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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1869)
THE WEEKLY OOHSTIfTmOimESY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPT. 1, l#!9 dab Rates far tbs Weekly Coastttatlaa* MliSt. That every one may be enabled to sub scribe, and receive the benefits of a live jour nal, we offer the following liberal terms to Clubs ; 1 Copy per year - - - • $3 00 3 Copies per year - - - - 7SO 5 Copies per year - - - - 12 =OO 10 Copies per year - - - - 20 00 We trust that every subscriber to the paper will aid us in adding to our list. 0E0?S AND (JTJRBEN f NEWS. Our subscribers and friends in the coun try will confer a favor on us and our nu merous readers by sending ns items as to crop prospects and general news in their different sections. We trust that each subscriber will consider himself a special correspondent for the Constitu tionalist, and thereby add to the interest of the paper. A PAIR OF VAMPYRES. If Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has any delicacy of feeling, which may now be doubted ; or if she has any keen sense of propriety, which is very problematical— her last venture Into the literary world will, In view of the almost unanimous con demnation of the press and public, tiring shame, vexation and reproach. We are by no means sure, however, that she is made of such penetrable stuff. Not only is she too deliberate a weaver of sensations, as well as a reckless one, but she likewise has the proof-armor of spiritual pride, against which even extraordinary assaults arc in- operative. Like Lady Byron, Mrs. Stowe has attained, in her own conceit, to a heav en of her own. She arrogates to herself a place by St. Paul in the angelic abodes. She is evidently convinced of her own sal vation, and, so convinced, believes that God Himself has specially delegated her to proselytize common or uncommon sinners with just sucli carnal instrumentalities as she shall elect, and for just as much money as she can command. When to the tra ditional Puritan element of persecution is added a presumptive right to Para dise or a docp-clenched pietistic hauteur, we have the types of such women as Lady Byron and Mrs. Stowe,- wc have iron clad pcrsoulflcatlons of Nemesis---the re- ligious ghouls and vnmpyres of this miser able mundane sphere. With these de voted and sanctimonious members of the rhinoceros tribe of mortals nothing can lie done through the usual processes of con tradiction and rebuke. Just as Lady By ron made of the world a big pap-spoon of martyrdom, Mrs. Stowk will make of her critics a huge tear-jug for the depravity, as she regards it, of the daily press. As she is still something of a human being, she must not l>e wholly callous to the scorn, indignation and contempt heaped upon her by writers of all shades of political opin ion, and by some whose provocation must have been, iu her regard, almost supernatu rally aroused. Wc have no doubt, In con junction with many of our contemporaries of the press, that Mrs. Stowe imagined she was doing God’s work In the heinous reve lations she made public. Wc acquit her of any resolute determination toward c.a- lumny for its own sake. But when this is said in extenuation nil is said, and wehayo n revelation not quite ns horrible as the Byron scandal—for that is without paral lel—but we have a significant revelation of what the Radical spirit of the age can achieve in blasting Intellectual woman hood. We have, m a word, a Mrs. Stowe —the high vain pyre type of the Puritan female of the latter years of the nineteenth century. Self-sufficient, assured of heaven ly beatitude, sublimely sentimental, incar nated conscience, suspicions, nimble-wit cd, sour In reformation, sanely insane— such ait the ravenous bats who supimsc themselves sky-sent in order to proclaim the moral law by unmasking the forgotten frailties ■ tenderly hidden in graves—and fertile and lynx-eyed, to discern in a mass of wretchedness such bestlatlty as the in habitant of the dust, when living, never dreamed of the commission. The spirit which animated Mi’s. Stowe to write her celebrated lampoon against the South is the same spirit that digs the masonry from Byron’s sepulchre and filches among his bones for a putrescence hidden there by the demented craft of his dec rep id relict.— It is the same spirit that forced the iu liuniau rabble of the North upon the South. It Is the same spirit that now, under the guise of good government, plun ders, betrays and ruins us; and while contravening God’s edict in the dlstribu- j tion of the races of men, affects to bo ofj apostolic origin and tint embassage of j Jehovah. Against this Puritanic and super cilious self-righteousness it is difflc'Ult to couteud, and It is equally difficult to en dure with patience. It usually is its- own worst enemy, for it invariably makes oue. leap too many aud Is betrayed into the very traps it cunningly devised for others. Jso with Mrs. Stowe, and so with the party of which she is an exulted representative. { (she has made otic essay too many, aud when : she »up|K>aed cherubim