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MACON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1807.
{VOL II.—NO. 33
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xccutlon of JOB PRINTING of every descrip
tion.
Savannah Advertiser reports that
on Tuesday “Central Railroad stock was sold
at 08, Southwestern at 10, and Atlantic & Golf
Railroad at 94a05.” Wc would advise tho
Advertiser to reviso its figures.
Thb Coban TEi.EoitArn.—As onr tele
graphic column contains Havana news of the
•id, we infer that tho cable between the United
Slates and Cub* has been successfully laid.
Monroe County.—In six districts in Mon-
roe county, the registration lists show threo
hundred whites and one hundred and seven
ty-seven blacks registered. One more dis
trict is to hear from, which, it is stated, will
increase tho majority of tho whites.
When the President -vetoed the Re
construction bill the Radicals said he grossly
perverted its meaning; now they insist that
its character was accurately described in the
veto. They further frankly confess that they
perjured themselves when they swore thnt in
peace, tho military shall bo subordinate to
to civil powers.
Gen. Sheridan has issued a special
order that the President having expressed his
opinion that tho timo of registration in Lou
isiana was not long enough, tho timo will be
extended till further orders.
ggr Gov. Brown hns written a letter to
the Philadelphia Press denying that he was
correctly represented by a correspondent of
that journal who essayed some time ago to
give an account ol a conversatian on public
matters alleged to hove occurred on the cars.
Brunswick.—The British ship Tatmenio,
with tt cargo 1500 tons of T rails for the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and drawing
twenty-one feet of water, camo in and up to
tho wharf at Brunswick, Friday last. Tho
work of loyijig the road will now go forward
with all possible dispatch.
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH.
TheRt. Rev. W.M. Green, D. D., Bishop
of Mississippi and Chancellor of tho Univer
sity of the South, has called a meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the University, at Uni
versity Place, Suwauee, on Thursday, the first
day of August.
It affords us no little pleasure again to in
troduce this subject to the attention of the
public. Wc rejoice that an enterprise in
volving so much of the character and great
ness of the South, lias not, amidst all its dis
asters nnd perils, been allowed to die. Its
friends have taken it up in sober earnest, and
are determined to carry it through. Though
Episcopal in its origin, the school is not de
signed to be sectarian, but, as its name ira
ports a University of the South, affording the
highest educational advantages, and so catli
olic in its teachings and discipline as to
command tho confidence nnd patronage of
the whole people of the South, without re
gnrd to denominational faith.
At the Inst meeting of tho Trustees of the
University, the Rt. Rev. Charles T. Quintard
S. T. D. Bishop- of Tetineoee, was elected
Vico Chancellor; and after a patient and dis
passionate survey of the present condition of
things, it was unanimously resolved to estab
lish without delay, a school which, by the
well-known scholarship and experience of its
instructors, would speedily assume a colle
giate form, and in time, expand itself into
the magnificent proportions of tho proposed
University. This University High School
will be ready to receive pupils early in Sep
tember, and tho Southern public will rejoice
to hcartbatthatveteranhero and accomplish
ed scholar and disciplinarian, Gen. E. Kirby
Smith, lias consented to become its Principal.
Bishop Quintard has made over to the Trus
tees of the University, a building known ns
“Otey Hall,” originally erected by him for the
purpose of a Theological School. Extensive
additions arc being made to. this buildin,
and it is to secure funds for its further en
largement that the Rev. John H. Cornish, of
South Carolina, has been appointed agent,
nnd will present tho subject on Sunday morn
ing to the congregation of Christ Church.
This great work will be a fitting monu
ment to the late beloved Bisbop Elliott,
whose whole soul was engaged in its suc
cessful accomplishment.
Maximilian.
rOIXTS IN ms CAREER IN MEXICO.
0T General Butler has been ruled out of
tlic Presidency of tho ‘‘National Asylum for
Disabled Soldiers,” but holds on to the right
:o have possession of the money. •
The Asylum was incorporated by Congress
last year, with tho provision that the Board
of Managers should be composed of the
President, Secretary of War, and Chief Jus
tice ex ojjicio, and nine citizens “not members
of Congress.” Butler was appointed one of
the nine by resolution of Congress, and wns
wade President by the Board, but became
disqualified by being a candidate and elect
ed to Congress. His seat was therefore do
dared vacant. Bat lie contrived, while in
Congress, to have so much of the act re
pealed as made members of Congress ineligi
ble, and then demand his seat This has been
refused him, on the ground that the vacancy
was perfected when be was declared disqual
ified, and the removal of tho disqualification
only makes him eligible to reappointment
He, nevertheless, demanded the custody ot
tlie money from the treasury ; the Comptrol
ler has decided that he is not entitled to it, and
insists on keeping it for the person duly qual
ified to receive it, and properly responsible
for taking safe cure of it.
The fund, when realized will amount to
three million of dollars! Butler’s acquisi
tiveness bos been much excited by visions ol
much smaller sums than this.
Retired.—We regret to sec thnt Mr,
R. D. Shropshire, who has so successfully in
structed and entertained the readers of. the
Kufaula News for some year or two past, has
retired from that journal. He deserves, nnd
wc hope will find, a wider field for his edito
rial labors. . -
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. Tee Age op the Pope.—Pope Pius is now
10 hii seventy-sixth year, nnd in the twentjr-
«cond year ot his pontificate. There is a
curious superstition in Italy which predics
Rre.it evil of the Catholic Church whenever a
* ope shall sit in tho chair of St. Peter tor
t'veaty-five years. No one has yet reached
mat term, although Pius VH came very near
Registration at Memphis.—The Appeal
ot s °oday says: The work of registration
Was concluded yesterday. The result was:
Colored voters, 7185; White voters, 3949.
*■'AI.LISO
off of the Wheat Crop.—
^counts from various sections of this
represent a greatly reduced yield of
. 1 '• from the anticipations of planters,
oundefi o n tho appearance of the crop. The
1{ora c Courier
, n ,threshing lias considerably advanced,
thi• t,s developed that tho crop in
q * cct *°n is much less than was anticip ’ ed.
