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(UO ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOB THE WEEg ENDING SEPTEMBER 4, 1872.
THE ATLANTA SUN
To Henry W. Grady, Esq., Editor Rome
Commercial:
Dear Sib—In your paper of the 22d
instant I find the following:
ToHenly Smith—Sir: I' is now clearly demon-
stratsd that you cannot muster enough Straight
Demociats to carry the State. If you persist in y our
present course tho only possible result will be to
giro the State to Grant. Under this ruling will you
persist? We want to know; and the people want to
know. We are getting tired of this infernal foolish
ness.
In reply to this I wotiId ■very courte
ously say that I have not assumed the
arrogant position of trying to “muster”
the “Straight Democrats” of Georgia for
any purpose. They are not the men to
be mustered, and cannot be made to fall
into any line that may be assigned them
at the beck and call of any man. They
are of that class of freemen who “know
their rights, and knowing dare maintain
them,” against any dictation or muster
ing oitemyte o* me oryou or any one else.
This is one of the reasons why I like
them, and go with them. They ore
abundantly aole to choose their own
leaders; and I never have, and ■ never
shall, take upon myself the ridiculous
importance of assuming to be the leader
of such men. They will attend to this
basin ess themselves at the proper time
and in the proper way.
I shall orly persist in doing my duty,
and shall’go with them as long as they
remain “straight” in their course, in
maintaining the true Jeffersonian prin
ciples of the Democratic Party.
As to the result of this course, so far
as relates to the election of either Gree
ley or .Grant, I think it is not of so much
importance as the preservation of the
principles on which the Government was
founded, and on which alone the liber
ties, of the people, can be secured and
perpetuated. Tliiv as I understand it,
is the great object of the ‘‘Straights.”
With me, (and I believe it tobe so with
them), it is a matter of infinitely more
importance how the Government is to
be administered than by whom. Under
the control of either Greeley or Grant,
according to their platforms, all know
that it will be administered on Badical
principles; and you will hardly venture
to say that Mr. Greeley’s Badical record
is not worse than that of Gen. Grant.
But if Gen. Grant should be re-elected,
you must recollect that it will not be the
result of my course, or of the course of
The Sun or of the “Straights.” It will be
the result of the action of the leaders of
the party at Baltimore and Atlanta, who
attempted to “muster” the Democratic
masses under a Badical Banner. If
this was “infernal foolishness” it cannot
be laid to my door, neither to the door
of The Sun, nor to the movement of the
“Straights;” and you, as well as others,
on the line you are now pursuing, ought
to have become “tired” of it long ago.
If you persist m this course, I doubt not
you will, in the end, become far more
“tired” of it than you now are.
Bespectfully, yours,
J. Henly Smith,
Thk Wicst Virginia Election.—The telegraph ia
now annomiciug the r**ult ui the election in West
Virginia on 1 hur«l>y. To enable our readers to nu
ll* rMand the return*, we give a few facta. The
thing i» mix,d. Both candidate* are Democrats.
Camden i* the Democratic nominee. Jacob, the
prraent Governor* nought nomination, failed tc get
it. bolted,an* lias run independent, supported oy
the Ka'ilcal* There is eery little Greeley in the
content. The principal iaaue ia the ratification of
the new Constitution. Catnden is for ratification;
Jacob and the Badical* againat. If the Constitution
is rejected, the election will go for nothing and
will have tobe doDe over again. The Radicals want
tnia to have another chance. The whole vote in
1*.8 wae 49.163; in 187(1, 65.607; 1871, 67,688. The
Mate wae Republican to witnin two years by over
4.000 msjoiity. Attbe last two elections it has been
Democratic by under 8,0i*0 majority. _
The Democrats are tplit. The Radicals help the
m illions in the value of property, as shown by the
sworn return of tax-payers, placing property at their
own valuation—during the nearly four years of Re
publican control. There waa no increase in the rate
ot taxation during my term.
This la what Georgia “ has to show" for “ Radi
cal rule," and the Ku-Klux propose to "reform” it
Oy burning the school-houses, keeping the railroads
and repudiating the bends.
The State’s railroad has been in operation from
Atlanta to Chattanooga about twenty years under
Democratic control. The official records show that
during that time it cost the State $2,165,273 more
than the earnings to run the road. This road, both
during its construction and since itB completion,
has been used a* political patronage by every Ad
ministration. The Republicans, however, passed a
law authorizing the lease of the road. It was adver
tised for three months, and leased to the highest
responsible bidder—a company composed of Geor
gia railroad officials and their associates, who gave a
assistance, and pensions for Confederate soldiers,"
at the expense of the State, and a bill has passed one
house “to exempt the property of maimed Confed
erate soldiers from taxation I ”
T%e Republicans of Georgia made no such record
as this. The malicious effort* of Gen. Toombs and
his fellies will never be able to oonceal the benefits
which our party baa conferred oh the State and the
nation. Tna good results of Republican adminis
tration in Georgia cannot be . wiped out or swept
away. Those results may be **repudiated‘' but can
not be made "void." They will continue to Btand
as monuments of that party’s “wisdom, modi rai ion
and justice." Its members reproached, reTiled,
maligned and murdered, the party pursued its way
—“with malace toward none, with charity for all”—
doing good for the whole people. Ita records and
its acta are before the country, none need be
ashamed, all should be proud of them.
