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T Oc fMman |)erafo. rfBUSHKD WEEKLY KYKBY SATCRDAT BY ; C. WOOTTKK, J. A. WELCH. avootten & welch, Proprietors. THE NEW NAN HERALD. J. 0. WOOTTEN,.. .Editor. VOL. III.] NEWM-AYN", GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21,1S68. [NO 28. terms of subscription . nivalde in advance, $3.00 One copy one year, pajaun- u 1 50 0 ie copy six months,- ;«*""!".Y.OO One copv three mon ns, lew, »"r td “, n e:copy ; ,|.Vftv nomhers complete tlie Volume.) 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- C|c Jlelmtan Jjtntlfr. Rates of Advertising. Advertisements inserted at §1.50 per square (often lines or spaee equivalent,) for first inser • tion, and 75 cents for each subsequent in sertion. Monthly or semi-monthly advertisement* inserted at the same rates as for new advertise- ments r each insertion. Liberal arrangements will he made with those advertising by the quaiter or year. All transient advertisments must be paid for when handed in. The money for. advertising dne after till first insertion. 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 Leave Atlanta - - .»<■ Arrive at Newnan - Arrive at West Point Leave West Point - - - - - 7 00 A. M. - - - 9 20 “ • • • 12 A. ». - - - 12 40 r m Arrive at Newnan- - - - - 3 20 “ Arrive at Atlanta -----5 30 “ GEORGIA RAIL ROAD. ~ 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. Arrive at Augusta..... 3.15 A. M* Leave Augusta .... 8.00 P. M„ Arrive at Atlanta 5.00 A. M 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.