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About The Independent South. (Waynesboro, Ga.) 1860-186? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1861)
VYNESUOBO, GA., SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 1861. \\\ morrow, to manifest-a readiness to may exact exhorbitunt profits; piny- practice, the State will soon he ia- | treat with the South on the basis of ing into each other’s hands that Southern independence, achieved by they may force necessary articles the victorious arms of the South, he tip to a fictitious valuation which y.nd his Government would disap- • will enable them to make cent per j pear in a vortex of revolution which cent.; depreciating the credit (of our the North with no cen- patriot Government by shaving its Govern- currency; and practicing all the tin- i hallow, d tricks of trade and finance volved in a contest like unto the I dnys when “Clarke and Troup," f “Whig," and “Know Nothing,’’ 1 and “Democrat” were watch-words! for party strife. Peoplo of Georgia, will you sub mit to dictation like this? llavivg just emerged front the darkness and; which will enable them to wring a i bitterness of party strife and divi-A few more cents from the ill-provid ed purses of the needy. We have no patience to discuss the turpitude of the creatures who coin the necessities of the people in to profits for themselves; who give a dollar to a Volunteer Aid Society while they extort a hundred from the people; who, in these fearful times, gunge their profit on mer chandize not by cost, but by the ne cessity which compels the people to have it; who unblushing continue their practices simply because there is no law to inhibit; who dare to walk out before their fellow-men, and in the blessed sunlight of heav en, without, a trembling terror that a bolt will fall from the just arm of the Ruler of its azure heights to ! punish their iniquity as it exists be fore Him, their country and their fellows. Judas sold the Lord of Heaven for a price, and it is not strange that there should be other Judases to sell their own worthless solves to Satan for a price? Let them go to their purchaser. sions, having just become almost a t| united people in your patriotic! | struggle for Southern Independence, | o are you willing that party convert-Jr. tions, parly leaders, caucusses, and j b| nominations by the few to control the many, shall once more control j t| the destinies of your State? We t| trust, nay, we feel, that NO! will be j ' your response, from the Mountains! down to the Seabord of Georgia! ! From the QinttUrilioMilisl'. JLctfcr from the Army. Army of tub Potomac, ) Near Ccntrevillc, Sept. 13, 1801. > It is not to be expected that cor respondents, occupying positions in the very midst of our camps, should enter into details in regard to our forces, or the disposition of them. It will not be considered im proper to state, however, that Gen Toombs moved his brigade to this place, tow days ago, his present: camp being some eight miles in ad- j vance of Manassas. Ho has | named it camp Tylor, after the j, owner of the farm where we are quartered.lt is the pleasantest cam ping ground I have ever seen, and'] is bountifully supplied with excel-j| lent water. The old Braddock Road runs through the camp. It was along this road that Gen. Braddock, in From the Atlanta Iutilligcuctr. Korivn! of '•Party” in f-ror^la. When Georgia should be a unit ed people, the attempt isbeingmade to revive party. When the enemy has possession of many of I he strong-1 1753, advanced from Alexandria to- ,1 ; holds of the South, and is even ! wards Fort Duquense. accompanied ! .threatening to invade the soil of our | )y ,| lc youthful Washington, and, 1 ;' beloved State, an effort is being I m . ar which he was defeated and , made to divide our people and bring killed by the indians. Gen. Toombs I about a party contest in the State. >1 1 When thirty thousand of Georgia's I gallant volunteers are in the field, (four-fifths of whom are beyond the (limits of the State, the grandfather wasa soldier in the ex- ; i, l pedition under Braddock, and mar-! died over this road 105 years ago. j His farther, a native of Culpepper, t( l mints o. me b.ate, the humiliating collnty> W as a captain in the Virgin- o, spectacle is presented of a Editors, L army itl the Hovrdutiou. nll d he. d sustained by ambitious and aspiring too,passed over the same road; and ’ by amintious amt aspirin: linen, initiating a party organizing— |that political curse which, in past irys,diung like a dark cloud over oar people. When war, looms up- in the horizon, party feeling and bai ty strife are about to be now, in 1861, the son of the 1 and the grandson of the other, has| 0 his tent pitched within a few paces of it, Capt. DuBose, the aid and son-in-law of Gen. Toombs, acconi- fated in our State, and the atten- jtion of our people diverted from the J'tieiny abroad to angry, and bitter |md fierce contests at home. To-day, at Millcdgeville, there lire assembled those who will inau- (gurate a party in Georgia, and who ■will strive with desperation., for the success of that party. Tim caucus inmigu-; pauied the brigade to this place; so inaugurate tliii [lie great hodv party. While d.v of the poop],, have l-ecn at home, quietly attending io Iheir farming „H ier industrial hnrsiiits, the city and village politi- luins have tiiken it in hand to call meetings, which little knots of them jave controlled, and have sent dule- (ates to the Grand Sanhedrim at |Iilledgevillt*. Thoro “King Cau- rei-ns supreme, and his be-, l' st8 W|11 govern the action of it irmy be said, that within the space of alittle more than 100 years, four generations ot one family have inar ched in battle array along the same highway. \\ t-ll may the younger rep resentatives of the family say: “This is the way our fathers trod” What changes have been wrought in these one hundred and live years. whom Braddock marched 1 wen •wn and tciicii; agansr , I ,, ----- -ere over- • thrown and expelled by tlio English, j'' who, m (her turn, were force,. , ’! h, l were forced to • e| v -vay, and vidd "p tho cotmtrvj" 11 lh<S C-d'in.sts they had planted ,. hcre - In tho course of ,im e 1 lc| sons of theso " Colonists, bavin,' I “ grown m to a powerful nation, divid- ?! edinto two great parties in conse- 1 !! qiience of the usiirjigfious of one of . ' them, and are now enmved in ., 11 "chive. Nominations will bo made tore 1 ]' C,n<1 ' CI f ,lu ono l ,art y socks ‘.'l '» * —im.1. a., " It my ,i» «to '* its own aggrandisement. Tit liwn to as low a point in political roferuicut as that conclave dare to lake them. Self-constituted dele tes, and delegates representing ■ere portions of the people of tho Ivcral counties of the State, win ho lero to dictate to the freon.cn of Jcorgia. Disclaiming the object fey mm at party sinfe; prefes- "hat they do not intend to . «-»tJ *>UI.|| |i t lift I other, hearing the ark of the Con- ’ S, .l stitutional covenant in its arms only asked to ho allowed to „o j n i peace, saying in the spirit of the! ancient patriarch, if you g0 to th ■ Jrt . r '" 't, tl,en 1 w iH go to the left or " ™ if von go to the left, t | lon r ■„ to the rjf'ht ” r I , K. v , ^ o v I ho ^orth would i consent to neither . i ! US aml our institutions as albgra^\“ < "°'
