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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
(gjargia Steklij <6>rltfirfpjr.
The State Tax One Sixm of One Per
Cent.—An official dispatch from John T.
Burns, Comptroller General of tht State of
Georgia, announces that the Stn?: tnx 1ms
]>ecn fixed at one-sixth of one per cent.
Ex-Governor John A. Andrew, of
Massachusetts, says he won't run for any of
fice, but means to practice law to get bread
and butter for his family. Andrew, by-tlie-
bv, is the head of a society for investing
money at the South, which shows be knows
the Radicals who say Northern property or
Northern men are unsafe at the South.
Wno owns the Brunswick Cjnal,—Our
contemporary, the Brunswick Courier, is
much exercised on this question and calls
weekly for the parties to “como forward,
prove property,” etc., etc. Perhaps some of
our Macon citizens may throw some light on
the subject. We have an idea that it makes
little diflerence who owns it, as we were in
formed, when on a visit to Brunswick some
years ago, that when the water wts turned in,
the bottom dropped out.
More Ocean Cables.—The possibility of
maintaining an electric cable at tbc bottom
of the Atlantic having now been fully de
monstrated, there are efforts being made to
multiply the lines by other companies.—
There are seven of these companies, and their
routes are varied; but all fulfill the purpose
of linking the Old and New Worlds to
gether. These are not all act* ally new, but
they have all been spurred into increased ac
tivity by the success of the Atlantic Cable.
‘The South Carolina Legislature has
passed a bill which permits all parties to tes
tify in their own behalf in civil causes, and
gives permission to defendants in criminal
cases to testify as to facts, but docs not re
quire that they should give any evidence
tending to criminate themselves. The “ Fire
Loan Bill,” to authorize the City Council of
Charleston to issue two millions of bonds, as
proposed in their recent ordinance, to aid in
rebuilding the city, has also been passed.
Mr. Davis—President Johnson sats He
Most be Tried by Both Civil and Milita
ry Tribunals.—A despatch from Fortress
Monroe on Wednesday states that during the
interview of Bishop Green and [Rev. Mr.
Kelly with Mr. Davis, Bishop Green men
tioned the great desire prevailing through
out the South ot having him released, and
stating their intention, if meeting with his
approval, of proceeding to Washington for
the purpose ot having a personal interview
with President Johnson, and persuading him
to liberate Mr. Davis. The latter replied
that their efforts would lie futile. His coun
sel, Mr. O'Conor, and more lately, the lion.
Wm. B. Reed, had both personal interviews
with the President for the same object, and
the only answer to their petitions was, that
he (Davis) would have to be tried under the
charges now pending against him, before both
a civil and military tribunal. Providing, of
course, that no now unforeseen circumgtanc e
should transpire in the time intervening be
fore a trial should take place, but for the
present he had given up all hopes of a release
from his confinement. The two gentlemen,
however, have left for Washington.
ABGU8TA CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Saturday’s issue of this journal contains
the valedictory of Mr. Salem Dutcher, for
some time past its leading editor, on account,
us he alleges, of “a discrepancy of political
views between its proprietors and himself.”
Believing the proprietors right and Mr.
Dutcher sadly wrong, we regard the change a
most advantageous one, both to the Constitu*
tionalist and to the political welfare of Geor
gia and the South. Wc say this with the ut
most personal kindness toward the gentleman
named, whose views, to say the least, we re
gard as unfortunate in the present circum
stances of the country. We Irish 3Ir. Dutcher
well, and trust he may soon find a new field
of labor where he can exercise his talents with
advantage both to himself and bis suffering
fellow-citizens of the South.
Prom the Sunday’s issue of the same paper,
we copy the followinggratifyingnoticc:
Our Position.—From the valedictory of
Mr. Salem Dutcher, published yesterday
morning, our readers have seen that a change
has been mads in the editorial conduct of this
journal, by his withdrawal on account of a
difference of political views existing between
himself and the proprietors.
Until further notice, the undersigned will
have fall control of tho editorial as well as
the business management of the paper. He
will have the services of the able and pun
gent pen of Mr. James R. Randall in the po
litical department of the paper, and while not
endorsing in extenso the resolutions and plat
form of the Philadelphia Convention, fully
sympathizes with that great and patriotic
movement to defeat the Radical party.
John L. Stockton.
THE RELIGIOUS DESTINY OF THE NEGRO.
Some months ago, we took occasion to
comment on the statement of some writer
that the history ol the race proved that the ne
gro was capable of but two conditions, that
he must be either a slave or a barbarian —
that in spite of his imitative nature, he had
natural proclivities, still stronger in their in
fluences upon his character, that would, in a
state of perfect freedom, cvevitably lead him
back, by degrees, to the savage life from which
he was originally rescued in the order of
Providence, if you will, by the cupidity of a
superior race. The soundness of this doctrine
has yet to be fully tested in the case of the
emancipated American slave. The reader’s
observation thus tar in their career ot free
dom, will enable him to form some opinion
of the probabilities of the future.
In the same connection, we adverted to the
prospects of the race ns regards their religi
ous condition. Arguing from the same natu
ral proclivities,—the love of excitement,
of novelty, his active fancy, and the inordi
nate development of his organ of marvellous
ness—we took the position that, left to him
self, unrestrained by the sober judgment and
regard for decency nnd good order of the Anglo
Saxon Christians, his religion would soon be
come a mere superstition, and his divinity
anything else than the True'and Living God.
This was a mere prophecy at the time,
funndad on the known idiosynacracies of the
negro character. Though thoroughly con
vinced of its correctness, we had no thought
that the practical evidences of its fulfillment
would be developed in the very first year ot
negro freedom. Yet so it is, and wo make
the statement upon what appears to be well
authenticated facts. These are taken from
various sections of the country, asd all point
to the same result
Rev. Mr. Mcredtih, of Stafford county,
Virginia, tells of a negro woman ot that re
gion, who is leading licr people in idol dan
ces. and giving out herself as immortal. She
has many followers, and they give implicit
faith to her pretensions.
