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Chronicle aiti Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1876
Ex-Gov. Soott is a great rascal him
self, but there are degrees in vice as
well as in virtue, and even Scott’s ras
cally stomach is turned by a portion of
the Chamberlain ticket. He says he is
friendly to Chamberlain, but there are
men on the ticket that he doesn’t see how
he can support. Ye Gods ! who is it
that turns Scott’s stomach ?
At a meeting of the Democracy in At
lanta Saturday night the following reso
lution was unanimously adopted: “That
“ we cannot recognize the right of indi
“ vidual Democrats to declare them
“ selves independent candidates, for we
“ believe that those who are not for m.
“ are against ns, and independent can
didates are more distasteful to Demo
crats than Radicals themselves.”
The Republicans seem to have made
some gains in the town elections of Con
necticut yesterday. These will be used
to bolster np their sinking fortunes in
Ohio and Indiana. We must block this
game by giving the Democratic ticket an
increased majority in Georgia. Let
every man go to the polls to-day and
vote for the nominees of the Democratic
party.
The GriiHu News is evidently pleased,
with Mr. Milton Candler’s recent
speech in GritHu. It says of the effort
and the orator:
This speech of- Camii.eb's established hie
reputation assn orator, and we heard several
say It was an abler and more eloquent speech
than the one reoently made here by Ben Hill.
We can inform onr readers that Mr. Candi.er
is no ordinary man. Beneath a rongh exterior
he wears a diamond intellect and a sound,
clear Judgment, with a character as pure as
the driven snow. He is a gentleman, a Chris
tian and a patriot.
The Mayor of Atlanta will have to
live very eoouomically next year. At a
meeting of Council, held Monday night,
a committee made a majority report fix
ing the Mayor’s salary at one thousand
dollars per annum. The minority re
port fixed the salary at eight hundred
dollars. The majority report was adopt
ed. The salary of Aldermen was fixed
at two hundred dollars per aunnm and
the salary of Gouncilmen at the same
amount.
The Atlanta Commonwealth thinks
that “with Hill in the Honse, and
Smith and Gordon in the Senate, Geor
gia will be prepared for any emergency.”
The Griffin News agrees that Mr. Hill
should remain in the House at least for
two years more, but says “Mr. Norwood,
our present able Senator, should be re
turned to the United States Senate for
another term.” The LaGrange Reporter
is equally empbatio in the declaration
that Mr. Hill should not remain in the
Honse and says he should have a seat in
the Senate instead.
The correspondence in the London
limes concerning the danger to .English
manufacturing supremacy threatened
from the United States shows no sign of
abatement. In a second letter? dated at
Liverpool September Bth, “A Practical
Man” says he can specify a class of
English goods whioh have latterly been
wholly superseded in the United States
market by goods of domestic manufac
ture, to the excellence of whioh he has
had to bear UDwilliog testimony. An
other class of goods can now be pro
duced at but fractionally above English
rates. Speaking with the advantage of
several years residence in this country
he says that the dauger is great, for
“the ample labor-saving appliances and
“ the greater intelligence of the work
“people” of the United States will
bring the English manufacturers face to
faoe with a competition such as they
have never yet had to meet.
K. K. Scott has fallen into line and
begs like Chamberlain and Honest John
for Federal assistance. He, too, has
gone to Washington with a piteous ap
peal for help. He talks to the correspon
dents of Republican newspapers and ex
presses the opinion that it will be ne
cessary to have more United States
troops to inspire the negro voters with
confidence in that State, and that with
out them Hampton will be elected.
“Senator Patterson has returned from
Philadelphia, where he went to see the
President, and reports that the troops
necessary to preserve 'order in Aiken,
Edgefield, Newberry and Laurens conu
ties will be furnished." The troops will
have no difficulty iu preserving or
der but they will have considerable dif
ficulty in making those counties go Re
publican, and this fact it is that trouble?
the heart of Honest John.
The Radical mob in Charleston pro
claimed, in unmistakable language, sev
eral weeks ago, that a colcred man who
joined the Democratic party should pay
the penalty with his life. They enforced
this doctrine with slung-Bhots, sticks
and revolvers in the streets of that city.
They have more recently supported it
with the shot-gun. Thomas Martin
(colored), an ex-member of the Legisla
ture from Abbeville, recently declared
his intention to support the Demo
cratic ticket, and was waylaid, shot and
dangerously wounded last Friday even
ing. If Thomas Martin had remained
a Radical he would now be a well man.
Bat Thomas Martin dared to think for
himself and oat loose from the robber
band, and he will have leisure to reflect
his wickedness while the doctors pick
back-shot oat of his body.
Mr. Bristow eats his crow very reluc
tantly, and with many grimaces, which
shows that |the diet does not agree with
the reformer’s stomach. Returning from
a speaking tour in Ohio the other day,
on the can, he fell into oonvemation with
Governors Hendricks and Dobsheimkr,
and said that unless Hates made reform
the distinctive’principle of .his adminis
tration, it wonld be undoubtedly the
most infamous this Government had
ever seen. He was asked what the Re
publican party had done for the Sooth,
and replied that it had tanght it how
muoh it [could stand. If it oonld bear
Spences andjothers of his kidney, there
were no limits to its endurance. We are
afraid that nnless Mr. Bristow takes his
crow more gracefully, Hon. Zach.
Chandler will retire him from the
stomp as he did that other reformer, Mr.
Cakl Sckcbs.
ELECTION returns.
An election for Governor of Georgia
and Members of the Legislature will be
j held in this State next Wednesday. We
j beg our friendß throughout the country
: to send us the returns as soon as possi
ble after the polls close. Where there
is communication with Augusta by tele
gaph send a dispatch to the Chronicle
and Sentinel. In giving the vote of
each candidate please state whether he
ran as a Democrat, Republican or Inde
pendent, and give the vote'in detail.
We shall be greatly obliged for any as
sistance of this kind. When dispatches
are sent the sender will Save us some
times unnecessary expense by inquiring
at the telegraph office whether a message
has already been sent to this paper.
.THE DEATH HATE IN SAVANNAH.
We print this morning some very in
teresting statistics of the yellow fever
epidemic which has decimated Savan
nah. For them we are indebted to Mr.
John McLaughlin of that city, who
rightly says that his report will “an
swer a temporary purpose until a more
extensive one is issued by the Corpora
tion or the Medical Society.” Accord-
ing to Mr. McLaughlin’s figures there
have been seven hundred and fifty-five
deaths from the time the epidemic
commenced to October Ist. Of these
five hundred and seventy-one have re
sulted from yellow fever, and one hun-
dred and ninety-four from other causes.
Putting the population of Savannah
since the fever commenced at fifteen
thousand, and remembering that a large
proportion of these are aegroes not fin
able to be attacked by yellow fever, and
the mortality is indeed startling. One
statement conveyed by these figures is
apt to be disputed Ehd to occasion
much discussion in the fnture. It is
almost incredible that with this small
population there should have been, in
the space of thirty days, nearly two
hundred deaths from other diseases.
We cannot bnt believe that the per
nicious and malignant fevers which ap
pear in the bills of mortality must often
be but another name for yellow fever.
THE WASHINUTON NATIONAL MONU
MENT.
The Washington National Monument
Society is out with an appeal to the
people for means to complete the monu
ment. Congress appropriated at the
last session the sum of $200,00 to'this
work, bnt this is only an aid to, not a
completion of, the work. The people
are still afforded an opportunity to
“manifest their veneration for the great
and good Washington by personal con
tributions to the erection of his monu-.
ment.” The present may not be an in
appropriate time to call the attention of
the people, by comparison, to the char
araoter of the monument now in process
of completion. It will be, when com
pleted according to design, the tallest
structure in the world. Its proposed
height is 485 feet. The Pyramid of
Cheops, in Egypt, is 479 feet, and
Ohephrenes, next in order of height, ifc
456# feet. St. Petor’s Cathedral, in
Rome, is 448; St. Paul’s, in London,
404, and Bunker Hill Monument, 220
feet. It will be seen that the Washing
ton Monument overtops the tallest of
the pyramids by the height of the man
—six feet. The stone terrace aronnd
the base is 25 feet high; diameter of the
terrace, 200 feet. The monument is now
174 feet high, and the rest of the work
is for the people to do.
