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FIfcPAY MORNING, A/AY 30, 1870.
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rufusU.
BhAl'li-f Hnabsence of five y <#*>
*ex-Governor s JJ. Bullock,
prince oftlid Gcorgiro carpet-bng
thieves, was brought back to At
lanta on the 18th inst., under a re
quirftiSl from *tli# Gove iflqr.'i' He
*
wadily gave Wfoid, prominent men
of both parties going pn itj
We tear tlmt bringing bin? into
Georgians a prisoner fto *tjial at
tins time, is peculiarly nilfrrHuiiativ
For fiT’e yoars be liiMch a fu
gitive from Ggpigiay
4>f Albion, Nqw place of
bis aboda being notorious ih ,this
State. Jmy time durii% tbe
live years, a requisition couldfl'avc
been made. Wq are tstiMaf "tiiat it
lias not done
was an “oti,year” in It
coulS bave
then. Had it been postponed un
til next year, all Ifazitnt'vwiulclbave
beert gvo.idgd. ' f* ,
But on
tbe eve qJ a vitally inj.portanJ*cfarn*
paigu. His presence will cement
tbe Republican parfyu&ore %nly
t^getbei'r—ftm Badicalßf^fedj ? 1 "it
the trial intogi party
lie an extensive jj|2pifal
influenco*Ub6th DcmocraSp and
Republicans vent on Ins koud with
out solicitation; aM #jjiiy,_ were
“cheek by, jowl” wit£i limd, lit the
halcyon/Tays of Radical thievery,
bave sepeflted of their ffhehre
tnrned to Democratic ernnka —all
these may be alienated •agaiiy by
bis appearance, and they nfhyjiold
the balance of ''power. Moreover,
he will probably escape punish
ment anyhow. Should tbe /State
fail tb convict him, tbe effect will
be very injurious. For these reas
ons, we would prefer to have his
trial when there is no political ex-
citement.
We do not attach blame to the
Executive. By his strong arm has
the hydra-headed monster of dis
honesty been laid low, and Georgia
will be forever grateful to him for
his labors in that direction. We
only doubt the judgment and pro
priety of bringing Bullock to Geor
gia at this time.
Troubles between the -whites and
blacks have broke out afresh
in Mississippi and Louisian
na. Several have been killed on
both sides.
AN OPEN LETTER TO HON. THOS
HARDEMAN.
Dear Colonel:
As Ben. E. Bussell, editor of the
Bainbridgc Democrat, has seen pro
per to afflict Gen. A. H. Colquitt with
an “Open Letter,” informing him
that the said Ben. E. Russell had
gotten himself into a newspaper dif
ficulty with the undersigned, editor
of the Buena Yista Argus, and pit
iously appeals to him to interpose his
influence, I have resolved to follow
suit and ask your intervention in my
behalf—although neither I nor Gen.
Colquitt are at all inconvenienced by
the buzzing of his knat-ship’s wings.
I wish to call your attention to a
lew misrepresentations contained in
that “open letter” to Gen. Colquitt,
though I cannot see for my life, whnt
personal interest either you or Gen.
Colquitt have in the individual diff'er-
King between A. M. C. Rus
n. E. Russell. The Dem
>re me a copy of Buena Vista Ur
ate of May 12, which claims to be
the paper of all in your support," Ac.
Neither 1 nor my paper make any
such boast, but I do claim that I am
an earnest and honest advocate of
my choice for Governor; and that I
will support as Honestly and zealous
ly the nominee of the Gubernatorial
Convention, whether it be yourself,
Gen. Colquitt, or any other equally
good ami etUciont man. ,
The-qauie letter says:
•‘Tli, editor, in hi onl for you, Ims Vault
<*mkd ( 4l , of truth. so fur tliut I oanno-
mill,*' Ac.
