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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN-
THE DAILY
Thursday Morning
QTT"M" I For years past the party has been, led
—J. j by fourth-rate politicians, and it is now
.October 19. I time for our best men to come forward
— ’ and direct oar movements.
The Ineligibility Question. .Upon Democratic principles, led by
true and honest Democratic leadera, we
For the iniormation of our readers. ! can carry this State by at least 30,000
generally, and in answer to numerous; majority. Wo could have done it this
■ i -JR • . fus. ..rtinln s year had we have had a Democratic plat-
special mqnnes, we give m this article, ^ ^ ^ Wk upoQ
tho m»iin provisions of tho Jjill upon this : .. — -# -4
subject, which passed tho House of Be- A Democratic Outlook,
presentatives, on tho 10th of April last, at: call special attention to the follow-
the celled session of the present Congress. | tog editorial of the Bangor (Me.) JDsmo-
From tliis, it will be seen wbat classes of j 0 f the 12th instant:
persons, by its terms, aro not relieved from j The clouds Pmuing Away,
the disability clause of the so-called 14th "When Mr Yallandigham promul-
J . . , „„ I gated Ills “New Departure” in the
This Bill was not acted on yf 0n tg 0 mery County (Ohio) Convention
last May, the Democracy all over the
country were full of hope and confidence.
For twelve months fortune had smiled
upon them wherever elections had been
held. Tennessee, North Carolina, Geor-
Amendment.
by the Senate before tbo adjournment, but
remains on the calender of business in
that Body, to come up at the session to
meet in December, now approaching.
The Bill removes political disabilities
from all persons who do not come within
the following classification:
Kn<£-Members of the Congress of the United
SUttrt who withdrew therefrom, and aided tho rebel-
lion ; .
Second.—Officers of the Army and Nary of the
United States, who, being above the ago of twenty-
one years, left said Army or Navy, and aided tho re
bellion ; and
Third—Members of State Conventions which adopt
ed pretended ordinancea of secession who voted lor
the adoption of such ordinances.
Besides these main provisions, the
Tivrd section, sets forth the manner in
•which the general provisions of the Bill
..are to bo carried out, waich fire not given
in the language of the Bill, in the Con
gressional Globe, of the 11th of April,
from which we have taken the above
statement, but they do not affect the
substance of its material parts.
If this Bill passes the Senate, ns it has
passed the House, the ineligibility dis
qualification of the so-called 14th Amend
ment, will no longer apply to any person
who does not come within one or the
other of the three classes, so set forth in
the BilL A. H. S.
Called Meeting of the Democrat
ic Executive Committee.
We soe, in several of our exchanges, the
following notice, which wo suppose to be
^genuine:
Stale Democratic Committee.
' The members of tho Stato Democrntlo Executive
Committee are requested to meet at the office of tho
Chairman, in the city of Macon, ou Tuesday, tho
24 th day of October, at 10 o’clock, a. sa. A full at
tendance is desired.
CLTFroED Anderson, Chairman.
What business is to be submitted to
the Committee, for its action, we know
not; nor cafi we imagine any that can
be properly submitted to it, except to
agree upon the proper time and place for
tho next meeting of a Convention of the
v*Party in the State. All the other execu-
... • tivo powers of this Committee, as we un-
, del- tand it, are *‘fu*cti officio." They
terminated with the canvass and election
of last/ year.
It is usual for executive committees,
after tko.ebiects and occasion for which
they were specially raised have passed
. away, to call future conventions of the
Mfcrty, and we know of no other business
that can properly come before this Com
jnittee, at this time, for any authoritative
.aetion. A. H. S.
■WjihsylTania.
