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Till!. WEEKLY 1KLEGKAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAY 9,
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State and national elections this year,
and a summary of the important news
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unsuitable for ladies and children to
read. Every one who is not famillinr
with it should give it a trial this year,
wti
Tuzconvlcts in Georgia could do the
State some service if they were put on the
public roads.
The Massachusetts Democrats are down
with a bad attack of llutlerism—a species
of political hydrophobia. It is tortunate
that the disease isn’t contagious.
The hostility of Nubar Pasha to English
rule and methods in Egypt is no small
matter, considering bis influence in that
quarter. French and Bussian intrigues
will leave untried no expedient for forcing
the Egyptian question before a convention
of the signatories to the Berlli treaty. It
will take the most cunning of Quaker diplo
mats to settle the question without a re
sort to arms.
Murdered In the House of Hie Friends.
Tlie frequent and unpunished mur
ders of females in the State of Con
necticut have given the land of steady
habits an unenviable notoriety of late.
Recently a negro has been murdered
in one of the towns of that State under
circumstances that demand tiie imme
diate and searching investigation of
John Sherman and his Copiah commit
tee.
Briefly stated, three white men en
tered a saloon and found a negro about
to take a drink. These Connecticut
ruffians fell afonl of him and, in viola
tion of the civil rights bill, began to
beat him.
Connecticut negroes are not unlike
other negroes of other localities, and
this one had a convenient razor con
cealed about his clothes. Whipping it
out, he slashed one of his assailants
across the throat and fled. The others
pursued and ran him into an under
taker's shop and killed him. This is
a simple recital of a very foul deed in a
State that boasts of religion, morality,
peace, law, good order and all other
virtues.
We have never known anything more
cruel, cowardly and brutal to occur
anywhere in this country. The people
of Connecticut cannot sleep of nights
on account of the poor negroes down
South.
4 Connecticut convention has just
proposed for President one Jos. Haw
ley, a canting statesman who declares
that the contest must be carried on be
neath the folds of the bloody shirt.
The negroes are asked to believe that
their best friends live in the State of
Connecticut, and that, in order to save
these friends, they must vote and do
everything else in their power to
injure the white people of the South.
Connecticut has or wants to have a
special civil rights law, and yet her
citizens murder a negro for peaceably
taking a drink in a saloon and paying
for it.
Connecticut journals will reply that
this case is an exceptional one. In
turn we would say that the Copiah
fight, in which one man killed another,
does not represent Southern society,
and should not have called for an in
vestigating committee; and that Con
necticut needs the attention of an in
vestigating committee quite as much
ss Mississippi.
3. To promote the introduction of
blooded stock, cows, horses, sheep,
hogs and poultry, and to extend tho
cultivation of grapes, fruits and vege
tables, and thus diversify the crops as
well as the occupation of the planting
classes.
4. To divorce agriculture from partisan
politics, and to induce the owners and
cultivators of the soil to devote them
selves to the development of the re
sources of the country, and the building
up of our material inteiests so far as the
same relate to agriculture in all its de
partments.
The club was'organized by the elec
tion of the Hon. W. J. Northen, of
Hancock, as president, Mr. It. A. Ms-
bet, of Bibb, as vice-president, and
Mr. Sidney Herbert, of Fulton, as sec
retary. Sir. Northen is a prac
tical farmer, tho owner of a
fine herd of blooded cows,
and one of the most enlightened and
useful men in Georgia—indeed a gen
tleman who would grace any position
in the gift of the people of the State.
Under the care and leadership of him
self and his colleagues, the club
bids fair to become the most useful and
influential agricultural organization in
the South.
It Is undoubtedly a pleasant thing to
secure mammoth appropriations from the
Federal treasury for that, this and the
other thing—viewed as a mere money con
sideration. But when home methods,
home rule and State control of local ques
tions are to be surrendered as the consider
ation for handling the money, it will be
found, in the end, to hare been a costly
and unfortunate "benefaction.”
la an obscure corner of the Atlanta
Cbnititution of yesterday, we find this par
agraph : "A consultation ot the members
of the sixth district Congresslonsl com
mittee is suggested to be held In Macon in
a few days.” As the Comtitution h&s been
for years tho organ ot a small branch of
the Atlanta ring located In this neighbor
hood, it probably baa special information.
We would be pleased to be informed why
there shall be a consultation of the mem
bers of the Congressional committee of this
district just now.
The paper that isn't pure enough to up
hold the true interests of sodsty and brave
enough to defend the right, at all times,
in all places and against all comers, Isn't
thepsperfor the times. The paper that
will not denounce wrong-doing in public
life, that will not expose outrages by Its
own party ofHclala—la a sham, a fraud, a
curse. The times demand a fearless, tree,
outspoken press.
