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JERE A. HOY/ARD,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, ga.
PRITCHETT 4* WOFFORD,
Attorneys at Law
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE OVER ELSAS STORE,
Oct, 17, 1867,
THOMAS W. MILNER,
Attorney at Law,
f ARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Will at'end promptly to business entrusted
l > his csre. Oct. 5 wly
J OHN J. JO NES
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cartersville, Ga.
TV TILL attend promptly to all business en
|V irusled to his care. Will practice in
the Courts of law, and equity in the Cherokee
Circuit. Special attention given to the codec
tun of claims. Jan. 1. 1806. ly
John J- Jones.
~7ThnTjTn7s
REAL ESTATE AGEIT,
CARTERSVILLE GA
I am authorized to sell, and have on hand several
house# *-»d bots, and also numerous building lots in the
towu of CArtersville. Also several plantations of vari
•ct
■ell will do well to give mo a call. AH communications
promptly answered. July T7* IS6G,
Surgeon an il
Mechanical Dentist.
T IIIIE undersigned rcspeotfully offer his pro
[ fessional services to the ctizens of (ar
•nurjlle and vicinity. >*■ is prepared
ij do all kinds of work belonging
I) his profession. Fdll setts of
t.wth put in on gold plate. Work all war
unted. F. M. JOHNSON.
Cortersville, Feb. 13. ® m °
DR. HUGH A. BLAIR,
Physician and Surgeon,
Gartersvitle, Georgia.
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional services to
the public, _ , . .
HTOllice at his residence, on Main St., late resl
i'aice of Mr. P. Marsh. June 21.
BR. o. PINKERTON,
Cartersville, Georgia
T.nder* hi* professional services to the citizens o'
sriersvilie and surrounding country, and will attend
sails at all hours. Office up-stairs in Dr. Samuel Clay-
Oo's New Brick Building. May 10. 18C7,wly
Lanier House,
MARIETTA, GA.,
KY ELLISON A, DOBBS, Proprietors
fIYHIS House is located iu a few steps of the
| Railroad, where the cars stop. Passengers
lake three meals a day here. Meals prepared
a all hours. july 24.
S. H. V at till o ,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
Will attend promptly to the Cutting,
lng and Making Boy’s and Meu’s Clothing. ](•
Office in back room of Blair & Bradshaw’s store. (1,3
Cartersville, Ga. __
The Cartersville Hotel.
DR. THOMAS MILAM having
charge of this House, would be *TiT|
phased to accommodate a few Board- g |
•m with BOARD, with oi without jJP- 1
Lodging. Call and see him at once for terms
Cartersville, Jan 17.
VW . H. MOENTCASTEE,
E Jeweller and Watcli and
w Clock. Repairer,
In the Front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s store.
Cartersville jan 25
S. O'SHIELDS,
J Fashionable Tailor ,
CARTERSVILLE. BARTOW COUNTY. GEGRGIA.
>4l IS prepared to execute all kinds
1a of work in the Fashionable Tail
*■*■ ing line,with neatness and in du- 'lit
«»bls style. O ver J. Elsas ACJ ’a store,
CartersvilU, j M 23.
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
D. H. BAILKY, G. N. ORDWAY,
Formerly 0 f Msary Cos. Os Giles County,
JAMES M. CARBKY, T. B. SEMPLE,
Os tVillianisuii county. Os Huntsville* Ala.
BAILEY, ORDWAY Si CO.
COTTON COMMISSION
■AJSTD
Wholesale Grocery Warehouse,
Nos, !i and Y Broad Street
NASIIAIEEE TENN.
,yE beg leave to return thanks to onr friends f>r the
” very liberal share of patronage bestowed
upon our house the past season, and would say that,
having enlarged our facilities for storing Cotton, we are
now prepared to give every attention to the storage,
sale, and shipment of all Oottnn our friends may en
trust to our care. We promise that every effort will
be used to secure the very highest market price, wheth
er sold here or in other maikets.
Will make Cash Advances on all cotton or other Pro
luce shipped to us. Our terms shall always be as low
as any other reliable house.
James M, t’arscy and Wm 'k .
Sample will give their undivided atUntioc.
to the Cotton Department, and will strain every n ;r?
to make it to the interest of planters Vo pal roaiz
ua
We will always keep a full stock of GROCERIES,
BAGGING, ROPE and TWINE, and all grade* of
FLOUR for sale at the lowest prices. i
Wanted.— We wish to purchase wash
ed and unwashed WOOL, FEATHERS, and DRIED
FRUIT, and will always give the best prices.
H4l EEY ORinVAY&C'O.,
'“ 'HILL A BIINN, of Cartersville
will act as our agents, and pay tax on Cotton consign
ed to us. BAILEY, ORDWAY & CO.
