The Republican journal., 1869-05-27
RADlCALisM IN GEORGIA.

Georgia, previous to the rebellion, was, il
its condition and prospects the Queen State Q
of the South. Its soil was richly productive
its climate salubrious, its harbors among tn
best on the coast, and its agricultural result
! immensely profitable. Fourteen hundred
miles of railways, facilitated intercourse ant
| trade. 1t had a population of over million
The State went unwillngly into secession
The republican papers at the time said th'
step was taken against the will of a large
majority Of the people, who were draggc(
Reluctantly into the war, under the Leadership
of Governor Joe Brown When the rebellion
PLAYED out, Joe was striken with sudden 10y
atty He out Heroded Herod in his fierce de
nunciation of all who did not bow down t.
the worship of radicalism. The figure he Gu
at the Chicago Convention will be remember
ed by all.
After many trials and tribulations Georgi;
underwent the Radical process Of reconstruc
ton and was discharged cured-pronounceC
a State in the Union upon an equal footing
with all the other States. Her people elected
members of Congress, State officers, and ;
Legislature-all Radically loyal-and the Leg
islature elected Senators to Congress. The
State officers and Legislature entered upor
their duties, and the members of Congress
were admitted to their seats. But before tho
Senators presented their credentials it ha(
been discovered that by the Constitution o
Georgia framed and adopted uudcr the direc
ton of, and accepted by, Congress, negroe:
were not eligible to office, and so the Legisla
ture, with q clear Radical majority in eacl
house, ousted the negro members from theil
seats. This action, although strictly legal an(
so held by even Joe Brown, and whether lega
or not of no possible concern to Congress any
more than would be the ousting of negroes
from seats in the Legislature of New York
by our Senate and Assembly, was made the
preteXt for denying the Georgia Senators ad
mission to their seats and at the late session
of the new Congress the members of tho
House Of Representatives. who had been adj
mitted in the 10th Congress, We're also repell
ed. Georgia was thus left in the anomalous
condition of a reconstructed State without the
''blesSlngH OF reconstruction AS a conse
quencc of this state of affairs, society in Geor
gia is very much unsettled, and the prohigatC
character of the negro and carpet-bag estates
men, who assume to manage affairs is begin
ming to produce natural fruit. The carpet
bag Governor, Bullock, has abandoncdhis pos
! ma *, ~, bo, of bo
few days ago a dispatch announced that on,
of his late clerks, one Foy white man, hao
shot 4 negro wench with whom he cohabitat
ed and then blew his own brains out
This Foy was . representative of his clas>
a fair specimen of the whole set He wa
clerk in the Executive Department of tn,
State. under the carpct-bag itinerant Bullock
who figures as Governor of Georgia, and also
the agent Of the New York Tribune who fur
nished that paper with so many lying state
ments about the South and the Southern peo
pie by letter and dispatch from Atlanta. A
| will be seen by the evidence he was a mos
with a negro wcnch Of whom he was jealou
and whose life he sought to take before h
shot himself. His last words We're a call t,
his black paramour to kiss him! His letter
showed that he was in close and confidential
correspondence with the Radical leaders q
! Washington, and that he was laboring to Sc
cure the appointment Of negroes to office.
Later telegram comes stating that Joscp
Adkins, Il carpet-bag State Senator, had bcel
shot and killed in 4 difficulty about some dis
reputable woman. And other acts of violenc
of kindred character are reported from vari
Gus quarters. There will never be peace AM
law and order in Georgia until the people ar
restored to self government and the State i
freed from the blight of congressional despot
ism, enforced by the bayonet and by sue
worthless fellows as those whose yiolen
deaths have been recently reported.