A VOICE FEOM THE SOUTH.
' ad Address the People at Georgia ait
ths Uultes HUles.
Fellow Citizens of Georgia and of the
United States :
By Convention held nt Macon on
the 6th s-nd tith of December, 1807,
representing the Conservative people
of Georgia, the undersigned were ap
pointed a Committee to proparo an
Address to you, netting forth their
sentiments, their condition, their fear
ful apprehensions of future ruin, and
the final overthrow of Constitutional
government. In discharging this im
portant duty, we bring to the task an
earnost and patriotic desire, not only
to promoto the welfare of our owu
State, but also that of our whole coun
try. When the lute unhappy war termin
ated and the Confederate arms wero
surrendered, a singlo condition only
was required, which was that we should
return to tlio pursuits of peace, and
obey the Constitution and laws of tho
United States, under tho pledge, by
the victors, that, so long as we contin
ued to do so, we should be protected
in the unmolested enjoyment of tho
rights and privileges which that Con
stitution and those laws guarantee to
each State and to every citizen. We
have kept our promise in lotter and
spirit; and, from that day to this, no
resistance has been offered to the Fed
eral authorities. The lawa of the
United States are quietly obeyed,
without the neeessity of military pow
er to enforce thorn. Their Courts are
open and their processes respected.
Crime can he punished by the regulur
and established modes of judicial pro.
cedure. With magnanimity and hope
fulness, our people united in an honest
effort to build up their ruined fortunes
and re-establish their lost prosperity.
The war left our homos saddened with
beroavemont, and, in thousands of
Instances, in ashes. It broiiirht um
versa I sorrow and poverty. Our fields
wero desolated, our labor disorganized,
our industry paralyzed, all our enter
prises destroyed or crippled, and our
capital sunk. Towns and cities wore
plundered nml burnottand meir intiao
Hants driven, in destitution, from their
homos. Hut theso wero tho fruit of
war not legitimate, to be sure such,
however, as usually attends its march
of fire; and, therefore, wo submitted
to them with patience and fortitude,
cheered by tho hope, that the quarrel
and carnage having ended, the roturn
of peace and prosperity would begin,
and that, at least, political fraternity
would bo restored. Under this inspi
ration wo endeavored to forget the
bitterness which tho struggle had en
gendered, to cultivate a spirit of con
ciliation and harmony, and to evince,
in cvory possible way, our desire to
havo Georgia restored to her constitu
tional relation to the Union. Terrible
has been our disappointment. Ilnving
been bufllud in the attempt at seuus
eion, upon the idea that such attempt
was rebellion, wo supposed that its
suppression left Goorgia a State in the
Union, still possessing the inherent
right ot Bolt-govornmeut and the con
stitutional right of representation in
Congress. Instead of this, however.
tho i'rosidont of the United States
required that wo should orgauiso a
now State government, ratify tho Con
stitutional Amendment, abolishing sla
very and incorporating the aame pro
vision into our fundamental law; that
wo should repudiate our State war
debt and abrogato the Ordinance of
boeession and all tho laws in further
ance of the Confederate causo. Ani
mated by adetormination to makoanv
aacrilioo but that of honor, suppressing
even tho spirit ot complaint, tor the
sake of peace, we did all that he re
quired oven surrendering our most
valuable property, that ot our slavos
and consented to bocomo almost
paupers. Supposing that auch deport
ment might challenge the magnanimi
ty of the victors toward a fallen foe,
wo then thought surely tho dawn ot
peace was in sight, and that our right
to the protection and benefits of acom
mon Constitution would bo recognised.
Weolected our Senator and Jlcpro-
sentativca, thus demonstrating, not
only our expectation, but also our
earnest desire, again to participate in
the councils und promised blessings of
tne union restored. Jlut, as beloro,
disappointment was our fato. Our
members wore spurned from the Halls
of Congress and our peoplo denounced
as traitors and rebels. Ve havo been
persistently charged with hostility to
the Constitution and Union, and treat
ed as outlaws from both. Whilst we
do not thus allude to tho deportment
and temper of our peoplo in a spirit of
boasting, yet wo challengo contradic
tion of our statements, and fearlessly
array them before a candid world, as
evidence of the injustico, unkindness
and falsehood of '.ho charges against
es, urged as 8 pretext lor our oppres
sion. Proscription from tho Union, wo
could endure : the charge of hostility
to it wore tolerable : from our pros
tration we might rise j our poverty
we might surmount if e could be loft
undisturbed and permitted to enjoy
our Inherent right of self government.
Our leJblo State abounds with the
elements and resources of material
wealth ; hor peoplo are enterprising
and full ol the consciousness of unsul
lied honor and unsubdued manhood.
Give play to their rapacities, unfetter
their elastic energies, remove unneces
sary and unjust burdens from their
labor, and they will achiove prosperity
for themselves and tho blessings of
exalted civilization for their posterity.
