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WEDNESDAY MAY 87, 1*74.
irM araKBinioa ■wnm m«rt
rtn Ml ' k I i
Wx find the latent new. from tb* toon-
dated dintrioU in the New Orleans Pieay.
une ot Monday. On the Bed and Ooa-
ohita riven the dry land lately overflowed
had made ite appearance, and the Mis-
aiaeippi wae getting within ite banka in
many plaeee, bnt|the great crevasses at
Hickey', and Morganza were *tin pouring
waat flooda into the interior and innnda.
ting the teireat portion* and moet
fruitful motion, of the State, the
Picayune urge* the people of the region*
now relieved from overflow to plant corn,
peaa, potatoes, he., for which it aay*
there la etlll time. West Baton Rouge
Point Coup**, St, Maty, St. Martin and
Annunption are parishes still in greet
part inundated.
denounce* in language
sa truthful m it i. strong the plundering
of poor Honth CareMaT The movement
i* open hinted at ih wblsperefo the hap
of Ooogreee, Mara only tba peading%B
t meofrpm .puking e*t.
Mj^-iction of'Grant,
arte itf Mbjji jiff iAitanted to give
puttee vitality their echemta for patty
they Democratic or Republi
can—will be obliterated and made
futile by the undercurrent now moving,
and which will soon be strong enough to
•PPm hrapiftjbjy on.ttyi gurfaoe.
mit tha following
“l. Wa egrea
That " •
Bxxxvxfoxt, La., had a very lively time
on the 16th and 17th inetent. Font prie>
oner* were under preliminary examina
tion on tha 10th, on the Charge of rob
bing end murdering Gyrene* Elliott. The
evidence way pretty atrong againat 0. T.
done, and Oliver Hill a. the principal*,
The examination wu not cloaed on that
dap, and tha primmer* war* remanded to
Jail. During the night a party of merited
men appeared at the jail, took the key of
tb* outer door from the Jailor, broke into
the cell* containing done* and Hill, and
bnng them to China berry tree* in the
jail yard. Before the day the balanoe of
the primmer* oonfload in tb* Jail—ten in
number, oharged with murder, robbery,
*o.— effected their aaaape, and up to the
20th inatant non* of them had been re
captured. done* and HOI were deeparata
character*, charged with many crime.
The Shreveport Telegram call* the exe
cution of done* and HUl “not the act of
a mob, but the oool, deliberate act of the
people in their original capacity to pre-
aerve society and protect lifo and prop,
erty.”
d eelf-govern-
attmtfk lathi*
of thi* fact
is tha ooly beak of aetilemaait.
2. Wa bath Mina there mat ha a
admiarntralloa
change of I
the United
mnm a» nu.
Mr. IWyil*.’ Third Letter.
S. Wa both agree that, it la our duty
now to m*h* known, in every poerible
way, to tb* people of the North and to
tha world, that wa are ready to negotiate
on the baaia of State sovereignty and free
government. -
4You fnvdhc Georgia to move in thi.
matter Mt^and I agree with all my
heart. In different language w* certainly
conourlnth* idea, that ill* proper for
the Statei to ewe* in tbeaettlement which
I* to involve their eeparate exiatenee and
THE VKBEECVWBEET.
Four years of war and carnage une
quailed, and nine year* of peace. They
call it peace; but to many States South
the Bin* year* juat peat have been year* of
■offering and humility, suoh as no actual
war oould bring. But surely the storm
of four years should die out in nine, and
every Motion of the country have recov
ered from the offeots of the oonflict; but
it has not been so. The presumed and
nominal oalm ha* been more disastrous to
many of the Southern States, than was
the strife, with ite sweoping destruction
of life, and ruin of onoe happy homes.
To my that the majority of the Republi.
cans North know the condition of Louisi
ana, Alabama and South Carolina would
be a mistake, and to accuse
the Republicans South with a willing
participation in the events that have
worked such ruin, would be an injuatioe.