7. ■’ crops do not turn out one-ball what
^ . .^Pccietl, yet the wheat is of excellent
1 j a, *ty, what there is.
n ,®.*®otker place m*T be found tip.' state-
of Mr.j. u. King, in regard to tbe
tfon • n ^ raon ’ s Valley—one of the best sec-
,1 * ,n 'ho up country—and ro far us the
a lit,i lln ® Progressed*, tho crop averages
* u, ° ^er four bushels to the am,
Stranc-.b Bnms.—Mr. Gresham Baker, of
irt Town, Lloyd county! Georgia, captured
a white pelitiiirou la»t Friday. There were]
of the
other tw
0ur dispatches yesterday announced the
condemnation and death of Maximilian on
the 19th ult. The following is a brief sy
nopsis of the events which led to this tragic
end:
‘ It was exactly tnree years before the fall of
Qncrctaro that Maximilian landed at Vera Cruz.—
The original object of the first English, French and
Spanish expedition against Mexico was to block
ade the Mexican ports, and sequestrate the cus
toms revenue for tbe satisfaction of outstanding
claims. The expedition was preceded by a body
of troops from Spain, which, on tho 17th Decem
ber, 1861, landed at Vera Cruz without resistance,
and being reinforced, by other troops ol the allies
to 25,000 men, soon held the chief towns in the
most’ populous 8tatcs. Negotiations, however,
took place by which England and Spain withdrew
their forces from the country, while France con
tinued single-handed to prosecute military opera
tions.
In October, 1383, Maximilian replied to a Mex
ican deputation asking him to accept the crown of
Mexico, thnt he would do so if it were tendered to
him by the bauds of the Mexican nation. Six
months after, a second Mexican deputation re
paired to the palace of Maximilian in Austria, and
announced to him that an Imperial crown had been
conferred upon him by a vote of the Mexican no
tables, ratified by an immense majority of the peo
ple. Maximilian made a speech in reply, announc
ing that, in fulfillment of tho promise ho had made
six months before, lie wouhl accept the crown
which the nation tendered fo him. On the same
day a Convention between Franco and Mexico was
signed by their representatives, and on the 13th of
June following, Maximilian, with his consort, the
Empress Carlotta, entered the gates of tho Mexi
can capital, amidst the enthusiastic welcome of
the people.
The only discontent from tho now order of
things, was tho faction, headed by tho so called
constitutional President, Juarez, who promptly
rejected friendly overtures which wero made to
him by Maximilian, informing tho Emperor that
the offer of the Empiro to him at Miramar, so
far from being the voico of tbe nation, was " a
ridiculous farce, unworthy to bo seriously con
sidered.” If it was a “farce” tho usual order of
theatrical performances are reversed, and tho
Xffotos on the Situation--No. 11.
bt b. n. mix.
From the Augusta Chronicle A Sentinel.]
In all ages governments have been over
turned by men who made great professions
of patriotism and good intentions. The ser
pent induced Eve to eat tlic forbidden fruit
by flattering her, and declaring his counsel
■would do her good. He greatly desired, he
protested, to improve her condition. From
that day to this traitors have been unable to
find any better method of accomplishing
their purposes. Ignorance is more easily
duped than intelligence, and, therefore,
knaves have always been advocates of con
ferring power on fools; and so, fools have
generally thought knaves were their best
friends. For tliis very reason commonwealths
—free countries—havc produced more dema
gogues, nnd have become more fearfully tho
prey of anarchy than any other forms of gov
ernment. The people generally mean well.
They think they follow friends when they
follow those who flatter them, and they fol
low with “cheers and a tiger.” They • go,
like the fatted ox with pretty ribbons stream
ing from his horns, frisking to their own
slaughter I
Were not they glorious Southern leaders
who established tlic right to carry slaves to
Kansas ? What, if God had decreed slavery
could not prosper there, and our lathers had
agreed it should not go t Who cared for
God and our fathers if their decrees and com
pacts stood in the way of “our rights!” Oh
how good theories and fair promises have
wrecked hopes, destroyed prosperity and
subverted governments! Every command In
tho decalogue has been violated in tho name
of God, and every precept of the Saviour hns
been trampled upon under pretence of pro
moting religion.
Never, at any period of human history,
have bad men, or traitors or devils undertak
en to accomplish a wicked work, with great
er professions of good will, or with circum
stances more lavorable for exciting the confi
denco of the people in tho sincerity of their
professions, than those by which and under
tho influence of which these Radicals have
undertaken to destroy tho Constitution of the
United States and the principles of free gov
ernment in America.
With sincere convictions of right and ne
ccssity, but in a suicidal way, the Southern
States and people seemed to place themselves
in an attitude of hostility to the Constitution.
And these Northern traitors, who provoked
the South to her folly for tlic very purpose,
have ever since been ennbled to tickle aud di
vert the minds of the Northern people with
the flippant cry of “rebel'' and “traitor,” and
thus uot only unperteived, but in tbe midst
of tbe wild cheers nnc. mad aid of the giddy
foolish masses, have given tho Constitution a
thousand stabs. Ancl still the arch-leaders
give out the key-note, rebel; and the Babel
crowd catch np tho refrain, and fools in office
cry, rebel: and knavss trying to get office
cry, rebel; preachers of lies, and haters from
pulpits jay, rebel; lunatics in schools cry,
rebel; and, foulest of the foul, Southern rene
gades cry, rebel: and the traitors thank God
for the wild distemper of the people, and stab
on! And the poor outraged Constitution,
under which our common fathers lived, and
loved, and prospered, and which would
gather all. black and white, “even as the hen
gathereth her chickens under her wings,”
bleeds nnd reels, anil no one will bear her
cries or heed her tottering!
