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WEEKLY SOUTHERN OPINION.
VOLUME 1.1
THE POLICY OF THE SOUTH.
As time elapses, and new and entirely
unexpected legislation on the part of the
Congress at Washington, bears down
upon the people of the South, as their con
dition, both political and social, becomes
more and more they begin
to ask what course' they should pursue
in civil and political matters; what gener
al policy they should adopt, in order to
procure for themselves those rights and
privileges which J,hey, as citizen? .of the
State are entitled to, and at the same time
secure the safety of our Republican insti
tutions ?
In order to secure this end, the people of
tile whole country must recognize the fact
that the strength and durability ofour in
stutiohs rest upon the voluntary submission
of the people to the Constitution and laws
of the land. If the whole people of the
country do not recognize this fact, no con
cession on the part of the people of the
South, short of absolute political slavery,
and social degradation will ever satisfy the
party now in power, or the people of the
North, who, by their silence, give a tacit
assent to the acts of usurpation which have
characterized the whole Radical adminis
tration. The true policy of the South then
is for its people to be governed by tliecir
sumstances that surround them, and take
every advantage of these circumstances.
Tlie actions of the Radical party have
clearly proven that that party has no re
spect for the Constitution or the laws made
in pursuance to its provisions, and that
they are determined their die turns shall be
the ruling law of the land, and that they
will reject no man who does not bow in
humble obedience to their behests. This
being the case, it . does not matter
how devoted the people of the
South may be to the Constitution, and
to Republican Government, they will
not be allowed to take any part in public
affairs or in the moulding of circumstances
around them, except their action be in con
formity to the wishes and interests of that
party. The demands of the Radical party
are so infamous in their character, so di
rectly in conflict with the provisions of the
Constitution, that if the people accept them,
they surrender everything, and are pow
erless, and will be taunted in after years
with having violated the Constitution, and
having been the instruments of their own
degradation ; and if the propositions are
rejected, the Radicals will still try to make
an excuse for keeping up their military
despotism.
Georgia has partially accepted their
proposition through the treacherous infa
my of men whom she had trusted and hon
ored, and the yoke is now upon the necks
of her people. They have now but one
course of policy left, and that course is to
get power. They need not he particular
about the means employed; what they
want is power, the means of saving the re
public as a republic, before the traitors who
are now ruling it shall have swept away
every vestige of liberty.
J.et the South, then, understand what its
true policy should be: Compromise an affil
iation with the Northern Democracy in any
honorable way that will give them the pow
er, and wrest the country from Radical
rule. Let every man go to work with this
object in view, and use every means with
in his power to accomplish it; and if we
«in, then will be the time to consult about
what our policy should be.
Only a Lie. —The story telegraphed
over the country that the train in which
General Logan passed York, Pennsylva
nia, a few days ago, had been stoned, with
the intention of assassinating the afore
said -Rig Injun,” of the Impeachment bu
siness, turns out to be ail a lie. The Rail
road officials at York say that there was
no rioting there, that no stones were
thrown, and the whole story is a base
fabrication, not having the shadow ol
tru h.
Our friends up North cun judge from
this aftair about how fairly the people
of the South qre represented through their
papers. If a Radical and a Democrat, ora
Democrat and a negro have anv persona)
difficulty, the Jacobins herald it before
their people of the North, “as a fiendish at
tempt on the part of rebels to assassinate a
loyal citizen.” We are sorry that such a
lie should have been circulated at the ex
pense of the good people of York, for the
town and county gave three thousand
Democratic majority last year.
Ex-President Pierce’s letter, in
which he names General Hancock as a
suitable Democratic candidate, is endorsed
by the New Y r oik Herald. "It shows,”
says the Herald, “that the calm retirement
of Concord has been conducive to sound
and satisfactory thinking. Pierce does
well to put that soldier’s name prominently
before the Democracy; for he is the only
distinguished name of the war he can center
on with any hope of success, and he is one
of our few "rent soldiers who has also the
mind of a statesman.”
