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"" .mile curtains, Kate,
iisfk t '"' l ‘., m i ward you’re keeping;
M ' vat ‘ ' \ ircli lie in slate,
~•»< t'» e "".'vvliilst he’s sleeping.
~,.1 vie" 'l'Uisiw liis tiny hand,
, jp coin** stroiuning,
‘ \s , fairy land
\ *„i’ , tile’s dreaming.
' Hevi-"' '
,I'arly powder puff
Mil! . '„Vnt so cozy. ,
i- Zm hreath of breezes rough
SI warm and rosy j
soundly m l' lßoell >
If s one decrepid,
ln , kv tyrant! Happy lot!
■ ' '? tc h without number,
Sweetly sing besides his cot
. ni |,u,h him off to slumber .
„ ' bauds in wait to smooth so neat
".plipilJoa- when its nimpled,
" ihof rose leaves fresh and sweet,
of which is crumpled.
.... vo ndcr dainty, dimpled hand—
’’ nothing and a quarter—
satire, lead a hand
•'lory and to slaughter?
~,.,y f ask, will those blue eyes
A nioaby;^' 1 pcepera”—
i the House of Common rise,
I strive to catch the speaker’s?
| that fair brow o’er Hansard frown,
, M fused by lore statistic ?
sii those lips e’er stir Mie town
, ii pulpit ritualistic ?
'..’■Millie,and yet, mayhap—
-I()Ui,h str.mge, quite true it may bo
N'oro once was fed on pap,
v ,j j; ilr-s was once a baby.
■, uirosy, dimpled, plump and round,
• h fragile, soft and tender,
- ’’.times, alas! it may be found
thread of life is slendei !
A jjiilo shoe, a bitten glove—
A (lect ion never waning—
skittered idol of our love
/sail that is remaining !
I'i’i'M does one chance, in fancy, hear
Small feet in childish patter,
Tiv id soft as they a grave draw near,
\nd voices hush their clatter ,
cp'js small arid new. they pause in fear,
beneath the gray church tower,
To consecrate it by a tear
And deck it with a llower.
Then take your babe, Kate, kiss him so,
Past, to your bosom press him !
Os mother’s love what does he know?
Though closely you caress him.
Ah ’ wiiat n man will he that boy,
What mind and education !
If lie fulfills the hope and joy
Os mother’s aspiration.
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i»U !< I ! OIM.N OK TIIKtiEOBGIA CON*
M KVATU fc < O>VlNT!<)>.
Macon, Oa., Decembers, 1867.
At a convention of the people of Geor
gia, begun and held this day in the city
0 f Macon, on motion of General A R
Wright, a delegate from the county of
Itiehmond, lion. 11 H Hill, a delegate from
ib county of Clarke, was unanimously
chosen President of the Convention.
On motion of 1* W Alexander, Esq., a,
delegate from the county of Muscogee, a
. 'iniuittee consisting of Messrs, i' \\ Al
examler, Kli Warren and Jared I Whita
ker, was appointed to notify Mr. Hill of
hi., election and to conduct him to the
Chair.
(MUSI SS OS' HON. It. SI. MlS,fj.
Mr. Hill, on taking his seat as President,
1 1 in ;-,d the Convention as follows:
i, u oj'th' Convention: Your as
rniMing is auspicious— auspicious in time
.Mil iii place; auspicious for our State—for
all Cue .-dates; for Constitutional govern
ment and human liberty. When I look
ever (his dirge, intelligent and venerable
i i inhly, lam assured your deliberations
' ill bras tin y onglit to be, as Hie grave is
iii s before you require they should be,
-■*, moderate ami considerate, but firm,
frank and determined,
highly years ago the fatliers of all the
■pie of these States, fresh from the
onr.i;>n struggles of a revolution waged
> the liberties of each State, assembled
i Philadelphia to found and organize a
'ui ditution and Government adapted to
c condition and wants of the people,and
InnieiTmth In he known as peculiarly
1 .ncricnii. They represented States, each
■ knowledged to he independent, sover
n and absolute. They found interests
,'imnon to all the States, and in
•■nst:; local and jieculiar to oacli State.
Imy naturally ami wisely determined to
■ mide lo a common and federal govern
ing the administration of the interests
■ muon to all, leaving to each State the
ii-tni'hed control of the interests peeli
n' i<> itself. They framed a written Cou
nt, nt for the (letieral Government, and
ii i 1 written Constitution sought <1 is—
irnnly to set forth the powers conferred,
mi declared the common interest, the
mici'al welfare, which the exerciseof those
novcrs was destined to promote and con
ice. To protect the States from eueroach
n is by the General Government, they
id thatall powers not delegated were
i >s!y reserved. To protect the Gener
' ■ 'Veiiiiiient from interference t>y the
. tiiey and 'elaieil that the General
* Meet within its powers, should be
. 1 '"' ''tins happy arrangement ot (lis
tin'! UiV luirmonious governments —the
‘’ l ‘ j' aw idea—all hedged about by
\v; itt- ii cmHUutions—the great American
people grew and pros
per ! as no pAaiptu ever before either grew
or prospered.
1 ’ 1 u r t ’ I ! n ,!' in '""' A^\y l in tin' Convention
■ ed which were not
reconciled and solvedy,-jth suflicient. dis
l tin allies; ditlerenm too, touching the re
spective i_ighis and pwwwvsuf the created
ander at mg governments. These differ
ences continued to exist, to e n i ar ge and to
e\, i;c, until 0i;..11\ tuey culminated in a
it 1 1 ul, f . * v as k i ous and ever lo bo regretted
collision of arms. °
Alter a gallant defence of her convictions
uonestly entertained, and of her rights
long enjoyed according to those convic
tions, the South laid down her amis.—
l ivery intelligent and honest man knows
that the people of the South desisted from
the struggle, sincerely desiring and in good
both intending, to remain in the Union of
wu- common lathers as modified only by
t".'m'?'“ 10 isf>ues settled by the arbi
shuidcr a v U 'i' s ‘ -'ll "’bo say otherwise
know!liov^ ,b^, Peol,le ’ T l tlU ' V
not and IX,’} ' . h “ V *n'! re
union ? 1 a,ul good wiii in
There is but one answer urn,u »•
It. i, because the start!
plainly developed to die whole ‘InT
mankind, which a lew wise men °
iW and feared, that thereat!A m
who were never satisfied wifftteSgS
arrangeineut made by our fathers-win
the idea of central and local governments
each sovereign m its suhera ... h
«e taking advantage
Therefore, the^reit
fore the Ameriem,l S? U ?, n " rnv bo *
'■'*« "f which all other umstTo! ,luesti .°» I
Sll:lM w, ‘. ‘‘an we, presc ITe ' t) “ t gU,^'T,s : I
artungeiuent? shall Jt original
and continue a <mnei-ii ,’ r ' :ui We > retain
l' ri " u ‘ its splu-re, buflST- 1 ’ 8 - 0 "
powers to the general inter im 1 111 lts
>" ■‘ll the States, and coruril on
absolute over tlie local neri| inents,
to each State ? Shall wo k ! eslß l' ecill >ar
l o'.'l.v written constit,Uions> rv with
"'‘“lino contitutional 'mvrn’mi ‘W we
w, ‘ ‘ an, nil interests arefsot?i #ot? If
tr Ar.ri'-
'f' l " ; ‘'>'t iiiU rest_„V« i • a J | —Stateß, !
m lusioii, sutnXt „ M lUrrie ‘ l “Ho Wild
bloody anarchy ! , (1 ® te " ,b >e ordeal
ll,le destiny iV’ l ? ou . nd to the i„ev-
Xe-r,, Sa ’ llT o"iediahle
■trage, social •iii.i H'jotnacy universal
equality of
le hU subordinate ,S ( S ! U ‘ B'b>H 8 ' b >H ll.ey
tlle
By Trtose Sc Burr.
questions of equality. Human govern
ments must settle and protect rights. If
we can preserve our American arrange
ments of governments, ail rights— ade
quate, appropriate and equal rigiits for all
races—are secure; but if these govern
ments are not preserved, all rights and
all equality for all races are gone, and ail
l*eople on the continent must become the
mere subjects of power, and the remediless
victims of wrong and tyranny.
