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TELEGRAPHIC.
Congratulatory Messages,
w* announced last evening the
completion of the telegraphic line be
tween this city and Thomasville.
His Honor, the Mayor of this city,
received the following congratulatory
message from Hon. Robt. H. Harris,
Mayor of the latter place, which is as
chaste in diction as it is patriotic in
sentiment. —flews Sf Herald.
* Ga., July 23. *
Hon. E. Ci Anderson, Mayor of Sa
vannah: —“ Thomasville sends gree.
tings to her sister Savannah. May
the electric chain which now unites us
be our emblem of sisterly affection—-a
love as fervent, as ready to reciprooate
and as ardent in its beneficent influ
ence as the subtle current that flows
between us from hand to hand, and
from heart to heart.”
To this Mayor Anderson made the
‘following beautiful and pertinent re
sponse :
“Mayor’s Office, Savannah, )
“July 23, 1867—44 P. M. f
11 Hon. Robt. H. Harris, Mayor of
Thomasville. —Your telegram has just
been received, owing to my temporary
absence from the city. Savannah Te.
spends with oordality to Thomasville
as to electric connection. Sbo garo
an earnest, a long time since, of her
sisterly affection, by extending her »Vo»
bands of connection. She is now hap
py that improved modern science, by
adding the magnetic attraction, may
make it reciprocally as true as the
magnet to the pole,
“Edwin C. Anderson, Mayor.”
Telegraph to Thomasville-
We announced, a few days since)
that telegraph communication would
be open to Thomasville at an early day
On yesterday we received the follow
ing dispatch :
Thomasville, July 23,101 a. m.
News (Sc Herald and. Daily Advert
User :■ —Greeting : —Telegraphic coin
munication is now open between
Thomasville and Savannah. May the
-two cities henceforth be as firmly bound
together socially, as now commercially.
The typos of the Enterprise (devil in
cluded) greet their friends of the Her
ald and Advertiser.
Southern Enterprise.
Both parties made appropriate rc
sponses, reciprocating the good wishes
expressed, and trusting that tho day
is not far distant when Thomasville
will have other and more far-reaching
connections, putting that enterprising
little city in railroad and telegraphic
communication with all parts of the
country. Savannah Daily Advert<
iser .
Latest News from Mexico.
Galveston, July 22. —We have one
week’s later dates from Mexico, of no
importance.
The Brownsville Kanchero doubts
the report of an aiuty of übeset ration
under Cortina, and publishes an extract
from a letter said to have been Written
by Escobedo to Gomez, directing him,
by every means in his power, to make
the country Mexican, and as to all
property in the hands of foreigners
aoquired by Mexican misfortunes, he
should take it and have power to hunt
them from the country. My motto is,
“Death- to all strangers among us,”
and there is no danger ol the Yankees
interfering with us so long as the Sou
thern States are kept out of the Union;
besides tho black men could side with
us, and may at any time pronounce
against the whites Before we get
through with the foreigners tho Yan
kees will think we are in earnest, and
the time will come when these notables
will bo begging their own heads in•
stead of for Austrians.
District Commandors.
July 23.—1 tis Btated
that the President is considering the
propriety of calling the District Com
manders together to establish uniform
rules of action for the reconstruction
aots.
New Sleeping Cars. —lnterested as
we have always been in the Albany
and Gulf Railroad and Florida con,
nections, and with a knowledge that
such an improvement was contempla
ted, it was with especial pleasure last
evening that we received an invitation
to examine anew sleeping car, just
arrived here for the use of that road.
This is tho pioneer of tho enter
prise, its mate to arrive in a week or
two. When both arc here tho route
over which they run will boas well
furnished in all respects as any South
ern road we have ever travelled on.---
Savannah Herald.
Maximilian's Avengers. —lt is an
ill wind that blows nobody any good;
so we tnay congratulate this country
that the Knights of the Golden Cir
cle are organizing under anew name,
and hereafter may be known as tho
“Order «f Maximilian.” They bind
themselves together by most solemn
oaths, and intend to leave this country
shortly for Mexico, to avenge the
death of that Prince.
