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* KEWNATH, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning, February 1, 1868.
Gov. Jenkins. — His Excellency lias served
noticcs on Gen. Roger. Captains Rockwell ami
Wheaton that he will file a bill in the Supreme
Court on the 7th of February enjoining the n»e
of Ynoney'belonging tO,the State of Georgia.
ggjg^non. John Janes, Treasurer of the State,
was arrested a few days ago Ky the military
antborities. Cause; concealment of fris books.
He wr.6 on parole at last accounts.
The Cotton Tax —The Cotton tax commit
tee made another report, relieving imported
cotton from duty after November, I86S. Adopt
ed.
Radical Convention to nominate a
candidate for Governor, will* assemble in At
lanta February 19th.
No Accountio for Taste.—The soldiers of
the United States army on duty in the West,
make great efforts to capture rattlesnakes for
the purpose of eating them. The regulars style
them “rattlers" and esteem them a great deli
cacy.
Preaching and Practice.—An Indianapolis
telegram of January 30th, says:
A negro named Lewis Washington was fined
$2,000 and two years imprisonment for marry
ing a white woman.
crif you are opposed to negro suffrage join
the Conservative Club. To become a member
you are not required to pay any money or take
Georgia Unconstitutional Convention.
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
TWENTY-NINTH DAT.
January 27th.—The Convention opened with
prayer—Parrott in the Chafr.
THE RELIEF QUESTION.
The question of Relief was then takett up.
when the following report from the Committee
on Relief was read:
Your Committee, to whom wns referred the
subject of ReliefTbeg leave to rejiort the fol
lowing:
Whereas, By the late disastrous war the !
people of Georgia have lost over four hundred
million dollars of taxable property, also a vast
depreciation of real estate, and the total loss
of four years’ labor, thereby throwing into
hopeless confusion the equitable relations of
debtor and creditor ; and
Whereas. The indebtedness of the State to
her citizens has been repudiated, and her most
solemn contracts violated, and sanctioned and
sustained by her ablest jurists, thereby leaving
the people to bear as best they can the in
creased burdens thus imposed ; and
Whereas, The low price of cotton, the scar
city of money, the unsettled condition of the
political affairs of the State, and the derange
ment. and Inefficiency of lalnir. render it im
possible for the debtor to make even partial
payment; and
Whereas, To undetake to force the payment
of indebtedness would only result in Imnk-
ruptcy and utter ruin to the great masses, and
concentrating into the hands of the few the
little remaining from ruthless war; and
Whereas, All. or nearly all the indebtedness
was based either directly or indirectly upon the
property thus depreciated, while the amount of
indebtedness is held undiminished ; therefore.
We, the people of Georgia, in Convention
assembled, do solemnly ordain that, from and
after the passage of this ordinance, no court in
this State shall have ‘jurisdiction at any time
to hear or determine, or render judgment
against any citizen of this Shite, upon any
contract oi judgment made or entered into, or
for any tort or injury committed prior to the
1st day of June 1865: nor shall any court or
ministerial officer of this State ever have juris
diction to enforce any judgment or execution
rendered or issued upon any contract or agree
ment, or for any tort or injury committed prior
to said first day of June, 1865.
John Harris. Chairman.
C. H. Hopkins.
N. P. Hotchkiss,
Goodwin.
We cannot forget that many of these men
took advantage during the war, of an un-1
righteous Stay law, of which they were the ;
zealous advocates, and refused to pay their ;
debts, when they might have done no in a de- i
predated and abundant currency ; and that
since the war they deceitfully disclaimed all
purpose of ultimate repudiation, and asked for
temporary delay only, and when they got that
relief, from a heedless < r interested Legislature,
they employed tin: respite in industrious labors
to pervert the public mind and to prepare it
for the monstrous consummation that is reach
ed in the report of the Committee. Such men
deserve neither sympathy nor respect. While
we are sorry that their innocent families should
suffer, we have more pity for the families of
those who will be beggared if their jljjqt>itoo»
schemes prevail
'Hie affirmation, in the third clause of the
inajori|»’s report, that “it is imp ssible for
the di^or 11 make even partial payments," is
disproved by this very effort to relieve him
from paying. Why undertake to prevent im-
possiliilities? No law on earth can collect what
a debtor < annot pay. Perhaps the majority
simply mean that it is inconvenient for the
debtor to pay. This we admit. But when the
legislation of the State was controlled by the
classes to which most of the present friends of
“ Belief '’ belong, they solemnly enacted that
all of an insolvent’s property, except a mode
rate exemption, should be sold to pay his debts
They cannot complain if the law metes out to
themselves the same measure. It the present
exemption was enough when the standard of
wealth was high, it is surely enough when the
standard is low. We do not oppose a reasona
ble enlargement of it as to future debts. But
let the debts of the past be settled on the prin
ciples that controlled the past. The argument
that forced stiles at present prices will not
bring enough to benefit the creditor, is suffi
ciently answered by the consideration that in
.ill such *-ases the creditor will have no induce
ment to bring to property to sale, and, of his
own accord, will wait till better times.
