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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, DECEMBER 21, IS6»-
ConnreM and Georgia-AVlial Is to be
” * Done ?
We copy the following special from Washing
ton to Forney’s Frees, of the 9th instant:
TmoixiA Aim Gsoroia.—Nothing has yet been
4one, either by the Jndiciary Committee or the Sen
ate. or the Reconstruction CommUtee of the House,
to whom was referred that portion of tho Presi
dent’s message relative to Virginia and Georgia, re
garding those subjects. It is probable, however,
that they will report favorably on the Viixiniaprop-
osition. and postpone action regarding Georgia un
til the Legislature of that State meets, ontho sec
ond Wednesday in January noxt. Tho courts or the
Utter State having decided that the expuUion of the
negro members of the Legislature was unconstitu
tional, this delay tsUl give the Dnnoerats of the
State an opportunity to reinstate them, jrretai
to submit to the decision of the courts. In the form
er ease no further interference
rsannrevs - but if they refuse to reinstate the negroes,
Congress will have a valid and undoubted right to
interfere, for the purpose of eompelhng obedience
totit licdnslruclion acts, nod will do eo by adopt
ing the President s suggestion to pass a law antlior-
izlng the Governor to reconvcno tho old LcgisU-
*°Xhe delegation from tho Virginia Legislature,
sent here for tho purpose of urging the immediate
admission of the State, had an interview, bv ap
pointment, with Gen. Bntler, tho Chairman of the
Reconstruction Committee, at five o clock to-day.
He informed them that tho Committee would report
tmanimonslv in favor of the admission of the State,
and that thov will doubtless agree on a bill to that
effect at their meeting to morrow. He predicted
that the bill will pass the House within an hour after
it is presented, and. dismissing tho subject of Vir
ginia, stated it to be bis opinion that tho State will
be fcdlv represented in Congress within the nest ten
-days. Referring to Georgia, he said that tho Repub
lican party had been cheated in that State as well as
In Tennessee, and that in the latter the negroes are
worse off no v ‘han they were ten yoars ago. He
alto stated tint the final solution of the Georgia
sase will be postponed until after the holidays.
As to the fact of tho intended postponement,
the well informed correspondent of the Balti
more Sun, telegraphing that paper from TV ash-
ington the same date, soys:
“It is understood tho action by Congress in
the case of Georgia will be postponed until af
ter the meeting of tho Legislature of that State
in January, in order to see what that body will
do as to the expulsion of its members about
which tho controversy exists.”
And to the same effect writes our own corres
pondent in a letter published in the last edition
Of this paper.
On the other hand, our press telegrams of
Saturday say a bill to reconstruct Georgia will
bo reported this week, and leaves us to infer
that it will bo pressed through “without delay,”
in accordance with the recommendation of the
President’s message.
Letters upon this snbject to the Editors of
the Telegraph and Messenger, from the highest
and most authoritative Democratic sources in
Washington, impress our minds very strongly
with these ideas.
1. That the Democrats in Congress aro ex
tremely solicitous to save tho State of Georgia
from another disorganization, and strongly de
sire that the Legislature, if permitted to do so,
should exhaust, the resources of compromise in
the matter of reseating tho colored members.
These letters anxiously inquire when the Legis
lature will meet and how soon they can dispose
of the question.
2. Gov. Bullock, at the head of the destruc
tive delegation from Georgia, and backed by the
extremists in Congress, is pulling every string
to precipitate action before the Legislature can
move in the matter. The reseating of the ne-*
* - amounts to little or nothing with them.
W*® _ -onld leave the question of Demo-
Even'fluA > »
- Legislature doubtful, and
eratic influent* « U»« -- - the
it is rendered still more doubtful u,
of Gov. Eullock to order new elections in the
ease of Radical members of the Legislature
. dead or resigned. But a purge under act of
Congress, administered at the point of the bay
onet by the military, would give them, as they
aay, not only the negro seats, but would dis
possess, by careful count, (so they say.l a t ) eas t
twenty-five to thirty-five o*^ er Democratic
'members, whose plac*-, wonW gene rally be filled
by negros. w }, 0 j ia( j the next highest poll.
-This give these destructionista entire con
trol of everything. The Legislature would be
in effect nothing hut a body to register the de
crees of Gov. Bullock made in his private ex
ecutive office, and would place everything—all
the public money—all the offices and all pecu
niary and political power, in the hands of the
destructionists. It would give them the pick of
places from the United States Senate down—it
would enable them to help themselves as to
money, and divide among tlieir friends—it
would consummate the purchase of the Opera
House—it would enable them to purge the judi
ciary after tlieir fashion, and by getting up and
arming a standing militia of negroes, according
to the amended Morton bill, they could better
control the colored vote, or perhaps by sur
rounding a few of the polls with these armed
custodians of the public peace, they could pro
duce such majorities on demand as were re
quired to control politics in Georgia.
There is, also, not a municipal corporation in
Georgia, which by process of annexation, or
come other legislative device, they could not se
cure to the loyal Africans. So that every city
In the State might be put under surveillance of
• negro police; and if this proved too much for
the forbearance of tho people, the fact would
only show their “rebellious and disloyal spirit,”
and bring tho Federal army down upon them os
incorrigible rebels. Congress would bo bound
to sustain the reconstructed State Government
at all hazards.
3. Unless these destruclionisls can secure a
reconstruction made by Congress in opposition
to the whites of Georgia—in defiance of all their
interests and feelings, political, personal and
pecuniary—made to dominate over them and
aubsidizo the wealth and industrial welfare and
resources of Georgia in the interests of the
atrocious little white faction of adventurerswho
are seeking to monopolize the State—they do
not want any reconstruction at all. If Congress
will not act in hostility to Georgia, so as by the
process to arm these destructionists exclusively
with the thunderbolts of its power, and make
them the sole depositories of its resources of
reward and punishment, they care nothing what
Congress may do or refuse to do.
In this spirit Gov. Bullock displayed his in.
genuity in the attempt to taunt the Legislature
at the last session into a violent and acrimoni
ous hostility to Congress—in this spirit he ma
noeuvred so ns to secure the defeat of the Fif
teenth Amendment by withholding the votes of
his own party from it—in this spirit he defeated
the resolution referring tho negro eligibility
question to the courts; and finally, in this spirit,
he calls a meeting of the Central Committee of
his own party in Atlanta, on the 24th of Novem
ber, and fairly crams down their throats an ap
peal to Congress to take action at once without
waiting.to see what the Legislature would do
upon the matter of reseating the negroes, in
aoeordance with the decision of the State Judi-
oiary upon its appeal. The last thing on earth
Gov. Bullock desires to see, is that Congress
should wait upon the Georgia Legislature, and
the latter conform to the views of Congress and
reseat the negroes. The hope, first, is in a
snap judgment by Congress upon the people of
Georgia, and if that fails, secondly, in defeating
all efforts at accommodation.
