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to fill certain vacancies; to amend section 3988
of tbe Code; to defioe the liabilities of Exe
cutors, &e; to amend section 4424 of the
Code; to legalize tbe appointment L J.B.
Fairchilds as County Treasurer of Chatham co;
for tbe relief of Jasper J. Owen; for tbe relief
of Dickerson Taliaferro; cost to be
paid in certain cases; to make valid certain
acts of Notaries Public,
Saturday Afternoon, March 10.
Tbe Genera! appropriation bill was taken up,
and occupied the whole afternoon —no vote be
ing taken on the adoption of the bill as a
whole.
HOUSE.
Saturday Afternoon, March 10.
Tbe motion to take up the bill for the relief
of banks was loet.
1 he bill to amend 11th section of charter for
Jft & W. Railroad was lost.
The annexed bills were passed; to incorporate
the Metcalf Mannfacturlng Company; to in
corporate the Madison Petroleum Company, to
incorporate the town of llawkinsville, and the
town of Groversville; to establish a Board ot
Education in Savannah.
A resolution was introduced authorizing the
Governor to inquire into the facts as to whether
any of the Railroads of the State were charg
ing more than their Charters ’allowed, and if
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incorporate the City Load Association of Au
gu-ita; to rogulate the labor of ednviets.
The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted :
Tbe General Assembly of the State of Geor
gia do resolve —
Ist. '/Hat in Andrew Johnson, President of
the United States, we recognize a statesman
whose wisdom and patriotism, lifting him
above the strife of faction, render it impossi
ble tor him to bo identified with, or appro
priated by any party but that, which, without
regard to former party divisions, shall be com
posed of men who devote themselves honestly
and earnestly to the maintenance of the Union
upon the principles of the Constitution.
2d. 'That the only hops for the preserva
tion oi free Government on this continent lies
in the maintenance of tbo Union upon the
principles of tbe Constitution, and as all na
tional basis lor sectional parties has passed
away with the extinction of slavery, we pledge
ourselves irrespective of all former party de
signations and of the passions inspired by tbe
recent lamentable war, to CO operate cordially
and earnestly with all men of all sections, who
will lay down party consideration upon the
altar of a common country and rqjly to the
support of the President iu his noble, cour
ageous and patriotic determination, that by
the exercise of wisdom, justice, moderation
and magnanimity, the Union upon tho princi
ples of tho Constitution shall bo re established
and enshrined anew in the hearts of the peo
ple. ,
3d. That His Excellency, the Governor, be
requested to forward a certified copy of these
resolutions to the President of the United
Stateß.
HOUSE-
Monday, Match 12.
The bill to admit equality of negro testi
mony (lost) was reconsidered. The same was
then taken up and passed.
Senate resolution in relation to Bacon’s
Digest of Supreme Court decision. Passed.
Bill to require cost to be paid in advance in
certain cases. Passed.
Mr. Gartrell introduced a resolution which
was passed, authorizing the Governor to in
quire into the charges ot Railroads.
Tho Senate amendments to the General Ap
propriation bill occupied the remainder of the
morning session.
SENATE.
Monday Afternoon, March 12.
Tb“ Senate met at 3 o’clock P. M., and
adt /A tbe report of the Conference Commit
te the Appropriation Bill and adjourned,
HOUSE.
Monbay Afternoon, March 10.
A resolution wab adopted in relation to the
claims of the Ujted States gainstthe VV. &A.
R. R.nnd authorizing a settlement of the esme,
The resolution of the Senate in reference to
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States was adopted.
The House adopted the report of the Con
ference Committee in relation to the General
Appropriation Bill and adjourned.
. SENATE
Tubsday, March 13.
After the adoption of the customary resolu
tions ot thanks to the officers'of the Senate,
Judge Gibson, cn adjourning the Sepate, spoke
as follows:
Senators : Our labors for this session must
now close. I can well say, our work is com
pleted ; and no more will the sound of the
gavel be heard in this chamber. While much
that wo have done may not pass certain sta
tions, yet I feel, on acoount of its peculiar fit
ness and symmetry, (while for the present, it
may bo cast with the rubbish) it will yet be
come the chief work in our structqjp, and be
the admiration of all beholders. With an
honest purposo to do justice to all, we have
assembled under tbe most peculiar circumstan
ces that have surrounded any Legislature ever
convened in Georgia. Time may prove our
short-comings—such must be the fate of all
human action, and I trust our successors may,
with the same honest purpose, correct our er
rors and inaccuracies.
To adapt ourselves to our changed relations
is an easy task to him who participated in the
late struggle. And while we yield the abso
lute and entire freedom of the African race,
and the abstract principle of peaceable seces
sion as a myth, we claim the establishment and
supremacy of the Constitution of the United
States as the supreme law of the land, guaran
teeing, as it does, freedom, justice and good
government under the Constitution of our
fathers, let us in patience bear all things and
hope all things, trusting that the spirit of the
father of our land may incline all to do justice
anil love mercy.
Your Chief Magistrate, Andrew Johnson,
has done, and is doing all he can to restore
our once happy Union. If his efforts should
fail all that is left of Republicanism on thi6
continent must perish, and a coudict must in
evitably ensue in which the supremacy of the
Caucassiau race will be established beyond
doubt, Every Christian heart must deplore
and lament such a conflict. Yet to establish
the great principle of self-government, we must
nerve ourselves for the is'ue. T«* contemplate
this scene even in the distance, is truly ap
palling ; but who can close his eyes to thein
evit ibie tendencies of rampant, irresponsible
radicalism. We rely on the enlightened and
patriotic devotion of our conservative brethren
ot the North to the spirit of the Union and
Constitution, hoping and trusting Jhat its es
tablishment may be permanent and perpetual.
