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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AIJGHJSTA. Q-A.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 23, 1866.
ADDRESS
OF
The National (inion Convention
TO
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
[prepared and read by Raymond, op the
N. Y. TIMES. ]
Having met in Convention at the city of
Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, this
l«th day of August, 1866, as the representatives
of the people in all sections and all the Stales
and Territories of the Union, to consult upon
the conditiou and the wants of our common
country, we address to you this declaration ol
our principles and of the political purposes we
seek to promote.
Since the meeting of the last National Con
vention, in the year 1860, events have occurred
which have changed the character of our inter
nal policy, and given the United States aecw
place among the nations of the earth. Our
Government has passed through the vicissitudes
and the perils of civil war—a war which,
though mainly sectional in its character, has
nevertheless decided political differences that
from the very beginning of the Government
had threatened the unity of our national exist
ence, and has left its impress, deep and inef
lhceable, upon all the interests,; the sentiments,
and the destiny of the Republic. While it has
inflicted upon the whole country severe losses
in life and in property, and has imposed bur
dens which must weigh on its resources for
generations to come, it has developed a degree
of noble courage in the prcscnco of national
dangers, a capacity for military organization
and achievement, and devotion on tne part of
the people to the form of Government which
they have ordained, and to the principles of
liberty which that Government was designed to
promote, which must confirm the confidence of
the nation in the perpetuity of its republican
institutions, and command the respect of the
civilized world. Like all great contests which
rouse the passions and test the endurance ot
nations, this war has given new scope to the
ambition of political parties, and fresh impulse
to plans of innovation and reform. Amidst
the chorus of conflicting sentiments, insepara
ble from such an era, while the public heart is
keenly alive to all the passions that can sway
the public judgment and affect the public ac
tion, while the wounds of war arc still fresh
and bleeding on either side, and fears for the
future take unjust proportions from the memo
ries and resentments of the past, it is a difficult,
but an imperative duty which, in your behalf,
we who are here assembled have undertaken to
perform. For the lirst time after six long
years of alienation and of conflict, we have
come together from every State and every sec
tion of our land, as citizens of a common coun
try, under that flag, the symbol again of a com
mon glory, to consult together how best to
secure and perpetuate that Union which is
again the object of our common love,, and.thus
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity.
lu the first place, we invoke you to remem
ber always and everywhere that the war is end
ed, and the nation iB again at peace. The shock
of contending arms no longer assails the shud
dering heart of the Republic. The insurrection
against the supreme authority of the nation has
been suppressed , and that authority lias been
again acknowledged by work and act in every
State aud by every citizen within its jurisdic
tion. We are no longer required or permitted
to regard or treat each other as enemies. Not
only have the acts of war been discontinued and
the weapons of war laid aside, but the state of
war no longer exists, and the sentiments, the
passions, the relations of war have no longer
lawful or rightful place anywhere throughout
our broad dominion. We are again people of
the United States, fellow-citizens of one coun
try, bound by duties aud obligations of a com
mon nation, and having neither rights nor in
terests apart from a common destiny. The du
ties that devolve upon us now ure gain the du
ties of peace, and no longer the duties of war.
Wo have assembled here to take counsel con
cerning the interests of peace, to decide how
we may most wisely and effectually heal the
wounds the war has made, aud perfect aud per
petuate the benefits it has secured, and the
blessings which, under a wise and benign Pro
vidence, sprung up in its fiery track. This is
the work not of passion, but ol calm and sober
judgment; not of resentment for past offenses
prolonged beyond the limits which justice and
reason prescribe, but ol a liberal statesmanship
which tolerates what it cannot prevent, and
builds its plans and its hopes for the future
rather upon a community of interests and am
bition than upon distrust and the weapons of
force.
In the next place, we call upon you to recog
nize, in their full significance, and to accept,
with all their legitimate consequences, the po- #
litical results of the war just elosed. In two
most important particulars the victory ucldevedj
tiy the National Governiueuut has been final
and decisive—first: it has established, beyond
all further controversy, and by the highest of
all human sanction, the absolute supremacy of
the National Government, ns defined and di
rected by the Constitution of the UnKcd States,
and the permanent integrity and indissolubility
of the Federal Union is a necessary conse
quence; and secondly, it has put an end,
finally and forever, to the existence of slavery
upon the soil or within the jurisdiction of the
United Slates. Both these points became di
rectly involved in the contest, and controversy
upon both has ended absolutely and finally by
the result.
In the third place, we deem it of the utmost
importance that the real character of the war,
and the victory by which it was closed, should
be accurately understood. The war was carried
on by the Government of the United States in
■maintenance of its own authority and in defense
of its own existence , both of which were menaced
by the insurrection which it sought to suppress.
The suppression of that insurrection accomplished
that result. The Government of the United
States maintained by force of arms the supreme
authority over all the territory and over all the
States and people within its jurisdiction which
the Constitution confers upon it, but it acquired
thereby no new power, no enlarged Jurisdic
tion, no rights, either of territorial possession
or of civil authority, which it did not possess
before the rebellion broke out. All the right
ful power it can ever possess is that which is
conferred upon it in express terms, or by fair
and necessary implication, by the Constitution
of the United States. It was that power and that
authority which the rebellion sought to overthrow ,
and the victory of the Federal arms was simply
the defeat of that attempt.
The Government of the United States acted
throughout the war on the defensive. It sought
only to hold possession of whut was already its
own. Neither the war nor the victory by which
it waß ended changed in any way the Constitu
tion of the United States. The war was car
ried on by virtue of its provisions and under
the limitations which they prescribed, and the
result of the war did not either enlarge, abridge,
or in any way change or affect the powers it
confers upon the Federal Government or re
lease that Government from the restrictions
which it has imposed.
The Constitution of the United States is to
day precisely as it was before the war—the su
preme law of the land, anything in the Consti
tution or laws of any State to the contrary not
withstanding. And to-day also, precisely as
before the war, all the powers not conferred by
the Constitution upon the General Government,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved
to the several States or to the people thereof.
This position is vindicated not only by the
essential nature of our Government aniKihe
language and spirit of the Constitution, but by
all the acts and the language of our Govern
ment, in all its departments and at all times,
from the outbreak of the rebellion to its final
overthrow. In the messages and proclamations
of the Executive it was explicitly declared that
the sole object and purpose of the war was to
maintain the authority of the Constitution and
to preserve the integrity of the Union, and
Congress more than once reiterated this solemn
declaration, and added the assurance, that when
ever this object should lie attained the war
should cease, and all the States should retain
their equal rights and dignity unimpaired. It
is only since flic war has closed that other
rights have been asserted on behalf of one de
partment of the General Government. It has
been proclaimed by Congress that in addition
to the powers conferred upon it by the Consti
tution, the Federal Government may now claim
over the States and the territory, and the peo
ple involved in the insurrection , the rights of
W ar—right of conquest and of contiscation, the
right to abrogate all existing governments, in
stitutions, and laws, and to subject the territory
conquered and its inhabitants to such terms and
regulations as the legislative department of the
Government may see fit to impose, under the
broad and sweeping claim that the clause of
the Constitution which provides that no Stale
shall without its eousent be deprived of its
equal suffrage in the Senate of tlic United States
has been annulcd; and States Lave been refused,
and are still refused representation altogether
in both branches of |he Federal Congress ; and
the Congress in which only a port of the States
and of the people of the Union are represented
has asserted the right to exclude others from
representation and" from all share in making
their own laws and choosing their own rulers,
unless they shall comply with such conditions
and perform such act* os this Congress, thus
composed, may itself prescribe. That right has
not only been asserted, but it has been exer
cised, and is practically enforced at the present
time. Nor does it find any support in the cry
that the States thus excluded are in rebellion
against the Government, and are therefore pre
cluded from sharing its authority. They are
not thus in rebellion. They are one and ail in
an attitude of loyalty towards the Government,
and of sworn allegiance to the Constitution of
the United States. In none of them is there the
slightest indication of resistance to this authori
tv or the slightest protest against its Just and
binding obligations. This condition of re
newed loyalty has been officially recognized by
solemn proclamation of the Executive Depart
ment. The laws of the United States have been
extended by Congress over all these States, and
the people thereof. Federal courts have been
reopened, and Federal taxes imposed and levied,
and in every respect, except that they are denied
representation In Congress and the Electoral
College, the States once in rebellion are recog
nized as holding the same obligation* and *»b
joct to the.iflfe the other SDttas of
our commonUulon.
