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J. CLARKE SWAYZE, Editor
Official Paper of the United States
MACON, GA., MAY 89, 1872.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HORACE GREELEY,
. OF" NEW YORK.
* ■
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
BENJAMIN GRATZ BROWN,
OF MISSOURI.
THE PLATFORM.
We, the Liberal Republicans of the United
States, in National Convention assembled at
Cincinnati, pjfcclaim the followiiw principles a.->
essential to lust government:
P irst: We recognize the equality of all men
before the law,and hold that it is the duty of the
Government in its dealings with the people to
mete out equal and exact justice to all of
whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion,
religious or political.
Second: We pledge ourselves to maintain the
union of these States, emancipation and en
franchisement, and to oppose any re-opening
of the questions settled by the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the
Constitution.
Third: We demand the immediate and abso
lute removal of all disabilities imposed on ac
count of the Rebellion, which was finally sub
dued seven years ago believing that universal
amnesty will result in complete pacification in
all sections of the country.
Fourth: Local self-government, with impar
tial suffrage, will guard the rights of all citi
zens more securely than any centralized power.
The public welfare requires the. supremacy of
the civil over the military authority, and free
dom of person under the protection of the ha
beas corpus. We demand for the individual
the largest liberty consistent with public or
dor; for the State, self-government, and for
the nation a return to the methods of peace
and the constitutional limitations of power.
Fifth: The Civil Service of the Government
has become a mere instrument of partisan ty
ranny and personal ambition and an object of
selfish greed. It is a scandal and reproach up
on fre.e institutions and breeds a demoralize
tion dangerous to the perpetuity of republican
government. We therefore regard such tho
rough reforms of the Civil Service as one of
the most pressing necesssities of the hour; that
honesty, capacity, and fidelity constitute the
the only valid claim to the public employment;
that the offices of the government cease to be
a matter of arbitrary favoritism and patronage
and that pubiic station become again a post of
honor. To this end it is imperatively required
that no President shall be a candidate for re
election.
Sixth: We demand a system'of Federal taxa
tion which shall not unnecessarily interfere
with the Industry of the people, and which
shall provide the means necessary to pay the
expenses of the Government economically ad
ministered, the pensions, the interest on the
public debt, and a moderate reduction annual
ly of the principal thereof; and, recognizing
that there are in our midst honest but irrecon
cilable differences of opinion with regard to
the respective systems of Protection and Free
Prade, we remit the discussion of the subject
t° the people in their Congress Districts, and
to the deois'on of Congress thereon, wholly
free of Executive interference or dictation.
Seventh: The public credit must be sacredly
maintained, ana we denounce repudiation in
every form and guise.
Eighth: A speedy return to specie payment is
demanded alike by the highest considerations
of commercial morality and honest govern
ment.
Ninth: We remember with gratitude the he
roism and sacrifices of the soldeirs and sailors
of the Republic, and no act of ours shall ever
famo ° r the
Tenth: We are opposed to all further grants
Os lands to railroads or other corporations.—
The public domain sltould be held sacred to ac
tual settlers.
Eleventh: We hold that it is the duty of the
Government, in its intercourse with foreign na
tions, to cultivate the friendship of peace, by
treating with all on fair and equal terms, re
garding it alike dishonorable either to demand
what is not right, or to submit to what is wrong
Twelfth: For the promotion and success of
theso vital principles and the support of
the candidates nominated by this Convention,
we invite and cordially welcome the co-opera
tion of all patriotio citizens, without regard to
previous political affiliations.
HORACE GREELEY’S LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.—HIS VERSION OF
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM.
[OFFICIAL.]
New York, May 2El.—The following is the
official notice to Mr. Greeley of the Liberal
Republican nomination:
Cincinnati, May 3,1872.
Dear Sir:—The National Convention of Lib
eral Republicans of the United States have in
structed the undersigned, President, Vice Pres
ment, and Secretaries of the Convention, to in
form you that you have been nominated as the
candidate of the Liberal Republicans for the
Presidency of the United States. We also sub
mit to you the address and resolutions unani
mously adopted by the Convention. Be pleased
to signify to us your acceptance of the platform
and nomination, and believe us,
Very truly yours,
C. Schurz, Pres’t.
Geo. W. Julian, V. Pres’t.
Ws, E. McLean,
Jno. G. Davidson,
J. H. Rhodes,
Secretaries.
To Hon. Horace Greeley, N. Y. City.
AIR. GREELEY’S REPLY. *’
New York, May 20, 1872.
mMmiUemen I have rliosetanot to acknowl
letter of the 3d instant, until I could
the work of your Convention was
wftjSSpfed in all parts of our great country, and
wSf&i whether that work was • approved and
ratified by the mass of our fellow-citizens.