Hut our oppressors are not willing to
do this. They claim to make us the
victitr.e of their political policy worso
than tl at they require us to be instru
mental in executing that policy, upon
the peril of their vengeance ; that a
proud and gallant people, upon whoso
honor none but tho tongno of slander
over breathed might of shame their
own brethren by race, by ancestry and
by political ties shall voto for their
own degradation or forfeit tho rights
of treo American citizens. Demand
after demand having bocn made and
nbmilicd to, with as miioh compla
cency as a generous peoplo could bring
to the performance of liiimilintingdu
V. tho schemo proposed by the Mili
iry Acta for (ernstriirtion is tho
' tier chalice offered toonr lips, as tho
:i aximnmof tho victor's magnanimity,
" hich we are to drink to the dregs, on
pain of political death for refusal.
CLEARFIELD
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But, in our anxiety for friendship and
good government, we did not dash it
hastily train us. On its luco it ;ro
fessed to respect our wishes ; it pro
posed that wo should volo freely, for
or against it accept or reject it and
tbus, by implication at least, invited
us to examine and consider it. We
did so, in tho light of the Constitution,
and we found not ono word in that
instrument to warrant tho pnsiago of
tho lleconstruction Acta. They rest
upon the assumption that Congress
has the power to construct oovkrn
ments lor tho States. They abrogule
the Government of Georgia, which the
peojde organized in deference to thu
President's wishes, and, in its stend,
pltce us under a Military Govornor
clothed with tho power of duspotisin,
under which the sovereignty of the
people is ignored and the principles of
Magna Uliarta, incorporated julo the
Constitution for tho security of prop
erty, life and liborty, are trodden un
der foot. They disfranchise a largo
portion of the most intelligent and
virtuous citizens, as a punishment for
alleged crimo of which they havo not
boon legally convicted, and confer
universal sullVago tfpon the emancipa
ted negroes. Hence, theCongrossioEal
scheme is not only violative of the Con
stitution, but grossly cruel and unjust,
and devoid of that far-seeing and com
prehensive statesmanship which seeks
good government, in contradistinction
to partisan ascendancy. For who can
fail to sco that thoso Acts must lend,
and wero intended to lead, to negro
supremacy t Elso why such disfran
chisement of tho white as to throw
tho power of tho ballot-box into the
control of tho enfranchised black race ?
Such is obviously their design, de
duced from their letter and spirit, not
domed by their authors and hilly illus
trated by tho manner of their enforce
ment, llaving placed us under mili
tary law, and tolerating our organized
government as merely provisional, its
civil officers were compelled to support
them, on pain of diswissnl. Judges
and other officers wero deposed for
refusing to violate tho Constitution
and laws which they had sworn to
obey and execute ; all civil and mili
tary officers were ordered to publish
their legal advertisements in such pa
pers only as sustained tho Congres
sional scheme. Thus the purity and
indepondenco of our judiciary liuvc
been polluted and stricken down and
tho sanctity of the jury box desecrated
by compelling jury lists to bo mado up
of whites a"d blacks indiscriminately ;
and thus the liberty of the press is
fettered and tolerated nt tho will of
the District Coinmnndor and Military
itovcrnor 01 me oiuio. j o theso we
might add numerous instances of tho
violation of personal liberty, by arrosts
without legal (.ccusntiun or warrant,
and imprisonment without an impar
tial and pubi c trim nyjury. in con
sideration, therefore, that tho estub
litdunent of nrgr supremacy was their
intention, and that, from tho moilo of
their enforc ement, it would inevitably
bo consummated, we firmly and dolil
oratoly opposed the lieconstriietion
Acts, as most compatible with our self.
respect and our duty to the dead and
thu living to the present and future
generations.
Hut power lias, thus fur, triumphed
over reason, juslico and right; and
tho Convention provided for, repre
senting negroes only, with the exeep
tion of a few thousand whites, now
sits, to crystalizo into constitutional
lorms the policy ol bringing the State
of Georgia under the dominion uS negro
supremacy. It is without parallel in
the annals of tho world. For although
history furnishes instances of aboli
tion, yet it affords no oxamplo of an
attempt by military force to elovnte
thocmancipated slavo above his recent
master, to subordinate the superior to
rtho inferior race, and clothe the latter
with the political powor of the State.
It is the most outrageous policy over
advocated by a Christian peoplo. It
should nrrest the alarmed attention of
every friend of constitutional govern
ment throughout tho Union, as it must
awaken the aston'shment ot tho civil
ized world. The perpetuation of such
monstrous wrong hus been reserved
for tho dominant party now controll
ing tho destiny of this country for
men, sworn to support and obey tho
Constitution of a Government pro
fessedly deriving, as a fundamental
principle, "its just powors from tho
consent cf the governed."
