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good NEWS! GOOD NEWS!
:o:
SPRING GOODS!
SPRING GOODS!
— :o:
AVr are now receiving every day by Express,
\i;w spring goods,
Consisting of
Prints,
Dress Goods,
Clothing,
Boots &, Shoes,
Anii many other articles too tedious to mention.
We invite our friends and the public gener-
r.llv to give us a call. No trouble to show
goodu: We buy our goods for Cash, and seP
them as chiiap as any house this side of New
y or k. [March 14-tf ] JOE WIELL.
U. S. Internal Revenue.
S. P. THURMAN.
J. W. SPENCE.
S. P. THURMAN & CO.,
Manufacturers
AND
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS
Candies and Confectionaries,
Greenville Str., Newnan, Ga.
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
SPEECH ON THE SITUATION,
BY HOY, B. H. HILL,
DELIVERED IN ATLANTA, QA., MARCH 10, 1868.
We are manufacturing and receiving our
FALL it
mm
nmanir
blUbh
Fourth Collection District,
COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF COWETA,
llK.VKl*, FOLK, OAltUOLLand HARALSON,
Notice is hereby given that the list of valua
tions and enumerations of property subject to
tax under the “Act to provide Internal Reve
nue” to support the Government, to pay in
terest on the public debt, and for other purpo
ses. approved June 30th, 1864, and the amen
datory act. approved March 2d, 1867, made and
taken by the several Assistant Assessors of said
Collection Division will remain open for the
examination of all persons interested for the
space of ten days (Sunday excepted) from the
date hereof, 26th March, 1868, between the
hours of SI a. in. and 4 p. m.; and immediately
after the expiration of ten days from the date,
to wit: on the 6th day nl April, 1868, 1 will
receive and determine ail appeals relative to
erroneous or excessive valuations or enumera
tions made and taken by said Assistant As
sessors.
The list herein referred to comprises the
taxes for Licenses and taxes upon Carriages,
Hilliard Tables, silver Plate and other enumer
ated articles for the year ending March 1st,
iSti'.*. and the taxes upon incomes for the year
ending December 31, 1867-
All appeals to Assessor, as aforesaid, must bo
made in writing, and specify the particular
cause, matter or thing respecting which a de
cision is requested, and state the ground or
principle of inequality or error complained of
Dated Atlanta, Ga., March 26, 1868.
W. H. WATSON,
March 14-2t. Assessor 4th Dist. Ga.
BOOTS, SHOES
LEATHER!
NEW STORE!—NEW GOODS!
Extra Inducements to Buyers at Whole
sale and Retail!
Peachtree Str., Markham’s Buildings,
(Opposite Cox & Hill,)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nov. 30-if. GEORGE W. PRICE.
Candies, Pickles,
Nuts, Raisins,
Mackerel, Cheese,
Crackers, Sugars,
Coffee, etc., etc.,
To which we ask the attention! of the
WHOLESALE and RETAIL TRADE.
We will wholesale Candies to Confectioners
as cheap as they can purchase the same article
in any Southern market. Determined to ex
tend our wholesale business, we pledge our
selves to refuild the money paid us for Candies
which do not give satisfaction. -j
Mr. Thurman having an experience of six
teen years as a manufacturer of Candies, llat-
ters himself that he understands his business,
and has no superior as a manufacturer in the
Southern States.
The attention of the ladies particularly ami
the citizens generally is called to the fact that
we keep constantly on hand a supply of
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :
I appear to day at the iusfance and un
der the auspices of the “ Young Men's
Democratic Club,” of this city. Political,
like other revolutions, have their periods,
and often rapidly change in character,
purpose and issues.
Far up the Niagara river the waters are
quiet and still. Little children bathe
and play in their depths, and parties of
pleasure ride merrily and safely on their
bosom. But at a given point the current
makes its start for the great Falls, and
moving slowly at first, it grows more and j
constantly more rapid, until
point in its wild, mad rush, from
event, your rulers j groes from your corn fields [Laughter and j ing that clause was to prevent legislation SCHEDULE OF THE A & W P R E.
nfes^edlv convict- cheers] negro preachers, and convicts! prohibiting the intermarriage of the races. I _ ’ ‘ ‘ * ’
>od. That is the from Sing-Sing and other penitentiaries, j [Laughter.] I suppose the party whoj J ‘ ' , - upenp erx >n .
j convicted before the world of falsehood,
j or the President of the same nation, and
[ five Cabinet officials, stand convicted of it.
