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WEDNESDAY MOItMXG, SEFTKiIRER 1!1.
Yankee Precept vn Yankee Practice.
J lie extreme men of the North have for
year- been waging a relentless war against
tlie South and Southern people because
the latter would not agree to acknowledge
the African race as their espial, either
socially, physically or politically. They
l>"pt up this constant warfare upon us u itil
th'ough the agency of a mighty struggle of
arms, the South was’ overpowered and
.-Every abolished. Their efforts in favor
of the hlack race were limited according to
tlu ir oft repeated and most solmen decla
rations to the accomplishment of that ob
ject.
W e knew from the beginning of this sla
very agitation that the movement was one
purely for jxilitical power, and that the abo-
I'teumri fifftli tun -tt JitUx 4m
fire or frm neero, and not at an, only* so
long as he affords them the means of ac
quiring and retaining power.
Now, that slavery is forever abolished in
these Southern States, and nothing more
can bo gained from agitation upon that
mi »jeet, these pure-minded philanthropists
of the North, have discovered that eman
cipation, carrying with it all the rights of
person and property, which are enjoyed by
the white race, is but an empty name, a
snare and a delusion, unless accompanied
with those high political rights which have
heretofore, in all soctiofis of the United
States, been limited to the whites. They
also demand that the emancipated blacks
the ignorant, ignoble iml debauched
slaves of yesterday, shall at once he admit
ted to all the privileges of social equality
with those who lately held towards them
the relationship of master and owner.
They have been engaged for the last five
years in endeavoring to prove that the Afri
can race in many part iculars was superior to ;
tin! Caucasian. Since the war their press
has teemed with articles intended to show \
that the capacity of the blacks for improve
ment, and refinement was greatly in ad- j
vance of their white neighbors. They 1
have demanded as a condition prcce- j
dent to the restoration of the Union that [
the blacks should he endowed with the !
rights of citizenship and the high privilege
of the elective franchise.
These pretensions have been denied, and
refused by the people of the Southern
States. We have given the blacks all those
great rights of person and property which
our forefathers wrung from the hands of
King John, but we have determined by
the grace of (lod never to acknowledge
either their social or political equality.
Our motives and our actions upon these
questions have been misrepresented and
traduced. These. Northern negro worship
pers have endeavored to persuade the ne
groes that we were their implacable ene
mies, and opposed to their enjoyment of
any of the rights which thcircmancipation
has conferred upon them. They claim
that //try alone arc the friends of the poor 1
despised African. That they alone are
willing to accord to him social and political
equality. That only they treat the negro
who justice, rey^get^.ud,
Tho best Cbnimcntnry we’ran save upon” i
their hollow pretensions of exclusive re- 1
gard and kindness for tho negro, is fur- i
nished by the following extract from the I
St. Catharine’s (Canada) Jounial :
At tho Buffalo, Wow York, races last
week Mr. Betts, of Welland, named his
horse** Young St. Lawrence,” for the St,ooo
purse,in f> to harness. Tho driver of this
horse is a mulatto, named, we think, Wil
liams, a very respectable, well behaved and
elvil poison, amt ail excellent driver. No
sensible person would think, fora mo
ment, of objecting to this mail'* driving,
bqtour Yankee shrlakers for freedom act
ed differently, for no sooner had St. I.aw
ionce appeared on tho course than Mr.
Betts was Informed that lie must either
withdraw iiis horse or change Ids driver.
The latter lie refused to do, and receiving
his entrance money back, the horse was
taken off the course.
It may bo that the fact of Williams be- j
ing a mulatto caused him tube ruled out
as a driver. If he had been a pure, rich
blooded negro, he doubtless would have ,
been received :ts the equal and peer of the
Buffalo Jockey Club. Unfortunately per
haps for Williams, the blood in bis veins
had been tinged by a mixture with the
inferior trhitc liter, and he was consequent
ly rejected ns an unfit companion for the
Now York bloods.
The Contrast Bet ween the two Phila
delphia Conventions.
The great and striking points of dif
ference between the conservative and radi
cal parties of this country are admirably
exhibited, says the New York Ucnihl,
in the contrast between the Union Conven
tion. which met at Philadelphia in August,
and the Nigger Worshippers' Convention,
which is now in session in the same city.
The one was dignified and statesman.ike,
the other is violent and vulgar. The one
welcomed the return of peace, 4he other
insists upon the renewal of war. 'I he one
declared emphatically for the Union, the
other advocates a policy that must load to
disunion, l’he one tavorod the restora
tion of our white citizens to their constitu
tional rights, the other is committed to
the extermination theories of Parson
B row Ido w and Ben Butler's cry for blood.
The one was attended by some of our
bravest soldiers and wisest statesmen, the
other is composed of insane and rovoln- j
tionary radicals. The one was an honor ,
to the country, the other is absurd and
disgraceful.
At the Union Convention all tbo States
and Territories wore represented by dele
gations chosen by the people and express
ing the sentiments of the people. The
delegates to the Nigger Worshipper s Con
vention are without constituencies: they
represent nobody but themselves : the ma
jority of them never saw the States from
which they profess to come, and Philadel
phia loafers, picked up in the streets or the
barrooms, pretend to speak for the loyal
men of the South. The Union Conven
tion assembled for a certain purpose, trans
acted its business in an orderly and parlia- .
mentary manner and adjourned harmon
iously. The Nigger Worshippers' Conven
tion has already wasted more time in
wrangling, abusing th? conservatives and
slandering the President than the other i
Convention required for all its sessions. I
The Union Convention had well defined
and constitutional principles, which it in
corporated into a brief, emphatic and in
vincible platfoi m. The Nigger Worship
pers Convention seems determined to re
pudiate the only principle—that ofuniver
a.il negro suffrage—to which it can be said
to have any claim, useless bloodshed, riot
ing. miscegenatioi, debauchery and an
archy may be called principles, and they
are certainly enunciated as such in the
speeches of the radical delegates.
Compare the characters of the gallant
l)ix and Senator Dcolittle, the temporary
and permanent chairmen of the Union
Convention, with those ofTom Durant and
Mr. Speed, who fill the same offices in the
Nigger M orshippers Convention, and
they will bo found apt exponents of the
two assemblages. Compare the characters
of the delegates to the two Conventions,
the resolutions presented, the speeches
delivered, the conduct and deportment of
all concerned, aud it will be found that
while the one was a body ouly equalled in
* ability by that which framed the constitu
tion, the other is a vicious collection of the
most violent extremists of both North aud
South. To impeach and remove the
President and to incite negro insurrections
in the South are the objects of these radi
cals. openly avowed in such speeches as that
of Senator Chandler. They exclude negroes
from the Convention and want to keep the
negro-suffrage issue hidden for a time in
: order to delude the voters at the approach
i ing elections, and are thus willing to break
, all their promises to the blacks so as to se
cure a little longer lease of political power.
But under this concealment lurk dark and
dangerous schemes which are only no"*'
, and then revealed by the most reckies., of
; the ranters.
.No More Cotton.
It is a favorite theory of a few of our
people that the true policy of the South
consists in stopping the culture of cotton,
ft i.s maintained that this policy will so
| effect the pockets of the manufacturing
classes, who exert a controling influence at
the North, that they will cease their in
tolleranee toward us, and inaugurate, in
! stead of civil rights bills, odious tax bills
and universal suffrage—a policy of justice
and conciliation.
It i.s certainly very unwise to pursue a
policy of self-impoverishment for the
questionable purpose of injuring those
who -cckjo degrade and debase u.j. It iij ,
TTtbe nose to spite the
face, which has always been regarded as
folly.
The war for several years deprived the j
North of her usual supply of Southern j
cotton, hut the history of that period j
shows no abatement of the war spirit, and j
none of the pocket-philanthropy for which
the calculating people of the East have !
had credit. The truth is, lanaticism does
not stop to reason. It sweeps on in a re
sistless tide of passion, until the obstacles
which impede its progress are removed, or
until it finds some new object on which its
fury is broken. If the growth of cot- j
ton were prohibited in each of the States
now seeking reconstruction, the production j
would lie increased in the border States, !
where it i.s found it can he grown success
fully. Anew impetus would be given to its
growth in South America, and the impe
rial staple of the South wouid lose all in
fluence in the commercial as well as po- j
litical world.
