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THE FEDERAL UNION,
( Cornciof Hancock and Wilkin so i si recta.)
Tuesday Morning, April 7, I8C8.
TOR OOVER3VOR.
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON,
Of Fulton County*
TOR CONGRESS:
HON. 0. A. LOl'HRAKE,
OF BIBB COUNTY.
FOB REPRESENTATIVE OF BALDWIN CO.:
HON. A. H. KENAN.
Democratic Nominations.
For C«ttijjroi»*:
First District—IIENKY S. FITCH, of Chatham.
Seoimil District—NELSON TIFT, of Dougherty.
Third District—P. W. ALEXANDER, of Muscogee
Fourth District—O. A. LOCHRANE, of Bibb.
Fifth District—No nomination.
Sixth District—JOHN II. CHRISTY, of Clarke.
Seventh District—GEN. P. M. B. YOUNG.
I,ET in strike at the hoot of
THE EVIL.
Some of our contemporaries seem
to be more anxious to elect Irwin Gov
ernor than to defeat the negro Consti
tution. This we consider a great
mistake. The negro Constitution is
the sum of all villainies. It is the
citadel of the strength of our enemies
—the very fountain head of all the
evils which is intended to enslave us—
the source from whence flows that
stream of poison which is to desolate
the whole State. The election or de
feat of any man is of minor impor
tance to the removal of the cause of
all our woes. If the Constitution is
defeated Bullock cannot he Governor ;
therefore our main object should he to
defeat the Constitution. By electing
Irwin, we merely lop otf a single
limb from the poisonous tree ; but by
defeating the Constitution we grub it
up by the loots. Let us then lay the
axe at the root of the tree, and when
the day of election comes, let us hew
down, and grub up the roots, and cast
into the fire, and consume root and
branch of the tree, and then those
birds of evil omen which are lodged
in its branches will perish with it.
This can easily he done if we all go to
work with a determination to do it.
Our information from every part of the
State is very encouraging. If the
conservatives everywhere do their du
ty the negro Constitution will he de
feated, and with the fall of this mon
ster of iniquities, the whole mongrel
crew of scalawags and Yankee vaga
bonds will perish with it. Southern
Radicalism is cf such a malignant type
that partial remedies only aggra
vate the evil. Like some kind of can
cer, it it is not extracted by the root it
it may as well he let alone. Electing
honest men for Governor and Legisla
tors may give temporary relief, hut if
this abominable Yankee Constitution i s
adopted the disease will still remain
in the system, arid produce d^ath. But
if we defeat the Constitution we strike
at the root of the disease, and may
hope for a restoration to complete
health. Let no man dispair of defeat
ing the Constitution. It can easily be
dune if we will set about it with a
will. The people are everywhere
finding out that the relief which it
promises is a humbugand a cheat, and
that many of its provisions will injure
and oppress every honest man, both
white and black. It is our duty to de
feat this mongrel Constitution. Let
ns all do our duty.
REASON* IVIIV EVFBT GKORGI.IE
SHOVED VOTE AGAIKNT THE IKE-
OKU CONSTITUTION.
This Constitution was forced upon
us against the wishes and the consent
of the people ol Georgia. No people
wish to have a government forced up
on them, even by their friends, hut
this was forced upon us by our worst
enemies. It was not made or intend
ed to benefit, hut to injure us. It
was forced upon us to injure and de
grade us. Every provision of this
Constitution is calculated to drive
capital away from our State, to des
troy all confidence among our citizens,
to stir up hatred and strife between
blacks and whites, between debtors
and creditors, between capital and la
bor, between rich and poor—in short,
to make our once proud State of Geor
gia a perfect Bedlam—a country in
which only thieves and robbers and
rogues can live. What Georgian will j
vote to enact such a state of society? i
A\ hat Georgian will vote to ratify a
Constitution formed principally by
Yankees and negroes, on purpose to
destroy What honest man will
■v ote to destroy all honesty and credit
among men ? What honorable man
will vote to degrade himself and his
children forever? What Christian
can vote for a Constitution that is in
tended to • demoralize the people and
reduce them to a state of barbarism ?