Wueat Chop ofGkop.gia.— We are told,
says tlie Macon Telegraph, that between
Macon and Atlanta,on the line of the Macon
and Western Railroad, wheat is a great deal
injured by rust. North of Atlanta, how
ever, it is represented to be very fine, and
the yield will be abundant. Clear out tlie
old crop and' prepare for the new. Down
with your prices, for there is enough and
to spare.
THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE.
Tlie Government of the United States
has been a government of the people, in
which all the people anil flUttic States had
Constitutional rights. Tpirenmstitutions of
the country were republican. War came;
the practical relations of a portion of the
States tlie General Government were
suspended, tlie government of tlie States
that were in rebellion were abdicated, and
they were without any legal government.
Tlie war ended, loyal State governments
were established, and the people of those
States stood ready to perform their duties
as citzens. But a political party was in
power that was not satisfied with ■ such a
willing and immediate aequiesence of cite
late Yflnirgents to the authority of the
Government of tlie Constitution. Tficy
know that war, with its terrible accom
paniments, bad taught the people of the
South to love the old Government and its
institutions.
In all the Northern States these old in
stitutions are still preserved; the people
there enjoy the same freedom and privi
leges they did before the revolution, and
are protected by tlie same constitutional
guarantees that have protected them since
the formation of the government. The ab
solute despotism inflicted by tlie ruling
party upon tlie people 'of the Southern
States does not reach the people of the
North, lienee, to them,the doctrines of that
party do not appear as objectionable as
they do to our people. But to the people of
the South their rule is despotic, and if they
cannot make their friends in the North feel
tliis fact and aid them in the great struggle,
they must go to work manfully and help
themselves.
Although the Southern States are now
ruled by the iron hand of despotism, tlie
republicrn institutions of the country are
not entirely destroyed. In most of tlie
Northern States, the right of citizens as
well as States are respected. With the
whole people the memory of tlie bless'ngs
of the old government still live, and we
believe that the masses desire to return to
the government of the old Constitution.
How shall they do it ? is the question asked-
Certainly they eannot be blind to the
consequences which must inevitably fol
low the continuance of the liadieal party
in power. Judge its future by its past. It
lias, by force, set aside the rightful govern
ment in ten States, and placed them under
military rule; it has taken the control of
the elective franchise from the States, and
placed the whole mu r fin the hands of a
party ol politicians; it has compelled the
people of tlie South to repudiate a debt
which they were willing to pay; it has
made itself an inquisition to spy upon the
private affairs of tlie citizen; and it lias
utterly disregarded and violated ever}- pro
vision and guarantee of Hie Constitution.
We say the people cannot be ignorant of
these faets. Rapidly, under their rule, the
republican institutions of tlie country are
passing away, and out of their ruins is
growing a despotism, under which the peo
ple have but one privilege and that is to
pay taxes.
If the old Government is .worth pre
serving, then the people have a duty to
perform, in making a mighty effort to
change the rulers of the land, and place in
power honest patriots, who love liberty
more than they do power. Tlie people of
Georgia owe tins duty to their posterity,
and to tlie cause of human liberty every
where. Let every candid man look over
the record of tlie Radical party since the
close of the war, and see if lie can find
therein any act that does not conflict with
tlie principles of tlie Constitution. Then
let them read tlie Platform adopted by that
party a few days ago at Cnieago, and see
what it contains that any honest citizen of
Georgia can endorse. Honest, Union,
liberty loving men of all parties, we ask
you to look into this matter candidly, and
we know that your verdict and your vote
will be cast against Radicalism and ruin.
Gov. Brown's Chicago Speech. —We
find in Gov. Brown's paper, Mrs. New Era,
his Chicago speech corrected by himself.
This reminds us of Mr. Douglas’ speech
made at New Orleans in 1800. and repub
lished, after he had corrected it, at the
North. The speech was tlie same, Mr.
Douglas said, but they read very different
ly. In sixteen of our daily exchanges we
find him as having said: ‘-Let him (Bul
lock) be inaugurated, and they will adopt
tlie Constitutional Amendment, and then
let them elect Senators and receive us into
Congress, and give us the control of the
State Government and its patronage,
which we fought for and won. and which
we must have if we succeed in this con
test.” We believe this report to be tlie cor
rect one. for we find the'Rudieal papers
and all the reports, although made by dif
ferent men, agree. But here is what he
says lie said:
Let them be inaugurated; let them or
ganize, and we will adopt tlie Constitution
al Amendment. They will then elect
Senators, and you ,-hould receive us back
into Congress again. Give us what we
have won, and ive will succeed in this con
test, and roil up a majority for Gen. Grant
in November next.