I lie party which seeks to destroy these
wisely ordered and well balanced govern
ments, framed in 1787, is one with which
you can make no compromise without be
ing false to the white race, false to the
black race, talse to the Constitution and
lulse to every original and fundamental
principle on which the American federa
tive system rests.
It needs no wise man, noannointed pro
phet, therefore, to tell you your duty.
That duty is as manifest as existence, ami
as important as life. It is summed up in
one sentence —hold on, hold on, hold on at
all hazards and through all aanrifice#, hi the
(Constitution of your fathers. We are 'called
“ rebels ” and “ traitors,” because we
desire to live under that Constitution,
while they who call us so are daily en
gaged in tiie rebellious and traitorous
work of insidiously undermining and des
troying that Constitution and every prin
ciple incorporated in it. They would
conceal by their words the treason their
acts make patent. They divert by their
calumnies of others, attention from the
wicked measures by which they are bring
ing ruin upon all. Hitherto they have
had the aid of the people of the North.
Ilut they have secured that aid by the
most monstrous and persistent misrepre
sentations and slanders of our desires, our
actions and purposes. But I am fully
convinced that the jieople of the North
even a large proportion of those known as
Republicans—do not in their hearts desire
to do us injustice. They have oppressed be
cause they have misunderstood. Hut slan
ders can not always deceive. Wrongs can
not always triumph. The time is coming,
aye, it is at band, when that people, unde
ceived, will rush to our relief and hurl
from power the party that has deceived
them to oppress us. Conscious that they
are now a minority of the American peo
ple they are seeking to prolong the power
they acquired in passion and through de
ception, by adding to their catalogue of
enormities the double crime of disfranchis
ing intelligence and virtue and enfranchis
ing ignorance and vice. Let us go on in
the even tenor of our way, bravely endur
ing, but fearlessly making known at all
times and in the most emphatic manner
our grievances and our wrongs.
The Convention soon to assemble at At
lanta will be tlie first Convention ever
held in Georgia of which it may be truly
said, it is not of the people. I will not now
review the fraudulent agencies of its call,
nor the criminal purpose of its assem
bling, nor dissect the character of its mem
bers.
May the God of the patriot, even at this
late day, flash light, upon the minds of at
least all who are natives of our soil, and
may they yet pause before they become
hoplessly recreant to all they hold dear,
and to all for which their children can
iiave hope.
On motion of Edward IT Pottle, Esq., a
delegate from the county of Warren, Col
onel John U Weems, of the county of Bibb,
was appointed Secretary of the Conven
tion, with power to appoint such number
of assistants as he might require. Messrs.
G W Gustin, Jno. U Shorter and Harry J
Neville, of the county of Bibb, were ap
pointed Assistant Secretaries.
On motion of Hon. Tlios Hardeman, Jr.,
a delegate from tlie county of Bibb, the
Secretary was instructed to proceed to a
call of the counties; whereupon the fol
lowing delegates appeared and enrolled
their names, to-wit:
Baker —W I) Williams, J II Hand, Jus
P Stevens.
Barton) —F A HuSon.
Baldwin—i L Dunning, Miller Grieve,
Jr, Samuel McOomb, G D Buckner.
/lit/l) —F G Holt, J J Gresham, E N
Whittle, G W Adams, E S Strotecker, A
Foster, James Tin ley, C Thorpe, W F
Wei I burn, P E Bowdre, J B Ross, A O
Boeon, .1 Russel I, T C Dempsey, F H Al
ley, E Crocket, 1) Abrahams, Geo Jones,
J It Sneed, Tlios HardemanjC A Nutting,
A Iverson, D W Hammond, W S Holt, M
S Thompson, C Anderson, A W Reese.
Chatham —W T Thompson, C II Itieli
ardson, Geo A Mercer.
Chattooga— E Henley, J T Hamilton.
Clark —Wm M Browne, Beuj. H Hill.
day —Francis T Tennell.
Columbia—ins S Jones, J P Williams,
J E White, Wm J Steed.
Coweta —Toilisou Kirby, Wm C Dent,
W F Wright.
Crawford—S P Blasingame.
Dade —J Cooper Nisbet.
Dceatur— E B GrjUiii, W M Russell.
Dekalb— llobt A Alston, W L Gold
smith, Milton A Candler.
Dougherty —N elsoi 1 Tift, James II
Campbell.
Dooly —it M Owen, Jerry Slade, Wm
Wallace, Davis S Goode, R Redding, T J
Humphries, J J Collier, J Hayden.
Elbert —E P Edward.
Emanuel—Li B Bmicbelle.
Floyd —Hon A It Wright, J A Stewart,
J W Turner, M Dwinueil.
Fulton— J I Whitaker, T Smith, J P
Hambleton, J A Steele, J F Alexander,
C Hurbst, L J Glenn, F O Rudy, W B
Wiley.
Cllasscoe/c —-J C King.
Gordon— G M Thompson.
Greene —Jno It Spence.
Hancock—\\ T Harris, F J Pearson, F U
Little, J P Jordan, WG Northern, G F
Pierce, jr., PII Audas.
Harris—3 M Kimbrough.
Houston— Gen Eli Warren, J.C Gilbert,
II M Holtzclaw, J W Hardison, CN
Rountree, C C Duncan, J T Cooper, D H
Houser.
Jasper —T (’ Broddens, T J Priehett,
Wm Fish, J W Preston, F Goolsby, Reese
Goolsby, C H Greer, James Henderson, J
H Holland, J P Stewart, S McMichael, B
It Ezzell, jr., L A Lane, L W Pou, W A
Perry, W P Hardy, Isaac W Freeman.
Jones— Jas H.Uray, R W Bonner, W T
McCullough, W T Bozeman, Isaac Harde
man, Jas H Blount, R T Ross, F S John
son, Sr, Green Roberts, William Roberts,
N S Glover, Suroy Singleton.
Lee— G W Was wick, W H Weems, G
M Stokes.
Lincoln— E Lockhart, N Bussey, E J
Lyon. T ,
Macon— P Cook, WPDrumnght, John
G Smith, Daniel Ivleckley, Chas A Taylor,
S I) Everett, I) L Wicker.
Miller— J It Whitehead.
Milton— J Graham.
Monroe— T J Fletcher, W B Week, Isaac
Winter.
Morgan—l) E Butler.
Muscot/ee —Thus Ragland, P 'V Alexan
der, J M Russell, JA L Lee, Thomas W
Grimes.
Newton— P Reynolds, Wm S Mont
gomery.
Pike— W O Kendrick, W D Redding, J
B Hanson, J A Hunt.
Polk— li H Walthall, J F Thompson.
Pulaski— C M Bozeman, N McDufHe, 0
; C Ivibbee, N W Collier, Robt Anderson,
A T Burke, J W Carruthers, G R Coley,
R T Coley.
