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.1, W. u iRRGK, - - - Editor.
Tufsday Morning, April 12,
What Might hr Done. j
i ho tilin' that fi:u» elapsed since Forreat en- {
„. TP d Kentucky, and the pretty well authen- j
ii-jx'dt that McGniloeta is on the way
t,, r,in him with reinforcements, indicates that
n, r cti to :pend smne time in that State, j
it iHdkah farther, that Tennessee and the :
,i or post: hare been nearly stripped of \un- |
rtroop The truth is that Giant is so j
1 1 oniy hf-rtt upon taking Richmond that he i3
illino; to hazard the loss of Tennessee and
t enimky. The uninterrupted march of For
i to Paducah, arid the tucl that ho is still
a t ini...- and without timdernnce, enables us
to appreciate the magnitude of the campaign :
■ilint Grant is planning against Richmond, j
With the exception <>t the force under Ranks
.ml Hi it at Chattanooga and in hast Teunes
■ r, he will concentrate the whole, or nearly
the whole, of the remaining power of the :
! y.ieral undo? against Gen. Lee. Mow, it j
nppeaT to ns that this programme, so clearly
delineated by recent events and movements,
open: to its a rno?t inviting fit-id. We verily
bcJicVe that the recovery of both Tennessee
• in ,| Kentucky i within the scope of timely,
vigorous and well directed effort. There is
nor a Tarik.ce in.the Slate of Mississippi ten
miles from the river, and there is no proba
bility that. There will be until the campaign in
Virginia is decided. There is, therefore, no
reason why Gen. Poll; s whole force could not
co-operate in any* movement further North
All that i necessary i= . to vv#*e« the Tennes
see wifli ; ft few thousand men and at tike, or
. von threaten, the Nashville & Chnttamooga
road in Thomas’ rear. This would compel
the evacuation of Chattanooga, and, then,
Jolif!?tort could fake up the line of march and
of pursuit, if he could not force his antag
oni t to battle, he could follow him to Nash
ville, or to the Ohio.
in the meantime with Forrest, Morgan and
Lee in the enemy 3 rear, or front, when he be
oins to retreat, no. reinforcements could reach
him. Once established in Kentucky, with the
whole summer before, tie. we could select and
fortify positions on the Tennessee and Cum
berland livei , and hold tho two States for
ever. The prize is worth a great effort and
we trust it will be made.
“An Rkvoir."—An able article from our
distinguished correspondent will be found in
this issue on the Suspension of the Habeas
Corpus. This subject has been elaborately
treated in this paper, and in other journals,
but we tbiuk the reader will find views pre
ented in this article -just views and most
forcibly presented—-which lie Las seen no
where else. It will well repay a careful peru
sal.
[OOMMBNICATED,]
Gov. Brown’s Message—Habeas Corpus.
We shall endeavor to treat this topic of the
Message with becoming gravity. Him. Am*
has exhausted the Mioject, m us unmorons
aspects, and we hope to he brief. Mr. Steph
ens' great speech has beclouded it. and a few
-plain words seem to be necessary to take us
back to original ideas and “fundamental prin
ciples,” We beg to be indulged in something
like system.
The Ist question i? —What is THE LAW of
suspension ?
2d, What are the facts in the case in hand—
What is that terrible thing the Congress has
ventured to do?—and
3d, What reasons exist-to justify the action
of Congress in the premises? What is the
policy adopted and what circunaafanceirren
dered it necessary ?
We devote this article to the*lam of the
question. And it is obvious that precis,‘ideas
on this subject do not prevail. Governor
■Brow# indulgesdeep mortification, at the
late action of Congress in attempting to sus
pend the privilege ot the writ ot habeas corpus,
-and to confer upon the I’re:-blent powers tx~
pres /;,- ibnied hhn l.y tit ■ Constitution of the
Confederate States/’ He boldly asserts that
this "action of* Congress has been had under
pretext of luccsnti/. which oto whole people
docs not exist, and declaia that “'what
ever may have bocn.llu- niutivos, om Congress.,
wilh t!u* a Pot and at the request of the Ex
»■ ‘iiuu-, ha sliik/. .i ),//■ t.hm- at the liberties of
to people ’.’j ihii, States.
We join issue with the Governor. We ns
:i that ihe action ut Congress is c&n••titn- :
i piudetu—.necessary—wise—putri- ’
Ot/ nid conservative m - the liberties of the |
people of a he te f;cutes,
1. What is Lt'h of the question? To *
comprehend if we must ron'idci >v little the 1
rs firglmd: which the ufntdte of!
Ib'th Charles l-t, chapter 1< fL affirmed with |
s «ch immorlal emphasis—th k exact fcc.pe and !
. of that stninie. '•the reason and spirit i
cd the law — :o,;at it did enact and why it ’
enacted it.
We should. i. member that this statute, as :
a. a t ii'uii .■ cqlien t famous habe.is corpus j
H'at t harles .:J. ch. ■ originated in a i
- .-w yule, i nig pivdra. fed, -hitter and bloody, j
i ecu - p, ositiiv land and their tyran- j
1 1 A<a The old Huron • made no war upon i
•uo Pent • c.-., They * nought through it® j
ace iic' to cm tv* i the abuse 0 of the Mo i/a l I
Prerogative - in rCstri. t that prerogative with- i
in the just limit- of a raunnni liheny and to ■
shelter their obi English liberties under the ■
aegis of the 'supreme legislative will.
