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NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
Friday Morning, September 11,1868.
FOR PRESIDENT.
HORATIO SEYMOUR;
Of New York,
traduced. The speaker was prepared and in
tended to discuss fully and minutely the issues
involved in this campaign. The rain soon in
terrupted him and forced him to conclude.
What he did say. however, was well said and
well received. The large audience then dis-
i perscd, and each one returned to bis or her
homes carrying agreeable and cheering senti-
i ments and feelings engendered by the scenes
1
and exercises of the day.
The Meeting at Starr’s Mill in Fayette
County,
for vice President.'] -
FRANCIS P. [BLAIR,
lOf Missouri.
We bad the pleasure of attending this
GREAT SPEECH
OF
GEN TOOMBS
—AT THE
Grand Democratic Mass Meeting in
Polk Co. Ga. Aug- 25,1868-
to which they are not lawfully and turers in insulting and robbing the hon
'rightfully entitled. It announces equal est people of the commonwealth, in order
.taxation as a sound and pure principle, to make the existing state of things un-
and relieves fiiteen hundred millions of endurable ; and when all this tailed to
i these same “money changers’’ of all taxes accomplish their neiarious purposes, Pope,
! whatever. At demands the “strictest econ- in organizing the C onvention, and Meade,
omy in the administration of the govern-j in organizing the Legislative and Lxecu-
Mr. TOOMBS said :
Ladies and Gentlemen :
STATE ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
Gkn. JOHN B. GORDON, of Fulton.
Hon. JOHN T. CLARKE, of ftaudolph,
ALTKRNATES.
»G*N. w. T. WOFFORD, of Bartow.
*T. M. NORWOOD, of Chatham/
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
]. JOHN C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
2. Cul. CHARLES T. GOODE, of Sumter.
8. RAPHAEL J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
4. AUGUSTUS 0. BACON, of Bibb.
F>. Maj, J. B. GUMMING, of Richmond. *
6. H. P. BELL, of Forsyth.-
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
ALTERNATES.
1. J. H. HUNTER, of Brooks.
2. WILLIAM G. FLEMING, of Decatur.
3. WILLIAM 0. TUGGLE, of Troup.
4. Dr. HENRY WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
5. Gen. I). M. DuBOSE, of Wilkes.
<1. GARRETT McMILLAN, of Habersham.
7. Col. V. A. GASK1LL, of Fulton.
single postage stamp, and with the af-
have come frontery which would do honor to the he-
wiih pleasure at your bidding to take couu-1 roes of Newgate denounce “the corrap-
, meeting of the Democracy or which is the j sel With you on this occassion, concerning jtions '
i some the people of Favette countv on Satur- i public safety an* the preservation ot j nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson,
! day Lt. Two thousand or twenty-five hun- : P ublic liDert J- . discharging my hum j whom they have stirpped of ad power,
idred men, women and boys congregated and j *> le part on this interesting occasion, 1 and therefore of all responsibility for the
, ,, , ' . , . , ,, ; woud imitate the great Athenian orator. administration of public affairs. It tle-
^ who never addressed an assembly of his dares sympathy “with all oppressed peo-
countrymen without first calling up n n the j pie struggling for liberty,” except the vic-
Gods of his country
them that he might utter no word which architects. It invites immigration
might bring reproach upon the cause of ( pledges protection to emigrants against
truth or detriment to that of his country, (all kings, potentates or powers, except
1 1 feel, to-day, prouder of the people of I their worst enemies, the Radical party,
first had ample time and discussed the issues j na .j ve State than I have done at any j which demands of all emigrants, the uu
of the day, clearly and logically. The va5t j other period of my life. I have seen j conditional support of depotism on this
concourse seemed deeply interested an d j them under all the vicissitudes ordinarily j side of the Atlantic, as the price of pro-
wnrmly endorsed the principles and senti- | xn C irI en t to men and nations, from the ! tectiug them from it on the other. It of-
ments
con cl
Buch
freeman’s bosom, from the lakes to the
gulf- from ocean to ocean. It re-affirms
all those great principles and safeguards
of personal liberty, for which our British
ancestors struggled, fought and bled, from
Runnymede to the revolution of 1S68,
and which were brought over to the new
meet,- whilst its framers have expended ! tive departments of the so called Govern- world by "ur fathers and planted in the
nearly five hundred millions per annum, : ment of Georgia, shamefully aided and j Constitution of the. «d Stoter, Ma«-
since the close of the war, without lessen-' abetted the fraudulent registrars through-« na Charts, trial by jury, ‘^pendent judi-
ing the public debt to the amount of a out the State, and thereby put upon you ciary.-the subordination of the °
8 H - -- ‘ “ a defeated Convention, a defeated Gov-; the civil authority, the freedom of speech
ernor, and a fraudulent majority in the and of the press, freedom from arbitraiy
Legislature. All these facts are well searches, seizures and arrests. It puts
which have been so shamefully known to the thousand.- of men and wo- the seal of condemnation upon the pnnci-
men who are before me this day. Yet pies and policy of the Radicals, and de-
1,t-\ nniiiw'.t nl:iT*P5 “flip reconstruction acts of Congress
jgsay* Ex-Goveruor Seymour of Connecticut-
died in Hartford, a few days since, of typoid
fever. He was in his sixty-first year.
