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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE
LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.)
Terms, $4.00 a year in Advance. j
LAW AND MEDICAL CARDS.
BRYAN & HARRIS,
ATTORXEVS IT Lt.
THOU %*%'■ 1.1. E. G. 4.
FiTOFFICE firt door in second story of
Shirk's Confectionary ,
L. C BEYAX. U. H. HARRIS.
Mar 14 11 ts
S. B. SPENCER,
ATTORN E Y A T I. AW ,
Thomasrillr, Georgia,
Will attend promptly to all aril business en
trusted to bis care in the Sontbem Circuit,
Clinch and Ware of the Brunswick Circuit.
Jan 31 5 ly*
C. P. HANSELL,
ATTORX E Y A T LA W,
Thomasrillr, Georgia
Jan 31 5-ly
ROBERT G. MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY AT LA W ,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
over McLane’s Store.“USA
Jan 24 4-12 m
7. K. K id, U. U. W.F. DcWilt. H. D.
|)rs. KBI rX. DeWITT,
OFFER their services to the citizens of
Thomtisville and vicinity.
OFFICE at Dr. DeWitt's Drug Store
Feb til 8-ts
Dr. T. S. HOPKINS,
O P P,I O DEI
I\ x vm: LOT with KLSIDEM'E.
I. O. ARNOLD,
RESIDENT DENTIST
THOMASVILLE, GA.
\\ r ILL be found at the old
T V stand occupied by bim for
the hist ten years
Aug 23-12uo
Dr. W. P. CLOWER
HAYING permanently located in Thomas
Ville, otV rs bis I’rotVwwionsil
t** to the public.
I t-"OFFICE at the Dntg Store of W. P.
('lower A Cos.
’ V*RG*II>EXCE—the house formerly oc
cupied byJDr. Brandon. mar 11 ly
Dr. R. IV. IS iSTOX
Having permanently located in Tliomas
ville, rfapectfully offers his services to the
citizens of the Town and Surrounding
Country, in the practice of Medicine, Surs
gery and Midwifery. Will also pay spe
cial attention to the treatment of Diseases
of Women. Office It. It. Evans* old Store
upstairs. janl7-3m
E. G. F l II G I SO N ,
(Graduate of Queen s College.)
PHYSICAN, SURGEON, &c.,
Boston, Georgia.
May be consulted at Mr. Murphy’s near
Railroad Station.
APOTHECARY
W. P. CLOWER & GO.,
DRUGGISTS.
Have renovated and refitted the Store next
to Young's Hotel, for the purpose of es
tablishing a
First Class Drug Store.
The new firm ask for a share of patron
age, and invite the attention of the citi
zens to their well selected stock of
Fancy anil Toilet irticles,
Soaps ami Perfumery.
Fine Green and (Slack Teas,
Kerosine Lamps and Oil,
BYE M l I IS,
Together with every other article usually
kept in a well appointed Drug Store.
£-25“’ Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully
prepared. 4-ts
Jan 24
DRUGS
AND
MEDICINES.
The undersigned having purchased the
elegant Drug Store ot Dr. Little, take
pleasure in announcing to the people of
Thomasville, and the country generally,
that they have just received a full supply
of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Paints,
Oil#, Perfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call
and examine for yourselves.
By strict attention to business. courte
cus and honorable dealing with our cus
tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe
ral share of patronage.
TV INN & CASSELS.
James X. Winn,
Samuel J. Cassels.
jan 17tf
FRESH DRUGS
DR. P. S. BOWEH has just received a
large stock of fresh Drugs, purchased
at the best manufactories in the United
States, and embracing every article in the
Medical Department. ll is Drugs were
purchased with the view of supplying the
market with the very
Best Quality of Medicines
manufactured, and the prices were not
therefore consulted. He will nevertheless
sell upon easy terms, and feels sure that
he can give satisfaction.
Thankful for the liberal patronage ex.
tended to him heretofore by the people of
Thomas County, he hopes to merit a eontin
uation of their favors. lie may be found
at his old Stand opposite Remington & Son.
