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By J. W. Burke Ac <3o.
Georgia Journal & Messenger,
J. W. BI RKE Sc CO., Proprietor*.
A. W. UEF.SE, |
S. ROSE, \ ** itor • -''
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1868.
A FEW WORDS FOR KEN. MEADE.
We have a few words of counsel, and
some information for this distinguished
soldier. As he probably does not read the
Democratic journals of his district, it is
hardly possible that he knows very much
of what is being done and said by the
pimps, spies and stump orators of the
Radical party to stir up strife, incite to
riot and bloodshed, and intimidate voters
from giving their suffrages to the men of
their choice. We would call his attention
to the speeches being made every day all
over this State by strolling vagabonds of
both races, which are directly in the teeth
of his last order. We beg him to remem
ber that this thing has been going on ever
since the nomination of Bullock. One of
his (B.’s) associates in the Atlanta Con
vention, a mulatto named Costin. who be
longs in Washington city, made a speech
here, almost a month ago, in whicli he de
clared that any negro who voted against
Bullock ought to be burued, and his ashes
scattered to the winds. Was or was not
this language “calculated to produce a
breach of the “peace,” or to “intimidate
voters from the exercise of their political
privileges?” Bradley’s circular, published
iu the newspapers, threatens arson and
death to all who should he suspected even
of belonging to the organization known as
the “Ku-Klux Klan.” Was or was not
this language calculated to produce a
breach of the peace? Edwards, a Radi
cal candidate for Congress, lias declared
that negroes who refuse to he driven to
the polls like sheep, and vote for him and
the rest of the Radical ticket, should
be whipped to death with handsaws.
Was, or was not, this language caloula.
ted to produce a breach of the peace? A
mulatto iu this city, just two weeks ago,
threatened five hundred lashes to the negro
who should absent himself from the polls
on the day of election, aud death to any
one of Mint color who should vole the an ti-
Radical ticket. In the very procession
which marched through the streets, and
which composed that meeting, the elligy
of a negro hanging on the gallows was
painted on a banner, and borne triumph
antly aloft, with a motto underneath
promising the same fate to all who dared
to vote as they thought best. Was, or was
not, all this calculated to produce a breach
of the peace? If yea, why did you not
issue Order 51 (hen, General ?
It will not do to plead ignorance of these
occurrences. They have been published
far and wide, aud have evoked comment •
aud criticism from the press of the North 1
and West. If you did not know of them,
you have kept yourself singularly
formed iu matters that seem to our pOOr
judgment, of the gravest moment. l4ou
did know of them, and kept silent, you
have uot done your duty, either to the
Government, or the people, white or black,
over whom you rule.
We say this, General, in Lite most re
spectful spirit, aud in all kindness to your
scir, peranminy. we n.-ncvc rort ate*
down here on a duty that is most distaste
ful to your feelings and instincts, both as
gentleman and soldier. We give you credit
for honest intention to do that duty fairly
and honestly, but iu the face of such oc
currences as we have called your attention
to above, your sileuce until now is most
incomprehensible. It would have been
much better not to have spoken at all, than
that your speech should do so great injus- j
tice to the respectable people and press of j
this State.
In conclusion, we beg to call your alien- j
tion to tiie subjoined article from the New
York Herald, and its estimate of the con
dition of the country under Radical rule
—for all of which, Gen. M. will not fail
to remember be is solely responsible with
in the limits of his district, at any rate:
A DANGEROUS NEGRO AT LARGE.
By a telegraphic dispatch fiom Georgia,
published in our issue of yesterday, it
would appear that the notorious mulatto
lawyer, Bradley, is again endeavoring to
create a disturbance between the whites
aud blacks. This negro is one of the most
dangerous and incendiary Radical emis
saries in the South. His violence in
speecli and action has caused him to he
more than once arrested by the authori
ties, and the Reconstruction Convention
was compelled to ex pel I him by a unani
mous vote, in consequence of his intolera
ble insolence. In his harangues of excited
uegro mobs he invariably threatens a war
of races; unless the whites submit quietly
to bis overbearing arrogance and presump
tion they are threatened with bloodshed
by this miserable creature. The true rea
son of his having issued the circular pub
lished yesterday is not because of his life
or the lives of his negro supporters being
threatened, hut because of a formidable
movement being in progress to prevent
his election to the State Senate of Georgia.
Unfortunately for the peace of the section
in which he resides, Bradley possesses
considerable influence witli the negroes of
Savannah and vicinity, aud will use it for
the worst purposes if he is uot soon taken
care of by the military authorities.
We direct attention to the violent lan
guage of this negro as an evidence of the j
condition of the Booth under radical rule. !
It is impossible to estimate the dangers '
which threaten the country from just such !
incendiaries as Bradley. In every State !
they can he found engaged in embittering 1
the blacks against the whites ami in incit- j
ing them to deeds of violence and blood-|
sited. This man Bradley, particularly, is i
notorious for the manner in which he has
stirred up strife between the two races and
endeavored to precipitate a conflict. Only
a short time ago he was arrested on a
charge of inciting the negroes of Savan
nah to riot, aud the last rote, in which lie
appears makes it evident that he has
learned nothing from experience. In the
circular referred to he warns the whites j
that “ If you should strike a blow the man
or men will be followed, and the house in
which he or they take shelter will be j
burned to the ground.” Such threats as
these eaunot faii to inflame both races. If
the whites had threatened to injure or kill
the negroes we feel certain that the fact j
would have been known here long ago, and
that the military authorities in Georgia
would have investigated the matter. But
we do not believe that any such threats !
have been made. The present conduct of
Bradley is in keeping with the whole of
It is past career, ami unless he is compelled
to behave himself there will always be
imminent danger of his bringing on a con
flict. We trust that General Meade will
take such measures as will effectually si
lence this man. He is a dangerous negro
and should not l>e permitted to go at large
inciting the ignorant and easily inflamed
men of his own race to riot and insurrec
tion.
Judge Lochrane’s Address.—We in
vite the earnest attention of our readers to
this calm, dispassionate, and able docu
ment, to be found on the outside of this
issue. It should he read by every voter,
white and black, in the district. We
Jiope our “ weak-stomached ” friend up at
Grifliu will take a dose of it. (Veare sure
that if that part of his organisation can
stand the pill of seeing one of his edito
rials commendatory of Bullock circulated
as a Radical campaign document, it ought
not to refuse such wholesome food as is of
ferred in this address.
THE DIFFERENCE.
We observe that military Governor Ru
ger offers a reward of $2,000 for the appre
hension of the first person known to have
been engaged in the killing of Ashburn,
and SI,OOO for the arrest of each subse
quent one—making, according to the esti
mate of the uumber of persons engaged in
that affair—2o in a11—522,000 for the lot.
In tiie same column appears another re
ward of S2OO for the arrest of a man who
has committed a homicide in Houston
county. As this man was a “rebel,” how
ever, of course his life could not be re
garded so valuable as that of tiie “loyal”
Ashburn. But the point we set out to
make is this : It lias been the custom, we
believe, when a negro was killed to offer
from S2OO to SSOO reward for the arrest of
his slayer. Why should this difference be
made between the black “loyalist," and
the white “loyalist”? We submit the
question for the consideration of the “man
and brother.”
