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MORE ATTRACTION.
We shall commence in the issue of
The Banner, of the South, of Nov.
21st, the Second Part of
THE EARLS OF SUTHERLAND,
By Ruth Fairfax,
A LADY OF GEORGIA.
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the exciting interest developed in the first
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THE ELECTION ON TUESDAY LAST-
The contest has been fought, and lost—
lost to the South, the Union, and the
Constitution. The enemies of Civil and
Religious Liberty have triumphed, and
the Sun of Constitutional Freedom has
set in blood and darkness. The States
man and Patriot has given place to the
Soldier and Tyrant; and the dark cloud
of slavery and oppression, to-day, casts its
baleful influence over a Nation, disgraced,
shackled, and ruined. The People—that
mighty power, of which Politicians prate
so much—have proved themselves un
worthy of the great boon of Freedom
which their sires bequeathed them.
They have torn down the banner of
Liberty, and flung to the poisoned breeze
the black flag of Tyranny and Oppres
sion. But it is not the province of a
brave people to despair, or to falter in the
defence of Right and Truth. We are
beaten now. But we must not give up
the contest. We must renew our exer
tions, and perhaps, some day, the light of
Truth and Justice will break upon the
benighted people of the North, and awaken
them to a sense of their folly, their error,
and their treachery.
To the gallant Democracy who have
stood by their principles, we of the South
owe a debt of lasting gratitude. They
have acted nobly. But, for the poltroons
and traitors who allowed themselves to
be deceived by Radical falsehoods and
misrepresentations, and deserted their
colors in the hour of greatest peed, we can
have nothing but loathing and contempt;
and the consoling assurance that they,
too, will have to share in the suffering
and shame which they have helped to
fasten upon their country.
As the smoke of battle clears away, we
find the result as follows :
FOR SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.
New York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky,
and Oregon—B.
FOR GRANT AND COLFAX.
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti
cut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and
West Virginia—2l.
DOUBTFUL, OR NOT VOTING.
Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, California,
and Kansas—s.
Thus it will be seen that the Radical
victory is complete and overwhelming.
But it was not achieved without treachery,
corruption, and bloodshed.
In Augusta, two lives were lost. Mr.
Ruffin, the Sheriff of the County, and a
Negro man, named Carroll Dent; the
latter, in a riot—the former, in a miscon
ceived idea of his official duty.
In Savannah, a bloody riot also oc
curred, in which some five or six lives
were lost. t
And so the man of blood goes into
office, with the insignia of blood about
him, and the responsibility of fraud, cor
ruption, and riot, upon him. Let us pos
sess our souls in patience, trusting that,
in good time, the God of Justice will de
liver us out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage, even as he delivered
our Fathers, in the dim, distant ages of the
Past.
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Synodus Diocesana Baltimorensis Septi
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tembris, A. D. 1868, In Ecclesia Colle
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pitii, Baltimore Habita ; Ab Ulustris
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ne Spalding, Archiepiscoßaltimorensi.
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phy, Summi Pontiflcis, Atque Archie
piscopi Baltimorensis Typographus.
Baltirnorac. 1868.
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The Messenger of the Sacred Heart
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NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
“ Target Companies”—How They
* l ßone” — Fetischism —Adjournment
of Episcopal Convention—Strong
minded Women—Going to Have a
Jubilee—The Presidential Election —
The Result not' Final—Fighting for
Position Consent an impregnable
Stronghold—"l will Remove far from
You the Northern Army.”
New York, Nov. 3d, 1868.
Banner of the South :
Politics are at fever heat, and "target
companies” flourish accordingly. To
explain this, let me say that a “target
company” is an association of from forty
to an hundred fellows, who rig themselves
up in a sort of uniform, black pants, red
flannel shirts, and glazed caps being a fa
vorite attire,?stick guns on their shoul
ders, hire a brass band and, under the
valiant leadership of about one officer
to every five men, march out of the city,
to some suburban resort, w T here they
drink whiskey, smoke cabbage-leaf ci
gars, and bang away with old fashioned
muskets at a target, for prizes, in the
shape of the most elegant pewter gob
lets, and massive sets of silver table
ware, made out of tin. These gorgeous
festivities taking place in the Fall, when
elections are just about to come off, and
the targeteers being mostly voters —
some of them such accomplished suffra
gans that they will vote for you all day
—it is notsurpising that politicians anx
ious to obtain office should supply the
funds. This process is termed “boning,”
and is carried to a great extent, this can
didate being “boned” for the music, and
that one for the hire of the guns, and the
other for a prize, and so on. When every
body has been bled as much as he will
stand, forth go the bold targeteers, the
brass band puffing and thumping, in the
van, and a big buck Nigger carrying the
target, which is generally decorated with
ribbons and flowers by the company’s
“gals,” bringing.up the rear. This last
is a sacred point, tor, unless a “moke,”
as a Negro is called by these New York
ruffians, carries the target, the company
would consider itself abominably ill
used. Early in the morning, the main
streets resound with the uproar of these
gangs going out of the city ; and at the
nightfall, back they come, the brass
band still thumping, the “moke” still car
rying the target., which about one ball in
twenty hits, and the successful marksmen
proudly bearing their tin jewelry on
their noble breasts.
