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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALISI
WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 13, 1868
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THE LEGISLATURE.
The Columbus Enquirer has been making
calculations with regard to the Legislature
of Georgia, that extraordinary thing which
Gen. Meade uses as a shuttlecock and
over which his Drum Major labors to bring
forth truly loyal results. The Enquirer
thinks the Senate will consist of twenty
one Democrats and twenty-three Radicals.
The Radicals were driven to the necessi
ty of nominating, in a number of instances,
men who are not in strict accord with
them, and who, it is supposed, cannot be
used for base purposes. Upon such specu
lations and ciphering, our Columbus con
temporary deems that all looks well, thus
far, for the Senate.
Concerning the House, some doubt ex
ists as to which way the pendulum of power
inclines. As in the case of the Senate, sev
eral members elect, classed as Radical on
the ticket, are really Conservative, and, it
anything, lean to the Democratic side.
The Sumter Republican is quoted as classi
fying Messrs. Lee and Page as Democrats,
though elected on the Radical ticket, lhe
Enquirer continues:
*• Counting these two gentlemen as Demo
crats, and putting also on our side a gentleman
■ elected on the Radical ticket in a county adja
cent to this, but who, wc feel satisfied, is no
Radical in principle, and claiming also Mr.
Hamilton, of Screven, elected as an ‘independ
ent,’but who, we are told, is a Democrat, we
can now count on 74 Democratic Representa
tives, which is fully as many as the Radicals
can count.”
Reports from Emanuel, Bulloch, Tatnall,
Ware, Effingham, Rabuu and Union claim
Democratic representatives. So, says the
Enquirer,“ we now have 81 Democrats sure,
with Berrien and Montgomery, that have
given majorities for Gordon; and Telfair
and Irwin, in which the election has not
been held, but which are considered certain
for the Democracts, yet to hear from. Be
sides these, there is the Representative from
Coffee, designated as ‘ neutral,’ but whose
county gave majorities against the consti
tution and for Gordon and Fitch; and the
county of Elbert, electing a Democrat,
which we had omitecl in our table.”
Arguing from these premises, the En
quirer forecasts a Democratic majority in
the House.
For our part, we have not troubled the
returns, believing that prediction is a poor
guest at General Meade’s board of investi
gation. If others are more sanguine, wc
refer them to the consoling figures of our
esteemed Columbus contemporary, and
fondly hope they may be gratified in their
great expectations.
A Northern View.—The Hartford
(Conn.) Tinies thus speaks of homestead and
relief:
“ The Georgia State constitution exempts
from lhe claims of creditors all the property of
the State, and 13,000 of the property of each
individual, ?3,000 in real estate and. SI,OOO in
personal estate. This feature of the constitu
tion is one at out which there has been great
difference of opinion among the Georgia vo
ters. It was inserted to gull ‘ laborers,’ and
‘sells’ that class. Few laborers in Georgia
are possessed of $3,000; but the speculating
aid cheating carpet-baggers will probably get
that amount in their hands, hire laborers to
work on' their $2,000 farm, and then cheat
them out of their wages, under the exemption
law. The laborers of the South will, ere long,
suffer from the schemes of the lazy and un
principled sharks who are locating among
them.”
“ All the Decency.”—Horace Greeley
claims that the Radical party contains all
the decency, all the respectability and all
the religion of the North. He is not so
blatant as to its contents further South. In
another column we give the debate between
Donnelly and Washburne, in which Pot
and Kettle are shown up in their densest
sootincss. Here are two leading Radicals
photographing each other, and one of these
great artists of smut is the keeper of Gen
eral Grant.
How Our Taxes are Multipled.—The
Troy Tinies (Radical) knows that the army
has been filled up with politicians and rela
tives and friends of Congressmen, and is
distributed and run for their benefit. It re
lates this:
“ At one of the forts upon the Northern
frontier—a purely water defense —a fail
battery of flying artillery, with the neces
sary drove of horses and all theequipments
and men usual for service in the field, is
maintained for the sole benefit of its com
mander, who happens to be a brother-in
law of Stanton’s yoke-fellow, Holt. Every
cent that the maintenance of this battery
costs is wasted; and its cost amounts to
many thousands a year.” •
No wonder it requires big sums and
great taxes to support the army.
