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The Rusty Sword.
BY KLZEY HAY,
Only a shattered blade,
Rusty and worn,
Back in its scabbard laid,
Useless, forlorn;
There, let it rest, for aye,
Wasting in slow decay,
Conquered, we sadly say;
Its work is done.
Not ever thus it hung,
liusting alone;
Brightly once gleamed it, on
Stern battle morn.
Eager eyes met its flash
In the mad battle’s clash,
Where friend and foemen rash,
Each to his doom.
Broken and battered now,
Useless it hangs;
Vet, one heart made its vow—
One pair of hands,
Lifted to Heaven, swore
It never rest should know,
While there remained a foe
In Fatherland.
Dim now, the eager eyes;
Cold the proud heart;
Low in the ground it lies,
Mouldering apart.
Gone is the sword to rust;
Fallen the hands to dust;
Every bright hope is crushed,
In midnight dark.
Vet, though there’s none to wield
Liberty’s Sword,
On some far battio-fleld,
Ages untold;
There are hands yet unborn,
And heroes yet unknown,
That shall win back their own,
By traitors sold l
Keep, then, this sacred steel,
Belie of those
Who, ’gainst the wrongs we feel,
Proudly arose;
And, though oppressed, they fell
In anguish no tongue can tell;
Their blood has cast a spell
Over our woes.
The Camilla Blot—Hon. B. 11. Hill.
We give below and in the order we find
them, a telegram from Atlanta to the New
York Tribune and a letter from Hon. B
H. Hill to the same paper and on the same
subject:
The editor of the Tribune knows as well
as we do, that the statements in his Atlan
ta dispatch are unblushingly/a?se, yet he
publishes them to the world and endorses
them editorially to his thousands of read
ers. The Radical cause must be getting
desperate to justify or require such whole
sale lying to save it from disaster. These
one-sided Radical statements in relation to
the Camilla riot are the only versions of
that unfortunate affair which the Radical
misses have ever seen. Hence when Mr.
Hill attempts, through the medium ol
the Radical Pres?, to place the whole facts
before them, the Tribune man at once be
labors Mr. Hill with unfair and. garbled
extracts from some of his previous speeches.
The Tribune is not willing to let Mr.
Hill’s and its Atlanta correspondents state
ments to go before its readers upon their
own merits, but attempts to weaken the
force of Mr. Hill’s letter by allusions to
his known hostility to the Reconstruction
measures and his opposition to all the
revolutionary schemes of the Radical Jac
obins. This is a fair sample of Radical
lairuoss and honesty :
THE CAMILLA RIOTS.
The Massacres in Camilla —Lives Saved
By the Masonic Signal—Negroes limit
ed with Dogs—-The Investigation.
Atlanta, September 24.—An official
investigation of the Camilla mas acre
shows that it was even more bloody and
atrocious than was at first reported.
Captain Pierce and Mr. Mutphy saved
their lives by making the Masonic signal.
The negroes were hunted with dogs, and
when caught they were butchered in cold
blood. The Democrats of the Legislature
adopted a whitewashing report, yesterday,
and to-day Mr. Bryant, of the House,
moved to reconsider this action and to
send the report back to the Committee,
with instructions to make it full and im
partial ; but the Democrats in the House,
aware that the committee had white
washed the riot, promptly voted down
the motion to reconsider. Gen. Sibley
has sent an officer to Camilla to make a
seaieking investigation and to report
upon this massacre. Judge Pierce, of’
Indiana, passed through here to-day, on
his way to Albany, to see liis brother, who
is badiy wounded.
LETTER FROM THE HON, B H. HILL.
To the Editor of the Tribune :
Sir : — I have read all you have said
in the Tribune on the subject of the collis
ion at Camilla in the State of Georgia.
I beg permission to make a statement
which will present this whole affair in its
true light to you and the Northern people.
Parly in the canvass the whites of that
State (nine-tenths of whom are Democrats)
received positive _ information that the
negroes ivere being encouraged to arm
themselves and hold nightly drills in mili
tary style. They were told that the ob
ject of the Democratic party was to re-en
slave them, and that they must resist its
success by force, and especially kill negroes
who should vote the Democratic ticket.
