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•SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1b74,
J. C'. GAI.LAIIKIt, Editor-
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES
poll ro \t; It ESS,
Hon. W. K. HijiHli,
OF DOUGHERTY.
Foil MTATB SENATOR,
Col. Jan. McDonnld,
OF THOM AH,
Foil REI*H EH E N TATIV E,
< 'apt. 11. Ci. Turnor.
WAR OF RACES.
tf thin soil iiinl deplorable calamity
must nom, tlie enquiry now is nt whose
door will tho fault lie Dora the white men
oT the South seek to inaugurate n wr ofj
extermination of the black nice ? We an- i
■wer ax one in full fellowship with the
Democratic party whit'll embrace* the eu
tire rinjiee table port of the white rare of
the South, no, no, no. They were once \
unr slaves, anti in their new rtTutioiw we
avrapnthize with them, yearn oyer nml
pity them, anxious nml desirous to elevate
their moral and intellectual Hiatus, and if
left to themselves they would realize nml be
lieve the truth of onr sincerity. Hut De
mons, worse than ever emenated from hell,
hove coiiut into our midst ami sowed the
nerds of discord nml alienated tho feelings
of the black race from their only true sym
pulhizers nml friends on earth. And in
onr midst they have found a few Judases
baser than the sons of perdition. Who, for
paltry sums ami colitemptable positions
have degraded them selves, and are now at-
tempting to sell tlieir race; and it is them
ihat is teaching the negroes tout they are
not only thoeqmil* of the whiles but their
aitjH'riors, nml that they ought to uml will
ultimately hold the reins of government in
their hands. In another plnoe wo give an
outburst of one of the contemptuble
AVliiteley disciples, nnd the advocate of
his re-electiou to Congress. This tirade
eanu; from the lips of the disciple of White-
Icy and tho hell originated deadline of
Civil Rights, nftcr listening to two kind
persuasive, conciliatory speeches, deliv
ered by two eminent and honorable gen
tlemeii that has never stooped to the base
ness of deceiving nny man. Ho it is inani
Jest that tho liasc Jack Carter, tho disciple
pi the baser Dick Whitoley, was unpro
voked and unwarranted by any immediate
Mime to ajtch insolent mid offensive rc-
Juark*. Butsliowa clearly that his- speech
Ira* prepared hy his teacher to be delivered
n diffnrent occasions, but tho silly uegro,
rßbont discrimination, delivered it at the
rrong time and plhce. The negro, uund
iscd, doesn't claim equality with the white
aec, but ill advised ho becomes recklessly
iisiilting, until riots are tho inevitable re
alts.
Even in tlieir impudence tho Southern
people pity them, knowing that they lire
misguided hy laid mid designing white
men. But forbearance ceases to be ,v vir
tue mid tlieir insults cun not always bo en
dured. Notwithstanding, wu furnish them
homes, food and raiment, defend them nnd
prosecute tlieir claims in the courts
against white men, w ithout fee or reward,
ut the hope thereof. Our liumauu pliysi
rhin waiting on them and tlieir families
when sick, without hope of pay, mid fiorn
the lying, untruthful lips id a Scalawag,
who never contributes a cant to tlieir torn
fort, they aru taught and do believe that
we are tlieir enemies. Now, we rejieat in
substance, what we have said before, that
the white ilitigators of the difficulties
between the races, need not expect to
heedlessly drive the jHMtr negroes into
trouble for political purposes and escape u
just retribution.
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TEE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE, OR
RADICAL VINDICATOR PUB
LISHED AT THOMAS
YILLE.
We linve heretofore regarded the AWer
prise uh almost neutral iupolitlcs, but nev
er doubted tlmt the proprietors were
good oitiiens, good Southern men and
Democrats iu priuclplo, but certainly, ns
u party paper, the AiderpWse Ims been ex- '
ixicilingly tender-footed, and this we at
tributed to th* l excessive amiability of the
chief editor. It has been very manifest as
the county officials are, and have been Rad
icals, that, there was a dull axe to be j
ground on a Radical stone. Notwithstand
ing his failure to grind, ha still maintains ■
his dove-like variability. And when the
conduct o£ tutr the advocates ,
bfDivil Rights and Social lspmlity is do
j>o\tnoed, from his journal no echo ever re
turns, and though he was offered fifty dol
lars ti yopy our article, exposing the pnh
Hu nets of certain }mrti“ in his own comi
ty, known to him to- he Radicals of the
hist elnSSi and every word of which article
was known to him to he true, he positive
ly refused. We do not censure him for
lait publishing the article, for we claimed
jm peculiar merit for it. Rut we do eou
fess that we were surprised to find in his
columns a series of resolutions purporting
to l>e from a church organisation and the
white citizens of tlie 17th District of
Thomas county, as a vindication against
the charge that had never appeared in his
rohioiu*. Aird every word of said defense
end especially that part that denounced
our article as false, was wcl known to him
to be false and untrue, and this he pub
lished iu defense of the Radicals free of
uiiargc. His readers know nothing of the
charge in our article, but they learn from
his paper that it is denounced as fidse by
the Bold Bluing church and the citizens
.of tiic 17tii District, If the AVifi rpi fsclind
published our charges that his readers
might have known what they were, vie
would not llirte considered it a discourtesy
to have published their contradiction.