Wnxx the Greenbsckera swear that real,
honest, industrious, four-story reform Is
needed In this country, and then illustrate
their earnest sincerity by asking Old
Spoons to lead them In a campaign on
that issue, the whole world will be excused
for stopping, sitting flat down on the
ground and enjoying one hearty .uproarious
guffaw. The like was never seen before,
and it will never be seen sgain. It embod
ies the humor ot a century.
Nations, communities, individuals,
should not be slow to learn the lesson of
self dependence. To depend on outside
aid for national, municipal or personal ad.
Tancement is to sap the very foundations
ui«n which true greatness must be built
up. The South and Southern people are
in danger at this point Real advance
ment (or them can come only through
their own efforts, faithfully and persistent
ly made in their own bfhalf.
Another Distinguished Criminal Escapes,
Kellogg’s trial comes to a very sud
den and complete close. The court
holds that the proeecution ia barred by
the statute of limitations. It other
words, the government, in full posses
sion of the proof of this man’s guilt,
dallies with the indictment until the
law comes in and stops the farce.
It appears from the proceedings in
court that Kellogg had another defense
that could have given him time.
The proeecution had (ailed to
prove that the money, or checks for
money given to him, had any value at
tached to them. It it doubtful if this
country holds another scamp the equal
of Kellogg for ileliberate and successful
villainy, ft is certain that no other
thief biu enjoyed similar immunity.
It remains to be seen if any man with
money, friends and influeoce can tie
convicted, in the courts of Washington
City, of an offense against the general
goven
Kellogg should now ask the Vice-
Presidential nomination aa a vindii
Progress of the South Under a Protec
tive Sretem.
Mr. Robert Porter, one of the late
tariff commission, and who has given
great attention to the industrial re
sources ot the country, is making a
tour of the South, the results of which
will embody in letters to the Phil
adelphia Prcu. Ho computes that tho
Southern States, in the decodo ending
1800, increased in population 39 per
cent.; in that ending 1810,35 per cent.;
that ending 1820, 30 per cent.; in
that ending 1830, 31 per cent.; 1840, 23
per cent.; 1850, 29 per cent.; 1800, 24
per cent.; 1870,0 per cent., and in the
decade ending 1880, 35 per cent., or
within 1 per cent, of tho rate of in
crease of the population of tho Western
States and Territories combined
As to what tho South has done under
protective system, ho says ten of tho
Southern States produce over six mil
lion bales of cotton. Two of these
States annually produce over half the
entire tobacco crop of tho union, or
250,000,000 pounds, and three of them
prodace over 100,000,000 oat of the
110,000,000 pounds of rice grown on the
continent, while Louisiana produces
172,000 out of the 178,000 hogsheads of
cane sugar produced, and 12,000,000
out of tho 17,000,000 gallons of
molasses. Viewed, therefore, from an
agricultural standpoint, nothing pan
be more satisfactory than the
progress of the Southern States. Tho
want of tho South for the last half cen
tury has been diversified industries.
Under the old slave ayatem it was im
possible to induce free white labor to
enter into competition wih ‘the slaves,
and, as the slave owners were content
to buyltheir manufactured goods, the
mineral resources of these States slum
bered until within the last decade,
when the extension of railroads has
opened up enterprises not dreamed of
by the typical Southerner before the
war. At the close of the war
the Southern States had but 0,000 miles
of railroads; to-day the aggregate is
nearer 18,000, an increase of 100 per
cent. This, in itself, has wrought a
change in the entire region that can
only be appreciated by a more detailed
examination oi the facts than would
be possible in this introduction. Rela
tively speaking, railroad progress since
1865 in the South has been greater
than in New England, and nearly
equal to that of the Middle States.
An Important Movement.
The young farmers of this and ad
joining States inaugurated an impor
tant movement yestenlay at Holton, on
the banks of the Ocmulgee, ten
miles from Macon by the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia railroad. A
club waa organized under the name of
the Young Farmers’ Club, and its
membership, already embracing
number of active and en
terprising young men, will be
extended, if earnest work can do it, to
all the distinctly Southern States. The
promoters seem to have the following
objects in view:
"Some Tariff Views.”
The Dawson Journal differs with the
TELEORArri as to the tariff, but we are
convinced that the difference is only
in the construction to be placed upon
certain words, and not a serious differ
ence as to principles. The Journal
has only to bear with the Telegraph
a few minutes, and it will see the true
position of the latter set forth.
The great question of the day may
be divided into [five parts, each, of
which has its advocates. They are as
follows: •
Free trade—Persons who believe
that absolute freedom should be ob
served in trade os between the nations.
This class must necessarily favor di
rect taxation as a means of supporting
the government.
Tariff for revenue only—That is, a
tariff laid only for revenue, and so
laid ns only to afford revenue without
protection.