We give below an extract from an
editorial of the Jeffersonian, of the 14th
•instant, published in Westchester, Penn
sylvania, from which our readers wiil see
Hie views entertained of the late election
. there, by this able paper, and the chief
. cause of the result, ns set forth in it—
i some wise counsel, also, as to the future,
will bc'found in the extract, which is as
.follows:
The result of last Tuesday’s election
cannot be considered a Democratic de
feat. The Republicans, to be sure, car
ried the State, but not against the Demo
crats. The Ninth Resolution of the Har
risburg Convention, which a few corrupt
Democratic politicians, at tho instance of
Republicans, succeeded in having passed
by the votes of Beventy-six men, sealed
the fate of McCandless and Cooper, and
left to the true and honest Democrats of
the State a choice only between two evils.
’ The defeat of the State ticket cannot and
will not be considered a cause for regret
*>y a single Democrat in the State.
The loss upon the county ticket, by
which the Radicals obtain control of the
Senate, and increase their majority ia the
House, is the only thing that will cause
grief. This,tobesure,wastobeexpecteJ,
because the party was so thoroughly dis
gusted and disheartened that it was im
possible to bring them out to the polls, not
withstanding they knew that the next Leg
islature would apportion the State into
Congressional Districts for the next ten
years. The result, instead of beiug dis
couraging, is decidedly encouraging, for
it demonstrates clearly and plainly that
the good old Democratic party is as firm
ly as ever attached to the teachings of
Thomas Jefferson and our Democratic
institutions. It shows that the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania cannot be sold out
by a few dishonest and truckling politi
cians to the enemies of free government,
and that hereafter as heretofore they will
fight upon principle, or not at nil. Away
with expediency and its advocates. An
other good result, which must necessarily
flow from the defeat of the New Depart-
urists in this State and Ohio, will be the
unanimity of sentiment in the next gen-
eral convention. No such odious and
•anti-Democratic doctrines as this negro
d eparlure movement wiil ever hereafter
bo heard of.
Another benefit to be derived will be
tbe retirement of our political leaders
who brought this disgrace and seeming
^defeat upon the party. For some time
.past onr leaders have been an incubus
upon tho party; they could not command
the confidence of Democrats nor the re
spect of Republicans; they staked their
all upon this New Departure movement;
have ignominiously and ingloriously
failed, and must now retire to the rear
ranks and let more honest, more honor
able and more competent leaders take
their places. Unless this is done; unless
we havo new leaders before the next cam-
paign; Grant will be the next President.
gia, and Alabama had been wrenched
from the plundering grasp of the carpet
baggers. California, Nevada, and New
Hampshire bad all been redeemed. Vic
tory had crowned our efforts in New
York and Indiana. In Pennsylvania a
drawn battle had been fought, whilst in
Maine and Ohio the great Republican
majorities of former years had been re-
dneed to a narrow margin. The Republi
cans were despondent, and the Democ
racy felt they were advancing to certain
victory in the Presidential contest of
1872.
Such was the political situation when
the “New Departure” was promulgated,
Its eminent author had declared that the
new- doctrine paved the way to an easy
and certain victory. As such it was
seized upon with avidity by those politi
cians to whom success and plunder are
dearer than the vindication of sound
principles,
The masses of the Democracy, how
ever, were stupefied with amazement at
the “New Departure.” Bata few months
had passed since the whole Democratic
press of the country had denonneed the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
as a complete overthrow of the principles
of the old Constitution. Every Demo
cratic member of Congress had voted
against them. Every Democratic Con
vention, County, Congressional, and
State, had denonneed them. The Demo
cratic Legislature of the Empire State,
by a unanimous vote, bad rescinded the
resolution by which a previous Republi
can Legislature had adopted the amend
ments. Not only had the united De
mocracy of the country denounced the
amendments as subversive of the founda
tion principles o? the Constitution, but
they bad declared the coercive nreans by
which a nominal adoption had been pro
cured, illegal, and the proclaimed amend
ments themselves a fraud, nnauthorita
tive, and void.
In full view of the infamous wrongs
and outrages which had been perpe
trated in England by Attainders, the
creatofs of our old Constitution had de
clared that, ,{ 2fo Bill of Attainder or Ex-
Pod Facio Law shall be passed.” But the
Fourteenth Amendment, in one sweep
ing clause, without information, without
trial, and without conviction, attaints
two hundred thousand of tho best and
leading men of the South. Yes, that
third section of the Fourteenth Amend
mend attaints the great mass of the moral
and, intellectual worth of thirteen States!
