Georgia Historic Newspapers

    Jiot Surprise*!.
The statement made in to-day a pa per by
our correspondent Paisano, though it ex
ji . es an outrageous fraud upon the purity
of the ballot-box. will hardly cause surprise
to many of our readers. Since the shame
ful and illeeal conduct of the managers
the election farce, in receiving all votes
present- 1 without reference to the regis
try lists, we have lelt satisfied that there
was nothing too low or fradulent to be re
sorted to if ncces-ary to carry out the
Radical plans.
Don't Employ Them.
The position which wc assumed in this
paper, on Sunday morning last, was taken
after mature deliberation and a careful
survey of the whole surroundings. We
advised the Southern people to refuse
employment, support, aid or patronage to
those DCgroes who have arrayed them
selves in a position of hostility to the
Southern whites. There is no power tin
der the suß, not even the mig'hty warrior
whose saddle hangs upon the Radical
stump in Atlanta, which can compel the
white capital of the South to give support
to its direst enemies, But leaving out of
view the possibility of any such attempt
being made, we insist that the safety of
the white race demands that, as the negroes
have combined against them, they
should agree among themselves not to
employ, in the future, any one who is
known to be hostile to them.
This is no new idea. The same princi- j
pie ha governed capital in its dealings
with labor in every State in the civilized !
world. This has been more marked and •
stringent in those countries where the peo- j
pie have been permitted to have a voice in i
th’. seh .tien .f thei-n'wsaad law-iEak'-*-
'. jtig t fo.e thi .tabli-ihm.in of the Gov
ernment of the United States the pc’pic
®rol which, through the ball.it, fajfer hie
in monarchical England, wucre the nailot i
was i!" trusted to a couipaiativcly small
class, it w- s found necessary for the pro- j
tection of capital that its owners should,
in the selection of their laborers, give em
ployment to those alone who were known
not to he hostile to it, how much more
obligatory is it now upon the people of the
South when, by the fraudulent manipula
tion! of the Registration boards:, a large
body of ignorant and debauched negroes,
late slaves, are given the ascendancy even
in the construction of the organic km ?
This rule of giving employment to those
only who are known to be friendly, is but
an amplification of' the first great law of
nature —higher than all human laws —
t fiat of self-protection. Even in the better
days of the Republic, when our people
were divided into parties upon mere
questions of expediency and civil adminis
tration, it is well known that Democrats
gave no employment to Whigs, or Whigs
to Democrats. This principle was acted
upon in the distribution of the highest
offices of the Government. A Whig ad
ministration appointed no Democrats to
office; a Democratic Legislature or com
inunity elected no Whigs. T his is the rule
now which is being enforced with the ex
tremist rigidity by the .Military Command
er in this district.
lias not General Pope, by the exercise
of the arbitrary power given him by the
Radical Congress, already declared that,
.as far as the Press of this State depended
upon the legal advertisements of the State
fur its support, it should be starved out,
unless it would support the infamous
laws which ho crone among us to drive
down our throats! Have not the statute
laws of the State been violated which
require county officers to advertise in the
papers published in their respective coun
ties, or in the absence of them, in those
papers having the largest circulation in
their counties? Did not General Pope’s
order expressly state that the Conservative
Press of the State was deprived of this
patronage because they would not degrade
their columns and abandon their convic
tions of right by a sujiport of the Recon
struction Bills?
In our own city, do we not see the same
inexorable rule oil-ostracism put in prac
tice by the Mayor and Council who rule
the lice people of Augusta by warrant
from General Pope? Is it not a notorious
fact that this military Council have re
moved from office nearly every man in the
employment of the city who would not
take position in favor of a Convention?
Does not the great farce now in progress
here (a thing too mean and corrupt to be
dignified with tho name of election) show
that nine-tenths of the white votes cast
have been those of employees of our
military Council?
At the North—throughout the whole
country—there is not nil office or employ
ment in any State, county or municipal
control which is not held by the support
ers of the ruling party. The success of
part;/ there prompts such action. Here
the safety of the people demands it. We aie
fully aware of the fact that the course which
we advise, to be productive of the greatest
amount of good, should be adopted by
the entire white population of the State.
But if all our people will not agree to it, let
those who believe it right act independent
ly and for themselves in this matter.
There nr .. least three hundred register
ed negroes employed by the merchants of
the city about their stores as porters, run
ners, Ac. There are as many more who
are menial servants in the families of the
white people. Then there is a large
number of draymen, hucksters, mechanics,
Ac., amounting to at least four hundred.
All of these would be compelled to leave |
the city it the patronage and support of |
the decent white people was withdrawn I
trout them. \\ e believe that nineteen- j
twentieths of these people, under the sedi- !
tious manipulations of Bryant, aud Beard, I
and llichardson, are the mortal foes j
ot the white race. Shall wo keep them
among us ! Shall we pay them to 4
stay here and govern us! These ques- j
tious the good people of Augusta must |
answer tor themselves. Our earnest ad
vice is to treat kindly and deal fairly with
those who have shown, by their conduct,
that they are uot under the control the i
Radical leaders. Give them employment, !
and aid them in their efforts to elevat !
themselves in the scale of virtue aud intel- ,
licence. Contribute liberally for the ad
vama ment of morality and learning among |
them. Defend them from oppression,
protect them from persecution, and aid
'hem in the vindication of all their rights, i
*■ 1 should endeavor to cultivate with
tl m feelings of mutual respect and eon- j
sidcration. But those who have placed
themselves in a hostile attitude to our wel
fare and safety should be cut adrift at
once.
The California Election. —Califor-
nia. in a square contest, has gone Demo- j
'■'ratio by over three thousand majority.
Greene County.— First day —five hun
dred and titty votes polled. |
l IERCE County. —First day — One hun
dred and twenty-four votes polled.
* UATToouA County.—First day-two j
hundred and severity-four votes polled.
1 a .i At Eitso County. —Four hundred
and eighty votes polled up to six P. M.
Wednesday.
Floyd County.—Up to 3P. 31.
Wednesday nine hundred and eighty i
votes polled.
Cass County"~u p t 0 10 A M . j
Wednesday seven hundred and ten votes’
polled.
Richmond County.-Four hundred and j
fifty one votes were polled here jester- :
day.
Jm-EitsoN County.— Four hundred and ■
fifty votes were polled in Jefierson Tees- ’
day—all blacks except one white man, and
all for Convention.
Warren County.— Nine hundred votes
were polled in up to Wednesday six p. m.
—all negroes—except two whites—Joe
Adkins (candidate for Convention), and
Ins smi-in-law who, we arc informed, did
not feel at liberty to vote against his daddy -
in-law.
Tiic Convention— Suffrage.
Our attention has been called to a para
graph which appeared in the mulatto
Republican on the 30th ult., in which that
mongrel sheet clearly indicates that the
Radicals will, if successful in the election
for a Convention, frame a Constitution
restricting the right of suffrage to those
:i ' 6
do not tl-.iuk the intimation of the mulatto
organ worth not; ting, hut for fear some
unreflecting p : may he mi.- en it,
we b ve consent 1 to depart in this »n
--’ta- from our'well-considered determina
tion : o notice anything which appears
in its filthy columns.
The mulatto says:
.. , amestly urge upon all who ever ,
, ,. c , 0 rei- the elective franchise in 1
Jm - mi. not to throw away the only op- j
i,.,Vanity left them for securing the rights |
~j ..titizeo in a republican government. ’ |
We have heard similar threats from I
other sources. We learn that the leaders j
of the Radical party in the State have |
urged timid Conservatives to vote now or
they would hereafter be debarred that
privilege. We have ourselves heard Con
vention!-ts urge the same views to justify '
thcmselVc s in voting for the Convention j
swindle. We know that many people in
the State are unci ,-r the impre.-sion that
the Radicals will, ih the Constitution which
they may frame, restrict the suffrage upon
the question of ratification, to those only
who have voted in this election. We have
not thought it necessary to refute such a
I wild and untenable position. We know
i that the Convention cannot go beyond the
[ disfranchisement already effected by the
j Sherman Bills. The sth section of the
i original law declares that the State “ Con-
I “ titutions shall provide that the elective
"inchiti*: shall be on . 1 by ail such
1 persons -a have the quohfixations herein
ritai’ju Joi election o: aelegates.
1 jh -i- an express declaration that the
! C<nt«tituJou vu be framed by the Conv<j@F
r a shall r- t dEfranobh-j any who are, by
■ S. Bills, emitted to vote for
j delegates.
We know that one of the candidates for
the Convention from this city has said
that lie was opposed to permitting any
man to vote who had been an active
participant in the secession movement.
The petty malignity of this vindictive
aspirant for negro votes and scalawag sup
port, is hedged in by the law under which
he proposes to misrepresent the free peo
ple of this city and district. We believe
that the great majority of the scalawags
in the State would be not only willing but
delighted with a qualification of suffrage
which would disfranchise the worth, the
intelligence, the virtue and respectability
of the State. The vipers dare not do it.
