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Onioial Journal of the United States.
Official Journal of the State of Georgia.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 21,
1870.
Highly Anotlnf.
ItwasTeiyamunng'tooee the Hon. Dun-
Up Scott, Lieutenant of the Bryant Democracy,
and the Hon. Milton A. Candler, overhauling
the records, yesterday, to find out the amount
of tax Governor Bullock hod paid. It is
stated that they have declared the Governor
"without visible means of support.” "Vive la
“HIM U.”
The publication, a few days since, of Mr.
Woodbury's thrilling sketch, whereof " Miss
Ln” was the' heroine; naturally provokes a
curiosity.toknowmoreof the “facts" therein
stated by that polished and fitsaile writer!
Under these circumstances, the “plain, un
varnished statement” of the Marshal of Chat
tanooga, and the affidavit of an eye witness,
(bath of which we publish this morning) will
arrest the attention of the reader. They also
establish the fact that Mr. Woodbury has very
great merits os a writer of fiction 1
The bglilslsit.
The Legislature met'yesterday, according to
adjournment in February,.and adjourned until
Wednesday of the present week. Under the
circumstance, it could not have done otherwise.
As a Provisional body, its officers and members,
under the decision of Attorney General Hoar
. in the Virginia case, could not proceed to any
general legislation without first subscribing to
the Test oath. Therefore, having performed
those acta imposed by the Reconstruction
lows, it con but await the action of Congress.
We presume, however, that final action will be
bail on the Georgia bill to-day.''
A Ilawdsome Story Spoiled.
It was currently reported on the street yes
terday, that Governor Ifnlloek had drawn npon
the Georgia National Bank for Twenty Thou
sand Dollars, within the lost few days; and that
bis drafts hod been honored by the payment of
funds belonging to the Western and Atlantic
Railroad. It is understood that Treasurer An-
gier telegraphed this statement to Washington,
in the interest of the Bryant Democracy.
Cashier Jones, of the Georgia National Bank,
and Treasurer Harris, of the Western and At
lantic Rftflmqri, telegraphed to John Rice,
(now in Washington,) President of the bonk,
a prompt denial of the accusation; thus spoil
ing the last "canard” of the defeated and dis
heartened recusants to the Republican party!
The Bawibawi Alarmed.
The Maryland Democracy is alarmed. They
gravely assert that, undor the operations of
the XVth Amendment, that the negroes will
nntimately drivo ont all the whites, except
the “incautious; ignorant, and indigent,” who
will ultimately be “massacrecd by the negro,
who will “rapidly return to his normal savage
state;” that the “indolence and impudence of
the negro," and “his savage natnre,” will give
“him fonr-fold advautogo over the whites.”
The political eqnality given to the negroes is
to result in tbo destruction of the Union.
The remedy tor. all this, according to the
same anthority. Is for tbo neoro to vote the
Democratic ticket, and place the Democracy
in power.
Copt. Bryant M a Clairvoyant I
Mr. Bryant, in his special organ, (the Re
publican,) eomos to tbo defense of Mr. CahV
well agaiust what ho terms tbo assanlt of the
presiding elders of the Methodist Church, in
requesting the Reverend Mr. Caldwell to xc-
resign his position in the Conference. Speak
ing of Mr. Caldwell's record as a minister of
the Gospel, Mr. Bryant says:
We liave seen much of him, and we know
hint to be an earnest Christian, warmly de
voted to the Methodist Episcopal ChnrclL
Mr. Bryant does not trouble himself to tell
ns how he conld howip Mr. Caldwell to bo
Christian; and we presume the statement is
to be aeeepted as valid, withont troubling
about the question as to how the astntc lender
of the new Democracy manages to read the
hearts and secret parjioses of men 1 Such
inordinary powers ore rare in these latter
days; and if Mr. Bryant's assumptions of om
niscience are well founded, the day of miracles
is not yet passed 1
A Masterly Speech.
The speech of Senator Morton, of Indiana,
on the Georgia case, delivered in the United
States Senate on Thursday of last week, is
mentioned by those who heard it as one of the
most masterly efforts of his life. He reviewed
the whole restrnction process in Georgia, and
evinced a thorough and searching knowledge
of all the local circumstances connected with
the legislation of the Stats during the last five
years. The Senator being paralyzed in one
leg, and therefore unable to maintain a stand
ing posture, was permitted to sit in bis choir;
and yet his gestures were os perfect and com
manding as though ho hod spoken in the usu
al manner; and during tho whole time, the
most profound and breathless silence prevail
ed throughout the Senate Chamber. When
he bad concluded, it was understood that
Senator Edmunds would follow in a regular
speech, reviewing the whole ground of Mor
ton's argument; hut after a feeble effort of
some thirty minutes, speaking under the most
embarrassing circumstances, he abandoned
the floor. This was not to be wondered at
Few men in this or any other country, can
hope to follow Mr. Morton and command the
attention of the audience.
The State Kouil.
Tho last sensation with the ltrynnt Democ
racy is the “rumor," ns they rati it --(confined
it seems strictly to the circles of that faction)
that the Legislature has it in contemplation to
sell the State Rood.
This Road, by tho way, seems to monopolize
mnrli of the time and attention of Mr. Bry
ant and his adherents. They are determined
to be pleased with nothing that the Adminis
tration may do, or can do, in reference to its
management And since they are not permit
ted to control it, or monopolise its offices, they
would rather soo it pass into Ui« hands of a
private corporation, even at a nominal valua
tion, than to see it successfully ran in the in
terests of tho State by a Republican Adminis
tration ! -
The Road was neTer more successfully or
economically conducted than at present
Well informed and unprejudiced minds, con
cede this, independent, of Were party predic
tions ; and the time is rapidly approaching
when this fact will.be generally aeknowlcdged
throughout the State. Nevertheless, Mr. Bry
ant and those desperate politicians who con
stitute his faction, must be permitted to growl.
It would he cruel to deny them this last privi
lege of desperato men! The luxury of on oc
casional grunt at a successful rival, is one
which nobody would deny the new leader of
the new Democracy.
MATBIMO.VY—ITS KAItCTITV.
Adultery—Its Criminality adJeitPea-
nlty.
Whether regarded as a Maramcnt by the ra-
Iiginists, or a mete civil contract by liberalists
and free-thinkers, there is belonging and apper
taining to marriage and BuobligaBons, a sanc
tity not equaled by that of any other human
institution.
It is founded in the intuitive demands of hu
manity whether considered os to its. mental,
physical or moral natnre. The suggestion of
the Creative Hind, that ‘fit is not good far
man lobe alone,” is sustained by the judg
ment of finite intellects. As time has record
ed the experience of successive generations of
men the institution has come to be regarded
and cherished os the great moral purifier of
society and the chief element of genuine civil
ization.
The libertinism of former generations was
practiced in defiance of the avowed professions
of principles which its votaries published to
the world. That the condemnation of the
moral and religious did net scout it out of
Courts and the higher circles af society in the
old country, was mainly due to the absence of
the means of giving expression to their verdict.
