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The Savannah Daily Herald. 8. W. M \*» A Cos. PiiopiuxmM. S.tMrxt. W. Muon Eimio*. SAVANNAH. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, W«. —i. mm in i. ■ m i i‘FTT Meeting of the Loyal Residents of Savannah* LARGE ATTENDANCE OF ALL CLASSES. ZAS PORT ANT RESOLUTSoNS. AIDBEt? JOHYsO* ENDORSED B 1 THE ISSEfIBLf. Syuipatbizm with Spf«s*t»n uot to be Supported for Ofiiee. A. Military Governor for Georgia Asked For. Addresses by Col. A, W.fejtoue and. Col. Oaulden. (Specially Reported for the Savannah Daily Heiald.j [in accordance with a request contained in a resolution of the Georgia Union Club, adopted at n regular meeting on Wednesday evening last, we re-publish the report of the great meeting in their ball on the preced ing evening j A Public Mketlno of the “loyal residents of Savannah, who endorse the policy of the President of the United States, as indicated by his past history,” was held Mat 30, 1805, at the Georgia Uuion Club Hall, over the Ex press office, “to consider such measures in harmony with the present Administration as will conduce to the welfare of the State. The Attendance. The house was well tilled with loyal men of all classes. The attendance was mostly of civilians, including mauy natives of Savan nah; and a sprinkling of officers and soldiers. The Hall us the Club was decorated with the stars and stripes.fes tooued upon the wall in the rear of the speaker and looped with block crape. The hall which was last evening thrown open for a public meeting for the first time is ad mirably adapted to that purpose, and has recently been fitted up with seats and a fine platform for speakers, by the club. Organisation. Col. Wm. H. Stark, President of the Geor gia Uuion Club, called the meoting to order, and, on motion .of Col. A. L. Stoue, he was chosen to preside. Messrs. L. A. Dodge and Israel R. Sealy were appointed Secretaries by the Chair. Couunttur on Hesolutious. The following were appointed a Commit tee to draft resolutions: L. S. Bennett, Mar tin Duggan, E. S. Riddell, Mr. Padelford, Mr. Brigham, Mr. Wadleigh, J. G. Mills. Tin Hrtolutloiii. The committee reported the following: it&iolveii, That we cordially appiove of the policy of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, as indicated by his past his tory and more recently in his address to the Indiana delegation, and pledge to the Ad ministration our cordial united support aud co-operation. Itesofi erf, That we will henceforth support such men only for office as shall satisly us that they have no sympathy with secession, and will pledge themselves to abide by and sustaiu all acts passed by the Congress of the United States. HfxotvfU, That in view of the present dis organized und unsettled condition of affairs m this State, we believe a Military Governor is a necessity until the power of the enemies of the United States Government shall have been so crippled as to cease to be dangerous, aud the ballot-box so guarded as to ever pre vent the recurrence of the terrible scenes from which we have been delivered by the power ot the United States Government. Mr. C. K. Osgood moved the adoption of the resolutions. Address of Cut. A. YV. Stone, Col. A. Vi Stony was called upon to speak on the motion for the adoption of the resolu tions. He was received with applause. He made an eloquent allusion to tlu> Stars and Stripes, his flag, the flag ot ail loyal people, displayed for the lirst time publicly in that hall for a long time, and theu, with some comments, read extracts from President Johnsons address to the Indiana delegation, as exhibiting his policy. He then spoke as follows: Over four years of dark desolating war have spread over our land—not one bright spot can he remembered, oue long dark night of ruin, and e*ery fireside has its vacant chair, the loved ones are gone, our fair laud is dotted over with new made graves, and weeping mothers, wives and sisters go about the streets iu the garb of sorrow—truly the whole land mourneth- hut, thank God tbe wur is over, uud new duties and anew life await us—the cruel wounds of war must be healed—the bitterness that has taken root iu the heart must be extricated*—passion must be laid aside and calm, deliberate rea eon take hs place. and important duties devolve upon the people ot the South It is for them to de teinnne whether tree Government shall be lor them and tor their children, or whether the strong arm of military power shall grind a people that refuse to yield willing, heaitv and cheertul obedience to just laws humane ly administered-whelher we will govern ourselves, or refusing that, be ruled with an rrcu hand. I have watched |this revolution trom the beginning and its authors and abet tors. It commenced long before the election of Abraham Lincoln. * John C. Calhouu sowed the foul seed, and we, at this day have gathered the terrible harvest. And the memory of that intellec tually great man will be remembered only in sorrow that he ever lived. Rivers of blood a desolated country are the land marks of his memory. His disciples have been the more imnndiate teachers of the people—ac tuated by an unholy ambition for place aud power they taught the people lies, and they have been scourged with thorns. Tell me uot that the acts of Secession were the uprising of the people against tyranny and oppression in justice and wrong; tell me not it was the elec tion