Equally insane, but equally favorable to tho
purposes of the Radical j, is the hypocritical
pretence of elevating' the black race. All
wise or good men everywhere, and more es
pecially those in tbe South, desire to elevate
tlicblnck race, but Radical traitors and their
Southern tools alone desire to degrade the
white race, By whatever other means the
work may be done, it is certain the black
race cannot be secure in privileges or rights,
by taking away from the white race these
same privileges and rights. Whether either
race, and which shall finally gain the mastery,
or whether both races can live and rule to
gether as equals and in peace, arc questions
which good men may discuss, and, about
which, possibly, tven true men may differ;
but one thing is very certain, neither race
separately, nor both races together can rule
or be ruled wisely or peacefully, or with safe
ty to lifo, property or franchise, by violating
aud trampling upon the Constitution—the
fundamental law for all. He who would,
therefore, be a friontl to either race must first
be a friend to the Constitution. Ho who vio
lates the Constitution is an enemy to both
races. He who observes tbe Constitution is
a friend to both races.
The very reverse of all this plain reasoning
is every principle which can be adduced to
to support these Military Bills. These bills
violate the Constitution. These bills degrade
the white race. These bills trample on the
rights of both races; and all these things
these bills do under pretence of elevating the
black race! The work is absurd and impos
sible. The means proposed cannot accom
plish the end professed. Both races must go
together, or the greater must control the less,
or the two must collide. And when the two
collide the less must perish, or be driven
away, or be brought under control, however
the greater race may suffer by the collision
and the struggle.
And tho Radicals know this; and, there
vote for the Radical party. If the belief for anarchy. In plain words, the question
were reversed the rule would be reversed. 1 who is “fora Convention” and whois “against
The object is not topnnish disloyalty, and the h Convention,'L means precisely “who is
proof is found in the fact that the most bitter ; against the Constitution,” and “who is for
original secessionists are at once received into [ the Constitution.”
Radical favor by agreeing to support the ’ But I have shown that all the excuses or'
“Then I, and yon, and all of us fell down
Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.”
I have no doubt the President acted, in this mat
ter, from tho purest aud most patriotic motives.
His course was advised and commended by men
distinguished for ability. He is surrounded by
circumstances peculiarly responsible and ember
Radical party, and the most unscrupulous is apologies made for these bills are, like the rassing, and every desire of my heart .is to he'
always received with the greatest marks of bills, also unconstitutional; and are untrue ; , uu ? , I ;° t J° anything that may weaken any
. ; •_ ,i.’ , man’s faith In him. But the countryis passing
Me birds i
boo* T h a c rCSaid ‘° he
W'iMuros ono
bfnW 8e ' cn fcct from t
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Washington <
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company, and the
till in the nt ighbor-
ptured one is four feet high—
tip to tip, nnd lias a
farce preceded tho tragedy. Tho Emperor at t M 0
once made propositions to organizo a Mexican ! fore, the means they propose are not intend-
army of ono hundred thousand men, besides an cd to accomplish the cud they profess. 4lie
auxiliary force of fifteen thousand Europeans.— ] real end is to secure tl esc ten States to keep
The Imperialists were generally successful the Radical party in power it. tho approach-
. t . . . . , horron /tfHt-aj,' in if President ml ejection, and this they seek
battle, but tho.r vietor.es were barren of P ra C t.- to fc lortckle55 of c ’„ enct . 3 to btack or
cal results, and wero purchased at an expense,, ^ to tbc ConstituUon or Government.-
up to ISM, of $1115,000,000, and a loss to tho ; fp^ e ( ra jj or9 Hre seeking to retain, by this
French army of cloven thousand men. Tho fraut ] nlu j force nt tIlc fl^th, the power {hey
financial necessitiesofMnximilian’s government j are losing by the detection of their treason at
helped to produce its downfall, which ovent was tho North. They aunttl the Constitution in
hastened by tho desertion of tho French Empe- the name of loyalty; they exterminate the
ror, but for whoso influence and promises, Maxi- black race in thennmeof philanthropy; they
milinn would nevor have gone to Mexico. disfranchise men in the name of equality; they
, j , ; pull down all tho defences for life nnd pro-
- T , perity in the name of liberty; ancl in blasphe-
GEN. Longstreet. A distinguished sol- ; j noU3 y llosanufts t0 t i le Upiou/they are rushing
dier of the late Confederate army writes as : all SC ctions ancl all races into wild chaotic
follows from New Orleans about his late anarchy; nnd all, all, that traitors may hold
comrade, Gen. Longstreet: ’ the scats of power they desecrate, and riot
. . . . , . ,. in the wreck of the prosperity they destroy I
I believe Longstreet is alone in Ins npos And will tlie Soutlierr people, whom they
tacy. He cannot take one of his old corps jjayn^ Jong alandqrfld and oppressed, take
over. For the first time, they will not fol- t j, em u ,, i the NtrthePn people whom they
low him. He will be a w O^thlcssprizeto tbe ] mve so j on „ flattered a id deceived arccast-
Radicals. He seems only to stand as a beacon - ^ a ° av {
ol warning to his former Confederate friends. j t j s JU ,. pQmo.se to discuss at length tho
The press everywhere has been most consul- questions of civil rights and political trusts,
erato and tender of him too much so. atjg |,y what means tb : first could be safely
"*** . . scoured, and in and by whom tho last could
Why theyPhkfhr It.— In Great Britain | i,c wisely reposed unci cxcreisod; with tlie
they support their Government by taxing view of showing how 'liogical aud contrary
about sixty articles. We support ours by to human nature and sxperience nnd safety
taxing 16.000 articles. It only requires a few ' j s Q| 0 dognjajthat political equality isa right
office holders, comparatively, to look alter 0 f citizenihip. or neccsiary to tlic enjoyment
sixty articles, but it requires thousands to of c i v il equlify. But why labor und ‘worry-
look nite r 10,000. Therefore, as nffoiding the printer ami weary the reader by proving j
more placemen, rnore^ means for rewarding t] la t untrue which non-:- but fanatics are un
favor, because such are the most congenial, in themselves arc contrary to the laws of ' tbr0UK h a most fearful ordeal. Everything w£
andbest suited for the work ot destroying the every civilized war. ancl are founded in false ! all have or. may hope for is involved. Errors may
Constitution under pretence of preserving the pretences, aDd are insincere in purpose* and j ruin, thoughmotives be angelic. On questions of
Union; and preserving the Radical party really tend and intend to subvert the Gov- P°R c y or expediency, I love the yielding, concilia-
under pretence of loving the feu-people 1 .-rnment and degrade the white- race in order j
It is proper, without fully elaborating the _ to jjrolontr the existanco ot tlie partj that is i never be abandonee! for temporary relief* nor
argument, to suggest a few elementary prin- thus faithless, deceitful, oppressive and dis- j yielded to conciliate ‘an enemy. The Coustitu-
ciples which all our people ought, in these honoring to both Government and people, ; tion ought to be administered in a spirit of co-
times, to keep constantly before them. and to their own pledges. C i eisi i t !?’n Ut u°j mau e ?. trU8te<1 te> adm ‘ uiBter
In all society or government are rights to If, in the fine of this plain statement of the Sobffic'Stti to
be eDjoyed, burdens to be borne, and trusts - issue, the correctness ot. which statement no execute whatever a two-thirds majority of Con-
to be discharged. true man can gainsay, ancl no honest mind gress may declare is the most fatal and dangerous
Among the rights are tlic right ry, jyoper- will gainsay, there is'stil! to be found a man ! error of this generation, not excepting secession,
ty; the right of locomotion: ti.ep g i u f[oh-v^ ta America who can see in’these Military !
