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Tri-Weekly Republican.
Americus, Georgia:
c 7 w 7 Hancock'
Editor aud Proprietor.
JULY 18, 1867.
Editorial Drevitics.
Wheat is selling in Covington, Ga.,
atsl.soto §1.75 per bushel, for best quality
oi'white.
Death or Alison Chase.— This estimable
gentleman departed this life at his home in
Athens, on Wednesday last, lie was an old
and much respected citizen of that town, and
bis death will be mourned by a large circle
of relatives and friends.
BSgU-lJev. E. A. Holland will deliver a lec
ture, on “Jerusalem and its Euvirons,” on
Saturday, 27th inst., at Fort Valley. A
small admittance fee will be charged, to be
devoted towards the purchasing'of a good li
brary for the Sabbath School at that place.
Mr. Holland’s ability to handle any subject
is an established fact, and his travels through
the Holy. Lund give him additional facilities
to render this one of the most interesting
lecture ever delivered in this section.
Many of our citizens have long desired to
hear this eloquent Divine, and we hope he
will make it convenient to visit Americus, at
an early day, and deliver a lecture on the
subject referred to.
Newspaper Change. —The proprietor o
the News & Herald, Savannah, gives notice
that ho has associated with him, as co-pro
prietor, Mr J. H. Estill, and that the paper
will hereafter be published by Mason & Es
till. We welcome Mr. Estill to the fraterni
ty and wish our cotemporary abundant pros
perity.
A Sad Tiuth.—The Macon Telegraph is
informed that the statistics show the alarm
ing aggregate of seventy thousand paupers in
the State of Georgia.
Bs*L»The Fort Valley Gazette says, “young
people desiring to run away and 'marry, will
find this place affords all the facilities neces
sary for a speedy union. Our Depot A gent is an
ordained minister; our hotel keeper prepares
a wedding feast three times a day, and half
a dozen trains leave at different intervals,for
different destinations.”
Convenient place, that!
JB@“The Southern Cultivator says that
over one thousand bushels of wheat were har
vested from lots„and gardens within the cor
porate limits of Athens,the past month,all of
excellent quality.
J3£2u-An enfranchised citizen met a gentle
man the other day and said: “Boss, kin you
tell me whar de eullerd slavesrigister here?’’
SSj Tlr. W. L. Gordon, furnishes the
Marietta Journal with a recipe to those af
flicted with the gravel. He says :
“Take common Mullen leaf, boil a strong
tea and drink it when you want water, *tea
or coffee. Let it be your constant drink for
6or 8 weeks, with cream and sugar,[it makes
an excellent table tea.
“I have been cured of the worst spells of
Gravel and Kidney affections, and have heard j
of many other cases of cure by the use of
Mullen Tea.”
Fleas and Musquitoes —A correspondent
of the Scientific American says that, “oil or
essence of pennyroil is believed to be a spe
cific against the attack of fleas. I have al- j
ways used it when fleas were in my bed or j
about my clothing, aud found that it would
banish them entirely, and am now using it
with equal success to banish musquitoes.-
They will not come where it is.’’
Douglas Jerrold calls women’s arms
“the serpents that wind about a man’s neck, 1
killing his best resolutions.” The “oldest!
inhabitant’’ says he don’t object to them kind
o’ serpents.
JSSf’The Rome Courier, ol Friday, reports
a rumor prevalent there of a riot at Athens,
Ala., about a week ago, iu which two whites
and six negroes were killed.
BSSuGen Grant and a party of Rump Con.
gressmen will visit Lookout Mountain the
latter part of this month. The Nashville Ga
zette hopes they will stay long enough in Ten
nesse, to observe liow Brownlowism conducts
elections.
BQL-In Tennessee, Brownlow’s imps tear
down and trample upon the stars and stripes
when found suspended over the house of any
man, whom they know will vote agaiust that
old wretch.
8£S„Col. John Collier, of Atlanta, was
sworn in on Monday, as Judge of the Cowe
ta Circuit.
Bgy-On the 21st of August, the planet Ju
piter will appear without his satelites—a
thing only twice recorded, in the history of
celestial phenomena.
-BriT A Glorious revival is progressing in
the Methodist Church, at Cartereville, Ga.,
under the ministration of Rev. C. A. Evaus.
Many additions have been made to the church
Gen. Ghant.—Since the announce
ment that the freedmen insist upon having
one of their race upon the Republican
ticket as the candidate for the Vice Pres
idency, it is whispered that G'cn. Grant
will not permit his name to be used in
connection with the first office at all.
Public Meetings.—Public gather
ings are rarely productive of much mis
chief. It is the secret meetings and
leagues where all the devilment is plann
ed and concocted, preparatory to being
ferried out.