Tariff for revenue with incidental pro
tection—A tariff laid to produce reve
nue, and which incidentally protects
certain interests.
Tariff for revenue and protection—A
tariff so laid as to afford tho govern
ment all the revenue needed and at tho
same time to protect tho industries of
the country. The best definition of this
is given in the platforms of the Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina and New Jersoy Demo
crats, wherein tho amount of revenue
to be derived is limited to tho necessi
ties of tho government economically
administered, and the tariff is recom
mended to be kept at tho protective
point. Here stands tho Telegraph
and Messenger.
The pretent tariff—Which may be
too high in some parts and too low in
others.
Taking the Dawson Journal’s two
editorials os one, it would seem that
there is little difference between the
two papers.
Tho Telegraph desires just hero to
say to its contemporaries that the tarifl
question is one in which the people of
Georgia are deeply interested; that a
discussion of it con bo carried on pleas
antly and with profit to all. But the
Teleorapii cannot afford to have an
adversary assign it a strange position
to defend. Tho paper stands for a tar
iff so adjusted os to afford complete
protection to every industry and inter
est of this country, and at tho same
time afford enough rovonue to support
the government economically adminis
tered. It believes such a policy will
destroy the odious internal revenue
system and continue the era of prosper
ity so long enjoyed.
The paper stands in relation to the
present tariff as follows: Tho last
Congress passed a law to reduce the
tariff. The effect of that law has not
yet been seen except in part. It ia not
good policy to abandon a plan adopted
before testing it. Nor is a horizontal
reduction in the present tariff the way
to bring it to a squarely protective rev
enue point. It will not relievo tho ine
qualities which must still exist in pro
portion ; nor is it sura to reduce the
revenue. The reduction may bring
certain articles below the point ot pro
tection, leave others still too high and
yet further affect those that are too
low, and need an increase. Sooner or
later the work has got to be done in
detail.
Foolish attacks upon theTiLEORAm,
based upon errors, have made it neces
sary to restate its position. If monopo
lies, created by the tariff exist, point
them out. If the tariff ia above the
protective point on any article, demon
strate it. The TELioBArn will join in
the efforts to correct the evil. But tlie
paper 'a !!*, aa yet, defend no more nor
less than the position it has occupied
for two years.
haps, the most eloquent man in the
House, and this is well attested in the
fact that he could command applause
on so dry a topic as Morrison’s horizon
tal bill. ButMr. Hard really had little
to say of Morrison’s bill, or tlie cold
facts aad figures of the tariff. He said
nothing new, and confined) himself to
the usual generalizations of free trade.
His speech was a godsend to the
whisky ringers who are masquerading
as revenue reformers. It was calcula
ted to strike Democrats with alarm,but
for the fact that the influence ol his
eloquence must die out long before a
vote can be reached.
Everybody gives Mr. Hurd praise for
his speech, and it affords ub pleasure
to join in a general verdict, for wo ad
mire the man, his abilities and his
courage. We can only regret that his
fine powers were not displayed in a bet
ter cause.
We have heard Mr. Hurd mako strong
and eloquent speeches. We recall now
that one which closed tho debate
on the marshals bill in the
forty-sixth CongresB. His effort then
was worthy of any man who had pre
ceded him in the American Congress.
His appeal was to the general govern
ment to lift its iron hand from the States
where it had been placed by the exi
gencies of war.
Eloquent and grand as the appeal
was, it was addressed to a hostile ex
ecutive and Senate, backed by a party
determined to carry out, at any cost,
what it calls tho logical consequences
of tho war. Mr. Hurd’s eloquence
charmed his friends and made some
of his political opponents hang
their heads in shame. As a speech by
itself,it was a grand arraignment of the
rulers in behalf of thejpeople, but it
sounded the defeat of Mr. Hurd’s
party.
His own State, taking alarm at
the efforts of the Democrats to purge
the statute books of vicious legislation,
led the column which overwhelmed
Hancock and Democracy in 1880. Mr.
Hurd charged an entrenched enemy
gallantly, but unsuccessfully. Time
docs not seem to have tempered his
courage or enlarged his discretion.
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much more serious matter than the
Newt-Letter and the principal keeper
seem to imagine. Any interference
with the judgments of courts by that
officer, if persisted in, and especially if
crowned with success, will bring such
scandal upon the administration of our
State government ns will overwhelm
with popular indignation all who are
connected with it.
The denunciation by the principal
keeper of a public journalist for ven
turing to criticise hiB official conduct
was bad enough, but his virtual chal
lenge to mortal combat is infinitely
worse, and of itself calls for the most
summary proceeding on tho part of the
Governor. Tyrants mny silence the
press by an exercise of despotic power,
but we trust tlie day is far distant
when the'keeper of penitentiary con
victs will be permitted to overawe tlie
newspapers of tfic land.
