Georgia Historic Newspapers

    Who Can Register.
Every man in the State twcnty.one
years of age and upwards, a citizen
resident in the State for twelve months
preceding the election, whether he be
white or colored, is entitled to regis
ter, unless he shall have been
Ist. Convicted of Felony.
2d. Or having held a Federal office
previous to the war and aftetwards
engaged in or gave aid and support to
the late war against the United States.
3d. Having held an office, either ex
ecutive, legislative or judicial, under
the State Govornment and ta>
hen an oath to support the Constitu
tion of the United States, afterward
engaged in the late war, or gave aid
and support to the Confederate Gov
ernment.
4th. All persons can register who,
in good faith, can take the oath pre
scribed by the Sherman Bill, which is
as follows:
I, , do solemnly swear, or af
firm, in the presence of Almighty
God, that I am a citizen of the State
of ; that I have resided in the
State for months, next prcce.
ding this day, and now reside in the
county of , or parish of ,
in said State, as the case may be; that
I am twenty-one years old ; that I
have not been distianchiscd for par
ticipation in any rebellion or civil wr.r
against the United States, nor for fel
ony committed against the laws of any
State or of the United States; that I
have never been a member of any
State Legislature, nor held any execu
tive or judicial office in any State and
afterwards engaged in insurrection
against the United States, and given
aid and comfort to the enemies thereof;
that I have never taken an oath as a
member of Congress of the United
States, or as an officer of the United
States, or as a member of any State
Legislature, or as an executive or ju
dicial officer of any State, to support
the Constitution of the United States,
and afterward engaged in insurrection
or rebellion against the United States,
or given aid or comfort to the enemies
thereof; that I will faithfully support
the Constitution and obey the laws of
the United States; and will, to the
best of my ability, encourage others
to do so —So help me God. Which
oath or affirmation may be adininistcr
,ed by any registering officer.
-Letter from Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens has addressed
the following letter to the editor of the
Washington Chionicle:
Lancaster, Pa , June 13,1867.
I think it proper to suggest the
propriety of having a quorum in Con
gress on the Ist proximo. The opin
ions of the Attorney General seem to
require some explanation or supple
mental acts. I need not point out the
errors in favor of the rebels, as there
are many of them easily seen. For in
stance, it is provided that to entitle
to be registered requires one year’s
residence in the State. Every man
can see that this means continuous
•residence immediately before tho elec
tion. The Attorney General holds
that the party may take nine months
when he was a boy and three months
now. Andrew Johnson, by going a
month before the election to North
Carolina, where he lived thirty years
ago, could vote. So with regard to
clerks, military and civil officers and
the holding of Confederate offices
while in rebellion.
But I will not take time to criticise
now. A mistake more objectionable
than either is the fact of usurpation
by the Attorney General in acting at
all in the question, and treating his
directions as binding officially. The
Attorney General has no more right to
interfere than the President had to re
construct, when pretension Congross
has settled, since it has been adjudged
that the conquered States aro to be
treated as subdued territory, rebuilt
.without reference to their former con,
dition by the legislative power alone.
It is to be. supposed that Congress
alone is to be appealed to in case of
difficulty. It is true that the Attor
ney General is too good a lawyer to
act under the constitution, as it is well
decided that, admitting new States,
•and, of course, rebuilding conquered
territory, docs not come within the
provision of that instrument. His
opinion is just as good as any other
good lawyer’s, and no better. It is
the attempt to treat it as official that
is objectionable. When he rules what
shall be evidence, if obeyed, he docs
great v rong. lie has a fair excuse,
■however, under the invitation of the
commanding generals. I have said
this much with great reluctance, but,
finding my colleagues indifferent to
.the question, I have not been able to
refrain. 1 feel painful fear lest it
should be thought that I obtrude my
•opinions too often in public matters,
but my anxiety, possibly, my over ex
citod anxiety, relative to reconstruc
tion, must be my excuse. With great
respect, your obedient servant,
Thaddeus Stevens.
Gen. Sickles’ Letter.
Washington, June 22.—The follow
ing is Gen. Sickles’ lotter addressed to
the Adjudant General:
11 1 havo the honor to request that I
may be relieved from commanding this
District, and I respectfully demand a
court of inquiry upon my official ac
tion, that I may vindicate myself from
the accusation of the Attorney Gener
al, published, it is presumed, with the
approval cf the President. Congress
having declared the so-called State
governments illegal, the declaration of
ithe Attorney General that military au
thority has not superseded them pre
vents the execution of the Ileconstruo
fcion Act, disarms me of means to pro
tect life and property or the rights of
citizens, and menaces all interests in
those States frith ruin.