Rev. Dr. Marshall, of Miss., says hundreds
of negroes in that State have adopted wliat
they call tlie u Xeu) Religion.” They tench
that God is dead, and that the Savior has
been superseded by two old negro women,
whom they worship in His stead.
These are significant facts, and we have no
doubt, if the truth Was known, that similar
instances of religions degeneracy exist in
nearly every part of the South. Even
in this goodly city ot Macon, where
much moral cnlightment exists among
the blacks, who have enjoyed
all their lives the best religious instruction
and training, the same tendency to supersti
tion is manifest. Their religious enthusiasm
knows no hounds, and iheir meetings for wor
ship, which frequently occupy three-fourths
of the night, are scenes of the wildest animal
excitement and confusion. There is bat little
real vital religion in them, and the exercises
partake more of the nature of the orgies of
the Shouting Dervishes of the East than of
sincere, intelligent worship of tliS Great Ruler
of mankind. Addressing some enquiries on
the subject to a leading clergyman of the
city, some weeks ago, and expressing our
For the Mecon Telegraph.
Saving In Pucklng Cotton—Gunny
Bags.
Hears. Editor*: I came across a planter
the other day who was buying a large lot of
gunny corn sacks. I asked him what he
wanted with them, and he informed me that
he had bought them to pack his cotton with.
He also informed me that he had heretofore
used them in that way, and that they answer
ed the purpose very well. Upon counting up
the cost of packing a bag of cotton with Gun
ny bagging, at 43 cents per yard, and rating
the com sacks (which contain about one and
one»third yards) at 20 cents each, he satisfied
me that he saved at least one-half of what it
would cost him to buy the bagging by the
yard. This being the case, it would be well
for the cotton planter to look to the matter.
If the Justices of the Inferior Courts of the
several counties in this State have properly
discharged their duties, the State of Georgia
ought now to have a large lot of good new
gunny sacks that might be bought upon fatj
terms. Gov. Jenkins, desirous to mike the
fund for the purchase of com for the widows
and orphans of deceased soldiers, and others,
go as far as possible, about the 1st of August
last directed the Inferior Courts to immedi
ately send to Maj. Campbell Wallace, Super
intendent Western and Atlantic Railroad, at
Atlanta, all the sacks that had been sent to
them with com. As the object of the Gov
ernor—the feeding, as far as possible, the des
titute—was, and is, a most coimnentialile one,
it can hardly he supposed that the Justices of
the Inferior Courts of this State have failed
to comply with his call. Not supposing,
then, that they have failed to discharge their
duty in this particular, I would suggest to
planters that perhaps they might be able to
purchase gunny sacks of the State upon fair
terms by applying to Maj. Campbell Wallace,
at Atlanta. Economy.
THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION
Platform and Address of the Soldiers and
Sailors ol the North.
lion. L. D. Campbell, from the Committee
on Resolutions, reported the following plat
form which was adopted with immense cheer
ing :
THE platform.
Gold mining on n Magnificent
Scale.
We clip the following from the letter of
the correspondent of tVe New York Times,
dated Dahlonega, Lumpkin connty, Georgia,
September 9th, 18GG, detailing the operations
ot Northern companies in that vicinity :
Three Northern companies are now making
preparations on an extensile scale for vein
mining. The first, represented by Mr. Van
Dvkc, who resides here and is much respect
ed, is engaged in the gigantic undertaking
ot bringing the waters of Yoboola Creek
from a point about twelve miles above Dak-
loncga to a point close to this place,
nnd about three hundred feet above tbc
mouth of the creek where it falls into the
Cliestatce river. No one who does not see
the ground can font any idea of the magni
tude and difficulty «f the enterprise. Mr. B.
Butler's Dutch Gad Canal is not a patch upon
it. There are several ravines to be crossed,
varying in width from fifteen hundred feet to
three-quarters of a mile, and in depth from
two to three hundred feet. Large iron tubes,
three feet in diameter, laid on ponderous
trestlework, span these chasms, and make the
canal continuous. The largest of these ra
vines is about two miles from Dahlonega, the
trestlework across which is 240 feet high.—
The object of this canal—which will cost, it
is supposed, from $300,000 to $400,000—is to
lease the water to companies who propose to
wash the vein mines in the hill sides.
There is another company, under the di-
feare of an idolatrous tendency among the rection hereof Mr. Pride, who is said to have
. , , , « .... ... . . c.n..rl in 6Amn mnflnitv nn till. cfnfT nf Unn
blacks, he shared fully with us in tlie appre
hension. He informed us that he bad been
invited a short time before to preach to them
and accepted,but on making the effort he found
them in no mood for listening to the sober
and on the firet allusion .tattooed HSS. t°.
A RAY OF HOPE.
The New York Times does not despair of
saving the Constitution and the country. It
relies, though, upon the Republican party to
become the savior, a result, we think, past all
hope. It is significant that it ignores the re
cent organization, made expressly for the pur
pose, the Republicans having not only signal
ly failed in the work of reconstruction, but
become the agents of perpetual separation.