Sept 27 67 6mo
ROBT. LUSK, Pres’t. T. B. SAMPLE, Cash
TRADBRS’BANE
30 Union Street,
NASH A IEEE TENN.,
DEALS IN
Coin, foreign and Domestic Ex•
change, Uncurrent Money of all kinds,
United States, State, and Rail Roac
Bonds,
Highest prices paid for 5,20s
V,2os IO 40s, and
Comp. Int. Notes.
FOR SALE
DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO'S DRAFTS
IN SUMS TO SUIT, ON
London ,
Parris,
„ . Berlin,
S' pt 27, 1867 6m
Dissolution of Copartnership
THE. firm of Hill fa Bunn is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. F 1 he liabili
ties of the firm are assumed by Mr. Henry
Bunn, who takes this method of notifying all
persons owing the house to come forward and
settle. The Imoks and accounts will he found
at our old stand. WM. 11. HILL.
HENRY BUNN.
Cartersville. Jan, 10th, 1868-lm.
FORCE'S "BOOT iNDIM
House.
ARE now receiving thejr FALX, and si —*
WINTER STOCK of BOOTS AND
SHOES, the largest ever brought to
this market. These goods came direct
from the Eastern manufactories, and will be sold to
Country Merchants and the Trade at New York prices,
expenses added, consisting of Mens’, Bovs’, Youths’,
and Childrens’ Wax. Kip, Calf, and Ruff ‘Brogans and
Bul'-uora'g—Boot* of all styles, thick, wax, kip, calf,
dos the finest cj lalities Ladies’. Misses’, and Chil
n»’ .Boot* aud Shoes, of every style, and all made to
der G. H. FORCE.
B. W. FOROE, formerly of Charleston will be glad
to see his old customers. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 10-ly.
S3OO REWARD.
Treasury Department, )
Office Internal Revenue, >
Washington, Dec- 7th, 1867. )
The share of informers in the property or
dinarily liable to forfeiture upon seizure of
illicit Distilleries is found to be inadequate to
ensure that interest and vigilance necessary to
secure the observance of the law :
I do therefore, by and with the advice and
consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, here
by offer, ior information hereafter given that
shall lead to the forfeiture of any DISTIL
LERY whose proprietor has not given the
notice required by law to the Assessor of his
district, and which information shall also lead
to the conviction of any person engaged in
operating the said Distillery,
A Reward of Three Hundred
Dollars,
to be paid upon the reccip:. of the certificate of
the United States District Attorney having
charge of the case that the person so claiming
such reward is the person who furnished such
information.
E. A. ROLLINS,
Commissioner.
ER. SASSEEN. B. W. YORK. E. T. JOUR JAN
SASSEEN'S
United States Hotel
Cor. Alabama and Pryor streets,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
W ithin 100 yards of the Passenger Depot. ,
SASSEEN, YORK and JOURDON, Propr’s.
J. W. F. BRYSON, 4
> Clerks.
R. T. JOURDAN, )
Dec. 20th, 1867-ts.
BLACK SMITHING.
A. I 11 GOODS!,
IX AVIXG CO]V,PLTED THEIR NEW
Soop adjoining Strange’s Tin Shop, on West
side of Railroad, Cartersville, Ga.. are prepared
to do all kinds of work in the Blacksmithing
line. They flatter themselves, that they can
do as good work, and at as low piice, as any
like establishment in town. They ask a rea
sonable share of the public patronage, and
promise satisfaction both in the character of
their work and the reasonableness of their
charges. A. & M, GOODSON.
Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 31st, 1868-wly.
“ W’aif for the WAGOIT,
jtnd tee'll all take a ride,"
Wagon-Makin^
and EEPAIEING, by
J. W. MANLEY,
CABTERSVILLE. GEORGIA,
HAVING completed my new shop on
Main Street West side of the Railroad,
l am now prepared to put up to order
One, Two and Four-Horse
WAGONS, CARTS, Wheel-Barrows arid
Plow Stocks ; also, REPAIRING of all khid*
of vehicles done at short notice. Owing to
the stringency in money matters ncy charges
will be as moderate as circumstances will ad
mit., My work recommends itself.
Cartcrsville, Jan. 23, 1W37,
PIANOFORTES!
FTIHE undersigned would announce to the
J citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that
he is fully prepared to furnish
PIANOFORTES.
s'fyJ? 7or 7 1-3 iHRnn/
OCTAVES, with ail the very latest improve
ments, anil most elegant style and workman
ship, one hundred dollars less than they can
he purchased elsewhere south. They will be
fully warranted.
PIANOS TUNED and REPAIRED
In the very best manner, and all work warran
ted, and shall be pleased to give all orders
prompt attention.
MR. S. T. ANDERSON, will kindly give
further information at present, and deliver
any orders; or you can address bv mail
F. L. PREYER,
Marietta. Ga.
(Residence, Kennesaw House.)