Jan 4, ts P. S.BOVvATR.
UEOKItI.l —Clinch County.
Whereas, Ziba King applies to said Court
for letters of Guardianship, for the property,
person and effects of Duncan Henderson, dee’d.
All persons are notified to tile their'objections
in said Court, otherwise said letters will be
granted in terms of the law.
H. MORGAN,
Feb 21 8-40 J Ordinary.
tpWO tlonthi from date, npplira.
A tion will be made to LonndesCourt of Or
dinary, for leave to sell the Real Estate of
Archibald Mclntvre, late of said Conntv, dec'd.
„ ISAAC JESSUP.
Mar 21 2m Adm r.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
GEO. T. PATTEN,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
THOHABTILLE, GA.
\\XILL purchase and sell Colton, llaron.
TV Hugar, Syrup. Wool, Arc., &c., on
Commission, forward Cotton and other Pro
duce to Savannah, and Goods from Depot to
other points.
Orders and Consignments solicited.
Feb 14 7-3m*
GEORGE PATTEN,
Forwar aing
AXD
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
MAVA.VVIII, GEORGIA.
rTTEXDERS bis services to the Merchants of
I Thomasville. and the Planters of Thomas
County, for the forwarding of Goods, the sale
of Pro bice and pnrrhase of Supplies, and re
spectfully solicits their patronage-
Feb 14 7-3m*
J. R. S, DAVIS & CO., ”
Auction & Commission
•MERCHANTS,
Vrxl door loll.A Goldbcrry’s Store,
SOLICIT consignments of goods of all de
scriptions. Particular attention paid to
telling real and peisonal propertv.
I sales on Wednesdays and Satur
days—day and night.
J. R. S DAVIS,
G. A. JEFFERS.
Feb 14 7-3m #
F. TV. SIMS,) ( J. F. WHEATON,
Late of the > < Late of the firm of
Republican. ) ( Wilder, Wheaton & Cos.
F. W. SIMS & Cos.,
SAVANNAH, GA.,
FACTORS AND GENERAL
CIMiSSI MERCHANTS.
DEALERS IN
Merchandise, Produce, Tim
ber, I.umber and Cotton.
Consignments and orders respectfully solicit
ed, and whether by wagou, river, railroad or
sea, will receive the strictest attention.
The Forwarding Business carefully and
promptly done. mar 7 10-Gm
MILLER, THOMAS & Cos.,
COMMISSIONS GROCERY
MEECH AN T S,
SAVANNAH, . . . . , GEORGIA.
A. J. MILLER. SAMUEL B. THOMAS.
D. G. LIVINGSTON.
Jan 24 4-6m*
7, L. VILLA LORO A,
COTTON FACTOR
mi® 11 MISSION
No- 94 Bay Street,
jan l-3m SA YANXAII . GA.
TISON& GORDON,
COTTON FACTORS,
SIMiSSI 1111816
ivshesio-g
98 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Special attention will be given to the sale
of SYRUP, LUMBER, ROSIN, TURPEN
TINE, &C.
-o:o-
SAVANNAII, Ist., Sept., 1865.
We are again in our old Office, prepared
for business. An experience in this city
of over eleven years, and our undivided
attention to all business entrusted, induces
us to hope for a continuance of the liberal
patronage heretofore extended.
WM. 11. TISON,
WM. W. GOIIDON.
Jan 1 3m
F. Bchuittrr. Ilcinsius,
SCHUSTER & HEINSiUS.
snipping,
CMHISSIOIII FORWARDING
M E R C 11 A NTS,
142 Bay St., SAVANNAH, Ga :
Consignments of Cotton for sale in this
market or for shipment to our friends in
New York, Philadelphia, Boston. Balti
more. Liverpool and Germany are solicited
and liberal advances made. Orders for
Wines, Liquors, Groceries, &c., promptly
attended to.
AGENTS FOR
Crcine df Rouzt nud Vrurr Clicquot
CHAM P A CINE.
