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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
THOM ASTON, GA , SFP. 3, 1870.
COUNTY CONVENTION.
At the request of a large number of the
citizens of Upson county, a convention of
the county is called, to be held at the Court
House, on Saturday, the first day of Oc
tober next, for the purple of nominating a
candidate for the House of Representatives
A general attendance on the part of the
-people is earnestly urged, that the deliber
ations of the convention may be harmonious
and the result satisfactory. Come one,
come all!
The convention, when it assembles, will
determine the manner of selecting a candi
date, but it is suggested by a great many
citizens that the selection be made by bal
lot. .
CONVENTIONS.
At a meeting of the Democrats of Upson
county, held at the Court Ilouse, in Thom
nston, on Saturday, the 13th ult., the fol
lowing gentlemen were chosen delegates to
attend the convention to be held in.Talbot
ton, on the 15th inst., to nominate a candi
date for the Senate from the 25th Senatorial
District: Thos. S. Sharman, J. 0. Hunt,
Jas. W. Atwater, J. 0. Zorn, D. W. Wom
ble, and 11. T. Jennings.
On Saturday last, 27th ult., at a meeting
of the Democrats of this county, held at the
same place (Thomaston) the following
gentlemen were selected delegates to attend
the Fourth Congressional District Conven
tion to be held at Forsyth, on Wednesday,
the 21st day of the present month, (Sep
tember,) to nominated candidates for the
unexpired term of the 41st Congress and
for the full term of the 42d Congress : E.
A. Flewellen, W. T. Weaver, delegates;
Wilson Sawyer, B. 0. McKenney, alter
nates.
SLAVES.
Negro slavery is defunct, while slavery
still exist. It exists principally in the
North and West. It exists among those j
high in position, among those enjoying the |
emoluments of office. If ever there were ;
trembling and abject slaves in the land,
the leaders ot the opposition are such. The
Workingmen are their masters, the Germans
are their masters,Temperance organizations
are their masters, but the most exacting
masters of all are the Negroes. Just at
this time John Schmidt and friends are to
be flattered, patted on the back, given sugar
plums by these slaves to secure Schmidt’s
aid and comfort, or, in other words, his
voto. Illustration—the Address of the
Republican Central Committee of New
York, to the Germans of the United States.
Two or thre@ weeks since these slaves
tried the experiment with Sambo in Ten
nessee, Kentucky and North Carolina. The
result is known to everybody. He could
not save them from a severe whipping in
the latter two States and did not very ma
terially lessen the blows in the first named
one.
Wendall Phillips is at this moment on
his knees before the Good Templars of
Massachusetts. This skillful cajoler will
work to no good purpose either to himself
or party. Notwithstanding the effort by
this prominent Radical to bring to the sup
port of tottering Radicalism the temperance
men of the country, the Democratic vote in
Massachusetts —this man’s home—will be
greatly increased. Mark our word.
THE STATE ROAD.
The Joint Committee of the Legislature
appointed to investigate the affairs of this
road, in their report recommended an ap
propriation at once , in order that it might
be put in a condition of safety, and a bill
has been, or soon will be. introduced for
this purpose. Surely tho road cannot have
been used to such an extent during the
quiet summer, or since Gov. Bard received
that somewhat famous letter from Foster
Blodgett, as to make it a matter of urgent
necessity that an appropriation, a large
appropriation of money, be made by the
Legislature that it may be fully repaired
and rendered safe. At the time this letter
we speak of was written, every Republican
sheet in this part of the country labored to
prove through double-leaded “leaders,”
communications, etc., that in stock, road
bed, bridges, etc., it was surpassed by no
other road in the country.
Now that Blodgett is called upon by E.
W. Cole. President of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad, to equip the road
immediately, the more safely and expedi
tiously to transport the heavy freight of
fall, winter and spring, the latter publishes
a letter in which he admits that the road
has been doing a heavy business, but that
he has not been able to pay into the State
Treasury as large sums as he might, as re
ceipts were consumed in payment for stock
and material for the road !
If the line has done a heavy business as
the Captain says it has, money has certain
ly been made, and if it has been made,
where is it ? Little or nothing has reached
the Treasury, and if it has been expended
on the road, how comes it that the road is
in such a shocking condition as to compel
Col. Cole to call the attention of its Super
intendent to it, as being unfit for the trans
portation of life and goods ?
