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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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Decoration of the Soldier** Grave**.
Immense < r-jutl In Attendance.
THE SPEECHES, ETC , ETC.
Monday, tlic 26th April, and
the fourth anniver-aryof the surrender of
the armies of the Confederate States of
Am' rica.aud the i nslavctnent of a nation—
was observed in this city, as it lias ever
been for the past three years, in a solemn
an 1 most appropriate manner. Nearly a
month ay; > there appeared in the CllßONl
ci.e&Sentinel an account .of too ladies
of this city visiting the Cemetery for the
purpose of plan ing grass and flower seeds
upon the graves of the Confederate sol
dier*, in order that hy the time the twen
ty -ix'harrived the warm suns and vernal
showers would have caused the flowers
and grass to put forth, and thus assist, in
no small degree, in the decoration of the
sepulchre's of the fallen heroes- In this,
however, the fair jat riot* were destined
to he disappointed. The long drought ex
perienced recently had the effect of de
stroying the 'germs of the seed, and the
graves yesterday remained as hare as -if
they hud never been planted. Nothing
daunted, howt \ -r, the ladies again went to
work and determined to supply by artificial,
what they had failed to accomplish by
natural, means. At an early hour, then,
on yesterday morning, phaetons, buggies
and other vehicles were in requisition, in
which drives were taken to the many
b- autiful gardens which surround our city
where an abundance of floral treasures were
gathered. The gardens, too, in the city
w re stripped of their fragrant beauties,
and it would be safe to assert that at the
tune of the pre-cut writing there is not an
available flower in this city, outside of the
walls of the cemetery. During the whole
of the morning lily fingers were busily en
gaged in arranging these into crosses,
garlands and bouquets, so that by the
time evening arrived sverything was in
readiness for the celebration.
AT THE CEMETERY.
At about tiiree o’clock in the afternoon
every store on Broad street, with a few ex
cept ions, were closed, as has hitherto been
the oustoin on this sacred day, and the in
habitants of tho city repaired, in max#?, to
(he t A-metery. Carriages,buggies and street
cars, loaded with living freight, dashed
along the thoroughfares, while ou tho
pavements rushed u.<stream of human be
ings of all ages and both saxes, all hurry
ing to the same destination. By four j
o’clock the Cemetery was thronged, de
pile the fact that many, fearful of a storm, i
had placed their offerings on the graves j
and returned as soon as possible, and the j
streets of tho City of the Dead were filled
as they never are but onoo during the year.
Maids and matrons, sires and sons, the
lofty and the lowly for none were
too high or too humble to pour out |
their heart’s blood in defence of the j
South —nll,l 1 , all came to pay ho in- J
ago to the fallen braves. Beautiful flowers
were borne by women not loss lovely and |
soon were spread as a carpet o’er the plot i
of ground—alas ! by far two large—where |
so many young and gallant soldiers sleep
the sleep that knows no waking. The men
seemed to feel that they had no right to
share in the toil —for the women are now
the guardians of the memories of the Lost
Cause—but stood by and watched and ad
mired the ladies in their labor of love. Tho
graves were all dressed in a beautiful man- i
nor, and on many of them the decorations
proved that much taste and labor had been
expended. This was especially the ease
with two or three mounds on whose bead- !
hoards was inscribed the simple word
“Unknown;’’ for while, of course, all the I
graves were beautifully decorated, still, un
fortunately there are many aipongst
us whoso darling’s bodies have
never been recovered, and whoso Pones
now bleach upon some unknown hill-side
of the Old Dominion ortho West; to these
tho tomb of the “unknown” must ever be
pcouliirly an object of interest, and on
these, yesterday, were lavished thousands
of beautiful flowers, wrought into number
less wreaths and crosses.
THE SPEECHES.
At five o’clock, when the holy labor was
ended, the concourse of people assembled
around a platform where the orator of the
Day, Col. If. D. I). Twiggs was, by re
quest of theLidles’ Memorial Association,
to deliver an address suitable to the occa
sion. Col Twiggs was introduced to the
audience by .li,o. 8. Davison, in tho fol
lowing speech:
mr Davidson's speech-
To day, hmeath these clouds, which
seem scarcely able to restrain their sym
pathizing teats, wc have gathered here'to
do honor to our dead, Uvor this broad
utui beautiful land of ours, rich in its varied
resoure -s. fertile fields and populous cities,
the Angel ol Peace is resting, with her
white wings touching the uttermost limit
ol our boundaries. And as she gazes upon
us iu loving sympathy, she beholds a
hun.au sea, whose waters, if not in calm
n pose*, arc ou'y stirred by the settling of
tho waves roused by a denar ted storm, ll
is (o tho heroes who went dowu b 'Death
the fury of that ;t inu wettow pay hornago.
With those flower-’, sweet with (he odors
of Spring time, lovely as the women who
-catter them, pure ns the cause for which
these gallant spiri'.s died, we strew their
gvavt . Ami every rose bud is a recollee
lion. every flower a memory, every garland
ame 'set ii of what they were, aud are,
and sga 1 o r be, i\cu when time begins
to triable with dt cay. Our sacred, la
mented dead I Pericles, the eminent
Athenian, has told us "it is a duty to
revere the memory of tho dead; and when
they die in defence of country, to do them
none titan usual honor.” Who does not
know that he was right? The highest,
best, noblest sacrifice man is ever permit
and to make, is when he pours out liis life
b'o 1 upon the altar of Liberty iu vindica
te n o- liis country's honor or the advance
ment o! his country's gloiy Heroic ac
tion ever strikes us with admiration,
e\e tes our sympathy, commands our
love. And when we remember these
heroes here—the pain they suffered, the
tr'.aU they bore, the dangers thoy dared in
defence of that banner which now, with
an versed and drapery furled, lies
l-ut'O the daring men who followed
it . - irts are filled with that syrn
p-.ti • love which must grow brighter
am! Her, purer and purer, through
th*’ * • waid sweep of all coming time.
Ti * :r deeds, with us, are indissolubly
e-■- i with all that is true and noble,
puu .! i g >J . they form a part of the
hi-ie-v ith -e who were once our cne
mii >. .."'u ”ii one day bee on.’t ac pride of
tho wl. A.::.ev.ean people. They cannot,
will not. u; W iu ii the Us? arch which
sup net - ti,,- G-v rccu-nt has been
hr. k n; *h” '-‘A -ton- crumbled to decay :
the last star el it- glory ixpired; even
then, if human Leaits shad anywhere
iiat, or human tongues hjfl anywneie
; ’ll of high, glorious, hereto action, tbose
hearts shall recall the name, and those
i npucs proclaim the praise of the Con
federate Soldier.
**H« is n«>t dead wbOHJ glorioU> .mud
ldfu i:lnue uu high ;
To live in hearts we leave behind
J$ not to die !”
j.'vory one ot those flower-strewed graves
is as the jewel print ot the feet of imuior
talitj; each resting place a monument more
enduring than brass, more lasting than
marble, and even the perfume watted from
these 1« '.-of decorated eiay is borne up
ward Is tbs- Angels ol liberty, until the
ruslieg ul their wings is hushed on the
eternal lulls ofOod. Death to those he -
rocs in the cause for which they fought,
was a welcome as sky and stars to prison
ed men. and though to day the mother
whispering to her babe may not tell whe®?
the father sleeps, the plighted maiden, the
resting-place of her lover brave, yet above
them an epitaph is written—born tram the
inspiration ol a grateful people; inscribed
bv the thousand memories ot their during
atmd- pure as the naked Heavens, sweet
as the silver voice of victory, proud as the
trophies of a conqueror: glorious as the
celestial walks, and that epitaph— there
skei'X a Southern soldier.
To the bands of lovely woman has been
confided the trust of perpetuating this
eberishpd memory. Under her touch,
man’s roughness and fierceness are soften
ed, by her love his courage and pride are
moderated and subdued, refined by her
presence, elevated by her association, ex
alted by her affection, it is proper she
should become the custodian of his valor
and the guardian of his heroic deeds. Lit
by her deep love’s truth, her eyes watched
his departure ; strong in affection’s
strength, she sustained him in danger and
suffering ; andjproud in her adherence to
remembers his manhood and his
glory. With us to day there are no hones
bleaching upon the hid sides, uncovered by
the plowshare, scattered by vandal hands;
but, gathered together in one holy sepul
chre, they rest beneath the eternal re
quiem of the ,e mourning pine trees and the
whispering of the evening winds, as they
bear their story to the forests away. How
much we lave them, can be seen in this
universal outpouring of oui people to do
them honor.