To u.s the cry of 11 Raimi no more Cotton"
appears utterly without the support of ar
gument or excuse. A\ c are deeply in
debt; the cry of widows and orphans
comes up to us on every hand for relief;
our schools and colleges languish for sup
port; the weather-boards on our very
houses rattle in every breeze for want of re
pairs, and public and private means are
wanting to relieve these necessities. What
agency so available for relief as the golden
fleece of our cotton fields ? While it is
true that our facilities for its production
are much impaired, and are likely to dim
inish year by year, it is also fortunate that
tho enhanced value of the staple in the
markets of the world promises to render
the profit of its culture undiminished, and
to yield a revenue sufficient to restore us
speedily to a condition of comfort and
prosperity.
If, instead of stopping the culture of
cotton, we invite capitalists to come to our
borders and engage in its manufacture, we
strike an effective blow at the intollerant
spirit of those sectional agitators who load
u.s with onerous and unjust burdens and j
disabilities. We thereby not only increase
the demand for the staple, but we secure
for it tho convenience of a home market,
and the diffusion of the profits of its nianu- [
tjmLu-c as j»4Uu..growth.among .cum-ueo-.
pie. r '
The Georgia Delegates.
The term delegate implies a constitu
ency. In its application to those who as
sume to represent Georgia in the Philadel
phia “loyal” Convention, it is an utter
misnomer. J. L. Dunning, J. W. Ash
burne, 11. G. Cole and N. S. Morse are
the leading delegates from Georgia.
Who will say that they represent anybody
in the State? Who appointed them?!
Who respects them, either as men or as
loyal politicians. Ashburn is a Northern
man —a soldier of fortune, whose business
career has been utter failue, and who is a
mere cypher. Dunning is the only man
of the four possessing any of the qualities
that make a man —lie was years ago an
industrious resident of Atlanta, but being!
a Northern man, left Atlanta and went
North during the war. Bryant is a
very proper representative of the few
misguided colored people who have,
sustained him, and on more than one oc
casion kept him out of jail, by becoming
his sureties. If there is a man, white or
black, loyal or disloyal, in the State, who
would select Morse as a representative,
we don’t know it. He lias been false to
all parties and all colors- has out-Heroded
Herod as an advocate of secession—urged
the raising of the hlack flag against the
Dutch thieves —as he called them —of
Uoseoranz’s army —and disgusted all sen
sible men by his abuse of the North.
Cole is nobody in particular. He made
money before the war in various ways,
and built the Marietta Hotel. He was
charged with offering to give the Federals
any information, on their approach to
Marietta, if they would promise to save
his property. They saved it —but the ele
ments punished his perfidy, in its destruc
tion by fire soon after the Federal troops
left. He loves money, and is soured at his
losses— bis loyalty hath about this ex
tent —no more. Such are the men
who hail from Georgia in this assemblage
of negroes and mean white men. We pro
test against calling them representatives.
They were never asked to go. and. there
isn’t a white man in the. State but will
rejoice if they never come back.
Remember Philadelphia anti Cincinnati
We trust, after the insult offered the
President by the authorities of Philadel
phia and Cincinnati, in refusing to tender
him the hospitality of [those cities, that all
Southern merchants who have respect for
the Constitutional rights of the South,
will resent the insult by giving their trade
to cities controlled by more generous and
just influences. We can conceive of noth
ing more vulgar and contemptible than re
fusing to tender the President the civilities
due to the Chief Magistrate of the nation,
and those who dared thus to outrage good
breeding and reputable usage, must have
felt that they would be sustained by the
popular opinion of their constituents.
Their hostility to the President results
from the just and magnanimous spirit he
has manifested toward the South. Tt is
incumbent on us, as we cherish a becoming
self respect to give those cities a wide
berth in our mercantile# relations with the
North. There are merchants in New
York, Baltimore. St. Louis and Louis
ville, who respect us, and who have not iOsi
their manners.
Sweden boro ian. —In Maine and New
Hampshire are five societies, two Ministers
and 262 members. In Massachusetts, six
teen societies, eighteen ministers and 1.05 '
members. In New York, six societies, w ith
three ministers, and 250 members. In
Pennsylvania, ten societies, two ministers,
and 500 members. In Ohio, ten societies,
six ministers, and 700 members. In Ma
ryland and the District of Columbia, s:x
societies, three ministers, and about -I'" 1
members. In Illinois, nine societies, seven
ministers, and 504 members, lhe congre
gation at the corner of Fourth and John
streets, Cincinnati, is said to he the largest
in the whole denomination.
A Place for Him. —We observe among
the secretaries of the mongrel convention
at Philadelphia the name of C. G. Bayler,
well-known in Georgia for various sharp
political aud financial practices. lie is
reaching his proper level at last
Good at Figures.
The Editor of the Constitutionalist copies
the following extract from this paper, and
makes it a text for an argument to show
that the Philadelphia Convention did not
represent the people of Georgia.
“At the Union Cgivention all the States
and Territories were represented liy dele
gates chosen by the people, and expressing
the sentiments of the people.”
The Editor enumerates the seven districts
of the State, giving what purports to be j
the exact number of delegates present at
1 each, and objects to the language above j
quoted as a little more rhetorical than
strict adherance to facts will allow,
i Ii happens that the language quoted,
wa- the language of a leading New York ;
paper- whose comparison of the two Con- j
volitions suited our*views so well that we
adopted it as our own, giving that journal :
the proper ere dit, which our neighbor ap
pears to In.ve overlooked.
It may suit the Constitutionalist to con
trovert *he assertion of our friends at the
North that the Philadelphia Convention j
represented the people of these Southern
States, and it will be gratifying doubtless I
to the pseudo friends of popular Represen- j
tation th< re to read his tabular array of
the exact number of delegates assembled
in our nominating district Conventions.
But we arc at a loos Us see what good
be accomplished to the cause of truth, of
popular representation, or ofconstitutional
liberty, by such captious commentaries.
Will the Constitutionalist show wherein
there lias been one single popular demon
stration at the South in opposition to the
Philadelphia Convention, unless it be by
the nest of pestilent “loyalists” so-called,
who are as repugnant to him as to us.
Will the Constitutionalist assert that
the delegates to the Philadelphia Conven
tion were recreant to any duty devolving
upon them as representatives of the
South.
Will that paper show wliat better mode
could have been adopted of promoting
reconciliation between the two sections,
and what more judicious action could have
been taken than that set forth in the pro
ceedings of the Convention, for carrying
forward the great object of defeating the
Radicals and securing success to the
policy of the President.
It is easy to find fault. It i.s not easy to
account for that spirit of fault-finding
which levels its shafts at friends and foes
alike.
Gen. Grant anti the Radicals.
The Radicals-have come to the conclu
sion, says the New York Times, that Gen.
Grant is not the man for their purpose,
and they arc writing of him accordingly.
His appearance with the President on the
presentation of National Union delegates
shocked the Radical sensibilities greatly,
and his journeying with the President is
the occasion for letting loose their pent-up
anger. The Washington correspondent of
a Radical cotemporary says of the General:
“The Copperheads have got him, and the
Republicans have been badly sold.” “A
reputation has been foolishly built up,”
declares tho same scribbler; from which
wc infer that the great soldier of the
Union i.s to be derided by the Radicals as
a soldier, because they find that he is not
available for their work as a partisan. Some
of the Radical prints which had hoisted the
name of Grant for the Presidency have
dropped it, usually without remark; in
other instances avowedly because his rela
tions with Andrew Johnson arc too friend
ly to he tolerated. We imagine that
Gen. Grant will survive the catastrophe,
and *qay even biggs ljia. qtarfr fra, the deliyer
ance from BamcaTemDrares. ‘ The sole iler
who conquered the enemies of the Union
in the field, and set an example of magna
nimity in his treatment of the vanquished,
can hardly feel aggrieved by the abuse of
the stay at home Disunionists. The fight
ing rebel he might respect; the faction
that would accomplish the end of the re
bellion, while claiming tobo monopolists of
loyalty, he cannot but despise.
Life of General \. B. Forrest.
The'Atlanta Intelligencer is requested to
state that a gentleman of distinguished
literary ability is now engaged in writing a
history of General Forrest’s cavalry com
mand. The general desires that those
who contributed to his promotion, should
share whatever of fame or .distinction may
be accorded to him. Any officer or private,
who was in his command, and who can re
call any anecdotes, incidents, or items of
any kind, of interest to the historian, will
please carefully prepare such manuscript
and forward to Captain G. W. Adair, at
Atlanta, who will give it the proper direc
tion. There were two Georgia regiments
at the capture of Murfreesboro, whose
members could contribute items of great
interest.
