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Suppose the Radicals Succeed—
What Then P
Yoik World has some
lifficly and sensible suggestions upon
the present effects of the Radicals to
array the blacks of the South en masst
in a party against their former mas
ters, which we commend both to the
Radicals and their intended victims.
It says:
To place the subject in the right
point of view, let us suppose the lie- I
publicans to be as successful as th
are zealous; let us suppose they su
ceed in organizing the whole body oi
the negroes into one compact part' ,
voting always in opposition to the i > |
white neighbors, voting always in con
cert with the Republican party of ti e
North. It needs no prophetic ken. to
descry the consequences. It,result- >
from the very nature of,..man that aj
feeling of bitter arid intense- repug' I
nance between the two races would
year by year be strengthened, causing
mutual recriminations in every can
vass, and at last.,' bloody Cpllisiqris in j
every election.. The ineffaceable dis-. •
tinction of color, keeping alive tic |
origin and antecedents of both par- j
ties —setting, as if were, a badge or a j
brand upon each—would perpetualc
these hatreds for generations. 0.0
of two consequences would ineyitab j
follow - f either political animositie
would lead to constant bloodshed a
violence, or else a great pcrniam
standing array would he maintained
the South to keep the peace.
Is it, in a long-sighted, view, c.
for the party' interest of the llepu ■
licans to pursue the course on whi
they have entered, at this price ?—•'■
They would foel hound to proto- !• 1
their political proteges by this whole
military power of the nation so long s
they wielded it. The burden of no 1
erful armies w T ould inevitably ad
speedily bring the party that 11 1
them into a minority. The people v
even now taxed to the extreme pc'..it
of endurance; business stagnates ;
public revenues fall off; uncertainty
and distraction prevent rocupcrat'm
in the South, and the burden of taxes
fb not eased, as it should bo, by being
borne in part by strong .Southern
shoulders. If political events k ep
the South in a state of chronic-dcp s-
Rion, and require the North to take 1
constantly accumulating burdens, |
the certain consequence will be a
sweeping political revolution. lhe j
Republican, party, after having :!>us
arrayed the two races in deadly a lag* '
on ism, would he compelled to Itli
draw their protection, and allow ;1 so
conflicting passions -to take their
course. Old scores would then he
paid off’ with interest.. Tho n- rues
would have reason to execrate the par
ty which, after nursing public hatred
against them to its higtest pitch, had
no power to protect them against its
fury.
Tho Truth Fitly Told.
The Boston Post, speaking of the
Radical missionaries sent South, says :
Tho effrontery of these demagogues
in going among a people deprived of
their civil rights and property, held
down by military law, suffering the
pangs of starvation, and taunting them
with their misdeeds, and mocking at
their calamities, is as reprcshensibld as
anything cowardico could conceive or
party hacks perform The ready'sub
inission of the South to the reconstruc
tion laws of Congress surpassed all ex
pectation, and the work was advancing
throughout tho South without iicsita*
tion. The citizens of different classes
were fast adapting themselves to the
new order of things; tho blacks
and whites wore fast harmonizing in
their social and civil rclatious, ami the
restoration to good order and fidelity
to the General Government was unob
structed. Atsueli a moment, extreme
party men—-not men distinguished for .
patriotism or any prominent virtue,
public or domestic—not men of 0011 ■
sistent political action—not men who
had risked anything to defend tho"
government when it was assailed,-hut
mere party declaimed and leeches,-
thrust themselves up-n the South ns
its dictators, offensively Jeuiundiug;
acquiescnce in their will, and threat
ening proscription,'confiscation as pun
ishments for nsh conformity.
What but resistance and violet)co
could result from such proceedings
among civilized people with one drop
of American blood in their Veins?—
And was not this the aim at the start,
to sting .to violent deeds, and then
summon these deeds as evidence of
the necessity .of continued suljuga
tion, the postponement .of the peace*
of the country and ol" the restoration
of tho Union ? Wc believe such per
sons as Kelley and his Radical associ.
ates arc devilish cuougli for any such
design, and reckless enough to attempt
success, if the American people ai‘o
so far iu love with such apostles us to
sustain them at tho expense of tho
burdens they impose upon the nation,
civilly aud pecuniarily, thru wo may
ns well all “cry havoc,*aucHet slip the
dogs of war.” Strife and taxes, arbi
trary government, and the subversion
ol" every principle of true republican-.
ism, will be the cost of the contest.
fi©“The telegraph has stated that;
the Atlantic cablo laid hi 1860, lias
been damaged by an iceberg,, which
grounded upon it, and ig not now
working. The cable of 1865 fortun
ately escaped injury and is in good
working order. The Superintendent
announces that the injnred cable will
be promptly repaired
fi®*A lady says the first time she
was kissed felt like a tub of roses
swimming in*honey, cologne, nutmegs
and cranberries. She felt as if »ome
thing was running through her nerves
on feet of diamonds, escorted by sev
eral little cupida in chariots drawn by
angels, shaded by honeysuckles, and
the whole spread with melted rain
bows.