Id yonder city the hum of industry is
hushed, the store of the merchant is closed,
the counting room is empty, the streets
are still, and the city of the living is silent
while we gather iu “the city of the dead.”
Let us always love them thus ; cherish the
memory of their noble deeds, and never
cease to remember through all the changes
and vicissitudes of our natural as wc-il as
political existence, that,
“Though right trampled ho counted as
wrong, j
And that pass for right, which is evil,
victorious;
Here, when virtue is feeble and villainy
strong,
’Tis the cause, not the fate of a cause
that is glorious.”
And with these ohjeetsin view, of which
I have thus been requested to speak, and
as a part of the ceremonies of this solemn
occasion, I take pleasure in introducing to
you one who, with eloquence appropriate
to the subject, and in “words that burn”
like their noble deeds, will tell of the
sacred cause for which they fought; the
heroism they displayed, and the duty wo
owe their memories throughout al coming
time. I introduce to you, ladies and gen
tlemen, Col. 11. D. D. Twiggs.
At the cinclusion of these remarks,
Col. Twiggs arose and spoke as follows :
SPEECH OP COE. 11. D. D TWIGGS.
We have assembled together this
beautiful April day, my friends, to do
honor to our dead ; our Confederate dead.
True we bow before no time honored
shrine, the custom we commemorate is
almost as fresh and new, as the garlands
which surround us. No herald proclaims
its advent by the flourish of trumpets !
No marshal music floats upon the solemn
air ! N’o flaunting banners are flung to
the evening breeze I The thunder of ar- j
iillery falls not upon the ear of the aged
sire to toll him of the day. No gala
sounds greet the widow and orphan. A j
weeping land bereaved of her children, [
needs no record to keep alive the memo
ries of a glorious past, no bidding to do
reverence at a nation’s grave. This day
four years ago anew star in the galaxy of
nations went out, the tattered banner of
sit*miHion freemen, baptized in (ho blood ‘
of heroes, was furled upon its broken staff
forever. Ail that is left of the lost cause
are the memories of the gallant dead who
sleep around u«. That for which they
fought has perished, and they quietly
sleep beneath the sod they died to defend.
“They have fought their lest tight,
Tuey have won their last battle.
No sound can awake them toglory again.” !
Throughout this broad land, from the ;
Potomac to tho it in Grande, this day is
honored and revered, the hum of business
ceases everywhere, and a grateful peoplo
solemnly and touchingly () ay tribute to
the honored dead. Thousands of fair
hands have been engaged in weav
ing bright chaplets to deck the
gravos of spartan men, who, in
the majesty of true manhood, laid down
their lives a willing sacrifice upon tho altar
of their country. How hallowed, then,
this day 1 How solemn its duties! How
touching this tribute! “It is meet that
beauty and virtue should strew flowers
upon the green mounds which hide such
high resolve.”
Every grave, however lowly the soldier
boy who fills its narrow bed, or how ex
alted the warrior chieftain sleeps in death,
has received this dav a fresh tribute of
immortals, fashioned by the fair hands of
beauty.
“Bring, then, your laurels, lilies, roses,
Bind them into sweetest posies,
Strew them where In death reposes,
The dear, precious dust.
Os our braves, the trueand knightly,
O’er eaeh hallow ed grave tread lightly,
’Tis a sacred trust
Thus to scatter flowers above
Lowly graves of those we love.”
No belted knight e’er buckled on his
armor in a higher, holier, nobler cause
than that they died to defend, the memory
of which we live to honor, revere and per
petuate. We were a prosperous, a happy,
a united people. A bountiful Providence
had lavished its gifts upon us. Nature
surrounded us by lovely homes and smil
ing fields. The temperate zone of the
earth, blooming with Nature’s rarest fruits
, and choicest flowers, with a soil un
equalled upon the lace of the globe,yielding
perrennial treasures to the hand of mao,
and containing vast mines of mineral wealth
within its bright bosom. Above a 1 : , a noble
manhood, sons ot gallant sires who be
queathed God’s brightest gifts, chivalrous
honor, undying patriotism, and Christian
virtue. Marked by an individuality capti
vating to the traveller, characterized by a
unity indicative of that bond of noble
charity, and generous hospitality, which
distinguished them from all the world be
side. A glorious, a noble, a heroic race.
One iu their history and traditions.sublime
in their suffering and peerl ss in their
heroism.
Dwelling here upon the bosom of this
beautiful land—at peace with themselves
and all mankind ; nothing tended to dis
turb their repose, until an insolent people,
bloated with power, invaded the sanctuary
of her honor. ’Twas then tbather aveng
ing sword leapt from its scabbard, and an
outraged people,true to the aneestra) cour
age of this sunny land, made no 1 compro
mise between honor and ruin. Standing
alone and friendless among the nations of
the earth, she bore the shock of war and,
lifting her young and trusting heart to the
God of battles, she joined in a dark and
dubious strife. No voice of sympathy
spurred her on to action,but with high and
sublime intrepidity she formed a horrid
battle front, and when the blackening bil
lows us invasion poured upon her from
every quarter of the habitable globe, with
calm and dauntless mien she died beside
the flashing of herguus. We aic not here
to-day my friends to deal in crimination
or recrimination. \\ e areuot here to enu
merate countless wrongs familiar to you all;
upon a solemn day like this, heart-burning
and passion should not rule the hour. Let
even the quick-beating of manly hearts
stirred by.better memories, be stilled, as
we >t \nd here in this Oily of the Dead :
but while we bow submissively to the
mysterious dispensations of a Divine Provi
dence, let us proclaim the justice of our
cause, and let it not be with faltering
tongue, trembling accent, or doubtful
language. Let it be thundered boldly
from the house tops and in high places.
And let the undying scorn of a brave
people greet the modern Judas who ha
betrayed his native laud, the shameless
charlatan who has fed aud fattened upon
his country’s ruin. Trust him not fair
woman; his heart is craven, his naturo
grovelling, and manly honor has no abid
ing place witbir, bis bosont. God pity the
poor wretch, who licks the band that
smites him, and on bended and repentant
knee, sells h ; s fair birthright for a mess ot
pottage. Let us hurl back the vile slander
embodied in the word traitor. No Oon
, federate -oldier fills a traitor's grave:
thank God, they were ever true to their
honor and the Constitution of their fathers.
Thev died ;o preserve that liberty which
Georg * U ashiagton fought to maintain,
that yi*»r””ts heritage handed down by
Madison, Henry, Rut-lodge, Adams aud
Fmckuey. They clung with pr.de afld de
votion to the old flag, as .ong as it was the
representative ettibie u ot liberty and prm
ciple. Tint banuer of the stars
and ' stripes has stirred the South
ern heart with a» much reverence
and emotion as did the fiery
cross of Vi-th Alpines Clansman
rouse the impetuous enthusiasm of the
Scottish Chieftain oa his native heath.
Wh eu it waived triumphant over the hosts
of Cornwallis, at Yorktown. it stirred the
Southern heart wi;h exultant pride. When
Jackson hire its conquering stars to
victory at New Orleans, it was tailed with ,
acclamations of gratitude and thanks
giving. We remembered it with enthu
siastic pride Hid, Saratoga and
Monmouth- But wt-en it waived in ’6l
at the head of invading hosts, we knew it
not. It eeased to be our banner when its
staff was planted upon the ruins of a
broken covenant. Stern fate has made it
still our flag, and when the Constitution
of our fathers is exhumed from its hiding
place and the dust of party tyranny shaken
from iis page.-, we will honor it again.
But while wo remember this let no craven
heart fear to and > homage to the memory of
another, the one under which the boys in
grev fought, the banner of the red, white
and blue. It also marched with them to
victory it Manassas and Fredericksburg
It fl iated in triumph over the swamps of
the Chiekahominy. It waived its con
quering bars arniist the smoke of battle at
Spotsvlvania, the Wilderness, Gettys
burg. Charleston, Petersburg and Shiloh.
It was the flag of Stonewall -Jackson,
Sidney Johnston, Polk, Cleburne, Walker
and Hill. Can we ever f>rget the memories
it revives ? Never ! Lit not, then, my
friends the traditions of a gallant people
die. We owe it to the memory of the sub
blimest struggle on history’s pages—
the memory of the gallant dead
who sleep around us, the honor of
our insulted wnaieo. to revere and per
petuate it. The stern messengers of death
may consign heroes to an untimely grave,
but the great and glorious princif Is for
which they fought will not die with them,
but wiil live forever.