[Signed] Daniel E. Sickles,
Major General,”
JSotttjjcnt Enterprise
(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : s : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1807.
Railroad Meeting.
A meeting will be held at the Court
House, in Thomasville, at 11 o’clock,
A. M., on Saturday next, 29 th inst.,
for the purpose of discussing the sub
ject of the South Georgia & Florida
Railroad, and ascertaining the senti
ments of the citizens of Thomas county
on the subject. The audience will be
addressed by gentlemen of experience
and ability, and who are thoroughly
posted on the merits of the proposed
Railroad. Tho citizens generally, and
the voters especially, both white and
black, are requested to attend and par
ticipate in the proceedings.
THE NEGROES TOJBE DRI
VEN FROM AMERICA.
But a short time ago advising some
of the leading colored men of Thomas
county, we told them that in less than
Jive years the “ Yankee friends” who
are now so loudly clamoring for negro
suffrage, equality of rights, and using
all their influence and power to in
flame tho minds of the colored people
against the white people of the South
—that the sc Yankee friends would be
the first to send them out of the coun
try by forced immigration. The only
safety of the colored people was in
the friendship of the Southern white
people, who had need of their labor;
this friendship lost, the colored man
would soon be compelled to seek his
home in Africa, or perish by tyranny
and oppression ii: America. We did
not think at that time we should so
soon have convincing proof of the
' truth of our s'atcment; but wo have
now to inform the colored people of
the country, that the Yankee war upon
them has already begun, and that the
notorious Helper, who did more, per.
haps, than any other man in the North,
to inflame the minds of the people and
get up the lato war, has already writ'
ten a book and sent it forth to tho
world, advocating the extermination
or banishment of tho entire colored
race from the United States.
This man Helper, though a villain
ous revolutionist, understands the ma
terial upon which he has to operate,
and we have proof in the fata! success
of the “Impending Crisis ” a vile tissue
of slander and falsehood written by
him before the war, that his views,
however false and destructive of true
principle and good government, will
take root among Northern people and
flourish in the highest as well as low
est circles. But no remarks of ours
can furnish an adequate idea of the
bitterness and hostility written in this
book against the negro race, and wo
will close by adding below Hel
per’s apology for his conversion from
the principles of the “Impending Cri
sis,” reserving other important extracts
for future issues of the Enterprise :
“ There is, it is believed, a peculiar
fitness in the fact that this expo-urc of
the utter unworthiness and worthless,
ness of tho negroes, should bo made
by. one who had previously made a
thorough exposition of the political
folios and corruptions of the nego
owncs themselves. The little David
hereof, having, therefore, first attack
ed and overcome tho strongest and the
subtlest of mankind now advances to
wago vigorous and effective warefuro
against the weakest and the meanest—
and woe to the black, woo to the
brown, who allows himself to be con
fronted anywhere on tho soil of Amer
ica! Evidences shall no longer be wan
ted that good nicn, the very best men
in all the world—the real salt of the
earth—maybe hearty haters of slavery
and at the same time, unconditional
detesters of darkies.”
NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Wo agree witli tho Macon Tele>
graph, that tho entire burden of re
sponsibilit.y of advising tho people of
the South as to their ogurso during
tho momentous crisis of our affairs,
has heretofore devolved upon the press.
Tho leaders of tho South have seemed
to bo spell bound or bewildered, and
silent ever since the close of the war;
and with one or two noble exceptions,
none have raised their voices to adviso
their defeated followers. Tho duty
therefore devolved upon tho pross, and
they havo certainly bocn bold in dis
charging it, whether for good or for
evil. Wo are glad to see, however,
that some of our statesmen are rousing
themselves lrom their lothargy, and
beginning to speak boldly and patriot!,
cally. The Chronicle !i Sentinel, of
Augusta, is now publishing a scries of
articles, “ Notes on tho Situation,”"
written by tho lion. B. 11. Hill, in
the usual unanswerable logic and vi
gor of his well known style, and we
propose to publish them in the Enter*
jerisc as fast as we can mako room for
them. Wc begin this issue with num
ber three.
