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THE WEEKLY (JOHSTTTUTIONAUSTI
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WEDNEBDAY MORNING. JUNE l'J, 1867.
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more testimony.
Many journals favoring Congressional recon
struction were very careful to avhid publishing
the recent Radical Manifesto and, if mentioned
at all, it was either slurred over or discredited,
notwithstanding its claims to be considered as
« part of the history of the times.” Their re
fusal to publish it was quite wary but not re
markably honest. A publication of that docu
ment would have opened the eyes of many de
luded disciples of Brown & Cos. and cut the
earth lrora under them. This journal was
among the very first to expose the hollow
promises and knavish artifices of the Congres
sional Committee. We kept up the fi«-e, entreat
ing all men within reach of our voice to examine
the Radical policy as euunciated by the author
ized Committee, and lead a condemnation of
Jacobinism in every paragraph. Onr zeal was
dot without fruition, but several good natured
friends and political adversaries attributed the
decision arrived at, that the Sherman Bill was
not a finality, to a partisan bias. In order that
this misconception may be dispelled, wc iuvite
attention to the popular Northern view of the
Manifesto which comes from the New York
Herald, up to that time a notorious upholder of
the Republican party. The Herald says :
“ The steps taken to secure the negro are
driving the white man into inevitable opposi
tion. It is certain that the negroes can only be
rallied on a platform upon which the white men
cannot stand. Extravagant promises have
been made by Republican orators, and if they
are not kept it is absolute certainty that the
nigger vote will be demoralized and scattered ;
if tlicv are kept, if there is any step toward
keeping them, the Republicans will scarcely
poll a.wbite vote in any Southern State. The
bad policy of the Republican party, the
headlong precipitancy of its frantic leaders,
have placed it in such a false position on the
great subject of reconstruction that its promises
to the negro are threats to the white man ; and
these threats have driven the white man hope
lessly beyond the Radical reach. A prominent
Republican in Virginia sat on a jury with five
negroes, conscious that his refusal would have
been political capital for the Democrats; *but he
is now openly repudiated by the adherents of
his dusky fellow jurors, bis republicanism
bring of too mild a type for their violent
taste. His proposal for a platform on which
whites and negroes can stand side by side
is scouted as a treason to. nigger interests.
Having thus consolidated its black vote—and
by the 6ame steps consolidated the white against
it —and finding this latter far the largest, the
next bad step of the Republican party will be
to repudiate the settlement it has already made,
insofar as it involves the white vote. It will
throw overboard the plan involved in the Mili
tary JJill, on the day when it becomes certain
that the votes given to white men under that
bill will be cast against it, and overbalance the
negro vote. “The Republican party,” says
this last programme of the Republican com
mittee, "desires the restoration of the Union
only ou such terms as shall render it impossi
ble to involve the country in sectional strife.”
.Ballot-box victories against the Radicals in
the South will indicate, therefore, a condition
that will render a restoration of the Union not
desiraWc to that party. In o dcr to have an
assurance of a millennium, says the same doc
ument, "there must be co-operation of the
races ;” and not only that, but this co-opera
tion mjist be " upon the principles wbieli pre
vail in the North, and to which the Republican
(Mongrel) party is fully committed.” The
point of which is, that if the Southern white
men do not " co-operate,” if they do ndt vote
with the negroes, they shall not vole at
all, so long as the Radicals can preveut it. It is
not enough for Southern whites to return ; but
they must return on their tfnees— they Must
come in Republicans or stay out; for at the last
raomeut, when the South hag, as it supposes,
done all that is required, aud comes to Con
gress for admission, then " Congress must be
satisfied that the people of* the proposed States
respectively are, and are likely to be, loyal to
the Union by decisive and trustworthy majori
ties.” Congress will not be so satisfied, it is
clear, unless these “ majorities ” are for Radi
cal power. And what must be the»re«ult ol a’l
this y Radical extremists have hounded the
niggers to their side of the line and driven the
whites to the other. And now comes a parly
intimation that if the whites persist in their re
fusal to bow down there shall be a new’ upturn
ing—all that has been done shall be undone;
what has been setlled.ahall be unsettled ; the
whites shall be disfranchised, at least, and, if
necessary, their property shall be hauded over
to the niggers. Republicanism (Mongrelisro)
must remain dominant at any cost. .The result
of such a policy and such an intimation must
be to stimulate, to intensity, to hasten an in
evitable re action over the whole North —to
give* purpose and vitality to that risipg senti
ment ot the American people that already
weighs the necessity of repudiating these reck
less, ruinous leaders, who would sacrifice •
every interest ot the country, every aspiratiou
of live people, every principle of right and jus
tice before the Moloch of party.
