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Newspaper Page TextERROR.CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. VOLUME XIX. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1867. NUMBER 37. Wttkl) JnttlligfBffr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, [WednMday, September I l, 1807. CoUmI Farrow an4 the Colored People. We commend to the colored people in this vi cinity a perusal of the following article which appeared in the Macon Telegraph, of Sunday morning last, under the above heading, as it is the production of one whose status in regard to /vies, and whose interests, social, political, and material, arc identical with theirs; and, more es- ]>ucially, as it is directed at one whose deletion to the cause of the colored race is actively mani fested in this community on every public occa sion. The writer of the article, Weslkv Bi«b, is well known to his colored brethren throughout all Middle and Southern Georgia : •• There great lUteuncn, Wnen time hu made bold with the king and subject. Throwing down all fence that stood 'twist their power A nd others' rights, are, on a change Like wanton salmon coming in with floods. That leap o'er wires and net*, and lia-te their way, To he, at their return, to every one a prey.” Present on the occasion of the convention <>n Tuesday last, it was with much surprise that I observed the manner in which Col. Furrow, of Atlanta, evaded a reply and dodged the very ira Ilortant questions which were propounded to him by a gentleman of the city. Whetlur or not the leaker was in favor of social equality, of no amalgamation of the races, or whether lie was in favor of electing colored delegates to Congress —Iteing the three questions submitted—we do not know, nor from any remark made dining a lengthy address were we enabled to elicit itic much coveted information. The questions were propounded in an honest, manly manner, and in justice to the large concourse of people assent bled for the purpose of having their understand ing enlightened, they at least demanded an nn equivocal reply, in lieu of a futile attempt at borrowed wit, which iell short of the object at which it was directed. As a colored man, as one who endeavored during his servitude to do his duty to his owners, and now us a freeman who desires only that justice lie done him ..nd his, I feci constrained to summon Col. Farrow to the witness stand, that he may undisguiscdly, fully and freely answer the questions as pro pounded on the morning of the 27th, and on the occasion of the Convention in this city. If he is opposed to recognizing me and those of my color as his equals socially; if he is opposed to ttie State of Georgia’s being represented in the halls of Congress exclusively by colored men, then would I be pleased to have him assign his reasons therefor, and to inform me iu what he differs from the most violent of our opponents. It is well known that Colonel Farrow, not many years since, was a dealer in human llesli. He enriched himself by olieriug to the highest bidder men and women of my race; but now that he cun no longer “put money in his purse” by bartering away the rights and liberties of hu man beings, with patriotic (?) zeal, he gently ca- i eases the same articles of merchandise that he muy wlu them to docility and put upon their duped hacks a saddle that lie may ride to ollice <>n. Should I misrepresent the Colonel, I shall take pleasure in making a public retraction when the gentleman announces bis willingness to in vite me and those of my color to his parlors; will uot deny us the privilege of tree intercourse with his family, and will advocate the right to an exclusive colored representatiou in Congress. It is also well kuowu that Colonel Farrow held IMisition under the Confederate Government—a Government he very sueeringly denounces, now that its Nitre Bureau has ceased to be a paying institution. Verily, hath a Daniel come to judg ment ! As the history of nations as well as individuals is not unfrequently repealed, muy not the same result follow if the Colonel fails to be hunted down by that office of honor aud profit which is now chasing (?) him ? As a colored mau I de sire to see my race elevated above their former status, and I ant inclined to look with suspicion upon the white mau who would conic out in op position to his people, that he might elevate us. The colored man tought to restore a shattered Union—fought for his freedom, and tought for the right of citizenship, which white men (par ticularly our friends, so-called) should not at tempt to rob him of. The battle fields of our country are still red with the blood of a colored soldiery, aud. strange as it may appear, the life- current of one colored officer is yet unshed— from the humiliating fact that while we were deemed patriotic, intelligent enough to dou the uniform of a private in the ranks, we were not considered worthy of carrying a sword or wear ing t lie mantle ot office. The smoke ot battle huviug cleared away, aud now that we are en dowed with rights aud privileges from which we have ever been excluded, may vve not claim, and should we not demand the right to elevate to a portion of the offices within the gift of the peo ple of Georgia, men of our own color? What says Colonel Farrow to the proposition ? Hoping, Mr. Editor, that Col. F. will give me some ot the “ brains ” which he denied the un tutored assemblage of Tuesday last, aud trusting that I have not trespassed upon the columns of your paper, nor upon the patience of your read ers, I have the honor to remain, while pausing lor a reply, very respectfully, your obedient ser vant, Wesley Bibb. Connected with the loregoing, we embrace the present opportunity ot presenting also to the colored people in this vicinity the iollowiug “ POLITICAL VIEWS OF A COLORED LADY " which wc copy from the Baltimore Gazette, and which wc commend also to their attention r.s embracing a far more patriotic and sound appre ciation of the condition of her race, aud what is required ot them, to promote their prosperity aud happiness, than has yet been uttered by any ot their self-styled, and pretended, white radical friends. Says the Baltimore Gazette : Mrs. Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, the color ed lecturer, addressed a large assemblage at the Union (.colored) church last night. She is a wo man ot superior education, speaks well, and thoroughly enlists the attention of her audience. She told her hearers a great deal of good,.sound, practical sense, and enforced her remarks with much earnesiuess. The followiug is the conclu ding portion of her lecture: “Now I hold that between tiie white man and the colored men ot the South there is a commu nity of interests. That the true peace, progress anil prosperity of society is not conceived by in creasing the privileges of one class and curtail ing the right of the other, but in the holding of the balances equally between man aud man, be tween race ana race. Is there oue right claimed for the colored naan that is not for the interest ot the white man to maintain ? Now what do I claim for the colored mau ? In the first place, let me say what I do not claim—tor in the first place I do claim for hioi social equality. There are some white people I should not wish to see any l»w enacted compelling me to associate with them. A man may call me uigger all the day, until his tongue is tired, so that the law does not allow him to treat me as a nigger. 