Xfig- Judge Kelly was evidently
angry when he said to Jho editor of
the Mobile Times, “by G—d, sir, Col.
Mann, we will make every rebel in
the South so poor that he cannot take
your paper.”
No one, wo fancy, will dispute but
what that has been the settled policy
of the Radicals ever since Sherman
with his hordes of vandal freebooters
first set foot on Southern soil.
Two men were taken from their
beds in a hotel at Council Bluffs, by a
mob, and hanged. They had .simply
nquised who had lynched Henderson?
Jiciitjiern dtttteqirisc
(SEMI-WEEKLY,)
L. C. BRYAN, s t : t Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1867.
SOUTHERN ORATORS FOR
THE NORTH.
The Macon Telegraph, speaking in
high terms of Hon. B. H- Hill's abil
ity, and referring to his able letters
and speeches, suggests the propriety
of his visiting tho principal cities in
the North, for the purpose of unfold
ing to the masses of the North, the
truths bo powerfully set forth by him
in the South. In the same suggestion
the Telegraph includes Hon. A. H.
Stephens and Hon. H. V. Johnson.
We agree with the Telegraph that the
Northern States are now the proper
spheres for the exercise of the giant
powers of Georgia’s great orators. The
eloquence and logical powers of Mr.
Hill would secure him respect and at
tention among any civilized people,
while Mr. Stephens already has the
sympathy and confidence of vast num
bers of the Northern people. They
know his ability and pure statesman,
ship, and would listen to him with
pleasure. At any rate let our orators
test the truth, and sec if the North
will hear the words of soberness and
reason from outsiders. They propose
to send a batch of Radical speakers
into the South, let us act upon their
policy and send our ablest men North.
We can but be repulsed and the odium
will fall upon the North.
REPENTING.
A Blackshear correspondent of the
Valdosta Times, writing to that paper
says : —“Since I last saw you, there has
been a decided change in the minds
of our people. Many of us were in
favor of a Convention ; many of us
were Union men , and we had a hope
that through this Convention, the
peace and quiet so much needed in
our distracted country, would be re
stored; but Congress has thought pro
per to tighten the manacles which
were already chafing our withered
limbs. * * * * Even the North
ern men cannot comprehend the wide
spread ruin that this Military bill in.
fliets, or they themselves would stand
aghast at the consequences. Let me
give one of a thousand examples.—
Fierce county has some twenty-eight
county officer, and this town has se
ven. Theso are nearly all non-paying
offices. Vacancies have occurred in
two of them, and a United States offi
cer has been hero to fill them, but one
man only could be found who could
take the test oath. The truth is, tho
white men cannot take tho test oath,
and the blach men can neither read
uui- write. imported men cannot ar
ford to como hero to hold non-paying
officers, and the result is they must
remain vacant., and law and order soon
give place to anarchy and ruin."
This state of affairs applies to tho
whole State of Georgia, and evory ot-h*-
er State of the ten excluded by tho
Military bill, and the measure, accor
ding to tho Times’ correspondent, has
completely knocked all reconstruction
entirely out-of the Fierce JUachshear
Convention men. The Radicals did
not need their aid as we told them at
the time, and wo are happy to find
them now recovering their senses.—
What has the Quitman Danner to say
in defense of its editors eloquence be
foro that august assembly of recon •
situation patriot’s and loyal men? —■
Art thou well my brother?
EUROPEAN PRESS ON THE
EXECUTION OF MAXI
MILIAN.