The privacy which rank (not under the sur-
viliance of a free and unmuzzled press,) then
enjoyed, contributed much to its immunity
from that well deserved public reproof, that
outraged society now administers without stint
or hesitation.
In our day, libertinism, well aware that it
cannot hide itself from the Argus eyes of news
mongers, has sought, and with a short-sighted
policy yet seeks, to justify itself in the sugges
tion of new social theories, and the invention
of new religions dogmas!
The poetic art has been pressed into its ser
vice, end gross obscenities glossed over by the
novel conceits of tho lecherous imaginations
of wretched Don Juans.
The Spiritualistic mania lias been subsidized
to aid in the propagation of the so-calhxl doc
trine of affinity!
The vanity of Infidels and Atheists, has been
flattered into a declaration of independence
of the marital tie and its obligations, pervert
ing the doctrine of inalienable rights these
latter have dared to add. to the sin of their re
bellion against Omnipotence, the crime of de
fying the common sense of mankind!
Flippant penny-a-liners and sensational
journalists, have also lent substantial aid in
the unholy, but stealthy warfare, that liber
tinism, in our day, is waging against the most
sacred of all human relationships. With a
conceited and contemptible sophistry some of
these, too, have presumed to insult the sense
of propriety of intelligent men and women by
naming Free-Loveism and the doctrine of Af
finity in the catalogue of significant indica
tions of social progress and an elevated hu
manity!
The free press of our day is circumventing
the diabolical strategy of libertinism. As a
faithful vidette, it gives warning of the move
ments of this enemy of good morals and op
ponent of healthy social progress. Public
sentiment educated to a just appreciation of
the dangers that threaten the very foundations
of society, is resorting to firstiprinciplea to en
sure its safety.
The law of self-preservation, despite the
omissions and gaps in the Municipal law, is
asserting its inherent and original strength.
Common sense dictates to civilized roan that
the adulterer should be put to death. To this
Holy Writ says. Amen 1 in the 10th verse of
tbo twentieth chapter of Leviticus, “And the
man that committeth adultery with another
man's wife, oven he that committeth adultery
with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the
adulteress shall surely be put to death."
Thus it is recorded that impunity to adul
tery is opposed to tho law of God. The his
torical lessons of the past ages of the world, as
well as the smiting of the adulterer by. the of
fended hnsband, which public sentiment of
civilized society of the present day most cor
dially approves, is in accordance with the Di
vine law.
“Abimelech threatened death to any of the
men of Gorar who would thus insult the wife
of Isaac. Judah condemned Tamar to be
burnt on the supposed evidence of her having
committed this crime. The Egyptian law
maimed for life both of the offenders. The
Locbrinns pnt opt both of the man’s eyes. The
Germans placed the woman denuded among
her kindred, shaved her heath OP!) caused her
husband to bent her through tile city, The
Gortynoeans crowned the man with wool to
shame him. The Camaai obliged the woman
to ride upon an ass, naked and booted at, and
forever after called her in scorn “a rider upon
on ass.” Bven the Romans, though very lax,
and though permitting the husband to divorce
his wife at pleasure, yet fortified by stntnte his
property in her so long as ho recognized her as
his wife. And the Jews punished with death
both offenders,”
Tho following from a sermon of the Rev.
Charles B. Smytb, of the Eleventh Street
Presbyterian Chnreh, New York, delivered on
Sunday last, lias the ring of the true metal,
and in this connection is appropriate. It re
lieves the pulpit in part of the charge of in
consistency on this important subject, which
has heretofore done violence to the common
sense of thinking people. It accounts for the
absurdity of the present municipal law that
now only provides for a remedy against the
crime of adultery by a civil action for dam
ages! It plainly indicates the dnty of the
Legislative power to interpose anil command
tho courts to inflict a just penalty where now
the executioner, acting under anthority of
natural (ind holy impulses, has to seek immu
nity from punishment by a plea of insanity:
THOU SHALT SOI OOUXOT ABUUEKX
to pass that nations under the sway of modern
civilization, professedly Christian, have not
affixed that'
son which I
Of England may bo sufficient rto account for
the same in all Christian lands?-He says that
as “left to the feeble coercion of the spir
itual court, according to the roles of the canon
law—a law. which bos treated even adnltciy
itself with a great degree of tonderoess nod'
lenity, owing, perhaps, to tbe_oonstrained
courts, therefore, take no _
crime of adultery, otherwise than as a private
LAWS OH ABOI.TZBX.
By a law enacted during the Commonwealth
this crane is mode capital, but the same au
thority says that “at the Restoration it was not
thought proper to renew a law of such unfash
ionable rigor.” The Court of Charles IL, it
is well known to every reader of history, was
most profligate; and such a law, consequently,
would be by no means agreeable to law-makers,
who were at the same time lawdireakets, since
no man who is compos mentis desires to be his
own executioner. Brethren, it is time now
that oar law-makers should open their eyes to
the fact that the judgments of God are true
and righteous, and should attach tile proper
penalty to the violation of the seventh com
mandment The remembrance that so many
men have in recent years fallen back upon
their natural rights, and avenged their injured
honor and ruined hopes and blighted bliss
with their own hand, and been acquitted by
honest juries appointed to try them on
the charge of murder, and that their ver
dicts have been approved by the people,
should make them understand that mere
tion of the elements of society, the per
ception of the majority of ittfinkind, and the
awkward or unskillful handling of the instru-
Uttnts of civilization.
■ Freedom-'of discussion must and will per
forin its hoh' mission.' While it vfiuerates
nothing thatT-T ancient that will not bear the
tp^t^f feiTestig»tion,1iV“ m tolerato-nothing _
ra.^he’tewonili^f is ?iL vc l > not.fonnded in .truth kowever,losonorelterns. th»t Uio re E rMcaUtion Is
cognizance ofthe and supported by sound reasoning. Instances unfair, will not oommznd sttentton. There most be
without number might, be cited to prove that, sneciilcriions. sod tin. to tos courteous spirit]
driven by the power of a free press, the moral
and religions, as well as the material progress
of modem society cannot be arrested.
to any man for the desolation which on artful
seducer has made in his hitherto happy home.
HIGHER LAw.
We have oar statute law and our common
law, but there is a higher law that rises above
them all; and that higher law is the law of
God—a law promulgated amidst the thunders
and lightnings and other awe-inspiring indi
cations of the presence with it of our God,
who is a consuming fire to all workers of in-
iqnity—a law, tho utterance of -which meets
with a true and an exact echo in every manly
heart, and says, “The adulterer and tho adul
teress shall surely be put to death.” •
fears provoked anti nursed by false, erroneous,
or superficial observations of the leal cqadi-
8PISUT OF THE GEORGIA PR K8S
[In malting up the Spirit
chief »im i* accuracy,
rules are read closely,
made with a view of gi
gist of Thee
cither tai bracket*, or!
ns. In no ease Where,
tation is not fairly made, will we fail or refuse to make
the demotion when attention is caBed tO-IE ~Oa the
oontrary, it win always afford pleasure to make, any
corrections of this kind.. A mere peevish assertion,
rings through every avenue of the soul with
tbo true ring of a precious coin that is not
counterfeit, and elicits at once the unanimous
acclaim of all tho faculties that such a com
mand is right—right in the very nature of
things—absolutely, eternally, unchangeably
right
fuljtt LICENSE.