Their response from day to day reached me
through telegrams, letters and comments of
journalists independent of official patronage
and indifferent to the smiles and favors of
power. The number and character of these
unconstrained, unpurcljased, and unsolicited
utterances satisfied me tßai the movement
which found expression at T <5140100011 has re-,
ceived the stamp of.public approval, and has
' been hailed by a majority of our country as the
harbinger of a better for the Republic. I
do not misinterpret this-approval as especially
complimentary to myself, nor even the chival
rous and justly esteemed gentleman with
whose name I thank your. Convention for asso
ciating mine. I receive and welcome it as a
spontaneous and deserved tribute to that ad
mirable platform of principles wherein your
Convention so tersely, so forcibly set forth the
convictions which impelled, and the purposes
which guided its course; a platform which,
casting behind it the wreck and rubbish of
worn out contentions and by-gone feuds, em
bodies in fit and few words the needs and aspi
rations of to-day. Though thousands stand
ready to condemn your every act, hardly a syl
lable of criticism or cavil has been aimed at
your platform, of which the substance may be
fairly epitomized as follows:
v 1. All political rights and franchises which
have been acquired through our late bloody
convulsion, must and shall be guaranteed,
maintained, enjoyed and respected evermore.
2. All political rights and franchises which
have been lost through that convulsion should
and must be promptly restored and re-estab
lished, so that there shall be henceforth no
proscribed class and no disfranchised caste
within the limits of the Union, whose long es
tranged people shall reunite and fraternize
upon the Droad basis of universal amnesty and
impartial suffrage.
3. That, subject to our solemn constitutional
obligation to maintain the equal rights of all
citizens, our policy should aim at local govern
ment and not at centralization; that the civil
authority shall be supreme over-the military,
the habeas corpus should be jealously upheld as
the safe guard of personal freedom; that the
individual citizen should enjoy the largest lib
erty consistent with public order, and there
shall be no federal dictation of the internal pol
icy of the several States, but that each shall be
left free to enforce the rights and promote the
well being o ' its inhabitants by such means as
the judgment of its own people shall pre
scribe.
4. There shall be a real and not merely a sim
ulated reform in civil service, of the Repub
lic, to which end lit is indispensable • that the
chief dispenser of its vast official patronage
shall be shielded from the mean temptation to
use his power selfishly by a rule inexorably for
bidding and precluding his re-election.
5. That the raising of revenue, whether by
tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized ana
treated as the people’s immediate business, to
be shaped and directed by them through their
representatives in Congress, whose action the
President must neither overrule by his veto,
nor attempt to dictate or presume to punish
by bestowing office only on those who agree,
and withdrawing from those who do not..
6. That the public lands must be sacredly re
served for occupation apd acquisition by cul
tivators and not recklessly squandered on the
projectors of railroads for which our people
have no present need, apd the premature con
struction of which is annually plunging the
United States into deeper and deeper abysses
of foreign indebtedness.
7. The achievement of these grand purposes
of universal|beniflcence is expected and sought
at the hands of all who approve of them irre
spective of past affiliations.
B'. The public faith must at all hazards be
maintained, and the national credit preserved.
9. The patriotic devotedness and inestimable
services of odr fellow citizens, who, as soldiers
or sailors upheld the flag and maintained the
unity of the republic, shall ever be gratefully
remembered and honorably requited.
These propositions, so ably and forcibly pre
sented in the platform of your convention,
have already fixed the attention and comman
ded the assent of a large majority of our coun
tiymen who joyfully adopt them as the basis
of a true benifleent national reconstruction, of
anew departure from the jealousies and strifes
and hates which have no longer any adequate
motive or even plausible pretext, into the at
mosphere of peace, fraternity and mutual good
will. In vain do the dfill sergeants of decaying
organizations flourish menacingly their trun
cheons, and angrily insist that the files shall be
closed and straightened. In vain do the whip
pers in of parties, once vital because rooted in
the vital needs of the hour,protest against stray
ing and bolting, and denounce men in nowise
their inferiors as traitors and renegades, and
threaten them with infamy and ruin, I am
confident that the American people have al
ready made your cause their own, and resolved
that their brave hearts and strong arms shall
bear it on to triumph. In this faith and with
the distinct understanding that if elected I
shall be President not of a party but of the
whole people, I accept your nomination in con
fident trust that the masses of our country
North and South, are eager to olasp hand
across the bloody chasm which has so long di
vided them, forgetting they have been ene
mies and joyful in the consciousness that they
all remain brethren.
Yours gratefully,'. Horace Greeley.
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REPUBLICAN PRACTICE vs. DEMO
CRATIC PRETENSE.
The Democracy make a great pre-
tense of their rigid enforcement of
the law, and of their stringent econ
omy, since they usurped the State gov
ernment. The fact that this is all sham
and pretense, it is well known to them
selves and to every one else who takes
the trouble to be informed. But still
it will help the Toombsites to a proper
appreciation of their own dema
goguery, to invite their attention oc
casionally to marked instances of
their hypocracy. We propose to do
so on the present occasion.
