Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-12
Affairs in Georgia.

How things are going to perdition in
Georgia under Radical Reconstruction,
is thus set forth by correspondent of
the New York World, under date of Sa-
vannah, November 30:
80! that the people of the North; the
honest people who vote with the Repub-
lican party, and are deluded with its
worn out cry Of ''Union! Union!" could
witness for themselves our condition. 1t
is for their interest as much as for ours
that these affairs should be settled at
once and forever. Why will they not
listen to those who speak the truth to
them, and not follow stubbornly after the
blind leaders of the blind who are hur-
rying the country to destruction? 1t is
enough to make angels weep to behold
the deplorable condition Of the down
trodden South. gro e's-. - .i seer
"What the Convention will be, re-
view of the personnel of the delegates
from this district will give you fair
idea. Foremost, as the leader and ae-
knowledged7 head of the delegation
is the infamous Boston mulatto
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, who was,
a shoemaker in Massachusetts,, and as
piring higher, studied, or processes to
have studied, lava man who can
scarcely spell his own name, but is full
of devilish cunning. He was admitted
to practice in Massachusetts,, but was
dismissed for malpractice. He has been
in Sing Sing for felony. He stirred up
sedition, among the negroes on the Sea
Islands of South Carolina, and was the
prime Gauss of the murder of several
United Soldiers, and the killing of
number, of negroes. He was sent to
Fort Pulaski, and was released by the
interference of his Radical friends at
the North; was again imprisoned for
a like offence, and was once more re-
leased in a like manner. He is the ne
. groes' god and religion. By every false
hood which devilish cunning could sug-
gest, he has supposed upon their credulity,
and become their recognized leader. 1t
is his boast that he has five Thousand
colored men at his beck and call, and can
go to Congress, or do just as he pleases.
In conversation with gentleman,
formerly strong adherent of the domi
nant party, he said he trusted to see
: bloodshed, as that would be the only
way to secure his people in their rights.
His teachings are dangerous and agra
rian, and all his speeches incendiary in
|, character. And such thing as this is
/ the acknowledged friend of, and is coun-
tenanced by Charles Sumner and is
allowed to institute, or attempt an in
stitution of reign of terror in our midst.
His supporter and right-hand man is
Colonel G. II. Hopkins, Assessor of In
ternal Revenues: a man who has been a
candidate for every Office ever heard of,
and willing to support any party that
will give him place. He ran for the
Confederate Congress and was defeated; !;
and at the close of the war took the
"ironclad" oath. He is now before the
grand jury of the United States District
Court, on charge of perjury A man
more thoroughly despised it would be
hard to find. He is political trickster,
willing to consort with white or black, it
matters not which, if he can only gain
his ends. Previous to the election he
strenuously denied being a candidate,
and after it was over he declared that
the people had elected him against his
!. will, and as they appeared to want him,
| he must serve. When candidate for
the Confederate Congress, in order to
get the soldiers votes he promised to
use his influence to increase their pay +;
now that he is up for perjury in taking
the test oath hesays that he had designed,
/ if elected, to consider that he had been
elected to the Congress of the United
! States, and would have proceeded to
| Washington! Was ever such specious
excuse heard Of? Two other individuals
| on the list are non-residents. They
could not vote, but are fit to represent
the district in Convention is, they
are fit tools of Radicalism. One of them
is secretary of a negro incendiary league
over which Bradley the august presides
Col. Asa l.. Harris, our former Postmas.
ter, is another member of the delegation.
> He is the most respectable of the lot