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ICESDAY HOIHI.TC, AUGUST 11.
Mr. Seymour’s letter of acceptance
will be found on our first page. It
breathes noble sentiments, and give?
evidence that it is from the brain of a
statesman. Read it.
Alexander 11. .Stephens, in a letter re
ceived here to-day, -ays Ibe Nashville
Banner, says: “I never sent any reso
lutions to the New York Convention,
SUd do not even know the gentleman,
Wright, who presented them.” He
Mjr- that Georgia will give 20.000 Dem-
SSCTatic majority.
MKTKRFftTiKO Condition for a Judge.
♦.John Elliott, the lately appointed
flbn'awhg Judge of the Circuit Court of
As Mobile Judicial District, was arrest
ed'on the streets of Mobibe last week,
fbr being drunk and disorderly, and
caged in the calaboose to sober down.
> (Heavy Freight Business. —The
AsUgusta Constitutionalist says the
Cjteorgia Railroad is receiving daily, at
. fiat depot, from the West, from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty cars
ißfreight—through and local. On Fri
last this read delivered seventy-five
loaded cars to the Charleston Road.
JBttvy business for this season.
Tiie New Post Office Law.—
The post office law passed by Congress
last week introduces some new and im
portant changes in the mode of conduc
ting the business of the department.
It provides for the return of all let
on which the name of the sender is
endorsed, if not called for within thirty
days; reduces the fees on money orders;
dpubles the compensation ot postmas
ters for the payment of money orders;
allows weekly newspapers sent to reg
ular subscribers in the county where
published to be delivered free of post
aga from the office nearest the place of
publication; authorizes the issue of du
plicate money orders for such as have
been lost; makes it a felony to counter
feit mobey orders; makes it felony of
Mgh character to use postage stamps
Kbecond time knowingly; declares that
Mihail be unlawful to deposit in the
■ jjostoffleo any letters or circulars con
cerning lotteries or gift enterprises of i
any kind on any pretext whatever; es
tablishes a blank agency in the Post Of
fice Department, at an expense of five
thousand dollars annually, and abolish
es all other blank agencies; empowers
the Postmaster General to negotiate and
conclude an international money order
ajrrangement; provides that the sureties
on bonds of defaulting postmasters
shall not bo liable unless the Govern- j
meat institute a suit within three years
after the final settlement of accounts.
igfeWe learn from the Chambers (Ala.)
Tribune that Dr. J. H. Davis, of Ran
dolph county, who espoused the Federal
muse early in ’the war, was a surgeon
in the Federal army, and an active
member of the Radical Convention that (
framed the present Alabama Constitu
tion, had the candor to say, at a Rati
fication meeting Saturday before last,
that “if he ever committed the unpar
donable sin, it was in remaining in the
Radical party as long as he did.” The
Tribune says he is now laboring ear
nestly for Seymour and Blair, and
pledges Randolph county for the ticket
by an overwhelming majority. Ilia
example is worthy of imitation.
f We find the following advertisement
going the rounds of the press, and have
Concluded to give it a gratuitous inser
tion:
jr “Foil Sale— lo,ooo BusnF.i.s Col j
laud Seed! —Notiof. to Foreign
Capitalists 11 — Owing to the sudden
change of climate in Georgia, which is
damaging to the production of Collards, j
I offer for sale at greatly reduced prices, i
my entire stock of Collards and Collard j
(feeds, embracing every variety. My i
Collards need no recommendation from i
ine, as they have a widespread reputa- •
tlon throughout the Union. All orders, i
particularly those of colored citizens, i
white Radicals and Democrats, must be
Accompanied by the cash. As some of |
iny Massachusetts friends have a sur j
plus of spoons and forks, I will barter i
for such goods at a liberal rate.
WApply to Joseph E. Brown,
Atlanta, Georgia, j
®j|N B.—My address is Atlanta, Ga., j
md not Washington, D. C.
J. E. B.” j
Manufacture of Ice.—A company
has beoQ formed in this city, we under
stain!, with sufficient capital at their
command, to go into an extensive man
ufacture of ice. The necessary machine
ry will soon be procured. The reliabil
ity .u.l energy of the gentlemen forming
the company is a sufficient guaranty for
Us sure accomplishment, and our cmn
>:i£punity may soon expect to keep cool
Without troubling their Northern breth-
Ohn. So, Mr. Macon, you will perceive
sister city is not far behind you in
die good work. All such sigus of home
industry are a sure indication that the
day is not far distant when everything
needed will spring forth from our own
manufactories. So mote it he.
ShWill You Have Civil Wau?— I This
Question is pertinent. It comes home
to every nan in the country, and no
. Ane. in the light of existing facts and in
flail view of the political situation, can
jfcil to see its pertinency, nor can he
ignore the significancy of the prospect
The master issue of the campaign, as
things now stand, is war or peace.—
Vote for Blair and Seymour, and secure
their triumph, and you have war; vote
for Grant and Colfax, and you have
peace.
SftThis is no false alarm, but a veritable
of a patent truth.— National
Kepubtican.
K That is to say, if the people cast votes
enough for Seymour and Blair io “se
their triumph,” the Grant and Col
fax party mean to resort to war to pro
%ent the installation to office of those
me people have elected. The .success
ful party would have nothing to go to
isippar for. The Republican can mean
iiothiug but that the defeated party will
*s|P*sort to force sooner than relinquish
'Z power. The warning is frank, at least,
|g and it is to be hoped that the friends of
K Seymour in the North will give it due
B consideration.
Onions a Specific against Ebidem-
K ics.—A correspondent of the Scientific
I American commends onions as a speci
■ sic forepidemics—not as an esculent,but
| sliced and kept in a sick room, where
I they will absorb any atmospheric poi
s son. They should "be replaced by fresh
% ones every hour. It is noticed that in
• the room of a small pox patient they
I blister and decompose with great rap
| ‘dity, but will prevent the spread of the
& disease. Their application has also
■ Pf°ved effective in the case of snake
W bites.
YOL. X.
Ao More Voting In tiie South.
It is the settled purpose of Radicalism
to permit no more popular elections in
the South during the permanency of the
Carpct-"bag governments. After all of
the talk about universal suffrage, the
parly in power is afraid to submit the
claims of Grant to the enfranchised ne
groes now that bayonets have been re
moved and the hands of disfranchised
white men have been loosed from the
bands placed upon them by Congres
sional enactment. The provision of
tho Constitution of South Carolina
which gave to the Legislature the au
thority to choose Presidential electors,
was always a thorn in the side of the
Radical party and was ever severely de
nounced by its presses and speakers.