Fellow-citizens, shall negro suprem
acy bo permanently enthroned in tlie
Slate ol Georgia f Shall ten States of
this Union be surrendered, nt tho point
of tho bayonet, to tho dominion ot the
African rneeT Shall eight millions of
wltitcs bo subjected f o the rnlo of four
millinnsof blacks? Shall they becomo
our Magistrates, our Legislators, our
Judges, our Governors and Keprcsetit
atives in Congress f Shall seven hun
dred thousand ignorant negroes, who
can neither road nor write, who know
nothing of tho principles of tho Con
stitution or of legislation, agrarians
by instinct and taught by political
drillmostcrs that they havo injuries to
avenge against the white race, be
admitted to tho ballot-box f These
aro tho momentous questions which
icmand solution and disturb the peace
and harmony of our country, ll'lhcy
aro to bo decided affirmatively, what
pen or tongue can portray tho diro
calamities which we shall reap at no
distant day J Tho present derange.
ment of Government will continue to
grow worso, our material prosperity,
already arrested, will be destroyed
forever; society, already shocked by
sudden and forced changes, will bo
thrown into the most deploruhlo con
dition of insecurity, and proporty, life
and liberty will be exposed to irreme
diable peril.
If our silence, in tho past, tins been
const rued into apathy and indifference,
then wo have been greatly misappre
hended. We have submitted, almost
without complaint, boeauso every whis
er of protest hus boon construed into
disloyalty by our oppressors.
We have offered tho feeble opposi
tion of scarcely uttered remonstrance,
only because outnumbered at the ballot-box,
and therefore impotent for
successful resistance. Tho Conserva
tive peoplo of Georgia feol that tame
submission has ceased to be a virtue,
and has become a criino against their
oountry, their ruce and future gencr
ations. The ruthless arm of unhal
lowed power muy enslave und degrade
them, but they will never, byword or
deed, active or passive, consent to the
outrage offered to their manhood, but
they will struggle against it by ovory
legitimate means which they can com
mand. Ibey appeal to tho triondsol
Constitutional government through
out tho land to rully toils rescue from
the grasp ot relentless centralism.
It is the province of enlightened
statesmanship to search for the causo
ofpoliticul maladies, with a view to
their removal. It is easy for any can
did observer to detect the origin ol
thoso existing evils which threaten
such calamity to our country. We
have previously remarked, that tho
lleconstruction Acts assume that Con
gress has tho power to construct gov
ernments for tho proscribed Slates.
This assumption is tho fruitful parent
of nil our political troubles, it is not
pretended that tho authority is to be
found in tho Constitution, on tho con
trary, it is asserted to bo outside of the
Constitution. This is an admission of
tho nullity of tho wholo scheme.
llow cun Congress act outside of i
the Constitution f Outside ot the
Constitution there is noExccutivo, no
Judiciary, no Congress no Govern
ment of the United States. Outside
of the Constitution, Congress or
rnthcr the men who compose it have
no moro authority than any other
body of individuals voluntarily assem
bled. Outside of the Constitution,
they have no commission to legislate
upon any subject, for any purpose or
in any manner whatsoever, r.very
act oiitsidooflho Constitution is us
urpation and uttorly void. What vi
tality, then, can there bo in a Stale
government, constructed in pursuance
of laws passed by authority claimed
to be outside ol tbo Constitution 1
How long can it stand after the hayo
nots that prop it up shall havo been
removed f It is a fabrio without
foundation and must full. Theso are
all self-evident propositions, too axio
matic to admit of argument; andthoy
necossnrily prcsont, for the consider
ation of the peoplo of tho United
States especially the peoplo of those
Stales designated, In in. ,! ar
tho day, as loyal this grave and mo
mentous question, it tho Mate gov
ernments, now boinjj constructed by
Congress, aro thus invalid, and can
be maintained only by force, aro they
firoparcd to incur tho expense und
inzard to liberty of a standing army
for such purpose f Are they prepared
for a military despotism over ten great
males ui t 1110 v niuii, iur inu mere pur
pose of oppressing tho whito race nnd
sustaining n'gro supremacy t Will it
be seriously maintained that tho Gov
ernment cun retain its tclcrul cliaraa
tor and yet sustain such a policy f
Will any rundid man assort that it is
consistent with I he confessedly reserv
ed rights of tho Stales ? Who dues not
perceive that it will bo their entire
absorption and the conversion of our
constitutional Republic into an elec
tive oblignrojiy, whoso will, instead of
tho Constitution, will be the"supremo
law of tho land: And all this lor
what r For the sake of negro suprem-
(try over tho Southern Sluto; for the
sake of degrading eight millions of
wlnto peoplo, that lour millions ol no-
groes may bo forced into a status for
which they aro utterly unfitted. We
appeal to tho people of tho rwirth,
who havo the power, to rcBervo the
Constitution. Aro you prepared to
ptti in jcopuruy our wise lain ic 01 gov
ernment nnd the liborty of mora than
thirty millions of your own race, for
sako ot enfranchising lour millions ot
illiterate and semi-civilized Africans'
"We speak as unto wiso men ; judgo
ye what wo say.