The Star-Chainher Court, ns remoddled by |
the statutes, 3 Hen VII. c. I. and 2i Hen. i
VIII. c. 20, had a wide and admitted jurisdie- j
tion over riots, perjury, misbehavior ot sher
iffs and other misdemeanors in derogation of
be laws ot the land. That court bad not
been content with its just jurisdiction. Con
v: 'tnir- of Lords, temporal and spiritual, being i
pnv.v 001111 wflm-s and t>•■>,-> < ommnn-law judges
10 f ' :r to it? u'-nrpatiohs and tyrannies. r
.' v ! 11 * J 2 'he intervention ot a jury,
!: r ! n :;I h r! ly / IR:l6r thpir,tinonro ot the-crown, i
. V ' t:> n “ diction, h- Rlachstone !
inform.: n ■ in the tt-m s- -t t i 1
’ ot Lord Clarendon
t 0 rhf . ; '/ Sfc ri"qv m hU pioclamations and!
b *' rat ” to vindicating of ,lh 9 al
and grunts of monopolies; holding ,
for honorable that which pleased and for 1
tnnt whifh profited, and becoming both a
touit of law to determine civil eights, and a
court of revenue to enrich the treasury; the
council table by proclamations enjoining to the
people that which was not enjoined by the tawf,
and prohibiting that which was not prohibited; j
and the ST A li-CMAMBER, which consisted of \
the same persons in different rooms, censuiing j
the breach and disobedience of those procla
mations, by very great fines, imprisonments, and
corporal severities; so that any disrespect to |
any acts of State, or to the persons oj states- j
men, was in no time more penal, and the foun
dations o>f right” (as established in the rock
of the common law,) ic never more in danger to ;
h« destroyed.” “For winch reason, Black-|
stone continues, ‘‘it was finally abolished, by j
statute [IC Car. I, e. 10.] to the general joy |
of the whole nation.”
llv the 3 lien., VH. c. I, the Lords, Privy j
Counsellors and Judges in Star-Chamber,
were constituted sole judges of the fair, fact
and the penalty , and the II Hen. VII, c. 3, had
legalized informations upon any penal statute,
so that the jurisdiction of the King’s Bench
fell into disuse aud “Empson and Dtully. (the
wicked instruments .of King Henry VII) by
hunting out obsolete penalties, and this tyran
nical mode of prosecution, with other oppress
ive devices, continually harrasssd the subject
and shamefully enriched the crown.” It was
for ‘ the emolument of the Exchequer” that
almost every act in the wicked reign of Henry
VII was devised. “Informations” were al- I
lowed “in lieu of indieimtats at the assises j
and sessions of the peace, in order to multiply j
Jims and pecuniary penalties; “The statute
for fines of landed property was craftily and
covertly continued , to facilitate the destruction
i of entails, and make the owners of real estates
■ more capable to forfeit a* well as to alien.”
The benefit of clergy, was, no longer allowed
; to stop attainders and save the inheritances of
lay offenders. The defendant in all actions on
the case were subject to the writ of capias and
and so might be outlawed, that his goods might
become the property of the. crown;'
It was against this state of things that the
fendal lords —the powerful barons and rich
abhtfs fought, in their own interest, and not
that of “the common!?” who had little prop
erty of a»y sort, und were mere dependencies.
It was a contest for property , much more
than for liberty. It bad no relation whatever
to tie emergencies if war, when inter anna leges
silent— when the grealeet sacrifices arc de
manded pro rege. lege , ct gregt —that atate of
the Republic in which "• the Senate of Rome
was wont to have recourse to a DICTATOR."
The habeas corpus and the restoration of the
common law, by the overthrow of the Star-
Chamber, looked to the preservation of the
lights and properties of Englishmen in times
of peace, and not to those periods of “immi
nent danger," and those “cases of extreme
emergency” in whjch every nation has parted
“with its liberty--for awhile, in order to pre
serve it forever. - ’ And hence, we find that
Englishmen were content to wrest the sceptre
of despotic power from the hands of the ty
rant, and considered it “the happiness” of the
British Constitution that it is not left to the
Executive power to determine when the danger of
the .State is so great as to render it “expedi
ent” to subordinate the personal liberty of the
subject to the salvation of the nation.
-“The Parliament only, or legislative power
moy, 1 .. v * . » it ■■secs proper, authorize the
crown, by suspending the writ of Habeas Cor
pus Act, for a short and limited time, to im
prison suspected persons without giving any
reasons for so doing.”
Sueli was the English common and statute
law at the time of the adoption of the Fede
ral Constition, providing that “Tile privilege
ot the writ of habeas corpus, shall not be sus
pended unless, when in eases <> f rebellion or in
; vasion, the public safeiv MAY require it.”
This provision of the Federal Constitution was
a limitation upon the “omnipotence" of Par
liament, as asserted by British statesmen.