For my purpose, l care not which is right
I bring to your view, simply, a startling! the simple purpose cd
fact — if you have any morality to be | o. Another portion is
startled—that, in either
stand convicted, and con
ed. of intentional falsehood
point at which the nation has arrived.
And now, what do we witness! The
natiou actually trembliug, the nation ac
tually doubting, the nation actually fear
ing that that department of the govern
ment, which, in all history, has been,
ought to be, and which, under our form
of goverment, was intended to be, the
bulwark of our liberties—the break water
passion—I say the whole nation is
fearing that the
composed of men false to their own race f never act on the subject. It leaves you
and country—false to their own pledges j to anarchy! It secures no right. If
—false to their own history, and false to the negroes choose to observe your rules,
their own oaths—going into the party for : well and good ; if they do not, you have j
getting honor.— ; no remedy; you can have no legislative
composed of ne- J protection. I dare say the idea of fram-
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trained it, or rather who originated it,
had a taste that way, and did not intend
to be interfered with. I don’t biante him;
but if I was a negro woman, l would not
have a single member of that motley Con
vention, [laughter and cheers.] except
the few respectable persons I have men
tioned, and who, I repeat, are in great dan
ger of losing their characters. I know they
went there with good motive*, though
there is a I trembling, doubtin_
which Supreme Judicial power of the country penitentary
once reached, nothing alive has ever been j will > utterly unequal to the task of de-
rescued.
The American people have been peace
' daring what they kuow to be the Con
stitution of their country. On this point
rielded. I
have
once
at)
iftrl
\\’e know xvc can please you.
we mean and mean what we say
October 19-6m.
XVe say what
social existence. Nothing more startles
the man of thought, the readers of history,
than the giddiness with which the people
are riding ou the rapids to destruction,
seemingly unconscious of what awaits
them. You are as giddy this day as were
the dupes who married and were given in
marriage, aud carried on their ordinary
transactions, before the flood. The world
was neither more wicked, nor giddy, nor
guilty in that day than is the political
world of America at this day. The great
NATIONAL STOVE WORKS, ^ e c "„o y , oftl,etimes isthis; thepeop,c
ful, happy, free and prosperous. They j L for one, have never >
loved their Constitution and Joyed each always believed that t e question
other. But evil whispers divided them,
and step by step they approached and
finally entered upon revolution And
how wildly and still more wildly we have
rushed, and yet rush along ! The ques
tion now reached is not whether this or
that party shall triumph — notjwhetlier we
shall have a Union—not, alas! whether
we shall have a government founded on
our cousent. It is more vital still. The . .
is*ue has wholly changed, and has ceased j °Rj tcts of mission, and say that
to be a political question. The issue now ! acts outside of it are usurpations and con-
pressing is one of actual political life—of sequent^ void l If so, this country may
snmnl existent Nothin- more startles i be saved : tlius revolution may be stayed.
But if the court should agree with the
made before that tribunal fairly and clear
ly, they would be equal to the task, though
1 confess I have not found one man in a
hundred to agree with me, and that fact
alone is a sufficient illustration of the ex
tent to which this corruption and loss of
confidence have gone.
Shall the department—lifted by the
Constitution above the mere petty pas
sions of the multitude—fulfil the great
all
[Immense cheering and laughter ] Men,
black and white, now charged by the
juries of the country with every infamous
crime known to the Penal Code. These
make up the body of the Convention—
with a few gentlemen, who are in very
bad company and seriously hazarding
their reputation. [Laughter.]
