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Georgia Journal & Messenger,
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tSATUiIDAV, APRIL 11, 1868.
FOB GOVERNOR:
JOHN B. GORDON,
OK FI IiTOS COUNTY.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS:
roll CONG HESS,
First District— HEN BY 8. FITCH, of
Chatham.
Second District —N ELSON TIFT, of
Dougherty.
Third District—P. W. ALEXANDER,
of Muscogee.
Fourth District—O. A. LGCHRANE, of
Bibb.
Fifth District—No nomination.
Sixth District —JOHN 11. CHRISTY,
of Clarke.
Seventh District—GENEßAL P. M. B.
YOUNG.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
ALVIS STAFFORD,
OF PIKE COUNTY.
FOIt KKTIieSEM ATIVKS,
0. G. SPARKS.
WILLIAM H. ROSS.
STEPHEN COLLINS.
COUNTY TICKET.
LI.IAM M. RILEY.
Clerk Superior Court —\V. S. TiAijjurvx»L..
Sheriff- CLEM. MASTERSON.
Tax Collector— F. M. HEATH.
Tax Receiver. —JOHN JEFFERS.
Coroner —AARON DEWBERRY.
County Surveyor —A. A. FREEMAN.
Treasurer —E. M. CALHOUN.
Election Tickets for all Parties.
Candidates of troth political parties, or their
friends, can have their tickets for the election on
the 2t)th of April printed at this office neatly and
legibly upon the following terms:
For the first 500 $5.00
For each additional 100 - 50
For less than 600 *2.00 per hundred.
They will he either mailed or Expressed as par
ties may order, but at their expense. The Tickets
will be printed in any form desirod.
tsr No attention will be paid to any order un
less accompanied with the money. Address.
J. W. BURKE & CO.,
ap-lt Macon, Ga.
limiW.VH OPIKle.v or k.
‘No grader calamity could befall the peoptMof Geor
gia, than the election of Bullock '-bag
faction. Their object is plunder, v/id if the Govern
ment fall into their hands, they trill bankrupt Georgia
in less than twelve months." —Gov. Brown.
FARROW’S OPINION OF Ditto™.
“ This Constitution confix* extraordinary and dan
gerous powers upon the Executive —it erects a kingdom,
and, in the hands of bud men. , can be
wedded for unparalleled oppression and the utter ruin
of the people. If it fall into the hands of the carpet
baggers and negroes, with Bullock at their head, they
erill plunder the people and bankrupt 'he State in one
year. They care nothing for the good of the people;
their object is spoils, ami their game is legalized robbery."
—H. P. Farrow.
“ The Treasury of Georgia, the present and future
hopes of a .recuperating State, cannot and shall not, If
in my paper to prevent it, be surrendered to those whose
only object is to IV.C\ J) J-. H a people with whotn they
are in no u>ay identified, and of whose Stale they are
not bona fide citizens." —11. P. Farrow.
FOVB IULLIONB 01 DOLLAKS!
Honest tax-payers of Georgia, you who
have been taxed, robbed and well-nigh
ruined by the exactions and oppressions
of Radicalism in Congress, will you add
to this grievous load, will you still further
burthen, your weary shoulders by the elec
tion of a man to office whose government
will cost you, to put it in operation, only,
mind, Four Millions of Dollars! You
have felt—oh! how grievously—the effect
of National Radicalism. Are you so much
in love with it that you wish to have it
domiciled and fastened upon you in State
affairs? What can any man, no matter
how much MiCawber he may have in his
composition, promise himself from such a
government? With your creditors cheat
ed—perhaps—and a set of plunderers, who
have graduated in every school of corrup
tion except the penitentiary, iu office,
bent only on wholesale robbery, jobbery,
and fraud, and the tax-gatherer haunting
your farm, your office, and your work
shop, to take what you make, and as fast,
as you make it —what do you think will
“turn up” to “relieve” you? Unlimited
negro suffrage? That’s about all you’ll
have left of your new Constitution that
promised so much.
Fools may be unable to see it, and
knaves may refuse to see it, but no honest
man can promise himself anything belter
than this. In the day that all such eat of
this fruit, they shall surely die—die a
slow, lingering death—die with the stings
of an outraged conscience lashing them
every hour—die that death of all deaths
the most horrible—the death of honor, of
self-respect, of manhood, of a future in
which there is promise, dim and distant j
it may be, of rights regained and proper- I
ty restored. Fiiends, can you afford such
a death? Can you afford not only the
grave of the suicide, but the hateful stake
that History and a ruined posterity will
surely drive through your dishonored
body ?
Dr. Miller.—We are greatly gratified
to see that this distinguished orator is on
the stump iu North Georgia for Gordon.
No mau knows more thoroughly than lie
the feli designs of the Bullock banditti,
and he will expose them in a manner that
cannot fail to exert a most powerful influ
ence. The virtue, wisdom and respecta
bility of Georgia are up in arms for Geor
gia. The ignorant, vicious ami degraded,
led by that man whom God in His inscru
table providence permits to essay the ruin i
of a whole people, are mustering for ra
pine, arson and murder. Who dares to 1
iS hauds * aud Buy he uo part nor j
lot a struggle?
PROGRESS OP THE RAID.
The bummers and flankers of that hun
gry horde of carpet sack adventurers and
renegades from decency who are on a foray
against the offices of the Stale, aud the
pockets of the people, are making their
appearance in every portion of the State.
Like their prototypes of Sherman’s army,
they are laying their plans at cress roads
to capture petty offices, so as to have some
thing saved up in the event of the defeat
of the main army. In the mountains,
with Georgia’s curse to lead them, they
are declaiming against the colored man’s
right to hold office, and swearing that the
Atlanta Constitution does not give such
right, In this way they are deceiving the
people, and seeking to creep into county
offices - Down here and below, towards
tide water and the Florida line, they
declare that the Constitution does confer
this right, and they are using the black
man as the monkey did the cat, to pull
the chestnuts of office out of the fire. S°
tiiey go—their only aim to cheat, their
only inspiration plunder, and their onh
principle hate of the white race. 1 lie.v
cozen, and wheedle, and lie, and crawl in
the mire o« selfdegradation, and then,
when that fails, they threaten the lash
and the gallows to carry their point.
Such another curse never rested U|Kin a
people since the lice and frogs of Egypt.
They rival the Goths in everything but
their courage, the Norman freebooters in
everything hut their chivalric manhood,
and tiiecanting Roundheads who followed
Oliver the Protector, in eveything but
their contempt of personal danger. Will
the people of Georgia be overcome by such
a gang? Will they tamely fold their
hands, and let their pockets be rifled?
Will they hand over their keys, and let
their treasures be opened to the filthy
manipulations of this banditti? In nine
days these questions must be answered.
AN IMPORTANT OItOEK FROM GEN.
MEADE.
We find the following order from Gen.
Meade in the Atlanta Intelligencer of yes
terday. It looks like fair play, and we
believe Gen. M. so means it. As that is
all we ask, let the honest men of Georgia
take heart, aud bend every energy to win
a glorious and enduring victory. Let the
best men everywhere be selected to be pre
sent at the counting out of ttie votes—men
who will do their duty regardless of conse
quences. This order should be, and we
trust will be,circulated so as to reach every
point in the State. Where there ate no
mail routes, let it be sent by hand.
ll’dq’rs Third Military District, )
(Dep’t Georgia, Florida, and Alabama,) r
Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1868. )
General Orders, No. 56.