Putnam —N S Walker, A S Reid, Jr, R
Hu ml bee, J W-Hudson.
Quitman—D Morris, T L Guerry.
Randolph PL.T May, H H Jones, W
M Jumlin, \Y r K Kiddo, A J Moye, Chas
Stanley, Herbert Fielder.
Richmond —Gen A It Wright, L I) Lal
lerstedt, William Craig, Wm H Tutt, .1
W Bessman, J K Evans.
Schley —W J Sears.
Scriven— E B Grass.
Spaulding —Robert A Crawford, Jason
Burr, David H Johnson, F S Fitch.
Stewart —John M Scott, James It. Bar
naul.
Sumter —G T Wilburn, T M Furlow, G
M Bivins, C T Goode, W J Reese, N \\
Hancock.
Talbot— W A Little, Wm Drane.
Taylor —l) L Downs.
Terrell —Leroy Brown, J E Loyless, It
F Simmons
Troup— C H C Willingham, PE L Jen
nings, H W Morgan.
Twiggs —lra E Dupree, A McCullum, I)
G Hughes, J H Denson, R R Slappey,
Lewis Solomon, J E Cropland.
Walton— W W McLester.
Warren —E II Pottle.
Washinyton— John B Turner, It \\
Flournoy, Green Brantly, Bennet Hooks.
Webster—L\qot W S Rosser, J N McCain.
\\hdfieUl— J W Avery.
Wilkinson— W E Carswell, W J Cars
weli’ R H Carswell, W W Lee, Joel
Deese, E J Coates, Isaac Lindsey.
Co], Wm. F Wright, a delegate from
tlie county of Coweta,moved that the dele
gates from each Congressional District re
port the name of one delegate from each
‘listrid as a Vice-President of the Conven
tion which motion prevailed.
On motion of Major John H Steele,a del
egate from tlie county of Fulton, tlie Con
vention took a recess for five minutes to
enable the delegates from the different
Congressional Districts (o report the names
of Vice-Presidents.
The Convention being called to order,
tlie following delegates were reported as
Vice-Presidents of the Convention, to
wit :
First Congreasion it District—Major W. T.
Thompson.
Second Congressional District—General Eli
Warren.
Third Congressional District—Colonel William
F. Wright,
Fourth Congressional District-Dr. Ira E. Du
pree.
Filth Congressional District—Gen. A. R. Wright.
Sixth Congressional District—J. Graham.
Seventh Congressional District—Honorable A.
R. Wright.
On motion of Mr. Dwinell, a delegate
from the county of Floyd, citizens of
counties unrepresented, and who sym
pathize with the purposes of the Conven
tion, were invited to enroll their names as
delegates from their respective coun
ties.
Whereupon Mr. W’ier Boyd, of the
county of Lumpkin, and Mr. J J Ityals,
of the county of Camden, appeared and
enrolled their names as delegates.'
Ou motion of James R. Sneed, Esq., a
delegate from tiie county of Bibb, the rules
oi the House of Representatives of Geor
gia were adopted for the government of
tlie Convention.
On motion of Hon. J. J. Gresham, a dele
gate from the county of Bibb, a committee
consisting of two delegates from each Con
gressional District was appointed to pre
pare and report business for tlie action of
the Convention.
The committee appointed under the fore
going resolution,are as follows :
First Congressional District—Geo. A. Mercer and
C. li. Richardson.
Second Congressional District—Gen. Phillip
Cook and T. M. Furlow.
Third Congressional District—P. W. Alexander
and C. H. C. Willingham.
Fourtli Congressional District—Hon. Tlios. Har
deman,jr„ and Daniel G. Hughes,
I iitli Congressional District—Hon.David K. But
ler and Hon. E. H. Pottle.
Hixtli Congressional District—J. Graham and
W. W. Mo Lester.
Seventh Congressional District—Coi. Luther J
Glenn anu J. A. Stewart.
Hon. J. J. Gresham, of the county of
Bibb, was nominated Chairman of the
Committee.
Gen. A It Wriglit presented certain reso
lutions adopted at a meeting of tiie citizens
of Glynn county, which were read, and on
motion of Albert It Lamar,Esq., a delegate
from the county of Muscogee, were refer
red to the appropriate Committee.
Hon. Alt Wright, of the county of
Floyd, presented certain resolutions, pre
pared by himself, in reference to our Fed
eral relations and the duty of the people of
Georgia growing out of the Reconstruc
tion Acts of Congress, were read.
Hon. Thomas Hardeman, Jr., moved
that the resolutions presented by Judge j
Wright, and all others of like character, I
which maybe presented to the Con veil- j
lion, be referred to the Committee on
Business without discussion and without
being read, which motion prevailed.
A telegram was read announcing to tlie
Convention that General Browne and
Colonel Matthews, delegates from the
counties of Oglethorpe and Clarke, would
arrive to-night.
On motion, the Convention adjourned
to3 o’clock, p. m.
EVENING SESSION.
The Convention met at 3 o’clock, P. M.,
pursuant to morning’s adjournment.—
There were some few additions to the num
ber of delegates reported, but owing to the
absence of the Business Committee, noth
ing more could he done, as it was probable
that some hours would elapse before it was
ready to report. The interim was occu- j
pied very happily by addresses from Hon. j
A. R. Wright, Gen. A. R. Wriglit, and
Hon. B. H. Hill. Hon. Alfred Iverson 1
was first called upon, but not appearing, !
Gen. A. R. Wright, in response to repeat
ed calls, rose and said :
I think with the President of this Con
vention, that the loveliness of the day is
auspicious for the Convention, for the State
and for the country. lam glad to find in
looking over this sea of faces that they are
all plain. The political sky, though still
dark, is not as dark as in months past, and
we arenot yet prepared to give up theship.
Radicalism cannot be killed without work.
1 see in the character of the delegates
enough left to arouse us to enter the lists
and contest lor the rights of the State. —
Alluded to the iniquities of the military
bill, and the mission or order of Gen. Pope j
thereunder, to put us under the dominion j
of the negro. How we were dismayed j
and stood aghast and hung our heads in !
sorrow and shame when the election of a I
Radical Convention was announced.
He speke in touching terms of the last I
surrender of the Confederate armies. Ot |
the conduct of Georgians on that occasion, ,
and of one General who, when his brigade
wavered before the host of enemies, threw
himself alone into tlie breach. That last
summer when the danger was equally im
minent, and all had given away, that a
gallant Georgian dared to speak under the
very guns of the enemy, and to him under
heaven to-day we are indebted for our
hopes. While he speaks aud writes un
less tlie people give him aid, the battle will
amount to nothing.
We have been defeated by scalawags,
yon and I defeated, because the white peo
ple were too lazy or too indifferent. Tlie
press have done their duty, but tlie peop.e
have not done theirs, and unless they do
when tlie radical constitution is ottered for
ratification, tlie result will be tlie same.
The Convention was not carried in tlie
black belt of the State,— showing that it
was not tlie action oi the blacks, but tlie
inaction of the whites, which carried it.
While some people forgot we were not
reconstructed, aud still out in the cold,
there were others who knew there weie
loaves and fishes to be divided; and be
tween the two we fell. The object of the
Convention is to learn how and when we
are to go to work. We must anticipate the
work of the Atlanta Convention ; the off
spring of such a parent could not fail to
be hideous, ‘ No good can come out of
Nazareth.’ The purpose of the dominant
party is to retain power, and Pope was
sent among us to carry out his masters’
will, though ostensibly to protect us.