And these, Georgians, are the men
who are to form your fundamental law.—
New Egland outlaws; Sing-Sing convicts; | under a mistake, and lam going to let
felons; and corn field ne- them off as easily as possible. [Laugh-
groes, engaging in the work that iinmor- ter.]
taiized the fathers of the country ! Spirits Now, fellow-citizens, it is for yon to say
of Washington, of Franklin, and of Madi- "hether you will ratify this ‘ social relation”
, V. c i —o— i i arrangement. It is a question of taste: it is
son, and of your colaborers of 118i, look j a of re fi nein cit; it is a question of
down and see this mock ininiicrj ot your race; it is a question of principle! Decide
grand work!—nay, nay, look not, I be- | for yourselves. Decide for your children.—
seech you, lest you shock the angels with j Decide for your country. And, my friends, you
your blushing, and startle heaven w itl, j who think you are Hfied above the common
J • ° rr » .« . i -i 1 heri ami common masses of the people, and
your weeping. [Enthusiastic applause.] : lhink thllt impil<ie nce will never dare assert
But, let us pass from the material com- , itself in your company, I pray you, I pray you,
posing the Convention, to the work there- save the honest, unfortunate, poor people of
of. It is a universal maxim, as true in j this country from such foul contamination.—
politics as in philosophy, that the effect is j [Applause.] I pray you, also, save the negro
*, I. i • i i j race. Iain immovable in mv conviction that
always like the cause which produced it. j the whitw ftnd blilcks ,. nn onlv move safely
.Now, I will say, in passing, that this Lon- J together in the same country in their different
stitution leaves evident marks of a con- and natural spheres. Whenever yon attempt
test; there were two classes of minds in j to bring them together, you inaugurate a crisis
the Convention. One class endeavoring 1 resn * ts ' n r *‘ e P arill J 3 ' 3 ot the white
Southern Branch
-OF TI1E-
3STEW YOBK.
F. M. RICI1AKDSOX.
L. V. SANFORD
RICHARDSON & SANFORD,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Stoves, Howlow-Ware, Block
Tin, Tin Plate, Sheet Iron,
and Tinners’ Findings,
Lamps, Cutlery, House F urnish-
ing Goods of every descrip
tion, Plated and Brit-
ania Ware, &c.,
KEYSTONE BLOCK, WHITEHALL STREET,
ATLANTA, GA.
They would call special attention to their
large and varied stock of
COOKING STOVES,
of the latest and most approved patents.
Call and examine their stock. [Oct.26-Gra.
BOOTS Ai\» SHOES.
I WOULD respectfully an
nounce to the citizens of
Neivnan and vicinity that I have
secured the services of
2VEr*. JNJ”. XI. XtJfcjTlSE,
a most accomplished workman. T invite all,
therefore, to call, assuring them they can now
have their Bo '!> and Shoes made in the most
fashionable st. !e. All I ask ,to convince, is a
fair trial.
F(a?“Repairing neatly and promptly done.
S<a>“0!tice on East side of Public Square.
Newnan, Ga. [July lo-tf.] W. FLOYD.
G. H. & A. W. FORCE
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
BOOTS & SHOES.
XV HIT BALL STREET,
ATLANTA - - - GEORGIA.
Keep on hand the largest and best selected
stock in Atlanta, and will sell to Country
merchants at New York prices with freight ad
ded. Nov. 30,1867-1 y.
DR. A. R. WELLBORN
TENDERS his Professional services
to the citizens of Newnan and sur
rounding country.
regard for truth : they have uo
love lor it—not a particle. You think
no less of a man who notoriously and
avowedly engages in deception, provided
he be a politiciari, than you do of a
Christian gentleman. I rather think you
think more of deception than you do of
truth ; and that is the reaso i why so
much deception is practiced. It has not
only become a harmless thing, but it has
absolutely become a passport to power—a
means of success —the policy by which
you manufacture greatness out of nothing.
The church and society are all at fault;
the people themselves are at fault upon
this question. Why, it has not only
grown to be a habit, but it has become al
most a maxim, that it is “no harm to tell
a lie in polities.” Oh what a perverted
judgement! What immorrality! No harm?
“ Practice has made it so.” My friend,
a political lie is the worst of ail lies, and
ought to be held more infamous than all
others. He who is guilty of it ought to
receive the frown and scorn and condem
nation of every man, and of every mem
ber of society. Why, the very reason
why the country has reached its present
condition, is the failure of your rulers to
be liouest and truthful, and the failure of
the people to call them to account for
their infidelity to truth.
