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■fin Weekly Soe RICHARD H. WHITELEY, Editor 7 Morning St-ptembcr lTth 1574 vrms BEPUBLICAN TICKET ! FOR 44TH CONGRESS. SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DIST. RICHARDH. WHITELEY, OP DECATUR. FOR THE LEGISLATURE HAYES, A. J. NICHOLSON, PEOPLE. Ruft-AtYiß fcr Everybody. record. We publish f*‘ tt*e information and reflec tion of the pouffe of'the second Congressional district, the scnWWifctttu of Mr. Greeley on the worst feature s os ttoo Social Equality pet of the Democratic We hope every voter iu the District wifctvsad and remember, that the very men who Urged them two years ago to vote for Mr. Greeley knowing that he en tertained ami published such sentiments,now tirge them to vote Against Majoi Whit cloy be cause he voted ui.der a suspension of the rules of the House of Representatives, which did not permit kha to either speak, or am,end the bill, in favor of additional Civil Rights for the colored people. These men further know that the Civil Rights Dill is still in the House of Representative and trill be open to both dis cussion an/l amendment at the next session of Congress. They further know tllat the bill will be both discussed and amended before it becomes a law. Now if they could swallow Greeley with his record why is it that they howl so over Major R'lutcley’s votes. The answer is. they want to excite and mislead the jwople tor the simple purpose of getting into office. Will the people permit them to drive from our midst the labor of the country and further impoverish us ? CIVIL RIGHTS AS UNDERSTOOD AND ENDORSED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN TIIEIR SUPPORT OF HORACE OREEI.EY IN 1572. OFEET.EY PLATFORM. “We recognize the equality of all men be fore the law, and hold that it is the duty of Government, in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political.” “But this thing is certainly clear—that tui» tier the Constitution, in its most liberal in terpretation, and admitting our cherished American doctrine of equal human rights, if a white man pleases to marry a black woman, Hie mere fact she is black gives no one a right to interfere to prevent or set aside such mar riage. If a man can so far conquer his re pugnance to a blac k woman as to make her the mother of his children, we ask, in the name of the divine law, and of decency, why ho should not marry her? ITo arc not ’in fa vor of any law compelling a Democrat to mar ry a negress, unless under circumstances which might compel him to marry a white woman or go to prison; hut we insist that if -a Democrat or anybody else, is anxious to en ter into such union, His not for the Legisla ture to forbid him or for his fellow creatures to pronounce him a violation of the law of na ture and God'—Horace Greeley—Tribune of march 16, 1864. “If our correspondent means, would you by law prohibit and punnisli intermarriage between white and black, our answer must be, •No, we would not.’ Civil law has no warrant to interfere in matters of taste. If such a couple were resolved to marry we would inter pose no legal obstacle, and desire none."—Hor ace Greeley—Tribune of July 31, 1865. “When Richard M. Johnson (Democratic Vice-President of the United States) married a negro and raised, a large family by her, no Democrvhc stomach revolted,"Horace Greeley — Tribune of March 17, 1864. “All do know that there are several hund red thousand mulattoes in this country; and we presume that no one has any serious doubt that the fathers of at least nine-tenths of them are white Democrats. We assert that Democrats, if they will have yellow children, might better than otherwise‘treat the moth ers respectively as wives after the laudable pattern of that eminent Democrat, Vice-l’ves ident Richard M. Johnson.”— Horace Greeley December 10,1867. ‘'We have already assured the Virginian that the Editor of this journal went to the same common school with black children, not for a few days, but for three winters; sat on the same bench, and recited in the same classes with them, and received no possible damage therefrom. Why not take notice of this assurance? And we know of no rural school district in New England from whose school colored children are excluded”— Hor ace Greeley—Tribune of January 16, 1872. "I hope the time will conie when our ed ucational institutions anil seminaries will be open to men of all races, with a free dom, with a hospitality which has never yet been enjoyed. I trust the time will come when no man’s color will exclude him from any religious organization what ever."—Greeley 1872. DEMOCRATIC CONSISTENCY AND HONESTY. The following utterances from the mouth of Horace Greeley, and known to the democratic party previous to tlu-ir nomination and sup port of him for President ought to be remem bered by the people. WHAT H. O. KNEW ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC TARTY IN JULY, 1860. ‘‘The utter impotence and paralysis into which the once proud and powerful Democratic party has fallen is evinced in many wavs, but in none more strikingly than in the character of its lies and liars. How its orators and jour nals used absolutely to lain calumnies on Adams and Clay and Harrison, and in later days on Seward and Fremont! — none of your little, contemptible, picayune falsehoods,' but great, fat, black lies, that had venom and sting in them—lies that evinced originalitv, audacity, and even genius.”