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[ Proprietors.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY; OCTOBER 22, 1868.
VOL. I-
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
OP TIIB
lOITY OF D AI^OIST.
AUCTION AMP COMMISSION
I'KPi F. II —Auction and CoiiitnMsIuti
Mm-lmtit, King sited. '■
[DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES.
iOlKOFZiat k LOVKJIAN—Wholc»l6 uml
IJ ItciiiU Denier* In Dry Uoml*. (lentlfmcn'n
J-'iiriiblilngOoml* nml Clothing, Hamilton sti-yct.
"OAIIUFTT, I,. IV.—Denier In Dry Good*, Gro*
JP ecrlos, I'ruvlslons, ole., Hynlltqn street, '
B
B
AUCL.tY, JOIIX—Denier In Groceries,; IVovl-
siotisnnd Produce*, oppo.il to yihba, House,
ITTI.\r., X.—Dealer In Groceries Provisions
nml QnocnMvnro, llnmllui stroot.
f'UHMSTUX, J. K. k K — Dealers In DrjGooda
Groceries.Provisions nnd Produce. Sooenrd.
iUDZUHl, R. C.—Dry Goods, Groceries Hurd*
’ wiir *, etc., new store on Uniiillton street.
r'YEM’(>iVT&*LYi>[N—Dealer* in Dry Goods,
IJ Groceries, .I’r^dncu nud Hardware, corner
* * ratjli nudUandlUtn street.
D AVIS, W. It., k C0.~Dopjora in pumjly nnd
Fancy Groceries*. Saloon ni Inched. Chester
liouao, north corner King ami Hamilton.
H ADDOCK, ll. II.—Denier In Dry Goods, tiro,
curies, lint',Cups, Hoots, Shoes nnd supplies,
iJtainilton street. .
K IXO, J. II.—Dealer in Groceries, Dry Goods
Clothing-nnd Boots* nnd Shoes. General
Kent tor Agricultural Implements, JlmnUton rt.
1 0 WHY k EASON-—Wholesale and Detail
Dcnlj^Jn Dry Goods, Groceries jmd Pro-
'cnlcr^it
lortyKii
duco, cor JHKlordon nnd Hamilton. See Adver.
M cCL'ATCIIV k CALBWKLL—Dculers in Dry
(foods, Groceries, Produoe nhd Ilardw
of Waugh aud lhtniltor, street,*
M
strer
M
"tCilTCnEV k Ul'l-Ii£V—llcnlcrS InrB’T*'?
Urmicrlc*, I’toJopP, 5j£j Mlt il«v j-nmllion
tllAN, T. 31.—hHutlly Urpwriw fjiD I’nwl-
•’ *■“ --*• eVlilld’—‘ knt 1
slotis, lv
tding, King street.
N ICHOLS, JOHN By—Dealer 111 Grocer!.!!
Produce and general family supplies, cornc
Klnintid‘Hamilton stre.t. •
U ;mt, J. u.—Wliolera’.e nml Hetiii Dealei
Dry Goods, Notions, Hardware, Qucu'um
sui GroJcrie\ No. ft. ‘Tilth’s House.
<J€OTT. J, X.—Denier in Dry Goods, Gro erics,
iJ etc., Chester House, Hamilton Street.
MRBBA, KKX.YKB k CO.—Wholesale and He*
JL tail Dealers it. Dt j; Goods, Groceries nnd \gri-
cultural Hiiplemcntn, uttd Farmers Supplies, 1 Tibbs
House. No, 1 and 2. Hamilton Mro. t. K.oAdy.r
'■piKVirr, J. F.—Dealer in D-y Coodl, Gro-
A cericsati i Provisions, opposite TUibMIouso.
CPU PL C Tl 0 NS, BAKERY
r T'3wSLSY, J. W.—CtMtiSloJer, Maker and
i Fancy Grocer, Hamilton, below Kiugstreut.
O 'YHIL. H P*—Fancy Grocer and Confec
tioner, wit.i Saloon attached, Tilth's Home.
DRUGGISTS.
1 )RD\VN, U 15. -Denier in Drugs, ‘Medicines,
_> lViiats, Oils, Glass, etc. Insurance agent.
King Sti'e.Vioolow post olHetf.
Matfopte’e Almaaaq.
Boltina In Uio treo tops,
Blossoms In the gins*}
* Green things agrowing
Every where you pass,
Sudden llttlo breezes;
Showers of silver dew:
' Black boUglr«ml'bfentlwi£
Budding, out anew 1
Pino tree nnd willow tree,
Frtnged'clmi and lltreK—
, Don’t yoo think tlmt Mny-tiuiqVi
Pleufnnter titan March ?
; , n.
11 Apples iti the orchard,
' 'Mellowing one by one:
Strawberries upturning
8o*l ebooks to the sun:
Roses, faint with sweetness t
Lilies, fair of luce {
Drowsy scents nnd murmurs
Haunting every plneo;
Length* ol golden sunshine;
Moonlight bright hs day—
Don’t you think thatsmmncr's
Pleusuutor thuuMuy? •
; III.
Roger in the corn-patch,
Whistling negro songs;
Pussy by tbo hearth-side.
