The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-01-07
The Egis 4 Intelligencer.
BEL AIR, MD, JANUARY :, 1870
Tricking the Republican Party.

Ben. Butler gave the true reason the 9TH
er day for the action of his party in eject
ing Georgia from the Union. Her Sena-
tors and Representatives are to be denied
admissi,H to Congress, not on account of
any pers nj disqualification, not because
they were not duly and legally elected,
but, in the words of the hero of Big Bethel
and Fort Fisher, because the State has
tricked the Republican party The con-
sentative whites have obtained control of
the commonwealth, and the carpet baggers
who went down there to foist themselves
into offices they are unfit to fill are left out
iii the cold. At the Presidential election
tie vote Of Georgia was cast against Grant
and he now reyenges himself by recon-
mcnding that the State be summarily thrust
out ofthe Union, and kept out until the
native whites sink their manhood and eX-
hbit the most marked establishment.
The outrage contemplated in the case
of Georgia is so glaring, when all the cir
cumstances are considered that we can not
see how any decent Republican can OF a
moment countenance the act. Upon the
report Of General Meade, that the State had
fully complied with the reconstruction
acts, Georgia was regularly admitted to the
Union in the early part of 1868, and mem
bers Oft the House of Representatives were
granted their seats. The pretext for inter
ference now is that the negroes have been
expelled from the State Legislature. Ex-
Governor Joseph E. Brown and Foster
Blodgett were the caucus nominees of the
Radicals for U. S. Senator's and Joshua
Hill and Ii. M. Miller the nominees of the
Conservatives. Hill and Miller were elect
cd by decided majorities, the negro mem
hcrs of the Legislature who were still sit
ting, voting, with but single exception,
for Brown and Blodgett. Pending Gthe
State election Brown held that negroes
could vote, but not hold Office under the
reconstructed constitution of Georgia. AT
ter the Senatorial contest, the Conserva-
tives, acting upon the opinion openly ex-
pressed by Brown, voted to eXpel the ne
@rocs from the Legislature, and the white
carpct-baggcrs united with them. On
the defeat Of Brown for the Senate,
Bullock, the Radical Governor, appoint
ed him Chief Justice of the State, and
made Blodgett Treasurer of the State Rail
road. Now, Blodgett, finding that he is
certain to be impeached for sundry VIOLA
tons Of the laws Of Georgia, and especial
ly for alleged conversion of large sum
Of the States money to his own use, goes
to Grant and urges him to recommend the
rcscating of the negroes in the Legislature
and the expulsion of every white member
who cannot take the iron clad oath and
Brown after declaring everywhere from
the stump that no negro could hold office
under the reconstructed constitution, turns
round, and from his seat on the Supreme
Bench issues a decree to the effect that the
expulsion Of the negro legislators was UNI
constitutional. Bullock not only asks Con-
gross to authorize him to call into being Il
defunct Legislature, to seat the negroes and
to mseat the whites, but he goes still far
thCr, and demands that lie be empowered
TO call into the field negro militia to ena-
bic him to carry out, to the fullest extent
his infamous designs.
Grant sides with him in his message. and
the Radical majority in Congress are ready
10 thrust Georgia out Of the Union, and to
hand her white people over TO the tender
mercics of Bullock and his Negro Janizaries.
When bill for the purpose of perfecting
this last and browning outrage comes up for
discussion in Congress, Ben. Butler, the pro-
iesscd leader of the House, gives no better
reason for its passage than is to be found in
tho declaration that IL 10 to hn done hnoansa
lorsooth, Georgia has tricked the Republi-
can party" We are sure that even the Re
publicGns of the North will fail to counten-
ancc such an outrage, and we hope the
whites of Georgia will bear any burthens
that may be placed upon them rather than
10 submit to the proposed degradation.-Lan-
rdSier InteHigenCer.