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    TSE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 15,1867.
.TO- OUK SBBOBIBSBS.
The Weekly' Constitutionalist will here
after be mailed on Tuesday instead of Wednes
day morning. We make this change to accom
modate many subscribers. It is oui aim and
purpose to make the paper a first class news and
family journal, and we confidently hope that
the influence of our subscribers will be exerted
to aid U3 in doing so by extending its Circn-'
lation.
. PAUSE.
The would-be Southern Radical party-build
•hs in Virginia and the would-be Radical party
builders in Georgia do not materially differ. If
anything, the “ long-haired barbarians” of the
Old Dominion are more out spoken and auda
cious ; hut, the purposes of all are identical.
We suggest to those of our fellow-citizens—the
aoble four hundred under the command oi
Bryant, who did not join the torch-light pro
cession—that it is just as well to reflect whither
they are drifting or rather whither they are be
ing driven by delusive fears or deceitful hopes.
The Richmond Whig has gone over body and
soul to the Happy Family, and as it is more
respectable than its imitators farther South,
we reproduce some planks in the platform of
the party which it exhorts its readers to adopt.
A3 our Georgia manipulators will probably
muster up sufficient courage to follow the
lead of the Richmond journal, we propose to
ventilate their schemes in advance and ask
(the timid and bewildered to give good heed.
The 3d'article of this lovely and beloved plat
form runs thus: “ That wft will therefore in
wist that anew constitution shall be framed
tor Virginia, which shall provide that all men,
white or black, without reference to previous
eondition of servitude, shall be perfectly equal
before the law, both in respect to political
privileges aud power,"and of civil rights; and
Shat all laws creating differences and distinctions
of any sort , between persons of different races,
»hail be unconstitutional, null and void.”
Substitute Georgia for Virginia and the rtso
totion will be of appropriate significance aud
anport.
Now, when platforms are put up like this,
Jhey are not built hurriedly and incautiously.
The Wilsonites have cudgeled their brains
3wr Southern imitation and when one or more
the Happy Family make bold moves to
gfceir social detriment but political preferment,
» vast amount of intriguing has been going on
prior to action. When all the ropes and pul
ifeys are ready, some arch-conspirator against
She Constitution, at the North, pulls the string
*nd away dances and smirks and capers ]jji
poor little WOoden puppet at tbe South. Tii *
public wonder at first; then some admire and
others grow disgusted. But, .fust as the first
step is the most difficult, so all other steps are
not only easy of performance bm actually en
joyed. Nay, the man who consents to a first
debasement not only passes to a second, but
from the very logic of his unfortunate position,
Is forced to further shame. Byron has said
that the “last infirmi-y of evil is ceasing to
Justify one’s acts.” There is a deeper depth, a
de pntfundis of humility, when men not only
justify their sins but attempt to convert others
to dishonor.
£Jef> vis look at this delectable platform, origi
nating at Petersburg in Virginia, and now
.sought to be inoculated upon us like a leprous
sore.
Disguise it as -you will, it goes far beyond
equality before the law and plainly indicates
equality in every sense.' In oue word it means
—amalgamation. The negroes arc not satisfied
w?*' s *ipol/tfe.it equality; they will demaud every
thing else. They are uot satisfied with riding
in tite-sars specially appropriated for them at
Mew Orleans, they force an entrance into cars
appropriated to the whites. They are not sat
isfied with their own balls and parties, they
compel admittance to the -dress circle of the
French Opera House. Does any sane man think
that they will pause at these aggressions. Never
dream it, while political crusaders invade ns
from the North, stirring up strife; while adven
turers from the same region foment discord ;
while gallant Southern gentlemen surpass the
seal.of a. Wilson or a Bryant.
Some kind causist will tell ns that this is too
revolting, and will never be. We tell him that
stranger things have happened in the world’s
history; and every day, for the last few months,
we have seen things almost as incredible j
When meu can coihe out openly and introduce
io the “ citizens of Augusta” individuals whose
recognition they would have been ashamed ot
a little while ago; when others can boast their
Radicalism without blushing, who held so fine
% scorn of this detested thing, not many moons
since, it is not only possible but proDable that
worse things are behiud. The Radical party at
the North did not reach its present position at
a jump, but by gradations from worse to worse.
So will it be with the Happy Family. They
have jumped into a current too strong to stem,
hnd it will bear them on and on. Like their
Northern party'tiiey have raised the monster
of Frankenstein and his maw is as insatiable
as that of the daughter of the horse-leech, and
as pitiless e.s the grave.
“ HONEST ABE S • OPINION.
