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t THE BAINBRIDGE VOLUME I. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1872. The Weekly Democrat, PUBLISHED (VBRT THURSDAY MOUSING. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: One Copy one year - * * $3 00 One Copy six months - • 1 50 Reading Matter on ETory Page. Ac- Horacc Greeley’s Letter of ceptance.. New York, May 20, 1872. Gentlemen: I have chosen not to acknowledge yonr letter of the 3d inst. until I could learn how the work ot your convention was re ceived in all parts of our great coun try, and judge whether that work was approved and ratified by the mass of our fellow-citizens. Their response has, from day to day, through telegrams, letters, and the comments of journalists independent of official patronage'and indifferent to the smiles or frowns of power. The number and character of these unconstrained, unpurchased, unso licited utterances satisfy me that the movement which found expression fli Cincinnati has received the stauvp ot public approval, and been hailed by a majority ol our countrymen as the harbinger of a better day for the re public. I do not misinterpret this approval as especially complimentary to my self, nor even to the. chivalrous and justly esteemed gentleman with whose name I thank your convention lor associating with mine. I receive and welcome it as a spontaneous and deserved tribute to that admira ble platform of principles, wherein your convention so tersely, so lucid ly, so forcibly set forth the convic tions which impelled and the pur- jwses which guided its course—a platform which, casting behind it the wrack and rubbish of worn out contentions and bygone feuds, em- Ixtdies in fit and few words the needs aqd aspirations of to-day. Though thousands stand ready to condemn your every act, hardly a syllable of cntisciaui rr cavil has lieeu aimed at your platform, of which the Substance may be fully epitomised as follows: I. All the political rights and franchisee which have Ixjen acquired through our late bloody convulsions must and shall be guaranteed, main tained, enjoyed, hespected every- more, II. All the political rights and franchises which have been lost through that convulsion should and must be promptly re-established, so that there shall be hencoforth no disfranchised caste within the limits of our Union, whose long-enstranged people shall reunite and fraternize ujkju the broad basis of universal amnesty with impartial suffrage. III. That, subject to our solemn constitutional obligation to maintain equal rights of all citizens, our poli cy should aim at local sell-govern ment, and not at centralization; that the civil authority should be su- preme over the military; that the writ ot-habeas corpus should be jealously upheld as the safeguard of personal freedom; that the individ ual citizen shohld enjoy the largest liberty consistent with the public order; ami that there shall be no Federal subversion of the internal polity of the several States and mu nicipalities, bnt that each shall be left free to enforce the rights and promote the well-b#ng of its inhabi tants by such means as the judgment of its own people shall prescribe. IV. There shall be a real and not merely a simulated reform in the civil service of the republic; to which end it is indispensable that the chief dispenser of its vast official patronage shall be shielded from the main temptation to use his power selfishly by a rule inexorably for bidding and precluding his re-elec tion. V. That the raising of revenue, whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized and treated as the people’s immediate business, to be shaped and directed by them through their representatives in Congress, whose action thereon the President must neither overrule hy his veto, attempt to dictate, nor presume to punish, by bestowing office only on those who agree with him, or with drawing it from those who do not. IV. That the public lands must be sacredly reserved for occupation ^.acquisition by cultivators, and Dot recklessly squandered on the projectors of railroads for which our people have no present need, and the premature construction of which is annually plunging us into deeper and deeper abyses of forgeign in debtedness. VII. That the achievements of these grand purposes of universal beneficence is expected and sought at the hands of all who approve them, irrespective of past affiliations VIII. That the public faith must at all hazards be maintained, and the national credit preserved. IX. That the patriotic devoted ness and inestimable services of our fellow-citizens who, as soldiers or sailors’ upheld the