We whipped tlie Convention, indif
ferent as wo were, and Pope was forced
to extend the time of election until they
could make the majority up, and this
they did at Atlauta.
We must go home aud organize,—make
the tight in favor of our race,—and meet
them at the polls. We want in all the
lacon, Cjra., Wednesday, Dccemher 11, 1867.
counties Democratic clubs,—clubs honest,
courageous, and determined to do their
duty. The seductive hope that ail would
I *** w< ‘ii in the end, did we remain quiet,
should not be entertained. We want it
to l>e well in tlie beginning. We eannotj
afford to wait. .Some of us are gray, aud I
want to participate in the struggle, whip
in it, and leave tlie victory as an in
heritance to our children.
He hoped tlie Committee would not
make a declaration of our wrongs, —it
would require too long a parchment; —let
us protest against this wicked and cruel
legislation.
Elsewhere in the country the question !
of negro suffrage lias been'met and defeat- j
ed; the South stands alone In her failure
to overthrow it, and is.less alive to consti
tutional interests than the other sections,
i hey did not make the light to preserve
tiie purity of the ballot, but for tlie great
principle which underlies the foundation
of this ‘ln-eminent that this is a white
man's government. Rouse! rally and tight
on this issue. Not an encouraging act lias
been done by us until to-day. South Caro
lina lias defeated it, under the lead of her”
gallant Gen. Hampton; their quiet Con
vention at Columbia met eye to eye iuid
heart to heart, and, deriving encourage
ment from each other, gained the victory ;
against a majority of 30,000 majority. We ’
have failed to do it against only 6,000. Let
us go home and do what South Carolina
has done so nobly.
The Committee on Business returnexhto
the Hall of tlie Convention and submit
ted, through their Chairman, Mr. Gres
ham, a pi earn We and resolutions, together
with an accompanying address to tlie peo
ple of Georgia.
On motion of Mr. Sneed, of Bibb, the
Convention adjourned until 7j o’clock
this evening.
NIGHT SESSION.
The Convention assembled, and time
was occupied in leading tlie preamble and
resolutions reported by tlie committee.
These resolution being debated at length,
tlie entire matter was recommitted to the
committee for further deliberation and per
fection ; the committee pleading want of
time in making their first report.
Mr. John Jackson, delegate from Hous
ton, appeared and was enrolled as a mem
ber of the Convention.
On motion oi’ A. R. Wright, one dele- i
gate from each Congressional district was
added to the Committee of Fifteen.
The following are the additional mem
bers to the Committee:
First Conaressioual District—\Y. T. Thompson.
Second Congressional District—T. L. Guerry.
Third Congressional District—J. A. L. Lee.
Fourth Congressional District—T. G. Holt.
Filth Congressional District—A. It. Wright.
Sixth Congressional District—J. YV. Avery.
Seventh Congressional District—J. P. Hamble
ton.
Convention then adjourned until 10
o’clock Friday morning.
Friday, Dec. 6, 1S6 T .
The Convention met at 10 o’clock, a.m., |
pursuant to adjournment.
Tiie Committee on Business reported the j
following preamble and resolutions, which j
were read and unanimously adopted : to |
wit:
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
We, the delegates of tlie people of Geor
gia, in Convention assembled, recognizing
our obligations to support the General Cjov
ernment in all legal and proper measures,
and claiming from that Government the
due performance of the reciprocal duty, to
extend to us in Common with all the peo- ;
pie of our whole country, tlie protection j
guarani! ed by tlie Constitution of our fore
fathers, do declare and affirm that tuati*
ly protest against bad public policy is
tlie duty, as well as the right, of evbry
American citizen : And tiiis, withoutfac
tious opposition to Government, or un
timely interruption of public harmony.
Theseason for honest discussion of princi
ples, and for lawful opposition to exiiting
abuses and their growth, i.s ever prisent
and pressing.
The Southern people are true to Consti
tutional liberty, and ready to acquiete in
any policy looking to the honor and jood J
of the whole country and securing the
rights of all classes of people.
WY: regard theelibrlsof the present riling j
power to change the fundamental iniitu- j
tions of tlie United States Governmeht as !
false in principle, impolitic in action in- |
juriousin result, unjust to the Southland j
detrimental to tlie General Governmeit.
Silence under wrong may be construed
as endorsement. Beit, therefore,
Resole and, Ist. That we recognize tin du
ty to sustain law and order, to support
cheerfully all constitutional measures of the
United States Government, and to nnin
tain the rigiits of all classes of peopleuu
der enlightened and liberal laws.
Risolved, 3. That tlie people of Georgia
accept in good faith the legitimate results
of tiie late war, and renew the expression
of their allegiance to the Union of the
States, and reiterate their determination
to maintain inviolable tlie Constitution
framed by tlie fathers of the Republic.
Resolved, 3. That we protest, dispassion
ately, yet firmly, against what it* known
as tiie Reconstruction Acts of Congress,
and against the vindictive and partisan
administration of those Acts, as wrong in
principle, oppressive in actiou, aud ruii -
ous to the States of the South, as well as
hurtful to the true welfare of every por
tion of our common country, and leading
directly, if not intentionally, to tlie per
manent supremacy of the negro race in
all those States where those laws are now
being enforced.
Resolved Wi, That we protest, in like
spirit and manner, against the policy of j
the dom nant party in Congress which
seeks to inflict upon the States of tlie ,
South permanent bad government, as a |
wrong not only to all races in tlie South, j
and to tiie people of all parts ot the Union, ,
but a crime against civilization which it is j
the duty of all right-minded men every- I
where to discountenance aud condemn.
Resolved, 5. That we enter on record,in j
the name aud behalf of the people of this I
State, this our-solemn protest against the
assembling of a Convention, which we
affirm with evidence before us, has been
ordered under preteuce of votes which
were illegally authorized, forcily procured,
| fraudulently received, and falsely counted,
as we believe. And, in view of the so -
emn’responsibilities ol theissuesinvolved,
we d*. hereby declare that we will forever
hold the work of framing a Constitution
by such authority, with inteut to be
forced by military power ou tlie free peo
ple of this ancient Commonwealth, as a
crime against our people, against tlie con
tinuance of free’government, against tie
I peace of society, against the punty of the
ballot box, aud against the dignitY and
' character of representative institutions.
! Resolvid, Hth, That a Central Executive
Committee of fifteen be appointed by tiie
President of this Convention at hi- con
venience, and that said Committee be au
| thorized to call Conventions of the Oon
-1 servative party of Georgia as often as the
1 same may be necessary, and, also, to ap
point sub-committees in the several coun
ties of this State, and to take snob other
steps as may be proper to carry out tiie
policy of this Convention.
Resolved,ith, That in view of contingen
cies that may hereafter arise, it is made
the further duty oi said Executive Com
mittee to address the people of the State,
and indicate at tlie proper time the polte.v
which in their judgment may tnen t*
deemed best adapted to subserve and pro
mote the public good.
Resolved, S th. That this Convention do
earnestly recommend to the Conservative
men in each county <>f the State to organ
ize at once, and report their organization
to the State Executive.
Resolved,oth, That Herchel V. Johnson,
Absalom A. Chappell, Benj. 11. Hill,
•Warren Akin and T. L. Guerry, be afv
pointed a committee to prepare and pub
hsh an address to the people of Georgia
and ot tlie l nited States, setting forth the
true sentiments of the white raw in tiiL
j •State, tlie deplorable mmdition of our j »eo
pw, sod which the enforcement
jof the Reconstruction Acts of Congress
will bring upon all classes in tiie Smi:|i.