The Times says:
But we do not believe that such ideas and
leaders can continue to control a party with
such elements as compose the Republican
party. We do not believe it has been really
represented at all by the policy of the Radi
cal leaders. We believe that the policy of
exclusion and hatred and sectionalism which
Stevens and Butler have been, and still are,
trying to thrust upon it, will be disavowed
and repudiated long before this policy can
ripen into the action which they demand.—
We believe that the original principles of its
existence are too deeply implanted in its be
ing to be rooted out or crushed down by any
such means ns these violent agitators have
adopted; and perhaps in the very hour of
their apparent triumph they will discover
that their plans have failed and that their
game is lost. Wc think there are signs enough
now, notwithstanding tlie elections in New
England, that the popular mind is becoming
thoroughly weary of the wild nnd dangerous
schemes or these men—weary with politicians
who keep the Union unrestored, States unrep
resented, citizens disfranchised. Wc believe
that, on this subject, the popular demands
upon Congress next Winter will be irresisti
ble; and we say this without regard to party
triumphs in the elections ot the next two
months. Congress will then have an oppor
tunity, in its dealings with the South, to sup
plement and rectify its past action in accord
ance with justice and the Constitution; and
the Republican party, raising again the old
standards, and showing itself equal to the
new demands of the new times, will have an
opportunity of consolidating the power which
the folly oi some of its leaders have imperil
ed. i
their hearts, the whole congregation present
ed such a wild and frantic scene that he was
compelled to cut short his discourse and leave
them to tlieir religious revelry.
It may be well to note these tilings as part
of the history of the times, though lamenta
ble as they are, they stand without remedy
under the existing order of affairs. The
blind are leading the blind, and all must fall
together into the ditch.
THE NORTHERN " SOLDIERS’ ADDRESS”—
WHAT BRAVE -MEN- SAY OF THE CON
STITUTIONAL AMENDMENT,
We re-print, on our first page, this morn
ing, the Platform and Address of the late
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention. They are
documents worthy to be read, coming os they
do from the men who have been in arms
against us for more than four years. The
sentiments arc worthy of brave and generous
hearted men, who, having won the fight,
would impose no degrading terpos upon the
conquered.
There is one portion of the Address better
than all tlie rest, and whicl\deserves to be
written in letters of geld. Wc allude to the
high-toned, manly, and eloquent protest
against the infamous Constitutional Amend
ment which Congress and craven spirits at
the North would cram down the throats of
the Southern people as a condition ofrecon-
.ciliation. Its sentiments are so noble and jast
that we reprodnee them here with the hope of
impressing them upon every Southern heart
Let them be read and re-read until all shall
feel the terrible depth of humiliation to which
the Radicals of tho North wonld drive us,
nnd feeling it, resolve to suffer persecution in
all its forms, nay, even to bo gibbeted or
burnt at tho stake, rather then acquiesce in
the foul and damning proposal.
Tbc following is the clause of the amend
ment specially referred to:
“No person shall be a Senator or Represen
tntive in Congress, or elector of President and
Vice-President, or bold any office, civil or
military, under the United States, or under
any States, who, having previously taken an
oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer
of the United States, or os a member of any
State Legislature, or os an executive or judi
cial officer of any. State, to support the Con
stitution of the United States, shall have en
gaged in insurrection or rebellion against the
same, or givecnaid or comfort to the enemies
thereof.. But Congress may, by a vote of
two-thirds of each House, remove such dis
ability.”
And here is what the war-worn veterans of
the North say of it:
“fhe effect of each ot these utterly discon
ncctcd propositions is made to depend upon
the acceptance or rejection of the whole. It
seems incredible that those who insisted upon
thus connecting them could have expected
that they would be ratified. The southern
people, after following their political leaders
into the late struggle and sharing the risk of
their fate through four years of terrible tear,
are called, upon to aid the proscription. What
ever punishment their bodies may deserve at the
hands of government, it is unintelligible that
statesmen should have dreamed of asking their
associates and followers to inflict that punish
ment upon them, especially a punishment of last
ing disgrace more terrible than any which the
government itself is authorized to impose. Ip ik
THE MIDST OF THEIR ERRORS THE PEOPLE OF
toe South retain toe ordinary fidelity
OF COMRADES IN ARMS TO EACH OTHER—THE
COMMON SENTIMENT OF HONOR WUICH RULES
ALL COMPANIONSHIP—THEY WILL NOT VOL
UNTARILY DESERT THE MEN WHOM THEY nAvfe
VOLUNTARILY AND STEADILY FOLLOWED AMID
SO MANY PERILS. ThEY’wILL NOT ACCEPT
THIS THIRD SECTION OF TOE AMENDMENT, AND
THET AH?
WITHOUT
served in some capacity on the staff of Gen,
Resecranz, also making extensive arrange
ments for vein mining. The company is rep
resented as immensely rich, and 3lr. Pride is
generally spoken of as a miner of experience,
courteous iu manner and diligent in his bus-
tween three and four miles southwest of Dah-
loncga, on the west bank ot Cane creek, to the
left of the road from Dahlonega to Auraria.
This vein is supposed to be one of the rick-
jst in the neighborhood. Mr. Pride is now
erecting near it the largest pounding mil! ever
erected in Georgia, and when it is m opera
tion he expects io derive large yields from
the mine. He proposes to work a large num
ber of operatives, tor whom he will build a
cl lurch and school, and engage a minister ot
the Gospei, who will combine the secular and
spiritual duties of school-teacher on week
nights and preacher on Sundays.
There is a third company which was incor
porated in Washington City, represented by
Mr. Peter Uannay, late of California, which
proposes to flume the Cliestatee river fora
distance of ten miles. The operation coi-
sists in constructing a wooden race, like a
mill race, of heavy plank, thirty feet wide
and eight deep, into which the river is to be
turned, and wnick it is supposed will be large
enough to contain die water even after a
large freshet. Thus the bed of the river, for
ten miles, will be exposed for mining and tlie
water for washing, &c, will be easily acces
sible. The estimated cost of the flume is $t0-
Tlie Union soldiers and sailors who served
in the army and navy of the United States
in the recent war for the suppression of the
insurrection, the maintenance of tlie Consti
tution, the Government and flag of the Un
ion, grateful to Almighty God for his preser
vation of them through the perils and hard
ships of civil war, and for his mercy in crown
in"- their efforts with victory, freedom and
peace, deploringthe absence from their midst
of many brave and faithful comrades, who
have scaled with their life-blood tlieir devo
tion to the enus? of American nationality,
and determined row*, as heretofore, to stand
by the principles for which tlieir glorious
dead have fallen, and by which their surviv
ors have triumphed, being assembled in Na
tional Mass Convention in the city *f Cleve
land, Ohio, this 17th day of September, do
resolve and decree:
First That we heartily approve the reso
lutions adopted by the National Union Con
vention, held in the city of Philadelphia on
the 14th day of August last, composed of
delegates representing nil the States and Ter
ritories of the United States.