By a careful attention to the very words of
the Constitution it will be seen that this writ
may be suspended, not only when “in cases of
rebellion or invasion the public safety"
SHALL absolutely, at the time*of suspension,
“require it”—but whenever in either ot these
eases, in the judgment of which lias
i the sole right to decide the question, the puh
i lie safety “MAY (probably) require it Such
lis the sen ; e of the grammar and the sense of
! the thing.
j A Constitutional lawyer will look in vain
j for those other (imitation, upon this power in
! sis ted on by Governor Brown and Mr. Steph
en? in Li- great rpeerdi at Millidgevifle of lGtli
March, 1884. Mr. Stephens himself gives up
the implication argument of tin* Governor, and
confesses the power in Congress to be abso
lute and proper—subject only to the condi
tion? that the suspension shall be in a time of
“rebellion or invasion -and these other
’ conditions, to-wit : ifiul it shall be done in
j DEE PROCESS OF LAW i which every tyro
kiinw j is an impossibility—and farther .that
if - hall not interfere with “the right of the *
people to he secure in t heir PERSONS, which
h anothri impossibility ! and still farther that j
■no warrant shall i?-ne but upon probable !
cause supported by oath or affirmation, 1 which i
has no reference whatever to the subject! \
It i? manifest to the candid mind that ihe
mi'pen ;-ion of tlit writ of habeas carpus, in a
time of rebellion or ‘•invasion’ when "the
public safety mai; ic.|uire it, operates of itself
to arrest the ■ dm- process of law —does not
apply to ;i j. gulai irial upon indictment lor a
and holds temporarily, in abeyance, the
tights of ’ ttie people to be secure in their
i<. e.i . .'utd not to be imprisoned upon any
suspicion whatever, it lit only lot a sworn cause.
Such was the English law—such the Federal
Constitution— and out Constitution adopts tta
preci-r words and meaning. The attempt to
destroy the power by asserting conditions for
its exercise, wholly incompatible with its ex
istence, may evince very great devotion to
public liberty, but does little credit to either
the Governor or Vice President, as a fair
minded, frank, capable expounder of the Con
stitution !
There is little analogy between the °trusr
eies of the English Earons again r t the Royal
prerogative and the abuses of the Star-Cham
her Court, and this '‘conflict of Gov. Brown '? ‘
with the Confederate Government. Our Pres
ident ha? . i aimed no pregrogative whatever.
He requested the legislate t power to suspend
the writ ot habeas corpus —the Congress,' as !
the representatives of the people, did so. In our
case we have no cormorant Exchequer—-swal
lowing up the estates of the people. We are
subject to n*,^r.s —the President makes no
pretention to a right to suspend Habeas Cor
pus. No man, not one, has ever been unjustly
incarcerated m a jail to gratify executive ten*
geanco. Not one has been subjected to the
forfeiture of his estate. -There has been no
oppression of any sort— no persecution at t«l. !
ff the Act ot Congress is as the Governri and .
Vice President assert, “unconstitutional* why
did the} - not wait for the Courts to so declare
it?. Why agitate the public mind witlf a- j
fruitless controversy about rights %at were j
not imperiled until the Courts could be closed? I
There is no war mad t e upon the Judiciary, as ,
Governor Brown assumes. If this law of
is unconstitutional, there is nothing j
to prevent an. appeal to the Courts, which
would so declare it.
The suspension of the writ is not intended
for cases of defined cranes, which can be
proven and sworn to. The Courts are open
and sufficient in such cases for the punish
ment of criminals.
The argument against the constitutionality
of this act of suspension, drawn from the se
curities of personal liberty intended for times
of peace, is equally as forcible against the or
ganization of any army. The power to raise
and support armies is, according to Governor
Brown and Mr. Stephens, to be restricted by
the subsequent amendments to the {Constitu
tion which provide that the people shall be
“secure in their persons” ; that warrants shall
issue only upon “probable cause, supported
by oath" and that “no person shall be depriv
ed of liberty, without due process of law.”
If there is any force at all in the argument
iof the Governor and Vice President, it
! would have been appropriate, not against the
Act of Congress, but in the Convention which
framed (he Constitution and against that clause
which authorized the suspension. But we
shall see in the proper place that there is no
force in the argument, whenever or wherever
made.
The Constitutional power to suspend the
habeas corpus, is clear. That there are no
limitation? imposed by I lie Const it ui ion upon
that power, except that its suspension shall
he done in a time of “rebellion” oy “invasion,
and under circumstances to render it probable
I “the public* safety' may require if is equally
! clear. The policy of the Constitution is an
other question. Three, .Slate voted against
the power in the Federal Convention. Mr
Jefferson was at one lime bitterly opposed to
the power, in theory, while his subsequent ac
tion in Burr’s case, and his support of Gen.
Wilkinson, went greatly beyond the scope of
the Constitutional provision. The idea that
Congress, which along has the power of sus
pension. can act only on each individual rase.
after it has arisen, to “prevent the release of
a person, who has been arrested uuder a Con
stitutional warrant, from judicial authority"
1 would not seem to be worthy, a serious refu-
tation !
A little force is lobe found in the argument
that the power of the President as Commander
in-Ohief. “is confined to the arrest of persons
subject to military power” and “does not ex
tend to any persons in civil life, unless they
be followers of the camp, or within the lines
of the army!” Or, the Governor might have
added, otherwise, by reason of the suspension of
the habeas corpus, or the declaration of martial
law, made subject to his power.
The friends of .Stale Rights have little to
thank the new-born zeal of tho Vice President
f V i. if ibis la tin- t.t-sc defence that can be
made of State Soveriegnty, “the dignity of
the State,” and the liberties of the people,” Mr.