Jim * lutiilisb a-llulical's defense, every
, won! i willed he knew to be l.ils . lil tof
cliarge, to a Di mocrsts clinrge, every
word of which he knew to la- true, ami to
copy, which he refused fifty dollars, is
i strong indication that in his amiable
moods be leans tosard the Radical*. -
This is the first aggressive move we
have ever known that piqwr to make, ami
i we regret to Htate thnt it was made in de
fense of Radicals nml ill promulgation of
what he knew to be a liudieal falsehood.
Now, in conclusion we are eonstruined
to stab'that the Kiitrrprit* refused to pub
lish wlmt he knew to lie tnie, nml a legiti
mate, Democratic puhlication in a politi
cal contest, and deliberately published a
Radical defense that lie knew to be falsie
This, we think, is not only impolitic, but
discourteous and unprofessional.
A Pietended Fear of Personal Violence
for Electioneering Purposes.
We have hoard it intimated that the j
white Radicals of Bouthern Georgia, are ,
I tiecoming greatly alarmed aliout their [sir- !
! somd safety. That this pretense is false ,
ami unwarranted, no rnnn familiar with ;
the past h istory of onr Radicals and the,
safety in which they have lived for two
j vents, will over doubt. Many of onr citi
zen* linve been nrrested undpr the most ,
flimsey petexts, nml deprived of liberty
. and taxed with heavy hills of cost to which
they submitted, rather than attend Court
in Havannnli, where they knew nml were
I advised by able counsel, their cases wonhl ;
lie dismissed l>v the Court for want of ju
risdiction. Yet the very men that thus
annoyed, insulted and oppressed the peo
‘ pie under a pretended judicial authority,
walked the streets to and from their homes
both day and night at pleasure, free from
insult, molestation or inj'nry. Tliere isn’t
a Democrat in the county that would not
protect them from mob-violenee. Our peo
ple are not cowards, they are not assn*
sins, but every white luun in Quitman can i
lie mustard into service in one half hour, i
to resist any mob that, would offer violence !
to the meanest Radical in America. We j
propose to conduct the canvass peaceably
and exercise our lights at the polls, and j
i accord to every man, white mid black, the
’ same privilege. We know of but two j
white Radical's in Brooks county, and
while we differ with them politically and
claim the right to denounce their official
■ acts, when wo think they are wrong, or
; their political creeds that vve believe to be
| unnatural and infamous, or their polilicu’ 1
j conduct that we think disgraceful to their
race and to themselves. We do it free
from mnllico or personal hatred; we regard
it ns a public and not it parsonal matter.
We have an mnllicc nt the negro, nml would
i not deprive him of a single legsl right,
but will protect Min m the (lencenblc exer
eisc of every one guaranteed to Mm by nn
lioual or Htate Legislation, and we will
plated any negro in the peaceable dis
charge of liis duties or the exercise of his
privileges, and we speak not only for our
self, but for the entire community. But
we do any, if Cl#pet-baggers and scalawags
do prompt the negroes to nets of disorder
and violence, wo be untivthem; tin ic sec
ond effort w ill be put clear beyond perad
ventnre. Now wo us Democrats, propose
to conduct tlie canvass peaceably, in no
instance will be the aggressor, neither will
wo in any instance submit to violence.
OBSERVE THE DISTINCTION.
At tlie November election, less than two
years ago, r young man in this county re
marked that one Joseph H. Cummings
1 ought to be rode on a rail for insisting
that ail laws prohibiting the intermarriage
of tlie races ought to be abolished, the
other agreed with him, but neither spoke
it hi flic presence of Cummings or to any
one else us a threat,, or nmile any demon
stration toward* executing it as a threat,
ltut upon itriormutam of tb-i* simple dec
laration and dciioraietatkm of a man’s in
famous principles, Commissioner Wade of
this county, issued a warrant for lire nrrest
of these young men, charging them w ith
' a violation of the enforcement act by in
timidating a voter.
Ou Saturday the stl int., at a negro
Convention in Thomasville, whero tin ]
identical, same Commissioner Wade pre
sided as chairman of the convention, and
listened to the following remarks from
l-Tvd Atkiasony a uogro; his threats to ev
' cry colored nun* that voWtk the Democrat
, ic ticket, he said:
•‘I say that every one of yon that votes
with the Democrats this full had- better
take your baggage anil leave this county.
