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the WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST
WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 15, 1868
BLODGETT'S MANIFESTO.
We learn that, while recounting the Iliad
of his woes before the Congressional Com
mittee, Blodgett, unable to control his
emotions, wept tYeely. Our informant does
not state that he fell into the arms of But
ler or spilled his tears upon Thad Ste
vens’ wig, but there seems little doubt as
to the briny deluge, if not the pathetic tab
lean. With what dramatic touches, with
what honest indignation, with what ago
nizing supplication, must he have dwelt
upon his martyrdom in Georgia, all for the
sake of principle and at hazards to person
and pocket without number. We will not
follow him through the harrowing cata
logue. Lamartine, in his charming con
fessions, concludes with a sentimental cry ;
it is enough that Blodgett is even report
ed to have wept.
All this may be only a joke of the Ku-
Klux; but though the lachrymal fount of
Blodgett be as dry as his patriotic soul is
perspiratory, the Ku-Klux cannot be held
accountable for a certain sandy and unsta
ble Address which we find in the mongrel
prints.
This “Address” treats ot Relief in a
rather gingerly manner. The “prevailing
sentiment amongst Congressmen ” is given,
and amounts to a quasi indifference, as far.
as they are concerned, whether the Consti
tution of Georgia embodies a homestead
clause or not. These Congressmen very
kindly leave the adjudication to the State
courts. Blodgett blandly insinuates that
a ratification of the Constitution and the
election of truly loyal men, after his model,
will be necessary adjuncts for the salvation
of Relief. Nothing whatever is hinted con
cerning the operations of the Bankrupt Act
as militating against tiie smooth egineering
of Mr. Bollock’s oleaginous measure to
trap the Georgia gulls. Os course, this
was not to be expected, and we are rather
editied by the modesty of the “ prevailing j
opinions ” of Messrs. Blodgett and Pai:- .
ROTT.
The great aim is to get trooly toil men ;
into office. That object accomplished, re
lief and homesteads may go to Old Scratch, j
as far as the mongrel party leaders are con- J
cerned. The glittering prize they toil for
is the State Road. When they shall have
lined their pockets, -with that institution
for a cornucopia, it can be very easily re
duced to the condition of some of Mr. Bul
lock’s various corporations and sold out to
Yankee speculators. Joe Brown must
have suspected something of this when he |
predicted the bankruptcy of Georgia under
carpet-bag domination.
It will be frightful news to those who
labor under disabilities to learn that Con
gressmen “ seem to be somewhat cautious
about relieving persons in Rebel States.”
Nay, we did not need this melancholy tale
from Blodgett, since a recent debate in
the House of Representatives proved very
conclusively the contempt the Radicals in
Congress have for such subservient tools as
Brown and the Georgia renegades. Blod
gett gives the “prevailing opinion” thus:
“ We are induced to believe that very few, if
any, will be finally relieved until our election is
over, and it is known how the election has
gone, and how those desiring and needing re
lief have stood in the contest.”
There, men of Georgia, you have a frank
intimation of the manner by which your
political disenthralment is to be brought
about. You must go to the same wallow
that Brown & Co. have gone; you must
acknowledge the Radical party and its
Negro Leagues to be just and pure; you
must deny your past and trample upon your
dead; you must quaff a libation to Blod
gett and recognize in him the perfection of
the divinity revealed in human nature.
After you shall have done these things, and
suffered those humiliations, you may re
ceive a pardon from Spoons Butler and j
the murderer of Mrs. Surratt. It is not
sure that you will be washed, even then, in
the Devil’s baptismal pool: even Blodgett
puts you off with a vagu* promise. You
have been bamboozled before; take care,
ye be not made fools of again,
After this small drop of comfort rolled
up in a very big bribe, Blodgett compares
Gordon and Bullock, much to the disad
vantage of the former. To the Radical
party General Gordon is a perpetual re
minder of their shame, and the renegades
hate him, for the same reason that the
Athenian rabble hated Aristides. For a
similar reason they are eager to worship
the semblance of a Golden Calf.