Tho cxeoution of Maximilian in
Mexico, produced the most profound
sensation in nil the Courts of Europe,
and prompted expressions of tho deep
est regret; hut tho Uuropoan press
seem agreed that as such murders have
often occurred in civilized Kuropo, the
murder of a noble prince in Mexico,
affords no proper ground fer a visita
tion of tho sword upon a barbarous
nation. Maximilian’s murder, there
fore, must go unavenged, unless aven
ged by fillibusters. from the United
States, and the symjtathizing Radicals,
led by Logan and l'orney, aro deter
mined that the Mexican murderer*
shall not ho disturbed in their career
of crime by fillibusters from tho Uni
ted States. They are already prepar
ing a proclamation to bo issued by the
President, forbidding hostilities against
Mexico by citizens of tho U. States,
and Juarez may rest easy, if ho cat),
upon tho Radical assurance, that his
crimes shall not be punished. His
punishment, howevar, does not depend
upou the United States, nor are Maxi
milian’s avengers iu foreign lands.—
When Juarez ordered his execution lie
then and there sowed the seeds of re
volution and discord in Mexican soil,
that will rapidly spring up and pro
duce a plentiful harvest.
NO IMPEACHMENT.
Thad. Stevens, tire leader of the
Radicals, acknowledges before tho
world, that it is utterly impossible to
impeach President Johnson, and there
fore dissuades his friends from fur
ther efforts in that direction.
Read it, ye midnight Radical incon
diaries in the South, who preach im
peachment to the deluded blaoks to
decoive and entoh their votes, and
hereafter, know, that whenever you
preach it, you preach a lie.
Loyal League Exposed.—Read
the exposure we publish to-day of a
Tennessee Loyal League.
Registration in Colquitt.
Moultrie, Colquitt Cos., Ga., "I
July 23,1867. j
Editor Enterprise :
Sir: —Tho following is the number
registered in this county. Each pre
cinct has been visited, and one more
day will be.spent at Moultrie, to give
those an opportunity to register who
did not do so while we were in their
precinct:
WHITE. COL’D. TOTAL.
1151 Precinct, '64 6 70
1184 “ 22 0 22
1020- 36 4 40
1799 “ 43 4 47
165 14 179
O. T. Lyon.
SANTA* ANNA.
We cannot find out whether this
venerable old Mexican politician, war
rior and statesman of the wooden leg;
is alive or dead. We do not feel a
vital interest in his fate, but to antici
pate the novelist and historian, we
would liko to know that tho inglorious
part of his career had cheated them of
what, no doubt, would be considered
a fine tragedy. He was worthy of a
better fate than to bo shot like a dog,
though not so worthy as. the prince
who met that fate. It is reported
that Santa Anna stated at Vera Cruz,
that ho was encouraged with promises
of recognition and money leans by the
United States, if he would make him
self President of Mexico/ and this
statement probably lost him both Mex
ico ;tnd his life.
MORE TERRITORY.
The National Intelligencer learns
that negotiations are progressing be
tween the United States and England
fur the cession to the former, of the
territory lying between the lately ac
quired Russian Possesions in America,
and the Northwestern territories of the
Unite! States, in consideration of tho
abandonment on the part of the Uni
ted States, of all claims against. Eng
land for spoliations committed by Con
federate cruisers -fitted out in English
ports.
FROM MEXICO.
Brownsville dates of the 18th, says
Escobedo, the ruffian who commanded
Quaretaro and executed Maximilian
and his Generals at that place, has
been placed in command of the Mexi
can army, and that Juarez has beCn
announced as a candidate for re-elec
tion to the Presidency.
A report gained ourreney in the
United States, that Juarez would not
permit himself to bo run as a candi
date, but would retire to his hacienda.
NOSE PULLING.
There is a story going the rounds
of the praa-a th-lt Mr O • r-^ *• I— .* ol
the New York Times, recently made a
vigorous pull at the nose of Mr. Cyrus
W. Field of tho Atlantic Cable, who,
it is alleged insulted Mr. Jones at his
own table, in a dispute about the num.
her of words taken daily over the
cattle by the American press.
BRITISH REVIEWS.
Wo cal! the attention of our read
ers to the advertisement wo publish
to day of tho British Reviews, repub
lished in. America by Leonard Scott &
Cos., 140 Fulton Street, New York.
No high enconiutns are needed to re
commend them to the public, for they
are already established in tho confi
detreo of tho lovers of literature
throughout tho reading world. Wo
only design giving our readers the ne
cessary information as to price of sub
sciiption, which we consider cheap,
and proper dircotion in obtaining
them. If you are fond of good litera
ture, you will certainly subscribe for
one cr moro of those world renowned
Magazines.