■Stephens can t save them. The Governor had
as well prepare for their decent burial. De
pend upon it, the people cannot be saved from
themselves! And this is the serious (ask un
dertaken by these most respectable dignitaries.
The whole work complained of, is that of the
immediate representative of the people. That is
a refinement in liberty, equal to the refinement,
of logic with which the subtle Vice President
; favors us, to-wit: “ The privilege of habeas
; corpus only can be suspended, and not the writ
| itself!"
We should not do justice to our conceptions
of t he law, if we should wit hhold a frank declar
ation that, in our opinion, (lie Constitution
does not prohibit Congress from authorizing
the President To suspend the writ of habeas
corpus , as - was done by the Act of the Confed
erate Congress of October Iff, 18f>2. Inter- !
preted in the light of eotemporaneous views I
of public law* and keeping Hie analogies of (lie !
In itish Constitution before us, we have not the !
slightest doubt that the framers of the Fed |
eral Constitution, and of our own Constitu
tion intended that Congress might sus
pend the writ. or authorize the President to
do so, in such emergencies as Hie Constitu
tion contemplates'. That is a curious reason
Mr. Stephens gives why the 4°l of IRfi2.exci j
ted no opposition .or comment, to-wit: that “it !
was unconstitutional ! If (he present act is >
“unconstitutional” as be so earnestly contend
ed? why not then, for the same reason, for
hear comment, in like manner ? What pre
vented excitement, in 1802, produces it in 1884 !
i lie true solution is, that in 1882. no carping.
ta< lions spirit ofreptlesHiiess and vain ambition, j
Willi personal piques to gralify, and personal j
anniinosiiir? to indulge, and no personal ends |
to attain, had arisen. i<> invoke a factions op- j
position to the l’rp ident and iho Confederate J
Government to ' pour Hie sweet mill; of con- j
°oid into hell" and upiuar ilip general peace. *'
AU RE VOIR.
* ♦ —<e
i i«m Sew Urleans.
We have received n copy of the' New Or
leans Times of rhe ?4lh nit. It lias some
brief nows of the battle fought on the 21st
! “near Natchitoches." It occurred about 22
: mde- beyond Alexandria, on tlie Bayou Rap
i idea. It give no particular?, except that Col.
! Sargent, of Hank: ' staff, was wounded. Among
the ’i ankr-e captures were “many horses and
mules. If the affair were of ;Vtiy importance,
i something more would have been made of it.
| One may conclude that it was insignificant—
i in short, that no fight was given on our side,
j There is nothing else of importance, unit .??,
i it be a declaration in a long article of the
| Times that ‘ the North, instead of being divi
! “ deu to-day. presents a united front against
*• the rebellion. Our own opinion is that if
is in every wise otherwise: tbat the Yankees
in Louisiana before the end of this year will
have to pick up what they have stolen and
travel northwards, if there be ships enough to
carry off the “cusses."
The highest price quoted for gold on the
22d wa« sixty-four. In Sock 3 nothing of im
portance was doing. 1 Low middling’’ cotton
was going at o, emit 3 , the highest mark for
that quality.— V-fnir Tribune , 17 th.
For Judge of Probate.
We are authorized to announce GEORGE H.
WADDELL,(the present inenm hen r> for re-election
to the office ot Probate Judge of Russell county,
Ala. Election Ist Monday in May.
apl ytde
Capt. Fielding, of Br.nnaiid's Battalion, will
leave for his eopimand on Wednesday, and will
carry any loiters for his commend.
TELE CrR APHIS.
Reports of the Press Association. j
Mi Bgf- ME? W ; |H i J&t&- 9.1 IB • - jßi;
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1803* by J. S, Turasheb, in the ClerkV-office,of
the District Court of the Confederate Stales for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Orange C. H„ A|»ril 11.—Nortnrai dales toth e
Bth has been received.
Thurlow Weed thinks that the conclusion of the
Yankee Congress in regard to Mexico will throw
Napoleon ami Maximilian into the anus of the
rebels. .*
The Republicans carried the gubernatorial elec
tion in Rhode Island by a small majority.
The Emancipationists parried Maryland by an
overwhelming majority.
The Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps aro con
solidated into the Twentieth, to be commanded by
Hooker.
A telegram to Baltimore papers of the 7th says
that the movements of troops are very active
Rebel guerillas burned a steamboat fen miles be
low Memphis mi the 2nd.
Advices from Xew Orleans repori that the Mo
bile ram'Tennessee was reeently sunk in a gale
near Grant’s Pass.
The New Jersey legislature refuses to allow sol
diers to vote.
The widow of Henry day, aged eight v-three is
dead.
Admiral Porter’s fleet captured +O,OOO hales of
cotton on Red River.
Official dispatches from Little Rock, Ark., re
port the results of the expedition to Elba and
Long Haw. The rebels’ pontoon bridge was
burned, also, a train ot 34 wagons : captured 830
rebel prisoners: engaged Deebler’s rebel <ii\ ision,
routing and driving it ten miles.
Dalton, April I}. —The enemy art praHi-ing
with their artillery to-day at Ringgold,
Gens. Johnston and Hardee and others reviewed
Wheeler's cavalry corps to-day.
Weather clear and pleasant.
t* ,
Richmond, April ll.—Heavy rains the past
week, extending to the Blue Ridge, haw caused
floods in all streams in Eastern anR Central Vir
ginia, overflowing the banks an ,t seriously in.-
ipairing agricultural prospects.