Section 86, paragraph 8 of the Code
of Georgia, prescribes that the State
Treasurer “shall not, under any cir
cumstances, use himself, or allow oth
ers to use, the. funds of the State in
his hands; and for every violation of
this section, he is liable to the State
for the sum of five hundred dollars as
a penalty, or a forfeiture of salary, if
said forfeiture will pay the penalty
incurred.” ”
Now, it is notorious that Angier,
the present State Treasurer, entered
into an unlawful agreement with par
ties whereby they were to pay and
did pay him, on many occasions a
large amount of interest for the “use
of funds of the State in his hands.”
As soon as this fact was diecovered
by Governor Bullock, he caused the
Attorney General, Col. Farrow, to in
stitute proceedings against Angier
and his bondsmen for some forty odd
violations of this section, the penalty
amounting to some twenty thousand
dollars, which would have been re
covered for and into the pockets
of the jhed tax-payers.”'
By the law’# delays, Angier managed 1
to keep the suit from coming to trial
until after the “pure and high toned
Democracy” got into power. Then,
what think ye, “overburthened,
down-trodden and oppressed wealth
and respectability, Democracy,” did
your servant do ? Did they drag this
“plunderer” from his wife and chil
dren, and thrust him into a vile jail ?
Did they pronounce him guilty of fel
ony if he failed to pay over the money
in ten days ? Not by any means. He
had been too useful to the Democracy
as an apostate, traitorous Republican.
His industrious efforts to prevent
the restoration of the expelled col
ored members and to misrepresent
the sentiment of the Georgia Repub
licans by his hypocriey at Washing
ton was to be rewarded. He had
faithfully served the despicable de
mands of his democratic employees,
and they paid him. Did the leaders
pay him from their own private
purse ? Ndlfc at all. It is not their
style. They started a fresh howl of
virtuous indignation against Repub
licans in general; sang their own
praises, arrested some insignificant
employee of the State Road, and be
hind all this sound and fury to blind
the people, they passed the following
resolution, to-wit :
“Whereas, It has not been customary to pay
into the Treasury interest on deposits of State
funds.
Be it resolved, That the State [Treasurer?]
shall not be held liable for any such interest.
And be it further resolved , That suits now
pending against the present- Treasurer, invol
ving such interest, under the provisions of sec
tion 86, paragraph 8, of Irwin’s Revised Code,
be discontinued, and that the Attorney Gene
ral is hereby instructed to dismiss said suits.”
[Pape 70, pamphlet laws, session of 1871, by B.
T. McCamy.'}
Under this resolution over seven
thousand dollars of the people’s
mon«y was transferred into the pock
et of Angler, instead of Angier pay
ing into the Treasury some twenty
thousand dollars for fines and penal
ties, as he shoiild have done.
Mark the language of the pream
able to this resolution whereby the
people’s money is appropriated—
“whereas, it has not been customary
to pay into the Treasury interests on
deposits of State funds." As all the
predecessors of the present Treasurer
have been efected by Democrats, they
must have established the “custom,”
if it be one. Can it be possible that
the “incorruptible Jenkins” allowed
the “immaculate Jones” to ’establish
any such “custom” ? Did they, like
“Smith,” have “an abiding faith in
the omnipotence of honesty,” or did
they establish the “custom” of pock
eting the interest on the people’s
money ?
We commend this case to the con
sideration of honest Democrats. Such,
independent men as Harry Jackson
for example.
A Republican administration pros
ecutes a Republican official for viola
tion of the law, and a Democratic
Legislature order the suit withdrawn
and permit the official to pocket'over
seven thousand ($7,000) dollars of the
people’s money 11
The Democratic pretense of honesty
is correctly illustrated in the case we
have quoted, as compared with the
practice of the Republicans.
Like “Smithy,” we, too, “have an
abiding faith in the omnipotence of
honesty,” and that very faith com
pels us. to distrust and abhor the
Democratic party and its leaders, es
pecially in Georgia and New York.
VST" In the final ballot for President, It Is a
noticeable fact that Mr. Greeley’s strength
came largely from the South. Os the 482 votes
which he obtained, Alabama gave 18, Arkansas
10, Georgia 22, Kentucky 6, Louisiana 7, Mary
land 3, Mississippi 10, Missouri 18, North Caro
lina 17, South Carolina 2, Tennessee 10, Texas
13, Virginia 7, West Virginia 7, making a total
of 149. Mr. Greeley is thus rewarded for his
magnanimity in bailing Jefferson Davis.
We clip the above from the Gray
ville (111.) Independent, a paper that
we have always regarded as fair, or
even generous. In the above, how
ever, it gives us a stab that we cannot
help thinking is done without know
ing wherefore. If its remark about
Mr. Greeley’s reward was true, we
should not have a word to say, but it
is not. It was not the bailing of Jeff.
