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“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LE^v^afe TO COMBAT IT.”—Jeferson
VOLUME XIX.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESfe^, JUNE 12,1867.
NUMBER 24.
Wttkitf Jntflliflfncrr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, June I a, I SCO.
A New Nation-The Brlllih Proflarea of
North America.
Tlic New York Albion, commenting on wbal
we of the South may be permitted to term the
construction of the British provinces of Canada,
Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, into one na
tionality, gives denial to certain Northern jour
nals who have ventured to state that the people
of the provinces have not been consulted con
cerning said construction. On the contrary, it
says that the Imperial act designed to create
the new nation from the provinces combined,
opens with these words : “ Whereas, the prov
inces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Near Bruns
wick hnee expressed their desire to form a Federal
Union tinder the British Crown, for the purposes
<>i government and legislation, based upon the
principles of the British Constitution, be it there
fore enacted,” &c. This seems to settle the ques
tion raised by these Northern journals in regard
to w bet her the people of the British provinces have
been consulted as to the cru&liou of the new na
tionality of which each is to be a component
part, the three constituting the whole of it. It
nee ins that they have, and will govern themselves
accordingly. Hence the sympathies of the Post,
and other Northern journals, with the people of
the British provinces of Northern America at
their being constructed into a new nation, appears
t<> he entirely gratuitous, and is thus rebuked by
the Albion:
“In behalf, then, of Lhis prosperous, rising,
free, and eminently fortunate people of British
North America, we would say to our over anxious
American Cousins—“ Bestow your sympathies
and counsels upon your own disfranchised, dis
heartened and desponding countrymen, who are
now lying prostrate at the feet of not only youth
ful but ‘irresponsible’ and Inexperienced military
commanders—whose word is law, ‘till another
order Ls issued from these headquarters.’ Con
fer your j our criticisms upon your own self-willed
despots of high places in your own land; but
forbear further mis-statements in reference to
your neighbors, until you can, at least, compre
hend the spirit of freedom and good government.
The very foundation of these cherished liberties
the Northern Provinces are determined to per-
|m tuate on this continent, and before the close of
the present century there may possibly be other
communities on this continent desirous of join
iug the stable and well-governed Dominion of
Canada.’ ’’
Never was rebuke better timed, nor more de
served. it costs the North nothing to lavish
sympathy upon the people of Canada, or of
Crete, or of any other countrj', hut it does cost
*< unetbing to lavish it upon the disfranchised of
their own, especially if it lie of a practical na
ture, and designed to restore tranquility, peace,
and prosperity to a despoiled land and a de
spoiled people. If these Northern sympathizers
with the people of the British Provinces, would
hut turn tlieir attention to the people of the
Southern States, and deal with them justly, for
this is all they demand, that reconstruction of
the Union, apparently so much desired by'many
of them, whilo practically they offer so much of
obstruction to it, would ere this have been accom
plished, and long ere Canada, Nova Scotia, and
New Brunswick, would he hailed as one and a
new nation, the “Union” of the States would
be re-established, leaving not even the ‘Al
bion, nor any other British representative of
the >resa in America or elsewhere, the faintest
hope of “other communities on this continent”
becoming “ desirous of joining the stable and
well governed Dominion of Canada.” It is how
ever suid : “ Whorn the gods wish to destroy, they
tii st make mad.” May we hereafter see no illus
tration of the trite maxim in the future history
of the North in regard to Southern reconstruc
tion and the restoration of the “ Union !” The
“ madness (list has ruled the hour,” it is hoped
will pass away ere it shall destroy. The South
has only to be justly dealt with by the North to
iusure for each that union which is absolutely
necessary to the active prosperity of each in the
coming future. He who does not see this is nei-
iher philosopher nor statesman. “ New nations ”
may spring into being, around and about the
present boundaries of the American Republic,
but none shall ever compare with it, either in ex
tent or grandeur, it wisdom and patriotism pre
vail in the national council, and in the adminis
tration ot the Government.
No Confiscation Without Conviction for
Treason.
We respectfully invite the attention ot loyal
leaguers and others, who are filling the heads of
the freedmen with the absurd idea of confisca
tion and divisiou of lands, to the extract follow
ing, copied from the Courier, published in the
city of Buffalo, New York. They will find in
it food for reflection, and perhaps that which
'will help to dispel the immeuse amount of igno
rance mixed np with the terrible bugbear of con
fiscation :
The interpretation of laws in accordance with
judicial standards is destined to render null and
void nearly all the Radical schemes for vengeance
upon the Southern people. Since the close of
tue war there has been considerable “ mild con
fiscation ” of the property of men engaged in
the late rebellion, decreed by such Judges as
Pierre pont, Bustced, and others ot their class.
These confiscations and sales are understood to
nave been very profitable to the speculators at
whose instance the proceedings have been insti
tuted, and it is suspected that the Judges have
not been innocent of gains in connection with
i item. It is now in effect decided that these con
fiscatory proceedings are void. In the case of
an application for a writ of error to secure the
possession of property condemned to confisca
tion, Chief Justice Chase has granted it on the
ground that a condemnation of property as for
t reason, cannot take place until the party has
l»cen adjudged guilty by a jury; and further,
that the condemnation and sale of the absolute
cerate are in excess ot the Constitutional power
ot the court. The New York Times remarks
that this action of the court will probably prove
the precursor of not a little litigation. The
amount of property confiscated while the rebel
lion was in progress was very large, and in every
instance, we apprehend, the errors noticed by
ihe Chiel Justice were committed. The prop
erty was sold without any trial for treason, and
it was sold in tee, when a life-interest was all
that could have been disposed of, even after con
viction. Confiscation titles are worse than West
ern tax-titles, which are arnoug the poorest of se
curities.
