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r \ tr. sos si bs t it; pr ion. One copy ol the paper one year, S2 00 Three copies of the paper one year, ... SOO Five eo, i*-; o‘ the p iper one year s DU Ten copies ol the paper one year 1 j 00 In cariubtij in AUt'aiuv. pSSr Coina.uoieations solicite-i from ill sec lions, but in no instance will they he i user led without the name ul the writer afieoinpsiiy them. ,i>&~ AiJJret-s all communications to SAM I. J. JOHNSTON. Hon, Benjamin 11. Hill Jnlef view eel by the A. V. lie raid. Atlanta (la., June 2.3, ISI I. Only three slant years ago it would have liet it impossible to iittd the State <>(' Geot gi a, or even in Texas (where it is claimed that tlie fire eater bleed has readied its li:gl.( st degree ot per lection) a more El AT A AT YANK KK HATF.H than Mr. lieu. Hill. In old limes he had been a WLig, and was a Union man when access - o was voted upon by the Slates; but im courier had the war begun than he became lite most extreme paitisian of “lust ditch and man” theory us continuing the strug gle. The surrender of Lee and Joint aton seemed only to fui tlier iutl nnu his patriotic ire. In the first few elections after the war he stumped the State against reconstruction, and made no secret of his purpose to renew the tight against the invader at tin; first convenient season. Some of his tirades at this period make one shudder by their blasphemy and inhumanity, and can only be charitably excused on the ground of temporary insanity. In slioit, for seven or eight years Mr. Hem llill was as dangerous and rapid a specimen of A REUEI. MONOS AMC as could be found in tiro “fierce and tickle” South. In the year 18(18, however, Mr. llill subsided into private life, and after three years’ retirement seems to have perfectly recovered his reason. lie has dining this time been vigoiously at woik building up his material fors tunes, lie now employs about a hun dree and fifty negroes on his planta tion, and is a railroad director, and has something to do officially with a bank or two, and amuses himself gen .orally with the distracting hopes and fears cf a capitalist in active business. And in his case, as in so many others, a course us money making lias proved a salutary remedy for political infla mat ion of the brain. About iast December, Mr. llill again came politically to the front, and an nounced that the war was over and that it was politic and wise to “accept the situation.” A HOWL OK INDIGNATION was set up by Hob. Toombs and Lin ton Stephens and the test of the Hour, bon Democracy, but Hen stood firm, and to-day is the most sinccic and pro- | jnimntt defender in the State of the I “New Departure." And, although lie is still a young man, of about forty five, his fine abilities and easy, persua sive Historic and energy cm ineiUly' .qualify him L> Yrgarilzc the young riien of the &#tc into a yN* >\ otis party and crush iimlhe ofd f4gy politicians, who still breathe and slaughter, nut.only against “Rad ieal despots,” but also against “uiibciu pttlous, time-serving Democrats.” Al ii adv, combinations to tliis end ate be jug made, and tlie elements of reason and order and peace in Georgia will most probably be united in 18“ i against extremists and soreheads of all kinds, whether scalawags ot Hour- Lons' But as 1 - tliis I had’bctter let Hen speak fur h .self, by reporting an interesting conveisatiou I bad with him yesterday morning in Iris parlor at the Kimball bouset “iiow will THE NEW DEPARTURE affect tlie Georgia Democracy, Mr. llill said V * “Much the same way, I think, that it will affect political parties all over the Union. I saw this new platform coming mouths ago, and stood upon substantially the same ground last Decciubi r ” “You now frankly‘accept the s:!u atiuti,’ us the phrase goes ?” “ Yes. Ido not accept it, of course, because 1 approve Jhe recent legisla tion of Congress in itself, buAdvccause 1 see that opposition will only lead us l further away fiorn justice aud free*. I “What you six Won tbs ago t to form opiiiiuiY?” ' “ I saw that the masses of the North ai*jl South were tired of the and of ai< issfies growing out ofwt, and gladly lc*Vthem drop forever in to silence if things\verc %st u'S-qhey- stead.” “Don't ybu''tliiukNhat thpse »*\ai great deal of trptji in the charge now • so frequently made that this ‘new ds partaireimakes the t«gi paities exactly alike iu * \ • Certainly uot. V. e* must lOoIMA- VOL. 1.1 yond their mere avowed platforms; we must take aiso into consideration 1 the SPIRIT THAT ANIMATES them Now, tlie radical party, from tlie beginning, has been a revolution wy party Its leaders have not pro fessed to regard the constitution as to the supreme and unalterable law of tlie land. Study its history and you will ba startled to notice now constant ly it lias gone beyond—yes, even di rectly against—the course it lias pledg ed itself to the people to follow.— Look, for instance, at tliis Fifteenth Amendment. There could lie no more flagrant instance of political dishones ty than that measure. Fearful that negro suffrage would be too heavy a burden to carry successfully in the X. rlli, the Republican party in sever al States made it a seperate issue and let the people vote upon ;t by itself.