propriate and dispose of the PjUoeods ef ofY 1 bills any safety for property, or life, or hber-
own labor; the right to wors^-i aco*»^-'dl tty; or any protection in the enjoyment of
to conscience; and the right fo protection ’either; or any elevation for the black race;
from society in the enjoyment of all these or anything in government but anarchy, with
fights, and the right to have all the legal pro-. its long ordeal of blood, and robbery, and
cesses and remedies provided to make this factions, and havoc, and spoil, and waste, and
protection effectual. These are called civil crime in every form and grade, until power
rights, and when wo speak of civil equality - or powers shall rise and proclaim the peace
we mean that these rights belong alike and j to a deluded, exhausted and mined people
equally to all citizens, to all classes, to all co- j through an empire or empires, a despotism
lors, to all sexes, to all ages and to all grades or despotisms, such a man is simply given
of intellect ‘ ‘ '
of free citizenship. The negro is entitled to damned
all these rights. And being now deprived The next question, in the natural order of
of the protection which, as a slave, he received argument, is this : In what way shall these
from his owner,’all good men ought to rejoice bills be resisted, or by what remedies shall
thathe can still be safe under the protection their enforcement and final establishment bo
of the law; and being unaccustomed to as- prevented ? I enter upon this branch of the
sort bis rights, a work which was formerly discussion with pain and pleasure—with pain
performed by bis master, all true men ought because I shall consider it my duty to declare
to bo ready to aid him in that assertion. And some grievous errors committed by friends of
all but Radicals and renegades are willing to 1 onr side of the Constitution; * errors, too,
aid him, but they seek to use him under pre-' which amount to no less than a surrender of
fence of aiding him. some of the most effective remedies against
Among the burdens of society and govern-; these measures; and with pleasure because I
ment I may mention: working the public can still see remaining to ns remedies ample
highways; providing public buildings; pay- to save the Constitution, the country and
ing the public taxes; defending the public liberty, if, as rulers and people, we still have
safety, etc. These burdens ought to be borne even a moiety, of that glorious moral courage
by all according to fitness aud capacity, for which makes us not afraid to" tell the truth
these burdens constitute the consideration we and defend the right. Never, never had any
pay for the protection we get. Women and people in any age of the world such an oc-
—7 O O ( > _ _
' intellect, society and worth. These rights over “to believe a lie thathe may be damned;”
■cessarily attach- to and become conditions yea, and to act a lie that his country may be
children, lunatics nnd idiots do not work the, casion—such necessity—for moral courage as
highways or defend the society with arms, have now the people, not only of the ten
because their positions or capacity forbid, but \ States on which rape is being perpetrated,
they are all citizens—or members of the so- but of tbc United States, who are all involved
ciety—and pay taxes. These are called bur- 1 in tho crime and must pay its penalties,
dens because they arc borne, not for ourselves • ' ti 1c devilish spirit of treason, which comes
only, but for others—for the public. no t vvUh arms and open, manlv warning, but
Lastly, In every society or government, there . creeps and llide3 itself iu som e unsuspected,
aro trusts to bo uiscbarired ouiccs aro to bo. • • 1 i
made, executed and administered, olso there j trusted for®, 18 now in our political
could be no rules or process for protection* and ! -kclcD* und* ’'svitli artful words, and with the
agents are to bo selected for all tkeso purposes . prestige of authority, and assurances of safety
Tbe whole business of selecting agents to dis- I and blessing and greatness, is persuading our
ebargo duties, as well as tho discharge of tire people to cat that forbidden fruit, of using
duties themselves, comes under tho head of i f or ce to preserve a Government of consent, and
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the good ofothera-for the public. The author- I "ffitah God by nature made unlike and unc
ity to vote is, therefore, a trust reposed, and the j qual, and by so doing to disobey the com-
cxercise of tho authority is the exercise of a i mands of tho Constitution! And some are
trust—the trust of selecting agents to provide 1 already pursuaded, and lustily cry, “It is
and execute the laws by which rights aro to bo ; true i et us disnbev and taste, for we shall
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»„ ii born lo n .rort-lo n pom- rfhirh “Ot now to their danger, nnd drive thb mod-
affects all other members of society. You had j cm political batan of Radicalism with scourg-
as well say a man is born to an office a3 to say i ing and hissing from their heritage, then death
ho is bora to a vote for that office. So, ngain, '—political death—will come, and quickly,
all trusts imply capacity and integrity. No man fiercely come, with blighting curec all over
IE! I «ta bst nnd noblest dSn.I.Vfreedom, nnd
I error which, being commitied, will be the great-
est lever of strength to fanaticism, and which, uot
having been committed, would have been tbe
drath-blow to fanaticism and to all its belli
brood of horrors.
