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JW TIHJBMAN, Attorney at Low,
. Ttiimesville Ga. Will Practice in the Courts of
Kiln” Sit, and Elseatheae by Special Contract.
Prompt attention given to all collection of claims.
june4-ly __________
TOSKPH H. SMITH. Attorney and
J Counsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and
Peters streets Atlanta, Ga. W.n practice *n the Su
perior Courts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the . u-
Lome Court of ihe State, and the United States Dis
trict Court All communications addressed to him at
Atlanta will receive prompt attention. apnlD-ly
ISO. H. HART & J. Y ALLEN, have
• I united for the purpose of practicing Law. One
or both mav always be found in their office. By strict
attention to business and fair dealing with all they
hope to merit a liberal share of patronage.
The senior member of the firm refers with confidence
to all for whom he has done business during the past
' will practice by contract in any of the courts, or in
any portion of the State.
Thomson Ga., Jan. 22,1870. ian2*>-3m
4 N PERSON & McCALLA. Attorneys
J\ at Law. Covington, Ceorgia. Will attend regu
larly, and Practice in the Superior Courts of the
counties of Newton, llutts, Henry, Spalding. Pike,
Monroe, Upson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jas
per. dec 0-ly
I AMES M. MATHEWS. Attorney at
t| laws, Talbutton, Ga . will practice all the counties
composim: file Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
peci&l contract declO-ly
UfffiMS k WILLIS, Attorneys at Law
Tilh'tton, *>a Prompt attention given to
business placed in our hands. declO-ly
H'WERT P. TPJPPK Avornev a- Law
ll Forsyth, Ga Will practice in the State Courts
1411,1 'n the United States' District Court at Atlanta and
Savannah, Ga, dec 0-ly
I A HUNT. Attorney at Law, Barnesw
• ville, Ca Will practice in all the counties of
th** Flint Circuit and Supreme Court of the State.
MARION BETHUNE, Attorney fit
haw, Talboton, Ga. Will practice in all the
counties of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and
Meriwether counties declß-ly
r pHOMAS BEALL. Attorney Low,
*■ o| naston Ga. Will practice In the Flint Cir
vmt.and elsewhere by specL.l contract. declS-ly
ROGERS will e<»nti one the practice
of Medicine. Office at B. D. Hardaway's Drug
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TAR G. W. T IIaNN All. is pleased to
.?/ "<>% citizens of Upson that he will continue
practice ot Medicine in its various branches at
fhoinastim, Ga. declß-ly
TAMERS WALKER Attorney at Law
.T .hoGaner, On. Will practice in Circuit Courts o
dechM anJ n United states District Courts.
dbkttistry.
I pE undersigned Seine permanently
seni!" CI ) te,i . tn Thomston,still tenders thier professional
(• ces in practice of Dentistry to the citlxens of
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4 and or robber. All work warranted and
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TH 0 MASTO n7(> 18/7^
DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF
GEORGIA.
Bcin<i a Reply to Governor Biilhelc, by Hon
ISelson Tift, late Representative Second
Congressional District of Georgia
Washington, D. C., June 4, 1870.
To the Honorable Members of the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Congress of the United States:
As the State of Georgia is not now
permitted to have representation, or
a voice in Congress, I adopt this
method of addressing you in defence
of the reputation, the rights and in
terests of her people.
Under pretense of defending him
self against the partial exposure of
his crimes by the honorable Judiciary
Committee of the Senate, Governor
Bullock, in his letter of May 23,
addressed to certain members of Con
gress, continues to fabricate and re
peat falsehoods and slanders against
the people of the State of Georgia,
through the instrumentality of which,
and the means of corruption drawn
from the Treasury, he has now for
two years agitated Congress, promo
ted discord, delayed the restoration
of peace and good-fellowship among
the people and States of the Union,
retarded the prosperity of the State,
violated the constitution and laws,
usurped the authority, and sacrificed
the rights of our people.
The statement made by the Senate
Judiciary Committee that Governor
Bullock did “use improper means to
influence the vote of Senators upon the
Georgia question ,” and the statement
of lion. Senator Ferry, that, “ had
Georgia for the last two years been in
the hands of men of high patriotism, if
it had been in the hands of men who
were looking to the welfare of the nation
instead of their own pecuniary advance
ment, we might have had a different
slate of things from what exists to-day,"
are truths mildly stated, and well
known by sad experience to the
people of Georgia.