— It was everywhere voted down by overwhelming majorities—iu Ohio, Il linois, Indiana, New Ilainpsli re and elswhere. But I had no faith, even then, that the Radicals would respect the verdict thus given, and was not disappointed when they imposed tliis same unpopular measure upon the North and South alike, by an amend ment to the constitution.” “If the Radicals win the next elec tion, then, HI I.V WILL ADVANCE still further upon the path of change and revolution.” "Precisely. And the real question to be decided in the coming campaign is simply this:—Whether the revolu tion that we are now passing through lias gone far enough, or whether tlie j Radical party shall bo allowed to go j on until they have sueceded in cliang- j ing the form of the government —as they most certainly intend to do.” “What—make an empire ?” "I don’t suppose they have any clear idea of what they are doing—most of them have not, at any rate. But noth ing is so certain a- that republican institutions are now in tlie crisis of a terrible danger. For my part, indeed, I fear that they are already practical ly overthrown. The country is in tlie hands of tlie bondholders and a few score of politicians. I don’t believe, even if the Democratic party were to win the corning election, that a Dem ocratic President would be allowed to outer the White House. I rr.ay be wrong; but I cun sec the lIA.NInWKUTNIJ ON THE WALL ! and eypry few months my conviction is streiigthefiffd by some new aggress ion upon the liberties of tlie people.*' “Suppose jjJoffman, or Hancock, or Hendricks* Were elected, Low could they be kijpQbut ?” \ would be more simple.— In tiro first place, however, 1 believe Hy- next election will take place in every State where Radical victory is doubtful under the bayonets of Gener al Giant’s soldiers.” “Hut tlie people would never submit to such an outrage. Only the most strenuous exertions of tlie Democratic leaders last November prevented an outbreak in New York city.” “I know it, for I was in New York at the time, and went there for the ex press purpose of what would happen. I saw Ihcnuemocratic leaders, and told them that upon their decision hung the moss important Issue that could tie raised—the light of the United States Government to interfere in elections. I wnirncd them this was BIT A FEINT, and if ihe Republican leaders found that the people would submit to so (.loss and unbeard of a violation of their freedom, they would embody the principle in the Constitution by au amendatory act. There was no whis per of a Ku Kiux bill then phut I Knew that this attempt iu New York was in tended merely to see how much the people would endure without fighting. If the people submitted, they would go further. No wonder that they said to Governor Hoffman. ‘We don’t want to cany out this thing in an-offensive nianuei; so long as yen don’t dispute our right to be here wc will staydn quarters and not obtrude our&.vcs be fore the eyes of the people.’ They simply wanted to say iu thS future, vyheli it became necessary .to exercise same right for a real aneTnot a for vnal put pate, -‘\Ve arq doingjjotbiag k that we have not cone before.’ ” “What •• . .OUGHTGOVERNOR HOFFMAN . N toVave dope then V FAIRIiIJRN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, *1 ELY 14.1871. “He ought to .have at once said to General Grant, ‘You are violating an immemorial and hitherto undisputed rigtit of the citizens of the State of New York—tlie light to hold their elections without federal interference. You must not bring your troops for tliis purpose into tlie State; if you do, we sl.a’l resist you by force, and upon your bead lie tlie shame and the guilt of tne blood that may be shed.’” “That would have begun another war.” “Not at all. If tlie Radicals had llnis been brought to a full stop the Federal authorities would have retreat ed. The masses of the people all over the country would have sympathised with Now York; for, of course, there was never a more open outrage upon American liberty. There would have been no fight, and Hoffman would have become the champion of freedom and republican institutions. But he lost the companionship; it ie now con ceded that Federal bayonets are part of the machinery of an American elec tion and tliis fatal concession lias been engrafted upon our laws by the Ku- Klux bill.” “But that hill was not passed avow edly for any such object.” “Os course not. But you will find WHEN THE ELECTION COMES, that the Radicals will claim openly that, that bill has changed tlie char acter of the Government and has made the Federal authority supreme in every sense. They will probably make the tiling acceptable to the people by pas sing resolutions in the House such as, ‘Whereas the threatening return of the Rebels to power will endanger tlie safety of the Union and render fruit less the sacrifices of a terrible and bloody war; and whereas self-preserv ation is the first duty of the State as of an individual; therefore be it resolv ed, that the