We cannot dose our eyes to the fact that
there still remains a radical fanaticism in the
North, that worfld subvert the great priuci
cles of self-government if not checked, con
quered and controled. We tuns:, however,
take for our watchword, ‘‘The Union and the
Constitution of onr fathers,” —the w **Union”
being the paramount good, and the “Corsti
tution” our guide—and if rampant fanaticism
should seek to subvert the former, or mutilate
the latter, let us, in common with our conser
vative brethren of the North, East and West,
rally to the support of the one and the defense
of the other, assured that the indissoluble Un
ion of these States, and free- government, un
der the Constitution as it is, will reward our
efforts. I mean not to threaten or defy, but
if I understand the spirit of our people, North
and South, I feel justified in assuming that the
Vuion of our fathers is the design and purpose
of all patriolhAearts, and that aDy purpose to
traujfer the powers of this government or its
control by constitutional ameudmentsf or
otherwise to the African or negro race, will
involve us in a conflict, which iw conparison
with the late struggle will be but chiids plav.
Humanity shudders at the bear mention of
such a conflict. This is our kind—these are our
homes. Beneath the soil on which we treAd
lie hurried our ancestors, and the graves of
our chiidran are not yet sodden over with
grass, .and by their side fain would we have
our lemains interred, and woe to the man who
would disinherit us of ou r birthright and %p*
ropriate it to the me and benefit of a foreiga
and barbarious race. We must control in obe
dience to the Constitution and the laws made
thereunder to the exclusion of all barbarian
races ; but let us not forget that the African
race among us must fee protected in their per
sons and property. Our laws must be wise,
just and equal, and our people must obey
them, in letter and spirit. Fiftther we cannot
go-
And if those who assume to legislate for us on
this question will insist upon turning over our
government to the African race, when we pre
dict a revolution with incalculable ills to both
races, the last grand death struggle of liberty
on the American continent- May God, in his
mercy, avert Euch a calamity ! I trust our
people yet have nerve enough to meet the
emergency. I have not thought it improper
for me to say this much upon a subject, to me
dad in gloomy forebodings and apprehensions;
for the assassination of our chief magistrate or
any successful effort, unconstitutionally, to
change our Government, one or both of which
seems to be the purpose of a powerful party at
the North would, beyond doubt, produce such
a resalt. If such a contest be forced upon us,
let ns be prepared “to quit us as men,” mak
ing no war upon the Union and the Constitu
tntion, but upon reckless fanaticism, which
would engulph both in a common ruin.
Designing and defeated demagogues among
ourselves and ÜBual newspapor correspondents
may. by misrepresentations, fan the flame until
umirp lh« Oil • ■ eas-.n Yet t trust tW
Government .-? our tattlers
• this floor, by word or act. to w:.rrantmLoiigUt
vba ?■. Hilt „ turtle •- * -ur obligation*'to
tion of tne United States.”
Ever be thus-ever continue to administer
exact and equal justice to all classes and ranks
of your fellow men—-ever continue so to speak
and act that good will and harmony may be
promoted—and in my judgment, the conser
vative, good men of the North sustained by the
gallant soldiers who have returned to pursuits
of peace, will soon burl from power tho spe
culators and brokers, who, in their madness,
would barter away their own ambitious pur
poses—that Union for which the forms of her
gallant sons were mutilated, and their blood
and treasure pplilled like waters. For your
generous and liberal co-operation with me in
the discharge of my delicate and onerous du
ties as well as your kind appreciation of my
services, be pleased to accept my unfeigned
thanks. Your unitorm courtesy and gentle
manly bearing to myself and to each other,
deserves tbe highest commendation. For the
patient and laborious consideration you have
given to every subject of legislation and for
the wise conclusions at which you have arrived,
you deserve and will receive the thanks of the
whole people of our noble old State. Let us,
in parting, renew our solemn obligations to
our country, trusting in that beneficent Provi
dence which has so signally blest us in the
past for “wisdom, moderation and justice/’ to
guide ns in all our actions in the future. I
now declare the Senate adjournell sine die, and
bid you all a kind and affectionate farewell
and a happy and a speedy reunion, with your
families and friends.
VALEDICTORY OF SPEAKER HARDEMAN.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:
The hour fcfor our adjournment has arrived,
the duties that have devolved upon us have
been discharged, whethef tor good or evil the
future must determine. Yt should be a source
of profound gratitude to that Being who has
shaped our destiny; that the icy hand of death
haß not stricken a member of this General As
sembly, while many of our fellow citizens have
fallen asleep in death. The circumstances
that surrounded us at our meeting have been
somewhat changed, the provisional government
under which we met, has ceased, and we ad-,
journ to-day under a Governor, elected by the
sovereign voice of the people of our State. The
some cloud however, thet overspread our
horizon and threatened us with its fury—still
blackens our political sky—and though ever
and anon the sunlight breaks through its cur
tained gloom, betokening the glory of a bright
er day—it is soon o’er clouded and all is dark
again. Tae storm of war has passed, yet the
echo of its murmuringa fall upon the ear, and
the evidences of its fury are manifest in the
desolation that marks its sweep. Wher
ever wo turn ruin darkens our pros
pects, and desolation saddens us with the fata
lity of its blight. Our people bow in sorrow
and iu sadness—“for the fields of Heshbon
languish and the vine of Sibiuah,” withers
and dies. The fruitful fields, the cultivated
valleys, the cottage homo and the city palace
—evidence to-day, the heart-sickening rava
ges of a mighty revolution—as it was unto
Tyre, so it has been unto us, —“in the city is
left desolation and the gate is smitten witn
destruction.” ,
“Yet though, destruction, sweep our lovely
plains, . .
