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MTIUS O. BUY AN, EDITOR.
THOMASVIIiIjH. oVV .
VrEDNKMDiV, Al ia NT 0, INfl.l.
TANARUS, N. Lewis Esqr. is our authorized
Agent at Quitman, Brooks Cos , Ga. to
receive and receipt for subscriptions
to the Southern Enterprise. ■ ■
The ooinmunication signed “ Val
dosta ” was unavoidably crowded out.
. :\ hearing next week.
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We are under obligations to Mr.
it. WoLFf for late Savannah, New
York and Cincinnati papers.
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•Neither of the Savannah papers
are now carried on by their old pros
prietors. The federal military author,
■jties took possession of the'two offices
upon their first occupation of the city
and have held them ever .since. We
see by a military order published in
the Republican , that a petition by F,
W, Simms, craving permission to re-*
flume possession of his property* the
Republican , has been refused.
We regret to learn that tho Talla*
hnssec Floridian Journal has been
suspended by the military authorities
of that city.- We do no.t know for
what cause, as we have n.o mails to
learn the news from, abroad, but we
hope the difficulty will soon be settled
and the publication of the - paper
resumed. If it was suppressed for
disloyalty, we do not see why any of our
cote in ponudes should indulge in dis
loyal sentiments now that the mischief
is all done and our hands firmly bound.
It is folly to preach disloyalty where
nothing can he gained. :
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ITBMC MCETI\C;.
• A/public meeting will be held in •;
’ Thoiuasvillc at 11 o clock on the first j
Saturday iii September next, for the \
purpose of nominating Candidates to |
represent Thomas County in the State j
Convention to be hold at Milledgc • |
vi I{c on the fourth Wednesday in Oc
tober. Every voter in the County is
invited to attend and participate in
the proceedings. Lot there be a good j
turnout and a full representation from i
every District. Let also the proceed- j
ings of the convention be harmonious !
sml unanimous. Let every member j
. be actuated by purely patriotic •mo* !
fives—disinterested and unselfish.- —i
Nominate no man who seeks to be
nominated directly or indirectly',.but
•nominate those men whose.knoWuper*’
sonul charaptfcr and ability, (together,
with their past political record entitle
them to the oft abused confidence.of
the people. • ■
for the St ate 1 Con
vention.
Several gentlemen .have handed us.
. in. lists of names to be suggested, as
candidates for the State Convention
with the request for publication.
Omitting the remarks accompany
ing them, for want of room, we give the
tickets below as they were handed in.
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•’ These names we are assured are offer
ed. merely as suggestions for the.con
sideration of the nominating convene
tion to assemble at the. Court House
in XhomasvilJe on. the .first Saturday,
jn September. . .* j
J. R. ALEXANDER, •
l\ K. LOVE,
j. l. seward; •
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• a. t: Mclntyre, •
S. A. SMITH,
J. L. SEWARD.
J. R ALEXANDER,
R. 11. HARDAWAY,
J. L. SEW ARD.
. L. C. BRYAN, .
HENRY MITCHELL, .
JOSIAII J. EVRITTE.. .
W. D. MITCHELL,
W.J. YOUNG, .
j as. McDonald. •
THOMAS JONES, Sr’.
JAS. T. HAYS,
J. 8.. SINGLETARY.
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G rilAt FREsnET.-r-Lato Northern
papers speak much of a great freshet
which lately flooded a large portion of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, de
toying T.orth of properly.
| YANKEE IDEA OF NEERO
INTELLIGENCE.
The Transcript, a paper published
in Portland, Maine, a copy of which
is before us, has a communication
signed St. Johns Park N. Y.', under
the caption of The Pathology of the
late Rebellion •’ • ‘ ••
The writer premises that a “curious
and interesting chapter might be writ
ten on the physiology, or more proper*
ly speaking, the pathology of tl>e late
rebellion, for it had. its causes and sym
toms like any other disease, since it
was a disease of the body politic/’ Ac
Ac, and after a lengthy peroration he
proceeds to argue that work, not read
ing, develops the brain, and marks the
scale of individual .intelligence.—
But that our readers may have the
real language of this Northern phihs
opher on this most “curious chapter”
of Southern pathology , we quote the
following paragraph in his own words;.
