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,4- THE DAILY SUN. Batcbdiy Mokying. MS" Office in the Snn Building, Went tide cf Broad street, Second Door South of Alabama. tgf Nero Adrerliscmcnts always found an First PageLocal and Business Notices ess Fourth Page. To Law >«•»*. W<- publish in foil, tho decision* of th« Supremo Court; nlao tho doily ‘Tro- ceodlng*” of tho Court, and keep tho “Order of IJasinem - ’ xUmdine in our ooluniroi. M - Public See Uncut KtocwUere. eon lest aud by which oo brilliant and glorious a victory has been achieved. A. II, S. —.— » »■< * ■ ■ Slimy of our excliangcs are trying to show tvhut the “New Departure” means. To ull each we would say they had better be considering what the late victory in Kentucky means. If any want information on that sub ject let them read the article in to day’s paper from the Iiockford (Indi ana) Democrat, and the able and truly eloquent speech of lion. J I’roetor Kuott, of Kentucky, just on the eve'of the election. A. 11,8. As an (pdieatiou of the. iJgL tone of sentiment prevailing with tlie masses of the Democracy in diflbront parts of the country, we take the lib erty wf-presenting to our readers, to- dxtj, erf rati# from (wo letters, jnst at hand t one from Washington City, tho great centre of political action, and the other from New York, the great cen tre of trade and commerce, os well as the head quarters of tficj New Departs Prists.” These letters come not from poli tician*, or those on gaged In the work of trying to manufacture public opinion, but from men who look npon government aa something intended tor higher objects than the mere oh tain incut of the spoils of office; men also, of sense, who mix with the |>eo- plo, and sympathise with their fil ings ami wants: with their oppres' sinus and their ]>atriotic yearnings for redress, through the proper, the peaceful, the quie t, the constitutional nml all powerful agency of the ballot box. The letter from New York was penned under the immediate shadow of the New York World, tlie great leader of thane ‘MisafTected Homo- crats” who arc now making swh gi gantic efforts to persiitwle the rdnt mid (ilc of Lhe.rally, e\cry where, to abandon their principle#, go over at masse to tho enemies’ ground take possession of it, occupy aud , “ build npon it.” This leading or gan of the “ disaffected/’ established as ■ Radical sheet, and having oi- l>uused, nominally, the cause of the Democracy only since about the close of the war; not at all liking the Jeltersonian doctrines announced in the l’lalform of the Party in 1808, it will be recollected, took its ‘•Depart ure’’ therefrom just before tho elec tion of that year, and contributed no little to the defeat of (Seymour and Muir. I.ike the “ Isme captain” in the story, it was the first to “depart,” and ouliiy^u^W&i'tes'anillbllowers. This “liuno captain” who thus signalized his course by abandoning thoprincipVeiwnd enure dftjio IVunoc- ,ryy!p t^e ycry Ueatof tho first grewt contest he was ever engaged in under that banner, now assntnes to l>e a lender of the parly! That paper is truly entitled to tho leadership of all those who wish to leave or “depart” from their Demo- crotie iwiiriatioup for any reason or j»urpo«s it linteiep—either Ijcciusc they donfffike the ^etforsonian doT- trincs upon which tho organization is founded, or because they think it will “not pay" to maintain them ; Jipt if is entitled to no leadership iu the Democratic hosts of the United Slates—Ihe Ihri-v millions from whom it so ingloriouslv departed in 1808! The extracts of tho letters lvfVrml to aro as follow^; Wisuixarosi Onr, D. a, I August 7, 1871. | Uu.i. Alexander II. Stephen,: lit Data Sir—As it bos been four or Uvo years since 1 wrote to you, pardon me for dropping yon a line or two. 1 fully approve overvtbiug you liuvo raid in Tut: Sr a, and If there is any salvation for the country it must bo on tho lino yon Lave indicated. AU the Democrats I bare conversed with agree that yon nro right, Ac., • « » I am very truly yours. New York, Aug. 0, 1871. ITiv-t. ,1. H, Stephens: MtDzar Sir—Absence tom tho city delay'd the writing of thin latter, there fore you will allow mo at this time to ox- press to you my unqualified admiration of roar “New York World onoe more." I have no woods to adequately express to you my approval of your orticlo under the above mentioned title. It elcars up the fog about the 14tii and 15th amendments clearly and eiticctirely. There arc no other issues in tho contest of 1871, pn Using and vital ns State ltfghts on the one side, and centralization of power on the other. * • * I bless yoa In my heart for your explo sion of the “New Departure” which says wo don't condemn the smssg itsetf, lmt only the means by which it hsa been aooomplishod. * * * Yours most truly, Wc could add many more similar ilcinonstroHons of jfcpuhir approval, coming almost daily from Maine to California and Oregon, bnt neither time nor space will allow. We give these two a* samples of the w hA. They show that there is life iu the old “iron ribbed” Democracy yet— and that thejfrwe men of the Party do not intend to ruu away from their guns in the contest of 1872, nor to wilct them cither. They intend to Uaud by them and give from them Bt such broadsides as the “llour- ™* 11 ” of Kentucky gave in their late Twin the Rorkfffd (Indiana) Democrat, 5th Ann- Tbc Dive Old Party. From the uicinorablo campaign of 1800 (says live Nashville Union and American.) down to tho present, amid nil the shift ing issues of three quarters of a century, tho Democratic party has over been in the field, mid with a few exceptions, in tho van. To tiint party belong all tho glories of tho post; its reign hue been the reign of peace, proeperity nnd progress; and when it has at times been displaced, manifold anil bitter evils have come upon the country. Tho fate of tho nation and that of tho Democracy nro intertwined. Tho explanation is, that our pnrty main tains too living, essential principles of oar system of government. It has boon moro than n pnrty; it has been the em bodiment of the political life and legiti mate aspirations of tho American people. Compared with European annals, our his tory reads as if tho Democracy wore tho constituted government, while other par ties, arising from time to time, have been tho successive forms of Opposition The essential principles that givo suc-vitality to our party, being identical with the Constitution of 1789, are oquelly dura ble. They wore applicable to a confede racy of thirteen Btates and three millions of pooplo; they will prove equally boned cial to furty Btates nnd forty millions. With our fathers, the absorbing ques tion on which Clay, Calhoun anil Web ster burnished their brilliant intellects, was, What shell we do with our Treasury surplus? Tlie present generation, with its weight -of national debt, pronounce theta very “dead” issue; hut with ahalf century ot Democrotlo rnlc, tho hopo is not extravagant that it may again lieoomo the jilvot of politics with onr cbihlrou.