Intelligent Suffragans.
The recent election in Virginia, where
the Conservatives attempted to defeat the
Convention by a straight out vote against
it, shows that, as here, the negroes were
banded together in a solid mass, and in
every county of the State voted against
the Conservative ticket. They even went
further, and voted against respectable
Republicans—those who had been con
sistent opponents of the war throughout
the entire conflict, and who came out early
in the canvass in favor of reconstruction
under the Military Bills, whenever there
was a mean white or thievish negro run
ning against them. In Albemarle, Alex
ander Rives, an early and consistent Re
publican, was defeated by a negro and a
Yankee emissary. Mr. Rives did not re
ceive a dozen negro votes in a county where
the black vote was several thousand.
In Mecklenburg county a negro who
cannot read or tci ile, anil who has keen
convicted Jive times in the courts/or steal
ing, was elected over a respectable Union
man. In Richmond the notorious vilain
I lunnicutt, the corrupt Underwood, and
an ig. ant, contemptible creature named
Morrissey, with two negroes, were elected.
The respectable Northern men who have
settled in Richmond since the war refused
to vote for these creatures.
There, as here, the most outrageous
Irauda were perpetrated in the conduct
of the elections. In Richmond the Presi
dent of the Registration Board, one Rose,
on the last day of the election, declared
that “he didn’t care a d—n for all the
white people in Richmond ; noiuc of lfis
friends had bet on a majority of so much,
and lie intended they should win.”
We do not know how much the Rads
have bet on the election here, or on what
number their bet: are made, but, judging
from the activity manifested by a few
pimps of the little tomtit , who runs the
machine here, we should judge that very
considerable stakes were in jeopardy.
The Postal Service.
In the November number of The Land
ice Love we find the following caustic reflec
tions upon the postal service in the South,
and which contains beneath the rich vein
of satire which pervades it, a great deal
of timely t ruth. The editor says:
Spite of our warning against it, some
subscribers will persist in sending the loyal
greenbacks by mail. After a while comes
the inevitable letter, “Sir, some four
weeks ago, 1 sent you subscription by
mail, and have not heard from you since.”
Registration, which once served only
to point out to the thief where the money
was, is now said to be safe. Postoffice
orders and checks can usually be obtained.
Why then will people persist in tempting
these loyal men ?
We have made a note, however, in our
memorandum book, that on the Gth of
October, a letter with greenbacks on board,
did actually run the blockade from
Claiborne, Alabama, and reached our office
in safety. This want of vigilance on the
part of the loyal officials is altogether un
worthy of their party.
Having been supplied by the Depart
ment wit h some spurious bills to be used as
decoys, we tried sending them from various
points. The letters passed to and fro with
unbroken seals. A truly loyal man can
tell by the odor through the fold of a letter
the character of a bill. When the fragrance
of the loyal greenback is wanting, the letter
is never disturbed. If our friends will
persist in sending greenbacks, we lippe >
that they will get them deodorized in some |
way! For as the loyal Falstaff knew the |
true l’ritiee by instinct, so do the loyal j
officials know the true currency, by the I
good savor thereof.
West Virginia.—The election return - j
so far received from West Virginia show 1
large Democratic gains, and the probability
that the State has gone against the Radi
cals. The Wheeling Register says that,
“in spite of a corrupt Executive, and the
infamous registration system, our State is
rapidly passing through a process of re
detupti n from Radical rule.” Daring the
war and since its chase this has been re
garded as one of the strongholds of llaui
caiism. The defeat of that party now is j
another evidence that the people of the j
whole country repudiate the revolutionary i
and corrupt rule of the present Bump j
Congress.
The vote of the twelve counties in Ohio j
known as the Western Reserve, the old |
Abolition strong’-bid, was -4,916 more than
in 1866; the Republicans gained 37 and:
the Democrats 4,' 9. The Republican:
majority was 24,833 in 1 SCO, and 19,961 j
this year.
The Northern men in cur midst have
shown by their conduct that they are with
us and or us- We extend them a hearty
welcome, as does our correspondent • Ise
wliere to-dav. — Fredericksburg Xetcs.
How would you like to have a few
Bryants and Richardsons and Princes?
We can supply you as many on that line
as your wauls may require. The class you
speak of have not got as far South as
Augusta yet.
The Savannah and Charleston
Railroad. —it affords us sincere pleasure,
savs the Charleston Courier, to chronicle
a further extension of this railroad and the
prospect of its early completion. The cars
are now run to Coosawkatchie, carrying
passengers and freight, at which point
j there has been constructed a permanent,
. substantial bridge over the river, enabling
transportation to besately and expeditious
; i.v effected to Gillisonville. Grahamvillc
and Purysburg, and the adjacent country.
The City Council of M illedgeville, in
bchaifof the citizens of that place, have
tendered to the Macon A Augusta Rail
road laud enough near the line of the
road to build machine shop, and other
necessary buildings.
Coburn and McCook are to fight u
i February next.
Senator Brownlow.
The recently elected Senator from Ten
nessee, the notorious William G. Brown
low, is receiving just now very general
notice from the press of the country. The
New York World, in commenting upon
his past and present conduct and position,
says :
“Brownlow’s surprising run of luck is
~ui< different from that of the military
mci. who emerged from obscurity during
the war. He has shown no kind ofability
which lie was not known to possess before.
xY venomous tongue and scurrilous pen are
his only weapons, and he was as skillful in
handling these ten years ago as he is to
day. He was a small fire-engine spouting
gutter-water, and ho merely turned the
hose and direct -d toe stream upon dis-
ferent obj-- lie has risen to authority
by sheer vituperation, which is his only
talent. Nobody can point to any act by
which he has either served the country, or
evinced any elevation of character. How
is it that uiea like Brownlow and Hunni
cutt have become men of consideration
who aspire successfully to the highest posi
tions of public trust ? Hunnieutt has the
best chances for the United States Senate
| of any man in Virginia, when the recon
! structud government goes into operation ;
i and men of the like stamp will probably
! lie elected from the other Southern States.
] A whole Senate of these sons of vitriol
! would be a Pandemonium in ali save the
j intellectual ability which the devils,
though blasted by God’s avenging thunder,
did not lose by their fall.
“There is nigh authority for testing the
goodness of a tree by the quality of its
fruit. Men do not gather grapes of thorns,
figs of a bramble-bush, nor statesmen from
■ ■ in wbiel i jit ll fr ih from
brutalizing servitude hold the balance of;
power. Everything pfcd-ic- after its j
kind . i'-te • ,u-l Hunnieutt are the j
nif - .1 negro voting. i>ut vtmu must be j
the grade of intelligenoe ;n constituencii
with whom such’graceless desperadoes pas- j
for stalesrnen ? V otiug is not an eud ; it
is only a means. In determining who shall
be voters it will not do to lose sight of the
only rational end of voting, which is to
commit public affairs to men competent to
manage them. A rule of suffrage which
brings into the most responsible positions
men who excite no other emotion than
wonder how they eould get so misplaced,
jis a bad rule. Large negro constituencies
j are a novelty in our polities, and the elec-
I tion to the Senate of such an empty ribald
| old bruiser as. Brownlow is also a novelty,
j These twin novelties arc related counter
parts ; a jockey wouid call them a match ;
an artist pendents ; a political philosopher
| would more correctly describe the. relation
as that of cause and consequence. Ten
nessee is the first State in which the
experiment of a controlling negro constitu
ency has been tried ; and as the first
fruits of the new system, Tennessee has
elected the most notorious lampooner and
blackguard in the country Governor, and
i now United States Senator. The raging
sea of French sans-culotlism never heard
I of anything moro contemptible ; the mob
j ot Paris in the craziest days of the Revolu
tion was not a more unfit depository of
political power than arc the Southern
negroes. A crop of Brownlows and Huu
nicutts is no better than a crop ofßobes
pierres; wilh Robespierre’s power they
would rival his atrocities.
“The whole region of statesmanship is a
I terra incognita to such ribald bullying
! demagogues as Brownlow and Hunnieutt.
What plummet thcncausound the fathom
less depth of negro igorance which looks
upr n them as great men ? It may bo
stated arithmetically thus : Asa qualified
Senator is to Brownlow, so is a white con
stituency to a constituency of newly eman
cipated negroes. It is a long leap down
ward in either case.”
Visit to Ex-Fuesipent Buchanan.—
During the visit of the Philadelphia fire
men to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last week,
they pai i their respects to ex-Pre.sident
Buchanan, at Wheatland. They were
cordially received and invited to the hos
pitalities of his house. Two of the com
panies presented him with a beautiful
| badge each, thus making him an honorary
member of both. The. 'Pliiladeh'hin -A-r
--cuni says:
Avery pleasant, interchange, as familiar
as though an aged father was talking to
his children, took place, in which Mr. Bu
chanan said of the past, that in looking
over the names of the members of Con
gress when he tfas first elected to that
body, hut one remains beside himself, and
that person is Mr. Andrew Stewart, of
Fayette county. Os the companions of
hia youthful days, lie (Mr. Buchanan) was
the only one left, and that now he looks
more to the past than the future. “You
are the rising generation, gentlemen, and
the stability of the country must depend
upon you. If you will only exhibit the
wisdom of those who lived in the earlier
days of the republic, you will have reason
to thank God for it.