January 24th, 1868-ts
EDWARD BECIiTOLDT,
AND CONFECTIONER,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
IS PREPARED TO BAKE and keeps on
hand, BREAD AND CAKES of every
kind, also a fine stock of CONnE 'TION&RIE3, a gen
erHl variety. FRESH LAGER BKER kept on hand.
Parties and Weddings furnished at short notice.—
November 21,156 T.
MURBELL & ®BEL7
Resident Dentists,
OFFER THEIR PROFESSIONAL SER
vices to the citizens of Cartersville and
vicinity. Having all the latest im
provements in Dental Material, Drs.
Murrell are prepared to Extract Teeth with
out pain, (by means of An®sthe.ics). insert on
Pivot, Fill wl'h Gold, Os Artificial and Amal
gam, and pu‘ in Partial or Whole Setts of ar
tificial teeth on Gold or Vulcanized Base,—
Will direct the second Dentition of children,
and do any thing pertaining to the proffession.
All work warranted to give satisfaction.
Office over S. Clayton <Sc Son’s Store.
References T. J Young, MD„M H.
,p homas, M D and Dentist, W S R Hardman,
M, D., Monroe, Ga,
Cartersville, Jan. 23, ’67. wly
TO THE LADIES
PREMIUM FAMILY
SEWING MACHINES.
r|THE best machine for every description of
family sewing made.
Call and examine machine and specimen of
work over 8. Clayton & Son’s store, Carters
ville, Ga. 8. H. PATTI!,LO,
Agent for Bartow county.
Dec. 13th, 186 7-ts.
FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL
CARTERSVILLE. GA
REV. O. L. SMITH, D. D. )
> Principals.
REV. F. P. BROWN, A. M.
MRS, S. C. GOULDSMITH,
Teacher of Music,
MBS. S. O. MFRITT,
Teacher of French, &c,
The first term of 1868 will open sth Wednes
day of January; second term, last Wednesday
of August.
CHARGES FOR LONG TERM.
First Class $ 18 00
Becond Class 24 sft
Third Class 80 50
Xlusie and use of Imstrument 85 50
French Ac 24 50
Contingent Fee 1 ”&
Tuition, Board, Lodging, Fuel and Lights... 122 00
CHARGES FOR SHORT TERM.
First Class sl2 00
Second Class 15 50
Third Class 19 50
Music and use of Instrument 22 50
Fiench Ac 15 50
Contingent Fee 125
Tuition, Board. Lodging, Fuel and Lights.. ?3 00
All charges payable half in advance, remain
der at the close of the lean. For further
particulars address
REV. O. L. SMITH, D. D. }
> Principals.
REV. F. P. BROWN, A. M. )
Cartersvillee, Ga.
Dec. 20th, 1867-ts.
MACHINES.
N. GIX.REATH 8c SON.
GENERAL DEALERS IN
Dry-Goods and Groceries,
ALSO,
Produce and Provision Merchants. Orders
for Grain or Provision promptly filled,
N. GILREATH & SON,
Feb. 7th, 1868-wtf. Cartersville, Ga,
SADDLERY - AND HARNESS
MANUFACTORY.
THE undersigned, determined to give the
people of Bartow and adjoining counties
no excuse for goinjg abroad to purchase their
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, &C.,
and for repairing the same, have opened, in
the town oi Cartersville, a regular,
SADDLE AND HARNESS MANUFAC
TORY,
where they propose to pui up everything in
their line in the neatest, most substantia! and
durable mannor, and at prices that will
defy competition. They ftatterthem
selves that they can and will do work, which,
in every respect, will compare favorably with
any work done North or South, both In
quality and price. Let no one ig
nore our work because it is done in the South,
nor our pi ices, before giving us a tiial, for that
is all we ask to secure trade. Our work is all
warranted and that is a sufficient guar
antee to purchasers. We are determined to
build up a name and business in Cartersville
that will be a heritage to our children after
us, if prompt attention, good work, and mode
late charges will secure that end, Rooms ix
the front of the Eclipse Sale and Livery Stable.
THOMPSON & STOCKS.
Cartersville, Ga,
January 7th, 1808-wly.
A Word to Farmers
TTTE desire to say to all persons to whom
W we have made advances oh their eotton,
that the time has now expired for which the
advance was made, and we respectfully request
that the cotton be brought forward WITH
OUT DELAY. Your promise is out to us.
ulfill it like prompt business men. We trust
fhis notice will be sufficient. Pay up and be
ginanew. Cotton will be shipped or purchased
as you. may decide.
HOWARD Jt, PEACOCK.
Cartersville, Jan. 3, 1868.
CARTERSVILLE, GA., FEBRUARY 21, JBGB.
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Norcross Corner,
Feb. 7tb, 1868-Iy ATLANTA, GA.
Bartow Sheriff Sales so: Feb.
Will be sold before the Court House door in
Cartersville, within the legal hours of gale,
on the first Tuesday in March next > the
following property, to-wit:
Onq hundred and ten acres, more or less, of lot No.
