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“A drunkard in tlio nnnoynucn of
trSt.V, tllll lioilblo of civilty, till) put
iltnrof iiiiliiNti'yitlio tunnel of wciiltli,
ulp-houso lu'iuifiwtor, the beggarh
lpunioti, 1 lio eonsbibli-’s trouble, tlio
of Ida wifp, hi* children's sorrow,
soofF of liiu neighbors, his own
mo, tins picture of u boast, and tlio
Jnulcr of n nmn.' , l
dock clilmwl twulvc fn tlio drunkard's
j homo,
lli no other son ml, pave, tlio wind's dull
I moan |
1 tho wife of five yearn, lit thin hour, bo
| lute,
shivi-rinf' over the cold, damp urate.
pyrarnl did I nay? All! it seemed n
score,
[tlio one that sat listooing for steps nt tlie
I door;
liting, and watching and praying, in vain.
1 him whom tho monster so deadened his
.Vain.
a pallet, of straw, little F.ita was lying,
ito close at her side, darlii g Kdilio was
dying:
c1!5.-lt thin and pa’e, and writhing in
pain,
in:;: “Minna, O, when will morning como
aeaiu ?”
It (ho sun uevor rose on those little blue
eyes,
i dawn the bright Spirit had winged to the
skies;
that peaceful abode sweet heaven of rest,
'pared by the Fatucr, to welcome the
blest.
the fond mother's heart, how in anguish it
bled,
sho bent o'ar the form of tho Cold silent
dad;
and the husband away at tho club room
alas!
liking toasts vf good cheer from the poi.
kouous gla s !
i0 two—three-lour —the dock chimed
again,
id footsteps wero heard in tho dark, nar
row lane;
o door opened wide, when a man, in great
•haste,
liquid quietly iu -and with saddened faco,
id: ‘'Madam —Tom Kyler—your husband
is dead !
lik'd by a bullet, which entered his bead;
icy bad a big row at tho Club-room to
night,
id rum was the cause of the terrible tight 1"
.eii imtcrud two men, bearing poor, lifeless
Tom,
it down in Ids (lime, by therumnmd'loll
ed thron::;
lid the wife of live years, sank low, in de
.epah,
king <■ si to forgive him. In sotd-ph-ading
prayer I
,o’C are many Tom Kyler.s iu bondage to
day,
ini a hat can V. , do for them? Tell lib I
nray;
lr■ aonl-tmined wife, and liltlt ones sigh,
~r etniiie, i ,j latter O, heed liov,' i:,‘.-:r
cry:
tie dt.stroy ir of man marches free o'er onr
laml,
, chir'il an 1 protect him, ye temperance
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Tin; ISSUES OF ,5 TATE
0/.17' EXGAGE PUBLIC AT-.
TESTIOX.
tho Speech of Governor Alfred 11.
! Colquitt, Delivered at DcGivo’s
Opera House. in Atlanta, on Fri
day Might, May 2d Ilia Official
Acts Defended.
Ladies ami Gt nth nun. At a)
imes, in such a govoriiinuiit as euw,
[lie olih ial should be intulc to feel
uud know tliiit lici.su publicservant.
,Sad will bo the day when, iu a re
pul lican (a tti.try, tin.- principle shuil
be ignored or disicgardcd. Mould
to lii uvi n Hint iu nil (lie history ol
this country, tin: public servant could
be made in fed that he its risponsible
for his conduct, lhit, n.y Icilow-cil
jz' ns, there is a very wide discrimi
nation between official responsibility
on the one hand and unreasoning and
despotic exaction oti the other—
There is a very esseti ial diflero lice
between the tiust and agent and the
Ucrvilu minion, between the servant
and the slave. For many months, for
some reason that has puzzled mo lo
’divine, I have been tiic object of un
,sparing' and bitter attack.
It si cuts to have been the conclu
sion of these assailants that I was n- t
a servant, hut a slave; that I was
not a trusted agent, but a servile dog.
As Georgians and as fellow citizens
of Iho satno commonwealth,
men whoso destinies and the
destinies of whose families are
embarked upon the same boat, do
you not think', ladies and gentlemen,
it would have been Lett u- and wiser
that those citizens should bavo given
then; aid, counsel and sympathy to
those out nt.-ted with public office and
the administration ol public af
fairs ? He is interested.; jou arc inter
ested; but these enemies who have
assailed me from every quarter seem
to have regarded their responsibility
and mine different, for they
§mm x .i
IF. .1. SINGLETON. El <t I'rop'r.
vol :>.
have 1 'St no occasion,to make mo I lie
mark of their ciiticism and censure,
instead of giving me the benefit ol
their wise counsel and sympathy, Do
you think I had a light to claim that?