Verily, these are weighty words, aud afford
abundant testimony to all concerned that those
who counsel reconstruction under the Shkr
man bill are making cruel experiments upon a
people already nauseated and cowed by profit
less concessions. Job Bbown let the cat out
of the bag, when he signified that he and his
party proposed to ignore principle now, in
older to become-men of principle hereafter.
The science of salvation i» not truly learned in
ibis way. Those who hope to reach heaven by
»■ short cut through Tartarua will find that Tarta
rus is the end of their journey'and not the relay
house promised' by a tricky conscience. Re
member we are asked by the Brownitbs to
become political suicides. The Memphis Ap
peal stated the case in a way that all men can
understand when it said, “ You of the- South
have no right to give away any part of your
heritage' of freedom. You hold it in tryst for
the coming generations. You mil still have the
right of reclamation of that whereof yon may
he robbed. What you give away is gone from
you forever
Do uot t>e driven away from a staunch snp-
port of honor and principle because you cou
ceivc yourself in a hopeless minority. Reports
have gone abroad that the people of Georgia
arc sick and tired of their present condition,
amhoverwhelmingly In feror of the Congress
ional plan. This allegation is purely hypotheti
cal aud not sustained by concurrent advices
from the State at large. We may be in a m --
nority bat not a hopeless, one*; nay,* accessions
to our ranks are constantly arriving. “Quon
dam," the New York Times' correspondent,
speaking of tbe towns he has visited in Geor
gia, Rays:
“ It has been my fate that a large majority of
those I met agree wall Gov. Perry, and a very
few think a convention is 4 thc.ouly safe thing
to bo done.’ Both in Columbus «ud here (L-i
--erm-eUftc tide Beera3 e,r «Higly 6et n £ a!ns ‘
convention, and this has b onw more s«U «and
since the publication of the address attrinuun,
* > Mr Bout well, ol Massachusetts, in which it
is declared to be a tine qua non lor ££}*!•!.
*to elect Radicals to Congress and the “
lure so as to insure the continuance of Radical
power.”
He goes on to say that he still adheres to the
conviction that a majority wiU be found on the
side of Congressional reconstruction, but can
qot avoid the acknowledgment that the op
position is tremendous and full of successful
poislbimies. Aud with a grim smile he con
cludes with this doxology : "Horace Greeley
is a thousand times more popular than Joe
THE WAGGERIES AND VAGARIES OF
JOSEPHUS BROWN.
Poor Job, whose silence promised to he
eternal, has broken out afresh, and, full of the
laurels won at Milledgeville, has given the deni
zens of that town a taste of his quality. His
speech at what is satirically ca’led the seat of
Government, was but the rinsings of an old
teapot i or, to speak more correctly, only the
scraps and junketings of his Augusta rubbish.
Occasionally he jerked out of the old rut and
managed to say something, apparently uovd
and entertaining. Among these choice literary
morocaux we find the following declaration
which struck us as a dainty tit-bit worthy of
the great Titmouse himself. Hear him:
" When wc are re-admitted into the Union as
a State , I expect to advocate an affliliation with
’"hatever progressive national party shows the
greatest inclination to stand by principle and
deal justly by us, with the most power to a»d
in restoring prosperty to the South and to the
whole country.”
Since Joseph has expectations based upon
the contingencies of State sovereignty, he
evidently expects to survive beyond the third
generation yet to come. But grauting the
possibility of realizing in a few years what may
take a century to accomplish, it is decidedly re
freshing to know that his present course is
merely hypocritical, and " when we are read
mitted into the Union as a State,” he will cut
all his Radical associations and “ advocate the
party that stands by principle.” He evidently
thinks it no harm to do evil that good may
come, and like all sly sinners revels in present
iniquity, hoping to cheat the devil by an old
fashioned death-bed repentance. Mr. Brown’s
postponement of a return to virtue unto the
indefinite era of reconstruction, is almost ex
quisite in its humor, if the end could only
j ustify the ludicrous promise of the pending
time. Betting your head with Satan is perilous
amusement, and Mr. Brown’s wager is apt to
share the fate of that cruel ladye Eleanora
Von AlleyNe, who, sporting with fate, was by
fate betrayed; for
“ Wo! her end was tragic,
Fhe was changed, if by magic
To an ugly wooden image they maintain—
Fickle Ladye Eleanora,
Brown-eyd ladye Elenora Von Alleyne.”