Frank Hurd's Speech.
By common consent of friend and
foe, Frank Hurd has so far made the
most eloquent speech of tlie tariff de
bate. It was roundly applauded on
the floor and in the galleries, and if a
vote had been quickly called Ua influ
ence would have been marked Mr.
lfurd is cqpab'.e of making a good
speech. He is young, able and un-
1. To bring together in a single asso-1 selfish. He is a scholar and U he shall
ciation the younger and more active | prove true to the talents which have
agriculturists of the South, men who
nave engaged in this pursuit since the
war, and who believe that the metiusls
of the old plantation ayatem should be
buried along with slavery, upon which
it rested as its basis.
3. To encourage the introduction of
new and improved (arming implements,
and to adopt new and better method)
in the cultivation and preservation of
The John Thomas Case.
The facts attending the commutation
of the sentence of death pronounced
upon this man and affirmed bj the Su
preme Court, have already been pub
lished.
It is charged by a respectable jour
nalist and citizen, in substance, that
Capt. Nelms, the principal keeper of
tho penitentiary, taking advantage of
his official position, and of Ills personal
Influence with the Governor and in
Campbell county, where ho formerly
resided and where the crime was com
mitted, took part in procuring signa
tures to a petition to the Governor,
and in getting up exculpatory affida
vits in Thomas’s behalf. This Cap
tain Nelms denies with much
temper and a defiance to the field
of combat. As the chargo and de
nial established nothing, and only
raised an issue between the parties,we
ventured to suggest to the Governor
that a prompt and impartial investiga
tion of tho charges be made, since tho
principal keeper holds his office by ex
ecutive favor alone, and that the officer
be exonerated or dismissed os might
seem to be just and reasonable. We
are pleased to noto that other journals
in Georgia tako the same view of the
matter.
Tho Campbell County Next-Letter,
which is understood to he the friend of
the principal keeper, meets our sugges
tion in an article which may safely he
supposed to reflect tlie wishes and
opinions of Capt. Nelms. It says:
The Macon TxixoxxrH and Mauaxota
call! cdllorlrlly upon the Governor to loveitl-
gato the conduct o( John W. Nelma in tho
John Thomaa affair. Before the Governor
ahould order an Inveitlgatlon of the conduct
of an officer, there ahonld at leaat be a reason-
able suspicion of wrongdotog. There la no
room tor vuch reaaouable ituplclon In the caae
of Mr. Selma, admitting aa true every charge
Dr. Johnaton hat brought agaloat him.
We regret to say that we cannot con
cur in the view taken by our contem
porary. We think, and the people of
Georgia will think, if the chargee are
well founded, that Captain Nelms is
not a proper person to hold the office
of principal keeper of tho penitentiary.
The code clearly sets forth his duties—
to receive such criminals as may be
sentenced by tho courts, and to keep,
work, punish and care for them aa the
law requires. It is no part of his busi
ness to supervise the findings of juries
and the judgments of courts. In other
words, it is not a part of his duties to
lend his aid in getting up exculpatory
affidavits and petitions to the Governor
to pardon criminals, or commute their
scntencea.If he may do thiainone caae,
he may do it in all, until tho office of
principal keeper might In the course
of time have engrafted upon it the office
of pardon broker.
The Newt-Letter further says:
But suppose Mr, Nelmz bed prevented evi
dence to the Governor. At a citizen of Geor
gia he had a perfect right to do 11; and there
is no juit ground for coating a shadow of aua-
plcton on the character of the faithful official
by ordering an luveatigaUon of auch an act
The mere fact of a man'e being a public offi
cial doea not deprive him of the excrclae of
the rigbta of a private citizen.
We are again compelled todiffer with
our contemporary. "At a citizen of
Georgia,” Captain Nelma may do
many things wnM« Principal Keep
er Nelms cannot properly do. In a
case like this no distinction can lie
drawn between his personal tights and
official duties. If he ahould desire to
aid criminals sentenced by the courts,
there can be no objection, provided he
first anmndar the office whose busi
ness it is to'receive criminals into the
penitentiary—not to change their sen
tences and nullify Die judgments of
Savannah and Hor Military.
If anything could have added to the
just pride that Savannah feels in her
military organizations, the parade on
Friday last would have accomplished
it. Wo seize the occasion to say that
the good people of Georgia ask to share
in the pride and admiration extended
to the soldiery of the great seaport of
the State. No amount of praise oi
the pertonnel, equipment, drill
and elan that characterize the
First Begiment, Hussar Guards, and
Artillery, can appear strained to those
who enjoyed the pleasure of the dis
play. And the cadets of the military
school, which is the nucleus for future
drafts, come in for a full share of com
mendation.
Savannah has cause to feel proud of
her military, and every Georgian
claims an interest in their honorable
achievemeuls in peace and in war.
