The New York herald., 1867-02-28
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MACON, Ga, Feb. n, 1857.
1, die is cast, The rubccn has been crossed !
Georgia under . military government. u practically
tertosialized The sun indeed shnes brightly the
tres ere robng themselves their gay apparel but tits
GeorEia, but living Georgia NO morsl Many feel dis.
posed 70 shed tear a the fate that has ovsaken the
State Il took years Of hard lighting and length Of
time 70 convince the people OF State that the negro
10 man-"a higher title than president or kpg"-and
not chatel Events OF practical nature viii speedily
follow which will make assurance douby sure on this
subject When the negro shall under shsrmans recon
sruction BILL vote; when he shall the councils Of
the STATE then indeed will thcrc be dispute the
fact that the black man is and ihas all the atri
butes Of man about him. The negro has been quicker
70 divine the great change that was coming
70 his condition than the white man has been OF the
same fact Indeed the negro has been impatient OF the
long delay in the full realization Of all his rights and will
vote with gusto that be only knows how to exhibit
But what OF the white population They only sigh
at the degeneracy Of the times The delay in conerrng
the negro the right 10 take part in forming the
stituton under which he Is 10 live and in making the
laws by which be is to be governed has been emnenty
beneficial; for he has had the time in preparing
himself for the exercise Of 80 important right and II
has gradually prepared the white man for conceding the
right This being done the two may be fairly left
to themsevesthe negro having the training TO labor
vaue or the apSs hs OF the ssse SodV
polite is healthy the enc0uragemcnts labor
great and above all the necessity for work OF some sort
is pressing that tho shock will not be great in the
change that has been ordained by the people OF the
country Now II only confidence can be restored be.
tween the two sections prosperity will como the gIor
ous spring has already burst upon this land
Things could not be worse here than they have been
Under the fear OF political troubles the stream Of capital
which should have been flowing south has been reversed
aud instead Of permeang every and GRANNY OF the
body polite with its vivfyDg influences has flowed back
70 the centres no more 70 circulate until confidence tnat
m m ha vo.
stored May that time como and our country be
once more united happy and prosperous To go 10 the
cities or into the country Que sees evidence OF labor
among all classes Every day the number OF drones
1esscning The step OF the laborer brisk and cheer
fuinsss steals upon The both the employer
Of the year ] was disposed TO take a gloomy
view OF The cotton prospect; now, ] am
forced TO c0ncede large OF cotton II s rarely said
now that the negro will work; oftencr you hear thai
he works we'll ever, and sometimes hear said
,ha, ne works better than ever The strongest
ana most convincing argument j have ever
heard IN favor OF ree over slave labor even at the
North. was recently msds by gentleman in one OF the
groes cmancipaied He would not, he said, alter the
condition OF the negroes IL In his power. Thus
y s en n aoes
been considered wrong continue in state OF slavery
persons found in that state The conscience OF the South
would royot at putting Tree people into state OF
bondage. wait further comments on the R.construc-
ton bill until ID shall be better understood than IL is
possible understand from the tsicgrsphc accounts
stud,ousy srivcn to conform 10 truth fear may be
considered have departed from this rule In the several
references have made 10 the National Cemetery ut
Marietta, in ihIs State stricI attention 10 the
words employed would have conveyed different
suppression 10 those who understand the subject
better thaH II is possible for any observer TO nnd
stand it. said the cemetery "rcDucd' 10 conian
many bodies did not believe IL at the time and NY
object was 10 show how the cjsxens OF that benufu
now national ciiy stricken nt thc.fhonehL
am happy, however. 70 hare had the opportunity OF
Conyersng with fcnflemaU federal OiIicar, Win has
chs off fha stnsa nj sleaA lfppt.
He Informed us that tho impression was (which tbe
newspapers had tended 10 widen, that those whU had
charge or gathering the remains OF The nion soldiers
making good thing OF u, and that they
tlmes took up the bodies OF rebels snd div ,dcd the
bones OF ths Union soldiers, got the price for
the burial Of the He informed that up 10 the
present there had been bu.ie 10 the cemetery be-
and that in the disastrous battle Of New Hope Church.
pit, where there said 10 be eight hundred
rnion soldiers buried only hundred and forty hree
found These facts rcfect the highest credit on
the military skin Of General Sherman, who il IL we'll
known reached Atlanta only after having made hts men
charge breaswbrks for almost the entire space between
Dalton and Atlanta--a distance OF hundred miles.
IL may interest those who have made pt bsfiti,a n
vestments the bonds of the State conditioned the
age OF the Satos railroad, that that railroad
paying into the treasury Of the State monthly
insalments OF $4,000 with the prospect Of an in.
crease in such instaimeuts 10 $s5 O00.
The NV YORK Herald, the only national paper, is
holding tho sway IN this State 10 enjoyed before
the 10 Is the only paper hat meets with universal
acceptance or that is generally quoted from.
The suspension or tho banking bodsc OF Brown &
Wdman, OF Atantr, promises % exercise disastrous
that least 500 600 will be loci by depcsitorA Snrtng
events lie lust before us