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While I beg to* assure you that it is
the sincere desire of the government
and people of this State to cultivate
the most friendly relations with her
Majesty’s government and people, I
feel it my duty lor the reasons already
given, to decline any modifications ol
the order to which you refer in your
communication. ^
With high considerationanH^steem,
I am, \
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
JOSEPH E. BROW.
[copy.]
British Consulate, )
Savannah, August, 17, 186.1,
To his Excellency, Governor Brown.
Marietta:
Sir:—I have the honor to acknow
ledge receipt of your Excellency’s let
ter of the Sth instant.
I perfectly understood the intentions
of the Government in organizing the
force of 8,000 men for home defence,
but I am obliged to conclude that you
have misunderstood me when I admit
ted the right of the State to claim the
services of British sujects resident
within its limits for the purpose of
maintaining internal order, and even
to a limited extent the places of their
residence aauinst local invasion by a
foreien* power. Suoh oervice might
be rendered by them in the event ot
a war by a foreign power, but not in
a civil war like that which now rages
on this Continent.
Her Majfvrty’s Government consider
that the plainest notions of reason and jus
tice forKu that a foreigner, admitted to
reside for peaceful purposes in, a State
forming part of a Federal Union, should
he compelled by that State, to take an ac
tive part in hostilities against other States
which, when he became a resident, were
members of one and the same Confederacy.
While acknowledging the light of the
State, under present circumstances, to the
services of British subjects for Patrol or
Police duty. Her Majesty’s Government
object to any further extension of such
service. I have consequently, under in
structions, felt myself compelled to ad
vise those drafted, to acquiesce in the
duty until they are required to leave their
immediate homes, or to meet the United
States forces in actual conflict, in that
event to throw down their arms and
refuse to render a service, the performance
of which would ran directly in the teeth
of her Majesty’s Proclamation and render
them liable to the severe penalties de
nounced against a violation of the strict
neutrality so strongly insisted on in that
document, trusting to my interference in
their behalf with the Government at Rich
mond, under whose command they will
be. In other States British subjects, im
prisoned for following this advice, have
already been discharged from custody,
and service, by order of the "War Depart
ment.
Your Excellency is pleased to inform
me that with the chaDgo in the political
relations of the country, new obligations
are imposed on the subjects of Iler Majesty
resident in the South. I do not see why
this should be so, seeing that they, by
reason of their being alien, had no voice
whatever in the councils which brought
about the picsent state of affairs. "With
regard to the protection afforded by the
State to an alien, it appears to me to ex
tend little beyond the safety of life, a
guarantee which every civilized commu
nity, for its own sake, extends to every
sojourner in its midst. You need not be
told that the law of Georgia forbids an
alien to hold certain kinds of property,
and I cannot see how a thing can be pro
tected which is not suffered to exist. I
have nothing- to do with British subjects
who hold such property in violation of
law, but I do protest against the compul
sory service in a civil war, of those who
have never contravened the law in this
respect.
It is satisfactory to know that the op
tion of leaving the country is allowed to
British subjects, and that no obstacle
will be thrown in the way of those who
prefer to do so, rather than violate the
Queen’s imperative orders, by meeting
in warfare the Unitad States forces. If
compelled to take this course however, I
may bo permitted to say that the comity
usually observed between foreign States
is not very scrupulously observed.
I have reason to know' that many who
have not hitherto been molested, are, in
consequence of your Excellency’s Proc
lamation, preparing to leave, not a few
among them being mechanics, worth little
or no property, of whose inestimable ser
vices, at this crisis, the Confederacy will
be deprived. Am 1 to* understand that
those already drafted may avail themsel
ves of this alternative ?
The dispatches which 1 have received
from the British Government, relative to
compulsory service, arc strong. I am in
structed to remonstrate in the strongest
terms against all attempts to force British
subjects to take up arms. Should these
remonstrances fail, “the Government in
Europe, interested in this question, will
unite in making such representations as
will secure to aliens this desired exemp
tion.”
It has hitherto been in my power to re
port to Her Majesty’s Government, that
Her subjects have not been called upon
to take up arms in this war. I regret
that your Excellency’s decision makes it
impossible to do so hereafter ;—the more
so, as the course pursued contrasts 60
strongly with the conduct of the United
States Government, who have conceded
the claim of bonadc British subjects to
extemption from any military service
whatever, and also with that of the Gov
ernors of other Southern States who upon
representation, ordered the discharge
of British subjects forcibly detained in
service.
I am Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
A. FULLARTON,
Acting Consul.
[copy.]
Marietta, Aug. 26, 1863.