It was this monstrous piece of injustice
and wrong which the “New Departur-
ists” called upon the Democracy to ac
cept, indorse, and acquiesce in!
Is it any wonder^hakuS'ttfl'el&ecf' on
the monstrosity which Democratic State
Conventions had thoughtlessly adopted,
they became cold and chilled? Is it any
wonder that vantage ground was lost in
Maine; that the cause of Democracy
went down in ruin in California, and de
feat came everywhere save in Kentucky,
West Virginia", and Texas, where the
monstrosity was repudiated?
Last week, in their despondency, the
eyes of the Democracy of the whole
Union were turned to the Empire State.
There was a universal feeling that, if the
Democrats of New York should, in their
State Convention, sanction the heresies
of the “New Departure,” then all would
be lost.
All honor to the Democracy of New
York ! In the critical hour they proved
true to the old Constitution; true to their
traditions; true to the fame of their de
parted statesmen; true to the rights of
the States, and true to tbe fundamental
principles of republican liberty as pro
mulgated by the immortal Jefferson.
The key-note of the duty of the De
mocracy of the land was sounded by Hon.
Sarnnel J. Tilden, Chairman of the Dem-
Falr Dots.
Sharp & Floyd have an elegant dis
play of jewelry in Floral Hall, snch as to
attract the attention from nature’s jewels
to those of art.
Col. Steadman’s bull is the best part of
tho show on the Fair Grounds. If Fan*
Associations would offer liberal premiums
for beasts of burden, and less for fancy
animals, they would show hard sense that
would tend to encourage an improvement
in stock, and which would benefit the
farmers, instead of a display that puts
money in the po bets of that cussed set
known as fancy town stock men, who are
able to pay for such animals, which, like
the town loafer, produces nothing, and
does the community no good. The
Colonel’s bull can pull a ton to market,
and return with the purchases made by
he farmer, saving drayage both ways.
That fellow, Hightower, who runs the
heavy business in Griffin, had the temer
ity to bring up to the fair his fancy span
of blacks, “Tige” and “Bots,” but ar
rived too late for the show of good
draft horses, and, of course, to take a pre
mium to which he would have been en
titled.
How are you, Miss Lewella Anna
Jane Sopha?
Sparks Lee drove the handsomest
team about the grounds yesterday.
The “Combination” Mare put the beer
on a sorrel gelding yesterday afternoon,
at the Oglethorpe race track, just so easy
as never was. It is trying to the souls
of sinners to witness such a sham race.
Oliver Jones, for the edification of the
public, allowed “Black Crook” to be
rattled through by that rattling cream
gelding “Rattler,” yesterday afternoon.
The intention was good, and we com
mend Mr. Jones for it; but it is a bad
plan to make such a race, as honest and
unsophisticated people are often taken in
by such matches.
Hon. Ephraim Tweedy entered “Lady
Lee” for the premium offered for the
best harness nag, and took the premium
from our friend Bell’s black gelding,
“Nimrod”—one of the handsomest hors
es in the country. Tweedy can’t say
there was any discrimination on account
of politics or previous condition in this
contest, as “Nimrod” is a stunner, and
if he had not gone plumb up head, be
could not have taken the stake.
The negro walkist made a half m : lo in
side of four minutes round the track yes
terday, which was poor walking compar
ed with that done by a darkey of our ac
quaintance in ante-bellum times, who
carried a bushel of ’tatersand a pumpkin
fifteen miles, swapped for . three pints of
whisky, and made the return trip before
day, bringing tho whisky inside his skin.
The Haadley engine, that runs a half
dozen qin mills at the Fair Grounds, is a
good thing. Mark Johnson thinks it will
run as many as the people can hitch to
it. It gins with and without feeders, and
condensers, and cottons to none of them.
The Shingle Machine at the Fair
Grounds, is a success. It makes shingles
faster than Lee Smith makes cocktails.
