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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1868)
the weekly constitutionalist, the DEMOCBACY AROUSED! torch-light procession. Reconstruction of the Right Kind ! SEYMOUR AND BLAIR! The grand demonstration of the people of Richmond county, wh.ch took place in ■ our city Friday night (10th) surpassed, in all its features, the expectations of its most ■ sanguine originators. At 10 o’clock, Fri day morning, the committees were appoint ed, and the unexampled success and bril-, Haney of the whole affair attests the zeal ; and industry with which they performed the duties assigned them. The procession was formed in Greene ! street, near the Bell Tower, at 8 o’clock, ' under the supervision of Chief Marshals John A. Christian and James Gargan, and their aids, Dr. Dearing. Col. C. Snead, and Capt. James Fox. ORDER OK PROCESSION. Fisher’s Brass Baud. Officers Fire Department. Pioneer Hook and Ladder Co. Georgia Independent Fire Co., No. 1. Mechanic Independent Fire Co., No. 2. Washington Fire Co., No. 1. Clinch Fire Co., No. 2. Vigilant Fire Co., No. 3. Fillmore Fire Co., No. 4. Augusta Fire Co., No. 5. Blennerhassett Hose Co., No. 6. Richmond Fire Co., No. 7. Citizen Fire Co., No. 8. Colored Brass Band. Richmond County Democratic Club. The different Ward Democratic Clubs of the city, Ward Four especially, in full force. The line of march was up Greene to Marbury, thence to Broad, down Broad to Lincoln, thence to Greene, up Greene to j Jackson, thence to Broad, up Broad to Clara Hall, in front of which the column was taassed in close order, and the speak ing commenced as follows: Gen. M. C. Butler, of South Carolina, was in troduced by Dr. Stevenson and delivered quite an interesting and spirited address. He spoke of the similar insults and oppression heaped upon his native State by those carpet-baggers and scallawags, Scott and Orr, as was impos ed upon Georgia by Bullock, Brown & Co. He called upon bis fellow-soldiers that were with him in Virginia to rally now to the rescue, as they had done so often before on numerous occasions of peril and danger, and to stand up for the nominees of the great National Democratic party, Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair not only to have meetings and processions, &e., but to put their energies to task and to do every thing in their power for them till next Novem ber, and then on the day of election to go to the polls to see that Georgia’s majority might be one that she would ever feel prond to look back on. He referred to the harmony that prevaded i the convention, and the enthusiasm and cheers which greeted the gallant Hampton, and the ‘ noble Forrest, and in fact all the Confederate i Generals who made speeches there. He closed his remarks by once more urging ! upon his hearers the vital importance of leaving nothing undone in their power in the coming campaign to secure the election of the candidates of the glorious Democratic party—Horatio Seymour and Frank P. Blair. SPEECH OF MR. BLACK. Fellow-Citizens : If some conscientious though misguided soldier who fell in the ranks j of the Federal army during the late war could, j by some miracle, appear among us to-night, i what surprise would fill him' as he looked I upon these transparencies bearing such inscrip- j tions as “ The States must be restored to their i equality in the Union ;” “Themilitary must be I subordinate to the civil authority;” “ The Con stitution is the supreme law of the land ?” Well might he ask if Congress did not declare at the inception of the war that it was not waged in any spirit of oppression or subjugation, but to re-assert the national supremacy over all the I States, and as soon as this purpose was accom- ‘ pllshed the States should resume their original ■ status in the Union. Well might he ask, if upon the faith of this promise they did not en list men for the army and receive contributions of money and supplies to carry on the war, why, then, such sentiments as I see emblazon-! ed on the banners before me? He might find ; an answer in the history of the party now in I power. Long ago the war terminated, the , sword had been sheathed, and the people of the I South bad returned to the avocations of peace- \ ful life—vet, to-day, we have a standing army in cur midst, and the civil is made subordinate ; to the military power. All we desire is, that while we are called upon to share the burdens ! of the Government, we may enjoy the advan tages of equal States in the Union. Away with this military power in time of peace.— Away with these swarms of officers who devour the substance of our people by excessive taxa tion without enriching the public treasury ; away with this government of men, and givens <■ governm .nt of law. How are these great ob jects to be accomplished? We, to-night, cele brate an event that we bone is to inaugurate a movement that will sweep these men from power. This great country, witn its various and somewhat conflicting interests, is divided into Lit two political parties. It we desire a restoration of our civil rights and the blessings of peace and prosperity, we can only attain them by a united, determined, vigorous sup port of the Democratic party, with Seymour and Blair as its leaders. I would not dampen thoardor of this vast assembly by an intima tion of even a remote prospect of defeat; but this demonstration will not secure success.