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(Sattahcr’s •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. .. - 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.