Line of Steamers to New Orleans.
—A weekly line of steamers has been
established between Bainbridgo and
Apalachicola to New Orleans. Tho
steamer C. D. Fry, of the Barnett
through line, will run betwoen Bain
bridge and Apalaohicola, making close
connections with ocean steamers
thcuce to New Orleans.
COME TO THE MEETING.
We publish to-day a call for a Rail
road meeting at the Court House, on
Saturday next, and hope the voters at
least, of Thomas county, will turn out
and let their sentiments be known.
Some have been enquiring about the
progress of the South Georgia & Flo
rida Railroad, and some about its mer
its. Let all attend this mooting and
everything will be explained to their
satisfaction. The day appointed is ap
propriate, the last of the week, when
you can all come to town without de
triment to your farms. Come then,
and let us counsel together for the
public good.
ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT.
The President has issued his order
to the Military Commanders, and di
rects them to construe the reconstruc
tion acts of Congress in accordance
with the opinion of the Attorney Gen.
eral- Gen. Dan. Sickles, cptnmatider
of the 2d District, pretends to be
greatly offended at the President’s
presumption, and tenders his resigna
tion. It is to bo hoped.the President
will accept it without the slightest
hesitation, and that Sheridan will be
requested to tender his immediately.
lie Macon Telegraph bids an
affectionate farewell to Rev. Col. G.
L. Eberhardt, bureau agent, superin
tendent of negro education, and man
of all work for the Radical party of
Georgia, who, it says, left tho city a
few days ago, on his way to Europe, to
look after a large fortune left to his
wife by her father, in Bath, England.
The estate is valued at a million dol
lars, to be divided between three heirs.
Now he can assist the darkies; but
will lie do it?
SOUTH GEORGIA & FLORIDA
RAILROAD.
We commend to bur readers the
following very sensible article on the
above subject, from the Miliedge
ville Southern Recorder. There
seems to bo hut one opinion about the
practicability and importance of the
construction of this Rjilr-.ad, and wc
are encouraged in the work by all who
examine its purposes and location. —
Let our own people show that they are
also fully sensible o( its importance to
them, N- xt Tuesday is the day of
election, when the people of Thomas
county must decide, whether or not
they will be taxed to build the road.
Rail Roads.
Wc sec from the Thomasville En
terprise, that the question of building
tho South Georgia <& Florida Railroad
is agitating the minds of the people of
Thomas and Mitchell counties. We
can hardly suppose that there can be
any serious opposition to such an en
terprise, and if there is, it is for the
want of means on the part of those who
urge objections.
The South Georgia & Florida Rail
road will run, when constructed, from
Albany to Tliomasville, and perhaps
in time, extend itself to Monticello or
Tallahassee in Florida. At present,
it is the intention of the friends of the
road, to. build from Thomasville to
Albany. A glance at the map will
convince the observer, that it is all
important that the Road from Albany
shoqld strike at Thomasville, and had
it not been for the war, wo have but
little doubt, that the Road would have
been built long since. It is but ex
tending one of the great railroad arte,
lies of our State, and perfecting the
system of important and indispensablo
communication direct with tho differ
ent sections of our growing and great
old State.
The argument of competition, or in
juring built Iloads by building others
or extending them, is an obsolete idea,
and has given way in this progressive
age and day. We want to see Geor
gia roticuluted with roads; and the
more wo havo, and the greater tho
competition, greater will be tho in
ducemonts to improve the lands, invite
immigration, and settle up the coun
try. The day for big plantations are
past, and we expect to see in a few
yours counties that can voto only a
thousand whites now, voting several
thousand, and the country dotted all
over with snug little farms of one hun
dred acres, well cultivated, and a thri.
ving, industrious and energetic people
developing and improving the natural
resources ol’ our land.
Transportation to market is the
great incentive now a days, and tho
greater the advantages, tho greater tho
inducements to settle. There need bo
no doubts about Kail lloads not pay
ing good dividends. Our State is not
one-third settled up. Wo can support
3,000,000 of people on our soil, from
its resources alone ; but at present, wo
have only 1,024,000 whitos and blacks
all told. With our unsurpassed ad
vantages in soil and climate, thero is
no roason why Georgia should not bo
one of the first States in this Union,
for thoro is no Stato, except Alabama,
that can begin to cotnparo with us in
natural advantages.