Rufus B. Bullock.
* M * v I , ,, _ Silm nUlUKU UUlWein euu utcu eoouLiaioci ©
bolter, ot course; and the Liber*! Republicans tne o d bond for tight m im ong D f dollars to pay the
regular nominee. With a united Democracy, uie btlkto twenty-five thousand dollars in cash rental on
Tko Gap Thrown Down anti the Flock
Started to Come hack Through it
Tlie Madison Bulletin, which has here
tofore had the names of Greeley and
Brown flying at its mast nead, in its last
issue has the following:
TTE TRUE DEMOCARTIO 0ICKET.
For President—Charels O’CoxoB.of New York.
For Vlco'Presida-t—J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky.
OUR STANDARD BEARERS.
Wo to-day haul down the names of Greeley and
Brown, ami raiso in their stead, as our standard
bearers in the Presidential contest,tho true, the tried
and unflinching patriots and States i.en, Charles
O’Conor, of Now York, and J. Proctor Knott, of
Kentucky.
"A man convinced against his will,
Is ot the same opinion still."
And so it is with us in reference to the approach
ing Presidential election. Feeling that aU efforts to
bring out a true Jeffersonian Democrat at the Louis
ville Convention, to assemble on tho 3d proximo
would be a failure, we determined a few weeks since
to accept the least of two evils, and support a man
we heartily detested. We swallowed the nauseous
dose at one gulp, and hoped that that would have
been the last of it, and that the poison would have
settled upon our political stomach and disturb us no
more. J ■
But we were cruelly deceived. Tho bitter pill
kept rising up ia our throat higher and still higher
at each successive heave, and it required all our
loiced Imagination of duty to retain it within proper
limits. But, thank God, the necessity has passe,!,
and without the slightest effort we have rid ourself
of the horrid poison that was circulating through
out our body politic, and wo feel once more like a
pure, a good, true Southern Democrat, such as we
have hitherto felt proud to be.
And would you know from whither comes this
glorious relief? We will tell you, and then beseech
you to cleanse your own systems of the cofruption
inoculcuted therein by tho influence of Greeloj isiu
and Liberal Republicanism. The Jeffersonian Dem
ocrats met in Atlanta on theffOth, and notwithstand
ing the fact that a call for a Convention was scarce
ly known throughout the State, owing to the short
ness of its publication, a large and influential body
of gentlemen assembled; and in a most harmonious
action, adopted a True Democratic Platform, founded
on pure old Jeffersouiau principles.
* * * * * * * '
The prospects through the entire North and West
^Kjindit only remains for
orb bright and encouraging, |
the true men of the South to desert' the sinking
raft upon which they have unfortunately taken pas
sage, and ere it be too late, join the grand army of
freemen that are marching on to victory.
Come over brethren and let us as Democrats, un
tainted andun-iepublicanized. win agloriousDomo-
cratic victory on a good and sound Democratic plat
form. We can do it, if yeonly will. The Republican
party is so divided now, that the three millions of
Democratic votes will carry our candidate into the
White House, and Insure ns" four years of good, old
fashioned Constitutional Government, a return to
onr rights, and a aew era ofprosperiiy and happiness.
Brethren, is it not worth fighting fbr!
Tlie Jeffersonian Democracy ofSew
Jersey.
Hon. Samuel J. Bayard has issued the
following:
The New Jersey straight-out Demo
crats have issued the following call to
their brethren:
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF NEW JERSEY.
Those Democrats who are unwilling to
become Greeley Republicans, or to march
the inns' 6 ^ J f nners e-long enemy, to
. Charles sumner’s orders,
fire touted to attend a mass meeting of
the Democracy of New Jersey, at Tren-
ton, on the iweuty-fourth instant, to ap-
point u^lcgcLtcs to tlie Louisville Conven-
tioD, on the third of Septemter, and to
choose electors tq vote for theDemo-
crotic candidates for President and Vice-
President, to fee nominated by that Con-
* vention.
luXe£honhf nien > Al/ 9 usl 20//?, 1S72.
tha first Wednt. S.VMUEL J. BAYARD,
day * ^ for New Jersey of National Ex-
*vttteo of the Trne Demo-
victory would be e»*y over the Radicals
The contest will be close.—Atlanta QtnslUulion,
'25th August, 1872.