President be requested to exercise the authority vested in him by the Ku Klux bill to prevent cop per liead and rebel frauds, etc., in the corning, election. ’ ” , “That would be ‘loo thin,’ as wc say in New York." “These men are desperate enough to do anything. But supposing the election goes against them—which, as 1 have said, I think they will adopt precautions to make iinposrible—even then tlie Democratic choice for Chief Magistrate will not take his scat. — A last appeal to tiie passions and fears of the people will be made: a similar preamble and resolution to those 1 have briefly suggested will be passed, with an additional one declar ing GENERAL GRANT DICTATOR until it is safe, in the judgement of Congress, that somebody should suc ceed him.” “That is a gloomy view of tlie fu ture." “1 hopa it will uot he verified.— BuLAliese men have no respect for lilxMy, and are just aa much opposed to the fundamental principles us free institutions —which is, of course, that ma jority should rule—as was Jeff Davis and the clique of secessionists who carried the South out of the Un ion. But our people would certainly re sist. any such high-handed tyranny as tfrat. Don’t trust to any such illusion as that. The Northern people will never ix.fcj.st. Indeed, if lam not mistaken, R*e powerless to do 6o: ' “But New York State alone could men that are at the orders of ilic Federal government, and within 21 hours. You surely forget how very small a force, comparatively, is the army of tlie United States.” ((The not resist, because THEY LEADERS of Courage and .resolution sufficient to give them the signal. Ihe Democratic leaders are rich nffli, and largely interested In preservation of order. They shuddered iu Novem ber when I advised tlutffii to take a stand against Federal onpressiou. And when the critical moment rpAu arrives they will again back down Besides, it WQJjld be revolution to resist now. Last November they, could have.resisted witlrthe sanction of law; now they are bound baud and foot'by this new bill, which confirms the Federal authorities M&military usurpation,add enables them to do anything they please, with tye full cover of law and right. No, there will Lc no resistance. If the Radicals stand firm as they have done in the past, and as they will probably also in tlie future—for a revolutionary party, is necessarily governed by the most violent and audacious of it- members— no Democratic President will ever enter the YFliile House. The Northern people rejected negro suffrage, but allowed it to be forced upon them. And they will submit to anything, no matter what, so long as it has the' color of taw, rather than resist the Federal government by force.” " “But to keep out a legally elected President would he piling on the agony a little too heavy.” “Well, wait and see. That is my opinion. There is some hope still, it is true. Many Radicals arc beginning to see what their associates are aiming at, and are DRAWING BACK AGHAST. But then again, there is a strong party North who are not at heart in favor of Republican institutions and who would gladly support a perpetual President. They are the men of prop erty and bondholders, who are forever talking about a strong government,and the army officers and all men who hold Government positions would side with them. Os course, if our Government is changed, the men who are now in office and who now lead society will hope to make their present superior footing permanent. Large capitalists find themselves even now threatened by universal suffrage and free institu tions. Don’t you think they would prefer a Government which RULES BY THE BAYONET to a government which rules by ballot ? A strong government will conciliate property, tlie Church, everything with which it can form an alliance; and the masses of the people, without leaders, will submit, at least for a time.” “There is but scant hope for us,then? 1 ' “There-is a hope, though not a very strong one. I hope the next campaign, as I have told you, will be fought on that one issue—as to whether tlie revo lution we have passed through shall now sn'V sho band wo harU these Radical exfrer lists,who wish to enslave ns; on the other, wo Lave the old fire eaters, w who are equally unwilling to submit to thfc rule of the majority. Wc must make a last determined elf ut, it wc are good American citizens, to unite all friends of liberty and justice, upon tlie new platform of ihe National Young Democracy. That platform is simply that our institutions shall remain as they arc now. Perhaps many of us dislike recent Congressional legislation, and may at any rate think thatMho manner of its passage lias not been according to due form of law. But what has been done can never be un done; it is idle to expect it; it is fool ish to hope ; t. For the sake of escaping * THE RERRim.E PERIL that now threatens ns, I say it is true patriotism to solemnly pledge ourselves never to disturb the past. If tlut pledge is given, the masses of the peo pie, no longer doubtful about the per manence of the Union oi Nits, honor of the flag, will open their eyes to what is now tin true