• Kovor did mortal lrmn miss the
tenth as tar afliis man does. Ik*
gnoses not to recognize me, not
of the question of veracity
us, but because I adminls
tefeoßp him his own physio, That’s
\kiai Irots mad about, and ho knows
itas well as liis readers dota What
fie the ’founds
of truth,” is a statement I maSkthnX
the citizens ot Decatur nreferruAOtm
quiUfor'Govcflor—not. tlmt tlrfr do
nlNd you in the highest esteem,
bifct; that the times being ripo fed
Cblquitt tlicy prefer him. IP ig,pass
ing straiigc that Decatur, where Col-*
•qultts n.qno is dearer than any other,
fluouW bc*lor yon ,* while air t lie sur
rounding counties arc a unit, not
against you, but for your rival. I
believe that you have a host of person
al friends In Decatur, as of las all
ovef Georgia*.* I have delighted ton
do you honor in the past and wi 1 re
mice to honor you in the future. I
have never said or written one sen
tence to your disparagement, nor of
any other„carididate flow before the
people. When the Macon Telegraph
&xMtsacnger annpunced you 115 its,
preference.*l stated emphatically that
you were Itnyrbcond choice, should
GeA. Colquitt mil td'r<-6eire£he nom
iiv4io>, I was sincere in it, and still
entcrtaittwAhe same kindly Jqellngs
towartf-fty.
My reasons for supporting Colquitt
in -{Reference to'yourseif, can be sim -
ply stated without casting aiiy un
worthy reflections upon you. He ip,
I iialicve, the choice of a large ma
jority wif o'r Democratic citizens; is
pro-eminently fitted to fill the posi
tion; the exigencies of the State and
party demand a man his
distinctive qualifications; his services
in behalf of Statoand country deserve
rewnfid and recognition at tic hand's
of the people;’aud you have been
honWedby them time, and again,
since the war, while ftfe has Dot- There,
fore, Lam for Colquitt, with my en
tire energy and influence, above all
others, until the concentrated wis
dom of the State, in convention as- v
sembled, shall select a Wandard
bearer from the iist of her noblest and
wisest sons.
But this 13 a digression. The De
mocrat man tells Gen. Colquitt that
I have by inference or insinuation
accused him of writing all sorts of
things against him. I did not intend
for my article to convey any such im
pression. I knew not what he had
said or might say, in his paper or out
of it against him—but that whatever
it was or might be the people of De
catur would not be influenced one
particle by it. That is what I meant
and nothing else.
I quote again from that precious
instrument, his “Open Letter:”
“Now, in all friendliness, I would advise you
to place a muzzle on all such mad dogs. * * *
Such articles never benefitted any man’s chances
of success, and if persisted in will surely injure
yours/'
A covert threat is conveyed in this
extract, which may be stated thus:
If Gen. Colquitt does not prevail up
on A. M. C. Russell to cease his at
tack upon Russell E. Benjamin’s sins,
(I have attacked no oneelse’s) some
body will fight against him. Who?
The offended party, of course. That
offended party can he none other
than Russell E. Benjamin himself.
The rest of the world don’t care a
bauble, how much I pitch into his
diaphragm. But Colquitt need have
no fears that our personal differences
will aflect his chances one iota. The
Democrat’s support would probably
injure him as much as its opposition.
Just heie, Colonel, I will assure
you that it matters not how much
your adherents war upon tne individ
ually, their trespasses will never be
laid at your door. I would not be
guilty of such an act of injustice.
Gen. Colquitt docs not direct my
course in regard to himself or any
other man. My support was freely
given by me and is undirected by
him. Ido not trade my influence for
“oats” or any other sort of bribery.
The Democrat man seems to think
that I charge him with being iguoi ant
ot the sentiments of the people of De
catur. Ido not. I merely charge
him with misrepresenting them.
Hereafter, none but candidates for
Governor will be called upon to ad
just the private differences of these
two branches of the Russell 1 ouse.
And instead of blowing one another’s
‘ daylights” out, when we can’t agree,
we’ll just drop some candidate for
Governor “An Open Letter” about
it, whether he is interested a “conti
nental” or not.
