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®|je jtonan fcolfr. * 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 V will do HB ready send- ood and DR. JOHN BULL] GREAT REMEDlEsj BILL’S CEDRON BITTE] AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS. Arkansas Heard Fr ( TESTIMONY OF MEDICAL MR Stoney Point. White Co., Ark., Mar oo Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir: Lost F~”' was in Louisville purchasing drugs hST some of your Sarsaparilla and Cedron Bib My son-in-law, who was with - store has been down with the rfieumati'i some time, commenced on the Bitters J? found his general health improved ” Dr. Gist, who has been in had healH, them, ami he also improved. Dr. Coffee, who has been in had ho,ia several years—stomach ami liver affected -N, ed very much by the use of vour Bitt* deed the Cedron Bitters has gj Vt . n v popularity in this settlement. I thi.rt- r" sella great quantity oft your medmip ' f a especially of your Cedron Hitters a saparilla. Ship me via Memphis, care of F ett & Neely. Respectfully, C. B. IVau e- Bull’s Worm Destroyer. To my U. States and World-wide Reader I have received many testimonials f rom * fessional and medical men, as mv aiorin and various publications have shown which are genuine. The following letter V a highly educated and popular phv-i<i Georgia, is certainly one oi the i».** Sl .„", communications 1 have ever ree-iv.' Clement knows exactly wlmt he sp. his testimony deserves to he written in ; of gold. Hear what the Doctor suvsof hr ■ WORM DESTROYER: ” U " \ illy now, Walker County. Ga June 29 1S>J Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir: I h.nv rc giSen your “Worm Destroyer '' sev and find it wonderfully efficacious, k • failed in a single instance to have ih . for effect. I am doing a pretty large practice, and have daily use for some .ir; the kind. I am free to confess that I kn ». no remedy recommended by the ablest ante that is so certain and speedy in its effects the contrary they are uncertain in the extre My object in writing to you is to find aitw what terms I can get the medicine from you. Il I can get it upon easy ter shall use a great deal of it r am aware the use of such articles is contrary to the t ings and practice of a great majority o| regular line of M. D.’s, hut I see no just or good sense in discarding a remedy whii know to be efficient, simply because ve m ignorant of its combination. For my p shall make it a rule to use all and any i to alleviate suffering humanity which I rr able to command—not hesitating because one more ingenious than myself may learned its effects first, and secured tin right to use that knowledge. However, by no means an advocate and supporter) thousands of worthless nostrums that the country, that purport to cure all m of disease to which human flesh is heir. I reply soon, and inform me of your beet t I ain. sir, most respectfully, Julius P. Clement, M. BULL’S SlBSiPiRILLi] Good Reason for the Captain's Fait jD THE CAPTAIN'S LETTER AND FROM HIS MOTHER. in Barracks, Mo., April 30, 18GC] 11— Dear Sin Knowing the Sarsaparilla, and the heal ities it possesses, I sendyj iment of my case, about two years ago- ;onfined for sixteen mon 1 ] [n. my wounds have [t sat up a moment siij hot through the’ paired, and I n] 1 have more fit] in anything else Please express i dige P. Johnson, St. Louis, M'J fitted April , mother of GJ isband, Dr. b and php ; . r he died, l^ ; j y care. At ! ’j ' chronic dianij him your ? re for ton; 1 |^ew York 1 as, and get ] ended it- gpd fr ir wy ante'-J voar Salt®] »pnri< i;1 > U " for it J