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" t - r Katban, a freedman, was sentenced
^renitentiajy for seven years, for 9hoot-
. V-rgro man, by the name of Cuffee, .at
ijiptrr Superior Court.
\ Sjiaix Business.—The military author-
. ‘ , Saulsbuiy, N. C., have suppressed tbe
■ of the pictures of General Leo and Gene-
^1 Jackson. So says the Banner.
tSJ* Mrs. Price, wife of General Sterling
Price, sailed from New York for Mexico, on
Taesdar. in the steamship Vera Cruz. She
. jjfo^panied by her daughter and two sons,
^. { of whom, Capt. Celsus Price, served with
difi 5#rtion on his father’s staff throughout the
Another son is now with his father at
Ccdcn. in Mexico. .
Sounanto Wonm Pitkin
to make our acknowledgments to 3re??rs.
Lipraan & Hogan, inass&etucis of Havana
Cigar?, New York, for a box <>f superior lio-
galias, of the “R. E. Lee,” brand. We have
seldom seen so fine a cigar. It is made of the
genuine Havana tobacco, which is imported
in largo quantities by the firm, and then man
ufactured into cigars at their Factory in New
York. Their Southern agency is at Forsyth,
in this State, and it may not be known t
merchants generally that they arc prepared to
furnish, in any quantity, as good cigars as
can be found in America, and on as favora
ble terms as can be obtained in New York or
New Orleans. They have eight brands,
rying in price from tfoo to 9130. We may
add that it is a Southern house, two out of
three ot the copartners being residents of
Georgia, and we hope their enterprise will
be abundantly reworded.
From the Nashville Dispatch, 18th:
Exciting Times at the Capitol.
TheSolonsof the Legislature Completely Thrown
in the Shade—A Brigadier General and a Fight
ing Editor in the Leading Boles—Shooting
Irena Brought inte^Play.
Right on the heels of the passage of the
Franchise bill in the House of Repre
sentatives^ and partly growing out of
that strange coup o' etat, a rather exciting cpi
sodo has transpired at the Capitol, reports
of which being in everybody’6 mouth although
mostly of a personal nature, we think it only
right in layln’g the details liefore onr readers.
As wc were personally cognizant of nearly
everything that transpired in connection with
the affair, wc consider our opportunities some
what favorable for stating the facts correctly.
Here they arc:
After the morning business was gone
through with on Monday, Mr. Williams rose
to a question of privilege. lie held in his
hand a copy of the Knoxville "Whig, from
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lure presented us with an article of consid-
giMe utility: it is Jacob’s Scissors Sharpener
_*:ittle instrument that can be carried in
tlcttst pocket, but which, by a few strokes
(jaqicns a pair of scissors admirably. It is
c *fd to editors and all others requiring sharp
rigon. Price 35 cents.
, Ut pencil tharpmer, presented by the which he read the following article relerring
, r..i I to himself, and headed “Election of the
amt, forms a usclhl adjunct to our editorial , Rebd Wi u iain8 /' H crc j s t bc article:
able. It is very handy and efficient.
Cron in Upper Georgia.—The Rome
Courier of the 17th says: There lias seldom
ten better prospects for wheat and com
crops in upper Georgia than the present, at
this time of the year. The wheat has some
times been more forward, but rarely has there
been a better stand, or it been more thrifty.
Lut week was favorable for planting com,
and the time was well improved by the plant
ers. Nearly all of the best lands in this section
ofthe State, baring been well prepared, will
lie under cultivation this year. The oat crop
has been materially injured; the fruit crop
promises finely.
This unprincipled miscreant has been
elected by a few votes to represent Carter
county in the Legislature. On the subject of
this election much is being said in the rebel
papers of the State, and they are claiming
that it is evidence that the pcopls of this
county have gone over to tho reconstruction
of the Rebel-Democratic party. While we
denounce Williams as a shallow-brained, un
principled traitor, wc protest against his suc
cess being taken as evidence that those who
voted for him are unpatriotic. He secured
his election by a system ot lying unparalleled
for a fellow of his cmlibre. lie made the peo
ple believe that he was in favor of a franchise
law, while there is not a greater enemy to that
law in tbo State. He so declared explicitly.
This is only one of the innumerable lies he
told. The fact Is, his tongue would be blis
tered if he told the truth. In two public
speeches in his county we told the people he
was the tool ofthe Rebels of Nashville. They
will learn it from his own acts as soon as tho
Legislature mcct9. From one of the best cit-
Hoxoss to toe Confederate Dead.—We
are glad to see that the ladies all over Geor-
gia are moving in this sacred duty. Wcleam
from the Sumter Republican that the ladies | izens of the county, we publish a letter in this
M . f _ I IX tv • .4 * _ it. . am 1a - a ^ A 1a a ^1..a4|AH tPI, — ... M
of Americus held a preliminary meeting on
Saturday last, at the Methodist Church, to
make arrangements for the celebration of the
26th of this month, (next Thursday), in a
maimer to testify their respect of tho Confed
erate dead. Several committees were appoint
ed, one of whom was to invite some gentle
man to deliver an appropriate address on the
occasion. The committee havo selected Col.
C.n. Goode, as the orator. A programm
of tbe day has been agreed upon.
Change or Goads.—A Columbus paper
states that arrangements are in progress to
change theguageof the Opelika branch road,
and of the Montgomery and West Point
road, by the first of July, by which time the
paper on the subject of the election. The wri-
ter is reliable and responsible, and Iris name
will be given if demanded.’’