STILL SILENT.
Bullock is so very busy organizing his
robber raid upon the oflices of the State
that he cannot take time to answer our
jftMMlivmo VMt* tnoittl ujwvn hio Id«*w *L<*
gang to take care of themselves for
awhile, and give the respectable people of
the State au opportunity to know his real
sentiments. They wish to know whether
or'not lie approves, to say the least of it,
the threats of the lash and the galiows
daily being made all over Georgia by his
hirelings agaiust colored men who should
dare to vote the anti-Radical ticket. Those
threats are made at meetings where his
nomination is ratified, and where lie is
announced to speak. Can’t the man leave
his banditti to their own devices long
enough to let us know how he stands on
this question ? We insist upon it.
VERY LIKELY.
Ruilock, the captain of the banditti of
carpet sack bummers and renegades from
respectability who ars organizing for the
graud foray upon the substance of the
people of Georgia, on the 20th inst., says
in his “address” (save t he mark!) to tiie
people of Georgia, that he will, if elected
Governor, gather around him men of
“well established character.”
We have no iloubt of It. tine of his as
sociates in the Atlanta Convention was a
man whose character was so well estab
lished before an Alabama jury that they
sent him to the penitentiary, aud there
were several more under bonds in that
body to "establish thefr characters” before
a jury—Blodgett and Hopkins, for in
stance.
Changes in our County Ticket.—
Messrs. Albert B. Ross, and Jobu A. Mc-
Manus, who were nominated for Clerk of
the Kuperior Court and SlieriH' of Bibb
• jouuty, having been declared ineligible to
those oflices, and the time being too short
■f to have another meeting, it lias been de
| cided, after consultation amoug several of
our best citizens, to announce the names
1 of Messrs. Walter 8. Ballard, aud Clem.
Mastersou, to take their places. They are
; both good men, aud can serve if elected.
“ Negro Suffrage Killed It!”—We
beg to call the attention of the colored
people to the telegram announcing the
defeat of the new Constitution of
‘'gStvfaut! *ftieoaffSßs therefor. Tfiey^win, J
if not afraid of the lash aud the gallows,
stick a pin right here..
What a spectacle! Michigan, Radical
Michigan, with its 20,000 majority, when
it comes to putting wiiite Radicals in office,
rejects the projioeition to allow your people
even to vote /
ADDRESS
TO THE PEOPLE OF KEOBKIA.
We cordially commend tiie subjoined
address from the Chairman of tiie Derno
| cratic Central Committee to the people of
Georgia, to the earnest consideration of
our readers. It presents, briefly, but com
prehensively, all the facts connected witli
; tiie withdrawal of Judge Irwin from the
! canvass for Governor, and the adoption, by
the Committee, of Geu. Gordon as the
j candidate of the party, for that office.
Rooms Central Executive Committee j
Os tin; National Democratic Party of Ga., r
Macon, April 7, 1858. )
A recent change in tiie candidate for tbe
office of Governor to lie run by tiie Demo
cratic Party of Georgia iu tiie election or
dered for the 20th inst., having been made,
it is proper that tiie reasons wliicli induced
the withdrawal of Judge Irwin, and tiie
immediate substitution of another in his
place, should he known.
When Judge Reese declinedacandidacy
for the office of Governor, the Central Ex
ecutive Committee found Judge Irwin be
fore the jreopleas a candidate, and know
ing him to be a man iu whose hands tiie
interests of Georgia might safely be en
trusted in the event of his election, and
not recollecting the factof his having been
on tiie Electoral ticket of his (State which
voted for JcU'erson Davis for President,
and A. 11. Stephens for Vice President of
the (Southern Confederacy, in 1851—and
not being aware that giving such a vole
as an Eltetor, and the holding of the of
fice of Judge of tiie Superior Courts of the
Blue Ridge Circuit before the war, would
render him ineligible to office, according
to the Reconstruction Acts of Congress—
the Committee, without hesitation, re
cognized him as a candidate in whose in
tegrity, ability and moral worth the peo
ple might confide, and advised all who
have the honor and welfare of tiie State at
heart to cast their voles for him.
The facts before stated, tliat lie held an
office before tiie war which required him
tn take an oatli to support tiie Constitution
. of the United States, and that in 1851 he
voted as a member of the electoral college
of this State for Jefferson Davis for Presi
dent, and A. H. Stephens for Vice Presi
dent of the Southern Confederacy, having
been brought to tbe notice of Major Gen
eral Meade, commanding the Third Mili
tary Department, he has decided that the
giving such vote comes within tire pur
view of the constitutional amendment,
i commonly known as the fourteeth article,
and renders Judge Irwin ineligible to
office under the reconstruction acts of
Congress, and if elected by receiving a
majority of tiie votes cast, lie would not
permit him to he qualified and iustailed
into office.
Under these circumstances, and yields
iug to this decision, Judge Irwin deemed
it useless to permit liis name to he voted
for as a candidate for Governor, when his
election, if effected by tho votes of the
people, would be unavailing. He imme
diately withdrew his name, and so noti
fied the members of the committee to
whom lie then had access.
Tlie three members of the Committee
who were in the city of Atlanta, and were
notified of the withdrawal of Judge Irwin,
aud the reasous therefor, saw at once that,
owing to the short time to elapse before
tlie election, the immediate substitution
of another candidate in his place was ne
cessary—and for this purpose, they pro
posed, by telegraphiedispatch, to tlie mem
bers resident in the city of Macon, who
with themselves constitute a majority of
the Committee, tlie name of a distin
guished Georgian as a candidate for the
office, and asked their concurrence.
This was given in the afternoon of the
j same day, as soon as the members in
Macon could be consulted- and therefore,
the Chairman of tile Committee, who was
then in tlie city of Atlanta, immediately
announced that, by authority of the
j Central Executive Committee of the Na
tional Democratic Party of Georgia, they
' recommended Gen. John B. Gordon, of
! the county of Fulton, as a candidate for
the office of Governor of Georgia, at the
I election ordered for the 20th Inst. And
I the Committee felicitate themselves that
they were thus able to announce the
of a suitable-candidate simultane
ohsty with the withdrawal of the other.
Before proceeding to do so, however, in
order to guard against a like contingency
to the one whicli threw Judge Irwiu out
of the canvass, a letter was addressed to
General Meade, stating that General Gor
dou had never held any office before the
late war, which required him to take an
oath to support tiie Constitution of the
United States —that he was a Major Gene
ral in the Army of the Confederate Slates,
and has not been pardoned, and his opin
ion as to his eligibility was requested. He
answered by letter, that according to rep
resentations made, lie considers General
Gordon eligible to office.
And the Committee, with pleasure, an
nounce that General Gordon had yielded
to their recommendation and the solicita
tions of a large and enthusiastic meeting
of his fellow-citizens of Fulton county,
held in the city of Atlanta on the evening
of the 4th insl, aud consented to be a can
didate for Governor at tiie approaching
election.
