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VOL. IT.] ZtSTEWHSTA-ISr, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUUSTE 29, 1867 [NO 42.
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EDWARD WILDERS
FAMOUS
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i ..i »rmed ft co-partnership, ate now
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•.. ]i J. Sargent's, Greenville street,
stock of
bring and Summer Goods,
;,h has been bought at the lowest cash
c s and just received, viz:
jadics' Dress Goods,
'alicoefi, Muslins. Poplins, Linens,
iosiery,'Gloves. towels and lov. ling,
.. i,. ; ,,itiij. ut ol Bools and Shoes for La-
s /(i, ats and Cbildnu),
Motli.u. (Jassiuiers, Linens, &c., for Gents and
5 »sn;iburgH, Bl'chedand unbl'ched Domestics,
/arasuls and 1 mbrellas.
A full and well-selected stock ox
Blurdware Tin and Crockery Ware,
At 1 ow prices.
UR GROCERIES
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■aill sell at low figures for
| Cash or Country Produce.
■ V, e have on hand a fine lot of
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§. j overything r. uially kept in a first class re-
■ i! „u,rc We have
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a We will pay the highest price for all
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tn»«ge from all. J. T. KIRBY,
G. L. JOHNSON,
R. A. JOHNSON,
Greenville St., Newnan, Ga.
[ L. HUNTER, Salesman. [May -l-Cm.
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11 avo associated with them
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Formerly an Extensive Dealer in
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• From the Augusta Chron. & Sent.
Notes on the Situation— No. I.
BY B. H. HILL.
‘•Never despair of the Republic." was a much
i lauded Roman maxim. But maxims never
j saved a country’, and this one did not save
; Rome. She was very great. The combined
! world was too weak to harm her. But she fell,
j fell by h r own hands, and for centuries has re
mained fallen 1
If good liberty-loving Americans almost de
spair of their country, the events of the last
thirteen years would seem to be sufficient to
save them from reproach. From the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise until now, no period
in human annais of thrice the duration exhib
its such deception among leaders, such credu
lity among the people, such treachery by rulers
and such energetic seif, destruction by the na
tion.
The United States has done more in these
years to weaken confidence in free institutions,
0-rial prosperity tor the prey of a .. .by as have j contrary, and hoped, when tbe proper case
the people of the 1 nited ctnHo. i
the transition, two races will strhggi
ides, "in
for th
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L.i Grange, Ga, Jan. 17. 18G7.
Edward liv'd".-. Tsq.:
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and knowing tlieir properties recommended them
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D. H. MORRISON, M. D.
mastery, greatly increasing the horf J'Srtiiese !
1 writhings of liberty in her rapid passage to,
death. !
;j. I need not, aud I cannot—it is beyond
the power of the pen—enumerate the terrible
evils that will spread overall the land during
this reign of disorder, discord and decay.— !
Among them will be the prostration of com
merce, the paralysis of all industrial agencies
and pursuits, the repudiation of all debts—Na
tional, State and individual ; the disregard of
all legal sanctions : the removal of all restraints
upon the wicked ; the withdrawal of protection 1
j from the helpless and the good ; th--- demorali- j
nation of men : the prostitution of women : the
| starvation of children; the rise and fall of j
i fashions ; the burning and sacking of cities, !
and the general devastionof the country. Rob- j
bers will till "Ur unmutains^ind forests : assas- |
‘ sins will come Ik Idly from all hiding places;
I civil wars and insurrections will multiply : lead-
. . . . > ers ami followers wilt slay and be slain; clans
and has Inflicted more injury upon their own b }ur3 and thieves wiil hunt the rich as
people, and .created heavier huruens lor tiioii j j ier j s 0 f huffaloes hunt the green pastures, and
insatiated wickedness will
that is pure and good, as the hungry lion when
, : , , fleshing his tuolh in the young and tender
notes close I may undertake to show the real i . c
GU, «f of ViK-se evils. It is suffideut now to j But there is ODC fcature of this ordeal of
s .y Umttrorn 18.4 a sjur , which enmity to ^ res ult of this devilish choice to
tnc life ot too Constitution lias oeeadominant ' ? Constitution by those who take
1 he GoAernment Ims been in the keeping of
its enemies. We read of a great man, who,
children and their children’s children, than
the united armi-s and navies of the earth could ,
Cotton Plant, Ark., Dec, 4. 18C7.