Ashe glides to the end of his “ Address,”
and remembers that nine-tenths of the ,
white people of Georgia repudiate him and
his loyalty, the narrative becomes eloquent,
and this mighty burst leaps from the breast
of one who wept, or might, or should have
wept before the Congressional Committee :
“ TUiukof it, Union teen I Think of it, you
who have teen called subnii-t-ionists, tories,
and soap-tail’s in the past, ji»t because you
would not admit that .-ecc.-sion was the only
sovereign rem< dy for all evils.”
There—there, the murder is out! The
secret wrath of a trooiy loil Southern man
Is brought to light. To be called a “ sub
missionist awl a “ tory” is endurable, but
to bear the ignominy of a soar-tail is de
manding compound interest of flesh ttnd
blood. Bullock and Soap-Tail 1 That
will do for the Radical slogan.
Just in Time.—The rain and hail storm
of Monday came just in the nick of time
for the South Carolina election. Voting
will probably be continued during the
month of May, in consequence of fresh
ets, etc.
The Affable Bullock.—The admirers
of Bullock dwell in raptures upon his
smile. Richard the Third was famous for
the same thing. Alas! a man may smile,
and smile, and smile, and be a—Bullock.
MICHIGAN AND GEOBGIA.
It is a matter of astonishment to some
persons that the Northern people are so
much enamored of negro rule in the South,
and yet, when the few negroes resident in
their midst apply for suffrage, the applica
tion is not only trampled to the earth with
a special and blasting fury, but when at
tached to some measure really desirable,
the benefit is suffered to depart rather than
remain with the scent of the negro upon
it. The latest case is that of Michigan.
The new constitution was acceptable to
the people In almost every particular; it
had some substantial reforms and local ad
vantages not included in the old instru
ment ; but the clause endorsing negro suf
frage more than counterbalanced the w is
dom of all other clauses, and, sooner than
accept this solitary provision, the people
rose up and defeated the whole con
cern. There was much expense en
tailed in framing this constitution, but
much as these Michigan men loved money
they hated negroes more, and plainly inti
mated that, however they chose to thrust
the Ethiop down other people’s throats, he
should not approach them within smelling
distance. Is this a copperhead State that
thus grinds the negro to powder ? Nay, it
is the State of Michigan, with a Radical
majority of 30,000 ; it is the home of Sena
tors Chandler and Howard, than whom
no more vociferous negro-worshippers exist.
Insignificant as the black element is, and
almost lost in the vast white majority,
Michigan follows in the wake ot Ohio, ami
every other State in the East and M est—
-1 Michigan, blackest of Black Republican
i States, seizes the small body of negroes in
her midst and crushes out every remnant
lof political life. While hypocritically
I spurning them at home, she complacently
| forces them upon the South. Hie mean
ing of this is plain. The North is
tired and sick of the comparatively few
negroes she supports. M heieioie, she makes
that section too hot to hold them and
offers temptation in the South. They are
bluntly told that they arc in the way; that
they shall never have even the smallest
scrap of political equality ; that they are
an accursed people; that the North may
affect great love for them at a distance, but
it abominates them in contact. While no
loop-hole of escape is left in that region, a
lure is held out to them Southward.—
“ Behold,” say the villains, “ the rebel ter
ritory. We will not be contaminated with
your presence among us, the truly loyal
saints, but we are perfectly willing for you
to wander off and be merged with the New
Congo we have created in South Carolina,
Georgia and Louisiana. Here you shall be
beasts; there you may be anything but Con
gressmen. Here you shall never have a
chance to aspire; there you may vote as
often as you please and rule the whites with
rods of iron. We are putting the screws
to you here ; you can put the screws to
rebels there. We lay the taxes here ; you
can impose them there, with utter impuni
ty. Here we shall contrive a Yankee hell
for you more miserable than the wharf of
Nena Sahib; there you can erect an Arcadia
to suit yourselves.”
This, then, is the meaning of the Michi
gan election. The North is determined to
vomit the negro forth, and, not yet ready
to slay him, bribes him to emulate the
Arab and invade the South. This is the
immigration our beloved brethren promise
us, in the wild hope of goading us to des
peration and blood. This is the fraternal
ami Christian scheme for our conversion.