Let it not bo said that, in calling public at
tention to this precept, wc ore overstepping
the boundaries of propriety or decency. There
is a license for the poet; a license for the
stage; a license far the bar: a license for the
witness box; a license for the writer of fiction;
a license for the press, the multitudinous issues
of which spread for and wide its printed mat
ter, And place it ’neath every intelligent eye
in the Land; and why should there not be a li
cense for the pulpit to reiterate the commands
of God, who is purer thou the heavens, and
who is more fit than mortals arc to judge
what it is proper to teach or decent to repeat ?
Why should He pot have license to promul
gate His own law to the creatures of His hand?
Brethren, it is time for true modesty to take
the place of that
FA&SE MODESTY,
which by her prudery, with cruel whip in
hand, has driven virtue like an exile weeping
from our land and peopled it largey with
Fonricritos and free lovers. It is time for the
pulpit to waken up on this question. It must
do so if our country is to be kept from a fiite
like that of Sodom and Gomorrah. The med
ical faculty are arousing themselves and cry
ing to the clergy to come and help than. Let
the latter not hear their cry jn vain, nor re
fuse to hearken to the call of God; “Cry
aloed and spare not; show my people their
transgressions.”
The doctrine that a man should be allowed
to violate the seventh commandment with im
punity is absurd. It is opposed to the in
stincts of human nature." The
is one that pierces tho heart of the injured
one with a poisoned arrow that seta his nerves
on fire and consumes nil Ills joys And hopes.
It wounds bis brain And sends his reason
reeling. It meets a spontaneous, ungovern
able, instantaneous resistance, which seeks
the life ot tk offender, “mad or not mad.”
Now, from the foci d^t fjod himself decreed
dfqtji as tho punishment for adultery, it fol
lows th$i
PXUBIV Vim SATE UAL AND fBOIU PUNISH
MENT
For that crime. And if it is so, ho w comes it
FREEDOM OF TUB PRESS.
Religions Imposture vs* Civilisation.
If the journals of the day * teem with the
records of immorality and human suffering,
they also herald the achievements of philan
thropy, Eleemosynary, reformatoiy and puni
tive institutions ore receiving the earnest at
tention of the enlightened, benevolent- and
public spirited. The ills and woes of men
physical, moral and intellectual are suggestive
of the necessity for remedies and preventives.
Hence in no age of tho world have hospitals
for the sick, asylums for the insane, alms
houses for the poor, houses of reformation
and correction for wayward youth, prisons for
the punishment of felons, and educational in
stitutions for the training of the children of
the land, received bo much intelligent attention
• been so successfully managed.
If sophistical morality and blasphemy under
the guise of social progress and religious re
form intrude upon the public attention; if
libertinism is boldly practiced under tho pre
tence of refinement; if corrupt practices are
unblushingly avowed; or if heartless capital
tyrannically oppresses labor, let not the moral
ist or patriot despair. For he can easily turn
the very enginery that seemingly countenances
these abuses against the insidious enemies of
social purity, human progress and human
rights.
Immoralities and vicious practices, moral
heterodoxy and blasphemous principles are no
more rife and no more deleterious than form
erly. But the knowledge of their existence is
more diffused and their dangerous tendencies
better understood. This knowledge and this
intelligence ore the forces that stimulate to ac
tivity the opponents of social and *mor.ft here
sies.
Did not me Frce-lovers so jiiiiimclessiy and
openly advocate adultery and deny the obliga
tions of matrimony, the sanctity and impor
tance of the marriage ’relation might not be
SO deeply jigprepsed npon the minds of the
goodj&nd true, and the reasons tliat urge its
protection and enforcement might bo ignored
or forgotten.
Mormon Polygamy and Oneida Omnigamy,
the Spiritnolistic Doctrine of Sexual Affinities,
and the Indiana Divorce Laws, by their teach
ings and practices, and the exenses and oppor
tunities thoy furnish for licentiousness and lib
ertinism, have provoked'tho expression of the
jnst indignation of enlightened ptififtu senti
ment, that has too long borne with infractions
of the most ancient and sacred of human in
stitutions. The undermining by stealthy aj>-
proaches of the corner-stone of civilized so
ciety, is revolting to the common sense of en
lightened man, and cannot much longer be
permitted.
There is a significance about the public in
terest, in the McFarland trial now in progress
in New York, that is well worth noting. This
nnprecedented interest is due in part to the
general and settled conviction that McFarland,
whose happiness and most sacred rights were
ruthlossly and deliberately sacrificed to gratify
the unholy appetite of a seducer, did right to
slay the adulterer! This conviotion is in ac
cord with the Divine injunction, “The .adul
terer shall be put to death! ”
The general public curiosity in regard to the
testimony in this case, docs not arise simply
desire to unveil the immodesties and
filthiness of t1*e libertine or to gratify a de
graded imagination in gloating upon them;
but the popular demand is that the horrors of
Foumerism and the vile practices of Free-lov-
ers be exposed, that they may receive the seal
of public condemnation. The public interest
is therefore intensified at every stage of this
remarkable trial. . ..J.c
The people are being educated by the expo
sure of the moral enormities of Polygamy and
Omnigamy, to tho point of approving and dc*
mantling the enactment of laws that shall pro
tect the sanctity of the marriage tie; and that
will bring to swjft and xpentod punishment,
those (Moral) felons in Utah and Oneida, that
under the pretence of religious convictions,
have too long been permitted to abuse the
privileges of American citizenship, by insidi
ously undermining the.yciy foundation of civ
ilized society.
No subject that largely occupies tho public
attention or seriously agitates tbc popular
mind, is destitute of philosophical and moral
significance. Great social, religious or politi
cal revolutions, before culminating in an crup-
ion, require a preparatory accumulation of
facts and ideas in the minds of men. Often
the preparatory training of a people destined
to assert great and important troths and prin
ciples and pnt them in practice, requires the
lifetime of many generations. Precept after
precept, and example after ex’uopliv seein for
long periods to be unheeded; and so for as the
movements of society give indications of' im
pressions made, they sometimes appear to
have been as.futile as the. “casting: of pearls
before swine.”