Sodjcnt Gdterjirise
SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1867.
SPUTiqil OP J, W. TOER.
We noticed in our last issue, that
. W. Tocr, (colored), ,of. Savannah,
was announced to speak on Saturday
•aßt. • - Circumstances provetited our
hearing the japccriq.but a frle.nti futj-*
a‘Tew of his reprarks;
which may[amuset'our readers : lie
(.the speaker j whs-a Republican, and
advisecUtli'e colored people to support
the llopublic&ii par^y through)
tlieir
free. lie also appealed to the 'poor
white men of the South to sustain that
party, because they were oppressed by
the rich until liberated by that party
in the emancipation of slavery, lie
had been in the North during the war,
and paid money out of his own pocket
to import colored men into Massachu
setts to vote for Lincoln. On one oc
casion ho had an interview with Mr.
Lincoln, when the latter said the war
would go against the •South, because
the Southern men were cowardly and
would not fight. Being a Southern
man himself, the speaker took offence
at the reflection upon the •South, and
assured. Mr. Lincoln that he was mis- '
taken, and that tho Southern men
would fight to the death.
He ridiculed the idea of “confisca
tion,’’ and assured the colored people
that should it conic by any means, it
would indeed make the white men
poor, bet it would make the colored
men peoter still: —That tlieir duty
was to labor and be faithful, in the
discharge of their obligations, that the
white men might have confidence in
them, to the e.nd, that colored men
may he able to use the white men’s
capital and acquire property. Many
other remarks of like character were
uttered, hut for which wc neither have
time nor space to report.
Sinco writing the above the pro
ceedings of the meeting has been
handed us, with a request for publica
tion, and we give them room as a mat*
tor of accommodation only.
APPOINTMENTS OF REG
. ISTERS.
The State es Georgia has been laid
off into Districts and Registers appoint
ed at Military headquarters. We copy
below the appointments as far as in
teresting to our readers : . Thomas is
in the Seventh District, and Gol. *l. It.
Alexander has received tho appoint-*
ment.
Fifth District. —Ooffoe, Ware, Clinch
—C- P. Jones, Tcbeauvillc, Ware
county.
Sixth District. —Echols, Lowndes,
Berrien —Alvin B. Clarke, Valdosta,
Lowndes county; A. Maroclictti, Val
dosta, Lowndes county.
Seventh District. —Brooke, Thomas,
Colquitt—J. U. Alexander, Thomas
villc, ‘Thomas county ; Lyons (care
of Captain White, Thomaaville), Col
quitt county.
Eighth District. —Deoatur, Mitch*
ell, Miller—Andrew Clarko, Camilla,
Mitchell county ; S. P. Allison, Bain
bridge, Decatur county.
Ninth District. —Early, Calhoun,
Baker, —B, F. Brimbery, Newton, Ba.
kcr county; 11. C. Fryer, Blakely,
Early county.-
LIBERATED.
The editor of tho Savannah Repub
lican has been pardoned by Gov. Jen*
kins and is now at liberty. Asa token
of his i/rirtituffr, in a paragraph am
pouncing the fact, ho closes as follows:
Tft the language of Ft. i’aul, “/A/.//
hove', beaten us openly unconrlcmncd,
brill!/ R( OMAN s', Utt<l hnrd,i'QSt //IS (11 to
'prison, ; fiiitT-tioic thy <lo thrust us out.
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• JfQ.PTH’S DIARY. ’
&.$?. -•-• .
So mueh'Dasbcen said about Bootle's.
Diary that the President has ordered
the publication of an authenticated
copy, ft is substantially the same as
that already placed before the country,
but as it was for a season in tho hands
of Judge Advocate J. Ho El', wo arc
inclined to doubt the authenticated
i copy. If IVoi/c suborned witnesses to
'implicate Jefferson Davis in tho assas
sination of Lincoln, ho was not too
conscientious to rob Booth’s Diary
when his interests demanded if.