We are going to raise a Knklnx and K. K.
every ouoof you that votes with the Dem
ocrats ”
Fur iliis most threatening and intimi
dating language to the voters of Thomas
i county, no warrant' has been made; no lull
of costs paid. Will uot any candid man
decide that from th# first state of facts,
that there was uo vioihtion of the enforce
ment act ? And will not a scrupulously,
holiest Judicial Official, at once, decide
that the latter facts makes a case clearly
w ithin the perview of the net ? Now, we
ask iu candor, why is tbo distinction made?
Would not a white man who thus threa
tened the negroes if they voted the Radical
ticket, be arrested as soon as a warrant
could be issued, and tlie party found ?
We will give the t ommissioner space in
- our )>spei at any time to show why these
invidious distinctions asp made, and how
he can- reconcile his conscience under the
solemn oath of office he has taken. We
do not make this proposition in a spirit of
caption ness, hut it is due to the govern
ment; to the people white and black, aud
to himself that lie justifies bis act in the
one instance and excuses himself in the
other.
I,ATKST RkTCUSS KIICM TBTE VIMtMOXT
Ejukotiok. — SloHlpeliri-, 17., Sept-. 4. 1874.
Returns from Judge Pohtud’s district,
five small towns excepted, give Poland
575, Dennison 6.875, Davenport 1,768,
scattering 974. Two years ago the same
towns gave I’o ind in. 794, Slate 2.9’7,
Davenport. 7 (>Hd, scattering 557. .1 dgc
Peck is i-livli and Liovviuor by 7,000 to 7, JO '
maji lily.
THE RADICAL CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE IN THE 7TH DISTRICT OF GA.
SOCIAL KO. ALITV—WIXIH AMO HIS DINAH WHAT mil. HIOHT6 DOTH ZINK TOOETHEII LET
MU JJJHTISWTION OF MACE OK fOLOIi PUT
AFTER DrVEI.H MANH’TLATIONS „
the runt pig was found, and in the negro convention at Thounwvilie f>n the stli inst,.
j iiniiniinoiHly declared, eminently qimlittutl to rnick tlie limit Me of tin* Kajneal sow
Samuel, the high priest, was choice No. 1., hut their efloita mile.h for Saw wotild
j not Im* manipulated out of the Post Office. So tlie second meeting w.i* appointed to
! beheld in tins Pont Office <diu the Ihulical HVtiutfogm*, in the Chief Priest e fetndio, and
one by ona theh tfrnge nlinger? cunae until the Chief Priest h Studio was filled with mu
frngrout social equal*, Haying unto Samuel, the high Priest, if tlnm w ilt not serve ns,
who shall we next choose us our leader. Samuel, after long delilveratiou, suggested
Joseph, of Thomas, us being uyoung man of many parts, although he ran against the
regular Radical candidate for Ordinary, and tried to defeat him. nevertheless, it tin will
accept ami we can elect him, we will secure a |M-rimiiieiit nu mber to our party, but
should lie las defeated, wc will loos.! nothing, for ho is a disorganize;- aovwuy. But
Joo4*ph wouldn't put on the barnesa, he w*nldn't nigger, Hoeiul Lqnnhtv, worth n
cent, and Etheopea failed ngtiin. Soon Saturday tho sth inst.. mvi in
convention at Thoinanville, Col. K. ('. Wade of this place, priMu.Og, ami oik*
Willi* WntkioH of Colquitt, Wh# uimnimously selected n the wtaiidard hearer,
Although Willis hml openly declared h: opposition to the Civil Ktghts Hill, lie ac
i cepttnl the noiuinution and mountiul upon tho one plunk platform, and now moronß
- joiiiH hiinds with his Dinah and declares her his equal, and that no di*tiUetion of
j race or color shall ever put them asunder. While, we ar- w illing to concede that \V iljis
! has the right to claim equality with the negroes, wc feel confident that the j>eople of
! Colquitt county, who are excelloot citizens, will never endoire any man who thus
degrades himself, ft is true in Colquitt county there was home good citi/a ns who
! favored the amendments to the constitution and the lvodnstruction acts, mid al
| though wc then thought they did wrong, we now believe that they had better judge
i incut then tlrnn we bud. But these insues have passed, they sue not before the
1 pie now. The question now is hliiill tho white man he dejuudetl to a h\* 1 with the
negro; will the honest reconstruction men of I,'olqnitt < v,:r vote for such a mi'aMire?
