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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1870)
THE WEEKLY OOVSnrUTIOIALIST WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, ISTO Clak Rata* far Ik, Weakly OwutMall—• That every one»nyN» enabled to sub scribe, and receive the benefits of a live jour nal, we offer the following liberal terms to CInWT 1 ’ " ' 1 Copy per year f- - l : > 00 " ~ iflu |i in— in i BiiHj 5 Copies per year - • - - 12 4*o 10 Copies per year • • - - 80 00 We trust that every subscriber to the paper will akl us In adding to our list. CHOPS AHD QUERENT NEWB. Our subscribers and friends in the coun try will confer a favor on us and our nu merous readers by sending us 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. PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN. It may shock some readers when we de clare that the present contest for the Geor gia United States Senatorahips possesses very little interest for a*. A brief exposition of oar creed Will demonstrate the reason of this indifference. Aa a true Democratic organ, we have no faith whatever In any coalitions or alli ances of the Democratic party with so-cailed Conservative Republicans. While, how ever, we shall stand aloof from all such en tangling confraternities, we propose to deal as mildly as possible with such of our par tisans who, by possible errors or judgment, happen to vote in the Legislature with the moderate faction of Radicalism. We may deplore the action of these misguided men, but we do not wish by undue censure to convert a friend, however lukewarm occasionally, Into a vindictive and perma nent enemy. To the extent, then, of avoid ing undue personality we shall cudeavor to go; but, palsied Indeed must be our hand, crazed our bralo, and distorted our aspirations, when wc forsake tlu* ways or principle, however thorny, for the primrose path of dalliance and expediency. God willing, we shall always keep erect the brazen serpent of sound doctrine, that It may bring healing Influences upon those who may have been blttcu or In any way aflected by the fiery scorplou of Centralism in any of Its forms. We favor the inaugu- ration of square Issues, and, at the proper time, we shall call upon the untcrrlflcd and uncorrupted Democracy of Georgia to repu diate the shams now fastened upon them by men who affect to speak by authority yet never breathed a breath of true Democratic faithiu all their lives. At the proper time we will have a convention of earnest men to establish a platform consistent with truth, honor and self-respect. Upon any other platform than principle wc do uot care to conquer, and when that shall have be come Impossible, or meu have growu too degraded to be brave, then It will uot mat te* a particle who is In power, a Radical, A Democrat or a hybrid sprung from the ■unnatural union of the two. Upon princi ple alone can Democracy be victorious, and upon principle alone can any good eventu ate to tho country from victory. Upon this hypothesis, what have we, as Demo crats, to do with'* the paltry squabbles of the im*u who are now desperately en £*£ed In the attempt to enter the tipper H lose of Congress ns Senators from Geor gia f Personally, we entertain the kindest sentiments fbr Messrs. Hilt. and Miu.ru, and personally, and In every other way, we have no res poet (hr their competitors. But we declare now, and wo say It boldly, that, eo (hr as the future Interest of sound principles and their success In this country may be concerned, there Is not a toss-up between Him, and Blodgett and Farrow and Miu.ru. That Is ottr belief; but If any Democrat thinks otherwise, we shall not censure him for differing with us, how ever much we may regret his sup posed obscurity of vision. We cauuot forget that Georgia owes much of her present degradation to the 111-starred visits of Mr. Him, to Washington, early iu the day of Congressional Reconstruc tion. We honestly believe that he has oc casioned, wittingly or unwittingly we know not, some of the direst calamities to befall Georgia by reason of his past efforts to Influence what was known as the Tuap dctts Stevens fhctlon iu Congress. This is generally unknown by the people, but It is not without Xouudatiou. If he worked ua so much of misfortune in the green tree, what may he not do in the dry f It Is just possible that there would have been no Blodgett, as a power, had there uot been a powerful Joshua Him.; just as there never would have been a Guant—forgive the comparison—had there