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Ity .1. W. Burke Ac Cos.
Georgia Journal & Messenger.
J. W. HI KKE A; CO.* Proprietor*.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1868.
1.1 IE OK DEATH ?
Shall the Commonwealth live or die?
Freemen of Georgia, are you ready for the
question? In less than a week, now, you
will be called upon to answer it at the
I Kills. We have tried to do our whole duty
in arousing you to the full sense of your
vital interest in this grave crisis. We have
sliowed you the awful consequences that
are trembling in the balance of your de
cision—how a vote for Bullock, the adven
turer, and leader of the bandit raid upon
the offices of your Htate, means a vote
for ruin irreparable, and shame that de
fies illustration—how it will saddle upon
your Htate, and your already heavily
laden shoulders a burden that will crush
you to the earth, and how, finally, it will
„tain your honor, and emasculate your
manhood. W« have held up to your gaze
the character and purposes of the traitors
who are plotting this foul conspiracy
against your liberties and your pockets
how, having been spewed out of their na
tive dens, they have trooped hither to plot
with knaves, and sponge upon dupes for
that living they hail neither the will nor
the capacity to earn at home. All these
things have been faithfully and constant
ly kept before you. If you are blind now,
yours the fault, not ours.
Now, are you ready for the question ?
We beg you to be even more fully.aroused,
than we hope and believe you are. We
have an enemy to deal witli who will stick
at nothing—who Is backed by the bayonet
and the purse of the Radical party of the
North. They have possession of the reg
istry lists, and all the machinery that will
control the election. They are served by
tools, and pimps, and spies that will do
anything, and swear to anything. The
h ive resorted to tricks, ami devices, and
lies such as were never before known
to any party in theHtato. When ilattery,
and cozening, and wheedling would not
serve, they have resorted to threats, and,
as if not satisfied with the well-earned in
famy of playing upon and arousing the
basest passions of man’s nature to seize
the knife of the assassin and the torch of
the incendiary, nnd to wrap the laud in
the blood and flame of a war of races,
have held up the lash and the gallows as u
penalty for disobedience of their orders.
I hit why recount these tilings? Why re
capitulate these sickening details? You
are obliged to lie fully informed of them
Now, men and brethren, fall to your
work with a will, and let us save our good
..id State, if possible, from this awful
doom, You can do it if you will. The
skies are bright, and hrighteniug every
day. The manhood of the people is being
quickened and informed by the power of
a heroic resolve. Their hearts beat high,
and their nerves are gallantly strung. Ret
the motto be: Haye Georgia! Gordon
1 nr> Vmtokvl Ret the double-quick
slide into a run, and the run into a resist-*
less onset, me OTHU.W ...
Tytanny must give way, and Georgia will
lie saved, and the Temple of our Riberties
rescued from pollution.
sf<> r mm;
Spot tho white man whom you hear
talking about getting back into the Union,
and restoring prosperity to Georgia by the
success of Bullock and his banditti. lie
is either knave or fool. He lias cheated
either the asylum or the penitentiary, and
lias no business to be ut large. He is dan
gerous. Bullock’s election means, at home,
Four Mn.r.ioNS of Dollars to he wrung
by non-tax-paying legislators from the
ini|H)verished property owners of Georgia,
to support a hungry mob of loafers, beg
gars, and miscellaneous vagabonds from
the Rord knows where. It means Ten
nessee reproduced in Georgia, and the
respectability, wisdom and virtue of the
State under tho foul yoke of the ignorant,
the vicious and the worthless. It means
rogues in oillce, and honest meu paying to
support them in their corruption and
profligacy. It means a saturnalia of fraud,
peculation, and downright robbery. It
means disgrace and shame, and finally
hopeless bankruptcy, both moral and
financial. This is wiialit means at home.
Vt Washington city it means seven pliaut
tools of Stevens and the Beast; spaniels
cringing to the Radical lash, and only too
happy, in obedience to its threat, to vote
and act still further to rob, and ruin, and
degradetiie decent people of Georgia. It
means New England ideas, New England
morals, and New Euglaud malignity as
mmiug to represent Georgia, and, in the
name of her sovereignty, voting to destroy
her liberties, and ruin her people. There
lore we say, when you hear a man advo
cating Bullock’s election on any such
grounds, spot him. He is your enemy.
(UPEACHJIEXT,
We give, from day to day, and without
comment, all the information that reaches
ns, i" • mail and telegraph, concerning the
farce now going on at Washington City,
and dignified by the nameof the impeach
ment trial. We say farce, because we
have never believed it was the intention
: the prosecution to give the President a
’air trial, or that his doom was not sealed
bom the moment the articles were re
ported to the House. We have ueithei
time nor inclination for speculation upon
the result, or animadversion upon the act,
itself. The fate of Georgia is of much
more consequence, as we conceive it, than
the conviction or acquittal of Mr. John
son, and we hold it our bouuden duty to
let everything else go by the run, rather
than tail to do one act, or say one word
taut maj, by auy possibility, save our
• • > me from ruin. We have no eyes, and
' , we almost said no hopes or
nations—beyotnl the geographical lim
its of Georgia just now. We iuteud, first,
0 ; :Ul ‘ Georgia, if possible, and then, if
‘.i assistance is invoked, help save the
Nation.
° ur '•eaders will, therefore, we trust,
. ‘ ' rstiU, d our reticence on National af
i t' in general and impeachment in par
"tu ar. our mission, just now, is to de
>■•l t u Bullock banditti in their raid upon
‘ *- lockets of the people and the life,
1 ‘bid dignity of the Commonwealth.
1 1 ear'i'n!■ '», • 1 A gentleman who
l«art« » 1 * er s speech at Newuan, re-
Bu11 i „ | U! tliat gentleman (who was with
Bulli>,.l H ' e C° nvenlion ) charged that
lose SU ' l * ,e Express Company would
Un l<*sThe > ite. l i ,U f ,U,re ’ 1 tlu>Us “ ml doUare
IN Washington. —Passengers
- arrived here last night, report a snow
t<J Unt!“ the towu of Washington, Wilkes
u i. on Tuesday afternoon.
WATCH THEM !
We beg our friends, everywhere, as they
cherish a hope of saving their Htate and
themselves next week from threatened
ruin, to be on the look-out for frauds in
the registration bureau. What was done
iu the Newton, Walton and Clark conn ty
district, and which we called attention to
yesterday, may be going on all over the
Htate. Hulbert, doubtless, has sent orders
to every registrar in Georgia to have the
lists so purged as to make a Radical suc
cess almost certain. Retour friends keep
a sharp look-out, aud they can find out
and catch his agents at it—if not in one
way, then io another. It must be found
out, and explanations demanded. Wher
ever it is pretty well ascertained that such
frauds have been committed, let a deputa
tion go at once to Atlanta and demand
justice of Gen. Meade. He has promised
a fair election. Ret us have it, or put him
in the attitude of falsifying his pledge.
