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[From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel ]
THE ATLANTA MASS MEETING.
SPEECH
OF
HON. B. H. HILL I
When General Cobb bad conclnded bis
address, several bands of mnsic struck up
various popular airs, in different parts of
the arbor, improvised for the accommoda
tion of the audience.
The Hon. B. H. Hill then came forward,
and said;
Mr- President and Fellow-Citizens'.
I especially request entire qniet while I at
tempt to address you to-day. In addition to
the fact that I have to follow two gentlemen
who have no superiors on this continent. I
am, unfortunately, laboring under considera-
ble'pbysical disability, the extent of which
is uot even known to myself.
I greet you to-day, my countrymen, with
a joy and gladness that no language can ex
press. a
One year ago, I came, in my humble way,
to this same city, to speak to ttie people what
I believe to be the words of truth and sober
ness. There has been quite a change Binoe
then. On that occasion, X met, in a qniet,
retired room, some half dozen gentlemen,
who had made up their miods to brave the
storm that was comiug upon us at all hazards.
Thai little baud of half a dozen in that pri
vate room has swelled to-day to thousands
of freemen, in the open air of this once more
to be redeemed country. I must confess that
the history of the past year is one to me fall
of cheer and rejoicing. 1 may differ with
most of you, but I feel that during the past
twelve mouths the white race of the South-
era States has done more to manifest hero
ism, endurance and courage than any other
people have ever manifested on a hundred
bailie fields. [Cheers.] It is not uncom
mon for a peopie to lose their property; it is
uothiog new in the history of nations for a
people to be defeated in battle; it is not even
altogether new, unfortunately, that a people
should lose their cities ani bury their dead;
that they should be cowed in tbeir spirits,
and should be made almost hopeless of the
future. But there is something else which is
possessed by every people far more valuable
than property, far more to be desired than
cities, far more to be coveted than the victo
ries of war, and that thing you still possess,
notwithstanding your enemies sought to de
stroy it I mean your honor as a people.
There were two propositions made to you,
which I would briefly state, so that you can-
see dearly what I mean. The first proposi
tion which affected yonr houor was, that a
Congress in which you were not represent
ed—a band of foreigners, not one of whom
has ever lived or expects to live upon your
soil—nay, men who have avowed that they
hate you, claimed the right to destroy the
government you had formed, and to dictate
to you the formation of a new government.
This was done, too, right in the teeth.of
the Declaration of Independence, which says
tost ait government derives its authority
from the consent of "the governed. You are
asked to forfeit your honor because a band
of foreigners—men among whom you had
no representatives—among whom you were
denied representation—who confess their hate
cfyou—these men claimed the right to de
stroy the government which you had formed,
and to dictate the formation of another in its
stead. None but slaves would have acceded
'to such a demand, and none could have been
other than slaves who would consent to it.
The second reason why your honor, as a
ipeople, was so seriously involved, is this:
That in the formation of the new government
which this foreign power dictated it was pre
scribed, as a necessary condition, that the
intelligent and virtuous of your people—-
whom you- had-ail your life deemed
worthy of the highest trust—should be for-
did hot accept it, of making you- accept a
rse. First of all these in carrying out
thjat plan, they sent the military here; they-
it nu'aimvTrf bayonets to rnaki
a helpless people as another met
complishing this infamy and sect
3 m of your consent; they came to some of
ar own public: men—natives of Georgia
i of the South--men whom yon had hoo-,
ored of old, and they' bought them up as co
adjutors in the work. [Cries of Joe Brown A
No. I don’t allnde to tnat man. • I tdll -yon,
my friends, his name forms a subject that is
becoming too vulgar for reference in decent
company. [Cheers and laughter, -
of' ‘-that’s so.’’] I speak of ac
affirm fearlessly, and I want the
the country to know it, that there was not a
single Southern public man who advocated
, tuat tnere is. po argument or
fipplnmce which.they can use -in the future
ft have -used in
ie v whu .pan" .withstand,
force and pressure . as
’e been brought to baar upon you within
past , twelve months, can never bfe : se--
«d: -or driven- from: their honor. Tam
ind,of ; (Georgia, and I pray , that when God
es ma, hence,- my bones mfcy - .be laid in
nprcdioldeoili; -:[A ,voice, “yoti’U g»
&4T -.bsesisq
!y;frietfl}ltiI«ish>Jta.pftss now to. another
the acceptance of
who was not bong
snbjefit. The,issueIwsaomewhatxhanged. I.
r, and cries have tplij you fv bat , the issuei has been I the
class, and I Iasttwelg? moatiis; .uadT.wlBh ho atfitehere,
ie people of in a fewhriuf words, thnmain.poidteiniasue
notv- Some whoConsented ia be bought -for.
the purpose of _ ipdqcing-the people:.of the
scheme Sonth
price has partially been paid, and you are to
pay the balance." . [lAuguter.]. What argu
ments did they use ? Did they appeal to
your pride,- yonr honor;' or your interests ?
