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BY J. W. BURKE & CO.
Georgia Journal & Messenger,
J. W, BI KKE & CO., Proprietor*.
A. W. UKKMB, |
8. BOSE, | Editor..
TUESDAY, OCT, 6, 1868.
fossils and croakers.
AVe heartily agree with the Montgomery
Mail in its estimation of these classes, and
their capacity for mischief.
The old fossils who gather their dry
bones together and make a worse shaking
and rattling than that witnessed by
Ezekiel in the valley of Jehosaphat, are
bad enough. They saddle all of the mis*
takes, passious, prejudices and blunders
of a dead cause upon a living issue. They
imagine that their marrowless bones con
tain the only nerves of national existence,
and they frighten both friends and foe by
the clatter of their skeletons.
But croakers are worse than fossils.
Croakers are exuberant and boisterous
in the sunshine, but are agonized with
rheumatic pains at the slightest Bummer
shower. Fossils are apt to lie where they
fall, but croakers are swift to convey their
nervous carcasses over into the camp of
the enemy. They are.like that Earl of
Moray, who, in the days of the Bruces,
did not hesitate to join his forces to either
Boot or Euglish, which ever might happen
to be nearest his cattle and ca9tle, or like
that Vicar of Bray, who changed from
Komanist to Churchman, and back again
as often as the oue or the other was in the
ascendancy. Fossils are nuisances on the
stump, but croakers are nuisances in the
editorial room. The former have some re*
gard for the feelings of humanity at large,
but the latter have no regard to editorial
humanity. The editor may be worked
down, may besick, may be liarras6ed and
vexed by blunders of subordinates, may
need eneouragiqg visits from buoyant
friends, when, lo! in rushes the croaker
with: “What do you think of Maine?
Ain’t you afraid they will carry Massachu
setts? It’s all up. We must leave the
country ’’—and a long string of such non*
sense. Whenever such eousolatory exhi
bitions are made for our encouragement,
they are no doubt intended to make us
jolly and vigorous. Unfortunately they
would have an opposite effect, were it not
for the philosophic manner in which we
close our eyes pending cold shower
bath, and nerve ourself up to the work of
taking it coolly. If we were to opeu our
eyes and argue with the croaker, ten to
one lie would abuse Vallandigham instead
of Buinner, and Blair instead of Butler.
Bo we keep our eyes closed and our mus--
cles well in baud until he gets through,
and thou we silence his batteries by agree
ing with him. The fact is, we have so
much work to do arguing with the enemy
that we haven’t time to light sham battles
with our friends. Once for all, we would
beg the fossils to let their bones rest in
peace, and the croakers to quit adding to
the ammunition chest of the enemy.
ILLUSTRATEII RADICALISM.
Radicalism ie about to touch bottom in
wilful, mean, and atrocious falsehood and
misrepresentation. Its agents in Georgia,
and, for aught we know, in other South
ern States, are circulating a handbill with
two coarse wood cuts, headed “How Dem
ocrats Treat Colored Men,” and purport
ing to give an idea of how the Democrats
of New Y'ork, used the darkies in that city
at the time of the riots in 1863. The Dem
ocrats are clubbing, and shooting meu
women and children, while Gov. Sey
mour stauds by and encourages it. The
text is even viler than the illustrations,
and is well calculated to work much evil
among the ignorant negroes in the coun
try, especially when backed up by the ap
peals and lies of tlie incendiaries who dis
tribute it. Our friends should watch out
for this handbill, and the men who
are scattering it over the country. Tell
every negro into whose hands it may fall,
whom you can reach, how grossly false it
is, and ask him if this is the way to get
that peace which all, both white and
black, so ardently desire.
As to those who circulatesucli infamous
appeals to hate and bad blood, don’t crop
their ears, and slit their noses as they de
serve. That would be unlawful. But if the
neighborhood where they are caught can
he made, in any legal way, too hot to hold
them, no honest man will sorrow.
Asa counterpart to this handbill, we sug
gest making a picture of, anil circulat
ing the ship that carried the Alabama freed
meu from Mobile to Cuba, where they
were sold into slavery by some of their
Northern friends. The poor wretches wiio
are now making sugar in that island, un
der the lash of the overseer, could lecture
upon such a picture with great eloquence.
They could testify to their brothers in this
country, as to which was truest to life.
By all means let us have this picture. It
will be a capital campaign document,
North and Bouth.
LET THEM BE TAI UHT.
We beg to call special attention to a
communication to be found on the outside
of this day’s paper, from the Rev. J. H.
Campbell, of Tboraaaville. It is upon a
subject that should command the earnest
consideration and generous support of ev
ery true-hearted man and worn m in the
State.
That these orphans should be educated
is plain. We owe it, if not to them, to
their fathers, who gave their lives for us
and oure. It is an insult to their bones,
and a brand upon the motives which sent
them to the field, not to do this much, at
least, their orphans. We decorate
their graves, and spend money in divers
other ways to honor their memory. Bo
far so good. But the liviug have claims,
too—claims that plead every day, trumpet
tongued, to the good and true. Shall they
be unheeded, and we pass by on the other
side ? If something is not done, a few years
will witness the sorrowful spectacle of the
children of those who died for Georgia be
low the negroes in point of education.
How will that sound? How it will read
in a Yaukee Bureau report!
The plan proposed by Mr. C. seems to
us practicable, but some other may be
better. If none is proposed, let us set to
work and give it form.
Vindicated.— Our estimat e of Genera
Wofford’s Democracy finds ample vindi
cation in the catnp of the enemy. In
proof, whereof, we submit the following
testimony from the Radical organ at Au
gusta. We commend the witness and his
deposition to the Congressional Conven
tion of the Democratic party in the 7th
district, which meets, we believe, to-mor
row at Kingston.
We were, right in the assertion that Gen. W. T.
Wofford's heart is with us. He made a speech in
North Georgia a few days since, iu which he de
nounced lliu, Toombs,'and Cobb by name.
Senator Miller.—As we expected
w . 0u . 1 e th® case, it is authoratively de
n.e ia this gentleman gives out any
uncertain sound in i,; .... . f
terances h» 11 “ Political ut-
V leither for tiraut and
Colfax nor a dummy i ike th „ t
named. He stands by Seymour and Blair
-the peace candidates for President .
Vice-President-and is heartily^ ith " and
party of the Constitution i„ its efn V h ®
save the country from shipwreck
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON’S PROCEEDINGS.
House.—Bills on their third reading :
A bill to exempt property belonging to
widows and orphans when the same does
not exceed SIOO. Lost.
A bill to tax arable land five cents per
acre for educatioual purposes. Indefinite
ly postponed.
A hill to vacate municipal offices In the
State. Lost.
A bill to regulate and increase the fees
of Justices’ Courts. Lost.
A bill to reconstruct the roads in this
State and prevent further changes. Lost.
A Will to require ventilation of the
county jails. Passed.
A bill to levy a tax in the county of
Bibb to build a jail. Passed.
A bill to prevent hunting on the Sab
bath day in this State. Passed.
A bill to allow defendants to redeem
property sold under fi. fas., in two years
Lost.
A bill to exempt physicians of the State
from jury duty. Lost.
A bill to prevent common carriers from
making distinction on account of race or
color. Indefinitely postponed.
A bill to prevent the organization of
military companies in this State. Passed.
A resolution to pay the old Judges of the
Superior Courts up to the time of the ap
poiutment of their successors, was adopt*
ed. Several bills were read a second time,
aud the House adjourned to Monday.
MONDAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
House. —The Appropriation bill was
reconsidered and in connection with the
appropriation for paying the colleges of
the State for the education of maimed sol
diers, an additional section was added,
setting apart $44,000 for this purpose, said
sum to be paid out of taxes to be collected,
and hereafter no new students to be re
ceived,
A bill to incorporate the town of Coch
rane, Pulaski county, was passed.
