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VOLUME XXXVI.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1866.
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P Ferrell, Marshal.
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From the New York Tiroes.
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THE POLITICAL FUTURE.
Letter from Hon. Henry J. Raymond,
of Neic York.
Washington, Sunday, July 15,
1866.—Political panics are quite as
mischievous in their way as panics in
an army. Parties are demoralized,
and sometimes routed, by the appre
hension of dangers that prove to have
been wholly imaginary. Sometimes,
too, these lears create the dangers
they dread, and thus fulfill their own
predictions. The Union Party in Con
gress is just now experiencing a panic
of more than usual severity, and its ac
tion under thecircumstances does more
credit to its zeal than to its discre
tion.
You may have noticed the passage
in the House, a few days since, a reso
lution offered by Gen. Paine, of Wis
consin, calling on the States to organ
ize, discipline and equip their militia,
and directing that two-thirds of the
arms, ordnance and ammunition now
under custody of the General Govern
ment be distributed among the States,
—the distribution among the loyal
States to take place immediately, and
that among the States lately in rebel
lion to be postponed until further or
ders.
The resolution came up from the
Committee on Military Affairs and was
pushed to a vote, without debate or
delay, un-'er the previous question.—
It attracted as little attention in Con
gress as it has in the country ; and the
public will doubtless receive with in
credulity the assurance that it was in
tended, by those who secured its pas
sage, as the first step toward -preparation
for another civil war. Although no de
bate was had upon it, members were
uiged to vote for it by direct conver
sational appeals on the floor on the
part of the few who were privy to its
introduction. Some were told that it
was necessary to enable the Southern
loyalists to protect themselves:—oth
ers that it w as simply a matter of de
tail in the War Department;—others
that the arms must be taken out of
the hands of the President: and oth
ers that it was proposed at the instance
of the Secretary of war. An appeal
was made by Mr. Kasson, of Iowa, to
allow debate upon it, as it seemed to
be a matter of importance, but it was
refused.
Most of the leading and reflecting
Radicals in Congress take this view ol
the case: If the fall elections result in
the choice of Northern Democrats
enough to constitute, when added to
the members from the Southern States,
a majority of the House, they assume
that this majority, thus constituted,
will claim to be the Congress, and
will act accordingly, and that they
will be recognized by the President
as the body to which he will send his
message, aud whose sessions he will,
if the necessity should arise, protect
by military force. They assert, on
the other hand, that the Union mem
bers from the loyal States—if they
constitute a majority from those States
—will claim to be the only legal Con
gress, and will, if necessary, invoke an
insurrection of the people to maintain
them in that position. They do not,
in the least, conceal their purpose, in
the event of such a collison, to appeal
to force, and to “drive the rival Con
gress, with the President and his Cab
inet and supporters, into the Potomac,’
to use the language ot one of the
ablest and most sincere of their num
ber. If you will recall the remarks
of Mr. lioutwell, of Massachusetts, it:
last week’s first caucus, you will see
this movement clearly foreshadowed—
indeed avowed. He declared his be
lief that an issue of force was rapidly
approaching, and that we must be pre
pared to meet it. He acts, and all
who co-operate with him in these
measures profess to act, under the ap
prehension that the President intends
to resort to force—that the means to
disperse the present Congress on its
re-assembling in December if it refuses
to admit the Southern members; and
Mr. Farnsworth ascribed to Mr. Sew
ard the declaration, that this Congress
should never re-assemble unless the
Southeni members were admitted—in
support of this belief. I need scarce
ly say that Mr. Seward never made, 1
any remark of the kind, nor that the J
project ascribed to the President is;
purely an invention, or at best the era- j
zy dream of a political nightmare.— j
But in either case it serves the same]
purpose. It covers, and is held to jus
tify the determination to arouse the
North, and prepare for a resort to
force up«n the assembling of the For
tieth Congress in extra or in regular
session; and this determination is
avowed. And the resolution to which
I have referred, for an organization of
the militia and the distribution of
arms in tbe Northern States, is the
initial step to its execution.