And now, fellow-citizens, the Committee
having promptly discharged with fidelity
to your interests, the delicate duty entrust
ed to them, and with a desire to subserve
and promote the. public good, as far as
their power it remains for you to
perform your dutyqyml do your part of
the work. > t . ,'aap-.
W« ir• i tssisweiiave recommended to
yon a candidate worthy of youreoufideuee
—a Georgian who lias never turned his
hand against his native land, and upon
whose bright escutcheon uospotor blemish
can be found—one who iu sterner times
than these Illustrated tiie character of
Georgia, and gave ample evidence of tiie
pure and bright patriotism which burns
within his bosom. We ask men of all
parties, names and faith to unite iu honor
ing tliis native sou of Georgia, and b>
honoring him, to honor themselves.
We especially call upon the young men
of the State, and fnvoke them to woi k con
stantly, vigorously, earnestly, zealously,
faithfully, to secure the election of him
whom they have often seen tried and never
found wanting.
We request the Democratic clubs and
tiie Democratic party iu each aud every
county in the Btate to use all lawful means
in their power to bring the legal voters of
their respective counties to the polls; to
canvass their counties thoroughly, and see
that none fail to vote, and, as far as this
appeal can be received iu time for action,
to Bee that all who are entitled to register
and have not done so, attend to that
duty without failure aud without delay.
We repeat the request for the appoint
ment of challengers for each place of
vo'ftug, who wilt not leave their posts
(hiring tbe time the election Is being held.
And iu order that the challengers may
act understandingly, and not violate the I
order which has been issued for their
regulation, we will arid definite instruo- j
lions as to tiie grounds upon which chal- |
lenses will he allowed.
No challenges will be allowed at the
polls but U[kju two grounds, and these are
identity and non-residence. If it can be !
shown that a person offering to vote is Dot 1
the one whose name he professes to bear, ;
or that he hu* not resided iu the county !
the time required to entitle him to vote,
either will be a good ground of challenge, '
and will be permitted to be made. But
no objection for any ground existing prior
to his registration, will be heard at the
polls. All such objections are presumed
to have been heard and decided by Lite
Registrars at the time of registration, and
are not permitted to be ojamed afterwards
by challenge at tiie polls. If any oue has
registered improperly, upon due proof
thereof before the Board of Registration
while in session, his name may be stricken
from the list. For instance, if oue under
twenty-one years of age has registered, i
tiie fact of non ago will not be allowed as
aground of challenge, but the objection j
should be made to the Registrars while In !
session for the purpose of revising the lists, i
and upon due proof thereof it will be lliejr
These regulations for challenges have!
been prescribed by the M jor General
commanding the Third District, and all
persons who maybe appointed challengers
on the part of the Democratic party, are
requested to observe them strictly and
conform to them. If any jiersons are
known to have leglstered improperly— ,
minors, for instance—let all who are cog
nizant of such cases make the-necessary '
proof to the Board of Registration, and
have the names stricken, The objection
in such cases will come too late at the
polls.
In conclusion, we again invoke all who
desire that Georgia shall retain the exalted j
character she has always borne, to go to
work at once, and to work for victory.
One united and vigorous effort uy all
who have the honor and welfare of the
State at heart, may yet save Georgia from
disgrace and degradation.
E. G. Cab a mss,
Chm’n Cen. Ex. Com.,
Nat. Deni. Party of Ga.
To (be People of I tie Third CoinrresNionul
District
Having been nominated by the Conser
vatives and Democrats as their candidate
for Congress in this District, I beg leave
to say that tlie time between this aud tlie
day of tlie election is so short that it will
be impossible for me to visit any consider
able number of counties in tlie District. I
trust that this will not be expected, as I
am sure it cannot be necessary. Tlie
danger which threatens us is so great, and
the path of duty so plain, that our friends
connot require any promptings at my
hands.
The peace of society, the safety of our
women and children, the preservation of
republican government, and of liberty it
self, are all involved in the contest before
us. If we win, we win all. If we lose,
we lose all. Is not this fearful truth suf
ficient to bring every mau, and every
woman too, up to the liue of duty ? Tlie
women of tlie South are more deeply in
terested in the result, if possible, than the
men ; and they have shown what they can
do when they try. But it li«*s been sug
gested that u visit to the couuties in the
Northern part of the District might not
he without its benefit. After that I shall
be subject to the calls of our frieuds in
other portions of the District.
Meanwhile, let us organize and prepare
out selves to discharge our whole duty.
Old parties are dead and buried, aud let
tlie animosities and hatreds which they
engendered sleep in the grave with them.
It is no paltry question of polities that en
gages our attention now, but rattier
whether tlie while people of Georgia shall
remain free, or become, practically, slaves.
In such a contest there should lie no dif
ferences among white men, nor indeed
among intelligent and well-meaning col
ored men; for whatever wrongs may he
iuflicted upon the former, will be certain
to fall upon the latter also. By proper
effort the freedmeu may be brought to un
derstand and appreciate this truth.
It would seem, then, the part of wisdom
to make this effort. I have no more in
terest in tDe result of the coming election
than any other man in the community.
The nomination was wholly unexpected
and undesired by me, and was made not
withstanding my protest against it. But
it has been made and accepted, and if our
friends will act with zeal aud energy they
can elect their candidate for Governor, as
well as a majority of their candidates for
Congress and tlie State Legislature. It is
with them to win or lose.
P. W. Alexander.
Columbus, April 3, IS6B.
E. B. Walker, E»q.—We notice in
several of our exchanges that our highly
esteemed fellow-citizen, E. 11. Walker,
Esq.—whose ability and suocees as a rail
road man have made him eminent in that
profession, and who, for many years, was
connected with our State or “Western and
Atlantic” Railroad, and more recently oc
cupying tlie position of Superintendent of
tlie Macon and Western Railroad—has
been tendered tlie office of Superintendent
of that important railway connecting Sel
ma, Alabama, with Meridian, Mississippi.
We do not know whether Mr. Walker de
signs accepting the position tendered him.
AH we know aud feel is, that if he does
do so .the important railway referred to
will have secured tlie services of one of
the most able railroad meu in tlie whole
South, or North either, aud that Georgia
will lose the services of one who largely
aided, previous to and during the war, to
make its own great State work a paying
institution, to the relief of tlie tax-payers,
and to its previous empty Treasury. Geor
gia can illy afford lose such men.—
Jem fa Jnuwjcnccr, 2d.
>lllOOll, Gra., Tuesday, April 14, 1808.
fpt A lfipnnffi f
IFKMOLRATS OF HOUSTON!
Radicalism, headed by the mulatto, Ike
Anderson (the ablest, man of his party iu
this county), and bis “right bower,” the
“gallant ex-Confederate colonel,” has put
its hungry “black and tan” ticket In the
field. No efforts are spared to secure its
election. Persuasion and threats are used
to induce tiie negroes to vote the ticket.