9 in the sixteenth district and third section of Bartow
county. Levied on to satisfy one Bartow Superior
Conn, fi fa, in layer of A. Hilburn vg Terrill Speed,
as the property of Terrill Speed. •
A'so, at same ttme and place, the undivided half of
lot No. 11S in the sixteenth district and third section
of Bartow couuty, to satisfy one Cass Inferior Court,
fi fa, in fayor of Jonathan McDow vs Charily Sorrels,
sold as the property of Charity Sorrels.
Also, at same time and p ace, the settlement of land
on which John L. Rowland resides, in the fourth dis
trict and third section of Bartow county, containing
one thousand acre.-s more or less. Nos. of lots not
known, levied on to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court,
fi fa, in favor of Loewnstetn A Pfeifer vs John L. Row
land, one Bartow Superior Court fi fa, in favor of Isreal
P. Davis vs John 1,. Rowland. And one Bartow Su
perior Court fi fa, in favor of Wm. J. Conyers Executor
of B. H. Conyers, deceased, vs John L. Rowland prin
cipal and Isuam Sheffield endorser, levied on as the
property of defendant.
Also, at the same time and place, the north half of lot
No. 2SS in the 224 district and 40 acres of lot No. 276
in the 6th district and 3d section, and the North half
of fraction No. 802 In the 6th district and 8d section of
Bartow county, levied as the pr operty of I. G. Lowrey
to satisfy one Gordon Superior Court, Fi Fa, in favor
of Edwin Bates <fc Cos. vs L G. liowery and other Ki
Fa’s in my hands.
Also, at same time and place, the settlement of land
on which F. M. Bowman resides in the 6th district and
8d section of Bartow county, containing 160 acres
more or less, No. of lot not knoWL levied on as the
property of Defendant to satl-fy one Bartow Superior
Court, Fi Fa. in favor of Jane Barton vs P. M. Bow
man. One Bartow county Fi Fa, in favor of R. M
Yonng vs J. T. Whitworth, E. R. Howel, and F. M.
Bowman and one Bartow county Court Fi Fa in favor
of R. M. Young vs F. M. Bowman.
Also, at the same ttme and place, lots of land Not.
222 and 288 In the 21st district and 2d section of Barlow
county, containing 40 acres each, more or less, levied
on as the property belonging to the estate of William
B. Leak, <* creased, to satisfy a Fi Fa issned from the
Court of Ordinary of said county, in favor of E. J.
Leak, use of herself and six minor children, vs W. H.
Pritchett administrator of W. B. Leak, deceased.
Also at me time and place, one pair of Mules, as
the property of John Congh in, to satisfy two tax tt f*s
in favor of the Btite of Georgia.
Also, one haif of lot hind lying in the sixth district
and third section, as the property of H. C. Boman,
to satisfy one tax fi fa, in favor of the State of Ga.
Also, one pxjr of Mules, levied on as the property of
•T. W. Dillard, deceits ed, to satisfy one tax fl fa, In
favor of the State r.f Georgia.
Also, one settlement ot land levied on asthe property
of JohnS. Sellers on which said Sellers now resides,
No. of land not known, to satisfy one Superior Court
fi fa, in lavorof John M. 0. Read.
aAEON COLLINS, Deputy Sheriff.
Feb. 7th, 186S-lm.
POSTPONED -
Bartow Mortgage Sheriff Sale.
WILL be sold before the Oonrt House door in the
town of Cartersville, Bartow enunty- Georgia,
within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in
March,lß6B, the following property, to-wit t
The sett ement of land, eight hundred an 1 fifty acres
850 more or less, known as the Huff p!ac.\ on which
Ur. G. G. Roy ami others now reside, in the fourth
district and third section of Ba tow county. Levied
on as the property of Gustavos H. Bates, to satisfy
one Bartow Superior Court Mortgage Fi Fa, in favor
of Horace J. Bates vs Gustavus H. Bates. Property
pointed out by defendant November Tth, 186 T.
Jan. 10th, 1866-3 m, W. U OQQDWIN, Sheriff.
Speech on Franchise—Waddell.
J. D. Waddell rose to raove a re
consideration of the second section
adopted on Saturday, and proceeded to
speak as follows :
I should not now move the re-eon
sideration ol the second section of the
report of the Commiutee on Franchise,
hut lor the overshadowing importance
of the subject and the indecent haste
manifested, by the tyrannical majority
of this Convention, in rushing the
matter through before full and fair dis
cussion could be had thereon, by mov
ing to*cut off debate. In the eves ol
that majority it was right enough to
spend days in discussing other ques
tions—such, for example, as petitioning
Congress to confer unheard of and
despotic powers upon this Convention;
to make it what Louis of France boast
ed he was, “The State to occupy
time—precious time—iu discussing a
motion to request General Meade to
remove from the Gubernatorial Chair
the people’s choice—Charles J. Jen
kins; to discuss the sorest means of
providing for the early pay ofdelegates
to this Convention, &c. All these
things were marvellously proper. But
when the great question of the day is
before the Convention ; when the fun
damental idea which divides the people
of the State —the question of negro
suffrage—comes up for action, that
majority sees fit, by vote, to gag any
utterance coming from the minority.