As population increases, so will our
advantages bo developed, and tho only
sensible way at present for our people
to invest their money—the result of
their crops, will be to build rail roads,
and hold out inducements for labor
and capital to como among us. Our
lands will increase in the snmo ratio,
as we build roads, and it would be well
to keep that fact in view. A planta.
tion that is now twonty or thirty miles
from a railroad, would be worth 50 per
ccnt.more, if a road ran within ten
miles of it, or nearer.
Rail Hoads stimulate other enter
prises, independent of increasing tho
price of land. It encourages the build
ing .up of towns, of factories of all
kinds, and gives a lively spur to busi
ness ; it wakes up the energies of a
people, and puts their brains to think,
ing, and money in their pockets.
Wc are glad to Bee our people, tho’
surrounded with financial difficulties,
and depressed by unfriendly national
legislation, have not yielded to utter
despondency. Three different roads
are now being constructed, viz:
The extension of the Road from
Thomasville to Bainbridge, a distance
of some 45 miles, and when finished,
there will be direct communication
with Savannah a distance of 245 miles.
The Augusta and Macon Road will be
finished to Millodgcvillc by fall, and
the Macon and Brunswick Road is be
ing pushed on as fast as possibla, es
pecially from Brunswick to the Initial
Point on tho Savannah and Gulf Hoad.
We hope in a year or two to announce
the completion of tho Read from Al
bany to Thomasville, and the filling
up of the gap between Eatonton and
Madison; With the Roads now con
templated and constructing, when fin
ished, wc will have just begun the
great work that lies before us and our
children to do, to make Georgia what
she should be, and take that rank
among her sisters that her proud posi
tion demands. Georgia should be the
.Ga*e State to the Atlantic Ocean for
all these States, West and North West
of her, and when such is the fact, she
will bear the same relation to the South
that New Yo:k does to the North. —
Let our watchvords, as Georgians bo—
Onward and Upward—internal Im
provements and Industry.— Southern
Recorder.
Notes on the Situation—No. 3.
r ! by a. It. IHLL. ?r^
When any measure of legislation in
America is presented for our accept
ance or approval, the first should al
ways be, Is it constitutional ? or, bet
ter phraseology would be, Is it author
ized by tho Constitution ? For in
America, the distinctive, distinguish
ing fiature of Government, State and
Federal, is tho written Constitution.
This is the Alpha and Omega of all
true American statesmanship. It is
also the only impregnable fortress for
American liberty. The written Con
stitution are words which should bo re
peated by every citizen every day and
every hour, and held as indispensable
to the preservation of American politi
cal life, as is air, or water, or meat and
drink to the preservation of animal
lifo.
In entering on the discussion of the
Military Bills, the first remarkable fact
which strikes us, is the general con
cession and they are not in accordance
with the Federal Constitution. In the
delates on the passage of the Supple
mental bill, some of the advocates of
these measures insisted upon submit
ting to tho people of tho soveral States
affected, to decide “for or against” the
State Convention through which the
purposes aro to be accomplished, be
cause if the people should vote for a
Convention and thereby admit and ap
prove the, propriety and necessity for
the measures, the whole plan would be
relieved of tho unconstitutional objec
tions ! Thus even Radical fanatics
found it necessary to provide some ex
cuse for their consciences 1 And this
excuse consists in an attempt to secure
the consent of the people—yea of tho
people to be degraded to the scheme
which is to degrade them, and thus to
rest the legality of the plan not upon
the Constitution but upon the consent
of the people 1 And this eonscut is to
be secured by disfranchising intelli
gence, by military rule, by threats, and
last, though not least, by bribery !
The negro race, duped by emissaries
and aided by deserters from their own
blood, is to give consent for the white
race 1
Mr. Stanbery, in bis argument be
fore the Supremo Court, though deny
ing tho jurisdiction of the Court in the
case mado, felt it necessary to disclaim
any admission that the bills were con
stitutional, but admitted the contrary,
and hoped, when the pro p c r case
should bo made, which he admitted
could bo made in many ways, tho
Court would discharge its duty.
It is true that Mr. Sumner and such
as he claims that Congress has tho
right, under the Constitution, to pass
such bills and fur all tho States, and
locates tho power in two clauses of the
Constitution ; that which requires tho
United States to “guarantee a Repub
lican” government to each Stato, and
the latter clause of tho fourteenth
amendment which authorizes Congress
“by appropriate legislation to enforce”
tho emancipation of the slave.
