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

To the Editor Of the Neto National Era:
was reading few days since most
scurrilous and unprincipled attack on Major
Whitley, the honored Representative in
Congress from the Second Georgia District,
published in Gallaher's Independent, Of Quit
man, Georgia, and contributed to that pro-
vincial paper by pair of Georga's fire
eating' Democrats, under the nom de plume
Of "Junius & Bro"
That communication is reflex Of the
| thoughts and opinions the Democracy of this
| State entertain of the noble band Of men
who, in the face of ostracism, prescription
and calumny, dare assert and maintain those
principles, in the support of which, "hun-
| dreds of thousands of our countrymen freely
gave up their lives, and the nation poured
out of its treasury billions of dollars
If you will accord me the space in your
valuable paper, propose to give curtailed
review of, coupled with few extracts, from
that article, which charges Major Whitley
"to have fallen from a proud elevation OF
| respect and honor to a bottomless abyss OF
NoAtCtuPt'
| The first paragraphs Of the communication
referred to consist principally Of few ordi'
nary plagiarisms, which will pass by, aud
as in the words Of the quasi "Junius & Bro, u
the exgences of the day imperiously demand
candOr in the statement Of facts, shall
endeavor to contine myself to them, without
the use Of figure, so generously resorted te
by them.
In sarcastic vein they proceed, referring
to his major WIS., course as public man
''and Of which however much you may be
proud, the white portion Of the citizens o
the District you misrepresent may feel thai
they are ashamed" and again, "if you have
failed to convince them by your eloquence
so often expended for that purpose, tina
they are the interiors Of that race whom you
more particularly represent, and whom yo,
feel by God commissioned and Heaven de
creed to exalt, contrary to the eternal fitness
Of things above that small elevation as
signed them by nature in the inimitable wis
dom of her arrangements" Let us paus'
for few minutes and endeavor to conceive
what philanthropic motives induced the abov
outpouring of (:) eloQuence, and at the sam
time lift the slim veil Of sophistry that envi
rons the arguments Of these Presumption
T pretors in their demented state. Everything
that makes the policy of the Republican
repulsive to the South is embodied in tn
above sentiments. And in view of the fac
that the trio of Republicans who, in part
represent this State in Congress, will stan
for reelection, and will draw, by their ind
vidual popularity, a certain class of whit
men to their support, "Junius & Bro, see
ing the ''blOOdy chasm" ahead, and, feeln
that they and their political allies will
hurled therein, by the success which will al
tend our triumvirate at the polls in November
they are seeking with all the articles in tn
: use of which they are so we'll skilled to Gre
ate trace ISSUE" Before pass on, ther
is another point in the middle Of the sen
tence have just quoted, to which woul
. like to refer. Every school-boy knows tina
neither has "God commissioned" nor "Hea
ven decreed,' nor mature, in the inimitabl
wisdom of her arrangements" assigned an
, "small elevation" to our race and abov
. which it i, impossible for us to rise. Ths
, we have Jared far above that "small elevs
/, tion," no one at all familiar with the histor
| of the war and the rebellion, and with tn
, subsequent political history of the South, wi
attempt to deny.
, Passing over considerable portion of tn
, buffoonery of those soi-disant Solons, ~,
nins & Bro" We come to part where the
attempt, in a most nefarious manner, to in
pugn the motives of the Almighty respectin
E our creation, and to allure, with their cha
1 acteristic discrimination, the coloredmen fro
: the support of him who, by his endeavors
accord US those privileges and immuniti'
l which accrue to us under the recent amen,
. ments to the Constitution, has proven hin
i tse1f worthy Of our confidence and supper
. Listen to the fawning sycophants: "Whe
9 God, in this eternal council, first conceive
: the idea of the creation of the negroes
;, Decatur county, he called unto Him the thr,
:, ministers who wait constantly upon Il
= throne-Justice, Truth, and Mercy, and tn,
:. addressed them: Shall we make the negro
r Of Decatur county? Then, said Justic
d ooh, God, make them not, for, without son
o one to be the conservator of their action