Having made a luminous exposition of the
policy of playing Yankee tricks upon the blue
bellied necromancers, we learn from corres
pondence of the Griffin Star that “ the cx-Gov
ernor went up to General Sanforcr, and offered
to shake hands with him. The General refused
to accept the immaculate member, saying,
‘ Governor Brown, I cannot take the hand of a
man who is a traitor to his country.’ Where
upon, as rumor hag it, a platoon of colored
geutry took the ex-Govcrnor over to the hotel,
and crowned his classic brow with a wreath of
‘collards’ —partly as an offset to the late indig
nity putupon him, and partly in commemora
tion of the fast that he ‘ saved the seed ’ of that
inestimable succulent when Sherman approach
ed the Capital.”
ThiS'Milledgevile oration was intended, no
doubt, as a balm to the weary who had been
rather disgruntled by Wilson aud Kelley. As
such, it probably proved weak and watery. It
must have caused his late admirers as much
disappointment as Kelley’s Atlanta harangue
did the virtuous freedmen of that fishy burgh.
Many persons have wondered at Kelley’s sin
gular address and deemed it beyond the power
of explanation. The whole secret, however,
has been divulged by one of the faithful who
writes to the Louisville Courier. He says:.
Governor Brown met him at the depot and
told him, for God’s sake and his (Brown’s) sake
to be moderate; that Wilson had nearly ruined
the party, and had done more harm than he
could repair in six months. And this was true,
because, before these “ missionaries ” came
aloug, the Brown parly outnumbered us four
to one, and now they are in a hopeless minor
ity. Kelly, too, had no doubt a wholesome re
coil ectio'. of Mobile, aud instead of talking
about the fifteenth infantry, he addressed him
self to minerology, conehology, astrology and
Pennsyvauia rye, oats and barley.
We wish, for his sake, that he stood alone
amid those who rejoice in the title of cx-Gov
eruor or Governor; but l\e has a match in
Gov. Patton, of Alabama. This man of Ala
bama was invited to join the recent mongrel
"convention at Montgomery'. The Mail tells the
sequel thus:
Wc will prove, by two hundred persons pres
ent, that Mr. Chairman Sykes shook hands with
the Governor, and expressed the hope that
Gov. Patton would be with them heart and
sonL To wb'»ch the Governor, after backing
and filling, and running on several tacks for a
few moments, concladcd by the following re
ply : “ It may be possible that my official duties
may need my presence elsewhere, for much of
the time daring which vonr convention will be
in session, but I beg you to believe that 1 am
with you heartily .”
We adduce this illustration to show that
Southern Radicalism runs ia the same groove
of sycophancy and timidity. These men
are afraid to come out fairly and squarely; but
they 6bow enough ot tbe cloven foot tp prove
their tribe and sentiments. Those who require
explanation ot Gov. Brown’s course and deem
It mysterious, are respectfully referred to his
past history as proof that K would have been
mysterious indeed had he proved true to anyth
ing. The occult nature of Brown is cleverly pa
rodied by the anecdote of an Irish Priest who,
wishing to explain the nature of a miracle to a
skeptical parishioner, gave the wretch a tre
mendous kick. Did it hurt ye?” asked the
reverend father. “Hurt?" exclaimed the vic
tim, tenderly solacing the aggrieved region with
his hand. “Well, then, said the clergyman
complaceuliy, “ it would have been a mtrade if
it hadn't hurt ye!”
* Representation of Minorities.- -The New
York World, advocatiug tbe policy of protecting
minorities, says the “ scheme is not anew one,
it was first broached in England by Mr. Thomas
Hare.”
Miss Leslie’s Cookery Book has an answer
ready for the World. In an article on the culia
ary preparation of rabbits, she commences:
“ First catch your hare."
CONCILIATION. !
The Hon. Wm. Bewahi), Secretary of State,}
is very much of an oddity. He has precious
little warm blood iu his veius and his nature |
partakes of the fish-fishy in point of animated j
geliduess. Having so cold a-heaft or cold a>
stomach—for philosophers are divided as to j
the location of the aflectious—it is not to be j
marveled at that he should be lacking in the j
common attributes of diplomatic sincerity. !
Two notable examples will suffice to demon
strate this proposition.
.Immediately after the war, Commander
John R. Tucker, of the late C. 8. Navy,
whose character in the service of the Union
and the servips of the South stood without**.
and without reproach, accepted au appoint
ment from the Peruvian Government as Admi
ral of the Fleet. It happened that Admiral
DAHUGRBN-father of that impetuous but ill
starred young Colonel who essayed to kill Mr.