1 do uot ask lor social equality. All I asK is for the domi nant race to take its Chrislless, godless preju dices out of the way and give the colored man a chance to grow, to place himself iu antago nism with his fate and to accept life, uot as a matter ot ease and indulgence, but of struggle aud victory, and achievements. Neither do I ask lor him any confiscated lands. 1 waut no man's farms, and I do uot thiuk it is wisest and best to have the minds of our people needlessly unsettled by the losses they may never realize. Nor do I wish the colored man to join any party as a mere camp follower. I do uot thiuk there is anv need to build up either a while man’s or a black man's party, when the interests ot both are bound up iu oue great bundle. That there will he a radical aud a conservative party, is w hat we may expect. Perhaps we need them both in the State to balance each other. »\ e mav need them iu the political world as m the physical world. The centripetal and centntugal lorces are needed lor the solar system, oue at tracting one way aud the other impelling the other, aud between them boLh the planets ate held in their orbits. The Conservative will have reaped for the past: to him it has apparent benefits and advantages. The Radical lias re gird for the future: to him it has its hopes aud promises. The colored man has a sail past: let him Hit his eyes hopefully to the future. 1 lie future comes to him now with its hopes ot help ing reconstruction : let him try to make the Cou- btiuiiion and statute-book of Virginia the best land-mark of her progress, the mud failhiul ex pression ot her conscience, and the highest expo nent of our civil liberty. In voting for her of- I fleers let them represent our highest intelligence, ] and not our deeptst ignorance; not our preju- j dices and passions—not the old hates of the | plantation, but the new community of interests rising out ot freedom.” The Proper Policy. The Augusta Chronicle <fc Sentinel, in an article advocating the assembling of a “Conservative Convention” in the State, says : “If we conld hope to defeat a Convention—if indeed there was 'a bare possibility of doing so, there might he reasons why the contest should be made mainly upon that question. For our selves, we confess that, judging from the tone of ilie State press, and the information which reaches us from the difiercnl portions of the •State iu private letters and through personal in terviews with the leading men in the different I localities, we have no doubt but that a consider able majority of the voters are in favor of hold ing the Convention, and will vote for it. We assume that a Convention is a fixed fact. We must; therefore, set ourselves to work in earnest to secure the control ot that body so that its la- lxirs may not be directed solely to the building up of a Radical party in the Slate upon ike dis franchisement and degradation of the white race. In such a contest we cannot afford to be losers. We must win this fichtor we shall not, for a long time at feast, be In a*con-3itlon to give shape, direction or control to our State or Federal legis lation.” “All that is worth having or contending for is involved in the character, ability, and patriotism of the members of the Convention. We believe that if we could have a meeting of delegates from all the counties in the State, that a plan or plat form for the campaign could be devised and ar ranged which would unite all the conservative dements and secure an easy victory over the Radicals. Without such organization and com mon ground of action, we think the contest very doubtful." Wc entirely agree with our Augusta cotempo rary. All now “that is worth having or con tending for, is involved in the character, ability, and patriotism of the members of the Conven tion." We have lor some time past regretted that this view of our“political situation” did not impress itsell upon the minds of our cotempora- ries ol the Conservative press of this State, as it had impressed this journal. We urged it, but met with no favorable response till the Chroni cle if- Sentinel came to our aid. We again urge it, tor unless there be in the approaching Conven tion a large conservative element, Georgia will fall into the keeping of those who will build up a radical party in it “upon the disfranchisement and degradation of the white race,” as surely as a Convention assembles, of which there is now, in mir judgment, not a doubt. Nor will this be all: she will be given over to the spoilers, and her once proud and blazing escutcheon be blot ted by repudiation. Tbe “signs of the times” are too indicative of this, for it to escape the no tice of any intelligeut and patriotic observer. The Frlacew Swim Stint. Tbe tollo wing sketch of a somewhat prominent ctiaracter will, says the Chaltannooga Union, “ bring back to mind one who used to make her appearance as a wandering star in this city during the war.” It wifi also bring back to the minds of many of our own citizens, the same “wandering gtar” who, after the war closed, honored Atlan ta with her appearance, and during her stay in it, created no little sensation by her “ fast driving ” and other eccentricities. The last authentic in telligence from Mexico in regard to her and her Prince renders it doubtful whether they will ever have the gratification of seeing the Emperor ot Austria to receive their reward. He bad been condemned to death, and she was iu prison, biding her fate: Tbe Priucess Salin Salrn, a very pretty little woman, now in her twenty-seventh year, is not “uu American lady," nor was her maiden name Lc Clerq. Her lather, who has resided in Can ada tor several years, bears a very different sur name, aud is a Colonel in the British service.— Previous to his residence in Canada he served iu the East Indies, where his daughter was born, her mother being a lialf-caste Hindoo. It is pretty clear, from these premises, that ttie Prin cess Salm Balm is not, and canuot be, “a niece of President Johnson.” Ten years ago she ar rived in Philadelphia with “a plentiful scarcity” ot money, having, indeed, only the clothes which she then wore. Her story, which there is no reason to discredit, is that her father having treat ed her so harshly as to make home unhappy, she had fled from Canada. At that time, according to the date of her birth in the Almanach de Gotha, Miss Agnes Le Clerq (as she called her self,) wauted some months of sweet seventeen, but she looked three or lour years older. She lelt Philadelphia early in 1858, aud joined a traveling circus, where she soon became a sort of “star.” Sbe married one ot the horse-riders of tbe company, by whom she had one child.