Attorney-General Akerman, says tho
Philadelphia Age, favors an election in
Georgia this fall, and a coolness has already
sprung up between him and the President
on this point. Gen. Grant works in the
Bullock team, and cannot slip the yoke.
Tiiere are twenty-five vacancies to be
filled in the Senate of tho Forry-second
C.ngresn by elections,
A Noble Benefaction. —The Trustees of
the Louisville Medical College, (Louisville,
Ky ) have created one of the most liberal
and r.ohlc benefactions ever conferred by a
public institution upon any people. The
trustees of this college have instituted one
Beneficiary Scholarship for each Congress
ional District in the Southern and sur
rounding States. By thin means very
many poor but deserving young men will
be enabled to obtain a thorough medical
education. Any young man wishing to
take advantage of this Benefaction has only
to write the Representative of the Congress
ional District in which he resides, or to the
President of the Medical Society of his
State, or to Dr. E. S. Gaillard, Dean of the
Faculty of the Louisville Medical College,
Louisville, Ky., when he will receive full
information of all that it is necessary for
him to do to secure one of these Scholar
ships. With proper and welcome delicacy
the names of those who have secured the
Beneficiary Scholarships will be known
only to the Dean of the Faculty. It is un
necessary to commend those who have
e-tabli.-hed these noble Beneficiary Scholar
ship. Their act will bring them commen
dations wherever it is known.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Pursuant to a previous cal), a large num
ber of the citizens of Upson met at the
Courthouse, on Saturday, the 27th ult., to
appoint delegates to the Congressional
Convention to be hold at Forsyth, on the
15th of September next, to nominate a
candidate to represent the Fourth Con
gressional District of Georgia, in the next
United States Congress.
On motion of Thos. S. Sharman, Judge
T. A. D. W T eaver, was called to the chair,
and 11. T. Jennings requested to act as
Secretary.
The Chairman briefly explained the ob
ject of the meeting.
On motion of Thos. S. Sharman, the
Chair appointed Judge Thos. S. Sharman,
John I. Hall, Win, T. Respess. Dr. E. A.
Flewellen, Jas. W. Atwater, B. G. McKen
nev, and James VV. Hightower, as a com
mittee to select delegates to said Conven
tion.
The committee retired and after an
absence of a few minutes returned and
reported the names of Dr. E Flewellen and
Wm. T. Weaver, as delegates arid Wilson
Sawyer and B. G. McKenney as alternates.
W T hich ieport was unanimously adopted.
The committee also suggested that this
meeting appoint a day on which to nomin
ate a candidate to represent Upson county
in the lower House of the next General
Assembly.
On motion it was ordered that said nom
ination take place on Saturday the first day
of October next.
On motion the Georgia Herald was
requested to publish the proceedings of this
meeting.
The meeting then adjourned.
T. A. D. WTeaver, Chairman.
11. T. Jennings, Secretary.
THE LATE REV. JACOB KING.
Communicated.
Atlanta, Aug. 29, 1870.
Mr. Editor: —The above name should,
and will ever live in the mind and heart of
many—very many, in yours as well as the
adjoining counties of Georgia—and indeed
wherever this truly great and good name
was known—his name should and will be
handed down to posterity as one of the most
remarkable men of his age. Although I
differ widely from his denomination upon
some of their peculiar doctrines (non-essen
tial 1 mean) which found in him one of
their aides and most zealous advocates—
while I differed with him in doctrine yet, I
loved him for his sincerity and devotion—
earnest devotion to his church as well as to
any and every cause which he espoused.
He never slevt while on duty. llis keen
conception of men aud things ; his earnest
and burning desire for the convertion of
souis and the promotion of his church in all
of her interests, made him a power in the
land. I have heard it charged that “Uncle
Jacob” was too sectarian and uncharitable
toward other churches. Perhaps he was
rather ultra, not for the want of a pure
• mind and heart, I must insist, but as a
natural sequence of the man’s zeal in a
cause which he believed with all his mind
and heart. He was not a negative but a
decidedly positive character—such an one
could not have been otherwise than seeming
hj ultra. llis impress was left upon every
thing which be touched. If he owned a
horse —that animal loved and obeyed him ;
if he owned a servant that servant love 1 and
respected him ; if he had a neighbor, that
neighbor loved and honored him. In all
that pertained to his character I consider
him one of the most remarkable men I ever
; knew. Raised as I was under his ministry,
I thought I knew and appreciated him.