From the nature of things, it was
impossible for the North. to be any*
thing but loyal to the Government;,
for the same reason good and fan see**
ing men* who knew what influences
were at work to mould and influence
the theughts of men-, have long look i
ed upon the South with aptehension,
fearful of the bursting forth of the
volcano which slumbered there. Far
how could we expect loyalty from <
a class of men who did not labor,
from a people universally given to the
use of tobacco in seme of its forms,
to the drinking of whiskey and other
intoxicating liquors, to the indulgence
of gastronomic and animal passions?
Labor taught the black men of the
South to be loyal. The white man
should have thought of this before, he
attempted to bind their fetters, closer
by going to war with the industrious
working population of the North.~
Said Mr. Phillips, in- a recent speech i
“Is education- the exclusive perogative
■of colleges ? Oh, The masses
sos all men have their faculties, educa
ted by work, not by reading. When
G*)d declared as a condition of our be 1 ’
ing ; that we should earn our .living
in the sweat of our brows, lie gave
the gua*antee of the development J
lof the brain. Whoever works, de
velops his intellectual faculties.; and.
taking them in classes, the masses who
work and don't read are half a century
i a head of the masses who read and
don’t work. And this is the reason
| whv the negro is half a century ahead
i of the poor white man of the South,
j The negro inherited a brain which’
! work had cultivated for four genera*
i tious, and he added to it the skill of
a practical hand. The consequence
is that, whether the soldier’ goes to j
biin for advice or the merchant for i
counsel among the masses-of the South
the negro is the only man who can
give him either: The white man in
herited a brain sodden by the idleness
of four generations. Infinitely better,
if you.can have but one,- is. the educa
tion of’ work.” • •’ ‘ -
If tha 4 is not enough to take the
palm and elevate Northern philosophy
to the highest scale then we must con*
less that wc h;ive nn critical, acumen
.and no knowledge of philosophy. The
author of the article, by his quotation
marks, makes Wen dull Phillips say
“whoever works, develops his intelect
ual faculties ; and taking men in the:
main—taking them in classes, the
masses who work and. dont read are
half a century ahead of the masses
who read and dont work. And this is
the reason why the negro is htylf a. cen
turyahead of thepoor white men of
the South. Listen a%ain : “Whether,
the soldier goes to him (the negro) for
advice or the merchant for counsel
among the masses of the South, the
negro is the only man wjio can give
him either”
Wendall Phillips finds so much
more intelligence among the working
negroes than he does among the read*
ing poor white men of the South,
that he recommends the Northern soL
dicr and the Northern merchant to go
to the negro for aduice and counsel.—
Philips must’ be a “ working man
and don’t read.” .
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San Fran,cisco, duly 10.
On the Bth instast, Billy Mulligan,
who was expatriated by the Vigilance
Committee of San Francisco in 1856,
and who afterwards raised a volunteer
regiment, which he .was not allowed to
lead to the war, shot ahd killed two
men, while in a fit of delirium tremens
and was about to fire again when a po •
lteceman shot him dead. He had de
fied all previous effort* to arrest him.
PAYMENT OF THE NATION
AL DEBT. */ •’
The New York Herald has suggest
ed a plan of voluntary contribution
for the payment of the National Debt
of the United .States,-and its issue of
the 22d- of July has nearly an
page of enthusiastic correspondence
on tlie subject, urging the perfection
pt the plan, and pledging the people
at large to tho support of the meas
ure. The.following .to the editor ®f
the Herald will throw some light gp*
op the organization:
A ttforii
. TO THK EDITOR OF THE HERALD.’