If the Democracy of West Virginia, or
in Georgia, or anywhere else, is not
united, who caused the split tbe
‘Straight-outs” or the “new Depar-
turintn” alias the Greeleyites ?
Did not these new Departnrists know
that there were hundreds of thousands
of Democrats in the United States who
wonld never bow tbe knee to the Bual of
Badicalism ? Was not a split more
inevitable .when the Gkeeleyites "depart
ed" from tbe true faith ?
Things are very badly “ mixed!' in
West Virginia just now, as everywhere
else. The element in the “mixture”
which is fatal to tho Democracy is the
leaven of Greeley Badicalism. Greeley
has "brought grief to the Democracy
wherever this “mixture” has been tried,
and will bring death to it wherever it is
not abandoned. Very little Greeleyism
in the contest in West Virginia, indeed !
Jacob was a Straight-out Democrat, and
would have nothing to do with the Gree
ley “mixture.”
The Greeleyites who believed in the
ground-swell” of Greeleyism nominated
Camden over him. Greeleyism was one
of the leading issues in the canyass,
But the /.‘ground-swell” has proven a
failure—that is the up-shot of the matter
in West Virginia—and it will prove a
failure in every thing except the death of
the Democracy, wherever they persist in
adhering to fcbip “mixture,” or continue
to 8 wallow -thiS'poisonously “bitter pilL
To-morrow the Constitution may hear
from us on other points. A. H. S.
- ■ . feri •
Bullock Speaks.
According to our prediction a few days
ago, we have heard from Bullock. He is
out in a two-and-a-half column article in
the New York Times-—copieB of which he
has scattered far and wide in Georgia.
He and Kimball understand each other,
and are acting in concert, ho doubt. He
is making preparation to come back to
Georgia.
From whom will the next piping note
ih the general response proceed? Will it
be from Blodgett? Will Hotchkiss or
Evans or some other of the lesser Fry
speak next? or will Kimball come ont
with another affidavit showing bow much
the State of Georgia is indebted to him,
and demand paymentOr will Clews—
the immaculate,-innocent Clews—step
forth in the arena, and with briny tears
and bloody sweat,, plead for his cause,
(the payment of those thieving bonds he
holds, and that beautiful little account
also,) and for his pal? (the ex-Govemor
who flea from justice.)
W© have not the programme before us,
and therefore do not know what scene in
the panorama will next appear: but it is
moving along, and will appear in due
time. ' -i ■
But to Bullock’s article.
It is not specially devoted to Georgia
matters. It is an electioneering docu
ment. It is a vile, slanderous tirade
against the South, and most insultingly
offensive to every good man in the
Southern States, and panders to the ex-
tremest hate of the extremest, most ig
norant, illiberal and rabid of the Badi-
cals of the Northern States. It is such
a document as might be expected from a
man in speaking of a people whom he
had plundered, and from whose face he
has fled.
Its great length and the irrelevancy of
portions of it to any issues or questions
now before the people of Georgia, pre
vent us from publishing it entire. We
present the following. In reference to
Georgia, he says it is charged:
That before tbe war the State bad little or no debt,
and that the net earnings of the State Railroad paid
all, or nearly, of the State’s expenses. Under “Rad
ical'’ control all wealthy and worthy white citizens
have been disfranchised. The debt has been in
curred to various amounts, ranging between forty
and fifty millions, without record or account ofthe
bonds, and nothing to show for their proceeds, all
of which were stolen, and the State Railroad given
away to Cameron and Delano, in trust for Grant.
In response to this he says:
Modesty forbids that I Bhould apply to the onss
who repeat these falsehoods the forcible lamguage of
a distinguished’ gentleman and say: “You lie, you
villain." I refrain from this strong language.
No doubt he felt better after letting off
that. A man' who' has fled from Justice,
and who is universally regarded and de
nounced as a public plunderer on the
grandest scale that ever was attempted
in the United States, can and will be al
lowed £to indulge in any expressions
which he may deem appropriate to his
“ modes tv.”*
tha last day of every month, for twenty years, and
to return the road to the State in good order. Under
Democratic rule : during the past twenty years, run
ning the road took over two million out of the Trea
sury, while under Republican rule it has provided
to pay six millions of dollars into tbe Treasury.
This will explain how- "Cameron and Delante stole
the read for Grant;” but as it was all accomplished
by “carpet-baggers,” “Radicals” and “niggers,"
it must be “reformed” by beiug declared “void.”