From tho Chronicle & Sentinel. |
Notes on the Situation—No. 14-
BY 0» 11. HILL.
But 11 this generation shall do its lull du
ty, wc must do more than simply rescue the
country from impending evils. The causes
which produced those evils must be under
stood and corrected. The people must, see
how and by what means aud for what pur
pose they have been so sorely afflicted. If
this be not done, then, though we may ar
rest the revolution for a time and defeat the
treasonable iniquity of these Military Bills,
yet in some other form these same evils will
come again, ’ibis is the peop'e’s govern
ment. All the evils which have befallen us
have been accomplished through the people,
and the final, the complete, the permanent
remedy must come from the people. He will
be entitled to be called the father of his
country, far above Washington, who shall be
able to lay bare to popular comprehension,
the agencies by which the people of America
have been made to cut each other's throats,
destroy their common prosperity and blight
the hopes of their own children. My pen is
not sufficient to the task, and these notes are
already too extended to undertake it now.—
But I shall allude to these agencies here, aud
iu the future may return to the subject.
These agencies seem to be many, but there
are realty two, and from these ail the others
spring;
1. Demagoguiwn or thirst for office, inclu
ding all the appliances lor gratifying it.
2. Fanaticism or the bigotry of extreme
opinions, which has existed in all sections
and which has been developed on various
even antagonistic—subjects. Ignorance,
credulity and want of virtue among the peo
ple have been the food tor both agencies.
One ofU;e most learned and profound judges
of men aud governments says: “In the birth
of nations, the chief men make the institu
tions, but in the sequel the institutions make
the chief men.” This single sentence em
braces all the philosophy ot the rise and
fall of free institutions in the United States.
The chief men of that day made the Con
stitution—State and Federal. They were
patriots, and were made great aid prominent
by leading their country to independence.—
Os course as long as these men lasted they
were chosen administrators of the institutions
they had formed. They could have no other
desire or higher ambition than to make those
institutions promote the good of the people.
And, therefore, no result could follow but
that which did follow, The American peo
ple rushed to prosperity with a rapidity and
to an extent which was and must remain the
marvel of human experience, But these fa
thers of the republic passed away, and so
next did the generation which was born in
their day and taught by their [immediate ex
ample and influences. After this new rulers
had to be chosen, and the necessity of choo
sing was frequent., according to our institu
tions. Every man was equally entitled to
be chosen. The people were the choos. rs,
and to please the people was the way to be
choosen. Aspirants soon discovered that
the majority ot tlie people were more easily
pleased by flattery than by reason, by prom
ises than by admonitions. All men had pas
sions and prejudices, but all men did not,have
enlightened consciences or informed judg
ments. Therefore passions and prejudice
formed the more inviting, because the more
available field for those who sought office. —
Then means were adopted to combine and
make effective the weapons of these office
seekers. Parties were formed aud caucuses
invented. Subjects were proposed and is
sues presented which could excite the most
passion and operate upon the largest amount
of prejudice. Platforms wore built, not to
expound the Constitution but to please the
greatest, number. As sectional prejudices
i were the most powerful, so subjects aud is
| sues that, were the most sectional were pre
ferred. It was in this way that slavery was
j brought into politics, and it is, and always
has been, my firm couvietion that Southern
pro-slavery political agitators, were more effi
cient in the destruction of slavery than the
Northern fanatics. The agitation was set
tled and unsettled, and again settled and
again unsettled, just as often as manipulating
party leaders thought the question of settling
or unsettling could be made [available as a
party issue in a Presidential contest.
By this process, honest men who acted
from convictions founded on [principle, were
gradually excluded from the public councils,
and the public offices, State and Federal,
were filled with mere party managers, preju
dice-engenders and passion-panderers. We
have many men who are notorious, but not
five who deserve to be known. Such men
were never reliable. They could be bought
to any party with the chance of an office.—
This is why most of our public men have be
longed to all parties, have been bitter aspi
rants in all, aud have made earnest haran
gues of all sides of almost all important ques
! tions. They went with the current because
they desired to ride on the current. They
could not afford to cleave to principles in
minorities. These men brought the country
to revolution, have kept it in revolution aud
are unable to get it out of revolution.
But the other agency of destruction—ex
treme opinions, all of which various kinds I
include iu the genSric term fanaticism—has
been, from the beginning, enmity to the Con
stitution. Mutual concession for the com
mon good is the soul, the very being, of the
Constitution. It is the breath which was
breathed as life into it. By concession alone
was it formed, and in that spirit alone can it
be safely or peacefully administered. But
extreme minds never concede. They hate
concession and trample on compromises.—
Tlierfore these extreme minds at the North
denounced the Constitution as “a covenant
with hell and a league with the devil and
extreme men at the South denounced as the
source of all evils to the South.
