Sunbury American

The annual message of the Democratic Governor of Georgia, Gov. Brown, calls to our attention a very remarkable fact, and one that will be apt to somewhat surprise the general public. By national law each State receives an annual appropriation for arms. Gov. Brown states that Georgia has lately received this appropriation for the four years that the people of that State were in rebellion, and we presume the other rebel States have been treated with equal liberality. The Governor states further that with that national appropriation to Georgia, 47 military companies of that State have been armed with the latest improved breech-loaders, one artillery company supplied with five Napoleon guns, and one cavalry company completely equipped. With such unprecedented liberality towards the rebel States since the rebellion, northern sympathizers continue to howl of tyrannical treatment towards the South by the National Government. It will be well perhaps if the Government were not quite as magnanimous in placing arms in the hands of men who will be too ready to use them in unlawful violence.