flag and main tained the unity of the republic shall ever be gratefully remembered and honorably requited. These propositions, so ably and forcibly presented in the platform of your convention, have already fixed the attention and commanded the assent of a large majority of .our countrymen, who joyfully adopt them, as I do, as the basis of a true, beneficent, national reconstruction— of a new departure from jealousies, strifes and bates, which have no longer adequate motive or even plausible pretext, into an atmos phere ot peace, fraternity and mu tual good will. In vain do the drill- sergeants of decaying organizations flourish menacingly their truncheons, and angrily insist that the files shall be closed and strengthened; in vain do the whippers-iu of parties once vital, because rooted in the vital needs of the hour, protest against straying and bolting, denouncing men noWise their inferiors as trai tors and renegades, and threaten them with infamy and ruin. I am confident that tlfc American people have already made your cause their own, fully resolved that their brave hearts and strong arms shall bear it on to triumph, in this faith, and with the distinct understanding that, if elected, 1^ shall be the President not of 4,party, but of the whole |HHq>l$. I accept your nomination, in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, Nortli and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has too long divided them, forgetting that they have been enemies in the joyful con sciousness that they are and must henceforth remain brethren. Yours, gratefully, Horace Greeley. To Hon. Carl Schurz, President; Hon. George W. Julian, Tice Presi dent.; and Messrs. William E. Mc Lean, John G. Davidson, J. H. Rhodes, Secretaries of the National Convention of the Liberal Republi cans of the United States. One of Ilulsenback’s Last Let ters. • We take from the Eatonton Press and Messenger the following letter, written by John R. Holsenback, one week beiorc his execution: Albany, Ga. June 2lst, 1872. Dear Cousin Jim:—Your-s of the 16th has been received, and I was glad to bear from you. I have no news or consolation to offer—only the hope ot a blessed immortality beyond the grave. One week from to-nay I shall be launched into eter nity, in the presence of*a just and avenging God, who only knows the disposition of my soul. I trust he may receive it to dwell in his kins- dom, notTor anything I have or-can do; but that Christ’s blood may not be shed in vain. My petitiou has been before the Governor. He utterly disregards the desires and the wishes of about one thousand signers, refusing even a commutation of sentence for life im prisonment—by this, proving him self unworthy of the trust reposed in him by the people, for I have never had a fair trial, and I am condemn ed to die on the false testimony of a bribed negro. These are facts—I am illegally condemned, and a Governor that refuses to spare the life ofa fel low man under such circumstances is not worthy to be Governor. Hufl is the best man in my opinion to su percede him. I have no personal interest, however, m this world’s affairs, only the welfare of my fellow beings, which I soon shall not be in terested in. I am incapable of ad vice, only to advise all mankind to love, and fear, and serve God, and trust in the blood of Jesus, their soul’s salvation, in which I have a hope that is priceless. I shall never 'meet any of yon on earth, bnt I hope to meet ycu all in heaven. I hate to have my name disgraced by such a death—that mortifies my feelings very much, but it will not debar my soul from the presence of God. Cousin Jim, let me beg you while I stand on the brink of eternity, to forsake sin, the world and serve God—in Him you will find peace and rest for the weary soul in eter nal glory. Your affectionate, unfortunate, Cousin John. of The Sickness and Death Judge Linton Stephens. Sparta, Ga., July 15, 1872. Editors Sun: The sad intelligence has already reached you of the death of the Hon. Linton Stephens. No sad event cast so. much gloom over this community in many year When the report of his death was carried around the town on Sunday evening, many of his friends could not believe it—the intelligence being the first intimation which some of them had of his sickness, ajid no one was prepared for so sad an event. His physician, Dr. Alfriend, was called in lgte Saturday eveni^f and found him suffering v.ith an attack of fnlfear congestion of the lungs and abdominal viscera. After a short while the- attack appeared partially arrested, but owing to irreparable damage-done the nervous centres, the congestion of these vital organs continued