Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-28

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81 AUGUSTA, Ga, Tuesday, Dec, Is, 1866. a.
LIDO not know how far the Elitor of the
Soathern Recorder inagines he represents
aud expresses public opinion In the article
copied In the Times of the 18th inst, but
do know that when he thinks the draw
ing, ,reyolyers and appealing TO the sword
business should commence he will find that
he will have, as the euohre players say, to
- 90 it alone." The idea of armed resist
ance by people without arms, amnfuni-
tion or money to buy them, against the
army and navy of the United States, may
be entertiined in lunatc asylum, but GER
tainly not by people like the people of
Georgia, who are justly famed for their
bard, practical sense. The expression OF
such threat can only serve rs pretext
for the Misrepresentation of Southern SEN
timent, embitter Northern ahimOsty, JUS
tify the extreme measures of the Radicals,
and aggravate illimitably the suffcrin9s
and misfortunes of the people of this sec
ton. What both old and young want is
peace. They do not intend to have anything
To do with either reyolvers or swords, further
than to turn them into piowShares and
reapers Of the newest aud most improved
patent. The opposition 10 the CJnstitu-
tional Amendment was almost universal,
but nine tenths of it was confined to the
third section and that on question OF hOli-
or, which those who approve the Amend
ment may condemn as impolitic, but which
they caunot condemn as any evidence OF a
rebellious or turbulent spirit. Tue feeling
that Congress is treating these States un-
justly, accusing them Of many things of
which they are entirely innocent aud CIV
ing them no credit tor their honest subnis-
sion to authority aud law, is universal.
There is no exception. But nobody be-
lieves that armed resistance is practicable
or a desirable mode of redresSing griey-
ances. | reiterate the assertion because |
know am right, that rebellion, opposition
to law. refusal to acknowledge the author
ity of the United States, are-no more to be
found in Georgia than in New York or
Ohio and that however individuals here
and there may indulge in splenetic aud
passionate utterances, the p,ople are peace
ably inclined and are desirous to prove by
their acts the justice aud truth of the as
sertions OF the few friends at the North
who have ventured to stand between them
and ruin. rr r..
The proposed legislation by which all
the excluded States are 10 be reduced to
territories fills every mind with horror
and alarm. If carried into execution by
she twO-thirds majority of Congress, an
archy vastly more terrible than state OF
war must be the result. The immediate eff
feet would be to give the political control
Of the States to the negroes, to distranchise
ninety-nine out of every hundred of the
population, and inaugurate an antagOnism
of races which no force ofarms could pre-
vent or subdue. As q means of coercion it
will be ineffective. 1t can only intensity
animosity and prevent the material i'm
provement which is so necessary to the
North as we'll as the South, by i,nmeasur-
ably increasing the public burdens, and de-
stroying vast portion OF the means by
which they are to be discharged. The mo-
ment such a state of things Is established
and all hope of escape Is gone, every one
who can command the means will leave
the country, aud int the van OF the refugees
from a negro Government will be those
who opposed secession and the war. 1t
may be said by those Who advocate terror
as the best means of Cancellation, that
nothing short of this wholesale punish-
ment of millions ofmen is adequate to the
great crime oftheir rebellion. But is it not
to do what Burke declared to
be mpOssible-Dreparing an Indictment
against nation? ref .-.
I Nobody can be optimist enough to sup
pose that all existing government, laws,
magistrates, legislators and constituencies,
can be wiped out III a moment, and o new
system-the most obnoxious and orpress-
for them without produce
ing the most calamitous results, in which
the people whom it is designed to punish
will not be the only, nor yet the greatest,
sufferers. rti ID N'r -.l PIT EnF i.
Take, for example, this great State of
Georgia, By thelast census her population
was 595 007 whites and 462 23O blacks, or a
total of 1,O57.327. The voting population
is somewhere between 100 900 and 10000
She cast 106 800 votes at the Presidential
election of 1860. Under the proposed law
disfranchising all who bore arms against
the United States, or gave aid and comfort
to the enemies of the Union, it is no eXag-
geration to estimate that not 5000 out of
the 100000 could take the oath and qualify
as voters. Therefore, under the territorial
system, the government of the State would
be Immediately transferred to the 5000
whites and the $4,000 or 10000 male negroes
VINO nave attained tne required age. ~
must be remembered that the entire male
population betyeen the ages Of ~ and %
served IN the Con1ederate army, and that
tne NUMBER o. georgia soid!ers IN the
leld exceeded largely lts Young poPql laa7i
tlon. Inc negro Vo!ers would nutnum0er
the whites elShG or nine 10 one they would
necessarily constltnte Inc polltlcal power,
ana ne VINO expects tpat tley would exer-
cise IL lntelilgehtly or Wlsely, or that the
SIX hundred Thousand white men, women