Majukta, Ohio, June 3,1805 - .
I have seen several txtracts from
your paper relating to a movement
started in ycur city for the purpose of
paying off the national debt. I infer
that the Herald leads off in the move
ment. God grant that every.paper in
the land may second your noble effort.
Our young nation, just now cm erg-,
ing from the terrible conflict which
for the last four years has swept oyer
it, comes up from this baptism of fire
and blood with one half of her fair
heritage devastated, paralized by.the.
unchained demon of war, while upon the.
other half must inevitably fall the
greater shave of the enormous.debt in
curred by the struggle.
. Now, wc have either to pay off this
debt or submit to a system .of rigorous
taxation for generations to come.-
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Call we pay the debt ? You. nobly.,
answer yes ! and give substantial evi
dence of your faith by. your works.—
Others, we are rejoiced to see, arc do
ing the same thing, and that, too* up
on a scale that evidently means busi
ness. . • . ! . • ■;
That magnificent ‘butiori of.
Commodore Vanderbilt is worthy of
that trenerous man, and is but anoth -
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er pledge of his poble patriotism. He
is practically illustrating the postu
late, “ He that deyiseth liberal thing?,
by liberal things shall he stand. ,r
It is a Hirculcan work which you
have undertaken. Can you carry it
through ? God grant you success.- —
Meanwhile, w<? pf the laboring masses
are watching fhg results with inter
est. We feel that amt asure fraught
with such ippjncnfous interests must
not fail, and now, sir, while we have
neither the right nor the wish to start
new issues, permit us to ask whether if
you fail to raise the amount by 610,*
000 subscriptions, > ill you permit .thy*
deficiency to be made up by those who
emulate you* noble example, but have
.not the means to subscribe in so large
amounts ? Success, and that alone, is
what we. wish, If.those who arc able
to contribute their thousands will do
up the work it will make for them the
proudest record .ever written by mpji.
The world will hail them as the bene
factors, of our race, and all good men
.wili hallow their memory as patriots.
Oh .that the question of your success
Were put. beyond a peradventure !
But whatever may be the result of your
present movement, may we not look to.<
you for aid and counsel if an ultimate .
appeal to the masses should bo
site ? ]se assured, dear sir, that such,
an appeal would thrill through the
heart of our. people like the touch of
electric tire.
Let me illustrate what I mean in a
pr.actieal way. . In a conversation
which recently took place in my hear,
ing among the employees of one of our.
manufacturing establishments, one
man (and he a man of very limited
means) said : “ I will give one hun
dred dollars to that object.” “ And
so I would give fifty dollars/’ respond
(led an honest German, who had sat a
quiet listener. “ And I,” said a cas
ual callcr-in, whose sleeves were roll
ed up and his garments grimed with
liipe dust, *“ I wjll give another one
liundred,-amj have it all back again in
two years time in the reduction of
prices of supplies for my family.”—-
And thus the thing went round the
circle.
There will be no such word as fail
if, in the arrangement of your plans,
if you will only give us the privilege
(the post of honor, if you please) of
standing as your reserve corps.
Our cousins across the water have
for the last four years been watching
the facility with which we Yankees
do impossible things. Let us break
the seal of a national debt. It would
be the greatest peace measure ever
inaugurated by man. A standing army
of a million of men, backed by a navy
of triple our present one, would be as
nothing compared to it.
Keepect would bo attaind then,
wrung perchance from unwilling courts !
and cabinets, but nevertheless it would
bo an attained tact, written as with
the point of a diamond in eternal
granite.
Four years ago,, British capitalists
scouted the idea of touching an Amer
ican loan. That we were utterly
bankrupt, and bur government a fail
ure, were to them foregone conclusions.
• Pay the debt, and the old world will be
•cured of such folly. We well remem
ber how pur checks burned on read.