— We Lave to meet a foe that is formidable, not because armed with the right, but because wily and unscrupulous. A foe that has long been in power—that has the prestige of former suc cesses and accesses to the public purse. But by a united and vigorous determined support we may achieve the triumph of our principles, represented by Seymour and Blair. Then may we depose from power this conclave now as sembled in Atlanta—men who have been eleva ted by fraud and corruVtion and illegality and vice—men who, in the language of the celebra ted eurran, “ buoyant with putrefaction rise as they rot,” then may lift up the now pros trate, bleeding form of this proud old State, that again she may stand erect, “ Like ome t >ll cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the sto’m, Though ’round its feet the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.” Then may we hope for the harmonious ope ration of each department of the Government : each performing its legitimate functions with out encroachment upon the other; the Legisla tive checked by the veto power of the Execu tive, and these two subject to the final investi gation of a free, untrammeled judiciary that will construe the laws according to precedent and authority, and administer justice freely, without denial, speedily without delay, impar tially to all; then may we be, what God and na ture intended us to be, the greatest, most pros perous people on the earth. SPEECH OF COL. LALLERSTKDT. hy are we here to uight ? What means this mighty demonstration ? What has stirred the national heart and upheaved the great deep of public feeling. A convention assembled in New York a few days since has closed its labors. That body had representatives from every State. All the old thirteen were there, Virginia and all her daughters—their represen tatives came in troops from the Atlantic to the Lakes. No restrictions upon representatives, no cavilling about loyalty. They met as equals to consult about the national welfare and public safety. The South, so long ostracised, so long : despoiled of her wealth, so long trodden down. 1 by hated intruders, had an earnest welcome. ; Forrest and Hampton, who led us in days ol peril and trial, were there. True to their mother, , the South, to the Constitution, and the prinei- ( pies of government bequeathed to us by revo- I lutlonaiy sires, they met a hearty response j from the vast convocation in New Tammany ' Hail, and the hundreds of thousands that thronged without its walls. This demonstra tion started there, and amidst the most intense enthusiasm it closed its labors. Along the telegraphic wires flashed on the cheering news. State after State, city after city, hamlet after hamlet, has caught up the sound, and with one long and loud acclaim they echo and re-echo the swelling theme with rapturous joy. They declare unceasing hostility to the Radical party; they denounce the recon struction acts of Congress as null and void; they pronounce for the Constitution —the foundation of our Government and the palla dium of our liberties. What else could we ask? All other issues dwindle into insignifi cance—all others are minor and unimportant. The Government restored to its ancient prin ciples and our proper national status secured, lesser complications will adjust themselves in a harmonious administration of public affairs. The reconstruction acts passed and enforced without the authority of the Constitution—out side of and in conflict with its plainest pro visions is placed in view of the American peo ple as the question for their decision in No vember next. Candidates have been nomi nated and placed on the platform. Horatio Seymour, ter President, a tried and true man, an old-time Democrat, always con sistent, fully imbued with the principles of the Government of our fathers, and one who sympathised with us in the days of our greatest calamities. He is our standard bearer and he will guide the ship of State into the haven of safety and of peace. In the time of the late war, when the Lincoln Government was intoxicated and breathing threateningsand vengeance against all who did not endorse their policy of blood and subjugation, he was placed in nomination as the candidate for Governor of the Empire State of the North, and in the face of bayonets, Federal soldiers, espoiuage, frauds and intimidations at the ballot box, and every appliance that wealth and power could invent, he was triumphantly elected and inaugurated. Whatever of personal preference, whatever of sectional feeling there may have been, it has all been buried, and Horatio Seymour is the enthusiastic choice, the unanimous nominee of the Democratic party. Francis P. Blair is the nominee for Vice-President, a man of sterling merit, of firmness and intrepidity. He has taken the highest grounds for Southern rights of all those that have written or spoken North of the Capital. He says “ there is no way to restore the Government and the Constitution but for the President elect to declare the reconstruc tion acts null and void, to compel the army to undo its usurpations at the South ; disperse the carpet-bag State governments, allow the white ! people to reorganize their own governments, ; and elect Senators and Representatives.” This announcement was made before the convention met, and he was willing to stand or fall upon the issue tendered. If elected by the votes of freemen he will fight his way to his seat. If this ticket