Commenting on this, Mr. Williams forcibly
defended himself from the charges therein
‘contained, and among other things said:—
‘He joined the Union army as a private, and
served nn honorable term through the a nr.—
The difference between himself and the Gov
ernor was that while ho was at tho front
fighting armed traitors. Governor Brownlow
was at the North making piteous appeals for
I money. And yet, because he would not sub-
I mit to the unwarranted assumption of power
I of the Governor, he must be denounced ns a
I rebel and a traitor. Ho then referred to the
proclamation of the Governor declaring his
(Williams’) scat vacant. That proclamation
was a tissue of falsehoods, from beginning to
end. He liad not resigned his seat, had rot
bolted, and had not signed the bolters’ man
ifesto ; and yet the Governor was pleased, by
bridge across the Chattahoochee, at Colum-
bw, will bo completed. With the gnage on | a gross and^ wicked assumption of powers to
these roads widened, trains could run from
Mobile to any point North, either by Colum
bus or Atlanta, without interruption.
The above improvements were determined
upon at a late meeting of the stockholders of
the Montgomery and West Point road, held
in Montgomery, in which the principal Geor
gia roads were represented.
The Gkahys.—Not unco the days when
the inimitable, versatile and whole-souled
Lover came along, with his “Irish Evenings”
drawing tears from all eyes by bis pathos,
*ad giving a pain in the tide for a week to
everybody who listened to his Irish wit and
drollery, have wo enjoyed nn entertainment
•o heartily as those that our citizens have
hem favored with for some nights past by
Mr. Geary and his lovely daughter. The
former is the embodiment of Irish melody,
haTing « fine flexible tenor voice which seems
«H»1 to any draft that may be made upon it
That ofthe latter is fresh, natural, and charm-
ln gly musical. In manner she bears a strik
es resemblance to Picolomini, blending the
dosing notes of a piece with a sweet smile
that never fails to take complete possession of
h« audience. There is a girlish simplicity
in her performances that, in view of its effect,
»»y be characterized as artistic.
Mr. Geary and daughter go hence in a few
days, and we feel that we can conscientiously
commend them to all lovers of good music
wd a hearty laugh.
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declare his seat vacant. He next pointed out
what he called the palpable falsehoods found
in the proclamation; falsehoods so glaring
and outrageous that they could not but be
transparent to the most obtuse.”
After Mr. Williams had concluded his
speech, Gen. James P. Brownlow approached
him, and, in a undertone, denounced him as a
coward and a scoundrel, and wound up by
inviting him out to fight, he (Brownlow)
generously offering to provide the necessary
munitions of war.
Mr. Williams bore it all calmly, probably
thinking it the better part of valor to attend
to the interests of his constituents. The affair
did not end here. ■
On yesterday morning, the Nashville Union
commenting on Gen. Brownlow’s conduct in
the House the day previous, used some very
vigorous language, characterizing it as an at
tempt to intimidate and brow beat legislators
in the exercise of their duties, and set it down
as a piece with the Radical policy in general.
At tho close of the forenoon session in the
House, as Mr. Woodruff, reporter of the
Union, was descending the Capital steps, he
was approached by the General, who held a
copy of the Union in his hand, and asked if
he had written the article referred to.—
Woodruff replied yes. and to a farther
query, that he still endorsed tho sentiments
of the same, when Brownlow denounced him
as a liar and a scoundrel. Woodruff imme
diately drew his revolver, and gently elevat
ing it to the upper extremeties of his antag
onist, blandly intimated that ho would blow
his brains out. The General 8“ once brought
into requisition his six-shooter, which was
intended as a gentle reminder that the com
pliments of the season were to be mutual.—
Just now a crowd of members of the House
gathered round tho would-be combatants,
who still kept up a war of words, interspersed
with a liberal sprinkling of vigorous Anglo-
Saxon oaths, and still cTutcliing their shoot
ing irons as a contingent reserve. After some
further parley,the fighting gentlemen separat
ed without the shedding of a drop of blood.
In the afternoon, immediately before the
House was called to order. General Brownlow
met Mr. Woodruff in the House, again com
menced and ended a wordy war, with a mu
tual understanding, however, that a duel was
to finally settle the difficulty.
I'roni the Memphis App—b
Tlie Test Oath—Who enu Take it.
The Ni "v.Yoi k Post, in nn article by no
means of the rabbi, radical type, touching
“Federal officers in tbe Southern State?.', ana
the maintenance of the te?t oath, which it
advocate?, admits that “if there lie no men in
“the South capable of fulfilling tbe duties of
“Federal officers, and able to subscribe to
“this (test) oatli, it might be advisable to
“change or repeal it,” as nsked for by the
Secretary ot the treasury and Postmaster Gen
eral. The Post, however, is of the belief,
from assurances of Southern Union men, that
there i- an abundance of men in the South to
fill all federal office-, who can honestly sub
scribe to the test oath: and, therefore, that
it should be adhered to in order to strengthen
“the loyalists of the South with the maaa of
“the people there, and to appoint them to
“federal offices is to do just that.” 11 may be
well in this immediate connection to re-pro
duce the test oath :
“I, A- B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I have never voluntarily borne arms against
the United States since I have been a citizen
thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid,
countenance, counsel, or encouragement to
persons engaged in armed hostility thereto;
that I have neither sought nor accepted nor
attempted to exercise the functions "of any
office whatever, under any authority or pre
tended authority in hostility to the United
States; that I have not yielded a voluntary
support to any pretended government, au
thority, power or constitution within the
United States, hostile or inimical thereto.—
And I do further swear (or affirm) that to the
best of my knowledge and ability, I will sup
port and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; that I will bear true faith and al
legiance to the same; that I take this obliga
tion freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion, and that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office on
which I am about to enter, ao help me God.”