Iam not writing to please r.Dy mau. I see—
haveno doubt, I see—unprecedented evils ahead
of us. I firmly believe there Is no way to escape
these evils but by cleaving to tho Constitution. I
love all who love tho Constitution iu this crisis, as
I love my property, my life, my liberty, aud the
peace aud happiness oi my children, for by that
Constitution alone can these blessings be enjoyed.
I hate all who violate the Constitution as I hate
the thief who steals my property, the tyrant who
letters my liberty, the murderer who seeks niv
life, or the monster who would destroy all the
hope for my children; because, in the destruction
of the Constitution by force end fraud, all th-.se
curses will come. If the Constitution needs
amendment let us all—all the States—amend it; if
free government has failed let us admit it, and
form another like men of reason and honesty. Bui
whatever government and laws we have let us
obey them while we have them, and not seek to
evade them by fraud, or oveiturn them by force,
for then we have anarchy-, which means the utter
absence of all safety and hope, and the actual pres
ence of every danger, lor person,'property, liberty
and life. Ot all enemies to individals, to society,
or to government, he who deceives and takes ad
vantage ot trusts reposed, or power conferred, to
iujnre, 6lanacr or betray, is the meanest, the most
cowardly and the most dangerous. Therefore,
denounce the Radicals aud all their disciples,
know the President Is a patriot, but his error
threatens to place him and his country iu the un
restrained and vengeful power of foresworn ene
mies, and he who believts it is an error owes it to
his country to say so and give his reasons lor his
belief.
In the construction of all human instruments
there must arise questions on which men will
honestly differ. Tnese doubtful questions have
arisen under the Constitution. It was anticipated
they would arise, too, bttween the Executive and
Congress, ana the method of settling such differ
ences was provided. When the President thinks a
bill presented to him is unconstitutional, he must
return it with hfs objections. Congress must re
consider it, and if two-thirds differ with the Pres
ident, the bill becomes a law, notwithstanding the
President’s objections. Now, that this refers to
cases of mere honest differences as to wk&t is the
meaning of the Constitution—to cases of donbt—
is' very clear from the deliberation which is re
quired of all parties. The President is required
to send his objections to Congress. The objec
tions nfa&t be in writing. Tlie House to which
the objections are sent must enter them on their
journal, and then proceed to reconsider. If two-
doom ourselves and our children to' the
“blood and sweat” of despotism forever 1 ."
Oh, that some voico would rise whose thrilling
notes of patriotism could cover all the land, and,
hushing this Bedlam diro of sectional crimina
tion, distrust and oppression, inspire the peoplo
to unite and make one more manly national
efiort to save tho Constitution, and stop tho deep
and ever deepening stabs which treachery,
through force and perjury, are madly making at
tho very vitals of liberty! Wo need a fearless
Hercules—strong in moral courage and auniver-
sal country-wide patriotism—to kill this Kumen
lion; to burn to the roots tho more than hundred
heads of thisLernxan Hydra; to clean this Au-
geian stable, whoso fierco rapacity and prolific
torrors and boundless filth aro all combined in
this destroyer of States, this assassin of written
Constitution, this more -than brutish defiled of
its own race—modern Radicalism !
The framers of the Constitution doubtless sup
posed they had provided, or left existing, ample
remedies for all violations of that instrument;
both preventive and curative remedies, whether
those violations should bo made by the Govern
ment, or by tbe States, or by tho people; and had
also provided for the amendment of the Consti
tution iu a propor manner, to suit it to such un
anticipated necessities as the future might de-
velope. These remedies were distributed—some
being lodged in the different departments of the
Government, and some left under regulations
with the people.
These remedies should always be applied in their
proper order according to the nature and source
of tbe violation.
In my opinion, the first remedy against these
Military bills was with the executive department
of the Government.
The Government is divided into threo depart
ments, and separate powers given to each depart
ment lor the great purpose of providing mutual
checks and balances, so that no ono department
shall be able to destroy tbe Government.
Now, If either department can, by any means,
absorb to itself the powers confided to the other
i ,..... v Tl,.,. , - departments, or of either of tlie others, it, by thnt
° „, ° V • T ° y brw,thu and cat ““d P“F , means, gets to itself powers which it Vas notin-
r,:/ .1, - . . . , ,, tended it should exercise; and can, by reason of
It is, therefore, the rijit of society to decide this increase cl powers, accomplish what the div-
upon whom shall be devolved tkctn.st ofpreserv- i3iou of powcn3 intended to prevent-dcstroy the
^ ? P I 0tCC .H?? t , 0 J riJ ; hts - I Government. 8o, if either department, instead ol
And Jt is the duty of society to withhold these : thus abaorhinc to itself the powers of the other de-
trusts from tne ignorant and vicious since the J partment, can, ill lieu thereof, adopt some means
ignorant and vicious should never be entrusted, ' L- w hicb it can compel or induce tbe o’her de-
and Lave no right to be entrusted, with the cxer-. p ar tments or either of them to execute its uu-
cisc oi a power by whicn they may rob or kill or limited will, it can thus as effectually and perhaps
torture others. ... . ! more conveniently accomplish the forbidden end—
it follows that every society must determine j destroy the Government—than if it had absorbed
tins matter for ittcli, for it alone is to be aflected > t jj C powers to itself; because the department so
bv the exwtlto oi the trusts created. It is compelled or induced to serve ceases to be a
flagitious; it is mean; it is cowardly; It is treason | check or balance to prevent destruction as was in
to tlie very frame-work of society; to say that ■ tended, but degenerates into a mere tool or aider
Massachusetts, or a fragmentary conclave of per- and abettor in the work of destruction.
jured Congressional traitors lrom other States T . . , . , . _ , . . I
shall determine who shall be entrusted with tbe I • here is prcc.soly the process bj
great duty of pn serving society in Georgia; and | thj*.TragintntjHXconclave of a^C-otigmaia
language breaks in tbe vain effort to express the
duty, or who has not integrity to bo trusted with
its laitbful exercise.