succeeds, Bullock, who has, by fraud and force, usurped the place of our own C. J. Jenkins, with all his miserable crowd of carpet-baggers, will leave between two lights, ! and we remain without a stranger near to spoil our heartfelt joy. We claim our own State government with our own people as rulers, the friends of our childhood, the companions of our youth; unless, perchance, some weary wanderer from foreign despotisms have sought our State as a fit asylumn, who have linked I their destiny with us, strike hands of common fellowship and tender us whatever of learning or manhood they possess to sustain our insti tutions and forward our interest. What though their memory often runs back to their child hood home, and in the anguish and bitterness of their hearts they say— Where is the cottage door fast by the wildwood, Sisters and sire do you mourn for its fall I Oh! where is the mother that watched o’er my child hood— And where is the bosom friend dearer than all ? Ob! my poor heart long abandoned by pleasure, Why did you dote on this fast-fading treasure ? Tears, like rain drops, may fall without measure, But beauty and rapture ye cannot recall. We are willing to divide with them whatever of wealth, place or friendship we possess, and incorporate them as part and parcel of our people. This contest decides our destiny, and it is for the whole people to say who shall rule over them. I have no doubt they will be true to : themselves, and in November next the Govern ment will be restored. REMARKS OF MR. ELLS. Mr. John L. Ells, of the Constitutionalist, was called for and responded briefly. He con gratulated his fellow-citizens upon the fact that the time had at last arrived when the Democracy of the country could have one more opportunity to unite in their strength—North and South—and expel from power the corrupt creatures who now usurp the sacred places in the temple of Liberty. It was an hour for which he had longed, as also had bis brethren j of the press; night after night and day after day, for three long years had their hearts been depressed as mail after mail and telegram after j telegram were received but to inform of fresh aggressions upon a disarmed and defenseless people by the Radical and cowardly majority in the halls of Congress. He had not only longed for this hour, but be had also hoped for it, for he knew the great heart of the nation in both sections beat in unison with the spirit of patriotism and true devotion to the Constitu tion and the Jaws. He had hoped for it, because he believed that the great majority of the soldiers of the Union army were satisfied i that the object of the war had been attained, i and that now they were anxious to take by the ! hand those brave men of the Confederate army, ! equally honest, who had fought so nobly for the cause they believed just and right. For | one,’he was willing, with the brave General I (Butler) who had preceded him, to bury the j past, and take as one of the leaders of the Detn | ocratie party General Frank P. Blair, and 'to elaim of bin?, and of every other I true soldier of the Union, that pro j teetion atjd those rights for which it had i been declared the war against the South had I been waged. The speaker thanked God that I the time bad come in which the scum of the I nation, which the seething cauldron of revolu- I tion had precipitated to the surface, would be I ejected, and the pure waters of liberty once more flow peacefully through our country. He : thanked the firemen and others of bis fel low-citizens for the hearty enthusiasm mani fest ou the occasion, for it had given him new courage and still greater hope He had gathered from what he had observed inscribed upon their various banners, that their hearts j were still in the right place—while it was their j peculiar mission as firemen to save the lives i and property of their fellow citizens, they to night had evinced a determination to do all they I could to save the life of the nation, to preserve in its purity the Constitution of the Fathers of ’76. We feel that we have done injustice to the speakers in the foregoing sketches, but i they are aware of the unfavorable circum ’ stances attending any attempt to report ■ speeches on such occasions. They must feel I that their remarks were in accord with the great mass of noble men and women by whom they were surrounded, and in this consciousness reap their reward. Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, the enthused populace were reluctant to disperse, and repeated calls were made for Dr. Stevenson, who had acted as Chair- man of the occasion and announced the speakers of the evening; but the Doctor, with characteristic modesty, declined to re spond. v TRANSPARENCIES AND DEVICES. It seemed if each company was vieing with the others in the prolusion, original ity and appositeness of transparencies and devices. Hundreds were exhibited iii the procession and on the line of march. A mammoth affair was mounted on a wagon (Mr. Conway’s) leading the van, on which was inscribed the national colors, with the legend, “The Constitution ol 1860 ;” on the opposite, “ Farewell, ye Scalawags.” Georgia Fire Co. had a triangular trans parency: colors—red, white ami blue. “ Georgia Boys will do their duty." “ A) e are trying to save our contry from the danger which threatens it."