The honest black man, who lias his and
his children’s interest at heart, and who
would vote with you, is told, if he does he
“ought to be hung or driven from the
country-” In language unmistakable tiie
insolent mulutto leader appealed last Hat
urday to liis black auditors to frown down
and drive from their presence every man
with a black face who refused or neglected
to vote for the ticket ttiat day nominated.
The white men—maw-worms, greedy for
office, and ready to delude the jmor negro
to get it —who occupied £he stand with
him, applauded the harangue.
l)o you intend to allow Ike Anderson to
elect Am ticket? Will you remain idle,
and see him and his' mongrel crew get
possession of the offices of (he county?
Wake up and go to work, you men wno
have made your county among the first
and foremost in tiie State for wealth, en
terprise and intelligence! You can if you
will defeat “black and tan” Radicalism in
the county,and teach it a lesson it will not
soon forgot. ,WIM you make the gffori? »
April?. . Dion.
Negroes Ruled Out of tttb Free
Schools in Connecticut.—On Monday
night last, at Hartford, a town meeting
was called virtually to decide whether ne
groes have had a right to attend these
schools. Tills call was signed by leading
Radicals as well as Democrats. Tiie meet
ing was held, and it was voted unani
mously that on and after the 2d day of
May next “it shall not be lawful” for
colored children to attend any other
schools than the designated negro school;
and an effort to vote permission to colored
children to attend white schools in some
of the districts in theoutskirts of the town
was qualified so that such permission can
be only by the “consent of such districts.”
And this not because they are “ignorant
or degraded,” but solely because they are
black.—. Vein York World.
We are truly sorry to learn that
Judge Willium F Grilfiu, of Morgan,
Calhoun county, while out hunting one
morning last week, on ChlCkasawhatchie
creek, was shot by a freest mu n, who mis
took him, as he said, for a bear. Tbe ne
gro carried him home, and in a few hours
he breathed his last. Judge Griffin was a
prominent and influential citizen, and has
filled many honorable positions in the gift
of the people of Calhoun, and the loss of
his counsel will tie generally felt.— Early
Chanty New. ‘
THURSDAY, APRIL !>, 1868.
HDFLI H. KM.LIHU ONE OF THE
CAFTI.KERN OF THE I . S. ARSENAL.
NEAR AI KI BTA.
When Judge Irwin was appointed elec
tor on tbe Davis and Stephen*, ticket in
lbfil, says tiie Chronicle AS< n tint l, the.Sl ate
of Georgia had withdrawn by solemn or
dinance of her people tn convention as
sembled, from tbe Federation of the
United States. The latter had been recog
nized as a lielligereirt pow*r—not as rebels
—and was officially ireated as such.
When Joseph 15. Blows, as Governor of
Georgia, made war against tbe irmed
fortresses of the Unite*! States, in the
mouth of tiie Savannah river, and by
force of arms, seized upon and took pos
sessiomof the United State* Arsenal near
this city, capturing the garrison of
.States soldi era who were iu posi-'tjiuju «ud
'mmtmm JMo * v Mi).> b o.'ui
bound by her allegiance to (he Union.' The
Convention which mibsequently afweoibltd
at Milledgeville and passed the Ordinance
of Secession had not then met. Ihe alle
giance of her people at that time was due
the Federal Government. Tiie seizures
thus made by Joseph K. Brown and bis
conspirators against the Federal Govern
ment w ere open, clear, legal treason. They
were made «i l bout'tiie .den lout of authority
from any source whatever. The treason
of Joseph E. Brown was the result of the
act of the individsud, not of the Executive
of the State, for in the latter capacit )«
had no authority whatever.
All those wlu* volunteered to aid him in
these acts of war against tiie authority of
tiie United States became liable, individu
ally, for their participation therein. Among
the number who shouldered their musket#
and marched upon and beeieyed the gar
rison holding the l ini ted State# Arsenal at
this place was one RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
now Radical candidate for Governor of
the State.
When the Federal garrison surrendered
to the revolutionary body which besieged
the Arsenal, RUFUS B. BULLOCK was
or.e of the valiant soldiers of Brown, who,
with musket in Hand and bayonet fixed,
marched in and took possession. The
Union flag was hauled damn from the flag
staff on the parade by the soldiery of
. w hicli BULLOCK was a mighty member,
and the Union soldiers stacked their arms
in obedience to the terms of their surren
der, in presence of the i/rcat rebel, RUFUS
B. BULLOCK.
Wheu Joseph R. Brown made a blood
thirsty and revolutionary harangue in the
afternoon of the capture of tlie Arsenal to
tlie excited throng of citizens and soldiery
in front of the Planters’ Hotel iu this city,
in tlie mud ami rain—ureuchcd to tlie
skin and shivering in the cold winds of
winter—stood RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
with gwn in hand, applauding and cheer
ing Brown'* treasonable ami revolutionary
utterances.
Will General Meade inform us how it is
that Judge Irwin, who was using all the
influence of his flue intellect and pure
character to prevent the war, while Bul
lock was capturing United States forts, is
ineligible and the latter is eligible? Judge
Irwin was a Union man before the war,
was opposed to secession—labored nigbL
and day to prevent it—was a Union man
during the war and since the surrender—
yet he is declared ineligible because he
was placed, without his knowledge or
consent, on the Confederate electoral
ticket nearly a year after the State seced
ed, by and through the suggestion and ar
tifices of Joseph E. Brown. This consis
tent Union man upon principle is forbid,
by the mighty Meade, to ruu for Governor,
in order that the people of Georgia may
have fastened upon them a mau in whom
they have neither respect nor confidence,
and who was an open, active, noisy, and
bold conspirator against the Government ms
the United State* before the State of Tits
adoption had withdrawn from the Union.
| The native Georgian—the Southern Union
; mau, who counseled against war and vio
; lence —la set aside to make place for the
: Xew England Yankee rebel, ivhose fierce
| patriotism and intense Southern feeling
! could not wait the slow process of getting
out of tho “ hated Yankee Government ”
through the instrumentality of a regular
State Copveution
It would be charitable to suppose that
| General Meade lias not been advised as to
tlie part Rufus B. Bullock took iu precipi
tating tlie war against the Union. It is
| in that view that we have feit compelled
to give publicity to this most interesting
j period in the “great agent’s” history.
Having exposed this portion of Bullock’s
war record, we ask: Is he eligible, uuder
the reconstruction laws, for tho Governor
ship oMJeorgia ?
* « REAR, COLORED MEN !
We call the attention of every colored
man in Georgia, and Bibb county espe
cially, to the following letter, written
.Dearly one year ago, to a committee of
Ahelr own color at Brunswick, Ga., by
•General John B. Gordon, the atiti-Radi-
Lal candidate for Governor of Georgia.
We say to you that General Gordon holds
the same views notv in reference to your
race that he did then, and that lie is a
much truer friend of yours than the mau
wiie voted iu the Atlanta Convention
against giving you the right to hold office.
That man’s name was Bullock. Read this
letter, and see if you don’t agree with us.