Humping with the tonga;
Chcsnuta In the italics
Bursting through tlio nnd;
Rvil leaf and gold leaf
Hustling down tho winds
Mother “doin’ pekckvaP*
All tho nlteruoon—
Don’t you think Hint Autumn's
Pleasanter than Juno?
IV.
Little forty snow-flakes
Dancing in the iluo. .
’ Old Mr. Santa Cfau.*,
Wbntla keeping you?
Twilight and Ureltghl ?
Shadows cornu and go;
Mcrryol ho* of slelifh bulla,
TinUiug through the snow; ^
Mo'ber’s knitting stoekttigs^
i f •«mv , S gut the ball l)—
Don’t you u»A that Winter’s
Pleasanter titan at.f
Trainpet-Tongued Voice from the
Mountains 6f Georgia!
3LE REASONS FOR
BEING A DEMOCRAT I
Lottor from Col. I. W. Avory of Dal
ton..
liicits of mikSeclion-l.vc-
irret tlmt tmklnc^a provoiils my accept
ing tho rifofly kind Invltatioim, to speak
on tho Issues of tho tls.v, tendered mo
from tho DcmooraUa Oluhs of this soe-
tlon. *
In recognition' of your kindness I
lmvo deemed It not Improper to give
you through tho proSs tho reasons that
potently and dlsphssloimtely force me
to aid the .cifort of the Northorn Dorn-
oorats to turn Radicalism out of pow-
or.
MIlF-tlAt, SPIRIT TO.M.t. HONEST MEN.
I say at the start tlmt I write in gen
lie eliarity to all sincere men, whatever,
tuny be their viuws. The worlds h|,t-
lory thunders unmistakably the great
fact, that mon enn bo honest In error;
nnd while I scathe what I think to lie
a wrong, I Itavo but compassionate
courtesy foil those who honestly believe
in that wrong. Culm rensuu alone is
the sure advocate of truth.
But for all men, whoever they may
be, who choose party merely for place
and ulmmpion principles solely for per
sonal prollt, regardless or right aud
reckless of tho public good, I statu
that I have no polite word for.tliojr in
famy, nnd I denounce them us lieilfg
worse than their vilest measures and
views possibly ean bet
The musses of both parties are hon
est. It is to tho lenders nnd their pol
icy wo nnist look for matter for cen
sure or approval.
I frankly confess I am the impassion-
cd pleader of my own individual catiso
'.Our “Jvssf Ochbtr. t - u ltljg
rUBLIO TROCI1LES.
f Vtlttrti iis ifii’lT—Deiilers in Uraa». BeJ-
I J 1 Jcines, 1 '.-.nits, Oils, (tints: Llo., No. (i,
: «;iU’.THt.iwe,-ltn»;ilion *M-
FURNITUBE.
( > KU1M, J. B. 4 ti. W.—'Wllolt-stlu nisi
V I it .-Lui oiisien nml Mnuuruotiirois of nil kimls
!' l-'tirnitnrf. llniniltim nireot.
(B JI tXmCH'Bl.\l! Ct».—All l)u-
-tTiplions ol I'uriiilnro muilillnolllnsi. Saw
uflj Ui-iH 1.1III ntUola-J. S.-o AUvoi-tlsiaaolvt.
FANCY GOOD8 AND NOTIOIlj,
IRSIllBtiRti, Dralor in luin-.v Uoods,
nml Toys, Hamilton struct.
II’
- aTovEs, tinwareJeto.^^
1 1 aI.L fc ibum-van sod Bdntl
.1.3 Dealers In Stoves. Hollow Ware, Hardware,
soil Mamifneltti'cra ol Tinware, iiamlltoit street.
omnnKRLAXD, A. L.—Dealer in Stoves,
»» lloliow Ware, Hartlwaro, and Manufacturer
of tinware, Humllton street.
DULKDUfi, X. F. k Go.—Tiim.crs Ottlce in
lower story of Printing House Building,
Crawford*Street. Always pay cadi for Hid s.
B LANTON & COLLINS—llousci Carpenters and
Joiners. Shop corner of Hill and Spc-cer
streoti* Work warranted, ejtoqilted with dispatclt.
O’’
( ‘AAPPE3, F.—Boot and Shoe Maker, corner
J of Klit^ hud Hamilton aM-eets.
C ATUKY it SON—Boot and Shoe Makers, east
of postolliue building, on King street.
IJ Maclillieg, King streo
OAVHY, Johu. A.—Harness Shop.
J street, near Post office.
S WICK, II. M. k J. P,—Jloitsc, Sign attt!
juenul Painters, and Paper lUugcrs.
PROFESSIONAL.
If you-would look “spruoe" In your
age, don't “piuojt in your youth.
Tho object somo wives Itavo In blow
ing up tbuir busbands is duuptless to
have-tlieiu come down.
Wlmt moro natural tlmn that senti
mental youngladies wheii they get mar
ried should cease to be pensive and get
expensive?
If a gentleman marries, tho lady
must bo won before they aro married
—afterwards they are both one.
A popular work of art—drawing one’s
pay
The lady who took a fancy, conclud
ed, on seconiUhougbt, to return it, and
did so.
Who lies ever been pushed by a shoul
der o(* uiut.1011 ?