I had hoped that the task I am attempt
ing to perforin would have been as
sumed by someone abler than myself.
In that case I should have been perfect
ly content with giving a simple unex
plained vote—particularly so, since my
lungs are ragged with cold. But, sir.
I have been able to prevail on no one
to undertake the task. Up to the time
discussion was cut off on Saturday, no
one had spoken the opinion I hold upon
this great absorbing subject. No one
had spoken the opinion—the deliber
ately formed, the unalteratdy fixed
opinion of the great majority of the
white people of the State of Georgia
and of the United States, With excep
tion of perhaps my friend from Harris
(Mr. Stanford) no one has spoken the
opinion of the bulk of the intelligence
and character of the whole country,
North as well as South. A solemn
sense, therefore, of duty to the race to
which l belong ; a filial concern for the
welfare of the Slate in which I live : an
anxious desire to promote, to the best
of my ability, the prosperity and hap*
piness of all the people that inhabit it,
of whatever color or lineage, must be
nay apology for occupying a few mo*
ments of your time. And at the outset
it is perhaps due to myself to say that 1
have not the faintest expectation of
carrying my motion. The fiat has
gone forth, the decree is already issued,
and it is hoping against hope, it is
struggling against fate to attempt to
resist what has already been done by
the majority. I have beard enough and
seeu enough to thoroughly persuade me
that nothing that 1 could say ; nothing
that mortal man could uttter; no argu*
ment that a pure intelligence could ad
vance ; tio plea, no admonition, no
warning, even though breathed through
lips touched with prophetic fire, could
in any wise influence the immediate
fate of this measure. So far as the
action of this Convention is concerned.
I am free to confess that my “final hope
is flat dispair !” And strange as it may
seem, for the very reason that 1 am
without hope, 1 have concluded to ob
trude myself upon the attention of the
Convention. I owe a duty to those in
whose place l unworthily stand which
it were as false to deny as it is cowar
dice to shirk. I owe a duty to the
State, as one of her children, proud of
her ancient renown, feeling keenly her
present humiliation, anxious tor her
future prosperity and fame and glory,
which must be performed—which I
shall perform as I have light and liberty
without fear and without favor. That
duty is in the nameof five-sixths of the
white people of Georgia, and I believe,
of one-eighth of the black people of the
State, to warn you of the consequences
of ihis measure. . Sir, neither the mad
ness of the times nor the now power
less condition of thejwhites will be any
excuse for their silence in the eyes of
posterity, if this measure pass uuoppos
ed, as a matter of course. When ar
raigned on this great charge at the bar
of history, let the record disclose at
least the palliatory fact, that judgment
was not suffered to go by default.
What have you done? You propose
to invest the male por’ion of the African
race, twenty-one years old and up
wards, with the elective franchise—to
confer indiscriminately upon that race
the right of exercising the highest at
tribute of citizenship. Mr. President,
I protest against tfie monstrous injus
tice of the proposition. I believe if
history teaches any lesson, speculative
in its character, more clearly and un r
mistakably than another, it is that no
question whieh has divided opinion,
which has agitated the public mind,
ever yet was adjusted peacefully, harm
lessly, until laid to rest in the bed of
Justice. Put it to rest there, and then,
and only then, like Duncan in his
grave, it “sleeps well.*’ Let me pro
pound to the advocates of this measure
some such questions as these : Sirs,
whose country is this f What race of
men does it rightly belong to ? Whose
treasure and whose blood paid the
original purchase when the red man’s
face was first turned toward the setting
sun? At a later day, what race re
deemed it from English tyranny ?
Whose bravery in the field carried the
country triumphantly through the fires
of revolution ? Whose wisdom in the
Senate laid the stable foundations of
government, and sowed broadcast the
seeds of empire and glory (tom the
St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande, and
from ocean to ocean ? Who developed
the vast resources, us the country, built
your temples, founded, your colleges
and schools of learning—wrought out
in one word all this splendid civiliza.
lion l Was it not the white man who
did all these tilings? Then are thev
not his projperiy ? Is this country i.ot I
his home? Is it just that you should
force him to divide his heritage with !
the stranger? Is it right that you
should compel him to share his patri
mony in whole or in part with another
race without his consent, against his
will? Think you il it hud been foretold
to the sages and heroes of 7(i that ere
the country they were struggling, suf
fering, and bleedina to establish should
live a century their descendants would
be forced to devide its dominion with a
race, strangers in blood, inferiors in
class—if this prediction had been whis
pered in their ears, think you, indepen
dence had been won ? Never. The
sword would have dropped from the
nerveless grasp of Washington, and his
compatriots, the arms of rebeliion would
have been grounded and taxation with
out representation conceded without
further struggle. Those whose blood
watered the tree of liberty, whose blood
cemented the foundations of the gov
ernment, imagined they were estab
lishing a government of free white men
only. Did they not? Think yon they
ever dreamed that the (lav could come
when equal political rights would be
claimed for an inferior race? Bull
pass by all this.