Brunswick, Ga., April 17, 1557.
Geni J. R. Gordon :
, DEAR Hut—A Convention of tiie colored
peoale of our State will be held in Macon
on (re 30th inst. for educational purposes,
anCjthe colered people of Glynn county
bav j elected Mr. Hosea Sherman to repre- j
sen them in said Convention. Believing
tha you, in common with many other
Solhern gentlemen, take an interest in
oil?welfare, we would be pleased to have
? t uexpression of your views in reference
P jur educational apd political interests.
Hoping that you will favor um with a
reply, we are, very respectfully, your obe
dient servants,
John Morrison, ) Trustees of tbe
Henry Bird, , Brunswick
James Blue, J Colored School
Brunswick, April 17, 1807.
Mv COLORED Friends—Yous note of
to day has just beeu handed me. I appre
ciate sensibly the compliment you make
in*.by this expression of your confidence,
ibat confidence is nether mistaken nor
misdirected. You are right in your belief.
I, in common with all tbw Southerner*
with whom it has been my lot to exchange
expressions of opiuion, do feel & lively in
terest iu the weilare of tiie colored people.
Horn and reared together, and accustomed
from infancy to reciprocate the services
afid kindnesses of social life, it would be
most unnatural did we feel, or had we
*’er felt otherwise.
gl am in favor of extending, by every
possible means, every aid towards tbe
moral aiutenteltecluai advancement of the
colored race, and think that peculiar eir
cumstanoe* authorize me to a-sert, witli
the moat entire confidence, that such is the
almost universal opinion of the Southern
people. It was my fortune during the
late war, iu tiie Southern army, to com
mand young men from almost every sec
tmil-of the rjouiJi. 'l’hcF 1 — 1 -*— |--~-~r-rf
menus, ami have beeu iu the habit,
\wn*uever I have met them, of unfolding
tieir views witli great freedom to me, on
tfcae aud kindred topics. I assert with
q(tt reservation that I cannot recall an iu
*nce of exception or dissent to the nni
mityof these expressions of kind feei
ifigs towards your jieople. Nor have I
tpind one who, whey questioned as to his
'■she* in this regard, lias not empiMitic
apv declared that he would not vote you
Wfi-k into slavery bad he the power to do
so. They who a*-erl or insinuate the con
trary are thermalve# the victim- of tiie
blindest delusion,<>r actuated by tiie worst
motives in seeking to make a diflereui im
pres.-lon. Associating wftti you from
Childhood, we iiave not to subdue the
prejudices aud antipathies to your race
that belong to other sections. The while
fhkß of the South ought !o Ik*, is, aud ever
•v|il be, (unless some strange delusion
should enter tiie brain and the
c#ttti*els of the one or the other |>arty,) iu
the same section. Why should it be other
wise? Acquaintance, past associations, j
ib many instances mutual gratitude and ’
affection, as welt as the mutual depen- i
lienee of daily bußtuess relations, all con- ]
spire to hind them together.
He who teaches you to regard our in- j
tferests as conflicting is not a friend to your I
jjiye. Oar lute rents are identical. If the
MjjFue man » “** 'rfdoied Ucigli
iSXjmgf-sghrxmjc. .with him... ft Ley am cm-
together, aud tbe omAstnfnnt swim
if tiie otiier sinks. If the Federal legt-da
tion should discriminate against tiie labor
of tiie tsouih—if, for instance, the Con
gress should exempt the great Northern
staple, wheat, and place a tux of three
cent* per jKiond on the cotton of this sec
tion, is it not obvious that the tax falls on
tbe bate raised by the colored man as on
the t* n irtiles grown by his while Heigh
ts r? If discriminating legislation op
presses and impoverishes the one, does it
not hereby, aud to that extent, impair hi*
ability to employ or aid tiie other? These
truths are too obvious to your own good
se:ise to make it necessary that 1 should
dwell upon them. You should regard him
as your worst enemy, whether born on
Northern or (-southern soil, who seeks to
sow distrust, or to alienate the one race
from the other. Tbe people of tbe South
are not hostile to the Northern man who
comes amoug them to identify himself
with tiie interests of our section. Nor are
they so illiberal as to ask that you should
not appreciate the etfiirts of Northern men
who honestly seek your permanent wel
fare. They will welcome such to their
section. But I cannot too earnestly warn
you against those agitators, many of whom
make loud professions of friendship for
your race,who at home canm t brook your
presence as neighbors, and perhaps are
fresh from States that even forbid your
residence on their soil.
Tiie friendship for your race*, of which
I have spoken, as alike tiie ooovicton and
sentiment of the people of tiie South, is
confirmed by a very tangible proof to day.
Tiie grand jury, of which I am a member,
(and the burden and confinement of
whose official duties prevent a more care
ful expression of these views) befmft tiie
reception of your note, recommended
unanimously that all tbe funds in the
Treasury raised or to be raieed for tbe
purpose, be equally ami impartially ex
pended for the education of the two races,
irrespective of color. No more emphatic
proof of the kind sentiments of tiie white
community toward you could bo given,
than is furnished by this single fact.
As to the subject of “Political Interests”
qn wliicli you ask an expression of my
views, it would perhaps at this time be
premature togiveadvice. The enactments
of Congress, imposing military govern
ineutsou the States and divesting tiie most
distinguished citizens of the South of the
light of sufl'rage, are, h>; the constituted
authorities of those State's, regarded as
unconstitutional. The Governors of these
Hitates have, ttierefore, appealed to the
Supreme Court, the final arlnter, to decide
this question. Its decision will lie speedy.
In the meanwhile, all speculation would
he idle, aud, as 1. have observed, pre
mature.
-My colored friends, the plain paths of
comfort, of respectability, of moral and
intellectual improvement are before you;
aud you may rest assured that none will
guide you more willingly, or lend you a
safer hand to lead you to these ends, thau
the people of the Fouth, amongst whom
you were reared. With submission to tbe
Jaws, industry aud economy, with union
among yourselves, and courtesy aud con*
iidenee towards the whites, you will reach
these ends, and constitute an important
element in the community. I am, very
respectfully and truly, your friend,
John B. Gordon.
To (Messrs. Jack Morrison, Henry Bird,
and James Blue, Trustees of the Colored
(School.
Good News.—We had the pleasure of
hcgijng from the Hou. B. H. Hill, whom
we met yesterday in this city, a most en
couraging account of our prospects in
Butts, Jasper, and Putnam counties,
where he lias recently spoken. He repre
sents the whites more nearly unanimous
in those counties ,than they were ever
known before. .They will vote as one
man for Gordon and against the Consti
tution. That shameless humbug, “ Be
lief,” which at first deceived some
thoughtless people, is fast being exploded,
and will soon stink in the nostrils of all
honest men.
Fai.se.—The statement made by a Rad
ical paper at Atlanta, that the Hon. B. H.
Hill refused to discuss the political issues
of the day, on Saturday last, at Forsyth,
with one Farrow, is a falsehood. Mr.
Ilill authorizes us to say that he
never heard of any such proposition until
the falsehood was brought to his notice
by the editor of this paper.