Since his death I have studied his charac
ter and life, and find that I did not then
understand and realise his true worth, nor
did the people of good old Upson county—
I they do now.
Mr. Editor, the object of this note is to
suggest that the oitizeos his old friends,
should erect over his grave at the site of
Bethesea Church, of which he was pastor
for 25 or 30 years, a monument worthy the
memory of the man. It can be done. Let
it cost SI,OOO at least. There ere certainly
one hundred men who will give SIO,OO each
lam ready to respond. What say y>u of
Upson ? Respectfully,
M ARSON.
Thomaston Jefferson SrEEit, who rep
-1 resents Pike eounty in the Georgia Legisla
' ture, says he wants to ride in the same car
j with niggers, and has introduced a bill in
the Legislature compelling public carriers
■ to provide equal accommodations for all,
1 without regard to race or color.
POLITICAL NOTES.
R bert Bonner is suggested for Governor
of New York.
A Win. McNally is trying to get Fernan
do Wood’s place in Congress.
State Senator J. T. Walls, a colored man,
has be*»n nominated for Congress by the
Republicans of FI irida.
A candidate for Congress in Arkansas
went to that State as “Bones” in a minstrel
show.
The Nashville Banner hoists to its mast
head the name of Gen. J. C. Brown for
Governor.
The election in Utah has resulted in the
success of the Brigham \ouog party. It is
stated the Mormon womeu generally voted.
The Irish Central Republican Club, of
New York, has nominated Horace Greeley
for Governor.
“Down with the party that refuses sim -
ple jsutice to the men who fought for the
Union !” is one of the cries raised in the
North against the Radicals.
When d*ath occurs from natural causes
in Tennessee, it is customary to append to
the newspaper notice the words—“ Politics
had no agency in the difficulty.”
John A. Wimpey, so called
Congress from one of the districts of X'>rHr
Georgia, and who figured as a self-consti
tuted counterfeit detective a few months
ago. has been charged with forgery in con
nection with pensions.
“Uvt-'.i i.iidi c*c Gum this our
feed?” New Jersey has a Justice of the
Supreme Court, a Cabinet officer, the first
Postmaster generalship and now the first
foreign missions is offered to Senator Frel
inghuysen, of New Jersey, in place of the
historian, Motley.
Nearly 90,000 native Americans are dis
franchised in Missouri alone ; principally,
it is said, through the instrumentality of
German Radicals. Many of these Germans
fled from despotism abroad to help despot
ism in Missouri. Are such things calcula
ted to make Southern men sympathize with
the Germans in their European struggle?
When Gov. Walker, of Virginia, aban
doned the Radical party in Virginia and
took sides with the moderate Virginia par
ty, he took up his line of march to the
Democratic camp. He will either land
there or stultify himself. There is no middle
ground in this internecine political battle ;
no half way house in which to air one’s
vanity or sport his platitudes. llp who is
not for the white Democracy is against it.
It is that the white Lieutenant
Governor and the bhek Secretary of State
of Mississippi are blackmailing all the
county officers recently appointed by Gov.
Alcorn. They are sending out circulars
demanding from each appointee five dollars
to keep up the Republican party. The oi l
adage that “those who dance, must pay the
fiddler,” is being verified in the case of
Radical clerks and office-holders in tbe
State as well as national government.
The Radicals are more and more deter
mined to make a desperate effort to recover
New York, and their ch es hope is the Ger
man vote. Neither Mr. Conkling nor any
other Radical leader would care a pin for
Prussia if it did not happen that there are
about two hundred thousand German voters
in the State, and that the party needs as
many voters from this class as it can get.
At tne last election it was left in a minori
ty ot nearly a hundred thousand, partly by
the defection of Germans who had become
disgusted with its intolerance. To win
these back, and also get the votes of Ger
mans who have hitherto sustained the De«
tnocracy, the managers now give their noisy
sympathy to the cause that excites and
draws the patriotism of the German element.