Asa matter purely of policy are you
prepared to stand by the action oi Sat
urday ? Without regard to the gross
injustice you do the white man ; with
out reference to the great injury you
inflict upon him hy forcing upon him
the political equality of an inferior
race, can the poli.ical propriety of the
measure be maintained upon the plain
orir.cipals of reason and common sense?
If worth anything, if his
tory be not written in vain, if the
maxims of civil prudence inculcated by
the fathers and founders of the republic
be not utterly fallacious, I am not
afraid to say that the experiment you
would make is dangerous: I denounce
il as revoluntary; il will derange and
destroy your whole social order; it
would degrade the white man and not
elevate the black man ; it will, l firm-
ly believe result iu the subversion of
the government itself. America will
add but another example—and the
most mournful of them all—to the long,
sad catalogue of repnblics.®the inscrip
tion upon whose tombstone is: “We
wen, but are not!" Is this the lan
guage of passion ? L it the image <:f a
disturbed or disordered fancy ? Is it
not rather the echo of the sober utter
ances of history ? thecahn melancholy
lessons of experience ?
The right of suffrage carries with it
the right to hold office ; il logically
implies eligibility to office—else the
creature is greater tfian the creator, the
agent greater than the principal, the
servant greater than the master. No
proposition, to my mind, can be plain
er. The very exceptions themselves
prove the rule, and they are always
matter of special positive law. For
example : By constitutional inhibition,
a naturalized foreigner cannot be Pres
ident of the United States; hut if there
were no express prohibitory provision,
who would say that the accident of
birth, on general principles, in the
nature of thirg*, would per se work a
disqualification lor that office. Take,
as a farther illustration, the case of Sen
ators : The Constitution prescribes that
a person shall have attained the age of
thirty years before he can he Senator in
the United States Congress; but ii
there were nothing said in the Consti
tution as to age, would not a person
allowed to vote be also elligible to the
office of Senator? But we have an il
lustration, pregnant, emphatic, of the
rule, j.s 1 assert it, in he here in this
very convention. The acts of Con
gress, by authority whereof this Con
vention is called, makes the negro an
elector, a voter, hut is entirely silent as
to his eligibility to office. Now, what
do we see here ? In the absence of any
provisions pro or con as to his eligibili
ty to office, there are ir, this Conven
tion 3ti colored delegates who derive
their right to the seats they hold solely
and entirely from the acts of Congress,
which only confer upon their race the
right to vole. The truth is, suffrage
necessarily carries with it every other
right pertaining to citizenship. Un
der our system of government, the bal
lot is not only the form in which
political power constitutionally ex
presses itself, but il is the source and
essence of all regulated political power.
It contiols primarily all the machinery
of popular government, in ail its de
partments, throughout all its ramifica
tions. It is to governments free in
form, representative in character, what
the main-spring is to a watch, or the
sun to our planetary system ; while
imparting life and activity to the mem
bers, it regulates and controls all their
movements and all their functions. It
is the power of the State—king, lord
of the ascendant, knowing no sover
eign, granting no terms, with death,
tribute, or the Koran for its motto. —
Clothed with the vestment ot law, it
becomes public opinion, energized, in
tensified, and brushes away as cobwebs,
constitutions, however sanci’fied by
time, or hallowed by associations.
Right here let me say a word to
those who are willing to confer upon
the negro the right to vote, but are
anwiliing—so they say—that Jie should
hold office. Sirs, you forget where
we are ; you make a terrible mistake.
You grievously err, in my judgment.
How can you prevent him holding
office in Georgia, when you have made
him a voter? You put in his hands the
means of accomplishing an end, and
i then say lie shall not accomplish that
end. You give him the power, and
then say he shall not have the will.—
You five him the lull use of the faculty,
and serenely say you will control his
volition. I speak with special refer
enee, mind vnti, to (■feorjjisr; where the
negro is strong —able to poll three
eighths of the votes, even though every
white man in the State were enfratt'
ehised. With numbers so formidable,
and clothed with the power of making
those numbers felt in the authorized,
legitimate form, what is surer than that
he will acquire every right you Inve
given him the power to acquire?—
Surely, it requires no argument to
prove that suffrage would never he “ a
barren sceptre in his grip.” The his
tory of parties n> this country —partic-
ularly that of the abolition party —puts
that question forever at rest, leaving no
room for <u»u»meut or conjecture. It is
too familiar to you all to call for illus
lration. Nothing is more ceitain than,
if you confer the right of suffrage upon
the negro, that he will, in common with
you, make your laws, set on your
juries, preside in your courts, exercise
all the offices of citizenship, give lone,
color and complexion to your whole
civilization. Make suffrage his con
stitutional right, and the negro, with
his wicked, unscrupulous advisers, will
do the rest of the work. They will do
in Georgia what Tennessee has already
done. Office holding and the j iry box
are but the incidents to suffrage, and
always necessarily follow in ns wake.