Joseph Gartrell, father of Hon. L. J.
Gartrell, died at bis residence in Wilkes coun
ty on the 20tli of August.
A Rencontre.—A special telegram from
Atlanta, September 7tli, says:
There was a rencontre between Carey W r .
Styles and Mr. Hall, of Merriwether, this even
ing. Rumor says-the difficulty was caused by
remarks of the former in reference to Mr.
Hall’s vote relating to the Western and Atlan
tic Railroad hands. Neither party was hurt
seriously.
success of the candidates, the advocates
constitutional liberty.
The Griffin Brass Band was present and dis
coursed sweet music. Messrs. Tuggle, Moses.
Peeples and Buchanan spoke in the order in
which their names are mentioned. The three
this Chicago Convention 1ms the audaci-1 dares “the reconstruction acts of Congress,
ty to sav that the State of Georgia ha? so called, as usurpations, unconstitutional,
done this wicked thing. We already had ievolutionary and void.” These great
a government when these intruders were principles- having been unanimously adopt
pul upon us. The people had assembled j ed the Convention with the same unatmn
and imploring of; tims of the perfidious tyranny ot i*s own j in convention at the cali of the President, . ity nominated ^eymour and Blair as
• ■ • ■> ■ ------ : — — and 1 and with the free and- open acquiesence candidates fbr the 1 residency and Vice
of Congress, they bad made a Coustitu- Presidency , whose eminent ability, integra
tion in conformity with the requirements ty and fidelity to those principles furnish
of the Federal Government, it had been ample security that they will be honestly Dist. of HarraFson county, to satisfy
acquiesced in by the people, they asked carried cut when the people of the United | F^8 L on^^^N.^M : ^bertaon,^
for no change, they wanted none—no hu
man being seemed to desire any change
except the Radical party. But they
in the reign of terror, so racily described
by a French poet. I will give you a free
translation of one couplet:
[concluded on third page.]
PIERCE, REESE & OX
COTdTON FACTORS
-AND—
GENERAL G OMMISSION
MsiRaiEa^isrTs,
121 Pearl Street, New York,
Sept. ll-3m.
Haralson Sheriff's Sale.
On the First Tuesday in October next
W ILL be sold before the Court House door
in Buchanan, Haralson county, within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
The premises of N. Mi Robertson, in the 8th
two Fi
the other
„ , j - .- w , ; against Sarah George and N. M. Robertson.
States have ratified these nominations by b Property poillted D out by Sarah George.
WM. THOMPSON, Sh’ff.
September 11, 18G8.
people
was prevailed upon to speak for five or ten j the Great Dispenser of humau affairs, who
minutes. He spoke briefly but pointedly and j inspired them with a fortitude and hero
the regret was universal that he did not say
more. The meeting was then adjourned.
We cannot fail to mention in this connec
tioD that
barbecue was furnished all. The
ism equal to the perils which surround
them. You have felt all the woes, all
. the bitterness which triumphant wrong
splendid dinner in the way of a j could inflict,upon you. The government
best of 1 of your choice has been over thrown,
meats and breads were in abundance. Good
order was observed and all seemed pleased
with the exercises of the day.
Fayette is all right and she will give Sey
mour and Blair a handsome majority in No
vember next.
thousands of your fathers, husbands, broth
ers and sons have perished in its defense,
seven years, both in peace and war, have
been struggling to overthrow. It votes
“special lienor (not gold) to brave soldiers
and seaman,” pays for their blood in de
preciated government paper, with which
the lame and the halt, the widow and the
orphan may buy gold, to be paid in taxes
“ Peterson’s Magazine.’’—The Oclobcnum
ber of this unrivalled Lady’s Book is before us.
as usual in advance of its cotemporaries. The
steel plate of “The Young Architect, is full .