These men were much more numerous at
the North than at the South, but, left to
themselves, they would have remained power
less in both sections. But they adroitly
watched every opportunity to get control of
the grEat office seeking parties of the country.
And the managers of the parties corruptly
pandered to the respective extreme opinions
to get their help in securing the offices.—
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise lur
nished the long desired occasion to segregate
the sections. The extreme meu of the South
took eharge of the Democratic party to
bring about secession. The extreme men of
the North organized and took charge of the
Republican party to destroy or bring about
a reformation of tbe Constitution ; aud the
politicians —were perfectly willing to be taken
charge of, if thereby they could be placed iu !
the offices, and did not care, on either side, j
one fig whether slavery was extended or not
extended, destroyed or not destroyed, so they
could keep the office ! The majority ot the
people ot the South were made perfectly cra
zy with the idea of their great right to carry
the slaves to Kansas, and the majority of
the Northern people were made equally cra
zy with the alleged bad faith with the ag
gressive spirit of slavery. The minority in
each section who declared thaUthh whole ag
itation was a pandora “box” opened upon
the country, leaving scarcely hope believed,
were laughed at as visionary. So Fanaticism
bought up demugoguisrn with the offices,and
the two together rushed the country into
civil war. These are the chief men whom
our institutions have produced ! And what
are the results? Instead of honor, prosper
ity and independence, we have humiliation,
pauperism aud disfranchisement ; instead of
a Union of harmony and good will and the
spirit of concession, we have a despotic frag
mentary conclave, ruling with U’erberiun
hate. Wc have slain a million of whites and
doomed tour millions of heretofore happy
contented blacks to starvation, barbarism
and death ; and to accomplish this work we
have destroyed property and expended money
more than sufficient to have bought the
whole African race in America three times
over at their open market value 1 And are
they statesmen and philanthropists and patriots
who are not known by such works? No,
no; they nrc the double shaped monsters
which the demagogue and the fanatic have
begot by seduction of the people, and by rape
upon the Constitution !
The art of deceiving the people so as to
get their votes, has been the chief means by
which neasly all the politicians who have be
come prominent during the lust twenty-live
years, have been enabled to succeed and get
the names and places of leading men. This
man Butler,of Massachusetts, became known
throughout the country before the war al
most entirely because ot his success, with
the aid of one other, also from that State, in
building platforms for bis party, which could
be construed to suit every section, every
opinion, and every prejudice. Yet this man
was not one w hit more unprincipled in politi
cal morals, nor any farther below the stan
dard of a true statesman, than were the
many all through the land whoavailed them
selves of his deceptive work to get the offices,
lie is as guilty who use a fraud as he who
originates it. As deceptions brought on the
collisions between the sections, it is not at
all wonderful that deceptions prevailed tlno’-
out its progress and still continue. The lea
ders have professed to desire what they did
not intend should be accomplished- The
people listened to the profession, and could
not be made to see or believe the intention.
Therefore the people of America have been
made to do, with energy and great sacrifice,
those very things which of all others they
most hate. They have been made to cut
their own throats under the belief that it was
the only way to save their own lives; to use
foroc to preserve a Union of eonseut; to in
dulge feelings of hatred and distrust as the
only means of preserving harmony : and now
the proposition of these Military Bills is to
train pie on the Constitution, as the only way
to peace and safety ; to disfranchise and hu
miliate the white man as the only wa v to en
franchise and elevate the black man; to
rush into anrachv as the only way to find se
curity for person and for property ; and to
subvert the government ns the only means of
preserving it. The authors and defenders of
these Military Bills are wise like the daugh
ters of Pelias, who insisted that by cutting
their old father in pieces they could renew
his youth ; and our people will prove as fool
ish us was the Old man who consented, when
they consent to these destructive Military
Bills as the means of entering the Union and
Os preserving written Constitutions.
Os all delusions of the revolution, the
greatest was that of supposing that either
parly of the late conflict was fighting to pre
serve the Union under the Constitution.