Rise fellow men, our “manhood yet remains,’
And if we were but true to ourselves, true
to the great principles of civil liberty, true to
tho Magna Ckarta of oar rights, tbe Constitu
tion ot our country, to the indomitable will,
the irrepresible energy, manly integrity and
commendable zial, that has ever characterised
our people, “it is not yet a very little while
aud Lebanon shall be turned into fruiteful
fields.” “The wilderness and the solitary place
shall be glad and the desert shall rejoice and
blossom as the rose.” To accomplish these
ends your legislation has been directed, you
have provided as liberally as your capacities
would allow, for the want* of your destitute
poor, have properly appreciated the helpless
condition ot our maimed and wounded soldiery,
have guarded with .commendable fidelity, the'
rights and interests of our former slaves, have
p issed liberal laws to develope the vast re
sources of our State, her mineral wealth, her
mechanical abilities, her manufacturing pow
ers, and now with convictions of duty dis
charged, you go hence to the more agreeable
and "profitable avocations of civil life and
domestic engagements.
TbinK not gentlemen, your labors are over;
vou but enter a wide and more fruitful field,
Here, you contended only with your own pre
judices. l'hereyou should exfirt your, powers,
and the influence of your position to correct
the passions of the hour and to harmonize your
people with the surroundings of the present.—
Exhort them to patience, to forbearance, and a
riranty submission to the authorities that be.
Teach t rem the lessons of harmony, and im
plore them by all that is dear in the present,
and hopeful in the future, to unite their ener
gies, in the support of a common destiny and a
common country. From every quarter of our
State, comes the cheering news, of the accep
tance by our people of the results of the revo
lution and the restoration policy of the Chief
Executive ot the Union. We are engaged to
day in a great conflict with Arnalek for politi
cal salvation and national existence.
Our political Moses, has' lifted up his hand,
and so far Isreal has triumphed; but those
hands are now heavy—heavy with the respon
sibilities of his position, heavy with the weight
of a nation’s redemption and the perpetuity of
the Republic, and unless, like Aaron and Hur,
we stay up his bauds until the going down of
tbesuu, the Amaiekitee will prevail and civil
liberty and republican constitutions, panic
stricken at the madness of the hour, and the
malignity of embittered hate, will leave the
world to despotism and misrule. Go forth
then to your people in view of the mighty in
terests at stake, with words of counsel upon
your lips. Teach then the necessity of a com
mendable patience, a forgiving spirit, a manly
loyalty, anaclive co-orperation with the au
thorities of the Government in restoring peace,
order and civil government to our distracted
country. Tell Them -though they are adjourn
ing in the wilderness of Sliur. with its dart
shadows, its mantling gloom, its forest shades,
its dangerous mazes—they shall not yet be
given over to destiuction. It is true they
drink none of Mar ah’s waters, embittered»bv
the sad recollections ot the past, and the evils
of the present, aud it tire are true to them
selves, they *nay yet repose beneath the palm
«rees of F.iim and in peaceiul security encamp
by her Jwellsof waters.
Cease not your labors for the good of your
people; “Learn to do well, seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow,” and when your race is
mn, when the sun of your existence shall go
down in death, the glory of his beams will long
linger with ihose Who have honored yon with
their confidence and support. My connection
with you now closes, perhaps forever. With
you my associations have been of the most
agreeable nature, and now, in severing them
or a season* let me tender you the acknowl
edgments of a grateful heart for the uniform
kindness and courtesy you have extended to
me as your presiding officer, and for tbe gener
ous confidence that has characterized yocr
official conduct. I have endeavored, gentle
men, to discharge the duties of my position
faithfully and impartially, and if in their per
formance I have wounded a feeling or stirred
one unpleasant emotion, rest assured it was an
error of the head and not of the heart. To
each of you I tender a God speed to the coh
stituenta that hive honored you, and the
family and friends that welcome you home,
invoking upon you the fostering care and pro
tection of Him, whose kind Providence has
thus far preserved you amid all tbe ills of life,
and wishing you, individually, health, happi
nee»and long life, I bid you f» rewell, and ad
journ this House without a day. «
HEWB ‘HJMIIARV,
Twenty lives were lost Dy the burning of the
steamer Lockwood, on the Mississippi.
A deputation of army rfficers called on Rob
erts and Sweeny, in New York, on the 9ih, and
tendered their swords to the Fenians. Sweeny
acoepted the tender, saying that they would be
needed at no distant day.
Twenty million dollars is the amount invol
ved in the settlement affecting twelve hundred
vessels captured by the United States during
i . . ’.. vad a disrate), irotn Mis
; siasipni tha* .. •.;« o' Ms be -mms
»reßled.
1 'thing the moms February., upward of
acres of land, were entered at *’ • Boone
M.• . < ' o for actual sc ; >men .
, ; ner<. 4 great falling off in the receipts
; nv.ru eesvomi at' *h- pm r of ,’,'ew Or
ing eeuiuary. Ainuuut receiveu in January,
$611,000; February, $242,579.
Tbe Secretary of the Treasury has notified
forty clerks in tbe different bureaus, thattbeir
services will not be wanted after the close of
the present, month.
The late Alexandria, Va., election resulted
in the defeat of the radicals
It is thought that the- Ohio peach crop will
prove a failure this year.
The total number of passengers who arrived
in the United States during the year ending
December 1865, was 287,397, of wbo 112,000
were from Great Britain, and 84,000 from
Germany.
Boxes containing munitions of war are be
ing shipped from Indianapolis to tha Fenian
head-quarters in New York.
L C Estes, of Maine, late on the staff of Gen.
Kilpatrick, has been appointed Collector of
luternal Revenue iu a North Carolina aistrict.
General Magruder is at Cordova, receiving a
salary oi $3,000 a year from the Maximilian
Government-
Boston spent $104,000 in theatrical and ope
ratic entertainments for the month of January.
The Telegraph lines to the Pacific are to be
gaurded by military posts.
Several new cotton mills' have been started
in Texas.
All the negro troops in Virginia are being
mustered out of servic e.