Yet, directly and indireotly, the AdrninU-
tration party North and South is charge-
able with the corruption and perversion
of justice and law and order in the States
named. Of late the majority of the
newspapers North and South have taken
a stand to independent and non.ptrtistn,
that the eyes of the oountry are being
opened to - the wretched condition of
affairs, that makes Alabama the murder
er's sanctuary, South Carolina the plun.
derer's El Dorado, and Louisiana the par-
adise of tho political adventurer. The
ruinous Hoods on the Mississippi have
turned the sympathetic hearts of the na-
tion to Louisiana, and as they reached out
their full hands to help her impoverished
people, they could not but see the terrible
political leprosy that had weakened them
before the waters came to sweep away
what the war and the politician* had left.
They saw the man held in power by foroe,
who had not oue interest in common with
the older tax-payers, and they noted that
the down-trodden people had to furnish
material for the shackles to bind them
selves,while helpeas and heartless they have
seen the labor of their lives and the little
savings of each day going to enrioh their
political plunderers. Those people need
not look back far to Bee Louisiana
reaohing out her hands to Washing
ton and begging for simple justice;
when in response cold and selfish com
mittees, with partisan ends in view, went
to examine, and returned to make endless
reports that oontained not one suggestion
of remedy tor poor Louisiana. But Kel-
logg'a day is coming as surely and inevi
tably as the rapids bear the loosened skiff
with the drunken men on board to the
very brink of Niagara’s preoipice. He
may laugh at the ease of his motion, that
nothing impedes, and cheer at the plain,
sailing that no opposition osn stop; but
the awful plunge is nearing that must
consign him to infamy and oblivion, and
it will oome to him and his partners in
orime when the river seems freest and
their triumph most assured.
North, South, East and West the un
dercurrent is moving below the surface,
and men with'an indifference to party ties
never before exhibited are daring to think
for themselves and presuming to ques
tion the wisdom and juatice of acts whioh
they onoe applauded and sustained. Par
ty lines now only exist on the surfaoe,
and these will soon be obliterated to give
plaoe to that greater power and better
party that will represent the whole people
and give vitality to th> mbw Booth. This
party will lead, for it will repreMnt the
new life, and will move in the advanee of
the more intelligent progress that ia yet
to make the fair lauds of the South a gar
den. Already we see it in the North,
Where even that strong administration
The Auguste Constitutionalist of Satur
day publishes the third communication
from Hon. A. H. Stephens relating to .the
oontfovswy between himself and Hon.
B. H. Hill. A* this letter is very long,
w* shall do with it m we have done with
the prior correspondence—state only the
points in the merely personal peris of the
controversy, and extract ia foil whatever
1. of more material or general Interest
Mr. Btepbeaa protests that the contro
versy was not began by Mmself, but by
Mr. Hill in his historial address. He
says that he saw clsarly that Mr. Hill’s
objeot in that address “was, not only
to champion the ability, wisdom, fidelity
and high statesmanship of Mr. Davis in
the conduct of the Confederate struggle,
but tp make the impression that he would
have succeeded in securing our rights and
liberties, if it had not been for a set of
“malooutents," no better than Catalina*,
who were giving the enemy “aid and an-
oonragement” from the beginning; and
that the chief leader of these “malcon
tents” wm no less a personage than the
Vice President himself.”
Mr. Stephens insists that in all his in
teroounie with Mr'. Davis and his Cabinet
he was free, frank and candid. He adds
that “Congress granted to Mr. Davis
everything he asked, even the declara
tion of martial - law, conscription, the un
constitutional suspension of tho writ of
lytbeas corpus, impressments or seizure of
property without just compensation; and
the trial of citizens, not in the army, by
military courts, to say nothing of other
most extraordinary measures; but these
measures ware not granted without the
most earnest, as well as sincere, protests
of myMlf and others, who saw, as we
believed and said, (not faotiously or with
any view of creating dissensions, but
with all sincerity and earnestness) that
nothing short of a most lamentable catas
trophe and ruin would attend Buoh a
course if persisted in. The oourse wm
persisted in, the catastrophe with its ruins
thairPresideaUkl
and policy of
i we can have
6. We appear to differ on the point as
te whether proposal* should be made to
Mr.Iiaooln. You think such proposals
should be made after victory. I think
vieteryl* a condition precedent to any
negotiation, and that- m matters now
stand, w* cannot prsmntefp Mr. Idnooln.