The majority cite the ordinance of the Con
vention ot 1865, repudiating the 8tate war
debt iio a reason and a precedent for the action
now proposed. It is remarkable that the ac
tion of a body which the call for this Conven
tion assumes to be unauthorized, should be
expected to influence ours.
But supposing that Convention fo have been
legal, there is nothing to warrant the inferences
which the majority draw from its action. 11
the tax paying debtors of the State have been
relieved from their part of a public debt, they
are so much the more able to pay their private-
debts. The principle of the ordinance of 1865
was one well established at common law, that
ter an illegal purpose, such as
j,wl ul government, arc-
repudiation of
,tion ot
of the United States forbiddimr any State from
passing a law impairing the obligation of con
tracts. He spoke of the relative positions of
debtor and creditor. If the debtors had lost
property by the late war, so had the creditors.
He dwelt on the fact that many of the debtors
were the men who were living sumptuously
and enjoying all the comforts of life, whilt on
tire otlrer hand nn.st of the creditors were in
straightened circumstances. The men who were
the debtors were the men who previous to the
war possessed the land, they possessed that
land still, and he could not see why, if they
h »d means to pay their debts, they should not
lie compelled to do so* He referred to a very
distinguished gentleman who had tAken great
Interest in the proceedings of the Convention,
and hkd acted as a sort of adviser on the snb-
ject of relief. He meant the Ex-Governor of
Georgia, Governor Brown. He here read sev
eral extracts of a recent letter and speech of
the above named gentleman bearing upon the
subject, and agued that according to his views
the creditor should share the losses of the
debtor, while nobody has provided for the loss
es of the creditor. He referred to the fact that
the Governor had urged that relief should be
given to the banks because they hail been pre
vented by the Stay Law from collecting their
good debts. The Ex-Governor had omitted to
state one important fact in connection with
this matter which he should have stated, which
was that the Stay Law was introduced into the
Legislature for the relief of the banks themselves
The title of the bill read: A bill for the relief of
the banks and people of the State of Georgia.
The latter clause having been inserted for the
purpose of rendering the bill popular among
the people. Governor Brown, however, to his
eternal credit, vetoed the bill, and gave as a
reason that the bill was unconstitutional.
The Convention then adjourned.
THIRTIETH DAY.
Jan. 28, 1868.—lire Convention opened with
prayer— Parrott in the Chair.
The discussion of the Relief Question taken
up.
A. T. Akerman resumed his argument on
this subject. He dwelt at great length and
with much vehemence upon the conduct of Ex-
Govemor Brown, both in office and put of it.
He trusted the new Georgia was co-equal to
the Georgia that has passed away. He referred
to Governor Biown in 1866 when he (Brown)
was supported by the opinion of Judge Storey,
while in 1868 he was suppoited by a rabble of
unprincipled and dishonest debtors. They
were told that if they repudiated all the old
debts and gave a large homestead, it would be
an encouragement to emigrants to corne here
from all parts of the world. That might be
so. But what kind of emigrants would they
be. They would he composed of the dishonest
persons from every quarter of the globe, who
bad run away from their homes with other
leu’s money in their pockets. There ought to
but it should be a relief which was
Ipnest man. That relief was
foment *of the United
Jhc bankrupt law.
imabie to
and
most all the knowledge and learning in the j
world Under the banner of their prophet, 1
they started from the holy city of Mecca, and
swept along the whole Northern coast of the
Mediterranean, by Alexandria, Carthage and
beyond the pillars of Hercules : aye, carrying
over the Sierra Nevada of Spain, into the
beautiful valley of the Grenadian La Vega,
tbeir wonderful arts,as well as their victorious
arms. They constructed the magnificent Al
hambra: they created the Alcazars of Seville
and Cordova. Our countryman, Irving, in
glowing prose, with thoughts that breathe and
words that burn, has pictured their marches
and conquests and their arts a3 well as their
arms. The w hole Christian world shrank and
trembled before fhe mighty genius of this Arab
race, while it was overrunning Spain and
threatening Europe with downfall. But in aa
evil hour they who planted? the noblest ban
ners of poetry, and of prose, of philosophy
and of history in the front rank of Che learn
ing of the world—they who had invented the
science erf notation, and taught os decimals—
they Who had created algebra, and given »1
the*Arabic name—they who had measured the
heavens in fheir astronomy, and given the
very names we now use to the stars and con
stellations that sparkle in the sky; they who
bequeathed to ns the Arabic-named Almanac,
,the Diary) the little work now indispensable
in every man's house—alas, they mingled the
blood of their heroic iace with the Nubian—
the negro—with the inferior find degraded
races of Africa, all about them, and they rap
idly fell from their exalted position into the
-degraded pool of races, with whom they had
commingled. These once heroic Arabs were
driven from Grenada, and lingering awhile
upon the coasts of the Mediterranean, they
re-fled into Africa, dishonored, degraded, de
stroyed, by forgetting their Arab nobility, and
becoming Nubians—negroes—and other infe
rior races of Africa.
THE OTTOMAN TURKS NEXT.