“This shall resist the empire ot decay-,
When time is o’er and worlds have passed
away;
Cold in the dust tho perished heart rnav
lie.
But tb it which warmed it ouce can never
die. ’
Justice is not, therefore, measured by
triumph or defeat. The fiery and untamed
Cossack subdued enlightened Hungary,
and the barbarous Russian holds in dur
ance vile the land of Sobieski. We have
not. therefore, fought in vain. No cause
was ever lost which leaves behind it such
glorious memories, or handed down to pos
terity such unsullied honor, chivalrous
courage and undying patriotism. While a
nation mourns her dead eternal justice
will one day assert the immortal principles
for whi h they died and “death is even
swallowed up in victory.”
True, the myitle and the laurel deck
not the brow ofthe living, but they crown
with victory the foreheads of the dead.
The hero of Shiloh, who sleeps in the Lone
Star State, beyond the turbid waters of
the Mississippi, found victory in the dying
hour. The Warrior-Priest, whose remains
find an honored sepulchre beside the
placid waters of the Savannah, caught
its glad shout as his spirit took its
flight. The last hours of that sombre
chieftain, tho noblest Captain of our mar
tial host, were soothed by an unfaltering
trust in the ultimate triumph of our cause.
A proud smile lighted up his placid face as
he murmured in low accents “Let us cross
over the river and rest in the shade of the
trees.” He has crossed the dark river,
and bis martial spirit is at rest beneath
the trees of eternal life. A voiceless
herald proc aims victory from every
nameless grave which contains the ashes of
our gallant dead. While their life blood
was ebbing fast, and the waves of eternity
were dashing in their ears, bright visions
of their sunny land floated before their
dimmed sight, and loud paeans of victory
ealmed the agony ofthe dying hour.
“ The dying boy its music caught,
I do not die in vain ho thought,
Freedom by death and blood aro bought
For Dixie.
Sleep on young soldier with thy dream.
Well didst thou die with that bright
gleam
Os hope to shed its parting beam
For Dixie.
But, my friends, they have gone from us
forever, the strife has ended, we have
doffed the gray, laid down our arms, and
Southern honor, unsullied in defeat as well
as triumph, is pledged to accept the issue.
Wo will do it aod in good faith, but bayo
nets cannot conquer theheait. No prison
bounds can trammel the affections ;
that allegiance will “accept no issue, or
future that will not accept the past.” Let
us, then, ever commemorate this day, and
uever cease to cherish the sacred memories !
if calls forth. Let us enroll this tribute j
among tho time-honored customs of our
land; it embodies a noble design, and should
ever boas settled and certain a recurrence i
as the birth-day of Washington, or the :
Declaration of Independence. Noble woman
sets us the example—her voice is always
heard —her influencealwaysfeltin the eon- I
summation of all that is good and glorious.
Her hands have assumed the grateful
ta*k, and it cannot fail. To them we may
safely commit the memories of the past.
Some writer has beautifully remarked that
womanly character, power and influence,
are facts in the economy of Providence
just as tnueh as light, beat and gravitation
in Nature. We believe it; the history of
the world has proved it. Seek to unravel
the web of past ages, and wateh how the
golden thread of her influence is inter
woven with every portion of the strangely
wrought fabric? Wo cannot withdraw it
without destruction to the whole. Here it
gleams faintly through the darkness, or
shines with a bold radiance; there it is dim
aod cloudy, but through all its changes we
see and recognize its,mighty tracery. Our
cause would not have lived an hour with
out her influence. She sustained us in
defeat and rejoiced with us in victory, and
the manifestations of her handiwork to-day
are the outbreathings of an interest, which
from woman, is always the mute oracle of
success.
My friends, our sad task is ended, and
though no marble shaft or gilded shrine
mark the lowly resting places of tho boys in
grey.
remember,
They do not die who iu their deeds sur
vive
Koshrioed forever in the hearts of men;
Not battle triumph nor tho rude eanuon
roar,
From their calm sleep can ever wake them
more.
Dulce el decorum cst pro patria mori
Hallowed the dust wheresloep the brave.”
A Law Breaker In High Position.
There seems to be no limit to the official,
insolence and usurpation of power on the
part of the individual who writes himself
provisional Governor of Georgia. Puffed
up with the sudden notoriety he has ob
tained through the votes of ignorant
| blacks and venal whites, he aspires to be
sob Dictator throughout the limits of the
commonwealth. Not content with the
performance of his official duties as regu
; lated and defined by law, aod which are
limited and confined within very narrow
and definite limits, he assumes the powers
which rightly belong to the other two co
: ordinate branches of the Government— the
Legislative and the Judicial. Bound by
his oath of office to have the laws faithfully
[ executed , he impudently asserts bis right
i to make the laws in certain cases, and then
tl rims and exercises tho power of constru
ing and judicially expounding those laws.
: Restrained by no law save his own narrow
and bigotrd will, he is at once a charlatan,
usurper, and au umuitiuaied ijraui.
The Legislate of the State, at its last
session, passed an act authorizing and re
quiring an election to be held ia the dif
ferent counties of the State fir one Justice
of the Peace in each district.
These elections were duly held, and the
returns thereof properly made to the j
Executive office. Thereupon, it became
the duty of the Executive to issu i commis
sions to the persons who were returned by
the managers of elections as “duly elect
ed.'’ This plain, simple and positive
duty he has failed and refused to perform,
and. instead thereat, has issued and seat to
each of the persons thus ret trued as elect
ed (or at least to such as were known to lie
opposed t) the political faith of the so
ealleJ Governor) a circular containing sun
dry illegal, impertinent and scandalous in
terrogatories, and requiring of them and
each of them a definite reply. Thus
he makes the issuing of the commission de
peud entirely upon the answer which may
be made to his illegal questions. These
interrogatories are as follows :
Did you, previous to the year ISGI, hold
au office and take an official oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United States;
It so, what office did you hold ?
Did you hold an office uuder the Confed
erate or State Government during the war;
if so, what office?
Have you, since you took the oath afore
said, to support the Constitution of the
i United S ates, given any 7 aid or comfort to
the enemies thereof ?
We learn that commissions have “been,
and are still withheld, from those officials
' duly elected," who have refused to answer
these impertinent and illegal questions. The
Governor ol the State, so-called, is thus,
by bis own act. openly and notoriously
brought before the people as a violator of
the lav. - which he has sworn to >ee duly
ex. cute-d.
We trust that few. if any, of the elected
Magistrates have so tar forgotten the duty
whch they owe to their constituent'and
their own self-respect, as to give any an
swer to these interrogatories. They should
af refuse to answer them. Let the re
sponsibility for the destruction of this im
portant branch of our Judicial system rest
where it properly belong'—on the headot
K. H. Bullock.
’ The Sow minister to St. James. 1
The London Times, in commenting upon ;
the recent nomination of Mr. Motley as
the successor of Mr. Johnson at the Court
of St James, makes a ju.-t and very pal
pable “hit" at the composition ofthelladi
eal party in this country, which has fired
the indignat'on of the truthful Forney and
the no less virtuous Greeley. The Times i
says: Air. Motley is a zealous member of j
“ the Republican party, with all its i
“ opinions, sympathies, and prejudices.
" He may be called a cultivated Radical.
“ Though education and a refined taste
“ may prevent him from identifying him
“ sell'with the more extreme section of his
“ party, his political views are not veijy
“ different from theirs.”
This remark of the Great “Thunderer”
shows that intelligent foreigners have dis
covered at last, what from the first was
very apparent in this country—that the
Radical party is composed mainly of the
odds and ends—the broken down hacks
and dishonored hangers-on of the two old
and respectable parties of this country.
That while the issues involved in the prose
cution ofthe war drew many good men into
its rank- many of them have never openly
aligued themselves with or espoused warm
ly the principles ofthe party.and that they
have become more and more disgusted with
the ignorance, corruption and bad charac
ter of those who aspire to be its leaders
and control its destinies.
The Times thinks that it may be possible
for a gentleman of refined and cultivated
taste to associate in some degree with the
Radical party, but that it would be quite
impossible for such an one to identify
himself with the more extreme section ofthe
organization. Our British neighbor draws
it rather mildly, we think, in making this
sort of qualification, yet he has succeeded
in making the rotten carcass of Radicalism
quake and tremble under the directness
and power of his blows.