Radical misslofiafUs indoctrinate the nogr/3
with the idea that the late ASRAhaM Lincoln
is their patron saint and was their Redeemer.
Nay, -we believe it is put forth that he Is the su
perior of the Redeemeu of Mankind, for, at a
late mass meeting, the portrait of Mr. Lincoln
was elevated above that of Christ.
In September, 1858, Abraham Lincoln de
livered a speech at Charleston, Illinois, in which
he expressed his convictions on many ot the
questions which are now pending. He said :
m I am not, nor ever have been,
nor of voters or jurors of negroes,
termarry mth vhit?™ f ° o^ce ' ,wr to ,w *
addition to this th£*? eopl . s ' and I will say in
between the tq) ai** ° Physical difference
litre, iciU /brew? race > 1 be
ffther on terms of social { lco races living to-
Os haring the siqierio/ am m favor
\white race .” Position assigned to the
Pulpit Politics.—A Radical cler<*v man ,
Baltimore electioneered from his pulnitaJ?
«• «»”• T -SCOT,, SS2SS2
for a Judgeship. The Rev. Mawworm anathc
matizedjiim as a "rebel, a traitor and a papist*”
Mr. Scott survived this volley and subse
quently defeated his two "loyal” competitors
h an immense majority,
MARTIAL €,.AW.
In the roceift message of Governor English,
j of Conrweiieut, his Excellency refers to a late
! cialJ & 0 f the Lord* Chief Justice of Ecg’ar.d
to the Gryrui Jury, concerning the allegation
of mift-def brought against British function
aries for jbe execution ftf Mr. Gordon, one of
the Jamaica insurrectionists, under martial law.
This charge of the Lord Chief Justice, portions
oi which we reproduce iiranother column,stands
in curious juxtaposition with the edicts of'Con
gress, and from monarcalal England Republi
can America-is rebuked and mortified. It has
been a regular Fourth of July hsbit in this
country to u|ter an amount,of twa,cU
■He concerning the “land of the free,”, etc.
With equal pertinacity Great Britain was be
labored and denounced as a despotism smell
ing to beaten and specially offensive to the sen
sirivemostrils of American freemen. However
unctuous those boasts may. have been in the
days preceding the war for Southern independ
ence, they are vast and grisly farces at* the pres
ent day. la the charge of the Lord Chief Jus
tice ot England, we find the highest judicial
functionary of the realm “ standing as the bul
wark of constitutional liberty and the rights of
the citizen and the subjectwhile the Radicat
Congress “hurls down the muniments of liberty,
fijngs aside the Constitution, institutes martytl
law ami sends military satraps to supersede
civil governments, enact laws, depose eivil offi
cers, institute military tribunals for the trial of
civilians, and thus bring a scandal in republican
government and the American name.” The
St. Louis Republican says with great truth and
effect that the Lord Chief Justice of England
11 while nominally censuring the illegal pro
ceedings of British officers, and condemning
their outrages upon the very esseneeof justice
and law, in fact arraigns the revolutionary
Radical party of the United Suites before the
civilized world for its flagrant violations of the
pronounced fundamental principles of English
and American liberty. He denounces courts
martial for the trial of civilians as illegal, and
declares the execution of eivilans under sen
tence of such courts to be murder. He declares
that the worst traitor ever brought to the block
was a subject entitled to the safeguards which
are the very source of justice, afid that what
ever the charge of which a man is accused,
though he * might be the greatest rebel,’ he was
entitled, when brought to justice, to those safe
guards which are the essence of justice, and
which have been found by experience to be ne
cessary-fco prevent rash and hasty conclusions.
“ Those who value the safeguards of the
American Constitution and who view with
alarm the proceedings of the Radical party la
rejecting constitutional limitations and denying
to civilians the right of trial by jury, will per
sue with satisfaction the portiQOS Ql the charge
we publish. It is Ta powerful judicial relnforee
meat Cf the opinion of the 8a reme Court of
the United States in the Milligan case, which
so severely reprobated the Radical policy of
yirikary courts for the trial- oi civilians.”
FALSE ISSUES.
The Cuiig?ess Ot the Unit* J Stales have
passed certain laws for the “ States lately in
rebellion.” By these very terms “ lately in re
bellion,” it. is conceded that there rs no present
warfare. And yet, in spite of such a declara
tion, we are visited with a military domination
curiously antagonistic with the usages of peace.
Radical leaders know perfectly well that not
only is the Sonfh in a condition of profound
quiet, but all idea ot resisting any of their
edicts by force of arms completely surrendered.
How' does it happen, then, that ex-Governor
Brown, to whom we owe the bitterness of this
chalice more than any living man, taunts those,
who are honest enough to protest against ini
quitous legislation, with being “-disloyal”?