The Day con Holding the Democratic
national Convention.—The resolution
adopted by the Congressional Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, requesting the Democratic
National Committee to reconsider their action
designating the 4th of July as the date for
holding their National Convention is not
likely to effect the purpose designed. This
action having been addressed to .the Chairman
of the National Comrnitte, Mr. Belmont, the
latter, it )4 stated, has replied that it would now
be impossible to get the committee together in
order to effect this arrangement, and therefore
insists that the day originally designated will
have to continue.— Baltimore Sun, May 5.
‘•MONEY.”
Unquestionably, there were worshipers
of the Golden Calf thousands of years be
fore the Israelites, impatient of invisible <ll
- inity, fell down aud adored the symbol of
visible Cash. However customs may have
changed since the innocent days of tig
leaves the tires on the altar of Money have
never paled ineffectually, ami the ravening
spirit of Its devotees never suffered, muta
tion Had the Unknown God ot antiquity
ami the Revealed Presence of later ages
been served with the same intensity, com
pleteness and fervor, verily, the world would
have been sanctified long years ago, and
even the terrestrial paradise restored to
man, more ravishingly enchanting than the
first elysium, ere yet the Cherub fenced its
portal with his flaming brand. Such, how
ever, lias not been the case. On the con
trary, the auri sacra fames has grown with
the growth of centuries and become hard
er and harder in the tissues and muscles of
mankind, more and more consuming in
their liearts and brains and souls. So
much so, that this epoch may well be char
acterized as a canned-vegetable civilization,
whose fierce inspirations proceed from the
Prince of the Powers of the Air, whose ma
terial image is shrined in the Almighty
Dollar or Hypocritical Greenback. How
few are there, whether in church or state,
who do not acknowledge by lip-sen ice, or
tacitly by grasping deeds, that the tremen
dous struggle of a most ( hristlan character
is in the line of gain ? Row few arc they
who scorn the jingle of broad pieces of sil
ver or the crisp crackle of bank notes?
The force and potency of the golden show
er are as old as Jupiter is supposed to have
been ; and the inclination to resist it as fee
ble to the Danaes of the present as it was
to the Danaes of the past, though shielded
by triple brass. All the pure and glorious
emanations of the spiritual world are contam
inated by a stream of yellow dross or a roll of
printed parchment. The warrior lias sur
rendered his sword, the poet his harp, the
orator his eloquence, the lover his lute, the
maiden her birthright, parents their chil
dren, patriots their country, religionists
their Redeemer —all for the base metal or
the shining paper which commands the
treasury of Midas and dwells in the subtle
wand of Prospero. Like all headlong pas
sions, its spell is frequently broken by pos
session, but the more frequently by burn
ing to the socket and scorching to death
the unhappy victim of its treacherous, but
alluring, wiles. What are liandsiull of gold
when honor, native-land, peace of heart,
truth, innocence, offspring and heaven are
forfeited ? Let the ancient or modern alche
mists, who revel in more than Persian or
Arabian magnificence, answer. Have they
gained what all men and women continual
ly seek through the medium of money
happiness ? Nay, not so, since Crassus
had the gold he coveted poured molten
down his throat, to Beast Butler, who,
smarter than the Roman, though far less
valorous, emptied the silver spoons of New
Orleans into his baggy pockets. Neither
of these hunters of men and money was
happy. Crassus died gorged with gold he
failed to secure, and Butler lives with the
finger of scorn perpetually tearing his vi
tals or branding his villain front. The se
cret of happiness is not money; the philoso
pher’s stone is not wealth. All that we can
hope for here is within reach, and a treas
ure beyond price when won. This talis
man we name Content. Content with
your lot, however lowly, so that it is hon
est and the fruit of the best and most faith
ful endeavor. That is the philosophy which
can trample upon the temptations of coin
and make blue skies forever luminous in
the blackest day or the most trodden life.
He who has obtained this glorious prize can
resist the witcheries of Aspasia orthe most
cunningly contrived bribe of the Devil’s In
quisition, whether holding session in Wash
ington, London, Paris, Tehran, Cape Colony
or—Augusta.
It may be, and doubtless is, an idle task to
persuade the youth of either sex into an
admiration of so simple a virtue, when the
gauds and fripperies of Fashion hold high
carnival and dazzle the imaginations of
girl and boy, man and woman, maid, wife
and widow. But at the expense of weari
someness, we con over this old, old story,
forever ancient and forever young, which
everybody preaches and nobody heeds;
which illustrates the daily walk of thou
sands on the busy thoroughfares and man
ties the tombstones of those who sleep be
neath the lilies.