SOUTHERN PRESS ASSOCJA
TION.
W'e have received a pamphlet copy
of the proceedings and t'oiisiitutiou of
the b’outhorn Press Association, lately
assembled at Atlanta, H;i,‘ Me think
the Association a good thing for the
daily press, but Hjfrcc with the. Associ
ation, that it could he of small benefit
to the weekly press.
Tjhk Actor Uou.sk. —We give the
following ‘advertisement of n well
known blow York Hotel, a gratuitous
insertion for the information of South
ern readers. We copy from tho New
York IloraiJ :
It was rumored that ho (Mr. Davis)
would stop at the A*tor House; but it
was belierpd that Irs presence there
would not be desirable, and that if up
plication were niado for accommoda
tions he would be denied the same, in
accordance with a decision of the pro
prietor.
Diamonds of the very first water
have been founu in flail county, Uco.
So-says an exebang*.
[FOR aHE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.]
PUBLIC MEETING.
Thomasville, May 25, 1867.
A meeting of the citizens of Thomas
county, called by the colored people,
assembled in the Court House of said
county on this day,..- ItevA Jacob Wk4°
was appointed Chairman, and Mac
Davis, Secretary. The meeting was
opened with prayer by the Chairmam
The Chairman then stated the objects
of the meeting jp gear and appropri
ate 1 language. \ ■! t ’«
* ‘Mr. J. W. Toor, & colored gerttle*
man from Savannah, was then intro
duced, A fid slopped forward *aod sd
dresßcdthe people upon the subject of
tbq present civil and political condi
tion of the country. , JJe was listened
toby white and c,Mo red with much at
tention, and wfe hope his remarks will
be productive ot good effect to all who
heard him.
After these semarks, Col. Jas. L.
Seward was called for by the meeting.
He rose upon his feet, and in his usual
clear and forcible manner, traced the
coming condition of tho two races, and
showed how beneficial it would be to
both that peace and harmony, good
will and good wishes, should exist and
be cultivated between them.
Col. Arthur P. Wright was then
culled on. lie told tho people that
what they now most required, was full
smoke houses and corn cribs, and they
would then havu sleek horses and cat
tle, fat babies, and obedient and con
tented wives, lfc pledged himself to
■ the people, (hat if they would go home
and make a good crop, and their em
ployers did ’ not pay them for tlieir
honest lahoi, that he would bo cnc of
the lawyers that would tax his brain
j to the highest ability tp make them
j do it.
Mr. William Hayes was then called
on. 110 said that lie was raised with*
tho colored people—fished, tusseled,
arid coon hunted with them. He know
them and always trusted them, and
was as willing now to trust his life j
with them as he was and would
endorse what J. W. Twer had said.
After this tho Secretary, Mae Davis,
was called to the floor. He said lie
did not have inucli to upon the
sul jects before the meeting, but would
take the liberty of touching upon a
thing or two intensely interesting to
himself. He said ho was accused
with being a Radical; ho repelled the
imputation with scorn and detestation.
Ho said lie did not want any body's
land without paying for it;;tnd he was
behind the time to be a Radical, for
he had already bought himself a home
stead and paid for it, as gentlemen in
that assembly could testify, and for
God's sake never say that about me
again. What l did say was, that we
all had past sins and required forgive*
ness for. them, and L thought you all
understood that l had forgiven you.
Olhor speakers were called up, and
made some gcod remarks,. The meet
ing was conducted in much good will
and harmony, and much to its praise,
every one went home after its close in
an orderly manner and in his sober
senses.
Tho Platform of tho Republican
Congressional Party of Thoriiasvillc,
was called up aud read, when J. W.
Toer moved its adoption, which being
seconded by Giles Price, it was unani
mously adopted. , It reads as follows :
Wc, the citizens of the above named
Party, pledge ourselves, choerfully to
acquiesce in, and adhere to, all the
requirements sot forth iu the Constitu
tion of the United Flutes, us .ivejl as
all the Acts, and Resolutions parsed
by Congress, having in view, the Re
constructing of the Rebellious States.
Our Motto :—Equal Rights to nil
(except those excluded by the Acts of
Congress) without regard to Color,
Oitr Desire IS to get back irt the
Union, in the shortest possible time,
and ou the terms prescribed by Con
gress. w ' v ’"' "' ” t 0 r
. o(ir (iijxious anil happy Reflections
arc: —That the day is not distant,
when tlw Flute of ( Gcqrgia, will again
do clothed With her Termor grriatness,
and numbered nniongthc States of the
IJriidn.
