The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-27
Georgia..

AsFAIR, ably conducted, and influential
Republican newspapers AS there are in the
United States say that Governor Bullock,
of Georgia, Is n bad man, and that he
wants Congress to interfere with the af-
tairs OF tat State by legislation which
VIII send it back to a territorial cOndi-
ton, or make him Omnipotent in political
management, or place the Safe once more
under military rule. He is vicious,
windy, and INSCRIPTIONS Radical, and
has been shorn of his power by a conser-
valve Legislature as President johnson
was shcrn of mis- power by his opponents
IN Congress.
Bullock's office has placed "a barren
sceptre IN his grippe, which has been
wrenched from him by unlineal hands,
inasmuch as the whole State organization
Is without authority in law, and is the
creature of trickery and despotism. The
white people Of the State. however, have
SO managed as to obtain control of the
Legislature and of most of the county
offices. They have elected their judges,
justices, sheriffs, and constables and the
result Is that Governor Bullock finds him.
self in very uncomfortable situation
He wishes To establish carpet-bag and
negro rule. and this he cannot do under
the present State government.
He therefore appeals to Congress and
the Federal Administration. He spent
NEST of the winter in Washington in
dancing attendance upon the Reconstruc-
non Committee, and induced the commit
tee To prepare bill providing for the
overthrow of the State government, and
making his power absolute there About
the first of March, MIR. Boutwell, intended
To report the bill, and would nave done so
bad not General Grant visited him upon
the d 7Or Of the house, and said that he
would not sgssaln any such measure when
he came into the Presidency. Grant said
Georgia had been admitted as State in
the Union, and that Congress had no more
authority To interfere with her than it had
10 interfere with New York or any other
State.
Tnls vigorous protest by General Grant,
few days before he became President,
made the committee think it would be i'm
polite to report the bill, and il was. there
fore, sInOthered in the committee. Now
comes the report from Washington thai
the President intends "to take measures
for the suppression of crime in Georgia"
aud that be has been in conference with
Secretary Rawius as to the best plan to be
adopted in cooperating with Bullock, if
the latter, as il is reported he will de-
cides to cali on the general government
for troops, on the plea that the State au-
thor'tles are not capable of suppressing
an alleged Instruction
Tnosc who demand Federal interyen-
tIou Ia the State say that the lives and
properly # Union men and of negroes
are not safe there. Forney, who is Bit
ter Radical, Ia company with score of
81 her mea of tn. same school lately made
Trip through Georgia, observing the con-
GIIiOn OF the people and the political situa-
ton, and he reported, upon his return
home, that the laws were fairly enforced,
and as fully projected Union men and ne
groes as did the laws of PENNSYLVANIA.
Like testimony has also been given in the
correspondence and editorial columns of
the New York Times.
From this. it appears that the alleged
prevalence of crime in Georgia is made
use of as pretense for Federal interven
ton. There is no instruction there. ANY
statement to this effect is q bold and afro.
ciOGs falsehood, and the President cannot
defend mis- action in sending troops there
10 interfere with the civil authorities on
the ground that Bullock has rested his APP
pllcati0n for military aid on what the
whole country knows TO be lie, palpable
and uuadulterated. Military interference
there will not be for the suppression of
crime 1t will be for the subsection of the
State to et-baggors aud negTOes.-Chi-
tdgO Times, Ndu 24A.