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THE BAINBRIDGE WEEKLY DEMOCRAT. VOLUME I. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1872. NUMBER 60 The Weekly Democrat, PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORIfllfG. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: One Copy one year - - - $3 00 One Copy six months • • 1 50 Reading Matter on Every Page. Sumner tor Greeley—His Letter of Advice to the Negroes. Washington, July 30.—Mr. Sum ner has written a long letter to a number of colored citizens who late ly addressed him. Mr. Sumner de clares for Greeley. Among his strongest paragraphs is the follow ing: “The present position of the' Colored citizen to perUwU*. He is exposed to injurious pressure when lie needs support, but I see no early extraction except in the way pro posed. Let him cut adrilt irom managers who would wield him merely as a political force with little regard to his own good and brave ly stand by the candidate, Greeley— who has stood by ' him. If Demo crats unite with him, so much the bptter, the association once begun must naturally ripen into friend ship and trust.” The following is a synopsis oi Sumner’s letter. He addresses- his correspondents as gentlemen and fellow-citizen- - , and proceeds. lie delayed .answering that in might reject, and freely inform him self. He has listened to much from both sides, but his best judgment is now in harmony with his early con clusion. He is touched by the ap peal his correspondents made. Tie has been tlie friend of their race and is glad they consider him a special advocate of their rights. They do him ample justice when* they believe that his counsel at this critical juncture would be iree from personal or partisan prejudice. Mr. Sumner contrasts the two candi dates: Greeley was lx>rn in poverty and educated himself in a printing office. Grant, fortunate in early patronage, became a cadet at West Point and was educated at the pub lic expense. One started with noth ing but industy and character, the other with a military c< mmisslon. One was trained as a civilian, the other as a soldier. Horace Greeley stood forth as a reformer and an Abolitionist. The President enlis ted as a pro-slavery Democrat, and at the election of James Buchanan fortified, by.his vote, all the preten sions of slavery—even the Died Scott decision. Greeley, from early life, was earnest and constant against slavery, full of sympathy with the colored race, and always foremost in the great battle for their rights. President Grant, except as a soldier summoned by the tenable accident of war, never did anything against slavery, nor has he at amy time shown any sympathy with the colored race. Horace Greeley ear nestly desired that colored citizens* should vote, and ably championed impartial suffrage, but President Giant was on the other side. Beyond these contrasts which are marked, it cannot be forgotten that Horace Greeley is a person of large heart and large understanding, trained to support human rights. Mr. Greeley’s industry, general knowledge, aimable nature, and above all, honesty, which no susp# cion has touched, are maiutainted. Few of these things appear in Presi dent Grant; his great success in war cannot change his record toward the colored people, while there are antecedents showing that in the prosecution of his plans be cares nothing for the colored race. Mr. Sumner, pretaeing that the story is painful but it must be told, gives the history of St. Domingo and Ilayti, where he outraged 800,. 000 blacks who were engaged in the great experiment of self-govern ment. Here follows a history of i lie at. tempt at annexation. He alludes to the disrespect with which Grant treated Fred Douglass, who by his invitation was one of the Saint Dom ingo Commissioners. Grant, has little capacity or industry in protec ting colored people and assuring peaee at the South, After violating the constitution and international law to insult the black republic, and Betting an example of insubordina- tion he was not in a condition tc rebuke law breakers. Mr. Sumner then considers the present position of the two candi dates. . Each was nominated by a Republican Convention. He lauds the material composing the Cincin nati Convention. Comparing the character of the supporters of the two candidates, he says: The coun try knows too well the military ring, the Senatorial ring, the Custom bouse ring through which the Presi dent acts. Such supporters are a very poor recommendation. He says it is idle to say that Horace Greeley and the Republican which Vere nominated at Cincinnati, are any less Republicans because Demo crats unite with them in the sup port of cherished principles, and the wuo represents them. Mr. Sumner says the hardihood of political falsehood reaches its ex treme point when it is asseeted that under Horace Greeley the freedmen will be re-enslaved, or that colored people will in any way sufTer in their equal lights. On the contrary, they have in his election not only the promises of the platform, but also the splendid example for a full gen eration, during which he has never wavered in the assertion of their rights. To suppose that Horace Greeley, when placed where he can do them the most good, will depart from the rule of his