Newspaper Page Text
TBcfKl# ^ntfUigrnrrr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, October 2, 1867.
The comine Elections In Pennsylvania
and Ohio.
These elections are attracting more attention
t h.au usual over the whole country. North and
South are alike excited in regard to the results
in each. Some time ago it was admitted by
Thad. Stevens that the Radicals would lose Penn
sylvania. This opinion was entertained by
many other Radicals, and has gained ground
lrorn the day it was uttered till now. Says a
cotemporary: “The chevalier^ Forney, at once
the boldest and basest ot these leaders, has has
tily returned from Europe, where be was luxu
riating in the fruit of his ill-gotten wealth, and
is now exerting his lull strength to avert his
parly's doom, by writing letters from Washing
ton and wire-working in Pennsylvania. The
haste of Forney’s return, and his activity since,
only show the magnitude of the danger to Rad
icalism, hut will not suffice to save it Even the
New York Trihum, always unscrupulous in
claiming victory before it comes, admonishes its
party that in this case ‘it will require hard work
and constant vigilance to secure the victory.’
“ These fears are well-founded, and they may
well tremble at the prospect But to us of the
South there is nothing but hope in their fear.—
The contest in Pennsylvania will decide the ques
tion of party supremacy in the North, and upon
that decision depends the fate of the South. If
the revolutionary and jaeobincal party shall be
ilnust under foot by the conservative and intelli
gent masses North, the country will be saved.—
If not, the future is appalling. Let the issue at
the ballot box be against Radicalism, and we may
kid; the blusterers who prate about impeachment
now. It is only because they think they are
strong before the people of the North that they
up their bluster. Their cowardly souls will
slink within them when they find that they have
over rated their strength, and they will ‘ coo as
mildly as a sucking dove.’ ”
From Ohio we have also encouraging tidings
Savs the Cleveland Leader, a journal radical to
the core, in an article headed, “Apathy in great
Danger: ”
“ We carry weight in this contest. The con
stitutional amendment abolishing distinctions of
color, which was carried through the last Legis
lature by the united effort of the radical repub
licans in that body, is very unpopular in South
ern Ohio. It is incumbent upon the Western
Reserve, the republicans of which fully believe
in the necessity and justice of this great measure,
to rally with full force to its support. The Re
serve has made this issue for the party. The
Reserve, therefore, must support it at the polls.
It will not do for us in Cuyahoga, Ashtabula,
Lake, Loraiu and the other strongly republican
counties of the Reserve to fold our hands aud
rest in secure confidence of strength and success.
It is incumbent upon us, not merely to elect our
county tickets and give a moderate majority lor
oer State ticket, but to poll every republican
vote and call out to the polls every believer in
republican principles to support the noble, though
unpopular, measure which we ourselves have put
in issue.”
Well may the Leader say: “ we carry weight
iu this contest.” The weight is heavy indeed,
and radical supremacy must sink under it.
Another Removal.
The Memphis Avalanche of the 22d instant,
commenting upon the removal by Gen. Ord of
Thicaker, the Federal officer who disturbed the
meeting at Iuka a few days ago, in tho exercise of
what lias turned out to be liis “brief authority,”
says : “Gen. Ord lias given him notice to pack
up his duds and travel to the far West, which
seems to have been set apart as a kind of Bota
ny Bay lor military squirts, as Sheridan has
been sent to the same region. Poor Theaker
Alas tor the mutability ot human grandeur and
the uncertainty ot all earthly expectations. For
two days his name blazed athwart the sky like
a shooting meteor ; but the bright light has been
snuffed out by Gen. Ord’s thumb and tore finger,
who, we understand, has pitched him out of his
department with that kind of disgust and loath
ing which a pretty young lady exhibits when she
takes hold with a long pair of tongues of the
toad she finds sweltering in her parlor, and
tosses it into the back yard. Verily, The
aker went up like a rocket, but came down
with all the poetical elegance of a be-
draggle-tailed Shanghai from his stoop.—
Caligula erected a marble stable for his horse
Incitatus, provided him with breast plates stud
ded with diamonds and pearl9, aud then elevated
him to the dignity of Consulship. Is not Thea
her worthy of as much coucideration as ahorse?
Why should diamonds and pearls be lavished
ui>on a beast and withheld from such a mass of
beauty, love and purity as is concentrated in the
charming Theaker. The people ot North Mis
sissippi arc deeply grieved at the bare idea of
losing this promising son of Mars. The separa
tion will be as affecting as that between Augus
tus and Agrippa; but Theaker will ever be held
in blissful remembrance. We trust that lie will
send us a lock of his beautilul carroty hair.—
Farewell, Theaker! If you are determined to
go, go along! A tew days sooner or later will
make no diftcreuce."
“Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.’’
T*»e •Fresldeui’* Proclamation in Court
Tho Montgomery Mail states that “the Hon
8. F. Rice, of that city, went before the Board of
Registration on Saturday, subscribed to the reg
istration oath, and claimed the right to register
as a voter under the late amnesty proclamation
ot President Johnson, and was refused. Judge
Rice will at once test the constitutionality of the
law and the proclamation before the United
States Court This is the first case under the
proclamation, and we are glad to know that the
matter is to be tested and decided by the legal
tribunals. The affidavit was made before W
R. Wyatt, United States Commissioner.”
the
Postponement
of tlie Elections in
Soutli.
The National Intelligencer of the 24th instant
sain tlie President aud General Grant had a con
sultation a lew days ago on the postponement of
the elections in tlie five military districts of the
South. “They agreed,” it says, “that under the
Reconstruction acts neither the Executive nor
the General-in-Chief has any control or authority
over elections or registration in the military dis
tricts ; but it is understood they have agreed on
the propriety of holding elections on the same
day, and that it would be advisable to suggest
the same to the generals commanding, not in the
shape of an order, however, but as an advisory
communication, which General Grant was ex
pected to send. It is not known that General
Grant has communicated with them upon the
subject.”
Political Apathy.
The New York Express, of the 23d instant,
under tlie foregoing heading, says: “The Repub
licans complain of terrible apathy among their
party in Ohio and Pennsylvania, but yet whistle
to keep their courage up. It.now depends npon
the Democrats and Conservatives ot the country
to sav what the future shall lie. Under the Radi
cal role there can be no permanent peace among
the people, no order and stability in business, no
equality or justice between the States, no hasten
ing of specie payments, no absence of Military
Governments at the South, and no diminution of
taxes. Those, therefore, who wish some change
for all these evils must now see the necessity of
a change of measures,”
A Cmc of Yellow Fever In Bartow County.