The philanthropist often becomes desperate
in view of the mourning of the thousands that
“man's inhumanity to man*’ unrelentingly
compels. The monftistgrows heart-sick oyer
the apparent increase of vice and crime, de
spite foe casuistry and the rapid and extensive
diffusion of knowledge among the people. Hie
friend of rational liberty jraxiqnsly notes ©very
manifestation of licentiousness that is the pre
lude of Anarchy and political Chaos. The
advocate of freedom of tho press often finds
hisfoith in its mission shaken or tottering,
when it is subsidized, either directly or indi
rectly, by political, eoroption,. political or so
cial tyranny, immorality or irreligton. '
All sneh-have their misgivings, regrets; and
Ruffe* B. Bullock.
Governor Bullock was a citizen of "Georgia
ten years before he entered the arena or polit
ical life. Daring all this time, ho enjoyed the
confidence and esteem of all who knew him.
His superior talents, energy and correct busi
ness habits, opened the way to rapid promo
tion in commercial life. As superintendent of
one of the largest and wealthiest corporations
in the United States, he evinced talentsjpfmre
order, and made himself a power in the busi
ness world. As President of one of the most
important Railroad corporations in the State,
he ranked high as a man of practical good
sense, energy, and business probity.. Asa
citizen and private gentleman, he commanded
the respect and confidence of all who—knew
him. A man of finished education and fine
presence ; generous even to a fault; always
ready to listen with patience and philanthropic-
interest to the story of distress from the hum
blest of his fellow men ; and a gentleman, both
from instinct and culture, he did not foil to
impress his character upon the community of
which he was an honored and respected mem
ber. Add to these qualities, and to this record,
the fact that he was a staunch friend of the
Union; that he was an early, firm and un
flinching-advocate of the Congressional policy
of reconstruction ; that he was a representa
tive man of the commercial and business in
terests of the State, and we have the true
cretofhis promotion to the Executive Choir
ofthe State.
But this promotion was the signal for hoist
ing those flood gates of personal abuse which
has so degraded the politics of Georgia, and of
which Governor Bullock has been made tho
chief victim. Thenceforth, the Democratic
editors and stump orators vied with each other
in the bitterness and malignity of their per
sonal invective; and they made haste to heap
denunciations upon a man who, previous to
entering the arena of politics, commanded
their admonition and their praise! No other
Executive has ever been the object of so
many vile epithets. No other Governor wns
ever so set upon by his politicatapponenta,
with a" view of breaking his political influence.
He lias been indirectly accused, by those par
tisans, of every crime in the Decalogue; and
yet in every instance where he or his friends
have invited the most rigid scrutiny and inves
tigation of the charges thus preferred, the in
vestigation has cither been declined, or has re
sulted in his triumphant acquittal! First, he
was charged, through the newspaper press,
and by a subordinate State official, with a mis
appropriation of the Public money, in 18$R
An investigation was demanded—was had—and
resulted in the triumphant vindication of his
personal and official character. And this, it
should bo borne in mind, was done by a Demo
cratic Legislature; a body of bitter partisan
opponents, who sought every possible pretext
for preferring articles of impeachment, in order
to cripple his political influence at Washington.
Nevertheless, the detraction continues; the
unremitting slnicc of epithets and personal
denunciation is still pouring in upon Governor
■Federations, and this Is to a coarteona spirit.]
THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRED, (DEM.,)
Still haunted, by the unique theories of Cal-
hounism, says of the XVth Amendment and its
enforcement in the Northern States:
Doubtless the Supreme Court of the United
States would decide that the Amendment
strikes down or annuls conflicting State laws.
But the officers of a State are net the adminis-'
trators of Federal law; they have sworn to ex
ecute the laws of their own State, and their
action cannot be governed by any other au
thority. It was no doubt the intention of the
framere of the Federal Constitution—and
comity among the members of the Federal
compact requires it—that the several States
should have an opportunity to make their laws
conform to antagonistic constitutional pro
visions adopted by the States in their federa
tive capacity, before such new provisions
should be enforced in their limits. But New
York, New Jersey, California and other North
ern States may not regard the 15th Amend
ment as fairly and legally adopted, and may
desire to await the judgment of the highest
judicial tribunal upon that point. That, cer
tainly, would be the course allowed and fa
vored by the Federal Government, if it still
regarded the rights of the States with the re
spect and consideration formerly accorded to
them.
[These suggestions scfcm to belong to that
category of predictions which located (lie first
blood of the war of Secession on Northern
soil. The seqnel did not verify this predic
tion; nor will the future make good' the En
quirer's prophesies about the enforcement of
the XVth Amendment]
. Co. to let their
P the nec-
a paltry
ST*
ip .
per than a serpent’* tooth it is,
UianMflj^niMtera
THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN (DEM.)
Forgets—or effects not to know—that the
XVth Amendment Is how a part of the Con
stitution of the United States; and that the
Era holds it “expedient** not to enforce the
Constitution as it ictis, but the Constitution as
it (now) is. A little fairness of statement
would deprive the Republican of all its pre
mises on this matter.
THE ROME DAILY, (DEM.)
In on article entitled “The Crowning Act,*’
thus descants:
It appears, as wo all the while believed, that
the Fifteenth Amendment is not after all to
be the crowning outrage.
The Morton supplementary bill, providing
for the enforcement of tho provisions ofthe
amendment, so for out Heroded Herod as to
lay its odium completely in the shade. And
now comes up another measure, introduced by
Representative Hoar, and reported favorably
npon by the committee on education and la
bor, which goes as for beyond the other in
usnrpatory powers, and mischievious devilty
os the darkness or erebus eclipse that of the
noon-day sun.
Tho Fifteenth Amendment and the Morton
bill, only invaded the right of public suffrage,
purposed only to tamper with and control the
ballot box, but this infamous scheme proposes
to invade the scanctity of private families, to
enter the sacred precints of home, to tamper
with, mould and control the minds of our
children.
No schemes since the dark days of Barthol
omew, when religions fanaticism entered the
homes of the people, and deluged the streets
of Paris with the blood of innocent women
and children, has been conceived, fraught with
so much that is dangerous to the pence and
liberty of a people, as this miserable scheme
of Hoar.
[Perhaps our readers many be able to sec
the point Wo cannot]
THE LAGRANGE REPORTER, (DEM.,)
A. fossilized Know Nothing print the echo of
we to believe ? The editor
or the correspondent ? Would it hot be well
to let. one unfortunate misstatement cool be
fore uttexing anotherdirectly its opposite?
Z£he g?ainmar of the stanza is immaterial!]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL (DEM.)
Has a lengthy tirade npon Senator Wilson,
Gov. Scott of South Carolina, and the “ Rad
ical Congress.** The article contains nothing
very original.
THE ROME COURIER, (DEM.) .
In introducing to its readers on article from the
New York Journal of Commerce, on the sub
ject of Public Schools, says:
The main evil that will accrue to the South
from this matter will be the effect that parti
son teaching will have upon the rising genera
tion. Radical taskmasters will prescribe their
lessons—Radical expounders will c-Yplaiu to
them the texts—Radical schoolmarms will
train their minds.
Schools of disreputable Now England sharks
that this measure will bring to our reluctant
midst We can stand—because »ce have to do it.