— Inasmuch as sbe married her present princely spouse in 1862, it is to be presumed that her first husband died. The Princess is alike active in mind aud body, capable of enduriug privation aud fatigue, quick at resources, lively iu conver sation, and easy in her manners. She speaks French fluently, having learned the language in Canada. Should her husband escape from the l>eril which uow threatens him, there is no doubt that tbe Emperor of Austria w ill amply reward him aud his wife for their exertions aud sympa thy for his brother, late the Archduke Maximil ian.—Philadelphia Press. A Nice Stale of Affair*. The Savaunah Republican, of the 2d instant, says that ou Friday evening last, about 10 o'clock, the followiug threatening letter was handed to us while in our coun‘ing-room, by three quite in telligeut looking colored men, whom it seems,were selected and appoiuted as a committee of three, by “ Baker Couucil No. 9 of tbe Union League of America,” to wait upon Mr. Hayes aud pre sent him with the protest and warning ot the League against tiis “ political course Savannah, Ga., August 30th, 1S67.— To John E. Hayes:—Union League ot America, Baker Council No. 9, have duly considered the bainful effects of your Editorials in the Savannah Re- pullictin tor two years, pray, that you discontinue your most beauliful epithets ami (Inscriptions ot lUe Colored citizens ot Savannah, and the Uni- ted States: or one thousand members will take such Legal and Natural means to stop you; as the Law aud God ot nature have beeu pleased to place within our power. Jackson Brand, President. Paul S. Reynolds, Ass’t Secretary. This is a “nice state of affairs” indeed ! These Union Leagues of freedmen, directed and con trolled by bad white meD, had belter beware how they attempt to muzzle the press, or ven ture to inflict damage upon it in any ot our cities. They will not only, in attempting such violence, meet with effectual resistance, but what is more, they will find themselves abandoned in their hour of distress by tbe designing scoundrels who set them on to commit such outrages. The Republican should hand over the note of the "President and Assistant Secretary” of “Council No. 9" to the Solicitor General of its judicial dis trict, for prosecution of the offenders who gave the threatening notice. A New Counterfeit.—A new aud dauger- ous eouuterleit—ualioual currency—of the ue- uomiualion of five dollars has just been put in circulation. On the lett eud ot the note the wrist of the lelt ann <*f Columbus is scarcely visible, whereas in the genuine it is distinct. At top reads : “ This note is secured by bonds.’’ The letters “E" aud “Y” are too far apart, and the “0” iu “Bonds” is under the “Y,” whereas the “B” iu the same word is immediately under the “Y” in the genuine. Tbegeneral appearance ot tlie bill is a close imitation ot the genuine.— Philadelphia Age. ♦ Arrest of an Emissary.—A colored man. calling biuisel! Rev. Nat. Williams, has been ar rested by tire military authorities for preaching ipcendiary doctrines ’to the freed people ot Uiis district. He was carried to headquarter- at Dar liugton last Wednesday by a detachment of soi- dieis sent here for that purpose, where he will be tried by the Military Court.—BennettsviUe Journal. Our OppreuMra-Popc, Sickles, aud Sheri dan. The reconstruction acts, although violative of the Constitution are clear as matter of law in their import. They are intended to reconstruct the rebellious States upon a specified basis. To accomplish this, their leading features are : first, the designation of who shall lie voters, and how th?s shall be ascertained; * coral, that these voters thus fixed aud ascertained shall, by means of de legates elected to a convention, permanently settle the institutions and domestic policy ol the Slates for the future; and, thirdly, that uutil such convention shall assemble and act, the existing laws of the State shall lie kept iu force, and ouly such changes shall be made as may be necessary for the preservation of order, and for the promo tion of justice under those laws. If these laws mean any more, it is not to fie found iu their provisions, but in the sujiposed intent of certain Radical party leaders, which should uot guide tbe Military Commauders, and would not, unless they aspire to do some service other than that t^hich is required ot them, ,.f //, United Stales Government. The fact that the qualified voters are to have a free and unbiased choice in the plan of recon struction, and the election of delegates, fully es tablishes the foregoing propositions. It ueces sarily follows that all such important questions as to who shall perform jury duty in the States as reconstructed, are to be in abeyance under the military rule, and any act which interferes with a free choice under the laws, is not to be exer cised, and is violative both ol their spirit and letter. The military commanders may, by vir tue of tbe \tower of bayonets, use their offices to violate the rights conferred upon the people, and to oppress all, or a portion of them, and there may be no authority both willing and able to control them, but this does uot give them the right. Any man may, with impunity, violate every principle of truth and honor, and if he have power, may perpetrate wrong and injustice upou the helpless, but if lie does, he will be a cruel, unprincipled tyrant. As it is clear that many of the acts of those commanders, such as the one referred to, flud no warrant in the laws ot reconstruction, and their faithful execution, the conclusion is that they are not actuated by the principle which should gov ern soldiers in command, but prostitute their oh fices to do the work of party, and become indeed ouly mere Radical emissaries. Their purpose as developed by such acts is n»t to reconstruct"the Union, but to build up and perpetuate the Radi cal party. As a means to this end they abuse the high trust reposed in them by the Govern ment, by interfering with the choice ol the elec tors, and by fixing, by their acts, the institutions of the States in advance ot their conventions, so as they cannot be changed wheu these shall as semble. No more important question is to be solved than the qualifications of our future ju rors. It is perhaps the most solemn to be con sidered, for it concerns the purity of tbe waters in the very fountains of justice, and affects the people in their most, sacred private rights, from the highest to the lowest, from the richest to the poorest, and should be left to their calm and care ful consideration, uninfluenced by any power whatever. But what is the truth ? It is that these com manders are giving such directions to ttie means of reconstruction as insures the accomplishment of their will, instead of that of the people.