The Cartersville Express, ot yesterday, con
tains the following:
“There was a case of yellow fever in this
county last week. Tlie gentleman, whose name
we did not learn, was a brother-in-law of Col. J.
L. Rowland, ot this county, and had stopped
with CoL R., as he was passing through the
country from the West, where he had contracted
the disease. He died on last Saturday at Col.
R.’s residence, and his remains were sent back
to Texas, his home, tor interment.'’
Benetton Even In HanachnielU.
As in Connecticut and Maine, there is an
evident reaction in Massachusetts. Discontent,
divisions, and apathy, prevail to a great extent
among the Republican? of that State. As evi
dence of this we place before our readers the
following from the Worcester Gazette, a noted Re
publican sheet:
“When,” says that paper, “we ask for cheaper
bread our leaders strive to amuse us with glow
ing pictures of negro equality ; when we ask for a
more equal and just system of taxation, we are
handed a treatise setting forth the blessings
which are to come to mankind through univer
sal suffrage, thrust upon the cotton pickers of
the Carolinas ; when we suggest that our de
ranged currency is driving us at railroad speed
to individual and national bankruptcy, the air
is filled with alarming rumors and the shadow
ot impeachment is made to play the part of the
red blanket in the sports of the Spanish arena.”
And so the work of regeneration “goes brave
ly on !”
Treatment of “Confederate** Prltouer*
of War.
We invite the attention of our readers, and
especially those of them who were made pris
oners during tlie late war, to the following ap
peal made for information in regard to the
treatment of the latter while in confinement in
the severeal prisons of the United States. The
object of the appeal, as stated by the gentleman
who makes it, should secure for it, such a re
sponse as will enable him to effectually thwart
“the partial, vindictive, and wicked purpose of
Congress, to pervert, distort, and suborn the
truth of history : ”
At the late session ot the Congress of the
United States, that body passed a resolution, on
July 10th, 1867, appointing certain parties to in
vestigate “The treatment of prisoners of war
and Union citizens held by the Confederate
authorities during the late rebellion,” at the
same time relusing to extend tlie investigation
to the prisoners of war, victims of arbitrary
power and military usurpation by the authorities
ot the Federal administration. The partial,
vindictive and wicked purpose of the Congress
to pervert, distort and suborn the troth of his
tory, has made it the duty of every American
citizen to look to the honor of his country and
the preservation of the truth of bistort'.
We all might imitate the example of the better
son of Noah, and walk backtvards, aud throw the
mantle of oblivion upon the nakedness ot our
drunkek parent, and forget all of tlie past; but
since a partial and false representation of our
public affairs is to be made by members of Con
gress for tlie unholy aud fiendish purpose of per
petuating sectional bitterness, and prolonging
the unchristian and unnatural strite of a ruined
people, that justice may be done to every man
and the truth of history may be vindicated, I
hereby most respectfully request that all persons
in possession of important information in regard
to any of these subjects as well as tlie city burn
ings, plantation devastations, the murders, rapes,
and robberies, perpetrated under official sanction,
either civil or military, of the Federal authority,
are earnestly requested to address tho under
signed, stating in precise, simple, and unexag-
gerated terms, a full statement of all the facts
known to the writer touching his own. imprison-
aent, or treatment of others, either soldiers or
itizens, giving, as far as possible, names, places
and dates, with names of Federal officers in
charge, and those instigating these crimes.
The great body ot the officers and soldiers of
both armies were manifestly honest in purpose
in the prosecution of their terrible work ot
death. The history of wars demonstrates that
the vilest men have charge of prisons. A his
tory ot the cruelty to. prisoners on both 9ides in
the late war is one which “will make hell asham
ed and turn the cheek of darkness pale,” and
tie, fox our own history’s sake, forgotten, but if
told it must be truly told, that each party may
be shamed into silence by their crime. Not
having the people’s money to waste in postage
to kindle the fires of revenge, I will trust to the
kindness of tlie sufferers to transmit to me, by
mail, all communications upon this subject at
their earliest convenience.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
ILenry Clay Dean,
Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
All newspapers in the Northern and Southern
States are requested to copy this.
Adams’ Express—All Blebs, Mr. Halbert.
We are in great distress. Our most obliging
friends of the Adams, alias Southern Express,
have withdrawn their courtesies from the Tele
graph. Some days ago we took the liberty of
commenting, in terms of deserved severity, up
on a secret Radical political circular designed to
cheat the ignorant into holding a State Conven
tion, and issued by Mr. Hulbert, the Georgia
head of the Express anil Radical Registration,
and straightway our packages come to us minus
the “ D. H.” We spoke of Mr. Hulbert, politi
cian, not Mr. Hulbert, Expressman, but Mr. Hul
bert puts his politics into the Express and
promptly resents it through that medium. Very
well; we have not the slightest objection. It
the Express can do without our favors we cer
tainly can do without theirs.
Upon the whole, we are glad ottlie change, and
for several reasons. In the first place, we like
both to be and to feel independent. In the
second place, we scorn favors to the press that
come from no good feeling or genuine spirit of
courtesy, but simply to muzzle it as regards
everything opposed to the giver. The motive is
too evident to be questioned, aud if the Southern
press submits to be thus tied up and gagged by a
great overshadowing monopoly, what will be
come of trutli and the public welfare V Eighteen
months ago we were struck from its list of lrieuds
for advocating free trade in the Express business
and refusing to publish a long article from a
Virginia paper in relation to a controversy, in
that State, abusive of Gen. Johnston, and in which
our readers felt not a particle of interest. Their
courtesies were renewed without solicitation on
our part, though, in view ot the motive that
prompted them, we have often been harrassed
with doubts whether we could receive them
with proper respect for ourselves. The gentle
men interested in tlie Telegraph have often con
sulted together ou the propriety ot refusing such
favors, and the writer always advocated such a
course, but the matter was laid over tor further
consideration. We thank Mr. Hulbnrt lor com
ing to our relief aud giviDg a definite settlement
to the question.
Another reason why we are glad to bo re
lieved from this unpleasant dependence for what
we really did not need, is the belief that this vast
monied and transportation monopoly, ramifying
into every section ot the South, is in close alli
ance with the Radical party of the North, and
using its vast powers to fasten negro government
aud perpetual enslavement on the Southern peo
ple. Why, of all “loyal” men in the State of
Georgia, was the head' ot their bureau, who was
overwhelmed with the business of his company,
singled out for the office ot" Chief Registrar uu-
der the Radical Reconstruction bills? Their
agents have also been active in getting up aud
establishing Radical Reconstruction papers in
Georgia. The Radical paper at Augusta, we
learn, was started and kept up by the Express
office, whether by funds trom the Company or
the private fortunes ot its agents, we do not pre
tend to say. It is also rumored that the Express
or its agents at Atlanta, furnish material aid to
keep oue, if not both, of the two Radical papers
there going. Are these things not evidence that
[comnncATEXi.]