Mr. A. FuUarton, Acting Cousul of Great
Britan :
Dear Sir: In your letter of the 17tli inst.,
now before me, you conclude that I mis
understood you when you admitted the
right of the State to claim the services of
British subjects resident within its limits
to defend to a limited extent the places of
their residence against local invasion by
a foreign power. You are pleased to say
that such service might be rendered by
them in the event of a war by a “foreign
power,” but not in a civil war, like that
which now rages on this continent. Then
you still admit that by the laws of nations
Her Majesty’s subjects resident’in this
State may be compelled to render the
service now required; in other words, to
defend the places of their residence against
local invasion by a foreign power. And
it follows, you being the Judge that the
claim now made upon her Majesty’s sub
jects for service is in accordance with the
laws of nations, if the Confederate States,
of which Georgia is one, are at war with a
foreign power. But in your attempt to
escape the just conclusion which results
from j’our admissions, you virtually deny
that the United States is a foreign power,
and claim that Georgia is still a compo
nent part of the Government of the United
States. You have probably been influ
enced in y our persistence in.this error by the
Government and people of the Confederate
States in permitting her Majesty’s Con
suls to remain among us in the exercise of
the functions of a position to which they
were originally accredited by the Govern
ment of the United States. As it is no
part of my purpose to enter into an argu
ment to convince you that the United
States is an hostile power foreign to Geor
gia, I will dismiss this part of the con
troversy with the single remark, that if
your pretensions be correct, your appeal
for the protection of British subjects resi
dent within the State should have been
made to the Government at Washington,
and not to me.
You are pleased to inform me that you
have felt compelled to advise those drafted
to acquiesce m the duty until they are re
quired t» leave' their immediate homes, or
i<> meet the United States forces in actual
conflict—in that event to throw down their
arms and refuse to render a service, the
performance of which would run directly
in the teeth of Her Majesty’s proclamation,
&c. It is worthy of remark that the lan
guage you employ is “to leave their im
mediate homes, or to meet the United
States forces in actual conflict,” Your
advice then to British subjects, if 1 cor
rectly understand it, is that when the
United States forces attack the immediate
locality of their homes or their own houses
they arc not to defend them, as required
by the laws of nations, against such local
invasion; but they are to throw down
their arms and refuse to fight for the pro
tection of their domicils. In reply to
this, it is my duty to inform you that I car,
neither be bound by your protensions that
the United States is not a power foreign
to Georgia, nor can i admit the right of
Her Majesty by proclamation to change
the laws of nations, and insist upon main
taining her subjects here and exempting
them from the performance of the duties
imposed upon them by the laws of nations.
"When the troops now drafted have been
turned over to the Government of the
Confederate States, to be held in readi
ness to repel local invasion, if they should,
upon the approach of an hostile force,
follow your advice, and throw down their
arms,that Government will have the power
the pardon for such conduct,or to strike ther
names from its muster rolls if it chooses to
do so ; but if an attack should be made by
the enemy upon the immediate locality
of their homes, while I control and com
mand the forces to which they are attach
ed, and they should, be guilty of conduct
so unnatural and unmanly as to throw
down their arms and refuse to defend their
domicils, they will be promptly dealt
with as citizens of this .State would be,
should they be guilty of such dishonorably
delinquency.
In another part cf .your letter ynn
take occasion to say that you do not see
why the change in the political relations
of this country has imposed new obliga
tions upon the subjects of Her Majesty,
as they bad no voice in the councils which
brought about the present state of affairs-
With the same reason you might say that
you cannot see why the laws of nations re
quire British subjects in any case to de
fend their domicils, when located in a for
eign county, against the local invasion of
another foreign power, when they had no
voice in the councils which formed the
government in which they are permitted
to reside. I insist that British subjects
resident within its limits, though they
had no voice in the formation of the new
government, owe the same service to it'
when established, which they owed be
fore its formation to the government whose
power originally extended over its territo
ry, and embraced their homes; and that
tliej- are bound to conform their conduct
to tho new order of things, or to seek
homes and protection elsewhere.
But I am informed by your letter that,
with regard to tho protection afforded by
the State to an alien it appears to you to
extend little beyond the safety of life.
And as the laws of Georgia forbid an alien
to hold certain kinds of property, you can
not sec how a thing can be protected which
is not suffered to exist.
Upon the first point I need only remind
you that our Courts are at all times open to
aliens belonging to friendly powers for the
redress of tlieir wrongs, and that the same
protcction-is extended to tlieir persons and
all tlia pioper'y they legally possess,
which is enjoyed by citizens of this State.
I trust a rc-examination of the laws of
your own country would satisfy your mind
upon the other point, as you will there find
that the laws of Great Britain forbid an
alien to hold “ceitain kinds of property,”
and it is tho boast of that Government
that it protects aliens who reside within
its jurisdiction. The laws of Great Brit
ain in reference to the rights of aliens to
hold certain kinds of property, while dom
iciled in that kingdom, are certainly not
more liberal to the citizens of Georgia than
the laws of Georgia arc to tho subjects of
Great Britain.