Men who have come into the possession ot
real property lor a mere song will be compelled
to surrender it to us actual owners, and wiil lose
w hat little they may bare paid for foeir planta
tions. In addition, they will be liable to pro
ceedings lor trespass, and compelled to pay what
damages the owner may have sustained in being
deprived of his property without due process ot
law. Altogether, this is not a pleasing outlook
tor that class of disinterested patriots who cuai-
vluted South ou the assurance that there was “a
great deal of good laud down there ’’ which
could be had tor the taking.
It is entirely legitimate to remark that in many
instances where property, both real and personal,
was by agents, or pretended agents, of the
government, no return was made by them of the
property so seized, and not a dime of the pro
ceeds of which ever reichsd the cotters ot the
governmeut. When the passions of the hour
t-tiall have been followed by the sober second
thought, and reconstruction shall be perfected,
these villainies will all come up for investigation,
aud the plunderers be made to disgorge their ill-
gotteu gains.
The Hon. R. S. Donnell died at Newbern
North Carolina, on Monday morning.
'' hr followrsa “ proceedings ” of the meet
ing held in this city on yesterday, were handed
to his office by the Secretary thereof accom
panied with the request to publish them.—
W tether this was the desire of the meeting or
n<><, we are at a loss to determine, for no such
recuest is expressed, by resolution or otherwise,
in the proceedings; nevertheless, we presume
that it was, and as far os we have space and time
we give place to them in onr columns.
’he meeting was composed of an inconsidera
ble number of the citizens of Pulton and DeKalb
cot ntiea who doubtless expressed in their “ pro-
cetdings” what they honestly felt, but who, in
om judgment; initiated a movement and sug-
gt-tved a policy neither of which will be produc
tive of any good to Georgia or her people. As a
me e matter of courtesy, therefore, to the gentle-
me i composing the meeting, and nothing more,
we publish what we can of their lengthy pro
ceedings :
(■(•Use or She Cltlnaa of Valina and De-
Kalb Coaatlea.
Atlanta, Ga., June 4th, 1867.
Pursuant to announcement, a meeting of the
citizens of Fulton and DeKalb counties was held
at the City Hall to-day.
Col. T. C. Howard was called to the Chair,
anc Dr. Charles Pinckney requested to act as
Secretary.
On motion of Dr. Jas. P. Hambleton, a com
mittee, whose number was left to the discretion
of the Chair, was appointed to prepare business
for the meeting. Whereupon the Chair announ
ced the following names:
Dr. Jamea P. Hambleton, Chairman.
Capt. — Fowler, of DeKalb, Judge Echols,-
Dr.-J. F. Alexander, M. U. Sisson. Esq.,
Col. W. J. McGill, Eli Halsey,, Esq.,
Col. R. A. Alston, T. T. Smith, Esq.
Upon the retirement ot the committee, the
Chi.irman, Col. T. C. Howard, being called upon,
entertained the meeting in a forcible, and appro-
pri; te address. He had come there to act rather
tha.i to speak. The Radical party was denoun
ced as leading on to wreck and ruin—lashing
the already dismembered South to internal strife.
Weadell Phillips—the most powerful man North
ot Mason and Dixon’s line—bad said that but
30,COO votes were required to place the Demo
crais in power, and recent elections North har
monized with the assertion. Men in our midst,
wit:i dinner-pot masks over their heads, might
talk of the principles ot the Sherman 8. Bill;
he could see no principle but tyranny in it—a
prii ciple which might condemn a man for high
tree son because he don’t believe in infant bap
tism. There were, no doubt, some honest men
in tie Radical party—misguided men—but there
were others of that infamous organization whose
honesty might well be questioned. The Sher
man bill has nothing of finality in it. No poli-
ticit.n North or Booth could say that it offers a
finality to the question of admission. Hell has
no end, and that bill must end somewhere, in
which consists the chief difference between the
two. AUudiug to the negro he was the negro's
friend—ready to accord him ail rights short of
social equality and .that which some of the
Northern States refuse him even to this day—
the right of nnqualifled suffrage. Look at Ten-
nesi ee I What has she gained ? The disfran
chisement of 80,000 ot her best and most intelli
gent. citizens. She is in the Union, bat she is
swayed by a Radical mob, with a fiend at its
hea l who tries to prove how much ot the devil
may be crowded within the narrow limits of one
human heart. Aye! and Georgia, too, can get
bad; by giving assurance to Radicalism that she
will fkvor the election of Chase, or any other of
like stamp, to the Presidency. Let us not do it.
Let us scorn the death of the suicide. For bis
part, he infinitely preferred the military man in
Atlanta to-day, who is a gentleman, to the red
rule of Radical mobocracy. [Applause.]
The above is but a brief outline of Col. H.’s
remarks.
Cn the return of the committee, its report was
rend by the chairman, Dr. Hambleton, and
adopted unanimously.
Y'here as, The principles of all free govern
ment have been subverted and repudiated in the
Conmonwealth of Georgia, by. a tyrannical, ma
lign ant and cruel Radical party now controlling
the Legislative department of this Governmeut;
and,
Whereas, The citizens of the said Common-
wet 1th ot Georgia, in conjunction with the citi
zen i ot nine other sister commonwealths, have
beei reduced to the condition of the most abject
vas lalage, with their lives and property subject
in our midst, aud their equality before the law;
and that it is both our duty and purpose to en
courage their enlightenment, to protect them in
tlieir rights of person and property; and in re
membrance of their having been a most faithful
aud obedient people, Georgia is not only willing
that in their present condition they shall enjoy
every right aud privilege previously enjoyea,
or at this time enjoyed by them in any Btate,
North or South, but it is the sense of this meet
ing that they should be entitled to a homestead
tr >m the public lands, as other citizens, and that
owing to their general poverty, we think they
should lie relieved of all taxation for the next ten
years.
8. Resolved, That we urge every good citizen
to register under the provisions of the Military
bill, with the view that the fair and honored es
cutcheon of Georgia may not be sullied and dis
honored by the acceptance of the “ infamous
Sherman Act.”