What honest man—wc ask—of fit capaci
ty to fill the greater part of the Federal offi
ces in the Southern States, howsoever much
he may have been opposed to secession, ho w
soever strong may have been bis desire
throughout the straggle, for tho restoration
of the Union as it was before the rupture, is
prepared to swear that he “has voluntarily
given no aid countenance, counsel, or encour
agement to persons engaged in armed hostil
ity to the United States” ? Who will come
forward and say that they can conscientious
ly subscribe, under oath, to such a declara
tion f Tbc fact is, the struggle for indepen
dence on the part of the Southern States af
ter 1801, involved, in one way or another, the
whole manhood and intelligence ofthe South
ern people; and no men labored with more
bravery or devotion to secure the success
of the cause than the leader and the
masses of the old Union party, including those
who in the outset believed* secession to be
wrong in every sense. Their section, by no
fnuh of theirs, but as they believed through
tbc impolicy of others, bad been drawn into
the vortex of a dread civil war, and all their
sympathies naturally were thoroughly roused
and given as freely a3 was their blood subse
quently, in so many instances, on the battle
field. ’ Of this class we need mention to Ten
nesseeans, only Generals Zollicoffer and Hat
ton. Lt Ge»i. Early, of Viiginia, who left the
Country and went forth a voluntary exile rath
er than seek amnesty, as a member ot the
sovereign convention of his State opposed
the ordinance of secession at every stage
with the utmost resolution; and even after it
had passed, sought to make it nugatory by a
legislative device: Yet, when foiled in that
and his State was finally cut loose from its
relations with tho Federal Union, he at once
took service under the authorities of the land
of his birth—and no man gave more zealous
service than he. “ Blood is stronger than
water,” we all know, and in times like those
we have passed through it was impossible
for the natives of the South not to sympathize,
heart and soul, with a cause in support of
which the entire flower of the South were in
arms, showing on every field a valor, combin
ed with martial aptitudes that won for the
men of the South the admiration, respect and
sympathy of the civilized world.
ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL JOHN
SON CLUB.
To the People ol the United States.
One vear ago the bloody civil war that
threatened the ruin of our happy Govern
ment closed. The generals and soldiers on
! both side met on the field of battle, and gave
the world the highest example of magnani
mous feeling, when the blood had ceased to
flow, that was ever exhibited. There was
not a look of hostility interchanged. The vic
tors,who were supplied, gave to the vanquish
ed whatever was necessary to tlieir comfort:
and both, with a just appreciation of the no-
b!e courage and sense of patriotism which j
had animated eaeli army through the four
years'struggle, were justly proud that they I
were a kindred race, and "the offspring of the j
free institutions which had made them he- i
roe?. ,
They knew what all the world now knows, |
that it was a dark, long-brooded-over con- j power thus established, and going into the
spiracy, through which wicked, ambitions war, more than the United States had to hold
politicians had secured control of the powers : the men of Maine liable to punishment for
of the Government in the two remote sections giving aid and comfort to the British army
ofthe country, North and South madly ex- j there in tho war of 1812 ?
cited by the slave question, that producing' The districts there found no difficulty, after
collision, had brought the men on each part j the war was over, in getting a representation
to the rescue of tbe homes and the Govern- in Congress. There were no test oaths im-
mentthat were dearest and nearest to them. | posed to exclude them.. Why should the
■ Ought not such a close of the war, unde: conspiracy of the Calhoun junta and its Hart-
in the administration going out and that com-1 Congress, although they ltnve given proof of
ing in, at Washington, were both united in a i entire submission to tile laws and Constitu-
negotiation with that usurpation, to ncknowl-1 tion and acquiesce in all tbe issues determined
edge “peace and amity” with it, as the result by the war, are governed by laws shaped in a
f -a manifest and accomplished revolution
in the Government of the Union,” and this
confirmed by the promise of the Premier that
the strongholds of the United States in the
harbor of Charleston should be surrendered
to that usurping Government.
The men who stood by the Union in the
South until the whole region was given over
1-v the Government bound to protect them,
but which, instead of interfering in their be
half, was capitulating for their surrender, had
no alternative when thus permitted to be en
vironed within the military lines of the foe,
vliicli expelled everything Union beyond the
border but submission. Whet right has the
National Government now to hold these men
ml >ject to penalties for acquiescing in their
•'tiforced condition, and yielding to the will
f the State Governments and the military
as counsel; but for the freed men there is a
host of commissioners provided, to iustigate
and prosecute suits, prompted by fees inad-
vanee, which alone would make it a lucrative
caucus, and passed by a Congress represent- pursuit, to say nothing of what might be ob-
ing another section of the country exclu
sively.
The Constitution expressly provides, that
the President of the United States and Con
gressional representatives shall be chosen by
the votes of persons in each State authorized
by it to elect the popular branch of its Legis
lature. This right is expressly reserved to
each State to prevent the consolidation of all
power in the Congress ot the United States.
