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Tli© Greorgia, Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY MAY 1, ISOS.
THE GEORGIA. DKMOCRACT.
Whether they have elected their candidates or
not, the Democracy of Georgia have achieved
& glorious victory in the late election. Never
did a party contend with such odds. They
had the power of law and every species of
rascality arrayed against th ein. Many wise men
thought it useless to make tko light in e
face of such obstacles, but braver hearts
that were not afraid of defeat and resolved
to save their State from Radical degradation
determined otherwise. If theend hasnotjus-
tified their expectations—and Are still hope
it has—it has at least repaid them for their
toils and sacrifices. It has put the Demo
cratic party in & position where it will be in
vincible in all future struggles where the
ballot box is not corrupted and honest men
arc not driven from the polls.
It may ho useful now to refer to some
of tho difficulties against which the Democ
racy had to contend in this, their first strug
gle. The election itself originated in out
rage and wrong. The Reconstruction Act of
Congress that ordered it first disfranchised
fronT fen to fifteen thousand of our best citi
zens. It gave every negro in the State the
right to vote. The election was wholly in
tho hands of Radical partisans whose interest
and business it was to do tho work of their
party rather than secure a fair election to the
people. The election wns held under an old
registration, made for a wholly different pur
pose and unsuited to our present condition.
Though a Constitution was only proposed
for adoption, elections of all officers,
State and federal were held under that Con
stitution, and simultaneously with tho ques
tion of ratification, though tho qualifications
for office therein set forth were not allowed
to control as to the officers chosen. This
was a cunning trick that appealed to the pas
sion for office, and mado it to the interest of
every candidate, however much he hated the
Constitution, not to oppose it; for, as will be
perceived, it was only in the event of its
adoption that lie could enjoy the office to
which he might be chosen. Relief from the
payment of honest debts, exemption of a
large homestead, and other bribes were thrown
in to gloss over the hideous dbse and make it
palatable to the people—or rather to compel
them, from their necessities, to accept a gov
ernment which in their hearts they abhorred.
As if all this was not sufficient to override
the honest will and judgment of tho people,
the law allowed every negro to vote wherever
ho might be, on his affidavit that he had
registered somewhere^ from which cause alone
we have no doubt ten thousand ille
gal votes, were counted for the Radical par
ty. Then, the Registrars, partisans as they
were, had the right by law to strike off all
names from the registry that were objection
able to themselves, thus giving them absolute
power over the character of the vote. In the
practical administration of their trust, ne
groes of all ages above sixteen, who were
willing to take an oath, which not one in ten
comprehended or cared for, were allowed to
register and vote at the election. In many
instances, as tho election was continued
through four days, negro registrars were
allowed to take the ballot boxes home with
them at night, sometimes miles into the
country, while nearly all the registrars held
them in custody from day to day. That
thousands of negroes voted in several conn-
ties, no one doubts, and to all this add the
formidable Loyal League organizations, by
which all the negroes who voted the Demo
cratic ticket were condemned to death or
some other terrible punishment, besides the
great body of the race being made to believe
that if tho Democrats were snccesful they
would be remanded to slavery, and tho dis
tant reader will form some idea of the hercu
lean task undertaken by the Democrats of
Georgia when they put their candidates in
the field and went forth to battle.
In view of these facts, who will say that
the Democracy in Georgia have not achieved
a glorious victory ?
[for the Telegraph.
Southern Agricultural Reform*
The problem for the South is how to ob -
tain labor for her lands.
So far as the freedman is concerned, for
coerefon, something must be substituted in
order to make his labor available. Is it not
possible that by throwing the freedman on
his own responsibi!ityi an J quality he pos
sesses rendering him capable of being self-
sustaining will be brought out ?
It is possiblo tho son of Africa, heretofore
among us as a slave, may be unfit for occupy
ing ft position of independence and compara
tive isolation from his former master. It is
true, his forefather in Africa has had an equal
chance with tho rest of mankind for advanc
ing in civilization, and yet has given no ear
nest of progress in the shape of bridges, ca
nals, railroads, well-tilled farms or wise laws.
It is true in New York city, where carefully
collected statistics show that with the
opportunities of advancement there offered
the proportions of Africans who have risen
above the position of “drawers of water and
hewers of stone,” for the white race is very
small, they filling there mainly the posts of
hirelings, and that of tho humblest kind ;
such as, carriage drivers, hostlers, porters,
waiters, etc., % much of. which is due, doubt
less, to the prejudice of tbo New Yorker
against a race having a different colored skin,
to mark him as once having occupied the
place of slave for him or his forefathers.
But, notwithstanding these facts tending
to discourage us, should we not for their
sakes, and for our own, make an honest effort
to benefit them and ourselves—to benefit that
country which must bo occupied by us and
our children, do what we will. It becomes
us to use whatever of intelligence is onrs to
make our country what we would havo it. *
How would it do to divide our
lands into farms of, say, forty or fifty acres,
put cheap but comfortable houses on them,
and lease or sell to tho best renters or pur
chasers we can find, black or white, nativo or
foreign. * * * * * *
History repeats itself. Wherever civiliza
tion has existed the tendency has been for
the capitalist to own land, and tho laborer,
either as his renter or hired servant, to work
it. Last year, to a considerable extent, hired
labor worked our lands, and in almost every
instance proved disastrous. It seems to be
the voice ot history reasserting that hired
labor, except on a very limited scale, will
not prove profitable.