of Abraham Lincoln that kindled the tire 9 of of revolution in the South; no, no, for years the “fire eaters” in the South had seen the suu of their power declining, had begun to realize the fact that they could not always control the destiny of the natiou in their own peculiar way, they could have justice and equality, but with that they were uot sat isfied, aud as they could rule supreme no longer, determined on the destruction of the Government of their fathers, and to erect on its ruins an aristocracy that they could rule or ruin as their own will might dictate. That being their determinutiou long before ; the Democratic Convention in the city of j Charleston, S. C. in 18(10. we find on iuqui- I riug into the secret records of those traitors, who had resolved upon the destruction of the Government, that they were in secret caucus iu the city of Charleston with the press Itought iu their interest not to publish their arrival in the city, more than once prior to the Democratic ' Convention of 1800. There was Wm. H, Yancey, Robert Toombs, Barnwell Rhett, Howell Cobb, Wig fall, Benjamin, Thomas R. R. Cobb, and oth er traitors iu secret caucus plotting treason, devising ways and means to break up the Convention, secure the nomination of what they called an Abolitionist by the North, and then with a lie upon their lips, and deception in their hearts go borne and, by appeals to the passions and prejudi ces of the people, fire their hearts for revo lution. In this connection the re mark of Wm. L. Yancey to J. Knox Wal ker, of Tennessee, both delegates to that Convention, is significant—Mr. Walker of fered to withdraw the name of Mr. Douglas if the Convention would adopt the princi ples of the Cincinnati platform and support any man they might nominate. Mr. Yan cey replied : “Any proposition acceptable to Mr. Douglas or hi3 friends is in itself unac ceptable to us. I mean .Disunion, twice I have been before my constituency advoca ting it, and been defeated, but now I shall succeed and we will drag out all who will not go with us.” That threat proved too true, South Carolina weut out, Georgia and other States were dragged out, and the result is before us in cities destroyed, and a people impoverished, dud who but your selves are responsible tor that ' aet. Has uot God in his Providence been dealing justly with you—yea, even mercifully, in comparison with the crime? What light had the Federal Government ever denied you ? What claim tounded in justice had ever been withheld—what Gov ernmental act ol wrong ever committed ? —not one can you to-day point to—and the confession is forced home that we alone have been to blame—and those who lmve inaugu rated the bloody drama, those who advocat ed and signed the hateful ordinance of Se cession, will be held responsible in all coming time for the fearful consequences of that ill-advised act, and all those who have since, by their counsel, their purse and the sword, voluntarily given aid and comfort to the enemies of the Government, shall ever hereafter merit the scorn and contempt of an outraged people. Those editors whose pens dipped in gall, those preachers and politicians whose lips inspired with lies, h&ve made a people mad, vindictive and cruel, will meet a fear ful retribution in blasted hopes and iu the gnawings of a guilty conscience. It is those who have educated tiie-people in hatred and a desire for revenge; and, ■ though unharmed, they will cry out like Cain, that their punishment is greater than they can bear. Think, O think, my friends, ot the hundreds of thousands of graves that are tilled with the victims of this unholy ambitition! Think, O tliiuk, of the thou sands of the starved skeletons in the pen of Audersonville—whose bony fingers to-day are pointing upwards from their nameless graves and crvmg for vengeance on the authors of their suffering and death! Think, O, think of the countless number of widows and orphans whose cries go up all over this land and whose tears speak a sorrow their lips cannot utter—think of these things and forget your bitterness, and let a great, magnanimous nation welcome, you back to its protection, its privileges and its benefits. Confess your sins to The nation ; confess them to each other ; confess them to your God, and rejoice that the nation you would have destroyed is saved—and let there be uo longer in yput 1 hearts any North or any South, East .or \\ r est, but one united people—free, prosperous and happy. The war has wrought great changes, social ly and politically, and instead of complaining, we should quit ourselves like men, and set about with a will to adapt ourselves to the new and changed condition of things—we should not wait, for others to do it for us, but do it for ourselves. I doubt if there is a per son in the hearing of rny voice that has not at heart at some time wished the institution of slavery was out of the way. It was never considered a Divine Institution until witbiu a few years, and that heresy is now T explod d. by Divinity jtself, for God usually takes care of bis own, and He has let the Slaves go. It has been a political institution, but it was tor Alexander 11. Stephens to discovei in it the proper elements tor the corner stone of a Southern Conlederacy—.rfhd I think he was a little mistaken, lor the stone is broken, and the Confederacy has tumbled down, and lias socially aud politically buried hs archi tects iu its ruins. Slavery