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. r . I0 gpi nk without arrogance. 1 have received, at
tnr hands. the highest honors within your power to
. ,vv. I have evinced my gratitude, by executing
tiust confided to me, l'dithfuJly and to the best ot
’ riocr a- ili'V. I feei ihat my public career u *nded,
„ I am unconscious of anr selfish purposes so influence
» conduct as a citizen. Some of you have differed from
7l ' y ' to the acceptance of the scheme of Congressional
m nrstmetioi.; you differed from me on the ratification
7,h« 'constitution. I regret that we could not all see
01 alike This, however, was not to be expected.
f.' .'. our right, as it was mine, to form your own opin
, 'la till.on them. Eutnowtbe work is done and
"U ( id men should see that it is a failure iu the main;
H H ti a' to the extent that it proves to he a success, it is
.V'e-s at the sacrifice of the welfare of our State;
'■ ' • > nose under whose dictation it has been accomplish
'"/* defy the Constitution and prorose measures and
' -ies that lead to despotism; and that the featiye of
’ ; phet” which induced them to vole for ratification has
/ ve d u , i,.. a cheat and delusion It matters not, in this
' i '.-st whether you are Democrats or Whigs—you are
•Aryans. proud of the glorious old Commonwealth;
nv- the friends of the Constitution and would see it
, i an ' respected by every department of the Gov
» r imerit; you are opposed to usurps 4 ion and cannot sanc
f , on t j ie concentration of all power, Stare and Federal, in
Congress so as to render that branch of the General
(rovernuniit supreme mid irresponsible. Then, regard
gg 0 f former po'i'ical distinctions, let us unite together,
Vthe interests of Georgia’s honor and prosperity, and in
•he interests of popular liberty, and strike another bold
J cl manly blow for Constitutional Government. Or
"n\w for the conflict; o ganizeiu every county and dis
?• r arouse the people from fatal lethargj; aronae them
~t 'by words if denunciation; not by appeals to their
/'•ei.-dices and passions, but to their r» ason and patiiot
l , 'i'he stake is valuanle above all earthly piice; it is
coon Govkrnm** nt f >r ourselves a<id our posterity.
Very respectfully, your fe; lew citizen,
Herschel V. Johnson'.
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The Catholic Church in Wilming
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r I he Camilla Riot.—Most of our read
ers have, doubtless, heard of the Camilla
Riot by this time ; but, as a part of the
history of the times, and as a faithful re
presentation of the affair, we publish, in
the present number of the Banner, the
letter of Hon. B. H. Hill, of this State,
to the New York Tribune on the subject
NEW ORLEANS(LA.)CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Popular Education—The Public School
System—Some Good in it after all —
The Science of Properly Treating
Radicals — What Should be done with
Them—The Work of the Destructives
—Destruction of the Negro Race —
Improvements about New Orleans —
Hos man’s Patent Brick Kiln— 11 An
other Bloody Riot in New Orleans ” —
Only a Practical Joke of the Radicals
* —Another Negro Riot — u Lo! the
Poor Negro !”
New Orleans, Sept. 30, 1868.
Dar ner of the South :
Notwithstanding my enthusiastic ad
vocacy of popular education, you know
very well that I am, by no means, a blind
follower of the public school system, as
it exists in this country. On the con
trary, I decidedly condemn it, as an ob
stacle to the true education of our youth,
i. e., the education of the heart and soul.
For, in the said schools, while his intel
lectual forces are developed and strength
ened to their utmost capacity, the moral
and religious are either entirely neglected
or else prevented, by an infusion of Puri
tanism, which fits its possessor rather to
be mischievous than beneficial to society.
Hence, I hold that society would be
better off if the people were left unedu
cated, than to have its youth trained to
be powerful for evil-doing; for we all
know that an evil-doer is the more hurt
ful in proportion to his education and in
telligence.
This train of thought on the evils
flowing from our public schools, was in
duced by my discovering, a few days ago,
there was some good in the much abused
system, after all. On asking a pupil of
the Public High School what part of
mathematics he was studying, ho replied,
Algebra; and, in answer to a little fur
ther questioning, he informed me that the
especial branch under investigation at
this time, was the “Treatment of Radi
cles!" Disregarding the orthography of
the term, I was struck with the appro
priateness of the study to the present
condition of the country ; and 1 could
not help wishing that our High School
were, for the nonce, a Normal Academy,
whose pupils, after mastering the subject,
should be sent, as missionaries, through
out the land, to instruct the whole Nation
in the science of properly treating the
Radicals. It seems to me this is the one,
great, political need of the day.