Wo beg to offer another view for
tho culm consideration tho .North
ern people. The1 almost universully
oontend that secession wasnlulity. The
wur having so decided It as a question
of practice, it is not neceossary now to
contest it ns a Question ol riclit. T hen
let the assumption re grunted. It
follows, then, that not only tho Ordi
nance of Secession w as void, but that
all the subsequent proceedings the
entire fnbrio eroctcd upon it wore
also void. This fabrio was the Stale
government which wero in existence
and in operation when tho lonlodor-
ale arms wore surrendered and tho war
was terminated. These Stato govern
crnments were illegal because they
wore built on a brench of tho true
constitutional relation between the
Slates and tho Federal Government.
Theso propositions aro truo, upon the
assumption that secession was a nnlli
ty, as insisted upon by tho Northern
peoplo. It follows from them that the
S.ates wero never out of tho I num.
and that they retainod their right to
rontiniio as such, however their visi
hie organization nnd constitutional
relations may have boon disturbed by
secession, no tar, all is plain and easy
The next step is tho beginning of the
diflicuty. If these State governments
wero void, and therefore fell with the
Confederate cause, how can their places
lie constitutionally supplied f Can it
bo d"ne by reconstruction t Hy new
Stato governments constructed by the
1 resident, Congress or any otitor pow
er f Surely not. No department of
tho Government ot tho United States,
nor all of tbem combined, is invested
yak.
with power to construct, governments
for the States. Instead of being con
ferred by the Constitution, it is palpa
bly inconsistent with it. The duty.and
the whole duty of the Unitod Statos
with respect to the Stato Governments
is clearly defined iu tbo Oonstitution.
That duty ia to guarantee to ovciy
Malo a republican torm ol govern
ment ; to guarantee it, not to create it,
to preserve, not destroy and then re
construct it Can you guarantee what
docs not exiBt f Tho very idea of
guaranteeing a government implies
nocessarily, the pre-exietonce ot the
government And thiols precisely
the duty which the United States owo
to ench State started in tho Union,
whether that start was me.do at the
beginning or at tho latter period of
our history. Whonover Iho start was
mado, each State started in the Un-
tn a republican fnrn of govern
ment. This is certain !y Lrueuf Georgia
and all tho original thirteen; and the
admission ol other Slates, at subse
quent periods, was a confession bv the
Government, which it is estopped from
denying, that thoy, too, were republi
can. Tho government, therefore, with
winch a Stato started in tho Cmon is
the government which the United
States is obliged to uphold. It may be
modified in the legitimate way that
is, by the poople of tho State, but al
ways tinder the limitation that it must
roiunin republican, in lbrm. And since
tho liiiluro of secession and tho decis
ion by the sword, that secession was
a nullity, as a question of practice, it
would seem that each Stato is bound
to preserve Its original relation to the
Union, as well as to have a republican
form of government. When there is
a breach of cither of those liml lotions,
tho thread ot legality or constitution
ality is dropped. Ail that may onmn
afterward is on an illegal buiis and
void. Such is the incvituuleconclusion,
viewing tho subject from the North
ern standpoint. What, then, is the
rcmody ? Is it for Congress to step in
md construct a now government? Wo
havo already shown that they have
no such power. Jlut the remedy is to
go back and pick np tho thread of
legality right where it was dropped ;
or, in other words, restore the govern
ment which was wrongfully displaced.
It was not destroyed by secesiion to
bo void ; its functions were suspended
only ; its offices were vacated, but not
extinguished, llenco, it follows, that
as soon as the disturbing cause (which
was secession and ils results) was re
moved, tho legitimate Constitution ol
tho Slates, which weie in force nt the
lime ol secession, stood in their origi
nal vigor, and the offices of their gov
ernments should have been immedi
ate filled by the proper constituency.