The-diffeteboe ia not^Kt.
[Mr. Hill goes on to insist, at some
length, that the defeat of Idnooln and the
crashing of the power of abolitionism wm
a condition precedent and indispensable
to the *uoo*ssful negotiation for peace,
and that therefore a direct appeal to the
people of the United State* against Lin
coln should be made m a means of “shap
ing tha iasoa.” He said: “To make this
issue, or rather appeal, the more distinct
ly, I think wa ought to hold inter oourse
with Lincoln only under the rule* of war
and m an enemy, making prominent m
tha reason that he will not permit any
other intereoune consistent with our
honor; but that w* have always been, ate
now, and will aver be, ready to negotiate
with the United State* through agents
with whom we can have peaoeful inter
view* with honor. That agent we will
recognise in thoM who concede that the
“Resolved, That this Convention d«n*
explicitly dealer*, m the assma of the
American people, that after four years uf
fsUoreto rust ora the Union tar the ex
periment of war, during which, under
the pretenM of military necessity, or war
power higher than tb* Oqoatltetton, the
Constitution itself has been disregarded
in every part, and public liberty and pri
vate right alike trodden down,
^i^fp{si{ proiporili of IIm MjMtti
Rally impaired, justice, humanity,' liberty
and'the public welfare demand that imme
diate snort* be mad* for a cessation of
hostilities, with a view to'an ultimate
convention of the Stats* or other peacea
ble means, totheeadthat'atthe earliest
practicable mossent paste may bei restored
on the basis of the Federal Union of the
States."
The bHis of the Federal Union of the
States all know wm the tepaihle sover
eignty of each State. The Freeidentlal
election at the North wm to turn upon
the merit* of this resolution.
What response I thought ought to be
made to it by our public authorities and
Stats* at* Mparate, equal sovereign polit-
will be willing
He avows his willingness to drop the
diaousaion about Mr. Hill’s presence in
Richmond during the time in dispute,
“a collateral and immaterial issue”—da
whioh we fully agree with him.
Continuing Mr. Stephens says: “Du
ring the first part of the year 1864,1 wm
at home, prostrate with severe illness, as
I now am. I saw from the papers that
another bill was before the Confederate
Congress for another suspension of the
writ of habeas oorpus in a more obnoxious
form than any of its predecessors. I wrote
to Mr. Davis with that candor whioh ever
marked all I ever said toliim, and urged
him not to sanotion the bill if it passed,
its bad efforts and injurious consequenoes
I portrayed with all tb* power 1 could
control, t told him, apart from its being
unconstitutional, its effect would be to
orush out that spirit of liberty in the
breasts of our people on which we must
ultimately rely when the time oauo, aa it
would if the war was protraoted, which
would indeed be the real ordeal “of try
ing men’s souls.” We had not reached
that point yet. The bill, however, was
passed and sanctioned.
' Our Senators, Mr. Hill and Qov. John
son, I understood, agreed with me fuUy
on this point, as to our internal polioy, as
well as on matters of our external policy,
which 1 had repeatedly urged upon Mr.
Davis in relation to the proper course we
should pursue towards that large party at
the North known to be utterly opposed to
the centralising doctrines of Mr. Lincoln's
administration, and its numerous most
palpable usurpations. It should be a
leading objeot with us, I thought, to
keep it prominently before the masses of
ths North and the world that we were
struggling, not for dynasty, but for the
sovereignty of each State, and the rights
and liberties for whioh our common an
cestors hod so gloriously struggled
against England, lu this view I thought
a vast deal might be accomplished by us
in shaping, even indireotly, by appealing
to tha States Rights Party at the North,
the isauee of the Presidential eleotion to
oome off there the next November. Lin
coln’s defeat and tha overthrow of the
Centralists I looked upon os of the utmost
importance tot our ultimate sucooss.