— Later enmn tho Nattvo Americans, and then tho Know-Nothings; and wo may have to light that struggle over in the noar /ataro, twenty ffGrs ago, internal iuprovcmoutH came knocking at tho pub lic tluor, ii#beggars; tho people voted to gfvo thorn A start in life. Twenty years honec, mft¥nal improvonwnts arc likely to oouic up uguii), not as beggurs, bat as domineering tyrants; and tho people, un der tlie lend of tho Democracy, will liavo to meet the changed ismio. Thu« our principles have been tried and proven equal to every issue iu which tho inter ests of tho people and of free institutions are involved. Those who imagine tlmt tho Democracy must make ft “new de parture” to meet newly sprung issues, do not understand the live old party which hna survived all tho shocks of time, and which emerges from a horrible civil war more united than its triuuiphaut oppo nents, so that to-day Radicalism gives ev ery ovidence of early dissolution, wliilo tho grand old Democracy uover boro greater promise of coming and contiuucd usefulness. Wliilo lladicalhm barely subsists in a dozen States, fed on Federal porridge, tlie Democratic 1 tanner iloaU to the broeze throughout the Union, rally ing tho people by its invocation of time- honored principles. 1111. >ISW 1>EI»A U l l 11E. Tlie Law, the Bogle, imhI tlie llblvrr ot the bo-cnlli-tl • Aiiteuilinoiiti- Spwli of Has. J. Drector Knott at l-miiieucr, K j. lb'iiimnitlc Faith in Dcniorrttir Policy. Filuiw-Oitixen* : iiH'ltiiwaUi y in vital the present oc T am opi ablo to meet ”•? . the . INtlnful oouaci. theoxpoitaticms of tho large aud intelligent audience I havo tho pleasure of sooiug before me. 1 hare but little t hjuu ity for more rhetorical display, tho most favorable clrt'umaUucoa, and, worn dawn aa 1 am to aouia extent by the st-vore physical suffor- ing uuder which 1 have been laboring for nearly two day« paid, 1 foil compelled to oppeolto your kind forbearance to oxcus* me from attempting anything of tho kind, n- I tin aattodod it could only end In a S ortify iOf failure. I trust, also, that you will par- in wo iff pretermit offffrvl.v tho ordinary topic* ol political discussion which have occupied tho popular miuddurmg the prearut ctiUvaHs. mid coniine myeclf exclusively to duo which In every tlay being brought more and mot# prominently into view, and up, which public opinion is yet iu tho process of font tion. i allude to tho (juoatlou aa Ui what ahonld ho Utop the H lion. I would not h« uutb ratoiKl the importance of the v arioi of tho tariff, internal taxation, and other huidrod buI^ocU which have boon ao thoroughly and ably dlacuaaod by tho aovcral caudulatoa aluioat avery where throughout tho Btatc during the aummer, l»u thla l couaider i»arainount to them all; for. in my ludgmcnt, it not only iuvolvoa the exiatcuco of the iViuoeratic party, hut the proaperity of our form of goreruwrnt aud th« libertiea to which wo aro ontiUcd under It I will crave your indulgence, therefore, while 1 aball attompt to givo it a calm and diapataiou- ate conaidoruUon. tub TnimxxNuj m.'unu.vr. With regard to tho Thirteenth Amondracut, I have auunly to way that t auppoae there is not an intelli gent Democrat in Kentucky or elaewherv wlio pn poaea t*> rwiao a uumUou a« U» its validity, or who ei tertains an idea that tt over will, or ever can, bo dl turbed. Infamous an was the broach of faith li volred in the act of forcing It upon those 8tat< whose Legislature* refuted to ratify it, and whose people were literally robbed, through ite operation ot utlUona upon iclUiona of dollar* worth of prop erty; reluctantly aa it may have boon aeaented to by time States which had been recently crushed to tho very earth beueath the remorseless heel of a terrible im destructive war. and which were, therefore, in no condition to offer any material opposition I adoptiou, it waa nevertheless proposed, as all cede, by two-thlrda of all the members who been elected to either houaeof Conoreee. and rail fled by tho requiaite number of State# through tog I *la turva oheean by Hectors poaa«'saing the (|uaTi&ce- tionH presoriUd by tho several State* themselves In their respective constitutions, and having thus be- oome a part of the organic law of tho land in imrau anoe of the tenus of the constitution, aud having received the acquieeceuoe of those most matoriaUy affected by It, no one that 1 know of either proposes or desire* that it should l>« repealed or interfered with iu any manner whatever. At any rate, that tfan Democratic party entertains any such idoa or tuteu- turn is someth lug that will t>e geecrted by no cue who possesses tlie lutolHgnucc of an ordinary oys ter, or moral hom sty enough to keep his hauds ont of his neighbor's corn-crib Tito so called rourr«KMTn and FinriKTH amkndmbiits. bulwark of Mate iu oommeod Heelf at once to tho apprehension commonest rapacity in tho uulverse, that nothing rmn be Justly coualdcrsod the logical reaolte of a war beyond the acoumplhfhiuent of tho purpose Jbr which mat war wan declared and waged. If this slaughter of ita entire people. I'ulese, therefbre.it can ^e truthfully said that the war waa declared and carried on for tlie avowed purpose of manamltlng and enfranchising the negroes of the south; nay more, unless it can bo truthfully averred that the war was inaugurated and prosecuted f»r tie- express purposes of ib-pr'.v mg the HUU-e of Umlaut ‘ *' " of tlu ir reserved righlM, and to v«st all |kiw« General Goveruiaeut, to lie cxerrisod by ilacAioriliug to tho unlimited discretion of Congress, it cannot be pretended with any show of either truth or reason that theso amendments are to be classed among'its legitimate results, any more than they arc tho nt-cee- tbat the limitations in the written constitution may WHAT A UK THX TACTS? Curtain Htates asserted their right to *evor their connection with the Federal Union. That right was denied by the general government, aud in order to decide the issue thus raised between them, an appctvl was made to arms, the ultimate arbitrator of natidns. There was, however, as all will remember, a wide spread distrust as to the ultimate purposes of the party which had Just acoeeded to power, not only in the mind* of tho Southern people, but with Urge numbers throughout the North. Aud in order to dUpel any minapprehen*ion wherever it might exist, Congress, soon at Ur the ooiumoucement of hosliii- tii s, declared With a unanimity ami an amiarcut ear- ueslutKs aud sincerity scarcely paralleled m tho leg islative annals of mankind, that the war w aa “not w aged ou our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for auy purpose of conquest or subjugation, or pur- 1-0*0 of overthrowing or Interfering in any way with tha rights or ostsblinncd institution* of thone States, but to defend and maintain the constitution, and to proserve the Union with all tho rights, dignity aud equality ol the several Btates unimpaired." And not only was the design to connuer or subjugate, or in any manner interfere with the rights or institu tions of auy Btate, thus declared by Congress In the strongest possible language, but both tho other co ordinate departments of the government were • H nulled to the *amc doctrine iu terma equally explic it, emphatic and unequivocal. The very first pledge of the executive, then recent ly installed, was that while he had neither tho right nor tho inclination to interfere with the Institutions of any Htate, he would see that the laws of the Union should bo enforced iu all the Btatea of tho Union alike, while the ludlciary. In every case in which the point wa* directly or incidentally adverted to, de clared that the statu* of the oovcrsl Btates would be the same after the war as before it. THV bl'l I'bUSlDN OT THE UKUELLJON t OXFEUUKD NO litOlIT* OT CONCENT. I will be i-ardoned for citing one case especially, not only because it puts this question beyond con troversy, hut because it derives ten-fold more author ity from having becu decided in the very focul center of all wisdom- uuntau and divine. 