The Georgia press, we are also requested
to state, by copying or relerring to the
foregoing notice, will confer a favor on the
gentleman who proposes to write the his
tory of “Forrest and his Command”—a
history, when written, that will soon be in
the hands of every family and school boy
in the South.
Comfortable Hiding. —lt was the
privilege of one of the Editors of this pa
per recently to experience the comforts
pertaining to the lower railroad route be
tween Augusta and Wilmington. The
sleeping cars are the nc jilus ultra of rail
road comfort, affording to a traveller
all the comforts of a private room. These
cars run between Atlanta and Wilmington
—with baggage checked through—thus
avoiding all care and all the trouble in
cident to a change of cars. The track on
on this route has been put in good order,
and the conductors are agreeable aud at
tentive. This is especially true of the
Wilmington and Manchester road, where
we were indebted to Mr. Fisher for cour
tesies which were highly appreciated. He
is not only a model conductor, but has the
manners and style of a thorough-going
business man, and an affable, prepossessing
gentleman.
Our friend Isaac Levy, of the firm of
Levy & Jacobs, is the local agent for this
line, of whom any information desired may
be obtained.
National Banks and their Cibcu
lation. —The First National Bank at Fort
Dodge. lowa, was recently authorized to i
commence business under the national
banking act with a capital of $50,000.
This bank is allowed circulation, it having
filled its bonds some time since, and before
Comptroller Clarke ceased to establish new
banks.
C ireulating notes to the amount of sl,-
264,025, were issued to certain natioual
banks, who, by a provision in their charter, i
were allowed to increase their circulation.
The total circulation of the national banks J
now amount to $291,170, ' 15.
The securities held by Treasurer Spinner
on account of national banks, on Saturday
last, were as follows:
As security for circulation $331,910,700
As security for public deposits 38,565,000
Total $370.475,700
Fire in Nashville. —A fire occurred
in Nashville on the 6th. destroying the
grocery house of Onr Brothers, with a loss
of $40.000: the store of Ewing & Cos.,
loss $38,000, and damaging others to the
amount of several thousand dollars. Total
loss about SIOO,OOO. oil which there was
about $50,000 insurance. The fire origi
nated in the second story of Orr Brothers.
The secret distribution of arms to Radi
cals by Gov. Fletcher is still going on.
They are sent to counties on the border,*
and'it is believed at St. Louis that he is
arming his partisans for the November
election, as they can hope to carry it in no
other way thau by force.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1!), 1.866.
The President of the Radical Conven
tion.
It is refreshing to glanee at tie antece
dents of some of the new disciples of loy
alty, who appear to regard rebels with so
much honor, and who are seeking to fix
disabilities upon them. James Speed late
Attorney General, who was made Presi
dent of the late mongrel Convention in
Philadelphia, is on the record as a stern
opponent of the call for troops to “put
down the rebellion.” He di(f not, like his
brother Stokes, of Tennessee, volunteer as
a soldier to resist Lincoln's usurpation, but
signed an address to the people of Ken
tucky, in 1861, from which the following is
I extracted :
“What the future duty of Kentucky may
i l>e, we of course, cannot with certainty
1 foresee, hut if theenterpri.se announced in
the proclamation of the President should
; at any time hereafter assume the aspect
! of a war for the overrunning and subjuga
tion of the seceding States, through the lull
assertion therein of the National jurisdic
tion, by astanding military force, we do
not hesitate to sav that Kentucky should
promptly unsheathe her sword in behalf
of what will then have become a common
cause.”
Yet we see this man making “common
cause,” with negroes and adventurers of
every grade, to humiliate, and oppress the
people in whose behalf be avowed himself
ready to unsheathe the sword.
(Tattle in' Texas.— Therd are now
from 00,000 to 100,000 head of Texas
cattle pastured along the eastern and
northwestern limits of the Slate, and des-
tined for the markets of the cis-Mississippi.
They are detained where they arc by the
statutes of neighboring States, which for
bid their being driven through them be
fore the loth of November; the reason
being a disease ealled the Texas cattle
fever, which prevails in the summer
months, and is contagious. Estimated at
only §lO per head, there is here a value
of $1,000,000 in cattle already underway
for the East. A late number of a paper
published at Corpus Christi, Texas, says
that there is a single stock-raiser, on the
Neuces river, whose brands now cover
more than 30,000 head of cattle. They
are sold there at about $5 per head. He
could therefore sell off $150,000 worth of
stock at this low rate, and still have
enough milch cows left to supply the
usual family demand.
The Georgia Delegates to the Phil
adelphia Convention—Who are They?
—The Cherokee Georgian answers this
question so far as eighteen of the twenty
nine in the published list are concerned.
The following fourteen are residents of
Whitfield county:
'f. Nation, F. M. Nailon,
0. F. Nailon, Fred. Bender,
JolinT. Compton, D. A. Dycus,
G. B. Dycus, S. B. Dycus,
G. W. Orr, Jesse Trotter,
N. P. Hardin, Chas. Know.
L. P. Gudger,
All of these are said to be “unknown to
fame,” and unobtrusive, except Harbin.
The editor doubts whether half of them
have read a newspaper since the close of
the war, and the presumption is that these
simple men are being used by designing
persons without their full knowledge of
what they are about,
The four following are from
county, and of the same class of persons : j
Turner Floyd, Isaac McLane,
G. W. McLane, A. S. Vining.
An Eye to Business. —A correspondent
of the New York Ilerald states that Amini
dab Sleek never let slip an opportunity to 1
solicit subscriptions for red flannel shirts !
and toothbrushes for the poor heathen,
and Mrs. Jelluby was equally benevolent
fO-ifr.. ttfrftjMNfckt 9 irtAle -jdAvAjM®. -oi‘ R -
boolaheglia, Emulous of these illustrious
examples, the philosophical and philan
thropic Greeley, with an eye to business,
has opened a parlor at the Continental,
and solicits subscriptions to the benighted
Tribune— “payment always in advance.”
The agent is advertised to be ready “to
receive subscriptions in Philadelphia dur
ing the session of the Southern Loyalists’
Convention.” On the wall of the room is
(or ought to be) a banner bearing this mot
to :
Fleecy locks and black complexions
Cannot forfeit nature’s claim,
Skins may differ, but subscriptions
Received from blacks and whites the
same.
Fenian Congress.— The second annual
Congress of the Roberts and Sweeny wing
of the Fenian Brotherhood convened at
Troy on the 3d. There were fully one hun
dred and fifty delegates present, represnt
ing nearly all the States in the Union.
Generals Sweeny, Spear, O’Neill, and
other military notabilities of the Brother
hood were also present. General Murphy
was elected temporary speaker, and on the
appointment of a committee on credentials
the Congress adjourned to await their re
port. The delegates appear disposed to
frown down any attempt to introduce poli
ties in the convention, all discussion of the
action of Congress and the Administration
in the observance of neutrality laws being
debarred.
I’at Men.— Our corpulent readers will
not object if we say a few words in their
favor. A contemporary says that no fat
i man was ever convicted of murder. Stout
people are not revengeful, nor, as a gen
eral rule, are they agitated by violent gusts
of passion. The fellow who works with
skeleton keys is gunei ally a lean and wiry
individual,- as he can only force himself
through holes scarcely large enough to ad
mit a cat. Imagine him alarmed and run
j niug away, with a policeman after him.
! Corpulency is not the sign of villainy, but
rather of good nature and good will to all
men.
Nice Sentiments. —The infamous
wretch, Bro widow, capped the climax of
his shame in Philadelphia, where he de
clared that he would rather be elected to
office by loyal negroes than disloyal whites
—rather associate with negroes in private
life than with white rebels rather be
buried in a negro than a rebel graveyard
and if he went to hell or heaven after
death, he wanted to go with negroes rather
than rebels. And we are told that he was
the lion of the city—the city which refused
a municipal reception to the President.
Killed by Lightning. —We learn
from the Sumter Republican that the
Rev. John F. Berry, a minister ol the M.
E. Church, and a member ot the Georgia
Conference, was killed by lightning at his
residence, in Ellaville, on Wednesday last.
Mr. B. was in charge of the Ellaville Cir
cuit, aud had just finished a discourse to
bis congregation and returned home.
Scarcely had he taken his seat when he
received the stroke ot lightning, which
killed him instantly. Ilis wife, who was
in another part of the house at the time,
received a shock which prostrated her.
Serious Railroad Accident. —An Ex
press train was thrown from the track on
the New York Central Railroad on the sth.
killing six persons and wounding forty
eight. The accident was caused by a
switch being left open. The locomotive
plunsrcd into the sand and turned over.