Whqaju, Hite men, are often tired,and
very frequently Troni a hindered- cause
■going round 60 much.
Heavy charges of-the light brigade
—Gas bills.
>Y bore—the man who persists in
talking about himself when you wislt
to talk about yourself.
The now moon reminds one of a gid
dy girl, becanso she is too young to
show much reflection.
Tho man who showed ills grit was ill
tlie hand-paper line.
The man who was caught napping is
supposed to bavo beeu a hatter.
TJpro is glory in nature's star eyes
through the night, but there are tears
in her Bowor-cyes in tho morning.
A Scoteli editor apologizes for the
lack of rhyme In his pnpe.t by saying
that his marriage the week before took
all tho poetry out of him.
‘Does' the dtyitlst kiss you when be
pulls your teeth, pa? “No, mv son;
why ?’ ‘Oil, nothing; only ho kissed
kin, and -.she said it took tlio nclio nil
away; and 1 guess it did, lor she
laughed all the way homo.’
JVno isVtestonsmtit yon Southern
OuTBAtiKS.—A prominent Radical re-
markod.a few evenings since at tho 5th
Avenue hotel: “We have prepared a
rebel outrage onco a week froln now
until afterlhe election day,if it isfound
necessary.” - •
Three quarters of a million of dollars
wero realized by tho sale of pews in the
Jewish Totnplo in Now York,,
ry to need recapitulation. Secession
failed.' Purity of purposo, exalted
chivalry, rasplandant heroism nnd daz
zling devotion to pritielplo marked
Itollt sides in tlio awful contest. The
South dropped her riven and blooding
blade, Iter ennso was lost, Iter proud
banner trailed In Irretrievable "dofont,
nnd illstinlmi by Southern arms was
forever-dead.
Wlmt the South failed to do In four
years of red carnage Bglitlng honestly
for what slto deemed Republican Free
dom, Radicalism 1ms dona in thi-co
yenrs of screlta ponce. Tito Union it
f, tight to save, it broke when It had
won tho flglit, nnd tho Union ll has
orcnlcd out of its own disunion is^'no
moro tho Union of old tlmn Secessions
lost cause. It lino not a single element
of a truly Constitutional Union to rec-
ommlmhU to the lover of Republican
liberty.
Declaring it fought only to preserve
tho Union, tho moment It was sitBecss-
fill it gave tlie lie to its pledges by
forcing out tlie eleven States it .battl
ed to keep in. Pronopnelhg tho Ult
inn indissoluble, It hnbyd.U&olycd'it.—
Denouncing Secession i as a heresy, it
lias vindicated Us trj)lh by qddpting
its results. It Ims falsified its record
by doing wlmt it fought against; nnd
if tho disunion'll litis made is right,
then it was guilty, of a crime In warring
against Secession, which sought a bet
ter disunion In a nobler why and for
a purer purpose.
When tho rebellion was crushed tho
Union stood Instantly, restored by mere
operation of tlmt nut, otherwise rebel
lion was partially sueecssfiil, viz, to I ho
extent of rupturing tlie Union. Tho
supicmacy of the Constitution was’in
stantly restored, nml tho seceding
States right away renewed tlieir-old re
lation to tho Union, since tlie war wns
waged merely to bring them back ns
States. To destroy tho governments
of tin? Southern States was to punish
LtWng under a compact called tuo J had not committed and could not
. . r * -1 ...it. - 1 ’..... _ iruo Hnn-jlItiillsn
B
\Y.—Phvsici.in mid .'Urgcmti, t
ttfntln to mil* iu city iir egauty. Sco enni
/ 1 OK BAIN, Dr. C. P.—IMiysiciim ahiJ Surgeon,
VJT may bu Itiumi at ltis ojliuo over Piuuiui'8
ftqru, when uot professionally engaged.
M
if cAFF.E, |)r J. K.—Pliyslcimt mid Surgeon.
X Oltico over Uukorzcr & Lovenmn’s store,
whord he may liu round when not engaged,
I
ESTEK, ll. P.-—Attorney ut Law, up stairs,
-J King building, Hamilton street.
HANKS,
- ATTORNEY AT LA.W,
W ILL practice in all tlie counties ot the
Cherokee Circuit and iu the United Slates
District Court lor the Northern District of Geor*
f. ir. ** we nr,
ATTORNEY at law,
W ILL practice law in all the comities of this
Cii'utU, and U. S. District Court. junO-ly
JB. J. MSIf'IA'GS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
W Jlil.yir-ivtluo in oil tlie vouiuioa eoni|io8lng
Uio Olierokee Ciit-uit. jiiatly
J. H I. --I.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
A TTEND, to all the cblleetton of claims nnd
practice,in Cherokee Circuit and U. S. Dis
trict court. jan9-ly
If*. It, JUOOKEt
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
‘YU ILL practice in the Sttpeiior Courts of tlie
i f Cherokee Circuit, aim in the U. Statea.Dis-
triet Court at Atlata, and give striot attention to
all oases of Ba .kruptcy. * raar27-ly
0. D. McCuruiiKN, I. E. Shumate.
Jt'cCuicMh ff Slunnate, ,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
"WJ ILb-nrautioo in the luuiiUca of Bartow,
IT Gordon, Murray,Wbitfiolil,.C»UK»a, Wsl-
krr, OUaUojga and Dud*. - Jnnelti-Hj*)
Forty Aorca and no Mule.