The Virginia Legislature has adjourned sine
di
Negro riots appear to be the order of the the
day iu Richmond Va.,
A Commissioner has been sent by Congress
o attend the cholera Congress in Europe.
Ten thousand troops are now garisoned at
Montreal, Canada.
Pennsylvania is trying hard to have Con
gress give back the $900,000 she spent in the
war.
Gen. Parsons of Ala., is at present at Wash
ington. *
The Republicans are circulating 50,000 of
Wilson’s speeches, as' electioneering docu
ments.
Speculators want Congress to guarantee tho
$50,000,000 loan of the Mexican Republic,
ft,Governor We.is and Gen.Canby at New
Orleans, have proclaimed tea days’ quaran
tine uu all voaaela arriving from the West
Indies, or adjacent coasts.
—
STATE ITEMS
The body of Mr John Nostiand, drowned
some weeks ago near Savannah, has been re
covered.
A n«w daily paper, the Commercial Bulletin,
will commence publication in Atlanta, on the
20th.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad Js now
doiDg tbe heaviest freight business ever trans
acted since its construction.
The Georgia Baptist Convention, for the year
1866, will meet at Macon on Friday before the
fourth Lord’s day in April next.
The freedmen are doing and behaving well
at Thomastoa, Ga.,'since the removal of the
garrison.
A daring and extensive burglary was com
mitted in Atlanta on the night of the 9th.—
Hogg & Co.’s store was robbed.
An interesting revival is iu progress at tiie
Methodist church in Hawkinsville.
The Albany provision and produce market
raage from twenty five to seventy-five per cent
higher than those of Atlanta, Savannah and
Charleston.
The remains of Col P H Colquitt and Capt
Alex H Cooper, who were killed at Chicka
nrtuga, and of Lieut C C Bize, who fell near
Marietta, have been recovered and carried to
Columbus.
Major Barrick, of Atlanta, has been cho9en
by the Mercer University Societies to deliver a
poem before them at their Annual Commenca
ment in July next.
Two negroes were found dead in Atlanta on
the 10th
Judge Bigham has resigned, or will soon
resign, the Judgeship of the Coweta Circuit.
The Athens Watchman reports that the wheat
crop in that locality now gives promise of do
ing well.
Mr John Yarborough, long a resident of
Athens, died recently of small pcx.
The remains of Major J E Rylander, late
commander of the 10th Georgia Battalion, who
was killed in Virgin a, were interred at Ameri
cus on tha 6th inst, with Masonic honors.
A soldier in Savannah stabbed a negro team
ster in the left side, on Monday, the 12th.
Hemy Tow, who was disc barged, by tbe Coro
ner’s jury for shooting R AClune, at Savan
nah, recently’! has been re-arrestedj.
ihe Daily Intelligent, at Atlanta, has
commenced the publication of an_evenipg edi
tion.
FPHBIUtI ITEMS.
Out of 53,835 children born In Paris during
1864, 38,967 were legitimate, and 11,868 Meg*
timute. '
It is reported that the British Government
has inotructed its Minister to Chili to prevent
the bombardment of Valparaiso, by the Span
iards.
Michael a porter, was found dead in
his bed recently, in Liverpool, after drinking
twenty pints of ale.
Anew and somewhat expensive faebon has
lately been Introduced by the Empress of Aus
tria. Her Majesty attaches a diamond to re
present a dewdrop, to a natural flower, which
is worn in the hair or borne in the hand as a
bouquet.
Daring about nine months of the past year,
the export of gold from Australia was 1,648,
693 ounces.
Thirteen thousand new cases of cattle
disease, made their appearance in England in
one we-k.
The English Parliament is getting sxcited
over the Cuba slave trade.
Austria has commenced recruiting troops for
Mexico.
The English Parliament has voted the Prin
cess Helena a dowry of £30,000.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
Friday, March wr
The time of the Senate was chiefly occupied
in the discussion of the constitutional amend
ment relating to representation. Mr. Fessen
den made a long speech in its support, and
was loliowed by Mr. Sumner in a short reply
opposing it. A vote was then taken on Mr,
H nderson's resolutions, submitted en Thurs
day,'and these were rejected. Mr. Sumner’s
substitute waskhen also rejected. The vote
was then taken directly on the -amendment,
and that vote resulted in yeas 25 and nays
22. The amendment having thus failed to
receive a msjority of two-thirds,
The further consideration ot the subject was
postponed until next week.
The House devoted the larger'part of the
day to a consideration of the substitute to the
reciprocity treaty. Considerable feeling, was
manifested respecting tie fishing and coal in
ternets. Without coming to a direct vote on
the measure, the House adjourned.
Ibnnwlf k
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AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY ;.MORM.\«. MARCH 21.
« TUB CAREER OK THAU. STSVEXS.
No fitter spirit could have been found to
lead the Revolutionary Radicals in Congress
than Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania. This
old man still maintains in his declining years
ali spirit of despotic, domineering rule>
the ugly asperity of temper, unsoftened
all the disregard of right and justice, all the
unscrupulous, remorseless will, aud all the
crazy ferocity, into'eraace, and hate which
marked hi3 disgraceful record iu Pennsylvania,
thirty years ago. He is a man who would have
figured in the French Revolution among the
Dantons and Marats, and Robespierres of that
bloody era; and he would have been the worst
of the lot. He seems to be the very embodU
ment_of the savage bigotry and violent ullraism
of the Radicals. He would appear to have
b arao dsn j; ' . "a. t* •
holds a. their . i-uer, inai his reckless
spur iy chiving extreme measure*
regardless consequences, may the more,
surely jdisrapi his ; ariy and destroy then
ower f f u iber mischief. His despotic nat m
is*, own iu his constant, remorseless applica
tion ot the “gag rule.” This rule ot the “pre
vious question” is a perversion and
a wise parliamentary provision which
was intended to regulate, not stifle, discus
sion ; but Stevens uses it as a gag to stifle all
discussion of his arbitrary measures. Ho v he
drives the Republicans in Congress like a flock
of sheep ! and how'monstrous are the meas
ures he has thus already driven through 1 Tho
President did well to denounce him byname.