Second—That our object in faking up arms
to suppress the rebellion was to defend nnd
maintain the Constitution, and to preserve
tho Union with all the dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpaired, and
not in any spirit of oppression, nor for any
purpose of conquest nnd subjugation; and
w’henever there shall be any armed resistance
to the lawfully constituted authorities of our
National Union, either in the South or in the
North, in tlie East or in the West, emulating
the self-sacrificing patriotism of our revolu
tionarv forefathers, we will agaiu pledge to
its support our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor.
TOE COMMITTEE'S ADDRESS.
Genera! Este, from the same committee, re
ported a lengthy address, which was received
with enthusiasm and adopted with waving of
flags, cheers, and singing “ Rally Round the
Flag, Boys.”
ADDRESS.
More than fifteen months have elapsed since
you were released from service and permitted
to return to your homes, with the assurance
of the country that your work was done,‘and
that tfie rebellion was substantially suppress
ed. For four years, on the ocean and in fields,
stretching from Gettysburg to New Orleans,
you had fought in order to restore tlie integ
rity of the nation, and you rested from your
toils with the conviction that it only remain
ed for statesmen to rivet the broken bands
which you had laid together. You knew that
this task required wisdom and deliberation,
but you had a right to expect that, like your
own, it would be taken up promptly and con
ducted with singleness oi purpose. You had
yourselves left party ties behind when you
inarched to the field, and thenceforth know
only your country.
You had a right to demand that in the
peaceful completion of your work they would
followyourcxample. You expected that those
who had called upon you to suppress not only
revolution but the spirit of revolution, and to
vindicate tlie violated law, would set a new*
example to the nation by a strict adherence
to their constitutional power and a revival of
the old spirit of sacred obedience to law.—
You expected, and after the performance of
such services, yfiu had a peculiar right to de
mand, that your successors in the work of res
toration should not only devise measures
which should be just, but should propose
them at the season when they should be prac
ticable: and that by means of the measures
and tlie sympathies of tlie North, the people
of the South, subjected to all the penalties,
should long since have been brought back to
the performance of all its duties in this na
tion, and which the vindication of the law
demanded to a real participation in its life.
For more than a year you have looked on in
silence, and the work for which you provided
the opportunity lias lw>en done. Your suc
cessors have acted neither wisely nor in sea
son. That which might have been well and
wisely accomplished, if proposed at the prop
er time, has been made impracticable by de
lay, and a condition which it wonld have
been of doubtful wisdom tc impose at any
time is at last imposed when it is too late.
After you had been withdrawn from the
field because you had annihilated the
power of your opponents to dis
obey tlieir Government, an entire year
was added, to tlieir already long
estrangement from it before any conditions
of return were offered to them, and when
these conditions of return were offered to
them, and when these conditions were at
last announced, they contained terms which
proposed to make the estrangement of a
large portion of our population perpetual.—
The youth of the South, who had never
known when tlie rebellion commenced, or.
what it was to share in the duties and busi
ness of national citizens, have grown toman
ces of secession and the maintenance of an tru() civilization—not by force. It tear is
insurrectionary wardebt, were strictly hostile | entertained that the Southern people may he
positions and threatened apossible renewal i insincere in what thev have done toward re*'
of the war until they should be surrendered. , construction, and that they may undo it and
There could he no complete surrender of the
belligerent attitude ot the insurgent commu
nities of the South ; therefore, the Comtnan-
der-in-Chief, clothed with a double functions
of military commander and of the civil exe
cution of the laws of the Union, compelled
this surrender, and at this point the belliger
ent power of the National Government—the
power to apply compulsion in any form to
tlie political future of the lately revolted
States—was exhausted. This legitimate and
restricted use of compulsion appeared to ac
complish the desired end. It is true that the
subdued and impoverished people of the
South did net and could not at once pass
from hostility to friendship. Their homes
were darkened with sorrow which no
sense of error could mitigate ; their
fields were cemeteries, their farms were
the burnt path of our armies, and they
could not love us in the midst of their desola
tion. But they knew that the i-sue of the
appeal to arms had been determined forever
ngainst them. They saw that they bad lost
by war what they had attempted to save by
work. They had suffered too much to dream
of renewing the strife, and, seeing no future
before them but that of citizen* of the United
States, they were ready to return to their al
legiance as defined to them anew by the event
ot tlie struggle. When Congress first assem
bled they had acquired a temper toward the
repudiate our national debt, here is i con
tinued exclusion by means of the proposed
amendment, which will not be ratified. Their
exclusion cannot he permanent. This people
will not sutler it to be lasting, and they will
return at last without those conditions, but
still less inclined to patriotism and good
faith. They are Americans, and they have at
lea^t the weakness common to the nation aud
to them, as it would he to us. Exclusion from
the Union and from complete self-govern
ment is disorganization, politically and soci
ally. The freed men among them and the
rest of the nation might suffer by everyj
thing which demoralized their conditiod,
and be benefited by everything which ele
vates it. True, we do not believe the peo
ple of the South will violate the good faith
which they have pledged to us. In ti e Na
tional Union Convention at Philadelphia
more than 300 Southern delegates, holding
influential positions at home, claiming to
represent, and, as wc believe, actually rep
resenting constituences who can make good
meeting of Ex-Conr e « k . rai(
at Jfeiuphi*,
The Cleveland Convention i.
President Sus»..lnt“ . 0n I, *«f
ted.