—Seymour. “ A people who cannot find in their own proper force their own protection are not worth saving.” “ Up Boys, and at them.” Also a transparency, on which was a Radical viewing Congress in the future—a Rad spying a negro through a glass; a lit tle smoke and a good deal of nigger. A Democratic view—a Democrat, with a spy glass, viewing the Constitution written among the stars of the firmament, and with it, we see more— and Constitution, Justice, Order and Prosperity. Also, a transparency, on which was de lineated a Georgia Fireman, with pipe in hand—“ Georgia always around where there is dangera carpet-bagger, with green umbrella, bidding good-bye to his fellow scalawags. Mechanic, No. 2, had the following on one: “Seymour and Blair. “In hoc signo vin ces “ Tandem Triumphans on another, “ Horatio Seymour, of New York ; Francis P. Blair, of Missouri, 1868.” Pioneer Hook and Ladder Co.—A trans parency on which was written “ Equal Taxation,” “ Greenbacks for Bonds,” “ Sey mour and Blair,” and the emblems of the company. Washington, No. I—A painting of two cats with tails tied to a stretched clothes line, and clawing each other, with the words, “ We’ll Fight it Out on this Line.” On another side are two game cocks, one terribly whipped, and in a dying condition, the victorious cock crowing, “ I’m Cock of this Walk and You’re a Gone Chicken.” Clinch, No. 2—“ Equal Taxation,” “ Hide Out, Rads, Seymour will Catch You!” “ Central Railroad: No Scalawags Here.” “We are all O. K.” “ The Constitution is Our Motto.” A picture of a very doleful carpet-bagger and the inscription, “ Good bye, Scala wags.” Vigilant, No. 3—“ Seymour and Blair.” “ Vigilant to Extinguish the Fires of Radi calism.” “Justice, Liberty, Prosperity and Civil Law.” Augusta, No. s—“ Hide out B’s.” A pic ture of a white and black cat tied by the tails to a I ne, fighting, and the inscription, “We’ll Fight it Out on this Line if it Takes all Summer.” “Freedom of Speech.” Blennerhassett, No. 6—Device: A re spectable colored gentleman applying his No. 15 brogan a posteriori to a carpet-bag ger, who was gitin’ up to git—Legend— “ Git Out You Scalawag.” Richmond, No. 7—“ Free Speech.” “Equal Taxation.” Citizen, No. 8—“ Citizen 8 will do her Duty.” “ Seymour and Blair.” “No Smoking.” Innumerable transparencies, devices and banners were displayed along the line of march, among the most noticeable of which were those in front of the stores of Messrs. J. A. Gray & Co., Geo. A. Oates, Gray & Turley, Volger & Co., Tutt’s Drug Store, and Jno. D. Butt & Bro. The transparen cy in front of Oates’ Book Store represent ed a crowd of scalawags and a bob-tailed bullock in fly time, dispersing on the ad vent of a shell in their midst, inscribed, “ Seymour and Blair.’’ Mullarky Bros.’ store was handsomely illuminated, and Dr. Tutt’s was remarkable for the exquisite taste displayed and the profusion of decora tions. Plumb & Leitner’s establishment attracted much attention, on account of the appropriateness and brilliancy of the ar rangement of the lights, inside and out. The Central Hotel was a blaze of lights from top to bottom ; in fact all the hotels were illuminated, as were nearlj r all the stores' on Broad street. The Constitu tionalist building had every window in its ample front illuminated, and on a trans parency in front the legend, “ Seymour and Blair; the People will soon See More of Civil Liberty and Less of DUlitary Despot ism.” • The store of Stevenson & Shelton was brilliantly illuminated with a hundred lights in each window. On the awning post in front was a large painting, repre senting Dr. W. B. Wells, bearing aloft a i banner, with the inscription, “ A Voice from the West”—“No North, no South, no East, no West. November—Seymour and Blair.” We must not fail to notice that the irre pressible “Gazelle” had a place in the pic ture, with their hose carriage, and a trans parency on which was defiantly written, “ Gazelle Still Lives to Vote Against Scala wags, V bite Niggers and Perjurers ;” “ Seymour and Blair;” “ Hide out B’s.” Richards Bros, made a fine show with a .row of lights on the balcony in front of their splendid store. Ttic iron fence in front of Mrs. D’Antig nac’s. mansion had doub.ed its pickets and every alternate one was a brilliant light. “ the flag.” Several large flags were brought out ; from their seclusion. More than one of l them have histories which would read like romances. We had only time to hastily give a sigh for “lang syne” as w*e gazed on their folds for the first time in seven years. The fact of their preservation sj eaks volumes for the esteem in which they were held by “ rebels” who fought under the stars and bars. The flag-statt’ on Fireman’s Hall was ornamented with thirteen lanterns various ly colored. This tasteful decoration was the handiwork of Chief Platt. As the procession passed the quarters of the United States troops, on Broad street, many soldiers formed in line and gave cheer alter cheer as the different companies march ed by, or as some patriotic or quaint device was noticed upon the transparencies borne by the men whom, probably, they had once faced in honorable warfare. The cheers were responded to by the whilom “boys in grey” with a hearty good will. AV e can not refrain expressing our un mitigated gratification in noticing a large number of the most respectable colored men of our city in the procession, and their admirable deportment throughout. The colored Brass Baud surprised every one with the quality of the music discoursed. Not a shadow of disturbance