Correction.— The Journal & Messenger
seems to be harping on its manufactured
statement, that the speakers at the late
j mass meeting in Macon threatened the
colored people with hanging and lashing
if they failed to work and vole for the
i Constitution and the regular candidates,
and calls upon Col. Bullock to answer
whether these threats will lie carried out.
We have tetters from tlicwe sjieakers, ami
, they are reliable and truthful men, contra
dicting entirely tiie reports of tiie Journal
■fe Messenger , and, therefore, as no threats
were made, a denial is unnecessary. The
Reconstruction party do not employ assas
i sins t<> carry their political measures, much
Jess to threaten tiie lash or the galiows to
its opponents.
Wo simply notice the above characteris
tic exhibit ion of brazen effrontery from that
negro-Radicai organ at Augusta, the Na
tional Republican, to reiterate the charge, j
aud ask Bullock again, whether or not he j
approves these threats? Why did not this
plunder-propped organ of his deny the |
carrying of the banner in the procession, j
witli the uegro banging on the gallows, j
aud tiie inscription written underneath
threatening a like fate to all who should j
vote against, the Radicals? We can get I
certificates from a dozen of the most re- j
spectable citizens of Macon that such !
threats were made by at least one speaker,
ou the occasion referred to —men whose j
reliability and truthfulness will be vouched
for by endorsers that no supporter of Bui- !
loch in Georgia could by any possibility
beg, bribe, or bully into the use of their ;
names. We reiterate the charge, and we i
demand an answer from Bullock. Bpeak
out, sir. The people, like ourselves, refuse <
to take tiie evidence of your paid scrib-
Mers. They demand that you go on the
stand yourself, and say whether you in
spired, or only approve these threats.
From thf* At'anta Em of 7th in *t.
CAltl> rIIO*I ( OL. PAHKOW.
The following card we copy by request
from tiie Opinion of last evening:
Atlanta, Ga., April 6, 1858.
Editors Opinion .* My attention has been
e-ailed to an article iu your issue of tiie
ilh inst., taken from tiie Mac u Messen
ger, which you will please permit me to
correct.
in that article I am represented as hav
ing repeatedly charged Hon It. B. Bul
i*~>R fraud, corruption, and dishun
esty,” Whatever I may have said of
others, I have never used such remarks
concerning him, and without circumlocu
tions, I pronounce the charge that I have
us an infamous lie.
I have never, at any time, under any.
circumstances, made any insinuations as
to his integrity and hone-tv, hut have
always regarded him personally os a truly
honorable gentleman.
The Messenger can publish this or not i
as it please*. Henry P. Farrow. !
Tbe Messenger “ pleases ” to eopy this
card, and the editor thereof “ pleases ” to j
call the attention of the public at large to j
tiie following extract from another card
by this same man Earrow, which reads as I
follows:
“ This Constitution confers extraordinary f
and dangerous powers upon the Erecti tire j
—it erects a kingdom, a despotism, and, in J
the hands of bad men, wm be wielded for
unparattried oppression, and the utter ruin
of the.pecple! If it falls into the
HANDS OF THE CAKUKT-HAGGERK AND XK
OROES, WITH BULLOCK aT THEIR HEAD, f
THEY WILL PLUNDER THE PEOPLE AND j
BANKRUPT THE HTATE IN ONE YEAR.
They care nothing for the good of
THE PEOPLE; THEIR OBJECT IS SPOILS,
AND THEIR GAME IS LEGALIZED ROB- '
bkky! Hf-nrYP. Farrow.”
-wH»» iW® noHutuip bi ,
the'Rr»gfs*lilaiigTfa^T now Judge for
themselves whether Farrow, or the editor
of this paper, has iied.
Public llceliug isi (luitman Coiiutv.
.Georgetown, April 4, 1868.
The citizens of tjuitrnau county met
in tiie Court-house to-day, to nominate
candidate* for Representative to tiie Le
gi.-dature and county officers, Judge' Var
ner, President of tiie club, presiding.
On motion of Cal. Guerry, a resolution
was adopted, ratifying the nomination of
Dr. Charles R. Moore as tiie candidate of
the party of this District for the .Senate,
and promising him the cordial aud united
support of the party* in this county.
Dr. Moore was present and returned his
tlianka, and entertained the meeting witli
a very appropriate and practical address.
On motion of Col. K. C. Kilington,
Resolved, That the Chair appoint a
consisting of two from each
District, to present the names of suitable .
candidates for the consideration of the
meeting.
From Town District— L. C. A. Warren
and Robt. G. Morris.
From Florida District —Tom. Ellis and
Wm. P. McCombs.
From North Carolina District —Abram
Shields and Jas. J. Crumley.
From Bumbleton District —Messrs. Su ries.
Col. Ellington was added, and made the :
Chairman of the committee.
While tiie committee were absent,Messrs, j
Wm. Harrison and Cullens entertained j
the meeting witli some very pointed and .
forcible remarks, directed agaiust the
tli© iniquitous oflspring of the late (lion- |
grel Convention at Atlanta —The New \
Constitution. Both of these gentlemen ’
acquitted themselves creditably, and in
fused a good deal of enthusiasm into the
meeting.
The Committee on Nominations re- 1
turned aud reported with entire unanimi
ty' among themselves, the following
names :
For Representative —L. C. A. Warren. |
For Ordinary —W. P. Joadan, Esq.'
Fur Sheriff —Jas. M. OlTver.
F>r CHerk Superior Court— Jl R. McNeel.
For Tax Receiver —J. M. Gran bury. |
Fur Tax (bileetor— J. J. Crumley.
For County Treasurer —J. R. Roberts. 1
For County Surveyor— O. G. Thomas.
Fur County Coroner —A. Ilall.
On motion, the report was adopted
without a dissenting voice.
Mr. Warren being present, with a j
blushing modesty’ and a becoming sense ,
of the responsibilities imposed upon hin»,
accepted the nomination. I,ong and well
known by every citizen of the county, a
man of generous impulses and warm heart,
full of sympathy aud love to his race, and
open as day to melting charity,” aud
appreciating the great peril to which con
stitutional liberty is exposed, we are
assured he is the right man in the right
place; aud we trust the jieoplo of this
county will spare no etTort to save him
the humiliation of being beateu by an
ignorant negro.
Ou'motion of Capt. Flewellen, the pro
ceedings of this meeting were ordered to
he published in the Macon Tclcffi-ai>h,
JOURNAL AND MESSENGER, and Sumter
Republican.
On motion, the club agreed to meet
every Saturday until the'eleeton, and ad
journed. L. A. GoNEKK,
Sec'y Hem. Club.
Resignation ok Registrar Coolidge
of Whitfield County.— Mr. Coolidge,
editor of the North Georgia Republican,
and Registrar of Whitfield county, was
to-day requested by Commissioner Hul
bert to resiK.i. wliieli he did. W. un.l.r
stand that the reason for making this
I request was that Mr. Coolidge has beau
i supporting Judge Irwin during the cau
j vaas. —Atlanta Opinion.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1868.