Colonel, we would be rejoiced to
have you visit our comity and favor
us with an address. You will not
find one enemy to you in Marion
county. On the contrary, a host of
friends will welcome you as one of the
noblest of Georgians.
Hoping, sir, that you will not per
ceive anything ludicrous or farcical
in the Democrat man’s “Open Letter
to Gen. A. H. Colquitt," or in mine
to you, permit me to subscribe my
self Your Friend and
Fellow Citizen,
A. M. C. Russell.
AN OPEN LETTER TO GEN. A. H.
* COLQUITT. #
From the Buinbrldge Democrat.]
Dear General :
As you art? not a subscriber t!c
Dumocuat and probably never wPo a
copy of it, I liAve thought proper, ou
account of certain misrepresenta
tions of my position in the Guberna
torial canvpPfs, to adopt this method
of mldresstng yon. J have had the
honor of standing in the same line of
battle with yourself on several fiflds,
when the blood of our brave was
freely given tor the honor of ourjov
cd South. Asa soldier, I have, nl
wavsjjju^^-ou; as a civilliun you
dtffTneveriiatl my unqualified respect
and esteem.
The premature opening of
bernalorial canvass has been the
moans of much unnecessary discus
sion, as to the relative merits of as
pirants'fpr the nomination, among
the press of the State, and ns there
has been a good deal of
.it a corresponding amount of
misrepresentation followed as a nat
ural cdflsequence. Excrdsirig“'the
light and prerogative of a freeman,
I "have seen fit to announce my pref
erence for a nominee to the position.
First I declared for Governor Smith,
and while / Might have been over
-zealous in 1110 advocacy qf his
claims, at tbe same' time I never
>wrote one disparaging won! against,
any other aspirant in the field; al
though some of the papers most,
strenuouely engaged support
have led you to *liifljfrothcrwise.
I have beforo’me, a copy of the
Buena Vista Argus, bearing date of
May 12, which claims to be tie pa
per of all in your support, anu I find
one or two statements contained m
an editorial therein to which I re
spAttally call your attention. ‘The
editor, in kis zeal for you, has tran
scended the limits ot truth so far that
I cannot recognize him, but in or
der that you may know him and cor
rect his mistaken lei’for in youp be
half, I propose, for my own gratifica
tion, to set myself aright before you.
In tbe course of the very uncalled
for arricie against me the edi
tor of the Argus says, referring to
you:
“We do. not believe that their ad
herence could be shaken by anything
that the Billingsgate editor otthee
a tors aid sheet has said or will say in
his disparagement.'’
[The italics arc mine].
Now, General, 1 have neveT*wKt
ten one word to your disparagement
—on the contrary, whenever i ex
pressed an opinion in regard to you,
been just th3 reverse. TfifShe
Democrat of March 23, I wrote an
editorial in reply to this same Argus
man in which the following sentence
occurred :
“Geueral Colqmtt will never cease
to be held in the highest estimation
by us. llis reerd is untarnished,
his character is spotless, ami his in
tegrity unquestioned
As far back as March 2, I wrote in
the Democrat :
“We can’t see how Colquitt’s Gu
bernatorial aspirations can be affect
ed by the failure of the Southern Life
Irisuiance Companv, nor do we be
lieve that anybody thinks so.”
In reply to a persona! attack, by
au anonymous wa ter, on the (kh of
April, I find in the article in the
Democrat, this only, in reference to
youivcif :
“We have no doubt Gen. Colquitt
has many strong friends m Decatur
county. To that we do not object.”
Now I respectfully submit does
this look as if I had ever said any
thing in your disparagement. I
think not, nor can any sentence ever
written in the Bainbridge Democrat
be tortured into the slightest possi
ble thing derogatory to your char
acter.
