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I ll* i I."K1I01 HE A t VNI.KA,
h-TOffNErS AT LAW,
RNOXVILLB AVI) FORT VALLEY, GA.
I CCLVERIfOtfSR, F. A. ANSLEY,
Raoaville, Ga. Fort Valley, Ga.
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L. Jf. WIIITTTE,
■TTORNE Y AT LAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
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THO.HAB B. CAB AMISS, "
Ittorney at law,
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THE GEORGIA
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IAHTLHED CAPITAL - - $260,000
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, JNO. McGOUGH, President.
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stores, merchandise, cotton and othei
' '7A1 kinds of insurable property, against loss
l" mv •y Me. Applications received and policies is
b..o_. JOSEPH M. BOARDMAN,
Agent for Macon and vicinity.
>tice to Builders and Jobbers*
umber for sale.
• v. he tfss the largest and best lot of
PI.HI! Lr^lBEK
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Georgia, consisting of Scantling
taatured a tl3f,ul y ■Jsod in house building; quartered
'tludin-'if.n.*’ *etfcerboardlz»g, ceiling, and all
Mill I* n f °i
Mrilon a Central Railroad, and will deliver at
ftctdwua bating t«rni«. Any person wishing to
»«g(; to a * Irwlnton, and I will send horse
t» tt c - f 1 tlle CA J train at Mclntyre’s, and convey
st -*5.1*1 f? ofc **rt9.
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* STCjgEFIELD HOUSE
j3te the Phrnnix from it* Ashes.”
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& rain* of ole ffant House, recently erected
0%.,1a no J ®**kj establlslonotit, Mulberry street,
f Raider* an i9r *b* reception a&a aoccmmda
guests.
" ro Pnetor will endeavor to make It a
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lte the PreibyL.t l a Jv l^e Below the Methodist and
1 °f buitne**/ Church, And near the Banks and
Pbtr.>&4ge of hi
Waerally, , 8 rr^ 3l *| Wends and of the traveling
tecifuUy solicited.
M. STUBBLEFIELD.
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KXKCUTTVE DfVAP.TMh'NT, )
>lillo(igfcTiilCj Nov. 6, 18fvj. f
f } lf . fynalt urul Home
of Repcrsentative*:
Sioce the Jaat annual mcetiDg of the Gen
fT «] our State, in eonnec
tjoo vpitb her southern sisters, has passed
through the vicissitudes of another year o!
bloody war, waged with more than savage
cruelty, by a revengeful and unjust, though
powerful enemy. Thousands of her gallant
and chivalrous sons have poured out their
life’s blood upon the battle field, or yielded
ftWibe stern ujeseetiger, upon the sick couch
of tbe soldier ; and as fifty have entered the
dark valley of the shadow of death, covered
with wouuds, or emaciated with dii-ease,
they have east a lingering look back upon
the laud for whose freedom they have fought
and in the heaviug pangs-of dissolution have
exhorted all who survive to emulate their
example, and die as they have died, sooner
than permit their decendauts to be enslaved.
These noblfj tnen have risked and lost all in
their own, and our defence, and we should
merit and receive the scorn of the civilized
world, it we should permit their orphan
children to pass under tbe yoke of bondage,
for lack of manliness on our part, to meet
the foe face to face, aud grapple with him
hand to hand, while he invades our territory
and we are able to maintain au army in the
field, or to strike a blow in freedom’s cause.
No one can doubt what his duty is, if he
zeflects upon tbe nature of the contest iu
which we are engaged, and the motives
which impel the people of the two govern
ments to action. •
We of the South are fighting for the great
principles of self government, bequeathed to
us by our fathers of the revolution of 1776.
We are figutiug far the land of our nativity,
our homes and our property, our wives and
our children. We have waged no aggres
sive war upon the people of the Northern
States.* We have not denied their right to
govern themselves, or to adopt such form of
Government, as they may prefer. We have
neiiher insulted their wives, destroyed thoir
cities, 9tolen tneir property, desecrated their
churches, nor the graves of their ancestors,
but we have conceded theirrighfc of self-gov
ernment, respected their private property,
and treated as sacred the altars of their re
ligion, and the resting places of their dead.
An tnese have beei# violated on our soil by
their vandal armies.
iu imitation of our fathers of the first rev
olution, m submitted to wrong, till our grie
vances were intolerable, and when we could
no longer live with the people of iLe North
ern States in peace, and were obliged to
throw off the yoke, we only aiked to be per
mitted to depart iu peace. This right was
denied us, and the present cruel and unjust
war was waged against us. We fight then
for the inalienable right of self government,
and for the civil and religious liberties of
ourselves and our unborn posterity.