cession of legality the Slate govern
ments is precisely wuat was decided
by tho Supremo Court of the United
States, in the case of Dorr's rebellion,
in Jihodo Island. Tho duty belongs
not to Congress ulono, nor to the
l'rcsidont alone, nor to tho Federal
Judiciary alone, but to all of thorn,
each acting iu its appropriate sphere
it bclonyt to the I'mttd Mates. All
of theso powers of tho Unitod Slates
stand -plcdgedio its performance the
duty of maintaining tho Stuto Govern
ment with which each Slnlo entered
tho Union, with such modifications as
it may have received by the freo and
voluntary action of its people, consis
tently with tho Constitution ol the
United Slates. Whenever thcro is
a breach of the limitation imposed by
tho Constitution ol tho United Status,
everything lliuroaltor too becomes il
legal and void. The remedy there-
lore is a rciiussion back lo tiie inter
rupted U gal status. Kow tho luto war
has decided, as a question ot tact, that
secession brokothc thread ol constilu
tional relation between tho seceding
Stales nnd United Slates, and the
Stale governments founded on seces
sion wero illegul and void, anil fell
with the Confederate cause. These
fabrics In'.Tillg thus lulicn, tho people
of the Stales, as a logical necessity,
arc remitted back to their Constitutions
and Governments which existed ill the
time of secession. All that was neces
sary all that tho United Slates, un
der tho Federal Constitution, had the
right lo do (and that they wero
bound to do) was to reeloro thoso
governments and constitution back
to the people. This was their solemn
constitutional obligation. If it had
been promptly recognized and per
formed, tho Union would havo been
immediately harmonized und all polit
ical disturbance settled. Tho remedy,
therefore, lor present ills and theonly
provuntlvc of utter future ruin is, for
each department, iu ils appropriate
sphere, and all tho departments com
bined constituting tho Government
of tho United Slates to return in
good faith, to the Constitution. That
instrument guarantees tho equality of
tho Stales in rights and dignity, nnd
recognizes tho fundamental prin
ciple that each, for itself, shall confer
and define Stato citizenship, and pro
scribe tho qualification for exercising
tho cleclivo franchise and holding
office
In making this earnest protest
against being placed, by lorcc, under
negro dominion, wo disavow all feeling
of rosentment toward that unfortunate
raco. As we aro destined to livo to
gether, we desire harmony nnd friend
ship between them and ourselves ; and
as they aro mado the dupes of unscrup
ulous partisans and designing adven
turers, wo pity them ; as they aro Ig
norant, dependent and helpless, it is
our purpose to protect them in the
enjoyment of all their rights of person
and property to which thoir freedom
entitles them.
C-injrri'afiM Men of Georgia:
Awaken to a proper senso ot your
danger 1 Orgauizo lor self protection
and ceaseless opposition to tho direful
REPUB
rule of negro tuirrmacy,xfhh is sought
to bo enforced upon us und our chil
dren, in defiance of the Constitution,
and in contempt of tho civilization Of
tlin mm nnil n, ,,,,;,,. ,.t ,...,L!-,,I
r cuuw-cuuent of the Aortn : vt ilh-
in the last few months, tho question
of nogro suffrngo has boon boforo you
at tho ballot-box. In a voice not to be
misunderstood, you have decided
against it. Job decided voluntarilu. It
has been decided for us, against our
will and aaainst our convictions of irhat
is compatible with good government and
the Constitution of the L'nitid States :
nnd decided bu those who do not expect
to live under the State governments theu
propose to establish by force. You de
cided against it, although the number
of negroes among you was too small
to constitute a considerable, much
less a controlling, olomcnt in politics
It is ordained by our oppressors that
wo shall have it, notwithstanding that
it will lead to nrifru supremacy over
us. He are powerless : you arc potent
to forbid the outrage. Will vou stand
alool aiidjcahnly see us subjected to this
damning wrong ; and that, too. when
it will imperil tho liepublic and spread
baleful disuster over every intuiest.
Hollowing our pledgo of unsullied
honor and our tender of frank and
manly obedience to tho Constitution,
wo uppenl to you, in the namo of tho
Conservative peoplo of our Stato, to
unite together in tho patriotic effort
to restore and perpetuate constitution
al government our recent elections
oncourugo our hopes und challenge our
gratitude. May truth, juslico and
right, "terrible as an army with ban
ners," gathering strength in cvory
conflict, march on "conquering and to
conquer," until its friends, recuing it
from the grasp of centralism, shall
restore, to its apjiiirprlulc supremacy,
Tttg Constitution or tiik Unitko
Statzs, so that Georgia, together with
her sisters in oppression, shall enjoy
the samo protection which its honest
enforcement would give to ovory Stale
in the Union 1
Hersciif.l V. Joiinsox,
A llSAbOM II. ClIAlTtl.l.,
llKSJ. II. II IU,,
Wariie Akin,
T. ij. GuztiRY,
January 8, IMS.
I'rolrcllon In a .Yulshell.
The Hartford 77m r boasts that the
thread works at Willimuntic, owned
chiefly by Hartford capitalists, aro the
most estensivo in the country, and
says that their new mill, four hundred
feet long, five stories high, and built
of grnnilo, costly as it is, was built oj
the Company') profits of over three hun
dred per cent, without disturbing their
capital, which is now a million of dol-
it further admitB thnt "tnrcau mat
used to cost tho needlo-woman four
cents a spool, now costs ten the same
as tho Imported Fnglish thread of J.
k V. Coats. Ono reason why Coats'
thread works moro smoothly on the
machine nnd is better liked than ours,
is in tho fact that tho greater damp
ness of tho Knglish climate is more
favorablo than our dry air to spinning
cotton. Again, tho highly electric
condition of tho atmosphero of the
western world is probably unfavorable
to tho necessary compact ness and
smoothness sought for in tho fabrica
tion of this article, tho strands and
fibrts being more inclined to rough np
and 'fly off."'