Do you not think if they wore prompt
ed by pure and patriotic motives, in
stead of a'saillng me from ambush,
instead of attempting to degrade lii-e
honor of tlio state through it’s bifn-.
tat functionary, they would have
been found by his sido to aid him in
the best execution of bis great pub
lic trust? It is a delightful thing lo
h ivo lln*gO'd opinion of your fellow
men, but there is n j urc-r and sub
limcr joy than that! It is the joy
that, arises out of the ;consciousness
that you deserve Unit good opinion.
1 know I deserve it,. | Applause.]
The public press and nun who are
disposed to c* nsr.re mo may say wknt
ih y please, but, 1 ko the persecuted
Huguenot, I can say with the great
c.-t emphasis: “I have done nothing
to deserve death; I have dono noth
ing lor which to ask pardon. ’
[Great applause.]
I propose to-night to refer to some
of the acts aud some of the results of
my administration; and to refer to
some of the criticisms which have
been made upon it. ilow slight, how
frivolous, very many of them are, yon
yourselves will perceive when I men
t ion them.
ABSEXTtSM.
It is said that I am frequently ab
sent from my office. If is said that I
cannot bn found there - - that is the ex
aggerated charge—when gentlemen
come lie!o to the cnpit<>l upon public
liu.-iiness. Uh 11. my f"!low-citiz ns.
irons tho very first- years when I had
a conception if the t esponsibhtes of
a public officer, and especial!;, of the
chief officer of this state, 1 have bad
this idea of his duly: that lie should
net merely have a stnt .-lica-i knowl
edge of the slate and ils people, 'oat
that, by coming nearer to them, luce
to face with them and inclose sym
pathy with tff-in. he should learn
and know what . were t v eir .senti
ments, El lings and n< ds. [Apt la use.]
lienee if is that i 1 uvo visited agri
cultural fairs, and agricultural con
vi litions and railroad cov< ntions. —
Wo know that tho wealth of this
stale of ours, as w< 11 as that of any
other stale esaf'idmlly agricultural, is
dependent upon tlio rc.si urces, and
upon tl,t prosperity of the product rs
of Ihc couniry, the owners and till
ers of the soil. | Applause ] You can
all will remember v. hat a degree ol
despondency and almost of despair,
which had settled upon the country
when llw great change caino over the
labor of tho south. To the best of
iny ability, as my friend, Colonel Liv
ingstone, the presiding officer lo
nic lit and the vie. -president of the
Slate agricultural association, who
Inis been with mo on many of those
occasiolis, can test IV, in conventions
and on the bushings; I have Worked
for them. II I have had any power
or influence, it has b eu constantly
cxiilod to raise the drooping hopes
and energies of the farmers of the
couniry, and cheer them'with the
prospect of the better time coming.
[ Applause.J I never was a vain mail.
Perhaps one of the greatest difficul
■ ties I have had in my life has been a
disposition to sin ink from public no
tice, rather than to invite it. I have
had very little regard ler that affec
tation of dignity and self-conscquencc
that many a man in this office thinks
be possesses, when bo sits down iu a
big arm chair and.supposes that his
society must be sought for; who
see-ms to Say to the world, “here is
your governor; here is your man ol
consequence!’’
ABOUT ATTENDING SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.
But it has been said again that 1
have gone about too much to Sunday
schools [Applause.J Yet! I believe
iu Sunday-schools ! [Applause] J
j),. democratic yyvjmttTj'V isrf,ws ip /y:pthia.
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, UA., .11!NK !), 10.
j believe in Iho religion which iinfitu
ted them; I b. liovo in the philanthro
py tlmt bids them god-speed; I l>c
liovo in tho state; man Hup which
teaches that it. is better to train for
ty young men to be virtuous and re
ligious than to train rno for the gib
lows! [AppkunoJ You know how
often tlit-; burnt, lias been thrown In
t<r my tee th, you know how it is that
almost day by day it has been mado,
and now you hear through the pub
lic press and on tho streets insinua
tions about “tlio Chr-utian governor.”