1 , . ! vour slaves your masters
of life and character, The mammoth Fashion | J , _• i
Plate is superb, and this with the dozens of
Mr. Toombs’ Speech.—We surrender much
of our space to the publication of Mr. Toombs'
great speech dilivered at Cedar Town. Read
it, for no American orator has ever surpassed
it.
Col. Moses in Newnan.—Col. It. J. Moses,
Democratic Elector for this District addresed
n large audience in the Court House on Tues
day. The Col. was frequently applauded and
successfully upheld the glorious principles of
Democracy. Want of space prevents a more
extended notice.
The Vermont election can give the
Radicals no comfort. Although the Radical
majority is 5,000 more than it was last elec
tion—yet, the Democratic vote has increased at
a greater rate per cent, than the Radical vote.
The Democrats have elected 37 members of
the Legislature. In days past the Democracy
elected only two.
jfrgjf It is charged in the public prints that
there were only four white men in the Con
vention that nominated Caldwell for Congress.
One of the chief speakers was the Rev. Sam
uel Smith, (black negro of Coweta.) Sam is
just crazy enough to mix politics and religion
in all that he does and says, but we appre
hend he was about the sanest man in the
concern.
the second District the negroes
have nominated for Congress one Pierce, a
“Buro” agent, abiding in Lee county.
infamy and filled the measure Or your
wrongs by an attempt, hitherto unknown
in the annals of national crime, to make
Yet I find,
auiid all these crushing calamities, through
, , , , , out all of our borders, the fixed purpose,
patternsrior dresses, bonnets, cloaks, under gar- j ^ unC((nq „ erablo wili< never t0 surren
der the inalienable rights of men, and old
ments, &c. highly commend it to the patron
age of the Ladies, far whose benefit and enter
tainment it is especially designed. Novelets,
Stories, Poetry, &c. compose the intellectual
attractions of this number. In a word, the
October number well maintains the claims <>f
Peterson’s to he the best as well as the cheap
est of all the lady’s magazines. The terms are
but S2.00 a year—Clubs, five copies for 88,00
with an extra copy or a Premium Engraving to
the one getting up the Club. A new Primium
Engraving has already been gotten up for I860.
It is declared to be a very superb one. after a
picture by the famousGerome, and is called the
“ Star of Bethlehem.” Specimen copies of the
Magazine will be sent gratis, to persons desi
rous of getting up Clubs. Address CHAS. J.
PETERSON, 300 Chestnut Street Philadelphia.
gfp'See the Card of Pierce, Reese & Co., Cot
ton Factors and Commission Merchants, New
York, in another column. The gentlemen of
this firm are well known in Montgomery and a
large portion of Alabama, :is eminently relia
ble, business men.
men. middle aged men, young men, love
ly matrons and blooming maids every
where gathering together to cheer, to an
imate, to bless those who still plead for
right and justice and still worship at the
altar of ti uth. [Great cheering ] Who
can witness these scenes and doubt the
power the immortality, and divinity ot
truth ? Who can doubt but
•
That freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Thu' baffled oft is ever won.
Bullock Sticks to Sambo.
The Senate has the negro eligibility
question before it, and is the special order of
Friday.
Caldwell after his nomination for Con
gress, went to Atlanta and asked permission
to record his vote on the eligibility question
and voted “No.” Strickland, with whom he
paired off, voted “Yes.”
Wo will publish next week the Rose-
cranz-Lee correspondence. The reply to
Gen. Rosencranz is signed by Gen. Lee, Gen.
BerHregard, Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia,
and many other prominent Southern men.
Free Barbecue—Cedar Greek District
of Coweta County-
On Thursday of last week, the citizens of
Cedar Creek District gave a free barbecue, and
a general invitation to attend. It was our for
tune and pleasure to accept. F'ive or six hun
dred whites and one hundred negroes congre
gated on the ground, near the residence of
Judge J. F. Cook,
At 11 o’clock, Judge Cook took his seat as
President of the Democratic Club of the Dis
trict. An opportunity was extended to all res-
dents of the District, who had not joined the
Club heretofore, to then have their names en
rolled. Thirty-six came forward and united
with the Club. Over fifty had previously join
ed. We were informed that there were only
two or three white voters, citizens of the Dis
trict, who were now out in the cold. Cedar
Creek District is almost a unit for Seymour and
Blair.
