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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 26, 1875.
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JOUR M. WAWTIW, - » • Editor.
TUESDAY JANUARY 26, 1875.
Tm New York Tribune thinks that tho
most significant and commendable faa-
tnre of Georgia's protest against the out
rage on Louibiana is “its condemnation
of all forms of lawlessness conplcd with
an appeal to the oppressed people of Lou
isiana to snffer still in patience, looking
only to legal means of redressing tbeir
wrongs.”
The New York Tribune makes signifi
cant inquiry, what has become of the
pnblio meetings which were to be called
to approve of the course of General Sher
idan and President Grant in the Louis
{ana business ? It says the enthusiasm on
the subject does not seem to be entirely
nnreatraiuable.
On Saturday the Conservative House of
Representatives of Louisiana, presided
over by Speaker Wilt*, formally proposed
to the Gongreasional investigating com
mittee to submit to its srbitration the
politiosl difficulty in that State, so far as
the Legislature is concerned. As the
committee is now constituted—having
only one Democrat to three Radicals who
are sent for the express purpose of ob
taining a report different from that of the
first committee—-this proposition would
seem to amount almost to a surrender of
the Conservative cause. The committee
took the written proposition into conside
ration.
A Nkw Orleans boy, who was on a
neighboring house top shooting at pig
eons with a little pistol, accidentally sent
a ball, on Friday, throngh the window of
a house occupied as barracks by the Fed-
oral military. The ball struck tho ink
stand of an officer who was writing at a
desk, and splashed the ink over him. For
a few minutes tbore was great commo
tion and excitement, the first thought be
ing that some * ‘bandit” had attempted
the assassination of one of Sheridan's
subordinate officers. But when the facts
were ascertained the excitement quieted
down,and now Littlo Phil is “not afraid.”
Florida's Senatorial contest involves
complioatio ns of an extraordinary charac
ter. One of them ia connected with act-
iug Governor Stearns’ candidacy. Should
he be elected United States Senator the
reoently elected Democratic President of
the Senate would bocomo the acting Gov
ernor, and would have tho appointment of
many county and beat officers, besides
the distribution of much State patronage.
Stearns is a moderate Republican, but it
ia thought that nomo Democrats may be
induced to vote for him for Senator, with
a.view of thereby securing a Democratic
Governor and the patronage connected
with the offioe. The voting for Senator
will commence to-day.
The Maoon Telegraph has advioes, by
letter, of a disastrous fire in Dawson, Ua.,
on Saturday morning, between midnight
nud day, which destroyed twelve build
ings, occupied as follows; B. H. Wood,
groceries; Orr, groceries, Marshall &
Reddick, grocorio ; McDonald Poet,
groceries; J. W. Johnson, dry goods; J.
U. Martin, saloon; Morgan A Keaton,
bar-room and groceries : A. O. Garrard,
confectioneries; James & Bro., groceries;
Howard A Keaton, livery stubles; Odd
Fellows and Friends of Temperance Hall,
and Nelson's Hull. A building occupied
by J. 8. Jobuson as a gun and locksmith
ahop, was badly datnnged. The build
ings wore all of wood, nud being situated
cIoho together, nil efforts to stop the fire
wero unavailing until everything within
reach was consumed. No insurance.
JIONTENEUBO.
This is one of the half independent
“principalties” of Turkey, containing a
large Christian population, and on that
account, ostensibly, receiving the sympa
thy aud support of Russia. It is ohietly
owing to the proximity and the demands
of Russia that this and the other Chris
tian principalities nominally belonging to
Turkey are allowed to have governments
in a great degree independent of the Sul
tan. Russia has several times interposed
to baok those principalities in their de-
minds for religious freedom or looal self-
government, and her present attitude is
that of proteotor of Montenegro agaiust
Turkish aggression upon its religions free
dom. We are not sufficiently acquainted
with tho measures instituted or proposed,
which led to the existing complication, to
express an opinion whether the rights or
liberties of the Christians of Montenegro
were really weuaood by the Turks, or
whether Russia is only seeking a pretext
to extend her conquests towards the Modi
terranean. Her traditional policy, as our
readers know, is to extond her vast do
main until she absorbs all of Turkey in
Europe aud makes Constantinople her
great Southern mart.