What a spectacle the American nation
uow presents ! What a spectacle for the
world and posterity ! And not merely
politically, but morally. For four long
years the people, North aud South, were
anxiously watching the struggle—a strug
gle to determine whether certain States
should be considered in the Union or out
of it. Finally, the struggle ended. The
Southern people unanimously said—
“We’ll consent to remain in the Union —
we’ll admit that our attempt to leave the
Union is a failure.” Nearly three years
have elapsed since then, and you have
seen your rulers—the pretentious leaders
of political thought and the political sen
timent of the country—going to Wash
ington City, laying their hands upon the
Congress, and leave the President stand-
to do everything that is infamous, and
another—a small class—trying to deceive
them into doing some things otherwise. —
ing alone in the struggle, battling with 1 [Laughter.] But they have been so
two departments of the government, then, j “traid that their deception would be dis-
my couutrymen, the final appeal is to you, | covered, that, in my opinion, they lulled
Politicians are corrupt—there is no truth to accompish what they intended
in them. Your leaders tell a lie and
swear to it; but though perjury is a crime
it is a passport to power. If j’our govern
ment fails, it will for no other reason
than a want of honesty and of love of
truth. Then, I say, the appeal is to you,
Speaking of truth, 1 will ask you, can
didly and honestly, whether, under the
circumstances, the preamble to this new
Constitution is true? I will read you
two preambles, aud I submit them for
you to judge which is the true one. The
to the people of America, whether you preamble, as adoptod by the Convention,
... * r . y» i • f rPttnc ac taiIgws •
shall prove truthful and honest. But, if
you fail, then, the verdict is written that
you have neither virtue nor intelligence \ to
reads as follows
1 We the people of Georgia, in order
frame a permanent government, es-
sufficient lo preserve Republican Govern-; tablish justice, insure domestic tranqu.lr-
ment, and over the falls, we must go, at; »y. «>* d secure the blessings of ,berry fur
once, and forever. j ourselves and oar posterity : aoknowledg-
That is the question now before the mg and invoking the guidance of Al-
Amerioan people. I den, that it is a ; might, God, the Author o all good gov-
mere political question between two par- j eminent, do ordain and establish this Un
ties; I deny that it is a question between ; stitution for the State of Georgia.
Union and Disunion ; I deny that it is a j
question between depotism and liberty, ■
solely. It has become a question of de J
cency or indecency, of honesty or dis- j
honesty, of truth or falshood, of virtue or j
vice, of civilization or barbarism, and he j
who ranges himself on one side or the
other must be forever so adjudged. [Ap
plause.] I deny that it is necessarry at
this day for a man to stand up before any
intelligent audience and argue the con
stitutionality of the questions now being
thrust upon you. There is no man who
does not need a guardian but knows they
are unconstitutional; and you know it —
The question is not as to whether you
have virtue enough to do what you kuow
is right. And, people of Georgia, the
issue is made. Y'ou are to be called upon
to determine whether you will favor truth
or falsehood. I know that now, aud in
deed, for many years back, the air is full
of “Policy, policy, policy”—the making
of this bargain and of that bargain. I
will venture now to say—and I hope I
shall offend nobody; though, indeed, I
don’t care if I do, in telling the truth—
that there are over fifty men this day in
in Atlanta who have come here to see if
they cannot make some office by joining
one party or the other. I have been ob
serving some of them for two days, and I
begin lo think I shall almost cease to feel
respectable [laughter and cheers] if I do
not <*et out of such an atmosphere. I
represent no party; I belong to none,
and theretore speak only for myself. I
support that party which I think, in ai
ht; and that party j
race and in the destruction of the black race.
God has ordered you to keep them apart, and
you must keep them apart.
I pass from this view to that of the political
relations between the blacks arid whites. 1
know that the idea has gone abroad—I have
heard it myself in this city—that this Conven
tion has been “ wonderfully liberal ” to the
whites! “They have not made the races
equal!” Wonderful! They have done but.
^ one thing for the negro ; that is suffrage ; they
I have given that to them. “They have not
| given the right to hold office, nor any other”
i —so they say. And, kind, good creatures—
| those carpet-baggers from New England, and
convicts from the penitentiaries, and negroes
from the corn fields—they say they have mag
nanimously concluded not to disfranchise the
intelligent whites of the country ! [Laughter.]
I assert—and assert it without fear of con
tradiction—that this Constitution makes the
negroes politically equal in all respects. It
makes them equal as to the right of suffrage,
and equal as to the right to hold office. It
draws no distinction whatever, and provides
for none to be drawn, except against the whites.