We arc proud to announce that those who voted with th Radical party are now open
!lv opposed to the Civil Rights Rill, and will not support any man who endorses it, so
Willis will get no support at home, and will bo disgraced and eondetnned by e\eiy
W'ight thinking mnn for his disgraceful act. \i illis i* of a very re-pertnUte family. not one
lof which hut feels deeply mortified at his acceptance, and not one of which vail sup
wort hiui in his race.
Capt. Eluker and tho Radical Congressional Candidate.
SVKKVAI LITTLE NEOKOKH AND THKIK MAMA’S TO COME I NTO MK. AND rOIUUD ™K SOT,
FOK I AM THEIR EQUAL AND SUCH AJili TIIEIU CIVIL IUDIITS.
At whose instance was the cVmse in the Gmatitution of 1868, inserted;declaring that
the social relations of the two races, should never lie n subject of legislation ititlie
State of Georgia? We answer, Slipry Dick Whitoley, the Radical Caudakte for ( on
mess in the 2nd District. Who favors National Legislation upon the subject of the
social relation of the races? Slipry 1 tick Whitotey. Who was opposed m 1868, to eivi
rights and social equality? Slipry Dick \\ hit, ley. A ho is now in favor of a United
States privilege of ctpiaUfciog hiuKsulf with u uegro aud kiiksin" lngro babies Mipi>
Dick. You will need all the nectar when you reach your destiny,
away up suit river.
OUR TRUE FRIEND.
Notbwitetandiug the many and oft re
peiited outrages, insults, oppression, mis
representations and friuul, tlist the South
ern people have had to submit to ami
endure, from the thieving, lying adminis
tration, and the ungodly, hell deserving,
carpet-bagger and scalawags. We have
had one friend, tried and true, faithful in
the advocacy of our rights, persistant in
denunciations of our wrongs and wrong
doers, exposing their corruptions and false
hood, and presenting tin' southern diame
ter in its true light. This friend, is the
Sow York Pin/ />’o<d'. It, should he read
in every family mid pressed to every South
ern heart as a friend tried, trusted and
true. Ingrutes indeed, must wo be, if we
will not sustain the friend that has so he
roically contended for our rights. Answer
ing the charges against us at his own great
sacrifice. We hope that the Southern
people will sustain this true friend, by an
unprecedented liberal patronage; let Geor
gia send her thousands of subscribers, slid
receive the best Democratic as well as lit
erary journal published on this continent,
and truest friend the South ever had in
the North.
We give below an article under the cap
tion of Southern outrages manufactured,
us a sample of our friends defense of our
character, and its deuueiations of our de
tainers:
Hoi Ttruts “OrriiOiVs” YI amt\< ;■< ;;ei>.
It would seeui that tin Scuthcru “out
rage manufactory” is in full blast, iu Wash
ington, mid now that the Congressional .
election* uPe approaching in the North, the !
periodical supply of campaigning capital
begins to come up from the South, in re
ports of harsh treatment of the blocks,
which are usually fabricated to order, ami
remarkable for tile regularity of tlieir ap
pearance when a political purpose is to be
served. The headquarters of this sort of
news is tlie Attorney-General’s office at
Washington, where it is manipulated,
dressed rip in the strongest colors, and
sent out to the country. The large urmv
of marshals and deputies employed by tho
Department of Justice have little else to
do but to serve as electioneering instru
ments. They help to get tip conventions,
to organize the primaries, and to manu
facture testimony whenever it may be
needed for one or another section. And
iu this di (reputable business they have
been materially aided by the secret service
of the Treasury Department, who, besides
tlie large sums received from their regular
employment, have drawn about sloo,oooa
year from the Attorney-General under va
rious pretexts. These marshals and secret
service men combine together for plunder,
and are always ready to swear each other
through an‘ emergency. It was proved
before the recent investigation of the
District of Columbia that men were sent
South by Whitoley ostensibly to limit up
Ku-Klux, who themselves organized
Klaus, inveigled wild young men into
them, and then appeared as witnesses in
court to convict their own victims and
others entirely innocent. There are poor
creatures slilf languishing in the peniten
tiary and condemned to yam's of misery,
who never hid the remotest eonucctiou
with or knowledge .of, this order. Iu order to
to establish their cfliyi.in-y and to gnu
favor at Washington, these infamous
wretches, acting in the Maine spirit as those
who put up the burglary Shepherd's Ring,
deliluuutelv swore away tho liberty of
i Harmless cib/eus in South Carolina and
Alai muni, and consigned them to a living
iloatli as criminals. Ami tho convictions
of those unfortunate victims were paraded
iby the Attorney-General a* proof* of a
"conspiracy and the bloody hostility of the
widten of the South toward the colored
race. While every incident which would
pass without comment in any ordinary
community is exaggerated to the prejudice
iff the Southern whites and spread broad
-1 east for the effect, not a word is said in :
regard to the atrocities to which their,
wives, sisters and young children have,
liven subjected l>y black demons in hmnan
form. The revolting record of these
crimes in the last six months exceeds all
i former experience, and only a part of the
terrible tnitli is known, from the nnwill
] jnguess of families to make public the
shame and suffering caused by brutal voi
lence. Only a few weeksngoGov. Ames, of
Mississippi, called upon the President for
troops, alleging that a grave collision be
tween the two ruees at Vicksburg, which
I could only lie prevented by the presence
of Federal bnyonets. For a wonder they
! were not sent. The sequel proved that
' the eleetiou was thfe moat quiet ever held
j for years, and the ouly trouble was, that
being fair bv non-interference. Orantism
was smashed. That is a fresh illustration
of how intelligence at the South is raanu
i fsetured by carpet-liaggers and their con
federates when a point is to lie made.