Among the first things done by the nig
ger Convention of that State was to 1
strike out that clause. Alabama and \
Florida have adopted the plan at the 1
dictation of Grant and a Committee of
, Radical Congressmen. South Carolina
j will be forced to come hack to it and
i Georgia and Louisiana will also be com
| polled to acquiesce. This last outrage
, is more glaring by reason of the recent
1 adoption of the fourteenth Constitu
tional Amendment. By the terms of
that amendment no State was to have
representation in the electoral college,
if any distinction was made on account
of race or color as to the privilege of
franchise. It follows as a matter of
course, that such States as didnot make
the difference alluded to were to be rep
resented in that college. The recon
structed States so called have adopted
tho fourteenth article, and it has been
formally declared part and parcel of
the Constitution, and yet the people of
these States are not to be permitted to
vote in the coming election. Mr. Sey
mour has pointedly remarked on this
subject in his letter of acceptance :
“That there is a dread of some expo
sure which drives them on to acts so
desperate and impolitic.”
There is a dread of exposure, expo- !
sure of the frauds in registration and |
voting, but above all a dread of expo- j
sure, of the weakness of the Radical i
party in the South without the aid of
bayonets.
This “act so desperate” is the one
that must hasten and make sure the day
of our deliverance. It is against the:
consummation of this villainy, that the !
Democracy of the North i9 pledged to :
protest in a shape and style that shall J
be satisfactory and conclusive. It is no ;
quarrel, no fight of ours. We know
our rights and our wrongs are in the j
keeping and protection of that party in
the North, which if it be united and
determined upon any one point more j
than another, is united and determined j
that Grant and his followers shall not
sieze and hold the reins of Govern
ment by fraud or force. They will not
submit to any such juggling as is con
templated in this plan to give to Legis
latures elected by fraud, and the aid of
the sword, the power to choose Presi
dential electors. Tho Radical party is
daily warned in the most solemn and
unmistakable manner that this usurpa
tion will bo resisted, and if it persists in
violence and outrage, it must become
responsible for all the results of such.
We give one of these warnings. For
the benefit of any of tho weak kneed
and timid brethren who may be within
the radius of the circulation of the ‘Sun’
we beg leave to say that the language
is not ours. We take it from a leading
article of the New York World, a jour
nal not given to vain boasting, to in
firmity of temper or exaggeration of:
language, and it is as follows:
When the Democratic party has elect- j
ed the next President, it will be mani- j
test to everybody that the negro govern
ments cannot be permanent. If the !
Senate and Southern negroes shall then j
yield to the will of the country, we
shall have immediate tranquility. But,
if they: choose to make a factious oppo- j
sition, the Southern whites will proba- j
bly cut the gordian knot without wait- •
ing for a change in the Senate to have i
it untied. If the negro governments j
should suddenly collapse, a Democratic !
administration will not interpose to re
suscitate them, and the local authority
will easily revert into the hands of the
whites. If there should be a deviation
irom the usual forms, it will be because j
the Senate and the negroes refuse to
comply with the will of the majority, !
as expressed in the Presidential elec
tion.
Bniisby Bulloeli Gives an Opinion
I* an Opinion.
At the request of Col. R. L. Mott, we
give below a letter from Carpet-bagger
Bullock, to the Hon. (God save the
mark) J. G. Maul, in relation to our
municipal affairs. We have only to say,
that Carpet-bagger B. cannot appoint a
Judge who is not both shameless and ig
norant, who will not upset his profound
opinion. As we have before remarked,
we are at present compelled to submit
to an outrage for which there is at pres
ent no legal remedy. We again warn
the illegal Mayor and Board to be ex
ceedingly cautious as to what they do,
and urge all good citizens to patiently
and quietly await the time, when we
shall not feel the force of bayonets
through the medium of a carpet-hag
Government and Governor.
Here is the opinion of Bunsby Bul
lock :
Executive Department, f
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 0,1868. )
Hon. J. G. Maul,
Member Rouse Rep's, Atlanta, Ga.
Sik—l am in receipt of your favor of
this date, enclosing communications
from R. L. Mott, Mayor, and from Mr.
Duer ; with a copy of a letter from Mr.
F. G. Wilkins, a citizen of Columbus,
calling on R. L. Mott, Mayor, to sur
render his office to said Wilkins upon
the ground that Military Authority has
ceased to exist in the State of Georgia.
Iu reply, would say that the Mayor
and Council of Columbus who were ap
pointed by Military Authority in ac
cordance with the laws of the United
States, will continue to be a legal gov
ernmer.t for the City of Columbus until
their sucres-ors shall have been duly
elected and qualified.
Under the 9th section of the 11th
article of the new Constitution, all acts
done under or by virtue of, or in- ac
cordance with the orders of the Military
Authorities, are as valid as if done un
der a law of the State ; and there can
therefore be no question as to the right
of the Mayor and Council appointed by
Military Authority, to contiuue in
office, and to exercise the rights thereof
until their successors shall have been
duly elected and qualified according to
law. Very respectfully,
RrFus B. Bullock,
Governor.
Article 11 section 9 of new Constitu
tion—“ The judgments and proceedings
of Courts, and acts of officers within
their jurisdiction, as provided by law,
shall be valid, notwithstanding the
Judges of said Courts or the said officers
now appointed by the military authori
ties of the United States, and any of
said judgments, or acts, or proceedings
made, or done, under or by virtue of,
or in accordance with, the orders of
said military authorities, duly made,
are as valid as if done under a law of
this State.”
THE WEEKLY SUN.
WRITE WELLS.
This mode of procuring water was
discovered in Indiana. It is causing
quite a revolution in well-digging. We
see by our exchanges, they are being
extensively adopted in Indiana,, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and in
parts of Alabana. A number have been
put in operation in Selma, Alabama,
where flowing Artislan wells are in
common use, and the press of that city
represent that the people are delighted
with them.
Messrs. Wooten & Beattie, of thi3
city, have purchased the right to sink
these wells in a portion of Georgia, and
are prepared'to sell rights for other
counties, and sink wells in this city and
county. They sunk one in the early
part of last week, in front of the store
of Hall, Moses & Cos., on Broad
street, forty five feet in depth, tem
porarily, to exhibit its qualities to
the public. It threw out a fine,
large volume, and was sufficiently
pumped to test the inexaustibleness of
the body of water below when ap
proached in this way. A hose some
thirty feet long, was attached to the
spout of the pump, and with the aid of
two men at the pump, water was thrown
on the top of a two-story building, thus
evidencing its value in case of fire in a
building on the premises, in either put
ting out or holding the fire in check
until other assistance can be had. Also
Us value in sprinkling streets, yards or
gardens in dry weather.
On Saturday evening last, in the
space of one hour and forty-five min
utes, one was put down on the premises
occupied by Mr. Thomas DeWolf, to
the depth of twenty-six feet, and an
abundant supply of water obtained.
Hundreds of gallons have been pumped
out—yes, we might say thousands—
without any apparent diminunitiou of
the quantity below, and the water con
tinuing clear as crystal. The water is
free from the artificial substances so
common to the wells of the city, and is
as pure and well tasted as is found in
any portion of the surrounding country.
When compared with that of the dug
well on the same premises, :he taste
differs as wide as if the two sources 1
were miles apart.
The cost of this well is $1 50 per foot.
