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•> • - - ——— "HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLES RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WEB BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." —ia■ ■ai-.-.-.Trrssa-J Volume 5. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1876. Number & fhe Weekly Democrat. ^Ur.ISHKD EVERY THURSDAY gEN. E. RUSSELL. - Proprietor. BiisBRiDGE, January 27th 1876. ■ TERMS of subscription. P<t annum, In fidvincc, • $2.00 p tr six months, in advance, 1.00 p, r three months, in advance, 60 Single copy, in advance. 10 AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS T ic Thomasvilie Time* says .Ben Hill made “his maiden speech in Congress ” \St don’t think there was anything ‘ ‘maid- f -" about it. It was a regular old stag, md bJib’d the bottom out of Blaine. 7he editor of the Brooks County Gem reds U! a postal card, in which he says: Will you send the Democrat and ex change? I have very little to offer, but it •malls loud.” Certainly we will exchange. Wo are glad to get the Gem; it is a spicy little shoot, and, if the truth must be told, j. mperior to some of the bigoted country papers which make it a point to speak of il in derision. Success to you, Kayton. A Georgia paper, in writing about Leap Tear, speaks of the fact that for the other three years of the quadrennial the females in. in subjection, but,it adds, “now that they have achauoe, the women nave strip ed for the fight.” We don’t believe it. Our friend Weston, of the Dawson Jour- mi, has been elected President of the Terrell County Industrial Association. Hnrrah for the editors, and one thing and another! The Quitman Reporter estimates the police force in that city at one hundred, oa circus day. We don’t see anything wrong about that, though doubtless the iliovv manager thought it very hard if it was fair. The Nashville Journal has been remov al to Alapalm, Berrien County. Would it not he economy to give the editor the lunctit of lion W. E. Smith’s proposition to (situ ate a person from that county? Hob Harris, of the Thomasville Time*, remarks that “the porkless editor vras not forgotten.” The folks over this way nev^ i r forget an editor; but, hang it, remem- hi ring him is all they do. Triplett remarks, with a slight glow of exultation, a new feature in tho Times—a xxcekty lettor from Philadelphia. Wo litre no idea there will ho over forty pa- p-rs which publish tho same lettor the fame week. K. T. McLean, Esq., has been elected Mayor of Thomasvilie. An excellent se lection. Dougherty County is going to cut down tin; salary of her County Judge to $600 per an u utn. At Georgetown, Ga., Sunday, January 18th, 1S70, at 8 a. m., by Rev. W. P. Jor dan, Mr. J, J. Bush, of Albany, Ga., to Miss Hattie Foster, of Georgetown. Representative Alderman, of Thomas, lias introduced a bill in the House to change the lines between the counties of Decatur and Thomas. To Harris: How many “best weeklies” arc there in Georgia? Henry McIntosh is going to start a new paper at Blackshear, which again leads us to remark: Hurrah for the editors! The Quitman Reporter says tho farmers of Brooks are in a better condition than I* 1 ? before, and remarks: “A merchant . J us that ho had seen over a dozen farmers selling -o^ n ^ weok >. Joab Gillion, an old citizen oi A.xw« ny tried for his life last week, charged *ith killing a negro on his place in 1874 He was aquitted. Cairo has a paper. Well—we don’t care *° go into particulars. It says none of the t'airo merchants have failed or will fail ftis season. Mr. Jesse D. Weston has become asso- oiate editor of the Dawson Journal. -In exchange remarks: “Once in a xvliile * e ^ n, l °no who prefers a city weekly to 1 k° n >e paper because “it’s got more read- - 111 it " He is the same chap who al- *Y» buys the largest pair of boots in the ^ because they cost no more than a Waller pair which fits him best.” Hannah News -. We are giatified in connection, considering the occasion “' ><“ celebration and the fact that this is ** centennial year, a period during which ” i kindliest feelings should find place in , tr . v -American bosom, to mention an in- 'f ent Dial occurred as the regiment pass- 'He Drayton street entrance to Ogle- “ or l' Barracks, garrisoned by Federal ^P'. Tl;e United States soldiers on ! . v there come to “present arms,” salut- the command. The salute was : onijuiv- rC ( Urne( j > an) j t) le regiment • '' J on. It was a trivial thing, but - indicative of a kindly feeling .,'*een 'he Blue and the Grey, we are * ^ t0 put it on record in this, the *.fiiug month of our centennial year. •" aunah News: “A Henry county mule ^ ha> fatally stabbed forty-four negroes r Her hind feet during the past season, '“in in Macon the other day for the oniions