Above all tilings don’t allow yourselves to
be intimidated or deterred from doing your
whole duty in these premises. It is your
right. We believe Gen. Meade will see
justice done iu this matter. At any rate
let not the failure to secure it rest upon
your shoulders.
I*. B.— Since writing the above, we have
been furnished with a copy of the follow
ing order, bearing upon this point:
H'ikj’ks Third Military District, )
(Dep’t Georgia, Florida, and Alalmma,) v
Atlanta, Ga., April 13, lHtiK. j
General Orders, No. 59.
Wher can, It has been reported to the
Commanding General, from several parts
of the Htate of Georgia, that very many
names have been stricken from the list of
registered voters, without auy cause being
assigned for said striking off, or an oppor
tunity given to voters heretofore registered
to meet the objections received in their
cases; and whereas.it is the determina
tion of the Commanding General that all
candidates iu the approaching election
shall have every opportunity to show,
from official data, whether said registra
tion and election has been honestly aud
fairly conducted, and in accordance witli
law ; it is hereby ordered,
That all managers of e'ections shall re
ceive tiie votes of all such persons as shall
have been stricken from the registered
list during the last five days’ revision, not
counting said votes, but keeping them
separate, witli the names of tho pejsous
presenting them written on the back;
and said votes shall be sent in a separate
envelope, with the returns made of the
election, to he compared with the reasons
lequired by law to be sent to these Head
quarters, whenever auy Board of Regis
tration shall deem it proper to strike
names from tHe registration lists.
By order of Major General Meade.
R. C. Drum,
Assistant Adjutant General.
For the Journal & Messenger,
A WARNING TO LABORERS.
Gen. Meade’s Order, No. 57, wa3 in
tended to keep Expressman Bullock and
“Sand Q ” Hulbert from “discharging
from employment a laborer, on account of
his having voted as ho pleases,”—as in the
eases of Ciaskell and Cooledge. Capital!
But our impartial military ruler has not
covered all theground. An order is needed
now which shall compel these Radicals,
(who are proscribing employees for think
ing for themselves,) to give employment
—when hiring, after the election—to the
many laborers who are going to vote tiie
Democratic ticket. Unless such order is
issued, it may happen that we shall find,
layers, nnd carpenters, and blacksmiths,
and gardeners, and their wives and chil
,jn,n_wa iters and drivers, and cooks and
washers—standing idle, because no Radi
cal will ever again Hire them; because
Bullock’s proscriptive creed forbids it.
I invite tiie attention of the true Demo
cracy to this probability, aud beg that
they look after these friends of Georgia
aud her true sons, aud give employment
to them, when they have done their duty
to their State. If the Radicals will persist
in seeking out aud employing only those
who have voted with them, of course the
others (I mean after the election) must
confine tlieir favors to their own friends,
or they will suffer want.
Jack Straw.
■ lon. 11. 11. Hill and Col. Cares W. Styles
Answer 11. P. Farrow’* #IOOU Card.
Albany, Ga , April 11th, 1868.
Editors Atlanta Intelligencer:
I hand you herewith a letter addressed
to me by Col. Carey W. Styles, which ex
plains itself.
I did not see the communication of H.
p. Farrow until my attention was call
ed to it by Colonel Styles. I cau but regret
that auy mail should be so badly exposed
as these facts expose H. P. Farrow. I
scarcely know the man, but do know a
brother of his, and he is an excellent gen
tleman and a white man !
I supposed every mail knew my authority
for the quotation in my letter to Colonel
Styles, and none knew my authority bet
ter than Farrow. How base that he should
affect not to know the authority, and call
on me for it.
Was the testimony I quoted from Far
row correct? Even Farrow does not deny
it, but only denies that he wrote it down
and signed his signature! Nobody said he
did sign it. You will perceive that Col.
Styles says that the language I quoted
“was reduced to writing by me, (Styles,)
fresh from the Ups of the speaker .” Nearly
all testimony in criminal cases is taken
down by clerks, or others, from the lips of
the witness. Is it not the wituess’ evi
dence? “What one does by another, he
does by himself,’’ is such a familiar law
maxim that even Farrow ought to know
it. But read the letter which Farrow did
write and did sign, (at least his name is to
it.) What a shame that such a man should
be now a public adviser of the poor deluded
black race!
I shall not receive the reward of SI,OOO.
Farrow having joined those “ whose only
object is to plunder,” as he himself testi
ties, this reward may be a part of the plun
der; and it is a penal offence, by the laws
of Georgia, to receive stolen mouey, espe
cially from a negro or his equal.
Os course it is uot necessary for me to
notice anything else this man has said.
He and his gang, “ whose only object is to
plunder,” can not defame. When they in
timate that I countenance or approve vio
lence, even the negroes will laugh at them.
Will the papers which published the ad
vertisement of the reward, publish Col.
Styles’ letter, and at least this much of
mine? No man iu Georgia has a better
character than Col. Styles.
Now, Mr. Editor, a word on another
subject’. lam delighted with the prospect
in this portion of the State. Thousands
of negroes will vote for Gordon, and many
against the Constitution. Relief is de
spised as a cheat down here. Gov. Brown’s
eifort to mislead the whites of Cherokee,
with the idea that negroes cannot hold
office under the Constitution, is re-acting
here. People (black and white) are only
made to believe that the whole Constitu
tion is a cheat. Radicals complain here
that they are compelled to nominate ne
groes for office, to prove that Gov. Brown’s
version of the Constitution is not correct.
I am now fully satisfied that if the white
people of Upper Georgia will do their du
ty, we shall elect Gordon and defeat the
Constitution by a large majority. \N c
shall save our State from disgrace. A
very large torchlight procession of Demo
erotic negroes are marching through the
streets while I write. I have addressed
an immenseaudienceto-nightin theeourt
house square—the larger proportion being
negroes. They carried transparencies with
most appropriate Democratic mottoes. —
Proclaim it throughout Upper Georgia
that everything is safe —honor saved,
peace secured, democracy triumphant, and
the plunderers badly disappointed, if only
the while people of Cherokee will do their
duty. I addressed one of the largest and
best audiences I have seen, at Atnericus,
on Thursday. Splendid feeling prevailed.
I never saw a canvass doing better. The
poor white Radicals have lost character
and are now losing the offices. They are
alarmed aud mad—driven from white so
ciety, and cursing the negroes! Again I
say, all we ask is, that the white people of
Upper Georgia will show themselves above
being bribed by a cheat called “ Relief;”
above being entrapped by rogues; and
above the ignominy of usiug deluded ne
groes to force a hated Constitution upon
their white race in low er Georgia.
Very truly yours,
B. H. Hill.
Office Tri-Weekly News, 1
Albany, Ga., April 11th, 1868. /
Hon. 11. H. Hill :
Dear Sir—My attention having been
called to a communication in the Atlanta
New Era, over the signature of H. P. Far
row, headed, “ SI,OOO Reward for B. H.
Hill,” it is probably my duty, as it is
surely my pleasure, to place in your pos
session the facts relative thereto.