That fairness and impartiality may be
secured in the coming elections in Georgia
and Florida, it is ordered,
I. That the ballot box shall not be open
ed, or the votes counted, nor shall any in
formation be given of the progress of the
election, till the polls are finally closed.
. iw»inor finally closed, the
board of mauagers shall select two men 01
character and standiug from the opposite
party, who shall be permitted to be present
at the opening of the ballot boxes anti the
counting of the ballots, so as to witness
and verify such counting.
By order of Major General Meade,
8. F. Barstow,
Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
THE LASH AND THE GALLOWS.
Are we to have an answer from Bulloek
to our question as to whether or not he
inspired, or only approves the threat of
the lash and the gallows to all colored
men who dare to vote against him at tlie
ensuing election ? Is the man dumb, or
are his keepers afraid to trust him with a
pen? We want to know the reason for
this unseemly silence under so graves
charge. Is it because lie feels so assured
of the colored vote that he thus contemp
tuously turns a deaf ear to rile demand ?
Remember, colored men, the facts of this
case. You have been threatened at a Bui
' lock meeting—where he promised to
speak, too, but did not, and did not even
honor you by sending an excuse for his
absence—that if you dared to vote against
Him, whether you approved his record
and the principles of his party or not, j
that your backs should be scored with the
cowhide, and your neck stretched, for ex
ercising this simple right of choice. He
has been asked repeatedly if he sanctions
such threats, such a wilful, wicked viola
tion of every pledge of peculiar friendship
for your race lie has made, and he disdains
an answer. What can you conclude?
Either that he does approve these in
famous threats, or that he feels so certain
you will be driven to the polls aud made
to vote for him, that it is not worth his
while to notice them. How do you like
such treatment?
A DECISION OF Ci EN. Til: V IU:.
We direct especial attention to the fol
lowing letter:
Hkadquartrrs Third Miiitary District, )
Department of (ieoriu-t, Florida and Alabama, •
Atlanta, Ua, April 9,1888. j
Mr. C. C. Green, Atlanta, Fulton County,
Georgia :
Hir—Tn reply to your letter of the 7th
instant, relating that the registrars refuse
you registration on the grounds that you
were Deputy Hherilf of Fulton county,
Georgia, prior to the war, and after the
commencement of hostilities a volunteer
in the Confederate army, I am instructed
by the Commanding General to state
that, in his judgment, you were
not “an executive or judicial officer”
within the meaning of these words, as
used in the reconstruction laws, and are,
therefore, entitled to be registered as a
voter. You will show this letter to the
registrar of the county, who will register
your name. Should he fail or refuse to do
so, you will please report the fact to these
headquarters.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. C. Drum, A. A. G.
Specimen Lies. —We present our read
ers, this morning, with a choice bouquet of
lies, culled from that parterre, the Wash
ington correspondence of the New York
Times. They can see for themselves what
sort of treatment those loathsome crea
tures called Southern "loyalists” deserve
at the hands of honest people. It is by
such means as this that the public mind
at the North is poisoned against us, and
the Radicals enabled to successfully in
voke popular aid in their infamous
schemes for our ruin :
THE KU-KLUX-KLAN.
The news from Georgiaof the operations
of the secret organized gang of rebel des
peradoes known as the Ku-Klux-Klan, is
of a startling character. The reports of
the cold-blooded murder of Dr. Ashburn,
one of the original, steadfast, and most
prominent of the Southern loyalists, are
fully confirmed by the official advices re
ceived at Gen. Grant’s headquarters, with
the addition that two other prominent
Union men, members of the late Conven
tion, are missing, and are supposed to have
shared a like fate. The Union people in
i Muscogee county, where this tragedy oc
j currred, are in a state of horrible suspense,
as they feel they are all marked by these
villians, ami they are appealing' to the
military authorities for aid.
The gang who niuredred Dr. Ashburn,
j at Columbus, were about thirty in num
| ber, and were disguised as ghosts. They j
affected all manner of spectral devices, i
with the (idea of striking terror into the j
minds of the freedmeu, who are naturally j
superstitious iu such matters. A piomi- j
neut Union man iu Columbus, in writing ;
to headquarters, giving au account of
these outrages, says: “The result will be
—and no doubt it is oue of their objects—
to drive the freedmen from tiif polls in the
coming election, through fear, unless ,
there is a military force at every precinct
iutheKtftte-” I
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
Proscription.— Bullock plants himself
fairly and squarely upon the platform of
proscription for opinion’s sake. Witness
the dismissal of Gaskin, at Atlanta, and
Coolidge at Dalton, from the Registration
Bureau, for opposing his election. “8. &Q,.’
Huibert, who is to be Superintendent of
the State Road, if Bullock is declared Gov
ernor, and who is thoroughly under lii
control, is outwardly responsible for these
acts, l :t that deceives nobody. A word
from Vulfoek would have retained these
men i office; but he never spoke it. We
have -■ o doubt but that if the truth was
knowi , Bullock or Brown prompted the
act. ' lie guillotine for white men, and
the la h and the gallows for black men
who and re to oppose his election these are
Lite ui ms by which this unscrupulous ad
ventin ir seeks.to foist himself upon the
people of Georgia.
3r<vt tlt A nrrAl “ Friendship.”— The
Atlau.i j sadlea’s have nominated three
men v th white skins for the Legislature
from Fulton county, and a full county
ticket. Upon that ticket there is not a
single colored man. A card signed by six
or seven of the most respectable colored
men of the place appears in the Opinion
of yesterday, protesting against such treat
ment, aud denouncing it as the result of
fraud and trickery. The colored voters
wete to meet last, night to nominate a
separate ticket. We call the attention of
the colored voters of Macon to this last
illustration of Radical “friendship” for
their race.
lOTili: VOTERS OK HOUSTON, URAU -
FOItO AND TAYLOR COUNTIES.
The recent order of Gen. Meade makes
it proper that T should, without delay, an
nounce to you that I decline absolutely to
be a candidate for the Senate in the 23d
Senatorial District.
Allow me to suggest that no lime should
be lost in agreeing upon some suitable gen
tleman to he voted for to represent our
District in the Senate
Very respectfully, eta.,
Eli Warren.
Perry, April 10,1868.
Gen. Eli Warren having declined a can
didacy for the Senate in the 23d Senatorial
District, corn posed of tbe counties of Hous
ton, Crawford aud Taylor, we are author
ized to announce that estimable and
worthy gentleman, Col. Wm. J. Ander
son, of Fort Valley, a candidate for Sena
tor in that District.
The Case Weed Stated.—Ex-Gov.
Horatio Seymour addressed a large meet
ing at Bridgeport, Conn., last week. From
his speech we make the following extract,
aud ask for it the attention of every
reader:
I ventured to ask to-day a very intelli
gent man, whose position in life is proof
of his capacity and sagacity, how much it
would cost the laboring man, or how many
hours a laboring man would have to toil
in order to support himself if he had no
such thing as taxation; if, for example, a
working man could procure his food and
clothing at first cost, how many hours he
would have to toil to support himself?
u,.a u.. wits, “six hours,” which
we may consider a v-ry fair estimate.