It will do to work large plantations by
slave labor,5 but hired labor can only be
profitably employed on small farms. Con
sider bow, after the various upheavings of
society in the world’s history, the result has
been almost invariably the same. Scrutinize
carefully the feudal system, the present sys
tem of agriculture in Great Britain, India and
the Northern States.
Ex-Govcrnoi Thomas H. Seymour, of Con
necticut, is, says' the Augusta Constitutional
ist, one of the very noblest men in all this
land, and one, too, whose garments are free
from the stain of blood-gailtiness. He is
ashamed of his country’s downfall, and, on
the anniversary of Jefferson’s birthday, ad
dressed a Democratic meeting in words of
burning eloquence and patriotic fire. We
quote tho peroration, illustrative of the true
spirit of magnanimity and the only pluck to
■win in the coming struggle for liberty. He
is in favor of no subterfuges, but distinct
principles; no tame submission to a Wade or
Butler usurpation or despotism, but a grand
rising of the people against the conspirators
and their infamous schemes. He said:
“The true spirit of magnanimity was illus
trated by Napoleon at Borodino, when, in
reply to a heartless remark from one of his
officers on the occasion of his trampling on
a wounded Russian, lie said: ‘Sir, when you
have gained a victory there are no enemies,
there arc only men.’ [Immense applause.] —
I sec you apply tho anecdote as it should be
applied. Southerners arc not only meD, but
our brothers; and in the restoration of their
rights, we aro to have a convention in this
city on the fourth of July, 1868. Now let me
say to those who may be in the secrets of the
delegates alrendy elected, or may know
something of the matters, that it is necessary,
it seems to me, to tho future success of pa
triotic men in this country that their plat
form of principles should be so distinct.—
[‘Good, good!’] and clear [‘Good, good!”—
and applause]—ns to ennble the man
of the people to distinguish between right
and wrong—in other words, it must be so
different from tbo platform on tho other side
that we may see clearly where liberty, is,
where slavery is" where independence is.—
[“Good, good 1”] And again, gentlemen, If
we secure a clear, a distinct majority of the
electoral votes, and they shall dare to shut
out Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky, for
the purpose of frustrating the will of the
people, it will be necessary for the triumph
ant party to vindicate their right toaclminis
ter this Government, and inaugurate theii
chief on the 4th of March, 1SC9. [Applause.]
If you are not prepared for that, you need no!
undertake tho contest. And when the victo
ry is won, in the words of the poet of Jeffer
son’s day, celebrating tho redemption of thb
people, with bonfires and illuminations, wj
will sing:
Rejoice^Columbia’s sons, rejoice:
To tyrants never bend the knee:
But join in heart, and hand, and voice,
Bor Jefferson and liberty.
ESP Glynn, Camden and Charlton, consol
idated report—give 966 majority for the
Constitution. 983 for Bullock, 985 for Clift.
THB ELECTION.
The returns, mostly official, which wc give
elscwhero from eighty-four counties, give a
majority of about three thousand for Bullock
for Governor. How far the forty-eight re
maining counties will effect this majority,
remains to be seen.
T7o have received satisfactory returns from
only thirty of the forty-four Senatorial Dis
tricts, which show the election of 16 Demo
crats and 14 Radicals and negroes.
Our list of members elect to the House
embraces 75 counties, which have sent 56
Democrats and G2 Radicals and negroes.
These latter elections, however, if General
Meade’s sentiments are correctly represented,
will bo of little avail to the people of Geor
gia. It is snicl that our District Commander
has determined to force tho iron-clad oath
on all members of tho Legislature, and reject
such as refuse or are unable to taka it. If
tho President should sustain this decision, wo
shall be without remedy, at least until the
voice of the American people shall be beard.
FLORIDA.
We hope our friends in this State will learn
a lesson from the late Georgia election. It is,
that holding aloof from tho negroes, and
leaving them to the management of Yankee
adventurers, is a most fatal policy. It is a
mistake that the negroes are not open to
conviction—that they will not hear what
you have to say and take it to heart. The
thing has been fully tried, in many por
tions of Georgia, and with the happiest re
sults. The dangers of secret Loyal Leagues,
the tricks of interested Radical white jiarti-
sans, tho hollow pretensions of the whole
Radical policy regarding tho blacks of the
South, the real interest of the latter, are all
so patent to the minds of sensible men that
it is a cowardly abandonment of the truth to
conclude that they cannot bo mado evident
even to the humble mind of the negro. Then
abandon, at once, the hold-off policy, go
niiioe- tho negroes, talk to them freely and
candidly, open their eyes to the wiles of their
reii cm mica, show them all that concerns
cir ruo welfare, face their deceivers and
rram tbcfr wicked lies.down their throats,
assemble en mam at the polls and give pro-!
tcc.ion and conhdence to those who wish to
do right, and our word for it, Florida will be
8- \e,\ from Radical domination in the com
ing aiocoLon.
This year working on shares has been sub
stituted for hiring for wages. This has many
advantages and may, possibly, be tho best
under existing circumstances; in fact may be
the only safe system for this year and the
most practicable for many landholders for
years to come, but if history teaches us any
lesson, it is that for the land-owner and
laborer to be brought into such close prox
imity, when such laborer is other than a slave,
is an abnormal condition of affairs which
cannot last long.