1 tlimk the hour is at hand when they
must be treated summarily, if we would
avoid worse treatment at their hands,
ihe people ot the whole country have
too long borne with their infamies. We
are too apt to think that a small incendi
ary faction is harmless, because of its
smallness, and of the numerous eyes
watching its movements. We should "re
member that a single spark neglected, or
leit unextinguished, is apt to destroy a
whole community. Therefore, I say, let
the American people, without further de
la\, extinguish the hitherto despised
handful of incendiary Radicals, other
wise they will, in a very short time, de
stroy us! My alarm is not premature,
she spark has already taken the form of
ame. Senator (!) Pinchbeck’s promised
torch has already been applied—last
Tuesday night—in this city; and I doubt
not it is only a question of (a very time,)
time, as concerns the full execution
of his threat to destroy th is city by fire,
unless he and his associate white “torch
es’’ be quickly extinguished.
Not alone the interest of property,
but the very existence of the African race
in this country, is imperilled by these De
structives. Conscious of how far the Ne
gro is their superior, in all the better
traits of humanity—sneh as honesty, fi
delity, and straight-forwardness of char
acter—these wretches, being now on the
same soeial level, cannot bear the stinging
contrast daily presented ; and they are
consequently determined that the Negro
must he exterminated. And they are
rapidly effecting his removal. Already,
since the poor blacks were forced away
from the protection of their masters, it is
estimated that about two millions of them
have perished from the brutality of their
“Yankee friends,” and the want of that
parental care, to which they were accus
tomed, and, without which, they cannot
survive. Ihus, it should be the duty of
every Southron to induce every good Ne
gro he knows, to join, as a matter of
self p, enervation, in the crusade against
the treacherous and destructive Radicals.
The curiosities in the domestic econo
my of large cities arc, sometimes, very
striking to the uninitiated. For instance:
In viewing the countless cottages, and ele
gant residences, perpetually going up, in
all parts of the city and suburbs, especially
in Jefferson City, and away up as far as
Carrollton, one may easily understand
the immense demand for lumber, which
gives employment to thousands of rafter
men, hundreds of saw-mills, and count
less carpenters; but, on seeing the mil
lions of bricks that arrive here in small
vessels, from across the Lake, and are
daily brought in from the numerous
brick -3 aids on both sides ot the river, we
are as much puzzled about their destina
tion, as we are to know “What becomes
of all the pins.” The other day, on visit
ing Hoffman’s Patent Brick Kiln, just
above the Ice anMufactory, I learned that
that one kiln, alone, turns out from 20,-
000 to 22,000 perfect brick every day!
and that the proprietors cannot nearly
supply the demand for their production.
Being one of the before mentioned un
initiated, I cannot say what becomes of
all the brick. That same kiln, however,
is mi interesting establishment to any
visitor. It is circular in foim, with
twelve compartments, each with a capaci
ty of over twenty thousand bricks, around
which the never-dying fire is made to
progress regularly ; so that each day one
compartment discharges its complement
ot baked brick, while its neighbor re
ceives a like quantity of freshly moulded
forms. By this arrangement, the econo
my ot heat is so great that two and a half
cords ot wood here, do the same amount
ot baking that fifteen cords are required
to do in the old fashioned kilns.
Doubtless the telegraph startled the
whole country, last Tuesday night, with
flaming accounts of ‘‘Another Bloody
Riot in New Orleans ?” whereas, the
whole affair was merely a pleasant little
practical joke, played by a procession of
Radicals, who walked in and helped
themselves to the contents of a few con
fectionery and liquor stores; after which
they drew their weapons and tried to kill
a few citizens, and make a bonfire of some
dwellings—that’s all. Unfortunately, the
citizens who sprang to the rescue were
unable to find among them a single one
of their diabolical, white-faced mis-lead
ers. One poor Negro lost his life in the
melee, and a few were wounded. On the
next occasion of this sort, it is generally
believed that some of the blackest-heart
ed white miscreants will be found,
wherever they may hide.
Southern Radical.
P- S. —Just as I am closing this, the
rumor comes in of another riot this
morning. One insolent Negro has been
shot dead, and some thousands of black
savages are now gathering, with arms,
around the capital. The school children
are flying, fiightened, through the streets;
yet there is no fear of any organized as
sault, for the mass of the citizens arc
known to bo armed for defence. The
only real fear is of the midnight torch;
but active steps are now being taken to
guard against much damage, even from
that—so that in a few days our families
may again sleep peacefully.
It is really hard to know what is now
to become of this horde of poor starving
Negroes. The city cannot help them,
and their friends(!) in the Legislature
will not. S. R.