IVe flo not know how many negroes
have rouclved'from the “parly of prog
ress and great moral ideas,” the prom
ised “forty acres of land and a good
mule,”.but we aro croilibly informed
tlmt tho Democrats of Marion, South
Carolina, lmvo purchased aud present
ed to each of tho fifteen negroes who
had the courage to go to tho polls nnd
voto with.and for their old masters,
witli tho title dsods to forty acres of
good land Itenr that town. Well done
tbr Marion; that is tho way to enable
tlie negroes to Bud out who ure their
truo friends; they are fast becoming
disgusted with tlie miserable wretches
who lmvo thus far led them on toward
ruin, mid if tho whites of tho South
would lake a little trouble to let them
umlerslnud that wo intend to stand by
those who stand by us, and to let those
who go with our enemies get their bread
nnd butter (join tlie party they go with,
we think many of tlie best of tlie ne
groes would begin to look at this mut
ter in its true light, and before tho elec-
tion’thero would lie a great clmngo in
their viewsan’d their votes. It only re-
qnires that tho citizens of tho South,
on whom the negroes are egt i.rely depen-
dentforfood,clothing and shelter, shall
calmly and Brmly resolyo not touid or
employ those who nue deterqiiuud to
go with the scalawttg-chrpet-bag-radi-
cul party, and ill one month there would
bo no such party in tlie South. f l (link
of Uiis, men of tbe-South, and settle In
your minds whether you prefer to be
ruled as you are, or to mako a small
BscnUce toseoure your Uhorty.-r.CAai--
Icslon Mercury.
Constitution I am governed outside of
it. Rilled by a government claimed
by its admirers to bo “the best tho
world over saw,” its burdens make tne,
a Southern man, say sadly I cannot
unite in tlie panegyric, while I wislt to
do so.
In a Union nty State helped to mako
ns a sovereign equal, she is unequal,
inferior, degraded. For ti e last throe
years tlie puppet of mailed despotism,
site hns at length but changed tho iron
denomination of the sword for tlie cor
rupt (IMinsky of the?! carpet-ling " fac
tion, upheld by the shifting caprice of
nowly-f.eed ignorance, delirious with
the sudden possession of powers too
great for its exercise. And this same
ignor.meo powerful from numbers hero
Ims been unchangeably fastened upon
the body politic as tlie law-maker for
virlito-iiiid iuU-UigelieOnndo by stilt
uio inferior to it, while North l.lie same
ignorance a trivial body, long free mid
educated by Northern civilization, is
deemed unworthy a political privilege.
Individual welfare is gloomy, mid
public prosperity pninlyzcil. Local in-
sl i tutionsare disjointed. Forebodcthg
of evil prevails ill every true bosom.—
Enterprise is stagnant. Money worth
from 5 to 10 percent, North is hard
toodlnin here, at from 5 to 10 per cent
per month. Capital ferns to come to
us, because unsafe. Labor avoids us
becanso of insecurity. Lawlessness
occurs daily, and increases. Every
where men are moving- to better their
failing fortunes. Taxes grind us ill the
dust and gorgo our hard earnings.
There Is-wide-spread diseontcut with
our local governments, pinned to its by
tlie bayonet under tlie mockery of forc
ed consent; governments, nbliorcnt to
our views, in conflict with our Ideas,
administered by strangers, prostituted
to party purposes, mid so weak anil
odious that tlieir oliieers have beseeehed
file general government for steel clad
legions to coerce tlie peoples love. But,
worse tlmn all, ineit of other soils have
come among us, crept upon tlie negro’s
back into onr high places, and are se
cretly poisoning the credulous and
childish minds of onr 4,000,000 blacks
against their iormer masters, and fom
enting them to bloodshed for parly
capital, while the startling fact seems
apparent tlmt the ruling power encour
ages oilleittlly tlie horrible outrage.
I feel these burdens, ns do the body
of tlie people. They injure my bus
iness. They dissatisfy ino with my
condition. Without change there scents
no Itopo for better tilings. 1 appeal to
you as a part of the arbiters of the
country’s doom to alter this lind con
dition of matters as far ns you can.—
But tlie blarao where it belongs. Voto
against the authors of this injury, nnd
improve my case with ydur own.
THE RADICAL PAllTY ltESPONSIUI.E.
I charge these tilings mostly to the
power tlmt Ims ruled tlie land since the
war. That power is the Radical party.
Tlmt party seeks at your hands a new
lease of rule for four more yenrs. Has
it entitled itself by its just, honest,
able mid beneficial admiuistratton to
your support?
This is the simple yet momentous
issue. Bonder It well. Study it closely.
Decide it carefully, for there is ground
to fear tlmt your decision involves con
stitutional liberty itself.
A fair and itnpnrliul scrutiny of
Radical rule shows it to lmvo been un
just, incompetent, corrupt, extravagant
and ruinous. Jf so opposition to it is a
holy duty.