While I am unable to perceive the jus
tice of your complaint in the particulars
last mentioned, it is gratifying to know
that there is no law of nations or of this
State which throws any obstructions in
the way of the removal of any British sub
ject from the State who is not satisfied
with the privileges and protection which
he enjoys, you remind inc, however, that
not a few of them are mechanics, of whose
inestimable services at this crisis the Con
federacy will he deprived in case of their
removal. These mechanics have no doubt
remained in this State because they felt it
their interest to remain. And in refer
ence to them, tliis State will very cheer
fully adopt the rule which generally con
trols the British Government. She will
consult her own interest, and will exempt
from military service for local dofenso such
mechanics who are aliens, as choose to re
main and as will be more serviceable in
that capacity.
I reply in the aflirmative to your inquiry
whether aliens already drafted may avail
themselves of the alternative of leaving the
State in preference to remaining in the ser
vice. While an alien will not be permit
ted to evade the service by leaving the
State temporarily during the emergency,
aud then returning, his right to leave per
manently when he chooses will not be
questioned. I do not insist that an alien
shall remain here to serve the State, but I
contend that while he chooses to remain
under the protection of the State he is
bound by the laws of nations and of this
State to obey her call to defend his domi
cil against insurrection or local invasion.
This,I apprehend, is all that is intended
to be claimed by your goverment in the
instructions which you quote. While the
British government has a right to demand
that its subjects shall not be detained here
against their will, and compelled to take
up arms on either side, it certainly would
not place itself before the world iu the
false position of insisting on tho right of its
subjects to remain in another State, con
trary to the wish of the government of such
State and to be exempt from the service
which, by the common consent of nations,
such State has a right to demand.
You conclude your letter by informing
me that my decision contrasts strongly
with the conduct of the United States gov
ernment, who have conceded the claim of
bona-fide British subjects to exemption
from any military service whatever.
As tho United States government is the
invading party in this war, and can but
seldom need the services of British sub
jects to defend tLeir domicils, which are
scarcely ever subject to invasions, as it
has no rights under tbe laws of nations to
compel them to bear arms in its invading p U ^i; cal j' s
armies, as it is not in a condition to be q'h rcats wo
compelled to economize its supply of pro
visions, and as it is reported that it lias,
by the use of money, drawn large numbers
of recruits for its armies from the domin-
ons of her Majesty," in violation of the
realm, it may well afford to affect a pre-
AFFAIRS IN OHIO.
The Ghicargo Times of September 21st,
gives the following special dispatch of the
19th from Cincinnati:
An immense Democratic mass meeting
was liely in Carthage to-day. to hear a
great speech frtm Voorhees, of Indiana.—
To-night an equally great meeting was
held in Fifth street market place, to hear a
speech from Jucge Bartley.
At Lebanon, jesterday, as a democratic
procession was noviitg through the streets,
Republicans were insolent and threw
stones. The Dimocracy rallied, and one
Republican was shot dead. The excite
ment in Labanoiis very great and further
bloodshed is antbipated.
At Dearfield today, a Republican nam
ed Thumb was slot dead by a Democrat
named Lucas.
At Eaton, to-dyy, a very large meeting
was held. One housaud ladies and gen
tleman were on lorseback. As a part of
the procession wis passing the depot, an
indiscriminate atfeck was commenced by
throwing stones iito the procession. The
Democracy disnounted from their horses
and out of their vagons, and took after the
j crowd, which fhd. A delegation from
\ Camden was interrupted by the Republi
cans of the place, by running a wagon,
| with a saw-log onit across-the road. The
| Democracy undertook to move the same
nd a fight ensueefin which live or six llo-
were diot, two mortally.—
re made that the same delega
tion should not return home by that road.
The delegation Lave armed themselves,
and will go that -read or Hy Camden in
ashes. Further difficulties >« that locality
are looked for.
- . . , These troubles arc brewing in various
tended Iiueraliiy, which costs it ncitbci p or t; ong 0 f [j, e gtate, and so badly scared
sacrifice nor inconvenience. Lut you say are the opposition tha*. they will resort to
that my decision also contrasts strongly
“with that of the Governors of other South
ern States, who, upon representation, or
dered the discharge of British subjects for
cibly detained in service.” In a former part
of your letter, when speaking of the advice .
given to British subjects to throw down j
their arms, in case they should be requir
ed to meet the United States forces iu act
ual conflict, you use tins sentence
other States British subjects imprisoned
for following this advice have already been
opposition tha* they
extraordinary measures to carry the elec
tion. That they wil import soldiers and
voters into the State, there is no doubt,
while inmates of hespitals, all of which
are full, will be given liberty to vote.
Imprcxaem Prlccx.
