About The Sun and Columbus daily enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-1874 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1874)
fracm i'OUSi111 N: FHIDAY FEBKUAKY 27, 1874. notice. Twenty-five per cent, will bo added to | all BubnoriptiooH not paid in advance. Thin rule will not be dcpafted from. All fuuoiul, obituary, and marriage no- ticoH muHt bo paid for at regular ratea. ItoHolutiorm of Grangea and other bodies,.ordered published, will be charged for. Anonymous communications invariably ignored. Letters requiring answer ahonld con tain stumps for return postage. Oun Washington corroMpondent writoa us, Feb. 22d, thut Mr. Btopbons was then recovering from his illness, uud was able to ride out. Dimmick, tho member of the l’onnsyl- vnni.i Legislature implicated in the black mailing bank >windie, tendered his resig nation on Mouduy, which the House ref used to uceept. An investigation is progression Tub latest reports show that tbo women of Ohio nro making progress in thoir war on tho liquor saloons. Many have sus pended, and tlio onmpaign is still vigor ously prosecuted, lint it is said that some of the saloon men, who were among tho first to capitulato, aro already pre paring to resume their old business. .Dihi’ATCuks from the West show that hostilities between the Sioux Indians and tho white settlers aie constantly occur ring. Killing, burning and horse stealing on both sides are reported. Tho interest ing question now is whether the presence of troops will sufllco to stop hostilities without lighting. Ma. Wm, H. McCaw, a young gontlo- innn connected us correspondent with several of the host papers of Huuth Caro lina, catno to his death in a strange iuan- nor, at Columbia, on Thursday lust. JIo was in his room writing a letter to a Char lent on paper, when bo discovered that his clothes were on firo, ami before he could obtain relief ho was so badly burned as to cuiiau bis death in a few hours, liow Ids clothes caught lire, ho could not toll. Tim apocch of our immediate ltoprcson- tutive in Congress, lion. 11. U. Harris, (which wo copy to-day), will ho found pointed, logical, and truthful. Mr. Har ris makes a tuithful and creditable itopre- Hontativo of tbo intelligent constituency that elected him. Wo hope thut this Hpeiiuh of his, on tho “Civil llights” bill (now held back by tho commilteo to which it was remanded until it tnti be ascertain ed how much of it must be “unloaded")* will be generally read. “Bi’Kouh" writes from Washington to tho Atlanta IIera </, thut on the 21st inst. Congrcsvuiun Fiuumau rend to the Sounte Post Cilice Committee u letter from Huylos J. lloweii, of Washington, late Secretary of tho Greeley National Com mittee, in which Howen slates that Sam Hard made overtures to support Greoloy, if he could bo paid for it, and that ho (Howen) declined tho proffer. So it would seem tlmt them nro other explosive po litical magazines beside i Pickett's “ar chives." Tub members of the Mississippi Legis lature seem to bo taking things easy. Tlio Senate had no quorum r.ll of last week — “not yet recovered from tho effects of Mnrdi Gras," says a dispatch of the 21st. Uu that day tho llouao bad only six moro than a quorum—47 absentees. A resolu tion to adjourn nine die on the 18th of April—protracting tho session two months longer—was tabled, because the members said they would not adjourn until they got through business. Mississippi is a Stato that does not “compromise"—she ropudialss. An Alnhitum Quandary. The last Legislature of Alubnma failed to Dintact tho State so as to provide for tho two additional Congressmen gained by the census. Tho election will ho held next fall, and thoro rooms to bo little prospect of a new districting of the Statu before that tiuio. Therefore a bill has been introduced in Congress to allow* Ala* ! humu again to elect two Congressmen at j large. Either this bill.will pass, or Con- 1 gross will itself district tbo Stato. Tho | Washingt oor.rogiug, and we would be sorry to havo the fact taken as an evidence of Colum bus prosperity, though it does lookthat j way. There is no city of this size in tho country where there is such a lack of en terprise as exhibited in our advertising j columns. Our readers must beur us out tying thut we havo spent our means and worked day nud night, not only to givo them a uowspaper worth the sub scription price, but one that would reflect credit on our city, and which would be a credit to any place. Hud we beon sus tained, as wo earnestly hoped, we iuteuded to have increased tho size of tho Daily, but baffled disappointed, and wronged, in tnuny cases, out of the amount due, and with thou sands owing us that we