CHAMBERLAIN'S TRICKS.
We learn from the best authority that
Chamberlain is attempting to repeat
tbe Hamburg game iu Aiken and Barn
well counties. After the unfortunate
affair in that place he succeeded in hav
ing an ex parte investigation by a Re
publican coroner’s jury, some of the
members of whioh]were charged with pro
voking the bloodshed. These ex parte
statements were given to the world, and
furnished ample capital for tbe bloody
shirt journals and bloody shirt orators
of the North aud West. The Reformer
now proposes to turn the recent disor
ders in Aiken and Barnwell counties to
political account. We learn that he has
sent two of his Radical pimps to Aiken
to reduce to writing all the lies which
ignorant negroes or depraved white men
will swear to. These ex parte and ex
tra-judicial statements will be fixed up,
forwarded to Washington City, and, by
means of Republican correspondents,
scattered broadcast over the country to
fire the Northern heart. This is Cham
berlain’s game now, as it was his game
after the “Hamburg massacre.” It
should be blocked. The Democratic,
the respectable, citizens of Aiken and
Barnwell counties should take steps im
mediately to thwart his scheme. The de
positions of men of known character and
intelligence, who have personal knowl
edge of the facts, should be taken and
published. In this way the Northern
people would be furnished an antidote
for Chamberlain’s venomous false
hoods. The true history of the emeute
will show that the colored Radicals were
the aggressors; that they were law
breakers from the beginning to the end;
that they supplemented a brutal assault
upon a defenseless woman, with insur
rection, arson, train-wreckiug, pillage
and murder. Let Chamberlain’s lies
be anticipated by the truth. ,
THE COLORED PEOPLE’S APPEAL.
We find iu the columns of the New
kork Herald the following letter from a
colored man in Savannah:
To the Editor of Out Herat l-
In the name of humanity, philanthropy and
Christianity, why do not the friends of the
colored people of this stricken city come to
their rescue ? We are dependent on the
whites for something to eat. and almost alto
gether for medical assistance. If they do not
relieve ns we must die. Now the Northern
people, our political aud religions advisers and
shepherds, should send us bread and physi
cians. and not leave it all to the Democratic
whites here. Yours, Ac.,
Charles Paries (Colored).
The colored people of the South will
discover from the experience of their
brethren in Savannah that the professed
friends of the colored people at the
North will give very little, indeed, to
the relief of their real wants. Their
“political and religions advisers and
shepherds’’ will show them precious lit
tle of “humanity, philanthropy and
Christianity.” The money raised in the
North for the yellow fever sufferers
comes mostly from those warm
hearted benevolent people who have
never made many professions of their
philanthrophy.lt is intended for the relief
of suffering whites and blacks alike.
The money sent from Southern citiee is
meant for the relief of suffering whites
and blacks alike. The gentlemen who
have charge of its distribution in Sa
vannah apply it to the necessities of
both races. Asa matter of fact, the
bulk of the colored population in Sa
vannah, well and siek, was supported by
tbe white people of the city from the
breaking out of the peetilenoe until their
own means became exhausted. Their
wants are now receiving careful atten
tion. The “professed philanthropists”
usually give everything but that whioh
is most needed, money. General Bur
lkb and Mr. Wendell Phi clips gave
the colored people of Savannah the
Fifteenth Amendment and tbe Civil
Rights bill, bat they will not give than
a dollar to keep than from perishing by
disease or starving to death. In Alabama
two 1 years ago, when election time was
coming on and the State was considered
close, General Grant promptly ordered
j rations issned to the colored people who
had been deprived of work by the over
flowing of the plantations on the Tom
bigbee river; bnt tho State of Georgia
is hopelessly Democratic and the Presi
dent has no rations to give to the starv-
ing negroes of Savannah. The Repub
lican orators in the North, in the East
and in the West are beggiDg the people
to vote for Hayes and Wheeleb, in or
der to avert the utter [extermination of
the colored race in the South, and they
harrow np the feelings of their auditors
by describing the cruelties practiced
upon the “poor blacks;” bnt they have
not a word to say for nor a cent to give
to the “poor blacks" in Savannah, many
of whom are fever-stricken and all of
whom are dependent upon charity for
existence.
REAL REFORM.
Governor Tilden is a practical re
former. A dispatch from Albany says
the nsnal notices' 1 will be sent to the
various counties of the State by Comp
troller Robinson this week of the amount
of tax required from each for the com
ing year for .school tax under the levy
of 3 11-24 mills by the last Legislature.
The total reduction is $5,677,506 29, a
tremendous triumph of the economical
spirit infnsed by Governor Tilden into
the State finances. The amounts as
sessed to New York and Kings and the
entire State are as follows :
1876. 1875. Reduction.
New Y0rk..54,161 021 $7,233,189 $3,072,168
Kings I 798.665 . 1,307.204 508,639
The State. 8,529,174 1 4,206,680 5,677,506
This is a reduction unparalleled in
the history of the country. Nearly five
and three-quarter millions of dollars
have been saved to one State in a single
item of expenditure—the support of the
common schools. Such a saving seems
almost incredible. No one pretends
that in reducing the cost Governor Til
den has impaired the efficiency of-the
public school system. The schools will
be as good as they ever were and at a
much less cost to the citizen. He has
doubtless discovered and stopped leaks
innumerable in the management of the
school fnnds, and reform is the secret
of success. This is the man who should
be at the head of the National adminis
tration. Let every Georgian help to
put him there by going to> the polls to
day and voting for Colquitt and the
nominees of tho Democratic party.
THE ENEMY IN OHIO ALARMED.
The Republicans are showing signs of
demoralization in Ohio, and a State
which was at one time oonceded them is
now placed in the doubtful column of
nearly all estimates. The Democrats
aie hopeful and declare they will carry
the State by a handsome majority. The
Republicans have flooded Ohio with
speakers, and suddenly realizing the dan
ger of the situation are doing everything
in their power to regain the ground lost
since the nomination. Some of their
appeals show the peril they are in as
plainly as words can show it. We find
the following in a recent issue of the
Cleveland Herald:
We find that a 1 arge number of persona are
going to tho Centennial this week. The great
er part of those going are Republicans. Before
they start let them think of one thing. The
State election occurs on Tuesday, the 10th of
October. The vote of every Ohio Republican
will be needed on that day. To Ohio was con
fided the task of carrying the outworks of the
enemy before the grand assault. The* trust
reposed in Ohio must not be betrayed. Her
honor must not be tarnished through negli
gence or selfishness. Personal inconvenience
must give way where interests so great are in
volved. Those goii.g to the Centennial should
either make all their arrangements so as to
render their return in ample time for the elec
tion certain, or they should postpone I their de
parture until after election day. The last plan
would in most cases be the wiser. The people
of other States are just new rushing to Phila
delphia. Let them go. They have nothing at
stake just yet. The place of Ohio and Indiana
Republicans is at home until their duty is dis
charged at the polls on the 10th of October.
Th n they can enjoy the Exhibition with the
consciousness of duty done and a reward earn
ed.
Tho above gives us some idea of the
enemy’s fright. They can aot spare the
few hundred voters who may bo going
to Philadelphia between this and the
10th of October and who may be detained
there until after the election. Republi
cans who contemplate seeing the Cen
tennial are implored to postpone their
visit until after the election. Of course
just as many Democrats as Republicans
go from Ohio to Philadelphia, the
Cleaveland Herald to the contrary not
withstanding, bnt no frantio appeals are
made to them to stay at home and save
the country. It seems to be certain
that the Democrats will carry Indiana
by a handsome majority. If they do
the vote of New York is alone needed to
insure the election of Tilden. If we
carry Ohio as well the battle will be won
before November.