One pfttus gentlemen present asked Mr.
Buchanan bis age. to which the sage re
plied ; “I am 'U my year. I was 76
years old on the IF** 1 ol |ast April,”
Upon parting, Mr. li’mbanan puopk
each visitor by the hand, and a
reverential hope that God would blesS
them all.
[communicated.]
Wilkes County.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: Votes
cast in Washington, Ga., up to 7 o’clock
Oet 31st, 1867 : Whites 3, Negroes 1,133,
all tor Convention.
Total registered negro voters, 1,349
“ “ white voters, 597
Negro votes thrown out 89.
Number of negroes who say they do not
intend to vote, and if forced will call upon
their white friends for help ( and they
will get help when it is needed now and
hereafter), 127.
King Johnny may add as many two
days’ of grace as he pleases, but he has
now the same figures he will have at the
expiration of his grace days. 0.
1 ]
Washington, Wilkes County, \
October 31, 1867. j
I Editors Chronicle <0 Sentinel:
l was in error in my report of the number
' of votes polled at this place yesterday, the
I correct number at the close of the polls
i to-day was 1,133, and for the credit of the
| county, I regret to say the editor of the
Mulatto Republican did have to share the
1 honor* of voting with two others of like
complexion, as two other men with white
skins voted to-day; but both of them, like
the editor, are office holders under King
John: can’t say how far this little thing
influenced them— they know. The order
to extend the time of holding the election
reached here to-day, and it is said also a
private order to the faithful to “go out
into the highways and hedges and compel
them to come in and a friend from the
country informed me that on his way to
town he overtook a squad of negroes who
told him they had not intended voting at
all, but had been notified that unless they
diu they would be arrested and imprisoned
either in jail or in the Penitentiary.
These infamous tricksters must have
I become alarmed at the “masterly inactivity
of the respectable people of the State.”
Wilkes.
A More Radical Basis Demanded.—
Forney, the United States Senate's Secre
tary, says that the Republicans of Penn
sylvania. though beaten, are not disheart
ened, and will reorganize on a more radical
| basis. Ah yes, “a more Radical basis" is
I the thing that’s now needed by the Radi
j cal-. Their whole mistake, it seems, has
; consisted in too great tt. admixture ofcon-
I servavlsm. They must hereafter take their
1 radicalise straight and undiluted. A
; grinding military despotism, crushing debt
, and taxation, negro equality in the North
i and negro despotism in the South, the
j Constitution openly and avowedly ignored
| and defied, two departments of the Got
i ernment flouted and kicked aside as un
. worthy of notice, the will of Congress pro
: claimed to be the whole Government, and
the most chocking corruption pervading
every branch ot the public service—none
ol these things nor ali of them constitute
radicalism enough to win by. The Radicals
must fled or invent a radicalism deeper
down than these to reeover what they have
| lost. How deep they intend digging we
I cannot conjecture. Their spades, hoes
' and pickaxes are no doubt all ready, and
they will hardly be likely to stop Before
i they strike China to the utter amazement
lof the pigtail race.— Louisville (Ay.)
! Courier.
More DiaLOLLSM 1— The gin house of
j Col, W. C. Bray, soar this city, was
j destroyed by fixe oc Thursday night last,
and an the cotton in it, about sixty bales,
was destroyed. It is almost certain that
this was the work of aa incendiary, and
I that someone of the freedmec on the
I place perpetrated the diabolical act. It
! is a heavy loss on Col. Bray, and should
| be a warning to planters to gin up and
: ship as fast as their cotton is picked.—
’ Albany Xeics, 29th.
Pope’s Menagerie Closed.
The great fame has ended. The grand 1
Radical humbug lias been exploded. The
pretended expression of the popular will
ha s been obtained. The negroes of Georgia
have aligned themselves in solid phalanx
against the whites and cast their first bal
lots against the white race with whom,
under the Providence of God, they are
| compelled toiive,and upon whom they have
! must,in the future as in the past, solely rely
! for support and protection. In this, their
first attempt at self-government, they have
| shown themselves utterly incompetent to
' think or act for themselves. They have
1 given unmistakable evidence of their
abject subserviency to the low, contempti
. we'Yankee emissaries who have, since the
; war, crawled into the back doors of their
cabins and poisoned their minds with mon
strous lies and despicable slanders against
their former masters. They have giveu
their ear and confidence to the mean white
scalawags who, before the war, were, in
many instances, their most cruel and ex
acting taskmasters, and a large number of
whom made their living by cheating and
swindling the poorslave. They have permit
ted the infamous managers of the corrupt
and tyrannical Loyal League to drive them
to the polls like herds of swine are driven
to the slaughter. They have allowed the
scalawags and Y T ankee emissaries to place
in their hands such tickets as these Radi
cal pimps chose to seleet for them, and
j they have voted them without question or
i complaint. Iu hundreds of instances,
i under the advice and directions of black
hearted scoundrels ot both races, these
poor, ignorant blacks have voted twice, and
even three times. Whenever a peaceable,
quiet black man has been found, who,
from friendship to bis old white friends, or
ft »m a conscwnsness of hi • owo ttn-.v irthi- •
nc.ii. vote, L-.i r-e.iine r-way from the |
polls he has been down, hectored, j
browbeaten,abused, threaten.d, and fin-;'-,
forc 'd to go to the rolls and deposit a
ballot which be could not read, for men
whom he had never heard of, and on a
question which he had not the slightest
conception of. Tens cf thousands of ig
norant, stupid blacks iu the State of
Georgia have voted the last week whose
intellects are so weak, whose understand
ing so low as to be unable to comprehend
even the object for which they were
driven iu herds to the polls. Many be
lieved that suffrage meant something
to eat, or to drink, or to wear. Numbers
believed that the little bits of paper which
were placed in their hands was a title to
forty acres of land and a mule, while
hundreds were too stupid and ignorant
and indifferent to attempt to understand
the character of their action. This is
negro suffrage as it has been exemplified
in the past week’sballottings in this State.
The marked feature in the week’s per
formances have been the extension of the
time for voting, land tho force which has
been used to compel the negroes to vote.
There is no question of the fact that had
General Pope acted fairly in the manage
ment of tho elections the Convention
would have been defeated. The frauds
which have been perpetrated under one
oflii.s orders extending the time of voting
have been of such a character as to shock
the intelligence and morality of the State.
In this place, alone, hundreds of negroes
have been permitted to vote who had
never registered—hundreds have been
brought from across the river in Carolina
to be voted, and scores have been permit
ted to vote who lived in the adjoining
counties of Burke and Columbia, and who
also doubtless voted in their own counties.
The houses cf our people huve been enter
ed by the tools and pimps of the ruling
Radicals here, and their servants driven
from them and compelled to go to the
ballot-boxes.
We hear of a number of instances in
which actual intimidation, amounting to
actual force, was used against b’laek per
sons who did not wish to vote. In one
place in this city, the negroes in the em
ployment of one of our citizen’s were no
tified that if the;/ did not vote they should
not live here. In another case, the house
of a white citizen was entered ...
colored servants notified that if
not vote, they woiucvbc oeai io lit /•.
have heard of scores of such era ss of
violence threatened to the black if they
failed to vote.
But the mighty swindle is over. Gen.
Pope has carried his point. The Conven
tion will be held. A Constitution will be
submitted to the people. Let the Conserv
atives bide their time. The darkest hour
j of the night is just before day. The white
people will take warning from the past and
be prepared for the next contest. We
will not be caught without an organization;
we will not bo divided on any issue as to
the true policy, when the Constitution is
submitted for ratification.
A Dictator Preferred.
“The way before us is cloudy and per
plexing. and the situation is felt by the
thoughtful to bo one which may lead to
enormous, and what, live years ago,
would have beon thought impossible,
changes. Men do not claim so confidently
as they once did, that the emancipation of
the black race is certain to assure the per
manent freedom of tho white. We ail, of
course, strive to hope for the best—hope to
passthrough all our troubles by peaceful
and equitable means ; but » contrary ex
perience may come upon us when least
expected. Tho elections prove the exist
ence of a determined feeling against a policy
which however, felt to be essential to
the salvation of a powerful party, holding
in its hands extraordinary opportunities
and powers. From this dilemma none
can tell what may be evolved; but unless
we read tho signs ot the time® am} meas
ure the antagonisms of races very itmor
rectiy, the nation at large, should such an
alternative he forced upon it, would sooner
submit to a Dictator than to a million in
the PERSONS OF BLACK MEN.”
The reckless and revolutionary cliques
ot Southern white men who are now en
deavoring to get control of the Stftte
through the power of the blacks, would do
well to consider attentively the declarations
made in the above extract taken from the
Round Table, *a weekly literary Republi
can paper published in New fork.