— 2nbuue July y, 1860. * ’ WHAT H. G. KNEW ABOUT TRAITORS IN MAY 1861. “ When the Rebellious Traitors are over whelmed in the Field, and scattered like leaves before an angry wind, it must not be to re turn to peaceful and contented homes. Thev must find poverty at their firesides, and set privation in the anxious eyes of mothers and the rags of children.”— Horace Greeley, Tri bune, Mag 1, 1861. WHAT U. G. KNEW ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PAR TY IN MARCH, 1871. “The Democratic party of to-dav is simply the Rebellion seeking to achieve ' its essen tial purposes within and through tin- Union. A victory which does not enable it to put its feet on the necks of the black race seems to the hulk of its adherent* not worth having. Its lu art is just wlrtfcu it was when it regard ed .Slavery and the Constitution as two names tor one thing. It hates the Generals who led the Union Armies to victory, and rarely misses a chance to disparage them, it clings to that exaggerated notion ot state Rights which makes them the shield ol ail mo.m or of wrongs and abuses. It takes counsel of its liases even more than of its aspirations, and will he sat istied with no triumph teat does Lin result in the exi u sion of all active, i aru est Republicans from the South.” ?W'-n,(c Mart i i 33, 1871* W HAT 11. G. KNEW ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC TAR TY IN APRIL, !S7l. ‘•To “loyt rum and hate niggers" lets so h'Ug' t-i-i-n the essence of the Democratic raith that the. cooler, wiser heads of the party vain b their strength in efli.-rts to lift ii out of negro-liatc- was an element of positive fi i cngtli in our political contests, so that the Constitutional Conventions of this ayd other tree States were usually carried by the* Deans ci at son the strength of appeals to the coarser andjjbascr white s to the nigger know bis place. **yWfrut#e Ajn'U 7 1871, OIA IL UIC.UTS AS ENDORSED BY TIIE REPUBLICAN 1 PARTY. REPUBLICAN PLARFOKM. “Complete liberty and exact equality in the enjoyment of all civil, political and public lights should he established and ottectnally laaintamed throughout the Union by efficient and appropriate State and FederallegishUion. Neither the law nor its administration should admit any discrimination in respect of eiti tinehy reason of race, creed, color, or previ «-v condition of servitude.” President Grant- in liis Inaugural address March 4tli 1*73- after being elected on the above platform said; “The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. He is not poscsscd of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected;. To this cor rection I stand committed, so far as executive influence ran avail, Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that any tbipg bedoue to advance the social status oftHpSblnred man, except to give him a fair cbaitCe to develop what there is good in him. Give him access to schools,and when he traids iet him feel assured that bis con duet will regulate the treatment and fare he wiU'reeeive. ’ 'V; the Ist of I),--. w-i p ; . ts kb. *d -»»;« •- 1 ' ruial ,ues*»gr said; ’ r->ujoui cunaiilathe enact ■»i. u ui n ..tW to better secure the Ci vil Rights which freedom should secure, hut Ims not ef fectually secured to the enfranchised slave.” Passion not Reason is to Rule. f ihe intelligent citizen cannot but notice the course beingpursued by the Democrat ic party in the present canvas. It began by appeals to the passion and prejudice of the people. It has improved as the can vas progressed, by the addition of a series of printed circulars, alleging outrages by blacks upon the white people of the coun try. and urging upon the latter to assert their manhood and unite for the overthrow of the radical party. No party has ever before resorted to such base means to in flame the minds of an intelligent people. Rapes, murders, exaggerated accounts of j sayings or doings of colored are pa j raded before the people by unsci’upelous demagogues who seek but to arouse the races to madness, regardless of its conse quences or the peace and prosperity of our section. Whilst pretending to be the special advocates of the white man and his interest, they urge him to a madness t hat cannot fail to disgrace both his intel ligence and sense of justice. In every home these inflamatory circulars are found, all appealing to the white men against the ; black and tending both in word and spirit ;to bring about a collision between the races. Is it to be wondered at, that we meet with and see so much lawlessness, hear of so much disregard of the rights of ! citizenship; find the press of the country teeming with outrages so horrifying that a partisan press dose' not defend them? Is not all this the very result of what has gone before, the natural end of such teach ings? We are not surprised at the result, but we confess our surprise at the teachers and teaching” refered to. j We recollect in 18G1 when after a full I canvas of Georgia the people had evident ily determined to remain in the Union and | not follow in the wake of the secession j leaders of that day, that just this same I policy was adopted and every mail brought us from Washington accounts of the wrongs that were being perpetrated upon us. These accounts were sent in circulars all over the country, just