DILTIIEY, SABL & CO’S.,
Rhine Wines, and P. I, de Tenet & de
Georges’
BORDEAUX WIHES.
Nov 8 6mo
ROBT P. YORK. i J. R. McINTYRE
M. E. WILLIAMS, | P. H. WARD.
YOIK.WILLIAMIM IHTYRE & CO..
AUCTION
COMMISSION
MERCHANT#,
BAY STREET, Savannah, Geo.
Consignments of
COTTON AND LIMBER Solicited.
REFERENCES:
Brigham, Baldwin & Co.,Savannah. Gaden
& Unekles, Savannah. Isaac D. Laßoche, Sa
vannah, Hunter A: Gammell, Savannah, Erwin
& Hardee, Savannah, Hiram Roberts. Savan
nah, W. Woodbridge, Savannah, L. C. Xor
vejl -A Cos., Savannah. S. T. Knapp <fc Bro ,
New York, D. H. Baldwin & Co.,New York.
Nov 8 6m
N OTICE.—WiII be sold on the First Tues
day in April next, at the Court House, in
the town of Thomasville, within the legal
hours of sale. Lot of Land. No. 32, in 14th
District. The property of the estate of Geo.
Folsom, deceased. Terms on dav of sale.
JOSIAH J EVERETT.
Feb 21 S-td Adni’y.
RKINNWICK AND STATE IM
PROVE VI EATS.
Savannah, Jan. 27, IS6G.
Hon. U. Dart, of Glynn County,
Milledgeville, Ga.
Jfy Dear Sir : —Though personally
a stranger to you, the fact that I now
have an interest direct in the prosperi
ty and welfare oi Brunswick, induces
me to the liberty of writing you upon
the subject, as for some years my at
tention has been given to the Bails
road facilities and resources of Geor
gia.
As far back as 1846, when on my
way to Mexico, through Georgia, eir.
cumstances drew my attention to the
Bailroad wants of the State, and to the
readiness with which the commerce of
the West and South-West of the Uni
ted States might be led to her Atlan
tic coast for an outlet. In 1859, when
fitting out an expedition to California,
across the country, at Memphis, Tenn.,
I endeavered to establish a system of
through freights from Savannah to
Memphis without breaking bulk; but
unsuccessfully, owing to the conflicting
views of the several Bailroads forming
the route, arising from narrow ideas
of interest and restricted estimates of
the influence ot Bailroads. In 1861,
when sent to Brunswick, in Septem
ber, to fortify the harbor, I was struck
with wonder at its capacity and advan
tages, and could hardly realize that
such a treasure had been allowed by
the State to pass from its own hands
into those of strangers. Had such a
harbor been in one of the Northern
States, its shores would long ago have
been crowned with a flourishing city,
influencing’’ materially the commerce
of the country. Occupied during Sep •
ternber and October in fortifying the
harbor, it became my duty, as it was
my pleasure, to study and learn, from
the best charts, and from personal ex
amination, the approaches to, capacites
and advantages of Brunswick; lam
therefore prepared to speak in rehu
tion to them with intelligence and
certainty. From that time I have re
garded Brunswick as the key stone in
the arch ot Georgia’s prosperity. The
man who docs not look beyond the
limits of the State of Georgia for the
value and influence of her Bailroads,
takes, permit me to say, but a very
narrow view of the subject. Ac one
time the commerce of Norfork, Va.,
surpassed that of New York; but
hew is it, that while the former re*
mains with her magnificent advanta
ges, but a little seaport, the latter has
become one of the Metropolitan Cities
of the world! The answer will be
found, I think, in the sing’c fact of the
far-reaching mind of De Wit Clinton,
who, looking beyond the limits of his
own State to the then undeveloped
wealth of the West, and seeing that an
outlet must be prepared for it, pro
jected that great highway, the Erie
Canal, and thus laid the foundation of
New York’s prosperity and gave birth
to the spirit of Internal Improvement,
which seizing upon the developments
of science and art, as successively pro
duced, has made the City and State of
New York the wealthy and powerful
ascendency of commerce and exchange
of the United States.