A CORRECT VIEW OF THE CLAIM BUSI
NESS.
The Pittsburg Pont, a short time
since, called attention to one branch of
the prostrate trade industries of that
city, consequent upon the depressed
condition of the South. We quote:
A reference to Pittsburg industries in form
er times will show the meoh&nio now idle, be
moaning his present enforced want of employ
ment, that he should place the blame where it
properly belongs, viz: on the constant interfer
ence by the General Government with the indus
tries of the South. For the benefit of our
readers we giv .> an item of information fur
nished ub by a Pittsburg mechanic, giving the
number of engines and sugar mills built in
this city for the sugar-producing districts of
the South from 1830 to date, as also their
value:
Year. No. of Mills and Engines. Cost.
1830 to 1840 190 #1.900,000
1840 to 1875.... 387 2,844.000
1850 to 1860 276 3,688.000
1860 to 1870 7 121.700
1870 to 1776 2 32,000
Total 712 *8,404,700
The Cincinnati inquirer says these
are the “claims” they nsed to make
upon the North and would make again
if given a chance. A similar showing
may be made for the same mechanic
branch of Cincinnati industries. Cin
cinnati used to torn ont from her foun
dries and machine shops not less than
two hundred sugar mills and engines a
year for the South. Now hardly one is
bnilt for that trade. The steamboats
that ply .[between Cincinnati and New
Orleans have as their return cargoes
principally scrap-iron, empty beer kegs
and such like, as their manifests show.
All Cincinnati industries that looked to
the South as their principal market have
also suffered deeply. In order to re
cover some of that trade, if not all, Cin
cinnati is now constructing s twenty
million dollar railroad on borrowed
money, for which her tax-payers pay 7
per oent. per annnm. “We are show
“ ing, at heavy cost to ourselves, our
“ desire for the most peaceful and
“ friendly relations with the Southern
“ people. Oar desire shoald also be,
“as it is oar interest as well, that the
“ South be restored to a prosperous
“ condition, that its agricultural in
“ dnstries be encouraged, and that the
“ former amicable arid friendly rela
“ tions between the sections be renew
“ ‘ , -
Maj. W. F. DeSChamps’ ginhouse was
burned down Thursday, the 21st alt.,
aboat 12, m. Origin of the fire sup
posed to he accidental. Mr. DeSchamps’
loss is about $1,600. No insurance.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1876.
A CHANCE TO SUBSTANTIATE.
A few days since we published a let
ter purporting to have been written
from Angnsta by a Northern merchant
to his partner in New York. It was fur
nished the Evening Post for publica
tion by “J. B. S., 54 Wall street,” who
guaranteed the trnthfnlness of the
writer. The letter was filled with out-
rageous slanders of the Southern peo
ple, and especially of the people of
Charleston, to whom this mendacious
merchant had been selling goods. The
writer stated that one of his Charleston
enstomers, who commanded a volunteer
artillery company,- informed him that
the whites provoked the recent outbreak
in that city, and that they had matured
a scheme to mnrder all the negroes in
the place. The Charleston Journal oj
Commerce copied the letter, and the
comments upon it which appeared in
the Chronicle and Sentinel. Mr. E.
A. Smyths, Captain of the Washington
Artillery of that city, published a copy
of a letter which he has addressed to
“J. B. S., 54 Wall street,” in which he
pronounces the statements of the New
York merchant base fabrications, and
asks that “J. B. S.” contradict the
slanders he has pat in circulation. We
hope “J. B. S.” will have the manhood
to come to the front, reveal his own
identity, and give the name of the man
for whose character and veracity he has
vouched. Until he does so every New
York merchant who has visited Charles
ton recently will be suspected of the
authorship of this lying letter. Will
not the New York World bring “J. B.
S., 54 Wall street,” to the front ?
SOUTHERN ECONOMY AND PROMPTNESS
KELT IN NEW YORK.
The New York Journal of Commerce
represents an unwonted activity among
wholesale grocers in that city. The low
rates of freight produced by competition
between the different trunk fines have
proved a decided benefit to many
branches of trade, but perhaps to none
so much as the wholesale grocers. A
member of the firm of H. K. & B. F.
Thurber & Cos. states that the Southern
branch .of the trade is in very good
shape. The business is greatly helped
by the fine condition of the crops and by
the circumstance that farmers owed less
on the crops they now are gathering
than on any crop harvest for years. Mr.
Moore, of Moore, Jenkins & Cos., who
are principally engaged in the Southern
trade, states that they are doing a more
satisfactory business now than for many
years past, more particularly in the
matter of prompt payment for goods sold.
He thought that the planters of the
South were, as a class, in a better finan
cial condition than ever before; they
were cultivating their present crops with
the greatest possible economy, literally
living on their corn bread and bacon,
and consequently when the crop was
gathered it belonged to themselves.
The influence of the better financial
standing of the planters is of course felt
all through the South, and as a natural
consequence New York benefits thereby
in increased trade.
A MEDIUM EXPOSED.
A London dispatch published in the
Chronicle and Sentinel Tuesday morn
ing, announced the arrest and appear
ance before a Bow street Magistrate of
“Dr. Slade” to answer a charge of
vagrancy and a charge of conspiracy to
defraud, preferred against him by a dis
tinguished scientist, Professor Lankes
ter. An exchange tells us that the de
fendant has long been known in the
United States as one of the most won
derful of spiritual mediums. Hundreds
of people have been ready to testify to
the marvellous character of the manifes
tations which have occurred in their
presence, and he has been referred to as
beyond question, when other impostors
have been exposed. Believers in spirit
ualism have pinned their faith tq him,
and sceptics have resorted to him for
convincing evidence of the reality of
spiritual communications. From these
classes he has for years gathered a rev
enue such as no honorable, intellectual
effort conld win. So great was his suc
cess that in an unlucky h©ur for him
self he determined to go abroad to
spread his fame and increase his wealth.
He created a genuine sensation in Lon
don, and we are told that from thirty to
forty persons a day have resorted to his
seances at a guinea a head. Even sci
entific bodies of great dignity and im
pertance have gravely discussed the phe
nomena which attended his sittings.-
But at last his trick has been exposed.
Dr. Slade’s forte has been producing
written communications on a slate held
under a table and ostensibly pressed np
against it while the writing was done on
the upper surface. Though many me
diums have claimed that darkness was
essential to the successful working of
the spirit force, he always operated in
the fight. Professor Lankesteb of Uni
versity College, London, is the man
who has discovered his modus operandi.
He has shown conclusively by snatch
ing the slate from the medium just be
fore the spirits were supposed to
do the writing, that it had already
been done by the medium himself.
He was led to suspect this by observ
ing the motions of the medium’s arm
while the slate was held under the table
and apparently on his knee, and while
he was trying to divert attention by
conversation and rappings on the table
or the tipping over of chairs. These
rappings and tippings were also ob
served to be such as he might easily
make with his feet. The trick of Dr.
Slade is almost contemptible in its
simplicity, and only shows once more
how easily people are gulled wherever
there is a bold assumption of supernatu
ral power. Always, though there were
scratching heard upon the slate when
it was in a position which rendered
writing on its upper surface an appar
ent impossibility, there was opportuni
ty to produce the writing without be
ing seen to do so before it was brought
to that position. Everything attend
ing the performance was suggestive of
concealment of a trick, and when it
was done it was not to be compared
in startling characteristics with those
of a skillful juggler. And yet Dr.
Slade was a “great medium.” English
law has very little regard for “great
mediums,” however, and we shall not be
at all surprised to hear in a few weeks
that Dr. Slade is doing his rapping
with a hammer on a stone in an English
prison.