Not at ail. They came among.you and
travelled from the’seaboard to the mountains,
ao "*
yoi
d they ipld an impoverished people “|(
ih don’t accept this. Infamy the little
bidden to participate, while those, who had
been your slaves should be at liberty, with
out discrimination, to participate. Ton were
to farm a government, under the dictation
and by tbe direction of a foreign power, and
yon, in the formation of the government,
vote to bs deprived of the services of the iU-
tslligence and virtue ol your country, simply
because you bad trusted them, and you had
Jo submit to the government being formed
"J those who had recent'y been your slaves,
%oorant and debased as thsy were. You
will remember now that these are the reasons
vhy your honor was involved. The base
Congress—the unprecedentedly traitorous
Congress who got their own consent thus to
attempt, in the day of their power, to dis
honor an unarmed people—this Congress, I
* a y, had a vague, lingering suspicion ot the
dishonor of their scheme, and therefore pro-
tided a plan by which the infamy should
“era to spring from your own consent.
'Veil, I confess truly, that when I looked at
tie picture; when I sawr the issue and re
membered that no people had ever grown
great who suffered their honor to be sullied
—so people bad recovered from misfortune
*so had yielded (heir honor to the enemy—
*ben I remembered all these things and saw
the condition of our people, saw all the dan
gers that surrounded them and the power
that dictated these terms, O! God, thou and
fhnu only, knowest the anxiety of my spirit!
When the smoke of our burning cities went
°P to heaven, and onr brave men fell in bat
ik; 1 *»» grieved exceedingly, but when a
whole people—millions of, freemen—were
.d ordered—^commanded by power to
■crifice their honor at* the bidding of hate,
imja there were found those who whispered
that the sacrifice would be made, my heart
dtu sink within me; and when I remember
F® w the means and appliances brought to
bear to compel you to yield, I do rejoice in
‘“owing that you. refused [cheers]. I have
, only one point to accomplish in this
truggle; 80me have troubled tbemaelves
*?° ut offices, others' about votes, others yet
•bout carrying the election against the con
tention, and still others about the defeat of
constitution. For all of this I core
th-L n f>’ the great and only point
hich I had ever felt to be of serious
wnsequencs in this straggle was to io-
“Ce and persuade the while people of
j ? mouth never to consent to this infamy,
anew that elections would be declared
ccessfal; I knew that, right or wrong, they
ould sfiy that the elections were carried,
hey came for that pamo se. That was not i
I sauted yourwotteP
W lm“n. to s" ei 1 wanled posterity to
a ,f eoord made so that it
th tt » < ?h >e - meD > uow and forever,
S at “? e . whlte P eo P le of the South refused to
jpve their consent to tbis iniquity. [Cheers]
That, is why 1 wrote and spoke; that is why I
fe? P18 qni f alTT and defied *•» P™er-
tel'r ™V/ eU ^ Gltl r a ’ jt waa a titne to
iiear. Ifl doubted and trembled on that oc-
leasion do not blame me; if Iteared you
u-a Dot 116 e< l aal t0 the great crisis, don’t
Uhide me. Remember the p iwerful influence
brought to bear. The Congress claimed to
be all pogerfaL and they avowed *
bose ” —
property that you have left shall' bd confis
cated, and every man of you shall be dis
franchised Congress, claiming to be all-
powerful, installed an army in yonr midst,
and found citizens ready-and. willing to urge,
to persuade, to intimidate and to threaten
starving,and almost helpless people.
6b, my countrymen, prond as I know
Southern blood to be, don’t chile me if, in
this dark hoar, I felt uneasy; I confess that I
did. "I watched the first election—tbe elec
tion for the Convention—with intense inter
est. I happened to 'be in New York'city
when the first elec'ion in the South came off,
and 1 shall never forget how my hopes were
lifted and my desires fulfilled on receipt
of the first telegram from the South, giving, as
one ot the facts connected with the first day
of the election, that the whites retdsed to
have any thing to do with it. I waited
anxiously for the second day, thinking that
perhaps the “superior race" had crowded in;
and the whites were, on that account, unable
to get to the polls. [Laughter.] The sec
ond dsy came, and' brought, the news that
the whiteB had; almost to a man, remained
away from the'polls—only a few carpet-bag
gers and office-seekers voting, thU9 the elec
tion went on to tbe last. I tell you, fellow-;
citizens, I moved among the inhabitants of
the great commercial metropolis prouder that
day than ever before... I shall never fori
mte.ing some of. the prominent - men of- ti
city, one of whom said to me, “ We had
been taught to believe that the people of the
South would endorse this measure, and they
have had nothing to do with it.’’ “Why,"
added be, “yonr people are more honorable
than we gave them credit for.” Well, the
power with the bayonet said that a Conven
tion was ordered. All knew, however, that
it was ordered by negroes, not by whites—
though, iu truth, nobody did order it but tbe
bayonet and certain scoundrels. The negroes
never ordered it. I exonerate tbe negroes.