The bill prohibiting the sale of lottery
tickets in the State, with a provision
recommended by the Committee, that the
Georgia State Lottery be exempted, was
then taken up. After considerable de
bate a vote was taken on the recommen
dation of the Committee, and it was not
agreed to—yeas 35, nays 73. The bill, as
thus amended, was then passed, and the
House adjourned.
Senate.— A motion to reconsider a bill
lost on Saturday incorporating the Ocean
Bank, prevailed, as did also a motion
to reconsider a bill passed same day
organizing a Criminal Court in each
county.
The bill requiring Plaintiffs in Judg
ment to have their judgments recorded in
the county to which defendants have re
moved was taken up. Passed.
The “Ocean Bank” bill was taken up,
passed as amended by the Committee, and
transmitted to the House of Representa
tives.
Bill to prevent physicians from practi
cing medicine without a diploma. Passed.
Bill requiring common carriers to pro-,
vide equal accommodations for all classes,
irrespective of race or color. Lost.
The bill preventing any one having one
eighth of African blood in him from hold
ing office in this State was laid on the
table.
Bill to provide for the making of a jury
list and provide for a drawing of the same.
Indefinitely postponed.
Bill to educate indigent and maimed
soldiers of Georgia. Passed.
Several bills incorporating mining,
manufacturing and insurance companies
were also passed, and some county lines
changed, but the remainder of the pro
ceedings were not of general interest.
TUESDAY’S PROCEEDINGS—MORNING SES
SION.
House.—Mr. Morgan moved a recon
sideration of the bill passed Monday, pro
hibiting the sale of lottery tickets in the
State. It was lost by a vote of 66 to 69.
Fitzpatrick moved to reconsider the bill
incorporating the Macon Street Railway
Company, giving as his reason a desire to
add other names as corporators who were
among Lite largest property owners in the
city. Mr. Sparks opposed the motion, and
stated that some of these men whose
names were sought to be added never had
any property. The motion was lost—Fitz
patrick alone voting in favor of it.
Tiios. D. Wilcox, new member from
Irwin county, was sworu in.
The special order of the day, being a
bill to amend the charter of the Atlanta
Medical College, was then taken up, and
discussed to the hour of adjournment.
Senate. —A motion to reconsider a bill
passed Monday, prohibiting physicians
from practicing without a license, pre
vailed, and the bill was then laid upon
the table.
A minority report from the Committee
on the tetate Road was then read. A mo
tion to take up the bill (to put the road in
the bands of five commissioners) being
made, an animated discussion ensued. It
was finally ended by the bill being taken
up and laid on the table for the remainder
of the session.
A bill so amending the divorce law as to
make desertion for one year sufficient
ground for granting a divorce, was, after
discussion, lost.
The Conference Committee on the tax
bill reported their inability to agree aud
asked for the appointment of anew com
mittee, which was agreed to.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Nothing of interest was done in either
House—the time of the Senate being taken
up in reading bills for the first time ; and
that of the House wasted in a discussion
of the private quarrels of a lot of Atlanta
doctors, who are running the Medical Col
lege up there.
About Merchandizing in Macon.— Wc have a
good set of merchants in Macon. They work very
hard and make extraordinary exertions to pash the
trade of the city a? far as is possible. The spirit of
competition rules the market rates of ail leading
grades of Western Produce so low that it is impos
sible for any other city to get any trade which geo
graphically belongs to this. And this remark may
apply with equal truth to Dry Goods. But our
merchants should not allow this spirit to get the.
better of them, as is the case almost every day.
They should have a reasonable profit upon all they
sell, as their main business should not be to sell
goods so much as to make money on what they do
sell. Some houses let their ambition to do a big
business get ahead of their better judgment, and
ahead of common sense, and the consequence is,
“there is a great cry aud little wool.” All such
house! finally collapse, while its more quiet neigh
bor pursues the even tenor of its way, never forget
ting to firmly contend for a reasonable profit upon
all sales, no matter if transactions are below others
Seventy-five per cent, of all the men engaged in
merchandizing in Macon for the last twenty years
failed. The causes which led to these.failures are
stated above.
It is occasioned by a want of stability and a dis
position to be elussed among "heavy dealers”—to
have the reputation of selling more than any one
else. But this is not the sure road to fortune. 1 f
you have tact aud judgment in making purchases,
you should have nerve enough to demand a profit
at which you can live, or hold your goods.
| THREE SONGS.
Sing me, thou Singer, a song of gold !
! Said a careworn Sian to me;
j So I sang of the golden summer days
! And the sad, sweet autumn’s yellow haze,
| Till nis heart grew soft, and his mellowed gaze
Was a kindly sight to see.
Siug me, dear Singer, a song of love !
A fair girl asked of me;
Thou I sang of a love that clasps the Race,
Gives all, asks naught—till her kindled face
Was radiant with the starry grace
Os blessed Charity.
Sing me, oh, Singer, a song of life !
Cried an eager youth to roe;
And I sang of the life without alloy
Beyond our years, till the heart of the boy
Caught the golden beauty, and love and joy
Os the great Eternity.'
THE MOBILE SLAVE TRADE AS CARRIED
ON BY THE CARPET-BAGGERS.
The Mobile Register is fixing tlie guilt
of having, shortly after the war, carried to
Cuba, and sold as slaves, over one hundred
freedmen, upon certain very notorious
carpet-baggers of that city ; noteworthy
among whom are Harrington, now Speak
er of the so-called Alabama House of Rep
resentatives, as one of the principals in,
and Griffin, a Radical editor, as privy to
outrage.
Tu it 9 issue of Friday last, the Register
reports the progress'iu the good work very
satisfactorily, as follows :
Now we wish the colored men of Mobile and
Alabama, “loll” leaguers and all others, to remark
that what their apostle, Gritliu, failed to do,
the Democratic party of Mobile has done—to wit:
taken up the inquiry iuto this crime and des
patched a messenger to the North to enlist the Na
tional Democratic Committee and the Government
of the United States in its prosecution. We are
this morning able to say that the whole matter Inis
been laid before the President of tlie United States,
and that an official inquiry through the American
Consul at Havana will be immediately instituted
and vigourouely pursued. It will make no differ
ence that this cannot be done in time to affect the
Presidential election, but it will be in time to reach
the guilty and bring them to trial and punishment
for kidnapping and piracy, and also result, we
hope, in the restoration to liberty of tlie poor frecd
men who were so infamously betrayed by their pre
tended carpet-bag friends.
Facts developed since we lirst broached this mat
ter, lead to the belief that the M M Brown schoon
er was not tlie only vessel engaged in this enter
prise, and the negroes were not shipped in the same
vessel that carried to Cuba tlie desperadoes who
conceived, executed and gained the golden fruits of
it. We have the names of the Vpasseugers on the
Brmm, and they were all carpet-baggers. Federal
detectives and Northerners. They will be fur
nished to the Government. We may only say now,
“Mr. Speaker” George K. Harrington Wane of
them. We also have the names of the colored cook
and steward. The first is iu the city, w e believe,
and his colored friends may learn from him if an
attempt was not made, and failed, through the
warning of a young man who was on board as su- j
pcrcargo, to entice them on there to be sold.
A BUREAU MUNCHAUSEN.
In the New York Times of the 26th ult.
we find the following as a special Wash
ington dispatch:
Wabhixotom, Friday Sept. 35.
Gen. Howard to-day received later and fuller in«
formation of tlie affair at Camilla, Ga., on the isnii
inst., which fully confirms tlie previous report of its
tragic ami bloody character. Major Howard, the
Sub-Assistant Commissioner for the District of Al
bany, writes to military headquarters at Atlanta as
follows :
Headquarters Sitb-District of Albany, i
Bureau of Refugees and Fkeeomen.
Albany, Ga., Sept. 30, 1868. )
Col. It. J. Leum, V. 8. A., Atlanta, (la. ;
Colonei, : The affair at Camilla seems to have
been a massacre. I inclose an accurate list of the
killed and wounded, so fur as know n.