Mr. Reynolds, of Newton, rejiorted tin*
j following resolutions, which were taken
! up and unanimously agreed-to; to wit,—
Resolved, That we tender our thanks
and grateful acknowledgments to tlie Con
servatives of tiie Northern and Western
1 States, who are battling to sustain the
Constitution of our fathers and tbo su
premacy of the white race. And we hail
as true friends of constitutional liberty,
all those of every section who stand by
the^ right of the States alone, to confer
suffrage and fix its conditions.
Resolved, That our warmest gratitude 1
and most heartfelt thanks are hereby 1
tendered to the benevolent friends at the
North and West, who sent their contribu
tioiw so generously to our suffering people ,
during tne past and present year, and we '
pray that a gracions Pnn ’ nco will vouch
safe that they may gather up their bread
thus cast upon the waters a-liundred-fold,
In days to come.
P. \V. Alexander, Esq., of Muscogee,
submitted tlie following resolution, which
was read and adopted ; to wit, —
W Resolved, That 5,000 copies of the official
Proceedings of tiiis Convention, together
with tiie Address hereafter to be prepared,
be published in pamphlet form, aud turned
r, r to the Executive Committee, for gen
eral distribution throughout tlie State; and
that contributions be requested from tiie
delegates of tlie Convention, i;o defray the
expense of publication.
On motion of Albert R. Lamar, Esq.,
of Muscogee, tlie Convention adjourned
sine die.
At the conclusion of the deliberations of
tlie Convention, aud on taking leave of
that body, Mr. Hill said :
Before tlie Convention adjourn I will
indulge tlie liberty ol a parting word.
You have done your work and it has
been well done, it will carry joy to tlie
hearts of your constituents, and to your
families, and joy to tiie hearts of millions
in tiie North. Your voice has been long
stifled, your motives long traduced and
slandered, and your purposes misrepre
sented. Your friends in the breach have
hitherto been unable to get from you the
words by which they could defend you,*
but those words you have now spoken and
they are a refutation of the slander of bur
enemies.
We should not be ashamed of the truth,
we do love tlie Constitution of our country,
it is our purpose to maintain and defend
it. That Constitution lias been shattered
and torn in proportion as you have been
slandered and abused, and all who regard
that Constitution, look with anxious eyes
aud hearts to your action. The labor is
not yetcomplete, go home and counsel,en
courage and inspire your constituents,urge
them to the work, let organizations be
open and bright as the sun before heaven
and earth. We have lost much, our chil
dren and our property, our cities have
been burned, our industry paralyzed and
fields idle, and our coffers exhausted, but
thanks to God ! Georgians are honorable
yet. It is shown in tlie spirit of the Con
vention, in every eye aud face, and they
will ever be honorable.
We have passed no partisan resolutions,
we have indulged no personal animad
versions, we have organized no party for
spoils, but have prepared an inheritance
for our children.
For your kind forbearance with the
chair during your session, I return thanks.
And now with tlie hope that you may go
home witii renewed wish I bid you adieu
and pronounce the Convention adjourned.
ACUIOILTIKIL.
The following very sensible and timely
preamble and resolution was offered by
Dr. Ira E. Dupree, at the session of tlie
Conservative Convention, at its close on
yesterday, and, for want of time to deliber
ate upon it, laid on the table. Tlie publi
cation, however, is sufficient to show tlie
end desired :
Whereas, Tlie prosperity and happi
ness of any peopledepetid upon a well reg
ulated Agricultural system of labor, as well
as a good government; and
Whereas, We, the p->pie of the Soutlt
have by the fate of war, experienced a
change unparalleled in our social,financial
and political conditions ; aud
Whereas, Wo have, with praiseworthy
zeal in effort and enterprise, used every
energy to restore our broken fortunes,
maintain confidence in public faith, and
build up a prosperous future for our belov
ed country; and
Whereas, We have for tlie last two years
cultivated large areas of worn out and un
productive lauds by much hired labor, ob
tained at high prices; and
Whereas, By sucli a system we have,
instead of increased wealth and resources,
grown poorer, each year, diminishing our
means; and
Whereas, Cotton lias fallen below tlie
cost of its production ; and
Whereas, The United States Govern
ment lias unfairly and unjustly taxed its
production two-aud a-ha if cents per pound
—a tax unfair aud unjust because its bur
den is on the South only, thus lessening
our profits and throwing obstacles in tlie
way of large production ; and
Whereas, «Ve now see by two years
trial, that the freedmen are lazy, indolent,
and will not work so long as the Radical
party holdsout to them prospects, without
cost, of lauded homes, and equality in the
government—at the same time demanding
exhorbitaut remuneration ; and
Whereas, We have by the emancipation
of our slaves and tlie burdens of taxation,
lost control of cotton in the markets of tlie
commercial world, and can no longer suc
cessfully compete with other nations, and
are now a third power in its production;
and
Whereas, Our lands are exhausted aud
worthless; provisions scarce and high ;
and
Whereas, Tlie price of cotton is too low
to warrant the purchase of fertilizers; in
order, therefore, to produce a wise aud safe
policy for tlie good of ail classes, giving to
the laborer his due rewrfrd and proper
; status; to advance tlie prosperity and hap
piness of all, and build up our mined con
dition :
Beit Resolved, It is the sense of this
Convention that we must change our
mode of cultivation ; we must abandon
the cultivation of large worn out farms,
cultivate little cotton, increase the produc
tion of cereals, improve our stock, and
make our means of support at home, and
above all. we must abandon the ruinous
policy of the employment of many hired
laborers, and work more ourselves, prac
tice a close economy, avoid debt, cultivate
only tiie best spots of our laud, and let the
exhausted acres remain uncultivated. It
is only by small farms well cultivated that
we can live, and restore our fallen country
to its wonted political, financial, social
and religious condition.
\ man in Hartford sat on a red-hot stove
to spite his wife. He stuck there, and she
left him.
DISTINGI'IMICD visitors.
1 We hear that Judge Advocate General
■■ Dutin,'an afftiflir of Atlahta Headquar
ters, and probably other officers, were in
■ out* city during the session of the (’onserv
:rtive Convention. Wc suppose they came
to satisfy themselves that no ** treason”
lurked about the City Hall. We hope
neither their ” foyal”’noseS, eyes, nor ears
suffered any detriment from anything said
or done at that place. We shall be " deso
lated” if such proves to have been the
case.
Suppose now, you just quit your foolish
ness; and if you really desire reconstruc
tion, join us, and the work will soon be
accomplished. Do this, and our word for
it, two years from now you can all vote
and hold office too! Can you not keep out
of office for two brief years? Try it. The
,country will doubtless profit by the expe
riment.—Atlanta Opinion.
Can you not keep from judging others
by yourself ? The White Mau’s party of
Georgia spurns tlie • tgumeuts that weigh
so heavily with you that serve in the bread
and butter brigade. It is not a question of
votes or office, with the grand army of
Conservatism that is rallying to resist and
put to shame the schemes of those who
seek tlie ruin of the white race, and the
destruction of Constitutional government.
You may neither understand nor appre
ciate their feelings and purposes, but
know, once for all, that there is such a
thing els principle, and such men as prefer
eternal ostracism to its abandonment.
They have resisted bullying aud coaxing.
Tt is not at all likely that they will heark
en to your "equivocal offers of sharing tlie
spoils.