[The article of the Jonrnal of Commerce
refers to the National appropriation for School
purposes.]
THE ROME DAILY (DEM.)
Devotes its editorial space to. a. notice of tlic
Rome Manufacturing Company.
TIIE AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST, (DEM.)
In allusion, wo presume, to the recent speech
of Senator Hamilton, of Texas, says:
Now, let the world be dumb as to the pre
varications of General Pope. “Senator” Ham
ilton, of Texas, has, by sublimcst mendacity,
performed a miracle. He has anticipated the
Ecumenical Council and made a Yankee Pope
infallible. Viva Hamilton.! The “champion
liar of the army ” has become u model of ve
racity alongside the champion liar of the Texas
trooly Ioil. To be the representative slanderer
of cut-throats is something. To ont-lie ani
mated creation is genius. If there were no
other name on earth for slanderous falsehood,
re might call it Hamiitou.
THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER, (DEM.)
Discussing the Georgia Bill and its proposed
Amendments, says:
One feature of Pomeroy’s amendment which
makes it acceptable to those extremists who
conld not carry Williams’, is the fact that it
mokes the Reconstruction laws of 1867-8 gov
ern the election, thus disfranchising all who
were disfranchised by those acts. They hope
to carry the election by unfair and partial
registration and infamous returns, as they did
in 1868.
It is understood that the effect of Pomeroy’s
substitute, remanding the State to a “provis
ional ” government and replacing it under the
old Reconstruction laws, will bo to Vacate all
offices filled by Legislative election.
[The circumstances under which the Wil
liams' amendment was defeated, ought, it
would seem, to satisfy any rational mind as to
which party will ultimately triumph in the
Senate; and hence the Enquirer’s remarkp
seem to be mere random shots of a routed
party.]
TIIE SAVANNAH NEWS, (DEM.)
In the course of a lengthy editorial, says:
Since the Radical party got control of the
Government, we have recorded more cases of
defalcation, official • swindling and villainy of
one kind and another, than occurred previous
ly in twenty years, but we cannot call to mind
a single case in which the Government lias
been indemnified by tho enforcement of for
feiture of the bonds of the delinquent Radi
cal office-holders are endorsed by Radical
bondsmen, and as character, honesty or capac
ity do not enter into the qualifications of Rad
ical appointees to office, neither is pecuniary
responsibility considered as a requisite qualili-
Bullra*. T — - ■ . L rtnn. Hill, and at-nresejit the noisiest
tending to weaken confidence in his integrity | P CTi “P s toe weakest) exponent of
and uprightness as a Chief Magistrate. Speci-
lications“aTe asked, investigation courted— all
to no purpose. In the face of the fact that
these insinuations are utterly groundless, thej
are industriously echoed throughout the length
and Iwendth of the State, and in the adjoining
States; all for tho purpose of breaking lii$
power as a politician. ■
Is it not time tlrnt this' contemptible species
of warfare should cease? Is it not wholly un
worthy an intelligent, civilized people? Does
it not show a mournful state of mental steril
ity on the part of tho Opposition? To say
that all Democrats participate in it, would be
to slander them- To say that evory Demo
cratic journal in the State, participates, more
or less in it, would be unjust, if not untrue.
And yet the fact Is patent that the active fac
tion of the Democracy ignore argument, dis
dain legitimate discussion, and seek only to
wage a personal wurfore npon the Executive as
the representative of the Republican partji
If all othor evidences of the speedy dissolution
of the “Democracy” (so called) were wanting,
this alone ought to establish the fact that they
are an organization without principles, an as
sociation of bankrupt politicians, a mere con
spiracy against fair elections!
And now IVliat!
Opposing -Reconstruction from the begin
ning, throwing all possible obstacles in the
way of its consummation, ; and repeatedly pre
dicting its failure, the Democratic leaders Of
Georgia are still working to make it a failure.
Its success is tlieir downfall; its fhilnre, a pro
longation of strife which desperate men always
prefer to ithsolute defeat The passage of the
Bingham Amendment (or other similar
measure,) would renew tho strife of 1867-4;
and, as the Democratic leaders have every
thing to gain by such a stife, they bail it to
preference to a settlement that would give the
country peace and themselves obscurity.
In this contest, they are using ^as decoys
certain nomadic intermittent Republicans
who have been disappointed, and who are
ready to do the curiae work of any organiza
tion (regardless of its principles,') that prom
ises to reward their treachery ?
Failing to make the impression npon Con
gress that they represent anything in common
with the interests or the Republican party to
Georgia, these decoy leaders have recently
modified their tootles, and now seek an open,
undisguised affilmtion with the Democracy.
This seems to have been the special mission of
Messri Bryant and 'Angler to Georgia a few
days since- a mission in which they succeeded
.in so far as.theyJcut themselves entirely asun
der frffifi^the Republicans, but which foiled in
so for as they foiled .to get any bht Democrats
to sign their petition to Congress! Two wen
who at one time pretend' to affiliate with th*
Republican organization fa: 1807, signed this
petition—one in revenge against the party for
not nominating him to Congress ; the other
through a pique at a business rival who is fa
active sympathy with the Adminstration. Tbs
others were unvarnished Democrats. •
But 'tho Bingham swindle - is no longer
among the probabilities. It is dead already.
The remaining hope of tiie Bryantites is to get
the nfjei best thing. -What that may be, will
transpire; wo presume* on Tuesday next. Jt
may be the Pomeroy Amendment, or it may
be the defeat ofthe bill entire, and a relapse
to military rule. But to the “Democracy, 1
anything is preferable to a settlement. They
fear that as the obseqnics of their political ca
reer. They prefer an adjournment, delay,
military rple, continued agitgtioi}, nnsettle-
menfc— anythiog but the completion of recon-
struetfoip jn accordance with the settled policy
of Congress. -
The Papal-authorities are keeping a close
watch on the Mazzinisto, who are declared to
be batching ah extensive conspiracy.
modern Ku Kluxism in Georgia, thus ad
dresses itself to the editor of the Era:
We tell him and his infamous party of politi
cal robbers that, if Bullock is empowered to
call out his loyal militia, a measure advocated
by the Era, there will be Jifly thousand Ku-
Kluxes in Georgia in less than thirty days, if
we are not greatly mistaken.
[And yet tho Reporter don’t like to be called
Ku Klnx; and it was only to humor a simple
ton, that we now call it by the more enplione-
ous name of “Democratic!”]
Again; speaking of itself and the Ku Klnx
Klan the Reporter saieth:
If wc properly estimate the spirit and tem
per of the people of Georgia, they will not sub
mit to being robbed and assassinated, impris
oned and murdered, at the fastenoe of every
loyal “cuss” who may choos? to bring accusa
tions on account of political differences of
opinions against quiet and peaceable citizens.
They will not submit to the scenes enacted in
Arkansas by the carpet-bag Governor Clayton
and his loyal militia without resistance. If
wa are forced to self-defense, we say let there
be fifty thousand Ku Klnxes in Georgia for
that purpose.