: lug that flippant speech of Kyi'l Rus
- at the breaking out of the rebel**',
ilbb :-r-“ Now that the bubble lias
burst, c.ut them up into half a. dozen
fragments? They. are getting too
stFong.V The wbh. was father to the .
thought. ‘■ But \v6 have chas'cd them,
with greenbacks quite out- of their
financial folly, while’ the. bubble still
remains intact, a sphere of polished
and elastic steel, all the stronger for
thp crdcul .through which it has passed, j
and brighter by far for the fierce at
trition it has endured.. ;
Pay off the debt, and we shall have
peace —permanent and enduring peace.
There is not a power on earth that will
not pause and. think twice before it
strikes once the young Titan j whose
right hand, with its iron stran
gles the most formidable rebel lion ev
er recorded by man, while with his
left he wipes out the score, of three
billions of dollars . incurred in the
struggle. Pay off the debt, and let
England boast that Britannia rules the
wave, that the sun never sets upon
her flag, and that the roll of her drum
boat girdles the globe.. Our word for.
it, there will be a modest method in ,
that boasting. The Stars and.Stripes
will have been insulted iii her Oapitol r
for the last time, and . respect will be
the word in future. \ • . • ■ ;
Von will pardon tlie liberty l hare 1
taken if.} thus, addressing .you upon a
subject in which 1 feel the deepest aw
tejest, put in relation to which t of
necessity stand a plebeian and not as
a peer. I‘LEBIAN FKIEXIh
X. ]>.—Since Uniting tire above !
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am well eo-Dvmecd that 1 ocbl d easily
find among our laboring men fully
one bundled who would give <mnS
fully equal to those above named, and j
if business men, who have the means, j
would do in piopprtion (and I think 1
they woult take hold earnestly) our ;
contribution would help on iho good:!
Work a little. Perhaps you will think j
j us. a little enthusiastic. But, sir, pray j
i tell us bow we an* to. lie ip it. 1 as*’ ;
stive vpu that it will not d.o for the 1
rich men of Gotham, -c.spepially your- !
self and the Comtmdcre, to be amuss 1
itlg yourselves in these, times with a i
flint and steel. Why sir, the sparks I
are falling; all around us here ; before !
you are aware of it the prairies will be j
on Ure. The . flames with their red I
tongues will be lapping against the !
sky, setting the whole horizon I
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Those.who patriotically subscribe to ;
tiie extinguishment of the national debt
are styled “ The Roll of Jlonor,’ and I
are fa. have their names printed in a
book, by Congress, as a lasting ancj j
honorable testimony of their patriotism ;
for all.time to come.. Mere is aspecimen
of the excitement and enthusiasm now
displayed in the North on thG subject, j
we eppy from the Herald the follow- I
ing letter r
A XnliofiiU JDc.bt
TO Tilt EJHTO.R QF TUE HERALD.
New .York, June 4, 1865.
In order to carry otit the great work
proposed by you to free our beloved
Country from the burdens of taxation
a National Debt League has been or-.
ganized.. The plan, which has been
entered into with great enthusiasm,
will speedily be laid before the public,
and will extend over the entire coun
try where waves our noble flag.
The chosen head is a man of the
true. Grant stamp—the man for the
occasion.
It is desired that you ask f o.uc cf
your patrons to contribute the use of a
suit of rooms for the objept until a
suitable place can be procured. As
means are necessary to accomplish this
great object, the sum of ten dollars
has been fixed upon as an admission
to membership. Those desiring to be
come members can send in their names
to the National Debt League, at your
office until a location is procured.
As great labor will be required,
gentlemen willing to assist and become
identified with this great work here;
and also those desiring to take the lead
in forming auxiliary leagues iri other
partr? of the country are also desired
to send in their names as above.
Pepping it not just to encroach up
on your valuable time and the space
in your columns in future, y f we be*
lieve the deep interest you mkv in this
glorious object will prompt you to .
place it before your readers in a favor*
able manner.