It consists of iron pipe perforated near
the lower end with small holes to admit
the water into the pipe, on the end of
which is fastened a pointed irou diive,
a little larger than the pipe. This pipe
is driven down until water is reached,
when the “sucker” is put on and the
well is ready for operating. At first,
mud and sand is drawn up with the
water until a sufficient vacutu is opened
below. The water then clears and con
tinues to flow clear as crystal.
Where rock does not intervene to ob
struct the progress of drive, one of these
wells can be sunk to the ordinary depth
of wells in this city—say twenty five to
forty-five feet—in from two to four
hours. Their advantage over the dug
well is, that they are not affected by
rains or slop-water, and no bad sub
stances get into them —they are exempt
from the funky tastes acquired from
wood or brick curbs. The water is
pure.
They are tho very thing for our peo
ple, and every man who owns the lot
he lives on, should have one. Giving
pure water, we think they would add
to the health of our citizens. With
one, every family at a small cost, can
have a hath house with pure v;atcr, easy
to supply.
[COMMUNICATED.]
Macon, G.-.., Aug. 10, 1868.
Editor Sun ff Times: There has fall
en into my hands recently, a little book
of some sixty pages, entitled “Tho
Southern Defense,” by Joseph F. Pou,
Esq., of your place. In my judgment
it gives the most succinct and correct!
review of the causes of our late national :
conflict, with which it has been my j
fortune to meet since the war. The
author, with unusual modesty, puts
forth this little work as a part of the
record of the past and present, which
in after years will be collected up by
the impartial historian and incorpora
ted into the history of the great events
through which we have lately passed, j
Mr. Pou most successfully vindicates j
his countrymen “from the load of false
accusation and calumny, which their |
misfortunes may appear to invite, and
which it has already been the practice I
from many quarters to cast upon them
with unsparing hand.”
The object of the work is to show
where the right lay in the great strug
gle, and to prevent its being forever j
amid the ruins of the lost cause. And I
although the results of the war are ac
cepted as a finality in fact and law, yetf
it does not admit the rightfuiness or
justness of the principles against which
we contended, or of the penalties with
which we have been visited.
But the preservation of our system of
government, complex as it is, depends
upon the strict observance of the laws
of its creation. There never was a
more admirable system devised by man
than ours, both State and Federal, when
administered according to the purpose
and intent of its founders. The war
was the result of a violation of these
laws, and all efforts to right it up, must
of necessity fail, until the Constitutional
or organized law is restored. The sys
tem when thus observed will move on
like the heavenly bodies in their orbits
without disturbance forever.
Efforts are being made through the
great National Democracy to restore
the constitutional harmony amoDg the
States, and I know of no work which
more sharply defines many of the ques
tions involved than Mr. Pou’s pamph
let. I think that it should be in the
hands of every young man who prom
ises himself any political future, and all
would be greatly entertained by its
perusal. I see that it was printed at
your office, aud suppose that any num
ber of copies might he fouud at the
Book stores tor about the actual cost.
Bibb.
The Col. Johnson, whose accidental
death at Malton, Illinois, was reported
in our telegrams yesterday, is Col.
Thomas C. Johnson, well known to
many of our citizens as the head of the
Confederate Wagon Making establish
ment conducted in our city, during
the two last years of the war, at the
shop of Mr. R. R. Goetcaius.
For Congress. — The Atlanta New
Era of the 11th contains the following:
To the Voters of the First Congress
ional District: —Your most humble ser
vant and friend has been requested, and
under the circumstances do accept, his
chance for nomination, and his better
chance to receive his friends’ votes, to
make him the Representative in the
Congress of the United States after the
4th of March, 1869.
A. Ai.peora Bradley.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1868.
.WEDNESDAY HORNING, AEG. 12.
The result of the Kentucky election
surprises the most sanguine Democrats
in Washington, and is regarded as the
great foreshadowing of the Democratic
ground swell that is steadily setting in
all over the Northern and Western
States.
The news from the Pacific States
brightens every day, and represents
gains for Seymour and Blair in every
State.
Blair Understands the Situation.
—Some old fogy New York politicians
recently telegraphed to Frank Blair
asking him to moderate the tone of his
speeches. His reply was decisive. He
told them that he had studied the situa
tion carefully, thought he understood
it, and meant to treat it freely and fear
lessly. It is said that Gov. Seymour
is very much pleased with Gen. Blair’s
speeches.
We learn from the Jackson Clarion
that Dr. A. C. Edwards, postmaster at
Marion, Miss., having been assessed six
dollars by the “Union Republican Con
gressional Executive Committee,” sent
tbe amount in Confederate currency,
and got a very indignant letter in reply,
under the frank of Robert C. Schenck,
M. C. Dr. Edwards presided over the
recent Democratic Mass Meeting in
Marion, and is a thorough going patriot.
We are pleased to learn that there
was a great outpouring of the unterri
fied democracy at Opelika, on Saturday
last, in attendance pn the meeting for
the ratification of the Democratic nom
inees for the Presidency. The immense
audience were eloquently addressed by
Col. Ramsey, of this city ; Col. Hod
son, and Mr. Shaver, of Montgomery ;
Col. W. H. Barnes, of Chambers ; and
Judge Waddell, of Russell. The audi
ence gave evidence of determination to
elect tbe standard bearers if not swin
dled out of the right to vote by the
present hybril organization at Mont
gomery, called a Legislature.
We regret it was out of our power to
to be present.
Four steamboats and a barge were
burned at the wharf in Cincinnati, on
the 6th instant. They were the Dela
ware, owned by W. & D. Rheinhard
and Captain R. Calhoun, of Pitts
eurg, a stern - wheel steamer val
ued at $5,000 and insured. The Ezra
Porter, anew boat, valued at $30,000,
and insured for a small amount. She
belonged to U. Porter, Jr., her com
mander, and her other officers. The
Pine Grove, anew boat, valued at $15,-
000—insured for $9,000. She belonged
to the Nashville Packet Company. The
Potomac, valued at $32,000 —insured
for her entire value. She was owned
by Capt. Theodore Fink and Thomas
Reed, of Wheeling.
The barge Sunshine, which was at
tached to the Ezra Porter, and also de
stroyed by the fire, was owned by Capt.
Wm. Gregg, and valued at SI,BOO. She
is insured for $1,500 in the Queen City
office.
Scene in the Georgia Senate.—
The Atlanta Intelligencer says Bradley
and his friends were very anxious Sat
urday morning to postpone the trial of
Bradley to Tuesday. Being out voted
in that, Aaron, in making his defense,
spoko against time, with the hope of
staving off a vote at least until Monday.
When the hand of the clock pointed to
ten minutes of one, Mr. Higbee, Brad
ley’s special friend, requested him to
yield the floor a few minutes for the
purpose of taking up some resolutions j
important to be acted upon before ad
journment. He yielded, and before he
could obtain the floor again a motion
was carried to extend the time of the
morning session. This aroused the ire
of Aaron, and he rushed from his seat
to Mr. Higbee’s desk and, shaking his
fist threateningly in his face, with one
of those sardonic grins so peculiar to
him, said: “Just what 1 expected of
you.” Mr. Higbee hung his head as if
in acknowledgment of the justness of
the rebuke. It looked to us very much
like a white man having a negro mas
ter.