During the troublesome times in Pennsylva
nia about thirty years ago, this man figured
prominently in the ranks of those opposed to
law andlorder, and the principles of good gov
ernment. Forney at that time was opposed
to them. Here is a pen and ink sketches he at
that time wrote of “Stevens the Disorganiser:’’
Thaddeus Stevens, and we are glad to say it,
is not a Pennsylvanian. His own history
proves that he came hither a stranger to her
people, and has continued, at all times, con
sistently adverse to her interest. He has been,
since his unfortunate presence in the Legisla
ture, Pennsylvania’s evil genius, and if she has
degenerated at all—and the three past years of
her life prove that she has—he planned the
misfortune. We will not repeat here his utter
destitution of reputation —for his career is one
of that kind which could only have been run
by a villain at heart. Pennsylvania has three
blemishes on her escutcheon : the Masonic In
quisition ; the chartering of the United States
Bank ; and tbe present outrageous condition of
affairs. The first, it is not requisite to say,
he originated and completed. The second
was the fitting offspring of his brain; for he
read that infamous bill before the Ritner
House of Representative. Tho last (the Buck
shot war) is his own by every law of right.
He began the anarchy—it is the sad conse
quences of his own plans. He dissolved the
Government. He is now urging the Senato to
go on in its path of destruction. He is empha
tically “the power behind tho throne.” Tbe
last is a desperate and final plunge. It will
either make or unmake him, If it is success
ful he can cover up the festering infamy of his
life, and save himself and his companions from
impending ruin. If it is unsuccesstut ne win
be spumed, not only from the Halls of Legis
lature, but from the very State—if the laws
permit his escape.
Subsequent events prove that this sketch
of Stevens is a correct one. He is indeed an
evil genius. Destruction of any thing honest
and upright appears to be his grand aim, bis
controlling desire. Corrupt beyond all de
scription himself, he sees no good in others.
Not satisfied with the blood which has been
shed the pastfoqr years, he would have anarchy
now sweep over .this fair j land leaving
nothing but desolation and ruin in its track.
Every true patriot should assist the Presi
dent, both by acts as well as words, in thwart
ing and turning to naught tha foul plots and
disorganizing scheme of Stevens and his sup
porters.
This Admission or Tennessee. —The proposi
tion from the Committee on Reconstruction
for the admission of the State ot Tennessee
into the Union, is one of tbe most remarkable,
under the circumstances, that was ever con
cocted. It declares that State “to be in a con
dition to exercise the functions of a State
within the Union,” and then imposes condi
tions on its admission which in terms and
substance, in letter and in spirit, declare
precisely the contrary—for if a State be
declared to be “in a condition to exercise
the fudetions of a State within the Union,” in
the name ot all that is just and consistent why
is it not recognized at once by the power so
declaring it, as in the Union f Was a greater
absurdity ever perpetrated by a legislative
body than making such a declaration and fol*
lowing it up immediately by saying that cer
tain conditions implying utter unfitness “to
exercise the functions of a State within the
Union” must necessarily be complied with
before it will be permitted to exercise those
functions f In other words, Tennessee, after
being graciously informed by this famous com
mittee that she possesses all the qualifications
requisite to constitute a State in the Union, is
notified that she does not possess them, for the
conditions to whioh she is remanded cannot be
sanely construed to mean otherwise than that
she is seriously deficient in the needed qualifi
cations for her admission.. Not only this, but
6he is positively and flatly refused admission
until she shall have conformed to the condi
tions, whicli could not be done for months.,
even should Bbe assent to them.
The Radical Majority in Congress appea
to be r;solved that, as ; far as possible, there
shall be absolutely nobody in Congress to op
pose their measures, no matter how utterly
hostile their measures may be to the best in
terest of the country. This is why they per
sist in barring out the Representatives .from
the Southern States. What an example is this
setting for future majorities.
A rump Congress now declares eleven States
unfit to be represented in Cong.es3. These
States happen to be Southern States. By and
by a majority in Congress may—and as things
are going will be likely to—declare some other
—a Northern— State or two equally u nfit. This
latest style of maintaining party ascendency,
by disfranchising whole communities or by
Congress everybody represent
ing a nftjority, is an invention of the Radical
managers, witfr Stevens, ' Sumner, et cetera, in
the van.
This doctrine of majorities denying the
rights of minorities is a two edged sword, and
wi'l cat two ways. Those who are now wield
ing it, may have its edge tried npon their own
taction at some future day.
In Mexico. —The following ex-Confederates
are ltfew in Orizaba, Mexico ; General Walter
H Stephens, Colonel Andrews, of Stonewal
Jackson's Artillery, Colonel T S Rhett; Colo
nel Oladowski, Major El Beanmont, Captain
H C Cook, Captain J A Ware,
What Dois it Mean.— Wilson, of Mass.,
closed his tpeech in opposition to the President,
a few days since, ns follows: •
“Two years ago, in a trying hour of the
country, we placed a great soldier at.the head
of all our armies, and ha led the armies to vic
tory, and tbe country to peace. Perhaps a
patriotic and liberty-loving people, if disap
pointed in their aspirations and their hopes,
may again turn to that great captain aud sum
mon him to marshal them to vietpry.”