For what are our enemies fighting ? They
fignt for power and plunder,' aud fir the des
truction of the right of sclf-goveruinei t They
commenced tLe war under the hypocritical
pretext, oi restoring the Union, aLd main
saining the Constitution, lleoeutly, however,
the despot who now rules at Washington,
has thrown off' this mask; aud has informed
a committee from a Southern State, claiming
loyalty to his government, that be now con
ducts the war for the abolition of slavery,
the subjugation of the Southern States, and
ihe confiscation of their property. Abolition
subjugation, aud confiscation, are the terras
offered to us. Who that is ilofc a dastard is
prepared to submit to either?
I have heard it remarked that this is the
rich man’s quarrel, and the poor man's fight
and that the abolition of slavery would not
injure the poor, who are not slaveholder!—
A greater error has never been conceived.—
W~i!e I admit that many of the rich have
| fallen short of the discharge of their duty
iu this contest, and have merited theeondem-
I nation of all true patriots; 1 affirm that no
no class of society would suffer as much
from abolition us the poor, and that uo
class has a greater interest in every thing
but property ut stake upon the triumph of
our arms, and of our cause.
Mr. Lincoln avows his purpose to abolish
slavery by force of arms; aud to estatlish
negro equality among us. If he is success
ful, the rich who own dares will lose their
money which is invested in them, but they
will generally have enough left, to enable
them to take their families, and get away,
from a state of society so wrenched and so
degrading. The p>oor who have not the means
to enable them to leave, must remain with
their families; and submit to negro equality.
What is the result ? The poor while man
goes to the polls to vote, if he is ever again
permitted to vote, and the negro claimed by
Mr. Lincoln to be his equal, goes by his side
to exercise the same right and to make a
set eff against his vote. The poor man en
ters the jury box in the Court of justice,
where important rights are to be decided,
and the negro takes his seat by his side and
is recoguized by the Court as his equal
The poor man is on trial for his life, the ne
gro appears upon the stand as his equal, and
is permitted to testify against him. The
poof man who labors for his daily bread,
goes to his wealthier neighbor to seek em
ployment, the negro appears by his side and
underbids him in fixing the price of labor.
The poor man sends his children to school,
and the children of the negro are seated by
their side, and if he remonstrates he is in
formed that the negro child is the equal of
his own.
Again, our form of government is emphati-
MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, ISG>.
.Vfliy the poor mail's be*t governm-t •* jd
le loses ail his political righ/ i; fi„ r
’-nit* it to be overthrown. If our goVern
oeat were monarchical, and wealth*^
>rs, with the right to govern, ended bv
he laws of the kingdom iu the *-avie family
rom generation to generation, the poor man
voula have but litrje interest in it. and out
-ittle inducement to fight for it. But under
->ur form of government, wealth and honors
ire the exclusive prerogatives ol no parti ;u
--.ar family. Like the wave? ut tbe ocean,
they are constantly changing plac-, and are
transferred as generations ps.-., from one fa
ily to another. The youth who iearus that
his father has wealth aud honors, is ap« tc
iir.tke them his dependence, r.ad relax his
energies, and it not unfrequently occurs tha’
ms mental and physical ooustitudon are des
troyed by drunkenness or other dissipations.
The consequence is that he de** end* to a
i'>wer position in society. Ou the other
hind, the aon of the po r a u,, who has
been trained in the school r.f adversity aud
hibor, if he has ambition, talent, honesty,
integrity and energy, finding the road to
wealth and honor open before him, often
distances competition, and curries off the
most valuable prize. bright eyed
hoy, nuq meanly clad aud neglected, the son
of the poorest man in the Conteriwate army
may, by his economy and his energy, become
the wealthiest mail of his State, or bv his
talent and eloquence, he may iu future, lead
’he Senate; or on account of his wisdom, his
patriotism, and his administrative ability, ht
aray be called to the responsible position of
President of the Confederacy. Tell me. not
that rhe poor man has no in teres* in this
contest, when the social elevation of degra
dation, of himself and his children, depend
upon its results. Let it never be said that,
he is disenterested, when the momentous de
cision is to be ninde, whether, he is in the
future to be the superior or only the equal
of the negro. Surely no poor man will say
■ hat tuis is not his fight, when the very ex
istence yf republican government is at slaS
which is the only government that guaran
tees to him aud his children equality of po
litical rights. Let the south be conquered,
and the sun of liberty will set iubiood”, mil
itary despotism will be established, and the
equal political rights of the poor unci, their
children will be forever lost.