Even this could be pardoned coming from
an enemy; but when such things are con
nived at and abetted at home by Southern
born men, is it not time to look about us
and prepare for disaster? Is it not time
that the line should be drawn and every
conspirator against our peace and race be
cast forth from respectable association as a
leper and a criminal ? Here are men in our
midst engaged in an attempt to Africanize
Georgia. For the sake of office, they have
basely deserted their own race, kindred and
traditions to herd with the vile, the ig
norant, the depraved and servile. Let them
receive the reward of such treachery. They
have gone to the negro; let them stay with
him. They have insulted the good and
pure of their own blood; let them seek con
solation in foul streams. They have chosen
the part of Cain ; let them suffer his brand
and disgrace. Not only are they seek
ing to drive the white man forth from his
home and heritage, but conspiring w’th
the Northern Radicals to import fresh
swarms of blacks. What shall we think
of those vile men who, co-operating with
Northern fiends, arc striving to make the
organization of hell in Georgia a perpe
tuity; who invite some ex-cannibal to citi
zenship and compel the exile of Charles
J. Jenkins?
Arcades Ambo.—Joe Brown denies that
he said Bullock would bankrupt the State;
but Mr. Holcombe, a far more reputable
authority, aflirms most positively that
Brown did say so.
Farrow declares that he did not use the
language attributed to him by Mr. Hill ;
but a document written by Farrow to
Carly Styles puts an extinguisher upon
any denial as to Farrow’s detestation ol
Bullock and the carpet-baggers.
AV hat a pretty pair!
Political Parsons.—’l he Methodist
i Conference of Connecticut adjourned in or
, tier to allow its members to go home awl
I vote lor “Grant, Jewell and Victory-”
i Previous to adjournment, these reverend
' souls declared against the use of tobacco.
Throw' away your long nine, Ulysses !
A Question of Euphony.—Horace
Greeley says Ku Klux is an imitation of
the click of a rifle lock. Raymond thinks
it more like the clucking of a hen, and won
ders that Greeley did not recognize it as a
familiar sound.
A “ CONSISTENT UNION MAN.”
The Radical press and stump-orators
maintain that R. B. Bullock, their candi
date for Governor, was a consistent Union
man during the war. As he has not de
nied the claim, it is to be taken as endorsed
by himself.
If he was a Union man in 1861, why did
he voluntarily engage in the capture of the
Augusta Arsenal ?
If he was a Union man, why did he not
avail himself of the liberty granted to all
consistent Union men, by the Confederate
government, of passing through the lines
unmolested to the section he approved of
and adored ?
If he was a firm and consistent Union
man, wishing the North success and the
South calamity, when, where and to whom
did he so proclaim ?
If he was a .consistent Union man, true
to his manhood and faithful to the North,
why did he accept the responsible position
of Superintendent of the Confederate Mili
tary Telegraph ; a position enabling him to
be of inestimable service to the government
that appointed him, and of incalculable in
jury, if faithfully filled, to thecause he now
swears he was true to ?
Either R. B. Bullock was not a consist
ent Union man, craving the victory of the
North and the overthrow of the South ; or
he voluntarily and hypocritically accepted
an office of trust from the Confederate gov
ernment which enabled him, if so disposed,
to act the part of a spy. If a consistent
Union man, there is facie evidence of
treachery. If not a consistent Union man,
why seek honors under false pretenses ?
The bullock has the horns of a dilemma
on his own head. With which does he pro
pose to gore himself?
All in Vain.—Mr. Curtis’ grand argu
ment in denunciation of Beast Butler is
labor lost. To talk of justice to the
Rump is equal to firing a three hundred
pounder against a pig sty. The following
extract from the Commercial sums up the
result:
“ Mr. Curtis’ argument enchained the atten
tion of those on the floor and those in the gal
leries, but I do not believe that it had the slight
est effect on a single Senator. Each one sitting
in judgment has already made up his mind
how he will vote, viewing impeachment as or
as not a political necessity. The deposition of
Andrew Johnson and the installation of B. F.
Wade is but a question of time, nor is the time
very far distant.”
Well, let it come. The sooner we get
Wade, the sooner we shall know how far
in slavery the North has sunk.