JLiughter.j I affirm to-day another great
fact! which I want to be remembered, and
which, whenever the occasion may demand,
I stand prepared to support. The Con
vention in Georgia was defeated by thir
ty thousand votes! [Wild cheering.J Ah,
my jfriends, there is nothing like it in his
tory,! You were poor, you were betrayed,
tempted, threatened—you were told that
every man that did’ntvote lor the Conven
tion must have his little remaining-property
confiscated, besides being disfranchised,- and
that the list of voters was to be used 10 as
certain who you were.
Miserable threat! Proud people—noble
people! The verdict you gave was that,
though many of our gallant spirits were sleep
ing under the sod, there was heroism, still
in the South. [Enthusiastic cheers.] Well,
the false convention assembled, and a thing
called a constitution was framed. It had to
be ratified, and a Governor and officers had
to be chosen, and what was tbe appeal then?
Of course, if the Southern white people ap
proved the constitution, the dishonor was
complete. They had exhausted appeals to
your fears—you could not be frightened from,
yonr honor—and the next ’thing was to' buy
you up. So they put in the new- Constitu
tion something called relief. The few men
in the Sonth (who, unfortunately, were
Southern men from accident or other cause],
who had sold themselves to engage-in tbis
work, being entirely conscious that they
were bought up for the purpose, thought,
of course, that tbe same means would an
swer for the balance of the people. They,
therefore, sought to buy you, and they pro
mised you relief. I came here to this very-
city and I took occasion to notify you that
this promise was put in the new Consti
tution for no other purpose than to cheat
yon, and that the rogues aDd hypocrites who
put it,in, did so with the distinct knowledge
that it would be stricken out after the elec
tion. The question was this : how many
men in Georgia fire willing to confess them
selves no better than negroes if. they could
thereby get rid of their: debts ? how many of
you would be willing to be negroes, ir by
being negroes yon could be excused from
paying yonr debts? Well, I came to this
■city, in March to inaugurate the fight bn that
question, and some of yon, my friends, were
weak-kneed. Yon didn’t do right. A good
many of yon came to me thea and said,
“Don’t you say anything against the Consti
tution; eyerybody is going to.vote for it;
everybody was going to be sold.’’ It wos.a
great wound to inflict upon me. I was
struggling for nothing on tbis earth but to
preserve the honor of the people of Georgia,
and, knowing that they could not be fright
ened, I hoped they could not be bought.
We made the fight, and let the whole world
know it, the white people of Georgia, by an
overwhelming majority, refused to be
bought. ;
Some few men, I apprehend, are about in
the category of the poor negroes who voted
for a Convention to get “forty acres and a
mule.” Ah, ypu poor victims of a' wily hy
pocrisy—of men to whom God gave a white
skin by mistake! [Laughter.] You who
went upon the public block, before your
countrymen and tbe world, and phbticly pro
claimed that yon Were willing to be a negro,
if, by being a negro, yon could ba excused
from paying your debts, bow. do you feel to
day, after agreeing to bet a- negro and having
tp pay your debts, too ? [Laughter. ]
My friends, General Gooff made a request
of the military; I shan’t make any—never in
tended to; but I adyise you, poor fellows, to
make one. Tha only-evidence Of how yon
voted is in the , possession of the military.
Go, then, before they leaver and ask them to
burn up the record. The great majority of
the white people spurned the bribe and des
pised the bribers, and let it be forever remem
bered, to vour pride and honor, that the
people of Georgia, under the threat of tbe
bayonet, with the temptations of treachery
all round and in tbe very ashes of thejr
poverty, have said to all mankind; “We cap
neither be frightened nor bought Iron} our
honor.” [Great cheering.]
I have-said the military declared a Con
vention had been ordered, when tfiere was
thirty thousand majority against ft. They
also declared that Gordon wa9 defeated, aiid
that the Radical party had succeeded, when,
in truth, Gordon wag elected by nearly ten
thousand votes. [Tremendous.cheers.J' I
say that it is so, counting the correctly regis
tered voters and correcting the frauds of the
ballot. I repeat, counting the honest regis
tered voters, I say that this,Express Agent
was largely defeated for Governor, and he'
knows it, and ffiey.kuow it-w/ia* a w . *
We won two victories, and we won thei
against the bayonet, against-force, again
fraud,"against treachery, and against the ne
groes. 1 The white people of lhis" Country are
not goiog to consent to this things they
never have and never will. " If the Radicals
have been unable thus far to. get the consent
of the white people to this scheme of infamy,
will they be able to doi it hereafter ?- How
can they? They have
it
an
appealed to yonr
fears arid your avarice and taken - advantage
have, been disap-
ms
offered: this exH
, . .W«reoOOtigaipg to be.