If that body had the right to make the
votes empowered to elect it, the British Par
liament would not be more omnipotent.—
The leaders in the present Congress have re
peatedly declared that the only loyal men in
the South are the negroes, and that they in
sist that they be entitled to universal suffrage,
while every white man should be excluded
wbo cannot take the test-oath, denying that
he had ever sympathized with any one en
gaged in tlie rebellion. Congress has not yet
ventured to annul the clause in the Constitu-
tained from the plaintiff or extorted from the
defendant. There seems to be some discrim
ination of races where wc find the purse ot the
nation opened to one race and stimulating
huntsmen to hunt the other as a sort of prey.
This must be meant as retaliation on the
whites (although paroled and promised peace
at their own homes) for the cruelties of Sena
tor Mason’s fugitive slave bill. Tho latter,
however, only reached a few individuals.—
The hired beagle of the Civil Rights Bill will
hunt the white man down at his home, or
drive him from it, aud he is commissioned to
drag State judges from tljeir courts to trial
before United States courts, and thence to the
punishments they adjudged, for error of
opinion.
It is obvious from the course ot Congress,
as already manifested, that it means to main
tain its power now held over the National
Government, and tyranny over the South, by
the new use to which the African population
is to b:: converted.
Mr. Stevens made-this evident when he na
tion giving the creation of electors to the [
several States; but Mr. Sumner, who speaks
for tlie Senate, has ascertained that the entan- serted in his speech that giving them the
cipation amendment to the Constitution) franchise would defeat the weight of tho
warrants the concession of suffrage to the ne- South in the Government. It is. clearly tho
groes, and a measure has been introduced in | design of the measures already broached to
such leaders as Grant and Sherman—tender- ford Convention ? The schema of each was ! the House of Representatives to deny it to all | subordicatc the South to the North, as Ireland
TnF. Texas Co.nstitutif.x.—Galveston,
April 12.-The Constitution abolishes slavery,
places freedmen on an equality with whites
before the law, and gives the Legislature
power to guarantee railroad bonds for iron
contracts. It will be submitted to tho people
on the 4th Monday in June. A resolution en
dorsing the President's policy was lost in the
Convention.
A Mammoth Stekk.—A Wonderful
Animal—The largest steer in Indiana—the
largest in America, and probably the largest
in the world, is now in Shelby county, and is
owned by Geo. W. Spurrier. He is six years
old weighs 4,000 pounds, and was pur. h i
ed on the 28th uli, by Mr. Spurrier for 91 lot),
lie is undoubtedly the finest animal in
America.
In Operation
I Tlie public will lie pleased to see, from the
annexed article from the Savannah Republi
can of Tuesday, that the National Express
Company have taken a foothold in Geoigin,
and will soon extend their lines to all impor
tant points in the South. Tho Woodwards
are the very men for the place and cannot
fail to draw popular favor to their establish
ment:
National Express and Transportation
Company.—Yesterday morning there drove
up in front of our office three elegant express
wagons, owned by the above company, con
sisting of two two-horsc and one four-horse
team. This company has what may be call
ed a double chartcr-L-one from the State of
South Carolina as the Southern Express Com
pany, and one as a branch of the National
Express Company, of Richmond, with Joseph
E. Johnston at its head. This Company has
a fine suit of offices and rooms on the corner
of Bay and Barnard streets, which they arc
fitting up in the most commodious manner,
for tbc transaction of business and the recep
tion of the largo quantities of freight which
they hope to transport. The whole Southern
department is under the charge of Mr. W. T.
Woodward and J. O. Woodward, for
merly and for many years Superinten
dent of tho Adams* Express Company,
and who brings to the Company all the
advantages which his long experience and
natural ability can render. The Company
has now agents on all the routes from New
York to St. Louis, and Air. Woodward is ac
tively engaged in extending the business on
the route from here to New Orleans. They
propose doing business on a liberal scale, and
will be ready in a very few days for the re
ception and transportation of freight at as
moderate rates as any similar company. The
Assistant Superintendent is Mr. J. M. Ulhoras,
and the local agent Mr. O. F. Webster. Under
such auspices wc see no reason to doubt that
the business men of Savannah will give tho
Company its fair share of patronage.
Nioof.rs Better than Rebels.—The
Washington Chronicle (Dead Dock) opposes
the repeal of the test oath for office-holders,
as recommended by the President and Secre
tary of the Treasury. If white Union men
can’t be got. it goes for negroes. It says:
There is a class of men at the South, bow
ing friendship, peace, and honorable terms to I equally criminal—a dissolution ofthe Union—
their rivals of the same school, Lee and John-1 but the means ot the latter were much more
ston, for themselves, their armies, and the invidious, for a foreign force was introduced
country, confirmed by pledges that the result into the heart of the country hostile to all
was accepted by the vanquished as deciding | the essential principles ot our republican sys-
forever against them the issues on which tlu.j tem.
battle was joined—be considered conclusive And there is no atonement in the calamities
that nothing should be demanded but what with which the unfortnnntc masses ot tbe
had been staked on the event and has sinoe South have been visited from the despotism of
been fully surrendered ? the usurpation which would never have been
Has not the right of secession been repuui- put over them had not the treaebeiy and col-
ated t Has not the institution of slavery i lusion of the National Government assisted ?