Hero is a manufacture which from
physical causes cannot bo brought lo
perfection in this rnnntry ; but which
by enormous protection, has been
mndo to pay threo hundred Kr cent
profit. Specific rtrfi'rtfnrr'ndiiticsliavo
been piled upon each other to keep out
tho better goods mndo in climates
adapted to this deliealo work. The
tariff on imported thread has been
raised until it is equal to seventy per
cent, in gold, on tho cost. 1 he tux on
domestic is six per ccl.t. in currency,
anil ail this difference is for tho fos
tering of such enterprises as this,
whereby a sini'lo company has within
the past threo years accumulated a
million ot dollars, besides building a
very costly factory. Who puysfor it ?
J ho poor noodle-women ol the United
States, tho millions who have to patch
and darn to mnko their obi clothes
hold out through these times of high
prices. Hut lor it tho best of threads
would now, whilo gold is 1.40, ho sold
at six cents a spool.
This does not Bhow tho whole extent
of tho protection. In F.ngland the
three cord glazed threads, such as aro
mado by this company, cost much less,
and are sold nt lower prices than the
six-eord goods ; but hero, as tho man
ufacturers aro protected, the sowing
women must pay as much for the one
as for the oilier.
Tho rovenuo of tho country has
also suffered to pile up this three hun
dred percent, of profits. Spool cotton
used to pay an annual revenue of half
a million in cold in the Treasury; in
tho Inst fiscal year it paid a triflo over
threo hundred thousand dollars.
Such protection as tips rubs tho
rovenuo and robs the poor, but it pays
tho lucky few three hundred percent
emotion of a like character, ditl not
It is hardly worth while, says tho I ,0 jtf an( immediately afterward ono
Greenville, Tenn., f'ni'os, for the Rail jf tho roughs got possession of it
icals to talk any moro about the con- Mrs. licnningholl was seir.dl. drugged
fistntion of St illborn lands. Those(into nn adjoining room, and bound,
lands aro ns good or ns bad as rotifis- Jtr. lt,.nniiighotV's nieco wns taken
cntcd already. Thry sell for a mere 1 ;, ,, n(.ar tic kitclicn and fas
song. A nimble negro in a favorablo ' t(,,10, t0 lounge,
location can steal enough property After everj-person in tho houso was
over nightto buy forty acres of ground securely fastened, and nn attempt bad
early tho next morning. Dl.on m",e t) pcii a combination-lot k
a a ! safe, two of the party went up stairs
I'rcntico says that tho aristocratic I to the room in which nn old fashioned
negroes aro in, a great rago at the sale was kept, without asking nny
preachers who tell them they must bo ' questions, while the other t wo stayed
born again. They aro afraid that tho j below nnd kept guard over the family,
next timo they might bo born white i The key of the safe on the second floor
men, had been taken from Mr. Benninghoff's
LICAN.
Til 12 tiTAMtll'.llINU Wlt'E.
r josk a. hAxe.
hn dT'y In lovo with .Mi.w Emily Prrue;
' """i u ll" aisiJ wouM cm! li min.
1 wi.ulil Kim.; t lvr to iiIm br
Slir l.lii. heil litr pen.. nt, thn' ttiv stuttering Ism
Saiil nnver word, ett-ebt "Yuu're su
A n si. un aia-iduvur trtiicr !"
Tint when w wero msrri. ,1, I TodM l nt ruth
Tlif littiuneriiijr t'ly lisd k o the truth,
For Gften in ublivmua luile;sin.
Slie'il mv il I Tenl'iieil Iu give tier s ji'tf
In lit wnjof reproof i uu n, s u.,g jou rs s
A dj s l'g .oalim curmudroa I"
And oni-r when I int., "Wo en liar.lly aSord
This eitrs snt at vie, with nur mitdorsts uusrl
And hinted we oulit to Ik- wieer,
fib- l'ike.1, I a. .lire vou, eire-diinr hliie,
And fretfully cried, "Vou'res Jew v.m're a Jew
A very JU-dieioua sdviaer !
Ar-in, when I liatieened that, wisn'ur; b ah'.rk
Smile rather tinile:inent and arduous work,
I bosg-rd ulr K" -u neiehUir,
(the wauled to know why I made aueh a fuai.
And annpily aaid, "You're s ena ua cut
Vou were slwsja sveustumeu. ts Isbor.