Who would have supposed that all this
moralizing would spring from a dramatic
spectacle, where all was gay and none had
cause to feel, for the moment at least, that
their destinies were as seriously imperilled
as when the angry volcano shot forth its
admonitory cloud in the last days of
Pompeii? Yet so it is. After a lapse of
many years, the interval of which pon
toons the impetuous shore of boyhood and
the calm margin of maturity, we witnessed
the brilliant play of “ Money” which grew
under the hand of the great artist who
wrought “ Zanonif “ My Novel,', and as a ro
mancer, poet, historian, dramatist, states
man and orator is, perhaps, .the most won
derful intellect of the nineteenth century.
When the ladies and gentlemen of the
Augusta Benevolent Society selected
this play, they evinced a correct apprecia
tion of art and a wholesome regard for the
spirit of the age, not to speak of the grati
fication of their auditors. Criticism, of
course, is disarmed in the presence of
Charity and Beauty; but wc can declare,
witli truth and earnestness, that very little
fault could be found with our amateurs,
and so much remains to praise that carping
is absolutely out of question. There was
much to inspire the performers in the
presence of so splendid an audience, and,
as one of the most delighted of the speet.v
tors, we unhesitatingly declare that the
most sanguine expectation of partial friend
ship was not only reached but far sur-
I passed. Long may the city of Augusta
possess talent so decided, and long may wc
live to witness and applaud.
It needed no keenness of observation to
detect that the deft fingers of our sweet la
dies had transformed the Hall into a bower
from which all coarseness was banished by
the interdict of pure Taste. Green garlands
relieved the rough boards, and pictures of
never-to-be-forgotten leaders hallowed the
the mutilated phantasmagoria of old theat
ric scenes. Everything was sacred to the
graces ami refinement and consecrated by
the glory of true man and womanhood in
the furtherance of that virtue which out
rivals faith atid hope.
The Clara Douglas of the evening, Miss
C. A. L., shone as the bright, particular
star, wearing, as she did throughout, the
rose of health, genius, and bounteous love
liness. In pathos, forced gayety, all-pcr
vading modesty, and subdued intensity of
emotions, which are peculiar to the charac
ter, she fixed the attention of all, and, cold
blooded politician as wc are supposed to be,
we felt, for the moment, that the spectacle
assumed a painful reality, and pardoned
Evelyn all the bewildering chaos of his
heart. He would have been more or less
than human had he acted otherwise before
so splendid and yet so shrinking a pres
ence.
Mrs. C. W. D., as Lady Franklin, was
perfect in the well-known strategy of saga
cious widowhood. So much so, that Graves
seemed less foolish when singing Whd danc
ing than when his face reflected obituaries
ami his lugubrious accents sang lhe seven
penitential psalms to the memory of the
“ Sainted Maria.”- Who, under the spell of
so lithe and buoyant a lady, could speak or
think of ■worms and epitaphs?
Mrs. C. E. C., as Georgina Vesey, gave
full play to the arts of coquetry. Nothing
could be, more charming than her toilet,
nothing more exquisite than her face and
manner.
We had had the impression, from daily
intercourse, that Mr. W. S., the Evelyn of
the occasion, was rather better suited to
humorous comedy or roaring farce; but
his strong, salient and profound delineation
of the stormy wrath of a poor scholar, his
keen and bitter sarcasm as the dependent
turned millionaire, his assumed frenzy as a
ruined gamester, his impassioned utter
ances to lost love, his detail of early strug
gles and the sacrifice of ambition for the
sake of maternal affection, his adroit trap
ping of false and parasitical friends—these,
and the quick evolving shades of feeling re
quisite in sketching the character of Evelyn,
convinced us that the spring of wit lies
very near the ■well of grandest pathos; con
vinced us, too, that our friend’s fund of
versatility was apparently exhaustless.
Mr. A. G. 11., as Sir Jchn Vesey, was not
a strict constructionist of that scriptural
injunction which bids us “ put off the old
man.” Nay, so derelict was he in this re
spect, that all, who knowhim to be in reali
ty a young beau, were, for the nonce, de
ceived into a belief that he had grown gray
and gouty on a sudden. He had all the
relish of an ancient who lived and throve
by humbugging a world so bent upon be
ing humbugged, whenever the proper appli
ances are brought to bear. But the ivorlcl
lias its revenge, and Sir John Vesey fpund
out that those who persist in duping others
generally end by humbugging themselves.