We observe that tie Commissioners of
j n Impressment from tbs State have issued
Schedule No. 4, for the month of Octo
ber, lixing the rates b be paid for the ar-
dischargcd from custody and service by ■ t ‘ c ^. es appraised, and the pay for transpor
tation. \\ e append lie prices fixed upon
the leading articles ai follows :
order of the War Department.”—Excuse
me for remarking that these two sentences
contrast so strongly with each other that
I am unable to understand why it became
necessary for tho War Department to in
terfere and discharge British subjects im
prisoned in other States for throwing
down their arms and refusing to fight, if
the Governors of those States had upon
representation in all cases ordered the dis
charge of British subjects forcibly detain
ed in service.
Trusting that my position is fully
understood by you and that it may not
be necessary to protract this discussion,
I am, with high consideration and esteem,
Very respectfully,
Your obt. servt.,
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
[copy.]
British Consulate, )
Savannah Sept. 12, 1863. j
To Ilis Excellency Governor Brown Ma
rietta—
Sir: In your letter of the 2Gth tilt., your
Excellency informed me that aliens al-
leady drafted may avail themselves of the
alternative of leaving the State in prefer
ence to rendering service. I have, now the
honor, therefore, to request vour Excellen
cy to issue orders to your officers to grant
J. D.and F. M. Iviely.two drafted subjects,
residents of Rome, Ga, leave to quit the
State and permission to remain unmo
lested in Rome 30 days to settle their af
fairs in that. city.
I am, sir, your most obedient serv’t,
A. FULLERTON,
Acting Consul.
Marietta, Sept- 14, 1S63.
Mr. A Fullerton Acting Consul of Great
Britain—
Dear Sir : I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your communication
of the 12th inst., in which you request me
to issue orders to the commanding officers
to grant J. D. and F. M. Kiely two draft
ed British subjects, residents of Rome,
Ga., leave to quit tbe State and permis
sion to remain unmolested in Rome 30
days to settle tbeir affairs in that city.—
This permission will be cheerfully granted
upon the production to me of sufficient
evidence that the persons named are Brit
ish subjects.
By an Ordinance of the Convention of
this State representing her people and
her sovereignty,passed on the lGtli day of
March, 1861, it is declared.
“ That all white persons resident in
this State at the time of the secession of
the State from the United States with
the bona file intention of making it the
place of their permanent abode, shall be
considered as citizens of this State without
reference to their place of birth : Fro-
rided, that any person not born in this
State can exempt him or herself from the
operation of this Ordinance by a declara
tion in any Court of Record in the State
within three months from this date, that
he or she does not wish to be considered a
citizen of this State.”
The Ordinance of Secession referred to
in the above quotation was passed on the
19th day of January, 1861.
If the Messrs. Kiely were resident in
this State on the 19th day of January,
1861, and did not file their declaration in
a Court of Record in this State within
three months from the 16th day of March,
1861, that they did not wish to become
citizens of this State, they accepted the
privileges and obligations of citizenship
offered them by the State and ceased to
be British subjects, and are consequently
not entitled to tbe leave to quit tbe State,
for which you ask under my letter of 26th
ult. If however, they became residents
of this State at any time since the 19th
day of January, 1861, or if they were
then residents, and file their declaration, as
required by the Ordnance, within three
months after the 16th day of March, 1861
they will be allowed the 30 days to ar
range their affairs, as you request, and
permitted to depart from the State at the
expiration fof that term.
With high consideration,
I am very respeclfuly,
Your obedient servant,
JOSEril E. BROWN.
Failure of the Yankee Draft.—d he New
York World of the 19th says : The draft
has proved a failure. Of that there can
be no sort of doubt. To raise three hun
dred thousand men, four hundred and fifty
thousand wero t conscripted,and of these less
th.au sixty thousand will find their way in
to the army, either in person or by proxy.
Apples 84 per budiel, bacon 65 to S5
cents, lard 70 to S5 eeits, beef cattle 15 to
18 cents gross, corn $.,90 to $2, meal $2,
flour $25 to $29, wheat $5, fodder $1,75
to $2 per cwt., hay $1.75 to $2.25, hogs
25 to 40 cents, hides fil per pound, horses
$250 to $600, jeans (woolen $4. leather $2.
50 to $3.25, molasses (Chinese) $2.50
per gallon, mules $275 to $400, onions $5
per bushel, oats $1.50 to $1,76 per cwt.,
peas $2 per bushel, potatoes (Irish) $1.50
sweet potatoes Sl.peacles (dried) $6. rye
S3, rice 15 cents, iron (pig) $S5 per ton,
square, or round $3.50 Hat $3.20, hoop
$4.40, boiler plate $5, iailroad do. $1.75,
old 75 cents, shirtings, osnaburgs, drills,
&c., 45 to 75 cents, shoes (army-) $3 per
pair, whisky $6 per galbn, brandy- (peach
or apple) $6,50, woolen cloth for soldiers’
clothes $4 per yard, hauling per mile 2i
cents per hundred, hire of two-horse team,
wagon and driver (rations furnished by
owner) $6.50, rations furnished by gov
ernment $4.50, four-horse team, &c., $9,
without rations $6.50, six horse team $12,
hire of laborer (rations furnished by owner)
$2, without rations $1.50, per month with
out rations $20.50.