It seems to us, in the exercise of the calmest
and most candid judgment we can bring to
subject, such a claim sotjenforccd
fatal an overthrow of the authority of the
stitwtion, and as complete a destruction of
Government and Union, as that which tins
sought to be effected by the States and people in
armed insurrection against them. It cannot es
cape observation, that the power thus asserted
to exclude certfiin States from representation is
made to rest wholly in the will and discretion
of the Congress that asserts it. It is not made
to depend upon specified conditions or circutn
slances, nor to be subject to any rules or regu
lations whatever. The right asserted and ex
ercised is absolute, without qualification or re
striction, not confined to States in rebellion, nor
to States that have rebelled. It is the right of
any Congress, in formal possessiou of legisla
tive authority, to exclude any State or States,
and any portion of the people thereof, at any
time from representation in Congress, and in
the Electoral College, at its own discretion,
and until they shall perform such acts and com
ply with such conditions as it may dictate.— (
Obviously, the reasons for such exclusion be
ing wholly within the discretion of Congress,
may change as the Congress itself shall change.
One Congress may exclude a State from all
share in the Government for one reason, and
that reason removed, the next Congress may
exclude it for another. One State may be ex
cluded on one ground to-day, and another may
be excluded on tlie opposite ground to-morrow.
Northern ascendency may exclude Southern
States from one Congress—the ascendency of
Western or Southern interests, or of both com
bined, may exclude the Northern or the Eastern
States from the next.
Improbable as such usurpations may seem,
the estnbflwßmcnt of the principle now asserted
and acted upon by Congress will render them
by no means impossible. The character, indeed,
the very existence of Congress and the Union,
is thus made dependent solely and entirely upon
the party and sectional exigencies or forbear
ances of the hour. We need not stop to show
that such action not only finds no warrant in
the Constitution, but is at war with every prin
ciple of our Government and with the very ex
istence of free institutions. It is, indeed, the
identical practice which has rendered fruitless
all attempts hitherto to establish and maintain
free governments in Mexico and the States of
Smith America. Party necessities, assert them
selves as superior to fundamental law, which is
set aside in reckless obedience to their behests.
Stability, whether in the exercise of power in
tho administration of government or in the en
joyment of rights, becomes impossible, and the
conflicts of party, which under constitutional
governments are the conditions anil means ol'
political progress, are merged in the conflicts of
arms, to which they directly and inevitably tend.
It was against this peril, so conspicuous, and
so fatal torrll free Governments, that our Con
stitution was intended especially to provide.—
Not only the stability, but the very existence
of the Government, is made by its provisions
to depend upon the right and the fact ol repre
sentation. The Congress, upon which is con
ferred all the legislative power of the National
Government, consists of two branches—the
Senate and House of Representatives—whose
joint concurrence or assent ie essential to the,
validity of any law. Os these, the House Os
Reprfesentatives, the Constitution, (Article
Ist, section 2d,) ehall be composed of members
chosen every second year by the people of the
several States. Not only is the right of repre
sentation thus recognized as possessed by all
the States aud by every State, without restric
tion, qualification, or condition of any kind,-
but the duty of choosing Representatives is
imposed upon the people of each and every
State alike, without distiuctiou or the authority
to make distinctions among them for any reason
or npou .JipY whatever. And in the
Senate, so careful is the Constitution to secure
to every State this right of representation, it is
expressly provided that mp,fjtitc shall without
its consentDC deprived of its equal suffrage - in
that bod}', even,by an amefidinent to the Con
stitution itself. W fieri, therefore, any Statobls
excluded from such representation, not only is
the right ot the State denied, but the constitu
tional Integrity of the Senate is impaired, aud
the validity of the Government ltsejf is brought
in question. But Congress at the present mo
ment thus excludes from represfiUtation in both
1 .ranches of Congress ten States of the Union,
denying them alt share in tls| enactment of
laws by which they are to be governed, and all
participation 1n the election of the rulers by
which those laws are to be enforced. In other
words, a Congress in which only twenty-six
States are represented asserts the right to gov
ern, absolutely and in its own discretion, all the
thirty-six States which compose the Union; to
make their laws and choose their risers, and to
exclude tlie other tcu from all share in their
own Government, until it Bees fit to admit them
thereto. What is there to distinguish the
power thus asserted and exorcised from Hie
most absolute and intolerable tyranny ? Nor
do these extravagant and unjust claims on the
part of Congress to powers and authority never
conferred upon the Government by the Consti
tution, find any warrant in the argument or
excuses urged on their behalf. It is alleged—
First. That these States, by the act of rebel
lion and by voluntarily withdrawing their mem
bers from Congress, forfeited their right of rep
resentation, and that they can only receive it
again at tlie hands of the supreme legislative
on its own terms
AdaitsWjp^Lj^jßEfasrntati °*i >*, under the
Ij^ifitittuiol.,Wl yn™ jAipresHly recognized as
jWTghi, but “ " 'Hipo;.4f\<n; a duty, and it is
pßeutial iu both existence of the
•' •' to thefmaintcnance of its au
thofHji- ■; governments fundamental and
essential rights cannot he forfeited, except
against individuals by due process of law, nor
can constitutional duties and obligations be dis
carded or laid aside. The enjoyment of rights
may tie for a time suspended by tlie failure to
claim them, and duties may ire evaded by the
refusal to perform them- The withdrawal of
their members from Congress by the States which
resisted the General Government was among their
acts of insurrection —was one of tlie means and
agencies by which they sought to impair the
authority and defeat the action of the Govern
ment; and that act was annulled and rendered
void when the insurrection itself was suppress
ed. Neither the right of representation nor
the duty to be represented wns in the least im
paired by tlie filet of insurrection, but it may
have been that, by reason of the insurrection,
the conditions on which the enjoyment ol that
right and the performance of thnt duty for (he
time depended, could not be fulfilled. This
was, in fact, tlm case. An insurgent power, in
the exercise of usurped and unlawful authority
in the territory under its control, had prohibited
that allegiance to the Constitution and laws of
the United States which is made by that funda
mental law the essential condition of representa
tion in Government. iVb man within the insur
gent States was allowed to take the oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United States, and
as a necessary consequence no man could law
fully represent those States in the councils of
the Union. But this was only an obstacle to
the enjoyment of the right and to the discharge
of a duty; it did not annul the one nor abro
gate tlie other, and it ceased to exist when the
usurpation by which it wns created had been
overthrown and the States had again resumed
their allegiance to the Constitution and laws of
the United States.
Second. But it is asserted in support of the
authority claimed by the Congress now in pos
session of power, that it flows directly from
the laws of war; that it is among the rights
which victorious war always confers upon tlie
conquerors and which the conqueror may ex
ercise or waive, in bis own discretion. To this
wc reply, that tlie laws in question relate solely
so far as tlie rights they confer are concerned,
to wars waged between alien and independent
nations, and can have no place or force in this
regard in a war waged by a Government to sup
press an insurrection of its own peojrfe upon its
oten soil against its authority. If we had car
ried on successful war against any foreign na
tion, we might thereby have acquired posses
sion and jurisdiction Os their soil, with the
right to enforce our laws upon their people,
aud to impose upon them such laws and sncli
obligations as we might choose. But we had,
before the war, complete jurisdiction over the
soil of tlie Southern States, limited only by our
own Constitution. Our laws were the only na
tional laws in force upon It. The Government
of the United States was the only Government
through which those States and their people
had relations with foreign nations, and its flag
was the only flag by which they were recogniz
ed or known anywhere on the face of the earth.
In all these respects, and in all other respects
involving national interests and rights, our pos
session was perfect and complete. It did not
need to be acquired, bnt only to be maintain
ed ; and victorious war against the rebellion
could do nothing more than maintain it. It
conld only vindicate and re establish the dis
puted supremacy of the Constitution. It coujd
neither enlarge nor diminish the authority
which that Constitution confers upon the Gov
ernment by which it was achieved. Such an
enlargement or abridgment of constitutional
power can be effected only by amendment of
the Constitution itself, and such amendment
can be made only in the modes which the Con
stitution itself prescribes.
The claim that the suppression of an insur
rection against the Government gives additional
authority aud power to that Government, es
pecially that it enlarges the jurisdiction of Con
fress and gives that body the right to exclude
tates from representation in the National
Councils, without which the nation itself can
have no authority and no existence, seems to
us at variance alike with the principles of the
Constitution and with the public safety.