' cry soon this canard, which originated
in the Leagues, was opeuly proclaimed,
w hite and colored speakers at public
meetings advised the negroewto get ready
to fight, and were reminded that they
coulu use the torches for dwellings as well
as the guns and axes against people. A
painful rumor obtained currency that the
acting Governor (Bullock) was in pym
pathy with, if not actually aidi;£,
this movement. Ido not know
was actually so. This state of things
naturally created alarm. Several out
breaks were attempted, and several con
spiracies to kill white people were detect
ed, and the negroes, when arrested in dif
ferent portions of the State, said they had
authority and orders to this effect. We
also most satisfactorily obtained informa
tion that the object of the few whites who
incited the negroes to their crimes was
two-fold. Ist. To place the negroes, by
discipline and excitement, beyond the in
fluences which urght induce them to vote
with the Democrats, or not to vote at all.
2d. To provoke collisions expressly to
influence the Northern people with
charges of “ Rebel outrages.” Now the
interests and the policy of the whites was
just the reverse. In the*first place, it was
Democratic property, and Democratic
families, which would be endangered if
riots occurred. In the next place, if the
negroes became demoralized by these po
litico-military organizations and frequent
assemblages, the crops would not be well
gathered ; and Democrats owned the crops,
and .their impoverished condition made
them anxious to gather as much as pos
sible for the anticipated high prices. But
lastly, we knew that the result of the
Presidential election depended chieflv on
the vote of the Northern States, ana we
were exceedingly anxious to avoid every
possible occurrence which could excite the
passions of the Northern people. Our
property, our safety, our families, our ma
turing crops, and out party policy all com
bined to make us anxious—unusually
anxious—to keep the peace. How could
we effectually keep the peace ? None but
those who felt the responsibility will ever
know the difficulties with which our situa
tion invested thife question. But we re
solved by common concert and counsel,
First: To bear every insult, and even
outrage, possible, and never to resist or
resort to force in any form, except when
actually necessary to protect property,
person, or family.
Second : To stop, by the constituted
State authority, all these nightly drillings,
secret military organizations, and armed
assemblages, of every character, and cal
culated to break the peace.
We had no confidence that the Govern
or would voluntarily aid us. Therefore,
letters were addressed to the Legislature
urging action. The Legislature did act
by passing resolutions requesting and urg
ing the Governor to issue his proclamation
forbidding these armed demonstrations.
The Governor issued his proclamation,
but in style and with false charges which
greatly confirmed the worst fears of the
whites as to his sympathy with these
movements.
But we had the proclamation, and we
hoped that all threatened dangers would
disappear. Now, there was not the slight
est desire, as you seem to think, of inter
fering with the constitutional right of
black and white “to keep and bear arms,”
or to have Republican meetings—as many
and so long as they desire. We only de
sired to prevent military drills, and or
ganizations not authorized by law, and
armed assemblages calculated to break the
peace ; and these we desired to prevent
by legal authority , executed by the civil
officer. You now have the exact reason
why the Sheriff met the approaching
armed procession, and after exhibiting the
Governor’s proclamation, told the leaders
they could hold the meeting peaceably, but
begged them not to attempt it in violation
of that proclamation.
Camilla is a very small village of not ex
ceeding, I would say, 300 inhabitants —
black and white—men, women, and chil
dren.
A large assemblage of negroes gathered
from surrounding counties, led by these
white men, and all armed, and to be ex
cited by inflammatory speeches, and many
of them by other causes, placed the peo
ple, families, and houses of that little
village in danger of pillage, rape and burn
ing with the alternative, if prevented, of
fearful “ Rebel outrages,” to kill negroes,
and prevent free speech, scattered all over
the North just as the State election was
approaching which, it was believed, would
determine the Presidential election !
I know both Pierce and Murphy, the
two white men who conducted this whole
affair. They are of the most emphatic
specimens of what are termed carpet-bag
gers Before the passage of the Recon
struction measures, there was no com
plaint heard against them. These meas
ures disfranchised every intelligent white
citizen who had held office in that country.