It will be ooserved that tbe only de
fense be has to offer for the very bad
management of the State Boad while
under his control—the only credit he
takes to himself and his “Bepublican
administration,” is, that he has provided
for it to pay into the Treasury six mil
lions of dollars during the next twenty
years. He don’t rise to explain a word
about the naif million of dollars (or nearly
so) which has been paid out of the
State Treasury since he ran away, to
meet the outstanding indebtedness of
the road contracted by him and Blodg
ett; not a word about the Tennessee Gar
Company frauds, nor the bogus claims
manufactured by his associates in the
grand plundering of our people, upon
which they drew-money, from the State
Hoad and from the State Treasury. He
says not a word of the grand swindling
scheme to get the Legislature to appro
priate a.half million of dollars to repair
the road, nor what part he took ih that
scheme.
If he could provide for otb era to run the
road and-pay the State $25,000 a mouth
for it, why could not he have done as
well with it while he and FosterBlodgett
were at its head ? Hiilbert paid $25,000
per month. He was ambitious—was
managing it for his own glory—in his
own interest—making it serve his own
purposes—not trying to gain any repu
tation for Bullock; hence he was turned
out of place and Foster Blodgett in
stalled.
1
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The following will give the readers of
The Sun a fair idea of the general scope
and worth of the-whole letter:
The Republican State Administration was inaugu
rated in Georgia-July 4, 1868. At that data the
debt was i 6,266,636. The increase ot that debt dur
ing my Administration—namely, four years—was
$4,800,000, of which $3,000,000 was for State ex
penses, payment of ante-war bonds, interest, etc.,
and $1,800,000 for railroad construction, so th*t in
stead of forty to fifty millions of increase in the
State debt by Republican authority, there was less
than five millions. The contingent liability incurred
during that period by State indorsement of railroad
bonds on roads constructed within the State was
$6,683,400.
Georgia has “to show for It” nearly one million
of her ante-war debt and interest, redeemed and
canceled; expenses of Constitutioaal Convention,
elections, legislation, free schools, interest on the
public debt, new Capital and public building*, new
Executive Mansion, made necessary by tbe removal
of the capital from HiUedgeville to Atlanta; addi
tions and enlargement of asylums, etc., support of
the public institutions, over sit hundred miles of
railroad that has been constructed and put in opera
tion within the State; and an increase of over fifty
No; he and Blodgett could have made
the road pay a handsome income to the
State, if they had desired to d6 so. They
had other use for ‘ the money.
He makes some trace of the good
things effected by Badical rule in Geor
gia, up to the date of his “ resignation,
and adds:
Docember, 1870, an election was held for mem
bers of the State Legislature. In the Fifth Congres
sional District—the most populous in the State-
General Toombs and his Ku-Klux disregarded and
defied the Election law, and thus unlawtully re
turned a large number of the Klan as members of
the Legislature, and gave that element complete
control. JuBt prior to the assembling and organiza
tion of this Legislature, Oct. 30, 1871, and for reasons
then given in a letter to the public, I resigned the
Execcutive office. This act of mine made Judge
Conley, the Republican President of the Sspate, my
suacessor, and his constitutional term as Governor
■would not expire until. January, 1873. Immediately
after the organization of General Toombs* Legisla
ture, however, an election for Governor was uncon-
stitutionlly ordered by them. At this election tbe Re
publicans took no part, and not over thirty-five thou
sand out of the two hundred and twenty .five thou
sand votes in the State were polled,but the legislature
did not hesitate to oust Governor Conley. Then
commenced the “Inquisition." Committees were
appointed, composed exclusively of my enemies—all.
Democrats—to examine and report upon the bonds;
upon my official conduct; the lease of tbe State
Road, &c., Ac. These committees ore and have been
completely under tbe control of General Toombs,
and are used by him to promote the pecuniary in
terest ot himself, his clients and his friends, and to
persecute his personal and political enemies. They
LAWlEtt’S JUBILEE.
Social Reunion of the Judiciary Com
mittee/" SJiDfEH Afu
On Friday evening of last week, after
the adjournment of,the House of Bepre-
sentatives for the night, at the solicita
tion of Ool. E. F. Hoge, the able and
efficient Chairman, the members of the
Judiciary Committee of the House of
Bepresentatives, assembled in one of the
rooms of the Capitol Building to engage
in a social entertainment and reunion.
There were present Mr. L. N. Tram
mell, President of the Senate; Maj J, B.
Cumming, Speaker of the House; Mr.
W. D. Anderson, Speaker pro tern, of rite
House; Capt. Henry Jackson, Supreme
Court Beporter, and Messrs. A. O.
Bacon, Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., E. F. Hoge,
W. E. Simmons, Garnett McMillan, E
P. Edwards, Charles Hudson, Isaac Bus
sell, E. D. Graham, C. T. Goode, Clai
borne Snead, John C. Dell, J. H. Hunter
and Lang, members of the Judicia
ry Committee.