Tho Labor Question—Lottor from
Paris.
Tho following letter, which has been
handed to us by the gentleman to
whom it was addressed, contains mat
ters of intorost to our Southern rea
ders :—Eds.— Telegraph.
Paris, Juno 18, 1867.
James R. Units, Eiq., Macon, Ga.
Dear Sir: I hud the plensuro of
receiving your favor of tho 30th of
December ami 17th of April last, to
gether with plans and diagrams, for
which please receive my thanks. I
submit them to tho chief engineer ol
Mr. Schneider, tho President of the
French House, who has a foundry in
which ho employs 20,000 workmen.
I wanted him to repair tho factory
you mention and to set tho mills and
spindles at work. He might have
paid himself afterwards upon tho ben
efits arising from the establishment.
Unfortunately he does not sooui deci
ded yet to do that, or to purchase ; al
though'ono million is to him what a
pence is to you or to me. I do not
despair, however I think that in tho
course of time, and by perseverance,
something will turn up in which our
mutual plans may be realized. Rut as
I told you bofore, everything depends
on tho energy and ability you and
your people will display in tho matter.
And above all you must penetrate
yourself well of this truth.
Lands are thrown for nothing on
this market by the millions of acres to
those who are willing to go and tuko
thorn and cultivate, and this is wanting
which are not like yours, agitated by
the conflict of parties and under tho
regime of martial law. Those consid
erations are grave obstacles in the way
of a settlement of your country by
foreign emigration. But still your
lands are so rich, yovr people so hos
pitable, your institutions so much to
the taste of our French citizens, there
is so much natural affinity between
them and the Southerners, tho politi
cal reasons for helping you are so
strong, that 1 should not be surprised'
if a strong.current of emigration would
some day leave the shores of France,
Italy, Spain and Austria, and go to
settie in your regions. Our capital
ists begin to be very bold. Paris is
now the oeitre of all great specula
tions, of all foreign loans. All conti
nental railroads are contracted for
with the capital ol this city. London
lam told comes now but second in
the money market and Paris is first.
No wonder-, Paris in now tho rendez.
vous of all tho nations and of all the
monatchs of Europe. AH other cit
ies are eclipsed by its splendors, and
all those vho visit it say it far sur
passes whit their imaginations had
dreamed of,
Your interests are evidently to avail
yourself, of tho inclination capitalists
have to seek.for a safe, profitable in-'
vesta.eiU of their capital, for as you
very well say, you have lost everything,
even the instruments of labor, without
which the restoratives ol' your lost
fortunes is impracticable. In such
emergency you must make all imagi
nable Bacr-jice--I mean those in keep
ing with your honor, and interests.—
Having made so many to sustain the
war why should you not make some to
get out of the ruinous and difficult po
sition in which you are placed ? I
cannot, of couise, tell you three thou
sand miles off what these sacrifices
must be, and if I knew I would not
certainly tale the liberty to indicate
them to you. Theso sort of things,
must be self-aspired arid spontaneous
generalities —they arc the result rath
er of individual than collective initia
tive and entepriee. But allow me,
with all due deference, to tell you what
Maximilian did to get emigrants to
Mexico, and w.iat ho would havo car.
ried out had not tho French deserted
him.
In the first place, lie prevailed upon
some rich land owners to give away
half of their lands for emigration, re
taining'tho other half lor thernseves.
Ho then appointed agents in Vera
Cruz aud other places, who received
emigrants and carried them to homes
provided for them, where they remain
ed! until they have built up for them
the houses in which they were to live.
Some lands were sold—some others
were given on lease.
1 simply throw out theso general
features to you, so that you may know
in what direction success lies. You
have actually in Georgia men of wealth
who could form ail association for the
purposo of soiling land to emigrants
and of assisting them in their settle
ment. This association might have
its seat in Savannah, and a house in
Paris, which would perhaps obtain
credit hero in carrying out the enter
prise.
