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October *7, 3.0*7 £2.
The election in this place la-st. Wed-'
m’Hilay passu 1 off very quietly ; and,
although the, polls were crowded from
H o’clock in the nfnrning until dark,
there wits no disutrbunec otany kind
to cal! into requisition the ter vice*
ot tlu* sheriff. ThroimJinni ttic coun
ty the election was c un!acted in a
very quiet manner, ami the reputa
tion of our people for good order
thereby l'nlly sustained. Six hun
dred and twenty-three votes, an un
usually largo number, were polled
at this place.
Upon consolidating the votes, the
returns from Hinesville and Rice
boro were thrown out on account of
alleged violations of the law m keep
ing the polls open beyond the pre
scribed time. We forbear comment
upon this proeeedure, as we learn
that the result will be contested, and
undergo legal investigation. Tn an
other column we give the., official
vote of the county. H. F. Horne
the Democrat in candidate for repre
sentativ.ejs elected by a large ma-
FI. W. Mattox, the Demo
cratic candidate for is with
out doubt also elected By a hand
some majority.
Election News.
A private letter from Albany in
fqrms us that the Democratic ticket,
is elected, and Smith has a majority
of 317. From our exchanges we learn
that from sixty counties heard from,
Smith’s majority is ikS.ll7. •
North Georgia has gone Demo
cratic, and Smith’s majority may be
estimated at 40,000. A lull vote was
polled in every county.
The only disturbance' o! a serious
nature during the election occurred
in Macon; which resulted in the
death of one white man and three
negroes.
Rev. J. Blakely Smith, Presiding
Elder of the Americas Disk died very
suddenly last Monday of apoplexy.
He was well known throughout this
section of the state, and his death
will he regretted by a large number
of friends.
The Georgia Synod ot the Presby
terian church meets in Albany, Nov.
13th.
Steel’s Reply to “A Greeley Demo
crat."
Mr. JuHlor :
It is much to be
regretted that some writers cannot
'.•online themselves to the questions
at issue, but must turn aside to hunt
up personal defects, in order to cre
ate n prejudice against an opponent,
and thereby weaken the force of his
arguments. This is what •“A Gree
ley Democrat” so-called has done.
I will hoWever slate in the outset
that I am not in Ihe least offended
nor ruffled at anything he has writ-
ton ; but if I succeed in capturing:
his battery, and turnin'! upon him
tht' guns which he has loaded, he
must not complain that the shot are
too heavy or too hot.
In the first place lie tries to make
the impression that “Steel” is blind
ly self-conceited —a trait of charac
ter which lie well knows to be very
objectionable to all modest people.
He says : “It seems that ‘Steel’ is
covered so thickly with a deposit of
self sufficiency—” <fec. &c.
But I do not suppose that anyone
except himself detected an exhibi
tion ot self conceit, in the article" al
luded to; such disparagements are
therefore uncalled for and unfair.
In the next place., he tries to make it
appear t hat I said he ought to
know; I did not say. Hear him:
‘•Steel evidently arrogates to himself
an embodiment of superior wisdom,
whiist those who differ with him are
simply a set of misguided men, if not
arrant knaves.” J did mean to c:y
thatSontbeyn men who supported
Mr. Greeley were mistaken in their
conclusions—and I wiii “stick to it”;
but 1 never said nor meant, nor in
any wise intimated that they were
“arrant knaves”; the charge origina
ted in the heated imagination of “A
Greeley Democrat”; and if he were
not “covered so thickly with a de
posit, of’ Greeleyism* he would have
understood what I really did mean,
and he would have resorted to argu
ments instead of aspersions. But he
was trying to defend a weak cause
and had no solid arguments to ad
duce. And I want no potter evi
dence that men are mistaken than
to see them continually 'trying to
bolster up their position with flimsy
argument and unwarrantable asser-.
tions. The truth is, when one has a
pet scheme in his head, he dislikes
to listen to sound arguments against
it.
Near the close of that remarkable
reply, we read the following terribly
conclusion: “A General who cannot
or will not change his front when
the enemy comes in flank or rear, is
a madman or a fool.” According to
my understanding, this sweeping
verdictts entirely irrelevant to the
questions we'are discussing, unless
the writer means that Steel isamad
man or a fool for not going over to
Mr. Greeley’s support.