would descend aud 1 fan her holy brow with th«dr wings, 10, j she is startled from a deceitful re very, If: auytliiuii can startle a mental gorgnu, i and, insusul of the plauiea of the tiluased falling like zephyrs upon her forehead, down * "We Urn rags, and dust and moths of her LiwU ’/Wo's Cabin Alas, fur her aim ah. sadrU into the eippyrva.u but Cainn she lew. Sne deemed that her arms grew into seraphic wings—but day light has revealed them m the foal vsnwof the spiritual ram pyre which preys upon the dead as well as the living. v & % Almost coincidental with Mrs. Stowe's sensation, we have Rnotbcr outrage from one of the brotherhood of the new dispen sation. It is not equal to Mrs. Stowe’s venture ; but it is a characteristic type of the man and his class. A late number of the New York Independent Contains a communication from W. Lloyd Garrison; in which he seeks to belittle and bedaub Mr. Georoe Peabody, the great and pure hearted philanthropist. Garrison nays: “No matter what medicinal virtue may exist in any Northern mineral spring, true to his Southern sympathies he hastens to the White Sulphur Springs in Virginia, where he is sure of finding congenial society—those springs being the favorite resort of the elite of rebeldom, who have collectively welcomed his presence by adopting a series of congratulatory reso lutions. ; v - Could anything be more mean and de testable than this dastard’s unmannerly innuendo? Some years ago, the voice of this agitator and real traitor was de servedly powerless; but, in these strange and mad times, it has swollen to the big utterance of; a god. Gf.o hoe Peabody snarled at by Lloyd Garrison! Is that not a monstrous consequence of the national leprosy? The man who is morally guilty of his country’s degradation and the blood of her children dares to taunt the guiltless man who will be followed with blessings and honor as long as the world lasts. If Mr. Peabody did seek the White Sulphur because It was the resort of Southern gentility, he may, with flue natural instincts, have dreaded the Black Sulphur Springs of the North. This was too good a chance for a malignant slur and It comes from the acrimonious heart of a Gaiiuison, and Is meant to cast suspicion upon Mr. Peabody, because he prefers to choose the society of those who will not accept of his bounties and then turn about and sneer at him while living and trump up scandals about him when dead. This would be rank and monstrous; but it Is possible at the Black Sulphur and possible from the two Individuals to whom we re fer in this article. These persons are measurably the representatives of the despotism which crushes the nobler part of this great land and holds It in durance vile. The trail of the vampyres is over it all. God speed the day when their awful carnival shall cease—when the victims of their bigotry shall rise upon their feet, and, if no worse fate befall, give the vam pyres leave to mount their witch-broom sticks and escape up the dirty chimney of their foul imagination. THE COTTON PROSPECT. Our New York correspondent, “ TWf loughby," has this paragraph in his last letter: “ I must repeat my caution about cotton. Do not expect too high prices. Every thing promises to favor the early seller. Last season I told your growers that a great effort would be made to break down this market to 20 cents for middling up land, as a basis for marketing the new crop, but urged that growers should resist a decline below 25 cents. But there is now no such out-look to the future of the mar ket us there was then. Our Eastern spin ners continue to reduce the production of goods. The telegraph brought us, on Satur day, the report that one of the largest mills, or series of mills, will commence on Monday to run half time. There is a gen eral disposition to estimate the coming crop at over three million bales, aud It is argued that England cannot, and, there fore, will not, pay over ten pence a pound tor what she may need of this crop. Ex perience certninly justifies this statement, and it is not safe to run counter to it.’’ A friend of ours, who has had great expe rience in these matters, complains that “ Willoughby ”. is rather “ bearing ” tiie market. Iu proof of this, he foruishea. us with the following report from a Provi dence paper published on the very day it was reported that the mills would soon commence to rub on short time: “ Providence, R. 1., August 21—P. M.— Cotton.— Sales of tiie week, about 4,000 bales, at steadily advancing prices, tiie mar ket closing stroug on Saturday at 35uf80 cents for middlings, upland ami gulf. The stock of cotton lias become very much re duced,and the quantity on sale of all kinds Is hardly enough to supply tiie regular spinning .demand tor a week. “ Print Cloths,—Market very firm, with an upward teudeacy- Stock of grey goods in the bauds Os manufacturers is very light. 12,000 pieces 64x64, 8.J* ceuts ; 45,000 pieces 64x64, Sjfj: cents.