— When the conventions come to act, they will find that negroes are already jurors, and have been so for from oue to “five years,” and they cannot turn them out of the jury box without producing dangerous excitement, aud this they will forbear to do although the judgment ot a majority may be iu its favor. Akin to this, and a part of the same bad spirit, is tbe order touch ing official advertisements. First, all State offi cers are forbiddeu to speak against reconstruc tion, although holding olfice does not change their status as voters, and to all the voters is ac corded freedom of choice. Then they must give all their patronage to the press of the political party who accepts the plau of reconstruction, and to no others. Tims militaryis used to “abridge tbe freedom of tbe press and of speech,” guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and recognized by tbe acts ot reconstruction.— The press who have opposed reconstruction are punished for so doing, and those who cannot sur vive without official patronage are suppressed.— As to these, Gen. Pope might as well have sent a file of men to take possession of the press and materials, and to close up the office. The difler- ence is as to the meaus of suppressing, not as to the principle. Thus we see that Hie officers ot a free constitutional republic are administering their departments upon the principles ot military despotism, as practiced by absolute monarchical Russia. What a combined parodox and horror! Every negro is a ready-made instrument, in the hands of our enemies, to be used for the tor ture of tbe whites in every variety of way that cunning can devise. These acts are, iu General Pope, inconsistent and absurd, for he believes tbe only reconstruction to be obtained is the reconstruction ot Tennessee—and to that he is opposed, and so ought any sensible man to be. Aud so will any reconstruction be, based upon tlic disfranchisement ot the most virtuous aud intelligent, aud the entrancliisement of the most vicious aud ignorant. It is simply the inaugu ration, by fundamental law, ol eternal strife and discord. Such necessarily Incomes the leading permanent institution of ihe new governments. General Pope is.right. To make reconstruction effectual, under Ike reconstruction acts, even wheu faithfully aud mercifully administered, it will be necessary to bitnish every white man, woman, and child, true to their race and lineage, and turn the States absolutely over to the ue- goes, that another Hayti may be established within the once proud, free and happy United States. No such act of petty official tyranny as closes up country newspapers and takes bread out ot the mouths of helpless “ little ones” will suffice. The President of the United States, feeling the justice of the complaints we have uttered, has removed Sheridan and Sickles. But it is too late. The mischief is done. Sheridan's district is thoroughly niggerized. Sickles' numerous acts of legislation have gone into full operation. General Grant’s orders to the new commanders are, not to touch anything that has been done.— Pope yet remains supreme, and we are opposed to bis displacement—if his acts are to stand, and if bis successor is to use hi* own discretion in everything, as he has done. lie is good enough military despot tor us. When tlie people of Georgia. Alabama, and Florida, have negroes on their grand and petit juries, they will care not what else comes. That will lie punishment, degradation, and humiliation enough. Banish ment and exile will then be in order, and by many will be welcomed as a deliverance from the worst infliction a noble race ot men has ever been cursed with by their oppressor?. The President is too late in one respect, and soon enough in another. Too late to help us, but soon enough, perhaps, to destroy himself. He knew the proclivity of these men when he ap pointed them. He was opposed to the laws which conferred authority upon them, and if he could get none who agreed with him politically, they were his subordinates, and could liave been compelled to administer their offices in accord ance with his policy. H>- has stood silently by and seen the outrages perpetrated, and Lus au thority defied. It is useless to Temovethem, and permit their objectionable acts to stand. Confederate. - AH S*rta. The Radicals pronounce Grant better. He is no longer speechless. A man in Buffalo fired a pistol into his mouth, and it is the last morsel he will ever put there, poor soul. With Grant in the War Department Butler’s breech-loading rifle contract IS likely to come to grief. -| The New Orleans Crescent says that Weed is so fund of Grout because Grant is so fond of the Weed. But T. is not the Wesd Grant is fond of. The New Orleans Jenkins chronicles that Sheridan, since his comb was cat, wears a white hat in the streets of that city; It is said that the negroes of the South no longer smell. Enfranchisement has deodorized them —Louisville Journal. • This is a New York “ persdnal Rose—it is useless—too are too lovely to be trifled with. I nm married. T Benedict. • • A history of woman’s progression, entitled “ From the Fig Leaf to the Crinoline,” is being written by a Hartford literateur. A young man, in Portland, Maine, recently committed suicide by shooting irimselt the night before the one set for bis wedding. He left a letter stating that he could not muster up the courage necessary to assuming the responsibili ties of a married man, so lie quietly shot him- self. A lady in St. Louis polished her husband with a stick ot wood ; he reciprocated with a revolver. The affair not being fatal to either was a great disappointment to spectators. The labor congress ask Congress to appro priate twenty-five millions to establish the eight hour system. Why not? Congress is appro priate for anything extravagant. A Gallant Soldier’s Opinion.—The daily papers are making a great tnnddle over the opin ions of the prominent generals and the people at large on the question of reconstruction. They tell us that Grant approves of the course of the President, that/ Thomas agrees with Sheridan, and that Sherman favors the plan of Congress, or vice versa according to their political bias. We can tell them all that if the Congressional system is to put the South in possession of the negroes, it does not meet the views ot the people, the sailors iu our fleets, the soldiers iu our armies, the merchants at their desks, the farmers at their ploughs, or any other large body ot our citizens. A St. Domingo is not wbat we fought for; we do not waut it, and will cot have it; and that tlie niggers, whether white or black, may under stand as well first as last. Nations are cruel when driven to despair; and, rather than sur render our white nationality, we will massacre or enslave every colored man in the States.— This may be bold language and unconventional, but we ask our readers whether it does not meet tlie confirmation of their hearts? We have sa crificed too many whites lor a principal to stop at taking the lives of a few worthless blacks.— N. T. Citizen. Brutal Murder.