Oat of teinMr At tsst Willi the in.olent lame,
Ann le.'iiuE mat luititauie wan greatly lo mams
To S'ohl me iu.lead ol' earea:ni,
I Biiraieked her .pei eh like s churl At I BUI
And anurily a:iid, "You're A dam ilniuuaoi
A dem-pjre uirtend of A bleating
THE BENNINGH0FF ROBBERY.
A Darlnc Met of Itolihcru 'll.tHX Car
ried ufil'srlleulsi-s ot llie Koblicry
From the rituburt; CotnmcteiAl.
Our 1'ioneer correspondent tele
graphed tho fact on Thursday evening
lliat thcdwellir.g of John lleuninglioff,
on Jionninghoff run, was entered by
robbers that evening, and robbed of
810,000. ilr. llenninghoff's house
stands near fho road, not frequented
much of lute, cither by travel or teams,
and the nearest neighbor is a quarter
of a mile distant iJr. Iloiininghoff is
a Pennsylvania German, a plain, hard
working farmer, nnd about sixty years
of age. Ho has a large family of
grown up children, many of them
staying at homo. Tho old gentleman,
all of a sudden, had riches thrust upon
him by Ihe discovery of oil on his sler
iio acres, and is one of our petroleum
niillionaricB. We believe tho first well
war. struck on his tiirin on 1'ioneer
Hun, in tho fall of lxtio; tho produc
tion of his whole farm for tho last six
months was six hundred ban els a day,
and ten new wells aro now going down
on it. Mr. li.'s income lor December
Inst, was reported at tln.oOO, but his
sudden nnil dar.zling fortune never
made a fool of him, und they say he
cares nothing for appearances, and
wants to livo as frugally nnd work us
tlilligently as when ho used to cat his
bread iu the sweat of bis brow. Hut
ho had taken tho notion in his head
to bo his own banker, and to deposit
his bonds and greenbacks in his own
sale and houso. The particulars of the
robbery arc thus related by the Tilus
villc llt rald of Saturday :
wiwo-ilj-.,trsuvcn o'clock tho fam
ily, consisling of .Mr. John lienning
hoff, his wife, niece nnd two hired
men. wero silting iu the kitchen, when
tho door was opened and four men
walked in. Three of these men were
of medium sir.es and the fourth was
tall and benvv, anil all of them ncre
masked with Iiitndkerchiefs, cloths or
comforters. On entering tho room
the men drew pistols and presenting
them at the heads or breasts of the
family, threatened them with imme
diate death if they should make the
least noise. So completely wero the
family taken by surpriso that but lit
tle resistance was offered except by
Mr. HenningholT, who cried out lustily
on their first appearance. The first
cry that ho raised hail scarcely left his
lips when ho wns attacked by ono or
two of tbo others. .Mr. Ilenniiiglioll
is now in his sixty seventh year, but
notwithstanding his advanced age,
ho is still possessed of considerable
strength, and ho exerted it to tho
utmost His strength was, however,
entirely inadequate lo copo with that
of two or three middle aged men, and
he was soon thrown to t he floor. The
ruffians then struck him in the lace
and stamped on various parts of bis
body, and then hall dragged, hall car
ried him lo an ntljoining bod room.
All this timo Mr. 11. was bv no means
idle, but was putting forth his best
endeavors to escape, and to attract
attention from tho outside. Alter
they got Mr. Ji. somewhat under their
control, they tied his iirms nnil legs
and threw bun on tho bed and wrap
ped the bed clothes lightly about him.
Then they rifled his pockets nnd took
from ono of them his pocket book,
containing a small amount ol money
and a key to one of the sales. After
seeing that the cords which bound his
limbs were fast nnd covering him more
closely with the clothes, they left him
in n powerless condition.
Whilo Mr. lirniiiughoff wns strug
gling with two of the radians, the
other two had intimidated tho two
hired men, and they were Ercs tied
in the chairs in which they sut at the
time when the robbers first ninde their
appearance. These men offered but
very lit t lo or no resistance, nnd in a
very brief spiico of timo they found
themselves in a helpless condition,
lhiring tho fracas, Mrs. Hcuninghnff
managed to socuro n revolver, which
she handed to one of tbo hired men.
but ho, tflroiigh fear or some other
nuanass I ma i -saw , puna ,
pocket boo':, ami the villains succeed
ed in opening too safe without diffi
culty. Ono drawer in tho sulo wns
overlooked, but all the rest wero
thoroughly ransacked. The safe con
tained nearly (2 2?,W), and thevillains
succeeded in Inking $'.'10,ilo0. Of tho
$l'10,U00, there wore tO.OOO in Gov
ernmcnt bonds, and the rest in green
backs and national currency. Tbo
drawer that was overlooked contained
a quantity of gold and silver coin,
amounting in nil to a comparatively
small sum. In the haste of the search
after plunder, a packago containing
81,00(1 was laid among a quantity of
papers near tho safe und left, nud in
another part of tho houso a second
package, containing about f 0,000, was
dropped.