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It is desirable alike as a corrective and mild ca
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by all physicians, as the formula will be hand
ed to any regular graduate.
EDWARD WILDER, Sole Proprietor.
while an infant, was nursed by a wolf. This
may have been, and may again be possibly;
but it never has been and never will be possible
for men of extreme tempers and opinions to
nurse a constitution whose only liio is mutual
concession for the common good.
The Southern people greatly provoked and
misguided, abandoned the Union to preserve!
the Constitution. While the Northern peo-;
pie, less provoked but equally misguided, I
made war to preserve the Union, l>y placing
themselves under tbe lead of men who were j
the bitter, implacable enemies of tiie Oonstitu- j
lion, and who were fore determined to destroy ■
or reform it.
After four years of heroic struggle the South- ■
ern people laid down their arms because they i
were assured by their enemies, and taught by
long trusted but faithless counsellors, and:
faithless office-holders among themselves, that
destroy the Constitution by those wim
solemn oaths, and make saintly pretensions to
preserve it, which is distinct from all- others,
involving hypocrisy without example, delusion
without limit, and cruelty without parallel,
and which. I cannot contemplate without lex-l
ings of peculiar sadness. 1 mean ot course the
effect upon the African race.
A separate note must elaborate this point ;
but as I am announcing general conclusions, I
must not omit toe result which will oe, must
be, the most certain and inevitable of all. A
war of races will come, anti come eariv. in this
hideous programme ot ruin, t his war will be
produced by three chief causes : 1. The igno
rant, vi rious, imaginative aDd exec .-dingiy cred
ulous habits and passions of the negro, 2. ihe
delusion-; practised upon his imaginative and
credulous nature by emissaries from the North
aided by bad men at the South, some of whom
ill act from mistaken notions ot philanthropy
some with wicked purposes of selfishness, bu
, , . , ,, , the most dangerous with views of party asee
by so doing They would be again in tae Union , The protection to the white race
as before. Hue many believed tins, and with- • i|nfI ■ ^ 1
drew their support and deserted their colors.—
The few who disbelieved were overpowered.—
But more than two years have passed—more
EDWARD WILDER & CO,
Wholesale 3>ruggists,
No. 215 Main Street, Marble Front,
jLouisijne, Kenlticky.
AT GRIFFIN AND ATLANTA, GA.
liVT, the purpose of supplying Moreliant-s and
L’ I’Umters ot the South, l>y wholesale or retail,
ith any style of Carriages, Buggies or Plan ta
li a W; gons.
Mr. YloodrufTslong experience in the carriage
v.-it-i ss ill enable us to give satisfinttion in sup
plying a '. -il, substantial work, such as the coun
try lUmamls, at as low prices as can possibly be
furnished for cash. We will keep constantly on
AiUld
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same as formerly sold by Mr. Woodruff, ami
iix-h became so universally popular all through
e South, as the best Buggy in use.
:kee woodhtjff
ffS^For sale wholesale or retail by
IZEIMWIWJE & FOX,
CORNER WHITEHALL & ALABAMA STBS.
ATLANTA, GA.
October 20r7-l2m.
than half the period of the actunl conflict—
and t lie Southern people now thrice deluded,
have not enjoyed the blessings of the Union !
Why ? Because these leaders of the North—
true to their original hatred, and perfectly log
ical iii that hatred—declare the Union shall
not be restored except upon terms which prac
tically destroy the Constitution, and which cer
tainly leave no Union except one founded in
force. And thus far the Northern people eith
er have failed to comprehend, or have consent- j
cd to sustain their treachery, and to give the
last development of their most remarkable his
tory, we see some of our Southern counsellors, |
who urged into secession as the only peaceable I
method of securing our rights, who afterwards
led us to subjugation as’the only method of
escaping military despotism, now boasting of;
the great confidence heretofore reposed in their !
counsel, advising ns to accept the proposed j
terms for a new Union !