The Chatham Artillery, one of the
oldest organizations on the continent,
sounded with their guns, presented by
GeorgeWashington, the signal of many
of the fiercest battles of the war.
The sabres of the Hussars flashed at
the front of famous charges from the
Savannah to the Potomac. The Guards’
battalion made their mark at Battery
Wagner and in the later battles oi Lee’s
army. The Oglethorpes astonished all
military men and illustrated Georgia,
when, at the first Manassas, beardless
boys charged over one of the finest bat
teries in the Federal army. The Ger
man Volunteers and Jasper Greens did
glorious duty in Fort Pulaski and the
army of Tennessee, as did the Blues
and Cadets, the latter of which
is justly considered ono of the crack
corps of the country. So much for tho
days of war. Immediately upon the
procelmation of peace all of these or
ganizations equipped themselves, and
have stood since as guardians of the
peace and good order ot their city.
Surely these men deserve the good
opinion and good wishes of their fellow
citizens. And they deserve much more.
They are entitled to the recognition
and care of tha State. It is a shame
that all of the expense attendant
upon theso organizations should
be borne by officers and privates and
the generosity of the public-spirited
citizens of Savannah. A State is great
in its power to enforce its laws and to
provide prompt and complete protec
tion to all of Its citizens, and her citizen
soldiery is her right arm. It is a mean
spirit and an unwise policy that fail
to put the military force of the State
upon a strong and independent basis.
The late general of the United States
army, on many occasions within the
twenty years past, has in pnblic
speeches declared that this country
is to be wrenched by a fearful war in
the future.
Without argument,we accept him aa
a prophet. In a political system like
ours that grows rapidly and bears op
posing forces ot mind and material,
it ia not unlikely that great poli
cies tray again be submitted
to the arbitrament of the sword,
and under circumstances that may not
add the jealousies of sectionalism to the
contest. Certain it ia that so long as
Georgia stands aa a State and grows in
Btrength and prosperity, her great and
lost dependence is upon her citizen sol
diery. And now, in the days of peace
and plenty, she should build up a sys
tem broad, wise and generous.
Woman Suffrage.
The Telegraph is in receipt of the
minority report of the Senate commit
tee to which was referred the bill grant
ing the right to vote to the women of
the United States.
The minority report was submitted
by Senator Brown, and dwells upon the
natural difference in the spheres of the
male and female. It shows that man,
by reason of his Btrength and faculties,
is fitted for outdoor labor, the discharge
of public duties, military service, nnd
the heavy labors of business. That lie
is brought face to face constantly with
the very facts which require assisting
or restraining laws, and is, therefore,
the natural law-maker.
Of the female, just the opposite is
true. Says the report
"Itwould be n vain attempt to undertake
to enumerate the refining, endearing and
ennobling influences exercised by the true
woman in her relations to the family and
to society when she occupies tlie sphere
assigned her by the laws of nature nnd the
divine inspiration, which nro our surest
Ttide for the present and the future life,
iuthowcan woman he expected to meet
these heavy responsibilities and to dis
charge these delicate and most Important
duties of wife, Christian, teacher, minister
of mercy, friend of the suffering and con
soler of tbodesiiondentand the needy if we
impose upon her the grosser, rougher, and
harsher duties which nature has assigned
to the male sex?
“If the wife and the mother is required
to leave the sacred prednets ot home, and
to attempt to do military dutv when the
State is in perill or if she Is to he required
to leave her home from day to day in at
tendance upon the court as a juror, and to
he shut Up in the jury-room from night to
night, with men who are strangers, while
a question of life or property is being con
sidered, if she is to attend political meet
ings, take part in political discussions, and
mingle with the male sex at political
gatherings, if she Is to become an active
politician, if she is to attend political cau
cuses at late hours of the night, if she is to
take part in all the unsavory work that
may be deemed necessary for the triumph
of her party, and if on election day she is
to leave her homo and go upon the
streets electioneering for votes f.
the candidates who receive her su]
port, and mingling among the crowi
of men who gather around the
polls, she is to press her way through
them to the ballot box and deposit her suf
frage, if she is to take part in the corporate
struggles ot the city or town in which she
resides, attend to the duties of his honor
the mayor, of councilman, or of police
man, to say nothing of the many other
like obligations which are disagreeable
even to the maie sex, how is she, with all
these heavy duties of citizen, jvoliticlan,
and officeholder resting upon her, to dis
charge the duties of a wife and mother?’
But if the natural difference of oc
cupation had not already been mapped
oat, there is one fact alone of sufficient
force to kill the bill if the attention of
the earnest men can be caught. It
embodied in the following showing.