In the same manner, it is in the pow*
er of the State of Georgia now to shape
her destiny. I say now, for hitherto,
the State has been purely agricultural,
with her giant resources for commerce
and industrial pursuits, bur ed, disre
garded and uncared lor, under the
fancied wealth of a few bales of cotton
and bushels of rice. The door, how--
ever, by hidden decrees of Providence,
is now opened for Georgia to enter up
on her true position and influence. Iler
mission is to absorb and control the
trade and commerce of the West and
Southwest, from St. Louis, Missouri, to
the Gulf, and to share with New York
the trade of Chicago. In makingthis
assertion, do not think me wild, vis
ionary nr rhapsodical. I am writing
with a full knowledge of the Bailroads
and Bailroad system of the North and
West, (on which I was once called up
on to report as military resources for
tranoportation) and with a full under
standing of the immense power of the
capital wielded in New York. But at
the same time, I know the advantages
presented by a Southern outlet, if a
suitable one can be foun 1, and the im
mutable law of interest that seeks al
ways its own benefit. This outlet, I
think, can be had advantageously and
suitably only in Georgia at Brunswick.
An examination of the coast of the
United States, from Norfolk, Ya., to
Cape Sable, the southernmost end of
Florida, presents but two harbors capa>
ble of carrying on a direct European
trade, or maintaining an extensive
commerce. The bars at Wilmington,N.
C., Charleston, S.C., are too shallow to
admit large ocean travers'ng steamers
or ships. The bar at Tybee is deep
enough; but, once over it there is not
room or depth of water enough in the
Iloads for many or large vessels, and
no shelter from North and Easterly
gales. Port Royal and Brunswick,
then, are only left to our considera.
tion. Port Royal bar carries over 26
feet of water; Brunswick bar, 24 feet.
Port Royal bar is difficult to approach
on account of dangerous shoals shut’
ting it in ; Brunswick bar is open, free,
presenting no danger to vessels coming
in. Port Royal harbor is a wide sheet
of water, two and three quarter miles
wide, rendering its defence a problem
Thomasville, Georgia, Wednesday, April 4, 1806.
of great difficulty, almost an impossi
bility except at an enormous expense ;
Brunswick harbor is about a mile to a
mile and a half wide, affording every
facility for a strong lortification Port
Boyal harbor is not sheltered from
North and Easterly gales ; Brunswick
harbor is completely so. Port Boyal
harbor presents great difficulties from
its character and position for communi
cation witli the interior; Brunswick
labors under no such disadvantages, be
ing on the main land, in ordinary com
mon road connection with the whole
State. Lastly, all the reports es every
comm’ssion sent by the United States
to examine the Southern Atlantic coast
for the site of a Navy Yard, lave re
ported in favor of Brunswick. Add to
this, the commercial wealth oed politi
cal influence derived from the Com
mercial Southern Metropolis to the
State that possesses it, and the ques
tion in favor of Brunswick must be de
cided for every Georgian who has any
State love or State pride, Could Sa
vannah fulfil these anticipations, 1
would unhesitatingly advocate her
claims. But a seaport’s growth and
power is measured by its capacity for
business. Large ships must lighter
fourteen miles below the city, and
vessels of moderate draught must wait
for the tide, even before they can run
up to town ; and, then, owing to the
narrowness and shallownes of the chan
nel, they frequently run aground and
are obliged to wait a tug to take off
passengers and a portion of freight bei
fore they can run up to the wharves.
But without these difficulties, there is
not, from Tybce Loads to the city, room
enough for a large number of ships.