With such experience fresh and still increas
ing, 3xo%. shall we wonder if true men doubt, j
if brave men fear, and if good men despair?
For thirteen years ihe actual revolution has
been right onward, and is still onward. He is
stupidly blind who does not see that the evils
and to every interest of person and property,
and life which this nature, thus deluded, shall
render absolutely necessary. The resuit ol tins
war will be tiie substantial extermination of
the negro race in the United States : or its ex
elusion therefrom and final barbarism ; cr its
practical re-enslavement under the govern
ment of force, which I have indicated.
The giddy and the i'ooiish will say, this pic
ture of results is overdrawn Such creatures nev
er believe horrors will come till they are felt
and are past remedy. Some thoughtless good
people will say God will interfere and spare us
such evils, as though God ever interposed to
save a people who persisted in destroying them
selves. ^
The ambitious politician who has determined
j to support these measures, because they are
! proposed by the strong party, will close his
ears aud pass on. He cares not for the suffer
ings of the people, or for the subversion of the
j government, so he may reap aud rule. He was
; a traitor to the Union, a traitor to the
; Confederacy, and would sell the honor of the
people who trusted him—all lor greed and for
place—fii>t, from his own people and then from
j his people s ‘’oppressors.” How can such a
i man be moved^Ly the voice of honor or be
made to listen to the appeals of patriotism ?—
How can ho who is a traitor to truth be con
vinced by argument ? How can ne, whose ain-
shouid he made, which he admitted could be
made iu many ways, the Court would discharge
its duty.
It is true that Mr. Sumner, and such as he.
claims that Congress has the right, under the
Constitution, to pass such bills and for ail the
States, aud locates tbe powei in two clauses
of the Coas:ilution : that which requires the
Unite i States to guarantee a Republican ’
government to each State, and the latter clause
of the fourteenth amendment, which authori
zes Congress •• by appropriate legislation to
enforce : the emancipation of the slave. %
But whatever may be claimed for Mr. Sum
ner otherwise, it is certain he is not respecta
ble authority on questions of constitutional
law. No fanatical min i can be regarded as
safe, or become respectable as an expounder
of law; because fanatical minds will accept
nothing as true except what they desire to be
true. But law is an intlexfl e ruie. and none
but inflexible minds, rigid in spite of theories
and hard laws, can either truly learn, greatly
love, or safely expound the law.
But even if Mr. Sumner and such as he had
rend ami tear all i reputation as lawyers, such reputation would
he destroyed by the very positions assumed:
for no legal Oi' iogiCo-1 or well-balanced mind
can say it is necessary or proper to disfranchise
white people; to establish military ru:e: to
abolish the trial by jury, and to suspend the
privilege of habeas corpus, in time of peace,
for all races an i colors, in order to guarantee
republican government to the States, or to en
force the emancipation of tbe slave.
It may be safely assumed, therefore, that all
respectable legal minds in America, whether
for or against these military bills ns a plan of
reconstruction, admit that the bills are not
authorized by any provision of the Constitu
tion. Indeed, tbe advocates of these bills find
the authority for their adoption not in the
Constitution, but iu certain circumstances out
side of the Constitution—a condition of things
not anticipated and not provided for by the
Constitution ■ and some find the power in
necessity, some in humanity, and some in in
ternational law! Before I conclude these notes
it is my purpose to devote separate and special
attention to each of the apologies for these
bills (for they are not arguments); but 1 wish
to say now, that if these positions, or any of
them, be true, then Congress has found for
itself a much broader grant of power outside
of tiie Constitution than exists inside of that
instrument. Indeed, they have found outside
a power by which they can destroy the Con
stitution by which alone the Congress itself
was created and has being. If this be so, our
fathers did a siliy work in providing a written
Constitution.