not been “ ne cessity ” men like Anoukw Johnson and Caleb Cushing. Asa matter of Democrat ie principle, then, what need of troubling ourselves with either of the rivals for bo gus Senatorial honors f If Hill and Mil ler be seated, Georgia Republicanism, so called, will be somewhat respectable be cause at leaat of the Irreproachable private character of these gentlemen If Blodgett and Farrow succeed, the name of Georgia Radicalism shall still' ►ttuk in the nostrils of all decent men, > and, while we rid the Slate of the I rained I dial* prmsitos of two mliuokloos creatures, IB* party they represent will continue to l» an narration ands leprosy Ho wt do not I ..squirt ourselves about the wrangling of' mto who** success In tln lr pr»s U t eft*, I one way or the other, has nothing to do | with the triumph of Democratic principles. Let them tight th«trc\vu battles in tbeicown way. We Democrats have nothing what ever to do with the Representative men of Congressional Reconstruction in it* first stage or Its lost, except Indeed to take the first opportunity ProSMence shell offfer of relieving them of the responsibility, acci dentally and illegally acquired, of repre senting Georgia in the Senate and every, where else. ■ i I THE WEST AND THE EAST, -as* It may uot be wholly Insignificant, as an omeu, that Gen. Loo an, a leading member of OongTess, from the West, was chiefly in strumental in causing the expulsion of the Rev. Mr. Whittkmore, the carpet-bag Mas sachusetts Representative from South Caro- lina. In the same connection, It mast be observed that a party by the name of But ler, the Mew England bully of the House, was Wiiittemouk’s most strenuous advo cate. Perchance this remarkable passage at arms over Wihttemork betokened that the West was waking up not only to the peculiar sconndrellsm of the Southern car pet-baggers In Congress, but to their politi cal status as well. Mrw nothing can be more certain than that the West is really entitled to predominance la controlling the Government, except another certainty that New England will never yield that control so long as she can stave it off by superior brains, money and chicanery. To this end, Reconstruction represents, in Its last analy sis, the ascendancy of the East iu Congress through bogus Southern Representatives and Senators, and absolute authority In the Southern States through corrupt Legis latures, which are designed to be the spoil of Innumerable Yankee plunderings. Now Mr. Wiiittkmore was no more a Represent ative from South Carolina, iu point of fact, than he was the Ambassador to the King of the Ktckeraboo Islands. He was a veritable member of the Massachusetts delegation and a colleague of Beast Birr i.kr, pure and simple, or rather, Impure and tortuous. Perchance even General Logan, who has a keen eye for the future of parties, begins to perceive this and con siders it high time to lop off superfluous branches of the Puritan banyan, which threatens, if not promptly trimmed, to overshadow the. West as well as the South. Hence, the ousting of Wihttrmore made one member less on the roll of Massachu setts and one antagonist less for the West to grapple with. Even If this should prove a fanciful surmise, it is not a vulgar one; and, sooner or lntcv. It will progress from a speculation to an actuality, or else we must consider the West a lwrrcn and stubborn idiot. But there is not wanting evidence to prove that, with the consum mation of Reconstruction, the West is ready for anew departure which will “ make Rome howl ” Indeed. Wc find the following paragraphs in one of our ex changes : “The public mind of tho West Is prepar ed for a crusade against the East, and it will be conducted with as much vigor and enthusiasm, and more enmity thuu was the war against slavery In the South. “ The West wilt soon have the uucontrol atye power of numbers, and they will roll the Senatorial powers of New England into a small and Inslguificant compass. In solid phalanx, and, therefore, Irresistible, they will reduce the Senatorial representation to a number proportioned to the popula tion of the six States in comparison with the population of the larger States. Then New England will be allowed but two Senators. Meanwhile, however, the whole fabric of prohibition, no far as New Eng land Is interested in It, will be destroyed, and even the monevd interests of the East will be made the subject of assault In many practicable ways. "Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, has given the Eastern Radicals a solcm war ing of this Western wrath which is to come.’’ Iu addition to this, the subtle and well informed Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier, commenting upon pre sages of the gathering of the storm, says: The West is prepared for a change of her political base, and will pursue a course suited to her own interests. New York is Democratic, and Pennsylvania has given the last vote for the Republican party that she will give for years to come.” But whllo the West Is thus girding her loins to battle for supremacy with her ri val, the powerful, the wealthy and brainy East Is quietly shearing the locks of her more robust and more stupid antagonist. The promulgation of the XVth Amend ment and the passage of appropriate legis lation for Its enforcement are measures thoroughly In the interest of New Eng land and the virtual emasculation of the West, If allowed to have full swing. In an other part of this day’s issue, wc reprint from the Philadelphia Press an article, gloating over the acquisition of 800,000 ne gro votes to the Republican column, that Is, to the column of New England suprem acy- Already anticipating the proclama tion of the Amendment, agencies are on foot to stir up Sambo with the longest sort of poles. It is noteworthy that a meeting was held at the house of Senator Pome kov, of Kansas, a carpet-bag Western Sen ator, to devise means and ways fbr reor ganizing and manipulating the colored vote. We learn from the New York 7V»- bune that this meeting wss composed of a “Urge gathering of Senators and Repre “senUtlves from most of the Southern “ States, and leading colored men of the country.” The Iribune furnishes other particulars. Wc quote r “ It was decided to send an agent Into “ the Sonth, and Isaac Meyer, of Baltimore, “ President of the National Labor Union “ Congress, was designated aa the proper “ man. It was a'so proposed to send an “ agent Into each of the States, to make a “ beginning, and through *Ou Vnton “ Leagues' to reach the class to be benefited. “ Perfect unanimity of sentlraeut Iu tha " matter under discussion was apiutrent, “The Stir Kr <i newspaper, the organ of the “ colored people, waa Indorsed as the pmj*r “ exponent of the objects of the Union j “ movement. The meeting adjourned about J “ 10 o’clock.” Here is a fair warning of what the South j lias to expect in the wly of u enforcing the XVth Amendment.’' The Loyal League is Ito be reformed or revivified, and the negroes are to be disquieted. Xet our people be ! prepared to counteract the schemes of Mr. Isaac Meyer and his minions. These agita tors will not have aver yttuiig their own way' as Gaph Bryant and his clan had in 1865 v Times have changed and tbe black people ,of Georgia, many of them at least, haye been taught some salutary lessons. The advent of this emissary Meter and Ms birds of prey will be a calamity for white and black alike. But we earnestly counsel that the greatest forbearance be practiced toward the colored people, and, with kind and patient endeavors, on our part, in that direction, Messrs. Meyer & Cos. will find their effort as vain as it is disgraceful. CARPET-BAG MORALS. The expulsion of the Rev. Mr. Whitte mokb, a so-called Representative in the United States Congress from Bouth Caro lina, has publicly disclosed oneot the most ulcerous characteristics of liesonstruction. We find that a brave and honorable people have been violently prevented from select ing honest, patriotic and intellectual repre sentatives in the National Councils. In their stead, a wicked Government fraudu lently and forcibly connives at the triumph of strange persons whose records at home are scundalons and frequently felonious. Under such circumstances, how could any thing but corruption be expected; and, Congress being the motive power, tire blame of nurturing knavery rests upon it in more damning force than upon the miser able scamps whoclaim Southern constituen cies. We are firmly persuaded that ail of this hurly-burly about tire sale of cadet ships would never have been agitated, had not the growl of the people convinced the big rascals that a show ot virtue was abso lutely necessary. These big rascal, there upon, regarding the little carpet-bag crea tures as fair game, proceeded forthwith to assume a more than Spartan rigor, and so the country is to be satisfied with a num ber of great rogues expelling a bevy of weaker rogues from their sanctimonious presence. While we rejoice at this sum- mary treatment of the vermin with which