Davis, burn Richmond aud make the torch and
sword’supreme in the Southern citadel-it hap
pened, we say, ibat Admiral Dahlqren, being
on a cruise iu Peruvian waters, was
obliged to have official communication with
Admiral John ft. Tucker. The. doughty
and superfine Dahlgrkn peremptorily refused
to rccouguize Admiral Tucker, who bad dared
to fight for bis State against the old flag. Asa
matter of course, this excessive strain upon Ins
professional ethics brought him in conflict with
the Peruvian authorities, whose flag he had re
fused to salute, and became a matter of corres
pondence with Mr. Seward. The Premier, as
the Northern people call Mr. Seward, in
structed the Admiral to pay respect to the
Peruvian ensign, but applauded his insult to
Tucker,’ and "hoped that his views would long
continue to animate the entire naval service.”
He lauds " the proper and patriotic determina
tion of Admiral Dahlqren and the officers
under his command to decline personal aud
individual intercourse not involving.interna
tional rights and duties, with rebels and traitors
against the United States, whersoever and
under whatever circumstances they may be
found.”
What folly after this invocation of bitterness
in hi»h quarters to'prate of conciliation, oblivion
of past differences and general conciliation.
The “ rebels and traitors” will not probably
care a great deal for the absence of social cour
tesy on the part of the DAHLGRHNsand others of
the same dainty perceptives; but when the
Secretary of State, fresh from this official
counsel of strile, appears before the people of
North Carolina, as he recently did, with blaud
and persuasive speeches about concord and har
mony, plain people are apt to question his mo
tives and doubt his candor. This, we presume,
is one of the “New England influences” so
edifyingly thrust upon us tor imitation and a
case of double-dealing which may have been
consecrated in Yankee land but hardly ready
for sanctification and approval beyond that
delectable and moral region. Really, the pro
gress of reconstruction receives anew impetus
from such apostles, and he who believes in
the Seward method—now you see it and now
you don’t—can afford to credit Congress with
finalities and justly anticipate high honors
in that party which Gov. Brown proposes to
discard when he finds principle a better invest
ment.
AN OLD SLANDER REVAMPED.
Under New England influences the paugs of
Anderson ville are" absolutely impossible. In
the region where they occurred they were mere
ly natural. — Harper's Weekly.
Since the murder of Captain Wirz and the
revelations of his advocate, Mr. Schade ; since
the official report of casualties at Andersou
ville and those at Poibl Lookout, Fort Delaware,
Johnsou’s Islaud, Camp Chase, Elmira and
elsewhere, the public will no longer be deceived
by the lrenzied slogans of a dying fanaticism.
The South can staud the ghosts of Anderson
ville, if the North can endure those of her
many prison houses. It has been proven that
Federal cruelty killed more Confederate cap
tives than. Confederate poverty and distress,
caused by Yankee vandals, killed Yankee pris
oners. "And yet, the North was full of New
England morality, full of medicines, full of
every comfort known to man in ransacking the
uuiversc. The South petitioned for medicines
to cure the Federal soldiers, the petition was
denied, medicine was made a contraband of
war and a rigid blockade by land and water
rendered its procuration almost impossible.
The South implored the North lo exchange
prisoners, but. having violated the cartel o\ct
and over again, the New England idea,
as interpreted by the virtuous Butler, con
cluded that the life of a foreign mercenary was
of verv little account aud his rotting in piison
an excellent offset to the loss of a Confederate
soldier whose death would make a gap in hearts
and ranks which never could be filled.
That shriek about Andersonvillc is a failure
now, however potent and all-pervading once.
We beg, for troth’s sake, to change the struc
ture of Harper’s sentence. It should read
thus : “ Under New England influences the
pangs of Andersonville were quadrupled-;
under untrammeled Southern influences, they
would have been impossible. Under New
England influences the pangs of Point Lookout,
Elmira, Camp Chase,
Fort Delaware, were absolutely possible and
hideously real beyond the pangs ot Anderson
ville.” Impartial history will set that page
right and, if men tormented in this world assail
their rulers in. the next, we would take
Jefferson Davis’ chances in the spiritual
world when confronted with all the spectres of
tbe Georgia prison pen, a thousand times rather
than the chances of Edwin M. Stanton, Abra
ham Lincoln and Benjamin Butler when
brought face to face with the spectral hosts of
either army. New England influences are not
destined to immortality. They flourish now,
but another century will see them dishonored.
Even though they should plague the earth till
judgment day, they will not impose upon the
Omnipotent, although thpir scribes and phari
sees affect to believe that heaven itself would
fall without their active co-operation.
#
A Sample of Radical Holiness. — The
Radicals, says the National Intelligencer , have
no little to say about the moral education of
the negro race. What kiud of a moral educa
tion is that which teaches the negro to perp -
Irate frauds upon the ballot box ? No houest
Radical will deny that the greatest frauds were
committed in the registration and on election
day. They were conceived and engineered by
men who claim to have the good of tbe color
ed people at heart; but they had no hesitation
in inducing the colored mantes mark his ac
cession to suffrage by as gross frauds as ever
disgraced an election in tfeis country.