SHALL GLOHGIA LIVE OH DIB I
But ten days stand between us and the
j fateful hour tliat must answer this ques
tion. Men of Georgia, how shall it he an
swered ? Shall your proud old mother,
this glorious old Commonwealth, pass un
der the yoke of those who have sworn her
ruin and your degradation, or shall the
remnant of rights aud liberties left her be
1 safely lodged in the hands of those who
will maintain the one, ami preserve the
other? hhiall the going down of the sun
ou the last day of the ejection witness the
triumph of a horde of needy, greedy, char
acterless vagabonds, adventurers and rene
gades, wiio have no interest but bate, and
no principal but jdunder, or shall it wit
ness the well-won victory of the friends of
Georgia, the ad vocates of peace and good
government? Shall Bullock and the rag
ged banditti who follow liis freebooter flag,
fill your offices ami fatten upon your sub
stance, or shall they fail where they rightly
belong, into tbe hands of the virtue, re
spectability and wisdom of the btate?—
bbalt these ranters cautp in the Legisla
tive, Executive and Judical departments,
or shall the sous of those who made Geor
gia, still honor themselves aud serve tbe
Btate iu these high places? Bhaii those
whose object is pluuder, and legalized rob
bery, and w ho are given only one year “to
bankrupt the Btate,” set up ajgovernment
that will cost, to commence with, Four
Millions of Dollars, or shall honest
men, wise men, moderate men, your friends
and neighbors, start aud control-the new
machinery? Bhaii taxation and debt
still further grind down au impoverished
people, that knaves and vagabonds may
thrive, or shall economy, and honesty, and
fidelity to tiie interests of tiie people, *ig
uaiize the commeuoeuieiitof our uew life ?
You have just teu day* wherein to decide
tlujse weighty issues. They are in your
hands, aud upqp you alone will rest the
responsibility of tiie decision. We do uot
seek to inflame your pa-nious, or play upou
your prejudices. Uur only hope, and our
only motive is that you may see, in aii
Itieir tremendous import, the nature of
these issues. A* ye decide, so will poster
ity bless or curse you, ams so w ill history
sneer or applaud. Friends, countrymen
and brothers, fall to your work ami re
solve that the Right shaU win, and Georgia
•till survive!
EXPLODI \ !i.
T!sU-a ■- —"“6 <<**’ sworn aim
bayonet Convention at Atlanta put in
tbeir swindling Constitution aud called
“relief,” as a bait to catch fools and
knaves, is fa*t lieing exploded ail over the
Btate. From every quarter comes the
clieeriug assurance that lire people are i
finding it out and repudiating it, as they
do many otiier features of that odious in
strument. They are asking themselves |
what is the difference between payiog I
their creditors, even the full amount of
their claims, and of being stripped of this
same properly, taxed, robbed and ruined
for the benefit of aliens, vagabonds, and
renegades, plunderers, vampires, and in
cendiaries fr.m New England. They
have found out that even the promised re
lief was not meant iu good faith, and Unit
Bullock aud his crew knew and intended
I that it should be stricken out of their Con-
Irataiffratv rsy: fcongresa- Ax.asao.put in to.
catch votes and ojien the doors of the Trea
sury to these robbers, aud then having se
cured that purpose to be cut out and
thrown away as worthless, leaving the
rest of the Constitution, including un
limited uegro suffrage iuLo-t, ami these
perpetrators of the swindle in offico.
That’s what the Eleventh Section means,
as we have heretofore pointed out, and the
jieople now see it.
We liave high hopes that not one honest
mau iD Georgia will give his vote for the
Constitution ou that ground, at any rate.
Those who wish to cheat, and will cheat
anyhow, may. The old political prosti
tutes aud demireps of party, who offer
their battered charms in tiie market place
to the highest bidder, are not expected to
see or heed either argument or admoui
tion.
Honest wages honestly earned, lacking
the savor of sin, liave no succulence to
tiieir diseased and depraved appetites.
M HB TO WIN.
We hear the most cheering news from
the First Congressional District, where
our frieud, Col. Henry 8. Fitch, carries
liis flag and keeps step to the music of a
Constitutional Union. The anti-Radicals
of tiie district are thoroughly aroused and
united in his favor, and will work for him
with a will that promises a splendid tri
umph. He merits it, too. We have
known him, probably, longer than any
man iu the Slate, and can endorse him os
an able, faithful, fearless, aud devoted
Democrat and anti-Radicai. He deserves
a seat iu Congress, or auy other office,
from the people of Georgia that they can
give, for his services to them since he lias
been U. B. District Attorney of this
Btate. We trust lie will be triumphant
ly elected. Ills opponent is a little whif
fling coil fisher, who was a member of the
Atlanta Convention, and who has beeu iu
lie State just eight mouths—one of the
most industrious of the “flankers” that
the Bullock banditti have in their em
ploy-
Til F. LAST TRAIL OF (TIK SL'IIPE>T.
It is clearly established now’, we be
'believe, that it is to Joseph E. Brown the
people of Georgia are indebted for the de- |
| cision of General Meade that forced Judge j
It win from the field as their candidate for ;
Governor. We have information from j
1 Atlauta that leaves no sot t of doubt upon ,
our mind tiiat such was the fact. As i
h usual, however, lie kept himself in the j
back ground, working through the iustru- |
I mentality of others. The loathsome ser
pent has made many slimy tracks in
Georgia politics, as our people know to
their cost, but none so broad or uoisouie as
this. It adds one more to the score that
every honest man has notched in his
memory, and we should almost doubt the
justice of Heaveu, itself, if it were not
wiped out oue day so clean as to leave not
even a track behind. God surely will not
allow this wicked man, this betrayer of
his race aud country, this combination of
Judas Iscariot and Ananias, long to pros
per and fatten upon the ruin of those who,
in an evil hour, lifted him from the muck
heap of a deserved obscurity.
In Error.—We were in error yester
day in crediting words used by H. P.
Farrow, of Atlanta, denunciatory of Bul
lock and his gang to a “card” from that
individual. They appear in the Albany
F(ws, and are kept standing with this
credit:
H I*. Farrow.— ln divers conversa
tions with d;rers Democrats, Sunday and
Monday, the loth and 16th! (of March).
They have appeared in that paper three
times it week for nearly a mouth, aud have
been kept standing in this paper for al
most as long, and yet this is the first de
nial of their authenticity we have heard
of!
In the Atlanta Fra, of yesterday ap-
Vol, 1.X., No, e.
pears another “card” from Farrow, in
I which he offers a reward of SI,OOO for the
! production of the paper in which the de
! clarations imputed t© him are “reduced to
j writing /” The public will mark well the
I language —“reduced to writing." Will he
; deny having uecd the language attributed
| to him? that'fi the question. We are con
tent to rest the case right here.
Ok Course. —A man named William
Jones, recentJya door-keeper of the sword
and-bayonet Convention at Atlanta, but
who was lately rewarded for his “loyalty”
by a berth a« route agent on the road from
Selma to Rome, has been caught breaking
open registered letters, aud is now in jail
at Montgomery, Ala.