It is too great an undertaking for a single
individual, even if he owned the land and
some capital, to inaugurate this system of
small farms. The improvements to be
made, houses and fencing to bo built,
wells to be dug, and in the destitute condi
tion of the newly enfranchised advances to bo
made in the farm of stock, implements of
husbandry and provisions to give him a start
in the incipicncy of the enterprise, would
make the outlay of capital so great as to do-
ter private parties from entering upon it.—
Though we know of private individuals who
are making their arrangements to inaugurate
this system, and wc know of one instance
where it has been done and has proved a
success, so far. As a solution for this difficul
ty, we propose the formation of aggregate cor
porations, tho advantages of which, for wis
dom in planning and efficiency in executing,
are too well known to need comment.
Wo propose joint stock companies for the
purchase of land, said land to bo divided up
into small farms, improved and sold or rented
out. The shares in these companies can be
made small and judiciously invested in land
or sold for currency, the whole to be carried
on under the superintendence of proper offi
cers, President, Directors, etc.
The idea is to reduce each enterprise to
such a system as will combine tho efficiency
and stability of aggregate contradistinction
from sole corporations.
We would like to hear the subject discussed
by the thinking men of our day, and if there
is anything in it, let it be eliminated.
Bum.
Tire Indian Wad in Florida—A Ridicu
lous Canard.—Wc see a telegraph dispatch
published in the Northern papers to the effect
that an Indian war had broken out in Florida.
The report is without the slightest founds
tion, and so far os we can ascertain arose from
the fact that Tiger Tail, the chief of tho Semi
notes, having carried some slaves to Now
Smyrna to sell, the peoplo refused to buy them
telling the Chief that slavery was'nbolishcd.
Tiger Tail denied tho right of Uncle Abe, or
any other man, to set his slaves free, and car
ried them back to the Everglades in high
dudgeon. Owing to this and some alleged
outrages on the part of tho white traders and
cattle dealers, the Indians have been of late
somewhat dissatisfied. We aro informed on
the authority of Col. Sprague, that theso
Indians cannot muster over one hundred
warriors, and the idea of such a handful of
savages making war upon the whites is sim
ply absurd. We tmst our Northern ex
changes will contradict tho report, which is
calculated to injure tho State.—Jacksonville
(.Fla) Union.
Ancient S f.h mo ns.—When Nathan
preached unto David, the king’s heart was
bowed down, and he trembled before the
Lord on account of his sin. When .Tonali
preached in tho streets of Nincvah, the in
habitants became alarmed, and clothed them
selves in sackcloth, from the greatest even
unto the least of them. On the day of Pen
tecost, under a sermon preached by refer,
threo thousand men were pricked in the
heart, and cried out, “Men and brethren-,
what shall we do ?” When Paul stood be
fore tho guilty Felix, and reasoned of right
eousness, temperance ami judgment to come,
Felix became alarmed; and when the same
unflinching preacher ot righteousness was
summoned into tho,presence ot Agrippa such
was the power of his warning and appeals,
that tho king cried out tb Paul, “Almost thou
persuadest me to be a Christian.”
More Banner Counties.—The counties of
Washington and Jonfef arjv’entitled to the
credit of having cast not a single white vote
1 for Bullock or the Constitution.
The Abyssinian Expedition.
ENGLISH barbarism.
We doubt if there arc any greater barbari
ans in Abyssinia than in the English irmy,
sent there to fight King Theodore. Tie fol
lowing is from a letter in the Pall Mail Ga
zette, dated Zulla, March 4:
“The authorities here have behaved in a
very mean and improper manner to the Turk
ish and Egyptian drivers, and I hope the
matter will be—as I believe it is to be—
brought before Parliament. These men, on
joining, were placed under officers who did
not know their language. In the confusion
of starting an expedition like this they were
left some days without food or water. They
naturally did not like it, and were flogged
daily by fifties, when really the poor creatures
only expected to be properly used as first-
class mule-drivers.
“Intrcpreters were then sent, and Capt. An-
nesley, who knows no end of language, offered
to take them all in his division. This was
acceded to, and they were soon made happy
and contented, working like slaves; so well,
indeed, that Capt. Annesley was thanked and
complimented, and it was further promised
that tho threat of discharging them should
not be carried out. Suddenly down comes
an order to pay up and discharge them all,
and to tako away the clothing they had,re
ceived from the government. They had all
thrown away their old rags, and the govern
ment clothing was all they now had. It was
represented how unjustifiable it would be to
send the men back to Egypt in that plight,
but remonstrance was in vain.
“They were embarked under an armed
guard, and an officer of the department bad
to go on board and take the clothes from
their backs. In some cases they were allowed
to keep their trowsers, otherwise they would
have been utterly naked.
“This was on the 18th of February, when
it is very cold in tho northern portions of the
Red Sea, and even in Egypt. Putting the
inhumanity of the proceeding out of the
question, the policy was very bad. These
men will return to Egypt and say, ‘This is
how the English treated us.’ Surely such
conduct is not calculated so raise either our
popularity or prestige.
“Let me give you but one instance of the
treatment which’ they received: About 150 of
them came up jabbering to an officer, who
could not understand them, and reported it
as a case of mutiny. Forthwith two com
panies of infantry were sent down, and 60 of
tho Turks were tied up to the triangles and
got 50 lashes each. It then leaked out that
the poor wretches had been three days with
out rations and were only complaining.—
However, they arc nearly all gone now, and
tho matter has been hushed up; but it is
really too bad that these unfortunate fellows
should have met with such outrageous treat
ment, owing to our own ignorance. It is un
derstood that Capt. Annesley sent in a letter
remonstrating against tho clothing being
taken away from them.”
Baldwin and Another War.
A paragraph from the Columbia Herald re
cently gained extensive circulation, in which
the Rev. Dr. Baldwin was reported as de
claring just before his death, that another
and terrible war would be waged on this con
tinent during the presnt year. Tho follow
ing facts have been learned from Dr. R. H.