The
held a
President Susliuiied-V."^'^'^'i
ex-Confederate solfii,.-
rand mass meeting j n V : ■■
on Tuesday evening, to 8xp n '.,V;
ty of action in support of p :j ij
their confidence and trust ; a
and sailors assembled at
approval of the Administration ^
Johnson, and lo refute the sian ^
upon tlieir name by the enemies ^
ot truth in the North. Gen ha ^
was called to the Chair, and stan>A C '*i
of tbc meeting. As Gen. Firer^J 1
scat, loud and repeated calls Wer T
Gen. Forrest, and that gentleman
ward amid the greatest enthusiasm
that he would address those h c f B(|
lellow-solcliers, for the last time h"^^
ken to them they were soldiers.' ii ,
fediinmed daring the aay, an< j h **i
condition to maks a speech; h e u?!
hand, however, a despatch which 1 '
to read.
tv
[The despatch was read, beineth,
Gen. Custar and others, to tlie oneIVri
their promises, cordially co-operated with
the North in pledging that Convention and Forrest and others, published
the people that the public debt of thei Lnited | Unon hearin.r tho dJL*?? 2**%
States should forever remain sacred: that
the insurrectionary debt should not he paid,
and that the rights of the freedmen should
lie protected. We believe that the men who
made these elections will keep them; espe-
National Government as healthy as it was dally as soldiers, who know the character of
possible for any people to attain after such a their late opponents, we believe that t ie sol-
conflict and such experiences. In this respect n r the South
the result of the war was unexampled in the
Upon hearing the despatch, tW
cheers were proposed and riven /
Cleveland Convention: after which r
Forrest continued. lie said most ^
whose names appeared subscribed to a. 1
timents of the dispatch he had
it had been his fortune to meet.
history of nations. Their disposition
governed by tlieir acts. Tliey bad upon the
requirement of the Commander-in-Chief, sur
rendered every position which could truth
fully be deemed hostile to the Government,
and by his advice, not under his compulsion,
they went further, and in common with the
loyal States ratified a Constitutional Amend
ment which forever abolished Slavery, and
gave to Congress the power, by appropriate
legislation, to prevent its re-establishment.—
They might have conceded still more; but
month after month passed without action and
meantime they were subjected to military
government. No system was ever better
adapted than our national government to
the performances of the duties for
which it was designed : no government
could be less adapted to the regulation of af
fairs in a subjected neighboring territory.—
Mistakes, injustice, even fraud, inevitably
mingled with and marred its operations thro’
distant agencies, and these have produced
t eir natural effect. The prolonged exetcisc
of such functions can only injure it, has al
ready injured ourselves. We cannot afford to
alter the spirit of our great national system,
and by centralizing render two Governments
of this Union hateful to the people of all the
States, North and South alike; but the evils
of our present mistakes, -committed in tlie
duties of a function for which the Govern
ment was never designed, do not wait the
slow development ot time. Tlieir effect upon
the subjected South is a daily disaster. We
are training future citizens by the worst pos
sible instruction, and every month’s persist
ence makes the evil plainer to us. It is man
ifest that under the experiences of this delay
and of unrepublican life under military con
straint, the temper of tlie people has become
much less commendable than it was at the
conclusion ot active hostilities; that the work
of true reunion has grown more difficult;
that perils of our condition only increase it.
It is for you, therefore, to ask*whether tlie
reasons for this delay are sufficient, and whe
ther the new conditjons imposed by Congress
are likely to prove a fgia! remedy. The man
ner in which these conditions, in the form of
an amendment to the National Constitution,
have been presented, not only to the people
ot the South, but to the nation, is without
1T:cedent. For the first time in the history
of this Government propositions without con
nection have been united in one amendment,
and the people have been denied the oppor
tunity of free choice concerning each. * The
first section of this single article defines citi
zenship of the United States. The second
lays down the basis of representation. The
third is in the following; words:
No person shall be a Senator or Represen-
diers of the South—men who have endured
o bravely and constantly the trials and pri-
was va tions of four years of war—are, despite the
error of their cause, men ot personal honor
and self-respect, and that they will not permit
the communities in which they dwell to vi
olate promises given in the most solemn
forms. Wc hold, then, that no reason has been
given which can justify an adherence to the
course which has been proposed by Congress,
or tor a further continuance of tlie present
unhappy condition of the 'country. If the
same class of men who have established this
policy shall be returned to the next Congress,
that condition will grow worse for two years
longer. Who can estimate the evils whicti
will meantime have fallen upon all races in
those communities as well as ourselves? If
is our duty to remember that the Government
is not tlie embodyment of perfect theories,
but is a practical business, aud deals with the
wise and unw’ise, the well and ill-disposed,
as a mingled mass of that civilization which
is a growth, and not tlie result of force.—
Wc believe that nationality, with its distri
bution oi powers between the central and
local governments, is the chief instrumental
ity, and is the best blessing of political and
civil life for all races and communities in this
land, nnd that our first duty to all is to see
that it is as promptly as possible re-establish
cd. By means ot it we shall accomplish not
only peace and safety, but justice
the nation and the freedmen. Upon all
of these sacicd rights we shall insist. As
soldiers, wc are still devoted to the same
cause nnd the same principles for which we
fought—the cause of Union, freedom, justice
and law. We forego none of these ill de
manding Union now. Wc speak us soldiers,
because we believe that an appeal from us to
the brave men who met us in battle to unite
with us in giving peace to our common coun
try, in fulfilling pledges which have been
made and guaranteeing to the frcednian the
rights which honor and humanity enjoin, will
not be made in vain. Wc shall ask and ex
pect that they, lik6 ourselves, will unite in
maintaining the laws, preserving the peace,
vindicating good-will, and in upholding the
honor and integrity of our common country.