A Distinction with a Difference.—
A Hibernian gazing at the Knitting Ma
chine, delighted with the rapidity with
which it made stockings, exclaimed :
“Be jabbers, but that is the fusht ma
chine I iver saw that made legs for child
rens’ stockings.” The boy who “runs
the machine,” informed him that it did
not make legs for childrens’ stockings,
hut stockings for childrens’ legs.
MEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Women’s Rights—Mew Movememt to be
Inaugurated—A Cbuple of Specimen
Meetings—Amusing Description of a
tl Strong-Minded Female”—She ' is
11 Squelched” by a young Girl—Web
ster’s Dictionary {the Correct Edi
tion—Hon. D. H Hill in New York
hen. Ilill and Chas. J. Jenkins —
The Political Situation—The South
has Stood and can Stand Grant—The
New York Herald’s Prophecy—Pro
found Respect for Southern States
manship still Existing at the North.
New York, Sept. 28, 1868.
Banner of the South :
The womens-rights women, the strong
minded women, the women who eschew
feminine raiment, and yearn after man’s
pedal integuments, as the hart for the
water brooks, have been out in great
force lately. Led on by some pestilent
old baggages, who look as if they were
cut out ot wood, and talk as if they were
filled with rusty saws, some young girls
and foolish married women have been
holding meetings here and hereabouts, for
the purpose of proving that a woman is
as good as a man, and a man is not half
as good as a woman, and the world is all
made wrong, and must be made over again;
and that we, emancipating ourselves from
the tyranny of ages, are the ones to do it.
In plain terms, there has been an effort
made here to inaugurate a movement
whereby women are to vote and sit on
juries, and hang about the polls on elec
tion day, like any other free and inde
pendent “feller.” Two of these meetings
let me describe.
One was held in a little village out of
this city, some short distance, where the
plea was, that, as the women, who owned
property, were in the majority, and the
village had no charter, it was eminently
fit and proper these aforesaid Seraphs
should virtually assume municipal control.
When the meeting, to decide this
momentous question, came on, however,
it was discovered that there were a
hundred men who owned property, to
forty women, whose fathers or husbands
had given or left them the fruit of their
toil. Next to this, it appeared that, though
the village had no charter forbidding
women to vote, the laws of the State
said only those should regulate munici
palities who were voters by the Constitu
tion ; and, on referring to that instrument,
the awful word “male” appeared, in all its
native hideousness, to utterly destroy the
fond hopes of the strong-minders. It was
decided that the women must stay at
home; and, as the boys of the village,
and some hard-hearted he-fellows raised a
cruel shout of exultation at this ludicrous
discomfiture—for the strong-minders fled
—the “movement” (this is the Yankee
name for some new tomfoolery), fell into
such bad odor, that, at least one of the
women present has issued a written
disclaimer of any endorsal of, or partici
pation iu, the business. r i lie next “move
ment ’ was, ostensibly, in order to pro
cure the working women of New York, a
man’s wages for a woman’s work. At
the head of this “movement ’ was a bony
female, whose name I spare, but as a
first-class strong-minder, cannot, injustice,
refrain from some description of her per
son. 111 appearance, then, she is tall, yea,
even as the lordly carneleopard, or the
useful pole upon which climbs the vine.
Straight, also, is this fair one, same size
all the way up, and with no protuber
ances on the way down. In black
dresses this bright one, this young gazelle,
in a dim, shabby, “poky-looking” robe
ot sable hue, and, on the head thereof,
doth the wearer boast a huge, spiky-look
ing diadem, which, in the fervor of elo
quence, trembles, and nods, and wavers,
like the wheat-field in a Summer breeze,
beet has this grieved one, like unto the
feet of the plcsio sauros, that noble ante
diluvian beast, whose foot-tracks had the
shape, size, and symmetry of a barrel
head. A sharp iio.se, and a ditto voice,
has our “movement” woman, and now
that 3*oll have her before 3*oll, let me pic
ture the meeting. Some two score 3*oung
women were present, all deeply convinced
that they did not get enough wages—
as, indeed, they do not, poor things, this
accursed despotism taxing everything five
times over, from the bread thc3' eat to the
wretched little ribbons wherewith they
seek to set off their fast-fading bloom—
convinced they diu not get enough wages,
desiring to hit on some plan to make them
more; and profoundly ignorant how to do
it. To them, thus in doubt, arises this
big-footed, spike-crowned, piny-looking
mother of the “movement”—she is the
mother of nothing else that I know of—
whom I have described. Instead of telling
them how to accomplish their purpose, or
of giving them some good advice as to
their morals, manners, or conduct, in the
wilderness of a great city, this sour old
crab set off, full tilt, in an argument to
make it appear that the ballot was all
the} 7 wanted to make them rich, pros
perous, and happy. One Miss spoke up,
saying they had not come there for poli
tics, but bread; that politics degraded
high, and that she, the oratrix, desired
nothing to do with them. This set the
ouy one on fire, and they had a very
ive y time, until, at last, the girls had so
much good sense as to vote the old crab
ow n. And there the matter rests. Let
us lope it may never be resurrected.