To the task of sending agricultural
emigrants this house might also direct
an industrial nnrronk upon ynm- Mr-Un
Good, honest and skillfull artisans
would be found in any quantity. Tho
house in Savannah might state what
kind of industry is most likely to
flourish in Georgia. Advertisements
might bo put in newspapers to that
effect. But first an association, head
ed by prominent citizens of your State,
must be organized. This is. tho pre
liminary step; nothing is possiblo, at
present in Georgia, without it. When
it is formed I will, if 1 am free - ,
introduce tho firms to our first capital
ists in Paris and elsewhere. I will go
to Havre, Bremen and Hamburg,
Trieste and Italy, if necessary, and or
ganize houses,corresponding with those
you will have formed or direct your
agent,-if you send one, in his opera
tions.
This, I think, is a practical aoherno. —
Let your most conspicuous and wealthy
citizens meet. Let them form a re
speotable capital and associate not
only their money but tlioir lands. Lot
the State protect and patronize them.
Let them appoint intelligent and re
sponsible agents in all tho large cities
of Georgia, and in ten years you will
have us much capital aud as many
emigrants ns any State in the North.
This, I think, may succeed ultimately
if not immediately, especially if your
political condition assumes a bettor
aspecL At all events, a strong or.
ganization with property and capital
cannot fail to inspire confidence and
assist you in doing what nothing olso
can do so well, proouro your labor and
capital, and lay down tho basis of in
ternal development of your immense
resources
I tako the liberty to give you theso
indications because they appear to me
ontculutocf to help you in getting out
of tho painful positions in which most
of tho Southern States aro situated.
You havo to make efforts in the right
direotion, get a population whion you
have not, and to obtain it no sacrifices
ought to frighten you. Your course
is plainly marked. You havo to call
around you a population, capable of as
simulation, and not one which is net;
aud to that eud all your efforts must
be direoted. What I say hero will
not prevent me from doing all 1 can to
sell your lands and promote your in
terests. But L have very little hope
of success until you havo organized.
If you send me some documents up
on tho resources and history of your
State, l will try to make good use of
them ; and if 1 Rave something new to
tell you before this lottor is answered,
I will write you.
I am, sir, faithfully yours,
E. Farkenc.
BARBECUE IN MITCHELL.
We are requusted to give notice that
a grand liarbecuo will be given at
Camilla, Mitchell county, on the First
Saturday in August, for a grand Mass
Railroad Meeting at that place. A
general invitation is given to all per
sons to attend.
[FOE THE SOUXHERN.ENTERPRIBE.]j
TO THE MEN OF COLOR IN
THOMAS COUNTY.
Number 5.
In my preceding number I endea
vored to show you how your forefath
ers came to bo introduced into this
country as slaves, and that the white
people of the Southern States had no
hand in so introducing them, took no
part in it, and only purchased them
because they needed their labor and
could not obtain it elsewhere. All
this is recorded in the history of the
times, and cannot be denied or contra
dicted.
But now I come to a more import
ant part of your history—as follows :
The American colonies declared them
selves independent of Great Britain
on the 4th day of July, 1776, and af
ter a struggle of seven years estab
lished their independence in 1781.
Up to this time slavery existed in all
the Colonies or States, at the North as
well as at the South, in all the Yankee
as well as all the Southern States.—
During tho war articles of Confedera
tion and Union were entered into be
tween the different States, in which
the subject of slavery was not agitated
either by the North or the South, hut
was. suffered to remain and stand as
it had boon before the war. Thus the
North and the South both gave their
consent to slavery during the Revolu
tionary War, and if either are to blame
for its continuance after that time, the
Northern people are equally to blame
with the South. This is also a part of
history which cannot bo contradicted.