1 alludo to the celebrated case of Amy Warwlok. decided in tho Uoi- ted Htates District Court of MassachuHotts - a cmae long siuce familiar to every legal mind In the coun try. Iu his opinion, dofivured in that case, Judge Hprague, the distinguished juri*t. before whom it ws* tried, made use of the following plain, emphatic and unmistakable language: “It has been supposed that if tlie Government have the r ghts of a bellige rent then after the loboliion is suppressed it will have the righto of conquest; that a State aud it* in habitants may bo nonnauoutly divested of all politi cs! advantages mud trusted as a foreign territory.— This is an error; a gravo aud dangerous error. * * * • When the United Btate* UlA pos- Mgsiou Ot a rebel district they merely vmdicatAhoir pruminting tilio. Undoy despotic governmentTcon- Iteration may 1m> unlimited, but under our govern- meut tho right of sovereignty over auy porlio* of a Htate is given and limited by tho constitution, and will he the same after tho war as it was before.”— Much was tlio theory of every department iff tho Government during tho progress of tho war. and tho /»> t* were exactly coincident with it when the rebtl lion w** sUpprcsM-d. The only legitimate results of the contest were simply Uie establishment of the principle that a Htate had no rigid to uccodo, and the rcausortion of tho supremacy oi tho constitution over the Btatea lately in ruvolt as over tho other member* of the Federal Union. When the storm of war pas sed sway it left tlie Bouthcrn Htates precisely In tho condition it found them—each with its own consti tution, its own local government, republican inform a* it had ever becu, its own tews, its own Institutions aud its own dignity aud equality as a component part of tho Federal Union. Those facta wore not only recognised by tho J udi- clnry immediately after the war, but were deliberate ly acknowledged by both the legislative aud cxetutivo departments of tho Government In the very set of propoiiiugand submitting tho Thirteenth amsndinout to tlie legislatures of those States for thsir ratifica tion. That amendment was itself a solemn admis sion of record that not oven tho despisod institution of slavery had boon overthrown by tho war, while it* ami in full operation, but that oach >-i them t.tlo l to an equal voice in tho ratification of auy pro- posed amendment to tho organic law of the Oeueral tlovi mou nt. This is a conclusion from which rcas- on or logic i-.n fiirulcU no poMiblu .ml it co«M,fo«vtAt<]ft to dui/br evmio It. IIUTORZ or TIIK AHKiyiHXNr,. Decoding then upon tho Uypotliosis, thus acted J l-y'evsry department of the Govuraqwnt, and :h those especially who denied tho rigfct ol X however, stand upon very different ground*. I have aeMrted eteewbere, and 1 propone to mtfulnlu. the truth of the proposition hem teMtny, that if them it ~ ‘ugle particle of senFo or moaning iu tlie provis I of the Federal coustituUuu, preeeutiug the man in which amendments may be made to that iu struroent, neither of th.we fNklM erUeles p<w. eesenn any mote validity or • flout as a part of the organic law of thie government, or any more blad ing force upoujdte several Btatea of this Union, either morally or h'gafty, than the rcsolnlion* of a mob as rc rubied In the streets of your town. 1 am aware that there are those who disdain any- thing 10m » calm, logical investigation of any quee- - i. from a oousUtuUonnl standpoint, who Ignore simplest and plainest dieLstcs of common ren- i. and roundly assort the validity of these no- called amoftdnmnU upon the gratnitoo* that they are tho legttimnte re suite of too, tf-«i tt has recnafly hsemno » ho have hitherto noted with the Democratic if not to Justify, every crii U U utterly unfoundod m tect re, however, refused admltUuco, and their btett* deuioi thsir constitutional right to a reprosen . branoh of Congronn. la vain thoy ap- bcllion had hong restored . .. ^ of the war to their previous condition aa oo-eoual BteU* la tho Union, or rather that their oonditlon had never been chaugod at all, bat that they still re tained all their righw; dignity and equality as such, 1st u* so* how tbeaa pretended aiueudmnhts were proposed and ratifiai. Having rescinded their ssv- end ordionnoes of recession, aud ratified the Thir teenth amondmont, tlio olevou Southern Status pro- lodod to elect their Senators and ltepresontativu in 3iigrcs*. Their Senators were elected by tho very Legislatures who had Just been oallod upon by Con gress to cxerciHO tho highest function in tho cutlro range of th-'ir authority, and whose ratification of tho Thirteenth auteudmout had becu accepted aud pro- ulgati d by it as valid iu every particular. Their iproiMUitativos wore choeeu by tho identical const!- louoios who had elected (ho inemliera of those Leg- islsturcs, and whose constitutional right to do ao not disputed by auy one, but acknowledged by aa. Those Senator* aud Representatives presented themselves at the Federal capital, aud asked to be admitted to their seats to whleh they wi re entitled uuder the constitution, and for which thoy |>ossussed every qualification prescribed in that iuatruniiuat.— Thor ~ mMi pealed to tlio constitution, widch plainly and < phaticolly guaranteed to Uiolr rMpecUv* States S ual voice in the Soaato. aud a l-oprcsentetion in the •use iu proportion to their number - **■ *“ donum.led that their respective quali ho.Usicrndned by the same standard which haa l>oen applied to tho Senators aud Representatives; from oilier State* *tauding ou precisely Uio nemo constitu tional footing with their own. It did uot suit the revolutionary parpeso* of the faction iu ] of thu legislative (lepartmont of the govoi admit them, so tho doors of Congress ’ temptuouHly slammed la their faues, and the cutii-e powers of Federal legislation asMiunod by an u*nrp- tug fiagmeut of that body, which, with au effrontery amounting almost to absoluto sublimity, pr<q>osed what is called tho Fomteonth amendment to tlie constitutiou, aud demandod its ratification st the hand* of tho vory Htate* whose Souatorn and Rep scuUtives it had Just ruthlessly spurned from the vestibulu of the Federal capitol. rnoroexD nr a minomity. U you will tsko the trouble to examine the Jour nals you will find that the proportion was oarriod in tlie Senate by a vote of AJ to 11—three Demoere two Radicals uot voting—end in the Bouse by of 138 to *6- three Democrats and seven Radicals not tr.tioual existence to ('ougross, there would have been, upon * fUU rot*', a otear nudority of three