occurred during the entire demonstration. To enumerate the half of the many fine things displayed would occupy all our col umns, and we must forbear, contenting ourselves with the reflection that this splendid demonstration was but a faint ex pression of the heartfelt gratification of our people that the great Democracy had once more risen in its might to do battle for our common country. Hundreds of ladies were on the street, and from the radiant hope and faith beam ing from their eyes and the hearty cheers with which they greeted our gallant fire men and the speakers of the evening, we gather the assurance that their hearts and prayers are with the representatives of the Constitutional Party, whose leaders are Seymour and Blair. (From the Savannah Republican. Speech Delivered by Francis McNeil, (color ed,) of Savannah, G-a., at the Conservative Meeting in Wilkinson County on the Fourth of July- Fellow-citizens and Friends: It is with a degree of high gratefulness that I acknowledge the honor bestowed and confidence imposed. For thirty years of honest toil I have been wedded to the Con servative cause. Freedom is, and was ever a boon to me—but we were not freed by Radical sympathy nor Federal bayonets.— It was God who freed us. As a great war policy the President, after offering"to South rons the right to hold slaves if they would only return to their allegiance to the Union, proclaimed the slaves free. The different nations of the wide world were represented in the late and bloody struggle. The army which crushed us as a Southern people was composed of hirelings, in fact, from divers people. Then, it was not Yankees who set us free. It was God, in His infinite wisdom, which pervades all nations. It has been and is still argued that we were never out of the Union. "The leaders of the ruling fanaticism have de clared the Southern States never to have been out for one purpose, and at other times, in order to place a seeming veil on shame, they would swear by high heaven that they had broken every tie, and had severed every link. We are colored men and in the South to live and then to die. Its progress is our fortune ; its fall our ruin. The degree of protection due between us as colored and white men is mutual. Our old masters own the lands which give us support, and we are dependent alone upon these lands ; for every one of us who lives thereon owes allegiance to the same and its owner. But, my friends, how, is it with the scalawag office-seeker ? Does he or any one of the black swarm own any property with us? Do the laws which they make to draw heavy taxes from us reach their in famous pockets ? They do not. They own no lands of consequence, and one remarkable fact is that you never mee. a carpet-bagger or scalawag but whom you find an office seeker or a Government leach, Who is suck ing the vital blood of the Federal Treasury. They love the colored man so long as the colored man will feed them through a Government quill. They come down ■with great prospects for heavy cropping, and the poor, innocent and ignorant blacks will flock around them as a sacred centre —as a peculiar friend and preserver to whom they would bear true allegiance ever, and at the end of the year they carry off their effects to New York or some other market in the North, and always, as a general thin o- , for get to return—but seek another portion of the land of farming. These scalawagshave no right here. White Radicals of Georgia birth voted not for radicalism—however ridiculously they acted—but for relief! Re lief from what ? Relief from paying those honest debts which they have promised to pay. Relief from paying your employes such moneys as are due them, and if pos sessed would raise your wages to a much higher stand. They wished to rob honest men to feed their trifling deeds, at which the vile Congress itself recoiled in demon like awe. The great constitution of Geor gia held out as one of its highest traits of virtue that an honest debt, made dur ing certain times, should not be paid. Congress, with ail of its dark stood aghast at this hellish attempt, suit ed alone to regions of darkness. The worthy brother of this band, Aaron Alpe oria Bradley, stood out to the en lightened world as a standard of the praiseworthy virtues of this brother hood. He visited Washington on import ant business, and I am told visited “Sing- Sing” on important business of a “very legal” nature. Georgia has returned to the Union, and now may every man "o together against scalawags, devils and perdition. They are darker in deed and viler in intention than Judas Iscariot, the be trayer of Christ. Colored men, do not think you have the Southern men as your enemies because you find enemies in a few of them. Southern lands are subjugated and white and black of Southern climes must unite in one common cause. In union we will yet see a proud nation on this troubled land, but in disunion the biacks will eventually find a home in the earth or another land. Then, white and colored men, unite and defeat Grant, the butcher of man, who placed the poor black man in the bloody van to receive the deadly fire in many a horrible strife; who marches the ignorant blacks into the very jaws of death, in order to build a generalship upon hii “ Horse Fame.” Run any man on the Con servative ticket—even Judge Chase for we know not but, if Grant is elected, our days of suffrage may be no more. White ' friends have landed property with us car-' pet-baggers have nothing save a prospect I of dallying with colored ignorance and ■ white objects of pitiable contempt. My I colored friends, you must appoint a time 1 and form colored clubs of Conservatives for a common protection. Shall these bands of’ Northern jail-birds rob all, white and col-1 overt, and yet be supported by us in prefer- ■ ence to our own neighbors, whom we can trust ? God forbid the awful omen of the fallen land ! Give the white man his right, colored friends, and protect him in it.