The three next cars ran together like a
telescope,- and were left lying in a heap.
By the partial burning of the Water
town arsenal some eighty brass field pieces
were destroyed. They were worth about
a thousand dollars each. Probably most
of the metal can be cast over again.
Ohio Nominations. —George 11. Pen
dleton and Theodore Cook have been nom
inated for Congress by the Democrats and
Johnson men in their respective districts
in Ohio.
Pacific Railroad. —Gen. Pope on the
4th. entered the initial stone of the main
Pacific Railroad, Southern branch,*; at
Junction City, Kansas, J
, in): pimsiDßsrs mu.
j *>ri!liaiil Reception at i*t. Louis—H e
.Makes a Brilliant Speech and Explains
the New Orleans Affair.
A telegram from St. Louis, dated Sun
day last. September 9, says :
A complimentary banquet was given
last night at the Southern Hotel to Presi
dent Johnson and his Cabinet. General
Grant, Admiral Farragut, and the Diplo
matic Corps.
Soon after being set down at the “South
ern.” a large crowd collected' on Walnut
-rreet and called lustily for the President
He answered their summons by appearing
on the portico, and delivered the following
address :
Fellow Citizens of St. Lows : In be
ing introduced to you to-night it is not for
the purpose of making a speech. It is ,
true I aiu proud to meet so many fellow
citizens here on this occasion, and under
the favorable circumstances that I do so.
| Cry, “How about our British subjects.”]
We will attend to John Bull after a while,
so far as that is conferred. [Laughter
and loud cheers.] I have just stated that
I am not here for the purpose o.f' making
a speech, hut after being introduced, sine
ply, to tender you my cordial thanks for
the welcome you have given me in your
midst. [A voice, “Ten thousand wel- !
| comes”—hurrahs and cheers.] —Thank
l you, • sirs, I wish it was in my power to
address you unler favorable circum
stances on some of the agi
this time—questions which have
j grown out of the fiery ordeal that
we have passed through, and which! think
as important as this we have just passed
by; though the time has come when it
I seems to me they all ought to be prepared
for peace, the rebellion being suppressed
and the shedding of blood being stopped,
the sacrifice of life being suspended and
stayed. It seems that the time has ar
rived when we should have peace ; when
the bleeding arteries should be tied up.
[A voice “New Orleans.”] Go on. Per
haps if you had a word or two on the sub
ject of New Orleans you might understand
more about it than you do ; [laughter and
cheers,] and if you will go baj-k a id ascer
tain the cause of the riot ir, New Orleans,
perhaps you would not be so prompt in
calling out “New Orleans.” If you will
take up tho riot at New Orleans and trace
it back to its source, or to its immediate
cause, you will findyut who was responsi
ble for the blood that was shed there. . If
you will take up the riot at New Orleans
and trace it back to the Radical Congress
| great cheering and cries of ‘ ‘Bully, ” J you
will find that the riot at New Orleans was
substantially planned. If you will take
up the proceedings in their canvass you
will understand that they knew [cheers]
that a convention was to be called
which was extinct by its power having ex
pired. That it is said that the intention
was that anew government was to he
organized, and on the organization of that
government the intention was to enfranchise
one portion of the population called the
colored population, who has just been
emancipated, and, at the same time disfran
chise white men. [Great cheering. ] When
you design to talk about New Orleans [con
fusion) you ought to understand what you
are talking about. When you read the
speeches that were made, or take the facts
on Friday and Saturday before that Con
vention sat, you will them find the speeches
were made incendiary in their character, and
inciting that portion of the population—
the black population —to arm themselves
and prepare for the shedding of blood. [A
voice—that’s so, and cheers.] You will
also find that that Convention did assem
ble in violation of law, and the intention of
that Convention was to supersede the re
cognized authorities in the State govern
ment of Louisiana, which had been recog
nized by the government of the United
States and every man engaged in that re
bellion —in that Convention, with the in
tention of superceding and upturning the
civil government which had been recog
nized by the government of the United
States —I say that lie was a traitor to the
Constitution of the United States, [cheers,]
and hence you find that another rebellion
has commenced, having its origin in the
Radical Congress. These men were to go
there. A government was to he organized,
ysJSkin. Uoni-iana
to he suspended—set asicFe and overthrown.
You say you talk to me about New Or
leons, and there the question was to come
up when they had established their gov
ernment, a question of political powers ;
which of tho two governments was to be
recognized? Anew government inaugu
rated under the defunct Convention set up
in violation of law, and without the will of
the people. Then when they had estab
lished their governments and extended
universal or impartial franchise as they
called it to this colored population, then
the Radical Congress was to determine that
a government established on negro votes
was to be the government of Louisiana.
[Voices, “never,” and cheers and “hur
rahs for Andy.”]
So much for the New Orleans riot, and
there was the cause and origin of tho blood
that was shed, and every drop of blood
that was shed is upon their skirts, and
they are responsible for it. [Cheers. ] I
could test this thing a little closer but will
not do it here to-night. But when you
talk about New Orleans, arid talk about
the cause and consequences that resulted
from a proceeding of that kind, perhaps, as
I have provoked questions of this kind,
though it does not provoke me, I will tell
you some wholesome things that have been
done by this Radical Congress [cheese] in
connection with New Orleans, and the ex
tension of the elective franchise. I know
that I have, been traduced and abused; I
know that it has come in advance of ine
here. You have, as elsewhere, been told
that I have attempted the exercise of ar
bitrary power in resisting laws that were
intended to he forced upon the Govern
ment. [Cheers, and cries of “hear.”]
That I had exercised the veto power
[•'Bully for you;”] that I had abandoned
the party that elected me, and that I was
a traitor [cheersj because I exercised the
veto power in attempting to arrest, and it
did arrest for a time, a bill that was called
a “Freedmen’s Bureau bill.” [Cheers.]
Yes, that I was a traitor; and I have been
traduced; I have been slandered. I have j
been maligned. I have been called a Judas j
Iscariot, and all that, I know, my coun
trymen, here to-night, that it is very
easy to indulge in epithets. It is i
easy to call a man “Judas” and!
cry out "traitor. But when he is called
upon to give arguments and facts lie is
very often found wanting. Judas ! There
was a Judas and he was one of the twelve
Apostles. Oh, yes, the twelve Apostles
had a Christ. [A voice—“a Moses, too.”
Great laughter. J The twelve Apostles had !
a Christ, and he never could have had a
Judas unless he had had twelve Apostles.
If I have played the Judas who has been !
my Christ that I have played the Judas
with V V\ as it Thad. Stevens ? Was it
Wendell Phillips ? YV as it Charles Sum
ner ? [Hisses and cheers.] Are these i
men that stop and compare themselves 1
with the Saviour, and everybody that dis- j
fers with them in opinion, and try to stay
and arrest their diabolical and nefarious
policy to be denounced as a Judas! [“llur- !
rah for Andy,” and cheers.] In the days I
when there were twelve Apostles, and
when there was a Christ, while there were !
Judases, were they unbelievers?—
Yes, while there were Judases ;
there were unbelievers. i Voices—
“three groans for Fletcher, Yes ! oh.
yes I unbelievers in Christ, men who per
secuted and slandered and brought him be
fore Pilate, and preferred charges and con
demned and put him to death on the cross
to satisfy the unbelievers; and this is the
same persecuting, diabolical and nefarious
clan to-day who would persecute and shed
the blood of innocent men to carry out
their purposes. [Cheers.]
But let me tell you —let me give you a
few words here to night. It is but a short
time since I heard someone say in the
crowd that we had a Moses. [Laughter. I
And I know sometimes it ha-, been said
that I would be the Moses of the colored
man. [“Never, and cheer.'.] Why, I
have labored as much in the cause of
emancipation as any other mortal man
living. But, while I have striven to
emancipate the colored man, I have felt
and now feel that we have a great many
white men that want emancipation.—
[Laughter, and cheers.] There is a set
amongst you that have got shackles on
their limbs, and are as much under the
heel and control of their masters as the
colored man that was emancipated.—
■ [Cheers.]
I call upon you here to-night as free
men. as men. to favor the emancipation of
the white man. as well as the colored ones.