W'e fee! sure that a large majority of
our people, black and white, would
not vote to produce anarchy, confu
sion and bloodshed throughout the
State, if they knew it. If they would
not, then let them rally in all of their
strength and vote down this abomina
tion of desolation called a Constitu
tion ; for as sure as night and darkness
follows the setting of the sun, so sure
will all of these and many more evils
follow the adoption of this Constitu
tion. It is a pandoras box, containing
all of the evils, without the hope of
its predecessor. It is a bohon upas,
set up in our midst, calculated and in
tended to poison all that comes within
its influence. It is a fountain of bitter
and poisonous waters, carrying deso
lation and death through the land. It
is the duty and interest of every pa
triot and Christian, of every honest
man, to organize in opposition to this
villainous concern called a Constitu
tion. It can easily be defeated if we
all do our duty. It has been defeated
in other States, and will the people of
Georgia admit that they are less virtu
ous, less honest, or less patriotic than
the people of Alabama or Arkansas?
We hope not, hut a few weeks will
prove.
NEW NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR
It will he seen that Judge Irwin has
withdrawn his name as a candidate,
because Gen. Meade has declared him
ineligible, and the Central Executive
Committee have nominated Gen. John
B. Gordon. General Gordon is every
way as acceptible to us, and we believe
will he so to the people generally, as
Judge Irwin. But the election of
Governor is of no consequence if we
defeat the negro Constitution. That
is the main point for us to aim at.
Gen. Huger has done very well so far,
and we would much rather have him
than trust any one who may be elect
ed under the Yankee Negro Constitu
tion. Let us, one and all, turn out
and defeat the Negro Constitution, and
whilst doing that, vote for General
Gordon and all of our other Conserva
tive candidates, so that if the Consti
tution is not defeated we may have
good men to administer the Govern
ment. But the first and greatest duty
is to defeat the Constitution. This has
been done in other States, and it can
be done in Georgia, if we do our whole
duty. Will we do it ?
Rt^i.lrr.
The Books are opened for register
ing. Let every white in the State,
who has a right to register, do it, with
out fail and without delay.
ftcott ft Monthly.
The March number of Scott’s Month
ly has been received. It contains the
usual variety of interesting matter, and
a special notice stating that Philips
and Crew have purchased the half in
terest in the Monthly, and will hereaf
ter control the entire publication. The
Rev W. J. Scott, retains his interest in
the Magazine, and will continue its
principal editor.
Special !o the Macon Telegraph.
IlHimiHMit of Judge Irwin.—Nom
ination of Gen. Gordon.
Atlanta, April 4.—Judge Irwin, be
ing assured that he would not be re
cognized as eligible to the Gubernato
rial chair, has positively retired and
declined the further use of his name
in the canvass.
The State Democratic Executive
Committee, after consultation, have
unanimously nominated Gen. John B.
Gordon for Governor.
Gen. Meade says Gen. Gordon is
eligible so far as the facts have come
to his knowledge. If elected, there
will probably he no objection to his
inauguration.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
FTidruco for llir Promaa(i*n CloHfd.
Washington, April 4.—The impeach
ment was resumed to-day. Press re
porters were examined relative to the
President 5 St. Louis speech, and a
copy was admitted as evidence. Mr.
Chew, Chief Clerk of the State De
partment, was examined relative to
the routine of commissions. The
change in form, conforming to the Ten-
ure-of-office act, was proved. A let
ter from tlie President to the Secretary
of the Treasury, advising him of Stan
ton’s removal in conformity with the
Tenure-of-oflice act, was admitted.
A correspondence between Piesident
Adams and Mr. Pickering, and Presi
dent Adams’ message to the Senate,
announcing Mr. Pickering’s suspen
sion in 1S00, were admitted. Amo
tion was made for a recess. Mr. But
ler requested a few minutes delay, but
the Senate took a recess.
Gn reassembling Mr. Butler an
nounced that they had closed the case,
except cumulative evidence.
The defence asked an adjournment
until Thursday to prepare and arrange
the evidence.
Mr. Commas moved that the Court
adjourn to Wednesday. [Cries of
“ shame,” and “give them the other
day.”