And again:
Furthermore, we know something about the
genuine Ku-Klnx and the Era doesn’t, and
never will, and it simply makes an ass of it
self when it talks of matters of which it is im
possible for it to know anything of, and there
are thousands of men in Georgia looking to
see what fools the Era and its party are mak
ing of themselves in their jabber about the Ku-
Klux-Klan.
[Then yon aro a Ku-Klux suro enough; and
this by your own confession!]
THE CUTHBERT APPEAL, (DEM.,)
fa an exhortation to “Educate tho Negro’
says:
We do not mean such education as is usu
ally imparted by New England Marms, and in
terested carpet-baggers. This consists of a
tittle smattering from the books, and a vast
amount prejudice and ill feeling which is sod
ulously encouraged against their employers,
and the owners of the soil. Such teaching
can only result in a harvest of rain to all con
cerned, WUwould urge the faithful preach
ing of a pare gospel, and the establishment of
first-class common schools,. presided over by
men of the first intelligence, and finished edu
cation. Nor do we regard this work os in any
sense degrading to those engaged in it.
[Tb© plain English of which seems fobs
that, Although the “Democracy” is now, os it
has ever been, vitally opposed to the educa
tion of the negro, it would now educate the
negro (since he must be educated) into all the
old prejudices and dogmas of the party that
has constantly opposed the extension of all
civil and political rights to colored men.]
The closing paragraph of the Appeals article
is more sensible. It reads thus:
We repeat then, let us have a system of
common schools adapted to the wants of each
race, and all unite in the commendable work
of elevating the mental and moral condition
of the large portion of the community who
have lately-been invested with the rights of
citizenship.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, (BRYANTDEM.)
A few days since contained the following from
one of its correspondents, (so said):
I had an interview; *wo days since, with
one of the negroes who have [Shade
of Murry!] just returned., from Washing
ton. I asked him if they accomplished
anything in going, to' 'roe Capital To
which he replied, that he did liot know, but
they had carried their point, which was to de
feat the Bingham amendment During ths
conversation he had occasion to take ont his
pocket book, and I remarked to. him that he
seemed to fawp plenty .of money.
“Oh, yes,” said he," with a' nod and a grin,
•Tve got lota of it” npon which ho exhibited
no small quantity—enough, I think,' to induce
any ono to giro up profitable employment and wo lcaruei roa
go to lobbying for Bollock, provulcj they SSSL
were uot strictly oppos^ to bis feofion. Hour jL.L„. ^'.'l.o Vonner i
lyojmbsed .. .
I want to know who has to pay these negroes,
with many others who ore lobbying for Bul
lock? Poes Bullock do it with hjs own iqon-
ey? We are all aware he does. not.
cation for their seurities. It would seem that
as the first is expected to steal it would be un
fair to make the latter responsible. Indeed, it
has come to be regarded almost us nu under
stood UmU * i*»yal Radical hi vs a right to
plunder either the Government or tlio~p«w*ple.
and to commit any other little pecadillo, Mich
os peijury and the like, with impunity, so long
as he Is truly loyal to his party.
[Wc look in vain for anything beyond mere
assertion. There are no specifications.. Noth
ing but general assertions.]
TUB SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN (DEM.)
Says of the McFarland trial:
A New York jury is about to repeat the Al
bany folly by acquitting McFarland, tho slay
er of Richardson, on the ground of insanity.
The Albany avenger of his wife’s dishonor was
found to be insane at the moment of the deed,
but perfectly sane the momont before, and im
mediately after; and we suppose tliis is about
the case with McFarland. Why this hypocri
sy? Why not be honest at once and say the
man was justifiable in the homicide, and not
go hunting around for an excuse that is known
to be false ? That is the square, straight for
ward way of meeting the case without offense
either to justice or good conscience. This in
sanity plea is a most dangerous one, and, if
carried much farther, will upset the entire fab
ric of criminal jurisprudence. McFarland will
assuredly bo acquitted—everybody believes
that—then let it be done for an honest reason.
If the law does not warrant such a verdict,
the law is wrong,, and let it be changed, and
made, what it purports to be, the “perfection
of reason.” Laws that are so unreasonable
and opposed to the instincts of humanity that
they cannot be enforced, should never find a
place on the statute book* Far better for .soci
ety that they be repealed than persistently ig
nored.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, (DEM.,)
fa a long article- entitled “The War upon the
Southern People,” says:
We sec no other hope in the situation than
that the mad excesses of the partisan slanders
shall, in time, overburden Northern, credulity
and react upon themselves. By and by they
must reach a point heyond which they cannot
go and retrogression follow. But we must
come to tho reluctant conclusion that the war
of the Radical party upon the South is eter
nal—irreconcilable and unsparing. We can
ne ver jhave peace but on the condition of “vot
ing tho Radical ticket,” and that wc cannot do.
So far from it, this system of malignant perse
cution must consolidate the whole white race
of tiie South, and we believe a large portion of
the colored race also, in the bonds of an mdigi
nant, though impassive, hostility to these per
secutors. The sense of injustice and outrage
’ will sink deep into every generous mind. The
miserable wretches who, for gain, make them
selves tho tools of - the Nortnem Radicals in
these insults upon a defenceless people, will
sink deeper and deeper in the popular loathing,
and become more and more powerless except
os they may.be armed for destrnctionand mis
chief by the Radical Congress. None of their
followers not lost to all sense of truth and
fair dealing can long abide them. The very
atmosphere which surrounds them can breed
only toads and serpents—the moral manhood
of the South will meet their insults, injuries,
and oppression with calm but unutterable con
tempt
[Charitysuggests that such sentiments ivs
these proceed from a misconception of the real
issues involved in the Georgia case.]
THE MACON JOURNAL, (DEM.,)
Which seems fond of irony and grim jokes, ex
claims that,
The stability of Ute Union trill hereafter depend
upon Vte democracy. „
THE EMPIRE STATE, (REP.)
Speakiug of the frauds practiced upon the
colored voters of Georgia in tho Seymour and
Blair canvass, says:
Shortly after the last Presidential election,
we happened in Macon, and after supper we
took' a seat by tho fire in the reading room of
one of the hotels. There was a number of
persons present, and all engaged more or less,
in conversation on clivers topics. After awhile,
our attention was attracted by a conversation
which sprung np between tyro inom from
constitute the bulk of the white voters in the
county;
are divided l
tho river
eastern pari
are in that i
precinct^ is lesta
near tkeriver, a
800 btocKSwSrff _ „
cinch When the election day arrived, a large
crowd gathered at the precinct and waited and
waited for the polls to bo opened, but were
thus held in suspense until too late to go to
Lumpkin, and were Uum informed tout., top,
Justice of the Peace had concluded not to open
the polls at aUL This, he said, was the result
of an arrangement entered into by the whites
to prevent Stewart county from giving a ma
jority for Grant
THE ROME DAILY, (DEM.)