These prices have been fixed by tho
Commissioners, who are themselves far-
nw>—. A non.-lj o-p.IliUllU .IS It !»
possible, perhaps, to arrive at; and it is
earnestly hoped that all producers will
acquiesce in them. They are as high as
the government can pay and hope to pre
serve its credit; they are remunerative to
the producer. We must not extort from
the necessities of the government, whose
success is the only hope we have that all
we possess will not be wrested from us.—
Let, therefore, no one complain because
his produce or his property is seized, but
acquiesce in tbe necessities of the times,
and give the government every possible
degree of aid,to the end that impressment,
and war and suffering, may be stopped as
speedily as possible.—Augusta Const.
Tbe I.ant Campaign of the lVnr.
The very existence of not only an orga
nized army of the South, but of the State
of Georgia as an independent republic, and
of the Confederate States, depends upon
the immediate reinforcement of Bragg’s
army. It has now become apperaut to
the most listless observer of current events
that the safety not only of Richmond, but
of all our armies in the East, depends
upon the expulsion of Rosecrans from his
position of the Tennessee. He now con
trols the railway through East Tennessee
connecting the Gulf States with Virginia,
and then should Charleston fall, an event
which we surely contemplate among the
possibilities of the no distant future, all
communication with Virginia by railway-
is destroyed. Very true, Gen- Forrest
penetrates far into East Tennessee, but
the fact is palpable that when ltosecrans’s
army is so reinforced that it can resume
the offensive, East Tennessee must be
wholly and hopelessly lost. Not only is
this true, but as the military phrase goes,
Richmond is flanked, Lee must come out
of Virginia, the capital must be abandoned
and the Gulf States become the narrow
theatre of war.
When Charleston falls from that base
of oporatlonc the Federate will advance
to Branchville and Augusta, and thence
Federal armies from the seaboard will
effect a junction with that of Rosecrans,
and Mississippi, Alabama, and half of
Georgia will, like Texas, be effectually
cut off from communication with Rich
mond.
Such are the purposes of our enemies,
and to balk them there is but one single
agency on which we may rely. Bragg’s
army must receive all the moral and physi
cal support that Georgia and the Gulf Sta
tes can furnish. The thirty thousand unus
ed muskets now resting at Bragg’s head
quarter’s must be placed in the hands of the
thirty thousand Southrons who have never
fired a gun sinc e the war began; Meade in
Virginia must be held in check, and the
thirty thousand troops wanted must come
from the States immediately threatened.
These are the facts of the situation too
plain to be concealed, too terrible to be
disguised, and suggesting so plainly the
duty- of every citizen, that they need no
comment. Why remain at home when
you can only fly when the enemy ap
proaches? Why notenter the army for
one brief campaign; for it is this, which we
have exposed, that ends the war as now
conducted-—Atlanta Register.
In
A Hopeful View.
the course of an article headed
"From the Georgia Front,” the Mobile
Advertiser & Register Dresents the foil-ow
ing reflections :
If Gen. Bragg does not ‘shell him out,
tho enemy must be starved out so soon as
the wet weather sets in, if not before. A
large army cannot be fed for any length of
time by trains of wagons hauled over W al-
don s Ridge. It is a great feat for an army-
train to* pass it once. It is not in horse
or mule flesh to repeat it often. But Rose
crans may be relieved by reinforcements.
Perhaps so, but we really do not know
where they are to come from. Burnside
cannot come to his help withuut giving up
Knoxville and East Tennessee, aud to
stay where he is will tax all his strength,
which is not over 25,000 men. There are
no more troops in Kentucky or Tennessee.
When Burnside left Kentucky, five regi
ments of Indiana troops were ordered
down to take his place in keeping Ken
tucky down. All the garrisons along the
Memphis and Charleston railroad are weak.
'I hey were depleted long ago to fillup
Grant’s army. There are no camps in the
Northwest from which to draw forces.—
There is, then, no source of supply, ex
cept Grant’s old Vicksburg aimy. Where
is that ? It appears to be nowhere and
every-wbere. A portion of it has already
been incorporated with Rosecrans’ forces,
and came to grief at Chickamauga. Burn
side has a portion of it. Another portion
(r. column of 20,000 men) has gone after
Price and smith, and at last accounts, was
at Little Rock, Arkansas. Another por
tion under Gen. Franklin, hns lntr.lv <™t
back to New Urleans, from an unsuccess
ful attempt upon Sabine Pass. The army
of Gen. Banks, proper, melted away soon
after the fall of Port Hudson, and Grant
had to send him troops. **
We believe that-with the exception
of tbe troops at New Orleans, there are
no Yankee troops wortli speaking of, from
which Rosecrans can draw succor. And
can these be spared from New Orleans and
tlie other garrison on tbe Mississippi River?