UQV going to Consent to
itheyeaidi.ffietua
-to go into-, tfiig 'thing, let its go back
he Unions and,.then -we’ll turu- it- all
fffftr&W Airejpj$*s£,”; That iwas an
n^ni basqdflpon treachery- Si They: had
yed you, and they were justifying their,
ichery to you hy proving that they were
ig to betray -the Radicals. Tbatsugges-
deceiyed a.. great- many people for a
time. : For, myself, I had nothing to do with
it, because I could not consent to ijoia trai
tors. • I don’t believe in treachery—no peo
ple lever saved themselves by it. Where the
botior of a people is -involved they cannot
swtirvQf from-priuciple-for the sake of policy.
Tn0 oply line of honor is a direct one.
Bat what is the result ? Those manipula
tors at Washington who bought these South
ern; men bad more sense than the men they
bought. They were not gofag to be caught
aoy such trap os tnat, aud in
respecl.my. prophecy has turned out to
orreot. The issue now, then, is this
1 ’this infamy, which has been thrust
tbe people of: Georgia and of the
:r Southern States, bh valid and per
petual ? That is the first point to which I'
wish to direct your attention. In order
that it may be perpetual, the Chicago
platform says That the fights oT the North
ern States to regulate the franchise aod to
change and modify their own Gonstitutiqns
shall not be iofringed, bat the Southern
people ..shall not have the right to change
their Constitutions at will. Now, if anything
in .American history never was disputed be
fore' it is this,: that the States were members
of tbe Union on an equal footing; and there
is n6 man, from George Washington down,
whether high or low, wise or simple; black
or white, who ever had any idea that the
Union formed by tbe States was a Union of
unequal States; it was always admitted that
the States were equal and each retained con
trol of the franchise- I state a mere fact and
history. Since the acknowledgement of onr
independence, we have added ttreaty-four
new States to the Unjon, and in every act ad
mitting a State as a member of tbis Union,
is distinctly staled that she is admitted on
.ual footing' with all tbe other States.
But this Chicago Convention, with the Geor
gia Radicals in it, for the first time in Ameri
can history makes .the deolaraiiou that the
Union shall be a Union of unequal States.
X want you all to remember that point. It is
the great aim of the Radicals. Where are
you now, my good Union men ? You that
waoted.to.get back into the .Union, and were
willing to sacrifice everything for the accom-
plisbinent of that object; you that congratu
lated the country upon being again “in the
Uuidn?’,’ ,[A voice, “none.”] It is a Union
in which tue Southern States are vassals and
the Northern States are rulers. I want you
to bear it and to remember it. That fa mere
sheer naked disunion in the most odious and
traitorous form ih which the word was ever
spoken. [Great cheers. J It cuts the femo
ral artery; it is a stab to the very heart, and
destroys the Union of equal States whioh
our fathers formed.
I read with shame aud mortifioation—(.1
knew the poor fellow did' not know much )
I read,T say, in the pipers that this stupid
Express Agent,, in:the pretence aud under
the protection of force aud treachery, went,
yesterday, through the farce of being inaugu
rated^ miserable sham Governor of Georgia.
Why," every word- hs uttered shows ho does
not, uiis day, know the difference between a
restored Union of equal Slates and a con
structed new Union of unequal Stales. Take
that fact down"; pencil it carefully and take it
to yonr hearts. If I can teach yon to take
home with you that single sentence, you will
not have come. here.to-day in vain. There
never! was, in the history of our people, such
a! bold, plain, palpable, > universally admitted
cause of war as that simple statement in that
Uhicsgo platform.
And - yet that - fa not all. Yon, gentlemen,
who think you are members of a Legislature
—poor, deluded souls, how I pity you !—
you woo come here and g* through the form
'of passing laws,, x want you to hear one
tihiog. • Not only is that doctiioe of unequal
States: in the Chicago platform, bat it is
in What you call your Omnibus' Admis
sion Bill. That bill prescribes the Tnan-
oer in which you shall go back, and
eyery one of-you who voted the other day to
get back, as yon say, into the Union, agreed
to’ the doctrine that Georgia shall never.have
the rfahtdu' do whfct rJOio -can do; ‘ that
the Southern States shall never have the
right to do what the Northern States can do.
Yon agreed t*» tepfain^ forever an unequal
member of the Union. You agreed that you
wouldiget back into tbO Union by consenting
that Georgia shall never'have the power to
mpdify Or. toichange her own State Constitu
tion, ab to her own domestic affairs, accord
ing to her own will and pleasure. [A voice:
l'heyf didn't know any belter.”] Ah! you
renegades—yon rogues—-who tried to steal
your neighbors’ property and-could not do
it. Ah J . ye men that adopted the Recon
struction measures tor -the purpose of getting
back into the Union and then catching the
Radicals by changing the Constitution after
ward. ; Are you not caught—caught by Thad.
Stevens—caught by Charles Sumner ? I
don’t know hat one thing that is- worse, and
tlfat is agreeing to be a negro to get .rid of
your debts, and then, after becoming a negro,
having your debts to pay. [Cheers, with
ies of “Good.”].
