Year: 1868

thing. and without single "a"0 H'o. o,,,d
No one of the high-tOnod Southern goh.'o"io' ,J
emplov the adjective Yankee as q phySiclan' anu
to get bread he undertook coioiou : ,5
was saveral times broken up but started again. anu
h ;ta oid ho managed to live until year ago, when
h. no.. olocted q member of our Constitutional Con-


oDt;on In that body he did his work well. " lts
o1;orrn,nont sine die he was unanimously nominated
- ronrosept his district in the General Assembly
~. ., coing home TO canvass his own county prevl-


rs IN the election he found that his troubles had
hut inst begun Not a white man would allow MN
IN enter his door or would either give OF sell MN
monthful of food. At the county seat, wh@e ne hh'
Tired for forty years. and Uhere tCere men Thom W ~
skill he had SQred from DEATH he could not p"'cnoSe
single article of any SORT although he could pay caSn u"
anu price asked The negroes were friendly DuV
not help him or give him shelter because 'ne hoO0'
owner stood ready to turn out OF uooiS any i,'"
who dared take him in. For seNeIal hisn''
he clay out" but at last founu heRio
who could not be disD0Ssessed, ana VINO was
willing TO let him occupy shed IN when ihuie hau
been kept. Mr. l.. went by night to town whero
ne WAS not known, and bought some meal ana Dacoh'
and then without friend or companion went TO mousse
keeping in his mule shed. Shortly after he was
taken with violent fever and for four weeks no lay
gick
see him. or expressed any other anxiety than that
the cursed ?adical might die. He would have died
from lack of care and absolute starvation had not
"p,CgersD gone there in the dark. and tended him
by stealth not daring to have light often lest they
should be detected and some stray bullet find ITS
way into the room. BY miracle herecovered, ana
now in his eighty-secOnd year. he is doing service IN
opr LEGISLATURE Such has been the Rebel treatment
of a man of whom his biterest foes could only say
"Heisad id Radical He is a kindly faced vener-
able old man. and as much hero as though he had
stormed the nights of Lookout OF Kennesaw


One of tho preachers of tho Methodist Church,
North has been threatened with death many time;
and ON one occasion, when he had an appointment at
Adairsville the landlord of the hotel at which he
proposed stopping on his arrival Saturday begged OF
the clergyman not TO stop at his house as the hu-
Klux had sworn to kill him that night. lie persisted
in remaining until member of the Masonic frater-
nitv came to him and said that tho Masons OF the
town would be glad to extend to him that protection
which was his due as member OF the order, but
they could not save him, and advised him TO leave
the town at once as he would certainly be murdered
if he remained. He gave up his appointment and
returned home.


There is man in Atlanta to-day against whom
the Union mon Of Georgia bring no charge. The
Democracy charge him. however, with four crimes.
any one of which they regard deserving OF death.
Here is the head and front of his offending FIRST.
He is a Niger second he has taught niggerS toTead;
third, he has dared to vote the Republican ticket
fourth and worst of all he has even had the audacity
10 be candidate for the Legislature. Inasnnch as
the Code of Georgia does not prescribe any punish
ment for those crimes the honorable citizens of his
county took the law into their own hands during the
last election They set upon him and tried TO Kill
him He took to the woods, they dogged him some
20 miles but he managed to eyado them, and reached
Atlanta where ho now H. not daring to go home for
fear of his life. The high-toned gentleman who ran
against him. and who, in direct violation of the law,


was a Register of the election in which he was a
| candidate. now holds his seat.


Col Price, the nominee for Congress in the lid Dis
trict in addition to being an honest capable man, is
renowned for his courage Having as much, or
more of that article than any other man IN tho dis
trct it was said that he dare face the music. and
speak anywhere. Your readers see already how
well he has succeeded Saturday he was shot and
dangerously wounded; the next time he VIII pfoba-
bly be killed. The Rebels worked that little game
nicely The negroes. IN obedience to the Governors =
proclamation left their arms at home and tho De-
mocracy had a fair field. and no danger OF any armed
resistance. The work goes brayely on. Our Legls-
latureha prohibited colored men from holding Office
and from sitting on juries, and now they only await
the election of their chosen leader, to complete the
work and wrench away the ballot


Thank God From the face Of the North, judge
they will be obliged to wait until they reach place
where the Offices are all filed, elections. are never
held, and juries never SIT


Neao- York, September p.