He saw tli t the Chicago speech, as de
livered there, would not be just the thing,
so he modified it to suit what he thought
to be the views of tlie people of Georgia.
ltW"The Hill of Georgia looms up mag
nificently and grandly above all mists,
black, blue anti brown !
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MOENING, JUNE 2, 1868.
THE RADICALS ON REPUDIATION AND
taxation.
The Radical Jacobin Convention at Chi
cago may have represented some of the
best intellect of that party, but they failed
to get any of the “intellect” on the Com
mittee on Platform, for we cannot imagine
that men of any sense, no matter how
great knaves they might lie, would allow
such a silly attempt at political trickery to
be palmed off upon the country as a pro
duction of theirs. But the articles of that
platform which mean, and do not mean
something, are tlie Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth. If they thought such a transparent
effort at trickery would delude the people,
tuvq evidently beliexed the masses lobe
magnificent specimens of the “Damphool”
'species. It is a miserable' abortion of an
attempt to deny their responsibility
for the infamous wrongs -that have been
inflicted upon the people.
Article Fourth of their Platform says:
“It is due to tiie labor of the nation that
taxation should be equalized, and reduced
as rapidly as the-national faith will per
mit.”
“It is due to the labor of the nation,” etc.
Who made the present tax system ? Tlie
Radical party, the very same men, with
but few exceptions, who now constitute
the Congress ol the United P:-i ■?, and who
constituted and controlled the Convention
that adopted tliis resolution. Why did
they not “equalize” tlie taxation at the
time of the enactment of the law, so
that the laboring men of .lie country
should have their due? Why do they not
change the law now. as they are in power?
Can any laboring man lie deceived by such
a flimsy profession of interest in his
welfare, when lie knows that the Radical
party made tlie tax law which now op
presses him, and that they being in power
now, take no steps to relieve them!
“And,” the resolution reads, “reduced as
rapidly as the national faith will permit.”
Ttiat sounds all very nice, but how does
tlie Radical platform propose to bring
about this reduction'? Read tlie sth reso
lution and see:
5. The National debt contracted, as it lias
been, for the preservation of the Union for
all time to come, should be extended over
a fair period for redemption, and it is tlie
duty of Congress to reduce tlie rate ot in
terest thereon, whenever it can be honestly
done.
There it is. Is it to “be extended over a
fair period for redemption?” Instead of
paying it off in the same kind of currency
that the poor working men are compelled
to take, they propose to extend the time
of taxation over a long period of years, and
make the working men pay tlie interest in
gold at seven per cent. The same section
reads: “and it is the duty of Congress to
reduce the rate of interest thereon, when
ever it can be hon stly done.” If Congress
can reduce the rate of interest, it can refuse
to pay any interest at all, and the Radicals
know it. Tlie Congress can it- rally change
the payment of the interest from coin to
currency; but tlie Radical party oppose
any such measure, as they know it would
lift a burden from tlie hands of the over
taxed poor man.
And now they put in their argument for
continued Gold Tax. The sixth resolu
tion declares:
That the best policy to diminish our
burden of de -t, is to improve our credit,
that capitalists will seek to loan us money
at lower rates of interest than we now pay,
and must continue to pay, so long as repu
diation, partial or total, open or covert, is
threatened or suspected.
How will they improve the public cred
it? Have they not bad control of tlie
Government for eight years? Have they
not made every law creating and bearing
upon the public debt and the public credit
in any way? There is but one way that
they can improve the public credit, when
the debt is nearly three billions, and that
is to impose still heavier taxes, and
pay off the entire debt. They know
that they cannot lawfully change
the rate of interest now being paid on
the national debt, and they deny any in
tention of in the third resolution,
when they say “we denounce all forms of
repudiation as a national crime, and tlie
national honor requires tlie payment of the
public indebtedness in the uttermost good
faith to all creditors at home and abroad,
not only according to the letter , but the spirit
of the laws under which it was contracted.”