4. Bat, after all, there is difficulty in the way
of the violent and arbitrary course demanded of
Congress by the destructives. A good many of
tits Republican members distrust these destruc
tives and don’t like carpet-bagism in its practi
aal results upon Congress and Southern affairs.
They are unwilling, too, to upset all State
ting Georgia to the Union. Even the New Fork
Tribune’s correspondent of the 9th has the fol
lowing upon the subject:
The case of Georgia, which is just now att
trading so much notice, and has been brough*
to the attention of Congressmen by several dele-
gations from that State, was tahen up and brief-
ly considered by the Senate Jndiciary Commit
tee, but it is impossible to judge what action
will be token. The bills of Senators Morton
and Edmunds were also considered. The mat
ter will be resumed to-morrow. The Committee
is in donbt as to what extent it would bo justi
fied in annulling the Legislative action of Geor
gia.
And to tho same effect is tho following dis
patch of the 9th to tho New York Herald:
The Georgia Case—Obstacles to Another
Reconstruction.—The Senate Jndiciary Com
mittee had up the Georgia caseto-day, but came
to no conclusion. Tho committee find a good
deal of difficulty in tho matter of setting aside
tho acts of Legislation which have intervened
since the State was formally admitted to Con
gress. This would have to be done, it is thought,
in carrying out the suggestions of the Presi
dent’s message relative to Georgia.
Moreover, there is outside clamor and alarm.
The business and financial men of the North
don’t like this high-handed dealing with a State
wheh is contributing so much to Northern trade
and national recuperation. They say we aro
industrious and pay our debts, and those tales
about terrorism and disorder aro contradicted
by their own advices, and are wholly inconsis
tent with the industrial condition of Georgia, as
they know it to be. So that, after all, it is pos
sible sufficient time may elapse for tbo Legisla
ture to meet and show its hand before Congress
comes down on Georgia.
Now these are the ideas of the situation of
Georgia, in Washington, as we are able to ob
tain them from correspondence. These are the
ideas of tho danger of Congressional interfer-
enco^and its practical results upon the interests
of the State, which are current among our
friends in that quarter.
A review of them will suggest the whole argu
ment as to tho course the Legislature of Georgia
ought to pursue at once, if they have tho oppor
tunity. Some of tho democratic papers in this
State aro saying that they prefer Congressional
interference rather than that tho Legislature
should attempt to conciliate Congress by reseat
ing the negro. We have only to consider what
must inevitably follow Congressional interfer
ence, to be amazed beyond expression at such a
preference; but it is one in which the worst
enemies of Georgia wiU go with them heart and
hand!
The case, indeed,lies in a nut-shell. If Geor
gia reseats these negroes, (Congress accepting
tho act,) Georgia then escapes all the hard con
ditions of the pnnitive legislation now proposed
and certain to be inflicted in case of onr refu
sal. But if Congress reseats these negroes, she
does it with the application of the test oath purge
—with the annulling of all previous political
legislation—with the negro militia bill—and with
all the provisions for compelling submission to
hostile legislation from an unwilling people. In
the one case the people will still hold somo con
trol of their State. In tho other, it will be
turned over entirely to tho wretched faction
who are now trying to pnt it in their pockets.
It is impossible that a sensible people should
hesitate one moment which of the two alterna
tives to choose.
It has been urged that if you reseat the ne
groes the fifteenth amendment will pass. That
is not eo certain ; but if the negroes are not re
seated by Georgia the passage of the fifteenth
amendment is sure beyond contingency. So,
also, is the accomplishment of every ill which
TFST TELEQBAPH.
CONGRESS ON GEORGIA.
The Radicals to Hold off Until the
Legislature Meets—A Representa
tive Man Needed.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.]
Washington, December 13.—A pretty thorough
canvass to-day indicates that Congress will hold off
until the Georgia Legislature meets and give it time
to reseat tho negroes. If this is done the State will
bo let alone; but will bo required to ratify tho Fif
teenth Amendment before her admission into the
Union. As a matter of precaution, however, it is
deemed advisable that a representative man of tho
State should visit Washington at once, to defeat the
schemes of Bullock, Blodgett & Co., who are urging
Congress to immediate action.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 12.—A meeting of physi
cians, chemists and jurists, yesterday, adopted a
memorial to the Governor of Pennsylvania, asking
demoncy for Scbceppo.
Tbo Turkish minister has received a dispatch
from the Grand Vizier, announcing the definito and
satisfactory settlement of tho Egyptian question.
Golladay has withdrawn from the Kentucky Sen
atorial contest, in favor of Maj. R. 0. Wintersmith,
a bill for tho removal of whose disabilities Is now
before tho President. It is stated that Stevenson
can’t take the oatb. Tho contest is between Mo-
Creory and Wintersmith.
Washington, December 13.—In a case involving
the constitutionality of federal taxation upon the
eircnlation of Stato banks, the court decides that
notes are taxable. On the point that the tax is ex
cessive, tho court declares that it has no power to
restrain the taxing power as regards the rate.
A canvass of Congress shows that the action to
wards Georgia will bo withheld nntil after the meet
ing of tho Legislature, when, if the negroes are
reseated, the matter will be dropped; otherwise the
measures foreshadowed in Carpentor’e bill and Mor
ton’s amendment will be enforced.
Gov. Bullock urges immediate action.
Senator Trumbull, in Committee meeting, op
posed the whole movement. He is alone, however.
Tbo President withdraws the nomination of Dan
iel D. Clarko for Assessor of tho Fourth Georgia
District; also, JoneB, Recoiver of Publio Money at
New Orleans.
Judges Davis and Nelson dissented from the opin
ion of tho Conrt declaring tho taxation of Stato
bank noteB constitutional.
Revenue to-day 8700,000.
The Jndiciary Committee will report unfavorably
upon the nomination of Yeoman for Circuit Judgo
of tbo Sixth District, unless the President with
draws him.
Tho Stato Department has official information
that the United States liavo adopted the Fifteenth
Amendment.
Butler introduced Farnsworth’s bill in the House
of Representatives to-day, admitting Virginia with-
out qualification. Paino offered a substitute to tho
same effect, but reciting that the State was organ
ized under the Reconstruction laws.
Butler also introduced a bill declaring the Virginia
Constitution Republican in form, with another pre
amble that pledges have been given the people of
that Stato will support and defend the Constitution
of tho United States, and cany out tbo provisions of
the Constitution submitted by tbo Reconstruction
acts of Congress and ratified by the people of Vir
ginia in letter and spirit. Therefore, bo it resolved,
that the State of Virginia is entitled to representa
tion in tbo Congress of the United States.
These several propositions were referred to tho
Reconstruction Committee, who meet to-morrow,
and ordered to bo printed.
ANOTHER GEORGIA BILL IN THE
SENATE.
Washington, December 13.—In the House Gen.
