New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-11-20


verted, and does not mean to be.
That the ordinance nominally repudiating tho
Rebel Debt was Odious to great majority VI
the Convention is conceded Our two conSerVa'
tive authorities agree perfectly on THIS says
one, Repudation was the bitter piii' anu II
went down hard. The subject was ih'iouu''u
On the opening day, with about eighty meni"oi'
in favor of IL ont of three hundred ana one
delegates" That estimate agrees heafJ WIN
tho statement of tho other correspondent tna'
"there were at least three-and quite hheiy ioui
would be more correct fgure-at least three u
one in favor of assuming that debt" vi course
Repudiation by such Convention couid Only
have been voted under duress But III iact' !"
never was voted-only seemed to be- hi'ef
long and stormy debate the following was car
ried by 1873 to II:
or, ordained By he Peopl, Of Georgia IN Conceniien
a.,ef1bed That all the debts contracted or
tne state OF Georgia either separate oiato VI
member of the late partnership or COnitueiao VI
states STYLED the Confederate States OF Arrea ~
the purpose Of carrying on me late war % ,Se mn
the limited States OF Amcrca, or ior the pur
nose Of aiding abettig promoting saiu war IN hy
Say directly or indirectly be and the same az eIevy
declared null and void, and the Legislature rs heiool
prohibited forever from in an! way acKnoWieuglns VI
having the same debts, or any part thereo, OF run
pas,ng any law for that PURPOSE or TO secure or pro
Vide for the said debts. or any part thereoi " any
.,pr6pr.:...cc. g. n;cSy. PROXY ''oVA'' 'aHu'' VI
assets of any kind TO that object
That was for Northern circulation. For home
consumption the following was adopted
"Prorid,d That nothing herein contained shall pre-
vent any Legislature hereafter to assemble from max
FIR tha az an
claim against the State originating nner the 18th OF
January lr6l where IL shall be made clearly TO appear
that such claim was founded upon consideration aus
connected with any purpose OF aiding OF hsssH1g inc
orosecuton of the late against tho United States
and not incidental TO state oil war.
Out of the Eighteen Millions Of debt which
Georgia contracted during the war, there would
not be one which eventually might not get
adopted and paid by the Legislature under
that proyiso-bearing in mind the fact that most
of these bonds are owned by citizens of Georgia,
and that throughout the State as well as in the
Convention there is an intense desire to see the
validity of the whole affirmed. And the Conven-
ton did not rest satisfied with leaving this
large door open. The fourth section of the
ordinance, as originally reported, enacted that 1t
should be part Of the Constitution and iunda-
mental law Of the State" That section the
Convention struck out. The effect OF striking
il out is to neutralze the injunction upon the
Legislature contained in the first section. for II
il be not part of the Constitution, Of what force
il il, or how can it bind any future legisla'
toni 1t amounts to nothing more than an
expression of opinion by the Convention. and IT
does not amount TO that, because the opinion OF
tho Convention was VIGOROUSLY and conlessedly
the other way. II il absurd, therefore, to say
tina, Georgia has in any sense, or to any praoti'
cal effect, repudiated any portion OF the debt
she contracted in her four years struggle to
destroy the Union. copy OF her new Con-
stitution lies before us, and it does not contain
word prohibiting the assumption of the debt
If this isa specimen Of what Georgia thinks
aul does when ON probation, when still ruled
by military power, and while she is an appli-
cant for recognition both by the Executive and
By Congress, what sort of loyalty is she likely
to exhibit if fully restored to her relations with
the Government