Caldwell Outbid. —It has been thought
that the Rev. Caldwell, Georgia scalawag,
was the first person to propose the assassi
nation of Abe Lincoln. Holden, the
North Cirolina mongrel, now candidate for
Governor, must prove a formidable rival.
The Raleigh Register, a Republican paper,
says “ that great political trickster, W. W.
Holden, will not be pardoned.” The Wil
mington Journal gives the reason thus:
“ Congress dare not pardon the man who
first proposed the plot to assassinate President
Lincoln."
Caldwell must have seconded the mo
tion. No wonder he trembles in his boots
and “ works zealously.” The trail of the
serpent is over them both.
A Venerable Rascal.—We never had
any respect for Horace Greeley. AV e be
lieve him to be a bad man. He now con
fesses that he bailed Jefferson Davis be
cause it was a good political dodge. The
Herald tells the story thus :
“ He argues that to have tried Davis and pun
ished him would have been a calamity to the
Republican party; to have tried him and not
punished him would have been a greater ca
lamity ; and he came in to redeem his party
from that dilemma. The Republicans had an
elephant, and the philosopher subscribed to
get rid of him.”
" And yet, a host of credulous people in
the South slavered Greeley for his un
heard of magnanimity I
Mrs. Thad Stevens.—The Lancaster
(Penn.) Intelligencer relates a sad case of
disrespect for one near and dear to old
Thad Stevens. On Wednesday morning
last “that attractive female,-familiarly
known as Mrs. Tiiaddeus Stevens—the
widow of the late Jacob Smith, colored
barber of Harrisburg, and at present house
keeper and of old Thad—had her
pocket picked at the depot. She states her
loss to be as follows : One hundred dollars
in greenbacks, three Mexican silver dollars,
one diamond breastpin, a safe key, a bunch
of household keys, and free passes over the
railroads from Lancaster to Washington.”
Proud and Touchy.—Gen. Grant’s dis
missal of the negro Bayne has lost him
some votes in Virginia. Poor Grant, he
has to stand much, but he can not stand
i everything in the way of Culfee’s insolence.
' Whereupon Coffee grows “ proud and
1 touchy,” and won’t vote for Grant in A ir
' ginia. Well, Ulysses has smoked a pipe
of peace with Butler. After that, he can
take a pacific chew of tobacco with the
indignant Bayne. Poor Ulyss ! Between
his fond and foolish father, AVasiiburne,
; Butler and Bayne, no wonder he gets
I drunk. The only wonder is he docs not go
i mad.
Sublime Impudence.—A. Radical cam
; paign song swears 11 by Lee’s sword and
i Jackson’s grave” that the Southern mon-
I grels will wallow in the mire with Joe
1 Brown. That song must have emanated
from the same brain that labored toprove
the Savior of mankind a carpet-bagger.
The Arkansas Election.—The Memphis
Avalanche has received information that
Gen. Gillem has telegraphed to Little
Rock, that if frauds can be shown to have
been perpetrated in the late election in
Arkansas, he will order a new election.
ANOTHER ORDER.
Another Order from Gen. Meade, No. 58
of the series, will be found in our news
column. It is directed against the holding
of municipal elections on the 20th instant,
and bestows a well-merited reprimand upon
those Radical emissaries who are interfer
ing with the laboring classes, and, by vio
lent threats, compelling them to attend, po
litical meetings, to the detriment of their
employers.
Pungent and Suggestive.—General
Grant’s remark that the “ President’s re
moval is a matter of necessity,” has brought
to light several scraps of history which
contain, in a small compass, very long ser
mons. Hear these:
“ When the General of our armies entertains
the conviction that the President ought to be
removed, there is no room to doubt as to the
duty of the Senate.”— Greeley, Editor of the
Tribune.
“ Let the scythe of equality move over the
Republic.”— Marat — died a violent death.
“There are periods In revolution when to
live is a crinde.”— Robespierre— afterwards ex
ecuted.
“ The death of the King is a political neces
sity. We have no right to be his judges, it is
true; well, we will kill him.” — Danton—exe
cuted 1794, by the connivance of Robespierre.