After ransacking the safe, tho whole
party returned to tho kitchen, and af
ter ascertaining from a memberof tho
family that Mr. Joseph lienniughofT
had gone to church, and that no other
person would bo likely to visit the
houso during tho night, tho villains
proceeded to make themselves com
fortable. During their stay, which
lasted about nn iiour.thrv appeared to
be nwaitingthc return of Mr. benning
hoff, nnd they consumed a quantity of
breatl and milk.
Finnnlly, tho villians concluded to
leave, and making a slip-noose, they
put it around tho nock of ono of tho
hired men and letl him to the barn and
forced him to harness a horso to a
cutter. Tho man was then led back
to tho houso nnd relied. Two other
horses wero taken from the barn, nnd
Iho whole party started off at a brisk
pace. As soon ns the lust man left
tho house, Mr, IlenninghofFs niece
managed to loosen tho cords with
which her arms were bound. The rest
of tho Jam iry wero then rcloased, and
tho men started out and alarmed the
neighbors, after which lolegramswero
s 'ni in all directions to the authorities
of the differnt places, apprising them
of tho robbery.
Alter leaving tho house, the five
men with tho horses nnd cutter pro
ceeded up Iloiininghoff Hun about one
half of a mile, when tho cuttor was
smashed and tho horses were turned
loose, where they wero found yester
morning. From whero tho culler and
horses woro abandoned, no further
truces of tho party could bo found.
Tho snfo Unit was not opened, con
tained a much larger amount than that
carried off.
Yesterday morning a reward of
SI 0,0(10 wait offered tor tho arrest of
the robbers nnd return of tho money,
and later in the day in the day it was.iu-
crcasedtoS-il,nu(l. About two o'clock,
a dispatch was received by Mr. Hcn
iiinglioir, from Oil City, stating Hint
threo men had been arrested on suspi
cion ol'bcin:: mplicaled in the robbery.
Mr. II. nnd Icputy Sheriff Hull left
Fetroleuin Centre for Oil City, on tho
train that leaves the former place nt
:l.25 1'. M., for tho purpose of seeing
if tho men who wero arrested could be
identified.
Grammar for tot. Little Folks.
Three little words wo often sco,
An A i tide, a, an, nnd the.
A Noun's tho nnmo of any thing,
As school, or garden, hoop, or swing.
Adjectives tell tho kind of noon,
As great, sm-:ll, pretty, white, or droirn.
I nstend of Nouns tho Pronouns stand
John's head, his f aco, my arm your hand.
Vorbs tell of somet hing being dono.
To read, write, count, sing, jump, or run.
How things are done the Adverbs toll,
As slowly, quickly, ill, or in7(.
A Preposition stands boforo
A Noun, ns in, or through a door.
Conjunctions join tho Nouns together,
As men tinrf children, wind orweathcr.
Tho Interjection shows surpriso,
As Oh, how pretty I Ah, how who.
In reply to Iko's question of "what
Mr. Sevvurd ment when ho said ho
wanted St. Thomas for a coaling sta
tion," Mrs. Partington (alter rubbing
hero forehead thoughtfully for a mo
ment with tho bow of her silver spec
tacles) replied. "It must bo becuuse
it shakes so, Isaac, and therefore a
good place fo sift ashes."
' What air woman's spear!" naked a
woman's rights man of a literal old
codger, nnd then nnsworcd himsolf
"it air the domestic hearth, sir." Tho
old codger scratched his head a mo
ment, and then said, "lint if her houso
is heated with furnaces, and she nint
got no hearth, what nir Iter sictir then f
has as. AS..
An Knglish army officer writes from
Abyssinia that campaigning in Theo
dore's dominions is decidedly unpleas
ant. TliormomcterloO; snukcsin tho
beds; scorpions in tho men's boots;
camp fevers; epidemics.
"My opinion is," said a philosophi
cal old lady of much experienco and
observation, "that any man ns dies
upon washing day does it out of puro
spito."
In Greenland the young people who
woo each other eat tens pounds of fal
low every tiny to prove their devotion.
S candlemiB I
Dr. Hall says thnt lor tho period ol
n month before, and n npmth after
death men regard the wives as nn-g'ls-
Wo have noticed that men who to
nut "on tho lark' often como hor
"on their brer."
No wonder graveyards yawn, when
there aro so many sleepers thero.
Ilcmcily for corns get your legs
taken off by a railway train.
To give animals medicine throw
phy"i; fo the dogs.
If yon want to rise in the world go
np in a balloon.
Hatchers' valentines should bo iVn-
der lines.
Topitch your voice properly swnl
. low tar.
I Tho best thing out An aching
I tooth.
A cold snap riroakiiigyour, leg on
the ice.
Carpenter pay heavy board bills.
Homo defence an armed chair.
A dry remark Let's liquor.