is dead; Secession killed it. The Providence of God made its peculiar guardians the instruments of its owu destruction. And what is the use of burrow ing under its old fossii remaius in a vain en deavor to resurrect it into a short sickly life? —lather bury it out of sight forever, and let its watchers 4ml nurses get well as soon as possible. A little line air wholesome exer cise will soon render then) convalescent and change their mourning into gladness. I believe this country \yas destined by Qod for the white man, and that it is our mission ; to develope its vast resources—Agricultural uud Mineral, front the Atlantic tojtne Pacific from the North Pole to the Equator, bound, ed by no latitude or longitude but oue vast country of lreemcn, with one government, oue flag; one fact this war has developed that we shall not forget and that other uutions do yvell to remember, that under oue flag we cau whip the combined powers of the world. I am not troubled about the negro. lam wil ling he should enjoy all the liberty unif, fice dom he is capable of, and the government will give him, and if they make meu of them selves they shall be treated like men; but if I had the disposing of them just now, I . 'would raise an army of them four hundred thousand strong, clothe them in United States blue, with United States muskets in their hands, knapsacks ou their backs, four days rations in their haversacks, put them under the command of General Sherman, face them ; towards Mexico, with instructions to enforce the Monroe Doctrine, and you would see Maximilian aud Jolmny Frenchman skedad ling worse than the chivalry of South Caroli na did a few days ago. But why waste words and fret about the black men, the same Providence that made them free, will take care of them. Let us go to work for ourselves and as soon as possible adjust the machinery of the government to the changed condition of things. It is sadly out ot order; it has been running the last four years off the track, and must be engi enered back; we have enough to do and must do it with a w ill. Not only has the govern ment to be put in order, but our Internal Im provements are all to be rebuilt, and increased in ten-fold proportion. We have enough to do without the negro, and finding fault with the consequences of Secession. Repent of your iugloriousacts, and keep repenting, and do works meet for repentance. God knows that sins enough have been committed in the iuainruration and prosecution of this unholy strife, to keep the actors in the bloody drama on their Knees for the balance of their lives. They can repent, but never atone for the great evil they have inflicted upon the na tiou. It has been one long dark catalague of crime from the beginning to the end, cul minating in the cowardly assassination of the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, the most illustrious martyr in the cause of free dom and self Government. A man, great in his goodness, and good in his great ness-tempering justice with mercy to the ill-advised aud misguided . All now denounce the act as unparalleled in the his tory of the world, and cry out for ven geance on the cowardly assassin. And yet he was but a pupil from the school of Se cession, educated aud prepared for the act by the guilty authors and supporters of Treason and Rebellion. Have not the press of the South without rebuke advertised for the man who would undertake the vile act ofas assinatiug Abraham Lincoln, Andrew John son and Wm. H Seward, falsely asserting that, that act aceomplishod, peace would fol low? Peace after such an aet! Peace to its aiders and abettors! Peace to a people who have advocated, or silently permitted its ad vocates to go unrebuked! There can he no peace to them. It was the last foul deed of treason, the last insult to the National honor, the last sting of the creeping serpents, nurs ed under the shadow of the Palmetto of South Carolina, and theories aloud for ven geance ascend to Heaveu through the length and bredth of the land. That voice that spoke forgiveness to re pentant rebels has been hushed in death— those to whom forbearance would have been extended and forgiveness exercised are per imps among those who conspired his death. And those feelings of magnanimity and kind teitierness that had so deep root in the hearts oi the loyal North, that even the wholesale slaughter, exposure aud starvation of North ern soldiers in the prison pens of the South had uot wholly destroyed, are uow drowned in one universal sentiment of horror at the foul deed that deprived the nation of its cho seu leader, and <he South of their best friend. Justice demands punishment, and mercy sor rowing cannot plead her cause or say aught why justice should not be fully satisfied. Whatever man may do, the judgment of Heaven will fall on the guilty authors of such treason, and they w ill find that, though “the mills of God grind slowly, that they grind exceeding small.,’ I advocate no vengeance, no revenge. Such a spirit would be unworthy the people of so great a nation. On 'the contrary, I would exercise the most generous forbearance to ward the deceived aud deluded masses iu the South—dragged into an unwilling support of a cause they despised, but which they had no powei to resist, aud have yielded a reluc taut obedience to the power that surrounded them. But to those who, with an oath upon their lips to. support the Constitution ol the