How can the rights of tbe numbers of society
be safe if the protection or those rights aro to be
provided or applied by ignorant orvicious agentsV
And how can Ignorant and vicious agents be avoid
ed if ignorant and vicious peieons are born to the
right to select them ?
Rights are personal—born with persons—belong
to tlie person, and afleettbe person: bnt trusts arc
relative—and born with society—belong to society
—and'are for the good and under tbe control of
society. How is any man bom with a right to
take mv rights, or to select another to take my
rights ?
Suffrage, then, is not a right—it is not a priv
ilege—it is a trust, and a most solemn and sacred
trust. It is the trust of preserving society, of se
curing tights, of protecting persons.
Would you select an Ignorant, or vicious, or un-
tmstworthy roan as your trustee, qr the trustee
for yonr wife or your child In the smallest con
cerns of life? Ilow, then, wonldyon make a trus
tee Of an ignorant or vicious man to discharge
these great duties, on the wise and faithful dis
charge of which all rights, and all protection, and
all things depend ?
The burdens of society are light or heavy accord
ing as tho trusts of society are wisely or unwise
ly, faithfully or unfaithfully discharged. The
heavy taxes under which America groans spring
alone from the unfaithful and wicked execution o’f
the trusts of our peoplo in selecting agents, and of
the agents in discharging their duties.
Universal, indiscriminate, ignorant, vicious
white suffrago has buried a million of victims
6lain by each other's hands, destroyed the poaco
and prosperity of the country, and saddled an
innocent and unborn posterity with burdens too
grievous to be borne.
Will it be wise to extend the sacred but dese
crated trust of suffrago to moro ignorance, to
more vice, and at tbe samo timo withdraw those
trusts from intelligence and worth ?
Men boro with a right to vote! as they aro
born to breathe the air, or enjoy the proceeds of
their own labor! Then, why is it that women
and children and lunatics and idiots are not nl-
cou tcmpt and scorn I feel for tbe dastard Georgian
who wonld consent for Massachusetts or that
fragmentary conclave to so determine.
Tne negroes iu Gcorgi- are citizens of Georgia.
They are lree and have equal rights, and shall en
joy them. They will be required to bear the bur
dens only in proportion to their capacity. Tiiey
will be empowered to_ dUeharge the trusts when
time
and
for heriielt, and not to please enemies or to keep
traitors in party power.
ic and experience shall Euow they “are capable constituted an
l worthy, ’ and the good of society will be pro- composed ’ Tli
ted thereby; and thus Georgia will determine pretences exc
hmuAlf-'iind not to nlease enemies or to keen a..,’...
Constitution, declaring how tlie Congress shall be
and of what tlie two Houses shall be
They next, uuder various transparent
excluded obnoxious members from
other States.
This process of exclusion contianed until two-
thirds of those remaining were of one evil mind.
Number 12. The Executive Department though earnestly
r i i t>-h denouncing tUe body as not organized as the
I have now shown that the .Military Bills ConstUuli0 s n required, yet recognized this frag-
are unconstitutional. There can be nothin"* ment ai the Congress. Thus organized and thus
Clearer than this, for they are in the most di- recognize!, thi3 fragmentary conclave—now be-
rect conflict with the very language and pur- come very bold and dictatorial—began to absorb
pose of the Constitution, aud the position is to itself the powers and functions of both tho
conceded. Of course there can lie no possi- <, tl> er deportments of the Government, and to
,, • - re.. threaten impeachment and remodeling and non-
blc good reason for violating the Gonstitu- appi0 _ illlit) 1 n of salaries, if tho other depart-
tion, for to say so, is neither more or less p] en ts should presumes to form checkH upon its
tlinn to suy the Constitution is wrong, aud will. The President sent back with his now in
the Government organized under it ought to etlectual objections the several steps of this con-
bc subverted! And this is exuctly what clave in the work of destruction, and aecompa-
® | every man who voted for or approves these nied th)se objections with an earnest patriotism
destroying the Constitution aud the Government
under the Constitution.
They first excluded lrom both Houses all the
representatives of ten entire States because they
were supposed not to be willing to tlic schemes of
the majority making the exclusion, aud, to make
the exclusion effectual, they denied the right of, ,, _ . , . , . .... ... ,
representation to tlm ten States, all, in tbowetll j President bo bound to execute this revolu
of the most explicit and positive provisions of the | !_ Ion > or qu'etly look on and see the Government
thirds differ with the President, the bill and objec
tions must b • sent to the other house. The other
house must also reconsider, and if, a'tcr all sides
arc fully heard, and the matter has been consid
ered and reconsidered, two-thirds of both houses
differ with tho President, the bill shall become a
law. That is, in these doubtful questions, if two
thirds oi both houses, after full consideration of
all sides, shall be ot one opinion, .and the Presi
dent and one-third shall be ot another opinion—all
presumed to be honest and unselfish, aud desiring
only to govern the country according to the Con
stitution—the opinion of two-tbirds shall prevail.
Such were tbe Bunk and Tariff, and Internal Im
provement questions, and many others. In all
such cases, It is very manifest the President must
execute tlie law until the .Judiciary shall pro
nounce against it. The President cannot, himself,
become the Court, or absorb to himself the func
tions of tbc Court.
This is the whole extent of tho doctrine of the
President'6 obligation to execute tho laws. No
more, no less!
Does this give two-thirds of the Congress
power to subvert the Government, and is the
President bound to help them subvert it ’ The
Constitution, in separate clauses, defines what
Congress may do, and then, by other clauses,
declares what Congress shall not do. Doubts
naturally arise in ascertaining the extent of the
meaning in those clauses which seek to define
what Congress may do. But suppose Congress
undertake to do that which the Constitution says
Congress 6hall.not do? How then? If two-
tbirds say they will do it any how, is the Presi
dent bound to execute it?