Understanding, as I have said, that Mr.
Hill agreed with me on each of those
points m to internal and external policy,
and hearing that he was at home in March
before theasMmbling of tha extra session
of the Legislature, referred to by him, I
invited hun to my house, that we might
have a full and free conference upon all
of th*M subjects, especially upon the
point of how far it would be proper for
the State authorities to speak out on these
quMtions, even though the administra
tion wm silent upon them. I had pre
viously conferred fully with Gov. Brown
and Hon. Linton Stephens and others,
upon these matters. They ell agreed
fully with me. Our objeot was not treach
erous maobinations, not to exprsM any
want of confidence iff Mr. Davis, not to
array the people faotiously against the
Oonfeder.te administration—but, by har
monious oonoert of notion in Georgia and
all her associates, to guide ths Confeder
ate administration on that line of policy,
both internally and externally, upon
which alone, in my judgment, it could
possibly succeed. This was my most
patriotic object, whether it wm right or
wrong, wise or unwise.
Mr. Hill visited me as requested. It
wm shortly before the meeting of the
Legislature, as stated. And how far ha
oonourred with me end my treasonable
plot egaint against Mr. Davis or his poli
oy may be seen from whet he wrote me
in reference to our conference so had, on
his return to LaGrauge. I have a letter
before me written by him from that place,
presses osn be aeon by reference to my
reply to a letter to Messrs. "
Hoott, Bom
and'Washington, of Macon, Go., to be
found in Oievslimd’s work (page 181),
io leas decidedly do-
ioal communities and who
to negotiate on this bast*.
On the leading ids* w* certainly agrM
and detail* shallnot divide.
A* te a Convention of the States, I
think that i* the certain conclusion from
our common premise. State action wa
both urge. You separate aotion in oertain
States; 1, joint aotion tor separate ratifi
cation, to accomplish in part the very re-
•alt you propose..
Out path* will meet at the same goal,
and I am witling to walk along with you
for company."
The italim in the above oxtraot are
made to oonform to the msnuaoript. It
will be reoollsoted that the objeot of the
conference with Mr. Hill wm to ascertain
his views as to the propriety and polioy of
the Governor end Legislature at its ap-
proaohing session to discnM and adopt
resolution* announcing the principles on
which peace negotiations should be inau
gurated, not by the Btatsa separately, but
by the Confederate authorities at Rich
mond with • view to the effect of the an-
nouncemynt of such term* and principles
upon ths maaaee of the North in their
next election. The message of Governor
Brown and the resolutions introduced
into the Legislature by Hon. Linton Ste
phens on this point, and whioh resolu
tion* poised both branches of the Gener
al AsMmbly, were in strict conformity to
the line on whioh Mr. Hill wrote me he
agreed “with all his heart.” This the
msesagsaad rumlutiona on record fully
As the matter of apparent disagreement
betwMn us, m Mt forth in bis S head, I
barely remark that I did not tfien, nor
now, eM M bis word* stand any even
apparent differanM. Neither of ub
thought of any State settlement to Mr.
Linooln or his Government under any
oiroumstanoes whatever; and as to my
idea that the offers of terms of peace on
the principles announced should be made
by the proper authorities after victories
by us the time then seemed to me to be
the moat opportune and appropriate.
On the 20th of February, only a few
weeka before, Colquitt bad achieved his
signal triumph at Oeean Pond in Florida,
over Seymour, putting hia whole army to
route *nd capturing 2,BOO prisoners, be
sides large amounts of munitions of war.
Two days after that Forrest at Okolona,
Mississippi, by one of his moat extraordi
nary exploits hod checked Sherman’s
march with an army of 50,000 men; and
stopped what wm eupposed to be a most
formidable contemplated move on Mobile.
Not many wMks after this followed also
Dick Taylor's splendid victories in Louis
iana; where with not over 2S,000 men,
he had routed Bank*' foroes of over 40,-
000 men and had oaptured an immense
•mount of army stores, with other valua
ble property. So far m oonoerns the
point or time, therefore, no period, it
seem* to me, could have been more fortu
nate for the Governor and Legislature to
speak m they did, if it were proper for
them to speak npon the subjeot at all.