The following article appeared in the
Albany Tri- Weekly News iu March last:
the robber band.
“ Let the prophet speak and others
judge.”
“ By thy words thou shall be justified,
and by thy words thou shalt be con
demned.”
“ No greater calamity could befall the
people of Georgia, than the election of
Bullock and his carpet-bag faction. Their
object is plunder, and if the Government
fall into their hands, they will bankrupt
Georgia in less thau twelve months.”
Joseph E. Brown,
Just twenty minutes before he sold
himself for the promise of the United
Htates Henatorship.
“ I am playing a heavy hand, and God
knows I am seeking my country’s good
more than my own aggrandisement. I
will go to the verge of the precipice, but
will never take the damning leap—l will
go to the mouth of the yawning gulf, but
will not throw myself into it, to be swal
lowed up.
“The Treasury of Georgia, the present
and future hopes of a recuperating Htate,
cannot, and shall not, if in my power to
prevent it, be surrendered to those whose
only object is to PLUNDER a people
with whom they arein noway identified,
and of whose Htate they are not bona fide
citizens.”
Henry P. Farrow,
4tli of March, IS6B, iu black and white.
“This Constitution confers extraordi
nary and dangerous powers upon the Ex
ecutive—it erects a kingdom—a despotism,
and iu the hands of bad men, can be
wielded for unparalleled oppression and
the utter ruin of the people. If it fall into
the hands of the carpet-baggers and ne
groes, with Bullock at their head, they
will plunder the people and 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
bery.
The greatest calamity that can befall the
people of Georgia, will be the success of
these carpet-baggers and negroes.
I will sutler martyrdom before I will
give my consent to tiie domination of such
a faction over the property aud tiie white
men of Georgia. I know their schemes
and tlieir purposes, and will stump the
Htate from the seaboard to the mountains,
and expose their designs and defeat their
aims.
I will work in harmony with the Dem
ocratic party for tlieir defeat, and, asking
no pledges for place commensurate with
my services, will make a full baud in tiie
fight for whoever may he selected as the
opposition standard hearer.”
Henry P. Farrow,
in divers conversations witli divers Demo
crats Humiay and Monday, 15th and 16th.
“Fellow citizeus! I shall speak to you
with that frankness, candor and honesty
of purpose that have characterized my life
thus far, and which 1 hope may distin
guish my conduct in future.
__ I am here to endorse vnar.CiiosU.fjit ion
tution ever presented to tiie people of
Georgia, and you have acted wisely in
your selection of a standard bearer to carry
it before them. We will plant ourselves
upon that Constitution and rally to the
standard of the noble leader you have
chosen.” Henry P. Farrow,
before the Convention Wednesday, 18th,
after a second “high mountain” view of a
Henatorship anil golden prospects.
The rest and the worst, we hold iu re
serve for occasion. Thesealof confidence
is broken, aud moral ethics release us from
the obligation. If we speak with the
“candor, frankness aud honesty of pur
pose tiiat have characterized our life thus
far”
“Shake not thy gory locks at me,
Thou can’st not say "I dill it.”
You will perceive that but one para
graph is quoted as being in “ black and
white,” or over Farrow’s signature. Home
of my exchanges, in publishing this “tes
timony,” dropped the notes, and the whole
has appeared as being contained in Far
row’s letter. In tiiis way the mistake has
occurred.
IJrl'he following is Mr. Farrow’s letter of
tiie 4th of March, from which he says
"garbled exracts are published 1 ” I give it
to you verbatim ct literatim :
Atlanta, Ga., Marcli 4th, IS6B.
Dear Carey : I am playing a heavy hand,
and God knows I am seeking my coun
try’s good more than my own aggrandize
ment. I will go to the verge of the preci
pice, but will never take tiie damning leap;
I will go to the mouth ofthe yawning gulf,
but will not throw myself into it to be
swallowed up. You will barely have read
this until the die will have been cast. The
Treasury of Georgia, the present and future
hopes of a recuperating State, can not and
shall not, if in my power to prevent it, be
surrendered to those whose only object is
to plunder a people with whom they are
iu no way identified, and of whose Htate
they are not bona fide citizens !!
Should the Augusta clique succeed, the
Opinion will suspend immediately. It
can be bought on reasonable terms, for if
I fail to whip the fight, it will not issue
eveu next week. Come here immediately,
and don’t let it suspend for a single day.
Let it, iu the event I fail, run straight on,
hut in the new line. I will make a full
hand in the fight if I enter. I herewith
send you a slip which I have been send
ing out by the thousand, aud it is now
germinating throughout the up country.
I will try to prepare the Union for the
swindle and make a general stampede.
You may predict Bullock’s defeat. You
are at liberty to quote tbe first paragraph
of this in your Tuesday’s issue if Bullock
succeeds, just saying it is from a Radical,
and not intimating or insinuating from
whom, but saying they may look out for
squalls.
Yours, in haste,
H. P. Farrow.
P. S.—Quote tiie above paragraph as in
a letter to a gentleman of Albany, and not
as directed to you. Would it not have
more effect that way ?
The paragraphs commencing “ The
Constitution,” and ending with “standard
bearer,” were not by Mr. Farrow reduced
to writing, but they are iu spirit, substance
aud effect, His language, used upon divers
occasions, iu tiie presence of myself aud a
number of other gentlemen; aud the ouly
difference between the lauguage quoted
aud that used by Mr. F., is, that the for
mer is not strong enough. That quoted
was reduced to writing by me first from the
Hps of the speakei-, and is substantially
correct. „
I observe that Mr. Farrow does uot deny
using tiie language, but rests his character
upon the quibble that lie did not put it iu
writing. I have no objection to the ad
vantage he hopes to derive from this
dodge. If called upon, lam prepared to
verify my statement on oath, and other
gentlemen will endorse it.
Very truly, your obedieut servant,
Carey W. Styles,
Editor Albany News.
The Legislature of Connecticut.—
There are some who may not understand
how it was that the Radicals carried the
Legislature of Connecticut, while the
democrats elected the Governor. We will
explain. Every town iu Connecticut has
one member of the Legislature, however
small its population. No town or city has
more than two members. The large
towns, such as New Haven and Harford,
are Democratic, but they have no more
votes in the Legislature than small towns
with one tenth their population. It is
under this system, based on towns, and
not on population, that the Radicals al
ways carry the Legislature. — Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Macon, Ga., Tuesday, April ~1, 1868.
THURSDAY, APRIL IG, 1868.
RIGHT !
We are glad to see that the State Medical
Association at its late meeting in Augusta,
set such a good example to our people of
ignoring the creatures who are doing the
dirty work of Radicalism in Georgia,
through the press. We judge from a
whine in the “orgau” at that place, that
the Association gave its attaches tiie cut
direct.
We cannot too highly commend this
policy to all our friends, acting either iu
their private or public capacities. These
creatures are engaged iu a crusade, not
only against tiie political sentiments of the
respectable people of Georgia, but against
their lives, their liberties and tlieir honor
—against the peace, good order, aud dig
nity of society, and tiie well-being of their
wives aud little ones. They seek to put
the white meu of Georgia and tlieir fami
lies under the social aud political domi
nation of characterless adventurers, and
needy vagabonds, both white and black.