But the abolition of slavery is not the on
ly object for which the wav is now prosecu
ted. We are informed that the armies of the
enemy are to be used lor our Hiiljugntion. —
What would then be our condition? We
should have no political rights, except such
as our masters chose to permit* us to exer
cise. Our states would be reduced to pro
vinces or territories. We could nevewhave
Legislatures nor Courts without the consent
of the victors. Our right to vote or to hold
property, or to set upon juries, or to testily
in Court, would we subject to their caprice.
Whether we were permitted to worship Cod
according to the dictates of our own ooncieo-
CCS, or must submit to such established form
ot religion as our conquerors might prescribe
would depend entirely upon their will, as we
should then have no constitutional rights,
and no guarantee of the liberty of coneieace.
It is impossible to conceive of a people in a
more wretched condition, uhun wo would be
after our subjugation. But out misery u
uot to end here Our slaves are not only to
be set free among us aud made our equa r,
and our subjugation to be complete, but all
our property is to be confiscated to pay the
war debt ot the abolition govern men r s and
to maintain an insolent army ia ;ir midst
to .dragoon us into perpetual submission, aud
rivet our chains more closely from genera
tion to generation.
Every reflecting mind is obliged to com
prehend that it would take nearly or quite
the whole property of the South to tne
immense war deot of the North , aud it' any
should be left alter its payment, mat Van
kce cupidity iu possession of unrestrained
power would soon appropriate lire hiiauce
to its own use. But suppose the abolition
government should modily its policy and
repeal the confiscation act, vha** would be
the result ? Wo should te penult fed to
keep the possession of oar property, but we
should be taxed to the full exten 1 of its an
nual incomes. Instead of giving if up.to
pay the debt at once, we should fce compell
ed to act as overseen* for the Lincoln gov
eminent, receiving a bare subsistence for
our labor. Whether our property is ail con
fiscated aud sold to pay the debt immediate
ly or its left in our hands, aud taxed till if
is wortuless to us matters very little, as m
either case we are subjugated serfs—mere
paupers and slave.* to abolition power. Not
only every principle of honor and ot manli
ness, but every obligation which ancestry
can be under to future posterity requires,
that we should never yield to subjugation,
but that we should defend our liberties and
strike for independence, us long as we have
a man to muster or a weapon to use.
The reeonstruetionist who imagines that
if the war were ended, we should be placed
back where we were, when it commenced,
labors under an egregious error. The Lin
coln government offers no suob terms, aod
.it is not in its power to grant aoy such, as
it could not restore our slaughtered kindred,
compensate our injured females, or return
our devastated fields and cities, as the were
when this wicked war was waged upon us.—
Let the reconstructionist remember that the
terms offered by the government at Wash
ington are not the restoration of the Union
and compensation for the injuries it has
done us; but they are abolition, subjugation
and confiscation. It is announced by an
officer high in position, upon the authority
of the Supreme Court, that all the property
M nil the citizen** of the State in rebellion,
*s they terra us, is subject to confiscation ;
whether such citizen favored the rebellion
r cot. . In other words, thev declare their
mention, so soon as we are subjugated, to
confiscate all the property, of all the people
of the Confederate States, no matter what
may have r een their opinions of the war, or
their conduct during its prosecution. These
forms cannot be very consoling to the friends
of the abolition government, if there be any
'Ueh in the Confederacy.
Substitute* ip the Army ,
and hur portion of the couscript act which
authorizes those wirhm conscript age to etn
p.oy substitutes, has in my opinion, been
productive of the most unfortunate results.