Ahead of Time.—A “ White” corres
pondent of the Griffin Sfw writing from
Atlanta, tinder date of the 3d inst., gives
us the following bits of information con
ceruimr the Pati-African Rump Parlia
ment. The “manhoods” who camp out,
must have “ felt the pressure” such nights
as we have had recently, Why don’t
tiiey call on the “man in thejsaddle” for
their rations of blankets ?
Several nig. delegates have arrived, not
knowing tlie exact day of meeting. They
have cainjied out, not having tlie “ scads”
to pay for lodgings at tlie Timor,ey House.
Joe Brown is spoken of for Door-keeper,
but Austin Latham nee Wright, lias got
tiie inside track among tiie nigs. The Era
gets the public printing, as iliey are afraid
to risk Scruggs.
Not Stated.— The Atlanta Opinion, of
yesterday, announces the arrival in that
city of “ five car loads of sWinine passen
gers.” Whether tiiey are of tlie two or
four legged variety, and whether they
come for sausage purposes, or to work in
Pope’s Constitution factory 7, is not stated.
We regret tlie omission.
RADICAL n©MITATIONS r»K STATE
OFFICERS.
[From the Montgomery Mail, Dec. Ith.]
Tlie Grand Moral Combination at the
Capitol, on Monday night, actually nomi
nated a ticket for the >Stute officers under
the bogus Constitution. It is true that
the nominations were made by a fragment
of tlie Rump, the more descent portion
having withdrawn, but the small number
of nominators will not affect the catholic
ity of tlie ticket. It stands confessed the
“ Bureau ticket for the Alabama State
election.” It is also true that no negro
has been nominated for office; yet, wiiat
of that? The unti-distiuction-of-color
principle justifies white men alonein hold
ing office, even though tlie electors should
lie negroes alone. The grand principle
enunciated by tin* nominating caucus may
l>e said to be—offices for the carpet-bags
and ballots for tlie negroes. Thus, we have
nominated for Governor, Wm. H. Smith,
of Randolph, a man who deserted ids
State Yvlien called to stand by her chil
dren, who gave information to the in
vaders, and aided in the slaughter of his
kindred and his neighbors. We have no
information that heaided the Union cause
in battle. Oil tlie contrary we iiave every
reason to believe that his professions of
devotion to the Union during tiie war
Yvcre like those of tlie Haugbeyes, the Saf
folds, and others of that ilk, who, however
much tiiey may iiave adored the old (lag
privately, never wielded a sword in its tie
fence. Smith may be set down as one of
tlie holiday Union men, a native carpet
bugger, whose return from tlie trans-Ten
nessee world would iiave been a reproach
upon loyalty without the fat olfleesof
Judge aud Chief Registrar. It is lie who
is responsible for the wretched swindling
perpetrated by the Registrars. It is he who
placed as supreme over the necks of the
citizens of Alabama the basest of white
men and a host of ignorant negroes, wiiose
only merit consisted In possessing better
characters than their white associates. It
is he who is responsible before Alabama
and the United .States, with preparing
the infamous machinery by which a mi
nority of ignorant negroes in this State are
given political power over a large majority
of the whites. It is be who, above others,
will be held responsible by this people,
when the dreadful reaction comes, with
trampling upon our dearest rights and in
sultingthe mosthonorablesentiments. The
surer and swifter will retributive justice
let fall its sword upon the neck of VV m. H.
Smith, because his abilities, more conspic
uous than those of others of his party,
mark him as the Lucifer of the fallen an
gels. This man, the deserter of his State,
the murderer of his neighbors, the incen
diary Yviio helped to light the homes of
our women and children, the author of the
most atrocious system of political swind
ling tlie world lias ever seen, the man wiio
has placed the foot of the negro upon tlie
neck of the white man—is the first candi
date of Swayne’s Bureau party for Gov
ernor of tlie shackled, weeping, bleeding,
prostrate State, once known as Alabama.
The nominee of Lieut. Governor, the
man who is to take tiie seat of Governor
when Smith is elected to tiie Senate, is
Appletoddy, a Bureau oilicer from Ohio,
representing the negroes of Madison coun
ty. This creature received 37 votes out of
the 90 composing the Radical party in the
Convention, and was declared duly nom
nated. This man Appletoddy lias been
one of the most vindictive persecutors of
the unhappy white race of this State. He
has voted for every sweeping disfranchis
ing clause and only regr tted that there
were no more white men to be stricken
down. It was his boldly proclaimed hope
that Alabama might be crushed down like
Tennessee and ridden by a Brownlow be
fore it should ever be ruled by an intelli
gent wiiiie race like that of Kentucky or
Maryland. Tiiis Radical carpet-bagger,
Bureau disciple, apostle of negro suprem
acy, abandoned adventurer, and blood
thirsty hypocrite, is really tlie head of tiie
Menagerie ticket, as it is proposed to send
Smith to tbo United States Senate to nestle
in the bosom of Brownlow.
Charles A. Miller, of Bkowbegan, Maine,
was nominated to the office of Secretary of
State. This personage is another carpet
bagger of the Bureau persuasion, whom
Norris, of Maine Laud-office memory,
transported upon his shoulder to Lowndes
county and then hatched out as a delegate
from that county to the Convention. He
is the gentleman whom a correspondent
of the Boston l’ost alluded to not long
since as having left his old home in Maine
with Y’arious due-bills in tlie bauds of con
fiding friends. He is unknown in Lowndes
and until recently unheard of in Montgom
ery. His only superiority over tiie rest of
the Menagerie consists in wearing a clean
shirt. Tiie only competitor he bad for the
nomination was a certain other Bureau
man named Brainard, who lias l>eeu ad
vising the negroes to meet in tlie woods,
armed, without the knowledge of the white
men.
For Auditor, Messrs. Chisholm and Sax
on were thrown overboard as they deserv
ed to be for triminiug their sails to catch
the breeze from such a sink—and R. M.
Reynolds, another carpet-bagger from
Maine, was nominated. We know noth
ing of Reynolds except that lie is one of
the imported stock, a Bureau parasite, and
an enemy to the white race ot Alabama.
For Treasurer, an unknown man named
Vol. IvX.. TVo. -40
, Arthur Bingham, a delegate from Talla
dega was nominated. His claim to the
[ office consisted in his utter ignorance of
its duties and in the opportunity offered
by his stupidity lor rapid depletion of the
vaults.
i''"r Superintendent of Education, l>r.
N. 15. Cloud was nominated. He wore his
gray Confederate Surgeon's coat and ran
for the same olliee before otir white Leg
islature two years ago. Being found un
worthy of the position hy white men, lie
hopes to secure it hy negro uu u and shed
illuminating rays over toe State. JUe uiay
be set down as a native carpet-bagger,
whose thirst for office has induced him to
blot out the record of a life-time. We re
sorry for Hr. Cloud, but iik ration, Saxon
and the rest, his hiud-sight was better
than Ids foresight!
For commissioner of Internal Resources,
whatever that is, the notorious defrauder
ol widows, Joim C. Ktdilr, was nominated
a Bureau man, king of the carj et-l»g»;
whose carpet-bag is bigger, broader, black
er, aud Hatter than even that of Apple
tody and Stiller. Hit* competitor was M.
P. Blue! “ Ve angels and ministers of
grace defend tts !” Hi is subject is too sad
for further comment. We hope no one
will ever mention it in'our presence.
For Attorney Cetieral, LiUleherry
Strange, of Macon, w:ts ueminated. Mr.
