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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. 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