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Newspaper Page TextTHE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. BBKk COTTINCr, K(litor. , m, i ■iBOAD SCHEDULES. JTRAL RAILKOAD OFFICE. 1 Augusta, Maroh 6,1805. f I BEEN MUTUALLY ARRANGED Georgia Railroad Passonger Shod be used as a Common Depot IftßdjdKiiJ and departure ft Iral Roads terminating at the Central Railroad will, on and iY EVENING, 9th inst, arrive and this Shed, instead of their Looal lulo at follows (by C. R. R. time). [ DAY TRAIN, i . 8:85 a. m. Eut*. "". ••• •••• 5:55 P - m ‘ [NIGHT TRAIN. L 7:55 p. m. jute. 8:10 a. m. A. F. BUTLER, Agent C. R. R. Schedule on the Central B&ilroad. ?TER FRIDAY, JULY STII, the Schedule will bo run between on and Savannah : • » at. 8.45 a. m. A 8.05 p. m. on 8.25 p. m. A 5.00 a. m. innah- 6.25 p. m. A 4.50 a. m. ah 8.00 a. m. A 6.25 p. m. [usta. 5.45 p. m. A 3.15 a. m. from Augusta will connect with , R. train at Savannah, and Mil- Mon.. from Augusta will connect with £h Western, Muscogee, and Macon Railroads. J. M. SELKIRK, t Master of Transportation Schedule on the Georgia A Railroad. JBr... w ** —* w - ■TER THURSDAY, OCTOBER ft tho Passenver •r—*-» ’’ u tne ■i mu run as follows : ft TASSENGEH TRAIN. ft Sundays Excepted.) ■l 5.00 A. M. train. Ht 3.00 A. M. TRAIN. |9K. 7.10 A. M. Hm 8.50 A. M. ■■ 5.45 P. M. Hjr Sparta, Washington and take Day Passenger Train H Atlanta. H West Point, Montgomery, ■land New Orleans, must leave ■lht Passenger Train at 8.15 connections. Nashville, Corinth, Grand Louisville, and St. Louis, and make close connections. ftICKETS and Baggage Checked ■pove places. ■ PALACE SLEEPING CARS Trains. | E. W. COLE, I- General Superintendent. ■Oct. 8, 1867. oct9—tf Ey DAVIS’ legetable I KILLER. ATTENTION «<F '1 UK I’lT ■BßHftraPpij long tested aud unrivalled llii' medicine. 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"■lt its; Hbil in ■ . - Hiprrv nation /, uoint to - * . aI ' " ' ■■ l „],"nioi, find of the mi ,sioi,ary djf.f.j. ... jtfitkr, , n land and sea, a,,,! ~,, MftSUgwtf Hpef on onr lakes or rimrs . . Kf.’, O'J ' Ci, I '. and >lp, r bottle. . ■lPain Kiurb —Wc have open ftgsSfcaat mcciinno in terms of very ’fi fv« have a- oit.-n felt that all we *JI ml fcv-.r would n : and ,it lu!! jii-iio... }: V'-i ‘f SHb<i medieincs ■ f wlii -h we ran < e% dei *> iMuttcilly taken it. and my.ariaMy '-‘■'V penult- and prea'Oo .1 1 i<a non. on hand, r' ady lor an enter ifi'.-'r."** it not only a- one of the s in to ■ for vtiriou ill.-, hut also. It-' cost, by the * 9ft <' ' i"1 e i ten •. **; V' 4Hfkn.“ on ...... ;t , r , medicine a- le-er, t.i.t ,e I V : n ■' likely that the p,,|,u --' i '" ' r v 'i :: any mesi'ure tl O demand for i; w it: in the . f/o . . ■fiordii!", no';: ■ met, - - | v nr,,i eurinjj Virions "■ m;,taint * 1 Iftpfto generally o-ed, wlikH i.„ .|i_ rfs ‘v ‘ wpal potency with it -of which .a'i'fji"? R 1" 1 - 1 1'I•-• probability. An a < . flßch complaint-, such as dyson ..*s * fftrtt the fail, Killer is. Without ;a8 : and every where tuo-tde ■yywtjy/ One, two, or three don:?, '• 1,1 11 "ine (rims of milk jjft 1 : m 4ft little -n.:ar,haic r- | ■ at- do,, iHr KC ‘ ,|lr, 'd I lion __ * " tda!'"-"'-' .0.1 . . fflß.*. ■hacking oerialf 'a,-' -u! .liar "y " -■ ft}' ; but taken at the proper ifitP 'j ‘* r will act like a charm, and * ' ftljsYßp'-'' ■ /* - aKII Medicine llcab-r . mb 11 2m AUGUSTA, G A., SUN Di? MORNING, MARCH 15,1868. Rail Road Schedules. Notice. gtejEi fjfy gp iSiS- OrriCß Bourn Carolina R. R. Cos., I Augusta, Ga., March 5,1868. j THE GEORGIA RAILROAD PASSENGER DEPOT haring been made, for tho present, a Central Depot for the arrival and departure of Mail and Passenger Accommodation in conformity to said arrangement tho above Train of this Road will commonce running to Georgia Road Passenger Depot Jon Monday Evening, March 9th, and depart from the same Tuesday Morning, March 10th, and con tinue arriving and leaving daily, until further notice, under the following Schedule: DAY MAIL AND PASSENGER TRAIN. Depart from Georgia R. R. Depot 3:30 a. in. Arrive at Georgia R. R. Depot 7:30 p. m. NIGHT ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. Depart from Georgia R. R. Depot 4:00 p. m. Arrive at Georgia R. R. Depot 7:00 a. m. PASSENGERS WILL PLEASE TAKE DUE NOTICE THAT NEITHER OF THESE TRAINS WILL STOP AT THE SOUTH CAR OLINA RAILROAD LOCAL DEPOT YARD TO TAKE ON PASSENGERS. JOHN E. MARLEY, mh7—it Agent. Maoon and Augusta Railroad, rtftraa tefiogm iWa -'AklTl WmWm SSL MM SCHEDULE OF MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD— Leave Camak daily at 12.30 p.m Leave Milledgeville 5.30 a.m. Arrive at Milledgeville 4.10 p.m. Arrive at Camak 9.00 a.m. Passengers leaving Augusta or Atlanta on the Day Passenger Train of the Georgia Railroad will make close connections at Camak for inter mediate points on the above Road, and also for Macon. Passengers leaving Milledzevil'- «i s.oo »■ ***- reaches ah— »ua Augusta the same day, and will make close connections at either place for tho principal points in adjoining States. E. W. COLE, General Superintends. Augusta, January 7, 1868. jaß—tf Change of Schedule. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,) Atlantic A Gulp Railroad Company, > Savannah, Feb. 27th, 1868. ) gafoja jags* ON AND AFTER MONDAY, THE 2nd March, the time of arrival and departure of PASSENGER TRIANS on this Road will be as follows, Sundays excepted : Leave Savannah 7;00 a. m. Arrive at Arrive at Live Oak 5:30 p. m. Arrive at Jacksonville 12:30 a. m. Arrive at Tallahassee 12:45 a. in. Arrive at Quincy 9:15 a. in. Leave Tallahassee 11:45 a. m. Leave Jacksonville 11:30 a m. Leave Live Oak 6:36 p. m. Leave Bainbridgc 2:00 p. m. Arrive at Savannah 6:30 a.m PULLMAN’S SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. Connect at Bainbridge with Steamer for Al bany every Saturday ; for Apalachicola every Wednesday; and for Fort Gaines, Eufaula and Columbus, every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day—steamers returning from Columbus same days. Steamers leave Bainbridgc on arrival of trains from Savannah. 11. S. HAINES, mhl—6t General Superintendent FAST EXPRESS LINE TO TilE NORTH. Augusta to New York in 49 Hours. FARE $32. GREAT ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILWAYS. NEW AND FAST SCHEDULE, NOW IN OPERATION, with complete and continuous connections from New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, via Atlanta, (or via Col umbus, Macon, and MillenJ, to Augusta ; thence via Kingsville, Wilmington and Weldon, to Riohmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadel phia, New York, Boston, and all principal points North and East. No Change of Passenger Cars betwocn Wel don and Acquia Creek. No Omnibus transfer at Petersburg or Richmond. Faro as low as by any other route. At Weldon, Passengers have choice of tho following Routes, viz: Crisfield and Anna messic Line, Washington or Inland Lino, Bal timore or Old Bay Line. Tickets good by either route. FAST EXPRESS—DAILY. Going North, via Wilmingt’n., via Wilmingt’n., Weldon, Welden, Ports- Richmond, mouth, and Cris- LEAVE. and Wash’tn. field (Annamessicjj New Orleans .... 4.00 p.m 4.00 p.m Mobile 2.30 p.m 2.30 p.m Montgomery ... 6.00 a.m.. 6.00 a.m Columbus 12.45 p.m 12.45 p.m Macon 6.35 p.m 6.35 p.m Atlanta 5.45 p.m 5.45 p.m AUGUSTA 3.40 a.m 3.40 a.m Wilmington ... 9.30 p.m 9.30 p.m Weldon 6.20 a.m 6.30 a.m Petersburg 9.45 a.m Richmond 11.10 a.m Washington ... 7.00 p.m * Portsmouth 10.45 a.m Baltimore 9.00 p.m Crisfield, Md 6.00 p.m Wilm’tn., Del ..11.57 p.m 11.67 p.m West Philad’a.. 1.30 a.m 1.30 a.m N. York(ar’ve) 5.20 a.m 5.20 a.m *To go North by old Bay Line, leave Ports mouth 7.30 p. m. Going South, via Washing- via Crisfield, ton, Portsmouth and * Richmond, Weldon (Anna- LEAVE. and Weldon. meesio Route). New York 7.30 p.m 7.30 p.m West Philadel..ll.os p.m 11.05 p.m Wilm’tn., De1..12.10 a.m 12.30 a.m Baltimore 3.50 a.m.. Washington ... 6.10 a.m Richmond 1.25 p.m Petersburg 3.05 p.m Crisfield 6.30 a.m •Portsmouth 2.00 p.m Weldon 6.25 p.m 6.25 p.m Wilm’tn., N C 2.55 a.m 2.55 a.m Florence 8.31 a.m 8.31 p.m Ch’leston,arvc 2.30 p.m 2.30 p.m Kingsville 12.05 p.m 12.05 p.m Augusta, ar’ve 7.40 p.m 7.40 p. Savan’h, ar’vo, 4.50 a.m 4.50 a.n Macon, arrive.. 5.00 a.m 5.00 a.m Cal's, arrive ...11.15 a.m 11.15 a.m Atlanta, leave. 7.00 a.m 7.00 a.m Montgomery.... 7.00 p.m 7.00 p.m Mobile 4.00 p.m 4.00 p.m N. Orleans, ar.. 6.00 a.m 6.00 a.m •To come South by Bay Line leave New York at 8 40 a.m, and Portsmouth 2 p.m. Passengers by the 3.40 a. m. Fast Express from Augusta reach New York TWELVE HOURS IN ADVANCE of competing lines. BAQOAOK CHECKED THROUGH. ELEGANT SLEEPING CARS on all Night Trains. THROUGH TICKETS GOOD UNTIL USED, with option to l’assengeis of stopping at ter minal points, can be obtained at Ticket Offices of all connecting Roads in tin South in Augusta, at the Office of the South Carolina Railroad. P. H. LANGDON, General Southern Agont. So further particulars Inquire of ISAAC LKyY Looal Agont, 136 Broad street, Augusta, Georgia. oot2o—tf FIVE A. YEAR. National Republican PUBLISHED DAILY (MONHAY EXCEPTED) BY THX GEORGIA PRINTING COMPANY. Official Organ of the U S Government, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year, in advance $5 OP Six Months, in advance 2 50 Three Months, in advance 1 26 paper furnished gratis to any one send ing us a Club of ten subscribers. JSfr* Having a completely furnished office, this Company is enabled to execute all orders for Book and Job Printing, Book-binding, or Ruling cheaper than any othor office in the South. _____ 4 SUNDAY MORNINO March 15, 1868 Great Ratification Meeting THE NOMINEE ENDORSED! Speeches of Gov. Brown, Gen. McCay, Cols. Broyles and Wimpy, Mr. Fnray, and Dr. Bard, At 7 o’clock, on Saturday evening, a large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the City Rail, Atlanta, for the purposo of rati fying the nomination of Co'. R. 13. Bollock as the Republican candidate for Governor by the State Nominating Convention. The meeting was addressed by Governor Bruwn, Cols. Broyles and Wimpy, Mr. Furay and Dr. Bard, whose speeches will be found below. Gov. Brown having been called, ascended the rostrum amid rounds ot applause, and, after quiet was restored, addressed the Con vention as follows : Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention: I regret that there should be any dissen sions or divisions in the ranks of the Reconstruction party of the State. Every man should be willing to sacrifice himself for the good of the cause, and no one should seek to produce discord because his supposed claims to position have been overlooked. Each of us had our preference for Governor. All could not be accommodated. I had my first choice—a man of sterling worth and tried integrity—a man with whom