Our Emh/cnt, .-—The u Star Spang
led Danner,”
Our Heflye :—ls to stand by each
other, until the groat object is accom
plished we so much desire.
JACOB WADE, Cha,rn.
Mac Davis, Sce'y,
JUDGE KELLY AT ATLANTA
Alter his seme at Mobile, Judge
Kelly became sensible, and at Atlanta
spoke to tho colored people ns fol
lows :
•“ Addressing tho freudmen present,
he asked, what is liberty ? Freedom,
said he, simply implies tho light-to
labor l'or yourselves*-to make your
own contracts and secure tlieir pay
ment. It does not relieve you of the
obligation M work, dor all men‘ha ve
to work.* It, means that your wives'
and children shall ho privileged to en.
joy the fruits of your industry and
toil.
The speaker hero used this illustra
tion : Ile was walking arm in arm with
another gentleman. Suddenly the
gentleman withdrew his arm and stop,
ped. (Jn turning ho perceived his
■ companion w»3 using his cauo’to turn
I a gold bug, whieh he did by a sudden
•notion of his enno, tossing tho hug in
! tho air which, when it touched the
I earth did so on its legs. ‘‘Vjhero,”
said the gentleman, “now you oon tra
vel as well as any other bug of your
kind.”
Now, my oolorpd friends, by beiug
emancipated you arc simply put upon,
your le<£s, and now have as good a
chance in the world as any being of
your kind. You must boo yonr own
row —you must not indulge in idle
ness ; you Would be twitYuo to your
selves, and ute-ratelii! to your Maker.
See how wall you can do. Work, save
money and buy land Rut above all,
try to send your children to school—
educate them. But, if you cannot do
tha(, be sure Jo u>ukf them work, don’t
let them grov up jn .idleness. Work’
to rftftfure and keep the good will of the
white folks among whom you have
grown up, andjrhfl.yaafl y*jiw.,liicuds,
Bo ‘ yvhv duty, 'cul|iv{t(Ukyidly rela
tions, and be considerate toward those
who onqe^sustainedoffer relations to
ward you.' - ' and turning to friends
near him on tho platform, he said,
youF strength is, our--ftrengt.il,*sour
power, and by*, your rifihes we are cri*
richcd. Look for worth and merit in
those whom Providence lias placed
'among you and encourage it. y,
Wilkes Booth's Diary Complete.
The following is »n official copy of
the writing which was in pencil, found
in the diary taken from the body of J.
Wilkes Booth.
J, Holt,
Judge Advocate Geo’l.
“ Tiamo” April 13th, 14th.—Fri
day, The Ides :—Until to-dny nothing
was ever thought of sacrificing to our.
country’s wrongs.
For six months we had worked to
capture, but our cause being almost
lost, something decisive and great must
be done. But its failure was owing
to others who did not strike for their
country with a. heart. I (truck boldly
and not as the papers say. 1 walked
with a firm step through i thousand of
Iris friends and was stopped, hut push
ed on. A Colonel was at his side. I
shouted “Sic Semper’’ beibre I fired,;
in -jumping, broke my leg ; I passgd
alibis pickets; rode sixty miles that
night, with the bone of mj leg tearing
(he flesh at every jump. I can never
repent it, though we hated to kill.
Our country owed all her troubles to
him, and God simply made me the in*
strument qf his punishment.
The country iS not, ip April, 1865,
what it was. This forcedfyjnion is not
I what I have loved. 1 etfre not what
[becomes of me; L have no desire to
outlive iny country; This night, be
foro deed, I. Wrote a long article,
and meant it for one of lhe editors of
tho National Intelligencer, in which l
fully set forth our reasons fur pro
ceeding.
Friday, 21st.—After being hunted
like a dog, through swamps, woods,
and last night being chased by a gun.
boat till I was forced to‘ return, wet,
cold arid starving, with every man’s
hand against mo, I am here in despair,
and why 7 For doing what Brutus
was honored for; for what made Tell a
hero, and yet I, for striking down a
greater tyrant than they ever knew,
am looked upon as a common cut*
throat. My action was purer than
cither of theirs. One hoped to be
great—lhe other h id not only his'ceun
try’s, but liis own wrongs to avenge.