THE TRUE AUTHOtt OP DISUNION,
Tlie Smith tried hard to sunder tlie
Union, and inuko a government for
herself. Not because she wns untrue
to tlie Constitution or disloyul to the
Union, but because site thought tbo
Constitution disregarded, and tbo Un
ion prostituted by tho success of sec
tional uggression. She erred in flglit-
ing tills ag'grosslon out of instead of iu
the Union, and in using bullets instead
of ballots. Slioadopted a Constitution
identically similar to the old one. Tito
orimaou struggle is too fresh in mqrno-
_:uit a crone. T!l5 Couslitutbn
made no provision fer Irsowm or E
in onr da)-, cool, ruthless and Puritan-
uio, has out-Ilorodad Herod, and shock
ed humanity with its outrages slavered
under tho mooking subterfuge of bas
tard “loyalty.”
RECONSTRUCTION.
The Radical party, having disowned
its nnma of Republican as too moder
ate, and whisked itself by Bomo myste
rious political legerdemain onto tho
soocssiou platform, nnd made disunion
a success for party, objects, had then
to—not restore, as pledgad by sol
emn act or Congress-in the inception
of tho war, hut—reconstruct tho Union
both saved mid shattered by itself.—
This party, in- oflluo on its merit ns a
Union-saver, destroying wlmt It had
preserved to still kocp up Its profitable
rolo as Union-saver, was driven to des
perate Bltifts for a justification of its
jtroposod Reconstruction.
But hero wns difficulty. Andrew
Johnson, thoir own officer, carrying
out-.Ahrntmm Lincoln’s psogrammo,
their own plan of their own President,
bad already restorod tho Union, nml
tlie South Imd accepted the terms. She
had abolished slavery, renounced se
cession, repudiated tho war debt, giv
en tho freedmon everything hut politi
cal privileges, and sont Representatives
to Congress. Congress imd recogniz
ed tlie Southern States as States in
several tilings requiring tlie cxercisa
of sovereign power, to-wlt—assent
to Constitutional amendments, these
amendments now operative ns law by
force of tlmt assent of Southern States
ns States. This system of restoration
Imd gono on and was submitted to by
Congress for nearly a year. Wo were
States whenever wo did what Radical
ism demanded,
Hut there was something wrong still.
Tito Southern people, innocent souls,
were dull in learning wlmt was “loyal
ty.” The times Imd elmngod. Anew
political vernacular, was iu vogne-
Dcvotiou to public iuterost, fealty to
tho Constitution, veneration for law
and love of country, that shining
mor patriae tlmt poetry 1ms sung and
snrrectlon" in States but only in iniii- history iu.:ut:i.. wero n<? longor
VUlimls; therefore while persons guilty tho proofs of loyalty. Ulltlcf the E-’“
of treason aro pnimHmbio personally,
States as corporations nre not. When
tlie conquering parly declared tlie Un
ion broken aud Ilia seedling States
ont, it did tlie Very tiling the South
tried to do, only its motive wns differ
ent. Thu South tried to break tlie
Union to make a new government for
herself. The Radicals broko tho Un
ion to secure party powor by a Recon
struction favorable to tlieir purposes.
If one was criminal, so wns the other.
If tliuru is a Union man iu this boun-
try, then tu-ilny lie must oppose the
Radical ns tho great Disunion party of
the land. A farcical summersault has
It turned. Tlie history <5f mankind
sliows no suportor to.this tiiarj-eloiis
piece of political tergiversation.
And worse limn ail, it lias done tbo
nwliil crime of disunion of tuts sacred
government midei- tho hypocritical
cant of “Union,” nnd under n whining
sentiment of simulated love for the
“ Govermneut of our Fathers.” Tito
South boldly avowod-lier revolutionary
purpose. But Radicalism has added
a braze a hypocricy to its oilier crimes
by doing tho very thing It condemned
uniter the false claim of meaning tho
opposite.
it' Disunion was snch a crime iu the
Southron nnd merits Lite dread doom
tlmt unsparing Radicalism would in
flict lit it, what does Radicalism de
serve ntllio hands''of jit outraged peo
ple, when, it has done tho very.offence
for which it seonrges tlio South, with
tho added sin of a deefclving hypoeri-
ey to .damn it. I eon decree'it noth
ing worso tlmn tho continued rule of
its present leaders, and tlie further
.success of its present policy. And
with tills view I ean not but oppose
these lenders and condemn tlmt policy.
Radicalism Ims prated of Union.—
It hns had the power At any time since
tho war to rostoro (-lie Union. The
Soulli was willing nud eager. Yet,
hankering for tlio .}jpio.ii so idolnlroiis-
Ly, it Ims refused to restore it, regard
less uf itublic interest until tho South
would go in ns tlio vassal of tlmt par
ty, and tlie Blnvo of tlio negro.
Every principle of tho Constitution
wns violated to put u's out and keep us
out, nnd ns will be shown, every prin
ciple violated in the way in which this
Union and Constitution-loving pnuty,
juggled us in.. Crime after crime whs
committed, against the law, tlie Con-
stitution humanity, aye, even against
its own Reconstruction law itself, bad
ns tlmt is. Civil government Ims been
overthrown, mililhry despotism crea
ted, martial law .declared during peace,
tho sacred unit of hubeae corpus set
aside, trial by jury abolished, seizures
made without warrant, witnesses tor
tured to 8ubom-proof to convict inno
cence, Gpvorirors deposed and set up
by petty soldiors vested with unlimited
powers^ tlie highest Judicial triliunul
shorn of its privileges, and tho highest
prerogative of tho National Executive
wickedly -usurped, all in profound
penco, all under tho snivelling preten
sion of securing pence, all under tlie
canting cry of “loyalty to tho Union
of onr fathers.”
