0o. 10. { Information for the People. }12 Pages TItE SOUTHERN QUESTION. TIHE BOURBON CONSPIRACY TO RULE OR DESTROY THE NATION. CHAPTER./ I. THE PRINCIPLES OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY ONLY SLUMBERING —CONTROL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NORTH ESSENTIAL TO ITS ASSERTIONAGENCIES EMPLOYED TO SECURE TItIS END-THE REBELS WHO HAVE NOT YET SURRENDERED-DAVIS. BEN IlILL AND OTHERS-THE SOUTIE[ ERN MIAGAZINE-STATE OR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY —LIBERAL DEM0CRATS OF THE SOUTH. SAVANNAL, GA., June 30, 1875. trolled the Southern States, and its leaders, It is believed that the leaders of the landed with Jefferson Davis at their' bead, attempted aristocracy, who assisted to inaugurate the re- to destroy the nation and establish the Confedbellion, and did not surrender at Appomattox eracy. In 1861 a majority of the Southern the cause for which they fought, have formed people were opposed to the policy of the slave a conspiracy for the purpose of controlling the aristocracy; but the latter were thoroughly National Government, that they may "fix the organized, and, lead by able, wealthy, arrostatvs of the negro in our form of civilization" gant, desperate men, who would permit no in the interest ot the landed aristocracy. They opposition, they compelled the masses to obey will undoubtedly use fraud and force to accom- their commands. Their power was displayed plish their purposes. They are preparing for upon many hard-fought battle-fields.. a desperate contest; it may be bloodless; it may be bloody. We watch the development THE SOUTH IN THE GREELEY CAMPAIGN. -of this conspiracy with the deepest interest. We fear that Northern Republicans do not know When the war ended the lauded aristocray how formidable it is, and do not realize how were poor, disheartened. and crushed. They great the danger is. had staked everything on the result of the war In 1861 the people of the North did not and most of them had nothing left but their believe the nation was in danger until the war lands, which they expected would be tsken actually commenced. These conspirators are from them. Toombs, and other leaders of desperate political gamblers, and they play for influence, fled to Europe. Davis, Stephens, a great stake. The cotton crop alone for the and others were imprisoned. The masses were last eight years was about 25,045,771 bales, willing to accept the terms which the victorious worth at least $2,296,377,585. Add to this the North might name, until Johnson betrayed the value of the rice, sugar and tobacco crops, loyal cause. Then Toombs and his associates and remember that most of this wealth was returned. Those who had been imprisoned produced by negro labor, formerly owned by the were released. Ku-Klux Klans were organized, landed aristocracy, of about 200,000 men and and the Congressional plan of reconstruction the importance to them of controlling the labor was opposed with great bitterness. Southern of the negro -may be realized, men of eminence who advised the people to accept the situation were denounced in the vilest TH2E IMOVING PRINCIPLE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS manner. Republican leaders were murdered LIFE. and their families ostracized. Many of the We are informed by Alfricnd in his Life of Democratic leaders of the S6uth were disheartJefferson Davis, that after his defeat by Foote, ened after the Presidential election in 186. In the Union candidate for Governor of Missis- 1872 a large maj9rity were willing to accept sippi, in 1851, "he was avowedly determined any platform and any candidate for President to devote his energies to the efficient organiza- that the leaders of their. party at the North tion of the States Rights party for future strug- might present; but the ablest leaders of the les. * * * His aim was to secure for the State sovereignty party refused to support Sates Rights principle a moral and numerical Greeley. For mere party success they cared support in the ranks of the Democracy, which nothin;r, save as it insured he triumph of the should enable its friends to wield an appropri- principles for which the Couth fought. As ate influence upon the policy of that party." those principles were abandoned by the DemoIn ten years the "States Rights Party" con- cratic party, they were indifferent to the re 2 suit, not caring whether Grant or Greeley was pand into an antagonism powerful to repel the elected. insidious advance of those vicious principles REORGANIZATION OF THE STATE SOVEREIGNTY which are now so fearfully undermining the PARTY. -civilization of the North. * * * In view of It is believed that after Mr. Davis was re- the vital issues involved, and of the noble released from confinement he'determined to suits attainable through the effective operation devote his energies to the efficient" reorganiza- of this society, I dare not doubt the success of tion of the State Sovereignty Party "for future my efforts in Georgia in its behalf." struggles," and that he has since been actively The Southern Magazine, the official organ of engaged in that work. He has visited different the society, in a leading editorial, published in sections of the South, where he made speeches December, 1874, said: to arouse the masses, but secret organization "We have, as our readers know, abstained al-. has undoubtedly been his most important most entirely from discussing parties or poliwork. Alfriend says that in reply to the re- tics in these pages. They have these abunmark that the cause of the Confederacy was dantly treated in the daily and weekly press, lost, Mr. Davis said: "It appears so. But and we have deemed it better that this magathe principle for which we contended is bound zine, which is meant for the hours of leisure, to reassert itself, though it may be at another should lead them into other fields of thought. time and in another form." Mr. Stephens, late But the great political revolution which is now Vice-President of the Confederacy, has ren- in progress, is of such momentous importance, dered Mr. Davis valuable assistance. In 1867 and is so far from being a mere party triumph, he published a book entitled "The War between that it should not pass without some notice the States," which was written to prove that the from us. It is not, we say, the mere victory of South was right and the North was wrong. in one party over another. * * * * It is the the late war. It has undoubtedly been the aim opening of the people's eyes, North and South, of the Bourbon leaders to secure for the State East and West, to the tendency and result of sovereignty principles a moral and numerical those doctrines which have for fourteen years support in the ranks of the Democracy which predominated in this country, and against will enable them to exercise a controlling influ- which the Southern States protested by pen,and ence upon the policy of that party. They un- tongue, and ballot, so long as these availed, and doubtedly have a comprehensive plan of secret when these availed not, by the sword. * * * organization. Since 1873 they have been pre- It cannot be long, we think, before thinkingparing for the campaign of 1876. They have men at the North perceive what has been our organized and marshaled their forces in a most thesis all along, that in the late war of the skillful manner, and they have resorted to States the South was defending their cause as almost every means that human ingenuity well as her own. * * The true policy of could devise to accomplish their purposes. Conservatives is not (if that be possible) to blot Social ostracism, villification, intimidation, out the past, but to lead the country, which has force, fraud, murder-all have been used to gone widely astray, back to the true paths, and control the governments of the Southern to go forward in them. Let us find the road States, that the electoral vote of each may be from which we have wandered-the road which cast for the Democratic candidate for President led to such prosperity. * * * Let us find it in 1876, once more and follow it into the future." A POLITICAL, IF NOT RF1ELLIOUS, SOCIETY. The Southern Magazine truly represents the The Southern Historical Socet is udoubt- views and policy of the Bourbons who control The Southern Historical Society is undoubt- the Southern Historical Society. edly the organization that the leaders of the State Sovereignty Party are using "to secure STATE SOVEREIGNTY Vs. NATIONAL SUPREMfor the States Rights principle a moral and nu- ACY. merical support in the ranks of the Democracy, All Democratic leaders of influence in this which will enable its friends to wield an appro- section assume that the " coming great strugpriate influence upon the policy of that party." gle" is to be between State sovereignty and That society was organized in 1869 in New Or- national supremacy. Mr. Stephens, says leans, and Rev. Dr. Palmer, of the Presbyterian "The coming great struggle is to be between Church, made president. The public, however, Constitutionalism and Centralism in the United knew but little of the societyuntil it was reor- States." In other words, between State soveganized by the Bourbon leaders in August, 1873, reignty: and national supremacy, Senator at the Montgomery Springs, Virginia. Then Gordon, says: "We should insist upon the General Jubal karly was elected president. right of the States to manage for themselves Since the re-organization of the society, its their own internal affairs. Without this right power has been felt, and now the Bourbons were fully protected, and its maintenance control the Democratic party in the Southern guaranteed, I would not give a cent for any States, and will undoubtedly control the party victory." In other words, he would not give a in the nation. cent for any victory that does not secure State General Wade Hampton, in an address deliv- sovereignty. Mr. Benjamin H. Hill, says: ered before the society in October, 1873, said: "The great final struggle to settle the question " This society proposes to publish regularly whether constitutional liberty on this continent and systematically all contributions which elu- shall be continued or not, is to be fought in cidate the truth, reflect the glory, and maintain 1876. Can it be successfully fought with the the principles involved in the late war, and it ballot? * * *' -If we fail at the ballot-box calls upon all who are not lost to honor to aid in 1876, by reason of force, a startling question in this laudable undertaking. It wishes to enroll, will present itself to the American people. not only every true man, but every true woman * * * I tell you, my friends there is no in its ranks." peace for this country until Radicalism is Henry Ewbank, the general agent of the so- crushed; not only crushed, but despised; not ciety, in an address to the people of Georgia, only despised, but made infamous forever in January, 1874, said: throughout America. X we must have war"Having enrolled among its members the if we cannot preserve this Constitution and true exponents of Southern honor and intelli- constitutional government by the ballot; * * gence, it will necessarily possess a vitality and if folly and wickedness-if inordinate love of exert a moral influence through the whole power shall decree that America must save her South, which will steadily and irresistibly ex- Constitution by blood, let it come. I am ready. 3 But let one thing be distinctly understood. that mediate cause of the late war was the attempt if another war should come, we of the South of the Southern States to secede from the nawill rally under the old flag of our fathers. It tion; but the attempt to secede was made that always was our flag. We were never faithless a government might be established to protect to It, and our enemies were never faithful to slavery. Slavery was the cause that produced it." Stephens, Hill and Gordon truly repre- the differeit and opposite modes of construing sent the Bourbon Democracy of Georgia, who the Constitution of the United States, the difnow control the State. ferent and opposite modes bf considering our BEN. HILL AND HIS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. form of general government. The soldiers of the Confederacy fought for the independence The election of Mr. Hill to Congress from the of their States. The Union soldiers fought for Ninth District of Georgia, to fill a vacancy the nation. The stars and bars-the flag of the caused by the death of Hon. Garnet McMillan, Confederacy-was the symbol of State soverwas a significant event. He is one of the most extreme Bourbon leaders in the State, and un- nation-was the symbol of national supremacy; doubtedly the ablest orator from the South in but behind one stood slavery; behind the other public life. He was a Senator in the Confed- freedom. The contest was between slavery erate Congress, and Chairman of the Judiciary and freedom. It is evident that many SouthCommittee. It is said that his services were so era leaders have not surrendered the political valuabie to Mr. Davis, that he called him "My dogmas that brought on the war, and were setright arm." Since the close of the war he has tied by it, as the North supposed. The docbcen the most prominent Democrat in Georgia. trine of State sovereignty is now advocated His "war speech" from which I have quoted, because the Bourbons wish to control labor. made ou the 20th of January last, before a convention of ex-Contederate soldiers, resident in THE LIBERAL ELEMENT IN THI DEMOCRATIC Georgia, was received with "wild applause," and PARTY. greatly increased his popularity with the Bour- It is true that many men at the South who bon Democracy. They manifested a deep inter- are nominally Democrats are not Bourbons, est in the contest in the Ninth District, and even and it is believed that a large majority of the Toombs, who had been his bitterenemy for many voters are opposed to tho Bourbon policy, but years, offered to canvas the district injhis behalf. as the questions that have divided the people of One part of the district is composed of the the South since the war, have related to "the mountainous counties of Northeastern eorgia, status of the negro in our form of civilizawhere the inhabitants are white farmers, who tion," parties have divided on b "color line:" formerly owned but few slaves, and now culti- one party being practically a hite man's vate their own lands. In therest of the district party g practically a hite man's there was a large slave population. There, the party, and the other a negro part. The Bourlanded aristocracy now control the Democratic bons seek to keep that the dividing line beparty. The Deamocratic convention to normi- tween parties, that they may control the Southparty. The Democratic convention to nomi- ern States by uniting the whites in opposition nate a candidate for Congress met on the 14th ern States by uniting the whites in opposition of April, and adjourned on the 21st, without of the South wblicans formerly intere educated in slavery making a nomination. The two-third rule was the South was formerly interested in slavery, adopted, and under it the delegates balloted thersfore most of the professional men and. he 414 times. Hill was supported by 28 delegates, ablest public speakers are Bourbons. The 414 times. Hill was supported by 28 delegates, Bourbons control the Democratic press, and the representatives of the landed aristocracy. they control "society." By social ostracism, Mr. Bell, his opponent, the candidate of the denunciation, and vilification, they have prewhite farmers of Northeastern Georgia, re- vented the liberal element from joining the ceived thirty-three votes. Hll's friends were Republican party. But that element is increasdethat no one should benot n ominate d, if ing in numbers, and it is believed that the Llbthey could f n ot nominatie him, a they believed erals will not continue much longer to support they eould electhim if no nomination was made. the Democratic part. They may, and most Durlng the canvas Hill took "high Democratic the Democratic party. They may, and most o~ gDuring the hcanvas his took "high Democratic them probably will do so, until after the next ground." He charge4 his principal opponent, Presidential election, when, if the Republican a Democrat, with beingf a "Radical" because he candidate for President is elected, they will did not oppose the thirteenth, fourteenth, and undoubtedly publicly oppose the Bourbons. fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the Then a powerful Republican party may be orUnited States. Two candidates, both Demo- ganized in every Southern State, led by able, crats, opposed him, but his majority over both honest, skillful men. was 2,180. The South is now comparatively quiet; but it STATE SOVEREIGNTY. is the quiet that precedes a storm. The bad The doctrine of State sovereignty was form- element is more easily controlled tha4 formerly, erly used to protect slawery and all the evils and the organization of the Bourbons is so incident to that institution. Democratic states- perfect that it is not necessary for them now men held that the States were sovereign; Re- to "fire the Southern heart." That, however publican statesmen believed that the nation — will be done at the proper time. the United States-was sovereign. The im- A GEORGIA REPUBLICAN. CHAPTER II. THE COMING GREAT STRUG(GLE BETWEEN STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND NATIONAL SUPREMACY-HON. A. H. STEPHENS THE LEADER IN THE NEW MOVEMENT. SAVANNAH, GA., August 23, 1875. the people of the North believed that the naAlthough slavery was the cause of thelate tion was supreme. But State sovereignty and war, the conflict arose from different and"op- Constitutional liberty were used as synonymposing ideas as to the nature of the general ous terms by the crafty leaders of the slave government. The slave lords who ruled the power, who pretended that the South was South held to the heresy of State sovereignty; fighting for liberty, and they have taught the people that liberty was overthrown when Lee nation were not disloyal, but they were fightsurrendered. For thirty years the people of ing for liberty; indeed, they were "the truest the South were carefully educated in the doc- friends of liberty." As they failed to establish trine of State sovereignty, and for four years liberty by secession, they must "look for its,they fought to maintain that doctrine. Some vindication and maintainance in the forums of have supposed that when the South laid down reason and justice." Thus they may regain all its arms, it acknowledged the defeat of the their ancient rights and privileges which were opinions for which it was contending. Many lost in the civil war, with new securities. To of the people undoubtedly did, but the Bour- that end the people of the South should be edubon leaders did not, and they are preparing to cated to cherish the "lost cause," that the South make another great strugple for the same may regain its "liberties" as the mother counopinions. try did. To that work he promised to dedicate JEFFERSON DAVIS. the remainder of his days. Thus far he has As before stated, Jefferson Davis, late Presi- kept his promise. dent of the Confederacy, has affirmed, since STEPHENS' LIFE DEVOTED TO THE ADVOCACY the close of the war, that the principle for OF SLAVERY AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY. which the South contended was bound to reassert itself. bMr. Stephens' life has been devoted to the adSPEECH OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS BEFORE vocacy of slavery and State sovereignty. lHe THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE, ON TEE 122D OF entered public life in 1836 as a representative in FEBRUARY, 18T6, the Georgia legislature, elected on the "States EB,Rihts