Now, they say, there was a section in the Con
stitution as reported from 'he committee which
positively declared that negroes should have
the right to hold office, and they struck it out;
and now they say a notorious gentleman*
whose name I will not condescend to mention,
says: “ Look at the Constitution ; is there
anything in it which says the negro shall hold
office?” Wonderful 1 Daniel come to judg
ment! [Laughter.] Well, I ask you to look
at the Constitution and see if there is anything
which says a white man shall hold office.—
Nothing whatever. Yet, you are so far gone
in the region of dtipedom that men who are
called intelligent and learned, have the un
blushing effrontery to go before the country
and say, “Does it say the negro shall hold
office?” Now, what does it do? It qualifies
all male persons over 21 years of age, and
who have been in the State a given length of
time, to vote. They are qualified as electors.
It does not say that when yon come to elect
officers a white man shall be elected, or a
black man. It says that when you elect a
Governor he must be :i citizen of the State
and of the United States so many years, and
he must be thirty years old; and a membei of
the Senate, 25 years old. But does it say he
must have a white skin or a black skin? Ne
groes get to be 25 years old. [Laughter.]—
And so you go on to Representatives and
races, I wiil notTanalyze the Constitution, I Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts;
thoroughly, ou that subject; but I shall the , se require to have practiced
° t r 7 , J •,• , . * law so long. That excludes most of the ne-
assert a few leading propositions, which j g roes j resent. But when you come to the
no truthful man cau deny, and which no subordinate offices, no qualification is required
Now, that is what they say , but what
is the truth ? I read again :
“ We, the niggers of Georgia, in order
to destroy all permanent government, es
tablish robbery, insure domestic disgrace
and discord, and secure the curses of an
archy and despotism to all races and tbeir
posterity; acknowledging the guidance
of the Radical party, the author of all
bad governmeut, do ordain and establish
this Constitution fur the State of Geor-
• ^ J}
gia.
[Here the spaaker was unable to pro
ceed for some minutes owing to the irre
pressible shouts of laughter.]
Now, I shall call your attention to
some portions of this Constitution, as il
lustrating its character. First, I will no
tice its provisions touching the relations
of the races, and next, what might, by
way of nomenclature, be called its moral
features—something new in a Constitu
tion. With regard to the question of
lK fi^“Otfice. during the day. at the Drug Store j tion, and setting at nought the whole issue
of Dr. C. D! Smith, and at night may be found 1 1 *’ L '
at the residence of John Ray, Esq.
January 4-tf.
XV. B. W. DENT,
M.U.CFACTLTKR OF ALL KINDS OF
TIN WARE,
AND DEALER IN
_ _ given instance, is rig
His ohi friends and patrons will i Bible, swearing to support the Constitu- to-day is represented by these young gen-
find him in possession of modern a P -1 ti(jn of the United States, and daily vio- tleinen. [The members of the loung
Pliances for curing diseases and w-1 lati principle of that Constitu- Men’s Democratic Club of Fulton Coun-
° - - - - ty.] I speak myown conviction tearicss-
and the result of the war. Nay, the bri and F trust, plainly. I desire to do
Xnierican people have become so false to
themselves—so false to every principle
of truth and virtue—that an old man, the
leader of this great party, without damage
to his character openly and boldly avows
and declares, that all the legislation touch
ing these States has been entirely outside
the Constitution ichick he teas sicorn to
Andrew J. Smith. XV m. Allen Tcrner
SMITH & TURNER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
NEWNAN, GA.,
WILL pay the debts, in a Court of Bank
runtew of all who applv to them betore the 1st j _ . « •
June iS6S ami will practice in the Tallapoosa | support ! \ ou have seen the Legislative
and Coweta Circuits. [Nov. 9 tf. j Department, governed by passions, actu-
and I desire to be understood; per
sonally indifferent, whether or not I please
one man only, or all men. [Applause.]
I deem it my duty to come before you
honest man will
First, how does this Constitution leave
the social relation of the races ? Upon
that subject there is but one clause in
the Constitution, and to that clause I de
sire to call the attention of the audience.