I have been in favor of emancipation. I
have nothing to disguise about that. I
have tried to do so much, and have done
as much ; and when they Moses
and the colored man being led into the
promised land, where is the land that this
clan proposes to lead them to J. heers. |
When we talk about taking them out
from among the white population and
sending them to other c-liiues, wliut is
it that they propose ? Whv it is to give
us a “Freedmans Bureau. And after
living us a Freedman s Bureau, what
then? Why, here, in the South, itis not
necessary for me to talk to you, where I
have lived and you have lived, and under
stand the whole system and how it oper
ates. We know how the slaves have been
worked heretofore. There is the original
owner who bought the land and raised the
negroes, or purchased them, as the case
might be—paid all the expenses of carry
ing on tho larm, and after producing to
bacco, cotton, hemp and flax, and all the
various products of the South, bringing
them into the market without any profit on j
them, while those owners put it all into J
their pockets. This was their condition !
before emancipation. This was their eon
diiion before we talked about their j
“Moses.” [Laughter.]
The President continued to discuss the I
Freedmen’s Bureau Bill and said: There
were respectable gentlemen who conteud
that the President is wrong because he ve
toed the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill; and all
this because he chose to exercise the veto
power, he committed a high offence, and
he ought to be impeached. [Voices, — j
“never. '] Yes, ves, they are trying to !
impeach him. [Voices —“let them try :
it.’] If they were satisfied they had the |
next Congress by a decided majority, as I
this—upon some pretext or another— j
violating the Constitution ; neglect of do
ing or omitting to enforce some act or law,
upon some pretext or other they would va
cate the Lxecutive Department of the
United States. |A voice—too bad they
don't impeach him.] But as we talk
about this Congress, let me call the soldiers
attention to their immaculate Congress.
Let me call your attention to—oh ye.-, this
Cl filth MM f ItaTTCrTltvt Tnafcff *W?tf l tilts'
Executive because he stands upon the
Constitution and vindicates- the rights of
the people, exercising the veto powei»in
their behalf. Because he dared to do
this, they can clamor and talk about im
peachment, and by way of stimulating this
increasing confidence with the soldiers
throughout the country they talk about
impeachment. So far as offences are con
cerned, upon this subject of offences let me
ask you, [voices, “plenty here to-night,”]
to go back into my history of legislation, !
I an d even you of this State, let me ask if
| there ir a man here to-night who in the
dark days of know nothingism', stood and
| battled more for their rights than I.
[Voices, good, and cheers.]
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Further Proceedings ofihe Radical Pmv
'Yoiv—Report of the Committee on the
Address.
Philadelphia, Sept. 6. —The Southern
delegates met at National Hall at 10:30 a.
m. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Bedell.
m. i 'reswell, of Maryland, presented
the report of the committee on the address.
The representatives of eight millions of
American citizens appeal for protection
and justice to their friends and brothers in
the States that have been spared the cruel
ties of the rebellion and the direct horrors
of a civil war. Here, on the spot where
freedom was pi offered and pledged by the
fathers of the republic, we implore your
help agaipst a reorganized oppression,
whose sole object is to remit the control of
our destinies to the contrivers of the rebel
lion, after they have been vanquished in
honorable battle; thus, at once, to punish
us for our devotion to our country and to
the interests of themselves—not in official
positions, hut in the fortifications of the
government. Others have related the
thrilling story of our wrongs, from reading
and observation; but we come before you
as the unchallenged witnesses, and'speak
from personal knowledge and sad expe
rience. If you fail us we are more utterly
betrayed and deserted than if the contest
had been decided against us ; for, in that
case, even victorious slavery would have
found profit in the speedy pardon of those
who had been among its bravest foes.
Unexpected perfidy in the highest place.
of the government accidentally followed
by one who adds cruelty to ingrati
tude, and who forgives the guilty
as he prosecutes the innocent, has stimu
lated the almost extinguished revenge
beaten conspirators, and raw rebels, who
offered to yield everything to save their
lives, are now seeking to consign us to a
bloody grave. Where we expected a
benefactor wc find a persecutor. Having
lost our champion, we return to you who
can invoke Presidents and punish traitors.
Our last hope under God is the amity and
firmness of the States that elected Ahra
■r* '* : ■ 1 .if.ffiwsott : Di%*i**l
The nest statement"of ottr cause' is die
appalling yet unconscious confession of
Andrew Johnson, who, in savage hatred
of his own record, proclaims Ins purpose
to clothe four millions of traitors with
power to impoverish and degrade eight
millions cf loyal men. Our wrongs bear
alike on all races, and our tyrant, uncheck
ed by you, will award the same fate to
white and black. We can remain as we i
are, only as inferiors and victims. We !
may fly from pur homes, but we should
fear to trust our fate with those who, after
denouncing and defeating treason, refused
to right those who have bravely assisted
them in good work. Till we are wholly
rescued there is neither price for you nor
property for us. We can’t better define
at once our wrongs and our wants than by
declaring that, since Andrew Johnson
affiliated with his early slanderers, and our
constitutional enemies, his hand has been
laid heavily upon every earnest loyalist in
the South.
History, the just judgment of the pre
sent and the certain confirmation o*‘ the
future, invite and command us to de
clare that after rejecting his own remedies
for restoring the Union, ho has resorted to
tho weapons of traitors to bruise and beat
down patriots. That after declaring that
tho reconstruction that he practiced, upon
the maxim that tnone but traitors shall
rule ; that while in the North he has re
moved conscientious men from office and |
filled many of the vacancies with the sym
pathizers of treason in the South, he has ;
removed the poor patriot and selected
the convicted traitor to fill his place ; that
after brave men who have fought for the j
old flag have been nominated for positions, |
their names have been recalled, and
avowed rebels substituted; that every
original Unionist in the South, who stood
fast to Andrew Johnson’s Governmentfrom |
1861 to 1866 has been ostracised ; that he
has coith, ted the loyal court by offering
premiums for defiance of the laws of Con
gress, by openly discouraging the ob
servance of oaths amidst treason ; that
while refusing to punish the single con
spirator, though thousands had earned the
penalty of death, more than a thousand
Union citizens have been murdered in
cold blood since the surrender of Lee, and :
in no case have their assassins bcenbrought
to judgement. That lie lias pardoned some
of the worst of llebel criminals North and
South, including some who have taken
human life under circumstances of un paral
lelled atrocity ; that while denouncing and
fettering the operations of the Freedmeu’s
Bureau, lie, with full knowledge of false
hood. has charged that the blacks are lazy
and rebellious, and lias concealed the fact
that more whites than blacks have been
protected and led by that noble organiza
tion ; that while declaring that it was cor
ruptly managed and an expense to the
Government, he has connived at a system
of profligation in the use of the public
patronage and public money, wholly with
out parallel save when the traitors haiiK
rupted the treasury, and sought to dis
j organize and scatter the army and navy
! to make it more easy to capture the Gov
; eminent; that while declaring against the
injustice of leaving eleven States unrepre
sented lie lias refused his assent to the
liberal plan proposed by Congress, simply
because it recognizes the supremacy of a
' loyal majority, and refuses to perpetuate
, a traitor minority; that in every State
South of Mason and Dixon’s line his
policy lias wrought the most deplorable
aonsequenees. it has erected a formidable
j barrier to free and friendly intercourse
between the North and South ; it has pre
vented emigration to the South ; it has al
lowed the rebel soldier to persecute the
teacher of the freedmen, and to burn the
freedmen s churches in which they wor
shipped the living God ; that a system so
barbarous as this has proved to be should
finally culminate in the frightful riot of
Memphis, and still more appalling massa
cre of New Orleans, was as natural as
| that a bloody war should flow from the
teachings of John C. Calhoun and Jefferson
Davis. Andrew Johnson is responsible for
all these unspeakable cruelties, and as he
; provoked, so he justifies and applauds
them, sending his agents and emissaries
into the refined and patriotic metropolis to
insist upon making 'his reckless policy a
test upon a Christian people. He forgot
: that the protection extended to the four
teenth annual Convention in Philadelphia
was not only denied to the free people ot
New Orleans on the 3d of July, when they
assembled to discuss how best to protect
themselves, but denied amidst the slaugh
ter of hundreds of innocent men. N o page
in the records of his recent outrages on
human justice and constitutional law is
more revolting than that which convicts
him of refusing to arrest the perpetrators
ot that savage carnival, and not only or re
fusing to punish its author, but of toiling
to throw the guilty responsibility upon un
| offeuding and innocent freedmen. The
infatuated tyrant that stood ready to crush
his own people, iu turn, when they, strug
gling to maintain a government, erected
by himself, against his and other traitor’s
persecutions, was even more eager to illus
trate his savage policy by clothing with
most despotic power the rioters of New
Orleans, notwithstanding the heartless de
sertion and cruel persecution of Andrew
j Johnson.
