Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-10
GEORGIA.
Ehe EIeetiOn-RadieRI Triumph by
Fraud-AfIanta TO he the Capital
On Dit AbOuf GEN. Meade.


ATLANTA, May s, 186S.-The election
in this State for State officers, members of
Congress-, and on the question of ratifca-
ton Of the Constitution, is over, and it is
generally understood that the "ofieial
count will elect Bullock, Radical, Govern
or, and majority of Radicals and negroes
TO the Legislature. The Congressional
delegation will probably stand four Radi-
Gals and three Democrats. These results,
we are aware, were not unexpected abroad.
but we in Georgia had hoped for better
things, as we had been assured by Gen.
Meade that we should have fair election,
which we felt was all that would be re-
quired to secure the triumphant success OF
Gen. Gordon, our candidate for Governor,
and the return of majority of Democrats
TO the Legislature But the most shame
less frauds committed and cOnniyed at by
the Radical leaders and managers of the
election, in open disregard of all Gen.
Meade's (sO-oalled) orders and regulations,
have deprived us Of the "fruits of victory"
and the State government is to pass into
the hands Of gang of Yankee adventures,
scalawags and negroes. Gen. Meade is
now going through the farce Of counting
the balloss and investigating the charges
of fraud which are pouring into his head
quarters from all directions. As the world
already knows what will be the result,
promulgated in the form of a General
Order, No. -" he might az well spare
himself the trouble of all this formality.
Indeed, such is the mOekery, under the sem
blance of an election by ballot with
which these States are to be "recon-
structed,n that il would have saved an i'm
mense amount of labor and expense had
the Rump Congress simply sent down
Constitutions already "cut and dried"
under which we were to be required TO
live, and at the same time appointed all
State officers to administer the government.
But the world is 10 be amused, it seems, a
little while longer with the forms of con-
stitutioDal government, and the people in
the Omitted States" are to be allowed to
go through the forms Of another Presiden-
tial election. But if you fail TO elect
Grant or some other Radical tool, it will
be your last election. Should a Democrat,
by any accident, receive a majority of the
electoral votes, your country is doomed to
revolution as certain az the day of election
comes, for with the purse and the sword
both in their grasp, the Jacobin party will
never suffer such President to be inaugu-
rated. All good men here deplore the
election of Bullock on every ground. Patri-
otism must ever lament the success Of such
a piratical crew as make mp the Radi-
cal party in the South. But in this
State we are to witness the destruction
Of great State work-the Western
and Atlantic railroad, which, under the
consummate management Of Major Camp
beH Wallace as Superintendent, has
regained all the prosperity it enjoyed
before the war, and more, for it is
believed that never, at any former period
of its history, has the road exhibited as
many evidences Of skillful management
and of sound, solid condition az it pre-
sents to-day. And this great work is to be
transferred to-WhO knows whom When
il is oflicered by scalawags and vagabond
politicians, wholly destitute of railroad
experience, and manned by ignorant, blHn-
dering negroes and drunken, incompetent
white men, it needs no prophet to foretell
with unerring certainty its inevitable fate.
Swift and snre destruction awaits it, and
the people of Georgia are to be deprived
of the immense revenue the State now de-
IlNtN IOul tUlN SbuittS anu diA ~ bC A*A%Aib
besidrs TO support it, in addition TO the
grinding system OF taxation imposed upon
them hy the so-called Constitution, which
has been declared to be the supreme law
in the late mockery and sham, falsely
called an election!
This same Constitution, as you are aware,
declares Atlanta TO be the seat of govern
ment, and notwithstanding this bribe, this
citv-so slandered as The Radical city of
the State-was the only town of any i'm
portance to give a Democratic majority.
She rejected the Constitution, elected a
Democratic delegate to the Legislature, and
gave Gordon a handsome majority. All
honor to Atlanta, and let the other Georgia
ciiies-some of which were 80 ready with
their sneers when her name was mentioned
-"proiit by her example" when next they
have an opportunity.
Among the on dts Of the street, il il
shrewdly suggested that Gen. Meade will
await the result of the impeachment trial
before announcing the official result of the
election, and before calling the Legislature
together. Why this delay? IL it because
he expects to be superseded by our old
friend John Pope, in the event that sturdy
old Ben" assumes the reins Of government
at Washington, and prefers that another
hand should complete the disgracefui
work of a States degradation? Qaicn sabe /?
The people are quiet and peaceable, if
not resigned to their fate Many Of them
despair of the republic" and some are
seeking new homes on the shores Of the
Pacific, where they fondly hope to lose
sight of the inevitable Sambo, who has
brought this poor South TO such desolation.
Would that the whole race were back in
the sunny land whence their fathers were
forcibly and cruelty brought by the fathers
of our "Northern brethren," and sold for
money to our fathers, who little dreamed
that their descendants would ever be de-
prived of this property by the "strong hand"
of the same people from whom it was fairly
and honestly purchased.
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