In amessage to the House communicat
ing the names of those who received the
next highest vote to those negro mem
bers expelled, Bullock, takes occasion
to toss his horus and switch his tail. He
in effect acccuses the members, who
voted to exclude the negroes, with com
mitting perjury.
His Excellency paws up the dust and
threatens them with his master in this
wise :
Is that a republican form of govern
ment, where a majority of the electors
rule ? Are not the privileges of a citizen
“abridged” by your action ? Does not the
Constitution of the United States guaran
tee to each State a republican form of
government, and to the citizens all their
privileges or immunities?
Is it not the duty of Congress, by ap
propriate legislation, to enforce that Con
stitution ?
Have we, from our past experience, any
reason to believe, that Congress will fail
in its duty.
lie concludes with gloryfying the ne
gro, and makes him a much better patriot
than the white man.
The House became aroused and acted
thus;
During its reading Mr. Burtz said it
was disrespectful to the House. We had
declared negroes ineligible, and let us
stick to it Let us vindicate our dignity
aud return tlie same to bis Excellency.
Mr. Duncan offered the following:
Resolved, That that portion of the
communication of his Excellency reflect
iug upon the action of this House in de
ciding upon the eligibility of free per
sons of color, under the Constitution, be
returned to his Excellency, with the fol
lowing resolution :
I come to day to urge you to gird on
your armour, to do your duty in this great
coufl ct. not with the sword ; I would that
the sword might be sheathed forever, and
that liberty might never need so danger
ous an ally and defender. I prefer peace.
I want peace. 1 want rest. Nearly six
ty winters have shed their snows upon my
head; nearly thirty of these years have
been spent in the public service, battling
against these same enemies of the rights
of the people, ot the States and of the
principles of the Constitution of 178/.—
I can, thertfore, honestly say with Gen.
Grant, “Let us have peace.” Alas ! he
but “holds the word of promise to the ear
and breaks it to the hope.” Peace is not
the child either of wrong, or of oj.pres
sion, or of despotism. These are the
works of the wicked, and holy writ teaches
us that they shall have no peace. This
pearl of great price to nations and to men
can only be found in the principles of jus
tice. All the good men of this country
seek it, ardently desire it. The two great
political parties offer it to them. Let us
go and search for it—search lor it in the
conduct the acts, the declared principles,
and in the characters of the candidates of
these organizations which divide the peo
pie of the United States. Those who call
themselves the Union Republican party
met at Chicago during last May and placed
Gen. Grant and Mr. Colfax before the
country as their candidates and the ex
ponents of their principles. Gen Grant
lias obtained a wide spread reputation as
a soldier, none whatever as a statesman.
11 is administration of the Congressional
desputis u established from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande, was weak and wicked
to the last decree. He openly avowed and
acted upon the principle of carrying out.
your land has been ravaged, your proper-1 to be voted specially to bond-holders.—
ty destroyed, your wives a nd daughters j The true soldiers always honors “a foe-
insuhed, you have been stripped of the! man worthy of his steel;” those Confed-
comuionest rights of freemen, subjected ! erate soldiers who did their own duty in
lor years to an insolent and brutal milita-j the late war, would not willingly See one
ry despotism, which has crowned its own j pledge of the United Stares to her own
soldiers violated, one right withheld, nor
would they pluck one laurel from the brow
of a single soldier, whether native or
foreign, who fought them iu tne late war;
besides other and nobler reasons, what
ever glory they may have deserved will
not be lessened by encomiums upon their
adversaries. Finally, this platform con
gratulates “the country upon the assured
success of the reconstruction policy of
Congress as evinced by the adoption of a
majority ot the States lately in rebellion,
of Constitutions securing equal civil and
political rights to all;” pledges the Radi
cal party to maintain equal suffrage in ail
these “late rebel States,” but expressly
declaring that “the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs to
these States.” “This policy of reconstruc
tion,” thus endorsed by the Chicago Con
vention, makes up a clear and final issue
between military despotism and Constitu
tional Government. It leaves no place
for compromises, neither party can give
quarter, “Yse victis”;must be inscribed
upon the banners of the contesting hosts.
Lt was meet and proper that the enuncia
tion of the success of this policy should
be clothed in language of open, shame
less falsehood. It is not true that a ma
jority of the States lately iu rebellion, or
any one of them, have adopted Constitu
tions securing equal civil or political rights
to all, or any other Constitutions what
ever There was not a single act from
the beginning to the cousumation of these
atrocities which had the voluntary assent
of the people of either of these States.—
The whole scheme, in all ol its parts, and
by all of its machinery, was concocted
aud adopted with the sole view of defeat
ing the popular will.