! Maryland and Delaware, imbued with
Democratic and Republican prineples
which the fathers of the republic designed
for all America, are now making determin
ed battle with the enemies of free consti
tutional government, and by the blessing
oi God these States will soon range them'
selves iu the line with the former free
States, and illustrate the wisdom and
benilieenee of the great character of Ameri
can liberty by their increasing population,
wealth and prosperity, in remaining. Ten
States, the seeds of obligarehy planted iu
the Constitution, by its slave feature has 1
! grown to he a monstrous power, whose
i recognition thus wrung from the reluctant
framers of that instrument, enabled these
States to enlarge themsevles behind the
perverted doctrine of States rights.
Danger of Another Civil War.
The Petersburg Express forcibly ob
serves that there is everything in the
character and proceedings of the dominant
party in Congress to justify the suspicion
—yea. to inspire in every reflecting mind
the belief—that they are not only disposed
hut determined to resort to the most ex
treme measures, if necessary, to accom
plish their vile purposes. Cowards as the
leaders are, they can yet, with their infa
mous harangues, influence the credulous
and confiding multitudes of their. followers
mmmmm nt&tis
will take good care to keep their own car
casses out of harm’s reach. If they cannot
draw the sword themselves, they can sound
the trumpet at a safe distance, and so
incite thousands of zealots, phrenzied with
fanaticism and infuriated with hellish
hate to deeds the contemplation of which
makes humanity shudder. Men, or rather
monsters in the shape of men, like Ste
vens, Sumner, Kelly, Chandler, For
ney, Butler, and sco os of other rad
ical chiefs that might be named, talk of war
as if they had the nerves of Achilles, and
the spirit of Julius Caesar—as if they
would be the first to panoply themselves
and rush to the ensanguined field. But
let war come and they will be found hiding
themselves in the deepest caverns of earth
to escape the perils of the conflict, Put
these dastardly brutes, unfortunately,
possess influence enough with their tongues
and pens (the only weapons they know the
use of) to plunge the land into the horrors
of anarchy and intestine strife, and it is
evident from recent and daily developments
that they intend to exert this influence to
the utmost. Who that thoughtfully con
siders the scenes which marked the late
session of Congress—the enormous and un
scrupulous assumption of power by the rul
ing majority—their reckless violations
of the constitution —their fierce and
malignant assaults upon the Presi
dent for an honest and patriotic dis
charge of his duties —their bold decla
rations of their treasonable purposes— !
their contemptuous disregard of all the |
pleadings _ and arguments for a peaceful |
re-admission of the Southern common
wealths to their places in the Union, after
their military overthrow—who that
thoughtfully considers these things, and in
connection with them, the present still at
titude of hostility in which these conspira
tors against the republic stand towards its
Executive head and his millions of sup
porters, can doubt for a moment that an
other struggle, more bitter and bloody than
that which has just been ciossd, is impend
ing ? It is just as well—it is a great deal
better—for the conservative press to speak
out openly at once, and tell the people
that anew war is imminent—a war, the
guilt of which will be altogether upon the
heads of the radical infuriates who have
dared to take issue with the President
upon his policy_ of restoring the nation
al unity, dignity and prosperity.
What is the use of mincing phrases
in so portentous a crisis? Why
cry “peace, peace, where there is no
peace?” Look at what has been said and !
done in Philadelphia in the last few days, j
in that assembly of political vipers called ]
tho “Loyalists Convention”—look at what j
transpired at Cleveland when the President ■
passed through that city on his way to j
Chicago, —look at the spirit of devilish an-
imosity against that brave and noble do-
MW-tw will- -Ci • V
played by the usurping and revolutionary
party who from their “ebon throne” in the
national capitol, have as good as proclaimed
themselves to be the supreme power of'the
land! Look at the appliances which are
being constantly brought by them to bear
upon the approaching elections. Lnok at
the turbulent and fraudulent manner in
which they are attempting to put down
popular rights and crush out resistance to
their execrable schemes for subverting our
institutions and shackling a free people
with chains more* galling and degrading
than were ever forged by oriental despot!
Is it not time to awaken the whole country
to a sense of the peril which hangs over it ?
We arc no prophet, but we cannot read the
“signs of the times,” as they now stare us
in the face in every direction, without tak
ing the warning from them with which
they are pregnant. They denote, to say
the least, an alarming precarious state of
public affairs ; so much so, indeed, as to
warrant the inference that we are on the
verge of new troubles the end of which the
eye of the Almighty can alone see. The
elections soon to come off' in the Northern
States will subject the government of ours
and the people living under it to an ordeal
infinitely more trying than any they have
yet had to pass through.
The last New York Express has the fol
lowing paragraph on this subject, which in
a few words fully sustains our views:
“Bead the inflammatory and incendiary
speeches made by certain Radical Congress
men and Governors, in Philadelphia last
evening—and say if tho point of them all
is uot the inevitability of another war.
This war is to be begun by an attempt to
remove the President by impeachment—
an attempt that will assuredly be made, if
the autumn elections indicate no abate
ment of radical strength in the North and
West.”
To the People of Georgia.
Macon, Sept. 7th, 1860. j
Having been appointed by the National |
Conservative Union Convention which as
sembled in Philadelphia, on the 14th of ■
August, one of the National Executive
Committee, 1 respectfully call your atten
tion to the following resolution, passed at
a special meeting of the Resident Execu
tive Committee, at Washington, Aug. 26,
186(5: ;
Resolved, That the friends of Peace,
Union, Liberty and Law be earnestly re
quested, at the earliest day practicable,
to call mass meetings in every county of
the thirty-six States, and nine territories of
the American Union, for the purpose of
endorsing and ratifying the action of the
National Conservative Union Conven
tion***.”
I cannot urge too forcibly upon my fellow
citiz. ns the propriety of complying with
the request of the committee. It was
urged m an especial manner, upon the
Southern members of the Executive Com
mittee, to tall these meetings, for the pur
pose of showing both friends and foes at
the North, that the people of the South
! ratified the action of their representatives in
1 that Convention.
It is asserted by our Radical opponents
that the Southern delegates did not repre
| sent the great mass of their constituency ;
and that, as a people, we were yet rebel
‘ lious and disloyal. Hence this call by the
Committee £>r the people themselves to
speak in their county meetings. It is not
my purpose to defend here the action of
your delegates in the Convention. They
are willing for future results to applaud
|or condemn them. While they do not
I claim that everything that was said or
done in that Convention met with their
entire approval, they do assert that, taken
in its totality, its proceedings should com
mand the approval of every man who sin
; eerely desires the restoration of fraternal
: relations, harmony and union. Enough
was accomplished to satisfy us that we
have friends at the North, who arc man
fully fighting in their own States for our
interests and our rights. They simply
ask .of us to aid them in their
heroic struggle by giving them
our endorsement. They claim that it
will aid them in the elections now pending.
Shall we withhold it. and thus say by our
actions, we are indifferent and unconcern
ed? We are far from the field of the con
flict, yet we are, above all others, most
deeply interested in its results. Our social
equality, political liberty, our rights of
person and property, all that we hold dear
as a people, depend upon the success of
the great struggle, in which our friends
are now earnestly and mant'ul.y engaged.
They ask our aid and co-operation in this
dark hour of our country's history. Let
me invoke our fellow citizens to come to
the rescue. Indifference is unpardonable
—inaction is dangerous. Uphold the
hands of our friends, and the friends of
constitutional liberty and State equality,
i and the good work begun at Philadelphia
may yet result in the triumph of constitu
tional law and the restoration of the South
to her former position in the government
of our fathers.
Respectfully,
Thos. Hardeman, Jr.,
One of the Executive Committee,
j Papers friendly will please copy.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV. NO. 30
The Rads at Philadelphia.
i One cannot read the detailed reports of
; the Radical disunion convention, lately in
■ session at Philadelphia, without mingled
i “-'clings of amazement, horror, shame,
| sriof an< i amusement. Are these fellows
crazy, or are they more knaves than fools ?
is the instinctive query of every one.
From the proceedings of Thursday the .
following gems are reset:
A blasphemous scene.