Davis that secured Mr. Greeley the
Southern vote in the Convention, it
was his position towards the South
now. In the South there have been
bitter enemies to the Government,
and these enemies have persecuted
the friends of the government within
their reach when it was not safe for
them tew offer any resistance to the
government itself. This persecution
the government failed to arrest and
punish, but sent its military satraps
to fan the mad flame by their pres
ence, without allowing them authority
to act. The friends of the govern
ment have applied,.,petitioned and
begged for protection as guaranteed
by the Constitution, but have only
been left to perish. Mr. Greeley saw
this cowardice of the government and
said,- if you will not punish wrqng
doers, you have not the right to hold
threats over them. Like a true philos
opher, he saw that a pacific policy
was the one to restore harmony and
bury the animosities of the past. As
the government failed to afford pro
tection to its friends, it should with
draw out of the way and allow them
to protect themselves by harmonizing
their deadly opponents. Mr. Greeley
advocated this policy—it was recog
nized as the true one by the people
who had done the suffering, hence
their unanimity for him at the Con
vention. The men who voted for him
on that occasion were not admirers
of Jeff. Davis.
ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL.
The $50,000 received from the sale of the Ag
ricultural Land Scrip by acting Governor Con
ley, has been invested by Governor Smith most
admirably. The law required him to invest it.
He has put the amount in the new bonds of
the State, being issued to pay the old bonds
falling due. He has bought them at the mar
ket price, 90 cents, thus increasing this part of
the Scrip fund at one stroke from $50,000 to
55,000, upon which seven per cent, is duo,
We shall have more to say hereafter of this
investment and of the new bonds.
We clipped the above from the At
lanta Constitution some days Since.
The “organ” promised to have more
to say hereafter of tbis investment,
and in justice to the gentleman “ex
jiprcisfng |he functions of the/Execu
tive office for the tiifie being” we have
waited to see whai could be said in
vindication of this style of financier
ing before calling public attention to
it. But as yet, the “organs” hereafter
has not arrived. And we invite our
readers to consider this transaction.
Smith has $50,000 in cash obtained by
Governor Conley on account of the
Agricultural Land Scrip, and for the
purpose of starting an Agricultural
College. Smith takes this money out
of the treasury with one hand and
puts it back with the other. This is
movement number one—Smith then
reaches over the counter of the treas
ury with one hahd and takes out $55,-
000 of bonds and with the other hand
puts them back again. This is move
ment number two. Could anything
be more absurd ? The money belongs
to the State. Why not credit the Ag
ricultural School Fund with $55,000
when only $50,000 has been paid in ?
Then the people will understand that
without any lawful authority, $5,000
has been taken from their pockets
and given to the Athehs University
instead. However, the “organ” trys
to humbug them with all this blather
skite about Smith’s “admirable finan
ciering” in buying bonds from the
Treasurer at 90 cents oh the dollar.
Out upon such bare-faced trickery,
say we. These “Atlanta Ring Demo
crats” act and speak as though the
people throughout the State were
either fools or tools for their amuse
ment or use. Can it be possible that
the reckless exercise of usurped pow
er by the “Ring” has made them en
tirely indifferent to the opinion of an
honest public ? . If Smith and his “or
gan” are simpletons, their master
Gen. Toombs is not, and we are sur
prised that he should permit this ex
hibition of “financiering so-called, at
the peoples expense, to go unrebuked.
Our surprise arises only because
Toombs is too shrewd a manager to
allow his cloven foot to show so plain
as his clerks have exposed it in the
instance we have spoken of. “Most
admirably” indeed!!
A MISSTATEMENT.
The Savannah Journal of the 22d,
in an article about the Cincinnati
Convention, speaks of Mr. Swayze as
follows:
“Mr. Swayze went to take care of the others
and raise his voice against office seekers. He
it covered over with sore spots. As soon as
President Grant was inaugurated he applied
for an office. He wanted to be Assessor or Col
lector at Macon, but Mr. Delano did not appre
preciate him and Swayze denounced him a
worthless scoundrel. He asked Mr. Creswell
to make him Postmaster at Macon and because
the offloe was given to Mr. Turner he de
nounced the Postmaster-General as a liar, a
villain, and a scoundrel.”
The article from which this is ex
tracted, was undoubtedly’ written by
the professional office-holder, and we
may add, without fear of contradic
tion, perjurer , J. E. Bryant. * It comes
about’as near the truth as it is possi
ble for Bryant to come.
Mr. Swayze, at the instance of J. E.
Bryant, did make application for the
Post Office at Macon, after President
Grant was inaugurated. But Bryant
having advised others to do the same
thing, could not stand by them all
when the time come, for he was then
the Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee, so he visited Washington and
opposed the appointment of Mr.