I do nut propose to comment upon
the result of such a movement. It is
obvious that if any such contingency
should arise, the war would not be
sectional, as was tbe last; it would be
a war of political parties and of neigh
borhoods. Not only have the great
body of the Union Party in Congress
no sympathy with these views and
purposes, but they are in the main
ignorant and incredulous of their exis
tence. That the extreme Radicals en
tertain them, however, there is not the
slightest doubt, aud we know, from the
experience of Secession in 1861, how
few men it sometimes requires to
plunge a great party ora great nation
into war.
The Philadelphia Convention is an
other source of panic to the Union
Party. By the Radicals of whom I
have spoken it is regarded as intended
to pave the way for bringing North
ern Democrats and Southern rebels in
to close concert of action under the
protection of the President, at the
opening of the next Congress for the
purpose referred to above. And by
uearly the whole Union Party, as rep
resented here, it is believed that its ob
ject is to break up the Union organi
zation and form a new party which
shall embrace Northern Democrats,
Southern rebels and such portions of
the Union Party as may be detached
from the old organization. It seems
to be overlooked that the Convention
is called simply for consultation—that
it is not proposed to make nominations
for any office, to organize any new
party or to interfere in any way with
existing political parties. Any one or
all of these things may be done by the
Convention—but none of them are em
braced or proposed in the cull for it.
Those who may do them in conven
tion, or support them when done, will
of course be responsible for their ac
tion. If the Convention should take
steps hostile to the Union Party, no
one could longer adhere to both. If
it should make hostile nominations, or
adopt a hostile platform, no one could
support both. But until somethingof
that sort is actually done, it is not easy
to see why any man of any party may
not go into consultation with his fel
low-citizens, from every party and
from every section, without forfeiting
his party relations. The idea that
members of Congress have any right in
caucus or elsewhere, or to issue decrees
of expulsion or exclusion in such a
case, is simply absurd.
At the same time it is evident that
the Philadelphia Convention is re
garded with great disfavor by all sec
tions of the Union Party. That party
is not disposed to forget that it was
the only political organization upon
which the Government relied during
the war, and that it saved the integri
ty of the nation against tbe armed ef
forts of the rebels in the South and the
political hostility of Democrats in the
North. It feels, therefore, that it is
now entitled to control the Govern
ment as against both these parties,
and it is not disposed to co-operate
with either of them or to accept their
co-operation in any political action
whatever. They objected to the first
call for the Philadelphia Convention,
that it would admit all Southern reb
els who would not accept the Union
they had tried to destroy, while it ex
cluded many of the men who had sa
ved it. They object to the second
call, that while it excludes all Union
men who insist on guarantees and
conditions of restoration, it expressly
hands over one-half the Convention to
those who opposed the Union Party
in the election of 1864—giving them,
in fact, the preponderance, inasmuch
as in eleven States the Union Party
had at that time no existence, and can
now, therefore, have no representa
tion. And they are still further repel
led by the eagar alacrity with which
the recent rebels of the South and the
intense Copperheads of the North,
like Fernando Wood and Vallandig-
ham, accept the invitation and prepare
to take part in its proceedings. The
had co-operated with the President,
who did comprehend and sympathize
with it—and had made the restoration
of union, peace and concord the first
object of its endeavors, it would have
broadened its own fundaments and left
neither motive nor excuse for any such
movement as that which is now on
foot. If Congress had, two months
ago-, admitted to the seats loyal mem
bers from Southern States, who could
take the oath prescribed by law—in
other words, if they had admitted the
members, from Tennessee and Arkan
sas, the only States which have sent
such men the Philadelphia Convention
would never have been heard of. Un
fortunately the Union Party, contrary
to the judgment of very many of its
own members, surrendered itself to
the guidance ot men with whom other
things were more important than the
peace and harmony of the country.—
It followed the lead of men who insist
ed upon “reconstructing” the Govern
ment from its foundations, instead of
restoring the Union, which the rebel
lion had for the time destroyed, ana
repairing the breaches which the war
had made. It listened to tales of the
provinces it had conquered, the new,
rights it had acquired, the absolute,
unchecked power it now enjoyed; and
while it W’as indulging its dreams ot
subjugation, of confiscation, ot univer
sal suffrage and the elevation of the
negro race, the enemy quietly stepped
in and took possession of the strong
hold of the Union and Constitution
where all its victories had been w n,
but which for the moment it seems to
have deserted.