The Convention met at half past ten,
and the Lev. Dr. Newman, of New Or
lean?, yesterday elected Chaplain, opened
ttie proceedings with prayer. After in
voking the Dmue co-operation for the re
moval of all prejudices growing out of
race or color, the reverend gentleman
! „ v little on the subject of reconstruc
hi'* : Sav „ e vve pray, from
paitisau influences. Save us, we pray,
from outside pressure.” This was a geu
c <Y lnt t 0 ?id valence to call off the dogs
°, Conservatism who are trying to bark
the. Radical Southerners out of their con- 1
j vtctions. ihen Mr. Newman ealled the
i Lord s attention to the President in this
. Mise ; _ Hear u.s, we beseech thee, for
! our nation at large. Deliver us from the
rule of bad men—[Cries of Amen] —aud
j especially from him who, through satanie
agencies, has been raised to authority over
j u " [yells of Amen] —and who, abusing
i that authority is endeavoring not only to
! take the liie of the .republic, but our uer-
HKiani liberty. [Shouts’ of
Great God, interfere. [Aniens till it
seemed as if the roof would fill. | Oh.
make bare thine arm, and save us from
his ruinous policy [amens, and cries of
"'Yes, Lord ’], from the had counsels of
the bad men who surround him. [A dele
gate, in an audible voice,” “Yes, Lord,.
Seward and Weed, and all them hounds. ”J
]W e beseech Thee to discover to the
American people the base hypocrisy of that
party that sustains him. | “Amen,” loud
er than ever, including one from Ben. j
Wade, who was on the platform.] I
Oh, send a spirit from Thy throne to j
arouse the American people in this tre- j
mendous hour.* [ Aniens from all parts of
the hall.] So arouse the clergy, the men
who are thy representatives, who are to
declare the eternal principles of religion
and political justice, that they, in turn,
may arouse their flocks to the danger
which threatens them. Save them, oh
Lord, from the ravenous wolves that would
devour them. So pour out Thy spirit that
the women and children in the land shall
he aroused to a sense of duty, to a sense of
sympathy, in this grand struggle. | Amen, j
Now, hear us, and answer us. Preserve j
Thy servants before thee; have in Thv !
kind care and keeping their beloved fami- !
lies, far away, and grant that in all delibe- i
rations we may be guided to right conclu- !
sions, and to such conclusions as shall ;
overthrow tho policy of our enemies; such j
conclusions as shall advance religion and I
civilization ; such conclusions as shall re- j
dound to Thy glory. And to the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, we will ascribe ever
lasting praise, vorld without end. Amen.”
Having said this, Dr. Newman took his
scab and a disposition to applaud was
manifest throughout the audience.
FLAT-FOOTED FOR NEORO SUFFRAGE.
_ W. Moss, of Missouri, offered a resolu
tion declaring, flat-footed, in favor of
negro suffrage, and said that he offered it
for the purpose of testing tho sense of the
convention. He made a lengthy and quite
eloquent speech in behalf of the doc
trine asserted in his resolution, and fre
quently drew rounds of applause from his
audience. While lie spoke, tho West Vir
ginia, Maryland and Kentucky delegations
sat biting tlieiv lips in anger, and betray
ing in the most unmistakable manner an
inward feeling that they had got more
than they bargained for, and that they
would like remarkably to be out of the
scrape.
DR. BRECKINRIDGE INCLINED TO SWEAR.
Doctor Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and
a few others of his way of thinking, arc in
a state of mental ferment over the subject.
The Doctor comes, as near as his religious
principles would allow him, to swearing
that if the convention indorses negro suf
frage, it may go to the devil, for him.
A MIRACLE—A WOMAN HOLDS HER
"Tifra ct'Va i
and Governor Brownlow, hut. neither of
these gentlemen appearing, the audience
demanded Miss Annie Dickinson, who had
been occupying a seat in familiar prox
imity to Ben. Wade on the platform all
day. Miss Anna acknowledged ihc com
pliment by appearing at the President’s
desk, whither she was escorted by Senator
Fowler, of Tennessee, who, at her request,
asked that she be excused from speaking,
on a promise to speak to-morrow. That
would not do, however. The audience was
irrepressible in its demands. Miss Anna
had. to come forward. She bowed, and the
audience hurrahed, then she said her heart
was full, and pressed- her hand to her
bosom to show how full it was. She neg
lected to say what it was so full of, but
simply stated that it was so full she could
not speak to-day. She had been so over
whelmed by the generosity and the earn
estness of the Southern men to-day, that ■
her lips were silent and her tongue refused
its office. Here audience cheered again,
probably from sheer astonishment that a j
woman’s tongue should refuse its office.
Her heart throbbed. Anna said, in answer ;
to what she had heard to-day, and now
that the men of the South had spoken for
the rights of the colored race, she would
speak for the rights of hers North and
South, hut not to-day. To-morrow slic
would say something, pfrliape ; and then
the gentle Anna tipped her head at the
audience and disappeared from the ros
trum, followed by loud cheers and cries lor
Ben. Butler, Ben. Wade and several oth
ers who were not present.
A TENNESSEE JIISCEGENATOR.
Maynard, a Tennessee Yankee in favor of
bald-faced miscegenation—declared that the
time would come when our children would
i intermarry with the blacks, &c. llisinfa
; mous utterances were received with ap
plause.
(From the Atlanta New Era.|
Facts for iter. Henry Ward Beecher.
1 In his letter to the Committee of the
; Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention, to be
: Held at Cleveland. Mr. Beecher uses the
1 following words: “Churches in the North
| crown every' hill, and schools swarm in i
i every neighborhood; while the South has
i but few scattered lights, at lung distances, i
like likcliouscs twinkling along the edge of
a continent of darkness.” I take excep
tion to this language, because it palpably
misrepresents the people of the South. The
! spirit of the letter I admire, and whilst I
wish Mr. Beecher the most abundant suc
| cess in yielding his immense influence for
1 the Constitution and the Union, I beg to
correct the above statement.
Presuming that Mr. Beecher does not
intend to do injustice to the people of the
South, and that he will accept the testimo
ny of the United States Census of 1850,
(the latest complete returns at hand,) 1
would call his attention to the following
facts:
In 1850 there were 21,387 churches m
the Northern States, and 16,658 in the
I Southern States. The proportion, 1 church
to 628 persons in the North, and 1 church
562 persons in the South. The accom
modations of these churches were 8.056,-
' 061 sittings for 13,434,922 persons North,
and 5,541,875 sittings for 9,664,656 per
ilous South. Thus, 64 persons out of 100
could attend service at the same Line in
the North, and 57 out of 100 in the South,
iucbtdi.nr/ whiles and, slaves alike. Thus
the Northern States had only 7 per cent,
i greater accommodations than the South
! cm. Surely this was not a sufficient differ
ence to justify a charge of heathenism up
: on the Southern people !
But if we exclude the slaves, as abolition
teachers asserted that we did, from our
1 churches, we have the followingresults :
Pojrala’n. N. State*. tt.mpa
Sitting in X. Ciw. -/*>.,u-.i sutiuus iu .**. U«.
Li in l'*J I Sj'.nlOJ
' Thus, 85 white persons in 109 coin 1 at
tend service in the South, and only 61 in
100 in the North —a difference of 21 per
cent, in favor of' the South
Now. if we include the whole white
population of the South, arid all the siav e.-,
over 15 years of age, the Southern churches
would accommodate 05 in 100 of-the popu
lation South, against 64 m 100, the uc
commodation of the churches .North .
Yet. in 1850, we were a barbarous and
heathern people!
To place this contrast in a stronger
. light, let us take six seaboard slave States
in 1850, and put them in opposition to six
New England States, and see what pro
visoes had been made for the Gospel
among the whites of both sections :
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
White Pop. No' Ch*. Accoxjj. Av per ct.
M»v e >1.813 ‘-M» 3>>,W >.
New Hampshire 31T.iv, 2 7:,
Massachusetts i:m 1-177 Ki 7.,
Rhode Ifela and 143,*75 231 H« r >l 71
; Connecticut
Vermont 313,402 237/HI 7.7
2.70-VWS 4 M2 1 ,'.>10,812 72
.SIX SOUTHERN STATES.
I .. . . White Pip No. Cus Acro:». Av per ct.
\irgltiia MiI,SKI 2,386 H'KLeOn ■«;,
North Cxolina 553/EK 1,787 5 77,1-3 pit
South Carolina 274,563 1,1-82 4tK),4»
Georgia 521,372 1/562 GdD.ViO 122
Florida 47,2«i3 177 44,4,0
Alabama 426,514 1,375 443,7<fe ,lw
i ,717,ft#) *B,7«> J 14
| By this table it appears that the white
people ot the .Southern States named had
built 8, 1 69 churches, whilst New England
hsd but 4,612, au excess of 4,157 in favor
lof these Southern States. The sittings in
I the Southern churches were, 3,025,669 ;in
New England, 1,910,842, an excess of
K 115,827 in favor of the Southern States.