Now, you are to remem *r how much the
cost of everything is multiplied by taxa
tion in its various forms. Now, all lalior
above six hours is put upon you by the
tax gatherer. It is put upon you by the
policy of tlie government- Os course we
cannot lift the loan of taxation altogether
from the people. You cannot reduce the
hours of labor to six hours per day; but I
fell you, those of you who toil in the work
shops, when you have labored your six
hours, when you are beginning to feel
your arms weary, and you desire either
mental occupation orenjoyment with your
families, the tax gather comes in and says:
“No; we own four hours of your labor yet
—you must pay them to us ” [Applause.]
Now, I ask you, laboring men, can you
afford ail that in order that these gentle
men may amuse themselves with their
policy of Southern reconstruction ?’’
LETTER FROM GOV. HAKIM,
April a, lasm.
Editor . Macon Telegraph:
Gentlemen— l have just seen, in the
Columbus Sun, a short article extracted
from your paper, referring to a rumor that
a letter had been received from me advis
ing that the Conservative men of Georgia
pursue in the approaching elections the
policy of non-action, as they did in the
elections for or against a Convention and
for me mV rs of the Convention. T desire
simply to ray, that I have given no advice
—expressed no opinion, either verbally,or
in writing, in the premises.
Believing that in this crisis concert of
notion unanimity, if that be attainable—
among our friends is greatly desirable,
bad I deemed it proper under the circum
stance# to volunteer any opinion on the
subject, 1 would certainly have addressed
myself to the Central Democratic Execu
tive Committee of Georgia (through their
Chairman, Judge Cabaniss), Ln whom the
Conservatives of the Htate have wisely' re
posed a large discretion.
Very respectfully,]your ob’t servt,
Charles J. Jenkins.
FoS* the Journal anil Mesbcuger.
A Sword dial Cuts liotii Ways.
We filid the following in the Atlanta
Opinion :
“31 r. Coolidge, editor of tbe North Geor
gia Republican, aud Registrar of Whitfield
county, was to-day requested by Commis
sioner Huibert to resign, which he did.
We understand thattlie reasoti for making
this request was that Mr. Coolidge has
been supporting Judge Irwin during the
canvass.”
The story has a Moral, viz : An em
ployee must adopt the politics of his em
ployer, or lose his situation.
This is the decision, put into practice by
a high Radical functionary’. He and his
party cannot blame others for followingso
high an example.
“ What is sauce for the goose, is sauce
for the gander.”
Or, is this a question with only one side
toil? Perhaps not. Events will show,
j- Jack Straw. I
Cl mill and « llm Vend” make Friend*-*
Grant Eats “ Humble Fie.”
A Washington dispatch says: It is un
derstood that ttie difficulty between Gen.
Butler and Gen. Grant has at last been
amicably settled. The friends of both par
ties have been engaged for some time past
in asortof diplomatic correspondence with
a view to bringing them together. The
ctiief actor in this business is George
Wilkes, who has been to Washiugtou tor
some weeks, ostensibly as a spectator of
the impeachment trial, hut really as a ne
gotiator between Grant and Butler.
The latter’s resentment against Grant
has been very bitter. He couid not well
forget his pungent criticism on bis mili
tary services when he alluded to him in
his report as being bottled up at Bermuda
Hundred. After this had been satisfac
torily explained away, Butler said Grant
had insulted him by sending hirnau invi
tation to |)is reception after having said to
the country that he was bottled up. This
also was fully explained, and Butler has
at last consented to smoke the pipe of
peace.
r. s. District Court for the Southern in*.
Iricioi'Cieor^fu.
HON. JOHN EKIKINE, JUDGE, PRESXDINO.
Wednesday, April 8, 1868.—The Court
considered the petition of H. B. Titus in
formant in the case of tlie United States
vs. Lot No. 7, Bloek N0.41, city of Macon
praying the order of Court for payment to
him of one-half of proceeds of sale of the
property under decree of condemnation,
io tins petition a plea was filed by the
District Attorney in behalf of the United
States. Ihe plea was demurred to hv
counsel for petitioner, and after argument
Judge Erskme decided that if the infor
mation tiled by H. 11. Titus, petitioned
Tuiv ‘lWifflf £ Uorney ,° n ,lle 17th of
Jul}, 18b!), led to tlie seizure of the proner
-56 Droperty was condemned on
evidence produced by said informer, H. i
B. Jit Us, he is entitled to the moiety of I
proceeds. I liese facts appearing in'the:
pleadings, and by admissions of the Dis
trict Attorney, judgment was rendered ac- I
eordingly,— Sav, Adv., 9 th. J
From the Atlanta Intelligencer, 10th.
TIIU TRUTH TOLD.
Milton County, April 4, 1868.
Dear Air-Before 1 received your letter
yesterday, some unknown friend sent me
the Era which contained the announce
meat that Joseph B. Brown lmd newer
made the statement that it Bullock was
elected tie would ruin the State. I have
seen no denial from Gov. Brown of this,
but the Era says it lias authority to deny
it Brown cannot deny the conversation
we had on the subject. It was voluntary
on bis part— unsolicited by me. We wen*,
sitting side by side in the Convention a*
tiie time. Ho commenced the conversa
tion about the nomination, and said that
the Conservative members of the Consti
tutional Convention had done wrong in
not going into tiie nominating Conven
tual, and said if we had tve could have
established a two-thirds rule, which would
have defeated Bullock. Just at that mo
ment the vote was taken on Whiteley’s
resolution, and it was defeated. “ Now,”
says Brown, “ Bullock will be nominated,
aud if he is, ho will be elected, and with
the patronage given him by the new Con
stitution, he will ruin the State.” V\ bile
tve were talking, the vote was taken ; Bul
lock was nominated by acclamation.—
Brown slapped me on the thigh and said:
“Now you see wiiat you have done ! He
will lie elected ; the time is too short; tiiey
can make no other nomination to defeat
"him, and it will ruin us.”
A recess of twenty minutes was announ
ced for Congressional districts to make
nominations, and at the expiration of that
time the Convention wus called to onier,
when Hopkins offered a resolution that
the Convention adjourn until half-past 7
o’clock, and that Ex-Governor Joseph E.
Brown he requested to address them on
ratification, and the election of Hon. R.
I>. Bullock. The Convention adjourned;
the Governor walked out of the door. I
said, “Governor, are you going to make
that speech ?” lie answered, " I think.l
shall.” In just twenty-three to twenty
live minutes after lie told me the election
of Bullock would ruin the Slate, he agreed
to make a speech in favor of it. I was
surprised, and it impressed itself on my
mind. Yours respectfully,
(Signed,) A. W. Holcombe.
FARROW** CARD.
H. P. Farrow, the ground and lofty
tumbling aspirant, publishes a card in t4»e
New Era, in which he pronounces as “in
famous lies" certain charges made against
"him relative to Bullock.
It is quite easy for one whom no decent
man will believe and no honorable man
will recognize, to use these terms. We
re-agtert, and burn it in witii the white
heat of immaculate truth, ail that lias ap
peared in these columns as to his sayings,
and were it not that we scorn to call wit
nesses to strengthen our testimony in an
issue of veracity with Mr. Farrow, we
could very easily procure several affidavits
from gentlemen whom lie was once proud
to call his friends. —Albany News, 10f/t.