Hut whatever may be claimed for
Mr. Sumner otherwise, it is certain ho
is not respectable authority on ques
tions of constitutional law. No fanati
cal mind can be regarded as safe, or
become respectable as an expounder
of law ; beoauso fanatical minds will
accept nothing as true except what
they desire to bo true. Hut law is an
inflexible rule, and none but inflexible
minds, rigid in spito of theories and
hard laws, can either truly learn,
greatly love, or safely expound tho
law.
Hut oycn if Mr. Sumner and such
as he had reputation as lawyers, such
reputation would bo destroyed by the
very positions assumed ; for no legal,
or logical or woll-balanecd mind can
say it is necessary or proper to disi
franchise whito pooplo ; to abolish the
trial by jury ; and to suspend the pri
vilege of habeas corpus in time of
peaoo tor all races and colors, in order
to guarantee republican government
to the States, or to enforoo tho oiunn,
cipation of the slave.
It may be safely assume!, therefore,
that all respectable legal minds in
America, whether for or against these
military bills as a plan of reconstruc.
tion, admit that the bills are not au
thorized by any provision in the Con
stitution. Indeed, the advocates of
these hills find the authority for their
adoption, not in the Constitution, but
in certain circumstances outside of the
Constitution —in a condition of things
not anticipated and not provided for
by the Constitution ; and some find
the power in necessity, some in hu
manity, and soJne in international law!
Before I conclude the notes it is my
purpose to devote seperatc and special
attention to each of the apologies for
these bills (for they arc n o t argu.
rnents); but I wish to say, now, that
if these positions, or any of them be
true, then Congress has found for it
self a much broader grant of power
outside of tho Constitution than exists
inside of that instrument. Indeed
they have found, outside, a power by
which they can destroy the Constitu
tion by which alono the Congress it
self was created and has being. If
this be so, our fathers did a silly work
in providing a written Constitution.
Then, we may safely say that, what
legal minds admit is true to wit: That
these Military Bills are not authorized
by any provision of the Constitution ;
and, if justifiable at all, they must be
justified by circumstances, by some
condition, by some authority, outside
of the Constitution. And now, wise,
prudent, patriotic readers, propound
and answer this question : If Con
gress has a sphere, a dominion, an exis
tence, outside of the Constitution,
whence did it come, where does it lie,
and what is its extent, its length and
breadth? Do ycu know there is no
dominion outside of the Constitution
and laws, but the dominion of anarchy
—grim, bloody, lawless, thriftless,
• hopeiess anarchy ? Do you not know
that the very definition of anarchy is,
outside of laiv, disregard of law. aban
donment of law ? Have not ail peo
ple who have gone into anarchy, and
reaped her riot of ruin, done so under
the pressure of bad men and circum
stances ? And will Americans, black
or white, abandon the well-defined
boundaries —the safe expositions—the
well-tried, ever-sufficicnt and glorious
protection of a written Constitution,
and rush into the wild outside to find
safety for person, or for property, or
for liberty ?
But the argument must not stop
here. These Military Bills are not on
ly not authorized by, but are directly
contrary to the Constitution. They
subject citizens to trial for eapital and
infamous offences without indictment
by a Grand Jury; and this the Con
stitution says, shall not be done
They authorize trial without a jury,
which, the Constitution says, shall not
be done ; and the Constitution, on this
subject, is so tender of liberty that it
does not trust the matter simoly to a
prohibition, but it declares, with re
peated emphasis, the right: “The
trial of all crimes, except in cases of
impeachment, shall be by jury.” “ In
all criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy and
public trial by an impartial jury.”
They suspend the privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus when there is
neither insurrection nor in vasion, which
the Constitution says shall not be done.
In these and other respects, then,
military bills aro in direct conflict with
the plainest and most solemn injunc
tions and guarantees of the Constitu
tion.
Hut these bills not only thus most
flagrantly violate the provisions of the
Federal Constitution, but they abro
gate and destroy in whole the Consti
tutions of ten States formed by the
people, and authorize anew people to
form constitutions, not according to
tho wishes of either the new or the old
electors, but according to the wishes
and under the direct dictation of the
authors of these military bills, not rne
of whom resides in cither of the ten
States thus trampled on, or can be
subject to the government of the Con
stitutions which they thus dictate.