against it in the Senate, while it would have failed In the lloure by sixteen votes. Yot wo are told that wo must admit that this suieudmout was proposod in accord ance with ths terms of tho Constitution, which thisamcmliucnt was proposed, what shall be said of tho vernacular __ content myself with a bare recital of facte, sutuuitted to all tho sutc*. but fkiled to recetva the ratification of the reqnaite number by tour Mi Herat ntly n'Jected it lug been thui . __. gi Jatnrewof aU die Htstee, aud IU dearly defeated, It woe, oc Hording to evei of common reason, and every parliamentary rule aad prevedent with which I am fhmilior. dead to all la- tents and purposes, and ooukl only be Beaurreeted by being egaiu proposed and again submitted to all the States. Duta new and very different principle waa applied. It war deliberately determined to hold on ery petty ftufaalteru; the ordinary machinery of Jus tice was displaced by tiie military commission and the drumhead court-martial; the ciuxen waa reixod Without wcarenut, accused without indictment, tried without a J»uy, oundoamed without law, stripped of hi* property without compensation, imprisoned without tho benefit of the habeas carpus, and denied evea the privilege of appealing to tho civil arm of tho government for protection drees. In the time the habiliment* of eitlaeu- ship were stripped from thousand* and tens of thou sands of thoiuoNLIatuifiggnt portion of the white pop ulation, through the <*peratk>n of wide-sweeping irfls enforced at tha point of the bayonet; while the bal lot, which had been torn from the white man, was, by au usurpation as umusti us as it was unauthor ized. placed in tin* hand-i of the recently manumitted ■dares, ffor waa that all, nor half, ir madam onlum itecll bad taken an umetir, it conld uot have vomlteit up such an ofTssouring uf miserable inlecruoute as tho horde* of loathsome vermin who, aMured by ths rich prospect of pi uuder, sxirmod from every por tion of the Union to fktten, like gangs of hungry MlBj Ui»on the fallen proaperity of that of our country. (Great l WllUiOT wolves, ui section of I know this may sound like the extravagant lan guage of exaggerated hyperbole, but I know, and you know, it is the literal tenth- And no aaau who knows anything of the first elements of civil liberty, who ever felt any of the more generous Imputes* of the human heart, can review the long and damning catalogue of bitter, burning wrong* which ware per- single word tho party iu i*owcr, elm- of brute force, «nd in open once of overy obligation of the oosistftutfoai, created a set of more instrument*, utterly subservient to its own will; commanded thorn to organize Just such pretended legislatures aa suited its own purpose*, and then compelled these so-called legislature# to givo their formal assent to its revolutionary proposi tions to amend the Federal constitution under the penalty of perpetual military vassalage. This is the plain, simple truth of the matter, and no one with tho slightest regard for veracity will pretend to deny it. [Applause.] coxraon or avmrnxot uuna rtum the states 11* DEFIANCE or a I OPCLAB VETO. Now, everything I have said of the manner in which the Fourteenth Amendment was proposed and pretended to be ratified is equally truo of the Flf- ire. The Fifteenth as* grand master- Fraud, as a sublime insult to tho popu- n improvement even upon the mon strous feature* of It* predecessor. Tn# proposition to admit the negro to the right of suffrage had been but a year or two before voted down in nearly every Northern Radical _ it had just fraud, and every other appliance that might I . necessary, compel -ay*, compel—a sufficient ber of the recusant Btates to give It their formal as sent to satisfy the letter of the constitution, an# thus make a show of having complied with ths forma of the law. Ten Btates whteh, ea 1 have already shown, bad been time and again recognised as coequal Btatea of the Federal Union notwithstanding their rebel- Uoa. ataadtag precisely upon aa equal footing with all the other State*, were accordingly throttled by the nithloe* hand of revolutionary force. Their coo- ■btnUcnz were annulled, their laws abrogated, their legislatures disbanded, the ermine stripped from their Judges, and their Governors displaced, and all the Amotion* of civil government committed Id uiil* itary satraps, whose dominion over the life, liberty and prvparty of every man, woman and child la their respective districts was p unVatfUrf and * -^-~** any alieolnU despot that ever , over may portion of the Almighty's fiootetqsk There *- noted elf over ths entire Booth such s aamstAUA or orraaerev, • \ violence, outrage, nod official crime of every descrip tion. ee waainner seen before among civilized men, and «toh arl trust in God wO) never be nan agten. ■very guarantee in the bill of right*, esery .effBfl •n Btate by overwhehaiug mAJoritiee- The party itself, in the very platform upon which .ust succeeded in electing its President, had pledged itself to tho great principle—so far as the loyaTBtateH were concerned at least—that tho right to regulate the elective franchise was inherent in the several Btates. Yet scarcely had the shouts of tri umphs which greeted their success died away before they made this proposition to strip the States of the last vestigo of iudei>endeuco by robbing them of this great paramount right. Th®fr candidate elected up on that platfurm was under every obligation that could influence an honorable gentleman to maintain aud dofend, for those who had honored him with their coufldence, the principles avowod in it. Yet while the acclamations that greeted hie inauguration wore echoing along the heights of Arlington aud ‘Georgetown, he was reading his imperial mandate before the Btate Legislatures to violate the veiy first pledge it contained. When it was before the Senate tho proposition wa* made that it uhould bo submit ted to Legislature to be elected, la order that the people themselves might be heard, bnt.it wa* promptly and contemptuously rejected. What right had tho people to be heard on a question like that, or any other involving the (instruction of their liberty ? It was submitted to the Staton, and. like ihe four- toeutb had boon, was fairly defeated upon a iftll and filial action of their several Legislatures. Uut the ruling party was determined that it should have at least the appearance of a formal ratification at all haa- ards. And what waa done? Georgifi, whose Legis, lature had rejected it, was absolutely expelled from the Union, aud compelled to reverse her action aad ratify it under pain of being subjected indefinitely to tlie tender mercies of Uie military despotism to which she was summarily remitted, while the vote of New York wa* retained in favor of it, notwithstan ding her Legislature had withdrawn her aasont to its ratification. The Legislature of ludiana never legally acted ujrui it st all, less than a constitutional quorum being present when it was voted upon, Yet, when ber Legislature subsequently protested against the unconstitutional and unauthorized act of a revo lutionary fragment of her former General Assembly being taken as the voice of her people, their