This is a pretty serious charge for
any one to make against those who
honestly differ from him; and I will
simply leave each reader to draw his
own conclusions—advising however
that we had better avoid such rash'
expressions altogether, and quietly
wait for further developments—we
may yet be fully able to decide who
the real madmen and fools are. I
will remark just here fhat it is one
thing for a general to change his
front, but quite a different thing for
him to tear down his own flag and
hoist that of his enemy. ■
'•General'’ Steel has changed his
front. He fought Radicalism -when
it was to be found only at the North,
and continues to light it now that it
lias crossed the line and begins to
show its hideous “seven heads and
ten horns” in the South—at our very
doors. ' General Greeley Democrat”
fought, it manfully until he surren
dered honorably at High Point—but
now (as it seems to me) he has torn
down the beautiful Southern Rights
flag and raised that of Radicalism,
presented by that old fossil Aboli
tionist. Horace Greeley, who perhaps
has done and will do the South as
much injury as any man living or
dead. A man may surrender with
honor, but he cannot desert (a good
cause) and be innocent.
General “Greeley Democrat”
says: “The Straight-out Ends, with
Grant as their leader for the last
four years have left no stone un
turned to humiliate and goad to des
peration the white citizens of the
South”—and then he goes on to en
numerate many outrages they have
committed—all of which is true:
but he. seems to have forgotten that,
until very recently, Horace Greeley
was among them, aiding and abet
ting in all their deeds of rascality!
He thinks however that Mr. Greeley
and it* faction have become disgust
ed with the whole proceedings, for he
says: “If they were not honest they
would have remained with the par
ly now in power, who hate the reve
nues of the country in their hands
from which to feed the hungry pock
ets of their satellites and supporters.’’
I cannot agree with the writer in this
conclusion—-especially the “honest”
part of it, but ratner take hie argu
ment as the key which pnlocks the
whole secret. The fact is,the public
cnb was not large enough to feed all
the hungry Radical crew, and those
who had not drawn full rations clam
ored for Grant and bis crowd to stand
aside, and let them feast four years.
And that is about the sum and sub
stance of what Mr. Greeley means
by a '-thorough reform in the civil
service”
General “Greeley Democrat” has
ave-y keen percepfion of the fitness
of things—except in politics. Of all
names he has selected that which
best suits his position.—“ Greeley
Democrat /” Why Mr. Editor, “Gree
ley” means one thing and “Demo
crat” the very opposite. Who ever
before heard of an Attempt to unite
such discordant .elements! It would
require more political Potash than
can be found in the Southern States
to make Democratic Soap enough to
wash one’s hands—especially if he
goes about the Radicals. “ Greeley
Democrat ” indeed!
But by far the Miost objeetional
part of the arlicle l am trying to dis
sect, is that which attempts to show
the evils of slavery.,. The writer calls'
it a “curse,” an “evil,” Ac.,and points
to it as the cause of all our political
troubles. Let us apply his logic to
another case:—A owns a horse which
lie very highly appreciates; he works
him moderately and keeps him fat.
Ten robbers threaten to take, the
horse; A hears of it and uses every
precaution to prevent it. But the
robbers come at night and begin to
break the stablej|upr v A— calls to
them to desist, nOTthey* fire a volley
at him in reply, and A— returns the
fire. One robber is killed, two or
three wounded, and the balance take
the horse and escape. In the fight
A— is severely wounded, so that is
necessary to amputate his leg to
save his life; —Well, now let us have
the conclusion,: “Poor A—how fool
ish lie was to own a horse! He will
be obliged to go on crutches the bal
ance of his life because he was, an
extreme man; he was determined to
keep that horse but the accursed
brute, the cause of all this trouble,is
gone, and “Heaven grant” that this
unfortunate man’s stable door may
never be darkened by auolher! ,If
he would have given .up the horse
without resistance when he first
heard that the thieves threatened to
take him!” This is what I call a fair
specimen of Radical logic.
But,the “higher law” party here
raise an objection, to wit: “The il
lustration is not good,because in this
instance a brute is the property con
cerned,and in the other, slaves which
qre human beings 1” Very well; I
will go back to headquarters and
claim that the divine law, written in
the Bible, gives an enlightened race
just as unquestionable a right to
own slaves as it does to own horses I
Abolitionists and failing Democrats
may bluster and rave, but it is ti'ue.