United States —holding offices of profit and trust under that government, con spired to destroy it, that upon its ruins they might build a despotism subject to their will. I have no comparison—forbearance would be criminal on the part of the gov ernment, and an insult to those who have so gallantly defended our nation’s hon or aud upheld its flag in a thousand battles, carrying it victoriously from one end of the land to the other until at last it floats trium phant over the grave of rebellion. The fallen braves of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chicßamauga and At lanta would rise in judgment against us as a nation if uo punishment follows treason. The dead martyrs of Libby and Ander souville wiflj sepulchral voice disclose the secrets of their prison-house apd demand pun ishment for treason. The \yeepiug mothers, widows apd sjsters of our land, whose hopes lie buried in the graves q! their loved ones, demand punishment to a (lend i President looking down from the spirit i Land, says, let justice be dope to the authors of all our w'oe, and a Nation responds Amen ! There are small and big traitors; the small ones doing the dirty work of the big ones, like village curs bark when their fellows did, and no less culpable than they, such are the ones who have pursued, hunted with dogs, shot and hung, those whose ouly offence was a fealty or suspected fealty to the old Stars and Stripes. Those who would raise the black flag and exterminate the Yankee van dals—those who lejoiced at the sufferings of the starving soldiers of the Uuiou—those who, if Hell was here aud the Yaukees there would go to the former in preference to the latter. Such meu were not deceived, but traitors at heart, and are the first to profess conversion when captured by Uncle Sam’s preachers. Ju9t as soon might the d—i be come a saint, and I would have equal con fidence in his conversion. The law lias overtaken them and they pro fess penitence, and beg for clemency. But the voice of the thousands of martyrs say, “Justice!” Treason has ceased to be respectable and they always abhorred it—they haven’t doue anything, np upt they—shall u]l these go unpunished—shall tlje social aud political power of such miscreants be preserved to them? Neyer. Not enough traitors must be left tp make treason respectable again. If traitors at heart—if they hate the Union—if the expe riences of the past are uot sufficient—if the desolation that surrounds them—the bleeding hearts of their couutrymen, cannot work a change in their hearts, then this country is no place for them. There is a necessity lor, auu there must be, a rtai genuine, uncompro mising iojalty. not a loyalty enforced by iu terest or fear; not the oath of ailogiance on the lips and a curae in the heart for the gov ernment you swear to obey. Events instruct you that you have beeu wrong, and it is wise and Christian to yield, and time will soften the feelings and weaken the power of old associations, aud we may become brotL ers again. You have sons slain—you mourn the loss of loved ones dead ; you have suffered severe ly ; but your conscience, if not uow, will in the future tell you, at your own door lies the blame. You sought to destroy that gov ernment your fathers would have died to save. There was no principle at stake; only a pernicious claim to control in your ow r n peculiar way the destiny of the nation, and the government could uot permit you to go without committing suicide, and you and your children will live to rejoice that you did not succeed. There is something to be admired in indomit able courage, a self-sacrificing heroism even in a bad cause, aud the iutensity of this contest has created a respect for each other which will after a time ripen into friendship, that shall last through time, aud though ter rible the destruction it is but the inevitable result of the conflict and not irremediable. The dead .eauuot be restored to life, the maimed to health, uor the institution of sla very resurrected. Yet we cau rebuild our cities, our towns and villages, our rail roads ami canals, aud iu a short time, if the work is en tered upon with determination, our whole state will be so far ahead of what it ever was that w T e shall hardly recognize ir, and forget in our prosperity the terrible ordeal we have passed. With a soil rich and productive, a mineral wealth undeveloped and inexhaus tible. navigable rivers and a net-work of rail roads, we can and must be a great and pros perous State. King Cotton has played out, but as a civilian we can make a very good use of him, and I thiuk he will adapt himself to the changed events very readily. A humbug king any way, but as a citizen we will make good use of him in developing - the mineral wealth of the State, and I should not wonder if he found his brother Pete Rolium up in the mountains of Northern Georgia, aud if so there is no telling how rich we shall be. You have worshipped your black gods quite long enough, they have beeu to you a curse, retarding national progress and individual happiness. I have said this much without addressing myself particularly to the Union 'men and women of Georgia, aud I thank God that there has been more righteous, than was found in Sodom, at least ten in every city whose hearts have always heen right, that have never worshipped the molten calf of seces sion nor bowed the knee to Jeff Dayis, and when the uoise of music and dancing of