Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-25

under Radical auspices.
F6V-The Atlanta correspondent OF the
Louisville Courier gives an extremely
gloomy account ofthe condition OF AFFAIRS
in Georgia. Thethorough organizauon'
through leagues, associ,tions and Radi'
cal ageucie by which the negro popula'
,;on IL amalcamnteI into one with few
desiening men, renders it probable that
there will be Radical triumph. Ne
0roes are the only men who can take the
iropclad test oath, except the few white
leaders who cannot but will, because
they have stomach for perjuries, and
can digest the lie that they never served
the Confederacy (as most OF them once
pretended to do) as easily as the ostrich
can digest pebbles. The writer expects
no good result. Imagine" says he,
"Marcom, the ex negro trader, whose
substance is solely derived from the sale
of slaves, Governor of Georgia; Farrow,
the potash man, who boasts that he was
prepared at any time, while he held an
appointment under the Confederate Gov
erpment to betray the cause be protested
to serve, Judge Of the Supreme Court;
Peters, the blockade runner, controller;
Dunning, the blacksmith, treasurer, and
the other offices filled by negroes, and
YOU will then have an idea OF the con-
dition to which we are likely to be
reduced under the healing process
of reconstruction. Negro judges will
administer the law of person and
property. Negro iuries will decide the
law and the facts. Negro sheriffs will
execute the process of the courts. Negro
ordinaries will execute wills, administer
estates, and appoint the guardians OF
children. Negro Legislators will make
laws and appropriate money! and negro
assessors and collectors will value prop
erty and collect taxes Give us negro
professors in our colleges, negro painters,
sculptors, authors, architects, engineers
and navirators, and we shall have nothing
left TO desire. Our happiness will be
complete. The negroes are growing
daily in insolence and laziness, and the
grass and weeds are also growing while
cotton and corn are striving to grow AS
the canvass and the election will
take place during the cotton-picking
season, it is very much doubted
whether our sable law-givers can quit
the forum, the bench, the bar and
the Justice room to pick cotton, and it
they do not eondescend thus far, how are
we to pick IT'D The fog thickens all
arosnd. The bells are ringing on all
sides, and the souudngs admonish havi.
gators to lie to. When Sumner expressed
the hope that lie would soon welcome
negro Senators and Representatives to
Washington, he knew what is coming,
and though it is possible Maroon and
Farrow may temporarily rob the negroes
Of their places in Congress, the current
of events now runs rapidly toward an
entire niggerifcation Of the State, and
an anarchy which can only end in blood
shed and the determination Of the poor
savages whom the freebooters are using
to aid their scheme of plumber"
81 witnessed the other day remark
able illustration OF the better govern
ment of the rebel States saw one of
the first, best and most honored of
Georgia's most gifted sons, mounting the
steps of the City Hallin Macon, together
with his servant, who was one OF his
slaves The former went into q room to
the right to pay a large sum for taxes,
and the latter went to the left to register
his vote. The slave governs and the
master finds the money"