Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-17
The Georgia Reconstruction lnjllnc.
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In the United States Supreme Court last
Friday, Mr.. O'Conor asked leave to place in
the hands of the clerk the bill of complaint
of the state of Georgia to enloin Secretary
Stanton, General Grant and General Pope
from executing the act for the more efficient
government of the rebel states. and which
he said he would ask leave to file on Friday.
The court replied that the gentleman might
now file his motion for leave
Attorney General Stanbery as the law
officer of the government. gave notice to Mr..
'Conor that he should be ready to resist the
motion. This bill differed from that of the
state OF Mississippi in the fact that the Pres
ideut not named in it. He felt it to be
his duty to say that the Secretary of War
desired that he should take on himself the
entire management of the ease on the part Of
the defence The court, in reply to an eN-
pressed desire that an arrangement be- made
20 that both the cases of Mississippi and
Georgia may be heard tomorrow and the or
der of argument be understood. said il would
think about the matter, as it was not now
prepared to make definite statement
PomIlcAL.-The Washington Chro,l,c1e
saws that radical Senators and members have
contributed - 900 for the distribution of
political documents throu ghout the South.
In the Ohio Senate the CoppcrhcadS voted
against monument 10 Gen. Mcpherson Ot
course
The hardest Copperhead town in the West
has hitherto been Fort Wayne. Indiana
The usual majority has been about ono thou>-
and. Last wear it was seven hundred and
seven. At the election held last Monday the
majority was reduced to one hundred and
Il
Wayne from its political darkness.
At the charter election III Louisville on
Saturday last. the nominee of the radical
Unionists for Mayor beat the coppcrhcad
Democratic candidate lay 20lS votes ON
full poll This i a tremendous gain for the
Union since last summer, when the Copper
democratic ticket swept the city by over 2o00
majority.
Advccs received in Washington from New
Orleans are said t. leave no doubt hut that
General Sheridan will remove Governor
Throckmorton of Texas. as he evidently is
embarrassing the Government in it, efforts -
enforce the reconstruction law in that State.
Gen Griffin, who is in command in Texas.
oarno1tlv recommends Con sheridan tp cake.
/ this course
At a Radical mass meeting in Athens,
Tennessee. one of the best spccchc, made
though Horace Maynard also spoke, was by
Rev. 4 f. Anderson. Il colorcd man. He
exorted the colorcd people to vote for Gov-
crnor Brownlow and the Radical party and
forever oppose the Conservative party f.
this appeal every colored man responded.
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At the mass meeting of white and coiorcl
Republicans, held at Petersburg. Virginia
on Monday, there were four thousand present
and the meeting was most enthusiastic and
and spirited, lasting for several hours. All
= tars In A..
tanning the Republican party, to which the
freedmen were indebted for their liberty and
all their privileges, and the loud deuonstra-
tions of approval with which such advice
was greeted showed plainly that the negroes
perfectly understand who are their friends