It is section 11, of what is called the
“ Bill or llights,” or “ Declaration of
Fundamental Principles.” The 11th sec
tion reads thus : “ The social status of
the citizen shall never be the subject of
legislation.” Now, the casual observer,
on reading that, might not discover its
meaning, and so, indeed, a casual observer,
on reading the whole Constitution, would
discover very little that it does mean. It
requires that a man should have some
knowledge of law, of man, of society, and
of this country—for which it is intended
—before he can understand this Consti
tution. It says, “ The social status of
the citizen shall never be the subject of
85^-^ A/'a\VaYS,BI-GGIL& | . )0r £ (U e Union which they fought to pre-• thority which authorised this matter,
. ~ n r AND I L ANT A-ION . u n f tfio cnlp nnmnaA nf nrp?f»rxr. i n^inf«n.illxr was linOOnstitUtil
and put on record my views of the Con- j | e(T ;,{ at i on ”
stitution which is now proposed for adop- j ^ und<ir tIlat prov i i!o „, „hat is tire
tion, and to give the reasons why I deem ^ marri relation u a sooial
and declare it infamous, I am not going! relation _ caiinend ' 3a _, he | eadiog so .
over the o,d argument which I had ! cia | relation is the marriage relation.—
honor of presenting before an audience m j Cooslitatiou doas DOt ^ .hat “ in-
termarrving between the wuites anu
” or “ hereby
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E. W. COLE, Superintendent.
DAY rASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 5.15 A. M
Arrive at Augusta 6.00 P. M
Leave Augusta 6.30 A. M..
Arrive at Atlanta 6.00 P. M-
XIGUT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 6.20 P. M.
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IIS’ STORE
AND TO
ARRIVE
10,000 lbs. clear Bacon Sides;
5,000 lbs. Bulk Sides;
2,000 lbs. Lard;
300 sacks Virginia Salt;
100 “ Liverpool “
20,000 lbs. best Family Flour;
2,000 lbs. best Hemlock Sole Leather;
1,000 R>s. Smoking Tobacco, all Brands
1,000 lbs. Maccoboy Snuff;
15 boxe3 fine Chewing Tobacco;
50 boxes Cheese;
25 bbls. ABC Sugar ;
6 bags best Rio Coffee;
10 bbls. fine Syrup;
10 “ Molasses;
1,000 lbs. Rice;
5,000 lbs. Castings;
40 kegs Nails.
I also have a complete Stock of everything’
kept in a First Class FAMILY GROCERY,
which will be sold out at n very small profit at
my old stand on Ray Street.
Dec. 21-tf. P. A. POWERS.
NEW BOOT & SHOE SHOP,
Bay Street,
-:g:-
BOOTS and SHOES made and
repaired neatly and cheaply. Thera
_ shall be no complaint of high
charges. Try me and he convinced. Patron
age solicited. S. S. LOVELESS.
Newnan, January 4-3m.
T. M. & R. C. CLARKE,
(Sign of the Big Padlock,)
PEACHTREE STREET, ATLANTA, GA.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
HARDWARE.
CONSISTING IN PART OF :
Locke, fringes, Scrows,
Carpenters’ Tools,
I’ockeWt Table Cutlery,
I ated by vindictiveness, overturning the | this same hall,-at an earlier period of our term Q Dt;tween ine
CARRIAGES,ROCK 1 institutions of the country-not to sup- j history; by which l proved that the au-1 w k - hereb made valul
« TT • 1*1 il . f* 1 . j I . f • . L ! _ L ..il. -vJ tnio r» ♦ f J
amuuriaeu . aafchorized „ bul it savs « the social status
unconstitutional and void, j Ko
Saddlery and Harness
EMPORIUM.
G. C. ROGERS,
April 6-l2m.
(2d door below Moore & Marsh,
opposite C. States and American Hotels,) -
Decatur-St Atlanta, Ga.,
Has on hand the largest and finest stock of
SADDLES of anv honse in the State. Also
CARRIAGE and BUGGY HARNESS. HARD-,
WARE for eveything in his line, for the supply !
c ’f Saddlers and Harness-Makers, including a
finer stock and better variety of BUCKLES ev
er brought to Atlanta.
Prices more reasonable and Stock more com-
than any in the city of Atlanta.