I started the race of life in my profession. He was six months my senior at the bar—he was thrown, as I was, upon his own resources he has risen upon his own merits to the Supreme Bench of the State, which position he now fills with honor to himself and profit to the State. Ho sustained our relief laws while upon the Circuit Bench, and repeated the ruling in his present position. I refer to the Hon. Dawson A. Walker. It is justice to Judge Walker, however, to say, that he does not desire the position, and that he much prefers to remain upon the bench. I thought him the most available man, and that we had none better; and, therefore. favored bis nomination ,rPboot consulting his wish. 1 would cheerfully have supported other distinguished gentle men with all my energy. But it was not the will of the majority that I should be gratified in the selection. They decided that Col. Bullock was the best man, and nominated him, and I feel it ray duty to acquiesce in the decision. I favored the two thirds rule. The Convention thought it unwise to adopt it. But when the vote for a candidate was taken, it was unanimous. Every vote was cast for Bullock. We have, therefore, a two thirds candidate. This is not all. Justice to Col. Bullock requires that I say that he is a gentleman of ability, of unimpeachable character, of industry and energy, and of first rate business habits, and strong common sense These are the essential qualities for a good Executive officer. These your nominee possesses, and with these I am content. I know it is said all the friends of recon struction did not go into the Convention, and complaint is made that a Convention fresh from the people was not called. This might have been better if it had been done sooner, but it is now too late. The election will prob ably be held by the 20th of April. The time is too short for a fair expression of the popu lar will through the usual medium of a Nominating Convention. It has reached this point, that either the members of the Constitutional Convention must make the nomination, or it must be made through the machinery of the Loyal Leagues of the State. There might be time for those controlling them to send down di rection to the Leaguers, and for them to send up delegations. But this would have been no better. The people would have had less voice ill the nomination in that way than by the plan adopted. Besides, the plan adopted is the same that has obtained in every other State, as far as action has been taken, if I mistake not. The nominations have been made, not by the people, through county meetings, not by the Leaguers, but by tho members of the Constitutional Conventions in the different States. I see no more fair mode that can be made practicable in the time allowed. It is said Colonel Bullock’s friends have labored for his nomination, and have used party machinery and caucuses to effect it. The old parties ol the State always did the same. There was no more of it in this case than has often occurred. 'We have all done more or less of it- Colonel Farrow's friends used the Leagues ; some of us used other measures. We all did the best we could. Colonel Bullock’s friends outplayed us a little, and I think we should all acquiesce with a good grace, and give him our active support. If we had succeeded, his friends would have been equally disappointed, and we should have complained very much if they had refused to support the nominee. I have no doubt any other aspirant would have used the advantage if he had possessed it. Then enough of all this. Let us support the nominee and produce harmony. Our opponents will caucus out their can didate in a few days. They will hold iio Convention of the people, and if they at tempt it, not half the counties will probably be represented, and not half a dozen men in each couDly will have anything to do in con trolling it. Say what you will, nominations are always made by caucuses, and a few men behind the curtain control them, and those defeated always complaiu. There is time for tho local nominations to be made by the districts and counties, and I think it should be done in that way ; and let the people be consulted as far as possiblp. I therefore confine my remarks to tho nomina tion for Governor. We are told the Democratic party will run a candidate. I honor the name of tho old Slate Rights Democracy, with which 1 have acted all my life?' But the issues which di vided old parties have passed away. State sovereignty, the sight' of a State to secede from the Union* with paramount allegiance to the State, were cardinal principles of that time-honored The war has settled these issues agaiast us, and they can never be practically revived. Whatever may have been oar former position, we are obliged now to admit that a State -has no right to secede, primary allegiance is due to the UnHM States Government. We swore this in dSk, amnesty oath when we swore to support' the union of the States. This oath binds‘o| to abandon the doctrine of secession, andi of primary allegiance to the State. I See ho escape from it. Then this cardinal doctrine of the State Rights Democracy beius abandoned, its living issues have passed'away, The United States Bank issue is dead. The great question of protec tive tariff is no longer one of importance. The national debt is so heavy and the tax so high, that it is better to raise as much of it as possible by a tariff, and