremble
with fear at their own convictions of
lect ° Wenng genius and P ower of intel:
Mr. Toombs seeks not to implicate or
persecute innocent men—all such will
hna him ready and bold to proclaim
then- innocence and vindicate their hon-
nor; but rogues and their accomplices
will be unable to escape his vigilance or
av oid his search. They are just as cer
tain to be unmasked and held up to pub-
hc scorn and exposed to the vengeance of
offending justice as the coming of any
event within the range of human agency.
The people may, therefore, dismiss all
apprehensions that the investigation is
to result in a farce, and rest contented
on the perfect assurance that their cause
is in sale hands, and will be safely eoi>
Set'lSn. ^ {Ga ' ] y™*’ 22(1 & L-
GEORGIA NEWS.
• MONROE C0UNTT.
The Advertiser of Tuesday furnishes
ie following:
Yesterday gave us the first indication
|i fair weather that we have had for two
yeeks. A few bright days will greatly
|Sds° Ve ^ mtuation ” in the cotton
lrIif Ud f d olir Iast issue-to the
Irobable rate of taxation in this county
lbnSL CUrr (f ^- ai '-- Ifc i9now evident
■bat the authorities intend to create an
S und - Th * e official order
bn thi 0 ^S° ? undredand fif ty per cent.
+L oi ta Ann tax L 0r » ln °tifer words, $10
Sf Hhn 00, rn The State tax is 40 cents
fcfcfc ' 100- e t J bns lfc Avi11 be seen the
tax payers of the county have to ante to
jhe tune of $14 on the ‘$1,000.
AUGUSTA.
The Chronicle & Sentinelhas the follow
ing paragraph :
The Southern and Atlantic Telegraph
Lompany seems to make business. Its
Kit W i bwished from Washington
hty to Charleston, and is to be rapidly
rxtended to Savannah and this city. On
resterday Dr. Morris, and other gentle-
pen ^Presenting the company, were
1 the . P ur P° se of seeming the
bght of way through the streets.
| MACON.
The Telegraph notices the arrival of
f a fc r - p ^ed cotton in that market:
I The Telegraph has the following from
Ranks county: Crops are short in Banks.
JVe had a very destructive rain storm
1 out the time of the Savannah gale
yiat prostrated our com, and much is
ftamaged by being submerged by the
fverfjowing streams. The corn crop will
fc f a fc 1 ! °f°P , or a little more, but I do
aot think that it can reach two-thirds
How do those Southern Badical
papers, who delight in buttoning the
cloak of “moderation” close under their
chins, as if to say, “behold me ! Im not
so very Radical after all!” like the fol
lowing from that central organ of Radi
calism, the Washington Chronicle:
One of our Southern (Georgia) cofcem-
poraries puts himself down as a “moder
ate Bepublican.” Whyisthis? Isitnot
well enough to be a Bepublican? The
Republican party was not very moderate
while , it was engaged in suppressing the
rebellion. It could not fire paper wads,
or put velvet on its bayonets. But it has
been moderate ever since. When a man
says he is a Christian, but a “moderate”
sort of one; we ask him if he is a Chris-
han? Why should he thus bate his
breath and qualify himself ? A Bepub-
hcan m a Bepublican. This may seem
very simple, but we cannot make anv-
thmg more or less of him than that.
It was cruel in the Chronicle to thus
tear away the garment of deceit from its
Southern allies and cotemporaries. It
should have had more respect for
their feelings. They are trying to smug
gle Badical principles into the Southern
people, by conveying them under a false
label, and now the Chronicle comes in and
*-•-
Perhaps never before, in the his
tory of American politics, did two such
disorderly conventions assemble upon one
day, as the Bepublican State Conventions
of New York and Massachusetts. In
New York the police had to bo Cxalled to
the platform to preserve order, while in
Massachusetts the body seems to have
resolved itself into a mob. These are
two admirable instances of the excellent
harmony (?) that exists in the Badical
party. Certainly Grant ought to rush
up there as soon as’possible,[and utter his
old war whoop: “Let us have peace !”