with increasing viotenge, and in spite of all the efforts of mod*, ical skill, and the unremitting atten tion ot his family and friends, finally resulted in death at about 5 o’clock on Sunday, the 14th instant. Notwithstanding the nature of his disease, the patient appeared to be couspious of his approaching death. In the intervals between the par oxysms, he conversed with his friends on the subject, indicating that he unerstood his situation, and expected the worst. To his wife, who bent over him heart-broken, he said “he was not afraid to die—only dreaded death because it would sep arate him from her: . ■ The scene at his bedside is be- 3 r ond description. His family con sists of bis wife with three’ grown daughters by a former marriage, together with three smaller children by his last wife. His family had loved as few men on earth had ever been loved. At first they would not be persuaded that life was gone, but bent over his body with the the hope that he would soon revive; but when the terrible truth forced itself upon them at last, the grief, the utter an guish of heart that followed, can nevei' be imagined. God help those Who are thus forced to drink the lees in sorrow’s burning cup! To-day all the stores in town are closed, business of every kind is sus pended, and the houses are all’drap- ed in mourning for the great- man who has gone. The mournful rust ling of crape is heard everywhere in the streets. A bereaved couimuui- ty*bow in solemn grief over the de parture of one so noble, so loved and admired. H. Interviewing Sumner. The Cincinnati Commercial, in ref erence to that interview with Sum ner in which he.stated that he had a very high opinion of Greeley and sympathized with the Liberal Re publican movement, but the time had not come for him to speak out and no man was authorized to speak for him, said that his house was thronged with Baltimore delegates on their wav home—a large majority ot them from the Southern States, who represented that through the manipulations of the carpet-baggers the negroes of the South had been prejudiced against the Democratic party and would not even support so true a friend of their race as Horace Greeley because "he was nominated by that party. Mr. Sumner said they must inspire confidence in the colored people; to which the members of the delegation replied that they desired to do so, but it could be done most effectually, by the Senator from Massachusetts. The colored people had such confi dence in Mr. Sumrer that they would do as he advised. To this Mr. Sumner replied, that his great est ambition was to see the country once more at peace and all its people reconciled. He wanted not only ihe North and the South reconciled* but the whites and the blacks. If this could be accomplished by the election of Mr. Greeley, it would be, in his judgment, the greatest move ment since the war. If he was called on to give the watchword of the campaign, he woiBd say “Reconcil iation.” He wouCd have it the text of every speech oh the hustings. If the people of the United States, North as well as South, could only get to understand that tlje election of Mr. Greeley means reconciliation of the North and Sonth, of the whites and blacks, they would give him a suoport such as no other candidate for the Presidency hasnver received. Speaking tor himself he believed Greeley’s election would go far to promote reconciliation, and to se cure peace to the whole country.— Mr. Greeley wds naturally a man of peace, and in tte execution of the laws he believewlrt! Vould endeavor to promote peace and reconciliation. A delegate asked Mr. Sumner what he thought of Mr. Greeley ! s chances fer election, to which the Senator replied that, from all the evidence before him, and he had been at some pains to get to the bottom of the matter, he thought Greeley’s chances vqry good.. He’ had no faith in the assertion that the rank and file of the Democracy would refuse to support Greeley. He had recently been assured by a distin guished Democratic Senator—Thur man, of Ohio—that the ranks of the Democracy would close up solid be hind Mr. Greeley. Brown and Schurtz on the Pros pects.