been renounced, and the freedom of the nothing in the utter rain which succeeded from
slaves confirmed by constitutional amend-1 the invasion of our army, which necessity made
ments, State and National T Has not the j destroyers, to plead for justice and generosity
Confederate debt been annulled and the obfi- to the victims of a war guiltless of its provo-
S ation of both sections to pay the national cation ? The whole South has been a field of
ebt been admitted? Have not the nonlv I battle—all its agriculture has been, to a great
acquired rights of the freedmen been prori- extent, prostrate for four years. Towns and
ded for by State legislation as promptly as homesteads innumerable have been swept
possible in the section lately in war and in- away in flames.
archy ? Have not the whole people, with the Half a million of its most vigorous youths
exception of a few outcasts, robbers, and cut have perished in battle—countless millions of
throats—thesbirksthrownoffby tlieembodied money, invested in the means of production
hoststbatrcpresentedtheprinciplcoftbccon- have been lost, and its proudest cities are
test on either side, as nut worthy of the cause ruins. Charleston remains, like the ruins of
—followed the example of their leaders, and Carthage of old, an appropriate monument of
consented that all the aims of the war, ns the perfidy which has sunk the sunny South
proclaimed by tho Nntional Legislature and in durkness and desolation. Meantime the
Executive, during its continuance, should be North has risen in increasing grandeur and
accomplished ? And now, what hinders tbe wealth throughout tbe progress of the war.
consummation of the main object—the com- AVhat hearts those men must have, who,stand-
muninn of the State?, in the happy harmony ing aloof from tlie war and enjoying the glory
which made the new continent the glo*y of and blessings of the victories won by our
the world for almost a century 1 gallant armies, without sharing their toils
There is a fragment of a party in tlie and perils, now, instead of imitating the
Northeast which, like tlie junto created by soldiers’ magnanimity in lifting up a fallen
Calhoun, the Cataline ofthe South, weronev- brother, would strike down again the help
er contented with tlie Constitution of the less; and who demand spoil, confiscation,
United States. The Essex junta of Boston more blood, and would have it shed on a
dominated in New England, as the Calhoun scaffold, where they could enjoy the tragedy
junta of Charleaion dominated over the ■lave at case as in a theatre,
oligarchy of the South. Both these factions IIow differently felt that trne friend of the
were imbued with tlie British principle at Union—President Lincoln, His humane in-
war with the spirit of Democracy inherent in stincts taught him that the bleeding gaslies
our Constitution—and how invariably the made by the sword, which had severed for
instinct of aristocracy works to tho same end the timo the affections of the country, were
will be seen by a glance at tho conduct of best cured when soonest bound and healed
these juntas of Boston and Charleston in pro- with the first intention. He looked upon
during the severe ordeals to which they the States as members of the same body, still
have subjected the Constitution of oureoun- united to it by all* the indestructible ligta-
try. The war of 1812 was the war brought tures of the Constitution, but suffering under
on by the Essex junta—the Henry-Hartford the weight of tlie usurpation, suspended nni-
convention conspiracy—as that of 1861 was mation. That removed, the States were in
that of the Calhoun conspiracy, brought to a a condition to resume their functions with all
head by the Charleston secession ordinance.
The British Government made the difficul
ties with our Government in sympathy with
the malcontents of New England whom the
triumphs of the Democracy under Jefferson
and Madison had banished from power. They
became a British faction bent on severing the
Union with the United States—uniting with
Canada and prosecuting their wnenbargotd
free trade under the British flag, the British
having compelled tbe embargo restriction on
our Government to produce the state of
feeling in New* England to enable the con
spirators to drive the people to a separation.
Tbe Hartford Convention was the develop
ment of this scheme. Maine was taken pos
session of by a British force. Its power
was recognized throughout New England.
Tbe Government of the United States was
interdicted from levying forces in New Eng
land to meet the enemy. The British soldiers
in Canada and all along our frontiers to the
far West, were supplied with cvciytliing from
New England, while the American soldiers
were perishing for want of food and clothing
amid the snow-storms along the Canada line.
At such n moment the commissioners of the
Hartford Convention appeared at Washing
ton to proclaim their purpose of secession to
President JIadison, to use tho phrase of one
of them, “peaceably if we can, forcibly if we
must!”
Mr. Forsyth and his brother commissioners
from the South followed this precedent when
they came to Washington, spent a month in
negotiation with 3Iessre. Seward, Holt, and
Stanton, asking “audience to adjust (to use
their own words) in a spirit of amity and
peace the new relations springing from a man
ifest and accomplished revolution in the gov
ernment of the Union,” and as an earnest,
acknowledging the fact; the surrender of
Fort Sumter was demanded, and it was acce
ded to by Mr. Seward, who gave Judge
Campbell assurances authorizing him to say
to the commissioners, “I feel entire confidence
that Fort Sumter will be evacuated in the
next fire davs.”
the rights and faculties imparted to them by
the Constitution. When the military power
had done its doty delegated by the supreme
law, and had suppressed the insurrection, had
extirpated its cause, and all impediments to
their normal prescribed action, by what right
did Congress interpose, assume to prescribe
conditions not to be found in the supreme
law*, which w*asa law to Congress itself, and
which established the rights in derogation of
which Congress attempted to legislate ?