It conscription is right, or if it is to bo ac
quised in as a matter of necessity, it is ccr-
■ainiy just that, it act upon all alike, wheth
er rich or poor. With the substitution
principle in the act, its effect has been to
compel the poorest clan who have no no
uey with which to employ substitutes, to
enter the army, no matter what may be the
erudition of their families at home, while
she rich, who have money with which to em
ploy substitutes, have often escaped compul
sory eeryun. This Is not just, as between
man and man. A bile I trust I have shown
uiat tho poorest man in the Confederacy
l«as such intrest at stake as should stimu
late him, to endure any amount of hard
ship or danger for the success of our cause,
it caariot be denied that the wealthy are
under a? obligation to do service, as
they have, iu addition to the rights and lib
erties ot themselves and their children, a
large amount of property to protect. If eve
ry wealthy man would do his duty, and
share his part of the dangers of the war,
bat (ew complaints would be heard from
the poor. Bat if the money of the rich is
to continue to secure him from the hard
3bips, privations aud dangers to which the
poor aia exposed, discontent, and more or
less demoralization in the anny must be the
inevidable result.
He who has paid two or three thousand
do ars for his substitute has often made it
ba* k in a single inont.ii by speculation, and
it has not an frequently happened that the
families of those in service ut eleven dollars
per mouth, have been the most unfortunate
victims of his speculation and extortion.
Avery large number of stout, able bod
kd young men, between 18 aud 45 years
of age. are now out of the army,and in their
places the Government has accepted old men
over 45, who have, in most casoQ been un
able to undergo long marches, privation and
fatigue. Thousand* of these have sunk by
the way. either into the hospitals or into the
grave. It is also understood that much the
larger number ot deserters and stragglers
trorn the army have been substitutes, who
have entered it lor hire, and after receiving
the stipulated price, have sought the first
opportunity to escape, which they have in
some instances been permitted to do, with
the acquiescence and encouragement of offi-'
eeas, who have been their partners in guil
ty' speculation. Thus the same individual
has been accepted m a substitute for each of
several able-bodied young ineu, who have
beeu left at home to seek for gaiu aud en
joy comfort, while our enemies have gained
advantages on account of the weakness of
our armies.
If we expect to be successful iu our sting
s'e, the law must be so changed as to place
u> service the tens of thousands of young
men who are now at home. This would re
in force our armies, so as to drive back the
enemy upon every part of our borders. Af
ter this change in the law, the Government
could provide for the protection of the most
important interests at home, by making pro
per details of such persons as are indispen
sably necce*Biry. This would be much bet
ter than the extent-ion of the conscription
act up to 50 or 55 , as it would bring into
-the field young men able to endure service
in place of old men who must soon fail when
exposed to great fatigue and hardship, ma
ny of whom art* as competent a- young men
to oversee plantations aud attend to other
home interests.
But it may be denied that that the Gov
ernment cgd now so change the law, as to
make those who have furnished substituter
Huble to service, aa it is bound by its con
to exempt them, aud they have ac
quired ves;ed rights under the contract, which
it if net in the power of the Government to
divest. let us examine this for a moment.
I purchase a lot of laud from the State of
Georgia, nnd pay her one thousand dollars
for if, ami she conveys it to me by grant
under her great seal. The contract is as
golemrwin '. binding as the Government can
make it. My fee simple title is vested and
complete. But while I have the grant in
my pocket and the State has my money in
her treasury, it is discovered that public
necessity requires the State to repossesa her
self of the land ; I refuse to sell to her: she
may pay me just compensation, and take the
land without my consent, and she violates
no fundamental principle, as all our private
rights must yield to the public good, and if
we are injured we can only require just com
pensation lor the injury.
Again suppose I have labored hard and
mode upon my land a surplus of provisions,
which are my own right and property, and
I refuse to sell them to the Government,
when the army is in need of them : it mav
take them without my consent aud pay me
just compensation, aud I have been deprived
of none of my constitutional rights.
The right of & person who has employed
a substitute to be exempt from military set
Tire, can certainly stand upon no higher
VOLUME XI, I—NO So.
ground. Th*» Government has extended .0
such person.* the privilege of ciemi/ion no
on the employment ot a proper imb-tuut ■»,
| bu s if the public safety requires it, tb*» G<V
eminent certainly has as much right to re
voke this privilege as it has to take from me
my land, or my provisions, or other proper
ty, for public use; and all that the person
who employed the substitute could dem&Lu
would be just compensation for the iDjurv
The measure of damages might be the
amount paid by the principal for his subst -
tute, less, a just pro rata, for the time tha
substitute has served; and upon the par
in&nt of the damage or the just compensa
tion for it, the Government would have the
right to retain the substitute, as well ps ri r-,
principal, in service, as the substitute has
been paid by the principal for the sfrvic-,
and toe principal has been compensated f. r
the damage done by ordering hi:ir in‘o ®* *
vice. It wouid be competent, Lowev?r, :n
estimating the damages in such case, to tal-e
ipto the account, the interest the prioeL?!
