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THE COUNTRYMAN.
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TURNWOLD, GA., MARCH 28, 1805.
The Yankees in South Carolina.
We are obliged to tell our brethren in
S. Carolina, what we think of them.
We are compelled to say to them, that, if
they had not made so much fuss about
Georgia cowardice, they would now occu-
py a better position in the eyes of the
world.
When Sherman marched through Geor
gia, and sent his minions to insult us, and
domineer over us, in our own house, in
the presence of our own wife, and chil
dren, who had considered us, before the
time of this misfortune, perfection itself,
with spots upon our exalted character,
only like spots upon the sun’s disc, we
were very much humbled, mortified, de
based, and degraded: and so we Said.
Other Georgians were like us, in this re
spect. We speak of true Georgians, and
not ot yankee, and yankeeized tories, and
traitors. And what made us feel worse,
was the fact that S. Carolinians, and S.
Carolina journals, taunted us, and sneer
ed at us. They said a stain rested upon
Georgia, and disgrace upon her escutch
eon.
In the first place, then, we thought
Sherman would not go through S. Caro
lina, for fear of being destroyed, like tho
bible assures us his great prototype, the
devil, is to be, and like we believe his
great deuterotype, .Toe Brown, certainly
must be, in the course Of eternity, though
he may domineer over the decency of
Georgia, for all coming time. In the
next place, we thought if he should be
fool-hardy enough to brave the wrath of
our sister beyond the Savannah, she
would certainly extinguish him, and all
his army. But he has marched through
Carolina, taken Charleston, and burned
Columbia; and we have not heard that he
fared a great deal worse than he did in
our native state. Why did not Carolina
do better? Because she couldn’t—that
was all: and the reason Georgia didn’t,
was because she couldn’t, too.
Now, is it a good plan for people to
laugh at other people? We think not
Therefore, we are not going to laugh at
Carolinians : but then, Carolinians should
not have laughed at Georgians.
The truth is, Carolina is not as much as
she thinks herself to be. Her sons (some
of them) are true, and loyal, and generous,
and brave. But a handful of Carolinians
(even) can’t whip a million of yankees
(even.) But then Carolibians must not
acquire a handful of old, decrepid, and
lame Georgians, men, women, and chil
dren, to whip a million of yankees, and if
we do not do so, then laugh at us. “Laugh
ing,” wo are told, “ is fetching and S.
Carolina has “fetched” it. She laughed
at Georgia, because Georgia did not whip
Sherman, and now she has gone, and not
whipped him also.
We are sorry for Carolina, just as we
are sorry for Georgia: but we are not as
sorry as we would be, had she not up
braided us for doing precisely as she has
done. Will Carolina learn a lesson?
We hope she will, and we hope that Geor
gia will, too. Let us all learn that we
cannot have things, every time, as we
would have them. Let uis remember that
God, like the potter, makes one vessel to
honor, and another to dishonor. We had
thought that all Georgians were cow
ards, and tories, and that all Carolinians,
living, and dead, stood a constant reproach
to Georgia. But while S. Carolina jour
nals were sneering at Georgians, we saw
some of Got. Brown’s “melish’'—(Heav
en help the word, if not the institution
itself)—we saw some of Gov. Brown’s
“ melish,” who had taken a little excur
sion over the Savannah, and they told us
that they found the Carolinians trembling
in their shoes at Sherman’s coming, and
that they were ready to submit. Wo
then concluded that Carolinians were not
more than double as good as other people,
and now we believe they are not worth
more than twenty-five per cent, more
than Georgians.
Joe Brown as King.
Macon, Ga., March 3rd, 1865.
Editor of The Countnyman:—It is re
markable what a great change has come
over the spirit, of our people’s dream, du
ring the last few years. Four 3'ears ago,
it would have been considered treason for
anyone to give expression to the senti
ments contained in this letter. But war
has wrought a great change. Men can
now express any opinion they please.
Some even go so far as to advocate the
abolition of slavery.
Among the impressions made by this
war, is one, Mr. Editor, that popular in
stitutions are a failure. We need a strong
er government. Georgia has ample terri
tory, sea-coast, and resources to become a
flourishing monarchy. Let us have a
king.
In looking among our people for one
who would make us a good monarch, I
can think of no one so fit to be such as
Gov. Brown. Will you excuse me, sir,
for saying you are a little too much preju
diced against Gov. Brown? Do him jus
tice, and you must admit that, as a states
man, he has no superior among us. Plain,
straightforward, honest, capable, and a
man of the. people, h8 would make us a
I good monarch, and use his best efforts for
j the good of the masses.
The monarchy I propose, would he one
limited by a constitution, with two houses
of parliament—the commons—and landed
lords, to be first chosen by the people, on
account of their wisdom, and virtue. I
would also propose estates tail, and the
law of primogeniture.
Please do me the favor to publish this
letter, even though you may not agree
with me. Should you differ with me only
as to the proper person to be chosen mon
arch, could you not advocate what I pro
pose, and leave the choice of monarch an
open question ?
Yours respectfully,
We publish the above letter simply out of
respect to its author. Differing, as we do,
with him, in every particular, we consider it
useless to argue the questions he presents.
Very strange things occur. Who would
have thought, a few years ago, that the
year 1865 would witness a correspondent
of one Georgia newspaper urging aboli
tion, and a writer in another Georgia ga
zette advocating a monarchy ?
So far as Gov. Brown’s being made a
monarch is concerned, let our correspon
dent make himself easy. He is now, al
ready, to all intents and purposes, king of
this state, and will probably continue to
be, by the choice of the people themselves;
Whether this monarch will allow of es
tates tail, or the law of primogeniture, or
of a constitution limiting his powers, will
depend altogether upon the monarch’s
caprice. We judge he would prefer an
absolute, to a limited monarchy.
Canada.—“ It appears that the Cana
dian authorities truckled to the Washing
ton government so completely, as to secure
the rescinding of the passport order issued
by Seward. A Washington dispatch^ of
the 2d inst., says:
Information of the passage, by the Ca
nadian parliament, of the alien law, to
exclude from the province southern refu
gees who violate the right of asylum, by
organizing aggressions upon the territory,
and peace of the United States, wa3 com
municated to the state department last
night. The passage of this law, by so
decisive a vote—one hundred and four, to
four—is regarded as satisfactory evidence
of the determination to prevent, in future,
any such violation of international law,
and the passport order will he immediate
ly rescinded, at least as far as that prov
ince is concerned.”
The report about Dr. Gwin having been
made a duke, etc., by Maximilian,, is pro
nounced a canard, and had caused much
merriment in Havana. Gwin was in that
city, and going to Europe, having failed
to obtain what he sought from Maximil
ian.— Yankee paper.
‘Every heart knoweth its own sorrow.*