Finally, General “Greeley Demo
crat,” alluding to slavery, says: “AIT
civilized and enlightened nations
place it where it should be placed,
among the relics of the barbarous
ages,” “where it should bcplacedV' 1 —
This is pretty strong to come from a
Southern man. If the writer had not
told that he belonged to the Confed
erate army, I should have concluded
that he was a man of Northern birth
and education. And the only way I
can account for his present attitude
is that he has been drinking Radical
Poison. He seems to forget facts.
Let us see : It is well known that the
Southern States, from the time of
Geprge Washington to the Radical
war, produce ! as noble specimens of
humanity in ever}' department of
life, as could be found in America—
if not in the whole civilized world.
We had able statesmen, scholars and
divines.; our schools, colleges and
churches were the pride of the coun
try; our laws were wholesome, just,
such as best to protect life and prop
erty and insure prosperity; while
the intelligence and refinement o:
.the female portion of society——the
best test of abigh state of enlighten
ment-;—filled our hearts with the
purest admiration, and imparted
strength and intensity to our genu
ine patriotism.
Now all this grew up by the aid
and under the influence of slavery—
that system which “Greeley Demo
crat” so bitterly denounces. Can
any intellig: ot unprejudiced man or
woman, bov or girl, believe that all
this beautiful development of South
ern refinement was produced by a
“relic of the barbarous ages!” Can
evil produce good ? can darkness
make light ? can a pine tree bear
peaches? If not, neither can a tre
mendous and influential “relic of the
barbarous ages” produce a high state
of civilization and refinement the
two elements cannot exist among a
people at the same time. The inev
itable conclusion is that the writer is
completely mistaken —slavery is not
a “relic of barbarous ages,” but, a
humane system, justified by divine
authority, and in the practice of
which a superior race attains its
highest state of excellence.—lt there
fore seems a little two hard for a
writer to accuse his neighbors and
friends—citizens of the same country
which gives him his bread and but
ter—it is rather hard I say, for
him to accuse them ofhavingso per
tinaciously held on to a “relic of
barbarous ages.” Such are the ef
fects of Greeleyism.— As for myself
1 am perfectly willing to be called a
barbarian so long as my faith and
practice correspond with the teach
ings of the holy Book of Inspiration.
Mr. Editor, I will now bid adieu to
my friend, “Greeley Democrat” with
the usual parting compliments, al
though, he seems to have invited the
application of the scalping knife; it
is evident .hat he is seriously afflict
ed with Greeleyism; and if this pre
scription makes no impression on
him, I shall fear that his malady is
incurable. My object has been to
vindicate the Truth.
Liberty. Op.. Ga., } Respectfully,
September 1b72. ) STEEL.
Peter (partwright Ihe pioneer
Methodist preacher, so well known
for his eccentricity, died last week.
ffm. Prescott Smith of Baltimore
is dead.
August Belmont declines to be a
candidate for Mayor of New York.
A genuine Chinaman has made
his appearance in Savannah. The
Advertiser speaks o? him as a culti
vated gentleman, possessing a very
good knowledge of the English lan
guage. He is a clerk in the large
tea store of Mr. F. Grosclaude.
Lowndes Cos. has a young lajjy who
can spin 6120 yards of thread in a
day.
The public schools of ►Savannah
are to be opened on the 7th, Oct.
Admiral Setnmes is elected city
attorney of Mobile.
Hon. Morgan Rawls will address
the citizens of Clinch Cos. next Mon
day.
A number of immigrants
from England have arrived in Vir
g.nia with SIOO,OOO to purchase
lands. Such immigrants will be a
valuable acquisition to the “Old Do
minion.”
Baron Hastings is dead.
Wm. M. Michen is spoken of" a? the
successor of Garrett Davis of Ky. in
the 17. 8. Senate.
Mr. .Tames New, of Norwich, Ot.,
named bin first'born Something; it
was Something New. The next he
called Nothing, it being Nothing
New.
A crisis is reported in Japanese af
fairs which indicates that the reform
ers will be put out ot power, and
fruit there will bn- a return to the ex
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