Remember, oh, my countrywomen—mothers,
teach it to your children as you rock them in
their cradles, and in’ the nursery ditties by
which j ou send them to sleep—tell them that
men—white men—Georgians —some of them
“to thb manor born’’—have come upon this
classical old hUl and have deliberately put upon
record thtir soleibn-consent that the proud old
State of Georgia goes, back into the Union on
the express condition, that she shall never be
equal toj other States. Ob; yon renegades from
ig that can make; you hope, for even a
of being gentlemen;
You have buried
■our State; you have sullied
iur ancestors and agreed to
. -yourselves eight dollars a day for a few hot
. days fa snmmer.' : [Cheers ] That is the Union
we" have—a Union of unequal States, Yc.
cowardly, base disunionists of the vilest type,
yon disgrace hamanjty by calling hqnest men
rebels. ;Tttqt is not alL You - hqve not Ohlj\
agreed to inequality, but you have also agreed
to woatis called-the equality of races; that is,
agreed ! to equality among the-races
as a condition bf getting back into the Union;
aaffyod! bave agreed - that that shall never be
dningr"" 1 " ’ *— —"
Changed; batydd are eogivgu to lying that you ^ - mhanqTU!
could nqt tell the truth even when you thought c °qnige and
U interest to do it. _[L^hterJ
You sky in.your record that you havefagreed
to an equality of the races when you know,
you vile hypocrites," that the very agreement
yon make includes the disfranchisement of the
, intelligent, virtuous and educated, and wealthy
yhite men, and that they shall hot be allowed
o hold office in this country, or while any
nalawad or negro tniav. Is that equality!
SeveraL cries of “no.”] If the negro has a
-ight toj vote and hold office, why not these
rah whom yon have "always trusted ? Oh, you
vhited Sepulchres—Je who - are degrading
he. poor negro- by your .example of fraud
ahd treachery: * ’Ye vile renegades from every
law of God. and eTery right of hnmanil
ars
of the people that' live here. t If the negroes,
when this infamous proposition was made to
them by more'infamous white men, to disfran-
cllise the white people, had come out aud said
publicly, and openly, “iVe are willing io accept
the franchise; lfthere is aoy benefit inipputical
equality we’ want it-.but we' will fiever: consent
to-disfranchise thg intelligent white men of "this
’ “f5W d
fence
tranr
chise. [A voice, '(some- of them did it.”] Yes,
anid those that did it must forever b« remem
bered. You Radicals of the Legislation have
agreed to degrade your own State ani people,
nfad you have .'agreed that that dejradation
shall be perpetual.
The [question iu this contest is, whet:r that
programme shall be carried out. TbatH Where
Grant stands,- and-where Colfax siw^srani
where all' you"- vagabonds stand. d-
wo' stand? -Where- do -Seymour ana": Blair
stand? - Upon-the glorious■ andeetral doctrine
that the States are equal, and that white blood
is superior. (Londapplanse.) Now choose ye
which you wifi vote for. Some of you got seated
last fad for fear of losing yonr property by con
fiscation; others of you. were afraid of being
disfranchised; and others still were bought tbis
spring with reliet Where is relief now ? Echo
answers where ? (Cheers) Now, come, my
friends, I know you feel Very badly. I know you
doq’t-feel like associating with gentlemen; come
now, go home immediately, tell your wife to
put on you a clean shirt (laughter and cheers),
take a good wash with' soap and warm water,and
then come back and be tree and decent white
men. Come to our side of the question. We
will try to forgive you,-but you must come qhick.
I admit that there are some of you I would
be Very sorry to see come, for the reason that I
know our party would be betrayed very soon.
Still, you who didn’t know any.better—you who
were sold—if- yon will clean up and get on a
clean shirt, we will take you back. (Cheers
and laughter.) How many white men in Geor
gia are going to say by their vote that Georgia
fa not an equal member , 'of this Union with
Rhode .Island, and that Virginia—proud old
Virginia—that State which has in its bosom
the ashes of Washington, and has famished,
more Presidents to this country than any other
State, shall not be the equal of Eansas' I want
to know how many men in Georgia afa willing
to say that proud old Virginia shall never be
the equal of Eansas. I want - to know, too,
how many white men in Georgia are willing to
put upon the record, that pauperism 3hall fix
the burdens for property, and ignorance and
vice shall prescribe the laws for intelligence
and virtue ? Take this concern np here—take
the Radical wing of it and tell me hew much
property in this State they possess. (A voice,
“Jo? Brown has a good lot of it, bnt ie stole
it. ”) It is true there fa one man in tl: whole
concern that represents some property, and it is
said he stole it. [Cheers and laughter.] I
■repeat, how much property do the Radical
members of this thing that imagined itself a-
Legislature represent? [A voice, “eight
dollars a day.”] Yes, but it does not repre
sent taxable property enough to pay tieir per
diem. And these men are to make laws to"
tax disfranchised property-holders in this en
lightened nineteenth century and in this
Christian .country. Shame, shame! is there
a member of the. Legislature who hears me
to-day ? All, to your shame be it sail, more
than a hundred of you hare so recorded your
names. Go, my friends, and take it back,
for I charge you this day, in this bright sun
and in this central city of Georgia, that if that
record remains as you have made it, whereby
you have covenanted and agreed that these
Southern States shall be unequal members of
this Union and that the intelligent men of
this country shall be disfranchised and de
prived of their right to hold office, and that
pauperism shall fix the burden of taxation,
and vice and ignorance make laws for intelli
gence and virtue, you will go down to pos
terity so infamous that When a legitimate
Legislature shall have assembled some unfor
tunate creatures, who may be compelled by
Providence to call you father, will apply to
the Legislature to have their names changed.