The variant phases of Sir John's game were
admirably portrayed by Mr. A. G. H.
Lord Glossrnore received ample justice
from Mr. C. W. D. He entered into his
character con amore and made an individu
ality of it.
Mr. J. D. D. as Sir Frederick Blount was
of all fops the most foppish. This was a
striking piece of acting without caricature
and with perfect appreciation of the points
to be made. The young gentleman 44’110
filled this role lias frequently helped us to
search out curious matters in the classics,
and 4ve were not a little startled at his
transformation in Sir Frederick Blount.
Mr. W. G. T., as Benjamin 'Stout, M. P.
was capital. He looked and acted his part
to perfection,-sketching a Gradgrind turn
ed political economist with great ability.
We arc almost persuaded to abuse Mr. J.
S. D., Henry Graves, for his merciless attack
upon newspapers and newspaper men. But
inasmuch as he could not avoid the denun
ciation which the text compelled him to re
peat, and inasmuch as tlic most melancholy
of the Graves family are not averse to seeing
their names in print when praise guides the
pen, we forgive Mr. J. S. D. on his solemn
word of honor to apologize at the first op
portunity and confess that his unseemly
levity 4vith Lady Franklin was most un
pardonable in a limb of tlic law and a pos
sible victim of some “ Sainted Maria.” We
need only say further that Graves, in the
management of Mr. J. S. D., was one of the
very best, as it was one of the most difficult,
performances of the evening.
Ugh I Here comes Captain Dudley Smooth,
your modern Richard 111. developed into
King Faro. So sleek, so oily, so piratical
—the mildest-mannered man that ever cut
a throat or scuttled ship. Mr. 11. C. T.
was clever in this part, and 4vhen he un
masked his deadly smile and displayed his
cruel, glittering teeth, ivc felt positively un
comfortable.
Mr. K. 8., as Sharp, in the way of
avoirdupois, was the reverse of angular,
but he had tlic professional incisiveness on
his tongue.
Grandfather W. had but little to say or
do as the Senior Member, but he called for
the snuff-box as we have frequently heard
him call for beef-steak, and put the Macca
boy to his nose with the act ion of Talma.
He showed how a comparatively insignifi
cant character in a play can be made pro
minent, and we venture to say that in tlie
club-scene he fairly divided honors ivith
tlic conspicuous Evelyn.
The Amateur Musical Club discoursed
most mellifluous strains, and were in de
lightful contrast to the many wheezy or
chestral demonstrations we have had to
endure from tlic same chairs, filled with
tooters and fidlers ivho strained their lungs
and shook their elbows under protest and
with automatic indifference.
The people of Augusta are under lasting
obligations to the amateur dramatists and
musicians of our fair city. In their name,
we thank them tor one of the pleasantest
entertainments on record, aud bid them,
one and all, God-speed.
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, May 2.
Political affairs are again in a very cha
otic state. Not that there is any change in
the aspects aud probable result of the im
peachment trial ; for the belief in the early
accession of Wade to the Presidency has
become almost universal among the most
intelligent men of both parties. But the
conflict of opinion—or rather the antago
nism to Mr. Pendleton's financial projects,
becomes more bitter as those views become
paramount in the Democratic party. The
adoption by the Democratic majority in the
Assembly of this State, on Monday last, of
resolutions substantially endorsing Mr.
Pendleton, has done something towards
simplifying matters, but has not removed
the opposition to him, either in tlie Demo
cratic party or out of it. It would appear,
hovvever, that the very expedients of the
Democratic bondholders to defeat the nomi
nation of Mr. Pendleton are likely to do the
most to promote that end ; for Mr. Pendle
ton’s views are so just, reasonable, and
moderate, that each 4veek leads to their
more universal adoption, not only in tlie
Democratic party, but among the Republi
cans themselves. Conversing with a lead
ing Republican the other day, he assured
me that the public debt would certainly
be graded or taxed on some equitable prin
ciple, and that it was perfectly idle to sup
pose that we will continue to administer
the public finances on tlie present basis.
Nevertheless, some concern is felt respect
ing the final course which may be adopted
by leading Democratic influences, and it is
not improbable that some peculiar and ap
parently outre combinations may be effected.