Rivers, which fully corroborate the statement
in the Herald. In January, 1863, Dr. Bald
win wrote a letter to General Thomas Rivers,
in which he said : “The present war will not
finally settle the question at issue. Especially
is this true in reference to the status of tho
negro.
■“Another war will shortly succeed this, far
more terrible than tho present. It will be to
the present as were the Indian and French
wars to iho war of the Revolution. This
second war will determine, for all time, the
status of the negro. He will be made subor
dinate to the white race, not only in the South}
but throughout tho world.” This letter was
shown to Dr. Rivers by tho widow of bis
brother, and bnt a short time prior to tho
lamented death of Dr. Baldwin. Ho imme
diately wrote to Dr. B., and asked him ifhis
opinions had changed since the close of the
war. Tho reply was, my principles have not
changed. According to my understanding
of prophecy, another war is soon to convulse
this continent.
“The issue is certaiD. The Hamitic race
will be made subject forever to tho Japhetic
race. I do not say that slavery will be re-es
tablished, but Japhct must have dominion.”
He went on further to say that ho had never
committed nn error in the Interpretation of
prophecy; that lie was preparing a work
which he had read in manuscript to the Rev.
F. A. Owen and others, in which he has fore
told with perfect accuracy tho war between
Italy, Prussia, and Austria, even to the day
and hour of its declaration. He said, “My
theories have some times been erroneous, but
my interpretations have always been such as
were established by facts.”
Do not tho times appear to indicate that
Dr. Baldwin was right and that we arc on the
eve of terrible events ?—Nashville Banner.
Destruction ol the Abbe Mlgne’s Printing
Houie.
The Paris*correspondent of the Pall Mall
Gazette writes that the great ecclesiastical
printing presses and warehouses of the well
known Abbe Migne were totally destroyed
by fire on the 13th ult. The loss of property
is valued at six or seven millions of francs.—
During the last 80 years the Abbe’s presses
have supplied the Roman Catholic clergy
with cheap editions of tho Greek and Latin
fathers, text- books in every branch of divinity,
reprints of the works of the French divines
and the logical cyclopaedias. He has edited
2,000 volumes quarto, or what wo in Eng
land would call imperial octavo, printed in
doublo columns, varying in price between
five and seven francs a volume. The collec
tion of tho Latin fathers is contained in 222
volumes; tho Greek fathers, in Latin transla
tions, in 167 volumes. He lias republished
the collected works of all the great French
divines and preachers and of the apologists of
the church in originals and translations.—
The French pulpit alone fills 100 volumes.—
He has furnished the seminaries with edi
tions of the scholastic writers, mystic and
polemical hand-books innumerable, aids to
faith, church historians, controversial writers,
canons of the councils, canon law, liturgy
and discipline.
Several pages of the catalogue arc occu
pied by a list of separato cyclopaedias of
rites and ceremonies of liturgy, ot heresies
and errors, of books condemned, of religious
orders, of hagiography, of pilgrimages, of
sacred inconograpby, of persecutions, of
miracles, of indulgencies, of conversions to
Catholicism, of involuntary apologists of the
church, of'mysteries, of hymns, of scholas
ticism, asceticism, and mysticism, of scien
title objection refuted, of traditions and
legends, monasteries -and convents, of anti-
philosphism and a great many others, in one
or more volumns each, filled with curious
learning.
The Abbe Migne’s peculiar notions of the
most effective means of deterring from vice
have induced him to publish a dictionary
called “Satan, ses pompes et ses oeuvres, con
taining fous les divertissements moderes on
desordonnes, spectacles, bals f danses, romans,
luxes, livres, imptes, nudites, tableaux, jeux,
blasphemes, chasses, gourmandises, etc., etc.,
etc. Among other curious works arc 12 bulky
volumes, filled, in chronological order, with
all that has been said by ancient and modern
theologians in honor of the Virgin Mary.—
All publications were stereotyped, and filled
extensive warehouses. Shapeless lumps of
lead and heaps of ashes are all that remain.
The 300 work-people employed by Abbe
Migne were controlled with severe discipline,
as the laconic warnings on the walls of the
printing-house boro witness. Priests labor
ing under ecclesiastical censures and turned
adrift upon the world found a refuge and a
means of earning a livelihood in the employ
ment of Abbe Migne. The indefatigable
Abbe attained some years ago a great noto
riety by his scheme of a company for the dis
patch of masses for the dead on commercial
principles. By an intelligent application of
the division of labor, priests overburdened
with orders in the capital were enabled to
transfer a portion of their work, through a
central board, to less busy country curates.—
The French liberal press disclosed the scheme,
which had to be given up by episcopal or-
der. _
The Bankrupt Bill.
A Bill in amendment of an act entitled “An
act to establish a uniform system of bank
ruptcy throughout tho United States.”—
Approved March 2,1867.
Be it enacted, etc., That the provisions of
the second clause of the thirty-third section
of said act shall not apply to the cases of
proceedings in bankruptcy commenced prior
to the first day of January, 1869, and the
time during which the operation of the pro
visions of said clause is postponed shall be
extended u»til said first day of January, 1869.
And said danse is hereby so amended as to
read as follows: In all proceedings in bank
ruptcy commenced after the first day of Jan
uary, 1869, no discharge shall be granted to
a debtor whose assets shall not be equal to
fifty per centum of the claims proved against
his estate upon which he shall be liable as the
principal debtor, unless the assent iD writing
of a majoritj in number and value of his cred
itors to whom he shall havo become liable as
principal debtor, and who shall have proved
their claims, be filed in the case at or before
the time of ibe bearing of the application for
discharge.