CHRISTIE, .
Secretary N. I>. L-;
lOS Broadway.
. A “Herculean ” task it certainly is, .
and one in which, if the Yankees suo
cecd, they will certainly Reserve to be
placed upon the. highest,scale of nation*
nl* greatness, and proudly meyit .in’de
votion to their country, the envy of
all the civilized powers .of Europe.—*
Well,” go ahead fellows, and pay your
public'debt,- and don’t wait for tqxa
tion f which makes you pay it three or
four times over before you are
\yith it, you shall have all the credit
W.hen wc sec your •balance, sheet / , an( j
then tv will utter one wild l< A ul long
yell soy the ““universal Yanl^ ce /
•Wcof the South arc . not ablo to
help you, and you should j, 0 t look to
U3 for help, for it is your fauh that
we are not able to \idp you. We were
all, the North an a the South together,
a free people. We of the South had
as much rigUt to our opinion as you had
•to yours* Nobody doubts that. Well,
if you doubted it then, because you
had pjore force and greater influence
with the world, and succeeded in a
long bloody war in forcing your views
upon .us, you ought to he satisfied,
though it. cost you dearly, for you re
member, we were both free people
•when wo commenced. You liberated
our slaves,, and destroyed our property
in the conflict-—it was our misfortune,
<• ibecause we Were too weak to prevent
it..’ If you destroyed our property
; you should not expect us tp help pay
youv public debt —it is ungenerous.—
We paid dearly also-tor our part of
the fray. We not only submitted like
lambs to the tyranny; of the Confeder
ate Government, but we submitted to
your taking what we had left when
the Confederates were overthrown —-
Your burthen was no heavier than ours
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--not half so giueli as ours for voi:
have your property in tact and arc on
ly threatened .wit j: poverty, while wc
’ are poor alieady. As to the matter of
j thp blood that was shed, that is natnr
a I to the Anglo. race whenever
they have a brawl whether will a bar-.
; banan or the next, door neighbor-.'’ If
; we of the South had ■ surrendered p
f our opiukm without a light yon woqhi
| have called u.s cowards, and deserved**
!ly so. But we made your, “whistle’-
1 cost you a round sum both in Mood
I and money. You hgvp no right to
I murmur if it bud cost you tic See as
| muph, for we wen hyt}\ free peop c and
I had tlie right of uj inion equally.-*—
| Now if you have saved your country,
! prove it tv paying your public debt.
| Prove yourselves the noble brave mag
nanimous people you bgast, and pur
: word for it, the Ciiion henceforth will
| stand impregnable as the rock of Gi
| bralfer. }
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Opt Railroads.—Tlie repairs to
I the track of the Central Kailrpnd are
steadily.progressing. We have been
informed that the iron lias been laid
some ten or twelve miles from the city,
| and in a few days will be in running
order for a distance, of forty-fivp miles.
It is confidently expected, at the pres
ent rate of progress, that by tbp Ist of
October communication with Auirusta
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by this route will be resumed. We.
learn also that the worjt of repairs to
the Gulf Road is being pushed for
ward with much vigor. This energy
on the part of those having the roads
under management is hailed with the
liveliest satisfaction by those who have
put their shoulders to the wheel and
determined to place Georgia in the
position she once occupied amoag
her sister States of the Union, and
opening up the extensive trade for Si
vannah for which her merchants are
now actively preparing.— /Sava]ijiuh
Republican.
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It is stated that the leading Masons pf
Massachusetts are about to invite theip
most influential brethren of the South
to visit them a4 partake of th/eir bos*
pitalities, that the meuu>:ies of the
past strifes may be blotted out and the
Union commence, where it should, in
the individual hearts.
General Santa Anna is now living
at St. Thomas, W. I. He is said tq
be in excellent health, and at seventy
years of age walks erect, and manages
his cork leg with skill*