•Tames River is higher to-4;»\ it this point than
; it has been in twenty years,
j The water is three fjeat deep in Cary street.
At Shockoe Creek the gas works and water
works arc overflowed.
It is feared that the canal is seriously damaged,
; between Richmond and Lynchburg.
I The water has fallen ten inch*- this afternoon.
No war news to-day.
A flag of truce boat now remains at C’il v Point
awaiting Yankee prisKner* to be sent back ie the
United Slates.
Funding returns come in slowly.
Nothing vet from Mississippi or Louisiana. To
tal amount funded reported to date, two hundred
and seventeen millions.
«*
The negro colonists sent to Hayti h* Lincolu
last year have been brought back to Virginia iti a
j deplorable condition. They suffered extremely
during their stay tin. that island to which they
were sent and ttie whole colony came near perish
ing.
Atlanta, April 11th, 1364.—0n Friday the
Typographical Union held a call meeting and re
solved to advance prices from #1,35 to $1,87 per
thousand. The publishers held a meeting on Sat
urday and asked a. postponement of action for two
weeks to see the course of prices and currency.—
The printers refu*<»«J nu.i «,> .lay the offices are
The Proprietors of four Journals journals pub,
lished here, issued the following card to-day :
We are under the necessity of suspending tem
porarily, the publication of our Journals on ac
count of unreasonable demands made by the Ty
phograpbical Union The Printers employed in
our offices in Atlantal raised their rates upon pres
ent charges filly per cent.
This w ould require a greater tax upon the pub
lic than we arc willipg to impose. The price of
Newspapers is already large enough, and we feel
that the sympathies bf on readers will sustain onr
endeavors to protect their interests as well as our
own. Arrangements will be made as soon as prac
ticable for the resumption of issues, and in the
meanwhile, the indulgence of the public is earn
estly invoked.
The Conscript officer has enrolled the discharged
Printers and ordered them to appear in camp to
morrow to be mustered in.
[Special to the Montgomery Advertiser.)
Dalton, April 9. —Northern’papers contain the
following from W ashington under date of the.Tth :
Burnside is with the War Department consulting
in reference to hig*expedition.
» ulpepper is to be surrounded with formidable
fortifications for a. military depot.
Sheridan has been assigned to the army of the Po
tomac.
Henry Clay’s widow died at the residence of the
late James B. Clay, near Lexington, Kentucky on
the 6th. ’
In New York, on the 7th, gold was 171 1 J and cot -
ton 10.
Thomas and Palmer are receiving their troops in
front.
An attempt wa= made lately to bhrw up t j, p f )r j_
nance Arsenal at Chattanooga.
Col. \\ oodtolk has been ordcivd in raise an inde
pendent command to operate aaaiir r rebel auerilla-i
in Kentucky:
Gen. Forrest crossed the f ’mnbcfland River with
men and reached JCdd> ville on the i’Blh March,
A Washington correspondent ray s’that Forrest'
raid was planned at the North, the clothing supply
being sent from Cincinnati ami Xew fork lor the
purpose id capture and to clothe Forrest’s men.
tilt is auHioriM.firely announced fhat|the United
States will not -end a minister to recognize Alaxi
niillian’s“go\ eminent.-
There was a grand review of V heeler's cavalry
to day, by (Ten. Johnston..
Oui piekcls were tired ontlii- morning but re j
mained si their posts. ~ I
Tin: Ohio (’onvfation. The Ohio Demo
cratic f\.riv,-nl ion, which met at (Vdiiiuiais, on
oft the 2d ot March declared in favor of Me
ridian for President.
The fid!o«ing resolutions, offered by Judge
Rurchaid were adopted without a dt- enting
vubv :
Resolved., 1. Thai the Democratic party is
now, a>:Jt lias t-vef been, devoted to the Onu-
Hiiufiou trao iniiied to us by (he framers
(•filial insli 111. lent, ami expuuil.bd by .ietlVr
snu, Madison and .l&ckaon, and a.s cnnsii-ued
in the -Virginia and Kentucky t exoim ions or
1798 and 1790, and as confined in tin repot|
thereon in the Virginia Legislature; and that
for the maintenance of that Constitution and
the preservation of the Union founded.under
it, we here, as did the fathers of the republic,
pledge life, fortune and sacred honor.
2. That we would hail with th light any
and every honorable effort toward a restora
tion of the normal condition of ibis Union lo
wit : inlet ual peace and harmony, and frater
ual affection bet*een ihe several States com
prising it; and We regret that the measures of
the present administration prevent such de- j
sirable result?, and we are therefor.- unconi- !
promisingly opposed to its continuance in j
power. i
■l. That we arc opposed to the prosecution
ot the war for the subjugation of Stales, or
for (he purpose of depriving them of their sov
ereignty, 'or impairing their constitutional
rights, and being satisfied ihat its continued
prosecution fur such objects will in the
prove the utter Jestruetim of civil libe.rty, we.
therefore, demand the immediate itmu;/nru
tion us pi iii e.iidb means to attain an honora
ble settlement, aiud the restoration of the U
nioti under the I'onMitution.