Judge Irwin.—From a private letter
from Judge Irwin to one or our citizens,
we make the following extract, for the
benefit of our Clubs in this part of the
State:
“The accoun’s I have received art; tlb>
most flatteriug from all parts of the State
except yours, from which I hear nothi»g
definite. Bullock can easily tie lieaten by
20,000 votes. 1 shall publish an address to
the people, recommending General Gor
don. 1 hope every friend of our good od
State will exert himself for him. Chero
kee will do her whole duty.”
[Chronicle <v Sentinel, 9 th.
MONDAY, APRIL 13, IS6B.
m 1.1.0i K AS A FINANCIER.
Southern Express Company stock
down to twenty-live cents on the dollar,
and the railroad of which he whi
elected President only a few mouths ago, at
a stand still—poorly managed, and worst
I equipped—these are some of the evi
dences of the financial ability of the ad
venturer that tiie people) of Georgia are
impudently asked to elect Governor. \\ hy,
the proposition is monstrous. It could
not have originated outside a Radical
brain. If these facts arc not sufficient to
prove Bullock’s total incapacity, as a busi
ness man, i»> th< people recollect what
it will <w>Ht fio put this View- Itadl|M
government in operation—Four Mil
lions ok Dollars! Wbat it will be
when the banditti have plundered, say
for one year, we havn’t the heart even to
think of. If you vote for Bullock you are
voting to put the filthy hands of
the neediest, greediest, most unscrupu
lous horde of loafers and beggars that ever
cheated the penitentiary or the work
house, in your pockets.
Otm CANDIDATE.
We cannot better fill the space allotted
to us tiiis morning than by copying and
commending to our readers tbe following
tribute to our Gordon frotji the Mont
gomery Adrertlse.r of Wednesday last, uti
iler the head of “General Gordon for Gov
ernor of Georgia.”
Says that paper :
We give tlie following extract from the
Atlantic Monthly for February, for the
benefit of thn«e at home and at the North
wiio cry down the honest choice of a sol
dier by our people as an evidence of "re
bellious spirit.”
“ Complaint is made that the Southern
people have recently elected military men
to most of their local State offices. We
do Ourselves a wrong in making this com
plaint. T found it almost everywhere
true in Georgia and the Carolinas that the
best citizens of to-day are the Confederate
soldiers of yesterday. Os course, in many
individual cases they are bitter and ma
lignant, but in general the good of the
Union, no less than the hope of the South,
lies in the bearing of the men who were
privates and officers in Lite armies of Lee
and Johnston. It may not be pleasant to
us to recognise this fact; t>ut lam con
fident that we shall make sure jrrogress to
wards securing domestic tranquility and
the general welfare, just in proportion as
we act upon it. 1t should be kept iu mind
that comparatively few of those who won
renown on the field were promoters of re
bellion or secession. I count it an omen
of good when L find that one who bore
himself gallantly as a soldier has received
preferment. We cannot afford to quarrel
on this ground ; for, though their courage
was for our wounding, their valor was the
valor of Americana ”
Tlie writer in tlie Atlantic Monthly is
evidently a Radical of the “straitest sect”
and yet he lias the sagacity' to perceive,
and a courage to announce an opinion
which while eminently just, is extremely
unpopular in portions of the North.
W commend this writer’s words partic
ularly to organs at home, which try to
frown down, with the cry of “rebel” eve
ry community, which has recognized this
truth.
Many so called “Unionists” in Georgia,
raise their hands in holy horror at the idea
of a Georgia soldier’s being elected Gover
nor '. them, it- is the “rebellion” reas
: serting itself. To some honest souls at the
North, it seems a “needless flying in the
face of public opinion.”
Gen. J no. B. Gordon tlie Conservative
Candidate for Governor of Georgia was
born in Upson 00. Ga. in 1832— graduated
with distinction at Athens, Ga., and at the
breaking out of the war, was passing jjf e
happily and peacefully with his accom
plished family, in Jackson co., Ala. Hia
career since then is familiar to our readers
hirst Major, then Col, of the 6th Ala he
reflected immortal glory on Alabama at
beven Pines and Malvern Hill. Next torn
shot by shot, at Sbarpsburg, he held ’with
Komai} heroism, tlie position assigned
him and left the JJpld streaming with
blood from live desperate wounds.—Made
Brig. Gen. on his recovery, he was assign
ed to the command of Luivtou’s Brigade
Marye’s Heights retaken from Sedgwick
was Ins next achievement.
Next We find him in the Valley in 1803.
At Gettysburg this born soldier broke
Barlow’s Division into fragments and was
about taking “ Cemetery’ Heights.” Ear
nest iu his advocacy of the movement, he
saw his troops recalled with grief. Had
“Cemetery Heights been taken, there
would have been no Gettysburg.” Next
we find him in the peaceful camps along
tlie Kapidan. Soldier and Christian, he
here strengthened in the hearts of his men
that almost idolatrous love which made
him able to hold them In the very jaws of
death almost without effort. In the Wil
derness, May stb, his dating charge saved
the day. Headlong, and yet cautious, he
dashed upon the foe. Next day his su
preme military genius told him when aud
where to strike, and late in the evening,
after entreaty and persistence, lie was al
lowed to make a movement which well
nigh ruined Grant’s right. Two brigadier
generals, over a thousand prisoners, aud
many slain, told his success.
When heaven aud earth seemed to be
awed by tiie struggle in tbe wierd wilder
ness of Spottsylvania, he rode calmly
amidst tbe storm of war, guided by the
unerring hand of fate. Hancock had
shattered the centre, and the army of
Northern Virginia and the fate of the
South hung upon a slender thread. In
the confusion and blackness of night Gor
"Won handled his division; with a soldierly
instinct and judgment lie struck back a
magnificent blow on those points which
his genius told him were weak. No won
der he was made major general upon the
field.
In all the conflicts of thecampaign, from
Richmond to Lynchburg and down the
\ alley, his star was still in tiie ascendant.
At Monocacy, with one division he shat
tered Wallace’s command, aud won im
mortal honors. In all the succeeding
struggles in the valley his name shone
bright midst darkness and disaster. On
the liHli of October, at Cedar Creek, for a
time lie was allowed full scope to his ge
nius, and a command entrusted him com
mensurate with his ability. Tlieslaugliter
aud utter rout of most of Sheridan’s army,
attest the brilliancy of liis plans and the
ability with wiiih lie oomnanded, and had
not his orders been countermanded, Cedar
Creek would have been a worthy anniver
sary of Yorktown. Never downcast, reso
lute, hopeful, resigned, reckless of bis own
life, careful of those of his soldiers, hand
some in face and form, gifted in graces,
and a sincere Christian, it is no wonder
that the army looked upon him as the
leader worthy of the mantle of Jackson.
Faithful and resolute, he fought with Lee
to the end,and the last record of the army
of Northern Virginia shows Gordon in
front —ready to die.
’ nd when the end came, iu an ail ires
delivered from the saddle, never equalled
In pathos and eloquence, lie impressed
upon his sorrow stricken veterans that
“the supreme lest of nobility is adver
sity.”