Mr. Ragsdale, at the Agricultural De
partment, has stalks of cotton with 300
to 400 bolls, from the Oxford Dickson’s.
The bolls are as thick as the hair on a
dog’s back, and we compliment him on
being able to stick them on so thick.
The Dickson cotton lays over Holmes’,
which is no small thing itself.
A. T. Finney has everlastingly spread
himself at the Fair Grounds on a dis-
asharp yrM?, out we would not be sur
prised if Finney don’t put the “Irish
Whisky ” on them for the prize.
Mercer’s saloon is the most popular
establishment on the Grounds, notwith
standing there are no prizes offered at
that establishment.
B. W. Wrenn shows himself perfectly
competent to the task of “ transporting”’
all the visitors to the Fair. There have
been no delays nor trouble on this line,
and if there were ten thousand more vis
itors to the Fair, Wrenn could provide
for their quick transit to the grounds.
The last train that canle in from the
Fair last night was composed of nine
cars, each car containing nine hundred
passengers—more or less. Wrenn was
the last man on the last car.
Rosalie,! owned by Master F. HI War
ing, we understand, took the premium
as the best brood mare. Mr. F. H.
Waring also received premiums (or the
following at the Fair yesterday: Belle,
best two year old filly; Gipsy, hestpony,
13 i hands high, exhibited under saddle
and bridle.
From the Mobile Register.
IMPORTANT .LETTER.
Read It.
oerutic State Committee, in calling the
. Convention to order. In another col
umn we present his most admirable
speech. It is replete with eloquence and
with logic. In language most terse and vig
orous and beautiful, he sets forth the ends
and aims of the Democracy. In repul
sive contrast he holds up the ends and aims
of effete Federalism, revived in the Radi
calism of the present day. In that brief
speech, worthy of a place by the side of
Jefferson’s great first Inaugural, Mr. Til
den has done the Democracy of all the
States a most signal service. Like the
bugle-blast of war, his eloquent words
have summoned back the disciples of the
Sage of Monticello from following after
strange heresies and strange political
f ods, to the one true standard, and the
efence of the one true principle which
can never die.
After the speech of Mr. Tilden, and
the tumultuous applause with which it
was received, there was no place in the
Convention of the Democracy of the
Empire State for any “New Departure,”
for the enforcement of any monstrous
Attainder, or for the overthrow of the
corner-stone of the Rights of the States
—State control of State suffrage.
The Convention was harmonious. The
Amendments were entirely ignored. The
Resolutions were of a high character, and
worthy of the Democracy in the halcyon
days of Jefferson and Jackson. The old
Jeffersonian standard is once more ad
vanced to the front, and the Empire State
leads the van. All despondency in the
ranks of the Democracy is vanishing
away, and high hopes are taking the place
of despair.
“Now is the winter of onr discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of Tori-
And alt the clouds that lowered upon our house
Iu tho deep bosom of the ocean buried.’’
In November, in spite of the cloud
which now rests upon the city, the De
mocracy of New York will march to cer
tain victory, and that victory will he a
glorious prelude to the crowning triumph
! t T ' nocracyof the Union will
it Presidential contest next
Daring the painful intermission yes
terday—while five thousand people were
waiting for something, our friend Vol.
Dunning showed himself equal to the
emergency, and started McCauley, (col
ored) on the tramp. He walked the
half-mile in 3-32. Vol. said it was as
good walking as he did in front of his
friend General Sherman.
-¥ t T _ W m A ” * 1 1 11 11111 ' 1 1
\>e must nave a thorough and com- which tho Democracy of the Union will
plcto reorganization of the Democratic }win in the great Presidential contest next
party of this State if we wish succe
The Great State Fair at Macon.
The Annual Fair of the State Agricul
tural Society commences at Macon on
Monday next Those who are attending
our Fair will have to make only a short
trip to attend the one at Macon. It will
be worth seeing. Mach has been done
by the city of Macon to make it a grand
success. Her energetic Mayor, sustained
and encouraged by the liberal citizens
of the city, has spared no expense neces
sary to make the Fair Grounds the most
beautiful, convenient and well arranged.