They would force social equality between
the intelligent, the refined, and the vir
tuous, aud the ignorant, vulgar and de- i
praved. In one word, Bullock aud his
banditti aim at tiie destruction of tiie white
race of Georgia, socially, politically and
financially.
We have always counseled our people
to submit quietly to tiie presence of these
vermin in tlieir midst, and to bear with
patience aud dignity the outrages and an
noyances they perpetrate. This is very
hard to do, we admit; but it is by far the
best policy. But while urging such a
course, we have advised, and shall con
tinue to advise, absolute social and busi
ness non-intercourse with them, carried
through all the relations of life, in sick
ness or in health, in public and in private-
Let them know and feel themselves out
casts from society, Pariahs aud lepers,
whom it were pollution to associate with,
or even speak to. Ret them ever be re
minded of their crime and its penalty, in
the hearty and unanimous expression of
public contempt that their presence in
spires. Let no violeuoe be used. Avoid
tiiis above all things. Ret public execra
tion take tiie form of unvarying non-in
tercourse, at all times and under all cir
cumstances. Thus we will not overleap
the barriers erected around our liberties by
the bayonet, and at the same time escape
much temptation aud provocation to resort
to other means of vindicating our dignity
and maintaining our rights.
WIIIPI'EU !
The Bullock banditti are whipped. Joe
Brown lias returned from Upper Georgia
to Atlanta, completely disgusted with the
result of his canvass. He was met every
where witli ill-concealed evidences of pop
ular contempt and indignation. He has
found out that tiie people will neither he
driven, coaxed, nor deceived into the sup
port of a man whose election lie (Brown)
has declared would “bankrupt the Htate.”
He has made a last, dying ettbrt, and lias
failed. GORDON and VICTORY is the
watchword and rallying cry from Dade to
Rabun. Like the voice of many waters
is the rush of the mountaineers ral
lying to the rescue of tlieir Htate. They
have been slow to act, hut are now fully
07.<J"seil-.-Thev will seud Gordon across
Friends of Middle and Rower Georgia,
Rally! Rally! Rally! No matter
whether you be black or white, for or
against tiie Constitution, vote for Gordon
and an honest administration of tiie new
government—vote for Gordon and econo
my, light taxes, aud “Wisdom, Justice,
and Moderation” in higli places. We in
voke every man who expects to live in
Georgia to give four days next week to his
Htate and its future. Count no cost in tHis
grand struggle. Time, money, argument,
appeal, persuasion, yea, even life itself,
would not be too great a price to pay for
victory. God seud a fire aud vim, an ear
nest resolve and heroic action among
Georgians, for Georgia, next week, that
will rout the enemy and save our proud
old Mother from a dishonored grave. Hlie
asks it of you on her bended knees, and
with tears streaming down her war fur
rowed face. Will you deny her?
GOOD NEWS IKON NORTH GEORGIA.
We have information from tiiis section
of the most cheering nature. Tiie white
meu of the mountains are gathering in
their might, anil will give Gordon a
“Highland welcome” at the polls. They
have listened with shame, contempt and
loathing, to the demagogue harangues of
Georgia’s curse, and, each time, witli re
newed determination to put a brand upon
him that even his brazen front will blusli
to hear. The cry that is ringing through
the land, “Have Georgia!” has been
heard aud caught up from county to coun
ty above Atlanta, and they have resolved
that Georgia shall be saved. Speed thf
good work freemen of the mountains
The men, women and children of Middle
and Lower Georgia cry unto you from tin
brink of a precipice, over which the Bui
lock banditti are threatening to precipi
tate them. Our fight is your fight, our fat
your fate. Let but tiiis banditti elute
power, and you are lost. The day thi
sees this accursed horde put in possessio
of the offices of the State, witnesses you
decline into a hopeless, helpless, despise!
minority —tied to the black Juggernaut o
Radicalism, and compelled to march with
it, or perish.
IN THE LAST DITCH.
The carpet sack and paper collar bum
mers and renegades who are heading the,
Bullock raid against the offices of the State
and the substance of the jieople, are con
fessing defeat in advance. They have been
driven to the last ditch, and, with tiie
mad blindness of desperation, are howling
inelegibility against Gordon, they are
doomed, and they know it. This cry con
fesses it. If Gordon is ineligible, why
fight him so hard ? If he cannot take his
seat, why seek to drive off votes from
him ? Let no man be deceived. General
Meade will give Gordon tbe certificate if
elected. He has decided him eligible, and
will back his judgment when the people
declare him their choice. The enemies of
your race and country, the thieves aud
money-changers who seek to defile the
Temple of your Liberties, are desperate.
They are in the last ditch. One more
push, and they perish in tiie mud at its
bottom. Again we warn the people against
being deceived. When you bear a man
say that Gordon is not eligible, ask him
if he don’t belong to tiie Bullock gang,
and if he has not been promised a share of
the “swag.”
Michigan has voted down negro suff
rage by a majority of thirty thousand.
There fs not a single Htate in tiie Union,
North or Houth, East or West, which is in
favor of that measure. There is not one i
which would not reject it to-morrow. But
what do you see? A lot of men, calling
themselves the Representatives of the
States, at Washington, seeking to force
negro suffrage upon the whole country!
Are they not beautiful Representatives ?
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Valuable Testimony of the
Witness Blodgett.— The witness Foster
Blodgett, who was examined yesterday in
the impeachment trial, and who testified
that he was suspended by the President
from his office of postmaster iu Georgia,
aud that the notice of suspeusion was uot
given to the Seuate, did uot give the de
tails of his suspension. It appears, from
the records of the Postolliee Department,
that this witness was indicted by a grand
jury iu the United Htates District Court iu
Georgia, the charge being that he had
takeu tiie test oath substantially, when
the fact was that he had been an officer in
tho Confederate army. Postmaster-Gen -
eral Randall received official notice of
these facts, and. upon his own responsi
bility, removed Blodgett as post master at
Augusta, and placed the office in charge
of an agent of the department. The
whole proceeding was under the direction
of Governor Randall, and without tiie
knowledge of the President, who had
nothing whatever to do with the transac
tion, and had no information of the facts
until sotpe time after the occurrence.
[ IfoA. Cor. New York World.
The perjured renegade did not tell, and
of course was not expected to tell, any
part of the truth in connection with his
riglueous suspension from an office that
he had indulged in the luxury of false
swearing to obtain. He was put on the
stand to still 'further intensify the venom
and “stiffen the backs” of the packed
jury that sit in judgment on the President,
and perhaps to give him some character
among his fellow-conspirators at home.
The World is deserving the thanks of all
respectable men, everywhere, for this
fresh proof of the “Augusta Mink’s” ha
tred of the truth.
THE CHANCES.
Surmisings about Impeachment—How the
President's Counsel Peel.