A NEW KIND OF MASONRY.
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When Mr. Blodgett introduced His friend
Bryant (o “ (he people of Augusta,” it was
i suggested that lie did so because hejcould uot.
| help himself. The* inference drawu from
■ remat k was that a kind of Holy Vehm existed
| iu Georgia uuder the modern title oi Loyal
j League, provision of which organization
j compelled members to help one another at com*
mand. This surmise gathers strength and
I significance from day to day. Au instance iu
point may illuminate the matter. The military
Mayor of Mobile having refused, from a scarcity
of money, to take the Radical organ of Ala
bama, published at Montgomery, by one John
of the Confederate * Nitre anff
Mining Bureau ; and further, having declined
to support " Judge ” Bustbed, from a scarcity
of love, the aforesaid Hardy puts the screws
to him thus:
u The course of Judge Bustecd of late has
been such as td disgust all loyal men in tbs
community-”— Gustavus Horton, Mayor of
Mobile. , , ..
* oce week. to dny, wc risked our olil
friend. Mayor Horton, for the facts aueuiPug
the conduct of Judge Bustecd, that was si dis
gusting to the loyal men of Mobile, but as yet-.
Mayor Horton has Jailed to respond. -
W(*now DEMAND of Gustavus Horton the
specific acts which he alleges as having been
disgusting. Mr, Horton MUST respond.
These extracts are printed as found, and uot
made emphatically imperative.to suit the ease.
They smell all over of Hojy Vehm, and proba
bly can furnish an explanation of the mystic
ties of the busy B’s, ,
THE MILITARY APPOINTEES.
/According to the telegraph news thiß morn
ing. the constitutional advisers of the Presi
dent have decided, in a formal meeting of the
Cabinet—the Attorney General concurring—
that the Major Generals commanding the five
military districts have no authority, under the
Shbrman-Shellabarger bill, to remove civil
officers ; and it is implied that an order will be
issued reinstating those who have been thus
arbitrarily and tyrannously deposed. Such an
order, in justice to the United States Govern
ment, and as a matter of right to the people of
these military districts, should be issued forth
with. It should be concise and peremptory; for
while our people are compelled by the
gleaming sword and bristliug bayonet to obey
this unjust and unconstitutional law, those
who are sent here to enforce it should like
wise be compelled to observe it to the very
letter. When such an order is issued, they
who have been, so eager to accept office from
these miltary satraps, regardless of law or the
wishes of the people over whom they were
placed, may | find, to their grief, that a little
brief authority is a dangerous thing. Those
who may have been wronged by the acts of
these nondescripts—these civil officers with.a
military commission—can seek redress from
the courts of the country; for Chief Justice
Chase declares that the District Courts of the
United States, in these so-called rebellious
States, are now untrammelled by the military,
and cases can be heard and decisions made, un
awed by the bayonet.
A SINGULAR DELUSION.
The Atlanta Intelligencer alluding to the elci*
lion farce at Washington says :
“And this occurred at the Nation’s Capital,
within sight of the Washington Monument,
around the Presidential Mansion, and in view
of the congressional capitol! Well may we ap
prehend that similar frauds willattend the forth
coming elections iu the South. Upon the mili
tary we must look for protection and defense.
If our respected contemporary looks for
military protection against election frauds in
Georgia, he is destiued to go with gaz
ing. The military wiU either not interfere at
all or their interference w ill not iusure adequate
protection to the whites. The imperial gov
ernors are placed here by Congress to help
Congress. The people of Louisiana have ha<’
military protection from Gen. Bheridan with
a vengeance. They seem to have progressed
more favorably wfth civil interpretations aud
mandates. It may be futile to expect much
from that branch of (he Government, but it is
more diguified to look to it than look to the
military appointed by a Radical Congress to do
its work. What is the work demanded ? “De
cisive and trustworthy majorities.”
THE NATIONAL PRIZE FIGHT.
In conjunction with Mr. Stanbery’s decision
regarding the removal of civil officers by
military authority,wc have an interesting record
of the pugilistic contest between Collyer and
Aaron. There is a correspondence in all
things. If the South had lasted a little longer,
the North would have thrown up the sponge
and fainted. The learned Stanbery seems to
decide that although the decapitated officers
may be reinstated neither General Shbridan
nor any other man is j.o blame. Let us imagiuc
the North to be Aaron and the South Collyer.
Granted that Aaron whip the fight; it takes no
prophet to predict that the Victor will be laid
alongside the vanquished with broken ribs.