issue of the contest,and will see that they arc on the eve of los ing their birthright of self government. “Do you think the Southern people— the masses of them—-are likely to ac cept tin's new programme ?” “ 1 think they will. Personally, the course ! have recently taken has ex posed me in violent abuse from the men whom the Herald calls the Bourbon -Democraco. They have attempted to politically ruin me by calling me Radi cal, and by saying that IVhatige my opinions for the sake of getting uji office. Now, no charge he more unfounded. There is A DEM’GO/ between all honest boothorri men and the Radical party, wfrfch can never he bridged over.” * • “A gulf of what character ?” “ Why, its revolutionary character, its unscruptdousness as to means, so long as it gains its end; Its gross in difference to good gild'llnb’irt, in dis • franchising nearly all our bust cit zens, ami in handing ns tb the'pin tear ing mercies of bad and corrupt mem; the spirit that animates it.” “There are whispers of a remodeling of existing parties in tliis State.” “ Yes, there are signs of susti ”a' movement.” “ Under what name will tlie ■izatiou take place '( It is said that Joe Brown and Bullock are very moderate and couseivalive in their licpubkcau- {NO. 13. ism. Will the aceept-tlie-situation- Democrats go over to the conservative Republican party, or how f” “Certainly, no Democrat, whatever his views are, can ever in any way join the Republican party; tlie name is 100 odious. There will he an attempt very likely by Bob Toombs and Stephens to drive men of my stripe out of the De mocracy,hut we shall make a hard fight over it. 1 am confide!!t Toombs and the n: ST OF THE T IRE FAT! R:t have no very great strength among the people. They belong to the past, and the new generation that is springing up, while it respects them as men, has no confidence iu them as political lead ers. 1 hope that we shall he success ful in carrying tlie State in 1812 for this accept-tlie-situatiiin party—this peace party- -which, as 1 have told you, will probably include all the best men iu the entire country. Such Republi cans as Trumbull and Shtirz can have no pus ible objection to joining the Democratic party, if it relinquishes its old dogmas and purges itself ol' the secession element. Then the conserva tive Republicans will have to join the young Democratic party. “ Yes. This is one thing about the South wliiuli many people North do not 1 sufficiently bear in mind—that is that secession principles never commanded the entire vote of the Southern Stales. The old Whig party, and later on the Union party, were probably stronger than the believers iu tlie Calhoun doc trine of unlimited State sovereignty, and that same party exists still,though it lias been forced to keep in the same organization with the fire-eaters. The Republican party made its GRAND ERROR iii thus uniting all the white men of the South in a solid and compact opposition against them. If they hud shown good political generalship they might at the close of the war have split up our peo ple into two camps thrown them back into the position they occupied before the war. But now it is too late for the Republicans to succeed iu any such aUeuijit. Ti.i fficmocratie party Scut!:/ however, contains elements of division, and I ti u it iu the coming campaign all good men and true—all moderate and law abiding men—will vote for the platform adopted by the Pennsylvania ui.d Ohio Democracy, and the fire eaters be pitched overboard.” You don’t think, tli-en, that the peo ple South still cherish any very strong sentiments in favor of disunion?” “ There are two things which it ig conceded on all sides have been settled by the war—the doctrine of the right of secession and human slavery. There are not a thousand men South, in my judgment,., who tyxtuld attempt to dis turb those issues.” “ There J- NO LURKING FEELING that they woull go out oj- the Union they got flic chance “J dollar think so. The old leaders, ! of course—men like Toombs, whom,Ly | tlie way, *1 respect and admire very j highly u-s;r man, apart from his politics —would like to sgiif Southern indepen dence an accomplished fact; but if there could bc4ui unbiassed electiqjg to-mor row I don’t think secession would carry the South. There is cue thing, how ever, which H' is absurd to expect— that is, that we who fought for the Con federacy and lust our kinsmen, many of us, in the struggle, should now come forward and say that we are very glad ! wo liavo been whipped. That is too much to ask of human nature.” “And slavery—” “ 1 God from the very bottom that it lias been abolished. I was a slave owner, and yet I see that slavery was the terrible curse that blighted our land and kept it so far behind in material development. 