I hoped for no g-. Ans. I knew ho
private wrong. I struck for my coun
try, and that alonor-a country, that
groaned beneath this tyranny, and
prayed for this end, and yet now, be
hold the cold hand they extend to me !
God cannot pardon me if I'have done
wrong; y*-t I cannot see my wrong
except in serving a degenerate people.
Tho little, the very little, L left’behind
to clear my name, the government will
not allow to bo printed. *So ends all!
For my country 1 have given up all
that makes life sweet and holy ; bro’t
misery upon my family, arid am sure
there is no-pardon in (leaven forme,
since man Condemns mo so. I have
not ligard of what lias been ddite, ex
cept \vhat L did myself, and.it fills uie
with honor. .God, try and forgive uie
and bless my mother."
Horace Greeley Defies -IJs Trail 11-
cefi. —The extreme Radical presses of
tho North arc exceedingly hitter upon
the" Tribune ‘‘publisher”.for putting
his name Upon Mr. Davis.’ bond. Many
of tnarii advise him tb put”tho “Trai
tor’’ upou his editorial staff.
Jlr. Greeley, in a card which ap
pears in his paper, says that thus far
he has found liothing hi tho scurrili
ties of his enemies that seemed to re
quire an answer, but refers them to
his speech in Richmond, which gives
all the axplanation that he cares to
give or can imagine requisite. He
says if, aftor reading that speech, there
he any still dissatisfied, they are abun
dantly welcome. The meaning of
which is that they can “go to grass,”
iT not to a very hot place.
The Union League, in New Vork
Condemns Mr. Greeley's Action to
ward Mr. Davis. — New York May
24. —The Union f.oaguo Glub have
hold a special meeting, for tho purposo
ot" considering Horaoo Greeley's hail
in* Mr. Davis.
Resolutions of censure were pre
sented and rejected but finully passed.
The resolutions condemn the bailing,
hut do not deem it proper to stigmatize
the member for such n'et.
The meeting was violent ami stormy*.
-1 Defaulting Rank I'resolent Hs
mpes ft<a/\ dad and Drowns hlnttcif.
—Mobile, May 21.' —JoJiu M. Park
mail, the defaulting President of the
First National Bank of-Selma, confined
in Guhaba jail, escaped yesterday,
plunged into the river und drowned
himself.
The Mayor of Mobile has boon pe
titioned to appoint one-half of the po
licemen from negroes.
-\>< JJant/cr of V<>r>ji*c<xti >n.-~ We
are pleased to receive from the New
kork Times the acsiurauec thaJ. nodear
could possibly he mere
the-one entertaiood by many Southern,
people that, there is danger of the con
fiscation of their property- “Tin re
are,” says the Times, "as many people
in tho North jn favor of repudiating
tho national debt as there are in favor
of confiscating she estates of the South
ern property holder*. An-1 ■yet’the
national credit is as vlrotig as the Na.
tional Uuioii.”
Geueral Order l'or Registration.
_ lIF AI-Kg’ftS 8d MltlTAUr Dls’T, V
(Georgia, Alabama k Florida),
Atlanta, Ga.', May 22, ’67» )
'OenerOl Orders A 7 a>i "20. r -
In accordance with an ael of Cbm.
gross, supplementary to an act to pro
vide ;i more efficient government for
the rebel States, &c., dated March 2d,
1867, the following arrangements are
herein made for the registration of
voters in the States of Georgia *aud
Alabama :
, I. Thg States of Georgia and Ala
bama are divided into registration dis
tricts,numbered and bounded aa here
inafter described.
11. A Board of Registration is here*
*iri appointed for each district, as above
mentioned, to consist of two white
Registers and one colored Register, —.
In tho- Stdte of Georgia, where only
the two white Registers are designated
in this order, it is directed that these
white Registers, in each district, im
mediately select, and cause to be duly
qualified, a competent colored man to
complete the Board of Registration,
and report his name and postoffice ad
dress, without delay, to Colonel U. C.
Sibley, commanding district of Geor
gia, at Macon, Georgia.
111. Each Register will be required
to take and subscribe the oath pre
scribed by Congress, by an act dated
July 2, 1862,and an additional oath
to discharge faithfully the duty of
■ Register under the late Acts of Con
gress. It is not believed that any of
the appointees hereinafter designated
will he unable to take the test oath
above mentioned. Blank forms of
theJi oaths will be .sent to the appoin
tees at cmcc, and ou being executed
and returned to the Superintendents
of State registration, their commissions
as Registers will he issued arid forwar
ded to them immediately.