When the Round Table spoke the Geor
gia elections had not taken place. The
result here the past week will confirm that
journal in its opinion that the white
peojde of the South are taking no part or
lot in the reconstruction swindle. Jt will
see ::s the Radical programme is developed
in its several stages, that the object of
that party is to place the Southern white
people under the long heel of the African.
We agree with it, that the white people
of the United States would infinitely pre
fer a single Dictator of white blood than j
to permit the negroes in the South to take
control of the Government.
No Proscription.
Since the order of General Pope for
bidding State aud county officials to pub
lish legal notices in the Conservative press
the Radicals have harped long and loud
against the coarse of the great body of the
white people of the State who have de
termined not to patronize or deal with
Radicals wherever and whenever they
could avoid it.
The three or four Radical presses pub
lished within our borders have, by turns,
entreated and badgered our people against
this course. The head and front of the
Radical party in this State Gen. Pope
has. we learn from the Atlanta Intelli
gencer, issued an order removing from
office one of the oldest and awst efficient
of the Police of that city, because,
in reply to a question how he had voted,
he stated he had voted the white mans
ticket. For this the mighty Pope issued
his royal ukase depriving him of his baton.
Oh ! vengeance how sweet thou art 1
The Southern Reconstruction Bills
in a Financial Point of View.— The
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald telegraphs that the appro
priation made by Congress at the extra
session in J air l&ot to defray the expenses
of reconstruction in the military districts !
has ail been expended, and a deficiency of
several thousand dollars exists which will
have to be provided for at the next session. |
The cost of reconstruction thus far ia the :
several districts is ascertained to be ap- j
proximately as follows: First District, !
General SchAfieid commanding, $190,OOo ; j
Second District, General Sickles command- 1
iag, $249,000 ; Third District, General :
Pope commanding. $175,900; Fourth Dig- 1
triet. General Ordcommanding, $400,000 ; ■
Fifth District, General Sheridan command- j
ing, $350,0W.
Xcgro Supremacy
It there bad been the tightest doubt !
lingering in the minus of tie, Northern
people as to the ultimate rsSTls which
wouid follow a reorganization of the
Southern states upon the torus of Con
groij, as declared in the reconsruetion bills
ot the last session, the Virgiii- elections
have dispeiled all uncertainty in relation
to this question. It is now clearly shown
that any reorganization of the Southern
States which may be efiteted under the
provisions of the military bills, will be ac
complished by the negroet aided by a few
mean whites. The Sotlhern States are
bound to become subjeA to negro rule,
brought about by the injultice and iniquity
oi the Sherman-Shellabjrger Bi. if re- |
organization under these bills is forced j
upon them.
The people of the Northern States al
ready see this result, an! hence we find
their press and leading statesmen loudly
protesting against the suicilal policy which
seeks to fasten upon the South govern
ments whose foundations are based on
negro supremacy. The great body of the
Northern people have been assured by the
Radical leaders that the white race in the
South would accept the Congressional plan
of reconstruction, and tha: they would
unite with the blacks in framiuganew their
organic law. The elections in Louisiana
and Alabama produced tie first doubt up
on the Northern mind of tie truth of these
declarations. In those Stites a few white
people did co-operate with :hc huge mass of
ignorant blacks in the Rudeal programme.
In Y irginia the recent elections show
that the blacks were compactly organized
against the white race, anl that in almost
every election district the meanest, most
ignorant and corruptin'”’ v'-e selected for
the Convention again i. b rate but decent !
Republicans. The N cm people—the I
moderate men there— at the malignity j
of ess!" anl arc W of race wU’ah 1
would strike down . ' * man as Alexan
der Rives, and ;.et his place a stolid,
stupid, illiterate and uebaachod negro will,
if not checked, lead to a total subversion
of our form of Government. They see also
that tho success of the negro party in this
preliminary contest wil encourage them
to further and more oppressive and relent
less legislation against the whites, which
in the end must lead to a war of races.
The white people of the North are not
prepared for such a solution of our national
difficulties. They begin to see that peace
and quiet and harmony c»n only be restored
between the two parties by the adoption
of a kind and conciliatory course toward
the South. They do n«t intend to have
the white people of the South placed under
the rule and subject to She control of tlie
ignorant and untutored blacks. They see
in such a supremacy of the African race
an imminent danger to taeir own section.
• Their leading papers havoilready raised the
alarm, and the recent elections at the North
show that the white people of this country
will not tolerate negro rule.
The New York Herald, whose editor is
widely notorious for his shrewdness in
catching the earliest indications of a com
ing change in popular sentiment, clearly
foreshadowed the results of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania elections, when he cut adrift
a few months since from the Radical par
ty, with which he had been acting since
1860. That paper sees now another revo
lution in the popular sentiment on the
negro question, and has taken strong
grounds against negro rule in the South.
In its issue of tho 29th October, it says:
“Iu the States of Alabama, Virginia and
. Louisiana, as we have shown, the blacks
carry over ouc-fourth of the represen
tation at the State Convention, while one
hundred and seventy-nine white Radicals
—nearly two-thirds of the whole number
of delegates—hound on the barbarians.
Four millions of negroes, in all, now assail
the stability of the Government. They
arc armed with the vote —the weapon that
Congress, by unwise legislation, has put
into their hands. This vote will give them
such a power as will yet make the nation
reel. In common with ignorance, wherev
er found in the world’s history, the negro
will seek a division of property, for he lias
’' !>» yi.t no idea ho., property is acquired.
...' fanciful ioCas OI his ivil'
j rind pi ’(’•;• in a brain already gone mad in
| too rapid an elevation. Let his ignorance
force a measure to the surface, despite
the common sense of the country in oppo
sition, and what can prevent its becom
ing a law? That these are no idle specu
lations the late election returns too
well show. Strange anomaly! We were
never willing that the Southern whites
should legislate for the North, but are
willing that the lase Southern slave, repre
senting the most concentrated element of
barbaric ignorance on the whole Western
Continent, should shape our future.—
There are two courses to choose—European
civilization and African barbarism. The
Radicals have apparently chosen the latter,
and by their action they now absolutely
force the white civilized element of the
South to appeal to that first law of nature,
self-preservation. How well the whole
South appreciates this is best shown by
tha numerous extracts which wo arc con
stantly publishing from the Conservative
Southern papers, which calmly calculate
the force of the coming black invasion.—
They sec the approach of a war of caste,
in which, after an exhaustive and terrific
struggle, the black will disappear and the
white be left nothing lut a remnant of its
present number.
* * * * *
Negroes, by voting for any measure in a
mass, immediately draw a distinction in
race that forces the whites, for their own
protection, to also band as a unit. This is
the point of revolution to which we are
rapidly marching. Itis shown mathemati
cf,!y by the elections, and indicates a war
of ea gitt, ttijjssg it is wisely, checked by the
North. The North, tjten, to the rescue!
We saved tho nationality mice from the
attack of the master, but we have to save |
it now from the more dreaded attack of
tha fpnuer slave.”
Suffrage tis Virginia—Who are
Elected. —Take out Messrs. Southall, of
Albemarle*, Lewis, of Stafford -, My.izcy,
ofCulpcper; Marye, Gravatt, and Hunter,
of Spotsylvania district, and two or three
from ut}}nr districts, says the Dispatch,
there is hardly § docent man elected to the
Convention from that part of Virginia
east of the Biue Ridge. Merit capa
bility seemed to be things that were to be
I shunned by the newly enfranchised in
making Uml? selections. Learning, expe
rience, integrity, good standing in
society were in their eyes disreputable,
and altogether unsuitable for a member of
the Convention ; so they hunted for men
who had none of these, ftod they found
them. Never sinco bodies poUtij were
known, and laws framed for their govern
ment, has there been selected a body of
men so utterly devoid of character and
capacity as those who have been returned
to the Convetition ip Virginia by the Radi
cals. black and white.
More Good News.— The telegraph jteilp
us, says the Richmond Dispatch, that the
Democrats gained largely in We- - Irgin
ia at the elections on Thursday, The ,
current is running all in one direction, so
far as white men are concerned. The con
trary results here are owing to a disturb
ing cause —an element not belonging to the
ballot-box—in 3 word, to the negro. But
the end is not yot. These favorable re
sults in the North and West foretoken a !
day of peace and prosperity even for us. ■
We are of the same race with those who
rule this country, and onr cries for help
must fall upon sympathizing oars. 'fhe
negro has made a fool of himself. He has. ;
in spite of all efforts to appease him. :
shown that he regards the white man as j
his enemy. It is the instinct of his nature, j
Many of the Catholic priests and other |
clergy of New Orleans have died of the
yellow feyei this summer. The New Or- j
leans Timer speaks ccihuskstically of the 1
zeal they show in fulfilling the painful
duties imposed upon them in ministering
to the spiritual wants of the sick and j
dying.