Butler asked the publication of three bills for tbo
admission of Virginia, to expedite tho commiteo’s
action. To-morrow the first number of bills under
regular call includes many for tho removal of disa
bilities.
Among the bills introduced to-day are the fol-
cjn “^ibly apprehended from the reseat!^" lowing;
1 ’*~ * ” To build a Federal Court-house at Raleigh; pro
viding for tbo payment of loyal citizens for Quar
termaster and Commissary stores, taken by Federal
of the negroes by the Legislature, and much
more besides. Under these circumstances there
ought to be no reasonable doubt of what should
be.the demands a pound and safe statesman
ship in ‘^' s critical condition of our affairs.
Virginia has suffered the ruin of her land,
the theft of her private property, the burning
of her libraries and her bams, the influx of
Welles, Canby, and carpet-baggers generally.
The decimation of her sons and the insults to
her daughters are to be added to the category
of humiliation. Her apotheosis of degredation,
however, was attained on Wednesday, when the
legislative committee of the State had to bandy
with Ben Bntler for his strabismic permission
to have the State admitted. This is the historic
reveDge which time wreaks on tho Old Dominion
for whipping tho man at Big Bethel and dis
gracing him at Bermuda Hundreds.— World.
This is indeed tho lowest deep. Beyond it
there is nothing. It is the jumping off place,
sure enough. Ah! how History, which has
given the “Old Dominion” such a lustrous page
in its annals, will shudder and blush to writ©
beside that record this story of her shame! How
great must be the trials, how thoroughly broken
the spirit, of a peoplo whose chosen leaders are
forced to pledge them to such humiliations!
There is nothing so sad in all the sad history of
onr failure as this forced association and pros-
I ation of gentlemen at tho feet of men who
have forfeited all claims to that proud title!
The results to be achieved, and the objects to
troops; resolution endorsing the President's views
regarding tbo reciprocity treaty with Canada; reso
lution to adjourn from the 22nd to tho 6th of Jan
uary.
Batter offered a resolution directing the Commit
tee on Ways and Means to report a bill taxing in
come from interest on federal bonds.
Tho Committee on Banking Currency was ordered
to report on gold fluctuations.
A petition from seventy-two thousand citizens of
New York for the recognition of the Cubans as bel
ligerents, was referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
A bill relieving three persons from political dis
abilities passed, and goes to the President. During
its discussion it was announced that the Reconstruc
tion Committee was considering a bill for a general
amnesty.
The Census bill was resumed, and the House ad
journed.
Senate.—Mr. Carpenter introduced a joint'reso-
lution forbidding the departure of the Spanish gun
boats.
Kellogg introduced a bill authorizing a navy yard
at New Orleans.
The Judiciary Committee reported a hill regarding
Georgia. It follows the suggestions of tho Presi
dent, with the addition that the reconstructed legis
lature shall bo provisional, until members ot tho
Honso and Benators aro seated. Tho prospects of
importance to justify such a “stoop to con
quer.” Wo are in a dire strait, ourself, but wo
earnestly pray that this cup, at least, may not
be pressed to onr lips. Take any shape but
that, oh! spirit of conciliation!
A Turkish Itcauty.
I enjoyed tho pleasure this morning of being
Introduced to a very handsome Turkish lady,
in order to give mo an opportunity of witness
ing a perfect specimen of Oriental beanty. Af
ter a good deal of persuation, sho allowed mo
to copy her profile. Her eyes and eye-lashes
were intensely black, though I suspect tho lat
ter were stained of a deeper dyo than tho natu
ral one. Her complexion was beautifally fair,
with tho slightest lint of carnation suffused over
her face. Her lips, sweet lips, that made us
sigh even to have seen such. Her glo.ssy hair,
which was bound with a kalemkeir, or painted
handkerchief, representing a whole parterre of
flowerB, fell in loose cnrl3 npon her shoulders
and down her back. Sho wore a short black
velvet jacket, embroidered with gold lace;
trousers of a sky blue silk and under-jacket
of pink crape, and one of those beautiful
transparent shirts which ravish the behold
er and “ half reveal tho charms they fain
would hide. ” A most magnificent Persian
sliawl encircled her waist, which had nature’s
own form, never having been compressed by the
cruel bandage of stays. Her feet were in slip
pers, and two or three ugly rings deformed her
white and slender fingers, the nails of which
were died with henna. Around her neck she
wore a double row of pearls, from which hung
an amulet. Her skin was very white and beau
tiful ; the constant use of the dry vapor bath
having reduced it to a fineness which I can
only compare to highly polished marble, and it
looked as glossy and as cold. She was well
pleased with the drawing I made, and, on rising
to go away, she put on her yellow boots, over
the beautiful white foot and ankle, which it was
a sin to conceal; then, donning her cashmcck
and cloak, she hade us adieu with a grace and
elegance which few English ladies could equal.
No wonder the Turks sigh for Paradise, when
they believe heaven to be peopled with such
houris as these.—Auhljo’s Visit to Constanti
nople.
Longevity in Georgia. — A correspondent
writing to us from Blackshear, Ga., says tho
Savannah News, under date of November 30th,
says: “Mrs. Elizabeth Hearington was bom
in Barnwell District, S. C., A. D. 1747, the 12th
cf January of said year, and departed this life
on tho 20th of November, 18C9, at tho residence
of her son-in-law, Wm. G. Riggins, of Pierce
county Ga. She enjoyed good health, and
walked without any help to within a few days
of her death. She lived 122 years, 10 months
and 8 days, according to my calculations. 1 '
Railroad Accident nr South Carolina.—A
terrible accident occurred a^Lyles' Ford on the
Spartanburg and Union Railroad Tuesday morn
ing. A Mr. Humphreys was caught betweenthe
platform and the train and crashed to death.
The family of the unfortunate man were near
Legislation and go behind the resolution admit-1 him at the time. They were en route for Texas,
Virginia’s admission are brightening,
bo compassed, must indeed be of paramount 1 p 0 meroy, with commendatory remarks, presented
—*' “ a petition for tho recognition of Cuba.
Tho Board of Trade of Mobile petition for
money to deepen their harbor.
In tbo Georgia bill, in addition to points already
telegraphed, the Governor names a day for conven
ing the Legislature. The President, upon applica
tion of tho Governor, is authorized to employ tho
army and navy to enforce tho act.
Morton offered as an amendment, making tho
adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment conditional
to readmission.
Drake’s bill, defining and regulating tho jurisdic
tion and powers of tho Supreme Court, wasresumed
and discussed to adjournment.
FROM ALABAMA.
Montgomery, December 13.—Tho Senate con
sumed tho morning in discussing tho bills allowing
negroes equal privileges in railroad cars, steam
boats, etc. An amendment was offered to provide
equal, but separate accommodations. Boyal, the
only colored Senator, favored the amendment, and
said tho sensible negroes did not ask social equality,
and denounced the bill as a piece of Democracy.