I*UOarriages and Buggies of the most ap-
D’JVcd style and finish on hand, and made to
l,r *er at prices as favorable as can be obtained
in New York.
never be the “subject
of course, is
e shall nevea
frt ,. : serve, but for the sole purpose of preset,- originally, was | of the cit Uen shaH .
,W aizons.—The Manufactory ot A. U ! ino-power and continuing themselves in \ I say so still, and every man knows that i , » v w h : ch
I FINNEY, ou Forsyth street, Atlanta, Ga.. is 2? Thus we present to the nations of„ it is so. Everybody knows that the Con- " , iL;-1-itun
A..M,* of Country Produce lateu .»«-! > .he worU .h.rereUc!* of an absolutely veuliou assembled here *? hare^^p^wer prohfbit the intermarriage
01 I Wishing to purchase, is respcotlullv invited.— demoralized Legislative Department ot stitution for the people of Georgia had no. of th / raee3 r
P@»Will duplicate any Atlanta bill given to ' Several Pleasure Vehicles and a number of oovernmenfc. more authority to do so than have my ; , . .
aerchants. ' * [April 27-tf. Plantation Wagons are completed, and will be " has been con- young friends sitting here. But even it i ^ agrancy, also, is a social question.
disposed of at reasonable figures. Orders will In all time, toe ar y 2 nrioinal authority were absolutely i ^ hether the vagabond who lounges
bo promptly ,UUh1 undare resp^clfullysolicitud. sidored the very embodiment of ch.vulrv the.origin^ we re ; th h JO nr street shall be taken °up
Charges moderate and all work warranted. __ l Pa st honestv. Governing, as they valid, everyoouy xuuws «.ue vumeu . r, J , , . . , {
Manufactory and Warerooms on Forsyth-st. ’ , trained to love power, that tion was not called by an honest vote. I j and eituer made to work, or pu^is ie , =
| Atlanta, Ga.. nearly opposite the Opera Hall. i "A i L ^i.o^r-v- was to he expect-! say that vote was falsely oount«d, and yon | aud one cf lar
be magnanimous
COOK & JONES,
Grocers, Commission Merchants
AND AGENTS FOR THE
PIEDMONT REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE tORPAAI,
Authorized Capital of $1,000,000.
—ALSO FOR—
JAMES RIVER INSURANCE COMPANY
Chartered Capital $1,500,000;
jji^l“0ffice on La Grange street, near Doagh-
KTriease give me a call. [sept. 21]2m ; erty's Hotel, Newnan, Ga.
[July 6-tf.
was thought to be characteristic of arms.
But, what a spectacle does the American
people present at this hour! The head of
the army confessing before the world that
he was guilty of intentional duplicity and
treachery, and convicted of falsehood it
self by six of the highest men of the na
tion ! 1 repeat, he confesses himself guilty
of intentional duplicity and treachery,
perpetrated during a series of months.—
^ix of the first men of the nation proved
him guilty of downright intentional fals- m
hood. Either the commanding Generel j
of the Armies of the United States is
know it. [Applause.] I say it was fraud-! fluence on the welfare of society.
, ■ ** t i l •» r-T'fc • /vlrenon f lirmmnc t hot t rtP I
e m-
That
ulently managed, and you know it. [Re-1 clause, therefore, means that the Legisia-
newed applause ] I say it was corruptly •
forced, and you know it. But passing for vagrancy. Mho shall stop at jour
hotels? What shall be the manner of
ture shall never have the power to punish
Who shall stop at
all that by, a convention illegally au- hotels ? W hat
thorised is enough to justify an honest riding in your railroad cars ? W hat shall
man in condemning its action, whatever ! be the order of getting in your churches ,
that action be. Well, of what material! These are al! social questions. And this
was this Convention composed? [Laugh-j Constitution saysi that on all these sub-
ter.] 1. Very accomodating—very chari-' jecis there shall be no legislation .