4. Ihat the niob spirit now abeun'dint? in
our land is the natural and inevitable result
of llte violations of constitution and the laws
by the parly now in power, and we deem this
a proper occasion to renew to our people the
warnings of Washington against lawlessness
in government and people. " The tyrany of the
present administration hna sown the seeds
from which w© are now reaping a harvest of
erime. *
CITY MATTERS
-spa. -fc|a - j&tjj - - -■ jkASt r
T. J JACKSON, l ocal
ili-1 w _ '.Y y> - Jp||
Kotic<’ to I*iUr(His.
After thiCdate we shall be compelK 1 tq j».G o
a deduction of 33 1-3 per emit: from Confederate
notes of the old issues above F). Hundred n and
taken. Persons having business with (}ii- offi.-i
willbear this in mhid.
March 26th, 1864.
Rkv. Dr. Shi.es. —In common with a large eon
course of our citizens wo had the pleasure on cab
bath last of hearing a moat able address- from thi
vetierable and erudite divine, on the state of the
country, atthe Presbyterian church in this city.
It was indeed a “feast of reason and flow of soul.
—one of those grand, eloquent, powerful, logical,
argumentative, convincing, masterly efloi t- which
one is privileged to listen to l.ut seldom in a lile
time. lie started out by the proposition, that war
are sent by the Almighty to purge nations of their
iniquities, ufld proved beyond cavil that in the. o
mighty upheavals God invariably sides with right
and justice. He said that the infallible rule by
which a people might determine as to -whether
God was with them, \\ a? to he found in a snfisfnc
tory solution of two simple interrogations “Are
we right before God ?" and “Are we right Lei..re
man ?"
He discussed both these enquiries very olal.o
ratelv, and proved convincingly that the Confede
rate States are not yet right in . the eyes of C..d,
inasmuch as the church had suffered a wotnl de
clension, and the people were leuiarkably bar
denod and ieoellionß. He-bowed that our ~nly
hope of an early and permanent p,-a. e w.i. c> be
expected in the valley m uafiuual bum ilia Hon ami
repentance, aided by Hie strong arm ...f a united,
determined and patriotic rest dance, "at all h... :«rd
and to the last extremity.'-’
The reverend gentleman, in di-a-u dug Ait- sc«-
ond proposition, adduced, by a brilliant array and
reason and a host of irrefutable fad . tin- mo t
overwhelming and indubitable evidenco, to.pr-'Ve
that we are in the right in the issues exi-din*-, t»e
tvvesu the North and the South. He honed that
ns far back as the tormatiou of ttic Puitcd Ftale.-
Government. there wa® a great diver it > ot int.-ie-i
and a clashing of sentiment bet ween the two
tiuns—even prior to the adoption of the C’.-mtitn
tion ; and at that early stage of tiling, compromi
ses had to be entered into between the Northern
and Southern colonies—compromise, which re
cognized the rights of Slavery, State Sovereignty
and Secession in a light as clear an the noondav
sun. lie said that the Northern Stater had not
only always acknowledged the via hi of Sece:-i"ii
up to the breaking out of tin. war, but that on
several occasions several of those Si ate? had actu
ally threatened to exercise the right. Hue Lv one
they bad vi Rated constitutional obligations and
broken the most solemn agreements, until every
thing was gone, and there was no resource loft the
Fonth, but to throw <-rt' the woke of tyranny and
resort to the last refuge of freemen— seen?: ion fir
revolution. He further showed that the Foul bind
all the elements id' inherent greatness ; the ncct.
sary requisites of nationality, and pi.
Hired in hopeful and vivid colors, the grand inis
sion under hcavon of the Confederate States.
lie castigated with tremendous severity tip.
hosts of croakers, skulkers and speculator.-’, and
said that a cat-o’-niue-tails should Re placed in
the hands of every woman in the Fonth to ti-iii
tliL-ui into ranks; and that public opinion should
at once commence the work of frowning indig
nantly upon all such Tnen. His language on
point was peculiarly strong.
We tire aware that in this brief notice of this,
gentleman’s able and learned address, wo have
done it but very imperfect justice, and have merely
attempted to sketch the most important foal nre?.
Altogether this speech was a calui, dispassionate,
plain, but truly eloquent array of (nub, to which
our people listened with profound deference, ond
which, we trust will bo productive of good result.-
Every erty, (own, and hamlet in the Confederacy
should have Ihe benefit of this speaker’.- 1 learning,
eloquence and rhetoric.
At night, the services of the Fabhath were con
tinned at Ft. Luke’s, by the appropriate oxen-bes
of prayer and cxliuitation, which were participated
in by Rev. Messrs. Harrison, Key and Devoiie of
the several city churches and by tte\. Dr. Stiles.
Pertinent addresses were delivered by the latter
gentleman and Rev. Mr. Ham,-on, which abounded
in earnestness ami power. Upon the whole, the
entire services of the Fabhath were highly im
pressive and instructive, and have doubtless left
jin press ions from which we may all hope to profit,
We cannot conclude this article without .’ayinc
a word of praise in behalf of the music at the
Presbyterian church on Fabhath. i t wa conducted
ni admirable taste and spirit. As the grand old
organ -ent forth its deep, solemn tones in accoui
parliament to ‘u choir of admirable . inget .
could not help feeling the purifying and Meinni
zing influence ol' good church music, and that
it was good to be there. Surely -m b music where
it spirit and sentimciil springs from the heaif must
ascend as pleasing .an-nffce to fin- ear of hear en
A.'iMYKIiSARV UP l*’ußT SPM TIC ft. Ti. duv ll.iv.