—A Sun reporter went after Gratz Brown and Schurz, at the 5th Avenue Hotel. Brown, he says, is a fnan ot striking appearahee—tall, broad shouldered—with a fine figure, bold, clear cut features—high fore head, head indicating the student and the thinker—keen and shrewd expression of the face, eyes bold and frank, and in short whole appearance remarkable. Brown made this con fession: . — Reporter—You believe you will be elected ? The Governor—I am certain ot it. I am positive that Horace Greeley will bq elected with a large majority. Reporter—IIow manj States will Grant carry, in your opinion ? The Governor—In my opinion not over three. I said so in New Haven a few days ago' and I say so now. The Hon. Joseph Pultzer—No, Governor, I think six. I think Grant will carry six States at the least.' The Governor—I think not. The reporter found Schurzt in Ids own room. Schurz told the reporter that he would speak in St. Louis, and then go to North Carolina, where the first election was to be held. To the question whether Greeley will be elected, Schurz re plied: “I am confident that he will be elected.” made of themselves. The more in telligent and thinking class, are now determined to withdraw from the arbitrary government of the lew office seekers, ami will hereafter be guided by reason and- their own sound judgement in their support ot candidates for office. Why should the colored man be forced by secret oaths to vote -one way, when the freedom of the ballot allows him to exercise bis own free will and opinion, without fear, favor or affection. Colored men, go to the polls as freemen, and cast your‘votes for those whom you believe will best serve your county and your country. * * J. A PHLVrER’S ESSAY. TO MISS CATHARINE J , OF UTK, An S A noW I mean to write » *2'U, sweet KT J, The girl without a ||, • * The belle of U T K. 11 der if you got the 1 I wrote 2 U B 4 I sailed in the R K D A, <£• sent by L N Moore. My M Tlhead will scarce conceive 1 calm-I D A bright; But 8 T miles from U, I must M—»— this chance 2 write. & 1st, should N E NVU, B E Z, mind it not: If any- friendship show, B sure They shall not B forgot. But friends and foes alike D K; And you may. plainly C, In every l'nneral R A, Our uncle’s LEG.* Fromjrirtue never D Y 8; Her influence B 9 Alike induces 10 demess • Or 40 tnde (Brine. &*if U cannot cut a Or cause an !, I hope -TJT1 put a . 2 I?/ - - R U for an X ation 2 My cousin, heart and 1&S~1 He offers in a 1t A § broad of land. He fays he loves U,2 X S, . E’er virtuous and Y’s; InXLNC U XL, All others in his I’s. This S A; until U I C, rpray U 2 X 'Q’s; And not to bum in F I G My quaint d; wayward muse. Now fare U well, dear K T J; / I trust that U R true: When this U C, then can U say AnSA IO U? . Little Children. Cherubs of this world of changes ! Sweetly budding charms of time ! Love’s true alchemists of gladness, Turning tasks to golden rhyme ! Music, like the brooklet's babble Round the shining stepping-stone, Your dear footsteps, soothing patter - Mingles with yonr gleefil tones. Rays of brighter realms beam ever Iu the homes where children dwell, lightning np the genial-hearth-stone With a joy no heart can tell! O, these babes of blessing lead us By the hand to hallowed scenes— Even as our Saviour tanght them, And we’re blessed by these mild means. Heavenly Father ! teach our!conscience; Well to weigh the gifts of grace, That our feet may falter never, While we haste to seek thy face. With these dear and guileless children, ■ Walking trustful at our side. Lead ns, Lord, the way of wtsdon Up to where thou dost abide ! . Edward P. Nowell. To The Colored Voters. Editor Democrat. Immediately after the enfranchise ment of the colored man,—political intriguers under the false guise of love for their race, organized what they called Union leagues; and tak ing advantage of the ignorance and credulity of them, as a class, initiated them with solemn oaths and binding promises to cast their bab lots under the tyrannical orders of their leaders. The consequence was that the colored vote became political capital for a few carpetbag gers and sealiawags, and was so controlled and manipulated by them that the voter was made to believe that if he did not obey his political master, that he was guilty of high treason or something worse. This worked harmoniously and de lightfully at first. But the eyes and understanding of the newly enfran chised became open to the light, and their minds began to penetrate into the hidden motives of their preten ded friends, which disclosed to them how far they had been misled,’ and what abject political Slaves they had Billings—Good Rezoluslinns for 1872 A 1873, That i won’t' smoke enny more cigars, only at somebody else’s ex pense. . That i won’t borry nor lend—es pecially land: That i will liv within my inkum, if i have tew git trusted to do it. That i will be perlite to everybody, except muskeeters and bed-bugs. That i won’t advise ennybody, un til i kno the kind ov advice they are anxius to follow. That i won’t wear enny more tite botes, if i hav to go barefooted to do it. i That i won’t eat enney more chick en soup with a one-tined