sum 0 f seV en hundred dollars, cv.ding to this valuation, Tump Pon r °' in > mule, in Monroe county, is a ftis ' Ruld mine. She has killed four i M j*”^ eighteen colored people father, on Thursday morning, the 6th inst., by the Rev. E. B. Carroll, Mr. Geo. McMullen to Miss Juliet Jessup—all of- Brooks county. The gin-house of Mr. J. W. Thayer, in 1 Baker county, was destroyed by an incen diary oa the night of the 11th inst Tfiis is the fortieth gin-house burned in Geor gia since the 1st of September. Cuthbert Messenger-. “One of our sub scribers wanted to know bow we found out so much local news, when the devil promptly informed him that we always sent a reporter to the old maid’s sewing circles.” Thomasvilie celebrated Gen. Lee’s birth day. The Guards had a considerable time. During the year 1875, there were 156 failures iu Georgia with liabilities amount ing to $6,138,464 In 1874, the failures in Georgia were 118, liabilities $1,845,000. The annual bill to tax bachelors lias been introduced in the Georgia Legisla ture. A young man in Cuthbert states as an inducement for leap year proposals, that lie is the possessor of a cow and calf. The Statistical bureau of Agriculture, places last years cotton crop at not less than four million fifty thousand bales, nor more than four million one hundred and fifty thousand bales. Hon. A T. McIntyre has been elected President of the South Georgia A. M. Association. The News says Albany is the highest provision market in the State. Also, that a case was called on Monday last, by Judge Wright, which was dock eted in 1853. Cuthbert is angry because she could not see a circus. The Central Railroad laid an embargo on such entertainments, by taxing them $1,000 per day for transpor tation. The Blakely News rises up in meeting and says: “Some of the lazy, hungry scoundrels around here are killing cattle in the woods.” Thomasvilie and Boston engaged in a shooting match, three sliootists from each place. Result—Boston wins by fifteen birds. The Thomasvilie Enterprise does not want ^.Convention. Cairo Times -. “Beef sells here at 4 & 5, pork at 7 and 8 cents per lb. and choice sweet potatoes at 40c per bushel. How is that for “sop an’ tater?” Cuthbert Appeal-. “T. A. Wall, lixzes out in the 10th District, killed on Tuesday last seven hogs 19 months old, of his own raising which weighed in the aggregate nineteen hundred and twelve pounds. He always wears a cheerful face—as all men do who raise their own meat—and has no idea of going West or anywhere else to find a better country than this. gome bad fellow has been “shoving |the queer” in Camilla. We believe every daily in the State, with perhaps one' exception, published Ben Hill’s speech. Savannah News: “There are various re ports out in regard to the small-pox in Savannah, which we undertake to say are altogether exaggerated. The foregoing is written by a person who has never been vacinated.” A little child of Mr. Green Jackson, in Mitchell county, was burned to death the other day. CURREN* EVENTS- Babcock’s crooked case is set for Janua ry 31. The great Centennial regatta wi.l take place next summer on Saratoga lake. Governor Tilden refuses to pardon Stokes, the muderer of Fisk. The Alabama Legislature is making out a very bad case against Senator Spen cer. Sir Anthony Rothschild died in London Tuesday, and the other members of that wealthy clan will only be the richer. Senator Morton will begin the oenlen- nial year by endeavoring to stir up sec- tioual strife. The Mississippi carpet-bag gers have guaranteed him their vote at the Republican Presidential Convention. Among the resolutions introduced in the lower House of the Ohio Legislature on Friday was one to request President Grant to dismiss his relatives from office $nd appoint Union soldiers in their stead. The Ohio Grand Lodge Committee favors and recommends the recognition of the colored lodges in that State. The organs of the Masonic fraternity do not seem to relish the idea, and oppose it. “Reason and common sense,” says the Trenton Republican, “toll us that Gen. Grant does not desire a third term.” And can you stand there like a fool and let reason and common sense lie to you in that way without resenting it ? On the fourth Sunday in Janaary every clergymay in Indiana is to preach a ser mon on the “Religious Features of the Centennial Exhibition,” embodying also a sketch of their respective church organi zations. The sermons are to lie bound in several volumes and forwarded to Phila delphia. The Indianapolis Journal says “the in dications are that 3Ir. Kerr will prove to be what is called a scrub.” It is to be \ hoped not. It would be a pity to see the j executive and both branches of the legis j lative departments of the Government all ) headed by the same sort of stock. A Boston paper declares that Senator Morton has a good chance for the Presi dency because his record is good. It is ,ratl^er absurd to characterize as good the '‘record of a politician who has won his chief, distinction.by waving a bloody shirt r *4 Wearing a dirty one. *It has transpired through- a leading Democratic Senator that Mr. Ferry will be retai ned in bis place, should the Re publicans persist in their effort to make a change. 