Mr. O. T. Goode, of Americus, the
“silver-tongued orator.” was called to
preside. Toasts being in order, Mr.
President Trammell was called for. and
responded in an eloquent tribute to Mr.
Speaker Cumming, who, after returning
thanks for the encomium, in turn pro
posed the healthof Mr. W. D. Ander
son, Speaker pro tem.
Mr. Anderson,in response,proposed the
health of Mr. Gumming, the courteous,
impartial and able Speaker of the House,
a man, in every sense, worthy of the
distinction he bore. u ;m
A toast to the co-ordinate part of the
government, the Judiciary, being pro
posed, Capt. Harry Jackson responded
in his usual elegant style, proposing the
health of Messrs.-Bacon, McMillan, An
derson and Simmons, <fcc.„ four of the
leading members of the House, and de
signated Mr. Bacon to respond.
|Mr. Bacon, ih respondihg to the toast,
alluded-to the pride he felt in having
been a member of this Legislature, to
which hafj been assigned the difficult
tasks incident to the anomalous as un
precedented condition of public affairs
during their term of office. Upon the
Judiciary Committee had especially de
volved the solution of grave questions of
State, and results had proved the wisdom
of their conclusions. - He spoke of the
ability and moral worth of the inaividu-
al members of the committee, and the
pain occasioned by the prospect of sep
arating from those so closely knit in the
bonds of friendship. In conclusion, he
offered the following toast: “To one
who, though young, has proved
himself ss wise as the oldest;
one distinguished for high patriotism
aijid stern devotion to his State; the earn
est debater and brilliant orator, Geo. F.
Pierce, Jr., of Hancock.
Mr. Pierce, who is really one of the
most impressive and beautiful speakers
in the Legislature, responded,’ and in
closing, offered the following toast:
, ‘-‘ At this last meeting of the Judicia
ry Committee, gentlemen, it is my pleas
ure to testify to tlie promptness punctu
ality, fidelity and great ability our Chair
man has always exhibited in the dis-
are specially vindiotiv* toward me, because of my charge of his onerous duties—wasting
successful efforts in securing the ^exclusion of tha no words of idle compliment—-but hav-
Ku-Klux, and tbe restoration of tbe colored m^m- . w : - ^ , .
bers whom they bad expelled from tbe former Leg- lO^ 8pOK6D SinCGrGly my opiDlOD Ox ilim
/ At*r • il 111 „x* tx *n x^
islatnre.'and for my defeat of their pet programme
by resigning in favor of Judge Conl>-y. Blinded
with malice and rage at their failure to find any evi
dence against me, they adopt the pitiable subter
fuge of assuming that I was a business partner with
others whom they acknowledge did wrong.
I uropose the health of the Hon. E. F.
Hoge.”
, Mr. Hogj-, with liis acknowledged
ability and promptness, responded in a
happy speech, which, by its piquant wit
and beautiful diction, elicited much ap
plause,
Mr. (W. E Simmons was next called
upon. After a pointed speech of some
minutes, in which he commended, the
Bocial and intellectual qualities of his
associates in the Committee, he proposed
the following toast to Mr. Goode:
“As on all similar occasions, we at first
felt somewhat Trammeled; but having
tasted some invigorating rashers of
Bacon, we are, at last, Gumming to the
matter before; and having heard and
tasted so many pungent and Piercing
things, among them a repast of ‘Simmon
drops,’ I propose that we reserve the
Goode things for the last!”
Mr. E. D. Graham (of Dade) being
called up, delivered some appropriate
remarks, and, in conclusion, proposed
the health of Mr. Lang (of Lincoln) in
the following words:
“The Hon.Mr. Lang,always prompt in
his attendance upon his duties, and
sound in his views upon the questions
presented, lie Has endeared himself to
the Committfee, and illustrates the good
old county he represents, and illumin
ates the dark corner of Lincoln.”
Mr. Lang .responded, to the toast in
some flattering remarks upon the ability
and fasten upon her discredit; that these 0 f the committee, and his pleasant asso-
oid bonds are hawked about Wall street relations with the same, and in conclud-
The reason why the people are spe
cially vindictive towards him is because
he suffered them, by his own conduct,
and no doubt his own contrivance, to Be
so unscrupulously plundered.
The air of injured innocence he puts
on is refreshing. Hear him:
,l If I had done wrong, 1 ought not tobe defended,
but as I have done no wrong, I need no defense,
other than the publication of the truth. Every dol
lar and every bond, during my administration, was
duly recorded and accounted for, and, notwithstand
ing tho venomous research of the Committee, no ev
idence of any dishonorable act on my part was
found, although upon a perjury prepared by Gen.