. TV. In order to-sgeure a fall regis
tration of voters, it is determined, to
fix tho compensation of Registers ac
cording to the general rule adopted'in
taking the census. In tho eities, the
compensation is fixed-at fifteen cents
for eiich recorded voter; in tin most
sparsely settled counties and district,
at forty cents per voter. The com
pensation will be graduated between
these limits, according to the destiny
of the population and the facilities of
comniujiicution.' Ten cents per mile
will bo allowed for transportation of
Registers off the lines of railroads and
steamboats, and five cents per mile
when travel is done on railroads and
steamboats.
V. It is hereby niadc the duty of
all Registers, and they will be expec
ted to perform it strictly, to explain
to nil persons, who have not heretofore
enjoyed tho right of suffrage, what
arc their political rights end privileges,
and tho necessity of exercising therii
upon all proper occasions.
VL. The name of each voter shall
appear in the list of voters, jor tho
precinct or mtrl in vvliioli )-o rc.-!Jco j
and in cases where voters have been
unable to register, whilst the Boards
of Registration were in the wards or
precincts where such voters live, op
portunity will be given to register at
tho county scats of tlieir respective
counties, at'a spepifiad time, of which
due tioticu will be given; but\ho names
of all voteis, thus registered, will be
placed on tho lists .of voters of tlieir'
respective, precincts.
VII. Tluj Boards of Registration
will "ivo duo notice,, so that it may
roach all persons eufiih'd to register,
of tho date wheu they will “be in each
election precinct, lhe time they will
spend in it, and the pi 100 whole the
registration will ho made; and upon
the completion of the registration for
each county, the Board of Registration
will give notice that, they will be pres
ent, l'or three successive days at the
bounty scut of such county, to register
such votes as have failed to register,
or been prevented from registering in
their respective precincts, und to hear
evidence in the oases of voters, rejec
ted by life R -gisters in the sever'd
precincts, who may desire to present
testimony in tlieir own behalf.
-ViiL. Unless otherwise instructed
hereafter, Boards of Registration are
directed, in determining whether ap
pficanns to register are legally qualified,
to hold fliat the terms “executive and
judicial,’’ in "the act of Congress of
March 23, 1807, comprise all persons
whomsoever who have held office un
der the Executive, or Judicial Depart,
meats of the State, or National Gov
ernment—in other words, all officers
not legislative, which last are nlso cx
-afuded by tho act. Persons whogip
ply to rogister, but who are considered
disqualified by tho Boards, will be per
mitted to take the required oath,
which, with the objections of the
board, will bo held for adjudication
hereafter.
IX. The lists of registered voters
for each of the precincts wifi bees
posed-iu some puldio place in that
precinct, for ten consecutive days, at
some time Sul-sequent to tho comple
tion of the registration lor each coun
ty, arid before auy etreuon is field, ui
order that all supposed cases of fraudu
lent Vqgistration may be thoroughly
investigated. Duo notice will bo given
and provision, made for the time arid
place for the "examination, rind settle
ment of such eases.
. N. .Blank books of oaths, required
to ho taken by voters, and blank regis
tration lists, as.also full and detailed
instructions for tlvo performance of
their duties, will beat once torwarded
to the Boards of Hegistr: tion, appoint
ed ill this order, and it is ciyoiued
upon these boards that tljey proree l
to complete tho registration with all
energy and dlspateh.
XI. Tho detailed- instructions to
Registers will designate the member
of each board who shall be its Presi
dent
Xll Violence or threats of violence
!U>y otlnr -ppres ivo menus to pre-
vent any person frpm registering his
name, or exercising his political righte,
arc positively prohibited ; audit is dis
tinctly announced that no contract or
agreement with laborers, which de
prives them ms their wages‘.for any
longer time than rhat actually consum
ed in registering and voting, will be
permittel to be enforced against them
in this district; and this offence, or
any previously mentioned in this para--
graph, will cause the Immediate arrest
of the offender *.id his trial before a
military commission.
XIJI. The exercise of trie rightofeve
ry duly authorized voter, under the late
acts of Congress, to register and vote,
is guaranteed by the military authori
ties of this district/ ami all persons
whomsoever are warned against any
attempt to interfere to proveht any
man from exercising this right, under
any pretext whatever, other than ob
jection by the usual legal mode,
XIY. In case of any disturbance,
or violence at the places of registration
or any molestation of Registers or of
applicants to register, the Board ot
Registration will call upon the local
civil authorities for a police ioreo, or a
posse to arrest (he offenders and pre
serve quiet, or, if necessary, upou the
nearest military authorities, who are
hereby instructed to furnish the nec
essary aid. Any civil officials who
refuse, or who fail to protect Regis
ters, or applicants to register, will be
reported to the headquarters of the
officer comfnandiug in the Htate, who
will arrest such delinquents, and send
charges against them to these head
quarters,that they may be brought be
fore a military commission.