Sec. 2. Ard bo it further enacted, That
said act be further amended as follows:
The phrase “presented or defended” in the
fourtienth section of said act shall read “pros
ecuted or defended;” the phrase “nor resi
dent debtors” in line five, section twenty-two,
of the act as printed in the Statues at Large,
shall read “aor resident creditors”; that the
word “or” in the next to tho last line of tho
thirty-ninth section of the act shall read
“and;” that the phrase “section thirteen” in
the forty-second section shall read “section
eleven;” and the phrase “or spends any part
thereof in gaming” in the forty-fourth sec
tion of said act, shall read “or shall spend
any part thereof in gamingand that the
words “with the senior register, or,” and the
phrase “to be delivered to the register,” in the
forty-seventh section of said act, be stricken
out.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted; That
registers in bankruptcy shall have power to
administer oaths in all cases, and in relation
to all matters in which oaths may be admin
istered by Commissioners of the Circuit
Courts of the United States, and such Com
missioners may take proof of debts in bank -
ruptcy in all cases, subject to the revision of
such proofs by the register and by the court,
according to the provisions of said act.
Passed the House Tuesday and sent to the
Senate.
For Liberia.—Wc hear of some three
hundred emigrants leaving hero this morning
for Liberia. They go by special train, ami
will sail in the Golconda in a few days for
Africa.— Col Enquirer, 28th.
Anna. Dickinson on General Grant.—
Tho gentle Anna is one of the ablest and
most popular orators in the pay of the Radi
cal party. She has done good service for the
party in times past. Just now she appears
to be stumping it in the interest of those
Radicals who do not favor the nomination of
General Grant. Anna spoke at Elmira last
week, and took occasion to hit tho man who
does not talk some severe blows. She warned
and threatened in her loving way. She said:
“The Radical party cannot live upon the
memory of its good deeds.”
“Your work in the past won’t save you.”
“You Radicals shirk the unpopular neces
sity of putting the black race forward.”
“You want to cover up the negro with
Grant”
“Unless you give the Northern negro the
ballot you wont’t get tho support of the ne
groes South.”
“It is not sufficient that Grant was a
soldier. McClellan wns a soldier. Fitz John
Porter was a soldier.- It is not sufficient to
write against any man’s name—soldier.”
“By nominating Grant you show yourselves
cowards and poltroons.”
“Grant is no standard-bearer whoa prin
ciples are to be fought for.”
“You want Grant without a platform for
the sake of expediency and winning the next
election.”
“I wouldn’t have a personal quarrel with
General Grant. I dare to say what a great
many men are thinking.”
“I don’t want Grant for President.”
‘“Speech is silver, silence is golden.’ Grant’s
silence is leaden.”
“Ho must speak before begets the nomina
tion.”
“You can’t ‘hurrah for Grant’ and win on
that issue.”
“Shame, Shame on those Republicans who
say: ‘I believe tho black man should vote in
Louisiana, hut under no circumstances hero
in Elmira.”
“Disintegration stares tho Radicals in the
face, because tbey are ashamed to come out
boldly and openly for negro suffrage.”
“Don’t hide your principles, if you’ve got
any, behind the smoke of one man’s cigar.”
We find an answer to this question in the
following eloquent extract from the speech of
Mr. Nelson before the Impeachment Court:
A great many things have been said, and
among the rest an attempt has been made to
stigmatize the President as a, traitor to liis
party—as disgracing the position held by
some of the most illustrious in the land—as a
dangerous person—a criminal, but not an or
dinary one, and as encouraging murder, as
sassination and robbery all over the Southern
States; and finally, by way of proving that
there is but one step between the subliinc and
the ridiculous, as bandying ribald epithets
with a jeering mob. My excuse for noticing
these charges, which have been made here in
the progress of this investigation, is that
nothing lias been said in vindication of the
President from them. It will be my duty.
Senators, to pay some attention to them to
day. We have borne it long enough, and I
propose, before I enter upon the investiga
tion of tho articles of impeachment, to pay
some attention to' these accusations which
have been heaped upon us almost every day
from the commencement of the trial, and
which have Jbcen passed unanswered and un
noticed on the part of the President of the
United States'.
If it is true, as is alleged, that the Presi
dent is guilty of all these things, if he bo
guilty of one tithe of the offences which have
been imputed to him in the opening argu
ment of yesterday and to-day, then I am wil
ling to confess that he is—
“A monster of so frightful mien
That to bo hated needs but to bo seen."
I am willing to admit that if he was guilty
of any of the charges which have been made
against him, he is not only worthy of the cen
sure of this Senate, bnt you should place—
“A whip in every honest hand
To lash him naked through the land."
He should be pointed at everywhere as
monster to be banished lrom society, and his
name should become a word to frighten chil
dren with throughout the land, from one end
to the other, and when any one should meet
him or see him,
"Each particular hair to stand on end
Liko quills upon the fretful porcupine."