Away with this Btsle balderdash
about “ loyalty to tlio Union," that Is
tlio cruellest of pnrtizan harlotry. It
is tho slogan of party—tlio ' battle-cry
of faction In its malignant assaults up
on tho Union nnd tlie Constitution;
nnd "it is meant to blind tho honest vis
ion to tho foul object it socks, to tho
injury it does to the public interest.
.This is not tlio first time a holy liv
ery ims been stolen under which to do
wicked deeds. It is not tlio first time
tlio enormity of crime Ims sought con
cealment under n sacred name.
Even religion Ims furnished pitiless
bigotry with a cloak for tlie bloodiest
of wrongs. Under Freedom’s trnns-
ccndnnt name, such fiendish diabolism
hqs boon enacted as mskos the heart
thrill wltl\ horror. And Radicalism
proofs of loyalty,
regime of Black Republicanism, loy
ally meant allegiance to tlie Radical
faction. The Southern mind was slow
of tuition—trcasononsly, inconven
iently slow. It would not learn the
lesson. It was disloyally contuma
cious. Tho lesson Imd become a ne
cessity to Radicalism. Its crimes, its
corruption, its extravagance, its- in
competency, Imd driven honesty from
its support North. It was waning
daily. It sprang a leak alter tlio man
ner of rotten vessels. Andrew John
son lenked out. James Doolittle,
Edgar Cowan, and thousands of oth
ers, tried nnd true, had leaked out.—
Tlie leak kopt open,*nnd is Bllil run
ning. , Chief Justice Olmso am
“Blair family" lmvo leaked out.
ideiico helped tlio leak and took its
leader, Thuddutis Stevens, leaving iu
Ids place, however, a still more char
acteristic type of tlio party, tlie nolo
rious Beast But leu, whom no party
wants, nnd any party enn get, tlmt can
pay.
Radicalism came South to renew its
lcspectablllty nml reinforce its ranks,
The Southern while would not recruit,
ns the Southern hlnck wns pitched Upon
as tlie only mntorinl to renew its lost
qualities nnd give it new rule. Son
black dynasty must lie created that
would knock at Ilia Union door with a
Radical voto in its black list; nnd vir
tue and intelligence must yield tho
palm to colored supremacy. To do
this required upheaval of established
institutions. That mattered not. It
required , reversal of God’s great laws
about .the races. Tlmt mattered not.
It required fatal iunovutiuu upon tbo
organic law of the luud—tlie national
compact—the matchless Constitution
it so furiously loved. That mattered
not. It -required violation of every
law and ruin to ovary interest. That
mattered not. It required a more tlmn
Judn9 betrayal of its own faith to its
own kith nijd kin. That mattered not.
Let tlie crash lie wlmt it might, Uadi-
enlism Imd to reign triumphant, reck
less of who was trampled or wlmt was
destroyed. Radicalism Imd to r;dc, if
it diii it in tlie mocking “I’eace” of tho
dismal grave.
This is no fiction. It is solemn fact,
The Union was broken by Radicalism
in order tlmt it might reconstruct the
Southern Stales in tho shape of Radi
cal puppets, triggered to secure Radi
cal triumph in tlie election
To do this the Constitution had to
ho violated.
My Countrymen, in this departure
from the Constitution of the republic,
you have the whole source of\our terri
ble “ Illiad of woes," the true cause of
.every trouble. And, never I never!
NEVER!! will our land ever come to
prosperity and peace ayain, until the
sovereignty of our glorious. Constitu
tion is restored in all its matchless per
fection.
You may patch up temporary settle
ments of your difficulties, hut wliilu
tho governing law of tho country is
the cupricious will of nn irresponsible
majority unfettered by fixed limita
tions, and not the established canons
of a settled and honored Constitution,
tlio weal of the public will bo at tlio
cruel mercy of wicked men. Wlmt
tlio rudder is to the ship, wlmt tlie
mainspring to the watuii, that relation
does the Constitution bear to this
mighty republic. It guides, it regu
lates, itutilizes, it preserves. Derange
its workings, and the storms can tear
aud the tempest rack its noble and
venerated organism without help for
the present or hopo Tor future.
The whole Congressional theory of
Reconstruction violates every funda
mental principle of Republican law—
Tliail Stevens said it wns outsido of
the Constitution. And it ts. It Ims
resulted badly, and it must grow worse.
Its objects, its workings, its results
qro tho derangement of organic Jaw
for bad ends. Sick men do not get
well from disease, nor Improvo tlie
moro they violate tlio rules of health.