I 1 . Resolved, That it is the judgment of this
meeting that if an unscrupulous Congress can
deliberately overthrow the liberties of ten mil
lions of people, and annihilate the governments
of teu sovereign Southern States, the liberties of
the entire American people are in great jeopardy.
Col. Alston here read an able argument pre
pared by the committee in defense of the resolu
tions.
[We have neither space nor time for the in
sertion of tiie lengthy argument handed in by
the Secretary of the meeting for publication.
Int.]
Upon motion, the argument was unanimously
adopted as &d accompaniment to the resolutions.
Col. Alston moved the appointment of a perma
nent committee to further the objects of this
meeting in the comities ot Fultoa and DeKalb.
Carried.
The chair, alive to the great importance ot
such a committee, requested time in the appoint
ment of its members.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
T. C. Howard, Chairman.
(’has. Pinckney, Secretary.
•r c>
to the fickle behests of foreign military rulers;
and,
Whereas, Their homes have been desolated,
the: r laws abolished, their substance devoured,
the r kindred slain, and their rights subordinated
by his Radical party; and,
Whereas, This said Radical party, through
a venal and incendiary public press; by corrup-
tior.; by insidious teaching; by traveling emis
saries ; by military force, and through the blight
ing influences of swarms of petty officials and
itinerant missionaries, have combined for the to
tal lestruction of every constitutional right, and
of every land-mark and memento ot our unpar
alleled civilization; and,
Whereas, This said Radical party demand,
through the “Sherman Act,” that Georgia, by
her own volition, shall disfranchise her most
gal ant and intelligent sons; shall brand them
as traitors, and thereby render their names and
uie nories odious and infamous; and
Whereas, The “Sherman Act” requires us
to (tigmatize, anathematize, and forever defame,
degrade, disown, damn and dishonor the immor
tal heroes who surrendered their lives that we
might be free; and
Whereas, The object of the “ Sherman Act ”
is to radicalise Georgia, and saddle the State, in
her impoverished condition, with an extra debt
of five hundred thousand dollars, to incur the
expenses of holding a convention called without
the authority ot her laws, and palpably in viola
tion ot the Constitution, for the express purpose
of converting her free-born sons ’into vassals,
and branding others as traitors and felons; and
Whereas, The “ Sherman Act” requires us
to write “ rebel," “ traitor, ” and “ felon,” upon
the graves ot onr fallen heroes, and upon tue
bright chaplets of onr living braves, besides sub
jecting os to the most degrading snrveilance and
humiliating legislation; therefore, be it
1. Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting
that Georgia cannot accept the “ Sherman Act ”
without dishonor and degradatkta.
2. Resolved, That Georgia, by her own acts,
will never accept any terms or conditions prece
dent whereby her liberties are endangered or her
people stigmatized.
S. Resolved, That Georgia will never, by her
own acta, become a party to the overthrow ot
the rights and liberties of any State or individual
and will forever maintain, to the best of her
ability, the great principle of constitutional free
dom.
4 Resolved, That Georgia only asks, as it is her
right to expect, and her duty to demand under
the guarantees of the Constitution of which she
was a co-architect and builder, the same privi
leges and immunities as those enjoyed by any
other State composing the American Union.—
She asks nothing more, will never accept any
less.
5. Resolved, That Georgia desires to live on
terms ot harmony and fraternity with every
State and citizen of the American Union, and
having sacrificed more than half of her wealth and
many thousand lives ot her youth and chivalry
to accomplish that end, yet, we are not willing
to cot onr throats to obtain that much cherished
object.
6. Resolved, That Georgia is satisfied with the
American Union as restored and administered
by His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States, and we pledge ourselves to
meet heartily co-operate with the President and
Uie great Conservative Union party of the North
ern States, in cementing the onion of the Slates,
Hpyujtwg the national honor, maintaining the
principles of free government, and perpetuating
peace, onion, fraternity and prosperity through
out our common country.
7. Resolved, That Gaoigia acknowledges, in
tbs fullest senes, tbs freedoaa ot the colored race
South Georgia A Florida Railroad.
At a meeting of the citizens of Thomaaville,
held this day, tor the purpose of considering the
location of the South Georgia & Florida Rail
road, the following resolutions were adopted
with but one dissenting voice :
Resolced, That it is the sense of this meeting,
that it is lo the interest of Thomasville, and the
railroad enterprise itself, to have the road to
commence at Thomasville and built direct to
Albanj’.
Resolved, That we hereby pledge ourselves to
meet cheerfully such taxes as may be necessary
to pay the interest on such bonds as may be
issued by the town of Thomasville, and that we
recommend the Mayor and Aldermen of Thom'
asville, to pass an ordinance for that purpose
upon the ad valorem system.
Resolved, further. That we will submit to such
income aud capitation tax, as may be necessary
to make the said bonds available.
Resolved, That the Thomasville, Savannah,
Macon and Albany papers be requested te pub-
lish the above proceedings.
R. J. Bruce, Chairman.
The Southern Enterprise, from which we take
the above proceedings, contains the following
editorial notice, which will probably arrest at
tention :
We are requested by Mayor Harris to state,
for the information of the colored people of
Thomasville, that under the law of equality,
they are entitled to vote at theelection to beheM
in Thomasville, on the first Wednesday in Jane,
on the question of City Bonds, for the South
Georgia & Florida Railroad.
1‘axatlon ot tike Feoplt.
When such journals aa Harper’s Weekly find
fault with the action of the. Radical party, it is
time the people began to look at facta as they
are, aud not be led captives by their passions
and prejudices. Alter declaring that “the great
and paramount question of the day will soon be
the debt and taxation of the people,” that paper
says:
We cannot help thinking, and saying, too, In
strict confidence to the readers of this journal,
that stupid, and dull, and voiceless as the public
may be, he has some rights which politfeians
will sooner or later, have to recognize. He is
now paying tax at the rate of seven per cent.,
more than is paid by the most heavily taxed, pea-
pie of Europe, and at the same time he is paying
for commodities of all kinds, and labor, fifty-
five and one hundred and fifty per cent more
than any other people in the world. In England
the taxes are heavy, no doubt, but food, clothing
and rent are cheap. In Russia living is expen
sive, but the taxes are light; but here in the
United States the public groans under the simul
taneous burden ot heavy taxes and expensive
living. We have a notion that, sooner or later,
he will rebel against this load, and that the party
that laid it on his shoulders will itself be laid
prelly low.