“ My object was to prevent a new Septembre,
and not to let loose a scourge upon mankind.
Those Cains knew nothing about government.
I leave everything in frightful disorder.” —
Danton's last words.
Odious Comparisons.—The rotten despot
ism of Austria has a better credit abroad
than this truly Republican form of govern
ment. The Day Book says:
“ The American eagle droops his tail and
looks as though he would sell himself for
six pence, while the turkey-buzzard of the
house of ITapsburgh, after two expensive
wars, struts around in a blaze of financial
glory. Gold at Vienna is quoted at 113.
Gold in New York is 140. M hat a humi
liating fact for an American to realize !”
A Roland for an Oliver.—“ Honest
Greeley,” having branded Gov. Seymour
as a “political liar,” the JForic? paraphrases
the Tribune article, and completely turns
the tables upon Greeley. Elsewhere we
publish the refutation, and commend it as
a photograph of a New York politician of
the so-called Mongrel School, “ which we
produce for the benefit of some in tins me
ridian who, we think, must have sat for the
picture, and who, we are sure, can be re
cognized by the least judge of perspective,
full-face, side view, or any other phase in
which such characters are taken.”
Progress.—One of the doorkeepers of
the late Atlanta menagerie, subsequently
appointed a route agent in Alabama, has
been imprisoned for robbing the mail. He
has only done on a small scale what his su
periors contemplate doing on a larger one.
He is jugged. They will go to Congress
and the Legislature. We have Joe Brown
as a witness.
Poor Johnson. —The President is re
ported as using explosive language about
the report of a recent conversation with
“Mack.” If the President would avoid
the annoyance, he should be cautious with
the Yankee correspondents. He has no
body to blame but himself.
What’s in a Name ?—Much, very much,
according to Messrs. Blodgett and Par
rott. “ Remember Soap-tail !” is their
battle cry. Grease-tail would be more ap
propriate for the Relief caudal. They who
hope to clutch it will find it monstrous
slippery, though it looks so monstrous
slick.
Candid. —The New A. ork Times admits
that hostility to negro suffrage in the North
is damaging General Grant. It warns the
Republican party that too much nigger
will choke off success.
Yes, and too much Grant will choke off
the nigger, if they don’t watch out.
Caustic.—One ot General Grant’s class
mates at AVest Point, now residing in Paris,
speaking the other day of the general’s
change of name, remarked that when a
cadet “he was called Lye Grant.” A
name which might now be restored to him
without legislative action.
Spare that Tree.—Congress proposes
to purchase Mt. Vernon for ex-Presidents.
Whereupon a great guffaw has arisen over
Andrew Johnson as a possible guest at
Washington’s tomb. Well, it may not be a
pretty picture, but Ben Wade, lying like a
filthy crocodile in the mud of the Potomac,
is hideous beyond caricature.
Ye Gods!—Butler and Forney arc
mad with Andrew Johnson because he
snubbed them -when they desired to re
organize the Democratic party in 1865. A
little encouragement ■would have made the
Beast a vehement anti-Radical, and the
“ two papers, both daily, organs of A al
landigham. Mr. Johnson deserves thanks
for sparing the Democracy so loathsome an
alliance.
Impatient.—The Radical journals, espe
cially the Southern Radicals, hunger and
thirst for an immediate punishment of Ash
burn’s murderers, although there is no
substantial proof against any parties.
AVhy don’t they hurry up the case of
Timoney ? What have they to observe as
to the summary killing of cx-Coufederates
near Selma ?
Gone to His Place. —The AVashington
correspondent ofthe Baltimore Gazette thus
locates a certain great and good man:
“ Blodgett, who testified against the Presi
dent, is now under indictment for perjury, hav
ing taken the iron-clad oat’.-, after regular ser
vice in the Confederate army. He stands sec
ond to Conover as a witness.”
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, April 11th, 1868.