Toombs, a warrant for my arrest was secretly is
sued."
He alludes to the recommendation of
the Bond Committee, that the illegal
fraudulent bonds be repudiated, and says:
I desire to be distinctly understood that the peo
ple of Ceorgia are not repudiators. This action only
represents that minority of them who support Gen.
Toombs and his Klan.
Some Badical editor in Georgia has
charged that the present State authori
ties have refused to pay the bonds of the
State issued fifteen years before the war,
and that “thimble rigging” Bourbon
Democrats are trying to run the State
at 60 to 70, and that the Bourbons are
pocketing the difference between this
and the price they previously com
manded.
Bufus quotes these reckless and un
truthful statements with approval—after
all the facts which have been brought to
light about the wicked plundering ma
noeuvres of himself and Clews in the sale
of his unlawful aud fraudulent bonds.
And Bufus concludes tnusly:
Under Republican administration every State bona
that matured was promptly paid. The interest on
the public debt was liquidated when due, and the
general expenses of the State were paid ia cash on
demand. Under the present rule of Toombs, the
good old commonwealth is disgraced by a set of re
pudiators. They have ruined her credit. Bonds
falling due-this year are not paid. Nee bonds
offered for sale are not taken, and tbe Em
pire State of the South has been reduced
by them to the shameful ueoessity of bor
rowing the securities of a private corporation
within the State, to pawn for money enough
to pay the July interest on a portion of her bonded
debt! The State Treasurer reports no money in the
Treasury and his account largely |overdrawu, while
these repudiators, who claim to be statesmen and
financiers, ara offering to submit to a heavy shave
on the money due n ext year for Agricultural College
Land Scrip, in order to get the cash at once to help
pay their per dim and fees! On the same day that
bills are reported by the Committee tc repudiate
bonds and debts due to Northern Republican credi
tors, another bill is reported “to provide support.
ing proposed the health of Mr. Goode,
who was permitted to respond at the
close of the entertainment.
Mr. McMillin, of Habersham, being
called upon, responded in his impressive
and vigorons style in the following
words:
“Mr. Chairman: My friend, Maj. Bacon,
suggests that I will make a happier re
sponse by holding in iny hand a glass of
champagne. I have read that Cataline
was sharpened, and quickened in his plots
of treason by holding before his eyes the
silver eagle of Cains Marins. It had for
him a potent ohariri—a peouliar power.
A. glass of this sparkling wine might
spur my energies and spur my intellect
to this oocaeion ; bat tho wine, in troth,
would he a mockery now. Mine, at this
parting, ia real pain, not cham-pagne.
“Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen, I am
from the hill ooantry, as CoL Anderson
has said; a country, I will add, shut out
hitherto from the other sections of the
State. I am glad that I came to this as
sembly, for I have met and mingled here
with representative men, who have made
me better to know and more highly to
honor my native*; and her people.
Of this committee, I will say, I have
studied closely each ol it* members.—
There is not one whose character, in its
individuality, is not photographed on my
mind. In light of this, I can say noth
ing 1 otter than that I am proud of being
a member of this Judiciary Committee.
Here, too, some old friendships have
been* revived. I meet BacoD, whom I
knew so pleasantly at the University. He
was my senior in years and in class, but
zny attachment to him was as strong then
as my admiration for him is ardent now.
So it was and is with Anderson, of Cobb.
I meet Simmons, of Gwinnett, who was
with me in the battle days, and Geo. F.
Pierce, who fought in the same brigade,
in the cause that, even when recalled,
provokes our tears. I honor Pierce be-
ause of the splendid type of a man that
ce is, and love him because he is named
hor the Bisnop.
The deep hours of the night are here.
Time fails me to tell the tithe of what I
feel at this cutting of the cords that
have bound us together, or to pay even
a passing tribute, at parting, to the men
about me with whom Nature has dealt so
bountifully in the bestowment of all
gifts that exalt the mind, ennoble the
soul, adorn the character. My esteem
for each of you is equalled only by my
friendship—a ’riendship fervent, that
shall live and burn while my life shall
iast.
“Permit hie, in closing, to propose
the healtn of a gentleman who, when a
child, played with tlie children of my
lather’s home; who represents my na
tive county (Elbert), ait'd who, in the
House of Bepresentatives, is found a
strong tower in every right cause—the
Honorable Emory P. Edwards!”
Mr. Edwards, in answer to this toast
from the eloquent Mr. McMillan, re
sponded by saying that he had indnlged
the hope that he would be permitted to
return to his constituents without hav
ing made a speech, or consuming anjr of
the public time; and as this was a kind
oi love-feast he requested that nothing
be said about it. That having been
honored with a position on the Judicia
ry Committee—the most important of
the House—he had formed associations
th$t would be lasting as life, and that it
would be his pleasure and pride to recur
to this occasion and the associations
formed throughout all the changes and
vicissitudes of life; and that it wonld
ever be a green spot—an oasis in his ex
istence.