The clipper schooner Moses BramhaU :
arrived at Charleston on Saturday, having
made the run from New York in sixty-five ;
hours.
[COMMUNICATED. ]
Messrs. Editors: As it is next to im
possible that the " Local” oi any daily
paper can possess the powers of übiquity,
but is even alike infallible, pari httmano
genere, I beg leave, most respectfully, to
give you a short incident, which you may
publish or not at discretion :
Avery poor but, no doubt, a very
honest, citizen of Augusta, applied to the
Mayor of this city for relief, in the way of
the inner man. The latter informed him
that he did not issue rations, etc., for
anybody, and could do nothing for him ;
but, on learning that he was a citizen, but
couid not vote on account of not having
registered, he nevertheless supplied him
with a ticket—Radical, of course—and, on
his placing it in the ballot box, he gave
him the two dollars which the man had
asked for to purchase supplies for his
j family.
This is a plain statement of facts which
! can be substantiated by good men in this
city. Verily, Messrs. Editors, “Qucm
valientperdere dii, etc.
Yours, Paisano.
[COMMUNICATED. 1
Gibson, Ga., Oct. 291 b, ISG7.
Editors Chronicle <£ Sentinel :
Dear Sirs : The election at Gibson on the
29th went ofi' very quiet. The vote is as
follows:
Whites '. 6
Blacks 95
Whole vote cast 101
Most of the votes have been east. I
think the vote will not exceed 150 in the
county.
Yours, with resnect,
J. F. U.
1 COMMUNICATED. ]
Washington, October 30, 1567.
Chronicle k Sentinel :
As the second day’s acting in the great
election farce is over, I thought I would
let you knowhow the thing is being done
in the old county of Wilkes. At an early
hour yesterday morning the poor deluded
negroes came pouring into town by hun
dreds, On arriving at the Cburt-house they
were directed to go down to the Railroad
Depot where a man, with a white skin,
would furnish c, • iili a printed ticket;
thus armed with a Radical ticket, they ]
would join into line doubie'tile and march :
back to the Court-House in squads of from
twen>\ n< one hundred, and deposit their
votes. Malty were surprised and disap
pointed tolind this was all they had to do.
S inn? cam.) prepared to remain tureo
days, believing they had to vote each day.
At the closing bf thc polls this p. in., there
had been a little over one thousand three
hundred votes polled. lam proud to say
there was but one man with a white skin
among the number, and he is no less a
personage than the editor of the “ Mulatto
liepublican’’ of .your city. He is also one
ot the candidates on the Radical ticket in
this District. Os course the entire vete
cast was for Convention—and David G.
Dotting can have all tiie honor of being
the only man, with a white skin in the
county oi Wilkes, who felt it to be his duty
to vote oil this occasion. The course in
dicated by your paper lias been uni
versally approved and adopted by our peo
ple as the best and only one compatible
with self-respect. They have taken no
part in the contemptible farce.
Wilkes.
From the Pew York Times.
The Trial of ilr. Davis.
It seems probable that Jefferson Davis
will actually be tried for treason; and, as
the time draws near, it is impossible not
to feel some misgivings as to the results
and effect of that proceeding. It is very
"~.y to say, as the whole country has been
raying for the last two years, that treason
is the highest of crimes and ought to be
punished; but one instinctively feels, after
all, that this little argument, conclusive as
it seems, docs not dispose of the whole
ease.
Davis is not to be tried simply as an
individual. His own punishment for his
own crime is not the sole object, or the
main object sought to be accomplished. It
is the rebellion that is to ho put on trial in
his person. It is the principleon which the
rebellion rested—the States that entered
into it —the great community involved in
its guilt, which are to be arraigned before
the judicial tribunals of the nation ; and
the object of that arraignment is to procure
a solemn decision on the ease which is to
settle the law for all time to come, and
leave no room hereafter for the claim that
any State has a right to secede. But do
we intend to admit, by resorting to such a
tribunal fora decision, that there is any
doubt on this point now? If a trial is
wanted, it must be wanted so decide
something which is doubtful. It cannot
be to affirm something which is decided
already. If Davis is put upon his trial,
that very act assumes that his guilt is still
; open to doubt—that the question is unde
cided—nay, on the assumption that atrial
i is required, ho is, in the presumption of
j the law, innocent, until the trial is ended
j and his guilt is proved.
i ■ Do we mean by this trial what the trial
itseit thus of necessity implies ? Do we I
presume—do we admit, for > m nuuut, that
I David id innocent v ferire not regard it
i as little less than treason to doubt his
| guilt? If Davis has not been guilty of
| treason —if secession was a right: —what
! has been the history of this nation for the
last six years but the most awful and
tremendous revelry of crime the sun <ever
shone upon? If he is tried, he may be
acquitted. Unless the trial becomes itself
a greater crime than the alleged offence—
unless what pretends to be a solemn ap
peal to absolute and supreme abstract jus
tice, is turned into a paltry and contempti
ble trick—we are bound to admit that this
man may go forth from the bai relieved
of all stain of guilt, ‘ carrying the sanction
of the judicial tribunals of the nation for
the whole tremendous transaction of
which he was the recognized and respon
sible head. This nation certainly does not
consciously intend to pave the way for
such a result. We do not admit that a
shadow of doubt rests on the question of
Davis’ guilt. We do not admit that the
right or wrong cf secession is open to
argument or that it awaits a decision at
the hands of any tribunal on the face of
the earth.
And the reason is, because the whole
question has been decided alreadv—decid
ed by the highest of all earthly tribunals,
and beyond all possibility of reversal or
appeal. Nations know no higher law
than the law of force—no higher tribunal
than the field of battle. Constitutions
and laws, faenatos and Courts, have value
and lbrce only as means of avoiding that
final arbitrament and only while they suc
ceed in Substituting other modes of judg
ment lor its stern decrees, Hut when w r ar
is called in to settle disputes, it holds no
divided court. It takes jurisdiction of the
whole case. It does not allow its decision
to be called in question, nor are its judg
ments open .to rcviewal and reversal
L'avis and the rebellion appealed to the
sword to decide their contest with the
nation ; and the answer to that appeal will
stand as the verdict in the case—as the
law of the land—no matter what Courts or
States, or Congresses may say to the con-
S trary, until arms, in another appeal to
I force, may reverse it. It is not possible 1
■ that a trial in a civil Court should add a !
j featacr’s weight to the dignity or the so
j iemnity of tlie decision that has been al
ready reached. The danger is that it will
! dotr act from it;—it must do that, if it docs
anything at all. To submit a question
ver which four years of war have ken
i "’aged, for which two million men haye
j j■■ '-p unoer arms and naif a million have
i taiu down their lives, which has imposed
U U? U i lO I,atlQ,i biwjeps of debt which
I wiJ affect the wealth unii v/clfare of hun
; dreds of millions yet unborn, and' which ■
} has changed the political, industrial and i
j ? oula * institutions of a continent and made I
1 its mars, deep and indelible, on the history
1 of 4,3 human race -to submit such a !
| question tv tty solemn judgment of a jury !
! °. f 4 elve «*cn. to 4 drayra without dis- j
unction of race or color, nut one of whom i
| may Lave ever seen a law book or a book !
I of any sort, who may be presided over by !
t.vjtiye Underwood, and whose verdict is 1
i l “ mem, tl.: - whole current of our nation- j
j al history, it it has any weight or any j
• P ieat l ! , n S uafever is a proceeding too !
I creamy farcical to he regarded with entire i
j We think it is to be deeply ’
j regretted u ,u oqr Government has not j
i been a.jic to devise mens of saving *
, us from if.
The forthcoming trial is very likely to do
us damage and discredit. We see no way
!in which it can possibly do us good. If
Davis should be convicted, he will not be
punished: no one believes for a moment
that no will be cither executed or iinprir
oued. His conviction would not deepen
the impression of the guilt cf the rekllion
or he public mind in the least decree; in-
T. I, the that its guilt is allowed to be
solemnly called in question will infallibly
weaken the public sense of its enormity,
and cause it to k regarded'as a subject on
which opinions may justly differ. ' If he
should be acquitted, as he may be, the
consequences, especially on public senti
ment in the Southern States, would be still
more injurious. And considering the
chaincus*’ calibre of the priding Dis
met Judge, the moav es gonstitutiug the
jury and the prevailing temper of the par 1
ties who have_ control of the whole pro- ■
oceding, there is reason to fear that stops !
ffi . a y to taken to procure a conviction which j
•vill reflect more lasting -Tlsyjrace and inflict |
deeper injury on our whole political system J
than even an acquirtal would involve. 5
The matter has keome so complicated ;
Dy the long delays aud irresolute action al
ready had. that its solution now is a matter j
of no small difficulty. Bur. we believe the j
country would feel relieved if the whole j
proceeding could be dismissed. The rekb 1
lion has ken tried and conjoined; and
there is neither necessity for anew trial
nor pliability af any greater punishment,
ttian it has already rec. ; i«d.