Mr. Johnson moved to amend by
adjourning to Thursday. Carried
with but two negatives. The yeas
and nays were amended, but Mr. Con-
uess accepted Mr. Johnson’s amend
ment, when a final vote w r as taken on
the adjournment to Thursday, which
was adopted, 37 to 10. Senate imme
diately adjourned to Monday.
OM. 1
168. S
TO DEMOCRATIC CLIUN IN GEOR
GIA.
Rooms Central Executive Com
Natonal Dem. Party of Ga
Macon April 2, 1868
The attention of the Democratic
Clubs, of the several counties of this
State, is called to Order No. 4S, of
Maj. Gen. Meade, prescribing regula
tions to be observed, as to the chal-
light shadows they are seen moving ! ! e, |^ e vo * er8 ^ ie c l ec ^ on t° be
along the slumbering streets. They be.a
From Uie Nortli Georgia Republican.
K K. K.
The Ku-Klux-Klan, who are they?
and where do they come from? are
questions that everybody ask, hut no
body can answer Their coming into
town or village is as quiet as the rising
of the pale moon, and their disappear
ance is as noiseless as the setting of
night’s silent monitor. Like moon-
streets.
are clad in the pale habiliinets of her
landscape light, and their horses are
of a clay-bank color.
In Texas, where they originated, they
are recognized as “Regulators,” and
and are a terror only to evil doers.—
They were organized as an antagonis
tic society to the Loyal Leaguers, and
on the 20th instant, and the three
following days.
It is prescribed in said order that “no
person, who is not a registered voter,
will be permitted to challenge the
right of any person to vote.”
In order that illegal votes may be
challenged, and to avoid any conflict
with the order above mentioned, it is
out of those who had suffered by their j suggested to the Democratic Clubs in
depredations j each county, and in counties m which
A letter from the Grand Cyclops j Clubs have been organized, to the
Maximus, of an admonitory character, , Democratic Party, to appoint two
sent to a lawless disturber of the peace, ! prudent, discreet and intelligent chal-
will generally have a most beneficial; len g ers - wl ™ are registered voters for
effect. The ruffian takes the hint and eac b place of voting, who will attend
becomes wonderfully circumspect, and j a ^be polls during the hours of voting,
the lawless the most strict observers of for the purpose of challenging all who
the peace—for it is understood that the ma y attempt to vote illegally.
wicked have suffered the extreme pen
alty of the law without the benefit of
judge or jury, and no other than the
Ku-Klux-Klan to hear the confession
of their crimes.
Hereabouts the negroes say that
they are just to keep the colored peo
ple from voting the Radical ticket, and
“is only a trick of the white folks
about somebody, that aint no where,
to scare the colored folks and Union
Leaguers.”
On last Saturday, while Gov. Brown
was speaking at Ringgold, we are told
that strange, ominous sights appeared
on the hills about the town, among
which was a red flag with bloody hones
and two-edged daggers drawn on it.
A young man in our city? who, as
we are told, consented to he the nomi
nee of the Radical party for a trivial
office, found scattered about his door
the next morning some newly exhum
ed hones besprinkled with blood, since
which time we have not seen him out
after dark.
The Rome Courier says that on a
recent midnight parade near that city,
the K. K. K’s bore a banner inscribed
as follows:
Thadika Stevika :adical plan
Must yield to the coming of Kvki.vx ICi.an.
Niggers and leaguers get out of the way,
We’re born ol the night, and we vanish by day;
No ration have we but tire flesh of man,
And love niggers best--fhe Knklux Kian;
Wecatch’ein alive, and roast 'em whole.
Then hand them around on a shaipened pole:
Whole leagues have we eaten, not leaving a man,
And went away hungry, tim Kuklux Kian;
Born of the night, and vanish by day,
Leaguers and niggers get out of the way!
A strict wateh will be necessary to
prevent illegal votes from being re
ceived, and it is hoped, and expected,
that no person, who may be appointed
challenger, will fail to discharge the
duty assigned him.
E. G. Cabaniss, Chairman
Central Executive Committee Dem.