That the honorable gentleman who
had- spoke so favorably a:.d flatteringly
was a chip ont of the old block, that he
was one. ’who wore the ermine robe of
truth, and whose polar stur was his own
good name."*
Mr. Edwards then proposed a toast to
the. gentleman from Chatham, whose
motto was, “As goes Chatham, so goes
Mr. Bussell responded and said that
he appreciated the compliment paid him
by his, friend from Elbert. Mr. B. al
luded to the fact that he was the young
er member of the committee, and ten
dered his sincere thanks to the able
chairman and members of tbe committee
for the courtesy extended to him. In
conclusion Mr. Bussell proposed the
health oi Mr. Graham, as one of the
most efficient members of the committee.
The last toast of the evening was of
fered by Mr. Bacon: “To Col. E. F.
Hoge: , ^ ai&Afi I hi
“As in the Confederate army there was
no more gallant soldier, so here in the
lists of debate, no stronger arm has laid
a lance in rest.”
This tribute to the ability and intel
lectual prowess of Col. Hoge was well
deserved and loudly applauded. Amid
all the array of 176 Bepresentatives,
there is none his superior in discrimi
nating judgment, balance of mind, pen
etrating thought and powers of debate.
When once he has spoken in support of,
or in -opposition to, a measure, it is with
misgivings that any of his associates op
pose him.
The Goode things which, at Mr. Sim
mons’ suggestion, had been held in re
serve; and Mr. Goode, in his elegant
style, treated the Committee to tne fol
lowing intellectual repast, which, by
common consent, seems to have been
considered the dessert:
“Gentlemen: I thank you for the honor
of being called upon to respond to the
toast of the gentleman from Lincoln.—
One of the most pleasing episodes in a
somewhat checkered life is iny associa
tion with the members of this Commit
tee. It is, and will continue to be, a
matter of pride with me that I have been
a member of this Legislature, composed
as it is of so many gallant and gifted sons
of my native Georgia. But I especially
felicitate .myself upon the honor of being
a member of this Committee. It has
been my privilege to form intimate rela
tions of personal friendship with every
member of this Committee, and it is with
feelings of real sadness that I separate
from gentlemen I-esteem so much.
“My regret is increased by the reflection
that, as I do not propose to become a
candidate for re-election, this sunder
ing of relations so agreeable will be final
as to me. In spite of our arduous and
exhausting labors, this session nas been
to me, most grateful, as it has furnished
the opportunity of forming friendships
which will only cease with life itself.
“It is not my purpose to pass any com
pliments upon the committee, or the
Legislature. They have left their en
during impress upon the policy of the
State, and it is their high privilege to
return to their homes with the proud
consciousness of having done their duty,
borne themselves as became Georgians
in a critical and trying crisis of our his
tory. The orient beams of a glad and
glorious morning—succeeding a long
night of oppression and misrule—have
enlightened and cheered our delibera
tions, and inspire us with the gratifying
hope that this happy morning, glitter
ing with dew drops and vocal with songs
of rejoicing, will be followed by a long
day of splendor, of prosperity and of
renown!
“In conclusion, I beg to offer the fol
id wing sentiment: “The , State of Geor
gia, still and forever, the Empire State
of the South. May she continue' to're
volve among her sister States like Saturn
among the planets, encircled With a
luminous atmosphere of honor .an!
glory!”
Tne Committee then 'adfdiirced io
dream of the night’s pleasures and fhe
morrow’s labors.
The Executive LOiu:i::.ttC.
We are authorized to,sty that Judge
Beynolds is taking his time in
making the appointments of the
Executive Committee oi the “Straight-
out” Democracy of the State. The an
nouncement will probably not be mtr.ie
belore the action of the Louisville Con
ven tiou is known.
Granules and Greeley!^ ~
Editors Daily Sun: Since it has become,
probr,I,]e Hint Charles O'Couor, wgom’
other man heretofore unconnected with
pohties, will accept the nomination of
the Louisville convention, an entirelv
new aspect is given to the political out-
look. Both the Greeleyites and the
Granutes are, according to tbe New York
Herald,becoming annoyed at the strength
of the movement; hence we may expect
more severe attacks from both sides than
we have heretofore experienced.