The average accommodation in the South
ern States was 114 per cent, of the white
population, and only 72 per cent, in New
England, an excess of 42 per cent, in favor
ol the Southern States. The white popu
lation ol these six Southern States was
only a fraction over 12,000 greater than
that of New England.
If we subtract the slave population un
der ten years of age from the whole popu
lation, these 8,769 Southern churches
would accommodate 74 per ‘cent, of the
white and slave population both, whilst
New England furnishes 72 per cent, and
the Northern States generally hut 64 per
cent.
Returning to the first calculation, wo
have the following results :
Sixteen Northern States furnished
church accommodations for 64 persons fin
every 100 ol the population, ail being free.
Hus is progress, civilization, enlighten
ment, &c.. &c.
Fifteen Southern States furuishcdchureh
! accommodations for 57 persons in every
100 of the population, free and slave. This
is barbarism, ignorance, wickedness, ma
i hgnity, &c. _
G ic.it Britain furnished cliureh acconi
imliiiiiiliiiwiwiiiiiii 1
j bid, enlightened, Christian, &e.
Boston, Massachusetts, furnished church
accommodations for only 56 per cent, of
j her population, whilst Charleston, S. C.,
furnished 07 per cent.; yet Boston is a
i Christian city, and Charleston unques
■l tionably “heathen.”
| Kings county, New York, the residence
V> "' r ' ** ecc “ cl t ’> and the county in which
Brooklyn, the famous “city of churches,”
is situated, furnished church accommoda
tions for 44 per cent, of her population,
whilst Henrico county, including the city
of Richmond, Ya., furnished 71 percent.;
yet Brooklyn, of course, is eminently Chris
tian.and Richmond decidedly “lieathcn
ish.
Philadelphia furnished church accom
■ modations lor 45 per cent, of her popula
tion, and Mobile 05 percent.; yet Philadel
phia is near the centre of intelligence and
Christianity, and Mobile is—nowhere.
riuw, il the churches of the South are as
'scattered lights, at long distances, like
fiohthouses timnlling along the edge of a
continent of darkness,” what a commenta
ry does this fact present upon the conduct
of those who participated in the “Grand
March to the Sea!” Orthodox.
Atlanta. September 10, IStiO.
Resolutions of the Northern Radical
Convention,
Mr. Hamilton, of Texas from the Com
mittee on Resolutions, reported the fol
lowing, which were unanimously adopted:
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That the loyal people oftlio
North in thanksgiving to Almighty God,
through w hose will a rebellion unparallel
ed for its causelessness, its cruelty and ils
criminality, has been overruled to the vin
dication of the supremacy of the Federal
Constitution over every State and Territo
ry- of the Republic.
Unsolved, That we demand now, as we
have demanded at all times since the ces
sation of hostilities, the restoration of the
States in which wo live, to their old rela
tions with the Union, on the simplest and
fairest conditions consistent with the pro
tection of our lives, property and political
rights, now in jeopardy from tiie un
quenched enmity of rebels lately in arms.
Resolved, That the unhappy' policy of
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, is, in its effect upon the loyal peo
ple of the South, un just, oppressive and in
tolerable, and accordingly, however ar
dently we desire to see our respective
States once more represented in the Con
gress of the nation, we would deplore their
restoration on the inadequate condition
prescribed by the President, as tending not
to abate, hut only to magnify the perils
and sorrows of our condition.
Resolved, That the welcome we have re
ceived from the loyal citizens of Philadel
phia under the roof of the time-honored
1 lull in which the Declaration of Indepen
dence was adopted, inspires us with an
animating hope that the principles of just
uiid etpial government which werewado
stitution.
Resolved, That with pride in the pa
triotism or the Congress, with gratitude
lor the fearlessmnlpersistent support they
have given to the cause of loyalty, and
their efforts to restore all the" States to
their former condition as States in the
American Union, wo,will stand by the >
positions taken by them, and use all means
consistent with a peaceful and lawful
coiuso to secure the ratifications of the
amendments to the Constitution of the
United States as proposed by Congress at
its rcce.it session, and regret (haftbc Con
gress iirits wisdom did not provide l,y
law sos tbo greater security ot the loyal
people in the States not yet admitted to
representation
Resolved, duat the political power of
the Government of the United States in the
administrationo.f public affairs, is by its
Constitution conliked to the popular or
ltiw-making department of the Govern
ment.
Resolved, That thfc political status of
the States lately in rebellion to the United
States govern merit, and u,o rights of the
people of such States arh poliiieal ques
tions, and are therefore el eat) y within the
| control of Congress, to the' xelusHm ol'
and independent of any and «ev ( -ry other
! department of the Government.
Resolved, That there is no riglg t politi
cal, legal or constitutional in airy State lo
! secede or withdraw from the Union but
iliey may Ijy wicked and iinaiitUi.Vi/.ed
revolutions and force sever the
which they have sustained to thu Union
: and when they do they assume tlie at.-l
I tude of public enemies at war with the
i United States ; they subject themselves to
i all the rules and principles ofinternational
i law, and the laws of war applicable to bel
ligerents according to modern usage.
Resolved, Tilsit wo arc unalterably in
favor of tho Union of tin- States, and
earnestly desire the legal and speedy resto
ration of all the States to their proper
places in the Union, and the establishment
in each of them pf influence of patriotism
and justice, by which tho whole nation
shall be combined to carry forward trium
phantly tho principles of freedom and pro
gress, until all men of ail races shall,
everywhere beneath the Hag of our coun
try, have accorded to them freely all that
their virtues, industry, intelligence and
energy may entitle them toattain. •
Resolved, That the organization in the
unrepresented States assuming 10 lie State
Governments, not having been legally es
tablished., are not-legitimate Governments
until recognized by Congress.
Resolved, That we cherish with tender
hearts tho memory of the virtues, patriot
ism, sublime faith, upright .Christian life
and generous nature of thfc martyr Presi
dent, Abraham Lincoln.
Resolved, That we are in favor of universal
liberty the world over, and feel the deepest
sympathy with the oppressed people of all
countries in their struggle for freedom and
; the inherent right of all iaen to decide and
control for themselves the character of the
Government under which they live.
Resolved, That the" lasting gratitude of
the nation is duo the men who bore the
battle, and in covering themselves with
imperishable glory have saved to tho
world its hope of free Government, and re
lying 011 the “ invincible soldiers and
sailors” who made the grand army and
navy of the Republic to be true to the
principles for which they fought, wepledge
them that we will stand by them in main
taining the honor due the saviours of the
nation, and in securing the fruits of their
victories.
Resolved, That remembering with pro-
I found gratitude and love the precepts of
i Washington, wo should accustom our
selves to consider the Union as the primary
i object of patriotic desire, which has here
, tol'ore sustained us with great power in
1 our love of the Union. When so many of
I our neighbors in the .South were waging
: war for ns destruction, our deep and abid
ing love for the memory, of tiic l-'atlier of
His Country and for the Union is more
do -rdy engraven upon our hearts than ever.
The Home of Henry Ward Beech
er. —Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s farm
and home at Peeks! ill, is thus described by
a correspondent: “The farm is about two
tnilcs cast of the railroad depot, and a
beautiful site for a summer residence. The
residence is a low-roofed, one story and a
half building, and resembles very much an
old-fashioned farm house. The carriage!
house and barn and foreman’s ifesidcuce are
all one edifice. In external appearance this
building is more imposing than Mr. Beech
er s home. The farm consists of about 40
acre.:, and 1 am told its cost may lie esti
mated at $40,000. When 51 r. Beecher
purchased it it was covered with rocks and
stones, but lie has made it bloom and blos
som with flowers, and so enriched its soil
that it yields prodigious harvests. The
farm is a garden. The whole of it has
been subsoiled 26 inches, and every stone
large or small lias been taken out and put
into fences or drains. I never saw such
vegetables and fruit. He has four acres of
onions, and las* year sold 800 barrels, ihe
‘foreman told me he sold last year about
$6,000 worth of produce ironi the place.
Such onions, beets, squashes and dwarfed
nears I never before witnessed. One small
L ar tree, not three feet high, hade /pears
on it, and many otiier trees seemed bur
dened with their fruit.
The total number of deaths from cholera
in the city and coitnty of New York, since
; its first appearance on the Ist of May, is
829 ; of these 486 occurred in the public
institutions on Ward’s, Blackwell sand
Randall’s Islands.