Party.
Democratic papers in this State are
requested to give the above thiee in
sertion, and to call special attention
to it.
THE PLEAS FOR DELAY.
“Let it not he forgotten that An
drew Johnson, though impeached for
grave offences by nearly three fourths
of the Representatives of the American
people, persists in exercising the pow
ers and wielding the vast patronage of
the Presidency pending his trial.— Tri
bune."
Should this trial of the President,
for the offence of quarreling with Con
gress—Congress beginning it—be
pushed to a conviction, what a chap
ter will be furnished tor history! The
Constitution authorizes the impeach
ment of the President for “high crimes
and misdemeanors.” He has commit-
J ted uo crime; high or low. He is im
peached, therefore, for “misdemean-
ors,” and these consist in endeavoring
I to remove the Secretary who, Senators
j Sherman, Grimes and Howe, when
, the law which the President is charg-
j ed with violating was under considera-
j tion, said, would and should leave the
One Thing Certain.—Death is the ■ Cabinet the moment the President
theme of universal interest. The light- j desired it. That law, in express
est heart, the least thoughtful mind, terms, allows the President to remove
has no disbelief of death. The dis- a Cabinet officer not appointed by him-
tance of the dark cloud in which he j self.
comes, sailing through the bosom of But it is idle to talk about the right
futurity, may he miscalculated; but j or the wrong of the thing. It is to he
the world unhesitatingly owns that done—not tp vindicate Law or Jus-
lie is coming, and will at last he here, j tice—not to promote the welfare of the
In almost every particular of existence country or the happiness of the peo-
the fortunes of men differ ; but to die pie—but to get possession
is common to all. The stream of life
runs in a thousand various channels;
hut run where it will—brightly or
darkly, smoothly or languidly—it is
stopped by death. The trees drop
their leaves at the approach of win-
of the
White House.
The President’s real offence consists
in not having dealt more skillfully
with the Radical leaders. They were
the aggressors. He was in the right,
and could have easily beaten them.
ter’s frost; man falls at the presence Even on the question of impeachment,
of death. Every successive genera- Sumner, Ashley, Butler and Boutwell
tion he claims for his own, and his were beaten and mortified half a dozen
claim is never denied. To die is the times. But each time that impeach-
condition on which we hold life; re- j ment was killed, the president himself
hellion sickens with hopelessness at brought it to life again,
the thought of resisting death ; the i But the want of temper and tact on
very hope of the most desperate is . the part of the President does not justi-
not' that death may he escaped, hut fy or excuse Congress in its raids upon
that he is eternal; and all that the the Executive. The President will, in
young, the careless, and the dissipa- all probability, he convicted, hut at a
ted attempt, is to think of him as j fearful cost to the Republican party
seldom as they can. No man, there- | and at still more fearful, nay fatal,
fore, will deny that 'whatever can he ; consequences, to the Radical lead-
said of death is applicable to himself, j era.
The hell that he hears tolled may nev- j The execrations that followed Jeffries
er toll for him there may he no friend j through life, and blackened his inemo-
or children left to lament him; he | ry when dead, will be the portion, lot,
may not have to lie through long and and inheritance of those who figure
anxious days, looking for the coming prominently in this political trial—a
of the expected terror: hut lie knows j trial already repugnant to the judg-
he must die; lie knows that, in what- | ment of many who are harnessed up
ever quarter of the world he abides to vote for it—a trial which only
—whatever be his circumstances— keeps Senators up to the work be-
however strong his present hold of life cause, in Revolutionary times deser-
—however unlike the prey of death j ters are shot. In other words, Stevens,
he looks—that it is his doom to die. j Butler, Sumner and the Tribune, have
j put on the screws so tightly that it
It is reported that at Fulton, III., requires more courage to desert than
a few Sundays ago, a clergyman open- j ^ does to go through. But the going
ed the services at iiis church by read- j through will be fatal to all. While the
ing at length a very full and correct j time and attention of Congress is ab-
local price current—how much flour, j sorbed with Impeachment, everything
butter, meat, lord, eggs, &c., were e,se is neglected, and the business of
worth, and the price of shoes, cloth,
prints aud muslins. He read the re
port without explanation or comment,
but the most obtuse in the congrega
tion understood very well what this
unusual procedure meant. The con
gregation took the hint and responded
with a liberal donation.