Congress inflicted the South, we arc not bliuded to the fact that a majority of tlje Judges compelled to do this act of justice arc no better, and, in a certain degree, not so good as the culprits they have con demned to the Infamy which was their birthright. The man Wiiittemoke, whose political head has fallen uuder the knife of Congres sional vengeance and sham honesty, is a pretty fair specimen of his kind. He is a native of Massachusetts, a trooly 101 l man, a “ minister of the Gospel,” a special friend of Beast Butler. Just after th'e so-call ed close of the war, he came to South Carolina as a pious emissary of the Freed meu’s Bureau. Working himself Into the affections of deluded negroes, he was, by some hocus pocus, nominated for Con gress, and, of conrsc, elected. Branded long since by the decent men of Carolina, he is now discovered to be too foul even for the Radical faction at Washington, and so returns to his negro dupes a disgrace even to Massachusetts hypocrisy aud uni versal suffrage. But this fellow lacks not audacity, and thus the telegraph heralds his advent: “The resolution declaring Whittetnorc unworthy of a scat in the House was adopt ed unanimously. “ Whlttemore will appeal to his constitu ents for re-election.” So he will “ appeal to his constituents for a re-election I" There's richness for you. He will ask of his negro friends to endorse roguery as a fine art and conse crate it too. He evidently assumes that the negro Is an absolute fool and even pre fers a rascal to an honest man. Now the time may not yet have arrived iu South Carolina for the black population to re cover their senses; but we hope it will be developed at Mr. Wuittemohe’s next ap peal that the period of discretion is well nigh at hand. If the blacks are not en lightened enough to trust their privileges to the care of some decent white man, to the manner born, they should at least pre sent one of their own color rather than touch such a fellow as Whittemore with a pair of deep-water oyster tongs. Whittemore at first prevaricated about his knavery. When falsehood failed, he essayed humbug, pleading essentially that he had played the scamp “ for the good of the cause.” The New York Sun shows that this was “ the unfailing plea of every “corrupt jobber, plundering contractor, “ and shoddy thief during the war, and it “ not only involved hundreds of millions in «lass to the Government, but vast discredit “ to the party which allowed such roguery “to go unpunished.” This plea may be re sorted to likewise by various and sundry of the Georgia loyalists, native and import ed. Let them think of the Rev. Mr. Whitte mork, of Massachusetts, and tremble lest all of their dcVlous wiles should fail them at last. The carpet-bag fraternity has been punctured. Now lor a lively scalawag sen sation. Ames and Reynolds.— Geu. Reynolds’ declension of the office of United States Senator In Texas is a palpable hit upou Gen. Ames. He will no doubt feel it unless he has the hide of an alligator. [Riekmond Dispatch. The hide of an alligator Is as pnlp, as mush, as soft soap compared to the hide of a Allow like Amks. Is he not Butlkh’s protege and apt scholar ? Is he not a loyal rhinoceros ? I too Kat Dog.—Butler is reported as the defender of Wiiittkmomk Iu the House of Representatives. Dick Tuhpin plead tug at the bar fbr Jack Hiui iikud, MONARCHY. It is true that some few of the forms and gauds of empire are not yet iu vogue with the so-called Republican Government of the United States, but we have the thing Rself substantially, and that is enough to make patriots groan. Indeed, we have gone a bow-shot beyond monarchy of the Constitutional sort, and the transition will soon be easy to the direst systems of des potism, assuming their paraphernalia as well as their scope. Tpkg, fqr example, thebjjl presented by Senator NyEjOf Ne vada, prescribing the ffegMa tioq > ’ necessary to enforce the bogus XVth Amendment. One clause compels the at tendance of armed mercenaries of the Gov ernment at the ballot boxes. In England, the military are removed as far as possible frem the voting booths. Indeed, If such a thing as this were to occur in Great Britain, there would be a revolution in lees than a week. Not only are voters to be intimidated by Government minions aud their bayonets, but the President is to appoint three exag gerated sharp and quick Hclbektb, his tools of course, to have the final decision as to the results of the polling. Has Louis Napoleon ever contemplated anything worse than