aro vainly trying to collect. We soo but two remedies, un less the pooplo puy us what is rightly ours. Tbo first is to stop tho Daily and issue only u Weekly, refunding those who havo paid for tho Daily in advance—it won't bo a breaking sum—or to out tho Duly down to about one-half its present size. Ono thing is certain, tho time has couie when wo uro determined to Ioho no more by trusting pooplo who seem to havo for gotten thut there is a principle of honor involved in even n newspaper debt. Some men, owing to the courso wo have taken, havo dropped our paper nftor reading it for nearly a year, and refuse point blaok to pay as. Yot thoso fellows, and w*o shall give thoir names tinder a proper bonding, would stick a knife in a min if he called thoin “deliberate thieves." Wo propose to begin on Monday, and shall sturt with this city. No doubt wc will lose many nominal friends, when they find they cannot run in debt for this paper farther, but wo are not in the habit of consulting men’s feelings when wo know we uro right. Another thing, wo cannot hunt rill over this town to find every man indebted to us, and wo there fore hope they will call and settle. iu enumerating tho cttrscs to which this laud lias been subjected, wo havo not hoard tho principal ono mentiunod. Jt is the utter recklessness with which people contract debts, when they have not in their hearts the faintest thought or care oj how they are to meet them. Strict moralists would quostion the integrity of UKOKUIA NIAVV. —The Superior Court of Talbot county ftill commence its spring term on Mon- liny niter next. — A negro umn and a horse w^iich ho was ridmg^wero killed by n falling troe, near La Grange, Tuesday of lust week. —It seems that Gory, the defaulting Atlanta cashier, owed his downfall to cx- agunt investin', uts in buck-eye bee SPEECH liiv —Tho Athens Watchman reports real estate rapidly advancing in Tiduu iu its soctiou, in view of prospective railroad facilities. —Tho ropo factory and machine shop of Mr. George M. Duval, near Augusta, woro burned on Saturday night. Loss about #4,01)0. — A party of manufacturers from tho North were inspecting tho Augusta canal ou Tuesday, and it is hoped that they worn well enough p loused to establish a fuctoiy of some kind thoro. —It is now said that Mrs. Westmore land does not coutcmplnto visitiug Geor gia soon, and cousoquoutly hor lectures iu the cities »>f tho Btulu were prematurely announced. —besides Senator James It. Brown, the tntinou of Senators Kooso and Lester and Herbert Fielder, Esq., are moutionod iu connection with the nomination for Governor of Georgiu for tho next term. Hut Governor Smith has yot more than two years to servo. —From 1872 to 1873 tho value of taxa ble proper iu Houston couuty decreased one hundred and uinoty-six tliousaud dollars. Houston is, wo believe, the largest cotton producing county in tbo Statu. The probability is that too much cotton is the cause of its loss of wealth. —Bays the Gainesville Advertiser of Tuosday: “The wheat throughout North- oast Georgia, so fur ns wo have seen and heard, is far more promising than any of the previous seasons for tho past four years, and unless some disaster should befall it, wo will have the laigu.-t yield ie thu AI.AIIAMA MiW.N. —Tho several Graugos of Chambers oouuty had a meeting at LaFayutto on Saturday, nud organized a county Coun- —Mr. D. W. Melvcr has beconio tho solo mopriotor and editor of tho Tuske* goo Sews, having bought the interest of J. E. Cobb, Esq. “Spooks" writes to tlio Atlanta Herald tlmt Mr. lleyman, of Opelika (a Federal officer there), is in Washington city, and announces hitusolf a candidate for Con gress from the 3d Alabama district. —The expenses of the city government . of Montgomery, last year, were $ir>f>,r*31, npimdeut of tho Atlniitn | mi(l , ho |, 10ual „ r „ r y ,„ ir $127,Mill. A Herald thinks thut CimyruiH will form tho | lulling off in both II districts, and the ltadieals aud lice •31 » » tiler out of tlio The epot Knquirer thinks that tho bill allowing tho State to again elect two Uepvcscnta- lives “at largo" will pass. Tlicio is a bare possibility that tho difficulty may bo solved by Legislative action at a called session yet to bo hold. FAC’TN WOltril KFAPIXtt. The majority of tho subscribers to this paper mint acknowledge that wo have triod to bo luuieut, and that in direct vio lation of our published toriUH, wo have furnished them our journal without in sist ig ou its prepayment. It iH simply in po sible to combine this; our means are limned and wo have decided to drop from the Msnranoe, and hire in all rmpects privilogM. «» «!