The statement aboat Chamberlain’s
recent visit to the North made by Mr.
Frederick A. Palmer, of Montmorenoi,
Aiken connty, in his blood-curdling let
ter to the New York Times, does not
tally with tbe reformers’ own assertions.
Frederick A. Palmer says the Govern
or went to Washington to hasten the ap
pointment of United States Deputy
Marshals. The Governor says he merely
went North “to bring his family home.”
Who tells the troth ?
The Merriwether Vindicator inti
mates that payment of the bonds of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad owned
by Messrs. Branch, Herring and others
will be asked of the next Legislature,
and takes strong ground against it.
On Thursday morning, the store of
Mr. G. Richards, at Mechanicsville, with
the entire stock of goods, was destroyed
by fire.
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
GEORGE H. PENDLETON ON THE
STUMP.
The Ohio Statesman at Lima—An Audience of
*fen Thousand People—The Southern Ques
tion Discussed—An Able and Statesmanlike
Speeeb—The Truth About the South—Re
publican Schemes Exposed.
Hon. George H. Pendleton recently
spoke at Lima, Ohio, and an andiance of
ten thousand people assembled to hear
the Ohio statesman. After speaking of
the promises made by the Republicans
in the Greeley campaign, and, the man
ner in which they had been violated, Mr.
Pendleton took np the Southern ques
tion. He said :
The honest, simple truth is that peace,
order, good will do reign at the South
generally. I say it from a somewhat ex
tended personal observation and from
an attentive examination of all accessi
ble evidenoe. The right of the negroes
to vote is fully and freely recognized.
His fall participation in civil equality is
freely admitted and fully protected. He
is secure in his liberty, home, family,
property and labor, and if there is an
exception anywhere it is joist where the
Republican party predominates. In Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Geor
gia, Alabama, Arkansas there is abso
lute peace. In Louisiana we hear of
outrages occasionally. Hamburg is in
South Carolina, and in South Carolina
the Republicans have absolute sway.
The reason is obvious. In States under
Democratic control there is peaoe be
cause there is good will between the
races, and this good will the Democratic
party is stimulated by interest and pa
triotism to cultivate that it may divide
the negro vote. In every State in which
the Republican party has maintained its
control it has done it by stimulating the
hatred of the blacks against the whites,
by arousing their fear of re-enslavement,
of being deprived of the suffrage, of in
security as to family and property, by
rigidly enforcing the color fine; and in
this bad work the few white Radicals
there are aided by the bloody-shirt Radi
cals here. In charity, I wish I conld
honestly believe “They know not what
they do.” The resalt is violence, out
rage, lawlessness. The simple truth is
that peace and good will exist at the
South in spite of the Republican party,
and if it were swept out of existence one
day, on the next day that peace and
good will would be as universal as at the
North. The freedom, civil equality,
home, fireside, family, property, labor
of the blacks would be, as they ought to
be and must be, as freely admitted and
as fully protected as the same rights in
the whites.
The great disturbing element at the
South—its bene and curse—is the horde
of thieves and plunderers and adven
turers, who have made spoil out of the
o intentions and miseries of both races,
and who have been supported in all
their misdeeds by the administration,
and, unwittingly I by the party
generally. The Republican party can
not correct this abuse, for by this abuse
it fives both North and South. I met
this considerate statement, said to be
from one of the ablest and most candid
papers now supporting Governor Hayes
for the Presidency : “Oar own solemn
belief is that the less said on this point
on the Republican side the better; that
the outrage argument serves and can
serve the purpose of nobody in this can
vass bnt the Republican knaves; and
that the probabilities are that the South
will be more peaceful under Tilden than
under Hayes, and this for reasons which
lie on the surfaee. Tilden is not a weak
or foolish man. He will have no motive
for tolerating disorders at the South,
nor will his leading followers. On the
contrary, they will perceive clearly the
importance of tranquility in that region,
to the stability of their hold on power
in the North, while these disorders will
actually constitute nearly the whole
political capital of the Republicans,
Conklings, Mortons, Chandlers and Cor
nells, with whose support Hayes is, it
seems, to be saddled ” Has the Re
publican party fulfilled its promise of
economy ? In eleven years it has col
lected more than four thousand one
hundred million of dollars by taxation,
and of this enormous amount has paid
only five hundred millions on account of
the public debt. It spends twice as
much exchequer as the administration
of Mr. Buchanan paid for the same
service. The present House of Repre
sentatives is Democratic. The ap
propriations made by it in the ses
sion which has just closed were sixty-five
millions of dollars less than the esti
mates of the Republican secretaries, and
forty millions less than the appropria
tions of last year. The Republican Sen
ate compelled the House to add-ten
millions of dollars to its appropriations,
and yet the saving this year amounts to
more than thirty millions. Has there
been any reform of the tariff ? I will
not weary you with details. Yon know
it is a master-piece of injustice and
wrong; that it fosters one industry to
the injury of many; that it saps
the sources of production; that it
cost the people five dollars for
every one which goes into the
Treasury; that it is one fruitful source
of the stagnation of trade and business,
and the oppression of labor which sur
rounds us. Has the Republican party
fulfilled its promise for civil service re
form ? Ask Mr. Schurz, and if he does
not speak plainly, read his speech at
Cincinnati during this month; ask Bris
tow and Jewell and Curtis; ask yonr
neighbor, Governor Cox, who left the
Cabinet for reasons he well knows. Has
the Republican party fulfilled its
promise as to a sound financial system
and a restoration of property ? Let Mr.
Schurz answer. I read from his speech
at Grown Point on Saturday, the 9th
inst., reported in the Cincinnati Com
mercial : “Now, my fellow-citizens,
what is the present state of things ?
Look around you, and yon will see it.
It is uncertainty; it is apprehension; it
is want of confidence; it is stagnation of
business; it is crippled trade; it is de
pressed industries; it is spreading bank
ruptcy; it is thousands of people having
no work, and having nothing to eat; it
is general discontent and distress.”
And you know this desoription is not
one whit exaggerated. Charge this con
dition of business on the Republican
party as one of its crimes, and Mr.
Schurz echoes the statement of Senator
Sherman that the canse of this uncer
tainty, this anxiety, this apprehension,
is not the Republican legislation, but in
overproduction—overtrading. Overpro
duction of what ? Has God permitted
the earth to be too fruitful of bread
stuffs, so that your food is too abun
dant and too cheap ? Have the mines
yielded too muoh gold and silver, so
that specie payments are too easy ?
Have they produced too much coal, so
that fuel in your houses and your fac
tories does not cost enough ? Have the
spindles of Lowell turned out too much
cotton or woolen cloths, so that coats
and shirts cost too little aDd blankets
are too abundant ? Have the shops of
Natick made shoes so plentiful that the
child of no laborer goes barefoot ?
There are not too many of these nec
essaries of oivilized life, but there is too
little ability to pay for them. Labor is
idle; wages are low; and in the midst of
plenty markets are stagnant and labor
ers are suffering. Driven from this
point, they tell ns that these periods of
suffering are periodical! Is this our
boasted civilization ? Is this our boast
ed knowledge of trade and commerce
and finance ? And have four centuries
of active, busy commercial life—four
centuries of glowing sunlight after the
night of the middle ages—four centu
ries of uneqnaled mental activity and
scientific investigation—four centuries
which could produce the compass, the
steam engine, the steamboat, the rail
road, the telegraph, the newspaper,
which conld raise America from the
depths of the ocean to the sight of
Europe, and because of rapid intercom
munication among the nations has been
obliged to invent the system of free
trade, which will soon embrace the
world; have these fonr centuries brought
ns to the pitifnl conclusion that com
mercial prosperity and adversity come
and go in order, like the seasons, by di
vine comma! and; come and go, not to in
dividuals, by their own fault or misfor
tune, but to communities, to nations, to
the whole commercial world, without
cause and without remedy, like the flood
and the ebb tide, at the fitful bidding of
the changing moon ? Uncertainty 1 ap
prehension ! depression of industries !
says Mr. Schurz. And in the presence
of Republican legislation what need to
seek other canse ! In the exigency of
the war the Republicans passed tbe law
of the greenbacks. It demonetized ooin;
it drove coin from circulation; it gave in
its place what they called the money of
the people. It was to be taken by the
people for every debt due them, and to
be the price of their labor in the field or
the shops; of their blood and their lives
in the armies. And yet, in the very hoar
of its creation, the Republicans de
graded this money of the people below
coin by declaring that it should not be
received for onstoms duties or be paid
ont for interest on the public debt.