In thelast attempt of this kind on the
part of Russia, Turkey found strong and
efficient allies ia Great Britain, France
and Italy, tod the war ended in a restric
tion rather than an extension of
Russian power. None of these al
lies can probably bo relied upon by
Turkey to nid her now, though
poesibly Great Britain might if some other
great power would join her. France, of
oourse, has her owu internal troubles to
tie her hands, and must husband her re
sources for revenge on Germany. But tho
report is thAt Gtrtnnuy may cow back
Turkey, and it remains to be seen w hether
if this be so, tbe alliance will cause Russia
to withdraw her demands, or whether she
will persist and risk another great war—
for certaiuly a war between Russia and
Prussia at this time would be a “big
thing” without involving other nations,
which it could hardly help doing—Austria
especially.
This is the present international “war
cloud” iu Europe. It may invole the con
tinent in another great conflict, and end
in material “rectifications” of its map, or
it may blow off with a little harmless
bluster and thunder without lightning.
Wa shall see.
non. b. it. inu/f* si'EBt H.
The At'anta papers of Sunday publish
full reports of the speech of lion. B. II.
Hill, delivered in the Hall of the House
of Representatives on Wednesday eve
ning last. Mr. Hill, in tho commence
ment, said that the groat duty of avert
ing the evils which tbroaton the country
as with tbe Northern people, and the
great fight wbh to l»o waged in that sec
tion and in Congress; that 4 ‘tbe discus
sion which must enlighten the. intelli
gence and awaken tbe virtue of the peo
ple must take pluoe iu the councils of tlis
nation. There the different sect ions,
throngh their champions, meet face to
f»tco. There tho oppressor and tho op
pressed look at each other eye to eye, and
he who Lai the truth inu»t show his man
hood to vindioate it.” He reviewed por
tions of our political history to show that
it was tho infidelity of Northern anti-
slavery politicians to the Constitu
tion (which is the government in
this country) that caused all our
troubles. lHs pointed statement of the
progress and pnrpose of “reconstruc
tion,” and his telling and incisive recital
of facts in the Lotiisiana cuse, we ornitk
because they are not now to our readers,
though presented w.ih striking force by
Mr. Hill. We copy tho application and
conclusion of his able and eloquent ad
dress, which may serve at once os a note
of warning to us and a disclosure of the
threatening situation immediately Ahead :
Now tell me, my friends, did they dis
perse the Louisiana Legislature to save
the Union? Did Durell have his mid
night orgie to save the Union ? Did they
do it to preaarve the constitution of the
oountry ? Did thoy do it to complete the
work of reconstruction? Tell me, I ap
peal to the intelligence of the American
public.
Tell me why, at this day, the govern
ment at Washington, the dominant party,
■till finds it necessttiy to interfere and
control the Legislature of sovereign
State*? There is but one answer to be
given. It is to enable them to keep the
poweT in this oountry in a central govern
ment, without regard to the constitation
of the country. [Applause.] Now that
is bad enough, but I am dwelling too
much, for there is much I desire to sAy.
1 want to give you tbe hiatory briefly, and
the roAsona why tho constitution was vio
lated, ao that* you will understand it.
Yon understand why it was unconstitu
tional for them thus to interfere in Lou
isians. But, my friends, bad as is this
view, there is a darker one behind. Do
you believe, are you stupid enough to
suppose, that this iniquity ha* been per
petrated because of any special haired to
Louisiana? No. It means you; it means
nil the Southern Staten ; it means all the
Uniou; aud it is intended as a blow at
the whole country. This man, Sheridan,
sent a telegram to Washington city ; end
what is in it ? lie says that tho spirit ot
defiance to the law is uucontrollulilo, and
there is but one way to stop it. He did
not haj the action was one of defiance,
but tho spirit of defiance. How Sheridau
could read anybody's spirit I don't know,
but mark tho language. He in aq officer,
and a high officer in the United States
army. He says he would suggeot that
Congress pass a law declaring a largo por
tion of tho people of Louisiana and other
States bandits, that they might bo tried
by court-martial. Aud then, as if atip-
poaiug Congress might not be willing to
pass suoh a law, he said if the President
would proolaim them baudits the rest
might be left to him. 1 will uot indulge
in epithets, but tho idea that an American
officer should suggest tho thought (hat.
citizens could be declared bandits by
Presidential proclamation, then tried by
him And shot by order of a court-martial!