A curious story comes from Washington
respecting political combinations of pre
sent and future importance. lam assured
by parties having superior means of know
ing of what they speak, that while the
Radicals are looking forward to the deposi
tion of Andrew Johnson as a “ set thing”—
an event in the future which is as certain
as anything in the future can be—the fact
is, that by a recent “arrangement,” in
which Mr. Seward’s master hand for such
work is plainly visible, Mr. Johnson is ab
solutely sure of acquittal. In plain terms,
Mr. Seward has succeeded in bribing a suf
ficient number of Senators to prevent the
conviction of Mr. Johnson of the charges
brought against him. To bribe a United
States Senator is not so impossible or im
probable as it was years ago. More than
one of the present Radical Senators are
traveling pettifoggers, who are constantly
“on the make,” and would not reject a
direct bribe in money. But there are many
influences through which they may be
operated, upon. Their jealousy of General
Grant and his rapid rise ; their personal at
tachment to Secretary Chase, and. their pri
vate convictions that the Republican party
is ou its last legs; the latter fact justifying
if not suggesting the wisdom, of an occa
sional look to the future.
It is no longer a secret that Chief Jus
tice Chase has united with a majority of
the Supreme Court in pronouncing the “ re
construction ” laws unconstitutional; and
with the acquittal of Mr. Johnson such an
outcry seems likely to arise against Gen.
Grant as will greatly endanger, if not de
feat, his nomination at Chicago—the tri
umphant President Johnson causing it to
be understood that he will aid Mr. Chase
an.l oppose General Grant with all the in
fluence in his power—feeling entirely free
of all obligations to the Democrats, in view
of the manner in which they turned their
backs upon him in his dark hour, putting
himself practically again at the head of the
Republicans, with Mr. Chase as heir pre
sumptive. The scheme is a practicable
one, if the Radicals will submit to be thus
overborne, and yet can scarcely be credit
ed. But 1 should not go to the trouble of
detailing it were there not many events to
corroborate the story of its inception and
prospective success. A few short days will
reveal the facts. If they prove to be ac
cording to the above sketch it would be the
next best thing to the complete overthrow
of Radicalism—it would chain it in its own
temple.
legislative corruption.
The public have been entertained with
proceedings at Albany in the State Legisla
ture, looking to an exposure of the wide
spread corruption which has prevailed in
that body. As I intimated would be the
case, a fortnight since, the railroad war has
been a real placer to the legislative vul
tures. To have allowed the Contending in
terests thus brought before them to reach
a final settlement without having been
bribed, would have stamped a member of
either house as so “ soft and green ” as to
make him an object of mingled contempt
and pity. At one stage of the proceedings,
Vanderbilt vs. Drew, a leading member of
the Assembly rushed through the lobby
protesting that he not made a’cent, and that
“ the boys ” were going to be cheated. The
harvest would pass and the winter end
without his having made his “ pile,” and he
actually succeeded in getting together that
evening a number of similar unfortunates,
who entered into a solemn league witn
each other that nothing should be permit
ted to be done, in behalf of Vanderbilt or
Drew, until each of those who had been
“left out in the cold” had been “seen”
and “comforted.” A feeble old man in the
Assembly, named Glenn, attempted, in a fit
of moral heroism, to expose some of the cor
ruption that was unblushingly prosecuted
all about him. The Bowery theatre with a
“ nigger in the pit,” never presented a scene
of greater uproar and confusion than the
capitol at Albany, on Glenn’s exploit. He
was presently flouted and badgered nearly
out of his senses; and after a brief period
spent in an effort to obtain an hearing—an op
portunity to substantiate the charges he
had made—he was fain to escape the storm
of wrath which assailed him by resigning
his seat. A sane man in a lunatic asylum
had more hope of respectful attention
than this weak, honest man in a den of
thieves. Let your carpet-baggers and their
colored allies get possession of the State
government of Georgia, and you will have
a similar show nearer home.
WINTER LINGERS IN THE LAP OF SPRING.
AVe yesterday enjoyed our third April
snow storm, and as I wi ite it is snowing
briskly. There are persons who attempt
to explain our very peculiar weather, by
stating that from some cause the Gulf
stream now flows a hundred miles further
than usual from the coast. I have seen no
facts to verify the statement; but there is
something remarkable about the prolonged
cold. It is now five months since the first
snow fell last Fall, and the grass has
scarcely, as yet, tinged the fields with a
green blade. There is not a little anxiety
respecting the portion of the South under
this low temperature; for we notice that
each “ cold snap” is felt even in the Gulf
States. The weather-wise predict that
about the 6th of May we shall have another
sharp frost along the whole Atlantic coast.