Tho Constitution says : “No bill of attainder
or expoat facto law shall be passed.” Suppose
two-thirds pass a bill of attainder, is it a law ?
If so, two-thirds of the Congress can annul tho
Constitution. If so, tho will of two thirds of
Congress, and not the Constitution, is tho su
preme law. But the President is not bound to
execute that which is not a law. Tbe President
admits the Sherman Bill is a bill of attainder
against nine millions of peo-le ! How, then, can
ho.bo bound to execute that which the Constitu
tion says shall not be done?
Suppose two-thirds of this conclave shall de
clare that the present patriotic 6Mvernment oi
Connecticut was not properly elected, because the
colored citizens of that State were excluded by the
laws thereoi from voting in the election; and
should then declare tbe government was provis
ional, and send a military commander there to
govern the people until they should change their
laws and hold another election in which the
colored citizens should participate, must the
President execute this order?
Suppose this two-thirds shall declare that all
elections, State and Federal, of persons not of tin-
Radical or. Republican party, are foid, because
such persons are not loyal, and shall reduce Un
people quietly of such aisloyul elections to mili
tary subjection, must the President execute the
mandate ?
Suppose two thirds of this conclave shall
declare that tho President is disloyal, and he is,
therefore, not a legal President, and is removed,,
or not to bo obeyed, must the Executive Depart
ment execute such demolition? Suppose they
say the Supreme Court is an obstruction to pro
gress, and is abolished; yea, more—suppose they
shall declare, what they have often said, that
tho Federal Constitution “is a covenant with
hell and a league with the devil,” and that no
Btate Constitution is republican in form, and
that all shall be set aside, oc declared only pro
visional, and tlie whole country shall be placed
under military rule, with commanders subject
only to tiio orders of this conclave, until new
constitutions, State and Federal, shall be approv
ed by them, and in making which all wbo agree
with them shall be enfranchised, and all who
differ from them shall be disfranchised, must
forcible possession of the Capitol. 6hall be tbe
supreme law of the land. Would it not be well to
require us all, from the President down, to take
an oath to support that will, instead of requiring
us to swear to support tbe Constitution, and then
compelling us, by the higher power of this will, to
violate our oaths ?
No Congress, not even a legitimate Congress,
by even a unanimous vote, have power to de
stroy States, to pass laws forbidden by the Con
stitution, nor to subvert the Government; and
whon they undertake it, and in the meanest and
most dangerous of all ways—under cover of
oaths and office—it i3 as much tho duty of the
President to suppress them as it is his duty to
suppress an insurrection or an invasion. The
contrary doctrine is a proclamation to Radical
ism that it shall be aided in its work even by
the friends of tho Constitution. It is a license
to propaganuism to bring all Constitutions.
Governments and people into complete subjec
tion to its will.
Alas! our country rinks for want of nerve in its
defenders. Truth is weak only because its disci
ples will not support as well as assert it. Radi
calism is strong only in its sense of impunity.
Unlimited, it loses all consciousness of guilt, and
throws away all restraint upon its will. Assured
of assistance from its euemies, there is no excess,
at which it will hesitate. But, boldly and fearless
ly opposed, and denounced and treated as the
most dangerous enemy of all government and
law, its own conscience will at once become its
fiercest accuser; it will grow weak, will tremble
like tbe detected thief, and.wiil soonsink beneath
the weight of its own sins, abandoned by the
selfish and despised by the good. But now, such
men as Steven? aud Sutnnerjseeing howtimidand
indifferent and unnerved the friends of the Consti
tution have become, encourage tbe hesitating of
their party in tbe same spirit with the bloody
Lady Macbeth, when urging her faltering husband
to his crime:
“ AYhen in swinish sleep
Their drenched natures lie, as in a death.
What oannot you and I perform upon
Tho unguarded Duncan? Wbat not put upon
His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
Ot our great murder?”
Is This the way to G-et Xt.
In a letter from Hon. Joseph E. Brown,
addressed to the Philadelphia Press, (one of
Forney’s papers,) and appearing in that jour
nal under date of the 17th ult., we read the
following:
“My sincere desire is to see the Union re
stored as speedily ns possible, and with its
amnesty for the past and fraternity and har
mony for the future—each sectipn bearing its
just share of tho burdens, and receiving its
fair proportion of the benefits of a common
government.”
Now, we would in all seriousness ask if ex-
Governor Brown, or any other man of half the
ability possessed by that gentleman, supposes
for one single instant that the success'of the
Sherman plan of reconstruction would even
tuate in any such desirable state of affairs as
that in this excerpt alluded to ? Is there any
‘amnesty” proffered by the plan ?—is there
any hope of “fraternity ?”—is there any reas
on able prospects of “harmony for the future
held out ?”
Where,for instance, is its forgiveness, when
its very soul-and essence is a lasting con
demnation to political impotency and shame
of some of the best men in tbe South ? Where
is “fraternity,” when the man of the North
is made a Dives and the man of the South
poor Lazarus, to feed op the crumbs that fall
j™™ the rich man’s table ? Where its “har
mony,” when race is perpetually arrayed
against race and section against section ? No!
ex-Governor Brown knows in the light of his
own conscience and in the sight of God, that
there is only persecution instead of amnesty,
civil war for fraternity, and the discords of
hell in the place of harmony, in this latest
spawn of avarice, ambition, hate, cowardice
and trickery. •
Give us “amnesty for the past ancl frater
nity and harmony for tho future;” It is all
we ask. The platform which sets this forth
is our platform, the party advocating this
our party, the men who favor it our friends,
and though such men be -black with the
smoke of an hundred battles against Liber
ty and the South, we can, in all political ac
ceptation, stand side by side and shoulder
shoulder to shoulder with them in the days
to come:—Aug. Con.