Mv fellow-citizens, lias it come to
thus at tins late day in the progress
of Christianity and c.ivilzntion that'
it is to be made a ninth r of taunt in
a man in high public position should
recognize tho Supremo Ruler of
tho universe? -[Applause.] For
thirty years of my life 1 have been
accustomed to visit Sunday-schools,
and occasionally “nigger meetings.”
[Laughter and applause:] Why that
as a charge ? Did they suppose that
when I assumed the office of govern
or I should foi l that I was in too
proud, too high, too dignified a po
sition, to eondsccnd to r< cognize my
responsibility to God? [Applause]
You sec bow it D drift'ng. You see
bow often these taunts are made,
and even now in certain journals that
could be named the dialects of the
Bible is being prostituted to the use
of these men in order to degrade the
followers of that religion that should
1)0 sanctified in tho esteem of all.
[Applause.]
Ladies and gentlemen, is it gener
ous in my opponents lo force mo in
such a forum as this to uncover and
<l. fi ml motives so fairly entitled to
the snort and Mitfoucnt. of the ioc; ssos
of n niaif.-i own inert V Is it n.t a
haul alternative tLet I must either
disregard tl.o profession of a life time
and give them up, or dcfi-ml myself
upon the I.u-ting against tho lonroneh
of pharisee-ism ? Oh! howl recoil
ft ore. this discussion so ntildc'FS'y
lot cn! upon me ! But I shall not
-hriii!; firm it, a? it would evince a
craven spirit—a moral cowardice of
whirl: I Lopo lam incapable. I have
Ir-ard it said, “Iho governor is too
goad a man to make this on i-.-ue
in the campaign. Ho is not going
to do that.” There is not a reading,
ii.uTigeut man in the state of Geor
gia but knows that no man lias gone
aiuiig more modestly in the line of
ids duty to liimseif and to God; and
asked kss notice to himself nnti*
this charge Egan to be hissed be
tween tho teeth of men. In the
very street of this city a gentleman
walking along had occassion to ray
to another “I thank God” for such,
or such, a tiling mentioning wind it
was. T ho other could not miss the
chance and said: “You must have
been to one of Colquitt's Sunday
schoo's, you thank God so glibly !’’
Now, 1 might as well be frank here
as elsewhere, because I know I am
in the presence of men and women
who are just and.n asonable, and to
them 1 say that all puffings of this
storm of iron hail will nut cause me
to deviate the thousandth part of an
inch from the line that 1 have pro
posed tbr my sell LIT along jd ap
plause.]
MISSION'S C'F FE.\< E.
I refer now to unotlior matter. I
am said to go out of the state too
much. “You go out of the state too
much. You went to New York once
or twice, and to Pennsylvania once;
and to Ginciunati once;” and 1 don’t
know how many other places I have
been made to go and places that I
never saw in my life. My fellow cit
izen-', tour years of my life was given
to camp and field, and tiro and blood,
and toil and suffering. It wasavaitt
struggle; our cause was lust. We
sought to vindicate our own stiff's
right of self-government along with
others by a result to urns. We were
defeated. Wo wore hopelessly over
whelmed. There arc some old sol
di,-in here ti night who mar, hod with
me, To-day I know their testimony
in the face nt this crowd would be
that I was neither a laggard nor a
drslar.d in that day* [ Applause.] 1
felt from first to last in that, stupen
dous trouble that the font h was tlio
injtned parly, and was placed on the
ih. tensive by an aggressive and un
reasoning spirit that I often dread
that, will yet carry wretchedness and
won to every hearthstone out his con
tinent. Never, by word or an act ol
my life, have l surrendered tin’s be
lief, nor been guilty of one tergiver
sation in all my connection with tho
dreadful controversy. It such insig
nificant things as my public speeches
oti toq many occasions have been fe
me inhered, I appeal to them for proof
that I have not been a traitor to one
hope or enterprise that could have
righted thagreat wrong that the south
has had to suffer. But I am not
ashamed to avow here to-night—l re
joice to say it—that I have been for
peaco and tlio interests of peace,
from tho moment I saw that our cf
foits had failed to vindicate our
claims by the last resort.
Never shall those who know me or
care to sneak to me, have it to say
that I have fanned the flume of civil
discord merely lobe consistent, and
to keep alive the alienations and ha
treds ot sections, when the snblimcst
heroism had to ybldibo point and
confess that its cause urns lost. [Ap
plause.]