The Agricultural Depart meat.
The Charleston Mercury gleans some interest
ing facts from the report of the Agricultural De
partment for April. In regard to cereals, the
“ statistics show how much less corn and wheat
per acre is raised in this and similarly situated
States than is raised in the North, and North
auu Southwest. In Maine, New Hampshire,
and Vermont in 1866, the crop of corn per acre
was about 33 bushels, and of wheat from 12 to
20 bushels. • lu New Jersey the yield was; corn
43 bushels, and wheal 13 bushels ; in Virginia,
corn 20 bushels aud wheat 6 bushels; in Ohio,
corn S3 bushels and wheat 4 bushels; in Iowa,
corn 31 bushels and wheat 16 bushels; in North
Carolina, corn 12 bushels and wheat 5 bushels;
in Georgia, corn 6 bushels and wheat 4 bushels ;
hi Alabama, corn 9 bushels and wheat 5 bushels;
in Louisiana, corn 17 bushels and wheat 6 bush
els ; in Texas, corn 26 bushels and wheat 12
bushels; against corn 5 bushels and wheat 4
bushels in the State ot South Carolina.”
The Mobile Mas*.
The Mobile business, growing out ot Judge
Kelley’s visit to that city, seems likely to be in
terminable in some of its sequences. Leo, the
correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writes
about it:
The course of the military commander in re
lation to the removal of the Mayor of Mobile is
much condemned here by all judicious men.—
General Swayne’s own report ot the facta, in bis
letter to General Pope, does not justify the re
moval of the Mayor. As fet, the military order
overthrowing the municipal government of Mo
bile has not been annulled by the Executive.
Whether the President will interfere at all is
doubted. The military commanders are, in some
respects, apt to forget that they are not required
by the objects of the military law to do anything
more than may be necessary to insure a peaceful
registration and election. Generally the South
ern towns have been less exposed to riots than
those ot the North and West.
The Crops.—The harvests ot two hemis
pheres are just now full ot promise. The re
ports from England are favorable, and according
to the latest advices from France the weather
continues fine, and the accounts from the depart
ments respecting the crops are most satisfactory.
In the great West this is also true. The St.
Paul Press predicts for Minnesota a heavy yield
of wheat in that State this season. Like other
Stales it has made extraordinary efforts to plant
large crops. The area of land in wheat in Min
nesota frontier settlements, where the scarcity of
seed prevails, is four times as much as was sown
to wheat last year. The spring weather has been
exceedingly auspicious. At least fifteen million
bushels of wheat will be produced in Minnesota
this year if no casualty intervenes to darken the
present brilliant prospect.
Tin. Bishopric.—A correspondent of the Au
gusta Chronicle suggests the name of Rev. C.
P. Gadsden, of St Lake’s Church, Charleston,
as a suitable person to fill the office of Riahnp
of Georgia.
The case made by Georgia before the Supreme
Court of the United States on the Shermcn-Mili-
tary biff, tor the present at least—and until an
other political revolution shall make a radical
change in Congress by divesting the radicate, or
radical party, of all-power in it—settles the
question as to the supremacy of that body in the
Government. Whatever of protection the State-
ship of the ten Southern Stales, or ot any other
State, may have had ia the past under those writ
ten provisions ot the Constitution by which they
claimed that protection, there is none now. The
States u are as clay in the potter’s hand,” being in
the hands of Congress, and ot them that body
may, for a time, make what they please. Says
the “ Sir Oracle ” of the United States Senate,
Mr. Sumner, “ the time has passed when this
power can he questioned. Congress has already
exercised it in the refep States. I do not forget
its hesitations. Only f year ago when I insisted
that it must do so, and Introduced a bill to this
effect, I was answered that a constitutional
amendment was needed, and I was voted down.
A change came, and in a happy moments. Con
gress exercised the power. The power is unques
tionable in the other Slates also." What power ?
Nothing more nor less than the power to force
the States of the Union—each and every one of
them—to recognize the supremacy of Congress
in the Government—i|s supremacy over the Ex
ecutive and the judicial departments thereof—its
supremacy over the Constitution and over the
army and navy whose enactments foe two latter
must enforce. Should the President veto, his
veto will be set aside, is it has been, by foe two-
thirds vote. Should appeals be made to foe Ju
diciary Department of foe Government, they
will, as they have been, be set aside for want of
jurisdiction. Should resistance be made in any
.quarter to unconstitutional legislation, foe army
and foe navy will suppress it. And it is now
with foe North as it kwith foe South-it is now
with New York as it is with Georgia—Stateship
is overthrown and Congress is supreme.
Win any one have, the audacity to say that
this is foe government bequeathed through that
written compact, or constitution, by the fathers
who made it in days fbat are past, to their chil
dren ol the present day ? Not one; not even
Mr. Stunner will pretend that it is so; nor is it
even asserted by foe leaders of that party now
in power, claiming to be supreme over all other
branches of the General Government, and over
what was once esteemed to be foe sovereign
States of foe “ Unio*.” On foe contrary, foe
assertion is made; it is uttered in foe Senate
chamber and in foe Representative hall; it is
asserted in tbe Northern press, and even upon
the Bench ; that this is a new era, in which
States have lost their sovereignty; individuals
their civil liberty; property, protection. Con
gress only is supremi^atui States and individuals
most bow to its behests. Be it so! If foe North
can bear with foe assumption, of course foe
South must and will. “ Sauce for foe goose is
sauce for foe gander.” Whether foe sauce, ot
which so much has Already been swallowed by
the Sonfo, is palatable to it, or not, it has some
consolation in the rejection that foe North, ac
cording to Mr. bnrnaer and foe Radical party, of
which he is one of ifslirost prominent leaders,
most swallow it also. - Time will tell whether
the sauce be nauseating or pleasant to it. Time
will tell whether the once, so termed, Free
States will submit, for foe sake of foe negro, to
surrender their several claims to sovereignty,
and rights under foe Constitution, as foe States
of the South aie required to do. If they be so
inclined, then, well! If they be not, then—
what f As it is, no practical good can be secured
to foe South, by disputing this asserted supre
macy, enforced as it will be, and as it is now
being, at foe point, as it were, of foe bayonet.
