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in the United States, fairly analyze the
above remarkable disclosures.

III Inc UHlGeu OtlIes, ihiTiy uuulyze tne
above remarkable disclosures.
In the first place the object Of sub
mitting the plan Of reconstruction to
the vote of the people is not to ascer-
tain the aciN of the people with view of
respecting that will Georgia is to be
reconstructed any hon in two years,
even though the people vote against it.
The people are to vote, but the vote is
not to decide the question voted on
In the next place we are not called
on to decide "whether we will allow
the freedman to vote" "1hat," we are
distinctly told, is 'already established"
and established "beyond revocation"
If we were not all ciphers we might ask,
when, where, how and bywhom was
this established?
But what is the object? Ifyou did
not intend TO abide the decision why
ask it2 The vote is asked as means
fascertaining who is loyal. The vote
of each man will be looked to as test
@Ais loyalty," Loyalty, then, is not
to depend upon support or adherence
to the Constitution. 1t is not to de-
pend upon connection with the REBEL
lion! A man may have come from the
North he may have fought four full
years in the Union army, still ifhe has
settled in Georgia and votes against
Convention he is disloyal! 1t does not
depend on color. "Whether black or
white' ifhe votes against Convention he
is disloyal. The tickets Of all, black
and wAite, will be numbered {! So, q
man may be Northern man-a North
ern black mana Northern black Un-
ion soldier--but if he votes "against
Convention" he is disloyal! And so
man may be Southern man--an orig
inal secessionst and real white man
"a Southern white Confederate soldier
who fought four years for the Confed-
eracy-but if he only votes for a Con-
vention lie is to be considered loyal!
But why is vote for or against a Con-
vention to be taken as the test of 10y
atty or disloyalty? Because it is vote
for or against the plan "sudmitted by
Congress-" Which plan is to secure
ten States to the Radical party. Hele
is plainly confessed what l have labor
ed to prove: whoever is Radical is
loyal. The Radical party is thus sub
stituted for the Constitution, for the
laws, for the Union and for the Gov
ernment! People of the United States
was it for this you fought? Did the
South, sure enough, fight for the Con-
stitution and the North for the Radical
party?
But this is not all? Why so anxious
to ascertain who are loyal, or rather
disloyale ? Because all who, by this test
are ascertaned to be disloyal, are to be
disfranchised and their property is to
be confiScated!
Thus, it turns out, that the whole
feature in this Congressional recon-
struction plan, which had even farci-
cal resemblance to anything virtuous, is
shown to be snare, Il trap, disgrace
full, deceitful, iniquitous inquistion. l
affirm there is nothing in the dark, cruel
and bloody history of the inquisition Of
the Jesuits surprising this scheme in
the iniquity of its conception, in the
hypocrisy of its plan Of execution, or
in the villainy of its purpose. And
dark, cruel and bloody, beyond any
precedent in the past, will be many
years ofAmcrican history if this plan
be consumated. | have said, and l
now re-allirm with all added emphasis,
that the time will soon come when not
a decent, respectable man will be found
in the Radical party. l beg all such,
now lingering in it, to consider whith-
er we are going. If all who vote
against Convention are to be disfran-
chsed, only negroes and few African
lied whites will be left to rule the
country. Does any sane man believe
such a rule possible? Under pretence
of restoring the Union ten negro States
are to be formed Under pretencc Of
allowing the people to vote a hunt is
devised to find victims for disfranchise-
ment and robbery! And all these
thingSdone under oaths to support the
Constitution
If this be only threat, originating
with Governor Brown, what shall be
said of q Southern man who would
manufacture such IL threat against his
own peopleS Ii it be the real purpose
Of the so-called Congressional plan,
what American citizen, after under
standing it, can be so lost to every
sense Of justice, of decency, Of man.
hood, of honesty and of honor, as to
support either the plan or party which
could desire or adopt it, or whose ex
istence could depend on its success.
II it be desperate threat how COW
ardly are they who will be alarmed by
it2 Ifit be the real purpose. how base
is he who could possibly support ite
So in any view it is absolutely neces-
sary for every man who would preserve
moral, political or social respect, or
any sense of manhood, either not to
vote ut all, or vote, like man, "against
a Convention"
| uONcTuOT DIOWu Luuhc5 uuOtuCA lC-
markable statement He tells US that
almost all the entire property of Geor-
gia is "already confscated !" And,
reader, how2 He says by the Act of
July, 1862. And this singular state
ment is made by one who has been Gov
ernor of our State-who tells us he Is
lawyer, and has good profession.
In reply to this say:
l. That this act was unconstitution-
al and void, even as war measure and
has been declared SO even by some of
the courts Of the Northern States.
2. That if constitutional as q wAr
measure, then, by its very nature, it
could only be of force during the war,
operating on property seized during the
war, and necessarily ceased to have
any force as soon as the war ended,
aud such has been declared to be the
\ law nv tho cOurts of even Massachu.