While vve arc figuring awr.y to see
kow li! bio liberty and law we can get
along with, I sec my way clear tossy
“let ns have p,-nce.” You have heard
that formi.hi before, and man;, times
1 know, but I meant it and mean it.
So it happened that I visited the
not th, from Virginia to New'Fork,
and said to ail who listened to me
that we had nt-mped fighting; that in
tho south the war was over; that in
the south there was pence; that in
tho south there was fraternity; that
slavery ha I passed away forever; that
the colored people were prosperous
and happy. I told them that out
doors were thrown open, and our
hearts, teo, wide as the g ties of tlio
east, to every northern man who came
to sec us or to dw.cil in peace among
us. [Continued aapplause.] Say,
hero, right now, if I was wrong in
iVI tills and misrepresented yon ? Say
if you grudge the time wnile, m my
feeble way, I was doing all this ? If
the verdict of these, my home people,
whom T believe to be just and gen
erous, be against me. 1 know if
there was an appeal to the people
among whom I went, a response
would come saying, “a prophet is not
without honor save m'his own coun
tiv.” [Applause,]
NORTH EASTEHX RAILROAD BONDS.
Another mattu': and I hope you
will bear wiili me, because, my
friends, for nearly four years I have
had to wait patiently under mUeofr
struetion and misrepresentation. I
have never written a line for the pub.
lie, or spoken a word for tho public,
during the long and weary years Of
suffering and wounded sensibilities
which have nearly crushed my heart.
Dear with mo to-night. I am charg
ed with signing the Northeastern
railroad bends—l did sign them. —
Some say I signed them too quick
some say f signed tnem too slow —
while other.-: say I ought not to have
signed at ail. I have to be impaled
between those conflicting opinions.—•
I shall not now go into this discussion
with tedious minuteness.
It is enough to remind you that
this entire subject was investigated,
and how searching tlmt itiquiiy was
1 need not go into tho facts to .-how.
There never was or could be a more
cum pi t e vindication of my motives
Thero was delay in feigning these
b'.iiiD, but personal reasons had
nothing 1) do with this It, was for
Ike public interest. Rut when that
(I. lay was fib on t to woik irreparable
jpjury to a public cnlerpiiso, and to
.citizens of onr own stale who had in
iy:ated their means, tin n it, was that
I*. tinted. To have postponed the
inalbr till the assembling M tho leg
islature, would have been tantamount
to tlfo sacrifice of the interest of the
entire propel ty. But for tv higher
motive even than this I signed these
bonds. The plighted faith and hon
or of Georgia wero pledged that this
act should bn pi rfonnod, and I was
determined tlmt those should not bo
tarnished in my hands. [Applause,]
The future will vindicate tlio wis
dom of tics act, and tlio large en
hancement in values and in tho taxa
ble propa ty of a most intercs ing
portion of the state will confirm the
unanimous approbation of tho meas
ure.
REASONS FOR TIIE CI.AMOK.
There was as much unreasonable
Censure and opposition arising out
of this just and beneficial act. as for
anything rise lor wtiich my adminis
tration stands chirgeable.
I do confess to you that there is a
mysteiy about this hostility ihat I
may not ba able to unravel, or it may
be I could not with becoming delica
cy allude to, if I attempted ibs solu
tion. Rut it will not be improper to
give this a? one of the causes of this
extraordinary hostility—that in the
tiispensingof tlio patronage which the
constitution left in my hands, I was,
Iromthe very nature of things, ob
liged to plea so a very few and offend
very many.
I had no sooner taken my scat ns
executive of the state than applica
tions for office came in a deluge. Of
t a: a score of names would boon file
seeking the very same place. For
the most part, very large ly predomi
nating. I can truthfully say, these
names were of worthy and merit ut
ous gout’.-m-ei. Without except - ! >n
almost, Iho pay of the office sought
was an object. Very many of these
nilemi n were iny friends, and let.