to that extent relieve the people k of direct taxation. If we foster home factories by this means, we still have to tax them enough to take off their exorbitant profits. When we are re stored to the Union, if we are wise, we shall engage in manufacturing to the extent of our ability, and reap’our part of its profits, whatever they may be, while we bear our part of the burdens. The old Democratic party opposed inter nal improvements by the General Govern ment, and still we paid out millions annually for that purpose. The North got the money, which the mass of our people paid ; and, in return, our Southern politicians got the offices. It was a bad trade for the tax pay ing people. In the future, as in the past, we shall have internal improvements by the government, and 1 propose . that the South take her part of the benefits, aud get as much of the money ns possible expended in our midst to build up our broken fortunes, and restore prosperity to the South and to her impoverished people. Aside from those already mentioned, what living issues divi did the old parties ? The war has buried these old issues too deep for resurrection. Aud nets living issues have sprung up. Parlies organized upon new issues are in fact new parties, though they may retain old names, and men are at liberty to divide upon them as their sense of right or expediency may dictate. We have recently seen a notice of the organization of anew party in Geor gia, called the National Democratic party, led by that distinguished Democrat, Benj. H. Hill, and that other Democratic champion, Charles J. Jenkins, aud those other Demo cratic leaders, E. G. CabaniSs, Ambrose R. Wright, J. R. Sneed, and Warren Aiken. Ask these gentlemen if they have joind the old State Rights Democracy, and they will repel the insinuation. They have fought it all their lives, and they hate dt still. But they adopt the name of Democrat, in the organization of their new party in this State, to deceive and mislead old State Rights Democrats. The Convention, which made the nomina tion to day, adopted neither a Democratic nor a Republican platform. It adopted the Constitution about to be submitted to the people of Georgia as its platform, and ratification as its watchword, aud it invited all who favor the ratification of the Constitu tion, without regard to their position on the question of national parties, to participate in the nrtmin»lL- ‘-'u PCHial teem. No one was excluded because he is not a Republican, or because he is a Democrat. If he is a reconstructionist and favors ratification, no other test is required. All members of the Constitutional Convention who expect to vote to ratify the Constitution, were invited to take part as equals in this Convention, and in case any district had no representation in tho Nominating Conven tion, any person present, appointed by a county meeting, was invited to act. This exhibited as much firmness as was to be expected, and with it, I think, my friend, Colonel Farrow, should have been satisfied. I know him well, and esteem him highly, and I yet believe, upon cool reflection, that he will refuse to occupy the position of a disorganize! - , and will give Colonel Bullock, as I think ho is in duty bound to do, an active support. If he acts otherwise, he aids the enemies of reconstruction, and lends his influence to the distraction of its friends. I will not believe this of him until I am compelled by stronger proofs than I have yet seen. The Constitution, which commits nobody to either national party, is a safe platform, and it is broad enough for all true friends of reconstruction to stand upon it. All who favor reconstruction under the Sherman Bill, are cordially invited to act with us and sup port both the platform and the nominee. Much has been said about the expense of the Convention. It may have been here too loug, but it it had acted more hastily, it is very doubtful, indeed, whether it would have made so good a Constitution. A single provision in the Constitution, about which so very little has been said, is worth the whole expense of the Convention. I refer to that provision which takes from the Legislature the pardoning power and vests it in'the Executive. Under tho old rule the most notorious felon often stood the best chance for a pardon, if he had money enough to employ the necessary counsel. Ido not say members were bribed. Ido not beleive it- But Ido say that two or three hundred men, with the responsibility divided between them, feel it les3 than one wise, prudent, honest, careful man, when it all rests upon his own shoulders ; and when he feels bound, on the one hand, to see that public justice is subserved, and to remember mercy on the other. The rule you have now adopted, is that which has long controlled in the United States Government and in most of the States. It is the only correct rule. Again, you have given us a much better judiciary system than Georgia ever had before. You have removed the selection of Judges from tho people, and placed it with the Governor and Senate. This removes the temptation which may influence a Judge, without his knowledge to lean in favor ot the rich and powerful man who may control a thousand votes, when he is the party op posed to the poor and obscure man, who controls none but his own. Again, you give stability to the bench, by doubling the length of the term of office, In those Stateß where the