Nor/, let us deal candidly one with
another. Is the negro now equal to
the high, the holy, the awful trust of
self-government ? I speak ol th* race
generally. Und ’tibtedly, hero and
there individual exceptions may be
found. But ts a class, who will claim
for him the intelligence, to say nothing
of the virtue, necessary for self-gov
ernment ? Ignorant of the first princi
ples of government; incapable of form
mg intelligent judgments on the issues
made in political contests; the easy
dupe of bad, designing men ; the crea
ture of prejudice as deep-rooted as it is
insensate ; driven to and fro by every
wind of passion ; just emerged from a
condition of slavery as absolute as any
history records ; is such a race of
beings fitted to perform the offices and
exercise the functions of self-govern
ment ? It savors of irony to propound
the question. Certainly, to ask is to
answer it.
What evidence has he anywhere
furnished of his capacity t > govern
himself? 'J'urn to history. Open all
her volumes from Herodotus to Motley.
Search every page, scan every sen
tence, and point me, if you will, to the
instance. VV hot State has he founded ?
What Empire has i.e -conducted to
greatness and to glory ? What monu
ment of geuius has lie builded ? What
towered city perpetuates his memory ?
Where are his triumphs in art, or sci
ence, or liteialure, recorded ? What
trophy has lie won in the held of in
vention or discovery ? What I aura I has
has he achieved in all the boundless
domain of philosophy? Where are his
arms. Where his chariot ? What has
he anywhere done for government ;
for society ; for law ; for religion ; for
morality ; lor education ; lor civiliza
loin ; lor Man ? Sir, he has lived ;he
has died—what sign has he left? Do
you tell me lie lias lacked lor opportu
nity ? In Georgia, lie has, if by oppor
tunity . you mean he has not been free.
But, sirs, I ask every delegate upon
this floor, to tell me where lie has ex
emplified such aptitude for improve
ment; where he has made so cansidcr.
able progress in civilization as here in
the South, where he has bein brought
in contact with and pul under the con.
irel of the white man ? What, how
ever, is the general fact ? The world
has been before him from which to
chose. Look at Africa—almost a con
tinent in his possession, under his un
disputed control since the morning of
time—rich in resources—abounding in
treasure? that invite enterprise—pos
sessing every advantage of soil and
climate—“where every prospect pleas
es and only man is vile”—what has he
done there lor the progress ol his race ?
What field ol human endeavor has he
enriched by his labors? What contri
bution has he made lo the treasury of
knowledge, useful or polite? Has his
age of lettered glory yet dawned ?
Name his peilosophers, and statesmen,
and scholars, and poets ! Has his age
of industrial glory yet dawned ? Tell
us something ol scientific and profita
ble culture of the soil—snmetliig of his
improved implements ol husbandry—
something of his railroads, and tele
graphs, and cauais, and aqueducts.—
Does the music ol spindles and looms
wake to life the echo of his hills ?
What sea does the canvass of his
commerce whiten ? What port is busy
with the contributions of his trade? —
And does the picture brighten when
we turn to his altars reeking with the
blood of bis own race—victims of an
abominable idolatry ? Does it soften
when we enter the hovels ol domestic
life and are invited to feast on the flesh
of mao—the sickening carnival which
none but the savage has celebrated
since the pyramids were built i Are
we relieved when when we turn to the
body politic?—but I beg pardon, Mr.
President—l utill not insult your un
derstanding by talking of government
where there is un society —hardly the
elements of society !
Here Mr. Coster (elored) interrupt
ed lhe speaktt to ask who invented the
“problem af Euclid i"
Mr. Waddell said if he understood
the question intended to be asked, he
would answer, Pythagoras, who bad
straight hair, prominent nose, thin lips
—a Grcctau lace.
NO. 33.
Mr. Turner (coloied) asked who
carried letters into Greece ?
Mr. Wad.h ll answered, Cadmus, a
whiter man than you aie.
Mr. Bradley (colored) inquired if
St. Luke was not black ?
Mr. Waddell said that Luke was a
Jewish doctor; he had never seen a
black Jew, but could not say whether
Luke was black or not. fie asked
Bradley if he (Bradley) knew ?
Mr. Bradley—Yes.
The extreme hoarseness of Mr.
Waddell prevented him from proceed
ing farther, ami he resumed his seal,
stating that he intended to resume his
remarks at another time.