Tlie bitter debate between Donnelly and
Washburne, in tlie House, to-day, illus
trates the fact that in the Republicans, as
well as elsewhere, powerful elements of fac
tion are at work.
Some of President Johnson’s friends are
proposing a grand uprising of the Conser
vative elements all over the country, in
protest against his removal against the law’
and the evidence. There is a good deal of
this sort of feeling abroad, but it is held in
check by the opinion among many Demo
crats that it is best to leave Mr. Johnson to
fight his battles with his friends as best he
may ; confident that however badly he may
be treated, personally, as a Chief Magistrate,
the deliberate violation of justice in his case
may afford additional and important evi
dence of the reckless and revolutionary
purposes of the Radicals. Therefore, his
deposition is not likely to be followed by
any other proceed’ngs than may be neces
sary to attract attention to and fix in the
public mind the arbitrary character of the
impeachment proceedings.
The result of the Southern elections has
carried much apparent joy to the Radicals,
and is received by the Democrats with in
difference. It would be very difficult to ex
plain the true spirit in which the matter is
regarded, for with all their joy, the Repub
licans feel that negro domination at the
South will be followed by endless embar
rassments to them, which the Democrats
feel that they have escaped through the re
sults that have been reached. To go to the
innermost heart, I think the Democrats
would have been best pleased with the
adoption of the constitutions that have been
prepared by tlie various Congo conventions,
but the election of Democratic officials and
Legislatures under them. But the more
complete success of the Radicals makes it
tolerably certain that they will be so strong
at Washington, especially in the Senate,
that they will fall apart of their own weight.
the new Yorker’s may day.
Moving, moving, moving—Up town, down
town, out of town—nothing but moving.
Such in Ne4V York is the first of May.
Not ushered in by soft breathing of gentle
gales, borne upon opening buds and ten
der trembling verdure, and re-echoed by
loving carol of wooing birds. Not a bit of
it. The breezes blow raw and cold and
chilling through bare and naked branches,
which look hard and dead and ugly—ex
cept in the-parks ; and there, on the tip-top
limbs, is the faintest showing of 4vhat wc
suppose to be green, because the sun reaches
them more readily, or, as a lady friend re
marks, “ because being more of them to
gether, they take courage.” The grass, too,
peeps out; but both trees and grass deserve
great credit for perseverance and energy in
thinking of coming out at all, under the
circumstances. And in place of gentle
zephyrs borne upon flowers and songs of
birds, tlie cold winds bring to our patient
cars the rattling everywhere of carts piled
high 4vith chairs, and bureaus, and bed
steads, and trunks, and looking-glasses, and
pianos and . wash-stands. The only class
made happy on the first day of May are the
carmen ; they, and all of that fraternity,
take advantage of the crisis, and replenish
their pockets to the disgust aud dismay of
all discomfited movers.
THE DOLLAR BAZAAR.
Any one having a dollar to" spare, or
several dollars, may profitably "occupy a
little odd time at a place called the Dollar
Bazaar, lately opened in this city. It is a
novelty, at any rate, and some things .are
very cheap. Each article exposed for sale
brings a dollar. There are no counters,
such as in ordinary stores, but a succession,
on each side, of show cases, filled chiefly
with fancy articles—jewelry, fans, pocket
books, spoons and forks in naif dozen pack
ages, vases, cups, which look like silver, etc.,
etc. Kid gloves are there, too, but I doubt
the authenticity of a glove, which can be
purchased for a dollar. Behind each of
the aforesaid cases stands a girl ; these
girls are evidently selected with a view to
irood looks, and some of them are fancifully
dressed. In such a place as New York this
element will tell. The whole affair is an
experiment, novel here at least, and as such
it remains to be seen whetlier it will suc
ceed.
THE ITALIAN OPERA.