It was upon this attempt that Lincoln put
his veto. Congress undertook to enact con
ditions not in the Constitution of the United
States, upon which the Southern States
should acc with their sisters of tho North.—
This the President considered sheer arroga
tion. It was presuming that the States were
dead; that the General Government having
failed in its duty to suppress the conspiracy
and insurrection under which they were com
pelled to succumb for a time, the States had
committed suicide—had become outlying ter
ritories, conquered from a foreign enemy!—
The whole pretext was built up of false as
sumptions. The President proclaimed that
the wnr was waged by tbe nation on the
principle that the States in which the rebel
lion reigned were parcel of the nation—could
nor should not be separated from it by their
ow*n or any other power, that neither tlie Con
gress of the United States nor that of tlie
usurping Confederacy could alter their status
in the Union.
Upon this issue, elaborately argued over
the whole countiy and in Congres?, the Pres
ident was nominated for re-election by the
Republican Convention at Baltimore, which
reaffirmed his principles. Leading membeis
nf tli-- party in t'nngri-s? prntcsh-'l agaim.t
the doctrine, called it in question, in an able
manifesto, which was an appeal to the people
against it, but their vote ratified it at the
poll?. It was brought up at the last session
of Congress for practical application in the
admission of Louisiana, and was only de-
the Hartford Convention there was a Gene
ral Jackson, as there is now a General Grant.
The British had felt his power throughout
the war in tbe South-west, as well as tho vigor
of the navy on the seas, and when the Essex
junta commissioners arrived in Washington
to renounce the Government, the victory of
New Orleans and the news of peace met them.
They lost the voice which they had come to
utter when they found the roar of the British
lion hashed on* the ocean and on the plains of
New Orleans. They went home, but they
were not proscribed. The government of
New England had sympathized with the ior-
eign enemy, but the’ mass ot the people had
not as yet been forced into the ranks of the
enemy—their means had been largely contrib
uted to support British power under the awe
its presence inspired and tho influence the
traitors among them exerted.
But none of these men were punished
Maine, which was in fact under the law
everT about whom then can be no doubt, and of inensign as a conquered country, was not
whoee loyalty is above suspicion-wc mean cons.dered out of the Lmom Its officials,
the blacks. ’There is scarcely one of them although they obeyed tho orders emanating
lmt can take the test oath. Wc do not sec Bntish authority, and rendered impor-
whv the offices at tbc disposal of the Post- to that Government, and were ,n
master General should go a begging while foot, guilty of treason, if the power of com-
1,is clement remains at The South. We are P^ion, though not exerted had not justified
certain of one thing, however, and it is time fryre not questioned by our Government
the mUnt Administration understood it: further than to draw from our courts decis-
l cloval people ot the United 8tatcs-wbo submission to a power that could
arc lar^elv in the majority, thank God- ?ot lie resisted rendered treasonable act
would rather have a black loyalist than a justifiable.
,-V Vi wlti. ndiro But now the table* are turned, and there u
v. lute re 1 -' 11nm.-tn 1 iu.li -.luo. . ; _., i , v ,■ . th • j„ ..pje of th. South.
C.I I T F M-:r-lu r. Actin-r (Jov. rn- Miio were un.Ur <iui-Wnilc t.u* con>iiirai(ir.s
"of / Mon t-»n a lms recan t ed'his Radical opin- were establishing an absolute usurpation over
pm?, and crinc’out for President Jolm-on. them by military force, and the leading men
feated by a sort of revolutionary tactics on
Fortunately, in the days of I tlie part 1 of Air. Sumner and five other Sena
tors, who, when the bill was on its passage,
took the floor and announced the determina
tion to speak out the session and lose the bills
necessary to support the Government and
carry on the war.
Now, the whole Radical party have assum
ed as their party principle the anti-constitu
tional doctrine that the States put in abey
ance by rebellious usurpation shall only be
recognized as in the Union when submitting
to terms prescribed by an act ot Congress.—
This attains tbe point at which the Essex
junta—tlie high flying Federalists of the
North—would, at the beginning of the Gov
ernment, have fixed the power of the General
Government. The whole policy of this aris
tocratic body of politicians have ever been,
and is now, the consideration of the supremo
power in the hands of Congress. Its legisla
tion is to pervade the States and supplant
that of their Legislatures.
They make a full manifestation of tlieir
design in tlieir Frecdmcn's Bureau bill and
their Civil Rights bill by which they under
take to establish a nation of negroes among
a nation of white?; and render them indepen
dent of tho laws and courts of the States in
which they reside—and in contempt of all
sense of justice and humanity, their revolu
tionary measures invading the rights of the
State-, and annulling tlu-ir municipal laws,
by excluding them from their rights in the
Union, and their representation from the halls
of Congress, and governing them as England
once governed Ireland refusing to hear her
voice in tlicTmpcrial Parliament.