***•
But for the meddling of outsiders who
have nothing nt stake in the South, and
who have gone there as the Vandals did to
Rome for the spoils only, the problem
which followed emancipation would long
ago have been practically solved. The ad
. venturers who have been enriched by di
visions and strife have fomented discoid
ias u trade, nml sought to band the blacks
together ill secret leagues, by w hich they
might lie used as a compact force. While
this course was pursued at the South the
' same scamps fsbrioated stories of cruelty
and w rong for Northern consumption, w ell
calculated if true to rouse resentment on
the one hand nnd to excite sympathy on
the other. Thin game succeeded for sev
, eral years, but the umsk is now lifted, and
, the rascality of the whole thing is nt lsst
visible. It may well be doubted, if all the
marshal* od deputies in the employ of
tho Attorney-General should combine,
i whether their united story wonhl lie ae
cepted as probable w hen directed in this
way. The frauds already detected have
shown them to be iinwoitliv of trust when
the object is political. Still, a* there are
honest men who may he deceived by tin*
repetition of such falsehoods, it is well to
remember that at this particular season
“outrages noon th n*gro" are in outer,
nnd invented to affect tho pending Oon
greasiomd elections. When they are over,
i ‘litsc inventions will close.
CIVIL*SieHTS.
Ki'Udvcrtior Jdm vii E. It row it mi (he £i(ti.
allot*.
Pknitbld, Greenk nnJxrv, fix., I
August 31. 1874, }
flue. Jimmjili /' Ilrou'il, AlUtiiln, Civ..'
I>kak Sir—ln this hour of political
trouble we would counsel your wisdom
and poHtii'id exjierience. In our opinion
; the jnisstige by ( engres* of tie civil 1
rights bill wonht inaugurate a fel ling of
! HllUgOU isu) beTweell the w hite and black
lar es that eouhl never be ree luilrd. To
n* it does appear impossible lor eny !
i Southern gentleman to identity linnsi if
with any juirty who seek to impose this
measure upon our peojile. But tire;iug
in your pnifonnd judgnicnt and practical
common *, lee, we advise with yon. We
.ire, Governor’, yours, very resjicctfnßy, *
.Taxi is H. 3ilc (Vhoktsu.'
J!. 1,. McWbokakii.
Atlanta, Ga., September ‘i. 1874.
.Wesar*. H. /.. .Vr ll'Wer null Jm** H.
Mr Wlim-ln-, Pt-ntlrld, Qu.;
Gentiksikx tu reply to your letter in
reference to Hit* political situation, in
w hich I understand volt to ask my opin
ion on the civil rights hill pending be
fore CJungress, I have to statrothut I am
not engaged in political strife, unr tin I
intend to be in the future. I shall, lm.v
ever, maintain the position of on iudepen
eut citizen, nml I shall not hesitate to i-x
press any political opinions w hich I may
entertain, and to act mid vote in sucii
muuucr as, ill my judgment, will best
promate tlie interest of the State of Geor
gia, and of the w hole people of the Union.
As yon are aware, I was one of the first
i public men in Georgia to take position in
| favor of acquiescence in the reconstruction ;
measure* adopted by Gottgress. I did
this because I plainly foresaw that the
1 South, as tlie conquered section, would be
I compelled to submit to these measures ;
and that if acquiescence was refused, that
! more rigorous measures still would be en- i
; forced. But I thought by acquiescing at ,
once and raising no issues with the colored
people of the State, we would retain their
confidence and keep them nut of the bunds
;of Carpet-Baggers and designing men
who would colue mnong tin in, for the pur
jiosc of misleading them, and exciting
their prejudices igainst our native white
■ population, who are in fact their best
i friends.