Home is the woman’s sceptre, love her
empire, and the heart her throne.
In a prior letter, some mention was
made of an audacious forgery perpetrated
by some “trooly loil” rascal on Webster’s
Dictionary, by striking out the original
definitions of quite a number of words,
such as Constitution, Congress , and so
on, and inserting, in the stead thereof,
bogus definitions in consonance with
“ moral ideas;” and in order that the
reader might not be duped into buying a
mutilated and doctored edition, the warn
ing was given not to purchase an} r edition
ot that Dictionary issued since 1857. By
some mistake, this was printed, 1867.
The safe edition is that of 1857 ; those
since are to be suspected.
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing
that determined champion of the Consti
tution, B. 11. Hill. He is looking as full
of life as ever, and will yet see the day
when what some now call his “ ill regu
lated impetuosity” will appear as the
wisest and most far-seeing statesmanship.
In revolutionary times, there is no such
thing as being too impetuous against ty
ranny. It is a thing not to be paltered
with, but stood up to, foot to foot, eye to
eye, and battled out, just as old Andy
Jaekson was accustomed to battle, for
“ a clean victory, or a clean defeat.”
Governor Jenkins was also “ impetuous,”
1 dare say, in some men’s e}*es, when he
told Sweat-box Meade to his face that he
should not have one cent of the people of
Georgia’s money for his jail-bird Conven
tion at Atlanta, bayonet or no bayonet,
and yet 1 fane}' we shall all live to see
bjth Chas. J. Jenkins and Ben H. Hill
reeeive that full approbation that cour
age in a good cause deserves.
1 he political situation is not, just at this
juncture, a pleasing one. But still, in
all contests the tide must ebb and flow,
and there is not so much to be anxious
about as, perhaps, some accounts from
here might dispose you to believe. The
issue is 111 the hands of a good God, who
never permanently deserts the afflicted ;
and, if it is written that the Butcher of
the \\ ilderness is to be President, those
who stood him without flinching for four
years of war can stand him for four years
of peace. The Herald, of this morning,
says that Grant will be elected, but that,
in 1872, “ the Southerners will come up
again, when, in conjunction with the
Democratic elements of the West and
North, and, through their superior states
manship, they will govern the country
for fifty years.” While I cannot, by any
means, agree in the statement that Grant
is so sure as this assumes him to be, it
would take a very dull observer not to
see that there is a profound respect for
Southern statesmanship still existing in
the North, bitterly as it may be scoffed
at, or denied. Old Bennett is very right
in thinking the South must rise, for, to
hold down ten millions of people who live
iu a fertile clime, is like holding dowu a
cork—up it pops the moment 3*ou re
move the pressure, and, ten chances to
one, but it even slides from under the
pressure, and comes to the surface with
out the consent of the pressure at all.
Tyrone Powers.
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The Pope and iiis Villas. —Mgr.
Anivitti of Rome—one of the illustrious
of that city, has lately thus announced to
the world, the character of the Pope’s
Villas:
“ It is the delight of most sovereigns to
beautify their Palaces and country seats,
and render them delightful b> r the ameni
ty of their position and the refinements of
their arrangements. Pius IX. has his
Villas no loss, which it is his great pleas
ure to lay out to the best of his advantage;
but they are—the Villa Gabrielli, which
is devoted to the advancement of agri
cultural knowledge; the Villa Barberini,
which serves as a place of diversion for
those mentally afflicted; the Villa Pia,
where the bo3*s of industrial schools are
taught husbandry; the Villa Santueci,
which affords pure air to the pupils of the
Seminario Pio; the \ ilia Palatiua, which
makes ample pleasure ground for the
college boys of S. Sirigi, attached to the
University of Saint Apollinare; the Orto
Butanico, for the cultivation of rare and
useful plants, and more especially those
of the Pharmacopoeia ; and if last, by no
j means least, the gardens destined for the
| enjoyment of the boys of the night schools,
in which, he takes so great interest—
one opened by him for the school of the
Borgo in 1853, and the other for that in
the Trastevere, last June.”
We commend the foregoing to our
Protestant cotemporaries. Let them con
trast it with their usual ideas of Papal
infamy.
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