Tho true theory !a that all good gov
ernment grows out of tlio uonsont of
the gorured. Radical Reconstruction
violates tills theory in toto. It Ims
riveted governments upon tlio South
ern people wtttl tlie sword, pretending
to give them clioiue; but when, ns Iu
tlio enso of Alabama, tho people choos-
od agulnet tlio mooltorv, it was forced
on them anyhow. Choice was allowed
when it Imd n Radieal squint, ir not,
elioiaa ended, wliero it hypocritically
bdg.an—In slavish obedience to tlie ty
rants tnnndatc, the halter the moruiful
alternative.
EQUALITY OF STATES.
Iu the original ooustruution of the
Union, tlie States—sovereign equals—
mado a Union nml not a unity of
Stnlos, reserving to the States nil tlio
rights not delegated to tho general
government, including t)io control or
domostlo affairs. To have given the;
Central government power over minor
details and homo regulations would
lmvo eroated tlie very state of tilings
Radicalism has done—mndaan empire,
so.cumbrous, so rotten, so expensive,
tlmt Us Inirdens would ha dreadful, its
cost fabulous, its oppressions incon
ceivable, aud its macliinory pnrtizan.
The wisdom of our lathers saw this
ovil and avoided it. The few grand
departments of power 'properly per
taining to tho general government the
Slutos willingly gnvo for the publlo
good, lint that a citizen of Maine,
with its icy barriers should legislate in
Congress the internal matters of Flor
ida with ‘her tropical capacities wns
absurd and nevor meant. A party
headed by Alexander Hamilton did
try to makeaeonsolldatedgovernment,
hut they failed slgqnijy, and the com
pact made looked to the very opposite.
If, however, the proposition Imd ever
been presented that the general gov
ernment. should lmvo the right to force
its interference iu domestic things up
on somo States and exempt others, to
enact n degrading theory of govern
ment for oue section and leave the oili
er free lo accept or reject it, tlmt ven
erable and aligns 1 b?dy—-pronounced
by tho most Illustrious of EPflisb
statesman to bo the ablest convocation
of men that over assembled—that
made our grand Constitution, tlie
grandest emanation of hurnnn wisdom
n tlio most exalted sphere of human
thought, would Itavo indignantly scout
ed down without a dissenting voice,
the dishonorable feature suggested, or
broken up tlieir luminous deliberations,
nnd clung to tile proud anil cherished
sovereignly of theiriiidepenileiit Stale-i,
tlmt in consenting to their own ine
quality would have giveiiupthe noblest
essential of gqrantijmnt.^^^^^^^
danger to Republics is
pnlimis of t-l.e Legislnli
nnd llndicnliHin Ims pi
The Radical party
lids inimitable balance
three coordinate I
eminent, throttled lliu
clary nnd ({ripped the
ills best powers. It took
prame Court its jurisdietio..
Reconstructions measures, lie
know they would not stand 1
ninluatioii. It will' commit a
outrago whenever it is to its
to do so, unless this is correeti
took from tlio President one by o
most needed prerogatives, m<
cause ho disagreed with it in i
of Reconstruction. To-dtiy 1
remove a dishonest rcvciiuo
though he knew him to be fdchi
lions from tho office, or <%ll li
drunken minister from a foreign (
though lie knows him to be disgrnu.
tlio country. It finally perputimti
the hideous farce of trying to impo
him for the enormous urimo of <i
his coneientions duty. Oil I Pi
degeneracy of statesmanship I .
riblo rot of publlo vjrtuo.- Mockin
substitution of party plans for
government. No wondor the
land bangs on tho vergo of destruction.
No wonder tho general prosperity is
paralyzed. No wonder tlie republic
seethes with tho fires of iutcrnal dis
content. • .. i
And the dreadest feature of these
dread days is, that this uprooting,,
usurping, deranging faction proclaims
unblushing!)* the same pernicious poli
cy that Ims so scourged and scorchod
tlio land, proclaims it ns the policy of
Pence, when it is producing war and
tronblo and injury, and so many of our
educated, hereditary,freeborn freeman
lmvo become familiarized witli wrongs
that years ago they would lmvo looked
upon with ahliorenco, that their vision
is blurred to tlio danger so imminent;
nnd I include tho honest men of both,
parties.
Now i9 tho time to vote down theso
detrimental violations of tho organic
law; to check this innovating spirit of
deadly change; to restore tlio govern
ment to its original character; to rec
tify tlio grave abuses of the last three
yearsj to stop the crusades of faction
against the public good; to renew the
li no theory of Republican government;
to tear away tho mask from tlio foul
Molikamm of Radicalism, expose its
ghastly deformity, and render it
potent for further ov"
us nil, and wo may cry
anguish lierca
vain words,'"
Which l
•ner si
grades (
construction violates tho wholuj
Pphy of tlio Constitution on this point.