Ticket. He eered Congress in 1843,6, Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice-President RightsTicket.' He entered Congress in 1843, of the Confederacy, said in a speech, delivered a'State Rights Whig," and returned in 1859, a before the Georgia Legislature, on the 22d of "States Rights Democrat." In 1850, he assisted February, 1866: to draw up, and earnes'tly advocated the famous "Whatever may be said of the loyalty or dis- "Georgia platform, which declared that the loyalty of any in the late most lamentable con- State of Georgia "will, and ought to, resist, flict of arms, I think I may venture safely to even (as a last resort,) to a disruption of every saythat there was on the pai t of the reat tie which binds her to the Union, any future mass of the pople of Georgia ad theentire act of Congress abolishing slavery in the Dismass of th no disloyalty to the principles of the trict of Columbia without the consent and petiSouth, no disloyalty to the principles of the (Constitution of the United States. * * * tion of the slaveholders thereof; or, any act With us, it was simply a question as to where abolishing slavery in places within the slaveour allegiance was due in the malntenance of holding States purchased by the United States these principles-which authority was para- for the erection of forts, maoazines, dock-yards, mount in the last resort-State or Federal. As navy-yards, and other like places; or, in any for myself I can affirm that no sentiment of dis-act suppressing the slave trade between slave loyalty to these great principles of self-govern- holding States; or, in any refusal to admit as a ment, recognized and embodied in the Consti-State any territory applying, because of the extution of the United States, ever beat or Istece of slavery therein; or in any act prothrobbed in bxeast or heart of mine. To their hibiting the introduction of slaves into the termaintenance my wholesoul was everenlisted; ritories of Utah and New Mexico; or in any and to this end my whole life has heretofore act repealing or mate rially modifying the laws been devoted, and will continue to be the rest now in forcefor the recovery of fugitive slaves." of my days-God willing. * * * Whatever In 1840, 1844, and 1848 he supported the candifferences existed amongst us, arose from dif- didates of the Whig party for the Presidency. ferences as to the best and surest means of se- But, h 1852, he refused to support General curing these great ends, which was the object because he was not sufficently sound on of all. It was with this view and for this ur- the slavery question. In 1856 he advocated the waselection of Buchanan, and in 1860 the election Rore, secession was tried. That has failed~ ~ * Our only alternative now is either to of Douglas. give up all hope of Constitutional liberty, or STEPHENS GREAT UNION (?) SPEECH OF 1860. retrace our steps, and to look for its vindica- IIe delivered his celebrated Union (?) speech tion and maintainance in the forums of reason before the Legislature of Georgia in November and justice, instead of on the arena of arms. 1860. Ile said that he stood on the "Georgia In the court and halls of legislation, instead of platform," as he had always done since its on the field of battle. * * * adoption, and, if the Republicans attempted by "We are not without an encouraging example an act of Congress to exclude the slaveholders on this line in the history of the mother coun- from the territories with their slave property, try. * * * The truest friends of liberty in no man would be more willingor ready than he England once, in 1642, abandoned the forums to disrupt every tie which bound the States of reason,'and appealed as we did, to the sword, together. But he advised the people to wait as the surest means, in their judgment, of ad- until the Republican policy was adopted, before vancing their cause. * * * Butthe end was theytriedsecessiori. The "secessionists" favored the. reduction of the people of England to a immediate secession. In a letter to a strong seworse state of oppression than they had been cessionist in New York, he gave te folowing in for centuries. They retraced their steps. reason for advocating the policy of delay: * * * The Houseof Cofnmcns andthellouse "The great and leading object aimed at by of Lords were henceforth the theatres of their me at -Miledgeville, was to produce harmony on operations. * * * The result was, that in a right line of policy. If worst comes to worst, less than thirty years, all their ancient rights as it may, and our State has to quit the Union, and privileges which had been lost in the civil it is of the utmost importance that all ot_; peowars, with new securities, were re-established. ple should be united cordially in this cause. * * * "May we not indulge hope, even in This, I feel confident, can only be effected on the alternative before us now, from this great the line of policy I indicated." example of restoration, if we but do as the TOOMBS AND STEPHENS. friends of liberty there did? This is my hope, myfriends of liberty there did? This is my hope." Toombs and Stephens have been bosom friends from boyhood. They were born in adjoining STEPHENS' PLAN TO REGAIN THE "LOST CAUSE." counties; they entered public life about the "According to Stephens' reasoning, the peo- same time, and were in accord politically until pie of the South in their attempt to destroy the 1860. Then Toombs was a violent secessionist. Stephens was a "Union man," so-called. A assaults of those Democrats who do not fully large number of Georgians were opposed to se- understand his policy: cession from principle. Toombs was the leader'Why is it th oughtless and the maof the secessionists. Stevensof the Unionmen. licious are so anxious to impair the influence, Toombs fought for secession. Stephens for the and thwart the labors of the Great Commoneri? Union on the "Georgia platform," "to produce Why are we not willing to trust him? Has he harmony on -a right line of poli." The se- ever deceived us? Is he not playing a deep cessionists triumphed, and Stephens led the gam.e for the salvation of the South? If he can Union men into the ~movement, and was re- control Grant, and induce him to accept a platwarded with the Vice-Presidency of the Con- form for his candidacy next year, why should federacy. Again, he and Toombs were bosom we-let our personal prejudices outweigh what friends, as they now are. should be our desire for the general welfare?" STEPHENS' LIFE WORK. The "deep game" which Mr. Stephens is The statement that his whole soul was ever playing is, undoubtedly, the concealing from enlisted in the maintainance of the principle of the pdople of the North the true objects conState sovereignty, and, to that end, his whole templated by him, while he prepares for the life had been devoted, and would continue to be'coming great struggle between the Constituthe rest of his days,was more significant than was tion and centralism in the United States." ile generally supposed. The mantle of Calhoun thus defends himself from the charge of infidelhas fallen upon his shoulders. He is now the ity to "true Democratic principles," made by foremost Southern politician; the most adroit the Savannah rews, inma letter which he recently man in public life from the South, and he un- wrote to that paper: doubtedly possesses more influence than any "If the real object and purpose of these imother Southern man. He utters no harsh words, putations against my fidelity to true Democratic and he is the more dangerous on that account. principles, be not barely a prelude to a conThere is an appearance of candor in what he templated open war upon me and my known says, that pleases even an opponent. position in the coming great struggle between STEPH ExN'S' AD:ROITNESS. constitutionalism and centralism in the United Cleveland in his life of Stephens, says: States, why, let me ask you, am I not only thus "Hehas been ofte heard t say, th assailed in your paper upon charges so ground"'He has been often heard to say, that his less, but msde the spccR~ object o~ assault for views in consenting to take part in the Hamp- less, but made the special object of assault for ton Roads Conference can never be fully under- my course upon the repeal of the act of Iarch, stood without a knowledge of the true objects 1873, increasing the pay of members of Concontemplated by the authors of that mission. grss P AND These he has never disclosed."TEPHES ATIENCE PERSEVERANCE, AND It is believed that his views upon public mea- We can but mire the patience, pereversures of importance can never be fully under- We can but acdire the patience, peseve stood by those who listen to his talk and to his ance, and sagacity with which, since 1866, he speeches without a knowledge of the real ob- has pushed his life work. When others were jects contemplated b~y him. In 1860 many willing to "accept the situation," he was prejects contemplated by him-. In 1860 manyringforthe "omi ggreatstruggle." "We persons believed him to be a Union man. But, paring forthe "coming great struggle." "We in his letter to the New York secessionists hee said: "Nowwe dwill look for the vindication of our cause in the disclosed the true obj ect con templated by him~ — forums of reason and justice." His speech be"To produce harmony on a right line of policy," forumse the Geor a Leslature, in 1866, was soon before secession was attempted. He undoubt- fore th e Georola Lefl islat iur e, then 186, was soon edly disclosed, in his speech of December, 1866, followed by the publicationof his life, the printhe true object now contemplated by him-to cipal object in thepublication of which appeared thregain true "losbject nowcause." In a recent convershim-to to be to lay before the peoplehis ablest speeches tion with a correspondent of the Savannah and letters in favor of slavery and State soverN ewics, he said: eignty, and to make known his