Is it possible for language to concentrate
tho essence of tyranny more strongly iu
words? There is nothing, I fearlessly
assert, in the history of Nero or Galligula
more absolutely infamous. Thoro is our
eounstitntiou whieRonr fathers framed,
and which this officer swore to sup
port. And what does that constitution
say? That no person shall be held to an
swer for a capital or otherwise infamous
crime except by indictment or present
ment of a grand jury, unless in land or
naval service.
Ho has requested, iu the teeth of that,
that the President shall issue a proclama
tion declaring whole classes criminals,
and leave the rest to him (Sheridan).
Then thero is another clause, that every
crimianl trial shrill be by an impartial
jury, and in tho State and district whore
committed. This proposal of Sheridan’s
strikes down the trial by juryaud subjects
the citizens to trial by court-martial.
Can tho spirit of bandit be worse ? I am
stating the facts, end telling you the
manner in which this violates the consti
tution. This dispatch of Sheridau's, fol
lowed by his letter of justification, would
not of itself amount to anything, except
to prove that Sheridan knew nothing
about law, and cared 1 CRH; that he knew
nothiug about human rights, and cared
less; that ho knew uolhiug about the oou-
stitution of the country, and cared leas
for his oath to support it. But the alarm
ing feature is that the President of the
Uuited Suites sends a solemn official mos-
sage to Congress, wherein, wlnlo Lo duos
not declare his wish or right to issue the
proclamation, he yet absolutely goes into
an argument to justify the dispatch, aud
apologized for it on account of what he
calls the outrages in the Southern States.
What greater outra^e than this dispatch,
and this approval of it, can human wick
edness conceive ? It is the darkest chap
ter in the history of tho conutry, which
records that the executive justifies n sug
gestion that oilizens be declared bandits
by Presidential proclamation, and tried
l>y court-martial in the teeth of tho con
stitution that executive lias sworn to sup
port, protect and dofeud. I tell you it
marks the darkest era iu American his
tory. You can never comprehend fully
its danger or its enormity. Aud he goes
so far as to say that he has no doubt that
if Congress should pass a law, as Sheridan
suggests, these troubles would all cei.se;
that is, end these troubles by subverting
the constitution! Secure peace by de
stroying liberty ? Punish crime by offi-
cial perjury, through the disruption of
constitutional government! Who is tho
rebel ? Who shows a spirit of defiance to
all law, and a reckless disregard of all
rights? Sheridan, wo are told, i* no Uw-
year; neither is Grant. Ami herein is
tbe great curse of this oountry, that men
Are rushing iuto high positions, the duties
of which they do not understand and tho
responsibilities of which they do not re-
gird. We hove an ago of military states
manship, and civil government is abso
lutely destroyed, and in law in time of
peuco, in absolute dominion to military
power. A still more alarming fact is, that
these monstrous propositions are actually
justified by the leaders of the party in
Congress aad throughout the United
States. That lawyers like Morton and
Coukling aud Edmunds should forget
their oath, and got up before the peoplo
and justify those bold, fearless aud des
potic propositions, pas-es comprehension.
