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H. C. RONEY, 1
W. D. SULLIVAN,/ and Proprietors.
Wednesday, February 21,1872.
Hope Hi'i|rhtenN.
The disagree media of the Radical leaden con
tinually grow moro and more intense, and the
branch between the two wings of the party widens
day by day. The utter disregard of the Constitu
tion, and the baro-faoed frauds permitted by an
imbecile Administration, have to all seeming at
last disgusted those of the Radical leaders who
make any pretensions to honesty. But if we give
the subject a close scrutiny, wo shall find a deeper
cause for the disaffections now beginning to show
themselves upon tho surface. The dissolution of
the Radical party is a mere question of time, and
if propitious circumstances do not occur to aid it,
that lime is short—its (lays are numbered.
Tho Radical, or Atiolition party, had its rise in
the principle of opposition to slavery, and for
years was not only kept in existence, Iml great nnm
liers were continually gathered to its standards by
playing upon and pandering to the morbid sentimen
tality on this subject of those who neither under
stood or had tho intelligence to understand that
peculiar Southern institution. Indeed, it was a
snbjcct upon which tlio New York Tribune and oth
er journals of like kind could grow hypocritically
sentimental over for thepurposeof furtheringtbeir
own projects, without caring upon whose rights they
trampled, whoso interest they injured, or oven
how muoh they jeopardized tho existence of tho
nation itself. They finally succeeded in tho ac
complishment of their purposo. Slavery was abol
ished; the end and aim of tho party was attained,
and tho result must be tho dissolution of the party.
This is at least a logical oourso of reasoning, and
there is not tho slightest canso why it should not
hold good in this instance. True, tho Radical
party has succeeded in maintaining itself and
keeping possession of tho government; hut it has
done so by exorting tho most superhuman efforts
to keep alive the antagonisms and animosities en
gendered by the late war, using the military power
of the country for illegitimate purposes, prostitu
ting tho public money to the basest uses, and by
other stratagems tho offspring of minds fertile “in
ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” But
the end of all this must come; and plninly do tho
Radical leaders soo tho death of their party in this
end. Tho passions called into existence by the wnr
and ita concomitants arc beginning to cool down,
and the pooplo of tho North arc beginning to see
with a dearer vision tho inevitable min of tho
country's liliertics if the high-handed measures in
augurated by the Radicals are not promptly chock
ed.
The Radical leaders’fiud it moro difficult every
day to control the dements of the party, and, there
fore, propose a modification of their principles—a
change from the rabid policy heretofore pursued to
moro liberal views. This modification is the first
atop to an entire change of principles and policy,
which change when porfooted is nothing more
than a disruption of tlio party. This view of tho
situation and prospocts of tho Radical party is not,
as may bo supposed by some, cither chimerical
or hypothetical. Tho objects for which tho party
came into exisenoo nro accomplished, its issues are
dead, and tho party will be totally annihilated by
the first general defeat it may sustain.
Now, let the Democratic party bo wise, bo oan
tions, l>e firm, and the victory is theirs. Hut if the
party stray away into tho forbidden paths of Now
departurcism, that so noarly proved its ruin, and
abandon the tiine-houorod principles inculcated by
the sages of tho party, tho fathers of Liberty, it
has nothing to oxpect hut overwhelming defeat—
for it will surely come. Lot the Democrats bo
wise, we ropeat, and tlio day is at hand when our
eountry shall be freed from the thralldom that has
so long bound hor; tho iron shackles torn from hor
limbs, the yoke taken from hor galled neck, tho
heel of tyranny lifted from hor prostrate form, the
usnrpor hurled hoadlong from his high place of pow
er, and our oonutry once moro nasumo hor ancient
place of liberty and prosperity.
Trloha uii<l Triclcwters vis.
Honest Lnlme.
Tho land is full of tricks and tricksters.
From tho peculations of those holding the high
est places of honor and profit down to tho ton
eent prise-candy speculator, tho wholo land swarms
with swindlers and tricksters ready with consum
mate skill iu deception, and perfect in, tho prac
tice of every device to deceive the ignorant or un
suspecting. No place is froo from this host of
vampires, who resort to any means to avoid honest
labor, and to sustain existence without work.—
Ojieu a newspaper, and tho eye moots frequent ac
counts of astounding frauds; go on the oars, and
you meet men engaged in the side of prize-candy
holes and sensational periodicals, apparently pos
sessing muscle sufficient to swing tho heaviest
sledgo with profit to themselves and benefit to the
country. No trick is left untried, no trap left un
set to catch the unwary or trusting; and few have
any idea of the largo amount of money thuß pil
fered from thoso who live by honest toil. There
is a limit to all things, and tho time comes when
“forliearanoe ceases to boa virtue,” and the time
seems to us to have fully arrived when a remedy
should be applied to this evil. While tho Legisla
ture is engaged in developing and punishing crimes
of tho greater and graver kind against tho State,
let them not forget the smaller swindlers, but take
counsel and devise some means to drive them from
their trick* to honest labor.
