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tut ion as a uprightly anti versatile writer lor the religions ami secular press. We have known l;lm from his early maiihooil anil have long recognized his ability anil unquestionable integrity as a Christian minister. He Is a bold thinker and thoroughly conscientious In his con victions. Anti yet we ventuie to say that not a few of bis latter day deliverances, especially on the negro question, are grievous blunders, ant] will be so esteem ed by himself when his present ardor shall have somewhat abated. By his own admission he is a recent convert to the theory embodied in this volume, anil quite naturally he .mani fests the usual fervent zeal of the neo phyte. As an advocate Dr. H. is a certainly not lacking In ingenuity. The very title of Ids lionk, if it lias any practical sig nificance at all, is an assumption of the physical unity of the races. Surely we are not to understand that this difficult ethnological problem has been set at rest cither by the surrender at Appomattox or the 13th constitutional amendment. It is by no means ascertained that tlie negro is of the same species with the Caueasslan. Many learned Christ'an men, amongst them Agassiz, have questioned whether this theory lias any basis what ever either in Scripture or in science. We can readily see how with the uni. ty-dogma ns a vantage-ground such masterly orators as Wendell Phillips on tlie platform and Theodore Parker in the. pulpit could set Massachusetts ablaze from Berkshire to Nantucket. For if the negro is uf identical origin with the white race, and as Cowper postulated, is simply •‘guilty of a skin darker than onr own.” then by inexorable logic he is en titled not only to freedom and citizen ship. but to social equality—anil other kindred abominations that are contained in the premises. A thin layer of coloring matter in the rete unirntinn of our African brother is hardly a sufficient reason for excluding him from the table d’hote of the Kimball, or ejecting him from the first-class coach nf the W. A A. K. It. And yet Dr. llnygood’s Cincinnati friend refused to share a bed with a clean ne gro! Was this race-instinct rebellin. against the logic we are criticising? Mohammed in every emergency of his career fell back on a new rerelntion.The ‘‘New South.” which is wonderfully progressive, may yet learn to spit on the ‘•color line” in this and kindred instan* ces, even as it has apotheosized Garfield and feted Sherman in the city that he burned like a vandal chieftain. Bishop Warren lias recently lieen prospecting through the South anil since bis return to the North has condemned in meas ured terms the social disabilities from which the “Brother in Black” still suf fers in our midst. The Bishop was ex ceedingly indignant that “iducated col ored ladies" were compelled to travel in a smoking car. We have never seen it on this wise, and If seems to have es- ca|H'd the notice of Bishops Pierce and McTyiere. Possibly onr Northern brother lias a gift for seeing motes and was on the alert for a sensational para graph. Perhaps the “New South” will “reform it altogether.” Dr. II. distinctly repudiates these log ical sequences of his majority premise. This is well for the Doctor, but in the meantime what become* of his argu ment ? The question whether the negro is a distinct anil earlier creation of Go I than the Oanensian is a problem that demands for its solution the most patient scientific research. It is altogether outside the province of ecclesiastical dogmatism— not less so than the order of the solar system. When the church was >11 agog as to that matter a Burnish Cardinal, the learned Baronins was wise enough to perceive that the Bible was designed to teach ns how to go to Heaven and not liow the H»aven8 go. It may be found in the life time of some now living that there is a plurali ty of species of the genus homo. It would lie premature to assert that this is definitely settled, lint it is not too much to say that it is probable that this whole anti-slavery agitation from Wll- berforee to Sumner, that the fratricidal strife anil bloodshed of the late civil war, were one and all the results of a scion, title blunder and a wrong scriptural ex egesis. The ’calling proposition of Dr. Ilay- good’s book is the declaration that the emancipation nf the Southern slaves was l he work of God. St. Peter tells us that "no prop tecy is of any private interpre tation.” The same law (if we appre hend correctly the teaching of Christ in the 13th chapter of I.nke) holds in re- g ird to the int- rpretation of apparently vindictive Providences. From sundry references to the Exodus of Israel from Egypt, we might infer that he regards the.emancipation of the negroes as a like accomplishment of His outstretched arm. By parity of reasoning, he might hold God responsible for the slaughter of the innocent* by Herod, seeing Joseph and Mary and the yonng child had fled into Egypt. Would a Go l that cares for lilies and si-arrows—to use his own illustration— be unlieedful of the voice of “Rachel weeping tor her children?” Indeed, Dr. H. believes that God had as ranch to do « ith the negroes coming to this country as wi^li Israel’s going down into Egypt. The slave trade then was a link in the Providence of God. The horrors of the middle passage which so often convulsed the audiences of Ex eter Hull were necessary fseters of the divine economy, looking fo the election of Lincoln In 18(i0, and the downfall of the Confederacy in April, 18G.*i. Most assuredly *he doctor does not mean to assert that the Jehpvah of .the Old Testament who instituted slavery amongst his elect people, the Jews—and the Christ of the New Testament, who. by his apostles, sanctioned a worst form of slavery than ever was tolerated on the rice plantations of South Carolina or the sugar estates of Louisiana, that one or both of them should, in these last days become the apologists, aye, the champ!' ons of the most infamous national rob bery perpetrated since the partition of Poland. Crrdat Juden* aptUa, non ego. We believe and maintain’, contrary to all this fanfaronade about Providence, that the emancipation of the southern negroes was a premeditated spoliation concocted and plunned and prosecuted for nearly a half century by northern politicians, under various aliaass, and upon sundry pretexts of philanthropy. Plrom the day ol Wm. Lloyd Garrison, St least, the abolitionists left no stone nefarious juirpose^tney auacxea s in single hcti oi sugar the Distflct of Columbia and wherever OpO.flOO oFpounds in'1791 to. .nothing i else the national govthnroentjlleld ex- -»42 v *. -- elusive jurisdiction. They practically *’ * , ~ 1 -*“ ,, **“ .b& nullified, by mean* of mr.brf-and like ap pliances^ The constitutional provision for the rendition of fugitive slaves—they incited insurrectlohs araongsWhe slaves, thereby imperilling helpless .Women and children? 