At Brunswick, on the contrary, the
whole fleet of England can lie secure
ly and commodiously, and the largest
vessels anchor at the wharves. Be
tween Brunswick and Savannah there
can be no comparison as to facility and
capacity for a large and deep com
merce. Again, Brunswick bar is about
seventy miles south of Tybce—a run
for a sca-going steamer of six hours
and a half. Passengers, therefore for
Brunswick, parting at Tybee with pas
sengers for Savannah, will, in ninety
nine cases out of one hundred, be land
ed at Brunswick before those for Sa.
vannah on shore, owing to the delays of
liver approach from Tybee to Savant
nab. I write on this subject freely and
for what I believe to be the great in
terests of Georgia. My landed interest
is all in and around Savannah ; but I
know enough of Bailroad influences to
have no fears on account of Brunswick's
prosperity. Quite the reverse. I know
that one hundred and fifty thousand
inhabitants at Brunswick will enhance
the value of my real estate in Savannah
25 per cent. No city has ever yet been
destroyed by Bailroads; and Savannah
will form no exception to this inflexi
ble rule. Men who reason against
Brunswick for fear of destroying Sa
vannah, show but narrow intehigince,
and exhibit fears arising from a want
of observation and knowledge. Look at
Portland, Portsmouth, Boston, Phila
delphia and Baltimore, Have they
been injured by leading Bailroads to
New York ? and why should Savannah
fear a New York at Brunswick ? It
was thought that the Jersey Bailroads
would ruin Philadelphia and fatten
New York 1 But what has been their
influence ? Philadelphia has now more
houses than New York ? These idle
fears, founded in ignorance, have no
longer sway at the North and West;
and it is time that our people should
acquire the same enlightened opinions.
We must sec something else beside cot
ton, and lctrn that there are sources of
wealth in the State of equal if not grea
ter value. We must regaid our great
mineral wealth, the increased value of
lands on account of immigration, and
the industrial pursuits growing out of
them; and we must learn to estimate
properly the great value of commerce
tlowiug through our channels to an
outlet capable of receiving them with*
in our borders.
Asa just step to these results, the
completion of the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad is the most important.
I do not know accurately the condition
of the Road, but I hope it is such as
to insure an active and speedy prose
cution of it to its termination. Fin*
ished, and in running order to Macon,
it must become in profit what the Cen
tral Railroad has been, but more of a
link in State and Natioual influence
than that Road ever was or can be
come. I regard it as the most irnpor
tant Railroad now projected on this
Continent. Every man in the State of
Georgia is interested in its completion,
as its influence will be felt throughout
our limits. That completed, the Bruns
wick and Albany Road must soon foN
low, leading on its present line. Then
a road from Lumber city to Sanders
ville to Union Point, connecting with
the Athens Road, and from Athens,
eventually, through Clarksville direct
to Knoxville, Tenn ; meeting the Cin
cinnati and Knoxville road and thus
connecting Chicago with Brunswick.
Another road, in time from Screvens,
the crossing of the A. & G. R. R. by
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad,
to Millen, meeting the Augusta and
Waynesboro Road, and we shall have
opened ways through Georgia to all
accessible points, inviting trade to a
port at which business may be carried
on the whole year, without interruption
from winter’s snows or summer’s heat,
and whence the voyage to Europe may
be safely and pleasantly made at all
seasons without danger from fogs, ice
bergs, or freezing wintry gales. St.
Lcuis is over two hundred miles near
er Brunswick than it is to New York.
Cincinnati is equi-distant from New
York and Brunswick. And Chicago
i- about niuety miles nearer New York
than Brunswick. But take into con
sideration the great, cheapness with
which Bailroads are built in the South,
the more direct lines that they can fol
low, and the freedom in winter from
obstruction by snow or extreme cold,
and I think that travel and trade can
find a cheaper and readier exit from
the North and West at Brunswick than
at New York. I know there are not
impossibilities, and with our advanta
ges difficulties will soon disappear be
fore energy and earnest purpose. I
am not so silly as to think we can up
set New York, but I do see, as clearly
as some years of close study of the
subject warrant me in seeing, that
without aiming at competing with New
York we can share the trade of the
country with her, and have in Georgia
the great and the governng Southern
Metropolis.