Resistance to it at foe ballot box, even it success
ful, will only entail, in onr judgment, upon an al
ready oppressed and suffering people, still more
of oppression and suffering. “What though foe
field be lost, all is not lost.” There is yet much
to be saved. Georgia must not become what
Tennessee now ia It must not faff into radical
keeping. Her people mast unite and save her
from so sad, so deplorable a late.
IakRacksaat In Tennessee.
Radicalism in Tennessee has capped foe climax
of its infamy by impeaching foe Hon. Thomas
N. Frazier. Judge of foe Criminal Court of
Davidson county, and one of foe best and purest
men in that or any other State. It all foe virtue
and honesty of foe entire Radical party ot that
afflicted Commonwealth could be coucentrated
in either ot foe members of foe cOurt which tried
him, foe recipient would be unworthy to loose
foe latchets of Tom. Frazier’s shoes. We trust
Judge Frazier will not permit himself to be an
noyed in the least by foe verdict, as it is foe
highest compliment that could be paid to his
integrity, both as a man and an officer.
The Nashville Gatetie says of the infamous
proceeding:
Thus a venerable citizen, grown gray in public
duty, and laden with foe honors lavished on him
by a people that knew him and trusted him,is made
the butt of Radical malice. Not content with re
moving him from office, they go the whole length
of their ill-gotten power, and would disqualify
him from holding office forever. They would
disgrace him I They wonld affix an everlasting
stigma to his name! Fortunately they have not
tiie power I God has constituted tbe world other
wise. Thomas N. Frazier comes forth from foe
ordeal as pore as gold from foe cracible. The
trial he has undergone has vindicated his noble
reputation for honesty and impartiality. All the
inventive malice ot Brownlowism failed to dis
cover a single flaw in his character, his judges
were, per force, compelled to condemn him, on
political grounds only. He stands, to-day, higher
in the esteem ot all honest men than ever before
in a life-time of pore unselfish well-doing—“ an
Israelite indeed, ia whom there is no guile.”
The Hear BepnaaaiattvM In Congress.
The New York Herald claims that foe South
will have one handled thousand votes, and be
able to return eighty or ninety people to Con
gress ; and asserts that, as a result of Republi
can blundering, the white vote will elect three-
fonrths of foe new members. There will, then,
no longer be n mere party rule, and the Southern
members will put Congress again in the normal
condition of a legislative body. There is, how
ever, one dark spot, and the Herald grows
becomingly indignant:
"Perhaps the Radical policy may be so far
successful in the Soufo that in foe new Southern
representation there will be half a dozen niggers.
Should foie be foe case it will excite the wonder
and digust of the wold. It will be justly re
garded aa the moat remarkable and revolting
spectacle of foe age- It will famish an argu
ment to focae who bold that a tendency to
ikgiwlsliiei exists in institutions baaed upon
universal suffrage, since it will seem to show
ti.** jn ohnnmn our lawmakers from a race just
brought from a servile condition we do not seek
to be governed by the wisdom, education and
intellect of foe uatinu, but are ready to pander
to the moat debasing debaucheries of Demo
cratic theory.”
This, says the Charleston Merest ry, is exactly
what the people of the South always claimed to
be the fact ; and, if the Herald is being converted,
it k became the logic of events cannot be
overcome.
The parties who robbed Mr. Weaver, formerly
afebkrof tise Fhmtsre’ Bank, Nashville, here
been arrested, and the property stolen rescued.
John Grant kthenama of onset foe
Tiro Fate al LaalaUaa.
A special correspondent of foe New York
Tribune writing from New Orleans, says:
“ In the parish of New Orleans, which includes
this city and its suburbs, there have been regis
tered, np to the present time, 22,646 voters, of
whom 13,573 are negroes, and 9,073 are whites.
In 24 other parishes, from which I have obtained
returns, there are registered 16,348 voters, of
whom 13,866 are negroes, and 2,482 are whites.
Thk gives a total of 38,994 voters, and a major!
ty of 15,884 negroes.”
Commenting on the foregoing statement in foe
Tribune, the Baltimore Gazette says:
“ The voting population ot Louisiana in 1860
was a fraction over fifty thousand, and not one-
tenth of those citizens will participate m the Sep
tember election. The Tribune claims, and we
have no doubt correctly, that the vast majority
ot the blacks will vote lor and with foe rene
gades and interlopers who represent the Radical
party in the Sonfo, and It k by no means impro
bable that its candidates will have a majority of
twenty thousand. The condition of Louisiana
foreshadows what foe situation of several other
States will be after the mifftary commanders who
rule them shall have completed their arrange
ments for seeming foe ascendency of foe Radi
cal faction.”