this ? Has he not, ou the con trary, restored something of freedom to the people and allowed them to elect Depu ties favorable or unfavorable to him, as they pleased ? Many people scout the idea that an Em :pi re is coining. Had they uot better ac knowledge that it has realty come. Just wait till the rotten stucco falls from the edifice built by Radicalism in the name of liberty. Then the people will see how much of real Republicanism that sort of masonry possesses. rFrom the Rich mend Enquirer of the 20lh. A Stupendous Struggle. “ There is still great doubt as to the re sult of the nominations to the Supreme Court bench. A great struggle i* p nding to secure at least one Southern man."—Washing ton dispatch in yesterday's Enquirer. The italics in the above extract are ours. Our correspondent was merely sending us an ordinary item of news, and evidently did not mean to express any surprise at the remarkable fact involved in his state ment. There is a great struggle pending to get one Southern man on the Supreme Court bench. The North has the President; the North has the Senate; the North has the House of Representatives; the North has the Su preme Court—and all the foreign embas sadors and consuls, &e., &c. The North not only has Congress, but nearly every member of Congress, for the representatives from the South are chiefly Northern men—not merely men boru in the North, but meu with Northern sym pathies—they are all iron-clad men. So is the South represented in Congress. She has neither the President, nor the Vice- President, nor a single representative in the Cabinet. Aud then we have a Northern man as Governor of South Carolina; a Northern man as Governor of Florida; a Northern man as Governor of Alabama; a Northern man as Governor of Georgia; a Northern man as Governor of Louisiana; a Northern man as Governor of Arkansas; a Northern man as Governor of Virginia. And the GREAT struggle now is to get ONE Southern man on the bench of the Supreme Court; only one. Who will dare to impugn the “mag nanimity” of the North? its liberal and geuerous deportment towards the South ? Who will dare, with the facts before him, to harbor one davk suspicion that the North is Intensely grasping and selfish f Who will say that the South has not been treated in the most gentle anil handsome manner ? Wc might speak of the appropriations of laud and money for Northern railroads— and of the distribution of the currency— but what right had we to expect to get anything f Wc know wc do not deserve it; we have the most vivid sense of our desperate wick edness ; but we do hope Congress will give us one judge—one iron-clad judge from the South on the Supreme Bench. Good people, have a little mercy ! “Who is Whitely?” —The Biinbridge Sun, published at the residence of this scalawag, who has recently been dignified with an election to the United States Sen ate, thus answers a question that is on the lips of all. We can only say that If Whitely is correctly represented here, the Bullock Legislature were badly cheated In the man. They have no use for any one who is' “ op posed to the extremists and their policy,” and we think, if he should ever be lucky enough to get in the Senate, the editor of the Sun will find hitnself mistaken: Whitely is a moderate man, and is op posed to the extremists and their policy.— He Is a man that possesses more brains and honesty than Blodgett and Farrow both together. Though opposed to Whitely po litically, we must give him credit for, as we know him to lie, a gentleman and a man of decided ability; and had the Legislature shown as much judgment in selecting the other two Senators, or even had they elect ed Whitely tor the long term, we would have been better satisfied. Though Whitely is not the man, not being Democratic in principle, that we would wish to hold such an important position, yet we know him to be, In every respect, far superior to the two miserable, degraded wretches who have been chosen as his associates. The Supreme Conrt of North Carolina some time since decided that under the new constitution of that State, a man's home stead could uot be sold under execution, even tor debt* contracted before Its adop tion. It has now decided that the home stead may be sold if the execution was levied lie fore the adoption of the constitu tion. Fletcher, the Radical Secretary of State of Tennessee, Is charged with misappro priating the public funds to the amount of 190,000. Georgians Relieved. The following is a list of the Georgians whose names