As times go, the country is divided upon two
great questions—the late prize fight and the
coming reconstruction.
MISTAKEN.
The Nashville Union and Dispatch , speaking
of General Pope’s letter to Governor Jenkins,
says:
“This threat had the effect intended. The
people and the press were thoroughly intimi
dated. No voice was raised in all the State ot
Georgia for weeks again-1 reconstructing the
State under the military law.” •
Oar Tennessee brother labors nnder a huge
mistake. Several papers and many people were
not intimidated and never ceased raising their
voices against the Sherman-Shellababger
Bill, and the sentiment to-day is, despite of re
ports to the contrary, in formidable antagonism
to the contemplated suicide.
A New Way to Pay Old Debts.—The New
York Herald has more than squinted at repudi
ation since the release of Jefferson Davis.
The celebrated aphorism of Jay Cooks that
a “ national debt is a national blessing,” has
been completely overwhelmed by another apho
rism equally as terse and suggestive. Besnbtt
says : “If there be no treason, the War was all
wrong, and the national debt is a national
swindle.’’.
Inasmuch as Harper's Weekly and other
Radical papers begin to prate of remitting that
debt; and inasmuch as very few men own the
bonds, and very many others have to pay them
tribnte, it looks rather squally for the bondmen
at home and abroad. The camel ia beginning
to kick.
Gen-Longstreet.— Tills distinguished geu
tlemau has made another appearance ill print*, |
siuging the same old gruesome song of 44 O, |
Miss Bailey ! O, uulortuuatc Miss Bailey !”
The Geueral sticks to it that siucc the war i
was made upon Republican (*. e. Radical) prin- j
ciples, therefore it should be settled by'thcj
same principles. His own words and italics
read thus : 1
u /am well satisfied that order cannot be or- |
ganized out of confusion as long as the conflict
ing interests of two parties arc to, be subserved.
The war was made upon Republican issues, and
it seems to me fair anti just that the settlement
should be made accordingly .”
As the war was not made upon Republican
i. e. Radical issues, but in direct contravention
CT tfitm, *** nor fair that the settle
ment should be made as Gen. Longstreet de
sires. The Resolution ot Congress in ISfil, de
claring that the war was undertaken for the
maintenance of the Constitution and the resto
ration of the Union, explicitly iguored the fa
natical theories of the domiuant usurpers.
This emphatic declaration ofGen-LoNG
stueet’s creed seems to give authoritfrer the
assertion, now generally bruited abroad, that
he has uot only joined the Radical party but
actually aspires to lead it in Louisiana. We
kuew that it was a long street that had no turn
ing, but really Hie turniug of this Longstreet
was very abrupt.
We wish him joy of forming a single party
to rule the country and ruin Us destinies. It is
a nice game but an impossible one. We agree
with the Montgomery Majl that "no -thinking
nation can exist with a single party. It may
exist in Turkey in fear ot the bastinado, or iu
Russia in fear of the knout, or in the United
States in fear of Military Satraps—but not in a
free, enlightened country, where ambitious im
pulses aud great defeds spring out from the
contact of opposing intellects —like scintilla
tions from flint and steel.”
Ouida —Many o‘ftHu: readers have gone into
ecstacies over “ Strathmdre " Chandos aud
other stunning and high-pressure novels claim
ed under the pseudonym of " Ouida.” Mr.
Evelyn, of the New Orleans Bee , clears up the
mystery of authorship by stating that the
popular works above mentioned were written
by Miss Db la Rame. This critic says:
“In portraying the passions Ouida has scarce
ly an equal. Her books are decidedly sensa
tional, but for all that they are good, aud des
pite the seeming immorality of some chapters
all contain a fair moral. "Granville de Vigne”
is, we think, the best of her works; the best,
because more probable aud less sensational.
For a long time the authorship of these power
ful works was a secret, and every one supposed
that Ouida was a man. The somewhat "horsey,
bold style and freedom of expression led peo
ple to suppose that some thorough man-of-the
world was the writer; but the bitter attacks
upon women, (women are always hard upon
their own sex,) and the nice descriptions of
feminine graces, wiles and toilets argued iu
favor of a female writer. At length it came out
that Ouida was Miss De la Rame, a young lady
residing in London, and by no moans as fast as
one .would suppose from reading her works.—
On the grouud of morality, 6ome of Ouida’s
books have been severely censured, but it must
be confessed that the lessons taught aud the
morals drawn arc alliu favor of morality, virtue
and good society.”