remon- FAilAJ.ua OASES. _ jw, suppose that theec amendment* had beeu re jected by the New Lugland States, and that Cnogrera had thereupon declared thorn mere military depend- Government*, limited the right of suffrage to e par ticular cla*H of its own selection, and compelled that class, through revolutionary mssemblioa, to give its assent to tlioni under pain of being deprived of every vestigo of free government until it should ( do so, would it be contented for a single reomentthat a rati fication procured in such a manner Would have mode them valid or binding on any one? It would not; but why ? Because the Constitutiou no where confers upon Congroe* auy such power. Bat where, let ask, does it get any moro authority to throttle South Carolina, and compel herttrobey its unconstitutional and revolutionary behests, than it has to treat Massa- "w;1b!TuUf tfcf £ sounded more than South Carolina? Write them to gether, Booth Carolina is as fair a name; sound them, it doth become the mouth m well; woigh them, It is as heavy; conjure with them. South Oarollua will ■tart a spirit as soon as Massachusetts.” (Laughter, Again 1 ask you: 8upposo Congress had gathered up on Pennsylvania avcuuo a motley crowd of igno rant negroes, vagrant carpot-baggers, aud contempt ible scalawag*, called it the legislature of Virginia, and compelled it to ratify In that name those pre tended} amendments, would ypu protend, for § soli tary in*taut, that such a ratification would have made thorn valid or binding upon any body not compelled to submit to them by mere brute force? You would not Tho most ultra Radical between tho oceans would not and why? Yon answar again, because there is no such power delegated to Congress In the CoiistHtution. Bnt where, toll me, is tb* provision in tlmt instrument which either expressly or by any kind of implication confors npon Congress anar more authority to ovorturn the government of Virginia, disfranchise her white voters, and put negroes In their places, by arbitrary odlcte onforood by military powor, than It has to confer all tho sovereign po of that Commonwealth upon any hundred vagal negroes it might see proper to solcct in the ah or the city of Washington ? DZMOcaaTic faith. thougl shall think, until my mental aud moral are eutirely changed, that Congress has no power nbt delegated to it in the eotihtituuon. That whatever it outside of or in contravention to the proviskm* vast Isesmblagu and adopt a platform, declar ing It a “Axed fleet," and declaring any oue who would questiou its validity a resurrectionist of “ “dead surrecilonl iHHuca,” It would nevertheless be still as utterly null and void, with no bind lug effect upon any oue either legally or morally. If 1 am mistaken in thla, how ever; if amendment* can be mads to the coast!tu- tion iu thiH way. proposed by a fragment of Congress while keeping whole delegation* ont of their seats by forco, ratiflsd by mere organized mobs whoa Con gress may boo proper to call Stales, and made “fixed frets" by tho Democracy's simply "departing" from lta ancient faith—“foidiug its tents «nd stealing quietly away,**—thou wo are under a consolidated government with no limitations upon its powers be yond its own discretion ; our Federal system is a miserable sham, and the Btates mere subordinate municipalities to be made aad unmade whenever It may suit the revolutionary design* of any frution who may get two-thlrda of each House of Congress to place them under tho crushing heel of a military despotism. SAUIUO I HI NO*. Yet it may l>o so, for wo are told that these amend ments are sacred things, which no uuliallowed baud must touch. To taste the “shewbreed’ a (he ■tautaneous death. But the sanctity of all these oom- entire Democratic party is commanded to fall down and worship in abject humility. [Laughter sad ap plause.) Tho w retch who would suggest their re moval from tho exalted pedestal upon which they haro been placed, Is dooniod to a political damnation beyond the utmost reach of pardoning grace. [Great laughter.] I hey ore “fixed facte," as immutable lie firm foundations of the everlasting universe. ••The cloud-copped towers. The solemn temples, the Yea. all which It inherits t And, like an insutatantlot Leave not a rack behind." safe usurpation of power by the dominant party la this government, aadihave soon each ia turn made the precedent, the pfffiext. the affmpiagerap. to er still more sliming ; and 1 warn you now iol- eunity ami deUtiemtolr, that if the American puoph shall acquiesce either tacitly ot (xprenefy iu the man ner in which it has hagg afferapted to engraft these amendment* upon th# coggtttutioii; If they shall suffer tliomoelree/o beoojafaosuuiitted to cut each modes of tinkerttfr with toe organ!* of their government by tyfeg supffiffiy upon flMtr hw Asiu supreme apathy end ludifihreaee to the usurpations, outrages end wrongs in such revolutionary proceed ings. it will not be long before they will haves coa- *oiidated despotism erected upon the ruin* of their federal republic. Ngy, if they admit that the man ner In which these amendment* were proposed and ratified renders them valid and binding, Attorney General Akennan was right. The States are mere dependencies upon the central power, aud may lie blotted out of cristenre end placed under a military despotism whenever tt suite the sovi relgu will of that power to order it to be done. What boots tlfo *ham |MvU'iif«* tlmt won Un* teller of the law |ku* U i'll complied with in their cnee Invent, v*huu its spirit is cnutUsd to death ? Augusta* wo* Kdiie, Augur, Pontiff, tribune of Urn people. Consul. Em peror, despot, all at the same tune, and afl iu pur- ' “ ‘ ~ COUNtitUtlOU, But tlieae amendments are frr from being ’ the harmless th tug* that aomo pretend. I warn you that a are full of danger. Iheyare nercksrgud with to your system of government aud tho libcrth f ilch yon are entitled under it Not simply be cause the negro is declared to be e citizen; not be cause he goes to th* polls and votes; uot beseuuo it is declared that no State shall deprive auy citizen of life, liberty, or property without doe process of law; i fur although the central government haa done so in repeated Instanced, even in Unicsof profound peace, and has amumod unlimited power to do so now, no one supposes ths Hteten would, or even could, do HUtli a thing with impunity; not that the basis of renresettfauou tssought to be changed; not because ofttoe infamous bill of attainder, which *usj>eud* the sword of Damocles over the beads of thousands of tho purest men in our land—because I believe an im partial and enlightened judiciary would wipe that foul and damning blot from our escutcheon soy way; uot because It sock* to enshrine the interacts of tbs bondholder forever beyond the reach of the labor ing tax-payer—fur 1 have never doubted tlie integrity of the people, or Uut they would discharge the last cent of tbeir honest obligations if let alone, anyway; nor yet because of thejshiunuful attempt to repudiate the million* of doDars Justly due the people of my uati\ o gioic. lor I thank God they can live without it [applause]; but because there Is not aa encroachment upou Btate authority, there