-Judge Harris.
The positions recently taken by Judges Milner
and Underwood were much regretted. Judge
Warners, taking his well known political opin
ions, together with the current of his judicial
decisions, and his recent letter on political af
fairs, surprised nobody. We bad assigned Judge
Walker to the same line ot policy. From Judge
Harris’ well known antecedents as a State
Rights man, he was about the last man in Geor
gia we should have expected to entertain the
opinions he has just published. So the entire
Supreme Bench accords with the Military bills
and General Pope. The Circuit Judges have
made a rush in the same direction, and the only
question now is: Where will it stop ? We had
been looking for several to say like Judge
Reese, that Lis convictions of duty would
not allow him to execute military orders, and
lrom others we had expected to hear that
their self-respect would not allow them, un
der the circumstances, to hold their offices,
and they, therefore, resigned, in favor of
men whose conscience offered no barrier to
empanelling a jury of negroes, (but recently
slaves,) to try a white man for bis life. Alas
poor Georgia ! poor South !! The manhood
has been thoroughly whipped out of us all. Our
enemies look down upon us with contempt,,
seeing with what grace and facility we alLcotne
up and cross otir hands to be tied. Judge Harris
has an honor that none'of the other acquiescents
Jliave, and that is to view the subject from
the same stand point of so distinguished and
powerful a man as Thaddeus Stevens, if tak
ing the extreme radical legal position can re
concile “the powers that be” to any rebel, Judge
Harris lias had the good fortune to strike that
key note.” Stevens is the most candid of all
the radical leaders, and Judge Harris is the
most candid of all the Confederates, who pub
licly accept the situation. Stevens’ legal
knowledge teaches him that upon nothing in the
Constitution, nor upon any construction of it,
whether he adopted the Jeffersonian, or the
Hamiltonian, could he base his Military bills.—
He therefore boldly asserts the eleven States are
conquered provinces, and must be governed by
the laws of nations, he being determined upon
our punishment at all hazards. And Judge
Harris says Amen !!!
For Stevens this may do, but for Judge Harris
it will not, as he has all his life espoused a dif
ferent doctrine and until now acted upon it.
Early in the history of the Government
the Federalist under Hamilton said, the United
States is a perpetual Union formed -by the
people of the Union, and not by the States,
and therefore there can be no separate State
action, as, for instance, Secession. Tlie Re
publicans uuder Jefferson said it was a com
pact between the States, aud each State was
sovereign, except iu so far as it had ceded certain
powers, aud if the Constitution was violated each
State had a right to apply the remedy; and, there
fore, secession might become a rightful exercise
of power. Judge Harris w“ 9 a subscriber to this
fnat. position. When the Congress made war
upon the seceding States, it adopted the Hamil
tonian construction, and waged it to restore and
perpetuate the Union. If this construction was
right all who committed the “overtact” under
secession were cuilty of treason, and the pains
and penalties m treason are clearly laid down in
the Constitution and laws. There was no difficulty
then in restoring the Union according to exist
ing laws, if Congress was right in using its pow
er to suppress the rebellion. If Congress was
not right, then the Jeffersonian construction pre
vailed, the seceding States were right, nobody
was guilty of treason, and the war was simply
a war for conquest. If the Constitution could
warrant tbe war, the Constitution could settle
the war. Mr. Steveu3 and Judge Harris now
virtually say secession was right^ior if wrong.
the Constitution applies, and the result of the
war decides it to be wrong. This result all are
obliged to accept ex necessitate rei. How can
Judge Harris reverse the opinion of a life time
to warrant the present exercise of military power
over the States? Their positions (S. and H.
justify secession legally and morally, whereas
both are estopped from justifying secession, and
place their right to govern the seceded States as
they do, wholly upon the might which a nation
may acquire by conquest upon outside Barbarians.
Either the power to make the war, or the man
ner of settlement is wrong. The existence of
both is a logical monstrosity.
Judge Harris gives our oppressors the benefit
of their construction of the constitution with
which to begin the war, and the benefit of our
construction with which to end the war. This
has the merit of self-sacrifice about it, both for
himself and his countrymen. As one of his
countrymen we protest against such suicidal
generosity. He never says “turkey to us once”
—it is “buzzard” p\l the time.
Confederate.
the Express is also a political concern, and act.ng
in fellowship with a party that is seeking to
overtiirow the Federal Constitution and estab
lish governments in the South that are odious to
our people? „ , „ , _ ,
These remarks are intended for the head men
of the Express organization, most of whom ere
imported lrom the North, and do not apply to
tho many worthy gentlemen in their employ
ment, who neither hold with Radical schemes,
nor would allow themselves to be used as instru
ments for carrying them forward. If at liberty,
no doubt these gentlemen could “a tale untoid.
The foregoing appeared in the Macon Tele
graph, of Thursday morning last. Like that pa
paper, if the “ Southern ’’ or “ Adams Express
Company,” can do without our favors—favors
that have been bestowed upon it in the past to
no small extent—“we can certainly do without
theirs." In fact, we are more than willing to
“cry quits,” and “let each tub stand upon its own
bottom" in the coming future. The withdrawal
bv Mr. Hulbert ot favors from the ostracised
Geonria presses is a matter of trifling concern-
wilh them. Speaking for the Intelligencer,
such withdrawal would really relieve it, from
what the Telegraph terms an “unpleasant depen-
deuce for what we really did not needand so,
let Mr. Hulbert pitch in as soon as he pleases.—
We have vet though to be satisfied that the
Chief Registrar for Georgia, is either the “South
end or the “Adams Express Company.”
A Split in the Badtcal Party.
The Columbus Enquirer of the 27th instant
says: Current rumors that the Radicals of our
city had a big row at a secret meeting held one
night this week, received confirmation from a
handbill that made its appearance yesterday.