- Total sales, 80,000 pieces.” A Philadelphia market report has the an nexed quotations: “ Pmt,ADKU*ntA, August 21— Prices have again advanced; small sales of mid dlings are reported at JWftSSkf- cents * Ik tor uplands and New Orleans.” ~ Our iufurnuut goes on to sav that the whole stock in all the Northern markets fbr sale will not exceed one week’s con sumption even at t-fte present Reduction, The receipts o£ the new crop are much below the receipt* of the past season and, I | on the first of September, there will not be ! more than 10,000 bales, North aud South, j against 08,000, last year. The prospect of, the coming crop is not in excess of 2,500.- i 000 bales ; the drought and the rust having, ! recently, caused much havoc In large sec tions of the country. The deficit a full million of bales less than the ordinary con sumption of the w;prld demands. Tills, coupled with the estimates of the Man chester Association, would seem to imply j that there will be little of margin for low i prices during tills Season. Below is on extract from (lie circular ofj one of the largest I.lveriHMii broker*, l>ear- 1 ing the date of August l'Jth : ! “TUh ai*olut« scarcity of cotimi, which \ we have *>l frequently alluded to, lus licea , , a serious itrnmink w ioa large trade In H*u> | | Chester. Producers have sdvaucwd their i quotations lit a proportionate extern to i hose gaum I In tin raw materia! They I ! have still as a rule some contracts on hand, , kets, with a fair buxines* going on both In cotton and imported goods. Still merch ants are reluctant to pay any advance, and manufacturers are driven from nqjlMtty to keep their machinery working as long as goin "'xim l ? Ame on the cards. Popularestlmates are rather under than over three millions. But wheth er the former or the latter figure ultimately pruxt* correct, the question for the mo* ment is what are we to do for cotton be tween now and the end of the year? A heavy import'of East India cotton Is dally Mi—itifrt, wfaieh, nt>toi p—irnt high prices, may cause the market to give way a Httle, but when that Is disposed of it resolves Lt ; -elf Into a necessity of curtailing consump tion very materially.” ; In view of these presentations of fact, j we echo the advice of our merchant friend | to the-planting community: “You can, if | yon so wlli it, command full prices for your cotton; and it is a duty you owe to the South, as well as yourselvea, that these full prices should be secured.” That Willoughby gave wliat he deem ed. good counsel, we do not for a mo ment question; but we do not agree with him, iti this instance. Time may prove him to be a true prophet; but we trust our planters will do whatever is iu their power to correct the record in their favor. GRANT'S DESPOTISM. The New York Titnea ridicules the pro phecies regarding Grant’s despotism. The editor deems that time has proved them fallacious. The people are challenged to point ont instances of L'marism, and the hope is expressed that all apprehen sive individuals are recovering from an ab surd scare.® We quote the conclusions of the Times : “•The army is pertorming its usual du ties in the various parts of our vast terri tory, and we hear of no military cabals, or Intrigues against the liberties of the i>eo ple. We should think everybody must now feel quite assured that tho Constitu tion is rs safe as possible, and that never, in our history, had we less prospect of the establishment of a despotism.” That the army is performing duties ysual to it during the last four or five years we admit; among other things, Gen. Canby insists on an imposition of the test-oath in Virginia, which will virtually override the verdict of the popular voice, aud probably lift him into a United Btates Scnatorship. In Mississippi, Gen. Ames is performing duties similar to those inaugurated by Canby. The following telegram will speak .volumes: “ Jackson, Mississippi, August 23.— Geu. Ames has issued the followiug order to commanders of military posts in Missis sippi: The commanding General directs that you do not obey in future any writ of habeas corpus issued by the, United, States District Court or Circuit Courts tor the release of prisoners in your custody. Should such a writ or order be served upon you report the fact by telegraph.’’ Here we have a minion of Caaarvsm, in a distant province, actually defying the United States Courts, and with a prick of his sword, destroying the parchment upon which is written the so-called Supreme Law of the land. Are these “ military cabals and intrigues ” to go for nothing ? Are they really in the interest of the “liber ties of the people ?” It may be, as the Times says, that “ never, in our history, had we less prospect of a despotism but the rationale of this conclusion depends upon something which the Times conceals viz : that the prospect is gone and that the despotism itself is,already here. Carolina Politics.