Cheeifulness is a matter which de
pends fully as much on the state of
things within, as on the state of things
without and around us.
Narrow circumstances are the most
powerful stimulant to mental expan
sion, aud the early frowns of fortune,
the best security for her final smiles.
Some men use no other means to
acquite respect than by insisting on it;
and it sometimes answers their pur
pose, as it docs a highwayman's in re
gard to money.
The Seventh District Convention ap
pointed Colonel J. D. Waddell aud
Colonel Lewis Tunilin, delegates to
the Natioua] Convention, with D. P.
Hill and J. A. Blance as alternates.
In the 2d Congressional District Col.
Carey W. Styles and Col. Arthur
Hood have been nominated delegates
to the National Democratic Conven
tion.
the natiou and the people stands still.
N. Y. Com. Adv.
RADICAL THREATS.
At a Radical meeting held in Col
umbus on Friday last, one “Edwards,”
who is a radical candidate for Con
gress, used very threatening language
to the negroes who should fail to “come
up to to the scratch” and vote for
Bullock—upon which the Enquirer, of
that city, comments as follows:
Gen. Meade has issued orders for
the punishment of men who use vio
lence or intimidation to keep negroes
from voting. We again, ask, why
does he not threaten with punishment
those who use violence and intimida
tion to make them vote in any partic
ular way? Why is Colonel Edwards
allowed to tell a negro crowd that ne
groes who vote against Bullock or the
Constitution ought to be put to death
or driven out of the country at once?
And why is Dr. Mnull permitted to
advocate the whipping of them with
cowhides or handsaws? Are these in
cendiary speakers to be permitted by
military conservators of peace to make
the canvass in this matter? Are ne
groes to be intimidated from voting
for Irwin or against the Constitution
by threats of murder or cowhiding?
From the Columbus Enquirer, April 1st.
THE MILLING OF GEORGE W.
AVIIBl ItN.
Our citizens were greatly startled,
on Monday night and yesterday morn
ing, by the news that Geo. Ashburn
had been killed iu the house in which
he was living, in the upper part of
Oglethorpe street, by a body of men in
disguise. The killing occurred be
tween twelve and one o’clock Mon
day night. The shots fired were heard
by a number of persons living in the
neighborhood; the men who committed
the deed were seen on the steets by one
or two persons; and the tragedy was
witnessed by several persons iu and
about the house. Yet there seems to
be no evidence clearly implicating any
one in the affair. Ashburn was shot
in the head, thigh, aud foot or ankle,
and other shots, it is said, passed
through his clothes. He must have
heeu killed immediately. The shots
were evidently from pistols.
There were a variety of rumors, and
several wild conjectures as to the char
acter of the parties who committed
the outrageous deed. A coroner’s in
quest was held yesterday at the house
of the killing, which, we understand,
was attended by the Mayor of the city
and the commandant of the post. We
understand, that according to the state
ments of negroes in the house, a party
of masked or disguised men, whose
number they variously estimate from
fifteen to thirty or forty, came to the
house at the hour above named and
demanded admission. This was refus
ed, and they then proceeded to break
into the house, having posted them
selves at both doors. When they effec
ted an entrance, Ashburn was stand
ing near his bed with a pistol in his
hand. The men immediately com
menced shootiug at him with pistols,
and quickly dispatched him, Ashburn,
it is said, not firing. It was reported
yesterday that a negro woman living
in the house had stated that she recog
nized one of the men, whose mask had
fallen off, naming a most respectable
and orderly young gentleman of Co
lumbus.—But we learn that on exam
ination at the inquest she denied hav
ing made such a statement, and said
that she couid not ideutify the man.
No one acquainted with the young
gentleman believed for a moment that
he was concerned in the affair. A ne
gro man testified that he saw one of the
men in the alley between the house of
the tragedy and the next one, without
a mask and that he knew him. As
this charge may also be disproved, we
will not yet publish the name of the
man implicated. The verdict of the
coroner’s jury was that G. W. Ash-
burn was killed by parties un
known.