those idolaters who had made the calf, was heard in the camp, their hearts were sad, and their anger waxed hot; but the Constitution of their country, the flag of their fathers was engraven on the tablets of their hearts and was not broken. No new commandment was necessary for them—they saw that the hear* of the people was set on mischief and that their sin would be visited upon them and that they would be plagued ou account of the calf they had made. That day has come, your day has come, and you can hardly find a man who will ac knowledge that he ever worshipped the calf or even had a hand in making it. The re membrance of the years of longing and suf fering you have endured, may excite a feel ing of revenge, and I will uot say it is uujust but it is impolitic, it will injure your power for good. The Government can aud will take care of those who have violated its consti tution aud law's. You by years of inter course and community ot interest have a hold upon your lellow citizeus for good. You have a power for usefulness, responsible even enviable. You with your hearts aglow, with love of the Uuion, strengthened by years of trial eau do much tow ards the conquering of prejudice and effecting a spirit of reconciliation a wil lingness to forget the past aud work togeth er for the future in the great work of leading back our state into her uatuial and proper relations to the Federal Government. It is a great and glorious work wherein are to be ignored party prejudice, animosity aud hate. The nation lias been fighting for a great principle, it has triumphed; let it be our privilege as individuals to triumph over hate and a spirit of revenge. Our ship of state has got to be officered and manned anew; her old commander in a reckless attempt te steer between the Scyla of State Rights aud Charybdis of secession run her into the breakers of revolution, and for years she has been floundering about that sea, her captain crazy and the officers drunk ; but the General Sherman with a crew of seven ty thousand heroes picked her up, and thank God she is saved, but sadly out of order—a mere wreck of what she once was, but she is not a total loss ; and she was iusured in Uncle Sam’s Company,and Andrew Johnson is now President, and she will soon be put aflpat again, But nope of her former officers can ever cornmaud her more; they can't be trusG c-d; real, uncompromising Union men must be put in command—men that haye been faithful among the faithless, with liouest, loyal hearts ever true to the Union ; men that can keep their eyes on the “light house ’at Washington, and carry the stars and stripes at the mast head. Her old commanders could not be trusted with a scow with a cargo of rebel treasury notes. Shall these men be trusted again ? shall they ever have power for evil ? The answer is, “ no, never!” and yet it may be suggested that there are now no recognized leaders in the South, that they have passed away or have been supporting the cause of the re bellion, that there are no meu to take their places. This may be true, but all history teaches that emergencies make meu for the times, and that the great men of the future are among you, perhaps hnmble and obscure, not suspected by the community or themselves, but with true hearts. with earnest conservative sentiment, they will come forward, command respect and excel the gteat men of the past. Good and true leaders will not lack when the opportunity presents. God has preserved one nation and will raise up leaders equal to the emergency. .W® Iwye.had treason in the State, lieasou ip the pulpit, treason among women and of w Bailors }n the land, ihose sancti monious pretended servants of Qod, whq in the livery Heaven have 30 devotedly served the <i-_i a re the worst; pretending pqt tq be politicians, they preached treasen with double effect, availing themselves of the confidence placed in them by the women they first se- I duced them from their love to the Union and “steeled with valor their melting spirits;” and then, with them, by inflammatory remarks, disloyal conduct, appeals to their honor, pride j and courage, succeeded in 'deceiving the young men of the land into the whirlpool of treason, Those parsons traitors a name that will forever be a disgrace 2 them, and it they can find & cavern | da*k enough, should hide therein their ruon strous visages torever. I have uo malice against them, nor no l ove for them Their influence for evil has been great.aud they have ever used it to the uttuosf I do not believe a loyal parson with the ex ception perhaps ot a few Catholics can Im* ound in the South. They have preached treason, talked tieasou, prayed treason, an.t even “bellowed for revenge.” I mTbe l vere upon then., but I do -pt believe fealty to Gcd can exi9t ink s j of treason against their country. J only offer them the consolation ot the executioner's prayers may God have mercy on their souls ’’ ’ It shall hereafter be said ; of them, '“Mane pastors have degroyed my vineyard, they have trodden lqy portion under foot, thev have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.” c We should profit by the\‘eaehings of the past and beware for the future how we provoke a power w r e cannot resist. Step by step you were permitted to go on in the pathway of treasou and rebellion the government the while in hopes that the dark cloud that was before you, and the voice of reason would stop your on w'ard course, and