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About The Independent South. (Waynesboro, Ga.) 1860-186? | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1861)
/ \-r*-rnrr , MAY 9, 1861. Ill ' with seven per cent, interest from the date of the deposit, so soon no hostilities shell have censed and it shell again he lawful for debtors to pay the same to creditors in t he hos tile States above mentioned. This lyill not only afford to such of our Kittens ns owe money to Northern ■creditors, which international law and public policy forbid them nt present to pay, a safe investment and the highest security for its re turn to them nt the cud oi the wat, but it will enable them, in the mean- lime. to perforin n patriotic duty, and to assist the State, and through her the Confederate States, in rais ing funds necessary to the successful defence of our homes, our firesides, and our altars. And I do further command and strictly enjoin upon all and every chartered Bank in this Stale, which may bo in possession of any note, bill; draft, or other paper binding) „„y citizen of this State to pay money to any one of said hostile States, or any inhabitant or corpo ration thereof, or belonging to any such State or persons, to abstain from protesting any such draft, bill, note, or other paper: Provided, the person liable on such bill, draft^ note, or other paper, will exhibit to such Bank or any of its agencies, having such paper in possession, a certificate, showing that he has de posited the amount due on such pa per, in the Treasury of this State, or in any one of the Banks above men tioned, to the credit of the Treasu rer, or will at the limo this becomes due, make such deposit. And I fur ther command and require all Nota ries Public in this State, to abstain absolutely from the performance of any official act for the protest of any paper of the character above men tioned, under such circumstances ns arc hereinbefore specified. Given under my hand and the great seal of this State at the Capi tol, in Millcdgevillc, this twenty- sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sixty- one, and of the Independence of the Confederate States of America the first. JOSEPH E. BROWN. By the Governor: E. P. Watkins, Secretary of State. Cor-nttcfE Halls Deserted.—The classic halls of Oxford and Penfield resound no longer with the merry school boy’s laugh. The pen has given place to the sword. The stu dents of each of the above named colleges transformed trcmselves from scholars intc soldiers, and organizing) into companies, tendered their servi ces to the Confederate States. Heavy Batteries are being thrown up on the southern bank of the Potomac River, which were ex pected to have been completed by this time. It may be that some of the transports that have gon up the river without molestation, will find some difficulty in going down. JfAf’It is delightful, remarks tho Charleston Mercury, to witness the turnings of the Northern press.— They say send fifty thousand troops, nav, five hundred thousand—if that is not sufficient, five million—to Washington. Stavoofl' the “ terrible calamity." In other words, fume, gass, lie and bluster ad libitum. 25c” The Rev. Mr. Fuller passed through Charleston on the 1st inst., anil confirmed the report of an in terview with President Lincoln. It is said that Uncle Abe’s nervous system is seriously deranged, and his official residence, it is Baid, will havo to bo removed before any improvc- metS can be looked for. men t may' list of Georgia will not be bebinl any class of our fellow-citizens is maintaining the independence of till South by any sacrefice of trcasur<| or of blood. 3 Resolved, That we acknowl-] edge, with devout, thankfulness tc Almighty God, the signal favor wit which, up to this time, He has bless- 1 ed our arms and our policy ; nndl that the Baptist churches of this! State bo requested tho observe the I first, and second days of J une next, as days of lasting and prayer, that I God will deliver us from all the I [lower of our enemies, and restore I peace to our country. 4 Resolved, That the Confeder-I ale Government he requested to in-1 vitc tho churelfes of all dcnomina-| lions within the Confederacy to unitel in observing said days of fasting andj prayer. 5 Resolved, That copies of tliesel resolutions he sent to President Da-I vis, the Confederate Congress, andf) the Governor of Georgia. N. M. Crawford, James IIileykr, Taomas Stokes, Committee. R. Sikes, J. II. Stokes, A citizen of Raleigh, N. C. has givon §20,000 in cash, and 2000 bushels of eon, to aid in defending tho wrights of tho South. fPSl,'' Abraham Lincoln 1ms pro claimed martial law over Maryland, dividing it in to four military districts or commands, and a fifth distriot in clude the District of Columbia and city of Alexadrla. Inofonsivo citizens have been driv en off at the point of tho bayonet. There is an absoluto reign of ter ror iu and aroqnd Washington. Civil War. Tho Richmond Examiner has tire| following: Tho bug-bear of civil war need I frighten no one. We are not cn-1 gaged in civil war, and thank Ileav-I cn! all danger of that most dreadful! of human scourges is passed. It al most reconciles us to the. delay of the,I Convention. That delay 1ms made I Virginia a unit—has made tho whole I South a unit. Tho natives of then South nro leagued and confederated I to repel Northern invasion, and es-1 tablish Southern independence. Not an hour since the first while j man set his foot on American soil] have the people of the United States] been one people. Prom the begin-1 ning each colony lmd its scpcratcl and distinct laws and institutions,| and its seperato government. We have planted and have grown up nsl distinct and different peoples and na-l lions; and lho difference and dis-l tinction between us havo been in-l creasing and widening from tho day! of our birth until tho present hourT A war between Virginia and Penn sylvania would bo no civil war, bc-| cause we arc seperato nations; far! less then is a war between tho If North and tho South. Wo are so cially and politically as distinct A people from the North, ns fronl France or England. The people oil the two sections have ever hated each! other, not merely because their laws,! customs, manners and institutions! are different; but more still, because] their races, their blood, their ances try wore different. Tim peoplo ofl the South belong to tho brave, im pulsive hospitable and generous Cel- I tic race; the people of the North to | tho cold, phlegmatic Teutonic race. Wo include the old Greek and Ro-1 man among the Celtic races;—andl also the Anglo-Normans, whose] cleanly habits, language, laws, and] personal appearance prove beyond nl doubt that they wore of Latin orig-1 in? The Sotlli was settled by An-