There are, as we have said above, a
variety of conjectures as to the cause
of this shocking affair, and the charac
ter of the parties by whom it was com
mitted. The deceased was a fornen-
ter of discord and a man of strife. He
was obnoxious to the white people of
this city, not merely on account of his
disorganizing political couise, which
had been instrumental iu creating and
keeping alive bad feelings between the
two races, hut because of his social
habits. The first presumption, there
fore, was that his political opponents
had compassed his death. But there
are many, and it is said one or more
white Radicals, who do not believe
this. That he was in angry collision
with some of his own party is well
understood, and it was reported yes
terday afternoon that one of his friends
had been arrested because of
threats lie had been heard to utter
against Ashburn. The personal diffi
culties of the deceased in this city had
been many, hut it cannot be credited
that from any one of these sprang the
animosity that put so tragic an end to
his stormy life.
Ashburn was considered the chief
organizer of the black Radical party of
Georgia* His influence over the ne
groes was great, and there was consid
erable excitement among this class of
the population on account of his
bloody death. We are glad to say,
however, that we heard of no violent
demonstrations by any of them. We
hope that, like good citizeus, they n:ay
have come to the sensible conclusion
to await patiently the investigations of
the proper authorities, and to aid in
upholding the laws, relying upon them
to enforce justice without partiality
or favor.
THAT ELEVENTH MECTION.
The eleventh section of the eleventh
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY
The Democratic party of the State
article of the proposed Atlanta Consti- of New York recently held a ccnveif
tion at Albany representing the | >:irt ~
throughout the State. The platform
adopted commends itself to every true
cept the same with amj qualifications or man > whether North or South.
THE PLATFORM.
tution, is as follows :
XI. Should this Constitution be rat
ified by the people, and Congress ac
conditions, the Government herein pro
vided for, and the officers elected, shall
nevertheless exist and continue in the
exercise of their several functions, as
the Government of this State, so far
as the same may be consistent with
the action of the Uuited States in the
premises.
The italics are our own. There is a
scrap of secret history connected with
this section, that we take pleasure in
making public ; and we call the special
attention of our deluded friends who
are suffering with “ relief” on the
brain, to it. The gentleman who had
that section put in, did it, as he delib
erately stated afterwards, for the pur
pose of enabling Congress to strike
out the “ relief clause, n without en
dangering the State government form
ed under the Constitution, or vitiating
the remainder thereof.
This is what it means in plain Eng
lish. You go to the polls and vote
for the Constitution and “ relief,” and
then Congress cuts that out—the only
thing you care for, the sugar-coating
to the pill—and you have—what?
Unlimited negro suffrage, and probably
a lot of spoilsmen and banditti filling
all the offices, and plundering your
pockets to “ relieve” the necessities
and minister to the greed of a gang of
footpads who are down here because
they could neither beg nor steal a liv
ing where they were raised. The
man who votes for this sort of “ relief,”
could not be taught wisdom by any
thing short of a surgical operation.
[Journal 4' Messenger.
THE K. K. K.’S.
The N. Y. Tribune does not know
whether to regard this secret organiza
tion as a huge hoax or a startling real
ity. We are equally in the dark. The
following verses on the subject of the
mysterious Kian, from the Memphis
Avalanche may interest the curious :
The wolf is in the desert,
And the panther in the brake,
The fox is on his ramble,
And the owl is wide awake ;
For now ’tis noon of darkness,
And the world is all asleep,
And some shall wake to glory,
And some shall wake to weep.
Ku Klux.
A river black is running
To a blacker sea afar.
And by its banks is waving
A flag without a star;
There move the ghostly columns
Of the swift Brigade of Death,
And every viilain sleeping
Is graspiug now for breath.
Ku Klux.
Thrice bath the lone owl hooted,
And thrice the panther cried.
And swifter through the darkness,
The Pale Brigade shall ride.
No trumpet sounds its coming,
And no drum beat stirs the air,
But noiseless in their vengeance,
They wreak it everywhere.