— The only respect able Radical paper in South Carolina, the Orangeburg New, is disgusted with the corruption aud iniquity of the t moly-lod, and is very anxious to woo the Democrats to an alliance under a species of Conserva tive Republicanism. The Charleston New grapples with the proposition, and sounds a key-note most grateful to Democratic ears. The News takes substantially the position already .assumed, on this subject, by the Constitutionalist, and thinks it unreasonable for 50,000 Democrats in Caro lina to become absorbed iu a rotten or ganization lead by Mackey, VYhippeu and Bowen, or. If not led by them, controlled by their political principles. IVc congratu late our Charleston contemporary for the prompt and decisive staud it takes against tho Thi><d thirty. With patience-and ad hercjrt'e to Jhlncfple.’Scjilth Carotin! wlti,, win, in the tong run, a victory that shall bo permanent in its results aud without shame in its constituents Physical Training—A Dr. Nathan At.t.f.N gives soino interesting Information’ regarding Urn beneficial effects of gymnastic exercises in Amherst College. Not only have Abe students improved bodily, but their moral' have likewise been given a proper corrective. The amount ot sickness i has diminished by a third in eight years, and the standard of tho boys, every way, ■has kocn relatively advanced. A properly regulated gymnasium should be attached to every institute of learning. The body needs as nnteh training as the mind; and just as nothing is more glori ous, in ordinary cases, than a sound mind in a sound tKKiy. so ;ew things are more lamentable than an aspiring intellect chain ed to a decrepld habitation. Mu. Bei.mont. —lt is reported, among other party reforms, that Mr. Belmont is to lie discontinued as Chairman of the Na- I tional Democratic Executive Committee, a | position which lie has held since the time lof Mr. Buoranan. The charge* brought against Mr Bei.mont are inefficiency, in ! difference aud unpopularity. The defeat of i Set mol'n is partially ascribed to him. and j It is thought that the time is ripe for a 1 movement in this direction. Os course, a I meeting of the Committee will have to be I called iu order to depose Mi 1). The t-u --1 mar as to M* resignation or remoral may ' ta> a *itwterf / but we are of opinion that a I change I* necessary. It would seem, in spite of the Nash ville Banner and the ebullient tions of Emerson Etheridge, that .-\g drzw Johnson still has Qte (girt chance Jo succeed Mr. Fowler, bent, as Senator from TMfciriiit r It hap pens, however, that although anew Sena tor is to be elected, at tUt coning session of the Tennessee .Legislature, this Senator, •thus elected, Will hare brsnit nearly two years before he eon take bis seat. Mr. Fowler'S term does not expire until 1871, mww nm uuihdmrt-m—ptoe ten will ppssibly make even Andrew John-, son a wrong man in the wrong place. But it seems to run in the minds of the men of this day that the return of Andrew John son to the United States Senate would be a terrible rebuke to President Grant and a veritable thorn in the side of Radicalism. There is much force in all this reasoning or speculation, aud, iu the absence of stronger arguments on the other side, we should say that Johnson would probably be the best _inau Tennessee could send to represent her in Grand Coancil, especially if a stirring up of the menagerie is a matter of prime consideration. In this view of the question, there need be no difference of opinion among those who hate Radicals and are rejoiced to see them disquieted. Iu any view of the case, it is a matter which rests solely witli Tennessee, and, in spite of the late amalgamation of parties, we shall presume that good judgment will prevail in the selection of a Senator who has to keep patient, tiie best he jjpows how, during two miserable years. Now, supposing that Andrew Johnson be eiected Senator and has to remain for twenty-four months in a species of hope deferred uegativencss, what will so restless, scheming and irrepressible, a demagogue contrive to do? Ilis late speeches give an inkling, we think, of his intentions, his ex pectations and his plans. He will attempt to rally a Third Party, composed of the odds aud ends of Democracy and Radical ism, and, leading this novel institution, make a fight for the Presidential succession of 1872. At the first blush, this looks ab- surd; but those who know anything of Mr. Johnson know that he is fertile in re sources, a plotter of the first water, inex haustible in ambition and the profouiidest egoist now “starring” on the American stage. That lie will make such atiessay as is above foreshadowed, we believe; that he will also agitate everything likely to fur ther his plan cannot be doubted. Among other things, we fear he will absolutely have tho presumption to hold himself up as the representative of Southern sentiment. Indeed, it will be a-wecessity for the partial success of his scheme that he should do this, and, anticipating the possibility of such a trick of trade, we desire to enter a protest against it. We should say to Mr. JonNsoN : For what you have 'done to re pair the evil of your life, we give yon due credit and wish you well. If a Senator ship from Tennessee can help satisfy your' aspiration for reward, take it and wel come. But spare the Southern people the necessity of repudiating you as a represen tative of their sentiment. Play on what ever