We have inspected the grounds nnd the
entire plan, and do not hesitate to pro
nounce the same unsurpassed.
Secretary Lewis and bis assistants
have done what they could in arranging
for the Fair; but the burden—the work
—of preparation has fallen upon the city
of Macon, and right worthily has she
performed her duty.
Instead of accepting a reception in
Boston, Grant recommended that the
money he sent to Chicago. He has no
notion of accepting anything that he
could not carry off with him. If Boston
had offered him the §20,000 in clean
cash, he never would have thought of
Chicago.
The mountains of California are
reported to be on fire.' Joaquin Miller’s
poems must have caused the conflagra
tion. They are very fervent.
THE DEPARTURE.
Views of a Maryland Conservative.
jfb the Editor of the Register:—Although
you have entered largely into the discus
sion suggested by this title, still you may
allow space to an old Democrat—or an
old Whig on Democratic principles—for
some thought upon it. I confess I db
not think the question can well be ig
nored. Already some, attracted by a new
scheme, are turning away from the old
paths. And there may be others, who
may even need to be reminded what it
is. I will state it anew: ought the Demo
cratic Pai'ly,inilsannouncements, to main
tain and approve the articles lately added
to the Constitution, as the XIVth and XYth
Amendments ?
To be sure of my ground, I have turn
ed the book; and from these amend
ments I take the following:
“No persons shall hold any office un
der the General Government or in any
State, who, having taken an oath, at any
time, to support tbe Constitution of the
United States, shall have espoused or
aided the Southern cause in the late civil
But Congress may remove the dis
ability by a two-third vote of both
Houses.”
“ No State shall pay any money for
debts incurred by the war.”
No State shall deny the right of the
blacks to vote at any S'tase election.”
When I read these provisions my first
impulse was to rub my eyes to make sure
that I had read aright that these things
are now in the Constitution. “ Could it
be so that the people of our State Gov
ernments shall not elect their own offi
cers, in the exercise of their judgment
of fitness, without the consent of Con
gress ?—that they shall not choose the
citizens to whom they would confide
their interests in Congress? that they
may not pay debts of their own creating?
that the States are not to decide who
shall have the right of suffrage? and that
Congress may carry these things into ef
fect, if need be, by force? ” This I que
ried. But so I found in the new book.
But it is not the Government, as 1 re
member it. It is not the Government as it
was framed by Franklin, Washington, and
Madison. Intelligent men, whoever they
are, see that these provisions change the
foundation of the compact by which the
States, when they were wholly sovereign,
entered into the Union. It is a new
great step of the Government out of its
sphere—a step into an abyss, of which
we do not seethe bottom. And yet some
of our own people avow their intention,
in seeming earnest-, to “ depart ” upon
this career. Nay, having resolved upon
it, by some process of permutation, they
have become the complainants, and they
give to those who will not join them the
soubriquet of Bourbons, and if they re
monstrate they are “fond of questions,"
and “disputation,” or they are “in
sane! ”
what is this departure?
It originated in a convention in Ohio,
It reads thus : “That waiving all difficul
ties as to the extraordinary means by whieh
they were brought, about we accept the
natural and legitimate results of the war,
so far as waged for its ostensible purpose
to maintain tbe Union and the constitu
tional rights and powers of the Federal
Government, including the then several
amendments of the Constitution- *ooor.« y
nijimtorl no -> settlement in part
of all the issues of the Avar, and acquiesce
in the same, as no longer issues before
the country.”