It only shows to what extent tho spirit of
usirpatiou has gone, and ought to warn
the American people of the threatening
danger to their institutions. Where will
the thing end? Think you it will end
iu Louisiana? My countrymen, you
can't mistake the purpose of all t!i*
conduct; it has been manifest from
the beginding. It will not stop with
Louisiana unless the people frown it down
by an indignation uoparalelled in this
country. Already a special committee'has
been appointed to see what further re
pressive Ifginiation is necessary for the
Southern B'ates, and we are told that this
committee is now absolutely discussing
tbe proposition of undoing all that has
boon done ; nnreconstructing reconstruc
tion, aud reconstructing again. Why, you
know they said when they commenced re-
constuiction, that we were outside of the
law, end tho idea is to remand ns back to
dependence on their power. Tbe very
idea i* monstrous; it points to tho end to
which this couutiy under this party is
going. It proves as clearly as can be
proved that this party never went into this
war to preserve tbe constitution ; that
they never wont into this war solely to
vbolish slavery. 1 toll you they have con
ducted this government from tbe day tbe
8outhern people left it for the purpose of
perpetuating themselves in power, and
they are determined lo perpetuate them
selves in power if they trample upon the
constitution andovery State in the United
States to accomplish the result. What is
the prospect of Huccesh? That is tbe
material inquiry for you and me. I am
delighted to see that a groat many of tho
more intelligent aud patriotic citizens of
the Republican party North have taken
this matter in band. In Boston tho spirit
of liberty is reviving. The noble Evarts
has spoken words that ought to commend
him to every patriot in tho United •states.
I am glad to see Republicanism coming
out against the subversion of the constitu
tion, for every blow at Louisiana is a blow
at every Statu in this Union.
I have some faith that tho Northern
people, who have been so long the victims
of a raging storm of passion, art now
awakening to their senses, and will see
that the miserable party of constitution
haters they havo nursed is under the lead
of the greatest rebols, and the only rebels
who have really caused all our trouble.
And yet these men that thus trample upon
tho constitution under the solemnity of
their oaths, which they take when thoy
take their seat! in Congress, have the ef
frontery to get np there and, in the very
same breath with which they justify those
enormous violations of the constitution,
talk to Southern men about being rebels.
Secession was a mistake—a terrible mis
take ; but secession was no crime. [Great
applause.] It violated no oaths; it
trampled upon no individual rights; it
throttled no State; it sought to shed no
blood ; it burned no cities; it invaded no
homes!
Radicalism is no mistake—it is delib
erate, intentional, wicked, ever-increasing
crime. [Applause.] It has trampled
upon ten thounand oaths to support the
Constitution ; it deified the Union as a
fuel that it might destroy tho Uniou as a
principle, under pretense of reconstruct
ing the StAtes; it has sworn to support
the Constitution only to noizo upon power
to enable it to subvert the Constitution,
under pretense of restoring peace; it has
blighted tho oountry with war, poverty
and sorrow ; it has burned cities; it has
dispersed legislatures; it ha* robbed tbe
poor, pluudered tho helpless, punished the
innocent, and has chained liberty to the
car of tyranny. I arraign radicalism to
night. before the bar of this outraged
country a* the only real, intentiouel rebel
in American history. [Applause ] It is
a rebel against the Constitution of our
fathers; it is a rebel agaiust the sov
ereignty of the Brutes; it is a rebel
i-.gainst the rlomostio truquillity which tho
Constitution was intended to insure; it
is a rebel against every principle of jus
tice, and n rebel against every blessing of
liberty. [Tremendous applause.] Will
Northern people see it ? Can thoy wake
up to sue it? I believe they can. £ be
lieve thoy will; ut least I have Homo hope
of it. It in tiuio for tho work to begin.
Tbegro't final struggle to settle tho ques
tion whether constitutional liberty on tho
continent shall bo continued or not, iN to
bo fought in 187p. Can it be successful
ly fought ut tho ballot? I warn tho coun
try now t'.ut radicalism will never yield
its grasp of power at the bidding of tbe
vote* of tho people, save that vote amount
to a popular revolution. Don’t you im
agine, my friends, that this monster
ag lirn.t every right is going to yield its
morbid appetite for power at the bidding
of n bare majority of tho people ? Never,
never!
That is what it ii now preparing for,
and I toll you the same power that throt
tled Louisiana will throttle the Electoral
Cullego of those States and keep the gov
ernment in their hands, notwithstanding
the ballot, ami all under the color of the
law, too. [Laughter and applause.] I
want tho rniud of American people di
rected to one inquiry ; it is a great in
quiry, a glorious inquiry. Oh, I look for
ward to tins discussion with real rapture.