The Columbus (Miss.) Index says
the carpet-bagger, B. B. Eggleston,
failing to sneak into the of Governor of
Mississippi, and having acquired the
almost universal contempt of the peo
ple of that State, has sneaked back to
the State of Ohio. He succeeded, how
ever, in sneaking his son into the Mili
tary Academy at West Point, as a rep
resentative from Mississippi. Just as
might be expected of a carpet-bagger—
having failed to steal the Governorship
of Mississippi, he contented himself
with stealing a scholarship, and sneak
ed off. Mississippi has got rid of him
very cheap.
The Public Debt Incbeased Thir
teen Millions in Two Months. —The
Louisville Journal’s Washington spe
cial says “McCulloch’s statement of
the public dept which was held back by
him, and returned to the different heads
of the department, with instructions
that they should see if there was not
some mistake—shows an increase of
thirteen millions in two months-. Three
days were consumed in overhauling
every item, hut no mistake was found.
The Radicals are anxious about the mat
ter, and some of them begin to abuse
McCulloch. They say he should have
kept the statement back altogether-
The Westfield (Mass.) News Letter,
a Republican paper, referring to the ex
emption of United States bonds from
taxation, says “It is not just to have a
few hundred thousand persons hold
property, valued at about one fourth of
all the property of the United States,
and pay no taxes upon it. It lays bur
dens on the shoulders of the laboring
class which they are not able to bear,
aud is contrary to the genius of our
Democratic institutions.”
The following appointments were
made by the Governor on the Bth inst. :
Edward Hulbert, to be Superintend
‘ ent of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road.
Overton H. Walton, of Crawford
county, Principal Keeper of the Peni
tentiary.
John wills, of Hall county, Assistant
Keeper of the Penitentiary.
Dr. Wills, of Hall county, Physician
of the Penitentiary.
Clayton Vaughn, of Baldwin county,
Inspector of the Penitentiary.
From Colombia.
Columbia, August 11.—Gen. O. O.
Howard addressed the colored people
■ this afternoon in the House of Repre
sentatives.
The Legislature considered a number
of bills for prolection of party punish
ment, assaults, regulating contracts,
: and organizing temporarily the school
I system.
From the Macon Journal and Messenger.
EAST THEM OUT.
Some of our citizens, either through
thoughtlessness or weakness, are doing
great injutice to the cause of a cruelly
oppressed and outraged people by the
complacency of their social intercourse
with scalawags, carpet-baggers, and
renegades. Surely these citizens says
the Mobile Register, and we most cor
cially endorse the sentiment, do not
rightly appreciate the condition to
which the South has been reduced
through tbe agency of these wretches.
We recall to thetr minds a thought re
cently expoessed by Senator Doolittle:
“If you go,” said he to an audience,
“to Mount Vernon and the grave of
Washington, you will sit under the
shadow of a despotism more degrading
and absolute than that which ever ruled
Poland, Hungary, Ireland.” In one of
his able messages President Johnson
told the skeleton Congress that “no
where, for five hundred years past, had
the men of our blood and language been
subjected to a tyranny as galling as that
which it had put upon the Southern
people.” Nor need we go to these high
authorities or seek in their nervous
language for an exemplification of our
condition. Every man who thinks and
feels, and who is gifted with the lowest
sensibility, is conscious of the deep
wrong inflicted by the vindictive and
cowardly men who rule in Congress.
The iron of injustice has entered his
soul, and it will fester and rankle there,
until by some means or other it is
plucked out and its point turned against
the oppressor. In what light, then,
should a down-trodden people view
their tyrants ? Is it not the reverse of
manly—nay, is it not a base servility,
to recognize or countenance in any so
cial or business form the men who have
shown themselves our deadliest ene
mies ? Who in the South would shake
hands or sit down in social converse
with Sumner, Butler, or Ben. Wade ?
Then why should we not equally scorn
as polluting all contact with their mis
erable tools ? Under centuriess of op
pression Ireland has kept alive a relent
less and undying protest and hatred
against her tyrants in politics and re
ligion. It sprang from the same source
and has been nurtured by the same
wrongs as our own. It is a carpet-bag
rule in Ireland that has made that coun
try a sore on the British body politic:
j It is that rule that gave birth to Fenian
■ ism, It is that rule and its authors
that have bred hatred in the hearts of
Irishmen, and which will never cease
to be resisted until the right of self
government is conceded to its brave
and spirited people. Yet Ireland’s
grievances are light in comparison to
our own. If 9lie is ruled against her
consent by an alien people, they are at
least of their owu blood and color. But
our oppressors, with a refined cruelty,
have inverted the order of things, up
heaved the social strata, and, burying
the governing powers of intelligence
and experience under disfranchisement,
have invested the ignorance and ezpe
rieuce of a race just emerged from
slavery with political domination, in
order that it may be handled and
swayed by our enemies, alien to the
soil.
Can deadlier wrongs than these be
inflicted upon a brave and free people ?
Can a man place himself more distinct
ly in the attitude of an enemy to his
people, than he who counsels, abets,
takes part in, or consents to be the tool
of the power that inflicts them ? If one
assails your honor, slanders your char
acter, or steals your money, self-respect
prompts you to cut his acquaintance.
But here are men who are openly rob
bing you of your civil rights, stealing
your offices, living on means plundered
from your substance, insulting you
with their loathsome presence, and
making slaves of you, and yet gentle
men give them their hands, take social
glasses with them, and hob-nob on the
streets with them. We denounce this
facile complacency as a crime against
the outraged majesty of this people,
and as a treasonable correspondence
with the enemies of the Commonwealth.
They are dogs, and should be treated as
dogs—dogs only tolerated now because
the power of the sword is in the hands
of our enemies in Congress, hut will
not he tolerated one hour after the peo
ple recover the liberty to do justice
upon their oppressors. It is the duty
of every Southern man to cut these ver
min. Excommunicate them; spew
them out as outcasts and social pariahs,
with whom it is disgraceful to hold
social intercourse. We are not talking
about negroes now. We had no fault
to find with them. Every error of
theirs lays at the door of scalawag in
stigation. But for these interloping
incendiaries the white people of the
South would have no trouble with the
colored race, and peace and harmony
would have been the law of the land.
When the day of settlement and retri
i bution comes—as come it will, so sure
' as there is a God of justice—we would
not hurt a hair of their heads ; rncan
j time they should be treated not only
kindly, but should be counselled for
their good, and assisted so far as the
; impoverished means of the whites can
give them aid, in all their industrious
efforts and enterprises. It is the white
speculators in our public misfortunes
end miseries that we speak of, and they
should be held at arm’s length, walled
out from all sympathy or intercourse,
and he forever reminded that attone
ment to the exact pound of flesh will be
exacted for their daring insults and ac
cursed wrongs to this people.