la uot on outrage upon State right*, there is not a single stretch of usurpa tion of any kind, however monstrous or dangerous it may be, Uut may not, and will uot be perpetrated and justified by an unscrupulous faction, uuder the pretext of enforcing them, if they are to be accepted aud retained as a part of the Fodcral constitution. One by oq<? (he States will be stripped of their local municipal powers. Every tew upon which you de pend for LIa«_ y.rr«fretimes yoar life, liberty, or prop- erty will bo bupcoiMid, altered, or annulled, an may suit tho will or subserve the Durpo*es of the central power. The tenure ot every local office will be uudo to depond upon the pleasure ot the consolidated gov ernment, whose hordes of oommieaianera, marshals, coiuiuumtj Stmv suv u^a auu ing liko maggot* upon the n members of the body-politic. Republican liberty will be ewe The last bulwark Republican liberty will be swept away. In the fierce clash of contending factious, or the vain struggle to recover the corse of murdered freedom, internecine strife will drench your land in blood. A Marius, a Bylte, a Pompey, a Cesar, aye, parchance, a Brutus, will again appear in the evcr-Hliifling, over repeating drama of hiatory. and, at last, the aspiring baud of soma Octavius will seize the imperial diadem and wave hla iron acoptro over tlio debauched and ener vated fragment* of a ouoo proud and powerful peo ple. chimorM of a diseased imagination, the insubstantial exhalations of a disordered brain? Do you tell mo tha} we really have none of theso things to frar? Look what has already been dono. You have tlonal jurisdiction of his person, or of the offense of which he has been charged, and oondemned to im prisonment or death for the violation of no law that Congress ever passed or ever had the power to pass. You have seen Information after Information lodged in the Federal Court to inquire by what authority your attorney general, your judges, your sheriffs, your clerks, and perhaps your legislator*, presume to dfscliarae top function* of the offices to which tbpy have been regularly chosen by tho people. You have Been your judges indicted like malefactors in the district court for the faithful and conecienUoue discharge of their sacced duties, according te their official oaths. And yoii'havo asked in terror and amassment, why all those strange and alarming pro ceedings? By wuat authority i* tho province of tho State thus invaded? Ah, my frionda, the Federal au thorities have simply been carrying out tho provis ions of an act to enforce the provisions of tho Four teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal constitution. Wait till your next Congrowional elec tion, and you will see them enforce the supplement al provisions of the samo act. You see your morn ing papers teeming with toise aud forcible denunci ation* of pud RsTqoastrCue-provisions denouncod in the fer vid tones of indignant eloquence by orators and statesmen, the late he t of whose shoes I am uot wor thy to unloose. Your curiosity become* excited, and you turn to the hill itself, and your blood ebbs beck, chilled and curdled to its vital centra, when you dis cover that the lifo, liberty, and fortune of every ‘ w-z-t, •».- oomiuv.i.Mrai mu# auy moment become mihjcct to the irreipoBi ble fiat of a single will, that the whole machinery of your Htato government may be stopped in an lustant, yoar constitution suspended, your laws superceded, aud tho benign goodness of J— * * “ grim, misshaped, hell-born < You see the shimmer of tlio bayonet through every paragraph. You catch the fierce bright gleam of too sword-blade In ovory sentence. You hear the sharp click Of Urn trigger in every line. You look abroad over the Btato, and in almost every town you behold detachments of Federal troops In atern battalion, with fixed bayonet* and ahotte*' forgo its fierce provision a to tho ttMFMk . I _ bill, my Mend*. Don't you seeitiz * bill to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amondmont to too constitution ? Will you toll mo now, In fall view of all these thlugs, when you have calmly contemplated them aa I have endeavored to do, in all their bear ings, and traced them a!l to thoir ultimate and logi cal consequences, that I am laboring under a tempo rary aberation when I tell yoa these amendments are fraught with dauger to our form of government aud the rights and liberties it was designed to protect ?— "I am not mad, most noble Fcstu*, bnt speak forth th* words of truth end soberness.” I tell you it is as true as yon sun In the heavens that your govern ment may be destroyed through the inbtrqmeatality of thee* bill* alono. Yet I would say to those gen tlemen who are day after day inveighing against them with all the fervor of eloquence and au the power of logic, while arduously maintaining the vs- Udlty and sanctity of tho foul source from wlioncc thoy sprung, that they are ouly holding the auu-s- thetic to the patient's nostril while, perhaps unwit tingly, they aggravate the disuosu that is sapping the foundation of his life. 1 would my to those who are expending all the iceouroes of their gouius in en deavoring to arouse the people to a eense of their dsnges by vivid aud startling portrayals of tho fright- fal features of those fearful measures, they bad far better tear aside the \ e(l at onco, and expose to the affrighted gaze oi their fellow-citizens all the hhleou* deformity of the monsten which gave them birth, aud whose prolific wombs are yettocmlna with atroc ities still more meustrous. I tell them they had as Mrs, the gorgeous palaces, >e great globe itself; s shall dissolve. not mrosTAicx or bssknuno the cohstittoox. It has beta nU, howvrar, that those amend have eceomptiahed thsir ends and gust their that thoy at“- m * for several year* pool to wafich th* program of pub lic went*, sad I hers done ao otossly and vigilantly. Iter after day It*** assn sornsnswatol startling lues sun more monstrous, i toil tnem tboy had as well attempt to turn beck too resistless tide of tho Niagara with a straw, as to think of arresting too remain. WhyhowlongwiUitbobeforoMr.BuQi- uor's famous bill shall become a law, enforcing, un der heavy penalties, the abaotut* social level as weU as the political equality of the races ? How long bo- fore your school house* will bo foreed open, the bteak aad ths white ehUd sooted on tho some form, and your common school fund divided b«twceu them, uniter th* pretext of soourlng equal immuni- ttea to all the citizens of the Commonwealth uuder tha 14th amendment to the constitution ? How long will It be before ever/ voting place throughout the Htate will bristle with Federal bayonets under the pretext of enforcing the 16th amendment to the con stitution ? Aad then how long will it be bofora toe central power will have absolute control of every thing through the faroe of an election conducted un der such auenicea ? And dually, toll me how loug evea th* eenibUnoe of your present form of govern ment will exist ? Y*t we are told we must acquiesce; that all other provision* of th* constitution may be changed at pleasure, but theso mutt never be moles ted. The man whose impious tongue presume* to suggest the thought