has in the success of our cause, and tbe es
tablishment of our independence, so nect *
sary, to the perpetuity of his liberties, aid
the security of all his rights. It would t o
be competent to inquire whether he in
deed suffered any pecuniary loss. If he k s
paid three thousand dollars for a subsrirc ,
*nd bus been kept out of the army for tb t
aum for one year, and during that time i.e
n&s made ten thousand dollars more, bv
speculation, or otherwise, than he woo a
Lave made had he been in the army at
eleven dollars per month, the actual amou t
of compensation due from tho Government
1 > him might be very small indeed, if any
thing.
believiug tr.at the public Deccsrity !• -
quiros it, and entertaining no doubt th ;t
Congress possesses the power to remedy e
evil, without violating veoted rights, 1 * -
spectfuliy recommend the passage of 1 j t
resolution by this Goueral •, re
questing Congress to repeal tbut pan J ti -
conscript set, which authorises the emplov
inent of substitutes, and as comcnt .i- 'is
the present policy of tie Government, to
require all persons able to do milita; > duk ,
who have substitutes in service, to enter tr. s
military service of the Gonfedertcr, • ;ih
th* 1 ieast possible delay, and to provik* « me
just rule of compensation to wl c: -v
be injured by The enactment of such a
1 also reoommend that said resolution in
struct our idenators, and request our H pi
sentatives in Congress, to vote for elu urge
the passage of this measure at the earhtit
possible day.
JJeserrers and Slragylers frojgt the ‘Army
Deserters and stragglers from th*.* -.ru.y,
and the too common practice of ovtrsra) Jg
tho time allowed tuose on furlough, are
evils which if not checked, rau*t resuir i;. *
great injury to our cause aud endanger ou-*
success.
A person who has traveled over the conn
try to any considerable extent, cannot have
failed to observe the vast number of per? lb
in the uniform of Confederate officers, aud
of soldiers, who crowd our railroad cars, aud
fill every hotel cn our lines of travel. Many
of these persons are believed to be negFct
ing duty, and attending to speculation, and
other private interests, or pleasure,
who are not in commission uo donlX wear
the Confederate uniform to enable to
avoid enrollment as conscripts, Those ab
sent on sick leave have frequently stay and
weeks and months after they were able t <
return to camps, and have procured fi m
unscrupulous surgeons, certific at<*s, wbkh
have excused them with their comma: < :
Others overstay their time without ,
till they fear the penalties that aw*m *. .
ami they then determine never to retoi -
by these practices the army is greatly <i*«
pleted, and Las not in the field much nu ..
than hait its strength; and»marjy in sei-v e
•ire denied furloughs which ought to hj
granted, becauso others have cot com
pelled to do their duty, and return at t? $
appointed time. Whether the e abuses a a
caused by the favoritism or negligence f
officers in command, or by the fedaie oft; •
people at home to require of all who ur
sent iti violation of orders, to return, I go
not pretend to decide The evil r s aa a.ai i
»og one however, and calls for a >p c « ;
remedy.
In response to the request of Gonfedemr*
Generals in command, I have b} proclat -
tion, directed the civil and military uffic rs
of this State, and the State troop*, to be
vigilant m the arrest of deserters and srr 9
glers. Many have been arrested bj them
and returned to their respective command ,
but farther legislation is required, to ena «
the Executive to apply an effective re., e.
It is necessary that the law make it ‘fit- ir» -
perative duty of ail sheriffs, cons'aules. l a
*ll other civil officers of every h.d
of all the militia officers of tL.s Su . o
arrest each and every person in the : r r - e
dve counties who belong to the C used
army, and cannot show that he ha* a i , l
f urlough, v.nd ha3 not overstated u*- e
allowed him. A heavy penalty ebor’d 1»
imposed# upon each officer who ne o
discharge his duty, and execute the
and a sufficient sum should be apDr<; r _ and
to defray the expense of the a.- r
deserters and strogglers, and of u:°li c -
veyance and delivery, to a Confederate ; %
cer authorized to receive, aud return th sc.
to their command. A resolution -b u and a o
be passed, requesting the Coated ; : x. G i
ernment to Georgia, all sum- y
expended in the return of such pet c-* o
their places of service, or to authorize Pott
Quartern asters at the place where the dc
tarter or straegier may be delivered to a .
Confederate officer, to pag all necessary ex*