Well, after the Revolutionary War
every white man went to work to make
some money. The Northern shippers
took up the introduction of slaves, and
brought fourfold more of them into the
country in the succeeding thirty years,
than all the natives of Europe had in
troduced before. Thus, four-fifths of
the slaves introduced into the United
States were brought here bv these
canting Puritan Yankees, in their own
ships, by their own seamen, and with
their own money. Tho traffic in slaves
proved to be exceedingly profitable ;
the Y’ankees went into it with avidity,
and tho money thus acquired is at this
day the foundation of tho immense
wealth now held by the Yankee people.
1 ought herQ to give you some ac
count of the voyage; but the details
are so revolting, that I forbear. The
vessels were usually clipper built, small
and light, and calculated fur fast sail
ing. Into these vessels these Yankee
traders would stow from four hundred
to a thousand human beings, confined
between decks, the vessels prepared
with double anil treble floors, so that
two or three tiers could be stowed
away, sitting or lying, in one hold.
Asa matter of course, in a very short
time, the whole air which these unfor
tunate beings breathed, would become
foetid and irnpuro. Added :o this they
were ujtuiuuluil liauilb and reec. in
this condition tney were carried on a
voyage of from thirty to sixty days, if
they were so unfortunate as to live so
long. A large number would die
daily; and the common calculation was,
that one-half of these unfortunate be
ings would die, through excessive sul
fering during tho voyage, before its
termination ; or in other words, one
half would be consigned to death by
those Yankee traders for tho price of
the other half.
Where, I ask, was all this humanity
then, which we have heard so blatqnt
in later days? Was the African ntt
“a man and a brother” as well then ns
now ? Was his life not worth as much
to him then as now ? Was not the
separation from wife, and family, and
home, and country, as pdignant then
as it has boen since? Ah, but, the
Yankee was making money out of the
African then, and that atoned, in his
eyes, for all the negro's sufferings, and
did away with all tho Yankee’s ten
derness. More next week.
Your affectionate
Uncle Ben.
From the Nashville Gazette.
A Loyal League Shown Up by an
Expelled Member.
Nashville, July 9, 1867.
Many of your roadors will doubtless
remember my letter, published in the
Guzetto of Juno 13th, which was
largely circulated by the press of this
and other cities of our State. If there
is one senteoee therein not in accor
dance with law and tho true princi
ples of liberty and human rights, 1
don’t know what constitutes thoso
safeguards of mao, and I have been
“ raised a fool.” For writing and pub
lishing that letter I was at once ‘ex
pelled’ from “ Loyal. League No_ 1,”
whore I had been sworn “ to do even
unto death,” all in my power to “keep
over burninu on the alter of tho Amer
ican heart the sacred flame of Liberty.”
Let tho world sit in judgement on my
life of sixty fivo years, and particularly
on tho part of it embraced iu the past
seven years. I court its investigation,
and will abide cheorfully by its award.
Indifferent alike to flattery or abuse, I
shall do my duty oven though asses
bray, and dogs snap and howl.
FiXpollied from the “Loyal League!”
Now, geutletueo, permit me to intro
duce you into that sanctum sanotorum
political humbug. I promised this,
I’ll do it.
At tho first door you give two light
taps and whisper through a hole there
in, “Loyal 51 in.” The door opens. —
You move on, to a second door ami
give two taps. A loop-hole is opened.
You whisper “Must Rule/' and are
then marched around a darkened
room, and welcomed by the “Good
Chairman,” in the following words:
“The good and true are always wel
come, etc.”
Y’ou have now marched round the
room and are placed before an altar
on wbioh is spread the Aoiericen Flag
Here also lies open a bible, and a book
with tho old original, unaltered Con
stitution of the United States, gift of
our fathers, as it was, is,- and ever
should be, unchanged.
There, too, lie crossed two common
swords, such as are worn by army Bur
geons. ' Between the points ia a mys
terious looking bronze chalice, filled
with something, the smell of which re
minds you of “Old Robertson.”
On your right, at a small altar,
stands long, lank, lean “Forty Acres,”
behind you, at another desk or altar,
stands a once Provost Marshal.—
Around this long, dark, dirty room, sit
the Loyal Leaguers, some black and
some white, and among them some of
our most worthy citizens. There are
also not a few whose “copper’’ sticks
out through the whitewash given by
this Loyal League.