'They influi need crazy John Brown toTnvadetho soil of fie*‘MoJher of States’^'Witli a like intent.** It answers a purpose now to call these “dead Issues.” They are TffcW, neverthe less, and dike the ghost of "the blood- bolted Bpffigio,” they will Jiot down at the hidding.of Dr.-Haygood or any other prophet of the New Dispensation. They are part and parcel of the record upon which the tribunal of Universal dilatory will adjudicate tMft right and wrong of this controversy. We. insist, further- monytlial, as the north Increased in rcl- ativu -power* it beciimi '■•W^rrogiHit anil nggre*ftiye. * It spare^fliWljPr mon ey or laljpr to exclude us from the com- mon territory acquired by the treaty of Guadatupe Hidalgo. The burden of the fight was boriie liy southern troops led by southern-horn generals, but this availed nothing in the controversy. Dan iel Wflister waqlooked" out of Fanhuil Hall for defending the coftiPromlse meas ures of ISTiO', and tills Solemn compact lietween the sections was.hplijly set at naught in every town and city of the north: ThUfew exceptional caws amount to nothing ift the argument. Tile decade extending from 1850 to 1SC0 was a jieriod of incessant anti-slavery agitation. .At its close. Abraham Lincoln, owing to the dissihisihns of the Democratic party, was eTiVtrd to the Presidency. The South',“ghaitfeil well-nigh to desperation by the persistent assaults of the past forty years, and holilingto the right of se cession,withdrew fioni the Union. In bur judgment it was an unwise step, but the political leaders of the South' thought otherwise, and we acquiesced. In the struggle that ensued the South was greatly out-numbered in the field, and, without foreign-.reengnition or u fiunn-. however, disastrously defeated at several points, and an alarming reaction occur red in the public sentiment of the North* At this juncture Mr.Xjtjfc'oln was urged to issue his emancipation proclamation. He hesitated and postponed until the ex tremists of his parly, conspicndns amongst whom was the notorious Jack Hamilton, of Texas, told him plainly that without It “the Union w.-it? lose” If _ At a later period England abolished slavery Tn Jamaica. Wilberfoaxe and Clarkson* were jubilant on the occasion. Dr. Channing oUNew England regarded it as the most notable etent of modern times."'He prophesied that in a few years Jam&icd would rivil in beauty and fruitfulness the fabled Atlantis. A brief expeHenee suffleedto dispel the Utopian d: earn. Jamaica and its popu lation-erased poorer and poorer and but for v the subsidies or parliament it would ere this have -hfien depop ulated by lust and famine. • “ We-admit that ?hV*presence of a large whitcrpoptilatiotf flfthe Southern States 'has prevented thaJratchery ol Havti and “Hie Impoverishment of Jamaica. The experiment hnrni la made" under vastly mort* favorable circumstances—but the end is not yet. . Dr. Hf is not a statesman—but a capi tal college president and an excellent preacher, but if he was a Statesman be sides he could Hot' from his present standpoint see the beginning of .the end of this emancipation- project. Lfeaving out of view the methods by' which the negro was emancipated, we are con strained to say that the experiment hith erto has been quite, unsatisfactory in its results. We confess our own disappointment. jus_.tr> to liabitaof obedience, coupled with a wise god cautious procedure on-the part of tlie general governmet< would , have Ik-cii followed "by better consequences. A gradual*emancipation and a' qualified suffrage would have lessened the evils of the transition from bondage to liberty and citizenship. But madness fuled the councils of the nation and the - issue it what might havo been anticipated. Not less than two millions of industrious la borers were] converted Into a body of tramps and Idlers. Intoxicated by lijp sudden enfranchisement the negro be came inefficient and unreliable as a la borer. This fact not less than the pur- tigniu- - cial crash at the Niirtli, could partly chase of fertilizers and supplies at ruin- hope for ultimate Success against sdpl* heavv odds. The Federal armlFs weref est form of English civilisation and yet hat comparatively few have advanced beyond the rudiment* of civilization. Any dozen of our negro labotero gather- ered out of the streets of Atlanta, are neither physically nor inteffittaally dif ferent from the same number as repre sented on the tombs of Epg£csthe Sev enteenth dynasty. • . We are far from opposing the educa tion of the negro. We*wonld be glad to believe that education would lift him to a lofty place of thought and action. Bat as no skill of tfie lapidary can polish the coarse pebble Jpto the Monty and bril liance of Kohintoor, so no scholastic drill- sergeant can change the skin of the Etliiopian'or gfcre him the brain of the Caucassian. Believing 4s im do that God has crea ted him for a subordinate relation to the higher races, we have no thought that any species of statecraft will so counter act the Divine purpose as to make them, with rare exceptions, other than hewers of wood and drawers of water. Their muscles and sinews qualify them for the drudgery of the field and workshop. In this sphere they will find their higest happiness and greatest usefulness. In this way will they best serve their generation until they shall be numbered with the extinct races that were contem porary with {he’ mastodon and the great Irish EjlL The law of the survival of the fiftegis as inexorable iu lta working in iffeUs races of men as races of men We did hppe that his previous training as races oT animals. The Aztecs and - • - - •• '**■.