the white people disqualified by the test is subordinated to England, by the distinc-
oath. ! tions and hostilities that inevitably arise be-
Bnt neither of these expedients need here- tween two distinct nations, brought to con
sorted to now. Congress, by excluding from front each other in the same State and govern-
thc National Legislature the whole race in ment, asserting an association on terms of on
the South that fought tlie battle for our inde- equality which the nature, habits^prejudices,
pendence, and who contributed largely in the very forms, complexion, as well as the ed-
founding what has heitherto been looked up- ucation and status of the races in the Govern-
on as the white man’s Government, establish- ment, from its origin to this hour, render in-
etl by his courage, intelligence, and labor as compatible. England has her Orangemen
his own freehold, and as the inheritance of and Irishmen in eternal strife, and arbitrates
his children, renders any further disfranchise- between them with the sword,
ment superfluous, and his degradation is com- It is the policy of our rump parliament to pro-
pleted by putting the negroes upon a higher duce the same relations between the two sec-
ground than the white race in other respects, countr J'> in * t «* d of ,ho h »ppy Union
educating their children at the national ex- Lincoln and * Johnson havo labored to
Dense, feeding, clothing, and sheltering the i The Congress is now a revolutionary conven-
liundred thousands who reject the tempting tion. Tho President’s comment on the schemes
wages which invite them to return to employ- it proposes is as just as that in which he rebuked
ment in the South—according to them seats Davis and his followers when they abandoned
in the galleries of the two Houses, the males Senate to broach the extinct rebellion. Ho
attired in every variety of costume, the fe- "““*/»■! h w “ r “I“ V^fJ 1 1“ **
t z . , . i .ti * r \ I signs, in the speech which ho made m tho pres—
males (at least the better looking of them,) e * ce of the conspirator*. He characterised their
rustling in silk, (it is to be hoped not at the crime by the name with which the whole world
expense of the Treasury; the men repaying now brands it.
with applause the recognition by Senators of I The Johnson Club, now inaugurated, predi-
their service that saved tlie country, and the oa $* s 5ta political action on the principles and
women repaying by boquets and glances with I P®J*®y avowed in his messages and on his views
I, T . • I of tho schemes of tbc enemies of the Government,
which they are honored from below. It is disclo8ed in h i* speech of the 22d of February,
reasonable, indeed, that they should occupy from which we quote the passages which may be
positions in the chambers from which multi- considered prophecy. He says:
tudes of men and women of our kindred are | “The rebellion is put down by tho strong arm
turned away daily. The legislation being °f the Government, but we are hardly out ofthe
directed for the most part to nut up the ^hellion ^fore we are almost in the mid.t of
M..I,. ..,i td another rebellion. There is an attempt to con-
blacks and degrade the white race in the pre- centro te the power of the Government in the
senbed States, it is proper that the tavor- I hands ot a few, and thereby bring about a con
its who take tbe deepest interest in the dc- « 0 .idation which is equally dangerous and ob-
bates should be preferred as the audience, jectionable with a separation.
This preference of race is exhibited, it is “We find that tbe effect, by an irresponsible
true, in the name of perfect equality. The cent f al directory, nearly all powers of Govern-
*’ „„„ ment are assumed, without ever consulting the
phrase is a thm di.guise. The measures pro- i e gi 8 j a tive or executive departments of theGov-
poso to produce this equality are all fraught ernment, by resolutions reported by the Com-
with injustice and violation of fundamental mittee upon whom all the legislative power of
law. The Frecdmcn’s Bureau bill proceeded the Government has been conferred. That prin-
on confiscation of the lands of the South, ciple in the Constitution which authorises and
without trial and conviction of the owners in cmjxwsrs each branch of the legislative depart-
viol.,1«. of ,h. f t*™ of tbo Const,-
ration. It established tribunals and created aW ay from those departments and conferred up-
a municipal code, multitudes of judicial and on a committee, who must report before they act
executive officers to execute it, in derogation under the Constitution and allow members,'duly
ofthe rights of the-States, and for the benefit elected, to take their seats. By this rule they
of a whole people to whom the courts of the “** u ® e that there must be laws passed ; that
their rightful jurisdiction by the intervention Btorcdi ufot , (ta rcprC M.i,tivM are admitted,
of Congress, which the army was called on to • * • • • •
carry iDto effect, by forcing submission to the “I stand to-day prepared, so far as I can, to
judgment of the head of each Bureau—a I resist these encroachments upon the Constitution
judgment from which there was no appeal. and Govermcnt" .
The law was simply an aggrarian law to * MoSTCoMERr Bla,b President ’
plant the black race, to sapfXurt tbe white, I vice-presidents.
and makes new Government, with m army
to enforce it over the prostrate States. How
mnch wiser and better would it be to provide I
homes and a countiy, and a refuge on the va
cant domain of the Government for the infe
rior race, where they might enjoy an actual I
equality among themselves—establish a gov
ernment for themselves, under the instruction
and protection of our great Republic; where
they might assert substantial independence,
and lie stimulated by the highest motives to
cultivate the nobler faculties of man ! The
vacuum left by these transplantations would,
as Air. Jefferson contemplated on this event,
be supplied from the North and from our
northern kindred nations.
No part of the earth is more inviting to the
white race than the sunny South. All its pro
ducts are golden, and of cheaper acquisition
than gold itself in the richest mines, and
nothing has prevented this rich region from
being filled with such a populatioiT but the
protection which has been extended to the
black race whilst held as slaves by the strong
arm of the white race. Such an exchange of
population, whilst advantageous to both
races, would make our Government homoge
neous aud secure in peace, by peaceful meth
ods. This result is inevitable. Radical pol
icy may hasten it by causing it to force itself
on by that inhuman process which delivered
the non-civilized portion of our continent
from the barbarian tribes, its original posses
sory. But it is altogether better that the
wiser course pointed out by 3Ir. Jefferson
should be adopted.
The civil rights bill is a scion ot this more
formidable predecessor. It purports to grant
civil rights to the blacks, to place them
as citizens on perfect equality with the whites.