Governor Bullock, in his letter,
with an effrontery which would make
Satan smile in approbation, states
that, in his representations concern
ing Georgia, he has “been careful to
avoid exageration and to state only
the literal truth,” and he challenges
contradiction.
Ido not now think of a single
important statement made by Gover
nor Bullock, relative to the condition
of affairs in Georgia, which has not
been exaggerated or false. The
slanders which he caused to be raked
from all parts of the State and pre
sented to the Reconstruction Com
mittee of the 40th Congress, 3d ses
sion, were disproved by the unani
mous testimony of more than one
hundred judges, ordinaries, mayors
of cities, and sworn witnesses, who
were among the best citizens residing
in different parts of the State, and
many of whom were among the best
Republicans in the State.
The false statement of his conver
sations with President Grant, which
he telegraphed over the country to
influence legislation against Georgia,
were denied by authority from Pres
ident Grant.
His late letter, and his testimony
before the Judiciary Committee, are
made up of exaggerations and false
hoods.
In his letter, he repeats the now
demonstrated falsehood, that there
were “thirty or more” ineligible
members in the original organization
of the Georgia Legislature. He then
knew that of the fourteen “flagrant”
cases tried by General Terry’s Mili
tary Commissioner, but three had
been declared ineligible, and that
eleven were declared eligible. He
also knew, that the sixteen men who
declined to qualify, were induced to
do so by his threats and promises,
his falsehood and treachery.
In his letter he refers to his official
communication to the Legislature, on
the expulsion of the colored members.
In that communication he denounced
the seating of the minority candi
dates, as a violation of the Constitu
tion, the laws of Congress, and the
principals of republican goverment,
and he threatened the Legislature
with Congressional action.
But circumstances change, and so
does Governor Bullock. In General
Terry’s report (Senate doc. No. 41)
is an argument of twelve pages, which
he says, (page 12 “i3 a presentation
of the law of the whole case in be
half of Bullock.” In this argument
he says: + + Without question,
if a person nominally elected is found
ineligible, that body (the Legislature)
would declare the next highest elect
ed and give him the seat. 4 + In*
deed, there has never been in the
State any doubt of the application of
this law to the Legislature until the
present crisis has given it birth/’
General Terry, was finally con
vinced (see his report) that he could
not legally seat the minority candi
dates, but he allowed his acknowledg
ed subordinates, Governor Bullock
and the Legislature to seat seventeen
of them, thus giving Governor Bul
lock control of the Legislature which
he nows seeks to perpetuate.
Oovemor Bullock, in his letter,
refers to an examination into his offi
cial conduct by a comfeuttee'*of the
Georgia House of Representatives in
January, 1809, and says, that they
“finally reported back a resolution
to the effect that they could find
nothing affecting ray official or per
sonal integrity.” In this Governor
Bullock has suppressed facts, which
is the equivalent of intentional false*
hood. The majority of this commit
tee made a “white-washing’’ report.
The minority of the committee re
ported in substance, the fnct that
Governor Bullock was guilty in
numerous instances of appropriating
the public money contrary to law.
The minority report was adopted in
House by a vote of yeas, to 37
nays, and to-day he stands changed
by that action with impeachable
offences for violations of the Consti
tution which he had sworn to sup*
port.
Governor Bullock, in his letter,
boasts that he “shall leave the office
of Governor of Georgia with clean
hands,” bat with his “private fortune
greatly diminished,” &c. If public
reputation and the can be
relied upon, he had no “private for
tune” when he took the office of
Governor ; and even now T the State
Treasurer, N. L. Angier, who has
published eleven distinct charges and
specifications against him for viola
tions of the constitution and laws in
the use of the public funds, &c.,
states that “the Governor neither
gives in nor pays any State, county,
city, or revenue (income) tax and
yet he spent $14,500 in Washington
between the fifth of March and the
twenty-first of April last, using “im
proper means” to influence Congress
against the State. This rate of ex
penditure for the twenty-five months
which he has been Governor, would
have required a private fortune of
$246,800.
Read the report of the thirteen
pages of Governor Bullock’s testimo
ny before the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee for an illustration both of the
“unwilling” and the “swift” witness.