plan for regain"A wise general reserves the full strength of ing the "lost cause." In 1868 the first voltme -is a ral reserves the full strength of The War between the States was issued, and, his army for the actual conflict, and seldom inf Te r bet1870,een the Statesond volume was pubissued, andfor wastes it in efforts of a doubtful character for in 1870, the second volume was published for the mere purpose of frightening the enemy. I the purpse of proving the teorth was wrong have long heldto this opinion, and, as a jour- assumed the South right inof the Atlate war. In 1871which he nalist of twenty years' experience, I am fully assumed control of the Atlanta Sun, which he convinced that much of the disaster which has edited and published until July, 1873, for the overtaken the Democratic and Conservative purpose of advocating the cause of State soverparty has been owing to a too early and general eighty, and preparing the people to again fight discussion of public measures and public men. or a caue. When the real issue is made, in most cases, the In August, 1873, the Southern Historical Soenemy is fully prepared to meet it, as all the ciety was organized " to publish, regularly and weakness of our cause has been laid open for systematically all contributions which elucidate months or years, and the plan of operation the truth, reflect the glory, and maintain the fully understood. In politics, as in war, the principles involved in the late war. less the opposing forces ~know of our plans and organization of that society, Mr. Stephens' pubpuposes, except at the last moment, the better li labors in favor of the Confederacy have een for our cause, and the greater the chances of slight, in comparison to what they were beforoe success on our part " that time. In 1872 he published a school bistory of the United States, to educate the chilHIS " DdEEP GAME."ldren of the South in the heresy of State soverSome have supposed that because he has eignty. frequently spoken of the President in compli- He refused to support Greeley in 1872, because mnutary terms, and has not, as a rule, abused he was opposed to the doctrine of State sovrerRlepublicans; that because he has voted for elignty. Now the Southern Democracy conand defended some measures supported by trolled by the Bourbon leaders, stand on the Republicans, he is not in sympathy with the platform of Davis, Stephens, and Toombs, and Bourbon Democracy. A writer in the Augusta they are preparing for the cominggreatstruggle Chro nic and iSentinel, the principal Democratic betiveen State sovereignty and National supaper in his district, thus defends him from the premacy. A GEOtGIA REPUILICOAN. 6 CHAPTER III. DAVIS, STEPHENS, AND TOOMBS, THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LEADERS OF THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY-THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY —ITS PURPOSES, AS EXPLAINED BY GENERAL WADE HAMPTON. SAVANNAH, GA.,- August 25,.1875 THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Those who have not recently studied South- The organization of the Southern Historical ernpoliticswith carewillperhaps besurprisedat Society was an important step in thle struggle the assertion that Davis, Stephens, and Toombs between State sovereignty and national suprennare nowthe most influentialleaders of the South- acy. Delegates representing twelve Southern ern Democracy. There was a time since the States participated in the organization. Genclose of the war, when their influence w.ith the erals Beauregard, Early, and Fitzhugh Lee, masses, as well as with the leaders, was s1fight; Admiral Semmes and Governor Letcher were but the Southern Democracy is now controlled leading spirits. "President" Davis was also by those who advocate their policy. present. The minutes of the convention, pubBEN HILL ON DAVIS, STEPHENS, AND TOOMBS. lished in the Southern Magazine, the official In 1871, Ben Hill said to a correspondent of the organ of the society, January, 1874, give the Nebw York les-aald: following account of his reception: "There will be an attempt very likely by Bob THE RECEPTION OF "PRESIDENT DAVIS." Ioombs and Stephens to drive men of my stripe AUGUST 16, 1873. -out of the Democracy. * * * I am confi- dent that Toonfbs and the rest of the fire-eaters * * * "Governor Letcher," the president of have no very great strength among the people." the convention, "gave notice of the expected arIn August, 1871, he said to a correspondent of rival of President Davis, and suggested the prothe Knoxville (Tennessee) Chronicle: priety of an adjournment of the convention "I have hopes that the Democracy will tri- till Monday, and the appointment of a comumprh this fall in Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, mittee to receive the President. and California. If they do, the New Departure "On motion of General Beauregard, the chair will be the main plank in the platform of 1872, appointed a committee composed of the' followand our success assured. In this event Toombs, ing gentlemen: General Beauregard, Admiral Stephens, and Davis will be obliged either to for- Semmes, General Early, General Lilly, and Genmally leave the party or to acquiesce in the New eral T. T. Mumford. * * * Departure. * * * If we are defeated this "MONDAY, August 18, 1873. year Toombs,~Stephens, and Davis will be elated * * "Admiral Semmes then presented tothe and strengthened. They will be defeated, how- convention President Davis. The convention eveir, as the South cannot and will not be lead received him standing." by them." Now Hill himself, is lead by them: " Governor Letcher in a short address cordiindeed he is one of the ablest advocates of their ally welcomed President Davis, who made an Bourbon policy, as much of a fire-eater as appropriate acknowledgment in an address of Toombs. a few moments to the conveation." HILL AND STEPHENS. THE OFFICERS OF THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL Hill is a demagogue who panders to the peo- SOCIETY. ple for votes. Stephens is the greatest thinker The following gentlemen were elected the in the South, a leader and a teacher of the peo- officers of the Southern Historical Society: pie. His contempt for the Democratic leaders President-General Jubal Early, of Virginia. of the North was recently manifested by him in Vice-President-Hon; H. M. T. Hunter of a letter to the Savannah News. A writer in that Virginia. paper censured him for his vote in the last Con- Secretary and ex-officlo Treasurer-Colonel gress to take up the report of the committee on. Mumford, of Vir a. Louisiana affairs, because he was found voting Vice-Presidents of States-General Isaac R. "against the parliamentary tactics of the Dem- Trumble, Md.; Governor Zebulon B. Vance, ocrats," andhe replied: N. C.; General M. C. Butlel, S. C.; General "Wise and sagacious leaders of the Democ- A.. Colquitt Ga.; Admiral R. Semmes, Ala.; racy of the Union think you were with those Colonel W. Call, Fla.; General Wm. T. Martin, who planned such'parliamentary tactics?' Miss.; Geueral J.B. Hood, La.; ColonelT. M. Heaven forbid that I should ever be found fol- Jac, Texas; Hon. A. H. Garland, Ark.; Govlowing such leaders when public liberty is at ernor Isham G. Earris, Tenn.; General J. & stake, and Heaven forbid that the cause of the Marmaduke, Mo.; General S. B. Buckner, Ky.;: true Democracy of the United States should ever W. W. Corcoran, D. C. be committed for guidance and control to the The head-quarters of the society was estabhands of the authors of such tactics.", lished at the State House, Richmond, Virginia,. Although Mr. Stevens has not publicly advo- late the capitol of the Confederacy. cated the Confederate cause as zealously since July, 1873, as before that time, yet in his speech THE PURPOSES OF THE SOCIETY-SPEECH OP in Congress in opposition to the Civil Rights GENERAL HAMPTON. bill, January 5, 1874, and in his recent Fourth The purposes of the society were explained of July oration at Atlanta, he presentedwith his at length by General Wade Hampton in a accustomed adroitness the arguments in favor speech, made before the society, October 29, of State sovereignty. It has not been necessary 1873, from which I make the following extract: for him to devote as much time to the advocacy "As it was the duty of every man to devote of that cause as he did formerly, for, in August, himself to the service of his country in the 1873, the Southern Historical Society entered great struggle which has just ended so disupon that work. astrously, not only to the South, but to the cause of Constitutional government under Re- penetrate the future this hope appeared but' publican institutions in the new world; so now, vain and delusive one; yet only a few years when that country is prostrate in the dust, passed before her troops turned thescale to vicweeping for her dead who died in vain to save tory at Waterloo, and the Treaty of Palis atoned her liberties, every, patriotic impulse should in part for the mortification of that of Tilsit. urge her surviving children to vindicate the * * * She educated her children by a system great principles for which she fought. * * * which made them good citizens in peace and These are the imperative duties imposed upon formidable soldiers in war; she kindled and us of the South; and the chief peril of the kept alive the sacred fire of patriotism; she times is, that, in our despair at the evil that has woke the slumbering spirit of the Fatherland; fallen on us, we forget those obligations to the and whlAt has been the result of this self devoeternal principles for which we fought; to the tion 0o a whole people for half a century? m.artyred dead who gave up their lives for their Single-handed she has just met her old antagprinciples; * * * and to our children who onist; the shame of her defeats of yore has should be taught to cling to them with un- been wiped'out by glorious victories; the