Swayze, and gave his adhesion to Tur
ner, the counterfeiter, robber and com
mon blackguard. About this time a
man was appointed Assessor of Inter
nal Revenue for the Macon District,
which Mr. Swayze knew to be corrupt
and entirely unfit for the place, and in
vestigation proved that a most corrupt
trade had been entered into between
Delano and Creswell to put this man
here as a mere tool upon whom they
could load a number of their worth
less relatives that wanted places, and
were of too doubtfuTreputation to be
appointed where they were known.
Mr. Swayze was imprudent enough to
use his paper to expose this outra
geous scheme, and the consequence
was that neither Delano or Creswell
had any use for him. They required
men like Bryant, whom they could
use. After this Mr. Swayze did make
application for the place of Collector,
but with a full knowledge that it
would be futile. He only desired to
have Mr. Delano place ‘ himself upon
the record squarely as Mr. Creswell
had, in the face of the beet papers,
as they had to’ajjmit, that gjer came
from Georgia. " ' J * *
Mr. Swayze congratulates himself
that he has severed his connection
with a party that has livedupon cor
ruption and dishonesty, and hopes he
has aligned himself where he will not
be upbraided and punished for telling
the truth and advocating honesty and
right.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
The recent additional Act of Con
gress, relating*to claims of loyal per-
sons in the Southern States, and the
new rules and regulations adopted by
the Commissioners, predicated upon
their experience, has completely un
jointed al\ previous arrangements.
The routine of procedure now is :
First, a petition the Commission
ers at Washington must be made and
filed with their clerk, and the peti
tion thus filed is numbered and the
number returned to tIJT claimant or
his Attorney. - Wljen the number of
the case has thus been returned from
Washington, then : Second, Parties
may make their’application to a Spe
cial Commissioner tp lake the testi
mony in cases of ss,o(w or less. Where
the claim is for an amount exceeding
$5,000, and does not exceed SIO,OOO,
and the claimant desires to have tes
timony taken at or near his residence,
an'application must be filed with the
Clerk of the Commissioners, setting
forth the name and residence of the
claimant, the number and amount of
the claim, the name and residence of
each witness, and the time and place
at which the claimant wishes to have
the despositions taken. At least forty
days tune shofc.ss4be in which
to appoint spesiirffLgentS tci the 1
testimony. Commissioners, in
all sufch cases special orders
appointing time, jplaee and the Com
missioner for taking the testimony.
Many claims been filed with
the Clerk of the Commissioners,
and applications made to Special
Commissioners to take testimony in
them; but, under the new rule,
these cases must all be numbered
by the Clerk and the numbers re
turned before the cases can proceed.
Claimants and attorneys will there
fore take notice and procure the
numbering of their cases and for
ward the numbers, or advise the
Clerk to do so, to the Special Commis
sioner with whom is filed the appli
cation to take testimony.
This matter should be attended to
with the-utmost dispatch, as there
are a large number of claims to be
investigated, and the time is growing
short in which it must be done. The
taking of testimony will probably
close in November next, giving the
Commissioners from that time until
March following, the limit of the law,
to close their labors and make their
final report.
OMINOUS.
Congratulations have been in order
ever since we raised the standard for
Greeley and the best part
is that they come from all classes
and “prevous conditions,” and there
are none who -condemn, or make
charges against us of weakening in
principle. We h ive ipade war on the
office holders in' our own party be
cause we thought .them corrupt as a
mass, and we expected to convert
them or defeat them ere we had fin
ished with them, but we bad not
dreamed tbatJbiMlbDversions would
begin so soon. We have had dozens
of letters, from friends, Union men
and old Whigs, giving their adhesion
to the Liberal Republican party, but
the following is the first gun from a
Grant office holder. It is addressed
to the editor personally and confiden
tially, but hope, as we leave off the
address, that we may be
pardoned for printing the letter :
Bon. J. Clarke Swayze,
Respected Friend I congratulate you for
the stand you have taken in the Liberal Re-
Eublican movement. In my opinion it already
as the sound of success. I believe that Gree
ley, will go into the Presidential office with as
large a majority as Gen. Harrison had in
1840; I believe that we shall have the cam
paign of ’4O over again. I have just returned
from a business trip In five counties, and
every body but the office holders are for
Greeley, and I think ail of them' that love
their country, are for him. lam fully sat
isfied that almost the whole colored vote of
the State will votefor him. When the cam
paign opens you will see a complete stampede
of all parties to the Greeley banner. At the
right time I shall be with you, upon this you
may depend. You know there is'a man in Con
gress that we want to help out. In this section
of country, the Greeley ticket would beat, by
a large majority, any Democratic ticket that
could be run for President. Ido not now be
lieve that the Grant ticket will carry a sin
gle county in tho State. Those convention
rings will soon find out that they have made a
grand mistake, that negroes cannot carry elec
tions without the natives to help and direct
for them. That grand office holders ring will
soon come to a smash up. What will be
come of the aspirant to Gubernatorial honors,
on the Grant ticket? I would have nothing to
do with the Macon Convention. I foresaw a
grand smash, and was not disposed to do any
more to keep dishonest men in office. Re
member that I am with you In this fight, and
at the right time will resign and take the
stump* 1
A friend of ours who has lately
returned from New York spent sever
al pleasant evenings with Ex-Gover
nor Bullock, who we are happy to
know is quite well and has neither in
dulged in “flight” nor in “conceal
ment.” The Ex-Govemor is very qui
etly watching the ku-klux warfare
that is being made upon him, and
conscious of the correctness of his of
ficial conduct, has every confidence
in his final vindication. His Arch
enemy—Gen. Toombs—is exerting ev
ery artifice to gratify malignant hate
and popular prejudice by subjecting
him to the indignity of an arrest,
but we hope and believe purpose
of the great conspirator will be de
feated. And if what we learn be true,
there is a strong probability of &
“high toned democrat” being called
before the United States Court, ere
long to answer to the charges of
perjury and malicious prosecution—
alias persecution. This would indeed
be painful, but then if people to grat
ify political animosity will swear pos
itively (leaving off the usual scape
goat of “knowledge and belief’) to
statements that are wholly false, they
must expect to suffer the consequence.