In answer to our appeal we believe tliat,
notwithstanding all provocations and
disappointment, they will be patient and
orderly law-abiding and law-obeying citi
zens respecting and permitting differences of
opinion by whomsoever entertained and by
whomsoever enunciated. We want a Union not
merely m name, but a Union in fact; not a
Union merely of geographical lines, but a
Union of hearts. Such a Union we fought to
maintain, such n Union wc wish to enjoy.—
By it alone can our nation accomplish its true
mission and fulfil its true destiny. So believ-
field of battle. They had fought Li,
ly, and now that the fight was
[v
willing to take them, friends and
in the restoration of the Union and iv^
servation of the Constitution. It],A,'
maliciously reported through the
no Union man could live in the South “
sonal safety, nnd this meeting had
ed to refute the slander. He, for ou t
bid welcome to the citizens of the v/J
We want tbcm among us. Let
come, and wc will proscribe no .rA’
was apxious and willing to do whaU -
He thought the American people tty
clinedtogo to the extremes iu even-.Mr
The Radicals of the North were uo» J
so, and they might yet meet what tl e £
of all the lots it can secure on both sides of
the river for ten miles, offering to pay the
owners as rent onc-tentb of the gross pro
ceeds of all metals found. It will employ
2,000 bonds.
Mr. Hannay is not here now, but is expected
soon to establish himself at a place called
Briar Patch, a short distance Jrom here where
Ralston’s Branch empties into the Cbestatee.
Dr. Van. Dyke resides in Dahlonega, and Mr.
Pride stays at Mr. Castleberry’s close to tie
Pigeon Roost Vein.
Melancholy Occurrence.—We regret to
learn that 3Ir. Thos. A. Heard was found dead
with his throat cut, on Sunday morning last,
having evidently died by his own hand. 3Ir.
Heard had, for some time, displayed symj>
toms of mental derangement and exhibited i
disposition to suicide. A watch had beer
kept upon him, but he managed to elude tb<
vigilance of his guard on Saturday night.
Mr. Heard had held the office ot Sheriff ol
Wilkes county for some years, and was much
esteemed by all who knew him. He lias left
a large family to mourn his untimely death.
[ Washington ClaztUe, 21 st.
Ross & Amos.—We ask the attention ofthe
citizens of 3Iacon and the buying public
elsewhere, to the advertisement of this new; a foreign enemy rtbt only the laying down of
firm. They have opened a choice stock ofl arms, but the surrender of every position
are strange in their own land and excluded
from the instruction which might make them
patriots. The Union of these States, for
which these partizans deemed your lives not
too great a price, is yet as incomplete as
when you marched home, nnd by tlieir meas
ures its restoration is still indefinitely post
poned. They say to you if our terms are
not accepted by the South wo can wait. It
becomes, therefore, your peculiar duty, since
you prepared the ground for this final work,
to inquire how it lias been done, aud to con
sider whether it is wise and safe to wait.
Meantime, while you determine to wait or
move, it is indispensible first to intrench
vourselves in a position of impregnable facts.
The power of the National Government over
the affairs of its insurgent citizens, except
for purposes of judicial punishment, ispurcly
of a belligerent character, and its belliger
ent right concerning them is included in,
while it is also limited by one of the
grants of the Constitution. The Gov
ernment is authorized to suppress
insurrection by military means, and
these include all belligerent functions and
capacities which may be necessary for that
end. In the exercise of its necessary belliger
ent right it is as competent to require of its
insurgent citizens as it would be to require of
Clothing and Furnishing Goods, at 70 Mul
berry, formerly occupied by John L. Jones,
Esq. Mr. Ross is well and favorably known
in this community, and 3Ir. Amos has had
experience in merchandizing in New York.—
We bespeak for the new firm a liberal shore
of patronage.
Heavy in the Grocery and Provision
Line.—Messrs. Stevenson & Laney have
started in heavily in the Grocery and Provi
sion line, and wc ask the special attention of
all interested to their extensive advertisement,
elsewhere. In addition to Bagging and Rope,
they offer a very large lot of fine Kentucky
Mules, which arc warranted free from dis
ease, and titles perfect
Ratification.—The citizens of Fort Val
ley have held a meeting and appointed dele
gates to a County Convention to meet at Per
ry on the 1st Tuesday in October to ratify the-
proceedings ol tho Philadelphia Conserva
tive Convention.
At a crossing on tbc Cleveland and
Toledo Railroad, the other day, the train ran
into a carriage containing two men, shatter
ing it into a thousand pieces. When the
train was stopped the men were found od the
I. r on bidden vro ACCEPT TOE OTHERS forward part of the engine in nearly a sitting
IT. *1 posture, and both dead.