conswerving fidelity. If those who are to come tributions extorted from her have been more after us, and to whose hands the destinies of than repaid; her insults have been avenged our country are soon to be committed, are and her victorious eagles sweeping over the properly instructed in the theory and practice broken lillies of her enemy, waved in triumph of Republican institutions; if they are made from the walls of'conquered Paris, while sthe to comprehend the origin, progress, andl cul- dictatedpeace to.prostrate and humbled France. mination of that great controversy between the Is not the moral to be drawn from this noble antagonistic sections of this continent, which dedicationof a people, to the interests and honor began in the convention of 1787, and ended, of their conntry, worth remembering? * * * for the time being, at Appomattox in 1865; they "Htungary in her recent struggle to throw off cannot fail to see that truth, right, justice were the yoke of Austria was crushed to the earth, on the side of their fathers, and they will surely and, yet, to-day the Hungarians, as citizens of strive to bring back to the Republic those Austria, exercise a controlling power in that cardinal principles on which i.t was founded, great empire. * and on which alone it can exist. * * * "Mr. President and gentlemen of the Society, "Our care shouldbe to bring her (the Re- the task assigned to me by your partial kindpublic) back to her old and safe anchor- less has been discharged. * * * It seemed age." * * * to menot Iappropriate while explaining *the "It is amid these gloomy surroudings and sad purposes of the Society, to show to you how forebodings, gentlemen of the Historical Soci- important are the objects it contemplates, how ety, that we who have notlost allhope andfaith, vital to the future condition of our people, and are met to take counsel together. We may be how vast the influence it may exercise if prop able, itis true, to save but little from the gen- erly directed. History repeats itself, and hiseral wreck, but we can, at least, leave to future tory is philosophy, teaching by examples. If generations the true record of our struggle in the examples presented to you have kindled a righteous cause." * * * any zeal in behalf of your suffering country, if This society proposes to publish regularly and they have inspired in your hearts any ray of systematicallyy al contributions which elucidate hope for its redemption, my efforts have not the truth, reflect the glory, and maintainthe beet in vain." principles,involved in the late war, and it calls. Liberal quotations have been made from the upon all who are not lost to honor, to aid in speech of Hampton, because he spoke for the this laudable undertaking. It wishes to enrol Southern Historical Society. He was chosen not only every true man, but every true woman by that society to explain its purposes, and the in its ranks. * * * speech was published by the society in its offi"'Maid, mother, wife, gave freely to that cial organ, (the Southern Magazine, Baltimore, country the most cherished objects of their af- Md., January, 1874.) It was not made in mofections. * * * It was wisely done, therefore, ments of excitement before an enthusiastic and to lnvoke their aid in behalf of our society. * * * tumultuous crowd, but it was carefully preIt is theirs to teach our children that their pared to present to the Southern people the fathers were neither traitors nor rebels; that purposes of the society, and it was delivered we believed as firmly as in the eternal word of before some of the ablest generals of the ConGod that we were in the right; and that we federacy. The language of Hampton is strong have a settled faith whlch no trials can shake, and clear, and no one can doubt his meaning, that, in His own good time, the right will be and he was speaking for such men as Jeffermade manifest." son Davis, Early, Beauregard, Semmes, Fitz"These are the lessons our children should hugh Lee, Governor Letcher, Hunter, Hood, learn from their mothers. Nor are these the and other able leaders of the Confederacy. only ones which should be inculcated, for the Before the war, he was one of the wealthiest of pages of history furnish many which should the slave lords. The language of such a man, not be overlooked. These teach in the clearest at such a time, endorsed by a society composed and most emphatic manner, that there is always of such men, should be carefully pondered by hope for a people who cherish the spirit of the American people. freedom, who will not tamely give up their The sense and force of Hampton's argument rights, and who, amid all the changes of time, is that the North and South constitute two difthe trials of adversity, remain steadfast to feret peoples-"a istic sections"-that their convictions that liberty is their birth-ferent peoples-'"antagonistic sections"-tthat their convictions that liberty is. their birth- the South fought for liberty, and was crush-ed; right. * * * When Napoleon in that wonderful but he South fought fo r liberty, and was crusd; campaig;n of Jena, struck down in a few weeks but her people can regain their liberty, as Pruscampaign of Jen a-, struck down in a few weeks sia did, by war, and to that end her sons should the whole military strength of Prussia, de- be so educated as to make them " Ggood citizens stroyed that army with which the great Fred- in peace, and formidable soldiers in war;" or eric had held at bay the conbined forces of they may control the Repsblic as she statesmen Europe, and crushed out, apparently forever, of Hungary control the Republic as shestri a E smpir e the liberties, seemingly the very existence of that great State, but one hope of her disen- DAVIS ID EABLY. thrallment and regeneration was left her-the It is evident that Jefferson Davis is in ascord unconquered and unconquerable patriotism of with the members of this society, some of whom her sons. As far as human foresight could were among his ablest lieutenants in the strug gle to destroy the nation; and theyreceived him vote of every Southern State, with the hope as "the President"-of the Confederacy, of of receiving enough votes from Northern States course. to elect a President who will allow themto Jubal Early, the president of the society, is "retain the old plantation system, or, in lieu of one of the most extreme and bitter of the Bour- that, establish a baronial one." If they conbon leaders. trol the 138 electoral votes of the Southern THE MAJORITY OF TUE SOUTHERN PEOPLE States, and they probably will, 46 votes. from NOT THE DISLOYAL. the North will give them the President. It is not believed that a majority of the South- There are reasons for believing that many ern people are disloyal, but it is believed that a liberal Democrats will refuse to follow the large majority of the slave aristocracy enter- Bourbon leaders, when their purposes are fully tain the views expressed by Hampton. These understood. It is proper, perhaps, in this conslave lords who ruled the South and the Nation nection, to allude to the labors of Bishop before the war, seek to doso again. True they are Kavanaugh, Dr. Clark, and other pastors of but a small minority of the Southern people, the Southern Methodist Churah, in favor of frayet they are by reason of their thorough organi- ternal. union with the Northern Methodis' zation, singleness of purpose, superior educa- Church. It is true that their's is purely a tion, wealth and desperation, the absolute mas- Christian work, but they are followed by many ters of the Southern Democracy. earnest Christians in the South, both pastors TIUE PEOPLE BEING EDUCATED BY THE SLAVE and laymen, who are Democrats, but not LORDS. Bourbons and it is believed that they will reSince 1873, they have been preparing the fuse to follow the Bourbon leaders. Many beminds of the people for the great struggle of lieve that the split in the Methodist Church in of 1S76. The speech of Gen. Preston, at the 1844, prepared the, way for secession in 1861. University of Virginia, was one of the steps in May not the fraternal union of the great Meththe process of educating the people. Similar odist family lead to the fraternal union of the speeches have been made elsewhere. Northern and Southern people? I shall again THE BOURBON PLAN TO GAIN THE CONTROL. allude to this subject. As far as developed, the plan of the Bourbon A GoI REPUBLIAN. leaders appears to be to control the electoral CHAPTER IV. GEORGIA TO LEAD IN THE COMING GREAT STRUGGLE BETWEEN STATE SOVEREIGN.TY AND NATIONAL SUPREMACY-THE CONFEDERATE ASSOC1ATION OF GEOIRIA-TREASONABLE SPEECH OF BEN HILL. SAVANNAH, GA., August 27, 1875. exponents of Southern honor and intelligence, It is believed that Georgia will take the lead it will necessarily possess a vitality, and exert in the " coming great struggle " between State a moral influence through the whole South, sovereignty and national supremacy, as South which will steadily and irresistibly expand into Carolina did in the formerd great struggle. But an antagonism, powerful to repel the insiduous it is not believed that the Georgia leaders will advances of those vicious principles which are pursue the same poliey that the South Carolina now so fearfully undermining the civilization leaders did, though the struggle wlll be a deter- of the North. * * * mined and desperate one. As I said in a former " In view of the vital issues involved, and the letter, it may be bloodless; it may be bloody. noble results attainable through the effective The people of the North should not be deceived operations of this society, I dare not doubt the by the Southern Democratic gushers who go success of my efforts in Georgia in its behalf." North to mislead them. They should ascertain The plain English of the above is, that the how the representatives of the men who do the organization of the Southern Historical Society' solid voting" act and