"It is now a problem which iierplczes
the brain of tho ablest statesman to deter
mine how we will best preserve our re
publican system as against the demoraliz
ing influence of the large class of our pres
ent citizens and voters, who, by reason of
their illiteracy, are unable to reed or write
the ballot they cast.
"Certainly no statesman who baa care
fully observed the situation would desire
to add very largely to this burden of ignor
ance. But who docs not apprehend the
fact, if universal female suffrago should bo
established, that we will, especially In the
Southern States, add a very largo number
to the voting population whose ignorance
utterly disqualifies them to discharge the
trust. Ifourcoioredpopuiation.whowere
so recently slaves that even the males who
are voters have had but little opportunity
to educate themselves, or to be educated,
whose Ignorance is now exciting the liveli
est interest of our statesmen, are causes
of serious apprehension, what is to be
said in favor of adding to the voting
population ail the females of that race,
who, on account of the situation in which
they have been placed, have had much
less opportnnlty to be educated than even
tho males of their own race? We do not
say it is their fault that they are not edu
cated-, but the fact la wndmuble that they
are grossly ignorant, with very few excep
tions, and probably not one in a hundred
of them could read and write the ballot 1
they would be authorized to cast What
saye the statesman to the propriety of add-
of Ignorance to the
ing this Immense mass
voting population of ths Union in lts presl
ent condition?
“It may be said that their vole* could be
off-set by the ballots of tha educated end
refined uulies of the white race in tlie same
section, but who does not know that the
ignorant voters would lie at the polls tn
matte, while the refined end educated,
shrinking from public contact on such oo-
caslons,would remain at home and attend
to their domestic and other important du
ties, leaving the country to the control of
tboee who could afford, under tlie circum
stances, tn take part in the strifes of poli
tics, and to come in contact with the un
pleasant surroundings before they could
reach the polls.
",Are we ready toexpoae the country to
the demoralization, and our institutions to
the strain, which would thus be placed
upon them, for the gratification of a mi
nority of the virtuous and the good of our
telltale population, at the expense of the
mortification of a much larger majority of
the same class?”
FROM ATLANTA.
The WhlK-Republloans-Con. Lone, .
Nominated for Oovernor-The r '"I
ocutive /Commlttee-ArchU ’ *
tecturalPolltlce.Etc.
[special correspondence,]
,.,^ LASIA ' 2.—'The convention „
"hig-Ilepublicans was called to ordn*
10 o'clock this morning by the chaim *
On motion, Mr. W. P. McDaniel, uUy
never been either a Democrat orl
can, was enrolled as a member.
The committee on permanent Staten
gaiiization submitted a report, reeoitun *
ing State, Congressional, Senatorial
ty and precinct executive committees «
Resting tlie manner of raising C a<li .
defining their duties and powers '*
“port was adopted by sections,
file convention then proceeded tn .
work of raising a State executive coinmul
tee. As many of the CongressiottejlL
tricts were not represented in tlie conto^R 1 '
tlon, a committee consisting of
King. LonRstrcet. Garner, VkcIIv ,Sl
Smith were appointed and instructed,!
report a State executive committee to JSI
until tlie next convention of the part.- I
The committee reported the folloim.l
State executive organization: ,uU0 ' n »fl
State at large,. James Longstreet ig|
Rigby. Wm. Markham and ilwson Blutol
first district, E. 0. Wade; second dittrwl
K. W. Fuller; third district, Wnffl
fourth district, R. J. O’Kelly; fifth
trlct, T. 8. King; sixth district, J. H Gin
er; seventh district. H. A. Wrcncli • siXe I
district, Joshua Hill; ninth distort.fal
Garner; tenth district, W. H. Berrien.’ -I
It was decided to leave tlie matter,.!I
State and electoral tickets with the eie,?b“
tive committee, with power to act, uvuU 11 ’
deemed proper, authorizing that commit r
tee to call a State convention to nominit I
such tickets.
Mr. King offered a resolution Initio,™,
tlie executive committee, if they decidzSL
put forth a State ticket without cailii.l
convention, toputfortk Gen. Longstr«tn I
the party's candidate for Governor X
Georgia. Tlie resolution was unanimous > I
adopted by a rising vote. I
Gen. Longstreet thanked the convent!,, |
for the honor, and asked the pririle-e of I
naming a substitute at tho proper tire” 1
A resolution was adopted inviting t
distinguished members of the Repute,
party. North and West, to address UuU I
pie of Georgia on the Issues of theV-l
preaching presidential campaign. 1
After some little discussion ot the a-, -
tion taken by Mr. Norcross on the nr.-o I
.juration, the convention adjourned rm ■
ARCHITECTURAL 1*0 LITICS—CANDIDATES.