We hardly know how to interpret a threat
like this. Is it meant that Gen. Grant shall
do to the President what Cromwell did to the
British Parliament ? If there is to be any more
fighting, perhaps Gen. Grant will agree with
the majority of the Bober minded people of the
United States, that it is a faction in Congress
which needs overhauling; instead of the Presi
dent. This is the fourth month o f the session
of Congress, and patriotic men, men of law
and order, men of reason and justice, men of
business, men who wish (or peace, prosperity
and fraternal relations, desire to see this war
closed in deed as well as in name. Let it be
done in the only way it can be done, by a
epreseutation ->f *s' tus Stf.’.es tm:l People in
rp.-. Congress of the United States.
The Pardon. rks <:• he Attorney
Itnerafs Offise an up a most ample
report of the pardoar issued to pet&oor who
wfflSfnog g.-.i iu South in tb - • •
mg eaou one Dy name. At is not generally
known that women in the South owning prop
erty also require pardon, There have been
far more of these pardoned than would be sup
posed. The present report comprehends only
those included iu the 13th exception, or S2O,
000 clause. There will probably bo from 12,
000 to 15,000 of these, and about an equal
number under the other exception of the am
nesty proclamation, making in all about 25,000
or 30,000 pardons granted by the President.
Virginia, Alabama, Georgia and ..North Caro
lina, lead tho other States in point of numbers.
Only a few officers of high rank have been par'
don«d, and hardly any Southerners wbo were
educated at West Point and went from the
United States service into the Confederate
army.
The Issues of the Day.— The leading issues
of the day npon which the American people
are now called upon to decide can b 8 summed
up in a few words.
1. Restoration or no restoration.
2. Union or.disunion.
3. Taxation and representation, or taxa
tion without representation.
These are the principal questions between
the President and Congress—between conser
vatives and Radicals—between real peace and
a promulgated war—between prosperity in
ftrade and stagnation in business—between
civil liberty and public order, and legislative
oppression and contusion.
The present Congress and the Northern State
Legislatures were not elected with any idea
that a war was going on to keep eleven States
and eight millions of people practically out of
the Union, nor do we believe that a majority
of the people North and West, upon any fair
issue wiil consent to such a misuse of power.
The war started with the idea that Statea and
peupio oiiuuid not go out of the Union and
was fought for four years on this platform.
Now, when it is all over, we are told that they
are out of the Union.
Post Office Affairs. —The lettings of mail
contracts in the States of Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana—nearly
one thousand routes iu all—have just closed in
the Po3toffiee Department. On about one third
of the whole number there were no bids at all.
of those for which proposals were
offered, tho compensation asked was so Car
above mail pay rates that the routes could not
be disposed of, and in all such cases the lowest
responsible bidders have been written (g, and
such offers made as the department can afford
to pay. Tho remaining routes have been ac
cepted—securing the best possible and most
frequent service which could be obtained. The
mail service let durihg the last autumn in Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina, Florida,
Texas, &c , went into operation on the Ist of
January. Mail facilities have been also re
stored in the Southwestern States to a very
considerable extent. The service now let to
contract will be commenced on the first of July
next.
Municipal Row in Lexington, Kentucky.—
It seems the old Mayor and'City Clerk of Lex*
ington, Kentucky—members of the Radical
party—refuse to give up their seats, books,
&c., to the newly elected incumbents, who
gare Conservatives. The nw-elected Mayor
D. W. Standeford, had been sworn by Judge
Carr, and’he administered the oath to the new
councilmen. The refusal to give up their seats
by the Radicals is based on the defect ia the
charter amendment authorizing the recent elec -
tion. Ihe Conservatives are confident of
getting a decision that will give them their
seats. *
Secretary Seward’s Opinion — No Ridels.—
Secretary Seward is reported to have spoken to
a Pennsylvania Congressman with great se
verity as to the exclusion of Southern members,
and to have said with a great deal of warmth,
that the policy of the administration was his ;
that Mr. Lincoln had adopted it, and that it
was being carried out when h 9 died ; Mr.
John Son was merely continuing it, and the
whole country would sustain it; as for rebels,
there ia not now a rebel in the republic, and
tbe word should Dot be used. It is gratifying
to see such men as Mr. Seward taking each
a firm stand in favor of justice and right.
More Joint Committee Evidence.— The“ Ob
struction Committee” have again reported a
vast amount ot evidence relating to Texas,
Louisiana and Florida. All this ex parte testi
mony is meant for Buncombe, and to operate
npon the Spring Elections. How to keep
elevenJStates, and their citizens unrepresented,
seems to be the great work of the majority in
Congress.
This keepiri! back of one class of testimony
and putting out another, is very characteristic
of*the Committee of Fifteen; but who will no£
say that it is a piece of underhanded play
from end.
Where the Pcblic Money Gob3 to. —Con-
gress has just voted to print 26,000 copies of
Senator Criswell’s oration on Henry . Winter
Davis, who was not a member of the [present
Congress. Daily, the country witnesses just
such inexcusable appropriations of the public
monev, while the extreme Protectionists are
clamoring for more duties, and resisting the
repeal of the fishing bounties
The radicals appear to be determined to
rein the country financially, as well as politi
cally and socially.
Position o» Gen. ScjTT —lt is stated that
Gen. Scott heartily sapports the President and
his policy. The old veteran is on the right
track tliis time—sure.
Thk PatrotipM of jTUE President and the
Radicals.— There cou’-d not be a more painful
evidence of the declension of the spirit of
pure patriotism among the Radical politicians,
than the hue and cry which has been raised
over tha President’s veto, and his late
tpeeches to his fellow countrymen. Whit is
the pith and substance of his offiusc ? Why,
that he stands by the Constitution as it is,
wishes to restore the Union as it was, and pre
fers the interests of country to that of party.
Scrutinize his position as closely as you gwill,
these are tbe oniy just accusations that can be
brought against him.