harp you ohoose for future power, but do net, we beg of you, lay sacrilegious hands on the harp of the South. We liaVe not ceased to remember your connection witli the death of Mrs. Surratt. In that disgraceful transaction you were either the abettor of Holt and Staton, or else their tool. Either position ml disgraceful and the people of the South: can never uphold as a champion of theirs the man who stood on such a perilous platform aud stood there without credit and without mercy. Again, Mr. JonNsoN, we owe to you the vulgar and vindictive shibboleth which now forms one of the Radical commandments, viz : “ Traitors must be punished and trea son made odious.” The “ traitors ” you re ferred to were the people df the South ; the “ treason ” was their attempt to save them selves from tyranny—a tyranny made pos sible by just such men as yourself. You likewise thought the amnesty proclamation of Lincoln too liberal and put forth one enforcing additional exactions. You are also the author of the $20,000 clause* and this clause was founded in a selfish spite and designed for the humiliation of every South ern man who happened tVibe a gentleman and who affronted you by a proud and magisterial respectability. It was the part of a demagogue to hate such men, and, when in your power, you did hate them most veugefnlly. In fact, sir, you always were against Southern sentiment and Southern rights, so long as it was the fash ion to be so; and it is late in the day to turn round aud ask to champion these things, when such championship may inure to your personal eleyation. Godo the Senate from Tennessee. We shall not regret success iu this particular; but go there as a Tennessee politician aud not as a type of true Southern sentiment. Soon er or later, the South will have some of her faithful sons to represent her—younger men who have drawn inspiration from her grand prophets, and whose baptism was iu the blood of a glorious, though baffled revolution. Until such a time shall have arrived, the true South may be voiceless; but better voiceless, for a while, than rep resented as a convenience by au Andrew Johnson. The Next Census.—Oueof the purposes of Reconstruction is to defeat the changes of the next census. The census of 1870 will demonstrate that .political power is paaalug Westward. To otTset this, the East sends her emissaries Southward aud, by bayonet law, they are returned as full blown Southern representative*, but really as l uiikec spies, informers ami coadjutors. So, Reconstruction in striking at the South likewise strikes at the West. There will lie a recoil, from tUU rascality, some of these days, amt then lot Wendell Phillips A Cos, stand from under, or accept an itirvl table smash. gettysburg. Our Northern brethren, many of them at least, cannot aval* filter Wcbave had a surfeit of Mrs. Stowe ; we have to fresh specimens of Garrison's meanness ; and, aa if to illus trate tiie srtject in every detail, we are now called upon to witness a wretched per formance at Gettysburg. Now whether this Gettysburg reunion is for the purpose of advertising the hotel and spring at that place; or whether it is intended to glorify the great Yankee nation, we will not at -terfipt'Ttf decide; but one thing fe certain, looking from every proper standpoint, that it is a pretentious and conceited sham when it does not degenerate into a bombastic in sult. We are glad to see that all right minded men at the North condemn the transaction and deem that General Lee struck the true key-note when he wrote, in answer to an invitation to be present: “It is wisest not to keep open the sores “of the war, but to follow the example of “ those nations who have endeavored to “ obliterate the marts of civil strife, aud “ commit to oblivion the feelings that it “ engendered-” Tliis is a sentiment that should animate all who really desire the restoration of Union and good fellowship, Nor* and South. It is the sentiment that the best of even Pagan nations studiously adhered to; and if the representative Yankees - were anything Vise but the blusterers they are, it would be as deeply implhnted in their so called Christianity as it was a fixed princi- ple in the scheme of the heathen. When the North began its system of monumental perpetuation of the bitterness of civil strife, we condemned it as a vain-glorious .blunder and the knell of fraternity. Trophies erected to commemorate the overthrow of foreign iiivaders are permissible and worthy of encouragement; but granite blocks that mark the progress of victory or de feat among brethren will not endure so long as burning hatred and desire of re venge shall exist in the hearts, and brains and souls of the people who are wantonly outraged in their tendereSt feeling’s by those of their own kindred or those of the same nationality. Not only did the ancients steadily refuse to exult in statues of stone over their vanquished fellow countrymen, but nations of modern date have, in Europe especially, shrunk from what may be called the petrifaction of great family feuds. It has remained for the people of the North jo surpass