are iocladed in the disability bill, recently passed by both Housesof Con gress: John Neal, Warrenconnty; J. R. Parrott, Carte ravlllt; V. A. Gaskill, Fulton county; John D. Pope, Atlanta; W. G McAdoo, Baldwin connty; Francis A. Kirby aud John W. H. Underwood, of Rome; John W. O’Neil, Lowndes county; W. H. Dasher, Lowndes; E. D. Graham, Appling connty; Walter T. McArthur, and J. H. Christy, Athens; David Irwin, Marietta; James H. Atlanta; Arthur .Hutchison, Campbell connty: Levy Nathans, Chatham county ; William H» Grant, Whitfield county; Andrew J. Cloud, Griffin county; William W. Clayton, William R. Webster, P. Cham bers, H. H. Pettis, John C. Hendrix, and J. L. Harris, of Atlanta; G. A. Snead, Augusta; William 8. Kelley, Macon; W. H. Paine, Savannah; F. B. Haskell, T. W. Thur mond, T. W. King, E. C. Granniss, James Hammock, George N. Lester, William C. Dillon, J. P. McMeals, J. M. Granberry, Thomas J. Roberts, W. L. Cloud, Edward Richardson, M. 8. Poor, B. H. Bigham, Reverend A. W. Caldwell, Reverend C. M. Caldwell, J. J. Morrison, T. A. Ward, Daniel Pittman, Thos. Hooper, W. Neel, Nathan Land, J. A. Howard, Walker Brock, 8. Fannin, Wm. F. Martin and George Cleland, of Cobb county; W. F. Wright, Coweta county; J. M. Bishop, Wm. Kelley, and Jesse Hendricks, oi Dawson county ; John R. Hill, Dougherty county ; Wm. H. Edwards, Elbert county; Dickinson H. Walker, Walton county; Robert D. Harvey, B. B. Hargroves, of Floyd county; Wm. F. Bentley, Forsyth couuty ; E. Humphries, Gordon county; Joel F.Thorn ton, Greene county; James J. Find ley, Hall county; Jacob Deek, Alfred Har ris and Wm. P. Price, Lumpkin connty; Jonathan Rivers, Laurens county; Wm. R Bell, Madison county; Jesse Mitchell, Wal ton county; Joseph McWhorter, Oglethorpe comity ; Thomas J. Spear, Pike county ; William B. Lovell and Wm. E. Philyaw, Rabun county; Benjamin Conley, Wm. R. Davis and Chas. P. McOalla, Richmond county; A. D. Nuunaliy and Thomas W. Thurman, Spalding county; E. 8. Griffin, Twiggs county; Charles D. Davis, G. M. Han'ny, Fulton county; James R, Smith, Coffee county; Philip M. Russell, Pulasfei connty; L. Nathans, Chatham county; Elijah C. Morgan, Valdosta; R. K. Holli day, Clayton county; Joseph E. Brown, Fulton county; John P. King, Alexander Deas, Robert Campbell, John Milledge, Alexander C. Walker, Ephraim Tweedy, Joseph P. Carr, William Phillips, Edwin G. Phillips, Wm. Doyle, Wm. Gibson, Jas. 8. Hook and C. P. McCalla, Richmond connty; David G. Cotting, Wilkes county; M. H. Melborn and W. W. Padgett, War ren county; E. C. Wade. Henry Brigham, Geo. W. Wylly and James J. Warring, Chatham county; Thomas J. Speer, Pike county; Vlrgllius M. Barnes, Columbia county ; Frank H. Holdeu,Taliaferro coun ty ; Janies H. McWhorter, Wm. W. Daven port and W. J. Davenport, Oglethorpe county; Robert L. McWhorter, Greene county; Isliam J. Fannin, Morgan county ; John A. Wimpy, Lumpkin county ; Richard H. Whiteley, Decatur county; Benjamin Loughridge, Murray county; Joseph Glean, C. E. Broyles, Dawson A. Walker, Whit field county; William K. deCruffenrled, J. G. Coleman, and Peyton Reynolds, of Bibb county; E linnnd Richardson, Dough- erty county; Augustus H. Roberts, War ren county; Wm. A. Fort, Floyd county ; Littleton Pitts, Meriwether county ; Sam uel Bard, Fulton connty; Robert Flournoy, CJarkc county ; E. 8. Gridin, Twiggs coun ty ; H. K. McKay, Sumter county; Wil liam M. Browne, Marlon county; Samuel F. Gove, Twiggs county; William P. Ed wards, Taylor county ; James L. Seward, Thomas county; Duncan Campbell, Tel fair county; John McCray, Montgomery county; James 8. Boynton, Spalding coun ty; David E- Blount, Bibb couuty; John fi. Hose, John 8. Johnson, Absalom Mar shall and Joel M- Mann, of Houston coun ty ; A. J. Comar and Isaac Oakes, of White county ; Andrew J. Burch, Towns county; John 8. Fin, Union county; M. 11. Bryson, Towns county; Abda Johnson, Thomas A. Word, Jeremiah A. Howard, James Vaughan, Jesse R. Wikle, John L. Wikle and Christopher Dodd; of Bartow county ; Robert McCarny, senior, John Oates and William Luffman. of Murray county ; John H. Starr, Gordon county; William J. Un derwood aud M. P. Quillian, of Whitfield county; B. B. Quillman, Floyd connty; H. D. C. Edmundson and Sam’l Hawkins, o? Chattooga county ; Benjamin H. Bigham, Troup connty; W. R. D. Moss, Jno. O. Dow da and Wm. A. Teaslcy, of Cherokee coun ty ; Jackson T. Taylor, Coweta county; Calvin Johnson, Dawson county; D. W. K. Peacock and Jas. Milner, of Bartow county; W. M. Adams, Miller