31 r. Ferry will not go into the caucus, and the Democrats will support him as against any caucus nominee, which, with several Republican votes which are assured, will secure him the succession to the Presidency. The man who wonld not steal a pin,and yet would walk off with a silk umbrella belonging to another person, lacks consis tency.—[N. Y. Mail.] Perhaps so, per* haps not. He may be a lecturer on the im portance of protecting the human frame from the inclemency of an outrageous climate’s caprices,and rather than stultify himself, consistently seizes the first Um brella within reach. The Pittsburg Commercial is doing what it can to preserve the friendly feeling just springing up between the North and South. In the telegraphic report of Hill’s speech sent to the press last week, this sentence occurs: “The South is here, and she intends tp remain.” The Com mercial printed it: ‘ ‘The South is here, and she intends to reign.’’ And the able journal sticks to it, and occasionally preaches a sermon on it. Crooked vinegar is the last development in Chicago. The Tribune of that city shows that several hundred thousand* gallons of crooked spirits from the crooked distilleries, were sold to the vine gar manufacturers,who not being compelU ed by any Government regulations to keep books showing the quantity of whiskey they use in the manufacture of their pro duct, have been making a very handsome profit by addition, division and silence with the crooked distillers. The Govern ment officials are giving the matter their attention. LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. In the Senate, a petition was presented from the State Grange, asking that agri cultural interests have the fostering care of the State, and the continuance of the Agricultural Bureau. On a second reading : The bill authoriz ing the employment of convicts on public works of Harris and other counties, was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The bill authorizing the granting of one new trial in all civil cases when there is proper application. Same reference. The bill making,,the Judges of County Courts and Clerks of Superior Courts Or dinaries in case the Ordinary is disquali fied, had the same reference. The bill making improper use of money in the hands of judiciary officers a felony, had the same reference. The bill organizing a new judical cir cuit, to be known as the Apalachee, had the same reference. The bill regulating legal advertising by Ordinaries, Sheriffs and others, had the same reference. The bill prescribing the time for the payment of costs in the Supreme Court, and fixing salary for Deputy Clerk of said Court, had the same reference. The bill consolidating the offices of Col lector and Receiver created considerable discussion on the part of Senators Reese, Winn and Cooper, and the bill was finally referred to a special committee of five, whom President Simmons designated to be Senators Reese, Winn, McDaniels, McAfee, of the 30th, and Deadwiler. nr THE HOUSE. On the call of the roll of counties, eigh. ty new bills were introduced and read the first time—fifty-nine local or private, and twenty-one public bills. Dr. Thomas introduced a bill to regu late the sale of poisons in this State ; also to punish foeticide and criminal abortion. Mr. Warren—To make it criminal to purchase goods at cash sale, and dispose of them without paying for them. Mr. Kilpatrick—To make the offense of horse stealing a capital offense, unless the jury recommend the culprit to the mercy of the court. Bacon, colored,’of Liberty—To make it a misdemeanor to plant a cro{f without erecting around it a lawful fence. Mr. Duncan—A bill to provide a State currency. This bill provides for the issu ing of Treasury notes in an amount not to exceed eight million dollars, receivable in payment of all taxes, redeemable in six percent, bonds, payable twenty years from the issuing of the currency. The bill further provides for the lending of the notes on certain conditions. Mr. Irwin—To amend section 4127 ef the Code. It provides for the assessment of jury fees as part of the cost. Mr. McGill—To exempt from taxation by county and municipal authorities of practitioners of law, medicine or dentist ry. Mr. Miller, of Ware—To exempt from taxation persons having lost an arm or leg. Mr. Hall—To make it a misdemeanor to purchase farm products from laborers who are indebted to their employers for supplies without the consent of employer. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Washington, January 19.—The Secre tary of War has returned. The Appro priations Committee have agreed to reduce the missions to France, England and Russia from $17,006 to $14,000, and al! $12,000 missions to $10,000. The mis sion to Greece is abolished. Morton read his Mississippi speech, showing that he took unusual pains with it. He usually speaks extempo raneously. In the Senate, Sherman presented a pe tition of citizens of Ohio asking for the construction of the Southern Pacific Rail road. Wallace presented the petitions of citizens of Pennsylvania for Congressional aid in the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The bill amending the charter of the Freedman’s Bank passed. Davis’ treasury investigation was dis cussed, but laid aside for Morton, who commenced his Mississippi investigation resolution speech, and before the conclu sion the Senate went into executive session and adjourned. Wasuigton, January 19.—The House special committee on the Texas border troubles, at their meeting to-day, decided to call on the Secretary of War and ask him if he could detail an adequate force to protect the frontier. The committee expressed the opinion that two regiments of cavaliy are required for active opera- rations at the more exposed points, and also infantry to guard the posts, and the committee will so inform the Secretary. They also will ask for all reports in posses sion of the department in relation to raids from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. In the House, the Post Office Committee reported unfavorably on the bill to reduce first-class mail matter to one cent per half ounce. On the Centennial, Sterger, of Pennsyl vania, and Felton, of Georgia, spoke against the bill. No Southerners spoke in its favor to-day. Mr. Wood, of New York, has made a good beginning in a business which ought to have been long since ended. He offer ed yesterday, and the House adopted a resolution instructing the Military Com mittee to inquire into the anomolous con dition of those commissioned officers of the army who, like Babcock, are civilians in authority drawing pay for civil services, while they- are liable, at a moment’s notice, when anything unpleasant occurs, to turn up in full uniform, clamoring for “Courts of Inquiry.” The Judiciary Committee of the House agreed to report, and subsequently did report to the House, a one-term Presiden tial constitutional amendment. It prevents any one “who has held” as well as those “who may hold” said office from being again eligible. Washinton, January$4—It was stated in the World a few days since that it had been discovered that the Republicans had so fixed the standing rules that it was found impossible for a Democratic House to secure an item of reform or retrench ment on the bills which appropriated nearly two hundred millions out of the Public Treasury. According to the eter nal fitness of things, the Republicans had so arranged it that extravagance should be in order—that is, an appropriation called fpr existing law or a salary could be raised, but could not be decreased.— The Democrats determined to reverse this proceeding, and it was ratified in the House to-day. Mr. Cox offered an amendment from the Committee on Rules reversing this rationale, and though the Republicans opposed it, it passed easily. Washington, January 24—Secretary Fish was to-day before the House Com mittee on Foreigh Affairs by invitation, and in general terms informed the com mittee of the present condition of the Cuban question. He did not specifically state the terras of the circular recently addressed to foreign nations on that subject, but intimated it merely asked their moral support in the event of medi tation or intervention by the United States. Alluding to the recent Madrid telegraph despatches giving an outline of Spain’s reply to the American circular, he said he did not regard its tone as un friendly. As to the negotiations now in progress, they were conducted in a con ciliatory manner on both sides and- cer tainly threats on the part of the United States, and he hoped that the negotiations would terminate satisfactorily. He was willing that the correspondence should be laid before the House, and this would be done should that body call for it. Subsequently a resolution was passed calling for the correspondence, which will be communcated by the President to the House. The following is from the Fort Smith, (Ark.) Independent, and it shows an encouraging state of affairs in the west. The farmers are now in a better con dition than they have been for ten years, with plenty of everything to eat, an5 a good crop of eotton. Indeed, they are almost independent, and the whole coun try feels their prosperity. One more year of good crops will redeem the farm ers and place Arkansas on the road to prosperity. ^ WORK IN CONGRESS. What The Democratic Majority of the House has Accom plished. [Special Dispatch to the World.] Washington, January 17.