Ku Klux-
Fly ! fly ! yo dastard bandits,
Who are bleeding all the land,
The Death Brigade is marching
With viewless sword aud brand;
Nor think that from its vengeance
You in deepest dens may hide.
For through the darkest caverns
The Dread Brigade will ride.
Ku Klux.
The misty gray is hanging
On the tresses of the beast,
And the morn shall tell tho story
Of the revel and the feast.
The ghostly troop shall vanish
Like tho light in constant cloud,
But where they rode shall gather
The coffin and the shroud.
Ku Klux
FOR CONGRESS—SEVENTH DISTRICT
—TUB CARTBRSVILLK CON YEN
TION.
BARNCM IN COURT-
P. T. Barnum was a witness in
court at Bridgeport, Conn, the other
day. On being asked how much he
was worth, he owned to SI,-500,000.
The following dialogue ensued :
Counsel—1 wish to know how he
has made §1,500,000 within a few
years ?
Mr. B.—I am not aware that I am
obliged to give the gentleman lessons
in the art of money getting.
Judge—Mr. Barnum may do as he
likes about it. If he has no objection
to telling you how he has made money,
he may do so.
Mr. Barnum (taking a pencil and a
large sheet of law paper)—I certainly
have not the slightest objection (com
mencing to make figures rapidly,) butit
will involve some little delay to the
court. I shall be obliged to figure up
my profits on the “What Is It,” then
the Gorilla, the Mermaid, and enter in
to some pretty nice calculations re
garding the net proceeds of the Woolly
Horse. I shall also be compelled tore-
write out a catalogue of the Museum,
and in the course of about five days
we shall probably begin to get some
faint gieams of light on the subject.
The court informed the witness that
the answer might be waived.
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J. J. Collier, Esq., of Dooly, has
been nominated for Senator by the
Democrats from the Fourteenth Dis
trict, composed of Dooly, Wilcox and
Pulaski.
Our limited spaoe forbids anything
more than a brief notice of the inter
esting Convention at Cartersville on
the 31st ult. It was a common re
mark by nearly every one, that it was
one of the best nominating Conventions
they had ever attended. Every county
except Walker was represented, and
harmony prevailed. Gen Pearce
Young, of Bartow, was nomihated
candidate for Congress, who being
present accepted, making the following
laconic speech :
“I thank you for the honor. My
services in the field are well known,
and I will now serve you with equal
honesty.” He was heartily cheered
and great enthusiasm prevailed.
A resolution was unanimously adop
ted endorsing the action of the Central
Executive Committee in recommend
ing the Hon. David Irwin for Govern
or.
We never saw an assemblage of men
more earnestly determined to accom
plish an object than this one seemed to
be, to delcat Bullock and the new
Constitution. Excellent apcech were
made by J. A. W. Johnson, George
N. Lester, J. N. Trammel, Warren
Akin, T. W. Alexander and others.
Rome Courier.
A Grand Epitaph.—Mr. Johnson
well deserves that just and beautiful
eulogiuin pronounced upon him by
Governor Seymour, of New York:
“I have no political prejudices in
favor of Mr. Johnson. I have never
seen him, and he is not one I helped
to place in office, nor have I ever ad
vised him or been consulted by him as
to his policy. I said he had Been
cheated and betrayed by those about
him who plotted his destruction from
the outset; but while he has been un
happy in his friends, no man has been
so fortunate in his enemies. They
have given him a high place in history,
as one who suffered for the rights of
the American people, and when he
shall go to his final account and his
friends seek-to say in clear titles and
lasting terms, that he was a man who
loved his country, and was hated by
the corrupt and treasonable, they have
only to chisel upon his tombstone that
he was impeached by this • House of
Representatives and condemned by
this Senate.”