* — Toltecs like the Dodo and the megathe- otis rate* ha* Impoverished our planters. R is not-extravagant to say that over half of them to-day are loaded down with mortgages and liens and-.ire on the verge of liankruptcy. To say by way of offset to this state ment, that our cotton crop is largely in excess of what is was before the war is to no qurpose. This is explained not by tlie thrift or industry of the freedman but because the stimuloiis of high prices has greatly extended the production of cotton pnd moreover the growth of our on,white add colored,.has In- _. , , , _ the productive capacity of the ed it. It vas simply anil nakedly a des- I ctSuntry l>y not less than*forty per centi perate effort to bolster up the tottering *i»c* the close of the war. administration. It had tlie-deiired-effect. .Nor has the jnor^l or religious status It consolidated lire'pal-tyr. Like the I oitlie negro lieen improved by his free- bomlinrdmcnt .of. I’ort f-umler. it fired I doni. The criminal^, statistics of the afresh the Northern heart and unleashed 1 South will show that more crimes of a once more the dogs of war for a fresh I graver sort have been committed by the onset on the Confederacy. Henceforth negroes during the last fifteen years than slavery was doomed—the ratification of for fifty years preceding the war. Mur- the 13th amendment being a sheer mock- | der, rajs , arson and other felonies have cry. . been augmented a hundred fold. As re- Dr. Ilaygood sees in all this the finger speets petty thieving it has become well of Providence. We sec In it the fortunes nigli unbearable. The overseer’s lash of unsuccessful war. I been substituted by tlie chain gnng. The North, emboldened' by its irolirii- We .write this more, in sorrow than in ry success in the utter overthrow of the I a nger, and believe that the blame is less Confederate Government and the whole- I dnu to the negro than to the shameful sale impoverishment of tlie South by its | policy which placed him in a position .. k! . . _ .. - 1: . .^.**1»— I I Lip u'liirih.ldn id nflnvlv rtnlSltoi) rtum' belong to the records of the Pale ontologist. The negro and the Indiun and other inferior races cannot escape a similar /ate. Dr. Haygood seems to regard the des tiny ql the South as inseparably bound up with tlie elevation of the negro race Has it never occurred to him that in fifty years the blacks of this country will be less than one-lwidth of our population and therefore relatively of less numeri cal importance than our Indian tribes one hundred years ago? Still, he advo cates with impassioned earnestness what he styles the New South. This phrase sa vors of slang unbefitting the author and theoccaslon. If by the phrase he means an organization, political or semi-religious, that shall renounce the traditions of our past history, we hesitate not to say we loathe the lane suggestion. We grant there is too much in the past that we ought te repent of and turn away from. But Heaven forefeud that. the South This kashwll be pade In kora, ur utlier projuce, tu be kolected at ur abent nextycamp-meetin, ur tharater, by eny one what ketches him, fur the karkus oVe a sartin wun Sut Lovin- good, dead ur alive, ur ailing an’ safe ly giv over tu the purtectin care ove Parsou John Bullen, ur lef well tied at Squire Mackjunkins, fur the raisin’ ove tne devil pussonally, an’ peratis- kusly dteeumrorttn’ the women very powartal, u‘ akeering ove geDtle folks generly a heap, an’ bustin’ up a prom isin’ big warm meetin, an’ a rank in’ the wicked larf, an’ wus qn’ wus, insultin’ ove the passun orful. Test, John Wethers. Signed by me,' John Bullen, the passun., I found written copies of the above highly intelligent and vindictive pro clamation stuck up on every black smith shop, doggery, and store door in the Frog Mountain -Range. Its blood-thirsty spirit, • its style, and above all, its cbirography interested me to the extent of taking one from a tree for preservation. Ina few dsay I found Sut in a good crowd in front of Capehart’s doggery, and as he seemed to be about in good tune, I read it to him. “ Yas, George, that ar dockymlnt am-in dead yearnist, sartin. Them hardsheUs over thar dus want me the wusklne, powerful bad. But, I speet ait dullars won’t fetch me, nither wud ait hundred bekase thar’s nun ove ’em fas’ enuf tu ketch me, nither is thar bosses, by the ivin’jingo! Say, George, much talk ’bout this fuss up whar yu’re been ?” For the sake of a joke I said, “ Yes, a good deal.” - - “ Jis’ es I spected, durn ’em, all git drunk, an’ skeer thar fool sefs ni ontu deth, an’ then lay hit ontu me, a poor, lnnerseut yuf, an’ es soun’ a belever as they is. Lite, lite, ole feller, an’ let that roan ove yourn blow a little, an' I’ll ’splaln this cussed misfortnit after: hit ruinated my karacter es a plus pusson in the s’ciety roun’ yere, an’ is a spreadin’ fastur nur meazils. AVhen ever you hear eny on ’em a spreadin hit, gin his the dam lie, squar, will you? I hain’t dun nuffin ’ tu one uv ’em. Hit’s true, I did sorter frustrate a few lizzards a littil, but they hain’t members, es I knows on “ You see, las’ year I went tu the big meetin’ at the Rattlesnake Springs, should upon any pretext of expediency l nd were a glttln . in a nice 8had ; surrender her just convictions, or that place conversing wif a frien’ ove mine, ners; be threaten’d ’em orfoi, tried skeer’em wif all thewust varmini he cud thtnk ove, an’ Alter a vftiile lie got ontu the idear ove Hell-sarpints, and he dwelt on it sum. He tole ’em how the ole Hell-sarpints wad MOTe em if they didn’t recent; hoty.oold they’d crawl oyer tftar nakid body, an’ how like ontu pitch they’d stime tu ’ernes they crawled; how ^they’d rap thar Jails roun’ thkr naiks chokin clost, poke thar tungs up that noses, an’ hiss intu their years. This wer the way they wertu serve men folks. Thai he turned Ontu the w^pimen: tole ’em how they’d quite Intu thar buzzims, an’ how they wud crawl down’ onder thar frock-strings, no odds how tile they tied Vm, an’ how sum ove the oldes’ an’ wus ones wud crawl up tbar laigs, an’ travil onder thar garter, no odds how - tight they tied them, an’ when the two armys ove Hell-sar- pints met, then That. las’ re mark fotch ’em. Ove all the scream ing, an’ hollerin,an’ loudcryin,I ever heurn, begun all at onst, all over the hole groun’ jis’ es be hollered out that word ‘then.’ He kep on a bellprin, but I got so buisy jis’ then, that I didn’t listen tu him much, fur I saw that my time for aeksliun lied cum. Now yu see, George, I’d cotch seven ur eight big pot-bellied Uzzariis, aii’ lied ’em in a little narrer bag, whut I had made a-purpus. Thar tails oil at tlie bottim, an’ so crowdtd fur room that they cu- dent turn-roun’. So when he wfcr a- ravin ontu his tip-toes, an’ a-poundin the pulpit wif his fis’—unbeknowonst tu enybody, I ontied my bag ove rep tiles, put the mouf ove hit onder the bottiiuove his britclies-Iaig, au’ sot intu pinching tliar tails. Quick en gunpowder they all tuck up his bar lulg, making a* nise like squirrils a climbin a shell-bark hiedtpry. He stop’t preachin rite in the middle of tlie word •damnation,’ an’ looked fura moment like he wer listenin fur sumthin—sor ter like a ole sow dus, when she hears yu a wliistlin fur the dorgs. The tar- ifieh shape ove his fet-ters stop’t the slioutin an’ scleamjn; instuntTy yu cud hearn a cricket chirp, I gin along groan, an’ hill my bead a-twixt my knees. He ginliisself sum orful open- handed slaps wif fust one ban’ an’ then tuther, about the place whar yu cut tlie bes’ steak*outeu a beef. Then he’d fetch a vtgrUs ruft nib whar a bosses tail Sprouts; then he’d stomp one foot, then tuthiA’, then bof atonst. Then he run his bait’ atweeu his wais- bun an’ his shut an’ reach’d way down,, an’ roun’ wif hit; then he spread his big laigs, an’ gin his back a good rattliu rub again the pulpit, like a hog scratches hisself agin a stump, leanin tu hit pow’ful,an’ twitchin.an’ squirm ing all over, es ef he’d slept in a ' dorg bed, ur ontu a pisaut hill. About this time, one ove my lizzards seared an’ hurt by all this poundin’ an’ feelin, au’ sratcliin, popp’d out his head frum the passuii’s shut collar, an’ Ills' ole brow naik, an’ wer a-surveyln the crowd, when ole Bullin struck at ’im jis’ too late, fur he’d dodged back agin. The hell desurviu ole ruskil’s speech now cum tu ’im, an’ sez he, ‘Pray fur me brethren an' sistereu, fur I is to discuss tin* reconstruction pcrloJ. We I brought about hot by the act of God, but must not in this connection overlook the by the fanaticism of a small majority of fact that the government stoutly refused the American people, oqe ifarthiqg of compensation to,the We might apeak of the increase of SoOthTor inrfonr mttlions ofslaves.'- Lrtee drunkenness since the dawn air their po~ than forty years before, when the British I litical freedom, the legalized adultery— parliament, in a moment ot madness, Rhe aitfrtning prostitution.--True, these abolished slavery in the West Indies, it evil* existed in a fearful degree during promptly voted a handsome rcinunera-1 slavery, but they have greatly-Increased tion to the colonists. Yet parlinnumt, and tlie ^ore thoughtful and sober according to the theory of jhe British amongst tlie* blacks acknowledge and constitution, is omnipotent, whilst the I deprecate the /trutii- But we refrain American Congress' trampled upon the I from these sickfdtipKdeUtile. ** limitations of "the constitution anil the I What use has th<rd|grt> > >fflade of the principles of eternal justice to consnm- I bqlhL Which, aa hltitier says, ‘*Exe- mate a partisan project and perpetuate a cutes the frae'maflBT^ partisan ascendency. And <this, too, I does the jWll bf (£pdv? when the anocstoraef these l*jw-giv?rs J a matterqf. history that foe has prosti- had been enriched by the traffic in slav- I toted it to the vilest ends. We do not ery, foreign and coastwise,and not a few 1 apeak so much o£ his adherence tq the of them were, at that precise time, bank- radical ffaftyj but onxinestions of a pnre- ing, manufacturing and trading wUh|bp,l Ijr local character faihe-not >always"ar- purcliase money received for these man- Tnyed against moral reform*and political umitted slaves. . ' * ... .progress, i ^ .... T We venture to say that Dr. Haygood’a j He standstq the political marketplaces thanksgiving Tor the abolition V>f shivery of the country until' the eleventh hour like Macbeth's amen, would stick In his waitiqg tb.Iie hired. Wjth some hdnior- tliroat at this point. He indeed poult-1 sble'exteptiorei they are, in the main, as edly disclaims an eqilorscroent of the voters,^ bought and aoM like sheep in the metlusls employeii In this matter of I shambles. The outcome pf alj this must emancipation. We could hardly cxfiect J be the demoralbation of the elective less of him. Will he pardon us for say- franchise, until some whilwind of vir- ing that he does seem to us to confound I tuous popular indignation shall sweep all tnhrnl distinctions when 1 Ire'makes 1 it as a pestilence, from the face of the G^tths fiiyhjzriorjfoettoriof jn>cl£fc jut j-qartli. Bdt enough an this point. We gled web of falsehood, villainies ana nave somewhat to say of hfs future.--On aboihinatiqos as chaeacterize this whole this subject Dr. H. is enthusiastic to a work, from its beginning to end. j degree and in his eloquence “doth studs Jo ftomelhinK like propboUCStnln.' we may beolloMred to judge-the fn- _ — . . tuje by the past, w0 find nothing id the Our Brother in Black. history of “Our Brother in Black” to Dr. H. seems greatly concerned to ira-1 warrant any great expectations, press both rapes- witji thor co^victlop, | geologically the oldest con tinent on the globe. It is not all s de- stirt as 'many suppose it. Modern ex- with Ingratitude “sharper than a ser- , ntu the huekn thicket, jis' pent’s tooth,” we should forget those nufflll , t „ nobotly a „. makil| . no gallant men whose bones bleach on every lug9i wheni th0 fugt thil ,g i remem- battlefield from Gettysburg to the Mes- bere j woke up frunl a trance what j silv \ alley. _ I hed been knocked intu by a four year Wliat is there indeed in our history I 0 j ( j hickory stick, hilt in the paw ove from the drafting of the Declaration of oJd Pasgun BuUenf durn h i» aligater Inib-pendeiice by Thomas Jefferson to hide; an’ he wus standin’ a straddle the reuel imprisonment of President ove me> a foamin’ at de mouf, a Davis at Fortress Monroe that should I c hompin’ his teeth—gesterin' wif de make a Southron’s cheek tingle with I hickory club—an’ a-preachin tu me so shame? In every contest with a foreign I y OU cud # hearn