These defaults of its own have giv
en the Philadelphia Convention a de
gree of strength which is not wise for
the leaders of the Union Party to ig
nore or underrate. By judicious coun
sels at the outset they might have pre
vented it; at a later stage they might
have controlled it; it is not yet too
late to save themselves from being
ruined by it. But they will make a
fatal mistake if they content them
selves with ignoring or denouncing it.
If it should happen to be under the
guidance of wise and patriotic coun
sels—if the Southern delegates w T lio
may participate in its deliberations
should proffer, in their words and their
action, unmistakableevidenceofthesin-
cerity with which they accept the ad
verse result of the war they waged,
and of their readiness to adapt their
laws, their habits and their whole po
litical action to the necessities which
that result has created—if the North
ern Democrats, who share its action,
should cut loose from the men and the
measures which made them so obnox
ious to public censure during the war,
and should pledge themselves to the
honor of the nation and to a liberal
policy worthy alike of its history and
its destiny—if,the platform of princi
ples which the Convention may adopt,
and the action it may recommend shall i
prove thus responsive to the enlarged j
and Iotty aspirations of the national!
heart, it may be found that no party
organ’zation, however compact it may
seem to be, and however strongly for
tified by the memory of past services,
can withstand its influences upon the
sentiments and the action of the great
body of the American people. It is a
mistake to deem a party organization
solid and unassailable merely because
it looks so. A political party, like
the ice ot a frozen lake, melts away
from beneath, and while at evening its
surface may seem to be perfectly solid
and untouched by rift or seam, the
breeze of a single night may perfect
the work which weeks of silent, un
seen decay have been preparing.—
Doubts as to the continued necessity
or usefulness of a party never begin
with its leaders or active workers but
always with the silent masses, who
merely watch aud think, while others
act, and whose action, in a season of
commotion, can never be predicted
two weeks ahead. Nor must it be
never been
and while
zealous advo-
repugnance which they feel to a polit-
ieal association with men whose re- i forgotten that the position of the
cord is so utterly unpatriotic and so Union Party, to-day, is one which it
obnoxious to public reprobation, is by j h as never held before. The issues to
no means unnatural orunjust, and con- which it will stand committed are new
tributes largely to prejudice the pub- to its organization, and to the public
lie rniqfl against the Convention and mind. The people have
all connected with it. It gives color called to vote up them,
to ;#d confirms the charge that its ob- they may seem to their z
iectfis to reinstate in office and in pow- cates and authors, to be very strong,
er men who have been justly expelled others may prove to be still stronger
by the people for their crimes against than they.
* ’ • The Italian army suffered a sad re
verse the other day because, trusting
in the goodness of its cause, it march
ed boldly upon fortresses whose strength
it despised. The Union Party wili
consult its own safety, and the good
of the country, by not throwing itself
against the Philadelphia Convention,
was over and the rebellion suppressed, until it knows a little more ot the na
ture and strength of its armament
t^*Four of the worst names in the coun
try begin with B. Botts, Beast Bulter,
Bryant and Brownlow.
Always be polite and accommoda
ting to, but not too familiar, with
t .e country, and to exclude those to
whom the country is indebted for its
salvation.
The Union Party must not forget,
however, that the Philadelphia Con
vention is due entirely to its own fail
ure to comprehend and meet the ne
cessities of the hour. When the war
a jiowerful public sentiment, pervad-
in^M pSrtie9» demanded the prompt
restoration of national action under the
Constitution aid in accordance with
the fundaipenta^principles of the Gov
ernment. It the Union Party had re
sponded to that ibotiment, which was
very powerful in its own ranks—if it strangers.