With all earnestness I ask you, disci
ples of Jefferson, do you really “accept”
and “acquiesce in” this onward stride to
wards consolidation ?—this commence
ment of the American Empire ? To ac
cept, in its weakest- sense, is to receive
with an assenting mind. To acquiesce, is
to rest satisfied. Now, to read it in this,
its true sense—“we,” the departers,
“receive with assenting minds, these seve
ral provisions, as part of the legitimate
results of the Avar, and we wdl rest satis
fied with the same, betog no longer issues
before the country.” You subscribe to
this, and you rest satisfied with these en
actments, and you mean to “build upon”
them, and to maintain them now, hence
forth and forever. If there is any mean
ing in language, you pledge yonrself to
all this. Six months ago, you believed
in the right and control of the States, in
all interests save those of a national char
acter. Then, you viewed these articles
with stem reprobation. When did the
change come ? When were you first sat
isfied with them ? And how? An d why?
No hope, no prospect, real or illusion,
should cause you to forswear yonr old
faith. It was an honest one. It was a
safe one. For myself, though it is possi
ble that some fatal crisis may compel me
to vote for a candidate on such a creed, I
should do so, just as I might take an
odious potion, to rid me of some evil
greater than itself.
But the departers’say we are now bound
by the rale of majorities, and that by this
rule, we have adopted these measures
ourselves, constructively. Let us see.
The departers “waive” the means by
which these articles were brought in. So
do not we. The means were the root of
the matter. The root corrupted the tree,
the upas which sprang from them, and
the tree, in turn, will bear evil fruit.
To go back a little. Congress first ap
pealed to the Legislatures of the States to
ratify the ~XTilth Amendment, abolishing
slavery. They ratified it. The Legisla
tures at the South ratified it, and they
were counted as States, for this purpose.
The very same constituencies then elected
Senators and Representatives* and they
went to Washington. But Congress then
did not want them, and shut their doors
upon them. Two-thirds of the residue of
this fragmentary Congress then proceeded
to propo se the XIVth Amendment, though
the Constitution required the vote, for
such a purpose, of two-thirds of both
Houses of Congress. The record shows,
that if the ten States had been present,
it could not have been done. They then
called on aU the States to ratify it. At
the first action of the States, it was re
jected, more than a third of the States
voting against it. Upon this result, Con
gress, in violation of all principle, insti
tuted a second process, and by refusing
to allow two States to retract their first
vote, by disfranchisements, and fraud in
other States, and by reforming some
States by military rule, throttling and
compelling them, they obtained a bare
majority, Secretary Seward himself hav
ing confidence to give only a conditional
certificate.
And this is termed the obligation of
the Republican rale of majorities! The
confessed production of fraud and wrong
by a process “outside of the Constitu
tion,” it cannot be said, except in a
technical sense, that we have adopted
this provision. Still it is not to be de
nied that we are bound to obey it as long
as it remains on tbe statute book.*
The ratification of the XVth Amend
ment, which made the suffrage of ne
groes in the States compulsory, was
brought about by means not less irregu-/
lar aud odious. But it is needless to
narrate them.. Crimine abuno desce omne.-.
The one history above given may suf
fice.
I repeat, a loyal obedience to law is
not the point: it is, whether as a party,
led by a hope of success—and a baseless
reason for hope it is—we shall announce
our support of enactments which we so
lately denonneed with our lips, and
which, in our hearts and our judgments,
we still utterly condemn. No—it will
not advance onr cause. Here, as in
everything, honesty is the true policy.
Look at recent events. They speak
loudly on the question. They illustrate
the motto, “the bolder and higher we
lift onr flag, the surer we are of success.”
Senex.
Baltimore, October, 1S71.
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Cool Down, and Talk Calmly.
The Milledgeville Union, of the 18th
inst., charges us Avith having “tried to
make out that the people of Atlanta had
not violated their contract,” and then
says that “instead of famishing public
buildings to the State for ten years free
of expense,” we “agreed to pay a small
amount towards purchasing Kimball and
Bullock’s Opera House,” &c.
It was wrong in the editor of the
Union to say this. He knew that the
city of Atlanta had, in good faith, enter
ed into a ten year contract, to pay over
§10,000 per annum, in compliance with
her obligation to furnish public build
ings for the State for that length of time,
and by that contract had, in many re
spects, furnished the State Government
and the Legislature with better accom
modations than they ever before had.