—It is hardly a week since the House of Rep resentatives got fairly at Work after the holiday intermission, yet the Democratic majority is criticised for not having al ready effected important legislation, and for conceding to the Republican minor ity certain righto. This is a very blear- eyed premature criticism indeed. In point of fact the record of the Democrats, who numerically control the House, has been exceptionally good, and is free from the tyranny and insos lence which for half a score of prece ding years marked the conduct of the Republican majority there. First, the Democrats elected their very best man for Speaker. Second, the Speaker des ignated a list of excellent committees, in which precedence was given to the ablest and most honorable members on both sides of the Chamber. Third, by modest demeanor and perfect good hu mor towards their foes, the Democrats encouraged Republicans to show their hands at the outset of the session. Fourth’, every Republican palm held up was Boiled; notably Blaine’s. This cunning trickster played a desperate card for popularity and lost. His error at the latest moment was in affixing to the Republican party of th s House the odium of refusing amnesty to every re pentant rebel. Fifth, the Democrats, during these preliminary days, have been singularly easy among themselves. No uiau has been elected as a floor bul ly, and no one has nominated and sus tained himself in that capacity with anything like the parliamentary success of ex-Speaker Blaine. Sixth, several legislative measures of great importanoe have been introduced in the House by Demporats, and several more are pre paring in committee rooms. The prin cipal bill of national concern which has been brought to the attention of the House is the one fathered by Mr. Payne, of Ohio, which steps directly onward to wards Specie Payments by securing an accumulation of gold at the yearly rate of 5 per cent, by the Government on the amount of legal tenders, and by the banks on the amount of national bank ourrenoy, and which also repeals Sher man’s sham resumption act By these simple processes this bill proposes to ac cumulate gold iu the Treasury at the rate of about $35,000,000 a year. Sev enth, preliminary moves foi the re trenchment of national expenditures have been made by Democrats, and sanctioned by the’ House,. Every stand ing committee has been instructed by the House to inquire into and report upon the expenses and expenditures of every department of the Government. The War Department, the Navy De partment, the Department of the In terior and its adjuncts, the Post-Office Department, the Printing Bureau— these and all the rest are to render their accounts for the first time in years to. the people’s representatives, and that through the regular committees of the House, without the expense of special committees. To Mr. Kerr is due the credit of thus spurring the regular com mittees to their work, and rendering the appointment of special investigating committees needless. Such is the record which the Demo cratic majority in the House of Repre sentatives has made in the present opening stage of thesession. Its errors have been on the side of charity towards the minority; yet it showed to-day how easily at need it coaid crash that minority’s impertinence, by voting out of sight the proposition of Mr, White, of Kentucky, to suspend the rules for the purpose of giving the Re publicans another chance to extend am nesty to everybody in the South except Jeff. Davis. In a Bad Fix.—It is said that the grangers of Kentocky have been so ex clusive in electing farmers to the Legis lature that the Speaker is unable to find lawyers enough in that body from which to construct the Committee on the Judiciary. Of the one hundred members, less than a dozen are lawyers, and of these more than one-half are not profoundly versed in legal lore. Both Houses and Senate adjourned on Wednesday, out of respect to tbe memo ry of Gen. Lee. Amnesty Debate. We find the following able article in the Loaisville Courier-Journal, and ia by far the most reasonable, best torn* pered, logical, truthful argument we have yet seen in print, North or South, on tbe subject of the recent amnesty debate : We waive the question of sectional strife called up by this very unhand some and 1 insineere maneuver. The history of the country, and particularly the history of the South, will not suffer from discussion, no matter what may happen to contemporaneous politics. Mr. Hill’s