Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-02
GEORGIA.
The Leeislature-GOv. BulloeA's At
tempt TO Get Reconstructed Georsin
recommendations Going Ahead
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correspondence Of the Union and American
ATLANTA, Ca, March 81, lS69.-You
readers have already been apprised OF tn
, adjournment of the Georgia Legislature
after a session of don't know how man.
months. The people rejoice over this
their last act, as only people can re
| ioice who are afflicted with the curse Q
an incompetent law~making body. L
cannot be said, however, that our grieV
ances by reason of this Legislature, ar
as sefious as those which Cypress yor
people of poor, unfortunate tennessee
YOU have the heel of the tyrant still OF
your necks-although your State is TN
The Union.n Three-fourths of your clti'
zens, constituting the great body of the
taxpayers and property-holders, have
| no voice in the government, while tnelr
substance is being deveured by horde
of greedy cormorants, foisted upon the
body polite as ofice-holders, many OF
whom are grossly ignorant of the duties
they are called upon to perform, and too
many, again, employ their time in cons
triyine schemes for the robbery of the
public treasury. Yes, your people are in>
deed, to be pitied, and you, no doubt,
think that the situation" here in Geor-
gia is an enviable one. And yet, If we
are better of, in some respects, we still
have much to deplOre, in the condition OF
our political affairs. To begin with, the
Legislature, repeat, is very inefficient,
weak, unstable body. Many Of its men,
bers are entirely new to public life, and
profoundly ignorant Of the simplest rules
governing a legislative body. They
would consume day after day in debating
An important measure-finally q vote is
taken, and the bill passes by a decisive
majority. Next day it is reconsidered
by majority equally as large, and most
likely upon the motion of member who
voted in the minority! Charges, not only
of incompetency, but ofgross corruption,
have been made against this body--wlth
what Of justice, cannot say. Certainly,
some of their acts were open to sus-
picion of foul play.
And then our Governor" The man
who grdceS the chair once filled by a
Crawford, johnson, Mcdonald, Jen,
kins! We are indeed brought very low,
when we descend from such men to
third-rate exrressman--one, too, whose
whole study seems to be to squander or
misappropriate the public money, in the
most reckless and shameless manner.
1t is charged that he is partner with
one Kimball, Yankee adyenturer, in the
purchase of the unfinished ATLANTA OPP
era House." and its completion as capis |
toll building. This may or may not be
so, but it is not denied that the Governor
paid over to Kimball some thirty>one |
thousand dollars, without the shadow Of |
authority of law for such an expenditure.
The State was in no way bound to furnish |
Mr.. Kimball funds wherewith to complete |
his building in time for the meeting |
of the General Assembly in January, |
last, inasmuch as the city Of Atlanta has |
agreed to provide suitable accommoda~
tons for that body, and they had al
ready held an extra session in the City |
Hall. The city had, however, contracted |
with Kimball for the use OF his house, he
to fit it up in style suitable for State
purposes, and the city to pay him an an
nual rental of $1,000 for ten years.
Where, then, was the pressing necessity
for the expenditure of this sum of money?
The honest people of the State will be
agreeably disappointed if this should !
prove to be the extent of the loss they are
to sustain by the financial operations Of
this Express Governor. This person. it
seems, is not satisfied with the position
he now holds, being engaged in a scheme,
under the tutilage of the notorious
Blodgett, 10 unrecOnStruct the State
and remand her to the military govern
ment, with himself for provisional Gov
ernor, and ultimately a seat in the
United States Senate, with the aforesaid
Blodgett. This is the plan of the cam
paign, as charged by Bard Of the Ne'O
Era, who to his honor be it said, Radical
as he is, adhereS to his position that
Georgia is fully reconstructed, and en-
titled to her representation in both houses
of Congress. Bard, the Bohemian in
newspaper proprietorship, or perhaps |
more properly, the Wandering Jew" Of
that profession, after having assisted,
materially, in elevatiDg the Bullock"
to the gubernatorial chair, now refuses
to go with him in his nefarious schemes,
and admits that the Governor is failure,
and says she was not Of the right kind
Of material to make a good Governor
10. Brown, being comfortably esconsced |
in the wool-sack, Chief Justice, and
by Bullock's appointment fails to see the
necessity for reconstrueting RecOn~
struction," and is likewise down on
Bullock" With these and other power
full props knocked from under him, it is
to be hoped the redoubtable Governor
may topple and fall, although it may not
be said
Zen at the base of POmpeys statue
Great Caesar fell
And oh what a fall was there, my |
countrymen !" IfBlodgett had statue
in the new capitol it might be appropriate
for this great Caesar to fall at its base,
only men do not raise statues to the |
honor Of political mOuntebanks and |
common perjurer5
The progress of Atlanta is still on
ward; the permanent location of the seat
Of government here has given the city an |
impetus that she will feel the effects Of for |
a long time, even though the efforts of /
rival and jealous cities should ultimately |
succeed in again changing the site of the |
State capital. 1t is believed, however, |
that the longer Atlanta continues
to be made the headquarters of
the1State government, the more manifest |
will become the propriety of the selection
and hence the greater the difficulty in |
securing removal. The healthfnlness
of the climate, the proverbial purity of the |
water, unsurpassed in any country, with |
the acknowledged superiority of Atlanta
as point of access, will go far towards |
rebutting any arguments that can be |
adduced against her. As to the hack |
neyed assertion that large or growing
city is an improper place for Legislative |
body, we do not esteem it a sound aigu- |
ment. The Establishments Of money, |
wine and women, can be easily trans
ported to an inland, cut>of-the-way |
village like Milledgeville, where they |
would, in all probability, prove more |
positive in seducing the grave and rev. |
erend seignors' OF the Legislature, than
they are likely to be in place like
Atlanta, whilst, in point Of convenience,
comfort, and all the facites for the trans.
action ofpublic business, there is surely |
no comparison between the two places. |
The clamor of the press ofcertain GeorgiI
cities that might be named, sounds more |
like petty Jealousy of Atlanta than a
sincere wish to promote the best interests
of the State.
Recent improvements in this city are |