A freed man, who was a prisoner at Camilla, but
who escaped during the night, slates that he helped
to remove one dead freedw outan and four wounded
freedmen from the road, within one hundred yards
of tlie Court-house. The white men, his captors,
boasted to the new comers of twelve freedmen in
one pond near Dr. Dasher's, two miles from Ca
milla. Another freedman took refuge in a swamp,
where he lay concealed all last night, with two oth
ers near him. He heard, during all the earlier part
of the night, the white men scouring the woods,
shouting, enrsiugartd shooting the freedmen. The
pursuers, he said, were accompanied by blood
hounds. He heard the eriea and shrieks of the
fugitives, ustbey wen* eh**,*!**'!* they wen- t»ua««t
down By tne dogs, fwo or the men near him. be
coming frightened, endeavored to escape, and both
were shot within his lustring It was reported to
me as lap; as four o’clock this afternoon, that up to
eight o'clock this morning, when my informant
left, they were still pursuing tlie freedmen with
horse* and dogs.
There ha* been an intense excitement in town
all day. The town has been filled with freedmen.
They have swarmed about my office by hundreds.
It has been difficult to restrain them from proceed
ing m«Air to Camilla. I have addressed them,
counseling peace and order. I have told them that
the offenders shall be puni.-lied, and that their lives
should be protected, but I have no heart for my
work. I feel no assurance that my promises will
be. fulfilled. The Mayor addressed them, as did
also some citizens, but the freed people scoffed at
and would not listen to them, and I had the whole
burden to bear.
The report of Messrs. Vnon and John
ston to the Legislative Committee gives
the lie to this infamous document, and
tlie mendacious drone who sent it knew
that it was false. Tlie sole object of its
concoction and publication was to give
official coloring and sanction to what oth
erwise might have been regarded as a com
mon partisan, electioneering lie. Howard,
like ali his tribe, belongs to tlie Radical
party body, soul, boots ami breeches, anfi
if the truth were known, hold this riot as
the most marvellous piece of good luck
for himself. It put him prominently be
fore his employers as a zealous, stiek-at
nothing tool, who well deserves promo*
tiou. If lie could send North a weekly
lie of this dimension from now till the
election, he might get to be a Major Gen
eral, like his namesake.
A HURD TO PLANTERS.
Last year’s cotton movement is repeat
ing itself tlie present season. With an
inadequate supply abroad, and our home
ports not well stocked aud not likely to
be, because, witli the diminished average
of the growing crop, one million eight
hundred thousand bales is a liberal esti
mate —nevertheless the tendency of tlie
market is downward, downward. Our
advice to planters is to send cotton for
ward and square their balances witli tlie
merchants who have provided tlie means
wherewith to raise it. Except by consent
of parties, the fulfillment of obligations of
this kind cannot be honorably delayed.
With whatever portion of the crop is left
over, profiting by the exampleol'last year,
it would be wise to “tie up,” and await
the spring market, if the downward move
ment still continues, as we suppose it will.
The foreign crop has fallen below ex
pectations, and there is but one report
from the cotton region of the South. The
failure is undoubted, aud the question is,
not whether a good crop will be made,
but what will be the extent of the falling
off from last year. Planters would con
sult their own interest and that of factors
also, by standing from under if their ne
cessities and obligations do not put them
under the control of the powerful combi
nation of speculators who profited so
largely last year by their misfortunes.
Fortunately our planters have guarded
against a recurrence of the imposition
praeticised upon them last season, by
raising largely of grain, and conducting
their business upon the most economical
scale. The embarrassment which they
now experience is due to the improvi
dence of 1866 aud ’67, when they paid ex
travagant prices for wretchedly inefficient
labor, and staked eveiything upon cottou
to the neglect of more essential produc
tions. —Jackson Clarion.
The Ckntrai, Railroad and its Freight
Tariff. —A friend has handed us the following,
which we. publish for the information of all inter
ested parties :
Through Mates by the Great Southern Freight Line
and Rmereger Moute, via Savannah.
New Yokk Per 100 Pounds.
to Ist Class. 2d Class. 3d Class.
Macon .$5 80 $6 85 $1 93
Hawkinsville 7 35 5 25 L 68
Aloany 7 00 5 15 .*63
Eufaula ) _ „ „„
Fort Gaines 4 00 2 oO 1 60
Columbus )
Tlie Ist and 2d Classes in above Tariff comprise
articles charged double and treble rates on other
Tarlflfe. The 3d Class assimilates to first Class of
other routes. To take effect Tuesday, September
29th, I«6S.
The President is understood to have ex
pressed himself, in conversation with
some gentlemen from Virginia, as de
cidedly in lavor of the people of that
Htate voting in November at all hazards.
MACON, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER «. 1868.
REPORT OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE OS THE
ST ATE OF THE REPUBLIC.
Mr. Speaker: We deem it unnecessary 4
to review the past, except so far ns to re
call a few facts tending to illustrate the
present condition of the commonwealth.
Many of the issues which have agitated
the country for a number of years, have
been determined by tlie arbitrament of the
sword, and as practical questions have
I passed from public attention. At the
close of the late war, the people of Geor
gia, iu common with the people of other
States composing the defacto government,
known as tlie Confederate States of Amer
ica, acquiesced in the unavoidable conse
quences of the struggle. And whi!e>*t>e
lieviug it to lie tlie right of tlie State to
! return to the American Union upon
i terms of equality witli oilier members of
| that Union, and with tlie privileges and
| humilities of all its citizens unimpaired,
i and protected under tlieaigfsof tlie Con
stitution of the United States, tlie people
i of the State acquiesced in a plan of recon
struction thought to he necessary and
prescribed by the President of the United
States. Although tiiat plan imposed pains
and penalties upon many of the best citi
zens of the State, which were regarded
as unjust and oppressive, yet the State did
not assume it Lo be her prerogative to
question the authority of the President to
act in the premises, much less to offer any
opposition to his proposed plan. Passively
yielding to the executive authority of the
United States, tlie people of Georgia pro
ceeded to organize a State Government in
harmony with, and in obedience to tlie
terms of the President’s plan of recon
struction—scrupulously complying witii
every condition of th t plan, including
tlie ratification of the emancipation of
their solemn enactment; tlie repudiation
of the legal liabilities of the State and the
recognition of tlie validity of the public
debt of the United States.
In an honest effort to accommodate
itself to the new order of things resulting
from the war, and to make its government
productive of the greatest attainable good
to all the people of the Stat •, including
the three hundred thousand persons,
who had been liberated from slavery, and
for whom their former owners entertained
feehngs of kindness, and whom they held
iu nowise responsible for their altered
condition, the Legislature of the State
conferred upon persons of color civil
rights, by an act approved March 17th,
1866, a section which we beg leave to
quote : “That persons of color shall have
the right to make aud etiforco contracts;
to sue and tie sued ; to lie parties and give
evidence; lo purchuso, lease* hold and
convey real arid personal property; and io
have full anrl equal benefit or ali law* ami
proceeding for security of person and es
tate, and shall not he subjected to any
other or different punishment, pain or
penalty, for the commission of any act or
offense, than such as are prescribed for
white persons committing like acts or
offences.”
The conferring upon the negro the elec
tive franchise ; the disqualification of a
large number of our most intelligent cit
izeus for office holding; the misapprehen
sion of the negro race as to the extent of
our present Constitution ; the fact that
botli branches of the General Assembly in
the exercise of their deliberate and con
scientious judgment have declared, by
large majorities, that neither that Consti
tution nor any law paramount thereto,
confers upou the negro race the right to
hold office, together with other facts which
have occurred antecedently aud subse
quently to the meeting of this body, and
the pendancy of an exciting Presidential
contest have aroused party feeling to a
pitch which needs carefully to be guarded
to prevent calamitous consequences.