—Our community was much agitated last night, by a dispatch received by the operator, about 8 o’clock, to the effect that Mr. Jacob C. Cozatt, the efficient and popular con ductor, of the S. W. R. R., had been killed by a negro, and tbe train was in consequence delayed. A large number of the friendsand acquaintances of Mr. Cozatt met the train pa its arrival about 94 o’clock. Tbe particulars of the affair, as we learn, are as follows: Mr. Cozatt’s attention had been directed to an advertisement ot a stolen watch in the Columbus papers, and learning that a watch had been tra ded by a negro passenger to a Jew; he exam ined it, and finding that it corresponded with the description in the advertisement, arrested the ne gro. Having occasion to leave the train at But ler, be left him in charge of Mr. Daniel. Tbe negro then reached down in his boot as it search ing for a weapon, whereupon Mr. Daniel caught his arm, a struggle ensued during which he es caped from tke ear, drew his pistol and fired, the ball passing under the train. Several tbeu at tempted to arrest him, hut breaking loose from them, he ran in the direction of a blacksmith shop uear by, Mr. Cozatt nearest in pursuit, about fifty feet behind. On turning the corner of the shop, the smoke of the pistol was seen, and Mr. Cozatt turning round, ruu toward the train cry- I’m shot—run for the Doctor—don’t let me fall in the sand.” He survived only a few mo ments, being shot through the heart. ” The negro escaped.— Macon Journal & Messenger, 3d inst. A Sad Catastrophe.—Asa public journalist, we are compelled this morning to chronicle one >f the most heart-rending disasters that, we think, lias ever happened in Savannah, and which lias laid waste the happiness of a home aud family. Miss Daley, a young lady aged from sixteen to eighteen years, tlie daughter of Mr. Michael Da ley, one ol our oldest citizens, accompanied her father North some time since, and while there was called back by the serious illness of her sis ter, wtio resides in this city. Leaving her father at New York, she took passage on the steamer Herman Livingston, which, after a sate voyage, arrived here last night about uiue o’clock. Miss Daley, young, and impatient no doubt to greet her relatives, was among the first to start, unaid ed and alone, to cross the gang plank, which in the darkness afforded but precarious tooting even to those who were practiced, and had experience of Us dangers. When about midway between the vessel and the wharf, her feet slipped, and without a cry sbe fell into the dark water be neath, which was rushing up with the force of a flood tide, and sustained for a moment by her clothing, carried her towards the stern of the vessel, when she sunk without rising again. Out >f a crowd on the wharf, not one could be found brave enough to risk their life to save the drown ing girl—a sad commentary ou the selfishness of hutfian nature. Her shawl aud bonnet, we believe, were recov ered, and at ttie hour we write, efforts are being made, with drags, to find her body.—Savannah Republican, 2d instant. General Grant.—If General Grant should be guided to a conclusion as to his political sta tus bv tlie newspapers of tlie country it would be one of hopeless uncertainty. Since the days of George Washington, he is the only military man who has sought an avoidance of expressed partisanship. General Scott, Taylor, Harrison, Pierce, Wool, McClellau, Pope, Sheridan, and many others, North and South, have rushed into politics as tiiough it were a part of their legitimate busiuess. For a while it seemed a little ridiculous to Americans that General Grant should not on every occasion spout to the gasping crowds around him. He has had the good sense not to do it, thereby retaining the confidence and respect of the great and powerful Democratic party. The politicians are bound to ruin bim, however.— They can’t let him alone. It he had three regu lar batteries trained on about one hundred and fifty ot them, the foremost ot tbe Radical pack, he might be able to eat his breakfast in peace once more. General Grant is at the head of the army. He has shown that he knows how to perform his duty in obedience to orders. He has proved himself a useful man to the country. He will continue to be such. He is quite too far-sighted, we apprehend, to kill himself by permitting his name to be used in behalf of the Radical party A party encumbered with the foulest of oflenses- tottering in its decline, and just ready to fall into its polluted grave—“unwept, nnllonored, and nnsang.”— Washington Union. The Episcopalians on Divorce.—In the Episcopal Diocesan Convention, held in Chicago last week, a resolution was adopted instructing the deputies of the diocese in the next General Convention, “to procure by general common law, with suitable qualifications, a prohibition of the use of tbe marriage service of the church in cases where either party contemplating mar riage shall have been previously divorced by civil law on grounds other than that ot adultery.”— The deputies are also instructed to procure a rule of duty to be followed by the clergymen, whose services are thus applied "for, in ascertain ing tbe tacts bearing on such prohibition. Radical Doemanewta Relax Cl rr a la ted la Atlanta and the Soath, Andrew Williams is a young and worthy freedman who is now, and has been for some time past, employed in this office. He is our trusty nesseuger, and will some day, if he should persist in tlie well-doing that has characterized him since lie became free, exercise no little influ ence for good, over those of his race in whose midst his future may be cast. Whether or not Andrew’s position or promise may have attract ed the notice ot the radical leaders in this city, we know not, but this we do kuow, that one of them at least, a Mr. William Markham, recently placed in Andrew’s bauds one ot those libellous radical documents which are uow being, and which have for some time past, been actively circulated by themselves in this city and other parts of the South. W ith quite a patronizing air this was done, and as Andrew has the bump ot caution more fully developed upon his crani um than most of his race, he at once brought it to us, in its yellow-colored envelope, and sought our counsel in regard to its contents. Suspicious youth! he did not exactly like the source from whence* be received the document—there might have been treason in it, so Andrew was distrust ful and consequently wary. Well, we proceeded to examine, first, the envelope, and noticed that It bore the frank ot a Pennsylvania Congress man, a notorious radical, one J. M. Broomall, who, in violation ot the law regulating the frank ing privilege, has been engaged in flooding the South with this, and other radical documents.