This delusion was committed by many iu
the North and not a few in the .South. There
Has never really been a war to perserve the
Union. The masses of the people North
thought so because their leaders piofesscd
so. But the extreme men of the north natur
ally took charge of the conduct of the war
and they never intended it should end with
out a reformation or destruction of the Con
stitution. They had long before declared
the old Constitution “to be convenant with
he'l and a leauge with the devil,” and
in the debate on. the Civil Rights Bill, old
man Stephens confessed that, from Ins youth,
he had longed for the occurence of seme great
convulsion under the influence of which the
Constitution could be changed.” fs he.
therefore, laboring to preserve that Consti
tution j which he lias longed from his
youth to chuige—change violently, under
the influence of a honvulsionl The pretence
to the people during the war was to preserve
the
to destroy the Constitution because they hated
the Constitution. The result is the preser
vation of a terr itorial Union, but the utter
destruction of a Constitutional Union. Con
sent was the beauty ot the oid Union ; force
is the power of the new. The proof that
the Radical leaders were not sincere when
they professed to wage the war to preserve
the Union, is the fact that when the war is
ended they will not admit the Union is pre
served. Some of them proclaim that the war
onded’foo soon! Why ended too soon? Because
they are afraid the excitement of the convul
sion will end before, under its influence, they
can complete tbe long desired work of de
stroying or reforming the l onstitution. If
the people of the North could only he made
to see the clearest truth of the revolution,
towit :that their leaders have used them to
destroy the Constitution by appealing to
their love of the Union, all would be safe, u
The great difficulty, heretofore, has
that, patriotic, conservative men in both sec
tions have been unable to make the people of
either section see that the extreme men of
the two sections had a common end. Mie
people could not see this because these
treme men seemed to be fighting each other,
when, in truth, both wet e fighting the Union.
The extreme men saw that the only feeling
with the people of either section which was or
could be made stronger than the love of Union,
was the love of section. Pro slavery was the
great, question which it was thought could
concentrate all feeling at the South, and,
therefore men assumed to be the peculiar ex
clusive friends of slavery, nndal! men at the
Nort h were declared to be its enemies, and all
at the South who differed with them were de
nounced as traitors to (heir section. Anti
slavery was the great feeling at. the North,
and there the extreme men assumed to be the
only true defenders of the North front the
wild aggressive spirit of slavery, which was
represented as seeking, with the master's
lash, to control the whole country The peo
ple of both sections listened until they be
lieved, and sent the extreme men in stronger
and stronger force to Washington, who made
the national capitol but a theatre for sectional
bullies; who reduced all eloquence to a sec
tional billingsgate, and whose only states
manship consisted in engendering sectional
hate. The natural result was tear, but a sec
tional war, and a war in which the triumph of
either parly was the triumph of an enemy to
the Union under the Constitution. And this
is the only war which has been waged, and
tiiis is the only final triumph which will be
achieved if the people do not open their eyes
in both sections and make a united war
against their common enemy—these extreme
men. It was with these views that I so ear
neslly begged the South in 18(30 Dot to seiede,
because she would thereby be only further
ing the purpose? of the common enemy of the
South and the Constitution—would thereby
throw all the power us the Union into the
hands of that, common enemy, which power
would be used, first to crush the South, and
then to destroy the Constitution. H was be
cause of these convictions I went with my
1 section and never felt I made war on the Uni.
'.on, although I saw the Union was being
crushed between-two antagonistic forces.—
And it was because of these convictions 1 was
’• willing every hour of the struggle to stop the
fight and negotiate, feeling that, if either pnr
i ly yielded to arms, common equal confedera
tion would be impossible. But, we never
could negotiate, for the plain reason that in
that way the Union might be preserved, and
thin (tie tenders of (lie North never intended
to permi l . They determined to continue the
' convulsion to enable them to destroy all hope
i of Constitutional Union,, and now thoy fear
j (lie war has ended too soon to enable them
j fully to accomplish their work, it was, there
i fore, I urged the .South never to yield, but to
I tight to extermination rather than be sttbju
! gated, for subjugation of either section was
I the grealeet possible obstacle to future peace
j and Union as well as to honor and independ
ence for either section. But slavery has
! been destroyed aud divisions between the ex
treme mcnoflbo North nnu South are no
j longer promotive of the common end. The
| common end wns, not to preserve or destroy
■ slavery, but the common end was to destroy
a Constitution founded iu mutual concession
[for the common good, and to which extreme
| opinion is and must tie enmity. Slavery was
| only used as an exciting sectional means to
! accomplish the •work- The pretence for dis
! ference between the extremes has been re
moved, hat. the. common purpose remains. And
| what is the result ? These extremes are get-
I ting together. 1 believed and declared in ad
j vauce they would unite. It is natural and
■ logical that they should unite. When divis
ion promoted a common end it was natural to
divide; but when Union can promote'that,
same common end it is natural, consistent to
unite. Sumner and Stevcus, and Brown and
Holden me not. accidents—nor are they ori
ginal characters. They have figured in all
mad revolutions from the fall of Greece and
liie destruction Os Jerusalem to the pres‘lit
day. Such meu have ever been treacherous
to principles, fai bless to trusts,[anddeceitful
in professions, but. always consistent—per
fectly consistent—in the common end of de
struction to government. And as these Milita
ry Bills have no character but opposition to
all the provisions and principles of the Con-
I stitution,-and can have no end but its utter
and final destruction, such men, and alltheir
ilk : both sections, will unite in their sup
port.