We deprecate the highly inflammatory
aud violently abusive character of certain
political publications aud public speeches,
which unduly Ipflanie and excile the
passions and prejudices of both race.
We deprecate tlie criminally false inser
tions in public prints and in public a<l
dresses, made for the express parpose of
arousing the hostility of the negro race
atgntw-e* Wit ** mmmmm -*•*
We deprecate the advice and sugges
tions given by men, (wlio, in many in
stances, are not indentifled with interests
of the State,) which have induced negroes
to arm themselves, fur their defence In the
exercise of rights and privileges, which,
it is fal-ely asserted, a majority of the
white race desire to wrest from ihe negro
race.
We deprecate tlie fact tiiat there are
meu in our midst who basely and falsely
assert, that it is the purpose of a majority
of the white people of the State to remand
the negro to bis former condition of
slavery.
We deprecate tlie fact tiiat there are
men among us, who persistently pervert
and exaggerate facts, and draw upon their
imaginations for material for publication ;
and give to tlie world tissues of falsehood,
tending to produce abroad tlie false im
pressions that there is little piotectlon for
person and property, and little security for
life and liberty in this State.
As tlie representatives of tlie State, well
acquainted with tlie views, opinions and
purposes of those whom wh represent:
It will be remembered tiiat this liberal
legislation was in advance of the passage
of tiie I’ivil Riglits Bill, by the Congress
of the United States, which, iri language
singularly coincident with tiiat above
quoted, conferred upon freedmen the same
rights and privileges. It Is further true,
that the Congress of the United Slates, for
nearly two years, took no action tending
to overthrow the State Government, or
ganized and estatdished under the auspi
ces of tlie President. Yet Congress for
reasons satisfactory to itself, enacted, over
the protest of tlie President, wiiat are
know as the reconstruction acts, prescrib
ing other and different terms for the res
toration of certain Southern States, in
cluding Georgia, to the Union ; denying
tiie authority of tlie President to take such
action in tiie premises as lie had taken, and
setting aside all that laid been done by our
people under the former plan. We refrain
from any discussion of the relative merits
of these two plans of reconstruction, or as
to their conformity to the organic Ikw of
the land. Our people watched with pas
sive but deep interest tiie struggle of two
co ordiuate departments of the Federal
Government over their respective policies
of restoring our State to its proper Feder
al relations, and the unsuecesful efforts of
each contending department to secure the
co-operation of tlie third department of
the Federal Government in the enforce
ment of the oue or the other of these poli
cies. It was a struggle in which our peo
ple could take no part, though it involved
their most vital interests. As the result,
our State was subjected to a second recon
struction, in which new aud different
conditions were imposed and compliance
thereto exacted. As in the former in
stance, it was not iu the power of the
State effectively to question, much less to
resist the action of a department of the
Federal Government. Thissecond recon
struction was administered by the mailed
hand of military power. We waive any
discussion as to the character of this Con
gressional reconstruction, or the manner
of its enforcement; but must submit tlie
question of its validity and permanency
to the constituted authorities of the Uni
ted States Government.
Reconstruction under the Congressional
plan is an accomplished fact. Our Repre
sentatives elected under and by virtue of
that plan have been admitted into the
Congress of the United States. In fur
therance of and in accordance with that
plan, our people have adopted a State
Constitution ; and by virtue of that Con
stitution we are assembled as a Legisla
ture. Radical and abrupt changes in our
State Government have been effected, and
in the adaptation of our laws, aud the hab
its of thought and action, and the long
established opinions and prejudices of our
people to the new order of things, there
necessarily must arise many causes and
occasions for popular irritation and excite
ment.
We assert, that the idea that any portion
of our people entertain the purpose or de
sire of remanding the negro to a condition
of slavery is too preprosterous and false to
need refutation.
We assert, that it is the purpose of the
white people of the State to faithfully pro
tect the negro race in the enjoyment of all
the rights, privileges and immunities
guaranteed to him by the Constitution
and laws of the United States, and the
Constitution and laws of this State.
We assert, that there is no purpose in
any part of the State to impair the con
stitutional right of the people, peaceably
to assemble for the consideration of any
m ilter, or to obstruct any portion of the
p: toe enjoyment of any other con
HiOHi«*rt. .r’giit or privilege. .
In conelowoti, we would state, that we
see no reason to apprehend that the State
Government under tlie present Constitu
tion, in its legitimate operation as direct
ed aud administered by its several depart
ments, as now constntued, will be more
resUjetive of the rights of any class of
our <itizens, than is absolutely necessary
to harmonize it witli and conform it to
tlie Jsquirements of tlie Constitution and
laws or tlie United States ; and we believe
the -State government wil! adhere to ami
tnak'feffective the first section in the de
clain|ion of tiie fundamental principles
conduced in our Constitution, “protection
of person and property is the the para
mount duly of government aud shall he
impartial and complete.”
• I. F. Shumate Chairman.
F. M Pepper,
W. H. F. Hall,
Dunlap Scott,
A. H. Lee,
W. A. Lank,
John A. Cobb,
G. W. Rumph,
J- Cooper Nehrit,
H. Morgan,
F. B. Barrett.
GEN. IILAIK AT INDIANAPOLIS.
An AitalysiMof “Lei u* htivt* Puaw."
At Indianapolis on Guid
eral Frank P. Illair, in company witli Mr.
Pendleton, Jeremiah S. Black aud other
eminent Democrats, addressed a monster
mass meeting. We append as much of
tiie masterly effort of Geu. Blairas we can
find space for;
“Manhood suffrage,” which as inter
preted by their acts means suffrage for tiie
negro, and disfranchisement for white
men, is now the great Senatorial phrase
of the Sumner, W ilsons, and Wades, who
imply it now to contra di-tinguiah from
“woman suffrage,” once the shout of tiie
whole party of Radicalism, who, like the
French revolutionary philosophers, would
break down the established human au
thority, by way of leveling all to the base
of human rights, which itself rested, like
the world, on the nose o! a tortoise.
These Wendell Phillips loclrinaries,
wheu they had reached controlling power
in the Senate and House, and through it
usurped absolute power over the govern
ment, took anew view of the mode by
which suffrage wi a lo Le applied to per
l»etuate Radical power. Suffrage amoug
the free t>ori) and well educated, the brave
and highly gifted Caucasian bred was not
the caste suited lo build up au aristocracy,
at the head of au army, to discipline Hie
nsassefc to submission. The Radicals, as
piring to subvert the popular sovereignty
established by the Constitution of our fore
fathers, took a leaf out of Napoleon’s work
on universal suffrage, to proscribe anoth
er species of popular votiug. In France a
whole people are drilled lor conscription
under local bureaus, of which our !•’reed
men’s Bureaus are a sample. Out of this
military material, which embraces tiie
Whole people, au army of half a million
aud more is drawn aud officered by tlie
Emperor. As this ripens for discharge,
the youth growing up among the masses
for conscription are drilled to lake their
places, so mat tlie army iu cantonment
noid tiie great body of which the succes
sive conscriptions grow, under constantly
armed military duresse, with its accruing
allotments of conscripts lo follow a similar
training. Under that duresse, preparato
ry to its future rotation of military duty,
uuder the officers of the Emperor, the
population chooses the national represen
tative to maintain aud carry on tiie gov
ernment, which is iu effect the Emperor
and bis army. We have in embryo this
very system at tiie South. Grant and
Stautou organized aud officered tlie army,
and under this military establishment
Congress Las’taken refuge, and looks to it
for the consummation of its schemes of
power.
Instead of the Frence Prefecture for lo
cal administration aud control, we have
tiie uegro Bureau and secret leagues for
'*•*•♦* ....mhii.o
votes to create State government—elect'
the Nation’s Executive, aud bring Loth
brandies of Congress in concert with him
in administering the Federal government.