Who, in American history, is a rebel ? Is
it a man wbo tramples upon tho Constitu
tion, or a man who simply resents suoh
infidelity by seeking to get away from
Biichapnrty? To what exteut this rebel
power may go iu defying the will of the
people no one can say. Look what it lias
done in Louisiana. Look nt the report of
tho Congressional committeo. Stores and
property selling for taxes; residences in
that beautiful city of New Oileaus selling
for taxes.
Iu tho interior property is actually of
fered for taxes, and that amount cannot
1)0 had. The people impoverished, the
Legislature dispersed, tho State power
less. Iu tho interior counties the com
mittee tells us tho only Republicans are
offi'e-holdors, and iu several iustnuces
there is not a single Republican but one
family, aud they all bold offices ! That is
why they are Radicals; for tho same rea-
suu that carrion-crows like carrion, and
they care not wbnt may be tho wrongs to
others, so they get it. That is the condi
tion of Louisiana. Look at your pros
trate sister, and see what Georgia has es
caped. Georgia narrowly escaped in 1871
the same fate that overtook Louisiana
1872, and again the othor day. It could
have been done easier in Georgia, for iu
Louisiana Governor Warmoutk wus op
posed to it, therefore they resorted to
Durell; but iu Georgia, in 1871, the then
so-called Governor was not only willing
but exceedingly anxious to enter upon
tho work. Do you think Georgia was
Kavod by accident? Such results ure
never attained by accident. Was she
saved by the ballot? Did not Louisiana
have the ballot also in 1872? Does not
the committee say she elected a majority
in tho House of Representatives again in
1874? and yet, inhere is she now? The
public man iu America who ha* not un
derstood from the beginning that the
whole point and power os well as danger
in Radicalism lies in the fact that they ex-
peot to perpetuAto their power by force
and in spite of the ballot-box, has boon a
stupid public man, and not fit to be n
public counselor. [Applause.] Now.
Georgia was saved in 1871 by keeping off
the heavy hand of Federal interference.
How it was doue is not now a proper time
to say. Homo have said sneeringly that I
did it. I never * said I did it,
oue thiug, luy slanderers but I say
did not do it. [Laughter aud applause.]
I will uot stop lo tell wlmt part I acted,
but throughout tho day of trouble my
ears were saluted by but oue bouud from
the rear, aud that was slander and calum
ny from tho people I served. [Cheers
and applause.] But let that pass, you
shall havo that history in duo time. At
all events Georgia was saved by exactly
the revese process by which Louisiana
was lost. Louisiana was lost by Federal
interferance, and Georgia was saved by Fed
eral non-interferanco. I will say this much :
I was actuated by no selfish purpose, and
equally, was not intimidated by the war
upon me. I had nothiug in view but the
rescue of my native State from the domi
nation of Radicalism.
How Grant Odtne to be so kind, and I
admit he was kind, is the question
you are .some day to understand.
Fellow citizens, I look to tho contest
of 1876 not ouly as the most important
that ever occurred in American history
but as the most important in the history
of the world ; for if the people of the
country cannot be aroused to give an
overwhelming vote against this Republi
can party, it will perpetuate its power in
the United States, by precisely the Rame
means as the President has taken in Lou
isiana, and the people will be powerless
to prevent it, except they go to war. [Ap
plause.] If we fail in tbe ballot-box in
1876 by reason of force, a startling ques
tion will present itself to the American
people. 1 trust we will not fail. I hope
tbe Northern people have bad a sufficed
subsidence of passion to see this question
fairly. I think they will; I trust thoy
will. The indications are iu our favor.
In truth, the North was always in favor of
the constitution.
We were in favor of constitutional
government; we were in favor of consti
tutional liberty, but they have been car
ried away by the raging storm ot passion,
and by tbe unfortunate secession, by fa
natical leaders. Led on under the miser
able delusion that they were preserving
the Uniou, and keeping down rebellion,
they have been aiding and rewarding the
only rebel* in America in the work of de
stroying the constitution.
There is the point. They must now be
able to see. If they will not soe it, they
will still he blind. If poor Louisiana
cannot teach them that this party means the
destruction of constitutional government
on this continent, then, indeed, the great
question, and the only question behind
for their thought is the one that must be
propounded, and from whioh there is no
escape. That question is: is the consti
tution OF OUB FATHERS WORTH BLOOD?