the Pagans in venorfi and the Europeans of a later day in unseemly pride. They absolutely staud alone in an infamy which shocked the idolatrous masses of antiquity and is still abhorrent to the des potisms of lands beyWd the sea. We are truly rejoiced, then, that General Lee and other Confederate officers declined to chime iuwith this disgusting exhibition. The manner of declining places them right on the record with all honest men, and is, in effect, a richly merited rebuke to, the originators of the movement. A number of papers at the North resent this miserable attempt at national bun combe, and some express their astonish* ment at the audacity which included Gen. Lee among the persons to be present. It is conceded that little that Lee could say would be believed by the popinjays around him, and that there were men there who would have been restiff to insult the great Virginian in order to make capital among such of the loyal as follow the lead-df old mother Stowe of old daddy Garrison. What a mockery it would be for Lee to stride over the dead and half-buried remains of his comrades in company with their slayers. The thing is tQO unnatural-—it is too Yankeeisli ; and we are glad that the General declined to go to Gettysburg- 'A correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette inti-i mates pretty plainly that insults Were al* ready prepared by Gov. find his crew. This correspondent says: “ I have a good and substantial reason for supposing that tlie gubernatorial can didate of tiie Radicals in Fenttsylvania meditated a detestable erneute of this kind! Many now here recollect the disgust cre ated by the gratuitous, cowardly and ruf fianly verbal assault Geary committed upon the. Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, in the year 1865, in tho public hall of Willard’s Hotel. The then slat us of President Johnson warranted the conclu sion tlmt such insults could not only be given with impunity, but if mot with spirit by a Southern man, he would have been treated by-the. Government as a rebel against the best government on earth. - Y'et the; gallaut Geary did not scruple to add to his laurels such unquestioned evidence of-his pluck.” The same paper lias an editorial reference so just,'so apposite, aud so literally an In terpretation of w hat surges iu the breast of every decent Southern man, that we re produce it as a fitting conclusion to what ever has been said above. It is. this; “ Let the Generals at Gettysburg then “ magnify themselves in their own way, “ and rule out from their sacred places the “ bones of the rebel dead. Meanwhile, the *’ Southern people will quietly wait for “ justice. They will place no tablet now “on the bloody plateau which overlooks “ Bull Run, and from which an outuum “ bering liost vainly strove to dislodge as “ gallant a band as ever was arrayed upon “the edge of battle. They will erect no “ monument on the spot where the heroic “ ami stainless heart of Stonewall Jack “ son was stilled forever. They will plant “no memorial upon the crumbling but “ triumphant ramparts of Sumter. They “ have doue enougli for glory, and the meed “of their praise they now leave the world | “to measure. They will do their part in “ the work of restoring good will and har •• mouy when those who hold over them a “ rod of iron shall show some disposition “ to be Just.” Piikpahinh von the Next Wail—The other day a lady in the Dark Corner of Carroll county, Uu., gave birth to twin*. < >n the wbii' day and iu the sump house two of liar daughter* brought forth twina—all !«iy». Old Carroll W certainly the banner [prom the ■WoUfjbttJ'llil # The Living Principle# of the Constitu past and take care of the living pnnciples of the Constitution.” Those are the prm o nles of which we are anxious to take JL They are the principles wbiofc- the great Gen' good old days when the right of the Gen eral Government “to coerce a State _was not a conceded arbitrary arrests* seizures of papers, searches of houses, confiscation of prop erlv suspension of the writ oi habeas cor pus,'and denial of the right of were not sanctioned as acts of military ne- And to the party which protosses these principles now, desiring rescue* maintain and perpetuate hen ?'7!nnnort our hearty, earaest and undivided support, whatever may he its name. , The departure from these great princi ples, whether in the direct approval of their violation by the Radicals and their allies or in the acquiescence in their viola tion on account of military necessity was the “ cause of all our woe, and lfUfce end, we really can see no difference in degree of guilt between the authors of the crimes we have enumerated and those who, having the power to pre vent them, failed to do so, on the ground that “ military necessity ” required that eleven States should be coerced With suo jugation. Between tiie avowed Republican Abolitionist and the acquiescing “ War Democrat,” we can see no material differ ence. so far as the principles of the Demo cratic party are concerned. But we agree cordially with our cotemporary that the principles still live, and must ever live, because they are the truth, and that it is only by the triumph of those principles—by a return to the law of the Constitution as the supreme law—that liberty and. the right of self government can ever be re-established on this continent. It is to those who main tain these principles alone that we of the South can look for succor, and whatever they may have called themselves in the past—whether Whig, Democrat or States’ Rights man—if they hold this faith now, aud will prove it by their works, they are the party to which we will belpng and with which we will act, not caring one straw about old traditions or past differ ences, but looking only to the “rescue, maintenance and perpetuation” of the “ living principles of the Constitution.”