The six Chinese companies have not yet
replied to the cool document forwarded to
them by the President of the Anti-Coolie
League, in which their attention was called
to the advisability of keening out of the
way of an indignant populace. But they
have addressed a letter to the President and
Secretary of State, enclosing a copy of the
communication, and set'ing forth in extenso
the mariner in which Chinamen are treated
here by a portion of the white rssidents, and
calling upon them to see that they are pro
tected, as the treaty existing between China
and the United States says they shall. In
addition, a convention of Chinese has been
called, and delegates from all points of the
Srate are expected to be present, when the
Chinese question will bethoroughly discuss
ed from a Chinese standpoint, and the con
clusions arrived at furnished to Washing
ton.
Washington accounts state that there is
the best authority for saving that there is
no foundation in fact for the late stories of
Cab ret reconstnction. Neither the nrssion
to Berlin nor that to London has been offer
ed to Secre ary Cox. The President has
given no intimation of a desire to change
any of the present Cabinet. These stories
relate chiefly to the Interior Department.
It is now known that they originated and
have since been persistently circulated by
persons acting in the inteiests of several
Indian and land rings that have of ate been
badly defeated. The same persons who
have been palming their statements off on
the press with a view to create an impress
ion that a change was probable, have at the
same time been pulling political wires to
secure the desired result. In a word, the
whole thing is an attempt to break down
the administration of the Interior Depart
ment.
Tns following figures show the general
average of workmen’s, wages in the United
States, excluding the Pacific States and
Territories, daily wages, without board:
1860. 1860.
Blacksmiths $1 94 $1 82
Bricklayers or masons .... 2 30 3 45
Cabinet makers 2 00 2 86
Coopers 1 82 2 61
Carpenters 192 291
Paiuters 1 95 2 88
Plasterers , 2 88 3 46
Shoemakers 1 76 2 52
Stone Cutters 2 32 3 41
Tailors 1 82 2 54
Tanners 1 87 2 73
Tinsmiths 1 89 2 63
Wheelwrights 1 99 2 87
The New York World says : ‘ One of the
most remarkable events of the political
campaign now soon to open in full vigor is
an attempt to revive the old Whig partv.
The eff >rt to do this has not, as yet, extend
ed beyond an isolated point or two in Ten
nessee and Mississippi, and it is there
thought that the move is simply a Radical
device to keep the Conservative elements
from uuiting in one solid mass against the
party. Os course, this is the correct expla
j nation, but our friends the enemy, are hard
[ pushed when thus going down among the
dead men for aid.’’
SYNOPSIS OF TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
DOMESTIC.
Washington, Au g. 28 —The Treasury
Department will purchase a million in
bonds Thursday,
every alternate Thursday of the month, and
two million Thursday. S*pt. 8. and two
million every alternate Thursday—seven
million in all. The Treasury will sell a
million in gold each Wednesday—four mill
ion in all.
Washington, Aug. 30.—Akerman te’e
graphs the district attorney of West Virgin
ia, refering to suits brought by Confeder
ates denied registration. Dis.ni.-s all pros
ecutions under the third section of the act
to enforce the right of cit ; z a ns of the
United States to vote in the several States
of this Union, where the offense is not the
the distinction forbidden in the second
section.
Montgomery, August 31.— The city is
crowded with delegates to the Democratic
State Conveut.io®f whicti meets here to
morrow.
FOREIGN.
Paris, Aug. 27.—The assertion of the
corresp' ndent of the Daily News that the
Garde Mobile is composed of children un
der 18 is untrue. Every member is from
20 to 25 years old.
I There are now in Paris 15,000 sheep, 40,
'OOO hogs, and 25,000 beeves. In case ot
a siege, the authorities will pi event un
reasonable prices tor the necessaries of life.
The Times, reviewing Prussia’s resourc
es, says: Three armiea of reserves are
formed to await events —one on the Rhine,
under Duke Mecklenburg Sehweren ; one
at Berlin, under General Canstain, and one
at Silesia, under General Forrentzerg.
The northern movement of McMahon is
fully confirmed. Large reinforcements
were sent from Paris by the Northern rail
way for McMahon’s army.