Tho postponed Mobilo Car bill was put off. Tho
amendment to provide separate accommodations
was voted down in tho House.
The Judiciary CommUtee was instructed to report
a bUI to abolish all lotteries. During tho debate on
this bill, bribery was much talked of.
Tho Legislature has been in session thirty days,
at an expense of over forty thousand dollars, and
only eight bills have been sont to the Governor for
approval.
FROM TEXAS.
New Orleans, December 12.—Letters from Gal
veston stato that returns had been received from
thirteen additional counties, all giving majorities for
Hamilton which aggregate 1970—leaving Davis’ ma
jority as far as heard from. 7007.
Flanagan, Radical, is elected Lieut. Governor by
a largo majority.
The Legislature is largely Radical.
Prarie fires are reported in Northeastern Texas,
They started at Red River, extending Southeast and
damaging farms and stock.
TEXAS F.LECTION—LATEST.
New Orleans, December 18.—A Houston special
says: Returns from eighty-seven counties have
been received. Hamilton’s majority in forty-five
counties is 8,970. Davis’ majority in forty-two
counties is 12,322. Davis is 8,572 ahead and forty
counties to hear from, which registered, whites 10,
450, and colored 9,233. Davis leads tho colored reg
istered vote one-Bixth, and the Legislature now
stands—Conservative, Senate, 13—House, 41. Radi
cal, Senate, 12—House, 34.
Tho entire Radical Stato ticket, except Governor,
is elected.
Hamilton’s friends claim his election by two thou
sand. t <- ’
Armstrong and Conners, Conservatives, are be
lieved to be elected to Congress.
[From “EditorialBailway Notes” taken by
the editor of Moore’s Rural New Yorker, dur
ing his recent visit to the Georgia Stato Fair, we
exhract the following:]
The Southern Young Man.—We wander
among and watch these young men of the South
with the purpose of forming some estimate of
their future, and ef the future of the country
whose destinies they are likely, to a greater or
less extent, to control. There are many intelli
gent, thoughtful, purpose-marked faces among
them. But there is apparent in the carriage of
the majority of them too great self-conscious
ness. There is rarely seen either the abstrac
tion of introspection or of thoughtful observa
tion. Courteous and frank when addressed,
they are at the same time self-important and
often oppressive in their formal civility. There
is the evidence, in the movements of the ma
jority, of a lack of that clear-cut, prompt, ready
adaptation to circumstances and ability to con
trol them which characterize the young men of
tho Northwest particularly. But there are, wo
are informed, many young men of the South
who aro doing worthy work in their own behalf,
and who enter their fields with the traditional
and inherited idea that to labor, with the
hands, is to destroy casto, crucified. May their
number increase! And may tho young men of
tho South learn not only that it is not dishonor
able to labor, but that the honors and dignities
whioh may result from tho peaceful pursuits of
agriculture will bo found quito as satisfying and
enduring as those which may be won at tourna
ments, in political wrangles, or in tho profes
sions. Another thing should be learned: Re
spect for other people’s opinions. Intolerance
is always an index of weakness. The right of
a man to his own opinions and to act, within tho
law, as he chooses, is one which no man nor
class of men have any right to deny him. And
any proscription, because of tho exorcise of such
right is both woak and foolish, and unworthy
the manhood and self respect of men who claim
tho right to have opinions of their own. Tho
Sonth suffers to-day because of this intolerance
on the part of its men and women; and sho
will, and ought to, continue to suffer.
Anti-Immigration.—Speaking of proscription
reminds us that there are different kinds of it.
Ono of the worst sort for the future of tho South
is that embodied in tho opinions and person of
Mr. David Dickson, of this State, if he is cor
rectly reported. Mr. Dickson is a man of much
influence. Ho is natnrally ambitions to retain
it. This ambition is not unworthy, provided it
regards the rights and prosperity of others. But
Mr. Dickson does not want immigration to
Georgia. His is tho dog-in-the-manger policy.
Ho wants Southern men to build up Georgia—
to control hor products and manufacture her
staples. This is not wrong, bnt will they and
can they do it ? And after all, what does it
matter whether it is Southern, Northern, East
ern, Western or European men who invest capi
tal and labor in Southern lands and manufac
tures? Is not ours a common country? And does
not tho prosperity of one contribute directly
or indirectly to tho welfare of all ? Mr. Dick
son has been quoted lurgely in the South as a
progressive planter; but if his ideas upon this
subject of immigration aro to obtain influence
and affect the action of tho people of Georgia,
his value to tho State as a prophet and exem
plar is vastly overrated. Does Mr. Dickson fear
the practical forco and practical ideas of North
ern men in competition with his own ! There is
little use to attempt to disguise tho fact that
there are many men of influence in this State
who fully sympathize with Mr. Dickson in this
respect; but it is also true that there is a largo,
and wo trust largor, class who earnestly desire
the immigration of practical working men from
any quarter whatever. And this latter olass of
men will, wo hope, control and direst tho futnro
of Georgia in ultra-distinction to the Dickson
class.
The Labor Question—Tho labor question is
tho great ono here. There has been already
improvement since the war, wo aro told, but
stifl cotton is wasting by thousands of bales be
cause there is no ono to pick it. Tho whites
agree that tho colored peoplo aro tho best la
borers ; but they cannot keep them steadily nt
work. As soon a3 they have earned a little
money they relapso into idleness to spend it.—
Such is their idea of the privileges and pleasures
of freedom. Co-operation seems to bo tho
surest way to get a crop harvested—that is,
where the bands aro given a share of the crop
for their labor in planting, cultivating and har
vesting it. This share varies from one-third to
one-half. Att men do not deal honestly with
tho freedmen, whether they hire them or share
the crop with them. This is to bo expected.—
All men aro not honest and just; and tho com
plaints made are not against Southern more
than Northern planters; indeed wo were in
formed by a Southern gentleman that the freed
men novor made a second contract with a North
ern man. “Why?” wo asked.
“Because ho requires too much work of theme
gets them out too early in tho morning, and
does not give them as liberal rations.. In the
cotton region it kills the negro to go into tho
cotton field before eight o’clock in the morning.
[This is a new idea to us. Field laborers
thronghout the South aro in the habit of being
at their work before sunrise, and this is univer
sally expected and required of them.—Editors
Telegraph and Messenger.] It does not harm
him so much to work late at night; but no man
can live exposed to tho damp, chill morning
air.”
“Aro tho freedmen purchasing lands and cul
tivating them ?”
“In somo cases—perhaps ono per cent.—they
aro. But by contract labor they lay up little
money. Where there is honesty in dealing out
rations on tho part of tho masters, those who
cultivate land on shares lay up money. In
some cases clubs of them havo joined in tho
purchaso of plantations on forced sale and di
vided tho proporty pro rata. . Not long sinco in
Alabama a large and fine plantation was so pur
chased by a combination of freedmen, much to
the annoyance of somo of their old masterswho
oppose their owning proporty.”