honest life, is an insult to reason. It is none the less idle to suppose that Democrats, sup porting Horace Greeley, expect or desire that he should depart from those principles which are the glory his oharacter. They have accepted the Cincinnati platform with its two fold promises and intend in good faith to maintain it. Gentlemen, in thus answering your two inquiries I have shown why you, as colored fellow-citizens, and also all who would uphold your rights, and save the colored race from in dignity, should refuse to sanction the re-election of the President, and put your trust in Horace GVeeley. I ought to add that with him will be associated, as Vice President, Gratz Brown, whom I have known for years as a most determined Aboli tionist. The two together will carry into the National Government un- swervering devotion to your rights, not to be disturbed by partisans, dictation or section prejudice. Besk.es all this which may fully guide jou in determining between the two candidates it is my duty to remind yon that as citizens of the United States and a part of the' country, your welfare is indissolubly associated with that of the whole country. If all are prosperous you will be gainers. Therefore while justly careful of your own rights you cannot be indifferent to the blessings *>f good government. It is for you to consider whether the ’time lias not come for something better than the sword, and whether a character like Horace Greeley does not give stronger assurance of good govern ment than can be found in the insul- ter of the colored race, already famous for the rings about him, and his plain inaptitude for civil life. Speaking now for myself, I have to say that my vote will be given for Horace Greeley, but in giving it I do not go to the Democratic party, nor am I less a Republican; on the contrary, I am so mufh of a Repub lican that I cannot support a candi date whose conduct in civil life shows an incapacity to appreciate Republican principles, and whose administration is marked by acts of delinquency, especially toward the colored race, by the side ol which the allegations on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson were technical and trivial. a Boston leather dealer. He met the lady at Saratoga for the first time last season, and she, by direc tion of her parents, who was also wealthy and insisted upon the ar rangement, became his affianced. Previous to this she had met a young gentlemau, also oftoston, of the ut most respectability, of * thorough honor and integrity, but without for tune. To him she had been some thing more than a friend, in fact, al most a betrothed. He was young, had risen by his own stern efforts, and was, it is said, possessed of sterling and promising abilities which in time must have won him wealth and perhaps distinction. On the re. H.r-n ~F»».o Icvly nwjfc* T^SBv^SP^raSt season her engagement prevented her from, further intercourse with her first suitor, and he was dismis sed. His grief was pitiful. He strove not to reverse it by word or action, but the very efforts" he so laboriously made, exposed the poignancy of his wounds. The lady lived with her husband in the su burbs of the city at a large and costly residence fqr one month after their marriage. "By that time the abuse of the husband and his gross sensuality and indecency compelled an immediate separation. He was incontinently shipoed to Europe, where he still remains, and the young wife was left to gradually de cline in health until death ensued: but not before she had reproached her parents for driving her to the alliance which wrought such early ruin and blasted-such bright hopes and expectations As the funeral passed up a public street, the first admirer of the body, watching with blanched cheeks and moist eyes the sad cortege, fell to the gi-ound white suffering an attack of hemorrage of the lungs. He was carried into a physician’s office near, where he died before the body of the one he had so tender and truly loved was laid in its last resting place—a vic tim to a true and holy passion. True is it that— There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel .lias told irhen two that are linked in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all life, and love on till they die. One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wonderful bliss; And, oh, if there be an Elysium on earth It is this, it is this. One can hardly pity the remorse of the young lady’s parents, and yet human sympathy will not refuse an i‘amen’ tef their tearful cry of an guish. Boston Correspondence of the Troy Times. Married for Money. SAD STORY OF A YOUNG BOSTON LADY. A funeral procession passdfi by yesterday. A young man told me a story that I think has a peculiar sad ness about it. At Saratoga last season at one of the largest balls held at the Grand Union hotel was a young lady with the most oharming and fascinating manners and graces. Her toilette was equally as pleasing She was the belle of the ball—an honor accorded her without dissent. Her attendant during the evening was a young man dressed almost gaudily and bearing himself with all the distasteful self-conceit of a brain less millionaire, He was the son of Truth in a Nutshell. The N. Y. Tribune in -a recent editorial on “Georgia Bonds,” ex presses itself on" the general ques tion as follows: Loaded down as are the Southern States by debts with which some of them find it physically impossible to struggle successfully, it is perhaps not unnatural, although it is suf ficiently alarming, that the desper ate remedy of repudiation has sug gested itself to a committee of the Georgia Legislature. The Legisla ture itself has, as yet, done nothing. Nothing would please the Grant party better than the spectacle of a Democratic Legislature repudiating a portion of the State’s carpet-bag debt. The Grant party, highly mor al and respectable as it is, relies upon carpet-bag governments and carpet-bag organization to carry several of the Southern States. It Would shock the parties to this un holy alliance to see Georgia repudi ate bonds for which she received no compensation, although the robbery itself gave them little concern. It is a pity, however, that Bullock and his ring have been forced to flee be. yond the borders of the United States, with the Presidential elec tion just coming on, and Grant, the carpeLbager's friend, a candidate against Greeley, the carpet-bager’s enemy. For yea s the influence of the Administration has been steadily- exerted to sustain just such thieving governments as this in Georgia, to impose them upon an unwilling peo ple, and to force their unfit repre sentatives into the National Senate, where their votes might balance those of Sumner, and Schnrz, and Trumbull, and the other soreheads. Is it any wonder that the South rises os one man to protest against the inetrference of the National Government in State concerns, to denounce the carpet-bag rule that has led to their ruin, and to appeal for permission once more to govern themselves before they have nothing but a wreck left to govern ? Radicalism—I#3 Teachings in North Carolina. We learn that there was a discus sion at Lilesville, in Anson county, on Saturday last, between Hon. Thos. Asbe, Col. R. T. Bennett and J. M. Wall, Esq., Conservatives, and Gen.' Alfred Dockery, James Carraway and A. M. Boggan, Radi cals, when"the colored men, who were present were ‘considerably wrought up at the appeal made to them by ihl Radical speakers. At the conclusion of the affair theTflack Radicals from Wadesbo.ro and Lanesboro, with a few whites, formed into procession and proceed ed by a fife and drum, marched to •Wadesboro’. On arriving at that town they proceeded to the houses of the two Messers. Threadgill and Mr. Thomas May, all highly respec ted citizens of Anson county, which they assaulted with rocks. The owners thereupon sallied out and endeavored to-induce them desist their outrageous conduct, when.one Kiamas (or Camas) McNair,* col ored, one of the ringleaders, who has heretofore enjoyed, to a great extent, the confidence of the com munity, collared Mr. Threadgill and shook him very severely, the crowd yelling and hooting like very devils and encouraging him in the act. The gentleman being completely over powered by the black devils, many ot whom were crazed with mean li quor, could offer no rcsistence. The wretches were proceeding to still greater extremities, when they were checked by. the timely appearance on the scene of a number of white citizens, who were as equally deter mined to quell the disturbance as the negroes were to make one. The lat ter then retired with one man severe ly injured, by ’ a rock, probably thrown by some one of his own friends. The affair naturally caused the most intense excitement in the town, and the white citizens hastily pre prepared themselves for any further demonstrations. No others were made, however, during Saturday night, but the excited groups of ne groes that were observed gathering together on Sunday afternoon gave fears of another attack, although our informant, who left Lilesville yesterday morning, had heard noth ing further. The disturbance is attributed, in a great measure, to the influence of one Caraway, a white Radical as pirant for tiie State Senate, who was -mainly instrumental in provoking the trouble that occurred there a few weeks ago,-^Wilmington Jour- nal. Humors of the Campaign. Model Greeley Resolutions—By “Red Hot.” Whereas, The millenium has dawned, and the wolf is lying down with the lamb, and the lion is eating straw like an ox, and -the abolition ists and secessionists march under the same flag, and the Radicals and rebels walk arm in arm, and the free-traders and protectionists are cheek by jowl, and the Irish and the negroes -eat of the same dish, and Horace Greeley and Jeff Davis sleep in the same bed, and the sucking .child is playing on the hole of the asp and women vote and ride astride, and everything is lovely and the goose hangs high; therefore, Resolved 1st. That inasmuch as the time has come for al? men to eat dirt and Ourii somee3aults".' and no igan thinks what he says, or believes what he thinks, we unanimously rec ognize the absolute equality of men, including negroes, women and chil dren; that we believe a mule’s ears are as short as a horse’s, and that the leopard can change his spots, and that the negro is a man and a brother, and having always favored his mission to the ballot-box we now welcome him to the social circle, having something of an idea that all the