The unscrupulous portion of the secession
leaders—thuse who never acted from couvic-.
tion of right—and the Northern Radicals are
making friends and shaking hands, like Pilot
and Herod, for the final crucifixion of the
Constitution. Can it bo. can it possibly be,
that the American people, like an inflamed
foolish rabble, will still ery crucify him, cru
cify him ; give us Barabbas, give us anarchy,
give us anarchy!
Now, tlifn, the duty of all patriots is plain.
The enemies of the country are united Their
platforms is these Military Bills. Let the
friends of the comply unite Let our plat
form be the Constitution. There is no long
er any excuse to be deceived. If we want
peace, if we want safety, if we want liberty,
if we want prosperity, ifyve want hope for our
children, if wc want Union, if we want writ
ten Constitutions, we must unite —all patriots
everywhere must unite. We must crush out
these real authors of all our sorrows ; we
must declare that the will of two thirds of a
fragmentary conclave of congressional mem
bers is not and shall not be I lie supreme law
of the land, but that'the Constitution and'.lie
laws passed in pursuance thereof are, and shall
be, the'only supreme law for tire -freemen of
America.
For the present, at least, these wiles will
end. It was my original purpose to apply
the reasoning I have employed to the history
of former revolutione, for the purpose of
showing that the monsters of revolution in
all ages have acted iu like spirit, with like
purposes and with tike treachery', ns those
who dominate in t is country and seek to ov
erturn our institutions; and also the impos
sibility, according to unbroken human expe
rience. of farcing, by statute, the black race
and the wliiieraee toeqifhlity in government.
And to show that nil the consequences which
I have declared will result from the efforts
now being made to subvert the government
by force and fraud, have resulted —invariably
resulted—from similar causes in nil the past.
But those who can believs that good, and
not evil, will come of violating our
tion, of trampling upon our laws, of disre
garding plighted faith, of degrading the
white race, of fomenting hatreds between dif
ferent races, and of keeping up continual
sectional strife, would not hear reason from
(lie living or the dead ! All such will take
an oath to support the Constitution when they
register, and then violate the Constitution
that oath by voting “ for a convention,” and
and feel no compunctions. But all who love
the inw and its safely, the truth and its re
wards, the country and its peace, our child
ren their prosperity, and liberty and its guar
antees, will register and vote against a con
vention, and never cease to insist, in all
forms and all occasions, this sum of American
oppressions, this embodiment of American
treason, this aggregate of American dangers,
these Military Bills enacted to keep their au
thors in power.
I beg to express, in this manner, my grate,
fill acknowledgment for the many warm and
earnest expressions of appreciative approval
"vhich I am daily receiving of my humble ef
forts to wake my countrymen to their dangers
and their duty. 1 cannot write a personal
answer to each one. but I feel none the less
thankful for such comforting eucouragemeut.
I have sought only to write the truth, on
ly to serve the eountvy, but I love, and hope
1 shall ever love, the approval of the wise
and the applause of the good.
Maximilian’s Remains.— The Navy
Department at Washington has re
ceived letters from commander If. A.
Roe of the U. S. steamship Tacony,
informing the department that in com
pliance with a lequest from the com
mander of the Austrian man-of-war
JSlizabeth, he addressed a letter to
President Juarez, asking him to give
up the body of Maximilian. It ap
pears that the Mexican Government
has refused the request, and we now
learn by Cable that the Austrian Gov
ernment will immediately dispatch a
fleet to demand the body. All the
European Governments show the
most intense excitement, aud it can
baldly be doubted that but for tbe
United States anew and formidable
combination of European Powers
against tbe Republican Government
of Mexico would be formed,
Hon. B. 11. Hill is announced to
speak at Atlanta, to-day.
Tke Reconstruction Hill as it Massed
Both Houses of the Radical ( ou
_gress- J _i
Washington, July I—’l1 —’I ho follow
ing is a text of the Bill as it passed
both houses:
Beit enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress
assembled, That it is hereby declared
lo have been the true intent and
meaning of the Act of the second of
March, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven, entitled “An Act to
provide for the more efficient govern
ment ot tlie rebel States,” and of the
Act supplementary thereto, on the
2Ud day of March, 1807, that the gov
eminent then existing in the rebel
States of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi Louisiana, Texas and
Arkansas were not legally established
governments, and therefore said gov
ernment, if continued, were continued
subject in all respects to the Military
Commanders of the respective Dis
tricts and of the paramount authority
of Congress.