, Each of yon took the. some position
! which I felt it my duty to take upon these
isms s. and We passed Ilirough a period of
persecution amt ostracism seldom endured
by those who have in view nothing but tlie
| best interests rri the State in the course
; they pursue, and who labor day and rigid i
i to save these who revile them from a fate,
such as the white people of South Caro
| liuu and Louisiana, who followed the ad
vice of unwise lenders, and made no effort
to control the deliberations of tlieir con- {
volitions are now compelled to endure.
The result of our labors, nnd of those;
whoco-openijkd with ns in and out of the
convention, gave to Georgia a constitution
under which she is now living nml pros
pering, and to her native original citizen*
the control of the management of their
own affairs.
In the ether Southern States, where the
whole mass of the white people, following
the advice of their excited leaders, gave
up their constitutional conventions to i
negroes and Carpet-Baggers, nml made no
effort to control them, constitutions have'
been fixed upon them which put the gov
ernment in the hands of tlieir former
i slaves, under tuo guidance and direction t
I of Northern men who, bankrupt in char-j
ncter nml fortune at home, came to the
[ South, and taking advantage of the folly ,
! of onr people, who were acting upon their
! passions and prejudices, and not upon
tlieir judgment and common sense,
i alienated the negroes from their white
! neighbors and friends nml obtained com
; plete control over them.
It \rns the thirty to forty thousand white
i men ill Georgia who acted with us, subor-,
dinatiug passion and prejudice to judg
ment and reason, ami who, contrary to
the advice of honored leaders, voted in
i the election for delegates to tlie couven-i
i tion and sent, such men us McCay, Saffold,
Milter. Parrott. Trammell, Waddell, Mc-
Whorter, Bell, Angler, Bigby, Bowers,
Flynn, Foster, Irwiu, Maddox, Shrop
j slnro cud a number of others, ail able, ,
honored white citizens of Georgia, who,
with the aid of some ii fimnco outside,
controlled the counsels of the convention
and secured .onr present constitution ;
who saved < leorgia from the fate of some
other Southern sisters.
Hupisxse the whale white population of
South Carolina immediately after the pas
sage of the Sherman bill had proclaimed j
to the world that they acqnieaed in the
measure and each hud gone to w ork to in
fluence ami control as many colored men
os possible, making no issue with them
hut informing them that their right to
vote wa* conceded ; and suppose every
white voter in the State had gone to the
polls and voted for delegates to the con- :
volition ; who believes that tlrCy could not
have carried colored votes enough, with
tlieir own, to have controlled the couven- ,
tion, and made their constitution as good
as that of Georgia ? This could have j
been done by them if they had acted
promptly, in t’r fiance of all the effort*
that Carpet-Baggers could have made.
If no issue liad been made with tlie
colored people, proliubly each white Voter
; in the State could have influenced and
controlled one colored Vote, some could
have controlled a much larger number.
But if ouly one in every five liad con
trolled a colored vote, it would have given
the white people the controj of the con
vention, and as a consequence, would
have given tlietn a good constitution. Tin
property, intellect iiud intelligence of auv l
State can govern it, w hen it unites in a
determined effort to do so. And if they
hud made no issue with tlie government.
!or the colored jieople on their right to
vote, there were strong reasons why their i
, former owners could have exercised more
influence and control over the colored
people than the employer can usually ex
ercise over the employed, owing to the
kind relations which had formerly ex
isted between them, anil the dependents
upon tlie white people which tlie
people had habitually felt during theit
past lives.
i But soon as the whole mass of the white
people proclaimed their eternal hostility
to the rr-coiistruction acts, and declared
that they would never submit to negro
suffrage, they drove the negroes from
them, and, as any race who did not feel
competent to control their own affairs
would have done under like circumstance*,
they naturally looked around for somebody
to leud them, ami at this critical moment
the Carpet-Baggers cauie among them,
announcing that tlieir mission was to see
- that the acts of Congress were carried
into effect, and tlie right of suffrage se
cured to the colored race. Having no
one else to lean upon, their former owners
and neighbor* having, as they considered
it, turned against them, the colored peo
ple lecai.ie willing subjects of those who
i uitie to them with fluttering promise*.
; and were soon bound to them by tics too
strong to be easily broken.
But the reconstruction contest is in the
oust, and to-day we Ree the whole people
;of Georgia coming up to the position of
acquiescence which we took in lfc(i7, and
indeed going far beyond if. We then ac
quiesced in the fourteenth amendment
, and the Hheinn.n bill. They lmve sine*
acquiesced in these measure* with the
fifteenth amendment added, which might
have been avoided if tho whole Hoiitii had
promptly acquiesced iu tho fourteenth
; amendment ali i tlie reconstruction act, .
known us the Bheruiuu hill.
But at this period we are met with a
uinch more dangerous issue than any that
was present; and iu 18(i7, and it becomes ns
to meet it fairly and squarely, and to do
all iu onr power to avert the enactment of !
a measure which will be productive of the
most ruinous consequences throughout
the entire Houth.