years ago, (!,»: ball of the piv.eur i.-. ititl ivvln
tioii was opened in the city of ( li.-iri. ton, I'm
Shinier at thui time, gm risnm-d l.y s i... >t. ■
watt made the object oi in c hi v -ii..i of ibe
t't It it'll Uiivi'init iiliil lilt'd fit.in ‘! ■«i ii.fjif,
| by the venerable patiiol. Cdmund It tiffin, of \'ir
"iiii.i. Ii i j f.mlituhb- t tee a.tit >ii all •> In retro,*!.. • .
the [itf-t. null note tin? relevant y ■! *i, f .
upon [o t .hi prospect,«. Alt Ln.ity h the tir-l
of iio.'iiiiiy emanated from the ’..utb, it wi, ,_.i,K
excKtse.l allw provocation- int.nmej able iv.ni ..in
Wily toe alter all hope- of a pvtieeiiil *ulitlio?: im .
tteii. Jt was the begin it in a* ot that "iirept. ihle
eoiitliel which had been pieileta ruiiin it h\ tin- Co
horts ot tannin i mu. A.ve, iuhy we noi i\ that ii
ivn- liii* I'ouruterieejiieni of on. 1 ot iho-.c "irat
events l»ijf with (he fine ot nau.m . whi.-l, Mas m
creed in the court- ot'elr-rnity from the t..un.iaii..i.
of the world! Three years of 14. n:a ee, ia ,j.
t ion, of numerous sorrow , ha,.: pa. ed. ami „ ha'
do we see ? The little chutd that gathered on (he
seaboard of the gallant and glorious little I'it|mot
to State, ha= grown to proportion that now sweep
| across the entire Southern sky and on, people have
grown from a feeble, dependent, destitute i-omlirh-u
to U relf-rely ing and seJf-*mii:uit»ng nation of men,
who still know their rights, and knowing, dare
| maintain them. But the glorious little i-eapori
| city still maintains its integrity, and ha* stood un
| daunted amidst an array of prepirratk.n*andan ex
j peuditnre of munitions of war unparalleled in the
i history of wars. Still her noble sour, actuated
| wish Ibe same indomitable heroism and courage,
. which prompted their first actsof mM-tunce.. land
;*as a living bulwark in defence of truth, in liv.
: humanity and religion. All glory to Charleston
and her brave defenders. While hi»t..r£ live, the
, record iif their honors will stand in character: f
I ii\ iiig lieht hivb on the scroll offiamc.
I Thn e ye.iYt of Llo<#4 lutyc wojrkedP 5* 1 change
j in our once happy bind, and the heart sicken’ at
[ the contemplation of the horrors of war. But ail
; this will only serve to cement ns more firmly in
1 the bonds of indissoluble brotherhood, and actuate !
i our patriots to more daring deeds and greater sac
rifices. The dawn is not far distant when the m.u
ot independence aud peace will vise in full-orbed i
splendor to dissipate the darkness which now Gver
kgngs u§.
fif\M cr: tuR lv\.\MiN|xr; Jb-Aito.— IV« mol
, ' 1 - 'ivunaii to-day who iiiiVuinc-i u- iL,.t be aud
.j>r. I'd.' "'.- " .,ud iaioiaibty knowu as the
< iiui s.i uinio.-. J. -ard tor tlii.? ■ .ngressional
Hi li'-T hau* u igned H, duty ai Macon, Ga.
W' ‘ . '.-is 1 11 o fit' a sc tU m that bo l.xauiioing Board
ni the Uoiil< -k-t.!--.v t-ver lelt a post with a better
reputation for faithfulness, tumucss a.id ability,
tciuper U w ith man justice to all, titan that com
; posed of Kilgore. Kcttnan and Bass. .Their office
; w;. a thankic.-ts one but they extorted the confe?-
ii-n ',-o-.i from those w ho thought themselves -ag
-1 gin v I by the rigid'uy'of tn< ir examination? that
? btuir ci-uclu- i, ii- w-eiv just, and left with the confi
■ u.ence of all.
Dr. -t’.ncr and his associate, who succeed them
intbo Medical Examining Board here, hear the
character of high- toned gentlemen and efficient of
liders.
[communicated,]
\ few days since, tho Columbus Fun bad
the affrontry to charge, that a set of men
thought the Confederacy were
through personal motives—to erect a stroug
Government.
lit other words, tlie Editor charged that
those who opposed that “spawn of faction—
‘‘Stephens 11* solutions'’— were moved by per
; sonai cooaifleralioas, iu their opposition to
lliosc dangerous resolutions, which slink in
i)i< uusU ils of tin* patriotic people, and attest
the fall and degradation of Georgia.
It anything need he added U> show that tha
vivut’Sf* of the Sun, is antagonistic to the b«9t
interests ot the country. 1 beg to refer to its
editoii.il of (lie 10th insf , where every Act of
1 'nit-;- Vi ■■ ■ for our defence and safety against
■i powerful and hated enemy, is paraded, con
<h-miu;«l and hehl up to the people as evidence
i'corrupt, and nnconstitufional legislation.—*-
Mr Editor, the game has • played out.’ 1 Ev
i-r since tlu- commencement of the war, a set
■if men who ( 1 ik r* “Paddy Power's” great man,
. *
j h ike i Imir !o ads, look wise, and say noth
ing—fw lit until <oiue law is passed for the in
e-1 t-e of our armies—-the depletion of the
currency or the. proem enieut of ijTead for
tlie mi ners, and than the whole pack of
Minetituoiiiutis pHiriuls cry ** wolf." President
D.ivi i -i ‘.'t’ut.iliuc,' and ( suple
tuo! in overthruw the liberties ot bis country.