Then, we may safely say that, what legal
minds admit is true, to-wit : That these Mili
tary bills are not authorized by any provision
of the Constitution, and, if justifiable at all,
they must bo justified by circumstances—by
some condition, by some authority outside of
the Constitution. Aud no w wise, prudent, pa
triotic readers, lovers of law and law’s safety,
propound and answer this question: If Con
gress has a sphere, a dominion, an existence,
outside the Constitution, whence did it come,
where does it lie, aud what is its extent, ils
length and breadth? Do you not know there
is no dominion outside the Constitution and
laws but the dominion of anarchy—grim, bloody,
lawless, thriftless, hopeless anarchy? Do you
not knovr tl^t the very definition of anarchy
is, outside of law, disre^u.d of law, abandon
ment •ef law? Have nut ail people who have
gone into anarchy and reaped their riot of ruin,
done so under the pressure of bad men and
circumstances? And will Americans, black
or white, abandon the well-defined boundaries,
the safe expositions, the veil-tried, ever sufii-
“"-i sL-'-Lias protection of a written Con
stitution, and ru»H u.. i
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not taken from the wolf, .if the Constitution is
not take from the nursing care of those who
hate it, if the Government shall continue to bo
administered by his enemies.
If anything I may say shall tend, however
slightly, to avert tiie evils which threaten the
country, 1 shall net only be satisfied but happy.
I have no party to serve aud no personal ends
to accomplish.
1 frankly admit my opinions heretofore have
not been accepted by a majority of the people.
I have never thought that what the majority
believed was, therefore, true : or mat what
the majority did, was, therefore, right. YIv
political life lias been but a struggle against
prevailing opinions and policies. When poli
cies have been adopted and fix. :: inspire of ray
opposition, I have labored tq work got d results;
in spite of my conviction that the policies were
unwise. And when I see the ruin which has
been wrought 1 can but rejoice in the recollec
tions that I was not one of the chosen archi
tects. I do believe ihe people have mourned
and still mourn only because wicked men have
ruled and still rule; and I believe wicked men
have been chosen to rule only because they
have made political issues to foment popular
passions, and have suited their conduct and
opinions to the popular passions so fomented.
These notes are, therefore, given to the pub
lic. claiming no title to consideration, exce
that they are written, not to please that pu
from the minds of ambitious Lucifer and his
! fallen followers. How, then, can truth, tho
! born in gall -or wooing appeals, though they
! conic from millions wronged—be expected to
1 open the mind, or reach the conscience or
shake ibe purpose of tiie hardened wretch
this political Lucifer—who is willing to make a
Pandemonium of his country because,
“To reign is worth ambition, tho’ in Hell!
But the -wise, the good, the patriotic and the
truly brave will take warning. These alone
can save the country. The thoughtless, the
selfish, the fanatical and the ambitious are its
destroyers. This mad attempt by military
measures to force an unresisting people into
self-degradation for no purpose but party ag
grandizement, must produce fearful calamities
which no pen can describe. Actual events will
shame my language for very Weakness m tins
feeble attempt to forecaste the future. But
from all these horrors there is a way of escape.
There is but one way. Trust to no party, listen
no longer to men who have deceived you ; who
have been false
every, principle, aim uratuuvu- - , -■> »-~
eminent. Return, oh, my deluded and pros
trate countrymen, return to the ■ Constitution .
It alone is safe. It is safe for all colors and
blessing
find safety for person, or for property, or tor
liberty-?
But the argument must not stop here.—
These Military bills are not only not author
ized by, but are directly contrary to, the Con
stitution. They subject citizens to trial for
capital and infamous offences vri’hout indict
ment by a grand jury, ar.:l this- the Constitu
tion says shall not 'be done. They authorize
trial without a jury, which the Constitution
says shall not be done; and the Constitution,
on this subject, is so tender of liberty that it
does not trust the matter simply to prohibition,
but it declares, with repeated emphasis, the
right: ‘-The trial of all crimes, except iu cases
of impeachment, shall be by jury.” “ In all
criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy
the right !o a speedy and public trial by au
impartial jury.” •
They suspend the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus when there is neither insurrec
tion nor invasion, which the Constitution soys
shall not be done.
In these and other respects, then, the Mlii-
conclusion : These Military bills have no au
thority. 1. Because they are nor authorized
by the Constituri a ; 2. Because they are con
trary to—absolutely annul—the Constitution ;
and 'J. Because they have never been passed
by the Congress. Naturalists tell us of a ven-
emous reptile, which sometimes becomes so
furiously enraged it sticks its fangs in its own
flesh, and dies of its own poison. And it does
seem fitting that these mad violators of the
Constitution they were sworn to support—
these v.iid exterminators of States — these
adroit but furious murderers of law and liber
ty, should first, by their owa act, have de
stroyed themselves i.i tlieir preparation and
desire to destroy others.