A Good Joke. —We were told a good
joke on Maj. Campbell Wallace, the
inimitable railroadman of the age, now
Superintendent of the W. & A. R. K.,
:by an Atlanta drummer, a few days
ago, as fellows; Major Wallace was
then President of a Tennessee railroad,
some years ago. One day lie was
quietly silting by the stove, all alone,
when in came one of ins employees—
-1 a rough, uncouth Tennesseean, with
hat cocked upon the side of his head
and his breeches-legs stuffed in his
boots, tie also took Ins seal near the
stove, and cocked nis heels upon the
top ol the stove, and squirted to
bacco juice all over the same, much to
the annoyance of the Major, who is a
nice, grave, sedate elderly gentleman.
Said breakstnan then cut his eyes to
wards the Major, as if to read linn, and
opened conversation on this wise ;
B.—‘Preacher?’
W.—‘No, wish I was good enough;
but why do you ask the question ?’
B.—‘Because I thought I could see
‘II irk from the tomb’ expressed iu
your countenance.*
W.—‘Sir, there is not another man
on this train that would take that front
you but myself.’
B.—‘Wliat might be your name?*
W.—‘.My name is Wallace, President
of this road.’
IL—‘Hell fire,* and quickly spring
ing to his feet, turned to the Major,
and asked him if he would apply the
breaks if the whistle Mowed, receiving
a frvorable answer, the breakman with
one bound alighted on the ground,
some distance from the train, and made
his debut into an adjoining wood, de
termined that he would never show his
face on board that train again, but
subsequently returned and made onn
of the most useful, faithful and esteemed
employees on the road.
Mike Sullivan, an Augusta barkeep
er, shot and killed a negro tv|:o struck
him. on Tuesday last.
j John Chapman was accidentally kill
ed in Jcllerson last week, by the dis
charge ol a pistol in the hands of Mar
shal] Duke.
A man named E. B. Whitley, who
had been tried for stealing hogs, shot
and killed one ol tiie principal witness
es against him in the street of Menroo
last week.
Charlotte Lundy (freed woman) was
arrested near Macon a few da vs ago, on
a charge of murder. It is said that she
killed a t'reedwoman on a plantation iu
Bibb county last summer*
Several negroes were frozen to death
in Home last week.
Five negro prisoners escaped Iromtlie
Augusta jail, on Tuesday night, by
sawing through the bars of the window
of their cells.
’The railroad warehouse at Greens
boro was entered the other night by
burglars, who stole a quantity of meat
and brandy.
A negro prisoner pushed a Macon
polieeeman into an open sewer the oth
er day, and made his escape. The po
liceman had to walk the whole length
ol the ditch, in the filth and mud, be
fore he could get out.
By the explosion of a portable boiler
at Wausau, Northern Wisconsin, on
, the 27th ultimo, three men were instan
tly killed and eight wounded— two la
tally.
i A number of Dt?moeratic leaders of
New England and the Northwest are in
counsel at Washington. The New
Englanders oppose Pendleton for Pres%
idem, while the Northwest insist upon
him.
Italy is mysteriously fitting out a na
val fleet for the coast of Paraguay, Somfj
America. It will sail at ouce. The
Italian authorities withhold all informa
tion in reference to its object which is
believed to be warlike.
DI-SOL tmON.-The C'tpartnershlp heretofore ex
isting between HARRIS k TIIOMTSON. In the
Soldiery and Harness business, whs dissolve,) by niu
iu»l consent, on the B<l Instant. These Indebted to the
llrm will ple*te psy up, and those boluing demand*
against thm will also present them.
JFberuary 12, 186S.wlm
Admr’s Sale.
BY VIRTU® of sn order from the onurt of ordinary
of Hrrtow county, a 111 be sold, on the first Tuesday
in April noxt, before the court-house door in Cart. ».
vide, Us., between Che Anal hears of sale, the foUowin -
1 properlJr, to-wlt. "•
The tract of land In said county whereon John It
Dunn resided at the time of Ids deuih, containing tHaui
three hundred and twenty »ere«, more nr less known
as Xos. 1U« and I'4, in lhe 21st district and 2ml sc -
tlon. Satd phtntal on being well Improved, ho d.sub
ject. to the widow’* dower. Terms ol sale, ca-h
Ifebruary 1 » r IBS*. AARON DUNK
AdadnU rator of John B. Dunn, decease-'
GKfIWOi.Y, BARTOW COUNTY,—-Whereas M ~7
Uoodw n applies lo me for let era of adwlnWlra {fcwt
on the e-t i'e ol Jane Hatch, Ur,, of said Qnnntv d*c.M
These are therefore to etle and admonish all and ,| n *
giilar, the t'mired and uteJilors of m.i.l oetvuu to
tile their objections, if any thev have-. In my ol’To.
within the time prewrib-d by I .*■„ show In* cause why
""id letters should not be granlwusaid applicant oui
erwlse tue same will be granted as the law dire, t*
(liven and .dor mv band and ofti Ul slngatura this
*’vbru..ry Uih, I&is. j. A. lIuWARQ in-iiw r .