Gold.— Tbe New York Times , commenting
upon’this fact, says: Gold ha? been remarkably
steady of late. The extreme points iu the fluc
tuations since the Ist of May have only covered
a distance ot two per cent. There have been
weeks in which speculators have had to be sat
isfied with fluctuations of one per cent.; and
there have been many days in which a quarter
or an eighth of one per cent, has been counted
a good thing one way or the other. The gold
room has been very dull and stupid, aud it
seems at times as if things were about to dry
up. Nobody can form an idea as to what will
affect prices during the summer; and a very
small affair, such as a business failure, or a Bis
marekian growl, affords occasion for a very
large noise. Secretary McCulloch keeps along
iu his established policy of selling a little gold
now and then through the sub-treasury; but
there is no reason to believe he ever imagined
that he could put it down very far, or. keep it
down very long, by any movements lie might
make. Wc suppose that the prospect of the
grain crop and the cotton crop will, in the ab
sence of anything more startling, be tbe princi
pal cause ot any such slight variations in gold
as may be looked lor during tbe summer. The
steadiness in the gold market during the last
forty days furnishes a remarkable contrast to
the violent fluctuations that took *plaec during
the same period last year.
Female Suffrage.— As universal suffrage
is rampant in this country wc fully expect to
sec the lovers of “ Equal Rights ” gruut the
inestimable privilege of the ballot to every class
and condition before their own white sister
hood receive enfranchisement. Bome papers
go 60 far as to predict that the next movement
will be to admit foreigners to vote without
waiting to become eitizeus —and after that we
shall have an attempt to extend the suffrage to
minors.
The reasons for this belief are comprehended
in partisan interests; the raw foreigner and
babes and sucklings being considered better
party material than the gentler sex. The World
gives out that the New England strong-minded
women arc aware of the danger and “ one rea
son for pressing female suffrage at present is
the fear entertained by Lucy Btoue, E. Cady
Stanton, and other leaders in the movement,
that when negroes are enfranchised their vote
will be cast as a unit against women suffrage.
Lucy Stone says that in her late mission in
Kansas she found negroes everywhere opposed
to female suffrage. The negroes in this State
are also opposed to women’s voting. They
desire the privilege themselves, but they arc
opposed to its extension to intelligent white
women.”
STAY Law.— The Atlanta Intelligencer pub
; lishes the decision recently made by the pre
siding Judge of this judicial district—the Hdu.
Hiram Warner—at Troupe Superior Court, in
. the case of “ Joucs, Executor of Newsom, vs.
Heard,” in which decison the Stay Law, so
called, is pronounced unconstitutional, null
and void.
The Intelligencer adds: “The question, how
ever, of the constitutionality of the “ Stay
Law,” we learn,- is yet before the Supreme
Court of the State for its decision, and it is
probable, notwithstanding the decision of
Judge Warner, that, even in this jud-cial dis
trict, no attempt will be made, by sheri s or
their deputies, lo make sales of property unti
that judicial tribunal shall determiue the ques
tion, and not then, of course, should it deter
mine tbe law to be constitutional.
Ritualism in England. —The quarrels
about ritualism in England are becoming even
more open and hitter than evrr.il possible.
The last and most impormnt Outbreak reported
is that which occnrrcd at the triennial visita
tion of the Bishop of Salisbury ut Bridpcn.
There was a large attendance of clergy and
church wardens, and matters went on quietly
•enough until the Bishop came to speak of ab
solution. He then remarked sigutfieantii that
the time for being outspoken bad arrived, and
thereupon the rector of Burtou Bradstoek,
takmg the alarm at once, stepped tiopi his scat
into the aisle, and, interrupting the Bishop,
called upon 14 those that were on the Lord a
4 aide’ to follow him.” He immediately rirodc
Out of tiic church, followed by one church war
den. The Bishop was somewhat disconcerted
at first, but remarking that it was a court and
the clergy were bouud to attend it, even if theii
consciences did pot agree to a.l they heard, he
proceeded with the reading ot his charge. He
omitted what he said would occupy several
hours in the reading, but before be bad con
cluded, every church warden had left the
church, aud even the clergy were uncivil
enough to show signs of weariness. Iu the
afternoon the church wardens held a meeting,
and thirty-four of them signed an address to
the Bishop, expressing the highest opinion of
him personally, bul repudiating ritualism in all
its forms, aud declaring all innovations danger
ons. It does uot appear what will be the re
sult of this quarrel in the diocese.
The Indian Campaign.—' The cavalry em
ployed by Gen. Custer have made a brilliant
record, three hundred men with their horses
aud outfits having deserted within one month.