Not so, we trust and believe, with Georgia.—
Here the preponderance will be with foe white
vote, so largely, that even were foe radicals to
secure the whole negro vote, which we have no
idea they can, still they cannot carry foe State in
the general elections which are to come off this
fall and winter. We have no idea either thatin
this military district any undue influences will be
tolerated by its commander, General Pope, to
secure “ ascendency of foe Radical faction ”
whatever may be tolerated or connived at in foe
other military districts of foe Soufo, as intima
ted in foe Gazette. Georgia, therefore, or rather
her people have foe ability of saving themselves
from what we fear will be the fate of Louisiana,
and perhaps of Sonfo Carolina, and that they
will so act when they go to the polls, we have
no donbt. In some of foe Southern States, says
foe same paper, “ foe black race naturally out
number foe whites, and in others enough of foe
latter will be disfranchised for foe purpose of
giving a preponderating influence to foe former,'
and from this it draws foe following, as we be
lieve, correct conclusions:
“ In a number of States, therefore, foe old con
dition of things will be reversed, and negro
judges, legislators and congressmen will make
and execute laws for the men of our own blood.
Whether foe white population can endure to live
in such a situation, or whether foe prosperity of
foe country or even its civilization is likely to
be maintained under negro rule are questions we
think we can safely reply to. All history an
swers them in foe negative, and if a different so
lution awaits them now it will be because the
world and human nature have undergone some
wonderful change of which we confess our
selves to be in ignorance. In no age and
in no country have foe negroes ever succeeded
in establkbing a government which was entitled
to foe slightest respect or consideration, and we
see nothing to warrant foe idea that they can
form or administer one now. When they take
possession, therefore, of foe Golf States they
will, unless foe Federal armies wield over them
a more relentless despotism than they have ever
as yet exercised, gradually convert those States
Into another St. Domingo. Itk because of these
convictions that we watch so sadly and despair
ingly the progress of thk revolution. The charge
that we are animated by mere prejudice or by
dislike to the black man we shall leave time to
refute. We have as little ill feeling against him
as foe Radicals have love for him. R k for his
good as well as for our own that we have op
posed the schemes of those who would now use
iim, bat who would afterwards exterminate him
aa ruthlessly as they do foe Indians. Not one
in a hundred ot the politicians of the country
believe foe grounds upon which the New York
Trijbune advocates foe Radical policy to be any
thing but sentimental nonsense, or that “impar
tial justice” and “manhood suffrage” are any
thing more tjian party catchwords. The leaders
ol the extremists want to get possession of foe
South through foe negro, and then get possession
of foe negro. They intend to use or abase him
precisely as their interests or convenience may
dictate, and alter they find that they can make
no more out of foe ruined Soufo they will not
only no longer strive to prevent foe inevitable
war of races, bat will be found to be foe negro’s
most vindictive enemy.”
Never was truth more timely uttered than it
is in the foregoing, to wit: That “ foe leaders oj
foe extremists (or radicals) want to get possession
of the South through foe negro, and then get pos
session of the negro;” and, mark it, freedmen of
foe South, and especially of Georgia, when they
get possession of foe negro, “ they intend to use
or abuse him precisely as their interests or con
venience may dictate, and after they find they
can make no more ont of foe ruined Soufo, they
will no longer strive to prevent the inevitable
war of races, but will be found foe negro's most
vindictive enemy." Such will be foe “end of foe
beginning,” let radical policy prevail in whatever
Southern State it may. Ill-fated, or rather ill-
situated Louisiana, we fear, will be the first to
feel the effects of that policy. That she, and all
her sister Southern States, may escape it, and
foe worse than St Domingo fete foreshadowed
in the present, will be the prayer of every patri
ot, and every philanthropist in foe land.
[oonmncATKD.]
Chief Justice Joseph Hour) Lumpkin.
“ His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, this was a jus."
On yesterday the announcement was made to
the public, through the columns ot the morning
papers, that foe Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia,
was dead; and though on account of the ex
tremely critical condition in which this distin
guished man was known to have been for some
weeks past, foe news was not unexpmed, yet,
nevertheless, was it most difficult to realize that
his great soul had indeed soared to its eternal
home. The pale-faced messenger has made ma
ny' inroads among the great intellects of our
State, during foe last four years, and we would
fain have hoped that we might have been spared
this overwhelming calamity.
Judge Lumpkin was, indeed, a most remarka
ble man. His grand and towering mind was
controlled by a pure and noble heart. As
scholar, he was polished and cultivated “ usque
ad ungusm as an advocate, McGregor never
marshaled his clan npon his native heaths with
greater success; as foe head of the Judicial De
partment of the State of Georgia, he has erected
foe greatest of monuments to himself in the ju
ridical learning displayed in his decisions; as a
gentleman, he belonged to the school of the old
en time; as a Christian, bis exemplary life has
famished an immortal example to posterity. In
fact, he possessed,
“ A combination, and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.”
The Impression which this great man has
made upon his race, is like to the inscription
upon foe tombs of foe Egyptian kings, which will
be eradicated and sink into oblivion only with
the pyramids of the desert.
As an orator, Chief Justice Lumpkin stood
unexcelled; Providence had blessed him pecu
liarly in this respect. He had an imagination
both strong and vivid; language flowed from
him as from one inspired, which, combined with
his immense intellectual force and the sweetest
ot voices, musical to the last degree, rendered
him well calculated to retain all within the hear
ing of his outpourings of eloquence bewildered
and spell-bound. Those of us whose memory
reaches back to the day when the late Chief
Justice was an active member of the profes
sion which he so greatly ornamented, cpn doubt
less recall the lofty flights of his genius and the
soothing melody of his voice, which, together
with the moral toneot the man, oft brought tears
to foe eyes of courts, juries and bar.
When his life had reached its prime, the heavy
drafts upon the health of Judge Lumpkin, made
by constant and unremitting attention to his
overwhelming practice, rendered it absolutely
necessary that he should cease for a time his
professional labors and seek relaxation. His
cultivated taste pointed to a tour in Europe,
where he might enjoy the beauties of nature aud
art, for the appreciation of which his learning
and education so eminently suited him. He had
scarce crossed the bosom of the broad Atlantic
ere he was notified that liis State required his
services upon foe Supreme Bench; he imme
diately returned, and in the year eighteen hun
dred and forty-five commenced foe discharge of
his judicial duties. This great lawyer, learned
and grounded thoroughly as he was in the prin
ciples of foe old common law, was, by no means,
bonnd down by those forms and precedents
which had not changed with the progressive
times in which we live, but was most emphati
cally an advocate of reform. He regarded equity
as foe sonl and spirit of all law, and the most ex
pedient mode of reaching equity was the one
which he desired to introduce’ in the execution
of justice in his native State.