•*>«; and wb »!!! do complied with tho obligtillhha thna im- fur thorn and ourreliea the very brut tlmt ut | pared, aud they to-d.y ubl that you we can with the limited resources at our i Mr Rainey—i wish 10 ask the gentle- command. Pass this bill and yon entail HON 1IFNHY k HAHHTS mm .qaertlon. I upon us stilllurther diB outage,ueule turd I1U.1. 111-1'A L J\. 11 -A All .Jj I 3X r> Harris, of Georgiu—Excnse me; I; oonfuuon-, which wot not only undo wlml do uot wish to he interrupted, an my time J we h-.ve uireudy aeuoinpli.hed iu bui.diug is limited. ! “P “ general >0 WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS. OF UltOHUJA, ON THE coinmou schools id mi port of tlio burning of tbo Fair t Euf.iula, on Monday night, .. Tbo general holier is that »«t on tiro by tho maddened no- hoard of no arrests posit i* 'proof. CIVIL RICHTS* BILL, “That whoever being a corporation or natural person, and owner or in charge of any public inn, or of way place of public amusement or entertainment for which a license from any public au thority is required, or of any line of stage coaches, railroads or other means of pab- lic carriage of passengers or freight, or of any company or other benevolent in stitutions, or any other sobool supported in whole or iu part a‘. the public exp- use or by endowment for the public, shall msko any distinction as to the admission or accommodation therein of any citizen of the United Stains, because of rnce, color or previous condition of servitude, slifii:, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than $1')Q nor more than $5,000 for each offense, and the person or corpora tion so offending shall bo liable to the citizen thereby injured in damages, to be recovered on an action of debt." Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 17, 1874. The House having under consideration tho bill (H. K. No. 796) to protect all cit izens in thoir civil and legul rights, Mr. Harris said: Mr. Speaker, there has not been, nor can there be, any measure proposed to this House of more vital importance to tho peace, good order, prosperity, and happiness of tho people of the South than the one now under consideration. And wbilo I fear thut neither right, reason, ar gument, nor persuasion will avail to de feat it, I feel it a duty which I owe to both races of my tiiuto to exhaust every legiti mate expodiout iu my power to avert from them tlio unprocedunto 1 calamities that must neoi-ssirily ensue upon tho adoptiou of this bill. I do not propose, Mr. Hpeaker, to dis cuss tho provisions of the bill in their con stitutional bearings; that has been nl- roudy exhaustively done by abler hands, aud its unconstitutionulity demonstrated conclusively to nil unprejudiced minds. It is its enforcement, and the practical re sults that are to follow this and all kindred legislation, that we so much doploro. And it is to this that 1 address mysolf, uud a**k the calm, deliberate attention of the friends of tho bill. For, ufter all, the ef fect which any legislation is to have upon tho country constitutes tho great question for tho consideration and control of tho true statesman. Whether this measure is constitutional or uot, thu dominant parly on this floor so contend ; and I four that they have both tho power and the will to impose it upon the country, unless they o in be made to pause and consider long enough to foresee tbo direful conse quences which must inevitably follow. To those who oatitend for its constilu- tionnlity I have this to say; that tho great apostle to the Gentiles said, “All things are luwful unto me, but all things aro not expedient." Distinguiabod advocates of this bill on tho other side of tho Iiouso justify thoir support of the measure on the ground and sceiii to feel that it is demundcU for the protection of tho freoduien of the South, beoauso of the prejudices that exist in tho minds of the white people against tho col ored race. Now lot me assure you, Hir, with all tho candor, honesty, and empha sis of which l aiu capable, that, a greater delusion tlinn this never seized upon thu minds of luliouul, intelligent men. Why, sir, wo have uot now, nor never had, any grounds of prejudice against the colored tuna. On tho contrary, our prepoRsos- sions and sympathies have ulways been with him, whether in u condition of ser vitude or freedom. Such still of 1 edn tho natural lation, nud our roils e paid in »dv crib. vlio has not id in order that tho Ot kn on lift - It is said that tho ogoutof uu English company will soon visit and report upon tho “copper tuum" on tho lauds of t*x- Gov Smith in Uaudolph county. His re port will probably determine the question whether the company will underiuko the working ot the mine. —Julia Thornton, colored, was