Strange hits the reputation of being an
honest minded planter, and liis fellow
countrymen speak of him in honorable
terms. The sc ret of his nomination, and
we have it from Radical authority,
is that we would oppose the ratification of
the bogus Constitution.in account of the
insertion of those proscriptive provisions
against which his constituents passed res
olutions in their nominating Conventions.
In consequence of this fear, it was propos
ed to give Mr. Strange an office aud there
by close his lips. It remains to be seen
whether an honest man can be bribed !
Mr. Strange must be aware of his utter
disqualification for the post of Attorney
General, having never practiced law for
twenty years. We venture to assert, not
withstanding his good sense and ability as
a planter that lie cannotiell the difference
between a free fishery ami a common of
piscary. Wheelan, as a joke, might help
him out by saying that Keller’s hand and
arm, in the internal resources of the State,
might be called a tree fishery,and the north
ern Capitol might be called the other. We
suggest Wheelan, Jack Martin and Grand
mother Peck as a eommitee for the exam
ination of Mr. Strange. The questions
for him togivea written opinion upon
should be about these: 1. Can anew
government either de facto or dr jure pun
ish a citizen for obeying an old govern
ment de facto '? 2. Hoes not the pardon
of an offense obliterate that oliense and
restore the offender to his old rights? 3.
Has not the Supreme Court decided in a
Missouri case (4 Howard) that a State is
forbidden to issue tax certificates, because
they are actually bilis of credit, intended
to pass as money? We hope Strange will
refuse to answer these questions and that
the party will drop him in favor of I,ee, of
Perry, McLeod, «.f .Marengo, who, being
colored, are entitled to at least one position
on the ticket.
The caucus then nominated for Judges
of the Supreme Court a man by the name
of Peters, a fifth rate lawyer of Lawrence
county ; Salfold’s brother, whom the Rad
icals hoped to buy up by thiß nomination ;
and old grandmother Peck. It is said that
Peters is to be the Supreme Judge. Shades
of John Marshal !
This is the ticket put before the people
for office under the Radical Constitution.
The Judicial officers are giveu to South
ern native-born men, because the fiay is
small aud no money passes through their
hands. But the offices of protit, through
which pass the revenues of the State, are
held tightly in hand by the tribe of carpet
baggers, Bureau adventurers and North
ern leeches. They can well throw a few
book offices to the native renegades as sops
to poor miserable spaniels, but they are
careful to retain the money bags for them
selves. They give poor Cloud an oppor
tunity to write about turnips fora liews
papei which spells cow with a k. They
let Saflbld, 1 ’eck and the other man puz
zle liu-ir little brains-Lwith sheepskin at
the rate of a poor piftance which a com
mon shyter can earn in our justices’
courts. They are willing for poor Strange
to become the prey of Rice, Watts, Clop
ton and other blood-stained rebels; but
they give Alabamian’s internal resources
to the voracious maw of Heifer, of the
Bureau. They give the financial matters
of < iovernor into the hands of Appletoddy,
of the Bureau. They give the great seal
of the State to a Skowhegan man from
Maine, Miller of the Bureau. They give
the signature of the Auditor to Reyn. Jds,
of the Bureau. They give the Treasury
to a poor fool named Bingham, who pays
out the money on the order of Bureau
Reynolds and Bureau Heifer, countersign
ed by Bureau Appletoddy.
Will Alabama endorse such an ill-dis
quised conspiracy for Robbery?
TIIE SI TI N Lit SCAN UAL.
Explanation or (lie Whole Difficulty.
JSew York Correspondence of the Cincinnati (,'om
inercial.
It was my fortune, at a dinner party the
other night, to be seated next a little lady
gotten up by art and nature regardless of
expense or appearances. Looking over
the personnel of my pretty neighbor, for a
point on which to lodge a little conversa
tion, loy eye fell on her Chlf/UOn. The
dear little thing had piled all her hair,
purchased and grown, upon the top of her
precious little head. So 1 remarked the
singular fashion now prevailing, and told
of Miss Araimnso Amanda Louisa Mahaly
Bowlegs, daughter of the celebrated
Camanche chief, now at Mrs. Jl.’s cele
brated female school, who was the envy of
all the girls, on account of her numerous,
magnificent chir/nona, furnished by her
illustrious papa, from the sculps of his en
emies.
This little Imloire did not seem to please
iny fair hearer, and with the tact peculiar
to her sex, she changed the subject, by
askiug if 1 had heard Mr. Sumner’s lec
ture. I responded by saying that from a
sense of duty I had made one of the thou
sands that gave him twenty-five cents
each and a countenance.
“ Why,” sheexeiaimed,J‘ You certainly
don’t believe half the scandalous stories
these papers have circulated.”' ■
“I am a journalist, my dear madam,and
don’t believe anything these papers cir
culate. But do jou mean to say that with
this voluminous smoke there is no lire?”
“ None whatever. I know all the par
ties, and am acquainted with all the facts.
And there is not a word of truth in them.
I can tell you that no marriage ever cre
ated more astonishment in Boston than
this; for you must know that Mrs. Hooper
was a fashionable lady of the crane d<: la
creme, while Mr.,Sumner, socially, is de
tested.”
“ Do you mean to say that the great
Sumner is not considered good society in
the capital of Yankeedom?”
“ Certainly i do. His family never was
much, aud the best people look down on
him.”
“ Poor Devil!”
“Os course the marriage was an aston
ish meut. i hey were married at her sis
ter’s house, and no oue attended but the
family, and after the ceremony his newly
made sister-in-law refused to kiss him.”
“ My dear madam, you have no idea
how you pain me. 1 commiserate Charles.
Pray proceed.”
“ i hey were mated but not matched. -
Hhe was a gay, fashionable creature,, fond
of admiration, while be is a settled old
bachelor,fond of hini-ri ”
“ t see. SJie believes in balls. Charles
believes in Stunner. She wanted fu-liioii
able life. He wanted one who would sit
in rapt admiration of his greatness, when
he was present, and in his absence amuse
herself by reading all his old speeches,
and tanking Providence for the blessing
of such a husband.”
“ 1 don’t know about that but 1 doknow
that she came out oue of tlie i st beauti
ful and best-dii - ed women in Washing
ton and was surrounded by admirers at
i every entertainment; and it wa- common
for Mr. .Sumner to approach her by mid
night and say, ‘Mrs. Sumner, your car
riage waits.’ ‘Let it wait, Mr. Sunnier, 1
would be the response. ‘But lam very
much fatigued, and wish to go home.’ Mu
that ease you had better go home, Mr.
Sumner,’ would be the cheerful reply.—
Whereupon the circle would smile as the
Senator withdrew.”
“ And was the versatile; diplomatic Ba
ron Holstein oue of the circle V”
“1 believe so. They were very intimate.
He escorted her to all receptions, dinner
parties and balls, and was her daily atten
dant to the Senate chamber where they
sat in the diplomatic gallery, and admired
Charles in the distance. The wicked town
of Washington talked of another Sickles
and Key affair. But Sickles was a ruffian
—Mr. Sumner is a diplomatist.”
_ ‘‘ And, as chairman of l lie cominitleeon
Foreign Affairs in the Senate, he address
ed an informal note to Mr. Seward, Secre
tary of State, requesting the recall of the
Baron, whose presence was prejudicial to
his domestic affairs. Is Shat the story,
madam ?”
“ 1 lielieveso. At least such a story got
into your wicked papers, ami when Mrs.
Sumner read it, she was so mortified and
ashamed that ill five hours afterward she
was on a steamer tiouiid lbr Europe.”
‘‘To join the Baron?"