Will you have war or despotism? Will
you have blood or empire ? That is the
question. If you appeal to the ballot, it
will fail unless the people rally by over
whelming majority, suoh os in the majes
ty of its ir resist able power shell sweep re
hellion from the offices of the govern
ment, by the very breath of its indigna
tion. Nothing else eon save it; nothing
else will save it. The next Congress of
the United States is in importance over
any preceding Congress from the adop
tion of the constitution to the present
time. The debates of the naxt Congress
must give shape^to the presidential elec
tion. They shook) be wise, prudent and
patriotic; and in tho wisdom of those de
bates the Northern people must receive
enlightened intelligence that will enable
them to rise and save the liberty of the
country. To this dreadful issue Itiave
looked with earnestness for years. I tell
you, my friends, there is no peace for this
country until Radicalism is crushed;
not only crushed but despoiled;
uot only despoiled, but made infa
mous forever throughout America.
[Tumultuous applause and cheers.]
But, oh, how my heart in this
trying hour forgives all the strife of
the past, and goes out with patriotic af
fection to ovory Northern man who wakea
to tho reality of the situation, and says
that at last he discovers that the only true
friend of the Union is the true friend of
the constitution. [Applause.] What an oc
casion for u*. What shall we of tho
South do? We are powerless in one
■«U8e, but thero is much we ean do. Lot
n* now, everywhere in the South, habit
ually speake of the constitution and the
Union uuder it with that old reverence
aad love that distinguished ns in the days
that are past and gone. I say, to-night,
there was not a single hour iu Americau
history when the Southern heart was not
true to that constitution. [Applause.]
When the signal of war was given in Mas
sachusetts iu the first revolution Georgia
wan one of the first to march to the tight
of Massachusetts for the liberties of all.
If wo must have war, if we cannot pro
serve this constitution and conatitutiton-1
government by the ballot, if force is to
defeat tlie ballot, if the WAr must come—
God forbid that it should come—but if it
must c<ime, if folly, if wiakidness, if inor
dinate love of power shall decree that
America must save her constitution by
blood, let it come. I am ready. [Enthu
siastio fipplauso and cheering.] But let
one thing be dislinotly understood, that v
if another war ehall come, we of the
South will rally uuder the old flag of our
fathers. [Wild applause.] It always was
our flag. We were never faithless to it,
and our enemies were never faithful to it.
[Applause]
in 1860 some of you may have heard
mo in the capitol at Milledgeville, when ~
told yon then that this spirit of enmity to
the constitution would one day produce
war in this country. There was no escape
from it. The destruction of slavery war
a pretext. The whole purpose wns to
chuuge tho character of the government
and constitution of this country. And I
told you thiR with all theoarneRtness of my
nature, to fight first for tbe constitution
in the Union, and, if we could not save
the constitution in it, there wae time
enough to go out. [Applause.]
You would not agree to the proposition
you insisted upon going out. I do not
chide you. You were unfortunate; you
were excited ; yon were mistaken. You
did wrong to your friends at home, to your
shelve*, aud lo your friends at tbe North.
You threw the power of the government
into the hands of the eucmies of u* all.
They used that power to crush you and
your friends in the North, aud they are
determined to crush until they crush out
all the constitutional liberty in the conn
try. You know I was faithful; that
stayed by you till the last hour; that
from the time Georgia seceeded till Lee’i
surrender [applause] I never did an act,
or k ud a word, or had a thought, that was
uot faithful to our side. [Applause.]