The Bureau, at-Columbus, has turned
over to the authorities of Muscogee county .
fifty paupers, for whose support white j
men, many of whom art not allowed to I
vote, are to k taxed. I
Interesting Correspondence.
The following correspondence between
Generals Grant aud Thomas in relation to
the recent municipal election in Nashville,
wiil bo read with interest. It will be seen
that the attempt made by General Thomas
in his correspondence with M ayor Brown
(heretofore published in this paper) that
his conduct was in accordance with the
views of Gen. Grant was not true.
On the 22d of September Gov. Brown
low wrote to Gen. Cooper, commanding
State Guards, as follows :
“ Sir —You will bring to Nashville im
mediately all the troops, infantry and
cavalry, you can command, to enable you
to protect the Judtres and Clerks appoint
ed by the Commissioner of Registration,
and to enforce the franchise law." If needs
be, eall on Major Gen. George 11. Thomas
for additional troops to enable you to keep
the peace and enforce the law.”
This was telegraphed to the headquar
ters of the army by Gen. Thomas. On
the morning of the 25th inst., he received
the following cipher telegram from the
General-in-Chief:
Washington, D. u., Sept. 24—3:30 p. m.
To Major-Gen. George 11. Thomas:
The Mayor, City Attorney and President
of the Common Council of Nashville ex
press great fear of a collision at the time
of the charter election on the 2Sth.
Go to Nashville to-morrow and remain
until after election to preserve peace. If
you think more troops necesslry for that
purpose, order them there from the most
convenient point in your command. The
military cannot set up to be the judge as
to which set of oleetiou Judges have the
right to control, but must confine their ac
tion to putting down hostile mobs. Lis
hoped, however, that by seeing the Gov
ernor and city officials here referred to,
your presence and advice may prevent dis
turbance. Please keep me advised of the
condition of affairs.
(Signed) U. S. Grant, Gen’l.
To which General Thomas replied in the
following cipher telegram :
i/juisvilt.e, Ky., Sept, 25, ISC7.
Gen. U. S. Grant , Washington. D 6.
Your cipher u legram, of 3:30 P. M. j
yesterday, received. I forwarded you yes- j
fertuiv a pro, ,uuUou of the Governor, j
the Chief Magistrate of the State, pro
claiming any other election than that held ;
under the franchise law illegal, ar.d direct- !
ing General Cooper to lake measures at
once to preserve the peace and protect the
Judges of election in the discharge of their
duties. Also, a proclamation by the Mayor
of the City of Nashville, taking adverse
grounds to the Governor, and ordering an
extra police force to be organized to pre
serve the peace and to protect the Judges
of election appointed by the City Council
to hold the election for city officers under
the charter for your information and in
struction.
In the endorsement I .‘expressed the be
lief that, under instructions from the War
Department, I should becompelled to take
sides with the Governor, he being the
chief civil officer of the State, and having
proclaimed the law governing elections in
the State, should he call upon me for aid,
as expressed in that endorsement, I should
have used the troops to aid the civil au
thorities to enforce the franchise lav; and
preserve peace at the election, had I not
received your telegram of 3:30 P, M. yes
terday.
I start for Nashville this afternoon, and
will do what I can to preserve the peace.
Please instruct me whether lam to sus
tain the Governor or the Mayor.
(Signed) Geo. 11. Thomas,
Major General.
General Thomas then proceeds to state
that lie proceeded to Nashville by the 3
o’clock tram on that cDy, reaching Nash
ville at midnight ; and relates what took
place between himself and the Governor
and the Mayor of that city, the result of
which is indicated in the following cipher
telegram to the General-in-Chief :
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 26, 1867.
To Gen. U. S. Grant, Washington, 1) O.:
If both parties persist in holding their
election, there will be great danger of col
lision. In such contingency, am Ito inter
fere and allow both eleotion.% to go on, or
arc my duties simply to prevent mobs from
aiding either party?
(Signed) George H. Thomas.
Major-General U. S. A.
General Grant replied in cipher as fol
lows :
To Maj-Gen. George 11. Thomas:
I neither instruct to sustain the Gov
ernor nor Mayor, but to prevent sonflict.
The Governor is the only authority that
can legally demand the aid of" the United
States troops, and that must be by procla
mation declaring invasion or insurrection
exists beyond the control of other means
at his hands. It is hoped your presence
and good judgment and advice will prevent
conflict.
(Signed) U. S. Grant, General.
Na.-ia .lee. f: Bept.26 — 3n. tu
.iiat,-, l Gr • ficA'diri .-'A -'
Gov. B.owuhr.v is in Knoxville. Have
seen his instructions to Gen. Cooper not
to permit the city authorities to bold their
election. The Mayor i determined to
hold an _ election in_ defiance of the State
authorities. A collision is inevitable. If
I command the peace my action will be a
practical decision against State authority
and against the franchise law. I cannot
preserve the peace without interfering in
case of collision.
(Signed) Geo 11. Thomas,
Major-General U. S. A.
Gen. G rant replied as follows :
Washington, D. C., Sept. 26—4 p. m.
To Maj. Gen. Geo. 11. Thomas :
You are to prevent conflict. If the Ex
ecutive of the State issues his proclama
tion declaring insurrection or invasion to
exist, too formidable to be put down by
force at his own command and calls upon
the United States to aid him, then aid
will have to be given. Your mission is to
preserve the peace and not to take sides in
political differences until called out in.ac
cordance with the law. You are to prevent
mobs from aiding, either party. If called
upon legally to interfere your duty is plain.
(Signed) U. S. Grant, General.
About 10 p. m. Gen. Thomas received
the following from the General-in-Chief:
Washington, D. 0., Sept. 26 —9 p. m.
Major j Gen. Geo. 11. Thomas:
I will sent! you further instructions to
morrow. Nothing is clearer, however,
than that the military cannot be made use
of to defeat the Executive of a State in
enforcing the laws of the State. You are
not to prevent the legal State force from
the execution of its orders.
(Signed) TJ. S. Grant, General.
On the 27th of September Gen. Grant
addressed Gen. Thomas as follows : •.
Until afternoon I can give you no furth
er instructions than you have already had.
Report by telegraph immediately on re
ceipt of this the nature of the difficulty in
Nashville, and your view of the best way
to meet it. U. S. Grant, General.
Gen. Thomas says: “As my telegram
of j 1 A. M. had given the information
desired, no o:her answer was made to this.
No further instructions as intimated in
that ever reached me.”
The additional documents are numerous, j
including the correspondence between Gen. |
Thomas and the Mayor of Nashville.
Stewart County.— A letter to the
editors, dated Lumpkin, 2 o’clock, p. m.,
29th, represents the election as progress
ing quietly and very lew whites having
anything to do with it. There were three
candidates, one white and two black, all
Radicals, and no oppemion.— Macon Id.
e learn from Mr. Ross, Ordinary of
Jones county, tiiat the number of votes
polled in Jones county on Tuesday was
608. Not a single white vote was cast.
Two of the candidates were clerks and
kept the count of the votes.— Macon Tel.
Vv ell Done, Twiggs ! —We have in
formation as to the result of Tuesday’s
vote in this county. Five hundred and
fifteen votes were cigst —only five of which
wereby white mem Three against, and
two for Convention. We hope to have the
pleasure of recording many more such
gratifying evidences of unanimity in the I
good o}d “Black Belt’’ against Rope’s j
swindle. —Journal <f Af<
Taylor County. —This county docs
well. Up to iopr o'clock yesterday after
noon, tour hundred and fifty votes had
been dropped into Pope’s ballot-box at
Butler —only eight of which were by rnen
heretofore supposed to be white.— Journal
& Messenger.
I Quarterly Report oe tiie National
Bane*, ETC., etc.—l Washington, Oct.
29..—The following to the quarterly abstract
report of the national banks of the United
; State- to Oct. Ist : Resources over drafts,
1 $60,903,844,95V ; United States bonds
deposited to secure circulation, $338,135,-
! 150; 'UnitedStltc. k nj» ajd securities
deposited to secure deposit, $39,211,450;
United States bonds and securities on
hand $42,173,150; other stocks, bonds
and mortgages, $21,375,403 92; due
1 from national banks, $95,103,219 91; due
1 from other b ur; ks and bankers, $8,366,-
! too iZ ; banking houses and Other real
estate,' furniture uuZ fijtnrrja, $20,559,-
j 850 34 ; current expenses, $5,295,788 jU
premiums, s—, i49, iu.j ; check? fiTfd
other cash items, $f 34,392,580 58 ; bills
: of national banks, $1,831,693 ; bills of
other banks, $333,219 ; spexie $lO 228 -
851 12; fractional currency and’ leeal
tender notes, $100,431,537 83 • coni
-5568,084 20 ; total,
5.1,490,031,128 oi. Liabilities : capita'
stok, $419,568,415; surplus lund $66.-
i'-’sV. 6 '.’ * u r°divided profits, $3,356,- i
,J i circulating notes outstanding,
national, $293,461,196; do. do. State’ !