If he was these, I agree that neither I nor
those associated with me can defend him.—
But who is Andrew Johnson? Who is this
man that you have on trial now, and in re
gard to whom the gaze, not of “little Dela
ware,” but of the whole Union and of the
civilized world is directed at the present mo
ment ? Who is Andrew Johnson? That ii
a question which, but a few short'years ago,
many of tboso I now address could have an
swered with pleasure. Who is Andrew John
son? Goto tbs town of Greenville, but
few short years ago a little village in the
mountains' ot East Tennessee, and you will
see a poor boy catering that village, a stran
ger, without acquaintance or friends, follow
ing a humble mechanical pursuit, scarcely
able to write, but yet industrious in his pro
fession, honest and faithful in his dealings,
and having a mind such as the God in Heaven
implanted to him, and which was designed
to be called into exercise and play before
the American people. He enters the State of
Tennessee, arriving poor, penniless, without
the favor of the great, but scarce had he set
his foot upon her soil, when he was seized and
caressed with parental fondness,, embraced
as though he bad been a favorite child, and
patronized with liberal and unfounded bene
licence.
In the first place, tho people of his own
county honor him by giving him a seat in
the lower Legislature; next, he ascends to a
seat in the Senate; then in the House of
Representatives of the American Congress ;
then, by the voice of the people, he was
elected Governor of the Slate. Then he was
sent to the Senate of the United States, and
his whole career thus far has been a career
in which he has been honored.and respected
by the people, and it is only between two or
three years that charges have been’preferred
against liim—such as these which are pre
sented now. Never since the charges against
Warren Hastings, never since the charges
against Sir Walter Raleigh, has any man
been stigmatized with more severe reproba-
tiontban the President of tho United States.
All the powers ot invective, which the able
and ingenious Managers can Command, have
been brought into requisition to fire your
hearts and prejudice your minds against him
A perfect storm has been raised around him
and the elements havo been agitated.
“From peak to peak, tho rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder: not from'ono lono cloud.
But every mountain now hath found a tongue;
And Jura answers through her misty shroud,
• Back to tho joyous Alps, who call to her aloud,
Milwaukee has a Democratic paper in
the Scandinavian language, called the Free-
mad.
This storm is playing around him. The
pitiless rain- is beating upon him. The
lightnings are flashing upon him, and I have
the pleasure to state to you, Senators, to-day.
and I hope my yoicc will reach the whole
country, that he still stands firm, unbroken
unmoved, unterrified; hurling no words of
menace to the Senate of the United States,
threatening no civil war to deluge his coun
try with blood, but feeling a proud con
sciousness of his own integrity, appealing to
Heaven to witness the purity of his motives
in his public administration, and callin^
upon you, Senators, in the name of the liv
ing God, to whom you have made a pledge
that you will do equal and impartial justice
iu this case according to the Constitution
and the laws, to pronounce him innocent of
the offences charged against him. Are there
not Senators here whose minds go back to
thestirring times of 1860-61, when treason
was rife in this Capitol, when men’s faces
turned paic, when dispatch after dispatch
was sent from this Chamber to fire the South
ern heart, and prepare the Southern mind for
that revolution which agitated our county,
and which cost the lives and treasure of the
nation to such an alarming extent ?
Where was Andrew Johnson then ? Stand
ing here, almost within ten feet of the place
at which I now stand, solitary and alone in
this magnificent Chamber, “where bloody
treason flourished over us,” his voice was
heard arousing the nation. Some of you
heard its notes as they rolled from one end
of the land to the other, arousing the patriot
ism of our country—the only man from the
South who was disposed to battle against
treason then, and who it now called a traitor
himself. He who has periled his life in a
thousand forms to put down treason, he who
has been reckless of danger, he who has per
iled- his life, his fortune and his sacred honor
to savo its life from destruction and ruin.—
He now is stigmatized and denounced as a
traitor, and from ono end of the land to tho
other accusation has rung until the echoes
have come back to the Capitol here, intend
ing, if possible, to influence the judgment of
the Senate.
Is Andrew Johnson a man who is disposed
to destroy any trust reposed iu him; a man
who has on all occasions been found standing
by his neighbors, standing by his friends,
standing by his country; who has been found
on all occasions worthyofthe high confidence
and trust that has been reposed in him. I
know, Senators, that when I state these things
in your presence and in your hearing, I may
extort but a smile ot derision among some of
those who differ 'with him in opinion. I
know that an unfortunate difference of opin
ion exists between the Congress of the United
States and the President, and in attempting
to address you upon some of the very ques
tions through which this difficulty arose, I
pray Almighty God to direct me and lead me
aright, for I believe in His presence to -day
that my distinguished client is innocent of
the charges preferred against him.
I hope that God’s blessing, which has fol
lowed kirn thus far in life, will follow him
now, and that lie Will come out of the fiery
furnace unscathed. Who is Andrew John
son ? Why, Senator, when -the battle of
Manassas, as wc call it in the South, or of
Bull Run, as I believe it is called in the
North, was fought—when our troop3 were
driven back, defied and were pursued in
haste and confusion to this .capital, when
men's faces turned pale and their hearts fal
tered—where was Andrew Johnson then ?—
With a resolution undismayed and unfalter
ing believing in the justice of the great cause
country and to the world the objects and
purposes of tlie war ; then it w T as that his
voice was heard among the boldest of those
who declared it the purpose of Congress to
stand by and defend the Constitution and
maintain and uphold the Government.
The Funeral or Gen. Sernmes.
The funeral procession that followed the
remains pt Gem Sernmes tothc cemetery from
the Presbyterian church last afternoon, was a
very large and imposing one. The surviving
and honorary members of the Columbus and
the City Light Guards, numbering over one
hundred and fifty men, acted as a military
escort—had no muskets of course. The com
panies were formed at the Baptist, and then
marched to the Presbyterian Church, in the
vestibule of which the cbffin, which had been
newly varnished yesterday, had remained in
statc'since its arrival in this city. The coffin
which contained the remains of Lieut. C. A.