As tlie game is at this moment urrainged
for tiie casting throw in the November
election, it is quite apparent that the bal
lot-box is made to depend on the cartridge
box, ami that by the dexterity of Congress
in setting aside the Constitution, which
held these instrumentalities to subserve
their proper functions. Gen. Grant, who
is put over the President to exert a “power
outside the Constitution,” w hich enables
him, like tlie French Emperor, to convert
both of these patent boxes into one aud
holding it in bis baud, turn out the dice
that win for him. This is the modern
game which Louis Napoleon lias taught
ambition to play to history a republic, and
as an anodyne to its throes—how humane
in him, aud encouraging to a people to
exclaim, "Let us have ptace !”
But lo what potency is this element of
uegro suffrage to grow uuder tiie fostering
care of Radicalism and the tutelage of
military governments? It is essential to
the system now founded upon it, tiiat it
must he made absolute by the bayonet
over the elections of the Southern .states.
It must send the twenty Senators and
fifty Representatives to Congress, and an
equal number of Presidential electors to
turn the scale in the North, so that the
head of the array designated for President
shall grasp the government. Its power is
then to convert the sham of uegro suffrage
into a permanent military control of elec
tions —and was there ever found a titter
force to do the bidding of a military chief
iu suppressing tlie popular voice, than the
three millions of sturdy blacks, who now
rejoice that they are let loose from all re
straints, and may break up a form of au
thority which they connect with their
former slavery ? How rapidly has the
disciplined white soldiery of India taught
the millions of serfs of that region to re
volt against their native Princes, and
embodying a position into a soldiery of
Sepoys, armed and drilled for that pur
pose, taught them to subject more than
one hundred millions of their own blood,
hold tlie richest confines on earth, to a
company of merchants of a little island
hidden in a remote ocean ? Ho the Turks
became the conquerors of tlie grand sec
tion of the Roman Empire in Europe,
Asia aud Africa, by con verting the slav
ish nations they took in battle, and used
as the material of au army, to spread their
conquests over Christian civilized coun
tries. The Janizaries, that carried terror
to the State of Vienna and apostate Chris
tian prisoners, filled with the sensoral
enthusiasm of Mohamet's polygamous
religion, easily prompted to such rapine
among the fair races whose religion they
had at jured. How apt all the colored races
areto become the instruments of mili
tary despots, lending to the subjugation of
prosperous nations enjoying peace under
civil institutions, ali history attests. —
Greece, Italy, Spain, all the islands of the
Mediterranean aud all its shores, the hap
py oceans of ancient and modern civiliza
tion, have again and again fallen a prey
to barbarian hordes like the one now edu
cating by our military satraps.
Burial of Henry Horne.—A large audience
assembled at the Catholic Church yesterday morn
ing to pay a la.-t tribute to the earthly remains of
Henry Home. A solemn funeral dirge was sang by
Mrs. Blackshear, Misses Connor, Mr. Maas, and
others in the choir, and an appropriate service read
by the Priest.
After the service at the Church had concluded,
tlie coffin was placed in the hearse, and followed by
along line of friends, the cortege moved through
Mulberry to Rose Hill, where the body was con
signed to its mother earth according to the rites of
the Catholic Church.
No death has occurred in Macon in years more
lamented. It was universally regretted, for he was
a citizen who walked among us as a good man, and
who is now nothing but a memory. May the sod
rest lightly upon his bosom, for scarcely does it
repose upon worthier than lie!
Keeping a Corpse to Satisfy a Debt.—The
body of William Wilroy, who fell dead in Rocketts
on Friday, was carried to the liar-room of Captain
Bruce, to whom the deceased owed a debt for
liquor. On Saturday the relatives of /Vilroy, hear
ing of liis death, applied for the remains, desiring
to bury them with the family dead. To their sur
prise, Bruce refused to let them have the body until
the money due him was paid, and threatened to
have it buried in the poor lot at Oak wood. Wil
roy’B friends at once appealed to Mayor Chahoon,
who sent word that the body must not be detained
by Bruce, aud later in the day it was reluctantly
surrendered. Brace’s is certainly a novel way of
paying old debts.— Richmond Dispatch.
LETTER FROM THE HON. 11. H. HILL.
To the Kriitw of the Xotr York Tribune :
Sir—l liavo read ail you hate said in tlie Tribune
on the subject of the collision at Camilla, in the
State of Georgia. I beg permission to make a
statement winch will present tills whole affair in
it- true light to yon and the Northern people.:
Early iu the canvuss tho whites of that State
(nine-tenths of whom are Democrats) received pon-
Hire information that the negroes were being en
couraged to arm themselves aud hold nightly drills
in military style. They were told Unit the object
of the Democratic party was to re-enslavc them,
and timt they must resist its success by force, and
especially kill negroes who - huuill vote the Dem
ocratic ticket. Very soon this canard, which orig
inated in the Leagues, was openly proclaimed
White and colored speakers at public meetings ad
vised the negroes to get ready to fight, and were
reminded that they could use the torches for dwell
ings as well ns the guns and axes against the peo
ple. A painful rumor obtained currency that the
acting Governor (Bullockj was in sympathy with,
if not actually anting this movement. Ido not
know tiiat this was actually so. Thisstate of tilings
naturally created alarm. Severn! outbreaks were
attempted, and several conspiracies to kill white
people were detected, and the negroes, when ar
rested in different portions of the State, said they
had authority and orders to this effect
We had no confidence that the Governor would
voluntarily aid us. Therefore letters were ad
dressed lo the Legislature urging action. Ihe
Legislature did act by (Missing resolutions request
ing and urging tiie Governor to issue Ids proclama
tion forbidding these, armed demonstrations. The
Governor issued Ins proclamation, hut in a style
and witli false charges which greatly confirmed the
worst fears of the whites as to kis sympathy with
these movements.
But we bad the proclamation, and wc hoped that
ali threatened dangers would disappear. Now,
there was not the slightest desire, a. you seem to
thiuk, of interfering witli the constitutional right
of black and white “to keep and bear arms,” or to
have Republican meetings—as many and as long as
thev desire. We only desired to prevent military
driffs, and organizations not antiiorized by law,
and armed assemblages calculated to break tlie
j**ee, and these we desired to prevent by legal
authority, executed by the civil officer. You now
have tiie exact reason why the Sheriff met the ap
proaching ai med procession, and after exhibiting
tin' Governor’s proclamation, told tlie b ailers they
could hold the meeting ]«eaceaWy, but begged
them not to attempt it iu Violation of that procla
mation *
Camilla is u very small village of not exceeding.
I would say, 300 inhabitants—black and white
men, women and children
A large assemblage of negro;* gathered from sur
rounding counties, led by these white men, and all
armed, and tube excited by infiaiuoiatory speeches,
and many of them by other can-es, placed the peo
ple, families and houses of that little village hi dan
ger of pillage, rape and burning, with the alterna
tive, if prevented, of fearful “rebel outrage*,” to
kill negroes, and prevent free speech, scattered all
over tlie North, just as the State elections were ap- j
preaching which, it was believed, would determine ]
tlie President ml election.
I know loth Pierce and Murphy, the two white
men who conducted this whole atfiiir. They are of
the most emphatic specimens of what are termed
< arpet-imgger*. Before the passage of the recon
struction measures there was no complaint beard
against them These measures disfranchised every
intelligent white citizen who bait held office in that
country. Pierce- settled as a Bureau Agent in Lee
county, and Murjdiy in Itmurhertv county, adjoin
ing the county in wlm h Cumdb. Is sTtmue*, . -.-a
the counties of Lee and Dougherty there are live
negroes to one white. I have no idea that one
dozen white RepaWicans could be found in the
three counties. Thus you see at a glance the U-mp
tatiourt offered to Pkrce and Murphy to get offices
by tlie large negro votes. Accordingly since the
passage of the reconstruction measure- these men
have surfed with the negroes. Pierce wax for a
time a candidate for Congress at the last election
He has now received the nomination for that posi
tion from a convention of negroes. Murphy was
elected sheriff by the negroes at the last election,
but was unable" to give tlie bond. He is now, I
believe, on the electoral ticket. We have narrowly
escaped several bloody riots in tiiat region before.