The same old enemy is on the war path
agaiust constitutional government and the
sovereigns of the States. Under the false
pretext of preserviog the Unioh, this
enemy has deluded the North and viotim
ized the Houth, and now, insolent with
success, is seeking to engulf all the liber
ties of the North and the Booth. Patriot*
everywhere must wake up to their designs,
and forget and forgive all the errors, mis
takes aud strifes of the past. Let us have
no more of slavery [applause], no more of
secession [applause], no more icotional
crimination. [Applause.] Let ns all who
love the constitution, unite end save the
country by ballot, if possible; aod if
force, under pretext of any kind, shall at
tempt to defeat the voice of the people at
tho ballot box; let every patriot be ready
to march under the old stars and stripes
to the grave or to victory. Let us of the
South go where we ought to have gone at
the first, and where, if we had gone, we
should have crowded ought this monster
power. [Great applause. ]
In the meantime, while patriots all over
tho country are awaiting and preparing
for the great deciding election of 1876,
oppressions will coutiuue upon tbe Bou’h,
and how shall we deport ouiselvee? On
this point I wish to be distinctly under
stood. During tbe process of executing
reconstruction, beginning in 1807. I did
not advise the Southern people to resist
the government, but I did urge them not
to consent to reconst ruction, for that
would have disgraced us as a people. I
insisted that reconstruction should be
both the work and tbe infamy of our eno-
iiiies. The process of reconstruction fixed
upon us nominal rulers, bat real plunder
ers and robbers. In 1870 the time bad
come to oousider how we should get rid
of these creatures. I never wrestled
with any proposition with more earnest,
unselfish, even self-sacrificing purpose. I
made two visits to tbe North to learn pub-
lio sentiment os it was and as it was likely
to bo. I found a great number of Repub
licans utterly opposed to tbe centralizing
tendency of their party under its radical
rulers. Bui those men would not support
tbe Democratic party because they feared,
under tho platform of 1858, tbe Demoora-
cy would revolutionize backward to seces
sion u-.d slavery. I found a’so thAt the
portioQ of the platform of 1868 which de
clared reconstruction “revolutionary, null
and void,” was only a sentiment with the
Democrats, and not a principle for actiou.
These facts, put together, brought me to
the conclusion that in 1872 the Democracy
would modify their platform and recog
nize reconstruction as an accomplished
fact, and that patriotic Republicans at tho
North would then begin to ioin the Demo
crats to nvert the Radical revolution to
absolutism, in some way.
This condition caused me to write the
letter of December, 1870, advising yon to
Rubmit to tho constitution as amended,
and to go to work to avert further wrongs.
* believed this position would aid me in
the struggle to get rid of Radical rule iu
Georgia by keeping off Federal interior-
ence, and I was not mistaken. Many of
you abused me very much then. You
ought to be ashamed of it. I warned you
that you would be ashamed of it, and so
fou are. Yon did not then see the ques
tion as I saw it, only beoauso you had not
stud ed it as I bad. I saw then it was the
only way out of our troubles. Well, time
has done it* work, and you are all up with
me now. Everybody says submit. No
body cries “military” now. I fear I must
even admonish you not to go too far.
Thero is a limit to submission. It must
not become abject. We must submit to
the laws, right or wrong. We must
cheerfully give alt rights to all rsoes and
oolors. We must not resist tbe authority
of the United StAtes, even though they
cheat the ballot-box, and force usurpers
and robbers iu offioe. over the votes and
ill of the peoplo. Let ua do all these
things and wait patiently for the awaking
patriotism of tho Northern people to re-
dress our wrong*. Bat beyond this I will
not advise sub mission. I will not advise
that we givo not co in advance that we
will submit to be treated as criminals.