which threatened a renewal of the conflict.—
The right is perfect and complete lor its pur
pose, but it is limited by its purpose. The
Constitution directs that armies and belliger
ent law shall be used for the suppression of
insurrection. With this complete suppression,
which includes the prevention of a renewal,
the legitimate application of compulsion to
their future course as communities must
cease. It is not true that in cose of war this
Government acquires all of the belligerent
rights known to international law. it has
only so much of that kind of right over its
own people os it finds embodied in its own
constitution. It derives from this source so
much as is necessary in suppressing insurrec
tion. and this does not include the right to
take and hold its rebellious citizens and their
territory as a conquest It is authorized to
employ war to vindicate its old title to allegi
ance, not to acquire a new one. In accord
ance with this rule tlie President, as Com
mander-in-Chief, compelled the insurgents,
after they had laid down their arms, to
abolish by tlieir local jaws the insti
tution of slavery, the agitation of which had
been the cause of this war and might be the
cause of another; to declare null and void
their acts of secession, which had been part
of their belligerent action, and until rescind
ed embodied a claim which threatened future
conflict, and finally to repudiate their war
debts, the recognition of which would have
been a hostile act, vindicating the legitima-
2 of insurrection and threatening its renew-
The institution of slavery, the ordinan-
tative in Congress, or elector of President and
Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or
military, under the United States, or under
any State, who, having previously taken nn
oath, as a member of Congress, or as an offi
cer of the United States, or as a member of
any State Legislature, or as an executive or
judicial officer of any State, to support the
Constitution of the United States, shall have
engaged in insnrrection or rebellion against
the same, or given aid or comfort to the ene
mies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote
of two-thirds of each House, remove such dis
ability. •
The effect of each of these utterly discon
nected propositions is made to depend upon
the acceptance or rejection of the whole It
seems incredible that those who insisted up
on thus connecting them could have expect
ed that they would be ratified. The South
ern people, after following their political lea
ders into the late struggle and sharing the
risk of tlieir fate through lour years of terri
ble war, are called upon to aid the proscrip
tion. Whatever punishment their bodies
may deserve at the hands of tlie government
it is unintelligible that statesmen should
have dreamed of asking their associates and
followers to inflict that punishment upon
them, especially a punishment of lasting dis
grace more terrible than any whicti the
Government itself is authorized to impose.—
If in the midst of their errors the
people of the South retain the ordinary
fidelity of comrades in arms to each other—the
common sentiment of honor which rules all
companionship—they will not voluntarily dc
sert the men whom they have voluntarily and
steadily followed amid so many perils. They
will not accept this third section of tlie
amendment, and they arc forbidden to accept
tlie'othiT without it. We believe that the
only effect of such a proposition will be
prolonged exclusion of the South from the
practice of self-government and the training
of patriotism; but if they could be persuad
ed or constrained to accept it we are at a loss
to perceive the benefit to be derived from it,
because no act of Congress, nor anything con
tained in the proposed amendment gives any
pledge or assurance that the adoption of those
amendments will secure the admission of loy
al representatives from the Southern States
now excluded, or the recognition of their con
stitutional relations to the Government of the
United States. The preamble and resolution
adopted in the case of Tennessee do not com
mit Congress to the restoration of the Union,
should tneir example be followed at once by
every other Southern State. It is evident
from the course, pursued by the extreme men
who urge these amendments, and from the
sentiments enunciated by them, that it is tbeir
fixed purpose, even if the amendments be
adopted, to still insist upon the political
equality of the colored race as a condition
precclient to admitting loyal representatives
from the Southern States lately in rebellion.
The partisans of these conditions attempted
to exert the indignation and alarm of
the country by declaring the re-ad
mission of the South without them, is
nn abandonment of all the dear-bought
fruits of the war. It is not for the soldiers
nnd sailors of that war to shrink from being
wise, lest they should be suspected of insult
ing the graves of their comrades, and forget
ting tlie objects for which they suffered so
much. They know that there is a progress in
the life of this nation, and that there is
is a God who animates that life, nnd they
hold that fear to be os infidel as it is coward
ly. Nations never die in their adolescence.
The manhood which this people 1ms vindica
ted iu war will not sicken and perish in
peace. The South cannot, if it would, cast
off the obligations of events; and under the
good that has been done it lias shared already
and for a law as irresistible as time must
continue to share the common development
of this season of quick growth. The North,
with its sense of justice, its faith in true De
mocracy, its vigor and industry and vast
wealth, mnot Inevitably rule this land, but it
will secure and beneficially exeicisj that rule
only by the same procc-s> which governs all
ing, we aqxiouslv and earnestly appeal to you,
had met
He thought it the duty of the So-'
stand by President Johnson, so
makes the Constitution his guide.
not stand by any man or any p»r; T .
than this. He was glad to sez so v,
number of those at the meeting whomS
been associated with in the army. Tttrij
together then as they were now,forth,'*,
tenance of tlieir rights and the vindias
their character. It behooved every N,-].
soldier to stand by President Johnson" ]
war was over—he would again sav i,,
willing to clasp the hand of anydtia
the country, and to assist in bringit-
that time when the American stafesLi- (
to again say he knows no North, no Sooi.
East, no West.
Gen. Forrest was frequently intern;:
his remarks by enthusiastic apphtgAB’
when lie had taken his seat, Gen. C: id
was called for and made an eloquent ul
tinent speech relative to the issues ta
fore the country, nnd the position ii
should lie assumed by the soldiers
people of the South. bi
At the conclusion of Gen. Chahwi: I
marks, Col. Safferans presented to the-, I
ing the following preamble and rcsola I
which were unanimously adopted: I
Whereas, A Convention of tlie Uni :> e * r
diers and Sailors is now in session inti:: 91
of Cleveland, Ohio, having undercw-ii I
tion the best mode in which to retail I
Union of these States, and to
bond of fraternal friendship so srada
the late war: and
Whereas, We, the soldiers of the lit, a I
of the Confederate States, feeling and ■
in sympathy with the movement of eel H
adversaries, to restore our country to ini H
mer state of peace, happiness and prospo I
and
Whereas, We believe that our stmi
cacy of the principles lor which wre
entiously struggled during aperiodrf
years, will be rather a recommendation^
sincerity nnd honorable purposes to th r ■
our former comrades in arms, to assist in- the
great work of pacification. We appeal to
you, not as Democrats, not as Republicans,
but i>s patriots and National Union men.—
Whatever others may say, you know that
those who stood shoulder to shoulder with
you throughout tour years of terrible war arc
truly loyal. You, at least, w*ill never ques
tion^ their fidelity to, and their affection for
Hie Union and the Constitution, whateverdif-
fcrences of opinion may* exist, now that the
war is over, and that the insurrection is quell
ed, between those who together offered their
lives as a constant, willfhg sacrifice that tlie
life of the nation might he saved. Let no crimi
nations or recriminations mar or disturb that
mutual esteem which should be ever cherish
ed by those who have shared common dan
ger in contending for a common cause. We
were brothers during the dark days of the re
bellion—let us remain friends during tho
brighter days of peace; nnd as we carried
desolation to the South when she was hostile
and defiant, let us unite in tendering to lur
not only just but generous treatment now
that she is subdued aud disarmed. If wc
but do this, if we but evince the magnanimi
ty of-spirit always politic from the victor to
the conquered, the honor and pride of the
Southern soldiers will so respond that our be
loved Union shall be stronger, better, firmer
than ever before. 3ray tlie God of our fath
ers, who, by his blessings enable them
through a seven years’ war to establish a Un
ion, and we, tlieir children and sons, to vin
dicate >t in the late terrible struggle, grant
His aid and assistance in our efforts to estab
lish and perpetuate it.