Nor is all yet tcld. These bills not
only violate and destroy governments,
but they destroy—-most ruthlessly de
stroy —tho very principles on which
all American constitutions and govern
ments are based, and to secure and
perpetuate which, constitutions, State
and Federal, were made. Magna
Charter; Hill of Rights; Petition of
Rights; the Settlement; the glorious
principles of tho Common Law ; the
compact wisdom of centuries; the fruits
of many bloody revolutions; all tho
guarantees which p'a trio t s, states
men, judges and people, by sword and
by pen, for eight hundred years have
bceu providing and perfecting to build
up and make immortal, that most won
derful blessing of human genius and
power —tho structure of Anglo Saxon
liberty—arc abrogated and withdrawn
from ten millions of people, of all col
ors, sexes and classes, who live in the
ten unheard and excluded States, and
that, too, by men, l repeat, who do
not live in these States, and who nover
think of them but to hate, and never
enter them but to insult!
Surely this is enough, but the argu
ment requires me to add that the body
of men who enacted these military
abominations were not tho Congress
and had no authority to legislate. By
tho Constitution all Federal legislative
powers arc vested in a “Congress of
tho United Statos.” This Congress
“shall consist of a Senate and House
of Representatives.’’ The House “shall
bo composetl of members chosen by the
people of tho ter era l States.” The
Senate “shall be composed of two Se
nators from each State” Now, was
the body of men who pretended to
enact these bills so compose*! T If
not, they did not —they could not —be
the Congress. Why wore they not so
composed ? By their own act. Mem
bers to compose the Congress were
chosen by the people and all the
States for the House and the Senate.'
Hut the members from ten States were
excluded from their seats by the mem
bers of the other States, thus reducing
what would have been a Congress to
a fragmentary conclave of members.
No sophistry, uo fanaticism, no ambi
tion, no perjury and no force can es
cape the coclusien: These military
bills have no authority. 1. Because
they are not authorized by the Con
stitution. 2. Because they are con
trary to —absolutely annul—the Con
stitution; and 3. Because they have
never been passed by the Congress.
Naturalists tell us of a venomous rep
tile which sometimes becomes so furi
ously enraged, it sticks its fangs in its
own flesh and dies of its own poison.
And it does seem fitting that these
mad violators of the Constitution they
were sworn to support, these wild ex
terminators of States, these adroit but
furious murderers of law and liberty,
should first, by their own act, have
destroyed themselves in their prepara
tion and desire to destroy others.
I do not shrink from, but do most
heartily rejoice at, the inevitable con
clusion to which the argument, nerved
by the very sinews of logic and warm
ed by the purest love of country, must
lead; and if American patriotism shall
not finally and forever die, but shall
wake from the trance into which am
bition and lust for place have thrown
it, then will lines—dark lines—yea,
lines as black as unstarred night, be
drawn, and with a power nervous with
indignation, around all the records
and tho bastard official existence of
these fragmentary conclaves of Re
publicanism, “ libellers'” and all will
be declared to constitute no part of
authorized American law, or of legiti
mate American will.
Time was 1 Ah, yes, the time was,
when to say to an American citizen a
proposed measure was not authorized
by the Constitution was enough. It
was rejected. And lias the final pow
er, or that power which, in Republics,
is worse and mightier and more
to be avoided than war—which is the
father of wars—which begot our war,
and which seems determined with an
adulterous mania to multiply its hell
vissaged brood—the corruption of par
ty manipulators, wrought so great a
change? . And has the time already
come when Americans—even South
can Americans—can entertain, as a
question, whether they will accept*
and, by that acceptance make valid, a
proposition which is not authorized by
the Constitution; which is contrary to
the Constitution ; which destroys the
Constitution; which mocks the very
principles which made, which gave
sou) to the Constitution; and which
tramples thus on the Constitution in
order to destroy existing Southern
State governments founded in the'con
sent of the people, and to form others
not founded in tl e consent of the peo
ple; and which in forming these new
governments, disfranch’ses existing
electors distinguished for intelligence,
and enfranchises new electors notori
ous for ignorance ; and while new gov
ernments so formed are not to suit ei
ther new or old, learned or ignorant,
black or white electors who are to live
under them, but must suit men who
uever lived in these States, who never
expected to live in these States, and
who forget their own oaths and the in
terests of their own people to indulge
the hatred by which they oppress the
people of these Southern States.