‘ ; Onco possessors of land, do they cultivate it
with diligence?” „ ,,
“Somo of them show considerable enterprise;
others fail for want of capital. Thoy simply
cultivate such of it as they can with their own
hands.”
Tho great demand is for labor. Coolie labor
is to bo tried. Bnt what these men of the South
need to do to make their present labor resources
available is to go to work themselves. Such ex
amples of industry as they may sot boforo tho
freedmen aro what aro most needed by both
whites and black. Break down this old proju-
dice againt labor and there will be plenty of
available help for tho cotton planters. Let tho
indolent understand that planters aro independ
ent of them, becauso they can and will work
themselves if necessary, and there will bo loss
fault found with tho shiftlessness of the blacks.
Those who talk against ahiftlessness should not
themselves bo shiftless.
Grasses for tlic Clay Lauds.
From the Rural Carolinian.]
Mr. Editor: A few days since, while I was in
Charlotte, N. C., I met a friend of your Maga
zine. Until then my attention had never been
called to The Bnral Carolinian. Ho was so so
licitous for mo to write you on c subject which
has been my specialty, that I at length con
sented to do so, with tbo hope that the results of
my experiments might benefit yonr readers.
Your friend said that the snbject of grasses
was exciting much inquiry, and though much
had been written advising tha seeding of grasses,
few knew what species of grass to use, how to
prepare tho land, when to sow, and, chief of all,
what grasses wore best adapted to tho Coro-
linas.
I will begin by informing you that I removed
to this point from tho Valley of Virginia, hence
am familiar with the grasses of that section, and
have taken some pains to introduce and grow
several varieties at my present homo. Yon can
form some idea of tho extent when I irifonn
yon that I have now upwards of eighty acres
well set in clover.
Tho best improver of land, tho best green
food for cattle, horses and hogs, and the best
fertilizer for wheat, is red clover. This will
■ grow to perfection in red clay in this belt of
country. It must be sown on fertile land, well
pulvorized by tho harrow; in the spring on land
seeded in oats. Immediately after the oats are
harrowed inj sow one bushel clover seed to six
acres, and tako a light one-horse brash and
slightly brush them in. Clover should not be
pastured at all the first year, and it would be
decidedly more remunerative if it was always cut
and fed to horses, cattle, etc. Mr. Ruffin, of Vir
ginia, reoommended tho sower of clover seed to
take a board (4 feet long and six inches wide)
in his left hand, holding it parallel with the
ground in front of him, and take as much seed
as could be held between the thumb and two
forefingers of tho right hand, and with every
step to throw the seed against the board, in a
land six feet wide; stakes to be used in meastuv
ing the land, and moved when tho land is
sowed. Some pow as they do turnip seed.
Either way will do, so a sufficiency of seed is
sown. If by chance a land should be left out or
missed in the sowing, by cutting the clover
when the soed matures, and placing the clover
hay in the bare spots, another year will see it
covered.
The only objection I have to clever is that it
ranB out in a few years. This, however, can
bo obviated in this wise: "When clover begins
to fail, fallow tho field with a two-horse plow,
(this will sink the clover feed very deep) sow
down wheat, and my word for it, that a clover
sod is the best fertilizer for wheat. Having ob
tained one crop of wheat for this field, I would
advise.that the field be again fallowed for wheat
with a two-horse plow; this process will bring
back to the surface the clover seed, which has
not suffered a particle by being buried five
years. By repeating this process, one need
never ran ont of clover.
For hay I do not like clover, unless it be
mixed with other grasses. Why? Because the
second crop of clover salivates; because in
hauling clover after it is cored it will shatter
and leave nothing bnt stems; and because when
ono portions off a field for upland hay, he wishes
it to continue as such for at least eight or ten
years. For reasons which I will state, I would
adviso that clover be sown at all hazards, bnt
that it bo mixed with other grass seeds, so that
when the clover was near spent the other grass
or grasses would take tho field, and becanse the
grasses I recommend will, conjointly with clo
ver, add to the fertility of the soil, besides
making the very best hay, and at the same time
continue to hold their own long after clover has
disappeared.
I have seen orchard grass growing in a field,
or rather lot, in Mecklenburg county, which was
sown thirty years since. Baxter S. Moore, Esq.,
near Charlotte, has as fine an orchard grass plot
as can ba exhibited in the grass plains near Lex
ington, Ky. Indeed, there is no donbt bnt that
orchard grass is peculiarly adapted to our sec
tion of country, and, like clover, will grow
wherever good wheat can be produced. Hence
orchard grass should bo used by all means, as
it will certainly grow to perfection, and pay as
well per acre as any aero planted in cotton or
com.
Orchard grass can bo sown either in October,
November, or with oats in spring—quantity per
acre, whether with or without clover seed, (I
prefer both sown together,) ono bushel and ono
peck. This grass will, if the soil is good, grow
three or feet high; is easily gotten rid of by
tho plow, and makes a hay next to Timothy.
Hero I will remark that Timothy impoverishes
land, and cannot withstand a heavy drought.
Kentucky blue grass is unsuited to our soil,
though you can discover it early in the summer
or spring if yon will look in fence corners or at
tho foot of a black walnut tree.
There is another grass to which my attention
has been called within this year, and which
meets with so mnch favor with thoso who havo
tried it on the exhausted clay lands of Eastern
Virginia, that I am forced to believe that it is
tho grass for onr section. I will briefly stato
the features of this grass: This new grass is
styled Evergreen Grass, or Dog Foot, (I do not
know its botanical title.) One bushel per aero
is tho amount to sow. It is almost a perennial.
It resists drouth most successfully of all grasses.
It shows itself through almost the entire winter.
It requires only moderately fertile land. Soil
which will bring fair oats will produce it. It
makes an excellent green food for stock, as well
as a No. 1 hay. Two crops of hay per annnm
is tho yield. It is easily gotten rid of by tbo
plow. It grows as high as orchard grass. It
recommends itself to every farmer who wishes
to set in grass lands which to him are now ut
terly worthless. In sowing, use tho same
course recommended for sowing orchard grass,
(when sown alone.)
My observation and knowledge on this sub
ject induces mo to urge tho farmers of tho
South, who see rain in the course heretofore pur
sued—that of going to tho corn-crib for ©very
particle of provender fed—to uso the above-
mentioned grasses.
I did not know until a few days ago that Ev
ergreen Grass had been experimented with in
this State. I learn from Robert F. Davidson,
Esq., of Charlotte, that he has used it most
successfully in the past, and wiU, sow some this
fall. I know of fifty bushels which havo been
ordered by farmers near Charlotte this fall. I
will sow fifteen bushels myself.
More Anon.
Planting Irish Potatoes.