.it suffice now to say that they will
never know what pain it cost me in
every instance to decide against any
one of them. As simple, and almost
as silly as it sounds to say that ten or
twenty men could not have bestowed
upon them the same office, yet this
feat of hocus-pocus your humble
speaker was expected to achieve, for
; t was hardly over the case that more
than one out of any number of ap
plicants for an office was conciliated
or went away pleased. Those who
were disappointed returned to their
homes bearing with them a sense of
personal affront. They felt that it
was incumbent upon them to avenge
the wrong which they imagined they
had suffered at any hands. This was
not the ease, however, in every in
stance. There were notable excep
tions I nm glad fo say. I could name
Individuals who were big enough,
magnanimous enough and lofty
enough to appreciate my position
and cherish no hard feeling against
me. Rut scattered over the state
there were many who nursed their
resentment and who could never be
induced to see tnatwy administration
was entitled to either favor or quar
ter.
If I appointed friends to office, tho
charge was made that I was narrow
ing down to my own petty 'personal
uses, the Derogative ot my position,
li I appointed enemies, I was re
proached as currying about with me
a poverty-stricken uni!, utterly desti
tute of ail manly revenges and chiv
ali ic malice.
RESULTS OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
Now Ut us look for a moment to
tlie results that have followed my ad
ministration of the affairs of the
st ate.
A NSVAf. SL'It SCII I / 'TION, S2 ao
Wlii’ii I runic into olllco we wore
borrowing money lo mart current,
expenses and pay iutciest. This
was an incident,' in a great inoastiio,
lo llio poverty nmi disorder which
followed the war, ns well as to the
syslnnmtie, effort which had been
made by ccilain defeated parlies to
bring otto credit auto dir repute when
it would do us the most harm.
We Wire cat vying a floating debt
from year to year or from SBOO,OOO,
to 3;"0,000, and wore borrowers. 1
sought the advice of the lute Dr.
Bozeman* a very high authority on nil
•[nottions of finauco nml who had
been Connected with our treasury de
partment. I fc’t the greatest reluc
tance to favoring or advising the
increase of the rate of taxation, and
and sought from him a solution of
one trouble* He frankly told me ho
knew of but one way to get out of
debt when in, and that was put your
hand in your pocket and pay out.
There was nothing Jeft for me to do
but to go to work saving all I could,
and gathering in every outstanding
claim to which the state was entitled.
The rate of tuxat on has not increas
ed. llovv well do wo know that it
I Ins had occur..d thoso who have been
standing guard over my administra
tion would have cried put to you, and
given you warning of the burdens I
was placing on your shoulders. [Ap
plause.] As I said, the rate ol tax
ation has been reduced, This, too,
has been done in tiio extraordinary
expenses ol the constitutional con
vention—the expense of two ses
sions of the legislature—tho provis
ions made for supplying limbs to our
mained soldiers wore unusual and
uncxpect and charges upon our treasu
ry. All this load of expense has
been discharged—the floating debt
has been absorbed—ihe interest on
the pnbl c debt lias been promptly
paid, and stranger than all there re
mains an unexpended fund in the
anticipation of their maturity.
OL'il STANDING AS A STATE.
How docs the state of Georgia
stand, my friends ? Has he r funic been
tarnished ? Has she been disgraend ?
Does she occupy a position less hon
ored among her sister states than
when I went into office? Ilavo I
lowered her pioud state banner?
Has-it (railed in tlie dust in my
hands ?It would not become me to
speak of these things, if I were not
arraigned hnd put on the defensive.
Every citizen who goes to New York,
the general center and mart of trade,
and every man who went to Cinci'i--
natti on this recent trip will bear me
out, that Georgia was spoken of in
New York and in Cincinuutti, as the
leading state of the south, and
abreast with the host states of this
union. [Applause j
Now, then, my friends, what have
wc sutlered or lost ? Our taxes arc
as low ; our people are as happy ; our
state us high in honor as can ho said
of any other commonwealth in this
union. Is there any reason, . then,
for censure or complaint? [Ap
ple LUt'.J
It has been hinted by those who
can allow me no credit for anything
that the merit I here claim for my
administration is due alone to legis
lative action. I would bo the last
man to withhold from a co ordinate
branch of the government any credit
that was duo it for patriotic ser
vice.
But the stubborn truth D, that no
foresight ol the legislature could
have anticipated the results of'.efforts
that I was lor tinato enough to suc
ceed in unking in boiiaff ol the finan
cial interests cl the state. By thoso
efforts we have all been gainers in the
round sum of nearly a half a million
of dollars, which have gone to the
relief of the tax payers of Georgia,
and the elevation of financial credit
and standing. [AppLuse.}
"lIAttOAIN AND BALE.''