It was a hard enough fate upon ns for onr
conquerors to abolish slavery, and wrest
from ns without a dollar of compensation
.the billions of dollars invested in that
property, which had desevndt<J from gen
eration to generation, us the patrimony ot
several sges; and then to Compel as to j
stand upon terms of legal equality with
onr former slaves, and meet them a.*!
equals at the ballot box. Tins, however,!
the conqueror dictated, and compelled :
submission to bis dictation; and those who
weri most fiery and denunciatory in their
warfare against it accomplished nothing :
ot good for onr people.
All parties have now united iu acqui- j
eseeuce iu these measures, and all the i
.States have been readmitted into the i
Union, as the Northern States must now
admit, upon terms of legal equality.
Here, then, there construction measures
should cease; and all pal tits shell'd agree 1
that tho war is at an end; that we have
suffered its disastrous consequences, and
that lio further wrongs should lie inflicted
upon us.
At this stage, however, with a view, no
doubt, to the next Presidential campaign. ’
and for tlie purpose of making the colored ’
voters more enthusiastic in their support
of the Republican party, certain tenders of!
that powerful organization bring forward
what is termed the civil rights bill, w hich
is now pending on tho calendar of Con
gress, ami which, iu fact, is intended, not |
as a civil rights bill, but as a social rights !
measure, tor the purpose of compelling j
social equality between the white und col- j
oretl people of the South. This can never |
Ik.' dime, *ud if attempted should not,
and will not, lie submitted to, be the con- i
sequences what they may. God has cre
ated the two races different, with different
tastes, capacity and instincts for social
enjoyment, and no human legislation can
ever compel them to unite as social equals.
Those who urge this measure in Con
gress w ith a view of bringing up the col
ored voters to a more enthusiastic support
of tlieir party are putting themselves in a
position to do the greatest poisibie injury ;
to the colored race. Suppose this bill 1
should pass at tlie next Congress, what
will be tlie result? The Legislature of
each Southern State, as soon os it is I
called together, will at once repeal all laws
by which public schools are maintained i
at the public expense, and leave each man j
to educate his own children as best he can. j
This will leave the colored people who j
are without property to grope their way iu i
ignorance with no means of educating!
tlieir offspring, and it will necessarily
leave a great many white people in the
same unfortunate situation. But be tlii*
as it may, we will never submit to mixed
schools where our children shall be com-!
pelted to unite with three of the colored ;
race, upon terms of social equality.
1 have been president of the ‘board of •
education ill Atlanta, since the organiza
tion of our system which hr now working
most admirably; nutter which we have
separate schools, open to white and to col
ored children, and every child belonging
to either race can find its way into a good
school, if the parent thinks proper to
send it. These school* are maintained hv
taxation of the whole people, and the
burden falls mainly upon those who have
most wealth, and who often have no chil
dren to educate. lain prouc? of the sys
tem, and of the great betu-fi s which are
-resulting from it. And I feel as onr j
white people generally do, that since tho
colored people are made citizens, if’they act 1
iu tlieir proper social sphere, it is our |
duty, as well as our pleasure, to aid them j
in the education of their children. But I j
do not hesitate to say that I should favor |
the immediate repeal of all laws on this
subject, and the disbanding of the schools, j
as soon as the ci*. il rights bill shall be
come a law. •** •, *
It cannot be said that we violate nny
| provision of tlie constitution of the
United States when we repeal onr school
; laws, as that constitution requires no
State to maintain any public school; and
we make no discrimination on account of
race, color or previous cuuditioti of servi
tude when we refuse to maintain nny pub
lic school, at the public expense, tor the
i children of either race.
But this is not *ll. The attempt to
force equality between tlie races on rail
rqjid ears, steamboats, and especially iu
hotels and churches, will produce constant
strife, and very frequent bloodshed, that
will probably hood lead to a war of raees,
and produce a horrible state of things,
throughout the entire South, terminating
in general anarchy, which will end in the
extermination of the negro race. Muck
its I deprecate and oujiose all mob law,
nnd desire tlie faithful execution of tlie
laws, I cannot doubt that in the excited
state of the popular mind, which would
follow the attempt to enforce such a mea
sure, it would soon be fonnd that white
juries would not ronviet white men for
killing negroes who undertook to intrude
themselves upon them as social equals.
And if the Government of the United
States attempted to coerce the white peo
ple of the South into submission to negro
social equality, they would find that the
white troops who might be called into .tho
field against ns, to nght for such negro
equality, would generally lay down tlieir
arms lrefore they would jierform the task.
In a word, if they drove us to submission
at the point of the bayonet, the bayonet
) would generally have to be in tlie hand of
the uegro, and onr people would have to
defend themselves agsinst it as best they
could. The resnlt would not be doubtful.