— White man, give the black his rights, and bear and forbear with him, for he is yet young in things of a nation. lam Conser vative to the back bone; every hair of my head bears true allegiance to this grand, great and glorious order. Colored men were freed by changes which are incidental to the great workings of nature. lam for the South. Who made slavery ? A Dutch man brought the first in 1619. Christ for gave His enemies, and certainly we ought not only to forgive those who brought us up, but should be grateful to their posterity. Who can give us land to work? Will Joe Brown? Take him away from Geor gia. He has been to Chicago, and brings the devil over our head. He took no in heritance in the troubles of the late war, had nothing to do with Fort Pulaski, kept not up much “home spunk” at Milledge ville. See him when General Wilson ar rested him and carried him to Macon; how humbly he bows, and seems to have ever been possessed of the most sacred devotion to the Union and the cause thereof. He Is the very personage of a traitor. Not a particle of blood flows through his veins but will change about and take different directions, moved by the vileness of his traitorous heart—not even his blood is true to his system. Then, who was it freed us? It was cross-eyed Jeff Davis. He did it by proving true to his cause, for which a punishment of two long years was assigned to him, and is still lingering un der Radical courts. Let us, then, respect each other, my white and colored friends, and the North can never run ov.er us.— Drop the expression of “free negro”—we are freedmen. Conservatives do not want to re-enslave us. The Constitution of the Union protects us against that, and the whites do not want to do it. Georgia is now in the Union. Let us cast out these nitlful little office-seekers of Northern jails. 'They will laugh at our ignorance, and car ry to their obscure homes in Northern haunts the fruits of Southern rule. How many of you received your mule and sixty acres of land which Bradley promised you ? However, he is ass enough to sire a sufficient number of mule colts to supply Georgia. After the late election you could see black men coming in Savannah with their bridles, hunting Bradley’s stables. They went to Brown’s, but failed to find Brad ley’s. No gentleman would act thus. — These leading agents for governmental pur poses in the dark course get eight or ten dollars per day for their trifling work, when we poor blacks, who are duped by Radical shame, get nothing but a mock of ignorance. My friends, who support the Southern States? Do the Yankees? Stick to prin ciple. Let the carpet-baggers go to the devil, for your votes are all they want. Time alone can tell the woe you bring upon yourselves by pressing the present course. Let us see the narrow, but right path, and take it before we are too far in the hands of ruin. It there was ever a time for union, ’tis now. Speech of Hon. Montgomery Blair.— Among the speeches made in New York on the eve of the opening of the National De mocratic Convention was a very pointed effort of Hon. Montgomery Blair, of Mary land, delivered before the Metropolitan De mocratic Club, in which he said he rejoiced to see that we were on the eve of a great uprising of the American people. [Bully.] We saw one six years ago to save the Union of these States ; we are now called on to save the Constitution. We who have left the Republican party to defend the Consti tution are accused of siding with rebellion. The South is the victim of a horrible tyranny, and your turn will not be long de layed. The South is crushed and despoiled, and you also will soon be crushed and des poiled. Your own immediate interests will be overruled by fifty carpet-baggers in the House of Representatives and twenty in the Senate of the United States. A large body of .intelligent men at the South have been disfranchised, and a quantity of ignorant negroes enfranchised, and to govern whom ? The Southern States? No! You here in New York ! You will have to support an army which will drain your wealth, and a ‘military aristocracy built upon its spolia tion. When in the Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln, in 1862, I denounced the right of Congress to determine whether the seceding States were or were not out of the Union. This present assumed right of Congress to say who shall vote in the States leads to a military des potism. When the Senate declared that Mr. Stanton should not be removed, a com mittee, with Mr. Cameron at their head, went to General Grant to ask if it was his pleasure to hold him in his position. I have been always a Democrat, and my father was a friend of the hero-President, Gen. Jack son, and when I felt compelled to leave the Democratic party it was because the South ern wing made the slave power practically the governing power of the country. I see now quite as little and far less Democracy in founding a government of the sword, aided by the negro. This soverign Rump Congress has lately enfranchised twelve hundred of the worst rebels of the South because they voted the Radical ticket, and men who were .opposed before the war to secession remain disfranchised because they will not endorse its acts. Why should not the citizens of New York and New Jersey be disfranchised if they also disprove its course? Their turn will surely follow. “ The Old Flag.”