As the representation of the city of
Brunswick’s interest in the Macon and
Brunswick Bailroad, let me urge upon
you an energetic prosecution of the
road, and as the surest earnest of it,
the election of Directors and a Pres
ident who estimate at its true value
the importance of the road, and who
believe in its success. Milk and wa
ter men, or men with divided inten
ests will not do. We want single heart
ed, whole hearted, energetic, practical
businessmen who wont mistake a dime
for a dollar, and grasp of mind enough
to comprehend that there is a Great
West and a South West teeming with
wealth, seeking an Atlantic seaport,
and that there is other freight in Geor
gia. The State might well aid the
Macon apd Brunswick Bailroad for
the ultimate benefit to her Treasury.
But as I know nothing of the affairs
oi the road, I don’t know that it needs
it. If the road does, the State might
safely take her bonds to 81,000,000
and more. Nothing but absolute im
becility or gross mismanagement can
make the road fail.
Apologising for trespassing so long
upon your time, I am, very respect
fully,
Your obedient servant,
HEN BY C. WAYNE.
UJistdimtiL
1 11 Vote for the Ollier Jinn.
The following story is told of a Be
volutionary soldier, who was running
for Congress.
It appears that he was opposed by a
much younger man, who had never
been to the wars, and it was the want
of Bevolutionary to tell the people of
the hardships he had endured.
Says he :
Fellow citizens, I have fought and
bled for my country —I helped whip
the British and Indians. 1 have slept
on the field of battle with no other
covering than the canopy of heaven.
I have walked over frozen ground till
every foot step was marked with
blojd.
Just about that time, one of the so
vereigns who had become very much
affected by this tale of woe, walks up
in front of the speaker, wiping the
tears from his eyes with the extremity
of his coat tail and interrupting him
says :
Did you say that you had fought the
British and the Injines ?
Yes, responded the Bevolutionary.
Did you say that you had slept on
the ground while serving your country
without any kiter?
Yes, sir, I did.
Did you say ycu had followed the
enemy of your country over frozen
ground till every footstep was covered
with blood ?
Yes, exultingly replied the speaker.
Well, then says the tearful sovereign
as he gave a sigh of painful emotion,’
I’ll be blamed if I don’t think you’ve
done enough for your country, and I’ll
vote for the other man !”
-
Young America Wonders —Won
der why mama, keeps Bridget at home
from church to work all day, and then
says it is wicked for me to build my
rabbit house on Sunday?
Wonder why our minister bought
that pretty cane with the yellow lion’s
head on the top, and then asked me
for my cent to put in the missionary
box? Don’t 1 want a jewsharp just
as well as he wanted a cane?
Wonder what makes papa, tell such
nice stories to visitors about his hiding
the master's rattan when he went to
school, and about his running away
from the school-mistress when she was
going to whip him, and then shut me
up in a dark room all day because I
tried just once to be as smart as he
was.
Wonder what made papa say that
wicked word when Betsy upset the
ink all over his papers, and then slap
ped my ears because I said the same
thing when my kite-string broke ?
Wonder why mama told Bridget the
other day to say that she was not at
home when Tommy Cay’s mother call
ed, and then puts me to bed without
my supper every time I tell a lie ?
Oh, dear! there are lots of things
I want to know, I wish I was a
man!
Who Khali Tench the Xegro f
The education of the negro follows
as one of the inevitable consequences *
of his freedom. Ills natural desire to
imitate white people, and his longing
after every th : ng novel and mysterious,
will induce him to make the attempt
himself, and the party which has freed
him, and hopes to u-e him as a politi
cal capital in the future, will see to it
that the ways and means shall be pla
ced at his disposal. Schoolmasters
and schoolmarms came with the freed
men’s Bureau, in the rear of the armies
of occupation, and in all the Southern
cities negro schools have been opened,
and are attended by large numbers of
negroes, great and small. Negro edu
cation has opened anew and ungar.-
nered field to the unemployed young
men and women of New England, and
they have not been, and will not be
slow in the future, to avail themselves
of the harvest. Up to the commence
ment of tlie war a large proportion of
the Southern youth, of both sexes,
were taught by these people out of
books manufactured in Boston, and
made with the single purpose of gloris
fying the Yankee and his exploits at
the expense of the balance of mankind.