Your correspondent had the pin-..,
..iis morning of a chat with Col. I\ L J
natt, a candidate for Congress in this c.
trlct. lie referred to an item sent you
cently which I gave as a political note t! c I
he la engaged in building ahandsooussiA
dence of fourteen rooms in the county ,;l
DeKalb. He owned np frankly to (til
house but reduced the number of recasfl
nine. The error in tha number ot room]
was promptly acknowledged, nnd thee
rection is cheerfully made. With «h««f.
rection I presume the paragraph lac I
stand os written. |
| I asked Col. MynaU how he felt as loti
campaign. Said he; “I am confident c
carrying Fulton county -will cany it tae
—and am satisfied I will be the r.
of the convention. Of course, if I fail
carry my own county, I am out of I
race.”
I then asked him what counties. 1
Fulton, he r, - I'el. Tii.-in; .
“Mj friend- t.-il HP' I will :-.-t I'ek 1 :
though it is claimed for .Mr. Hammoni|
M) ■: .lid- al-,i a-'ur,- in.- that in tin •
Fulton gives mo its delegation, 1 will i
Ret tlie vote of Douglas. Campbell, lie
and 1.1 pruvid.'.l Judge Ntrwart •'
D ' ' 'IV '• id.- ill enter the nil ... I ui.
make a contest in Clayton, for thediir:
tlon of that county."
Col. Mynatt evidently does not lack <
leh't’e e. . it there I. til, ill Hlht he !- .i -f
i midi, late, and will give In. opponents ui
this county ample work.
Your correspondent h.u- ,
privilege of a personal interview withl
each of tlie Congressional cam!iiUtn|
in this county, anti the
confidence expressed by each
in his al ditty to carry certain counties it
trill'- l-t-wilderit ■ llow Col. Mviiatt fee- I
I have just written, i 'aid. Jack-on is or.
fldent tic will carry 1-uRonbv l.Otoiiu-l
jority—at am-rate lit a large v'ut.-, at.,! I
no less confident that Douglass, CanipWl
mill Henry will dec larc for him. 11'
- , .Iili.il.' , I :. 1 th. :.r. I
he claims hi cuinmoa. Col. Hammond.11
remember, stated in his .pii.-t way the I
had no doubt tm to the r.-nltlnFutosI
■county, and cvpe, t.-d the voted fat.;-1
bell, Dongiaas and Henry.
An.. : It., . .'tit!,, til..' , lam .
respondent ia still at ass aa to the rail
strength of mlidnto-, and I
wait the further developments of the i a- l
; tigtJ. How,A er, there i, one J' Oti T ' "I
which they all agree and with h they frant I
I ede. The re-11 U III I
will settle the issue as between them, s
here they are putting forth all th
strength. Tlie great buttle of the
paign, as it now appears, will bo ft
over tlie Fulton delegation.
RECORDS.
It is evident now tl.ut the politie.il
d in
been bestowed upon hint, lie will lic-
come a statesman of commanding pow
er and influence.
In many respects lie recalls
the late Governor Jenkins, of
Georgia. He is afflicted with the same
personal defect, ia about the size of I courts.
Governor Jenkins at a similar age. We have studiously avoided any ex*
Ilia voice resembles that of Governor | pression of opinion upon the charge*
Jenkins, and bis gesticulation, also, in I preferred by Dr. Johnson in hla paper,
hie quieter moods. Mr. Hurd ia, per- [ the Palmetto Blade, But thte is
General Longatreet.
It will be seen by reference to our
Atlanta letter that the white Republi
cans of Georgia have nominated Gen.
Longstreet for Governor.
This is the best nomination the Re
publicans could have made. Indeed,
General Longstreet, if we except Hon
Joshua Hill, is the most respectable
and upright member of his party in
tlie Southern States. And yet we
regret to see the General placed
in auch a position. We can never for
get his gallantry and heroism during
the war. No man who followed Lee,
iougi.; suit Jackson, displayed
greater modesty or greater courage.
We have seen him in the thickest of
tlie fight, on the march, and in the
bivouac, and again in private life,
and everywhere he was the
modest gentleman and
undaunted soldier. That he is consci
entious in the course he has pursued,
we have been unwilling to doubt, but
that his separation, politically, from
his friends and compatriots lias been a
aad mistake, must now be apparent
to all thoughtful and im
partial men. Whilst we dif
fer with Mm politically
as widely as we do with General
Grant, we can only deplore this .final
act in a career that otherwise would
have been inseparably linked with the
fame of thetwo great Confederate chief
tains who now sleep near each other in
tlie valley of Virginia.
work for tha Fool-Kill vr.
Correspondence Richmond Dispatch.