From the Rural Carolinian.']
Portions of onr upper country—tho Northern
counties of Sonth Carolina ana Georgia and
■Western North Carolina and East Tennessee,for
instance,are admirably adapted to the profitable
cultivation of the Irish potato. On the Sea
Islands and in tho coast region also we have in
somo localities suitable soils for their growth,
but our prevailing’sandy lands and hot, dry cli
mate cannot bo considered naturally best fitted
for this crop. It requires moisture and cool
ness. To succeed, therefore, on light, sandy
soils, wo must seek artificially to produce these
conditions to 6Uoh an extent as is practicable.
Wo should first dig into tho soil (which should
already ba rich from previous manuring) a laTge
quantity of vegetable matter—swamp-muck,
soil from the woods, decayed leaves and garden
refuse; then—an important point—giva it a
good dressing of wood nshes, and finally plant
early, so as to give the crop the advantage of
the most favorable part of tho season to mature.
In our modes of planting and cultivation, wo
should also have tho same principle in view.
Plant (in January or February) in deep far
rows or trenches about three feet apart, first
scattering in them some half-rotted straw or
other litter from tho stable lot or elswhero. Place
tho sets about eight inches apart in tho trenches,
and scatter somo well rotted stablo manure over
them. Aslight dressing is best if tho ground
ba already rich. Too much animal manure in
jures the quality of tho tubers, though under
favorablo circumstances, it may increase tho
quantity. Your trenches shonld bo so deep that
whon tho sets are sufficiently covered, tho sur
face will bo below tho general level, that tho
plants may got the full benefit of att tho rain
that may fall near them. After the plants come
up, hoe them well, and when there is no longer
any danger of frost, mulch tho whole patch heav
ily with “pine straw” leaves or somo other suit
able material, to keep the roote cool and retain
the moisture. Directly after a rain is tho best
time to apply the mulch. We wait till tho frosts
are over, because tho evaporation from the
damp mulch lowers the temperatnro so much as
to render the plants more liable to bo cut down.
If tho mulch cannot bo obtained, keep the
ground free from weeds by shallow level cnltnro
till the vines cover tho ground. Dig as you re
quire the tubers fornse; but if the ground be
not mulched, yonr crop will totally disappear—
if planted in sandy soil—as soon as summer
comes on, all rotting in tho ground. The choice
of varieties is a very important matter here—
mnch more so than at tho North—many kinds
proving utterly worthless with us. The Mercer
and Western Red have been favorites, bnt are
being discarded in favor of newer sorts, among
which the Jackson White, Early Goodrich and
Early Rose maybe mentioned ns well tested
and shown to bo adapted to ohr climate.
Tho difficulty of keeping onr early crop throngh
the summer renders it neoossary for ns to pro
cure seod potatoes from a cooler climate, and
they aro usually bought at the North, and some
times at a very high price. Our mountain re
gion shonld furnish them in abundaneo at a low
er rate, and with no liability to get frozen on
their way. Up-country potato-prowers, please
take notice, and if you have seed potatoes to
sell, advertise them.
How to Manage Bones.—A correspondent of
the Journal of Agriculture gives the following
as his experience every year for the .past ten
years, that being as often as he collects bones
enough to fill a tub:
With a sledge hammer break the bones into
pieces of one, two or three inches, take a hogs
head tub, pnt two or three inches of hard wood
ashes, the samo depth of bones, then ashes and
bones until full, ponnd or press solid as cohve-
nient, fill with water or urine, all that it will
absorb. If donfe in the spring or summer, by
tho following spring it will shovel out decom
posed, the bones being as soft as chalk. Then
add all yonr' hen manure, shovel and rake it
over once a week for three or four weeks before
planting time; by that time it will bo finely
powdered. Pnt about equal to a handful of
compost into a hill, for corn, potatoes, squashes,
molons, etc., when it will be found to forward
tho crops to a wonderful degree.
Wood Ashes.—Wood ashes aro exceedingly
valuable for sandy soils, and aro beneficial on
all soils; are especially valuable in their appli
cation to potatoes, carrots, com, peas, beans,
clover and the grass generally.
As a top-dressing to grass lands it roots out
the moss, and promotes the growth of white
cloven Upon red clover it is better to ba mixed
with one-fourth of its weight of gypsum.
Cotton in Montgomery. —For the week end
ing Friday, December 10th, Montgomery re
ceived 4,220 bales; total receipts ethos Septem
ber 1st, 40,187; stock December 10th, 1869,
15,785.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Virginia—Georgia— Gov. Bullock — Prog
nostications of Folia re—Bennte Jndiciary
Committee—fiov. BnllockW Testimony—
Mon. Kelson Tift on Gov. Bullock—Plolu
Talk—Foster Blodgett—What ke Believes
—Wkat the Friends of Georgia Think—
Tlie N>w Circuit Judges—Attorney Gene
ral Evarts—Secretary Fish— Cuba—Re
moval of the Capital, and so on.
Special Correspondence of Telegraph and Messenger.
Washington, December 11, 1869.
It is thought this evening that Virginia’s trou
bles are now over ; and that ex-Governor Wells,
having withdrawn his opposition and urged his
fellow-radicals to do the same, the State trill bo
admitted. The Georgia question now looms up
in the political horizon, and largely engrosses
pnblio attention here. Bollock is leaving no
stone unturned to accomplish his purpose of
further humiliating the State he misrepresents,
and of placing its fortunes entirely within the
control of himself and his brother carpet-bag
gers. He is spending his (?) money freely;
giving dinners to carpet-bag Congressmen;
waylaying the Senators and Representatives in
the corridors of the Capitol; and endeavoring,
not without success, to impress the correspond
ents of certain Radical papers, with his views,
which are duly sent over the wires as strictly
orthodox. But while it may appear to Bnllock
that all is plain-sailing, these who are behind
the scenes declare that his schemes will fail.
Georgia conld not have a better person on a mis
sion so prejudicial to her interests, than Bol
lock, for I havo heard bnt one expression of
sentiment regarding him, and that is of unmiti
gated contempt and detestation.
The Senate Jndicary Committee had a meet
ing yesterday afternoon, to consider Georgia
matters, at which Governor Bullock was present
in behalf of tho late negro members of tho
Legislatnre of that State, and Hon. J. Nelson
Tift on tho part of tho peoplo of Georgia.
Bnllock insisted that Georgia is still as unre-
stracted in sentiment as daring tho late war,
and that tho only way in which sho can bo
brought to an acceptable condition of loyalty is
by tho passage of a bill requiring her Legisla
ture to reseat tho negro members, and tho ap
plication of the test oath to Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature and of Congress.
Mr. Tift quietly listened to tho harangue of
the great reconstractor with exemplary patience,
and when he had concluded quietly gave the
Judiciary Committee a brief history of Mr.