The handbill is a call for a meeting to nominate
delegates to the Convention, and to it are ap-
pended only the men who, according to the re
ports above alluded to, comprise one of the wings
of tlie party. Even the names of tlie great “Or
ganizer” and the Chief Registrar do not appear
on the handbill, and it is said that they are par
ticularly interested in the nominations and the
manner of making them. The following are
the names appended to the call:
R. L. Mott,
T. M. Hogan,
R. W. Jaques,
R. Coleman,
C. \V\ Cnapman,
Daniel Harris,
E. Breedlove,
Edmund Thomas,
W. H. Johnson,
Leonidas May,
Jos. E. Webster,
Enoch Willett,
J. W. Dner,
Van Jones,
Phillip Monroe,
R. Snllivan,
R. B. Bailey,
Jas. C. Hogan,
A. T. Calhoun,
Enoch Dudley,
C. W. Arnold.
Coxkttteb.—H. G. Bennett, T. Rhodes, Jerry Terry,
A. Smith, R. Hudson.
O. Sauxdebs, Ch’n of Com.
“According to report, the quarrel in the Rad
ical meeting grew out of a difference as to the
mode of making this very call. The defeated
faction, it is said, wanted the nominations to be
made in the secret meetings of the League, while
the majority insisted on the mode announced by
handbill- The dispute was very bitter and of a
personal character. The wing that carried its
point is believed to be the more moderate of the
two ; but whether it can maintain its advantage
when the strength ot the party is more fully
called out, remains to be seen.”
From the best information we can obtain,
similar “splits” have occurred in many other
places in the State, not by any means excepting
these headquarters, where great efforts have been
and are being made to reconcile differences.
We have ever had abiding faith that upon the
approach oi the election, there would be a split
in the radical party of this State. All that the
leaders in it desired of the negro element was
its vote ; and now that the negro desires a re
cognition of his right to hold office, as well as to
vote, he must be put down or ruled out. We
will see which wing will succeed, as the election
draws nigh.
The oldest woodeu house iu the United States i
is the “ Minot House,
sells. It was built in 1633, and rents to-day for
$S0 a year.
Washington for a season during the Revolution,
and was once defended by Mrs. Minot alone,
when attacked by Indians.
How Executors are Fleeced by the Rad-
i cal Organs.—Gen. Pope has made a good thing
; for his Radical organs in compelling public effi-
j cers to advertise in them, and prescribing no lim
itation as to price. They have taken advantage
| ot this omission, and piled on from 50 to 62* per
' cent, on the customary rates of the country. An
„ , , , i ordinary writes ns 111 U for citations dismissory
Dorchester, Massachu-! oruin.uy , ,
: he is charged $i0, * uile ne lias been accustomed
* to pav heretofore only $6- We suppose there is
no remedy for this imposition
Lcoxxvxicatto-1
“Tbe Bossed iMue.**
The “Opinion” of the 26th instant says:
“ Republicanism has saved and will insure the
safety of the Union : Democracy has ruled and
ruined I”
Bah! Republicanism, alias Radicalism, saved
our country! Democracy ruined it! Now ain t
that “ a good joke on Snyder ?’’ The man that
penned the article is either a fool, or something
worse. He can take[wliich ever horn he likes.
The Black Republican or Radical party brought
all of the present troubles and woes upon our
country. History will so record it. That party
is responsible for every drop of blood which was
shed during the late civil warOne word from
its leaders would have smoothed the agitated
country in 1860-61, and have restored confidence
in the Government in the South. That word
was not spoken. It is responsible for the pres
ent disorganized condition ot our country, po
litically and financially, and will be so held
by the people 1 Its principles are suited for a
monarchy or a despotism, but not for a Republic.
If Radicalism reigns, our Constitution and tree
lorm of government must perish. If Constitu
tional liberty and our Republic survives, Radi
calism must perish. Choose ye between the
two: Radicalism and anarchy, or Democracy,
prosperity and our country, upon the basis of
the Constitution. Every good citizen is bound
to choose theriatter!
The Democratic party is the only national
party, for it is the only party which knows no
North.no South, no East.no West, and has a
place in the hearts of tlie people in every State
and Territory iu the Union.
It is the only Union parly, for it is the only
party willing, to give every section of the coun
try its constitutional rights.
It is tlie plSrty Which erratemh on alt occasions
for a strict construction of the' Constitution, and
labors for its perpetuation.
It is the patty, (though banished from power,
and driven into a minority by the party which
brought on the civil war,) that still confides in
the justice of its principles, and will struggle for
the supremacy ot the Constitution and the rights
of the people, until reason resumes het sway.
It is the party to which alone our country
owes its true greatness.
It is the ODly party which is trying to heal the
animosities engendered by the late civil wai, and
restore our country to its original purity.
It is the only party which was opposed to the
late fratracidal war, and had it remained in
power, would have averted the late humiliating
scenes ot Americans butchering Americans.'
It is the only party which contends for the
principle of State sovereignty, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States.
It is the party opposed to a war ot races, and
willing to give the negro all of his legal lights
under the Constitution of our country.
It is the party which overthrew Know-Noth-
ingism, saved our country from disgrace, and
guaranteed to our foreign-born citizens the rights
secured to them by the Constitution of our
fathers.
It i9 the party opposed to the Radical disunion
reconstruction programme of the revolutionary
Congress.
It is the party which will overthrow Radical
ism and again save our country from disgrace.
Now, Mr. “ Opinion f you propose to want a
fair fight, bring out your candidates. No dodg
ing ! Nobody is afraid but you, and your dark
lantern crew! Let us know what are the prin
ciples of your party. You don’t seem to agree
even among yourselves. Mr. Markham repudi
ates the Savannah platform, and your correspon
dent who, from his nom de plume, acknowledges
himself a white washed. Radical, by calling him
self “E. X. Reb.,” denounces the same platform
as announced by a “prominent Radical” of this
city, and calls upon us to give the public the
name of that “prominent Radical.” A modest
request indeed, after the same platform has been
announced by your party in a call for a public
meeting in Savannah. Sidney.
The Convention.—If the legal voters of
Georgia sustain the call for a Convention, we
presume it will assemble at the State capital
early in December.—Federal Union.
And we predict that it will assemble, not at
Milledgeville, but at Atlanta, so as to be conve
niently near to influences more powerful than
those at the State capital.
As to the time of its assembling, that is a mat
ter to be determined by circumstances of future
development.
Has not our Milledgeville cotemporary noticed
that the States deemed most certain to go with
the Radical party are most forward with the
processes of reconstruction ? In General Sheri
dan’s district, Louisiana is about to elect dele
gates to the Convention, while'the work of reg
istration in Texas may be said to be just com
menced. Louisiana lias a large black, and Tex
as will probably have a considerable white ma
jority And Louisiana is fully a month more
forward in reconstructing than Texas. It may
be deemed advisable to hurry the former along
so as to allow her to vote in the Presidential
election ; and to hold back the latter so as to
keep her from voting. In Gen. Pope’s district,
Alabama, with a negro majority, is nearly a
month ahead of Georgia, with a white majority
Our opinion is that it is by no means cer.ain that
the work of reconstruction ol Georgia will be
completed in time to permit her to vote in the
Presidential election.—Columbus Enquirer.