Is he not washing the dirty linen . of the rarty
to which he has recently allied himself (sec
Bryant passim) when bawling out “ Why
don’t yon fight ?” to those who deem it proper
to exhaust every lawful measure of redress be
fore final submission to what may bean* inevi
table destiny? What shameful business this
is for a Southern man in his position. Has the
Star-Chamber Committee so fearfully magne
tized him that he absolutely craves fresh
scenes of violence where none are dreamed
of ? In no other way can we understand
the tirade of him and his cabal when pre
senting the false issues of cheerful compli
ance with the arbitrary enactments of Con
gress ora resort to bloodshed. Will the people
be deluded forever with such mad reasoning ?
Will they never understand that those who op
pose Congress up t o the very Lst point of legal
redress, do not make failure a casus belli , but.
submit where they are powerless and refuse to
accompany such submission with cheer:>i.ness
and jubilee. The man who accepts the degrad
ing terms of Congress with unconcern or alac
rity goes a bow shot beyond the expectations
of his allies at the North and has.his. super-ser
viceable zeal incontinently snubbed by all,
North or South, who have a grain of honesty
or manhood remaining. Our new converts,
our latter-day-saints at the South, actually de
mand what Mr. Greelet and even Mr. Henry
Wilson never anticipate or hoped for. Verily,
their enthusiasm is sublime; their reward
should be mammoth. A Union man has had
his claims presented for the Governorship of
Alabama because be wept when b-s State pass
ed the secession ordinance and continued
to inundate' unlimited pocket handkerchiefs
\. i: o s Lu.ni the war. VVe offer him a sp.cu
did example to the Happy Family. Let them
*schew tears, but be "joyful, joyful, joyful.”
Let them swear that lilt? smiled at Confederate
defeats, guffawed at LsE’« -Winder ami nave
been under the influence of lahghing gM ever
since the passage of <he Sherniaa—Stevens
Wiison-Johnson— Sheliabarger bill.
Registration in New Orleans. General
Sheridan furnishes the New Orleans Times with
the following official report of the cumber of
voters registered in that city up to 6 o’clock
p. m., April 30:
Vv’hite, 2,012 ; black, 8,687. Tots], 10,639.
The different journals mtirtiate that this black
majority is entirely due to the fraudulent course
of the registrars, who have been under ti±e
complete supervision of a Radical comm.ttee
The Happy Family are having it all their own
way. Bryant boasts that he has “ already iOur
hundred white voters in Augusta, and, if they
come in next week as fast as they did this week,
Augusta will be carried by an overwhelming
white majority.” This w ill be no idle boast, if the
registration is conducted here in the manner of
Phillip Sheridan. The people of Louisiana
have been terribly fooled, and so will be the
| white people of Augusta. The leaders will get
i &op, perhaps; but the rank and file nothing but
* ridicule.
CAUSE? NAPPING,
S-.n-tor W 11. SON, m his : Lrer.sv to further
t 1 -interests of Radicalism, does net always
stick to the truth, and very frequently changes
Li*.opinion ot given questions as he. marches
on. At Wilmington Mr. Wilson said :
. “ Gentlemen, we have passed through six
years of deadly strife. I have said to you that
the Government is not responsible for it : that
the rebel chieftains and leaders are responsible
before man and God.”
At Richmond, in set phrase, he declared that
both North and South were’equally guilty.
At Wilmington, he thus unraveled the mys
tery as to “ who elected Lincoln ”
“ But the people of the United States, the
men who read their Bibles, who invoke God’s
blessings on their fellow men, the great masses
of the intelligent people of the country, went
forth in their might, and made Abraham Lin
coln President of the United States.”
To which assertion the Richmond Examine')’
thus replies
“ Now, in view of the fact that the only party
which formally expressed dissatisfaction with
: the Bible ; the only party which-prostituted
pulpits to politics; the only party which
breathes curses‘against its fellow-citizens; the
only party which drove the minister from his
church, and prohibited the sacrament to the
dying; the party which combines all the infideli
ties and isms of this most infidel land, was the
party which elected Lincoln, we regard the
above statement as a little audacious, to say the
least of it. Moreover, as a lover of the Ameri
can name, Mr. Wilson should pause before in
forming the wcfld that the Bible party in the
United States was in a minority of nearly one
million of votes, as the election returns show 1”
Mr. Wilson never fails to aver, wherever he
goes, his ardent charity for the South, thus :
“Isay to you here now, that all over the
loyal States, while we rejoiced in the triumph
of our arms, we have not one sentiment of
hatred towards our countrymen in any part of
the country.” [Applause.]