I do not shrink from, but do most heartily
rejoice at, the inevitable conclusion to which
the argument, nerved by the very sinews of
logic and wanned by the purest love of couu-
try, must lead: and, if American patriotism
shall not finally and forever die, but shall
awake from the trance into which ambition and
lust ft r place have thrown it, then will lines
—dark lines—yes, lines as black as uustarred
night, be drawn, and with a power nervous
with indignation, around all the records and
the bastard official existence of these frag
mentary conclaves of Republicanism; “libel
lers’' and all will be declared to constitute no
p ;rt of authorized American law, or of legiti
mate American will.
The time was! ah, yes, the time was, when
to say to an American citizen a proposed meas
ure was not authorized by the Constitution was
enough. It was rejected. And has tho final
power, or that power which, in republics, is
worse and mightier and more to be avoided
than war—which is the father of wars—which
begot our war, and which seems determined
with au adulterous mania to multiply its hell-
visaged brood—the corruption of party manip
ulators—wrought so great a change ? And has
the time already come when Americans—even
Southern Americans—can entertain, as a ques
tion, whether the}’ will accept, ami by that ac-
op-aice ■mah mi id, a proposition which is not
authorized by the Constitution ; which is con
trary- to the Constitution ; which destroys the
Constitution ; which mocks the very principles
which made, which gave soul to tiie Constitu
tion ; and which tramples thus cn the Consti
tution in order to destroy existing Southern
State governments founded in the consent of
the people, and to form ot Iters not founded in
the consent of ■ nr- >plo ; and which, in form
ing these new governments, disfranchises exist
ing elector's distinguished fox intelligence, and
enfranchises new electors notorious for igno
rance : and while the new governments, so
formed, are not to suit either young or old,
learned or ignorant, black or white electors,
who are to live under them—but must suit
men who have never lived in these States, who
never expect to live iu these States, and who
forget their own oaths and the interests of
their own people to indulge the hatred by
which they oppress the people of these South
ern States?
And have we some of these same party ma
nipulators. who were born under our skies, who
have been trusted by our people, who boast of
their honors, who now advise and try, coax and
labor to persuude, and by turns threaten, de
ceive and slander, to compel us to accept this
iniquity ?
Oh, depths of infamy! Open, open, far
deeper depths for the dwelling of these cun
ning monsters of treachery, that they shame
mft with their presence The lowest of the damn
ed spirits which now inhabit your labyrinths!
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believes that unless the tiie colored race
throughout New England are replenished from
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out tbrit no man—that no human power can
arrest this revolution. It may be that a change
inch will not ; . ,j government, through an ordeal of anarchy.
^ is ir-evitable. But this much every man can do:
He can see to it that, if this destruction must
come, it shall not owe its coming to his consent.
If the Constitution must be violated, it shall
not be by him. If the Government must be
subverted, it shall bs the work of others.—
This, therefore, patriotic reader, is all the
promise I exact—in advance—that, whatever
others may do, you will support the Constitu
tion, and opp se whatever is contrary thereto
—for mark this : Whatever else people and
rulers may do. they cannot support or pre
serve the Government by violating its funda
mental law.
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NO. II.
While these or similar uotc-s may ultimately
take a wider range, the immediate purpose is
to examine the pending feature of the revolu
tion—the Military bills, embracing what is
called the Congressional plan of reconstruction.
1 have given these measures full, fair and ma
ture consideration. I entertain not the slight
est doubt that the- conclusions 1 have reached
are correct, and that, if those proposed meas
ures shall become laws, the future develop
ments will mosi :ibnndantlyfpro\ e their correct
ness. Before proceeding --..iGi ike _ analysts of
the character of the bills, their ci.ec!-- aud toe
an,.logics offered for theta, I desire to announce
the conclusions which the reasoning will es
tablish and the events will confirm, as tae cer
tain results of their acceptance and of the in
corporation of the plan and principles propose^
into the Federal Constitution and State Consti
tutions of the States :
I They v ill consummate the subversion ol
the Republic; the destruction of the Constitu
tion ; tire annihilation of individual liberty,
and the ultimate but complete change of ail
American government from tne principle oi
consent to the rule of force. And these results
will become permanent and absolute and irre
mediable.