arrested near Tuskegeeon Friday evening, on sus picion of murdering hor step daughter, a small child. The body of tho child was found burning on the hearth, aud oil ex amination showed that it ba t been badly bruised before tb« burning. Tbo chi'd’s brother testified tlmt the woman had se verely beaten bis sister and then sent him off, «nd when he returned ho found tho body in the fire and tho woman gone off. expired long since, can see how their ac counts stall 1, we will publish tho list with the amounts due u-: this, after nil the means wo are employing have failed. In the city of Columbus, whore our paper has a largo circulation, thoro are only eighteen subscribers to the Daily who are ten months in advance, and out of a total daily circulation, uearly up to the largest iu the State,there are not three hundred who are in advance for even ono month. She i bailed. Last winter n party of oighteon Nor' woigiau whalers perished at Gape Thors- den, Spitzbergeii. Tho Captain, Frits Mack, kept a journal down to tho time lie hiu attacked. It oo tains the following entries: “January 19, 1873. At 5 80 a m. God called to him self Tonnes G. Peterson, who has been down with the scurvy since the . r ith. Same day, Ht 12. 30 p ui., died, of the same disorder. Hendrick llertuas, who was attacked December 19. February , , . ’ 2. The scurvy is now at its height. Three wo hove to pny o»sb every week to «&• men 0B |, reman unnltaekod. February amount of nearly thirty thousand dollars •_•(>, See for the first time tho sun of 1873 per annum, mid onr only means of ! February 21. To-day the Lord called to meeting tins iuimen.o outlay is fium our j lumself our comrade Christian Lari , . . . . . , Kioto, who died after eighty-two days of subscriptions and advertising. Onr totsl ■ s „. k . 0u tho 23th 0 apt. Mack subscription list, bad wo no advertising, write- -'I am iho only ono that has nut would not run this paper for live months; ' boon visited by the scourge. God help aud though wo hoped advertising would l:s ' And on the Ss.lt: "Another one of " , , , ,• I onr oomrndos died to-dav. April ti. Mar- more,me after wo purchased and consult- j „„ n , lBsen 8uoc „ m t,od 0 " Tho dated with The Sun, it has actually fallen ! journal closes with thoso words: “Who off one-fourth. This is not oortaudy on- \ will be left to write iny »au*e?" iuterost. The property intere had in him was of itself a humanizing in fluence, iu so far ns it led tho white man to oaro for him iu sickness and in health —iu body and iu soul. It was, sir, this influence that secured to him that con stant dully contact and ussoeiution with tho white man that ruised him front his rude, barbaric stato to tho status of civil ization and development in which emanci pation found him. And, no mutter what may bo said of the abuses of slavery, they were more incidents, and do not invali date the groat truth thus enunciated. It is a fact alike uudenied and undeniable. In their former state they were our prop erty ; in thoir pronout position of freedom they are still our laborers iu the field uud onr principal dependents in our families and our homes. A mo limit's serious reflection, houest und apart from blind, partisan zt-al and the infatuation of fanutiuisui, will satisfy evcey unprejudiced mind that pecuniary interest alone would impel our pooplo not only to protect and provide for the freed- men, bat by every possible means within their power to oducato and elevate them to a proper approciatiou of tho gruvo re sponsibilities and privileges growing out of their now relation of citizenship, not only to society nud government, but to ourselves aud our families.* la an agri cultural region the inutuil dependence and reciprocity of iuterest which always exist between tho capitalist aud tho la borer—the landlord and tho tenant— could not do otherwise than beget and presorve feelings of amity, justice, und a kindly consideration between them. It is no disparagement to the masses of the colored people of the South to say that they know, feel, and acknowledge their dependence upon the white man, not on ly for employment, but tor counsel, sym pathy, aud protection. Ou the oilier lurid, tho white man daily exhibits his need of the hinck man as a laborer, and knows full well that tho more happy and contented he makes him, tho more relia ble and profitable ho becomes. And hence, sir, tho white uian of Hie South is to day, aud lias ever been, ready, willing, nay anxious, to accord to tbo colored ra>*o every right, privilege, aud immunity, so- ci d and pt.lrie.d, that would bo condu cive to his interest and happiness, and at the same time compatible with good gov ernment, peace, and