The New York Times tartly says:
"If one cavalryman iu every five deserts in
one month’s campaign, easy arithmetic will
show her many months it will require to dispose
of the whole column. We arc rather ahead of
the Sioux and Cheyennes in the amount to
lodges, horn-saddles, whetstones, frying-pans,
wooden spoons and door-mats (of which latter
we lately burned 251 in an ludiau village) de
stroyed thus far in the campaign ; but when it
comes to the list of casualties, our ki’led,
wounded and missing will be about 300 more
than theirs.” ' .
It may prove us interest to onr negro popula
tion to know that their devoted friends V\ Ain
and Wilson propose to solve the vexed Indian
question by pitting them against the savages.
It is argued that the negro will stick to his hor»c
and gun better than the white regular and, in
any event, it would only be a neat way of illus
trating the Kilkenny eat affair by "letting the
two races play out the game of rouge et non."
Loyal Bribery.-Tlic great problem at tho
North is to put some check, if not an absolute
stoppage, upon legislative bribery. The State
that rejoices in having spawned a Cameron
aud a SteVens takes the lead in this question
of moral forces. The argument on one side is,
that the bribing of a multitude of members
would cost too much to be profitable. On the
other hand, it is argued that by the rule ®f pro
portion, five hundred members would contain
five times as much purchascablc material as
one hundred, and that the rate of sale per mem
ber would always be such as to meet the mar
ket.
The problem is apt’.to prove a pons asinonm
If the people arc not honest enough to elect
men incapable of bribery, it is foolish to ex pi 1 1
a reformation. Either the breed of honorable
statesmen has died out iu some localities, 01
the voting classes are reduced to a besotted po
litical serfdom. We trust the wise men of
Pennsylvania may come to a bright solution of
their disgraceful puzzle.
A Clear Case of Humbug.—The Rev. Bb
reno Howe, in bis last speech In the Massa
chusetts Legislature, said:
The vocation of the State Coustablc is one of
the most reputable in the Slate. 1, for on.
co tsider it by no means derogatory, but an
honorable duty; and they should esteem it a
privilege, uot only to break up rum shops, but
tofeiretout crimes of all other kinds As for
ray part Mr..Speaker, I had as bes hive a
State Constable* visit my house or my rooms as
any other person. They are onlyatciroi
evil-doers.
Was ever man so swiftly and fearfully con
demned out of his own mouth? A few days
after the delivery of this pious haraugue, he
was exposed before the public as a scaudubzer
of youth—the most besotted hypocrite that
ever escaped without tbe millstone and the
sea. The State Constable came, a3 per in
tation, but did not experience the promised
hospitalities of his Reverend eulogist. The
“ terror of evil-doers ” knocked at the door o
Sereno ; he knocked, and knocked, and knock
ed, but none replied.
The Ax-Grinders.— The Louisville Courier ,
speaking of party distinctions iu tbe South
thus delivers itself:
“ There are portions of the people who have
axes to grind, who arc iu favor of prompt and
unqualified submission, and are eager to ex
hibit their activity to the Jacobins, woik
of self-abasement, hoping thus to become con
spicuous aud commend themselves to the op
pressors of their people, with the view of he
coming the recipients of the official plunder to
be distributed iu the South when the iniquity
of reconstruction shall have been consummate I.
“ These men are demagogues-and knaves, of
whom Joe Brown, of Georgia, is a fair sample.
The dishonor of themselves or oi their Stats
has no terrors for their sordid minds. Belf
aggrandlscment is the object at which they aim,
and they trample ruthlessly upon everything
lying in the path which leads to the accomplish
ment of their schemes.”
Gbn. Neal Dow.—The London Spectator,
speaking of the'Guildhall meeting in favor of
the Maine Liquor Law, says that Neal Dow
“ made a speech of the ordinary kind,” which
is quite natural, and that “it was stated at the
meeting that £40,000 had been collected to agi
tate for a Maine Liquor Law ra Great Britain.”
Commenting upon this, the World says Dow
is prepared to “agitate” anything, from the
Maiue Law to a nursery, hut he is hardly the
man to handle £40,000 of other people’s money.
The Female Shoddyits.—The Baltimore
•Gazette's Paris correspondence says : “A well.
authenticated story is in circulation here of a
gen nine spccimeu of au Americau female shod
dyite, who recently at an audience of the Pope
at Rome, to the surprise of every one present,
! stepped forward upon the entrance ot His
i Holiness, and with the peculiar nasal twang
of the New England Btales, thus spoke : • How
d’ve do, Pope Pius Ninth ? I waut to intro
duce you to my darUr Jane.’ His Holiuessap
peared to take the affair very good naturediy
and to appreciate the joke, while the Federal
Americans present were quite overwhelmed
with teeliogs of mortification and disgust.
To others the scene was one of Intense amuse
ment.”