While the issue was only one hundred
and fifty millions, they declared, in or
der to maintain its valne, that it should
be convertible into five-twenty bonds,
with interest payable in gold, and in two
years, when the issne had increased to
three hundred millions or more, they
repealed the provision of the law and
took away that prop to its stability.
They declared the issne of greenbacks
should not exceed $400,000,000, and this
they now pretend was a solemn pledge
also given in order to maintain their val
ue, and yet immediately, as if for the ex
press purpose of depreciating them, they
surrounded them with hundreds of mil
lions of interest-bearing notes of various
names and grades, which did for a time
circulate as currency. By the law of their
creation the greenbacks were made a
legal tender in payment of the principal
of the public debt, and yet in 1869 they
passed the famous law “to strengthen
the public credit” and declared that
this “money of the people” should not
be held at sufficient value to discharge
the obligation to the bondholder. In
1872, daring the contest between Gen
eral Grant and Mr. Greeley, the mer
chants of Philadelphia and New York
issned a manifesto predicting indescrib
able uncertainty and panic in case of
Mr. Greeley’s eleotion, bnt assuring the
public mind of stability, financial re
pose, confidence under General Grant’s
second Administration, and promising
as a means thereto a speedy return to
specie payments.
And yet in February, 1873 even be
fore General Grant’s new inangnration,
this hard money party, this speedy re
sumption party, this speedy specie pay
ment party, this party devoted to sta
bility and repose in our financial sys
tem, demonetized silver, prohibited its
coinage, made it a legal tender only to
the amount oMive dollars. Silver ha 1
been a legal to any amount for
the eighty years of onr National exist
ence, and constituted one-half of all the
coin in the country. The panic of 1873
came, and the President of the United
States, without authority of law, issued
within a week twenty-six millions of
greenbacks. And in 1875, within two
years after making gold the only legal
tender, the Republicans passed the law
for forced resumption in 1879. I will
not enlarge on the provisions or effect of
that law. You know them well. The green
back money will be enhanced in value
ten per cent, in two years. The man
who has them need only lay them away
safely, and without any risk of loss by
investment, he will reap a profit equal
to five per cent, interest. What a temp
tation to hoarding ! The banks now re
deem their notes in greenbacks. In two
years they will be obliged tp redeem
them in coin. They cannot afford to
put in circulation notes which in two
ye" a > siev will be obliged to redeem in
a currency ten per oent. more valuable
than the notes are on the day of their
issue. They must either curtail their
circulation or they mnst hoard the
greenbacks at present rates for the pur
pose of its redemption. Who can bor
row money for any purpose if in two
years he mnst return it with ten per
cent, added in addition to all interest ?
Who can buy on credit if money is to
rise in valne ? Who can build houses
and factories or furnaces, or engage in
any business, if his property, his stock
on hand, the fruits of his industry, are
constantly falling in value and his debts
constantly increasing in value? The
Secretary of the Treasury says the law,
as it stands, is utterly impossible of
execution; and yet the bare passage of
the law, the bare threat of its execution,
has produced a contraction already of
$60,000,000. The whole policy of the
Republican party has been to pro
ddee fluetnatoin in value and fluctua
tion in the amount of legal tender cur
rency ; and hence this uncertainty, this
apprehension, this fearful depression
of all industries, this wail ot labor that
it has nothing to do and nothing to
eat. Governor Hayes declared just be
fore his nomination that he was in fa
vor of executing this law of forced re
sumption in 1879, unless a better and
speedier plan oonld be devised. And this
is the Republican remedy.
Read the Ohio platform, read the St.
Louis platform, read the letters of ac
ceptance by Governor Tilden and Gov
ernor Hendricks, and you will see the
Democratic remedy. The Ohio platform
declares no forced inflation, no forced
contraction, no forced resumption. The
St. Louis platform declares no system
which will shock the public confidence,
no system whioh will threaten an arti
ficial scarcity of currency, bnt economy
in taxation, economy in expenditure,
living largely within the income, hus
banding every resource, and such %wise
system of preparation by renewing the
confidence of the people, restoring the
prosperities of industry and strengthen
ing the credit of the Government, and
in this way appreciating and keeping
the paper money to its equality with
coin, making it convertible with coin,
and thus attaining the only specie pay
ments whioh we will ever see in this day
and generation. Gentlemen, you may
have seen within a week that the Indian
campaign is ended, and that the troops
have been ordered from the Far West.
Have you also seen that the troops have
been distributed through the Southern
States, and have been ordered to obey
the circular sent by the Attorney-Gene
ral to the Marshals ? The campaign for
scalps in the West is closed—the cam
paign for votea in the South is begun.
I hold in my hand that circular. Here
it is : “I. Every binderance or impedi
ment to registration or voting: every in
terference with the personal freedom or
security of the voter; every act of vio-
lence on account of a vote to be given,
or conspiracy on account of a vote whioh
has been given; everything in general
whioh hinders or prevents a free exercise
of the elective franchise, is a 'breach of
the peace’ of the United States, and jus
tifies arrest and suppression of the riot
incident thereto. 2. Marshals must {pre
vent such ‘breach of the peace.’ 3. To
do this they must be present, either in
person or by deputy, at every place of
registration and voting. 4. They may
appoint any number of deputies. 5. Any
marshal or his deputy may at will sum
mon the posse. o. Every person, mili- ■
tary organization, officer of tlie army or
navy, troops of the Unfted States, offi
cers of a State, Sheriff, Governor, even
the posse of a sheriff already organized
to keep the peace of the State, must
serve and obey the marshal.”
And having stated these duties, and
recognized these vast discretional y pow
ers, the Attorney-General warns the
Marshals that notorious events of recent
occurrence render it a grave duty to be
prepared to preserve and defend that
peace at the coming Presidential elec
tions, and to counteract that “partial
malice, wrongbeadedpess or inconside
ration which sometimes triumphs at
critical moments over the conservative
forces of society, and to which the pres
ent and passing condition of the coun
try gives more than ordinary strength. ”
Indeed ! You understand this order as
well as the Marshals, the soldiers or the
Attorney-General himself. Oouohed in
fair language and specious phrases it is
an attempt—no, I will not say attempt;
I know and respect Judge Taft; I will
say nothing impugning hia motives—
but it will be used to oontrol the elec
tions in the Southern States by threat
of arrest and imprisonment on the one
hand and stimulating riot and violenoe
on the other to defeat the will of the
majority in November. And no instru
mentality to that end oould be better
devised than thus to intertwine the civil
and military power, and to substitute
the musket and the bayonet for the man
and armed battalions for the civil posse.
A former Attorney-General, Mr. Evarts,
under a Republican Administration
spoke differently: “The special duty and
authority in the execution of process
must not be oonfounded with the duty
and authority of suppressing disorder
and preserving the peace, winch, under
our Government, belong to the oivil au
thorities of the States, and not to the
civil authorities of the United States.”
“Nothing can be less in accordance with
the nature of our Government or the
disposition of our people than a fre
quent or a ready recurrence to military
aid in the execution of duties confided
to the pivil officers.”