“Agate,” the Radical Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
writes:
There is no probability that the election
returns will have any appreciable effect
upon tbe impeachment trial. If it should,
by any strange possibility, prove true, as
the Democrats are now boasting, that
enough of the men counted as Republi
cans in tiie estimateof the Legislature, are
pledged to Dixon, as to secure his re elec
tion by the aid of the Democratic vote,
that gentleman might be a little bolder in
his opposition, but he issure to vote against
impeachment any way. Mr.Stanton, who
holds quite a levee every night, at the War
Department before retiring to bed, has of
late been expressing bis fears as to the
votes of Grimes, Trumbull and Fessenden;
but these are not men to be affected by the
oscillation, either way, of Connecticut.
Mr. Fowler, of Tennessee, is quite often
spoken of now-a-days, as sure to vote
against impeachment, hut if that be so, its
cause is to lie sought outside of and beyond
tiie Htate of Connecticut. And, practical
ly, these are the only men concerning
whom there is any where any serious doubt.
They number only four, while a change of
seven would be required for Mr. Johnson's
escape.
Yet it must be confessed that now, after
the managers have made up tlieir case,
have proved tiie President’s speeches, have
proved his own declaration that lie sus
pended Htanton under the tenure-of-offiee
act, have proved his threats of force, and,
in short, every mental allegation of their
charges (unless that of conspiracy may be
excepted), the President's counsel are,
after all, serenely confident. What their
confidence may mean, nobody knows; and
that it exists, nobody doubts. Mr. Htan
bery-iu particular, although he litis seemed
at times completely cowed by the mana
gers, and has studiously refrained from
his habitual tendency to hector his up
,,'OiuinvMits, appears, nevertheless, abso
lutely secure as to the result.
. s •aino, ic may be said that
it was marked by some of Butler’s defects,
and by nearly all his strong qualities. He
was often impertinent to tbe President’s
counsel; lie once ventured upon a similar
bearing towards the Chief Justice (though
he next day saw occasion to regret it); iiis
general bearing quite often smacked of the
police court, rather than of file gravest
trial of history; but he was wonderfully
admit in the examination of witnesses,
antlskillful to a degree lu the order in
wlibh lie presented the testimony; while,
on ill interlocutory questions, he was very
reaiy in defending his positions, and gen
eraly very successful. In the written re
port, many of his offensive personal pecu
liatities disappear, and to the country at
larje Gen. Butler has uudoubtedly made
a bitter figure than he has before the au
dieices in the Senate chamber.
THE CAPITAL.
coiviction of the president a fore
gone CONCLUSION.
Special to the Louisiille Courier.
Washington, April 12.
Tie ruling of the Court yesteiday will
excide nearly all the evidence by which
the. J resident’s counsel could clearly have
exclpated him. The rejection of ihisev
idece by the Court confirms the iinpres
siottbat his conviction is a foregone con
clusou.
Te President’s counsel profess that
thei confidence is unabated in the acquit
tal i the President, but the opinion of the
puke is altogether different. If the Court
colinues to rule out testimony concern
in the declarations of the President, lie
fas to establish his intent in removing
Hinton.
ut the counsel of the President insist
tilt the Court cannot reject the evidence
ofinembers of the Cabinet, whose proof
isar more important than Sherman’s.
’he pitiable exhibition General Thomas
aide on the stand yesterday, together
w.h Butler’s impudence, and the pliancy
ofthe Court, seemed to dumbfound the
Pesident’s counsel, aud created au im
passion unfavorable to the cause.
Ilie Radicals express doubts that Wil
ley, Van Winkle, Anthony, Trumbull and
Ross will vote for conviction, but it will
be surprising if it is uot carried by a party
vote
Sprague, hitherto supposed against it,
has changed ba u e, and will vote for cou
vietbn.
Kalicals say Johnson lias just one
w.eePs lease of the Executive mansion,
aiiduo matter what evidence lie may ad
duce, he is lost.
Southern Jluriter*— Who Commit Them f
Whenever any Radical firebrand. Loyal
Leaguer or negro is killed or hurt iu the
Sout. 1 !, the Radical press aud orators of
he North make a terrible uoise about it.
['hey ring the changes and howl day after
[ay tbout rebel outrages, rebel haired and
•bel murderers, but we never hear any
jii'ng from them concerning the murdered
lutheru whites aud black outrages. The
radical papers are full of sensation ao
■ unts aud denunciations of the murder of
Ishburn, in Georgia, but they say notli
i g about the white oue-armed ex-Confed
ate soldier who was shot dead upon his
>rse recently near Helrna, Ala., or of the
her four white men who have been mur
tred in the same vicinity since the war,
id uo one arrested for these murders,
o, we hear nothing from these Radicals
the numerous other murders of the con
lered Southern whites and outrages on
em in other localities of the South, be
use there is every reason to believe this
the work of the black Loyal Leaguers,
t a public procession and meeting of
'groes at Macou, Ga., ou March 30, tbe
oyal blacks” carried a banner on which
e figure of a negro, cut in pasteboard,
mg dangling from a gallows, and to
hich was attached, on a piece of white
tper, the following inscription: “Every
an that don’t vote a Radical ticket, this
the way we want to do him—hang him
' the neck.” These Radical Loyal
eague negroes boldly proclaimed, too,
tat the negro who failed to register should
Ceive thirty-nine lashes if he failed to
ite at the election, two jiundred lashes,
id if he voted the Democratic ticket he
ould he hanged. Need we lie surprised,
.eu, that white Southerners are murdered
I every part of the South, and that the
urderers are not arrested? The North
n friends of these black barbarians pre
pd not to know anything about their
urlerous doings. It is clear that the
•uth under Radical rule is fast tending
anarchy and to a worse condition than
i Domingo was ever in.—2V. Y. Herald.
The Conservative Meeting Last Night.
1 he meeting of Conservative citizeus at
Masouie Hall was largely attended by all
classes of our citizeus, tbe large hall being
filled to ite utmost capacity. Among the
audience we were pleased to observe sev
eral of our most respectable colored citi
zens, who listened attentively to the
speeches, giving frequent manifestations
of their approval of the sentimeuts of the
speakers.
The meeting was ojtened by a very ap
propriate and forcible address from Dr.
Arnold, tbe Chairman, who was followed
by Hamuel Hall, Ksq., of Southwestern
Georgia, iu an able ami eloquent speech,
in which lie impressed upon his hearers
the importance of the crisis, and tiie ne
cessity of zealous and united efforts on the
part of tiie Conservative people of Georgia
to rescue the Htate from threatened dis
grace and ruin. He passed in review the
fraud, injustice and studied ambiguities of
tho Atlanta Constitution, aud warned his
hearers of tlie evils which would result
from its ratification. He paid a high com
pliment to tiie ability and character of
Gen. Gordon, the Conservative nominee
lor Governor, and expressed his confidence
tiiat lie would be elected.