Tliis is a broad dsclaration that tlie present
rates of interest shall not be changed, nor
shall any portion of tlie present infamous
system of taxation be repealed, but it shall
all be enforced. What then was tlie use
of resolving that the rate of interest and
taxation ougtit to be reduced, when they
declared that it should not be, if they re
main in power.
Let us now make a summary of what is
contained in these four articles of tlie Flat
form. Article 3 declares that the present
rate, of interest on the public debt shall
not be reduced, that it shall he paid in
gold, and that the time for making tlie
payment shall not be extend*!.
Article 4 says it is due to tlie labor of tlie
country that taxation should be reduced,
but they don’t promise to reduce it, from
the fact that they want to carry out the
“letter and spirit” of the law under which
was created the cause of its being im
posed.
Article 5 declares that Congress ought to
extend the time of payment over a period
of years, and reduce tlie rate of taxation,
if they can do it honestly, but as they had
previously declared that no change in the
present law would be a enme, they have
an excuse for paying no regard to this de
claration.
Article 6 declans that the best policy to
diminish our debt is to improve our credit;
and as tlie 3d article declares that the debt
shall be paid according to the terms of the
contract, i. o. tlie present law, we see that
it proposes no relief.
We do ask the public to accept our de- '
Auctions or opinions as to the meaning of
this ambiguous platform. Let every think
ing, honest man read it, and make his own
deductions, and if he does not see the du
plicity interned, we have no more argu
ment f@r bin£ The whole platform is one
of the strongest arguments against radical
rule that wc Save ever road.
OjiGA>.Tjf?G.~"Th:. -Fetivocracy rrf DeKalb
are organizing and preparing for action.
Ben Hill Democratic Club, at Woodville,
in that county, on tlie 25th, organized and
passed a resolution requesting the Central
Executive Committee at tlieir meeting on
the 28th, to select some suitable person to
compile and prepare for publication a full
expose of tlie Unparalleled frauds perpe
trated in the latfc election by the Radical
faction in thislState, and having confi
dence in the ability and integrity of ,T. It.
Sneed, late Editor of the Macon Telegraph,
they recommend him as the man for the
position. Major E. Y. Clark, of this city,
has been invited to address the Club at its
meeting on Wednesday evening, June 10th.
./" The Nashville Union and Dispatch
tells the following good one: “A negro
preacher holding a protracted meeting in
Henry county having called up tlie peni
tent sinners to the anxious seat, got him
self down in tlie straw to labor with them.
Finding the burden of sin hard to repiove
from the soul of a stalwart cullud man, of
huge dimensions, he very generously slip
ped his hand in his pocket and relieved
him of the hindering cause, in the shape
of a pocketboek containing about thirty
six dollars in greenbacks. He was sen
tenced to tlie penitentiary for ten years,
but is now running at large, having been
pardoned by his Excellency W. G. Browu
low. He alleges that he took the pocket
book for fear the man would lose it in the
straw, aand forgot to give it back to him.”
Senator Wade. —Tlie New York Post,
(Rep.) referring to the vote on impeach
ment, says: The only disgraceful vote cast
oil Saturday was that of Mr. Wade, who,
with a reckless abandonment of decency
and proprCfy, voted for conviction, and
for his own elevation to the Presidency,
when it was believed by himself and the
other i.pporters of impeachment thatcon
vict!" . •mid be obtained by only a single
vote iVe shall be surprised if Mr. Wade's
course in this matter does not drive him
out of public life; it has certainly lost him
the respect and confidence of all impartial
minds.
HTSTThe character of the Chicago Con
vention, and we may add, of the whole
Radical party, is fully represented in W.
G. McConnell, delegate from* Louisiana,
and Foster Blodgett, ’delegate from Geor
gia. The former was arrested at Chicago
for stealing 8.730, from an old man at Mat
toon, Illinois, 18G5, the latter was arrested
in Chicago for attempting to incite a mob
to take the life a peaceful resident of Savan
nah, Ga., in ISiiO, causing said citizen to
lose a quantity of valuable papers. Fine
representatives, these, of the “God-and
morality party!”