The Chicago. Tripune, of a late date, contains
facts which do not bear Mr. Wilson out. Men
of great wealth thns responded to appeals for
the relief of starving women and children :
“ Let them starve a little while, it will do
them good.”
But, as Mr. Wilson may disclaim responsi
bility for such evidences of malignant haired,
we quote from himself. At Wilmington he
said:
“ I will tell you what I would have done if I
had had the power. I would have issued a great
proclamation. I would have executed a few of
. the great leaders, and have pardoned everybody
1 else.”
The man who can, come South with such
breathings of charity is wertby of his hire and
the Hippy Family are worthy of him. Fancy
Robert 12. Lee hung by order ot Henry*
WILSON, The great codfish apostle of humani
ty has the audacity" t 0 utt< ; r the * e sentiments
and men are found in oarttn*! st debased enough
to toady himand follow' his baane?.
Os the Constitutional Amendment Mr. Wii>
’ son speaks thus ;
“In the first place, after Congress met —the
Thirty-ninth Congress—uuuiug their country
in a sad condition under the President’s policy,
WC offered a Constitutional Amendment, and
submitted it to you for adoption. If you had
done so, your representatives would be in Con
gress now% provided you sent men who could
take the ‘ iron-ciad’ oath, and.yca must elect
such me;i or nobody comes in. [Laughter.]
You tell us that the Constitutional Amendment,
dishonored and degraded you. t say it was
never intended for any such purpose, and if.
does not do it. There is not a man in the
world dishonored by accepting this,”
The Examiner declares that “in an inter
view with certaiu Southern gentlemen in Wash
ington, not many weeks ago, Mr. Wjlson ex
plicitly declared that had he been a member of
the Virginia Legislature- he would not have
voted for the Constitutional Amendment, for
the reason that while it disfranchised some of
the ablest men in the State, it proposed no tquiva
lent.' 7
This is the great Dragon we are called upon
to worship. This is the base idol already
adored by the Happy Plunily. He is not the
bearer o? the olive branch but the cypress.
His design and personality were innocently
portrayed by a youthful freedman. On one of
the rude transparencies borne aloft by the torch
and turpentine brigade through the streets- of
Augusta, this motto appeared: “ Welcome- to
Senator Wilson, whose heart is large enough
to embrace his country.” Being importuned
by an old negress to translate these symbols,
the neophyte of the school mamas thus glibly
responded: “Welcome to Senator Wilson,
whose heart is big enough to embroil his
country!”
A GENES,AL OSDES NEEDED.
The New York Herald, in a leading article
entitled “Oar Southern Military Commanders
and their Blunders,” says:
u vve would submit to the President, the Sec
retary of War and General Grant the propriety
of a general order embracing certain specific
instructions to the five miiitary district com
manders in the South and their subordinates,
to the end that a "uniform, liberal and concilia
tory course of action on their part may prevail
from Virginia to Texas.”
The telegraph has informed ns that Attorney
Genera] StaNbbrrt had these Specific in
structions ” ia course of preparation. Now
that the heavy work ia the Snpreme Court is
wall nigh over, we trust his attention wul - e
turned to this subject and Ir.v.: armed:'”:
fluence. While hoping that the military poten
tate in Georgia may have but brief authority, it
is just as well, in case of his prolonged sojourn
in our midst, that the duties of his office be
and defined. The Herald, for the North t
sake, does not want any more Gbslbr’s cap?,
as at Charleston, flOr any more Napo
leon warnings to the Press, as at Ricumond.
The South is used to that sort of thing, but
would not object to present or future relief, no
matter how small or unpretentious the favor
may be. Mr. Stanbbrry is respectfully prayed
to utter arid promulgate forthwith " speci..c
'instructions.” The North will be spared mor
tifying exhibitions of petty vindictiveness ; the
South spared unnecessary humiliation, and tne
military commanders spared the irksome ti;
of doing what they probably disli&e.
South CABOLiXA.-The Edgefield Advertiser
savs: "From more than one section of Our
District we have heard very encouraging ae
counts of the wheat; and yesterday, a gen..e
man all the way from Laurens, who iuo e
down through Laurens. Abheville and
field, told us that the growing wheat and oats
along his entire route are finer, more flourish
ing, and more promising, than he has ever
known them. He says that the oldest men in
most all sections hold this opinion.
THEY mWf LIKE IT. ♦
There wife many men in our ffikist pre
pared to follow Governor Brown; but, these
.an; ? gentlemen can* not stomach the redouht
'"ffi’e Wilson. We knew, very weH that Brown
was only a way station and those who took the
Radical train for Brown would not be per
mitted to tarry long on the track to Wilson.