Years afterward there sallied forth from
Asiif, that great store-house of nations, the
Ottoman Turks, under the banner of the Pro
phet. and their Crescent swept over almost the
same breadth of territory that the Arabs bad
gone over before them. If they paused at the
Pillars of Hercules in the West, their scimetars
flashed in the East under the walls of Vienna,
and swept off every living man that showed
himself on the open plains of Austria or Bo
hemia. But alas! they entered upon the same
degraded crime of amalgamation and misceg
enation, and they soon emasculated, these once
heroic Turks, the approach of whose Crescent
had made the Christian tremble in every Court
in Europe, and upon every navigable internal
sea. In their harems the tbick-lipped, woolly
headed negro woman was mixed up with the
beautiful Circassian and Georgian, and chil
dren of all hues, and colors, and races, were
the product of this hateful 'miscegenation;
and God -even the God of Mahommed—has
punished the Moslem by his own degradation
and his own overthrow for violating that first
law of nature—the preservation of the purity
of race. The Crescent no more waves in ter
ror under the walls of Malta, as pirate, or cor-
more affrights the Adriatic or the
embies in doubtful existence on
1^ myself, have seen in
osque where the
rty or forty
of bis
will tell you why. sir. The Latin, the Spanish
race, reed from that instinct of ours, which ab
hors all hybrid amalgamation, revelled in a
fatally tempting admixture of blood—indulged
in social aud governmental co-pnitnership with
Aztecs, Indians, negroes, one and all. The
pure blood, the azure blood of the old Hidal-
goes of Spain, lost and drained, dishonored
and degraded, has dwindled i»te» nothing,
while the pure blood of the AngTe-Saxons, the
Celts, the Teutons, abhoring all such associa
tion and amalgamation with the negro, or the
Indian, has leaped over Lake Erie, crossed la
belle riviere, the great Father of Waters, the
Mississippi, crowded the mountain passes of
Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Montana, roiled
over the Rocky Mountains and spread for hun
dreds ot miles on the Pacific Ocean—carrying
not only there but everywhere triumphant,
from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the glorious
flag of our country, that emblem of a pure
race, and ever contrasting the glory and honor,
the prowess of that race, with the degradation
of the race of these once noble Hidalgoes yf
Spain.
Sir, you are on the erenow of an association
and co-partnership with a like inferior race,
which, if the people do not drive you from this
capital, will be destructive of us all, as luis
been a like co partnership to the Spaniards, the
Turks, the Moors, and the Arabs. I have re
called these sacred lessons of history, and I
hold them up to you for your admonition and
warning. Heed, oh, heed ! Strike, but hear !
I have, sir, and will publish in a note a table
of the different admixture of races which have
brought about the utter degradation of the
white race in parts of Spanish America, and I
hold them up to you as what you are legislating
to make of us.
No, sir, this may be the last time in this
Congress when I shall have an opportunity
thus at length to address a white audience upon
the floor of this House. [Laughter.] Aye,
you are so hurrying up this reconstruction, as
you call it, that the African will soon come
down from your galleries, and make his appear
ance hete upon the floor, side by side with you,
as a man and a brother. He is s<-on to bo
within you, and part of you, a representative
upon this floor. I 4ell you, gentlemen, that
you make a fatal political mistake, for it will
not be acquiesced in by the Northern people,
and your violent,-revolutionary acts here will
be resisted in the elective tribunals elsewhere.
In order to obtain a few additional negro rep
resentative votes upon this floor from the South,
you are jeoparding the domination ot your
party in the great North anil West. The
Northern people lire sound upon the subject ot
race, and where Ethnology is discussed scien
tifically in the primary assemblies of the peo
ple, they will become more and more sound,
and become more and more converts to the
principles I have been laying down to-day.—
But I know, sir, it is vain tor me to invoke the
majority of this House to pause. I have too
often sent forth vain invocations here, and ap
pealed to the majority of this House in vain
and in vain. But, thank God! my voice and
the voices of the few compatriots around me
have gone beyond tills Capitol, and been heard
among the people, who have responded by rol
ling up majorities in our favor, such as we did
not dream of so early alter our vain appeals to
you here on this floor. But if you blacken
this House this session of Congress, it will soon
be whitened by the Democracy of the North
and the West. It cannot be that God inspired
Columbus to the discovery of this great uew
World only to drive out the Pequods.Chippewas,
Mohawks, Pottawatemies, Sioux, Cheyennes to
substitute here a government of Congo negroes
rom Africa instead. It cannot be that Al-
hty wisdom has gathered here the best
m all nations of Europe to be over-
Spanish blood has been, by the
of Aztec, Indian and Congo
j, pledged, manacled to par-
more than you love your
I know I speak in
the dead would not
n here, but we shall
Posterity will
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ready send-
ood and
DR. JOHN BULL]
GREAT REMEDlEsj
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Stoney Point. White Co., Ark., Mar oo
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June 29 1S>J
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the contrary they are uncertain in the extre
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shall use a great deal of it r am aware
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to alleviate suffering humanity which I rr
able to command—not hesitating because
one more ingenious than myself may
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by no means an advocate and supporter)
thousands of worthless nostrums that
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