as the hot heads of the present day are doing with the ac counts of outrages committed by negroes, and by such means the people were actu ally forced out of a Union that had been and was then a blessing to them. Men who were convinced when surround ed by reason that no cause for seceding existed, forgot in the midst of the passion and hate arroused and created by such means their just conclusions, and became wild with the spirit that deluged our laud in blood and reduced us to poverty. Pas sion not reason ruled the hour, and with the disappeareuce of reason and the ad vent of passion amongst us came the un numbered woes that for years have affect ed us. It was passion that defeated the Union men of Georgia in 1861, and that placed the Soutli in the chains of a despot ic intolerance that is a disgrace to any age or country. To that great error we again direct the good men of this section of Georgia; and appealed to them in the name of past sufferings endured by our people, past follies committed; to not again become the slaves of passion, but to cling to rea son as the great anchor of our national and sectional hopes. With reason uppermost, onr sense of justice will not be deadened;our sympathy for right not destroyed; our duty as a common citizenship not forgotten; our hu manity as a civilized people not disgraced, our respect for law and order not disre garded. But with reason gone and pas sion in its stead, we are on a limitless sea without chart, compass, or rudder, without even a solitary star from which to hope. The Effect of Democratic Vio lence and Satolerence. We clip the following from the Louis ville Courier Journal published in Louis ville Kentucky one of the most influential democratic papers in the United States: We give it up. There wa3 a chance that the next House of Representatives would not be Radical. That chance is gone. The outbreaks in Kentucky and the massacre in Tennessee settle that much. No people, no party, could stand under such a load as the people of the South and the Democratic party of the North are forced to carry. Since the above was written the spirit of intolerance and hate taught and cherish ed by th.e Democratic party, have added tenfold to the deeds of murder and outrages recited in the paragraph quoted. From all parts of the South the cry goes up to the Seat of Government that freedom of opinion and of speech are but imaginary rights in a land of freedom, and that the leaders of that Democratic party are en gaged in inculcating intolerance and hate both of sections and of race, for the pur ; pose of obtaining political power. The country cannot fail to see who is responsi ble for such crimes. The negro is power loss to protect himself much less to harm others, and the white republicans of the South are even in a more defenseless state than the colored people. Both want law and order for the protection of person and property, yet the intelligence of our sec- I tions represented by the Democratic party | seem to look with total indifference on the | condition of affairs, and through desperate i men and by appeals to the passions of the ’ whole people incite and urge a lawlessness ; that all good people should denounce. If the men of influence and experience I in our State and section, would discounte ! nance and denounce such conduct as is being'indulged in all over our State, it would cease; but tlveir silence gives to it an endorsement that adds to its violence and to our shame. As long as hot headed men are applauded for sentiments that disgrace onr manhood and citizenship, we cannot expect or look for reason and jus tice to control. When hatred of the Gov eminent under which we live and defiance of its power and authority, are taught and received as the sentiments of patriotism, I the reflecting citizen cannot fail to see where we are drifting. So soon as we as j sent to such doctrines we arc ready to treat every one who differs with U3 as a i public enemy, and this is where the demo cratic party of the South is to day, and | this is why the deeds of violence and ! bloodshed obtain in our section. Gov, Jos' E ilrmvn s Letter on Civil Eights; The Ex-Governor is again in print. He has a peculiar faculty for securing, a- share of the situation and particularly so when there is anything in it that can be utilized. lie has the sense to see that, the hot h-'adsare making something out of the Civil rights sensation, and Joseph must !, . .:io share ol the thunder, li .a uiis- take not he came in second or third in the role of secession in 1861, and he is in the same category in 1874 as to Civil Rights. The Governor never did lead but once, and that whs when he championed reconstruction. Ilow for his previous un pardoned attempts to destroy the Union, influenced his advice to accept the situa tion, that, time can alone determine. His letter is a glorification of himself and his course on the only political issue he was ever right in. aud in that light may be ex cused as an ebttlition of personal vanity. The Governor’s assumption that the Civil Rights bill Is one of social equality is Very mode3t in the face of the flat denial given to such an allegation when made in the United States Senate, by every Republi can Senator in the Senate. Its dema gogneism will be under stood when it is re membered that Senator Frelinghuysen as chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, the first legal body of the Na tion after the Supreme court of the Uni ted States, distinctly denied the very as sumption of the Governors, that the bill interfered with the social relations of the citizens. The Governor uses cheap thun der of which he will be as much ashamed in five years as he is now ot his efforts to destroy the Union in 1861. TOOMBS ON THE 14tli & 15tli AMEND MENTS. INVETERATE HOSTILITY TO FREEDOM AND SUF FRAGE. General Toombs—ln due time I shall be heal’d from at length upon the great questions which arc uow before the coun try, and when I talk it will be with no un certain sound. I never was a milk-and cider politician in my life, and everybody, frieud and foe, always kuow exactly where Toombs stood. Columns of type would hardly exoress my views upon present pub lic vuestions, and yet in fifteen minutes I can give you the substance of my present political creed. I never shall acquiesce in the fourteenth aud fifteenth amendments, and I never shall tolerate the damnable doctrine that there can be good govern ment where negroes parricipate in the shaping of pnblic policy. —Atlanta Herald. Gen Toombs is a representative south ern Democrat. lie has a virtue that many of his type have not, he is honest, and speaks what he thinks. The Democratic party South think and feel like Gen. Toombs, but they are wantiug in courage to say what he does. The policy of the Democratic party South is to keep the ne gro as near a slave, as it is possible, to ad mit his freedom. For this reason they have opposed the amendment named cen tering citizenship and suffrage upon him, for the same reason they will if the oppor tunity ever occurs, attempt to destroy them. It is no mere whim, it is a well de fined line of action and nothing establish es it more conclusively than the action ot that party at the present time. Two years ago it accepted Horace Gree ley upon a platform ot “Equality before the law” for all men, and assured tiie coun try there in both platform and candidate, it meant to assure the nation beyond doubt of itsgood faith and honest acceptance of all the results of the war. Now it is en gaged in denying the very pledges it then made, and in denouncing the man it, then took to its bosom, and the principle he represented and it espoused. Such is De mocracy iu the past and at the present. De&iocracy Illustrated The following is from the Providence Journal of September 1. It will bear re perusal two cr three times. It is from a newspaper edited by Senator Henry B. An thony, Mr. Carpenter's predecessor as Presi dent of the United States Senate: No one can read the accounts of the violence and outrage in the South, without understanding their meaning. The full elections are coming on. and the Democrats have determined that the negroes shall not vote. Equally plain is the duty of thegov ernment to protect the colored citizen in the exercise of their fundamenttil rights without which the guarantee of a repub lican form of government falls. The meth od in which that duty shall be fulfilled is not so plain, but the method must be de vised. and although, in the emergency, the best one may not be adopted, hesitation would be worse than any plan that is like ly to be tried. It was thought that the madness which had so long controlled Southern politics was sufficiently punished by the war, that even the presumption and insolence of the “chivalry” had been mod erated, if not altogether corrected. But as soon as the restraints of the federal arms are removed, these people are showing their ignorance of the first principle of good, government, the contempt for all law but. the law of their own pleasure, and of all order but the order which comes of the complete ascendency of the other, where both are entitled to equal rights and privi leges. Elections carried in the way in which these people evidently intend to carry the coming Congressional elections, are not actions, and if the bloody conspiracy to pr event by force, half the electors from vo ting shall suceed at the polls, it will find an other trial in Washington. The right of the colored people to vote is secured by the slme instrument by which the whole peo ple are entitled to representation in Con gress, and if it be violated in one case, it does not operate in the other. Tennessee i/s entitled to send members to Congress, -but she must send them according to the forms of law and the provisions of the con stitution. Failing these, the men elected are no more members of Gongres than if they were appointed by the Grand Cyclops of the Ku-Klux. It may prove an easy task to overbear the timid, ignorant class, which long oppression has enervated and degraded; it will be quite another matter to force into the House xis Representatives men, the first condition of whose election was to drive half the electors into the woods, to prevent them from voting. We cautioned the people weeks ago in re card to the effects of intolerance, proscrip tion and hate as taught by the hot heads who now direct the democratic pautv Already have they aroused the whole North to a sense of the danger which menaces the Union and from every State accustomed to law, order and justice, conies the warning voice of an outraged people. Asew T more weeks of violence and outrrge by the Dem ocratic party and an Exra Session of Con gress will be