We are told that thja circular is in
conformity with the laws. If it has been
issued without law it is a gross usurpa
tion, a criminal wrong on the part of the
Attorney-General, the Secretary of War
and the President If the laws sanotion
it the wrong and the shame are brought
home to the Congress and the whole Re
publican party. Such laws are uncon
stitutional ; their purpose is partisan;
their means are revolutionary. But the
laws do not sanction the circular. I read
in Revised Statutes, Section 2002: “No
military or naval officer er other person
engaged in the civil, military or nayal
service of the United States shall order,
keep, bring or have under his authority
or control any troops or armed men at
the place where any general or special
election is held in any State unless it be
necessary to repel the armed enemies of
the United States or to keep the peace
at the polls.” And the punishment is a
fine of not more than $5,009 and impris
onment for not more than five years.
“To quarter soldiers contrary to law”
was thought to be a sufficient reason for
driving James 11. from the throne of
England. “He has kept among ns in
times of peace standing armies without
the consent of our legislators; he has
affected to render the military independ
ent of and superior to the civil power.”
This was the indictment in the great
Deolaration, and justified independ-
ence. “No soldier shall in time of peaoe
be quartered in any house without the
consent of the owner,” is the command
of onr Constitution. These Republicans
escape the letter, but violate the spirit,
by encamping the army near the polls
and patrolling the neighborhood.
In 1741, during the reign of the second
George, under the most corrupt and cor
rupting Ministry of Sir Robert Walpole,
at an election held for member of Par
liament in Westminster, by an order of
the Magistrates, a body of armed sol
diers was stationed in the ohuroh yard
of St. Paul, Covent Garden, in the vi
cinity Ol Uie polls. Tbo fa ot woo ro
ported to the House of Commons, which
resolved: “That the presence of a body
of armed soldiers at an eleotion of mem
bers to servd in Parliament is a high in
fringement of the liberties of the sub
jeot, a manifest violation of the freedom
of elections and an open defiance of the
laws and Constitution of this Kingdom.”
The Bailiff was imprisoned; thp Magis
trates were brought to the bar and com
pelled to go upon their knees to receive
the reprimand of the Speaker, and the
House thanked the Speaker for the se
verity and dignity of his language and
ordered it to be printed.
As early as 1863 the State of Pennsyl
vania provided, by statute, that “no
body of troops, being regularly employ
ed in the army of the United States, or
of this State, shall appear and be pre
sent, either armed or unarmed, at anv
place of election, within the State, dur
ing the time of such eleotion.”
There is danger, when we call the
attention of the people to this mighty
step toward controlling the ballot by
the Federal military power, lest -the
din and dust of this sectional strife shall
so fill their ears and blind their eyes
that they will not heed its threatening
import. William the Silent, after twen
ty years’ experience in the war between
the United Netherlands and Spain, was
asked what was the surest bulwark of
safety for the liberties of a free oity. He
answered: “Distrust I” Not walls, not
armieß, not fortifications, not institu
tions; but distrust. Distrust of power,
which is ever encroaching; distrust of
rulers, who are ever aspiring; distrust of
parties, whioh are ever plotting to retain
power; distrust of all who control the
machinery of government. And when
we invoke this distrust now we are met
by some with the flaunting Ije of the
bloody shirt, and by shrewder partisans
with the false pretense of a “Solid
South.” Do not be misled. Solid South 1
Solid against what? Suppose the Sonth
is solid against adventurers and plun
derers among them; solid against pro
moters of disorder and hatred of the
races in their borders; solid against
military interference with elections;
solid against the enemies and obstacles
to a returning peaceful prosperity; solid
in favor of obedience to the Constitu
tion and laws; solid in favor of the
better developmant of the new social
and industrial system; solid in favor of
maintaining liberty and union. The
real grievance is that the Sonth is solid
against the Republican party. And is
this solidarity a crime or a fault ?
If the Sonth is “solid,” why is it so ?
My friends, my Republican friends ! be
candid and be just. If the Sonth is solid
it is beoanse of this determined, bitter
effort to consolidate the North against
that section; to unite the North In the
effort to drive the Democratic party from
power in the Northern States and the
Federal Government because the major
ities at the South are Democratic. In
doing this work reokless partisans have
opened the graves of the dead soldiers;
they have oaused the dosed wounds to
gape and bleed afresh; they have re
awakeded the sorrows of parents and or
phans and widows; they have recalled
the fiery passions of the battle-field; tfiey
have aroused the apprehensions of na
tional pride by assertions of intended
national dishonor; they have stimulated
the fear of immense payments for losses
of slaves and property during the war;
they have pointed to Southern men as
the cause of these calamities in the past
and the source of these dangers in the
future; they have, with hissing tongue,
denounced Southern Demoerats as rebels
in heart and hypoorites in conduct
and language. They have done
these things to make a solid North—to
rouse passion and prejudioe and hatred
to frenzy in order that by mere seotional
majority they may carry a National elec
tion, and they wonder that the South is
solid and dees not divide as other sec
tions. Forsooth, gent emen? Such a
solid North will always make a like solid
South. My God 1 Can we learn noth
ing from history ? When Charles II re
turned to England he declared amnesty
to all who had taken part in the great
rebellion, excepting only the regicides.
When Napoleon secured the peace of
Amiens he invited the emigrants to re
turn in safety. When Toussaint L’Onver
ture, a negro, a slave, a hero, a libera
tor, crashed the foes of freedom in San
Domingo he the planters to
their estates. When Frederick William,
in 1843, declared amnesty' he saved
Prussia from revolution. When Franois
Joseph reconquered Hungary and dis
persed the armies and the 'Government
of Kossuth he proclaimed full pardon to
these who had been in rebellion, and
seoured their loyal and effective support
to his tottering throne,
And are we, this American peo
ple, while the forms of amnesty
are created to keep alive the
passions and hatreds of flagrant war, and
retard, if not prevent, all veritable,
prosperous peace ? Charles Sumner in
1872 introduced a resolution in the Sen
ate: “Whereas, the national unity and
good will among fellow-citizens can be
assured only through oblivion of past
differences, and it is contrary to the usage
of civilized nations to perpetuate the
memory of oivil war; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the names of the battles
with fellow-oitizens shall not be continued
in the Army Register or placed on the
regimental colors of the United States.”
The Legislature of Massachusetts cen
sured him, but the people of Massachu
setts compelled the expunging of the
resolution. My fellow-citizens, I appeal
for harmony, for good will, for fraternal
peace among all oar people. I depre
cate bad blood and hatred between the
sections. If they are necessary for the
success of a party, that is the very
strongest reasons why the party should
not succeed—cay, should cease to exist.
THE TaOPBL’EIi OE A HOMESTEAD.
Important Homestead Decision by the United
.States Conn—ls a Homestead Waiver In a
Note Binding t
[Atlanta Constitution .]
In the matter of Caleb F. Hill, bank
rupt, in bankruptcy, in the above stated
Court Judge Erskine made an important
decision yesterday. Hill had given his
notes to Willis & Son, and Gnbbege,
Haziehurst & Cos., for supplies. In each
of these notes there was a waiver and
rennneiation of the homestead by HilL
Afterwards Hill went into bankruptcy
and all of his estate both real and per
sonal was set apart to him as a home
stead. Willis k Son, and Cubbege,
Haziehurst & Cos. filed their petition to
the District Judge asking an order that
the assignee use sufficient of the proper
ty so set apart as a homestead to pay off
their debts.
Judge Erskine held, 1. That he
had jurisdiction of the cause. —
2. That he would grant an or
der to sell all of the personalty or so
much thereof necessary to pay the debts
as set apart under the State lews but
would sell no part of the personalty set
apart under the five hundred dollar ex
emption of the United States Court. 3.
That inasmuch as the notes were not
witnessed by two witnesses, he would
not grant an ordeT to sell any part of the
land. We learn that the cause will he
reviewed by the Circuit Court.