Some men, appreciating the full consequence
ot their determination, went the whole hog
and landed not oniy with Wilson, but posi
tively with Bryant. The great majority, how
ever, deemed themselves secure in a whipped
syilalub of Radicalism and are now startled at
the iici*-brolh presented to their pallid lips. It
is pleasant to know that they don’t like it, for
disgust betokens reformation. Os one thing
they may be certain : There are no compromises
with conscience. If they consent to Brown
they will finally consent to Wilson. Their
new masters wilTput them af the head of the col
umn, with Radical bayonets in the rear. They
have gone to Brown ; they hesitate at. Wilson.
The supreme moment has arrived for a decision.
Gov. Brown has delivered sortie of you over
to Henry Wilson wtio leaves you to the tender
embraces of Bryant. The, matter admits of no
compounding; it is urgent. We have some
out and out Radicals, melancholy examples cl
the truth of this declaration. Others are paus
ing. Show your hands, gentlemen and decide
your destiny. If you are only half Radicals
your new friend’s will trample you ; if you are
determined to take the wallow as it is —do not
plead ignorance and make wry faces. No man
is obliged to besmirch himself and he who is
defiled, in spite of warning—let him he defiled.
ALAS! POQB JOE.
" •
In the early part of last year Hon. Joseph
E. Brown addressed a letter upon the political
situation to some members of the Georgia
Legislature, aud in thi3 epistle appears the fol
lowing :
“ I do not stay the negroes are t.bc equals of
the white race. God did not make them so.
and rnan can never change the status which the
Creator assigued to them. They are not our
equals intellectually or socially, and, unless
madness rules the hour , they will never be placed
upon a basis of political equality with us. Ail
intelligent men, jvho are acquainted with the
race, know that they are not competent to the
task ot self government, much less to aid in
governing a great nation of white people.” .
Now we submit that on this showing poor
Joe Is mad—rank, stark, staring, raving mad.
Bat one short year ago he.was perfectly sane,
and now alas! alas ! he is seeking to herd with
his inferiors and will doubtless wind up by eat
ing grass—and raw collarcte—like Nebuchad*
aezzar.
Under Which KrNa ?—Judge UNDEiwooD,
a shining light of Radicalism, with the phos
phorescent illumination of a putrid herring,
had delivered a charge to the so-called grand
jury of Virgin! h which attacks every thing
sacred in tb<? Old Dominion. The Examiner
sees very plainly that Underwood is only .a
protctypc.of his party and thus presents the
position:
“ Small marvel if while the great, and good
lenders are shutout from them by a thick cloud,
the faint hearted and the longer* for flesh-ppts
bow the knee to this new divinity, which men
name Radicalism. But, fortunately, the anti
dote follows fast on the heels of the poison.
Let any white naan in Virginia read this low,
obscene brute’s viperous falsehoods, and re
member that be, this Underwood, is the cub of
Republicanism, no better and no worse than
bis darn,and ask himself whether he is ready
for the infinite abasement of fellowship with
streh a creature. If not, he cannot be a Repub
lican, Republicanism means herding with such
cattle, and wallowing fe the same mire.
•‘■We have to thank Republicanism for the
sanspies- semis us. They speak trumpet ton
gued for the union of all good men in a hostil
ity more lasting than a Carthagenian’s against
these slanderers and blasphemers of all that
is good, and pure, and high, and holy among
us.
“If any Virginian can read this creature’s
charge-, and doubt the position an honest man
should take—with Underwood and his party or
ngiiirjsf them—we beseech him to read it to his
wife or sister, and follow her counsel."
Njjts for the Radicals.—The Selma Mes
senger says : “Let the people of the North be
ware! If the provinces of South shall be
reconstructed under the recent legislation of
Congress, it can only be on a basis revolution
ary Radical ; and tbe radicalism of the recently
enfranchised freednaen will be beyond the con
trol of Thaddeus 3tevens or Wendell Phillips—
their leaders will be the Browniows and Hold
ens and Hunoicutts of the South —and the
fable of Aetueon and his dogs may be re-enaefed
before a horror-stricken world. The wildest
radicalism ever dreamed of bysuch madmen as
Phillips or Forney will be strengthened, and
yet left behind, by the readmission of the South
inly the Union under the Sherman bill ; and
the time may not be distant when the capitalists
and bond-holders of Massachusetts will curse
in their impotent wrath the blindness and folly
through which they are! now drifting to irre
mediable and hopeless ruin.” .