Bullock, from the time he began life as a tele
graph operator down to tho present time. Ho
said the State would havo ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment had not Bnllock instructed all of
his party not to do eo. Tho negroes would also
havo been reseated on tho decision of tho Su
preme Court of the State, had not Bnllock re
fused to call tho Legislature together for eight
months, though repeatedly urged to do so. His
object was to got Congress to deliver a “snap
jndgment” on the State before tho meeting of
the Legislature next month. Mr. Tift also said
that Bnllock had robbed tho State Treasury of
over $600,000, and that he was a traitor, a liar,
and thief, emphasizing his words by snapping
his fingers in Bullock’s face. The Cemmittee
listened agape while ho spoke, and when he got
through thoy knew more than they cared to.
They, however, dismissed the contestants with
a promise to consider what had been said on
both sides.
Foster Blodgett, who is hero in the interest of
the Radicals, believes that the Committee will
report substantially tho bill of Senator Morton,
which requires the restoration of the negro
members of tho Legislature and the adoption of
tho Fifteenth Amendment (as a pledge of
Georgia’s future adhesion to tho behests of
Congress) before she shall be considered to havo
earned tho position of a free State in theUnion.
Morton’s bill comes up Wednesday, and the
extremists will make a strong effort to defeat it.
Failing in that, thoy will endeavor to secure its
postponement nntil after tho holidays.
The friends of Georgia here thinkthe require
ments of Morton’s bill should bo complied with,
in order to avoid tho worse fate of an applica
tion of tho test oatb, which Bullock and others
are striving for. This seems to bo tho only way
in which Bnllock can be headed off, and the sole
chance for restoration to ‘'tho family of States.”
It was supposed there would be no opposition
to the confirmation of the new circuit judges ap
pointed by tho President. I learn, however,
that not ono of them is acceptable to tho Jndi
ciary Committee, and that among those to whom
most objection is made is Woods, who was ap
pointed to tho Fifth Circuit. The grounds of
: bese objections havo not leaked out; but it is
predicted that there is trouble brewing between
the Senate and tho President, and that a very
large number of Executive appointments will ba
rejected. The Senato, however, appears in
clined to dodge the issue, having adjourned on
Friday until Monday without acting on any ono
of tho several hundred names sont in, save those
of tho two Cabinet officers, Belknap and Robe
son.
Mr. Evartshas arrived, and has been exceed
ingly busy in putting things to rights in the At
torney-General’s office, everything having got
in great disorder during his absence. Mr.
Hoar’s incapacity to fill his present position is
supposed to bo one of tho reasons for placing
him on the Supremo Bench, which, will lia dono
shortly. Why not reinstate Mr. Evarts .then a3
Attorney-General? ' ■ -
People have not yet done talking of the mar
riage of Mr. Paul Girard, a French citizen, and
a brother-in-law of the Portuguese minister, to
Jliss Wormley, an octoroon girl. The afl'iir has
received new zest, from the fact that tho French
delegation here do not recoguile tho marriage,
and declare it illegal, certain requirements of
the French law not having been complied with
by the groom.
Secretary Fish gave a grand reception (tlie
first of the season) Friday night. It was largely
attended by foreign ministers and their fam
ilies, and other dignitaries. Many beautiful
women were present, and there were a number
of elegant and costly toilets. Cards are out for
another reception on the 17th. These are very
informal ana pleasant gathering.
Bailey, the sculptor, is erecting a studio on
the While House grounds, jn which to model
“Cincinnatus,” tho President’s favorite trotter,
for his colossal equestrian statue of Grant, to be
placed immediately before the south point of
the Treasury building.
Petitions for tho recognition of Cuba continue
to pour in, and tho names attached aggregate
many thousands. They will avail nothing. It
Is understood that tho Honso Committee on
Foreign affairs (with the exception of Banks,
who was not present at the meeting,) will sup
port the views of tho President respecting Cuba,
as set forth in his message. The Democratson
tho committee have concurred in this aotion.
The Jndiciary Committee of tho House will
report favorably on the repeal of tho Tenure-o£->
Office-Act. It ’is thought a bill to repeal tho
Act will pass the House; but its fate in tho
Senato is uncertain. Tho probabilities are,
that it will bo defeated.
I have it from good authority that the Presi
dent has expressed himself in favor of the re
moval of the Capital to St Louis. It is said he
owns real estate there; and that Corbin, tha
speculative Presidential brother-in-law, has re
cently mado largo investments in corner lots in
tho same city. Dalton.
Shall Georgia be Condemned With
out a Hearing?
Washington, December 12, 1869.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : The fol
lowing will appear in the Baltimore Gazette
and National Intelligencer to-morrow morning
Georgia, ono of the original thirteen States,
which established the independence of this Gov
ernment, stands indicted to-day before Congress
and tho civilized world as a. community of re
bels, as a combination of murderers, midnight
assassins, outlaws and scape-graces. And by
whom and for what ? By Rufus B. Bullock, a
stupid adventurer, from Albion, New York, who
by force and fraud was proclaimed the Governor
of the State “ , .
In June, 1868, tho State of Georgia, (then
District No. 3,) held her State election for Gov
ernor, members of Congress and the Legisla
tnre, in accordance with the Reconstruction Acts
of Congress. Major General Geo. Meade, who
was Military Governor of the State, reported to
Congress that the Reconstruction Acts had been
fully complied with, in accordance with the acts
aforesaid, and his instructions from U. S. Grant,
then General in Chief of the Army of the United
The Governor elected was duly inaugurated,
needed to enact laws—the
into the Union-the member?^
mitted to their seats in the Hotui ShSPtoiA
tatives. After all this was
United States Senators took oln e e '® ot *on<w
Joseph E. Brown and Foste? R&,
caucus nominees of tho »er» ,v
nominees of the Conservativo pa rt ’ h ^^
Miller were elected bv decided™.*
received certificates of the eleS? 10n,i «. *5
Governor, Rufus B. Bullock. 1 0410,1 fcon.
Previous to this election, ex.Gov h.
Republican candidate for the United & 8*
ate, and the recognized leader of the
State, made a speech, which
and published m the newspapers of
which he declared that there ias
Reconstruction Acts of Cong^^“? ^ 4
Constitution of Georgia JnatSJSL®*
made a negro eligible to offics S’ *3
Brown: “The Reconstruction Acta
intended that the negro should be JliJv * ’
fice; bnt there was nothing i n the
those acts that warranted any snc l - „
therefore, he proposed to derf with
of Congress as he read and undo^T 6 , ^
The new Constitution of Georri-
obedience to tho Reconstruct^' tt
allowed the negro to vote, bnt nottohnu
Gov. Brown haring been tl^W
of Georgia for eight years, and fceiD^ 11 *
mzed as a profound jurist, his onir,; fi 6C0 *-
matters of constitutional and Statute1
tionof part nim0USly rcceiT£a > *ithc-‘- ^
A largo majority of both parties in the T.,-.
lature sincerely believe that Governor a ^
SZ
did not believe they were entitled to hnM T*
aa tho law then stood. And, as pwl/Iv'
the negroes in the Legislature (with a S r &
ception) voted unanimously for Bm™ .