called and the question there settled. Is freedom of opinion of speech and of the ballot the right of an American citizen. The Democartic Party and Civil Eights We call the careful attention of our readers to the article from the Washing ton National Republican under the above caption, 'l l,ls paper is the Organ of the President, and it will be seen takes the same view of the Civil Rights bill that we Jo. It asserts that the bill recognizes the right of the several States to regulate the enjoyment of the rights conveyed iu the bill, by providing equal separate accommo dations foi each race. Q?he2ieal Issue. The “social equality” feature of the “Civil Rights Dill” appears so enormous to white men, that in the South it has overshadowed every otlict issue in the po litical campaign and become the only issue It has had the effect also of isolating the black race, and changing the contest in the coming elections from party to i ate supremacy. It is impossible to raise the colored race to the elevated position at tained by white men in the social scale, and Southern men, at least, decline to be lowered to the standard of the negro, by Oongressjpnal legislation. r I he issue there fore is a real one and likely to be a serious one. The South will not yield, even to the superior wwei’ of the Government, and if this mcur&a “ war of races," so be it. — Thoniaswille Times. "We copy the above from the Democratic organ of Thomas county. It shows the wot'l ing men of this country that the hot heads mean war, and war means that the hot heads are to stay in soft places, and the poor men do the fighting. The Future of the Colored Race- The advice of Mr. Frederick Douglass that the Southern negroes should emigrate to those States where the colored people are already either in the majority or very close to it, has alarmed the Richmond En- Th/\t journal has come to the conclusion that he cannot be dispensed within Virginia. “As silly and senseless,” it say§, “as we know him to be politically, we are “not ready yet to part with him.” Then, why don’t you treat him fairly and squarely?—Vi it. Re p. The course of the Democrats in the Second district will enable Mr. Douglass to have his counsel not only heard but heed ed. 'l'he planters are now “sowing the wind” and may ere long “reap the whirl wind.” When the folly and madness of the present is felt in the emagration of the labor of our section under Mr. Douglass’ advice, remember who did it. Col Jack Brown. We copy the following to show the gen eral system of proscription and intolerance inaugurated by the hot heads in Georgia. Wf.ix’omf.d. —Jack Brown the “ground hog” candidate for Congress in this dis trict, has been joyously received into the arms of Whitely, who endorses him as a worthy bearer of the standard of equality, and a’fit companion for himself, 't his is rough on Jack, and fixes npon him what he seemingly would avoid—the support of the Civil Rights bill—and brands him a scalawag of the blackest water, wholly un worthy the respect or support of any white man. We are sorry to see any one who ever “wore the grey” tluig bring down upon himself the unfeigned disgust and con tempt of his former friends and fellow soldiers. Jack, can you not muster up moral courage enough to follow the exam ple of Freeman in the sth District, and wash your hands of this dirty civil rights issue? Are you willing, for the chances of an office, the slim chances you have, to give up the friendship and respect of jour neighbors? Reflect, and before it is too late come out from among them and leave Whiteley to do the dirty work for his par t) r . —Lumpkin Independent. Well this may read well in Georgia, but how about its sound at Washington. “Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad*” Another VJ ar. We copy the extract below from the Atlanta News, a democrat paper: An overwhelming majority of the white men lif this country are hostile to a con tinuation of the rule of Jdie negro and white adventurer in the South If the Federal government will keep its hands oft', November next will witness the downfall of the black oligarchy. If it persists in its interference, then, in view of the almost certain success of the Civil Rights bill, we believe it time for Southern men every where to organize and prepare for revolu tion. Let us stand ready to resist the en forcement of the Civil Rights bill, and the maintenance of negro governments by Fed eral bayonets. And when the contest does begin. Ictus call upon those of the Northern people who sympathize with us, to give us their aid in tearing down the infamous radical government which seeks to force eight millions of white men down to a level with four millions of negroes. If force alone can destroy the Radical par ty, then we must not shrink from using it, and the sooner it is used the earlier w ill be terminated the political struggles which are retarding the development of the South, and injuring the entire country. This is the way the secessionists talked in 1861, only they then hooted at the idea of the Yankee's fighting, and wanted to take a dozen apiece for their share. We will wager all we are worth that should the hot heads plunge the South into war over the rights of the negro, that not one of the loud mouthed patriots who would aid in bringing it on. would stand gunpowder six months. Bombproofs-Substitutes and ev ery other device would be resorted to to get the patriots out of danger and every imaginable oppression devised to keep the poor men of the country in to the hottest of the fray. Go it democracy. Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad. The following is from the Milwaukee Sentinel of the first: Our readers have probably seen it mild ly stated once or twice in Democratic jour nals that all this lawlessness is the result of Republican rule; that with a change in the IS t ate governmens to Democratic con trol the mantle of peace would “fall like the gentle rain from heaven” over the whole distracted country, and wars and fightings be heard of no more. But, unfortunately for the force es any proposition of this kind, some of the States are already under Demo cratic control, and these are no better than the others. The Courier Jour nal. the ablest and most prominent Demo cratic journal iu the South, has the man liness. to come forth boldly and depict the miserable state of affairs in Kentucky as they are. That State is Democratic to the backbone, and has never possessed even a single Republican officeholder in the whole of its existence. The Courier-Journal , af ter reviewing the numerous outrages which have resulted from the inefficiency of the State government, makes a strong appeal for the people to redeem themselves. It concludes aw able article as fol^jws; W e speak not only in the name ofa great and honored commonwealth, with its mul tiplied interests, but at the bidding of an outraged humanity, which Ims cowered for years under the outlaw's heel and the bul ly's pistol, and we speak as soberly and as unexeitedly as ever we did iu the world, appealing earnestly, and after long forbear ance, to the good sense and the good im pulses of our fellow-citizens, to make these present events the occasion of $ noble and terrible popular demonstration for law and order. We have no desire to defend a single cor rupt or incapable Republican official in the South. We should rejoice to see dishonesty and fraud punished no matter by whose hands they are perpetrated. The fact re mains, however, that in the majority of ca es the disturbances have arisen from the prosecution and intimidation of the blacks by those calling themselves Democrats, tha . v-.n jja*..os in dwindled at t| u , box is established beyond perad venture, and we have not a word of deiens for either side; but the Giant parish massa cre was at the hands of the Democrats. The White Leagues are composed of Demo cratic members, a-ud so far as the danger of a war of races is concerned, the Democrats are entirely responsible for it, For misgov ernment and election frauds, let the Repub licans in the South take the share of the crime that belongs to them. Honest offi cials are wanted. An houest man, though a Democrat, is better than a dishonest Re publican; but as honest Democratic politi cians in the Southern States have shown themselves to be about as scarce as white blackbirds, we do not look to them to sed that the negroes secures his rights. 'l’he North is looking forward to the so lotion of the Southern problem with great anxiety; and let us trust that wisdom will be given to the administration to do what is best. Ixt the candid men who wish peace and prosperity read the above and discern the real cause of our troubles and the hvpocri* ey of the pretensions of the democratic party. THJG DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND CIVIL. RIGHTS I’he Democratic party—North, South, East and West—is endeavoring just now to make capital out of the so-calied civil rights bill. The charge is made by the or ators, organs and conventions of that party the Radicals, as they call them, liavo de termined to force social equality upon the country —to make, in the old ante-bellum phrase, the negro the equal of the white man. As Mr. Watterson says, the de sign is to introduce the “nigger into our tea and coffee” —to make him sleep and eat and drink with us. To avert this con dition of affairs white leagues are organiz ed in the South, a reign of blood and ter ror is inaugurated over nearly one half the extent of the Union, murder and assassin ation stalk through the land in broad day light, and helpless men, women and child ren are hunted into the woods and moun tains like so many wild beasts. Now, we maintain that in this attack upon the civil rights bill the Democracy is first inconsistent, and second is deliberate ly falseifying the position of the Republi can party. Let us examine the record, see what the civil rights bill really is, and where the opportunities stand iu regard to it. The section of the bill to which so much objection is made, the passage of which by the Senate is the pretext for the beginning of something like anew rebel- as follows: “That all citizens and other persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the free and equal enjoyment of the ac commodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres and other places of public amusement, and also of common schools and public institutions of learning or benevolence, supported in whole or in part by general taxation, and ofeemeteries so supported, and also the institutions known as agricultural colleges endowed by the United States, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.” We de ny that this makes any difference whatev