Section 2. That the commander of
any district named in said act shall
have power, subject to the disappro
val of the General of the Army of the
United States, to have effect till .dis
approved whenever in the opinion of
such commander the proper adminis
tration of said act shall require it, to
suspend or remove from office, or ironi
the performance of official duties and
the exercise of official powers, any
officer or person holding or exercising
or professing to hold or exercise any
civil or military office or duty in such
under any power, election, - appoint
ment or authority derived from or
granted by or claimed under any so
called Stale or the Government there
of, or any municipal or division the re
of; and upon such suspensions or re
in oval such commander, subject to
the, disapproval of the General as
aforesaid, shall have the power to
provide from time to time for the per
formance of the said duties of such
officer or person so suspended or re
moved, by the detail of some, compe
tent officer or soldier of the army, or
by the appointment of some other
person to perform the same, and to
fill vacancies occasioned by death,
resignation or otherwise.
Section 3. That the General of the
Army of the United. States shall be
invested with all tlsc powers of sus
pension, removal, appointment and
detail granted in the preceding sec
tion to District Commanders.
Section 4. And he it further enact
ed, That the acts of the officers of
the army already done, in remov
ing in said Districts persons ex
ercising the functions of civil offi
cers and appointing others in their
stead, are hereby confirmed ; Provi
ded, that any person heretofore or
hereafter appointed by any District
Commander to exercise the functions
of any civil office may be removed
either by the military officers in com
mand of the District or by the Gener
al of the Army, and it shall be the
duty of such Commanders to remove
from office as aforesaid all persons
who are disloyal to the government
of the United States, or who use their
official influence in any manner to hin
der, delay, prevent or, obstruct the
due proper administration of this act
and the acts to which it is supple
mentary.
Section 5. That the Boards of Reg
istration provided for in this act enti
tled an act supplementary to an act
entitled an act to provide for the more
efficient Government of the rebel
States, passed March 23, 1867,
shall have power, and it shall be their
duty before allowing the registration
of any person, to ascertain upon such
facts or information as they can
obtain, whether such person is enti
tled to be registered under said act,
and the oath required by said act
shall not be conclusive on such ques
tion ; and no person shall be register
ed unless such Board shall decide
he is entitled thereto ; and such Board
shall also have power to exam
ine under oath, to bo administered
by any member of such Board, any
one, touching the qualification of any
person claiming registration, but in
every case of refusal by the Board to
register an applicant, and in every
ease of striking the name from the list,
as hereinafter provided, the Board
shall make note or memorandum,
which shall be returned with the
registration list to the commanding
General of the District, setting forth
tiie grounds of such refusal or such
striking from the list; Provided, that
no person shall he disqualified as a
member of any Board of Registration
by reason of race or color.
Section 0. That the true intent
and meaning of the oath prescribed
in said supplementary act, is, among
other things, that no person who has
been a member of the Legislature of
any State, who has held any Execu
tive or Judicial office in any State,
whether he has taken an oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United
States or not, and whether ho was
holding sue]i office at the commence
ment of Rebellion, or had held it be
fore, and who was afterwards engag
ed in insurrection, or rebellion against
the United States, or giving aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof,, is cn- 1
titled to be registered or vote ; and
the words Executive or Judicial office,
in any State in said oath mentioned,
shall be construed to include all
civil officers created by law for the
administration of any general law of
a State, or for the administration of
justice.
Section 0. That the time for com
! plcling the original registration pro
vided lor in this act, may-pin the dis
i c ret ion of the Commander ol'ally Dis
trict, be extended to the first clay of
Osjlobfer, 1867, and the Boards of
Registration shall have power, and it
shall lie their duty, commencing four
teen days prior to any election under j
said act, and upon reasonable public
notice of the time and place thereof,
I to revise for a period of five days the I,
j registration lists, and upon being satis
: fiod that any person not entitled there
i to lias been registered, to strike the
name of such person from the list; and ,
such Board shall also, during the!
I same period, add to such registry the
names of all persons who at that tint':
! possesses the qualifications required
|by said act who hate been already
; registered, and no person shall at any
time lie entitled to register or to
vote by reason of any Executive par
! don or amnesty for any act or
tiling which disqualify him from reg
istration or voting.
Section 8. That section font of said
last named act shall he construed
to authorize the Commanding Gener
al named therein whenever he shall
deem it needful, to remove any mem
ber of a board of Registration and to
appoint another in his stead and to
fill any vacancy in such board.