fork. That i won’t swop dogs with no man, uuless i kan swop two for one. That i won’t objekt tew enny man on ackcrunt of biz color, -unless he happens tew be blue. That i won’t sware enny more un less i am pat under oath. That i won’t beleave in total de pravity, only in gin at 4 shillings a gallon.' That poverty may be. n, blessing, but if it iz, it iz a blessing in dis guise. . That i will take my whisky here after straight—straight tew the gutter. ' • * That the world owes me a’living— provided i earn it. That i will stick tew my taylor az long az he will stick tew me. That i won’t swop enny hosses with a deakon. That no man shall beat me in po liteness not so long as politeness kontinues tew be az cheap az it iz now. That i wont have any religious kreed myself, but will l-espekt every body else’s. That if lovely woman smacks me on one cheek, i will turn her the other also. That if a man calls me a phool, i wont ask him to phrove it. • • That i will lead a moral- life if i loose a great deal of fuh by it. That if a man tells me a mule wont kik, i will believe what he says with out trying it. That if anybody loozes a gooze i will weep with him, for it iz a luff business to loose a goose. That if i ever do git a ben that kin lay two eggs a dav, i shall insist on her keeping one of the eggs on hand as a sinking pbund. Tha't it iz no disgface to be bit by » dog unless he dnz’it the seknnd time. That it iz just $z patral tew be born rich az poor, bat* it iz seldom so convenyunt. > That one of the ripest things tew straddle iz the bach ov a 60 day note. ’ • 4 ' ■ That the best time tew repent of a blunder iz just before the blunder iz made. That i will tri hard tew be honest, but it will just be my, darn luck tew miss it. That i won’t grow enney kats.-— Spontaneous kats have killed the bisniss^ •*-..• That i will love m f ’ mother-in-law if it takes all the money i kan earn tew do it. That i believe real good lies are gitting skarser and skarser every year. That i will respekt publik opinion just a’2 long az i kan rqspekt myself in doing it. That when i hear a man bragging on his ancestors i wont envy him, but i will pity the ancesters. That i won’t believe in enny ghost or ghostesses unless they weigh about 140 lbs., and can eat a good square meal. That i won’t bet on ’nothing, for things that require betting on lak sumthing. . * That i will brag on mi wife all the time, but i will do it silently. • That i wont be surprised at enny- tlring, not even tew be told that Ben. Franklin waz a spendthrift, or' t^at Lazarus died rich. That i will dispize most things that i see, not out ov, malice, but out ov wisdum. That i wont hanker for happiness, but if i see enny that i think iz a bargin i will shut up one eye and go for it. That i'wont wish i waz az pure az King David, but that i waz purer than i am. That i wont kovet enny man’s wife, nor hiz oxen, nor hiz korn- stalks, nor the color ov hiz mustash. That i will laff every good chance i kan git, whether it makes me grow phat or not. Finally,, i will sarch for things that are little,, for things that are loncsum, avoiding all torch lite pro- seshuns, bauds ov brass' musick, wimmin’s rights convenshuns and grass widders generally.—New Yoi-k Weekly. New York Herald. This able but changing journal concludes an article, July 13th with these liberal sentiments: The people of the North demand that the Southern States shall no longer be treated as rebels, but shall receive in good faith, and without reservation, the pardon that has been extended to them. To give over the beautiful and commercially important States of the fairest sec tion of the Union to the ignorant and degraded rule of nagrofes just released from bondage is an insult to the white citizens of the North as well as of the .South and an outrage on the whole nation. To subject them to the corrupt and reckless schemes of the carpet-bag plunderers is but little less infamous. To hold them under militaiy subjection for political purposes is not only a cruel injustice, but is a dangerous assault upon the freedom of the republic, As a consistent and independent supporter of (general Grant’s admin istration, yre now call upon him to show his detestation of these politi cal Machiavelism by openly proclaim ing his determination not to avail himself offthe Ku-Klux law in the approaching elections, and to with draw from Southern States every fed eral soldier not required for the act ual legitimate purposes of the gov ernment. The enforcement of this odious law is optional with him,’ and he has the authority and the power by proclamation to declare the South in a condition to warrant