By command of Brevet Major Genoral
Pope.
G. K. Sanderson,
«Capt. 33d Inf. and A. A. A. G.
Pomeroids.
Did you. ever endorse tho doctrine
of equal taxation ?
Then why make United States
Bonds exempt from taxation and take
ono hundred and dighty millions of
dollars per year from the working men
of the country to give to bondholders
as interest on the bonds they swindled
the government out of ?
Did youever shout free speech, free
press and free Kansas •(
Then why did you mob ’so many
Democratic printing office while Lin
coln lived ?
Did you believe in what Lincoln
said as President?
Then why do you endorse men who
lire not willing the Soul. ltem State
should bo again in the Union with
their rights unimpared.
Did you Kelp carry on the war to
restore the Union?
Then why now seek to divide it !
Did you believe in abolishing the
aristocracy of slavery !
Then \,hy build np one of bonds, on
which the holders pay no taxes ?
Do you believe in Military paWer
and centralized despotism ?
If not, why not !<.i itie nsuthcr*.
States live in the peace they ask for
and your President promised tljem ?
Did you help carry on the war to
bene/it the negro ?
Then why not advise him to stay
where the climate agree* with him ;
where he has friends, and why send a
legion of political beggars in among
tne uogroes to cheat them (rut of their
earning and to keep them prior?
Do y.ou now wish" to benefit the
negro ?
Th'cn why make the poor, ignorant,
poverty-stricken, uuloftunate pay live
cents a pound tax ;>n tlie cotton lie
raises, to support the Bond Holders of
New England, who grow rich at th”o
expense of the poor people they pro
fess to love ?
Do you believe in the power and
greetin' ,-! of the North ?
Then-why continue a war upon bro
ken, unarmed, poverty-stricken peo
ple r
Do you ex poet tho war debt to be
P-H'J-
Then why not let the producers pt
the land who are the only 'ones who
pay in the end, live In quiet and help
us make the country great?
Are you an honest man ?
Then \vhy endorse and vote for the
thrives,, cowards, swindlers, union
•splitters and spendthrift speculators so
popular with sho radical party ?
Are you in ffivor of protecting la
bor ? *
Then why not tax capital in United
States Bonds and securities, and ex
empt tho hard-A'arned incomes of far
mers, miners, mechanics, laboring men
and poor people ?
Would you protect labor in the
North ?
Then why urge the negroes to come
here, to come in conflict with the white
labur of the North now too poorly paid
and too severely worked.
Did you help carry en the war to
restore the Union, snd if the war wa*
a sueccss why not the Union restored
as it was when the war began ?
Will you please Answer the above ?
ViiOßtn i a Paraiusk A New
England woman thinks she has found
pnrtfdise in Florida, writes as
follows :
"L believe I have at last found the
fabulous country where the month of
March is delightful. Mv visit here
lias been like sunshine and spring tq a
frost bitten- phtit, I have had more
life—more rest—more appetite—more
conscious pleasure in existence, than I
have had for years in New England.
Here must be tuy future home, tor at
least half tlfe year if I am to live and
do any thing. Here I am a living
woman ; at the North I -tun for six
months a half-dead one.’
•®P“"lIould* on!” said Patrick, as
he stood looking after the depat ted
train, motioning it to stop. "Honied
on. ye murthcriog old ctame ingin,
ye.-s got a passenger on board that s
left behind !*’
Off for Liberia.— The Charles
ton A r em of a recent date says :
The Golronda cleared at the Cus
tom liuusc yesterday with 300 emi
grants, which is only a moiety of those
whose names were registered, 1,300
Having agreed to go to the land of su
gar aud palm oil, but were induced to
change their minds byjhe recent po
litical movements —-the right to vote - /
and the looliab belief that Congrcse
would yet give (hem land.
Mr. Wm, Coppinger, the ‘Vi’re/ary
of the Association, is now in this city,
and is engaged in forwarding the in
terests of tho society. He has rrearfy
completed hia arrangements, ami if flio :
wind and the weather should be fair,
the (lolconelu will leave for Liberia
to-Tay.