Our people here betlrht these men, especially the
latter, incited them. They were Jboth distinct
ly in view, with others, when we counted tlie diffi
culties in the way of preserving peace, and when
we sought to secure the proclamation.
But in rpite of that proclamation, an>l all the re
monstrances of our people, and the fears of our
women and children, they jurats ted in holdidg arm
ed assemblage* of negroes, and the Camilla riot is
the unfortunate result :
This Camilla riot, properly understood, will ex
hibit to the NurUi'-rn people more clearly than a
thousand speeches cc uTd, the exact reason why the
Southern w hites are, at present, unwilling to ex
tend universal indiscriminate suffrage to tlie ne
groes. It is because they can be taken possession
of by a very few bad white men seeking office at
their bands, and made terror* to society, and des
troyers of safety for property and security for
families. Many of tin- more intelligent understand
and repudiate these Influences, but the greater
number do not.
In these very counties of Lee and Dougherty, in
-•* JxK'Tt T**4jti«'t- Stud Mih v A-«>M#i'- v Idw frijrrwmiifty-
Know tfur I phut in both those counties) tiiat iu
18W—after the surrender, mark you—lands
were selling from 810 to WB ]>or acre. Immediate
ly after tiie panaage of these reeous true tiou lueas
tires these very lamts commenced declining, and I
do know that some of them have recently been
sold (with cotton as tiigh as it waa in 1866) at one
dollar per acre in gold.
To have our f.iniilie-; and onrlires thus constant
ly meuanecd and our property depreciated, is cer
tainly a fearful and sad condition. Let every tiuttt
In the North place him- -If. hi? faintly and his [>rop
ertv hi till* condition hi bis native country, and
then, wheu he makes Uic most |<caeeat>le efforts
possible, in a lawful way, to avert these dangers,
let him hear himself denounced as “a Rebel, “an
enemy” and “a traitor,” and guilty of "Rebel out
rages,*” arid lie w ill have some idea of the exact
condition of the Southern whites, many of whom
did all in their power, like the writer, to prevent
secession, and who have never seen tiie day wheu
they would not give their lives to preserve the Con
stitution B. H. Hill.
New York, Septcmlicr 34, 1866.
Infanticide.—l)r. A. 3. Simmon* was sent for
on Monday to make a Post Mortem examination
upou the body of a newly bom infant child w hose
mother lives upon the plantation of Jjquire dames
G. Hail in the Warrior District. The Coroner
summoned a jury, when the following facte were
drawn out of the w itnesses : Susan Gilbert (col’d)
gave birth to an infant Saturday night, the father
of which was the Rev. John Lamar, a colored
preacher. The black people on the place suspect
ed foul play with the infant on tiie part of its pa
rents on Sunday, acid had ww.ir«»n»l» .«ml for them.
The search resulted in linaiug its dead body hid
under its paieut*’ bed. Upon examination Dr.
Simmons quickly discovered it had been strangled
to death. The Coroner’s jury So framed their ver
dict, and directed the arrest of the hither and
mother.
Tiie Reverend John had, in tiie meantime, gone
off to preach the funeral sermon of a deceased uegro
woman, and was arrested w liilst engaged at tiiat
very pious service.
Thev wore tried yesterday before tlie District
Magistrates and committed to jail here to await
the action of tiie Grand Jury.
The Macon and Savannah Cotton Markets.—
By comparison of the Macon and Savannah cotton
quotations for the past week it will be seen that
prices have not averaged over V 3 cent difference.
When we consider the expenses of shipping, dray
age, commissions, etc., to the Savannah market, it
will clearly put Macon ahead. Yesterday New
Tork middling was selling at 33 cents here and
2aT. at Savannah. The expenses upon a pound
shipped there will amount to at least 2 cents, which
at 23 would be equal to getting 25 cents here.
The Savannah cotton Factors charge 2'< per cent
for selling, whilst those of Macon only charge 1.
They make a great parade over loaning money at 1
per cent, but while this is true, they make it up in
commissions and other little items rff chargee. No
one save a big planter, who pledges the shipment of
his crop, can borrow money at those rates. Besides
Savannah is two hundred miles off, and therefore a
planter can't stand by and 6ee his cotton weighed,
and see that he gets all it sold for. These arc es
sential items unquestinably worth looking after. I 1
is a town where a good deal of shuttling and ma
nipulations go on in the line of cot ton.
Macon is, therefore, the best market. Cotton
sells for more here, planters are credited witli cor
rect weights, and paid over all the money. It is
convenient to visit occasionally and to come along
with the crop. Asa moat and grain market, and
for plantation supplies, we always have far better
goods and sell them cheaper. They have this poor,
greaseless, white New York and Baltimore stuff
there they pretend to advertise as bacon, but here
we have your regular clear sides, cut from 500
pound Kentucky hogs, aud warranted to raise four
pounds of cotton to every one pound of that bacon
given out to a nigger. Their corn comes in from
tiie sea and is generally damp and musty. This is
decidedly the best Western Produce market in
Georgia, and a better cotton market than Savannah
or Charleston. Their bacon has “skippers" iu it.
The Blockade.—' There was a regular blockade
of the Ralston Hall, Third Street sidewalk, yes
terday, occasioned by the incoming and outgoing
of snndry and various casks of Bacon into and
from the mammoth provision establishment of IV.
A. Huff. He only sold the moderate amount of
twenty t/umxaud pomuU of metU yexterdny. To show
that even this heavy drain did not “phaze” his sup
ply on hand, we mention the fact that Huff receiv
ed another little consignment of seventy-live hogs
heads yesterday. There is no danger of his run
ning out of meat soon, though his sales may be
ever so heavy. lluff is evidently ruler of the
meat market, as well as “Corn King," hereabouts.
For anything else in the shape of Plantation
Supplies, Borneo Blanket Bagging, Arrow or
Buckle Ties, give him a call.
Fill 1.1.1ps I’IIOTOGK APHM GR ANT.
Wendell Phillips on llrani —(lrani “Drunk
in the Public Streets since Januarg First ”
—“ Which nobody can deny”—He "has
no confidence, in (Irani"—(lrant is a
"fool," a "King Log," a Resource, not
a Choice — (irant devoid of "Any tstudes
manlike comprehension"—"Lavish false
hood cannot claim for him anything
which fits him fora Leader" — Wherefore ,
Phillips will vote for Grant.
From tlie Anti-Slavery Standard, Sept. 34th.
ODB DUTY.
In 1864, when Lincoln was nominated,
we marie au earnest effort to rally a third
party on a more radical platform.* We re
joice that we made the effort, and still es
teem it evidence of wise patriotism. The
re-election of Mr. Lincoln was a grave
mistake, from the worst consequences of
which a kind Providence saved us by his
death.
Our effort and protest in 1564 were vain.
As useless and vain now it seems to us,
would be any effort to,organize a third
party. And there are some reasons which
render it largely, if not wholly, unneces
sary. In 1864 the masses were not by any
means alive to the duty of the hour.
Ready for any step, they had no dettuite
idea what step was needed. Further,
they leaned with far too much trust on
Mr. Lincoln’s supposed statesmanship and
honesty.
jNow’lbe Case 18 rilffisrent. 'f fat>
have beeu largely educated to the Nation’s
necessity and duty, and do not even affect
to put off any share of it on the shoulders
of Grant, or fancy that he can or will lead
anybody, or anything. They see iu him
a tool, not a leader.