UU J .’7_ ol ! individual deposits, $537,- \
■l-9.oai 68; United States deposits,- $23 -
Mi 815 71 [ deposits of United States
Disbursing Officers $4,637,264 02. due to
national banks, $93,058,788 05; -due other
banka and bankers, $13,926,914 58 ;
total. $1,495,033,128 84.
From the Columbus Hun.
I’ay Money IVages.
Editors Sun: The labor question is
paramount in importance. General
starvation seems likely to supersede uni
versal suffrage; but it cannot be doctored
so readily as political illness.
An exhaustive article for one of our
reviews on the subject would be profitable,
but in a newspaper, out of place and un
satisfactory, from lack of space. 1 pro
pose simply to make a few statements
without adducing proof. An examination
of the labor system of the world, as ex
hibited in the writings of Loudon,
Babbage. Wado and other authors, will
confirm these statements.
Ist. The metazer system, which is the
“joint system or copartnership arrange
ment, is an evidence of the very low agri
cultural condition of the country where it
obtains, and is a bar to any improvement.
Roland, Portugal, the poorest districts of
t ranee, illustrate its failure.
2d. Where agriculture is most profitable,
the universal rule is to pay money wages,
which keeps labor and capital distinct.
England, Scotland, Belgium, Austria and
Prussia, are familiar instances of its
splendid success.
3d. Workmen cannot force wages up
nor employers force them down by com
binations, but if let alone wages will find
their level.
4th. The employer, that is capital, must
take the risk, whether wages be paid in
money or in kind. He plans, risks,
manages. If his plans do not succeed, he
alone is accountable, and alone pays the
penalty of his miscalculations.
It you admit the labor to share in the
profits, lie can assume but a very small
share of the risk. It is a principle of part
nership that neither law nor reason recog
nizes, in fact is at variance with common
sense.
sth. The “joint crop plan” has already
failed with the negro, after two years trial—
thereby demonstrating the truth that what
the whole world has long since settled is cot
exceptional in our free negro labor.
The hired laborer does cheerfully any
job to which he is assigned, while your
•HO Uof
' planting, tilliug and harvesting ; waters i
your cotton hales, appropriates corn and j
j potatoes, peas, pigs," and other small grain 1
I and absolutely refuses to do work upon
j fencing and farm buildings, but f'.s not j
j tc commit waste everywhere.
The negro partner got, in 1365, one- 1
tenth, in 1566, one-quarter, in istVj, one
third, for 1868 he demands one-lialf. How
long his native modesty will prevent him
from claiming the other half depends upon
his white partner.
I conclude by requesting an examination
of two plantations, with resident owners,
under the two systems of paying laborers.
It wih settle the matter in favor of money
wages.
For the next year, if you have your corn
made on hand you can pay sixty dollars
wages and board lurnislied, for first-class
laborers. It you have corn aud meat to
buy, you cannot afford to pay forty dol
lars. l’ay money wages. Alabama.
Ano(her Convert.
The Central Georgian, published at
Sandersvillc, and heretofore an advocate of
Convention, now pronounces against it.
The proceedings of a nigger and scalawag
meeting at Sandersville on Monday, have
opened the editor’s eyes, and like an honest
man h| hastens to put himself right. He
say's that the meeting was composed ex
clusively of negroes and three white
Radicals, hailin ; from Maine, Massachu
setts, and Ireland, originally (aud not very
long ago either), but now residing, two in
Augusta, and one in MUledgeville—the
former outside the district! The names of
those vermin are Prince, Richardson and
Supple, who, with three negroes, were
nominated for the Convention. One of
these insolent adventurers declared that
there was only one man “loyal” enough to
go to the Convention to be found in the
whole district! The editor concludes his
article with the following manly words.
We congratulate him upon his deliverance,
and heartily welcome him to the ranks of
the defenders of the true faith Journal
& Messenger.
We h avo advocated a Convention be
cause we hoped that everything would be
conducted upon fair and equitable princi
ples, and thought it the shortest road to
peace, prosperity and stability of govern
ment. We never did believe it a Consti
tutional measure, were only in favor ot it
as a matter of policy and general interest.
It is now clear as a sunbeam that the
whites of the South can have no showing.
We are disgusted with the proceedings of
the powers that be, so far at least as this
district is concerned, and suppose what
happens in one place may happen in oth
ers. We wish it distinctly understood that
we cannot and will not endorse any mea
sure that carries on its face so much unfair
political negro preferment. We belong to
! the white race, and while wc are willing
I that the nevro should have everv right
hits, we a <
degrade on: selves and race to m-.ke uvini- !
i goes ui a:: inferior e: .
• Is there a white man in the 20:;, Pis !
trict who can by his vole ndor - : .• 1
| imported ticker ? One of these candidates i
pon—to our oncte eupwb Court .
which is now in stately ruins, and said
“thejiame is the greatest verdict the war
ever rendered.” The whole tenor of all
the speeches, seemed to have, as the prime
object, the stirring up of strife between
the races and widen the breach as far as
possible. If we are white men, in the
name of God let us act as such. The line
of demarkation has been closely and un
inistakeably drawn. We accept the posi
tion, and “live or die, sink or swim,” we
are with our race.
Heard From, —The “Sentinel on the
Watchtower” (five stories high), has been
heard from at last. He spoke on
Monday night, in Atlanta, to a mixed
mob of ignorant blacks and knavish
whites —his first utterance since his allies
in Ohio and Pennsylyania were so hand
somely beaten. The Intelligencer says he
announced that he “belonged to no party,"
but “was for reconstruction under the
Sherman Bill.” Those who favored that
policy in the States above mentioned,
called themselves Radicals, and gloried in
the name. Joseph need not trouble him
self at all, hereafter, to make any state
ment of this character. The people of
Georgia, whom he has insulted so long,
and whose necks he would put under the
gizard foot of the brutal African, know
where to find him. They have not for
gotten Judas Iscariot, nor how to spell
traitor.— Journal & Messenger.
Meeting op Cotton and Woolen
Factors. — Philadelphia, Oct. 23. —At a
meeting of the cotton and woolen manu
facturers held to-night, in reference to
petitioning Congress for a reduction on the
5 per cent, tax, the following resolution
was passed :
Resolved , That the Manufacturer’s
Union of Philadelphia ask their members
of Congress to use all honorable means to
remove all taxation from the labor and
industry of the country, such industry re
quiring to be protected from the cheaper
labor and capital of Europe.
* The resolution was referred to the Lx
eculvo Committee, with instructions to
open a correspondence with manufacturers
throughout the country in regard to es
tablishing a fixed tax on cotton, the same
as the trade bill in Liverpool.
White Men to Black Negro Boots.—
}V hat the j'reedinen of the South expect,
is evinced in a speech made by a colored
leader of those who have squatted on farms
abandoned during the war, near Norfolk,
Virginia, and from which the Government
is now seeking to remove them. They
refuse to go, and claim the lands by right
of conquest. The Radicals justify them
in their refusal. Here is a speech made
by “Uncle Dick,” one of the leaders :
“The Indians were the first owners of
this land. The whites took it from them
by force; and we blacks took it from the
whites by force. They have no right to it,
and they shall not hayc it. We fought for
it aud we are going to jeecp it. We don’t
care for thO' President or the Preedmen’s
I bureau. Wc have suffered long enough—
! let the whites suffer now. The time was
when the white man said : ‘John, black
my hoots 1’ and John had to doit. But
the times have changed, and I hope to see
the day when I can say to a white man,
‘John black my boots! and he will have
to do it, I will never be satisfied until tlie
white man is forced to serve the black man,
as we were once forced to serve them. If
they do not litre that let them go away
\V e do not intend to allow sccesh or Yan
xees to drive us oil this land, because it is
ours. e fought tor it, and we will fight
now to defend it.”
That is it. If the schemes of the Radi
cals are to succeed, white men „re to be
the servants 'of the negroes. White lalor
ers, how do you like the idea ?— Detroit.
Tree Press. ■■ ■’
In ten days, Kansas will vote on the
question of giving the suff rage to negroes
and women. It there is any Northern
State which will vote for black suffrage,
I Kansas is undoubtedly that State. Her
whole 1; tory has been peculiar. Many
events commencing wiili LcrSrSt existence
tend?;’ to ret)doj; her not only Radical
W P for Radicalism, jjtffl
we shall not be much surprised to find that
even she rejects black voting.
Uansas may and not improbably will go
for biacK suffrage, but it is vqry certain
that she is not yet ready to go for female
suffrage. It she shall go tor the former,
she will be pretty sure of taking several
years to decide as to the propriety of ele
vating her ladies to a level with her nig
gers.—Louisville Journal,
The North Georgia l 'onferenee, M. E.
Church South, will commence its aunual
session m Augusta, on the 27th of Novem
ber. This will be the first Conference
held since the division of the State into
two conferences. Bishop Pierce will pre
side over its deliberations.
