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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