The Georgia Correspondent of the
New York Times, writing from Atlanta
just after the Senatorial election, thus
j relates what followed the announcement
of the result. The writer says :
‘‘When the vote was declared the
Legislature adjourned immediately.
The friends of Brown and Blodgett, as
well as those gentlemen themselves,
tried hard to look pleasr.nt and to ex
press perfect satisfaction ai the choice.
But the effort was ghastly. They were
pitiably ‘down in the mouth,’ and their
anxiety to conceal their mortification
only made it more apparent. The op
ponents of Brown and Blodgett rejoiced
hugely. They congratulated each oth
er with tears of joy in their eyes. They
grasped each others’ hands with con
vulsive ecstasy, and when they found
words to express the cause of their joy
they were far from complimentary to
the defeated candidates.
“Brown is, I understand, greatly
mortified and disappointed. His friends
claim that if he had not been loaded
down with Blodgett he could have
‘made the connection;’ and Blodgett
and his backers insist that if he had not
been compelled ‘to tote Jo Brown and
all his sins upon his shoulders, he
would have been elected beyond a
doubt.’ ”
On Saturday last, a bill was intro
duced and passed the Georgia House of
Representatives, to exempt from poll
and property tax to the amount of $3500,
all Confederate soldiers and their wives,
j who lost a leg or an arm in the late war.
The Louisville Journal thus alludes
to the Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
—Applegate, better know in the section
where he resides, from his inate love of
a certain kind of extract, as Appletoddy.
The Journal says:
Applegate, the Lieut. Governor of
Alabama, is the scoundrel, it will be re
membered, who, during the war, went
with a Regiment of Federal cavalry in
to Mississippi, and while there stole pa
pers to tho value of SIOO,OOO from the
residence of the Hou. Jacob Thompson,
and wrote to Mrs. Thompson when the
war closed, offering to restore the stolen
papers for the sum of fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars.
This characteristic is a feather in the
cap of a carpet-bagger, in the estima
tion of the Radical party, and when
known, insures his certain exaltation to
power. Plunder the Southern whites,
is their pass word to power.
How the White and Colored
Democrats do things in Mississippi.
—We learn from the Clarion that at a
recent Barbecue and Mass Ratification
Meeting in Copiah county, Miss.,, and
tended by an audience of 6,000 people—
white and colored—one hundred ani
sixty animals were barbecued and con
sumed. The assemblage was addressed
by Hon. A. G. Brown, who was follow
ed by two colored orators, in support
of the nominees of the Democracy for
the Presidency. The speeches and sen
timents uttered were received with
great enthusiasm. No wonder the car
pet-bagger Eggleston skulked off from
Mississippi in disgust at the thought of
reclaiming the State to Radicalism.
Mr. Greeley does not Feel Confi
dent in Regard to the next Elec
tion. —Horace Greeley thus discourses
in relation to the next election:
Yet we do not believe, nor wish oth
ers to believe, Gen - Grant’s election
certain. We would have every one
realize that the election is not yet de
cided—that the Republicans can win if
they work, but must lose if they are
heedless or apathetic. We hope to car
ry Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, in
October, but by small majorities, such
as will animate both parties to more
determined efforts in November. Our
Indiana friends talk of a large majori
ty in that State; we shall be content
with a small one. We do surely hope
to carry this State, hut know w v ell that
hard work is required to do it. Friends
of Grant and Colfax ! do not believe we
shall win easily; for, without slrenuous
efforts, we should not win at all. But
work on in assured conviction that vic
tory is within your reach, and scan tho
above table as proof of it.
Protest. —The following protest to
the bill taking from the people the right
to cast the Electoral vote for the Presi
dent and Vice-President, was o ffered by
the Hon. D. L. Neville, of Monroe, and
by his request spread upon the Journals
of the House :
To the Honorable House of Representa
tives:
I do hereby enter my most earnest
and solemn protest against the bill,
taking the right of voting from the peo
ple and giving it to the Legislature ;
because I believe the bill to be a bare
betrayal of the rights of the people, and
an outrageous and assassinable wrong
inflicted upon them.
I conceive the bill to be unwarranta
ble, unjustifiable, unconstitutional,
bloody and revolutionary in its charac
ter and tendency. It is conceived in a
Star Chamber spirit, and forced upon
the people with more than the reckless
ness of the Congress of the Thirty Ty
rants of Athens.
Respectfully submitted.
D. L Neville.
[Montgomery Mall.
New Inventions. —Prof. 11. J. Har
ris, of Shreveport, La., whose recent
pyrotechnic displays, balloon ascen
sions, etc., have brought himself into
notice, leaves in a few days for the
North, in order to obtain patents for a
new and exceedingly ingenious hand
grenade, and also for a trail match for
signalizing purposes.
The hand grenade consists of a hol
low hall of thick manilla paper, in the
centre of which is placed the charge of
powder, the intervening space between
the charge and the minor surface of the
ball being filled with shot of any desir
ed size. The whole is covered with a
strong net work of twine or copper wire,
and ignited by means of a fuse or per
cussion cap. The superiority over the
old hand grenade consists iu the light
ness of the projectile, and in the fact of
the charge being placed in the centre
instead of mixed with the shot.
The trail match consists of a long trail
or fuse, to which is attached at certain
intervals small loaded balls. The pro
fessor has arranged a code of signals by
which messages may be sent on the
darkest nights long distances in this
manner.— N. O. Picayune.
Crop Prospects in East Tennes
see.—We copy the following from the
Knoxville Press of August 9th:
Wheat. —The wheat crop is now
all harvested and shows a total nearly
double that of last year. The yield per
acre has not been materially changed,
but the increase is due to the greater
breadth of land sown.
Qats. —Avery fair crop of oats has
been made this season. The yield is
probably twice that of last year, when
the crop was unusually small. Much
of the present crop has been seriously
damaged by rain since being harvest
ed.
Corn. —The prospect of the corn crop
was never better at this season than
now, although the harvest will be late
on account of the delay in planting
caused by the protracted spring rains.
The recent rains have greatly improv
ed the corn, and will probably increase
the yield, we may safely calculate
upon an abundant crop unless some
unforseen accident occurs.
Fruit. —There will be an abundance
of apples this year, but not a very good
peach crop.
Tho Radicals think that Gov. Sey
mour will probably go crazy. Grant
may have the delirium Iremcns, but he
is in no danger of any honest and legit
imate kind of delirium. A man is said
to be delirious when his ideas get tan
gled, and as Grant ha 9 no material to
tangle, he is in no manner of peri).
One of the biographers of Gen. Grant
tells us that when his grandfather was a
captain in the army his pay amounted
to less than $350 a year. Little did the
old gentleman think then that in 1861 a
grandson of his would b-j a clerk in a
leather store with the enormous salary
of S6OO a year.