Third. But it is alleged that in certain par
ticulars the Constitution of the United States
fails to secure the absolute justice and impartial
equality which the principles of our Govern
ment require; that it was in these respects the
result of compromises and concessions to which,
however necessary when the Constitution was
formed, we are no longer compelled to submit;
and that pow, having the power through suc
cessful war, and Just warrant for its exercise in
the hostile conduct of the insurgent section,
the actual Government of the United States
may impose its own conditions and make the
Constitution conform in all Its provisions to its
own ideas of equality and the rights of war.—
Congress, at itß last session proposed amend
ments to the Constitution, enlarging, in some
very important particulars, the authority of the
General Government over that of the several
States, and reducing, by indirect disfranchise
ment, the representative power of the States in
which slavery formerly existed ; and it is claim
ed that these amendments may be made valid as
parts of the original Constitution without the
concurrence ol the States to be most seriously
affected by them, or may be imposed upon those
Btates by three-fourths of the remaining States,
and conditions of their readmission to repre
sentation in Congress and in the Electoral Col
)ege-
It is the unquestionable right of the people
of the United Btates to inak e chosen in
the Constitution as they uptj* l '%j®
yfv deem expedient. But
Wp be
■in itself points out, iuxo 11 kit
letter *>'l
V* e ‘V’ 1 ' L h 1
make these change* in llie'T
without the concurrence of tlire<S)^ c lJ^^^B:
the States, including especially those
seriously affected by them, or to impdft#°y m
upon States or people as conditions oi T3pre
sentation or of admission to any of the rights,
duties, or obligations which belong, under the
Constitution, to all the States alike; and with
still greater emphasis do we deny the right of
any portion of the States, excluding the rest of
the States from any share in their councils, to
propose or sanction changes in the Constitu
tion which are to affect permanently their poli
tical relations, and control or coerce the legiti
mate action of the several members of the com
mon Union. Such an exercise of power is sim
ply a usurpation, just as unwarrantable when
exercised by Northern States as it wonld be if
exercised by Southern, and not to be fortified
or palliated by anything in the past history
either of those by whom it is attempted or of
those upon whose rights and liberties it is to
take effect. It finds no warrant in the Consti
tution. It is at war with the fundamental prin
ciples of our form of government. If tolerated
in one instance it becomes the precedent for
future invasions of liberty and constitutional
right, dependent solely upon the will of the
l>a»-ty in’ possession of power, and thus leads
by direct and necessary sequence to the most
fatal and intolerable of all tyrannies, the tyran
ny of shifting and irresponsible political -4VT
tions. It is against this, the most
of all the dangers which menace the
free government, that the Constitution of
United States was intended most carefully to
provide. We demand a strict and steadfast ad
herence to its provisions. In this, and in this
alone, can we find a basis of permanent union
and peace.
Fourth. But it is alleged in justification of
the usurpation which we condemn, that the
condition of the Southern States and'people is
not such as renders safe their readmission to a
share in the government of the country ; that
they are still disloyal in Bcntimcnt and purpose,
and that neither the honor, the credit, nor the
interests of the nation would be safe if they
were readmitted a share in its councils. We
might reply to this—
First. That we have no right for such reasons
to deny to any portion of the States or people
rights expressly conferred upon them by the
Constitution of the United States.
Second. Tlmt so. long as their acts are those
of loyalty ; so long as they conform in all their
public couduct to the requirements of the Con
stitution and laws, we have no right to enact
from them conformity in their sentiments and
opinions to our own.
Third. That wc have no right to distrust the
purpose oy, the ability of the people of the
Union to protect anil defend, under all contin
gencies, and by whatever means may be re
quired, its honor and its welfare. These would,
in our judgment, be full and conclusive answers
to the plea thus advanced for the exclusion of
these States from the Union. But we say, fur
ther, that this plea rests upon a complete mis
apprehension, or an unjust perversion of exist
ing facts. Wc do not hesitate to affirm that
there is no section of the country where the
Constitution and laws of the United States find
a more prompt and entire obedience than in
tl*o£c States and among those people who were
lately in hrrns against them, or where there is
less purpose or danger of any future attempt to
overthrow their authority.
Its would seem to be rational and inevitable
that in States and sections so recently swept by
the whirlwind of war, where all the ordinary
inodes and methods of organised industry have
been broken up, and the bonds and influences
that guarantee social order have been destroy
ed; where thousands and tens of thousands of
turbulent spirits have been suddenly loosed
from the discipline of war, and thrown without
resources or restraint upon a disorganized and
chaotic society, and where keen sense of
defeat is added to the overthrow pf ambition
and hope, scenes of violence should defy for a
.time the imperfect discipline of law and excite
anew the fears and forebodings of the patriotic
and well disposed. It is unquestionably true
that local disturbances of this kind, accompa
nied by more or less of violence, do still occur.
But they are confined entirely to cities and
large towns of thfc Southern States*- where dif
ferent races and interests are brought most
closely in contact, and where passions and re
sentment are always most easily fed and fanned
into outbreak ; and even there they are quite as
much the fruit of untimely and hurtful political
agitation, ns of any hostility on the part of the
people to the authority of the National Govern
ment. But the concurrent testimony Os those
best acquainted with the condition of society
an<l the state of public sentiment In the South,
’including that of its representatives in this Con
vention, establishes the fact that the great mass
of the Southern people accept, with as full and
sincere submission as do the people of tlie
other States, the re-established supremacy of
the national authority, and are prepared, in the
most loyal spirit, and with a zeal quickened
alike by tlieir interest and their pride, to co
operate with other States and sections in what
ever may be necessary to defend the rights,
maintain the honor, and promote the welfare of
our common community.
History affords no instance where a people so
powerful in numbers, in in pub
lic spirit, jtfter a war so
so destructive in its progress, and, 'SO adverse
in its issue, have accepted defeat and its conse
quences witli so much of good faith as has
marked the conduct of the people lately in in
surrection against the United Stales. Beyond
all question this has beeu largely due to the
wise generosity with which their enforced sur
render was accepted by the President of the
United States, and the Gcnernls in immediate
command of our armies, and to the liberal
measures which were afterwards taken to re
store order, trapquiHI'-, 1 '-, and law, to the States
where all had for the > ne been overthrown.—
No steps could ueen better calculated to
command the resp win the confidence, re
vive the patriotism, and secure the permanent
and affectionate allegiance of the people of the
South to the Constitution and laws of the
Union than those which have been so firmly
taken and so steadfastly pursued by the Presi
dent of the jJnifed States,
And if that confidence aud loyalty has been
since impaired, if the people South are to-day
less candid in that allegiance than they were
immediately upon the close of the war, we be
lieve it is due to the changed tone of the Legis
lative Department of the General Government
towards them ; to the acriou by which Congress
has endeavored to suppress aud defeat the Pre
sident’s wise and beneficial policy of restora
tion ; to tlieir exclusion from all participation
in our common Government; to the withdraw
al from them of the rights conferred and guar
anteed by the Constitution, and to the evident
purpose of Congress, in the exercise of a
usurped and unlawful authority, to reduce
them from the ranks of free and equal mem
bers of a republic of States, with rights and
dignities unimpaired, to the condition of con
quered provinces aud a conquered people, in
all things subservient and subject to the will of
their conquerors, free only to obey laws in
making which they are not allowed to share. —
No people has ever yet existed whose loyalty
and laith such treatment long continued would
not alienate and impair. And the ten millions
of Americans yvlio live in the South would be
unworthy citizeus of a free country, degenerate
sons of an heroic ancestry, unfit ever to be
come guardians of the rights and liberties be
quenthed to us by the fathers and lounders of
this liepublic, if they could accept with uncom
plaining submissiveness the humiliation thus
sought to be imposed upon them. Resentment
of injustice is always and everywhere essential
to freedom, and the spirit which prompts the
States and people lately in Insurrection, insur
gents now no longer , to protest against the im
position of unjust and degrading conditions,
makes them all the more worthy to share in
the government of a free commonwealth, and
gives still firmer assurance of the future power
and freedom of the Republic ; for whatever re
sponsibility the Southern people may have in
curred in resisting the authority of the Nation
al Government aud in taking up arms for its
overthrow, they may be held to answer for as
individuals before the judicial tribunals of the
land, and for their conduct as societies and
organized communities they have already paid
the most fearful penalty that can fall on of
fending States, in the losses, the sufferings,
and humiliations of unsuccessful war. But
whatever may be the guilt or the punish
ment of the conscious authors of the insur
rection, candor and common justice de
mand concession to the great mass oi
those who became involved in its risks and
acted npon what they deemed to be their duty,
and in defense of what they had been taught to
believe were their rights,or under a compulsion,
physical and moral, which they were powerless
to resist. Nor can it be amiss to remember that,
terrible as have been the bereavements and the
losses of this war, they liavo fallen exclusively
upon neither section and upon neither party;
that they have fallen, indeed, with far greater
weight upon those with whom the war begun;
that in the death of relatives and friends, the
disperiffon of families, the disruption of social
systems and social ties, the overthow of govern
ments, of law and of order, the destruction of
property and of forms afid modes and means of
industry, the loss of political, commercial, aud
moral influence in any shape and form, which
great calamities we are sure the States and peo
ple which engaged in the war againßt the Gov
ernment of the United States have suffered ten
fold more than those who remained in allegi
ance to its Constitution and laws. These con
siderations may not, as they certainly do not,
justify the action of the people of the insurgent
States ; but no hnmane, generous miud will re
fuse to them very considerable weight in de
termining the line of conduct which the Gov
ernment of the United States should pursue
towards them. They accept, if not with alacrity,
certainly without sullen resentment, the defeat
and overthrow they have sustained. They ac
knowledge and acquiesce in the result to them
selves and thejeountry whiehjthat defeat involves;
they no longer claim for any State the right
to secede from the Union ; they no longer as
sert for any State an allegiance paramount to
that which is due to the General Government.