Hon. D. A. Vason, of Albany, was next
introduced. He gave a very encouraging
report of tiie prospect iu Houth western
Georgia and other sections of the State,
where the nomination of Gen. Gordon had
been greeted with enthusiasm by the peo
ple. He expressed the opinion that the
intelligent colored men of the State were
beginning to understand the character and
designs of the carpet-baggers, and that if
properly encouraged and informed by the
white people of tiie true issues involved
in the coming election, thousands of them
would come out from the League, aud
support good aud true men for the offices
of the State. He counseled activity and
conciliation. The interests of tiie white
and black people of Georgia were identi
cal, and it was a duty we owe ourselves
and to them to instruct and counsel them.
He appealed to the young men to take an
active partln the canvass, and to useevery
proper means in tlieir power to promote
tiie success of tiie Conservative party.
Mr. Lester, our Senatorial nominee, be
ing loudly called for made au able address,
which was enthusiastically received by
the meeeting.
Taking the meeting as indicative of the
spirit witli which our people are going into
the contest, it was well calculated to in
spire confidence of success. Let every
man who has at heart the true interests of
tiie State do his whole duty aud all will
be well.— Sav. News, 14 th.
FIGURING IT VP.
Calculations concerning the Electoral Vote
in the next Presidential Election.
From the New York World.
The Radicals have staked their all on
Connecticut, and proclaimed far and wide
that tiie election of Jewell would bean in
dorsement of General Grant for President;
and still further, having adorned tlieir
ballots with tiie head line, “Grant and
Jewell,” under which were pictures of
these worthies, it becomes interesting to
forecast the probable result of the Presi
dential election, based upon that of the
recent contest in Connecticut. We have,
therefore, collated a few figures bearing
upon tiie point, showing tiie majorities
given by tiie States to be enumerated at
tlieir last general election, tbeir probable
majorities next fall, based upon tiie vote
of the two contending parties in Connec
ticut, and theelectora! votes to which they
will lie entitled, and which they will be
likely to cast for tiie Democratic candi
date :
EAST VOTE. Esttmat-
ed Deni. Klee
-BTATES. Deni. I Rep. nr.nj. in toral
maj. mnj. istis. Vote.
California 7,155| II,IST 5
Conneeiicul I,(i Hi ?,:kxi h
Delaware 1,212 J,MH) 3
Indiana | 11,21 c 4,501 13
Maryland Il,li2!i[ !fj’ 111 7
Kentucky 5!l,280 It
Sew York 17,11,(i| ...J*'. 7(iSlf.| ;i;j
<>l‘io | 2.HS3J J4HK! 21
Oregon.. 327 15»j 3
Peniihylvauia 9221 „..| 1,353| 2<i
Total electoral votes 13, s
Necessary to a choice ’ "’.’.’.124
Several States which tiie Democrats will
contest closely with the Radicals, and
w hich they hope to carry for their candi
date in tiie fall, areomitted from the above
table, to-wit: Minnesota, Maine, Neva
dti, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and possi
bly Kansas, inasmuch as the latter State
is gradually approaching the Democratic
Jine. The calculation is made without
including the electoral votes of the South
ern Htates, since at the present rate of re
construction (if the Radicals should have
a perpetual majority in Congress) they
would not be readmitted to the Union in
time to participate iu the I’residential
election of 1572.
Ouf Democratic friends throughout the
country will please hear these figures in
mind, and remember that (hey are to
strain every nerve to make what is a fore
cast in April a reality iu November. To
accomplish this, they must begin to work
now.
THE COURTS.
I lifted State* Circuit Court for tbe
Southern District nt Georgia.
HON. JOHN EKSKINE, 4UIMJE, I'KESITIINO.
Monday, April 13, 1868.—The April
term of the United States Circuit Court
for tiie Southern District of Georgia com
menced to-day, the Hon. John Erskine,
Judge, presiding.
There was a goodly attendance of mem
bers of the bar at the opening of Court,
and in addition to the prominent lawyers
of our city, we noticed many distinguished
gentlemen from other sections of the State,
and among them, Hon. Howeil Cobb, ot
Macon; Colonel Dougherty, of Atlanta ;
Judges Nisbet and Lyon, of Macon ; Judge
Vason, of Albany ; Washington Poe, Esq ,
of Macon ; Hope Hull, Esq., of Athens;
Win. E. Smith, Esq., of Albany ; aud Mr.
DeGraffenried, of Macon.
Upon tbe north wall of the court room
we observed hanging a fine portrait in oil
of the late Justice Wayne, tiie work of the
celebrated artist Meier, of Atlanta, who
painted the portraits of Governors Troup
and Clark, which adorn the walls of the
capitol, at Milledgeville. The likeness is
striking, and the coloring exquisite. The
picture was procured by subscription by
the members of the bar, as was resolved at
the last term of the Circuit Court.
The following attorneys were re-admit
ted to practice in tiiis Court: Louis P. D.
Warren, Washington Poe, Barnard Hill,
Willis A. Hawkins, Richard F. Lyon.
The following named persons were, on
petition, admitted to practice in the United
States Courts: Ed. Randolph Harden,
Phillip Cook, Samuel Hall, Nathan A.
Smith, David A. Vason, Howell Cobb,
Wtn. H. Robinson, ifletcher T. Snead.—
Savannah Republican, 14 th.
Gen. Meade’s Proclamation against
Incendiaries. —“How sharper than a
serpent’s tooth ” it must be to the radical
managers that they cannot get a general
to take charge of any military district
who knows exactly when iie ought to
be blind and when he ought to see.
Now here is General Meade—a most pro
voking person. He did gratifying tlungs
at first, and radicalism was loud in its ap
plause. Scarcely, however, had the radi
cals committed themselves to positive
laudations of the General’s honest courses
than he made a report in relation to tbe
election on the constitution, and plainly
told his spoilsers in Washington tiiat tiie
trouble was a little too much nigger, aud
that if they had been content to require no
mere in the constitution than was required
iu the reconstruction acts all would have
been well. That was under the fifth rib.
But there is a worse place than the fifth
rib. It is what the I 1 reucli philosophers
call the vital knot; and Gen. Meade has
just put forth a proclamation that lays vio
lent hands on this delicate thing. He
says: “ All public writers and speakers
are enjoined to refrain from iutlaminatory
appeals to the passions and prejudices of
the people.” Now, this will absolutely
shut up every orator tiiat tbe Republican
party lias in its pay in Gen. Meade’s dis
trict. Gen. Meade also practically orders
the suppression of au organization w hose
object is to “ affect the results of pending
elections in this district.” This means the
Loyal League clubs. It has been stated
that this order was aimed at the Ku Klux
Klan ; but this is evidently wrong, as it so
distinctly describes tbe evil courses of rad
ical agitation. Gen. Meade is too intelli
gent a man not to have known what he
was proclaiming. — N. Y. Herald.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1868.
A SUGGESTION.