The tactics of McMahon appears to be to
gather up broken corps and thereby swell
his ranks, then sweep along the border of
Belgium, avoiding a battle, and make a
junction with Metz from the north. It
successful, this will cut Prussian connec
tions at Shanold. This is supposed to be
the policy Paliako, hinted at in the Corns
a few days ago.
The Juurnale de France learns from a
certain source that before ordering the
Prince Royal to march on Paris, the King
held a council of war, composed ot the
Generals and Princes commanding the
Prussian forces. The advice of all was to
remain in the territory conqured, and forti
fy the right bank of the Moselle.
The Government, with a strange lack of
forethought, had constantly refused to arm
the people of Alsatia, Lorraine, and Cham
pagne, thus betraying a lack of confidence
in the people which had cost the country
dear. Had the peasants, who were good
marksman, been armed, the army of the
Prussian Prince Royal would not have easi
ly crossed the Vosges, where our men con
cealed would have so harassed them, and
France would not have been compelled to
abandon her second line ot defence.
London, Aug 29 — It was. Bismarck who
ordered no halt on the m trch to Paris.
The King acquiesced, though the Generals
advi.sed looking for McMahon first, and
Paris afterwards.
Nearly 900,000 men are now in a triangle
formed by Rheims, Rothei arid Vouz.ers.
Bazaine is not shut up. lie has 120,000
men.
McMahon has 180,000 men marching on
Prince Royal, who is two days ahead of
Frederick Ch rles. it is hoped that the
latter cannot come up in time. Fifty thous
and troops left Paris for Rethel on Monday.
It is stated that the Prussian tureo is
500,000.
Paris, Aug. 51. Parisians of all ranks
are enrolled tor defense.
Britany will soon send an immense
number of volunteers to the army.
A legion of foreigners is organizing here.
Thirty thousand persons have entered
Paris from the neighboring country.
The police have been organized into reg
iments-.
The Opinion Nationale demandsas Prus
sians shoot country people, France sh><uld
teach Prussia that if the practice coiWnues,
she will take no prisoners, and the war be
come one of extermination.
Peasants along the line are seriously an
noying the invaders.
The march of the Prussians on Paris
seems to be arrested.
The forced marches of the Crown Prince
have used up many of his men.
Thousands were transported in carts, and
thousands were left behind.
The Prussians are ordered to camp as far
as possible from the recent battle-fields, on
account of the poisonous exhalations.
Four hundred French Arabs captured
and taken to Germany, escaped and return
ed to France.
Changes in New England.— Os late
years, two transitions have been go ng on
in the New England States, silently and
steadily, which seem destined, at no very
distant period, to work an entire oblitera
tion of the ancient characteristics of the
people of that region. The one is religious,
and the other social Either bv natural
reaction or by the advanced assertion of the
principle of freedom of conscience, —and
which, we will not pretend to say,—a very
large proportion of the people have aban
doned the tenets of ascetic Calvinism and
have taken to other doctrines One hun
dred years ago, nine-tenths of the popula
tion were avowedly strict adherents of the
Saybrook Platform, and every public so
cial observance was made to conform to it ;
to-day we doubt if the same can truly be
said of one-tenth. We believe that there is
now among the native population of New
England more of what Jonathan Edwards
would have called “abominable heresy in
matters of religious faith and action” than
can be found among any other people of
equal number in the Northern States.
Without indicating any opinion as to tho
merits of this change, we refer to it simply
as a curious fact.
An Imp rtant Decision. —The Supreme
Court of Georgia, a few days ago, announc
ed a decision virtually annulling the sus
pensions of the Stutire of Limitations
; made between 1861 and T 865.
The Columbus Enquirer understands
that the effect of the decision is to bar all
notes due on or before the 31st of October,
1858 ; also all account- due two years later.
The court only recognizes a suspension of
] one year made just before the war, consid
ering supensions made during the war as
war measures, and holding them to be void.
The ordinance of the convention of 1865
was held not to retract so as to give validi
ty to former suspensions. As the statute
bars notes overdue for six years, and as the
suspension of one year (1869) was held to
be legal, the effect of the decision is to bar
recovery on notes tha* had run after be
coming due seven years up to 31et October,
1865.