the resto ration of civil law and of the writ of habeas corpus in every portion of her territory. This will enable the President at once to free himself from the responsibility and unpopu larity of the measures of his unwise supporters ip Congress, and a radi cal change in the character of the federal office-holders throughout the South will further show his inclina tion to do justice to the Southern people at last. For the future, what ever may be the result of the peuding DUMBER 58 — ^ Presidential election, the'Herald will insist upon an entire oban^h 61 policy towards the Southern States under the next administration, itid hold every Congressman up’ to the contempt and scorn ol the American people who favors any measure for the oppression of - the white men of the Sooth. ^We shall demand front President Grant or President Gree ley, as the case may be, an honest obedience to the will of tb€ people, which is, unrestricted amnesty and non-interference with the domestic affairs of any of the Southern States; The Herald will diligently watch for and expose every future attempt* to control the Southern negro vote id a unit for any party, and any in justice that may be done cither by legislation, by-executive action or through the influence Of federal pat ronage, to the white ciectbfs of the South. We recognize the courage; the manhood And the loyalty of the Southern people now that the rebel lion and its causes ore alike dead and buried, and we admit their .equal title with ourselves to all tiio privileges and rights of the constitu tion. We shall hold any administra tion in the future responsible for a constitutional treatment of that sec tion of the country and shali regard an assault upon their liberties and privileges as a crime against the republic. Worthy qf* Co«J**|a*it>N.—Jt correspondent of the MRedgeville Federal Union ’says: "An indefat igable minister of the Gospel of tfhe Presbyterian Church who went into the highways and byways of the city of Augusta to impart bodily as well as spiritual comiort to the poor, was though unostentatious in his labors obscured by members of his congre gation and presented with a horse and buggy, with the keep of his horse at a livery stable, that his toil at least of body might be lessen ed and the opportunity of doing good increased. We commend highly the zeal of the minister and the thought* ful and Christian kindness of his flock.” - . Jenkins Outdone.—In a clever burlesque of the JpnlfiDs Atyle. of describing weddings recently given in the Indianapolis News, the bride’s dress is described as a white mega therium silk, trimmed with prussic acid blue pompaded front and lam brequins of the same, looped up with calla lilies flecked by furiginated pdtasite and metlaced trivere—im ported expressly for her. Her viel was a /biassed polonrise, trimmed with , double fluted ruchings, sur mounted with a wreath of the snowy ti inchinallis. Some of the presents were a sSt of teeth and an oyster freezer—from the bride’s mother; a gold-lined hash-receiver and a set of chaste and elegant terra-eotta jew elry from the groom; a quilt pieced by the donor whep eleven years of age, and a package of cabbage seed, from the bride's grandmother, aged ninety, who can read fine print with out glasses, and who cracked all the nuts for }he banquet with her own teeth. How Gbant Selects Government Officials,—The Chicago Tribune says, when Grant and the Dent fami ly came into power, the Internal Revenue Colleeter of the Third Dis trict of-Ohio was General Van Der- veer a gallant Federal officer during the late war. In this district there lived an ancient dame, an old friend of Mrs. Jesse. Grant, Who had been present whep Ulysses waq born. A certain Williaips, anxious to succeed Van Derveer, bribed this old woman, by promising to give her son-m-law a good place, to write a request to the-President to give him (Williams) the collectorship. The promise of the deputy collectorship to a - friend of- her’s bribed Mrs. Jesse Grant into writing on this letter the follow ing endorsement: Dear Ulysses:—You will please comply with R 's request, and oblige Youb Mother. . This unique recomendalion did the . job. Out went General Van Der veer and his subordinates, and in' came Williams and lus. _ . Samuel Bowles—the last likely to misrepresent such matters— telegraphs from BaHlmore tb MS pa per, the Springfield Republican, as follows: “Colonel Forney returned yester day (July 7)from his Southern trip. He reports the Greeley and Brown 1 strength along his route,.clear dowu. 1 to the confines of Texas, beyond’ aft accounts and expectations: B*' ex-Speaker Grow wiIfsbo»*' - says