So late as that, if it takes place, it will no
doubt do much damage.
VARIETY OF CROPS.
Let me entreat Southern people to look
well to raising a supply of food for their
own consumption. Those who do not will
expose themselves to discomforts and ex
penses that they will be anxious to avoid.
Liverpool alone has taken five millions of
pounds of bacon and five thousand tierces
of beef per month for a long time; and the
demand for Europe is now, with prices en
hanced, 30 per cent, greater than at any
previous period. Not even during the
Crimean war was it so great. Forty-two
dollars paid for a tierce of 303 pounds of
salted beef tells a story that should not be
forgotten. Then again, even at the enor
mous cost of wheat, England would take
every bushel that can .be drawn from the
AVest. A large advance will be necessary
to withhold enough for domestic consump
tion. For the South to raise enough food
for her own consumption it will greatly fa
cilitate the cheapness of food at the North,
East and in Europe, where cheap food
largely influences the capacity to buy
goods—cotton goods—upon whose quick
sale the price of the raw cotton depends.—
For the South to devote its whole territory
to the growth of what we called its pecu
liar staples—and draw from the AVest her
supplies of food—is to cripple her markets
and invite many calamities.
“ TRUCKING.”
Accounts reach us through private
sources of extensive preparations being
made at accessible points from Norfolk to
Savannah for raising “garden truck” for
the almost inexhaustible markets afforded
by the great Northern cities, to which easy
and rapid access may be had by water.
Large fortunes are reported to have been
made in this business in the past two years.
There is much to be learned in this bust-,
ness, both as respects the crops to be pro- j
duced and the manner of marketing them |
properly, which perhaps caff only be learn
ed by experience. How much we want, o e
fact will demonstrate —we are now receiv
ing over two thousand barrels of eggs per
day, and they find a quick market at twen
ty-one cents per dozen.
OTHER BUSINESS MATTERS.
Cotton is up to 31 cents, but very unset
tled, it being the general impression that
spinners will soon adopt “ short time,
both here and in Europe. Money is easier,
which favors speculation, and it is plain
that a number of holders look for 40 cents.
Gold is supported by hints of probaoic
trouble at Washington. There is an im
pression, however, that with the settlement
of impeachment business, the premium
must be lower. Breadstuff’s and provisions
are higher, but groceries slightly declined.
Willoughby.
” [communicated.]
To the Editors of the Constitutionalist ;
Gentlemen : Allow me the use of your
columns to say, that while I am deeply sen
sible of the kindness of friends who have
urged me to become a candidate for Con
gress, I must respectfully decline to enter
into a contest for that place at this, time.
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv t,
Henry W. Hilliard.
April 13, 1868.
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To the Democratic Olubs of Georgia.
Rooms Central Executive Committee, I
Nat’l Dem’c Party of Ga„ >
Macon, April 13, 1868. )
The Secretaries of the Democratic Clubs are
requested to send to J. R. Snead, Esq., Secre
tary Central Executive Committee, Macon, the
result of the approaching election in their re
spective counties, giving the full vote for or
against the Constitution, for each candidate for
Governor, for each candidate for Congress, for
each candidate for Senator, and for each candi
date for the representative branch of the Gen
eral Assembly.
In counties in which no Democratic Clubs
have been organized, some active member of
the Democratic party is requested to attend to
this duty.
After the votes are counted, and the result
known in each county, it is desirable that a
correct report be made to the Central Execu
tive Committee as soon as possible.
E. G. CABANIS3,
Chairman Cen. Ex. Com.
Democratic and Conservative papers in this
State will please copy till the election.
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
The Truth Told.
Milton County, April 4, 1868.