world was born of a mummy; that things are not what they used to be, and that there is a great deal of up-side-downed-ness and down- side-up-ward-ness, and bewildering mixed-up-ative-ness generally. Resolved 2nd. That being in great doubt whether the rebellion failed or succeeded, and not being certain whether Grant or Lee surrendered at Appomattox, and being of an opinion that the South was either right or wrong, and that neither was either to hurt, we are unanimously in favor of letting by-gones be by gones, of burying the Stars and Stripes in the same grave with the Stars and Bars, of mixing three parts of “Dixie” with two of “Yan- kee-Doodle,” and marrying the Un ion eagle with the rebel buzzard. Resolved 3rd. That being a liberal party, we favor liberty in all things, in politics and in religion, in virtue and intemperance, giving perfect freedom to all, freedom to men and (Vooilom ti) woman, oritioieiog one’s opinion and no one’s action; pardoning an occasional clean shirt and a washed face; neither avering that there is a hell; holding the Al mighty in proper respect, at the sametime not forgetting our old friend Satah; believing that nothing is up or down, but that everything is standing or sideways, and in all things " holding very fast with one hand but altogether letting go with the other. Resolved 4th. That the Constitu tion as it is is better than the Com stitution as it was; that the Bible is all very well in its place, but the Book of Mormon is newer and the writings of Confuscius older, and every man is master ol his own con science and conduct, and has a right to make a God to suit himself; that free" whisky and universal ignorance, coupled-with free-love and. universal salvation, make earth a paradise and" heaven a certainty; but that, nevertheless, all things are turning round and the times are out of joint, every straight road is crooked, the earth turns backwards on its axis, men walk zigzag, and their brains are tospy-rturvy, the world is all be witched, and a woman is the coming man. Resolved 5th. That inasmuch as Judas Iscariot, though once a wick ed man,, afterwards became an apostle, and inasmuch as Benedict Arnold shed blood in defense of American liberty, and inasmuch as Jeff Davis was not nominated, we are heartily in favor of Horace Greeley, .believing as we do that the Democracy is not dead, but sleeptb, and that- all roads" from Greeley go to Grant; that Greeley was an orig inal abolitionist; that the abolition ists and secessionists always worked to the same end, .and their present combination is only a renewal of past co-operation, and wonderful will it he in the eyes of all men when the arch-enemy of the Ivu-Klux becomes their chief captain; when the prince of protection becomes the king of free-trade; when the champion of temperance bears the banner of the bar-room business, and Satan leads the boats of Heaveh. Then truly shall the last be first, for great is the mystery of Greeleyness. Gov. Smith’s Letter of Accep- • tance. Atlanta, Ga., July 24, 18T2. Hon. James M. Smith, Atlanta: Dear Sir—The undersigned have been appointed a committee, by the Democratic Convention, this day assembled here, to inform you that you have been nominated, - by a unan imous vote of the Convention, as the Democratic candidate for the*office of Governor of Georgia. • We, herewith, enclose a copy of the resolutions adopted by the Con vention. It gives us great pleasure to make this communication, and to assure you that your brief adminis tration received the cordial indorse ment of the Convention, as it had already previously received the hear ty approval of the people. Permit us to express the hope of our common constituents, and of our selves personally, that you will accept ihff nomination so heartily and unani mously tendered. With the highest respect for your official and private character, and with a Godspeed to you in th& good work yon are now performing, we remain, deaf sir, with great respect, Yonr friends and obedient ser vants, James M. Mobley, Julian Habtridge, Wm. E. Simmons, Ira R. Foster, Warren Akin, Committee, Atlanta, Ga., July 29, 1872. Messrs. James M. Mobley, Julian Hartrige, Wm. E. Simmons, Ira R. Foster, Warren Aiken, Com mittee: Gentlemen—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 24th inst., in- lormjpg me that the State Democrat ic Convention had nominated me unanimously as their candidate for the office of Governor. For this great honor I cannot command language in which to ex press my gratitude. The unanimity and heartiness with which the nomi nation was made, add another to the many obligations already resting upon me, to serve with all possible zeal and faithfulness a people Who have so honored and trusted me. The resolutions adopted by the Convention have been carefully con- eidorod, and I take pleasure in sta ting that the principles therein enun ciated meet with my warm approval The re-affirmance of “the unchange- doCtrine that this is a Union of States, and that the indestructibility of the States, of their rights, and of their Equality with each other, is an indis pensable part of our political sys tem,” is a pledge on the part of the Convention that the Democracy of Georgia will continue to adhere to 4he principles of constitutional