And have we some of these same
party manipulators who were born un
der our skies, who have been trusted
by our people, who boast of their hon
ors, who now advise and try, coax and
labor to persuade, and by turns threat
en, deceive, and slander to compel us
to accept this iniquity ?
Oh, depths of infamy ! Open, open,
far deeper depths for the dwelling of
these cunning monsters of treachery,
that they shame not with their pres
ence the lowest of the damned spirits
which now inhabit your lubryioths!
Another. Order.— Some of the
New York papers publish this goak
on “Little Phil: ”
New York, June 10 18G7.
I have just received the following :
New Orleans, June 10, 18G7. —Gen-
eral Sheridan has just issued the fol
lowing order :
N. 0.. Juno 10, 1867.
Special Orders No. 8,990,561,732.
Andrew Johnson, tho President of
the United States, being an impedi
ment in the way of the proper enforce
ment of the Reconstruction Act, is re
moved from his office. It is not thought
necessary to fill the office, tho General
commanding this Department feeling
himself competent to run tho machine.
P. 11. Sheridan,
Military Persecution in Virginia. —
Richmond, June 20.—Mark Denney
and Thomas H. White, two well known
citzens, were arraigned before the Uni
ted States Commissioner this morning,
charged with perjury in having taken
tho registration oath yesterday. The
United States District Attorney said
that in tho first case tho prosecution
would be tho ground that the State
constitution adopted by the conven
tion at Alexandria disfranchised all
persons who aided the rebellion after
April, 1864. This constitution, it is
claimed, is not set aside by the Recon
struction bill. About pine-tenths of
tho whites in the State will be disfran.
ohisod if the District Attorney’s
ground is sustained. Both cases were
continued till to-morrow. There is
great interest manifested by all classes
of citizens in the oases.
The Radicals Preparing for a
Southern Campaign. —There was a
meeting in Washington last week of a
number of tho leadi rs of the Radical
party to take into consideration the
policy to be pursued to protect the in
terests and developc the strength of
the Radical party in the Southern
States. The discussions is reported
to have been harmonious, and that on
the questions of the conduct of the
campaign iu the South there was evin
ced perfect concord and unison. This
meeting, it is said, will result in a call
for a meeting of the National Commit
tee at an early day.
Inferior Court.
IN CHAMBERS, J
Thomasville, June 8, 1867. y
AGREEABLY to an Act of the Legislature
of the State of Georgia, panned and as
sented to on 12th of December, 1866. author
izing the Inferior Court to issue Bonds to the
amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, in
subscription to the South Georgia &. Florida
Railroad Comptany, which said Act is herewith
published It is ordered, that an election he
held at the several precincts in this county, ore
Tuesday, July 2d, 1867, aud all voters in tavor
of subscribing the said amount of Stock to the
South Georgia &. Florida Rail Road, will vote
“subscription," and all voters opposed to sub
scribing stock to said Railroad, will vote "no
subscription,”
The condition of subscribing stock to said
Railroad is this. Every tax payer shall tic en
titled to a special Tax Receipt for tlie amount
of his Railroad tax, and when he has receipts
amounting to the value of one or more shares
of stock in said Railroad, the said tax payer
may present said receipts to the County Clerk,
and nave turned over to him certificates of
paid up stock in the said Railroad Coinnanv to
the full amount of his receipts. Said Tax'Re
ceipts shall be payable to bearer, aud when
said receipts shalloe presented to the County
Clerk, in sums of one or more hundred dollars,
ho shall issue to the holder of said receipts,
certificates of stock for the same, in the said
Railroad.
All managers of said election will make
prompt returns of the votes cast at each pre
cinct to the County Clerk, properly attested.
R. H HARDAWAY, J, I. c.
ANSEL DEKLE, J. i. c.
HEN. MITCHELL, j. t. c.
Attest:
Lien BE us Dekle, Clerk.