Every intelligent and thinking man,
who has arrived at the age of matu
rity, has had to unlearn the partial,
prejudiced and dangerous lessons he
has learned in his boyhood about the
history of our own and other countries,
and as to the character and deeds of
men who were among the best and
most illustrious of their race.
Messrs. Seward and Trumbull, two
of the most able and distinguished
leaders of that party which has over
thrown the South, were once itinerant
pedagogues in Georgia. It is no part
of the purpose of this article to refer
to the practical exhibitions given by
either of their then belief in the equal
ity of the races; but who can doubt if
it would not have been better for the
South in the past to have had her own
teachers and preachers, and may not
the experience of the past be benefr
cially used for her future safety and
interest.
Who, then, shall educate the negro ?
The Southern man, his former owner,
to whom he feels attached, in whose
friendship he has an abiding confi
dence, or Noithern radical, who, for his
hard earned gains comes to give him
lessons which will only increase his un
happiness and discontent, and hasten,
perhaps his destruction? In the answer
to this question is involved an idea of
momentary importance to the South.
Her interest is to keep the freedman
in a state of kindness and amity with
those with whom he has been born and
raised, and with whom all his future
destinies, personal and polticial, are
cast. That the majority of them now
possess this feeling can scarcely be
doubted, but how long it may con
tinue under the teaching of Yankee
fanatics, is a question of terrible earn
estness to us. The party at the North
desirous of giving the negro political
equality, are not going to retire from
the field after one repulse. Their past
history, their recent triumph—our
wasted fields and desolated towns, our
impoverished people, tell of their in
domitable perseverance. They will
make the negro our master, if they can,
a war of races is the first grand move
ment marked out for the campaign.
To make the negro capable of marching
up to such an undertaking, he must
be educated, and educated alone by
their emissaiics. Will the South qui>
etly sit down and see the dragon’s
teeth sown in her soil ? We are will
ing that the negro shall be educated
to the extent of his capacity. He is
desirous of learning all and every
thing which can be taught him. Not
long since, at a large convention of
negroes in a neighboring State, they
passed resolutions averring their pre.-
fcrence to being taught by their for*
mer friends and owners. Will the
white man respond to the appeal of
the negro ? We have large numbers
of competent young men, unable to get
employment —will they teach the ne
groes, and while earning a living bene
fit and advance the interests of their
country ? Or must the Yankee come
down and gather up the hard earnings
of this unfortunate class, and instil
into their minds that spirit of hatred
and revenge for the Southern white
man, which must inevitably cause the
speedy destruction of the negro race ‘!
We are fully aware that we are
touching a subject which will arouse
long seated prejudices ; but is it not
time that the South should stifle pre
judices, and look to her material inter
ests ? She must educate her people,
white and black ; have her mechanics
and artizans, her preachers and pro
fessional men, her factories and work
shops, and until she does, she will be
lacking in the elements of strength
which make other people strong and
great, and the want of which caused
her recent and disastrous subjugation,
Columbus Sun.
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Thf People’s President
The Boston Post thus expresses its
opinion of President Johnson:
If ever a President could be prop
erly called “The People’s President,”
it is Andrew Johnson in his present
attitude. lie does not wrap himself
up in his official consequence and
stand aloof from his fellow-citizens,
but comes to them as his friends, his
equals, his protectors. lie is free to
VOL. VL-Xo. 14.