Tbs lint end most prominent of these
dangerous characters is Henry Watterson,
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who is
prowling about Washington City In his
madness, and, with his pestiferous paper,
is throwing ail the brands of confusion
and perpetual di-cord into the ranks of the
Democratic party which it is possible for a
nudmsn to do. Ills lunacy is on the tariff
question, and he thinks that is all of Dem.
ocracy, and that be (Watterson) is the
only prophet. He wants to read Randall
and many other Democrats far older and
better than himself out of the party,
and though we only have one of the
three law making branches of the govern
ment, and have not had for twenty-four
years, be (Watterson) wants to give the
Republicans another twenty-four years'
lease by (absurdly contending that nubody
but a Morrison-btU man ought to be recog
nized as a member of the Democratic par
ty of the nation 1
Any such natural lunatic as that ought
to be silled outright by the Fool-KUIer-
tbat ia to say. there should be no purga
tory hereafter. left for such a breed of
star-gazers and disorganizm.
Watterson, however, though tbe princi
pal, is not the only convict of tha criminal
gang of Democratic highwaymen who de-
serva the special attention of the Fool-
Killer.
There ia Morrison himself, of Illinois,
author of the verr unnecessary and foolish
“horizontal” tariff bill now pending In
Congress, distracting the Democratic party
of the country, end famishing food to oar
enemies. If that bill, or anything like It,
were to pass tbe Democratic House, it
couhl not possibly pass tbe Republican
Senate or the President's veto, and to press
it upon the country aa a test and leading
iaaue of Democracy at this time is simply
an outrage upon the Democratic party,
which could only originate with those bor
dering on lunacy or something wone. Let
W. R. Morrison share the same fate of the
leading criminal, Watterson, and fad under
the second blow of tbe fool-killer's blud
geon.
cords of
warmly discussed during ti
Corre-i-ondcnts In local pape
pers throughout the <1 istri. t
entered upon this work. \V!
will suffer mast from this kind ot ivg
main- to he n. As ,m illu-trat:
th.' win r., ur.l- iir>- uvcrliaiih-d and
I have been shown a slip which is
exhibited te voters containing an e
from the Atlanta Ottflilution of dab
23, lt}71, quoting from tin- speech
Captain Ja. k-on made in the Legit
in supt-ort of tlie Conlvv ivdunni-.tr.
in these words:
"Mr. Jackson -aid lie is a Dsznoc
h,ng in the party arts rightly, and .
publican so tong us tlie Republican
acts rightly."
But tbe records of all the candidab
getting into the papers in the C"h
counties, and tint candidates must
by them or fall by them.
Till CIVIL RIOHT-.
In connection with tl
[fine mitt
published in my letter yesterday, I »*■
iortu.'il in the ticket olth-e id the ua!' a
pot tills morning that nlceping-carbat!
are sold there Irrespective of t olor, tit
thev are not often |,nrcha-ed bv la ”
They will not refuve
on any of the rcadv.
not generally known
vuz con:
The report that n
ing looking to a tran
Grant's interest in l
No. 3 has attracted
revived in some qi
the whole convict ui
t this fact I
attention a'J |
r- a JiiCUSviotXH
An umbrella carried over a woman,
the man irettini* nothin? but the firim*inM
of the run. signifies courtship. WbentSe
man has tlie umbrella and the woman the
drippings it signifies marriage.
A crowded horse car. Enter Mr*.
The fastest single mil. ever made by j u seated, fad!uSv: "Wtid*I houMtha
a railroad train in util country waa done in whisky for rex. Mistress
M1/ ffpcnnila ran fKm Pannai-lwanla #«ll<l.. u . ;.i '— «
between
September 4,
toe.fro'ujivtnU railroad,. Mrs. M., with withering aa
Philadelphia »nd Jersey City, tm j vex kindly, »or; but yer 1
sr4, IS7V, | could now, I’m thinkfn'.”
have all yt <
In the i|>l«D4orof tbe morn,
How we witih w« were not born,
the wiUl anil u*«■!>• w terror of its loaf.
For all the note* tlmt float
From Its eArljr morning throtl
tilre ut groans.
An.l tbe nigger—oh! the nigger
On the topi that Jork« the trigger,
Alltilone!
An-1 who h’IkI* the echoes bowling
fearful monotone,
delighted to b«* rolling
On the i.< ;frh>H>r*' luart * etonO—
He 1« neither man nor woman-
lie's n alt her brute nor humans
He'» a sooner.
And the court Ui* who ilta«
And It ilta, ■Ita, »iu,
WUh ita eye In fmuled fury
Fixed on the belated Jury-
Man who came without ezcuM;
Au l it mingle* a 0. r« e jtll
WUh the pealing ot the Vll-
f.'harglog tor the yAni• hud llW,
■ WUh a eoct of Rhnnle rhyme, I
Fire or Un or even twenty dollar* every l
TbnsTJ^SLl^ ,
to this Urtwi mmw ratal*
By An crerla*
Jcrkit-g at a d
Htlrrlnx up a t
. With the