The Democracy of New York as
sembled at this extraordinary jm lc t„*
of public affairs to deliberate upon
the solemn obligations they 0 w e t
themselves and their fellow-citizen* '°
the other States of the Union, and u
express their high satisfaction that th°
representatives of the people a. 6
every State in the Union are to Ul S
again as of old; and in the S nmt
which animated the Fathers of V
Republic to lay anew the foundations
of civil liberty, the Democratic masses
of this State, with an unanimity never
before surpassed, have brought to this
convention the assurance of their un
bending purpose to lay aside all per
sonal aspirations and local interests
and to devote their entire energies to
the work before them so as to Acun
as the first necessity of political and
social life, the restoration of the Union
and the re-estahlishmeut of the Con
stitution as the supreme law 0 f the
land, and to this they are impelled by
the peculiar exigency of the terrible
peril to which they are brought—for
they find that by subversion of the
time-honored policy which the people
of this country established for the
furtherance of their high interest, both
Houses of Congress of the United
States, by successive violatians of their
pledge, infractions of the organic law
and of the public faith to compass
mere partisan ends, have brought our
people and institutions to the very
verge of ruin. They have broken the
resolution affirmed so often iu the face
of the civilized world that the warlike
measures and energies of the govern
ment should be directed solely to the
restoration of States unlawfully sought
to be taken out of the Union. They
have, after tapping the life-blood of
the people and expending millions of
treasure to accomplish this end, driven
the restored States out, denying their
rightful existence in the Union, treat
ing them as subjugated provinces, and
held by right of conquest, and now
hold ten sovereignties subject to cen
tral control and military supervision,
and the guaranteed domination of an
inferior race. They have defiantly
spurned the Constitution as the organ
ic law of the land, and issued their de
crees and erected their will as the
higher law, to which the co-ordinate
departments of government, the judi
ciary, the Executive, are to nod acqui
escence, and to which the people,
bound in fetters as thralls of their
minions, are to submit without a mur
mur. They have, under pretence of
diminishing the public debt, imposed
heavy tribute upon every citizen—
saving always those who have amass
ed a large share of the public funds
upon every trade, pursuit, and neces
sary of life, thus absorbing the entire
profits of all industries. They are now
wasting their vast fund, so wrung from
the hand of industry and labor, iu ex
travagant appropriations to perpetuate
in themselves a political dynasty, ap
plying this year full §150,000,000 of
the moneys made up from taxes laid
upon the people to the maintenance of
a standing army, and this in a time of
profound peace. They have broken
the plighted faith of the government,
expressed in its amnesty to political of
fenders, and present in the hateful
form of test oatliB to sovereign electors
at the polls, the alternative of disfran
chisement or perjury. They hare
prostituted and corrupted every branch
of the public service. They have
forced a debased currency upon the
people, while demanding gold from
the public creditor. They are adding
hourly to the burdens of the laboring
classes, making the rich richer and
the poor poorer. They have imposed
an exhorbitant tariff, which has driven
our commerce from every sea. They
have paralyzed our manufactures by
expressive impositions. They have
invented the most oppressive system of
taxation to take from the laborer the
hope of reward, and they have filled
the land with swarms of public officials,
who harrass the people and eat out
their sustenance. To insure their fatal
dominance in the pending canvass,
and to complete a full conspiracy to
overthrow the government of our fath
ers, they have resolved to depose the
President and install one of the chief
conspirators in his place—an act
which the Conservative freemen of
New York declare to be without justi
fication or plausible excuse, and de
nounce as an outrage without parallel
in the history of civilized government.
By such methods they aspire to com
plete an usurpation which will subject
the people of the North, as of the
South, to military domination.
For which causes we hold them to
be enemies to the peace, prosperity
and liberties of the republic; and we
invoke the aid of all lovers of civil
liberty in every State to join us in one
grand and successful effort to rid the
country of such tyranny, secure the
triumph of Democratic principles and
the restoration of the perfect Union of
these States.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted and the Convention adjourneJ.
Dr. J. E. Blount writes from Stew
art county to the Atlanta Opinion
that: -. -
“ The people of South Georgia will
uot vote for Bullock. They will go
in a solid mass against him for Judge
Irwin. It is my opinion that Judge
Irwin will get thirty or forty thousand
colored votes. Bullock will be beaten
by forty thousand majority. This is
my deliberate opinion. Sitting Dr
three months with him in the Conven
tion has not discovered to me a single
qualification in him for Governor.