2. Before this final consummation is reached
the country will pass through an ordeal of an
archy. This ordeal will be prolonged, and the
most bitter of any in history—because anarchy
iu a republic is like fever with an individual,
mest violent with the most vigorous, will not
cease until strength is reduced or destroyed,
and no people ever had such strength and ma-
,i‘. iat contiap, ^tuciciO ^.d.. then iei.r i.. iiiiUc. e i t r, er t he new or the old electors, but accord
, J I 1 ey ., a ^°^L a ;a m,tw vi 1.-st of ing to the wishes and under the direct dictatioi
late the Constitution, and they the vilest cl
traitors.who use the power of the government
to aid and shield them iu the violation.
NUMBER 3.
When any measure of legislation in America
is presented for our acceptance or approval,
the first question should always be, Is it con
stitutional? or. better phraseology would be,
Is it authorized by the Constitution ? For, in
America, the distinctive, distinguishing feature
ot Government, State and lederai.is the v. rit-
len Constitution. This is the Alpha and Onie-
ga of ail true .American statesmanship. It is
the only impregnable fortress for American
Hfcerty. The written Constitution are words
which should be repeated by eVery citizen
everr day ngff every kov, and held as indis-
•oonsable to the preservation- of American po
litical life, as is air. cr water, or peat and
drink to the preservation of animal life.
In entering on the discussion of the Miiitary
Bili?, the first remarkable fact which strikes
us is the general concession that they are not
iu accordance with the Federal Constitution.
In the debates on the passage of the Supple
mental bill, some of the advocates of these
measures upon submitting to the people of the
several States affected, to decide ” for or
against” the State Convention through which
the pnrnoses are to be accomplished, becauso
if tbe people should vote for a Convention and
therebv admit and approve the. propr.cty ana
necessity for the measure, tbe whole pian
dictation
of the authors of these Military bids, not one
of whom reside in either of the ten States
thus trampled on, or can be subject to the
government of the Constitutions which they
thus dictate.
Nor is all yet told. These bills not only
destroy governments, but they destroy—most
ruthlessly destroy — the very principles on
which all American constitutions and govern
ments are based, aud to secure and perpetuate
which*constitutions, State and Federal, were
triads. Magna Charter; Bill of Rights; Peti-
titiun of Rights : the Settlement; the glorious
principles of the Common Law: the compact
wisdom of centuries; the fruits of many bloody
revolutions: ail the guards and guarantees
which patriots, statesmen, judges and peopie,
by sword and cy pen, for eight hundred years -
have been providing aud perfecting to builc
up and make immortal that most wonderful
blessing of hnftian genius and power—the
structure of Anglo-Saxon liberty—are abro
gated and withdrawn from ton millions of
people, of all colors, sexes and classes, who
live in the ten unheard and excluded States,
and that, too, by men, I repeat, who do not
live in these States, and who never think of
them but to hale, and never enter them but to
insult!
Surely this is enough, but the argument re
quires me to .add that the body of men who
enacted the military abominations were not
ghe Congress and had no authority to legislate.
would be relieved of the unconstitutional ob- By the Constitution ail Federal legislative
lection* ’ Thu* even Radical fanatics found it i powers are vested in a - : Congress of the Lm-
necessary to provide some excuse for their ted States.’" This Congress • shall consist o!
J _ a Senate and Bouse of Representatives. iiie
House “‘shall be composed of members chosen
by the peopie cf the several States. ’ The
for their
consciences! And this excuse consists in an
attempt io secure the consent of the people—
vea. of the people to be degraded—to tne
s.-bAe irfcich is to dograda thorn, ar.d ttas to Saoate -yt f 1 be
j that section will soon
i Slate the negro population decreased 578 from
j 1855 to 1860, and 4,207 from 1860 to 1865.