"We take the liberty of suggesting to
the Atlanta “Inquisition” that there
will be two sides to their case before
it is all over, and we repeat that false
swearing is a dangerous and some
times a painful thing fcven for a denn
oeratic Committee to do.
ESP The venerable Milledgville Re
corder *nd the “organ” at Atlanta
have been having a disputation on
the subject at issue between Smith
and Hoffman. The Recorder sustains
Gov. Hoffman’s refusal to arrest ex-
Governor Bullock without sufficient
evidence to establish some charge
against him, and the “organ” con
tends that Democratic ‘.‘say so” is
sufficient evidence to satisfy any
Democratic Governor and that Smith
has done a big thing in making a re
quisition and in “rebuking Hoffman”
for not granting it. The “organ”
sounds the trumpet for its chief, but
has nothing in the way of evidence
to offer the public to sustain the
charges upon which he made his re
quisish. “Branded of guilt by his
own flight and concealment” is the
nearest approach these fellows ever
make to evidence to sustain their
charges against the ex-Governor. It
won’t do. The Recorder says:
We think Governor Hoffman strained a point
of comity very severely, to issue his warrant at
all on a requisition that did not rest on an in
dictment. Bullock, if in New York State, was
under the protection of New York law. To
justify his arrest and transportation one thou
sand miles, out of the jurisdiction, should re
quire stronger evidence of “probable guilt;”
than the affidavit of “belief” of one man —es-
pecially when the fiat of the court having juris
diction of the alleged crimes could so easily
have been obtained. Such a practice would
enable a malicious accuser to drag men by the
score, at immense expense and sacrifice, over
all these States, on suspicions, so groundless,
that no one would entertain them for a mo
ment. The accusation is a private matter, be
tween accuser and accused, before indictment.
Then the Court, having jurisdiction of the
crime, through its most revered institution,
the Grand Jury, takes it in hand, the State be
comes accuser, and the Chief Magistrate de
mands the criminal. Would Governor Smith
arrest, tear from hi3 family' and exile to a
Northern prison, anr» respectable citizen of this
State, upon the requisition of>the Radical Gov
ernor of Ohio, based solely upon the affidavit
of reason to “believe,” of some unknown citi
zen there ? Would he send a law-abiding Geor
gian to South Carolina Scott, on some nigger’s
affidavit of “belief” that the Georgian had vio
lated some of the infamous legislation of that
State ? This is an extreme case, and so is Bul
lock’s. But we had better use such discretion,
that our precedent shall not return to plague
us. We think the Governor acted with ill-ad
vice in this matter, which is the more to be re
gretted, as a cause of partisan irritation, at
this especial juncture. Let “requisitions’* be
made at the instance of grand juries only.
THE SITUATION IN LOUISIANA.
For months past the political situa
tion in Louisiana has attracted the
attention of well wishers of this gov
ernment, and has afforded an illus
tration of the extent to which the
present National Administration
would go to maintain its pow
er in opposition to the will of the
people. Staunch patriots, headed by
Governor Warmouth, have, however,
by aetual force of right, maintained
themselves and saved themselves the
humiliation of being servants of a mil
itary despotism. These men now
come to the front with the party of
patriots organized at Cincinnati, and
promise the State overwhelmingly for
Greeley.
A private letter dated at New Or
leans previous to the Convention,
gives a concise statement of the situa
tion as follows:
“You know, of course, we have had a hard
time to preserve the State government in the
hands of the Republicans. Grants’ office-hol
ders united with the Democracy for the pur
pose of overthrowing the government and
were ready to give it over to tne democrats.