county; R. H. Atkin son, Bibb county; R. C. Beavers, Campbell connty; W. D. Bentley, Forsyth county; Abraham Brookin and H. Brookln, of Wash ington connty ; Sam’l W. Brooks, Brooks county; John Brooks, Charlton county; L. H. Briscoe, Baldwin county; W. W. Blankenship, Webster county; Thomas B. Calhoun, Fnlton county; J. O. F. Clarke, Terrell county; J. C. Clay, Cobb county; T. Coleman, Randolph county; Benjamin Cornelius, Clinch county; W. A. Cobb, Upson county; W. B. Daniel, Miller county; Jacob Deck, Lumpkin county; John Dclk, Brooks county; B. B. deGraff enreid, Baldwin county; J. H. Davis, Charlton county; Peter Fair, Baldiviu county; R. G. Fnlghum, Pulaski county; S. D Edmon=on, Brooks county; James M. Cranberry, Quitmnn county ; S. Holbrook, Forsyth county ; A. Jackson and A. Jones, of Warren county; J. Y. Jones, Brooks county; William Kelley, Dawson couuty; John C. Kirkland, Clinch county ; Thomas S. T. Knight, Brooks county; D. E. Knowles, Pierce county; Nathan Land, Bartow county ; George H Lester, Ogle thorpe county; J. A. Howard, Bartow county; John L. Morgan, senior, Clinch county; Angus Morrison, Brooks couuty; John Mcßae, Montgomery county; Duu can McArthur, Fulton county; j. R. M. Neal, Quitman county; George W. New bern and Janies North, of Clinch countv; W. G. Pierce, Calhoun county; John L. Parker, Macon county; John J. Pickren, Coffee county; Absolem Rhodes, Taliaferro county ; A. J. Pool, Baldwin county; Thomas J. Roberts, Quitman couuty; David Sapp, Pulaski county; Thomas Simmonton, Spalding county; 0. P. Skel ton, Milton county ; W. T. Swift, Houston county; J. F. Thornton, Greenecounty; M. Tucker, Colquitt county; S. Venters, Charl ton county; H. H. Waters, Talbot county; R. M. Wilder, Warren couuty; Peter V. Wlug, Colquitt couutv’; G. W. Waldron, Ctiuch county; D. A. Williams, Taliaferro county; Thomas W. White, Baldwin couu ty: Jas. S. Youman and Aaron Dowling, of Pierce county ; Chas. A. Gratfis, Cliuch countv; E. Richardson, Dougherty coun ty; William Smith, Lowndes county; E. F. Kirkeey. Hl-wurt couutv ; D. P. Hill and Robert 11. Atkln»on,of Fulton county; Johu P. Culberson, Troup county; Philip 11. Braaaoll, Fayette county ; John C. Iloarden, Campbell county j T. J. Gohe, Catoosa county ;J. M Fllo, Jaa. W Mash burn*, Wilcox couutv ; James T. Harmon, Taylor eoutty; Ellas Turner, Wilcox | connty; Benjamin H. Bigham, Troup connty ; Geo. W. Speer, Fulton county ; Richard 8. Taylor, Clarke connty; Freder ick Cox, Gordon county; Thompson Al lan, Fulton county; John 8. Fain, Union connty; O. A. Lochrane, Fulton coun ty ; J. D. Smith, Conee county; An derson M. Parker, Bamuel, H. Stout, of Fulton county; John F. Andrews, Wilkes county ; W. D. F. Maum, Haralson couuty ; Jared 1. Whitaker, Fulton county; J. A. Holtzclaw, Houston county; Zacha riah F. Wilson,Gordon county; Batt Jones, M, F. Fletcher, W. C. Barber, and John C. Waits, of Polk connty; A. J. Baldwin, Farrell cpnnty; D. Carrington, Baldwin connty; David G. King, Catoosa county ; #Of»]xff£4fta|ibefiS, Ogtetfeorpe county; F. A. Morgan, Carroll county ; H. J. G. Wil liams and George HHlyer, of Fulton connty; George M. Lucas, Baldwin couuty ; James S. Boynton, Spalding county ; John J. Thrasher,Fulton county; William 1. Hud son, Harris county; Robert M. Mitchell, Oglethorpe county. [From Forney's Philadelphia Pies*. The New Situation. “ We are coming, Father Abraham, Eight hundred thousand more.” These are the figures of the last rein forcement to the Republican ranks brought In by the Fifteenth Amendment. Accord ing to many satistieians, the number will be swelled even fifty thousand above this amount. Many of these voters have In the far Southern States already been granted their rights through State constitutions, but it is the new amendment Which seals their franchise—which is the Magua Charta of their race. That the new voters belong to the Re publican party and will cast their ballots for and with us there is little matter of doubt. We fought for the black soldier and the black voter. The soldier has stood by us and now the voter will. History, tradition, experience and science .all unite in pronouncing the African to be a grateful race. We have given them the bayonet and the ballot, and we feel that neither will be used against us in any State where ordinary intelligence prevails. We may lose for awhile in the South, where generations of enslavement have deadened intellect and conscience, but in the end that will right itself. Let us see for a moment how these eight