him a mile, about a foe we have furuished more than our l rt , n ^ an , my wlcked _ quota of men and money. In the halls neg8 uggOMel an , niC nshunin’ the of-Congress our statesmen have been ove Mea , , oud enuf to a ever foremost in debate as our m.htary hcfn tu the me « tin . > OU8 . M y poor, chieftains have been foremost m the lnnergent frlen . wer dun goIu ., an - i bloody fray of battle, ll.e six most sue- wenj glad oye hit fur j tho . t he ment cessful ailininistrations of the govern- I t(1 nle r j te w |, a rl lay, an’ I didn't I rastilin’ wif the great iniiny rite now!’ ment were presided over by Southern I want her tu see me die.” ail’ his voice wer the mos’ pitiful, men. What if in the unequal strife of I u who was she, the friend 'you tremblin thing I ever hearn. Sum ove the civil war we were overwhelmed ’’>• I gpeak of,Hut?” Sut opened hU eyes the wimrnen foteli a painter yell, an’ immense odds, God yet reigns, and tlie I wjde _ a young docter, wif ramrod laigs, justii-e or injustice of our cause could not I “Hu the devil au* durnashun tole j lean’d toward me monstrus knowiu tlie arbitrament of the j yu that hit wer a she?” like, an’ sez he, ‘Clar case oveBelish- tlie future glory of the I ■> why, you did, Sut”— us Tremeujus.’ I nodded my liead.an’ promoted by truckling sjco-1 “ I didn’t, durn ef I did. Ole Bui-I sez I,‘Yas, spechuly the tremenjus pliancy or unmanly concessions. God | j e jj da n hit, an* I’ll hev tu kill him j part, an’ Ise feard hit liaint* at hits has given us a goodly heritage. A terri- j yet, the cussed, infernal ole tale-j worst.’ Olo Bullin’s eyes wera-stick- tory beautifully diversified by hill and j barer!in out like ontu two buckeyes flung dale—mountains “rockribbed and ancient I » Well, well, Sut, who was she?” aga i n a mud wall, an’ he wer a-cuttin as the sun,” that teem with exhaustless I “Nun ove y-u-r-e b-l-s-i-n-e-s-s, up more shines nor a cockroach in a mineral wealth; rivers that can float the I durn your littil ankshus pictur! I sees hot skillet. Offwent the claw-liam- commerce of a continent moving majes-1 you alikin’ oveyure lips. I will tell me r coat, an’ he flung hit ahifie ’im tically onward to the stormy Atlantic J you one tliiug, George; that night, a | like he wer a-gwine intu a fight; he and the Mexic sea. A territory vaster in J neighbor gal got a all-fired, overhand- bed no jackid tu take off, so hfrunbut- extent than imperial Rome, ever shad- I CM j atroppin’ from her mam, wif a stir- toned his galluses, an’ vigrusly flung owed-with her eagles. “What though ! rup leather, an’ ole Passun Bullin lied J the ainds back over his head. He fotch the field be lost,” the South has still the |«et supper thar, an’ what’s wus nor all his shut over-handed a durned site “unconquerable will,” with a steady I that poor, innersent, skeer’d gal hed j faster nor Ijfcot outen my pasted one, purpose to hew out her pathway to a I du n her levil bes’ a cookin’ hit fur ’im. I an > then filing bit strait up in tire; air fame and a fortune that shall eclipse all I ghe begged him, a-tremlln’ an’ a-cry- ij ke he jis'* Wanted tit tu keep on up the refulgent gloriesof the past. | j n > no t tu tell on her. He et hercook- furever; but lodged ontu a black-jack, This she will do, despite the cant and I in,’ he promised her he’d keep dark— an * i ged one ove my lizzards wif his sneer pf the Puritan. For in the veins an > then went strait an’ tole her mam. toiI up> abo ut all over- the' ole her sons courses the cavalier I Wan’t that rale low down, wolf mean? dirty 8hu t, skared too bad tn jump, blood that mantled in the cheeks of The durned infonnel, hiperkritikal, I Then he gin awrtcrshakix an’as tom- titled dailies, and high-born beauties in I pot-bellied, sealey-hided, whisky- I p j a klire ovsWh’, an’ he earn outer the court of Elizabeth, and that flashed I waatln.stinkin’ ole groun’-hog. He’d hig britches. He tuck ’em by thebot- ln the eyes of the knightliest that rode I a heap better a stole sum man s boss, j ove the laiirs. an* swung ’eln roun’ that God amlziot MbfLineoli negro. Onianocii aa we arejof We have sought to disabuse both races of what would prove a hurtful, delusion. But at all events he is free, and what are the immediate results of this qpomaloi condition o* the former: slave. 1*- T argues that it has heeiHt Sr^hal hi to both parties. In proof of this he gives I master pli - * lit jpf statiklcs iibout rtie negrp’e * " 1icwal|idvaicekfccnh&-hi8lin< •^piilnt.inn. ntiii f>e improves I tries of the south. We have this to say at the outset— plorations have shown that large tracts of it are exceedingly fertile. And yet what has the African race in their na tive laiyl ever contributed to the world’s and enlightenment. Diditever ticeabook-of prose or poetry; a in statuary or painting? In rship? :E' of ■ Leone, many of them educated and petted and fostered by Great Britiau and that Dr. H. sometimes bases his con chi- I the United States, what have they done sion on too narrow an induction of facts. I for their own advmcement or the civiti- A witty cab' judge obserVati- sides do notfqrnbh sufficient. fh|ta. such a sweeping generalization. Let for fedenf I tinn pf their couoteyipent- y jTContrarylq the gfener^Popinion, ti»ere arelribestif^AfrlcaTJs metjaif s'upe- riorto the tribes of the West coast. sweeping generalization. Let it I These better tribes have numerous rep- not be forgotten that this is not the first I resentativeo in this country. Their time that onr “Brother In -BlaelU—1JW Ices tors'were captured in'-War and sol been put on probation: — ^SSEriSSw andAshantee, and In]17ID ibefnjict converlidhT at lhe I thffice transJerred to.the sla he most .of oy slave ■nous vote decreeirthe~ffcediSO-or | iame from'tin regibn that the blacks of Ilsyti, One toPtaho richyti Jlsited where they subsisted on the bark Islands of the Gsedtor Abilities. J&italpf trees >tod are: butelittle superior In predlc^d^M^B^^cs jkonld prosper physical organization to the Chim- plne and butchery followed the decree. Infanta were impaled upon the pikes ot a brutal soldiery, and wives were violat ed on the bodies of their dead hosbands. bia. .More than two hundred and have elapsed since ‘they wiew to America. All this while they he shook the yeath. The bonnets, an : fansclar’d the