er so far as the public schools are concern ed. It only declares, among other things, that.the children of black parents shall be afforded the same facilities in an educa tional point of view as the children of white parents. It leaves to the State the question as to the mode and manner in which those facilities shall be given, noth ing more and nothing less. It does not prescribe the methods, only that it shall be done. If the State wants to create mixed schools it can do so. If it does not it need not. But it mutt be done in some way That is the long and the short of it. When the question came up in the debate upon the measure Mr. Sargent wished to have it expressly stated in the bill, and to that cud offered the fol lowing proviso: “That nothing here in contained shall be construed to prohibit any State or school district from provid ing separate schools for persons of differ ent sex or color, where such separate spools are equal in respects to others of the same grade established by such au thority, and supported by an equal pro rata expenditure of school funds.” Eight Republicans voted for its insertion,but the ground was taken that the section itself plainly carried with it that meaning, and the proviso was lost. This certainly does not look like a premeditated plan to force “negro equality,” to coerce the South into the acceptance of that which is repugnant to it, which is, as its red-hot opponent de clare; “contrary to the laws of God and man.” The bill simply provides for the e lucation by the State of the children of the State—that in Virginia the black man shall not be taxed for the educatiou of the white children; that in South Carolina the white man shall not be taxed for the edu cation of black children. All the children black aud white, shall be given facilities for education, and the State can in its own way provide the machinery for it. To show the inconsistency of the De mocracy upou this point, it is only neces sary to go back and read their declaration upon the subject. In 1872, in national convention in Baltimore, that party resol ved, “That we recoganize the equality of all men before the law; and hold that it is the duty of Government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever, nativity race, color or persuasion, religious or po litical. We pledge ourselves to maintain the uuion of the States, emancipation and enfranchisement, and to oppose any reo pening of the questions settled by the thir teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend inents to the Constitution.” To show its sincerity in this declaration it nomiuated for the I’residency a man— Horace Greeley—who, in a speech at Poughkeepsie, New York, anuounced that he was in favor of mixed schools in the South. If the Democracy had succeed in that campaign it would, to carry out it platform and pledges, have to pass the very bill which it is uow biHerlv oppos ing. It promised all and ieverythiiig con tained in the civil rights hill. Again, to take the position of the Democracy in one ot the States: Last year the Pennsylva nia Democratic party supported the new constitution. The State committee of the party so advised it. Among other provisions in that instru ment is the following: “The General As sembly “shall provide for the maiutainance and “support of a thorough and efficient ..system of public schools, wherein all the ‘children of this Commonwealth, above “the age of six years, may be educated, and "ahull appropriate at least one million dol" •■lars each year for that purpose.” This i» all that the civil rights bill of Congress pre scribes shall be done. 'l’he Senate, in its passage, only followed the example of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, and fulfilled the pledges the Democracy declared they would fulfill in case they were restored to power. An education at the expense of the StSte is the birthright of every Ameri can child. The civil rights bill means that no class of American children, white or black, shall be robbed of that right; that education shall be free as the air and the sunshine. It does not prescribe mixed schools, and is only the legitimate and logi cal deduction from the declaration of the Democratic as well .as of the Republican p rty. —National Republican. Massacre of Negroes in Tennessee. Sixteen colored prisoners WefO taken out of Trenton Jail recently by a band of armed men and murdered in cold blood. This atrocity was committed by the white men of the district without any provoca tion which would give to their cowardly act even the color of justification. If the white men in the South imagine that acts like those will be tolerated by the nation they are sadly mistaken. The spirit which led the masked band at Trenton to invade the sanctuary of the law and commit a cowardly and brutal crime may yet bring on the South countless miseries. 