SOUTHERN NEWS: Important Message of Governor Brown, of Georgia; Expose of the Condition of the Confederacy (11/13/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/13/1864

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We have received Southern papers of the following dates:

Richmond, Nov. 9; Macon, (Ga.) Confederate. Nov. 8; Augusts (Ga.) Chronicle, Nov. 4; Savannah Republican, Nov. 4; Mobile Tribune, Oct. 28; Charles-Mercury, Nov. 5.

These journals furnish us the following important extracts:

MESSAGE OF GOV. BROWN, OF GEORGIA.

The Macon (Ga.) Confederate, of Nov. 5, publishes in full the message of Gov. BROWN, which bears date Milledgeville, Nov. 3, He says:

Senators and Representatives:

The period of your annual meeting in General Assembly having arrived, it affords me great pleasure to welcome you to the Capital, and to assure you of my earnest desire to untie with you harmoniously and cordially in all practical measures which may promote the general welfare and redound to the glory and honor of our beloved State.

We are passing through a trying ordeal -- having staked upon the issues of war all that can be valuable or dear to a people. If we are subjugated, we lose home, property, liberty, reputation, and all, so far as this world is concerned, that makes life desirable or its burdens tolerable.

Our enemies have repudiated and trampled under foot the great principals of constitutional liberty, and have attempted to rear, upon the ruins of our Republican institutions, a consolidated empire, under the popular name of a union of States. We have taken up arms to resist this, and to maintain republicanism in its purity, with the sovereignty of the States and the personal rights and liberties of the people. No people ever accepted the alternative of war in a nobler cause, or exhibited to the world a more sublime spectacle of moral grandeur and heroic valor. Our gallant armies have won for these States a name which will stand upon a bright page in history,

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Southern News: Important Message of Governor Brown, of Georgia – 2-6
From Gen. Grant’s Army: Another Feeble Demonstration by the Rebels – 6
From Gen. Grant: He Congratulates the President on His Double Victory – 6
Gen. Sheridan’s Army: Our Forces Withdrawn to Winchester – 6
Atlanta: The Evacuation and Burning of the Place Denied – 7
A Rebel Attack Repulsed – 7
The War in Arkansas: Movements of Gen. Price – 7
The War in Tennessee: Latest from Tennessee River – 7
From Cairo – 7
The Sequel of Lieut. Cushing’s Exploit-Recapture of Plymouth, N.C. – 7-8
From New-Mexico: War With the Indians – 8
From Nevada: Political Affairs – 8
Sheridan’s Campaign – 8-10
Honors to Lieut. Cushing – 10
The Efficiency of the Army – 10
News from Washington – 10
Editorial: Shall We Stand By the Soldiers? – 10
Brooklyn News: Killed in Battle – 10

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I read the whole speech. The governor complains about the tyranny of both the Union and Confederate governments, and says everything should be done at the state level - and then turns around and issues harsh edicts to deal with the situation in Georgia.