Referring to Hon. Foster Blodgett, says:
*„ * * This infamous renegade is so ve
contemptible that it would be difficult to spef
of him in any other manner. It would do
gross pervertion of language to do so.
Blodgett is a claimant to a seat in tho United
States Senate. Justice, we believe, also claims
his services in the State Penitentiary. We are
indifferent as to which place gets hun.
[Wo respectfully submit whether such lan
guage as this, used toward a political, oppo
nent, is not presumptive evidence of very great
mental sterility? It is certainly unworthy the
stilted assumptions of a party claiming a mem
bership of intelligent mem and a monopoly of
‘.‘all tho virtue and respectability l” Hold
your ternpor, Mr. Daily! Yon are injuring
yonr own cause— not Mr. Blodgett.]
TIIE GRIFFIN GEORGIAN (DEM.)
Kays “the Radical x)arty must be sustained at
the expense of troth and honor.” [ That seems
to be the Democratic idea of sustaining politi
cal parties! ]
TUE OKlFriN STAR (DEM. )
Is disgutiled with the peevishness and folly of
those Democratic jonriials that are always
making utterances which arc used against the
party at Washington. TUe Stat sayw:
If (lie inflation of these, country editors, oc
casioned by having their weak ana puerile pro
ductions telegraphed to Washington, is suffi
cient reward for the damage they are doing the
State, why, it is all right; bnt we confess we
can’t see it through those spectacles.
THE SAVANNAH NEWS (DEM.)
Is lashing itself into a phrensy over, an imag
inary conspiracy against “the interests of the
State’ - and the Democratic faction, which it
calls “The Atlanta Railroad Ring and Lobby
whereof it says:
This Ring, which includes most of the lead
ing Radicals in the State, obtained tire - State
endorsement of the bonds of the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad to the amount of $15,000
in gold per mile. To bribe this swindle
through the Legislature, it was necessary, we
arc reliably informed, to expend over one hun
dred thousand dollars wori* of these bonds,
which are now in the hands of the said lead
ing Radicals who exerted their influence in
the Legislature. The balance of the $750,000
worth of endorsed bonds Issued on the comple
tion of the first fifty miles of road, have nearly
all been otherwise disposed of, most of them
having been hypothecated to* obtain the iron
for the fifty miles of road. The “millions of
Northern capital” we hear so much about is all
gammon—none of it, more than has been nec
essary for personal and traveling expenses of
the agents of tho Ring, has found its way to
Georgia. Now the Ring desires to obtain the
endorsement by the State of second mortgage
bonds for $10,000 per mile on the fifty miles
road already built. Tho same Ring desire to
sell the Atlanta Opera House to the State for
the small sum of $500,000. They also expect
to close out their operations in Georgia by a
purchase of the State Road at a nominal price.
THE FORSYTH ADVERTISER (DEM.)
Is still growling about tho XVth Amendment,
and asks “Will this [Amendment] bo tho end
of this frand?” [“This” in a demonstrative
adjectivo pronoun; hero rather promiscuously
used!]
THE MACON JOURNAL (DEM.)
Says of the Legislature:
Tho Solons at Atlanta are undoubtedly
waiting for permission from their acknowl
edged masters at Washington, to proceed with
business. Our legislators aro uncertain yet
is to who they belong to. Expecting the
question of ownership to be settled to-day,
they have concluded to keep quiet nntil to
morrow.
TheAtianta Constitution copies with great
oiHarticlefrom the “Columbus Enqui
re reference to the grossly false statement
:h appeared in that paper a few days since,
to a negro wedding,
the disclaimer and retraction put forth
Bryant Organ, we had tho charity to
• that the article, as it originally ap-
inthat paper, was a thoughtless at
tempt at wit by a subordinate who has upon
several occasions, made loose statements f
order to gratityn
But we now see 1
' Barone*-U,
wMrti one of its sttbonSnuteg attempted to
create.
The Constitution of the next day (18th)
copied the above paragraph, and made the fol
lowing comment:
We presume the oigan means ciniuns when
it uses aimnus. A.very grave personal charge
against the Local of tins paper is directly con
veyed in the above words. The reference to
this paper is not clear, fa order that there
may be no possible misconstruction of a very
serious matter, the editor of the Radical
organ is politely requested to state explicitly
what he meant by the language used.
[The reproduction by The Constitution, in
so conspicuous a manner, of an article of the
nature of that copied from the Columbus En
quirer, was, under all the circumstances, in
very bad baste. It certainly had the effect to
reopen a controversy otherwise settled by the
prompt and manly withdrawal of the charges
made in the local columns of that paper. And
the position of The Constitution was all tho
more singular, in view of the fact that one of
its Proprietors had expressed a determination
to discharge from his . . employ the
subordinate whose false statement made
the correction necessary.
And yet, we do.not believe that either the
Editor of The Constitution or its Proprietors,
would knowingly do anything- calculated to
deepen the false impression sougbtto be cren-
ted by its Local’s unfortunate attempt at wit,
at the expense of a private family; and we feel
authorized to say that it was-not the intention
of the writer of that particular passage in tho
Enx, to convey a contrary impression.].
which wo learned that one resided in Stewart
—._i_ j»w Artiui- i u Mitchell county.
nferetice A to~ the recent
election* and the manner in which the election
was managed in their respective counties? The
Stewart county man. said that in his connty,
Lumpkin, the county town, is on tho divid-
between the waters of the
«m t I-
experienced, bnt remarkably consistent sheet tko eastern part of the county—that
says: ' about Lumpkin the land . is generally poor
By the way, is it not rather shabby on the ridge land, settled up by poor white men, who
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (DRYANT DEM.)
Of the 8th inst, contained, iu its local colnrns,
the following announcement:
Marriage iu High I-ifc. -We noticed quite a
number of the XV Amendment riding out yes
terday evening in carriages. Tho occasion of
their hilarity was the marriage of two Ameri
cans of African ’scent Upon inqnity we
learned that tho conple were Ben. Cooper and
Annie Hardeman, and were married at the
First colored, Babtist chnrch by Rev. Francis
QnarloK. Ben. and Annie, with their friends,
went to Governor Bullock’s residence, where
they were entertained by Mrs. B. with a fine
supper. Lost night the couplo left for, Macon.
In its Evening Edition oQttie same day. The
Constitution contained this retraction:
Correction—We aro pleased to correct a mat
ter that, wre confess, much as we condemn the
Radical administration that is uiling our State,
wc were loth to believe to be true.
Our local stated, in this morning’s issue,
that Mrs. Governor BuUock had entertained
the negro couple that were married last night.
Ho was misinformed. Mrs. Bullock, we learn,
is in Albion, New York, with her children,
and therefore tho statement was incorrect
We regret that this injustice has been done.