Gen. Grant’s brother positively de
clares that he will not vote for Seymour,
as The World charged he would.— N.
Y. Tribune.
There, our hope that there was at
least one sensible member of the Grant
family is blasted.
A Lowell bootblack has challenged a
Boston “artist” to compete for the
championship of the State.— Ex.
It is understood that the Boston art
ist agreed to accept the challenge only
upon the ground that the challenging
party would not use Butler’s character
for blacking. —Louisville Journal.
Interesting to Tobacco Dealers.
—Under the amended revenue law, ho
tels, inns, drug stores, saloons, grocers
or others, who sell cigars and tobaccos,
are required to pay a special tax of $5 a
year; if their sales of these articles ex
ceed SI,OOO yearly, they ure required
to pay an additional tax of $2 on each
$1,000; but the tax of $5 must be paid,
even if the sales for the year do not
amount to that sum. This is the law.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13.
An Actor Changes his Role.—
Capt. W. H. Crisp—all our readers ;
“know him like a book”—has quit the J
stage and taken editorial charge of the
San Antonio (Texas) Herald.
Gen. Dunn, a red hot radical, and
Pope’s adviser in all his outrages, has
been ordered to Washington for duty.
Atlanta has our congratulations. Lieut, i
Hosmer, another Federal officer on du j
ty for a lougtimo at Atlanta, has taken
the same direction.
Russell County.— A Bill has passed j
the House authorizing the Judge of
Probate of Russell county, to remove
the books and records of tho county
from tho county seat. This bill was
opposed by the Hon. T. Tyner, Repre
sentative from Russell, who voted
against the passage of the bill.— Mont.
Mail, \Wi.
Appointments by Gov. Bullock
—On the Bth, Edward (“Sharp and
Quick”) Hulhert was appointed Super
intendent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, and on Monday the property
of the road was turned over to him and
he entered on the duties of the office.
Nathan P. Hotchkiss, of Walton coun
ty, was appointed, on the 10th, Auditor
of the same road.
Denib of Tbaddeus Steven*.
The telegraph announces the long
expected death of Thaddeus Stevens.
We have only to say that this dispensa
tion of Providence will be hailed with
joy and gratification by the patriotic
masses of the people from one end of
the country to the other. The history
of the American Republic will mention
the name of no man who, during a long
political career, has done so much harm
and so little good to his people and j
country. His death at this juncture is
ominous of the fate of his party, and it
is safe to say that no man can be found
with the requisite ability and malignity
to fill his place. The character of the
man is best illustrated in the fact that
his death will be considered the cause
of general congratulation.
Gov. Smith’s Veto Message. —Wo !
reproduce in full the message of Gov.
Smith, of Alabama, vetoing the hill
which gives to the Legislature of Ala
bama the power to elect Presidential
electors. His argument against the
wrong and injustice, is able and con
clusive, and is a good campaign doeu- i
ment for the Democracy. The Mont- j
gomery Mail says of Gov. Smith:
He is not a carpet-bag Governor. lie
has been a citizen of Alabama thirty
years, and is a native of Georgia
He has no affinity for carpet-baggers.
Ho opposed tho placing of this bogus
Constitution over the people, being
satisfied that it was defeated under the
law. He is a fair man however wrong
headed ho may be on certain political \
questions. He loves Alabama more
than he does Maine.
An Alabama Dogberry.— Our sis- j
ter State Alabama is perhaps more af- I
flicted with mean, contemptible, lguur
ant and dishonest public officers, naiive
and imported, than any other of the
reconstructed Territories. We give
below a specimen of the capacity and 1
intelligence of a man elected to the hon
orable and responsible position of Pro
bate Judge for the county of Barbour,
one of the largest counties in the State,
and settled by a population noted for
their intelligence and prosperity. We
give the precious document “verbatim
et literatim.” A large number ofl
skunks of the same variety, of about
equal capacity to Russell, are about to
be commissioned by Bullock and turn
ed loose upon the people of Georgia.— |
In addition to the ignorance of Russell,
we are informed that he is notoriously
dishonest aud disreputable in every re
spect :
Clayton Ala., August 3, 1868
Messrs Petitioners :
My Friends— l would like to do
anything to accomodate you or any
one, but I am not as yet orthorize to
apint any one as Justice of the Peace 1
or to any other office. If lam hereaf- j
ter orthorize toapint I will apint Union j
men and none others, or men that was
in 'favor of the adoption of the 14th
articuai, and would have voted for it if
they had been in the present Legisla
ture and if Mr. Weston was this kind
of a man he can write to me and I will
apint him if I have the apointing power
and if not I will recomend your partis
sion to Gov. W. H. Smith and faward
it.
Yours very respectfully
H. C. RUSSELL.
Savannah and Memphis Rail Road.
In pursuance to the adjournment on
the first of July, of the annual meeting
of the Stockholders of the Savannah and
Memphis Rail Road Company, for
want of a quorum, the Stockholders of
said Company convened at Opelika
yesterday, and a quorum of Stock 1
being represented, proceeded to the
election of officers for the present year.
Col. Slaughter, who has so ably filled
the office of President of the Company
since the organization in 1859, declined
a reelection.
The convention then proceeded to
the election of officers. Col. Samuel
G. Jones, was put in nomination and
elected without opposition, President
of the Company. J. C. W. Rogers,
Seeretary and Treasurer; and H. H.
Epping, and Thomas DeWolf of Co
lumbus ; L. F. McCoy, R. C. Jeier,
J. M. Oliver, and W. C. Ross, of Lee
county; J. R. Slaughter, of Tallapoosa
j county, and R. B. Lindsey of Tusctnn
bia, were elected Directors.
The following resolutions-were unan
imously adopted by the Convention:
Resolved, That the Board of Direct-
I ors be and they are hereby authorized
| to adjust all past due subscriptions on
j such terms as they shall deem to the
best interest of the Company, taking
into consideration each individual ease
aud deciding it on its merits.
Resolved, That as early as practica
ble, the Board cause to be made, an ac
curate estimate of the cost of refitting
tbe grading already done, and of ex
j tending the graduation to the commence
ment of the twenty-first mile from
Opelika.
Resolved, That as soon as the Direc
tors shall be able to relieve the Compa
ny of its embarrassments by the ad
justment of outstanding obligations,
they be instructed to use any means
within their control to put the first
twenty miles in a condition to render
the aid granted by the Internal Im
provement law available.
1 Resolved, That the thanks of the
Convention be, and they are hereby
tendered to Col. Slaughter for the faith
ful, zealous and unselfish manner in
which he has discharged the duties of
President of the Company since its first
I organization.
I London, Aug. 12. —The Emperor’s
speech at the Tuilleries excites various
comments; some journals saying it is
| an indication of peace, whilst others as
; a cover of war.
NO. 23.
MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR SMITH.
Veto of the “Bill to Rob the People of a •
President.”