Speaking of “mokes,” I must mention
a very remarkable article which lately
appeared in one of the City papers, which
asserts, and gives many extracts from
Southern journals to prove, that the lately
emancipated slaves arc relapsing into the
old African superstitions of Obi. One writer
puts the case in almost a laughable way,
by saying that the “trooly loil” preachers
who swarmed in the South just after the
war, proved to the Negro that the old
time preacher was a tyrant; that the Ne
gro then proved to himself that the “loil”
parson was a cheat and a thief; and slave
religion thus presenting itself to his
clouded mind as a delusion, whether in
slavery or out of it, he had no recourse but
to fall back on the creed of his cannibal
forefathers and begin to believe in Obi
After a session of twenty days the Tri
ennial Convention of the Episcopal
Church yesterday adjourned. Beyond
merely routine business, not much was
done. Ritualism was dodged, the Tyng
case went off on a side issue, though the
vote showed the justness of his sentence
would have been confirmed had it come
to the scratch, the Prayer-book was not
amended, nor the Nicenc Creed “recon
structed,” as at first proposed. One re
markable statement made in the course of
debate was that, in several of the New
England States, a man’s pew in church
was subject to seizure for debt, not much
to the credit of “God’s people,” one
would say. Furthermore, in debate, it
was argued that the “Episcopal Freed
men’s Commission” ought to have its
name changed, on account of the ignomi
ny attaching to the Freedmen’s Bureau,
and, accordingly, as the argument was ir
resistible, the change was made. Alto
gether, the action of the Convention has
been safe, and if it has done no good the
body can, at least ,say it has done no harm,
My old friend, the bony Woman’s
rights woman, is hard at it again, bless
her dear old peaked soul! She lias broke
out in a fresh place and is going to make
a woman equal to two men before she
is through with it. We are going to
have a great popular demonstration at
which women are to speak so much louder,
and longer, and faster, than men, that
nobody can doubt henceforth forever but
that they are the superior sex. Bless
their souls! Fll bet two dollars and a
half, as Artemus Ward used to say, 1 could
put a good looking young fellow on the
stage when the women were haranguing,
and the last one of ’em would step s } )orf
oft” aud go to smoothing down her dress
and “primping” her hair.
And now a word on politics. By the
time this reaches you, the election" will
have been decided. As the arguments
have all been argued and the speeches
all spoken; as the testimony is fully i n
and the case goes to the jury, there is
very little to say, pending the verdict. If
Seymour is to be President, well and
good; if Grant, why let it be Grant, l n
neither case is there reason for extrava
gant exultation on the one side, or inde
cent dejection on the other. We are all
in the hands of One to whom even the
great Yankee Nation is of as little real
value as a worm. If we are true to our
selves; if we keep the faith that is in us
if we ask nothing but what is right, and
acquiesce in nothing that is wrong; if f i„
one word, we show ourselves worthy of li
berty, liberty, in His own good time, will
be ours. As I write, I feel something 0 f
that solid composure which comes on one
at the eve of battle. We may stand, and
we may fall, but, whichever it be, let
our bearing be such us becomes men
equal to any fate. The great struggle
now pending, and to her decided ere I
write again, is not a fiual fight.
will be decided by it but a mere change
of base. It is but, after all, a mere im»n
oeuvering for position, and, however it go,
let me once more declare that if we show
ourselves worthy of liberty, liberty will
at last, be ours. Some say the spirit of
the South will break. It will not break
It will not bend. “/ will remove far
from you the Northern Army,” is the sol
emn prophetic language of the Good
Book, that each of us may take to him
self to-day. Let him comejtliis Butcher,
if it be so ordained. Our souls are our
own, and he, with all his legions, cannot
conquer them. And unless he does con
quer them, all his servile Congresses and
all his huge majorities will be but as
dust in the balance. Our impregnable
fortress is our Consent. Treachery may
undermine it; cowardice may throw open
its gates; but violence can never take it by
storm.
Do not believe it, that, if this contest go
adversely, the cause of the South will at
once lack champions. There are those
who see incarnated in that cause every
principle of that glorious heritage for
which the English Commons fought five
hundred years, and, whatever others may
do, these men at least will never give it
up; never! never! It has been said that
“there are as good hearts to serve men in
palaces as in cottages,” and believe, like
wise, that there yet live some to whom
the peltings of defeat are of no more po
tency in swaying their convictions than
would be the gentle downfall upon them
of so much dew. I know such men; up
right, inflexible, possessed with so divine
and sacred a love of Liberty that you
would sooner wrench the soul out of their
body than wrest Liberty out of their soul.
I might mention such men all over Geor
gia, and in Alabama, and South Caro
lina, and in Virginia, and Florida, and
all thoughout a noble country, now tem
porarily downcast, but destined, as the
night is followed by the day, to rise, ere
long, in majesty and power. As long as
they live,l know the South is safe. And
back of them stand, in serried phalanx,the
outraged, betrayed, outlawed, insulted,
down-trodden people, men who have seen
their brethren fall beside them, bathed in
blood, and never will believe, so long as
the world stands, that those comrades now
till felon graves; women, whose tears
have embalmed the Past, in crystal, and
whose hearts are, to-day,the sepulchres o:
the loved and lost; little children who
ask, sometimes.in the gloaming,where has
my brother gone,and why do 1 sec my fa
ther no more ?
Quench this spirit ? Abuse these peo
ple to the level of the savage African !
Never! you cannot do it. All your
ships, and your armies, and your gold
and greenbocks, and a thousand Grants
on top of that, are as little able to do it a'
you, with your slave-hearts, are able t
know the full fervor of Liberty in a true
man’s soul. Tyrone Powers.
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
New Orleans, Nov. 2d, 186S.
Banner of the South :
“An honest confession is go-.'d for tk
soul.” As the soul of your correspondent
is in sad need of all the “good” it 111 a . 1 ’
pick up by the way, I’m going to tryJh
merits of a candid confession. Ip ul ,
conceitedly “knowing” Southern Kadicm
has been deceived ! That’s what’s tk
matter; and I feel better already at Inn
ing summoned courage enough to say a
Ever since the inauguration ot the R *
construction and other Destructive ib° u
ruents by the Puritan Party, I have c '■
sidered the political equality ol the rac- -
as a fixed fact for the future ; hut 1 )C