Year: 1869

u6 LOUISVILLE COUTEtT -OoUTHUt says


We can learn nothing decisive as to
what has been done or is to be done in
regard to the two or three murders re-
Gently committed in Georgia. We do
not see, from the accounts published,
that there is anything mysterious or
remarkable about them, but terrible
threats have been thundered abroad by
the Radical authorities and organs as to
what would be done, and we are anx-
iously or at least ouriously watching to
see what it will be.


The first notification we had was that
instructions had been sent to the mill
tary commanders in Georgia to insti-
tute a thorough examination into the
killing of Mr.. ATKINS, an aged member
of the Georgia Legislature, and of DR..
AVER, another aged member of the
same body, and to find cut, if possible,
the perpetrators of those crimes. We
do not hear, however, of any examina-
tiOns made or set on foot by the mill
tary commanders. If examinations are
in progress, they are conducted very
secretly. Not word is said about them.
The press of both parties must have in
structions to be dumb in relation to
them. And tho press, considering its
generally independent, not to say re-
belliOus character, is in this case won
derfully submissive to Radical instruc-
tiOu. The fact is that no examination
is in progress under the auspices of the
military commanders, and for the plain
reason that there is really nothing which
! the Radicals wish to find out They
would rather have ten commissions to
conceal the truth than one to reveal it.
Next we were informed that a mill
tary force was to be sent forthwith from
Washington to unite with the military
force already in Georgia for the sup
preston of domestic insurreCtiou too
extensive and formidable to be sup
pressed 10y other means. This, although
monstrously absurd, was put forth in a
shape TO command public belief, and,
for aught we know, the troops have
been or will be sent And We may
we'll ask what, when they get to Geor-
gia, the combined army will DO. In


what part of the State is the domestic


insurrectionf How is it making itself


manifest = What acts of open violence


are committed' What offenders can be
ldentihedf What sign of outbreak is


visible that the civil government,


executive, legislative, and judicial, is
powerless to put down' How aud


where must the grand army commence


work, and in what manner carry il on 7
| Will il march successively to the two
spots where ATKINS and AVER were
killed, draw up in line of battle, and
plant its cannon by way of entering on
an investigationi And, if a suspected
Democrat shall be pointed out to the
commander, will all the big guns be
trained on him to put him down or
quell him as domestic insurrecti0ni


There is not q more quiet State in the
Union than Georgia. A few murders
are committed there, as everywhere
else, but not tenth part so many as in
New York. All the civil functions of
the State are performed without oppO-
sition and without complaint. If the
perpetrator of crime is discovered, he
is arrested, tried and punished, as he
would have been ten years ago. No
State OF Federal law is obstructed, no
civil or military officer resisted. The
outcry against Georgia is raised for po-
litical purposes, and for no other. And
those purposes, we presume, will be
temporarily successful, though the Fed
ersl Government seems to hesitate, as
well it may, in regard TO the mode of
accomplishing them.