Bailey, which arrived Friday, had been
placed upon the same bier, and commander
and subordinate bad slept side by side.
As soon as the line was formed the coffin
of Lieut. Bailey was carried to the Episcopal
Church, where the remains will lie in state
until 4 o’clock, p. it., to-day, when they will
be deposited in the cemetery.
Dr. R. A. Ware was marshal of the day,
with Moj. Roswell Ellis as assistant. At the
bead of tlie procession was the band playing
a slow march, then came the City Light and
Columbus Guards, marching in column by
platoons, as military escort, followed by the
hearse with pall bearers, then came General
Benning and staff, Cols. Crawford, R. Thomp
son and other Confederate officers, Major
Wilkins, the City Council, and a long train of
carriages—the entire line being fully a half
mile in length.
The body was deposited in the Soldiers’
Burial Ground on the south-east part of the
cemetery. From the beautiful monument
erected by our ladies, around the summit of
which appeared the golden letters, “Brig.
Gen. Paul J. Sernmes,” Rev. Messrs. - Hall, of
the Presbyterian, and Devotie, of the Baptist
Churches—the last the chaplain of the Guards
—made brief addresses eulogistic of the
deceased. Dr. D. related several personal
incidents of General Sernmes’ daring and
skill, exemplifying the chivalry of the chief
tain and the piety of the man. There was j
beautiful music from a number of fino voices.
A platform had been erected in rear of the
monument, and the singers and an organ were
thereon. The pastors ot the two Methodist
Churches were also soated on the monument
with the speakers.
The last rite was performed, and the noble
dead left to sleep with the brave comrades
that so thickly lie around him—no more to
be disturbed until the resurrection morn.—
Columbus Sun, 20f/t.
I For tJiQ 7*»
Communicated.
_ Macon, April 2? i Qf .
Messrs. Editors : Many of the su '
thrown out by your correspondentI
in yesterday’s paper, are most excell, ,
All must agree that the.workin<- ^, .
plantations profitably is gone for ' -I
yet, as your correspondent remarks^- U- |
great an undertaking for a single indivifl 1 * ^ I
even if he own the land and some canit T' I
inaugurate the system of small farmsv!T’'i
fore it will be necessary to form joijT
companies, so that all can take part
It is generally understood that at th i I
meeting of the “Board ofTradtf’aco - I
was appointed to inaugurate a planT'”
encouragement of immigration. ^ ^ tJ *l
not the members of that committee '
themselves into a company, and appoS*l
their number a President, Directors and ' ’
otlier officers as may be necessarr
effectin
a temporary organization-.
•so asI
Tins Augusta Row.—The Chronicle gives
the following particulars :
The day passed off quietly up to about 5
o’clock, at which time there were about three
hundred negroes and about seventy-five
whites in the Court-house yard, crowding
around the steps, waiting the closing of the
polls, all peaceable and orderly. About the
time the military Mayor of this unfortunate
city—the man appointed by Gen. Pope as
chief conservator of the peace—came out of
the Hall and, standing in the portico, flour
ishing a roll of greenbacks, offered to bet one
thousand dollars that Bullock was elected.
This brag, from the chief Loyal Leaguer,
enthused the negroes, who cheered lustily.
The whites then cheered for Gordon and
others.
One irreverent individual cried out: “You
d d peijured son of a b , you had
better pay off your police with that money.”
From this time to the closing of the polls
there was considerable chafing. When the
polls were closed, Bryant advised his friends
to go home. The same advice was given by
Mr. Christian and Major Crump to the white
citizens present. This last named gentleman
had just left the court yard in company with
Mr. G. A. Snead, when the row commenced.
A general fight would have ensued, hut for
the reasons stated above. The negroes bran
dished their clubs and threw showers of
bricks; tlie whites standing firm and ccol.—
Soon, at the suggestion of Major Crump, the
military squad was put in motion, and the
bayonets dispersed the negroes, injuring
several, and we bear running one entirely
through. Tlie officer in command very wise
ly ordered his troops not to fire.
Not Generally Known.—Martin Van
Buren is tho only man who held the offices of
President, Vice-President, Minister to Eng
land, Governor of his own State, and mem
ber of both Houses of Congress. Thomas
H. Benton is the only man who liekl a seat in
the United States Senate for thirty consecu
tive years. The only instance of lather and
son in the United States Senate, at the same
time, is that of the Hon. Henry Dodge, Sena
tor from Wisconsin, and his son, Augustus C.
Dodge, Senator from Iowa. Gen. James
Shields is tho only man who ever represented
two States in the United States Senate. At
one time he was Senator from Illinois, and
subsequently from Minnesota. John Quincy
Adams held positions under the Government
during every administration from that of
Washington to that of Polk, during which ho
died. He had been Minister to England,
member of both Houses of Congress, Secre
tary ot State, and President of the United
States. He died while a member of the
House of Representatives.
Life’s journey at the longest is but
short. Though our stay on earth be pro
longed for forescoro years or even a century,
what is that compared to eternity ? It is
the grain of sand upon the seashore—it is the
drop of water falling into the ocean—it is a
moment in the year of time. The grain of
sand is not noticed on the seashore, the drop
of water is not seen in the vast ocean, the
moment is an imperceptible point of time.