('ll WM iV Cos. Foiled.
In tho Atlanta Sun of the isth instant, we find
a proclamation from Governor Smith, repudiating
a proclamation issued by actiug-Governor Conley
on the 2Sth of December last, upon tho petition of
Henry Clews A Cos,, Rankers, New York, for the
seizure of the Cherokee Railroad, formerly tho
Van Wert Railroad Company, for and in behalf of
tlio State, as a security to Clews * Cos. for alleged
claims held by them against the State. Henry
Clews snd Co's, swindling bund ring have for some
time flooded the Northern press with denunciatory
articles upon Treasurer Angier and our State cred
it, simply because an honest administration re
fuses to pay the unlawful swindling debts con
tracted by the Bullock and Blodgett administra
tion. Georgia will pay her honest debts, but wilj
in every instance spurn the payment of dishonest
claims heaped upon the State by a corrupt and
thieving administration.
The cholera has broken out among the
bogs in and ucar Amcricus.
Wliut Would t ins South Do V
It is just possible that the disagree
ment of Great Britain and the United
States about the Alabama claims may
result in war. If England insists, as
we have no reason to doubt she will do,
on a reduction of the demands Presi
dent Grant’s Administration has chosen
to present to the Geneva Board of Ar
bitration as inconsistent with arid not
contemplated by the Washington Trea
ty, aud the Government o( the United
States proves obstinate, we suppose
there will be no avoiding the issue,
and that the Geneva Arbitration will
have to give way to the arbitration of
the sword.
Now we have an idea that the “con
structive damages,” the prefering of
which on the part of the-United States
is the truthful source of all this trouble,
originated in a desire to make capital
for Grant in the approaching Presiden
tial contest, and that,having be n merely
gotten up for buncombe, they will not
be insisted on. If it should turn out
that wo are mistaken—arid there is
really a disagreement betwi en the Cabi •
nets at London and Washington regard
ing tho construction to be put upon the
terms of the treaty—and, our Govern
ment isisting upon its construction,
England withdraws her aseent to the
Geneva arbitration, why, then, of course
an armed conflict would seem not only
possible but probable.
A warbetweeu Great Britian and the
United Sfates would be a very serious
thing. Both are powerful nations—
powerful in all the resources of men
captal required to make up a first class
conflict. Such a war would be fraught
with untold calamities to all concerned.
Whatever might be the final issue, it is
very certain that no real good could ac
crue from it to the American Republic,
Supposing that such a war should en
sue from the present complications, the
question very naturally suggests itsell,
how would the South, or rather the
people of the Southern States, stand
toward it? This question can not but
be one of grave concern to those who
have the conduct of our national affairs,
if indeed they seriously think of a resort
to the sword. Without at all intend
ing to depreciate the character of the
Northern people, vve hold that it is a
fact not to be disputed that the people
of the fifteen Southern States constitute
by all odds the most warlike race on
the continent. For four years they
held at bay by the mere force of deter
mined resolve and dtspeiate courage
armies which were to them a hundred
to one, an<i at last gave up only because
they were utterly worn out and exhaust
ed by the struggle. Undismayed by
trials and sufferings that would have
broken tho spirit of any other people,
tho South was found ready to storn) a
fort, mount a breach, or take part in
tho deadly charge up to the last mo
ment when surrender to tho inevitable
was prefered to annihilation. None
know better than Grant and his advisers
the importance of securing the sympa
thy and co operation of tho Southern
people in a foreign war.
War with Great Britain on the issue
presented might and perhaps would lie
popular with New England, for New
England has been anxious for such an
event in order to cut off competition in
her manufactures, pretty much ever
since the time when the blue lights were
displayed from her coasts as a signal to
the public enemy. The Middle and
Western States would have nothing to
gain, and much to lose, by such a con
tingency. And as for the people of the
Southern States, they have not been so
justly or genereously dealt with since,
in good faith, they laid down their arms,
at the term ination of the late civil strife,
to enter with any great enthusiasm up
on this quarrel of President Grant and
his friends. Had a different policy been
pursued it might be that the men of tin*
South would respond, with the alertness
they have never tailed to show when;
the national honor was at stake, to the
rallying cry, even though the point at
issue were what it is. But if, under
the circumstances, they could forget, in
patriotic enthusiasm, that the question |
of dispute between the United States
and Great Britain grows nut of tin*
countenance given by the latter to the
Confederate cause, they will scarcely
do so as the matter stands.