He also knew that the city of Atlanta
afterwards, in good faith, paid §135,000 at
once, in lieu of the §10,000 a year for
ten years in which there was, at least, a
loss of interest. He also ought to know
that the people of Atlanta had nothing to do
with proposing and engineering through
the purchase of the Opera House for the
use of the State, either as individuals or
in their corporate capacity. A few per
sons may have had a hand in that specu
lation, though we doubt if any of our cit
izens outside of the OAvners of tha':
building, profited one cent by the opera
tion; and the idea that our people had
anything to do with it, is preposterous.
As we stated before, we have no doubt
the Opera House would have been pur
chased by the Legislature, if Atlanta
had refused to pay any part of the pur
chase money, or had even opposed it.
It was a measure which, on its merits,
did not receive the approbation of our citi
zens generally; but the people of Atlanta
had no voice or influence in the matter,
mrero not consulted. NoLlame can be
attached to them. They did not orig
inate the trade. The proposition Avas
made to Atlanta to pay the §135,000 at
once instead of the §10,000 a year, and
was accepted. That is all.
The editor speaks of the Opera House
having been sold to the State for nearly
§400,000, when it had recently been pur
chased at auction for about §30,000.
As before stated, the people of At
lanta had nothing to do with getting up
or proposing the trade; but, perhaps, it
would have been as well, had the editor
stated that when the property was sold at
auction for §30,000, it was not even a half
finished wall. The half of its cost had
not then been put upon it.
Then he says, “ all the money (mean
ing the §400,000) went into the hands of
the people of Atlanta.”
Such a reckless statement shows that
the editor is in a passion, and is not care
ful about tbe words be uses.
Whether it was right for the Legisla
ture to purchase the James House and
the Opera House cr not, we do not pre
tend to say, but the people of Atlanta are
not to blame for it. The Legislature
made the purchase—the members from
Baldwin, no doubt, voting for both these
measures. The James House is not a
“sham building”—neither is the Opera
House building. If the editor don’t
know about this matter, be ought to in
form himself before making such
statement.
Then he winds up by assertiug that
“every intelligent man in the State i
knoAvs these are the real facts.” This
assertion has not even the merit of “spec
ial pleading.”
We hereto annex the article in full,
that onr readers may judgo of its merits
and the fairness of our comments:
James House for another hundred thou-
and dollars making the State pay about
half a milhon to the citizens of Atlanta
for two sham buildings. Every intelH
gent man in tbe State knows these urn
the real facts in the case, and no special
pleadings of The Sun can alter them —
The people of Georgia as yet have had no
voice in the matter, but they intend to
be heard before the matter is settled °
Treasurer Angier Sued.
At the instance of Major Williams
Governor Bullock’s warrant clerk, and
by Bullock’s prompting, Dr. Angier has
been cited to appear before Judge Hop
kins, on Saturday, the 28th inst., to an
swer for his conduct in refusing to pay
Executive Avarrants, drawn while it was
known that the Governor was beyond
the limits of the State.
We have heretofore published the law
and the facts in this case. The Gov
ernor cannot lawfully draw a warrant on
the Treasurer, while he is outside the
State; neither can he delegate his au
thority to draw such a warrant to another
person. The law requires him to do so,
and to be at the seat of government,
Avlien he does.
The Treasurer did right in refusing
to pay Avarrants—known by him not to
be drawn in accordance with the require
ments of law. It was a duty he owed
not only to the people of the State of
Georgia, hut to himself and his bonds
men, for their security; for when he
pays out money illegally, he lays himself
and his securities liable.
SUN-STROKES.
The Nashville Borner has some
thing to say about the “agitation of
sound principles.” The Banner's prin
ciples are all sound—and nothing more.
JOSS'” The New Orleans Picayune is
striA’ing to show its readers “the bad ef
fects of lotteries.” The Picayune, prob
ably, has never succeeded in purchasing
any but blank tickets.