Time may work its many changes, memory
may cease to retain much that is noble and true,
but so long as law is known to the people ol
Georgia, so long will the name of Lumpkin be
pronounced with veneration and love. The
giant oak, which has towered for generations an
ornament and a pillar of strength to its native
forest, may be torn up by the sweeping and deso
lating tornado, though never so grand and sub
lime as when crashing to the earth, yet it leaves
an aching void which nought can fill. The great
soul has left its earthly tabernacle, and now
awaits judgment at the bar of eternal justice;
and if a virtuous, charitable aud Christian course
on earth there receives its reward, the great
Chief Justice is now in the fall enjoyment of that
promised bliss which a long and well spent life
so eminently deserves.
“ He ia gone who seemed bo great—
Gone; bat nothing can bereave him
Of the force he made his own
Being here, and we believe him
Something far advanced in State,
And that he. wears a truer crown
Than any wreath that man can weave him.” *
Over Vh«a Have the Abolitionists 1 rl-
aaaphed t
“ Words fitly spoken are like apples of gold
in pictures of silver.” Such were these words ot
Henry Clay, great “ Harry ot foe West,” when
in 1839, he, prophet-like, foretold the war and
its terrible results. Speaking of foe abolitionists,
he said :
“ But it they were to conquer, whom should
they conquer? A foreign fife; one who has in
sulted our flag, invaded our shores and hud onr
country waste ? No, sir, no; sir I It would be a
conquest without laurels, without glory; a self,
a suicidal conquest; a conquest of brothers over
brothers, achieved by one over another portion
of the descendants of common ancestors, who
nobly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honor, and fought and bled, side by
side, in-a hard' bottle on land and ocean—sev
ered our country from foe British Crown and
established our independence.”
Is it not so? And are these people—these
conquered people—to be treated as though they
were beyond the pale of civilization, and not aa
foe descendants of a common ancestry? The
trinmph, such as it was, can only redound to the
honor of the victors and the glory of the Repub
lic, in foe magnanimity displayed by them to the
vanquished.
Gonio Back on the Neobo.—Oberlin, Ohio,
which for years has been the noted headquarters
of abolitionism and freelovkm, has got more of
the former than ft contracted for, and k sending
all the colored folks away who are not able to
provide for themselves and pay a little surplus
into the common treasury. The African k a
greet inetftfttiou with the people of the Western
Reserve as long as he doesn’t cost anything, and
can be used to contribute to their interest or
pleasure. But when that fails they have no fur
ther occasion for the poor dilapidated cuss, and
at once proceed to kick him beyond the bounds
of their philanthropy. Several cases of the kind
have recently occurred at Oberlin.
Contradiction.— 1 The special Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun has author
ity fiw stating that the New York Timed dispatch
alleging that President Johnson wrote a letter
inviting John C. Breckinridge Ao return to this
country, k without the slightest truth. Thecoo-
tradktioa was altogether unnecemaiy, as no one
believed far a moment that the President had
written anything of the sort
Political chances In the North.
Mr. J. W. Overall, a prominent citizen of New
Orleans has just returned to that city from a tour
in foe North and West, and it is interesting to
hear what report he brings back from those sec
tions. We copy from the Crescent :
I found, said he, in Maryland, New York,
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri,
that Radicalism was virtually dead. I do not
say this to flatter you. I found that the military
tell was growing unpopular among the massess
as also among foe politicians, for they feared it
might eventually be also applied to them. I
found a growth of liberal opinion; and foe best
evidence of this was foe cordial r eception ac
corded to Mr. Monroe. [Applause.] You have
in President Johnson and the majority of his
Cabinet, your most conscientious friends. He
stands as foe champion of constitutional liberty
on thk continent.
We found in the Attorney-General, too, a man
of infinite determination, who talked more like
a Louisiana planter than a man from foe fair
regions of Ohio. Perhaps we can find no better
illustration than the remark of Long John
Wentworth. Said he, “The radicals, in passing
foe military biff, played their last card. They
had enough to have kept the game for twenty-
fire years, bat foe d—d fools were in too much
of a bury.” The people of foe North, gentle
men, want your co operation—their feelings are
kindly—they want peace and quiet restored to
the country.”
Death of Gen. A. P. Hill.—The special
correspondent of foe New York Times, who
has been visiting the works around Petersburg,
Virginia, gives the following account of the
death of Gen. A. P. Hill in a letter dated
May 26th -.
In connection with the defense of Fort Gregg,
I must also mention a fact which I learn from
General Mahone, in regard to the death of foe
distinguished Confederate corps commander, A.
P. Hill. General Lee’s headquarters were but
a short distance in the rear of Gregg, in a house
on foe Boyd ton pl&nkroad, between the fort and
foe town. At foe time Fort Gregg was carried
Gens. Hill and Mahone were in conversation
with Lee at bis headquarters. As the firing
grew nearer and nearer, Lee, intently listening
to foe sounds, suddenly turned to Hill and said :
“How is this, General, your troops are giving
way ?” Upon this Hill mounted his horse,
dashed to foe front, bat while galloping down
foe road he suddenly came upon two men in
blue uniforms. “Throw down your arms!”
shoaled the General. But the men qnickly
sprang behind a tree, and leveling their pieces,
fired. Hill fell from his horse dead.
The Express.—The Express Company have
established a line over foe Brunswick Road from
Macon to Hawkiraville. This will prove a great
convenience to citizens of both places.
Brevities.
It is delightful to find how much real sympa;
thy with distress there is in foe world. All that
is needed is something to bring it out. One
touch of nature makes foe whole world kin !