way an’jerked most ove the children wif em, an’ the rest he scrunched. He open’d a purfeckly clar-track tu the woods, over every livln thing. He weighed ni ontu three hundred, hed a black stripe down his back, like ontu a ole bril rein, an’ his belly wer ’bout thq size, an’ color ove a beef paunch, an’ hit a-swingin out frum sidetu side; he leand back from hit, like a littil feller a-totln a big drum, at a muster, an’ I hearn hit plum tu whar I wer. Thar wer cramp- knots on his laigs es big es waluuts, an’ mottled splotches on his shins; an’ tqkin him all over, he minded ove a durnd crazy ole elephant, pussessed ove the d^vil, rared up on hits hind aind. qn’jis’ gittin frum sum imijut danger or tribulashun. He did the loudest, an’ skarlest, an’ fussiest run- nln I ever seed, tu be ho faster nur hit wer, since, dad tried tu outrun the ho’neta. “Well, he disapeard In the thicket jls’bustln—an’ ove all the noises yu hearn, wer made thar on that camp groun’: gum wimrnen screaming— they wer the skeery ones; sum larfin they wer the wicked ones; sum cry- in—they wer the fool ones, (sorter my stripe yu know); sum tryin-tu git away wif thar faces red—they wer the modest ones; sum lookiu arter ole Bullin—they wer the curious ones; sum hangin clost tu thar sweethearts —they wer the sweet ones; sum on thar knees wif thar eyes shot, but fac- in the way the ole mud turtll wer a- runnin—they wer the ’saitful ones; sum duin nothin—they wer the waitin ones; an’the mos’ dangerus ove all ove em by a durnd longsite. “I tuck a big skeer myself after a few rocks, an’ sicli like fruit, spattered ontu the pulpit ni ontu iny head; an’ es the Lovingoods, durn em! knows nutlln but tu run, when they gits skeerd, I jis’ put out fur the swamp on the krick. As I started, a black bottil ove bald-face smashed agin a tree fur- ninstme, arter missin the top ove my head ’bout a inch. Sum durn’il fool professor dun this, who hed more zeal orsence; fur I say that eny man who wud waste a quart ove even mean xperrits,.fur the chance ove knoekin a poor ornary devil like me down wif the bottil, is a bigger fool nor ole Squire Mackmullen, an’ lie tried tu shoot hisself wif a unloaded hoe-han dle.” “ Did they catch you, Sut?” “ Ketch thunder? No, sir! jis’ look at these yere laigs! Skeer me, hoss, jis’ skeer'tne; an’ thenwatch me while I stay in site, an’ yu’l! never ax that fool question agin. Why, durn it, man, that’s what-the ait dullars am fu*. “ Ole Barbelly Bullin, es they calls him now, never preached ontil yester- day, ‘an’ he hadn’t the fust durned ’oman tu hear him, they had seed tu much ov ’im. Passuus generly hev a powerful strong holt on worn in; but, hoss, I tell yu thar ain’t meny ove em kin run start nakid over an’ thru a crowd ove three hundred women und not injure tlieir karacters sum. Euy- how, hits a kind ov show they’d rutk- er see oue at a time, an’ pick the pas sun at that. Hia tex’ were, ‘Nakid I cum intu the world, au’ nakid I’m gwine out’n hit, ef I spared ontU then.’ He said nakedness wau’t much ove a sin, pariickerly of dark nights. That he wer a weak, frail wun ove the dus’, an’ a heap more sick truck. Then he totch ontu me; sed I wer a livin’ proof ove the hell- desarvin’ hater ov rnuu, an’ that thar wurnt grace ’nuf in the whole ’socia- tion tu soften my outside rind; that I wur a lost ball forty years afore I wus horn’d, an’ the lies' thing they cud do fur the church, wer tu turn out, an’ still hunt fur me ontil I was shot. An’ he never sed Hell-sarpints oust iu the whole preach. I b’licve, George, the durned fools am at hit. Now, I want’s you tu tell ole Bar- belly this fu/ me, ef he’ll let me and Ball alone, I’ll let him alone—a-while; an’ ef lie don’t, ef 1 don’t flztard him « I lis“wiqh I may be dodduru’d? Skeer him ef you ken.” A . The Citizens of Athens Determined to Preserve the Law and Good rtame of Our City at All Hazards. heap better a stole sum man's noss; I tim ove the laigs, aq’ swung ’^n roun with Rupert at Naseby and Marston- I I’d a tho’t more ove him. But I paid hig head a time ur two, an’ then fotch moor. There are those, too, whose Hu-I him plum up for hit, an’ I means tu . em down cherall-up over the Runt guenot ancestry followed the snow- I keep a payin’ him, ontil one or tother I ove the pulplt . You cud a hearn I the white plume of Navarre in the desperate I ove our toes pints up tu the roots ove gmag i, a quarter ove if mile! Ni ontu charge at Ivry, and who suffered bonds \ the grass.” . fifteen shorten’d biskits.a boiled ctfick.- and banishment rather than violatetheir I “Well, yere’s the way I lifted that en w , f hltg laig9 crosgedt „ big dub _ loyalty to conscience. Aye, and Scotch I note ove han*. At the next big meet- bil-bladed knife, a hunk oveterbacker, blood transmitted from those who tri-1 in’ at Rattil Snaik—las’ week hit wer a cob-pipe, sum copper ore, \ots ove umphed with Bruce at Bannockburn, I —I wer on han’ es solemn es a ole hat | broken glass, a cork, a sprinkil ove and of like lineage with the heroes who, I kiver on collection day. I hed my face i whisky, a squirt,an’ three lizzards flew led by Havelock, double-quicked for ten I draw’d out intu the shape an* perpor- permiskusly all over that 1 liicctin- wearisotne miles, to the relief of Luck-I shun ove a taylwer’s sleeve-board, groun’, outen the upper ainddve them now, and saved the empireof the Indies I pintdown. I hed put on the convicted big flax britches. One ove tlie stuar- to their country and to Christianity. I sinner so pufeckly that an’ ole obsarv- tes’ ove my lizzards lit head-fust intu Tell ns that a race like this is to lose I in she pillar ove the church sed tu a the buzzim ove a fat -toman,- es big ex a its individuality! That a country like I ole he pillar, es I walked up tu my skinned hoss, an’ ni ontu es ugly,who ours—hallowed by such precious mem- I bainch: sot thuty yards ofl, a fannin hersef ories. and inspired by such uplifting | “Law sakes alive ef^harqin’t that j w (f a turky-tall. Smart tu the las’, by hopes, is to become a mere appendage to I orful sinner, 8ut Lqvingood, pearced I golly, he imejuntly commenced run- New England. The distinction between I pl um thru; hu’s nex?’ I nlu down the centre ove her breas’- the north and south is more than a geo- “Tu see, by golly, George, I hed til bote an , kep on j gpeck j she wer graphical ihfference- It U a distinction I promts the ole tab ove soap-greas tu .u- boun’ to faint • an’ she did hit fust broader than the bloody chasm of a four-1 hev mvaelfoon varied its’ tu J , nt ’ . .. . 111 years’ conflict—a distinctiou that will I ® um he Y ntyseUconvarted, jis tu rate—flun^the turkey-tall up In the endure while the starry firmament is I *e®P “ im from killin me. An es I a | r> gabbed the lap ove her gawii, gin above ns or the moral law within us. • | know’d hit wudn’t interfare wif the | hu a b | g h |stin an’ fallin shakq, rolled Let^s have InternUy founded in jus-1 relashun I bore auglit else should be indignantly spurn tice and consistent with self respect,'but | roun’ thar'l didnML keer a^urn^l'j'is’ down tl * e hMl'tauK 1 ®* 1 he f an 1 se should be indianantlv smirn- I roun lnar ’ 1 a,an 1 Keer “ aurn - 1 J 18 • «•* •>-“ •— ed with the foot'd contempt. . , , . , garters in the top ove a liuckilbcrry wanted tu git ni ole Bullin, onst on- bush*, wif her head ih the hranofi an yctionic council of the nations, the I much ove my straitch’d face es I could I the huckilterry bush. That Wer all wrongs of Poland shall be redressed— | wif my han’s, tu prove I wer in year- the sufferings of Iretand shall be aveng- nli . Hit tuck powerful-fur I hearn “J b l, lo * n ed.and.that the right for which Lee drew I--Mferthanktul klne ove buzzln all I that 1 NOW-ole Bullin hid nuf hit sword, and the came for which Jack-1 , r .. uz ~ n ,,, 1 1 fin left ontu ’to *> u t» P»?'by* -heavy, son fell, shall be vindicated by the ver-1 over the oongregashun. Ole Bullin I low , ql j a ^ er » d a hdbs. sfiwt ' diet of universal humanity. | hisself looked down at me, over his I ole cornier snecks. an’ hit sed Hs’ es I at’ .. uw »iiu»raiwi™^ r Tu. jT, ' tocks,ah’efl-sklrDgarterathkee]) ofl «nxu.-Poxr-We Team that a h t-*^*Yu a^ the cra “ P ' His aXr hajj^na, him nw received In this city stating Tr T^ihm. Ti h 1 s g P 1 *”^^** W iB the fewnan «« considerably welted •n‘|5SS«fciJ55S?* '! t£?»SSlSSl£w he small-pox qnestion. It seems that ^ frui^haL I tho’tbit wudahetm i »K th ° d K r i’*i, and • negro mm went there from AtUntaL^ hadenta-cum, tart IH* and mlng ed pretty l^ly mth the peo- L,^ hitJla Tbar wer a Z pie, especially with the children and In 1 8 ot me! When this cum out, yu pie, especially wun urn cmraren ana » . monglrU8 Crowd ln that grove, fur the * °°‘ wl * a ?f eof weather wer fine, ap’ bTevers wer U “”* £ ,en<y r6na ’ abOUt R * tm 8nalk maWiiWAptoji outefiwease. j Springe.- Ole Bullin gln out,-an’ they TWwshonJdremind us of the necessity aung that hyme.yu know r of being- vaccinated, and every citizen t riit Ws duty .to urge all persons! .a. T . who hive not been to be vaccinated at |OoUiat4r«uiii da7taeata.’’ nno, ill la I. ni.. .tirf'ulliaA- 1 “T'h I „lr«t T nl a Ka. lj V ■ mourain. mouraia yere. zn'mounila cud a^heam the screams tn Halifax Hejis’Apitln his han’s,-an’"Loped over thj front over the rptilpiidf* ker- difft He -lit on top ove, an’ rite among the mos’ plus part ove the con- Ole Misses Chaneyberry gregashun «ot wif her bock tu the pulpit, sorter on«i. l>, iih ’te'dnr Chief guard against I “Thinks I ole hoss' kin hit bq-fcosal- I stoopln forrld. He lit a-stradll ove _ the cBtfeose getting any hold here. ‘ I Ml enybody heB tole yu what’s a I her long naik, a shuttin Jwr up wif a bad .to worse, and soon lost all respect gwine tu happin; an’ then t'tho’t that I snap, her head atwix her knees, like for (limself, and robbed an editor.— nobody know’d hit but me, and I. wer shuttin up a jack-knifej^jm* he sot iffi’artod. He nex tuck hisself a tex |intu gittin away his leVHjiurndest l been shot and was dead', comforted. He nex tuck hisself a tex He evidently don’t take the papers. J pow’fjy mixed with brimstone, an’| he went In a heavy, lumberin gallop, Several days since the authorities Athens received reliable informa tion that an attempt would be made by gentlemen from adjacent counties to lynch the murderers of young Rountree, and that Thursday night was set for the purpose. But the mat ter was kept quiet, not exceeding a dozen persons In the city being ac quainted with the facts. Prompt steps were taken to avert the trouble. Extra police were selected to guard the city, while the original force com prising seven men under Chief Davis, were armed to the teeth, each having a Winchester sixteen shooter and three pistols, and stationed on top of the jail, where entrenched behind a wall of brick they coulfl resist au army. About midnight, when these officers invaded the jail, the prisoners took them for a mob and expressed great fear; but upon learning their names quiet was restored. It was fearfully cold upon the tin roof, and the guard suffered from its effects but they noblv kept tlieir post. But in tne meantime a delegation of our best citizens had gone out to meet tlie parties who come to lynch the prisoners and do all in their (lower to dissuade them from the tusk. They knew the direction to take, and near the Paper Mill came upon the advance guard, comprising about one hundred and fifty men, armed to the teeth and each man carrying a breech-loading shot-gun. They stated that six hun dred more recruits were coming on behind, many of them having ridden fifty miles or more to lend their aid. The situation in Athens and the wish es of our people were explained to these gentlemen by tlie committee of citizens. They were told that while our people were as much incensed as they at the brutal murder, It was the unanimous wish that the lnw be al lowed to take its course. There was no necessity for mob violence, as we had a fair and just court, which would meet to tlie criminals their just de serts. The party stated that they did not come to override the will of our people, but rather to lend their aid to avenge tills inhuman butchery, that had aroused tlie white men of Georgia from tlie mountains to the seaboard. They knew tlie gallantry of the men of Athens, and at the same time recognized tlie fact that it would not do for them to take the law in their own hands after the prisoners were placed in the charge of legal of ficers. They respected tlie law abiding sentiments, ana would quietly dis perse at their request, as they had come not as enemies to