The Tennessee Radicals Alarmed. —The
Ntshvil’c Union say3 : "Emerson Etheridge
• : - ‘TS to be v. perfect •* S’wheqd and Bloody
Bones ’ to the Radical imagination. Notwith
standing he was defeated for Congress two
years ago under the comparatively mild fran
chise law of 05, that he has since been in quiet
retirement, that he i3 now opposed by a fran
chise regulation new in complete control of
his enemies, that a militia force is being organ
ized to drive his friends from the polls, that
the power ot the Federal Congress is held sus
pended over his head, that confiscation is bran
dished in the face of those who may dare to
Vote for him, yet it is feared that he, single
handed and alone, will overturn the State gov
ernment, banish Brownlow, disperse the Leg
islature, kick the judges from their seats, drive
all the ‘ loyal ’ men into Massachusetts bay, and
*nake his daily meals for two years on fricas
sied pieanninnies.”
Governor Helm, in a recent powerful speech
at ifonisville, Kentucky, thus’ " hits the nail on
the head:”
“ I tell you that the Northern States are re
fusing to let the negro vote on their side of the
river. They wish to compel him to remove to
States, where he will be allowed
suffrage. This action is based on the idea that
the negro will naturally go where he has most
privileges, and especially if that climate best
suits hiih. They wish, therefore, to ship the
negro upon you, because you dare not control
him without running the risk of the interfer
i euee of Federal power.”
“PSOYISIOUAL.”
“ The cdlored race is on probation as to its use
of the b-v lot ."—Ob aplam French’s Speech, May
Sib,. 1867,
Aha ! oai**oti. French, are you there with
,-your bears ? AtiJ it really the case that you,
in the very presence Missionary M rLsoN, de
clare that the black mVi s vate in the South is
like the white man’s govern.’ 7l2o '* I’UG l ’ UG South—
Provisional ? We had thougn ‘ tn ' ls was 1 rea *>
,P Id-fashionc?d, genuine, bona fide votG tkiat J’ ol *
gave the negro with your military "n sand
your prowling orators, but it seems tbnA ue 15
only to have a sort of temporary suffrage afu‘ r
all. No w, we submit, parson Ekbnoh, that this
is no* treating the “ loyal ” freedmen. right.
You are bawling yourself hoarse about free
dom, and yet .you *are not willing to give this
rnan and brother a free vote.
The Sumner Plan.— lt ts suggested in Rad
ical quarters, says the New York Times, that to
secure a corftfnuau.ee of Republican supremacy,
Congress must adopt the Sumner plan, and
force universal negro enfranchisement upon all
the States. Nothing else, it is urged, will pre
vent Maryland from lapsing into Democratic
rule, or a repetition of the recent Democratic
victory in K-.r.tm ky. The difficulty of legisla
ting with exclusive reference to these States is
admitted, and hence the pica for constructing
the whole North as well as the whole South
upon the Radical basis. The movement is wild
as .well as mischievous. A mere act of Congress
would be futile for the purpose, and a constitu
tional amendment would be of no avail uuiess
the States whose concurrence is essential to its
validity are prepared to concede impartial suf
frage. If the States are so prepared, the amend
ment would be superfluous. And if they are
not prepared of themselves to act, the amend
ment would amount to nothing. In either case
the scheme is beset with difficulty.
*
The Last Analysis. —Here i3 Judge Un
derwood's opinion ot Thad Stevens :
“ This humane statesman also proposes not
to punish any with that extreme rigor usual in
civil wars, and not even to the extent exacted
by every European nation in ordinary foreign
wars. Was such moderation and clemency
ever before so abused and insulted ? May the
grandest old statesman of our country* and age
still continue to strive, notwithstanding the ad
vance of years and disease, and we may yet be
guided by his wisdom and beneficence, until
the great questions now pending be decided in
the interest of peace, progress and freedom.”
The Happy Family in Georgia mu3t enter
tarn similar senriments or they are just as un
trustworthy in their new clothes as they were
in their old ones. Unquestionably, Bryant
has the same reverence that Underwood has.
Blodgett and Brown have secured berths.
Their worshipful followers will very soon be
rung up to “call at the Captain’s office and
settle.”
Important Appointment.—A General Or
der published thid morning, announces the ap
pointment of Cos?. J'U- Moline .I? General In
spector ol Registration, dad Chief of Bureau of
Civil Affairs for tlie Tliiikf Military District.