Judges are chosen for life, they are sure to have the best judiciary. The rule you adopt is a nearer approximation to this than our old rule was, and is to that extent a decided improvement. You have directed that the Legislature shall provide for the selection of the juries from intelligent persons, and you have abol ished our miserable petit jury system. Under this, we shall have but one trial, and that before an enlightened jury, unless rea sons exist which make it the duty of the Judge to grant anew trial. Aud last, though not least, you have abolished our systenl of monthly Justice’s Courts, where cases were tried by jury on appeal from the judgment of the Justices of the Peace, and now allow but one Justice to a District, and give him jurisdiction of all cases under one hundred dollars, with an appeal, or certiorari, to the Superior Courts. This disposes of a great deal of idleness and drunkenness, and other dissipations which originated at those monthly gatherings, which every good moral man has long wished to see suppressed. Yon have extended relief to thousands who were mined by the war, and have pro vided a homestead as liberal as is allowed i> any State in the Union. You have abolished imprisonment for debt, and pro vided for a system of common schools, so soon as the finances of the State will allow. But I have not time to enlarge. Suffice it to say, that in most respects you have a better Constitution than any under which the people of Georgia have ever lived since the settlement of the State. To do this has required much compromise of extreme views, and much concession. There are members of the Convention who were elected as Conservatives, as our friends Holcomb, Waddell and others, who were opposed to the Convention, but who have been among itss most useful members. There were members elected with extreme views on the other side, of which the same may be j ustly said. Instead of proscription and disfranchisement of the white race, as was expected, yon have disfranchised no one unless he is a convicted felon, an idiot or a lunatic. It is true the acts of Congress do not, in my opinion, allow those of us who are disfranchised by the 14th Constitutional Amendment to vote at the first election. The Sherman bill declares the government of the State provisional till the State is represented in Congress, and it expressly prohibits us from voting at any election under the provisional government. This will deny me the pleasure of voting for your nominee; hut it does not prohibit me from speaking, and advising others to support him. And at all other elections after the State is re-admitted, we arc all voters. To their credit be it said that such men as Col. Ashburn, and others who were regarded as extreme Radicals, have been the bold advocates of these liberal measures* You, and all who sympathized with or supported you, have been denounced as scalawags, negro worshipers, aud carpet baggers ; and yet, strange to tell, you have made a Constitution which puts to silence your revi ers, and they are now ready to support it, if you will only allow them to have the offices under it. You, and all others who supported the Convention, and con sented to negro suffrage, were denounced as perjured traitors. But now, the shameless calumniators who fanned the passions of the people into a burning flame of indignation at the bare mention of a negro voting, are ready to support a candidate who supports the Constitution which guarantees that right, if they can get office by so doing. But the leaders of the Ben Hill Democ racy, who have denounced Congress as a perjured conclave, and all who support its action, or even vote in elections under its dictation, as perjured traitors, will find it difficult, when they put out a candidate in favor of the Constitution made under the acts of Congress, to wheel into ranks under the party lash the honest voters of the State who have lately heeded their advice, and to vote them for that which they have so lately taught them to believe was wicked and ruinous. It is Said by some politicians that the statute of limitations runs in their favor every six mouths. The difficulty in the months since they led the people to believe negro suffrage was absolute ruin, and to support the reconstruction act was perjury ; and while the politicians who taught this will readily take the other line, and now support it, if they can get position by so doing, they can noj get their followers, who do not expect office, and who thought they were acting honestly in their teachings, to turn so short a corner, and take all back for the gratification of their leaders, whose highest aim was to render the acts of Con gress odious because they disfranchised them. Only open the way by which they see a chance to get position, and the Constitution made by the Negro Convention will do very well. When these designing leaders have tried it, they will find the trick will not work. The friends of the Constitution will vote for a man who aided to make it, and who has stood by it when its principles were unpopular, as firmly as he now stands when they are gaining favor in public estimation. If the opposition take the other horn of the dilemma, and run a candidate opposed to the Constitution, defeat is inevitable, as the people will ratify the Constitution by a large majority, and will, of course, reject a candidate who is opposed to it. Our