Since it is demonstrated beyond dispu
tation that/rauciof a most deep and damn
able character may he expected at the
bauds of Boards of Registration through
out the State during the approaching elec
tion, it is of vital importance tiiat the true
men of the country should resort to every
legitimate means iu their power to thwart
the wretches. For instance, at every bal
lot box let there be stationed challengers,
and let one of the challengers keep a list
of the voters’ names, aud the day on which
he voted. The colored voters should be
marked with a c after the name. Tiiis
cau easily be done, as the voting will be
necessarily slow, the registrar having to
find the name ou his list. In this way
may fraud be detected, and only in this
way! And when registrars shall make
their returns—and those returns prove to
be inaccurate— the proof will be at baud
to fasten the infamy upon them! }Ve
would further suggest that the lists which
challengers may thus prepare be sent to
Dr. J. F. Alexander, Chairman of the
Democratic Committee of Fulton county,
who will make proper use of the proof at
Military Headquarters. We can protect
ourselves in tiiis way, and we appeal to Die
leading Democrats in every town and city
in Georgia to carry out our suggestion. A
military order authorizes two men of tiie
Democratic party to assist at tiie counting
ofthe ballots, hut that of itself will not
suffice, for the fraud will then have been
perpetrated without t4ie lio|ie of detection,
unless our precautionary suggestion is
adopted. The ballot-boxes will remain in
the keeping of registrars for three or four
nights, and what assurance have we—with
the game fully in their hands—that those
boxes will not be tampered with to tliedet
riment of tlieir opponents. Tile manner
in which names have been stricken from
the lists is proof sufficient tiiat we cannot
trust them, and we should not. Let good
and true challengers be chosen for each
day, and with tiie correct lists which
those challengers will make, the Demo
cracy of Georgia will he iu a position to
defy their enemies !—Atlanta Intelligencer.
RE ON VOLK GI AHDI
We warn tiie friends of free government
and of Georgia, not to listen to any of the
numberless lies tiiat the carpet-sack and
paper collar banditti, who train under
Bullock’s freebooter flag, are circulating
all over the country just now. They will
increase, too, as the day of election draws
near, just as Hies swarm in a carcase the
nearer it approaches putrefaction. They
feel that their infamous plot against (lie
lives, and liberties, and pockets of tiie peo
ple of Georgia litis failed, and they are
mad with reckless rage and hate. They
are like a blind rattle snake in August,
striking at everything within its reach.
They are howling ineligibility against
Gordon just now, and hiring negroes to
peddle the chatge all over the country.
That’s tlieir last card. It won’t win, and
they know it. It will deceive no man who
does not wish an excuse to join the raid.
Laugh at the miserable creatures who
have been so completely foiled and dis
graced. You can afford if. They are
whipped already. Go for them with a
will, next week, and they will lie annilii
ot a ! and the pirates are done for.
another outrage on kkadeey.
We call the attention of Bullock, and
his man Friday, “Sharp aud Quick” Hul
bert, to tiie action of tiie Savannah Board
of Registration in strikiug from tiie regis
try list the name of that pure patriot and
specimen Bullockile, tho negro Aaron Al
peoria Bradley, ex-Boston jail bird, ex
niember of the sword aud bayonet Con
vention, and now ex-Bullock candidate
for the Htate Senate. Shall such uu out
rage go unpunished? Shall one of the
most faithful and trusted of all Bullock’s
coadjutors in the Convention, simply be
cause iie happens to have a black skin,
and to have been in the penitentiary, not
only be driven from a convention of the
party, but prevented from being one of
those fifty members of the Legislature that
Bullock relies upon, if elected Governor,
to control tiiat body? Wo understand
tiiat Bullock is suspected of being at the
bottom of tiiis mean trick, this stall under
the fifth rib, hut we cannot believe it.
Hucli duplicity and ingratitude is too mon
strous for credence. Anyhow, We give
him the opportunity of denying his com
plicity in the act. Did you, or did you
uot have it done, sir? You are defeated,
already, so there can bo uo harm in speak
ing out. Let us hear from you.
FRESH DEVEI.OFMNFTS— 111 LKEKT
CATCHES IT,
We print, below, the report of a com
mittee of citizens of Columbus, sent to
Atlanta to confer with Oeneral Meade in
relation to frauds iu registration, and the
rascality of the Registrars at tiiat place.
We have great gratification, too, in call
ing attention to the fact that General
Meade lias had his eyes opened, iu a
measure, to tiie character of “Hliarp aud
Quick” Hulbert, and tiie tools he is using
to cheat the people of Georgia, and nullify
the promise of General M. that there
should be a “fair election.” We joiu our
coteinporary of the Sun, however, in ex
pressing the hope that General Meade
will not let Hulbert off with a “reproof,”
no matter how severe. He has been clear
ly convicted of fraud of the most unblush
ing and palpable character. If lie were
punished according to his deserts, a crimi
nal prosecution and a conviction that
would put even personal liberty out of his
reach, for some time to come, would be
his portion.
Report ofthe Committee of Citizen*
Sent to Atlanta to confer with Gen. Meade
in relation to Frauds in Registration and
the Misconduct of Registrars.
Columbus, Ga., April 14, 1868.
Your Committee called upon General
Meade, accompanied by General Gordon
and Colonel Pace, of Covington, and pre
sented him with the written petition upon
our grievances accompanying this report.
Colonel Pace also presented a petition al
leging tiiat seven hundred voters bad
l>ee stricken from the registry of tiie 27ih
district, without any public revision, and
without the knowledge of the parties
stricken.
General Meade said tiiat tiie jiower of
revision was given by the reconstruction
acts to the local registrars; that in the act
there were no particular instructions as to
how that revision should be made; but
tiiat tiie spirit of it evidently intended
that a party registered, and whose qualifi
cation was being canvassed, should have
notice; that the reason of these stiikes
had to be reported to him ; and that if he
discovered that fraud had been committed
he would unhesitatingly give certificates
to that effect, and that he had no idea that
Congress would sanction an election
where fraud was manifest. It was sug
gested to Jiim tiiat unless the persons who
had been registered and improperly strick
en were allowed to deposit their ballots, it
would be impossible to tell with certainty
how tbe names left oil’ the registry would
have affected the final result ; but if a
uumliered list of all the voters was kept,
and tbe number of each voter placed upon
his ballot, and all who had been once reg
istered were allowed to deposit their bal
lots, that then In certifying the election
all such votes could be counted which
were improperly stricken, and all such re
jected as were uot entitled to registry.
Vol. LX.. >•„. r .
This suggestion met the approval of <Ten
oral Meade, but he said lie would haw L
examine his powers under the reconst rue
tion acts before he could dually determine
upon it; hut he would do everything In
his power to Reoure to the people >» tree
aud fair election.
Mr. Mustian s case was then presented
General Meade thought that holding the
ontce of Legislator before the war and tlie
office of Postmaster after the war dis
qualified him. Me seemed well satisiied
with Mr. Muslim)'s Lnion sentiments,
hut thought that consenting to hold office
under the Confederate Government, how
ever much lie might have opposed the
war, was giving aid to the rehellion, and
came within the fourteenth articleaiiicnd
atory of the Constitution. He considered
it one of the hard cases coming within a
general ruie. which he could not control.