Commenting upon the facts stated above,
the N. Y. Express says :
The Rhode Island and New Y'ork statistics
are far more apparent in the Southern and late
border States, where the negroes are dying
with fearful rapidity, and especially the young
er children. The neglect of the infants by
their colored parents seems not only unnatural
but monstrous, and those who know, declare
! that among what are called brute animals,
from the lion to the monkey, and from the
cow to the cat, there is infinitely more care of
than among the negroes of the South. In a
state of slavery, whatever the wrongs of the in
stitution, there was shown at least a proper
care of the young from the time they came in
to the world until tlicy could fake care of them
selves. The-froedmen, in the absence of the
old supervision of themselves and their labors
strangely and shamefully neglect this duty.—
In the former case the care may have grown
out of selfish considerations respecting the fu
ture slave—but one would suppose the natural
insriticts of a mother and the proper affections
of a father would at least prove equal to the
interests of the slaveholder. It is not so, how
ever, and since the war thousands and tens of
thousands have died front neglect at the South
Gen Grant, nearly two years since, estimated
the reduction in the slave population as equal
to nearly twenty-five per cent, 'ibis was caus
ed by the wav ; but the mortality is stilt im
mense, and in all human probability will con
tinue. Education and increased civilization
may diminish the extraordinary number of
deaths, but they will go on, in uudue propor
tion to the whites, and until, as many believe,
the whole black race become nearly extinct.-—
Should the war of races not be avoided, which
the present political tendency of things is to
bring on, the time for the extinction of the
colored race will ho hastened. Giving the
freed negro in his present state the right of
suffrage, or placing hirn in the jury box and in
Hm school house with white children, will not
ore vent tiie great fact oi the broad difference
which exists between the two races. Many in
telligent Repuolicans already see this, and one
of the leading minds among them, a day or
two past declared to us that it is morally and
physically impossible fur the two races to live
fi getherju the equal enjoyment of the same
political rights.
Tragic Ijeatu of ax Austrian Archduchess
The Archduchess Matilda, the intended wife
of Prince Humbert, of Italy, a Princess in her
19th year, by ail accounts endowed with rare
gifts of person, mind, and heart, died in Vien
na on the morning of June 6th. She inadver
tently trod on a lucifer match, which was lying
at her feet on the floor, as she leaned out of
the window, talking to one of her relatives.—
Her summer dress was in a blaze before she
was aware of it, and before any one could run
to her rescue she sank to the ground in an ago-
nv of pain from which only death released her.
The lady was the affianced bride of Prince
Humbert, the heir of the throne of Italy.—
Prince Humbert was enjoying th- festivities of
Paris when the news of tiie accident to the
Archduchess reached him, and he immediately
left, it is supposed for Vienna.
rest the legality of the plan, no: upon the Con
stitution, but upon the consent of the people
■ ; upen
And this consent is to be secured by disfran
chising intelligence,by military rule, by threats,
and last, though not least, by bribery ! The
nerrro race, duped by emissaries and aided by
deserters from their own blood, io to give con
sent for tfcewhite race!
Mr. Stanbery, in his argument before tae
Supreme.Court,.though'denying the jurisdic
tion of the Court in the case made, felt it
necessary to disclaim any admission that the
bills were constitutional; hut admitted the
from eaeh State.” Now, was the body of men
who petended to enact these bills so composed?
If not. they were not—they could not—be the
Congress. '* Why were they not so composed?
By their own act. Members to compose the
Congress were chosen by the peopie aud all
the States for the House and the Senate. But
the members fronj. ten States were excluded
from their seats by the members of the other
States, thus reducing what would have been
a Congress to a fragmentary conclave of mem
bers. No sophistry, no fanatacism, no ambi-
tion, no perjury a d no firce can escape the
The liabilities of Frazer, Trenholm & Co.,
have been ascertained to exceed their assets by
nearly one million pounds sterling. What a
lesson to traitors.—Press & Times.
The liabilities of Uncle Sam exceed his as
sets by over $2,500,000,000. What a lesson to
Radicals.—[Nashville Gazette.
The people of Central City, Colorado have
subscribed five thousand dollars to be paid for
Indian scalps, ‘with the ears on,’ at the rate of
twenty dollars apiece.
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