— (The Postmaster General should note this, and govern himself accordingly.) We then proceeded to examine the document itself, and concluded, that, as no sensible freedman, and certainly no white man, could possibly be de ceived by such an electioneering "dialogueas it is termed, to place it before our readers—thus for once in our professional capacity, aiding and abetting the radical street distributor referred to, in circulating the miserable trash which he has been engaged in thrusting into the hands ot the freedmen of this city. The document is en titled “The Position of the Republican and Democratic Parties,” as illustrated by a dialogue between, says the lying introduction to it, “a newly enfranchised freedman and a sound Radi cal Republican.” We publish the “dialogue 1 entire, satisfied that it will be received with de rision and contempt only by the intelligent, be they white or be they colored. the dialogue. Question. With which party should the color ed man vote ? Answer. The Union Republican party. Q. Why should the colored man vote with that party ? A. Because that party made him free and has given him the right to vote. Q. Was Mr. Lincoln a Republican? A. He was a Republican President. Q. Are Republicans in favor of universal free dom? A. They are. - Q. What is the difference between the Radi cals and Republicans ? A. There is none. The word Radical was ap plied to the Republican party by its enemies, and has been accepted by it. Q. Tlie Radicals and Republicans are then one and the same party. A. Yes; and they are in favor of freedom and universal justice. Q. Wbat is tbe meaning of the word Radical as applied to political parties and politicians? A. It means one who is in favor of going to the root of things; who is thoroughly in earnest; who desired that slavery should be abolished, that every disability connected therewith should be obliterated, not only from national laws, but from those of every State in the Union. Q. Is Mr. Sumner a Republican ? A. He is, and a Radical, so are Thad. Stevens, Senator Wilson, Judge Kelley, General Butler, Speaker Colfax, Chief Justice Chose and all others who favor giviug colored men their rights. Q. To which party do the friends of the color ed men in Congress belong? A. To the Republican party. Q. What is a Democrat ? A. A member of that party which before tbe rebellion sustained every large legislative act de manded by the slaveholders, such as the Fugi tive Slave Law, and the attempt made to force slavery upon the Western Territories. Q. Who said that “ a negro had no rights that a white man was bound to respect?” A. Chief Justice Taney, a Democrat. Q. Was this sentiment approved by the De mocracy ? A. It was; and by them only. Q. Why did the Southern States rebel ? A. Because the Republican party in 1861 elect ed Abraham Liucolu President, who was op posed to the extension of slavery. Q. What ilid they propose to do by rebellion ? A. Establish a government of their own, the corner-stone of which should be slavery. Q. Did any leading rebel make such a declara tion ? A. Yes; Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, in a speech in May, 1861, at Mongomerv, Ala. Q. What position did Mr. Stephens hold in the ebel Confederacy. A. He was their Vice President. Q. What was the position of the Democratic party during the war ? A. It opposed the war; declared Mr. Lincoln’s management of it a failure; resisted every mea sure in Congress looking to emancipation, and denounced the Government for employing color ed men as soldiers. •Q. What lias that party doqp since the sur render of the rebels ? A. It has sustained Mr. Johnson in his efforts to restore yonr old masters to power in the coun try. and opposed every act for your benefit which the Republican Congress has adopted. Q. Is it known by any other name ? A. It is also known as Conservative, Copper head aud Rebel. Under each name it is the same enemy of freedom and the rights of man. Q. Wouid the Democrats make slaves of the colored people again if they could ? A. It is fail to presume that they would, for they have opposed their freedom by every means, and have always labored to extend slavery. Q. Would Democrats allow colored men to vote ? A. No! They have always opposed it in Con gress and in the various State Legislatures. Q. Who abolished slavery in the District of Columbia ? A. A Republican Congress and Abraham Lin coln, a Republican President. Q. Who treed the slaves in the South ? A. Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Presi dent, by a proclamation. Q. Who made the colored men soldiers ? A. The Republican party. Q. Who opposed this? A. The Democrats. Q. Who refused to recognize colored soldiers as prisoners of war? A. The rebels. Q. By whom were they murdered or used as slaves when captured ? A. By the rebel government. Q. What party sympathized with the rebel government ? A. The Democracy. Q. Who passed the Freedmen’s Bureau bill ? A. A Republican Congress by more than two- thirds vote over the veto of Andrew Johnson, the leader of the Democratic or Conservative party. Q. Who gave ns tbe Civil Rights bill ? A. The same Republican Congress. Q. What party gave us the right to vote? A. The Republican party. Q. What has the Democratic, Conservative or Copperhead party ever done for the colored people? A. It has tried to keep them in slavery, and opposed giving them the benefit of tbe Freed men’s Bureaa and Civil Rights bills, and tbe right to vote. Q. Why cannot colored men support the De mocratic party. A. Because that party would disfranchise them, and, it possible, return them to slavery, and certainly keep them in an inferior position before the law. Q. With whom do tbe disloyal white men of the South desire the colored men to vote ? A. With the Democratic party. Q. Woutd not tbe Democrats take away all the negroe's rights ? A. They would, Q. Then why do they pretend to be the best friends of colored men ? A. Because they contend they are of a lower race, incapable of providing for themselves, and* are, therefore, happier in au inferior position, or in slavery. Q. How would it suit them to be served iu the same manner ? A. They would not endure it. They call themselves a superior race of beings, and claim they are born your rulers. Q. Why do they not do uuto others as they would he done by ? A. Because they are devoid of priuciple, and destitute ot all sense of justice where the colored man is concerned. Q. Do all white persons belong to a party which would treat us iu that way ? A. They do not. There are many who have stood up nobly for your rights, and who will aid you to the eud ; indeed, all true Republicans are such. Q. Are there any while persons who have always contended tor our liberty ? A. Yes; there are many such. Q. To which party do these tried friends ol ours now belong ? A. The Republican party. Q. To what party do the white people ot the South belong? > A. The larger portion belong to the Demo cratic party. Q. Are the former slave-holuers and leaders of the rebellion members of that party ? A. They are, and would not regard you as having any r,gills if they were in power. Q. Colored men should then vote with the Republican or Radical party ? A. They should, and shun the Democratic party as they would the overseer’s last and the auction block. Q. Has the Republican party deceived the colored people? A. It