The gas i| now darkened. “Forty
Acres,” with eyes upturned like a
“duck in a thunder storm,” h : s lean
hands opened out towards Heaven,
mumbles out a prayer ! This done
the Chairman (the jolly, good-natured,
kind-looking miller, not “of Mans
field,” though quite as portly) steps
forward with book and watch in hand,
and fires the mysterious looking cup,
which darts up a flittering blue flame,
such as is represented as burning in
the “Eternal Hades.” With your
right hand on the book, and the left
in tho air, you now take the ‘oath of
allegiance,’ known to all, and are most
particularly required “to defend tho
constitution of the United States,”
(unaltered), on which your hand rests,
and the Constitution of the State of
Tennessee. What is the latter Con
stitution ? Who can tell you ?
You are also sworn to keep the so
cret of the League, ‘ to vote for none
hut loyal men,” &c. In that long,
dark, dirty room, on the right of
which stood one hundred old rusty
muskets, in such presence, before the
flickering blue flame, which but made
“darkness visible,” with the nasal
twang of “Forty Acres” voice in prayer
still sounding iu my ears, 1 was with
others made a Loyal Leaguer. Sur
rounded with paraphernalia of hum
bug, we were shown also, as before
said, to do even unto death all in our
power to make liberty eternal, “to vote
for none but loyal men,” &e.
We were next initiated into the
signs and pass-Words, &c. Let one
suffice ; but if you wish, you can have
them all. To pass yourself Leaguer,
when questioned, give tho -‘Four L’s”
—as follows ; right hand raised to
Heaven, thumb and third finger touch
ing their ends over the plain, and pro
nounco “Liberty.?’ Bringing the hand
down in a line with the shoulder, pro
nounce “Lincoln.” Dropping the hand
open at your side, pronounce “Loy
al.” Witli your hund ami fingers
downward in the chest, the'’ thumb
thrust into the vest or waiothano,
across the body, pronounce “League.’’
There is a groat deal of other “tom
fooling” of the satuo character unwor.
iV»y ok' plnoo lioro. SuiTio> it to nay
that such is the character of a combi
nation which bids fair to rebaprise un
happy Southern souls with blood—
such are the willing or duped senti
ments ready to carry out the will of
our modern Jeffreys and Dalrymples,
Masters of Stair, Gleulyons arid Lind
sleys*—such are the Loyal Leagues,
which in darkened rooms, before blue
mysterious-looking fires, cross-swords
and psalm-singing humbugs have sworn
in “about forty-five thousand” simple
freedmen, and takes from each a mis
erable half dollar fee of initiation.—
Those poor creatures have stood be.
fore that blue flame and all the other
grim paraphernalia of this dark room
humbug, with a ' supersitious awe,
mingled with fear. To them it was
the “Uarloo Ditliaa” of their native
jungles, the “Obi Man,” with his pois
oned cocoanut. They will- never for
get that blue fiatne, those crossed
swords, the wild upheld eye of “Forty
Acres,” with ominously uplifted finger
of the worthy “miller,” as he pronoun
ces the “Anathema, Maruuatha”on all
who secede or break tho terrible
pledge. Poor, simple, wronged crea
tures ! In the wild storms of mid
night, when the blue lightning thrusts
its fingers through the storm-tossed
cloud, their imagination will bring out,
clothed with terror, that daikcncd
room, that mysterious flame, the up
turned eye of “Forty Acres',” and the
“So mote it be” of the mixed multi
tude.
Gentlemen, fellow citizens, freemen
—look at this mummery—this political
humbug, and think that men of rank,
of standing, of fine intellect and kind
hearts are there. Uow can you account
for it, in this nineteenth century ?
What does it mean? Has the Lord
our God forsaken us? Aro wo a peo
ple 7 Has he made us blind that our
ruin may bo more suro-? Leaguers
and madmen, beware ! Like blind
Sampson, you now sit beneath the
tower, not of oppression, but of human
rights.