We on this side ofthe water know full
well that such men as Fessenden, Trum
bull, Sherman, Anthony, Fish, Chase,
Ferry, Sprague and a host of other equally
intelligent and respectable gentlemen are
heartily sick of their association with such
creatures as Butler, Kelly, Ashley, Schurz,
Schenck, Sickles, and a host of lesser lights
who now run the Radical machine. Oil
and water will not mix. Honesty, intelli
gence and virtue cannot long be held sub
ject to or mixed with ignorance and fraud,
and corruption. The end is near at band
of Radical fraud and Radical misrule.
Views of Senator Sprague.
Frotn a long account of an interview
with Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island,
which appears in the New York Herald
we make the following extract :
“People say, Governor, that they do not
comprehend exactly what you are driving
at. Some insinuate that you arc biuding
f'or the Presidency ; others that you want
to cut loose from your party, and still j
more state, in downright terms, that you j
are crazy.”
“Hold on!” exclaimed the Governor ; |
‘‘let me answer the last charge. Yes—l |
am crazy—crazy, as every reformer has
been since tho beginning of the world.
Because I refuse to follow in the ruts of
that sot calling itself the Senate of the
United States, the city is raised at once,
‘Oh! Sprague is crazy.’ I will let them
know before long exactly how crazy 1 am.
I am not bidding for the Presidency
either. If it were offered to mo to-mor
row, I should only take it on conditions of
being at liberty, to kick out of the White
House every office-seeker that dare come
into it. Not a man should be appointed
under me to office because ho was this j
man’s friend or that man’s supporter, j
I would have an incorruptible board of j
examiners for every office under the
government, and no man should be ap
pointed unless he showed the proper capa
city to fill it. I would disregard party al
together, and put only the best men in the
nation in places of trust; but as I know
such a condition of things can never be
attained,the Presidency is not my ambition.
Neither am I about to cut loose from my
party and attach myself to the Democrat
ic. Both as parties are rotton ; but I in
tend to build up a ■ new party, in which
politics will have little to do. My party
will have for its one grand principle the
reform of our finances, the rendering of
money cheap, the reduction of taxation,
the elevation of the working classes, the
protection of labor, the improvement of
our cotton, agricultural, commercial and
manufacturing interests —in short, the
making of this country really great, strong,
and prosperous. All your talk about tho
nigger s -ffrage, States rights, women’s
rights, rebels and so forth, is only fit for
these old grannies in Congress. Where is
our shipping at this moment? Who of
those men pestering our ears all the time
about reconstruction, rebels, niggers, &c.,
lias ever lifted his viice in favor of the
broken down commerce that was once our
pride and glory ? I tell you, sir. these
inen would drive this country headlong to
the dev lin their greed for power. This
country to-day is intrinsically weaker than
any other on the face of the globe, not ex
cepting Mexico. Now. let me explain; but
first let me enlighten you upon the purpose
of the speech, the opening one ot the late
series I made in the Senate. It was neces
sary I should draw the attention of the
people to Congress'to invite greater atten
tion to the speech 1 made upon the finances
and the bill offered in connection there
with. I began by skirmishing, my objec
tive point being the Treasury—the great
national curse. My scheme was no hur
riedly considered affair. For three years I
have devoted my mind exclusively to this
subject, aod you will find, if am mad, there
was some method in my madness, after all.
You saw how that first speech awakened
a thrill of interest throughout the nation.
There is some of the evidence, (pointipgto
the bundle of letters..) Now, if I had
made my proposition, any
preparation of the public mind, it
might have gone the way of all like
propositions. I hold that tho Treasury
jis the root of our present evils.
! Forty millions of dollar-, wo will say, are
received there this month. This money '
comes out of tho pockets of the people.
One man whose taxes :-ro large has per j
haps to borrow the money at a high rate j
| of interest to pay his indebtedness to the
I Government. The money goes into the t
Tr<xtcurp, „n,I lir>« thorn hoarded un.for a j
month or six weeks without producing a
particle of benefit to the Government or
i thepeople. Twenty millioos of that amount,
we will say, are paid out by the Govern
ment, and twenty millions remain. The
market in New York, where the capital of
the country is centralized, is declared
I scarce. When money is scarce those who
; have the least put their stocks on the mar
ket at a low rata to induce purchasers
and procure to carry on their
business. There is always in New
York a class of speculators who buy
up all such stocks and wait for the fa
vorable time —next month, we will say—
when the Treasury, in place of $20,000,-
000, pays out 5C0,000.000. Then money
becomes abundant, and these stocks are
rushed in upon the market, and the gam
blers make their harvest. You see there
is no equilibrium heie. Our money mar
ket is all the time fluctuating, influenced
by the vast, overgrown corporation, the
National Treasury. Then, again, all kinds
of stocks are affected in this way. I can
| go into the market in New York any day
S fa my business, and the process that ob
tains there smash by my superior force of
capital the small dealers that venture com I
petition with me. The whole country is j
affected by this. Money is entirely too
dear. The cotton planters at the South
pay almost twenty five per cent, for the
capital to work their plantations. Eng- j
land is the chief market for cotton, but
she is every year extending her purchases
in India and Egypt, and finally, by mani
pulating the markets, she will damage f
our cotton interests at the South irrretriev
ably. Agricultural interests suffer in the ;
same manner from this dearness of money
England will, after a while, buy less of our
agricultural staples. Capital is too dear, !
the cost of transportation too high, the
taxes too many and too crushing for our
farmers. Same way with the manufactur
ing interests. Twenty years ago our firm
in Rhode Island was one among twenty
little ones ; now we have the whole field to
ourselves ; but then we crushed out the
others and are now engaged fighting the
big fellows ; until finally new England will
have nothing but a small aggregation of
enormous monopolies, wielding a power
dangerous to the State and to the liberties
and happiness of the people. Bat think of
all that money that goes into the Treasury
being committed to the charge of a boy,
formerly a secretary ot mine, whereas in
Europe the most responsible men in the
i community are invariably selected for the
AUGUSTA, GrA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1869.
duty of receiving and looking after the
public fund-. The Treasury, above all
things, should be jealously guarded, and
all its incomes and expenditures scrutin
ized with exceeding care.
Sore ot the Pardoning Business or
Bullock.
A gentleman of this city who was re
cently in attendance at Franklin Superior
Court gives us some intelligence in relation
to Bullock’s pardoning business which,
notwithstanding the Express Agent’s
previous exploits in this line, is really
difficult to believe.
His st itement to us is, that some time
since a Radical, an! former Bureau agent
in that county, was charged with tho
larcrny of a gun, for which he was ai rest
ed and gave bond for liis
Court. During the recant session of the
Court a true bill was found by the Grand
Jury against him, and he was brought to
the bar of the Court for trial, when he
coolly drew from his pocket and handed
to the State’s attorney a free and full
pardon from the so-callei Governor Bul
lock. Os course, all furfher proceedings
in his ■ case were stoppel and the thief
was set at liberty
During the Court a true bill was also
found and returned by i'\e Grand Jury
against a white charged with
the beating to death ol a negro. The ac
cused was duly arraigned, when lo ! he
also produced a full parlor, from Bullock,
and was also discharged.
Wo have never known ait instance be
fore in the whole course of our reading
where a Governor has interposed tho par
doning power to shield a criminal previous
to the making of a “,egal aecuiatiou by a
Grand Jury,” and prior to conviction by
“a jury of his peers.” As wehave said,
if our information was not Jirect and
positive, wc should hardly be able to be
lieve these reports. How long wiil the
people submit to these open and defiant
violations of law by his Expn-sselency wo
are not prepared to say. The laws pro
vide a remedy for their infractions. While
high official position should, in our opin
ion, always protect the officers from prose
cution in doubtful, or even it trivial eases,
yet the dignity and efficiency and purity
of the Executive office deuands that its
occupant should bo held t) a rigid respon
sibility for such heinous offences against
the laws and against society. Impeach
ment is tho remedy, and we believe that
very soon a deeply outraged people will
demand its enforcement unless a chang e
for the batter should take place in the
Executive office in Atlanta.
Opposition (o the 15th Amendment.
The recent meeting of the people of all
parties in Chicago to prote .t against the
adoption of tho loth Amendment has ex
cited the ire of the gentle Philosopher of
the New York Tribune, and ho devotes a
whole column of his paper ti an attempt
to answer the thirty odd resolutions passed
by that meeting.
That Democrats, State rights men and
sticklers for the Constitution should have
been found in the meeting causes Greeley
no surprise whatever. But the presence
there in large numbers of the most intelli
gent,patriotic and virtuous of the Western
Republicans has disgruntled the sore head
ed negropholist to such an extent that
words fail him in his at:einpt to hurl suit
able anathemas against these “false and
treacherous friends.”
