The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-06
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mel we published the petition which was re-
Gently presented to the Senate of the Uuited
States by Charles Sumner. asking for Con-
gressional interference In. the. affairs of
Georgia, from certain citizens of Augusta,
$500 in number. When the telegraph an
nounced this TO as. anxious to present to
our citizens everything of interest to them,
the Chronicle and Sentinel sent to Washing
ton city, and through its special correspon-
dent there, managed to get both copy of
the petition and all the names attached to
the extraordinary document. Convinced,
from reading the list over, that there was
not $500 names on it, and believing that
of the number really there, many had no
existence, save in the brains of tho rascally
mongrels who conducted the affair. we re-
quested several gentlemen of this city to
procure the municipal registration books
made for the late election, compare the
printed list with them and give us the result
OF their abors for publication. This has
been done; the registration books were OBJ
talned, tho comparison made, and with the
following result: Of the $500 names which
Mr.. Sumner declared were signed to that
petition not half of the number were really
there-the total list footing up but 1880,
blacks. whites and mulattous. OF these
1880, who in their petition claim to be
citizens of Augusta, but 465 can be found
upon the registration books of the city,
compiled scarcely two months since, leaving
915-nearly two thirds of the entire list
who are not citizens of this place, and who,
if they come not from Carolina and the
country around Augusta, have no existence
whatever! But this is not all; of the 465
whose names are Oh the books, many of
them have their names signed in two or
moro places, at least 100 deny that they pnt
their signatures to it, and they were affixed
without their knowledge or consent, and at
least 100 more were ut the time the instru-
ment was drawn up, or nre now, convicts,
sentenced to the prison and the chain gang
for violation of the laws. and consequently
not citizens within the meaning of the
statute. Therefore, after making these re-
ductions-and no one can deny that they
are extremely reasonable-we have about
200 bona ytide signatures to this petition,
murderers and discharged city officials.
$500 signatures reduced to 200! $500
'loil" men deprived of life and property"
and ground to the very dust by rebels, red
handed, reeking with the blood of martyrs
to the Union, and pursuing their victims
even to the sanctuary of justice, prove to
be nearly 200 deluded negroes. and sup
posed white men-the scum and refuse
spewed from the cutters of the city, and
hungering for the plumber which they ex-
pect should Augusta ever again be de-
liycred into their control! And, in order
to satisfy tho desire of these men and their
more knavish, though more secret, allies for
official spoils. there are men in Congress
willing to once more overturn our whole
system OF government, and give the State
over to the dominion of despotism the
most CALLING and uncomfortable!
augusta Chronicle and Sentinel