Year: 1868



 A feeble attempt is being made, upon the basis of a cooked-up Freedmen's Bureau report of the late Camilla affair in Georgia, to make capital for the Radical party. This will prove m up- hill work. The committee sent to the scene of the riot by the Bureau author ities reported that the blame attached to the negroes and the carpet-baggers. The Legislature of Georgia (Radical) refused to call upon the President for troops to keep the peace, believing that course to be unnecessary, and, alto getfer, people who know tho facts con demn the misguided freedmen as re- sponsible for the blood that was shed.

 The following is the minority report, which does not attempt to controvert the statements of the majority, but philosophizes on the condition of mat ters generally:

 MIR. SPEAKER The undersigned member of the committee appointed by the House of Representatives, ap- pointed (under resolution from the Senate and concurred in by the House) to join the committee appointed by the Senate, asks to be allowed to make the following minority report:

 Waiving all dispute and controversy as to who or what party was at fault that caused the deplorable aflray in the town of Camilla, in Mitchell county, I have been forced to the conclusion, frym the investigation, that there exists in that community such animosity of feeling between the parties in that sec tion of the country as places the peace and safety of both races in the most imminent peril; and, indeed, the un- dersigned is not without apprehension that the same may be said of entire State, and especially where our popu- lation is mixed to any very consider able extent.

 IL must be apparent to the most in- different observer that the negro feels disappointed and is exasperated, in failing to obtain the political rights and privileges that he anticipated un- der our new Constitution, whilst om the other hand, much the larger DOT tion of the white people feel that he is claiming privileges and aspiring to po- sitions which he is totally unfit 10 oc- cupy and which they regard as degrad- ing 0 the white race. Therefore it is I,,f ,i, npt, el,A a deep and abiding interest in the re- suit of the approaching election, as each regards the success of their party as au important step in settling the dis putc in their favor. These being tEc feelings and sentiments of each party, the undersigned feels that he should have been mcaithful to the people of all races, to himself and family. had he use all reasonable efforts to postpone ;ill more quiet @me all questions and measures calculated to arouse and in- Auencc the passions of the people.

 May we not trust that the General Assembly will from hcnceforth use all means within their power to allay the passions of the people. Entertaining serious apprehensions that like occur rences may transpire within the limits of our State, it is trusted that the House will at least attribute honest and sincere motives to the undersigned when he implores them, as they love our great old Commonwealth, as they love the people of the State, for the sake of the quiet and comfort of those near and dear to them, that this subject may receive that consideration that is due to a matter of such vital impor taucc. Let men of all parties endeavor 10 meet on some common ground, en- leGyor to provide some measure that will give peace and rest to the troubled and excited mind of the people.

 The undersigned will not undertake even to suggest the measures, but be- lieves that with the abiding with us, as legislators, there is but one thing necessary and that is, that we should be made aware of the importance of the subject, and that then the wisdom and patriotism of this and the other branch of the General Assembly may be safely trusted to put forth the pro- per remedy.

 MARION BETHUNE.

 The Atlrnta New Era, Republican paper, which supports Grant and Col fax, after referring to the reports in circulation about the Camilla affair, says:

 We have understood that Joiner, the freedman, in his harangues, has some times so far oyer-stepped the bounds of IJT z as ta Indulge in language calculated to inflame his colored friends. This is to be deprecated, as it works injury to the Republican cause, as well as to himself and his friends. This course should, and we hope will be, promptly rebuked. Republicans pro fess to be conservative, and wish to promote the best interest and highest good of the colored population; this cannot be done by arousing the pass ions of the latter against their forme! owners. On the other hand, these for mer owners must remember that those once belonging to them have now the unchallengcd right, equally with them- selves, to hold political opinions, and to assemble and discuss, or hear dis cussed, political questions without hin drance or molestation.

 In what we have written we have only to do with the facts as stated in connection with what we know of the feeling in many parts of Georgia and