opponents may well say, as David said unto Gad, “we are in a great strait.” The people favor the Constitution, and if we oppose it they will condemn us. If, on the other hand, we favor it, after all wc have said against the Convention and the Congress, all will see that we are play ing the hypocrite to get office. I appreciate their difficulty, and suggest to them the propriety of an honest confession of their error, and an active support of Col. Bullock, the friend of the Convention, as the best means of restoring themselves in popular estimation. And let me here predict, that in three months from this date, Col. Bullock will be inaugurated as Governor of Georgia in this city, now the Capital of the State. While upon this subject, let me say that the city of Atlanta will, in good faith, carry out her engagements to furnish all neces sary accommodations for ten years, and within that time the State can build a splendid granite Capitol, hewn out of the Stone Mountain, with convict labor, at a very light cost. This will be a source of just pride to every Georgian. A word to our colored friends. I know that I am no particular favorite with you, yet lam not your enemy. You have as much interest in the Constitution now as we have. You are citizens, and you and your children have to live under it, as well as we and ours. If we do not prosper, you cannot. Your interests are fully identified with ours. We must have no war of races, and no diffi culties, but must live together in peace and harmony. Col. Bullock will do you justice, and no more than justice. This should satisfy you. You can feel safe in his hands. Then it is your duty, as one man, to come up to his support. There are over ninety thousand (90,000) voters in the State, of your race. See to it, when you go home, that every one is at the polls on election day. Do not let your people be deceived or mislead. Unscrupulous men will do all they can to cheat them out of their votes. Let them be cautious, and act upon the advice of those who are known to be their friends. I have heard it charged this afternoon, that the nomination was made by negroes and newly imported carpet baggers. This charge is not supported by facts. There were, I think, ninety nine members of the Nominating Convention. There are but thirty five colored delegates, and 1 can safely say there is but half a dozen other delegates who lived in the Northern States at the end of the war. There are gentlemen of Northern birth among the remainder, but Georgia Printing Company, Publishers. most of them have spent the prime of man hood in Georgia, and are as fully identified with her as any native-born citizen. I have no sympathy with men who, for party pur pose, denounce such men as Judge Harris of Newton, Gen. McCay of Sumter, and others who have spent their lives in Georgia and have been prominent among her most useful citizens, as carpet baggers, because they were born North. To make up the calculation as they propose to send it before the people, they nave to include these aud others equally worthy in this carpet bag count. The people will not heed such un generous and unjust charges. It is time we had ceased this everlasting outcry against Northern men. We need capital and energy, and muscle and nerve, to aid in building up, and in the development of our State. It is our true policy to invite Northern people to come and settle among us and bring their capital, and their energy to aid us. But pray tell me, what encouragement do we offer when we ostracise and denounce them as soon as they come. This appeal to pre judice is wrong in every view of it. It does infinite harm. It prevents harmony and retards prosperity. It is the weapon of the demagogue, wielded only for mischief, and is never productive of any good. A word in cunclusion. We are entering upon anew era. The new Constitution is soon to be submitted to the people for ratification; and, when ratified, the gov ernment is to be administered under it. In this state of things, is it wise or even generous to turn it over to the fostering care of its enemies ? No, let it be placed in the keeping of its friends, who will administer it justly and fairly in accordance with its reason and spirit. Colonel Bullock has been prominent as a member of the Convention that made it. He fully concurs in its provisions, includ ing the Relief measures incorporated into, and made part of it. When elected, he will administer it justly, fairly and impartially. Then, let every Reconstructionist, and every friend of Relief, rally around the standard and battle earnestly and actively to uphold it, and with our watchford, the Constitu tion and the Nominee, triumphant success will crown our efforts, and the government will be restored, and prosperity will once more dawn where only darkness and gloom are now visible. Let us press forward to this consumma tion. When it is attained, and not till then, shall we have done our wh’ole duty. The audience called loudly for General McCay. Mr. McCay rose, amidst loud and long applause and said : Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens : Some of you have heard mespeik a few even ings since on the political issues before the people of the State, and may not feel as much interested in hearing me again, as you would to hear others who are present; but as I have one or two things to say, I will respond to the call notwithstanding