is guilt/ of a deadlier crime than tho fearful sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost We must not even allude to them ssvo "in a bondsman'» key with bated breath and whlspcriug "the fruit Of that forbidden tree, w hooo mortal taste Brought death into tho world and all our woe. 1 Let one of them be touched and some infallible Of the Democratic conscience waves in kingly y his Imperial truncheon, "Off with hi* huadl" tha unhappy varlet, whose impious baud dared *be Flounce Stain a Alochinr aybody forgotten that the •-.I*' feaut'irc ia oil its ‘KLwrai.cu* ou tli*t •n waa the I 'Rowing : "We do de-laro taid resolve. Uut < • the crown tho privilege aud trust of sutfruge have belonged to the ac \cr*l Btates, aud have been granted, regulated, nnd eootruled exclusively by toe political power of each Hlate ro*i«ctivel¥. aud that any attempt by Congress, on any pretext whotevt ' I deprive auy Btate of thi* right, or iuterfert wlih Its exercise, is a flagrant usurpation of power, whteh ~ w*rra«t iu tho constitution, aud, If sanc tioned by the people, will subvert our form of gov- lateure of tbc’ State# will be- entirely absorbed, aud qualified despotism be established in place of a Federal Union of eo equal State**." This single miragrafili couUins the gist of riy * u- tli4 angmu^'C It date* my imiutee* pteiul) au l pefap * iilm* ud 1 pr hi-oittly by tUiu tnysrif I know I »*c«m** ie*iti<M»riy belie*id tin: op mu uttered ill tin-* re* •Intioii to l»c correct iu ev« I«i licular su I do that I have to d ud ry iize this alittto. tuictly state in IHOm. that too right or q lating and controlling tig privilege party di» iitiiq?. regu-. o Qrui/# iu Utattla—suit}, of raorM, that includes the i**»j .s.>uih- belougori exclneively to thorn- SUte* re a psetivoly, and toot auy attempt by Coiigre** to de prive them of that right, er iutorfero with ite exer cise on any pretext, or in any ninw r whatever is a flagrant iiion-patinu of i>owur without any warrant ititution thin statement wo* admitting that capacity U. Hth. Now can we admit that ? We cannot withoi did uo^ h vc Birtli.-.lent troth, or enough sincerity to en, what iu* occurr* d to ivint-ipli- m :id ill it. Util H it' make It any the li uiitted to 1»«* true ««w, how can »c admit ih.it grays had toe right to Uirotlio tho«- ten Htates ck it dul for no other purpoao tt an te compel litum to ret- ify these amendment* ? Ur ir we say thulConpre** had no right thu* to overthrow tooee Utant*, how ran wo conteud that their act, committed without authority, i* valid or binding on anybody except under too du ress of superior physical forco? Again, the Demo cratic party aay* iu this resolution, Boleainly end de liberately, Uut if tote usurpation shall bo ranetioued by tho people, it will subvert onr form of govs ment, destroy the Btste*. aud establish 0“ troy toe of the Republic a cousoiidafed det>poti*ui. la a word, ttion thorough sad that te Rein it will bring about a revolution thorough iplcte. Are we to admit that wc ore revolution- ? That we not ouly sanction and acquiesce it, but pledge ourselves to assist iu bringing it about by sustaining the very cause that is to produce it? * to say that we will not only aoquiesco in to bo erected on the ruins of too Republic, but test against any thing being done to prevent it Nay more, that we will actually assist in carrying on the great work by enforcing those amendments as a part of the fundamental law of the land. Yet we must admit all this, or we must admit the resolution I have read to be faluo, both in premiss and conclu sion. Yot we are told there will be no inconsistency in all this; uu departure from principle; none what- Then, by all means, let us do it, aud if t ■latency is a jewel, as some bay, why we will be in possession of a gem which it would bankrupt tho exchequer of every crowned head in Europe to pnr- cha so. [Laughter.] I may be mistaken, but to my mind it really looks like a “departure,” though they iy It is uot in feet, however niuct it may resemble tie in th* eye of a strict construction Dereoorxt- ioU WIIAT VOUTlCAl KVFOcT t But suppose we do depart, what aro we to gain by it? Do yon think any member of the Radical party will have any more respect for us, or confi dence in us if wc do ? Will thoy Join our party any minded, patriotic gentlemen in the Radical ranks : ever breathed the vital air of heaven ; mtu of uohle, generous impulses, but men who have hitherto acted from mistaken impressions of fact. I knew many (J that character evuu among their representative u Congress. Men who desire too perpetuity of ( Federal system as much as you or I do. Those u joined the Radical party perhaps when it professed i doctrino, it promulgated iu I860, in ito platform which Lincoln was elected, the same doctrine that too Democratic party has ever maintained, namely, "that the maintainance inviolate of the right* of thu State* wa* essential to the balance of power on which too perpetuity and endurance of our political system depends." Thoso men havo soon, and aro Login ning to eeo moro clearly ev ery day, that tkelr party has long ninco abandoned this great cardinal priu.ii- plo, and arc moving right on *teodily and surely to the foarful nin-lstruiu ol' centralization aud despot ism, and liavo consequently been flocking to the Democratic standard by thousands, because they have been tlie grand old party Btand by and main tain un auciout faith as firmly and manfully in tho dark hour of defc at as it did in the Hooutide of sue- cess. And they will contiuuo to do so os long o give them reason to bclisvo us to bo housst, < ost, consistent men, who believe what wc pr and dare assert what wt» believe. Is this not so? 1 appeal to the facts. When I c terod tho Fortieth Congress the entire Democratic delegation consisted of a forlorn hopo of a little over forty members. In tlio Forty-first we had, I bellovo, ovor seventy, at any rate, I know wo have in too present Congress 1U8, with a certainty of a farther inercaso. With tho samo ratio of gain the next Congress, as well as tho electerial college, will be . ours, aud there is no reason why wc should not havo it if wa will only bo truo to ourselves. Where, tocr, 1h tho necessity of our departing a single hair's breadth from nur tIm/\.hnTww«A r*’ i, “-tidn*. fnrtiftoJ as llicy are by the highest impulses of patriotic manhood, even if party success is so desirable os to attain it ? Why, then, should wo sound . minions retreat, or tamely surrender onr standi justwheu victory is holding out her glittering chap- It may be s so—deop, pre T exauder or Hannibal, < ad strategy to do a political pen Aon. [Great laughter. ] these iviqttrrm? toe body of the ornate law. But gractfag this to Uuhousofod, disappointed, untueled ’ rrdi - ot *■“ ^ u vuiciIds purpose at every patriot, to have them eu- tbaritaUVsly annulled, if for no other reason toon as sofoma and oasphaUc condemnation of tbs iniqui tous manner ui which the/ havo beeu forced U] toe country, a rthnfifaf memorial, pledge of the stern detaouinatton of an people never to submit te any sush * tbeir ornate law and system of gov fare, lb# error of te-day i* the precedent for to morrow. That in lta turn