government. These great fundamental princi ples of our Federal system should *3ver be forgotten or abandoned. And yet, "to use the language of one of the resolutions, I fully “recognize the exigencies ot the times which suggested and secured the nomina tion by the Democratic party at Baltimore, of Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown, as candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, and regard their elec tion as conducive to the preserva tion of the rights of the States, to local self-goveroment, and the pro tection of the individual liberty ot the citizens.” It would be uncandid ia me not say that I should have been glad if this exigency had not been upon us. The power of naming the candi dates, however, was specifically lodged by the party in "the National Convention. That Convention, like a court of the last resort, is the highest party tribunal in the land, and beyond it there is no other or further appeal without going outside of the party. This latter course cannot adopt. I cannot separate myself from my own people. Nay, more: I would stand by them, even when in the wrong, rather than give the enemies of good government my countenance and support. The National Convention having nominated candidates for Presidency and Vice-Presidency, and-the State Convention having recognized and accepted these candidates, I shall not permit myself to call in question either the wisdom aDd patriotism which directed the choice made by one, or the acceptance and indorse ment accorded by the other, (fhe Democratic party, with Greeley and Brown as its candidates is infinitely preferable, iq my judgment, to any political organization in the country. I shall give to the Baltimore nomi nees, therefore, my earnest and zealous support, believing ‘that in their election the cause of honesty and constitutional government will achieve a triumph over fraud, cor ruption and usurpation. I may add that since my acces sion to office, I have had but little time to bestow upon national affairs. We havg great work before us here in Georgia, sufficient to engage the best efforts of every patriot in the State, and I have given my hand and heart to that work. To com plete this work successfully, it is ne cessary that we preserve the integ rity of the Democratic party here at home,- It is necessary that we be united and zealous, and forbearing, slow to condemn our brethren, or to magnify differences upon matters of minor concern. If we but pursue this course, the good work we have in hand will have been finished at no distant day. Meanwhile, let ns hope that the great and powerful party to which we belong, will be enabled, with the aid of liberal and patriotic men from other political organizations, to accomplish the same beneficent revolution in' our national affairs that we have al ready effected here in Georgia. With the highest appreciation of the honor conferred upon me, and with many thanks for the kind terms employed by you in* communicating the action of the Convention, I ac cept the nomination, with a pledge that, if elected, I shall to the best of my ability, discharge the duties of the great trust placed in my hands by a confiding people. Very truly. James M. Smith. \ew-York Tribune. FOR the campaign. The Tribune is oot and will nevermore be a party organ, bat it is ardently enlisted ia tho contest now waging fof Civil Service Re* form and for One Presidential Term as es sential to ibat Reform. It aberpta the Cinein— oati ITatform as a terse and a forcible reposi tion of the political right and Wrong, the needs and hopes of To-Day, and looks hope fully to Universal Amnesty as essential to tho restoration of a genuine fraternity between North and South, and of mutual confidence and good will between White and Blaok. It believes the People are preparing to break tho rusty shackles ol mere bygone partisanship, and it hopes for a result next November which will cheer and strengthen the ohampions of Peace and Good Will. It will issue no cam paign edition, but proffers to all who believe its further diffusion may serve the Good Cause Us regular editions at the' lowest possible priceV The virtual surrender by the Demecratid party of its hostility to Equal Rights regards less of Color has divested our current polities of half their bygone intensity. However par ties may henceforth rise or fail, it is clear .that the fundamental principles whieh have hither to honorably distinguished the Republicans are henceforth to be regarded as practically accep ted by the whole country. The right of every man to his own limbs and sinews— the equality of all citizens before the law— the inability of a State to enslave any por tion of its people—the duty of the Uuion to guarantee to eveiy citizen the full enjoy ment of his liberty nntil he forfeit# it by crime—such are the broad and firm founda tions of our National edifice; and palsid bo the hand which shall seek to displace thend Though not yet twenty years old, tho Re publican party has completed the nobla fabric of Emanicipation, and msy fairly in voke thereon the sternest judgment of Maa and the benignant smile of God. Henceforth, the mission of our Republic is one’ of Peaceful Progress. 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