Faulty aud defective as the Republican
party Is, still ii holds in its hands our only
chance of safety. It is a party without
principles or loaders. Its selfish men can
not lead it j and its honest men will not
follow. But, spite Os all this, it either has
within its ranks, or represents, the loyal
masses of the Nation, l'hey have .chosen
it for their instrument. (Success, if it
comes at ali, during this generation, must
come through Its help. \Vbether one-half
the legitimate results of the war shall be
lost or saved depends on this Presidential
election.
Our latest criticism on the Republican
parly is tiiat they, by sheer incapacity,
have put the nation into unnecessary
peril. When the impeachment failed, it 1
w <s madness to go on and admit the rebel
Htates to their old places. Without land,
without arms, with but little organization,
the loyal vote lies at the mercy of rebels.
Go to Igiwell andannouuee that whoever
A’otes the Democratic ticket will be dis
charged from the mills, how many will
j-isk suffering lo supjsirt their principles?
Tiii- nrg.v wa .starvation, but
walks lo tho ballot l>ox witn a prstm no
his breast. If in such circumstances be
stands by the flag we shall henceforth
maintain that the black race is superior to
our own—there is no page in American or
English history which records a civil right
maintained by the masses under such
fearful conditions. Congress betrayed its
trust wheu it subjected the Nation to such
peril. The members proved themselves
thoroughly incapable or dishonest, when
they adjourned iu the presence of such a
dauger.
ritili, the heart of tlie nation beats iuthe
Republican party and every loyal man
must hope aud work for its success iu this
canvass.
We have little confidence in Grant.
The best thiug about him is that he seems
desirous to execute tbe Nation's will. He
is no traitor like Jobnsou, neither has he
any statesmanlike comprehension of the
hour. We fear lie bt-iongs more to Mor
gan, Conkiing and Howard than to Hnm
ner and Wade. He wasdrunk in the pub
lic streets since the first duy of January.
This is a fact as patent as the sun at noon
day ; none but those too dishonest to be
trusted with public journals ibats passing
themselves off’for fowls,) deny it. He is a
West Point graduate, with liis sympathies
all iu the wrong direction. He has just
V»ati tbrritiph IK w»r wUW-lt utits liuU’ii
command to one race to do justice to an
other —a war whose root was slavery and
whose fruit was freedom. Y'et of the half
dozen catch-words that the Nation has ex
torted from his lips, not one has any rela
tion to Liberty. The mottoes lie has lent
to politics, or history, are such as a bull
dog might have growled forth. A nation,
hauling tor an idea, takes for its leader a
man confessedly destitute of ideas. A
stout soldier, an honest administrative
officer—but had the Nation been made up
of Grants, there never would have been
an anti-slavery enterprise, an emancipa
tion proclamation, any “North ” or any
"South,” France might as well have
taken Muratfor her Najaileou, or England
put Roebuck iu Peel’s place. Our King
Log is not imposed upon us; we select
tiira ourselves.
Nevertheless, he is but a shallow and
short-sighted critic who seesouly Grant
before him. Grant is only the almost in
visible point of the broad, and every day
broadeuiug, mass of purpose and resolve
and necessity behind him. Though the
nation has not been lifted to the full com
prehension of its own work, it builds de
terminately, by instinct, as it were. It
cannot comprehend, much more accept,
a principle. It gropes, half in light, half
in darkness; has found out Fessendeu’s
incapacity but still hugs the delusion of
his honesty. Like Milton’s lion it lias not
wholly emerged into shape or freed “its
binderparls.” But its purpose is clear
and full—over no matter how many prej
udices, it will put beyond contingency
the nation—and leave it nothing to blush
for when it stands iu the sisterhood of
Christendom.
We must accept tiie hour, lot force it.
Grant’s election means progress. We hope
it means the irou hand of a just govern
ment laid relentlessly on rebels. We
hoped to see at last a loverof liberty in tlie
White House, oue who loved and under
stood what Lincoln only submitted to. If
we cannot have that, give us at least aeon
stable who will remorselessly execute the
laws. Ten days after such a will is rec
ognized at tlie White House, Wade
Hampton, Alexander Stephens, Forrest,
Toombs, Cobb and Seymour, will slink
like whipped spaniels to their kennels.
Grant’s friends understand so little the
epoch they live in that their most lavish
falsehood never claims for him anything
which fits him for a leader iu such au
hour. Pope said:
“Feign what crime you will—and paint it e’er so
strong.
Some rising genius sius up to your song.”
But Grant’s friends have not fancy and
understanding of the iiour euough to lift
him to its need. But let him show in the
White House even the wholesome camp
discipline they claim for him, and by the .
first day of next April a negro will walk a
hundred miles, even in Kentucky, to find
enough specimens of Ku-Klux to furnish
the museums of the curious. All this
blood and rage is the child of cowardice,
aud will vanish quickly into thin air, as
it did in New Orleans when the grim aud
resolute Yankee laid his unfaltering hand
on the helm. None so thorough coward
as the bully.
Hence wo hail Maine and Vermont as
day stars of hope, aud pray that other
Slates may come up and better the in- !
struction.
The immediate issue now, as in 1801, is
whether tiie nation shall survive. Sey
mour’s success means auother cliauce for
secession. Grant’s election melts the mil
lions Into one indissoluble whole ; calling
us to stamp on it what legend God wills.
As iu ISOI, the nation now can l>e saved
only as a nation of justice and liberty. To
bis amazement Lincoln found himself the
emancipator of tiie slave. To his equal
amazement Grant will find himself borne
up and on to the shield of the negro. We
said, in November, 1860, “for the first
time in our history the slave has elected a
Presideut.” The first day of January,
1863, justified the assertion If, which
may God graut, this November sends
Grant to the White House, we shall say
“the negro has elected his President”—
the future justify us as amply.
Wendell Phillips.
There are sßoo© worth of stamps on the
will of the late Commodore Stevens.
James Gordon Bennett has a daughter
of 17, who, with James Gordon, Jr., will
share the old man’s wealth.
A man named Sikking has recovered
SIO,OOO damages from the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad for breaking his arm.
VOL. LX-, NO 31
Hu.Hrt.nc- of ,„c Remark* „f JllUu , R
AT TH* COLORED DEMOCRAT,, M«P.T iNIi ox MOXDAT
SI«HT.
M(hl U ” iUS ’ °° ntr " du < ;W > to the m< - ting,
: tam no speaker: if any one hu
T* eU - 1 iMr I,c will rtisaopoint
td. Hut while rMO noAjrtsikOT, at the same tin,.- I
B V nd Mr] >- an<l Zn
tlu Democratic platform, and that is th- oniv
form tlje colored muu in the Boii.li should stand
X >n - do we live on and r-uttiva?.- >
Whose railroads do we ride on, and who-,- l„, u ,
do we occupy? These things all belong to the
white man. And and if you desert the white man
you must starve. ’
The Radicals—the carpet-buggera— tell the eol
on-d people they are doing great thin-- f.,r them
hut it is all a mistake. They are doing you all the
harm they can, and the sooner ton leave them the
net ter. W le-n you join the leagues you ar- oblig. and
to take an oath. When you join us, vour simple
word is suflieiejit. Leave, them—leave the leagues—
and unite with us, and we will do you all the good
we i-an. Wo are all in tin- same ship. At tier mast
head tloats the grand old flag of Democracy, and
upon its folds are insorj'M-d the names of Seymour
aiul Blair. I uiKt that flag wi are >ailinu,*an<! U
one is lost all is lost. Hut Seymour, our n* \l Fre
ident, will save us.
It is a mystery that so many of mt own race
should he completely blinded bv the glare of Kadi
cal'sin, and tight so hard against tin- Demociu. v.
I do not see, 1 cannot imagiriejwhy, even the ineoi
ljJr of this eiuli are afraid to answer to their nam s
at roll call. But can,a Radical negro -how me the
platform lie stand-, upon ? If there is one here to
night, let him get tip, and speak.