You know, fellow citizens, that there
was not a native white man in the State
who gave public utterance to a single
woid of approval of any of its provisions.
One of its prominent features, the 14th
Constitutional Amendment, had been near
ly unanimously rejected by the Legisla
ture of Gaorgia. Even those who advo
cated its adoption relied upon the infamy
of the Radical party rather thau upon the
merits of the scheme to accomplish that
eud. Ex-Gov. Brown, its leading sup
porter, commended it to your acceptance
solely upon this ground. It was the cus
tom of ancient heathens to worship rep
tiles, crocodiles and demons, to whom they
would sacrifice even wives and children
to propitiate their wrath, and to arrest
their ferocity. It was upon this princi
ple that you were urged to lay your honor,
and your manhood at the feet of your ene
their election. Georgians l commend
these men and their principles to the ac
ceptance of each and all of you. It may
, r ou
in
against the Uonsmution, ana none otners. j cai> is oufs. wuw, « c snuipijr “ r — •>' ~V
It lauds the principles of the Declaration i to acknowledge their own bantling and ; party falseiy charges you and me with
of Independence, which its advocates for uot put its paternity upon us. But this , hostile designs against the peace ot the
' Convention with intrepid audacity, utter- j country ; the charge is made against us
ed anothei stuneudous falsehood, of which i but to conceal their own revolutionuiy^ie
the very Constitutions of five of the States, 'signs. Who is eager for the conflict?
which they dragged into tlie Union, and i Not you whose fortunes are desperate ?
their own constitutional amendment, con ; Not yours, but theirs. Connecticut, New
vict them It affirms that these Consti-1 York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
tutions “secured equal civil and political j Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, CaliOr
rights to all.” Shame, where is thy blush ?; nia and Oregon, have already declared
Iu many of these States thousands of | agaiust them, everywhere the 1 banes
white men are disfranchised; in all of j are flying” from their standard. J lie de
them thousands are prohibited from hold- j termined attitude ot the people ot the
B Y Yin
Holst
Eiecutors’ Kale.
irue of the last will and testament of
ston Almon; late of Heard county, de
ceased, will be sold before the Courthouse door
in the town of Franklin, said county, within
the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in
November next, the following Lands belong
ing to the estate of said deceased, to wit :
Lots Nos 157. 158. 159, 186 and 100 acres of
Lot No. 186, all in the 12th Dist. of originally
Carroll, now said county of Heard.
Sold for the benefit of the creditors and for
the purpose of distribution. Terms cash.
Z. F. ALMON,
Sept, 11-td—S8. H. T. ALMON, f Exec ’ r8 -
Administratrix’ Kale.
VIRTUE of an order of the Court of
T>Y
__ ( _ JL> Ordinary of Coweta county, will be sold
in> r nffice. either by the State Constitu- ! North in these elections and many Others i before the Court house door in the city of
turns, 01 bv the 14th amendment, or by drove them from their favorite policy of | Newnan on the 1st Tuesday in November next,
J ... O.o n.td o.wnnffll- ' Vlt; hm the legal hours of sale, Lot of I^nd, No.
uegro suffrage in the North, and cotupell-
The adoption of this amendment is of cd them to full back, for the present at
itself a damning proof of the revolutions : hast, from their raid on the tax payers
ry purposes of the Radicals. The recou- | whom they sought to plunder ior tlie
struction acts require that none of the I bondholders ; and their sole remaining
States to which they are made applicable ; political capital is sectional hate and ne-
should be admitted into the Union until i gro supremacy.
At the north their only
they had severally adopted this amend j remaining war cry is “wake up . the
ment. The Constitution says that no ! rebels be upon ye.^
ameuduient shall be made
Resolved, That said communication is
not warranted by the resolution upon
After the enrollment of names had ceased, j which his Excellency was requested to
the Editor of this paper was introduced to the j act, and that the Constittution declares
audience, and spoke for three-quarters of an j that the members of each House are the
hour. He was followed by Col. \Y. F. Wright
iu a clear, forcible and eloquent speech, consu
ming one and a half hours in its delivery. His
remarks were principally directed to the under
standing of his colored hearers. He was very
fortunate in what he said and in the manner in
which he said it. All in all, we think he did
great good for the Democracy.