N ver! No honorable Northern man will
ask it,“nor respect us if we grant it. If
Congress, by act, shall declare us, or
Grant, by proclamation, adjudge us to be
bandits, and leave the rest to Sheridan,
and he begins to hand-cuff, oourt-martial
and shoot citizens of the South, I will
not advieo freemen to submit to
it! [Immense applause.] I want the
North to have freedom. I am wil
ling to vote with them, and if neoessary
fight with them for oar common free
dom, but I am not willing that the North
Nhall have freedom, on condition that we
first become slaves. [Very great applause. ]
la a word, 1 am willing to
advise our people to submit to
everything that patriots and freemen
can submit to, end preserve honor, but I
aim not willing to aee the constitution
subverted that we may be treated as ban
dits and outlaws, and advise our people
to submit to that, nor do I believe the
Northern people will require or permit
such humiliation. If they do require or
will permit it, then all honor as well as
liberty is lost, and thero is nothing to
hope for by any submission. We catch
up the old slogan of our enemies, end
read it and turn to its authors and say,
“This country—this whole country—must
bo all free or nil slaves!” [Loud ap
plause.] We will in all things deport our
selves a* patrto’s, and respect and protect
the lights of all men. We will submit to
the accomplished facts of the past wheth
er we approve them or not. We will join
our Northern brethren to restore the con
stitution as it is all over the country. We
will unite with them at the ballot-box to
redeem the country from its present
thraldom and its threatening future. We
will help them unchain all the States and
preserve tbe liberties of all n\,en. If foroe
nhall ho employed by tbe enemies of the
constitution—by the rebel* against con
stitutional government—to defeat the will
of the people through the ballot-box, wo
nro willing to march with them as com
mon brethren under a oommon flag, to
preserve oar common country,Union and
constitution. But we of the Houth will
inaugurate do war. Wo shall resist every
nttemp to provoke or force u* first iuto
the collision. We insist that the roll-eail
for volunteers to defend the constitution
shall begin at Bunker Hill. Then let
it go to Lexington and Concord, Saratoga,
Brandywine and Trenton. As it crosses
the Potomac, let it be repeated at Manas
sas, and Chancellorville, and Richmond,
nud Chickam&uga, and Bhilob, and me
thinks the very dead will leap up and an
swer. (Immense cheering.]
My Southern friends, how I take com
fort from that beautiful law of a wise and
merciful Providence, that patient virtue,
sooner of later, shall have its reward.
Wo have eodured, we have struggled, w
have made mistakes, but all our mistakes
were on the side of liberty and for what
we believed was the cause of the consti
tulional government. We have paid the
penalty of our mistakes most cruelly.
Thank God! there a is logic in events
which human intentions oannot control.
There is a Providence in the world
which tbe human will cannot restrain.
Ono of them is that patient, enduring vir
tue and suffering will one day have tbeir
reward. 1 believe that day is dawning for
n 4. I believe the time is coming, if we
be true to ourselves, if we bury the
strifes of the past and have but one hon
est, longing, earnest desire to restore the
constitution of our fathers, and preserve
liberty for all, tliQt we shall find North*
ern men as a great cloud of witnesses ris
ing up for our rescue and ready to accord
us justice a* patriot*. When the victory
will begin, when the sins of the Radicul
party shall once more begin to be expos
ed, oh, whAt infamy awaits them! What
pen can describe it? We havo only to
recite a record of their deeds, of their
violated oaths, of their brutality, of their
hypocrisy, to rink them deeper into infa
my than was ever visited upon any party in
hi*tory. As they shall sink.you shall rise.
The re-awakened and re-united patriotism
of all sections will enkindle a flame in
this country that will burn up forever ell
spiriUvof rebellion to the constitution;
and this American Usman—Radicalism
so bigoted, so brutal, so insolent, will be
brought to the scaffold which himself has
erected for our common constitution, end
Northern patriots will cry oat, “let them
he hanged, let them be hanged."
In the midst of great cheering, the
speaker was presented with a boquet from
some ladies of New Orleans, as a token
of the love of the women of Louisiana.
Masonic Notice.
or wit it wa» not very oreliUhle to your
{’•per, M people who have seen aod heard I . 0ALLKI)
Midara Jananschek most have utterly A CHAPTER No. 7, H am
- .. . . .. I b« held this rT«.i.iov\ ' 7/OC
failed to aee the point. Obbman.
[We give place to the above to show
oar friend “German” that the incident
referred to in the paper waa treated with
out aoy intent to ridicule Madam Janau-
eobeb.who Ua* no greater admirer than he
who pane this.]
Etaotlt !—The New York Tribune
than apeak* to the llrpabliian Congress:
“Go on, if you cbooae, and couinleto
the outrage. Sanction all that the Pres
ident ha* done. Seat Finchback and
think Sheridan. Tbe people will aet-le
with Kellogg and all the reat of yon by-
and-by. Meanwhile the report of the
•nil-committee passes in to hiatory a* the
moat terrible indictment ever brought
against any politioal faction by it* own
member*, and there are many of you who
will read in it the death warrant of the
Repnhlican party."
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