We have no sympathy with Radicalism, or ap
proval of its heresies, but wo never intention
ally and erroneously invaded the sanctities of
private life. Wc, therefore, very cheerfully
rectify this misstatement
The local columns ofthe Era of the I0U&, con
tained this paragraph:
The Pricked Donkey Writes.—The surpris
ing local of The Constitution (a sweetrsceuted
cove he is) gets out of its “allusion to the ne
gro weddin” by claiming that he got his in
formation from “a reporter for the New
Era.” The scribbler knew this was untrue
when he \yrofcc it The New Era has but one
reporter and the scribbler for The Constitution
has not spoken to that one since he (the afore
said scribbler) hadhis flanks pungently tickled
by said reporter some months ago. .Hence, it
is scarcely probable that the renowned wit and
truthful chronioler of our cotemporary over
the way, eotftd have gotten from titat source
the incredible story which he retailed and
which his superior had to withdraw.
t In the Editorial column of The Constitution
of the lath, this.paragraph appeared:
Will our catempororics who have published the
statement relative to the reception given a ne
gro couple at Governor Bullock’s residence, and
have not published our correction, do so and
oblige ns.
In the news column (“Spirit of the Georgia
Press”) of the Era of the 14th, this item ap
peared: - *
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (BRYANT. DEM. )
Requests its coteiuporarics to copy its corec-
tion of its own statement about the colored'
wedding party. [This is manly.]
In its evening edition of the 16th, the fol
lowing appeai-s, touted oh adopted editorial
matter:
JYo X#fro Social Bptalifyfor Them.—The
Savannah Republican says. The Atlanta Con
stitution. assorted, one day last week, that
Mrs* Bullock liad entertained, at tho Gover
nor’s residence, a newly married negro couple,
and took it back in its nest issue, as a mis
take. Whereupon tho New Era says:;
•This paragraph will, of course, be indu*triou*ly
Modern Joamatiam.
Modem Journalism is an improvement up
on that of former times. Its aims and the de
tails of its management are much changed.
Formerly an individual junta or associ
ation having an interest to subserve or an idea
to propagate^ purchased presses and types and
mounted upon the editorial tripod, some one
or more individuals;' who were expected to-
oracularly utter opinions and manufacture to*
order facts to suit each case.
Much stress wns laid upon tho importune**
of the editorial office and tho individual oc
cupying it was regarded as the impersonation
of the junta or clique, whose chosen champion
he was.
It was expected of him, as the organ of the
party, to do most of their lying, cursing and
fighting, as necessity might require. Hence,
the press of a former generation often teemed
with personalities that would now disgrace the
editorial profession. .
The days when the newspapers recorded
what Prentice or Father Ritchie had said, and
commented extensively upon their expressions
for no other reason than because Prentice or
FatheT'Ritchie uttered them, are past and
gone. ^ *
The inviduatity of the journalist is now los”
sight of, and intelligent readers rarely inquire
who are the editors of a paper. Most of tbe
best patronized and most influential modern
journals do not herald the name of any one of
its editors to the world. Why? Because the
great mass of readers of newspapers wish to
do their own thinking. They desire to know
the current news, and lire pleased to meet with
comments npon it. They wish to know what.
public policy is agitating_ the people. They
are on the qui rice as to what new social,
moral, or religious ideas the busy brains of
ournowactivo world arc concocting. They
aro desirous of reading arguments, whether
sophistical or philosophical upon all the topics
that are of public or social interest
Bfit they care not to know who dishes out
the news which they read, in the morning
paper. It is a matter of indifference to them
whether editor No. 1 or editor No. 2 has re
ported them and furnished the copy to the
paper. They wash always to know whether
the Management of the paper Is such as to
insure reliability in tho report of facts. They
patronize newspapers, not editors, nowa
days!
While thoy wish to know what thoughts are-
springing up in men’s minds, what pleasan
tries ate. arising iu men s imagination, what
arguments are suggested for and against a so
cial or political proposition, they care not to
know who utters them. • They mean to do
their own thinking, and do not care for their
judgment to be biased by a knowledge of tho
name (be it little or big) of tbe person that
writes.
It is in obedience to this improved intelli
gence among the people, that stump oratory
does not now attract as much attention ns in
former times. The masses of our day are more
independent thinkers than their predecessors
Modem journalism has become a great pro
fession. Tbe details of the management of
ono of our metropolitan journals, at whoso
head appeals no editor's name, would astonish
the residents of provincial localities conld they
get an insight into it,
The Managing Editor, who directs and as
signs the work of tho whole editorial staff, may
not for months write a line of copy. The
Principal Editor, who often writes tho leaders,
but by no means always, is responsible for the
literary merits of whatever is put in the paper,
and him authority to reject any article offered,
cither wholly or in part.
It is said that the Managing Editor of one-
of the leading newspapers in New York, re
ceived a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars
a year, though his name never appeared at th<*
head of its columns as such.
In every thoroughly organized corps, there
should bo a news clipper—a man that not only
can dip tbe news with judgment, but knows
what is news.
Then there should be an editor whose prin
cipal duty is to over look the local news de
partment, and ufidcr him a corps of reporters
whose argus eyes penetrate hi every direction
and every where, that items interesting to tho
public may be fbond.
Thus it is seen that the demands of the
public have so changed tho character of jour
nalism, that no single man can perform the
editorial work required to be done bn a" first-
class daily newspaper. ' As one man cannot do
it, ono man should not arrogate to himself the
credit of'doing it . aD. Hence in more than
one particular, the impersonality of a daily
journal is a matter of taste as well as judg
ment, founded upon the increased intelligence
ofthe great mass of fae readers ftf newspapers.
tho State.
feeufetiioa
which The Constitution made in it* cyehing edition of
e same day.”
To which the Columbus Enquirer aptly re
plies: “We did not copy the paragraph; and
therefore iuive no correction to make. But the
anxiety of the New Era to have the correction
circulated puzzles us. Does it mean to say
that a Radical official,'owing his office to negro
votes, fools outraged or indignant, at a report
tliat a negro couplo hod been entertained at his
house? la this the measure.of Ifadical. grat
itude for the services rif the negro—of Radical
sincerity iu claiming ‘equality ’ fot tho negro—
of Radical respect for a race whose exclusion
from office is made tho pretext for remanding
Georgia to a provisional and military govern
ment?”
The news columns (“Spirit of .the Georgia
Press”) of the Era of the 17th announced
that; '
International Coinage.
Hon. William D. Kelly, of Pennsylania, on
behalf of the House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures,-reported a bill on the
13th, to promote the establishment of a metri
cal system of international coinage, by enact
ing “that the gold 'hereafter coined by the
United States shall contain for each dollar of
denominational value one and one-half gram
mes of pure gold, and shall weigh for each
dollar one and two-thirds grammes, the pro
portion of alloy to tho entire weight being
thus kept as one to ten.” The bill also pro
vides “that such coins shall have stamped upon
them, in addition to other devices, their weight
in grammes, and the inscription, ‘uine-teutlis
finq.*”