The truth is, the Cbieago meeting is
nothing more than a straw —a mere ripple
on tho wave in comparison to the groat
.storm of popular indignation and fury
which is quintly but surely gathering
throughout the entire length and breadth
of the land against this unconstitutional,
unjust and revolutionary measure. It was
a Western man who give utterance to the
thought—“this is a white man’s govern
ment,’’and tho white men of tho West are
to-day as earnestly devoted to the great
truth which it contains as was its distin
guished and honored author.
Neither tho exigencies of party, the
predjucies of moon struck fanatics or tho
timorous appeals of a weak and undecided
Chief Magistrate will be permitted to set
up in this country a balance of political
power in the weak, imbecile and vicious
black race. Northern white men like ne
gro rule no more than Southern whites.
While many of them were weak and cruel
enough to wish their Southern friends put
temporarily under African rule no con
siderable number of them wiil ever tolerate
such a condition of things in their own
State. The Chicago meeting shows very
clearly that public opinion will cry aloud
against this disgraceful scheme, even
though by so doing the great Radical par
ty is split to atoms.
Prejudice Gives In !
The New York Tribune is rejoiced to be
able t j chronicle the fact that two of the
hotels io that city have finally overcome
the unjust and unreasonable prejudice
against color, and now receive as guestsi
on equal terms in every respect-, persons of
the “African persuasion.” Those “new
idea” hotels are tho Metropolitan and tho
Everett House.
The proprietors of these two boarding
houses, of course, expect to make a good
thing of their full concessions to Radical
mode3 of thought and living. They, of
course, exp\et that their houses will now
be crowded at all seasons by the negro lov
ing Yankees and Hoosiers who visit New
York for trade or pleasure. Indeed the
inducement# which they afford to all
Radiealdom for free,fair and perfect equal
ity with th.* “emotional blacks” must secure
for their houses an enormous amount of
business. Greeley himself wiil, doubtless,
dine frequently at the “Metropolitan” and
sip his tea at the “Everett” now that he
can enjoy the pleasure of a social hob nob
with Cuffy, and indulge in a little pleasur
able flirtation with Dinah at the tibles of
those hitherto respect ible houses.
And then what a fair opportunity is
offered to the young “bloods” of New
York who are of Radical families and in
dulge Radical proclivities ? The splendid
parlors of the “Metropolitan”,will afford
them ample opportunity for flirting with
the buxom wenches of the superior class,
ands urnish rare occasions for the display
of their “Court manners” before the ad
miring gazes of the ebony hued daughters
of Africa.
Os course, neither respectable Northern
and "Western men and women, or gentle
men from the South are expected to sojourn
even for a day at the “Everett” or
“Metropolitan.”
Another Fight Proposed to “Little
Bbody.”
The telegraph announces that Francks
W.Goddard’lats Captain Ist Rhode Island
regiment, has pronounced Sprague a liar
calumniator and poltroon. Who is Francis
W. Goddard and what does he want to
adveitise ? This is very naughty language
to be telegraphed all the way from the
iand of “Steady habits; but we suppose
it is to be “Constitutional.’ Bat Phew !
how fiery t ese New England people are
gettirg I Nobody hurt yet.
The Imperialist.
The third number of this weekly is be
fore us, ol date April 24th. In this num
ber, the editors take oc ;asion to correct the
misinterpretation of some ol its compeers
of the press, in the following article :
OCR TRUE POSITION.
Do not let us be misunderstood : if pure
Republicanism were any longer a possi
bility in Ameriea —if for halt a century it
had not been an empty mockery, we would
unhesitatingly favor it as moist likely t“
insure the preservation of freedom and
good order. So long as a Republic is pos
sible. a Republic is best; because it is best
suited to the crude and undeveloped con
dition of the race. But it is a singular
truth that an Imperial form of govern
ment, while it y, aud will be the inevitable
result of the highest possible Christian
civilization, is also the one best calculated
to deal with the social cankers and diseases
which result from such a position as ours.
Having artived ac this conclusion, it be
came us, as true patriots and loving our
country well, to attempt by discussion and
'ong consultation to so prepare for the
coming change, that as much as possible
of the ancient evil may be eliminated from
the new order of things.
Nothing is good in itself, and the best
medicines are capable of employment as
poisons. Any man can see today the
poison that lurks in Democracy aud Re
publicanism, and were it weak to deny
that a similar poison may be developed,and
has been developed, in autocracy. The
former could have been avoided if proper
measures had been taken in time, but it is
now too late, and the Empire has become,
under some forms, inevitable ; but we
have still an opportunity so to shape our
national movement, that we may give the
world the spectacle of the grandest politi
cal achievement in all its annals—an Em
pire, the soul of which is Freedom, and
its foundation Peace. We trust, there
fore, that none will bo so malicious as to
accuse us of any designs upon the liberties
which we are really striving to restore and
secure. We are looking forward to good
and economical government; the abolition
of corruption ; the protection of industry ;
the security of life, liberty, and property ;
the sure punishment of crime ; to national
respectability and good credit ; in fact, to
all that is included in the grand words—
Pease, Safety, Honor.
It will be seen that the Imperialist as
sumes that pure Republicanism is no
longer a possibil ty iu America,and that an
Imperial form of government is inevitable.
But who is to be the Emperor ? Will it
be Grant or Sumner, or some gray-eyed
man? We who essayed the Republican
ism of Confederation and maintain the in -
violability of the Constitution,having failed,
now live in military provinces, and have been
schooled in Imperialism in its worst form.
We have learned how laws are expounded
and enforced by the dictum of an epaulette
and by the power of the bayonet. We
know what trial by Military Commissions
means. We have learned how property of
peaceable, law-abiding citizens, aged, and
of the highest respectability, may, without
the slightest pretext,be seized for “the good
of the government, upon suspicion, upon
affidavits of uoknown parties, and,without
the slightest pretext or justification, hur
ried beyond the reach of the lawful owner.
We know the value of a tost oath as a
shield to cover plunder. We who live
“outside of the Constitution,” under no
recognized organic law, know how the
ballot can and has been manipulated and
the ballot-box guarded by bayonets, made
to subserve the demands of “general or
ders ” But has “the great Northern
heart,” “the great heart of the nation,”
learned these things ?
In the South all that is necossaty and
essential in and for tho transition to an
Imperial form of Government has been
prepared by a Republican Congress.
Republican France prepared the machinery
for the Imperial Corsican. Has an Ameri
can Congress prepared all (he machinery
requisite lor the coining American Em
peror ?
One of Grant’s Appointees Detect ■
ed in Stealing.—The telegraph , a few
days ago, gave notice of this fact. This
morning, we notice in the Philadelphia
Telegraph the following account ofit :
“For a long time past a gentleman well
known in this city—a man ol means, of
culture, ot refinement —has been in the
habit of pilfering various small articles
from one of the largest and bast patronized
of our wholesale and retail grocery stores.
The firm, though fully aware of the thefts
bore with them, hardly knowing what
course, under the circumstances, to pur
sue. At length, however, patience at a
end, they brought the matter to a cul
mination on Saturday last by having the
gentlemanly thief arrested in the street.
He was conducted back to the store, and
there compelled to disgorge the articles ho
had but a few minutes previously stolen.
These consisted of a box of segars and
divers other trivial things, such as he had
been accustomed to take.
“He then offered to pay a sum of money
equivalent to the value of the articles he
had stolen for two years past, ou condition
of being let up softly. The firm accepted
his proposition, when ho paid up SSOO.
The matter is now amicably settled, and
all parties are satisfied.
“The kleptomaniac is a member of a
large and celebrated political organization
in this city, besides being connected with
several socioties. Through the influence
of certain well known politicians, his fast
friends, ho lately received an appointment
from President Grant, as Consul to one of
the European ports. It is understood that
since the disclosure of his “peculiarity,”
his appointment will bo withdrawn, and
his resignation sent in to the organizations
of which he is a member.”
Losing Faith. —The New York Times
is losing faith in President Grant’s (Inau
gural) promises of reform, and would like
to know what means the removal of the
“vigilant and vigorous” Assessor Webster,
who, we are told, has been “very sum
marily ejected from office without the as
signment of any reason and under the
pressureof some unknown influence.” The
editor says :
“The expectation which was general at
the outset of the Administration, and wa3
prompted by th ■ Presiden ts declarations
on the subject, that faithful andj efficient
officers would not be disturbed, no matter
to what party they belonged, but especially
if they were Republican l -, has been
grievously disappointed. Some of the
best men in the service, both at home and
abroad, whose record is* unimpeachable
and wtiose politicial orthodoxy is unques
tioned, have been summarily removed and
forced to give place to inferior bat more
clamorous applicants. In truth, the old
style of making appointments, by accept
ing the pressure and dictation of politicians
as the controlling influence, has been ad
hered to pretty closely. The sweeping re
forms, so loudly promised and so eagerly
expected , seem to have been indefinitely
postponed.”