A visitor at the Exposition, dining at
a Frenoh restaurant, meekly intimated
when his bill vas presented that his
boiled egg contained a chicken. The
polite waiter said that he would have
the bill corrected, and soon returned
with anew bill, upon whioh the charge
of SO cents for “eggs ” had given place
to aa item of §0 cents for ehioksu.
$2 A TEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
THE CAMPAIGN.
A GEORGIAN’S IDEAS OF THE
SITUATION.
Senator Gordon on the Situation in the Pal.
metto State—Desperation of Radical Lead
ew-Prospect of Wade Hampton’s Flection
—Effect of Stationing Troops at the Pells.
[lYeic York Herald, f
Atlanta, Ga., September 24.—Sena
tor John B. Gordon returned on yester
day from a stumping tour in South Car
olina, where he spent much time in com
pany with General Wade Hampton, the
Democratic candidate for Governor.
South Carolina is just now the focal
point in polities in the South, and your
correspondent drove out to General Gor
don’s country seat this morning to see
what light he oonld throw on the prob
lem now being so fiercely worked out in
that hot-headed little State. Your cor
respondent was received by the Sena
tor a charming wife, who remarked that
“as there was no palace in Europe whose
doors were not open to the Herald’s en
voys an humble American house oould
surely not remain closed against one of
them, and led him into the Senator’s
s ‘“dy, where she remained an interested
and not always passive listener to the
conversation that followed. The Sena
tor, following the Horatian method, so
oharply by Jo,a RUck the Other
day, plunged at once into “ the middle
of things. ” ,
The Situation In South Carolina.
“An observant man feels uneasy and
nervous when he contemplates the situa
tion in South Carolina. It is a situation
of extreme peril. I am confident that
the Conservatives have the determina
tion and I hope the ability to preserve
the peace. They certainly” have every
motive to do so. The appalling conse
quences to both races of a general col
lision cannot be estimated. Life, prop
erty, the virtue of women and innocence
of .children would be disregarded totally
in suoh a strife, and the bullet of the
assassin and the toroh of the incendiary
would be the familiar weapons of such
a conflict. Besides this, the whites are
thoroughly aware that the slightest out
break on their part, no matter how it
may be provoked, will be used unscru
pulously and fire theNorth
ern’heart against them, and jeopardize?
if it does not entirely defeat, the triumph
of the only party that can give honest
and capable government to the country.
These inducements for peace are strong
enough, and I am glad to say that in my
canvass through the State everything
that I saw justified me in believing that
the whites were determined to aot on
them. I found everywhere a fixed and
inflexible determination among the main
body of the whites not to hazard a
collision by any act of their own, and
to prevent the Radicals and negroes
from forcing one. I do heartily wish
that every voter in ihe North could have
witnessed the meetings that I have at
tended and hoard the speeches that I
have heard. I saw at the Conservative
meetings the most immense processions
and the largest demonstrations that
have been seen" in this section since
1844, and yet J did not see a single
drunken man or street fight, or a pistol
upon the person of a single Democrat.
In every township where the Conserva
tives are in power the saloons are all
closed on election days, and the affairs
of the day are managed by the oldest
and most prudent citizens.”
“ What, then, do you fear when you
pronounce the sitnation one of extreme
peril ?” asked your correspondent.
“ I fear the wicked and desperate
purposes of the Republican leaders in
South Carolina and the ignorance of the
deluded blaoks. These oarpet-baggers,
who do not intend to live in South Caro
ling any longer than they can hold of
fices, care nothing for the disasters
whioh must follow a collision of the
races. Such a collision benefits their
party in the Northern States, and, what
is more important to them, it enables
them to keep the black vote huddled at
their backs lu Buui,li Carolina, Already
thousands of the most intelligent ne
groes in the State have deserted the
Republican ranks, and there are signs of
a universal stampede. The only way to
check the stampede is to keep up the
race issne—to perpetuate the strife be
tween the whites and blaoks. Argument
cannot oontrol it; prejudice must be de
pended on. The character and extent
of this defection demands prompt and
desperate action. It is this that I fear.
I know that the Republican leaders,
white and black, will use every pretext
to force a collision between the races, in
order that their rule may be prolonged
—if not by votes at home, why then by
military interference from abroad. I
fear that these men may find enough
rash and inflammable white men to serve
their dire purposes. That is my fear,
and my only fear. I do know that the
vast masses of the white South Caro
linians are steadily and deliberately bent
on preserving order and giving protec
tion to every voter in the State, no mat
ter what his opinions may be.
Hswillsn’t Nomination.
“Don’t you think that Hampton’s
nomination was an unwise one, us far as
its effect at the North goes ?”
*“J do not. I cannot see why it should
be. He is sorely misrepresented if it is.
He should he popular with every lover
of the Union. He was a member of the
South Carolina Senate in 1861, and was
one of the very few Carolinians who op
posed secession to the last, H@ voted
against it, spoke against it, and worked
against it. Since the war no man has
been more conservative than he; no man
more peaceable or prudent. No one has
been a more sincere, patient and con
siderate adviser of the black race, and
and his apeeoheain the canvass are brim
ful of conservatism. He fought like a
tiger during the war, it is true, but at
the close of the war he laid down his
sword and accepted the situation like a
man. This sort of candidate should
please your people; I think.”
“Do you think, General, that Hamp
ton will carry the State ?”
“If there is a fair and peaceable elec
tion I have uu douht of it. If the
United States Marshals take foroible
possession of the polls and voters, as
seems to be contemplated by General
Taft’s order, there is no telling what
will opme. The election will be a farce.
But if there is a fair election Hampton
will carry the State, I never saw suoh
enthusiasm as prevails in the Conserva
tive rank. The State is literally ablaze.
The whole country turns out to the
meetings. Men have deserted business,
farms and everything else in the last at
tempt to rescue the State. Hampton is
worshipped by the whits people. He is
the very soul of honor and integrity;
and he is exceedingly strong with the
blacks. He was the first man in the
Booth, if not in the whole country, to
assemble the blacks and give them a
public speech of advice. In, Columbia,
in 1836, he addressed a large meeting of
blacks, and then and there predicted
that they would be made oitiaens, and
advised them to prepare for the change
by education and the acquisition of
property. This speech of Hampton’s is
used as a contrast to a spegph delivered
by Morton in Indianapolis, in which he
strenuously opposed the fulfilment of
Hampton’s prediction. Of coarse this
helps Hampton. Rat apart from his
personal strength he is strong in the
distrust which the negroes now feel for
the Radical leaders.
The Situation in Georgia.
Just across the line in Georgia, whioh is
a Democratic State, they see their col
ored brothers happy, peaceable and
prosperous. They see that, although
that State is immensely Democratic and
Democratic in every department, there
has been no attempt to “throw the ne
gro back into slavery” or deprive him
of a single right; they see that there are
no hots or disagreements, but that the
races live in perfect harmony; they see
that the negroes have acquired $8,000,-
000 worth of property, and are protect
ed in the possession of it and encour
aged to acquire more; they see that,
though they pay only one-fiftieth of the
State tax, they have 4fi,000 of their
children being edqoated by the State;
they see that Georgia, under Democrat
ic rule, has low taxes, good laws and
high credit. In their own State, under
Radical rule, the taxes are high, the
Treasury empty, bankruptcy on every
side, the credit low, everything unset
tled, the law wrongly administered, and,
above all, they sure constantly led by
their leaders into conflicts with the
white raoe, in which they are always
worsted, and of which they are heartily
tired. These causes have led to a very
general defection of the negro vote. I
saw scores of Hampton and Tilden clubs,
composed entirely of colored voters, and
others of whites and blacks together. I
saw colored dubs on horaebaok, shout
ing for Hampton and Oirrying Demo
cratic banners. Asa rule, these colored
Democrats are the most intelligent of
their race—men who think for them-
selves and cannot be cajoled, persuaded
or frightened back into the Republican
ranks. On the contrary, they will
strengthen themselves daily. I believe
that the State will certainly go for
Hampton if the election is fair. It will
of course, go also for Tilden. The ne
groes know no half way ground. They
never split a ticket. When they go for
Hampton they will go f or Tilden also.”
yellow fever.