Executive Department, 1
State of Alabama, >
Montgomery, August 11, 1868. J
To the Senate:
By the 2d Section, Article 3d, of the
Constitution of the United States, it is
provided that “each State shall appoint,
in such manner as the Legislature there
of may direct, a number of electors
equal to the whole uurnber of Senators
and Representatives to which the State
may he entitled in the Congress ”
Thus it is clear that the Legislature of I
the Stato has the undoubted Constitu
tional power to choose the Presidential
electors. But the Constitutiou of this i
State requires that “every bill or tcbo- i
lution having the force of law, to which !
the concurrence of both Houses of tho
General Assembly may ho necessary,
except on a question of adjournment,
which shall have passed both Houses,
shall he presented to tho Governor;
and if he approve, he shall sign it; if
not, he shall return it, with his objec
tions, to the House in which it origina
ted.” Here is devolved upon the Gov
ernor a plain and at the same lime an
imperative duty. Tho Constitution is
.mandatory in requiring him to approve
or disapprove every bill presented to j
him. lie could not, if he would, evade j
the duty thus imposed upon him.
For several days I have been careful- !
ly and anxiously considering the merits J
of the hill which originated in the Sen
ate, to he entitled “An Act to repeal
Section 217 of the Revised Code, and
for other purposes.” After the most
mature reflection, I am forced to the
conclusion that the bill is wrong in
principle, aud that It would be a dan
gerous precedent in a republican gov
ernment. As my judgment does not
approve the bill, it is my Constitutional
duty to return it to the Senate, with
my objections. To mo this is an un- !
pleasant duty. If I entertained any
doubt in regard to the justice or policy
of this bill, I should certainly give the
benefit of the doubt to the General As
*sembly, and approve the bill.
All republics are based upon the doc- l
nine that “Governments derive their
just power from the consent of the gov
erned.” No party in this country has
proclaimed this doctrine with such per- j
tinacity, or contended so earnestly for
its adoption in its fullest sense, as tho |
Republican party has. That party |
stauds committed by the platform, re- j
cently adopted by the Convention at
Chicago, which nominated Grant and
Colfax, to universal manhood suffrage
in the States lately in rebellion. This
position has boon gradually assumed by
the Republican party of tbe nation, at
the earnest request of Southern Union
ists, upon the plea that it was necessary
for the protection ol the Union men of
both races that colored men should be
allowed to vote.
In the effort to secure this right, a
conflict ensued between the Executive
aud Legislative departments of the Na
tional Government, which lias convuls
ed the country, and well nigh precipi
tated a civil war. Indeed, the full ex
tent and ultimate result of that conflict
cannot yet be foreseen.
It cannot hut ho regarded asremarka
blo that the first Republican Legislature
convened iu Alabama, should, in the
face of tho principles of its organization,
which every Republican professes to hold
dear, deny not only to the colored but
to tbe white man, the right, by his vote,
to vindicate his choice for a President
and Vice President of the United States,
aud take the matter iu its own hands.
What excuse can there be for it? Is it a
mere party expediency ? If so, then it
is au abandonment of principles, or an
acknowledgment that the material out
of which the Republican party is cuui
posed, cannot be trusted. Iu other
words, it is to say that the colored men
will not do to be trusted. This sessiou
of the General Assembly will be record
ed as still more remarkable when con
sidered iu connection with what seems
to have been the almost unanimous
opinion of the leading members of the
Republican party of Alabama. It was
believed by most of them, and so repre
sented at Washington, that a large ma
jority of the voting population of the
State were iu favor of tho new Constitu
tion. This was as much as to say that
the Republican party was in a largo ma
jority in the State; for it is well known
none but the Republicans favored the
Constitution, and even some of them
opposed it. If the party is as strong as
; it has been supposed to he, then the
! necessity of party expediency does
not exist; hut even if it did exist, would
i we be justifiable in resorting to it? As
: much as I desire the election of Grant
and Colfax, I am unwilling to become
a party, in behalf of that desirable re
sult, to a scheme which practically de
nies the very principles for which those
, standard bearers stand pledged before
the country.
Hut it uuiy be said that, owing to the |
excited temper of the Democratic party, ,
we cannot have a peaceable election ; |
and that this measure is merely resorted
to in the interest of peaco. If this be j
so, then it is a recoil from the issue on |
our part, and a tacit acknowledgment i
that we are are unable to protect our- I
selves against the minority. I respect
fully submit that the Republican party |
should not be exposed to the diaparag- j
ing comments, not to say ridicule, that;
would result from this position.
In this connection, the question may
very properly be asked, if it is not safe j
| to have an election now. when will it
be ? If we wait until the Democratic
, press and Democratic orators cease to
employ violent, exciting and abusive
language, it is not at all probable that
the time will ever come when we can
; have a peaceful election ; and therefore,
to be consistent, we should avoid all
• elections in the future.
It may be contended, with some de
gree of plausibility, that if our political
j opponents had the power, which we
i possess, they would use it to secure the
S eight electoral votes of Alabama for
Seymour and Blair. But does this as
sumption that the Democrats, if they
had the power, would deprive the peo
pie of the right to votu, justify us in do
ing so ? It seems to me that every can
; did man must answer, no 1
It is said that the old Secession party,
whoße leaders are prominent in the
Democratic party now, usurped,.in 1860,
' ’6l, power which belonged to the peo
ple' for the purpose of Secession and
i war; and that now the Republican
j party would be justified iu exercising a
clear Constitutional right in the inter
i eßts of the Union and peace. I admit
tbut this argument iB not without some
force. Still, when examined carefully,
j I do not think it can be regarded as
1 sound ; for the effect of it, as I conceive,
I will not be peace. The denial of any
right, to a people who have been in the
| habit of exercising it, will, in my opin
ion, be a source of irritation well calcu
lated to produce violence. Every origi
i nal Union man in Alabama felt aggriev-
I ed that the Convention of 1861, which
passed the ordinance of Secession, did
not submit its action to a vote of the
j people. It was held, and justly held,
I as a dime against the rights of the peo
; pic. Those who acted thus, never
1 sought to justify their conduct on any
other ground than that of expediency,
j By their action, they showed that they
' were unwilling to trust the people. We
! all know the consequences. They need
| not he recounted here. Reference to
j them is only made for the purpose of
, showing that the action of political or
; Legislative bodies, based upon expedi
ency alone, must,sooner or later, operato
, injuriously to the party resorting to it;
and that when measures of expediency
are adopted, they generally lead to re
sults far different from those designed;
I to be reached, in the particular case re-
I ferred to, the consequence was the al
; most total ruin of the State.
| For these reasons, I respectfully re
turn the bill to the Senate without my
aP ( P Sig V ned) WiLUAiiEBMiT^
A beef pac king establishment Is being
fitted up at Shreveport, La.
Armine (he Black*.
A Southern Representative upon the Pro
position to Give Negroes Arms Against
the Whites—Remarks of Hon. W. Jas
per Blackburn , of Louisiana.