Blodgett, the Republican nominees iW 1 ?
8. Senate. If they had believed they U
titled to hold office, is it probable thev^u
havo cast their votes fora
The Governor elected was duly inaugural . -r r Georgte.
(the said Bollock,) the Legislature met and pro- J ttaoa « b W ^
declared that they were ineligible. Affej r 0 -
feat of Brown and Blodgett for the U. S.
tho Democrats and white Republicans of&l
Legislature, actingupon the opinion as fr.aJ?
ted by Governor Brown, united in eipdii^ ij
negro members. Such are the facts wM 5
to the expulsion of the negro members o'S
Georgia Legislature. If the Legislatnre icw
illegally, it was upon the advice of the recowi
leader of tho Republican party of Georgiy*
THE SECOND ACT OF THE DRASU.
After the defeat of Brown and Blod~t» i>
the United States Senate, Gov. Bullodt^
Brown Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
the State, and Blodgett, having been txpeUti
from the office of postmaster at AugtHiGt
by President Grant, was appointed TaWaieS
the State Railroad, by the Governor.
The Fourteenth Amendment was *isM
and then came the proposition to ad:r‘ti|
Fifteenth Amendment, which would isi»
been done had not Gov. Buttock and his Raft]]
friends of the Legislature opposed it. Got.
Bullock feared'that the adoption of the Fii
teenth Amendment would prevent further fe.
gressional interference, and thereby settle ta
vexed question of reconstruction in the Siata <f
Georgia.
Governor Bullock and the Kimball hretiat
of Connecticut, purchased a building for$30,M^
in the city of Atlanta, and after making ta t-
rangement with the municipal authorities oftk
said city for the conversion of said building ia
a capital for the State, said municipal amh»
ities binding themselves to pay to the raid Kb-
ball brothers and the said Bullock, $10,000 «t
annum for five years, and also to furnish, iliia
expense of the city, a suitable mansion for lit
Governor. The' building, per contract, n
prepared for tlie meeting of the Leebk*nt
Soon thereafter a scheme was concocted hj Got
Bullock and the Kimball brothers to pjaiE
through the Legislature authorizing the pu
clfase of said building by the State, as a pea
nent capitol, for the sum of three hvndrd ti»
sand dollars! The Legislature refused to t»
come a party to the fraud upon the State,irild
action greatly offended Gov. Bullock and sk
Kimball brothers.
Gov. Bollock then, for tho purpose of rare*
ing himself npon a people- who would direu
elect a Legislature that should prtsmne It
thwart his speculations, repaired post-haste*
■Washington city, where he proceedcd toiMa
the State of Georgia before tho AmerieinC*
gross for anndry grievances, misdemeanor! i*
rebellious proclivities.
Congress was asked to interfere in beniJ i
tho poor negro, who had been so ratik*!
ejected from the Legislature, when he vfflf
have been so useful to Bullock inthe pissisif
a bill for the sale of the capifol buildit-g.
Congress, however, not knowing the seiretd
Gov. Bullock’s sympathy for the Africa bp
lators, initiated legislation to recocs&i
Georgia anew. With this view the Sanaa
Edmunds bills were introduced into the Se
and the Bntler bill in tho House. Overt.a
ing proof was presented to Congress that e«
statement mado by Gov. Bullock about tM
bellious and lawless acts of the people cf
gia was untrue. . .,
Hon. Nelson Tift had an interview jw
President, on whioh occasion he saidn
Legislature of Georgia would pass a issm
referring tho question of negro eligibility to
Supreme Conrt of tho State, and woou -
themselves to abide by that decision, ta*
(the President,) would recommend tops iw
in Congress to suspend further action*
case of Georgia. „
Upon *hig pledge of tho President, o*.
addressed a telegram to the Georgia
staling what tho President had said, tie
gram was written at the White Hosse M
mitted to the President. On the reerip
telegram by the Legislature, a reantaw®
ring the question of negro eligibility to ‘
premo Court of the State was passed wi.m*
position. In tho resolution the .
pledged itself to abide by whatever decs.
Conrt might make. Tho Conrt ^ ec; “
negro was eligible to office in Georgia,
he had been illegally andwrongfudyeje^
the Legislature. This decision wns i- 3 --
than eight months ago, and Governor n
although repeatedly solicited to
Legislature (by which this bodycMM*
strata to Congress and to the Rti 51 .. ",«
they intended to carry ont the spin t
letter of the resolution) has steadii.- ^
Governor Bnllock has also refused^ _■
single eleotion for the many %
Legislature. And ho has refused t
election for members of the Hooti . . .
sentatives, but has presumed to cop •
members elected solely to the Fortie ^
for the full term of the Fortg-fird^
Yet he says Georgia is not reconti .,,
Tno Legislature of Georgia
tho month of January, 1S70, but bef ^
islaturo has time to assemble, ana
good faith the resolution agreeing, ^
the decision of the Supremo Court , ,
Gov. Bullook hastens before wnjFj,
©very conceivable statement of 1 7^1
malignity that an unscnipuloiB ,, {
heart can concoct and asks tii« - ^
lature to give a snap judgment W ir
and law-abiding people, whom ne ^ ,
to represent as Governor. A P'‘ ,
more false, and more fiendish ne
from tho brain of the vilest of “ j* i\
"If Georgia is to be tried in ®
drumhead court-martial, her peop ^ jj
privilege of confronting
prayer of every Georgian that ‘ fS
be what it may, it should not^,
by him—who stands reeking m,,^
conceivable crime known, to th “ , $gw
With a test oath Legislature (
none in the South) and a n e h j a ni
Bullock would destroy every ^
rapt the State. No crow would » ^ J
migration would cease, th® c - ' ^ is
depreciate, and universal cna
reign supreme. n„„ r ei» fropj
Will not Congress save •-Zys
fate, and give her Legislature a P
prove their pledge by n ®
That Rufus B. Bullock is w *
every statement which he has of Qd
tho vengeance and ®tr on 8. i, er p<
against the people of 0^ or & 1 ’ re ,pert
prepared to prove by the « ost ,
publicans of the State. T
farther to prove that he has p ^
of laige sums of money ; sna
poachment by the Legislate «-« «
toauthorize him to assemble
can subscribe to the test o *jl
would divest Georgia of ahpr® bi * sfl
mit the Governor to
rious sohemes of plunder, e
eelf elected Mo ^ I** _
Aa a peaceful, ind»stnoiw, »“_,t» I j
people, webegleave to^ or c f p °S>J
Simon Cameron,
lambuaDelano,Offi.-jbewSjl
Woodward, of &&
have just retained from
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