.Despotism.!*: is a stereotyped phrase with
lb. ui- One half of our people are traitors to
iUt it- country and the war. I repeat ibis is
ail •played out ’
\V«- know of but one enemy in this country,
and that man ie he. who fails to support the
laws, the Pre-idem, and the war. No other
comer- will stand the t«-st ot scrutiny *no oth
ci com ic'wiil save oar dear country from snb
jug.ition t‘>i-l ruin. Wtien we have achieved
onr independetue, it will be time for hair
"putting Editors and politicians to stir up their
p“lii leal cauldrons and kick up a rov\ F generally.
SPItAUGE.
Siezure at Sea by Confederate
Vfsfeus.- In tho House of (commons,
on ihe Tilt of March, Mr, R. Long ask
ed the f il’d Lord oftlie Treasury wheth
er :i .ship belonging to the (Jonfederate
navy would have the same right to search
and make prize of an English vessel
carrying contraband of war to a Federal
port tLai, a Federal war vessel would ex
ercise in the ease ol a British ship carry
ing contraband of war to a Confederate
port.; and, if not, whether such partiality
in favor of one or two beligerant Powers
is reconcilable with the a strict neutrality”
professed by her Majesty’s Government.
The Attorn) General.—There ean he
no doubt that Confederate vessels have
exactly the same right to visit and search
and capture British vessels carrying con
traband of war a,s Federal vessels have.
Bui it must always be remembered that
neither ol them are entitled to make any
such capture, except for the. purpose of
taking the ship for adjudication before a
prize court,
” * Hville Bank Note List.—We find the fol
lowing li-:t of money quotations in the Nashville
Pie ,of tho iflth ult. They are for United States
Treasury notes:
Bab!: of Teimes.'efi, 42 dia
Pnioii Bank, ...,10 dig
Planter Bank, ~15 dig
Bank of Shelby ville, 40 dia
Merchant’--' Bank i. fid dis
Bank of the Union, 15 dis
iracltt Rank,. ,60 dis
Bank of LoainVeT.ee, 60 dis
City . Bank,.. 40 dig
Ban kof Paris, 62 dis
Bank of Chattanooga, 80 dis
Bank of Memphis, 7S dis
Luck Bank 10 dis
Loinmt-winl flunk, 80 dis
■ --.outfieri* Bank 75 dis
Bunk of Xa - li\ ilk-, 60 dis
to-oee Bank 70 dis
! Gok of West Tenuism c, go di?
Bank of Middle Xe.nne.uve, 4o dis
Xorllieii! Bank ot 'l’emiesseo. 7« dig
’ b'or,;ia a ini H- tit h Ciu tdina 7i> dig
North C.iiolirui a«..l Virginia 80 dis
Alabama. ; 75 dis
ijoui.-iami ;.. 40 dis
Gobi, M.uvuigj preuiiuln ~i>S
G-M, i ollingj ~..62
F*! v> (buying) prc-iiiiniii,.. 48
ih a, 4 < Bing;...: 54
i EBIICPBSJkirdI HALL
iA-n' i:r. ifiooty I,o Wig*
Jo €,
SIMII AH Hill;
Oit,
itt flour «tlh fvliißilfcf.lit* ht lifidht
do W. In. lay and Thursday evenings, April
ii ih oid llih.
*i%3J.OHY\S
Witst iflsl.i ST It A TlO l
E>‘ !..' I T SERIES.
jib! M I A t Kir Portraits of the Confederate
1 tleiicra!# Siate-men and prominent men and wo
men of tin . oiith interfered with beautiful views
irom ditto,cue j,a<i of the world and the novelties.
. future advertisement and small bills.
April 12, lSbl. It,
Ail.,cueFK KaILROAD CoiU'.iMV, I
Coi.r’wßCS, Ha., April bth. 1364./
Th e bolder.- of general .-tocK in the -Mu- . ogee Raii
1. i t C-mpscy are hereby notified that lha five per
cent r levied by the law passed by the Confeder
ate Con: ; ■ , i,\h February, 1364, will b*given in
,::.d t lid by tfelr Company on then stock,
Bv oi.lcr of Board of Directors.
J. M. BIVINS.
Secretary and Treasurer.
j »l-l 6 lw. ...
SiVaiiTiah i!i publican and Au>u-fu t oustitutioQ*
di r will id.-, t j übli bed the aboveune week and
f IV. aid biif. to this office
%tt4)t' si*.*i*<*•'** and Hjititiiifi’s
TOOLS,
' J 'I! b ( .N l)F!t. i<;XCL> haviny Commenced the
* ia.mutactuie . f the abov e named ai tides in this
city, are jn epm. and to (ill orders for the rame.
< ’ln. t oi dude -treet, aSfew doors above C. S.
1! vital. lIAKRISON,IBEbf.LL \ CO.
Rifercncv Mai. F. W. Dii.i.akti.
Mobile Ri "i ter, Micsissippiau and August* Cen
'titiuionMist, pica. e copy one motuh and send bill*
to this office,
mar 3u ts