Pierce settled as a Bureau agent in Lee
county, and Murphy in Dougherty county,
adjoiuing the county in which Camilla is
situated, ami in the counties of Lee and
Dougherty there are five negroes to oue
white. I have no idea that one dozen
white Republicans could be found in the
three counties. Thus, you see at a glance
the temptations offered to Pierce and
Murphy to get offices by the large negro
votes. Accordingly since the passage of the
Reconstruction measures these men have
sorted with the negroes. Pierce was lor a
time a candidate for Congress at the last
election. He has now received the nomi
nation for that position from a convention
of negroes. Murphy was elected Sheriff
by the negroes at the last election, but was
unable to give the bond. He is now, I
believe, on the electoral ticket. vV e have
narrowly escaped several bloody riots in
that region before. Our people here
believed these men, especially the latter
incited them. They were both distinctly
in view, with others, when we counted the
difficulties in the way of preserving the
peace, and when we sought to secure the
proclamation.
Du.t in spite of that proclamation, and
all the remonstrances of our people, and
the fears of our women and children, they
persisted in holding armed assemblages of
negroes, and the Camilla riot is the un
fortunate result.
The Camilla riot, properly understood,
will exhibit to the Northern people more
clearly than a thousand speeches could,
the exact reason why the Southern whites
are at. present unwilling to extend univer
sal, indiscriminate suffrage to the negroes.
It is because they can be taken possession
of by a very few bad white men seeking
office at their hands, and made terrors to
society, and destroyers of safety for prop
erty and security for families. Many of
the more intelligent understand and re
pudiate these influences, but the greater
number do not.
In these very counties of Lee and
Dougherty, in which Pierce aud Murphy
reside, I do personally know (for I plant
in both those counties) that in IB6o—after
the surrender, mark you—lands were
selling at from $lO to S2O per acre. Im
mediately after the passage of these Decon
struction measures these very lands com
menced declining, and I doknowthat some
of them have recently been sold (with cot
ton as high as it was in 1806) at one dollar
per acre in gold !
To have our families and our lives thus
constantly menaced and our property de
preciated, is certainly a fearful and sad
condition. Let every man in the North
place himself, his family, and his property
in this condition in his native country,
and then, when he makes the most peace
able efforts possible, in a lawful way, to
avert these dangers, let him hear himself
denounced as “a Hebei,” “an enemy,”
and ‘*a traitor,” and guilty of “Hebei out
rages,” and he will have some idea of the
exact condition of the Southern whites,
many of whom did all in their power, like
the writer, to prevent Secession, and who
have never seen the day when they would
not give their lives to preserve the Con
stitution.
Our people bear these evils. Is there
any other people who would bear them so
patiently? Why do they bear them?
Because they look hopefully to the North
ern people to rescue them. They want,
above all things, peace. They will make
any other sacrifice, accede to any other de
mand the North can make, to secure
peace. But they cannot and they will not
consent, by their own act, to dishonor
themselves by disfranchising their wisest
and best men, and agree to a scheme
which must place their wives and their
children, and their little remnant of prop
erty, under the domination of ignorant,
semi-barbarous negroes, excited and led on
by a few bad white men, who have no de
sire but to e-et office at the hands of these
negroes. Why should they, for peace,
consent to that which must destroy all
peace? Y r ours, very trulv,
’ B. II llill.
New York, Sept, 24, 1808.
The Late Cardinal Wiseman.— A
piece of ground, of nearly three
acres in extent, has been secured in
Westminster, near Buckingham Palace,
and the splendid range of buildings, now
in course of erection, on the Belgravian
estate of the Marquis of Westminster, on
which it is intended to erect a cathedral
for “the Diocese of Westminster,” and as
<i memorial of the late Cardinal Wise
man. On the completion of the cathe
dral, the remains of the Cardinal, which
now lie in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Kensal
green, will be removed to the chapel to
be built for their reception. Meanwhile,
Mr. Pugin has been commissioned to
furnish a design for the shrine which is
to cover the grave in the cemetery.
"Plie Sacramento Record , of a late date,
announces to ics readers that there is a
lady in that city, from Kentucky, can
vassing for a hook, entitled, “ The Cam
paigns of Lieut. Gen. Forrest, and of
Forrest’s Cavalry,” and also for Father
Ryan’s Runner cjf the South , aud then
adds : “ Through courtesy alone we make
this announcement, and recommend the
reading of neither to the public.” Os
course not ? You would have the public
continue to read your articles ou the su
periority of the Negroes over that of the
white race, and other like falsehoods, to
reading the truth aud learning wisdom
therefrom. You work upon the rule that,
“If ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be
wise.” —Sonoma (Cal.) Democrat, Aug.
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