And yet for thus speaking this action of
Governor Brown and the Legislature was
severely denounced by the administration
papers at Biohmond. Hence, come all
the subsequent unjust obarges against
men of Georgia in high official positions
of favoring “a counter revolution” with
a view of making separate terms of peace
with the enemy. A more infamously
slanderous aoousation wm never put forth
by the moet malignant assailant of virtue,
integrity, truth and honor.
The only seemingly rational objection
1 ever heard rawed againat this action,
either in Milledgeville or Biohmond, was
that the publio discussion of the question
of pesos by the civil authorities would
have a bad effect upon our army, and
cause lukewarmness and desertions in
that quarter. I took no suoh view of the
subject, but thought it would have tbe
contrary effect upon our troops by inspir
ing them with the great principles for
whioh they were struggling, while it wuuld
tell most asMntiall* upon the Northern
army, sod the Northern mosses at borne
by thoroughly informing them of the
objects and principles for which we were
fighting, and enabling them to see and
understand dearly that their liberties, as
well as ours, were involved ultimately in
tbe contest.
[Mr. Stephens here quotes from a
speech whioh he made to the Legislature
of Georgia, to show that was bis objeot. |
Then continues: In this connection 1
wm not mistaken, for I have reoeived
numerous, letters from tbe army, from
privates and officers, as wall of the lower
as the higher grades. All expressed the
highest gratification on tbe perusal of
what I had said.
Boon after the aotion of Gov. Brown
and tbe Georgia Legislature, notwith
standing it wm so roundly denounced, I
again wrote to Mr. Davis in all oandor
which letter wm no
nounced in tbe same quarters than had
been the action of the Georgia Legisla
ture. Mr. Davis entered the list himself,
and in a epeech at Columbia, 8. 0., took
occasion meat violently, and offensively to
oppose tb* policy of inaugurating nego
tiation's 4 for pesos through the assemblage
of a general convention of all the States,
He opposed it; and not only on constitu
tional grounds, but said, in subs tan oe,
that there wm no road to peach but by
tbe sword—or, in his own words, that
“the only way to make epaalels civil wae
to whip them.”
That moet unfortunate speech, in my
judgment, re-elec tad Lincoln, whose de
feat Mr. Hill, in Maroh before, consider
ed, m I did, so essential to peace on pro
per principles.
But in the meantime General Johnston
had been, unde* a like misfortune, re
moved from the head of tbe army in
Georgia; Atlanta bad fallen; and, before
Mr. Hill and I had met at the “goal” in
Biohmond ia December, other miafar-
tunes equally heavy had fallen upon ns.
Not only had Lincoln been re-elected
(whioh would here been prevented by a
obange of leas than 60,000 votes in a few
«lw .... „ .
Mparate Btatoastten an the part of at
be Juatly > reffaid*d*M doabtfuTaad* tore
ssrsjSTTrsxns:
corporation 'becomes hot only appropri
ate, but nemeiary, in perfecting any arti
cle* of peso* eoosfctcntty with the prin-
ciptee of the sovereignty of the several
State* respectively.
s hail with grati-
leuud sentiment
rtion of the peo-
a since tbe last
that all aaaocia-
Btatea ought to
forcible, and we
> these views and
n of the present
t appeal to tha
if the matters in
roperly and justly
ittlement without
food.
ting wedded to no
tod* of initiating
lions looking to a
id adjustment of
Issue between tbe
sderats States, it
Oongrens that if
tble to tbe gov-
he United States,
portable portiqp
itions should be
iderationof oom-
trom each State,
iblad in the ohar-
of all the States,
i appointed in the
lifeated as afore-
if initiating nego-
id to, or proposed
is. Such oonven-
and earn seines*, urging upon him the
une of polioy on his
Importance of this
part, as well M *11 the Confederate'author
ities, in view of the approaching North
ern elections. Strong indications were
constantly reaching us from that quarter
UUHUgV VI IUHH IU«U IIV|VW TVMH IU ■ ICR
of the Northern States), but Sherman wm
on bis “grand march to the ms ”; and it
wm Hood instead of Sherman who was
then on the eve of his rstieat from Nreh-
villa, quite M disMtrons aa wm Bona
parte’s “from Moscow."
