Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-16
The oadltion OF Feeling in Georgia.

The Atlanta (Georgia) correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial gives this ac-
count of tile present condition of political
sentiment in that State. He says:
''The issue here is a very simple enc. On
the side of reconstruction are
''First-The colored men of Georgia, who
are always on the side of the Union-men
who have suffered prescription, oppression,
robbery, outrage, and almost death Itself.
''Second-those Georgia born) although
at the time Sccessionists, yet now recogniz-
ing the situation, part willingly with slavery
men who see that secession, if not
crime, was at least mistake, and only de-
sire TO see their State again at peace in the
Union. Governor Brown is such man.
,oshua Hill is such man. The cx-Rebel
Jolonels, officers and soldiers in the Con-
vention are such men. Thousands who
once swelled the ranks of the Rebel army
are such men.
'.Tmrd-Northern men who. with old
fashioned notions about the Constitution of
the United States, fondly imagine that they
have Il just claim TO the rights of citizen
ship in any State of the Union, and such
protection for their lives and property
against Rebel juries and Rebel mobs.
''On the side of anti-reconstruction are
solely those who are still animated by the
spirit of the pro slavery rebellion.
SIT is natural that such men as these
should feel most keenll Il silent but telling
reproach of the attitude OF men who, like
themselves, were once Shareholders and
secessiunists, but who now, unlike them
selves, recognize that they have country,
not Il slaveocracy, to look up to. They do
so feel it, and consequently their fiercest
anger their bitter hate, is concentrated on
these men.
"Govcrnor Brown, for nstancc--a mild,
dignited, Christian gentleman, is the target
for every pro-slavers Rchel's quiver full of
poisoned arrows o. insult, abuse and detrac-
ton. | presume he is accustomed to the
treatment by this time, and estimates il at
its true value.
Take another instance. DIR. II. V. N.
Miller, professor in the Atlanta Medical
College. one Of the most distinguished men
in Georgia, and so talented a public speaker
as to have received the surname of the
Mountain Demosthenes,' is a gentleman
whose character, until few weeks since,
was supposed to be spotless Until few
weeks since he was not known to favor
reconstruction. Until few weeks since he
was not member Of the Convention. But
being reconstructionist, being member of
| the Convention, he straightway, in the eyes
of all aristocratic, pro-slavery Georgia, be-
comes 'piebald, 'scalawag,' scum of hell,
| 'ignoble,' base. and receives the dread in
| Fiction Of two solid, solemn and sciolistc
columns from the Augusta Chronicle and
| Sentinel, and u like infiiction from the Co
lumbus Sun, to say nothing Of the yelping
paragraphs from smaller-sized sheets. Nc
one supposes the simultaneous appearance
of these two articles, at points separated by
the breadth of Georgia, to he purely acei
| dental.
1T is perfectly well understood down
here that when man departs in a pro-sla-
very community from the prescribed circle
of preiudices. which are mistaken for ideas
and principles, he must be put down, and
such pressure brought to bear upon him,
socially and professionally, that he must
succumb or leave Accordingly, one of the
two articles refer to is headed Refugees
from Responsibility, which title presents,
| in three words, the entire system and philos-
opny of the persecution have described.
"Does man dare depart from the sacred
teachings and traditions pro-slavery Lei
him be mathematical. He ceases thereby
to be respectable. Let him not be spoken
to. Have nought to do with MIN in his bus.
iness. Let his wife not be visited. Let his
children be thrust from Sunday school.
Shun contact with him at the very commu-
MON table of the church in which you both
| worship!
"Such is the practice here among gentle
men claiming TO be high-toned, chivalrous
and Christian. And ii, when this article is
read in Georgia, any man dare gainsay the
truth of this description, l will cite him
names, dates, places and persons, that will
compel his acknowledgment"