What tends strongly- to confirm this view
is tho well authenticated report that Gen.
Meade, away off in Virginia, had sent a
portion of his forces to the rescue of Rose
crans. Meantime, Gen. Bragg is stronger
than before the late battle. Our armies
everywhere are growing, and two months
hence, there is reason to believe, we shall
outnumber tbe Yankees. The arrivial of
that day announces us peace and victory
dictated on the enemy’s soil. No better
cvfilence of Yankee weakness to us than
the repetition of Lincoln’s cry- for anoth
er draft Chickamauga made him bawl
out for a 600,000 draft. It is late. Tbe
draft has followed volunteering at the
North. Both have had their day-, both
“played out.” Our Confederate lime of
joy- is coming. Let every man take hold
and do his duty- and this campaign will
take us through .-j— Columbus Times.
Gen. Cheatham, it is said, is in com
mand of Gen. Polk’s corps.
"War with England and France, or at
least war with England, is incessantly
demanded in tho North.
Arrest of Gen. Polk.
"While there is, of course, a great diver
sity of opinion and feeling in tho army
about the arrest of Gen. Polk, there is said
to be little of it upon the point that a
great error was committed which robbed
the victory of Chickamauga of the most
inestimable results. Had the action been
brought on four hours sooner, according to
orders, the enemy who were completely
routed and demoralized at the end of the
fight, could have been pursued to the riv
er banks, with every probability that the
greater portion of their force would have
been captured. Unfortunately, however,
it was near dark before their lines were
ti.cvugnly broken and they took to their
heels. Pursuit was then impossible, and
tbe dense morning fog which prevails in
that region did not clear off till eleven
o’clock the next day. This gave the ene
my time to recover and dispose his forces
behind the fortifications of Chattanooga.
Tbe fault, at whosoever door it lies, is on
all hands conceded to have been a grave
one—so we are informed. Gen. Polk is
an exceedingly popular officer in the army
—venerated and beloved by everybody;
but. it is alleged that he failed altogether
in manifesting, on this occasion, that en
ergy and promptitude which was vital to
tho undertaking, aud lost four good hours
of time in hurrying on the action, accord
ing to programme.— Telegraph.
G-en. Long-street and his 2£cn.
. “ P. W. A.,” in one of his letters,
says:
I have endeavored heretofore to pay
due homage to the skill and gallantry
by which/this great victory was achiev
ed. Officers and men alike did their
duty, and to each and all is due, next
to the Giver all victory, the deep grati
tude of an imperilled people. But the
truth of history, as well as simple jus
tice, requires it to be stated here, that
no one officer or body of men of the
same number could have contributed
more to the triumph of the Confeder
ate arms, than did Gen. Longstrcet and
the brave veterans who followed him
from Virginia. They had traveled
from the Rappahannock in crowded
box cars, upon open platforms, and up
on the tops of the cars, in the rain, in
the dust, and in the sun, and with but
little food or sleep. They had passed
by their own homes without stopping
to embrace the loved ones there—
homes which some of them had not
seen since the commencement of the
war; arid had rushed to the scene of
action without rest or transportation,
halting only long enough to clear their
eyes of the dust of travel and replenish
their cartridge boxes. The officers
were without horses, and the men with
out wagons to transport their supplies.
There.was not time to furnish either;
the battle was about to be joined. Ar
rived in front of the foe, these veterans
were placed in the van, and led in ev
ery attack by the left wing, where our
success was most signal, and where the
day was really won. All honor, then,
to the modest chieftain and his invin
cible command! Their praises are
freely proclaimed by the Army of Ten
nessee, between whom and themselves
there can only be a generous rivalry in
heroic action and patient endurance.
From npper East Teunessee.
The latest news from Upper East Ten
nessee represents the enemy as still flee
ing before our forces. The latter were at
last accounts at or below Greenville, and
it is not improbable that they will reoc
cupy Knoxville in short time, if they have
not already done so.
In the fight on Monday last, near Jones
boro, our cavalry wounded fifty, captured
forty, and killed twelve of tbe enemy,
with a loss on both sides of only two or
three men.—Lynchb. Rep., 3d,
Puritans.
The following, from the London
Times, contains, in our opinion, a fair
estimate of the Puritan element which
pervades the North. It shows that the
North and South are two people, and
that they cannot live together:
The Puritan race was that part of
the mingled Norman and Saxon races
which never held power in England,
except when Cromweil was Protector.
This race settled in New England, and
has infused itself through all the North,
except Pennsylvania. •
The North and South are now in a
war waged by the Puritan stock against
the Cavalier, and the Scotch Irish part
of what was the United States. This
war has long been brewing. It had its
rise in the elementary minds of the ra
ces. Thus: The Cavalier, or higher
Norman type, in harmony with the
Scotch, and the Scotch Irish, have the
world over, one great peculiarity—i. e.,
they honor authority as authority from
Cod. And having thus the mind which
knows how to obey, it knows how to
command. Hence it is the governing
power wherever it is found in condi
tions to show itself to be this high type.