'lhe war has brouglij/fq'on us much sufier iug and misery ajj*4 oppression, bql the abolition of sh>vmy is worth it all. — j And when 1 back and sec that neither North mus South intended the war to result in.such a social revolu tion,l recognize—and I say it rcvcieut vV - V THE HAND OP PROVIDENCE. “Y u believe, then, that free labor | is the best, if not the cheapest ?” “It is the best and cheapest. Os | course it is the cheapest. I now cm -1 hundred and silty negroes,and j get along with ( In the ! old day v s, when I owned staves, I had to watch over their' entire life,— j There was no conscientious slave owner ! who lid nut I'cel it'llia duty to see that K ATE* OF A l> V i ll TISI \t, . One Siinane, fivpt insertwn $ ' Fitreavli subsequent insertion ■”*' One Square six months. 9 *•!» One Square twelve moiillia bJ 08 /I s - Liberal deduction will be made’for-ecu tract advertisements. y.-ir- tCnour.b to pay for compos!lion will be clun g .-d for change ol advertisements. X-0~ All articles published tor the benefit of parties or individuals, nt their own solicitation, will be charged for ns advertisements. the negroes lived dueeirfij' iv.id well, morally as well as physical! ly, audit Li* was a responsibility that weighed very heavily upon the minds of gocuMueo. Now, most of that responsibility in lifted from our shoulders, and even il free labor were a loss to us, it-would be infinitely preferable. Hut It In mat a loss; it is a very considerable gain.'’ “The negroes work well, then?” “The negroes are doing splendidly.. 1 have teen agreeably disapjiumJud c». ihem." 1 confess i feared t-lievo would be trouble. But there is -no difficulty in managing them if a man exercises sound discretion and treats them l.iiik' Perhaps iu the future, however, negro labor may deteriorate.” " How is that ?” “ Well, I am unable to •decide bow much of the present good v.onJ-0.-t ill the negroes is due to the HABITS OF ORDER and industry and subonlination they acquired in slavery, ai.d how much comes of their inately good ami ,cun tented nature. 1 am afraid tlie tcesat generation will be more troublesome than this. Mau is but a bundle of habits, and we trained the Colored man under slavery to a certain routine u! labor and life, and he is now unhappy when he strays out of it. The rising colored generation is, 1 fear, lazy at.d worthless and vicious: it is the young negroes who steal and lout about and figure in the police eo-urto.. But s-uili cient unto the day is the evil thereof.” “ Education will, perhaps, counteract the temptations of freedom !” “ 1 trust so. But that is a groan question.” “Is there any truth in the report that A RAILROAD RING contemplates politically running ihe State.” “ None that I know of. I think rail roads and polities oegkt to-be kept dis tinct. fine is business, tlie other sumc lliing else. 1 don’t believe the railroads will take any political action unless they arc politically attacked. 1 lien they may be forced, lor the sake ol self preservation, to take a hand, and, ot course, there are signs now x,ad then ut an antagonism between tlie twin” “Looking at Georgia it seems scarce blc she can escape tlie fate of Jersiy and other States. \\ here the railroad interests are so strong and union so easy and profitable, don’t you look upon it as probable ? A temptation so great will probably be yielded to ?’’ “ Hie temptation is great,4 -ut it will come in the future if it ever come at all. There is no present scheme of .the kind to my knowledge.” Weeding and wailing, hit no crash ing of teeth! —Terrible times in Wur rcntoii, Yu., are thus described; “A few weeks ago, a dentist came to town and advertised that he would remove alLof a person’s teeth for $2, and -in sett q for |1«, besides giving six moißlis’ crcHjt, The Warrenton people are ' fond bargains, so there Whs a rush for the dentist’s office. He was busy for two weeks pulling teeth, and at the end of that time, half the people had empty gums, and a bone dust factory in lliC neighbui.boofi doubled its number workmen so as to grind up the toothy While the peo ple were waiting dentist to (fit them with their new sets,the übaiTdorftd scoundrel eloped with the hotel kyep- ' er’s wife, and now there* arc two, or three thousand people in town gw<lie., cannot cat anything tougher than suuj/ or farina. A*ll the butchers have failed, and not a cracker lias beep sold for sii: weeks. One man, il is said, whittled out a set oT wooden teeth for himself; but the first drink ol whisky lie took Warreiitou jvliisky —set them ablaze, and his funeral came oil Joe next.day. The dentist will hear of something greatly to his ad vantage, if he comes back.” • r-.- “Can’t Run it Out.”— ‘Don't wiite there,’ said a father to his son, who was writing with a diamond on his window. ' . ‘Why not?’ ‘Because you can’t rui/ii out.’ Did it ever occur to you, my child that you are daily which you can't rub out ? You nyade a cru el speech to your mother .to-day. It wrote itself her loving huurt, and gave her great pain. It is there now, and hurts her every time she thinks of it. You cau’t rub it cut. / You wished wicked thought owe day iu tlie car of wrote itself on Ids inmtl, and led him to a wicked act. It i.-rtheic now; you can’t rub it out. J All your thoughts, all your words, and your acts are written iu the Book of God. He careful. The record is very lasting. You can’t rub it out. —Marietta Journal. Miss Carluttu I’atti will soon return to life United States.