I understand some of you that voted for that
14th Article, and voted to expunge relief call
yourselves Democrats. You are vain, de
luded creatures if you think that the Demo
cratic door will be ever open to receive you
With such a name. Such a-vote fa directly
against the. Democratic platform, and directly
for the Radical platform, and must berepent-
ed of and changed.
Are these, then, the terms of the new Uni
on? terms of negro dominion, of pauperism
in power and imorance in legislating. I say
such terms wfll never succeed. The white
people have refused to consent to them, and
1 tell you that they will not consent to them,
and you can never establish any government
permanently iff- this country against the con
sent of the white people. The Supreme Court
of the United States made up their minds that
the reconstruction measures were unconstitu
tional and void, but they were too cowardly
to declare the decision. This fa a melancholy
fact, that the Supreme Judiciary of this coun
try should have given way so cowardly. But
it will not always be .thus—it cap not tor ever
refuse to pronounce its decision. It fa true, a
Radical Congress has taken away jurisdiction
in the McArale case,; but we shall have an
other case. A gentleman, who fa the only
real Governor of Georgia, is making a case in
which jurisdiction fa given by the Constitu
tion. [Cries of “ three cheers for Jenkins,”
If,‘as
have'
shall not be degradedthe dominion of the
ldfeifior. -
j A’few more words and I will close.
I now hope and believe; we shall agai
liberty and law under the Constitution, what
shall be done with those who li&ve taken ad
vantage of these corrupt times to insult inno
cence, trample ,u]x>n rights, and oppress
helplessness? These criminals will be amon
ns, and must be assigned appropriate pos
lions. What shall we do With them? . Ye
who have tr^vaijed .through the blood and"
losses and sorrows .of war for asserting no-,
but what "the Vety framers of* the Con
itution taught was your right; ye who have
in taunted andtcvlied as rebels .and, ttai- ;
;toh ;'ye wHo v have b£eti disfranchised' in 'the.
id of' your fathers and made exiles in the
me of your birfh;’ when this victory shall
we shall once more be .free men
no loni
miserable va w
shall we- do "with the’
noi hurt a . 1
given by the whole audience.].- Yes, when I
mention him, I mention a man who, in any
age or nation, fa worthy to be a Governor!
tell you, then, yog who trade in the respect
ability of your race—you who are vendors of
your people’s honor—I tell you to-day that
this very Court will pronounce these gets un
constitutional and void, and everything done
under them unconstitutional and void.
But we have a party now organized, a
strong and a glorious party, With statesmen
at its head and with correct- principles for its
platform. - From Maine to California the glo
rious tramp of-the Democracy is growing
more and more distinct, and by November a
verdict will be pronounced by the great free
men of America that shall gladden the hearts
of patriots now and fbr ever. [Cheers.]' And
when the people shall - have pronounced that
verdict, the Court will take courage and pro
nounce their judgment. Then, ah then, what
will become of you, ye isolated hypocrites—
all power to threaten gone, treachery exhaust
ed, Belief measures and ‘Reconstruction meas
ures both dead, the Radical party but of Con
gress, how on earth will *you hide your Shame
Thus stripped naked to-the gaze of the world
in all your unhidden infamy! what mil be
come of,you? “ Ye generation of vipers,
how will you escape the damnation of hell ?”