magnificent rejoinder to Mr. Blaine may receive ten times the abuse which has been heaped upon it, but the facts which it gave to the public have not been answered, and cannot be an swered. The conduct of the North in its invasion of the South was marked by all the brutality which accompanies the polioy of subjugation. Its conduct to our prisoners was at least equal in atrocity to that described by Mr. Blaine and with less excuse. These things belong to domestic feuds. We are wil ling to pass them by, but don’t shrink from their consideration, seeing that we must consider the policy of the Re publican party since the war, which has been far more vicious. Mr. Blaine’s boasted magnanimity is to-day signal ized in the commercial ruin of all the States ‘‘lately in rebellion,” brought about by the Republican scheme of re construction. If there has been any let-up in the spirit of hftte inaugurated by the Republican leaders immediately after the Confederates laid down their arms it has not been the resalt of any clemency within the bosoms of those leaders, but has been impelled by the better nature as well as the better judg ment of the Northern people, who, like the Southern people, are not obdurate ly malignant nor insensible to the every day interests of Society and business. To the sober minded and adaptable ge- nius of the American character, and not to the wooden-headed fanaticism of Radical politicians, do the Confederates who sit in Congress owe their seats, and if it is to be understood that they hold them upon a tenure of good behavior, to be determined by Mr. Blaine and his followers, the country should be ad vised of tho fact so that they may ob serve a discreeter silence than that from which this present partisan raid was confessedly meant to draw them. Looking at Mr. Blaine’s movement from this standpoint does it not justify die descriptive epithets applied with so much effect by Mr. Cox ? But if Mr. Blaine thinks it profitable to engage in the work of stirring up sectional pas sion, how much more discreditable is it in the political party which finds it nec essary to appeal to those passions as a last remaining reason why a people who need and who want peace should retain it in power ? The people of the North and South hated each other with suffi cient bitterness during their period of difference. There was no love wasted on either side. They fonght it out. The origihal bone of contention was re moved. Neither that nor any other rensona-, ble cause of quarrel remains. Is it the interest, of the country that, barring any present controversy, the two sec tions should go back und resume their ancient lines of battle under chieftains who never drew a blade nor fired a shot when heroes were at the front? We think not, bnt when-we are dared to face the consequences of the part we played in the events of an era which has now passed into history* we shall neither blush nor grow pale. The South is eoDseded by all the world to have borne itself manfully in war. In peace its leaders have observed both fortitude and dignity. The Republican party and tbe Republican press have done nothing since the close of the war but vilify the South and its people. Mr. Hill spoke the sentiment of every in telligent Southern man, and in the most conservative and non-partisan spirit his words will be endorsed all over the South. He might have kept bis peace and but for Mr. Blaine’s effusion he wonld have kept it. Is it expected by honorable men in the North that we should be forever asking their forgive ness ; that we should be perpetually on oar knees before them, and that- we should return insults the most studied and authoritative with whining pleas for peace ? That is out of character, sot in human nature, and against all the recognized principles of public policy which should at all times be based upon sincerity and candor. Mr. Blaine has violated both, and that io a manner the most barefaced, and we put Mr. Hill’s well-timed and well-expressed impru dence against a book full of such Hy pocrisy. It will not wear, because It will deceive no one; it will not win, be cause it is opposed to every serious Amer ican interest. We may add, in conclusion, that, whilst we regret the ill blood precipi tated by Mr. Blaine’s plot against the better temper of CcAgress and the conn- try, we are by no means afraid of its political consequences. If the Ameri can people are to be prosperous and happy, if the American Government is to retain its free and eqdal functions, and if the American Union is to last, the foundation of all the must be tbs contentment of both l tions, the consent of all the people W ing necessary to the healthful growth of our institutions. If the one seetieh is to punish the other section and nee versa, as the one or