All prosperity would be destroyed, and
general confusion, bnnlrupfcy slid ruin
, would prevail until tlie struggle between
kAlie races terminated, which Would, as I
THfve already said, in the end result in the
i extinction of the weaker race.
But 1 do not eare to patsne this theme.
The consequences of this measure would
be too horrible for contemplation, nnd we
can only hope that the evil will be averted
by the good practical common sense of the
American people; and that the polities!
organization which attempts to force this
state of things ujarn the country, or nnf
stetion of it. will meet with oveiwhelming
defeat iu every lssnc.
I have no hesitation, therefore, in
| agreeing with yon. that the pnssoge by
Congress of the civil rightß bill would
inaugurate a feeling of antagonism be
tween the white and blfiek race that could
, never be reconciled, sfid in saying most
uneqiiivoeably that no Southern gentle
man, I rare not whether lebe liepahli
enn or Democrat, might, in *jy opinion,
to identify hitnself or continue longer to
act with tlie party who seek to impose
tl is measure upon our people.
In mv judgment there arc hat two ror>-
tingencies which ran atert the evil: one is
the overwhelming defeat of tlie Repub
lican party, in tlie elections thisFsll;np
oii tliis issne. They are determined to
make the issue, a* already announced by
| some of their tenders njion the stump;
and my sincere hope is. that every state,
county, city, town, village and bsnitef,
through on t the entire Union, where an
eleetiou may lie held, will give the Deni -
j erratic party, on overw helming majority.
To this end, I shall cheerfully contribute
uiv humble mite. This would check tlie
passage of this most iniquitous measure,
and relievo tlie country of the horror*
consequent upon its passage.
If this should fail, and I trnst it may not,
the only remaining hoj>e is in the exereisw
of the veto power by the President wf tho
i United States. I know nothing of thejn
tentions of the President ■ this qnrstiou;
lnit I trust a sense of patriotic duty may
compel him, if tlie measure should ever
: come before him for action, to save the
country from anarchy and ruin, by tho
use of hisgre.it conservative power, wliir ll
is wisely plaeedj in his hands, by tlie con
stitution.
If it should come to that point, ami
General Grant should veto the measure,
and throw the vast weight of his executive
power and personal influence, in the scale
of peace and harmony; he wonhl be enti
tled to, and 1 believe would receive the
thanks and the applause of the entire
white population of the South, and of it
vest majority of the people of the Union.
I have no wirh to trust my opinions
befor the public on any political issm ;
but, on account of the aiagtritade of this
question, end the fearful resalt* which
may follow, I think it the doty of eveiy
citizen to speak ont and state his position,
in term* too unequivocal to he mbmndcr
stood. I therefore authorize yon to make
such use of this tetter as yon think proper.
Very respectfully, yonrobedient servant.
Joseph E. Baowa,
WILLIS WATKINS.
The enndidate for the Seunte, oner rep
resented tkdqnitt comity tu the lower
branch of the Legislature, aad while in
Atlanta he hunted up all the land sharks,
and reported every roan in his comity who
was living on lands with donbtfnl titles,
and some flood citizens lost the lands upon
which they had lived for years and im
proved and made comfortable homos. Wi 1
Colquitt men support a inaii who thus repre
sents tliejinterests of his constituents? Will
the voters of Colquitt county support a
man who denounces the principles of ■
party, and than becomes the candidate < t
that party? We think onr neighbor* of
Colquitt are men of too much honor and
too much Consistency, to do such a thing.
We do not think there is another man in
Colquitt county that Would have accepted
the nomination, if it bad been offered at
first, and certainly not when they were the
negroes hist choice, as Willis was. We enu
assure our neighbors that this county will
only contribute two white votes towards
bringing reproach upon their county by
electing from tlieir midst, a uegro loving,
social equahtist.
Give Your Child a Paper.
A child beginning to rend become* de
lighted with a newspaper, because ho
rends of mimes nnd things w hich are fa
miliar, ami he progress accordingly. A
uewspaperin one year is worth a quarter’s
schooling to a child. Every father must
consider that information is connected w ith
advancement. The mother of a family,
being one of its beads, and having n more
immediate charge of children, should her
self be instructed. A mind occupied be
comes fortified against the ills of life and
is liruced by emergency. Children amus
ed by reading or study are of course moro
considerate anil easily governed. How
i many thoughtless young men have spent
I tlieir earnings in a tavern or grog jsbop
• who ought to have been reading. How
: many kind parents who have nofJJsjient
| twenty dollars for books for their families,
! would have given thousands to reclaim a
■ son or a daughter, who liad ignorantly,
t thouglilessly, fallen into temptation.
Give your children papers to read.