OLD FRANK BLATR ON TIIE POLITI
CAL SITUATION.
Frank Dla - r Sr., i* one of the oldest, and
is considered by some the most sagacious
politiean in this country, An inteiviewer
of the New York IhraU has pumped him,
with the following result as to the platform
on which the Democratic party can succeed
in the Presidential election ot lSr2:
Correspondent—Did I understand you to
say that you thought the Democratic party
could win the next Presidential cam
paign by direct action, in spite of the at
tempt to employ military intimidation over
a portion of the country ?
Mr. Blair-—Yes, sir ; I said so. I belie?**
that notwithstanding the vast power in the
hands of the Republican party, the oppo
sition, if given the right direction and
guided by wise counsels can w in.
Correspondent —In what way? What
platform would you suggest?
Mr. Biair—As to a platform, I think the
Constitution as it was would be the best that
could be adopted. 1 mean the old Consti
tution with slavery extinct. That is the
platform which I would advise. Our fathers
made it, our flourished and grew
prosperous under its provisions, and it is
still ample, in my judgment, for our Gov
ern me it and people. There is no and übt
that when our fathers framed the old Consti -
tution their wish was to prevent a central
ization of power. The Republicans have
disregarded that evident design. They
have violated the old Constitution. Many
of their laws are in conflict wirh it, like
those as.-uming to regulate the right of
suffrage, taking the subject away from the
States entirely. 2he right of suffrage is a
matter which clearly belongs to the States.
Each State is entitled to decide for itself who
shall vote within its own limits for the Pres
ident of the United States, There never
was a question on that point. Old Ihad
Stevens , the leader of the Radical party, ad
mitfed it himself, and acknowledged they had
to go outside the Constitution, it was never
intend that the power should be usurped by
Congress. There can be no substitute for ;
the Constitution : we can have no succeed - !
aneiitn for it. The Democratic or opposition
party ought to go for the restoration of the
old Constitution, with someone as a leader
who has a constitutional record as a Union
man. In that way they could win against
Grant and all the military influence, /
don't think there is weight of character
enough in Grant or any otaer man to resist
the mighty popular avabinche which would
sioeep over the country should the opposition
party manage their campaign in the manner
I explain I told them this truth long ago,
and wanted to get Grant to be their candi
date. He was a Democrat. 1 know from
his record that his feelings were on that side
until Congress passed the militaiy bill
which maghim military dictator over the
South, and placed in his hands the power
to make himself President. Then he went
over to the Radicals. The Democrats made
the same mistake in the last campaign by
nominating a man whose Union record was
in d> übt. They put the cart before the
horse in making their nominations. I saw
it immediately, and wanted them to let
Frank withdraw. They sent him an invi
tati »n to make speeches, and I went on to
New York and saw Tilden. I told him it
was no use asking Frank to bpeak, lorFrank
w mid be to m ike speeches in harmo
ny with the letter he had written, and the
resolution adopted bv the convention. The
result w u!d ha that Seynu ur would make
one kind of speech and Blair the opposite.
I told Fi I den that it would not have a ben
eficial eff et. and asked them to allow me
to withdraw him from the field. But Til
den and the rest would not consent, and
F'-ank remained in the field — Mobile Reg
ister.
TWO 11EMS.
Boston Post.
The Address of the C mgressional Repub
lican Committee made an ostentatious <lis- !
play of a fact which Republican newspa
pers have been repeating with avidity for
some time past, namely, that there has been
and excess of revenues in the first year of
Gen. Grant’s Administration, as compared
with the previous year, of sav $40,000 < 00,
and a saving in expenditures of about $65,-
000,000 The statement is repeated with
exulting cmfilence, by the Republican
journals, as being confirmed by the official
exhibit of the receirts arid expenditures
during the fiscal year just ended. 'Hie
studied and rapturous exultation of the
Republican party over facts like these is
significant of political bankruptcy, and
shows to what straws a party will cling, to
what shifts it will resort, to restore lost capi
tal and revive expiring prestige and power.