The Italian Opera, for years a standing
institution in New York, has this year died
ten thousand deaths, and is, in consequence,
entirely defunct. Its destiny seems guided
by an evil star —some unpropritious fate
leads not opera alone, but both oratorio
and concert. Singers aud singing are at a
discount. Martsek went under long ago;
Grover essayed his hand, but like a 4vise
man, quickly left a sinking ship. Harrison
came then to the rescue, but he, too, has
<4ven it up as a bad job. Despite Parepa,
of unapproachable voice, at his command;
despite Sunday concerts and oratorio, he
proclaims himself a ruined man. Not so
ruined, however, but that lie still concludes
to hold his festival. Doubtless he is in the
situation of the celebrated and unfortunate
individual who held “ the tiger by the tail,”
and remained in a state of fearful uncer
tainty as to the policy of hold on or letting
g°;
Lack of fresh talent, say some, is the cause
of all this ; hard times, say others; a little
of both, perhaps, will come nearer to the
truth. Doubtless there is talent in New
York which languishes for 4vant of oppor
tunity. In Europe there are institutions
especially for bringing out young artists,
where allowance is made for inexperience
and where incipient genius is fostered.—
Here tlie case is different. Miss Kellogg,
unless aided by tlie influence of Henry Steb
bins, would, in all probability, never have
attained her present high positioh.and Miss
Hanch, notwithstanding her lovely voice
and native talent, needed to have been up
held by Jerome’s capacious purse. An at
tempt was made during the winter to estab
lish an institution on the European plan,
and one of their performances actually did
take place; but that, too, came to grief.
The times are very hard, to be sure, but
not too hard for Dickens and Riston to
grow rich. Such a foolish thing as Humpty
Dumpty takes, and every one knows the
success of The White Fawn, La Grande
Duchesse and La Belle Helene. La Grange
and Brignoli drew well for a time, but for
a time only, and half of their success was
due to the novelty of Pike’s splendid edifice.
BUSINESS MATTERS.
Cotton remains quite firm, but specula
tive operators find it very difficult to make
a further rally upon it. The termination of
the Abyssinian war is expected to promote
shipments of cotton from Bombay to Liver
pool ; there is a slight reduction of con
sumption in the English manufacturing
districts ; our own goods are without im
provement, and accounts from the South
speak of great efforts to plant a wide bread tli
of land to cotton. All these things are un
favorable to higher prices for the staple.
But then, to counterbalance a check to the
speculative advance in provisions and
breadstuff’s, we have been in receipt of large
supplies of grain this week from the canal,
under which prices have slightly, but pretty
generally declined. But the pressing nature
of the wants of Europe may be inferred
from the fact that in the past two or three
days her shippers have taken about a quir
ter of a million bushels of the second quali
ty of spring wheat at $2 43a2 45 per bushel.
Still, I cannot promise that the first of
your Georgia wheat, which we expect next
month, will bring much over $3 per bushel,
against $4 last year.
General trade continues dull. The specu
lation in securities is very flat, although
the demand for investment is good. Prices
of almost all tlie principal articles which
the South must buy have a downward ten
dency, the business of the Spring having
proved, thus far, very unsatisfactory and
disappointing, and dealers have no alterna
tive in sucli markets but to buy from “hand
to mouth.” Willoughby.
[communicated.]
Thoughts on the State of the Country.
I have already said that a great problem
is to be worked out by the South—the
greatest ever yet committed to any people.
The two races—white and black—occupy
the same territory. Until the war set the
slaves free, everything was provided for.
There could be no conflict betiveen capital
and labor, as the4vhiteracecontroled both;
the planter kneiv exactly what to depend
upon ; he could lay out his plans and pur
poses at all times 4vith reasonable certain
ty ; so, too, with every department of la
bor. Noiv everything is changed. We
can no longer command labor; 4ve must
employ it.
There is another still more important
view. The great social problem is yet to
be disposed of. The people ivho 4vere re
cently our slaves are noiv made free ; they
enjoy, under the laix’, equal rights 4vith
ourselves; they are entitled to political
privileges—they vote, they hold office.—
This state of things, every one must see,
creates difficulties of great magnitude.
Let us realize the fact that the colored race
are no longer slaves, and must no longer
be treated as such.
Noiv it is very important to comprehend
tlie true situation. Common sense and
true statesmanship both require this. We
must cheerfully concede to these people all
their rights; not talk to them as slaves nor
treat them as such. And ivhat has in
creased our social troubles ? Certain mere
adventurers, attracted to the South by this
new order of things, try to persuade tlie
colored race that they are their true friends,
their guardian angels, ivhen they are ac
tuated only from selfish motives. They
hold out to these people the idea tiiat they
had come from afar to lead them to the
promised land; co isequently they have
been misled by these saints and great phi
lanthropists.