He should have remained in Georgia.
Bullock would have provided for him
handsomely, in the event of his election
as Governor. He likes that sort of “loyal
ty” and those kind of “loyalists.”
IMPOIt I A\T IV l Olt TIAXIOfI.
IlEAixjCAfcTiaa 7b:&i> Mumn Disteict, a
Department of (ieerj£i *, Elor.ila anfl A.suimi, >
Atlama. Ga, April 8,1868. )
General. Orders So. ii.
I. W/icrean, the Constitutional Conven
tion of the State of Georgia, recently in
session in this city, did, on the 10th day
of March, loos, adopt an ordinance enti
tled “An ordinance for the election of civil
officers,” which ordinance, among other
things, provides:
“That an election be held, beginning on
the.twentieth day'of April, 1008, (at such
places as may be designated by the Com
manding General of the District,) for
voting on the ratification of the Constitu
tion, for the election of Governor, mem
bers of the General Assembly, Representa
tives to the Congress of the United .States,
and ail other officers to be elected as pro
vided in this Constitution, and said elec
tion to be kept open from day to day, at
the discretion of the General Command
ing.
“And at said election on the ratification
of the Constitution, aud for Governor,
members of Congress, members of the
General Assembly, aud all other civil
officers, the qualifications for voters shall
be the same as prescribed by the act of
Congress known as the Sherman Bill, for
voters at the election on the ratification of
the Constitution, aud at all elections un
der the Provisional Government. And
Major-General Meade is respectfully re
quested to give the necessary orders to
carry into effect the foregoing provisions,
and cause due return* to be made and cer
tificates of election to issue by the proper
officers. But this ordinance shall not ap
ply to Justices of the Peace, who sbail be
elected at such time as shall be provided
for by the first General Assembly, until
otherwise provided for by law.”
11 i, - ■»»<'* ordi
nance the Commanding General is re
quested to cause certificates of election to
be issued to those persons who may be
elected to said offices, and that he may
not be called upon to cause certificates of
election to be issued to person* ineligible
to hold office, be calls the attention of all
concerned to Jdie provisions of Sec. 3of
the amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, proposed by Congress, and
designated as the 14tb Article,-which sec
tion be deems under the Reconstruction
acts applicable to tire election of officers
provided for-by said ordinance, and is as
follows:
“sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or
Representative iu Congress, or elector of
President and Vice President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the CniG&
States, or under any State, who, having
previously taken an oath, as a member of
Congress, or as an officer of the United
Stales, or as a member of any State Legis
lature, or as an executive or judicial officer
of any. State, to support the Constitution
of the Jnited States, shall have engaged
in ingAajctkm. .or JgMpt
aid or comfort to the ene
mies t)V r eof. But Congress may, by a
vote arthirda of each House, remove
such ifipamnfy,”
| Attention is also called to the 6th See
! tiou of the Supplementary Reconstruction
j Act of Congress, which passed July 19th,
| 1867, in which it is declared that “the
i words ‘ executive or judicial office in any
i State’ shall be construed to include all
. civil officers created by law for the admi
nistration of any general law of a State, or
! for the administration of justice.”
II I. The following ate the officers to be
j elected at the approaching election in the
I State of Georgia, under the provisions of
the foregoing Ordinance and the Act of
! Congress authorizing the election, to-wit:
A Governor of the State, Senators and
j Representatives in the General Assembly,
| and for each county in the State a CHerk
! of tiie Superior Court, Ordinary, Sheriff,
! Tax Collector, 'l ax Receiver, Treasurer,
i Coroner aud Surveyor.
Also, seven members of the House of
Representatives of the United States Con
gress, being one member to be elected
from eacn *>r u»« Districts
in the State, as established by an ordi
nance of said Constitutional Convention,
entitled “An Ordinance to establish Con
gressional Districts,” adopted March 6th,
1808.
By ofrier of Major General Meade,
8. F. Barstow,
Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
. »-«.
ll'j>q’i:e.Tiiim> Mimtakv lli-tkict, 1
(Dep’t Georgia. Florida, and Alabama, i
"Atlanta, G\., April 7, ISUB. )
General, Orders, No. 63,
The attention of the Msyor General
Commanding has been called to the extra
ordinary course of Ist. Lieutenant Charles
T. Johnson, loth Regiment Infantry,
which he deems so important as to justify
comment iu this public manner.
The facts of the case are, that Lieuten
ant Johnson, differing in opinion with
Judge 15 T. Pope, of the Circuit Court of
Calhonn county, Alabama, as to the
proper construction of General Orders
Nos. 53 aud 55, of 1567, after indicating to
Judge Pope bis views, and the Judge fail
ing to comply therewith, proceeded to
close the court, arrested the Judge, aud,
ascertaining that the Clerk of the court
did not agiee'iu his views, arrested him
also. Lieutenaut Johnson herein com
mitted two grave errors. In the first
place, had the Judge violated General
Orders Nos. 53 and 55, there was no war
rant or authority for his arrest by Lieu
tenant Johnson. The power of closing,
courts and arresting Judges is vested alone
in the Commanding General of the Third
Military District, aud ban not been dele
gated by any orders to any subordinate
officer. On the contrary, paragraph 1,
General Orders No. 4, series of 1807, whilst
it requires subordinate officers to report all
i failures of the civil officers or tribunals to
i render equal justice to the people, ex
pressly declares said civil officers and tri
-1 bunals are not to tie interfered with in. the
i discharge of their duties. Lieutenant
I Johnson should have confined himself to
j calling on Judge Pope for explanation
and reporting the faetsto these headquar
ters — his assumption of authority to ar
rest is deserving of the severest censure,
and ia justified or palliated by his zeal or
conscientious desire to do his duty, >*°tn
of which the Commanding Genera! is
i willing to admit. ,
i In the second place, Lt. Johnson eireu
I in judgment, his construction of General
i Orders 53 aud 55 not being Correct, and so
• far as the Commanding Gererairan judge
, from the correspondentc *ui6mit be
I hasTen* given a? these bead,, carters
I ”ot‘t^^^iare^^ins^obeLt.
was n.• „ that all juries must be
! m nart composed of colored men, and tiiat
1 , urv was legal unfes colored men were
tmpaifeled. Tbeobjeetaud inteutof these
orders was siniplv to remove the distrnc
,i„„ which the laws of the States in this
district made on the ground oi color, and
and to add to the qualifications for jurors
required by the statute, the additional one
that all jurors should he registered voters.
It does not appear from the papers sub
mit ted that J udge Pojiedecliiied oliedience
to these orders as thus construed, or that
his course was in conflict therewith. Tiie
Commanding General trusts this public
disapproval of the conduct of Lt. Johnson
will have the effect to render all subordi
nate ollioers cautious, aud to refrain from
hasty and unauthorized exercise of power
which is only vested by law in the highest
military officer in the District.
By order of Maj. Gen. Meade.
F. S. Barstow, A. A. G.