order. That this statement is true is proven by tho fact that there is not to be found, so far as my knowledge extends, a singlo statute in any of the former slave States that dis criminates against any citizsu the roof “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." On the contra ry, onr State constitutions, aud all the laws enacted under them, have been made to conform in all respects to the require ments of the Constitution of tbo United States ns amended. The same constitu tion that protects tho white mui throws its broad aigis around the colored man. The same law that inflicts punishment for crime upon onecit»z*n applies to each aud every ono alike, bo he white or black, rich or poor, high or low. 1’he same privileges aud immunities aro granted to, ami aro to-day enjoyed and exoeroised by each and every citizen without “let or hioderanoe." And if thero be any dia- ciiminationa in the judicial administra tion aud exocutiou of tho laws, I know nothing of them. What more, I ask, eau be justly demanded, either by the letter, spirit, or genioua of a republican govern ment ? The Southern Slates were told that when their constitutions and laws were nude to couforiu to the Constitution of the United States the work of reconstruc tion was consummated, and thut thoro would be no further interference with the rights of the States by the Federal Gov- •ruxaant. They in good faith accepted Mr. ltaiuey—I will not interrupt you again, if you answer this questiou. Are not the oitizeus of your State now call ing a convention to set aside thut consti tution, and to get up another one ? Mr. Harris, of Georgia—In reply to this question I will say, that no move ment for a constitutional convention in my Stato contemplates any change in the sting relations of the two races or the restriction in any way of the rightB grow- out of these relations. Our own pooplo, seeing at an early day the dangers and diffijulties that would arise by any attempt oven upon their own part to control a question so deli cate uud at tho same time so complex, ly and promptly provided ogaiDHt its agitation in thoir orgauic law. And thoir wisdom, prudence, und true statesman ship, responsive to tho deliberate con viction of the citizens themselves, will say, let it remaiu forever. Not only would we have it thus for our own do mestic tranquillity aud happiness, but for the honor and weal of the nation. Will tbo party in power with equal fidelity fulfil thoir obligations? To do this you have only to let ns nlono, and thereby permit us to regulate our internal interests according to the dictates of our own judgments, subject only to the Con stitution of the United States. As it re gards the social status of h>v* citizens, thu State of Georgia, which I have the honor in part to represent, lias long ago spoken in language alike intelligible und unmis takable. Tho eleventh section of her pre sent constitution, adopted iu 18G8, pro vides that “the social status of the citi zen shall never bo the subject ot legisla tion." That constitution was frumod by a Rouveution composed almost exclusively of delegates who belonged to the Repub lican party, and many of whom woro col ored men. Aud that constitution was submitted to, aud up;-roved by, tho Amer ican Congress, ti.ee, as now, largely Re publican. It was ratified by the citizens of ilia Stale, and ii tod.yonoof tho fundameutul principles of our govern ment. And now let me ask, Will this Congross, unmindful of the approval which a previous Congress has already given to the settlement of this vexed question, reopen Pandora’s box of ills, and thereby impjso upjn the pooplo of Georgia amt her sister Houthoru Htates, and thoir unoffending citizens of both races, the dro tded calamities which tffhy b night to shield them selves from by the very highest possible safeguard ? Wdl you, who control tho legislation of the nation, bo ho unwise as to attempt L;» reg ulate, by Congressional enact min*, tuo social status ot the citizens of the Hinte-, when the people themselves Lave declared their unwillingness to touch it by placing it beyond the reach of ihe legislative arm of their own Stato ? I cannot and will not permit myself to believe that you will iudulge such folly and mudnes.s until the deed itself is Uoue. I urn satisfiad, Mr. Speaker, that a very largo majority of the Republican mem bers of ibis Iiouso do not understand tho true condition of affairs iu tbo South; for if thoy did, an 1 are sincere iu their avowals of solicitude for the welfare of tlio country, and especially for tlm pros perity anil advancement of tho colored race, 1 am very snro that thoy wem’d indi cate it in some better w.iy than