Its dictum is that there shall be no discrimi
nation between the races in regard to civil
rights, and yet the very first step in tho code
takes from the State courts tlieir independence
os judicial tribunals, and breakdown the au
thority of the people who create them. If the
judges ot the State courts decide against any
of the grants or immunities conferred upon
the freedmen by the civil rights bill, the
judge is to be fined or imprisoned for it, no
matter how conscientious his decision, or
whether it he founded on his views of the
Constitution or the laws of Congress, or the
Constitution or the laws of the State, which
he is sworn to administer.
There is no such penalty nfiixed in case of
a judgement against a white man, whose per
son orproperty may be involved in the judge’s
decision. In case a white citizen of a State
sues another, he i? confined to seek justice in
a State Court. The negro is privileged to
prosecute in the State Court, the District
Court ot the United States, or the Circuit
Court ot the United States. So he may drag
the white man through all the tribunals ofthe
country. Is this not discrimination l But
there js another of still more practical import
ance. The bill requires that commissioners
be appointed throughout the States to be
come prosecutors of suits for freedmen liti
gants.
gation are to receive a premium from th
Maine—Hon. Bion Bradbury.
New Hampshire—Hon. Lewis AY. Clarke.
Vermont—Hon. A. J. AVillard
Massachusetts—Hon. James AV. 'Whitney.
Bhode Island—Hon. AVm. B. Lawrence.'
Connecticut—Hon. Wm. D. Bishop.
New York—Hon. Dean Richmond.
New Jersey—Hon. John P. Stockton.
Pennsylvania—Hon. Asa Packer.
Delaware—Hon. AVm. Saulsbury.
Maryland—Hon. C. J. M. GwinD.
Virginia—Hon. A. H. H. Stuart.
AVest Virginia—Hon. P. G. Van Winkle.
North Carolina—Hon. W. A. Graham.
South Carolina—Hon. James L. Orr.
Georgia—Hon. James Johnson.
Tennessee—Hon. AVm. B. Campbell.
Alabama—Hon. George S. Houston.
Mississippi—Hon. J. L. Alcorn.
Louisiana—Hon. Randell Hunt,
Indiana—Hon. Joseph E. McDonald.
Illinois—Hon. 8. S. Marshall.
Ohio—Ex-Governor Todd.
Kentucky—Hon. James Guthrie.
Wisconsin—Hon. Mr. Shores.
Iowa—Hon. A. C. Dod^e.
Minnesota—Hon. Daniel S. Norton.
Missouri—Hon. Charles M. EUiard.
Kansas—Hon. M. J. Parrot.
California—Hon. James AV. Denver.
Oregon—Hon. James W. Nesmith.
Michigan—Hon. Robt. McClelland.
Florida—Hon. Wm. Mnrvin.
Districtof Columbia—Phillip R. FeadhlL
Charles Masos, Corresponding Secretary.
How a Quorum was Secured nr the
Tennessee House.—AVc learn ftom the
Nashville Dispatch that a quorum was sccur-
etl in thf Tonne-?.',• lIou?e of Representatives
on the 12th inst, by a rather nice little dodge.
The Chairman of the remnant cf Committee
on Elections reported in favor of the admis
sion of four new members, bat when the roll
was called it was discovered that only fifty
three members competent to vote were pres
ent. It was then determined, it seems, to
push matters to a crisis. Aft. Smith, of Hard
eman, moved that the members whose cases
had just been reported upon be sworn in, but
the Speaker refused to put the motion, or to
have tbe new members qualified cn tlie
ground that a quorum was not present—
Thereupon 3Ir. Smith declared that he would
move that the clerk be directed to swear them
in. This was nn unmistakable threat that
the clerk of the House should be clothed with
the authority ofthe Speaker, to cany out the
designs of the majority, while the latter
should stand aside as n mere looker on.
This is the boldest intimation of a resort to
revolutionary proceedings that has yet been
made in the Home of Representatives, and
the Speaker, to save that body from such an
exhibition, directed the four new members to
be sworn in, three of whom came forward and
were qualified. A quorum was thus secured.
The Dead at Andersonville—A Dis
graceful Truth.—The Louisville Courier
says it has upon its table a pamphlet of se
venty-four pages, containing a list of the
Union dead* at Andersonville. It is a sad
This new tribe of pursuivants of liti- catalogue, and ns 'n 1 glance through its
mournful pages, we cannot choke down an
Treasury of ten dollars for every suitihevean execration at the (bought that at the very
induce the freedman to permit to be brought moment these men were passing away by
in his name, and live dollars additional is to | hundreds daily, the C ontederate government
be paid on the warrant when issued. | ' V:IS absolutely on us knees begging tor an ex-
Forsimilar service a State justice receives change ot pri-oners, and wa? constantly de
nied. 1 hat tlie-c men now rest in tar-ofi, and
in many cases unmarke 1 grave \ is fairlv
justice receive?
wenty-five cent?. A poor white man now
here in the world has no such a
As Ireland wa- governed by laws -ent to [ a—citing his rights or redressing his wrongs, enarge.tiile tht .-e " J’ u
her from England, so the eleven States of the ’ lie has to pay the tax and fees when lie ap- ,' t,( ' t( 'd the propositions ot the (. ontederate.
South, still excluded from representation in peals to the courts for justice, and the lawyers government t<>r a tud and tair ext i.i ige.