Now the truth is—and some of the best
colored people know the fact wel] —the best
friends of this race are the Southern people;
and we must take the proper steps to coun
teract the mischievous arts of these adven
turers. We must rouse ourselves from our
lethargy. Nothing can be done without
energy and purpose. Then let us go to
work to rescue the colored people from the
control of these men ivho are trying to use
them, and ivho will do mischief not only to
the colored race but to the white.
We must let them see that they can trust
us. Aud how can we show this onlj’ by our
actions ? Deal fairly with them, encourage
them to do right, to try and • improve
themselves, to respect themselves, to
raise their children to honest and
industrious habits. It is the worst policy
in the world to attempt to degrade the
colored man. We must try to raise him
up and show that we feel an interest in
him. Then let us all go to work and do
what we can to cultivate proper relations
between the two races, that must live side
by side in these Southern States. Let no
man say, I can do nothing. Every white
man in tlie South can do something; and
when tlie colored men see that we are in
earnest, they will become co-operators in
this good and glorious work.
H. F. Russell.
Georgia.—A special dispatch from At
lanta to the New York Tribune states that
over 44,000 whites voted the Republican
ticket at the late election in Georgia. In
the same dispatch it is conceded that some
15,000 negroes voted with the Democrats.
Now, tlie majority for Bullock is between
six and eight thousand. The registration
list shows that there are more white than
colored voters in the State. If, therefore,
the Republican ticket received over 44,000
white votes, it follows necessarily that
nearly 40,000 negroes cast Democratic
votes,
This is decidedly a sorry showing for the
Radicals, whose programme was laid down
upon the assumption that they had a sure
thing witli the freedmen. Nearly 40,000
white men in Georgia were disfranchised
by the reconstruction act§, and did not vote
at the recent election. But henceforth
there will be no restriction upon them in
this regard, and it may lie reasonably pre
sumed that all, or nearly all. of them will
vote with the Democrats. This will give
the State to the Democratic party by from
thirty to forty thousand. Should Georgia
be admitted into the Union under this re
constructed constitution, we venture the
prediction that the Democratic majority in
that State at the ensuing Presidential elec
tion will be greater than the Republican
majority in any State in the Union.
[ Montgomery Advertiser.
[From the New York Sun, (Rad.)
Probable Acquittal of President Johnson.
A great deal of light hits been shed with
in the last twenty-four hours upon the
probable result of the impeachment trial.
As tlie case now stands, there is but little
reason to doubt that President Johnson
will be acquitted.
Tlie Washington telegram of the rSw
yesterday morning announced the fact that
Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, has written an
opinion in favor of acquittal. He holds
that the President has the right to remove .
a Cabinet officer, and that Mr. Stanton is
not included in the tenure-of-office act.
This is the most essential point of the im
peachment ; but it is also Mr. Fessenden’s
judgment that the evidence on the other
points is insufficient; in short, tlie articles
are not proved.
Mr. Trumbull has hitherto been relied
upon to vote for conviction, but we suppose
this reliance to have been without good
ground. So far as wc are aware, he has •
not in any way indicated the tendency of
his mind ; but we think there is now suffi
cient reason for the belief that his conclu
sions will be substantially the same as Mr.
Fessenden’s and that he, too, will vote for
acquittal.
These eminent lawyers and statesmen are
led to this result from no friendship for Mr.
Johnson, and from no doubt that his
removal would be beneficial to the country.
They would doubtless very much prefer
to go with the mass of their colleagues and
of their party; but their minds are gov
erned by their own views of the rules of
law and of the evidence presented; and
they decide as judges, without fear, favor,
or consideration for consequences.
The influence of those two Senators must
be powerful over a number of others who
are less learned in the law and less positive
in judgment, and who, in such a case as
this, would naturally look to them for
counsel and direction. In saying this, we
have no reference to Mr. Grimes, of lowa.
He decides all questions for himself, and is
governed by no man’s determination but
his own. Not so influential in the Senate
as Mr. Fessenden or Mr. Trumbull, he is
much more outspoken than either of them
as regards the upshot of the trial. He
openly declares that the President must be
acquitted.
To make acquittal sure, eight Republican
Senators must vote with the eleven Demo
crats. We have already named three.