They have accepted the destruction of slavery—
abolished it by their State constitutions—and
concurred with the States and people of the
whole Union in prohibiting its existence for-j
ever upon the soil or within the jurisdiction
the United States. They indicate and
their purpose, just so fast as may be
and safe, to adapt their domestic i
changed condition of tlieir society,;
cure by the law and its tribunals
partial justice to all classes of
They admit the invalidity of all acts
ance to the national authority and of all
incurred in attempting Its overthrow. Thefl
avow their willingness to share the burdens ana
discharge all the duties tu obli ;ations which
rest upon them in comm< wu other States
and other sections of the nioii and they re
new, through their represitativls in this Con
| vention, by all their pub! conluct in every
way, and by the more s|emn lets by which
' States aud societies can pUge t»eir laith and
allegiance, through all tir e toicomc, to the
ot the United' StatA, and to all
’ i*vg which may be made thereof
: F,How-countrymen, we c£l u r , n you, in full
U pon your intelligence \nd your pa
/ triptisn to accept with unghdous and un-
confidence this fuftniKender on the
pars <rf those lately in arijjs Xj&nst your au
thority, and to share with them honor and
renown that await those who brig back peace
and concord to jarring States. le war just
closed, with its sorrows and*tasters, has
opened a new career of glory tcjhe nation it
bas saved. It has swept away theiostilities of
sentiment and of interest which (ere a stand
ing menace to its peace. It has fcstroyed the
institution of slavery, always acaue of section
al agitation and strife, apd bas opued for our
country the way to interet, of princi
ple, and of action through all timeto come. It
lias developed in both sections ca
pacity and aptitude for achievcnqits of war,
both by sea and land, before uukpwo even to
ourselves, and destined to exercic hereafter,
under united councils, an imporUnt influence
upon the character and destiny of the continent
and the world. And while it li» thus reveal
ed, disciplined and compacted our power, it
has proven to us beyond controversy or doubt,
by the course pursued towards both contend
ing sections by foreign powers/that we must
be the guardians of our ownindihendenee, and
tha£>e principles of Repuilicaj freedom we
’(Present can find among he jations of the
®"th no friends or defender but ourselves,
i \Ve call upon you, therefore, jy every con
/ of your own dignity safety, and
the name of liberty throughout (he world, to
complete the work of restoratioi and peace
which the President of the Unittl States has
so well begun, and which the fldiicy adopted
and the principles Con
gress :Uone obstruct.
The time is close at hand when members of
a new Congress are to be elected. {lf that Con
gress shall perpetuate this policy, and by ex
cluding loyal States and people fren represen
tation inits halls shall continue ti usurpation
by which the legislative powers at the Govern
ment arc now exercised, coinia” prudence
compels us to anticipate augmeutf discontent,
a sullen withdrawal from the dutii and obliga
tions of the Federal Government, aternal dis
sensions, and a general collision a) sentiments,
and pretensions which may rent' in a still
more fearful shape the civil warffrom which
we have just emerged. We call non you to
interpose your power to prevent tfc recurrence
of so transcendent a calamity. \Vi call upon
you in every Congressional Distfct of every
State to secure the election of njmbcrs who,
whatever other differences mayT’cbnraeterize
their political action, will unite itjrecognizing
the right of every State of the Uiin to repre
sentation in Congress, and who nil admit to
seats in either branch every loyal ftpreQntative
from every State in allegiance to thtOovemment
who may be found by each House in the ex
ercise of' the power conferred npqi.it by the
Constitution, to have been dulvel4H|Bpeturned
and qualified for a seat therein.
When this shall have been done&P Govern
ment will have been restored to" integrity,
the Constitution of the United will have
been re-established in its full sdjteniaey, and
the American Union will have ogSn become
what it was designed to be by hose who
formed it—a sovereign nation, ciieposed of
separate States, each like itself noving in a
distinct and independent sphere, exercising
powers defined and reserved by/ 1 common
Constitution, aud resting upon tkeUsscnt, the
confidence, and co-operation of al the States
and all the people subject to its iuitiiority.—
Thus reorganized and restored to their consti
tutional relations, the States and tie General
Government can enter in a fraternal ipirit.with
a common purpose and a comma* interest,
upon whatever reforms the security of personal
rights, the enlargement of popular liberty, and
the perfection of our republican institutions
may demand.
MARRIED,
At the St. James’ Parsonage, in the 21st Inst., by
the Kev. George Kramer, Mr. William H. Trans,
Jr., and Miss Auousta A. Oakxan. *
DIED,
At Clarksville, Ga., at 9:15, a. m., July 18th, after
only one day’s illness, Husky Paxton, youngest son
of Elisha B. and Helen Barclay, aged one yenr and
eight months.
funeral notice.
THE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES of
Mr. Patrick Sullivan, also of John Benily and
Wm. F. Kavanangli and families, are invite! to attend
the Funeral of the former from the residence of Mr.
Kenily, on the corner of Telfair and Jacksrn streets
THIS (Wednesday) AFTERNOON, at,3 oVi o «k.j *
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL RAILROAD,
August SI, 1866.—A Stevens, U J Bowe, (J A Wit
liaras, A Twinaine, Wyman & IT, Dli Wright, C T
Watson, Bonos, B Sc Co, A Bohns, H F Rusboll, Jno
Ryan, .Tones, S & Co, II Moore, Barrett 4 c, W H
Goodrich, W Brenper, Geraty Sc A, Fleming A R,
L8D,114W,C4D,P4 L, C U Waffa, D Stal
lings,'G R, GK A Bro, [H] 8, R&T, P A .Scranton,
Sherman, J tic Co, JO M, M l* Stovall* E O’Donnell,
J G Bailio & Bro, J F Miller.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Office of Assignees ofthe i
Bank of the State of Gkirgia, J
Savannah, Augunu, 1866.)
Bill Holders are hereby notitied that the priority of
their claims will be lost unless presented within six
mouths from the time of assignment of tho tenets of the
Bank. A. POWER,
W. CUAMINO,
augld 3w Assignees.
BST FURNITURE FOR SALE.—The subscriber has
various articles of FURNITURE and a French White
Dining SETT, which he will sell cheap.
Also, for Rent—Two ROOMS over the Book store
of J. S. Schreiener Sc Sons, No. 199 Broad street.
Apply at No. 19b Broad street.
augl9-l» WM. SHEAR.
Kg' MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY, AN ESSAY OF
Warning and Instruction tor Young Men. Also. Diseases
and Abuses which prostrate the vital powers, with sure
means of relief. Sent free of charge in sealed letter en
velopes. Address, Dr. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON, How
ard Association, Philadelphia, Pa. augls-3m
Kg- BATCHELOR’S HAIR DYE.—The original
and best in the world I The only true and perfect Hair
Dye. Harmless, Reliable and Instantaneous. Produces
immediately a splendid Black or natural Br>wn, without
injuring the hair or skin. Remedies the ill ifftcts of bad
eyes. Sold by all Druggists. The genuine is signed
William B. Batchelor. Also,
For restoring and beautifying the Hair.
augl2-tdec29
89~ RICHMOND BATH HIGH SCHOOL.-Tlie Ex
ercise* of my Bchool will be resumed on thsfint Monday
of SEPTEMBER. My number is now limited to twenty.
