The Dawson journal., 1885-04-23
SPICY READING.

We copy the following article
from the Washington. d. c., Ma
tiona1 Free Press, the editor OF
which, we are informed, is a ma
tive of Burke county. The arti-
Gle contains some startling devel.
opments.
GA prominent member of the
Atlanta bar thus ventilates the an
ticedents and characteristics OF
the notorious John e. Bryant
Senator Joseph e. Brown, United
States Marshal of Georgia. In a
letter to a gentleman of this city,
he says:
"The good people of Georgia
are becoming considerably excited
at Senator Browns persistency in
keeping such characters as Bry-
ant and Willis in respectable Fed
eral positions. Perhaps no man
has ever lived in Georgia who was
more heartily despised by her peo-
pie than Bryant. He was the
original fomenter of strife between
the races. In 1866 he was con
nected with the Infamous freed
mans bureau, and soon instilled
the deepest animosity into the
minds of the ignorant, excitabIe
blacks against the whites. 1t was
this Bryant who conceived the
idea of making all the colored
couples of Georgia go through
the marriage ceremony after the
war, to the end that he might
pocket the marriage fees. Old
men and women who had lived in
wedlock for over forty years and
upwards were required by Bryant
to appear before him and be mar
ried again according to the robes
of the bureau" There was vein
of humor running through the
fellow, for on one occasion he
gave a marriage certificate of
which the following is a verbatim
copy;
AUGUSTA, GA, April ., 1866.
'Rec'd of James Anderson So so for
uniting him in marriage 90 Dinah Jones.
AS Moses lifted up the serpent in the will
derness, so have | lifted this black ape out
Of $3.50 JOHN E. BRYANT,
Asst Ag't F. B. & 4. L.
''It was this Bryant who demor-
allied the Georgia blacks in 1865,
by promising to give them "forty
acres and a mule" But he in
censed our people more than ever
before when he delivered speech
in Atlanta last spring in which he
insulted our women by declaring
that the most virtuous and refined
ladies in Atlanta are colored. He
would have been mobbed at the
time had we not feared the conse-
quences upon the then pending
presidential election. Such are
the antecedents Of the man whom
our senior senator persists in hold
ing in Office despite the protests
of every decent white man in
Georgia. 1t is reported here that
even Arthur would not have dared
send the name Of this creature to
the senate had not Gov. Brown
promised beforehand to confirm
him for the marshalship. We are
devoted down here to the tenets of
the Democratic party, but we can
not stomach such cattle as Bryant
and Wilson. They must be kick
ed out of Office, or tens of thou
sands of us will cease voting the
Democratic ticket. 1t is manifest
to US now that Senator Brown has
entered into regular trade with
such scoundrels as Bryant, Will
son, Pledger and other scurvy
characters, whom he expects to
vote the 'black contingents," in
Browns interest in the election
for members of the legislature"
"Verily,evil days have come up
on us when q man whom we hon
ored by seat in the senate per-
sists i'll keeping villainous carpet
baggers in Office simply because
they have influence over the ne
gro voters, who are thus used as
clubs to break the heads Of honest
Georgians. But our people are
fully aroused, and when the next
opportunity presents itself we will
bury Joe Brown 50 deep that he
will never be able to hoist Bryant
or any other knave over our car
pet BAG ridden State.