The Register selected'for fbc #tate of Geor
gia, says the Atlanta Opinion, is dar weii known
fellow citizen, Mr. E. Hulbert. This was a se
lection eminently “ fit to be made.” His lo.ng
and intimate connection with the business re
lations of the important interests of our State
has enabled him to acquire a knowledge of af
fairs possessed by few, it any, of our citizens,
and his well known energy and promptness in
the management of the important interest
heretofore intrusted to his control gives ample
assurance that the work of registration will be
speedily completed, if the people of the State
embrace the opportunities he will afford them
to register.
Honor. —There is, says the Rl6hmond En
quiver, a great disposition to sneer at the sense
of “honor” ju3t now. We are told to disregard
it, and look only to material advantage. This
teaching will return to plague many who iu
culeate it. In these times of pecuniary dis
turbance, the honor of debtors, whether indi
viduals or communities, is often the only re
liance of creditors. Teach the people to rate
honor lightly, and a demoralization will eusiu?
whose results will be ruinous beyond the power
ot estimation. The sense of honor ridiculed
and dethroned for one object, is dethroned for
all.
On Probation.—His Reverence, jParsou
French, informed his negro*friends that “ the
! colored race was on probation as to its use of
the ballot.” His- Holiness evidently meant that
if it suited the Radical party to make other
coalitions, the said party would not hesitate to
wish them a very good morning.
The Milk in the Cocoa-Not.—“Leo,” the
Washington correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, says :
"Every day’s experience proves that the
North cannot longer prosper without the re
covery of Southern trade. The internal reve
nue if still falling off. If it is to stand at only a
a hundred millions a year, the public credit wiil
be severely shaken. The income taxes and the
taxes on manufactures arc failing otf. Persons
who paid taxes on profits of half a million or
more of dollars now report no income.”
Tb »t is why the reconstruction cakes arc
hurried up. Mayhap, if we wait a little longer,
an invitation will be extended instead of con
tortion, menace and tom-toms. Beat vour tin
nans, good Radicals, the South \s desperately
frightened.
Arrested —The two negroes who robbed a
Mr. Harrison, near Fox’s creek, in Edgefield
district, S. C., an account of which we publish
ed a few days ago, and wlm committed anothe
highway robbery on Saturday last, near Mr.
Rambo’s plantation, shooting at their victim
five times, were arrested yesterday by the
Sheriff of the district and lodged in the guard
house cf Hamburg. They made a desperate
run to escape over the bridge, but the Sherifi
had the advantage of being on horseback, and
after a chase of half a mile succeeded in cap
turing them.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.— His
Excellency, Governor Jenkins, has offered the
above reward for the apprehension and delivery
to the Sheriff of Tattnall county, of Clement T.
Bcwin ; who, sentenced to the Penitentiary, re
cently broke jail. * r .......
Said Bowin is about 5 feet 8 inches high, light
complexion, blue eyes, very quick spoken,
weighs about ICO or 165 pounds.
The New York World puts it delicately upon
one T. C. Callicot, 'who, it says, “ changed his
politics, was elected by the Republicans their
Speaker, and there was a bank check discov
ered.”
Freedom of Speech.—Toe New ”,
bune, which, in former cays, and which,
now, occasionally affects to be gri \ , ~r
of freedom of speech and of th p • ,
notices the late order ot Gsueral a'■!
military satrap under, the i‘despot m .• „
Virginia, to fizzling the Richmond 77 m.; vipo,
is for bidder., under pain of suppr-slon,
•saving anything that fs offensive to h - •
mightiness” and “ Pasha of many tail.-,’ Gen
Schofield. Hear the Tribune :
“ General Schofield is Military Comma.) !.i Jl
of the district which includes Virginia ; form,
quarters at Richmond. The Times (ex reb«*h
of that city sees fit to speck of the wv. ;dc m
vote v.' ith the Republican party, io these worth :
“Tt is a proposition which implies tint tin*?
are ready to gr*- t Lae biood-staiucd hands of
the authors of ruin.
“General Schofield says he desire* them
most liberty of speech **33 0i press, Inn
thinks this illusion to tv ! -'riny uni !a\■»; i *-<»-
pie of the United States l ‘ le ‘-h-.ig. in
short, he just endures this outJ K ‘ C:U '> :ia * won’t
stand any more such. Isn’t he > • ? -V vai *' ; •”*
The Propagandists.—So tar, wh*..* ‘ v, ’ r
Senator Wilson has addressed a Sou*
audience, we believe he has been Uv.itcd
witn respect, and if he started from un
home among the inhospitable hills of New Eai»
land with any other expectation, he has b<- *n div
appointed. His route, says the Atlanta intelli
gencer, is over historic ground, (ailed with the
dust oi Union ami Confederate soidler*. Fie
kuows "best, of course, for what purpose he
visits this section —the motives which induced
him to embark upou»the mission, and the oh
jects he seeks to gain, by its prosecution. The
Boston Post , an influential journal published in
his own State, says of him and of those who
serrt him :
“ Mr. Wilson is not willing that there should
be a cordial understanding and friendly leeliug
between the freedmen and their late masters.—
He deprecates such a state of things. He wants
the Southern blocks to follow the lend of droll
iug demagogues from the North aud repudiate
their white neighbors, with whom their future
fortunes are ca3t. What the Southern jjeopte
need is bread, thrift, and exemption from
political agitation, and the Radical Propaganda
■aC Washington sends them Wilson with his
conceited harangues, which are barren a* Mie
east wind.”
