New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-20

| Wy "ou PiaSuSc, lhcy Will pollute lily SduC-
tuary;' but Mercy, dropping on her knees,
looking up, through her tears, exclaimed ::
oh, God, make them, aud then create Major
Whitley to govern them, lead them, and
receive their votes; for he will watch over
them with care, thro' all the dark paths they
have to tread Then God made the
negroes OF Decatur county, and said unto
them: 'Ye are the children of Mercy, and
the property of Mr.. Whiteley; go, then, and
do as he shall direct s"'ColOred men
of Decatur, We are slaves to the arbitrary
will Of this selfish, superficial, and unprinci-
Piled political poltroon."
Is it possible to conceive ola greater piece
OF emblazoned etfrontery than is contained
in the foregoing dissertation But when
these calumniators must needs invade the
sacred precincts Of Mr.. Whitley's home, in
their vain and feeble desire to tarnish his
hitherto unsullied record, and taunt him IN
the following manner: "Know you, then,
sir, that you are amenable to that power
from which you derive your authority, and
before that Judge whom no king can corrupt,
| you huoI ohC udJ dppCdl " duSWtI inc
deeds done in the body
"What answer will you then make for
having proved yourself renegade to your
faith, preferment and personal aggrandize-
ment: What answer will you then make
for having subjected the wife of your bosom,
whom you had sworn to love and honor, and
the children Of your household, to whom it
was at least your duty to leave the legacy
of a purity of purpose and an unsulied char
acter what answer, | ask, will you make
for having brought upon them by your iniqu-
tous course Of action contempt and infamy-
ALL all for policy's sake.
l say, when these men resort to such means
to further their aims, they personate the
incarnation of meanness, and fall beneath
the notice of all liberty-loving and law
abiding citizens.
In conclusion, would like to ask how
much higher do Major Whteley and his CO.
labOrers stand in the plane of civilization,
and how much greater will be their reward
when summoned before that Tribunal from
whose decisions there is no appeal, for their
untiring efforts to procure us those rights
(which we have been denied, and are still
being denied, and to which our manhood en-
title us, and without which our citizenship is
incomplete ~ ! ask again how much great r
will be their reward, as compared with that
Of the horde Of Democratic revIlers, whose
time, talents, and money are so freely Law
ished in the dissemination of passionate
appeals to an already too fragrant prejudice
Feeling that have expatiated at too great
length on the incoherent assertions Of
"Junius & Bro.," will draw my letter to a
close, with a short resume of the political
outlook here.
In November we hold our Congressional
election. OF the three Republicans who, il
part, rep 'esent this State in the lower House
two of them, viz, Major r. II. Whitley ant
Hon. J. c. Freeman have already been re-
nominated.
Hon. A. NJ. Sloan ably represents thi:
District in Congress- man comparatively
young in years, yet possessing talents of no
mean order. His record on the civil rights
bill is untarnished; and if the convention
which meets in this city on the Goth instant
to nominate our standard-bearer in the
Forty.fourth Congress should decide to honor
Mr.. Sloan with denomination, 1 think 6
loud amen would reverberate from one enc
of the District to the other.
Colonel Atkins, Collector of Customs, ant
the efficient Chairman of our Congressiona
District Commiftaa 10 untitled to mon,
thanks for his never-ceasng efforts in having
brought this District to thorough state O
organization.
We cannot over. estimate the national i'm
portance Of returning at least the three Re
publican members mentioned above, and
am convinced that the colored citizens, draw
up in solid phalanx at the polls, will verif
, General Buffers forcibe assertion, "tha
they always vote right, they vote the Repub
lcan ticket, and all the powers of death AM
hell cannot persuade them to do other
. WISE
1t is matter of much congratuation tina
: the Democracy of this District is in such
disordered condition. correspondent G
the Atlanta Herald says that "the Demo
cratic party Of Chatham county, fear, onl
exists in name. 1t is totally without organ
, ization, and so terribly torn by dissenso
that, to reorganize it, is one of the mproba
bilitics.'
General A. r. Lawson. the Chairman c
the Democratic party Of this District, says
'that never in their history, previous to O
since the war, were they in position whe
;, more energy, harder work, greater spiri
. of Cancellation and warmer fraternal feelin
were required for success"
Would to God the above sentiments coul
be reechoed from the mountains to the sea
a ray of prosperity would then loom up i
the horizon, and as it shed its light over thi
- great Commonwealth giving increased lit
; and vlgor to the Republican party, all pre-
y scriptive legislation would be annulled; the
:, no longer would it be unlawful for the poe
u man to sell his farm products between tn
hours of sunset and sunrise, as is now til
case in many counties in this State no longe
! would the cOlored children Of the rural di:
y tricts be ''growing up in mental darkness,
l. though their fathers and brothers pay the
9 quota Of the poll-tax, which the constitutio
+ provides shall be devoted to educational pu
IL poses in the counties where collected; an
. no longer would the occupant Of the cube
70 material chair be so oblivious to truth an
+ justice as to attribute Gin open convention