Aud yet for this he is denounced as a’“cop
perhead," a “traitor,” the “leader of rebels,”
and it is'indccently charged that he was in
toxicated. » Are these the ravings of a man
under the influence of artificial excitement—
“Then, in conclusion, let me ask this vast
concourse, this sea ot upturned faces, to go
with me in standing round the Constitution of
our country. It is again unfolded, and the
people are invited to read, to uuderstaad, and
to maintain its provisions. Let us stand by
tbe Constitution of our fathers though tbe
Deav-i.vf ib r ais*.'vef may fait. Let us stand
hv it.-' Though faction race, thorn,
taunts and jeers may some, though vifupera—
come in its most violent character, I
i , -i>e found landing by tbe Constitution as
foesAtther T;i.... rook or ouv saietj, m the ,a!
uKio of our c'vit and religious liberty. Yes,
Uraftscling to ft n« the ir.-wmer e-ings to tne
around him.”
Are they not, rather, the sentiments of an
earnest and devoted patriot appealing, in all
sobgr earnestness, to the bettei sense of his
countrymen ? Is there any treason in this ;
“Let them (the Southerners) repent, and let
them acknowledge their allegiance ; let them
become loyal and willing supporters and de
fenders of our glorious ‘stripes and stars,’ and
the Constitution of our country.
Or in this :
“ He would say to them that while they
were hero engaged in their object, be hoped
there was another subject in wuich they were
equally interested. The thorough restoration
of the government of ail the States, and tho
complete recoaciliaiton of the country ought
to be the precursor to all movements—3hould
be the first object.”
Or is it to be found in this *
“ Lst rfe admit into the councils of tho na
tion thoso who are unquestionably loyal; tho3fl
who have acknowledged their a'legiance-to tho
Government and swear to support the Consti
tution.
Or in this—
“l believe the country will be restored to its
normal condition of prosperity and harmony.
I entered the contest expressing the same
views I do now; and I stand now, as I did then,
by the Union wd the Constitution—net hav
ing swerved a hail’s breadth. It is said that if
a President elected by a party abandons that
party he is Tylerized. Much abuse has been
shown me, and taunts been uttered. These
things have no effect on me. My only work is
the restoration of the country, and the thorough
reconciliation and harmoDy of its people. We
are steadily accomplishing the work.”
These, and such like sentiments as these
have been the burthen of Andrew Johnson’s
utterances, from tho beginning of his adminis
tration of the high office he holds. Can any
true lover of his country find anything wrong
in them—anything not worthy of all accept
ance by the sincere patriot ? And yet ho is
denounced by radicals partizans, as scarcely
any public man was ever denounced befoie.
Well might he exclaim
“O, how different this from the example set
by the holy Founder of our religion, whose
Divine arm touches the horizon and embraces
the whole earth. Yes, he who founded this
great scheme came into tho world and found
our race condemnded under the law, and the
sentence was death. What was his example ?
Instead of putting tho world or a nation to
death, he went forth with grace and attested
by his blood and bis wounds that he would die
nd let the nation live.”
It would seem that pure patriotism and a
spirit of Christianity, are of tar less esteem
with ithß radical than the in'ereet of Party,
and a spirit of revenge. They have allowed
themselves to become so insane with malace»
aud hatred, and all uncharitableness, that'the
spectacle of a Patriot standing up and plead
ing for Constitution and Country in the spirit
of a Christian, is to them a marvel. They
are making their record, in the face of all the
people. *ln due tifhe they will have their re
ward.
• Thad. Stevens again Vowing Vengeance.—
The Judiciary Committee of the House have
before them a bill submitted by Thad. Stevens,
providing that no removal of a*y-officer of the
Government shall be made by the President
without the consent of the Senate, provided
that body in the first instance confirmed tbe
appointment. The object of sack a bill needs
no explanation. It is simply a low-lived way
of taking revenge on the President for the firm
stand he has taken in favor of the Constitu
tioni
Their Policy. — The polity adopted by the
Republican leaders show that they would roll
up and put away the great and glorious chart
of the Constitution, aud with false and
misleading lights, strand the noble ship of Btate
on the sunken locks of a party despotism.
Thats about the plain interpretation ot their
language, when stripped of its specious am
biguities.
Foreign Cattle and Hides. —Official notice
and instruction has been giveD the Collector of
U. 8. Customs, at Buffalo, N. Y., and to all
Collectors on the frontier, of the suspension by
the Secretary of the Treasury of the provis
ions of the cattle embargo. The importation
of eattle and hide* from Canada is now tmre
stricted, it being understood that the Provin
cial authority have adopted measures to pre
ent their introduction from Europe.
The Texas Convention. —Galveston advices
slate that the convention came to a vote, after
a long discussion, npon the motion to substitute
the minority report, declaring the ordinance of
secession null and void. The convention re
fused to adopt the minority report by a vote of
thirty-five to forty-four.
The Legislature is to be convened, by pro-,
clamation cf the Provisional Governor, on the
first Monday in Jane.
‘
The Test Oath. —lt has been announced by
leading members of the Reconstruction Com
mittee that the Supreme Court will soon de
liver an opinion declaring that the test oath is
unconstitutional. It is said that this an
nouncement caused great consternation in the
Radical ranks.
A New Counterfeit. —There is a counterfeit
five out on the First National Bank of Auburn,
N. Y. The color is much darker than the
genuine, and the engraving coarser, having
the appearance of being done on stone ioste*d
of steel plate. Tim head of Columbus on the
back of is larger than the genuine.
The “Ireeprissibue Conflict’’ between the
President and the Radical members of the Sen
ate has begun. The latter refuse to confirm
his appointments, unless the appointees are of
heir stripe. Rather of a small way of getting
revenge. It shows however, the calibre of
the men President Johnson has to deal with.