tlie adop tion of legislative enactments which, in my judgment, when tried, will not only provo unacceptable to the masses of col ored people at tho South, but alike de- >tivo of tho harmony and groat inter- of both racea. In tho short time allowed me 1 cannot further discuss this brauch of the subject, but will briefly re view one other of itB aspects. It is a fact, Mr. Speaker, kuown to all, that previous to emancipation a very largo proport ou of tho wealth of the South consisted of her thou slave proper ty. This wealth, vast as it was, by tho war and its results was entirely swept away, leaving Hie industrial pursuits ot the country disorganized uud prostrate. Superaddod to this was an influx iuto our midst of u horde of adventurers, who, feel ing no identity of interest with govern ment of any sort, either Federal or State, with no respect for the right* of the white man or regard for tho welfare of tbo colored man, ignoring the former und subsidizing the latter, with hearts intent ipon plunder alone, sought to array the olorod iuftu, if not iu deadly conflict of aces against the uhito nnui, at luast of interost. And such was their success for bile that it was exceedingly difficult to contract with laborers at any price or up- i any terms. The result was that vory iny of our best citizens, men of entoi- prise aud ouorgy, despairing of ever be ing able to reconcile tho conflicting ele ments thus aroused, abandoned their for- homes nud farms, and sought the is of subsistence for themselves and families elsewhere, in different and more uncongenial pursuits. And thus this state of thiiis* continued to grow worse and worse—plunder, on the ono hand, by carpetbag rulers, And on the other the disorganization of our labor system—nn- il a stern necessity seemod to demand nd to inaugurate a change. And now, just as we aro hegining to emerge from the storm-olotid which has so long over shadowed us, just as its fury is beginning somewhat to abate, you propose to renew onr conflicts and difficulties by imposiug upon ua measures still more odious to the people of both races than ar.y hitherti inflicted. Stop, sirs, in your further cru Rude of wrong nud madaevs upon th» rights of the States, b- foro you find it t o late to retrieve the ruin which your hands for both races alike, but you ft ill thereby restrict our beuefici-nce aad compel us to j inaugurate ntili another and more partial i system. This remark is not intended ls ! a threat, tier has it any of tho feelings or spirit of vindictiveness in it. Threats ore j the weapons of cowardice, and vindictive- i nose finds u place only in malignant hoarts. j But I ft id say that if it be tlio object of : this bill to comp-d the association of the j two rac "i in schools, churches, hotels, ! j burial grounds, public conveyances, or : any where else, th »t its purposes will nev- | iH’omplishbd. The common sense ; of the bia k man forbids him to aspire to j , and the sclt'-respooc and taste of the h.te iu .u revolt lie the thought uud will never tolerate it. The nssociutions of men in social life have ever bton and will always bo volun tary—prompted by either taste or inter ests, or by both combined. It is true that political power, intensified and concen trated for its owu aggrandizement, may accomplish much iu modifying, nud even in overthrowing forms of government; but in the utmost stretch of that power it can never repeal or annul the laws of God. Aud hence, sir, no at the South have no foirs of social equality, although its enforcement should be attempted by the strong arm of Government in the most positive and direct legislation. The inherent rights uud ins.incts which a wise aud beneficent Creator has implanted in the breast and stamped upon tho brow of the Anglu-HiiXon race,and which adhere to him iu evc-iy coiin ry, clime, aud condi tion of earth) »».s G id's owu sigost of su periority, forbitl it. It is not this fear that impels ub to oppose so strenuously the passage of this and of all similar bills. But it is because the settlement of all mi h questions nghltully belongs to us, and ft u know that, we can dispose of them better thun you can. Wo see, .aud huv«j already s tfely felt, tuo c mseqiisnoes of sunn ie •r.erdnee with our internal rights ur d reg'dations. Wo ask nothing for our selves, in .ividually or im States, that, we do not fn oly accord to you and to your States. If ib* Mates themselvea havo not the right to regulate all such matters as those embodied in the provisions of this “civil rights bill,'’ let rue a-k in nil candor what subject involving Ihe status and rights of citizenship is 1 ft within their owu con trol and beyond the roach of