“ Not at all; but to join her lister, with
whom she has been ever since. The
house in Washington was, for a time, given
up; but Mrs. Sumner thought better of it,
aud so returned with her sister ; and the
house is to tie orrHpieri. That is all.”
“ Yoti have not the remotest idea, mad
am, how you have relieved me by thus
unraveling so grave a trouble. 1 will be
tempted to print what you say.”
‘‘ 1 wish you would. I wish I had pow
er over these scandalous papers fora lime.
I’d set things right.”
“ Madam, your lucid explanation of (ho
Ilolsteiu-Sumner difficulty shall I . • t
ed.”
[From Ui« Columbus Sun aiul Times.J
League Disturbance* at IVrotr. I'tke
Comity, Ain,
Union' Springs, At.a., Nov. :50.
Mk. Editor :—A thousand and one
rumors have gained circulation in refer
ence to the negro difficulty which occur
red at Perote, in Bullock county, a few
days since.
The facts are these: Some time since a
negro colling himself George shorter,
hailing directly from Montgomery, but
originally, as lie lias variously stated,from
Washlngton city or Massachusetts, visited
Perote, and organized among the negroes
there a “league,” with judicial powers to
govern this country—superior in point of
jurisdiction to our county court, under the
written authority (as he stated and ex
hibited to the negroes) of < Jens. Pope ami
Kwayne. Under this authority, a probate
judge, sheriff, deputy sheriff, Ac:,'were
duly made and invested with authority
t o try and punish all who spoke disrespect
fully of the “ League,” whether white or
black, or committed other offences known
to law. They tried ami punished several
negroes for various offences— among’Athera
a woman who, having disguised 'herself
in a man’s apparel, joined theirleagueand
afterwards exposed them. She was con
demned to l>e hung and ten negroes detail
ed to execute the sentence. It seems tho
executioners relented, and : ssumed the
responsibility of hanging her by tho
thumbs, after which she rejKirted them
to the F: eedmen’s Bureau Agent ill
Eufuula, with what effects, has uot tran
spired.
A negro man whom they tried and
ordered to report another day for sen
tence, when their “head man,” George
Shorter, would be present, and wliom they
further threatened with death in event
he reported to the civil authorities here,
came to his Honor Judge Met’all, made
complaint, and obtained a warrant for
tour of the negro judicial officers. (Jeorgo
Shorter, in the meantime, bad returned to
Montgomery with SSO of the negroes’
money in hand, promising to return soon
and finish up matters, and, of course, get
some more money. Our plucky deputy
sheriff, “Bob Wicker,” went with his
warrants after these negroes, arrested three
and not being able to find the fourth, car
ried them to a neighbor’s, and deputised
two men to arrest the one who could not
be found. They arrested him, when about
sixty negroes armed themselves and res
cued him. Bob Wicker upon hearing of
it returned with the idea that, knowing ho
was an officer, they would give up the
prisoner, but they were formed in line of
battle, and defied, cursed and drew guns,
<fcc., on him. Wicker having two men
with him, against sixty or seventy negroes,
wisely retired and summoned a posse, by
which time the negroes had scattered. He
hunted up and arrested nineteen in all,
and brought them safely to this place.—
About thirty negroes armed and in one
company, camped in tho swamps and re
treated towards Barbour. They were
traced several miles blit scattered and made
their escape. One leading eliai acter in the
rescuing party came in Saturday and
walked into Judge McCall's office,’ while
the trial was progressing, and being asked
why lie come up, said : “I thought 1 had
better come than be f<>t< ht tl."
During the trial Saturday, one negro
came to Judge McCall and made affidavit
that this negro court had tried him for
some offense, and hud actually punished
him by bucking and gagging him. Find
ing they had no legal authority (which he
had honestly believed they possessed), he
had come up to demand a warrant for
them. Fourteen have been sent to ('lay
ton Jail to await the action of the Grand
Jury, and 1 think nine have l> «n dis
charged. Several gave themselves up vol
untarily after a large number bad been
arrested.
George Shorter, started to Perote, but
hearing of the difficulty about nine miles
this side of Perote, ho “skedaddled” to
parts unknown. The Sheriff, Frank
Hall, left this place Friday morning with
a posse to assist his deputy, hut met him
on his way here with his prisoners. Our
worthy Deputy sheriff deserves great
credit for the mild, firm and peaceable
execution of his duty—not a man was
hurt. The military authorities had noth
ing to do with it. His Honoi Judge Mc-
Call acted upon his responsibility in tho
prompt discharge of a plain duty.
In this case “Greek met Greek,” and
the right prevailed. The facts are stated
—comments would be superfluous.
A Hu nst'Ki mat.
WAMiISV B ON SPECIAL TO NEW \ OKK
HBBLD.
Washington, Nov. .40, lSk7. i
11:30 o’clock, P. M. i
TIIE IMPEACHMENT QUESTION.
The signers of the majority report on the
question of impeachment are considerably
exercised at the coldness with which their
efforts have been received by their friends
and the public generally. They consider
this document as conclusive and leaving
no doubt as to the necessity of the the im
mediate impeachment of the President.—
The advocates of this measure declares
emphatically that the arguments thus pre
sented leaves no avenue of escape lbrthe
timid republicans, and this da- will ho
compelled to sustain it; or lost* cash with ’
their party. The impeachers are busily
engaged in organizing their forces for the
conflict to open on Wednesday next. If
they can carry the House, as they confi
dently expect, they propose to precipitate
matters to a final issue by appointing at
once a committee of managers to draw up
articles of impeachment, which they will
submit to the Senate for action. If the
measure ever reaches such a degree of ad
vauoemeut they think the Henatt* will act
at once; at least they will so urge. The
prime movers of this plan are studying up
the precedents in cases of impeachment
established by the English law, in order
to discover some authority for disposses
sing the President of his office during
trial. The most Radical supporters of ini
peach meut have their doubts as to tin- <• n
stitutionality of the suspending bill before
the House, and admit, if it comes to a vote,
that it will hesuinmarily defeated, in view
of this they are dispo-ed not to allow this
question to come to the test of a vote, but
will act under the precedents of cases un
der foreign governments. I 'infer this spir
it, if brought to a practical test, we may
expect to see a vioieut distortion of facts
to secure the suspension of the President
without any formal action on the part of
Congress. All the meinliers who voted in
favor of impeachment ar<- busily eng <g( !
in preparing speeches to be let off al the
proper moment, pressing their view upon
the wavering ideas of those di-po,--<! to
retract. 'lbis portion of tin* committee
areof the opinion when I bequest ion comes
fairly before the people that they can not
fail to bo convinced of its necessity.
Negro Killed ry a Soldier. — Ferdi
nand Smith, colored, having imliiix 1
rather freely on the night of the circus,
went home and stap|>ed the faee of his
wife. Yesterday she complained to the
Bureau, and desired to get her eiothes. and
leave the iincoTljugal lord, the Cttnau
sent a soldier with her, and a- Smith bore
a Ix-Hieo-e reputation, the soldier took !•:*
rifle along. On entering the hou-e, tm-v
found Smith seated with liis musket in his
bands. Whether he made any attempt
or threats to shoot, the soldier, we have not
been able to learn delimit.dy; hut the te
sult was that the soldier shot him, the hail
passing through h is shoulder into hi- Itody.
I Smith died an hour or two after he was
1 shot.
We have heard several statements rela
tive to the negro’s attempting to shoot the
! soldier; hut as they emitter, we p offish
* none,of them —Albany News, sth.