Our affairs were then indeed in a most
eritioal, aa well m alarming, oondition.
did not, however, even then give up far
ther struggle on our part as hopeless.
The views then entertained by me can be
seen by reference to the abstract of a
speech made by me in secret session of
tbe Confederate Senate, aa given in sec
ond volume (page 687) of the “ War Be
tween the States.” Our only hope, how
ever, in my opinion, In in an immediate
and thorough change of our polioy—inter
nally and externally.
The resolutions to which Mr. Hill re
fers—which I bad drawn up for Mr. At‘
kina of Tennessee, and which were sub
mitted by me In my room to the Georgia
delegation early in January, 1866—em
bodied my views of a change of our exter.
ncl polioy towards the peso* party at the
North.
The muses at the North, notwithstand
ing Mr. Lincoln’s re-eleotioff, os was well
known, ware “tiring of the war"—espe
cially a war for the subjugation of the
Southern States. Beside* the Chicago
resolution, and the fleree canvass over it
just ended, soon after tbe Maembling of
the Federal Congress in December, 1864,
a resolution wm introduced in one of the
Houses of that body repeating the Chios,
go proposition for tbe inauguration of
negotiations for a peaceful solution of the
confliot through a general convention of
all tbe States.
Une of the main objeota of my resola
tions was for our Congress to make a fa
vorable response to these dear indications
of a large party at the North of a desire
to end tbe war upon the proper princi
ples. The resolutions were drawn with
special reference to wbat I understood to
be Mr. Hill’s views of “joint action for
separate ratification,” eapeoially in refer
ence to Missouri and Kentucky, in which
Slates no regular convention of the peo
ple had ever given due expression of their
sovereign will.
My object, (a* I fully concurred with
them on this point) wm that “our paths”
in this particular should “meet at the
goal.” These are the resolutions
drawn up end submitted:
“1. Resolved, That the independence
of the Confederate Statea of America,
based upon the constitutional compart
between the sovereign States composing
the Confederacy; and maintained nearly
footgears of gigantic war, justly claim
from their former associates, and from
the world, its recognition m a rightful
fact „
“2. riusirived, That all the States
whioh onnipDmd the late American Union
as tve.l as those embraced within the
preseut United States, as those embraced
within the Southern Confederacy, are
what tbe original thirteen States were de
clared to be I y their common ancestors
in 1876, and acknowledged to be by
George the Third uf England, independ
ent and severegn tit*tee; not os one po
litical community, but as Statea; each
one of them constituting suoh a ’People’
as have the inalienable right to terminate
any government of thair former ohoice by
withdrawing from it their • oonaent; jnst
as the original thirteen States, througl
their common agent acting for and in thi
name of eaoh one of them, by the with-
drawal of their consent put a rightful
termination to the British Government
whioh had been established over them
with their perfeot oonaent sad free choice.
“3. Besolved, That in ths judgment of
this Congress the sovereignty of tbe indi
vidual and several States ia the only ba
sis upon which s permanent peart) be
tween tbs Statea now at war with each
other can be estahlisbel consistently with
the preservation of constitutional liberty;
and that the recognition of this principle
will, if tbe voioe of peesion end war can
onoe be allowed to resume her sway, lead
to an early and lasting solution of all
matters of on’roveMr involved in the
present unnatural ccumt by rimply leav
ing all the States frte to form their po
litical associations with Utah other, not
by force of arms, which sxelnde* tb*
idea of “ooneent;” but by a rational con.
sideration of their respective interests,
growing out of their natural oondition,
rosources and situation.