It must be that governing mind ; lor
to honor authority, as authority from
God, is the highest reach of human
thought. It is faith in Cod, simply as
God above all reasomno-. And
j.nin is seen ni an rule over men as or
dained of God. It is, therefore, the
highest condition of mind to insure
rightful obedience to, and rightful con
trol of government.
The Puritan, on the contrary, is, as
I have said, that development of the
Englishman, which never held power
in England but once, and from its rad
ical element, this phase of mind can
never be the ruling power in any coun
try. For the Puritan is the ultra lib
erty man of the world, both in religion i
and politics. He is not willing to be i
under authority of God or man. His !
pride of individual right is so extreme,
that he must have all rule, and all au
thority, and power, to be such only as
he iu his reason shall approve. Hence
he admits government only as he likes
it.
Farewell Address of Lieutenant Gen
eral Leonidas Folk.
To the Officers and Soldiers of Gen. Folk's
Corps.
Headq’es Polk’s Cobps, Tenn., >
Missionary Ridge, Sept. 30, ’63. ’ j
In consequence of an unfortunate
disagreement, between myself and the
commander-in-chief of this Depart
ment, I have been relieved of my com
mand, aud am about to retire from the
Army. Without attempting to explain
the circumstances of this disagreement
or prejudicing the public mind, by a
premature appeal to its judgment, I
must be permitted to express my un
qualified conviction of the rectitude of
iny conduct and that time and investi
gation will amply vindicate my action
on the field of Chickamauga.
1 cannot, however, part even tem
porarily with the gallant officers and
soldiers of my old Corps, without the
deepest feeling ,of regret and a heart
felt expression of my gratitude for the
courage, conduct and devotion, they
have always manifested while under
my command.
Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Mur
freesboro, and Chickamauga, all attest
on your part the very highest soldiery
qualities, and are crowded with pre
cious memories.
appointed and merciless enemy for all
that man holds dear, you have borne
unexampled privations with fortitude,
fought with undaunted bravery and ev
er yielded a ready and cheerful obedi
ence to your officers.
Soldiers who struggle in such a cause
and with such hearts “ can never be
! conquered.” Clouds and darkness
l may enshroud you for a time, but the
sunlight of the future is bright and
! glowing, the blood of patriots is never
; shed in vain, and our final victory is
•certain and assured.
Whoever commands you, my earnest
exhortation and request to you is, to
fight on and fight ever with true hearts
until your independence is achieved.
Thousands of hearts may fall crushed
and bleeding under the weapons of the
foe, or the passions or mistakes of
tt i ri i if friends, but the creat cause must uev-
-- --- J r er be sacrificed, or our flag abandoned.
Our cause is just and your duty to your
himself or of His government over men,
spiritual or temporal, the Puritan sub
mits, or refuses, only as he wills. Bat
as each man claims the right of reason,
it follows that the Pnritan has no tri
bunal whatever to control him in a
public body. For as everybody’s judg-
country and God is as clear as the sun
in the heavens.
I leave my command in the care of
the bravest of the brave, who has often
led them in the darkest hour of their
, • i trial; he and you will have my hopes
ment is as good as mother s m his own , ’ , TT l .
,• a and prayers to the Ruler ot the Uni
estimation, so no one s can be admit- ” -
ted to be supreme. Reason, therefore,
must necessarily fail to govern. The
strongest will, then, has the control.
The tendency, therefore, of the Puri
tan mind is to infidelity in religion,and
anarchy and ultimate despotism in the
state. It ran its course in England.
Thus the misrule of that country, du
ring the reign of Henry VIII., Mary,
Elizabeth, James I., the two Charles’s,
and II., justified resistance. But this
Puritanical mind went far beyond the
correction of the abuses of tlie govern
ment.
That mind gained, for once, the as
cendency, and overturned the powers
that were in wild notions of liberty,
which would have brought the coun
try to anarchy, but for the uprise of a
military dictator, Then came the re
action, and the restoration of the Cav
alier race to the old power, which they
have wielded ever since.
In North America, the Puritanical
character lias developed itself just as in
England. In religion, it has moulded
the bible in the crucible of its philoso
phy, until it has made the whole North
ern mind, whatever the exceptions,
thoroughly skeptical, where it has not
been absolutely led to reject the scrip
tures. In politics, as the necessary re
sults of such tampering with the word
of God, it has contended for that idea
of liberty \\ hich claims a perfect equal- f au j t jf t] ic g enera ] aspect of the strug-
for each individual of Hie human • -> " . •.«. - • /•
verse, for your happiness and success.