It directly takes-charge of tho minu
test workings of a portiou of the Un
ion—soverign Stalks—nnd tho prinei-
do once established, it must inevita-
dy, under tlio exactions of party ne
cessity, oucrimcli upon all tho domes-
tio reserved rights of all or any of tho
States, whenever temptation arises.—
SulTrngc interfered witli iu the Smith,
must cerluiuly-be interfered with North,
and.tile black ballot forced on Georgia
by tlie Federal bayonet, at tlie behest
of Congressional aggression, nml nul
lifying tbo white ni:in’a suffrage in Ohio,
will sooner or later clasp tts.Cimincriiiu
grasp upon Northern commonwealths
directly, and pave tho way for still
other infringements upon reserved
Slate rights, until ono alter another
they will go under tlio manacles of
central despotistq and Federal usurpa
tion, and Unslly State constitutions
crumbling away, moimroliy or the
Warriors Rule will build tlieir dread
Empire upon tlio ruins of freedom, nud
amid lliu vestiges of Republican lib
erty. „
Tlmt tills is not tlio chimera of
groundless alarm, it is sufficient lo call
attention to tlie fact tlmt Radieal bills
weru introduced in Congress calling
for enquiry into the fact whether some
of tho border .States that had sent
Democratic Congressmen had Reput
Mean governments.
Hu who docs not sco danger to tho
very temples of our-libsrties in these
insidious cucroaohmcnts of faction ttp-
ou our fundamental institutions, is
blind to truth, iguorantof history, end
insensible to tho teachings of experi
ence.
Dostroy the equality of tho Statos,
and put tlio General Government un
restrainedly in hot chase nftor tlie mul
titudinous reserved State rights for par-’
ty ends, and tlie whole scheme of your
public polity is incurable damaged.—
The mass of the Republican party do
not seek tills, but it must surely come
as tlie result of thoir doctrines.
THE BALANCE OF POWEBS.
But those are not tho only grave out
rages committed by this super loyal
faction on tlmt wonderful inslrun)eut-
the Constitution.
Tlio peculiar featuro of our Ropub-
iio is tlie bulnnco of powers—the pre
servation of tho relation to each other
of the throe great coordinate brandies
of tlie Government—the Executive,
tho Logisiutivo, the Judicial. Alt in
dependent, pulling with cadi other, in
volving diflorent yet harmonious
functions, unuiixable totally, whenever
they are endowed with enoli others du
ties, or usurp each others powers, then
the wliolo system of government is .do-
lnngod, and disorder ensuos. Tho
iaw-making powor when it osonpes tlio
scrutiny of the judiciary runs riot
amid the dirhouored and impotent ox,-
aetious of tho sacred Constitution.—
When it executes its own edicts, its
division of responsibility from its num
bers, Impels it to tyranny and injustice
tlmt caiiuot bo punished. James Mon
roe in bis able work oallod “ Tho Poo-
plo Tho Sovereigns,” says tho great
honor to us, and seeks to i
purity our fundamental
Lot him choose liumilluti
nnd ruin who may; for niyselfdut)- at(l
pleasure present hut, one rigorous al
ternative, nnd that Is to support my
friends aud not my enemies, to join
those who give mo love and not hate,
to ally myself with the party of law,
order, justice, clemency, and the Con
stitution.
Tho crimes of Radicalism against
tlie body politic and tlio pooplo, make
a heavy indictment for every one's
consideration, but its wrongs upon
helpless Southerners cry out,'.'trumpet-
tongilod,” to him,individually, to deny
ltis aid to the power tlmt smiles his
people nnd mocks their sufferings.
I must bo satisfied with only a brief
allusion to tho Radical's ground for
going outside of tho Constitution, to
break up the Union to restore it ill
Radical interests, or keep it broken-
until it is so Radicalized.
the mam of conquest.
They claim tlio right of tho conquer
or, the “powor of conquest.” This in
tho laco of tlieir Bolemu pledge, tlmt
the war waWvngod, nolforsubjuyation
but to get back tlio wayward wander
ers; in the facts of the fact, that the law
of nntions gives tho conqueror no right
over the conquered, save to remove
tho cause of tho war, to prevent fu-
turo.trouble; tlmt It isonly thooxploded'
oodo of barbarous warfare , tlmt gives
tho viotor power of life nud .prosperity
over tho vanquished: that humanity
and religion condemn tho blended use
of the tortures of thcTnquisition and
tho barbarities of tho savage upon
brothers; tlmt tho philanthropicnl win
nings of abolitionism against African
slavery as a bondage of forco extend
to nil vassalage; tlmt every principle
nnd institution of their idolized Con
stitution thunder against such eon-
quest.
Tho fallacy is potent, tint argument
to fanaticism and faction is unavailing.
Party, greedy for spoils, knows no law
but to gratify its ravenous hunger, no-
obligation but to grasp rule at all cost,
nnd'Js nover nt a loss for a plea for its
vandalism, or a snbterfugo for its ini
quities. And bad leaders dupe the
honest masses of their party.
FIIUITS MEET F011 ItEPKNI'.lXCE.
Civil governments being ripped to
ploces, tlio fragments scattered, and
sword tyrannies thrust upon tlie dus- ,
polled altars of Civil liberty, a second
act in tlio tragic three was begun—
Conventions must bo called. Tlio now
vernacular was in vogue still. Form
erly Conventionmeant a body express-
ing-direetly tlio sovereign will of the
pooplo. It.wns the highest ff“ ** ■■
representative assembly—hu
imposing, nm jestie.- ’ •
Disfranchising the men of i
wealth and position, onfranelin
entire mass of hereditary sei-
igiiofnnue; and importing' 1
now order of vermin imppilj
“Curpol-baggOrH,” the sal
this' new piebald and h
constituency elect their
as understood in -tlio u
vizi a mongrel mob i