talk here. Theresolute will repel the advance of Republican princiand unflinching men who lead the Southern De- ples in the South. mocracy will press their purposes inexorably. On the 18th of February, 1874, a State branch They will not hesitate to crush their opponents, of the Southern Historical Society was organlif they can, and it is policy to do so. It is impor- ized in Atlanta. General A. H. Colquitt, "Vice taut thereforetofullyunderstand theirpurposes. President for the State of Georgia for the parTHE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORGAN- ent Society." presided. "A number of distinIZED IN GEORGIA. guished ex-Confederate generals were present." The Atlanta Constifution, of January 16,1874, Branch societies were then organized in Aupublished an address of Henry Eubank, "Gen- gusta, and other cities in Georgia. Soon there eral Agent, Southern Historical Society," to were reunions of the "men who stood shoulder the people of Georgia, in which he said: to shoulder in the days tbat tried men's souls." "But it is not only for the securing, be fore First there were reunions of companies, then of it is too late, the materials for a true history of the regiments and brigades. war that the Southern Historical Society will, in THE CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION ORGANJZED. its legitimate operations, become an instru- In November, 1874, a call was issued, signed mentality of incalculable benefit to the South. by Generals Gordon, Benning, Young, Gartrell, Having enrolled among its members the true and over two thousand other "soldiers of the late army of the Confederate States," for a is ihe Constitution of our fathers worth convention to meet in Atlanta, on the 20th of blood? Will you have war or dlespotism? January, 1875 to organize an association to Will you have blood or empire? Thllat is the be known as' The Survivors' Association of question. * * * I tell you mly friends Confederate soldiers of the State of Georgia." there is no peace for this country until Radi-'They gave the following reasons, among calism is crushed! not only crushed but deothers, for organizilng the society: spisedl; not only despised blut made infa"'e are assured in our minds that much mous forever throughout Arnierica. (Treof the evil consequent upon irlate unhappy mendous applause and cheers.) * * * Let war has arisen from a demor)lization of the us now everywhere in the South habitually lpublic sentiment of the intrigues of unscru- speak of the Constitution and the Union pulous politicians, and (we are) desirous under it, with that old reverence and( acgain to infuse into the public mind and love that distinguished us in the (lays that heart such a spirit as will enable the pos- are past and gone. I say to-night, there was terity of those who secured American inde- not a single hour in American history, when pendence and constitutional government in the Southern heart was not true to the Conthe revolution of 1776, to preserve the same stitution. (Applause..) * * * from the spoilation of mere jobbers in "If we must have war-if we cannot prepolitics." serve this Constitution and Constitutional The convention met at the appointed time, government by the ballot; * * *. if the and organized an association, as proposed. war must come; * * * if inordinate love of The following officers were chosen: power shall decree that America must save President-General Joseph E. Johnston; her Constitution by blood, let it come. I am Senior Vice-President-General A. P. Lawton; ready. (Enthusiastic applause anid cheerVice-Presidents-Generals Robert Toombs, ing.) But let one thing be distinctly underLafayette McLaws, J. B. Gordon, A. iH. Col- stood, that, if another war should come, we quitt, H. L. Benning, C. A. Evans, Philip of the South will rally under the old flag of CoOk,:I. R. Jackson, P. M. B. Young, L. J. our fathers. (\Wild applause.) italways was Gartrell, D. -Mi. Dubose, R. It. Anderson. our flag. We were never faithless to it and The objects of the society, as set forth in our enemies were never faithful to it." (Apthe preamble to the Constitution, are: "To plause.) perpetuate the memories which bound us THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ILL's SPEECH.. together in the past; to preserve the record, of our actions; to care for the widows and It was not a wild adventurer who thus adorphans of comrades in arms who have filled dressed the Convention of Confederate solpatriot graves, celd to gucard by allpeaccful nmeans diers, some of whom were among the forethose principles for uhich we fought." The italics most generals of the Confederacy; but it was are mine. the ablest Orator in the South, who has been electecl a representative in the Congress of THE: TREASONABLE SPEECt OF BEN HILL. the United States. It will not be denied that By request of the Convention, Bel IIill de- he is one of the ablest and most popular livered an address, which was received "with Democrats in Georgia. the wildest. alpplause" by "the men who On the 27th of January, the executive comstood shoulder to shoulder in the dlays that mitteeofthe" Survivors'Association," issued tried men's souls." The following extracts an address "to the surviving soldiers and fron his speech will show whllat he supposed sailors of the Confederate States army and the purpofes of the organization to be. He navy, resident in Georgia," requesting them said: iln each county to call a meeting, and have "Secession was a mistake, a terrible mis- enrolled all who desire to become members take: but secession was no crime. (Great ap- of the association, and forward the rolls to plause.) It violated no oaths; it trampled Atlanta, the headquarters of the association, upon no individual rights. * * It soughlt where a consolidated roll is to be mna(le out. to slhed no blood! Radicalism is no mistake. These rolls were sent to the Democratic o0dliIt is deliberate, intentional, wickedl, ever inl- naries, judges of probate; nearly all the ordlicreasing crime. (Applause.) It has trampled' naries in Georgia are Democrats who have upon ten thousand oaths to support the Con- assisted inthe organization of these Confedstitution. It defied the Union as a fact, that erate associations. it -might destoy the Union as a pinciple, Thus are the people educated for what under the pretence of reconstructing the Stephens calls the "coming great struggle States. I arraign radicalism to-night before between Constitutionalism and Centralism the bar of this outragedl country as the only in the United States," which Ben ifill regards real, intentional rebel in American history. as the most important in the history of the (Applause.) It is a rebel against the Consti- world. It is hoped that the friends of the tution of our fathers. It is a rebel against Unionwill realize its importance before it is the sovereinlty of States. * * * It is a too late. A GEORnIA I'EPUB'LICAN. rebel againsst every principle of justice, andl a rebel against every blessing of liberty. (Tremendous applause.) * * * The Confederates in the Forty"The great ancd final struggle to settle the fourth Congress-Who They Are question whether Constitutional liberty on andWhat TheyDid in the Efort this continent shall be continued or not is to be fought in 1876. Can it be successfully to Destroy the Union. fought tt the ballot-box? * * In the following list will be found the it wait thle mind of the American people names of those who served in the Confederlate directed to one inquiry! It isa great inquiry army. There are a few who from modesty, a glorious inquiry. Oh! I look forward or perhaps with a dim perception of the fitto thle discussion with real rapture! Who in ness of things, do not parade their treason, Ameriican history is a rebel? Is it a man who but the younger men are quite reacdy to tramples upon the Constitution, or a man emblazkn the act: who simrply resents such infidelity by seeking to get away from such a party? * * * h'x-Confederate Oficers. " Fellow-citizens: I look to the contest of 1876 not only as the most important that ever occurred in American history, but as the No. NAMES. States. Rank. most important in the history of the world. _.. * * * If we tail with the ballot-box in 1876 by reason of folce, a startling question will SENATORS. present itself to the American people. I trust we will not fail. * * * The indications 1 Goldthwaite.... Ala... Adj't Gen. are in our favo. * * * Thegreatquestion, 2 Jones........ Fla.. Brig. Gen. gtid the only question behind for the thought 3 Gordon..... Ga... IMaj or Gen. is the one that must be propounded, andcl for 4 Alcorn (Rep)... Miss... Brig. Gen. which there is no escape. The question is, 5 Cockrell...... Mo.. Major Gem. 10 Ex-Confederate Oficers-Continued. III. State and other positions held during the Rebellion. Cadwell.. Ala.... I Solicitor No. NAMES. State. Rank. Norwood. Ga..... Cadler... Ga.., 2t Tuckel... Va... tA t'y 6 Ransom...... N. C. Major Gen Culberston. Texas.'.... 7 Key.. Tenn. Lieut. Col Reaan.ll Texas.. 1.3 I Maxey....... Texas Major Gen. Stehen. Ga. 2* 9 Withers Va... Colonel. arris. 3 4t. REPRESENTATIVES. Slemons. Ark. 5*. 9 WiGunter Ark.6*..... 10 Williams... Ala.. Major Lamar. Miss.. 7* 11 Br13adford..do.. Colonel. Hatcler... o.. o 8T*... 12 lays, (lep). do.. Brig. Gen. DiGoodell.. Tena.. *.I 13 1lewitt..do. Colonel. Goode Va... 10 14 Forney.do.. Brig. Gen. Huntol...a 1 1. 15 Lewis..... do.. Colonel. Harris...a... 12* _ 16 Gause........ Ark. Colonel. * Secession Conventions. t State Legisla. 17 Slemons....... B do.... Brig. Gen. tures. ALegal. 18 Gunter.........Colonel. 19 Smith.Ga.... Captain. In order that the facts may be fully under. 20 Hartridge...do.. Colonel. stood, it is necessary to state that no name is 21 Cook.... do. Brig. Gel. presented in the foregoing tables, other than 22 Blackburn.... Ky.. Lieut. Col. of those who announce their antecedents in 23 Gil)son. La.... Brig. Gen. the Congressiosal Directory, a work co1i24 Ellis.. do.. Captain, piled by Major Ben. Perley Poore, clerk 25 Levry.... do.. Colonel. of printing records, under the direction of 26 Lamar........ Miss.. Colonel. the Joint Committee on Printing, or whose 27 h1ooker.......(lo... Colonel. records are shown by the Confederate war 28 Franklin.,. Mo.. Captain. records now in the archives of the War De29 Clark......... do.. Brig. Gen. partment. Thle authority is quoted in the 30 Yeates......... N. C.. MT ajor. following extracts fom tlle sources above 31 Waddcell........ do.. Lieut. Col. stated, anld fi om otles. 32 Davis......... do.. Captain. Al, A Sea MA.-Senator GEORGE GOLDTIVWAITE, 33 Scales do.....rig. Gen. of MontgomerV; was adjutant generallof the 34 ltobbins... do.. Colonel. State of Alalaina during the war. 35 \ance... doa.. B rig. Gen. 2q Diti t-_ epeeLtoee JEREMIAH N. VIL36 Dlibrell.c...... Tenn..Briig. Gen. LIAMrS, of (Clytonl entered thle Confederate 37 Whllittlorne. y..clo.. Colonel. arnly il 1861 as mnjol. 38 Atkins........ do.. Lieut. Col. &I DPAtU/ict-Pe1. ALL BRAnDFOD, of Tal. 39 I Young........-o. Colonel. ladega; ccseled in the Confederate arnmy 40 Iculbelrtson. Texas Colonel. througliont tVhe n-a. 41 Throckmlorton....do..lBrig. Gen. 5th biatrict-Rep. JOHN H. CALDWELL, of 42 Douglas....... Va... MaJor. Jacksolnville; - as elected solicitor for the 43 Cal)ell..o... Colonel. tenth judicxal circuit by the legislature, at 44TCl..Tc..d.. Capltain. thle session of 1859-'60- re-elected at the ses45 lllton.... do. 1rig. Gen. sion of 1863A-'64 This statement shows that 41 Ferry..do.. B3rig. Gen. lie was an officer of the rebel State govern47 Faulker......... Va. Colonel. mlet, and also of President Johnson's reactionary movieIlent. 6fithl..i.trict —- ril. G;OLDSMITH r. HEWITT, Of The following tables are significant, and Biriubngllaml; entered the Confederate army C9Smith.......in 1861, and served until severelywounded at Should l)0e preserved for future reference: the sattle of Clickamauga in 1863. At L' rqe-Rep,. VWILLIAM IIHENRY FORNEY, of Jaclksonville; entered the Confederate armlv at the conmmencuielnt of hostilities in 1. Ex-.M etbers eof the Rebel Goveirnment and Coeniress. 1861, as aptai, and was successively proms 1821, as captain,..and was successively promoted major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier -genelral; surrendered at AppomatI U tox C. H.: -was a memlber of the State senate 5 oL... of Alanbama 1865-'66, (under the Johnson proa, 4 Names. State. Position. 0 ~ visional govelrnlnt.) p I o _____ At Laicge-BURWELL BOyKIi LEWIS, of Tus27 Iloe caloosa- sesrved i the Confederate alrw as -_- Fan oflicer in the Secold Alalama cWalry. II. R. Stephens Ga... V. Pres ARKANSAS-1t District-Rep. LucnTErN C.. R. Reagan.......Gen... x. GAUSE, of Jacksonort; enteredl the Confed1I. e. IIill Ga.. 1 1 erate army inl 1861,'and selrved throughout the Se:... Caperton. W.Va.... warl attaining thle rank of colonol. I i I r.. ~.a..,..... 2 21 Disttict-tiep. WILLIAM F. SLEMONS, of I1...Asbe.. N. C..3 2 onticello; was a member of the Arkansas h4 R obbins.i... l o.el..... 3 State (secession) conveltion in 1861; entered I. R. Gooce... a. 4 the Confederate army in July, 1861, and served 1H. t.. Smith.G. La. through 3the war. I was a brigadte co-rn - I Io..........atcher... o.. mader under Fagan in the canpaign against it.i H Singletons..... M.iss. i..Steele in April, 1864 at Poison Springs, -- ________ _ -near almdlen, Ark., wien nearly two hlundred men belonglin to the First Kansas 11. Members of Congres before the Rebellion. colorel (79th U. S. C.U.) regiment were inurdered after being wrounded or surrendering. Stepulens....Ga..II...ouse.. 36tCoiI lie was also in thlle campain under Pi-ice i iam.ale... i.. House.. 36th Cong. Septembher an October, 1864, Ly wllicll esSamingt.. Miss,. House.. 36th Cong.. tern Missouri and Kansas were invaded and Scales.. N. C.. House.. 3th Cong.. partly desolated. Tile atrocities perpetrated tkins....Ten... House.. 35th. erC. e nume-ons. An account of thtm may Atkagans... Texas.. House.. 36th Cong. be found imia rebel book publishied at Cinci nFaulknTer... WVas.. House.. 35th Cong. nati, entitled "'Shelby and His len "-the Harrisu.. W. Va.. House.. 36th Cong.. author of which served with Slemons, and _'__.._.. _a.... rig_. Ge3_ h_ was _ ill thea "Army of the Border," by R. J. Hin_~~~~~~~~~~~4: 11 ton, and " The Annals of Kansas," by D. W. LOUISIANA —lst District-Rep. RANDALL L]z Wilder, State Auditor of Kansas. GIBSON- of New Orleans; joined the Confeder4th District-TuOMAs M5:ONTTCUE GGUNTER, of ate army as a private soldier, and was proFayetteville; was a delegate from WVashing- noted to the command of a company, regiton county in the Arkansas State Conven- mient, brigade and division. tion of May, 1861; served in the Confederate 2d District-Rep. E. JOHN ELLIS, of New Orarmy as colonel Thirteenth Arkansas volun- leans; graduated in March, 1861; joined the teers. He was also in Fagan's command. Confederate army five days afterward, and FLORIDA-Senator CHARLES W. JONES; as served throughout the war. born in Ireland. He was a brigadier-general 4th District-Rep. WILLIAM M. LEVY, of Natchin the Confederate army, as the Confederate itoches; was a member of the State legislaWair Department records establish. ture of Louisiana in 1861; was a Presidential GEO1RGIA-Senator THOMAS MANSON NOR- elector on the Breckenrid-e and Lane ticket woon, of Savannah; was a member bf the in 1860; served in the Confederate army, parGeorgia (rebel) legislature in 1861-'62. ticipating in the engagements on the penin-;S'eatf.)r JOHN B. GORDON, of Atlanta; at sula in 18;1 and 1862, and thereafter, until the the beginning of the war entered the Confed- close of the war, in the adjutant and inspecerate army as captain of infantry, and was tor general's department on the staff of Genpromoted major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, eral Dick Taylor. brigadier-general, major-general, and to the MISSISSIPPI — st District - Rep. LtucIus Q. command of the second army corps; com- C. LAMAR, of Oxfora; was elected to the manded one wing of General Lee's army at Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses Appomattox Court-House; was wounded in of the United States, and resigned( in 1860 to battle eight times. take a seat in the Secession Convention of his lot District-Rep. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, of Sa- State; in 1861, entered the Confederate arlmy vannah; delegate to the Charleston Demo- as lieutenant-colonel of the Nineteenth reglcratic Convention in 1860; was in the Con- ment, and was lprolmoted to the colonelcy; in federate army during first year of the war; 1863, was entrusted by President Davis With was a member of the Confederate Congress. an important diplomatic irission to Russia. 2d District —Rep. WILLIAM E. SMITH, of Al- 4th District-Rep. OTHn R. SINGLETON, of Canbany, entered the Confederate army as a vol- tonl; was a representative from Mississippi in unteer, in the Fourth Georgia Volunteers, af- the Thirty-third, Thirty-fifth and Thirtyter the State seceded; was elected captain in sixth Congresses of the iUnitedl States, retirApril, 1862 - lost a leg in the defence of Rlich- ing January 12, 1861; was a representative mond, at King's School House, June 25, 1862; from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress was elected to the Confederate Congress in from 1861 until 1865. 1863. MISSOURI - Senator F. hI. COCKRELL, of 3d District-Rep. PHILIP COOK, of Americus; Warrensburg; entered the Confederate army was elected to the State Senate of Georgia as a colonel in the Missouri State Guard, andl in 1863 (rebel); was elected a member of was promoted to major-general, serving till the State Convention of 1865, called by Presi- the rebellion closed. dent Johnson; entered the Confederate ser- 4th District-Rep. ROBERT A. HATCHkR, of New vice in 1861, as a private; was commissioned Madrid; was a member of the State (rebel) first lieutenant, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, convention in 1862, and a member of the Conand in August, 1863 brigadier-general. federate Congress in 1864-'65. 4th District-Rep. HENRY R. HARRIS, of Green- 8th District-Rep. BENJAMIN J. FRANKLIN, of ville; was a member of the Georgia (se- Kansas City; entered the Confed(lrate armly cession) Convention of 1861. as a private, was promoted captain, alid 5th District-Rep. MILTON A. CANDLER, of At- served throughout tile war. lanta; was a member of the State (rebel) 11th District-Rep. JOHN B. CLARK, Jr., of FaHouse of Representatives in 1861-'63; of the yette; at the commencement of the late -war State Constitutional Convention in 1865 —the he entered the Confederate army as a lieubody called by President Johnson. tenant, and was promoted successively to be 8th Distriet.-Rep. ALEXANDER HAMILTON captain, major, colonel and brigadier-general. STEVENS, of Crawfordsville- was elected to Clark served in Marmadluke's division, and the Secession Convention of Georgia in 1861: was a brigade commander in the Price raid opposed and voted against the ordinance of of 1864. secession in that body, but gave it his sup- NORTH CAROLINA - Senator MATT W. port after it had been passed by the conven- RANSOM of Northampton county (post office tion against his judgment as to its policy; Weldon); entered the onfederate army, servwas elected by that convention to the Con- ing as lieutenant-colonel, colonel, brigadierfederate Congress which met at Montgomery, general and major-general and surrendered Alabama,. February 4, 1861, and was chosen at Appomattox. vice-president under the Provisional govern- Senator AUGUSTUS SUMMERIELD MERRIMON, of ment by that Congress; was elected vice- Raleigh; was a member of the legislature of president of the Confederate States for the North Carolinain 1860-'61; was solicitor (rebel) term of six years under what was termed of the 8th judicial district of North Carolina the permanent government, in November, from 1861 to 1865. 