You are madly grasping the law and
the ballot box—the sure columus of
liberty. If you bow yourselves as he
did, tho beautiful structure will fall,
and you and your children will perish
unwept under its ruins. Leaguers,
beware ! A day of retribution is com
ing. Blind guides leading the blind,
how can you escape ? Ever? act of
your own and of your leader* is calcu
lated to provoke blood. You know
this. Do you think the Anglo-Saxon
race beneath the heel of yonr deceived
colored dupes? You thrust them once
into the fiery furnace of- war to save
your own children. You ctnancipa.
ted them** a military necessity. As
tho lost hope of our tottering Govern
ment to save yourselves, you and your
party laid violent hands on the “color
ed clement,’” and now you say that it
was all for love of that element.
Let us look at Mr. Lincoln’s letter
to A. G Hodges, Esq., of Frankfort,
Kv*,, dated April 4th, 1864 :
“I believed the indispensable ueoC3 -
sity for emancipation and arming the
blacks, would come. It came, and I
was, in my best judgment, driven to
the alternative of either surrendering
the Union, and with it the Constitu
tion, or of laying strong hands on tho
colored element and arming it. I
choose the latter.’’
Further quotation is unnecessary ,
comment useless; and now, dear Lea
guers, remember, when you tell the
poor freedman, that it was yottr love
that made him free, you speak not tho
truth : when you tell him you gave
him tne right of suffrage on the same
account, when ’twas to, save your ba
con, and that you can do more for the
poor freedman than Balaam did for
the poor brute which refused to carry
him
Finally, “Loyal League No. 1,” I
beg leave to say to you, when you are
about to turn a member out without
cause, as Paul said to the jailor, “Do
thyself no harm.” There was Dot one
sentence in tny letter which merits tho
act of “Expulsion.” You kicked a
hole in the wall, and let the world in,
sure of the approbation of honest men,
and regardless of all your threats.
I am respectfully yours,
William Driver.
*BOO Macaulay’s Massacre of Glen
coe. Read and tremble, for the spirit
is herd
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Among the vast imptuvemoula of the pro
sent times the change in remedies is not the
least important. Formerly ridiculous and of
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the recommendation of one person to another,
or from one family to another, us being “good”
for such and such a complaint, white thev
were, iu fact, useless or worse. Now, Prof,
Kay ton supplies the public with the most effec
tual remedies that educated skill can devise or
art can produce, with explicit directions for
their use in each and every case. Iu place of
the senseless potions our grandmothers gave,
we have the cunning inventions of men learned
in the art of »ure adapted to our necessities at
a nominal .price. Prof. Kay ton'a remedies con
sist of
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July 2G
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RIP VAN WINKLE
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At the request of many citizens, Prof. Bs'
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RIP VAN WINKLE, on
Tharsilny Kvenlng, August 1,186 V,
AT COCCIIK’» HALL,
For the Benefit or the Neptune Fire Cos. No. 1.
The Thomiisvilie Thespians have also kindly
offered tlioir services for that occtutioh, aud
will produce the laughublo Furee of
BOX AND COX!
The stage has been entirely refitted with
appropriate scenery and decorations, and an
- efficient Orchestra, composed of Musicians of
! acknowledged merit, under the leadership of
"Prof. Parsons, have been Cng-tged for the oc
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FIFTY CK.NTB.
| Doors open at 71* o'clock Curtain rises
! at ft o'clock.
I'y'TickKs at Jellers' Photograph Gallery,
, J. R. S. Davis' Book Store, Dr. Seixas’ Drug
Store, and at the door of the Hall.
J uly 2fi 2t
TOWN TAXBS
LAST NOTICE.
rpHEtime to make returns of the Taxable
I Property, and of Poll and Street Tax of
the inl—l-ita-ts of the Town of Tboinaevilte.
| will expire on tho 10th of August. The return
must be made to the Clerk, at hil office, under
i oath ; aud all who do not comply by that time,
will bo donble taxed - white and black) wi»V
I out discrimination. By order of the Mayor
and Council.
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