Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-19
GEORGIA.
Effects of the Threat of Confiscation
-s-The Political Situali0n-Military
sGOvernmcnt at the South. 500


-s-The PoIiticaI Situalion-Military
1Governmcnt at the south. $50
yeT y Correspondents of the World1 .,s-
-zHtsgs ,ls'isA geazz GRIFFIN, GA. May 26. :
3 There is general uneasiness among all
classes in regard to the threat of confisoa-
tioneof the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, whom
we OF the South look upon as the "head
aud front" of his party. Capitalists are
afraid to risk their means in developing the
resources of the country, or assisting the
farmers in raising their crops. for fear they
NAV be unable to realize the amounts in
vested, while this terrible threatis hanging
over their heads. Another reason is, labor
is so very unreliable. Negroes are
daily leaving the farms (and this
mers) and running to the cities and towns
to sttend political meii Igs, ss,Loyal
leagues ETC., and to listen to the addresses
of partisans who are doing vast amount
of harm. With the exception of a few
such as Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia,
,twho did more than any one else to plunge
This State into the late unhappy war, and
who made large fortune out of it) and
Others like him, to-wit: the Southern 10y
,alists, and for whom the people of the
North, irrespective of party, must, I think,
entertainthe supremest contempt, the peo-
pie of the South take but very little inter
est in the political issues of the day. For
tion from Congress, believing that the
large majority of the Northern people are
opposed TO it. My own opinion Is, we have
more to fear from the Conventions which
are to remodel our State Constitutions than
from any Other source. In this contest, of
the negro on the plantation the battle-cry
will be, LANDS for the landless, aud homes
forthe homeless" ..,s 4 = =, s.'s..--s,
. Another reason is, we have amongst us
what is known "1oyal Leagues, 7" whose
purpose we fear, is to carry out the policy
.ot1the confiscation party. From this party
wersheuld fear nothing, were i5 composed
solely of negroes, whom we know as a
class, are kind hearted, w-abiding, peace
fnl people, and will not be dangerous
elementn unless led astray by the design
ing white paftisans who control these
leagues, and the majority of whom were
the most blatant secessionists. The people
of the South abide the decision mace by
the arbitrament of war, They do so in
good faith; !; and while we do not accept
the q Sherman bill . willingly, and may
Seem stubborn, it Is owing to the fact that
we have no assurance that it will be a
finality. The leading men of the domin-
ant parity declare q il: will not be. Still
adother reason Is, that while we feel that
;weare a conquered people; that the con-
querors have right to dictate and enforce
terms, and that we are bound to abide that
-decisioli, still, we are unwilling TO be pdrti-
ceps criy,inis in our own degradation. If it
is the will of the eonqueror that we are to
accept their terms. let them not ask us to
epiace upon our statute books that we will
4ingly accepted it, but rather that the con-
aqueror imposed 1t upon us. n So e
ss7 The South will never prosper until her
political relations are settled, and they will
never be settled while such men as Kelley,
of Pa, and others of that character, who
had not the courage to meet the "boys in,
tigray,' on the battle field, but who now in
wade the South and arouse the bad feelings
Gof both races, the legitimate results of
which are, riots, and bloodshed. Keep
these political incendiaries away, for they
aare doing more to thwart the reconstruc-
Ltion; of the government than any other
agency. - isJ3'lssssG Il Z is-l- .t.5
% Our people have gone to work to rebuild
their broken fortunes with an unparalleled
energy. Many old and young men who have
been Graded and existed in the very lap of
luxury, but whose fortunes have been scat
tered to the four winds, can now be found in
every branch of business. Another fact
,Ichallenge any one to find in the history
OF the world where conquered people
i have been as submissive as the people of the
South have. Poland and Ireland are under
fle-military control of their conquerers,
and 1t requires standing army nearly
1eaual co the able bodied male population Of
those countries, stationed at every cross
road as it were, to keep those people in
ethfeetions:f aud yet. they caDIo6 prevent
popular outbreaks; while in the South the
army is merely nominal, only few of the
larger cities and towns being garrisoned,
and that too, by a mere corporal's guard
as 1t were-and where has there been any
thing like popularsoutbreak or resistance
to the laws ?, All these reports inFregard
to ..outrages by rebels, prosecutions Ofloy-
al men, . and other such reports, are simply
ridieulous falsehoods, manufactured by de-
signing men for their own aggrandizement.