Progress of the Disease—Some Interesting
Statistics of the Epidemic—Tlie Dentil Rate
—Mortality Among Cliildren-Statemeuts of
Deaths lor 30 Days.
[Furnistu-rl by Jno. McLaughlin, Fsq.\
Laurel Grove. CathodraT
f-i U
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► ►
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■i I 1 * l f
O ? § | ~ 'S
September 1— 7 4 3 iTTI
“ „ .2 5 8 2 5 4 1
3 and 4—*l4 7 7 2 9 3
6 6 33 10 7 3
6844 7 0 1
„ 7- 9 6 8 0 6 0
.. 8- 7 8 4 4 4 0
~ 9 6 1 4 11 10 1
10 and 11— 18 11 7 16 12 4
12— 15 9 6 16 9 7
„ }B 17 8 9 14 11 3
„ 6 3 18 13 o
16— 28 12 11 7 6 0
lb— iy io ,) 12 i. .
• 17 and 18- 30 16 14 26 23 S
i> , 19 ~ 16 10 G 12 10 2
20— "20 15 5 18 18 0
21— 29 21 8 14 13 1
‘ 22- 13 10 .3 8 6 2
23 20 16 4 15 1 5 0
24 25 13 12 19 6 3
25 12 7 5 11 11 o
26 13 9 4 9 9 0
„ 27 24 18 6 10 10 0
28— 16 10 6 12 9 8
29 12 9 8 5 4 1
30— •18 7 6 9 tL 0
Laurel Grove 405 254 151 310 267 43
Cathedral 810 267 43
Evergreen 4 13 • i
Bonaventure 6 4 i
Total 735 538 196
If we add to tlieso returns the 40
deaths whieh occurred between the 21st,
August, tlie period from which we date
the commencement of the yellow fever
it would give us a total of 735 deaths
from all diseases, or 20 per diem for 39
days. If we calculate upon the vellow
fever deaths alone, allowing the entire
40 to be yellow fever, it would show a
daily average of about 14,. or for the
month ending the 29th, from the Ist of
September, as per above returns, 18 per
diem. Laurel Grove Cemetery gives
405 interments, 254 of which are yellow
fever' and 151 various diseases. 139 of
this number being children under 12
years of age; while the Cathedral Ceme
tery, with only 310 interments, gives 267
yellow fever cases, or 13 more than Lau
rel Grove, and the number of ohildron
under 12 years 134. The mortality
amongst children being very great
showing 273 deaths out of a total of 735
—almost one-third. Another curious
feature is the fact that, although the
colored population is within a thousand
or two of the white, but 154 of them
have died since the Ist of September, or
a little over a fifth. Apart from yellow
fever altogether, there have been no less
than 196 deaths of various diseases since
the Ist of September. This of itself is
sufficiently startling, independent. of
any yellow fever, in a community,
where the death rate in Summer seldom
exceeds 17 per week, or, 68 for the
month, opposite 196 now shown.
“ COLONEL RANDALL.”
The Truly Good Editor Flayed by Or.
Carlton.
[Alftens Georgian.]
Col. Randall, of the Augusta Con-,
stitutionalist, edits what he pleases to
term the “ oldest Democratic paper in
the State.” In fact, we so far believe
this to be true that we are compelled to
admit that this ancient journal is bor
dering unon its dot&ae ; and in ita
second childhood appears to be advo
cating some very dangerous, not to say
ridiculous measures. We have had qp
casion once before to warn Col. Ban-
All against the folly of mounting too
many horses and have cited him to
George Parker, the mustang rider, who
became nearly blind from this reckless
mania. It would be a sad sight, in
deed, to behold this extremely vener
able journal prematurely blind before
its approaching age had “ sealed i‘ tf j
filmy orbs,” but Col. Randall has heed
ed not. Ho now comes forth strapped
to another colt, fiery and untamed, of
doubtful pedigree and vicious habits ;
but is likely to find out that before be’
finishes the first heat, the way is long
and the track is heavy ?
The fact is that Col. Randall is groom
ing the “independent candidate” stall,
and because, in our last issue, we came
to the help of the State Democracy by
giving a few words against independ
ents, 001. Randall whisks his little mus
tang around, rides all over us, and. to
gether with other honest Democratic
papers in the State, we find “our hoof
seaten, bosoms trod to the plain.” But
001. Randall neither reproduced nor re
futes any of our arguments, and con
tented with merely quoting our perora
tion, he proceeds to censure such a
“caustic article.” What we then said
we repeat now; That independent can
didates are disorganiiers and should be
considered as suoh by their people and
their party. When a nomination by fair
means has been made then it behooves '
every man in these important elections
to promote the unity and principles of
time-honored parties rather than encour-
age individual aspirations.
But Colonel Randall picking up a
copy of our contemporary, the Watch
man, beholds the announcement of an
independent candidate in Clarke county
opposing the editor of this paper, who
happens to be the regular nominee; and
Colonel Randall flatters himself that he
accounts for the “milk in the coooanut.”
But when we informed him that the
Watchman and the Georgian are is
sued on the same morning, when we
tell him that our remarks upon the sub
ject and the announcement in the
Watchman were printed the same day,
we apprehend that this milk will curdle
up in a rather unhealthy manner to Co
lonel Randall. To be sure rumors an
ticipating this announcement had
reached us, but these rumors bad been
annihilated by positive assurances to
the contrary. So Colonel Randall’s ef
forts to make out a personal indictment
against the editor of this paper proves
to be as harmless and ridiculous as his
entire disorganization movement has
been unpatriotic and abortive.
Now when we survey the past consist
ent Demooratio course of this extremely
venerable journal and recall it strict
party utterances in the “Estes munici
pal campaign ” last December, we are at
a loss to account for this business on
the part of the Constitutionalist. Has
the mighty and irresistable “ logic of
events ” been again at work upon this
extremely venerable journal, or have
the disappointed aspirations of some of
Col. Randall’s satelitea in the regular
nomination caused this change to dis
turb the spirit of his poetic dreams ?
And when we remember that this ex
tremely venerable journal refnses to sup
port the Democratic nominees of the
county and distriot, the latter conclu
sion forces itself severely upon us. The
Constitutionalist in December, the Con
stitutionalist in September—alas ! how
true it is that “ times ohange, men
change with them, but principles
never.”
Hospitals ns Panper-Mfeker*.
[Popular tjcierwe Monthly .
To say that fire expended in
charities, that there are 6,000 free beds
in the hospitals, that over 300,000
receive medicine and medical advice free
of cost at tb.a dispensaries, is certainly
evidence of the generosity and Christian
spirit of charity that prevail. But when
looked at in a direct practical way, these
figures show something else. If these
official reports are to be relied upon,
then, in a popnlation of 1,000,000, over
300,000 persons receive alms every year.
We doubt if the number of individuals
is so large, for it is the custom of s ome
dispensaries to count each visit a
patient makes as a patient treated. But
the actual number is immense, and in
creasing out of all proportion to the in
crease of population. The troth is, the
majority of our hospitals, as they are
at present managed, are liable to do
more harm than good. Apparantly they
do muoh good, and for the time do re
lieve suffering and want, but iu the end
may do much harm. Giving help too
readily even during sickness is hurtful,
and when it is offered freely without the
certain knowledge that it is really
needed, it very naturally removes the
healthful stimulus of necessity, the
d|p*d of which prompts every individual
id provide for the misfortune of sick
ness,