The Greeley Badicals try to convey
the impression that the leaders of our
movement are for Grant, and the Grant
Badicals are exceedingly anxious for us
to become committed to their side an 1
some of them privately circulate the tilt
of the Greeleyites, hoping that by
doing they will widen the breach he
tween those who were good friends a
few months ago, and drive us over to
Grant. Now it ie not too much for us to
say that, in all these insinuations both
the Greeleyites and Grantites fail to nt
ter words of truth. - “*■
That is not at all strange, however for
from years ago up to the present time
tbe “head'of the Bepublican party” en
couraged falsifying by the example lie
set in bis paper, and although he is at
present leading but one of the Badical
wings, the result of his teachings are
made manifest by both sides,
Each wing of the Badical party, or the
two Badical parties, have been encour
aging the belief that the movement led
by Jeffersonian Democrats was very thin
and that owing to want of time, etc.|
nothing could be accomplished, in the
end making it necessa.-y for us to join
either one side or the other.
From those dreams of folly all Kadi-
cals have been awakened, and both sides
have became amazed at our strength.
They thought that we would have no
leaders—and that we must fail—but each
day brings with, it the news that leaders
will not be wanting. When old leaders
depart the people can and will make new
ones.
Never has history given to a people
such a golden opportunity to “resist
temptation" as this, and long before the
“chill November’s surly blasts” are here,
many of our gallant old leaders. South
as well as North, who have been led
astray by the tricks of wiry politicians,
will perceive their error, and abandon so
unworthy a cause as Horace Greeley.
Let us all be “up and doing. ” We must
organize to work, if we would win.
Our cause can give no fear to the tim
id, and is without reproach to the brave
and honest. Junius.
For the Atlanta Sun.]
“ Joe Brown.”
We say JoeBrown—for by that name the
public seem determine to know him. For
ourself we are opposed to calling men,
even public men, as we do stallions and
steam-boats. If most people agreed
with us, you would no longer see in
print Joe Brown, Ben Hill, Milt SmitL,
and such like. But this you may con
sider a slip of the pen. It was not what
we intended to say. We simply intended
to call attention to the following incident
which appeared in the Augusta, Constitu
tionalist :
While the vote was being taken in the House, a
gentleman said, “ Well, Governor, you have been
watching the matter pretty close, how wiU this vote
result?"
“ Well,” said the Governor, “ I think we’ll carry it
by about twenty majority.” And they did carry it,
not by twenty majority only, hut by more than
thrice twenty.
“ Well,” said a most intelligent gentleman sitting
near me in the gallery, when the vote was announced,
‘‘Joe Brown has been Governor ever since 1857, and
is likely to he Governor for the next twenty years.”
The perusal of the above caused us to
reflect upon the probable causes which
have given this man so much success,
and have so completely drawn to him
the public attention. Our conclusion is,
that his fame is owing entirely to two
causes. The first concerns the man him
self—toe second the conduct of others to
wards him.
As for himself, he is gifted with an un
commonly sound gand eminently practi
cal mind. These, as a result, makes his
administrative capacity, whether as a
Judge, Planter, Governor or Bailroad
President as good as ’tis possible for a
man's to be. He always thinks well be
fore he acts, and then is positive, de
cided and quick in whatever he does.
But, notwithstanding the possession
of these qualities, he would not have at
tained such success, had he not been so
much assisted by others.; This assistance
was and is derived from his enemies. No
man’s enemies perhaps have done him so
much good as Joe. Brown’s. How have
they done this ? Simply by ujuleraiing
him; and to properly estimate his capa
city they seem cletermined never to do,
and so long as they persist in this, they
will continue to give him the advantage.
i 'l here is now, politically, a practical
i point to these reflections, and that is, do
not “underrate” the nomination oi ,
Dawson A. "Walker 1 If Joe. Brown
supports him it will take proper caution
amt muck work to be sure of success on
our iTsiff. Vigilance and energy can do
no harm—they may be necessary.
Sente®*
’ —M—4r-
‘(Sealiael.”
The communication in to-day’s 6W
signed “Sentinel,” is from tbe pen of 8
highly respectable and intelligent gentle
man, who is not much mixed in politics;
but who is thoroughly devoted to tbe
best interests of the State and the conn-
try. '
We commend it specially to the uj*"
leyite friends of Governor Smith. Tlie
would also profit by studying the le^°,
taught by the fate of Camden, in ” es
Virginia. , 1
The sooner the “dead weight,” » B B '
the. “dead body,” of Greeleyism lS , r ‘ K,
moved from the Georgia Democracy,|
better ;—if the success and not the dea ■
of-the party is what is aimed at.
; re-* afcj
Bullock.
We leam that Bufus B. Bullock in n0 *
preparing, and will soon publish, a P alB |jj||
phlefc of considerable size, in which 8
will attempt a vindication o; kiffi se
his administration, his plundering rmS 5 *
his flight and all such. _
Pel-Imps some one Will read it-
might as. well 'save tlie expense, f° r ®
will be able to accomplish w’hat he *
at without it.
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