The sympathy and aid of tho oppress
ed and persecuted people of the South
we conclude, therefore, can hardly be
expected by Grant and his Cabinet lfas
we do not at all believe, they seriously
contemplate the inauguration of hostili
ties against Great Britain on account of
the Alabama claims.
Indkcu nt Skauchi no.— The Laurens
ville (S. C.) Herald gives an account i
of a search made in that town during!
the night, by a United States Marshal
and a squad of soldiers, ot the house of
B. S. Garlington, which for indecency
and brutality, is worse, if possible,
tlur, anything we have heard of since
the war of persecution first opened.—
They not only ransacked the house
from cellar to roof to find Air. G., but
they actually searched the bed in which
Mrs. G. was lying very sick with an
infant only a few days old. by her
side. Mrs. G. and the widowed moth
er of Mr. G. were the only persons in
the house at the time.
From the Norfolk Virginian.
Tlio Democratic Party.
• This organization is the life-boat of
the Republic, and as its hull rises upon
the billows and the strong erew bend to
their oars, our heait grows lighter with
the hope that the “Ship of State,” now*
on the reef of Radicalism, nay be reach
ed, and her topsuils backed to get her
i once more into smooth water and on a
constitutional tack. The men who are
to do this are at the North _aud North
west, and in both quarters we see them
preparing for the brave endeavor.
The moderate Republicans are to
hold a Convention in Cincinnati in May
and this movement is * understood to be
in 0| position to the frauds and corrup
tion of the present Administration.
This promises well for the future ; but
this is not all. The Democracy of
Connecticut and New Hampshire are
bending to their oars with a will, and
we are full of hope that their noble la
bors will be crowned with success. On
Tuesday the unterrjicd met in New Ha
ven, in State Covention, where, after
recognizing existing facts, they
lltsolccd, That local self goverinent,
with impartial suffrage, will guard the
rights of all citizens more securely than
any centralized authority. It is time
to stop the growing encr'dSctWients of
the Executive power, the use of coercion
or bribery to ratify a treaty, the pack
ing of a Supreme Court to relieve rich
corporations, the seating of members
of Congress not elected by the people,
the resort to unconstitutional laws to
cure the Ku-Klux disorder. We de
mand for the individual the largest
liberty consistent with the public order,
for the State self-government and for
tfie nation a return to the methods of
peace and the limitation of power.
In this we have the supreme issues
now before the American poop !e pre
sented fairly to the eomitry, and it :s
upon these, after all, that the country
must decide, Mr. Burr, the President
of the Convention, addressed himself
with conspicuous ability to the discus
sion, and in the course of his remarks
declared that lie thought the country
had already arrived at an era of central
ization. “ Senator Morton had been
sent out to the people to announce the
doctrine of centralization ; the doctrine
that the Government would protect the
Stati s, and that the servants of the
people would protect the people. Gen.
Grant had proclaimed this doctrine in
a proclamation of onlv five lines, issued
under a law passed last spring ; a law
under which he could suppress the leg
islature of Conue uicut aud the Execu
tive aud tho .Judiciary, lie had sup
pressed the local government in South
Carolina. Not only in tho South had
he set aside legislatures aud courts, but
on tlul soil of Illinois, the*; Itad
been organized as a police forXe, and
while the State protested tho army per-!
severed.”
Thus vve have Connecticut speaking
in the familiar tones ol that gallant
State; and from the Commonwealth of
the granite lulls we receive the nrest
cheering accounts. On this point, how
ever, we prefer to produce the testimo
ny ol tlio party in power, and to this
end quote from tho Washington Chron
icle of the; 7th the following significant
paragraph :
“Our private information from New
Hampshire, says that paper, is not all
encouraging as to the prospect for the
coming election. Our friends there
must be up an I doing. The self-confi
dence which pretends to supineness will
not carry that closely contested State.
New elements and new forces are at
work. They are not apparently pow
erful, but success is sure only when
they arc met at every point and counter
acted."
The meaning of this is obvious. Tile
President’s organ sees the handwriting
on the wall, and trembles as it reads.
Interest. —No blister draws like in
terest. Os all the industries none is
comparable to th.it of interest. It
works all day and all night, in fair and
in foul weather. It lias no sound in its
footsteps, but travels fast. It gnaws at
a man’s substance with inv sible teeth.
It binds industry with its film as a fly
is bound by a spider’s web. Debts roil
a man over and over, binth g him hand
and foot letting him hang upon the fatal
rnesli until the long-legged interest de
vours him. There is but one thing on
a farm like it, and that is the Canada
thistle, which swarms around new plants
every time you break its roots, whose
blossoms are prolific, and every How er
the father of a million seeds. Every
leaf is an awl, every branch a spear, and
i every plant like a platU on of bayonetts,
i and a field ot them like an armed host.