Upon declaring for Co l . Hardeman,
after a careful survey ut the situation,
believing him to be the choice of our
people, and possessing great admira
tion for his ability and talents, I wrote
as follows in the editorial announcing
his name :
“We shall advocate him zealously
but. fairly, and in which advocacy we
will be ea.eful to disparage the chances
of no other aspirant in the field.”
Now, General, I think I have made
it plain that your supporter in Buena
Vista has sadly misrepresented the
facts in the case, and that while I pre
fer Col. Hardeman to yourself, I, at the
same time, am anything but your ene
my.
Again, from the editorial in the Ar
gus before me I quote the following
outrageous language:
“When it (the Democrat) gays that
the Democracy of Decatur prefers
Hardeman or any other man to Col
quitt, it deliberately, wilfully, defiantly
lies.” (The italics are mine).
Now, in all friendliness, I wou'd ad
vise you to place a muzzle on all such
mad dogs. It has been years
since the Argus man lived in Bain
bridge, and it iooks as though I ought
to know something about a people I
have been in close connection with for
twenty years. Such articles never
benefitted any man’s chances of success,
and if persisted in will surely injure t
routs.
Now in all candor, General, I have been
long of the opinion that the unmethodi
cal advocacy of the Arhus man would in
jure yon, but lie seems 10 have lost
siaht of every idea, but the insane one
of, as he thinks, earning you on his
shoulders. IJo fully believes (lint l*c
holds your nomination within the palm
of his hand, and, hence already feels
the ‘‘oats” that ho experts when you
are “triumphantly e'er ted yet at the
same time I think he might have a lit
tle pity on a poor unfortunate who
does r.Ol happen to on such a higli-v
wav to glory, disikrctlon and profit.
Would he see von- 0 hero
during the upWass, and I assure yon
yon wonwmect with a hearty wel
come from ns all, for you havo a warm
place in each of our heartiu In con
clusion, let me say. thal w-hile Coft
Hardeman is my decided preference,* if
the people in their wisdom select you
for their standard 1 rearer, I will follow
you as I did in the “days that tried
men’s souls,” eitlfomto viciorv or ije-j
feat. Yours /fcsoertfirlly*
Bufl* *. ftcssti.ak*
SYNOPSIS OF DR. *LOVICK
PIERCE’S LETTER!
The hour for the rceeplion of fra
ternal messengers front the N Mctho ;
dist Episcopal Church South, lgtving
arrived, that most interesting cere
mony took plaqe. "With the cSCept
iotvof the upper tior v which ..was- well
fillcS, every part of aq.idemy was
crowded, many Standing during the
entire The** desk in
front of the presiding Bishop (Janes)
and all the secretaries and ofricfal re
porters ranged at the front .platform
were decorated with immense bo
qnets and wreathes of rare flowers.
The scene was a happy
of Christain amT 1 floral wcfco^M
Rev. Dr. Toss, President of the Ann?
dletown University, and Rev. J. P.
Newman, of Washington City, wag
formally introduced to Bishop Janes,
jnd the conference and the fraternal
messengers, Rev. Jas. A. Duncan,
I). D„ President of the Randolph
Macon College ot Yiigiiria, and Lod
don C. Garland, LL D., Chancellor
of Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tcnn. Tbe, messengcML on rising on
the platform and howiiN%their sain
tation to the Bishop and the Confer
ence, were cordially welcomed with
prolonged greeting. Bishop Janas,
on welcoming them, expressed in trie
most feeling manner the regret of
Bishops and Conference at the ab
sense of Rev. Dr, BoVick Pierce,
one of the fraternal messengers from
the Church South, who started on Ins,
way to this Conference, but was dc
iained by infirmity of age.