— The great object is to organize an oppo sition to the Radicals which must win. That is ivhat we and our esteemed and courteous friend iu Augusta desire to achieve; and though we may differ in mi nor details—though he may be ready to pardon the sins of the War Democrats and receive them into fellowship more readily than we would—substantially we are agreed, and we that shoulder to shoulder we may fight the great political contest which is opening before us. •; [From the Savannah Adveitiaer, 24»h. Negro Insurrection in Burke County. THREE PROMINENT WHITE CITIZENS ARE SEIZED BY A NEGRO MOB, AND BARELY ES CAPE HANGING —PARTICULARS OP THEIR RESCUE, AND THE CAPTURE OF THE NE GRO RINGLEADERS. From a gentleman who arrived yesterday morning on the train from Macon, we learn the following particulars of a negro riot in Burke county, which, but for dhe prompt measures of the white citizens, would have been attended With most serious re sults : i3: ; It appears that the dead body of a negro was found on Sunday morning at Hern don. Station No, 9, on the Central Rail road. The cause of his. death was un known, but the negroes in that .vicinity at once attributed it to the Eu Klux ; and as a rumor to this effect soon circulated, gain ing additional horrors as it spread, the ex citement among them became intense.— From all the neighboring plantations they began to assemble, evidently summoned by some controlling authority, until at least three hundred armed men were hold ing angry council. Without going into any examination or inquiry as to the cause of the death, they determined to take the law into their own hands—or rather to disregard all law, and hang three, of .the most prominent citizens of the place, as they alleged, in retaliation for the murder of one of their color. Ac cordingly, they arrested three brothers named Jones—most respectable citizens, and doubtless well known to many in Savannah—whom they dragged away from their terrified families without explaining the nature of their designs upon them, or allowing a last word, and hurried into the woods. Without delay they began to make pre parations to hang their three victims, who now for the first time realized the horrible fate awaiting them. With admirable pres ence of mind one of the brothers begged to b# allowed to go under escort to say fare well to the families of the three, and give some last directions tbrfhem. To this the yelling demons vvoula not accede ; but finally, through the intercession of one of the negroes, whose heart was hardly asblack as his skin, they consented,' and the brothers parted, with this slender thread of hope buoying them up; that the delay might af ford time for a ..rescue. Arrived at , his house, Mr. Jones managed to escape, from his esoort and make his way to the station just as a train was coming in. His . story was quickly told, and, as quickly as a loco motive could do it’; the train was backed down to, Millen, where a force of fifty armed men was hurriedly collected and en route for the scene of this outrage. Mean while the hanging party had delayed their operations, waiting for the return of those who had escorted Jones, while they in their turn, ignorant of the direction he had taken In his flight, had kept up a vain search, not daring to return without him. The arrival upon the scene of these fifty determined and well armed men put an end at once to the court of Judge Lynch, res cued the two condemned men and caused an instantaneous stampede of the negroes. Several of the ringleaders were, however, captured and given up to the proper au thorities, who wi]j t we trust, ileal with them as they eminently deserve. Horrible Outrage—A Respectable Lady Violated and Murdered.—A gen tleman of known veracity and position in the State, who came down the State Road yesterday evening, reports that a respecta ble lady at Ad&irsville had been found yes terbay morning murdered, and giving evi dence of having been violated. Her skull was fractured and coutuslons on her throat marked where the foul fiend clutched her in his murderous efforts. It was supposed to havo been the work a negro ruffian, and when the train passed every citizen of Adalravllle wa* engaged In hunting fbr the vile miscreant, We will see whether a re ward is offered fbr his capture by the pow er* that bo,—Alfa/Ru CvbtUtutim,