The Course of the Mouey Market—What
Causes the Strinsency f
The New York Commercial, (financial article
of the 23d,) alludiug to the growing tightness of
money, says: “In some quarters there appears to
have been a singular blindness t<> the tendency
of the money market. The remittances to the
YYest have been enormous, being last week re
ported at about $8,000,000, and this week at a
higher amount; and the banks have been stead
ily drifting into a condition which should have
warned all prudent men to look out for a gale.
The storm has come; and now these parties, in
stead of blaming their own lack of foresight,
make the Treasury the scapegoat for their rash
ness. The balance or operations at the Sub-
Treasury has not tended to deplete the banks of
currency. We have it upon official authority
that the sales of coin, during the week, amount
to less than $3,000,000; while the purchases of
seveu-thirties are over $6,000,000, and the sales
of bonds only $804,000. The Treasury has,
therefore, received from the banks on these ac
counts about $5,000,000, while its payments to
the banks amount to nearly $6,500,090.
“The Treasury operations for the week have
thus been in favor of the banks. The increase
in the reported balances of the Sub-Treasury
are due principally to the fact Of the seven-
thirties purchased not having been “marked off.”
These notes will be shipped to Washington,
probably, this evening, when the balance will
show a corresponding decrease. The sales of
gold, during this month, have not been so large
as is generally supposed.
“The total sales are $1,500,000 below the re
ceipts for custom duties, and on no one day has
the Treasury sold more than double the daily
average.”
The President’s Charges Against Stan
ton.—Congress re-convenes in little more than
seven weeks, but long before that time the Presi
dent will have the charge and reasons for sus
pending Secretary Stanton from the War De
partment ready for submission to the Senate as
required by the Civil Tenure of Office law. The
case made out by the President is an exceeding
ly strong one, and the Senate will find itself en
lightened in matters it little dreams of when it
receives the documents in the premises.—A. Y.
Express.
It was the headquarters ot General
It is necessary
Isaac Reynolds aud William Quillins, both
witheut legs, and accomplishing locomotion with
their arms, had a one mile race in Cincinnati on
Saturday afternoon for a purse of $1,000. Rey
nolds weighs 105 and Quillins 120 pounds. The
Scraps.
The planters of Jackson parish, Louisiana,
are offering corn in the field at twenty-five cents
per bushel.
Mint julep goes by the name "of “ spotted
silk” with the fair tipplers whom scandal says
take a drop at the dressmakers. Whisky straight
is “ gingham flounced.”
W. H. Hale, an old and highly respected cit
izen of Arkansas, was murdered near his resi
dence in Clark county last week.
A gentleman in Petersburg has succeeded
in teaching four chickens to draw a miniature
wagon, in which a big white rooster rides.
They rattle over a lawn with great speed, while
the rooster looks as grave as a bishop.
The Washington, Arkansas, Telegraph says
there is a regularly organized band of horse
thieves, composed of negroes, committing dep
redations in that locality, and extending their
operations as far as Red river.
The papers of the Mexican capital announce
that the Minister of Brazil offered to the French
and Austrian soldiers of the late Empire, to take
them into the Brazilian service, with their re
spective grades, and that they have accepted.
Steamers are ready to take them to Rio de
Janeiro.
The Brandon (Miss.) Republican says that ot
the 13,531 colored majority in Mississippi, 10,000
have changed their names “and thousands will
vote with their old masters”—in a horn.
The Inquirer at Gonzales, Texas, says an old
freedman told his old master that his sable high
ness was getting too feeble to work and wanted
to be elected County Judge. “But,” said his em
ployer, “you must know the law of the land be
fore you can act as Judge, and you can neither
read nor writ/. ” “Oh. w«Jl, Gat m«t-M no dif-
frauce, Mas. J., I wants de office, and deni
wants you lor my clerk. You can do all de
writing.”
A special correspondent of tbe Waco (Texas)
Register, writing from Bosque county, gives an
account of an expedition under Capt. Swinely
of Austin, to what was supposed was the gold
region of Texas. The expedition numbered
over a hundred men. The place where the
company have been prospecting is near Eagle
Springs, about two hundred miles west of Horse
Head crossing on the Pecos, and about twenty
miles this side ot the Rio Grande.
The mild mannered old cuss at Mobile who
draws the Mayor’s salary with such distinguish
ed ability and regularity, recently fined a negro
ten dollars for using the word “devil.” This is
regarded a9 a move in the right direction for the
Radical party, and it has been suggested that
every negro, whether white or black, who shall
say Devil or Brownlow hereafter be fined ten
dollars. “ Virtue has its awards."
An exchange says that in Alexandria, on
Monday evening, while a couple of colored men
were digging near the canal basin, they exhumed
a tin box containing $67,000 in Alexandria cor
poration notes, together with a will of the tes
tator, who, upon inquiry, was ascertained to
have fallen in battle at Seven Pines. The heirs
are now looking after the funds.
The United States Grand Lodge of Odd Fel
lows, which has been in session in New York
for a week past, adjourned sine die on Saturday.
The 26tli of April was fixed upon as a standing
thanksgiving day of the Order. Resolutions
were adopted reiterating the right of subordinate
Lodges and Encampments to select their officers
also having the term of office of officers ot su
bordinates at six months. A resolution was car
ried giving the power of electing grand officers
to Past Grands in good standing.
The Creek and Seminole tribes of Indians, lo
cated in Kansas, have connected with them two
colored men as interpreters. “Harry,” who is
with the Creeks, and “Bob,” who is with the
Seminoles, are singular men. Reared among
these Indians, and speaking their language with
perfect accuracy, their familiarity with our forms
of speech, their intelligence and devotion to their
respective nations, has raised them to relations
of great intimacy with the chiefs, and affords
them almost unlimited influence. Both are smart,
quick-witted, and remarkably intelligent men;
and, although black as the ace of spades, they
are greatly beloved by -the Indians. - Bob is a
great exhorter, and preaches with exceeding fer
vor. He is now holding a protracted meeting at
the Seminole Agency, and, as a zealous “fisher
of souls,” is not excelled among even the mis
sionaries.
The only daughter of “ Spotted Tail,” the
celebrated Indian chief, is “ finishing her educa
tion ” at Omaha. She is learning to sing Italian
and play the piano.
Mrs. Mumford, the widow of the man who
was hung by General Butler in New Orleans, ,
now living in Abingdon, Va., in great destitution
The Virginian calls for aid for her and three
fatherless children.
An exquisite at Saratoga bad a diamond pin
ot great magnifying power, and seeing a man
with a large diamond come in, he went up to him.