General Sickles. —It is encouraging
to see that personal character is still ap
preciated at its true worth by somebody at
the North. The Evening Post —a Radical
journal —demonstrates the fact in the sol
ing paragraph ;
There seems to boa conspiracy in certain
quarters to t ilk General Sickles into no
tice as a candidate for the place of Minister
to Spain. When Sickles was sent to
England as Mr. Buchanan’s Secretary of
Legation, the appointment was deemed a
discreditable one. and it will be a worse
mistake to assign him a higher and more
responsible post. Ii he has done, as is
claimed lor him, the country any service
in the late civil war, vote him a sword and
a pension, and let him go ; but do notcon
-1 for on such a man any place of honor or
trust. It would be better to give him the
salary of a foreign Minister and keep him
at home. As long as there is a respectable
man to be had for the place—and there are
scores upon scores to be had for the asking
—let not such a man as General Sickles
i be sent abroad as a se'ect sample ol our
countrymen.
Disgusted with Grant.—The Cincin
nati Catholic Telegraph , which has ad
hered to Grant hitherto, has at length
become disgusted with his style of ‘dis
tributing the office?, and in its last issue
prints (he following :
“ Grant has gratified his personal, pri
vate iil will, growing out of jealousy in war
times, toward Gen. Rosecrans, by nominat
ing Nelson, of Indiana, to succeed him in
I the Mexican Ministry. Grant, by his
nepotism and favoritism- is making friends
1 of persons whose friends&ip will be worth
; lass in his hour of need, and losing the
| friendship of persons necessary to his ad
| ministration.”
1 It is rather singular that the only promi
nent Catholic holding office under the
Government by appointment of the Presi
dent, was removed as soon as Grant got a
chance at him.
Dr Harris tells us that nine hundred
horses in New York city died of glanders
last year.
Train has deliverd his 'seventy-fifth
lecture of the course of six hundred in
I tuccession.”
Letter from Sylvtuila..
Sylvania, Ga., April 26, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Sirs:—You have perhaps heard that
our Court was changed to Searbon. I will
inform you that Judge Schley has revoked
his order, and it stands at Sylvania. It is
true that our courts are held under dis
advantageous circumstances, a lawyer’s
office being the only house which the
Ordinary could rent for the purpose of a
temporary Court House. Motion was
made some time ago in the Chronicle &
Sentinel that the Ordinary would make
efforts to rebuild the Court House, which
promise he has kept, and did let to the
lowest bidder the outer w rk of a Court
House (as carpenters say, the hull), in
lenuing to let out the finish of the interior
next year. Daniel Parker, Esq , is the
undertaker and contractor at the price of
$3,500,’ and the work is to be done by the
sth October next. Mr. P. is an energetic
and indefatigable man, aud is pushing the
work ahead. The Ordinary has drawn his
order on his minutes, directing and requir
ing the Tax Collector to add one hundred
per ceDtum on the State tax of the county
this year for the express purpose of meet
ing the debt for this building. It is be
lieved that a building, after the plan sub
mitted, will bo larger and better than our
old Court House, it being 42x50 feet, with
the court room in the second story, and a
passage and six rooms below, something
like the Burke Court House. There are
many cases on the old dockets to be dis
posed of at the next term, but very little
new business, onlv ten or twelve cases re
turned. This is the lightest docket for(ap
pearance term that I have ever known.
The morals of our county is good. I an
ticipate fewer bills in the criminal court
•than at any previous term. I hear of but
very few infractions of law, and they are
confined mostly to negroes. A few days
ago Col. Singelton had the misfortune to
lose bis dwelling by fire, very great loss;
most of the furniture was saved. The fire
was communicated to the building by ac
cident. Our farmers have been very busy
in planting cotton for the week past. The
corn looks bad, owing to the recent cold
weather ; it is thought that no material
injury will result to that crop on this ac
count in the main, as corn made backward
for such causes generally bears heavier and
purer grain.
Respectfully, R. D. S.
To the Press ana People of Georgia.
Knowing the anxiety which you have
felt for the welfare of our State, and the
welcome with which any intelligence con
cerning our future would be received. I
have thought it my duty to state, briefly,
what I suppose would be important or in
teresting to you.
The story of Governbr Bullock’s appeal
to Congress to subvert the Government of
our State, together with the means used
by himself and his official and unofficial
co laborers, to effect bis purpose, would be
a long, sad, and humiliating story which
it is now unnecessary to repeat. Suffice
it to say, that we have been pursued
by an energetic, persistent, and devilish
malignity which can only be rationally
accounted for by the most selfish and evil
motives.
Nor is it necessary to relate the long and
interesting story of the means, or instru
meiitaffies in the band of Providence, by
which we have escaped, as if by. miracle,
from the calamities which were prepared
for us in the Bullock-Butler Bill. With
the single weapon of Truth, wielded by
friends in and out of Congress, we have
defeated the conspirators against our peace,
our prosperity and our remaining liberties.
But our enemies are again at work, pre
paring, by personal efforts and printed
documents, for another assault, through
Congress at its next session, upon the life
of our State. In a t amphlet, now being
circulated, entitled “The Status of Georgia
—Letter to Hon. John B. Dickey, Senator
41st Senatorial District, upon the status of
Georgia, by Hou. Henry P. Farrow,” the
refuted slanders of Governor Bullock are
repeated, reasons are given for the non
action of Congress at its late session, and
assurance is given that Congress will re
construct Georgia at its next session. He
denounces General Meade an I all who
disagree with the views of Governor Bul
lock, who is lauded for the “firm, de
cided, and bold stand t aken and main
tained” by him.
I do not mention these facts for present
comment, but to warn the people of Geor-,
gia.and to suggest the policy which Ithink’
ought to govern us. My own opinion of
Gov. Bullock and those who are co-operat
ing with him for the destruction ofthe
Constitutional State Government -which
they have sworn to support, is, that they
are moral,if not legal,traitors to the State,
and it does not lessen their moral guilt,
that, instead of using personal violence,
they seek, by false pretexts and false testi
mony, to accomplish their objects by a law
of Congress, from which there could be no
appeal.
How, it may be asked, should sucht
Governor and such men be treated by the
people whom they have sought to betray?
I answer — Treat them with silent observa
tion; there is no alternative which would
not he worse. They will doubtless hope to
excite disturbance and vio'enee which can
be used as pretexts to accomplish their
purpose. It will be our duty not only as
good citizens, but to defeat the purpose of
our enemies, to see that the laws are strict
ly observed aod enforced, maintaining, in
all things, a position of conscious rectitude
and a pati nt endurance of evils for which
there is do present remedy. Evils are
sometimes permitted t 0 correct or prevent
still greater evils. But as God is true, so
justice, with its compensations, will, in
good time, prevail.
I bel'eve that the counsels of our ene
mies will come to naught. The back-bone
of their project is already broken. Many
of their oncin'nends in Congress have been
enlightened as to their character, motives,
and purposes, and will not, even for parti
san purposes, aid them. Among these, I
am happy to say, is FreSidant Grant, who
holds that Georgia has complied with the
Reconstruction Acts of Congress, and is
entitled to the same rights as other States
of the Union; Representatives Bingham,
Schenck, Jeuks, Poland, and other Re
publicans, and the entire Democratic party.
Whil-t mentioning these evidences of hope
and confidence, we should not forget how
popular majorities are sometimes swayed
by circumst inces, and that a two-thirds
majority iu Congress is practically omnip
otent lam satisfied that in this rests the
onl/ hope of our enemies.
There is now really but one disturbing
element between us and a majority of Con
gress—the riaht of olored meu to hold
office under our Constitutiou and laws. It
was represented, and generally believed,
that the Legislature acted in viHful viola
tion of law in declaring them ineligible.
The upiuiuu aud uf Judge Suliley,
in the case ofthe State vs. White, which
was printed in the National Inteligencer ,
and distributed in Congress, modified, and
in some ins’aoces changed, the prevalent
opinion of the action of the legislature.
That cass will he decided by the Supreme
Court of Georgia in June. The decision
will settle the law on that subject. • The
pe iple of'Georgia will abide by it, Congress
will, in my opinion, be satisfied of its jus
tice, will admit the State to representation,
and thus will end our Federal troubles.