Among the number of emigrants are l
one hundred and twenty from Mullen’s
Depot, Marion District; twenty front
Aiheß ; fifty from- Newberry, and thirty
from Charleston. The remainder wei«’
principally from and
a lew from Pennsylvania. There SVe
in the three Hundred 1 sii native Afri
cans, who were brought to this couYfi-'
try before the late struggle, one of
them having been a passenger on tfiff
undercr. These are now returning
to.their native country,'and Can rpmrte
from experience of its resoureos u-mJ
the advantages of emigration.. There
is .certainly a great charm 5 ) the colb
ored "people in being free, and fiviw-g
iu a country and under a government
formed by thamselves, and we sin.
ccrely hope that they may never re
gret their emigration, bnt will continue
to send, not only clilering accounts,
hut-substantial inducements in the way
of freight, which will make Liberia
more popular than she is at prescut.
Moral Courage ii Every-day Life
Have tho courage to discharge a
debt while you have the money in your
pocket.
Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
year eyes may covet it.
Have the courage to speak your
mind, when it is necessary you should
do so, and to hold your tongue when
it is prudent you should do so.
Have the courage to speak to a
friend in a “seedy” coat, cVen though
you are in company with a rich one,
aud richly attired.
Have the courago to make a will
and a just one.
Have the courage to tell a mail why
yon will not lend him your money,
11 ive the courage to “cut” the mo-t
agreeable acquaintance you have, when
you arc convinced that he lacks prin.
cirvlc. “A friend should bear with a
friend’s infirmities,” but not with tiis
vises.-»
Have the courage to show jour re
spect for honesty, in whatever guise it
appears; and your contempt for dis
honest duplicity, by wlnouisde vet exhi
bited.
Have tho courage to wear your old
clothes until vou pay for new ones.
Have tho courage to obey your
Maker, at the risk of being ridiculed
by man.
Have the courage to prefer comfort
and .propriety to fashion, in »!t things.'
Have tho oourage to- acknowledge
your ignorance, rather than to seek
credit for knowledge undor false pre
ten jo,s. * .
Have the courage to provide enter
tainment for your friends, wtlhiayour
mfoifs—not "beyond.
Have- the courage to- take a good
paper, ami pay for it annually in ad
vance.
77--• r/ijfirnlliet in the. South.— ? Tho
New York Herald is pretty near tho
facts ol the case in tlm loilowing re
mark :
From our correspondence and other
sources of information from'all parts
of the South, it is evident the political
agitators are sowing the storm through
which wo are likely to reap a whirl
wind. Tiio negroes woilld hare beta
quiet, rejoicing in their new-born free
dom, and would hare gone to work
cultivating the soil and improving
their condition, hail they been let
alone. Now that tlieir passions said
oupidity have been aroused, they »re
looking for confiscation,, and a distri
bution of the lands among them, ex
emption from Talutr, and elevation to
positions they arc totally unprepared
tp occupy. Hostility between the
blacks aud whites is the natural con*
soquefico; lienee we see the former
congregating in the towns, making vio
lent and armed demonstrations, ana
the latter alarmed add excited. Cau
we Wonder, then, that such riots as we
haVe referred to occur ? Or should wo
lie surprised if worse were to fellow ?
Wo saw hi the ease of Kansas what
trouble the rivalry lor political asocn
dehey" created ; but the bloody drama
thorp, with all its disturbing conse
quences throughout the rest ctf tho
eouutry, was a small affair Compared
with what we may expect to see in the
Houth, if a solution be uot found for
the difficulties of that^ection.
If the .North will keep-it* Wilson’*,
Kelleys, and other propagandist* <n»t
1 of tho Bouth. ranch of the evil it
I speaks of would be avyiHed.
Drcrs for Church. —It is said that
Queen Victoria puts on a very plain
dress and leaves off all jewelry when
she goes to the house of worship. The
, sin that thousands of A«deriean citi
zens c mm it, by putting on all (he fine
dress they can command to attend the
lion.se of the Lord, will deprite them
of the reward promised to the right
eous at the judgment.
Situation as Teacher Wanted
r ft VHK antt-I will bf am *f ftnpl-y
I mem -nth* Jnne. *n*l ilwrai
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v> ir» rapryienr* in <-a<-hinp, h* flail rr*
hini-«*lf lhai he sun give .'-fartion to uy
rme- iutbln au-l d«-»ire« M anrly
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