Modest aud retiring, since then lie has
endeavored to repair bis shattered for
tunes, and only comes forth at the call of
liis country. Pure, gifted, courageous, an
honor to any people, he is well fitted for
Governor, Devoted to principle, and yet
not grasping after lost aud shattered the
ories of right, he is “the right man in the
right place,” and as Governor of Georgia
will reflect credit on himself, and add
greatly to the i**ace and prosperity of his
Htate. We pity a Georgian who cries
down such a man because he was a Major
General in the Confederate army. We
had rather be tbe Radical writer who lias
the manhood to say, “I count it an omen
of good when I find one who has borne
himself gallantly as a soldier has received
preferment.”
.11 DUE IK WIN’S CAItD.
We print below a card to the voters of
Georgia, signed by Judge Irwin, and pub
lished in the Atlanta Intelligencer, of Sat
urday :
TO THE VOTERS OK (lEORUU.
The sudden withdrawal of my name as
a candidate for the office of Governor at
the approaching election, would seem to
require some explanation from me. As
many of you personally know, T was ur
gently solicited to become a candidate, by
leading citizens of different parts of tiie
Htate, irrespective of political differences
or former party alignments. Before an
nouncing my name, 1 carefully examined
the Reconstruction act, eonferied with in
! teliigeut members of the Boards of Regis
; Ration, and consulted the ablest counsel
accessible to me, as to my eligibility for
! tbe office; and, being satisfied that I was
I eligible, my name was placed lie tore the
people as a candidate.
I yielded to the urgent and repeated so
j Deflations to become a candidate, with the
i ho]re, and under the assurance, that such
a course on my part would probably bar
j monize aud unite the various elements on
j the issues now disturbing the public mind,
! and aid in establishing law, order, and
[good government, 1 felt a grateful pride
j in tin iact liiat the announcement of my
\ name m a candidate for Governor of Ueor
; gia, was responded to from every part of
; the Htate in a manner that gave tinmis
j Likable indication# of my success ; but
I having been officially informed that Gen.
.Vb ade did nut conceive me eligible for the
! office, ami that if I should be elected, he
i would L-vI • >•».«>iu Ueettne permit
| ting me to qualify. I did not feel willing to
embarrass the people of Georgia by con
tinuing longer in the field. Under these
circumstances 1 promptly withdrew from
the candidacy, in order to give you an op
portunity of uniting on someone whose
eligibility was unquestionable, i under
stand that the name of tiie Hon. JoilN B.
Gordon, of the county of Fulton, (whose
eligibility is said to be conceded by Gen.
Mead* has t een announced as a candi
date for Governor. I have known Geu.
Gordon for years; he is a gentleman ot
acknowledged ability, unquestionable pa
triotism, and irreproachable character,
eminently worthy of your confidence and
support. No matter whether he be for
or against tiie ratification of the Constitu
tion submitted to you, if he should be
elected, and the Constitution should he
ratified, he Mill take an oath to support it,
and no man who knows John B. Gordon
can doubt for one moment that he would
administer the government according to
the Constitution and laws, and for the real
welfare and permanent good of the entire
people, irrespective of partyism or color.
Sincerely thankimr the people of Geor
gia for their expressions of confidence, and
pledges of support, whilst I was a can
didate, and earnestly hoping that our
troubles may soon terminate in the estab
lishment of peace, order, and sound con
stitutional government,
I am your obedient
and humble servant,
David 1b win.
April 6th, 1868.
'The Question Settled.
We beg to call public attention to the
subjoined card from Col. It. A. Alston, of
Atlanta, taken from the Intelligencer, of
Saturday. Taken in connection with the
article published Saturday morning in this
paper, from the Albany News, we submit
that it settles the reai question at issue,
viz: Whether or not H. R. Farrow used
the language denunciatory of Bullock with
which he has been charged :
I have just read 11. P. Farrow’s reply to
Mr. Hill’s letter, in which Farrow denies
that he ever wrote words attributed to him
by Mr. Hill. I have heard from undoubt
ed authority that Farrow did write said
letter to Carey W. Stiles, and I first saw it
published iu the Albany News. Whether
Farrow ever wrote such language or not,
one thing I will state, that he spoke as
much or more to me, and in the presence
of one other. I called at his office, and
found him engaged in writing a commu
nication to the Era, denying that tie had
made a speech as charged by the editor of
that paper. Without formal introduction
of the subject, he said to me in the follow
ing language, which is as near verbatim as
T can recollect: “ That he regarded the
nomination and election of Bullock and his
carpel-hag crew of adventurers as one of
the most terrible calamities that could befall
the people of Georgia ; that it was not onlg
a dreadful calamity, but would result in the
absolute annihilation of every interest in the
Stale ; that they would in four years plun
der and bankrupt the Stale, and then fly
away to more congenial climes, leading no
thing worth stealing behind; that lie in
tended to expose their corruption on every
stump in the State when he could be heard,
and if Joe Brown or Gaskill should at
tempt a reply he would not permit them
to be heard until they strapped a big car
pet bag on their backs.”
R. A. Alston.
Shocking Accident.—Yesterday even
ing, while Mr. B. G. Tilden and Mr. Geo.
Gray were riding in a buggy on the road
near Thunderbolt, the horse took fright,
and running away, threw Mi’. Tilden and
Mr. Gray out of the buggy. The latter es
caped with a few bruises, but tlie head and
shoulders of the former were caught be
tween tlie spokes of the* wheel, and the
horse continuing to run, his head struck
against the body of the vehicle at each re
volution of tlie wheel, until the shafts of
the buggy were broken, which disengaged
the horse. Mr. Tilden’s head was shock
ingly battered,and be was insensible when
picked up. He was brought to the city by
Mr. M. M. Belisario, and taken to his res
idence, and I)r Habersham called in. At
last accounts, Mr T. was in a hopeless
condition. — Sav. News, 9th.
Forney has a column of lamentations
over the Christian patriot Ashburn, who
was killed in a negro bagnio, wherein he
wg.s a boarder.— Ex.
SKLF-t'ONULi*! !N i NCi AM) 8KI,1'»1*ITN“
The prosecutors of tho late war upon the
Southern States, —that giant crime against
American liberty ami constitutional gov
ernment,—are punishing each other. The
monstrous revolution is at once devouring
its own leaders, and doing unconscious
honor to its late victims.
The President of tiie late Southern Con
federacy was hunted after the close of the
war with uncommon ferocity. Atrocious
calumnies, uineitaeled to this day, were
officially published against him, and the
public money was lavished to effect l.is
capture. Not yet three years have passed,
and Mr. Davis journeys at will, greeted by
tiie sympathy of the people, ft is the
President of the victors that is now loaded
down with maledictions, and pursued witii
all the enginery of unscrupulous hate, and
hy his associates in the late proceedings!
In nearly three years, no law was found
which could he trusted to condemn the
Souiluru President: But in three days’
time, the House of Representatives ic
solved that they had sufficient both of law
and of fact to take ofl'the head of their
own ! The severities visited on Mr. Davis
were hy the Federal Executive; hut Mr.
Johnson is to be the first to fall! Mr.