“That’s a nice diamond.” “Yes.” “A first-
rate stone.” “ Yes.” “ Now, I s’pose that stone
must be worth $1500, but then I’m no epicure!”
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer
cial, in a sketch of tiie recent council at Fort
Sully, says: “The Indians were attired in their
Sunday clothes—plenty of paint and feathers.
Six tribes ot Sioux were represented. They
were a droll crowd, all past the prime of life, all
paiuted, some yellow, some black, some red.—
All sort3 of clothes were worn, even one fellow
appeared in a cast-off Brigadier General’s coat;
army cavalry hats were quite in vogue, and their
hair was generally tied up in two braids, which
were inserted in fox skins about eighteen inches
long, and hung down over their hearts. Dirty
shirts were decidedly fashionable, it being In
dian etiquette to put on a shirt and wear it out,
and on no condition to remove it till it wears
out, or to have it washed. As to pantaloons,
they wear nothing but the legs, cutting out the
seats as soon as they are given to them.”
Sentence of the Murderers.—On yester
day, says the Georgia Citizen, His Honor, Judge
Vason, proceeded to sentence three of the mur
derers of Judge Horne to death, and one, Rich
ard, to the penitentiary for life. Tbe fifth, George
Jackson, w T as granted a new' trial. The case will
be taken up to the Supreme Court, more, we
presume, as a matter of form than from any idea
that the just verdict of the jury can be reversed.
Never was a fairer or more impartial trial given,
even in the opinion of the Freedmen’s Bureau
ol this place.
Scott Horne, Ben Horne and Edmund Horne
deserve the penalty pronounced against them,
and a severe example was never more necessary
than now to vindicate tbe majesty of the law.
Democratic Victory at the Home of
Colfax.—Tlie home and ward of Schuyler Col
fax, which last spring gave Dr. Myers, Radical
Republican, twenty-nine majority over William
Mack, Democrat, last week, at a special election
to elect a Councilman, gave Wilfiam Slack,
Democrat, thirteen majority over D. Deal
ing, Radical Republican. The Democrats are
jubilant over their success in defeating Colfax
and liis friends, upon a strict party issue, in Mr.
Colfax’s own ward, where his own vote and in
fluence availed him so little.
A Remarkable Case of Longevity.—Died
in this county, on the 16th instant, in the family
of Thomas H. Hill, a negro woman, (an import
ed native African,) by the name of Clara, at the
age of 104 years. She often walked five miles,
to this city, in an hour and a half, to see her
daughter and acquaintances. She never lost her
eyesight, and could thread a needle and do all
ordinary kinds of sewing. Abo, could spin the
finest kinds of thread, and was always at work,
[From the Macon Telegraph.
justice Iveraon I.. Harris on the Polltl-
cal Situation.
The letter ot Justice Hams, of the Georgia
Supreme Court, to his associate, Justice M ai her
alluded to briefly yesterday, will be found on our
first page. No'e^on of opinion onpubfie
nrsi page, nu v.
affairs, since the close of the war, has so filled,
us with surprise and regret. 4. e have longfel
a sincere personal attachment for Justice 1 •
ris, and the highest admiration tor his honest,
bold, and manly nature; hence, we cannot but
leel regret that he has thus put to hazard h
reputation as a logician, a journalist and a states
man. Nothing can convince us that he is not a
true-hearted patriot; we shall therefore comment
in all kindness tor him personally, on the extra
ordinary positions assumed in this letter.
The two leading errors into which Judge Har
ris has fallen, and which are the ground-work ot
all the heretical doctrines advanced by him, are
as follows: First, he views the whole question
solely from a stand-point occupied by himself in
the past, aud which he himself has abandoned
is no longer tenable for any practical purpos
Secondly, he ignores facts necessary tor a cor
rect conception of the real condition of the coum
try and which must be allowed their due weight
in any well-considered and reliable opinion.
The policy ot Justice Harris is summed up in
the following language: “ I would vote tor the
call of a Convention. I would then cordially
co-operate with tlie colored voters ih the election
to that convention of the most intelligent, mete^
pendent, dispassionate and prudent delegates
(would they co-operate on such terms.) not dis
franchised, 1 could find. To them 1 would com
mit the high task of moulding our organic law
according to our altered 'condition, sorts to fuljil
the requisitions of the Reconstruction Acts.
Such are his conclusions upon the ques
tion of Southern duty and policy. The premises
upon which they are founded are as follows:
He was always a “ State’s Rights man and a
believer in the doctrine of rightful secession.—
The Southern States, in liis opinion, had a right
to go out of the Union, aud actually did go out,
and form among themselves a separate aud in
dependent nation. Therefore “ the status ot
Georgia is, at this time, that ot a conquered StaU
out of the Union.” He adds, as a necessary con
oequence under the laws ot natious, the con
queror may role them, “ with no restrictions on
liis power than the customary usage of such na
tions.” “ The Congress of the U nited States,”
he says “ from this source alone, derived their
power to pass the Reconstruction Acts.”
Granting, for the present, that these positions
are true—that we are conquered States, aud the
conqueror has the right to rule us in his own
discretion with the limitations specified we ask
the Justice justice; How, in all candor, lias the
Radical Congress respected those limitations in
its legislation with regard to the Southern States,
which he advises us to accept ? Is it the “cus
tomary usage ” ot Christian nations to change
tlieir own form of government in order to admit
to their jurisdiction and fellowship conquests iu
war ? Is it the “ customary usage of such na
tions” to require of a people to elevate their own
ne> r ro slaves to civil and political equality with
themselves, and, uprooting the entire relations ot
society, establish governments that will prove
political and social powder magazines ever ready
for an explosion ? Is it the “ customary usage ’
of enlightened, Christian nations to do all this
and then brand with disfranchisement and in
famy their own leaders and comrades-in-arms i
We know Justice Harris’ noble nature will revolt
at an affirmative answer to these questions.
Bet let us come to the ground ot the Justice’;
reasoning. His opinion ot our status aud duty
is based solely on a political dogma held by him
self in the past, not upou the prevailing political
principles ot the preseat, and the real posture of
public affairs. He was a State’s Rights man and
believed in the right of secession; therefore, to
be consistent, he must now hold that the South
ern States actually were out ot the Uuiou, arid
when defeated in war became conquered nations
This is the political gospel according to Thad
Stevens, without amendment or change. Sup
pose Justice Harris did hold these sentiments in
the past, has he not solemnly pledged himself to
repudiate them forever, and at the very bidding
of the power which be seeks to conciliate by ac
quiescing in the so-called Reconstruction acts !