The result is the republicans in this State are
divided. The federal office-holders, who are
crazy for the renomination of Grant, consti
tute one wing, and are known as the Custom
House party. The other is headed by War
moth and the great bulk of the republican par
ty, white and black. The custom house party,
embraces only those who hold office, or expect
to hold office under Grant. A strong delega
tion of republicans go from here for Cincin
nati to-morrow evening. The way In which
the republicans have been treated by Grant
and his officials in this State, is the real cause
of the division in our ranks, and will undoubt
edlv lead to the defeat of Grant in this State.
It is barely possible that the Grant men may
force the fssue of black and white, In which
case, as the Democrats have made no nomina
tions, a large portion them will vote with the
Liberal Republicans against Grant. The Dem
ocratic party is badly demoralized; all that re
mains of itis a few old democrats, regular
old fossils, and a few noisy, ignorant fire-eat
ers all very anxious for office. The rank and
file of the party are sick of and disgusted with
the trickery and dishonesty of their leaders.
Who the candidates for Governor will be, it is
hard to guess at this time. If Governor War
moth desires the nomination, there is not a
doubt but that he can get it, and be elected,
in spite of Grant and his friends. B.
AN AWFUL MOAN.
The Savannah Journal, a paper
printed at the expense of the Savan
nah Custom House, in an article on
the result of the Convention at Macon,
descends to a most lugubrious moan
at the prospect. It says: .
“Our Democratic opponents attempt to treat
the matter as a farce. Many Republicans, so
called, found it convenient to be away—per
haps on a tour to Cincinnati—perhaps they are
waiting to see which side Is likely to be the
strongest. One or two who border on “the res
pectable” saw fit to withdraw while the Con
vention was In session.”
It might have gone on with great
propriety and said the whole thing
was a disgrace to civilization. There
was no deliberation, no judgement,
no patriotism. It was nothing but the
prospective loaves and fishes.
Carl Schurz earnestly protested against
the Missouri bargain which carried Greeley and
Brown. He insisted that Mr. Greeley was the
weakest candidate who could be nominated
and that the Germans could not support him.
The above, from the Savannah Jour
nal, is a fair specimen of the lying that
is resorted to by the Grant organs, and
is intended to deceive the few ignorant
colored readers it has. Beeause its
party bargains and sells, it assumes
that others do. Mr. Schurz never said
that Mr. Greeley was ‘ ‘the weakest can
didate who could be nominated,” nor
did he ever say that “the Germans
could not support him.” Mr. Schurz
preferred another man, but when Mr.
Greeley was nominated he at once an
nounced himself for the ticket and ad
vised the Germans that Mr. Greeley
was their candidate. Mr. Schurz said,
as President of the Convention, that
being President, he had utterly re
fused to give his adhesion to either
aspirant for the nomination.
MR. GREELEY’S LETTER OF AC
CEPTANCE.
In another column will be found
Mr. Greeley’s letter accepting the
nomination for presidential honors
tendered him by the Cincinnati Con
vention. It is perspicuous, plain and
conclusive and stamps its author as a
profound thinker and a man of eru
dition. The writer meets the issue
fairly and honestly and uses no am
biguous terms with which to wheedle
and deceive the people. Standing
squarely upon the platform framed
at Cincinnati, no one at all acquaint
ed with Mr. Greeley, will for-a.mo
ment doubt his ability and 1 determin
ation to execute all the pledges he has
made. Whatever frailties he may
possess neither double dealing or vas
cillation have ever been charged
against him by even those who were
his most bitter opponents.
The platform as adopted at Cincin
nati, is certainly plain enough to be
fully understood by any one who can
read and its liberal and conservative
character challenges the admiration
of men of all parties.
THE GREELEY HAT.
As the ‘‘white hat” will, without
doubt, be a distinctive feature in the
coming campaign, it may not be out
of place to give an idea of what it
looks like. Recently, while the wri
ter was in New York, Mr. Greeley was
called upon by the hatters to choose
from about two hundred hats, one for
his use. The one chosen by him was
a white soft felt hat, with a broad
brim, trimmed with a white satin
finished band about an inch and a
quarter in width. That’s the Greeley
hat.
EST" The Boston Post talks about “Chattanoo
ga, Georgia.” We shouldn’t suppose the people
of South Carolina would like to be swindled out
of their favorite city in that -way—Courier-
Journal.
That is a singular mistake of the C. J’s; for
dosen’t everybody kpow that Chattanooga is
in Idaho, whither it was removed a few months
ago?— Atlanta Sun.
And you, Mr. Sun, have got the
thing backwards. It is Idaho that is
in Chattanooga.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS.
Dalton experienced a disastrous tor
nado last week.
Millions of small bls.ck bugs are de
stroying the potatoes, at Gainsville. •
The people of Dooly county have
very nearly subscribed all the stock
required of them for the Hawkinsville
and Eufaula Railroad—about $50,000
we believe.