When Col. Wright had concluded, it was an
nounced that dinner was ready. The ladies
filled the first table. The lords of creation, uot
judges of the qualifications of its own
members, and not the Governor; they
are the keepers of their own consciences,
and not his Excellency.
On the adoption of the resolution, the
ayes were 71, nays 32.
even against their plainly declared pur
poses in the acts of reconstruction, while
acknowledging that these acts left the
people of the States subject to be recon
structed, free to accept or reject the pro
posed measure. ‘ Under his instructions,
iiis satraps pro.-eribed newspapers, dis
missed civil officers, arrested citizens for
exercising this express privilege as “im
pediments” to reconstruction, thereby
making ihe exercise of a legal right, con
ceded by hims-df, a crime punishable at
ihe pleasure of his military commissions,
ile accepted the confidential position of
Secretary of War from the President, hnu
his veracity directly impeached by five of
his eolleagues and attempted to support
his veracity by pleading his own treuciie
ry. His letter accepting tne Chicago
nomination cU.-ts tor the present, at feast
his political history He declares hi- ad
herence to this extraordinary manifesto,
until he or the public change their opin
ions He does not even affect the slight
• eat aenae oi obligation to the Constitution ;
ffle will of the people is his professed
polar star, which by his owe. interpieta
non. mums the will of the revoluntary
faction, wbiefi seek to Use his military
the secret wishes of his party in Congress, ralcs - ^ ou wer ® emissary of
these usurpers that it you aid not accept
these terms your lands would be confiscat
ed, your wives and your children would
become houseless and homeless wanderers
and outcasts, and that these Radical mon
sters infuriated by your stubborn devo
tion to liberty, would invent new iristru
ments of torture, and new and still more
diabolical punishments to conquer your
firmness- These appeals tu yo ir fea*s
were scornfully rejected, the tempter and
the temptation were trampled under y our
feet. Other means were resorted to iu
order to manufacture an apparent assent
of the people. Twenty thousand ot you,
all of you who had even held the office ot
Justice of the Peace, were already dis
franchised by this “policy.” The igno
rant blacks were enfranchised, were fed,
to itself with
out the assent of three-fourths of the
States; none but States can vote upon
rhe subject ; yet the Radicals have de
clared that their military provisional Gov
ernments shall vote to alter the Constitu
tion before they shall be admitted into
the Union. This pretended amendment
is itself drawn with the inteDt to destroy
the equa’ity of the States, while seeming
to apply the same rule to all. The States
which did not hold slaves before the war
had but few negroes among them ; most
of them but enough to elect a single Repre
sentative to the Legislature, none of them
enough to gain an additioral member in
Congress : while in some of the'Southern
States the negroes were the most nurner
ous, and in all of them formed a substan
tial part of the population. While under
this amendment the exclusion of the ne
gooes from the right of suffrage would
not cost New England a single vote iu
Congress, or a single electorial vote, it
wou’id deprive Georgia of one half of her
members and electors, and the late slave
holding States of more than thirty mem
bers of Congress. This vile and dastard
ly fraud is well worthy of the whole states
manship of their party. Y r et, even on
these terms, terms prescribed by the Con
stitution, these usurpers now declare that
they will maintain negro suffrage. These
covenant-breakers not only disregard their
compacts with others, but ref use to abide
by them when made wholly by themselves.
This amouuts to the declared purpose to
administer the Same Constitution, the
same fundamental law, differently in dif
ferent parts of the United States. And
this simply means that the Radicals do
not intend to regard the Constitution at
all whenever the late rebel States are con
cerned, though they may be in the Un
ion. I am not in the least surprised at
their purpose, but I am surprised at its j sas >
“Hear the slogan of
Hampton and Forest and Cobb and
Toombs,” at the South. In the South it
is, “help, help us, Cuffce, or we sink !
Under the fear of tlie unarmed, impover
ished, depopulated South, with tlie same
“brave colored troops who fought so no
bly ie the war,” armed and equipped and
keeping “watch and ward ’ over her loy
alty. the Radicals of the North are organ
izing “Grand Armies of the Republic,
arming hundreds of ihousands of loyal
militia “from snowy white to sooty.” —
All over the South their notes of prepara
tions, their calls to arms are heard, and
every nerve is strained to produce a col-
li-ion between the blacks aud the whites
in order to create a necessity or pretence
for Grant’s peacemaker—martial law.—
But a few day3 ago, a mass meeting, said
to number several hundred blacks arid a
score or two of their keepers, met at At
lanta. Ex Governor Brown, Bullock’s
Chief Justice, was their chief spokesman.