All! you Radicals! And who is your chosen
leader—the Moses who promises to lead you to vic
tory ! Why, nobody but Scalawag Fitzpatrick.
All he wants is your money to the tune of nine dol
-kftotikiv. Why, my friends. I woujd sooner vote
for vuedevl! Ilian tor ties scalawag , and ,s a f*\r
tpedawy of the Radical party.
Some say that if Seymour' is elected President
tliat wc wilt go-back into slavery. No such thing,
hut if tin: Radical, are victorious, let me tell u,~,
tiiere will be a fair showing foe u» ail to go (jack to
Africa and live on monkeys and roots. \o, my
friends, were the vote taken to-day, not a single
Democrat would rote for slavery. That is dead
dead as the Radical party will lie after the November
election. No human powur can send us is. -a into
bonds, and the Radical- know it a- well as tin Dem
ocrat*. Iwas a great deal freer then than ]am now
or ever will he again And it is becau- th white
man favored uie in the post that I cling t-> him in
I the present, as I shall do in the future Hear in- '
I am a true-hearted Democrat—dyed in the wool—
j and l wish all whoin ar me were on the same plat
| form.
: The white people owe tin colored man a debt
I which they are trying to pay ; but you w on' l be, n
| liim. You won t believe those who lived on tin
j same plantation with you. Ob, no. But iet a seal a
-1 wag or carjict-bagger come along, and he can get
i your ia»t dime. These Janus-faced Radicals care
j nothing for yon. All tliey want is your money—
then you can slide.
You elected colored nit-11 to the Legislature,
where are they now. Why they w ere kicked out
by the scalawags whom you helped to elect. Tie-
Democrats didn’t do it; but such nu na- Pitapatrh s.
did. And they served you riglit
Now, my friends, when you are hauled up f e
stealing, or get in trouble of'.,ny s-.rt to w:
you go to get von out! Not one of you ever a--
to a Radical, but you run to a Democrat. Wig,
1 Because vou know the Democrat is abb; t■ ■
: you, vrfaije you ail km,w the Radicai has got neither
. IW.IM-C fesm-a.ial.illtr nor saicae Why don't you
j -*%f- Kby.wfry who VuU a!
1 know ran away from MaeonTfvTcfTrfnrt— ...
: though you say the war was made for your free
! dom.
f Again During a portion of Uie war I was with
, our army in Virginia The Y ankees took uepris
oner. They promised great things if I would go
i North. They “aid I could marry a white lei,.
( Butl told them I would remain single rather than
i have a Yankee woman fora wife. While I was a
I prisoner. Col. Lew is, asked me how I would vote
if I were at home. I told him I would vote for tie-
Democrat-. And 111 do it, I shall always vote
tie Democratic ticket. 1 told the Colonel tin.- jh •• >-
pie at the North did not treat ns as equals. We do
not have half the showing we do at the South. We
are not allowed seats in your churches, and cars,
i and precious little work there is for us. The Color - 1
j said my head was level; and I have tried No keep it
level ever since.
My friends, the white man and tl - blue ;. i
| have got to live together. For Hod's sake let -
| live in peace. If ever there is a war between us,
, woe unto the black man. We arc- one against fur.
; It will be folly to tight- The white man b.— th
* power. He will crush tint last one of us l»*.-ne..:
j Lit, heel if ever a war comes between a-. Com
i out, then, unite with us. and you arc safe. Turn
I your backs upon these faisfe-hearted adi nturvrs,
j who. after they have plundered and dt ,-ived you,
i will desert yon in your hour of need., One at.d !!
I hear me. lamatnie Democrat, and will go wit i
! the white muu all the time.
I The speaker concluded his remarks with some
j excellent advice to the colored people generally.
| I have given the main points only of what wt>.
f Twjoos Stterior Cotrt.—This (,'ourt c->nvet 1
(on Monday, and adjourned on Wednesday after
noon. after attending to all tlie business on the
! dockets tliat eould be arrived at. " Some, ns is
I always the case, was laid over from the absence ->f
. attorneys, witnesses, and other good causi-s. J udge
j Cole presided, and Solicitor Simmons fulfilled hi
duties with the c-redit that has always been awarded
J him as a faithful and efficient officer. They wen-,
at this Court, multiplied beyond their usual extent,
1 from the number of criminals arraigned. The main
item that occupied the attention of the Court was
the riot on the premises of Hardin T. Smith.
The general facts of this case have Iwscn hereto
fore published. Over thirty were arraigned unde
indictment by the Grand Jury for riot.
I The two leaders were sentenced to a fine of ore
hundred dollars and costs and six months impri
eminent, or twelve months work in a chain gang,
(if that be established in the county, > The county
has no jail, and the expense of keeping prisoners
elsewhere is a serious consideration to the tax pav
ers. That county has the materials fur building a
jail ou tlie spot, and it is a very proper work for
their employment. Twelve others were sentenced
to a fine of fifty dollars and costs and £-ur ***»’""
iaipMwniiifUt, or Six months in a chain gang.
Six to pay a fine of twenty-five dollar-, iutd ;
main three months in jail, or do the county four
months service in a “chain gang"
F.igbt were fined fifteen dollars each, or remain
two mouths in jail. Five were released on the re
commendation of the Grand Jury—perhap- from
being unwilling participants, which was forced <ni
mem by their leaders —and one or two from their
want of ‘‘years of discretion.”
Much could be said in connection wit-li this case,
fur which we have not now time to write. The
citizens of Twiggs have acted iu this manner with
energy and decision in sustaining their rights, aud
we trust that it will have its proper influence on the
ignorant class who assume to take the law iu their
owu under the influence of a few miscreant
advisers.
In at Last. —Owing to many vexations delays,
Messrs. Adams, Jones & Reynolds have been
prevented from getting possession of their new
headquarters, the “Planters’ Warehouse," until this
morning, when they move in. Though nut yet
completed, the Planters' Warehouse gives promise
of being one of tiie best constructed and most ca
pacious buildiugs of the kind in the South. It re
flects credit alike upon the architects, the Messrs.
Woodruff—the contractor, Mr. James Cornell —
and the enterprise and liberality of the stock
holders.
Iu this connection, it affords us pleasure to
know and state that the new lessees have started
in with a vim in business this season that augurs
for them a degree of success that will place them
second to none iu the cotton trade. Until yester
day's inspection convinced us of the fact, we had
no idea that this linn had received such a large
quantity of the new cotton of this season. Should
they continue this "lick," —and we see no reason
why they should not —their business will far ex
ceed that of last year, heavy as that was.
We are not at all astonished, however, at these
evidences of the popularity of these gentleim i
with the cotton planters of Middle and South
western Georgia—for with too such experienced
cotton samplers and sellers, as Messrs. Peyton
Reynolds and Abe Adams, joined to the busim-s
tact, politeness and accommodation of Mr. !>. B.
I Jones, no house could fail to give entire sbtisfac
tion to its patrons. They have our best w islie- fur
a heavier trade than last year. They have perfect
ed arrangements to make advances upon in store, on
most liberal terms —less than the vaunted Savan
nah rates.
When the Plantation Bitters were first
made known to the American i>eople, some seven
years ago, it was supposed that they were an en
tirely new tiling, and had never before been used.
So far as their general use in the United State- i
conccrned, this may be true. It is also true that
tiie same Bitters were made and sold in the Island
of St. Thomas oyer forty years ago, as any old
planter, merchant, or sea captain doing husine-s
with the West Indies will tell you. it 1- distinct')
within my recollection that ou the return of iny
i futher (who was a sea captain, and doing an extern
I sive tiade in the tropics), he would invariably have
1 tiie Bitters among the ship’s stores, and our family
! sideboard was never without them. For any sick
1 ness, it matters not severe or trifling, the decanter
I Os these Bitters, by a different name, was always
i resorted to as a sovereign remedy.
: Magnolia Water— Superior to the last im
I ported German Cologne, and sold at half the price.