It the United States have power to dictate law9
and principles to us, why does he withhold his
respect from the newly established doctrine that
the States have not a right to secede ? Does lie
not base his present action on political doctrines
that he has repudiated and will allow to govern
him in nothing else ? Why does he not act upon
the “altered condition of things,” which lie teels
bound to abide by—we shall not say respect, for we
know that in liis heart he loathes it? His doctrines
in the past may have been right once, but they can
no longer be the rule of his conduct, for they
have been abolished by force of arms. How iu-
co!i«istent to adhere to them in ilie work of re
construction when in the very act of reconstruc
tion on the Radical plan he sets them aside as
false, exploded, and no longer to be asserted !—
Reconstruction proceeds exclusively on the
ground that in all this matter Justice Harris was
wrong, and it is a call upon him by Congress to
From tbe Columbus Enquirer.
__ Mosea to tbe Colored People of
Georglt’—No. 3.
I propose now to show you that you lmve
been deceived when you were told that the Radi
cal party gave you your freedom. I will endeavor
to prove to you that tbe war was not made or
carried on for the purpose of freeing you, but
that it was made and carried on by the Northern
Republican party because the South would not
consent that slave labor (in which, as owners,
thev were then interested) should be taxed for
the’benefit of Northern interests. To avoid this
the South left the Union. The Republican party
of tlie North made war on the South to bring
it back into tlie Union, in order that they might,
bv a system of taxation ir. favor of lliemsdves,
receive the profits of your labor as slaves, if they
could receive the profits ot your labor, they were
willin'* vou should remain slaves Jorever ; aud it
was only when they saw that the white people of
the South had too much good sense to work
their slaves toi the benefit ot Northern men that
the Republican, or, as you call it, the Radical
no remetiy ior «■**» L nil ht Rovn/ili* in e'even minutes I although she had been excused from labor for
South, and the public interest
sidered.—JIacan Telegraph.
witnessed the singular contest.
| Messenger
undo that wrong.
It is true that the State of Georgia only “re
pealed” her ordinance of secession, but all the
other States, we believe, without exception,
adopted ordinances declaring it “null and void,”
thus yielding their assent to the doctrine, now
established as national, that secession was void
and the Union never dissolved, and this Georgia,
too, has practically assented to in more ways
than one. No department of the Federal Gov
ernment ever admitted that we were out of the
Union. Congress declared, over and again, that
the -war was not waged for conquest—that it
was only rebellion—while since the war both
the Executive and Judicial Departments have
recognized us as States now in the Union, and
treated us as such. No principle is more definitely
settled as part of the true theory ot the govern
ment, the ravings of such madmen as Thad.
Stevens and the shamelessly inconsistent legisla
tion of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.
The point, therefore, that we insist upon is
this: If Justice Harris must abandon his State’s
Rights doctrines in reconstructing the govern
ment “according to our altered condition”—a
necessity which none will deny—he cannot base
an argument for reconstruction on those repudi
ated doctrines. But enough on this point.
But it the argument by which Justice Harris
seeks to sustain his consistency in advocating re
construction under the military bills be falla
cious—and we think we have proved it conclu
sively—his plea of necessity in support of such
policy is equally, if not even more, untenable
Even though a bad one, we are glad that be
urges this ground, for we should be sorry to
think that he has any approval for those harsh,
and degrading measures. We know him well
enough to feel assured that they are abhorrent to
every sentiment and instinct of his manly nature.
He says: “There is no earthly tribunal to
which the conquered can appeal for remedy or
redress.” And adds: “Are we not, then, by an
inexorable necessity, compelled to choose be
tween acquiescing in those acts, or resistance ?”
We answer promptly and most emphati
cally, No! We can never assent to such
a position, and we are amazed that any man
can assert it in view ot the eloquent facts
that are transpiring before his eyes daily. If
there be no tribunal of appeal for a downtrod
den and oppressed people, then indeed arc we
irredeemably lost. But, thank God ! we have
not yet been trampled out of sight and beyond
the reach of hope. There is a tribunal to which
we can and have appealed, and not in vain.
That tribunal is the people, whose voice, in a
political sense, in this enlightened age of the
world, is emphatically the “voice of God.” There
are none so high that it cannot reach, none so
proud that it cannot cause them to quake and
tremble. The people have begun to speak, and
on this very issue of Southern degradation. The
most extraordinary revolutions in States that the
world ever saw, have been eflecled by it, and un
less God deserts truth and justice, they will
sweep over this whole land and strike the fetters
from the limbs of every American citizen. What
means that thunder clap from California—that
tornado of popular sentiment that comes sweep
ing down from the bleak hills of Maine—the
shrill, clarion voice that rings out from liberty-
loving Connecticut—the groans and cries of dis
tress that come up from the enemies of constitu
tional union in New York, Pennsylvania, and
Ohio ? Are these not the notes that herald ap
proaching justice for the South ? Is there no tri
bunal to which we can appeal ? May we not,then,
wait and suffer on in patience for a few months,
or even years if necessary, till the deliver come,
rather than sign with our hands the warrant of
Southern degradation and ruin ? Let the sensi
ble and true men of the South answer the ques
tion. We have appealed from Phillip drunk
to Phillip sober, and we have but to be patient
and true to ourselves to obtain a righteous judg
ment in our favor.
Finally, the plea of “necessity” in this case
cannot hold good, because, granting that we are
a conquered nation, onr conquerors have not
made a peremptory demand of reconstruction
under the military bills, but have simply pro
posed terms which, according to both the let
ter and spirit of the law, we are at perfect
liberty to accept or reject, on our own responsi
bility of cours'-. We prefer to reject and take !
the responsibility, especially with so good a ! ship.”
promise that we shall eventually be sustained
by a majority of the American people.
Justice Harris has given his countrymen,
doubtless with the very best of motives, very
bad advice, and we pray God no one wiii be
induced, by his high character as a jurist and
citizen, to take it.
party desired that you should be made free —
They knew that you understood less about poli
tics than your masters did, and they thought that
it you could be made politicians they could send
out men to array you in opposition to your mas
ter® induce you, by leagues aud false promises,
to join their party, keep them a little longer iu
power and assist in passing laws which would
give tliein the profits of your labor as freedmen.