He still believes in the omnipotent power
ol fear and avarice over the hearts and
conduct of all white men. He openly
declares that blood and arson, at least,
shall inaugurate the triumph of the Demo
cratic party and its principles. He ad
vises his party to go to the polls armed.
I suppose to overawe and intimidate, and
possibly to supply with bullets any de
ficiency in ballots. He tells them that
four millions of people never gave up the
ballot (whenever exercised, whether right
fuliv or wrongfully acquired) without
blood. This false and revolutionary ut
terance was for no other purpose than to
produce a war of races. He knows it was
false; for he is not ignorant of history,
certainly not ignnraut of Radical rule
over his own country since the overthrow
of the Confederate government. He
knows the history of Radical government
in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Arkan-
Luuisiana aud the other (late) “rebel
162, in the original 5th Dist. of said comity,
now Fanther Creek, containing 202 1-2 acres,
more or less. Sold as the property of F. b.
Hodges, late of said county, dec’d, and sold
subject to widow’s dower. Termscash.
Sept. 11-tf. O. CARROLL, Adm’r.
A. .1. IIOBERT, J. A. BISAXER, WM. A. RICHARDSON,
Marietta. Ga. Marietta, Ga. LouisvilJo, Kj,
avowal. Insensibility to shame is the • IStates. He knows it was revolutionary,
last stage of public as well as private prof- j f° r the old Constitution left the^ whole
ligacy; this point the Radicals have reach- j question of suffrage to be regulate by
ed. 8ueh are the candidates, the nrinci the States, and the 14th airicu utent oes
expressly affirm the same right, lhere-
f'ore, it was a deliberate effort to excite
ed. Such are the candidates, the princi
pies aud the practices of the Radical par
ty; such their claims upon your confi
dence and support. They subvert all of
the ancient landmarks of liberty; they ig
uore the corner stone of all republican iu-
stsrutions—that all just powers of govern
ment must be “derived from the consent
of the governed ” The present pretend
ed government of this State was erected
purely by despotic power; it is the off
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this date at'greatly re-
Come and buy, a good
the negroes to resist by force the exercise
by society of a plain constitutional power
In the same address he declared to the
blacks that the houses, villages, towns ana
cities of this State were their securities
against the exercise of this rightful pow
er. Y"ou have chaffed the spirit ot this
valliant leader. Under threats of coufis-
spring of military despotism ; brute force ; cation ot your lauds and your few remain
was its architect and is its sole cement.— ' i D 2 moveables, aud “unnumbered woes to
This policy is as wicked as it is foolish ; ! b e inflicted by these tearful monsters,
if can never obtain the affections of a sin- I i )e demand d yuur consent to submit your
gle freeman. This is not the road to the fundamental laws to a mongrel convention
human heart Thp trrp:*r Hnirr nt top ; of ignurant aud vicious Africans aud
The great Kuier of the
uuiverse, : n whom we all live, and move,
and have our being, in dealiug with his
own creatures, the wayward and sinful
children of men, condescends to win them
back to the paths of virtue in the lan
guage of affectionate entreaty : “My son,
give me thy heart/’ is His invitation to
His peace. Force has robbed you of
hard by with eyes fixed upon the dinner and
dispatchers, craving the one and admiring the
others. Ere long, the ladies retired, and the men
and boys filled their places. It is right and
just to say, that we never tasted better prepar
ed meats or breads. There was an abundance
of it cooked in the most approved style. This
opinion was universally entertained and cx-
pre^pd by all present.
The following members appeared, were j reputation to perpetuate their own power
sworn aud took their seats: 8. McComb, j and subvert the Constitution. Let us try
Baldwiu county; O. G. Sparks, Bibb;] Lmu and his colleague by the standard
J. B Saussy, Chatham ; J. A. Sent;, | whieh they have chosen aod accepted.—
Columbia ; J. E. Pearsou aud G. S. Car ! This Chicago platform is a nmdA of au-
engaged in waiting upon the fair ones, stood j peuter, Hancock ; \V. L. Hitchcock, Mor- j dacity, ot falsehood aud of u shameles
After dinner Hon. Hugh Buchanan wa* ia r qualified.
gun ; T. W.
Kimbrough,
Warren.
The returns from Warren, Macon and
McIntosh were reported so incomplete
that the committee were unable to report
at once.