Davis is thrust out of the prisoner’s box
to make room for the President that cap
tured him. llis trial, which had been set
for this month, is indefinitely superseded
and postponed ; for lo! the judge who was
to arraign him, is wanted to try Mr. John
son, ami is now presiding over tiie Court
which has foredoomed him, and which
chafes even under such delay in the sen
tence as is required by the most niggardly
ceremonial!
The missionaries of the revolution, that
came down to enlighten the negroes, ami
sung like so many exultant .Deborahs, in
all the Feednien’s Sunday Schools, that
they would “hang Jeff' Davison a sour
apple tree,’’ are imw teaching tiie rabble
to cry out for another victim, —not Davis,
but Johnson!
The man who taxed a diabolical inge
nuity to add every possible bitterness to
Mr. Davis’s imprisonment, is now himself,
by the power of circumstances, a prisoner
in tiie room from which he issued his bar
barous commands. Stanton pas-es the
door of tiie office of Secretary of War only
under guard, and is subjected to a watch
as torturing and unwinking, as was fast
ened by disorders on Mr. Davis and For
tress Monroe.
Look, too, at General Grant, the leader
of tiie army of invasion. The assiduity
witii which heisuowperformingtheorders
of Radicalism, is hut the attestation, be
cause it is tiie consequence, of the terrible
fall wtiich lias lately overtaken him.—
Held by common fame as a dishonored
man, hawked at by even the veriest yar
rows among tiie critics, he is compelled to
pay for such shelter as tiie Radicals can
give him, by doing their meanest w ork with
slavish obsequiousness. Hee how, under
their orders, lie is hounding one of the
bravest of his late lieutenants, Gen. Han
cock! While such is the attitude of tiie
captain who led the hostilities against the
Southern people and their homes, he, who
led the defence, is every where honored
and respected. Only the other day, (he
papers told us of a public meeting in New
York city, called to raise funds for tiie
endowment of General Dee's College.—
Greeley and Fenton, with many others,
of all parties, gave their cordial sanction.
Gerrit Hinitfi sent $-00 along with his
good word. Beecher, tiie prophet of abo
litionism and of the abolition war, made
the principal speech, and “pleaded for
Washington College became General l.t>
in itx President.” That was indeed the
key to the whole movement. It was for
General Lee’- sake. It was a trihuteof re
spect and sympathy for him. Beecher
even said, that in Gen. Lee’s circumstan
ces and surroundings, he tvQvbl bice done
ax Lee did, —which D a complete moral
jurtifiention and encot/iium. Thus is Lee
praised and honored, even among those
who inspired the war which tie did most
to withstand. His name shines out bright
and refulgent, while Grant, who received
his sword, lias gone into melancholy
eclipse! Already is it abundantly de
monstrated that
“ D-e, w.th Uie pula of tielent in kiln hear ,
\V!tl iK-iu- in Mstory the nobler part.
Anti fill the loftier place !”
How inscrutable are tiie ways of Provi
dence ! How swiftly, and ere we are
aware, are tiie verdict* of men reversed,
and the truth and the right vindicated
even by the testimony of their violators!
And in what uiurveO.ua ways me rii'..t
tvroaga rebuked by Him who has .-aid,
“ Vengeance is Mine." The late joint
assailants of the .South are throttling
each other with a fury which seems re
tributive. Audit is the nature of such
feuds to widen and to deepen, liiow*
beget blows; and victors in tLe begin
ning, become in their torn, victims ere
the collisions are ended. Tho Radicals
may destroy the uiau lirey made Presi
dent somebody will destroy them;
and the process will continue until the
retrlbutious which follow wrong are fully
satisfied. God, as in the manifestation
to His desponding prophet, was not in
tiie rushing lornado, and tiie rocking
earthquake and tiie consuming lire, of the
war which lately swept our land ; hut He
is in the result- which, like a Hiil small
voice, are unawares rebuking tike wrong
of tiiat era of violence, vindicating the
trod Ik ami the right then crushed to earth,
and tiie personal integrity which clamor
has attempted to defame.—/t Hchmcmd En
quirer.
THt < <>\ \ i:« nt i r 11.1:1110 >s.
OgIMONS or THE PKESS.
from the New York World, April 7tli.
Who any longer doubts the setting of
the tide? Bet him look to Connecticut!
When one short month ago the wave first
broke in angry thunder on the granite
ledges of AcW Hampshire, the Radical
office holders, and contractors, and irn
peachers affected to mistake its voice of
doom fyr a Casual surge of the political
sea. Tlii- in their public prints tiiey did.
But in the private haunts of those who
shape their party ends another and a very
different spirit ruled. There were dismay,
anxiety and a frantic desperation prompt
ing to any measures by which the rising
tide might haply he stayed, ere the aveng
ing billows should sweep over and sweep
away the fabric of moral despotism and
political corruption called Government of
the Union by the Rump Congress.
By universal consent it was felt that the
elections of April in Connecticut would
be tiie crucial test of the power of this des
potism and this corruption to check the
real reaction of the American people to
American principles. On those electious
all the resources of the most opulent party
this country has ever seen were lavished.
Money was poured into Connecticut from
all the great centres of Radical power. The
High Court of Impeachment sat,, in judg
ment upon every office-holder iu the sturdy
little Slate, bidding him tremble for his
head, for the eye of Wade, the coming
man, was upon him. And as if all this
were not enough, the “ General of the Ar
mies,” ns the Tribune, with an insolent
parade of military power, pompously de
scribes him, was leashed and then let loose
upon the field to threaten with the terrors
of the sword, and to palsy with the pres
tige of the groat name won for him by the
sacrifice of thousands of heroic lives. All
that Radicalism could do—more than all
that Americans bred iu the traditions of
American freedom had ever dreamed an
American party would dare to attempt—
was done And now the answer comes.
The wave that rose on New Hampshire
sweeps in victory over Connecticut. The
voice of the people that daunted these
bloated fyrantsofan hour in March damns
them iu April. The cohorts that came
down to the battle gleaming in purple and
gold, in the purple of place and the gold
of corruption, where are they to-day ?
“ The might of the Gentile, nnsmote by the sword,
Hath melted, like snow, in the glance of the Lor J J”
To Connecticut, which speaks to-day,
the West will ansvver with Wisconsin to
morrow. The “real reaction” lias set in,
ami in its triumphant and avenging pro
gress neither banded wealth nor the
glamour of great names prostituted to
party ends, nor any living tiling, shall
avail to stay the eomingof the peopleonce
more to enjoy their own.
From the New York Tribune, April 7.
The Republicans of Connecticut have
fought gallantly and done nobly. They
have not carried everything at this trial,
amt they bad good reason to apprehend
that they would not. With Grant at their
head next November, their triumph can
not bo doubtful. Naturalization must
now he done up for at least two years
ahead, and nothing can pi event a steady
increase of Republican strength hence
forward to the Presidential election. Or
ganize at once, friends, for the November
struggle.
From the New York. Herald, April 7,
Contrary to the confident expectations
of the Radicals, the election held in Con
necticut yesterday resulted iu a decisive
victory for the Conservative party. The
vote was evidently the largest ever cast in
the Htate, and, considering the apathy of
the Democrat* during the campaign, the
result is most gratifying to all true lovers
of constitutional liberty. By the election
held yesterday Connecticut has declared
herself unalterably opposed to the- revolu
tionary measures of Congress; and as even
the popular name of Gen. Grant failed to
aid tiie Radicals,we may regard the result,
as the “beginning of the end" of Radical j
misgovermnent and despotism.