has not. While the Democratic party has always been opposed to their freedom, their education, and their right to vote, tbe Republi can party has maintained these rights. Q. By whose exertion are we being educated ? A. By the efforts of loyal teachers ■ and through the benevolence of Republican friends. Q. Who builds aud maintains our school houses ? A. The Freedmeu’s Bureau and charitable people ot the North. Q. By whom have school-houses been burned and our teachers persecuted ? A. By rebel friends of the Democratic party, Q. To what pai ty do the leading colored men belong ? A. Without exception to the Republican party. Q. What are the most promiuent principles advocated by the Republican party ? A. Equal rights before the law and at the bal lot box for all men Without regard to race or color. Q. Do not the Military Reconstruction acts secure to us these rights ? A. Yes; but yon may be deprived of them if your enemies get into power. Q. What would the people think if the colored men voted with the Democratic party ? A. The people ot the North would think that they did not fully understand their own rights nor the duties devolving on them ; and the peo pie of the South would proudly say : “We have always told you that the negro did not wish to be free.” Q. What use has been made of the money which the colored people of the Southern States have paid as taxes ? A. It has been used to establish schools for white children; to pay the expenses ot making and executing laws in which the colored men have had no voice, and iu endeavoring to have the Supreme Court set aside the law which gives you the right to vote. Q. What I are tlie Democrats using my own money to take away my rights ? A. They have always done so, and will con tinne to while they remain in power. Q. Some people say that we shall be dis charged from work if we dare vote the Repub lican ticket. Will they do that? A. You should remember that your labor is worth just as much to the mau who employs you as his money is to you. Q. You would advise us, then, to disregard these threats and vole with the Republican party ? A. Most certainly I would. Had you not rather suffer, or eveu starve to death, than to aid a party to re-enslave you ? Remember your for mer condition and avoid a return to slavery. Q. The while people South say that the Re publicans of the North do not care for the col ored men only so far as they can use them to continue iu political power. Is that true? A. It is not. Q. What is the reason that several of tlie Northern States do not give us the right to vote ? A. Chiefly because they have in the past been controlled by the Democratic pariy. Iu the Western States, where what are called the “Black Laws” have existed, which did notallow colored people to live in them, there are large bodies of whites who moved originally from the slave States, and carried the haired and preju dices ot slavery with them. Q. What has the Republican party done in those States about such laws ? A. Abolished them as last as it obtained power. Q. To what is the Republican party commit ted ? A. To immediate reconstruction under the laws of Congress; the establishment of common schools, open to all; opposition to all forms of slavery ; the protection of free speech; the se curing to every citizen tlie right to vote; the protection of every man in the enjoyment ot equal rights, under and before the law, and the perpetual maintenance of the Federal Union. Q. Well, I am satisfied. You havecleariy shown me my duly, and I shall impart the in formation to my people. A. Let me say to you further, you mast re member what has been the past record ot the Democratic party, and not trust it in the future. In order that you may work to the best advan tage lor the success of that party which is your true friend, you should have an association, where ail, white and colored, who ought to be long to the Republican party can be brought to gether. You want to be so organized that you will act as one man. Y»u should organize Union Leagues and Republican Clubs. Here is a Constitution for a Union Republican Club.— You can take this and call together some of yonr Republican friends, have them sign it, and elect the officers provided therein. Then hold a meet ing once in each week, talk these matters over, read newspapers and documents to those who cannot read, and take such measures as will re sult in conveying to every colored man the cor rect view ot his duties at this time. This is tbe Constitution of which I speak : CONSTITUTION. Article I. This Club shall be known as the Union Republican Cub of , (name of town,) county ol , State of . Article II. This Club is organized for the purpose ot advancing tbe interests of tbe Union Republican party in this State and throughouF the na ion. It will strive to elevate labor, edu cate the ignorant, and sustain tlie cause of uni versal justice. Article ILL The officers of this club shall be a President, two Vice Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee of five members. The above named officers shall be elected at the first meeting in January and Jnly in each year, and they shall hold over until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Article IV. The officers of this club shall perform the duties required of similar officers by ordinary parliamentary usage. The Executive Committee shall prepare business for the meet ings of the club and make such arrangements as shall secure a good attendance. They shall also make such efforts as may be iu their power to make the meetings interesting and profitable. Article V. The only qualifications necessary - to become a member of this club shall be a good moral character and an expressed determination to support the principles of the Union Republi can party. Article VL The expenses of this club shall be defrayed by voluntary contributions lrom among the members and others. When each county is organized, the clubs therein should then meet aud elect an Executive Committee. This Committee should take gener al direction of the campaign ; call meetings, ob tain speakers, circulate documents, sustain loyal newspapers, see that all qualified voters are reg istered, and that tbe right tickets are in circula tion when election day comes. Tbe State Tax, We learn from the Federal Union ot Tuesday last that the State tax of Georgia for this year will be thirty cents on the one hundred dollars. Ivor the intelligencer. | (education In the South. No. 1. Recent events have directed the minds of the people North and South, to the subject of educa tion in the ten Southern States, now under mili tary govern lient. As usual, the unhappy peo ple in the ten excluded States are the subjects of gross misrepresentation. Mon in office, and scribblers in newspapers, make extravagant statements concerning the astounding ignorance of the Southern people, and self-constituted pro phets are bold to assert that in five years, or less, the white people of the South will be excelled in mental cultivation by their former slaves.