An address to the 15 shops and del
egates of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, ir. conference assembled,
written by Rev. Dr, Lovick Pierce,
was then read. After expressing the
j great plea ure lie experienced in his
I appointment as fraternal messenger,
Dr, Pierce.says : “Asa regular ap
pointee in this fraternal delegation,
I furnish an instance to the history
of American Methodism, such as I
think it likely was never befored
known, in a man being sent, abroad
in any diplomatic ministry in the
ninety-second year of Ins age and in
and in the seventy-second of Ida ef
fective ministry.” He then alludes
to his being sent as a lone fraternal
messenger from the first general con
ference South, after the division iu
1848, to arrange for and settle on a
basis of intercommunication, so that
there should be two annual confer
ences instead of one. He showed that
all the difference between us is the
rejection of that messenger by the
general conference in 1848. He al
ludes to the wintry night of twenty
one years that followed his rejection,
succeeded by tne star of hope that
appeared in. the voluntary visit of
Bishop Simpson and Dr. (now Bish
op) Harris to the meeting of our
Bishops in St. Louis in May, 1869.
The address then reviews the prog
ress of Methodism, generally, and
concludes : “And finally, let us, as
two companies of brothers, entrusted
with the lost precious patrimonial
estate, to enjoy as trustees and en
large and increase as guardians for
an indefinite posterity, see wnich of
us can so use our portion of this
Methodist capital as to make its per
centage of income the test of compar
ative fidelity, industry, devotion to
its polity and its principle of opera
tion, as its founders and lathers turn
ed it over to us. Let us do this as
brethren of ono heart and one mind
and one great aim and end, and the
future will show that our division in
to general conferences and jurisdic
tions was a benefaction instead of a
deprivation. We will watch each
other only with godly jealousy for a
faithful progation on 01m undivided
Methodism. This is as fair as it can
be; so it is my last will and testa
ment—turning over to my succes
sor mv estate in Methodism. Final
ly, brethren, farewell ; bo perfect, be
of good comfort, be of one mind, live
in peace, and the God of love and
peace shall bo with you.
“(Signed) " L. Fierce,” 1
NEW UIWEjttISEMENTS
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(Smtrimial UvjiiWwn nf'thr Atnitnl itales
|*e, ckit. for (fie patronage South,‘rmims %f *ratA|Tortath>n nn4 forms of
rickets inmri‘vjfiahJp>mutPrliilldahihia.Mhaf InnaensuraUly essel -nil other
pities in*point of *
Qirect Daily fe* ' -
Comfort&me Accommodations
' Variability of Transit
Economy of Expenditure.
To enable, to.beUldnv, die duiol'ined resources of theUUilway Lines
SouCH of Norfolk, Urgei her. wi.iji 1 Babirnore,Steam .Backet Cimpany
and the Old Doihinro-n Siei'iwWiij> ha eiwployed and ihr indirid
uaf tourist, the soiyal party of ten, twenty*or more, or the civic or military
organ’zation of 100 to 1100, can each bo cored for ia amanner that will satisfy
iheir desires. . . ,
l’ricc.nTsls, Time Caffls a l l needful information wifi be ia hands of our
Agents Uy*/|prii istli, . A . ' 'a* *
ft will tie to the Intent m every i.ndivMnal and each organization propose
ing to make ibis Afip to eoinilmiiirate with the unde signed.* *
A Centennial Exhibition Guide Book as authorized by the Commission will
lie given in the purchaser of each JeutennialTieket.
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Legal Blanks!
A T T XXI3
ARGUS MM OFFICE.
We bavo on hand and for sale at the Argus Office, a large number of Legal
Blanks, which we offer at One Dollar per Quire, Cash. They consist oi the fol
lowing named blanks:
Garnishment Affidavit and Bond.. Summons Garnish
ment Attachment. Sciero Facias. Bill of Indict
ment. Directions for taking Interrogatories
And Interrogatory Commissions. State
Warrants. Mortgage Fi, Fa. Execurions. At
tachment for Contempt. Magistrate’s Summons,
Fi Fa and Subpoena, Sup. Court Subpoena- Summons
before Grand Jury. Clerk’s Certificate to Juror.
“Waiver of Homestead” Notes- Cost
Executions. Land Deeds* De
clarations- Bond for Ap
ppearance. Address
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