Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-11
TE7E CONSPIRACY 10 DEPGSE


the. reconstruction laws, and that she wa:
entitled 10 representation IN Congress,
This act of the President made Georgia
to all intents and purposes as much q
State Of the Union as New York or Penn.
sylFania Some of her members were
admitted to the House of Representa-
tives, but her Senators were ex-
Guided The preiext for this was
that certain negro members of the
Legislature of Georgia had been expelled
from that body because The new constitu-
ton of the State declared them ineligible.
In the convention which framed this
constitution the Radicals had a majority,
ard it was upon the motion Of Radical
member that the clause rendering negroes
ineligible to hold Office was inserted This
was probably done to give the carpet-bag-
gers and white scalawags en- opportunity
to monopolize all the offices in the State.
With the expulsion of the Illegal negro
members of the Legislature, the Radicals
found that power was slipping from their
hands in Georgia, and now q conspiracy
has been clearly developed to override the
constitution which was doctored up by
Radicals and ratified by Radical votes, in
order to wrest power from the native citi-
zens of the State which has been legiti-
mately placed in their hands. Grant, in
his message to Congress, after recapitula-
ting the facts in relation to the recon
struclion of Georgia, and stating that
'the Legislature met and performed all
the acts then required of them by the re-
construction acts Of Congress" mentions
their subsequent expulsion of the Colorcd
members of that body and the admission
of some members ''who are disqualified
by the third clause Of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution" and re-
commends that Congress should enact,
without delay a law authorizing the
Governor of the State to convene tho
members of the Legislature originally
elected, give the negroes their seats, anC
exclude The white members who cannot
take the iron-clad oath. So it appear.
that the President is party to the con
spiracy to rob Georgia of her rights as {
State, which she had supposed were secured
hyhcr compliance with all the requirement:
Of Congress, and to place the control OF
her affairs in the hands Of the ncgrOe;
and carpet-baggcrs, 50 as TO secure the
election Of two more Radical United States
Senators, and to advance in other ways
the interests of the carpet-bag party il
the State. The Augusta Macon and
Columbus papers explain the whole OIL
this shameful conspiracy. The Republi
can State Central Committee held n eau.
Gus at Atlanta on the 1st inst, and re
solved to attempt TO induce Congress etc
take snap judgment upon Georgia" be.
fore the Legislature could Of its own mo.
ton satisfy the demands of Congress by
rescating the negro members and ratify.
ing the fifteenth amendment. They
agreed to ask Congress 10 annul
all legislation 50 far had under the consti-
tuition CT 1857, put the State under gu.
bernatoTial dictatorship, with Bullock as
supreme reconstructor, so that, backed by
the military power, "the negroes should
be reseated and the Legislature purged Of
every man who cannot take the recon
struction test oath. - This is exactly what
the caucus resolved to ask on the lst of
December; it is exactly what President
Grant recommends on the 9th or Deem
Der Gov. Bullock departed for Wash
iHgton Immediately after the caucus, and
that he has had good success in his mis-
sion, says the New York World, the
Presidents message abundantly proves.
Before he left Georgia, Bullock
issued an extraordinary proclama-
ton, rociting at length numer-
Gus so-called political outrages com
mittcd during the past fourteen months,
for the purpose Of taking it to Washing
ton and displaying it there as evidence
that state of intolerance towards Radi-
Gals and Republicans exists in Georgia.
None Of these outragcs have any political
bearing al ali; and even Forney, who Wis
tied Georgia q short time ago, was so i'm
pressed with the peaceful and harmonious
state Of things there that he printed the
other day, in one Of his papers, an appeal
TO Congress 10 let all the Southern people
alone for the future, on the ground
that they were doing well enough
and that all further Interference with
them would be prejudicial and inju-
rious. But The conspiracy has sue
ceeded, as far as the President is con
cerned; he has shown his willingness TO
be made the tool of the Georgia carpet
bagrers; and il now remains to be seen if
Congress will be equally subscryient. The
Adventures and scalawags demand that
the whole work Of reconstruction be done
over again, in order that they may be kept
in power little longer. There is, per
haps, a faint hope that Congress will re-
fuse to aid their schemes, at such a cost
although, now that the President has been
made a party to the conspiracy, the
chances of it's success are only too great.
OUR NEW CIRCUIT JUDGE.
The President has appointed nine Cir,