Middletown transcript., 1868-10-17
Our Correspondents.
Correspondeace Of thc Mddieiopn Tronscrript
SAvANNAm, Georgia, Oct. 1868.


Mr.. EDIroR In pursuance Of my ex..
pressed intention to keep you informed as
to how the "world wags" in this region,
| will make a few comments on men and
things hcrcabouts.
1t needs but slight acquaintance with
affairs in Georgia to convince any candid
mind that the Radical plap of Reeonstracs
tion is most egregious blunder. The
attempt to give supremacy to the Negro
race has unsettled that people to a gr' at
extent and excited desires and anti.
cipatio which they will not readily re.
linquish. The Radical carpet-baggers still
have the ear of good number 0f tbs
blacks, and fear that in their tgp0ranre.
they will lie excited to still greater Ie Ids Of
violence and bloodshed than those enacted
at Camilla and other places in this state
The whites, exhibiting the traditionai
spirit of the Anglo-Saxon race, view With
unmitigatcd Indignation, every attsmDt, t9
subject them to the domination Of ah ig-
norant and barbarous race. The two
races are distinct and different and tbs
lapse of time will not cause them to coA1
lesce. The white mar, conscious Of hts
superiority intellectually and morally, will
never entertain the thought of miscegep.
alton or assimilation. 1t is manifest that
the doctrine of equality, politically and
socially, cannot be made to prevail, and
in the pres ant ignorant untHtored state Of
the African mind, such an idea is too, pre-:
posterous to be considered. 1t is useless
to speculate as to what changes time may
work in the status of the two races.
Let US hope that the African race will
be elevated, improved and christiapized So
that he may fulfil the destiny which Prov:
ence has in store for him. Congressional
ictation or outside interference of any
kind with this great question must be CON.
si,lercd meddlcsome and mischievous. Let
the oil Jeffersonian doctrine be maintained,
that the States are to manage their own
domestic concerns, and, instead of tbs
antagonism between the Faeas Wbifh has
been created and fostered by KAdlcAllsm.
we should soop haye q settlement IF thls
question which would promote the greatest
g,H,d or both races. :.
Those who migrated from the "city Of
oaks" to escape the heat Of summer are
returning every day with bronzed faces
and elastic step-refreshed and invigor9-
ted for the labors and duties of autumn
and winter The Northern watering places
had pretty large delegation of the more
fashionable portion of our city. The
Southern people, however, were so i'm:
poverished by the war that comparatively
few can undergo the expenditure Of SYN.
mcr travel and visit to the fashionable
places of resort.
Cotton is now coming from the interiox
to this city quite rapidly, and business is
becoming active and stirring. BY means
of its system of railroads and its fine lines
of steamers to New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, this city has become the
commercial metropolis Of large ssetieR
of the South.
During the recent storm, which COM
menced last Friday, an immense quantity
of rain fell The cellars in some parts
of the City we're ovcrfowcd, but the soil here
is so sandy and porous that the aRSa Rf
water that fell soon soaked into the ground
and no mischi,f was done. The storm
delayed the vessels that were aeady to g9
to sea- the heavy gale that was raging on
the ocean rendering it unsafe sor them to
go beyond the bar al the mouth of tbs
Savannah river.
The political campaign is viewed with
great interest by the people here, bpt
there is no such furor of excitement as 7
witnessed recently in Philadelphia and in
parts of the State of New Yokk, j. 10
be hoped that the {" bad blood" of tie two
parties will not cause any serious distur-
bance of the peace on election day.
will write you further in regard to
the status of affairs here whenever any
questions of interest prise. '' '
1ruly Yours, ...
GosMopoLIrE.