acknowledge himself chosen to exe
cute their will in the administration
of their Government. The same man*
ly frankness distinguishes his inter
course with all the departments of
Government as with the people. His
convictions are honest, founded upui
reasons, and uttered with the sincerity
and earnestness that disdains subter
fuge. So he spoke at Washington on
the 22d : his words came from his heart
and will reach the hearts of his coun
trymen. lie labors for the entire na
tion—he seecks the preservation of its
freedom, the restoration of its unity
and the permanence of its power. —
No man can turn him from his de*
sign. Threats are to him air bubbles —
party combinations and attempted in
timidations arc vain, in the effort to
swerve him from the course he con
ceives duty points out
With such a man at the head of tho
Government one armed so strong in
honesty—the turbulence of faction —
the bitterness of enmity—the struggle
of revenge—may fret and chafe to
their topmost bent without ruftlirg a
hem of his garment. lie stands for
the country, and will be sustained by
its patriotism and judgment. His facts
and his arguments have engaged tho
attention and won the approbation of
prominent men who have been ranked
as radical abolition Republicans, while
larger numbers of tho more conserva
tive members of the party give them
warm sanction They feel that the
questions at issue rise above party
consideration and present themselves
to the candor of all good citizens for
decision; that they appeal to the patrio -
tic integrity of the people for solution,
as did the question of suppressing
the rebellion in ISGI, and that the
response will be equally strong and
enthusiastic now as then, in favor of
sustaining the Union. The motto of
the people will be now as then —“Our
country —our WHOLE country.”
Want's a Wife. •
The following appeared in a St.
Louis paper:
Wanted. — I have lived Solitary
long enough. I want someone to talk
at, quarrel with —then kiss and make
up again. Therefore lam ready to
receive communications from young’
ladies and blooming widows of mom
than average respectability, .tolerable
tame in disposition and hair of arty
color.
As nearly as I can judge of myself,
I am not over eighty nor under twenty
five years of age. 1 am cither live
feet eight, or eight feet five, I forget
which. Weigh 135, 315, or 531 lbs.,
one of the three. I recollect each figure
perfectly well, but as to their true ar
rangement I am somewhat puzzled.
Have a whole suit of hair, dyed by
nature and free from dandruff. Eyes
buttermilk brindlc, tinged with pea
green. Nose blunt, according to ionic
order of architecture, with a touch of
the composite, and a mouth between a
catfish’s and alligator’s-—made espe
cially for oratory and the reception if
large oysters. Ears pai mated, long
and elegantly shaped. My whisker’s
are a combination of dog’s hair, moss
and briar brush —well behaved, fear
fully luxuriant.
I am sound in limb and on the nc-.
gro question. Wear boots No. 9 when
corns are troublesome, and can write
poetry by the mile, with double rhyme
on both edges—to read backwards,
forwards, crosswise or diagonally. Can
play the Jew’s harp or brass drum and
whistle Yankee ~f>o4idle in Spanish.
Am very correct in my morals, and
first-rate at tenpius ; have a great re
gard for the Sabbath, and never drink
unless invited.
Am a domestic animal, am perfectly
docile when towels aic clean aud shirt
buttons all right. If I possess a pre
eniinating virtue it is of forgiving ev
ery enemy whom I deem it hazardous
to handle. I say my prayers every
night, musquitoes permitting; as to
whether I snore in my sleep I want
somebody to tell. Money is no object,
as I was never troubled with it, and
never expect to be. I should like for
some lady who is perfectly able to
support a husband, or if she could in.,
troduce me to a family where religious
example would be considered sufficient
compensation for board, it would do
just as well.
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Don't Complain. —Don't complain
of your birth, your training, your em
ployment, your hardships ; never fancy
that you could be something if you on
ly had a different lot or sphere assign
ed to you. God understands his own
plans, and knows what you want bet.
ter than you do. The very things
that you most depreciate as fatal limi
tations and obstructions, are probably
what you most want. What you call
hindrance and discouragement, are
probably God’s opportunities, and it is
nothing to dislike her medicines or any
certain proof that they are poisons,
No ! a truce to all such impatience.
Choke that devilish envy which gnaws
at your heart because you are not in
the same lot with others ; bring down
your soul, or rather bring it up to rc
ceive God’s will and his word, in your
lot, in your sphere, under your cloud
of obscurity, against your temptation,
and then you shall find that your con
di ion is never opposed to your good,
but really consistent with it.
Peal gently with the erring soi l