table - ** very self sacrificing adventurers! Negroes can force themselves ii
very sell sacrincing aaveniurersi _\egiut» uiu iuiug ihcubcdbs into our
from New England corue down here to ; church pews and railroad oars. They
innoculate the manners and morals of ! can go young ladies, and sit by your sides
| in church and all public plaoes, and you
cannot help it. The Legislature shall
ew England into the benighted Geor
gians ! [Laughter ] *J. Another part is
either for Justice of tbe Peace, county offi
cers, Coroners, or Notaries Public. There are
some, 1 believe, for Superior Court Judges, but
none for District Judges; tliat is my under
standing of it. Then you declare, in your
Constitution, the absolute equality of all peo
ple. Equality in what? Why, equality in all
the relations of life. And the only cause for
inserting the provision regarding the “social
status ” was, not to confer or retain tbe right
of intermarriage, or ihe interference of the
negro in our social life, but tbe idea was to
prevent the Legislature from protecting the
white people against encroachments. That
was undoubtedly the sole object. And that
object is certain of aceomplishment if this
Constitution become? law.
Now, my friends, I say, and God only knows
my feelings when I say it, that tbe adoption of
this Constitution, and its final establishment,
will brin° r ruin to your country, and blast the
hopes of your people. It will condtapn the
poor negro to extermination. No pea can
describe, no language can express the horrors
that shall ensue, socially, morally, and politi
cally, when there shall be a forced collision
of the races.
This Cons itntion provides that there shall
be one Justice of the Peace to every military
district. That Justice of the Peace shall have
jurisdiction in all civil cases where the amount
does not exceed one hundred dollars; and, ob
serve, in all cases where the amount doe3 not
exceed fifty dollars, there is no appeal. Now,
then, take the county of Dongherty, for illns-
| tration. In this county there is about seven
| negroes to one white man. Do yon not see
I that every Justice of the Peace will be a ne-
jgro? X'ike the district with which I happen
| to be most familiar—the most productive, per-
i haps, in the State of Georgia, west of the
river, out in what is called the “ oak and
hickory country.” My overseer told me the
other day, that in the space embraced in some
three miles, there were one hundred and twen
ty negroes and seven white men. Now, then,
if a man have a claim there for anything less
s than a hundred dollars, it is to be adjudicated
upon a negro Just ce of the Peace; and if
that claim should not exceed fifty dollars, he
is 3ubiect to that negro’s decision without
even the right of appeal. It does not apply
simply lo contracts, or to wages, bat it will
apply, also, to what lawyers call actions ex de
licto" as well as to actions ex contractu, for they
are alike civil cases. Hence, if tbe complain
ant does not allege bis damages at more than
a hundred dollars it comes under the jurisdic
tion of the Jnstice of the Peace, and when
less than fifty dollars, it shall be without ap
peal.
Why, my friends, you give up nearly, if not
quite, halt the State of Georgia to tbe abso
lute control and dominion of the negro. You
give the interest of the poor white people, by
the adoption of this Constitution, absolutely
into the band3 of tbe negroes, and this, too,
iContinued on fourth page. t
Iron, Steel and Nails,
Sheet and Hoop Iron,
Axes, Hoes, Chains,
Mill aud X Cut Saws, Guns, Rifles, Pistols,
Bellows, Anvils, Vices, Carriage Hardware,
Rubber Leather Belting, Axles, .Springs,
Rubber Hemp Packing, Hubs, Rims, .Spokes,
Grass,Cotton, Jute Rope,Heavy A Light Castings,
Steel Peacock Plows, Pig Tin, Pig Copper,
Coru Shelters, Straw Slab and Sheet Zinc.
Cutters,
All of which we will sell low* for cash.
Agents for Fairlxink’s Standard Scales, and
for Knoxville Iron Works.
Nov. 30, 1867-6m.
FLETCHER LEAK.
WELLBORN SIMMONS.
Jta
GROCERS & PRODUCE DEALERS
Roark’s Corner,
(Near Whitehall.)
ATLANTA,
-:o:-
BULK MEATS,
MAGNOLIA HAMS,
PLAIN HAMS,
Rio Coffee, Java Coffee,
Syrups—Sugar House and White Drips,
Crushed Sugar, Extra “ C ’* Sugar,
Yellow Coffee Sugar,
Lard in Tierces and Kegs,
Rome Mills F. F. Hour,
Potatoes—Pink Eye, Prince Albert,
Early Goodrich Potatoes,
Mackerel, Candies,
And anything in the Grocery Line at very
Low Prices, at
LEAK & SIMMONS'.
Feb. 15, 1863-fim.