Section 9. That all members' of said
boards of Registration,* and all per
sons hereinafter elected, or appointed
to office, in said Military Districts,
under any so-called State or munici
pal authority, or by detail or appoint
ment of the District Commanders,
shall be required to take and subscribe
the oath of office prescribed by law
for officers of the United Btat.es.
Fcctiqu 10. That no District Com
mander or member of the Board of
Registration, or any oflho officers or
appointees, acting under them, shall
be bound in his action by any opin
ion of any civil officer of the United
States.
Section 11. That ail the'provisions
| of this act and the acts, to which tiiis
is supplementary, shall be construed
literally to the end that ail the intents
thereof may be fully and perfectly
carried out.
i Letter from Gen. Toombn.
| The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes
the following :
Washington, Ga., June 10, ’O7.
i JUi/ Dear tSif : Your letter of the
Gih instant was duly received, and
mould have been before replied to but
\my absence front home. Having
! Ijm recently arrived in the United
Sties I knew nothing of your propos
cArganization— what it was for, or
v. so was in it—when 1 wrote my let.
jfler in reply to your’s of the 9th nit.
; After tho reception of yours of the
6th inst., with the proceedings ol the
Cincinnati Convention, 1 accept with
the greatest pleasure the position so
which I have been assigned, and will
cheerfully give my utmost efforts, to
promote, establish and vitalize those
principles.
The first Kentucky resolution con
tains the principles of my whole polit-
I ical life. 1 have stood by them from
my youth to the present hour. 1 have
maintained them in peace and war, in
power and out of power, in prosperity
and adversity; lam as ready to-day as
1 was thirty years ago, when I entered
public life as a nullifier, “to spend and
be spent” in the sacred cause ; and if
my sacrifices of all sorts bad been a
thousand times more than tlu-y have
been, l should consider them well
spent “for a lost cause,” rather than
accept any other interpretation of the
American Constitution.
I, therefore, accept any man as a
brother, in peace or war, who shall
honestly stand bv and defend them.
I will be with him as long as the weak
ness of humanity will enable me to
stand by the truth to my own hurt.
Therefore, “sink or swim, survive or
perish,” 1 am with the West and
South for the maintenance of the Cin
cinnati Platform of April loth.
I will take immediate measures to
organize the State of Georgia on that
basis, and will urge the true men of
i the (so called) ten rebel States to
“fall into line.’ You can ftilly count
on them—l have tried them.
I will leave here to-morrow with
the view of beginning the orgaifzatlon
m Georgia, and enlarging your sub
scription, as the means of propagating
true Constitutional ideas, and I will
endeavor to send you subscriptions,
from time to time, as the organization
I is enlarged.
I regret nothing in the past but the
dead and the failure, and I am to-day
ready to use the best means I can
command to establish the principles
for which 1 fought.
* * * *
I am, respectfully and truly, your
friend, K. Toombs.
i W. M. Corey, Corresponding Secreta
ry Democratic Central Committee.
Economy .—The Nashville JPi'e&s and
Tunen has reduced its size by a column
in width and two inches in length. The I
Chattnnoogif Union thinks these arc;
hard times on newspapers, and especially'
for those who advocate the doctrine of
tiie Brownlowites,
The funniest men arc not always the j
happiest-—-for depression and gloom often ■
follow fun. Extremes succeed extremes.
Great jolity is followed frequently by
deep dejection ; and after all, boisterous
sallies of mirth, fun and wit, are too often i
the guises of a broken heart.
Escobedo.— Advices from Mexico
state that the butcher Escobedo eootem-!
plates a visit to Europe at an early day,
being fearful of Ids life at the bauds of
some of his murderous countrymen. t
ft On to Mexico.”
Nitty Orleans, July 13. Tiie fol
lowing proclamation is being circula
ted on the Rio Grande border :
“ Americans! Shall tbo civilized
people of a great nation stand
passive and by llicir silence assent to
the most barbarous aot of the nine
teenth century tho butcherv, in
c-old blood, by a mongrel race of God-
I forsaken wretches, of a man who by
treachery became a prisoner of war ;
for what else was Maximilian but
a prisoner of war?
! lie was certainly not a filibuster, for
' I o would not consent to become their
: Emperor .Until a large and poweil’ul
delegation of tiie representatives of
the Mexican government waited on
him in Europe and pressed his accep
tance of the Mexican crown, and
■which lie only 7 accepted after much
reluctance.