Let Them Alone !—We sincerely hope here
after, says the Federal Union, that every while
man and boy will keep away from ail political
meetings of the negroes- Their presence gives
them all the importance and Interest which they
po.’ses3 among the blacks. We board several
black msn say If the white folks had not been
there they would h ive come away and the meet
ing would have broken up. These Rev black
Pompey swells from the North are small now
tots at home. They have been picked up by
the Radicals, and hired to come here and make
jnischief between the whites and blacks. It
gives them great importmco, in their own esti
mation, to be abie to insult white gentlern -a.—
To reason with them is like pouring good wiuc
into a mud hole, and their speeches arc so tl.it,
and stale, and monotonous that ta: n-grsci
will soon get tired of them. Let them, and
those among us who wish to form a black tnaa’fi
party, alone—have nothing to do with them,
and let them digest their self-importance uuoinr
themselves.
The Lyr.cbbdrg Virginian, referring to Sena
tor Wilson’s stumping tour through the South,
says “ be will probably be here in « day or two,
and we hope that he will tell the brethren what
he told as in February, 1861, while seated upon
■i sofa in the United States Senatey to-wit: that
‘if no common ground of compromise can be
found, I am in favor of a peaceable .reparation
of the sections, and against, tear order any cir
cumstances: We were tor the Union then, a*
we ever had been ; while Mr. Wilson, Afcr Gree
ley, and other blatant advocates of colored sflf
{'rage and equal rights, would have separated
from the South and left the negroes in- bond
age.”
Trouble with the Stevens Factr.N.—
The Washington correspondent of the IWt»-
more Sun, comrcet ting upon the anooun«r
naent that Mr. Keily, of Pennsy Ivania, bod goor
directly to New Orleans instead of following
Senator Wilson through the Atlantic States,
says the change of programme is owing to lb*
fact that a large majority of the journals have
come to the rescue of Senator Wilson, against*
the statements expressed in thp published card
of Thad. Steven3 looking to confiscation. It ir»
alleged that Judge-Kelly thinks as Mr. Steven/,
does, and that the difference between the latter
and Senator Wilson has created considerable
trouble in the minds ol the Radicals.
West Virginia.— New York, April do.— The
Commercial's special Washington disputed snyn
that Senator Johnson, of Maryland, wiil repre
sent Virginia on Monday next ia the
United States Supreme Court, in the suit
brought by Virginia for the recovery of Jeffere
son and Berkeley counties—a suit of the highest
importance, the legality of the present politi
cal status of Virginia being involved. If she
is not a State she cannot claim these conn tie*.
There is, says the Enquirer, another view of
the argument. If Virginia is not a State she
cannot claim these counties, we are toid. II
she is not a State, “ West Virginia” cannot
claim herself. If West Virginia is a Shite, she
is such by the consent of Virginia as a Suite.
If the latter is r.o Suite, the former has no claim
to be one.
The Hypocrite. —Here is a choice morse*
freui Wilson’s harangue:
" He alluded to the fact that Southern
threaten to turn colored men away from tkeic
employment if they do not vole as the employer
dictates and said, that if it could be proven that
.my man did so ho would vote to confiscate bin
property. If black men are prevented by such
threats from voting it wiil be good reason why
the States should not be admitted.”
How many cobblers, manufacturers, miners
and other laboring white men are thus coerced
in Massachusetts and all over New England?
First cast the elephant out of the Yankee eye
before you take a midge from the Southern
optic.
We take the following from the Petersburg
Index. We are sorry our cotemporary is sub
jected by the inevitable logic of his position, to
the necessity of contradicting natural inter
ences:
Mistaken. —The decided staud taken by su :h
influential journals as the Richmond W' and
Petersburg Index has a marked eigniff.-arec,
and though we cannot yet count them as re
publican papers, we may not unreasonably look
to see them become such when Virginia La.- a
republican party organization in successful
operation. — Boston Advertiser.
i Never, so help U3 Heaven!— lndex,