Prom the New York Sun.
On the whole, it is certain that the Dem
ocrats have not met with the disaster
which the Republicans so confidently pre
dicted for them. 'They have preserved
their control oyer the executive govern
ment of the State. Their prestige remains
unbroken* They come out of a desperately
contested election conquerors and not con
quered. Had Uie result been otherwise,
their case would have been hopeless in
deed. As it is, they can stil! reckon Con
necticut as surely theirs in November; for
it is not likely, that after such a defeat as
they have met with now, the Republicans
will then seriously contest it.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, ISOS.
HK.VpgCAKTKUS Till!!!) MII.ITAIiY IfisTBICT, i
(Department of Georgia, I’lnriite >V Alabama.) r
AUiwta, Ga., April to, ISOS. )
General Orders, No. 57.
1. The numerous resignation* of Sheriffs
of counties in the State of Georgia that
have recently been tendered at these Head
quarters, coming on the eve of an import
ant election, and when there is not suf
ficient time to make uew appointments,
makes it proper and necessary for tiie
Commanding General to give notice that
such resignations will not tic accepted, and
that Sheriffs Who have been so long hold
ing their offices at the sufferance of tiie
Commanding General, will not be per
mitted to resign until after said election is
over ; and they are hereby required to con
tinue in tiie faithful performance of their
oftlckol thllGn »*.lll ~l(*.«-l C. ..... |I«- “—** * - ■
hy orders from these Headquarter*. Any
violation of this order will tie punished in
the manner prescribed in General Order*
No. 42. for the punishment of civil officers
for disobedience of orders.
2. 1 uasmueh as a numerous class of the
electors of this btate are from necessity, at
present, dependent upon another class for
employment hy which they may earn
daily bread for themselves and their farni
liesj and at, numerous eompiaiuts have
been made at these Headquarters, that
such laborers will be intimidated from
voting at tiie approaching election by fear
of the loss of employment, employers are
hereby forbidden any attempts to control
the action or will of their laborers as to
voting, by threats of discharge frora em
ployment dr by other oppressive means;
and any person who shall by such means
prevent a laborer from voting as he pleases
or shall discharge him from employment
on account of his having exercised his
privileges a* a voter, will, on conviction
of sueh offence before a military commis
sion, be punished hy fine or imprisonment,
or both.
8. It is made the duty, as it is certainly
tiie desire, of the Commanding General,
to secure ail the duly registered voters in
the State of Georgia an opportunity to vote
at the approaching election “freely and
without restraint, fear, or the influence of
| fraud,” and be tali* upon ail good citizens
I to co-operate with him in his efforts to
have the eiection conducted fairly as re
| quired by' Jaw.
By order of Major Genera! Meade,
R. C. Dkch,
Assistant Adjutant General.
We find the above order in the Atlanta
[ paper* of Bunday. The necessities of the
| Radical party must be very great, and
| General Meade a weaker man than we
i had supposed, to explain the second
; paragraph of this erder. It is simply
: disgraceful, in view of the fact that
■ right tinder Gen. Meade’s nose, an em
ployee of the Registration Bureau has been
I “discharged from employment" because
lie opposed the election of Bullock, tiie
i Radical candidate for Governor, and no
; notice taken of it by General Meade or an y
; of his subordinates. This is a step further
towards pure despotism th in any military
commander has, to our knowledge, yet
I ventured upon. The freemen of Georgia
are forbidden to exercise tiie right of choice
as to who shall or shall not receive their
I money, and eat their bread and meat !
r Buitock shall dictate who shall be regis
! traks, putting every man to tiie -word who
I does not agree to help saddle him and his
banditti upon the people of Georgia, but
i the planter, the mechanic, or the merchant
who dares to say to those whom they are
j supporting, “we have no further employ -
j meni to give you," is to be punished with
; tine and imprisonment. We have no ad
■ vice to offer our friends on this subject.
If we did not think they knew and that
j they will do their whole duty to them
selves and their country in tiie premises,
we would despair of teaching them at this
iate day’.
UKI.KASKD ON BAIL.
The nine white men and three negroes
who have been under arrest for some days
S in Columbus, charged with tiie murder of
; Asliburn, were released, Friday, on bail of
$2,500 each, to apfiear when called for by
tiie military authorities. Tn three hours
after the bond was made out and left at
tHe banking house of May & Go., for the
signatures of the securities; there were iij>-
wards of seven hundred names signed to
it. Among the number who desired to
sign their names, were a number of colored
men. When the prisoners came out of
tiie court-house a large crowd, among
whom were many colored men, cheered
them witii great enthusiasm.
Tho following is a copy of the bond, em
bracing tiie names of the parties who have
been under arrest:
GKOKOi A —-M USCOGEE COUNTY.—LIIoW
all men by these presents, that we, whose
names are hereunder signed, are held and
bound unto General George G. Meade, or
his successor in office, in tiie penal sum of
fifty thousand dollars, for the payment
whereof well and truly to bo made to the
said General George G. Meade, or his suc
cessor in oSice, we hereby bind ourselves,
our heirs, executors and administrators
firmly by these presents.
Witness our hands and seals,'this 10th
day of April, 180$.
The condition of the above obligation is
such: That whereas, General George G.
Meade has arrested and 00 nfined Wm. R.
Bedell, Christopher C. Bedell, James W.
Barber, Alva C. Roper, William B. Cash,
W in. D. Chipley, Rob’t A. Ennis, Elisha
J. Kirkscey, Tiros. W. Grimes, Wade 11.
Stephens, Johu Weils (colored), John
Htapler (colored), and James McHenry
(colored), who have been this day released
by order of General George G. Meade, on
condition that they would each give secu
rity, in the sum of twenty five hundred
dollars, that they would each report and
appear before the military authorities cf
the Luited States, at such time and place
as tiie commanding officer of the Third
Military District may direct. Now, then,
if any of the said parties so released shall’
fail to appear and report to the military
authorities of the United States at sucii
time and place as the commanding officer
of the Third Military District may direct,
and the parties to this bond shall pay the
sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for
each and every one of said persons so re
-1 eased who may fail to appear and report,
as aforesaid, then this bond to be nidi and
void, else, to remain in full force and
virtue.
BlXtOCKim.
The Atlanta Opinion thus describes
them :
“When the war was threatened, these
dirty dogs were blatant, loud-mouthed
disuniouists, preaching death and de
struction to all the inhabitants of Yankee
dom ; were ready to rush the South into
the maelstrom of secession, and rushed
forward gladly to take an oatli to support
the Confederate Government, hut only
that they might plunder it, for none of
this elu--* fought for it.
“And mark their course since tiie close
of tiie war: Amid gloom and sorrow tiie
star of the South went down, ami the
glory these men had predicted for the
Southern people passed away. No sooner
had the iiag of a victorious enemy been set
up as the national standard than these spit
tle-licking, cauker-souled spaniels rushed
to its bearers, and said, iu effect : ‘Swear
me; T can take any oath; perjury will
not hurt my conscience; I want plunder,
and I will degrade or ruin the people who
have injured me if I can only get position
and plunder.’ And now, in many’ in
stances, these perjured, thieving, seif
debased adventurers are out for tiie minor
civil offices of the South. This is the re
ward of gratitude. God save tiie honest
people of the country from these vermin
of a disordered body-politic!"