“ History teaches that the Mexican
people, for nearly the last half centu
ry, have been incapable of sef govern
ment ; while Maximilian lias shown
to tiie world that he was the best
ruler they' ever had, and was doing
all that a wise mail could to devclopo
tiie resources of that country, until
betrayed by Judas Isaariot in whom
Ire liar! trusted. Maximilian was one
of nature’s noblemen, because he was
an educated Christian gentleman, and
all his acts were high-toned, chivalric,
and becoming the brother of an Em
peror. He.was a brave man, and
died as a pearl sacrificd to beastly
swine. The civilized will honor and
revere ids memory, for his many vir
tues, for ages to come ; while it will
sin-ink with horror and detestation
fr'dm' tiie perpetators of tiiis most das
tardly. outi age of modern history.
“ Americans ! The bloodhound
Escobedo lias insolently and defiantly
declared to tiie world that before clos
ing Ills military career be hopes to sec
the bipod of every foreigner spilt that
resides in bis country. Shall this bo
so ? Giit with this foul blot that
stains the American Continent! Let
us meet in our strength, that we may
give public expression to our in
indignation, and let us fall on
those who, in the eyes of the Christian
world, arc morally responsible for the
death of Maximilian. Yea, even
(hough it fall upon a Secretary of
State, whose little bell, alas 1 did not
tinkle to save the life of one of the
best men that ever lived. Honor to
whom honor is due, but let justice be
done though the heavens should fall.
[Signed.j “ A native of New York.”
NkwYouk, July 13. —Two Mexi
can filibustering expeditions here,
and one in Bulfalo, are filling up rap
idly.
3Uu* Jultinioeumfe
Dr. W t W. FORD,
DENTIST.
/V intimites THE (PRACTICE OF D-N
--\J TIS RY in ail its dc-puriments.
TIRE MTROI'S OXIDE GAS
M ina r aotnred and kept constantly on lian I,
pho CHI OfIOFORM and CONCENTRATED
ETHKR caufully and safely administered
when desired, by means ~f which he is enab
led to eOvact any number es t.ecUi without
giving any pain ; a lung txtn dance with Au
aesthetic ngei Is enables him to adnenister
the n with skill and t ; a r e'y, so his patients
i e <1 have no fears tlmt he will use cither of
them r .-ck’c. sly i r carelessly in any case.
All the different stylus of
MECHANICAL DENTISTRY
done with utmost care and dispatch, and war
rant, and to he inferior to none done iu the
United Slates.
His offc is Northwest nf the public square,
near Johnson & Harrold's ware house. The
rooms are pleasant, cool, and retired Ladies
cm oujov all tiie comforts and privacy of
homo whi'e having work done. Such as have
small children can bring th m without being
annoyed.
Any refererce given that may be desired.
Prices moderate. Tel ins--CASH.
Americur, July 16tb, 18C7 ts
LaOSt.
IN A merit us on Saturday, the Eth inst , a
steCbbound leather pocket;.honk, old and
much worn, containing between five and six
dollars in moiaeyy, and pcvoihl papers,
among which is a note on Wm. Brewer for
One Bundled Dollars, due some time this
year, date forgotten ; a receipt given by
Judge Scarborough, for Two Hm died and
Thirty odd Dollars, and various oth.-r receipts
and accounts on different persons.
A leasormf le will he paid for the recovery
o' the pocket book and contents.
FRANCE HALL.
jaly 10 if
Head Q-rs. Board of Registration.
13th SENATORIAL DISTRICT; I
Americus, Ga., July 13th, 18(57. $
Special Order, }
j No 1. $
Positive instructions arc hereby given to
I employers, to notify tlieir employees, that
1 this board will meet at this place oh Wednes
day, Thursday, and Friday, the 21th, 25th,
and 2(Jth inst tor the purpose of registering all
unregistered voters of the County. Who has
not had previous opporttftp.ties. And in any
instance where the order is not carried into
effect by the employees, they will have the
extent of the law enforced by a Military Com
mission.
The special attention of the 759 Diet. (Da
vidson’s null) is called to the above order.
By order of the Board.
L. C. JONES, Clerk.
July 13 4t.
('I FOROIA—SUMTER COUNTY.
jt Ordinary Office, July 10th ’67.
To Executors, Administrators, Guardians and
Trustees:
]>y the laws of the United Slates, all
Bonds and Letters, issued from or made in
my office, since October Ist. 1802. arc in
quired to be stamped with Internal Kcvenuo
stamps.
You arc hereby notified Io come forward,,
(at niy office) by the Ist of September next,
and have stamps affixed to your bonds, and
letters.
After that time, citations will issue, at the
costs-of the parties, in each case, and (he ap-.
point mcnis be vacated, unless flic- bond bo
stamped. L. I*. DORMAN,
July 1345. Old nary-