1861; visited the State of Virginia on a mis- 1st District-Rep. JESSE J. YEATES, of Mursion under the Confederate Government in freesboro'; served in the Confederate army, April, 1861 upon the invitation of that State; and was major of the 31st regiment North was one of the commissioners on the part of Carolina troops; was solicitor (rebel) of the the Confederate Governmentatthe Hampton 1st judicial circuit of North Carolina from Roads' Conference in February, 1865; was 1861 to 1866. elected a Representative to the Twenty- 3d District-Rep. ALFRED MOORE WADDELL, of eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth Thirty-fixst, Wilmington; served in the Confederate army Thirty-second Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth as lieutenant-colonel of cavalry. and Thirty-fifth Congresses, when he declined 4th District-Rep. JOSEPH J. DAVIS, of Louisa re-election; was elected to the Senate of the burg; served in the Confederate army as capUnited States in 1866, by the first legislature tain. convened under the new Constitution (the 6th District-Rep. ALFRED MOORE SCALES, of Johnson provisional movement), but was Greensborough; was a member of the Thirtyiot allowed to take his seat. fifth Congress; volunteered at the beginning 9th District-Rep. BENJAMIN H. HILL, of At- of the late civil war as a private in the Conlanta; was a member of the Confederate federate army; was afterward promoted and States Senate, and of the Georgia Secession served as captain, colonel and brigadier-genConvention of 1861. eral, and for the war. KENTUCKY-7th District-Rep. JosEPH C. S. 6th Distriet —Rep. THOMAS SAMUEL ASHE, of BLACKBURN, of Versailles; entered the Con- Wadesborough; was elected in 1861 to the federate army in 1861, and served throughout House of Representatives of the Confederate the war. It is charged that his service was States, and to the Senate of the Confederate almost wholly that of a guerilla, engaged in States in 1864. hanging the Unionists of Kentucky. 7th District-Rep. WILLIAM M. ROBBINS,- of 12 Statesville; was an officerin the Confederate presiding officer of that body; was elected army during the whole war, Governor of Texas in June, 1866, for a term of 8th Dintrict-Rep. ROBERT BRANK VANCE, of five years; was inaugurated August 8, 1866, Asheville- was elected a captain of a corn- and removed by order of General Sheridan, pany in the Confederate service in 1861; was August 9, 1867. twice elected colonel of the 29th North Caro- VIRGINIA-Senator ROBERT E. WITHERS, of lina regiment, and was appointed brigadier- Wytheville; entered the Confederate army as general in 1863. major of infantry in April, 1861, and during TENNESSEE-Senator DAVID MaCKENDREE the same year was promoted colonel of tilhe KEY, of Chattanooga; entered the Confeder- 18th Virginia regiment, which lie commanded ate ariny in 1861, and served through the until retired in consequence of numerous entire war. disabling wounds, and appointed to com31 District —Rep. GEORGE GIBBS DIBRELL, of mand the post at Danville, Virginia, which Sparta; was elected to the State (rebel) legis- position he held until the close of the war. lature of Tennessee, in August, 1861; entered 1st District-Rep. B1EVERLY B. DOUGLAS, thle Confederate army as a private, was elect- of Ayletts; entered the Confederate arlny ed lieutenant-colonel, and promoted colonel as first lieutenant in Lee's Rlangers, allnd andl brigadier-general of cavalry; was de- was successively promoted to the rank of tailed to escort the executive officers and major of tile 5th Virginia cavalry. tlreasurer of the Confederate government 2d District-Rep. JOHN GOODE, Jr., of Norfolk; after the evacuation of Richmond.. was elected in 1860 a member of the State 4,?h Distiict —fep. HIAYWOOD YANCEY RIDDLE, (Secession) Convention of Virginia, which of Llebanon; entered the Confederate army as passed the ordinance of secession; was a private in 1861, and served through the war. twice clected a member of tile Confederate 6th Districi —lep. JOHN F. IousBE, of Clarks- Congress, and served in that capacity from ville; was a member of the Provisional Con- Feebruary 22, 1862, until the close of the war - gress of tlle Confederate States from Tennes- was appointed a member of the Nationai see; at tile expiration of his term of service Democratic Executive Committee in 1868, in said body, lie entered the Confederate and reappointed in 1872 for four years. army, and continued therein until tire close 5th District-h'ep. GEORGE C. CABELL, of Danof the wvar. ville; volunteered as a private soldier in the 7th District-R-ep. WASHIINGTON CURRAN WHIT- southern armly; inl Junc, 1861, lie was conmirisT~HORNE, of Colulmbia; was assisttnt adjutaiit sioned major lby Governor Letcher, and asgeneral in the Provisional army of Tennessee signed to the 18th Virginia infantry, Colonel in 18(l, and was afterward adjutant gcnelral W\rithers, Pickett's division, Longstreet's of the State, which position lie held under corps; participated in most of tile lbattles Governor Harris until thle close of the civil fought by that portion of the arniy of Northwar. errm Virginia to 7wh11ich lhe was attached; was 8th District-Rep. JOHN D. C. ATKINS. of Paris; twice wounded, and left the arimy at the was lieutenant-colonel of the 5th Tennessee close of the war with the rank of colonel. regiment in th.e Confederate army in 1861; 61l District-Rep. JOEHN RANDOLPH TUCKER was elected to the Confederate Provisional of Lexington; was attorney-general of VirCongress in August 1861; was r-e-eleited in ginia fromn 1857 to 1865. is also borne as a capNovember, 1861, aId again elected in Noveml- ain on the Confederate army rolls. hier, 1863. 7th Dsistrict-Rep. JOHN T. HARRIS of Ilarriloth iDitrict-Rip. CASEbY YOUNG, of M mcrnphis; sonburg; was a member of the Thlirty-sxtlh entered the Tennessee army as a private; was Congress of the United States; was a meInber afterward appointed assist anlt adj utant gene- of thce Confederate I:egislature from 1863 to'65. r1al upon the staff of Gen. W\ illiam IHI. Carroll, 8' Di.strict —Re). EPPA HUNTON, of Warrenand was subsequently assigned to the corn- ton; was elected to the State Convention of limand of a regiment of cavalry in General Virginia, which assembled at Ricllmond in Chalmer's division. lIe also served under February, 1861; served through its first sesForrest, at tile time of the massacre of Fort sion, and then entered the Confederate army Pillow. as colonel of the 8th Virginia infantry; was TEXAS-Senator SAM BELL MAXEY, of Paris; promoted after thle battle of Gettysburg, and educated at WVest Point, was elected State served through the residue of the war as Senator, for four years, in 1861, but declined, brigadier-general. arnd raised the 9th Texas infantry for thle 9th District-Rep.'WILLIAr TERRY, of WytheConfederate States armny, of which Ii as ville; was in the military service of Virgina colonel; was promoted to brigadiel-ge ral in thle "John Brown raid," in 1859; entered inI 1862 and major-general in 1864- con- tlle Confederate army in April, 1861, as lieumallded the Indian Territory military lis- tenlant in tlle 4th Virginia infantry, "Stonetrict 1863-65, and was also sulierintendent of wall Brigade," and served during tlhe war. Indian affairs. WEST VIRGINIA-Senator ALLEN TAYLOR lit District-Rep. JOHN II. REAGAN, of Pales- CAPERTON Of Union; was a member of the line; was elected in 1857 a representative to State (Secession) Constitutional Convention tile Thirty-fifth Congress from the first dis- of Virginia in 1861; was elected hy the legisIrict of Texas, and was re-elected in 1859 to lature of Virginia a member of the Confedtile Thirty-sixth Congress; was elected to elrate States Senate, and serveQd until the thie secession convention of Texas in 1861, and close of the war in 1865. was elected, with others, by thlat convention, 2/ District - Rep. CHARLES JAMES FAULKdeputy to the Provisional Congress of the NE, of Martinsburg; was elected to tlhe Confederacy; was appointed postmaster-gen- Ihouse of Representatives in tile Tlirty-seceral of the Provisional Government of the end, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourtlh and ThirtyConfederacy, March 6, 18l1; was re-apipointed fifth Conlgresses, serving from Decembller 1, on the permanent organization of the Con- 1851, until March 3, 1859; was nominated in federate government in 1862, and occupied 1859 by President, Buchanan as Minister Plenthe position until the close of the war; was ipotentiary to France, and confirmed by thle also appointed acting secretary of the treas- Sellate; returned to the United States in u ry of the Confederate govelnment. August, 1861, and was held as a prisoner of 241 District —lRep. DAVID B. CULBERSON, of Jef- state upon no charge or irlmiutation against ferson; was a member of the State House lis fidelity as a minister, but from an appreof Representatives of Texas (rebel) in hlension that he would unite his fortunes 1866, arld to the -State Senate (Johnson) 1866; wvith those of the Southern Confederacy; was entered the Confederate army as a private in exchanged in December, 1861, for Ilon. Alfred 1862, and was promoted until he became ad- Ely, member of the United States hIouse of jutant general with the rank of colonel. Representatives from New York, then a 3dt District-Rep. JAMES W. THROCRKMORTON, of prisoner in Richmond; entered the ConfedMcKirlney, elected to the State (rebel) Senate erate arlmy as a mlembner of General Stonein 1,863, and served until the surrender of wall Jackson's staff, and served as his chief General Lee; was elected a delegate to the of staff until the death of that officer, having Stte. Constitutional Convention under Presi- written all the official reports that bear his deiit J ohlson's proclamation, and was chosen signature.