Just now our exchanges overflow with condo
lences with Mr. A. T. Stewart, foe merchant
prince of New York, on foe diminntion of his
income. Last year it was over three millions—
but this year it has fallen to a little over seven
hundred thousand dollars. So sudden a down
fall naturally touches foe tenderest cords of the
human heart To see a man thus reduced, in a
single year, from affluence to a steady receipt of
two thousand dollars a day, is certainly heart
rending.
The English papers fear that this year will
witness the dire shadow of last year’s commer
cial eclipse. There is in England a perfect dearth
of credit, which is already painfully and pinch
ing ly felt, and much of it k ascribed to foe in
solvency of the railroads upon which many
femilies have depended for small incomes in foe
shape ot dividends. Money that Mas borrowed
when money was easy to obtain, has now to be
repaid when it is all but impossible to borrow,
•and many families of moderate means are cast
ing their hundred a year into an abyss from
which not a particle of it can ever return. This
condition, we suspect, is not peculiar to Eng-
lan J.
They have tried successfully electro-magne
tism in the smelting of iron. A fixed electro
magnet is placed opposite an opening in foe side
of the furnace; the magnet is excited by means
of a Stnee’s battery, and the current of magne
tism is directed into the molten metal. The et-
feci is described as being surprising. The metal
appears to bubble and boil; the metal is expedi
ted, which economises fuel; and the quality of
the iron is so much improved that for toughness
and hardness it can hardly be equaled.
We see advertised in an English paper a
“Vowell Washing Machine.” This must be
something new. If it washes consonants as well
as vowels, its general use wonld ensure foe purity
of the language. The New York Courier says:
It might be tried upon the editorials of foe Chica
go Tribune and the speeches of Gov. Brown-
low, but if the dirt were washed from these
there would be nothing lett. The advertisement
also informs us that one of the machines, label
ed as I, will “ wash, say equal to twenty shirts.”
It we only knew how much one shirt wonld
wash, foe basis of calculation would be all right.
The following from the Herald ot foe 29th
is significant: “ We see that Gen. Sherman has
renounced his trip to foe Holy Land, his pre
sence on the frontier being deemed necessary by
the Government. However unfortunate this
inay be for his piety, it is good for his political
interests. When he is nominated next year for
Vice President, it is just as well that he should 1
be on band. The Radicals talk of nominating
Ben Wade or Dick Busteed lor foe position;
but we rather think that Gen. Grant wonld pre
fer his Lieutenant-General filling it The mili
tary hierarchy in the government will then be
complete.” By this it would appear that foe
North have become reconciled to the fact that
liberty is dead and the Constitution bnried.
General Scofield’s late order destroys civil
rule in Virginia, and makes the military commk-
sion supreme in practice as it already was in feet
As the Richmond Dispatch well says: “It is
another proof that we have no rights which our
conquerors are bound to respect. TJie record
mast be made up for foe judgment of mankind
now, and of posterity.”
A writer in one of the New York weeklies
has much to say against the adaptedness oi what
is called “ intellectual preaching.” to Sunday
audiences. He maintains that allusions to as
tronomy, geology and physiology are ont of
place in foe pulpit. It is reasonable, however,
to suppose that the works of the Creator are as
high and worthy a manifestation of himself as ’
his word.
The New England Anti-Slavery Society met
in Boston the other day. Considering that foe
only slaves left in this country are the editon of
newspapers, and their emancipation k indefinitely.
postponed until the good tune coming, boys, this
looks like a useless session.
Maynard Underwood, who is under sen
tence of death for murder in Sonfo Carolina, has
informed Gen. Sickles that foe killing was dime’
while he was aiding Union prisoners to escape,
and if he had not killed foe deceased he would
have lost his life himself. The General has or
dered an investigation.
The new trial granted to foe Rev. Joel Ltnds-
ley. of Albion, N. Y., indicted for whipping hit
little boy to death, was concluded on foe Istlnstt
The jury failed to agree, standing ten for ac
quittal and two for conviction. The jury were
discharged. The prisoner then plead guilty of
manslaughter in the fourth degree, and Mas
sentenced to a fine of $2500.
The Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican
says there is a very rapid change of population
going on in our manufacturing towns. Foreign
working people have come in to such an extent
as in many villages to constitute the controling
element, and the natives do not find it pleasant
to live among those whose religion and social
and domestic life are so unlike foe New Eng
land style.”
Information has been received at Washing
ton that Governor Hahn has been refbaed per
mission to register in Louisiana on account of
participation in foe rebellion, and giving aid and
comfort to Confederates. It was alleged that
Hahn made presentation speeches when flags
were given to Rebel companies, and foot he
signed a circular letter advocating resistance to
foe Federal government If foe same abjection*
are made and adhered to m Georgia, we know
of several Atlanta radicals, fellows of immense
merit jnst now, who will be cot off from the
great and ga-lorions privilege of the ballot box.
A slight moss occurred at Nashville last Sun
day from an attempt, which was partially anc,.
cessful, of foe blacks to take possession of the
street cars. These troubles all grow out of the
meddlesome and mischievous mean white cusses,
who are a thousand times more to blame than
their poor dopes.
The members of the Arkansas Legislature
protest strongly against the late dictum ot Gen. .
Ord, forbidding that body to re-assemble. It
wonld be a good idea perhaps for Attorney Gen
eral Stan berry to hurry Up his second opinion, as
some of the district commanders are evidently .
beginning to feel their oats.
Thp latest improvement in horticulture ia that
of removing foe stones from fruits by a process
of gradual redaction, by extractingthepith from
shoots and grafting them on stocks and their
own branches for successive seasons. The ex
periment has been perfectly successful with the
Malaga grape.
The Nashville blacks have declared an inten
tion to have their shaving done in the barber
shops. They contend that they have jnst the
same rights in the shops that foe whites have,
and win claim their seats by tarn.
A Yankee on being asked what he should de
ft he were banished to foe woods, replied that ,
he thought he should split l