I take this opportunity to publicly re
turn my thanks to the one hundred and
eight gentlemen—judges ofthe Supreme.
Superior and Ordinary Courts, Mayors of
cities, and others—who, in answer to my
circular, furnished the testimony relative
to the condition of affairs in Georgia,
which silenced the false witness and slan
ders of our enemies, and destroyed one of
the chief arguments upon which they had
relied for the accomplishment of their pur
poses.
In the trials and sacrifices of war, and in
the higher , moral and mental trials and
sacrifices of their subsequent efforts for
peace, the people of’Georgia have illustra
ted the highest type of Christian Civiliza
tion and heroic fortitude. Nutwithstand
ing the afflictions which they have suffered,
the provocations to disorder which they
have received, and the discourage
ments by which they are surrounded,
if we compare the present condition of
affairs with the past, there has
j never been a time when all classes of our
people were more kindly disposed, when
the laws were better observed, when life,
liberty and property were more secure, or
when the entire energies of the people
were more persistently devoted to product
ive industry.
No people have been more blessed by
Nature’s bounties than the people of
Georgia—situation, climate, soil, produc
tions, mineral resources, manufacturing
power—these—if we can have assured
peace and security for the future—with
such a people, and with the aid of capital
and population which will flow in to share
the rich rewards of industry, the future
glory and greatness of our State can scarce
ly be conceived.
Our purposes and action will, in a great
degree, determine our future. Let us
strive to prove worthy of the blessings
which we seek.
Very respectfully your ob’t serv’t,
Nelson Tin:.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. IS
! OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENCE*
On the Wing, April 24, 1369.
Editors Chronicle Sentinel:
At Union Point I learned, through I)r.
Speer, a discovery had been made which
created considerable excitement, particu
larly in the minds of the negroes. On
emptying a bag of guano a human hand
was discovered in the contents, which,
from all appearances, was evidently that of
a colored person. How in the world this
hand got there, was the all-absorbing
question. A negro man, on looking at it,
remarked : “Well, Gemrnen, confound my
skin, if I got any more use for de ’Yan
kees ;’ da saunt live niggers here to make
cotton, and to make cotton for denselves,
and da can’t send no mor.e live niggers,
now da got to sendin dead niggers here to
make cotton. I’s got no more to do wid
dem certin, dat I aint.”
We travelled on to Lexington with heavy
clouds overhead, and every indication that
the long dry spell would soon be broken
by refreshing showers. The C .urt
organized and dismissed for the
evening, and we all retired to refresh for
the labors of the coming day. We yielded
to the kind embraces of balmy sleep, only
to be broken by a furious roar of the
Heavenly elements. The lightings flash
ed, and thunders roared, and tho rain
storm descended, but we felt secure, and
hoped to rest in ease and quiet. But 10,
the spell of our hoped joys must be broken.
A legal brother became very restless,
whether from the fear of the wild com
motion without, or pains within, was not
at first to be determined. The former
might yield to kind admonition, but the
latter require of us exposure to the terri
ble siage, neither pleasant or profitable.
There were no groans or expressions of
pain, but evident symptoms of distress.
The brother could endure no longer, but
leaped from the bed, ignited a match,
applied it to the candle, and harried
over the room in search of his hat.
And here the secret eked out. The brother
had bought him a hat a few days before,
and whether, from the intuitions of a dream
or freak of immagination, he concluded it
was raining in his new hat, and could give
no further sleep to his eyelids until it was
made secure. Indeed the brother was uot
to he blamed, for a fine looking man de
serves a fme looking hat.
Among the gentlemen of the bar present
who participated more or less in the busi
ness of the Court were Messrs. Toombs,
Reese and Dubose, of Wilkes; Hill, Lump
kiD, Hillyer, Cobh, Thurmond and Harde
man. of Athens; McDaniel, of Monroe;
Lewis, of Green; Nash and Mathis, of
Madison; Stephens, of Hancock; Acker
man and Edwards, of Elberton; Mathews,
Reid, Johnson and Hardaman of Lexing
ton, and several others whose names 1 did
not learn.
On Tuesday, Gen. Toombs made a very
able argument before the court and jury,
in opposition to the relief measures of the
last Legislature, as confirmed hy a de
cision of the Supreme Court. This
speech should be in print, and read by
every man, that a check may bo put to the
wholesale injustice ti creditors.
In the heat ofthe stirm of arguments
that, he poured forth, he asked where did
these principles ol equality, “so-called,”
come from ? They did not couie front
Heaven; for everything from that upper
and better world was pure, holy and good.
They did not come from Earth, for all the
Governments of the civilized world main
tained tho obligations of men as sacred
and binding, and enforced them hy well
regulated codes of law. Where, then, did
they come from ? They came from Hell!
It seems that the security on a note
given in 1859 wanted to be relieved of his
obligation to pay it on the ground that the
principal had gone into bankruptcy, but the
jury rendered a verdict making him pay
every dollar of the claim, amounting to
about $5,000. It is true, it looks hard,
but I have no idea that the creditors will
require hall the amount decided on by the
jury. *
The two young men charged with the
robbery, near Union Point, often thousand
dollars, came Wore the Court, confessed
their guilt, and were sentenced to three
years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
Oglethorpe and surrounding couutios
were pretty well represented, and I have
rarely witnessed more interest among a
people in the proceedings of a court.
This county is in an easy and comfort
able condition. Nearly all old claims have
been adjusted, debtors aod creditors have
compromised on an average basis of fifty
cents in tho dollar, and will not trouble the
courts and put themselves to immense cost
for litigation in this business in the future.
Both parties have acted magnanimously.
Where each are disposed to be honorable
and considerate, adjustments can easily be
effected.
The wheat in Oglethorpe and surround
ing counties is reported in fine condition,
and the prospect flattering for more than an
ordinary yield. The farmers have propor
tioned their crops with a view to raising an
ample supply of Corn,and one or two more
good cotton crops at ruling prices will set
the country all right again.
J udge Andrews thinks I am so faithful
in my attendance upon his courts that he
must admit me to the bar. But while I
am willing to be present at the courts-, I
don’t wish to participate in its business,
least I should become like the follow who
said he had been on the jury so much that
he could’nt help stealing to save his iife.
I have always desired a little smattering
of legal knowledge, but from what the
Judge told me ot a certain charaotor, don’t
know whether I ought to seek for it or not.
He stated that a man broke open a house
for the purpose of robbing it, and on enter
ing found nothing but law books, and said
he was d—d thief enough already without
any law books.
As many severe jokes as are told on
lawyers, there are some of them very
clever tcllows, and I have CDjoyed myself
finely with them.
Tne Judge and myself accepted an invi
tation to dine with the Hon. Joseph Echols,
who resides at the splendid residence once
the home of Governor Gilmer. Nature
and art have contributed to make this all
that could be desired of an earthly home.
The orchard, the garden, yard and grove,
all clothed in verdant green, interspersed
with flowers, presenting an air of set-one
loveliless, which charmed even the little
birds, that filled the air with strains of
sweetest musio.
The table, in keeping with ail the sur
roundings, was the highest of good taste,
and commanded the admiration of all. The
dignity aDd grace, soft and genial maimers
of our kind friends won a hold upon our
hearts, which will he fondly cherished.
My thanks are also due ti Dr. Willing
hata and his excellent family for their
hospitality and kindness. Such luxuries
and social pleasures form oases in the
traveller’s life, truly refreshing and grate
fu! to recollect.
Our friend, Rowe, of the Hotel at Lex
ington, displayed his usual euergy and in
dustry to accommodate his guests, and I
believe all were abundantly satisfied.
Traveller.
Letter from Jefferson Gouuly.
CROPS, weather, ftC.
Louisville, April 26, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Gentlemen : Seeing reports of the
crops from various sections of the State,
hut none from this county, I have con
eluded to post you iD regard to our condi
tion. The planters are all busily engaged
preparing their land and planting cotton;
a very few have finished planting, hat the
larger patt are not more than half through,
while some I have heard of only began to
plant the past week. The wet weather
early in the Spring and the late dry spell
have very materially retarded planting
operations. Last Tuesday we had a fine
rain, but more is needed now. So far as I
am able to judge, I do not think any larger
crop of cotton is being planted this year
than was last, if, indeed, it is as large;
but the land has been generally much
better prepared than I have ever known it
before—two horse and sub-soil plows beiDg
no variety—while double the amount of
fertilizers are being used, so that, admit
ting a smaller area to be planted, good
seasons added to the careful preparation
of the land, and the increased quantity of
fertilizers, will doubtless make the yield
fully equal to that of ’6B.