_ CA**. RCtTlI
The celebrated Martin Scott was a
friend of General Marcy, who in his
new book, “Thirty Years of Army
Life,” gives many interesting anecdotes
about him :
Capt. Scott was at one time, while
stationed at Prarie du Chien, in pos
session ufa wonderfully sagacious dog,
a cross of the setter and pointer.
The captain would, for example,
while sitting in his quarters at the
fort, with the dog at his feet, say to
Mark, “I want you to go over to the
island and ascertain if there are any
woodcock there, and come back and
tell me.” The dog would instantly go
tc the river, swim to the island, and,
after having hunted it over, return,
and, if he had found birds, run up to
his master, then to the gun, wag his
tail and make other demonstrations of
joy, which made it perfectly apparent
that he had been successful. Scott
would then tell the dog to get the ca
noe in readiness, and strange as it may
appear, he would take the cushion in
his mouth, carry it to the river bank
where the canoe was moored, place it
upon the seat, return for the paddle,
carry that to the canoe, then go back
to Scott, and look up in his face, with
an expression which indicated that all
was ready.
The captain had at the same time
another dog, which he called Turk.
These dogs from their first acquain
tance, had never been on friendly
terms, and they had many severely
contested encounters, which finally re
sulted in Turk's gaining and retaining
the mastery. Mark was emphatically
a vanquished dog, and, by his meek
and submissive demeanor in the pres
ence of his adversary, he admitted as
much.
Upon one occasion Turk had gain
ed possession of a borne bonche in the
form of a beet’s bone, which he was
quietly enjoying by himself upon the
parade-ground, when Mark chanced to
pass that way, and scented the choice
morsel. The longing, anxious look
which he cast at the bone, as be cir
cled around at a respectable distance,
told how desirous he was to partici
pate in the feast. But his experience
had taught him that an attempt to
contend with his powerful adversary
would only result in his own discom
fiture. He therefore prudently resol
ved to resort to strategy in order to
accomplish his ends. Accordingly he
ran furiously outside the stockade in
closure and set up a tremendous bark
ing as if something very extraordinary
had occurred ; upon which, as usual,
all the dogs in the fort hurried out of
the gates to see what was the matter,
and among them was Turk, who in
the excitement of the moment aban
doned his bone. As soon as this was
done, Mark quietly slipped back, seiz
ed and carried the prize to a hiding
place where he could enjoy it at his
leisure.
Murk was by no means a dog of
regular habits, and would often steal
away from home and pass the night
among his canine companions of the
opposite sex. For this he was inva
riably punished, his master compelling
him to Btand on his hind feet, with
his fore paws resting against the
wall, whil j the castigation was admin
istered with a cowhide. In one in
stance, after having absented bimself
all night, he returned home with a
most dejected and penitent air, and,
seeing his master look very angry at
him, he immediately went to the wall,
placed himself in the positiou he had
been required to assume when he re
ceived his previous punishments, and
at the same time turned his head
around and looked at Scott, as much
as to say, “I am ready.”
In the course of time Mark waxed
in years, and was no longer able to en
dure the work required i‘b hunting,
and Captain Scott took him home to
Bennington to pass the remainder of
his days in quiet retirements, and here
he continueu to make himself useful in
his dotage by going to the pasture
every night and driving home the
cows. It certainly appeared as if this
animal was endowed with something
beyond mere brute instinct, as he seem
ed to comprehend the relations exist
ing between cause and effect.
Captain Scott was so very fond of
his dog, that I have known him, upon
the death of a favorite one, to walk his
room in great apparent distress of mind
during the entire night, and afterward
place the body in a coffin, and, with
his boy Jack leading his hunting horse
draped in black, follow it to the grave,
and bury it with as much care and
ceremony as if it had been a child.
C«aRrmli«a •€ StM*barjr.
Washington. July 23.—The Senate has
e nnrmed Henry Stansbury to be Attorney
General of the United States, and John
A. Cline to be Collector of Customs at
Vicksburg, Miss.; Andrew McDowell to
be Assistant Treasurer of the United
States at Charleston.