—On the eve of the grand Democratic demonstration, on Wed nesday of last week, a distinguished Fed eral officer stationed at this post verv kind ly offered to furnish United States flags, of which he fortunately had an abundant sup ply. His offer was accepted, and the flags so furnished were borne in the procession. This fact has evoked the ire of some of the trooly toil, and we learn from the best authority that the officer who was "milty of the heinous offense of courtesy to rebels has been compelled to request that no thanks be returned to him, for fear he may be com promised. Comment is unnecessary. The hounds who, since the close of the war, have been prostituting the name of Liberty and forg ing chains for a gallant people, now object to their marching under the “ old flag.’”— We are gratified to be able to chronicle that when complaint was made to General tri Hem by some of these caricatures upon manhood, he, like the gentleman and soldier he is, administered a rebuke which will not be forgotten for many days. We will fur ther venture the assertion that if that flag is ever again borne in the fiery front of bat tle, these self-same rebels will be found un der its folds doing their dutv, while those who revile them will be snuffing the car nage from afar off, or plundering the dead after the fight is over.— Vicksburg Whig. Egg shells, empty but unbroken, are used in I pistol galleries as targets. The shell is placed on the waterjet of a fountain where it dances fantastically as a swallow’s flight. Were the egg full us weight would be too great to be borne by an ordinary stream of water, besides wan, t( : i ' C o e M by a ball il woukl soil and w bll e the empty shell bods in the most any manner on the inconstant water. challeno-- mg tae utmost skill to hit it, ’ (From the New York World. Peter Bagger. The Bad and melancholy accident on Monday evening by whi-h Peter Cagger, Esq., of Albany lost his life has sent a thrill to thousands hearts. Mr. Cagger was one of those gLia men who was calculated to win f® 3 wherever be went. Possessing excellent social quahhes and warm in his attachments he drew men to him, who first admired and then loved him. He was a native of Albany and of Irish parentage, and at the time of his death about fl ty-six years of age. He has beeni a resident of Albany all his lite, where he studied law and worked himself up to be one of the first men at the bar in that city, and has the reputation of being the best office lawver in the State He has, during his career, been associated with such men as Samuel Stevens, Nicholas Hill and John K. Porter, and through his profession has amassed a moderate fortune. He has been prominent as a party leader in the State for many years, and one of the principal men in what was called the Albany Regency. During the period which Dean Richmond was Chai* man of the Democratic State Convention Mr Cagger was its Secretary, and always performed the duty of callins: the State Convention to order and attended to the details. Mr. Rich mond always had the most perfect confidence in his judgment, and they always worked in harmony. He has represented that Congress ional district in nearly every Democratic National Convention since 1840 until the pres ent body, and has been a power in the State. He and the late Dean Richmond controlled and directed the movements of the party for many years, but since the death of Richmond he has manifested a desire to withdraw from politics. He never held nor sought office, but always stood ready to aid a friend, and but few men could be found who would devote so much time and energies to serve others, for whom he had taken a fancy. He came to this convent ion not as a delegate but as an outside worker, to use his influence upon the delegates—a large number from all sections of the country being personal acquaintances—in the hope of aiding in shaping its deliberations in a manner that would insure success. It is principally through his exertion that the delegation from this State decided to cast its vote for Sanford E. Church. As a citizen, Mr. Cagger was esteemed by all who knew him or enjoyed his acquaintance.— Liberal, generous and open-hearted, he won a host of friends and had but a few enemies. No man in the Democratic party in the State will be missed more than he. Mr. Cagger was a peculiar looking man, standing about five feet five, and possessing a smooth florid face, with thin, yellow hair sparingly covering a large and well-developed head. Personally, Mr. Cagger was a gentle man of excellent manner and courtly address, pleasing in conversation, and affable in social intercourse. He was particularly remarkable for his undeviating fidelity to friends. His talent at organization was something marvel lous. His mind seemed to be avast storehouse for the receptacle of useful information, especi ally that of a political character. He was thoroughly familiar with the peculiar interests and situation of every