The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1866-11-14

10 ssEs OF GEORGIA.

hS sSSS VT oEOh0lA. 49,
The report Of the Comptroller General
Of Georgia mOkes some remarkable state,
ments respecting the losses conseouent
upon the war in that State. By the tax
returns of 1868 the taxable property is es.
timatcti ut $S22, 8S.787, while in 1860 il
was returned at s612,292.447, which, re-
duced to currency, would be 81, 00S, 49,
663. making over seven hundred millions
as the loss occssioned by the war In one
State alone. Nor 10 this all. Th. esti-
m lie dies not include the amount swallow
ed up in Confederate boDds and scrip.
which the Comptroller believes would swell
the total loss Of property in the Empire
Stale Ut the South above a thousand mil.
lion dollars. 81 vast and sweeping az i'm
poverlshment Of such population 10 sim.
ply Incredible. The returns Of population.
as tar as they have reached the offise. indi-
cate decided loss in population: 5000
white population is reported, against &c.
74S in 1860, showing loss oil l2,S30, or
nearly one eighth. Now, when il is remem-
bered that the late war included little de
suuction OF women and children, at least
By the hands vi the soldiery. and in this
re spect presented q marked contrast To
MOS, other wars, the drain on the male lie
ment OF the State mus, have been enormous.
No such extraordinary example OF soIunia-
rly encountered impoverishmem aud de-
.ruetion Of lille can be furnished BY histo-
~.
We, these people, who endured the To-.
II near fourth hiths Of their property and
one eight Of their adult male population,
subnltted al last TO the superior force, M.
der the impression that they would not be
har.hIy dealt with. but would b. treated a.
citizens VI the United States. They never
would have 50 universally and with such
cordial good feeling laid down their srms,
but tla, they accredited the constant ds-
cllra,iuns both Of Congress and The press
that they would be generously deal. with.
suppose. however. a prosciptlye policy is
pursued. and the good will OF the South b
the Government is converted into insinci-
bic hostility suppose that the children are
educated 10 hate The hand that deprives
them Of their constitutional rights, and
wnuld reduce them TO mere vassslage IN
Congress: dies any nin lancy that PEG
PIE sho are capable OF such tremendous 81.
crihees wauld not be really to make morss
Aud ii they should resolve on war 10 the
knife, will Il be an easy task 10 redare
them or - keep them IN subsection when
once reduced to submissInns The psopo-
,luon 10 absurd. We cannot hold the South
a. dissflec.eJ population. Il would cost
to- much bIpod aud treasure 10 make the
attempt advisable. Humanity aud pnl,ey
punt alike 10 but one course: Reconcile
the southern people To The Federal Govern
ment. BY making them fsel that il Is .
mach their Government - ours; that. u
anything, they have deeper stake IN the
restoration of the national authority than
even We. Men who. il defence Of an idea.
however mistaken. Will make such iesfihl
sacrifices, are o BE- propitiated and esteem.
ed, not slirnaled aud denou sced. Neither
justice nor srpedirncy will permit us 10
impose On them hash b1riens. OF exact
conditions which We ourselves would not
cherrIuily meet. Having suffered 80 ter.
rIbiy. IL Is not 10 be wondered at that their
hist Demand y quiet. peace, and the np.
plriunlty 20 restore lhrir wasted fortunes.
but ihi. cannot last. They will s,on re-.
cuperatr. No people capable Of such he
roIc endurance Can be long kept under. LEI
" draI With them Justly. 80 that there wall
be- 40 sense 81 wrong raniIing IN their
harris, aud Of indignation against those
VIM a,aiied themselves Of an hour OF trI.
umpb to cxiort what they could not Other
wise have obtained. hai Iakllgo,0r.
PoLisu ErILEs ron VIRGINIA.
seven families Of Pole, sliled ior Rlchmopd
in the steamship Virginia on Saturday Of.
ternoon, 70 settle 10 spottsylvsnia ounty.