'I he men who hate most bitterly the negro race can scarcely hope that they will be al lowed to massaere the colored people without interference; and acts like the present point to the necessity — of making tho law respected at all hazards. A revival of Ku-Klux outrages will inevitably lead to the adop tion of such repressive measures as may be necessary to the security of the peaceful inhabitants in the disturbed district. In the present case the duty of the govern ment is clear. Unless the local authorities immediately arrest and bring to justice the perpetrators of this cowardly massacre the general government should take the matter in hand and see that fitting punishment be meted out to the murderers. Such crimes are a blot on our civilization. —New York Herald. A Call for A Convention of the Republicans of th# Recon structed States. For the purpose of taking into conside ration the condition of affairs in the Re constructed States,aud to issue an address to the people of the nation, containing a true statement of the same. Republicans of these States are requested to send dele gates to a convention to be held at Chat tanooga, Tenn., October 13th, 187-L Each of said States may send as many delegates as shall be deemed advisable and such delegation will be entitled to the number of votes to which then- States re spectively are entitled in the Electoral College. All Republicans, whether of these or other States, who still earnestly seek to maintain the principles on which tile Union was defended, and to inaugurate which in the South reconstruction was begun, and who feel an interest in the preservation ol law, order, and the rights of citizenship, are invited to attend this Consultation. All should come poscssed of the facts as to tin* true condition iu theft* respective localities, so that an aulhoritive statement may be made to the country. The Republicans of the South, equally with the good citizens of other localities, demand peace aud se curity that prosperity may follow. \\ hy these are not enjoyed hy them should be made manifest by this (’ofiveution- Too best men and minds of each State should be summoned to this Council. If there are those, anywhere, who doubt as to the nurpose or capacity of Southern Republi cans, or who believe the oppressions under which they are laboring have been magni fied, let them conic and see and hear for themselves. Charles Hayes, M. C., 4th District, Ala bama; James T. Raplef, M. C., 2d District Alabama; C. C. Slieats, M. C., At Large, District Alabama; Geo. E. Sepencer, U. S. Senator, District Alabama; Boulds Baker, Texas; A Warren,Chairman Rep. S. Com., Mississippi; 0. G. Scofield,Chairman It. S. Com., West Virginia; Powell Clayton U. S. Senator, Arkansas; N. S Moore, Ken tucky; G. W. Gist, Kentucky; 11. P. Far row, Chairman Rep. S. Com.. Georgia; S. W. Dorsey, U. S. Senator, Arkansas; W. 11. H. Stowell, M. C„ 4th District, Vir ginia; J. J. Martin, Alabama; Samuel F. Maddox, State Senator, Virginia; S. B. Packard, Chairman Rep. S. Com., Loui siana. The Secesrsioti Platform ot the Democratic J?arty of the 2nd District. We call the attention of the voters of the Second Congressional District to the platform adopted by the Albany conven tion (to be found elsewhere), and announ ced by that body as the principles of the Democratic party of the District. The first resolution asserts that the General Government has no power or nghl to protect person or property, and that protection to both must come from the States and them only. This, in sub stance, declares that the 14th and 15th Amendments are null and void, and agrees with the position of Gen. Toombs, who maintains the same, and who declares in favor of another revolution to overthrow them. The second resolution asserts that the legislation provided by Congress for the protection of the citizen in the enjoyment of the freedom of opinion, of speech, and of the ballot, is null and void, and that the courts of the United States but aid in the subversion of liberty in its enforcement. The third resolution asserts that the 14th and- 15th" Amendments convey no power to deal with the citizen of the United States either to protect or punish him ; that the power is confined to dealing with the Stales as such, not citizens of the States, and that no matter how outrageous the conduct of the people of a State may be; how much the citizen may be abused in the exercise of his rights as a freeman; if the actual words of the State laws do not deny him the protection needed, the’ Gov ernment of the United States has no pow er to interfere to protect him, and all- law* 1 “ 89l ‘ and in the enjoyment of hi Sri in design, and an The fourth resolution Civil Rights Bill is intended to foment strife am “ that it is a kicked not be submitted to by t/ <e * South. Fifth resolution cratic party of the cultivate its powers of end,, Whitetey has ha„ And the sixll, resolution^:; onr gallant young men |, e . , k duty. Such is an outline of the Democratic party of the Seconder Th&t it Ims brought f,, rth y . scription, hate, blackguardism^ the country has already wil J that such conduct should l, ave " the attention of the President - induced him in the name of • " free people to interfere to pie of the South against less creditable to his head, than , How long shall the false spirit of rule our section, destroy oar u mpoverish our people? Macon, (} a ., Am, v,. The Congressional Canvas, »ist , I will address the people of th* District at the following times nj Quitman, Brooks Cos., 2nd s•. September. Dawson, Terrell Cos i urdayin September. I i nv j te .. Am. E. Smith to attend each of t I 'ointments,and discuss tfo day upon equal terms. Richard 11, ,v !: . The poor man’s man-Richard v levy Waters’ Concerto 0^ are the mos 1 beautiful in i»tyD jmd, tone ever made, 'll)*. 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