Never Said “Nigger.” —Tlie “Black
and Tans ” at Chicago didn't have a word
to say about tlieir colored brethren exerci
sing tlie voting privilege in the Northern
States. The colored people should not
submit to this. They are as good as the
leaders of tlie Radical party; and no Rad
ical should claim for himself any right or
privilege which he would not be willing
to accord to liis loyal and intelligent col
ored supporters.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan. —We are pleased
to learn that Mrs. Mary E. Bryan is now
en route from Louisiana to Florida and
Georgia, on a visit to her relations. Her
friends and admirers in Georgia, and
especially those in Atlanta, will extend to
her a warm and cordial greeting. We
understand that she contemplates publish
ing a work while here. From her ac
knowledged ability as a writer, its forth
coming will be looked to with eagerness,
and hailed with delight.
New Humorous Work. —We learn that
Davie Longshore, Black Smith, designs
publishing a humorous work, finely illus
trated, entitled “Dave Longshore’s Gaities
and Gravities.” A large number of the
articles orignally appeared in the Macon
Telegraph, illustrating tlie late Convention
in this city. Mr. Lonsliorc resides at Li
thoria, we understand, and though a bril
liant writer, is rather an eccentric genius.
Affray. —The Rome Courier of the 2Gth
says Lewis Thompson and Billy Hicks had
a difficulty on Saturday night last, some
four or five miles east of Rome, which re
sulted in the latter shooting the former
twice with a revolver, one ball taking ef
fect on the side of tlie head and the other
in the foot, which is said to bo the most
serious wound.
Nashville is so full of “dead beats”
that the hotels are compelled to resort to
the ticket system at meals.
LETTER FROM CO 1.. O ASK 11,1.,
lie Can’t Swallow tlie Radical Plat
form.
Col. E. Hulbert, Tresident 11 Central Grant
Club-of State of Georgia:”
Dear Sir: Allow me, through you, to
tender my resignation as Secretary of the
above named club. “A decent respect to
the opinions of mankind,” constrains me
to present, through you, my reasons for
withdrawing from said club. “Principles,
not men,” should be the motto of every
patriot of America. That part of tlie Chi
cago platform particularly referring to tlie
South, I cannot endorse, nor properly char
acterize the humiliating position of those
men from the South who voted for it. Time
•alone will discover to them the depth of
thelT riSa-nmlng Rnp.” Gen. tTvsitnrs ’psSt
record gave assurances that lie would
never accept so harsh and proscriptive a
platform. I had it but a few days ago, al
most from his own lips, that lie would
sanction no party denying to tiic States
the right to regulate their own internal af
fairs. Tlie first declaration of principles!
by the party nominating him strikes the
dagger to the heart of Republican liberty,
and pledges the Government at Washing
ton to prevent Georgia, in the ftiture, if
She chooses, from conforming her Consti
tution to that of Ohio, New Y ork or Mas
sachusetts.
The perpetuity of “the States lately in
rebellion,” as organized under the military
bills, is regarded “as the duty of tlie Gov
ernment to sustain.” As well blot out our
State lines and inaugurate at once a con
solidated despotism. I can take no man
upon such doctrine, not even Gen Grant.
Nothing I have ever done has pledged me
to this.
Does it not look a little odd to you, my
dear sir, and did not you feel strangely in
winding up that Convention, after the
work I have referred to. by an endorse
ment of “the great principles laid down in
the immortal Declaration of Indepen
dence ?”
Having been a member of the Chicago
Convention, and having endorsed its plat
form, may I not say truthfully that you
declared that you are not the “equal” of a
Northern Radical? Have you not asserted
it to be the duty of Congress “to prevent”
you and me from enjoying a Constitution
al right? Did not such transitions re
quire “sharp and quick” work? None but
a well trained party mind could stand it.
The second declaration of principles sets
up one rule upon the question ot'suffrage
for the North and another for tlie South.
The Congressional rule for tlie South “must
be maintained.” while “all the loyal
States can do as they please upon the
second subject. Georgia admitted is
Georgia enslaved. The States though re
constructed are not equals.