JB@y”Tke Nashville Union and American
thinks it a matter of surprise that Grant,
though a native of Hlinois, and reputed
to be very wealthy, has not given a dol
lar in aid of the Chicago sufferers. Bnt
that paper forgets that Grant stands at
the head of the list of prominent Ameri
can paupers, and is thankful for all pres
ents tendered him, having nothing to
give away. All that he has comes from I
the noble charity of office seekers. Of I
course the illustrious pauper could not I
be expected to aid others.
fJQyThe Mobile Tribune says: “Isn’t
it rather crowding the language to build
a Masonic hall with stores for rent on tlie
ground floor, and call it a ‘temple ?’ ”
That may be true, bnt it is not new fora
building so used to be so called. Per
haps the Register man has not read of
how one Avent into a “Temple,” many
years ago, and drove out them who were
“ money-changers,” and Avho sold doves.
The book and the incident are very old,
aud may have been overlooked by the
Register in its rummages among the his
toric ages of tho world.
The Whole Story in a\ilut Shell.
The Atlanta Sun last week tried to
make out that the people of Atlanta had
not violated their contract made with the
Georgia Convention. That instead of
furnishing the public buildings to the
State for ten years, free of expense, they
agreed to pay a small amount towards
purchasing Kimball and Bullock’s Opera
House. That is, Bullock, having, by the
assistance of Fatty Harris and Gen.
Meade, remodeled the Legislature by
turning ont honest men, whom the peo
ple elected, and putting in thieves of his
OAvn selection, got control of what was
called the Legislature. Bullock’s clique
in the Legislature bargained with Bol
lock’s ring in Atlanta to pay Bullock and
Kimball nearly four hundred thousand
dollars for the old Opera House, which
had been sold at auction for about thirty
thousand dollars. By this sharp opera
tion tbe State avos swindled out of nearly,
or quite, four hundred thousand dollars;
and all tbs money went into the hands of
the people of Atlanta—and besides this,
this same combination purchased the
BSL. Akerman, thebeloved disciple of
Radicalism, who passed through Atlanta
a few days ago, ostensibly en route for
Washington, Avent, it seems, no farther
than into South Carolina, where he has
since been awaiting the imperial edict,
giving him the liberty to fasten his eager
claws upon the throats of the people. A
Washington special,to the Savannah Nm
of the 18th has the following :
This crowning act of persecution toward
the people of South Carolina, avos decided
upon at the last meeting of the Cabinent,
and the proclamation was written and
signed by Grant, previous to his depart
ure for the North. Akerman Avas notifi
ed to proceed to South Carolina, and
have mattei-s organized for the acts of
persecution to be committed under the
authority of this proclamation, and he
has been in constant correspondence
with the officials here since his arrival in
South Carolina. This proclamation was
not issued until near ten o’clock to-night,
and then was rushed out hastily from the
Department of State, after the receipt of
a telegraphic report from Akerman, ad
vising that it be issued at once.
It appears from this that the highest
law officer of the Government, has been
delegated to the petty work of persecu
ting the people of South Carolina. There
is no doubt of his readiness to do
the work. Though it is entirely incom
patible Avith his high official position, it
is in strict consonance with his feline
nature. He has been watching and wait
ing and hoping for such an opportunity
to occur. He has no sympathy Avith the
people of the South. He has no feeling
in common with them, and he would de
light in seeing them humbled and pro#
trate at the feet of a system of vindic
tive persecution. Perhaps, at no time
in his life did he ever enter into any
thing with more relish than he will begin
these persecutions. South Carolina has
long been esteemed as a symbol of that
Southern chivalry, of which his New
Eugland birth and education gave him
no earthly perception. This chivalry he
will delight in persecuting—believing
that he can humble it—and all the ener
gies of his crabbed nature will be di
rected to that end. The mystery of his
selection as a Cabinet officer is rapidly
being explained. This is the Avork unto
which he was ordained by his master,
Grant, and he was selected because of
his bitterness toward the Southern peo
ple, aud because, if there was a las*
feather to break the camel’s back, hi
would not hesitate to lay it on.