So man’s lifetime,' yea, and time itself, is
so small as to be unnoticed when placed in
comparison with eternity. But no ! time is
not man’s lifetime; it is only his probation
age. He is to live through' all eternity, or
—dread thought—to be dying though all
eternity, and yet to live I For a season he
sleeps beneath the sod; sleeps to awake
when God shall call—or awake only to par
take of eternal joys, or to suffer endless tor
ments. Blest arc they who go to sleep in the
arms of Jesus; who ce iso to labor and enter
the rest of tho righteous.
issue a prospectus to the general p:
viting them to take stock, payable in u,'
or money, as may be most convenient! ^
Some of our very best citizens are me C 'v
of that Committee—men who are •
known throughout the State, and
inspirp confidence in any enterprise the I
inaugurate. • ■
It is to be hoped they will therefore ■
promptly for the good of our common (Ci
try. Yours Respectfully,
“Geouoii-
/ -*.<=..*
Disturbance in Bairbridge.—iv e;
formed that after counting the votes in n-T
bridge, a Radical negro was making I
ceadiary speech, and was ordered todT 1
by the Sheriff. Disturbance ensued aaK
negro got hold of the Sheriff, and en.'f*I
voring to kill him. The Sheriff Wa! I
for him, and with a pistol brought him d I
to a dead level.—Albany Newt. n ■
The Fort Gaines and Macon Rom., I
We find the following editorial item intfcl
Quincy Commonwealth of the 17th ;
A prominent merchant of this plsceI
rortw us tbst itt had twenty bales of cotta I
shipped to Savannah, from BainbritW dor I
tlie Flint to Chattahoochee and thenceml
the Chattahoochee river to Fort GiiJ |
thence to Macon and thence to Savans^l
and saved seventy dollars freight eiptr« I
which would have been incurred if tbecctioa I
had been shipped to Savannah from Bfi-. I
bridge on the Atlantic & Gulf Road.
Indian Depredations.—St. Low, A*i I
24.—A Cheyenne dispatch says the indie I
attacked a party of laborers in the JB’ickl
Hills yesterday, and killed four of them.- j
They also captured six teams belonging to t J
train.
£3F“Mrs. Lincoln’s book is ready forth I
pi cs;. One of the most amusing things in i* I
is the Logan ring story. A jewel represent I
be worth a very large sum tuned outul
eighteen-clollar affair. It was worth
Gen. John’s veracity 1
CSjTTt is said that the four fastest ten
in their several degrees, in this couatir, s|
wit: Lantern, Lady Palmer, Auburn'
Dexter, are each marked with two or fcl
white feet, and a white nose—and allbi--|
to Mr. Bonner.
jvgFMf Adam had asked Eve to let tints I
her, could the latter, without profanity. h«i|
replied, “I don’t care^hdam if you dop
William Benson, a citizen of Chios!
worth nearly half a million dollars, has tel
arrested for forging signatures to a deed cm
veying a tract of land near the city lit'-1
valued at §100,000.
eggfThe ladies of Sturgis, Mich., veil
through the motions of voting at the ter
election, just to show what they could dtij
they were allowed.
i^yMiss Nellie De More, of New Tort
will next month undertake to walk from tte
city to Philadelphia in thirty six boon.’
§1000.
George A. Johnson, the Filet ;::
Mass,, “pop-corn man,” returns a larger -
come than either of the physicians or nefi
ters of the town.
• SST” Forney says that to urge on the i®-|
pc-achment business in his columns is l- aSj®
duty.” If the proper duty were done byte
it would be a Stern duty.—Prentice.
EeT - The Washington letter-writers,inrI
scribing Ben. Butler, call him “full-fare- ^
He certainly has a great deal of “cheeky *
Sale of the Bath Paper Mills.-1^1
valuable property was sold yesterday,
nounced, to the highest bidder, for cash-
was purchased by Mr. Win. Craig, to v-l
000.—Augusta Con., 28th.
% ^“Charlotte Thompson’s mother, 6|
Clisbia Thompson, died on tbe 1st
Rockland county, New York. She
widow of the late Lysander Thompse.—
eccentric comedian.
in which the country was ei
was heard here proclaimiii
engaged, his voice
to the whole
Consider, that our good days are
generally more in number than our evil days,
our clays of prosperity (such I mean, as are
suitable to our condition and circumstances)
than our days of adversity. This is most
certain, though most of us are apt to cast up
our accounts otherwise. How many clays of
(at least competent) health have we enjoyed
for one day of grievous sickness? How-
many days of ease, for one of pain ? How
many blessings tor a few curses ? For one
danger that hath surprised us, how many
scores of clangers have we escaped, and some
of them very narrowly ? But ala31 we write
our mercies in the dust, but our afflictions we
engrave in marble; our memories serve us
too well to remember the latter, but we are
strangely forgetful of tlie former. And this
' the greatest cause of our untankfulness,
discontent and murmuring.
53i7”Tkere is no negro slavery now - in tbe
Southern States, but a vast amount of white
slavery. It is quite time for all decent men
to declare themselves abolitionists.
[Louisville Journal.
Yates, of Illinois, is to address the
public schools of Chicago. Whisky is not
usually admitted in public schools by the
bottle, much less the hogshead.—Louisville
Democrat.
■- ■ — . ■-»
Drowned— Miss _ Laura Dudley was state of Gcor
drowned near Fort Games, on the 19th inst.
She, iu company with Miss Laura Weaver and
two young ipen, was taking a ride on the
creek in a small boat and the boat was upset
and Miss Dudley drowned, the others escap
ing-
Her body had not been recovered up to the
23th inst.—Albany News.
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California, 183,931 square miles; M”']
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