Congressional and Sena torial district in the State, and the peculiar tem perament and capacity, and surroundings of each leading man in every district. By these faculties and acquirements, added to a remark able social adaptability, and a temper under the best restraint, Mr. Cagger loomed up as a con spicuously controlling figure in all State poli tical assemblages, winning allies and holding friends by the liberality of the support which he gave in return for support and services ren dered. As a citizen and friend, Mr. Cagger was widely beloved and esteemed, and as an or ganizer and worker for the Democracy of the State, he will be sadly missed and mourned. He was a leading member in one of the Catholic Churches at Albany, and leaves a wife and family to mourn his loss, on whom this sudden blow must fall heavily. In every walk of life the deceased was an estimable man, and the news of his sudden death will cast a gloom over the community where he resides. Separation of Chang and Eng.—lt is stat ed that the celebrated Siamese twins are about to go to Paris in order to submit to a surgical operation which will separate them, after a union ol fifty-nine years. They were brought to England from Siam in the year 1827 or 1828 by Captain Bunker, at present living in New York, and for a series of years they were ex hibited to the public at all the great centres of civilization. Having visited America, they de termined to make this land their home. They bought a valuable tract of land In North Carolina, married two sisters, and settled iu the ordinary routine of a farmer’s dairy life. Each of them is now the father of nine chil dren. The reason for their determination, at this late day, to call in the art of surgery to produce an entire physical separation is, that having reached such an advanced age, they are fearful that one may become the subject of disease which may prove fatal to both. The twins are held together by quite a mas sive link of thoroughly normal and perfectly vitalized integument, some ten or twelve inches in circumference, situated near the vital organs, and in close proximity to the heart and lungs ; and the connection is so intimate that each seems to be thoroughly an organized portion of the other, as much so as any of the ordinary members of a naturally constituted human body. Sensation, nervous impression, mental phenomena, morbid, physical, and nervo-mental conditions, all show a most perfect physical unity in this wonderful dual physical existence. The New York Tribune says the question iu regard to the result of an operation is no new one, but soon after their first appearance in London and Paris it excited the .minds of the foremost intellects in the surgical world. If we remember rightly, the “ twins” were ex hibited before the Academy of Physicians and Surgeons in Paris at that time for the purpose of ascertaining their opinion in regard to the probabilities of a successful operation. The disagreement in regard thereto, we believe, led to the abandonment of the project. Illegality of the Military Court—The (N. Y.) Daily Press, after relating the matters connected with the Military Court now sitting in Atlanta, and stating the nature of the testi mony given by Marshall the first day of the sitting of the Court, thus speaks of the right to try the parties by such a court. It says : Georgia is now a State in the Union, and is in a state of peace, and the trial of civilians for any offense therein by a militaiy court, and under the articles of war, is clearly a violation of the constitution, as claimed by Mr. Stephens. If these men are guilty of the horrible crime of assassinating Ashburn, no matter how bad a man he may have been, they should suffer the penalty of the law. Assassination must be punished. But we believe that twelve honest men could be found iu Georgia who would convict these alleged murderers if they are found guilty, and the case should be disposed of in the civil courts. Feelings of horror at the awful crime, and a just and proper wish to have the guilty parties punished, should not lead to the violation of law. An illegal court is no court at all, and if these men are convict ed by a court martail, and executed by the military authorities, it is precisely the same violation of law that it would be if they were tried by a body of “ regulators” and lynched. It is not lawful to commit murder for the pur pose of avenging murder. Crime.— Cincinnati, July 10.—An attempt was made about 3 o’clock this morning to rob the Adams Express car on the Ohio and Mis sissippi Railroad, near Brownstown, Ind. When the train reached Brownstown to wood and water, five meu sprang upon the engine and express ear, driving off the engineer and fire man, uncoupled the express car, and ran west about eight miles when the car was stopped, and the robbers ioiced an entrance, but were met with a volley from the pistols of the guard inside. . The robbers ■were driven off, leaving one of their number badly wounded, who was brought to this city this morning. Sunapee Lake, in Bradford, N. H , has been stocked with Nova Scotia salmon and black bass. Pretty soon not only our lakes and rivers will be stocked with every kind of fishes, but all persons will have private ponds, in which they will rear their own piscatorial pro vender. The science of fish culture may sotm be so generally studied and adopted that the trade cl the fkhermoa will become obsolete.
