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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. 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