The whole plant is a torment ami a
vegetanle jcurse. And yet the farmer
; had better make his bed upon Canada
thistles than rest at ease upon interest.
Judge Foote ami Captain Story, of
j New Orleans, have purchased the Mur-
J ray county talc qunny (or $7,000.
When an Americus merchant doesn’t
| sell but five bundled dollars’ worth a
day, he sits on his door-step and weeps.
Cartersville is disposed to elevate her
j olfactories at her guano trade.
AboliMltiusr tlie Frccdmen’s
Bureau.
The hill to abolish the Bateau of
Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands, introduced by Mr, Cobb, of N.
Carolina, in the House of Representa
tives, proposes that the Bureau shall be
discontinued after June 30, 1572, and
that all agents, clerks and other em
ployees then on duty shall be discharg
ed, except such as shall be retained by
the Secretary of War for the purposes
of this act.
Section 2 provides that t.ie laws per
taining to the collection and payment
of bounties to the colored soldiers shall
be carried into effect by the Secretary
of War, who may employ such clerical
force as may be necessary for the pur
pose
Section 3 grants the present Com
missioner, under the direction of the
Secretary of War, such time as may be
necessary to settle the legal claims
against the Bur .j, and to perfect the
records of the same.
Section 4 appropriates SIOO,OOO to
carry into effect the provisions of the
preceding section.
Section 5 continues the Freedmen's
Hospital in the District, under the con
tract and supervision of a Board of
three pers ns, to consist of the Surgeon
Gem ral, the Governor of the District
and the Surgeon in charge of the hos
pital.
Section 6 appropriates 870,000 for
the support of the hospital for the fiscal
year > tiding June 30th, 1873.
The bill wa refered to the Commit
tee on Freedmen’s Affairs.
Traffic AflUir sit Montleollo.
One of those tragic rencounters has
occurred at Monticello, Georgia, that
calls to mind the dark and bloody days
of wild frontier life, where human pas
sions rage unregulated by law, and
persona difficulties find more ready set
tlement by the fierce arbitrament of
farms than before the slow and cir
cuitous tribunals of justice.
We have an account of the affair,
recieved from private sources, that is
by no means as circumstantial and cer
tain as we should like to give, hut it is
undoubtedly a close approximation to
the truth.
The dispute had previously orignated
about the hire of a negro. The parties
were Clinton Dighy and brother on
the one side, and Seaborn Kelley and
two biothers on the other —all farmers.
They met at Monticello on the seventh
instant, at. the election of ordinary.—
The dispute revived between Clinton
Digby’s brother and the three Kelleys.
Young Digby drew his pistol, but be
fore he could use it one of th Kelleys
sized his arm and held it up while the
other two Kelleys pounded away in
sledge hammer fashion on Digby. At
this junction Clinton Digby came up to
the assistance of his overpowered broth
er. As he approached one of the Kel
leys shot him in the leg. Nothing
daunted, lie fired killing the Kelley who
held his brother; then wheeling quick
ly, he shot down ahother of Kelleys,
who died in about an hour. Then
mounting a horse, he made furiously
over fences and through the woods, and
made his escape.
It was a quick, sudden, desperate
rencounter, as tragic in its results as
fierce in its character.— Constitutor!.
The (»i*«Mit Snow Storm
The Cheyenne Leader, of January 24,
sav : The weather litis been so severe
at Sherman within the past thre; days,
that the men employed to clear the
road could not be kept at their work
more than a few minutes at a time.—
Neither money, threats, persuasion nor
revolvers would avail to iteep them
out. The wind blows a hurricane all
the time, arid the thermometer ranges
from ten to twenty degrees below zero.
If the wind would subside, it is
the opinion o railroad men that the
road could be i pened in twenty-four
hou rs.
At Cheyenne, on Tuesday afternoon
the wind suddenly rose to a tempest,
The air was densely filled with snow,
which whirle I and twisted in all direc
tions. So dens was the mass of snow
flakes in the air. and so powerful ind
irresistible the wind, that one could
not see a yard in advance, even on the
side-walks, where the streets were
sheltered by a continuous row of bn ld
ings. A person was liable to be lost
in the most familiar localities, and
son e citizens who happened to be out
lost their way within half a tdock of
their own houses, one lady becoming
bewildered when almost inside her own
door yard. The children at the public
school had to lie taken to their homes,
as it would have been utterly impossi
ble for them to have made their way
alone through the storm. This terrible
squall continued until aft *r midnight.
The morning was one of the coldest
ever experienced in the city, the mer
cury indicating twenty degrees below
zero.
An old traveler tells a pertty tough
story about being lost in the woods
with his dog, where he could find noth
ing to eat, and had to cut off the dog’s
tail, which he boiled for himself and
afterwards gave ■ the dog the bone.
We would rather borrow a hundred
than believe that story.
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