All the opportunities of a thorough course it Ancient and
Modern Literature, Science and Art, will b< afforded.
Musical advantages at twenty dollars per qrnrtjr of three
months.
Board in the best of families can be had. will take
two more into my own home. All Boarders areunder my
personal supervision and control.
For the present, Tuition is twenty dollars pr quarter,
and Boarding twenty-seven dollars per month,including
everything. Address,
Rev. R. K. PORTER
augls-eod3w Berzelia, fa. R. R.
g&- OFFICE COLUMBIA AND AUGUSfA RAIL
ROAD COMPANY— Augusta, Ga., August 8 1866—An
instalment of ten (10) per cent, upon all sulscriptions
made to the Capital Stock of this Company linte the first
of last September is due, and payable at thL ofice on the
first day of September, 1866.
By order of the Board of Directors.
WM. CR4G.
aug9-eodlm Sec’y and Treas. C. 4 a R. R. Co.
CONSTITUTION WATER
Is, without doubt, the only known rened^for
DIABETES,
CALCULUS,
GRAVEL,
BRICK DUST Df?OSITS,
IRRITATION OF THE NECK,
OF THE BLADDER,
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS,
CATARRH OF THE BLADDER,
And all
FEMALE IRREGULARITIES.
Certificates of cures from well known persons from all
parts of the country, in circular, will be sent on by ad
dressing MORGAN & ALLBN, Agents,
No. 46 Cliff street, Now York.
WM. H. TUT, Agent,
„ jyg-im Augusta, Ga.
Words of Vitaf Interest.
Will the thousands who read colunis <* frivolous
verbiage every day devote five minutes o th* perusal of
a few facts which concern them neart? Oir text is
Health, and we will put our commentary into* nutshell.
Weakness is indirectly the cause of alljßickness; for if
nature be strong enough to resist the r >rbid influences
which produce illness, of course they re powerless.—
Seek strength, therefore. Invigorate reflate the
system. When the quicksilver range. l om 80 to % de
grees in the shade, the most athletic enfeebled, and
the weak are prostrated. It is at such firne that such
an invigorator as
HOSTETTKR’S STOMACHIITTERS
is urgently needed. What are the el# 9 of this rare
Vegetable Tonic? Would that all who fve known its
benefits could condense their experienc. into this para
graph. They would tell the healthy,t> protect their
health they must use this great safegijd against the
debilitating influences. They would eift the weak to
discard all unmedlcated and impure sttnlants and cling
to this wholesome and unlading tonic fl alterative as
the shipwrecked mariner would cling to gift in a stormy
sea. They would, of dyspeptic pangs relied, of appetite
restored, of shattered nerves restrungtif head aches
cured, of disordered functions regulated,.* hypochondria
dissipated, of miasmatic diseases baflfll bf fever and
j ague cured, of liver complaints arreßteJr heat, prira
gtion and toil defied, of hope reanimated,it cheerfulness
Such are the effects of HOSWTER’S BIT
B NOTICE.
■lj Q. BUTLER is my Authorizi Agent during
Hu m v«* nc * fro™ the city.
Wf, ' N. K. TTLER, Br.
“ A/OUSTA, August 10,1666. auglO-cS*
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
RESIDEK^^OgJJALE
I HJfi undersigned offers fur sale hla RESIDENCE
near the Lucy Cobb Institute, containing four acres.
The Dwelling is famished in superior style, having
eight large, commodious Rooms, with extra gas fit
tings, Pantries, Closets, *c. The servants’ houses
and other out buildings, which are of every desirable
character, are superior and well arranged.
Also, his FARM, within one and a half miles of his
Residence and a half mile of the University High
School, on the Jefferson road, containing 365 acres, of
which there is about 100 acres in the woods and 20 of
bottom land.
The ahoVe property will be sold together or sepa
rately, as may be desired.
aug22-lm GEORGE DENT.
FOR SALE,
_A_ DESIRABLE COUNTRY RESIDENCE,
at Raytown Depot, on Washington Branch Railroad,
about four miles from Barnett Station, on Georgia
Railroad; the Lot contains six acres, is inclosed ; the
improvements consist of Dwelling, five large rooms
in it, Kitchen, Smoko House, Carriage House, Stables,
Barn, Com Crib, Ac. There is a well of as good wa
ter on the premises as this country affords. Possess
ion given thirty days after disposed of. On the Lot is
a new Store 30 X 23 feet; there is a very good opening
for a country store.
For further particulars apply to E. O’Donnhll,
Augusta, or to the undersigned on the premises.
aug22-lm W. J. HABTY.
BOKER’S BITTERS
FOR SALE at all prominent GROCERS, WINK
MERCHANTS, and DRUGGISTS, and wholesale
only, by
. L. LUKE, Jr., Sole Agent,
aug22-3m No. 66 Liberty street, N. Y.
Executor’s Sale.
By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordina
ry of Oglethorpe county, will he sold before the Court
House door in the town of Elberton, Elbert county,
Ga., within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tues
day in OCTOBER next, one undivided half of a tract
of Land in said county of Elbert, on Broad river, con
taining one thousand acres, be the same more or less,
known as the Heard tract, adjoining lands of Enoch
Bell, Madison Baker and others. Sold as the property
of William H. Williams, deceased, for the benefit of
the heirs and creditors of said deceased.
WM. B. BKIGHTWELL,
aug22-td Executor.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUN
TY.—Whereas, George Jewel and Elizabeth
Jewel apply to me for letters of administration on
the estate of William Jewel, late of said county, de
ceased :
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred aud creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at my office, within the time pre
scribed by taw, to show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, this 21st
day of August, 1866.
E. C. SHACKELFORD,
aug22-30 Ordinary.
"Vj OTICE.—Two months after dato application
JJal will bo mado to the Honorable the Court of
Ordinary of Richmond county, for leave to soil the
Real Estate helongiug to the estate of Charles J.
Carpenter, late of said county, deceased.
WILLIAM L. FELDER, Adm’r.
August 21,1866. aug22-2m
University of Virginia.
HE next SESSION of this Institution will
commence on the Ist day of OCTOBER, 1866, and
end on the 29th of JUNE, 1867.
All the departments of instruction—Academic,
Law and Medical—are now fully organized on the
same enlarged basis as before the war.
The entire expenses of the Academic Student, ex
clusive of Text Books, Clothing and Pocket Money,
amount to $360 in currency, per Session of nine
months; of the Law Student to $365, and of the Me
dical to $395.
RE
For Catalogue, giving details, address (P. 0. “ Uni
versity of Virginia.")
8. MAUPIN,
aug2l-8 Chairman of the Faculty.
wantedT
10,000 HICKORY, White Oak or
Water Oak HOOP POLES, wanted immediately.
Inquire of
MOSHER, THOMAS & SCHAUB.
augl6-6
The Misses Sedgwick’s
BOARDING
AND
DAY SCHOOL,
" COR. WASHINGTON AND TELFAIR STB.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
M 1 IIE SCHOOL WILL RE-OPEN OCTOBER
3d. The Scholastic Year will consist of thirty-live
weeks of session and two of vacation, at Christmas.
The Misses Skdowick desire to make their School
one of Superior Excellence, and no pains wdll he
spared to accomplish their end. Augusta, from its
central position, from the well known and universally
acknowledged refinement of its society, presents very
superior advantages as a place wherein to establish
such a School.
The housu secured is large and airy; the rooms
commodious and well ventilated, and attached Is a
large ornamental garden, presenting a desirable place
for pleasant and healthful exercise.
There will he a French Governess in the family, of
established ability, with whom the young ladles will
he obliged always to converse in Frenoh. The pupils
will be under the constant supervision of experienced
and refined Teachers, and their moral and religious
training will be carefully attended to.
The Course of Study will embrace all the various
English Branches and Mathematics, necessary for a
thorough and accomplished education, and will also
include Instruction In Vocal and Instrumental Music,
Drawing, Painting, and Latin, German and French
Languages. Vocal Music will be * daily exercise in
the School.
As the number of Boarding Pupils is limited, pre
ference will he given those who apply to enter the
family for the Scholastic year.
Classes will be formed in French, Vocal and Instru
mental Music, and Drawing and Painting, for those
young ladies who do not wish to enter the School as
Day Pupils.
Circulars, containing terms and additional particu
lars for both Boarding and Day Pupils, may he ob
tained by addressing tho Principals.