President JoHjfcoN’s Last Speech. —The
short but significant speech by President John
son to the delegation of Maryiandefc shows
conclusively that he his deliberately
marked out the line of policy he is to pursue,
and that he ia not to bes served from it by
any personal or party considerations, ne re
peats his warning to the country, that the
Radical faction are seeking to destroy the Re
publican character of our Government by
consolidation of power dangerous to the li
ties of the people. This censpiracy, the
dent telis us, is for “the destruction
Government, and it is a manifestation
same spirit which attempted to break .p
Government. 1 stand opposed to both
Had the President been compose! of more
pliable material, possessed less firmness of pur
pose, or been in any manner subject to the
external influences by which less courageous
men are swayed, the Radical Disnnionists
would have carried everything before them.
Every branch ot the Government would bav a
been subject to their misrude. A Central
-Direct- -y ' 'Ming c: -y : . - '.j ~ 'T ■ '
| fee of tbe Capitol, rfM M . -• laid aside
• the-d?Ps'o»:« ••••' *'•«' Supremo Court, ,
' vote of Congress et*V» tual for evciytbing, aid
1 red'-rf the restoration of the Union mi
‘ .i: 'huser. aas
measure saved us from these perils, imme
diate and contingent, and imposed a restraint
upon conduct that would have led to to a re
newal t>f civil conflict.
Tna Concurrent Resolutions passed a fe<
days since by the United States Senate, is
move of the Radicals whereby they vainl
hope can effect all they wished to dj
by the Freedman’s Bureau bill and other un
constitutional measures. They are determin
ed to render nugatory the policy ot the Presi
dent, if they possibly can. Sinking tbe states
man the partisan and fanatic in they rush
to insane and foo’isb legislation with a degree
o: unreflecting stupidity we never gave them
credit for. Their passions make them blind-
They are conscious that their race i3 run; aud
knowing that the ordinary chicanery of politi
cal intrigue cannot save them, they are led in
to desperate and foolish actions. They are
living embodiments of the truth of the old
Roman maxim, “whom the gods wish to de
stroy, they first make mad ” Their political
life is adjudged to dissolution, and they avo
simply politically mad.
This resolution, effecting as they suppo 'e all
that they desire, cau have no effect. It doos
not Change the organic law of the land. It
does not effect the Constitution. It cannot do
more than throw a temporary embarrassment
or delay in tho way of restoration. But by
these captious proceedings they ar e laying up
a heavy reckoning for themselves, whicli thtf
people will soon demand a settlement of.
Meantime, the good work of restoration is
progressing, and under the firm, unswerving,
patriotic, Constitutional policy of Andrew
Johnson, we shall soon behold a reconciled
and thoroughly united country.
The Wat ths Radicals Talk, —Dr. Cheever
of New York, In the prayer he delivered be
fore hie usual Sunday political harangue, be
sought God Almighty that, in case our rulor3
meaning the Piesident and his supporter—
“should persist in their present career of
wickedness, and refuse to do* unto others as
they should "be done by, He (God) would take
them out of the way.”
Wende.l Phillips, who mide a speech in
Brooklyn recently to prove the President a rebel
and a traitor, in the same address spoke signi
ficant! j of Mr. Johnson as “an obstacle to be
removed.”
Thad Stevens, in open Congress, declared
that, if Iho “man at the other end of the
avenue” had hfs deserts, he would lose his
head like Charles the E^irst.
It is with inflammatory language of this
Btamp, and worse, that the Northern radicals
are endeavoring to keep up feelings of hostili
ty against the South. We are strong advooates
of free speech and free press— tyit we do think
that a little stppresdon, both of speech and
press at the other end of the line, would re
sult in much good to the country ; and be a
grand stride towards quieting down matters
generally.
The Battle begun in Earnest.— The mem
bers of Congress opposed to the President have
commenced the battle against him in earnest.
Already have they raised the sum of fifty thou
sand dollars to start “the ball of radicalism in
motion.” A score of select speakers have been
hired to thoroughly canvass the North, and
arouse if possible the people to hold meetings
postility to the President and his supporters •
Already has the battle begun between con
servatism and radicalism in earnest. Tha
friends of the President should rally enthu
slastcially in his support. For the attacks'of
his enemies will be bitter and vindictive in
the extreme.
DisgracefuS —Recently the citizsns of Ha
gerstown, Md., irrespective of party, held a
meeting and fully endorsed President Johnson.
During the meeting, a number of 'radicals,
h Jaded by a member of the Maryland Legisla
ture, named Thos. E. Mittag, endeavored to
take possession of the meeting stand, but were
finally driven off by the citizens. This is the way
the Jacobins endeavor to carry their ends, by
brnte force. The attack was a preconcerted
affair on the part of the Radicals. The manner
in which this disunion party, both in and out
of .Congress are endeavoring to carry out their
ultra schemes, is trnly disgrace^.
Thad Stevens’ Position. —The following
language was uttered, some time ago, by the
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens:—‘‘This Union never
shall, with my consent be restored under the
Constitution as it is.’’
The Union will undoubtedly be restored by
the people without Mr. Steven’s cons -nt. The
great disorganizer, if permitted by Providence
to remain many months here below, will live
to see all his schemes C'ushed and their
originator and supporters. Thrust uncere
moniously aside by an outraged nation.
A Misfortune. —By reason of Che death of
Judge Collamer, of Vermont, a Senator from
that State, the Governor appointed a Judge
Poland in his stead. Ho exhibits bis unfit
ness to fill the place of his able and judicious
predecessor by having offered the following
proposesed amendments to the Constitution :
"“Artiole—No person who has been, or shall
be, willingly engaged in rebellion against the
United States shall exercise the elective fran
chise, or hold any office under the authority *
of the United States.
“Article—Congress shall have power to
pass all laws necessary to enforce the forego
ing article.
It is said that Congress is hostile to any re
duction of the present greenback currency.
W D HoWells, Esq., late U S., Consul at
Venice, ha3 become Editor of the Atlantic
Monthly, Beaton.