Let iis now come down to a very
recent event, [[Applause.] Bargain
and side ! Bargain and salo by Gen
eral Gordon, the soldier, the Chris
tian, the patriot; by-Uovarnor
brown, the stiteriunn, tho public—
spirited citizen,-und, in spite of all
objection, tho democrat—nud the
governor of Georgia for whom a ma
jority of eighty thousand Votes have
made themselves iesponstble, [Ap -
plan.se. j These three men,
it in hinted and' snggisled, have
united and combined in a ber
gain and sale, tho one for tho bene
fits of the otlmr. I used, u few days
ago, some pretty emphalk) language
about this matter. It was unusual
for me to do-it, but let mo ask you,
the very hnmblnst(among you* tha
most Christ inn spirited man among
you -all 1 jos, I might ask those ten
der, amiable women here to-night?
suppose seme one cowos to your
t.-cth and and says, “Yon have dis
graced yourself; youhavedishOnored
yourself, by a >gross impropriety ?’!
Do yon think you would, lady or gen
tleman, sit (loan and say to him,
‘‘Como, now, my friend; take n seat
and lot us arguo it ?'’ and go into the
old system of reasoning major and i
minor, and your conclusion to-show
that you were not corrupt ? Do you
think you would do that? There is ■
not a woman here'who would do it-.
[Laughter and applause.]
iteputation-’-a man's good name—
it is his birthright, and no man wiil
tamely .submit to be bereaved ofit so
long as be has courage to resent it, .
or power to revengo it.. [Applause.]-
Well,' them are some friends of
mine, who talked to me on the subject
of my making a speech here to night;
good friends who have have insisted
that 1 should becalm; who said “pos
sess your soul in patience,” and I
have had quotations of scripture
from ti ci, who don’t: ordina
iy quote scripture nt till. 1 —
[Laughter.] Why these friends
!of mine Certainly forget that, if 1
should say but very little, then it
would be said by these ddracU r.:
“There is one of the softest, mildest,
mo.-tamiro.ble, good for nothing, milk
and cider fellows you ever saw!’
[Laughter and applause.] They aro
in tho habit of insinuating it now.—
They say to you: “I do not say any
thing about Lis integrity—oh, no 1—
but he docs not know how to say
‘no !’ ” Well I know how to say ik
to myselk For a number of ycats 1
have been saying it to my appetites,
to my passions, to a nature prone to
do wrong. I have said “no” to them .
a thousand—yen, ten thousand
tiniC3.
I confess that it is painful for mo
t v say “no’’ to a fr.iemU [Applause.] 1
If I have offended in this it is because
I have been more considerate of their
fee.ings than of my own. And yet,
if you were to ask any of these gen
tlemen to make specification where I
ought to have said “no” when I said :
“yes,” they could not tell you to save
their lives.
Why do they say this?
I say it is for this reason, that they
imagine that a man with a rude,
brusque speech and manner, anil with
tho little emphasis of an oath to what
ho says, they think that that man has
got grit in him, that he is a firm man.
Thoy seem lo concede that it is
possible to bo affable in his discourse,
and yet be self-reliant in Lis actions.
But since I took the responsibility
of Governor Brown’s appointment
without asking advice at every street
corner and from tha fiuet man I hap
pened to meet, it seems I have far
more self-will than fairly belongs to
one governor, and should bo toned
down in that regard. What is my
duly in the case of an appointment.
It is, as far.ns lam capable of dis
cerning, tho spirit, the capabilities,
the fritldulncßS of men, to put tho
best men in place —men. who can bo
relied on to preserve the interests of
tiic state of Georgia. Keep in mind
the fact that of ail of the charges that
Lave been made on this subject no
one has gone far enough to say that
Governor Brown is not capable, and
that ho would not boms faithful now to
his trust as anybody in Georgia. [Ap
plause ] If lie is us capable as any
body, why should he not be appoint
ed ? Yes, the larger majority of the
people of Georgia, if they were to
speak th.ir h ans, would say if the
rights of Georgia weie at stake or
tlm iniei'i st if iui citizens were im
periled, by national: legislation, they
would feel that no man in Georgia
cm 11 better a | hold tb >se inti r
Ccts than Joe Broun. [Long and
continued applause] 1 know tinii is
the sentiment of the state, aud Unit
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