AN ACT to authorize the Inferior Courts of
Thomas and Mitchell to issue bonds for the
Plumose of taking stock in the South Georgia
A Florida Kailroad
20. Section I. Be it enacted, et., That the
Inferior Courts of the counties of Thomas and
Mitchell be, and they are hereby authorized to
issue bonds to the amounts, respectively, of ono
hundred' thousand dollars, and twenty five
thousand dollars to be issued in such sums und
payable at such times as said Inferior Courts
rosy deem proper • interest of sever, per cent,
per annum, payable severally at their respec
tive county sites ; -provided , ilie citizens ortho
aforesaid counties give their consent thereto
before such stock is taken and such bonds
issued.
21. Sec. 11. The Inferior Courts of said coun
ties shall designate a day when the legal vo
ters of said counties shall assemble at their re
spect! ve election precincts to givetheir consent
to said subscription.
Sec. 111. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to 21st December, 1866.
June 11 til
The Liberty Granted to the Con
federates. — Admiral Seinraes, editor
of the Memphis Bulletin* makes tbe
following excellent reply to Thurlow
Weed, who said, in the New York
Commercial Advertiser, that be (Sem
nies) had made a poor nse of tbe lib
erty accordeJ to him by the Govern,
ment. Admiral Semmes says:
“As for 3lr. Weed’s remark, that
we arc making very poor use of tbe
liberty which has been granted us,
&c., wc have onTy to observe that wo
are under no obligations to the United
S ates lor any liberty granted us. The
4 liberty ’ which we received at tho
surrender of Gen. Joe. Johnston, in
whose army we held a command, was
a quid pro quo. It ws» given to us
for a consideration, and that conside
ration was, that we would lay down
our arms that we still had in our bands.
Our liberty was the result of a treaty
made with the enemy on the field of
buttle, and even savages observe suefc
treaties. But tho United States,
with a want of faith of which a savage
should he ashamed, violated it* pligh
ted word of honor to us, and arrested
and held us in confinement for threo
months. During our confinement, we
demanded our release of the President,
under our parole, and it was accorded
to us. We are exercising the ‘liber
ty’ which belongs to us, because we
purchased it, and not by tolerance
and as a favor, as Mr. Weed would in
sinuate.’’
Wonderful Trick of a Chinese Ma
gician.—A marvellous trick, perform
ed by a Chinese magician, is thus dc
sc ibed by Ibu Batatu, an Arab, who
travelled in tbe fourteenth century :
“lie took a wooden ball with several
holes in it, through which long thong*
were passed, and laying hold of one
of 1 hesc, Blung it into the air. It went
so high we Lst sight of it altogether.
There now remained only a little of
the end of the thong in the conjurer’s
hand, and he desired one of the boys
who assisted him to lay hold of it and
mount. He did so, climbing by the
thong, aud we lost sight of him also.
The conjurer then called to him three
times, but getting no answer, snatched
up a knife, as if in a great rage, laid
lioliT of the thong, and disappeared
also. By and by he threw down one
of the boy’s bands, then a loot, then
the trunk, and then the other hand
aud foot, and last of all the boy’s head.
Then he came down himself, all puf
fing and panting, and with his clothes
all bloody; but presently ho took the
boy’s limbs and laid them together in
their places, and gave a kick, when
presto ! there was the boy, who got up
and stood before them.”
I_. 2L INT X> IS
FOR SALE.
THE undersigned of- HZMWI
-ft. for -ill* In* plants f
>" Thomas county, Ihmß
II midway betwoen Thom
-* l <»vill.< ainl Monticello -sJasa—
-ifn.it.il about ten miles from either, and o»
the Hue ot ike contemplated
Meulh Cr«r||is A’ Florida Railroad:
There nre seven and a half lots of Land, ag
gregating
Three Thousand Six Hundred
and Sfvenly-flve Acre*,
with 1300 At'HKS CLEARED.
These I .amts are mostly Pise, but mixed,
and changing into
Ham mock,
On Ward’s Creek, a hold stream running
through the plantation, and dividing it into
Two Good Settlements, |
With honses on each The principal ooa has
a very good I,og Dwelling finite*. New, Gin
House and Massey Cotton Press, good Bams.
Stables, Air , with"a large nnmberof excellent
negro cabins. Th* Land ie GoOtt Pl#t hud,
produce* well and has been kept up as a farm
it i* well supplied with good water, both by
wells and nainral streams, and is a healthy
location I will sell separately or all together,
to suit purchaser*, and at Tery Law Rases.
A Cash sale woald he made greatly to tbe
, advantage of the purr baser
W C MITCHEI.I
Thomaeville Ga Jane 28 6tn