The Misses Sbdwick having taught in Augusta for
the last sixteen years, have no hesitation in referring
to their former patrons and pupilß, and to the follow
fng gentlemen:
REFERENCES.
Hon. C. J. Jbnkins, Col. R. B. Bollock,
G. G. McWhortbr, Esq., Dr. T. W. Battbt,
A. Poullain, Esq., Hon. W. T. Gould,
Hon. E. Starnes, James Miller, Esq.,
Dr. I. P. Garvin, Geo. M. Thew, Esq.
augls-dl2id2aw2m
A New and Grand Epoch in Medicine l
Dr. Maooibl is the founder of a new Medical System!
The quantitarians, whose vast internal doses enfeeble
the stomach and paralyze the bowels, must give prece
dence to the man who restores health and appetite, with
from one to two of his extraordinary Pills, and cures the
most virulent sores with a box or so of his wonderful and
all healing Salve- These two great specifics of the Doctor
are fast superseding all the stereotyped nostrums of the
day. Extraordinary cures by Maggiel’s Pills and Salve
have opened the eyes of the public to the inefficiency of
the (so called) remedies of others, and upon which people
have so long blindly depended. Maggiel’s Pills are not
of the class that are swallowed by the dozen, and of
which every box full taken creates an absolute necessity
for another. One or two of Maggiel’s Pills suffices to
place the bowels in perfect order, tone the stomach,
create an appetite, and render the spirits light and buoy
ant 1 There is no griping, and no reaction in the form of
constipation. If the liver is affected, its functions are
restored; and if the nervous system is feeble, it is invigo
rated. This last quality makes the medicines very desi
rable for the wants of delicate females. Ulcerous and
eruptive diseases are literally extinguished by the disen
fectant power of Maggiil’s Salve. In fact, it is here an
nounced that Maggitl’s Bilious, Dyspeptic and Diarrhea
Pills cure where all others fall. While for Burns, Scalds,
Chilblains, Cuts and a u abrasions of the skin, Maggitl'g
Salve is infallible.
Sold by J. Maooibl, New York, and all Druggists, at 26
cents per box. JylO-d*c6m
Surely, Steadily,
Successfully,
Smolander’s Extract Buoku
IS OURINO
every case of Kidney Disease, Rheumatism, Gravel,
Urinary Disorders, Weakness and Pains In tho Back,
Female Complaints and Trouble* arising from Excesses
of any kind.
COME, YE AFFLICTED I
TRY HMOL ANDER’S. '
TAKE NO OTHER BUCKU.
Sold by all Apothecaries. Price sl. D. BARNES
& 00., New York, and BARNES, WARD * CO.,
New Orleans, Southern Agent*. BURLEIGH &
ROGERS, Wholesale Druggists, Boston, Mas*., Qen
eral Agents. mh2o-6m
WANTED,
A PARTNER BUSI
NESS, In Augusta,Q a ,ontuf) boUt
ten Tto
fifty to one vss,
augl6l2 Ga.
"T—VR. PETTIGRIW-v"ved his office from
.1 J the Augusta lotefuF his residence, No. W
Broad street. ' nbat-tf
TO RENT,
FROM THE FIRST OF OCTOBER NEXT,
r FHE residence of the undersigned, on the Georgia
Railroad, near Harrisonville, about two miles from the
Augusta Post Office. There is daily railroad commu
nication with tho city, by accommodation train.
The location is healthy and free from musquitoos.
Dwelling of brick, fourteen rooms, with gas fixtures
n rooms, halls and attic. Apparatus for the manufac
ture of gas on the premises, in good order. Hydrant
water supplied by lift pump from kitchen to upper
story, and by lift and force pump to grounds in front.
In addition, two wells of pure cool water in back yard
and stable lot.
Commodious servants’ quarters, carriage house, cow
house and stable of brick. The lot contains sixteen
acres, on which are a garden, vineyard and orchard.
A billiard room and good billiard table in a detached
building, which will be rented with the dwelling.
For terms, apply at the Constitutionalist Office,
augll-tf JAMES GARDNER.
THE EUREKA LEG,
INVENTED BY
HARVEY L. BYRD, M. D.,
T* J ATE PROFESSOR in two of the Medical Col
leges of Georgia, and Surgeon in the late Confederate
Army. This Leg possesses advantages over all others
in use in tho Ventilation which its affords the stump,
thereby preserving its health—a matter of the first im
portance to the wearer— and tho lessening of friction in
walking, and thus enabling it to be worn with greater
ease and more continuously. The movements of its
joints approximate more nearly the natural ones, than
any other artificial Leg; and from the materials of
which they are formed, and the mode of their con
struction, they are more durable, and 1 ss likely to get
out of order, than any of the others now before 'lie
nunlic. For further information, address
1 p Dr. W. H. TUTT,
Druggist, 264 Broad street,
je23-6in Augusta, Ga.
1866. FOR 1806. 1866.
Bradley’s Celebrated
.2
§ §5
I DU P LEX ELLIPTIC
1 " r ” 1 * *
EACH HOOP BEING COMPOSED
ov
TWO PERFECTLY TEMPERED
(SINGLE SPRINGS,
Braided tightly and firmly together, edge to edge,
forming one HOOP, and making the
STRONGEST and
MOST FLEXIBLE,
THE LIGHTEST
AND
MOST DURABLE SPRING MADE.
They will not bend or break like the single springs
but will always
PRESERVE THEIR PERFECT
AND
BEAUTIFUL SHAPE.
IN ALL
CROWDED ASSEMBLAGES,
CHURCHES,
THEATRES,
RAILROAD CARS,
FOR PROMENADES
OR HOUSE DRESS,
In fact, they are superior to all others, combining
COMFORT
ECONOMY,
LIGHTNESS and
DURABILITY
INQfJIRE FOR
H R -A. I> X— K -v»«
DUPLEX, elliptic
OU DOUBLE SPRING BKIKT.
For a»iu avorj-wlicre. Manufactured exclusively by
the owners of the Patent,
WEST, BRADLEY A GARY,
No. 97 Chambers, and
Nos. 79 and 81 Reade streets,
NEW YORK
For sale in Augusta by
C. C. DRARE,
E. B. LON® A CO.,
D. R. WRIGHT A CO.,
H. F. RUSSELL A CO.,
JAMES MILLER,
LUCY J. READ.
And all other Merchants who sell First Class Slctrts
In this city, and throughout the Southern States.
THE NEW EMFRESS TRAIL
Is now the rage in New York, London, Paris and
throughout Europe and the United States.
feb2l-6m
MILO HATCH, CHAS. n. PHELPS
Twenty years Cash’r Six years Agent and Cash’r
Mech. Bank, Augusta, Qa. Southern Express Co’
„«•* *
Nos. 19 Broad Street, and
r 57 Exchange Place, N. Y. *
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
WE buy and sell on COMMISSION Government
Securities, Gold, Southern Bank Notes, State, City
and Railroad Bonds and Coupons, and make Collec
tions at all accessible points in the United States.
GENERAL PURCHASING AGENCY.
We have arranged with Houses in every branch oi
trade and business in New York, by which we can fur
nish any article, of whatever description, either for
personal use or dealers’ supplies, on better terms than
parties abroad could obtain, if here, thus saving them
the time, trouble, and expense of visiting tlio city in
person.
U. S. and Foreign Newspaper Advertising Agency
Advertisements inserted for Express, Railroad, and
Steamship Companies, Bankers, Merchants, Manufac
turers, and others in newspapers throughout the
United States and Canadas, at the lowest cash terms
of the publishers.
REFBRENOKR ‘A
R. H. Lowet, Esq., Pres’t Bank of Republic, N. Y.
Josiah OAKBB,Esq., Y.-Pree-tShoe A Leather B’k, “■
H. B. Plant, Esq., Pres’t t). Express Co.,Augusta, Ga.
R. B. Bullock, Esq.,Sup’tri. Express Co.,Augusta,Ga.
Also, Superintendents and Agents ot Express Co
mhl7-6m
NOTICE.
I HAVE this day sold my interest in tiro firm of
A. T. GRAY A CO. to my brother, Mr. CHRISTO
PHER GRAY, ot New York City. All claims
against the firm will be settled by Messrs. GRAY A
TURLEY, and all indebted will make payment to
same. A. T. GRAY.
Augusta, August Ist, 1866.
o
CO-PARTNERSHIP.
HE UNDERSIGNED nAVE THIS DAY
FORMED A CO-PARTNERSniP UNDER TnE
FIRM NAME OF
GRAY & TURLEY,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING THE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRY GOODS BUSINESS
IN THIS CITY.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY,
Os New York City.