you would return. Congressmen and Senators, who had sworn to support and defend the Constitu tion of the United States, were permitted quietly to withdraw from the counsels of the nation. State after State, as far as possible by thetr own acts severed their relations to the Federal Government, and no threats were made. Where in the history of the world cau be found such forbearance? And it was not till the booming cannon from Charleston Harbor, carrying shot and shell into the walls of Fort Sumter, compell ing the heroic Anderson and his little band ot seventy men to surrender to ten thousand gallant South Carolinians, under the command of the little Frenchman that the nation was aroused that torch light processions lighted up every city and village in the South and loud huz zahs rent the air. And then too, the Govern ment resolved to put down treason and pun ish traitors. Victory after victory followed the South until many really believed that the God of the revolution w as w ith them, but I only saw then, as we all see now, that it was permit 'ted that a great evil micht be destroyed, that this was to he a natiou of freemen, and labor honorable, that by the sweat of our face we should all earn our bread. It is a result not the object of the.war. Tlie war became necessary to enforce obedience to the laws that we all aided in making, for it had come to a point when disobedience to the laws of the Union had to be submitted to by the Government to its ow T n disgrace, or those laws must be enforced by force of arms. It was the life or death of the nation that was involved in the issue, and life, strong, gigantic life is the result, for who doubts that the nation is stronger to-day than w’hen this war commenced. “ And the sun of liberty rests on our land,shining with unequalled lus tre, for no dark cloud ol slavery mars its bril liancy. The enemies of the Government were the enemies of public liberty and yet have unwittingly contributed to establish it. The war has developed some lacts, and among them some tbai people did not know one is that the litttle peanut State ot South Carolina is not the universe, and her chivalry the only people in the world. Sherman s Western Hoosiers taught them a lesson on that subject they will remember. Another fact, that State sovereignty is a humbug— that there is but one sovereignty in the Unit ed States and hia coronet the stars and stripes. A9 a political question it died with the rebel government and is buried in the same grave with slavery, and Gov. Brown is covered all over with mourning, for his only hobby-poney is dead ; poor man, he rode it hard while it lived. That doctrine of State sovereignty and a spirit of sectionalism that has beeu cultivated and encouraged by poli ticians North and South in spite of the warn ings of the fathers of our government, wrought our ruin—aud the consequences of our errors have got to lie repaired, and to tfie Union men of Georgia the nation looks for aid in repairing the errors of the past aud restoring the State to her former power and glory. The Goveanment will assist us if we will assist ourselves. Let us rally round the flag, that glorious old banner, and swear eternal vengeance against any who shall ever dare insult or assail it. Let the memories of the past steel our hearts and nerve our arms, to avenge treason, by destroying the traitors. It has been the custom and practice of the people to act like mad men, abusing all that did uot agree with them, by applying to them the most opprobious epithets. It is time that such people should kuow that liberty of speech aud opinion does not consist iu con ceptions of hate publicly expressed, in vitu perative epithets, the effect of passion and hate. For the last four years the vocabula ry of bad words has been exhausted, in giv ing utterance to the contempt that the leaders ot the South hold towards the people aud government of the United States. The pnlpi# aud the press have disgraced their calling, the people have insulted their intelligence, and now that the time is passed lor the growth of treason, they pretend to the largest loyalty. Like the couvicted criiur mal, they fear the consequences of their acts, aud are ready to say or do anything that will save their necks from the halter. Remark* of Col. (Saulden. At the conclusion of Col. Stone’9 speech Col. Gaulden, of Liberty county, was loud ly called for, and, on responding, was receiv ed with much applause. He commenced with a spirited allusion to the flag under which he stood once more He felt again with pride aud joy that he wtfs an American citizen. The speaker then en tered into an interesting account of the muchiuations of the traitors in the Baltimore Convention, of which lie was a member. He vyas ope of those friends qf Douglas who, when the pro-slavery agitators threw the fire-brand qf Congressional protection of slayery into the Convention, met it with the Constitutional measure of non-intervention- The former were defeated and bolted. The speaker remained while the seceders went on with their well-plotted scheme to bring about secession. He returned to this State to advocate the cause Jof Douglas, the Con stitution and Union, where he was hissed and scorned, and hung in effigy. On the election of Mr Lincoln the Conven - tion wa9 called which put this State out of the Union; the speaker related his efforts to bring the people to their senses from their