the whites, but as their friends and helpers. And they further stated, that should tlieir services be required to quell any fur ther disturbance they would march several thousand strong Into the city at short notice, as they were thorough ly prepared. This large body was com posed of tlie best men in tlie various sections from which they hailed. They were not a desperate, hot-lieaded mob, but quiet, determined citizens, who had come boldly and undisguised to the redress of u great wrong. Upon learning the wish of our people they quietly returned home. No mention was made to them about the Jail being guarded, as they were not. men to be frightened from any undertaking, it mattered not what be tlie danger. The action of our citizens cannot tic too highly commended. Here the white men were ready, aye willing, to sacrifice their lives, if necessary, in defense of two dispised murderers in jail, and that they might have a fair trial. It should prove to the blacks In Athens that tlieir past fears are groundless—that while our people in tend to meet justice to all criminals, they will at the same time preserve peace and law at any cost or hazard. They are determined that the prison ers in jail shall have a fair and impar tial trial, if it takes every man in Ath ens to enforce it. They will not coun tenance anything that smacks of mob law, whether It eminates from the white or black race. They can also learn from this the lesson that it is suicidal to resist the law of the laud bv forcible resistance to the whites. While the Banner-Watchman has been accused of Inciting strife between the races, its counsel has always been in defense of submission to law. It would have been the easiest matter possible to have fanned public indig nation Into mob violence, but we con tended from the day of the murder for the law to take its course. We think the action ol Athens In this matter should relieve our people ofthestispna of cowardice and place them where they belong—as brave, law-abiding men. DEATH OF MR. JAMES. s We aro once mjre pained to announce the dsatlref tile Houorable Jesse James. We sped; dt libit as Honorable Jesse James, because it*is possible he may not be dead yet, and qe. do not-desire any peltonaiities raked up in case he should be at large. The Aguiar scini-au mi ni 'death of Jesse James, has beeu the >*of national sorrow for some time. His tbituijy has.been written seven or eight times ty the faltering hand that penned these lines, and' we are still voi>h& Death, has-marked Mr. James for •Hw'bwn a good quiny tlmes, and now eteurbefh again butenered to make a Missouri holiday.- The soil from Maine to California‘has been drenched With his gore,'and tliegreeu grass now waves above his ashes in portion pf our great land. No man has perished from the face of the earth soiibiquilously as Mr. James, and no American citizen has yielded up his young life under such va ried and Deculim circamstanpcs. Lay him low wh^rq_tHe l3)hollnk blossoms on the sweef^ato ripe, had plant him in the valifljkxffiere the pecan, waves. Born bft, obaci^e parents, he rose, to* tho proud eiui- t Amqri^ 8 ’ 8 Reading _ thief mun^w^j -When, death marked s tta vi^qt the last time, he was mineut a man as Henry Ward BeeJliei^or Roscoe Conkling.' His. ge- nhjtf^Via'dlffcrent shoot,it is trui-j but he wflR a. name .as a plunderer whieh throws the aehiArements of our modem bank cashfer hack fli to cold and clammy obll^K. ^testh has once mqre stilled thepulaBof a man . who, were it not for his little eccentricities os a human butch- er apd / grand laroenarg connoisseur, would have made an olegant humorist or LETTER FROM JACKSON. Editor Banner-Watchman : The Rev. Mr. Grow preached to a large and attentive audience in the Methodist church at Harmony Grove last Sab bath evening, and was very courte ously invited by the Methodist breth ren to preach again on the third Sab bath in May. Dr. Bradley has been conducting an interesting meeting at the church in Jefferson for tlie last two weeks andl e feels like the meeting had just begun. Quite an interesting Sabbath school meets regularly at the Presbyterian church, numbering over fifty pupils and teaehers, ably presided over by Col. P. G. Thompson. They will join with the Methodist Sabbath schoo here in their May day celebration. Up at this end of the narrow guage railroad, near the river, we under stand Mr. Blackstock has about sixty hands at work and they are getting close enough here to borrow meal of us. Col. Price Is getting in earnestubout the Dahlonega Railroad, and it is now thought will have it completed by tlie time nur road is done, which would give us a continuous line of nearly fifty miles in that fine mountainous section. Wheat is looking finely—some early sown in bloom, with no rust on it yet. Corn all along the road to Harmony Grove is large enough to work, and cotton planting has commenced in earnest, and as usual a good deal of cotton will be planted this year. Though we see a good many cotton fields planted In corn and sown In oats, and at least two farmers in Jefferson -who have heretofore used guano freely will use none this year. The farmers are beginning to believe that bought Ha I he been less of an en ter’d thwiast, and less radical sa a murderer, fertilizers and Western corn don’t he might have shone in the best of so- P»y *“y one except those who sell ciety. Had he pleaded emotional insan- ty'the first time he got up a surprise fuQeritl;.Wtead of making an outlaw of himself,* lje might now bo alive, loved andrespected. But be was ignorant at the taw, and thought that when a man mfrdifQd an the first-class passengers on"the train, he would bo harshly dealt vrifljjanil ostracised. That is where he committed a grave error. He went from front. ihing tackle are coming to the then). Our farmer who' cupqe near loosing his mules last year from feed ing them on Western corn, is seeling good home-raised corn at $1 per bushel. There are a good many peaches yet not killed. Many of the Shockly ap ple trees that were fall last year are not blooming this year. ■■ Every reader of the Banner-Watch man thinks it first-class, butone, and he has a good supply ot free garden feed and is all over for “Emory.” The cream agitator lias raised the price of poor cows and cotton seed anil the but