I The Clerk was ordered to give notice
to other new members to appear and be
Grimes, Muscogee; J. K j contempt for popular inttliigenee. Even
Talbot ; T. S Hundley,! the few-ound generalities aiflUList ric.a!
truths which it contains, wete-.^inserted
with a fraudulent intc-Dt, and appropriated
to the wicked purpose of covering up the
plunder of the people and concealing the
fatal wounds inflicted on the Constitution.
It denounces “all forms of repudiation as
a national crime,” simply to putcoundess
millions in the pockets of “moaey ohang-
drenched, debauched by Government gf j birth-right; it has filled your courts
fieials with public pap. and then educated or justice wdh i* 3 Tt ' na ‘> corrupt and ig-
into the belief that a Radical vote meant Iluraut instruments ; it has biied your ex
ecutive and legislative departments with
ignorant, brutal paupers and criminals,
-forty acres of land and a mule,” and lest
even some of these ignorant people might
detect these frauds, under the pretext of
protecting them against violence, they ,
marched them to the polls with fixed bay
onets, to give their free consent to the
policy of reconstruction ! Yet eveo this
was not enough. A p an of legislative
spoliation, called relief, was incorporated
iu the so-called Constitution which offer
ed to the uofortunate a free discharge
fiom all of their debts, a»d thus increased
;o some extent the number of votes for
reconstruction. 'I he military sarraps. Pope
and Meade, aided by their Chief, nave
faithfully labored to compass this iniqui
ty. Tliev compelled eveiy civil officer in
the State to remain silent, support “the
policy” or quit his office; they compelled
all newspapers to advocate it on pain of
of being deprived or all legal advertise
ments in toe State; they openly en
couraged Degrees, criminals aad advea-
white and black, who fee! no part of the
burdens tirey impose on you, reckless of
the public welfare, intent only on public
plunder. These are the legitimate fruits
of the success of the Congressional policy
of reconstruction in Georgia. Let us
turn from this luathswme catalogue oi
crime to a far more pleasaut prospect.
At New Y~ork, on the 4th of July last,
there assembled the representatives of the
Democracy of the United States, includ
ing in its organization the representatives
ot thousands of patriots who had not
hitherto co operated with them in politi
cal action At the same time and place
there assembled another convention, of
soldiers and sailors who served in the late
war, in the army and navy of the United
states. These pitriots also put forth a
declaration of principles—a declaration
which awakened a thrill of joy in every
wandering criminals. Y r uu refused, and
forced Geu Grant to hold one without
your consent. Next, under the same ter
rible penalties, he demanded your con
sent to the adoption of the thing called a
Constitution, which stripped the intelli
gence, the virtue, the patriotism., and the
property of me country ot all just partici
pation in the proposed Government, and
sought to bind them by oaths never to
change its most infamous provisions.—
This you refused, ami thereby forced the
registrars and military commanders to
commit great “irregularities” iu dealing
with the lists of voters and the ballot box
in securing a majority for the Constitu
tion, tor iduLock and a “working majori
ty” in both branches of the Legislature,
indignant at your refusal to be sufficient
ly alarui 'd to surrender your honor^iid
your country, with your enemy greatly
aggravated by your refusal toTeward his
treachery to you, and apostacy to his
principles, by giving him a 3eat in the
/Senate of the United /States, he comes
again, but uot iu peace,
“He comes with banner, bmnd; and bow,
As leader, meets his deadly foe.”
He comes with ninety thousand dusky in
cendiaries armed with- the torch, to pun
ish and pat down t’ui3 rebellion agaiust
the Radicals. He come3 to conquer a
peace. The propagandists adopt the poli
cy proclaimed by the French-revolutionist
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Parlor and Bed-Room Sets,
A-great variety of
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Window Shades, &e.
September 4-tf.
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SAVANNAH, GA.
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^.cLvancecL Boys.
T HE FALL SESSION begins on Tuesday,
28th July.
Tuition from $3 to $5 per month.
Board -$15 “ “
It is the design of the Principal to build up
a School of the first class. Having an ex P e *
rience of fourteen years he flatters himself
with the- belief that his success is surpassed
by very few.
Testimonials will be sent ca- application to
those unacquainted with his system of teach
ing. DANIEL WALKER, Principal.
Newnan, Ga. July 24-tf.
COPARTNERSHIP,
AVIXG this day sold half interest of n>T
H stock to Tollisou Kirby,
_ Tollisou Kirby, I return my
ih.tuks to- all my customers for their libera,
patronage and solicit the same for the firm,
which will be carried on under the name ana
style of J. T. k T. Kirby. J. T. Kjsax-
August 21.