Judge Mason Against Negro Suf
frage.— Hen. Charles Mason, (he Radical
nominee lor Judge of the Court of Ai>-
peals, is at Deihi, Delaware county, hold
ing court. In conversing with several of
om citizens about the recent election in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, he said- “When
a party places a black man above a white
man, when black men are put into the
jury box, when they make black uien
judges, the people will not submit It k
too repugnant to the people and the party
that adopts such measures is sure to bo
defeated. This doctrine can never suc
Tkese opinions were expressed openly
and our correspondent offers to give the au
thority should it be denied.
Since the Ohio and Pennsylvania elec
tions, there a good many politicians upon
the anxious seat. Mr. Mason is one of
the first complete converts. — Albany ( V
I.) Argus. a v
Death s Doings.— lt is our painful
duty to announce the loss of two valuable
and esteemed citizens of this vicinity. Mr.
V\ . h. Du Bose died at his residence in
Linwood, on Saturday night last, after an
illness of a few days. He was a native of
»\ ukes county, in this State, and had
been planting in this section for many
Y ears - ,p e was a brother-in-law of Gen.
Kooert Toombs, and was greatly esteemed
as a gentleman and citizen of solid worth.
His age was about 55.
Col. Sam C. Benton died, after a brief
illness, on Monday morning, at his place
near fort Mitchell, in Alabama. For
rorty-five years Col. Benton had been
identified with the history of this portion
oi Georgia and the neighboring portion of
Alabama, aud had secured for himself, by
his uprightness as a man, friends,
who will grieve to hear of his death. Col.
Benton was about i0 years of age.
[ Columbia Sun, 29th.
The Rulers of tiie Couxtrv. —A very
clever negro bey worked in one of our
most respectable commission houses the
past summer. Some months since ho went
to Milledgeville, in the employ of T. J.
1 tl railroad,
lesterdav evening his former employers,
surprised to see him in their store, inquired
the why and wherefor he was m Atlanta ;
whereupt u he said that the “head negro”
oi Lffiilwin couuty imurmedhim lb,, ~*yu
since “tiiaf, having registered in Fulton
county, uiiless he name to Atlanta i
voted, the Union League would s< nd him
to the Penitentiary 1” This boy was
receiving $1 per day—all of which he looses
for at least a week, together with his rail
road expenses, unless the same be paid
out of the Radical fund. — Atlanta Intelli
gencer.
Rump Reconstruction. —Russell, one
of the largest and most important counties
in the State of Alabama, is to be repre
sented in the Convention, by a “carpet
bag” disciple of New England, unknown
to any of his constituents, and from whose
garments the smell of sour cheese and
rotten onions is not yet removed. Talbot
county, in Georgia, a county noted for its
population and worth and intelligence, is
to enjoy a similar disgrace by having the
interest of its people confided to a buck
mulatto, imported from Washington City.
Columbus Sun.
The New York Tribune's special Louis
ville correspondent sent an infamous letter
to that paper on the ISth inst. It is as
full of lies as it is of words. The writer
says, “the dying Governor,” meaning
Helm, bequeaths liis mantle to an ex-Colo
nel of the rebel army,” meaning Stevenson.
What excuse has the villain for writing, or
what apology has the Tribune for publish
ing, that Governor Stevenson was ever in
the “rebel army?” How do these Radical
slanderers produce their lies? Do they,
as viviparous animals, bring them forth
aliveAOr, as oviparous ones, hatch them
from eggs?— Louisville Journal.
Talbot County.— Staunch old Talbot
repudiates the Sherman swindle most em
phatically. Up to 12 o'clock yesterday,
950 votes had been polled at Talbotton—
only one white man voting, lie is well
known in the county as the hero of an
episode in the late war, when Joe Brown’s
militia officers were mustering their forces
to stop Sherman’s march to the sea. They
tound him under a fodder stack, and from
thence he was hauled, legs foremost. Wo
congratulate him upon being in accord
with Joe, now, at any rate. — Jour. kMcss.
Suffrage. —One of the newly enfran
chised, with basket, in hand, applied early
on Tuesday morning last to Lieut. Camp-
I bell at the Q. M. Department for his suf
frage. The Lieutenant could not see it in
that light, but directed him to the Court
House.— Rome Commercial.
Will Figures Lie?— Poor Jonco
Hooper, in referring to a Radical about
Huntsville, Alabama, by the name of Fig
ures, contended that the popular proverb
“figures don’t lie” was a fallacy. Wc are
inclined to get on J.mte’s platform. Old
’' 1 oft! M . 1 '
the best op; -etunity of knowing, says that,
one million ana a juas ;•'••• oi negroes have
die : since ‘heir eam-ipation.
Tie Military • evormus, on the contrary,
; have increased them b , gistration from
1 ten to fifty per cem There is a lie out
between old Snivey, the military Governors
and the figures.— Columbus Sun.
Riot in Taylor County.— The first
fruits of Radical reconstruction, fraud and
violence in this election, ripened yesterday
morning in Taylor county. A gang of ne
groes who proclaimed that the); were tired
of wvaiting for “the forty acres and a mule,”
marched in a body to a country store in
that county, and helped themselves, com
pletely cleairing it out. Our informant
stated (hat Capt. Mills, commanding at
Columbus, had been telegraphed by the
Federal officer at Butler for troops to pro
ceed to the scene of the disturbance. We
were unable to learn further particulars.—
Jour. & Mess.
Frost. —Jack Frost paid hisfirst annual
visit to these regions on Tuesday night
last.— Rome Commercial.
Abraham Shepherd, for thirty years
clerk of Fluvanna, one of the jmrest, most
sensible, and most universally beloved
men we ever knew, is beaten for the Con
vention in Fluvanna by a negro unable to
read or write. The blacks out-registered
the whites in Fluvanna by a small majority.
This is Reconstruction. This is Union
as it is. How long, O Lord, how long ?
Charlottesville Chronicle.
When Artemus Ward lay on his death
bed at {Southampton, he turned to a friend
by his bed-side, and murmured : “What
have I done that I should die so young ?
I never was guilty of a burglary, or ever
committed the minor offence of killing a
publisher or even a newspaper man.”
Ash Chambliss and Jack Goggans, two
“manhoods,” had a “little unpleasant
ness” in Monroe county Sunday night,
which resulted in Goggans’ skull being
split open with an axe.
The editor of the Air Line Eagle, pub
lished at Gainesville, Hall county, has
been deer iiunting, and brought home as
his share of the spoil, a fine buck, weigh
ing one hundred and sixty-five pounds.
One fortunate individual in this city got
about $1,300 from the lottery on Saturday
last.— Atlanta New Era.
The Albany News learns that a vast deal
of cotton from tmuthern and sou*hwestern
Georgia is being rejected by Savannah
buyers ns mixed packed. The slightest
i handful of stained or tradiy cotton in a
j bale, if discovered, will reduce the priee of
j Middling two to five cents per pound,
j Cotton from Florida.— The Charles
-1 ton Mercury says, the following are ex
tracts from letters received by a mercantile
house in this city, from Jacksonville, Fia. :
“You may rely upon it that more than five
thousand hales of Long Cotton will he
shipped from Florida this year; this
opinion is confirmed by Dr. W., who is
just from the interior, and who has taken
some trouble to inform himself.”
“I am satisfied that there will not be a
third of a crop made in our State this year.
Some of my neighbors who planted for one
hundred hales will not make twenty.
What they Want. —Thcrßadicalswant
negro suffrage as a moans of helping their
party. That is all. They do act, as a
party, demand it as a right legitimately
belonging to the colored people. The
key to the whole thing is given in this one
seatence from the New York Tribune :
“If the blacks are not enfranchised
V'allandigham could beat Gen. Grant for
President. ” That is the rub. The white
people—the intelligent masses—are against
them. They must have an element which
they can control, and which is sufficiently
powerful to put down the opposition of
the people. That clement is to be found
in the ignorant freedmen of the South,
who vote from prejudice and without any
knowledge of the influence of party politics
upon the country— Detroit Free Press.
Wc haveheardo£scvei‘alsn.all lotsofcorp
being sold here lately at r seventy-five cents
per bushel. Detail n6n-produeer3 at once
supply themselves at these figurc-3.— Parly
Cos. News , Toth.
In both France and England tlie Legis
latures are summoned to meet at an un
usual time, the one on the 19th and the
other on the 18th of November.
The Pittsburg Commercial pretends to
j think the election in Philadelphia “a draw
game. “(h wo <u«.. .
and the Rads the blanks.— LouisviUc
Journal.
An English volunteer rifle corps, exer
cising in a field, were put to flight by a
cow, all except one man, who dropped on
his knee, and “prepared to receive cav
alry.”
Carlyle has evolved another political
article, which he calls “Bull in the whale’s
Belly.” Democracy is the whale, and
England is the Jonah, and Carlyle describes
the manner of digestion.
Biougham, at ninety, bequeaths “his
most important death-bed legacy” in a
protest against “electoral corruption.”
Tlie modern broom sweeps too close for the
old Brougham,