it was not so strong as would have been specially compli mentary. I want to say this: I am not a man to do things by halves. If you are going to bake a cake, I say, bake it well. A half raw cake is not good. My idea is that when a man attaches himself to a party, as every man did who came to this Constitu tional Convention, and the platform has been constructed, it is his duty to cast his lot in with the part£ unmense sacrifice principle. So long as the question is only as to men, the true patriot, the true party man, the truly wise man, and the man who looks to his own future, yill stand to the rack, fodder or no fodder. [Renewed applause.] My old grandmother used to tell me a story of a fact that occurred in the early history of the country in which I was brought up. There was an old man in that section who had two sons by the name of John and Dan. At that time the couutry was wild and unsettled, and there were a great many bears. One morn ing, quite early, the two boys went out to plough, and while in the field they both thought they saw a bear, and ran home aud asked the old man for a gun to shoot the bear. John said he had seen the bear, and Dan said he had seen it. The old mau said to the boys : “It is nothing but my block bull.” The boys said to the father, “Let us have the gun, and we will aim so as to hit it if it is a bear, and miss it if it is the bull.” [Laughter.] His old womau, who was sitting by, said : “Boys, take the gun and hit it whether it is bear or bull. [Renewed laugh ter.] Now, I say, take the nominee for Governor, whether lie is bear or bull. [Ap plause.] It is a very pleasant thing, lellow citizens and gentlemen of the Convention, for a man to feel that he has done better than was expected of him. That is the way I feel now, mild I shall return home with that feeling, and 1 doubt not the friends of reconstruction who came here with the malediction of their friends and neighbors resting upon them, and watched the progress of this Constitution day by day for throe long months, and see it assume such a shape as they knew a large proportion of their constituents must approve. Letters are being received by delegates every day, which assure them that much as the concern, the scalawag Convention, was abhorred, these constituents would favor the Constitution after all. Just like somewhere below Forsyth, when the old Monroe Rail road was being built, a citizen of the county who had always opposed the railroad, fought its coming near his place, burned the cabins of the operatives and declared that it should never come that way ; but when the track had beeu laid, aud the first time the cars were to pass over it, he waited for their coming, in company with others, determined to try and stop them. Presently here comes the magnificent engine, whistling, blowing out smoke aud scattering sparks of fire, when the opposer of the road cleared the track until the train had passed. After the train had passed, the man who had beeu opposed to tho rail road running through that section of the country, declared with an oath that, after all, he favored the thing. [Applause aud laughter.] That is the way, fellow citizens, for us to l’eel on the present occasion, if we belong to the reconstruction party of Geor gia. The car of reconstruction rolls on, and we ought to say we will favor it anyhow. [Applause.] That is the way some of us in the minority did when the State was taken out of the Union. We favored the thiug anyhow. Now, after we have been con quered, and the terms prescribed by Con gress by which we are to return, if ever, to the Union, let us not stop, after whipping one fight, until we have whipped the other also. [Applause.] Elderberry may be scraped two ways to make tea. If you scrape it one way, the tea will puke you ; if you scrape it the other, it will have the con trary effect. [Laughter.] But if you scrape it both ways, tho tea will remain, though it makes you grind and twist. [Laughter.] That is the way, fellow-citizens, we wilt do. We give it to them one way in the election — we have given it to them another way iu the Constitution which we have adopted, and NO 194 now we will give it to them both ways i> the election of onr Governor. [Applause. | What can any Republican gain by going against this Convention ? He can not help himself by it. The old Whig party can’t receive you, the Democratic party won’t have you. They have cursed and abused you. They would spit upon you, and I won’t say the other two things they would do. They might have taken you once, but it is too late now. Benton once said that it was true as a philosophical fact, that if you should go into the middle of the Pacific ocean and drop a stone, wave after wave would follow until it reached the shores of Newfoundland. This may be true; but, if it did, it wonld be a very small wave. Those waves might not be prevented from following in obedience to the laws which control them, aud he would be foolish who should attempt to stop them. Just as foolish would he act who should pro pose to resist the progress of the Republican party. [lmmense enthusiasm.] It is true every man’s influence would be felt in roll ing the mighty car of progress along ; but if he should attempt to resist its progress, he would only be overwhelmed beneath its mighty weight. Fellow-citizens, I know you are tired, and I do not propose to discuss the principles of the