The members of the Thirty-sixth
Congress from Georgia who are ex
cluded from th§ benefits of the am
nesty bill, passed Thursday, are Al
fred Iverson and Robert Toombs, Sen
ators ; and Peter Love, Martin J.
Crawford, Thomas Hardeman, Lucius
J. Gartrell, John AV. H. Underwood,
James Jackson and John J. Jones,
members of the House- of Representa
tives. There were no members from
this State in the Thirty-seventh Con
gress, the State having seceded before
the assembling of that body.
In the Warren Superior Court, last
week, a young man convicted of using
opprobious words in the presence of
ladies, was sentenced to three months
in the county jail, fined fifty dollars,
and ordered to pay the costs of suit.
That chap has learned a good lesson.
The Albany News reports “channel
cats” as the only “vegetables” to be
had in that market. The drouth has
squelched out the garden truck of all
‘kinds.
Albany has in contemplation a short
canal —about two miles in length—to
convey some of the waters from the
Kincheefoonee from above the falls
on the Flint river. This, when com
pleted, will give a water power suffi
cient to propel the machinery eff a
dozen cotton factories.
The Cobb County Agricultural and
Industrial Association has purchased
eighty acres of land for the purpose
of building their fair grounds and es
tablishing their experimental farm.
The Columbus Sun learns that the
Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad is
now in the hands of a receiver, the
creditors having endeavored to force
the road into bankruptcy.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Griffin News says the Savannah Rad
ical Ring have resolved to nominate
Wm. Markham, now of New York,
but formerly of Atlanta, for Gover
nor.
Atlanta brags on the arrival of cher
ries, cucumbers and squashes in her
market. Give her the medal for 'late
arrivals.
The com crop in Screven county is
said to be very good, cotton prospects
very gloomy, and cotton seed scarce.
Gold discoveries have been made in
Hall county, and the people there are
already looking with disgust on the
old stand-by—greenbacks.
Atlanta is a candidate for the title
of “the grain distributing point,
South,” and she wants a $20,000 grain
elevator, to hold 75,000 bushels, to el
evate her to that title.
Change of Climate. —“Frank,’’who
drives one of the wagons of the “City
Mills,” says he cannot stand the heat
of our wgather without an umbrella.
He is one of the negroes brought over
by the yacht Wanderer, some years
ago, and fell to Colonel R. L. Mott.—
Columbus Sun.
Fulton county cries alo.ud for the
head of the class on the clover ques
tion. She rushes frantically to Atlanta >
with a specimen of “red” thirty-four
inches high, and declares for 6,300
pounds of hay from the acre.
Judge Erskine is holding a levee
with the illicit distillers in Atlanta.
The distillers don’t enjoy the Judge’s
company, and would like to leave; but
the Judge will have “his say” out be
fore they can go.
Sentenced.—J. C. Lloyd and John R.
Holsenbake, who .were convicted last
May in Macon Superior Court, of the
murder of Colonel Fish,in Oglethorpe,
and whose sentence of hanging was
suspended by an appeal to the Su
preme Court, were resentenced by
Judge Clark, on Wednesday, to be
hung on the 28th, June, proximo.
li. K. R.
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OF
Railroad Stocks and City Lots.
Wmhbesold on MONDAY, 17th of June,
1872, at ten o’clock, A. M., before the
Court House rioor In the city .of Maoon, State
of Georgia, viz:
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Also, the following City Lots will be sold up
on the grounds,commencing on Tatnall Square,
at half past ten o’clock, A. M., of the same
date, viz:
Lots Nos. 1,6 and 7, block 33; 1 and 2, block
63; 3, block 28; 1, block 85; 3, 4. 5,6,7 and 8, block
5o; 1,2,3 and 4, block 62; 1,2, 3/4, 6, 7 and £
block 48; 1,2, 3 and 4, block blank on Tatnall
Square; 1,2, 3, 4,5. 8, 7 and 8, block 40; 1,2, 3,6,
7 and 8, block 59; 1,2, 3,4,5, 6, 7 and 8, block 58
Tatnall Square; 6, blook 69 Southwestern Re
serve; 8,4, 7 and 8, block 71, Southwestern Re
serve; 1,2, 3,4, 5 and 6, blook 72 Southwestern
Reserve; 4,5 and 6, block 75, Southwestern Re
serve; 1, 2 and 3, block 74; 1, block 68; 1 lot,
blank block on the corner of Johnson and
Forsyth streets.
TERMS OF BALE.—AII the Railroad Stock
will be sold for Cash. City Lots, one-third
Cash: one-third, six months: balance In twelve
months with interest from date.
W. L. ELLIS, ) Committees
A. R. TINSLEY, on
G. B. ROBERTS, j Finance and
•J. WILBOUItN, Public
D. DALY, J Property.
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