— Thoughtful men, who understand the white and colored races of these States, cau afford to smile at these absurd and ridiculous vaticinations, but we submit that there arc many hone9t minds North and South that will believe them to be true, and whilst we cannot hope to reach the former, we may reasonably aspire to furnish the Southern people with a true statement ot the case as it stands. Our appeal will be made to the United States Census of 1850. We shall enquire whether the official records of the United States Government represent the Southern people as an ignorant, besotted race, indifferent to mental culture, and content to wallow in degrading indolence. W« select the census of 1850, because: 1. It was taken at a period when '.here was no sectional purpose to be served by making false returns.— 2. It is as nearly complete and satisfactory as can be made. 3. There has been no complete census made since that time, and published. The census of 18G0 has not reached the present writer, if it lias been compiled and published. We shall first select a basis of comparison be tween tlie two sections, North and South. To do this we take the six New Euglaud States, whose educational system is the subject of per petual and fulsome eulogy. The white popula tion of New England is nearly equal to the six Southern States lying on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, viz: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. As we desire to make this inquiry as brief as possi ble, we shall take the six New England States, together with New Jersey aud Michigan, in tlie North, because the white population of these States is nearly the same as the white population of the ten excluded Statqs of the South, to-wit: White Pop. Eight States, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Islluul, Connecticut, New Jersey and Michigan, have 3,588,696 SOUTH. Ten State*, Virginia, North Carolina, Sontli Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi, Lonisiaua, Texas a>i<l Arkansas, have.. 3,585,112 Excess of white population in 8 Northern States 3,58-1 This comparison will give us tavored New England, with one Central and oue Wesiern State of the North, against which tlie benighted peo ple of the ten excluded Southern States will be arrayed. We shall first inquire, How do these sections compare in regard to Universities and Colleges, the highest institutions of learning in the land ? The census answers the question as follows: The eight Northern States support 27 Colleges. The ten Southern States support 65 Colleges. Here we have an excess of thirty-eightcolleges in favor of the 8onth. But, then, it may be sug gested that these institutions iu the South are in significant affairs, having little else than a char ter and a name. Let us inquire how these col leges are officered—what number of teachers they support ? The census replies: Eight Northern States have 293 Professors. Ten Southern States have 391 Professors. Here, then, is an excess of 98 Professors, sup ported in the institutions of tiie South. But may it not be, after all, that the besotted South erners have more Colleges, aud more Professors in them, than the enlightened North has, but still, probably, the Northern Colleges educate more pupils than the Southern? The census answers: Eight Northern States have 3,861 pupils in College. Ten Sonthem States have 6,484 pupils in College. Here w'e have an excess of 2.623 pupils, in these Southern institutions, notwithstanding tlie well-known fact that a large proportion of the students in Northern Colleges are from the South ern States! What the extent of Southern pa tronage to Northern Colleges is, we may possi bly inquire in the course of these papers—for the present we let the question rest. We have proven that the “besotted” Southerners have more Colleges, more Pi ofessors, and more Students than the “enlightened” North; it remains now to inquire, how much money the two sections pay for this department of education? Of course, the cultivated people of New England and the North reward their distinguished literary men by large salaries, and prove their appreciation of education by a heavy draft upon their pockets. The “ besotted ” Southerners cannot be expected to do much in this way, as they know so little about tbe value of education. The census, how ever, makes some strange revelations upon this subject, also, viz: Eight Northern States pay, to snpporl their Col lege* f324,240 Ten Southern States, to support theirs, pay 583,815 The Southern people, then, for college educa tion in their own midst, unaidedby any other sec tion, pay $259,575 per annum more than the North does, whilst ihe North draws a very large per cent of her patronage from these “besotted” Southerners, who have been foolish enough to spend their money among a hostile people, who constantly taunt the South with charges of ig norance ! The average salary of a Professor in a Col lege, in tbe free and enlightened North, is $1,106 ; in the ignorant and besotted South, it is $1,493 —an excess of $487 in favor of tlie benighted South ! Yet, unhappy people that we are, we are utterly indifferent to the subject of educa tion, and are likely to be outstripped, in the race for knowledge, by our former slaves, in less than five years! But, Mr. Editor, lest I consume too much of your space, I conclude this article with a short comparative view : TABLE NO. 1—COLLEGES NORTH AND SOUTH. No. Col. Prof. Students. Income Eight Northern State* . ..27 293 3,861 $324,210 Ten Southern State* ..65 391 6,484 583,815 Excess in the South ..38 98 2,623 $259,575 The subject ot academic and common school education will be examined in future papers. A Native Georgian. Atlanta, Ga., September, 1867. The Recent Shell Explosion.—Saturday last we published a report of the explosion of a shell on Morris’ Island, by which Messrs Palmer and Wise were injured, the former mortally, and the latter severely, though not dangerously. Mr. Palmer subsequently expired from the effects of his wounds, and an inquest was held on his re mains, under the direction ot Coroner Whiting ; tbe jury rendering a verdict in accordance with the facts. Mr. Wise, it is understood, is slowly recovering from his injuries.—Charleston Courier. On Solid Ground.—The Journal of Com merce, iu reference to the recent misunderstand ing between the President and General Grant, thinks the former, now, stands on solid ground. The editor adds: “ It is fortunate for the President that he is en tirely right, and now reluctantly admitted to be so by nearly all the radical papers, in claiming the power of removing district commanders. Had he assumed iu that affair a power which was not his, but General Grunt’s he would have lost the support which he now derives from that large part of the community who look to tlie written law as their guide in all doubtful ques tions.”

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Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, September 11, 1867, Image 1