[ When Horace Greeley was a mem
ber of Congress, on a certain occasion
he aimed to dolivor a speech. Failing
to obtain the floor, bo ncverthless pub
lished his speech with these introducto
ry remarks : “ Had Mr. -Greeley suc
ceeded in obtaining the floor, he would
have spoken substantially as follows:”
Mr: Blackburn, of Louisiana, designs
a similar “freak.” Immediately prece
ding the present recess of Congress,
there wsb beforo the House a bill for
Arming the “Union men” of the South.
Mr. Blackburn had prepared some re
marks on the subject; but wliun the
question came up, a motion was made
to refer It to a committee, and all debate
was cut off, nnd the question will not
come up again until next session. The
following are tho remarks which Mr.
Blackburn had intended to present, aud
which he desires should go before his
constituents and the couniry :]
So far as tho African race is concern
ed, I will say—as one who knows from
experience, and as one who has nevet
been in favor of enslaving any human
being—that the Africans, ns a race, are
the most sympathetic and kind-hearted
people on earth, while they are the
most docile aud easy to he governed,
and perhaps tho least capable of govern
ing themselves. Perticularly is (his
the ease with the present generation of
Africans in the Southern Stales. They
are humble, obedient and sulunissive.
To place arms iu their hands, as a class,
because they are Union men—which
they are, even by instinct, if not from
understanding aud intelligent patriotism
—would be to array them against al
most the entire white population of the
South: the natural and inevitable result
of which would be the extermination of
the black race.
Therefore, Mr. Speaker, for this brief
ly stated main reason, if for no other
(but I have many, many others), 1 op
pose the arming, by the Federal Gov
ernment, or auy other Government, of
the Union men of the South. I say this
as one who has not only been a Union
man, but hb one who has always been a
safe and true friend of the black man—
a friend who always denounced his
bondage, hut who never advised hint to
harshness.
Sir, the thing has gone too far. If
another war is to bo fought, it must at
least be commenced in the North. We
of the South have had enough of strife
and bloodshed.
“It Is fit tl‘9 spell should break of till* protrac
ted dream—
What Is writ Is writ; would 'tworo worthier I”
I am not opposed to ariuiug the mili
tia of the States. That is constitutional
and proper. But this bill, if I under
stand it, means something more—or
rather, something less. It means arm
ing the “Union men,” as such, against
what is termed the rebel or secession
element; that is to say, arming the
black man against the white man. Sir,
I am opposed to this, “first, last, and
all the time.” Gentlemen of my party
may tell me not to oppose this measure;
it will ruin me politically ! Such an ar
gument has no weight with mo. They
mistake the man. 1 want no influence,
no life, outside of principle ! If I can
not be a true party man without being
a rascal and an enemy and traitor to
my race and to liberty, then I am Vio
party may 1 But the Republican party
proper requires uo such sacrifice. We,
sir, of Louisiana, want no such state
of affairs as they have in Teuuessee, and
as they have had iu Missouri. I will
advocate no measure tending that way.
Sir, I speak “for myself uud not an
other”—though the white and the black
man of my district are of the same feel
lug—but I aim now to speak only of
myself, when I say I want no personal
feuds in my section—no civil war—no
local strife nor fraternal bloodshed. J
differ from rnauy of the white men of
my Bection iu political matters ; but that
difference does not extend to deadly
hate. I am not their personal enemy ;
and I am proud to say that personally'
they all love me, and have the utmost
confidence iu my integrity. It is for
thiß main reason that I have been spared
to live thus far. I was always the open
enemy of slavery, and opposed to seces
sion, and all the direful programme of
•*>« his li'Hllinor .Southern statesmen
which has brought upon our country
such ruin as we now see ; hut in a per
sonal sense, and in matters of life and
death, I never was against my native
land, nor the enemy of my neighbor,
and never will be.
The truth is, the thing called “Union
ism" has about played nut in the South.
Asa general thing, those who “went
in" for the war, and fought the most
bravely—are to-day the safest and besl
citizens ; while many who were so call
ed Union men, until they lost their
slaves, are now the most mischievous.
I regret to say this ; but “truth is truth
to the end of reckoning," and it hurts
none but the wicked. And besides, those
few native Southerners who have re
mained firm and true throughout all the
strife, even until now, have never been
appreciated by the Government, and are
almost uniyersally ignored and saori
fleed by the new copiers from the North,
many of whom would rather traternlze
and seek alliances with what is termed
the unreconstructed rebel element. 1
repeat, “Unionism” Las about played
out in the South !
We will not take up the sword now
far any political party. We were ready
to do go, had war ensued upon the con
viction of Mr. Johnson on his impeach
ment. His prompt and immediate con
viction would even now releave us. Rut
we have had enough of fruitless irrita
tion. What we want is peace—the “art
of peace and the fruits of pence.” We
want no more fruitless conflicts. And
sir, as a friend and defender of the black
man, I tell tho country this day that
what the black man of the South wants
and needs is not arms to shoot his
neighbor, but he wants land and impli
mcntß to cultivate it. He wants a
homostoad, that he may be a freeman
! indeed ; and not Bureau agents to or
j der him as a slave, more peremptorily
I and insultingly, ofton, than overdid his
ancient masters!
A Radical Journal on n Knillritl
Swindle.
The New York Times, which exhib
its a wonderful capacity for opposing
many of the schemes of its parly, and
subsequently acquiescing in them all,
denounces the plan to deprive the
Southern pooplo of the privilege ol
voting in tho coming election. Wc
give the views of the Times which are
very sound, below, with the simple re
mark, that iu the coming week it may
advocate what it now sternly oppose.
The Times says:
But the wisdom of the step, whether
taken by Florida or any ol the recon
structed States, is extremely doubtful.
Waving altogether the relative mei its ol
the two plans—electiou by the people
or election by the Legislature—it seems
inexpedient to enact the latter with di
rect reference to the contest now pm
greasing. To render seemly the choice
oi electors by the Legislature, its mem
bers should have been elected in view ol
the exercise of that authority. The
people would then have an opportunity
of expressing their preference, and the
legislators would proceed with entire
propriety. These Legislatures, howev
er, were chosen without relereuce to
this question, and they cannot now ex
ercise the power claimed by the Florida
Legislature without appearing to de
prive tho people of a cherished privi
*We put the case wholly on the ground
of expediency. Asa matter ol consti
tutioual right, the new Legislatures may
avail themselves of tho appointing
power. But we are persuaded that its
exercise, in the present condition of the
public mind at the South, would operate
injuriously. It would look like, an at
tempt to secure a snap judgment I
would give color to the pretence that
the Republic* ll party is, alter all, afraid
to trust the Southern vote. And it
would be used as evidence of a deter
mination on the part of the Republicans
to profit by any questionable agency
that may be at hand. These impute
tions would be as false as other of the
rebel cries. But they should be pre
vented, if possible. Not evil only, hut
the appearance of evil should be avoid
ed in a contest with opponents who
eagerly seek a pretext for the distur
bances they threaten.
Louisville, AuTlj.-Corn 90@95. .
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