Your kindness, devotion and respect
for me, exhibited during the years of
our association both in camp and on
the field, is graven on my heart and
will be treasured there until it ceases
tu beat. Your friend,
[ Signed ] L. POLK,
Lieut. General.
Weakness of the Enemy.
Tbe fact which seems to be well es
tablished, that four of Meade’s army
corps are on the way to reinforce Ros-
encrans, affords very strong evidence
of the numerical weakness of the Fed
eral army. So heavy a depletion of
Meade’s force involves not only the
abandonment of that cherished project
of capturing Richmond, to which the
pride of the Lincoln Administration is
so deeply committed, but it also leaves
Washington in a condition of exposure,
which we may well imagine must be
peculiarly unwelcome to Lincoln, who
lias always manifested such a lively so
licitude for his own personal safety and
so nervous an apprehension of any pos
sible danger to the city of Washing
ton. These reinforcements from Meade
would never have been sent if there had
been any other available resource.
The Lincoln Government is, there
fore, iu as great straits for troops as we
are, and we verily believe it will be our
ity for each individual
species by birth—and, of course, the
right in each man and woman to be
governed only as they may will. The
anarchy and final despotism of this idea
was developed, just as soon as it gain
ed the ascendency, in the election of Mr.
Lincoln. Constitutional liberty was
at an end. And the greatest liberty
gle does not materially improve before
the fall campaign is over.
To push lorward their grand scheme
of penetrating Georgia, the Federals
are now suspending or crippling their
movements in almost every other di
rection. Grant is sending his troops
up the river to Rosencrans, at the ex
pense of his grand enterprise for the
,. , . . w ... ^ ['cuoi; ui mo aliu tuici iiuac ioi mv
was realized at once in a military des- reduction of Mobile, and his operations
potism
in Arkansas. The assault on Charles
ton lingers for want of troops—North
Serious Shooting iLffrav.
Yesterday afternoon a serious shoot- j Carolina is enjoying almost undisturb
ing affray occurred in front of the Lib- et ^ a . n( ^ -Cast Tennessee, that late
by prison, in which three members of
the City Battalion were shot, one of
them being maimed for life and anoth
er mortally wounded. It appears that
during the afternoon James P.Newsom,
of company C, 32d North Carolina reg
iment, was on guard in front of Castle
Thunder, and had some words with a
member of the battalion who was com
ing out of the prison, where he had been
on business. Shortly after, Newsom
being off’duty, but having his musket
with him, was passing the parade
ground of that portion of the City Bat
talion which guards the Libby, when
some altercation occurred between him
and Martin Gripp, of company F, in
which Gripp struck him in the face.
Newsom sprung back, and taking aim
at his antagonist, fired, the ball striking
him in the breast and tearing off the
flesh as far as the shoulder. The bul let
then struck private Forey, of company
A, shattering his arm, (which was am
putated last night,) and finally lodged
in the bowels of private Richard Mor
ris, of company D, who was standing
near, inflicting a mortal wound. New
som then ran a few steps, but was over
taken by two of the battalion and lodg
ed in Castle Thunder. The weapon
with which so much damage was done
at a single shot was a short Mississippi
rifle. Morris was not expected to sur
vive through last night. Newsom, af
ter being, placed in confinement at Cas
tle Thunder, expressed much regret at
the damage he had done, but said he
was driven to it by the assault made by
Gripp.—Richmond Dispatch,
and inestimable acquisition ofBurn-
I side, is left in jeopardy. "We repeat
J these facts are incapable of misinter-
| pretation. Let the people of the South
renew their courage and their hopes.
The enemy is showing signs of physi
cal exhaustion, when as yet the hard
est part of his task is belore him.
True, his fighting population is still
vast, but they are a population who
don’t mean to do fighting if they can
help it; and that they can avoid it in
one way or another, let the history of
the draft of 1862 and the conscription
of 1S63, speak. True, the Adminis
tration threatens still another draft,but
it will be a still more miserable failure,
and be attended with still greater dan
gers and disturbances. That popula
tion is already exasperated to almost
the extent of civil war—and is in bad
condition for further experiments ofthc
kind. The skies are brightening, and
we shall not be surprised if some un
looked for results growing out of the
depletion of Meade’s army should take
place before long.—Telegraph.
GEORGIA, Mitchell County.
S IXTY days after date application will be made
to tho Court of Ordinary of said county, for
leave to sell lots of land No’s 112, 111 and east lialf
of 128 in the iltli district of said counry, the real es
tate of liobcrt Maloy deceased.
MARY MALOYAdm’r.x
Paid $6.00.
September 7th 18G3. J. J. n. 179t.
j^IXTY days after date application
___ will be
. _ made to the honorable Court of Ordinary of
Twiggs County for an order for leave to sell all
tbe negroes belonging to the estate of Isaac
Wood for tho purpose of-a division among tho
legatees.
(L. s.) GBEEN B. WOOD, Ex’r,
Marion Sept 7th letiO. 17