. Atlanta, yesterday, today and tomorrow. r the first time the black man made his appear-ance in a gathering of this character in the Stateof Georgia. While the convention was in session andshortly after he had appeared before the body anddelivered an address. General Pope was removedfrom office, and a few days thereafter his succes-sor. General Meade arrived in Atlanta. He wasmet here by an enthusiastic citizenship, and waspresented with a set of resolutions shrewdly de-signed to flatter him, and at the same time, afPordthe populace an opportunity to flay his predeces-sor. These resolutions w
. Atlanta, yesterday, today and tomorrow. r the first time the black man made his appear-ance in a gathering of this character in the Stateof Georgia. While the convention was in session andshortly after he had appeared before the body anddelivered an address. General Pope was removedfrom office, and a few days thereafter his succes-sor. General Meade arrived in Atlanta. He wasmet here by an enthusiastic citizenship, and waspresented with a set of resolutions shrewdly de-signed to flatter him, and at the same time, afPordthe populace an opportunity to flay his predeces-sor. These resolutions were adopted at a massmeeting held at the City Hall in Atlanta on thenight of January 4, and were presented to Gen-eral Pope upon his arrival two days later. In the preamble to this remarkable set of reso-lutions, the facts surrounding the attempt of Gen-eral Pope to force the payment of the $40,000heretofore referred to, were set forth, while theconvention itself was denounced as ** conceivedin fraud and brought forth in iniquity. It was. FULTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE WITH FACES TO THE FUTURE 81 also charged that the retiring general had been^ surrounded while in this city by evil counsellorsin civil life to whom he lent a listening ear, andwhose thirst for office influenced them to coun-sel to further oppression and degradation of ourpeople, in order that they might fatten on thespoils thereof.^ The first part of these resolutions, which soseethed with the popular feeling of the hour, wenton most ingeniously, ^^ While this meeting is un-alterably opposed to the military acts of Cong-ress, under which it proposed to * reconstruct theSouthern States, and, while-i^disclaims any wish(were it possible) toIrifliiencetli^-action of Maj-or-General George G. Meade, politically or other-wise, yet it can but expr^^s its gratitude that ourpeople shall have in hJM^ aS;. plilitary commanderof this district, a gentleman and a soldier, who,we have reason to believe, will uphold and notdestroy the
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