the other hsppeRS to have the power to do so, the aays «t (he Republic are numbered. Thus hit the policy of vengeance has been exclu sively one-sided. Mr. Blaine advertis es it for tbe next campaign, acid m are perfectly ready to meet him Epon the line laid down by Randall, Oox, and Hill. All of their positions are I ble as matters of foot attd i THE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION- A Letter From Ex-Senator el8-—Facts for Senator Mofi* ton to Ponder. H. R. Revels, tbe colored ex-United States Senator from Mississippi, haft written a lettor in regard to the late election in chat State, whiefa takes the ground that the Republioaus were dm feated through their own eerruptton,.. The publication of this letter is oppof* tune, as it may materially assist Sena* tor Morton in arriving at the truth should his resolution to investigate that election be adopted by the Senate> The letter, which is dated Holly Springs, Miss., November 6, and appeared first in the Yieksburg Herald, is addressed to President Grant, and reads as fob lows .* “My Drab Sir—In view of the M* suits of the recent election ia our Stats, I have determined to>Writft you a letter canvassing the situation and giving you my views tbereon. I will premise by saying that I am no politician, though having been honored by a seat ia the United States Senate. I never have sought political preferment, nor do I ask it now, but am engaged-in my call* ing, (the ministry,) and feeling an earn* est desire for tbe welfare of all the pe0* pie, irrespective of race or color, I nave deemed it advisable to submit to-you, for consideration, a few thoughte in re gard to the political situation in thift Slate. Since reconstruction, tbe mss* sea of my people have been, ss it were, enslaved in mind, by unprincipled ad* venturers, who, earing nothing for the country, were willing to stoop to any* thing, no matter how infamous, to fto* cure power to themselves and perpet uate it. My people are naturally Re publicans, bat as they grow older iR freedom so do they in wisdom. AgrtSt portion of them have learned that they were being used as mere tools, and,, at in the late election, not being abte te ■ correct the existing evil among them selves, they determined by casting their ballots against these unprincipled ad* venturers to overthrow them. My peo ple have been told by these schematic when men were placed upon tiro ticket •- who were notoriously corrupt and dir* honest, that they must vote for thceet i that the salvation of the party dtpm». i ed upon it; that the man whc scratahed t a ticket was not a Republican. Thisia only one of the many means these ma» lignant demagogues have devised to , perpetuate the intellectual bondage of my people To defeat this policy «t the late election, men, irrespective of , race or party affiliation, united and Vot ed together against men known to bit incompetent and dishonest. “I cannot recognise, nor do the mas* i sesof my people who read recognize the majority of the officials wbo havn been in power for the past two years SS “ Republicans. We do not betters that ) Republicanismweans corruption, theft , and embezzlement. Theee three offim- ses have been prevalent among a great portion of our office-holders ; to them must be attributed the defeat of tbs Republican party in the State, if de feat there was, but I, with all the fights before me, look upon it as an uprising of tbe people, tbe whole people, to erush out corrupt rings and men from power. The bitterness and hate created by the late civil stifo has, in my opinion, been obliterated in this State, except, per haps, in some localities, and would have long since been entirely effaced were it not for some unprincipled men who would keep alive the bitternesa of the past and inculcate a hatred between this races, in order that they may Sggrandise themselves by office and its emoluments to control my people, tbe effect of which is to degrade them. I give yon **y opinion that had oar State administra tion adhered to Republican principles, and stood by the platform upon which it was elected, the State to-day would have been on the highway of prosperity.. If the State administration had aavaae- . ed patriotic measures, appointed only honest and competent men to office, and sought to restore confidence between the ness, bloodshed wonld have bean unknown, peace wonld havepcwvailed. Federal interference been unthought of, and harmony, friendship and mutual confidence would have taken Umpteen of the bayonet. In eonefamioo, left messy - to yon, and through yen So the pnt Republican party of Urn North, that I deemed it my duty, in behalf of my people, that I present these diets, ia or der that they and tbe white people (tbeir former owners) should noVsafihv' misrepresentation which goguesi