.vr.INO Mtt.H!
We beg our friends not to tie deterred
from doing nil that honorable men dare
do, in the coming struggle, to save their
State and tijemsclves from the shame and
ruin of Bullock’s election. It does seem
that every agency known to force and
fraud is to lie brought into play against
us, but we must only work tiie harder,
i ace these devils at every turr*—those car
pet sack and renegade vermin, who are
swarming to riot in the decay and death
of our noble old State. When they bully,
bully back; when they lie, prove it on
them, and fmee it down their brazen
throats; when they wheedle and ca
jole, expose their hypocrisy; when they
threaten, dare them to their worst. Gen
eral Meade has issued his orders, and each
man can read ami judge for himself. Vt e
say to all, don’t let Radical blackguards,
pimps and spies construe those orders for
you. Interpret them for yourselves, and
work like men bailing water from a sink
ing boat in the middle of the ocean, to
poll every vote tiiat can lie raked and
scraped, anybew, aud anywhere. We be
lieve that an earnest effort will elect Gor
don hy a rousing majority. Let that effort
be matte. Let rmthrui; TESTtwr, ttrmeti
action answer tiie spur of noble, patriotic
resolve.
gom: itvmcAf. uAsruiTY.
We cal! Gen. Meade’s attention to the
conduct of Use Board of Registration,with
headquarters at Covington, and acting for
tiie counties of Newton, Walton and
Clark.
They have stricken from tiie lists be
tween 800 and 900 names—ali white*, of
course,and bound to vote against Bullock.
John Harris, of Newton county, a member
of the sword and bayonet Convention,amt
the Radical candidate for Senator from
that District, its credited with this rascal
ity, As the district is D-moeratie hy
about that majority, the motive of this
high-handed outrage can readily he di
vined. We learn that the matter wa- to
have been brought to Gen. Meade’s notice
yesterday morning.
We warn our friends, every sphere, to be
on the lookout for similar characteristic
attempts to swindle them on the part of
“Bharp and Quick" Hulbertand his tools.
When you catch these creatures at such
tricks charge them with it, and demand
an explanation. If you fall togeteatis-
Getion, report the facts «t Atlanta. T.et
C4en. Meade hear —whether he heeds or
not—how his promises of “a fair election"
are being put in process of fulfilment.
A ( iKPEI-BAtCta.
Fitch, tiie United States District Attor
ney, aud carpet-bagger, will be beaten for
Congress by an overwhelming vote. The
Government has been put to great ex
pense, trouble and delay, because of hi*
neglect in tiie United States District Court.
The above, it is hardly necessary to say,
comes from tiie negro-Radlcal organ at
Atlanta. We depart from our rnie of not
enticing anything that appears in its col
to simply remind those who may
poshly tie deceived in the matter by such
a s V merit, that there was no complaint,
of expense, or “delay” urged by the bum
mer press of the Btale, when John F.rs
kine put off tiie ea*e of tiie perjurer
; Blodgett, in spite of the vehement opposi
| tjon of Col. Fitch.
'+ The privilege of voting, a« guarnteed to
I them it. e. negroes) by the United Mates
Government, must lie exercised without
hindrance from any source whatever.
The foregoing is an extract from a ukase
issued by “ .-harp and Quick," just being
published. This unscrupulous ad venturer,
who has shown such aptness as a tool of
the meanest despotism that ever disgraced
humanity, while proclaiming that negroes
must “vote” “without hindrance," de
clares, by his dismissal of Cooledge and
Gaskili from Uie Registration Bureau for
opposing Bullock's election, tiiat u-hite
men shall not. And his master. Bullock,
approves —w believe inspired—this piu
seriptiou. The freemen of Georgia will
show Halbert and iris master a l rick or
two about, voting next week.
Nominations in Sumtek County.—
| Captain John A. Cobb and Geo. R. Har
j per, Esq., have been nominated for tiie
! lower house of the General Assemby from
this county. Both are dcsrvedlv popular,
| and if ejected, of which there is a very
| good prospect, will make excellent Repre
sentatives.
ANOTHEU inpoilTAN C OBUL'k.
II Ki DSC ART KB- TaißO SIIUTABI - DISTRICT.)
UrrAHTMKAT OF ORORUU, I L'Ji'.lDA AS ALVUIMi,
Arlanta, Oa-. April 11. l v, .v )
General Orders, No. SS.
I. The uncertainty which seems to exist
in regard to holding municipal elections
! on the t,i)th instant, and the frequent ip
! quiries addressed to these Headquarters,
j renders it necessary for tiie Commanding
: General to announce that said elections
; are not authorized by any orders from these
Headquarters. Managers of eltctions are
i hereby prohibited from receiving any
| T<ltes . for any offices except such .State and
j oounty offices as are provided for in the
I Constitution to be submitted for ratifica
tion—the voting for which officers is au
thorized by General Orders Nos. 50 and
52.
11. Complaints having been made to
these Headquarters, by planters aud others
that improper means are being twd u,
compel laborers to leave their work to at
tend political meetings, and threats beiug
made that, in case of refusal, penalties
will he attached to said refusal: the Major
General Commanding an Bounces that all
such attempts to control the movements
of laborers and interfere with the l ights of
employers, are strictly forbidden, and will
be considered, and on conviction will be
punished, the same as any attempts to dis
suade and prevent voters from going to the
polls, as referred to in paragraph 11 Gen
eral Orders No. 57.
: lll.—The Major General Com man ding
1 alsp makes known that, whilst he ■o > -
jkll o w ledges and w jll reqpjp eto be respected
j tlie f'kkt ol laborers to peaceably assemble
| at night to discuss political questions, vet
| lie discountenances aud forbids thejissem
hliug of armed bodies; and requires that
ail such assemblages shall notify either
, the military or civil authorities of tl e-e
proposed meetings, and said military and
civil authorities are enjoined to see that
the right of electors to peaceably assemble
for legitimate purposes is pot disturbed.
Iv. I lie wearing or carrying df amis,,
either concealed or otherwise, by persons
not connected with tire military service of
the government, or such civil officers
whose duty under the laws and orders it
is to preserve the public peace, at, or in
the vicinity of the polling places, ou the
days set apart for hojdipg the election in
the State of Georgia, is positively foihid
den. Civil aud military officers will see
that this order, as well us all others relat
ing to tiie preservation of the peace and
quiet of the counties in which they are
acting, is strictly observed.
V.—The com qiandiug officers of sub- Dis
tricts of Georgia and Florida, will take
prompt measures to give publicity to this
order through the Superintendents of Re
gistration ami the officers r.f the Frred
meu’s Bureau, and will enjoin on (lie lat
ter to instruct and ail vise the Freed men
in their l ights and duties.
By order of Major General Meade
R C. DRCM.
Assistant Adjutant General.
BaLLOO*C,** K Hr UN. (EH, VB. Gouitox,
11IE GEoKjHAN.-“One from among thy
brethren shalt thou set a King over time
thou mayest NOT SET A ST JIANG EE
O VER THEE, which is not thy brother.’ ’
Dent, 17c, 55v, — North Ga, Citizen,