Dear Sir : Before I received your letter
yesterday, some unknown friend sent me
the Era, which contained the announce
ment that Joseph E. Brown had never made
the statement that “if Bullock was elected
he would ruin the State.” I have seen no
denial from Governor Brown of this, but
the Era, says it has authority to deny it.—
Brown cannot deny the conversation we
had on the subject. It was voluntary on
his part—unsolicited by me. We were sit
ting side by side in the convention at the
time. He commenced the conversation
about the nomination, and said that the
Conservative members of the Constitution
al Convention had done wrong in not go
ing into the nominating convention, and
said if we had we could have established a
two-thirds rule, which would have defeated
Bullock. Just at that moment the vote
was taken on Whiteley’s resolution, and it
was defeated. “ Now,” says Brown, “ Bul
lock will be nominated, and if he is he will
be elected, and with the patronage given
him by the new constitution, he will ruin
the State.” While we were talking, the
vote was taken, and Bullock was nomina
ted by acclamation. Brown slapped me on
the thigh and said, “Now you see what
you have done ! He will be elected ; the
time is too short; they can make no other
nomination to defeat him, and it will ruin
us.”
A recess of twenty minutes was an
nounced for congressional districts to make
nominations, and at the expiration of that
time the convention was called to order,
when Hopkins offered a resolution that the
convention adjourn until half-past 7 o’clock
and that ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown be
requested to address them on ratification’
and the election of Hon. R. B. Bullock.—
The convention adjourned. The Governor
walked out of the door. I said, “ Governor,
are you going to make that speech ?” He
answered, “1 think I shall.”
In just, twenty-three to twenty-five min
utes after lie told me the election of Bul
lock would ruin the Slate, he agreed to
make a speech in favor of it. I was sur
prised, and it impressed itself on my mind.
Yours, respectfully,
[Signed] A. W. Holcombe.
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[From the New York Herald.
Southern Murders—Who Commit Them ?
Whenever any Radical firebrand, loyal lea
guer or negro is killed or hurt in the South the
Radical press and orators of the North make a
terrible noise about it. They ring the changes
and howl day after day about rebel outrages,
rebel hatred and rebel murderers, but we never
hear anything from them concerning the mur
dered Southern whites and black outrages.—
The Radical papers are full of sensation ac
counts and denunciations of the murder of
Ashburn in Georgia, but they say nothing
about the white one-armed ex-Confederate sol
dier who was shot dead on his horse recently
near Selma, Alabama, or of the other four
white men who have been murdered in the
same vicinity since the war, and no one arrest
ed for these murders. No, we hear nothing
from these Radicals of the numerous other
murders of the conquered Southern whites and
outrages on them in other localities of the
South, because there is every reason to believe
this is the work of the black loyal leaguers.
At a public procession and meeting of ne
groes nt Macon, Georgia, on March 30, the
“loyal blacks” carried a banner on which the
figure of a negro, cut in pasteboard, hung
dangling from a gallows, and to which was at
tached, on a piece of white paper, the follow
ing inscription : “ Every man that don’t vote a
Radical ticket this is the way we want to do
him—hang him by the neck.” These Radical
loyal league negroes boldly proclaimed, too,
that the negro who failed to register should re
ceive thirty-nine lashes ; if he failed to vote at
the election two hundred lashes, and if he voted
’he Democratic ticket he should be hanged. —
Need we be surprised, then, that white South
erners are murdered in every part ol the South
ami that the murderers are not arrested? lhe
Northern friends of these black barbarians pre
tend not to know anything about their mur
derous doings. It is clear that the South, un
der Radical rule, is fast tending to anarchy ami
to a worse condition than St. Domingo was
ever in.
The Euphradian Society of the University of
South Carolina have unanimously expelled
Thomas J. Robertson and Franklin J. Moses,
Jr., who, in the language of the resolutions
adopted cm the occasion, “ have proven false
to their own race, unloosed every tie of honor,
every golden chord ot virtue, and left the re
maining fragments to trail in the dust under
foot, or stifled in their throats the smooth flow
of eloquence by the repeated utterance of base
and subtle falsehoods, and have, in all these re
spects, lowered their dignity and station as
true gentlemen of Carolina ; and whose names
are no longer an ornament to, or a jewel in,
the honorary roll of the Society, but, as it were,
two black stains upon that otherwise unblem
ished roll, as yet, of brothers true and faithful
to their vow.’*—G’/iariesf on Courier.