This they are now doing by taxing every bale ot
cotton which you raise twelve dollars and fitly
cent® all ot which comes out of your labor!—
The planter, when he hires a hand, counts this
way • i pay a baud one hundred and eighty dol
lars • he can raise four bales of cotton; 1 have to
pay on these four bales, to the Radical party,
fittv dollars tax ; this I must deduct from the ne
o-re's’ wages, and, therefore, I can only pay him
Sue lmud red aud thirty dollars. So that every
field hand this day, by voting for the Radical
partv votes to tax himself on the cotton he
raises' $12 50 for every bale that in a year s hard
labor he can work out of the ground. 1 hey
know that white men have too much sense to do
so toolish a thing, and therefore they pass laws
to prevent the whites from voting, who know
their tricks, aud they pass other laws to
allow you to vote, hoping, through the leagues
they are forming, and the false promises they
are holding out about giving you forty acres
of land, that they will be able to impose ou your
ignorance, and make you give to them the profits
(Tf your labor. They "make by this lax alone, in
one year, out of the cotton you Georgia negroes
raise, over three millions dollars, which is money
enough to pay about two thousand dollars a piece
tor every colored voter in the county ot Musco
gee. Think ove: these things, and you will very
soon learn why the Radical party wants to lead
you away from the good advice of your old mas
ters and to make you distrust them. The Radi
cals know that your old masters will tell you:
« When we owned you we would not vote with
this party because they wanted to tax the labor
of our slaves, aud now that you are free and your
labor is your own, do as we did aud will continue
to —vole against them, and insist ou enjoying
the fruits of your industry.”
I think I have now given you a good reason
why the Radicals went to war with the South,
when it tried to form a government outside of
the Union, and also why, when we have come
back in the Union, they want to exclude white
people from voting, aud at the same time give
you the privilege. Now let us see it I can prove
the truth ot what I say. There have always
been two parties in the country—one in favor of
taxing tlie labor of the poor workman lor the
benefit of tlie rich capitalist, and the other in
favor of leaving to labor all its earnings free
from taxes, except so much as was absolutely
necessary to carry on the Government.
The party iu favor of taxes always had its
home at tlie North, and the party against taxes
always had its homo at the South. Abraham
Lincoln, of whom you have heard so much, was
elected in 1860 President ot this party which
was in favor of taxes, and the South finding
that, if it remained in the Union, the time had
come when tlie labor of the South, both white
and black, would be eateu up in taxes taken
from them to be spent North, determined to
withdraw, aud did withdraw, from tlie Union.
This, as you know,brought on the war. But I have
told you I would prove the war was not made
to free the negroes. Now to prove this, I don’t
expect you to believe what I say, but 1 want you
to believe what the President, Abiaham Lin
coln, said in tlie first speech he made, when he
took the oath of office. Here it is :
“1 declare that I have no purpose, directly or in
directly, to interfere with the institution of slavery
in the- States where it exists. I have no lawful
right to do so. I learn that an amendment to the
Constitution has passed Congress that the United
Slates shall never interfere with slavery in the
States, and I am willing to make it express and
irrevocable.”
On another occasion he said “If slavery will
save the Union, I will maintain slavery; if
emancipation will save the Union, I go for
emancipation ; but the preservation of the
Union is all in all.”
By this you see that President Lincoln, who
w'as the head of tlie Republican party, and who
spoke for the Government in the very beginning
ot the war, was willing that you and your child
ren and your children’s children should forever
remain slaves if tlie South would come back in
the Union, but the South refused. It was do
interest to the Soutli to maintain slavea, to own
negroes, if all the profile, or the greater part of
profits of tlieir labor, was to be paid to the
Republican or Radical party. They determided
to fight tor a seperate Government, and if
they failed in getting that and had to go
hack into the Union as they have had to
do, it would have been very foolish in your
masters to keep you as slaves and care for you
in sickness and old age, in order that you might
spend all your health and strength and youth in
making the Republican party rich. Aud there
fore, when the South had to go back in the
Union, tlie wisest thing your former masters
could do was to make you free, give you aa in
terest in your own labor, and caution you against
the cunning plans of these Northern men, who
want you to vote for the Radicals in order that
they may live by tlie sweat of your brow, with
out buying you.
I have shown you that President Lincoln was
ready to sign a contract to make you and your
children slaves forever, it the South would come
back in the Union, I have also shown that Con
gress was willing to amend the Constitution
so that the United States Government never
could interfere with slavery; and I will now
show you a r- solution passed by the Congress of
the United States when this very Republican
party was in power, declaring the same thing.—
Here it is:
“ That this war is not waged on our part in
any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of
conquest or subjugation, nor for any purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the lights or es
tablished institutions of these Stales, but to maintain
and defend the supremacy of the Constitution,
and to preserve the Union with all the dignity,
equality and rights of the several States unim
paired ; and that as soon as these objects are ac
complished, tlie war ought to close.” •'
Here, you see, Congress declared the war was
not waged to overtiirow or interfere with the
rights or established institutions of the States. The
established institutions of the Southern States
v.'as slavery, and that is what the resolution re
fers to when Congress says the United States
does not intend to interfere with it. Further on,
the same resolution says the war is waged to
preserve the Union with all the rights of the seve
ral States unimpaired.
The rights of the Slates unimpaired meant in
the South the Tight to hold slaves. This was one
of the rights recognized by the Conslituion, and
a Republican majority in Congress declared by
resolution that they fought to preserve that right,
and wiien they so declared, they declared the
truth. They were willing to >naintain slavery
forever if they could save the Union, because in
the Union they could tax. slave labor so as to
make the owner and the negro both work for
their benefit; and they were never in favor of
the freedom of the slave until they feared that
tlie South might succeed m separating from the
North and maintain slavery outside of theUniou,
where the Republican party could Dot tax slave
labor and spend North what tiie slaves earned
South. I will pursue this subject in another let
ter, as this one is already full long, I wish you to
understand this question as I put it before you.
When you thoroughly understand it, you will
find that your true triend is your former master.
His interest ami yours is oue, and inseparable.
The Western papers handle General Eutler
somewhat roughly since his proposition to pay
five-twenties in greenbacks. The Illinois Stoats
Zeitung, the most influential German paper in
the West, says: “When a man is accused of
stealing silver spoons, he ought to thiuk twice
before he tries to convince the world that stealing
i3 a virtue. General Butler has been accused,
for the last five j’ears, by the Democrats, ot
having stolen silver spooDs, (in New Orleans,)
and now he is trying to prove that if stealing is
not exactlv a virtue, it is at feast wise statesmuu-
Thk Rio Grande Courier, of the 3d says posi
tively, that there is no yellow fever at Brazos or
the neighborhood.
A physician in Gloucester, who died sever
al vears since, told a friend, in confidence,.that
he often administered pills made of brown bread,
soaked in paregoric, to that class of patients
who were always imagining themselves sick.—
The pills satisfied them, and did no harm, while
it added greatly to the reputation of the good
old doctor.