federal leg- Lliition ? Have the States no r jservod rights ? If they aro without rights, then they are no longer States. Take their rights away, us you propose to do in this bill, und youa .onco establish a precedent upon which the Congress can, at will, transform the sovereign States of the Union into mere provisional dependeu- You have but to tako n few more steps iu this direction and y»>u will have oblit erated the very principle—the sovorsiguty of the States—trom which the Federal Government itself derived its vitality and power. Mr. Spoukor, when slavery whs abolished we hoped and felt that the great “apple of discord” was forever removed from tho oounci'aof the nation—-that with the reconstruction of the Government would come the restoration of peuce and fratoruity —that men r.f all part 1 ***, from every portion of tho Union, would come together in a spirit of mu ml concord and cuDOili.itiou, and nd lrw*a thomsolves with equal earucotncHs io tho great work of repairing the end desolations of war, aud the dov< lopment of tho vast resources have I havo, uglit. ROSETTE & LAW HON] WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Liiquor Dealers] 121 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga., H ave now in store a choice selection of pure and csvr ulteralod Liquors, seme of which nra “ n, 4 f™"** of nlry. Butaliib! id.in! huw great thu del Wo of tbo S.m'h, amid onr impoviahment and ruin, still find ourselves u prey to op pression and wrong. Will this strife never cease? Will the day never come when modulation, justice an equality shall obtain, und when wo, as a people of a common country aud a common destiny, can dwoll togotbor in unity? Let those who are in power an 1 who control the nfl'uirs of Government answer. The peo ple of thu South woro honest robols, (if, indeed, rebels at nil,) aud are no less to day American citizens, loyal in every sen* limeut of their nature to tho true princi ples of constitutional liberty, as taught by the Fathers of tbo Republic. Aud they will emulnto the most ardent in pre serving and transmitting to their children that priceless boon. Ilonee, sir, we can never lend our voices or our voles to the support of any measure-which, like the “civil lights bill,” doslroys the equilibri um of our federal system by iuvadiug tho sovereignty of tho Staten, and there by denying t > tlio people that very ••do mestic trr.riqattity" which il was institu ted to protn <te. llonnesseo Brandy, Peach “ Apple Cherry “ Domestic “ Jamacia Rum, Now England Rum, Holland Gin, Domestic Gin, Poit Wino, Sherry Wine, Madeira “ Malaga Wine, nd four years old. Martin Whiskey, Bourbon “ Cabinet “ Irish “ Rye White Corn Whiskey, Adam Crow’s “ Weller’s Bout bon “ Robertson County Whiskey Toni Mooro Ryo “ White Wheat “ Pa. Dew Drew “ » offerod at wholesale and retail, in quantities to suit purchasers, ROSETTE A LA WROX. BANKS. NEBCHIITS’ IBB MECHUIt! BANK, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. W. L. SALISBURY, Presid’t. A. 0. BLACKMAR, Cashier, I THE NEW YORK STORE I IS STILL SELLING A S Prices ! OUR J0UVIN TWO-BUTTON KID GLOVES! AT 90c. A PAIR. ONLY A FEW DOZEN LEFT. Nov. 20, isrii. S. I. AND AUER & BR0. [mh 30-eodttwlyj New Yoik Store REAL ESTATE AGENTS. By ELLIS & HARRISON. TKI'STEK'M SAI.E OF Desirable Dwelling Building Lots. and ' MARCH, 11 . .ck, v otkor, been a planter u!l of my life ; have owned in iny slaves, most of whom aro my tenants to day, aud havo been ever since they were emancipated. I know the disposition aud character of tbo negro race, their wants, necessities, uud adaptations. I am their friend ; they feel it aud acknowledge it. I tun ready to do anything that will ameliorate and improve their condition, for in doing it I am sensible offthe fact that I will thoreby promote tbo material prosperity of the whole couutry. But I say io the friend of this measure that if I wore thu direst enemy of tbo colored man, und desired to depress him iu tho scale of human intelli gences ; nay, if uiy purpose w.is to txter- minuto him from the earth, I would ask no surer or speedier me ms of accomplish ing that end than the enactment and practical enforcement of just such meas ures as these embodied iu this “oiv;l- rights’’ bill, the t ffect of which is to ostrango him from, and to slit g >uize him Iti, tho white man. Our people, prompted alike by the considerations of humanity aud interest, would avert any such calamity. In a'most every village, and iu many neighborhoods,of the South, tho freeduien havo schools of their owu. These schools are supported in part by tho States— by the voluntary contributions of tho white people, su^p'emented by such amounts as the freed