Then there is Mr. Sherman, who, when the
tenure-of-office act was passed, held that it
did not apply to Cabinet ministers, and who
will be likely to entertain the same view
now. There is Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New
Jersey, who will hardly be deaf to the legal
reasons in favor ot acquittal. Mr. Fowler,
of Tennessee, Mr. Henderson, of Missouri,
and Mr. Van Winkle, of West Virginia, are
understood to be strongly inclined to the
same side. Indeed, we believe that Mr.
Fowler may be considered as quite as cer
tain to go that way as either of the three
Senators we first named. Mr. Anthony, of
Rhode Island, and Mr. Ross, of Kansas, are
also now to be classed among the doubtful;
and at this stage of the affair, and in the
existing circumstances, such doubt is cer
tainly very much in favor of Mr. Johnson.
We have, then, three leading Republican
Senators who are sure for acquittal ; five
who can hardly fail to go with them ; and
two more who are doubtful. This is ten in
all, while only eight are required for a ver
dict of Not Guilty, In addition to these, it
is possible that there are others whom the
more zealous friends of impeachment have
hitherto counted upon to vote on their side,
but who will after all disappoint them and
give their voices for continuing Mr. John
son in office. The probabilities are thus
altogether in his favor.
[From the N. Y. Express.
Butler as a Falsifier-
The notorious Butler on Friday last
thought proper to defend himself for his
agency in the Alta Vela claims by asserting,
as we said, on Saturday, a downright false
hood against the N. Y. Express and J. & E.
Brooks. We have already branded the
untruth and its author as the offense de
served. But to make it still more palpable,
we now place before the Express and other
readers the following card from Mr. S. T.
Clarke, whose name Butler used not only
without any knowledge of the case referred
to, but knowing that every word stated by
him was pure invention. Mr. Clarke has
authorized us to state all that he has ex
pressed in his card, and whatever else may
be necessary to stamp Butler’s statement as
a sheer invention and falsehood.
HERE IS THE FALSEHOOD ABOUT THE
BROOKSES AND CLARKE,
as paraded editorially in Sunday’s Herald
after a previous publication in the Herald
of Saturday:
“ Some time ago there was a case where
one Clarke sued a fellow by tlie name of
Brooks for part ownership in the New
York Express, and there was a difficulty be
tween Erastus Brooks and the other part
ner about a division of the spoils. They
brought him (Butler) the case, and showed
him that the two Brookses had robbed this
Clarke. He (Butler) said he did not love
the firm. He would have nothing to do
vvith it. It was a nasty affair, and not so
fertile as guano. He saw the case in court
and saw the Brookses beaten.”
And here is the card of Mr. Clarke, as
voluntarily written by him after a verbal ’
assurance to us that Butler’s statement had
not one word of truth to rest upon:
New York, May 4, 1868.
Hon. Erastus Brooks:
Dear Sir: In regard to the “Express
Suit,” alluded to by Gen. Butler on Friday
last, allow me to say that it was never offer
ed to him by me, directly or indirectly, and
that I never heard his name connected with
it until Saturday last, on reading the de
bate of the day before. His entire statement
has not the shadow of truth to rest upon.
Yours, truly, S. T. Clarke.
—i |
Sa mana AND Alta Vela.— -The bay of Ba
maaa, for the sale of which by St. Domingo to
the United States there has been some negotia
tions, will hardly be brought about this lime,
yet the proposition is creating an immense
amount of quarrelling iu St. Domingo, one
party making capital out of it against the
other. One agent, Senor Pujol, came out to
negotiate, but he was hardly here before the
government that scut him was overthrown, and
now it is said that another, Senor Nebos, is
coming for the same purpose in behalf of the
newer government. The little matter of Alta
Vela, however, which is now attracting so
much attention in connection with impeach
ment, and the withdrawal of Judge Black as
one of the President’s counsel, is a St. Domingo
affair, and until that is settled we need be both
ered with nothing more in the Dominican.line.
Mr. Seward holds that the rival claims as to
Alta Vela are between two parties of American
citizens, one a Baltimore party, claiming the
guano deposits thereon under act of Congress,
by right of discovery, and the other—-a New-
York party—by contract with the Dominican
government, which asserts jurisdiction over
the island as its territory. With this view, Mr.
Seward declined to favor sending a United
States war vessel to take possession, as desired
by Judge Black, counsel for the Baltimore
claimants. The Baltimore party, once in pos- .
session of the island, after having brought
away several cargoes, were dispossessed by
forces ot St. Domingo, lhe workmen taken.
. off, &c.— Exchange