Homicide.—On Saturday night, Patrick
3Iumer itnd John Casey got into an alterca
tion on Fahm street, in the course of which,
it is said, Murner struck Casey several blows.
The latter drew his knife and stabbed 3Iur-
ner in the heart; the wound proved fatal.—
Coroner Myers cmpannclled a jury of inquest
Sunday morning, and a verdict was rendered
in accordance with the above facts.
Subsequently a warrant was issued by Jus
tice Staley, and Casey was arrested and’com
mitted to jail, to await an examination upon
a charge of murder.
[Savannah Republican, 24th.
A California company are about to
tunnel the Sierra Nevada mountains and
bring tlie waters of Lake Tahoe to San Fran
cisco. Miners and towns arc also to be sup
plied This lake is 1500 feet higher than any
body of water on earth navigated by steam
boats. ,'
*
soldiers of the Union; therefore.
Resolved, That we have seen with H
the movements made by the soh: ?i ■
sailors of the Union, for the preser.
which they have so long fought;-ail
we have no fears that wrong or injustict
be done to us by these we have lcf.rr
the battle-field to respect, as “ foenu-n * * ^
of our steel.”
Resolved, That we tender to then i;
dier’s pledge of our fidelity to tlie G.'
ment, of our assistance in the maintain?
law and order, and our earnest desire f "
return of that day when the Auerican] |
cun say with truth they u know no
South, no Last and no West.”
Resolved, That the charge that tbf
liberty or property of Northern mm'•■
safe or unprotected in the South, isa -'J
which, could only have emanated trr.' ■
cowardly fears of “fireside heroes.'
tlie corrupt machination of reckless
holders, grown desperate at the app-
retributive justice, and the loss ofpovt.*™
place.
Buownlow’s “Wrongs and Suffer
of which he is prating throughout the?'
arc thus summed up by the World:
The reclamation of Iris entire property
fiscated by the “rebels,” nnd a g<»
more—say about thirty thousand ik*
twenty or thirty thousand dollars co -
from dupes in this city and elsewhere is
North—offerings poured out for tho l ?
this wronged refugee; fifteen or tweet?'-
snnd dollars more for his book, prefab
hideous photographic portrait—ah'?
something like seventy or eighty ihc-j
dollars, which this patriot is known! 1 ’
I
Gen. Butler lias announced Ills inten
tion of stumping Pennsylvania in the interest
of Geary, tbc Radical candidate for Gover
nor. The more wealthy citizens are sending
their plate to the bankers.
pg~Tlie State of Texas has commenced
proceedings against Ebenezer E. B. Nichols,
to regain a sum of two millions and twenty-
five thousand dollars. Nichols was the finan
cial agent of the State Government during
the war.
A women named Korwan, committed
suicide in New York the other day, after mak
ing burial clothes for herself, mourning dres
ses for her children nnd binding her hus
band's hat with crape.
^27” It is singular that the more you damp
the ardor of a troublesome talker, by throw
ing cold water on his effusions, the sooner lie
dries up.
■df The Prussians lost in the war 2,473
killed, 3341 severely wounded. 8,863 slightly
wounded, and 2.33fi mining, makiuir a total
of 19,239.
Last year the whole ol England paid
to religious institutions, .'?2,S00,000, and the
tax on spirits paid to the Government
amounted to $70,000,000.
^ . rA< I
Great Famine in India.—» I
letter, of July 31, contains a I
account of the ravages produced in* I
try lying southwest from that city biI
ine prevailing in India. Groups ol - ^ |
people were found dying by tlie
many points, and it was estimated that _
hundred persons perished daily fr oin n I
food in the three districts of BelasoK- |
tack and Midnapore. I
Tobacco.—The to! >acco crop in this U ■
(says |the Lynchburg News) while ^
large, is fully equal in quality t0 , an : T y {
in antebellum times. A good ‘hh
crop has already been housed and ^ |
anil by the first of October the ~
will be cut.
rr. Another steamer load of
the Fortress on Saturday for Bod v-.
Pp/iiulmnn’c PilfAon TlYflTl )lfl^ bCCO . •'
Freed men’s Bureau man has been
ing, but with little success, to wo ■
dmhg nuifnwln negroes to ew= ■
Florida, promising them tree pasi3 0 •
£^“ There are 39,000 idle negro*
city of WaaMagtoii, who have nww ■
nor disposition to obtain an bom-t .
The Tribune asks Northern fanner ■
them employment.
ressce»*
made out of his “sufferings, - ’ or more c-
than he ever raw before in his ownpcaj*
For months in 1801 ? id 1862 tbis Br r:
was a public beggar, passing his bat
from city to city In the North, and 0*5
fawning on, and flattering the pe°ph ^
lie now abuses without stint. His •'
the way of “restoration” on his
Tennessee, was the summary and viol*®'
toration of his own property, which j?
ccived in full, in addition to the s'v
stowed upon this beggar in the .
And now, besides abusing Lis
he prates about his “sufferings," *bic&
him rich.
Ns?” A woman is said to havt -
; he top of a factory ■ Inmney.
in Ludlow, Yt.. the • thcr |
had her photograph t .ken in ta i
The corner-stone of two J
ion factories was laid at M est I '
the oilier day, with appropriate ex«w-