The revenue, both from customs and from
internal sources, ha*of course been enhanc
ed by the revival and increase of business
and the natural development of the national
resources, and in spite of the Republican
policy of no abatement of internal taxation
and no rebaternent of high-tariff dues. But
how palpably absurd if is to talk of the
agency of the Administration in the matter,
when that agency has been conspicuously
and persistently exercised in such woiks of
omis-dnn and commission as were well cal
culated to defeat such an end. The surplus
oj receipts of which ih-'se boasts are made
has been wrung from the people by tax ition
which the result shews to have been need
less and unjust.
The credit taken to the Republican party
in this Address for abolishing slavery, is
another specimen of the efforts of its man
agers to obtain capital under false pretences.
Slaveiy was abolished by military order,
not as a measure of party or even of Con
gressional policy. It was done by the spe
cific order of the Commande.r-in-Ch ief of
Union armies as such, and not simply as
the President of the United States. It was
strictly a war measure, taken in a stress of
circumstances, with a view to gain an ad
vantage over the enemy, and not as a point
of morals. To make the pretension now
that was a great moral step, designed arid
announced from the beginning, is sheer
falsehood by men who deal in it for person
al profit. Mr. Lincoln removed at least
two of his Generals for countenancing
emancipation ; he opposed it, before a dep
utation of Chicago citrgvmen who came to
urge him in its favor; and he published a
letter in the Tribune, in which be told its
editor that he should save, the Union, if he
could, without em incipating a single slave.
Where, then, does the great glory come
from to the Republican party, for doing
what was accomplished against its own
solemn declarations in 1861, and by the
military hand alone?
CHINA AND THETjNITED STATES.
Oae of the most deservedly popular pub
lications of the present year, is “The Old
e-t and the Newest Empire, China and
the United States,” by Rev. William
Speer. D. D., formerly missionary in Chioa
at and among the Chinese in California, and
now secretary of the Presbyterian Board cf
Education. He has lived in China, travel
ed there, and made its people, language,
literature, history, politics, religion, a
study. Very high authority has said that
there «,re not five men in Eurr, g
America eo well qualified *rite*
China a* h* is.
The intention of the author i« » 0 J
China to the people of the United
who ore jast now more interested t | H
other nation in knowing the truth a'C , * |
in a complete view. To t.hj» end \ I
made use of all the materials aecessibll
his own abundant experience. re-arr H ' I
and compacting the whole into nn i rit "j ?w «
ble acc mnt of the Chinese and China l* '*
past and present. The book is not, h w
a dry history or a mass of uninteresting«
tails The author writes from the ! • f
p >int of view of the dav. and nf»t TV(l ’ r (
and scholar interested in the great n J
meats of the age: and the hi>t> r j
political and religious, is worked in t v
upon a correct judgement of the Chined '
they are to-day.
Thns we have descriptions of the Chir» 1
people and their country, vivid and frank *
the races of the empire a i their ' j
general glance at the geography .1
productions of the empire, social ; .'(
amusements, festivities, government-V
Patriarchal Age, the Augustan Ag« *
Middle Ages, the Mongol, Ming and" M (
chu Dynasties, the tir-t Emperors, thegr .]
Kien-lung; the opium war and its rp< u ’,
American relations; ancient conne,-;j r j
with this continent; immigration, } ft u]
popular government; the Chinese e,,-*.,'
nies in California ; moral aspect of in,, 1
gration ; the glorv of America, and J
future of the Chinese race. Here j.J
themes to interest the scholar, the phila-. 1
thropGr, the statesman, even those whip I
only for amuaement.
is a very handsome on? ij
about 700 pages. It is illustrated with f,-. *
full-page pictures, illustrating Chip '
domestic life and labor and worship, t ._
pared with care from the best deV,
manv of them Chinccc nml many us
executed in every appropriate and *
outline. They add to the attraotiven<m
well as the value of the book. A portnu I
Mr. lJurlingame is also given. ]
It is one of the most opportune and m ~
able books this firm (National Publish
Company, ol Memphis, Tenn .) has etfl
issued, which is saying a great deal.
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erage in the following States: Mar.
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Virginia, winter, 1 ; North Carolina, %
Gorgia. 10; Alabama, 8; Tennessee
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BY REV. WM. SPEER, D. D- J
Formally Missionary in China and to the ( 11 j
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