will become ths prolific parent of ether* perhaps moro daiweron*. Admit that these amendments are valid and binding; admit that aherattoas may b* mafic In the organic law, la the manner in which they lave bssa attempted to be mode, aad tsD me how long it win be until you have other* of a sUU more alarming cAaracter fastened upon you in th* rna* way ? How long will it be be for* yoa her* your ff*tta*| elected for III*, mod the Chief Magistracy mod* hereditary iu eome large and raepectabl* family, life* that of your Uluatriou*Chief opiate*, th* highset respect for the purity of motive and p*- trtutte intention of any gentleman who may differ with me o« thi* propomtkm. can tha Democratic party with any reasonable degree of self-respect, or auy plausible show of consistency, ogres not ouly to a quirt acquiescence in there aoMadmoffte but pledge thrtr absolute eafiecreaemrt threaffh afi time ? Baying nothing of th* great cardinal prin ciple tn K* political creed, the preservation of toe right* of th* Htates a* the Kurort bulwark Against anti republican tsffdnnds*. and the ouly_ safeguard to individual liberty, flaying nothing af this great pteffeipte whteh ha* b**a Ms pater tear for over seventy yrere. guiding It aUk* must illumi n* it* pathway ia th* "usi 1* new invited to fobs ; tearing that son oat of view entirely, con U afford, bow, to ig nore Ite own record apaa there wary amandin ruts ? Nobody ha* forgotten, or is likely to forget that only thre* year* th«re wa* erne at the l*nra*t conven tion* of the party Ited ho* cv*r saacmblod, psrhH". But I may bo asked what I propose that tho Dom ocratic iiarty should do ? Should it resist too frauchlscuicnt by forco ? By uo nioaus, nor do I suppose that auy sano man inside or outside of party entertains auy such ides, hut 1 do supp tost any one wlio is familiar with too platform of tho Kentucky Democracy ought to kuow what it has proposod to do without auy suggestion from me whatever. It taid in plaiu, emphatic aud unmis takable language that it wan "ready to join iu all lawful and just measures to ravorso the tyrauical acts of tho party in powor, whoroby it sought to strip tho States of their rights and concon'rato all the powers ol the Government in a grout centralized despotism." That language is plaiu enough, I sup pose, for the compre hension ofanylo ly; and I sup pose, moreover, that anybody who knows anything about too sterling uiauhood, the integrity, sincerity and houesly of the groat mass of tho Democracy of Kentucky, will admit that they n eu just what thoy M} - [Applause, | But I have heard it suggested that the language 1 ha>o just read is revolutionary. But had it uot been for the very high opinion I entertain of the intellect of some who have douo so, 1 should suggestion as 1 o level of ordinary nonsense. THE MXMJCVV. hold by for wiser men than 1 re legal ability than 1 evor hopo to possess, that upon a proper rose made, the invalidity of thc*o amendmouts cau be settled by ths Federal Judiciary. White, on the otoor hand, I have hoard it denied that too courts had cither the powor or the integrity to do so; that the political departments of the govern ment having recognized tho oarpct-bag governments of the Southern States, ths courts of too oouutry estopped from questioning their right to ratify araendmont to too constitution, and that if they « uot they would uot do so. liow that uiay bo I _ not now attempt to argue, but U is ccriaiu that the quo*tion can only bo settled when the experiment Is tried, and oertaiuly uo r — either uulawfal, unjust, __ __ But, waiving too consideration of all other motoodi* by which it might be done, it cau uot be denied that these tyrauical and revolutionary procoodlnga cau bo reversed aud auuulled through too same agencies down mipinely and never try it. it may, aud doubtless will, require long, persistent, determined, and continued effort to accomplish toe rovorzol of these measures iu thi* manner, but are wo fat that reason to sit down nnpinoly, fold our hands ia de spair, aud look quietly on ? Nay. assist in ths de struction of our government, aud too overthrow of our own Ubertioo without making an effort for ths proserxation of either because it Will require perhaps ‘ dish It? It * .- ,— — : party topret the constitutiou, th* rights of too States, and tot ertles of the peoplo iu all their original integrity, and ita highest purpose now ia to restore our toru and mangled government to its pristine health aud vigor, if indeed the gangrene haa net so frr fastened ita fangs upon its vital ccutcre as to place it beyond all surgery ; and when it shall abandon that purpose, and loud ft* aid, if it ever should, to aggravate the wouuda tt should heed ; when it shall become tlie more comp follower of a faction which is waging a crusade against the life of the constitution aud all the liberties of the people under it, its destiny will b* flan*, it* glory will be departed, and “Iclmbod’ written upon its door-posts. IU chances of success even a* a party orgonisation. and for the privilege o| distributing party spoils, which some msy think too paramount object of lta existence, will be gone for- Ia this not truo ? TIIE BEST rOUCT. 1 appeal to the student of history to point to a sin gle iustanco in tho annals of tho hunmu family where a people, or a political party ovor areas to powar or achieved success save by a fixed, dctsrmin. ed, persistent adherence to some great purpose* Majorities fall to pieces iu wrangles over the driLsfan of party booty. Minorities aro held together and lire into power upon *ome greet principle. When that ia abandoned thoy care* to *>l*t. Why then should.wc despair? why depart from the faith ot onr fa than and tho political cnart of onr whole lives ? Did Urn Senate despair when Hannibal was thunder ing at Ui* gates of Rome ? No, they voted a resolu tion of thanks to toe battle scarred fragment of ; i. .a icnly n treated from tho disastrous field* ot raauun. And where was Carthago wheu those eagles perched upon toe bleak lilils'of Oalcdouia. or ncxQrd amid the ruin* «>f anctest Baltyten, with an eraiur* bawe» n upon the Idesk litlls'bf (Caledonia, o ruin* of oncicrt Boltyteu, with an _ them? I Applause., Even should aU other* dcaert thorn, let tho gallant Democracy of my native Htate the rtoffdord-bearcfu tn lMd, still keep it proudly aloft u good men. brave aud true, sad a host will yet rally around it cuffirtent to re*cw* our govern ment from tho vandal tc horde that menaces its exist- ence. Let it go down Without another rinuKlo •« sustain it, and ““*• ** — J never to It, and with it will go Ur*u«.) dowb your libertiea. SbAfflffis lawyer,- Q 1 O 8 Pr t 1 o o TJl I 9 > CC9 S e+ UI O Q H P H W w ► H W b Gainesville Sulphur Springs 1 >OAlU> at the HULPnrR SPRINGS has becu r- * * dffoed to too foUowinc rate: dwood to too following rote: HOARD PER MOOTH •• •• WEEK " " DAY Children nndor 13 years of ago and t LAND FOR HALL- ACRES OF LAND-w« ; » timbered and " • VAF farad—i»rer»y*a in woods-gOO acret on U Hand town Rood, 40* acre* on thu McDonough f all withte four mflre of Atlanta. Both tra t» »> * iuprevaareots on thorn. Apply to R. W. Tt>te Mitchell Street, or W. F. rmSfa T '