The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
The MuSS IN GEORGIA.

The news from Georgia announces that the
parti-colored Legislature has elected one Major
| Whitley United States Senator for the term
ending 1871, one Colonel II. p Farrow for
the term ending 1873, and one Foster Blodgett
for the term commencing 1871. The elec-
ton was made by the black-and-tan major
ity recently thrust into the Legislative body at
the point of General Terry's bayonel-the re-
spectacle white majority refusing to vote or
recognize the illegal and revolutionary pro-
ceeding The recital of 4 few simple facts
of official record will serve to show the ma
ture of this new turn in the Georgia mud
de
| Georgia was, a couple OF years ago, thor
oughly reconstructed according to the Radi-
cal plan, and discharged cured by Congress
as one Of the States lately in rebellion. Tn
der this reconstruction Georgia elected a
Legislature that was Republican in both
branches, and that embraced whites and
| blacks, and at the same time elected repre-
sentatives to the Fortieth Congress. The
| Legislature thus chosen elected Messrs Hill
and Miller Senators from Georgia in Con-
gress The Representatives came on to
Washington as soon is Georgia's recOnstruc-
ton was declared complete, and were at once
admitted to seats in the House and participa
ted in It's proceedings until the 10th Congress
expired. But before the Senators presented
their credentials, the Republican Legislature
of Georgia made the discovery that under the
| Constitution of the State that had been adopt
ed in accordance with the reconstruction acts
and accepted by Congress. the negro mem
| bers were not eligible to seats and 50 ousted
them; and when the Senators arrived at
Washington and presented their credentials
to the Senate, that body took the ground
that the Republican Legislature of Georgia
had by the expulsion of the negro members
got itself out Of the Union again, and there =
fore was not entitled to representation in
Congress. After standing out in the cold for
a time, the Senators returned to the genial
warmth of their southern homes and there
subsidized to await the progress ofeyents-th
Representatives, however, continuing on, as
before stated, to participate in the proceed
ings of the Lower House. From that time to
this our Republican statesmen have been en-
gagged in the task Of demonstrating Georgia
so as to get the expelled negroes back into
the Union again. This was done bv act of
Congress and Gen. Terry's bayonets. Geor-
gia is now as she was, according to the con-
gressional theory. before her Republican
Legislature ousted the negroes. AS a neces-
sary consequence Messrs. Hill and Miller are
the Senators of that State for the ter ms to
which they were elected, Just exactly the
same as if they had been admitted when they
presented their credentials. and they would
certainly have been admitted as were the
been thrown overheard. But the Congress-
Terry Legislature, backed by Bullock who
figures as Governor Of Georgia, propose to
set those Senators summarily aside and put
the individuals whose names are mentioned
above as elected yesterday in their places
The whole proceeding in Georgia is so irreg-
ular and ridiculous that it scarcely rises in
dignity to a parallel with the anarchc over
turnings which keep the semi-savage mon
grels of Mexico and her sister southern Gre
pubics'' in a state Of disorder that carica-
lures every feature of civil government. Yet
it is so nearly akin with the proceedings OF
our Radical rulers at Washington that no
one can even give reasonable guess as to
which set of Senators will be admitted from
Georgia. Such is Radical Reconstruction y