Corn is up, has been replanted, aod is
now being plowed, and looks very well,
considering the cold weather to which it
has been subjected. Small grain looks
well, and promises a fair yield; hut, I re
gret to say, that less than an average crop
has been planted.
The murder of Dr. Ayer is still the
“nine days wonder’’of our community,
and the general sentiment is, that as he
has been killed, Providence or the Devil
(which ever made the selection) ciuld Dot
have made a more fortunate choice for the i
| community than the negro Wilson, who
i did the deed. I have known Wilson since
he was a child, and never knew a more
abandoned villain for his ago. 1 lis former
master has often said he would be hung,
and the prospect is very fair now of his
prophecy, being soon fulfilled. Since his
commitment, it has been discovered that
he tried to get two other negroes who lia ed
on the same place with him to join nim
in killing and robbing a horse-drover, who
was stopping this Spring with his (Wil
son’s) employer, telling them the drover
had money, and that was a much easier
way to get it than working in the cotton
field. He would have assassinated any
one else, white or black, if he had thought
they had money, just as soon as he did
Ayer, but an inscrutable Providence selected
Ayer as the victim, and to this dispensa
tion we bow with most perfect resignation.
I see the Bull-ox's Secretary, through the
assistance of Forney and Greeley, are try
ing very hard to work this up into a Ku
klux outrage, but if the above-named edi
tors will only read the evidence which you
have published, they will abandon the at
tempt if they have one particle of moral or
political honesty in them. Wilson’s own
race here does not believe any such thing,
in proof of which is the fact that nearly all
the witnesses against him are negroes, the
prosecutor is a negro, and the foremost one
in the chase when he ran from the offioer
was a negro, and it was the negroes who
wanted him hung on the spot. Now, if
there was the least reason for even a sus
picion that the deed was done by the Ku
klux, do Messrs. Forney and Greeley be
lieve the negroes, who are here on the
spot and familiar with ail the evidence in
the case, would be so anxious to offer up
one of their own race an innocent victim to
the bloody Ku-klux?
The game may succeed at the North,
where they are willing to believe anything
except the truth that is told of the South.
The healt hos our county is •unusually
good, and our people are exhibiting more
cheerfulness, hope and energy than I have
noticed since the surrender.
Yours, truly, N.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
The Aggressive Policy of the Administra
tion—The Drift of Events—France and
England well Informed—Acquisition of
Cuba Means War with France, England
and Spain—A Naval Collision Appre
hended —Looking Forward to the Irish
Vote The Porter-Borie Department-
Senator Sprague and his Opponents—
Plucky Talk.
Washington, April 25, 1869.—1 t has
been several times intimated in this cor
respondence that the main feature of the
political policy of the present administra
tion would bo the acquisitiqn of adjacent
territory, without limit and regardless of
consequence. It was predicted that the
absorption of British North America
would finally be attempted to be made the
bjsis of the settlement of our difficulties
with England, and that the immediate an
nexation of Cuba would be sought to be
brought about by direct and indirect aid to
the insurrectionists in that Island. Recent
int elligence from Paris and London by cable
indicates that the Governments of
France and England have been heretofore
bet ter informed as to the drift of events on
this side of the Atlantic than the mass of
the American people, or than even those
whose political positions and great finan
cial interests would seem to have placed
them in the way of obtaining a clue to the
real purposes of General Grant and his
particular advisers, which are now , how
ever, no secret anywhere.
The country need be in no further doubt
upon another and very important, point,
namely : that we cannot acquire either the
“New Dominion” or the “Queen of the
Antilles” without a brush of considerable
magnitude with Great Britain, France and
Spain. Besides, pretty definite informa
tion to this effect , made known to the pub
lic generally through European dispat chos,
I have specific facts enabling me to say
that our Government is not only aware of
the threatened belligerent attitude of those •
Powers, in the event of a persistence in
the proposed policy of this Government,
but has taken action by certain naval or
ders, which is meaningless under any hypo
pothesis than other apprehensions "of not
very remote naval collision! “Let, the
War come ! What can these Powers do
with the United States ! What damage
can they inflict! They might possibly
force us to use the sponge freely, even to
the extent of wiping out our present in
debtedness. They might destroy our com
merce. Would not this be a positive
natural advantage ? Do we export any
appreciable amount except bonds and gold?
Do we import anything but luxuries,
wbieh may very well be dispensed with ?
And, in the meantime, what would become
of the commerce of those truculent Mon
archies, now “hanging upon the verge of
dissolution from intestine oommotions ?
At any rate the Republican party will
secure the Irish vote, which will be worth
at least a few hundred millions of dollars
in 1872. Such is the argument of the
friends of the administration.
A spirited Democratic cotemporary of
this morning takes a somewhat different
viow of “the situation.” It says:
“After the lapse of four years of peace,
during which they have utterly failed in
their pretended efforts at reconstruction,
they see that they have only Irelandized
the South. A,nd what do they do to throw
dust into the eyes of our overtaxed peo
ple ? They furiously demand the payment
of the 1 Alabama claims.’ They are even
ready to go to war and seize the Canadas
for collateral security. They propose to
annex Cuba, in order to assist the Repub
lican cause in Spain, and obtain some more
Radical negro votes. ’ ’
The Navy Department, from the fore
going and other causes, has been of late a
point of intense interest. I understand
the responsibility is duly appreciated by its
head or heads (whichever you please).
It is rumored that Admiral Porter is de
cidedly of opinion that one Captain is
enough for any one ship, whatever her
size, and is by no means disposed to dis
charge the duties of a mere “officer of the
deck.” It is further said the venerable
Borie threatens resignation. I do not
credit the latter report. If General Grant
could only review his decision that no man
should occupy two distinct positions under
the Government at the same time, Borie
might resign, and the Admiral might be
assigned to the quarter deck of the
Navy Department in sole command.
It could not be expected that he would be
willing to throw up his rank iri the naval
service and thereby go ahead of Stewart in’
self-sacrifice! Grant cannot do without
him. He must therefore remain witli
some nominal Secretary, and with whom
could he “get along so well” as with the
present amiable Head of the Department ?
For similar reasons lam inclined to doubt
the rumored appointment of Gen. Sickles
to the Spanish Mission. The “General”
was recently “retired” upon full pay for
life. Will he give this up for an ephemeral
Embassy that may not, and probabiy will
not,last six months? And the President’s
determinations, we all know, are as inex
orable and lasting as the laws of the Modes
and Persians I
The little game eoek of Rhode Island iB
doing a wonderful business in the way of
“cutting the combs” of his antagonists.
I He did not, however, commence personali
ties. “Brown and Ives,” now so famous,
might forever have remained in blissful ob
| scurity it this map Friday, the President
, pro teni. of the Senate, had not overstep
j ped the proprieties of newspaper discus
; sion. lam glad to learn, from a modern
' Lewis Jenkins, who has recently “inter
viewed” with the lively little Senator, that
no two-penny quarrel with “Brown and
Ives,” or with the whole “caboodle” of his
Rhode Island enemies, set him upon his
present course. This Jenkins reports Mr.
Sprazue to have said :
“I have no fondness for a long life, and l
hawe no particular ties to bind me here,
but I intend to live long enough to get my
plan through or, at least, understood be
fore the people. It is right, it is certain
to prevail. I had do vanity in proposing
j it. 1 have studied it out. and have corne
! to it alone, but I tried to have others than
; I propose it. I talked it over to -Members
jof Congress. I saturated committees with
it. 1 tried to influence all the Cabinet with
I it. I strove to get it through the head of
the President, but he is a gone case, and
the politicians own him. What did Pen
: counter? Argument? Answer? No,
but personal abuse and ridicule, and a
I family war upon my business. Then I re
' torted, and showed that 1 put Anthony
himself into the Senate; that I paid the
1 requ's te taxes of SIO,OOO,_ which were
necessary to elect Burnside Governor. He
stancs to-day on my pocket-book.
Anthony is a managing fellow, indeed.
He thus seems to have rdached the Senate
through the broccbe- pocket of Mr.
Sprague, aDd reached the chair ol that
august body by defaming his benefactor.
The avowal of Senator Sprague, that he
had 'no fondness tor a long life” has
reference to the public threats ol ttc hrag
adocia. Abbott. The following plucky
talk is folly sufficient to paralize l he very
gizzard of the North Carolina carpet-bag
ger :
“I intend to be diverted by no personal
quarrel ftoip bringing qiy plan before the