That’s what is coming. Oh, it’s coming; thank
God, it’s coming—coining to the dheer of patri-
^ ots and the dismay of traitors. Yes, I fell you
^You'have .victory fa coming. We have sufferedand suf
fered much; our comrades are sleeping. Ah.
sleeping ! many of them by thfe streams and
in the valleys oi Georgia. They are
on the banks of the deep rolling Mu
’ they are sleeping qfi over Virginia,
than the pyramids of" Egypt and richer
fee mines of In<ti» [[Enthusiastic, cheers]
Spirit of our departed braves, we are not dis
honored yet! and though the vile; the low,
the corrupt and the puijured are seeking to
fie onr rulers,- and have seized upon pgr high
places, the noble, the Valiant ancj the true are
still left to us, and through all oiff borders are
the' hofes of
, , Ye njfeerable spawns: of
political accidency, hatched by tlie_ putrid
growth of. revolutionary corruption into an
epheiijerai existence—renegades front eyery
law of God and violators qf eyery right of
man—we serye you with notifie this day,
that tffis victory fa coming. The men of the'
South and the „men.of the North—patriots
everywhere—are sending up theft vowa to
heaven That firfafs sfacf lhffil Tor jwer be a
Union of equal States, and never" a hateful
Union of unequal States: "[Wild cheers, last
ing several minutes] Men of pride, men of
character, -women—thank God—without" a
dissenting voice, and even children.in their
play-grounds, are'proclaiming ~ ^
insulted add oppressed by
bonds and ' renegades, what
; [ I would
. c hair. of tlieir heads, do .themjub.
personal harm,'and deprive iheru ol' no
Give them over — oh, give over fhe mis
creants, to the inextinguishable hell of their
own consciousness of infamy. But some
things you must do for the protection of your
children and of yourselves, and for the vindi
cation of your honor. I affirm it, and I want
it heard. It fa going to he the law of this
country and a law more irrepealable than the
laws of the Medes and Persians. Not one
map that dares record his vote for the ine
quality and vassalage of the Southern States
and the degradation qC his own race ought
ever to be received into a decent family in
Georgia' or in the South now or hereafter.
[Cries of “never.’]. And this rule we can
make now., If we have not the power to help
make the laws for our government or for so
ciety, thank God we can at least pass social
laws for our own homes. I charge you this
day, as you honor your children and your
household, and would preserve your good
name for your posterity, never suffer a single
native renegade who votes for the vassalage
of these States and the disgrace of yonr chil
dren and your race tp darken your doors or
to speak to any member of your family.
[Criesof “good,” “that’s right,” “hurrah.”
You condemn the poor victim to the peniten-
> who steals a horse or a hundred dollars,
and yet these miserable creatures have sought
to bargain away everything that you have or-
can value. You scorn the criminal who has
violated the penal laws of your country.
These miserable renegades are faithless to
every law of Heaven and of earth, and have
used every means to sell you to those who
hate you, and to place your lives and. your
all in the power of the ignorant and debased.
Another thing I insist shall be done: A peo
ple who will not resent such foul innovations,
of their right are not worthy of freedom. [A
voice “true.”] You have been helpless—
yonr great men have been silenced; you sur
rendered your arms to what you thought was
a gallant foe ; you surrendered them under
the assurances of protection, and yet these
men, your own citizens many of them, who
hurried you to war have taken advimtage of
your poverty and helplessness, and of fhe pres
ence of the bayonet; they have invaded your
households, they have stolen your property ;
they have robbed you of your goods; they have
joined the negro and the stranger to tax, in
sult and oppress you; they have, contrary<o
the laws of the land, forced into-dungeons
and: before military commissions the proud
freemen of this country. -You have-been
powerless to prevent these things. But my
vqw; fa recorded, and I shall redeem it if I
find the people willing to - sustain me.- Men
who have trampled upon the lights of the citi
zens of Georgia at a time when the laws were
parahzed shall feel the power of that restored
law when liberty fa reawaked.- Ye vile mis
creants of the Convention, who stole the mon
ey of the State to pay your per diem, I give
you notice that you shall pay it back. And
there fa a good legal principle here which I
want you to remember, aud that is that where
a number of men baud themselves together
for the commission of a common purpose,
each one fa responsible for what fill the others
do or get. [Tremendous cheering] And,
therefore, eveiy man who took a portion of
that stolen, money is liable for every cent that
negroes and carpet-baggers received, and we
are going, to make" them pay it. Ye con
stitution makers,'ye men that sprung at one
bound from the penitentiaries of the country
to frame constitutions for honest people, ye
men who oscillate from grand jury rooms
with charges of perjury upon you Up to legis
lative halls and other high places in the land,
I serve you with notice to-day that the mom
ey shall be repaid with interest. . And you
who are depriving the people of liberty,
threatening and conspiring against their lives,
(hold me responsible for what X say) I tell
you that the day fa coming when the Judges
shall be in the prisoners’ box and the perse
cutors' shall he clamoring for mercy. “ Thou
shalt not take the life or liberty or property
of a citizen except according to the laws of
the land and by the Judgment of his peers,”
is the first and great commandment in liber
ty’s decalogue, and upon it all the other com
mandments hang. It was given as a conces
sion from power to the people more than six
hundred years ago at the political Horeb of
Anglo-Saxon history, and no man from that
day has violated or disregarded it who who
it or a traitor, or "both.