“4. Resolved, That m tha vary point
of controversy in the present war it the
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proposition for i
IgggI
-rte^tyd^taetobi^.^
■toners so to be chose*
DateottosIdidlSruS^
I bed as such . L
did think and baBava'Satfite^ 1
meat of aneb a commit— , ty
drawal of tha ouLthl.^^ 10
Arid of arm* * tha for.^3*
joatioe, would have its
nnl 4ka IWta.11^. .7*7*
out tha OsatraUsU in thriTC*'
pitched bat tie* and keeping ™,
•rmy in tha field, and ths SJ*
«‘w». by .* total cbuShr
terrial policy m indicated in*£
secret asasiou referred to, I „
^ ln i’““ fl «*> rssnlt
■en far different from whet itv™.
It wm only when I sew how 5?i
had need the Blair firopositio?
iV*. hto P n, P0te fortw LS*
bold Biohmond under'the* 11 *
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ooutinJ
N.J. BUSSEY,
>r proposed only,
be commissioners
tuthorized by ths
ssoh government
i any agreement
between 8tates,
lsult, and to agree
> plan of pesoeful
I tied by them to
nente.
Bursting aegotla-
if tbit Congress,
te consent of tbe
uthgrities of the
th .such ooneent
would bat net, in
t si to negotiate
r they might agree
I be subject to the
d of the two gov-
and subject also
proval ot the par-
sovereign righto
might be involved.
“And inasmuch as the authorities et
Washington hsve heretofore rejsated eU
formal offers for n free interchange of
views looking to negotiations, made by
our authorities, and as we deem it a high
duty not only to onr gallant oitizen sol
diers in the field, bnt to tbe who!e body
of onr people, as well as onr dnty to the
eauss of bamsnity, civilization, aud
Christianity, that Congress should omit
nor neglect no effort in their power to
bring about negotiations if possible;
therefore be it farther
7. Besolved, That the President of
the Confederate States be informed of
these resolves, and that he be requested
to grant permission to three persons, to
be selected by tbe Honse of Bapresenta-
tives (member* from eaoh State voting in
tuoh selection by States, and a mijority
of all the States being necessary to a
ehoioa in aaoh esse), to oross our lines,
who shall immediately proceed to esk and
tesible, an In
obtain, if poMible, an Informal interview
or eonferenoe with the authorities at
WMhiogton, or any person or persons
who may be appointed to meet them, to
see if any snob plan of inaugurating ne
gotiations for pesos npon the bMis above
set forth osn be agreed npon, and if not,
to asosrtain and report to the President
and to Congress any other or what terms,
if any, of pesoeful settlement may be
proposed by the authorities et Washing
ton. Should this effort fail, we shall
have the oorsoiation of knowing that we,
in our high and responsible trusts, have
done our duty. We shall have giveu as
surance to our people that we have done
all that we oan do in our position and ea-
paoity to end tbe strife upon juat and
proper principles, and the rejection of
this overture by the President of the
United States will afford additional evi
dence to tbe people of those States that
he is urging this unnatural war not for
peace or the good of ,hia oountry, bnt for
purposes of the moet noholy ambition;
while it will demonstrate to onr people
that his objeot M to them is nothing short
of either subjugation or extinction.”
With the exoeption of that pert of the
resolutions whioh provided for the ap
pointment of the Commissioners by Con
gress, instead of the President, I under
stood Mr. HUl to give them his hearty ap
proval when they were first submitted to
the Georgia delegation on the oceaeion to
whioh Mr. Hill refers. With my expla
nation on that point, stated in my lost ar
ticle, he seemed to be perfectly satisfied ;
took them, went over to Mr. Davis, aud
reported him as also satisfied. Little did
I think then that he wm sating the patt
towards mo and them ee disolosed in his
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DOCTORS.
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SURGEON AND PHTU0IA1
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U Iiolph Streets, where ha may to foudi
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GRANS MILITARY
“Unwritten History of the Himptuu
Roads Commission.” Little did I think
that he was bnt plotting wiia Mr. Davis
to make “the negotiation doctors take
their own medicine, mixed to suit them
selves," by deoeitfnlly using the Blair
proposition, whioh looked to * totally dif
ferent objeot, in order to defeat what he
seemingly bo oordiolly approved.