P. GRAY,
JAMES W. TURLEY.
Augusta, August Ist, 1886- augl6-12
PRIME HAY.
200 BALES PRIME nAY,
Just received and for sale by
JNO. B. GUIEU A SON,
augl9-3* Mclntosh street.
TEN HEAD FIRST CLASS
HEAVY BODIED MULES
FOR SALE.
WOULD SUIT THE LUMBER TRADE.
M. A. DEHONEY,
augll-0 Ellis strtet, Augusta, Ga.
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WRIGHT’S PATENT
Improved Iron. Screw,
FOR PACKING COTTON.
I UJJ attention of Cotton Planters la invited to tlie
claims of this invention, which in SIMPLICITY,
ECONOMY, DURABILITY and POWER, sur
passes any machine for baling cotton ever before pre
sented to the country. Its great excellence in these
respects make it *
THE BEST MACHINE
FOR TVkC’IvINCI COTTON
IN THE WORLD!
1. Its Simplicity. -It is a n.ew and improved appli
cation of the SCREW POWER ; Just as simple in its
construction ub the old fashioned wooden Screw, as
easily managed, and no more liable to get out of or
der. No ropes or pullies are used ns iu the cotton
presses.
2. Its Economy.—lt has been demonstrated by ac
tual experiment to be CHEAPER than tlio wooden
Screw. Tho timbers used in its construction are much
smaller and fewer than those employed In tho old
Screw; tho levers being only sixteen feet long, and the
height of tho whole frame above the bed being only
ten feet. Ail theso timbers can be procured on the
plantation, no matter how exhausted the forest. Any
ordinary wood workman can build tho frame, and half
a dozea hands will put it up in a few hours.
a. Its Durarii.ity.—Tho Screw and Nut are of
Iron and WILL LAST FOR YEARS WITHOUT
AN Y A PPR KOI AB LE WE AR. The whole machine
occupies so little space that it can be completely cov
ered at very small cost.
4. Its Power.— With a lever only sixteen feet long,
ONE MULE is suiilcicnt lor packing the heaviest
oales. Planters who have used it say that with two
mules cotton may he compressed on this machine for
shipment.
This Screw was invented just before tbe opening of
tlio war, and has consequently never been generally
introduced. Those who have used it and seen it used,
unanimously concur in the opinion that it is
Unrivalled as a Cotton Screw.
The following testimonials from some of the best
and most reputable planters in the country show the
estimate in which this Screw stands with those who
have tried it:
We have used and seen in operation for the last five
years, WRIGHT’S IMPROVED COTTON IRON
SCREW, and feel no hesitation in pronouncing it the
very best Cotton Screw we have ever known. So
highly do wo esteem it, that if practicable to obtoiu
one of them, we would have no other. It is easily
built, simple in its construction, not liable to get out
of order, packs well, with great nower and with great
facility. EDW’D T. SHEPARD,
ELK AN All PACE,
0. Y. BANKS,
W. H. MITCHELL.
Columbus, Ga., July 1,1863.
All orders for this SCREW will be filled by
F. PIIINIZY & CO.,
Augusta, Ga., or
L. D. PALMER, Gen’l Agent
jy27-d*w2m for South Carolina and Southern Ga.
WRIGHT & GIBSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Chronicle & Sontinel Building, Broad Street,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Having resumed tbe practice of LAW, will
attend promptly to all business in any of the Courts in
Hichmond, Columbia, Warren, Glasscock, Jefferson,
Washington, Burke, Scr.von, Emanuel and Johnson
counties; also in tlio Supreme Court at Milledgevil'e,
and in tho United States Courts at Savannah.
A. It. WRIGIIT.
je2o-d&w2m WM. GIBSON.
New Steam Planing Mill,
CORNER CALHOUN AND CENTRE STS.,
Near Waynesboro Railroad Depot.
MiCMURPHV A THOMPSON
ILL DRESS ALL KINDS OF LUMBER
in a Workman-like Manner and at Reduced Rates.
A. M. MACMURPHY. WM. K. THOMPSON
Je7-3m
Artificial Legs and Arms
IN AUGUSTA. OA.
DR. DOUGLAS BLY, the Anatomist uml Surgeo
who invented tho Anatomical Bali and Socket Jointe*.
Leg, with lateral or side motion at the Ankle, like the
natural one, has just opened an otlico in Augusta, Ga.,
second door fffam tho Post Office, for the manufacture
and sale of his celebrated ARTIFICIAL I,KGS and
ARMS.
The superiority of theso Limbs has caused them to
bo sought for, throughout utmost the entire world, as
will he seen hy tho following list of offices where they
are manufactured and sold.
offiokb
wiNDOIt, ENGLAND 20 Leicester Square
NEW .YORK 658 Broadway.
RICHMOND, va Near the Post Office.
AUGIIfTA, GA 2d door from Post Office.
NEW ORLEANS, LA 77 Curondclet streol,
MEMPHIS, TENN 302 Main street,
NASHVILLE, TENN In City Hal'.
ST. LOUIS. MO 13 Pine street.
CINCINNATI, OHIO 148 West Fourth street.
CIIIC AG O, I I.L Opposite Post Office.
ROCHESTER, N. Y .Over Post Office
For further information, address
Dr. BLY,
foh22—dsc6m __ At nearest Office.
The Cheapest Cotton Gins in the
Market.
THE Subscribers would Inform cotton planters
that they have on hand, and are prejiarcd to
make to order COTTON GINS, of a superior quality,
which they offer for sale on reasonable terms.
Parties purchasing of us may rely on being Airnish
ed with the best quality of GINS, as wo warruut them
to perforin well.
Old GINS repaired in the best possible manner.
Twenty years experience in tlio manufacture of
COTTON GINS warrants us in saying our make
shall not be surpassed bv any other.
Price of Ginß THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY
CENTS PER SA \V, with a credit until the first of
December next, with satisfactory reference.
Orders promptly tilled.
J. I). & 11. T. HAMMACK,
jy2o-dt&clm Crawfordvllle, Ga.
AGRICULTURAL and SEED AGENCY,
A. H. KETCIIAM,
JACKSON STREET, NEAR THE BELL TOWER,
AUGUSTA, GA.
IS OUR GENERAL AGENT in GEORGIA for
the sail: of Field, Flower and Garden HEEDS,
also Agricultural and Horticultural IMPLEMENTS,
of every description.
I.ocnl dealers who require FRESn and GENUINE
GARDEN SEEDS, which can be fully warranted,
and will not disappoint the glower, can he supplied
through him with Morris’ Garden Seeds, in papers,
ready for sale by the 100 or 1,000, as well as in bulk.
Orders received through him for improved labor
saving AGRICULTURAL and HORTICULTURAL
IMPLEMENTS, will receive our prompt attention,
per steamers sailing regularly from this port.
Morris’ Garden Manual and Price Lists, Morris’
Monthly Rural Advertiser, with Cataloguo of Imple
ments, Live Stock, Ac., will be supplied on applica
tion at A. 11. Ivbtc ham’s Agricultural and Seed Ware
house in Augusta, opposite the Bell Tower.
I’ASCIIALL MORRIS,
Seedsman and Agricultural Dealer,
1120 Market street, Philadelphia.
jy2l-dlm*e3m
COTTON WAREHOUSE
NEW FIRM.
J. J. PEAROE. W. T. WHELKSS. OtIAS. A. PEARCE
PEARCE, WHELESS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Having formed a co-partnership
as above, and having secured a Fire-Proof Warehouse,
on Jackson street, formerly occupied bv Rees A Lin
ton, we will continue to store and sell COTTON and
other produce. Cash advances on produce in store.
Orders for family supplies filled at market prices. A
continuation of the patronage of our friends and ac
quaintances is solicited. J. J. PEARCE A- SON.
W. T. WHELESS,
Late of the firm of Flaming A Wholes*.
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3STEW FIRM.
J. C. DAWSON & BRO.,
PRODUCE
AND
Commission Merchants,
AUGUSTA. (tA.
HE UNDERSIGNED respectfully inform their
friends and the public that they will be prepared, on
the first day of SEPTEMBER noxt, to receive at
their
STORAGE ROOMS, ON JACKSON ST.,
Consignments of COTTON, RICE, TOBACCO
BAG&ING, ROPE. HAY, SALT, WHEAT
CORN, RY ? E, OATS, FLOUR, FEATHERS, BA
CON and LARI), and in short, everything from and
every portion of the United States that will pay tho
shipper a profit in this market.