torn, when the law shall be again respected,
and good men shall again be our rulers, we
must gather aU the'journals, and constitutions,
and enactments, and reoords of every character
of the conventions and assemblies, thus forced
upon us by force and fraud, and usurpation,
and, catching fire from Heaven, bum them
up forever! J ;
And right here, my connbymeh,’ I want
you to understand that I am a candidate but
lot one office on earth. [Several voices
“name it. and you shall have .it.’] When
tbe glorious day shall come and the free wo- 1
men, and the free men and the laughing chil
dren and-the proud youth of-Georgia, shall
gather together to fire the miserable, hideous,
rebord of infamy, let tbe office be mine, to
kindle the flames. [Tremehdous fcheers fast
ing several minutes-] That i»all I want. -I
would havq my children know, I would have
my children’s' children .to know, if my hum-
bli 'life shall bfe remembered so long, that,
from firs! to last, through thick and through-
thin, I .fpught. this attempt -to- disgrace our
people and that at the sequel I kindled the
lire that- consumed ihe Infamous record of its
existence.' That "tVill be' it proitd day," my
conntrytaen, that will be a'glorious day when
you and I-carr look each other in the face and
feel as no Grecian ever felt—as no Roman
ever felt,'"that we have passed through the
mdst tpfinig ordeal in'the dnnafa of humanity,
and, as a people,' have come out gold—pure
gold. Take courage,, my countrymen, that
happy day shall come, 'fhe JJnion of equal
Sfataes as made hy our fathers shall be ours"
again. The disunion of unequabStates which
Radicdl treason seeks {o make shall not be.
With the records of the vile attempt, we will
build the bonfire of the Constitution’s tri
umph. By its light we shall read joy in each
other’s faces. Around the' burning pile we
shall gather our wived and little ones'and
strike up anew the song of our deliverance,
and as the ascending smoke sh«U rise RtgR in
the skies, it will wake the notes of our heroes
in bliss; and Heaven and earth shall ring with
.the universal symphony: “Well done! Well
done! noble people! Through sorrows the
most hitter, through trials the most severe,
through misfortunes multiplied and prole
ed, you have passed with your honor nff
lied growing brighter and brighter. Enter
again into the joys of freedom here and final
ly into the realms of the good hereafter.”
Mr. Hill took his seat amidst the most
vociferous applause.
Change of Schedule.
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,X and the public generally to hla new and well
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DSALEBS XX
was not a tyrant or a traitor, or both. [Great I n ~ n . If
-choers;] No man in English histoiy ever urOCerleS. LOm. UcUSi HaV
trampled upon those sacred rights without .
Feed, &c..
trampled upon
being called to account. Wicked men have
the power now; they have bayonets to pro
tect them, and they feel they can insult and
oppress with impunity for ever.
So did Judas feel safe when he helped eat
the Lord’s supper with the Lord. Cataline
held power in.Rome. Arnold once held a
sion in the American army. And
you—you vile creatures, .whose infamy no
epithet can describe and no precedent paral
lel—you. will find your names more odious
than those of Cataline and Arnold combined.
Immense appfause.and long laughter] Re
turn then, the day of grace is almost passed-
Reform now and we trill forgive you. I do
noj want a single man except a carpet-bagger
to vote for the Chicago platform. And you,
members of the Legislature, I will talk to you
kindly—you who voted for this infamy the
other day—the Fourteenth Amendment—
mark what I teh you. At the peril of your
respectability, go aud take it back. It fa a
record whose stain will reach your children. -
And you who call yourselves Democrats,
and who yet are lying round here seeking
and bargaining to get office from a Legisla
ture which every line of Democratic princi
ples declares to be an illegal and illegitimate
JOdy, shame, shame upon vop. If this usurp
ing Governor and Assembly had sufficient
regard for the country’s welfare to tender
positions to Democrats, even the Acceptance
of such positions would present a question for
ions consideration. While I will not con-
.those -Who differ with me, I must’ be
y for myself that no earthly
f power, cfrald induce: or force
me to sq far recognize them as to . accept an
office at' their hands. For myself, I hold
them to be nothing but wicked, wilfffi and
corrupt usurpers of power, .hy authority of
none bnt strangers and deluded negroes, and
wanton conspirators to subvert the legitimate
pveroment of our State, and as such I nyu
’ told myself in readiness t o visit upon them,
by proper legal process, the penalties due to
their crimes. X tie .not, of course,' include
in .these remarks the Democratic members.
These are thebe to. prevent the mischiefs I an
nounce, Their positions are necessarily un-
ileasant Bnt they ate malting sacrifices by
ie votes of onr-people, and are patriots, do-’
gall the good they can; or rather preventing
J tiie evil they can, and merit our regard.
But , those: who voluntarily come forward to
beg 1 office of such-a body; above all, those
who, either in the Legislature or out of it,
make bargains with Radical usurpers to get
office for "themselves oi" their friends—to all
such I repeat, shame, shame upohyoui I
One thing more will be necessary to a prop
er expression of the abhorrence of our people
for the infamous attempt to destroy the Union
by destroying the equality of the States, and
for the measures, authors .and"- advocates of
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