What Mr. Hill says in bis “anwritten
history” about what passed between him
and Mr. Hunter about these resolutions,
and Mr. Hanter’s surprise that the Geor
gia delegation had agreed to support
them, is one of the most extraordinary
statements I ever saw gravely put forth
as true history. Mr. Hnnter was aa well
informed of the nature and ebarsoter of
these resolutions as was Mr. Hill himself.
They were announc'd to tbe whole derate
on the 6th day of January, before Mr.
Blair’s first advent in Richmond. It was
on that day I addressed that body in se
cret eession. On the onnoloaion of that
apeeoh Mr. Wigfall, of Texas, rose and
asked ms to give in detail wbat I proposed
m to a change in our external polioy.
These resolutions in substance (I did not
have n copy of them with me) werivi i de
tail and by number answered to that body,
and so far u» I learned or was informed
not a single be .at.,r objected to them.
The general understanding, ss reported
to me, wss that they would unanimously
pass the Senate.. They were to be re
ported in the House, aud the like general
understanding, as reported to me, was
that npon a count they would pu s that
body by a decided m> jority. They were
to be taken up in the Honse and passed
tbe first week in February, as soon m
other important and pressing internal
measures coaid be disposed of.
Thi* wm th* general understanding, os
Moonlight Pic Nic
CITY LICHT CUARDS,
At tKe Public Carde
At the lower sod of Brosd street,
THURSDAY, MAY 28TH, 1874
A N afternoon and evening of nnslloyfd pli
ure and enjoyment ia gunmoteed to all
ure and enjoyment ia guaranteed to a
may attend, aa we will, at that time, bate
ful moonlight night*, and no eipeoea wW
Tiie 8TKICTK8T OBDEB will be mintai#
and guards will be on duty daring the entire ti
to preeerve order, Ac.
The COLUMBUS GUARDS (m honored gun
will be present, and a BATTALION DRILL A
DRBBS PARADE will taka place in tbe afterwx
A fine STRING BAND baa been engaged, i
DANCING, In one of the finest Dancing Ball*
the Statej will he one of tho principal featnH
For TIIOdB WHO DO NOT DANCE, otl
novelty and variety, will be sure to pleaie.
The grouuds will be beautifully lllutniwd
and eplendid Fire Works will bo set off at stn
intervals after dork.
Music will be farulBbed bf a splsndld i«u
BAND, and th. MAtNNBKC&OK V0C4LCI.
have been invited to favor ns with •hehP r <**|
A PRIZE has been offered for the Bee si
Band, (open to Georgia and Alabama), *od par
01 d&P^^ICK^TB^frfr by^emih 1 mtmber of
Admittance 50 cents. Children 25 cent*.
COMMITTEE OF AEEANOENEW
Ll.ut. W. A. Uttl., Lieut, t. L. Brwti.
O. Cheney. Soi’zt J. T. O.DMU, "
«>. vneuey, cm
Johm, Q M. Chat. Heywan, Corp. X. ».
Prlv. J. K. Harm, I’rlT. U. t. LreM..
Gate, open et l o’clock.
Notice.
mil* undersigned Committee, •Wg**J d h Jj|
I mooting of creditor* of Johu t ,iq
the 18th iuntant, anuld Urge upon.6 jtojsjj,
to he prouoot at th. next D’” 1
th. Library Boon., on Jan. 2J,to P™”!
pro., thiir claim., a. It may J»
threc-fuurth. or tha crwtlloMO h. P
mak ) effective any policy ’JJ^wOODRL) P.
c'a.'hedu,
i.jobkvh.
J. A. McNXIL,
T. J. NOCKOIA.
Notice.
U NDXR tho amcuduient *V15mu»cUIIi
the Home Hollaing *n4 to“
Serlea A, adopted at the annual msuss tl
holders in November last, It is
.,.r,..eckhold r r ■*■» -*->»Kfi
before tbe Slit
>y paying In advance to the 84th 1°’ .
iluHv., or forf.lt tbe privilege of e»ne.l‘BS
that amendssent. jallN KING,
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