men themselves oau spare from their scauty oarnings. Georgia to-day is struggling hard to es tablish a general system of public educa tion for all her people, black as well as white. This groat work caunot be ac complished iu a day or in a year. With our impoverished resources, and tho in- t tr^f'ni'.v ; terfereues and discouragements with J l y l iu . ti. *t‘ J. which we have had to conleud, tho great 1 ‘L" aKui H « u «• astonishment is that we have accomplish- ; hci-Ut ii' i min iu ed anything at all in that direction. Our tiu« court iio jm! colored population seems content with J J.' iami t. t-ov* uiu*r. what we have done and are still doing for j cf -M'" 1 ' A - l> - ,f,: them, and feel that they are making some : Unitod gut advancement toward •©curing eduoational t-b*r it O n Tuesn.vt Boll iu fr«,i Tint DKcIHAllLK RESIDENCE, with y, uto K"iuiid attached, and threo \amut lit-tiding 1 Utn OI y aero h. situated on Jackson Htreot, ounoHitu tlio OKh-thorno property, owned by Wm. 11. Ilunlies, fruit* e. Term* cash. 'I it leu perfect. _ fehST td Bankrupt Sale. O N TUESDAY, the 3d day of March uext, I will coininuucu t..<- Bale of the Bankrupt a onk ef Boots and Shoes OF ALL KINDS, tho lute property of JOSEPH KINi will hut ono fto. k only, and tho good: in parcels to suit Jobbors. This will he an unequal d opportunity to all Johbt r i do.lrius to j •ifchaso such goods. ISAAC JOSEPH, _Mv27 lw Assignor. For Rent, j HR HOARDING HOUSE on Broad street, known as the “Uoiuo XUim " Also, a Plano f., r rout or sale. Apply to MUS. ANN ADAMS, Notice in Bankruptcy. ■ 1113 is to p : t« notice that on the4:hday i * Augn- , ■. I - .3 a warrant in ltanl ruptc Am N'.ied r. . ■: • : • : -t.i’ ■ I 'i ho t as N. \l o thnm.ot \utV.. v \ lit,« .. of Mmivv, tl er.ftndStnte J""rgi'i who ii >< : >•. n udj nig..i •» Bankrupt on h >wn p t n. -nl :h..t p.yn, ;,t of any debt nd thud* it-'? i ii. > I ■ q rty l.-loi-ging tOHiic JAMES LEFFEL’S IMPROVED DOt’UI.E Turbine Water Wheel. ELLIS & HARRISON. ! Beal Estate Agents ] AND AUCTIONEERS, X\71LL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO TIIKSALK, > > RENT AN1) PI UCll ASK of REAL KPT At)', iu the Uiy and country, and will adv. haui« (at privut'j salo; FitP.F OP CIlAItU tho prop, rty is sold. POOL & HUNT, Baltimore, Maxufactcriiis for tiir Sooth and Fovtic PorUblo and Stationary Steam Unglues nnd Boil ers, Bnheock A Wilcox Pat- nt luhulous Boiler, Bhaugli’s Crusher for Minerals, Saw und Orlst Mi'H, Flouring Mill Machinery, Machinery for White i.ead Works and Oil Mills, Sha tl. g, Pul leys and Hung rs. Send lor Hrcularn iuh3 wCiu Chaltahoochec Sheriff Sale. U ' ILL h.- sold before tho Court House door in fiwsetn, t hs.li vh..ocheo county, Oa , on th<* first Tuesday iu April next, within the legal homfl I>erty, to-wit: ALUABLE CITY PIlOPKRTV One Jtuy Hnri hi, to satisfy ii , Ul.f.ll f hands, iseued tro ltity, upon the f r Llonn. ll, against Jol.u L. llori aid John L. lf. ru JOHN M. HAPP, Sheri i \1I ATT A HOOCH EK L; Feb 231, 1874 — W R. C. Patterson has hoe: lug permanent l.-tteis ■ Kln’r. lute ol'nild c >uotyT 3ccnui!d Dine Hr., thoruforo, to olto and .Hmonlih >1 and singular, the kindred and creditors, to uho\ r.uso (if any they havo) why letters of u.lmini- trillion should not be gratae 1 to said anplicunt u tlio April term of add Court of Ordinary. WILLIAM A. FAIll KY, A DESIRABLE HOUSE AND LOT, < acrei ground, in Limvood, one mile from R. depot; u very comfortable and desimi liouar, with fivn good rooms, with!:. A STORE IL Springs. A . For Rent. USE in the Valley of able locution for » I'h .FOR SALE AND RENT. rjin For Rent. SMALL DWELLING SEC0NI)** north of Male Public i C. J. FREDERICK * Uk": For Rent. g LAROK ROOMS, with side eutr family on ud kitchen. Pa Notice iu Bankruptcy. to be holden at Georgia, before ister, on Iho 4th DRY COODS. ECONOMY! Do you know that you can Save Money by purchasing DRY GOODS at the well known house of JOSEPH & BRO.? Foreign l Domestic Drv Goods BELOW COST! Tlveir Spring- ytock 13 rNRTY.VLl.I': Call and lx* c mvinc d. No. 69 Broad Street. fsbll dtf PEACOCK & SWIFT Cull atteution to ihe fact that they are m ii i.g Dry Goods of eve y description, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, &c., TO CASH Bi’YERS, At such prices as will bo sure to please all who will call To arrive ICih inst., a ut w case of • Spring J-»rints, &c. J.u 1-iACOOE A swirr For Sale Low. ^ aOUOLAll-llIP IN Tin: MEDICAL CltL LM.1K AT F.VAN8YILLK, INDIANA IViiLLINERY. To Suit the Panic Timas! Millinery Goods at Cost. «> K h ,r. .hi luinil.p'lrclm.,' 1 at Hi" L'”"; 1 •""? of M1LI.INEUY, ho.;.I". lll.OVK?, every thing usually kept in h fir^t niAUOM) *l>E<TA( l.t* :