He said: "I am not here to prouounco
upon the wisdom of patticular sections
of the reconstruction acts, but to execute
them as they are.”
In the violations charged upon the
Registrars, both in the manner of their
revisiou aud the fact that Registrars were
candidates, he promptly determined to
send an officer to each point to make an
investigation.
lie was then asked ‘‘if these Registrars
run for offiwa uud received u majuiityuf
votes, whether he would grant them cer
tificates of election?” He replied: *J
shall not wait for that T shall have the
facts investigated, and if they have vio
lated my orders, 1 will have them prom pt
ly arrested, tried, and if found guilty,
punished for disobedience of orders.
It was then suggested to him to give the
negroes assurance that they would he pro
tected in the free exercise of the franchise,
lie replied, 1 have already done so, and
referred to Orders 51,52 and 57. One of us
stated that Order 51 was supposed to Vie di
rected to the Ku Klux Klan. He said lie
could not help what persons considered,
that he did not believe there was any aueli
organization as the Ku Klux Klau ; but
he believed had men, as was the case in
Columbus, took advantage of the general
impression that existed as to such an or
ganization, and by various means intimi
dated voters ; and that his order was in
tended for all colors, ami all persons who
by intimidation or threats attempted to
influence the tree exercise of the ballot.
He said further, bring mo any instance of
any man intimidating a voter by threats
of violence, and 1 will have him arrested
and punished if lie is the most extreme
man in the State, of either side of politics,
it will make no difference about that; hut
1 cannot acton general information ; bring
me a particular case and I will deal with
it promptly.
This is substantially the conversation
that occurred, and throughout our inter
view Gen. Meade was frank and unre
served, and evinced an evident desire to
secure to the people of Georgia, without
distinction, a fair and free eiectiou.
Jno. A. IdajUlliHT.
R. J. Mokks.
J. L. Mustian.
N. It.—laiter in the day, two of your
committee, John L. Mustian and R. .1.
Moses, called on Gen. Meade and submit
ted the report to him which they should
make to their fellow-citizens, in order I hot
lie might correct any errors which might
have been committed iu reducing the con
versation to writing.
Gen. Meade said that it was substantially
correct, hut that his remarks in regard to
C. W. Chapman and l)uer would have
been less decided had he then iiad the in-
I formation which lie had since obtained;
that he had sent for Mr. 11 ultiert, and Mr.
Huliiert had informed him that Chapman
and Ruer hud resigned their office, but it
being found impracticable to get parlies to
serve as registrars, lie had iustructed them
to go on and complete the registry, Cor
this Gen. Meade said lie had severely re
proved Halbert; that the fact should liavo
been communicated to liis headi|uarlurs,
and that he would, of necessity, have as
signed two officers to net as registrars.
That he would appoint ui»~-* **<■»*«-
•mers (tv “• i would allow
CTrapmai) and Duer to continue as candi
dates; that he could not punish them for
disobedience of orders, when (hey had
intention to disobey, but were aifw.... ....
der the instructions of the Chief of Regis
tration.
General Meade further said that he wan
theu having an order prepared to apply
throughout theWtate, which would require
the managers of elections to receive all
ballots that might be offered, whether the
same hud been stricken from the registry
or not. The ballots of persons stricken
not to be counted by the managers, but
forwarded to him in separate packages,
tiiat tiiey might be examined by him, and
tiie cause of their being stricken oil inves
tigated ; that in this manner it could lie
ascertained how the erasures of the reg
istry would affect the general result.
ATLANTA, Ga., April 12, IHUS.
General Gxtrf/e (>. Mead) , (JominawHuy
Third Military JMriet:
Gknkkat,—The undersigned, a Commit
tee appointed by a large number of their
fellow-citizens, having your assurance that
the election now approachingslmll be con
ducted fairly, deem it only necessary to
bring your attention to the following facts
(which they believe to If general through
out the (State) to secure through you a cor
rection of the abuses referred to:
TN THK COUNTY OF MUSCOOKE
O. W. Chapman, Chief of Registration,
and an officer of the Frecdoien's Bureau
for said county, is a candidate for State
Senator.
Duer, a member of the Hoard of Regis
tration, for said county, is a candidate Jyr
Ordinary.
During the five days that the registra
tion was open for revision and additional
registry, the registered voters were in
formed that they could get no in formation
as to whose names were stricken off, as
this was being done at Atlanta. They
could not ascertain tiiat any objections
were being made to any one. Ao public
revision was made during the live days.
The citizens were advised that but three,
names had been stricken oft, and perhaps
twoof them restored. John A. Urquhart.
one of your Committee, was informed by
the Chief of Registration for said county
that his name had been stricken off, but
liad been restored. And finally, when
the registration was dosed, John L. Mo—
tian, the candidate for Htate Senator, in
opposition to C. VV. Chapman, the Chief
Registrar, was informed by him that hi
(Mustian’s) name had been stricken ofT;
also, the name of John A. IJ rej u hart..
Porter Ingrain and others, amounting in
all to about 277 votes. Ao information
could be obtained of the causes, and John
L. Mustian, one of your Committee, from
this conversation, was led to understand
that the strikes were made at this point.
Hence the mission of your Committee.
On arriving here, two of your Commit
tee—John A. Urquhart and It. J. Moses
called on Mr. Huliiert, the Chief of Regis
tration for the rttate, who informed them
tiiat under the sth aud 7th clauses of the
act of July 19, ISO 7, this duty devolved ou
the local registrars, and had been entirely
managed and controlled by them, so that
the very |>ersons deeply interested in the
election have made themselves the judges
of qualification of voters, and 277 persons,
registered voters, will be deprived of tire
privileges of voting without ever having
had an opportunity of attending to the re
vision of the list, or knowing theoaune lyr
which they have been disfranchised, or
even who they are, with the three excep
tions above stated.
As these Registrars are the appointees
of your predecessor, and are amenable to
! you for their conduct in the di-chaj«e <»f
| tlieir official duties, and as the course pur
sued shows an evident intention on tlieir
part to deprive a large number of <>ur citi
zens of the rights secured to them by the
reconstruction acts of Congress, we n
- reoiiest that you will use tne
powers of your ottice which we doubt not
you will take pleasure in doing; to *«»«>
to the Citizen* of the State a fair opj>or tu
nity of electing candidates of tlieir choice
wlio mav be oualifiefl to serve.
In Thbs connection we would further
say that the negroes are, many of tben»,
intimidated by Loyal
Mireatheued from the rostrum by fiaodi
, . e with certain <lea.tn, it tiß*y
darTtov/ue against the Radical ticket,
and we regretfully ask that some order
may emanate from your oflice, giving as
surance to the colored people that they
will be protected in the Jree exercise qj (he
right of luffraye!
Respectfully,
Your oh’t serv’ts,
R. J. Moses,
JNO. A. UHCiCEAKV,
Jno. L- Musxxan.