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TUKXWOLI), GA., FEBRUARY 14, 1865.
Send to Eiitonton.
Exchanges and correspondents will
please direct their favors, now. to Ea-
tonton, instead of to Greenesboro, to
which place we had our papers sent,
during the raid. tt
The Thomasville Meeting.
We read, in the newspapers, about a
sort of union meeting, or tones’ meet
ing, or reconstruction meeting, or state
rights meeting, or state sovereignty
meeting, or something ot the kiiyj,
lately held in Thomasville, in which
Seward, and Love were leading spir
its. Strange—very strange, indeed:—
that toryisin, and treason, and state
rights, all mean about the same thing,
in these latter days.
Who are the state rights men, now ?
Before answering this question, we
will tell who they used to he, in ord
er to present the strong contrast be-
tween what state rights is, and what
it was. Randolph, and Calhoun, and
Troup, and Crawford, and McDuffie,
aud Macon, used to bo state rights
jpefl, $ow they are Hilliard, and
Morse, and Brown, and Holden, et id
genus arnne. The advocates of state
sovereignty used to be true-blue south
ern men. Now they are yankees,
and men with yankee proclivities. ,
Once they were Jefferson, and
Madison. Now they are Baylor, Ar
nold (worse than Benedict) and Wil
lis.
And Seward, and Love are found
ftfliongst the toiies, and reconstruct
tionists. They ought to be hung,
and bung on a gallows higher than
Hainan's.
, These men, and such as thej , are
the ones who have plunged this coun
try into war. Upon their hands is
the blood of slain thousands. Once,
none were so blood-thirsty, and fero
cious as they. To hear them talk,
you would think they could swallow
the universal yankee nation, at one
mouthful. It was this class who
were ready to drink all the blood
shed in this revolution, Seward was
a noted fire-eater. Search the annals
of 1850, and you will find no hotter
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secessionist than Seward. Read the
proceedings of the convention which
adopted the Georgia platform of that
period, and you will see where Se
ward stood. None a greater-fire-eat
I ev than he. And yet, now, you fyid
him heading a anion meeting in Thom-
-asville. It. was rumored Kilpatrick
was about to visit that plape. Hence
Seward’s movement.
Nor is Seward the only one guilty
at this point. We can look around
us, and see hundreds, and thousands
as criminal as he-men who, from
1832, down to 1SG0, did all that mor
tals could do, to dissolve the old un
ion, assuring the people that dissolu
tion would prove indeed their politi
cal heaven. We can remember, very
well, that, in the year 1851, we could
hardly walk the streets of Eatonton,
without insult---scarcely with person
al safety--because wc were a union
man. And yer, now, * throughout
Georgia, these great nullifiers—these
tremendous secessionists---these blood
and thunder patriots are ready to
yield to the yankees, and are prepared
to get up union meetings all over the
country. We repeat, all the blood
shed in this war is upon their hands,
and they ought to be, hung—and first
Seward, Love, Willis, Arnold, and
Rockwell.*
“The Spanish Cortes opened on
the 22d of December. The Queen’s
speech gives hope of a prompt solu
tion of the Peruvian question, but is
silent on the subject of St. Domingo.
She says that Spain has not any am
bitious projects upon the South Amer
ican republics. As regards Mexico,
the Queen’s speech says that the of
ficial communication of Maximilian’s
accession to the throne of Mexico, is
the 'commencement of a new era in
the political relations between Spain,
and Mexico, hitherto interrupted.
Another paragraph in the speech is
as follows :
‘I am hound to state that the gener
al condition of the monarchy, consid
ered in all its extent, is not satisfacto
ry, and, to remedy this, I shall lay
before you a bill of great, impor
tance.’ ”
“ What many a man calls con
science, is only a wholesome fear of
: the constable.’'
Ax < ArMistick.—Rumors were
very prevalent in the city, on tues-
day, of an armistice of forty days du
ration having been agreed upon, by
the authorities at Richmond, for the
purpose of initiating peace negotia
tions. It was reported that business
men in Richmond had telegraphed to
their agents, at Wilmington, and oth
er points, to sell their specie, and
sterling exchange, at once.
We had hoped to receive some in
telligence from Richmond, before go
ing to press, but were disappointed,
no telegraphic news having reached
us up to a late hour tuesday night.
We have reason to believe, howev
er, that there is some good foundation
for these rumors.
Parties, just from Richmond, repie-
sent that, at the time of their depart
ure, it was the general beliet that an
armistice had already been agreed
upon, and peace negotiations opened.
Tlioy also state that prominent citi
zens had expressed great confidence
in a successful result, and the belief
that the war was near its conclusion.
While we have some doubt as to the
lesult of Blair’s mission, we, as well
as our readers, generally, will be hap
py to announce the advent of peace,
and the opening of negotiations lead
ing to an honorable termination of the
war, with the recognition of the con
federacy.—-Charleston Courier, 28th
Jan. w
Auction Sai-rs.—At the .auction
sale of W. A. Ramsey & Go., on 27th
Jan., bidding was spirited, and the ar
ticles were knocked off at the following
prices : 1 set parlor furniture $2,530,
corn whiskey $74 to $85 per gallon,
gold watches $1,000 to $1,500, vel
vet tapestry carpeting $75 per yard,
Brussels carpet $43 per yard, fine
bedsteads $525, commou bedsteads
$100 to $133, bureaus $630 to $825,
wardrobes $800 to $1,300, chairs $110
each, pistols $150 to $600, feathers
$3 per pound, hats $1,100 to $1,500
per dozen, black tea $85 per lb.,
green tea $100 per lb., Gastile soap
$20 per pound, shoes $67 50 per pair,
silver rings $50 each, plates $16 each,
dishes $27 to $40 each, overcoats
$350 to $500 each.—Augusta Regis
ter.
“The New York Herald has re
cently expressed the opinion, that the
war might be closed by the recogni
tion of the independence of the con
federacy, coupled with a treaty pledg
ing it to an alliance with the United
States, m the enforcement of the
‘Monroe doctrine,’ on this continent.”