Abolitionists.
vs more and more
'tevens and typhoid
re than tlie plagues
those who vote the Republican ticket, it is iflu.-liing enough to protend is true. Why
preferred by our Radical friends. The first ; u p or to prove these militai v bills will not |
article in their creed is five lonves nnd two work good to the ncgio, when they do not ----- x-~- - ,, g , .
intend good to the negro-are not adapted Government 1 I care not what Ins mouth says selves m the work? They would .augh and grin,
bills did say and does say ; and every man
wlio votes to carry out these bills, votes to
set aside the Constitution nnd subvert the
a I fishes. — Cincinnati Enquirer.
1 "*•* as means to secure gcod to the negro ; but
Franc. M. Paul, long the editor niul are intended simply to add ten States to
proprietor of that well-known sheet, the p iir ty power ! The negroes are enfranchised
Chattanooga Rebel, that existed during the beenusoit is believed they will vote for tlie
o vi lied,” has opened a Job Printing est»fc- Radical party, and tlio whites are disfrun-
bment in Nashville. chise 1 because it is believed they will not
and a fervor of niemnintg which have not been
Excelled. But why talk patriotism to traitors,
or address reason to fanatics now conscious of
their power to destroy and of safety to them-
or his lips profess about loyalty; his heart is and pass tbe bills to destroy the Constitution
tar from the Constitution, and his act is to with the glee of the cat which plays with the
destroy the Government. The poll lists of contortions of its captured, dying mouse In an
. - , . ... . . , ovil hour the Coresident consented—agreed it was
registered voters will tell US precisely^ who is his doty—to execute aslaw whatever two-thirds
for tlic Constitution, and who is against it; 0 f this fragmentary conclave might desire, dc-
who is for the government of law and who is clare or order!
i destroyed ?
All these tliiims some of this conclave have de-
l dared ought to be done, and Uwe threatened to
; do! More thau all these they have done, and are
J now actually doing for ten of the States. Why
may they not do so for all? The power is the
; same over all that it is over one. They ought to
do so for all or for none. They send a single otfi-
1 eer to Virginia, who i? uat even a resident of the
: State, and claim for him power to repeal (be laws
! passed in the daysot Washington and by the votes
and approval o: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
Ma;. h ill; aiid a similar non resident individual,
; by lii? own irresponsible edicts, sets aside whole
constitutions and codes iu the States of .Macon and
Pinckneys, and proclaims dhers iu their stead, iu
a manner more summary nnd arbitrary tlisn any
monarch in Europe dare exhibit! All this is ad
mitted to be plaiuiy, grossly unconstitutional, but
it must be done, and the President is bound to see
to it that it is done, Because two-thirds of this
conclave says it must be done i • tea
Thus, not only two-thirds of a Congress, but of
a fragmentary conclave of mt rnbei s—who secure
that two-thirds by unlawfully excluding from their
seats those members who are not willing to com
mit perjury to destroy the Government—become
not only greater than the Constitution, not ouly
have i>owcr to destroy the Government, but cau
command, order, compel every other department
of the Government to aid in the destruction. Was
ever conelucion so lame, heresy so dangerous, or
patriotism so sett-destructive ?
Henceforth, not the Constitution and the. lows
passed in pursuance thereof, but the will of the
two-thirds of Congress, nr of a conclave taking
Tho word “Abolitionist” is derived from the
trausitiva verb “abolish,” which Webster defines
as follows: “Abolish—1st, To make void; to
annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appro
priately to establish laws, contracts, rites, cus
toms and institutions. 2d, To destroy.” Now
let us see what our Abolitionists have abolished,
destroyed, annulled and made void :
They have abolished liberty.
They havo abolished the Union.
They havo abolished the Constitution.
They have abolished trial by jury.
They have abolished tho laws aud the courts.
They have abolished ton States.
They have abolished a republican form of
government.
They havo abolished the peace and fraternity
of the country.
They have abolished all respect for the writ
ten Constitution.
They have abolished the sacredness of the
church.
They have abolished the freedom of speech.
They have abolished the freedom of the press.
They have abolished freedom of opinion.
They havo abolished freedom of religion.
They have abolished ail that the late war was
waged for.
They have abolished all that our forefathers
fought for.
They have abolished gold and silver.
They have abolished equal rights to all.
They have abolished equal taxation.
They have-abolished economy and honesty in the
administration of the Government.
They have abolished low prices, cheap living,
good times and the general prosperity.
They have abolished the cotton crop, and the
millions ot gold resulting from onr exports.
’ They have abolished a million of lives.
They have abolished (rom three to six thousand
millions of treasure.
They have abcii-hed onr Southern market.
They have abolished our commerce upon the
seas.
They have, abolished our independence of East
ern manufacturers and iron mongers.
They have abolished representation a? a corroila-
ry of taxation.
They have abolished the United States Senate.
They have abolished the United Status House of
Representatives.
They have abolished the United States.
With such a record and such achievement only
to boast of, what more appropriate name could .
they bear than that of “Abolitionists?”
[ W ashington Union.
The Ramie.—In reply to numerous letters,
received from various sections of the South,
we desire to reply, and ask otliei journals to
note what we say, that owing to tlie siege of
Vera Cruz no root cuttings nor any tidings
have been received from Mr. Rozel, and the
previous supply was long since exhausted.
When the plants do arrive they will be for
sale at $90 per hundred or SO at $1 each, by
A. B Bacon at this office, and II. Benzano,
Custom House broker, us his agents. The
plants set out in this neighborhood are grow
ing quite well; but a sandy loam will be
best for tlu-m. More minute knowledge of
the plant than is to he found in the circular
already published, containing Mr. Bacon’s
paper read before the Academy of Sciences,
will be best obtained by an actual trial of it
anti watching its growth.—2V. O. Times.
There was no full moon last February,
says Galignani, a circumstance which could
only happen, some say, in twenty-five thou
sand years.
S3F" A new idea in photography is an
nounced, by which tlie head of a lady is ta
ken in the midst of the petals of any kind
of flowers—such as a rose, a tulip or the like.