Though the 14th article becomes part of
tlie Constitution of the United States,
Georgia is forbidden, if she should desire
it, to take the benefit of its provisions.
Another resolution, in substance, de
clares fealty to party tlie test of loyalty.
Ashburn had more magnanimity than
has the late Chicago platform. Ashburn
desired the removal of political disabilities
from everybody. The Chicago platform
would relieve only Radicals.
i have conformed in good faith to all tlie
demands of the military bills. I am,
therefore, entitled to reconstruction full
and complete, if a Republican promise is
worth anything. I can humiliate myself
no more unless compelled. None but
those “deaf to the voice of justice and con
sanguinity” can ask more. Tlie negro
made the Republican party—the negro will
kill it. The hair of the dog, it is said, is
good for the bite; therefore, the Demo
cratic party has been charged witii tlie at
tempt to destroy the Union, so may it be
the mission of the American Democracy,
in the providence of God, to restore Con
stitutional Union, if it ever comes?
May 1 not say of tiie Radical party “we
have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjured them
by tiie ties of our common kindred, to dis
avow these usurpations ?” But the cry is
“No mercy but to a Radical. He that be
lieveth in radicalism shall be saved, and lie
tiiat believeth not shall be damned.” From
such a loathsome picture, I turn hopefully
to the American Democracy, and in tlie
name of my suffering country I cry—save
or we perish.
When I announced for General Grant
for President, he was considered by all
parties a Conservative man, and incapable
of duplicity.
Ilis late controversy with tlie President
is before the country and his action in that
controversy disappointed the country, yet
pleased the Radical party; for they found
a man, after their own heart, who would
hesitate at nothing, for party ascendency.
Grant has degenerated. Ambition has
demoralized him. He is not the man lie
was, when he met General Lee at Appo
mattox Court House, and returned him his
sword. He is not the man he was, when
he took his Southern tour, passing through
this city, after the surrender, and reported
to President Johnson, of the spirit of the
South, that — all's well. No such man
could endorse the Chicago platform.
Sir, when Brown, Hulbert & Cos. first
embarked for reconstruction, under the
Military Bills, B. 11. Hill told us that re
construction meant radicalism—that loy
alty meant radicalism —that no concessions
would answer but concessions to party.—
i We denied it. The Radical party has proven
INUMBER 14
Hill a prophet, by '“Hilling his prophecy,
and we ought to own up.
The negroes in tlie next Legislati? vc "
not vote for a Senator who is against tlieir
holding office, and hence, in Chicago,
Brown moves up to a full uch.
radical ethics, and pronounces for political
equality.
Don't blame me for not going that far.—
I never agreed to. The military hills don’t
require it.
There are other very objeetlouai matters
in said platform, but if what lias been pre
sented does not justify my action to you
and your political associates, you would
not " be persuaded though one arose from
the dead.' 1 Excuse me to the Club, I can
not be a party to such transactions. .
rci'SonalljYlil'owVi7l).SUert A Cos. have
my regards, but politically, may the Chica
go Platform and all its advocates soon
come to grief.
Your obedient servant,
V. A. Gaskill.
A Reconstructed (Georgia Rebel in
Distress.
From the Chicago Tribune (radical,) May 2 !.;
Upon the heels of the session of the Na
tional Convention of the Republican party,
Foster Blodgett, Esquire, a delegate to the
Convention from the State of Georgia, was
arrested. The arrest was made in a civil
proceeding instituted in the Circuit, ('oiirt
of this county by one Janies Grangle. who
has within a few mouths been admitted to
practice at the bar of the Stated Illinois
The bail was fixed in the case at five thous
and dollars, which amount of real estate
security Mr. Blodgett, being a stranger in
tiie city, was unable to furnish, and hr.
therefore was compelled to remain in the
custody of the Sheriff.
Mr. Orangle sues Mr. Blodgett in an
action on tlie case for damages,.assessed by
him, at tlie modest sum of one hundred
thousand dollars.