In answer to the third and fourth
questions he denies all distinct
knowledge of why the colored mem
bers of the Georgia Legislature came
to Washington. In his fourth answer
he says: “I do not know that I can
say that I knew of any despatches
sent to have them come and it
required the twelve following ques
tions by the committee to draw from
him the fact that he did telegraph to
Atlanta for them to come to Wash
ington with the “design” and “pur
pose of exercising an influence in
opposition to the Bigham amend
ment.” Such was the general charac
ter of his testimony until he came to
Chapmam and Senator Pomeroy.
No candid man can read carefully
Governor Bullock’s testimony con
cerning Senator Pomeroy from page
143 to page 148, and especially in
the light of Senator Pomeroy’s state
ment on page 149, without a convic
tion, too strong to be resisted, that
the whole story is either the result of
a conspiracy between Chapman and
Governor Bullock, or a cold-blooded
malignant fabrication to injure the
reputation and destroy the influence
of an honorable Senator who had
opposed some of his wicked designs
upon Georgia. In this part of his
testimony, there are three distinct
objects: to slander Senator Pomeroy,
who opposes his schems in Congress ;
to slander Captain Bryant, a Repub
lican member, who opposes his schemes
in the Georgia Legislature; and to
divert attention from his alleged
scheme of selling the State railroad
to the “Southern Express Company,”
an odious bill for the incorporation of
which he has now before Congress,
and has solicited its passage before
the committees.
If it were necessary I could go on,
but I tire of the humiliating record
of his crimes, and trust that I have
said enough to convince you of the
character and purposes of Governor
Bullock, and to show you that the
good people of Georgia can have no
legal protection for their rights ex
cept through the action of Congress.
Governor Bullodk has worked with
a desperate purpose and enegy to the
point which he has now almost attain
ed.
When the Legislature of Georgia
was organized under the new consti
tution in 1868, and he found that he
could not control a majority of its
members, he quarrelled with General
Meade because he would not apply
the “test oath” to exclude his oppon*
ents, telling General Meade at the
same time that “his friends” had been
relieved by Congress.
It is believed by many that he sug
gested and aided secretly in the ex
pulsion of the colored members of the
Legislature to make a pretext for
reorganizing by Congress.
He voted a joint resolution of the
Legislature pledging the State to
abide by the deeision of the State
Supreme Court as to the eligibility of
negroes to hold office in Georgia, and
when the Court had declared the ne
groes eligible, he failed to call the
Legislature, or to give them an op
portunity to comply with the decis
ion.
He defeated, through his friends
in the Legislature, the adoption of
the fifteenth amendment, at a time
when it was believed that its adop*
tion would have settled the Georgia
question.
He has, with the aid of the mili
tary, grossly and palpably violated
the law of Congrecs of December 22,
1869, and has thus fiually succeeded
in acquiring control over the Legis
lature, illagally organized.
But Governor Bullock is not sat
isfied with his present “fruits of vic
tory he demands of Congress a
perpetuation of his rule, and to ac
complish this end speedily, he has
commenced a course of discipline
among members of the Republican
party.
In Georgia, with the usurped pow»
er of the State government, backed by
the military and his unscrupulous
“ring,” whilst he maligns the people
and consumes the vitals of the State
under the pretence of loyalty and
terrible sacrifices for the Republican
party, he has assailed the character,
and to the extent of his means des
troyed the influence of every Repub
lican who, outraged or disgusted with
his illegal and corrupt course, has
openly opposed his schemes.
And now because some honorable
members of Congress of the Republi
can party have obtained a glimpse
behind the scene of bis corruptions,
and dare to say so, he holds them up
in his letter as repeaters of slanders,
sympathisers with the rebels and Ku
Klux, making “investigasion” with
the vain hope that lies of interested
rebels may have some foundation in
fact,” and he threatens Congress
with the “responsibility for the utter
destruction of Republicanism in
Georgia” if they should adopt the
“Bingham amendment, or any pro
viso substantially like it,” because it
would prevent him and present ille
gally organized Legislature from
carrying out his avowed purpose of
depriving the people of the whole
State of the right to vote for repre
sentatives, and of perpetuating the
Legislature for two years beyond the
time for which they were elected, in
violation of the State constitution.
The constitution of Georgia, article
3, sec. 1, par. 2, says, “The members
of the Senate shall be elected for four
years, except that the members elect
ed at the first election from the twen
ty-two senatorial districts number in
this constitution with odd number,
shall only hold their office for two
years. The members of the house of
Representatives shall be elected for
two years.”