Having had long experience in tho WAREHOUSE
and COMMISSION BUSINESS, our planting friends
limy rely upon our best efforts to obtain the Highest
Market Rate for their COTTON, and the exercise of
in the purchase of BAGGING.
ROPE, Ac. ’
LIBERAL ADVANCES will be made on Produce
in store, if desired. Our charges will bo customary.
We hope by strict and punctual attention to busi
ness to merit the confidence and patronage of the
Public. j. C . DAWSON,
„ . „ K. J. DAWSON,
augl4-d*c3m of Greensboro.
TWO MONTHS^alter date application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of Richmond
county for leave to sell tho Real Estate of Edward
J.jßdoxmastbr, late of said county, deoeased.
, , ’ AMANDA BUCKMAHfPF.it
je24-law2m AdmtdsTttTejx
To Cotton Planters.
f X I HE “ ARROW TIES ’’ and « PAINTED
IRON BANDS ” are a complete substitute for rouo
in baling cotton. 1
They combine the utmost simplicity with the great
eat possible aecuiity.
They are fastened quicker, hold the bale smaller
and cost much less than rope. *
These THES are largely in use and very popular in
the Gulf States.
The undersigned Is prepared to fill orders for anv
quantity, deliverable in any of the principal sea ports
They are for sale by Messrs. ANDREW LOW A
CO., Savannah, and Mr. ROBERT MURE, Charles
ton.
For further particulars, address
11. T. BARTLETT, Qon’l Agent,
)y25-dlm*tSm 28 Carondelet st., New Orleans.
C. E. Claohobn, j W. F. Hkrrirq,
Philadelphia, Pa. | Augusta, Ga.
Claghorn & Herring,
Having re-rontod the commodious store known
as No. 7 WARREN BLOCK, (with WAREHOUSE
IN REAR,) Augusta, Ga., will continue to'give their
PERSONAL ATTENTION to consignments to
them either at AUGUSTA, Ga., or PniLADEL.
PniA, Pa. Particular attention given to tho STOR
AGE, SALE and PURCHASE of COTTON
YARNS and DOMESTICS.
CONSIGNMENTS AND ORDERS SOLICITED.
LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES MADE ON
CONSIGNMENTS.
NORTHERN EXCHANGE FOR HALE AT
MARKET RATE.
%On Ist October Mr. A. M. Jackson will he admitted
as a partner, and the firm will bo changed to Ci.ab
hokn, Hbrimno & Co.
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AOEHTS WANTIOI) FOR
THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF
GENERAL (STONEWALL) JACKSON
By Prof. R. L. Dabney, D. !)., of Va.
Tho Standard Biography of the Immortal Horn.
The only edition authorized by his widow. The au
thor a personal friend and Chief of Staff'of the Chris
tian Soldier. We want an Agent in every county.
Send for circulars and sec our terms.
Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.,
Comer Main and 7tli streets, Richmond, Va.
augll-dswlm
insuranceT
FIRE, MARINE, LIFE
AND
TRAVELERS’ INSURANCE.
HOWARD INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
ARCTIC INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
ABTOR INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
COMMERCE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
PACIFIC MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES LIFE INSURANCE CO.
OF NEW YORK
NATIONAI. TRAVELERS’ INSURANCE CO.
OF NEW YORK
TRAVELERS’ INSURANCE COMPANY
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Tho above Companies are umong the best in the
country, with largo capital and ample means to meet
losses, invosted in United States Bonds and Mortgages
on property in the cities of New York and Brooklyn.
They settle claims without any unnecessary delay.
WM. SHEAR, Agent,
Office, No. 199 Broad street,
Next door to tho National Bank of Augusta.
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EUCLID WATBRIIOUSK. | K. Q. PKAUL. | J. F. CUHMINQU
WATERnOIISE, PEARL & €O.,
No. 19 NEW STREET,
IST e w Yo r k
_Buy and Sell COIN, EXCHANGE, SOUTH
ERN BANK NOTES and SECURITIES of all
kinds.
Make Collections and Purchase SIGHT and TIME
DRAFIS. on all accessible points.
Buy STOOLS and GOLD, solely on Commission, re
quir'ng umplc margin in all cases.
Allow FOURPERCENT. INTERESTON DAILV
BALANCES, subject to Sight Check.
The correspondence of our Southern friends Is re
spectfuily solicited. . jyl9-6m
NORTH CAROLINA, CASWELL COUNTY, )
In tub Court of Equity, J
Spring Tkrm, A. I)., 1860. )
Tub Bank of Yancryvili.k, )
va.
Tub Crrditous of baib Bank. )
This Bill is filed under an act of the Assembly, ratif
tied on tho 12tli day or March, A. D., 1866, entitled
“An Act to enable the Banks of tills Stato to close
their business,” and It is ordered bv the Court that,
publication for six weeks be made in the papers
herein specified, notifying tho creditors of tlio suid
Bank to present and establish their claims against the
said Bank, before Joseph J. Lawson, Commissioner,
appointed by this Court at Yauccyville, North Caro
lina, on or before the first day of January, A. I)., 18C8.
Tho following are tlio papers designated by the Court,
in which publication shall ho made, namely: The
National Intelligencer, Washington City, tlio Daily
Sentinel, at Raleigh, N. C., Wilmington journal, Wil
mington, N. C., Richmond Examiner, Richmond, Va.,
Baltimore Gazette, Baltimore, Maryland, New York
News, Charleston Courier, Augusta Constitutionalist,
Macon Telegraph, Montgomery Advertiser, New Or
leans Delta, Nashville Gazette, Lynchburg Republi
can, Memphis Appeal, and Philadelphia Pennsylva
nian.
Witness Thomas A. Donolio, Clerk of said Court,
at office, the 6th Monday after the 4th Monday in
March, A. 1)., 1860.
Jylß-ewd TIIOS. A. DONOTIO, C & M. in E.
CHICHESTER & CO.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
65 BEEKMAN and £5 ANN Sts.,
(up STAIRS,)
NEW YORK.
H. L. CHICHESTER, of Augusta, Ga., late with
Carmichael & Bean, will be found at tho abovo place,
whore he will give Ids personal attention to all orders
from any of his Georgia friends who may favor him
with orders or a call. jy24-tf
POLLARD, COX & CO.,
WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CORNER OF
REYNOLDS AND CAMPBELL STREETS,
Augusta, Ga.
W ILL continue to give their strict personal at
tention to all business entrusted to them (after Ist of
September will occupy the warehouse vacated by Mr
E. P. Claytou). Consignments of Cotton and Country
Produce respectfully solicited from all sections.
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POLLARD, COX & CO.,
GENERAL GROCERY AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
No. 297 Broad Btrkbt,
A few doors below the Planters’ Hotel.
Augusta, Georgia,
W ILL continue to keep al wavs on hand achoico
Stock of Goods in their line, suitable for Merchants
and Planters’ Trade. Are also Agents for REED’S
PHOSPHATE, the most reliable aud economical Fer
tilizer now in use. The public are respeotfully invited
to examine their stock before purchasing.
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TO RENT,
A. BRICK DWELLING and STORE, situated
on Ellis street next door above, Palace Stables. Pos
session given Ist of October. For further particulars
apply to
augl9-2w Mrs. A. FREDERICK.
M. P. STOVALL,
WAREHOUSE
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT
AUGUSTA, GA.,
W ILL continue to give his personal attention to
Storage and Hale of COTTON, and OTHER
PRODUCE. Consignments of Cotton will he stored
in the New FIRE PROOF Warehouse, on Jackson
iTW* BitC foirat ' rl y occu P ied Dy “Doughty,
His Bales Room and Office—New Granite Front
Building now erecting on the Northeast Corner of
Jackson ond Reynolds streets. augll*tf
NOTICE.
Having this day purchased the
ENTIRE STOCK of BOOTH, SHOES, TRUNKS,
VALISES, SATCHELS, Ac., of BONES & HEN
DERSON, I desire to dispose of tho stock, and will
do so at reduced figures, to make room for the new
stock now being manufactured at tlio North for our
City Trade.
augß-3m n. E. CLARKE.
$26 REWARD.
Strayed or Stolen, my Black MARE, rather
tall, long tall, blind In right eye, and a small scar on
the right side of back, caused by the' saddle. I will
pay tile above ruward for her delivery to me or Infor
mation so that I can get her.
JOSIAH SHERMAN,
auglD-6* p, o. Rox 17#, Augusta,