buudrai thousand and more net? voters will affect the general result. Perhaps seven hundred and fifty thousand oi these live in the old slaveholdiug States, and Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware except ed, have already enjoyed their newly ac quired rights. *How their votes fall in the balance is already on record. Let us glance for a moment at the new situation in the North and on the border: What do we surely gain by the accession of the colored column? The results are greater aud more encouraging than, per haps, is generally felt. The Fifteenth Amendment secures to the Republican party Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecti cut, Ohio, Delaware and Maryland, while it almost insures New York, and gives us a chance to grapple with Kentucky. In Pennsylvania the colored vote will range from 12,000 to 15,000. This Is enough to clinch the State. New Jersey will receive an addition of nearly 5,000 votes. The Democracy car ried for it Seymour by but 2,880, aud in 1868 by 4,018. They lost it in 1865 by 2,789. Five thousand fresh votes cast one way will determine the political position of the State. Connecticut was claimed for the Democ racy in 1868 by 1,764 votes, and has been lost since. The colored vote of this State will be about 2,000, and there is no manner of doubt how the negroes of Connecticut will cast their vote. Ohio will receive an accession of 8,500 votes—enough to put her out of doubt and beyoud suspicion. Delaware is saved by her black vote. After a gallant struggle, by which the Democratic majority has been cut down to about 3,300, she now receives 4,500 recruits, and enrolls herself for the first time iu the columns of freedom. In Maryland full 34,000 new votes will be registered under the amendment. The ma jority against us in 1868 was 31,963, and in 1860, 30,252. The oppressor’s heel is off her shore. Twelve thousand fresh votes in New York will reduce the criminal vote of the city to a point where honest men can be gin to take heart. In Indiana we will receive an addition of 1,500 votes—a very acceptable gift. Lastly, with 42,000 of anew levy in Ken tucky—t wo whole army corps—we can be gin to raise the old flag again in the classic home of gperilladom. Verily this triumph of human right and equal justice seems to be the final triumph of the Union Republican War Party. With prudence and conscientious regard for the fundamental principles of equality and rightfulness, The eternal years are ours. General Reynolds. HIS LETTER DECLINING THE NOMINATION FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR IN TEXAS. Headq’rs Fifth Military District, J Austin, Texas, Feb. 14,1870. j T. O. Tracy, Esq., Editor Austin Daily State Journal: My Dear Sir : Asa response to the numerous applications to permit the use of my name as a candidate for the United States Senate, I have the honor to request the publication of this note. I am not a candidate for any civil position whatever, and have never authorized the use of my name in such connection. The proper dis charge of my duties has required of me the performance of many acts of a political character, but my convictions of right and sense of propriety would preclude the ac ceptance on my part of any political office at the present time, under the existing cir cumstances, at the hands of the Legislature of Texas. I have, to be sure, resided in the State, with trifling intervals, for more than three years, but this residence has been as an officer of the army, charged, in addition to the ordinary duties of ray profession, with the reconstruction laws of Congress. Nothing but the existence of an unprece dented emergency could warrant the Gov ernment in placing fn the bands of a single individual the vast power intrusted by these laws to a district commander. I doubt whether a residence under such con ditions constitute an inhabitant of the State, in the sense in which this phrase is used In the Constitution of the United States. There are other matters pertain ing to the question, but I forbear to length en this note. I fully appreciate the kind ness of the friends who would confer upou me this distinguished honor, and return them my sincere thanks, bat decline to per mit the use of ray name in connection with any civil position. Very respectfully, J. J. Reynolds. The Income Tax.—lt la again stated that the tax will not be abolished, but the rate will be reduced to three per cent., while a motion will be made to increase the exemptions to two thousand dollars.