The affidavit on which the capias issued,
stripped of all its technicalities, say - that
during the month of February, IsGO, tlie
plaintiff Orangle, being a resident of Sa
vannah, Georgia, went to tiie city of Augus
ta, in the same State, for tin? "purpose of
collecting some debts against a firm by tlie
name of Turley, Gray A Turley, ami that
the defendant incited a mob to oiler vio
lence to him. It is alleged that about tiie
Othday of February tlie plaintiff arrived at
Augusta and stopped at the United Stales
Hotel, and tlie defendant, maliciously con
triving to ruin him and bring ldm inio
public scandal, to prevent the coll. ti ion of
the debt and to put his life in jeopardy,
represented him to be an abolitionist who
ad come to Augusta to stir up the negroes
j servile war. The result, It is charged,
was that a large number of persons called
j upon him at his room, and ordered him to
| leave the city. A second visit, under tile
i like circumstances, is charged to have been
j in like means incited, and itiScharged HinE
| at this time the order was accompanied by
; a threat that his presence there on the
next day would be rewarded by hanging,
j A third notiiieation of the same nature it is
I sworn was given, and it is charged tiiat at
i least at one of these visits the defendant
was present.
On the following morning, it is averred, at
about two o’clock, the plaintiff was visited
by a crowd of people, who broke in the
door of his chamber, being incited by the
same means, took him from his bed, and
led him down stairs to a gallows widen
had been erected for him from tlie balcony
of the hotel. Prior to the act of leading him
down stairs, tlie affiant states that a rope
was placed around the neek of Mr. Orangle,
as though there was not only the my ins,
but the intent to hang him. From this
I difficult position he was rescued by tlie
j police of the city, who conducted him to
jail, the mob in the meanwhile making
j’way with his valise and its valuable con
tents.
| It is further alleged tiiat on the lOtii day
! of tlie same month, Mr. Blodgett contriv
j iug to injure, Ac., tlie plaintiff, appeared
j before a Justice of the Peace, and there
i accused him of being an inciter of .-erviie
| war, an abolitionist, and an abolition lec
turer. Sometime after that there was mi
examination, followed by an acquittal,
which was not, however, followed by re
lease, but by plaintiffs being taken-ti) tin*
office of Mr. Blodgett, as Mayor of Au
gusta, when he, Blodgett, spat in liis face,
kiched him and beat him, and incited.'the
bystanders to like acts of indignity. In
Consequence of all this, Orangle charges
that he was compelled to leave liis home at
Savannah, to his great loss.
The case come up in the Circuit Court,
yestex'day, upon a motion to quash t e
capias writ. The motion was based upon
its general want of sufficiency. * * *
Judge Pollard, of Georgia, stated that
probably it would make but little differ
ence what the bail was fixed at, inasmuch
as his associate upon the delegation was a
stranger here. He desired to know if the
Court could, under tlie statute of lUinois
receive and consider counter affidavits.
He stood ready to prove tiiat the whole
statement was false, in so far as it referred
to tlie defendant, and that, on the contra
ry, Mr. Blodgett, being an origipial Union
man, rescued the plaintiff from violence
offered him by a mob at Augusta, as well
as that the defendant came into disrepute
by reason of this and similar acts, in viola
tion of the then public sentiment of bis
section of country.
Tlie Court suggested tiiat sucli an in
quiry was more proper upon an applica
tion to discharge under a writ of habeas
corpus.
Further proceedings will, in ail proba
bility, be taken this day. if the records of
the courts have not been closed until Mon
day. The Judges of the Supreme Court, it
is understood, will not sit, and Judge Wil
liams has left the city.
The Crops. —ln a conversation with sev
eral planters from different sections of the
county, we learn that the cotton crop is
seriously injured, especially on the low
lands. Good seasons may yet bring it out,
but there is no doubt that it will fall very
far below what was anticipated at the com
mencement of tiie season. The corn crop
is looking and doing well.— Eufau.a News.
irgTFroni every section of the country
J around us we hear encouraging accounts
j from the planters. Corn and cotton both
j look well ; and tlie negroes left pretty
i mil h to themselves by the carpet-baggers
who do no now want their voles, are
j working much better than they did last
| iY&ti —Mima Messenger.