This is clear and absolute, and
what follows gives no authority to
the Legislature to alter the term of
office. The “time” or day “of elec
tion” may be “changed,” and the
members “hold until their successors
are elected and qualified,” so that the
“old members ” would sit in any extra
ordinary session, hold, before the reg
ular term at which the new members
are to be qualified.
A most important question now
presses itself upon the public mind*
Will not Congress vindicate its own
dignity and the violated law of De
cember 22, 1869 ? Having under
taken by that law to restore the ex
pelled, colored members to the Leg
islature, and to purge it of ineligible
members, will they now sanction the
illegal violence and fraud by which
eligible members were expelled, and
seventeen members seated who were
not elected ?
But if past violations of the laws
canuot be corrected, if the people of
Georgia must, for the time being,
continued to be the prey of wicked
rulers, then another important ques
tion is presented. Will Congress by
its action, either directly or indirect,
ly, sanction the avowed purpose of
Governor Bullock to prevent an elec
tion in Georgia for members of the
General Assembly, on ‘‘Tuesday af
ter the tirst Monday in November of
this year,” as required by the con •
stitution? Or will not Congress,
knowiug the purpose of Governor
Bullock, declare in plain terms, that
the election shall be held as therein
required, and representative govern
ment maintained ?
In behalf of the people of Georgia,
I appeal to Congress to secure to us
the common rights and liberties of
American citizens, and the common
rights of a State of the American
Union.
It is now five years since the close
of the war. When the people of
Georgia surrendered their arms they
also surrendered the cause of inde
pendent government for which they
had contended. With hopes crushed,
with property destroyed, with the
wail of the widow and orphan still
ringing in their ears, they did not
play the hypocrite and glory in their
defeat or curse their dead comrades
as traitors, but they did surrender in
good faith, they did pledge and hon
est support to the Constitution and
laws of the United States, and they
have kept their pledge. The great
mass of people have been law abide*
ing, inoral, industrious and earnestly
desirous of peace and a perfect res
toration of the Union.
They appreciated the magnanim
ity of the officers and men to whom
they surrendered, and they relied on
the promises of the Government, and
the common interests of the country,
to restore them to their Common
rights, whilst they would cheerfully
boar the common burdens of Amer
ican citizens.
When the war was over, as a gen
eral rule, the officers and soldiers and
a large proportion of the citizens, on
both sides, with the generosity which
characterizes brave and true men, re
cognized the settlement of a question
which had divided and agitated the
country from the begining of the
Government, shook hands, were
again friends, and determined to
work together to allay prejudice, re
store fraternal relations, and secure
the union, peace, and prosperity of
the whole country.
Why have the efforts of these
patriotic men been unavailing ? Why
is peace delayed and strife and enmi
ty continued.
It is because there is ar other
though small class ot men who were
generally skulkers in the war, or
speculators in the misfortunes of its
victims, who, when the war of arms
had ended, commenced their war of
bombast and denunciation of false''
hood and plunder, against individuals
and communities of men, women, and
children. This war of these demons
of peace, those moral beasts and birds
of prey, has been continued five years,
and has been little less disastrous to
the interests of the country than the
war of arms which preceded it.
To-day, after five years of nominal
peace, by the invitation and sugges
tion of Governor Bullock, the State
of Georgia is ruled by a military
despotism under General Terry, who
suspends tne writ of habeas corpus ,
and removes and appoints civil offi
cers at his will, in violation of the
Constitution and laws of the United
States and of the State of Georgia.
To day our petty tyrant, Governor
Bullock, is urging and threatening
members of Congress to secure a per
petuation of his infamous rule over
the people of Georgia. From such a
Government even military despotism
is a relief, and would be preferred by
the people of Georgia, unbl constitU'
tional liberty can be restored.
Will not the Congress and the peo
pie of the United States open their
eyes to the evils which surround us,
and adopt the means necessary to
save us and the country from the
abyss of anarchy or despotism which
we seem to be so rapidly approach*
ing ?
Never s : n e the formation of the
Constitur v .i has it been in greater
peril, nor has there been a time when
it was mure important for patriotic
members of Congress, and officers and
citizens of all classes and parties and
creeds, to unite their effort for its
preservation.
The constitution of government for
the United States was formed and es
tablished by our fathers in a spirit
of mutual concession and forbearance
and confidence, which is necessary to
its integrity and continuance. Its
sacred and ever binding purpose were
—“to form a more perfect union, es
tablish justice, insure domestic trano
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