Republican party to night. I have done that before; but this I would say to you, in conclusion, stand up to these principles—stand by the nominee for Gov ernor. [lmmense applause.] Some of you may have preferred another, but we can not all expect to be suited ijb every particular. We have nominated ra man whom I have uniformly regarded as the very embodiment of our principles, a gentleman of fine capacity, and one whom, if he were not present, I would caß one of the very best looking men in the South. [Laughter and applause.] Why should we not vote for him ? He should have the vote of every Republican in the country. We should all come up to his help in one solid phalanx; and it will be done. [Applause.] It needs no prediction to say it will be done ; but as there are perhaps half a dozen others who would like to speak to you to night, I will come to a close. Mr. McCay resumed his seat amidst deafening shouts of applause, and sweet strains of music flowed forth to calm the agitated hearts of the vast audience. Colonel Broyles, from Dalton, Cherokee Georgia, was called for loudly and deter minedly. lie said that he had hoped, on his arrival in Atlanta to attend the Nomi nating Convention then in session, to witness the same spirit of fraternal feeling and mutual forbearance that had charac terized our forefathers in the seven years in order that the same result might be obtained. He regretted, as a friend of reconstruction, what had transpired ih their organization on that day, and sincerely trusted that the result of their labors might not be as the action of that day, but prolific of much good to the people of Georgia. Col. Broyles continued : I came here, Mr. President and Gentle men of the Convention, not only in the interest of peace, but also in the interest of my friend Col. Farrow. That gentleman is Ssay their first choice ; for, gentlemen, as a man, none knew him but to like him. It was not that wo loved Col. Bullock, or any other aspirant for gubernatorial honors less, but Col. Farrow more, knowing him as well as we did. Asa section of the State—the Cherokee section—l believe they will acquiesce in your preference, and lay down my predilection which they may have had, as I conceive, and give in their adherence, as I shall do, to the nominee for Governor, in order to promote the best interests of the State. [Loud cheers.] Aud as some refer ence has been made to my section of the State, I will say here to night, that a truer, better people do not live on the face of Georgia’s soil. And, gentlemen, I tell you, that whenever they see, feel and know that the proper Repeseutatives of the people have selected their standard-bearer, in the Gubernatorial canvass, for the Reconstruc tion party of the State, they will rally to a man to bis support. (Immense applause.) Fellow citizens, I have lived in Cherokee Georgia lor a loug time ; 1 know the people of that section well; I have occupied posi tions of trust and houor among them, and I know that in this instance they will serve the interest of the party. I will vouch for their doing so to the end. (Applause.) Now, gentlemen, if there are any of you here to night who are disappointed in not getting your own choice before the people, do not act as the clog in the manger, who, because he could not eat the hay himself, would not let the ox eat it. (A voice:) The Bullock. I mean, gentlemen, let the bullock eat it. (Uprorious laughter and applause.) I feel that the best interests of peace, and that the success of our party imperiously demands of every man that he should labor for the success of the candidate who has been put in the field. Tho opposition, seeing chisins in our ranks, would roll it as a sweet morsel under their tongue, and would fan it, if they could, from an ember into a flame. Then, as a peace man, as a man weary with war, as a man who served for four long years in a bloody war, and who now desires the State restored and peace and prosperity to return to the whole country, I beg you to lay down your preferences and buckle on the armor for a fight which is to bring these great blessings to onr State- I believe that my section will do so, and 'that, although tho nomination was not entirely as they expected, yet that they will ratify it in their primary assem blies, and support the Reconstruction nominee for Governor with all the ardor and enthusiasm of their natures. (Applause) And not only will your Constitution be ratified, but your noble standard bearer elected. It is our duty to make any sacrifice of feeling where principle is not concerned, and 1 believe the people of my section will do it. Col. Broyles sat down amidst loud and vehement applause. Col. Wimpy, from Dahlonega, was next called for, and on rising to speak, was over whelmed with applause. He said : Gentlemen, of the Convention : I did not expect to be called upon this evening to address you. Judging from the proceed,ngs of this Convention in the past, and from what 1 have heard since I have been here, I would take it for granted that you are tired ; but inasmuch as I have been called upon, I will not retrain from respond ing. Gentlemen, I must frankly confess that I have been for the last twenty-four hours in one of the greatest straits 1 have ever been in during all the days of my life, and thit is to kuow my own duty in refer ence t> the nomination which you have made tc-day. I have talked with other